RZA Pt. 1: One Spoon of Chocolate Changes the Whole Glass of Milk

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

John welcomes acclaimed rapper, producer, composer, actor, filmmaker, and Wu-Tang Clan prime mover RZA to discuss his new movie “One Spoon of Chocolate,” which opened in theaters across the country last week. In Part One of this special, two-part episode, RZA describes the decade-plus odyssey of the film, which he wrote and directed, from idea to premiere; how the shifting state of race relations in America affected both it and him; and the transition of his career as an artist away from music and towards film. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Some follow the noise.
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0:07.2	Because behind every headline is a bottom line.
0:11.2	Whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion dollar swings,
0:15.7	there's a money side to every story.
0:18.2	And when you see the money side, you understand what others miss.
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0:35.2	Aloha, Namaste, and welcome to Imposite
0:37.3	with John Harmon, a puck and Odyssey joint.
0:40.4	And for any of you who listen to this show with any regularity, you're familiar with that our introductions generally range from the pretty long to the long, to the really, really long.
0:53.4	But today, we're going to have an exception to that rule.
0:56.1	Today, we are going very short because the guest that we have on with us today, not just
1:03.0	today, but also in our next episode, this is a special two-part episode.
1:06.4	Our guest genuinely, truly, really actually, factually needs no introduction, at least to anyone
1:11.6	who is a fan of hip-hop, I would say not just hip-hop, but music more generally, a fan of film,
1:18.8	fan of television, fan of anything, really.
1:21.2	That has been at the center of popular culture over the course of the last, oh, 30 or 40 years.
1:28.2	He's a man who has a bunch of different names on his birth certificate.
1:31.3	It says Robert Fitzgerald Diggs to people who are more familiar with his work.
1:35.6	They know him in a whole bunch of ways.
1:36.9	All these monikers and aliases, people call him the abbot.
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