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Speaker 1: You were now listening to a brand new I Am

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Speaker 1: Rappaport Stereo podcast. Today we are are deep diving and remembering, Uh,

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Speaker 1: the director of Boys in the Hood, and so much

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Speaker 1: more has passed. I'm gonna tell you uh all my

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Speaker 1: getting to know him as a fan, uh and inevitably

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Speaker 1: working with him on higher learning and uh, you know

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Speaker 1: my mini part on poetic justice. Plus, uh, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: break down Shocking Avengers, the Final Call. I think that's

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Speaker 1: Marvel Movie Film Critic. Plus we're talking rockets, we're talking warriors,

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Speaker 1: Am wrapp Reports Stereo Podcasts, Miles Jordan, let me get

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Speaker 1: something real nice, Yes, something real proper. You know what

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Speaker 1: this is the I M rapp Ports stereo podcast. My

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Speaker 1: be honest, be honest with the listeners today. It's been

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Speaker 1: a tough day, um, but the podcast must go on

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Speaker 1: as usual. UM. But if I'm gonna be totally honest

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Speaker 1: because of the passing of John Singleton, um, who passed

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Speaker 1: I didn't know this about himuntil a couple of days ago,

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Speaker 1: come in and read. I'm gonna have ice Cube come down,

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00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,120
Speaker 1: coming and read. You gotta talk that ship to ice Cube.

422
00:24:58,119 --> 00:24:59,880
Speaker 1: But what he meant by talked that ship to ice Cube,

423
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 1: all that racial ship that that we were doing in

424
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 1: the movie, all that Remy stuff, all and we're this

425
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 1: and you know all that crazy ship that's in higher learning.

426
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: He was like, do that in front of ice Cube.

427
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 1: And this is when ice Cube was not like family

428
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,399
Speaker 1: friendly ice Cube. This is ice Cube, like fucking you know,

429
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 1: America's most wanted you know, ice Cube. N w a

430
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 1: ice Cube Like you're like, what the funk? It's ice Cube,

431
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 1: Like you know, he's a little pudgy ice Cube. And

432
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,439
Speaker 1: I went down to Sony and I read all the

433
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 1: scenes with ice Cube and we improv and ice Cube

434
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,879
Speaker 1: read Omar Eps's part because that part had him in cast.

435
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 1: They fucking didn't cast a part. So ice Cube read

436
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,640
Speaker 1: that and he was like, do this, do that? Do

437
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,040
Speaker 1: that stuff you were doing. He was basically saying, Cole

438
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 1: ice Cube a fucking you know this and that. And

439
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, this is my chance, this

440
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 1: is my opportunity to really become an actor, to really

441
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 1: play a part that's different from me. This is what

442
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 1: every young actor dreams of. And and I did it.

443
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:02,240
Speaker 1: I went full fucking tilt. And I remember John laughing.

444
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,920
Speaker 1: He always thought that racial ship that I was doing

445
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,720
Speaker 1: was so funny. He would laugh and he would like

446
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: giggle and he would like literally applaud. He'd be like,

447
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: oh shit, like glad. He would clap and um Cube

448
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: not so much. He didn't laugh at it so much.

449
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 1: He he was intimidating. It was like fucking ice Cube. Um.

450
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 1: And he had the little fro, the frow that he

451
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,159
Speaker 1: wound up having in Higher Learning, because remember he went

452
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,639
Speaker 1: through that little fro period. Um. And then um he

453
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:33,160
Speaker 1: cast me, and then I helped him recast the part

454
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 1: that I was gonna play, and all sorts of people

455
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,400
Speaker 1: came in and read for that part. An inevitably, Kohlhauser

456
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 1: got the part and we shot Higher Learning and it

457
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,879
Speaker 1: was a fucking thrill. Busta Rhymes was on the set

458
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:51,359
Speaker 1: ice Cube, Regina King, Omar epps Um, John Singleton was

459
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 1: directing me. I mean, I couldn't believe it. I was

460
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:58,120
Speaker 1: like I made it. I literally felt like I fucking

461
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,160
Speaker 1: like I made it. Like this is it and I'm

462
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,919
Speaker 1: playing this fucking character. I'm a real actor doing a

463
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: real part that's really not like me. This is nothing

464
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:08,880
Speaker 1: like me. And I had prepared. We had a few

465
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,359
Speaker 1: months to prepare, and I'm reading mind comf and watching

466
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 1: these fucking KKK documentaries and um, it was just an

467
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 1: awesome experience. I talked a lot about it when Omar

468
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 1: episodes on the Iron Wrap pors Stereo podcast. You could

469
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 1: listen to the Omar Reps Iron Wrap pors Stereo podcast.

470
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,639
Speaker 1: It's dope. And I'll tell you a story when when

471
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,360
Speaker 1: we did that scene where I pulled the gun out

472
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,640
Speaker 1: on Omar Reps, that was one of the first scenes

473
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: that I shot. It was certainly the first scene where

474
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 1: my character was saying racist stuff. Um, it may not

475
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 1: have been my first scene that I shot shot, but

476
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,399
Speaker 1: it was definitely. I remember the first scene. It was

477
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 1: in the dorm room, which we shot at U c

478
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Speaker 1: l A. Even though John Singleton went to USC. I

479
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 1: remember that was a whole little minor controversy. And we

480
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: started doing that scene and we started um shooting that

481
00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: scene and when I pulled the gun out on Omar

482
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 1: Epps and I started calling the Malik and most of

483
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 1: the stuff wand up in the film and some of

484
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 1: it did it and I'm going off the script and

485
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 1: I'm riffing and I'm saying you and we're this, you, this,

486
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,879
Speaker 1: that and the other, and we're going I'm going off

487
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:23,119
Speaker 1: like I had been preparing to do this scene and

488
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 1: to do this part for months, and I was focused

489
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 1: on this scene. It's a key scene and it's a

490
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 1: key part, and I was fucking I was ready to rock.

491
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 1: And and I did the first take and I'm fucking

492
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: let Omar have it. I was saying, wild ship cut.

493
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: I mean, it was silent, and then John Singleton was

494
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 1: like this, clapping, hell yeah, hell yeah, that's what I'm

495
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: talking about, clapping for me, came, hugged me, gave me five,

496
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 1: and it was just on in popping. Like I I

497
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 1: felt so confident. I was so proud of myself, and

498
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 1: I was so just excited to be a part of

499
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: it and excited to work with a filmmaker that was

500
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 1: so excited to have me there. And I felt like

501
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: I would run through a fucking wall for him and

502
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: we would do it again and do it again. And

503
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: the whole filming and the whole shoot of that film

504
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 1: was just it was like that. And he was so

505
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,959
Speaker 1: enthusiastic with all the actors. He loved his actors, he

506
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: loved his DP. I mean I used to go to

507
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 1: his house. I mean, listen Raging Bull. Probably one of

508
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 1: the only people who would sit and watch Raging Bull

509
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: and break it down, beat for beat with me, anytime,

510
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 1: any place. But he loved all film. He loved animation,

511
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 1: he loved kids films, He studied film, he loved foreign films.

512
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: He loves Steven Spielberg. He loved film, he loved actors,

513
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 1: he loved music, he loved art, and he loved most

514
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: importantly the artist. I mean when you were on his

515
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,720
Speaker 1: set and you were kicking ask for him, he was

516
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 1: literally he he applauded me. He would have I never

517
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 1: had a director do that applaud on set, and you

518
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 1: literally felt like, yo, we could keep going all night

519
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: because he made you feel so excited to be there

520
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: and and and and so confident, and he would give

521
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: you direction and try this, to try that, and he just,

522
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: you know, at that young age and being so new

523
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 1: to acting and having this opportunity to work with someone

524
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 1: who I was so hyped to work with and who

525
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 1: just had gotten an Oscar nomination for Best Director, and

526
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 1: to give me a New York I was, you know,

527
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 1: you think I talked that New York ship. Now When

528
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 1: I was twenty three twenty four, when we did Higher Learning,

529
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 1: I was, you know, I'm Mr New York Now. I

530
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: was on some other ship, for him to give me

531
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 1: that opportunity, for him to believe in me, and for

532
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 1: him to give me that shot, and and to remain

533
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 1: in my life. You know, like that dude was it was.

534
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: It was a a guy who he would check in on.

535
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 1: You know, what's up, Mike? Out of nowhere? How are

536
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: you doing? You know? He he was so supportive of

537
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 1: me directing and me doing the trip called Quest movie,

538
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: and when are you gonna direct again? You have to

539
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: direct again? When are you gonna direct again? And when

540
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: I saw him a few weeks ago, I saw him

541
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: with the Young Shooter. He came to see me do comedy,

542
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 1: Tell me about my comedy. Laugh, and you gotta do this,

543
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: you gotta do that. You can't guy did some Michael

544
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: Jackson jokes. He was like, no, people are ready for

545
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson jokes yet, because I was talking about Michael Jackson.

546
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 1: But he just you know, do this and people love

547
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: you and just so enthusiastic and made you feel so

548
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 1: fucking good about yourself and so confident, and and when

549
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 1: are you gonna direct again? Come see me on the set.

550
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: He's on the talking about the going In the season

551
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 1: three of the of the show on FX Snowfall and ah, Man,

552
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,959
Speaker 1: just a good dude, you know, just a good dude.

553
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: And Uh, I'm sorry to ramble on about it. And

554
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about all this other stuff and

555
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 1: we could talk about it the other podcast later this week. Um,

556
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: but what a good dude. Um. And later this week

557
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: we we got Bunby in the house, the Triple O

558
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 1: G Trill O G the guy Yo, one of the

559
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 1: reasons why the word trill should probably be in the dictionary.

560
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:07,719
Speaker 1: And Statics Selector. They're talking about the new record Trill Static,

561
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: which I love. Uh. Bun talks about working with jay Z,

562
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: what that was like, working with metha man, what that

563
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: process was like, and just dope ass stories. You know,

564
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: he campaigned sort of for Bernie Sanders, he covered the

565
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: Republican Party in the two thousand and sixteen election. Dope

566
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 1: hit pop stories from him and Statics Selector, working with

567
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: Sean Price, working with NAS and it's just a hip

568
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 1: hop lover's dream. Um. And I'll be back to talking

569
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 1: ship and ranting. I hope, uh, I hope it's not disappointing.

570
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 1: I it's just been a fucking a tough loss. Uh.

571
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: And a tough day to hear that. And and when

572
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: you when you find out about someone who's just fifty

573
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: one and just such a good dude, And and when

574
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: you when I think back on my life as a actor,

575
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: my adult life, and my professional life, this dude gave

576
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:01,719
Speaker 1: me the opportunity of a lie of time and the

577
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: opportunity of a career. And um, it just conjured up

578
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 1: a lot of feelings and a lot of memories, and um,

579
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: you know, Rewatch Bois in the Hood, Rewatch poetic Justice,

580
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 1: Rewatch baby Boy. He he broke Taraji and um, you

581
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 1: know that's it. I'm I'm gonna shut it down. We

582
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: got Jordan's uh coming in a minute. Uh, the Resident Avengers. Uh.

