Speaker 1: Okay, his only films to be buried with Hello and
Speaker 1: welcome to films to be buried with Happy New Year you.
Speaker 1: My name is Brett Goldstein. I'm a comedian and actor,
Speaker 1: a writer director at Kaffetier, and I love film. As
Speaker 1: Henri Bergson once said, it is a motion that drives
Speaker 1: the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles. It's why you
Speaker 1: care about his beautiful mind in the film A Beautiful Mind,
Speaker 1: because you care about Jennifer Connelly green about his beautiful
Speaker 1: fucking mind. Fair enough, Henri, No need for cuss words,
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Every week I invite a special
Speaker 1: guest over. I tell them they've died. Then I get
Speaker 1: them to discuss their life through the films that meant
Speaker 1: the most of them. Previous guests include Barry Jenkins, Mark Frost,
Speaker 1: Sharon Stone, and even Clad Plambles. But this week it
Speaker 1: is the wonderful actor and brilliant man, Lamonne Morris. Head
Speaker 1: over to the patron at Patreon forward slash Brett Goldstein,
Speaker 1: where you'll get an extra twenty minutes with la Morne.
Speaker 1: We laugh a lot, We talk about beginnings and endings.
Speaker 1: He tells me a secret. You also get the whole
Speaker 1: episode uncut and ad free. Check it out if you
Speaker 1: like over at patreon dot com. Forward slash. Brett Goldstein
Speaker 1: Lamourne Morris is a brilliant and funny actor. You know
Speaker 1: him from so many things. He was a new Girl,
Speaker 1: he was in Woke, He's in Game Night. He is
Speaker 1: about to be in the upcoming new season of Fargo
Speaker 1: with my girl Juno Temple. I've never met him before.
Speaker 1: We recorded this over zoom a few weeks ago. He
Speaker 1: was fucking lovely. I loved it. He was so funny.
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna love this one. So that's it
Speaker 1: for now. I very much hope you enjoy episode two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty nine of Films to be Buried With. Hello,
Speaker 1: and welcome to Films to be Buried With. It is
Speaker 1: me Brett Goldstein, and I enjoy today by an actor,
Speaker 1: a writer, a producer, a game show host, a game nighter,
Speaker 1: a woker, a new girl, a new boy, a legend,
Speaker 1: a hero, a multiple appearances in many things that you love.
Speaker 1: And I love a man, a myth, a person, and
Speaker 1: a human and wearing a cap. Please, I can't believe
Speaker 1: it's here. Welcome to the show. It's the one that
Speaker 1: I the brilliant saving himself. It's Lamar Baris. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much for such a short intro. Man, Just get
Speaker 1: on with the fucking show. Some of those are a natural,
Speaker 1: all true. You're wearing a cap we've never met before.
Speaker 1: I've been a fan of yours for years. Thank you
Speaker 1: for doing this, Oh, thank you. I've been a fan
Speaker 1: of yours for months. You are a friend of Sam Richardson,
Speaker 1: one of the great Yes, yes, and and also Junior
Speaker 1: Temple now one of the greats. These are two of
Speaker 1: the great Yeah. Now, I've got so many questions for you.
Speaker 1: One is I was looking at your IMDb page to
Speaker 1: check if those ending I missed, and I was a
Speaker 1: fan of New Girl, which you did forever, forever seventh
Speaker 1: seven seasons, seven seasons. And what I was really curious,
Speaker 1: it's a brilliant show. You were brilliant in it is
Speaker 1: you wrote an episode and you directed an episode, and
Speaker 1: I would love to know what that experience was like,
Speaker 1: given that you were the idea of directing the people
Speaker 1: that you've been the cast with. Suddenly the change of
Speaker 1: sort of that powered dynamic might be odd. So I've
Speaker 1: always been I don't think I would how was it
Speaker 1: for you? Well, I wanted to feel like the boss.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was an interesting one because I wanted
Speaker 1: to you know, these are my cast mates, you said,
Speaker 1: we've normally turned it for so long, and I kind
Speaker 1: of the little brother of the group, and uh, to
Speaker 1: direct it was like I pretty much wanted to say
Speaker 1: fuck you to you guys. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I wanted to give him shit, but I couldn't because
Speaker 1: what happens is there are so many technical things that
Speaker 1: you have to think of and that you have to do,
Speaker 1: and the crew is as long as you've known the
Speaker 1: crew and as cool as you guys are, they don't
Speaker 1: want they don't want to be there all day and
Speaker 1: watch you dick around, and so at some point I
Speaker 1: had to focus up and really get shit done. Um.
Speaker 1: But the level of disrespect from my cast mates that
Speaker 1: they stole upon me at all time, by I mean,
Speaker 1: they did not give a fuck that I was there.
Speaker 1: They did not give a shit such by that point,
Speaker 1: and by that point, such divas, such divas, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think Zoe had like Zoe had like four trailers.
Speaker 1: At the time I was discuss no one listened to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did you try to give them nice I'm like, I
Speaker 1: can't imagine that with with your own cast. Guy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like this. I've been thinking this for five years. I
Speaker 1: wish you did it like that. I know it's you
Speaker 1: know I did. I did try that. And someone like
Speaker 1: someone like Max Greenfield, for example, is such a performer
Speaker 1: that he could take any note and then amplify it
Speaker 1: by by fifty you know what I mean. And then
Speaker 1: I would watch when I would give him a note,
Speaker 1: because usually when a director gives him a note, he's like,
Speaker 1: got it, and he'll go on and he'll give you
Speaker 1: that times ten. When I would give him a note,
Speaker 1: he would sit there and thought and start to question
Speaker 1: the note and dissect the note and asked me why
Speaker 1: I wanted to see the change in his performance? Why
Speaker 1: did that? Why did he need to walk in from
Speaker 1: the left side of the state, Why did he need
Speaker 1: to say it like this, like give me a fucking break, man,
Speaker 1: just just do the thing that you always do. My
Speaker 1: job made me look good, you know, But they weren't
Speaker 1: having it. Man, well a night man? And what about
Speaker 1: the writing an episode? Because unless I don't know, forgive me,
Speaker 1: if I don't know this, it says you only wrote
Speaker 1: one episode, so I guess you weren't on the writing team.
Speaker 1: You weren't part of that. How did that come about? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That was that was interesting. That was during a very
Speaker 1: racially charged time in the States. You know, um, as
Speaker 1: it always is. I'm yeah, that's over now. I saw it.
Speaker 1: The girl fixed it. But during that time when we
Speaker 1: were fixing it, you know, there were things that had
Speaker 1: to be addressed. A lot of stuff was happening with police,
Speaker 1: and my character was a cop, and and I was
Speaker 1: I was kind of I don't want to say, ignoring it,
Speaker 1: but it was just like business as usual. I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, this always happens. And so when fans started
Speaker 1: getting involved and tweeting me and saying, man, how does
Speaker 1: it feel to be a black cop? You know on TV?
Speaker 1: This is this is when the situation happened in Ferguson,
Speaker 1: uh in Ferguson, Missouri, and and my cat's name is
Speaker 1: Ferguson on the show, and people were like, man, you're
Speaker 1: a black cop with a cat named Ferguson. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm not I don't know what to
Speaker 1: do exactly. So and I did feel some type of
Speaker 1: way so I asked Liz Merriweather if I could. It
Speaker 1: was my It was my idea to become a police
Speaker 1: officer on the show. And I've always wanted to play
Speaker 1: a cop on TV, but more in the slapsticky police
Speaker 1: Academy style. And so when I got a chance to
Speaker 1: do it, it it was great. But then all the stuff
Speaker 1: started happening and I felt like, Okay, I'll still be
Speaker 1: a cop, but can I not wear the uniform as much?
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm tying these questions and I maybe
Speaker 1: this is my stance against brutality. And I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what to think. I don't know what
Speaker 1: to do. I was just felt weird. So she was like, hey,
Speaker 1: we get a lot of mileage out of this character.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe we should write an episode. And so
Speaker 1: start speaking with police officers and speaking with folks and
Speaker 1: seeing how people felt about the situation, and came up
Speaker 1: with the with the idea and how was it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but even in that episode, my co stars didn't respect me.
Speaker 1: You know, they start improvising a lot more. They start
Speaker 1: going away off of script, like way of the book
Speaker 1: you to say shit, I wrote, we don't have to
Speaker 1: say this pretty much. That's pretty much how it is
Speaker 1: fascinating and then so so you know, I'm interested in
Speaker 1: you do this huge show that you do for seven years.
