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Michael B. Jordan Said PAY ME, Jack Reacher Fought Back & Movie Debate
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Michael B. Jordan, Jack Reacher fight, Houston Rodeo, Black movies debate, Kevin Hart vs Matthew McConaughey, Bruce Anthony and Jay Aundrea are back with another Sibling Happy Hour packed with culture, comedy, and real talk.
Bruce and Jay kick things off debating who made “all right, all right, all right” iconic — Kevin Hart or Matthew McConaughey — which turns into a deeper conversation about being loud wrong and why people refuse to rethink bad takes.
Jay then recaps her Houston Rodeo trip, from great vibes to airport chaos, sparking a hilarious but real discussion about TSA, inefficiency, and why Houston might be one of the best cities right now.
In the news, they break down Michael B. Jordan raising his price and why he deserves it, plus the viral Alan Ritchson (Jack Reacher) fight and how the internet got it wrong before the full story came out.
To close, they dive into “Black movies that aren’t Black movies” — from Sister Act to Tombstone — and explain why the underdog story always hits home. #michaelbjordan #AlanRitchson #JackReacher #HoustonRodeo #BlackMovies #MovieDebate #entertainmentnews #PopCulture #CulturalCommentary #youtubepodcast #unsolicitedperspectives
Chapters:
00:00:00 Michael B. Jordan, Jack Reacher & Black Movie Debate 🎙️🔥👀
00:02:09 All Right, All Right, All Right… But WHO Said It First? 🤔👀🎯
00:05:08 Being "Loud Wrong" Is A Personal Attack On My Soul 😂😤💢
00:08:43 Shower Thoughts Got Him HEATED All Over Again 🚿🔥😤
00:12:42 What If Everyone Was Actually Curious Though? 🧠💭✨
00:14:52 Houston Rodeo/ Everything Else Right Now 🤠🎉🙌
00:17:23 TSA Working For FREE While These Agents Just… Loiter?! 😡✋💸
00:20:38 Houston Is FINE And We Are NOT Debating This 😍🔥👀
00:23:57 Michael B. Jordan Said PAY ME — And He's RIGHT 💰👑🎬
00:28:56 Nobody Saw MBJ As A Leading Man… Except Ryan Coogler 🎬💡🙏
00:33:11 Why Would You EVER Start A Fight With Jack Reacher?! 😂😳💀
00:37:36 The Internet Convicted Him Before The Full Video Dropped 📱⚖️😬
00:41:21 I Know My Limits… Do Y'ALL Know Yours? 😭💀🤣
00:47:04 Black Movies That Aren't "Black Movies" — The List Begins 🎥✊🖤
00:50:44 Blank Check As An Adult Hits VERY Different 😬👀😭
00:53:29 Sister Act, Hook, Tombstone… The Black Community Claims THESE 😂🖤👏
00:56:19 The Real Reason Black People Adopt These Movies 🎯🖤💯
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Introduction and Episode Overview
00:00:00
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Michael B. Jordan said the price of the brick is going up. And who would start a fight with Jack Reacher? We gonna get into it. Let's get it.
00:00:18
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Welcome. First of all, welcome. This is Unsolicited Perspectives. I am your host, Bruce Anthony, here to lead the conversation in important events and topics that are shaping today's society. Join the conversation and follow us wherever you get your audio podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for our video podcasts, YouTube exclusive content, and our YouTube membership.
00:00:37
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Rate, review, like, comment, share. Share with your friends, share with your family, hell, even share with your enemies. On today's episode, it's the Sibling Happy Hour. I'm here with my sis, Jay Andrea.
The 'Alright, alright, alright' Debate
00:00:50
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We're going to be dilly-dadding a little bit. Then we're going to be doing a news roundup. And then we're going talking about black movies that aren't black movies.
00:00:58
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but that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.
00:01:05
Speaker
What up, sis? What up, brother? What up? what up brotherta I can't call it. I can't call it. I found out something interesting about myself today.
00:01:17
Speaker
Okay. Literally this morning. I was talking to a good friend of mine. And you know this this this person is brilliant. They're they're a doctor. They're a professor. Okay. So they are. education They got a lot of education.
00:01:28
Speaker
cool Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. And this, I was telling this doctor about a story, that a conversation I had with another person. Okay. This was the basis of the conversation.
00:01:40
Speaker
All right, all right, all right. Now, people listening to that are going to attribute that expression to one of two people. Or maybe both.
00:01:51
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Who would you attribute it to? Matthew McConaughey. And also Kevin Hart.
00:01:59
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So, no. No. All right, all right, all right is Matthew McConaughey. All right, all right, all right is Kevin Hart. Semantics here, but I'm talking about the expression of saying all right, all right, all right three times, okay? Yeah. All right. yeah So the person that I was having this conversation with was like, yeah, that's Matthew McConaughey's catchphrase. And I was like, oh, I mean, yeah, no. I mean, I know Matthew McConaughey says it.
00:02:26
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um So did Kevin Hart. I don't remember who came up with it first. That's not the point of the conversation. The conversation was who made it more popular.
00:02:37
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And then it got to an expanded version of who is more popular. And I was like, my basis of the argument was Kevin Garnett. Kevin Garnett. Well, also Kevin Garnett. But um sure Kevin Hart is a global star. He's... literally tours and sells out stadiums in other countries. Matthew McConaughey is definitely known in the United States.
00:03:04
Speaker
For sure. He is known abroad. He is, but not like, I don't think that you could go to a small town in Italy yeah and know who Matthew McConaughey is.
00:03:19
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I think you could go to a small town in Italy and know who Kevin Hart is because he's been in like a million different movies and done a million different stand-ups. like So I was saying Kevin Hart made that expression popular because he's more popular.
00:03:37
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But their argument was Kevin Hart's not even more popular than Matthew McConaughey. I was like, what are you basing this on? Like, nationally? Yes, but globally, absolutely, he's more popular than Matthew McConaughey. And that's no shade to Matthew McConaughey.
00:03:52
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But where do they say, all right, all right, all right? so for And it's here. And so if you're talking about domestically, When you say, all right, all right, all right, my mind immediately goes to Matthew McConaughey, and I think most people's minds go immediately to Matthew McConaughey. Hmm.
00:04:11
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My mind doesn't. Yeah. Okay. it's It's until you change that last all right and pull it out the way Kevin does, then I'll say, oh, that was Kevin Hart.
