WEBVTT - The Janelis J Show Presents: Janelis is back! (Episode 1) 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:11.239 How you doing? How you doing good? How are you doing? 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:13.319 I asked you. I thought we were doing like a 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:18.239 Wendy Williamson. No, I was asking how you're doing. I'm okay, um, 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:22.960 I I'm gonna bring a guy home to my parents. 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:28.040 Oh my god, fresh off you coming out? No? I know? Yeah, guys, 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:31.120 they didn't have turkey wraps? Did you ask for a 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:35.200 turkey up? I wanted a couple, but I you didn't 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:37.159 have to announce it in front of the whole this 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:42.400 was it going to be a surprise. I got falafel instead. Okay, Well, 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.879 I have a chickpen allergy, I can't eaven and I 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.080 don't like falafel, all right, so just put him in 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:51.559 the break room. Just no, just throw it out, throw it, 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:54.880 throw it out the window, throw it out in the corner, 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:58.040 in the garbage can throw that food out in the 0:00:58.040 --> 0:00:59.960 garbage now. But that just seems wasteful. Why don't I 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:01.760 just leave it on the break room? You know what 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:06.400 waste is your behavior? My time? Okay, I'll throw it out. 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:10.760 Have a red Bull cool down down. I can't drink that. 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.200 I can't sleep at night after working. What are you 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:16.920 talking about? That's not what red Bull does. Why don't 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:21.080 you drink Athletic Greens anymore? Because when I doubled up 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:24.720 that one time day, we were naked. We were naked 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:28.760 and I were the floating. Yeah. Um, it just really 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.840 did a number on my digestive system. Okay, hey, can 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:36.479 I say something t M. I thank you, Jesus. I'm 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.800 sorry about this one. You know what, I see this 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:44.120 one from on high. I'm in a real mood today. 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:48.160 You really are, because I thought I was getting a 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:54.360 surprised turkey wrap and now now there's nothing to be No. 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.240 Did you tell him we were doing turkey wraps? I 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:03.600 might have said get ready for turkey, so I thought 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.480 we were on the same page. Well, I think you 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:10.840 really bift that you better be pitching a someone like 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:14.839 Jesus Christ for all I care, But Jesus, let Jesus Christ, 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:19.799 but a young talent. Jesus was just a man, damn right. Okay, 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:24.240 sorry Jesus, Sorry Jesus for this one. I was thinking 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:28.519 about older talent, yeah, and then I went nope, Yeah, 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:31.560 we're gonna stick with young, hot, new talent. There's a 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:36.400 reason why we mandate young, rising new talent. And for 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:41.520 you to even entertain something outside of that. I didn't 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:43.920 even I mean, there was only one name older that 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:49.480 I was thinking we possibly we don't there, Okay, okay, 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.880 and I hope you didn't talk to him. So talented 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:57.920 though no one's it's some people would say, god, so talented. 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:01.640 Hold on, there were but there were three turkey raps 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:06.280 on the on the break room counter there and now 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:10.639 they're not for you, guys, someone's been in here. Did 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:15.520 you have Kevin Spacey over for a turkey rap? Twelve 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:19.919 minutes while we were talking? He's in the building still, 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.160 I am sure made clear that you didn't want to 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.400 see him or talk to him or hear anything about him. 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:30.359 I'm in disbelief. I'm in disbelief. We're your This is insubordination. 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:34.079 We are over your head. To put it mildly, this 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:40.320 is insubordination. All right, Well, should I just leave? No? No, 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:42.960 You've done such an incredible job with me. You've got 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:46.000 to take the good with the bad. Okay, I'm not 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:50.360 gonna you know, I'm rough around the edges. Okay, all right, 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.240 but you know what, the one thing that gets me 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:58.440 through the day FM radio. Don't we love good Her? 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:03.040 On the FM? Radio. All in FM radio now calling 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:08.920 in people days, people you know, asking to request a 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:16.160 tune possibly or share, getting a surprise bouquet of flowers 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:21.280 delivered to their loved one. Pranks, pranks, It's all part 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.159 of the world of FM radio. Oh my god. And 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:31.080 someone has captured it deliciously with her new project called 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:36.080 The Jannellis J Show. No, don't tell us, is it? 