137. Straw & Predator

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You show, James.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Show, don't be lazy, come to get up, get down,
over your.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Body, dance to that.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
You know what I've been thinking about, James time travel?

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Then?

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Uh thlinking about time travel to the last couple couple
of mornings, I suppose a couple of days. I don't
know it's been in my mind, but I was thinking
that I don't think we can really truly have time travel.
I don't think it's gonna work. I don't think it's
gonna work because I feel like as soon as time
travel is a thing and we know it's a thing,

(00:54):
I don't think any of us can trust our realities
after that. I think reality reality for a lot of
people would just like instantly break, not not literally, but
like in their heads, right, because I think you would
have to question everything in history from that point on,
just knowing that, Like if someone if the if the government, right,

(01:15):
if the government had came out and we were like, hey,
we figured out time travel, right instantly, you would be like,
all right, you figured out time travel, Well did you
go back and change?

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Why?

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Why is the holocaus still think? Why is this still thing?
I think every every major world event would be a
questionable activity, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, I could see that. I mean, I mean, I
ain't just gotta go there. Deep just so simpler to that,
just I mean time travel. People's just the world will
be even more chaotic than than already is today, right,
I get that.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Deep.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Well, I don't think it would.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
I went the government route because I feel like time
travel would not is not going to be an easy
accessible thing. It's not gonna be like the movies where
like some guy makes it in his basement and then
he goes back to fifth grade and kisses a girl
or whatever and the butterfly effect. It would be like
government scientists figured it out, and then the moment they
announce it, everything up to that point becomes questionable.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
It's like, okay, I mean honestly, too, we lollless.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
It wouldn't trust anything with this current administration to go
and doing time travel of any sorts at all, So
I would not only.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Trust no, no, But yeah, I don't know. I've just
been thinking about it last couple of mornings. For some reason,
it just popped in my head. I was like, you know,
I don't think time travel can work. I don't think
you're going to actually exist because I think reality wise,
it would just we're we're already like a very skeptical species,
some more than others. So I think when you throw
in time travel to the mix, I mean, look at

(02:45):
what's going on with AI, right, AI is already becoming
like getting onto the cusp of almost too realistic. We've
talked about the video stuff, We've talked about the prompts
like it's it's getting to the to the singularity point.
I suppose that's the that's a proper term for it.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
That's already kind of scary and creepy. So I think
time travel would just be like the icing on the
cake at that point. It's just like, oh no, that
we really can't trust anything, Like are my memories my memories?
Have I existed like this before that? I always like
eating peanut butter.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
I don't know, Yeah, I mean, I just I just
feel like the goover probably keep to themselves, they probably
telling anybody about it.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, that would be the smart thing to do. But
government's not always smart. The government is not always smart.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Not even a little bit a little bit.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Not at all, not at all. So then that's my
thought for the week, James, what have you been doing?

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Well? I mean back in the real world.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
I mean it was it was raining before we did
this podcast, and it was rain, the thunder and like
donald hurricane was coming. So stopped all of a sudden. Yeah,
I didn't think we're gonna do the podcast at first.
Oh yeah, because it was so it was over here.
He has a very weak electricity on it. So when
would every rain and lightens. You never know what's gonna

(04:02):
have a little signal and everything else. But luckily everything
has stopped. Well, I'm I'm happy because it simple fact
that it stops. It's not flooding anywhere, and we live
in a low lying area so it floods a lot.
And I'm happy that we got some cool weather. It's
been hot as hell for the past three day an days.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Oh yeah, supposed to be a quote unquote cool front.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, that's what you want to call it.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, Well, I think he's gonna get down to the
eighties today. Put your sweater on, Jane's, it's gonna get
gonna get chili.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
No.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
But when I was going to the store, uh, the
day before yesterday, you know, as we got the riots,
I can't stop saying right, because it's not one of
the right until propag military till propage, until the Trump
was involved. Yeah, but I was talking.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
To this guy and he's Hispanic, and he was a
little worried because his family was h was you know,
they got certain issues, right. I was like, well, I mean,
I know we have. We've had him in Houston. Ice
was coming to Houston, like like the circus.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
At this point. You feel like we're in the barn
and Bailey. It's like, oh, hey, get ready, y'all.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Ice is in town, Ices in town.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Ice is in town.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
So it's just like it's one of those situations where
everyone's like on hands, kind of like worried and stuff
like that, especially in the predominantly high high high Mexican areas.
You know though, those people are the ones that's it's
like most both worried because you know, to know, the
person that gets bumping your house and just you know,
snatch up, it's kind of, you know, it's kind of

(05:28):
messed up. So I understand. I got I gotta get it.
But I told him, I was like, man, you shouldn't
have nothing to worry about. Man, you shouldn't have worried
about at the same time. So so you will hook
me up to these tacos.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
What So he gave me two tacos so that we
would just sitting down talking and it was all good.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
He mainly actually makes some pretty damn good tacos. By
the way he made I was like, God, damn, this
is really good. Is this what you like when you worried?
This is like when you worried. I think you made
more of these. Oh man, he has walked moldy on
man to me. Yeah, put the tacos on on the ground. Man,
it was amazing this this guy. Oh man, oh man.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
I love making Mexican food anyway because the ideas that
you can come up it. But man, this guy was great.
He was amazing. He was amazing.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Now see, I know if Trump fat ass was to
eat one of these tacos, he would not feel the
same way about importing people.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
I bet he ain't on time, You would not feel
the same way.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
He doesn't know what to taco tastes like. He just
eats McDonald's, right.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
With McDonald's and kosc you can't say.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
I think he just eats McDonald's and whatever all over.
Russians eat all.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
The stuff that Robert F. Kennedy is allegedly trying to
stop us from eating. This fat ass is over here
heat it, Like, won't you stop him first before you
get to us first?

Speaker 1 (06:51):
We're good. We have Porscha control. I have Porsch control.
I can stop you know what I'm saying. I can
stop what I eat. So I'm good to go. So yeah,
that was that was That was a fun time. That
that was the fun day.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
It was just a random I'm like I said, I'm
I don't go out and talk to people twenty four
to seven, so I do see people. Yeah, it was
just we both stopped the news on TV TV right
next to where we were, and you couldn't help but
see it. So it was just like, oh man, it's
messed up. And the guy was like, you know, it's
messed up, right.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
You know. It was kind of broken English, but I
still understand what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
I kind of understand a little bit of a little
bit of Spanish.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
What place the place he got the talkers from?

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Oh it was a place next to fest Okay over
there it was in my I gotcha. Yeah, it was
the next festa. It was a food It was like
a little food grill.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah, that person has, and most time before they go in,
before you go in, there's always like a little food grill.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Places.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
They're trying to make money too, all right, yea, because
there's a food place inside. Yes, And there's a food
place out that kind of outside. And they also have
like food trucks and stuff like that. And I love
food trucks. Food trucks are my cleaning all the way
to the future.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Would you ever invest in a food truck?

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, I would, I if, I definitely would.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Food trucks are the way of the future, and especially
during COVID, they really they got even more popular after
after COVID. You know, that was a way of your
eat outside. You ain't gotta come in. There's no come inside,
there's no none of that, you know. It's just gets
you get your food and go and.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Watch business, right, and the restaurant comes to you.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah, the restaurant comes to you, or you go to
the you know.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Are you going to the restaurant?

Speaker 1 (08:24):
It's easy. Yeah, it's supportable. It's really really easy.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Like California is California and New York are the main
I want to say, the main spots they have food
trucks the most and the way they have the positioned,
it's very easy to get to Houston. We have them,
but it's like in uh and then like most of
the time it's in the gallery. Oh, like over the
West Simmer and it's like a sit side of.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
The parking lot.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah I've seen that one.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, sits side the parking lot and it's like dozens
of food trucks right there in that area. So I like,
I like going I like going to food trucks. It's
just I don't know.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
It was a lot more authentic and they put they
got passion. They feel they got passionate in it because
they know they can't lose it.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yeah, they don't want to lose the truck.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, they don't want to lose the truck. So food
than they are, you know, so they the.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Food that they give you they frontloaded, like they give
them so much of it. It's like, damn, you may
not listen to the foak truck, right, they give them
so much of it because they got they gotta pay
for so much stuff. Food truck's what's the pro paane
they have to pay for you know back there. So
you know, I have a great, great appreciation for it.