Speaker 1: When it ended, a were you heartbroken and be what
Speaker 1: was your thinking of what to do next? Like how
Speaker 1: did you approach where you went next? In a way
Speaker 1: I kind of was, I was, I want to say,
Speaker 1: I was heartbroken, heartbroken. I didn't get paid what I
Speaker 1: thought I was gonna get paid in the last No,
Speaker 1: But I was like, you know, this is my first
Speaker 1: big show, you know what I mean, This was my
Speaker 1: first I had done a bunch of TV commercials in
Speaker 1: some game show hosting and things like that, but this
Speaker 1: was my first. This was like my dream come true.
Speaker 1: And to work on it with such beautiful, lovely people, funny,
Speaker 1: the funniest people, Like the writers were in our minds,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, the things they would write, it
Speaker 1: was almost like you're improvising, but they were saying jokes
Speaker 1: to you, you know what I mean. And it was
Speaker 1: it was such a beautiful, long process that when it ends,
Speaker 1: you're you're kind of looking for that next thing that's
Speaker 1: going to feel that way. Of course, you want to
Speaker 1: take a little time off you know, but once you
Speaker 1: get back into it, you realize not everything you realize
Speaker 1: you had it made you realize this was this. And
Speaker 1: that's something Max Redfield used to say to me a lot.
Speaker 1: He's he had done a lot of pilots, a lot
Speaker 1: of guest stars, co stars recurs and he said, this
Speaker 1: is unusual. So so so you know, enjoy it because
Speaker 1: it don't happen like this all the time. You know.
Speaker 1: I kind of felt like I wanted to get back
Speaker 1: in back in the game. And the reason why I jumped,
Speaker 1: the reason why I did Woke right after New Girl,
Speaker 1: was because I was feeling like, okay, there is this
Speaker 1: void of performance. You know, I did movies in between there,
Speaker 1: but there was this void of this long term camaraderie
Speaker 1: that you would have with a group of people and
Speaker 1: flushing out characters and trying jokes and trying new scenarios
Speaker 1: and things like that. And Woke came about and it
Speaker 1: was one of those shows that mirrored my life exactly. Well,
Speaker 1: here I am this. You know, folks out there, we
Speaker 1: don't know what Woke is. It's a It's a show
Speaker 1: about a cartoonist named Keith Knight, is based on a
Speaker 1: real guy who was one of our creators, well, the
Speaker 1: creator of a show. It was about his journey through
Speaker 1: his quote unquote blackness or his wokeness or not being woke,
Speaker 1: you know, or is that a real thing? Or what
Speaker 1: the fuck am I doing? You know? And that was
Speaker 1: kind of me, you know, being on television, people start
Speaker 1: looking to you for answers for some reason, and it's
Speaker 1: almost like they don't realize that I went to theater
Speaker 1: school and they put on makeup and I danced around stage,
Speaker 1: I tell dick jokes, and they look to you for answers,
Speaker 1: and so you start becoming more engaged and trying to
Speaker 1: figure out who you are and where you fit in
Speaker 1: the world. And this show was that, and it mirrored
Speaker 1: my life and so I said, this is something I
Speaker 1: want to tackle for sure it was and it was great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I digress from the New Girl. No no, I that's
Speaker 1: the understand question. Did you did you going from being
Speaker 1: part of an ensemble to being the lead of a
Speaker 1: big show. Did you approach it differently? I did? Were
Speaker 1: you more of a dick ad over you like with
Speaker 1: that thing? Like? Did it did it feel more pressure?
Speaker 1: Was it a different feeling or was it similar, it
Speaker 1: was definitely more pressure. I will say that I spoke
Speaker 1: with Zoea a few times about just her responsibility leading
Speaker 1: New Girl, and I just remember, I remember just watching
Speaker 1: The Daily Grind that she had to go through being producer,
Speaker 1: being star of a show, you know, um kind of
Speaker 1: carrying the show. And so with with Woke, it was
Speaker 1: the same thing. I I kind of wanted to take
Speaker 1: take it on more as a It was weird. It
Speaker 1: was like I wanted to be a big brother more
Speaker 1: than the star of the show. Yeah, so I can't.
Speaker 1: You know, we had one character on our show, t Murph,
Speaker 1: who I mean, this guy's so funny, He's he's another
Speaker 1: level funny. But this is his first time acting on
Speaker 1: the show, and so you know, you know, there was
Speaker 1: a there's a there's a leary character being on television
Speaker 1: and transferring those jokes to TV. But he was just
Speaker 1: on it, and there was a lot of kind of
Speaker 1: coaching him through just the business end of it, you know,
Speaker 1: not so much performance or anything like that. It was
Speaker 1: the business end of it and and set etiquetted and
Speaker 1: letting him know, you know, here's what's going on over here,
Speaker 1: here's what's going on over there. And in season two,
Speaker 1: the guy came back like, I mean, damn all star,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. If you guys can't see me,
Speaker 1: I'm snapping my finger a lot, you know. That's how,
Speaker 1: that's how, That's how he was. He was just popping
Speaker 1: on all cylinders, and I kind of felt like, that's
Speaker 1: what I want. That's how I want to lead. That's
Speaker 1: to me, is what number one on the call sheet
Speaker 1: is is taking the actors and kind of making sure
Speaker 1: they're good, making sure they're set up properly, and being
Speaker 1: the voice for them to the suits and all those
Speaker 1: folks up there. Interesting. Yeah, But then but I will
Speaker 1: say this too, on the perform On the performance side, though,
Speaker 1: it's fucking hard. Man. It's like you're in every scene. Yeah, you're,
Speaker 1: you're helping rewrite, you're you know, you're, you're charge of
Speaker 1: the troops. I was lucky enough that our show, Every
Speaker 1: actor on our show was so damn good, so good,
Speaker 1: they're so they're so good that it was kind of
Speaker 1: one of those things where I just had to like
Speaker 1: memorize my lines and perform and be funny yeah, and
Speaker 1: and and and be real and be believable and do
Speaker 1: all those things. So that was that was that was
Speaker 1: kind of an easy part because they were so dope
Speaker 1: at what they do. You know, Seshi is probably, you know,
Speaker 1: top five funniest people I've ever met. She's just so dope.
Speaker 1: I was gonna tell you something that I forgot to
Speaker 1: tell you at the beginning, and I should have told you.
Speaker 1: I'll just say you've died. Fuck, you're dead. You're a
Speaker 1: dead Fuck I know, I know. I'm I'm a time traveler.
Speaker 1: So yes, how did you die? Tell me? You know,
Speaker 1: id steen it, how did you die? I ain't. I
Speaker 1: was time traveling, you know what I mean. I died
Speaker 1: at a very very late age. And then I think
Speaker 1: it's just two hundred um seeing the future. I was
Speaker 1: doing my one hundred and ninety ninth time jump, okay,
Speaker 1: and this was against the government rules. They couldn't catch
Speaker 1: onto me, and in one of the loops, I died.
Speaker 1: I passed away, uh, and I was never seen again.
Speaker 1: But since the one's ever seen me again, there's a
Speaker 1: possibility that I might come back. Oh, you're very much dead.
Speaker 1: I've seen you. You You're like a Jackson public between
Speaker 1: the lakes. Yeah, just for the just for the listener.
Speaker 1: Obviously I just had had the time drivel work. Um,
Speaker 1: what happens is you have you have a force of
Speaker 1: energy that hasn't hasn't been created yet, so it's hard
Speaker 1: for me to explain. There's certain neurons and atoms that
Speaker 1: I mean, no disrespect to you, were the people that
Speaker 1: it's out there right now. Yeah, just plump y'all plump
Speaker 1: dumb compared to what we know in the future, the
Speaker 1: future smartest ship. So there there's a force. And what
Speaker 1: happens when they collide they squish you. They squish you
Speaker 1: at They squish you at the base first, and everything
Speaker 1: comes up to the top. So it kind of feels
Speaker 1: like you have a bit of a headache, right and
Speaker 1: then you know, you move around about and you you
Speaker 1: time jumped. They whip you up in a sort of
Speaker 1: sense of figal force and then that's not what that's
Speaker 1: not what they call it in the future. But yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: I know what we call it now, but that's not
Speaker 1: what they call future. Yeah. Yeah, and then but nice
Speaker 1: try do you get to live you put in or
Speaker 1: are you jump? Yeah? Quite now where you're gonna land? Well, no,
Speaker 1: there is a neural link. The neural link is still
Speaker 1: a thing that's in our all of our heads, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you don't have to like to type it in
Speaker 1: you think therefore you are you know what I mean? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can. Yeah. And when you can buy a hack yourself,
Speaker 1: you can. Just you know, some people they have restrictions
Speaker 1: and blocks on the way they think, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, yes, But when you take off those shades,
Speaker 1: when you take off those restrictions, when you buy a
Speaker 1: hack the neural link, you can go anywhere you want.
