Speaker 1: Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Hey everybody, and welcome to Many Crush Monday. Chuck here.
Speaker 1: Noel I hope is joining us. He is not answering
Speaker 1: his skype call. So we're gonna go ahead and get
Speaker 1: going because I am on a tight schedule. So. Uh.
Speaker 1: I found this on the Movie Crushers page. This is
Speaker 1: pretty great. This is from one of our oldest pals,
Speaker 1: Alison Gallagher. She dug up an article from pop Sugar two. Well,
Speaker 1: let me qualify this. It does not say thest movies
Speaker 1: of all time. It says these are twenty two of
Speaker 1: the worst movies of all time. And this is from
Speaker 1: Karne Sullivan from February of this year from pop Sugar
Speaker 1: dot com. And I was kind of curious how they
Speaker 1: qualified this, and then they said it kind of right
Speaker 1: in the beginning, that these are films that have a
Speaker 1: zero rating on rotten Tomatoes, which is, uh, that's pretty bad.
Speaker 1: Zero percent. Uh. And you know, we've talked about rotten
Speaker 1: tomatoes on the show before and whether or not, uh,
Speaker 1: anyone should pay attention to something like rotten tomatoes. You know,
Speaker 1: here's what I think is rotten tomatoes is a you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's an O case starting point. It will give
Speaker 1: you sort of a level set on generally what like
Speaker 1: how good a movie might be. It is not scientific.
Speaker 1: It is just a bunch of people's opinions. Um but
Speaker 1: I will say this, they are not film critics. And
Speaker 1: sometimes it's nice just to see what we all us
Speaker 1: normies think about a movie. So sometimes I will go,
Speaker 1: if I'm not sure about a movie, check out a
Speaker 1: little Rotten Tomatoes action and if it's really low, then
Speaker 1: that probably means it's not great. So I will say that,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't put like the most stock in it.
Speaker 1: Like it would never be the ultimate decider on whether
Speaker 1: or not I watched a movie. Um but the number
Speaker 1: one movie, well they're not in order, I guess because
Speaker 1: they obviously represent but number the first one on the
Speaker 1: list is Mac and Me, a movie that I did
Speaker 1: not see. And I'll go ahead, and we should just
Speaker 1: go through all these and see which one's that I've
Speaker 1: seen and I haven't seen. But I have not seen
Speaker 1: Mac and Me at all, and I will not I
Speaker 1: can say that for sure. Is that nol. Hey dude,
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. How's it going. Yes, I'm on
Speaker 1: a tight schedule, so I got started and figured you
Speaker 1: would join at some point. Everyone Noel is here. It's weird.
Speaker 1: Oh so you're not recording, so Noel is will be
Speaker 1: recording shortly. Hey, that's all right. This is great entertainment.
Speaker 1: So what we're talking about, Noel is the Rotten Tomatoes
Speaker 1: twenty two movies of a zero percent rating? Are you
Speaker 1: really truly telling me you've never seen mc and Me
Speaker 1: and you refuse to see mac and Me? Why would
Speaker 1: I see it now? I mean, because it's one of
Speaker 1: the great product placement movies of all time. It's like
Speaker 1: one of the great like McDonald's tie in movies of
Speaker 1: all time. And I guess all you really need to
Speaker 1: see is that Paul Red clip. Though once you've seen that,
Speaker 1: you've probably seen the whole movie. There's also a dance
Speaker 1: off in McDonald's with really bad creature makeup with these
Speaker 1: alien gritters. Um, but yeah, I support not seeing it.
Speaker 1: It's probably fine. I'm not gonna do it. Number the
Speaker 1: second one on the list is Problem Child, another movie
Speaker 1: I have not seen. This sorts my heart because John
Speaker 1: Ritter is great and it's about to say and I
Speaker 1: miss him being around but uh, he was in apparently
Speaker 1: a pretty bad movie. What how did Problem Child to
Speaker 1: do on Rotten Tomatoes? I have no idea. It says
Speaker 1: there's also a problem Child three colin junior in love.
Speaker 1: What I've never even heard of that. I didn't know
Speaker 1: there was a two. That's wild. Yeah, I remember in
Speaker 1: the theaters. I mean that was those were like big,
Speaker 1: Those were big theater movies. I remember seeing them when
Speaker 1: I was a kid. But this is news to me.