(09:34):
Almost almost am getting tired of restaurants because it's just
it's somewhat a little bit overrated. The restaurant experience is
not what it used to be, you know, especially when
we got kids of all.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
I feel like the same way. I don't know, I
feel like restaurants don't hit the same as as they
used to. I don't know, because like growing up, certain
restaurants felt felt more higher end than they actually are,
Like Olive Garden, Red Lobster, those kind the places. They
always felt like they were a little bit more fancy.
And then at a certain point I came to realize, like, no,

(10:08):
these are just like mid level restaurants, like these aren't
these aren't even.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
No doubt, no doubt, No, yeah, yes that's that's yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
We ate out at this place called Season fifty two
over the weekend. It was a really really nice restaurant,
like an actual higher end restaurant, Like everything on the
menu is like thirty bucks forty bucks. She Kudiier got
our bonus over the weekend, so we kind of had
like a nice little spurge e U weekend. So yeah,
so we went out there over there, I had like

(10:37):
a surfing turf because like they had a steak in
lobster tail. Both think, yeah, it was really nice. But
you know, outside of that, we don't we don't eat
at that kind of restaurant all the time. We normally
eat at like a Chili's or Olive Garden.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Well yeah, I mean when we were younger, we were
we went to Olive Garden.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
In real life, especially when I got a little older
and before I graduated high school, they got dates, you know,
date ice Up, Go Red Lobster and Alvial Guard. Those
are the places that you.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Went to because they felt like the nicer places.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
They felt like the nicer places. But then when you
got older, it was like.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Oh man, yeah, well yeah, you start experiencing more and
more restaurants, and you know, the best restaurants are usually the.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Restaurants are not named brand. They're not a franchise on.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
They're not franchise you know, they're not franchise on restaurants,
their little mom Pops spots.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah, or like those those restaurants that change with the
menu every night, different menu, you know, like it's the bear, right,
you got a new dinner service every day, is like
something different, something and those places.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
Once again, those places have to really step up.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
They have to put it there, all in it because
at any at any point in time, they could be
shut down or they can have a food review, it
gets back and there is trouble.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Oh yeah, life is on the line.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah, their their life is online.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
They're lively with a franchise on restaurant Libelhood now on
the Ranetta do is called cork.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
That is true.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
I guess it depends. I mean you still put like
a substantial amount of money into it because if you
buy into a franchise, right because you you have like
the franchisees or the franchisers, I don't know the ones
who who go into the franchise, they still they still
put money into it. So they're still like, you know,
there there is risk there by the time.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
You know, with a franchise restaurant, you got five six
red lobsters in the city.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yeah, you know they call it a red lobster. And
they'll bring over something you're missing, right, like if if
you run out of something, you have like a safety
net of sorts.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yeah, and you got if you run if you run
a certain a certain grocery product and your own restaurant
that you funded, that you built from the ground up.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Then you got to go to a market, you.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Know, farmer's market, Like every morning, these guys have to
go to a farmer's market. You get all these different things.
You know, it's the end of workings of your own
restaurant is so much more tedious. Man, a franchise restaurant
you got because you gotta with a franchise restaurant, you
got a food supply that comes to you. You know,

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that goes to all the locating restaurants that's in the area.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
So they're good to go.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
And what I mean is, say, if you're the customer
gets into it with one of the employees and the
manager gets involved and slams down the man, and the
manager slams down the employee for some god off reason,
just completely whoops this behind. He's probably getting fired.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, and he did.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
The restaurant won't be shut down, but he's getting fired.
If you as your own and you have your own
restaurant and you're getting these types of troubles, you're most
likely it's gonna be very.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
Grim for you.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
You know, it's gonna be very very grim. So that's
why I say like franchise on restaurants. You know, I
don't start getting to get away from franchise on restaurants.
It's really start to look at these other type restaurants
like Mom Pop placed.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
The care and love that he put into it is
just so much better.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
There's something about the stress and and fear of failure
that just makes the food taste better.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
I mean on Instagram, I watch Keith does Keith Lee.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
He's a food reviewer. Oh yeah, and missus chim Time.
I like mister chime Time more. I don't really watch
Keith Lee that much, but I know, but I don't know.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Probably, but that's a guy I haven't seen in a while.
Keith Lee. Like I've seen his videos pop up like
a few times, but not in a long time. And
I remember there was that there was that trend where
like if you uber eat something, if you put Keith
Lee's name on it, they make it better.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Remember they make it better? Yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yeah, I think I think you talked about it on
the show like a long time ago.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
Actually, so probably did.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
That was the last time I heard of him, was
like that weird little controversy he had where he's like, hey,
guys like, look, don't don't do this, but apparently it works.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
No, I mean he's still he's still pretty popular, but
I don't really subscribe to him. But Miss Cheton is
my guy.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
You know, this just a regular guy, regular dude, just
reviewing food for the Masters of the People. And you know,
so he's gonna give you his honest assessment on what
anythings to these food and I know sometime it gets flat,
just like Keithley, these food reviewers.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
That you know don't own their own restaurant.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
I know, people give them crap about It's like, what
gives you the right to insult people that put their
heart own money into their restaurant.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
Yeah, but I eat food exactly.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
And the reason why he's doing this is, yeah, we
all eat. And the reason why Keith Lee is trying
time and all these different food reviewers are doing this
stuff now is because, look, people spend money, just like
you spend your money to make this food. People spend
that hard earned money to eat this food, right, and
they deserve to know.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
Hey, man, you know this food is not really good.
You got to do better than this. Work money, right exactly.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
You know, food is already expensive as it is yeah,
and yeah, it's like, no, I don't want to spend
my twenty five dollars for a plate of calamari and
it's trash.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yeah, it's soggy, it's not cooked.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, and it's not fair. And these restaurant owners and
their egos get hurt and they get upset about it
and they feel the type of way because what makes
you the qualification, what gives you the qualication to say
these things? Oh, you're not You're not Gordon Ramsey, you
don't you don't have a degree in cookie. You don't
have to like, you don't have to have any of

(16:29):
that to know how to so to know how foods taste.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
You could also just say, like, look, food, like art
is subjective. Everyone's taste buds is different, right, Yes, any
given day, your taste buds can be different. Some days
you like potato salad, some days you don't. I wouldn't
take a food review that seriously, like, I wouldn't get
that mad at it, Like what what are you doing?
Why are you getting so angry?

Speaker 2 (16:53):
You know, well, it's because of how of how he
does it and how it But at the same time,
at the end of each review, he already says in
this area, take check this place out.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
But he's gonna give you his honest assessment of chicken
that's dried, chicken, that smells spoiled. What do you want
me to do?

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Very valid? Like what am I supposed to do here?

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (17:14):
I can't lie. I can't say it's not spoiled.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Because how how does that feel? It's a lot of everybody,
it's a lot of it's a lot of the fan base.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
No, because then then we come back and you're like, hey,
you give this place a good review and I got
food poisoning. I blame you.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah, exactly. So it's like, no, it's like you have
to do this. And he's given this honest assessment and
I appreciate it for it, and he doesn't. People say
he's just doing their reviews and stuff like that. It's like, brother, no,
he's not doing anything reviews. And he's actually a pretty
good guy. He's actually given restaurants money when he's here,
when he heard that, when he hears that there are

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stories and how the different times that they struggle, he's
giving the money too as well. The same thing for
Keith Lee. They've given back to some of these restaurants
as well. You know, say're not just going around eating
food and calling.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
The trash, right, because that's not how you do things.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
That's not how you do things. And also too, where
it's the time time comes in, he never says he
I'm coming on my way, get ready to know, have
food ready for it?

Speaker 1 (18:10):
Yeah, you never does that, I'm coming, Yeah, I'm coming
because of course what I just like Gordon Ramsey, if
I tell you that I'm coming, then the food gonna
be you know, did a food gonna be immaculate? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (18:21):
I mean yeah, you'll try a little bit harder, right,
But the point is to get you when you're regularly
making food like this. This is what you're regularly making customers.
I'm not trying to prepare you for me to come in.
I'm I want to get the food as you wouldn't
make it for anybody else, right exactly, Yeah, I get that.
Speaking of influencers and stuff, there's an influencer I've seen

(18:43):
a couple of times out of Houston. The guy goes
around to like really bad parking lots and just makes
a video about him. Have you seen this guy?

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Uh No, I haven't seen him.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Oh it's funny because he literally just like makes the
video in the parking lot. He's like, I'm here on
this side of Houston, and like, what's what's been regarded
as the worst parking lot in Houston? And then he
like lays out like there's a pothole here, there's another
pothole there. Like he does it in a very funny way,
and he's like yelling while he's making the video, and
then he'll do a follow Hell yeah, he'll do a

(19:16):
follow up video where like and they fixed the parking lot.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
It worked, but at least they fixed it. Thought least
they fixed it and got down to it.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
You know, Like his videos actually get enough attention for
the business to be like, all right, we'll fix the
parking lot. I guess sorry.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
That also goes into restaurants as well, because some of
these restaurants have a very small parking lot. I don't
have a parking lot at all.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
Yeah, right, you got to the parking garage or the
parallel park or all this stuff.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
So it's just, you know, it's people that are able
to use social media to good advantage, you know, and
use it in a healthy way. You know, Keith Lee
and Time, they're they're good guys. They're really really good guys.
And I appreciate him reviews. I know right now he's
in New Orleans. He came to Houston night well a
couple of a couple of years ago. Yeah, well, oh yeah,

(20:08):
yeah he did.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
He go to the trill Burger.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
Uh yeah, he went to tril Burger. But I mean,
everybody's trying to trill Burg It's it's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
But uh he went to a lot of you know,
Stapley staple Own restaurants that.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
Are out here.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
This is Keith Lear, the other guy.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
Uh it's time. Yeah, he came down here and it's oof.
It was pretty tough. It was pretty tough, man. I
remember Turkey. Well, he would have circulated before they close
now and uh yeah he told her, he told the
ass now they closed. Yeah, that goes for a whole
whole plethorough reasons.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
I've heard of them. I've only ever heard of them.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
And it's just overrated. It will always start circulating. It
was overrated in my opinion.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Yeah, no, I'm not.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
I went not to be a fan of circulates.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
No damn sure, ain't finna pay damn the twenty bucks
for one dry I asked, turculated it's not even cooked
all the way.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Yeah, fair enough, Yeah right, because turkey's already Turkey's already
kind of like a dry bird, So definitely don't want
to eat a dryer turkey.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Leg Yeah, dryer, turculate. I mean back in the day,
it used to be really really good. I'm assuming because
I think I had it once before. I had like
like I had it twice in my life.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
I wanted to stand out in the line for it
because he used to have a long wine back in
the day. Oh yeah, yeah, because the people used to
really go out there.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
That's why I never tried troll Burgers, because there's there
was always a line.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Oh that that that went down a long time ago,
that the head lines and stuff. It went down because
they got it. They got another one now too. He
put another one out here.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
I think he's got like two or three of them,
doesn't he.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
I think just two right now.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
I thought there was like three. Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
It might be three, but one I know right now
it's only two, all right?

