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The Right Time with Bomani Jones

What The Michael Jackson movie gets Wrong about Michael Jackson | 05.12

The Right Time with Bomani Jones

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4.812.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On this edition of Time Machine Tuesday, Bomani Jones is joined by DJ Wally Sparks to break down the Michael Jackson movie and why it doesn’t fully capture how massive Mike really was. They get into why Michael Jackson resonated with young audiences better than almost any superstar ever, how his fame translated across the world, and what made the Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad era so hard to put on screen. They also talk about Joe Jackson, the movie’s framing of Mike as too passive, and why the ending should’ve hit harder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Wave.

0:09.2

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time. A Wave Original.

0:13.2

My name is Beaumani Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast.

0:16.3

Thanks for watching us on YouTube. Subscribe, like, rate us, review us, give us five stars. He only give us

0:21.7

four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. It is Time Machine Tuesday. I got my man

0:28.8

DJ Wally Sparks on the mic with me. And long and short, man, I went and saw that Michael

0:35.1

Jackson movie. And I know that, you know, it ain't the

0:38.4

hot talker that it was when it first came out, but you know me. I like to kind of let these

0:42.7

things settle, settle down and let people get, you know, get a hold of their motherfuckin' selves,

0:49.2

right? Before we actually talk about what's going on with that movie, brother. Like, I saw somebody on the train a couple Sundays ago. He had on the white shirt and the sparkly jacket and the hat. And I think he was going to see the Michael Jackson movie. It's New York City. He might have just come back from church. There ain't no way of knowing, man. You never know, right? People was charged up and ready to go see that Michael Jackson movie.

1:12.1

Yeah, man.

1:17.2

Michael Mania was in full effect for like, you know, a good, say, 20 days.

1:17.8

Yeah.

1:18.4

And you know what I mean?

1:22.3

And I mean, it was like back in full effect, you know?

1:28.6

It was, I saw, you know, children who weren't even thought of, right?

1:33.2

By the time when Michael Jackson was Michael Jackson, being, you know,

1:37.6

cos playing as him with their parents and not just cosplay, right?

1:40.7

Because there's one thing for your parents just to put you in a Michael Jackson jacket and throw a little, you know, spark of glove on your hand.

1:43.1

Right.

1:43.5

It's a whole other thing when you are under 10 years old in 2026 and you know the entire choreography

1:49.8

choreographer in the Rockwoods video. That's a whole other thing. You know what I mean? So that is an

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