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:41.840 It's Millie one of our great friends from New York. 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.360 Now this premise, you guys are gonna love. It's New 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:48.640 York's number one hip hop radio show. The Jannellis J 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:54.880 Show is ready to deliver truth allegedly, real talk allegedly, 0:04:55.760 --> 0:05:00.520 and the four one one, which is information in correction 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.719 on why her co host keeps getting fired from the show. 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:09.760 So you're telling me we're getting real talk allegedly, truth allegedly, 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:13.720 and conflict conflict with professional conflict. There is so much 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:15.960 what a rich tax. This is incredible. And you know 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:20.320 Millie Tameras lest I heard, a stand up and writer 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:24.800 based out of Brooklyn, New York, who has written for ABC. Yes, 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.039 come on for the w w E. She wrote for 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:36.360 w w E, NPR BuzzFeed, doctor, come on, Hey, and MTV. 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:40.920 She's been featured on Thrillist, Vice, b Et, Flamma, She's 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:46.480 done at All above Average, universityon and Comedy Central Brooklyn 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:51.760 in the House. Yeah, clearly we love Millie so much? 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:53.560 Can we just this is real talk. This is real 0:05:53.600 --> 0:06:00.520 talk about Millie is family allegends. You've done really good working. Really, 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:05.159 this is basically Jesus Christ to me. Guys, that feels good, 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:09.360 Thank you, hey, and I'm going to rescue the hero. 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.760 I was just your waists, no, no, taken out of 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.360 the car. But let's get it. Let's let's eat it right, 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:16.880 let's eat it. I'm sorry, I thought they were Turkey reps. 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:18.839 That was the falafel. I just got really mixed up 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.440 because I'm I'm just I was really scared there for 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.240 a second about you know who being in the building. 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:28.680 You have had a really crazy you've my nerves are shot. 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:30.520 You brought a lover her home to me, or you 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.120 should take the rest of the week off. I'm sorry, 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.479 that's not for me to say. No, it isn't. Well, 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:41.039 you better watch in subordination down boots. To call this 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:45.480 insubordination would be putting it. Guys. I love this job 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:49.039 more than anything, so please, we love you, love you, 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.600 love you. Yeah, sometimes it doesn't feel like that. I'm 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:55.840 just gonna says, just keep doing a great job and 0:06:55.880 --> 0:07:03.640 don't fout. The Jannellis J Show starts the house you're 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:12.239 listening saw the finest and radio entertainment, The Jannellis J Show. 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:16.240 You're so creative. That's one of the things I like 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:19.760 about J. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:27.240 know what I'm doing. Welcome everyone to the Jannellis J Show. 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:33.240 I'm your girl, Jennellis J. We are here, we are live. 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:37.280 I'm so high for my premiere at I Heeart Radio. 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.720 Y'all already know what the deal is, following my three 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.280 months step at w B I AM and my four 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:47.280 months to at w F a R, my public verbal 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.160 assault from Little Mom, and almost getting jumped in the 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.560 parking lot of a t G I of Fridays by 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.240 the Light skiped members of the group seven oh two. 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.080 Fine fact, the song where My Girls Out was written 0:07:58.120 --> 0:07:59.680 for me because I like one of their men hit 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.560 it for in the back. I'm so happy to be 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:06.360 here with y'all. Letting the urban listeners does my heart radio, 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:09.520 go on this ride with me. I'm here with my 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:13.440 co host, Girald. What's up, Gerald? You got anything to say? 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:18.440 Glad to be employed again? Joannalysts, Oh, you mispronounced my name. 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.160 I'm about to fire you again. I'm about to fire 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.760 you again. You know how to say my name. Don't 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:28.560 do me like that. Girald? What's going on with you? 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.280 How you've been doing? I'm good. I didn't know that 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:33.840 we would be back. I hope we don't mess it 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.840 up this time. That's all I'm thinking. You know, my 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.120 lawyer is saying the same thing every day, so I'm 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.880 really really happy. We're not gonna mess it up. Listen, 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:47.960 we don't need that energy for this first episode. Okay, 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.280 it to our inaugural episode. You know you know what 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.520 to do. I've been in this business? How long, Girald? 