I Love Boosters
Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]
Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This week, Jon and Jerah are covering I Love Boosters, written and directed by Boots Riley, starring Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza González, LaKeith Stanfield, Will Poulter, Don Cheadle, and Demi Moore. Together, they discuss allowing a certain level of shoplifting in retail jobs, being a little sleepy while seeing the film, which of the film's metaphors they liked, which of the film's metaphors they disliked, how they developed their own personal senses of style, semen demons, how exciting Boots' throwback-y, mishmash visual sensibility is, and much, much more!
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| 0:00.0 | I love fashion, man. |
| 0:08.4 | I love it, Bray. |
| 0:10.2 | I know. |
| 0:10.6 | Love it. |
| 0:12.2 | I think the fashion industry, I'm fascinated by it because when I grew up, like, I wasn't |
| 0:17.9 | the person who had, like, the nice clothes or whatever. |
| 0:38.4 | In fact, I used to, I used to get, um, I mean, you know, I would have some jokes coming my way. I didn't, I didn't really know how to match stuff technically. Um, uh, you can't wear black and red shoes with like outfit that has a lot of purple in it. Learned that the the hard way it's funny too because i think about like it's it's it's bro i remember i remember one day and it was like |
| 0:45.9 | girls too i remember like the old the old head dudes at my school was just like going in and then like |
| 0:52.6 | so were like the really cute girls who were like older. But it was one of |
| 0:56.5 | the cute girls who was always nice to me. She like pulled me aside and like explain matching. |
| 1:03.0 | Basically like it was like, you know, this doesn't match and like you got on red shoes, but like |
| 1:09.3 | your outfit has purple on it like she it was like |
| 1:11.4 | honestly I only know fashion because of women like I generally dated a woman who was like hey |
| 1:16.5 | we got to change this like I'd never forget it she she changed my whole wardrobe like she was |
| 1:24.7 | like we can't we can't do this anymore yeah Yeah. That's, you know, that was Tesla. |
| 1:48.8 | Obviously. Because you need that. You need that. Yeah. Like, I fought her on it. I did too. Also, what's so interesting is like, I don't know about you, but I had worked at MTV and, uh, I was coming from D.C. so it was like, you know, more Nike boots and like what society calls like urban wear. |
| 1:51.7 | And there was another black dude in the office. |
| 1:52.6 | It was only the two of us. |
| 1:54.0 | He pulled me aside one day. |
| 1:56.5 | And he was like, hey, man, I would never tell you to change something about yourself. |
| 2:00.0 | But he's like, just no, we're like, you're in a predominantly white space. |
| 2:18.4 | And you dress like you're still on the block. He's like, I never get it. And he was like, just know people, because people were, like, people were just weird. And he was like, not saying it's okay. I still love this dude to this day. He's like, not saying it's okay, but. Just, you know. It's a perception. Yeah. That's the thing. Literally to, literally this, literally hours ago, I was about to walk out the house and |
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