Episode 496 - Superman, Good Jeans, & Media Matters (w/ Dr. Jared Ball)
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🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Professor of media and Africana Studies at Morgan State University Dr. Jared Ball, responds to Norman Finkelstein’s recent debate with Briahna about whether the assassinations of civil rights activists and politicians in the 60s had a significant effect on left movements of the time. But first, after mentioning last year’s episode on Oscar-winner American Fiction, the pair get sucked into a lengthy media critique of Superman, Judas & the Black Messiah, and the new Sydney Sweeney American Eagle jeans ad that’s been described as "eugenic." Can popular media of any kind can ever really be radical?
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| 0:22.6 | I'm In my head, you were part of the American fiction panel conversation, but I think what it was is that I listened to a panel you were on, pulled a couple of guys from that panel from my panel, |
| 0:55.8 | but I didn't actually have the conversation with you. Is that what happened? I'm not sure. |
| 1:00.4 | I do remember at one point you were in some conversation about you reaching out to M2 May Gant. Did that |
| 1:05.6 | happened? Was he part of that? I think that's what happened. He's the one that messed me up with |
| 1:10.1 | that movie. So he had to correct happened. He's the one that messed me up with that movie. |
| 1:12.9 | So he had to correct me. |
| 1:15.8 | Because I raved about the film initially. |
| 1:26.2 | I raved about it because to contradict my own approach to these things got caught up in the fact that I saw myself in lead character. |
| 1:27.7 | Is that so terrible? |
| 1:33.5 | It can be if you miss the underlying politics because I got wrapped up in this light skin balding bearded man disappointed with his career. |
| 1:38.8 | Well, as someone who is struggling with his waistline. |
| 1:42.9 | As the someone who is not a light skin balding bearded man who may or may not be struggling with his waistline. As the son who is not a light skin balding bearded man, who may or may not be struggling |
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