00:04:24
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But if you're talking about the original like cadence of the way it was said, If you just said, all right, all right, all right. I don't know who said it first. Matthew. How do you know that? I was trying to figure out where he's... It's been catchphrase for a very, very long time. I'm pretty sure he said it. And Kevin just said it in a stand-up. like it It wasn't even like his oldest stand-up. It was like 15 years ago. Matthew McConaughey has been saying that since the 90s. I don't believe that's the case.
00:04:55
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All right, all right, all right has been around... for a long time.
00:05:03
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All right, all right, all right. Well, okay, so, like, we're having this conversation. And when I was talking to my friend earlier today... iconic catchphrase from his debut film role in Dazed and Confused in 1993. Okay, all right, okay. matt My argument wasn't, though, because the goalposts started moving in the conversation with the person.
00:05:27
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I said, who made it more popular, because they're more popular, is Kevin Hart. But you're the second person that has said to me, no, I know this from Matthew McConaughey. So maybe I'm wrong.
00:05:42
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Here's the thing. Here's the thing that really bugged me. If I'm wrong, because I was just wrong who said it first, was like, oh, okay, I was wronging at that. And ladies gentlemen, you hear me saying it, I'm wrong. Like, I have no problem saying I'm wrong.
00:05:53
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And Kevin, just to note for everybody out there, he said it in Laugh at My Pain, which was 2011. two thousand and eleven so fifteen i was right, 15 years ago. Yeah. Yes. But I still feel like... ah You're right. it's ah If you say, all right, at the end, then everybody knows it's Kevin Hart. okay That's Kevin, yeah. My argument was, and my friend said earlier to me this morning...
00:06:20
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He's like, I can see why you're pissed off. He's like, I know why you're pissed off. he's like Because i I couldn't understand why this person arguing with me about something I honestly don't care about right was bothering me so much. And it was because to me, they were so loud wrong. And what I mean by loud wrong is that unlike I just did, they weren't even given the the idea that they could be mistaken in their thought process.
00:06:48
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They had dug in, and in their mind, there's no way in the world, nobody knows Kevin Hart from that. Nobody really
Open-mindedness and Curiosity
00:06:57
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knows about Kevin Hart like that. Matthew McConaughey is a bigger star, therefore it is his catchphrase because he's bigger. And I was like, no, Kevin Hart is globally bigger. No, he's not. And it was the fact that this person kept doubling down. I was like, you're all wrong. And that bugs me. I know i talk about... Both of y'all were... Both of you were wrong. ah it is It is more, I think, more attributed to Matthew McConaughey.
00:07:23
Speaker
But is Kevin a bigger global star? Yes. Okay. Okay. Yeah. But see, this is the point. I can see that argument. Yeah. Okay. Like this is three people that said Matthew McConaughey. All right. Well, I guess I'm the one living in the bubble. Cool.
00:07:41
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Kevin Hart is still a bigger global star. Like, I don't think that's really, really up for debate considering the fact that Kevin Hart has sold, ladies and gentlemen, not arenas, stadiums. Okay. Yeah. Stadiums in other countries. He's done a stadium tour here in the States. This man is huge. Yeah.
00:08:00
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And so, yes, I really don't like it when people are allowed wrong and stand on it. Like, don't show any facts. Well, nobody does. ah It really, it really grounds my gears. This is not, this actual conversation happened about a month ago.
00:08:17
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But it got me fired up again last night when I was in the shower talking to myself. Yes. Yeah. And i've been fired up about it all day because it reignited. and I was just like, this person was just, theyd it's just that they didn't show any flexibility to their thinking.
00:08:34
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And that yeah really bugs the hell out of me. Anyway. That's fair. ah that's That's what I learned about myself is that if you're going to be loud wrong and continuously double down and not show any flexibility that your reasoning could be flawed, I'm probably not going to want to ever talk to you again.
00:08:52
Speaker
I mean, I wouldn't do that over a ah subject matter that you don't even care about. This person does it consistently. Oh, well, then just don't just, you know, once they give their opinion, you give your opinion, let it go. i Like, i think you also tom I just be. Yeah. But sometimes they be saying it such egregious stuff.
00:09:13
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I think you also let let's be real. You got to need to be right. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah yeah So you're going to keep arguing the point. They're going to keep arguing. Therefore, so at some point, you got to be like, OK, well, you agree to disagree. Do I have a need to be right or for a need to people not be wrong?
00:09:35
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You have a need to be right. um I'm going to argue against that. I don't go well i don't think I need to be right. You're doing it now. Well, hold on. But hold on.
Jay's Houston Experience
00:09:46
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That's because my character is being attacked. I feel like I have to i don't think it's an attack. I think I think that's a flaw. I think that's a character flaw. If you need to be right. I don't think I need to be right. It's just when people say things that are wrong.
00:09:59
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I need them not to be wrong.
00:10:03
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I don't think that's me wanting to be right, though. I don't go around. I know a person. Why is it so challenging for you to just let people be wrong? Because I'm an educator at heart. That's what I went to school for.
00:10:18
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So, I mean, that's that's that's who I am at my core. is But even about things you don't care about? just don't feel like, you know, it if, well, for me, I'm going to put my own personal perspective.
00:10:32
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This is what I, this is, if I don't know something, I'm going to like, I'm going to go do a little bit of research and figure this out. Yeah. Right? So I don't want to not know something.
00:10:46
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Like if somebody says something to me, I'm quick to be like, ooh, I've never heard of that one before. Or what's that mean? Or what's that situation? I don't give a damn if it if it comes off as ignorant. I'll never say dumb, ignorant. There's a difference. Not knowing. yeah But then I'm like, ooh, tell me about that.
00:11:01
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but when somebody else is just like, nah, I'm good not knowing. I'm like, you really just not want to know? Like you ain't curious at all? Yeah, some people are just not curious. And that's that's fine. no we should be better as a whole, as a group.
00:11:16
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Everybody should be better. I think everybody doesn't need to be curious about every, every damn thing. They just don't like so retir at some point. I'm just like, I mean, I don't really care about this and this is not adding any value to my life. So I don't want to continue discussing this. Like, you know, like, it that's not I mean, you know, you don't always have to,
00:11:40
Speaker
Know everything. No, it's not about knowing everything. But, like, i don't I don't have this overwhelming desire to know everything or else I keep my head in a book all day long. i yeah not But if somebody says something, I'm like, hmm.
00:11:55
Speaker
Didn't know about that. I become curious and want to learn more about it. Yeah. People don't have the curiosity to learn. Here's the thing. If everyone had a curiosity to genuinely learn, do you think that we, any of us globally, would be in a situation that we are now?
00:12:15
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No. Politically, socially, culturally, if people had a curious mindset. wow No. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. You're right. Look, ladies and gentlemen, I guess I was wrong.