Speaker 1: Problem Child three junior in love. That's crazy. If you
Speaker 1: have a colin in your movie, then that's a bad sign.
Speaker 1: That's uh. You want to rethink that statement, which would
Speaker 1: name a good one? What about a colonoscope in your movie? Now? Okay, um?
Speaker 1: What else? I love this? I love this game. The
Speaker 1: third one is Look who's talking? Now? Not the original
Speaker 1: but the sequel. Well that's the third one. Look who's
Speaker 1: talking too? Was looking? Was talking? Also? A K A
Speaker 1: T O O? Looking? Now? What was this? What was
Speaker 1: that was that? The babies? That was one with babies
Speaker 1: right with with two children on the they're not babies there.
Speaker 1: They look like to be about four or five. The
Speaker 1: first one is babies. The second one they're a little older,
Speaker 1: and I guess what's going on? Is there? There there's
Speaker 1: two dogs, and they added dogs to the mix. That's
Speaker 1: exactly Yes, that's it. They added dogs. That's how they
Speaker 1: spiced it up. Because then look who's talking to I
Speaker 1: wonder if they should just do more sequels and be
Speaker 1: look who's really talking now, and it'll be like the
Speaker 1: appliances yep, and then the walls and then they all
Speaker 1: just drift slowly into insanity. Look who's also talking as well?
Speaker 1: That's a good title, colin every everything in the house. Yes,
Speaker 1: here's another Colon movie. This is proving my point very well.
Speaker 1: Ballistic Colon X versus sever Okay, is this some kind
Speaker 1: of action picture? Yeah? This was Antonio Benderis and Lucy Lou.
Speaker 1: I did not see this either. Turns out I have
Speaker 1: pretty good taste. They should have just called it ballistic
Speaker 1: because that's, you know, on the nose. But at least
Speaker 1: it's a real movie title. It's ex spelled e c
Speaker 1: K S. Yes, amazing. I have not heard of this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like I said, something I've never seen. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen any of these. Directed by someone named Wike
Speaker 1: Chaos Sanada under the pseudonym chaos, Wow, chaos with a K. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I bet the person directed music videos before that. I
Speaker 1: bet you a thousand dollars. That's a music video director. One. Huh,
Speaker 1: I'll take that action, all right. Uh. Number five is Derailed,
Speaker 1: a movie I've never heard of, but it has Jean
Speaker 1: Claude van Dam in it. A train of course straight
Speaker 1: to video. There you have it. Number six is Pinocchio,
Speaker 1: and then on the Facebook page, people are like Pinocchio.
Speaker 1: How could Pinocchio be on it? They're talking about the
Speaker 1: live action Roberto what's his name Roberto Banini version? Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is crazy because that was like a real passion
Speaker 1: project for him and obviously a life is beautiful, like
Speaker 1: you know, Oscar City. And then his next big passion
Speaker 1: project was a weird Pinocchio where he plays a small
Speaker 1: child as an adult, weird Italian man and apparently unbearably bad.
Speaker 1: Just just like painful to watch is what I read. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not interested. I have not seen any of these killing
Speaker 1: me softly as on the on the seven Spot Heather
Speaker 1: Graham erotic thriller. Well what they're wrong with that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not look good. The eighth one is Constellation has
Speaker 1: Billy d Williams, Gabrielle Union, Hill Harper, and Zoe Saldana.
Speaker 1: Good cast. Yeah, movie, though says I made for TV
Speaker 1: soap opera kind of thing with an A list cast,
Speaker 1: So not about space at all. No, it's not. I
Speaker 1: think it's probably about love. That's written in the stars
Speaker 1: would be my guess. Ray Don Chong, she's she's in
Speaker 1: it good. I mean, I haven't seen her in a while,
Speaker 1: but I'm glad you got work in two thousand five.
Speaker 1: It's got two stars on IMDb. Okay, I guess is
Speaker 1: about the equivalent of no stars on Rotten Tomato because
Speaker 1: IMDb is all user generated. So if people that actually
Speaker 1: watched the movie or this unkind to it, that's pretty bad.
Speaker 1: Maybe that was just Stoner's who thought it was Tommy
Speaker 1: Chong and just gave it a star or two ray
Speaker 1: Don Chong. The ninth one is one missed call. Another
Speaker 1: movie I've never heard of. It's a remake of a
Speaker 1: Japanese film starring ed Ed Burns. I don't know who
Speaker 1: that is. You know Ed Burns? Ed Burns, Mr Burns.