583
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: Marvel Comics nerd breaks down, loves the movie. I'm gonna

584
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 1: see how many thumbs up he's gonna give it. And uh,

585
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to some NBA playoffs, Miles. Let me

586
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 1: get a little something real nice here, or something real

587
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 1: proper to take a little quick breather, a little breath

588
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: hopeless isn't too emotional. Uh, And then we'll get into

589
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: the review of Avengers and game ones of the second

590
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: round series so far, which has been great, and I

591
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: need James Harden to stop that flop and stay with me.

592
00:33:54,240 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 1: I'll be right back all right. So, as I said earlier, Um,

593
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 1: resident Avengers Marvel comic film critic Jordan Winter of the

594
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 1: Dust Brothers Dust Brothers Production is going to join me

595
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:33,799
Speaker 1: now to discuss his experience, his history, his fandom with

596
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 1: the Avengers films. As you know, I don't funk with

597
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 1: these movies. I believe I saw Iron Man with my

598
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: kids when it first came out, and I know for

599
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: sure I fell asleep during the movie. No disrespect to

600
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 1: Robert Downey Jr. Or any of the great actors and

601
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: filmmakers that have been a part of of any of

602
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,839
Speaker 1: these Marvel and DC films. I don't funk with it.

603
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: But I spoke to Jordan Winter, who went day one,

604
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: uh to see Avengers, and he wouldn't shut up. He

605
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 1: wouldn't stop. He was going on and on and on,

606
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: and I said, you know what, we need to represent

607
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: the Avengers. I can't do it because, like I said,

608
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 1: I don't funk with these films. So, uh, Mr Winter, Um, First,

609
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: how was the Avengers? What is the Avengers finale? Avengers

610
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 1: dead End? What is it? Pleasure to be here. Avengers

611
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: end the game, Avengers end Game, Avengers end Game. Now

612
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 1: you you were you just wouldn't stop. You were going

613
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 1: on and on and on. What's so good about the movie?

614
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,319
Speaker 1: What did you love about the movie? What were you you?

615
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: I mean, you talked about it is not just being

616
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: a great movie. It was a great cinematic experience, cultural experience.

617
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: And after you went on and on about this, I

618
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: saw on Twitter other people were saying the similar type

619
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 1: of things. It wasn't just a great movie. It was

620
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:59,880
Speaker 1: a whole sort of experience. Speak on it. Absolutely, they

621
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 1: was a very special experience that I had to go

622
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,760
Speaker 1: see it day one, which was the Friday. I didn't

623
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 1: go for the pre screenings. I went Friday afternoon, and

624
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: I had to go because these jose ain't loyal out

625
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 1: here on Twitter, the snitches. Oh Sean McCoy, Oh, I

626
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 1: didn't even see Leshaw McCoy because I strayed up, abandoned

627
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: all of my social media because you started hearing about

628
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 1: people giving away the film. I knew I had to

629
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 1: do it because I started seeing people who I respect

630
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: and admire and follow on social media who went to

631
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 1: the premiere fucked up that we started talking about it

632
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 1: given their whack ass ship. I mean, you could give

633
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 1: your opinion the premiere was great. I don't have a

634
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: problem with that, but when you start giving away anecdotes

635
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: from the movie, you're on some bullshit. It is the

636
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 1: type of thing that for me. Last year, I went

637
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 1: to the same theater and saw Avengers Infinity War, and

638
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,240
Speaker 1: I saw it not on the Friday, on the Saturday,

639
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 1: and word hadn't gotten out about even though it was

640
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: a huge opening experience the movie. The box office was

641
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: the all time greatest for Avengers Infinity War, but was

642
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: smashed by Endgame. I want to talk a little bit

643
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 1: about that too, But you know, I was seeing a

644
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: lot of discussion and I'm not I'm the type of

645
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: person I don't really care for film critics, so for

646
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: us for our purposes, I am the non fact checking

647
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: film critic who does not care for film critics. My

648
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: mother loves film critics, and she'll always try to tell

649
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 1: me about her favorite film critics and what they thought

650
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 1: about the movie. I say, I need to have my

651
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:47,760
Speaker 1: own opinion, right, I get it and my own thoughts

652
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,760
Speaker 1: and my own experiences, and that comes from me as

653
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: a pure fan of cinema. And I want to preface

654
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: this to all the fans out there, because you know,

655
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of articles and a lot of

656
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 1: YouTube videos and such. I am coming at this from

657
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 1: someone who has seen all the movies and has the

658
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 1: Avengers movies, every Marvel movie that's been creating a fan.

659
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 1: I'm a fan, but I have not read a single

660
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: word of the comic books. I'm not one of these

661
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: types of people who is looking at this like, oh,

662
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: this character, they've only been in this movie and in

663
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,359
Speaker 1: this in this episode of the comic book and this chat. Right,

664
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:28,760
Speaker 1: You're just a fan of movies. But your hard body,

665
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 1: karate hard body. I've seen every single one of these

666
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: movies in theaters and have seen them at least two

667
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: other times at home. Sometimes I don't know about you.

668
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: I love judging you. I love these movies, and listen,

669
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 1: this is just the box that I've been put into

670
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 1: any But I know I'm in the minority. So when

671
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 1: I when I'm judging you, I know that i'm judging

672
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 1: myself because I know there's tons of fans out there

673
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 1: that not only watch Avengers, they watch Game of Thrones.

674
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 1: You we know where I stand on this, So let's

675
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: just get to this. What is your takeaway on Avengers.

676
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: What is it Avengers end game? Dingo, Yes, Avengers endgame,

677
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: Avengers endgame, and please refer to it as Avengers Anger. Okay,

678
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 1: you can't just say Avengers no, no no, no, because there

679
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 1: is a there is an Avengers film the thing that

680
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: really you can offended what I say Avengers a little bit.

681
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: I'm a little offended, but that's okay. And just no

682
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: hashtag Avengers and game. Hashtag Avengers and game. No spoilers.

683
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:28,439
Speaker 1: I'm very much not going to spoil either. I am

684
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 1: going to speak you're not spoilers. I'm not giving spoilers

685
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,759
Speaker 1: because come on, what if you worked over the weekends?

686
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: I know people who were. And also, don't even get

687
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:41,919
Speaker 1: me started on the Game of Thrones snitches out there,

688
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 1: you know. And I'm not someone who really has seen

689
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 1: a ton of the Game of Thrones, but I've seen

690
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 1: enough that I know what's going on, and I did

691
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 1: watch last night, but like immediately after the I don't

692
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,320
Speaker 1: get why people wanted to ending on the East Coast.

693
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 1: There's memes going up in videos like you know what

694
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: happened with me and Aim of Thrones last night, I

695
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:03,720
Speaker 1: was trying to go to see my wife was watching

696
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,319
Speaker 1: that fucking ship and I had a pillow on my

697
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: one side of my head and then covering my head

698
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: with the other side of the pillow, and I still

699
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,840
Speaker 1: couldn't sleep through the fucking I don't know what it was, lightning,

700
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 1: thunder vibrations, It's just I was just like, why would

701
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 1: anyone watch loud fucking ship and it was so dark,

702
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 1: and they whatever the funking is, It kept me fucking up.

703
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:27,759
Speaker 1: It extended my my tossing and turning ends. So for

704
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: me who went to go see Avengers Endgame day one

705
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 1: screening one ish because I got there and people right

706
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 1: you were there early. I was there early. I made

707
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: sure that all responsibilities were taken care of. And you

708
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 1: even called me during the movie. I know you you

709
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: you hit me back, y'a. I'm made adventures, Like you

710
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:48,359
Speaker 1: don't even have to say, yo, I'm made adventures. Don't

711
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 1: just don't pick up the phone. But gun, So I

712
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: had to see it then, and I think that this

713
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: is going to be the type of movie that people

714
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 1: will be seeing multiple times in theaters. I know I

715
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 1: be seeing it again in theaters and for me, I

716
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: got to see it in a sold out screening, which

717
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: was phenomenal. People cheering, people screaming, the way that movies

718
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:14,839
Speaker 1: were meant to be made. And you say, you look

719
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 1: at me, and you say like, oh, like I'm judging you.

720
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:22,720
Speaker 1: This is how I've been made. Look at how films

721
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: are being being put out today. And you've spoken on

722
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: this before, and myself, I am a student of cinema.

723
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: I went to film school in New York which I

724
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 1: would have classes where I was legitimately just watching movies

725
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 1: all the time. Big movies, small movies, major productions and

726
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:45,799
Speaker 1: major studios. And the way that things are are going

727
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 1: now is that these studios aren't going to be investing

728
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:53,719
Speaker 1: in films unless they have a proven track record of

729
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: fan base, whether it's based on an original book or

730
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:02,840
Speaker 1: uh it's based on a comic or graphic novel. Rarely

731
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 1: do these these producers, directors, writers get a chance unless

732
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 1: there's someone special and they just had a hit. Yeah.

733
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 1: They call it the mid range films. It's it used

734
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 1: to be small budget, mid range, mid range budget twenty million,

735
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 1: and then the big budgets. Now it's just big budgets

736
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 1: and they'll acquire a small film here and there, but

737
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: the majority of the studios they don't make small films.

738
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: They might, like an independent company might make one and

739
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: then they might buy it and then they might distribute it,

740
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 1: but they don't finance them the way they used to.

741
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 1: There's no there's no market for it. And it's very bizarre,

742
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:40,280
Speaker 1: especially for me being such a huge fan of comedy

743
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 1: films because some of my favorite films from growing up

744
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 1: they were made in the ten to fifteen or even

745
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 1: eight million dollar range. They don't really make those movies

746
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 1: anymore so, but they'll make like a forty million dollar comedy.

747
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:56,879
Speaker 1: But they would prefer for these Marvel movies to make

748
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:02,399
Speaker 1: one million dollar movie than twenty millions. They want dollar

749
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:07,240
Speaker 1: movie than than ten. That's good point, right. So these

750
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: films I love them because they are just complete and

751
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 1: utter spectacles. There's no stone left unturned, which is a

752
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: little bit of a pun because the movie is based

753
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: on the six Infinity Stones of power. So that's that's

754
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: a little inside joke for the fans out there. Some

755
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: of the fans got that, yes, and some of the

756
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 1: fans like, what are you talking about exactly? But now,

757
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:32,439
Speaker 1: who's the star of this movie. There are so many

758
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 1: stars of this movie. So basically, here are the fear

759
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 1: of the people that are involved in the movie. And

760
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 1: this is not spoiler alert this this is this is

761
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 1: just we're not fucking spoiling the movie for you. And also,

762
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: and these are the type of actors that on their

763
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: own are A listers and could carry other films. And

764
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: there's even actors who were in even though I've seen

765
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 1: all the movies. There's one actor who I was like,

766
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 1: I had no idea that they were in this MOVI

767
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 1: movie just because she's in just full costume the whole time.

