QLS Decade In Review ft. Wyatt Cenac

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Ladies and gentlemen, this is Quest Love Supreme. Here In addition,
but of course, being as though we're facing. We decided
to up the annie and make it a decade. In addition,
of course, left suppome uh, let's welcome, are very jovial

(02:14):
festive decade? Can't Yeah, how you supposed to remember what happened? Dude?
You got a fucking excellent job this decade. I remember
we got to produce yours. But how am I supposed
to remember all the movies that came in from all
they see I'm anyway, So, ladies and gentlemen, welcome. Do

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you already know? You already know where we're hitting for y'all?
So just you're just gonna yeah, sugar, Steve, Hello, how
are you happy? Kuan? Happy? Happy? Happy? Chok happy cha?
Thanks so much? What you uh? What's what you get
this morning? That deposits set? Okay? See you got money

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for Christmas or Shaka Khan? Yeah, you just gotta staate. Okay,
that's cool. How How long has this been going on?
As long as I've known you? You're the happiest during
this time of the year because you get a big
gas for five thousand years. What's the increase on that thing, Steve?
Like as you get older, because it ain't the same
for when you were young. Why does he do it

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like so it will last you for the year. Well,
that's what it used to be when I was broke,
that money would be for the year. But you know,
like you said, now that got a good job, which
is putting it away for the future generations of the
Jews ship that's in case. Yeah, he's saving up so
you can leave us. Mhm, well you know can I

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brought five dollars. I don't have any kids, so my
nieces are gonna get everything. Okay, cool? Cool? And this
is the same for your siblings. Uh yeah, yeah, got siblings. Yeah,
an older sister. Oh yeah, man, so Uncle Steve, like
one of your nieces goes yeah to school peace? Yeah?

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Yeah in my neighborhood. What is the what is this check? Yeah?
It's yeah. He gets at Hanakel check every year and
it's so it's it's the happiest you'll ever see him
throughout the year. Do you is thing strange voice in
the in the memo on the check? My dad writes guilt?
Oh are you serious? You're serious? His guilt, not mine.

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We believe everything you say, Steve. Anyway, we also got
boss Bill. Uh. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, and how is
your Christmas? It's good. I'm actually broadcasting to you guys
alive from my mom's couch. Okay, so I see that. Yah,
happy Kwanza. Wait do you celebrate anything? What do you
celebrate the holidays? Yeah? Okay, I'm on my mom's couch

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because it's Christmas. I'm not in New York. I just
feel like it's one of those things realized like that.
There they smart. No, we got dude, we got my
heart Christmas. That's right. Yeah. Anyway, so yeah, how are
you called exactly? I'm great. I'm great. Yeah, I don't.
I haven't done Christmas since I became of age. But
happy holidays. Okay. Did you buy for a lot of people? No,

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I only buy for the boo at this point. How's
that going? It's going good. We bowed up, not respectively,
but I mean, yes, we're yes, we're respectively bowed up.
Let's welcome to our special guest, ladies and gentlemen. Uh
friend of the show, even though this is the first

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time he's been on the show. But I actually consider
this this this person a friend, not just a peer
of my mets. Also in the same industry that I'm
in Uh. Wyatt is a very uh kind of a guy,
full of wisdom and uh you know of my my

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my go to person when I have questions about anything.
Well a few misteps where babies come from? Well I don't,
I don't get exit. I did answer that question for
a mirror. Anyway, it was a long day with a
power point presentation and we got there. Let's let's welcome

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why Senec to a quest of supreme las and gentlemen.
But he didn't say your last name, right, did you?
I messed up the sure, yeah you did. But we're
we're good friends. Friends Senec I married Christy, good friends,

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God bless us everyone. Where is that? It's in me
now watching you and Bill have a very eerily Uh
you're very similar and yeah, in your face area, your
face areas are a little similar. So even the demeanor,
like both of you are dressed alike. Did you guys
coordinate this? No? No, yeah, you both have black hoodies.

(07:12):
One you guys are kind of like the black version
of the Trench Cope Mafia. But yeah, but we're just
gonna walk up into a place and make music. Spre
exactly picture. We took a picture like ten years ago.
It's just to prove that we were two separate people,

(07:32):
because like, yeah, I kept getting you look a lot
like white, you know. And that was from his family
members speaking of pictures from a long time ago. Uh
I made this weird discovery. Um, only if you are
um kind of a day one well I don't want
to use the drake term, but if you were a

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day one okay, if you were a day one of
okay player, who am I called vets? No? Um, how's
this for the strangest turn around possible? Bill? Do you
remember stalker or the month or yes? All right, So

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there's a situation where like, uh, I don't know, maybe
I handed out my my peeper number out to you know,
to a few people, but you know, not thinking anything
of it. You just give your beeper number out and
not your personal beeper. For those that are listening that
were born after or that aren't doctors that was peper

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still exist, Yeah I have three, but you're not a doctor.
You don't know that. So anyway, the point, the point being,
this is starting to feel like a NPR. It feels like,
are ye can we have something to say? I'm so

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proud of my baby come so far, y'all don't know.
Maybe he used to just drink from I'm just I
don't know. Anyway, he was on Atlantic anyway, all right,
so check it. So there was this person that just
kept calling and calling and calling and calling and calling
and calling the phone, and um it was becoming problematic.

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And so this is like, you know, the earliest during
the age of the the Internet, uh kind of early years,
formative years. Anyway, So we were building okay Player and
my partner Angie this will and I decided to start
something called the Okay Player Stalker of the Month. So

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this guy used to leave these long message about how
the roots were you know, these angelic here rows. So
long story short, I changed the beeper number and I decided,
I guess for my safety too, sort of put these
messages up on okay Player to sort of deter just

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in case something happened. Yeah, in case something happened to me.
I have the strangest feeling that I just hired that
person to be in my band. Wait wait, wait, wait
a minute, there was an opening in the bank. Breaking news,
breaking news. Yeah wait wait, this is all I'm saying.

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This is all I'm saying. This is all I'm saying.
One of the old administrators of Okay Player hands me
in this old ask photo of me at a record
store in Canada with a guy with an afro and
it's and it's Stroke Elliott, and I was like, wait
a minute, that's the Okay Player. That's goodsolution, that's good. Yeah.

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So anyway, that's that's how my years going. Yeah, that's
a that's a good one. When someone stalks you, it
waits for twenty years, then you hire them to be
your stro I admire your long game. Well done. That's
also a very different ending for misery or we're not

(11:30):
there yet. It could be then it was just the beginning.
If you see a lock of wood between between feet
and Strode just taking a sledgehammer to him until you
finish those beats. I don't know, Kathy Bates hasn't been
around the NBC building, lady. I wouldn't mind if Strode

(11:52):
murdered me, you know, like, if anybody's gonna murder me,
I'd cool with it. Yeah. If it was Stride, be
like whatever, he probably had a reason. We are we
already we strow a lot because well because show kind
of looks like, uh, like the black version of Dexter,

(12:13):
not Dexter, the Dexter, Dexter's Lab, the cartoonists. Yeah, so
we always joked that, you know, you thought the murderer, right,
why Dexter, You didn't think not Lumberjack Dexter. That was
also something that happened. Wanted to get to that because
are we talking at Dexter. Are we talking about what

(12:34):
you're talking about talking? I'm talking about Showtime Dexter. Y, Yeah,
that's where I meant. I was saying that, not Showtime Dexter.
So all right, here's the thing were all of us
is a guy who just hangs out on the Q
train and dances. You need to clarify. You mean the
Showtime TV network Dexter, not Showtime Dexter. Who danced different guy? Yeah, yeah,

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different and tries not to kick people in the face. Yeah,
but he always does. Well, I know, I know this
conversation is going to take a term for the worst.
So what I would like to do at least is
to start of the bright spot. Now. I told everyone
here to at least come up with things that made
them happy during the decade for you know, between TV