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.400 How long have I been in this business? A long time? 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.760 Many many years, many many years. I know what I'm 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.599 doing it, I know what I'm doing. So we're not 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.800 gonna mess this up? Are you kidding me? We got this. 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:09.439 Let's start with you know, our segment tea Time with 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:13.760 joannellis the hot topics. I'm letting y'all know the hottest 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:18.640 news stories today in Urban America and regular America and 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:22.040 Wife of America, all of it. We got our hottest 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:32.800 news stories. So for our story, TikTok user baby Face 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:38.319 posted a four cheese meccan cheese recipe that is cooked 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:43.280 with a curling iron. That's crazy. This generation is lost. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.200 I don't know what to do about that. Okay, get 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:51.200 this now. Soldier Boys second cousin is trending in the 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:56.679 news right now. Somehow this kid has more followers than me. 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:00.160 But whatever, some of them have to be fake, that's 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.679 all I'm saying. You know, those followers definitely fake. You know, 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.480 you know, people be buying followers. You're all. You can't 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:11.200 believe anything in this world anymore. You can't anything, you 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.440 can't clean to. Everything's fake. The butt's fake, the titties 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:18.160 fake my but of course it's fake. My titty's absolutely fake. 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:22.000 But that's neither here nor there anyway. Soldier Boys second 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:26.880 cousins dead and Soldier Boys donating the proceeds of his 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:31.360 game emulator for the funeral of this guy who somehow 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:35.080 has more followers than me. Fixing Jesus, I'm sorry. Did 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:37.680 he did he die? Yeah? No, he's dead. Yeah, no, 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:41.120 that that's the news story, is that soldier boys second 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:45.080 cousin did get murdered. But you know, we're real sad 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:48.120 about that. That's so sad. What happens to the followers? 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.800 You know, I don't know? That is something that I 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:55.600 would love to I would love to sit Mike Zuckerberger 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.240 and sit him down and ask him what happens to 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:00.560 the followers after you die? You have to add, I 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:05.480 gotta ask you in my one on one the girl 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.240 who looks just like you that we don't talk about. 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.960 That we don't talk about anymore. Okay, because again again, Gerald, 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:15.120 I have two rules. Get my name pronounced right, and 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.559 not to bring up that girl that looks exactly like me. 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:22.040 And you're broke them immediately. You know, I'm so sick. 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.559 I'm talking to the New York State Department of Labor. 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.160 That's the only reason about why you deserve unemployment. That's 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.120 the only reason I haven't fired you yet. But dog, 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.400 you're on thin ice. And also, yes, everyone knows that 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:39.840 Mark Zuckerberger has a crush on that bitch who looks 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.600 exactly like me. I'm not sure if I can cuss 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.920 on syndicated radio like my heart. But here we go. 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.480 That's neither here nor there. Also, yes, so your boys 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:54.160 second cousin's dead by that game emulator. Five of the 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:57.960 proceeds are going to it R I P. And also, 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.120 you know, my mom told me, I'm gonna say you listen, 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.280 you gotta enjoy your followers. Why you can, because I 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.000 can't take that with you after you die. I think 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.520 she was talking about money. You had something to say. 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:12.760 I haven't set up through my estate that my my 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.520 followers will be survived and passed on to my children. 