768
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:05,479
Speaker 1: And I'm actually a fan of hers, but I didn't

769
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,840
Speaker 1: know it was her. Okay, No, these are no spoiler alerts.

770
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:10,919
Speaker 1: This is These are all the people that you can tell.

771
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:12,879
Speaker 1: And and also I'm glad that I saw it when

772
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 1: I saw it, because if you even look at the commercials,

773
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: the fifteen second commercials, thirty second commercials that are running

774
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 1: throughout the NBA playoffs, you you're you can pick up

775
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 1: on things. You could be like, oh, there's a battle

776
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:27,360
Speaker 1: going on here, and this this character talks to this character.

777
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 1: I'm not with all that just put up fifteen seconds

778
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: go see Avengers Endgame. It made one point to billion

779
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 1: dollars one point to billion dollars in the box office.

780
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 1: It's the biggest domestic ever in the US three hundred

781
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,919
Speaker 1: and sixty million dollars. And guess what it almost made

782
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:51,320
Speaker 1: that much in China, three hundred and thirty million dollars.

783
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:54,799
Speaker 1: These movies are hard body karate. This has been going

784
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: on since two thousand and seven. There's twenty two films

785
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 1: in this. They made twenty two films. Any two of

786
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 1: these films, which is you know, it's a little but

787
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: they're they've made more of these Marvel but twenty two

788
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 1: that they put into this, like M see you the

789
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:12,879
Speaker 1: Marvel Cinematic Universe bubbles. They don't they don't include like

790
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 1: the Venoms or some of the early Spider Man's. It's

791
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 1: weird how they like categorize because I've seen all of them.

792
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 1: I've seen every single one. But they talk about the

793
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:25,919
Speaker 1: ones that are that are in these this little junk

794
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:27,840
Speaker 1: and I'll get into that. But here are the actors

795
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 1: that like right off the bat and big stars that

796
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 1: you could be excited about as just a fan of

797
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 1: cinema that I would love by the end of this,

798
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 1: I could convince you to go see this movie in theaters.

799
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: So like you said, Robert Downey Jr. Jeremy Renner, Scarlett Johansson,

800
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:49,240
Speaker 1: Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Breed Larson, Paul Rudd, Mark Ruffalo,

801
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 1: Don Cheatle, Karen Gillion. That's who I was talking about.

802
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:55,800
Speaker 1: The person I didn't know. She hasn't been in probably

803
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:59,240
Speaker 1: half a dozen of these movies. She plays the blue

804
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:02,319
Speaker 1: robot nebula. No idea was her. And if you guys

805
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:04,879
Speaker 1: are trying to visualize who this person is, if you've

806
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:07,720
Speaker 1: seen Jumanji, the movie with the Rock and Kevin Hart,

807
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: she's the girl. There was a little bit of a

808
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 1: controversy because she had the midriff. Fantastic actress. You're gonna

809
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 1: see her all over as There's gonna be another controversy

810
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 1: about you being the resident Avengers film critic. Good. I

811
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:24,920
Speaker 1: welcome it, and I'd love to speak with any you're

812
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 1: Do you feel confident to debate anybody. I've seen all

813
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 1: the movies so many times and I see it from

814
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 1: such a such a different lens, and I really I'm young,

815
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: I'm excitable. I'm ready to talk to anyone. About this

816
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 1: at any time. Also some characters and even though you

817
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:45,760
Speaker 1: know it's it's a raccoon or it's not a raccoon,

818
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:48,799
Speaker 1: raccoon like, it looks like a raccoon, but it's really

819
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:52,719
Speaker 1: a genetically engineered raccoon look alike from space voiced by

820
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 1: Bradley Cooper. You know that's this is in the movie.

821
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:59,719
Speaker 1: This is in the movie Holy fuck It. And then

822
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:02,799
Speaker 1: also so someone who's relatively new to the space but

823
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: you know, looks like is gonna be in it for

824
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 1: the long haul. Is Tessa Thompson. Who wh whoa whoa

825
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 1: whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa what? Long haul? I thought

826
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 1: it was the end. She was just when does it end?

827
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 1: There's more of this ship? She because I gotta have

828
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: to fucking if they're gonna keep going, I'm gonna have

829
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: to fucking change my tune and get it. Get in

830
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 1: one of these motherfucker's. I actually have the film that

831
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: you need to get in. I already know which films.

832
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:32,359
Speaker 1: You know a part. I don't know what the part

833
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,799
Speaker 1: because I'm not very established with the comic books, but

834
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 1: it's actually one of, if not my favorite, of the

835
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:43,360
Speaker 1: not the Avengers movies, but a side character. And actually

836
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 1: I know for a fact, so you're not saying so

837
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 1: you're saying I shouldn't go for a lead. We're just

838
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: gonna just be happy to be in and get a

839
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: side character. You I think you, well, who knows. Maybe

840
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:56,919
Speaker 1: the character that they put you off exactly, Maybe he's

841
00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:00,360
Speaker 1: got a spin off, maybe he's got a role that's growing.

842
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 1: But the movie that I think, or the franchise that

843
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:06,359
Speaker 1: you should be involved with, is Doctor Strange. I can

844
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 1: see you involved in Dr Strange. That's the Benedict Cumberbatch movie.

845
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:13,360
Speaker 1: And I know for a fact that the director fucks

846
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:16,479
Speaker 1: with you hard body karate. I've seen I've just cut

847
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:19,800
Speaker 1: this ship out. Scott Derrickson, he has, He has liked

848
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: and commented and tweeted at you, And I said that

849
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 1: to you in the past, and you're like, I don't

850
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:26,840
Speaker 1: I don't even know. Okay, okay, I gotta stop playing

851
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 1: games with these people. So dorse fuckers are like, oh,

852
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:32,400
Speaker 1: this is my last Avengers movie. Like I'm like, They're like,

853
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 1: I've made so much money, I'm just gonna step away

854
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 1: from it. It is a little strange because there is

855
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 1: more films to come and that's not a secret. So

856
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 1: is Jason Momoa in this or is that d C?

857
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,359
Speaker 1: That's d C and that's a whole other, same thing

858
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 1: but different. Yes, it's like another league. It's like if

859
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:54,440
Speaker 1: there's two NFL's, Yes, it's now is d C? Is like,

860
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 1: if you're a Marvel person, can you funk with d C?

861
00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:01,720
Speaker 1: And what is generally more? Respect? Did marcause I literally

862
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:04,480
Speaker 1: have no idea Marvel and d C. You can be

863
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:08,440
Speaker 1: fans of both, and I think that Marvel the movies

864
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:12,759
Speaker 1: are a little bit more serious at but also very

865
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 1: cheeky and and comedic and fun. DC is definitely playing

866
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 1: catch up. Marvel has been around for longer. They have

867
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 1: been building this collective, interwoven universe that's just unmatched. Honestly,

868
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 1: I've seen all of the d C films too. I

869
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 1: is that like Superman and Batman? Yeah, it's it's Superman, Batman, Aquaman,

870
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 1: Wonder Woman. Which a rat or not? Not not the

871
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 1: one you just mentioned, there's another one with a rat.

872
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:46,880
Speaker 1: It was like a space space rat or something. I

873
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:49,319
Speaker 1: don't fucking no, go ahead, I don't want to interrupt you.

874
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 1: You're very excited about this super but I'm excited that

875
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:55,760
Speaker 1: you're excited about learning more about d C and Marvel

876
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:57,879
Speaker 1: because I'm just trying to get a job and I'm

877
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: just trying to get a job from that's know. I'm

878
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:02,400
Speaker 1: just like, you know what, I've stood my ground with

879
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 1: this long enough. I feel like it's like that I

880
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: need to jump in. The jump in because it's it's

881
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:10,799
Speaker 1: too much. There's too many opportunities out here for me

882
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 1: to be It's not that I don't get it, I

883
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:14,839
Speaker 1: just don't. I'm not interested. I don't go to see

884
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 1: them as a film as a fan, know that there's

885
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:21,840
Speaker 1: roles for you that are available. Strange doctors, doctor Strange

886
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: to Black Panther two is coming, right, there's definitely Was

887
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: there any white people in Black Panther? Yes, there were.

888
00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:30,120
Speaker 1: I gotta try to find out about that. You can

889
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:33,480
Speaker 1: definitely have a role in Black Panther too. I mean,

890
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 1: it's and this is all c G I heaven, it's

891
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 1: a lot of it. But that's also what's so great

892
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 1: about the Marvel universes. It's all to me. The majority

893
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 1: of the films and the Marvel Universe are very grounded

894
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 1: in human reality. Now, I'll break down the movies that

895
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:55,320
Speaker 1: I like the most, and I like the Thor movies,

896
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:59,799
Speaker 1: but they're not my cup of tea because it's got

897
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:06,399
Speaker 1: that like fantastic fantasy, out of this world mythology, immortal,

898
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 1: you know, and who's Thor's Chris Hemsworth, you know. And

899
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 1: and Injuris Elba was in those films. He got killed

900
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 1: off in the last Infinity War movie. In the that

901
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:19,840
Speaker 1: was the last Avengers movie, he was killed off in

902
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:22,880
Speaker 1: the beginning. So that's not a spoiler. Um, it's the

903
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:26,359
Speaker 1: type of thing that there is room for you. And

904
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:30,360
Speaker 1: also you know, just so you know, and something that

905
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: I didn't know, which is I didn't look into any

906
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 1: of this stuff. I didn't even want to know what

907
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:36,279
Speaker 1: movies were coming. But now that I've seen it, I

908
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: know when movies are coming. But also there's going to

909
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:45,640
Speaker 1: be made for TV, made for streaming, which they've done

910
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:48,879
Speaker 1: a little bit in the past, Agent Carter and there

911
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:51,279
Speaker 1: was another TV show that was an ABC. But with

912
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: the Apple Plus streaming coming, there's when it's you know,

913
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:58,360
Speaker 1: I was thinking about that today. Apple Plus. You know,

914
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:02,360
Speaker 1: Apple and Mac is usually ahead of everything. They're way

915
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:05,239
Speaker 1: behind on this streaming ship. Remember, like about a month

916
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:07,879
Speaker 1: ago five weeks ago, they had a big announcement where

917
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:11,400
Speaker 1: where where's this? Where's the ship at? Normally they announced

918
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:13,359
Speaker 1: and then put it out, where's your shows that I know.