00:12:26
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And I'm willing to admit that because I don't need to be right. I don't need to be right. I'd rather be correct than right. Anyway, something I am curious about hu is your trip.
00:12:40
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Yes. You had a little mini vacation this past weekend. You went to Houston. Yes. And why did you go to Houston? And what was in Houston? And what did you think about Houston? This is is the Houston Rodeo.
00:12:53
Speaker
So it happens every year. It's actually a fundraiser. They give out grants and scholarships for education, particularly around agriculture. So it's ah it's a good cause if you get an opportunity to go. And let me tell you, I had like i had a ball. like It was so much fun. The people in Houston are so warm. And like, we just met a lot of really awesome people. We met Garfield from the 90s R&B group Shy. If anybody remembers If I Ever Fall in Love Again, that is their hit song. So we had we met him just at brunch, like just on on random. I also met, I forgot to look up what her name was, but I recognized her face and her voice immediately. a comedian and a comedic actress, but I got to look her up to figure out.
00:13:49
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what her name was. We'll get that to you, ladies gentlemen, before the end of the show. Yeah, we'll get that because we gotta, I mean, we can't just leave people on a cliffhanger like that, but go ahead. Right, you're right. But it was so, like, well done for the number of people that were there. And I mean, it was packed. Like, the day we went to the carnival, And the like the horse show section or whatever. It was it thousands, thousands and thousands of people.
00:14:15
Speaker
But none of the lines the lines moved quick. None of them were really long. Like everything just was like a well-oiled machine, I guess, because they've been doing it for some time now. But ran better than the airport, I gotta tell you. But it's not TSA's fault.
00:14:32
Speaker
I just want everybody, like, I want to be very clear. Like, when I was at the airport each time, i just thanked as many TSA people as I could. Because they're the, especially, like, the TSA workers and and and at IAH, the Houston airport.
00:14:51
Speaker
Great attitudes were working their butts off to get people through as quickly as they could. Yes, it was a three to four hour slog to get through security, but they literally they they had the best attitudes and they're doing it for no pay while having to sit there.
00:15:12
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Not sit there, work very diligently with a no pay. While ICE quote unquote agents. Loitered for pay.
00:15:25
Speaker
And y'all, when I tell you, I was so triggered. Yeah. It took everything in me not to crash out. Good thing you crash out. The uselessness. Now, did I make comments very loud, loud enough for people to hear? Yes. course you Yeah. Yeah. Did I, when eyes were met, did I roll mine or mean mug? Yes. Yes, I did. It is impossible for me to not do anything.
00:15:53
Speaker
But it was a couple of us that that were, you know... Vocal enough for it to be overheard, but absolutely and completely useless and 100% waste of time and resources and taxpayer money. And they should just pay the TSA workers to do the job that that that ICE is actually not doing and also not qualified to do. So that's just my two cents.
00:16:19
Speaker
Quick aside. Democrats are absolutely trying to pay the TSA agents. They have put yeah they have put forward seven separate bills. Yes. To pay the TSA agents.
00:16:30
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. Republicans have blocked those bills, and the president of the United States has said, don't do it. Yeah.
00:16:41
Speaker
TSA agents, Democrats want to pay TSA agents. This is all Republicans doing, and it's tied in to a voter a new voting act that I talked about in the last episode. I gave a whole segment about the Saves Act and how it's completely corrupted. But anyway, yeah we we talking about fun times, and that let's not have an ADHD segue. Let's go back road had to the rodeo. I just had to say something about that because it really... really bugged the hell out of me. But rodeo, absolutely great.
00:17:15
Speaker
People are great. Beautiful. Like, I don't know what's in the water in Houston. But y'all fine as hell. Like, y'all you really... You've never been to Houston before. This is your first time.
00:17:28
Speaker
No, I have been to Houston, but I was there for work. I really didn't get to go out. I was there for, like, six weeks for work. But, I i mean, and I didn't get to go out and do things. So I didn't really get to see the the people of Houston. Boy.
00:17:43
Speaker
When they talk about... Like, Houston is like houston is a a but Okay, how can I phrase this power properly? You remember in the 90s, people used to always go to Miami because Miami had the most beautiful people?
00:17:57
Speaker
Yes. Okay. Houston has been that for the last 10 to 15 years. Houston is the place. see. Because Miami is very plastic. I mean, don't get me wrong. They're still beautiful people.
00:18:09
Speaker
I saw plenty of BBLs in Houston. But also, yes, I understand what you're saying. Yeah, yeah. But Houston, like, it because Houston is it's eclectic in its beauty. In other words, is like, everybody is kind of fine. like Yeah. Very diverse and everybody's fine. yes Yes. Some of my boys have been like, don't understand how you never want to move to Houston. And there is just one reason.
00:18:32
Speaker
It's in Texas. Well, okay, so two reasons. But one of the main reasons, and I did go to Houston in July. It is ungodly hot.
00:18:45
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. We had great weather, but it's March. Yes. The weather was top tier, but it's March. And I said, and even still, there was like a, I think Saturday, it was pretty hot. But I was like, y'all, we, you know, this is as far into the year as I'm going to go.
00:19:06
Speaker
to houston Like, I'm not going to April through, you know, October is not going to happen. Like, I'm just not going to it. And they're like, they're like, why? was like, it's entirely too hot. I went to Vegas in August. And so I can tell you just from that.
00:19:22
Speaker
I know I'm not going to Houston in the summer. And they're like, well, no, then we can get in the pool. I'm like, I'm telling you right now, the water in the pool is boiling. is' there This is not it's is not like you could just... And then the sun is still beating down on you and then reflecting off the water so it's beating... up your face down your head like this it there's no escape like cabana you can get a cabana if you want to the heat is still there yeah like it's impossible not gonna do it no not gonna do it it's too hot southwestern egg rolls i ever had and then it occurred to me damn i'm in the southwest no wonder these southwestern egg rolls so good
00:20:04
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it
00:20:08
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Houston, Houston, Houston, Atlanta, Vegas. That's what they say. Right. That's what. So I was curious because when you said the rodeo, I thought it was a black rodeo, like the thing in Houston with the cowboy boots and all that stuff.
00:20:24
Speaker
You went it. well there is There is a week. it's We missed it. So we were in the last week of the rodeo. The rodeo ended on the 22nd. So we went the last week. So there is a week where it's like the Black rodeo. Okay. But that's earlier in the month. So next year, there's definitely, I want to go to that. And then i i I want to see everything. Like, all the performances I know last year. This year, I think Lizzo performed. I know last year was Meg Thee Stallion. And just, yeah. So, yeah. That's all part of the the whole thing. yeah Yeah. See, we love Meg Thee Stallion because she's fine. But when you go to Houston...
