Ever wondered what it's like to revisit the 'hood through a comedic lens, nearly 30 years later? Well, buckle up as we pay homage to the cult classic "Friday," immersing ourselves in the hilarity and cultural significance that still resonates today. Our hosts Dave, Matt, and Zap are serving up a dose of nostalgia, spiced with insider production trivia and a playful challenge: can you spot the blooper in our film synopsis?
Strap in for a trip down memory lane, from oversized cereal Tupperware to Ice Cube's iconic father-son bathroom pep talk. We're reminiscing about the quirks of yesteryear's urban life and the legendary lines that have since etched their way into pop culture. Digging into the movie's soul, we explore how "Friday" redefined character dynamics and shone a light on the simplicity of neighborhood bonds, conflict resolution, and, of course, the art of delivering a punchline. Our Retro Movie Analysis Chat promises not just to tickle your funny bone but also to provide thoughtful commentary on the societal messages woven throughout the film.
To top it off, our Classic Movie Review Discussion invites you to rate "Friday" with us as we introduce our unique movie rating system. Whether this film is a late fee, a return, or a burn in your book, join us for an episode where laughter meets cultural reflection, and where "Bye Felicia" is more than just a catchphrase—it's a significant nod to a movie that's become a staple in the cultural zeitgeist. Don't forget to engage with us after the episode; we're eager to hear your impressions and stories linked to this unforgettable flick.
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Ever wondered what it's like to revisit the 'hood through a comedic lens, nearly 30 years later? Well, buckle up as we pay homage to the cult classic "Friday," immersing ourselves in the hilarity and cultural significance that still resonates today. Our hosts Dave, Matt, and Zap are serving up a dose of nostalgia, spiced with insider production trivia and a playful challenge: can you spot the blooper in our film synopsis?
Strap in for a trip down memory lane, from oversized cereal Tupperware to Ice Cube's iconic father-son bathroom pep talk. We're reminiscing about the quirks of yesteryear's urban life and the legendary lines that have since etched their way into pop culture. Digging into the movie's soul, we explore how "Friday" redefined character dynamics and shone a light on the simplicity of neighborhood bonds, conflict resolution, and, of course, the art of delivering a punchline. Our Retro Movie Analysis Chat promises not just to tickle your funny bone but also to provide thoughtful commentary on the societal messages woven throughout the film.
To top it off, our Classic Movie Review Discussion invites you to rate "Friday" with us as we introduce our unique movie rating system. Whether this film is a late fee, a return, or a burn in your book, join us for an episode where laughter meets cultural reflection, and where "Bye Felicia" is more than just a catchphrase—it's a significant nod to a movie that's become a staple in the cultural zeitgeist. Don't forget to engage with us after the episode; we're eager to hear your impressions and stories linked to this unforgettable flick.
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Thanks for tuning in to the vintage cinema review on this week's episode. We're covering from 1995.
Speaker 2:Friday. It's Friday, you ain't got no job.
Speaker 3:You ain't got shit to do. Actually, there's plenty to do on a Friday, according to this movie in the hood.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's for sure. So we hope you're enjoying the podcast and if you are, leave that five star rating on Spotify. On Apple, you can leave a written review and a five star rating and sit back, relax and enjoy. From 1995 Friday hey, this is. Dave, matt and Zap, and welcome to the vintage cinema review where, every week, we review some of our favorite films from the past.
Speaker 3:Hey, there ain't no late fees here.
Speaker 2:Silence is golden and be kind Rewind.
Speaker 3:Something in the old VCR today.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Zap's picked this week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so look, man, in honor of Black History Month, commemoration of Black History 1995's.
Speaker 1:Friday oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Friday. In my opinion, a truly occult classic Hilarity through and through. Love this movie.
Speaker 1:I can't believe this is almost 30 years old.
Speaker 3:I know right, is that 30? Wow, I guess I didn't even figure that out.
Speaker 1:Yes, we're 29, but yeah, unreal. Makes you feel old.
Speaker 2:It does For sure it really makes you look back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, but this one released date on this April 26, 1995, running time of an hour and 31 minutes and it was rated R and this was directed by F Gary Gray, who he did a lot of music videos and stuff. If you were into Ice Cube and rap music back in the day you would see him doing a lot of music videos. This was written by Ice Cube and DJ Poo and produced by Patrick Charbonnet.
Speaker 3:DJ who.
Speaker 1:DJ, who DJ Poo Budget on this 3.5 million Box office 27.4.
Speaker 3:Nice. Yeah, that's pretty good return. That's fantastic. He's making money.
Speaker 1:So filming locations on this entirely in Los Angeles, california, within like a couple block radius.
Speaker 3:Basically like a one house.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was so 1418 West 126th Street, that's Craig's house, and Smokey's house is actually 1433 West 126., so right across the street basically. And even the store scene was on West 135th Street, which, if you look on the map, is a couple blocks away, and production began on this August of 1994, right after we graduated.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And filmed in about 20 days, which.
Speaker 2:That's awesome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you could tell I mean there was not much that they had to do for this.
Speaker 2:No, there's no special effects in this. No, there's no nothing.
Speaker 1:The get, the get which one?
Speaker 3:with the Mac 10s. Yeah, true, that probably put a couple books out for that. That took like maybe a day or a night. Was filmed at night, but yeah really nothing else no.
Speaker 1:But that's pretty much all I have for that fun stuff, so I'll turn it over the zap for the cast.
Speaker 2:Ah, the cast, all right, we've got Ice Cube as Craig Jones, chris Tucker as Smokey. Tiny Zeus Lister as Debo. John Witherspoon as Willie Jones, anna Maria Harzford as Betty Jones, regina King as Dana Jones, paula J Parker as Joy Craig's girlfriend, neal Long as Debbie Craig's love interest, bernie Mac as Pastor Cleaver, angela Means as Felicia Faizon Love as Big Worm, anthony Johnson as Ezel, yvette Wilson as Rita DJ Poo as Red, kathleen Bradley as Ms Parker, tony Cox as Mr Parker, demetrius Navarro as Hector Rae Naldo-Ray as Red's father, ron Reiser as Stanley and Vicki Lynn Reynolds as Joanne Smokey's mom.
Speaker 1:It's quite a cast.
Speaker 2:Quite a cast. A lot of people in this.
Speaker 1:I guess that's it for the cast then, so Matt's got an incorrect synapsis.
Speaker 3:Yes, it is incorrect.
Speaker 1:So we'll listen to it and see if the listeners can figure it out.
Speaker 3:But then we'll tell them, but on the cast right now when they did the casting. Ice Cube, where was he in his music career at this time? Was he a name?
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely 100%.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, so he's just is this his first like stepping into the realm of movies, right? Or no, no, he was in Boys in the Hood, so he this is before he did all the ones that, like you know, are we there yet.
Speaker 1:In Anaconda. Yeah, that's correct yeah.
Speaker 3:And how about Bernie Mac? Was he doing comedy at the time?
Speaker 1:I think that um sure Was that Kings of Comedy or whatever. Was that out by now?
Speaker 2:I believe so.
Speaker 1:It was definitely, um, probably like on HBO what they have that deaf comedy jam and all that. I don't know if he was part of that, but Bernie Mac was, like I would think, well known by 1995. But sometimes I get years confused in my head. You know what I mean. What I think was going on at a time, maybe a little bit later. But actually I think Kings of Comedy maybe was a couple years after this. I don't know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was trying to think if that was late 90s or not, because I know a lot of people like I've recognized in here and I remember them from later movies, even the mom like I thought she was in like the Jefferson's or something, but I was like no Close. There is a fun fact on one of the characters that, okay, well, hold on to that, a few of them actually, but anyway, yeah, like I was just when I was watching this I was like all these characters, look, really I thought the one girl was, uh, was, holly Berry, but she's not.
Speaker 1:Oh her, I was like I didn't know Holly Berry was in this the love interest.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was going to say it had to be Debbie.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, no, yeah, she's very hot, but uh okay. Yeah, here I have the, uh, the not so correct synapses.
Speaker 3:From the VHS yes, from the VHS tape. Friday is a high-energy comedy. That's from the New York Times. Raps Hotest Star leads the non-stop blasts in this hip-hoppin. Look at the day in the life in the hood Ice Cube boys in the hood, higher learning stars as Craig, an all-right guy with some crazy friends like Smokey, chris Tucker, house Party 3, who has 24 hours to pay back Devo, south Central's nastiest thug, or else Trouble is neither Craig's mother, anna Marie Harzford Amen, nor his maids, squeeze Nealong, made in America, has the bread. As time ticks away, the chances are these pair will ever see. Saturday is fading fast, featuring hits from the number one soundtrack on the Billboard pop chart and a supporting cast that includes Bernie Mac, john Witherspoon and tiny Zeus Lister Jr. Friday Slams into the weekend.
Speaker 1:Hmm, yeah, so the inaccuracy, there is what?
Speaker 3:With the Dbo. Yeah, explain that please.
Speaker 1:Good Sam.
Speaker 2:Well, according to the synapses, if I understood correctly, according to the synapses, the Craig and Smokey need to pay Debo. Yeah $200. But in reality that is not true. They need to pay big worm they were our big perm.
Speaker 3:What a big perm.
Speaker 1:You would think they would proofread this stuff. Why bother?
Speaker 3:Like just just get it out there, let's just print this and go with it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like they.
