Drop Zone (feat. Soraya Roberts)
Unclear and Present Danger
Jamelle Bouie
4.7 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This week, Jamelle and John are joined by Soraya Roberts of Defector and Pipe Wrench magazine to talk “Drop Zone,” a quintessentially 1990s action film starring Wesley Snipes and Gary Busey. They talk Snipes' career and his fall into “sovereign citizenship,” the 90s obsession with “extreme” sports, and race and Hollywood.
In our next episode, we’ll discuss the (ridiculous) disaster thriller “Outbreak,” directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Dustin Hoffman and Rene Russo. It’s available to rent or purchase on Amazon and iTunes.
Connor Lynch produced this episode. Artwork by Rachel Eck.
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| 0:00.0 | What I'm offering you, no one else in the world can provide. |
| 0:03.0 | No one else. |
| 0:04.0 | Two million dollars a month |
| 0:06.0 | for the operations and names of every undercover agent in the world. |
| 0:10.0 | And I'm willing to prove it by doing it one time for free. |
| 0:13.0 | In a world of high-tech secrets, |
| 0:16.0 | the survival of justice is at stake. |
| 0:19.0 | The whole system's going down. |
| 0:21.6 | And all that stands between anarchy and order is one man. |
| 0:27.6 | You've got evidence to make your case of the FBI. |
| 0:30.6 | You're going to have to do better than this time on Creve fella. |
| 0:33.6 | He's DEA. |
| 0:34.6 | God bless America. |
| 0:36.6 | It's not right, Jack! You put your hands down! If you want my help, 15,000. 15,000? What do you care anyway? It's the government's money. The other U.S. Marshal has acquired some information. I'm impressed. Not with you. The other marshal. You are way out of your league, way out. |
| 0:55.0 | Paramount Pictures presents. |
| 0:57.0 | These people are killers. |
| 0:59.0 | You leave the cop stuff to me. |
| 1:01.0 | The year's most exciting thriller. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm not gonna find who I'm looking for down here, right? |
| 1:05.0 | So I gotta go up there. |
| 1:06.0 | Stage one is complete. Stay focused. |
| 1:08.0 | Okay, we're into the game. |
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