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movies and albums and whatever forms of entertainment. So and compiling,
uh my list, I realized that I've consumed a lot
more way, much more television than any human being probably
should have. And it's in your period, Like I think

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TV has become my records. Can I have your records? Then? No?
Absolutely not? Um but yet and still I've consumed a
whole lot of music, but not in a tangible way
where it's like, you know, I didn't invest in these records,

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like I just heard them and streamed them. So, I mean,
this is the first decade of really like full streaming.
So it's remember we used to go by like ten
copies of people's records. I remember we used to do that.
I still do it, I mean, but it's as hard
as hell to do it. You know, I'd purchased like
twenty Black bessizes, but about three. That's like, so you

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think it interested? Like why do you think this is?
As a DJ and a member of the Tonight Show,
I'm very much aware of what's happening in music, but
it's so much overload that, um, I'm a little dismayed
that my not to mention all the deaths of my
heroes an alarming rates so I just have this. I

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don't know this. I think music is now sort of
like to me what bread is to us or water.
There's a lot more to watch. Also, you know, television,
they really up their games these last time television is
like the new movies too. Yeah, I don't I don't
know if it's fair of like movie stars, like for
Meryl Streep to come to uh, what's the HBO show

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with the like, I think that's still unfair, Like it's like, okay,
you know you're gonna give her the Emmy. But whether
it's or not, it's funny because you say that's unfair.
But there was a time, and like the eighties and
nineties where for a movie star to wind up on

(15:35):
television it was like something that had happened in their career.
It was, you know, the equivalent of like going and
playing Las Vegas or something like that. But everyone's but
that to me is also that is what's happening. Everyone.
Everyone's planned b winds up being there work, you know,

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no matter how much in denial I am, like, you know,
I'm now ten years into the Tonight Show game and
it doesn't you don't have to brag. Yeah, that's your
Humble Breakfast. It doesn't know it just it doesn't sting
as much when like people yell, hey, that's Jimmy Fallon's

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drummer as it did during the first four years. As
if you know the first four years. I felt like
that's like a person going into Michael Jordan being like, oh,
you're the actor and those Haynes commercials, or like, oh,
you're Phil Jackson's shooting guard. Yeah, yeah, sort of sort

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of like Jimmy is the Phil Jackson of the nineties
for Chicago Bulls. Let's go with the Haynes analogy. I
like mine better. I'm with wife, but that's not because
just not because we look alike. Okay, so I know
that said one one one thing of each, but I
didn't work what is it? What's your What was your

(17:07):
five TV shows? So here's the deal. I did TV shows.
But I also think it's weird because now we're in
a decade where we have all these streaming services. Right,
so if you if you just shout out Netflix, you
got to like just give honorary to like Master I said,
Masters of None, Netflix, Black Mural Orangin New Black like
things shows, right they are, But I don't want that
to be a part of my list. I just want
to be Netflix and sub genres alright, So go ahead,

(17:29):
start with UM A T M Atlanta, Atlanta, and I
agree with you. Game of Thrones, yes, yes, uh? Walking Dead? Really?
All right? Do me a favorite? Sell me on the
Walking Dead. That's that's a powerhouse show that I made
a decision to not invest in even though America is
obsessed with it. Yeah, I skip that one too, and

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shout out to a MC. I still love you. Don't
drop me yet, but if not, even just for the
fall and love of what's my girl denied? Because you know,
Black Panther and evolution to her the lastewing years. But no,
Walking Dead is like dope, especially if you're a Game
of Thrones watch are you like a long kind of
show situation because you become loyal to the characters, and
you know, it's such an amazing ensemble of actors that

(18:13):
intertwined and change around that it's just it's dope. It's
like and it's like, of course, what would happen to
us if all of a sudden it was a disease
and the whole fucking you know world turned The zombies
do they explain, uh why they're in Georgia and all
the zombies are white. There are there are black zombies.

(18:35):
Let me know, you know that. Yeah, they just asked
and thank you black zombies. And they have to be
black zombies because they're black. Black like celebrities that are
in the show, like the girl who now has her
star Trek thing from Martin. Yeah, you better know you
do know everything? Why it's Senac, Senac? Would you say

(18:57):
sac what is it? Yeah? Mayor tell tell her sinko.
Yeah that's me. Why just go full and disrespectful? Do
I go on? Norman Reads by the way, he is
a cheese expert. M yeah, I didntorcycles we for some reason, Uh,

(19:19):
we frequent the same cheese spot. You have the same cheesemonger,
You have a cheese spot. You still eat cheese because no,
we are not lactose intolerant. That shop at Murray's Cheese,
by the way, And I give a lot of my
uh a lot of my friends who like fancy cheese

(19:40):
stuff like you can send them. You can go to
Murray's Cheese and they have classes and teach it to
make molds and stuff that's fascinating and so You've sent
gift to friends to go make cheese. Yeah, Zara's almond okay,
cheese expert. I put her in the Cheese of the

(20:02):
Month club for a birthday once and she ate three
months worth of cheese and about a week and a
half washed it down with hor the lemon juice. Exactly
what And you're sure you're not lactose intolerant. It's very rare.
It's very aware. I'm not because I'm just saying, and
now you might not know because I bust you out tonight.
Go ahead. I just also wondered Ryan Murphy should be

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mentioned in the twenty tens. I could not narrow down
to just one show because it started with Lee and
then it went to American Horror, and then it went
to the first couple of seasons. I was on board,
and then it just got progressively awesome. What you talking about? Now,
here's the weird thing. I thought American Horror Story and
Walking Dead were the same. Joy. Oh my god, you're

(20:52):
missing so much in life. Like I'd rather you watch
American horror stories before you get to Walk in Dead,
because that's a commitment, you know what I'm saying. American
Horror Story is different every season. What say you what
I've never seen either what you've seen any Ryan Murphy,
I'm programming. I think I saw. I want to sit

(21:13):
down and watch that one. I have been meaning too.
I'm poses the kind of the burning Okay, okay, yeah,
do one for best supporting Reporter. Yes he did, Yes
he did. Yeah, No, I haven't. I have been meaning too.
But my where a mirror apparently has all the time,

(21:36):
watch all of the television, all of the records you
gainfully employed at the night show. I don't know what
I did for the first time. I watched the Wire.
Oh my god, bid you completed the Wire. I started
it and finished it. You even got past season two.

(21:56):
It took me a while, but yeah, season two. Hard
to get back season two. It's is that the shipping, right, No,
I saw the first two seasons. I can't see you
didn't get the three, four, and five. It gets better
after season two. Yeah, I was working, you know it's better.

(22:19):
Oh dude, I see. The thing is is that these
shows I watch, I download on my phone or on
my uh iPad, and I watched on the plane or
watch backstage at the show. So that's how I have
time to do it. I'm watching which, by the way,
life hacker, I think I might have for anybody who
wants to cut chords. Just figure out what shows you

(22:41):
watch regularly and by the season pass and then cancel
your cable. That's hard to do. You know what I
did this Not this Christmas morning, you know what I
did last week? Alright, So I because I have Apple TV.
So once you have Apple TV, you don't have to
also have your cable and all your backup plans either.