Speaker 1: You can be anywhere you want to be. Do you understand?
Speaker 1: I do? And you blame my mind. Okay, what's your
Speaker 1: favorite what's your favorite year? My favorite year was nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty eight? Any peak reason? I killed Hitler? You did
Speaker 1: kill that? Yeah? Oh wow? Motherfucker? Oh yeah, killed his ass.
Speaker 1: Oh wow. I walked up behind the real slow. He
Speaker 1: looked at me and he said no, he said something,
Speaker 1: you know how he is. He said some bullshit, and
Speaker 1: I got pissed off and I let that motherfucker have it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That was a good year. That was a good year.
Speaker 1: I was. I was very much so celebrated and throughout
Speaker 1: the annals of history I am a bit of a
Speaker 1: hero and the people love me in the future that
Speaker 1: people look at me like I'm you know, like I'm
Speaker 1: la somebody. You know what I mean. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I hope I've treated you with the requisite respect you
Speaker 1: have you have I mean this. Don't take this the
Speaker 1: wrong way. It is beneath me to do yes, because
Speaker 1: in the future, you know what I mean, I'm solving
Speaker 1: world issues. I'm that kind of guy in the future.
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm just a fucking dick joke teller. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're not doing podcasts in the future. What do you
Speaker 1: worry about death? Something that you worry about Lemon Mars, Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, I've I've I understand the type of answer
Speaker 1: that something Jim gaffickand said he would die in a plane.
Speaker 1: And the reason why I had such a lock winded
Speaker 1: answer is because death is Death scares the shit out
Speaker 1: of me. I don't want to die. I am so
Speaker 1: terrified of it that thinking of any scenario of how
Speaker 1: I could die in my mind, I feel like, well, fuck,
Speaker 1: this will be the podcast that they'll play back over
Speaker 1: and over again when I do get gorilla raped or something.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Like I don't or you know,
Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah, Like so I'm like, Okay, the future,
Speaker 1: that's fucking that's come on. I'm not time traveling, but
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's the best I can do. I
Speaker 1: don't want to say anything else because I don't want
Speaker 1: to manifest this bullshit. Have you always worried about death?
Speaker 1: I have? And I don't know why, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't want to say I don't know why. There have
Speaker 1: been occurrences in my life where I've lost people. And
Speaker 1: the feeling you get when you lose someone, I think
Speaker 1: we all can say is the worst feeling in the world.
Speaker 1: Is it's horrible. So there are moments in my in
Speaker 1: my adolescence, you know, where I lost my grandmother. Then
Speaker 1: in my adult life lost an ex girlfriend and that
Speaker 1: was yeah, and it was it was tragic and it
Speaker 1: was like so just to think about it, it worries me.
Speaker 1: And now, you know, I take care of my family,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I'm responsible for a lot
Speaker 1: of family members and their well being. And you know,
Speaker 1: we talk all the time. We we counsel each other,
Speaker 1: my friends, and it's and we're getting older and now
Speaker 1: I have a daughter and you know, yeah, I have
Speaker 1: a two year old thank you, thank you. It's so
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm like, I need to be here for her.
Speaker 1: I need to I need to teach her about about
Speaker 1: about Michael Jordan and Lebron time travel and you know, yes,
Speaker 1: and I gotta be the one to do it, you know.
Speaker 1: So um so, just but the idea that I'm not here, honestly,
Speaker 1: what the fuck will everybody do? And that includes you
Speaker 1: and the world. It's something we talk about. I mean,
Speaker 1: I really get it. I get I get what you're saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's uncontamable. Yeah, because also we don't know what's
Speaker 1: behind the curtain. I'm you know, I was born raised Christian,
Speaker 1: so I have some sort of idea of what I believe.
Speaker 1: But you know, as time goes on, I start to
Speaker 1: feel like I start because I believe in consciousness, and
Speaker 1: I don't think that consciousness disappears. I feel like and
Speaker 1: maybe this is weird, maybe maybe there's too many shrooms.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just feel like I feel like
Speaker 1: I feel like we've we've probably died so many times.
Speaker 1: There is no way to know, you know, there's no
Speaker 1: way to know we've probably died. We probably were gorilla raped.
Speaker 1: You know brutally I feel that. I mean, no, no
Speaker 1: that way, but yeah, I feel that. You know what,
Speaker 1: maybe the thing is, have you ever done have you
Speaker 1: ever done high dives? Diving off a very high diving board.
Speaker 1: I've never done that, right, I think I've done it once,
Speaker 1: but yeah, and it's scary, right, I was thinking, I
Speaker 1: whenever I'm near a high diving board, i will go
Speaker 1: on it and i will jump off it and it's
Speaker 1: fucking scary, and I'll keep going because I'm trying to
Speaker 1: get to the point where where it isn't scary. And
Speaker 1: what I phone doing high diving is it never gets easier,
Speaker 1: like as in I think your brain, your body, the
Speaker 1: higher you just looks down and goes, fuck, no, you're crazy.
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to tell it, yeah, but you just
Speaker 1: did it and you were okay, And it doesn't I've
Speaker 1: never found it get any easier. I still do it,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't get any less scary or less your
Speaker 1: instincts going, don't jump, don't jump. And I wonder if
Speaker 1: the many times that you've died, it's the same thing,
Speaker 1: so so it doesn't get any easier dying. You've died
Speaker 1: a hundred times but it's like a high diving board.
Speaker 1: Your your instincts are still going yeah, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: want to do it though everything inside. But we've done it.
Speaker 1: We've done it, We've done it. We've done this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one percent. I'm not I'm not an adventure seeker, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I'm not a thrill seeker whatsoever.
Speaker 1: But but maybe I think, maybe I actually do. Maybe
Speaker 1: I maybe I have skydived and then died, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I just keep telling myself Nah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a thing that just terrifies me, and so
Speaker 1: I do in all actuality the way I would love,
Speaker 1: not loved love. Yeah, the way I would love to
Speaker 1: die is at one hundred and eight years old in
Speaker 1: my sleep, you know, and all my loved ones are around,
Speaker 1: you know, praising me. Good job, buddy, he died, Yeah,
Speaker 1: way to die. Well, listen, you're you're right on a
Speaker 1: number of these things. But there is a heaven. There's
Speaker 1: a stop bit, there's a bit where you're going on
Speaker 1: between knives. There is a heaven, and you're very welcome.
Speaker 1: They're huge fans of Woke and if the episode you
Speaker 1: directed of Newgo and of the episode you right, you gotta.
Speaker 1: They're huge. They like everything you've ever done. They weren't
Speaker 1: talk to you about your life, but it's still be
Speaker 1: your favorite thing just heaven. What's your favorite thing? There's
Speaker 1: two things. The first thing, the first thing I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say. I'm not gonna talk about, you know, having
Speaker 1: a hair surrounding me. I'm not gonna talk about that. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about the women that are just rubbing
Speaker 1: my shoulders and like telling me how like huge I am.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about that. You're so big, big bi boy.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, like still like
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, yeah, I can't even and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't even try, you know what I mean. That's not
Speaker 1: what I'm here to talk about. And that's why that's
Speaker 1: why that really was up to you, wasn't it? Because
Speaker 1: you Yeah, I've been really But for real though, my
Speaker 1: favorite thing is is my favorite thing is floor seats
Speaker 1: at at a basketball game. That's my favorite thing. I'm
Speaker 1: doing that in Heaven. I'm obsessed with it because I'm
Speaker 1: no good at it. Oh you just wanted you just
Speaker 1: would like to be that class to see it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's such a have you ever been to a basketball game.
Speaker 1: I have been to a bast game, but not not
Speaker 1: not quote side, and I've always looked, must speak, I'd
Speaker 1: just be worried about tripping someone overall getting in the way.
