REPLAY: Set It Off: Black Women Robbing Banks with Melisa D. Monts

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🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Original Air Date: 10/26/2022

tw: police brutality and murder, sexual assault, suicide

Gabe and iconic podcast producer, writer and friend Melisa D. Monts break down one of the best bank robbing blockbuster films, Set It Off, starring Queen Latifah, Kimberly Elise, Vivica A Fox, and Jada Pinkett. How were Black women portrayed in "empowerment" films in light of the booming 90s economy? What do the motivations of our heroes say about systemic racism, homophobia, and misogynoir? Should we all just start robbing banks? Time to SET IT OFF!

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0:00.0	You got problems that you ought to be concerned with move on.
0:04.0	You don't know how you're supposed to earn it or what to do with it or how to keep it.
0:08.0	You're a freak with a dark shameful secret.
0:10.0	But you're not the only one.
0:13.0	It's your hidden financial fears with a blast of sun.
0:16.0	Now your healing has begun.
0:19.0	It's bad with money with Gabby.
0:21.0	Done.
0:22.0	Hello and welcome to Bad with Money, a show about finances and feelings
0:26.0	where we don't talk down to you.
0:27.6	I'm your host, Gabi Dun, and this week on the show,
0:31.1	I am so excited because some of my favorite movies involve
0:35.0	robbing Banks. Point Break is one of my favorite movies of all time and I wanted to
0:41.1	talk about the movie Set It Off, which is about a bunch of black women robbing banks, and I wanted to talk about it with my podcast producer Extraordinair, who does my other show just between us, a friend, incredible writer,
0:57.0	strangely soap opera fanatic, if you get to know her,
1:01.0	Melissa D. Montz, who had never seen set it off. And I had also not seen it in about 10 years or so. And this
1:10.5	revisit was really, really great.
1:14.8	If you have not seen this movie, you need to go watch it.
1:18.4	Pa's the show and go watch set it off right now.
1:21.2	It's maybe now one of my favorite movies and we get into what the economy was like in the
1:25.4	90s when this type of movie was taking off Queen Latifas coming out and then going back in
1:31.5	the Jada Pinkett of it all, and we also talk about the systemic issues
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