Speaker 3 (21:48):
Maybe one closed?

Speaker 2 (21:50):
No, no oh no, no, this restaurant is pretty successful.
This is Burgers is pretty successful.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
I like the way he's been able to get the
burgers out to the massive piece like everybody. Yeah, everybody
else trited this burger.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
So that way, you know they have a healthy opinion
of it, right, you know.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
I mean it also health that he's a Houston native, right,
I mean Houston Houstonians show up for Houstonians, so oh.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, oh yeah, I always have, always have. This is
what I'll tell you when it comes to showing out
for like anything athletic or singing.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
Wise or rapping wise. Oh man, the best day of
league useful right behind?

Speaker 3 (22:27):
Yeah, speaking of Houston, I saw that they they painted
to be someone Bridge again. Oh yeah, yeah, I guess
it was like a crypto I don't know something about crypto,
and then they changed it back to be someone that
poor Bridge man. Just just leave the bridge alone.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
They messed the bridge up a long time ago.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
They really did. I feel like, like, I don't know,
to be someone thing is like iconic to Houston. But
like for the last like what four or five years,
it just feels like they've been fighting to keep the
message up there. Leave it alone, Go paint somewhere else.
Why are we doing this?

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Well, yeah, when they messed up the first time I
knew then, I was.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Like, that's that's because once you touch it the first time,
it gives everyone else touch it. Yeah, it's like, hey,
for real estate, we're gonna change it up when we can.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
I mean, well, for one thing, it was never supposed
to be messed with. It was never supposed to be
there at the first place. Of course, it just became.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
It just became a stable.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, it's a graffiti, and it just became a staple
of the city because riding into town and you see.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
It, Yeah, be someone. And then not for nothing, but Houston, Houston.
A lot of the famous people come out of Houston.
A lot of very good, successful, famous people have come
from Houston over the years. And still, you know, still
to this day, a lot of people are still coming.
It's the fourth largest city in America, so of course
it makes sense. But it does match the vibe of
Houston literally.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
And it was cool. It was cool as you never
seen it before. Yeah, you had never seen that before,
so it was really cool to see. You know, it
was really dope. But now that they touched that, you know,
it's like touching the Costo's paint. Once you touch Picasso's painting.
It's never to say it.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
That's it. It's the ship of theseus, right if if
you if you take apart the ship and then put
new wood into it, is it the same ship? If
you if you paint the graffiti over and you put
it back later, is it the same graffiti? Does the
message still stand?

Speaker 1 (24:16):
No, it is not saying I even hate that he
used to even started embracing it.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
No, really, yeah, because if they when they when they
embraced it, it's when it's when it's when they started,
when they embraced it, when the notoriety really came in
and it's like, oh so you're going mess it up
real quick?

Speaker 3 (24:32):
Yeah, So of course, yeah, it leads into like let
me go, let me go touch it, let me go
mess Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
So I kind of wish we haven't. Yeah, I kind
of wish we never talked about it. Did you see
a couple of weeks ago that Jose grind grind us
to the Fox, the Fox News, Fox twenty six News
he passed away.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
I did not see that.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yeah, man, he passed away. I think last week the
two Scope. Yeah, I think to Scup, I was like, man,
that guy, he he had been doing Fox twenty six.
For years he was a good guy man.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
Former Fox twenty six US an Anchorage Jose Grennan has died.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
Yeah. I love that guy, man, love that guy. I
remember when I was a little kid.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Seventy two. I'm glad he's in his seventies. I don't
know a lot lately. There's been a lot of people
in his sixties. Nine. I don't like that number. I'm
halfway there, yeah, half way man.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
That was that was that was heartbreaking. He was really cool.
I member, I saw a little kid. I was like
in elementary dude, man he yep.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
But at least he died. You know he died. Uh.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
I think he died in natural causes. We're not mistaken.
I never knew how he passed away.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
One second. I could probably tell you. I got the
article up right now. It doesn't say I'm going to
say causes.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, yeah, it might have been natural causes.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Speaking of somebody who passed away natural causes, slithing of
sliding family stone passed away till I saw.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, that was a big That was a big news
story locally.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
Yeah, man, I was like God.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
The last time I saw Sly was on CMZ and
he was in like this little yellow it was yellow,
little fancy looking bite like.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Something from X Men. Yeah, like one of those X
Men toys from the kids. Man. I was like, you know,
I think he was like eighty eighty years old.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
Dang, yeah, he his body he looked little tarb I'm sorry,
I'm not missing words.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
From what I understand, I believe a drug use is
also involved in his life, right, problems from I mean
music musicians always have drug problems, but that that also
ages you quite a bit. Let's let's be honest.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Of course it a lot. Yeah, you know. So he
looked really, really really bad. So uh yeah. Man, he
was charge of the p funk Man the p Funk era.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
So many songs I like, but I finding everyday people
that's yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Man, he has so many Chians, holy put it up. Yeah,
so many songs I like.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yeah. Famously diverse band black, white men and women.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Very well.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
They were very well for the seventies.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, they were one of the first bands that had
were very had diversity in their band, see cause a
lot of bands didn't have diversity like that, of course not.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
I mean they started in like what like the in
the civil rights era, So diversity back then, which was
for sure rare.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
I wanted to take you high, your higher. Yeh, that's
my song there. Everybody is star staying up.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
Man. This is is. It's a good record. So man,
there's some good records.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
I just love the Fly Slide of Famine Stone Fly
Fly good, just good funk music.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
That's this music that will never ever be copied again.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
I don't think we don't.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
I don't know if we we'll ever have another funk era.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
No.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
I mean a whole bunch of airs of music that
you want to have. Honestly, that's true when you look
back at it.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
But you know, like some things bounce back, some some
eras come, some aras go. Funk is very specific because.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
It was very seventies.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, and you know, everybody was coked out of their
minds back in the seventies. Everybody was on coked. I
don't care who you were. Everybody has some dust that
it was on their nose. Everybody has some white powder.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
Wasn't it like a part of medicine at some point?

Speaker 1 (28:25):
I know it was.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
It was in our SODA's, but I'm pretty sure cocaine
was also in medicine.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Well, yeah, because it was never supposed to be meant
to be used as a as a complete drug, as
a gateway for drugs.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
It was it was supposed to be like a balance
on balancing thing. You know, you balance it with cold cola,
you know, you put it in cold cola and stuff
like that. It was never supposed to be used as
a as a drug. You get eye on of course not.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah, it was kind of fitting of fitting all is
not It's not supposed to be used that way.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
So yeah, back in the seventies, everybody was on it.
And if you watch different videos from musicians are TV,
you know, American dance, then these artists they were coaked
out of their minds and they was.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
Sweating and that was yeah, it was a coke sweats.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Whatever was young. I was like, why is they sweating?
So is the lights dead? Damn bright? Is like goddamns.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
A combination of that and then feinin and phetamines running
through their veins.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Man, let me tell you try to keep up as
somebody who's been under.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Some serious lights. I ain't never sweat like that, right,
not even once? Like them brothers, THEMB brothers are sweating.
So Peter slide man that that was what was my guy.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
Damn man.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
Some times, sad times, the old, the old musical legends
are solely dying off. But yeah, Bob Dylan still alive.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
They still live living up in the woods.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
Bob Dylan still alive, and he's working with the Machine
Gun Kelly apparently. I don't know he He narrated like
a trailer for Machine Gun Kelly's album, which is just weird,
just the weird, weird, weird.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Weird, other than seeing weird saying because Masai had died
that day, he died on a Monday. Because the BT
Awards that came on and I watched it, which is
really good. It was really, really, really good. And I
saw a Machine Gun Kelly on the on the on
the Red Car Awards.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
The hell you doing? What?