Speaker 1: I just I thought these are not ideal safe Yes,
Speaker 1: a getting all getting hit or getting hit by a
Speaker 1: bow damns terrible. That's hard. That's that that would be
Speaker 1: hard to do. Imagine like you know, yadis into the coomborus,
Speaker 1: somebody just elbowing you in the face. That's that's difficult.
Speaker 1: But for me, it's the I grew up playing basketball,
Speaker 1: and so there is this you know how guys are man,
Speaker 1: We're like, we're so obsessed with the greatness of these athletes,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? They do nothing for us
Speaker 1: in all actuality and not paying my bills. It's just
Speaker 1: a weird hoop dream that I have, like living out
Speaker 1: my fantasies to other people. It's it's just, you know,
Speaker 1: I just love it so much. So that's what I'm
Speaker 1: doing in heaven. Okay, well, so heaven it's it's flow States,
Speaker 1: cold side flow stats and you're surrounded by your ham
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, no, we're not talking about
Speaker 1: the hero. I'm not talking about it. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: they're there. Yeah they're not, you know, we're hey, we're
Speaker 1: not talking about it. They're just that. They don't talk
Speaker 1: about that about so strong, so strong? How do you
Speaker 1: lift that big old thing? It's so strong. I'm like, stop, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. You know, there's a there's a
Speaker 1: there's a whisper going around about ambig is because they
Speaker 1: keep but now we're talking about it, but there's a whisper. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there is a whisper. I mean, you can you see it.
Speaker 1: You can see it, you can feel it. Everyone can
Speaker 1: feel it, obviously, but everyone we're not talking about here.
Speaker 1: No one's talking about it, but they can feel it.
Speaker 1: This show is so perverted. That's not what I'm here for.
Speaker 1: That's not what I'm here for. That and yet that's
Speaker 1: what the audience they're here for. Thank you for delivering.
Speaker 1: They want to know about your life through film as well.
Speaker 1: The first thing they want to know is what is
Speaker 1: the film? What's the first film you remember saying the
Speaker 1: first time i'mber seeing this one's a this one's a
Speaker 1: difficult one because I knew I saw a lot of
Speaker 1: films when I was a kid. You know, we lived
Speaker 1: we lived in this small house and in Chicago, and
Speaker 1: you know, we had term of the TV being in
Speaker 1: living room and they're always being this news station or
Speaker 1: this TV station WGN that would play you know, like
Speaker 1: Saturday Night movies, Saturday Night movies or whatever they were.
Speaker 1: And so I remember seeing like old Chuck Norris movies
Speaker 1: and Bruce Lee movies and Love Kung Fu movies. But
Speaker 1: the movie, the movie that I remember seeing vividly was
Speaker 1: when we got the VCR for the first time, and
Speaker 1: which is a big deal where we come from. It's
Speaker 1: like we were broke, you know, we were broke. So
Speaker 1: we got a VCR and there was this service that
Speaker 1: you could check off movies from this paper that they
Speaker 1: would that they would send you in the mail. You
Speaker 1: would mail it back to them and then they would
Speaker 1: mail you the movies unless how you bought VHS tapes, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like a betting slip. Yeah. And they had a bunch
Speaker 1: of different things on there you could choose from. And
Speaker 1: the movies that we selected the Joy Luck Club, Blue Chips,
Speaker 1: the Air Up There and Dragging, the Bruce Lee's Story,
Speaker 1: and the one I remember the most is The Air
Speaker 1: Up There, starring Kevin Bacon. It was I mean, do
Speaker 1: you remember that movie at all? What's the Air up there? So?
Speaker 1: The Air up There? It's Kevin Bacon is a basketball
Speaker 1: coach who goes to the small he's looking for a
Speaker 1: new looking for a new recruit, and he goes to
Speaker 1: this town in Africa and there's this guy who's just
Speaker 1: so good. His name is Sale, I think that was
Speaker 1: his name is Sale. He was so good that I
Speaker 1: think Kevin, Kevin Bacon ended up just staying over there
Speaker 1: and like coaching this team, you know, staying in Africa
Speaker 1: coaching this team, you know, the White Savior, and he
Speaker 1: goes over there. Yeah he's just yeah, it's like Michelle
Speaker 1: Peiffer in Dangerous Minds. He just he just really, you know,
Speaker 1: really helped this community out by turning Sali into an
Speaker 1: All star basketball player. And Sal he had no shoes.
Speaker 1: He just literally wore feathers in alloy cloth played I
Speaker 1: think he played on like a peach basket, like old school.
Speaker 1: But you was so good. He was so good and
Speaker 1: Kevin Bacon really brought that brought that fire out of him.
Speaker 1: But that was actually one of my favorite one of
Speaker 1: my favorite movies of all times. It's the reason why
Speaker 1: I love Kevin Bacon because Blade Shits. He's another basketball film. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm obsessed. You you are obsessed, and you really can't play.
Speaker 1: I'm decent. I used to be able to play really well.
Speaker 1: I just over time I stopped, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like I didn't, I didn't make the pros, so I quit.
Speaker 1: Do you have siblings, are you watching these films? I
Speaker 1: do so, so I'll tell you this. I love basketball.
Speaker 1: My sister, I don't know what she loved back then,
Speaker 1: but she picked The Joy Luck Club and my brother
Speaker 1: and my brother picked Dragon the Bruce Lee Story, which
Speaker 1: is another classic. Yeah, exactly. And my brother's middle name
Speaker 1: is Lee. So maybe that's why, you know, maybe that's
Speaker 1: why we have a big fascination with Asian culture, big
Speaker 1: big fascination and our and our family. So and I
Speaker 1: think that's like black folks in general, and we love
Speaker 1: Kung Fu movies, we love the like, you know, everything
Speaker 1: about the Asian culture. Like that's just sorry, if we
Speaker 1: feel connected. I don't know what it is, you know,
Speaker 1: even I've never been to Asia. Idea, no idea. I
Speaker 1: just I think my first ten girlfriends were Asian. I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's a fascination, don't know. Man, You know,
Speaker 1: we are worldly people. We love everybody, you know. But
Speaker 1: back then we just connected more with these films. I guess.
Speaker 1: You know, what's the film that scared you? Device? Do
Speaker 1: you like? Do you like being scared? You know I do,
Speaker 1: because I feel like I feel like it was a challenge.
Speaker 1: You know. People would talk about these scary movies. Oh, man,
Speaker 1: you're the Exorcist, will scare you? I was. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I wasn't. It didn't do it for me, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. The Exorcist didn't do it for me.
Speaker 1: The Shining at the time when The Shining came out,
Speaker 1: you know, when I was younger, these psychological type of
Speaker 1: horror movies didn't do it for me because psychologically I
Speaker 1: was inept. I was a fucking child. I didn't get it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Yeah, Oh look there's twins
Speaker 1: in the hallway. Great, let's play you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Let's do this exactly, you know, so I get the
Speaker 1: fascination of it when you're older. But back then, the
Speaker 1: movie that scared me the most was a movie called Clownhouse. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was in want to say, nineteen eighty nine, directed
Speaker 1: by this guy, Victor Salva. Clownhouse was a movie about
Speaker 1: these these escaped There was a break in a mental asylum.
Speaker 1: Simultaneously there was this carnival going on, and these people
Speaker 1: broke out, killed some carnies painted their faces like like
Speaker 1: like they were like they worked there, and started stalking
Speaker 1: this kid, you know, followed him to his house. There's
Speaker 1: this scene that's so terrifying where this kid, this kid
Speaker 1: looks outside of his window. He's got this swing that's
Speaker 1: in front of his house. He looks outside of his window.
Speaker 1: There's nothing there. He goes back out. There's a clown
Speaker 1: sitting in it, just rocking back and forth. You know.
Speaker 1: He jumps down. He's like, oh my god. He looks
Speaker 1: back up. There's no one there, but the swing is
Speaker 1: still swinging like ship. Clowns on the move. He's coming
Speaker 1: to get you, you know what I mean. So that
Speaker 1: right there, Yeah, that that I hate clowns. I hate clowns,
Speaker 1: So that right there really freaked me out. There are
Speaker 1: others like Halloween, Michael Myers and stuff like that, which
Speaker 1: is my favorite, like favorite horror John Or franchise yeah,
Speaker 1: but but Clownhouse is the most terrified for sure. Great
Speaker 1: un has never come up, and I always respect that. No,
Speaker 1: it's place. No, that's the adrop there very well, thank you,
Speaker 1: my friend. Here's thinking about clownhouse though, Yeah, here's thinking
Speaker 1: about clowns. Here's thinking about clowns. Tell me it's like
Speaker 1: going to It's why I don't like going to haunted houses. Right,
Speaker 1: you go to a hearted house. Everyone's wearing these weird masks.