Speaker 3:They dropped the ball on that one, but now big worm whoever that guy was, he was also one of the cool characters in this movie.
Speaker 1:Oh, he's great, that's great.
Speaker 3:That's played by phase on love and we'll get into it. But I understand the whole ice cream thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, is he swinging drugs out of there?
Speaker 3:I don't know. That's what I said. Well, I guess we'll get there. But yeah, I was like what the hell, but I like that it was on um. What were those rims back then?
Speaker 2:Dayton's. Dayton's yes with stretched tires straight as we learned.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we did learn LA, ron so that's where.
Speaker 2:That's where I. I Knew that Anna Maria Harisburg. She was on. Amen, that's the show.
Speaker 1:Yes, sorry about a George Jefferson. Yes, he was the Sherman Hemsley.
Speaker 2:Sherman Hemsley, there's that.
Speaker 1:Helmsley, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Sherman, helmsley, helmsley, helmsley.
Speaker 3:No, but there was a different. There was a different preacher on amen, remember. You're like where the gray suits and stuff.
Speaker 2:I don't know, he was a taller dude. Yes, he had the. Yeah, just that 80s 80s hair.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm gonna have to go back and check out the amen show. Yeah, I forgot about that I thought it was 227. You guys remember that I love to do seven.
Speaker 1:Yeah, jackie, she was hot yeah.
Speaker 3:I remember my dad would like say they's like oh, there's Jackie. I was like cool, oh okay, I get it. I get it, so you stack.
Speaker 2:I'm pretty sure a character from this movie was also in 227. Pretty sure we'll find out find out, let's find out.
Speaker 1:Okay, shall we so let I guess we'll steer through the movie now a little bit.
Speaker 2:Little bit. It's an easy movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:This takes place over the course of one day, one day one day Was it a Friday.
Speaker 3:I take it in the Saturday morning, that's right.
Speaker 2:Okay, cuz it's Friday, you ain't got no job and you ain't got shit to do.
Speaker 3:This. When you say that, this whole first thing, when I read that on your, when you put this down, it reminded me I think it was probably I got my. I finally got a car because I was working my shitty job. And I remember I don't think you had your car yet, zap, because you were a little bit younger. But I remember, like like in this movie, I would head over to zaps house and we'd hang out on his porch. We just smoked a weed, maybe like later in life, but I remember we'd like smoke cigarettes, sit there on his porch and talk about how he got no job. True, it's true.
Speaker 3:I was like I just got a car, you can relate yeah, I got no girlfriend cuz I got no money, and I think we spend probably like a couple hours just sitting there bullshitting about that. It's yeah. But like this, this whole movie, like yeah, they're ain't shit to do on like a Friday. You got no job or nothing like that. You don't want school, like what else is there to do?
Speaker 1:and hang out. Yeah, I'm like that.
Speaker 2:So Craig in this was what I think he played a guy in his early 20s like 21, 22 years 22, is that said?
Speaker 2:yeah all right, we open in suburban South Central LA. It's Friday morning at the Jones house and we're introduced to the whole family, particularly Craig who recently lost his job, having been fired on his day off. We soon meet Smokey, craig's friend and a street level drug dealer who spends most of his time getting high on his own supply. Actually, the supply belongs to big worm, a higher level drug dealer for whom Smokey is supposed to be selling on consignment. Big worm what a big worm.
Speaker 2:Over the course of the morning we're introduced to all sorts of locals and Craig's neighbors, including, but not limited to, stanley, debo, ezel, ms Parker, pastor Cleaver, ms Parker's husband, felicia, and red. After going his whole life thus far with not smoking weed, craig ultimately gives in to Smokey's ongoing pestering and shares a joint with him. Big worm arrives later to check on Smokey's progress relative to selling his weed. Despite Smokey having smoked almost all of it by himself, he attempts to pass some of the blame on to Craig. A very upset big worm threatens to return later and shoot the both of them if they don't produce either the weed or the money.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like in the beginning of this it opens up with the converse over the telephone wire power line they signify there's drugs sold here.
Speaker 2:The pair of Chuck Taylor is just dangling from the telephone line.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they're in the hood there, that's.
Speaker 1:that's the sign and that is the sign of drug sales right.
Speaker 3:A drug's in that area or it's something along those lines.
Speaker 2:I thought that was if your one sweat pant leg was pulled up and the other one was down. Oh, I don't know about that. What do?
Speaker 1:you mean, do you remember that? No you don't remember that I know the style seeing dudes walk around.
Speaker 2:One leg was pulled up and one leg. One pant leg was pulled up and the other one was let down and I think like one meant. It was almost like the left earring, right earring, one is gay and one isn't okay. So the left right leg meant II, we are looking to buy or you were looking to sell. I didn't know, that, that's some.
Speaker 3:That's some real slang there. That's some street slang. You guys don't know that no. Oh, I just remember rolling both my sweat pant legs up. That was cool because you couldn't wear your sweat pant legs down, which was uncool.
Speaker 1:I used to wear a fruit loop socks. Pull them up, shit yeah they would be showing, but they would be showing. But yeah, I noticed that in the very beginning and I think that signifies like drug sales or like this is territory that's taken. So it's just like signify that. And I also noticed watching this twice, as I haven't seen in a long time, but I watched it twice. There's pictures of his dad in the very beginning when they're painting through the house boxing, boxing, yeah, so foreshadowing that you know.
Speaker 1:The dad was a boxer when he was young. I wonder like if officer Vince is listening to this.
Speaker 3:I wonder, like, if officer Vince is listening to this episode. Oh, absolutely Like where he's traveling around and then the area that he's, you know when he's on when he's the oil on the beat there, if he sees any like converse or yeah like pro Keds hanging up there on the wires Probably like Timberlain. Now, who do they have doing that? Is there like a kid? That's like really good at that, because I can see you sitting there for like half an hour, 45 minutes.
Speaker 2:We don't have a job. We don't have a job or nothing else to do. All you're going to do is find something to do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe it's be like an Olympic event someday.
Speaker 3:Oh be cool.
Speaker 1:And like the pole vote or the chocolate.
Speaker 3:And then like where do you get like the sneakers to do this Like, because some of those sneakers look pretty new Like.
Speaker 1:Yeah, some of them, but those were beat, all right, cool.
Speaker 3:Like I don't know, if you just hey, it's time to hang these, like that's a thing I don't know Could be. I would like to learn that.
Speaker 2:So there's so much that goes down between the time the movie opens and the time, basically, big worm threatens to come back and shoot these guys, because so we alluded to it earlier that basically walked through the opening of the movie. Now all the way to the ice cream truck.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And that's it. So that's a lot of this movie and so much character development happens in that time. So I mentioned it earlier. There's a woman that I think might have been on either 227 or Amen. I'm pretty sure it was 227. Is that the mom? It was this older woman that would just hang out in the window. So in the early on in the movie, she was the one in the OK. Yeah, yeah. In early on in the movie this woman shows up, knocks on the door. You know she's a. Jehovah.
Speaker 1:Winters Are you prepared?
Speaker 2:for Jehovah's return and Craig slams the door and she says well, fuck you, you half dead motherfucker. So that was that woman. Her name is Luanda Page. She's also known as the black queen of comedy. She played Esther and Esther in Sanford and. Son oh yeah.
Speaker 2:So I can't remember if I think she might have been in 227, just one of these women that just hung out the window all the time just looking down, like you know this, like that one of the two guys from the fucking Muppet show that they're just hecklers. I forget their names.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she just watches like what's going on in the neighborhood. Correct.
Speaker 1:Jumps in. Correct, I could be wrong. Two guys up in the balcony, yeah, yeah, those guys.
Speaker 3:Now was. Was Esther? Was that Fred Sanford's girlfriend? It was.
Speaker 2:Fred Sanford, I think it was his sister or his sister, or Elizabeth's sister.
Speaker 3:Yeah who was the picture.
Speaker 1:Now you're saying that yeah.
Speaker 3:Who was the buddy in that? Like what was the team? Whitey, or what did they call him?
Speaker 1:Sanford and Son's? Yeah, and Sanford. And.
Speaker 3:Son.
Speaker 2:His son's friend? No, no, the cracked out. Look at old.
Speaker 3:The old dude yeah, I think that he was in. He liked Esther, like he would always bring her over flowers and stuff. Oh man, I got I'd have to. Sanford and Son is a genius show.
Speaker 2:Like anybody.
Speaker 3:If you hear about that, I know if somebody's listening to like I never heard of that. But yeah, you need to check that show out.
Speaker 1:Red Fox.
Speaker 3:Red Fox is funny.
Speaker 1:I like that in the beginning there when he's getting the cereal.
Speaker 2:That might be the biggest Tupperware Bowl I've ever seen. He poured a whole fucking box in there.
Speaker 1:They had that. It was crunchy cereal, but it was Captain.
Speaker 2:Crunch, 100%, it was Captain Crunch. They what they didn't want to pay the royalties.
Speaker 1:That, and then the milk. It was like a mation it sat on the milk carton and I guess it was carnation milk, but they blocked it out so that basically, they wouldn't have to pay royalties or anything like for product placement or whatever like that.
Speaker 2:So they deleted the sea and then they extra rounded the R, something like that. And to the end to make it a mation. Ok, right.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Now the dad with the whole part where he calls him into the bathrooms.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, apparently that's where good good father and son chat chats happen, is when while dad's on the shitter, yeah.
