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

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🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Gaby and iconic podcast producer, writer and friend Melisa 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! tw: police brutality and murder, sexual assault, suicide Gaby Dunn Instagram: @GabyRoad Mal Blum is @malblum anywhere you want to find them BWM Instagram: @bwmpod BWM Facebook group: http://tinyurl.com/badwithmoneyfb The BWM Discord channel: https://discord.gg/dAdxj4JMER Find Gaby on Patreon: patreon.com/gabydunn Shop gabydunn.com/shop for merch! Bad with Money is produced, edited, sound engineered and mixed by Cumulus Podcast Network. The theme song was performed by Sam Barbara and written by Myq Kaplan, Zach Sherwin, and Jack Dolgen. Additional music by Joey Salvia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	You got problems that you oughta be concerned with.
0:03.4	You don't know how you're supposed to earn it or what to do with it or how to keep it.
0:07.9	You're a freak with a dark shameful secret, but you're not the only one.
0:13.0	Teach your hidden financial fears with a blast of sun.
0:16.4	Now your healing has begun.
0:19.0	It's back with money with Gabby.
0:21.4	Done.
0:22.4	Hello and welcome to Bad With Money, a show about finances and feelings that we don't
0:26.6	talk down to you.
0:27.6	I'm your host Gabby Dunn.
0:29.9	And this week on the show, I am so excited because some of my favorite movies involve robbing
0:35.7	banks.
0:36.7	Point Break is one of my favorite movies of all time.
0:40.1	And I wanted to talk about the movie Set It Off, which is about a bunch of black women
0:46.1	robbing banks.
0:47.4	And I wanted to talk about it with my podcast producer extraordinaire who does my other
0:52.8	show just between us.
0:55.2	Friend, incredible writer.
0:57.7	Strangely soap opera fanatic, if you get to know her, Melissa D. Montz, who had never seen
1:04.2	Set It Off.
1:05.7	And I had also not seen it in about 10 years or so.
1:10.4	And this revisit was really, really great.
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