Black Dynamite, The Explorers Club and Rachel Dratch

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Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2012

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Black Dynamite's Michael Jai White and Carl Jones talk about their favorite blaxploitation films of the 70s. Actress Rachel Dratch walks into a bar, and six months later she's pregnant. Plus, Jason Brewer, guitar player for the The Explorers Club, on the song that changed his life. Here's a hint: he saw it in the movie Back to the Future.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Gina from Madison, Wisconsin.
0:02.6	I'm Jennifer from Bethel Park, PA.
0:04.8	Hey, I'm Alex from Rochester, New York.
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0:18.4	Thank you.
0:19.2	I'm Jessie Thorn.
0:20.5	Blacksploitation movies were revolutionary in their time,
0:23.2	but they could also get, let's just say, a little rogue.
0:27.6	You don't have to tell that to Michael Gai White
0:29.3	and Carl Jones.
0:30.4	They watched about a bajillion black exploitation movies
0:33.3	before they made their new show, Black Dynamite.
0:35.6	And let's just say there were some recurring themes.
0:38.2	If you look at 95% of those movies,
0:42.6	they all had their quotient.
0:45.7	They had their white man paranoia thing,
0:49.6	but they're gonna get you that type of thing.
0:53.2	You had to have your chasing.
0:54.9	You had to have your top shot.
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