Speaker 3:But he's like just you can tell. He's like he's leaving plops in the middle of the sound effect. Yeah, it's like pop, pop, pop, why he's talking to his. He's like shut up, boy, listen to me. Like he's all mad at him and shit because he's not getting a job. But he's trying to like explain life to him. Why is he taking his dump? But then he's spraying his shit like the whole time again Some coming out?
Speaker 2:No, don't. Nobody go in the bathroom for about 3545 minutes.
Speaker 1:I could almost taste the spray. You know that has a taste.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1:In the very beginning in his dad's laying in bed. Is that a nylon on his head when he's laying in bed?
Speaker 2:that he has wrapped around his head. It looks like a nylon stocking, while he's dreaming about ordering burritos or chicken or something like that, like the very beginning.
Speaker 1:you know which part I'm talking about.
Speaker 2:You might be right. I think it is a nylon, okay.
Speaker 3:Was that? Yeah, was he like? I thought that too Like he hooked up with the mom the night before or something like that, maybe like and put it on and say, get it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, getting freaky, I don't know I didn't get that part Interesting.
Speaker 2:Could have been.
Speaker 3:I said to like keep to keep his hair like matted down. Maybe, you know what I mean. Like I don't know.
Speaker 1:And his daddy thinks about our age.
Speaker 2:At the time. Yeah, no. That might not be so far off. So if Craig's 22, right. I mean, if what's his name, If Willie Jones, if he had Craig hell as late as 25,?
Speaker 1:right, it's possible.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's entirely possible.
Speaker 3:Now John Witherspoon, I think, is a great actor, like even the stuff we always look with his fingers when he's like the way he eats in the movies he plays, a great Eating him grapes.
Speaker 2:He plays a great bit part in little Nikki.
Speaker 2:I don't remember, yeah, and he's in little Nikki, he's just a bum. And he ends up a little Nikki sleep and Adam Sandler's character sleeping and dude comes up and just basically picks his pockets while he sleep and then he goes later to fence the stuff. So little Nikki's character is the devil. So he goes over later and finds this guy and says you know, give me my, I want my flask back, I want my flask back. And he basically John Witherspoon is all right, take your dumbass canteen. Goofy, I'm a biggest man, that's awesome. And he does that crazy shit with his eyes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's like a good character actor like that, doing just like Matt said and like you're saying just the little nuances and just stuff that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like I can like he wasn't told to be that way or just act like you know. He just came up with that and thought it'd be something funny, but you watch it. And there's another part in this movie too that, like I said, there's three or four parts in this. It just made me laugh out loud, and that was.
Speaker 2:There's a bunch I get it before we even get to big perm Like there's so much that happens in this, like, first and foremost, the involvement of smokey in this movie, like incredible character. Fun fact so much of his lines, if not all of his lines, were ad-libbed. Oh really, oh yeah, they just made up some. So Chris Tucker as a smokey is great man. He just comes over man. You ain't got two things that match. You never got two things that match Either you got Kool-Aid, no sugar, peanut butter, no jelly ham, no burger. No burger.
Speaker 2:Damn.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he was funny. I like that weight set outside and it made me think about, like when I was a kid, those little bench presses where your hands are so close together.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and you try to.
Speaker 1:They're the worst. You pinch the pinch. And my brother and I, when we lived in Harrisburg, down in the city when we were well, I was really young we had this weight set and made me think of that we didn't have. It came with these weights you'd fill with. I forget if you put water, sand or water it was like sand or water and they were like squared off and you put them on there and we bench press like in the basement and stuff.
Speaker 1:We had this little and it made me think of that, because those benches are like the worst. Your hands are so tight together and when you go to put the bar back on you're cutting your hand.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's a thing I remember my dad had kind of like that same set, except it was the sand ones. But those ones I think were actually the they were metal, I think that they had in this movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they had a legit plates, but they were smaller.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but it was funny because, like you remember, like when you're lifting in school the bar is 45 pounds, Right those things the bar was like kind of made it like that heavy plastic it was like 10 pounds maybe yeah. So he was lifting like a hundred pounds, there like 25 pounds. I was like what?
Speaker 2:the hell. What's he doing? Those weights sets were dangerous as hell man A big time. Yeah, again, the concept that you're you don't even know what you're putting. You don't even know, you don't know, you're not sure what you're putting in there relative to water, sand, whatever, they're plastic, that that shit could rupture, it could do whatever while it's up in the air. Who knows? Right, I don't know. Man, it's dangerous. Did anybody ever use the leg part?
Speaker 4:It just seems like it was there to get in your way and back in your ankle.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm saying yeah, I know what you're saying.
Speaker 1:Does anybody do leg curls on that?
Speaker 3:I think my mommy's put clothes on there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I mean, that's what it's usually the habit Clothes are hung up on it, it was always a weeder brand.
Speaker 3:Yeah, w-e-i.
Speaker 1:Oh, a wider weeder, Wider weeder, whatever it is. And one other note I put down from the beginning of the movie the dad's lunchbox.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love those old school big lunchbox I get when the thermos was clipped up into the top of the lunchbox. The hinge was in the middle on the back, so you would open up. Your thermos is up in the top and then your meals in the bottom of the pail.
Speaker 1:You knew you're a hard worker. Shit, you got one of them. He was a dog.
Speaker 3:The dog catcher Yep. He was a hard working man Sometimes.
Speaker 2:I get him with that. This is a choked a dog.
Speaker 1:I grab him and I choke him. Let's say, punch him up the ass. That was good shit.
Speaker 3:But yeah, oh, another part in this beginning, like where Craig he gives into smoke, he's an ongoing pestering and shares a joint with him. Like I think of a lot of times growing up not to say that I ever smoked weed or anything like that, but sometimes your friends, oh, that was me.
Speaker 1:I didn't want to say it. Oh yeah, that was me, man.
Speaker 3:But yeah, I rolled a joint. Dave came over, he's like. He's like. Well, I said I was like man, I got a joint and he's like I guess I'll try, like I don't know he's like. I guess so man. So he started smoking. We had, like I think my dad had albums back then we listened to like some music, like bump in Dave's. There he's like man. My heart kind of hurts.
Speaker 2:My heart hurts.
Speaker 3:And I was like what's up, dude? He's like man I don't know man. He's like I think I need to go outside. He's like my heart. I can feel my heart beating and it's this exact same shit in this movie.
Speaker 1:That's me.
Speaker 2:I was ice cube, I can remember that, and I absolutely remember with very much clarity the first time I ever got stone smoking weed. I remember it vividly and I was scared out of my fucking mind. It was bizarre.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, that wasn't even my first time. I had done it a few other times and had like really good experience.
Speaker 3:Maybe I had to chronic or something, I don't know. Yeah, so you got something that had that good shit.
Speaker 1:Because I'll never forget. I was sitting in Matt's room and we were looking. I was looking around at stuff in his room and I think there was like a pit hat or something. And I looked at the hat and I was like pit college, university. And all the stuff started racing through my head like thoughts that I couldn't control and I'm like what the hell? And then my heart started racing. I'm like what the hell? It lasted for a while. Yeah, I ended up falling asleep then. That's the thing.
Speaker 3:But the thing with that is it's funny too, Like sometimes if you smoke you're at a good level, but when you're doing stuff and you get too much, I think that's when like paranoia and shit starts kicking in Right, you're like man what is it? What's this guy doing? Wait, wait.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 3:And like you're in the bathroom too and you're like talking to it and you're like, oh man, calm down.
Speaker 1:Like OK, that was not fun. Yeah, not fun.
Speaker 3:I was used to think how small things were in my hand, like if I was high at somebody else's different house I'd start looking in their cabinets and shit like grab, like some pills or like the soap, seemed so small in my hand. That's why, I was it seemed like it's a little more in-sauce.
Speaker 2:Was it a hotel, soap?
Speaker 3:No, it wasn't, it was just like real shit. But I was like man, everything's so small, right, that's wild.
Speaker 1:Hope you didn't put something else in your hand.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know right.
Speaker 1:That's everything's so small.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but no, that part was kind of like. That was another part that I laughed out loud in this movie because it reminded me of a kid like growing up with friends.
Speaker 1:I think we've all been there, you know, in one way or another.
Speaker 2:So when you two were hanging out, I mean I don't remember ever seeing it did. And Matt tell me if I'm wrong. Did George ever have a 1976 convertible pinto like smokey had no, he did not.
Speaker 3:Okay, I mean, I don't even know how they had that thing. I don't even know where they found that the a 76 pinto convertible. Yes custom.
Speaker 2:I don't know man. I don't know if they ever came out with a convertible, I mean, but you saw it was you know, was hiked up in the back.
Speaker 3:It had wider tires but I think they rigged that. I think that was something like maybe cut the roof off.
Speaker 1:It was almost like doing buggy ish.
Speaker 3:Yeah like they made it up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, and for sure it was made up, I'm guessing. Just to really illustrate like damn, this is a broke as a joke, dude with a just a piece of shit car.
Speaker 1:You would imagine that cars in somebody's possession somewhere. I would hope, because it's a piece, of you know, history for sure, for sure.
Speaker 3:I don't, I don't think so I think that car buddy. I think that car might have got away from him.
Speaker 1:I don't know man.