(23:03):
But yeah, I think I might have to do that
because and that scares me to cancel my cable. Like
I cancel cable and I got with was then Direct
TV now and it's now a T T or whatever.
They said another message about a channel they're losing, that
they keep losing channel, and they have about you, and

(23:24):
they wait, wait, and they keep they keep jacking up
their prices too, like it was the whole selling point
of that service was supposed to be it was supposed
to be cheaper than regular cable. Now it's about the
same damn price. Yeah, so I'll just be coming. I mean,
they're all just bundling it into new cable packages like
that's I feel like that's the my conspiracy theory, not

(23:47):
just mine, but like, okay, the cable model is a
successful model. All of these bundlings, whether it's Disney Plus
or you know, Apple TV, like they're just finding new
ways to be cable, and so at some point they're
gonna offer you like okay, yeah, we can give you
all of these things, and then here are the special

(24:10):
things we can give you. The we can give you
the Mandalorian or like as I shouldn't be called the
Baby Yoda Show. Oh my god. I would like to
also mention when they see us, I didn't finish it.
I couldn't finish it like I watched. I think the
first part episode four was hard, like twelve years of
slaveheard she did Wait you did legit? Take No, it

(24:40):
was hard to stomach. It was I just forgot about it.
But that's weird. Wait, slight confession. I have no horses
in the Disney race whatsoever. Well, here's the thing. It's
like I missed whatever whatever her Disney stuff came out

(25:01):
when I was a kid. Marvel though you know, I
wasn't all right, Like I didn't watch cartoons as a kid,
so all the Marvel stuff I was allowed to watch.
You already know that you know the Hawaiian Punch story
already all right, because you know there's a whole bunch

(25:22):
of people that don't know that story. So basically, when
I was three, there was Hawaiian Punch commercial and which
which I think was culturally racist, where like the Hawaiian
native guy named Punchy. We'll go up to the white
tourist and say, hey, how about a nice winean punch,
and he'd be all annoying, like dude, sure, and then

(25:46):
he beat the ship out of him and then sell
you a fruit can of a wine. Please tell me
you didn't beat the shout out of some random white
person on the street. No, I did it to my
mother so exactly. So then I said, hey, Mom, come
here ask me say sure when I asked you for
the wine, right, And then I said, Mom, I'm gonna

(26:06):
say about a nice wine plus two weeks later, right,
And then I cold clocked my mom and they were like,
no more television for a mirror. So that's I missed
out on the Disney train, like I didn't see none
of the cartoons, and then it didn't watch Marvel. I
was up on the Muppets. But basically when Disney Plus came,

(26:28):
I was like as a joke with me, and then
I realized, I never seen Band, never seen Dumbo, never
seen Beauty and the Beast, never seen Lion King, never
seen The South. Wait, here's here's the deal. I've seen
one Disney movie in my life. And guess what it was. Yeah,

(26:50):
that's the that's the one Disney movie that they do
not want you to see. I wanted them to Theirsney
did um. All of it was like Uncle Remus and
all of the Brere Rabbit stories, and they do a
mix of live action and animation and so yes, this

(27:12):
Uncle Remus was an old black man who be friends
of these white kids and told them stories a brere
rabbit and they were like black faced. Has anyone actually
seen it? Yeah, I've seen other than you. Yeah, you
can't find it on I've done right here. I was
gonna say it's on archived. I think it's archive dot

(27:33):
organ um and you can you can watch I just
when when I last on Disneyland, there are a lot
of a lot of ticky tortures. Are like more people
need to see this. When I last went to Disneyland, Um,
and it's a small world. You can see where they

(27:55):
like put a new paint job where Brere Rabbit and
Brere Buddy and Uncle Splash Mountain is Splash Mountain is
tied to all of that stuff. Yeah, yeah, they just
got rid of They got rid of Brere Rabbit. I mean.
The interesting thing about Brea Rabbit is like all of
those stories are like it's just like African folklore that

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got co opted by this white guy who then sold
it and as like books that you know, sold it
as a book of like, oh, these were stories that
are our old Negro told us, and but they're all
based like Bret Rabbit is supposed to be like when

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you didn't when you were on a plantation and you
wanted to tell a story about how you maybe got
one over on the overseer or the slave master. Brear
Rabbit was the stand in for black people, and Brere
Fox and bread Bear were plantation masters and overseers, and
all these stories are rooted in language. It's like, and

(29:06):
so there's this very weird thing of like, oh there
is something that's amazing about these stories. It's just a
shame that it got you know something. It's really like
rabbit it stands for is like shure for briar. You know, brother, Yeah,
you know something. Um, I was doing some research on Alright,

(29:30):
this is gonna sound weird on step and fetch it.
That's not weird whom Well, okay, because the thing is
that most people know that step and fetch it is
sort of associated with like coonery and very much associated
with it. You know, not many people know that step
and fetch It Uh funded one of the first um

(29:51):
uh black Shakespearean companies that Paul Robinson and Harry Belifonte
came from and subsequently Sitting in forty eight as well.
And um, if you sort of look at the history
of slang, it's almost slang was crucial to survival. I
mean it's a deep rabbit hole because not many people

(30:14):
know that laughing was illegal on the plantations. That's where
barrel laughs came from. Uh. We gotta get Amalia in here,
Yes we do, which I'm gonna get you your your
recommendation letter. Yes. Uh. Shout out to Malia who taught
us that the the idea of the term barrel laughs
came from that laughing was allowing anything, was sassing, getting angry, crying,

(30:39):
talking back, laughing, talking, which is weird because the only
thing that was allowed was singing. And so you know
that's all the coded wading water and all that stuff
to to run away and escape. But people don't know
is that um slaves built a barrel and put water
in it so that if you felt frustrated or angry
or wanted to or going out your mind, you had

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have to dunk your head in the water and that
would suppress the sound and you wouldn't get lashes for
assassin back or talking back. So slang to support slang
was basically a way to survive, like humor. Slang was
for code talk, but humor was used as a weapon

(31:24):
to sort of kind of put the put people at ease,
the overseas at ease from killing you or or slashing.
So it's almost like I see Step and Fetch it
in almost different, a different light now that I've realized

(31:45):
that he might have been revolutionary, well in some way. Yeah,
you could argue that he is a trickster in that
he's presenting as one way to have a different uh,
to have a different outcome, if presenting a subservient to
white people, but then using his resources to help fund

(32:06):
things that that push that pushed for the advancement of
black people. Yeah, that's sort of a trickster that sort
of a trickster role. So yeah, I mean, are you
pitching this to me as the HBO documentary that you
want to make step and fetch it the tricks giving
you stop? Yeah. Also, I don't work for HBO anymore,

(32:27):
so I can't make it. Well, let's do it. What
I mean, I have other things I'd like to make.
But sure, but there but but what you're saying though,
I mean, there's even something interesting about that, Like thinking
about how like Bill Cosby produced or gave money to
uh Sweet Sweet Backs. Uh Like he helped fund that

(32:49):
and helped give Melvin van People's the money he needed
to make that movie. And yet at the same time
was like at you know, four Facing was Mr Wholesome. Yeah,
backwards Facing a different a different dude. It's very hard

(33:09):
to let him go now that I discovered that reruns
are on Amazon. Oh I still watch reruns. I yeah.
But I mean there's there's there are you know, other
members of that family of the Hustables. Exactly, that's true.
There are there are other members of the Huxtables. Alright,
so what else was your your TV list? This is

(33:32):
are you you know what? I'm on season two? I'm
way behind. Is it as sad as everyone? No? No,
everything's not sad. A lot of things are joyful and
some things are joyfully sad. You know, it's like, but
you faithfully watch this is us, right man? Ever since
the first season? Dedicated man, Yeah, because the writing is

(33:55):
like amazing. Sterling Brown comes from there, like hello, you
watch the evolution to him for the last ten years.
He's sucking dope. Even in Predators. Arlon Brown was in Predators. Yeah,
he was the bad I pronounced Predators. You're gonna fit
right in around here. Oh good? Okay, And just in
case you're getting bored with me, can I just do

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one more? Last final TV mentioned anything that Kenya Barris touched.
I had to spa I had to skip Grownish because
I remember college. I do not want to deal with
that again. And it's like dirty different world. I like, like,
that's why I skipped your White Different World. I don't
want to deal with that. Somebody's pregnant this season? What

(34:41):
no more spoilers because I'm still watching that. I love
Grownish I think I love Growners a little too much,
Like like I just watched that was like, oh, you
dumb motherfucker, you're talking at the screen. Yeah all right,
so let I was shouting at the screen. I love
love all right. So what's your what's your five joints?

