"The Black Man Talking Emotions Podcast" Starring Dom L'Amour
"The Black Man Talking Emotions Podcast" Starring Dom L'Amour
Black Jeopardy with Chris Bates
Take a seat and get ready to test your knowledge alongside Dom and Bates as they face off in an electrifying game of Black Jeopardy on this special episode of the Black Man Talking Emotions podcast. What starts with a simple rock-paper-scissors showdown quickly evolves into a riveting battle of wits across five categories: Black TV shows, music, pop culture, Black history, and movie quotes.
The chemistry between Dom and Bates drives this episode, as they navigate questions ranging from identifying Rosa Parks' Montgomery bus boycott to recalling the iconic "Go home, Roger" catchphrase from Sister, Sister. Listen as they confidently answer some questions ("King Kong ain't got shit on me" from Training Day) while hilariously struggling with others (the names of the four women on Living Single). Their competitive banter creates moments of genuine hilarity, especially when they digress into an impromptu discussion about the contrasting approaches of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois.
Beyond the entertainment value, this episode serves as a celebration of Black cultural knowledge and history. Whether they're reciting Drake lyrics ("Last name ever, first name greatest") or reflecting on Emmett Till's historical significance, Dom and Bates demonstrate how games can be both fun and educational. The friendly competition culminates with Dom claiming victory at 1,000 points to Bates' negative 200, though not without some good-natured protests about question difficulty.
Whether you're a trivia enthusiast or simply looking for an entertaining, knowledge-filled listen, this episode delivers laughs while showcasing the richness of Black culture across multiple domains. Follow both Dom and Bates on social media, subscribe to the podcast, and if you enjoyed this playful format, check out their previous collaboration, "New Year's Day Flowers."
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ladies and gentlemen, and anyone else who is here, my name is dom lamore and you are listening to the black man talking emotions podcast. On today's episode, I speak with my guy baits, and we play a fun game of Black Jeopardy. We're going to play a game, we're going to play Jeopardy, all right, gotcha, but it's Black Jeopardy. Okay, I actually found the Jeopardy. That's Black Jeopardy. It's two teams, of course, and the way we'll do it is we'll go alternate. So we want to rock paper scissors, right quick. We do two out of three to see who goes first, and it won't be like a buzzer thing. We'll just you go and then if you can't answer it, I can steal and we'll go that way, kind of thing. You're the guest, you won. All right, you got it. We ain't going to keep doing that. All right, here we go, all right. So the categories are black TV shows, music, pop culture, black history and movie quotes. What would you like to go for them? You got from one, two, three, four or 500?.
Speaker 2:Well, let me get a 500 for movie quotes.
Speaker 1:Movie quotes 500. The question is I don't have to do nothing but stay black and die.
Speaker 2:Oh, I know this movie. I know it. I know, I know this movie. I'm going to be so mad because I'm going to have to pass this. I'm going to have to pass this.
Speaker 1:Just throw something out there. Throw something out there.
Speaker 2:It's Bernie Mac. What movie is that? I feel like it's the movie that he played with Cindy Poirier, but it's like the reversed one, or whatever. What is the name of that movie, guess who?
Speaker 1:That's my guess, but I cannot. I'm going to just make a wild guess and say it's from Malcolm X. Okay, those are my two. Here we go. What is Lean on Me? Ah, I knew that. That's what I said. Yeah, I should have known that one, you know what's crazy is Dominique.
Speaker 2:That is the scene where he's arguing with Mr Joe, the principal, and he's arguing with the district of the school and he was like and they show that all the time Alright, alright, I am next the school. He was like I ain't got it.
Speaker 1:And they show that all the time. All right, I am next. Of course, we both got negative 500, right now.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1:We already both sucking it up. I'm going to go 100 black TV shows the phrase that Tia and Tamara always said to their annoying neighbor on Sister, sister, wow, I don't know this. I don't know this, I was a kidding and kill kind of guy. I'm going to say go home, alisa. What are you going to say? Who are you saying? I say go home, alisa.
Speaker 2:No, it's go home, roger, no way.
Speaker 1:Go home, roger. How did I not know? I totally thought it was go home something. Oh, that makes me so angry. All right, that's a negative 100 for me, positive for you, negative 600, negative 400 on your turn. What do you go?
Speaker 2:Let's go. Black history for 200. 200. Black history for 200.
Speaker 1:200. Rosa Parks' refusal to give her seat up to a white man triggered a boycott of the bus system in this city.
