July 23, 2025 • 52 mins
LOOK OUT! It’s only Films To Be Buried With!
Join your host Brett Goldstein as he talks life, death, love and the universe (again) with the comic, actor, writer and producer ZAINAB JOHNSON! The RESURRECTION!
The venue for this resurrection is the beginning of Zainab's holday, where we catch her getting ready to turn all devices onto airplane mode. Of course, we have MUCH work to get through before this happens, and in doing so we get to hear about so much including holiday process, Zainab's upcoming residency at Edinburgh Fringe ('Toxically Optimistic'), how indeed to pronounce Edinburgh, the 'introducing' credit, being barefoot and pregnant in another timeline, and equalising versus overlising. Pure joy from beginning to end, you'll love this one. And if you hear it before the Fringe and upcoming tours, make efforts to see the live show!
Video and extra audio available on Brett's Patreon!
TOXICALLY OPTIMISTIC (30th Jul - 24th Aug)
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THE SECOND BEST NIGHT OF YOUR LIFE
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Look out. It's only films to be buried with the Resurrection. Hello,
and welcome to films to be buried with the Resurrection.
My name is Brett Goldstein. I'm a comedian and actor,
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a writer, director of Blimp, and I love films. As
Groucho Marx once said, time flies like an arrow, fruit
flies like a banana, and the Greatest Showman runs like
a fucking train. Every week I invite a special guest over.
I tell them they've died. Then I get them to
discuss their life through the films the men the most
of them. But not this week. This week I use
my powers to bring back the brilliant comedian, writer and
(00:42):
actor Zanab Johnson from the dead. My comedy special, The
Second Best Night of Your Life is streaming now on
Max and Sky. Streaming now on HBO. Max, Thank you
very much and Sky. Give it a watch. You'll fucking
love it. Head over to the patron at patreon dot
com forwards last Brett Goldstein, where you get an extra
fifteen to twenty minutes with Zane. She tells me a secret.
We talk about all kinds of things. You also get
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the whole episode uncar Adfree and as a video. Check
it out over at patreon dot com. Forward slash Recardstein
So the Returning Zanab Johnson is a comedian, actor, and writer.
You might know her from her hit stand up special
he Jabs Off. I met Zaynab a few years ago
in La and I resurrected her and recorded this on
Zoom last week. I think you're really going to enjoy
this one. She's fucking amazing. So that's it for now.
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I very much hope you enjoy episode three hundred and
sixty of Films to be Buried with the Resurrection. Hello,
and welcome to Films to be Buried with the Resurrection.
(01:46):
It is I Brett Goldstein and I am enjoined today.
Welcoming back. A hero, A legend, an uploader, a swearer
as she the people, a comedy store legend, a stand
up special hero, a one of the great. We can't
(02:08):
believe she's come back, but she's here, back from the dead.
Please welcome to the show. It's the brilliant say I've
done so.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Hey Brett, Hey I just see you.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, I'm pretty good, thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I am currently on a beautiful, beautiful beach at a
beautiful resort, and so I'm great.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I love that you've arrived on holiday and immediately got
to work because, like me, you don't know how to
do it holiday. This is good, you know what.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
It is the last thing I really was like should
I or shouldn't I?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I feel like it hadn't like it hadn't really gotten
started yet, you know, like I landed here, I got
some food, I laid on a beach, and it's like
this is the last thing that I look forward to
doing before yeah, before, Like it's just like five days
of like serenity. I'm actually kind of bothered because I
realized I brought a book with me. I bought a
(03:12):
book and brought it with me specifically to read on
this trip.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
And it's a nice, thick one and I left it
on a plane.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Fuck, what's the book?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Ooh? It's basically like a study Richard Pryor is on
the cover, and it's basically like a study of African
American comedy through the years, but going way back to
like African ancestry, to through you know, enslavement, through civil rights,
like everything, like the entire diaspora.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
So I thought, like, you know, I've learned something.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, well maybe you weren't meant to learn anything on
this holiday.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I'm gonna I'm gonna download the book on my phone
now or on my computer, and I'll just have worst
vision when i'm done.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Are you good at Are you good on a holiday?
Are you good at doing holidays?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Like just completely relaxing absolutely, Like I'm telling you, Brett,
after this, my phone is going on do not disturb,
It's going on airplane mode, like I'm not doing anything.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, I love that. Yeah, I saw you the other day,
but you didn't see me because I was at the
comedy store. And when I was leaving a comedy store,
you were on in a different room and I watched
you when you were brilliant. You're always brilliant.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Oh, thank you? That was it? That was it?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
If it's the set that I'm thinking about, that was
a tough one, like like I rallied them in the.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
End, but they seem to not know what was going on.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well, I guess I was there for the rally because.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I know that crowd where you're like, why do you
think you're here?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
What?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
And then they laugh at like you know when you
call them out right because I was kind of doing
like some political stuff, right, and so I was like, oh, okay,
well you got I seem like this type of crowd.
And then they laughed hard, and then I said, okay,
so it's like, okay, so you guys are this type
of crowd, but I'm still going to do this stuff anyway.
And they were like, okay, we're gonna get quiet again,
(05:12):
and it was just like.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
We made it clear our feelings on this. Yeah. So,
so I haven't seen you in a while since we
lasted this show, and we learned about your twenty five
brothers and sisters, and I think you had a special
since then?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Tell me, yeah, I had my special jabs Off?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yes, how did that go? How was your experience of
releasing it? All of that?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
So I love her jabs Off. I am so proud
of it. It found itself in a precarious situation because
obviously the title is about her jabs Off. Most of
the special really is me navigating like the you know,
the intersectionality of my you know, like all the you know,
all of the things that I made up of, right,
(05:58):
or the intersectionality of my identity rather and so I
taped it in May of twenty twenty three. I knew
it was going to be released October twenty twenty three,
and so it was already named Hitjabs Off by about August, right,
But then October seventh, you.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Know, some little thing happens in the Middle East.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yes, yes, I mean it's I'm laughing at the iron,
you know, the bad timing for my special. But I'm
not laughing obviously. What's happening that's very serious. But navigating
that was like half the battle, and I don't think
that that was anticipated, you know. Yeah, but I think
despite that I did, it performed really well. I think
(06:48):
it did really well for me. I am so so
proud of it. When I'm on the road now, I
sell the audio in vinyl.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Oh cool. Yeah, And.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I have people who, you know, message me all the
time and they're like, girl, I'm watching this for a
sixth time, and I'm like, that's amazing, you know, Like,
there's not a lot of things even when I enjoy them,
there's not a lot of things currently, there's not a
lot of new things. And I'm like, yeah, I'll watch
it over and over and over, you know. So I'm
really I'm really proud of it. Yeah, fanas, fantastic. And
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you're touring again.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Now, yes, I'm touring again. Yeah i am.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I've actually been touring the States a bunch and actually
after this, I have like two more weekends in the States.
I have like Jersey and then Connecticut. But then I
go to London for a week and then yeah, I
go to London for a week, and then I go
to Edinburgh. I'm doing the French Festival for the first
time ever. That sit the whole thing, yep, the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Twenty six straight nights.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Saying where are you with? For me? With this is very.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Exciting, pleasant, pleasant up for maybe yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Oh yes, you're gonna smash it. What times you show?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Six forty?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Perfect? Is it?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I had an I had a nine o'clock show. I
had a nine o'clock slot. At first, No, you're shaking
your head.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
What you have to remember in Edinburgh is people see
twenty shows a day, so if you're on at nine,
you're the twentieth show. They're tired, Okay, they're sick of
being asked how are you doing? Yeah, I don't want it.
They're sick of it. They're sick of it. You want.
Have you done it early? I've done it eleven times Edinburgh.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Any tips, yes, protect lots of tips. But it's where
are you staying.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
You know you're staying like the exact address.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
No, you don't have to give me exact address.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I'm no, I'm staying in an apartment by myself because
I don't think I couldn't manage.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
No.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I at this point, I like being by myself.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, yeah, you're one in twenty five yel today, imagine
space is very meaningful to you. Yes, my advice is got.
It's it's tricky to remember that the world outside exists
when you do Edinburgh, because it's such a bubble. It's
such an intense bubble. And I think, have fun with people,
(09:12):
have a nice time, enjoy your shows, but also like
remember nothing matters in a good way.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah, no, no, no, I get exactly what you're saying,
because last year I did at the end of last year,
I did nine shows at the Cellho Theater and you know.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Here we do shows and nobody's reviewing the show.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Nobody's reviewing the shows, and so you put out a
special you know, and so it was like we had
all these critics come out and people are reviewing it,
and my reps were sending me the reviews and I
wasn't responding, like I was just like, you know, and
they were like, this is great, these are amazing, and
I was like, oh, okay, okay, all right, like that's fine,
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you know, but I really just want to put on
the best show possible, you know, I just I just
want I just want to adequately and as humorously as
possible convey the message that I'm trying to convey.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
It will also be it'll make your show the best
it's ever been, because it is like, yeah, it's like
boot camp for your show, because you will have unlike
when you're on tour, you'll have hundreds of people coming
who have no idea who you are, no interest in you,
that just you. You were the show that fit the
time they had free you know what I mean. So
you're playing real mixed crowds of some people be really
(10:27):
excited to see. Some people no idea what they're walking into.