Speaker 2 (30:19):
You're not invited to this? Invited was invited, but you
got invited. I'll invite every white person in the world
before you before mgks.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
He is a joke.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
I don't even know what genre he is anymore. I
think he's gotten more to like, I don't know, some
weird boy bandy pop. I waited for him to go
country like everybody else.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Well he went to probably the reason why he changing
genres because none of those genres in is very successful.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
They don't really fed him.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yeah, they don't fed them. Yeah, hip hop it didn't fit.
Rocket didn't fit. You know. Now he does like say
he does like like boy music.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Yeah, I think he's in the like pop more pop.
Now I'm waiting to go country.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
He probably is. Ain't got no choice, Yeah, ain't got
no choice.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
You gotta you gotta dance around all the all the
genres you can, you know. Yeah, I had I have
a little story for you, James uh from recently. I
secretly made a track to Target the other day. You know,
a lot of Target again again.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Well you know.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
You remember we were talking about the boycott and stuff like, yeah,
well okay, so we had plans to make caesadillas at
some point this week, right, Well, we don't have tortillas
or the tortillas we had went back, right, So I
was like, oh man, I needed to go get tortillas.
But I didn't feel like driving all the way down
to the Walmart or the Giant Chib with the three
other stores inside of it. So I was like, I'm

(31:41):
gonna just pop down the Target. It's just some tortillas.
I'm just gonna pop down the Target. We'll get some tortillas.
Be real sneaky about it, right and all the way.
Even when I came back home, I I crumpled the
bag and threw it in the trash can outside the apartment. Like,
I didn't even bring the bag into the apartment. I
just brought into tortillas. But so I go to I

(32:01):
go to Target first time in like forever, and I
walked through the doors, James, and I'm hit with a
very overwhelming smell of fried chicken. And my first thought
was like, if this is how they're trying to get
back the black the customers. Yeah, I was like, I
don't think that's the way to do it. Target, I
don't think stereotyping your customers is the way to do this. Well,

(32:29):
you're gonna go to Target for fried chicken? Is that
what you're about to tell me?

Speaker 2 (32:32):
You know, this is what this is what you're come
in handy for. You could be the spy well the
Blacks for the in.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
You try to fried chicken, you taste it.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
You report back to us. You bring back the fried
chicken from Target, and you report back to us guys,
that's how you do it.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
They got the real deal.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Now they go they don't know they they don't know nothing.
They don't they don't know your life.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
No, but no, no, no, but straight up, Like as
soon as I walk in the doors, I'm like, wow,
it smells like like fried chicken. And my second thought
was like if this is really how they plan on
getting back to black customers, I don't think that's the
way to go.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
I'm you said, now.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
This is what you could be needed for. Man, this
is the vessel. Is that it was God's vessel. Man,
you get the vessel now.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
It was just a funny thought I had. I was
just like, man, it's just the way they're gonna do it.
I don't know if that's the right way, because I had.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
To think about it.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
I said, he going to Target, going to Target, But
like I just want to he can kind of get
away with it.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
He kind of get away with it. Black people won't
be as upset. Its like he can report back to us. Right.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
There was there was I think there was like one
black black lady in there when I when I was
walking through, and I was like, shame on her?

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Was she was? She was doing her little shopper. Yeah
she was.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
She was doing her shopping and I was like, shame
on that woman shopping.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Cardi b Cardi Bia went the Target to with her
kids and take it. It's in the in the thing
and everything you want to.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
I mean, look, I get it. I am ill go
to Target for a simple factor.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
I ain't got to. I'm not gonna sit there and spending.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
To be honest, I was surprised by how cheap the
tortillas were. They were like two dollars, and I was
surprised by that. I was like, oh, this is the
least amount of money I've ever spent out of Target.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
So I ain't going to Target. Well, the boycott and
that I won't go the Target anyway, and.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
So let's get that out of the way.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
But you know, if anybody else that want to boycott it,
that's no problem. If people who don't want to boycott,
it's no problem either.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
That's the beauty of this country.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
That's beautiful as country.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
And also to at the same time we have to
know also to as Americans, everything is owned by somebody. Yeah,
you know, so if you if you don't go to Target,
where else you're gonna go, yeah, man, if you the
owner of their own target, how do we do.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
How do we not know that he owned something else? Right?

Speaker 2 (35:00):
You know what I'm saying, And I'm not trying to
be blatantly ignorant here. I understand what you know. We
have to sacrifice our whole stuff to get stuff done.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
I understand that.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
But all I'm saying is everything is owned by somebody
that you may not like.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Right, well, I mean that's that's a sad truth to it,
where it's like, yeah, you know, you can boycott this
one business, but somewhere down the line, the true owners
of the business are still profiting from you and somewhere else.
Like if you track who owns what, it really leads
up to like the same.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
Six people always.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
Yeah, it's like the same six people, and then they
have the people who work for them, and then it
just trickles down. But it's normally it's kind of like that.
We're just we're just a little creepy and scary and conspiratorial.
But that is kind of partly the truth. It is,
like if you really track who owns what, who's got
stocks and what, who's got shares and what the same
names come up on multiple businesses unless your mom and

(35:59):
pop shot. So it goes back to your point, James,
where you should probably eat at mom and pop places more.
You should probably shop at mom and pop places more.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
The flip side is that sometimes the mom and pop
places are also more expensive than the regular places.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
And I was about to say that too.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
Because they have higher overhead and they don't have the
same financial stability as like a corporate store would. So
it's you got your pros and you got your cons.
You know, it's two sides of the same coin. Is
you got to pick and choose. You just got to
make the best decision for yourself.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
Especially for black people, you know, because we have to
support you know what, we don't have to, but you
know it is needed to support one another businesses and
you know all these different business ventures. Sometimes you go
to the business ventures, man, and I'm not going down
my own ways, but some of these places, I'm just like, man,
this is this is this good business?

Speaker 1 (36:54):
I don't see it. I don't see it.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
We got to do better.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
We gotta do a little bit better.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
That's what I'm saying. You just got to do a
little bit better. Like, you want me to spend something.
Gotta do a little bit better with this, you know.
And also this ties back into town time. He's with
the black owned restaurants and say, hey, man, y'all gotta
do better than this. Yeah, I'm not gonna sit there
and recommend these places and y'all get mad at me.
And y'all, I know y'all try to make money. I
know y'all try to keep the business own. I know

(37:18):
you'll try to keep the lights on, but.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
You got to make your feel a little bit better, right,
You'll put a little care into it. Right.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
Well, you know, as a as someone who's black by marriage,
I noticed that, uh that you're right black. I feel
like black people are more critical of black owned businesses.
But also there are some black people who feel like
they should get a passed from other black people for
just being an entrepreneur.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
Or a business.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
So you you have the ones, the the ones who
are like, no, we need to do better, we can
do better than this, we have to do better, And
then you have the other ones who are like, why
can't you just support me because I'm trying to, you know,
build them, my my own thing. And it's like you
can do that, but you still got to put in
the maximum effort.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
Yeah, I'm not participating. Give you my heart earned money,
and the food or the product that I'm buying, it's
not good.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
It's right up the park, right. So that's what I
noticed from conversations I have with my wife and you know,
things I've seen on the Internet, or like things i've
seen watching TVs and TV shows or interviews with you know,
black artists or black business owners or whatever. I do
see that like split Through.

Speaker 4 (38:36):
I love Jacob and James on the Go podcast because
I can like listen to it in the car or
at clone or like on the go. It's just super easy,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
As we move on to the show.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
Yeah, I started disclaiming that I did not see the
Predator movie.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
I never got a chance to. Ye, I never got
a chance. So I had a lot of.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
Stuff going this week, so I wasn't around to get
around to it. I totally forgot about it.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
They so excited to talk about it with you.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
Yeah, I never got not one piece of it. I
ain't get one chance. So I definitely plan on watching it. Yeah,
I nefinite plan on watching it, though I might not
got to watch Predator, but I got to watch the
second best thing, the second best thing in cinema.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
Okay, And at this point I think this is called
this should be an event.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
And missus, Tyler Perry, this right here, you start put
you gotta put in the pause button right here.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
Man, this is a false buttons needed for this, man,
Tyler Perry, you know what I want. I want Tyler
Perry to make a Sony Marvel movie.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
Okay, I want you to make between both.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
Of those people, both of those genres. They're both of
their movies, Like there are movies and his movies. They're
like events now, they're kind of like events.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
Now. I was like, I can't wait to see a
Soni Verse movie because you know it's gonna be bad,
but you know it's gonna be fun. So it's like,
you can't I can't wait to see it. Tyler Perry
the same thing. You know it's gonna be bad, but
you know it's gonna be fun. So it's like we
should make it. No, it should be an event. Do
you agree that these movies should be an event?

Speaker 3 (40:35):
I don't know about all that.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
It should be an event, man, it should be an
event it's always a good conversation to be had.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
Okay, which which Tyler Perry movies are we talking about?
We're talking about the DA movies. Are we talking about
like the over the top dramatic drums.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
It's all of the top dramatic movies. They are comedy glory.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
Because I feel like the DA movies are already sort
of events, or they used to say.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
They don't count because you're already expected go ahead laughing
and you already expected, you already expected to go in
a certain situations. That with his movies underline and Christianity theme,
this is enthralled in it.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
So it's like, Okay, no thieves right here. He's trying
to be serious and they still come off as comedy classics.
I love it. I love it. You can't get no
better than this he got. I'm telling you, Tyler Perry,
jump into marble. He need to jump into the marvel
to the Marvel business.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
I'm telling you you can give him.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
No, I don't want him, I won't. I want him
to do a Sony spider Man movie. Yes, I want
him to do a Sony Spider Verse movie. You give
him a crack at one of these movies. I think
it would be great.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
So I was able to watch Straw tarroshp Henson, Sherry
Shepherd and who else is in here?

