Chuck Bryan

Yeah, she found a great quote from poet Maya Angelou, who Malcolm X visited at her home in Ghana at one point, and basically kind of summarizing what guts it took to make that transformation in full public view after being so public and militant.

She said that it takes an incredible amount of courage to be able to say, say, everybody, you remember what I said yesterday?

Well, I found out that's wrong.

And she just thought that was an amazing thing to be able to do.

And it really was.

You know, not a lot of people can own up to kind of being on what they thought later was the wrong path, you know?

Yeah, I can't recommend the book and the movie enough.

The book sold 400,000 copies the year it was released in 1967, and it sold 5 million to date.

And the movie was a big hit, too.

It grossed close to 50 million bucks, which is not bad for a long, you know, true story biopic, like, you know, with political overtones.

It had a couple of Academy Award nominees, certainly Denzel, because he was amazing.

as always, and the great Ruth E. Carter for costume design.

Even though neither one would win, it was fairly controversial when Al Pacino won for Scent of a Woman over Denzel.

Yeah, people thought it was a pretty big snub, including Spike Lee.

He thought it was due to the controversy of the film, obviously, and the character, and he also thought it was a bit of a makeup call for Pacino losing so many times.

He would get some due, though, later in 2010 when the film was added to the National Film Registry as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

Yeah, this one's a little long, but it's one of the great emails we've gotten.

Because after we did our, what I think was a really fun episode on the Fyre Festival debacle.

Yes.

We heard, you know, in that we talked about the Magnusis credit card.