919
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 1: I know it's coming in the fall, but why announce

920
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:18,120
Speaker 1: it now? Like when they when they say a watch

921
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: is coming, the fucking watch comes. They say the phone's coming,

922
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 1: the phone comes, Like they don't even have a date

923
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:28,240
Speaker 1: on this ship. It's different now. Now is Samuel Jackson

924
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 1: a part of what Samuel Jackson is a part of

925
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:35,759
Speaker 1: the Marvel universe? Now? He is killed at the end

926
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:40,720
Speaker 1: of Avengers Infinity War, right, so he is not listed

927
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 1: in the beginning of this film with all the other

928
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 1: characters I've listened. But you know, he was just prominently

929
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:51,439
Speaker 1: featured in Captain Marvel, the movie that just came out

930
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:55,400
Speaker 1: with Bree Larson as as the star and Samuel Jackson

931
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:58,239
Speaker 1: is the second was a big hit also, it was

932
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 1: a big hit. All I'd rather watch Painter and Samuel

933
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:03,879
Speaker 1: Jackson one of my favorite actors. I'd rather literally sit

934
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 1: in here, repaint the gloom to him and watch it

935
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:10,239
Speaker 1: dry then watch those movies I have. It's it's like

936
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:15,960
Speaker 1: watching old people speak Portuguese to one another. I have

937
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: no idea what it is, no clue you're missing out.

938
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:22,320
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you. I'd literally sit in the gloom

939
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: to him and repainted and watched the paint dry. I understand.

940
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:28,279
Speaker 1: I bet you, based on what I know about you

941
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:32,640
Speaker 1: and your sensibilities, that I could hand pick which films

942
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: you might actually get down with, because it's some I

943
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:40,719
Speaker 1: saw a black panther, Yes, yes, it was fine. Yeah,

944
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: black pants. It didn't, it didn't. I'm not relating to

945
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:47,880
Speaker 1: any of this, right, and Black Panther, that's the That

946
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 1: film was only the second time we had seen that

947
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:55,800
Speaker 1: character throughout the whole thing. He was in the Civil

948
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: War movie, which was one of the Captain American movies,

949
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:00,879
Speaker 1: which also was kind of like a Vengers movie because

950
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: it had probably a dozen or more of characters that

951
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:07,040
Speaker 1: were in and out. They just they do a really

952
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:12,440
Speaker 1: good job of balancing out characters and and building their arcs.

953
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 1: You know, this one is in this movie, and this

954
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 1: then he comes into this movie, but he's not in

955
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 1: this movie. And obviously, since you know behind the looking glass,

956
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:22,520
Speaker 1: you know, if an actor is not in this movie,

957
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 1: it's because he's out filming another movie. For this this project,

958
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:30,880
Speaker 1: this this Marvel, the m c U universe. So there's

959
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:33,640
Speaker 1: a lot of really good films. Some and some people

960
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:36,840
Speaker 1: have different tastes, like, for example, I love the Original

961
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 1: Captain America movie, which takes place in the forties, has

962
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: a lot of you know, intrinsic history and he's fighting

963
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:48,239
Speaker 1: the Nazis and you know the Nazis. They kind of

964
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:51,719
Speaker 1: pair with Hydro which is like Marvel's version of the

965
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:55,880
Speaker 1: Nazis type of thing that that that spans multiple decades

966
00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 1: and comes into the present day and other films. So

967
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 1: I really like that. So, but you see certain lists

968
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 1: and they're different. This is my list. These are the

969
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 1: movies that I will watch anytime it's on. This is

970
00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 1: resident I am Rapports stereo podcast Avengers film critic slash producer,

971
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:19,400
Speaker 1: slash Dust brother Jordan Winter's favorite Avenger films go ahead, okay.

972
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:22,120
Speaker 1: And this also has to do with just the experience

973
00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:24,480
Speaker 1: and how it made me feel seeing it, because as

974
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:28,160
Speaker 1: a fan of film, I had such a blast that

975
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:30,279
Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you which is one or two.

976
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:33,719
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say one A, one B Infinity War

977
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:38,320
Speaker 1: and Endgame. Those are the latest two Avengers movies. I

978
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 1: loved both of them. They were just so much fun,

979
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:45,759
Speaker 1: completely worth the price of admission plus the popcorn, plus

980
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:49,920
Speaker 1: the butterfinger, plus the soda, plus the parking, totally worth. It.

981
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:51,919
Speaker 1: Would do it again, hopefully when I see it again,

982
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:54,960
Speaker 1: it's with a pack theater. It was just everything you

983
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: could hope for and more. It's it's amazing. It's such

984
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:02,680
Speaker 1: a cinematic achievement. And people are so about this, you know,

985
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:06,120
Speaker 1: greatest of all time culture or we may never see

986
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 1: this again. But seriously, we may never see this. Is

987
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:10,359
Speaker 1: that what people talk about this movie? And they're like

988
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:13,239
Speaker 1: talking about it like it's like Jordan or Lebron or Kobe.

989
00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 1: It's so amazing because people are are so invested. Rap

990
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 1: we're talking about twenty two films that I didn't know

991
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:24,440
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven. Yeah, that's I didn't know there

992
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:27,319
Speaker 1: was I would have said six seven, twenty two. And

993
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:31,360
Speaker 1: it's you forget about a lot of the films because

994
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 1: you kind of compartmentalize, and then you know they some

995
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 1: end up in syndication. There you'll see him on TV

996
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:38,960
Speaker 1: a lot. They run them on t NT or US

997
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 1: say I flipped the channel. They do it before basketball games.

998
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:44,920
Speaker 1: I flipped the funk, I won't watch for a second,

999
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 1: and then next is loud. For a while, had all

1000
00:56:48,239 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 1: the movies, but they don't anymore because they pulled them

1001
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 1: because now it's going to Disney Plus, another streaming service

1002
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:57,440
Speaker 1: that's coming out, you know. So that's where it's all

1003
00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:00,359
Speaker 1: going down. The whole world is going to all card

1004
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:03,279
Speaker 1: on demand. Same thing for the podcasting world, same thing

1005
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 1: for the arm Rapports Stereopluminary. We are ahead of the curve.

1006
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 1: We are the Disney Plus, we are the Apple Plus,

1007
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:16,880
Speaker 1: we are the Avengers Endgame of podcasts, that's no doubt.

1008
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:18,800
Speaker 1: All right, do your list? You didn't even you get

1009
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 1: you get so excited, like your face turns red. Do

1010
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:24,040
Speaker 1: your fucking lists. So those are my one, A, one

1011
00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 1: B the Avenger. So those lived up to expectations. Absolutely, Wow,

1012
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:32,520
Speaker 1: absolutely lived up to expectations. So much fun. And honestly,

1013
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: I don't think that if you saw either Infinity War

1014
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:41,040
Speaker 1: or Endgame, you don't have to see any other movies.

1015
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:45,480
Speaker 1: It's just it's such a well done spectacle. It's honestly

1016
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 1: probably the best computer graphics I've ever seen in any

1017
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 1: movie ever. I would love to know what the budget

1018
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:55,280
Speaker 1: for this film was, because I think it's way more

1019
00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 1: than two hundred millions, probably in the three million dollar range.

1020
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 1: It's absolutely fantastic and you can't you can just see

1021
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 1: it and just enjoy it and be like, wow, unbelievable

1022
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 1: how far movies have come, and just appreciate. Who's the director,

1023
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:15,560
Speaker 1: the Russo brothers, and they've been doing and the movie

1024
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:18,200
Speaker 1: that I talked about, the Original Captain American movie, the

1025
00:58:18,280 --> 00:58:21,360
Speaker 1: Russo brothers directed, so they've been in this for a while.

1026
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:25,720
Speaker 1: They also did the Infinity War movie. Um, so let's

1027
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 1: talk about some other movies. I really like the original

1028
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:31,440
Speaker 1: Avengers movie. I love that movie. And look, it's funny

1029
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:34,120
Speaker 1: because that movie was on TV last night that I

1030
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:39,520
Speaker 1: was watching, and it's funny. There's there's little like idiosyncrasies

1031
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:42,080
Speaker 1: or like some people would say plot holes, like a

1032
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:44,760
Speaker 1: character says something and then you remember it from this

1033
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 1: movie be like, oh, that doesn't exactly match up. They

1034
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 1: didn't know that they were going to be making twenty

1035
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 1: two of these things, but they didn't know that every

1036
00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:57,120
Speaker 1: single detail of what it was, how it could go.

1037
00:58:57,520 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 1: So you got to be able to like just sit back,

1038
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:03,680
Speaker 1: can enjoy and not be taken notes about plot holes

1039
00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:06,240
Speaker 1: and things of that nature, at least from me. I mean, look,

1040
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:09,280
Speaker 1: if you're die hard comic book I get it, you're invested.

1041
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:11,240
Speaker 1: My uncle tried to get me into comic books. I

1042
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:13,880
Speaker 1: wish I would have because I'm like, okay, okay, give

1043
00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 1: me comic books. I put it in the closet. Wasn't

1044
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:19,360
Speaker 1: my cup of tea. So I already talked about Captain America.

1045
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:22,480
Speaker 1: I really liked that first one Doctor Strange movie that

1046
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 1: I think there is a franchise in. So that's Benedict

1047
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 1: Cumberbatch is the main So he what does he do?

1048
00:59:30,640 --> 00:59:33,640
Speaker 1: He is He's just a weirdo. He is a weirdo,

1049
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:37,520
Speaker 1: but he's awesome. He's an awesome weird fly. He can fly. Yeah.

1050
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Speaker 1: So he has what's called one of the to the Stones,

1051
00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:43,640
Speaker 1: which is called the Time Stone, and basically he can

1052
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 1: control time and he can do all kinds of mystical

1053
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 1: and magical things. There was a role in the original

1054
00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 1: Doctor Strange movie which I think, you know, potentially you

1055
00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:58,200
Speaker 1: could be in the same universe. It was given to

1056
00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 1: Benjamin Bratt. He was a actor. Doctor Strange goes and

1057
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:04,520
Speaker 1: find like kind of oh like you were paralyzed, and

1058
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 1: but you're not. Now you're playing basketball in the park,

1059
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:09,120
Speaker 1: and let me ask you something, so you could be

1060
01:00:09,160 --> 01:00:12,600
Speaker 1: it's based in New York, so that that could okay, Okay,

1061
01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:15,720
Speaker 1: he's from New York, even though he goes to strangers. Yeah,

1062
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:18,640
Speaker 1: he's from New York. He's he's a big surgeon in

1063
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:22,840
Speaker 1: New York. And a lot of the Avengers movies and

1064
01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:25,600
Speaker 1: all the Marvel movies they take place in New York,

1065
01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:29,040
Speaker 1: which ends up being a pivotal piece in Endgame. Not

1066
01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:32,720
Speaker 1: it's not spoiling anything. I got down and you could

1067
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:35,120
Speaker 1: just so easily get it because I stay there's scenes

1068
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:37,720
Speaker 1: that are in Central Park in in Infinity. I'm not

1069
01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 1: gonna play a fucking frankfort the guy. I want to

1070
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:42,720
Speaker 1: be able to be able to fly but run fast,

1071
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:46,880
Speaker 1: and that disappears. They're so smart something. Maybe in one

1072
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:49,520
Speaker 1: movie you're you're the Frankforter guy, and then they're like, oh,

1073
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:52,080
Speaker 1: but you gotta look out because that Frankfurter guy he

1074
01:00:52,160 --> 01:00:54,640
Speaker 1: becomes the villain in the New Spider Man movie. So

1075
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:57,800
Speaker 1: just let it be put out. I'm gonna put it

1076
01:00:57,800 --> 01:00:59,920
Speaker 1: out there and putting it out there, making official make

1077
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:02,960
Speaker 1: in an official soon exactly. And then another film that

1078
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:06,360
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed was the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie,

1079
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:08,560
Speaker 1: and that film for me, has not Isn't I have

1080
01:01:08,600 --> 01:01:11,160
Speaker 1: a rat in it? That's the raccoon. There's a there's

1081
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:13,919
Speaker 1: a Spinicio del Toro play a raccoon. No, he's he's

1082
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:16,720
Speaker 1: in those movies, but he's not. He's he's not a rat.