So it's good. It'll make you a better comedian for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Oh well, I'm looking forward to this.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And it's meant to be fun. Remember that.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, I have never been to Scotland before, so that
is also like separate from comedy and you know and
performing and like, you know, just like trying to make
sure that you don't bank your entire life on how
this one festival goes right. I'm also like, Okay, I'm
in this new place that I have never been before,
and so I'm gonna also try to you know, I
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want to. I want to leave Edinburgh feeling like I'm
an expert on Edinburgh, you know what I'm saying, Like, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
You'll love it, It'll be great, You'll make a hundred
new friends, it'll be great.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I'm very insecure about saying the actual city name though,
because every time I say it people correct me. I
Sometimes I say Edinburgh and they're like, it's Edinburgh, and
I'm like, then I'll say Edinburgh and people are like,
it's Edinburgh and I'm like.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
How do you say Edinburgh? Edinburgh? Edinburgh, Edinburgh Edinburgh. Oh God,
I can't believe it, you stump me.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I think it's meant to be tossed away, like the
end of it is meant to kind of like you're
supposed to, like you're supposed to kind of get like
really relaxed by the end of it, you know, yeah, yeah,
But because I'm a New Yorker and like we like
to really accentuate and elongate vowel sounds and things like that,
I'm like, bruh, bruh.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Where are you in London? Gitter?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I am in.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Soho Theater again, but I am doing all crowd work shows.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Is that what you're doing in Edinburgh as well? Or
just in London?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
No, only in London. So here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I ran my hour that I'm doing in Edinburgh. I
ran that in London at the end of last year, right.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
But the thing.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
About and I'm sure you know all about this very
different from the States.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
In London, it's.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Like a tight hour show, you know, and my written
hour is like a robust hour. But I like to, like,
you know, I like to come out and play with
the crow. I like to do all of that. And
when I was doing it the first and it was
like nine sold out shows like before I got there,
all of it right, and It's like and I'm like,
these are people they have been waiting to see me, right,
(12:55):
And the first night I maybe did like an hour
in seventeen minutes, and the theater was like we have
to change the website, we have to let them know
that it's going to be an hour and seventeen minutes.
And then so I'm like, okay, cool, you know, put
an hour and twenty like I was keeping it short, right,
And so then like the next night, I thought they
(13:17):
let the people know. They were like, is it any
way she can come back down to an hour and
ten minutes or an hour? Do you know? It was
just I felt like by the end, by the third
show through the ninth show, I felt like a lot
of the crowd missed out on They got this like
really incredible hour, but they missed out on this other
thing that is really enjoyable about me, which is like
(13:38):
the freedom to like sort of interact and go where
the crowd takes me and somehow work that back into
my objective. And I think they just really missed out
on that, and so I'm going.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
To give them nothing but that.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
That's exciting.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Also it frees me up, like so I don't have
to think about It's like, I know, I'm going to Edinburgh.
I'm going to run this hour six straight times. You know,
in parts of the hour when I'm doing sets on
other shows, you know, and so you know before it's
nice to just be free on stage and discovery you
know that lot.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, Jada Johnson, you have come back to life. You
get a second chance. But what point in your life
will you come back? What will you change? What will
you keep the same?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Oh, Brett, I thought we went to a carnival.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I am so so sorry. At what? At what point
in my life? Am I?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Am?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I being resurrected?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Like at any at any l Okay, you can.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Come back at any time if you want to change
some stuff. You can come back to a certain point
try and change it, or you can just come back
to now.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I think I'll come back to now because because see.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Part of it was so perfect, was it?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Instinctually?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I was like, ooh, I come back in my sixties, right,
But it's like I haven't lived that yet, so I
don't It might be perfect.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I think it'll be perfect. Yeah, So you're going to
go from now come back? You're not changing anything?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Oh huh Okay, okay, okay. Maybe I come back at
the age twenty three, Okay, And instead of moving to
Los Angeles and sort of flopping around for a little while,
I stay.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
In New York.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I know that I want to do stand up and
I just do it there. What does that look like?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Wow? That changes the timeline massively, because what then did
you actually start?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I started when I was maybe twenty six or something.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Wow, this is yeah, you live down in Edinburgh by
now let's just say.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, I'll be very I'll be very honest with you,
and this is the last thing I'll say about Edinburgh.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
You know, it's kind of daunting. Can we can we
say that?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Like it's we can say that. I'm glad you're saying
that it is daunting. It's not nothing. It's really hard.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Yeah, and the money that you have to shell out
to do it. I had to ask my managers. I said, wait,
why am I doing this?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
What did they say? Did they have?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
They did?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I can't I can't remember exactly the answer now, but
but at the time they at the time it definitely
talked me off the ledge. But I was like, wait,
I don't need this, you know, so you don't.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
But it'll be a lovely It'll be a lovely fun adventure. Yeah, hopefully. Okay,
So I'm back twenty three. Everything's changed. Where are you
having changed the timeline? Where do you think you are
now present day?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
If I've given myself, if I've given myself a few
more years, then maybe I'm probably walking around barefoot and pregnant.
Right where where are my barefoot and pregnant? At this point,
I fell in love with a guy who works in
d C. Oh God, and I'm moving to DC. And
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I moved to d C because he's you know, he
works for the government.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
But I chose. I was able to give up d C.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I was able to go with DC because I felt
like it was the closest proximity to the city, and
so that was the compromise.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And you know, you know what love and family does
to you.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
So, yeah, what does he do for the government? Is
he the president?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
He was not, But now I feel silly for not
making him the president. Oh no, he was not the president.
He was maybe like the speaker of the House or something.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Okay, he's a speaker like you. Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yeah, but he's like adam it he knows he yeah,
he's he's trying to change government.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Nice. No, it sounds great. Well, welcome back. Glad you
changed the timeline. Things are much better. But the living,
the living are excited to see you and they want
to discuss films. So they've got some questions for you.
The first one is what was the last film you saw?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Say, no Johnson, Okay, so this this has to be
the last film I saw when I was twenty three.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I mean no.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Today, present day to present day.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Okay, okay, okay, okay. So you know I was just
on a plane.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
What did you do?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
What did I watch on a plane? I watched Back
to the Future one and two wow, back to back,
back to back, because it was like a four hour flight.
But before that, like just the other day, I saw
a Megan two point zero.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Tell me everything about that? So I love Mithrigan.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Oh it's very different from the first one. It's a
very it's a departure. And it reminded me that this
is the best way I can say it if they
sort of made it like a boss girl Terminator too.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
That's what it looks like, Terminator too.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
That is the feeling. I was like, oh, this is
like Terminator too.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
And you know, I think with AI was like Robots
and AI, it's always like, Okay, they're always trying to
like they're gonna learn, learn, learn, learn, learn so much
that they're either going to want to be human like, right,
or they're going to want to take over.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Humans right and make humans like subservient right. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
And so this had both This had like the no,
I'm ready to you know, we're ready to like we're
no longer going to be like in the service position.
We are going to rule stuff. And then there was
another AI that was kind of like, now I know
what morals are, now I know what empathy is, and
now I am going to sacrifice myself for my human wow.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah. And then before that, I saw Sinners three times.
I love sa I love Sinners.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I love Sinners. It is so good.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
It was so good. It was so good.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
It was like a novel. And I say that in
that I hadn't seen something at the cinema in such
a long time where it's like never boring, but it's
like a slow build building the world, these characters. Here's
a big thing about these characters. You care about them,
Here's a load of things about these characters. You care about.
The building, building, building to the stuff. It's fucking great.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Yeah, I agree, And you know, it's one of those
movies that I've realized now that i've seen it so
many times and I'm probably not going to stop seeing it.
You know how it takes you watching your favorite film,
most likely a comedy or something, to like notice like, oh,
I've watched it one hundred times and I'm still noticing
something new. With Sinners, there was he He paid such
attention to details, like little subtle details that really go
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a long way when you catch them, you know, And
it's been really fun like discovering, you know, after you
see like the big thing, right, the big story and
the fantastic film of it all. It's been really like
rewarding to go back and like really sort of like
just experience the nuances and the subtleties in his very
(21:12):
specific choices.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Nice, Yeah, who do you think should play you in
the film of your life?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
So I that are known people?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Right? Yeah? Why you want to find a new up
and comment?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Actually?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Yeah, I would always prefer if anybody is gonna play me,
that the credits read introduce it.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I would love that because.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Then they won't you know, then the audience won't put
the celebrities affects on my character, you know, they won't
put it on my story like she didn't really do
zain't at that well because.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
You know she's a singer.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Ins ain't that was a comedian, you know, like, but
so I would love for it to be like introducing
some unknown you know, yeah, you know, phenomenal actress.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Or even comedian. I would so fantastic.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
But if I had to choose people who are known,
I'd either choose Coco Jones. Coco Jones places Hillary on
the reimagining of the Fresh Prince.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Of bel Air. Okay, excellent.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
She's a singer, she's a first off, she's a singer.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
And then the other actress I don't want to say
her name wrong is Ebonie Obsidian.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
What she's been in so Ebonie has.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Been in a lot.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
She most recently she was in six Triple eight, which
was the movie about the post the military, the all
female military that got all of a male to like
all the male distributed and she was one of the
main characters. Okay, yeah, I would choose her. She is
a much shorter actress, so people are going to give
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her a hard time.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I can see that. I've lift her up. That's a
good choice. Yeah, that's a great choice. Listen, people leave
her just because she's sure she played it like she
was tall performance.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Yes, and you know what, that's what I would say
as well. But you know, with social media now that
we have so many there was a time when nobody
knew Tom Cruise is hype.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Remember that, Yeah, the good old day.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Yeah, you didn't know nothing about your favorite celebrity. And
now people for some reason want their actors to be
a lot like the characters they play. Yes, and that's
just foolish.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Foolish Ebony played two women.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yes, yeah, Ebony would be really good.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Okay, that's a good shot. I do alas say, like
you're introducing people are shot. Yeah, what's the most romantic
film you've ever seen? Zannab Johnson?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
This might be the only one that I couldn't really
think of an answer. You know, I don't want to
say that, Okay, I don't want to say the notebook?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
And what did I say last time? Was it Titanic?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
This wasn't us. You weren't asked this question last time.
These are new questions for you that you may have
talked about Titanic in a different context.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I mean a lot of times I say the notebook
because it's like he built her a house, He.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Built her fucking house.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Guys, he built her a house.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
She had a whole nother fiance, so he didn't even
It wasn't like she was in the kitchen making breakfast
and she was like, I can't wait to move into
a house.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
And he was like, I'm gonna build my lady a house.
