A Soldier’s Story w/ Franqi French

Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]

Tv & Film, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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James, Jerah, and Jonathan are joined by comedian Franqi French to discuss the 1984 Academy Awards nominated film, “A Soldier’s Story,” based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning off-Broadway production of “A Soldier’s Play,” by Charles Fuller. The film is about the investigation of a murder of a black sergeant on a military base during the tale of of World War II. It stars Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Art Evans, David Alan Greer, David Harris, Larry Riley, Robert Townsend, and Denzel Washington. Produced by Melisa D. Monts Executive produced by Brett Boham, Joe Cilio and Alex Ramsey Listen to Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood] Ad-Free on Forever Dog Plus: http://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plus FOLLOW BLACK MEN CAN'T JUMP [IN HOLLYWOOD]: https://twitter.com/blackmenpodcast https://www.instagram.com/blackmenpodcast BUY BLACK MEN CAN'T JUMP [IN HOLLYWOOD] MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/black-men-can-t-jump-in-hollywood SUPPORT BLACK MEN CAN'T JUMP [IN HOLLYWOOD] ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/BMCJ BLACK MEN CAN'T JUMP [IN HOLLYWOOD] IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/black-men-cant-jump-in-hollywood Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/black-men-cant-jump-in-hollywood/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Do you ever feel like life is a never ending series of lessons while you try to find purpose, meaning, and answers?
0:07.0	I am Vanessa Fontana, the host of Figuring Shit Out, a podcast where we undertake self-help, coming of age, and healing.
0:14.0	As I live my 20s in New York City, figuring shit out myself,
0:17.0	I've realized that if you spend your whole life trying to get your act together,
0:20.0	you don't have a life. You have an act.
0:22.0	On figuring shit out every Sunday you get to normalize the journey of not knowing
0:26.0	and be guided into living your life with more intention and ease.
0:30.0	Forever!
0:32.0	Dog! Forever. Do you have any soldiers in your family, you know, like anybody served the country?
0:48.0	I mean my dad was a private in the US Army and then my grandfather also was in the Army as well, but I can't remember.
0:57.3	I want to say Air Force, but I think that's just because I can't remember specifically what it was I knew it was
1:03.7	something he had like some kind of special designation that wasn't private and so I'm just like
1:09.6	yeah he was in the Air Force but I don't know.
1:12.1	I can't make that up.
1:14.0	Yeah, but it's some, you know, he might have been like a,
1:18.0	he might have had some kind of designation that was above private that I just don't know what it was.
1:22.0	I feel like he just want to belong James
1:24.0	I do
1:25.0	Yeah and uh and my mama is
1:31.0	My brother he was in the army for about half of boot camp and then he went AWOL, but I mean, whatever.
1:38.0	Oh, that's real.
1:41.0	My brother's trash, like it's all good though.
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