Speaker 3:But it is like a custom, a custom pins. I saw it right away too and I was like, is that a? Because they kind of they show the badge on it. You know what I mean? Yeah, you can see the pinto and then I'm like there's no way that there's a convertible pinto. And it looked like the like the, the rag top on the back was just kind of thrown on there. I don't even think it came up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe I'm not late. You can do that.
Speaker 3:I could do whatever in LA at that time I don't think there was inspections like here in the great old state of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2:Well, apparently you can do anything you want in the hood. As I'm watching the one scene, I'm reminded of Griselda oh yeah, blanco that we had just done the other day. It's the story of of Debo and red, how red got the black eye and how red lost his bike. So red arrives with his dad right, his dad is driving reds Ford Escort, two-door hatchback. Red gets out of the car and he's like look man, my dad was. My dad told me to get my bike back. You know I wouldn't trip in whatever. And that's DJ poo. That's DJ poo.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:DJ poo plays red and he's a. Come on. You know, I'm just here for my bike, debo's like what bike? And and it's my bike.
Speaker 2:So red. I'm sorry. Debo just Punches it one punch and he's up in the air and he's knocked the fuck out. And of course that's when Chris Rock, chris Rock, chris Tucker runs over and says you got knocked the fuck out. Yeah, that was good as one of those iconic lines, and but that's like Griselda to the extent of if she didn't want to pay you, she'd kill you. If you, if you owed her money and you didn't pay on time, she'd kill you. Right Debo, what's Debo is Debo's but Debo just jack people.
Speaker 3:That was like his job. That's all he did was jack people.
Speaker 2:He'd run up. Oh, that's the word I was struggling for with this. What does that, what's it called, when basically somebody comes up and is just frisking you, looking for money and checking your pockets and just Hitting you up for anything and everything you jacking? You jacking you, that's jacking.
Speaker 1:Well, I think, yeah, jack, and just like give me your Jack, yeah well, I used to have a song called jacking for beats and he took all the beats from different rap artists and wrapped over and basically he was stealing their beats. Oh so jacking would be a car jacking you know, I guess probably along those lines, taking anything that doesn't belong to you.
Speaker 3:When I was younger I took a bus ride on a Greyhound bus out to get on the bus to New Mexico and I remember we stopped off in Little Rock, arizona, and I didn't have much money on me at the time and I was getting a soda and I was there at the soda machine and got the soda out, was gonna, you know, get it out of the machine. These two kids came over and like give me a soda. They took it. Yeah, I got jacked for a soda.
Speaker 2:Okay, so that's it. That is jacking, yeah.
Speaker 3:But that's what I didn't really know. Like the whole thing then too. But like the one kid man, you just got jacked for a soda, like some dude behind me, that's crazy I think he's too good. You're like man, give me your soda. I think, huh, I got just got the soda man Give me, so like give me a fucking soda, oh, or just because there was a couple of there's like I think they were like high school kids, oh wow. That's probably like 18 17.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay, it's a yeah, but it was a group of kids, like three or four kids, and you're like give me a soda.
Speaker 1:I guess pick your battles like out of nowhere.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's what. And then. But when I was like take, take the goddamn soda.
Speaker 2:Look, who's to say they might have been pulling out knives out of their pockets or something. Yeah, why get stabbed for a soda?
Speaker 3:But it was a busy like like I don't know if I don't know like it'll help.
Speaker 1:You're waiting for Julio to jump out? Yeah, but it was.
Speaker 3:It was a really busy Place to be at. Like the bus station was like the middle of the afternoon. Like we stopped there, like you know, getting people on, and it was people everywhere. But the guys like give me, give me soda, man, give me soda. No, I don't think. Oh, that's messed up, man, that is, that's a real attack for a soda man.
Speaker 2:So, as we, as we're meeting these characters, another one, a classic, is easel.
Speaker 2:Hmm now is what he does. Is that considered jacking as a? For example, we see Craig and smokey show up at the convenience store in smokey's 1976 Ford Pinto convertible and and in there is easel, or sorry. Easel catches them and he follows him in because he's just, he's jacking. What's his name? A smokey for? Look, buy me a 40, buy me a 40? I'll come back later and wash your car, okay. So then smokey goes in. I'm sorry, easel goes in and he does this. He attempts a slip and fall. Yeah, he does it. Well, oh, my neck in my back. I want a hundred fifty thousand, but we can settle out of court right now for $20.
Speaker 1:Yeah is that jacking? No, like. Jacking to me would be more by force, like, okay, I go up and vade your personal space. You know I'm saying like, like, like when D, but goes on, rips the chain like all right or goes up and like reaches in your pocket. I'm gonna take something from you like forcibly versus like Pestering, almost begging.
Speaker 3:I don't think. I don't think crackheads can jack people. No, I don't think. Yeah, they're too cracked out.
Speaker 1:Okay did you know who the janitor or not janitor? But the guy cleaning up in there in the in the store.
Speaker 3:We'll see the the director.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, I was gonna say he's either the director of the producer, but yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, f Gary Great, I was him. Hmm, and how about that part we were talking about with the black owned?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was so this the Chinese guy owns and runs this store, but he's dressed like he's just dressed like in hood gear. Right, he's got the hat on and the, yeah, the big clothes, whatever he's like, what up? Right. Black owned and that would smokey leaves. Stay black man, yeah, I like the gong.
Speaker 1:They hit that gong.
Speaker 3:Oh my areas.
Speaker 1:They don't do that anymore in movies and stuff as much.
Speaker 2:I think it's a oh like what it would be. It would be perjury of that bass but, I, Know what you're saying. Like what they did ridiculously with long duck dong.
Speaker 1:Yes, 16 candles, that's right. I came up in that too, but you don't see that yeah not at all.
Speaker 2:Oh uh, miss Parker. We got to see Miss Parker in this whole thing. We also got to see Pastor Cleaver show up.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that was Bernie Mac.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so miss their walk by miss Parkman. I knocked the dust off of that pussy, reverend shows, so the reference shows up. I love this. Excuse me, brother, what we call drugs at 71st for 74th Street Baptist church we call a sin, is sin sin. Smoky response. Well, round here tween Norman D and Western. We call this here a little 20 twin twin. I.
Speaker 3:Get the 20 twin twin. What's that? 20 bag, oh. Yeah, I was like I don't get that part.
Speaker 2:The 2020 so you had a nickel bag dime bag than a 20 bag.
Speaker 1:You know, I didn't realize how many things you say. It's specifically zap, correct?
Speaker 3:Yeah, there's a lot of zap is on, so I have that here.
Speaker 2:As chance would have it, there's one that I know I use a lot on this show, and that's oh, who's that?
Speaker 1:bitch, yeah. And and the other one you ain't got the lie. You ain't got the lie, yeah. They get used a lot and I haven't seen this movie Probably since back then so it's that that scene is so good that you ain't got the lie.
Speaker 2:So Craig picks up the foot. So his girlfriend, joy, is just awful, just a terrible, terrible woman. I like her. She's just on him all of the time, though, and just make it shit up yeah so it is interesting in that scene, where that comes from, craig picks up the phone.
Speaker 2:Hello, she just starts out with who the fuck you go to show it last night? Craig responds I didn't go to the show last night. Joy, immediately. You ain't got the lie, craig. You ain't got the lie. But laying next to her, laying next to her in bed, is a dude. Oh, for real, there's a dude laying in bed. You just see his back and you see he's wearing blue shorts. Oh shit, I didn't even catch that. Yeah, I didn't catch that either.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was looking at her.
Speaker 3:So in the beginning, though, when a pastor cleaver comes over why he comes to Craig's house, he's asking for Craig's mom. Yeah, so what's going on there?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know Also, maybe, maybe it's nothing, but like Chris Tucker was weighing to that miss Parker, which she's hot, yeah, but he also kind of gave Craig's mom a weird look.
Speaker 3:He did, he was his reaction, is he?
Speaker 1:looking into the mom too.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I was wondering about that.
Speaker 3:But no, the pastor. He first came over, I think, to knock not Craig's mom's off. Oh, for real. Yeah, yeah, you guys take notice of that, yeah, he came over he said where's sister Jones? Yeah, just the Jones don't you worry about.
Speaker 2:Yeah she's not home, and neither is Willie or neither is my dad brother Jones.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, I didn't catch that, so you think he's going around in the neighborhood.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 2:They're showing the pastor as the devil looking to get a little stink on his Johnson. What?
Speaker 1:kind of ride was he, and that looked like a Buick or something. No, I think it was a.
Speaker 3:Cadillac, it wasn't.
Speaker 1:I don't think it was a Cadillac. It was a GM product a Buick oh. Oldsmobile Buick.
Speaker 3:The mom was driving a Buick Volvo, was it yeah?
Speaker 1:but the pastor was driving Something like wire rims, you know. I mean like a GM product.
Speaker 2:It could have been a lower, like there's mercury cougar. No, maybe like a low-level Cadillac like.
Speaker 3:That's what I thought. It was a Cadillac with a flatback.
Speaker 1:The entry-level Model is that, that cheap one that's simmer on or something. Number two, little Cadillac, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I remember those yeah no, he was driving a caddy, I'm pretty sure it wasn't a big float and boat or anything like that, not at all, like he wasn't big pimp and it was just a. It was a modest ride, right, but possibly that again, that entry-level Cadillac, what was?
Speaker 1:that ride your mom had. Mad is like a Buick Rivera Riviera. Yeah those were pretty. Yeah, those are pretty nice. I like those old GM's like that Hell. Yeah, they're cool.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think it was like that, that flat. Oh, wasn't it like that?