She he didn't know where in the world she was,
but he was like, well when, but.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
When I'm done with this house, I'm gonna go find
her and bring her to her house. That's just romantic,
and it's always it's always more romantic when it rains
right after a big gesture.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
It's romantic, and it's a kind of psychotic, like I'm
building a prison for this woman and then I get
her and love her up in it.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
You know what, So many romantic things that can be
perceived from like men to women. It's like if you
just if you just say it in a different sort
of like tone and inflection, it sounds sinister.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
You a house now getting the trunk.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yeah, I got on one knee and I put a
ring on her finger.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Now she's but you.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Know what I'm saying, Like it just all if you
say it, if you say it in a different way,
it's like, wait, what.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
What is the best film you ever saw that you
never want to see again? You know what I mean? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Oh absolutely, I believe it is probably twelve Years of.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Slave perfect answer, that's the one un done.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
I've only ever seen it once, and I remember vividly.
I remember every story point, I remember every plot point,
I remember the beginning, I remember the characters. I can
just see it in my head and I don't need
to see it again.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
But it was a fantastic movie.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yes, correct, What is the best action film you've ever seen?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
So part of me wanted to say I am Legends
or like Armageddon and you know, or I think I'll
go with is I am Legend in action film?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Or not? Really?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, he's got he's got a gun and stuff. He's
running around.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Yeah, yeah, he's running around.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
He's running around, he's in a car, stuff, There's there's movement,
and I guess you could classify that as an action self.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I would.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah, I really love I am Legend. I think that
I just love I am Legend.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I just love Iron Legend. I do.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I don't know how people don't talk about it, so
when I watch it, I'm just like, how are people
not always talking about this film?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Do you know the ending that the book is that ever,
people that love the book were mad about the film
because they changed the ending. Do you know what the
ending is meant a bit? Well?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I had, I think I had the DVD, so I
had I saw the alternate ending, right. It was like,
one ending is he sacrifices himself, Yeah, and he lets
the kid and the lady get away right with the cure,
with the cure, and then the other ending is that
he is able to get away with the lady and
the kids in the cure and they make it to
like a new civilization.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Is that not the ending of the book?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
No? I think if you're listening to this and you're like,
that's not the ending, I believe what the ending is
is the realization that he is the bad guy in
terms of in this world where vampires exist, they are
all scared of him because he's hunting them and shooting them.
They're just the civilization of vampires that are trying to
live their lives and love and survive and there's this
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guy out in the streets shooting at them. And at
the end he realizes, oh, I'm the I'm the evil one,
not them.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah, that that's a part of the ending. They showed that,
they said in a book. They didn't show that because
the zombie. Remember the zombie is actually so beautiful. Well
whatever they are, right, because they're undead because they have
this virus, right, yes, yeah, so the I guess we'll
call them the affected, right, so for the infected, let's
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call them the infected. And remember he breaks into he
breaks into the barrier that like Will Smith was in,
and he yells, he has this like screech that comes
out of him, and then he grabs his affected woman
just laying on the table being sort of like tested,
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and like the whole point was he was just trying
to get the woman.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
He loved that.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
And I thought that at that moment, Will Smith realized
whatever his character's name is, I thought that he realized.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
But see why I have.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
To do it introducing because Will Smith is Will Smith
in every movie. But he realizes, like, oh, I have
been the like they do have. As much as they
are the affected, they also have some sort of humanity.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Right then, it was there, complained about it was.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
There, but here's here's here's plot twist for me.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
I don't know if this is a runner up or
this is like I am legend has been in my
heart for a minute.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
But I love the Equalizer trilogy.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Go ahead, I've seen them. I mean I watch stands
to watch it. Didn't do anything where he.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Clicks that watch, where he clicks that watch, I'd be like,
y'all got forty two seconds. You got nineteen seconds before
he takes every gun, breaks your fingers, kills every one
of y'all.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Y'all got fifty two seconds and you don't even realize it.
Here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
I download Equalizer on my phone and computer the trilogy,
and whenever I'm taking long flights like LA to Melbourne
or you know, Australia, LA to London, and if I
have to take a long flight like eight or plus out,
I'm watching Equalizer trilogy.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Listen. I love him. I've got no problems with them.
I have one question thought about the Equalizer. It's called
the equal in theory. He is equaling just someone does
something bad. I don't think what he does is equal
in any way. Quite often, for example, there's a scene
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in the first one where someone pickpockets a wallet and
he picks up an ax and follows the guy. I
don't think that's equal he's about to attack command with
an axe. He just pick pockets and wallet. The equal
would be take that man's wallet. It wouldn't be chop
him up with an axe.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
It's because you looking at it like specific, Like you're
looking at it like this act versus this.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Act equalizer, the beat the shit out of everyone. Guy.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
So that's just what you got to know, right, You
gotta know he actually tries to equalize. Right, so when
you do something bad, he tells you don't do that
bad thing. That's him equalizing. But then you choose to
still do the bad thing. You choose to be indignant.
And that's when he got a set, his stopwatch, and
that's when he goes beyond equalizing. He overlies it.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
What is the word?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Yeah, he the pluses.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Yeah, yeah, Now he has to kill everybody.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
If sen A design guys to that watch.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
It's fantastic, But it is I will say that it
is an action. It is a set of action films
that I feel very I can't wait for him. Like
the bad guys are so bad, like they're such they're
they're not villains with a backstory. They're not villains with like,
they're not like, oh, we understand how they became a villain, Like, oh.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
They're not. They're not redeemable villains.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
They're just like you know, freaking they're just they're just
plain o, simple, one dimensional villains. And so when he
you know, over equalizes them, yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
It's like great. I'm like, oh, yeah, this is what
I needed.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
I still need to believe that when bad people are
in the world, that there is there there's somebody good.
It's like, no, no, I'm wipe all y'all out. I
need to believe that.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I need to believe someone will either these people. Of
all the films if you had to, which film do
you think you could have made? And why?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Any romantic comedy, like like a good amount of romantic
comedies like two can play that game. Have you ever
seen that film with Vivaica Fox and Morris Chestnut?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Two can play that game?
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Uh? What was that film with train Wreck? Which is
Amy Schumer? Like anything that is very like single POV.
It's very simple, guy gets girl or girl needs to
get guy, and all they have to do is, you know,
overcome their awkwardness or their you know whatever it's like those,
in my opinion, are so easy to watch and make,
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and I think on like a big if I had
like a big budget, big budget, I would remake Hitch.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I would remake Hits with you, but I would make
with me as Hitch.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Who's Kevin James?
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Oh? Who's Kevin James?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Probably like is it is it you Hitch? Is it
you hitching up a woman? Or is it you hitching up?
Speaker 2 (33:19):
It's me hitching up a woman?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Okay, So who's Kevin? Who's female Kevin James? Hmmm?
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Maybe like freaking Robbie Hoffman or something, you know, like
somebody like.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
That's a great shot.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Yeah, yeah, that's fun? Or who else?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Or maybe Ali Mcca, I mean, I guess say or
or maybe even Sam Jet like I don't know, Like, Okay.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
We're holding auditions, but we've got favorites. Yeah, you don't
want to be introducing anyone in that part?
Speaker 3 (33:50):
No, No, I want I want who we know, But
I don't want them to be huge, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
But they're like the world, the world.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
They think they'll be huge after this.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
They'll be huge after this.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah, what is the film you have pretended to like
to impress people.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
I have to be honest with you, Brett. I have
never done it.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
In my life, and I respect that about you.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Yeah, I never ever.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
You've always told the truth, and I respect that about you.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I Mean, here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
If I'm going to lie, it's not going to be
about a film, because my life has never depended on
my opinion of a film. You know, like, it's almost
as if you've got a good sense of self.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Well, no, I think that's exactly it.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah, what is the film you've never seen that you
think it's mad? You've never seen it?
Speaker 2 (34:42):
There's so many Probably the first one is Star Wars?
Speaker 1 (34:45):
That is mad? What's the film you love that you
don't expect anyone else to like?
Speaker 3 (34:51):
I maybe like Both Finger.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
I love Both Finger. It's a masterpiece of paper.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I think Both Finger is like a film that like
I was watching it at first like what is this?
And by the end I was like that was so wow,
that was so good? Like look what he did?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
You know? But I never hear Both Finger mentioned It's true.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
You're right and it really should be up there with
the Girl. Yeah, yeah, it's there's so much of that
that's quoteable. It's funny, it's clever. Eddie Murphy's amazing in
both parts. Steve Might's so funny, it's great.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Yeah, they're used to like Eddie Murphy getting like yeah,
it's like a great ensemble cast. Right, But also if
they're used to Eddie Murphy when he's playing other characters,
they're used to him like completely transforming physically. Yeah, and
both finger he didn't real I mean what he had
glasses brace it and like yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Yeah, then very subtle stuff. It's very sweet.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, you know what just hit me.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
It's crazy that we haven't seen with the amount of
character work, like the different characters that Eddie Murphy has
played in film, and the different characters that Jim Carrey
has played in film, like on film, how they play
like these drastically different parts of each Right.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
The fact that we.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Haven't seen them do that together is crazy. It's crazy
that the world hasn't demanded that.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
You need to demand it. When you get all the
power in Hollywood after you make Miss Hitch, you you
need to demand that. For girls, what's the film you
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would show a lover as a test to see if
you should be together? You probably might not get this
one because you have a good sense of self and
realize that that shouldn't matter.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
No, no, no, definitely, I have one.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Okay coming to America, Yes, yes, if you don't like
coming to America. I actually had a boyfriend in college
and he was is he was, you.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Know, African.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
I'm not gonna say from which country specifically, but he
was African, And because he was the first African man
that I had dated, I was like, oh, my god,
have you seen coming to America, because like, you came
to America, so you know, so you I think you'll
like this even more than I liked it. And we
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sat there and we watched it and I minded every
single word and he had He didn't even laugh when
it was funny. I was so confused, but I knew
we didn't.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
We didn't.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
We didn't last too long after that because I knew.