1083
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:19,439
Speaker 1: He's not raccoon or a band guy or something. He

1084
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:24,320
Speaker 1: is in the bad guy space. Also Black Panthers, phenomenal

1085
01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:28,560
Speaker 1: original iron Man where this all started. That's what Robert Downey,

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01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:31,000
Speaker 1: That's what Robert. I saw it at the grove. I

1087
01:01:31,040 --> 01:01:34,960
Speaker 1: went to Sleep, directed by John Favre in the theater,

1088
01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:40,120
Speaker 1: right sleeping, right, bye bye fucking naptime exactly exactly, And

1089
01:01:40,120 --> 01:01:44,840
Speaker 1: that's no clue in it. Yes, bye bye, went to sleep.

1090
01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:49,640
Speaker 1: I love them all. Bye Bye Naptime. Aunt Man's also fantastic.

1091
01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:53,200
Speaker 1: Ants the sequels, you know, they're hit or miss, Like

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01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:58,360
Speaker 1: aunt Man two is fun. Iron Man too, not in

1093
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:00,320
Speaker 1: the background, first of all, like what it? What is he?

1094
01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:03,280
Speaker 1: What is he? He gets in a costume? Iron Man?

1095
01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:05,800
Speaker 1: Because I'm sitting there looking at these guys and I'm

1096
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:08,800
Speaker 1: like what are you talking about? All right, they're all

1097
01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:10,880
Speaker 1: pretty much most of them are. I mean, they're all

1098
01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:12,920
Speaker 1: in costumes, all of them. It doesn't matter if they

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01:02:12,960 --> 01:02:16,040
Speaker 1: have superpowers. Some of them the costumes give them superpowers.

1100
01:02:16,080 --> 01:02:19,800
Speaker 1: Others the they're just amazing and they wear costumes. Okay,

1101
01:02:19,840 --> 01:02:23,600
Speaker 1: Now let me just ask you your takeaway. How many

1102
01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:26,800
Speaker 1: thumbs up do you give Avengers Endgame? How many thumbs

1103
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:31,280
Speaker 1: do I get? Fuck Jesus Christ, I don't know. You're

1104
01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:35,520
Speaker 1: a superpower guy. You get twelve, you get you get

1105
01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:39,680
Speaker 1: twelve thumbs twelve thumbs up, twelve thumbs up. It's beautiful

1106
01:02:39,720 --> 01:02:42,640
Speaker 1: across the board. And you said that people were lingering

1107
01:02:42,680 --> 01:02:46,880
Speaker 1: around the theater in in Like they didn't leave. They didn't.

1108
01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:49,360
Speaker 1: No one left the theater. I mean I would said,

1109
01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:52,520
Speaker 1: get the funk out, everybody gotta go. We got another screen,

1110
01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:54,440
Speaker 1: we got more money to make, get the funk out of.

1111
01:02:55,720 --> 01:03:00,000
Speaker 1: Some theaters did that. Some theaters posted signs that say

1112
01:02:59,880 --> 01:03:03,960
Speaker 1: there is no end of the credits scene, because that's

1113
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:07,040
Speaker 1: the way like five minutes to think like another's if

1114
01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:11,800
Speaker 1: the movies over this place, like fifteen minutes of credits too.

1115
01:03:11,920 --> 01:03:13,880
Speaker 1: It's all that and people think like a pop up

1116
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:16,840
Speaker 1: thing's gonna happen. Yeah, which they do. They they've done

1117
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 1: in like pent of the movies. There's either a mid

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01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:25,400
Speaker 1: credit scene and ed credit scene or mid and an

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01:03:25,520 --> 01:03:28,960
Speaker 1: ed credit scene. So people are waiting out mid credit scene. Yeah,

1120
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:31,680
Speaker 1: in the middle of the movie, and when the movie's over,

1121
01:03:32,080 --> 01:03:34,360
Speaker 1: they'll have the credits, and then in the middle of

1122
01:03:34,360 --> 01:03:37,200
Speaker 1: the credits a sceno pop up from the next movie.

1123
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:40,080
Speaker 1: The next movie. People must just lose their mind when

1124
01:03:40,080 --> 01:03:43,160
Speaker 1: they they go right to Twitter and my god, I

1125
01:03:43,200 --> 01:03:45,000
Speaker 1: didn't look at any of that. I didn't google if

1126
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:47,480
Speaker 1: there was an Okay, there was a nice tribute at

1127
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:50,360
Speaker 1: the end that you know, had autographs of all the

1128
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 1: characters and all the actors got stuff like that, but

1129
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:57,200
Speaker 1: no end of the movie scene, which is not a spoiler.

1130
01:03:57,360 --> 01:04:02,080
Speaker 1: All right, Listen, this was a fantastic review, fantastic insight

1131
01:04:02,160 --> 01:04:05,880
Speaker 1: to something that I have no uh take on, but

1132
01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:08,200
Speaker 1: I know that I am in the minority. So this

1133
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:11,720
Speaker 1: is very enlightening for me. Now, dub since we talk

1134
01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:15,400
Speaker 1: NBA all the time, and uh, you give me so

1135
01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:17,560
Speaker 1: many hot takes and so many point of views on

1136
01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:21,320
Speaker 1: the NBA. Let's talk about the next two game. Two's

1137
01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 1: of the UH Round two of the NBA Finals, First

1138
01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:33,640
Speaker 1: Warriors verse the Houston Rockets. Now I have a study

1139
01:04:33,720 --> 01:04:38,840
Speaker 1: this in in nauseum um. The big controversy after Game

1140
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:41,600
Speaker 1: one was whether or not James Harden was foul. Now

1141
01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:45,240
Speaker 1: I've done deep research, I fact checked, and I'm saying deep.

1142
01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:48,200
Speaker 1: I'm talking about as deep as as we can go.

1143
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:50,840
Speaker 1: Now I have sources, and I just put it out

1144
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:53,440
Speaker 1: there that I do have sources, and I will say this.

1145
01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:57,000
Speaker 1: I was gonna do a rant about James Harden and

1146
01:04:57,080 --> 01:05:00,439
Speaker 1: fucking Chris Paul with his fucking bullshit, and they're they're

1147
01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:05,120
Speaker 1: essentially it's a jump shot. It's not along jump. You're

1148
01:05:05,120 --> 01:05:07,440
Speaker 1: not jumping forward, it's not a triple jump. You're not

1149
01:05:07,520 --> 01:05:11,280
Speaker 1: Mike Conley sr um. But I am wrong. I am wrong.

1150
01:05:11,560 --> 01:05:16,320
Speaker 1: The NBA and my sources have confirmed based on the tape,

1151
01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:21,440
Speaker 1: and I'm saying I have sources that those three calls

1152
01:05:21,480 --> 01:05:24,800
Speaker 1: that were controversial in the first half UH with Clay

1153
01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:29,400
Speaker 1: Thompson and James Harden were in fact should have been

1154
01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:32,240
Speaker 1: called as fouls. I disagree, and I think they're gonna

1155
01:05:32,280 --> 01:05:37,240
Speaker 1: make another amendment because if the offensive player is UH

1156
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:40,800
Speaker 1: shooting a basket and they're jumping forward and the defensive

1157
01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:43,640
Speaker 1: players going towards him and they're jumping forward. They're both

1158
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:46,600
Speaker 1: the sort of meeting in the middle. Um, how do

1159
01:05:46,640 --> 01:05:49,240
Speaker 1: you call the foul? But this is the thing I learned.

1160
01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:54,160
Speaker 1: A defensive player cannot interfere and can't interrupt um and

1161
01:05:54,240 --> 01:05:57,320
Speaker 1: cannot be called for an offensive foul if they're going

1162
01:05:57,400 --> 01:06:01,400
Speaker 1: towards the rim. And that's what games Harden is essentially doing.

1163
01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:04,240
Speaker 1: Like so he's taking a deep three and he's jumping

1164
01:06:04,320 --> 01:06:08,200
Speaker 1: forward towards the rim. Clay Thompson or the defender has

1165
01:06:08,280 --> 01:06:11,000
Speaker 1: to give them that space. I think that that's bullshit.

1166
01:06:11,160 --> 01:06:12,840
Speaker 1: I think that they're gonna make it a rule on

1167
01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:16,400
Speaker 1: another rule because James Harden is so tricky, such a master,

1168
01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:22,439
Speaker 1: and and James Harden is so hard to defend um,

1169
01:06:22,520 --> 01:06:25,200
Speaker 1: and he's so hard to officiate because he does all

1170
01:06:25,240 --> 01:06:29,040
Speaker 1: this KG ship. He's that old guy in the gym

1171
01:06:29,360 --> 01:06:32,680
Speaker 1: who's slow, who's got all the tricks, who's got all

1172
01:06:32,720 --> 01:06:35,600
Speaker 1: the moves, who will frustrate you, who will bust your ass.

1173
01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:39,600
Speaker 1: He's that guy at twenty whatever years old. He is

1174
01:06:39,680 --> 01:06:43,720
Speaker 1: now that motherfucker's gonna be doing this ship until he's

1175
01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:47,360
Speaker 1: forty and he's learning tricks from Chris Paul, who's also

1176
01:06:47,480 --> 01:06:51,600
Speaker 1: phenomenal at doing that. Yeah. He both of them are

1177
01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:55,760
Speaker 1: so good at knowing where the defender's arms are, where

1178
01:06:55,760 --> 01:06:58,360
Speaker 1: their hands are, where the space of it and playing

1179
01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:01,280
Speaker 1: with it and complaining and whether like it. And I'm like, listen,

1180
01:07:01,520 --> 01:07:04,000
Speaker 1: it's the playoffs. I don't like it. I don't like

1181
01:07:04,120 --> 01:07:07,960
Speaker 1: the flopping. I don't like the games, especially Game one,

1182
01:07:08,040 --> 01:07:11,200
Speaker 1: like arguing about the coals and then manipulating afterwards. Just

1183
01:07:11,440 --> 01:07:13,360
Speaker 1: I just want a fair shot to win. I don't

1184
01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:15,840
Speaker 1: like any of that. I also want the Warriors to win,

1185
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:18,960
Speaker 1: so that my preferences for the Warriors. But I just

1186
01:07:19,320 --> 01:07:21,880
Speaker 1: all this ship like and it becomes a two day discussion.