(35:02):
It started in the two thousands, in the two thousands,
but most of it was run in the two thousand
tens Parks and Recreation. Of course. Yes, it might be
one of my favorite television shows of all time. I
told you it was the new Wood Tank. Yeah, it's
probably one of the most perfect TV shows ever. I
agree with you. Number two, and only the first season

(35:25):
True Detective. Of course you're right about I didn't see
after that weird a second season. I didn't go back.
I didn't go back. Number three, The Leftovers, Yes, hit
me anything that Regina King was. She did a great

(35:46):
job in that me hit me to the left. I've
heard of The Leftovers. I don't know. What I loved
about it is that it didn't really give the audience
satisfying answers, and I just that's what I loved most
about it, because every everybody was like a Spike movie,
like you know, everybody's watching this and you're like, oh, yeah,
we're gonna find out what happened. We're gonna find out

(36:07):
why these people are left behind blah blah blah blah blah.
And you don't really get the answer to that. And
I think that's great that that that that answer was
left kind of kind of kind of air and the
concept alone, because you don't get different concept like that.
People just timer cent of the population just drops out
like you don't, you don't, you don't. You don't get
all the answers in that show. And that's one of
the things I loved most about it. Um, So you know,

(36:28):
my my, my imagination gets to fill in some of
the monks. Okay, um, what was that two? Or three?
That's three? Okay three? Uh number four? Mr Robot. Yeah,
I'm way behind on this this last season. Just gonna
binge a whole bunch of them, um, because that's the
show that I hate waiting week to week to watch.

(36:49):
Why that seems like you would like that show, Mr Robot.
You don't even have toime of that. I feel like
I watched the first season and then I didn't pick
up on the I didn't pick up on this second season,
it didn't entice you, or you just like I don't
have time to I feel like it was maybe a
mix of things. I think one of the challenges with

(37:11):
television in this past decade. There's something that's very nice
about shows not having to be sort of boxed into
like a twenty two episode season. And I do like that.
I feel like twenty two episodes oftentimes not every show
needs that. Yeah, But the challenge is the television, the

(37:37):
US television sort of market hasn't fully built itself to
accommodate those shorter season shows. So if I watched ten
episodes of something, then it's about tracking when is the
thing coming back? And when it comes back? Is that
the thing is that the thing that I wanna re

(37:58):
engage with is going to be on the same night. Yeah,
it's gonna be the same night, is it? And And
so I feel like that's one of those things that
I don't think American television has done very well as
far as trying to figure out, like, Okay, do we
just make like a fall season and a spring season

(38:18):
in a summer season and we all as networks and
streaming services kind of agree to that, and no, and
so I think that's where it's It's tough because like,
the one thing they have agreed to is okay, Well,
when September hits, you got new shows coming out and
there's all that excitement. But then yeah, if some show

(38:40):
pops up in October, it's kind of like, oh wait
what And don't forget in the tents we discovered the
mid season what the funk? Like the mid season finales
the MIDSI power did and they split it out and
have and I just realized, I've forgott another show. No, well, damn,

(39:02):
can I have like three more girl ahead? All right? Scandal? Scandal?
That that was I guess you could say that was
my guilty pleasure. That was my guilty pleasure for the decade.
But I actually thought Scandal was good. It started out good,
it ended Yeah, it went a little too long, but

(39:26):
it was one of those shows that I had I
had to step up. Wait, what train? What joints? Did
you step off the train on? How did we get
away with murder? I stopped during the first season? Me too, Yeah,
I stepped off the train. Yeah, it just I couldn't
get into it. Like the characters. I didn't give a
funk about him. I wouldn't care what happened. I wanted
to wait, wait, I got I got two more. I

(39:49):
got two more. Um, y'all gonna think I'm crazy fist.
I watched everything. So Dr pimple Popper heard like this
one dude. She was in the hallway a month ago

(40:09):
and Tarik and our makeup lady lost their minds. The
Asian lady or whatever name is, Sandra Dr Sandra Lee.
So people, do you know what this is? I can't watch?
Do you know what this is? Steve? Dr pself is

(40:31):
the show of sexy woman. She just hermatologist. Let me
have to put your male games on this. Let me
let me tell you something. Dr pimple Popper is one
of the most feel good television shows you'll ever watch
your entire life. Yes, like she's out here changing people's lives.

(40:55):
Like you watch, you know the back story before you know,
the patient comes in and you know these people are
having like serious problems. You know, they're like, you know,
I've got this big thing on my neck that you know,
it's really affecting. I can't do such and such and such,
you know, normal ship. And then they get this ship
taken off their neck and they're just you know, they're
crying tears of joys because they can do I can
stalk a mirror before they do. Motion isn't I've never

(41:24):
I've never watched like you see, like she's either you know,
she's sometimes you know, pop blackheads, which is some of
them like the most satisfying to watch, because yeah, and
then like you know, sometimes she you know, she's removing
cysts from people or you know, has she ever met
a pimple she couldn't pop because I feel I feel
like there has been a couple of them, but like

(41:44):
they weren't exactly pimples. All right, Steve, I can't help you.
You're just going to have to kill yourself. Steve, I'll
leave the room. Steve knows Maria at work. Now my job,
there's a woman that does our makeup and glam and
like she lives for popping pimples, which I was taught

(42:05):
in the beginning. You want to do it, yes, with
the needle. Well, you like there's all the ship that
she you know, you just gotta watch this ship. It's
just fascinating. Like do you eat food when you watch
this thing? Okay, let me tell you don't eat cottage cheese,
don't don't eat oatmeal, don't eat mashed potatoes, and and

(42:31):
and buffalo. Do not plan to handle raw chicken afterwards,
because she she also removes like these things called light pomas,
which are like basically like fat deposits under the skin,
and when she pulls them out there basically looks like
raw chicken, like a raw chicken breast. Yeah you show

(42:52):
or yeah, Jesus and Marrow? Are they Okay? Here's my
confession both. Here's my confession. Since the move to Showtime,
I've been very slow to keep up. Really, I actually
feel like the show is better now that it's on Showtime.
All right, Well, I just missed the FAI updates. That yeah,

(43:15):
I miss the daily updates too. I like it when
it's like talk Suit. But you know, the level of
guests they have now are higher. Like just just just
seeing Jesus and Merrill in a room with Elizabeth Warren
that's just weird as fuck, well, not weird as fun,

(43:35):
it's just crazy as fuck, you know, or um or
who else did they have? They have? They have? They
have a lot of the guests are a lot better. Okay,
now that they're on time. So what are you a
Are you a TV connoisseur or you're one of these
Brooklyn cats that don't own a TV. I do own

(43:57):
a television. I do watch television. I joy television. I
feel like on some level because I work in television,
I try to watch television when I can. But yeah,
as far as shows, so here's the thing. You texted me,
and you were like, just pick a show for the decade,
and so I didn't necessarily see it as what my

(44:21):
favorite shows were. I was looking like, what is a
show that to me the best defined? But no, this
was just she was vague in your mind, like you
we went, we took the easy way up. No, I
mean there are a lot of like Atlanta is a
great show. I think, you know, there are shows where

(44:42):
I think about, oh, for what they're doing as far
as the culture and storytelling the Yeah, I was gonna
say Insecure Atlanta, Like there are shows that are pushing
what you know, what television can be for for both
black creators and and black viewers and hopefully you know,

(45:05):
really black and black, and I am loving it. I
gotta say, but if but if I was, but if
I was gonna yes, bla audience. Um, but if thank you, well,
finally we finally come together on something. What did you say,
bla audience, Yeah, blo audience. Isn't that what you said?
I said blombies. I was talking about the black Zombies.