Speaker 1: He was in uh he directed films early on and
Speaker 1: wrote and directed these movies about you know kind of
Speaker 1: young Catholic men. Um, but he he wasn't saving private
Speaker 1: Ryan was kind of his biggest thing. You'd recognize him
Speaker 1: if you saw him. He was hot ship for a while. Okay,
Speaker 1: handsome man, got it? Let me see here, Tin is homecoming.
Speaker 1: Misha Barton in a so so I'm sorry, not so
Speaker 1: scary horror movie. Yeah, yeah, these straight to video things,
Speaker 1: I don't even know if you should count that. If
Speaker 1: you're gonna make a worst movie list, that's yeah. I
Speaker 1: feel like there should be a caveat that this should
Speaker 1: only include movies that actually were featured in cinemall cinemaar
Speaker 1: like The Nutcracker and three D l Fanning and Nathan Lane.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, the Nutcracker is terrible anyway. Well, no,
Speaker 1: whoa chuck. That is a hot take, my friends, that's
Speaker 1: a hot take. Have you ever gone and seen The
Speaker 1: Nutcracker live and on stage? Now, Bob Ball, do you
Speaker 1: one better. I've run theater tech for The Nutcracker many
Speaker 1: years when I was when I was growing up, when
Speaker 1: I was in college, I worked as a sound guy
Speaker 1: at a theater, a local theater. And you know, if
Speaker 1: you're the sound guy, you still have to like be
Speaker 1: kind of a stage hand when they're setting up the
Speaker 1: sets and building all the stuff. And so, yes, I
Speaker 1: have seen The Nutcracker many times in a row and full. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they do sort of an abbreviated version. So no,
Speaker 1: it's not very abbreviated. It's just slightly shortened for like
Speaker 1: school shows where they have like kids come for you know,
Speaker 1: the different elementary schools around town. Uh, and then they
Speaker 1: do the full version for the evening performances. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I've seen it in six different ways. Man. Yeah, My
Speaker 1: problem with The Nutcracker is that it's so long. Also,
Speaker 1: like the first the first half of it when they're
Speaker 1: actually like, you know, when all the magic starts, that's
Speaker 1: pretty charming. But then the second half when it's just
Speaker 1: all these bizarre dances and you know, it just goes
Speaker 1: on and on and on and on, and there's just
Speaker 1: it's just so meandering and boring. And yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: into it either, Chuck. I'm with you. I'm with you
Speaker 1: on your hot take. The twelfth one on the list.
Speaker 1: This was in the theater because I remember it being
Speaker 1: a thing. She's in here, Emily, she's under the table. Uh,
Speaker 1: Bucky Larson Colin Born to be a star. That just
Speaker 1: looks terrible. Christina Ricci and Nick Swardson and Don Johnson.
Speaker 1: Uh thirteen is Dark Tide? My goodness, halle Berry, she's great,
Speaker 1: but dark tied. I think she kind of is is
Speaker 1: described as a sexy Jaws starring halle Berry. It wasn't
Speaker 1: Jaws sexy enough. Do we need a sexy Jaws? I mean,
Speaker 1: Roy Scheider was absolutely soldering and Jaws and that shark,
Speaker 1: I mean, talk about a sexy shark. We don't need
Speaker 1: a sexy Jaws. Dark Tide is it? Is? It feature
Speaker 1: some sort of okay? So the cover is Holly Berry
Speaker 1: in a bikini, and every still from the movie is
Speaker 1: Holly Berry in a bikini, and I see a shark
Speaker 1: fin So yeah, that's the sales point. It does appear
Speaker 1: to be sexy Jaws, all right? Who is? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: there's an amazing Japanese or a Korean cover where it's
Speaker 1: Holly Berry in the bikini and then the shark full
Speaker 1: mouth open bearing. It's really bad looking. C G I
Speaker 1: shark teeth toward her, away from her. Actually, but it's
Speaker 1: like the scale is all wrong. She's sort of like
Speaker 1: in the waves and the shark looks tiny in comparison
Speaker 1: to how giant Holly Berry is. Well, you know, she'll
Speaker 1: sell a movie better than that shark. I guarantee it.