Speaker 2 (41:51):
Uh, that's Yanna Taylor, the three great women, the Tars
pen Henson is so so great as an actress man,
And I mean it's not serious now I'm doing. I'm
doing joking about Tyler for a second. Well, like Sir
rose Pinions is such a great act she can carry anything.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
And I hate that she does not get the recognition
that she deserves because she is really really great at
what she does. And it's a shame that she's been
underpaid her entire career of doing movies. Uh. I love
Hitting Figures. Hitting Figures. It is so good with Kevin Cosmer,
like she played Yeah, that was really good. I love

(42:32):
that movie. What's the other movie she did?

Speaker 2 (42:34):
This is another movie she did with my man to
play hammertech in Uh in this Iron Man movie?

Speaker 3 (42:39):
Oh yeah, damn, what is his name? He's a lot
of stuff?

Speaker 1 (42:42):
Sam Rockwell, Sam Rockwell. I love she did a movie
with Sam Rockwell that was just Chef's Kids in my opinion,
you know, was.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
A racist one.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
Yeah, and she she was really good in that film.
She like she's able to change herself in these different films,
and this is no different.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
You know, she plays she plays his mother who's.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
Struggling in life, and she's she's she's a single mother,
cared for one child and everything, these class events, these
bad these bad days, this bad day turns into horrific day.
And when I tell you this is like watching Falling
Down with Michael Douglas and John Q all mashed into one.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
Have you ever saw Falling Down?

Speaker 3 (43:33):
I haven't seen Falling Down, but I've seen John Q.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
Okay, falling Down with Michael Douglas.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
Basically, guy has a bad day, people treat him like crap,
and then he just switched goals off of his head
and he just starts, Yeah, he starts to lose it.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
I think that acted as some of the inspiration to
the Joker movie, the first Joker movie, the Good One.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
Yeah, probably yeah, seen that one and Taxi Driver and
Keen Comedy. Yes, but yeah, that's a good movie for
falling Down, Michael Duggans, that's that's I love it.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
I love that movie.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
And of course John C is about a young guy
who's trying to get a heart transplant for his son.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
YEP classic and good movie.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
Good movie.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
The only difference between this movie and that movie it
was this movie here is unintentional. So the movie starts off, let.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
Me talk about this. I can't wait. I get wait, oh,
giddy giddy, talk about this.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
I have the Wikipedia plot, so I'll jump in here.
So from what I understand is, she's a single mother
who lives in a rundown apartment. She's got like some
sort of special needs daughter or she's like really sick.
She's helping her bathe but she gets like hauled into
work or something. I'm just like skimming. She has a seizure,
and the daughter has a seizure in the bathtub at

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one point, so.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
She has to take her. She had to take her
to school, and she has she has no money. She
has to pay for a rent.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
The lady is like, hey, you three weeks overdue and
it's time to play up.

Speaker 3 (44:59):
Pay by time.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
I mean, I don't blame her, like you had three weeks.
Like what you been doing for three weeks? Man? So
all these events happened within an hour.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
She gets ran off the road by a guy, and
this white guy who's just mad as hell.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
He is mad as hell. Yeah, she didn't mean so
she didn't mean to bump into him, and he was
just like, I want to make your dead live in hell.

Speaker 3 (45:26):
Jeez.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
Still, that's what he's saying. And it just happens to
be a cop. He happens to be a cop.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
I was like, what's wrong, man, Like, what what the
hell is this?

Speaker 1 (45:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (45:37):
Yeah, this is a comedy of error is happening here.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
And all this let's say a comedy of arrows out
like that. It is, man, it's a comedy of errors. Man.
The boss won't to hell leave the store, and she's like, look,

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I gotta get money to pay my rent.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
I gotta have forty dollars I can give to my
daughter so she can eat and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
So she gets calls in that she gets called in
to go to school because it's something rolling her daughter.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
And then she goes to the school and because well,
at first, the the grocery store owner, he's wasn't gonna
let it go because he's like, oh, you always got
something going on. He said, I'm gonna let you go,
but you better be back with then thirty minutes.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
It's got something going on.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
You always got something going on.

Speaker 3 (46:27):
You don't even know.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
Everybody is so mean to her within an hour and
it's so rushed.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Why that's the memes I've been seeing of this. It's like, oh,
the single mom who's like going through all this crap. Yep,
there must be a Tyler Perry movie.

Speaker 1 (46:43):
But everything happens so fast within an hour.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
Yeah, it's an hour eight minutes, it's or one hundred
and eight minutes.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
So no, I'm talking about an hour or thirteen minutes
into the film.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
Everything happens so fast, like that's nothing that takes time.
There's no no building to any of these Well that's
the building to the situation that leads up to to
her robbing the bank. But everything happens so gradually, so fast,
like I've never seen a movie like that before. It
doesn't pace itself as good, like come on, man, she

(47:16):
fires her stuff out of the lawn because she she
couldn't do.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
At ten am and fifty nine seconds and.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
She got that late.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
And when I tell you, Jacob, one of the most
comedic scenes ever where she seen her stuff out on
the lawn. It does one of the worst cuts I've
ever seen in my life, one of the most edited,
worst edited parts. She looks to the sky and it's
raining now because the rain is supposed to have a
dramatic effect, is raining only on her because I'm pretty
sure Todder Perry didn't.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
Have no money for the whole area to be ringing,
so he rained only on her. And she looks up
to the sky and says, no.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
Tyler Perry is just coasting.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
I'll kid you not. She looks up to the sky
and she just yelled at this guy like.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
Yeah, because she's mad because her daughter had a seizure
at school.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
The foster care of people had took her and she
started trying to tell him like, hey, she had seizures.
I can handle it.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
But the lady's like, well she's got all these different
things that goes on with her.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
We need to come by the house. Well I'm about
to get a victory from my house. Yeah, okay, that's fine.
Well we just gonna take it with us.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
So that she got that going on, the boss is
on her. The boss is on the ass.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
Fire she got her. So she got rent due her
car was took it because she hain't handled she had tickets.
Her card was douse. The car is so the cars
took it as well. The car is tooking as well.
I'm like, all this happens within nineteen minutes of the

(49:06):
field and we haven't even got in good yet. So
then she goes in the back.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
Talk to the grocery store manager. I need my check,
he said, I'm not. The guy's like, I'm not giving
you because I saw you go across the street to
the bank to try to get some money out, you know.
And the one in the grocery ladies like, yeah, she's
she has songs go she saw her go to the
bank because she's trying to get the forty.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
Dollars in her bank account. She wasn't able to do it.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
Lady won't let her get the money out of the
bank account, even though she comes there every day.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
I was like, you got to kidd me. So the
girlcery manager's like, no, I'm not giving you anything. So
then a random dude comes in in the back where
the manager's office is and robs and robs the robs
the grocery manager and says, I need the money. I
need to give me the money right now.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
So then she bumps into him, the guy with the gun,
and and he ends up.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
The guy or the guy with the gun ends up
getting killed. So then yeah, he.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
Just kills him.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
She didn't kill him. It was an accident and she
bumps into him and he got shot, and he got shot.
So then she picks up the gun. And then the
grocery managers like, oh, you set this up. Then you
set this up. You set all this up because she
knew you. He knew you by name. He's like, he
just looked up the badge. What mad, What would make

(50:36):
you think that she set you up? She said, easy
looked at the badge. He looked at the badge. I
don't understand. So he looked at this. So he's about
the nine one, he's down nine one one, and he's saying, yeah,
one of my employees.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
She set me up. She set me up. So then
Sarah spree Hinton.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
She said, she's hill. She's taking to himself. I can't
go to jail. I have a child to take care of.
She shoots the grocery store manager. Oh man, blood spotted everywhere.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
She got it. She takes her check that she got,
goes cross the street to the bank, guns still in hand.
She asks one of the clerk tellers, can you cast
a hick? Blood is spoted on the check my dad
and the clerk. The clerk lady is like, yeah, I

(51:28):
mean he said I can catch there's no problem. Well,
this is jelly stains, she says. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
She jokingly says it's jelly stains, and characters like yeah, sure, ye,
it's jelly states whatever.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
You can see the cast check lady, whatever you want.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
Ladies like the ladies like do you have an ID?
And she's like, no, I don't have my ID, but
I come here all the time. I understand, man, but
I have to have Yeah, I have to have an
ID to cast a check. So the whole time Rise
is like, I just should cast I don't understand.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
She's yelling out loud. She sounds like a crazy woman.
All right, pause, all right pause.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
We got that character has to be the only like
legit logical character so far. She's like, well, it's producol.
I just need the idea. I know you come in
here every day, but yeah, I gotta do it otherwise
I get fired. Just the one person who's just doing
their job, like God, trying to be mean to her,
not trying to ruin her day like everybody else in

(52:29):
this movie. Just the one Berson who's like, I just
need the ID.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
She's like, hey, I just need the ID so I
can cast, you know, so you can catch check.