Speaker 1:Oh, that is one Cadillac Yep. Okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, my dad was into these. Okay, I remember the or my one uncle had one. Yeah, remember the flat back I saw I was like that's caddy.
Speaker 2:Okay, it could be again like an old El Dorado. They're just again entry-level Cadillac just whatever the civils. Caddy civil there you go.
Speaker 3:Actually, the brandy had, I think, was called an elegante.
Speaker 1:They got thing rides nice, I bet.
Speaker 3:I'm sure.
Speaker 2:So what's her names? Ms Parker's husband? Is that that dwarf? What's his name? Tony Cox.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I know him from like other stuff the Santa movie.
Speaker 3:Was he a bad?
Speaker 1:Santa, was he an elf too.
Speaker 2:I don't know if he was an. I don't think he was an elf. I think I'm. I for damn sure. No, he was in that movie. I was Peter Dinklage, me myself and Irene. Oh yeah, he was the dad correct. He fathered all those Black kids?
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, and Jim Carrey thought they were he never know.
Speaker 3:His friends are kind of like you know, you know, it's okay if you you. When her break, he's like oh no, these kids are great, I would never leave her and a dude from black ish he's.
Speaker 1:He's funny as hell. It was played one of his sons, you know the main guy from the show blackish the chubby guy yeah. Anthony Anderson is like that.
Speaker 3:He was hilarious in that but no, he, yeah, I think he was in bad Santa. He was one of the guys.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Billy Bob.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, interesting. Certainly not elf, though.
Speaker 1:No, I was thinking, but that's a that'd be way too easy, peter Dinklage.
Speaker 3:Wait, what was his name?
Speaker 1:Tony Cox, tony.
Speaker 3:Cox yeah, he's in a bunch of, but he's a good actor too. Yeah, they didn't have enough of him in this movie he played.
Speaker 2:No, he didn't. All right being. While back in the movie, smoky departs Craig's house in hopes of going home to calm his mind and relieve his bowels. A Brief run in with easel ends with hey, smoky's back here taking a shit.
Speaker 3:Smoky's like don't say any, man stop don't say anything, and then right away. He yells it out.
Speaker 2:So the fun fact, quick little interlude, I use that too. I don't necessarily use it around here, but there's a. Whenever I see a black cat walking around, uh-huh, it's, it's called smoky the cat. Yeah, so either actually it might have been, probably was my wife, it called that cat smoky, or she had a cat named smoky or some shit. That was again a black cat. So whenever I would see a black cat walking around as a Smoky, that's black cat also eat Janet Jackson's on it is could very well be.
Speaker 2:Italian. Meanwhile, craig's girlfriend, joy has paid him a visit. She's known to be the jealous type and just when Craig has almost sealed the deal to borrow the $200 from her in order to pay Off big worm Janky, as Felicia rife to see if she can borrow his VCR, this Infuriate joy who leaves Craig penniless now, don't joy live in the hood, don't she know these people?
Speaker 3:like Felicia being in the crackhead and like walking around trying to get money from people, I guess maybe, but maybe not she might be from another part of LA.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's a nice area on the street right no no cuz remember Debo was up with her at the.
Speaker 3:That's what's her name, sister.
Speaker 1:No, no, no no no, no her sister's. Like the, the other girl crack headed looking one.
Speaker 2:So, debbie, let's everyone be clear joy is the one who's the vicious girlfriend. She's an awful, awful girlfriend. You ain't got to lie. Yes. Oh, hell, no, who's that bitch? That's her as Julie. That is his girlfriend. He has a love interest named Debbie.
Speaker 3:The one with the shortest haircut, the One is running Debbie sister cuz remember she laid up with Debo.
Speaker 2:Not joy, no, but.
Speaker 3:Felicia. She was behind and, like I was saying, wouldn't joy know who hell? Felicia is like the crackhead walking around trying To get money off everybody.
Speaker 1:Maybe not if she's from, like another part of LA. Okay, maybe she's like not aware of everybody in the.
Speaker 2:It's correct, that's correct as soon as she sees, that's as soon as she see. Actually that's that. Oh hell, no, who's that bitch? Yeah, she says that about Felicia.
Speaker 3:Yes, that's her thing. I think joy is hot I don't understand.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was correct.
Speaker 3:I'll be like whatever you need, joy you must be crazy I am, joy is the furthest thing from hot. I like she's you.
Speaker 2:I'm missing. I'll take Debbie over joy all day.
Speaker 1:I mean I like Debbie too, but I'm just saying I'm down for the joy ride.
Speaker 3:I love she comes over.
Speaker 2:Let me borrow your VCR.
Speaker 3:We're just gonna play some tapes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's, that's like me asking to borrow your air conditioner.
Speaker 1:Yeah, anyway, bar your air conditioner.
Speaker 2:So smokey returns and he and Craig contemplate what to do next. Craig obtains his gun in hopes of protecting both of them, but his father intervenes and convinces him to use his fists whenever a squabble needs to be squashed. As If big worm weren't enough problems the whole neighborhood still has to deal with Debo, who does nothing but hassle everyone and run them down for money or anything else they have. That's also known as Jack in, by the way.
Speaker 3:So was that Craig's gun then, or was that his dad's got Craig's gun? So, Craig got a gun. His dad's all cool. Oh, put your gun away. That's right, okay.
Speaker 2:The day turns to evening, the evening turns tonight. Craig makes his best efforts at borrowing two hundred dollars from both his sister and his mother, but to no avail. After a hookup with a girl gone terribly wrong, smokey attempts to steal the two hundred dollars from Debo while he's sleeping, but EZL appears and ruins the whole plan. Ten o'clock is but an hour or so away and time is running out. So that hookup with that girl. Before I forget about it, this is smokey, who was. Is somebody referred to him? Like, hey, there's this girl that you might be interested. You should give her a call.
Speaker 2:Yeah and he calls this girl. She tells him oh yeah, I look like Janet Jackson and blah blah. And she shows up. She's driving a Nissan Z Just when they had converted to that. That complete flat look almost like the Corvette. Look from the middle, long. Yeah, so she shows up. She is a huge bitch and not just a huge bitch, she. She takes her hat off and her. All of her extensions are actually sewn into her hat.
Speaker 2:So she's just got this bald head. The reaction to of smokey is just priceless. He just looks right her head.
Speaker 3:She's bald, yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 1:God damn. Get lied to like that over the phone. She sounded hot on the phone, she kind of like Janet Jackson, though at first.
Speaker 3:I mean, she had yeah she was with the movie with Tupac.
Speaker 2:Oh, she was actually Janet Jackson, wasn't him? Poetic justice, poetic justice.
Speaker 3:Yep. That you were that same, that same type outfit. She had the hair like that that that girl was in poetic justice.
Speaker 2:Oh, was she true story? I didn't know that yeah, girl, that the fat girl with the extensions sewn into her head, so into the hat. Oh, she was a poetic justice which, yes, again included Janet Jackson.
Speaker 1:You know I was thinking of smoking. And if he was that hard up I just saw that car for 200 bucks sure that pin-o did witherspoon get get attacked by the dog yet what the dad the dad that was on the video. What's that? That was on a movie he was watching.
Speaker 2:You're so no but, I'm saying he was laying up in bed watching that movie. Yes, I'm laying in bed because he had gotten bit.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he had gotten bit by. The memory came in. He had to. He had the thing on his butt.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's whole.
Speaker 3:but he's watching a movie.
Speaker 1:Yep, he's like watch out with a dog. I got a fun fact on get that.
Speaker 3:we get that postman. Watch out, mr Postman, yeah. I should have me laughing, that was good.
Speaker 2:You want to drop the fun fact? Now save it. We'll do it now that we're talking about go for it, go for it?
Speaker 1:No, do you have it there?
Speaker 3:No, okay, hold on but no, the the whole thing with him and like how involved he was in his job. Oh my god, yeah and yeah. I don't know what movie he was watching. Is any, is that on?
Speaker 2:the fun fact, it was a 1993 movie. I forget what it's called.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's called Man's best friend.
Speaker 3:There you go, okay.
Speaker 1:It's about a genetically engineered Homicidal dog. Okay, so I do remember that movie. When that, when I read that fun fact, I'm like, oh, I remember man's best friend, that movie came out.
Speaker 3:But for him to be sitting there like watching it, like where did he get? Was it on on TV? Was it like they have a vcr tape of it?
Speaker 1:It was probably on.
Speaker 3:HBO, like I can see him, like watching this movie over and over again, cuz it reminds me of the dogs, like just trying to get them and how bad they are, and or back then it could have been the movie channel.
Speaker 1:Could have been that's not around anymore, right.
Speaker 2:No, it's around.
Speaker 1:It's just a movie channel store 100%. Was the one-on-one way prism and then yep, I feel like there was a prison.
Speaker 3:One way, hbo, I think, bought out prison.
Speaker 2:I know that, so there are out mr Pose man there are.
Speaker 2:There are parts within this, this section now, that are that are great. So we understand why smoky twitches as much as he does. If you didn't notice, like smoky has this twitch about him, it's because he had, so you also would have noticed that he he has this inner little beef with a guy named Hector. Hector, hector, yeah, so it's because that at one point he got, he was getting high with Hector and a friend of Hector's, but these guys had laced it, had laced this joint with angel dust that shit hard man, also those PCB man.