00:21:05
Speaker
It's more than a few Meg Thee Stallions just walking around there. Yeah. Yeah. That's not uncommon. I mean, yeah Beyonce isn't from Houston, but not that far from Houston. Right. You know what I'm saying? She reps Houston. Yeah, she reps Houston. She reps Houston for sure. She reps Houston sure. She went down to the rodeo. All right. Well, that's fun. I'm glad you got a vacation. I'm glad one of us got a vacation.
00:21:28
Speaker
Yes. It was a long time coming to have just, I just needed a break. Yeah. I just needed a break. And so now I feel very refreshed, very renewed. And so I'm very happy. The day after we got back, I got a call from one of the ladies from the trip. And she was like, where are we going?
00:21:51
Speaker
I'm ready to go back out. And I'm like,
News Roundup Teaser
00:21:53
Speaker
hey, listen, let me pay this credit card down. Okay. We were popping bottles like we didn't have no, there was no tomorrow. So I'm like, let's, you know, let me recover from that. And then we could talk about what's next. We talk about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. We're on that note, ladies and gentlemen. Let's get to the second segment, the News Roundup, where it's some interesting stories that happened that I just got to talk
Michael B. Jordan and Hollywood Pay Disparities
00:22:20
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about. And we'll get into that next.
00:22:31
Speaker
All right, Jay. Like I said at the top, Michael B. Jordan said the price of the brick is going up. Multiple reports say Michael B. Jordan has significantly raised his asking price after his recent Oscar win. Now, this is what some people might not know, is that he's supposed to be starring in an upco upcoming reboot of Miami Vice.
00:22:52
Speaker
Yes. Playing Ricardo Tubbs. Yes. Right? Originally, he was quoted, i mean, his personal quote before his Oscar was about $5 million a movie. Now they say, and he's like, nah, I'm gonna to get $18 million in order to do these movies from here on out. And I had an interesting conversa... No, I didn't have an interesting conversation. I was watching a reaction from a person, I'm not gonna personally name them because I'm getting ready to attack them.
00:23:22
Speaker
From a person that I watched their YouTube channel, because they do a lot of entertainment news, right? Mm-hmm. And they're the one who brought this to my attention. I was like, oh, that's interesting. Let me do a little bit more research and find out about it. And they were bashing it. The first thing they said, well, I don't believe any actor should get paid $20 million. I was like, yeah first of all, stay out of somebody's pocketbooks. That's not I want to, okay? He was like, I think doctors and teachers and firefighters. was like, of course. they We all think that, yes. We all think that, okay?
00:23:50
Speaker
And then he started going through a bunch of Oscar winners who didn't triple their asking price. And I'm like, you're on a panel with two other people on the show and nobody's pushing back probably because it's his show.
00:24:02
Speaker
And I was, he said, people like Anthony Hopkins and, and other people didn't triple their quote. And I'm like, yeah, these, these are great actors. Daniel Day-Lewis, these are great actors. They're not box office.
00:24:16
Speaker
Thank you. Their name does not equal more butts in the seats. You know, the movie should be well acted from their standpoint, but they're not driving ticket sales based off of their name.
00:24:30
Speaker
Michael B. Jordan has been a leading man since 2000. He was in Fruitville Station, but that was kind of independent. Creed was 2015. So 10 years. And now with Sinners, he's proven, along with Creed,
00:24:47
Speaker
I'm box office. Now i got an Oscar? No, you're going have to pay because now he's on that level of a Leonardo DiCaprio, a George Clooney, a Denzel Washington, where their name by itself can generate interest in the music and and the movies and put butts in the seats. So I just thought it was interesting that people would come at him like, who does he think he is? Who he thinks he is is an Oscar winner.
00:25:12
Speaker
and And also, he's not asking for the world. Let me tell you, let me explain something. And this is a good, this is a good, like, comparison. Willard Smith, Will Smith, companion commands 20 to 40 million plus per film.
00:25:31
Speaker
Men in Black 3, 2012, 100 million, including back end. Wait a minute. He was talking about we got paid $100 million including back end? Pursuit of Happiness, 2006, $71.4 million including King Richard, million. Die, $30 million.
00:25:49
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emancipation thirty five million bad boys ride or die thirty million Ali and Bright, both of those movies, $20 million. this that this is So he's asking for $18 million. And this is a man that's going to bring in substantially more than that because he is a box office draw.
00:26:07
Speaker
He has brought in substantially more than that. So is Ryan Coogler. They deserve to be paid what the studios are definitely going to make.
00:26:18
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Times a hundred off of them. studios They deserve to be paid. Studios like to do that funny math where they say, well, we lost money on this movie. I will never forget. There is a black Batgirl movie.
00:26:33
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Mm-hmm. Yes. Warner Brothers made. It is finished. It is completed. They decided not to release it because they thought they would lose even more money.
00:26:44
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They've already paid for the movie, but they decided not to release it because they thought that they would lose more money if they released it. So they just scrapped a fully complete movie. So studios be wasted movie. You tell me yeah that they can't pay Michael B. Jordan, an Oscar winner and box office draw, who's not even 40 years old yet. I think he was, when he voted one of the most sexy men alive a couple of times in different things, he's a hard job. Women beat women. That's the running joke. He goes on SNL and it is like, even women that are gay are hitting on him saying that they, they want to be with them. Right. Like, That was the joke.
00:27:23
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Yeah. And he's he's... I don't even think he's in his prime as far as his acting ability yet. Yeah. he's He's hitting it now. He's hitting his stride now. Right. But like... But just for... In comparison, going back to Will Smith, for Bad Boys in 95, he was paid $2 million. $2 million. Independence Day in 96, he was paid five. And then his pay grew to 14 million for enemy of the state in 98. And then it kept going up there. And he's pretty much one of the one of the if not the highest paid or highest paid. But you know why?
00:27:57
Speaker
Because he brings the money in. Well, you know, when they discovered that, though. Independence Day. Yes. Independence Day. And that's why enemy of the state. Yeah. because you war But he's not the only one. We've seen this. No. Cruise. Tom Cruise wasn't making the money that he was making now. And he didn't even have an Oscar. Wait minute. Does Tom Cruise have an Oscar?