Speaker 1: Everyone's got these chainsaws, they got knives jumping out at you.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of crazy motherfuckers in this world. What Yeah,
Speaker 1: what happens when there's a disgrattled employee of a damn
Speaker 1: hearted house and he's like, I'm gonna fuck somebody up
Speaker 1: to date, I'm dressed in the clown No one's gonna
Speaker 1: know who's really. No one's gonna know exactly. That's why
Speaker 1: I don't go. I don't go. I can't. I was.
Speaker 1: I went for the first time to universals Halloween Knights.
Speaker 1: Halloween Nights are terry. You haven't been to that, It's scary,
Speaker 1: and I was. I was really impressed by the fact
Speaker 1: that they chase you around with chainsaws and knives and
Speaker 1: I'm sure, yes, I'm sure they're not sharp. But the
Speaker 1: fact that they seem to stab at you but miss
Speaker 1: and you're running and you're suddenly like the fact that
Speaker 1: I didn't see anyone get injured or you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Like the fact that they fully stab you,
Speaker 1: but a stab you. It's quite impressive physically. It is
Speaker 1: the choreography of it. The scariest part of that, though,
Speaker 1: is it. I do believe you sign a waiver before
Speaker 1: you go in. Yeah, you say if if they make
Speaker 1: a mistake and they stab you in the eye, yes, Like,
Speaker 1: what the hell is that? No, man, No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: So you're saying as a possibility, because this must happen
Speaker 1: before anything can happen in it anything, I know one
Speaker 1: of these people might not work here. Yeah, exactly. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you. It's a lot of weirdos in this world. Man,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of weirdos. What's the film that made
Speaker 1: you cry? The mist and now you are crying? Man,
Speaker 1: I'm not a crying man, you know. I'm an old
Speaker 1: school Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, you know. Yeah, nothing gets
Speaker 1: to me. You don't mean grizzled, real grizzled fella. Not
Speaker 1: really I do. I am a crier when't necessary. I'm
Speaker 1: not crying for no reason, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I don't cry at sunsets and shit like that, like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, look at that. Shit happens every day.
Speaker 1: Why are you so emotional? I cried recently in a film.
Speaker 1: I recently saw a movie. I saw, Black Panther, Wakonda Forever,
Speaker 1: and that one made me cry immediately because you know,
Speaker 1: Chad Boseman, God rest Assul was was a buddy of mine. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was very influential and and you know in my
Speaker 1: in my entertainment life, parts of my career. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean with you know, his advice before I
Speaker 1: would help, helping me audition for New Girl, or coaching
Speaker 1: me for this movie or that project, or just being
Speaker 1: around you know what I mean. Just watching his journey
Speaker 1: up close and seeing how he handled himself as a
Speaker 1: as a as a human being. It m It hit
Speaker 1: me because when he passed away. Originally, you know that
Speaker 1: moment I was, I was dealing with something I was
Speaker 1: I was dealing with something else in my life. So
Speaker 1: when he passed away, it I was I felt that
Speaker 1: I was. I was. I was troubled by it, and
Speaker 1: it was I was, obviously, like everyone else, shocked by
Speaker 1: it because he kept it so so close to the vest.
Speaker 1: But I cry, but not a lot. I didn't cry
Speaker 1: as much as I thought I would. I you know,
Speaker 1: the rest of the world was was mourning, and I
Speaker 1: felt a little comfort in that that everyone was on
Speaker 1: the same page that this was, you know, sad. I
Speaker 1: wasn't alone and that, you know. But then watching the film,
Speaker 1: they give a tribute to him, and it hits you,
Speaker 1: and it plays into the storyline of the movie, and
Speaker 1: it just hit I don't know where, because I just
Speaker 1: like out of nowhere. I'm in the theater balling, you know,
Speaker 1: because like man, I never sat and just watched like
Speaker 1: I avoid watching like TV, Like when they give the
Speaker 1: tributes on certain things, I'll like turn away and like
Speaker 1: an award chosen to give. I just I turned away
Speaker 1: out of you know. But this one, man, I'm sitting
Speaker 1: in the theater like just going like you know, throughout
Speaker 1: a lot of the movie, you know, and the actors
Speaker 1: did such a great job of playing me and his
Speaker 1: family and his friends and all the people that mourned him.
Speaker 1: They were playing that so well and so real and
Speaker 1: believable and honest, and it was just it was hard. Man.
Speaker 1: That movie was hard. It was hard for me to watch,
Speaker 1: you know, so and I and I just saw it
Speaker 1: when it came out, so I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: but but very therapeutic in a way because it was like, man,
Speaker 1: I kind of got some of that out, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Yeah, what an amazing and so that question,
Speaker 1: thank you? Yeah, of course, man, what what is What
Speaker 1: is the film that you love? People don't like it,
Speaker 1: it's not critically acclaimed, but you love it unconditionally. What
Speaker 1: is it? Are we are we disregarding adult films? No,
Speaker 1: love me a good X rated? No, I would probably
Speaker 1: say I'd probably say Potty Tangtang, But I great and
Speaker 1: I love Put Back. I love that movie so much, man, yea,
Speaker 1: I tell my gosh, man, it's one of the it's
Speaker 1: one of the dumbest things you can ever lay your
Speaker 1: eyes on, ever. But you're just laughing uncontrollably at how
Speaker 1: silly and ridiculous it is. You know. I talked a
Speaker 1: lot about Gorilla assaults, and um, we spoke about it
Speaker 1: a couple of times on this play. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: got that. I that all stems from the scene and
Speaker 1: Pootie Tank where where it says Pooty Tank's father was
Speaker 1: killed at an unfortunate and an unfortunate work related accident,
Speaker 1: and while he's at work, working at like a factory,
Speaker 1: a gorilla comes back. It's just it just destroys them.
Speaker 1: It's so stupid. But these and I saw that at
Speaker 1: a younger age. These things stick in your mind. Man.
Speaker 1: They said, you know, my birthday, my friends thought it
Speaker 1: was like every year for like three years, a friend
Speaker 1: would give me a Pooty Tank poster or a friend
Speaker 1: would give me a Pooty Tank cassette tape. It was
Speaker 1: such a running joke in my life that if you
Speaker 1: knew me, you knew refer to Potty Tang in some
Speaker 1: sort of way. And so yeah, it's gotta be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what about a film that you used to love but
Speaker 1: you've watched recently and you do not love it anymore
Speaker 1: for whatever reason that could be. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to say I don't love it. It just doesn't
Speaker 1: hold up as much as I thought it was when up.
Speaker 1: Now here's the thing I don't want people. People are
Speaker 1: gonna take this the wrong way. People are gonna make
Speaker 1: it seem like I am bashing this movie. I'm not. Okay, dude, everybody,
Speaker 1: everybody shut up, shut shut up. Listen, everyone listening? Can
Speaker 1: you shut up? Please shut up? Please stop? Thank you
Speaker 1: now that I got your attention, space space scream. Oh
Speaker 1: my god. And I feel bad saying it. The reason
Speaker 1: why I say that it's it's not because it's a
Speaker 1: bad movie. It's still a great movie. It's still looney
Speaker 1: the scenario, it was still mains perfect sense plot wise. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I think I do think it was better than the remake.
Speaker 1: You know. Um. However, when I was a kid and
Speaker 1: I was watching it, the bugs, Bunny Daffy, they did
Speaker 1: their thing. They killed it as always right. Yeah, when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, I thought like this added to
Speaker 1: the Michael Jordan legacy. For me. This was like yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's like he should get one of those awards,
Speaker 1: you know, like an Oscar or something like that. Look,
Speaker 1: how look how good he is. He just dumped from
Speaker 1: half court like it's Michael Jordan, you know. And when
Speaker 1: I got older, I was like, oh my god, Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan is a shitty actor, dog shit, Like he is
Speaker 1: horrible you know, if he wasn't Michael Jordan, he wouldn't
Speaker 1: have got this role. Yeah. So so that's what I
Speaker 1: mean by it doesn't quite hold up that. Hey, what
Speaker 1: is the film that means the most to you? Not
Speaker 1: necessarily the film itself is any good, but the experience
Speaker 1: you had seeing the film will always make it special
Speaker 1: to you. Let More and mars Man. You know what
Speaker 1: I will say this, this movie developed my love for
Speaker 1: going to the cinema itself. I used to It used
Speaker 1: to be a point where if I was in a
Speaker 1: relationship and if the if the girl that I was
Speaker 1: dating didn't like going to the movies because she didn't
Speaker 1: like if that wasn't she didn't want to do this
Speaker 1: every other day, then I she wasn't the one for me.