(45:27):
Audience just coined a new phrase, turn off Steve on
the headphone station. No, I'm just gonna turn Steve down.
So I was thinking of shows that define the decade,
and so to me, a show that defined the decade
to me was Breaking Yes, Yes, yes. And the reason
I feel like it defined the decade is because there

(45:53):
were a lot of shows in the last ten years,
not even say the last fifteen years that all kind
of had a similar thing, which was, like, suburban white
guys who aren't happy just in their lives, so let's
give them some nefarious ship to do. So you look

(46:13):
at like the Sopranos and it's like, oh, here's the
story about like a suburban dad who is works in construction.
But it's like, oh, no, that's not enough. Let's make
him a mob boss. I mean, if we really want
to keep it funky, Breaking Bad, it was just a
gender flip version of Wheat. But I feel like as

(46:33):
a genre this the last decade has been about like
all these beta white people trying to feel special, like
like there's nothing wrong, Like being a science teacher is
like a cool job, this is an amazing thing. And
it's like, oh no, let's make him a villain. And
it just seemed like, Oh, let's celebrate the worst in

(46:54):
these care in these people. And let's not like like
there was a time when TV was like, oh, it's
the white shadow and it's like Dragnet where cops actually
like you know, talk to people as opposed to like
cops who shoot up like you know, just like well,
but it's but it is this weird thing where I

(47:14):
feel like this has been the decade of villainy and
like let's make regular people like, let's let's normalize villainy
in this way that it's not just the worst of
the worst who can be villains, A science teacher can
be a villain normal. I think that it is. I

(47:35):
think that I like, I was I was watching college
basketball the other day and there was a commercial for
a lawnmower and it was a lawnmower called bad Boy
Lawnmowers Bad Boy, And there's just something about like and

(47:56):
it's just bad boy. But I think that was like
slang wise, it it meant it different. I think on
some level. I'm not I'm I think it was different
in a way that it was still counterculture in a
way that was like when you look at like these commercials,
it's like, oh, here's some person in their khaki pants

(48:20):
and their lawnmower, and it's like, I'm a bad boy
with Milan mooer, like like Homie in office space, driving
down the street with listening to ghetto boys, but not
to not to mention like hot topics of like the
decades or whatever of the twenty tents. But that goes
back to like the Esquire cover, Remember that the Esquire
cover with the American what's it called? An American boy?
With the point of cover and endanger and stuff. It

(48:41):
all goes back. Never mind, youn't you don't remember this
cover right here? Like this it was. Now my point
is going to people who are listening to what I'm
talking anyway, I don't remember remember this. This was I'm sorry,

(49:05):
here you go, Wyatt into the microphone, please, And the
cover said an American boy, what's like to grow up? White?
Middle class and a male and an era of social media,
school shootings, toxic maxculinity, hashtag me too in a divided
country to be like a very controversial talking about social
media tonight that was like you don't remember this? I

(49:26):
remember that, yeah, but but it is a weird thing
when you look at television, it's like, it's kind of
surprising that with all of the sort of villainy that
has been presented, that there hasn't yet been a show
of like of a school shooter like that. Like you
think about, like, what was the I don't like a comedy,

(49:48):
Like I'm thinking about what was the show? A crime
story something like that? Well, but what was the show
that Claire was it? Claire Danes? No like that show?
Like thinking about like a show like that where it's like, okay,
what if we take a terrorist and we normalize this
white terrorist and we make them a flawed character that

(50:10):
you should feel love for and it just feels like, oh, okay, dexter,
Let's take a serial killer and make them this flawed
character that you should feel loved for and breaking bad
like all of these shows. Billionaire, isn't that kind of
a trope that's been by writers since day one? Brody
became a billionaire. I was just saying, Brody from that show,

(50:32):
it's just interesting that guy who you they hear here
the Clarid ain't show the first Brody became a billionaire. Hbo. No,
he's that's billions. That's completely unrelated. But let me have
my joy. I forgot what I was trying to say

(50:53):
now because because of that, she's smoking her joy. No,
but you were saying you were talking about because I was,
I was saying, oh, but yeah, yeah, it's it's it's
kind of like a trope that writers have kind of
used from day one, but by putting people in disparate situations. Sure,
but I don't think it has been as focused on

(51:13):
humanizing villains in the way that it that it has today.
I mean another one, Lucifer, I mean Scarface, Lucifer. That
was a good show too. I did Scarface, Okay, name five?
More like I feel like so many other movies Scarface.
To me, Scarface stands out on some level because it's

(51:34):
uniqueness of that time. I feel like so many of
the other films, like I mean that that could just
be that could just be the uh, what's the word
I'm looking for? Well, does the wire account or could
count in that too. I mean, because you talk about scarface,
but I think about like, okay, like something like they're
taking a Pellem one to three, Like it is about

(51:57):
these guys who were trying to rob a train, but
it's really more about you know, Jerry Stiller and Walter
Matthau and these people who are trying to who have
been terrorized by this person. Let's be real, New Jack City,
we were all kind of rooting for Nino Brown. Sure,
sometimes more interesting, but I think at that point until

(52:19):
Christopher Williams hands got pretty motherfucker never liked you anyway.
But I also think there's something different when it comes
to like movies and television that we're created with black leads,
because there's there's also the part of it where it's like,

(52:42):
if you go back and you think about like the
Cosby Show, what made the Cosby Show so unique for
its time was like, Okay, here is a middle class
black family where yeah, but it was like it went
the other way where it was like they can be
doctors and they can be lawyers because everything else had

(53:05):
been oh no, you're crooks, your criminals like you know
you like And so I think there's something that for
so many movies for black people, and I think even
thinking about like bad Boy or something like that, so
much of black culture had been placed as you all
are the villains in white society. You agree with me? Right, Steve?

(53:31):
You are? You aren't? He whispered it and that sugar, Steve,
you can reach him at you can print that. There's
there's fighting where Steve. All right, Steve, what did you

(53:52):
watch man? I'm sorry? Do you breaking bad? Breaking bad?
And what else? I mean? So, yeah, that was with
that idea of like, I think the last decade has
been the decade of celebrating white villainy. But what did
you laugh at this year? But what did I enjoy?
What did you enjoy? There are definitely things I enjoyed.

(54:14):
I said Atlanta, enjoyed Atlanta. I mean I still enjoyed
Atlanta because they will be making new episodes. I enjoy Insecure.
I've been enjoying Watchman. Yes, talk about it. Why don't
we talk? Listen, y'all? It is And who knew that
they were gonna start off? I'm sorry, didn't read the

(54:35):
book series, but when they started off so so black.
But there's nothing in the book there's nothing in the
book that is that. And honestly, I never gave a
ship about the book because I didn't feel like I like,
it was just like I didn't have any connection to
it and this and it just felt like, Okay, I

(54:56):
like I've heard tons of dudes to all me like
Watchman is the best thing, and it was just like,
it's it's fine, Like I get it. It's flawed Superman
and flawed Batman beginnings. It's the foundation, all right. So
if I'm going to watch that, do I need to
watch the movie first? No? No, I will say this
absolutely funky. You do need a sort of a guy

(55:18):
like you should google who the characters? Just just just
read a Wikipedia on Watchman. Like Honestly, if anyone was like, hey,
should I read the graphic novel, I would just say
read the Wikipedia like like that's just that's honestly employing
Louis Gossip Jr. Like and he's dope. Yes, Yeah, that's

(55:44):
what's up. Regina King touched in this decade is Gold.
That's also talked about Damon lindelof who Anything that he
was also in Wand she does she want anything for
American crime? Yes, she did. She wanted. Yeah, she's our
Meryl Street. Damon lind Love did the Leftovers. He also

(56:11):
did Lost. I'm glad I could commit to one. Yeah,
I just I just started. Um, I was going to
skip the Watchman Don't no No, And then when I
saw the toss the story and that, I was like, oh,
and then that's how I got you get your parents
to get in on it. And then when they sent

(56:32):
me a note to the Black People Museum, Wait, this,
Mike count as my This shouldn't count as my humble brag,
but I got note that episode three was inspired from
my discovery of my ancestry. You didn't see that, did you.
I saw episode three, but I'm trying to so Yeah.

