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Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]

Tv & Film, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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This week, James, Jerah, and Jon are covering Slice (2018), written and directed by Austin Vesely, starring Zazie Beetz, Chance Bennett, Rae Gray, Marilyn Dodds Frank, Katherine Cunningham, Will Brill, Y’Ian Noel, Hannibal Buress, Tim Becker, Joe Keery, Chris Parnell, and Paul Scheer. Together, they discuss their plans for watching horror movies this October, not wanting to hear about the Final Destination movies at all, drunk crossing guards, whether or not $66,000 is a solid amount of money for Slice to’ve made on VOD, who Slice’s protagonist is, its perfect runtime, witch logic, whether or not Chance the Rapper should have been credited as “Chance the Actor” on the film, the frustration of there only being one Freddy vs. Jason, Bray's side podcast about The Floor, and much, much more!

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0:00.0	It's spooky season.
0:10.0	Now, what, what you doing that?
0:11.2	Why are you doing that?
0:13.4	Hey, chill out.
0:14.3	Chill out.
0:14.8	Because it's spooky season.
0:16.1	Which I want to be spooky for.
0:18.0	What you want to be spooky for?
0:18.9	I love horror movies.
0:21.0	Yes, and at the time we're recording this, it is the beginning of spritz. be speaking for? What you want to be spooky for? I love horror movies. Yes.
0:21.6	And at the time we're recording
0:22.5	this is it is the beginning of speech. It is October. Well, Spooky season, I think technically starts in September. You don't have to tell them what day it is. Well, it's, no, they need to know. It's October 1st. I watch my, I watch my first, I watched my first Halloween picture of the year.
0:38.1	Oh, October 1st, I got to watch it.
0:40.2	I'm going to try to watch one a day. Do you do the 31 days? I haven't been able to do that lately. I normally am not able to do it because Kat doesn't like that. I guess technically, I really haven't been able to do it because of the, because of the baby. But now I'm going to start now. I've been up late in the middle of the night a lot lately, and I think I'm just going use that time to also watch a horror film. And you just meant a horror film, not a Halloween franchise. Not Halloween franchise, but also I love those'll, you'll throw in some of those as well.
1:28.0	Yes, I'll throw in some of the. And what, and what movie was that? Was it this one? That was this. This one's the first one. Okay. Yeah, right. Sure. Okay, great. I mean, I've been seeing them this year and weirdly, the one that actually stood out to me the most was together. Oh, Oh, did you watch?
1:28.9	Did you like it, Bray?
1:30.0	I want to see it.
1:30.7	I'm nervous.
1:45.6	I feel like I'm going to get claustrophobic. I just thought thematically, it like, and I don't know, I think it hit, it may hit harder for people who are in, like, partnerships. What are you trying to say? What was that? Well, I mean, it's a bit about what it's about. Oh, that's cool. That's cool. Because I think the conceit of the movie is like very
1:52.6	the context of the movie is very basic, but I don't know. It was fun. Anyway, I enjoyed it. You know,
1:59.1	obviously I enjoyed weapons and obviously I enjoyed sinners.
2:01.9	I could be together. Yes. I can be together. And those were like bigger budget kind of things.
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