Speaker 1: What happened to holly Berry? Chuck? She's around? What are
Speaker 1: you talking about? I mean, I'm sure she's around, But
Speaker 1: like you know, she went from Monster's Ball to Dark Tide,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, well, you know, uh, I would
Speaker 1: agree that the quality of film that she's been in
Speaker 1: has gone down some. But that movie, the call was
Speaker 1: seven years ago. That was pretty good. She was in
Speaker 1: john Wick three. Oh, that's right. She was great in
Speaker 1: john Wick three. She was like his assassin, kind of
Speaker 1: ex flame. I believe, if I'm not mistaken, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you know what, I think halle Berry has taken
Speaker 1: work where she can get work. I I support that. No,
Speaker 1: you you reminded me, Chuck, she was she wasn't john
Speaker 1: Wick three. I heard a great little, uh little uh
Speaker 1: trivia about john Wick is that the only reason they
Speaker 1: called it john Wick is because Counters could never remember
Speaker 1: the actual name that they were going to give it,
Speaker 1: and when he was doing press, he just kept calling
Speaker 1: it john Wick. It was originally going to be called
Speaker 1: like avenged or something really stupid like that. And now
Speaker 1: you know, we can't imagine any other way. But that
Speaker 1: was literally why they changed the name of the movie
Speaker 1: to John Wick, because he kept making press rounds and
Speaker 1: referring to it as John Wick. Yeah, where you wonder?
Speaker 1: I read it somewhere? Are you gonna? Are you gonna refute?
Speaker 1: Do you have? No? I just I take that with
Speaker 1: a grain of salt. That sounds to me like a
Speaker 1: bit of a movie lore type of thing, but maybe not.
Speaker 1: You never know. I feel like it was kicking is
Speaker 1: really dumb. You can't remember a one word title? No,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he couldn't remember, that was the
Speaker 1: way the article kind of hedged it. But to me,
Speaker 1: he just I think he just liked the name of
Speaker 1: the character and that's what he always referred to it.
Speaker 1: Let's see John Wick name Kean remember? Uh, well press
Speaker 1: on while you're looking at Yeah we should. Fourteen is
Speaker 1: a thousand words. It's Eddie Murphy movie that Initially when
Speaker 1: I saw this, I did not remember, but now I do,
Speaker 1: And I think the whole deal is is that he's
Speaker 1: got a thousand words that he can say or something.
Speaker 1: He's got a daily word count not a good idea
Speaker 1: for a movie. Derek Colstead, who wrote the original John
Speaker 1: Wick as well as its two sequels, said that Reeves
Speaker 1: kept referring to the original film by the wrong name.
Speaker 1: It had previously been titled scorn Quote. The only reason
Speaker 1: it's called john Wick, he said, is that Kanu kept
Speaker 1: referring to it as John Wick. Okay, I can buy
Speaker 1: that from the Independent. That's slightly different than he couldn't
Speaker 1: remember the title. Okay, that's fair. Uh. Number fifteen is
Speaker 1: the Ridiculous six Yeah, that western Adam Sandler eight to
Speaker 1: Netflix deals. Oh was Sandler in it? That's his thing.
Speaker 1: It's one of his things. It's one of his uh
Speaker 1: whatever contract that he has to make ten Netflix movies
Speaker 1: a year. Oh goodness me, that doesn't look good. Taylor
Speaker 1: Lautner New Boy. Uh sixteen is Cabin Fever. And when
Speaker 1: I I first saw Alison Gallagher's abridged version, which was
Speaker 1: just the list typed out and not the link, I
Speaker 1: thought Kevin Fever was Okay. I kind of like that movie.
Speaker 1: The horror were people's skin sloughs off and stuff here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but this is the remake, which I forgot. They did
Speaker 1: a remake to Cabin Fever, and why on earth did
Speaker 1: they remake Cabin Fever? That doesn't make any sense. No,
Speaker 1: I mean it doesn't at all. I guess the original
Speaker 1: was low budget and schlocky kind of But yeah, so
Speaker 1: I am realizing, Chuck, are these these are? Zero percent?
Speaker 1: Was out of dere So I am seeing that every
Speaker 1: one of these that I pull up on IMDb has
Speaker 1: two stars. So the the equivalent of zero percent on
Speaker 1: Rotten Tomatoes is two stars on IMDb. It would seem
Speaker 1: but it could be an interesting false equivalence. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep testing it, all right, we might have stumbled upon
Speaker 1: something great here. NOL seventeen is the Disappointment's Room. First
Speaker 1: of all, does not roll off the tongue. No, not
Speaker 1: at all. The disappointments Room. I will say this. So
Speaker 1: it's from the director of Disturbia, and I thought distributor
Speaker 1: was Okay, did you ever see that? I know what
Speaker 1: you're talking about, but I'm sorry, I hate to keep
Speaker 1: harping on this. Why not just call it the disappointment Room.