Speaker 1 (52:39):
That's a law. So Dan, she breaks out his character
to break out the gun. She's like like why, He's like,
I don't under, say why do you? Why do you?
What are you being so scared of if I don't
under saying like, I just need you to cast my check.
I need to do this.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
So Sherry Sheppard's character, she's the manager of the of
the of the bank, and she sees what's going on
and she's like, oh my god, she has a gun.
Now what I also didn't add in this detail she
has Henson's had brought her daughter's backpack. No, I don't
know now in her backpack, in her daughter's backpack, there's

(53:20):
allegedly a bomb.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
It's a bombing there.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
Now it's like a science project, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
Yeah, it's like a science project. But it looks like
a bomb. It looks like a bomb. Jacob. Everything that
that that you would think a bomb looks like looks
like that.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
So I'm like, what did you get? What did you
get the tools to make this? Where did you get
the tools to make this, and he never explains that
at all.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
He does not explain the.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
Things that made a bomb for science.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
I guess it's got a configuration bleading on there when
you turn on the switch turned off, it's like a
little red doc that comes on. They've got a whole
bunch of wires hooked up to a whole bunch of aeroskull,
like a whole bunch of cans and stuff like a
raiate can or which calls air freshman can. I'm like,
what the hell, what's she making? That was never clarified

(54:15):
in this movie at all. So back to the story.
Everybody thinks that this is a bomb, and she has
a gun in her hand and she's hold up the
bank meanwhiles watching me. His character is she's obviously having
a mental breakdown right now because it's like she does
not know how it looks to everybody else right now.

(54:36):
That's like you're robbing us, And she's like, I'm not
trying to rob anybody. I just want to cast my check.
And then the clerk cat threw the money at her.
She threw a whole bunch of money, and she's like
his character, I don't need this money. I just need
my I just need my check to be cashed. I
don't want all this extra stuff. I just want my
money to be cashed. And when I tell you, it
leads up to even more funny ass stuff. So that's

(54:59):
when it's ya. Taylor's character pops up.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
She is a cop, which she is the most unbelievable
cop I've ever seen in my life. She does not
look like a cop at all. She looked all glam beilt,
fancy looking wig, and she looks beautiful, my dad, I
love it tail.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
She looks beautiful, but she does not look believable as
a cop. So she her and her partner looking for
the evidence to trying to figure out who this person is,
how this person.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
Did what they did. Why did they kill the manager
because they saw the camp the camera. It's like, oh shit,
because she killed her. She killed her boss there right
across the street and rob the dank.

Speaker 2 (55:35):
And she's asked some of the employees that works there,
and the employees like, she wouldn't do this, you know.
She she's a good person. She's a very good person.
She's just the struggling a lot, you know, and she
needs help. And she's a single mom trying to make
it so her So Tianna Taylor's partner. He doesn't care
about all those things. He's looking at the fact that
she killed them. She killed somebody in cold blood, and

(55:57):
that's robbing the bank. We need to get her, you know.
And she at a ball allegedly she.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
Got a ball.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
So the whole time Taylor, she's trying to gather gat
enough evidence and got him to get enough clues. She
goes to the apartment that's been a littlevicted from trying
to talk to the landlord. The landlord is talking smack
to him, like, yeah, I kicked out because she wasn't
paying her rent. And then Paul's also as well. Simbads
sim Bad is in this movie, which I do appreciate.

(56:26):
I do appreciate the Simbad getting some work in here.
I appreciate Tyler Perry for employing him, letting him be
in his film. Tyler Perry, he's good at this stuff.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
I had the opposite reaction because I read on the
Wikipedia that Simbad wasn't it, So I've just been waiting
for you to bring him up.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
Ye gonna play the homeless guy.

Speaker 3 (56:41):
My reaction was, he drags Simbad out of retirement.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
For this, I mean not retire.

Speaker 3 (56:47):
Yeah, I know. I looked at like his last couple
of films, so I was like, I mean.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
It's money, man. You know, he needs work. You know
the stroke. You don't remember he had the stroke. Yeah,
So I appreciate him employing him, and those are a
good thing. Like as much as crap as I talk
about Tyler Perry and I love, I make fun of
them all the time.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
Dude really is a good man.

Speaker 3 (57:09):
He's a little lot of touch.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
I don't think he's out of touch. I don't think
he's out of touch.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
I just think that he has a very niche audience
and they like what they like, which is okay, cool whatever.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
It's not really for me. These movies are not really
for me.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
I've seen a meme or yeah, I guess it's a meme,
a photo of a tweet or whatever, which is a meme.
I've seen a meme where it's like Tyler Perry makes
black movies for white people.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
Uh, yeah, I would say that, but he also movies
for the people that are Christians and like heavy heavy
Christian gospel, like people that just Baptist people. Yeah, you know, cool, whatever,
that's your if that's your stick. Cool.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
I particularly don't like that style. I don't like the
heavy handedness of his movies.

Speaker 1 (57:55):
That's just me, right. But so back to the short,
talks to the landlorder, the the landlady, and you know.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
She's being the dick about it the entire time. SOEO
was like, cool, you ain't worth the time. So as
we're gradually going along, Tianna Taylor is she's figuring out.
She's like, I don't think this person is who thinks
you know, she might not be this person that we're
all thinking she is. She's not a cold blooded heart person,
you know, She's just a person that had a really,
really really bad day that happened within nineteen minutes of

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the movie. So so after that, the chief, the chief
pulls up, chief police pulls up. He said, well, if
this case dn't talk to him. So she becomes the
negotiator and she builds a relationship with Tianna's character, with
with Taragi's character, and they're talking it out and she's
trying to get her to surrender and she's trying to
get her, you know, to do all.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
These things and stuff.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
So everything's going good, but there's only one hold up.
Taragi's like, I'm not coming out to anywhere. I'm not
coming out there because there was a cop that stopped
me earlier and he was.

Speaker 1 (58:59):
A real little mean guy. He was he was a hell.
He was a hell raiser.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
And he said that if I see you again and
if we have a cross paths, I'm gonna make sure
you never see the light of day in so many words, And.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
I was like, what the hell type of dude? Instance, Like,
I understand what type of cop will talk about. I
know what's up the cop talk like that. But still
it's just like, really, like, why are you so upset
at her? You rammed her off the road? My god,
and you're being so so a douchebag man. Turn time
about it.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
So she's not coming outside until this guy is apprehended,
because he's gonna shoot her if he's on site, without doubt,
if he goes, she goes out there and surrender.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
We already know that watching this movie, we can.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
All be serious enough to say that, hey, if this
cop sees her, he gonna put by Fives's bulletin. Yeah,
So they're trying to find out y'all's tailor character and
her partner are trying to find out who is this
guy that threatened her and who's this guy's.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
Stuff, you know that randaph road.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
So that's almost like most of the movie trying to
find this guy, and also too the rest of the
hostages that are in there.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
They're like, look, can we get out please? Because we go? Yeah,
can we go? And she end up like, yeah, you
can get out here. I don't care. I just just
go please. I don't don't I don't really really care,
you know what I'm saying, Like, I just want my money.
I just want my money cash.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
I just need my check card so I can help
my daughter and pay my rent.

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
And it's so.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
Sad man the cause of events and they're trying to
there's twisting this film that I saw coming from My Boy,
and it's one of the most m nice chauvelin twists
I've ever seen in my life.

Speaker 3 (01:00:52):
I read, I read what it was, so.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
I has to get latent to the film. Tensions are
starting to build FBI that's not involved.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
They're still trying to find the cop that said these
different these nasty things. They end up finding the cop.
Seona Taylor end up punching this dude in the face,
get his ads out of there, and he's gonna be apprehended.
His uh, they never said he's gonna be fired, is
gonna be looked at. So most likely he's gonna henna.
He gonna keep his job.

Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
Yeah, just tell me, don't suspend them. He'll go to
a different police station. We know how this works.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
We all know how it works. So it looks like, okay,
cool town, Taylor. I mean, you know, we got to
we got the guy. So if you come out FBI,
get ready to come in here and do harm. They're
ready to do some business because nighttime, you know, people,
people are really starting to ramp up out here. They
heard your story. Yeah, they're rooting for you now, you know.

(01:01:49):
They everybody's behind her one hundred percent. So it's starting
to get real crazy. Outside they find the little the
little brad pack.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
Shepgance to rosh Pencil Club, pulls out the bomb allegedly,
and she's like, it's.

Speaker 1 (01:02:04):
Like, please, you don't have to do this, Like, what
are you talking about? That's a bomb, right, It's like, no,
it's not the bomb. It's my child's science project. At
that point, I was like, okay, all right, ya ya, Yeah,
y'all couldn't figured this out because it kept going off.
The beeple alarm kept going off on it, so she
turned off the switch. She's like, yeah, it was just
a science project for my child.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
So at that point in time, things are starting to
get high, attention to start getting hgh E verb like, hey,
she got a couple more minutes be by busting and
do our things.

Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
So then that's when.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
Her mom calls us, and her mom is like, what
what are you doing holding up this bank? So well,
I wanted to get forty dollars for you know, you know,
her daughter, so she can eat lunch.