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:21.840 Oh not to me? Interesting? Oh yeah, interesting? I can 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:25.520 I can edit the next story. Jenna Pinkett, Smith's brother's 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:30.839 assistant with spotted canoodling with Succession actor Nicholas Braun. Y'all, 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.640 what are these fucking stories? I don't even know who 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.000 this is or what show he's on. You don't You 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:41.960 don't watch Succession? No, I don't watch Succession? The funk 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:45.480 are you talking about? That's a show. It's a it's 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.680 a very it's a popular show. Yeah, very popular. Oh 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:52.240 you know what, I'm I'm sorry, I'm lying. Um. I 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:55.640 was watching the news in January six. I didn't even 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:58.480 you know, obviously this man must be one of those 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:02.880 writers rioters is that took over the capital. You know, 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:04.360 that's what you gotta You gotta be careful with so 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:06.640 white people because you don't know where they were in 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:08.959 January sex. But the first thing when I meet a 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:12.640 white person, I'm like, yo, where were you on January six? 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.920 Because you gotta be careful. So that's good to know 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:21.480 that Jada pikeets to his brother's assistant is sucking with 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:27.000 an secessionists and in secessionists and and in secessionists. Yeah, 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:30.000 that's ah, that's what you know. That's I didn't even 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:34.480 know that word until January six. So you're so creative. 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.760 That's one of the things I like about you. Okay, 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:42.080 and that's why you got rehired again. Beyonce's high schools 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.760 chemistry partner says, you know what, Beyonce, we're sneakers to 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:52.199 school twice. Not so glam after all, Beyonce. Honestly embarrassing. 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:56.679 It's embarrassing, but honestly, I just okay, I'm gonna be 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:58.160 real with you. I don't know who the funk came 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.920 up with these stories. I'm more missed that every single 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.240 person that we mentioned Gerald, I'm gonna need to talk 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.160 to you after Did you come up with these stories? 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.200 Was that your intern? Was it one of your children? Look, 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.480 I thought this would be a good rundown. I thought 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:12.920 you had a lot of things to say. I thought 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:14.760 you did a great job with it. I need to 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.880 get better on my end, and I will absolutely who's 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.760 getting better me? I'm perfect. It's you. Don't change nothing 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:27.440 change nothing change nothing change nothing. See everything keep it real. 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:31.160 Everything's keep everything real except for the ascent titties and 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:37.160 the waist and lives. Our final story, Auntie Time is Uh, 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.760 the former CEO of Rock Room Shoes is ex wife's 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:45.160 card was declined at the California Pizza Kitchen in the 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:50.080 South Coast Plazza Mall in Orange County, California. It seemed 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:53.760 to be uh declined because she mistyped her zip code 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.920 and then they ran it again and it worked. Really, Gerald, 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.160 we really got to do something about these things. The 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:05.240 slow newsday, it's if there's nothing happening right now. What 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.960 the Smith family hasn't said anything embarrassing about their kids 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.640 or anything like that. They haven't said anything about their 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.920 sex labs, whether they opened it closed, it left it halfway. 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.120 I don't know. I find that hard to believe, Girald, 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.200 I don't I find that hard to believe. Okay, because 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:22.280 have you when was the last time you went to 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.720 a rectam shoes? Do you want me to answer that? Honestly, 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:29.280 I I wouldn't expect anything else. I was there, I 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:33.880 was there yesterday. Okay, well you know there yesterday. Glad 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:37.080 that I'm also glad that you're employed again because now 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:41.280 you can afford to go to a real sue store. Anyway, 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.520 For our final segment of Tea Time with janellis what 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.800 do you have every time you have some tea? A crumpet? 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.560 And that's why we're gonna end the segment every week 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.200 with the crumpet of the week. And you know, we 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:59.720 bring something, you know, real, real, crumbling, real real can 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:03.360 be avery at times that mostly not and uh, you know, 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.840 some something real whack like who cares about a crumpet? 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.040 But you get it with t you know. And obviously 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:13.600 the crumpet of the week is h Harris, my ex husband. 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:17.440 You know, I know that there's allegations right now of 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:22.560 of his cheating. There's allegations right now with our alleged 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.280 arson you know, it's not my fault. They didn't have 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:29.840 my shoes side. But crumpet of the week is Harris. Yo, 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:34.560 Harris farted so bad that I heard it from his 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:39.520 mistress house. You know that just embarrassing. So Harris, if 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:44.920 you're listening, everyone knows that you farted and it's just gross. 