I was like, no, we are not the same.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
So he didn't watch him go yes, that's exactly like
my life. Thank you saying that.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
I didn't expect I actually, I mean it would have
been completely acceptable and probably hilarious to me if he
would have been like, girl, that ain't nothing like my life, right,
But the thing about it is he had no reaction.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
He was indifferent to it. Wow, he's either like, this
is the best film I've ever seen or how wrong
they got this idea of what it was like to
be Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Yeah, I would.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
I would have even taken somebody that's been like, that's
not funny at all. Then that would have at least
given us something to argue over for the next sixty
years that we were married.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
You know, well, let me tell you, when you're barefoot
and pregnant, it's not because of him. We know that.
What is the film that made you the most uncomfortable? Hm?
What is it?
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Pulp fiction?
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Would you like to elaborate?
Speaker 3 (38:40):
I saw pulp fiction as like a very young adult.
I didn't see it when it first came out. And
my mother used to always have a specific like warning.
She used to always say, whatever happens if you're trying
to get away from somebody, if you need help, don't
ever go into a stranger's house or a stranger's store.
You don't know what they do in there.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
She used to always.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
Say that, and I never knew where it was coming from.
And then one day, these are my college years, some
one of my friends is like, let's watch paulp Fiction.
And I'm like, I've never seen it. And they're like,
you've never seen Paul fiction. You know that conversation, And
I'm like, let's watch Paul Fiction. And I'll be very
honest with you, Bret. After Vin Raims goes into that
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store or whatever, and you see him with basically being
sexually assaulted with like a BDSM thing in his mouth, right,
I don't even know what happens to the movie after that.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
I just stopped watching it. I was so traumatized.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
It's yeah, that's totally fair.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
It's like even when they go in, when the couple
goes in to rob the diner, it's like, clearly, you
guys don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Yeah, you know, like it just do you think that's
what your mom meant when she said that going to
a stranger's house or a stranger's store.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
I think she was quoting Pope pulp Fiction specifically because
she used to love that film really okay, and I
think she was using it as a cautionary tale. And
here's the thing, I thought, Well, yeah, if I go
into somebody's house or somebody's store, I mean worst case scenario.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
They were like, you know, they'll keep me there, they'll
just hold me hostage. But they won't do that, you.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Know what I'm saying, Like it was just a little
bit too It just seemed it was just a little
bit too depraved for me.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
If you could. Speaking of which, if you could show
a child one film, what would it be.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
I'd probably show a child today. I would show them Wicked. Yeah,
I would definitely show them that. I would show them
Wicked one in two and two hasn't even come out yet.
I'd show them one and be like, get ready because
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we go in to see number two.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
I saw Wicked on Broadway. I saw Wicked in London
and I really enjoy it. But when I saw it
in the theater, specifically with Cynthia Arrivo playing Alphaba and
you know, and oh god, yeah, Ariana Grande, you know,
playing Glinda, I just felt it just connected in a way.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
When I saw it recently then.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
As much as the musical, the show, the live show
opened up my world.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
I don't know if I told you this, but it
cured me of my fear of witches.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
You did not tell me that I didn't had a
fear of witches.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
I had a fear of witches because one of the
first films that I saw as a kid was The
Wizard of Oz. It's like, why would you show that
green lady on that bike in that room? Like yeah,
and you're pretty little dog too, like why would you
show that? And so then you know, I saw Wicked
the live show, and at that intermission defying gravity, I
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was like, I'm not afraid anymore.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Yeah, I feel like it has just wonderful less is
it a kid?
Speaker 1 (42:02):
I've said it before, I'll say it again. Cinerarivo, I
believe is channeling God straight up. I straight up believe that.
I think when she sings, that is God.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Yeah, yeah, she it's pretty easy. It's easy.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
And you know a lot of times, I think for
years and tell me if you feel differently, Brett, but
I think for years it was always assumed that like,
the bigger the woman, the more powerful her sound could be. Right,
like when you think about opera singers, and when you
just think about these, you know throughout history like these,
you know, powerhouse voices, They've always come from larger women. Yes,
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and Cynthia Revo being all of maybe five foot and
two pounds. Yeah, you know it's yeah, you know, soaking
wet seven pounds.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Yeah, i'd say less but yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
Yeah, you know, and to have that voice come out
so like smoothly and flessie. But I do think specifically,
like I agree with you, but I do think there's
something about Alphaba being green, but you know, she's also
black under the green, like she is a woman of
color under the green. I think there's something that sort
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of hits much differently than the original play.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
I can see that I loved it, at least for me,
I loved it. And I also think Ariana Grande funny.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Yeah, very funny, funny.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Who knew? Who knew so funny? Apparently everyone knew. I didn't.
I didn't know what I was like, Damn, she's funny. Yeah, okay,
great film, you can have it. What is the best
soundtrack to a film? The best soundtrack?
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Best soundtrack to a film? Definitely Loving Basketball without a doubt. Ye,
What's Love Got to do with It? Because I mean
that that the soundtrack to What's Love Got to Do
With It? Is basically Tina Turner's great at this. Yeah yeah,
and then this might be controversial, but I think Titanic, and.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
I think simply because one song I think Celena.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
I think that one song of her, not even really
saying that many words, I think. I don't even know
what songs what other songs are on the Titanic soundtrack.
I know, and I'm fascinated. Do you know the story
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behind the song the Titanic song? So the the director
of the film is.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
Cameron, James Camerons.
Speaker 3 (44:49):
Cameron DS is James Cameron, and he said he told
the the composer, he said, I don't for this film.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
I don't want any words.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
I don't want songs with That's why you say you
don't remember, because every other song is just the instruments.
There's no singing, right, even the boat they playing and
to day nobody ever sang.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
They just play right, it's just instruments.
Speaker 3 (45:17):
And he kept telling him, I don't I don't want
any vocals. I don't want any vocals. He said it
over and over and over again. The composer goes to
Celine Dion. He says, listen, James Cameron does not want
any vocals, but you sing this, and if he he
this is the song for this movie, and just trust
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me and Selene Dion's like, well, if he says he
doesn't want any vocals, I don't want to you know.
He's like, just trust me and this guy, the way
he tells the story is like.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
His job was on the line.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (45:51):
Celene Dion sings the song. He brings it to James Cameron.
James Cameron sheds a tear. This long it's perfect, It's
the song of the movie.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
Wow. He goes, Now take all the all the words out.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
It's like it's it's like, I just I love stories
like that, Brett, because every so often we just gotta
trust our gut. We have to just life is like instinctual.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
You know you watched the video and if you haven't,
you must is one of the greatest. The video of
Angela Baldemante telling the story of writing the theme music
to Twin Peaks and look it up. I'm telling you
we'll make you happy. Just hit. David Lynch's talking him
through what he wants the song to be. As he's
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doing it. It's so beautiful Twin Peaks.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
Okay, I'm going to check it out. I just put it.
I'm Google I'm looking at it.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
Now, explains the theme June of Twin Peaks with David Lynz. Yeah, okay, okay, okay,
anyway back to what what is the best film to
watch on a plane? You just watched something? Is it?
The Equalizes Trilogies, the over realizes.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
Hey, yeah, if you're on a long plane ride, the
Equalized the trilogies are fantastic. I also think you can't
go you can't go wrong with anything Tom Hanks. You
can pick one that you've seen a million times, like
Forrest Gump or you know, or you can pick one.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
That you have never seen before.
Speaker 3 (47:25):
I watched The Auto the Man named Otto on a
plane and at first it's like cause they're slow, but
you know, like, first of all, you just you just
gotta know that Tom Hanks is never going to disappoint you.
He's never, ever, ever, ever going to disappoint you in
a film. And I was just like, what is this
movie about. It's so it's so like not boring in
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a bad way, but there's no there's no like inciting incident.
They're not like nothing happens and they're off to the races,
you know what I'm saying. It's not like that. It's
it's slow. By the end, of it. I was crying
and my flight ended before the film was over. I
had to go immediately to my hotel and finish watching
the film.
Speaker 1 (48:09):
That's nice.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
So anything Tom Hanks is Yeah, so a.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
Man named what is If you could only show your
parents one film? What would it be?
Speaker 3 (48:21):
If I could only show my parents one film? Does
it matter if they've seen it before?
Speaker 1 (48:26):
No, it's sort of how you interpret if there's something
you want then to see, there's something you want them
to understand, if it's just something that would be nice
to watch with them for some reason, it's however you
interpret this.
Speaker 3 (48:38):
I will probably show my parents do the right thing.
I just remember that film being a staple in my
house when I was a kid.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
I remember that.
Speaker 3 (48:49):
I remember my parents, and my mom specifically really like
holding that is like the gold standard for some time.
And so I don't know, it's like, you know, my
dad's passed away at this point.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
I think it would be just like nostalgia.
Speaker 1 (49:06):
That's a lovely answer. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (49:08):
And then it's Brooklyn and like we were. I was
born in Brooklyn, and so I think it just would
be it's like a time from when I was like
a baby.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
Hmmm, that's very sweet. I like that answer. Zainab Johnson.
You you have been well offul. I'm going to let
you live. However, one day you may die again. What
one film would you leave in your will for your
loved ones? What DVD? Thank you, Zida?
Speaker 3 (49:38):
The film that I was And this is new for me.
I have never ever done something so recent. But the
film that I would leave for my loved ones is
Sinners fucking great.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
They'll love it, absolutely, They'll fucking love it. Zainab Johnson,
you have been a delight as always. Would you tell
the people listening or what what to do with their
lives that involves you? Should they see your specials? Should
they what should they be doing following you on tour?
Tell them yes?
Speaker 3 (50:08):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (50:08):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (50:09):
So first and foremost, you can go to my website.
Everything is there. It's zanap Johnson dot com z A
I N A B. Johnson dot com. I would love
for you to check out my special hit Jabs Off,
which is available on Prime Video only on Prime Video,
and if I would love check out my podcast it
comes out on YouTube. I'm reasonable. The whole premise is
if we are all just a little bit more reasonable,
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the world would be a better place. And come see
me on tour. Definitely, come see me on tour. I
am yes, come see me wherever you are. Just check
my website. The date is up there. I am on
tour from now until mid December of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (50:47):
So come see me.
Speaker 1 (50:47):
Sana Johnson, what a tree. It's lovely to see you again.
