GAM Bonus 039: Soul Man
Added 2019-09-29 15:42:56 +0000 UTCOn this week's episode... black face.
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So... I started listening to this Friday night, and just finished it tonight. And I'm between that, James Earl Jones died... Great episode. Sad about James though.
Melanie Hasenbuhler
2024-09-10 08:57:53 +0000 UTCWonder if the white chicks movie was made to off set this somewhat?
Markus Nävergård
2024-07-17 15:27:22 +0000 UTCThis episode was released two years ago, but I have to call out Eli saying “the whiter’s room” instead of “the writer’s room” at about 42:00. I caught it, Eli. I got you bro. Hi-larious.
Mark Warren
2021-10-27 11:32:54 +0000 UTCThat first bit is what drives me crazy when it comes to the premise alone. NOBODY would fall for his blackface! He doesn't look like a black guy at all! He looks like as soon as he'd apply for the black scholarship someone would ask "What the fuck are you doing, white boy?"
Markus D
2019-10-01 23:56:27 +0000 UTCI also want to make the case that King Louie in The Jungle Book wasn't racist, even though a lot of people trying to bash Disney for racism use it as an example. It's just Louis Prima as an orangutan. I'm not normally the kind of person who says "it's more racist that you're trying to point out the racism" but I feel like it's valid here because there's literally nothing that links the character to black people unless you're essentially trying to FORCE a racist interpretation.
Markus D
2019-10-01 23:52:26 +0000 UTCJames Earl Jones has a few roles I’m sure he isn’t too fond of. How many people here remember him as General Solomon of the Global Defense Initiative?
Kyle
2019-10-01 21:24:16 +0000 UTCHowell did Criminal Minds, not CSI.
JCS
2019-10-01 11:03:00 +0000 UTCNo Trudeau jokes? Guessing it was an early record.
Anonymous ethicist, not a serial killer at all, just asking questions.
2019-10-01 06:01:44 +0000 UTCI remember when this movie came out, I felt this was so stupid and obvious a white guy in make up. As a kid I thought it too stupid even for a comedy. Only later when I wa solder and saw some/ of this on TV, thinking it was so racist Thanks for destroying this comedy version of "Birth Of A Nation"
Thomas J McMullan
2019-09-30 21:57:42 +0000 UTCNo mention of Dan Aykroyd at 1:14:20. Missed opportunity.
El Oso Café
2019-09-30 18:41:57 +0000 UTCI had no idea this movie existed, let alone had James Earl Jones in it...then I went through the trivia on IMDb and it says Tim Robbins was almost the lead but Howard the Duck ran over...tell me again how many drugs were people doing during this decade?
CarrieBoo
2019-09-30 17:24:16 +0000 UTCIt was Louis Prima, not Louis Armstrong, in The Jungle Book. Also, there is a movie from this year called Loqueesha that might serve as the modern day Soul Man. I haven't seen it, but it's apparently about a white man pretending to be a black woman to get a nationally syndicated radio show.
Jessica Addams
2019-09-30 00:46:36 +0000 UTC...
Patrick Jackson
2019-09-29 22:03:01 +0000 UTCMy minion thinks this whole episode is just an elaborate setup to a secular review of "Made in America," with Whoopi Goldberg & Ted Danson. Will Smith even plays someone named "Tea Cake," so ... don't try to deny it, Eli.
Mama Llaga
2019-09-29 21:23:15 +0000 UTCC Thomas Howell was in Gettysburg and Gods and Generals. He played a guy from Maine with a Southern accent.
Scott Lesch
2019-09-29 21:09:56 +0000 UTCThis movie came on HBO a LOT, and I also saw no problem with this movie back then (I swear I do now).
Grant Cosper
2019-09-29 18:48:18 +0000 UTCOh god I remember watching this movie as a kid! My brother's friend was all fancy and his mom could afford HBO or whatever. I thought it was great and didn't see anything wrong with it. Gah. Around the same time, there was a similar movie about a college kid who was a brilliant concert violinist and nerd. He left for music school and turned himself into a cookie-cutter 80's punk, with wild hair and pale makeup. Then he spent the rest of the movie teaching people a Valuable Lesson about Respecting Differences and how Being Different Makes You Great. Jesus Christ, these movies filled my head with shit. Being different has run my life off the rails more than once.
Paige Converse
2019-09-29 16:11:52 +0000 UTCThe episode description made me giggle, and I'm not sure how to feel about that.
Taru Tikkanen
2019-09-29 15:50:09 +0000 UTC