Speaker 2:Is it Alabama? That's not a city. I know it's not a city, but I'm saying Alabama is Birmingham. Alabama, that's your guess.
Speaker 1:Yep, montgomery is my guess, and it is indeed Montgomery. Montgomery. What Alabama? That's your guess. Yep, montgomery is my guess, and it is indeed Montgomery. Montgomery, what Alabama? No, you were right on Alabama. I was like, yeah, but I'm not going to tell you which city.
Speaker 2:I don't know. For some reason I thought it was Birmingham. My bad yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm going to do 100 for Black History. The name of the teenage boy whose body was found manipulated after being lynched in Mississippi in 1955. His death is widely regarded as the spark to the beginning of the civil rights movement. That is Emmett Till. Thank you very much to the people. Let's keep it moving.
Speaker 2:Let me do movie quotes for 300.
Speaker 1:300. King Kong ain't got shit on me. We're going to go with.
Speaker 2:Training Day Denzel Washington.
Speaker 1:How dare you? All right, I'm going to go movie. Quotes 400. All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. A girl child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I'd have to fight in my own house. I love Harpo.
Speaker 2:God knows I do. Thank you, you're born with that one, that's not a 400. Color Purple Oprah Winfrey thank you very much.
Speaker 1:We have broken into the positive. I have 100 versus your negative, 300.
Speaker 2:Your question let's do music for 200 200.
Speaker 1:the founder of motown records? It's barry gordy. It is indeed Barry Gordy. I was thinking you were going to get it. I was like, oh you better name If you said like Smokey Robinson. I'd be like, no, barry Gordy. All right, you got to know it. All right, let's go ahead and go. Black TV Shows for $200. The popular show set in this 1970s Chicago starred a young Janet Jackson. Good Times is the name of that show and it is indeed Good Times. 300 to negative 100.
Speaker 2:Your call 300 pop culture.
Speaker 1:On this show. A popular line was you get a car, you get a car, you get a car.
Speaker 2:It was the Oprah Winfrey show.
Speaker 1:It was the Oprah renfrew show. All right, I'm up. 300, you got 200. Now I'm gonna go. Let's go back to black tv shows. 300, the person always going into martin's refrigerator to make himself a sandwich. Yay, bruh man, how about that? That is 300 for me. 600, 200, your 200, your call 400 for music. Finish the lyrics to this popular 90s song, because my heart starts beating triple time, with thoughts of loving you on my mind.
Speaker 2:I cannot get this and I know this song. I cannot get it. I know this song Sing it Sing the lyrics. Do you know how it goes and my heart starts beating triple too. Sing it, sing the lyrics. You know how it goes and my heart starts beating.
Speaker 1:Go ahead. What is it? What is? I can't figure out just what to do when the cause and cure is you. I don't even know what song that is. No, I don't either. Yeah, we both have negative on that. You're at negative 200. I'm at negative, I'm at regular 200. All right, I had to shoot my shot, and that's what you do. That's what you do. I'm going to go music 100. She didn't want no hateration, holleration in this dancery. That is Mary J Blige, of course, and I got that right there. 300 points, your call.
Speaker 2:Pop culture, for yeah, let me do 200.
Speaker 1:200, a cultural identity on a famed social network, focuses on issues of interest to the Black community, particularly in the United States. Its use of hashtags allows for a collective of active users to bring about a wide range of psycho-political changes. So it's a social network, it's a cultural identity on a famed social network. I think I know what it is 106 and Park.
Speaker 2:Is that your final guess? Yeah, but I'm just throwing it out there because I'm like bro.
Speaker 1:I'm saying Black Twitter. It is Black Twitter. Yeah, a cultural identity.
Speaker 2:Well, I would have just guessed Twitter. Okay, I guess, but that shouldn't have been in pop, though. What do you mean? Black Twitter is pop culture, but I'm saying how they described it. I wouldn't have never guessed that, because I'm like wait what? Okay, I heard about.
Speaker 1:Black Twitter. I'm going to do movie quotes 100. You is smart, you is kind, you is important. That is from the Health, of course. What a show. How about you?
Speaker 2:Black History. I think it's 300 left, ain't it, mm-hmm yeah?
Speaker 1:The court case ended legal segregation in public schools.
Speaker 2:I have no idea what the name of it, but it's like the Board of Education versus Brown, I think.
Speaker 1:It's Brown versus the Board of Education.
Speaker 2:Let me get that.