Speaker 2:I'm smoke dog.
Speaker 3:I've been smoking since I was two but he was telling Craig how he hit the shithor and he's like it's angel dust.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that's what's in that stuff of your house.
Speaker 3:That time, no man he was so dude, that was a some love boats, love boats gotta get that, you gotta get that down bombing flu.
Speaker 2:Correct formaldehyde smoky after smoking the PCP. Like he's all over the place. He's running down the street naked. He woke up in Debo's chicken coop. No, I'm sorry, pigeon coop, pigeon, yeah, let's see. Let's see. Oh, debo ends up enlisting the help of again. This is all just during the segment. It is amazing that $200 seems to be like the running number. So Debo comes over, tries to jack thank you again for that word tries to jack Craig and smokey for whatever they've got. But Stanley, the next door neighbor guy, like the whitest black guy you'll ever see, that strives the Corvette vet. Stay off of my grass, that guy the Hugh Heffner outfit, that's right.
Speaker 2:They end up breaking into his house and Debo steals $200. Of course, smokey comes back. Yeah, man, we got $200. And Debo says I got $200, right with again. Whatever Debo's is, so much comes from. Oh, the immortal. Two common phrases puff, puff, give. That definitely came out of this movie absolutely puff puff give and by Felicia, which took years to catch on as a common thing. Certainly you've both heard somebody anywhere say by Felicia mm-hmm, I've heard it.
Speaker 1:It was in. Actually set it in the NW a movie oh, yes, they did, yes, they did straight out of content.
Speaker 2:Yeah, indeed, indeed the pigeon coop.
Speaker 3:Isn't that like a thing in in the inner cities? I know, uh, having pigeon coops yeah. Tyson.
Speaker 1:Tyson yeah.
Speaker 3:Tyson used to like raise pigeons.
Speaker 1:There's a pigeon coop here in our neighborhood see the pigeons flying around yeah, right on the corner you see that New York City like on the rooftops mm-hmm, they look like pets yeah, yeah, absolutely you can do fun things with them again.
Speaker 2:They can, they're your pigeons yeah, yeah that's cool.
Speaker 1:It's like the Ravens from back in the day way back at the medieval days. You should send the write-ups, yeah, like via pigeon or we forget email.
Speaker 2:I'm just gonna send via pigeon that Gmail's screwing up. It might get here quicker and use the pigeons.
Speaker 1:Yeah, who's to?
Speaker 3:say yeah, to get that again, the write-up. It's not coming into my really. Yeah, it's not coming into my emails, which is odd that's messed up, man.
Speaker 2:The. Oh, there's a another scene in this, matt. I think we were talking about this one before, so that we're later in the night. Debo has just finished having his way with Felicia, as they are a couple having his way well doing whatever Debo does with her.
Speaker 2:And he's there sleeping, debo tearing that up, smokey correct, and smokey wants to go in, knowing that they owe big perm I mean big worm $200. He knows that Debo has $200, so he he attempts to break in while Debo sleep, while Debo and Felicia are sleeping, and get the money out of Debo's shirt. However, as he's sneaking around and sneaking around, ezel shows up and ruins the whole damn thing that's your favorite part.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's one of my favorite parts. That's priceless, the way he just escapes. Or like Debo wakes up, he looks around and all of a sudden you just hear this wind blow, mmm, and a way went smoky that stinky straw because he put his shit underwear on nasty.
Speaker 3:I like, um, in some of these movies where they show like the hood type scenes and stuff, you always have like that crack head. So it's like hanging around you can't. You can't like get mad at them, you can't like you know, because it got nothing the guys will cracks. You feel bad for them. But that's like Ezel's character, correct, just comical like the whole time because you can't. It's kind of like a little brother, you don't really want to hurt the guy or you know, you know him from the hood growing up and all of a sudden took a wrong turn on the crack you know I got that same impression on two characters from this.
Speaker 2:So definitely the crack guy because as fun, so fun fact. So DJ poo, who played red, the guy that Debo jacked for his bike and his the chain that his grandma gave him, his real life brother was the equivalent of Ezel, like cracked out, always hitting people up for money. So he used that real life experience to write the character of Ezel to read himself. Read himself just reminds me of any one of the think of anyone's like younger, skinnier, lame or brothers. But that's just get everybody just beats the shit out of them because, they can, he's just a target
Speaker 3:target. Yes, dad, he's probably lives at home with his dad mom. You know what I mean. Like is that when his dad brought him to get the bike, the Debo yeah, and even Debo, but bullied him back in the car. You know what I mean but that sounds like something like dad's did back in the day. I could say get in the car. We're going to the house you're going to ask for.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean but get your bike back, whatever, and bent the handlebars. Yes, my dad did that. Yeah, that would have been George.
Speaker 3:I forgot that story yeah, big G would have said get in the car you think big George would have fought Debo? I know guys think guys back then were more manly than us today like 100%. They would at least put up an effort, like you said, because I think you're not thinking of getting shot ever today I'd show with JW, yeah, with a lawyer take pictures. Yeah, that's that.
Speaker 2:JW in his briefcase. So forget consulting the police, you're just gonna go right to the lawyer right, okay, yeah, that's what everything is today.
Speaker 3:Everybody lawyers up for everything pretty much nobody just punches anymore. No, it's a shame no, or you're stabbing or bringing like guns his dad does have it right.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's how it was when I grew up. People would just fight yeah, you would get in a fist fight if you had, you know, after school and people would usually gather around. Everybody knew there's gonna be a fight and you would fist fight and that's just what I would. You know, and that change at some point now and you just get shot, you know, and it's.
Speaker 3:That's a shame, but this is how things go, I guess. Yeah, sometimes you get your ass whoop, sometimes you don't right, then you go on with life. I mean you, you live another day, you learn a lesson or the other guy, and then you usually, after like a quick fight like that, you're kind of cool with the person like man.
Speaker 1:Whatever, it's good and most fights were just mostly wrestling matches.
Speaker 3:You tackle each other, getting the ground a couple punches and then your friends, pull you off each other, and then it'd be it yeah and you'd be cool and it'd be over with and stuff, but yeah well, by now it's 930.
Speaker 2:Smokey receives a page from Big Worm and Smokey doesn't have either of Big Worm's weed or his money. 10 pm arrives and Craig and Smokey find themselves in the middle of a drive-by shooting thanks to Big Worm's henchmen. Just as the dust settles from the machine gunfire, poor Felicia and her sister Debbie arrived to confront Debo for beating the shit out of Felicia. After receiving a scolding from Debbie, debo lands an open hand to her face, sending Craig into a frenzy to protect his love interest from the neighborhood bully. Reconsidering the use of his gun, craig instead takes his father's advice and uses his fists. Just when we think the chips are down for Craig, he retaliates with a brick and a series of devastating punches. Debo gets knocked the fuck out.
Speaker 2:Smokey swiftly takes $200 out of Debo's pocket. Red reacquires the chain that Debo had taken from him earlier and gets his bike back. And easel takes Debo's sneakers. Because easel steal, he don't keel. The movie ends with our hero getting his job back and breaking up with his lousy girlfriend, knowing he's now got the lovely Debbie to look forward to in his life and with Smokey settling his debt with Big Worm and committing committing to go to rehab. But he was just bullshitting about going to rehab and you know this man, it's kind of like a modern day David and Goliath.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah, debo being Goliath.
Speaker 2:I mean he got hit in the head with a brick yeah big time.
Speaker 3:This is where the movie, this is where I lose it on. This is where the movie lost me what. This is where I was enjoying this movie up to this last point. Hmm, because, all right, first of all, the movie's fun the whole time. I mean you got Big Worm showing up with perm perm hair, with curlers in it, great cars and stuff like that. Good music, great cars, is right. But you get to this point where they try to have like a serious mess. I mean there was a drive-by. For God's sakes. I mean oozy fun all over the place right no, no, there's no.
Speaker 3:Like people really don't care about that, I guess they're trying to say you know, this happens, this occurs, which the dad was saying, though it. Like you know, I moved to this neighborhood, so you don't have to deal with that right but so they show the whole Mac 10, the shootings everywhere that that part's forgotten about also an artist on your Mac 10? Yes, yeah if you mess with me, you mess with the Mac 10 but oh, I'm sorry, now go.
Speaker 3:I don't want to cut you off no, I just just going into the part with with Debo too. Like I mean this guy, like you pulled a gun on him he didn't flinch well, not, not that part.
Speaker 3:But you pull a gun on somebody anywhere and the person gonna come back with a gun. That's what I said. If you pull a gun on some of you, better kill them, because they're gonna come back and kill you. Yeah, so you pulled a gun on them, punked them out with that, hit him with a brick, knocked them out. When Debo wakes up, I don't want to be around so you want it.
Speaker 1:Well, there was a sequel to this.
Speaker 2:There was yeah, two sequels, and in fact Debo did in fact come after him in the sequel.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I'm just, I'm just saying it, but the whole part kind of it kind of got like a serious tone at the very end. I think they just should have left it.
Speaker 1:Left it funny but do we think Debo which I don't, I'm sure I saw on Friday, next Friday is that? What's called yep, I don't even remember, but maybe Debo never used a gun. He didn't really need to, so Debo broke out of prison.
Speaker 2:He and Tyrone broke out of prison. They made their way.
