So I watched this movie yesterday about Washington, DC radio icon Petey Green. I am very interested in 60-70s black radicalism, so Green is very appealing to me. I am also from DC, so that made me want to see it more. It was a pretty solid film which did not really have much of a point or a plot. It is about an ex-con who got a job as a radio DJ. He was upsetting to people, but then a lot of people liked him anyway. Sort of like a black version of Howard Stern’s Private Parts only less funny. The he just sort of quit and then they flash forward many years and he died. Not very exciting. That being said, there are funny moments and some mostly exaggerated details about Green. I Googled him to find out more, and there is not much on him, but a bunch of things in the movie aren’t true. However, there is a scene where he comes out of my favorite restaurant in DC called Ben’s Chili Bowl, so I was pretty excited about that. And then I found this amazing video and I was even more excited.

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