Speaker 1:Come on, bro, come on All right, I'm going to give it to us both, just because I got it the way it actually says it and you did get it. That's technicality, yeah, yeah, but we both got it. I'm going to's technicality. We both got it. We both got it. Alright, I'm going to say Pop Culture 100. Best known for her work as a pop musician, this artist has now broken into the makeup scene, creating a line of products that are lightweight and work for all skin tones and types, with over 40 shades. That is Rihanna. Rihanna with her Finney collection. Let's see. Yes, indeed, that's one for me, right there, all right, how about you? And it's 1,000 to negative 100.
Speaker 2:Black history Five. Let me do five.
Speaker 1:Over four. Okay, the name of the West African man who led a revolt on the Spanish slave ship, la.
Speaker 2:Amstin African man. I've heard of that, I just don't know his name.
Speaker 1:Do you know? I'm not sure, because I'm mixing up Tucson and I know that's French, that's not Spanish. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That character comes ahead first, but he's like an American. He wasn't the.
Speaker 2:West.
Speaker 1:I don't think Shaka Zulu made it. You might be right. He didn't make it to the boats. I think he died on the battlefield. Yeah, I'm going to say, yeah, he's a warrior. I think he died on the battlefield.
Speaker 2:This one is interesting. I don't if I did learn about this it was like a one day, we read it randomly, I don't know this is. I don't give a damn, I don't get high at the score, but look, this is pretty good.
Speaker 1:I enjoyed this. Yeah, what's, what's new name? Oh, joseph click. Yeah, we wouldn't have got that.
Speaker 2:Neither we wouldn't have got that, but it's good to know.
Speaker 1:now we are going to get negative points for that that's fine. So I'm at 500. You're at negative 600. And I'm going to go Black History 400. The first African-American to be put on a US postage stamp. I think it's between two people. I'm going to say one of them because I don't want to give you the answer.
Speaker 2:What if it's wrong, though?
Speaker 1:That's why I'm nervous. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2:And I ain't cheating on me either. I ain't been looking on my phone.
Speaker 1:No, I ain't been cheating either. I haven't been cheating either. I'm going to say Thurgood Marshall. I thought it was a woman, I feel like it was a man, but there's only one other man. I think it is over this guy, but I think if he was the first Supreme Court, I think that would be something significant enough for them.
Speaker 2:Do I have to guess what?
Speaker 1:if I just say I don't want to guess. You don't have to. No, I'm not going to guess. You only can guess if you want to, but it yeah no, I'm not going to get no negative thousand. I need to stop guessing on yours if I don't know it too. That was something stupid I did earlier.
Speaker 2:No, we were just enjoying it All right here we go.
Speaker 1:Thurgood Marshall is my guess. You don't even want to guess. Here we go. Booker T Washington is the correct answer. I knew it was somebody like Frederick Douglass. I thought I knew it was going to be someone like White. People really liked him when he was alive. Okay, I was going to say he went to the White House and WEB Du Bois used to think he was.
Speaker 2:How did white people like Boogity Washington and he was like the non-violent Malcolm X? No, no, no, no no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:Boogity Washington no, Boog no, no, no, no, no, no. Booker T Washington no, booker T Washington was the guy that would go like different places and kind of try to tell Black people to you know, mind their manners around white people and kind of play it more straight so we won't have to worry about the repercussions and stuff. But BB Du Bois was like no, we need to be more proactive and more animated towards all of that stuff.
Speaker 2:But I thought Booker T Washington was like that. But he also said that we shouldn't. We should still be separated.
Speaker 1:It wouldn't surprise me if he was against, because I mean, I feel like most black people back then was like yo. We were making way more money in our community. So it wouldn't surprise me if both of them said that.
Speaker 2:And then the reason why I said that is because malcolm x was like that too. But malcolm x was by any means necessary, exactly. He was like hey, bro, listen, we gonna do our thing over here and let them do their thing over here. You don't gotta be all.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean so that's what I was, because he was very much talking about trying to you know, be I mean wb. The boy was looking at it like he was saying we need to be good house, niggas, kind of thing, but I feel like that was. His whole angle was like we need to stop killing each other, we need to stop giving them reasons to treat us a certain way and we need to just act right for these white people, kind of thing. Anyway, we could jump into more of that later.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1:We have moved on. I think I asked that one, didn't I yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you did, black TV Shows 4.