Speaker 1: That's easier to say. Adding that s at the end
Speaker 1: it makes it sound really clunky, and I don't understand
Speaker 1: what's going on that's weird. I'm sure that's explained in
Speaker 1: the movie somehow, but we'll never know. Yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: Distributor was all right. It wasn't great. I did a
Speaker 1: little uh rabbit hole I have in this some iTunes
Speaker 1: reviews the other day, and someone accused us of too
Speaker 1: often saying I haven't seen that, and that that's lazy
Speaker 1: film commentary. Yes, you're right, this show is all about
Speaker 1: lazy film commentary. Spot on four stars exactly, Uh, Max Steele,
Speaker 1: I've never looked at our ratings on iTunes. I don't care. No,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't care. But it's occasionally a fun way to
Speaker 1: either give yourself a nice little boost of confidence or
Speaker 1: like poor salt in a wound. Ah, I never I
Speaker 1: mean I used to read the Bad Ones and stuff
Speaker 1: you should know, just for frenzies. That stuff doesn't bother me. No,
Speaker 1: it doesn't bother me either. I'm totally joking. But it
Speaker 1: is fun to kind of occasionally you realize, like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is more about you than it is about me, buddy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think if I've learned one thing in life here
Speaker 1: at my ripe old ages, the one thing that doesn't
Speaker 1: bother me and shouldn't bother anyone is an internet opinion.
Speaker 1: M hm, you're setting yourself up for a frustrating life
Speaker 1: if that stuff gets to you. Max Steele Number eighteen.
Speaker 1: I don't think I even know this movie says it
Speaker 1: wanted to be the next Transformers. Yeah, that is not
Speaker 1: where I would have gone with that. It sounds to
Speaker 1: me immediately you say that, and I think it's like
Speaker 1: a porno assassin movie. Yeah, or or yeah exactly Max Steele. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think it started off as an animated series that
Speaker 1: was Transformers esque, and then they then made this into
Speaker 1: a movie that apparently did not do well again. Two
Speaker 1: stars on IMDb. All right, check this one, Nold Precious Cargo.
Speaker 1: Uh this straight to video starring Bruce Willis Claire for
Speaker 1: Lonnie and oh goodness, the great great to Mark Paul.
Speaker 1: How don't you know how to say his name? Casa Gossler, Gossler,
Speaker 1: I'll take I'll say I would take any of those
Speaker 1: Chuck that looks precious Cargo. Is it at some sort
Speaker 1: of treasure or is it about children? Like writing in
Speaker 1: a van? It's thieves in a murderous showdown with a
Speaker 1: lack of thrills and reliance on skimpy outfits Willis and
Speaker 1: his banana hammock. It's got to balance out. It can't
Speaker 1: be all skimpy outfits. You gotta have some thrills to chuck.
Speaker 1: You gotta have some thrills and some fully clothes humans,
Speaker 1: at least clothes, or at least twenty center the people
Speaker 1: with some clothes. Did you ever see Color of Night? No,
Speaker 1: I know the movie, never saw it. That was the
Speaker 1: sexy one, right st e me. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna finish this stuff. Dark Crimes with
Speaker 1: Jim Carey when he did that dark sort of drama
Speaker 1: misguided murder mystery is how it's described here on the
Speaker 1: Pop Sugar website. Poor Jim Carrey, that I mean, not
Speaker 1: poor Jim Carrige. I'm curious. I'm not gonna feel too sorry, born,
Speaker 1: but that does not look like a good movie or
Speaker 1: a good choice. Oh. If you look at the poster, uh,
Speaker 1: if you can chuck, I recommend you pulling it out,
Speaker 1: because he's just making the most sad sack face you
Speaker 1: could possibly make. He just looks really grumpy. It's probably
Speaker 1: because he was in that movie Dark Crimes. Oh, boy,
Speaker 1: and the tagline is it takes a dark mind to
Speaker 1: solve a twisted crime. Yet it's called dark crimes and
Speaker 1: not dark minds. All right, nol. So we're gonna move
Speaker 1: on to something that's actually worthwhile. Uh, in these charged
Speaker 1: times here in our country, I thought we would start
Speaker 1: a thread on movies or documentaries that have educated people
Speaker 1: on race relations and open their eyes on things. And
Speaker 1: I thought this would just serve as a good list,
Speaker 1: as a good reference point for people seeking this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff out, which we should all be doing right now.