Thank you very much for doing this. Have a wonderful
new timeline. Happy birthday to you.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
Thank you, Bret. This was lovely you so good to
see you.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
So that was episode three hundred and sixty. Head over
to the Patreon at patreon dot com forward slastpect Golds
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Thank you all for listening. I hope you're well in
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Look out. It's only films to be buried with the Resurrection. Hello,
and welcome to films to be buried with the Resurrection.
My name is Brett Goldstein. I'm a comedian and actor,
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a writer, director of Blimp, and I love films. As
Groucho Marx once said, time flies like an arrow, fruit
flies like a banana, and the Greatest Showman runs like
a fucking train. Every week I invite a special guest over.
I tell them they've died. Then I get them to
discuss their life through the films the men the most
of them. But not this week. This week I use
my powers to bring back the brilliant comedian, writer and
(00:42):
actor Zanab Johnson from the dead. My comedy special, The
Second Best Night of Your Life is streaming now on
Max and Sky. Streaming now on HBO. Max, Thank you
very much and Sky. Give it a watch. You'll fucking
love it. Head over to the patron at patreon dot
com forwards last Brett Goldstein, where you get an extra
fifteen to twenty minutes with Zane. She tells me a secret.
We talk about all kinds of things. You also get
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the whole episode uncar Adfree and as a video. Check
it out over at patreon dot com. Forward slash Recardstein
So the Returning Zanab Johnson is a comedian, actor, and writer.
You might know her from her hit stand up special
he Jabs Off. I met Zaynab a few years ago
in La and I resurrected her and recorded this on
Zoom last week. I think you're really going to enjoy
this one. She's fucking amazing. So that's it for now.
(01:24):
I very much hope you enjoy episode three hundred and
sixty of Films to be Buried with the Resurrection. Hello,
and welcome to Films to be Buried with the Resurrection.
(01:46):
It is I Brett Goldstein and I am enjoined today.
Welcoming back. A hero, A legend, an uploader, a swearer
as she the people, a comedy store legend, a stand
up special hero, a one of the great. We can't
(02:08):
believe she's come back, but she's here, back from the dead.
Please welcome to the show. It's the brilliant say I've
done so.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Hey Brett, Hey I just see you.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, I'm pretty good, thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I am currently on a beautiful, beautiful beach at a
beautiful resort, and so I'm great.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I love that you've arrived on holiday and immediately got
to work because, like me, you don't know how to
do it holiday. This is good, you know what.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
It is the last thing I really was like should
I or shouldn't I?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I feel like it hadn't like it hadn't really gotten
started yet, you know, like I landed here, I got
some food, I laid on a beach, and it's like
this is the last thing that I look forward to
doing before yeah, before, Like it's just like five days
of like serenity. I'm actually kind of bothered because I
realized I brought a book with me. I bought a
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book and brought it with me specifically to read on
this trip.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
And it's a nice, thick one and I left it
on a plane.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Fuck, what's the book?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Ooh? It's basically like a study Richard Pryor is on
the cover, and it's basically like a study of African
American comedy through the years, but going way back to
like African ancestry, to through you know, enslavement, through civil rights,
like everything, like the entire diaspora.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
So I thought, like, you know, I've learned something.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, well maybe you weren't meant to learn anything on
this holiday.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I'm gonna I'm gonna download the book on my phone
now or on my computer, and I'll just have worst
vision when i'm done.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Are you good at Are you good on a holiday?
Are you good at doing holidays?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Like just completely relaxing absolutely, Like I'm telling you, Brett,
after this, my phone is going on do not disturb,
It's going on airplane mode, like I'm not doing anything.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, I love that. Yeah, I saw you the other day,
but you didn't see me because I was at the
comedy store. And when I was leaving a comedy store,
you were on in a different room and I watched
you when you were brilliant. You're always brilliant.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Oh, thank you? That was it? That was it?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
If it's the set that I'm thinking about, that was
a tough one, like like I rallied them in the.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
End, but they seem to not know what was going on.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well, I guess I was there for the rally because.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I know that crowd where you're like, why do you
think you're here?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
What?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
And then they laugh at like you know when you
call them out right because I was kind of doing
like some political stuff, right, and so I was like, oh, okay,
well you got I seem like this type of crowd.
And then they laughed hard, and then I said, okay,
so it's like, okay, so you guys are this type
of crowd, but I'm still going to do this stuff anyway.
And they were like, okay, we're gonna get quiet again,
(05:12):
and it was just like.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
We made it clear our feelings on this. Yeah. So,
so I haven't seen you in a while since we
lasted this show, and we learned about your twenty five
brothers and sisters, and I think you had a special
since then?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Tell me, yeah, I had my special jabs Off?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yes, how did that go? How was your experience of
releasing it? All of that?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
So I love her jabs Off. I am so proud
of it. It found itself in a precarious situation because
obviously the title is about her jabs Off. Most of
the special really is me navigating like the you know,
the intersectionality of my you know, like all the you know,
all of the things that I made up of, right,
(05:58):
or the intersectionality of my identity rather and so I
taped it in May of twenty twenty three. I knew
it was going to be released October twenty twenty three,
and so it was already named Hitjabs Off by about August, right,
But then October seventh, you.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Know, some little thing happens in the Middle East.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yes, yes, I mean it's I'm laughing at the iron,
you know, the bad timing for my special. But I'm
not laughing obviously. What's happening that's very serious. But navigating
that was like half the battle, and I don't think
that that was anticipated, you know. Yeah, but I think
despite that I did, it performed really well. I think
(06:48):
it did really well for me. I am so so
proud of it. When I'm on the road now, I
sell the audio in vinyl.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Oh cool. Yeah, And.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I have people who, you know, message me all the
time and they're like, girl, I'm watching this for a
sixth time, and I'm like, that's amazing, you know, Like,
there's not a lot of things even when I enjoy them,
there's not a lot of things currently, there's not a
lot of new things. And I'm like, yeah, I'll watch
it over and over and over, you know. So I'm
really I'm really proud of it. Yeah, fanas, fantastic. And
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you're touring again.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Now, yes, I'm touring again. Yeah i am.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I've actually been touring the States a bunch and actually
after this, I have like two more weekends in the States.
I have like Jersey and then Connecticut. But then I
go to London for a week and then yeah, I
go to London for a week, and then I go
to Edinburgh. I'm doing the French Festival for the first
time ever. That sit the whole thing, yep, the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Twenty six straight nights.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Saying where are you with? For me? With this is very.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Exciting, pleasant, pleasant up for maybe yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Oh yes, you're gonna smash it. What times you show?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Six forty?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Perfect? Is it?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I had an I had a nine o'clock show. I
had a nine o'clock slot. At first, No, you're shaking
your head.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
What you have to remember in Edinburgh is people see
twenty shows a day, so if you're on at nine,
you're the twentieth show. They're tired, Okay, they're sick of
being asked how are you doing? Yeah, I don't want it.
They're sick of it. They're sick of it. You want.
Have you done it early? I've done it eleven times Edinburgh.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Any tips, yes, protect lots of tips. But it's where
are you staying.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
You know you're staying like the exact address.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
No, you don't have to give me exact address.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I'm no, I'm staying in an apartment by myself because
I don't think I couldn't manage.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
No.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I at this point, I like being by myself.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, yeah, you're one in twenty five yel today, imagine
space is very meaningful to you. Yes, my advice is got.
It's it's tricky to remember that the world outside exists
when you do Edinburgh, because it's such a bubble. It's
such an intense bubble. And I think, have fun with people,
(09:12):
have a nice time, enjoy your shows, but also like
remember nothing matters in a good way.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah, no, no, no, I get exactly what you're saying,
because last year I did at the end of last year,
I did nine shows at the Cellho Theater and you know.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Here we do shows and nobody's reviewing the show.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Nobody's reviewing the shows, and so you put out a
special you know, and so it was like we had
all these critics come out and people are reviewing it,
and my reps were sending me the reviews and I
wasn't responding, like I was just like, you know, and
they were like, this is great, these are amazing, and
I was like, oh, okay, okay, all right, like that's fine,
(09:54):
you know, but I really just want to put on
the best show possible, you know, I just I just
want I just want to adequately and as humorously as
possible convey the message that I'm trying to convey.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
It will also be it'll make your show the best
it's ever been, because it is like, yeah, it's like
boot camp for your show, because you will have unlike
when you're on tour, you'll have hundreds of people coming
who have no idea who you are, no interest in you,
that just you. You were the show that fit the
time they had free you know what I mean. So
you're playing real mixed crowds of some people be really
(10:27):
excited to see. Some people no idea what they're walking into.
So it's good. It'll make you a better comedian for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Oh well, I'm looking forward to this.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And it's meant to be fun. Remember that.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, I have never been to Scotland before, so that
is also like separate from comedy and you know and
performing and like, you know, just like trying to make
sure that you don't bank your entire life on how
this one festival goes right. I'm also like, Okay, I'm
in this new place that I have never been before,
and so I'm gonna also try to you know, I
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want to. I want to leave Edinburgh feeling like I'm
an expert on Edinburgh, you know what I'm saying, Like, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
You'll love it, It'll be great, You'll make a hundred
new friends, it'll be great.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I'm very insecure about saying the actual city name though,
because every time I say it people correct me. I
Sometimes I say Edinburgh and they're like, it's Edinburgh, and
I'm like, then I'll say Edinburgh and people are like,
it's Edinburgh and I'm like.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
How do you say Edinburgh? Edinburgh? Edinburgh, Edinburgh Edinburgh. Oh God,
I can't believe it, you stump me.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I think it's meant to be tossed away, like the
end of it is meant to kind of like you're
supposed to, like you're supposed to kind of get like
really relaxed by the end of it, you know, yeah, yeah,
But because I'm a New Yorker and like we like
to really accentuate and elongate vowel sounds and things like that,
I'm like, bruh, bruh.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Where are you in London? Gitter?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I am in.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Soho Theater again, but I am doing all crowd work shows.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Is that what you're doing in Edinburgh as well? Or
just in London?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
No, only in London. So here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I ran my hour that I'm doing in Edinburgh. I
ran that in London at the end of last year, right.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
But the thing.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
About and I'm sure you know all about this very
different from the States.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
In London, it's.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Like a tight hour show, you know, and my written
hour is like a robust hour. But I like to, like,
you know, I like to come out and play with
the crow. I like to do all of that. And
when I was doing it the first and it was
like nine sold out shows like before I got there,
all of it right, and It's like and I'm like,
these are people they have been waiting to see me, right,
(12:55):
And the first night I maybe did like an hour
in seventeen minutes, and the theater was like we have
to change the website, we have to let them know
that it's going to be an hour and seventeen minutes.
