2 chapters across the catalog
The hosts discuss the 1998 film "The Players Club," directed by Ice Cube, which popularized the "stripper myth" of a woman dancing only to pay for college. They trace the cinematic desensitization of stripping through films like "Showgirls" and "Striptease." Adam Curry notes the "calculated" casting of Elizabeth Berkley, moving from the "smart" character in "Saved by the Bell" to a stripper.
A clip from "The Players Club" features Bernie Mac's character giving a comedic but pointed "history lesson" on how stripping started in Africa and was exploited by Europeans. Mo Facts introduces the real historical figure Sarah Bartman, a South African woman paraded around Europe in the 19th century for her physical features, as the true origin of this exploitation.