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
You know. It's like, but baby, she's dead. Oh she's dead,
She's like. And then that's when she has She goes
back in her memory and it shows you all the
events that loved up that led up to her passing away. Uh,
she died that the night before, and it shows you
from that morning she had just a middle breakdown. She

(01:03:08):
was talking to herself. She was pretending like her daughter
was behind her. She wasn't.

Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
The landlady was looking at her, and the tendants looking
at her like, damn, she's just talking to her. Something
entire time, she's acting like her daughter's right there, she's
dropping off her imaginary daughter in school. The principal looking
at her, and she weighs at the principal, and the
principal was like, uh I why you And then she

(01:03:33):
goes to the school to talk to the principal about this,
you know, a daughter having a seizure. But it's like
the principal was like.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
What are you doing? I didn't call you, I didn't
call you anything. Yeah, We're like, we know your daughter died,
Like what are you doing here?

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
And so all those events led up to this and yeah,
so she had a mental breakdown, breakdown. It's a been
a break I mean, which I mean, look, I'm not
joking about that. But this where and then this is
where the reviewer of me really gets upset. Without there
none of it felt irned, you know what I'm saying.

(01:04:09):
It didn't feel irned.

Speaker 3 (01:04:11):
Well, it's like, who is this movie for, Like, who's
supposed to like watch this movie and be like I identify
with his character, Like like you created a character and
then just like proceeded to give him the worst life
imaginable and.

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
The worst day of real late day.

Speaker 3 (01:04:25):
Worst life, like you're running. Well.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
I mean, don't get me wrong, it happens every day
in life, but it happens, and ever it flows, it
happened and Everson flows, you know what I'm saying. And
it just feels like that death wasn't it like something
that was just tacked on.

Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
For the movie purposes, because it's like, oh, if you
didn't think she had it bad enough already, turns out
all this was for not because her kid's already been dead.
She'sus having mental problems.

Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
Yeah, she she had a middle breakdown. And I'm just like,
it didn't feel earned at all. And I did not
like that part. I didn't like that part at all.
So you know, after all of that, she goes outside.

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
For Shery Shepherd because she gives a relationship with Shearri Shepherd,
and she tells you Shearry Shepherd had already.

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
Known that our daughter was gone. She found out. She
found out that day.

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
So because she comes to that bank all the time,
Rogie comes to that bank all the time with her daughter,
so she knows her when she sees her, and you know, she.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
Told her, hey, could you take care of my daughter?

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
And all that stuff before she you know, before the
audience knew that the child was already gone. So they
build such a rapport with each other. So she holds
her hand, walks her outside, she surrenders, Saraji p Henson
puts her in the car, you know, and that's the
end of the movie. Because that was that was was

(01:05:42):
a premonition that she had that if I, if I
don't surrender, the FBI is gonna come in here put
a bullet in my chest. So when she when she
thought about it, she was like, yeah, I need to
go outside and surrender immediately. So and she did that.
So that was in in the movie. Yo, take what
you will with it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
I can say it's a regular usual Tyler Perry, Tyler
Perry movement, you know what I'm saying. It was like
it was just like hit.

Speaker 3 (01:06:13):
All the beats of a Tyler Perry film sounds.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
Oh yeah, all the beats, all the all the fixes,
all the fix you gotta look, just like who got
the asshold g.

Speaker 3 (01:06:29):
It's like, who is that for? Tyler Perry? Like, but
what do you think is happening in the in the
real world in the streets.

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
Like, look, this stuff does happen every day, people go
through it. People do not have money to eat, people
do not have.

Speaker 1 (01:06:46):
Money to pay rent. You know, obviously I trust me,
I know about that, and so I get it. People
do have these different issues. Well, I just felt like
everything was so rushed, the pacing.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
Was bad, and it's probably I will say this, this
is probably one of his better better.

Speaker 1 (01:07:04):
Films that he's done, because I still found it a
little bit enjoyable. And I think a lot of that
was hell together because Roger p Henson's Yeah, Yo, she
she's so good. Like I said, she's so good of
an actress and she can she could do anything.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
I love her, and like I said, she needs to
Hollywood needs to do her a lot, you know, a
lot better than what they've been doing it, you know
what I'm saying. So I give her kudos on that.
But this movie man is so all over the place,
and I just will never understand.

Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
The only thing I leave is film thinking is why
the hell did he never explain what the hell science
project that was that she was making. It looks like
a ball man, It looks.

Speaker 3 (01:07:47):
Like everything seemed like a Who's a nation sort of
Oh yeah, she could have made the bomb herself.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
Yeah, you know, she had well, she brought her back.

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
She brought the back with her because it's like a copy,
a copy mechanism, right, you know, it's a copy mechanism.

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
I get that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
So but it was like, yeah, I'm gonna think it's
a bomb the entire time because maybe you you got
a gunny in hen, you got blood on check, you
got this backpack, you got to got a backpack.

Speaker 1 (01:08:19):
With a whole bunch of wires to it, and it's like,
what is this? And it's making a loud beeping noise
with a red button to it? So what am I
supposed to think? What is everybody s post to think?
And she's confused because she's like why why why would
you think it was a bomb? It's like a bomb and.

Speaker 3 (01:08:37):
It looks like a walks like a duck.

Speaker 1 (01:08:40):
It's come on, man.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
My review so by my score for this movie with
you know, you know, tmbing highs, I give it three
out of ten, man, three out of ten.

Speaker 1 (01:08:53):
Three out of ten, what.

Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
Makes me laugh?

Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
Three out of teen, three out of ten, tell you
a good time? I did up a good time. I
don't mean I would give it a five out of
teen man three out of teens, I say, all let's
say three out of ten.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
All right, well there you go. Folks.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
See you don't even have to watch the movie. I
told them for you.

Speaker 3 (01:09:23):
Yeah, I definitely don't. You chose that over Predator?

Speaker 1 (01:09:30):
I can say, man, I will, well they would get there.

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
You chose that over Predator? Oh man, you gotta go
watch Predator.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
I told everybody you're American friends. Now you left so
much the ones who give you a review of Predator.

(01:10:10):
Any my review of.

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
Predator, Yeah, yeah, it was. It's a good movie, had
a lot of good action, and it introduced I don't
know if it introduced anything like new to the lore.
It just kind of it showed some things that actually
kind of makes sense when you think about it, and
in terms of like how all the Predator movies are

(01:10:32):
kind of not really I guess connected, you know what
I mean? Like every every Predator sequel is just a
new Predator story, right, Like Hutch doesn't show up in
Predator two, they don't show up in Predator three, they
don't show up, and Predator four sure as hell don't
show up in and Pray because that's like way before

(01:10:53):
any of those times. So there there is a thing
they show at the very end of it, which is
what I wanted to talk to you about. But you
haven't seen it, so I can't.

Speaker 1 (01:11:01):
I can't this.

Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
Man, James, Okay, all right, So in Predator. In the
Predator film, right, it's an anthology movie. Right, you get
there's a Viking, there's a Viking tribe that fights a predator,
there's a japan Two Samurai brothers who fight a predator,
and there's like a World War two pirate, pirate pilot
who fights the predator. Right, each one of them is

(01:11:26):
a different looking predator, which I really like. Like the
Viking one was like a real brutish, one like looking predator.
The Samurai was like really skinny and agile. Obviously he's
fighting samurai. The World War two one was really cool
because it was a dog fight, like they were fighting,
like he was fighting him in the air, right, Like
they were doing a whole dog fight with this predator
in the predatorship. And the predator had like it wasn't

(01:11:48):
even wearing a mask. He had like some weird like
eye patch. Oh, he kind of looked cybernetic. That was
my favorite predator because he almost looked like a cyboard
of swords and in each one of these stories, they
killed the predator and then it shows them on a
predator ship like they all they all get captured soon
after killing their perspective predators, and mind you, they're across

(01:12:08):
different time periods, right, yeah, towards like the last like
thirty ish minutes of the film is the three of
them meeting each other on the ship. And essentially what
happens is shortly after they kill the predators, they're picked
up by the other predators and they're frozen in time
like cryogenically, and then they're taken to some kind of

(01:12:30):
like colosseum type planet where they make them do battle
with each other. And it's like that's where the Killer
of Killers comes from, right because like yeah, because there's
a big predator. He's wearing like a spine cape and
he's like talking in his language, but they have like
a little translator thing and he's like you, you know,
you guys fight to the death, and the winner gets

(01:12:50):
to fight me. You become the Killer of Killers. That's
the whole that was the plan. Well, of course they
won't fight each other, or they kind of fight each other,
but then they team up. They end up getting away
or like the Viking lady sacrifices herself and the Japanese
guy in the World War two pilot end up like
flying Away because the World War Two pilot pilot is like, look,
I fly planes. I can figure out how to fly

(01:13:11):
a predatorship, which is really like, no, you can't. You're
not gonna figure that out. But they go to fly
Away James, and then the predator with the spine cape
is like, we're just gonna go get him, and he
raises his fists and like a whole fleet of predatorships
just like rise up, and so it goes the blank
and it says predator, killer of killers. Right, it's kind

(01:13:32):
of like Cliff Hungary because you don't know if they
really got away or not. But as the credits roll
or before the credits roll, they show some other predators,
like pushing the one of the cryogeneric cryogenic like cases
that the people were in, and he's going down like
this big room with like all these other cryogenically frozen creatures,

(01:13:52):
like alien creatures, like different sizes, different shapes, like everything's
frozen over, and they pass. One inside that cryogenic chamber
is the girl from Prey.