(56:55):
Emailed me and basically said that I wrote this episode
kind of inspired by your If you look up quest
Love and Watchman. It basically the director breaks down that
my episode discovery of my benin ancestry. Yeah, because Folks
was on The Last Ship season four, episode nine of

(57:16):
Finding Your Roots with Henry Lewis Gates Jr. Who was
the Secretary of State in this alten universe where Robert
Redford is the president. What I won? That's why they
I wonder if that's why they made him the put
him in the episode, because they were like, you know what,
he's a stronger actor than a mirror. I mean, he

(57:37):
did give a mirror the information. Let's give a mirror credit.
He did. He did great work. Is a corpse in
that law Law and Order episode. But f y, I
just a cheater. For everybody who has never hasn't watched
Watchman or confused, you should know. I just read this
that it's based on if America. Damn was it that
we lost the Vietnam and we won Vietnamin it became
a state? Right? Yes? Yeah? Yeah, um yeah? Can I

(58:00):
do another show that I like? Black Villain? I'm running
out of time over again. Oh, it looks like we're
out of time. Sorry. See, I guess you'll have to
tell us your favorite shows on the next episode of
What's Up with Us. Yeah, it'll be in the It'll
be on the extras, which will have left the room

(58:24):
and you can record those. I mentioned this show to
a mirror recently, and I really liked this show. It's
an animated show called Craig of the Creek. Yes, introduced
me to this show. Yeah, let me and it's on
Cartoon Network and it is no it's regular cartoon network.

(58:50):
But it's all about this little boy named Craig who
hangs out in a creek with all like all the
it's in the neighborhood. All hang out in this creek
and they have their whole, like their own like sort
of laws of governance, and their whole in an economy

(59:11):
and it is in like in like a nice way,
and it is the most diverse cast of children. Is
a black kid. Craig is a black kids like the
whole thing. But they're all these like subtle like subtle jokes,

(59:32):
like there's it's a very funny gift you can find,
but there's a clip you can find of Craig and
his dad are trying to have a barbecue and they
Craig tries to help and some stuff catches on fire,
and so he and his dad are trying to put
it out and it's going horribly wrong. And there's a
moment where Craig's older brother shows up with his girlfriend

(59:54):
who's white, and she walks in and she's like, hey,
I brought potato salad, and the hose just splashes her.
And they're just like all these jokes that are like
clearly like above children's heads, but are so like perfect

(01:00:16):
and wonderful. And it's like when I watch Animaniacs now
as an adult. Yeah, but the subtle, all the adult
humor that just went over my head. But it's such
a good show. And Craig of the Creek they did
a Thanksgiving seasons. I think they've done two seasons, six episodes.

(01:00:38):
That's what I was gonna say. I between adult Swim
and just comedy just starts after ten. Oh that's where
the risk ay jokes coming down the root Chicken, Rick
and Morty. This was the decade of Ye, thank you
right for Satan and I am my free go now okay, Steve, Yes,

(01:01:05):
tell everybody what your favorite show was, Steve. I feel
like it's a Ninty Day Fiance type of person. Oh
Steve blows hit me Seinfeld reruns, come on, you know,
good World and show you love? What show do you
know about more than any show? Tokyo, Tony's Finding Love,

(01:01:26):
asp shut the fun up, Mama Designated Survivor actually guilty Pleasure.
But I don't know, I'm not sure what you're trying
to reference? What, Steve? You know every iota about watch

(01:01:47):
What's Happened? You've been there, you said in the audience.
I remember that many times. That's fascinating. I don't watch it,
but my girl does. And that's what he's that's what
he's making a fan by by default. Yeah, I mean,
and he's cool. You know a lot about it. I
shouldn't about Andy Cohen. That would be awesome. Going back

(01:02:09):
to my Merrow um Jesson Merrow had Andy Cohen and
Anderson Cooper on at the same time, and it was
probably one of the best interviews. They do a tour, Yeah,
they tour. Yeah, all right, I'll tell you my you
know all the white shows you missed. Yeah, that's fine,
we'll take it. But House of Cards, you know what
you watched? Yeah? What what? This is what I watched?

(01:02:30):
Watched the robin season. That last season was pretty shitty.
Like I didn't I haven't watched the last two seasons.
I didn't watch. I couldn't get through it. I'm gonna
make it. I'm complete. I'm just saying properly. Yeah. Yeah,
the first few seasons were great. Orange New Black, honestly,
did you finish it? Yeah? Uh so, I'm just realizing

(01:02:52):
they're all like Netflix shows The Crown. Oh my god,
see to take a moment for the Crown because you
like it? Yes, yes, who's in it? Who's in it? Well, well,
Claire Foy was in the first Come on, you know
you have to talk about this, Steve. I'll talk when
there's when there's a break in the talk. Go ahead. Sorry,
it's all good. You've got the floor, Steve. Okay, I continue. No, No,

(01:03:15):
I'm telling me about the show. I've never heard. I've
heard of it, but I don't know about it. All right, Um,
mind Hunters. They're a Netflix shows, so I'm trying trying
to brown. It's about the life of Queen Elizabeth in
the Monarchy, Okay, number one. Claire Floyd is right, And
Claire Foy was initially the star in the first two

(01:03:36):
seasons and now they've changed. She's aged and my girl
from ah, what's the movie where two years and two
years now the queen is old. Yeah, they didn't even
let Cla. But I think there was some issue, like
there was some problem and she like she was and
then I'm saying, like illegal or some dispute between her

(01:04:01):
and that's what I'm not sure exactly what happened. But
Chick who won the Oscar for that movie where she
was the queen and she was having an affair with
the two women at the She plays Queen Elizabeth and
Helen Bottom Carter plays Queen Elizbeth. He Late Thank You
plays Queen Elizabeth's sister princess. And it's really good. Sorry,

(01:04:23):
it's like a soap opera. Can I add another show? Sorry?
Steve um favorite, Yes, thank You? Fargoes season two? Is
that Kurson Dune that was the Yeah, that was the
one with Bokim woodbuydon. I didn't finish that season. Season
one was that smart Smarts killing this She killed the decade.

(01:04:47):
Like Chris Rock, who's doing it this year and he's
doing like he's in character. He has to be in character,
and like what I seeing if I just died, Like
Chris Rock has to uh his hair looks like it's
it's like a conk oh yeah, like David ruffin Temptations.

(01:05:12):
Oh like, and I was like, what the hell? He's like, No,
I'm not an agent. I have to do this for
far Ago. So all year he's been rocking like Chris Rock.
Wait to see him not play Chris Rock he did yo,
I didn't even recognize him like he you know, I'm sorry,
Steve Burke, I don't hate anybody. You have more shows?

(01:05:35):
Who's had more shows? Give us more TV? Well, I'm
saving the best for last. So as far as Fargo
season two? Do you want to talk about Fargo season two?
I don't know what that is? I saw. I saw
the movie Fargo. They made a TV show out of it,
really good and all this stuff. Yeah, so I never

(01:05:56):
saw the Americans, but didn't I heard it was great, Steve.
Do you want to talk about you Americans? I don't know.
I don't know what is the Russians? That? Alright? Anyway,
Um the uh, y'all forgot about mad Men? Watched it?

(01:06:24):
Never watch it? I just couldn't finish the first season, Okay.
Um it's like I wanted to. I just couldn't get
into it. And um, Bill Maherr wasn't in it. So
you guys can watch it you want. Bill MARSTI I
mean he's pretty, uh spectacular figure from this decade? Was

(01:06:45):
that your that? What the end? Yeah? Yeah? I watched
a whole lot of television. So I'm just gonna pick
five because I literally looked down on the list, and
I was like, yeah, I watched a lot of television.
I could get so much. I could go back to
twenty one jobs if I stopped watching television. Um, I'll

(01:07:07):
say that, yo, my favorite regular Network show? What was
The Good Wife? I don't know anything about The Good Wife?
Was awesome? You just love Julian Yeah, I know, well
I loved what's your name? Uh, Christine, but no, we'll

(01:07:30):
hurt too. But um, I enjoyed The Good Wife because
I loved ar cheap on jobbies character in that show
and also j Charles especially though yeah, well I love
the show. Um, we didn't mention uh. Last week with
John Oliver, we mentioned Masters and none shout out. Wait

(01:07:51):
hold on last week with John Oliver, it's just been
too much, like not not him, just just been too
much going on that that having him, you know, just reiterate, reiterate,
everything has just been kind of just a lot. But
they also like like the open to stories that yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
but that should be news. But we're so preoccupied with

(01:08:14):
right right, the political So I'm just at the point
right now where I'm just fatigued with everything and I
just want everybody to shut the funk up and go away.
Great contributions. Um dog, I missed my boy aunt. Uh.
Parts of Known was also a fee of mine. Parts.