Speaker 1: It makes title sense, I'm saying, by the way, very
Speaker 1: much so alone. Um, but this movie it was It
Speaker 1: wasn't a movie that I was supposed to have seen
Speaker 1: at this age. But but but my mom she was
Speaker 1: the reason why we, you know, developed such a passion
Speaker 1: for movies. She loved taking us to the movies. And
Speaker 1: it was honestly just because I like to sit next
Speaker 1: to my mom and like, you know, like lay on
Speaker 1: my mom's shoulder and we get popcorn and like, you know,
Speaker 1: we you know, we called you know, we're black family,
Speaker 1: so we would speak our own food in and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. So like it was just it was just
Speaker 1: one of the coolest times to be around my mom.
Speaker 1: And but the movie itself was a good movie, a
Speaker 1: great movie in my opinion, But it wasn't the movie.
Speaker 1: It was just I remember this being the first time
Speaker 1: I was in a theater I think, watching this movie,
Speaker 1: and it was a new New Jack City, New Jack City.
Speaker 1: I wasn't supposed to be seeing that at that age. Man,
Speaker 1: I was I want to say, I was a good
Speaker 1: nine maybe maybe this is the best thing ever. Absolutely
Speaker 1: it was titties in there. It was it was you
Speaker 1: saw so many ariolas, and it was like, this is cool, man,
Speaker 1: And I'm a big fan of Iced Tea, Wesley Snipes.
Speaker 1: I mean, that cast was absolutely fantastic. So for me,
Speaker 1: it wasn't necessarily the movie. I just remember that movie
Speaker 1: being a big deal at the time because in certain neighborhoods,
Speaker 1: this is a real thing. In certain neighborhoods, people were
Speaker 1: getting shot at the movie theater, like certain gang rivals
Speaker 1: would they knew people would be watching this movie. So
Speaker 1: people were going to movie theaters and get shot, and
Speaker 1: so it was like a big deal for us to
Speaker 1: be at the movie seeing this particular movie at this
Speaker 1: particular time. And and so that's what just triggered it
Speaker 1: in my brain, Like it stands out to me, we
Speaker 1: saw a million movies in the theater that this one
Speaker 1: in particular was like some eriie going on like yeah,
Speaker 1: oh oh, that man has a gold chain on, does
Speaker 1: he have a gun as well? You know, they're thinking
Speaker 1: these things and so for me, but that but that
Speaker 1: also developed it the excitement of being in a movie
Speaker 1: theater for me. You know, it's unfortunate that during that
Speaker 1: time too, when that ship was happening, But I was
Speaker 1: a kid, and it just I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: know something about it. That's really My mom and dad
Speaker 1: took me illegally to see Reservoir Dog at a midnight screening. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when I was I don't know how that. I was
Speaker 1: like young, very young, and there was like someone smiking
Speaker 1: and someone lit a cigarette off the wool. People were
Speaker 1: I remember it so well, and it was so fucking exciting.
Speaker 1: It was so exciting it's a I know, there's something
Speaker 1: about there's something about like because now that I have
Speaker 1: a daughter, I'm always questioning what will I let her watch?
Speaker 1: And every once in a while I'll find myself sitting
Speaker 1: on the couch and she'll just because my daughter has
Speaker 1: so much energy, like so much that when she wants
Speaker 1: to sit down, I embrace it so much. I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: she's chilling. Let's just sit and not move. And if
Speaker 1: its hour is great, she she shits herself, fine, just
Speaker 1: say just like you know, like, so I will not
Speaker 1: move right now. And if a movie comes on, you know,
Speaker 1: and remote controls not in my arms reach, I'm like,
Speaker 1: we're watching it, you know what I mean? Oh, I
Speaker 1: got We're about to watch heat. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So you know, nightmreal elm street. That's fine, baby, that's fine. Sorry,
Speaker 1: What about what is the film you must relate to
Speaker 1: the film that I most relate to. I gotta say,
Speaker 1: you know, when I was when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: I my mom used to tell me that I was silly,
Speaker 1: like I would goof off a lot and I would
Speaker 1: you do these voices and I would play these weird characters.
Speaker 1: And when I saw a nuttie professor. I thought like,
Speaker 1: that's it. That's what I'm gonna do. I want to
Speaker 1: do that. I want to do that. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: just because Eddie Murphy is my favorite. He's my he's
Speaker 1: my you know, favorite all time, you know, but it
Speaker 1: was the fact that he had played all these different characters,
Speaker 1: and it's the scene at the dinner table where he's
Speaker 1: the mom, the dad, the grandmom, the the creepy uncle,
Speaker 1: he's you know, it's everybody, and and each character so
Speaker 1: unique and so different, and I just thought, man, that's
Speaker 1: that's what I want to do. So and still have
Speaker 1: my time at Second City and my time performing on
Speaker 1: stage and doing improv shows, and I just love playing
Speaker 1: characters and doing bits, and you know, even even to
Speaker 1: this day, it's still my dream to kind of help
Speaker 1: usher in the new generation of that or maybe bring
Speaker 1: back those days of people just playing straight up silly characters.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, we're not so high brow, we're
Speaker 1: not too good to yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Right, that hasn't been a big hasn't
Speaker 1: been a big silly film. That's that for a while.
Speaker 1: No big hit, big, big silly, absolutely not and that
Speaker 1: don't up to you. You're a fucking writer and brilliant
Speaker 1: as dude like you created. Yeah, you couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: I've seen you. I've seen you guys do it. Thank you, man.
Speaker 1: I want to. I want to badly. Here's a question
Speaker 1: you've been looking forward to. What's the sexiest film you've
Speaker 1: ever seen? Lemon. We're not counting anything in my currently
Speaker 1: in my camera role. We we can count anything that
Speaker 1: you can that you would use the word cinema. I
Speaker 1: would say the sexiest film. It's got to be cruel Intentions.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be that movie spitycase. Cruel intentions. Yeah, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: Now has anyone used that that has come up? And
Speaker 1: that has come up about me? I'll be honest, but
Speaker 1: it hasn't come up in a very very long time. No,
Speaker 1: very enough. I'd tell you one hundred episode doesn't come up.
Speaker 1: You're good, well let me well, well, let me tell
Speaker 1: you I was. The reason why I say cruel intentions
Speaker 1: is because it's during that time I want to say,
Speaker 1: I was in high school. You're you're so fascinated with
Speaker 1: high society and you're so fascinated with how these folks
Speaker 1: live it wasn't just sexy in the fact that people
Speaker 1: were doing it, people were getting weird. It was it
Speaker 1: was sexy and like this lifestyle that you've, this kind
Speaker 1: of world you that you're not privy too, you know,
Speaker 1: especially coming from the Midwest. You're like, what is that
Speaker 1: so much hair? Jael Ryan Philippi, Who I want hair?
Speaker 1: Jel You know, nice button up and slacks. You wear
Speaker 1: that to school? Like his band was wearing long sleeved
Speaker 1: button ups with colored shirts and slacks to school. Who
Speaker 1: does that? The man who fucks that's who does it? Okay,
Speaker 1: and sure maybe he also fucks his sister, but that's
Speaker 1: not the point. The point now when probably yes she
Speaker 1: was killed, um, and there was you know, there was
Speaker 1: during that time where you're trying. I was, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna lie and this is this is something I'm gonna
Speaker 1: just put out there for the world right now. I
Speaker 1: was trying to I was trying to get laid in
Speaker 1: high school. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't come on iron that I had them. I'm human.
Speaker 1: Apparently nobody else could either because nobody wanted it. So
Speaker 1: I wasn't I couldn't give it away in high school, man,
Speaker 1: so I so cruel attention, was like, oh that's cool.
Speaker 1: I want to live in a penthouse and do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, it never happened. So that's why that movie. Well,
Speaker 1: let's look at the subcategory traveling bon is worrying. Why
Speaker 1: don't a filmy found arousing? You wouldn't show you shit,
Speaker 1: it was probably days and't confused, you know, because well
Speaker 1: because daysn't confused. There are scenes in that movie. And
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I want to say I was
Speaker 1: really young. I want to say I was maybe ten.