1187
01:07:21,960 --> 01:07:23,960
Speaker 1: Was it a foul not a foul? The NBA comes

1188
01:07:23,960 --> 01:07:26,040
Speaker 1: out and said it wasn't a foul, But then I

1189
01:07:26,080 --> 01:07:29,080
Speaker 1: know for a fact that that's not the truth, and

1190
01:07:29,360 --> 01:07:31,720
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. So,

1191
01:07:31,800 --> 01:07:35,440
Speaker 1: aside from the foul stuff, what was your assessment of

1192
01:07:35,640 --> 01:07:40,080
Speaker 1: Game one heading into Game two of the Warriors versus

1193
01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:43,640
Speaker 1: the Rockets dub So, the thing about the Rockets is

1194
01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:47,640
Speaker 1: they just shoot, so many three pointers every game. They're

1195
01:07:47,880 --> 01:07:51,360
Speaker 1: they're trying to shoot over sixty three pointers on average.

1196
01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:53,560
Speaker 1: That's what they want to do. They want to they

1197
01:07:53,600 --> 01:07:56,240
Speaker 1: want to push the pace, and there are so many

1198
01:07:56,280 --> 01:07:58,160
Speaker 1: different players on that team that are just gonna be

1199
01:07:58,240 --> 01:08:02,560
Speaker 1: launching from different places. People who watch the games and

1200
01:08:02,680 --> 01:08:05,720
Speaker 1: love the Rockets, love the Rockets versus Wars never talked

1201
01:08:05,760 --> 01:08:11,600
Speaker 1: about Eric Gordon. Eric Gordon is launching from everywhere. And

1202
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:15,360
Speaker 1: he did not have a good game, and especially on

1203
01:08:15,400 --> 01:08:17,439
Speaker 1: the first half. I think he was over seven from

1204
01:08:17,560 --> 01:08:20,920
Speaker 1: three point range. He finished with I think four for

1205
01:08:21,080 --> 01:08:25,639
Speaker 1: thirteen from three point range. And the thing that really

1206
01:08:25,680 --> 01:08:29,320
Speaker 1: struck me was that, you know, the Warriors played great

1207
01:08:29,680 --> 01:08:33,040
Speaker 1: in the first half. Kevin Durant was phenomenal. Steph was

1208
01:08:33,240 --> 01:08:35,920
Speaker 1: off kind of like in the sides, Clay Thompson a

1209
01:08:35,960 --> 01:08:39,240
Speaker 1: little bit. Draymond was great in the first three Draymond

1210
01:08:39,320 --> 01:08:40,880
Speaker 1: is the key. I mean, he's not the best player,

1211
01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:44,160
Speaker 1: but that that energy and that triple double, that ten,

1212
01:08:44,560 --> 01:08:48,599
Speaker 1: twelve and eleven, it's monstrous. And you know when he's

1213
01:08:48,680 --> 01:08:52,720
Speaker 1: making a step back, fade away, uh long twos in

1214
01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:54,760
Speaker 1: the first half was like within the first ten point

1215
01:08:54,800 --> 01:08:57,760
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, Draymond is locked in his energy and

1216
01:08:57,800 --> 01:09:01,400
Speaker 1: starting a gu Dolla was was a eight idea by

1217
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:04,559
Speaker 1: car I mean, because he really brings stability to that,

1218
01:09:05,200 --> 01:09:07,000
Speaker 1: you know. But the thing that really struck me was

1219
01:09:07,040 --> 01:09:10,120
Speaker 1: that the Warriors completely outplayed the Rockets and it was

1220
01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:14,000
Speaker 1: tied at half. So many, so many turnovers, it's there's

1221
01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:16,679
Speaker 1: no way they won't win this series. If they don't,

1222
01:09:16,720 --> 01:09:20,160
Speaker 1: they don't pull that back. Absolutely too many fucking turnovers.

1223
01:09:20,320 --> 01:09:22,840
Speaker 1: And again you hear it in my voice. You guys know,

1224
01:09:23,320 --> 01:09:26,040
Speaker 1: I want the Warriors to win this series. So yes,

1225
01:09:26,280 --> 01:09:29,640
Speaker 1: you are hearing a preferential treatment. I'm not sucking the

1226
01:09:29,720 --> 01:09:32,240
Speaker 1: same ESPN, the same n B A T. It's better.

1227
01:09:32,439 --> 01:09:36,000
Speaker 1: I'm I want the Warriors to win. I am saying that,

1228
01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:39,120
Speaker 1: but I also want a great series. And the Rockets

1229
01:09:39,120 --> 01:09:43,519
Speaker 1: ain't going nowhere. No, they never say die. They ain't

1230
01:09:43,520 --> 01:09:47,360
Speaker 1: going anywhere, right, And the lineups that the Warriors are

1231
01:09:47,400 --> 01:09:50,839
Speaker 1: playing really does play to the strength of the Rockets

1232
01:09:50,880 --> 01:09:54,559
Speaker 1: because they're not gonna take out Clint Capella. They want

1233
01:09:54,720 --> 01:09:58,360
Speaker 1: Capella in there and they want him to be available

1234
01:09:58,880 --> 01:10:03,040
Speaker 1: to get those lobs. James Harden and other than Kevin Durant,

1235
01:10:03,400 --> 01:10:06,559
Speaker 1: there's no one in that core starting five that could

1236
01:10:06,600 --> 01:10:10,400
Speaker 1: even get up high enough at the apex of Clint

1237
01:10:10,400 --> 01:10:13,719
Speaker 1: Capella and also something that needs to be monitored throughout

1238
01:10:13,720 --> 01:10:17,960
Speaker 1: this series. And you have sure clay And and Steph.

1239
01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:20,280
Speaker 1: They looked like themselves, even though we were a little

1240
01:10:20,280 --> 01:10:24,639
Speaker 1: concerned about their injury status heading into game on. Their

1241
01:10:24,760 --> 01:10:29,160
Speaker 1: rotation is probably the thinnest that we've seen in this

1242
01:10:29,720 --> 01:10:33,680
Speaker 1: run of the last few years of the Warriors. I

1243
01:10:33,720 --> 01:10:37,840
Speaker 1: think Jonas in certain games, Jonas Jerebko maybe not in

1244
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:40,559
Speaker 1: this series, he'll come into play. And if I was

1245
01:10:40,640 --> 01:10:43,240
Speaker 1: if I was Steve Kerry, I'd let Jonas. Remember when

1246
01:10:43,280 --> 01:10:45,200
Speaker 1: we really fell in love with Jonas when he was

1247
01:10:45,240 --> 01:10:48,080
Speaker 1: with the Celtics and he was fucking knocking people around.

1248
01:10:48,560 --> 01:10:50,479
Speaker 1: Steve Kurt needs to have him go go out there

1249
01:10:50,479 --> 01:10:51,920
Speaker 1: and do a little bit of that, and he could

1250
01:10:51,920 --> 01:10:54,920
Speaker 1: do some dirty Draymond type of she He's nowhere near Draymond,

1251
01:10:55,360 --> 01:10:58,320
Speaker 1: but Jonas can make He's got great floating jump hooks

1252
01:10:58,640 --> 01:11:03,360
Speaker 1: and he'll fucking he's scrappy stereo podcast and he's Swedish

1253
01:11:03,680 --> 01:11:06,160
Speaker 1: and he has experienced playing against the Rockets in the

1254
01:11:06,160 --> 01:11:08,080
Speaker 1: playoffs when he was on the Jazz last and he

1255
01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:11,400
Speaker 1: likes to bang. He's tough and scrappy and he'll do

1256
01:11:11,520 --> 01:11:14,759
Speaker 1: dirty shit. Um and he could give you five hard fouls.

1257
01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:17,720
Speaker 1: Not says a game changer, But just like Schumpert and

1258
01:11:17,760 --> 01:11:21,240
Speaker 1: I said it, I fucking said it, and no one

1259
01:11:21,400 --> 01:11:25,000
Speaker 1: listened to me. And yes, Austin Rivers was hurt, I

1260
01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:28,240
Speaker 1: mean he was sick. But iman Schumpert again, he's not

1261
01:11:28,240 --> 01:11:31,479
Speaker 1: gonna stop Steph Curry. He's not gonna stop Clay Thompson.

1262
01:11:31,760 --> 01:11:35,120
Speaker 1: But he's a good defender. That's all they need for him.

1263
01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:37,840
Speaker 1: And that's the only reason why I'm on Schumper got

1264
01:11:38,360 --> 01:11:41,120
Speaker 1: got picked up by the fucking Rockets was for this

1265
01:11:41,200 --> 01:11:45,960
Speaker 1: series because he does a formidable job. He's long, he's tall,

1266
01:11:46,240 --> 01:11:48,360
Speaker 1: and at this point, that's the only thing he has

1267
01:11:48,439 --> 01:11:51,040
Speaker 1: to do is give six minutes he or five minutes there,

1268
01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:54,080
Speaker 1: three minutes there on those guys, and this Rockets team

1269
01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:57,080
Speaker 1: should be the team that we're rooting for because they're

1270
01:11:57,160 --> 01:12:00,240
Speaker 1: very disruptive. They are disruptive, and they get under your

1271
01:12:00,320 --> 01:12:03,679
Speaker 1: skin and they get in your head. Yes, I mean,

1272
01:12:04,160 --> 01:12:07,959
Speaker 1: I'm not with that kicking and flopping, but you know who,

1273
01:12:08,120 --> 01:12:11,000
Speaker 1: every time I see him play, I'm so impressed by

1274
01:12:11,080 --> 01:12:13,920
Speaker 1: you know how much he's able to do with his

1275
01:12:14,200 --> 01:12:18,040
Speaker 1: limited skill set is p J. Tucker. The amount of

1276
01:12:18,040 --> 01:12:21,240
Speaker 1: offensive rebounds that this guy gets in traffic in big

1277
01:12:21,280 --> 01:12:24,280
Speaker 1: games is phenomenal, and he sees there on the corner threes.

