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Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]
Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]
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🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 107 minutes
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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! I mean you know it's so funny because I finally did finish the Irishman |
| 0:49.4 | Which it typically what is that I took me three months |
| 0:53.0 | Rona baby Rona, baby? |
| 0:54.0 | Rona. |
| 0:55.0 | I was up at like four, like, all right, well, this thing is fine. |
| 0:57.8 | So I finished it and it's something that's so fascinating. |
| 1:00.4 | Because in that movie they referred to, I mean very quickly just like the blacks I guess like the black gangsters if you will and |
| 1:10.3 | It's so interesting because I know we talked about it before as far as like classic black |
| 1:18.7 | I mean because mops is a drug dealers or like criminals. So like as far as like you know organized crime |
| 1:25.2 | movies starring black people I was trying to think about the ones that I would consider |
| 1:29.5 | like my favorites like classics and it also how often do we know about any of these actual people because |
| 1:36.0 | apparently there were quite a few especially in modern time like actually like in |
| 1:40.4 | modern time you had freeway you had 50 cents actual 50 cents, I mean you had like Rayful |
| 1:45.6 | Edmonds, you had all these guys who are doing a lot and it's so interesting that we don't have |
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