00:28:20
Speaker
He might have an Oscar for Jerry Maguire. He don't? Yo, yes, he did win for Jerry Maguire. That's what I thought. So yeah the price of the brick goes up. It's just funny to me. I'm not saying the person, all right, the person of the show, and I enjoy their show.
00:28:35
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ah They kind of tend to, lean... They don't lean... this They do lean a certain way politically, but we're politically aligned. However, I think they might think that they're a straight-up 100% ally, but still be harboring, you know, little tinge of that isms.
00:28:54
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and And it's funny that he attacked not a attack. he He said it, and I love Michael B. Jordan, but I don't think he should be getting paid this much. But he didn't attack somebody like the Leonardo DiCaprio, who I know who also makes that type of money.
00:29:08
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right yes and And to say that Michael B. Jordan isn't in that category now, You're only saying that because he hasn't been doing it as long, but it's his time. And all the actors know that. Yes, he has. He's been acting since he was a child. Right, right. man has been doing this for a long time. hasn't hit the superstar. He just hit the superstardom. Yes, yes. But that does not mean that before his like big films with Ryan...
00:29:38
Speaker
that he wasn't starring still in film. Like, he was still starring in stuff as a teenager and in his 20s. I read something interesting.
00:29:48
Speaker
i don't know if I read it or saw it, because all this stuff gets mushed together because i'm getting older. But the comment was, or what I read was, is that nobody saw Michael B. Jordan as a leading man.
00:30:02
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Except for Ryan Coogler. Because all of his leading man movies, or the start of them, have been because it's either Ryan Coogler or Michael B. Jordan directing.
00:30:14
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Yes. Nobody has said, you're going to be the star of the movie. So yeah part of me, if I was Michael B. Jordan, would be like, look, I'm tired of putting myself on.
00:30:25
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I'm tired of bankrolling on myself. You know what? Y'all want me. Y'all want my superstardom. Five million ain't going cut it anymore. I'm going to need 18. But Mike, that's more than double. Yeah, it's more than triple. It's triple plus three.
00:30:40
Speaker
Call me 33. thirty three Call me Scottie Pippen. I i want my money. And I'm not upset about it. You should be able to look. Anybody out there, if your job if you if your job is not paying you what you think you're worth, you got one or two choices.
00:30:56
Speaker
You either go in and ask for a raise or you go find a new job. Anybody would do that. If you can make more money, people are going to make more money. Anybody leaving money on the table when they can make it when they would be doing the same thing regardless. You know what saying? He's going to act.
00:31:11
Speaker
So why not get all the money that you can for it? I don't make no sense me. People are stupid. Not even the money that you can. It's the money he deserves. Right.
00:31:23
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That point. it's It's the money he deserves. He is not only doing his job well, which is to entertain us. Right. But he is making a lot of people very rich. And he deserves to have a cut at that because it's his labor.
00:31:39
Speaker
Mm hmm. So y'all shut up. And he is just one in a long line of people who realize, hey, I'm a commodity now. And so you need to pay me commiserable with what I'm worth. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Yeah. Just some people were just saying he's he's getting kind of full of himself because he won an Oscar. So that's the highest recognition an actor get. Like, that's it. He's got the thing. Like, what are you talking about?
Alan Richson's Street Fight Discussion
00:32:08
Speaker
He is a movie star and he has an Oscar. He's got the thing. That means he can start asking for what he's worth.
00:32:17
Speaker
Do you know how hard that is for a black person in Hollywood? Right. Come on. So I just people I think people should stay out of other people's pockets. You know what? That's that's that. Just stay out of other people's pockets and then we'll be all good.
00:32:33
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Yeah. Speaking of staying out of people's pockets, somebody was trying to hit Jack Reacher's pockets. You don't know what I'm talking about. That's okay. no I'm going to film you in. But the title of this this part of the news is, Why Would You Even Mess With Jack Reacher?
00:32:53
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That's a good question. So people people are like, Bruce, what are you talking about? So actor Alan Rich, the guy who plays Jack Reacher, was involved in a filmed street fight with a neighbor in his Brentwood, Tennessee community that's Nashville after this after a dispute about him riding his motorbikes with his children. The incident happened this past Sunday, March 22nd, when Richardson was riding a motorcycle with his two sons who rode minibikes nearby. A neighbor confronted him, reportedly upset about the rioting in the neighborhood. An earlier viral video filmed from a window ah somebody home looking out to the street showed Richardson standing over a man on the ground throwing punches.
00:33:37
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Because viewers only saw that angle, many online believe Richardson was the aggressor, and some even thought it might be a stage scene from Michelle Reacher. Now, Jay, you haven't seen this video.
00:33:48
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But I implore everybody, pause, go watch the video if you haven't seen it. And if you've seen Jack Reacher, you're like, I've seen them punches before. He's standing over the dude, punching him in the face.
00:34:00
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Yeah. The dude has been over. He is throwing uppercuts underneath, connecting them in the face. was like, damn, Jack Reacher? You can really Jack Reacher somebody. He's equalizing his neighbors.
00:34:12
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Yes. Sounds like it. Later, additional footage, including body cam video of Richardson was wearing, he wore a GoPro on his helmet, and clips obtained by outlets like TMZ and Entertainment Tonight showed a fuller sequence.
00:34:27
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Those videos appeared to show the neighbor initiating physical contact by pushing or knocking Richardson from his motorcycle before the punches were thrown. After reviewing all footage and statements, local police determined Richardson acted in self-defense. Authorities declined to file charges against either man, effectively effectively closing the case as a mutual confrontation that didn't rise to the criminal prosecution. The neighbor's side was emphasized.
00:34:53
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because of his injuries and the punches seen in the first viral clip, while Richardson was only indirectly addressing the incident through a cryptic social media post referencing an enemy and a Napoleon quote.
00:35:06
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So if you watch the full video, what happens is, is Jack Reacher, because we not calling him Alan Richardson, he's Jack Reacher. And possibly Batman, if they ever get in that role.
00:35:20
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Okay. That is his Christian name, though. it It is his Christian name. He's in the front. His two boys, or his two kids, I don't know if it's two sons, but i think two sons, are in the back with their little bikes. This guy jumps out in the middle of the street, puts his hands up. Now, for people who have never ridden a motorcycle before, I've ridden a motorcycle.
00:35:40
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To abruptly stop is a scary, scary thing. yeah You can skid, It could throttle. You could not, you could panic and run this man over because he stood in the middle of the street. He just jumped down in the middle of the street and stopped. Insanity. And Alan Richardson was like, yo, what the hell you doing, man?