And then so I'm like, okay, cool, you know, put
an hour and twenty like I was keeping it short, right,
And so then like the next night, I thought they
(13:17):
let the people know. They were like, is it any
way she can come back down to an hour and
ten minutes or an hour? Do you know? It was
just I felt like by the end, by the third
show through the ninth show, I felt like a lot
of the crowd missed out on They got this like
really incredible hour, but they missed out on this other
thing that is really enjoyable about me, which is like
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the freedom to like sort of interact and go where
the crowd takes me and somehow work that back into
my objective. And I think they just really missed out
on that, and so I'm going.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
To give them nothing but that.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
That's exciting.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Also it frees me up, like so I don't have
to think about It's like, I know, I'm going to Edinburgh.
I'm going to run this hour six straight times. You know,
in parts of the hour when I'm doing sets on
other shows, you know, and so you know before it's
nice to just be free on stage and discovery you
know that lot.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, Jada Johnson, you have come back to life. You
get a second chance. But what point in your life
will you come back? What will you change? What will
you keep the same?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Oh, Brett, I thought we went to a carnival.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I am so so sorry. At what? At what point
in my life? Am I?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Am?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I being resurrected?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Like at any at any l Okay, you can.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Come back at any time if you want to change
some stuff. You can come back to a certain point
try and change it, or you can just come back
to now.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I think I'll come back to now because because see.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Part of it was so perfect, was it?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Instinctually?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I was like, ooh, I come back in my sixties, right,
But it's like I haven't lived that yet, so I
don't It might be perfect.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I think it'll be perfect. Yeah, So you're going to
go from now come back? You're not changing anything?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Oh huh Okay, okay, okay. Maybe I come back at
the age twenty three, Okay, And instead of moving to
Los Angeles and sort of flopping around for a little while,
I stay.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
In New York.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I know that I want to do stand up and
I just do it there. What does that look like?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Wow? That changes the timeline massively, because what then did
you actually start?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I started when I was maybe twenty six or something.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Wow, this is yeah, you live down in Edinburgh by
now let's just say.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, I'll be very I'll be very honest with you,
and this is the last thing I'll say about Edinburgh.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
You know, it's kind of daunting. Can we can we
say that?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Like it's we can say that. I'm glad you're saying
that it is daunting. It's not nothing. It's really hard.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Yeah, and the money that you have to shell out
to do it. I had to ask my managers. I said, wait,
why am I doing this?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
What did they say? Did they have?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
They did?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I can't I can't remember exactly the answer now, but
but at the time they at the time it definitely
talked me off the ledge. But I was like, wait,
I don't need this, you know, so you don't.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
But it'll be a lovely It'll be a lovely fun adventure. Yeah, hopefully. Okay,
So I'm back twenty three. Everything's changed. Where are you
having changed the timeline? Where do you think you are
now present day?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
If I've given myself, if I've given myself a few
more years, then maybe I'm probably walking around barefoot and pregnant.
Right where where are my barefoot and pregnant? At this point,
I fell in love with a guy who works in
d C. Oh God, and I'm moving to DC. And
(17:22):
I moved to d C because he's you know, he
works for the government.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
But I chose. I was able to give up d C.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I was able to go with DC because I felt
like it was the closest proximity to the city, and
so that was the compromise.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And you know, you know what love and family does
to you.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
So, yeah, what does he do for the government? Is
he the president?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
He was not, But now I feel silly for not
making him the president. Oh no, he was not the president.
He was maybe like the speaker of the House or something.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Okay, he's a speaker like you. Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yeah, but he's like adam it he knows he yeah,
he's he's trying to change government.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Nice. No, it sounds great. Well, welcome back. Glad you
changed the timeline. Things are much better. But the living,
the living are excited to see you and they want
to discuss films. So they've got some questions for you.
The first one is what was the last film you saw?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Say, no Johnson, Okay, so this this has to be
the last film I saw when I was twenty three.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I mean no.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Today, present day to present day.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Okay, okay, okay, okay. So you know I was just
on a plane.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
What did you do?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
What did I watch on a plane? I watched Back
to the Future one and two wow, back to back,
back to back, because it was like a four hour flight.
But before that, like just the other day, I saw
a Megan two point zero.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Tell me everything about that? So I love Mithrigan.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Oh it's very different from the first one. It's a
very it's a departure. And it reminded me that this
is the best way I can say it if they
sort of made it like a boss girl Terminator too.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
That's what it looks like, Terminator too.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
That is the feeling. I was like, oh, this is
like Terminator too.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
And you know, I think with AI was like Robots
and AI, it's always like, Okay, they're always trying to
like they're gonna learn, learn, learn, learn, learn so much
that they're either going to want to be human like, right,
or they're going to want to take over.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Humans right and make humans like subservient right. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
And so this had both This had like the no,
I'm ready to you know, we're ready to like we're
no longer going to be like in the service position.
We are going to rule stuff. And then there was
another AI that was kind of like, now I know
what morals are, now I know what empathy is, and
now I am going to sacrifice myself for my human wow.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah. And then before that, I saw Sinners three times.
I love sa I love Sinners.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I love Sinners. It is so good.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
It was so good. It was so good.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
It was like a novel. And I say that in
that I hadn't seen something at the cinema in such
a long time where it's like never boring, but it's
like a slow build building the world, these characters. Here's
a big thing about these characters. You care about them,
Here's a load of things about these characters. You care about.
The building, building, building to the stuff. It's fucking great.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Yeah, I agree, And you know, it's one of those
movies that I've realized now that i've seen it so
many times and I'm probably not going to stop seeing it.
You know how it takes you watching your favorite film,
most likely a comedy or something, to like notice like, oh,
I've watched it one hundred times and I'm still noticing
something new. With Sinners, there was he He paid such
attention to details, like little subtle details that really go
(20:50):
a long way when you catch them, you know, And
it's been really fun like discovering, you know, after you
see like the big thing, right, the big story and
the fantastic film of it all. It's been really like
rewarding to go back and like really sort of like
just experience the nuances and the subtleties in his very
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specific choices.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Nice, Yeah, who do you think should play you in
the film of your life?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
So I that are known people?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Right? Yeah? Why you want to find a new up
and comment?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Actually?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Yeah, I would always prefer if anybody is gonna play me,
that the credits read introduce it.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I would love that because.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Then they won't you know, then the audience won't put
the celebrities affects on my character, you know, they won't
put it on my story like she didn't really do
zain't at that well because.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
You know she's a singer.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Ins ain't that was a comedian, you know, like, but
so I would love for it to be like introducing
some unknown you know, yeah, you know, phenomenal actress.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Or even comedian. I would so fantastic.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
But if I had to choose people who are known,
I'd either choose Coco Jones. Coco Jones places Hillary on
the reimagining of the Fresh Prince.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Of bel Air. Okay, excellent.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
She's a singer, she's a first off, she's a singer.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
And then the other actress I don't want to say
her name wrong is Ebonie Obsidian.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
What she's been in so Ebonie has.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Been in a lot.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
She most recently she was in six Triple eight, which
was the movie about the post the military, the all
female military that got all of a male to like
all the male distributed and she was one of the
main characters. Okay, yeah, I would choose her. She is
a much shorter actress, so people are going to give
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her a hard time.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I can see that. I've lift her up. That's a
good choice. Yeah, that's a great choice. Listen, people leave
her just because she's sure she played it like she
was tall performance.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Yes, and you know what, that's what I would say
as well. But you know, with social media now that
we have so many there was a time when nobody
knew Tom Cruise is hype.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Remember that, Yeah, the good old day.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Yeah, you didn't know nothing about your favorite celebrity. And
now people for some reason want their actors to be
a lot like the characters they play. Yes, and that's
just foolish.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Foolish Ebony played two women.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yes, yeah, Ebony would be really good.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Okay, that's a good shot. I do alas say, like
you're introducing people are shot. Yeah, what's the most romantic
film you've ever seen? Zannab Johnson?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
This might be the only one that I couldn't really
think of an answer. You know, I don't want to
say that, Okay, I don't want to say the notebook?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
And what did I say last time? Was it Titanic?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
This wasn't us. You weren't asked this question last time.
These are new questions for you that you may have
talked about Titanic in a different context.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I mean a lot of times I say the notebook
because it's like he built her a house, He.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Built her fucking house.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Guys, he built her a house.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
She had a whole nother fiance, so he didn't even
It wasn't like she was in the kitchen making breakfast
and she was like, I can't wait to move into
a house.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
And he was like, I'm gonna build my lady a house.
She he didn't know where in the world she was,
but he was like, well when, but.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
When I'm done with this house, I'm gonna go find
her and bring her to her house. That's just romantic,
and it's always it's always more romantic when it rains
right after a big gesture.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
It's romantic, and it's a kind of psychotic, like I'm
building a prison for this woman and then I get
her and love her up in it.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
You know what, So many romantic things that can be
perceived from like men to women. It's like if you
just if you just say it in a different sort
of like tone and inflection, it sounds sinister.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
You a house now getting the trunk.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yeah, I got on one knee and I put a
ring on her finger.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Now she's but you.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Know what I'm saying, Like it just all if you
say it, if you say it in a different way,
it's like, wait, what.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
What is the best film you ever saw that you
never want to see again? You know what I mean? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Oh absolutely, I believe it is probably twelve Years of.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Slave perfect answer, that's the one un done.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
I've only ever seen it once, and I remember vividly.