Speaker 2:They were making their way to Craig, but then they found that Craig had relocated to Rancho Cucamonga, to the suburbs the suburbs to live with his uncle Willie, or not his uncle Willie, his uncle, I forget, and his, his cousin, dade, that was out of the hood, outside of the hood, and blah, blah, blah. His uncle, you may or may not recall, had won the lottery, bought this lavish house, etc. Etc. So Debo and his sidekick Tyrone make their way out to again. They find him out in Cucamonga, out in Rancho Cucamonga, just as the cops were arriving to settle another dispute that had happened with one of Dade's neighbors, some Mexican guys that were dealing drugs they had a plan to break Debo out of prison yeah, well, there you go then.
Speaker 1:So I guess it doesn't in there.
Speaker 3:But like for the movie to be so funny and everything and then they had to have like this serious at the end at the end it made no sense to me, especially with the drive by was pretty like that was wrong.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I liked it though. I liked the moral of the or not the moral, but the morality of. Look, man, stop the violence, increase the peace, put the guns down if you need to. If you got a beep with somebody, you got whatever punch it out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that part, that part had a good message. But I'm saying like the whole drive by thing, I think they could have done without that yeah well, you take a drug dealer's money or his drugs.
Speaker 3:You don't pay him, you're gonna get it but I think, like the big worm thing and they could have made it funnier, like there was so much to do with that part yeah, like with, instead of like he could have like a bunch of guys got out of like the ice cream truck or like beating them with, like that would have been funny. Yeah, see what I'm saying, like a clown car type thing and it went after him kind of like how the kid on the bike or nerf guns nerf guns.
Speaker 3:Yeah, something funny yeah water guns.
Speaker 1:But no, I yeah, I know what you're saying, though it did. You're right, I get what you're saying. It was a comedy the whole way through and then it got a little serious at the end. But I I get what's absent too. I took it more as like ice cube was using it as a way to like, maybe send a message to the youth and then you know like, hey look, this is how you should settle things.
Speaker 3:Yep, kind of like you know yeah, the fist fight part that was good, but the drive-by was like it was thrown in there for like three minutes of weird and they're like running away from it like it's funny right like their feet, like you see, like the bulls it.
Speaker 2:But I mean they unloaded that was like thousand, some rounds on that but I, matt, I'm with you, there was, there was certainly a serious aspect to this movie, that is to say a seriousness in the last like five minutes, correct, there was an ever so slight level of seriousness. And I say all of that just to, if it helps, next Friday and Friday after next are completely lighthearted. No serious, no seriousness at all we think about like sitcoms.
Speaker 1:They do that a lot on those you know half-hour shows that are comedies, and then they get serious, like at the end, and the audience goes whoo you know like that was the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
Speaker 3:We're like the cops, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1:Uncle Phil gets pissed, you know, yeah, and I get serious all of a sudden and then, yeah, they're matted up, like you know.
Speaker 3:Somebody said something and yeah, FUN FACTS.
Speaker 1:Oh, guess it's about that time. Anybody want to start, or Fun fact.
Speaker 2:The lion's share of the lines in this movie were ad-libbed.
Speaker 1:I know you said that about Chris Tucker, so a lot of them, yeah, even outside of him, ice-creaming on this, definitely outside of.
Speaker 2:Yeah was not just Chris Tucker, it was most of them.
Speaker 1:So a fun fact on this for one of our favorite formats. This was released on VHS on October 10th 1995, on DVD March 2nd of 99 and not until September 8th 2009. Could you see it in high definition on Blu-ray? Hmm, so just looking at the different formats this movie came out over the years. This movie, released right in the heart of VHS where it was kind of DVD, was coming in the, I guess, around 98 when DVD would have been coming out, but yeah though that was pretty cool. Hmm, any fun facts.
Speaker 3:Oh no, the like what Chris Rock and. Oh the people that were gonna be in it and Tommy Davidson for Chris Tucker's part. That would have been cool, but I think all three of them were like the same person, so yeah, well, chris Rock, that would have been a lot more money, I bet yeah, they gonna put that up.
Speaker 2:I think Chris Rock would have made it incredible easel.
Speaker 3:Yeah oh my gosh. Yeah, that would have been funny.
Speaker 1:That would have been Fantastic he could have been went back to that. How much for one rib? Yep, that guy correct.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 1:What was that movie from?
Speaker 2:I'm gonna get you no, no, no, it was.
Speaker 1:Don't be a minute, don't be a menace. Okay, okay, did it a? You know? They said that the screen ice cube and f Gary Grace stated that they modeled this movie after clerks 1994 okay which I don't really see. I mean, I guess maybe the way they filmed it I know they were talking about making this in black and white To save money. Yep, because they were trying to, like, cut budget, oh geez. But outside of that, which clerks was in black and white, correct?
Speaker 2:It was and we are going to. That's gonna be next in one of my one of those ones, yeah in the in my. When it gets to be my pick again, clerks is gonna be close to the top of the list.
Speaker 3:I was watching that the other day. Yeah, I love clerks.
Speaker 2:I can see how this could be modeled, or was considered to be modeled, after clerks, because clerks is a day.
Speaker 1:It is one day one day in the life.
Speaker 3:Okay with you two guys chillin talking about bullshit and people coming into their lives, yep.
Speaker 1:No, zap, I think you said something that maybe you have the same fun facts. So something about the clothes that ice cube is wearing indeed so.
Speaker 2:on the set of this movie, red clothing of any kind was Absolutely, 100%, strictly Forbidden, because where this was filmed, this location your right, smack dab in the middle of Crip territory, crippage, which is red.
Speaker 1:That's correct. Yeah, so you can wear that no.
Speaker 2:No, sorry, Crip is blue.
Speaker 1:I'm so. Crip is blue. Yeah, the bloods are ready. Yeah, you're right. You're right. I had on here that the clothes that ice cubes has on in the beginning of this movie Are the same ones that he was wearing at the end of boys in the hood.
Speaker 3:Oh, boy, also true, see him outfit, I guess also true, he said in that, in that area too. Isn't that where the, the director, was born and raised?
Speaker 1:that was his actual neighborhood they filmed the scene, the one scene where they're shooting at his house at his house right and. Oh.
Speaker 2:The scene where they're shooting craps. Yes that was actually the film debut of and I didn't see him there Like. I wasn't paying attention.
Speaker 1:I guess who's the big black guy Ryan Clark, duncan, or whatever that guy.
Speaker 4:It was like a Clark Duncan, I guess yeah him, he's.
Speaker 2:He's just in one of the circle of guys playing at the Green. Mile guy yeah, green Mile, he was also in Armageddon.
Speaker 1:That's a big dude for me a lot of these movies. The soundtrack is where it's at. This was a very good soundtrack one song that stood out to me right away and then when I looked I was like that's who it was, because has a very unique sound, much like Cypress Hill Funk. Dubious is the name of the group. Okay, so the scene where they're playing craps and the dad and red pull up Yep, they're playing funk dubious.
Speaker 2:It was kind of like a dad wants me to get my bike back. Right, you know he just tripping. You know I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1:So their beats and everything were very much like Cypress Hill. And the guy voice, son do be, was the, the lead guy from funk dubious birthday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, his birth name is J Vask head. Okay, but DJ mugs, who does all the beats for Cypress Hill, did all the beats for funk dubious, so that track stood out to me. I used to love funk dubious. I had their one album in high school. There was a couple good tracks on there. Also in here was a track by the alcoholics. I don't know if that made it into the movie. There's another group that I really like the alcoholics. I don't know if you remember them.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm and I thought you might like this one. And I don't know this song, but there was a group called zap, mm-hmm, zapp and the song is heartbreaker. Part one and two. I got to look that up. I think zap did computer love. Okay, I don't know if you know that song from the 80s.
Speaker 1:I'm just following you you know that one, yeah, but to look that one about to play that for you then interesting. But yeah, for me it's always about the music and a lot of these and and yeah, this had some good tracks on it like the old school.
Speaker 3:They kept a lot of the songs old school in this well speaking of old school.
Speaker 2:Yes, there's one in here that's a absolutely a favorite of mine. It's Curtis Mayfield's little child running wild. So that was featured on the superfly soundtrack. Okay, to be clear, the original superfly, incredible soundtrack. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Curtis Mayfield just Destroyed, destroyed the music world with this. Just so good.
Speaker 1:Who did Mary Jane that song?
Speaker 3:I never getting high see, that's a good song. Yeah, that was the original. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I get what you're saying with the old school tracks, just a little nuances in those, yes, yeah, they get you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that wasn't Parliament Was it.
Speaker 1:It could have been George Clinton in Parliament.
Speaker 3:I don't think. I don't think that was Parliament. They had a Mary Jane's, but I think that one was like like a Curtis Mayfield type cat, like I don't know. I'd have to look it up then, but um, it might be, I don't know.
Speaker 1:That's an era of music that I like, when I hear all the songs that's because it was all sampled.
Speaker 3:In the 90s they took all those songs and took all the samples and used it as our songs growing up.
Speaker 2:It's amazing. That's the stuff that they grew up with listening to. That's cool shit. Oh, fun fact, there's a part in the movie where, as Craig's dad, as Willie, is saying to Craig like trying to convince him why he doesn't want his kids to use a gun. Like you know, put the gun away, don't use the gun. This is why they're in the house talking. He actually says to look, I don't want to. Basically I don't want to bury you. You know I don't have to bury my own son. Besides, you know what a funeral cost these days like $4,000, $5,000. Fun fact, the cost of a funeral these days, or at least a couple of years ago, was like 15 16,000. So it's amazing to hear what was 95 versus, you know, 20 years late, 25 years later the difference in price.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I tell you what inflation 20, 25 thousand dollars, dang he's it's crazy, it's crazy man.