(01:08:35):
I love drunk History. Yeah you did drunk history? Did
you do? Can we move on from television waits? I'm
just saying that, all right, I'll just go down the list.
I actually kind of like Marvelous, this is Mabel. Didn't

(01:08:56):
watch it everything, even though it's short lived. I love
tremay To. I didn't watch that. I didn't watch it.
I missed all of that. Don't like I didn't have
HBO for most of the decades. So that's David Simons Tremaine.
You're like, you're embarrassed if you're kind of arts, Yes,
you didn't watch it, okay, So speaking of embarrassed, were
like slight Uh, I didn't watch most of the Sopranos.
So what I didn't have HBO? Oh? Well, okay? Were

(01:09:21):
those the Harlem years? No, those those were the bed
Sty years. Those were the Bill is still trying to
be in the record industry of years. So Bill has
absolutely no money, you know. You know what? All right,
here's the deal. I emotionally invested. Now it's weird that
you think you're And I agree with you to a
point that Breaking Bad probably did sum up the decade.

(01:09:44):
But when I was thinking of what really summed up
the decade for us, my assessment was girls, How dare you?
I didn't say I liked Girls? No, no, no, no,
not was see how you're reacting right now? No no,

(01:10:05):
that is what No no no, no no no no listen,
I'm with you. No no, I'm not. But I'm saying that.
I'm saying that also, like police brutality was the thing
in I'm thinking, what happened on that show? Dude, I'm
telling you Girls season Yeah, I hate watched the first season.

(01:10:28):
Well wait, here's the thing. Who was the which which
which website would which website would analyze each episode? And
the snarky is it could be one of many. It
was either a V A V club Probably, Yeah, that
was one of the ones. I probably read They're They're

(01:10:49):
snark was so awesome that I actually had to watch
the show and read the snark and they went episode
by the episode would never no, no, no, You're you're
missing the whole point I'm hearing from. I. I feel
as though that show represent it what happened in the
last ten years? Damn? Was it really that? But I

(01:11:11):
would guess, but I would say, I agree with you,
and then where I would I see you and I
would raise you? Is keeping up with the Kardashians as
another basically like Girls with shittier writing. Yeah, and more
black people, You're right, more more black people owned by

(01:11:34):
white people. Oh own god, damn lamar. Here's here's where
I really got drawing in my my favorite The only
part I genuinely liked about Girls was the cold open
because for me, uh, we're gonna have to talk about

(01:11:55):
when we go there again. I'm not saying as as
an endoored sman. I'm singing this as an observation of
what the city last ten years we've been living, which
you're not listening to me. But he's walking dead for
that analogy, No, well, I mean, as a person who
watched the show. That's what the Kardashians called all the

(01:12:17):
black people on their show. When you said girls, I
thought you meant actual girls. I didn't even know Lena Dunham. No.
I just felt that, you know, just with with gentrification
and sort of Uh. I guess he would call it
an entitlement and slackerman here. Yeah, you're just again not

(01:12:43):
listening to me when I tell you that woman's world.
I'm I'm saying that, yes, that this show probably best
describes what the last ten years have been, at least
from my observation, was a good show. Yeah. I tried
to get into that. I don't want to say it

(01:13:03):
was bad. I just couldn't push high maintenance on hbos
the Couch on to what's the stand up show? Oh Boy?
Yea yeah, crashing, crashing, Yes, Um, you know what, I'm
really angry that they got rid of Detroiters, but I've
never barely laughed harder at a show than Detroitters. And

(01:13:26):
I really wish you introduced me to Oh Boy too,
um Sam, or to Tim at Tim at SNL back
when he was oh my god, he's a sleeper, like
he's really talented, Yeah, Tim, Tim's Tim's great. Tim. And
I watched Tyson Chandler break his leg in front of

(01:13:49):
us at a NIXT game at UH and then the
next day the back pages were pictures of Tyson Chandler
like holding his legs on the court, and all you
see is me and Tim just both like none of

(01:14:10):
us mentioned handmates till either which you know, there's so
much you know, we can I ask question you guys,
ever watched stuff besides shows like sports or c SPAN
watch sports and Jeopardy. I mean, I don't want to

(01:14:30):
go down the rabbit hole of news CNN and MSNBC
and you know, Rachel Madden. I'm watching all those Trump
related shows. I understand why people watch them or don't
watch them at this point, but like, um, that's why
I starts to watch c SPAN more. Just it seemed
almost it seems more normal than watching the news, just

(01:14:54):
because there's a yeah, and it's just yeah, there's there's
no no comment. Hello. And did we watch PBS News Hour? No,
give you that a shot. It's an hour PBS PBS
News Hour. They still channel with their team. Yeah, I
mean I don't know your TV is all right? We

(01:15:22):
really gotta move. Yeah, we missed this whole music So look,
we're music. Can we just all right? I gotta orders
for a decade? Note? Can we can we just do
one album that you will ride for one album? Okay,
one out when I'm not ride for it? I got it.

(01:15:44):
You're shelling Digiotello Devil's Halo really, Yes, okay, I love that.
I love the one afterwards more um comfort or not
no comfort weather? Yes, yeah, but yes, you're right, Devil's
Halo was the one for me. We shall come on
the show, please, dog, I beg your own what was

(01:16:05):
your where's the album? I'm sorry, it's just not anything
and pact related outside of Oxnar's growing on over Malibu
Mab said outside, I said, but Oxnar, I said anything,
and just say Malibu so we can move on. But
I like this. What was the last one? We aren't

(01:16:25):
reading on you just like what wild one? You're no
good one? You like mall? I like it all. Next
I gotta tie. You're gonna go to Pimple, Butterfly and
the seat at the table. If I had an honorable mention,

(01:16:50):
my dark Horse honorable mention is uh by Joey Badass
Um just because that odd. It was like an interesting see,
like an interesting album seeing somebody who is this current
generation of rapper embrace a sound and a style that

(01:17:16):
hearkens back to hip hop of like my time, um,
and so it felt like it was a nice sort
of brig between between the two. And also it was
just very thoughtful I can appreciate what Julie Bass is
doing it, but I much preferred him as a as
a cast member of Mr Robot. He was a Mr Robot. Wow, Okay,

(01:17:39):
have you ever seen his his rendition of when Doves Cry? No, No,
I haven't. I'm scared to see that. I don't want
to see Joey Badass. I don't want to see because
I have a negative if that's what you call it.
He's like, it's he's sort of taking the song and
reinterpret did it? Yeah, he didn't need to do that,

(01:18:01):
and it's it's very like, it's very creative and interesting
because you've got like a live band behind him, and
that there's there there's like a whole thing on. There's
this Australian radio thing where they do it's called like
a version. Oh yeah, I'm familiar and so yeah, they

(01:18:23):
have like an artist do one of their songs and
then they also do a lover a lot of songs
that they that they like or I've listened to a
lot of those, and a lot of times I find
them quite regrettable, and this sounds like one of them
that would be quite regrettable. Even worse still, the same
song Steve, Yeah, your favorite album of this decade? Nothing,

(01:18:56):
not even Elvis Costello's Wake Up Ghosts or not even
James Poyser's intro to why It's the Next Problem Areas.
Look at that, shout out, James. I gotta say that
this this uh decade, I've listened to more comedy albums