00:36:01
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And he was like, you guys are driving. And he was being the guy, the neighbor was being real belligerent towards Alan Richardson. Alan Richardson is bigger than I am. He's 6'5", 250. Yeah. He's gigantic. That was my thing. Forget him being Reacher. Why would you want to challenge Alan Richardson? Like, that man is gigantic. well Are y'all crazy?
00:36:26
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and he got And then he pushed him. he pushed him Here's the thing. Alan Richardson... wasn't trying to to do nothing, right? Right. He was trying to get away.
00:36:38
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He was trying to go around him. The dude was blocking his path, yelling, screaming, cussing at him in front of his two children, initiated the ah can contact, and pushed him off the bike.
00:36:51
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That's when Alan Richardson said, I'm going to have hands on you. It was the second time he touched him. He said, going to lay hands on you. Yeah. So, but I find it funny because...
00:37:04
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This goes back to my to the first to the first segment. That first clip came out, and I couldn't get any more details because it was a little while before the second clip came out. And I was like, I really would like to know the full story because this is just showing him beat up this dude. But there's got to be, I know Alan Richardson from interviews. He's a really decent, good person, right? Yeah. Yeah.
00:37:29
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There's got to be more in the story. But the internet doesn't wait, right? Nobody is curious. Nobody waits. And the first videos shaped the narrative until the second video came out.
00:37:40
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right and And another thing that kind of pissed me off is So a lot of people don't know Alan Richardson's political leanings.
00:37:51
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h He is what conservatives would call a snowflake, woke, leftist, liberal, communist socialist. He is he is down for the cause, right right? There's a lot of people that watch these Jack Reacher shows. Right.
00:38:07
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that on the other end of the spectrum and don't know about his politics but found out in these comments because a lot of people were saying, who cares? He's some wex woke loaf leftist. And then other people were saying, look, i don't agree with his political leanings, but don't nobody why put their hands on you. He had a right to defend himself. So I don't know. I just thought this was interesting. What do you think of somebody actually jumping down middle of the street to stop a motorcycle and that person...
00:38:36
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that you trying to stop on that motorcycle was Allen Richardson, Jack Reacher himself. Yeah. I think a lot of people are delusional. Y'all delusional.
00:38:48
Speaker
Cause ain't no way like, okay. For instance, McGee, a prime example, the airport was at Houston airport. Okay. And now they wouldn't let me check my bags in More than five hours before my flight.
00:39:06
Speaker
But they were like, get in line for security. By the time you make it back up here, it'll be time to check your bags and you jump out and you can join rejoin your party after you check your bag. So that's what I did. Right.
00:39:19
Speaker
Went fine. They let me back in. I was able to rejoin everybody. Well, it pissed three young ladies off. Mm hmm. and Okay, because they're looking at it and thinking, she just jumped the line.
00:39:31
Speaker
No, I didn't. I've been waiting three hours. I just went to check my bag and I'm coming back. So, but honestly, none of your damn business anyway. Because in here, we got TSA, we got Houston PD, and we have ICE. You really think going to let me jump the line? Mm-hmm.
00:39:49
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But they had a whole lot of mouth and a lot to say, but I got things to lose. And so I didn't do anything. but Now, these young ladies were not that big.
00:40:01
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They were not that big. They were young and they were small. And I'm like, I would honestly, this was, I could take all three of y'all. Like, let's be honest here.
00:40:12
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And then, ah but I thought they were with two ladies in front of them. Now, that's him The two ladies in front of them, one of them was at least 6'2". Okay.
00:40:23
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Okay? And then the other one was a three pound at least, but it was a bit it looked like muscle. Okay? These were two, and I thought they were with them. So that was another reason why I also kept my mouth shut. One, I got things to lose. Two, if y'all with the two of them, they weren't. But I was like, if y'all with the two of them,
00:40:46
Speaker
ah Y'all got bodyguards. Okay, so I'm not delusional. Y'all delusional. If you think you could roll up to Alan Richardson and be like, you got you want this smoke?
00:40:58
Speaker
ah Baby, you're going to lose your life. Some of y'all are delusional. I saw a video the other day of some, a white guy just harassing a black man on the street that just minding his business. My man's hauled off, black man hauled off, punched him right in the face, knocked him cold out. This is, y'all are delusional. Stop picking fights with people when A, you know you can't fight, or B, they definitely gonna whoop your ass. Yeah.
00:41:29
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yeah Stop being delusional about your own capabilities. Know your limits. I was talking to somebody a couple of weeks ago, and was like, ain't been, I'm almost 46 years old. The last time I was in a fight, I was in a bar, and I was surrounded with a group of people, and i was just throwing punches.
00:41:49
Speaker
Wasn't landing none of them, but wasn't nobody landing no punches on me either. So I was like 21 years old. and The last time I was in a fight, teen was behind my age. Right. it yeah Last time I was in a fight where it was back and forth teen. Right.
00:42:03
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I'm at an age now, if I fight somebody, i might hurt myself. Yes. I might bust an Achilles. I might tear a patella tendon. I might throw out my shoulder. Why would I do that? Tennis elbow. Why? Rotate a cuff.
00:42:20
Speaker
a carpal tunnel i don't know what i would i like don't think you'll get carpal pinch nerve in my neck or something don't know look i got i i got what is it uh i got sciatica i can't be i'm not about to do this i'm calling the police like don't play with me and then i'm gonna sue you like don't play with me like i'm pressing charges like touch me if you want to Well, the dude that came at Alan Richardson, he went out to the news first and started telling all his story.
00:42:50
Speaker
He may have knew who Alan Richardson was, but definitely after the fact, he was like, oh, I can get some bread. Also, i want to also point out that even though this was in Nashville, Tennessee, this gentleman that is Alan Richardson's neighbor,
00:43:04
Speaker
is either British or Australian due to the accent. I can't tell which one, but they also a little different. They always with the shits. So maybe that was that was just like, he was like, I know dudes like you back home and I done dropped them.
00:43:19
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. Okay. But he did dry. His face is bruised up. He got marks on his face. yeah I'm too old to have marks on my face. Don't touch my face. Yes. You know what I'm saying? Boy, Don't do it. Like, this is not. No. No, no, no, no. But when I thought they were with them other two ladies, I said, hell, don't know. I'm just trying to go. Not in business. I'm just trying to go home. Like, we're not. I'm not doing nothing.
00:43:44
Speaker
No. Because I'm not delusional. Look, I went to Muay Thai fights a couple of months ago. And these were semi-pro fights. semi-amateur fights, right?
00:43:55
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and And it was some nerdy-looking people that had some real striking capability. And Muay Thai is feet and hands. yes And so I was like, you know what?