Speaker 1: Novie came out and the girl what's her name? I
Speaker 1: forget I forget her name in the movie. She anyway,
Speaker 1: the really cute girl is a cute young girl in
Speaker 1: the movie. And I was ten, and I was just
Speaker 1: watching a movie. And I believe this was the first
Speaker 1: time that I was around hell. I do think I
Speaker 1: started to notice a little pressure in the pants. And
Speaker 1: I was so young. And the reason why I say
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have gotten aroused just because I thought I
Speaker 1: was too young. Why why is this? Why isn't my
Speaker 1: body reacted this way to this movie? You know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Everybody's dying. I thought I was dying, you know,
Speaker 1: So I didn't know what it was, so I started
Speaker 1: slamming it in the door. I was like, stop, I know,
Speaker 1: I just didn't. I didn't know what was going on.
Speaker 1: And I do believe that was the movie. There was
Speaker 1: a hazing scene. I think there was a hazing scene,
Speaker 1: and I was just like, what is all these all
Speaker 1: these girls? Like what? And before I knew what attraction was.
Speaker 1: But I think I got my first basically confused, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, in your under it exactly. I
Speaker 1: was days confused, aroused in my trowsers, unbelievable, shocking. I
Speaker 1: gotta well, you know, I'm not gonna say one of
Speaker 1: these fucking cartoons or something like that and then have
Speaker 1: the restaurant. I think I'm sort of fucking, you know, creep.
Speaker 1: You know. Tell me this, well, it's objectively the greatest
Speaker 1: film of all time, objectively not maybe your favorite, but
Speaker 1: the pinna film of film. It's both. It's my favorite, man,
Speaker 1: it's the greatest film of all time. And I don't
Speaker 1: think I'll have any I don't think I'll have any
Speaker 1: objections on this one. There'll be no pushback, Okay, it's
Speaker 1: the matrix. See okay, see look aroused in your trials.
Speaker 1: That really David the matrix. My god, was this groundbreaking
Speaker 1: for for for cinema, yes, for filmmaking. The technology they
Speaker 1: used in this movie, you know, it was a mix
Speaker 1: of conventional filmmaking but with futuristic. They're still they're still
Speaker 1: using those techniques in movies now, which is to me
Speaker 1: fascinating And at the time, my mind was absolutely blown
Speaker 1: watching that movie. The idea that even now when we
Speaker 1: talk about when we talk about tapping into folks as
Speaker 1: brains and where are we living this it's a term
Speaker 1: that we use all the time, constantly living in the matrix.
Speaker 1: We're taking the red pillar of the blue pill. That
Speaker 1: all stem from this film. You know, it wasn't just
Speaker 1: cinematically groundbreaking, it was it was it was groundbreaking in
Speaker 1: terms of thought and how and how we think of
Speaker 1: society and how we think of where we are of
Speaker 1: our existence, and you know, time travel, time travel, but
Speaker 1: inner what you call it, interdimensional travel. People talk about
Speaker 1: now and what the possibilities are, and it's weird to
Speaker 1: me that this movie came out so long ago and
Speaker 1: we're still scratching the surface of some of the ideas
Speaker 1: of that film let and you've convinced me it's the
Speaker 1: greatest film time. We're absolutely right, Yeah, it hasn't. Those
Speaker 1: things really really did permea everything. And technologically wise, I
Speaker 1: can't think of a thing since Bullet Time that has
Speaker 1: been m M bigger than Bullet Time, do you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like bullet Time with bullet Time and
Speaker 1: it was amazing. What's what's come after Bullet Times? It's
Speaker 1: more bullet time? Yeah. And the Matrix for me, For me,
Speaker 1: it was the the re emergence, if you will, of
Speaker 1: Keanu Reeves. Yeah, I mean prior prior to two people
Speaker 1: were like, this guy's just what was he like Bill
Speaker 1: and Ted? And he was just kind of like he
Speaker 1: does the Matrix and that Bood character fits so perfectly,
Speaker 1: you know. And then when he does John Wick. The
Speaker 1: reason why people love John Wick so much is because
Speaker 1: it just reminds them of the dope shit he was
Speaker 1: doing in the Matrix. Yes, that's why. That's why you're
Speaker 1: right on every level. I can't argue with that. You've
Speaker 1: done it. What's the film you could all have watched
Speaker 1: the most over and over again? Training Day, Training Day
Speaker 1: because that also could be for me, it's a toss
Speaker 1: up between my favorite movie of all time, Matrix and
Speaker 1: Trained Day. But Training Day, Oh my god, dude, that
Speaker 1: Denzel monologue, my good oh my goodness. That movie there,
Speaker 1: that was that's the to me, that is that's my
Speaker 1: favorite performance. I want to say. Yeah, you know, it's
Speaker 1: a toss up between that and maybe again that Eddie
Speaker 1: Murphy and Eddie Professor or something like that, or it's
Speaker 1: a toss up between genres. But I mean, my god,
Speaker 1: the dinamic between him and Ethan Hawk like that, that
Speaker 1: that's really cool. Like I almost don't ever want to
Speaker 1: see it again because you know, I know they did
Speaker 1: a series, they had a series um Training Date for
Speaker 1: a little bit um and yeah, and it was pretty good.
Speaker 1: But I but I just I just didn't want to.
Speaker 1: I just didn't wanna. Don't. Yeah, don't mess with that.
Speaker 1: Don't mess with that. There's this the scene that I've
Speaker 1: watched maybe a billion times, the first the first time
Speaker 1: they met in the cafe when he's reading the paper.
Speaker 1: The dialogue and the acting and I fuck, he loved that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a time fact to save thing. Oh my god. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe I did a sketch a training day. This is
Speaker 1: how obsessed I am with it. I got an opportunity
Speaker 1: to host Kimmel twice and in one of the and
Speaker 1: in one of the one of the sketches was a
Speaker 1: training day sketch. I just was so fascinated by it.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? That's great. Training day is
Speaker 1: the pathetimes to that question. Now, we didn't like to
Speaker 1: be too negative. What's the worst film you've ever saying?
Speaker 1: Lamon Mars, the worst film I've ever seen. It's it's
Speaker 1: fear dot Com. Have you seen that? Fear dot Com?
Speaker 1: No feared Thank you. I'm glad. I'm glad you. You
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't be here, right, you'd be dumber for it.
Speaker 1: It's one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen. It's
Speaker 1: a movie about these people that keep ending up dead
Speaker 1: in all of their The correlation between it is that
Speaker 1: they've all gone to this website, fear dot Com. It
Speaker 1: was such a rip off of like other films like
Speaker 1: The Ring maybe and other stuff. It was just so
Speaker 1: like you know, other movies came after it, did it
Speaker 1: much better? Movies were before in this style, did it
Speaker 1: much better. I do want to say there are three
Speaker 1: movies in my life that I have walked out of,
Speaker 1: and this one was one of them. Wow, this one,
Speaker 1: and this is the worst of the three that I
Speaker 1: walked out of. And one of the three I walked
Speaker 1: out of wasn't a bad movie. I don't think. It
Speaker 1: was just slow and I was and I was taking
Speaker 1: an edible beforehand, and so I had to leave the
Speaker 1: movie theater because I was being weird and I was Lincoln.
Speaker 1: It was so sluck. I had to leave Lincoln. I
Speaker 1: was like, I get it. He freaed the slaves, YadA YadA, YadA,
Speaker 1: white so uh as a movie called Sound of Thunder,
Speaker 1: I want to say it was. I don't even remember
Speaker 1: what that was about. Remember the CGI being so bad
Speaker 1: at the beginning. It was like dinosaurs and it was weird.
Speaker 1: And I got up and I said, guys, I can't
Speaker 1: do it, and I snuck into another theater. I forgot
Speaker 1: what I saw, but I was like, this ain't happening.
Speaker 1: Sound of Thunder was dog shit to my recollection. But
Speaker 1: fear dot Com, Oh my my mom, that was worse,
Speaker 1: so much worse. And I've done some bad movies in
Speaker 1: my life, but this, this wasund of thunder It is
Speaker 1: the time traveler story, and they yes, okay, when you
Speaker 1: as a time traveling We're like, this is dog shit.
Speaker 1: I know this yeah because I know it wasn't real. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how they how they do? No, no, no, see you guys.