I remember every story point, I remember every plot point,
I remember the beginning, I remember the characters. I can
just see it in my head and I don't need
to see it again.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
But it was a fantastic movie.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yes, correct, What is the best action film you've ever seen?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
So part of me wanted to say I am Legends
or like Armageddon and you know, or I think I'll
go with is I am Legend in action film?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Or not? Really?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, he's got he's got a gun and stuff. He's
running around.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Yeah, yeah, he's running around.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
He's running around, he's in a car, stuff, There's there's movement,
and I guess you could classify that as an action self.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I would.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah, I really love I am Legend. I think that
I just love I am Legend.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I just love Iron Legend. I do.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I don't know how people don't talk about it, so
when I watch it, I'm just like, how are people
not always talking about this film?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Do you know the ending that the book is that ever,
people that love the book were mad about the film
because they changed the ending. Do you know what the
ending is meant a bit? Well?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I had, I think I had the DVD, so I
had I saw the alternate ending, right. It was like,
one ending is he sacrifices himself, Yeah, and he lets
the kid and the lady get away right with the cure,
with the cure, and then the other ending is that
he is able to get away with the lady and
the kids in the cure and they make it to
like a new civilization.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Is that not the ending of the book?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
No? I think if you're listening to this and you're like,
that's not the ending, I believe what the ending is
is the realization that he is the bad guy in
terms of in this world where vampires exist, they are
all scared of him because he's hunting them and shooting them.
They're just the civilization of vampires that are trying to
live their lives and love and survive and there's this
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guy out in the streets shooting at them. And at
the end he realizes, oh, I'm the I'm the evil one,
not them.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah, that that's a part of the ending. They showed that,
they said in a book. They didn't show that because
the zombie. Remember the zombie is actually so beautiful. Well
whatever they are, right, because they're undead because they have
this virus, right, yes, yeah, so the I guess we'll
call them the affected, right, so for the infected, let's
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call them the infected. And remember he breaks into he
breaks into the barrier that like Will Smith was in,
and he yells, he has this like screech that comes
out of him, and then he grabs his affected woman
just laying on the table being sort of like tested,
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and like the whole point was he was just trying
to get the woman.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
He loved that.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
And I thought that at that moment, Will Smith realized
whatever his character's name is, I thought that he realized.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
But see why I have.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
To do it introducing because Will Smith is Will Smith
in every movie. But he realizes, like, oh, I have
been the like they do have. As much as they
are the affected, they also have some sort of humanity.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Right then, it was there, complained about it was.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
There, but here's here's here's plot twist for me.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
I don't know if this is a runner up or
this is like I am legend has been in my
heart for a minute.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
But I love the Equalizer trilogy.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Go ahead, I've seen them. I mean I watch stands
to watch it. Didn't do anything where he.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Clicks that watch, where he clicks that watch, I'd be like,
y'all got forty two seconds. You got nineteen seconds before
he takes every gun, breaks your fingers, kills every one
of y'all.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Y'all got fifty two seconds and you don't even realize it.
Here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
I download Equalizer on my phone and computer the trilogy,
and whenever I'm taking long flights like LA to Melbourne
or you know, Australia, LA to London, and if I
have to take a long flight like eight or plus out,
I'm watching Equalizer trilogy.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Listen. I love him. I've got no problems with them.
I have one question thought about the Equalizer. It's called
the equal in theory. He is equaling just someone does
something bad. I don't think what he does is equal
in any way. Quite often, for example, there's a scene
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in the first one where someone pickpockets a wallet and
he picks up an ax and follows the guy. I
don't think that's equal he's about to attack command with
an axe. He just pick pockets and wallet. The equal
would be take that man's wallet. It wouldn't be chop
him up with an axe.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
It's because you looking at it like specific, Like you're
looking at it like this act versus this.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Act equalizer, the beat the shit out of everyone. Guy.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
So that's just what you got to know, right, You
gotta know he actually tries to equalize. Right, so when
you do something bad, he tells you don't do that
bad thing. That's him equalizing. But then you choose to
still do the bad thing. You choose to be indignant.
And that's when he got a set, his stopwatch, and
that's when he goes beyond equalizing. He overlies it.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
What is the word?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Yeah, he the pluses.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Yeah, yeah, Now he has to kill everybody.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
If sen A design guys to that watch.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
It's fantastic, But it is I will say that it
is an action. It is a set of action films
that I feel very I can't wait for him. Like
the bad guys are so bad, like they're such they're
they're not villains with a backstory. They're not villains with like,
they're not like, oh, we understand how they became a villain, Like, oh.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
They're not. They're not redeemable villains.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
They're just like you know, freaking they're just they're just
plain o, simple, one dimensional villains. And so when he
you know, over equalizes them, yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
It's like great. I'm like, oh, yeah, this is what
I needed.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
I still need to believe that when bad people are
in the world, that there is there there's somebody good.
It's like, no, no, I'm wipe all y'all out. I
need to believe that.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I need to believe someone will either these people. Of
all the films if you had to, which film do
you think you could have made? And why?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Any romantic comedy, like like a good amount of romantic
comedies like two can play that game. Have you ever
seen that film with Vivaica Fox and Morris Chestnut?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Two can play that game?
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Uh? What was that film with train Wreck? Which is
Amy Schumer? Like anything that is very like single POV.
It's very simple, guy gets girl or girl needs to
get guy, and all they have to do is, you know,
overcome their awkwardness or their you know whatever it's like those,
in my opinion, are so easy to watch and make,
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and I think on like a big if I had
like a big budget, big budget, I would remake Hitch.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I would remake Hits with you, but I would make
with me as Hitch.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Who's Kevin James?
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Oh? Who's Kevin James?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Probably like is it is it you Hitch? Is it
you hitching up a woman? Or is it you hitching up?
Speaker 2 (33:19):
It's me hitching up a woman?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Okay, So who's Kevin? Who's female Kevin James? Hmmm?
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Maybe like freaking Robbie Hoffman or something, you know, like
somebody like.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
That's a great shot.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Yeah, yeah, that's fun? Or who else?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Or maybe Ali Mcca, I mean, I guess say or
or maybe even Sam Jet like I don't know, Like, Okay.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
We're holding auditions, but we've got favorites. Yeah, you don't
want to be introducing anyone in that part?
Speaker 3 (33:50):
No, No, I want I want who we know, But
I don't want them to be huge, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
But they're like the world, the world.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
They think they'll be huge after this.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
They'll be huge after this.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah, what is the film you have pretended to like
to impress people.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
I have to be honest with you, Brett. I have
never done it.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
In my life, and I respect that about you.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Yeah, I never ever.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
You've always told the truth, and I respect that about you.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I Mean, here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
If I'm going to lie, it's not going to be
about a film, because my life has never depended on
my opinion of a film. You know, like, it's almost
as if you've got a good sense of self.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Well, no, I think that's exactly it.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah, what is the film you've never seen that you
think it's mad? You've never seen it?
Speaker 2 (34:42):
There's so many Probably the first one is Star Wars?
Speaker 1 (34:45):
That is mad? What's the film you love that you
don't expect anyone else to like?
Speaker 3 (34:51):
I maybe like Both Finger.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
I love Both Finger. It's a masterpiece of paper.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I think Both Finger is like a film that like
I was watching it at first like what is this?
And by the end I was like that was so wow,
that was so good? Like look what he did?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
You know? But I never hear Both Finger mentioned It's true.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
You're right and it really should be up there with
the Girl. Yeah, yeah, it's there's so much of that
that's quoteable. It's funny, it's clever. Eddie Murphy's amazing in
both parts. Steve Might's so funny, it's great.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Yeah, they're used to like Eddie Murphy getting like yeah,
it's like a great ensemble cast. Right, But also if
they're used to Eddie Murphy when he's playing other characters,
they're used to him like completely transforming physically. Yeah, and
both finger he didn't real I mean what he had
glasses brace it and like yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Yeah, then very subtle stuff. It's very sweet.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, you know what just hit me.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
It's crazy that we haven't seen with the amount of
character work, like the different characters that Eddie Murphy has
played in film, and the different characters that Jim Carrey
has played in film, like on film, how they play
like these drastically different parts of each Right.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
The fact that we.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Haven't seen them do that together is crazy. It's crazy
that the world hasn't demanded that.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
You need to demand it. When you get all the
power in Hollywood after you make Miss Hitch, you you
need to demand that. For girls, what's the film you
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would show a lover as a test to see if
you should be together? You probably might not get this
one because you have a good sense of self and
realize that that shouldn't matter.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
No, no, no, definitely, I have one.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Okay coming to America, Yes, yes, if you don't like
coming to America. I actually had a boyfriend in college
and he was is he was, you.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Know, African.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
I'm not gonna say from which country specifically, but he
was African, And because he was the first African man
that I had dated, I was like, oh, my god,
have you seen coming to America, because like, you came
to America, so you know, so you I think you'll
like this even more than I liked it. And we
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sat there and we watched it and I minded every
single word and he had He didn't even laugh when
it was funny. I was so confused, but I knew
we didn't.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
We didn't.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
We didn't last too long after that because I knew.
I was like, no, we are not the same.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
So he didn't watch him go yes, that's exactly like
my life. Thank you saying that.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
I didn't expect I actually, I mean it would have
been completely acceptable and probably hilarious to me if he
would have been like, girl, that ain't nothing like my life, right,
But the thing about it is he had no reaction.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
He was indifferent to it. Wow, he's either like, this
is the best film I've ever seen or how wrong
they got this idea of what it was like to
be Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Yeah, I would.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
I would have even taken somebody that's been like, that's
not funny at all. Then that would have at least
given us something to argue over for the next sixty
years that we were married.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
You know, well, let me tell you, when you're barefoot
and pregnant, it's not because of him. We know that.
What is the film that made you the most uncomfortable? Hm?
What is it?
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Pulp fiction?
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Would you like to elaborate?
Speaker 3 (38:40):
I saw pulp fiction as like a very young adult.
I didn't see it when it first came out. And
my mother used to always have a specific like warning.