1278
01:12:24,439 --> 01:12:28,880
Speaker 1: He's constantly guarding the best defender, speaking of defense, because

1279
01:12:28,920 --> 01:12:32,080
Speaker 1: he guards Kevin Durant, but we see Kevin Durant guarding

1280
01:12:32,200 --> 01:12:36,439
Speaker 1: James Harden like. This is this series And if there

1281
01:12:36,520 --> 01:12:38,680
Speaker 1: was anyone, and I know that there are fans out

1282
01:12:38,680 --> 01:12:41,559
Speaker 1: there who believe that the NBA should do away with

1283
01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:44,080
Speaker 1: the conferences in the playoffs and allowed to be the

1284
01:12:44,120 --> 01:12:47,240
Speaker 1: one through the sixteen seeding, this is the type of

1285
01:12:47,280 --> 01:12:51,599
Speaker 1: series where that could be an example, because I truly

1286
01:12:51,640 --> 01:12:55,080
Speaker 1: wish that. And especially whether you're a die hard fan

1287
01:12:55,160 --> 01:12:58,479
Speaker 1: or a casual fan, you watch the Rockets versus the Warriors,

1288
01:12:58,600 --> 01:13:01,439
Speaker 1: and you think, wow, this looks like the NBA Finals. Yes,

1289
01:13:01,640 --> 01:13:05,240
Speaker 1: this is what the NBA Finals should be so far. Yes,

1290
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:09,640
Speaker 1: I will also say this, Kevin Durant, this is the

1291
01:13:09,680 --> 01:13:12,840
Speaker 1: first time I believe this all year. He's leaving the

1292
01:13:12,840 --> 01:13:15,800
Speaker 1: Warriors win loser draw. And the reason why I say

1293
01:13:15,840 --> 01:13:18,800
Speaker 1: that is because he's playing so well and he's so

1294
01:13:18,840 --> 01:13:22,320
Speaker 1: focused that if they win, great, If they don't win,

1295
01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:25,719
Speaker 1: he's like, it ain't on me. He's unbelievable. He's playing

1296
01:13:25,760 --> 01:13:29,520
Speaker 1: the best he's ever played, defensively and offensively and offensively.

1297
01:13:29,520 --> 01:13:32,880
Speaker 1: He's so confident, and we're talking about years and years

1298
01:13:32,960 --> 01:13:36,200
Speaker 1: and years of being confident. But it's like he truly

1299
01:13:36,960 --> 01:13:39,120
Speaker 1: is like in a in a place where he's like,

1300
01:13:39,439 --> 01:13:41,519
Speaker 1: I could score when I want to score, I'm scoring

1301
01:13:41,600 --> 01:13:45,479
Speaker 1: thirty plus forty on your ass, and if we do lose,

1302
01:13:46,560 --> 01:13:48,760
Speaker 1: you ain't gonna be able to blame me, like he

1303
01:13:48,920 --> 01:13:51,240
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. I think something clicked in his head,

1304
01:13:51,280 --> 01:13:53,840
Speaker 1: like after that, uh, you know who I am. I'm

1305
01:13:53,880 --> 01:13:56,040
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant. After that game with the Clippers, He's like,

1306
01:13:56,320 --> 01:13:59,880
Speaker 1: if we lose, you're not pointing fingers. There's no cupcakes.

1307
01:14:00,120 --> 01:14:02,320
Speaker 1: You could say what you want, but the stats will

1308
01:14:02,320 --> 01:14:05,839
Speaker 1: prove because I'm not coming back. If we win, terrific,

1309
01:14:05,880 --> 01:14:08,000
Speaker 1: we won three in a row. If we lose, I

1310
01:14:08,080 --> 01:14:11,240
Speaker 1: average forty, suck my dick. He's he's gone. I love

1311
01:14:11,400 --> 01:14:14,880
Speaker 1: everything about what Kevin Durant is doing, has been doing.

1312
01:14:15,280 --> 01:14:20,000
Speaker 1: He clicked into another gear Patrick Beverly situation, and I

1313
01:14:20,040 --> 01:14:23,040
Speaker 1: think for himself, like I think truly, it's like bye bye,

1314
01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:26,360
Speaker 1: I'm out of your assholes, and he can do whatever

1315
01:14:26,439 --> 01:14:29,280
Speaker 1: he wants. It is such a joy and a privilege

1316
01:14:29,320 --> 01:14:33,160
Speaker 1: to watch Kevin Durant play basketball. He's stupid and anyone

1317
01:14:33,280 --> 01:14:36,800
Speaker 1: who is against Kevin your snow with your cupcakes and

1318
01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:39,320
Speaker 1: all they move forward. You have had some of the

1319
01:14:39,360 --> 01:14:42,559
Speaker 1: best tweets of the playoffs about Kevin Durant, that he's

1320
01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:44,479
Speaker 1: the best player in the world. He is the best

1321
01:14:44,479 --> 01:14:47,080
Speaker 1: play period world. If you don't like Kevin Durant, you

1322
01:14:47,080 --> 01:14:49,439
Speaker 1: don't like yourself. You don't like Kevin Durant, you don't

1323
01:14:49,479 --> 01:14:54,400
Speaker 1: like yourself. Now Boston versus Milwaukee. Milwaukee came out with

1324
01:14:54,479 --> 01:14:56,800
Speaker 1: a flurry in the beginning and then Boston fucked them

1325
01:14:57,160 --> 01:14:59,920
Speaker 1: right uman. You know, everybody's like, oh, that series is over.

1326
01:15:00,160 --> 01:15:02,640
Speaker 1: Paul Pierce says it's over. The great Paul Pierce. I

1327
01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:05,160
Speaker 1: knew he was gonna say that. He's so his his takes.

1328
01:15:05,360 --> 01:15:07,680
Speaker 1: I like Paul Pierce. He didn't give a fuck. His

1329
01:15:07,840 --> 01:15:11,240
Speaker 1: takes are way out there. Um, but what did you

1330
01:15:11,280 --> 01:15:14,400
Speaker 1: get from that? Uh? That first, it's one game. By

1331
01:15:14,400 --> 01:15:17,320
Speaker 1: the time this podcast goes, it'll still be one game

1332
01:15:17,360 --> 01:15:19,760
Speaker 1: of that series. You know, and it's tough to make

1333
01:15:19,760 --> 01:15:22,120
Speaker 1: that type of prediction, especially the fact that both of

1334
01:15:22,160 --> 01:15:25,200
Speaker 1: those teams were off for six days because they both

1335
01:15:25,280 --> 01:15:30,639
Speaker 1: made mince meat of their competition Indiana and Detroit bye

1336
01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:35,200
Speaker 1: bye with this matchup. And it was also it was

1337
01:15:35,240 --> 01:15:38,400
Speaker 1: an early start. It was really early for a playoff.

1338
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:41,840
Speaker 1: Let these guys rest, Golden state that fucking twenty four

1339
01:15:41,840 --> 01:15:44,679
Speaker 1: hours to rest, right, it's thirty six hours to rest.

1340
01:15:44,920 --> 01:15:48,160
Speaker 1: Just jamming into prime time. I mean basically, that Boston

1341
01:15:48,160 --> 01:15:53,120
Speaker 1: Milwaukee series was at noon, one o'clock. It was, well,

1342
01:15:53,160 --> 01:15:55,040
Speaker 1: it was one o'clock Eastern, but they played in a

1343
01:15:55,080 --> 01:15:58,919
Speaker 1: Milwaukee that's Central time, so it was noon in Milwaukee.

1344
01:15:59,120 --> 01:16:03,240
Speaker 1: Let people get their fucking brunch. People in Milwaukee like bagel, cream, cheese,

1345
01:16:03,240 --> 01:16:06,320
Speaker 1: and lots. Let these fucking people finish their brunch, right.

1346
01:16:06,920 --> 01:16:10,439
Speaker 1: And I was up watching that game, very excited because

1347
01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:14,519
Speaker 1: my thought process going into this series, and I do

1348
01:16:14,760 --> 01:16:17,920
Speaker 1: not like the Boston Celtics. For you you guys out there,

1349
01:16:17,960 --> 01:16:20,120
Speaker 1: we don't know. I'm a New York Nick fan, born

1350
01:16:20,120 --> 01:16:23,400
Speaker 1: and raised New York Nick fan, and obviously Boston in

1351
01:16:23,400 --> 01:16:27,160
Speaker 1: the same division as the Knicks. Never enjoy their success.

1352
01:16:28,040 --> 01:16:32,479
Speaker 1: And you know, going into this season, everyone felt like

1353
01:16:32,680 --> 01:16:35,519
Speaker 1: Boston should be the favorites in the East. They have

1354
01:16:35,640 --> 01:16:39,200
Speaker 1: the talent, they have the ability, and you know, they

1355
01:16:39,520 --> 01:16:42,599
Speaker 1: were really hot and cold this year throughout the whole season,

1356
01:16:42,720 --> 01:16:46,720
Speaker 1: mostly Kyrie was hot and cold. And obviously Gordon Hayward

1357
01:16:47,120 --> 01:16:49,760
Speaker 1: coming back off of that God with the good hair,

1358
01:16:49,880 --> 01:16:52,840
Speaker 1: Gordon with the good hair, as you coined. And you

1359
01:16:52,840 --> 01:16:57,320
Speaker 1: know the thing about the first game and the demolition

1360
01:16:57,720 --> 01:17:00,920
Speaker 1: of the Milwaukee Bucks, which I think they have to

1361
01:17:00,960 --> 01:17:04,840
Speaker 1: go back to the drawing board with their rotation, because

1362
01:17:05,560 --> 01:17:08,960
Speaker 1: I thought that Milwaukee was just gonna goon the Boston Celtics,

1363
01:17:09,160 --> 01:17:12,639
Speaker 1: especially with Marcus Smart most likely not playing in this series.

1364
01:17:13,200 --> 01:17:17,400
Speaker 1: You just gotta goon that team, and the Goons got goonened.

