Breakdowns and Takedowns: Black Women and Money (B.A.P.S.) with Melisa D. Monts

Bad With Money With Gabe Dunn

Gabe Dunn | Diamond MPrint Productions

Business, Careers, Investing, Education

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to another series we've been doing on Black women, money and the movies! This week, we have B.A.P.S. with Halle Berry and Natalie Desselle Reid, a dive into class, inheritances, and upward mobility. Plus, ICONIC fashion, Roger Ebert's shortsighted review, and how it eventually became a cult classic. Producer and writer Melisa D. Monts joins the show to talk "Black famous" vs. "white famous," the flimsy but hilarious plot of this 1997 film, and what the film says about money.

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Produced by Melisa D. Monts

Edited by Diane Kang

Post-Production Sound by Coco Llorens

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0:00.0	You got problems that you are concerned with.
0:04.0	You don't know how you're supposed to earn it or what to do with it or how to keep it.
0:08.0	You're a freak with a dark shame full secret, but you're not the only one.
0:13.0	Teach your hidden financial fears to the blast of sun.
0:17.0	Now your healing has begun.
0:19.0	It's bad with money with gay fs.
0:22.0	Done.
0:24.0	Hello and welcome to Bad With Money.
0:26.0	A show about finances and feelings where we don't talk down to you.
0:29.0	I'm your host, Gabe S. Dunne, continuing another series that we're doing,
0:34.0	which I guess is with Melissa called Black Women and Money in the movie.
0:40.0	Welcome back, Melissa.
0:43.0	Do you want to tell the audience who you are and what you do?
0:46.0	Hi, I'm Melissa.
0:48.0	I produce this show.
0:50.0	I also produce several other podcasts, host a few.
0:54.0	I'm a writer and director as well.
0:58.0	So Melissa suggested that we watch Baps, which is a 1997 movie directed by Robert Townsend,
1:06.0	who I was pleasantly surprised to find out was Black.
1:10.0	Thank God so many of these movies that you would think were directed by Black people were not at the time.
1:16.0	Also written by a Black woman.
1:18.0	Yes, Troy Bayer.
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