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Top 5 Directorial Debuts, Oakland, and 'Sorry to Bother You'

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Ify Nwadiwe, Film, News, Reviews, Comedy, Diverse, Twitter, Woke, Queer, Drea Clark, Film Reviews, Criticism, Movies, Tv & Film, Alonso Duralde

4.7932 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

We're going guest-less this episode as the 'Who Shot Ya?' trio hold down the fort on their own. This week we're covering the movie of the summer, Sorry to Bother You. In the discussion of the film the crew covers the rise of Oakland in cinema, Boots Riley's unique vision, and the powerful political message of the film. Alonso makes a case for a double feature with Sorry to Bother Youand The First Purge. Plus, the crew puts together the ultimate Top Five list of directorial debuts. And as always, staff picks. In news, Thanos apparently killed half of the animals, the cast and crew walk off the 'Roe v. Wade' film, and James Gunn says a good movie can't be ruined by spoilers. TOP FIVE DIRECTORIAL DEBUTS (In no particular order): 1). Orson Welles - Citizen Kane 2). Kasi Lemmons - Eve's Bayou 3). Spike Lee - She's Gotta Have It 4). Joan Micklin Silver - Hester Street 5). Rose Troche - Go Fish Weekly Movie Recommendations: Ricky - Nights of Cabiria April - Eighth Grade Alonso - Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation PLUS, we have two Spotify playlists. One is for Movie Soundtracks and the other is for Movie Scores. Check 'em out! Next week we're discussing Skyscraper with Morgan Rhodes and Drea Clark With Alonso Duralde, April Wolfe, and Ricky Carmona. You can let us know what you think of Who Shot Ya? at @WhoShotYaPod on Twitter. Or email us atwhoshotya@maximumfun.org Produced by Casey O'Brien and Laura Swisher for MaximumFun.org.

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0:00.0

They're coming to get you Barbara.

0:04.0

I don't know what you come to do, but I come to create his name.

0:10.0

Because you'll never be anything but a common frump whose father lived over a grocery store

0:14.5

and whose mother took in washing.

0:17.0

Hey you're listening to who shot you.

0:18.3

I'm your boy with your host Ricky Carmona.

0:20.0

Today we do not have a special guest.

0:22.0

It will just be the original three crew.

0:25.1

Joining me in the studio as always she is the host of switchblade sisters

0:28.7

podcast. It's sometimes it's knows in April, April Wolf.

0:32.2

April was good with you.

0:35.0

So Ricky, I was going to just say something music-wise, but then I realized that I haven't said anything music wise because and I'm a person

0:45.5

used to work at a record store and work as a DJ at a radio station but I don't really

0:50.4

listen to music that much and it's very sad but I realize that maybe I

0:54.4

couldn't listen to music because I am stressed the fuck out all the time and and

1:00.1

then I realized I started doing these bar three things, like 30 minutes in the daytime.

1:06.8

And I'm like not as stressed out guys, like I can unclench my jaw and enjoy a song occasionally.

1:13.6

Explain to me what Bar 3 is.

1:15.2

I'm not familiar with with that.

1:16.2

Do you ever hear like cardio bar stuff?

1:19.2

Like, it's usually a bunch of women who are standing at like a ballet bar doing

1:26.0

cardio and hard disheart shit really hard shit. Oh is bar like where you put your leg up on the bar?

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