At the Movies with Some of My Best Friends Are...

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Introducing Pushkin's newest show, Some of My Best Friends Are...hosted by Khalil Muhammad and Ben Austen, two best friends who grew up together on the South Side of Chicago in '80s. Khalil and Ben invite listeners into their conversations about the absurdities and intricacies of race in America. Mixing anecdotes, entertaining storytelling, and thoughtful debate, Some of My Best Friends Are... helps listeners make sense of a deeply divided country.

In this episode, Khalil and Ben look back at two classic Interracial Buddy Films: 48 Hours and Lethal Weapon. They ask: How did these films and others like them shape a generation of moviegoers' views on racism and law enforcement? What did they say about being white and Black men of the time?

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, revisionist history listeners. Malcolm Gladwell here. Dropping into your
0:18.0	feed to bring you the latest and greatest from Pushkin Industries. This new podcast is called
0:24.3	Some of my best friends are, as in, I'm not a racist, some of my best friends are, our hosts
0:31.4	are Khalil Muhammad and Ben Austin, two best friends who grew up together on the south side of
0:36.3	Chicago in the 19 eighties. Khalil is black, Ben is white, they met his teenagers,
0:42.4	bagging groceries for 325 an hour. Now Khalil is a Harvard historian and Ben is an award-winning
0:49.8	journalist. Everyone at Pushkin has fallen in love with these guys. They're smart and funny
0:56.0	and ensuring their conversations with us. They're helping us wrestle with the challenges and
1:00.6	absurdities of a deeply divided and unequal country. In the episode you're about to hear,
1:06.7	Khalil and Ben look back at two classic interracial buddy films, 48 hours and lethal weapon.
1:14.2	They ask how did these films and others like them shape a generation of moviegoers views on racism
1:21.2	and law enforcement. What do they say about being white and black men at a time? Okay, here's
1:27.6	the sneak peek. To hear more episodes, just search for some of my best friends are wherever you get your
1:34.0	podcast. Pushkin. This is sort of random, but I remember after college and I lived in Denver for a
1:53.9	year and a half or something and you came out to visit. Right. And we went to a baseball game.
1:59.0	We went to a Colorado Rockies game and that was also the first weekend I saw hockey ever in my whole
2:06.4	life. First and last. First and last time. I was like hockey. What is that? But I remember people
2:13.2	around us at the baseball game started asking us questions like how do you guys know each other?
2:18.0	They were really excited and interested and like were you in the military together?
2:24.0	Like they couldn't conceive of a space where we were just had this kind of like comfort
2:28.1	around one another. And it sort of it sort of triggered their curiosity of where would that space
2:34.4	exist? I just would just simply remember it being kind of like the widest place I'd ever visit it.
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