Speaker 1:Jennifer Lopez was a fly girl on this popular 90s sketch show. I live in color. Live in color. All right, that is negative 200 to 100. I'm going to go movie quotes 200. Ricky Boys in the hood 300 tootes 200. Ricky Boys in the Hood 300 to negative 200. Your call 500.
Speaker 2:I'll do TV shows 500.
Speaker 1:What names of the four women starring in the show Living Single?
Speaker 2:What are the names? I'm trying to get the Dixie one first out of there, because what is her name? So it's Max. I hate this and that's my show too. Mm-hmm, sinclair, khadidra, and I'm mad about this man. Hold on, because I'm pretty sure you know the last one.
Speaker 1:I'm not guessing on this one, oh.
Speaker 2:Rachelle Max, rachelle, rachel Max, rachel Khadija Sinclair. Is that your final guess? Yeah, but I think the last one is wrong. It's.
Speaker 1:Khadija, Maxine and St Clair and Regine. You said an R and I was like that was close.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I couldn't think that's the bougie one. I couldn't think of her name. I could not think of her name 300 me, negative 700 you.
Speaker 1:I'm going 300 music. The artist who rapped this verse in one of his songs Last name, ever first name greatest. Like a sprained ankle boy, ain't nothing to play with. Started off local but thanks to all the haters, I know G4 Pilots on the first name Basics. He isn't really a rapper in my opinion, but some people say he is. Give it up to Drake. Thank you very much. Board is yours. The musical artist's debut song came out in 2005, featuring Juel Santana. Chris Brown that is indeed Chris Brown Run it.
Speaker 2:Hey, but they don't never play the rap version on Pandora. Oh really, yeah, they never play the rap version on Pandora.
Speaker 1:That's negative 200 for you, 600 for me. Like I said, if you get these last two, you can win this thing. Here we go. I'm going to just go ahead and play it safe. Let's go 400. Pop culture when white people take customs, practices or traditions from one culture, you either mock or simplify the meaning or take a piece of the culture. This also means taking wearing something from another culture and appreciating it you ain't got to read all that.
Speaker 1:You know what it is. It's not on the body appropriation. Know what it is? I don't know. I just wanted to make sure I read the whole question. That's a 400 for me for appropriation. And final question, of course, Pop Culture. 500 is your question. Here we go. Black feminists is not white feminists. In blackface is a quote from Andre Lord in this book of essays and speeches.
Speaker 2:I have no idea about books. Go ahead and guess. You read more books than I do. No, I wasn't going to guess on that, it's Sister.
Speaker 1:Outside. So we end the game. Negative 200 to 1,000. Dominique walking away in glorious.
Speaker 2:Let's be honest. Listen, listeners. Y'all do see what's going on, though Y'all saw what's going on. What's going on? He had one tough question, you know me, I was. Y'all do see what's going on, though Y'all saw what's going on. What's going on, what's going on. He had one tough question, you know me.
Speaker 1:I was going to. You know why I didn't have one? Because instead of going straight to 500, I went to 100. It got my points. That's why that last one was a 200. But listen, how would it be 400 was for Harpo and be 400 was for Harpo and it's like that's unfair. I shouldn't have got that for 400.
Speaker 2:That should have been like a $200. I was hey, I ain't gonna lie, I was close, I was on with you. If I would have got, if I could have got that last name on Living Single, I'd have been right there.
Speaker 1:I know that would have been perfect for you and, like I said, when you made the revelation that we didn't have to guess every time, I was like, oh yeah, I don't have to guess on this one, Do it yeah it was like, bro, we get negative for no reason, we just don't guess it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a solid Black Jeopardy episode right there and the winner is Dom 1,000 points. And I would have, if we would have had a double Jeopardy kind of question, I would have bet it all and I would have won. But that's not how this game goes. We already done. But much love, appreciate you playing along with me.
Speaker 2:That was actually fun yeah.
Speaker 1:I want to thank you for listening to the Black man Talking Emotions podcast and shout out to my guy, chris, chris for being on this week. He's going to be on another week, of course, coming up after this. We just wanted to have a little fun and do something different with Black Jeopardy and I hope you enjoyed that. Follow Chris at Chris E I B underscore 88 on Instagram. Please subscribe to the podcast, share the podcast and give us a good rating five stars, please, and thank you. You can support the show by clicking the link at the bottom of the episode description. If you liked this episode, you should check out our previous episode, new Year's Day Flowers featuring Chris Bates. Great listen and you should go check that out. Follow me at D-O-M underscore L-A-M-O-U-R on instagram or at domlamorecom. I'm dom lamore. Much love.