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna read through a bunch of these
Speaker 1: just to get as many of them out there as
Speaker 1: we can. Alicia Deats, one of our old friends, says,
Speaker 1: Hidden Figures focused on women of color and their struggle. Uh.
Speaker 1: Great movie. Amanda Karen says, when they see us about
Speaker 1: the Central Park five, I did. I don't what there
Speaker 1: were there too, Central Park five documentaries, because that's the
Speaker 1: one that I'm familiar with. You may there may have
Speaker 1: been an older one. I saw one, but I thought
Speaker 1: it was just called the Central Park five. Uh, let
Speaker 1: me look that up real quick. That I mean, that's
Speaker 1: a harrowing story and one that also figures into our
Speaker 1: current president. Yeah, there's one called the Central Park five.
Speaker 1: That's the one I saw. Imagine they're both great, but no,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, the current president, called for their you know,
Speaker 1: uh he even when they're exonerated. He took out an
Speaker 1: ad in the paper that basically, you know, this is
Speaker 1: bullshit and they should be put away for life or worse.
Speaker 1: I don't even remember exactly what he said because I
Speaker 1: try not to pay attention. Let me see here, my
Speaker 1: kid watch Do the Right Thing as a teenager, and
Speaker 1: the scene where Spike Lee points out John Taturo's hypocrisy
Speaker 1: of being racist towards characters, towards least character but admiring
Speaker 1: famous people of color like Prince and Carl Lewis really
Speaker 1: stuck with me. H yeah, man, I remember. I mean
Speaker 1: that movie is just as relevant today, if not more so,
Speaker 1: than it ever was. That movie rocked my world. It
Speaker 1: comes up all the time. It could come up a
Speaker 1: bunch with us. I've still not seen it. I am
Speaker 1: going to see it. It's so so beloved by so
Speaker 1: many different people, and it's been recommended to me like
Speaker 1: ten times over. We gotta see it. Yeah, one of
Speaker 1: the great movies of all time. Uh. Katie Scott says
Speaker 1: it's not a movie, but the new HBO watch Man
Speaker 1: was the first time I've heard about the Tulsa race massacre.
Speaker 1: I live in northeastern Oklahoma and went to Oklahoma public
Speaker 1: school for twelve years, and it was never taught to us.
Speaker 1: I never thought anything like that would ever happen in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: Very eye opening. Yeah, you know, even stuff like that
Speaker 1: can can educate and open people's eyes to dive deeper.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's fabulous. Show. I just found out something
Speaker 1: pretty gross and weird and possibly not on purpose, but
Speaker 1: if very tone deaf either way. Apparently Trump's first big
Speaker 1: rally is going to be in Tulsa, and it's on
Speaker 1: June tenth, which many folks might not know about. But
Speaker 1: it's a big holiday, considered holiday in the African American community,
Speaker 1: and it celebrates the abolition of slavery. If I'm not mistaken, Uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's intention there, but it's sure
Speaker 1: is a pretty bad choice if if there wasn't. Oh no,
Speaker 1: it's dark time? What is dark time? Can I add
Speaker 1: one real quick? You might already have it or I
Speaker 1: I have not seen this, but I was recommended me
Speaker 1: to me just last night. It's called l a ninety
Speaker 1: two UM documentary about the LA riots surrounding about the
Speaker 1: Rodney King beating or the l A riots that were
Speaker 1: kind of stoked as a result of the Rodney King beating,
Speaker 1: which is sort of the one people most think about,
Speaker 1: but also the shooting of a young black woman by
Speaker 1: a Korean grocery store owner that was also a big
Speaker 1: catalyst for the l A rights. But apparently the documentary
Speaker 1: it doesn't have a lot of voice over. It just
Speaker 1: uses just like archival footage from you know, when it
Speaker 1: actually happened, and that it's incredibly powerful. Yeah, my, uh
Speaker 1: my brother was living in Hollywood at the time, and uh,
Speaker 1: former guest Raymond Carr also has a great story about that,
Speaker 1: So go back and listen to his episode for that.
