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GAM Bonus 039: Soul Man

🕑 Added 2019-09-29 15:42:56 +0000 UTC

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Melanie Hasenbuhler

So... I started listening to this Friday night, and just finished it tonight. And I'm between that, James Earl Jones died... Great episode. Sad about James though.

Markus Nävergård

Wonder if the white chicks movie was made to off set this somewhat?

Mark Warren

This episode was released two years ago, but I have to call out Eli saying “the whiter’s room” instead of “the writer’s room” at about 42:00. I caught it, Eli. I got you bro. Hi-larious.

Markus D

That first bit is what drives me crazy when it comes to the premise alone. NOBODY would fall for his blackface! He doesn't look like a black guy at all! He looks like as soon as he'd apply for the black scholarship someone would ask "What the fuck are you doing, white boy?"

Markus D

I also want to make the case that King Louie in The Jungle Book wasn't racist, even though a lot of people trying to bash Disney for racism use it as an example. It's just Louis Prima as an orangutan. I'm not normally the kind of person who says "it's more racist that you're trying to point out the racism" but I feel like it's valid here because there's literally nothing that links the character to black people unless you're essentially trying to FORCE a racist interpretation.

Kyle

James Earl Jones has a few roles I’m sure he isn’t too fond of. How many people here remember him as General Solomon of the Global Defense Initiative?

JCS

Howell did Criminal Minds, not CSI.

Anonymous ethicist, not a serial killer at all, just asking questions.

No Trudeau jokes? Guessing it was an early record.

Thomas J McMullan

I remember when this movie came out, I felt this was so stupid and obvious a white guy in make up. As a kid I thought it too stupid even for a comedy. Only later when I wa solder and saw some/ of this on TV, thinking it was so racist Thanks for destroying this comedy version of "Birth Of A Nation"

El Oso Café

No mention of Dan Aykroyd at 1:14:20. Missed opportunity.

CarrieBoo

I had no idea this movie existed, let alone had James Earl Jones in it...then I went through the trivia on IMDb and it says Tim Robbins was almost the lead but Howard the Duck ran over...tell me again how many drugs were people doing during this decade?

Jessica Addams

It was Louis Prima, not Louis Armstrong, in The Jungle Book. Also, there is a movie from this year called Loqueesha that might serve as the modern day Soul Man. I haven't seen it, but it's apparently about a white man pretending to be a black woman to get a nationally syndicated radio show.

Patrick Jackson

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Mama Llaga

My minion thinks this whole episode is just an elaborate setup to a secular review of "Made in America," with Whoopi Goldberg & Ted Danson. Will Smith even plays someone named "Tea Cake," so ... don't try to deny it, Eli.

Scott Lesch

C Thomas Howell was in Gettysburg and Gods and Generals. He played a guy from Maine with a Southern accent.

Grant Cosper

This movie came on HBO a LOT, and I also saw no problem with this movie back then (I swear I do now).

Paige Converse

Oh god I remember watching this movie as a kid! My brother's friend was all fancy and his mom could afford HBO or whatever. I thought it was great and didn't see anything wrong with it. Gah. Around the same time, there was a similar movie about a college kid who was a brilliant concert violinist and nerd. He left for music school and turned himself into a cookie-cutter 80's punk, with wild hair and pale makeup. Then he spent the rest of the movie teaching people a Valuable Lesson about Respecting Differences and how Being Different Makes You Great. Jesus Christ, these movies filled my head with shit. Being different has run my life off the rails more than once.