00:44:09
Speaker
I ain't got it like that no more. I don't need to be upset about anything that's going to go to a physical confrontation. and Unless somebody put their hands on me or or somebody I'm with, a loved one or something like that. Then I'll defend myself. I'll defend the person that I'm with.
00:44:25
Speaker
But I'm not just, I'm not going throw to throw the first punch. No. Mm-mm. And you can call me on my name. You can call me on my name and I might be like, you know what?
00:44:36
Speaker
I got a whole lot to lose. Yeah. It'll hurt my pride. It'll kill my pride. But I'm like, you know what? Would I rather have my pride or have a torn meniscus?
00:44:48
Speaker
Let me just go ahead and sacrifice my pride. pated yeah You know what i'm saying? Yeah. Because I want to be able to walk without a limp. Yeah. Right. Well, I can't even do that regardless, but ah I don't want to make it any worse. I don't want to make it worse. Right.
00:45:05
Speaker
Yeah. No, don't play with me. All right, ladies and gentlemen, up next, this is a different topic. Typically, we talk about things that are Black, but these are things that are not Black that Black people have adopted. And we're going to get into that next.
00:45:21
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Mm-hmm.
00:45:29
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Jay, I saw this very interesting list on Black threads. Threads is my new thing. Like, I'm on threads. Like, it's my life depending on it, right? Mm-hmm. And it the the topic was...
00:45:45
Speaker
The topic was, hold on, I got to, okay. The topic was Black movies that's not considered a Black movie. So these are movies that, a Black movie would be Black Panther. Black Panther to me is the last Black movie.
00:46:01
Speaker
But that's not really a Black you about things like The Best Man. yes You know, like the things like that. those It's been a
Cultural Adoption of Films by the Black Community
00:46:08
Speaker
long time. It's been a long time since we've had Black movies, universal Black movies. Now they just go to streaming, but lint in movie theaters. But yes, like the best man... I last one I saw was probably Girl's Trip.
00:46:21
Speaker
girl the Okay, Girl's Trip was was a good one. So those were Black movies. We're not so we're talking about normal not normal movies. We're talking about movies that are not considered Black movies. They're not centered on Black people or Blackness or right Black history. Yes, yes.
00:46:38
Speaker
But Black people have adopted it as a Black movie. Wholeheartedly. I'm just going to go through just a few people, just a few of these movies, okay? Matilda.
00:46:49
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Yes. Scarface. Absolutely. The Bronx Tale. Hands down. The Sandlot. Also, yes. The Lion King.
00:47:01
Speaker
It was set in Africa. Mrs. Doubtfire. Also, yes. Forrest Gump. Mm-hmm. Selena.
00:47:12
Speaker
Anything for Selenas. A Goofy movie. Now, let me stop you right there. Okay. All right. All right. That is not a non-black movie. That is, in fact, a black movie. Because you can't tell me, one, that Goofy and Max are not black. And two, that Powerline.
00:47:34
Speaker
well pi He was Tevin Campbell. Yes. yeah Also black. ah Oh, I can't remember her name, but the girl that Max liked in the movie. Also black. Like, be this, a goofy movie, those are, I'm sorry, those are black characters.
00:47:49
Speaker
ah I'm gonna, I'm gonna shock you. Mm-hmm. Never seen a goofy movie. Boy, if you don't watch that, please do. So, we've talked about this, issue we've talked about this privately.
00:48:05
Speaker
yeah But like movies like a Goofy movie, The Lion King, movies like that, it came they came those Disney movies came out of the stretch of time. yeah I was a preteen about to turn into a teenager.
00:48:19
Speaker
So unless... a girlfriend was forcing me to go see that movie or mom and dad was making me take you and our brother to go see that movie. I wasn't going to see those movies.
00:48:31
Speaker
You will love a goofy movie. All right. i might watch this weekend. Maybe. First of all, just, just for the music, just for Tevin Campbell as power line, honestly, but, ah but just, yeah. Yeah.
00:48:49
Speaker
Totally fun movie. So fun. Here's some more. Don't tell mom the babysitter is dead. Yes, that's a Black movie. so Star of Christina Applegate.
00:48:59
Speaker
Yes. I brought this up to a friend of mine and he was like, yes, that's absolutely a Black movie. I've seen that a million times. So many times. So many times. Yes. Blank check.
00:49:10
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Yes. all right. Now, let's talk about blank check for a moment. because Okay. Because as kids, when we watch this movie... Okay. we were We were like, yo, this movie is dope.
00:49:23
Speaker
As an adult, now that I watched that movie as an adult, because I did it sometime over the pandemic, it's a little creepy that that woman gives that little boy a kiss. Yes, yes. yeah You know, you got to remember what time it is. It's the 90s. We wasn't really, we weren't really thinking about,
00:49:47
Speaker
you know, child stuff in the reverse like that. It was really when that teacher got pregnant by that student, which I can't remember but that teacher's name. What you're trying to say is, what you're trying to say is, Nobody was looking to protect little boys. Exactly. Yes. Not little boys from women.
00:50:05
Speaker
Yeah. Not little boys from women. Right. But nobody women, y'all got it rough. I mean, just think about think about another good movie that I also consider a Black film, Milk Money, starring, oh my God, please watch that. It was, Melanie Griffith was a prostitute. Okay. And three boys got their milk money together.
00:50:27
Speaker
to go, it this is a family film, y'all. Let me... so What? Prostitute in the line of, like, Pretty Woman, where it's not, like, a real, like, gritty thing. Like, it's more Pretty Woman. Julia Roberts was street walker in Pretty Woman.
00:50:43
Speaker
She was out, she was on the stroll. Yeah, so was Melanie Griffith. Yes. And so they went to, I guess they just wanted to see a woman and they brought their little money and a bunch of shenanigans happened. She ends up living in their tree house because she's hiding from people who want to get, she falls in love with their dad and a whole bunch of stuff happens. Yes. It is also a very adorable film, but it's,
00:51:07
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Like, absolutely not. Like, what? say These are middle school age boys putting in a little pocket change together.
00:51:20
Speaker
they had coins, I bet, didn't they? It was. It was a bag of coins. It was their milk money. Okay. Highly unacceptable. And this is a family film.
00:51:33
Speaker
Highly unacceptable. Yes. Yes. All right. This is definitely... This has got to be the Blackest non-Black movie that should have been a Black movie, but isn't a Black movie, but definitely is a Black movie.
00:51:48
Speaker
Sister Act. One That's Black movie. Yeah, that's... But it's not, though. Two, definitely. Because it was a majority... Black cast.