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:50.240 And you know he's listening. We know he's listening. That 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.720 that man got none better to do than to listen 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:56.240 to me. Seven he's sitting in his car, he's writing 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:58.440 us letters. He thinks. We don't know if that is Harris. 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:01.480 We know it's you, Harris. We know it's harrorist and 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:05.560 you know what, whatever, okay, because we all know who's 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.760 paying your bills. It's me. He's in the past. That's 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.600 why the rear view is bigger. That's why the rear 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.560 view is bigger. That's why the rear view bigger than what. 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:18.120 I'm sorry, the rear view is bigger than forward view. 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:24.520 I don't think that's true. Yo, what's up? This is 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:31.520 grawl and you're listening to the Janelle's Ja Show. All right, everyone, 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:37.280 welcome back to the Janelle's Jay Show. I'm very excited 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:39.879 for our next guest. I've been dying to talk to 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:44.439 him and see what's on this man's mind. He's Hollywood 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:49.120 actor turn director. He's easy on the eyes. But let 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:53.680 me tell you his latest movie something Everyone give it 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:59.160 up for. Otis Carter, the second director of Homemade Cooking. Wow. 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.520 Thank you so much to know it's it's an honor 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:06.119 to be here and I'm so excited to talk about 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:11.680 this film. I think it is making waves. Sure, waves 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:15.760 is uh, you know, it is waves in the way 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:22.199 that you know, um, black mediocrity is a wave of itself, 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:26.320 you know it does It is important for for black 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:30.160 people to to not do movies that are greater groundbreaking, 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:33.240 and I feel like you may have accomplished that with this. 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:38.680 M uh. Oh, I see you're like in the sense 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:44.400 that you know it it uh. It isn't necessarily treading 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:50.439 new ground, but it is familiar and um under and 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:56.040 relatable to to the masses, and therefore can really inject 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:59.639 the story that you know, I wanted to tell I 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.399 kind it right? Is that kind of mean? Uh? No, 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:06.679 I just mean that it's not a good film at all. Uh. Really, 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.400 I think the point is to be nice. I think 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:12.359 the message of this thing is to be nice to 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.800 white people no matter what they do to you. And 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:18.439 I mean there's really no radical politics at all. I 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:22.040 have no understanding of what you're trying to accomplish. I 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:24.919 would even say that, you know, it's not a story 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:28.280 that has been told. It maybe a story that somebody, 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:32.920 are you such black people black? If you uh, you know, 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:37.719 you know, that's just you know, that's my opinion. And 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:40.520 again we come on the show to hear my opinion, 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:43.560 but also my opinion has been informed because I I 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:47.680 did used to date both Quentin Tarantino and Werner Herzog 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:51.159 in the nineties. But you know, yeah, I'm sorry, are 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:54.600 you taking That's neither here nor there. Let's talk about 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:58.080 this film and what were you So why do you 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:01.280 make this film? And let's talk a little bit about 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:05.919 what the plot that you were trying to go for was. Uh. Wow, 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:10.760 I don't I feel like I'm being pun Uh there's 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:14.719 a like a roast battle or or something. Uh no, Uh, 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:19.040 of course this film it has a I think a 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:26.679 very intriguing plot. Um so Uh Trevor played by mihrsha 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:30.119 Ali of course comes comes down. I know, great one 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:32.080 of the greatest actors of our generation. I think he 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:36.480 would agree done such fantastic films, uh like Green Book. 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:40.800 Wow that if that's the film? