Crash

Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]

Tv & Film, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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This week, Jerah and Jon are covering Crash (2004), directed by Paul Haggis, screenplay by Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco, starring Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Thandiwe Newton, Ryan Phillippe, and Larenz Tate. Together, they discuss just how much so things have gotten worse since the film came out, the arc Crash’s reputation has gone on since winning Best Picture, where they diverge on the film, how exhausting movies about racism are, and much, much more!

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0:00.0	First of all, the fact that
0:08.5	that 2005 is 20 years ago
0:12.6	hurts my soul a little bit.
0:15.8	Wow, yeah, yeah.
0:17.2	And also, it's funny how much has changed
0:20.4	and how not a lot has changed.
0:23.1	But, you know, it's like George W. Bush era.
0:29.8	9-11, very fresh.
0:33.2	Nothing's changed, really.
0:35.0	I mean, things have.
0:39.0	Nothing got worse. Yeah, things things have... I think they got worse.
0:41.1	Yeah, things might have gotten worse, yeah.
0:42.7	I think it's legit.
0:47.5	I think every progress we had has gotten so much more worse.
0:49.3	Yeah, things have got... Well, things have definitely gotten worse, like, just like overall things have gotten worse for sure.
0:56.2	But I guess in terms of like race relations in this country, things have also gotten much worse, right?
1:03.7	Oh, hands down.
1:05.6	Hands down.
1:07.9	Which I feel like if you were to say that 10 years ago, we wouldn't necessarily
1:15.6	have felt that way. Well, no, we definitely wouldn't have felt that way. No, not doing Obama
1:20.8	era. Yeah. We would have been like, no, I mean, we would have been like things we have
1:25.5	a lot of work to still do, but things have gotten better and we're...
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