Speaker 2:It's crazy, ain't cheap not to be confused with Willie's hair, to which Chris Tucker says he's talking to ice cube, to what's his name, craig, he says, and tell him to come. His hair Look like a bunch of spiders up there having a meeting on his head.
Speaker 1:That's good classic. So that's seen where smoke. He's in the low rider smoking the angel dust with the two guys. If you look closely in the background there's like two figures that are sitting on a. You can't really make out facial features or anything, but they're in the back on a wall smoking just to nondescript dudes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they were neighborhood people that were hanging out and we're like we're not leaving and they're like a little pay, you, like you can be in there, like no, there's our neighborhood, like right, and so they just ended up in the movie.
Speaker 3:We're just hanging out here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they refuse to get out of the scene. So I guess, being that it was nighttime, you can't really make their silhouettes right. But yeah, they were giving them a hard time. Like you know, it's our property and all that stuff, so I did go back to watch, because I didn't see it watching it the first time. I went back this morning to watch a little bit of it and I called them like oh, there they are. I didn't see the Michael Clark Duncan part, though I want to go back and see. Yeah.
Speaker 3:I didn't. I didn't see that either it's. Is it why? I just, I just kind of seen Debo and Chris, chris Tucker Like because I think that's where they're, because he threw like the bike there's a circle of him standing.
Speaker 2:I promise you he's there.
Speaker 1:I believe it.
Speaker 2:I am curious as to which version Each of us might have watched. So the version I watched, I'm almost positive, was an extended version for a couple of reasons. But the Dave, when you talked about you know it came out on VHS in 95 and then it came out on DVD in 99 and then it came out an ultra 4k 3d see the future holographic, whatever the hell kind of TV is anymore.
Speaker 2:Yeah with ridiculous soap opera effect. I was able to watch it OG. I was able to watch it completely the way it. I'm watching this. It was like I was watching it in the movies, to be clear, in the 90s. So you have that softness, that those, those hues and tones, that just it was. It really took me back to be able to watch it like that. I know I've mentioned this before to you, dave especially I cannot stand high-def.
Speaker 2:I cannot stand so Boppa effect. I can't stand too much clarity. It just it's not television to me.
Speaker 1:We should watch it on that TV, which people can't see cathode ray tube.
Speaker 2:I'm all for that, baby.
Speaker 1:I'm all for that so this was released about a month after the death of it NWA's easy e, and it got me to thinking. There was a scene in this where Ice Cube and Chris Tucker were going to the store and they're playing a dr J track. Yeah, I think it was. Keep their heads ring. That's correct or whatever and there was a time where and I don't know if this was before or after Ice Cube and NWA and all those guys were at odds that was a ice cube had left.
Speaker 1:He had did a track called like no Vaseline that was before this movie.
Speaker 1:It was definitely before when that came out and he was kind of at odds with all those guys. He left NWA because of Issues with management and where the money was going and all that, and he did that no Vaseline song, which is an awesome song we shreds them all and but at some point in the 90s and I think it was close around this movie, he and Dre Kind of squashed the beef and were which is why that is a great segue.
Speaker 2:That's exactly why that song was featured in this movie, because by the time this was coming out, they had squashed it because he did.
Speaker 1:It was like him and Tupac and and Dre produced that track. It was like what the hell was the name of that song?
Speaker 2:Keep your head up.
Speaker 1:Not keep their heads ringing, but they were like it was like a really good beat. That's right for them.
Speaker 3:That's why, after you bit like that one it was the Tupac one, right when he was going against the no, by which one you're talking about? Yeah, that's the one I was thinking.
Speaker 1:This one. They were like in Mad Max gear and they were like rapping and stuff.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's a. Dre was in the Mad. Max stuff with the black leather jackets with the yeah.
Speaker 1:So it just got me to thinking like all around about this time. I guess that makes sense that they were kind of all right, we're cool now and whatever else like that. But when we were in high school I remember that Like I used to listen to Ice Cube a lot and he would kill them guys, Sure.
Speaker 2:I got one last fun fact, and this is I had mentioned earlier. I'm not sure which version you were watching or we had all watched, but in what I'm thinking is an extended version, in the very beginning of the movie there's two kids very beginning. After you see the converse, there's two kids sitting on the grass and they're just watching little kids watching. You know, life go by and EZel's running by with two boxes in his hand, one in each hand, under each arm. Those are the boxes that Craig was accused of stealing, that got him fired from his job.
Speaker 1:That's some Pulp Fiction or like some Tarantino type shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that is some oh fun fact. This movie is on Tarantino's top 20 list of movies from X to was it of the 90s.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was. I had that written down here too. When I written down, I'm gonna type it out it was 20 best movies from 92 to 2009.
Speaker 3:There you go. It was an influential movie.
Speaker 1:This is just like a good easy watch something. You can sit down and catch it wherever you're at and get through it. There was two other things here I have. One was oh here. It was about Ice Cube. I didn't even catch this when he said it, but they said he broke the fourth wall when he's going in to get water for his dad and drops an Ice Cube on the ground. He looks down and looks up at the camera, says Ice Cube, Ice Cube.
Speaker 3:He also broke it at the end of the movie too. Oh, when he goes back into the house, he looks at the camera and says yeah, or something like that.
Speaker 1:That's funny. Yeah, I don't know if I caused that one. But I didn't even catch that. That he did that in that scene until I read was like reading through the fun facts at the end. You know what? I think that might be it because you covered the one about Tarantino. We talked about Easy, you know. We talked about F Gary Gray and the floor mopping the floor about the milk man's best friend. Yeah, so that's pretty much it.
Speaker 3:I think we hit the fun facts.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but this was a cool one to cover, definitely in our wheelhouse. Now, like I said at this time in 95, when this came out and we talked about this briefly before we got on, I was not a big pot smoker and stuff. I know a lot of my friends that were loved this movie because it was just like, if you get high a lot, what better movie to watch? You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:It is like a comedy like that. I saw this probably when it came out on VHS or whatever. We probably rented it. I remember a couple of my friends that were way into it, so I watched it back then and enjoyed it.
Speaker 2:But yeah definitely a cool one. Oh, speaking of renting it and enjoying it. Oh yeah. Why don't we talk about our? Where would we put this on the scale?
Speaker 1:We got late fee return or burn, so I guess absence is your movie. You wanna start it all?
Speaker 2:I would not late fee it, I mean I would return it for sure.
Speaker 1:And this is 1995, right 95, it's 95.
Speaker 3:So video rentals is hot. Yes.
Speaker 2:I would watch the shit out of it, though over those 24 hours, like this is one, I would play it over and over and over again for that full day.
Speaker 1:So you're returning it, but you're keeping it for the day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm not gonna get a late fee on it, because I yeah, I would just hope that maybe someday in the future they would replay it a lot on pay television. Pay television yeah.
Speaker 1:Which they did. Matt what you got.
Speaker 3:I 100% agree with Zapp on that one. I would, yeah, watch it or keep it, you know, at home like you rewind it and put it on again just while you're like doing stuff around the house or whatever, just to get here. A lot of those like classic one liners that Zapp uses, you know a lot of those lines are funny. So, yeah, I would return it, but I enjoy watching it while I had it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I agree, I think I'm in the same boat here. With a return, I would definitely rent it. I'd be intrigued just because of Ice Cube being in it, but I would probably return it. I'm not taking a late fee, I'm not burning it because I like the movie, but Ice Cube, yeah. This is definitely different for me to see Ice Cube and that's what he was going for Like Zapp we were talking about in Zapp mention. Before he wanted to do what was it? A hood classic?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so, and this is really how I would close out my whole part of this segment, and thank you for lobbing that one out there, dave. So at the time there were so many portrayals of the hood that were, you know, awful which is not to say that it's not true. You had boys in the hood, you had menace to society, you had you know colors, you had you name it just bad shit was going on in the hood. So Ice Cube had the intent of again, like Dave had mentioned, he wanted a hood classic, one that people could watch over and over again, that portrayed more of a lighthearted goodness. That actually does exist in any neighborhood. People do. You're gonna have shitty neighbors, you're gonna have good neighbors. There's things that people do come together over, and I think Ice Cube did a really great job with that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I agree, we could have made one back then called Grandma's House before the other Grandma's House. We could have made that movie back in the 90s, do you think I?
Speaker 1:was just trying to think of a movie we could have made, but uh, Cramer's Place, Cramer's yeah, that could have been something Five Nights at Cramer's. I think Matt mentioned on one of the podcasts that'd be a good one we could have made, but yeah, I definitely enjoyed it. Speaking of which, if you guys are enjoying this podcast and we get a lot of feedback that you are, the best thing you can do to help us out is spread the word. Tell a friend, social media, repost our stuff Like that's how we're gonna grow. We're not really putting any money as far as advertising or anything like that. We definitely appreciate anybody that takes time to listen to us, and especially if you're listening here in our some odd minutes into a podcast and you're still here, that means you're entertained. So definitely spread it along to friends and family and whoever else and help us out and hit that five star rating, as always.
Speaker 2:Well done.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you guys got anything else in closing?
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