1365
01:17:17,680 --> 01:17:19,880
Speaker 1: And I said this earlier in the year and then

1366
01:17:19,920 --> 01:17:24,160
Speaker 1: I stepped away from it. Janice looked very regular in

1367
01:17:24,200 --> 01:17:28,799
Speaker 1: that game, because without you know, that fucking Tasmanian devil

1368
01:17:28,840 --> 01:17:32,240
Speaker 1: in the open court uh ship going on where he's

1369
01:17:32,240 --> 01:17:35,200
Speaker 1: at his very best when it's time to do um

1370
01:17:35,479 --> 01:17:40,639
Speaker 1: skill based moves where you need more counters and and

1371
01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:45,479
Speaker 1: um it's not just like physical domination, he looks I'm

1372
01:17:45,479 --> 01:17:49,000
Speaker 1: gonna say regular al horfor and it's just one game,

1373
01:17:49,280 --> 01:17:51,559
Speaker 1: but that game he looked regular. I don't know what

1374
01:17:51,640 --> 01:17:53,880
Speaker 1: his stats were, but he wasn't getting any of that

1375
01:17:54,040 --> 01:17:59,040
Speaker 1: slashing to the basket. There was no open court running, dunking, cutting, slashing,

1376
01:17:59,400 --> 01:18:01,840
Speaker 1: running away from the basket, dunking with like all that

1377
01:18:01,920 --> 01:18:04,200
Speaker 1: crazy shit. And this was the thing that I saw

1378
01:18:04,240 --> 01:18:06,280
Speaker 1: earlier in the year. I was like, this guy needs

1379
01:18:06,320 --> 01:18:08,920
Speaker 1: a skill set, a skill set to go get a

1380
01:18:08,960 --> 01:18:12,519
Speaker 1: basket other than just being fucking freaky athletic. And that

1381
01:18:12,680 --> 01:18:14,600
Speaker 1: flurry that you talked about in the first half of

1382
01:18:14,600 --> 01:18:17,360
Speaker 1: the game, the fourteen old run happened by Milwaukee with

1383
01:18:17,439 --> 01:18:20,480
Speaker 1: Janice on the bench, and that was, you know, aggressive

1384
01:18:20,520 --> 01:18:24,880
Speaker 1: aggression by George Hill and you know, bringing Nicolo Meritage,

1385
01:18:24,880 --> 01:18:27,280
Speaker 1: who you don't even recognize because he doesn't have the beard.

1386
01:18:28,120 --> 01:18:30,559
Speaker 1: He's just bombing threes. But those are the type of

1387
01:18:30,560 --> 01:18:32,920
Speaker 1: guys that they're gonna need to have big series. And

1388
01:18:33,120 --> 01:18:36,479
Speaker 1: you look up and down the Milwaukee Bucks roster, there's

1389
01:18:36,520 --> 01:18:39,960
Speaker 1: really not a ton of playoff experience. And the Bucks

1390
01:18:40,360 --> 01:18:44,240
Speaker 1: they steamrolled through the regular season this year, and there

1391
01:18:44,280 --> 01:18:47,320
Speaker 1: were some amazing games and and some tight games that

1392
01:18:47,360 --> 01:18:50,439
Speaker 1: they had to step up and they were fantastic, But

1393
01:18:50,560 --> 01:18:53,719
Speaker 1: this is a seven game series and you're going against

1394
01:18:53,720 --> 01:18:56,679
Speaker 1: a team and a coach that's gonna throw the kitchen

1395
01:18:56,840 --> 01:18:59,680
Speaker 1: sink at you. They've got a lot of length and

1396
01:18:59,720 --> 01:19:02,000
Speaker 1: a out of talent, and they were just double team

1397
01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:06,000
Speaker 1: in your honest, NonStop. I mean, you know, Marcus Morris Senior,

1398
01:19:06,120 --> 01:19:08,719
Speaker 1: I said, because that's what's on his jersey. And Jalen

1399
01:19:08,800 --> 01:19:12,599
Speaker 1: Brown get in the minutes, Jason Tatum, they're coming at

1400
01:19:12,640 --> 01:19:15,280
Speaker 1: you that they're gonna let Aaron Bains come give you

1401
01:19:15,360 --> 01:19:18,600
Speaker 1: five six hard ones. You know, it's the type of

1402
01:19:18,640 --> 01:19:22,120
Speaker 1: thing that Boston is not going to back down at all.

1403
01:19:22,479 --> 01:19:25,040
Speaker 1: And the thing that really struck me in Game one

1404
01:19:25,520 --> 01:19:30,320
Speaker 1: was that every basket that Milwaukee made was difficult, and

1405
01:19:30,360 --> 01:19:34,439
Speaker 1: every basket that Boston made looked easy. What is your

1406
01:19:34,479 --> 01:19:37,560
Speaker 1: prediction on the other series? We have Philly versus Toronto,

1407
01:19:38,000 --> 01:19:41,839
Speaker 1: we have the Blazers versus Denver. Give me your prediction

1408
01:19:41,880 --> 01:19:44,000
Speaker 1: on who's going to win? Who gives it fucking how

1409
01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:48,760
Speaker 1: many games? I think that the Blazers will beat the Nuggets,

1410
01:19:49,360 --> 01:19:52,040
Speaker 1: and I think the Raptors will beat the Sixers. Do

1411
01:19:52,080 --> 01:19:54,800
Speaker 1: you want to say how many games? It's hard, but

1412
01:19:54,920 --> 01:19:58,040
Speaker 1: it's so hard to say. I would feel confident that

1413
01:19:58,160 --> 01:20:01,400
Speaker 1: both of those series will be over in six um.

1414
01:20:01,760 --> 01:20:04,240
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you something, the fucking Raptors, when Kawhi

1415
01:20:04,320 --> 01:20:07,839
Speaker 1: Leonard is like fully engaged. This isn't like some fucking

1416
01:20:07,920 --> 01:20:11,120
Speaker 1: like hot take, but when Kawhi Leonard is fully engaged

1417
01:20:11,280 --> 01:20:14,599
Speaker 1: and Pascal Siaka friend of the Iron Rappers, Terry, remember

1418
01:20:14,680 --> 01:20:18,800
Speaker 1: last summer we had Pascal siakimon and everyone's like, who

1419
01:20:18,800 --> 01:20:22,400
Speaker 1: the funk is that? Well, now you know who the

1420
01:20:22,400 --> 01:20:26,280
Speaker 1: funk he is. I'm so happy at how good he's

1421
01:20:26,360 --> 01:20:30,479
Speaker 1: become and how beloved he is in Toronto, and people

1422
01:20:30,520 --> 01:20:32,760
Speaker 1: are starting to see around the league just how good

1423
01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:35,960
Speaker 1: that guy is. And whatever happens with Kauai over the

1424
01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:39,680
Speaker 1: summer as a free agent, I mean, Toronto is so

1425
01:20:39,760 --> 01:20:46,000
Speaker 1: lucky to have Pascal Siakam. He is phenomenal. And And

1426
01:20:46,040 --> 01:20:48,799
Speaker 1: what's your prediction, based on everything we know right now,

1427
01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:53,320
Speaker 1: who's gonna make it to the NBA Finals? Dub My

1428
01:20:54,439 --> 01:20:58,639
Speaker 1: fandom thinks it's going to end up being the Golden

1429
01:20:58,640 --> 01:21:02,439
Speaker 1: State Warriors. Very says the Toronto Raptors. You know that's

1430
01:21:02,640 --> 01:21:06,400
Speaker 1: if that happens, the Warriors are going to have to really,

1431
01:21:07,479 --> 01:21:12,160
Speaker 1: really outdo themselves because Kawhi Leonard is a motherfucker and

1432
01:21:12,240 --> 01:21:15,680
Speaker 1: that team is longer than the Warriors, they're tall. I

1433
01:21:15,720 --> 01:21:17,800
Speaker 1: do think that they have to work Jeremy Lynn into

1434
01:21:17,800 --> 01:21:20,559
Speaker 1: the rotation. I'm not sure why he's been buried and

1435
01:21:20,680 --> 01:21:22,960
Speaker 1: you could say, oh this that in the third, but

1436
01:21:23,400 --> 01:21:26,080
Speaker 1: I mean, Jodie Meeks is getting time for the Raptors.

1437
01:21:26,120 --> 01:21:29,320
Speaker 1: I don't understand why Jeremy Lynn isn't getting time. But

1438
01:21:30,040 --> 01:21:33,160
Speaker 1: my fear is that it's going to end up being

1439
01:21:33,439 --> 01:21:37,439
Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors versus the Boston Celtics. I do

1440
01:21:37,520 --> 01:21:40,800
Speaker 1: not want to see that. And the Celtics are just

1441
01:21:40,960 --> 01:21:43,680
Speaker 1: looking like they're clicking at the right time. If they

1442
01:21:43,680 --> 01:21:46,240
Speaker 1: get Marcus Smart back to that team is just really

1443
01:21:46,280 --> 01:21:48,040
Speaker 1: deep and really good. But how do you think they

1444
01:21:48,040 --> 01:21:50,639
Speaker 1: could beat the Warriors. I don't think that they could

1445
01:21:50,640 --> 01:21:53,240
Speaker 1: beat the Warriors, but I think that if there's any

1446
01:21:53,280 --> 01:21:55,760
Speaker 1: team from the East that the Warriors don't want to see,

1447
01:21:55,800 --> 01:21:59,280
Speaker 1: it's the Boston Celtics. They've said that, they said when

1448
01:21:59,280 --> 01:22:02,280
Speaker 1: they played this Kyrie he loves to fucking go out

1449
01:22:02,320 --> 01:22:05,120
Speaker 1: the Warriors, loves to go at the Wars and they've

1450
01:22:05,160 --> 01:22:07,559
Speaker 1: got guys on that team who you know. They've got

1451
01:22:07,600 --> 01:22:10,439
Speaker 1: the mama mentality, They've got they want the big moment,

1452
01:22:10,520 --> 01:22:14,200
Speaker 1: and it's it seems like so long ago, but the

1453
01:22:14,280 --> 01:22:17,200
Speaker 1: Celtics were in a Game seven against the Calves in

1454
01:22:17,240 --> 01:22:20,679
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference Finals just last year. They're fucking good

1455
01:22:20,880 --> 01:22:24,360
Speaker 1: and and I listen, I'm rocking with the Warriors all

1456
01:22:24,360 --> 01:22:27,080
Speaker 1: the way through. I want them to win. Those are

1457
01:22:27,080 --> 01:22:30,160
Speaker 1: my guys. That's my adopted team. Yes, I'm a New

1458
01:22:30,240 --> 01:22:32,760
Speaker 1: York Knicks fan. What am I supposed to do? Am

1459
01:22:32,760 --> 01:22:35,519
Speaker 1: I supposed to sit here and watch all tapes of

1460
01:22:35,600 --> 01:22:38,960
Speaker 1: the Knicks from seven? Is that what you want me

1461
01:22:39,000 --> 01:22:41,519
Speaker 1: to do? We had to Is that? Is that what

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Speaker 1: I'm supposed to do? Sit here and watch all the

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Speaker 1: troll spree wall games. Sit here and watch when when

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Speaker 1: Bernard King scored sixty. I can't do that, or when

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Speaker 1: Carmelo Anthony got blocked at the rim by Roy Hibbery. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm not doing that. I'm a basketball fan. That's my

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Speaker 1: adopted team. It's always been my adopted team. And that's

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Speaker 1: what I'm doing. I need to be emotionally involved. All okay,

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Speaker 1: you don't like it. I don't know what people want

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Speaker 1: me to do. That's what I'm doing. Um dub what

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Speaker 1: a pleasure. Um, what a pleasure. UM I'll wrap this up,

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Speaker 1: UM banging big body. I am wrapped for stereo podcast. UM, Miles,

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Speaker 1: you're not here, so please uh take us out of

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Speaker 1: here with something real nice, uh, something real proper, and

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Speaker 1: most importantly, something real funky. That's it.