Speaker 1 (01:14:04):
Oh wow, Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:14:06):
Yes, because it's it's the same guy who did the
Prey movie, right, he came back to do this animated one,
and he's coming back to do the bad Lands movie
in November, or he already did it, but it comes
out in November, right. So Kididri and I were talking
after that and we were like, you know what, that's
really cool because that subtly explains why Arnold Schwarzenegger never
shows up in any of the other movies. Danny Glover

(01:14:28):
never shows up. Like every movie is a different protagonist
because anybody who kills the damn predators, they just come
pick them up and bring him to like a colisseum
kind of planet. Like I like that that little bit
of lore edition and it's a very good way of
like just kind of dismissing, like, oh, why why don't
these characters ever reoccur. It's like, well, they kill a predator,

(01:14:48):
a predator's gonna come pick you up, because a predator
is supposed to be like the ultimate hunter in the universe.
If you kill one of them, they're gonna come get you.
They're gonna take.

Speaker 2 (01:14:57):
Things kind of funny, they come pick you up, and
it co Yeah, But then it never hits the any
of the movies that they come pick you up.

Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
Right, This is the first one that kind of shows that.
I was like, Oh, I like that little bit of
law edition and it made me think, like, I think
that's why I like the Predators more than the Alien
movies is because every every Predator movie has been different.
They've they've done different things with them. They do try
and they don't really like expand on the Predators too
much between movie and movie, but there are subtle things

(01:15:25):
that they kind of add in and you kind of
figure it out, like like a third movie where they
like have a whole hunting planet, like they just sometimes
they just aubduct you and they hunt you on a planet,
or like this one where it's like, oh sometimes if you, hey,
if you if you kill a predator, we just come
pick you up and we make you compete in the coliseum,
like we'll kill you eventually. You're just proving yourself to

(01:15:45):
be bigger and badder prey if you kill one of us, right,
And so I was like, Yeah, that's kind of what
I like about the Predator movies more than the Alien movies,
because the alien movies they're they're all kind of you know.
I said this about the the Fetti Alvarez, the new
the newest one it Alien something or other.

Speaker 1 (01:16:02):
Rick Win, Oh, I think it was not got what
it was called.

Speaker 3 (01:16:06):
I know it came out last year or two. We
talked about it too on the show. But the latest
Alien movie, I made the comment it was like, oh,
like it looks good, but it also it's it's just
Alien all over again. And I said that in our review.
I was like, yeah, it was good, but also wasn't
anything new, right, And Alien did try to do new things.
They they tried Prometheus, and they tried the one after that,
and I think I think the difference is they tried

(01:16:29):
to do too many, too much new stuff. It wasn't
as subtle as like what the Predator movies I've been doing.
And not that the Predator movies have done things that
worked all the time, Like they have the one Predator
movie where it's like super Autism saved the Day or something.

Speaker 1 (01:16:43):
That's the worst.

Speaker 3 (01:16:45):
Oh yeah, yeah, for sure that is the worst one
because it was like the super Autism and then they
had like a super Predator suit at the end that
was weird. We don't talk about that one that much.
But all the other Predator stuff has been really good,
Like Pray introduced like Oh Predator going after people in
different timelines, which led into this movie where like Oh
Predator actually just comes to Earth occasionally, like the Viking era,

(01:17:07):
the Samurai era, like World War two, they just come through.

Speaker 1 (01:17:12):
I think it's and it's.

Speaker 3 (01:17:14):
Interesting because predators aren't really like, they're not world domination aliens, right,
they are straight up just hunters, whereas aliens like the xenomorphs,
they're xenomorphs are really just parasites. They're not even a
world domination either. They're really they're just parasites. They're the
bad bugs of space. To tie it in the current current.

Speaker 1 (01:17:33):
Events, yeah, yeah kind of.

Speaker 3 (01:17:37):
You know, you don't you don't want to get a xenomorph, right,
you tell your friends who got a xenomorph, they're not
coming over. We're like, yeah, I gotta got a xenomorph
at home. You still want to come and watch the game. No,
I'm goods.

Speaker 1 (01:17:46):
Badass name though, it's badass names.

Speaker 3 (01:17:48):
Yeah, well they're they're kind of badass creatures as well.
But acid acid blood. They've got two miles, you know,
they've got some cool things. But but I think that's
whiny of Like the difference is what the Predator movies
do well is they add lore subtly and slowly, whereas
Alien movies, like they tried to do like the whole

(01:18:11):
origin and they tried to like really change things up
too fast, I think, And that's what kind of caused
tension with people or is like, what what is this?
Like we got engineers, we got generations of xenomorphs.

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
The last Alien movie, it was good up until the
point where they started to rely back to nostalgia.

Speaker 1 (01:18:30):
Yes, so they actually did do stuff that was a
little bit different.

Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
But then but then when they started relying back onto
nostalgia and then the whole climax.

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
At the end of it is where it started falling
short again, right, Yeah, And so it was it was
a little bit different.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
Right, And it's scarious to see where where it goes
next because I know he's doing another one set after
this movie, like again between between the original Alien movies,
but like after this one or whatever. And then they
got Alien Earth coming out where the Aliens land on Earth,
and I saw a trailer for it and again dark
hallway aliens attacking people. So I'm like how much of
Alien Earth are we going to see on Earth?

Speaker 1 (01:19:06):
Just don't like alien? You just don't like alien. He's
just you just like that's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:19:12):
I'm more harsh on alien. But I did. I did
really enjoy Predator, Killer of Killers. I think it was
really good. I think it introduced some new themes that
interested me. Animation was good. Animation is always fun. And
I'm glad it wasn't a series. I thought it was
gonna be a series. I'm glad it's not be a movie.

Speaker 1 (01:19:28):
I see.

Speaker 3 (01:19:28):
I wasn't entirely for sure. But a whole hour and
a half, you're done, you know, kick back until November
when Predator Batlands comes out, which I also I'm excited
for because again new themes. Predator is a protagonist, you know,
he's it's like what a younger hunter, younger predator on
his first hunt, Like this is like the proving himself
mission or herself. I think it's supposed to be a

(01:19:50):
female predator from what I understand. Oh okay, that's different,
which apparently had some people up in arms. But I'm like,
I don't, I don't know it's a predator. They don't
really male or female.

Speaker 1 (01:20:00):
The female female predator these nuts.

Speaker 3 (01:20:03):
And it's an alien monster with a gross face, like
why are we mad?

Speaker 1 (01:20:11):
Jesus christ Man, right, and then.

Speaker 3 (01:20:14):
Jesus Man and then again you know they're in Predator Batlands.
They have like that the girl who's on the planet,
but it seems like she's a synthetic. So it seems
like they're trying to get the ball slowly rolling back
into like maybe a new alien versus Predator franchise, one
that makes more sense, one that's not what the originals were,
especially the sequel.

Speaker 1 (01:20:35):
That makes sense.

Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
We'll see what happens with.

Speaker 1 (01:20:37):
Will you give it? What would you give it score?

Speaker 3 (01:20:41):
I want to say eight out of ten. I don't
want to give it a perfect ten, but I don't
want to give it a nine. I think eight's pretty solid. Yeah,
it's solid. A final answer, Yeah, final answer. I do
recommend it though.

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
You should.

Speaker 3 (01:20:53):
You should definitely watch it, even though I spoil the
big the big surprise at the end.

Speaker 1 (01:20:57):
That's okay.

Speaker 3 (01:20:59):
When we saw that, we were like, oh my god,
that that that makes so much sense. That's why we
never see any of the other characters. That's why it's
always new people.

Speaker 1 (01:21:08):
That's that's fine. All right, Well, I'm dumbing. Don't watch
this weekend if I get through watching How To Train Dragon.

Speaker 3 (01:21:13):
Yeah, I think I think we're gonna try to see that,
not over the weekend, but on the Monday.

Speaker 1 (01:21:19):
So that's see it. Man, That's all I got for today.

Speaker 3 (01:21:21):
Yeah, Hey, that's all I got to We you know,
talked about a bunch of cool stuff. So if you
want to, if you want to join the conversation, you
can email us at on the gopod twenty twenty three
at gmail dot com. You can also find us on Instagram, Facebook,
and YouTube. It's on the Go with Jacob and James.
You know, reach out, send us semesterage, or comment on
one of our clips what you think about the show,

(01:21:41):
or email us what you think about Predator, what you
think about Straws, James's new favorite movie apparently.

Speaker 1 (01:21:50):
So this is let it.

Speaker 3 (01:21:51):
Let us know your thoughts, and if you want to
find us individually, you can find us at Jacob dantone
dot audio on Instagram, and you can find James on Instagram.

Speaker 1 (01:21:59):
At James that by seven.

Speaker 3 (01:22:01):
Ad for yes, sir and without further ado, I'm on
the go, James is on the go, and we are
all on the go,

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