BONUS: Training Day: We're Sorry We Exposed You to It with Dylan Rodriguez

We've got one more chat about Season 2's theme "We Don't Need Another Hero." For our bonus episode we talked about Training Day (2001), featuring Denzel Washington's Oscar-winning performance as a crooked cop. Scholar, activist (and sports dad!) Dylan Rodriguez helped us think through this film, LA politics, and Hollywood copaganda.

Spoilers: Ethan Hawke's punchable face, all cops are crooked bastards, Snoop cameo, LAPD / Hollywood collaborations, NAACP, respectability politics, David Simon, King Kong, Macy Gray, post-9/11 patriotism, Denzel Washington in the '90s.

Dylan Rodriguez is the author of several books, most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide (2021). He's kept his day job as a Professor at UC Riverside since 2001, where he teaches in the newly formed department Black Study as well as Media and Cultural Studies. You can find out more about his political work and scholarship at linktr.ee/dylanrodriguez73. Follow him on Twitter @dylanrodriguez.

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