She used to always say, whatever happens if you're trying
to get away from somebody, if you need help, don't
ever go into a stranger's house or a stranger's store.
You don't know what they do in there.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
She used to always.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
Say that, and I never knew where it was coming from.
And then one day, these are my college years, some
one of my friends is like, let's watch paulp Fiction.
And I'm like, I've never seen it. And they're like,
you've never seen Paul fiction. You know that conversation, And
I'm like, let's watch Paul Fiction. And I'll be very
honest with you, Bret. After Vin Raims goes into that
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store or whatever, and you see him with basically being
sexually assaulted with like a BDSM thing in his mouth, right,
I don't even know what happens to the movie after that.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
I just stopped watching it. I was so traumatized.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
It's yeah, that's totally fair.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
It's like even when they go in, when the couple
goes in to rob the diner, it's like, clearly, you
guys don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Yeah, you know, like it just do you think that's
what your mom meant when she said that going to
a stranger's house or a stranger's store.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
I think she was quoting Pope pulp Fiction specifically because
she used to love that film really okay, and I
think she was using it as a cautionary tale. And
here's the thing, I thought, Well, yeah, if I go
into somebody's house or somebody's store, I mean worst case scenario.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
They were like, you know, they'll keep me there, they'll
just hold me hostage. But they won't do that, you.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Know what I'm saying, Like it was just a little
bit too It just seemed it was just a little
bit too depraved for me.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
If you could. Speaking of which, if you could show
a child one film, what would it be.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
I'd probably show a child today. I would show them Wicked. Yeah,
I would definitely show them that. I would show them
Wicked one in two and two hasn't even come out yet.
I'd show them one and be like, get ready because
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we go in to see number two.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
I saw Wicked on Broadway. I saw Wicked in London
and I really enjoy it. But when I saw it
in the theater, specifically with Cynthia Arrivo playing Alphaba and
you know, and oh god, yeah, Ariana Grande, you know,
playing Glinda, I just felt it just connected in a way.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
When I saw it recently then.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
As much as the musical, the show, the live show
opened up my world.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
I don't know if I told you this, but it
cured me of my fear of witches.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
You did not tell me that I didn't had a
fear of witches.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
I had a fear of witches because one of the
first films that I saw as a kid was The
Wizard of Oz. It's like, why would you show that
green lady on that bike in that room? Like yeah,
and you're pretty little dog too, like why would you
show that? And so then you know, I saw Wicked
the live show, and at that intermission defying gravity, I
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was like, I'm not afraid anymore.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Yeah, I feel like it has just wonderful less is
it a kid?
Speaker 1 (42:02):
I've said it before, I'll say it again. Cinerarivo, I
believe is channeling God straight up. I straight up believe that.
I think when she sings, that is God.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Yeah, yeah, she it's pretty easy. It's easy.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
And you know a lot of times, I think for
years and tell me if you feel differently, Brett, but
I think for years it was always assumed that like,
the bigger the woman, the more powerful her sound could be. Right,
like when you think about opera singers, and when you
just think about these, you know throughout history like these,
you know, powerhouse voices, They've always come from larger women. Yes,
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and Cynthia Revo being all of maybe five foot and
two pounds. Yeah, you know it's yeah, you know, soaking
wet seven pounds.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Yeah, i'd say less but yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
Yeah, you know, and to have that voice come out
so like smoothly and flessie. But I do think specifically,
like I agree with you, but I do think there's
something about Alphaba being green, but you know, she's also
black under the green, like she is a woman of
color under the green. I think there's something that sort
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of hits much differently than the original play.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
I can see that I loved it, at least for me,
I loved it. And I also think Ariana Grande funny.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Yeah, very funny, funny.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Who knew? Who knew so funny? Apparently everyone knew. I didn't.
I didn't know what I was like, Damn, she's funny. Yeah, okay,
great film, you can have it. What is the best
soundtrack to a film? The best soundtrack?
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Best soundtrack to a film? Definitely Loving Basketball without a doubt. Ye,
What's Love Got to do with It? Because I mean
that that the soundtrack to What's Love Got to Do
With It? Is basically Tina Turner's great at this. Yeah yeah,
and then this might be controversial, but I think Titanic, and.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
I think simply because one song I think Celena.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
I think that one song of her, not even really
saying that many words, I think. I don't even know
what songs what other songs are on the Titanic soundtrack.
I know, and I'm fascinated. Do you know the story
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behind the song the Titanic song? So the the director
of the film is.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
Cameron, James Camerons.
Speaker 3 (44:49):
Cameron DS is James Cameron, and he said he told
the the composer, he said, I don't for this film.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
I don't want any words.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
I don't want songs with That's why you say you
don't remember, because every other song is just the instruments.
There's no singing, right, even the boat they playing and
to day nobody ever sang.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
They just play right, it's just instruments.
Speaker 3 (45:17):
And he kept telling him, I don't I don't want
any vocals. I don't want any vocals. He said it
over and over and over again. The composer goes to
Celine Dion. He says, listen, James Cameron does not want
any vocals, but you sing this, and if he he
this is the song for this movie, and just trust
(45:40):
me and Selene Dion's like, well, if he says he
doesn't want any vocals, I don't want to you know.
He's like, just trust me and this guy, the way
he tells the story is like.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
His job was on the line.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (45:51):
Celene Dion sings the song. He brings it to James Cameron.
James Cameron sheds a tear. This long it's perfect, It's
the song of the movie.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
Wow. He goes, Now take all the all the words out.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
It's like it's it's like, I just I love stories
like that, Brett, because every so often we just gotta
trust our gut. We have to just life is like instinctual.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
You know you watched the video and if you haven't,
you must is one of the greatest. The video of
Angela Baldemante telling the story of writing the theme music
to Twin Peaks and look it up. I'm telling you
we'll make you happy. Just hit. David Lynch's talking him
through what he wants the song to be. As he's
(46:46):
doing it. It's so beautiful Twin Peaks.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
Okay, I'm going to check it out. I just put it.
I'm Google I'm looking at it.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
Now, explains the theme June of Twin Peaks with David Lynz. Yeah, okay, okay, okay,
anyway back to what what is the best film to
watch on a plane? You just watched something? Is it?
The Equalizes Trilogies, the over realizes.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
Hey, yeah, if you're on a long plane ride, the
Equalized the trilogies are fantastic. I also think you can't
go you can't go wrong with anything Tom Hanks. You
can pick one that you've seen a million times, like
Forrest Gump or you know, or you can pick one.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
That you have never seen before.
Speaker 3 (47:25):
I watched The Auto the Man named Otto on a
plane and at first it's like cause they're slow, but
you know, like, first of all, you just you just
gotta know that Tom Hanks is never going to disappoint you.
He's never, ever, ever, ever going to disappoint you in
a film. And I was just like, what is this
movie about. It's so it's so like not boring in
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a bad way, but there's no there's no like inciting incident.
They're not like nothing happens and they're off to the races,
you know what I'm saying. It's not like that. It's
it's slow. By the end, of it. I was crying
and my flight ended before the film was over. I
had to go immediately to my hotel and finish watching
the film.
Speaker 1 (48:09):
That's nice.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
So anything Tom Hanks is Yeah, so a.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
Man named what is If you could only show your
parents one film? What would it be?
Speaker 3 (48:21):
If I could only show my parents one film? Does
it matter if they've seen it before?
Speaker 1 (48:26):
No, it's sort of how you interpret if there's something
you want then to see, there's something you want them
to understand, if it's just something that would be nice
to watch with them for some reason, it's however you
interpret this.
Speaker 3 (48:38):
I will probably show my parents do the right thing.
I just remember that film being a staple in my
house when I was a kid.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
I remember that.
Speaker 3 (48:49):
I remember my parents, and my mom specifically really like
holding that is like the gold standard for some time.
And so I don't know, it's like, you know, my
dad's passed away at this point.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
I think it would be just like nostalgia.
Speaker 1 (49:06):
That's a lovely answer. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (49:08):
And then it's Brooklyn and like we were. I was
born in Brooklyn, and so I think it just would
be it's like a time from when I was like
a baby.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
Hmmm, that's very sweet. I like that answer. Zainab Johnson.
You you have been well offul. I'm going to let
you live. However, one day you may die again. What
one film would you leave in your will for your
loved ones? What DVD? Thank you, Zida?
Speaker 3 (49:38):
The film that I was And this is new for me.
I have never ever done something so recent. But the
film that I would leave for my loved ones is
Sinners fucking great.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
They'll love it, absolutely, They'll fucking love it. Zainab Johnson,
you have been a delight as always. Would you tell
the people listening or what what to do with their
lives that involves you? Should they see your specials? Should
they what should they be doing following you on tour?
Tell them yes?
Speaker 3 (50:08):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (50:08):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (50:09):
So first and foremost, you can go to my website.
Everything is there. It's zanap Johnson dot com z A
I N A B. Johnson dot com. I would love
for you to check out my special hit Jabs Off,
which is available on Prime Video only on Prime Video,
and if I would love check out my podcast it
comes out on YouTube. I'm reasonable. The whole premise is
if we are all just a little bit more reasonable,
(50:30):
the world would be a better place. And come see
me on tour. Definitely, come see me on tour. I
am yes, come see me wherever you are. Just check
my website. The date is up there. I am on
tour from now until mid December of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (50:47):
So come see me.
Speaker 1 (50:47):
Sana Johnson, what a tree. It's lovely to see you again.
Thank you very much for doing this. Have a wonderful
new timeline. Happy birthday to you.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
Thank you, Bret. This was lovely you so good to
see you.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
So that was episode three hundred and sixty. Head over
to the Patreon at patreon dot com forward slastpect Golds
team for the extra fifteen to twenty minutes of chat,
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It means the most of you and why it's lovely
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producing it. Thanks to IHARTMDIA and Milfair was Big Money
Players Network fosting it. Thanks to Adam Ridgison for the graphics,
least learning for the photography. Come and join me next
week for another fantastic guest. But that is it for now.
Thank you all for listening. I hope you're well in
the meantime, have a lovely week, and please, now more
than ever, be excellent to each others. Back back by
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