One Battle After Another

Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]

Tv & Film, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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This week, James, Jerah, and Jon are covering One Battle After Another, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, based on the novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti. Together, they discuss this not being a political podcast, daddy daughter games, the complexities of the Perfidia Beverly Hills character, what was going on with Junglepussy’s styling in the film, seeing Christmas Adventurers in the wild, the film’s Oscar chances, how great Benicio del Toro is, car chases, and much, much more!

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0:00.0	See, how do we do a code open break?
0:08.6	Because we're not a political podcast.
0:10.3	You know what I mean?
0:11.7	It's true.
0:13.5	This is true.
0:14.8	Because normally we would talk about something inspired by the movie, and this movie is very political,
0:19.1	which I don't even know how we're going to talk about we're we don't talk politics yeah this is not a political
0:24.5	podcast you know no I don't talk politics I'm gonna tell you right now even if this was a
0:30.1	political podcast I would try to find a way to skirt around talk about anything head on right now I mean mean, today, right now, I mean, as we talking about this, I just feel like I would. You're scared. I just feel like I would be sidestepping. Listen, I, listen, I, I, I don't want to say anything offensive. I'm a concern. I don't want to say anything. Just mildly concerned. Just mildly concerned. About what exactly?'m not going to allow myself to be silence. Is there anything happening that might be concerned? I don't know. I'm just saying at this moment, if it was, you know, if this was, if this was, if this were a political podcast. Right. And I would be, then I would be, then I would just sort of be like, why am I even here? Like, why? Because I can't be speaking on this.
1:11.9	Yeah, yeah.
1:12.1	What can I talk?
1:12.8	What can I say?
1:13.5	What can I even say?
1:15.3	You know, what can I talk about?
1:16.6	You're going to say something bad about the regime?
1:19.4	I mean, what can I say about the state of government and the ways in which government handles certain elements, you know, certain boundaries.
1:30.5	By elements and boundaries, you just, are you referring to anything like particular?
1:34.8	Anything head, anything direct?
1:36.1	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
1:36.8	Any amendments maybe?
1:38.5	Whoa.
1:39.1	Amendments?
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