Speaker 1: I'd like to get Raymond back in here. I wonder
Speaker 1: if he has a recording set up at his house.
Speaker 1: I'll shoot him a text. Uh, Lisa Romano whenever Old
Speaker 1: Friends has twelve years of slave that comes up here
Speaker 1: a lot. The raw realism had me alternating dissolving in
Speaker 1: tears and recoiling and horror. Such a strong lead role
Speaker 1: performance too also a breakout role for the for the
Speaker 1: lead actor. Yeah, for sure, absolutely. Uh he's He's popped
Speaker 1: up in some pretty big movies since then. You could say,
Speaker 1: here's one from Michael Rakowski. Rakowsky, he says, a little
Speaker 1: lighter in tone, but a classic Guess Who's coming to dinner?
Speaker 1: Great commentary on how we speak compared to how we
Speaker 1: feel about racism, still holds up today, more than fifty
Speaker 1: years later. Alison Shallenberger says Gideon's Army follows public defenders
Speaker 1: who work in the South. Quite a minimal doc with
Speaker 1: hardly any narration or soundtrack, and it still hits hard
Speaker 1: the truth about race, poverty, and the justice system. And
Speaker 1: she also recommend whose streets about activists in Ferguson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta see both of those. I need to get
Speaker 1: on a documentary run here, very recent in here from
Speaker 1: Eliza Russell Black Klansman. Of course, great movie, Zaly. It's
Speaker 1: it's an interesting combination of like just gut punch kind
Speaker 1: of intense realism and also like some satire, and then
Speaker 1: when it incorporates all of the real footage at the end,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just a really kind of the perfect package.
Speaker 1: I think it's one of Spike Lee's finest films. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was great and a great kind of comeback for
Speaker 1: him too in a way. Although I think he's doing
Speaker 1: some great work these days. She's got to have it
Speaker 1: as fantastic the TV show. Zack Pointer, one of our
Speaker 1: oldest friends, says the Old Roots with LaVar Burton. Yeah, certainly, Um,
Speaker 1: that is always worth watching and something that many of us,
Speaker 1: including myself saw in school in history class. So uh
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, it has that the vibe of
Speaker 1: the eighties mini series. But it's still a great story.
Speaker 1: Robin ronas his school days and do the right thing
Speaker 1: great when they came out. Still love them today. Uh,
Speaker 1: let me see here. Dan Innis recommends l A ninety
Speaker 1: two as well. It's on Netflix, by the way, everyone
Speaker 1: streaming on Netflix. Uh. An old friend, Vanessa Lopez says
Speaker 1: one that I have got in my queue and I'm
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch probably this weekend. Uh if Beale Street
Speaker 1: could talk. Also want to see that. And I Am
Speaker 1: Not Your Negro, which was a really really good documentary.
Speaker 1: Have you seen that one? Yes, it's about James Baldwin, um,
Speaker 1: who I've really only seen like some interview clips with.
Speaker 1: I really need to read some of his books. Um.
Speaker 1: There's one called Notes from a Native Son that I
Speaker 1: keep seeing recommended. Uh. That is about kind of just
Speaker 1: his experience growing up, you know, under racist, uh society,
Speaker 1: really and just how he kind of interpreted a lot
Speaker 1: of that stuff and really poignant. A smart dude. UM,
Speaker 1: really would love to see that documentary as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's great. Megan Carroll, one of our old friends, says, tale,
Speaker 1: I haven't heard of this one, Tales of the Grim Sleeper.
Speaker 1: I was getting my grad degree in public administration when
Speaker 1: I saw it. I believe that the government should be
Speaker 1: a force of good and to see the l a
Speaker 1: municipal government just not care about a serial killer targeting
Speaker 1: a certain population angered and shook me like little I
Speaker 1: had seen before. Wow, that sounds interesting. I gotta check
Speaker 1: that out. No, nothing I even know that story. No, Um,
Speaker 1: let's do a couple of more here. Another vote for roots.