00:51:59
Speaker
Was it? Yes. No. All students? All I be students they don't think they were all Black. They weren't all Black, but it was it's just it's set in the inner city. It's It's Lauryn Hill. It's like, all it was a come on. like Dangerous Minds was set in the and the inner city, and that's not a Black movie.
00:52:18
Speaker
No. But Sister Act wasn't a white savior film. ah the one doing the saving in both movies was Whoopi. You're right. It was Sister Mary Clarence. Okay. So, no, it's, I think that's a black film, especially now the second one, especially the second one. They weren't,
00:52:45
Speaker
They weren't technically Black films, but they are they have been adopted as Black films in the Black community. The last one on my heads but list, but I got some more as I was thinking about it. Hook.
00:52:56
Speaker
Yes. You can't tell me... Look, let me tell you something. Hook had the Black community in a chokehold. Chokehold. Let me tell you something. it li Like, for us, I'm surprised, honestly, there weren't more babies born in the 90s that were named Rufio.
00:53:18
Speaker
I am surprised. I don't think there's nobody named Rufio. There's nobody, which is shocking to me because the way he had me in a chokehold. I think you grow out of it. I think you grow out of that.
00:53:32
Speaker
Shoot. Do you have any movies to add to this list? Just off the top of your head? Oh, so many. But the common thread through a lot of these films is the underdog story.
00:53:44
Speaker
that is when That is what touches us. Matilda, Scarface, Bronstell, Sandlot, Lion King. Simba coming back ah from nothing, being chased away from his pride and coming back. it It's the underdog story. Mrs. Doubtfire, this man did whatever he needed to do to be in his kids' lives. Like, it's the underdog story.
00:54:09
Speaker
It is the started from the bottom, now we hear story. Get it out the mud. That always resonates with us. We love these kinds of aspirational movies. And yes, we will absolutely adopt them into our culture because...
00:54:27
Speaker
That's our story. And it's the only, it's a lot of the times the only way we really see our story reflected, even though it's not us telling the story and it's not us that are acting the story a lot of the times, still that story of coming from nothing and turning it into something amazing is our story. And so that we see ourselves reflected the,
00:54:57
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Selena, her rise, we see ourselves reflected in that. We see ourselves reflected in The Sandlot and the story of Benny the Jet Rodriguez.
00:55:09
Speaker
Like, for sure. That's the common thread is that underdog story. You always going to touch Black people with that.
00:55:19
Speaker
Rocky, another Black movie. And what is it? Underdog story. You're right. I never thought of it like that. See, this is the reason why, ladies and gentlemen, that I bring up film stuff, because you know my sister got a film degree. She knows a little something about it, a little something about it with these movies. I never thought of it as the underdog story, but that's absolutely right. It's the reason why we root for somebody like Scarface, Antonio Montana, because even though He's a murderer and a horrible human being. He's literally getting it out the mud. Yeah, in a co-cad. Yeah. He's literally trying to get it out the mud. But before we end this, give me a couple of movies off of your head that aren't Black movies but are absolutely adopted by the Black community as our movies. You said you had a list. Now sudden you think it?
00:56:05
Speaker
Oh, my God. Well, because I started getting into my point, you know, I can't. My brain only do ADHD. It's going to go ADHD all the time. had some more movies. Well, I had some more movies, but just like you, I've forgotten. You know what else I also noticed? These are all millennial movies.
00:56:28
Speaker
Yes. It's all... i don't think these i don't think these movies get made anymore. They're definitely not movies that you go to the movie theater to go see. They're probably something that goes straight to streaming. And they don't they don't get to stay in the consciousness as long because it's on to the next one so fast. We talked about how technology does that.
00:56:50
Speaker
Our generation, because we were the generation that grew up with cable and going to the movies, that these movies resonated with us. That's the reason why it's connected. So a lot of these people that are Gen Z or younger millennials going be like, what the hell is blank check? But anybody that's in their late 30s to about 50 years old know exactly every single movie that we just labeled was definitely something that they were connected with.
00:57:19
Speaker
yeah Risky Business might be a Black movie. I think of things like again and like The Usual Suspects. That feels to me like a movie we do we watch. Yes. we I mean, yes. We we and we love, yes. good Anything that had to do with anything about being gangsters. Because that is, once again, it's an underdog story. They never start out as this big-time gangster. They rise and then fall.
00:57:44
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Yes. Yeah. All right, so you ain't no more lists. You just... No, I can't. can't think of nothing. in right, well, ladies and gentlemen, y'all give us some more lists. I know y'all got some stuff out there. Yeah, I know they're out there. They're
Reflections on Film Narratives and Cultural Identity
00:57:58
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definitely out there. Yeah, I know we You might not agree with me on this. Okay.
00:58:03
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But for me, hands down, Tombstone. Okay. ah Yeah. no i cool I mean, i why I've seen it. I've seen it. The swag of Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday. Oh, okay. I was thinking of something else. I was thinking of the one with Leonardo DiCaprio on Sharon Stone. But Tombstone, yes. Yeah, I'll be your Huckleberry. Shawshank Redemption.
00:58:28
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Oh, yes. Black movie. Once again. Underdog Story. Underdog Story. Yeah, you're right. So it's Tombstone. ah they day That town was overrun, ran out every sheriff. These brothers came in and decided to take that town back, and they did it. And... and they Come on now, we're gonna always love that. We're gonna always love that kind of thing.
00:58:55
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Yes. I think also movies that we have adopted. Adam Sandler's got more than a few movies that Black people have adopted as yeah Black movies. Happy Gilmore. The biggest one, though...
00:59:07
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It's actually a movie where I was like, yo, Adam Sandler can bring more emotion out of me than just laughter. Big Daddy. yeah Big Daddy actually had me in tears. yeah so bak that So Adam Sandler gets a lot of credit for grown-ups. um You'd be like, that's not Black movie. The hell it ain't. You and all your boys get together and relive your your youth. Yes, that is that's a Black movie.
00:59:33
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And then I lost my train thought. It was Adam Sandler and it was going to be something else. But ladies and gentlemen, y'all get the point. Yes, you get it. Yeah, you get it. The underground, the underdog story. You said it.
00:59:45
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best, Jay. Okay, I can tell this is the end of the episode because I'm getting tongue-tied and that means I'm
Conclusion and Call to Action
00:59:50
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tired. So, Jay, what do you want to leave people with?
00:59:54
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It's a cuss word. F-ice. Yeah, well, yeah. That's that's that's not that's it. F-ice and F-Trump? How about that?
01:00:05
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