Speaker 1: I'm off to see Fear come again. And what is
Speaker 1: You're in comedy? You're very funny. What's the film that
Speaker 1: made you laugh the most? And is it Pooty tank Ill?
Speaker 1: It was a toss up. It's there's like a few
Speaker 1: movies that that are all on the same level of
Speaker 1: just making me ship myself laugh. There's Pooty Tang, There's
Speaker 1: the Dewey Cock story, Um wall card um, but there's
Speaker 1: Tropic Thunder, um any Ace n Toura. But the movie
Speaker 1: that made me laugh the absolute most, it's probably Blazing Saddles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Blazing Saddles mel Brooks, you know him. Richard Pryor wrote
Speaker 1: that movie Cleveland Little, That movie man, it was it
Speaker 1: was my It was kind of my introduction to strange
Speaker 1: race related comedy, you know what I mean, like the
Speaker 1: license to laugh because it's comedy. Some people might look
Speaker 1: at it and go, oh, this is problematic, Like no,
Speaker 1: that's that's funny. This movie is just playing funny, and
Speaker 1: it's the reason it's it's it's one of the reasons
Speaker 1: why the idea of like, you know, like the fish
Speaker 1: out of Water story, this black sheriff in a in
Speaker 1: a racially screwed up time in our country, like saving
Speaker 1: the day and in doing it in the most hilarious,
Speaker 1: you know, tongue in cheek way at this town. And
Speaker 1: I I like, I have that, I have that movie
Speaker 1: framed in my hallway, like it's I love that movie
Speaker 1: so much so I'd probably say blazing saddles. I'll take it. Lemon,
Speaker 1: You've been absolutely wonderful. You've been wonderful, and your favorite
Speaker 1: film is The Matrix. However, however, my friend, you were
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety nine years old, and you went,
Speaker 1: you went on a little jaunt, didn't you, and a
Speaker 1: little time traveling joant again. You used your you used
Speaker 1: your fucking neural link, and you forgive my old school
Speaker 1: terminology centrifugal spin, centrifugal force, and you your time jumped
Speaker 1: again and you got squashed between the dimensions, never to
Speaker 1: be seen again. But there I was wondering about inter
Speaker 1: dimension their lead as a as I do got a
Speaker 1: coffin with me, just walking about whistling, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: hang on, what's all this fucking mess? Oh? You know what,
Speaker 1: it's hundred len. He's absolutely squashed himself. He's a fucking mess.
Speaker 1: So I'm scraping you after in dimensional Wolves. I'll get
Speaker 1: you in the coffin. But there's you know, time, matter, space, matter,
Speaker 1: it's dark, it's everywhere. Do you get everything I can
Speaker 1: in the coffin? But there's too much of you, much
Speaker 1: more than was expected. It's absolutely rammed in there. There's
Speaker 1: only enough room in this coffin for me to slide.
Speaker 1: We know how big it is. We're not talking about it.
Speaker 1: We know how big it is. Trying to get it
Speaker 1: all then they say it, yeah, I can't see me.
Speaker 1: I'm winking out right now. You're trying to get all
Speaker 1: that in the coffin. It's taking out the side of
Speaker 1: the coffin it is, and there's really only enough room
Speaker 1: to just slip under it, slide down the side for
Speaker 1: you to take across to the other side. And on
Speaker 1: the other side, it's movie night every night. What film
Speaker 1: are you taking to show your harem on the front
Speaker 1: side seats when it's your movie night Lam and Morris.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I gotta do this. I gotta do it.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be one of my movies. And the reason
Speaker 1: it's gotta be one of my movies is because when
Speaker 1: we get to the afterlife, you know, I want it.
Speaker 1: When I get to Heaven, I want them to be
Speaker 1: like if they don't let me in, you know, I
Speaker 1: want to do what people do at the clubs and stuff,
Speaker 1: And they say, come on, mate, you know me, you
Speaker 1: know me, and you know me from such films as Bad.
Speaker 1: Then I bring out the DVD and obviously I'm gonna pick.
Speaker 1: I want to pick Barbershop. You gonna pick Barbershop because
Speaker 1: that movie meant so much to me when I got
Speaker 1: an opportunity to be in it. I the whole cast
Speaker 1: hit is they they they they hit home runs, Everyone's fantastic.
Speaker 1: I've developed beautiful relationships with a lot of the people
Speaker 1: from this from this movie. When I was a younger kid,
Speaker 1: the first Barbershop came out, I wanted to be in
Speaker 1: the movie. So they said comes. It was like a
Speaker 1: cattle call. They said, you get to be an extra.
Speaker 1: If you want to be in this movie, you can
Speaker 1: be an extra the cast and direct to look me
Speaker 1: in the face and said, I'll see you in the movie.
Speaker 1: That motherfucker never called me back. And all right, so
Speaker 1: I was not in the first barbershop and then full circle,
Speaker 1: I come back and I get a chance to be
Speaker 1: one of the main characters in in this barbershop and
Speaker 1: I and that, and I loved this movie so much
Speaker 1: so when I when I go, I want to keep
Speaker 1: this with me because I want people to know, even
Speaker 1: in a different dimension, this movie, directed by Malcolm Lee,
Speaker 1: is what cinema is all about. It's about fun, family
Speaker 1: and just some dope ass people having a good time
Speaker 1: them is You're going to be very welcome in heaven
Speaker 1: before you come back for another life. I'm also an
Speaker 1: adult film, yeah, going an adult film. Also an adult film.
Speaker 1: I want I might want to put one of those
Speaker 1: in there too, because it gets you know, it also
Speaker 1: gets lonely in these coffins. It's no lonely ones. You're there, mate,
Speaker 1: You've got you've got a r And we're not talking
Speaker 1: about I got seven. I don't have seven. I don't
Speaker 1: have seven, man, That's what I means. We know we're
Speaker 1: talking about it, but you're not gonna need that out film.
Speaker 1: Let me just say that, you're gonna be fine with
Speaker 1: You're gonna look forward to the brain publish they were
Speaker 1: watching about he's so funny. He's so funny, jeans don't
Speaker 1: feel look at that. Is there anything you would I
Speaker 1: like to tell people to look out for, listen to
Speaker 1: in the coming times of your life. Yes, stay tuned
Speaker 1: Far Ago season five, you can stay. Yes, stay tuned
Speaker 1: the one you're make right now with. Yeah, you're in
Speaker 1: the one with Juno? Yes, Yes, I am lucky, man,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm very, very lucky. It's one of the
Speaker 1: greatest shows I've ever seen, and the opportunity to be
Speaker 1: in it is making me feel like how I felt
Speaker 1: when I was on Barbershop. Yeah, amazing. It's It's weird
Speaker 1: how this world works, man. We get a chance to
Speaker 1: play and do fun stuff with the dopest of people,
Speaker 1: and Juno is definitely one of the dopests. So yeah,
Speaker 1: sure is okay. Well, I'm very much liking forward to
Speaker 1: that and definitely gonna watch that. Yes, please do the
Speaker 1: more Morris, what a tree you have been. I'm really
Speaker 1: glad we did this. I'm very much enjoyed. Thank you
Speaker 1: our time together. I hope you have a wonderful dame
Speaker 1: good day. Ye oh god up, it's painless, fucked man,
Speaker 1: why are you talking about that? I'd love you fine,
Speaker 1: I love you boy. So that was episode two hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty nine. Head over to the Patreon at patreon
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Speaker 1: Go to Apple Podcasts give us a five star rating.
Speaker 1: But right about the film that means the most to
Speaker 1: you and why it's a lovely thing to read my
Speaker 1: name Marien goes insane for him. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: to Lamurn for giving me his time. Thanks for Creobious
Speaker 1: pipping the Distraction Pieces Network. Thanks to Buddy Peace for
Speaker 1: producing it. Thanks to Acas for hosting it. Thanks to
Speaker 1: Adam Richardson for the graphics and Lisa led Them for
Speaker 1: the photography. Come and join me next week for a
Speaker 1: very funny guest. Oh it's a funny one. I think
Speaker 1: you're gonna love it. Oh honestly, honestly, I feel you're
Speaker 1: gonna love it next week. Oh my god, do you
Speaker 1: enjoyed this one? You actually see next week? I'm all right,
Speaker 1: So that is it for now. Happy New Year everyone.
Speaker 1: I hope you've had a lovely time, and I hope
Speaker 1: you have a wonderful time ahead of you in this life.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, have a lovely week, and please, now
Speaker 1: more than ever, be excellent to each other.