Speaker 1: Joanna Wicks says justin Mercy is absolutely required watching and
Speaker 1: it's streaming for free on all platforms. She said, these
Speaker 1: are movies that need to be watched because of how
Speaker 1: recently the events took place. You think it was a
Speaker 1: nine fifties or something. But nope, these events were happening
Speaker 1: all after I was born and still happening today. A
Speaker 1: couple more votes for thirteenth on Netflix and do the
Speaker 1: right thing, Uh, Desiree. Here's from a different part of
Speaker 1: the world. Desiree Healed says, rabbit proof fence for all
Speaker 1: really in Aboriginal history, particularly in my state of Western Australia. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that. I've heard that was really just
Speaker 1: history class in an episode about you know, the true
Speaker 1: story behind that? Uh, and they referenced that movie quite
Speaker 1: a few times, and UM say, it's great. I'd look
Speaker 1: to see it as well. So definitely not a story
Speaker 1: people think of, UM often, it's not doesn't quite get
Speaker 1: as much press as as it deserves. But yeah, really
Speaker 1: really great interesting story. Yeah, and a reminder that the
Speaker 1: race relations suffer all over the world. World. No, this
Speaker 1: is why so many people all over planet Earth right
Speaker 1: now we're standing in Unison to protest is because it's not.
Speaker 1: It's bad in America, but it's not. If I if
Speaker 1: I could add an audio recommendation to this, UM we
Speaker 1: my team UM just launched a show that we've been
Speaker 1: developing for close to a year with really amazing team
Speaker 1: of hosts from Athens, Georgia, UM, one of whom is
Speaker 1: a city council woman named Murray at Parker and her
Speaker 1: rap name is Lingua Franca and she's an incredible performer
Speaker 1: and rapper and activists and organizer. UM and her host,
Speaker 1: Kedrick mac A k A Dope Knife, is a fantastic illustrator,
Speaker 1: comic book artists, also activist, has a background and like
Speaker 1: UM diplomacy, his parents were in the Foreign service, and uh,
Speaker 1: they just talk about the intersection between hip hop and politics.
Speaker 1: And we pushed the launch up ever so slightly just
Speaker 1: to give them a platform during this time, and they
Speaker 1: we recorded the first you know, half of the first
Speaker 1: season really UM, just to kind of threw it all
Speaker 1: out the window and you know, really reframed it around
Speaker 1: their experiences surrounding this moment that we're in right now.
Speaker 1: And it's just I couldn't I couldn't be more proud
Speaker 1: of it. And it's notable now wherever you get podcasts
Speaker 1: called Waiting on Reparations. Yeah, and that's doing very well too,
Speaker 1: which is fantastic. Hey, Ruby, how you doing. I heard
Speaker 1: you were hiding into the table or are Is that true?
Speaker 1: He asked, if you were hiding under the table that
Speaker 1: didn't go well for you, did you did it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can sit on my lap. Uh. We'll go with
Speaker 1: Charles Martin Acres here, one of our old pals from St. Louis. Uh,
Speaker 1: this is kind of cool. I really like hearing these
Speaker 1: recommendations of smaller documentaries. He said, two independent docs, can
Speaker 1: you have this? Sure? Two independent docks about St. Louis
Speaker 1: and the Divide here, Uh, the Pruitt I Go Myth
Speaker 1: which is about public housing, and Spanish Lake, which is
Speaker 1: about white flight. Totally. Yeah, that's good stuff. Uh. And
Speaker 1: let's finish up here with Derek Speedy, who recommends quite
Speaker 1: a few movies, blind Spotting, America's Son, American Son, and
Speaker 1: Sorry to Bother You, along with a couple of others.
Speaker 1: But blind Spotting is great, you know. He had Divide
Speaker 1: and his partner on the show and great, great great movie.
Speaker 1: Everyone to check Outline Spotting on the show who directed
Speaker 1: and created uh, Sorry to Bother You with such a
Speaker 1: great movie. Sorry to Bother You, man, I can't wait
Speaker 1: to see what Boots does next. He's he's a filmmaker.
Speaker 1: I'm excited, very excited about, so check these out. We
Speaker 1: will lead this threat up everybody. Uh, if you're looking
Speaker 1: to educate yourself, we've got a good list going here.
Speaker 1: And UH, I urge all of you to spend some
Speaker 1: time with yourself and with documentaries and films like these,
Speaker 1: because we can all take a closer look at our
Speaker 1: lives and how we are part of the problem or
Speaker 1: part of the solution. So get out there and do
Speaker 1: the right thing. Dare I say? All right? Thanks everybody,
Speaker 1: We'll see you next week. For more podcasts for my
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