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:45.959 best Best Picture winner. And he he his father is 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:49.840 dying and he has to go home, uh and take 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:52.280 care of him. And his father has owned a restaurant 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:57.320 that he decided he wasn't going to keep on the 0:20:57.320 --> 0:21:01.960 family business. But in the in in the process of 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:06.600 his father dying, um, he realizes how much uh this 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:11.600 restaurant means to the town. Uh, and he decides to 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:17.040 take it over. And this restaurant actually is a pivotal 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:24.320 place for a horrible racial incident happens and there needs 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:28.560 to be healing, you know, because this town is very segregated. 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:36.639 And what we use is cooking, because food is the 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:40.120 great equalizer. We all need to eat it, we all 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:45.199 have to poop it, and uh we all love to 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:48.159 talk about it. And and then that's what that's what 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:50.399 the movie is about. It's called homemade cooking. And I 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:54.479 really hope everyone in their families catches it over the 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:58.280 Christmas break. I'm sorry, I I can't bully. I mean, okay, 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:01.639 so that's right, that that that's what you were trying 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:06.399 to accomplish. But yeah, again, you know you have someone 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:11.480 as strong as Marchela. But really it's kind of it's 0:22:11.560 --> 0:22:16.040 kind of difficult to you know, the cinematography that you're using. 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:19.520 It's just not you're not lighting him correctly. You know, 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:22.719 his his skin is looking a little off color. Like 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:27.639 it was concerning because for such an important piece. I'm like, 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:31.280 did you get a lighting crew though? Like Black Splint, 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:34.920 I got the one of the best cinematographers in the game. 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:41.040 Um Alan uh McAllister, Uh he is, Yeah, he's done. 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:43.280 That guy is so hacked. What did he do? What 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:46.280 are the clerks? Oh? Yeah, I mean yes, that that's 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:50.000 where he got his start. But he's done great films, 0:22:50.560 --> 0:22:55.120 uh like. Uh he did the film with the Benedict Cumberbatch, 0:22:57.240 --> 0:23:02.840 the World War Two Uh film? Oh god, okay, yeah exactly, yeah, yeah, 0:23:02.880 --> 0:23:05.480 so terrible. I guess you couldn't see anything in that 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:09.080 film either. That film you the lighting was not good. 0:23:09.400 --> 0:23:12.840 I found the shot that you did really just just try. 0:23:13.080 --> 0:23:17.640 But you know, again, I want to know a little 0:23:17.680 --> 0:23:20.920 bit about why you had Brian Cranson played the police officer. 0:23:21.400 --> 0:23:26.439 Oh well, Brian of course, Uh, wonderful actor. Uh like, 0:23:26.920 --> 0:23:32.080 has a great turn as a paraplegic. Uh. And the 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:37.400 the upside is that what was called I'm pretty good 0:23:37.400 --> 0:23:42.679 at remembering movies. Uh. We had Brian played because we 0:23:42.760 --> 0:23:51.040 needed someone who audiences could understand how someone who they 0:23:51.160 --> 0:23:55.200 thought was so bad I could have a heart of gold, 0:23:56.040 --> 0:23:58.960 you know. And of course Brian has a has an 0:23:58.960 --> 0:24:05.320 incredible scene where he spits in mahrchela space. Um yeah, 0:24:05.359 --> 0:24:08.480 that scene was incredible. Ye okay, yeah, and and says 0:24:08.920 --> 0:24:15.600 you take that, uh, you dirty monkey, and Mahrchela, instead 0:24:15.640 --> 0:24:20.719 of punching back, wipes the spit off his space and 0:24:20.800 --> 0:24:27.040 licks it. And in that moment, Brian Cranston sheds a 0:24:27.080 --> 0:24:35.199 tear because he realizes, wow, we all need sustenance. And 0:24:35.280 --> 0:24:39.400 they sit down and have a slice of sweet potato pie, 0:24:39.520 --> 0:24:46.640 which for my white friends, that's our equivalent to pumpkin pie. Uh, 0:24:46.880 --> 0:24:51.840 it's it's a little black you know, highlight there. I 0:24:51.920 --> 0:24:53.960 like to I like to add in black culture to 0:24:53.960 --> 0:24:58.439 to my films. Yeah, you know that so much of 0:24:58.480 --> 0:25:04.879 what you said is so incredibly disturbing. I would ask 0:25:04.920 --> 0:25:07.320 how this got greenlit in the first place, but we 0:25:07.359 --> 0:25:13.000 all know, uh that why I got greenlight? Uh wow, 0:25:13.240 --> 0:25:17.880 I just Yeah, the spit scene really was disturbing to me. Again, 0:25:18.240 --> 0:25:21.320 you know, I think you bring up a good point 0:25:21.400 --> 0:25:25.760 is that this entire film was under the lens of 0:25:25.880 --> 0:25:30.560 white audiences. And I think the message with again no 0:25:30.760 --> 0:25:35.840 radical politics at all, uh, is just really about how 0:25:35.920 --> 0:25:40.040 the onus of racism and ending racism is on black people. 0:25:40.560 --> 0:25:44.800 And I cannot agree with you less. And uh, you know, 0:25:45.119 --> 0:25:48.240 I think that I don't know if I would say that, 0:25:48.320 --> 0:25:52.960 I would say it's on all of us as human beings. Okay, okay, Yeah, 0:25:53.040 --> 0:25:55.640 it's just the race at the end of the day 0:25:56.600 --> 0:26:00.440 is a construct, just like yeah. Uh. And and if 0:26:00.520 --> 0:26:04.760 we come to realize that in each of us is 0:26:05.280 --> 0:26:10.720 a human being just trying to eat and survive, then 0:26:10.840 --> 0:26:15.679 I think we can grow past the superficial differences. Um 0:26:15.840 --> 0:26:20.080 that that set us hard like uh like sweet potato 0:26:20.160 --> 0:26:26.000 bye and pumpkin by. Uh. Well, let's take a hard 0:26:26.160 --> 0:26:30.080 left on that, because listen, this conversation is not going anywhere. 0:26:30.119 --> 0:26:33.080 You might be one of the dumbest people I've ever 0:26:33.160 --> 0:26:35.520 talked to. And I just interviewed Tyree's two weeks ago, 0:26:35.880 --> 0:26:38.879 so that's saying a lot. But let's uh, you know, 0:26:39.080 --> 0:26:41.960 let's let's take a hard pivot and uh, you know, 0:26:42.119 --> 0:26:44.200 talk about some of the fun things of this film, 0:26:44.240 --> 0:26:47.800 because obviously we're not going to agree on anything race 0:26:47.920 --> 0:26:52.359 or anything kind of critically thinking at all, or film 0:26:52.440 --> 0:26:54.960 or or or coloring. So let's talk about some fun 0:26:55.000 --> 0:27:00.840