How Black Film Expands Our Imagination | MiniPod
Native Land Pod
iHeartPodcasts and Reasoned Choice
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Tiffany Cross and Andrew Gillum ask: what do you think white folks think the meaning of movies like Sinners and Get Out is?
Beyond the box office smash hits, films made by Black and Brown creators have shaped the lives of our hosts–and countless folks across the globe. Our hosts recite some of their favorite scenes and get real heady as they celebrate a legacy of Black creativity in film. What makes a show or movie “transformative?”
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Angela Rye as host, executive producer and cofounder of Reasoned Choice Media; Tiffany Cross as host and producer, Andrew Gillum as host and producer, and Lauren Hansen as executive producer; Loren Mychael is our research producer, and Nikolas Harter is our editor and producer. Special thanks to Chris Morrow and Lenard McKelvey, co-founders of Reasoned Choice Media.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Soledad O'Brien, and on my new true crime podcast, Murder on the Tooth Path, |
| 0:05.3 | I'm taking it back to 1964 to the cold case of artist Mary Pinch O'Meyer. |
| 0:11.5 | She had been shot twice in the head and in the back. |
| 0:14.8 | It turns out Mary was connected to a very powerful man. |
| 0:20.0 | I pledge you that we shall neither commit nor provoke aggression. |
| 0:24.4 | John F. Kennedy. |
| 0:26.3 | Listen to Murder on the Toothpath with Soledat O'Brien on the Iheart Radio app, |
| 0:31.2 | Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:38.4 | We live in a divided country, and our media couldn't be more polarizing. |
| 0:42.9 | That's why we started the middle with Jeremy Hobson. |
| 0:45.0 | It's about bringing voices not from the extremes, but from the vast middle into the |
| 0:49.4 | national conversation. |
| 0:50.8 | Each week, we hear from ordinary Americans from all over the country. |
| 1:02.0 | And when you subscribe to the middle, you also get an episode each week called One Thing Trump did that focuses on just one item from the avalanche of news. |
| 1:07.6 | Listen to the middle with Jeremy Hobson on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:13.2 | Native Land Pod is a production of IHeart Radio in partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 1:19.6 | Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Welcome home, y'all. |
| 1:26.6 | We're here for this week's mini pod. I am your host, Tiffany Cross, along with my co-host, Andrew Gillum. |
| 1:28.8 | I'll be honest with y'all, we did not plan what we wanted to talk about. But I was like, let's just hit record because I always have things |
| 1:32.5 | I want to talk to Andrew about. There are always things for us to talk about. Okay, one thing I wanted |
| 1:37.6 | to talk to you about, to be honest, Andrew, is sinners, but you have not seen it yet. I have Ryan Cougler's, you know, I haven't. |
| 1:45.0 | I have raved in all the news about how much it's earned. |
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