(01:19:18):
then I've had regularly, Like I'll listen to our stream
records and you know, I'll get records for DJ gigs
but won't listen to them. But as far as like
from beginning to end, comedy albums were probably the album
that I consume the most of this decade. And I
kind of have a tie. Uh, how do you know

(01:19:38):
taking guitarros Live where she she does a bit where
um seven hours before she just got diagnosed with cancer
and so it it's probably one of the greatest recorded moments.
Like to hear her in almost real time, I'm like

(01:20:01):
process being handed this death sentence in front of an
audience and still trying to be funny like the whole
you know, what's what's the rule WIAT of what comedy is?
Like tragedy plus tragedy, time plus time. It was comedy,
Like you just agree no, is it true? That's true. Yeah,

(01:20:25):
time plus tragedy equals comedy, and so I felt it
was that. However, um probably Yeah, the album Met had
me jaw dropped, like is this still allowed Jamaar Neighbors
America's nigga was. I don't know. It's like we were

(01:20:48):
listening to it like it was the new tribe called
Quest record, like it was like two in the morning,
Me Neil Brennan, Dave Chappelle sitting in the car, Let's
sitting to Jamar Neighbors like jaw dropped, and it's it's
just a mixtape, but to me, like and I feel

(01:21:09):
like it's the last bit of comedy that got created
before the Me Too movement, Like none of none of
the contents, and don't take my endorsement as you know,
sitting on women or whatever the movement or progress. Yeah,
everything that he says. Do you know Jamar Neighbors at all? What?

(01:21:30):
I don't know. It's kind of down He's I know,
who is I don't. I don't think we've ever actually
met face to face, but I know Gerard. We know
a lot of people in common, but I don't think
he and I have ever uh connected I just literally
thought that everything that was taboo and couldn't be said
on record was done with and over with and we

(01:21:53):
were just like beyond it all, like everything was normalized.
But yeah, like he found a way to funk us
up even more. So. Yeah, shout out to putting that
on my list. Thank you, jermar Neighbors. Yeah, it's it's
a mixtape. You can find it on SoundCloud. And because
I love you so much, like you just give another album. Really, okay,

(01:22:15):
I put don't judge me, but I put Jake for
you know what? I put four for four? Really I did,
And you know I don't do that. I don't ride
for him, but I did love four for four. It
was the blackest I ever heard him. I kind of
loved it. I don't all right, I might go to
hell for this. We still want Jay on the show,
so don't burn an your bridges. I did another of
that way. I don't know if I believe Lemonade or

(01:22:40):
four four four. I don't believe him. Oh you think
the Lemonade was a dramatic production, I'm gonna could be.
I ain't sleeping on it. Well, I think that they
know that we like to be on our own heads
and sort of assume what we think it's about. I
just I can't fathom. I can't fathom a world and

(01:23:02):
these are the two most watched people ever, Like, how
is he going to find? But it doesn't even matter
anymore to me if Eliminate is real, It doesn't matter
if even if it was a dramatic production, it was worthy.
Can I ask you something has anyone heard? Because you know,
both Beyonce albums are in everyone's decade and and you know,

(01:23:22):
the first album. Yeah, I feel like I feel like
the first album probably did more for the business where
now more than Radioheads album which they allowed you to
determine how much you want to pay for it. You know,
the idea of like releasing she threw it out like
that started, so that's more revolutionary, so asprints every success

(01:23:47):
back well, black album was supposed to be done that way,
Oh damn, like it was it was. It wasn't even
supposed to have his name attached to It was supposed
to be released as something by somebody. Oh damn, I
never knew it. But have you heard any of those
albums without its video counterparts? Yes, I've never seen the videos.
I've never seen I've only heard that. Yeah, I've only

(01:24:10):
consume those records as videos and not their own in
the Yeah, like like blow is the only song that
that really kind of resonated with me from just only
hearing the songs and not seeing the videos. The rest
of them just kind of out say that that's a
cree me out a little bit. I mean it is
kind of creepy, because yeah, yeah, but I mostly it

(01:24:33):
just it just it reminds me like some kind of
ship you know, might have roll skated to back in. Yeah,
John say, so, who was your person on the decade?
Your artist of the decade? Damn? Both do that? Well?
You said you, Well, it was Anderson, and I feel
like the decade of the decade because he didn't more

(01:24:56):
than beca I understand that can come on to my
radar until like right, but I'm saying, like those people
that you name, they're also of the previous decades. If
I'm going to say anybody else would be Kendrick Lamar, right,
But I just knew everybody else was gonna say Kendrick Lamar.
So I just went with Anderson because I think he's
gonna be timeless. I think he's going to be one
of those artists that will last. He will last, He

(01:25:19):
will be a legend in his own right. I hope so.
I think so this show. But also just because you
had mentioned, like Kanye, there's a part of it that
I wonder, like the music he's put out in the
last decade, is that the music that we're really going
to remember for I hope. No. I think you're right.

(01:25:46):
I think you're right. That's what I remember him. I
think you're right. My preference, No, it's you got to
separate your preference for what facts are. Like you get
mad at me for choosing girls. Isn't saying that I
chose girls, But it's like a fact. And I feel
as though Twisted Dark Fantasy was the Mason Dixon line
that separated through the wire soulful sample Kanye Kanye from

(01:26:11):
Overblown talking out of my asked Kanye all the time,
you know, and not to do a plug on you.
But like, then, why do songs that shook on Jesus walks,
like Jesus Walks will stay in the test of time? Well,
not that was that was pre dark twisted Fantasy, But
that's what But that's why I feel like that's kind
of the question I'm asking is what will define Kanye

(01:26:33):
in a way, what we'll define him. But also like
I think Pablo defines Kanye. Really, That's why you know
what it's I'm saying, like thirty years from now, Like
like when you think about musicians, like you think about
somebody like Marvin Gay and it's like, Okay, nobody thinks

(01:26:54):
about the albums of the eighties, Like they just think
about like the earliest what's going on, Like it kind
of stops at a certain point, and those were the
most successful albums for him. I don't know as far
as like numbers sold. Where the the difference between Marvin

(01:27:19):
and Kanye is the prevalence of celebrity in society. Um
and cocaine and well, I'm pretty sure there was pretty
about the same amount of cocaine on both sides. Um,
that's just mine Marvin and whatever pills Kanye City. I'm
sure I'm sure Kanye was sniffing because a lot of

(01:27:39):
that ship sounds like like cocaine. Music like Darktors and
Fantasy sounds like a cocaine. But anyway, I digress. Um, Yeah,
I think it's just the level of celebrity that's um. Like,
you know, if Marvin had been as much in the
press as Kanye in the eighties, it might have been

(01:28:00):
in the same story, you know. Okay, if you're asking,
like when you look at a person's uh, what's the
word the canon, like we see like, okay, well we
will take Stevie from music on my mind up until
maybe hotter than July, like that's our canon for him
or whatever. I feel. No, I mean Stevie had jams afterwards,

(01:28:22):
So for me, I would say that Kanye's cannon will
probably be from college dropoutwisted fantasy. Twisted fantasy. However, okay,
maybe allright, think of Slide. Slide had from a whole
new thing to like to to I mean, a whole

(01:28:45):
new thing too. There's a ride going on, but then
we'll take there's a ride going on fresh and small talk,
and then anything after that's just bullshit. So I think
that the train stopped riding for him after Ya v
Uh album. I think I really think it was after Twist,
because you don't think papolosk Jesus happened. And I know

(01:29:09):
you like us, but you don't like it. But it's
it's been critically claimed and millennials swear by it? Do
they really swear that? By millennials? Has been an interesting
decade with you? All right? So has anyone seen or
heard of Waves? The movie? Y'all need? Uh sterling k Brown, Uh,

(01:29:30):
you must see Waves. It's so it's the previous, so
undersells it that it's necessary because I feel like that's
the movie that uh what's the God? I don't I
don't want to slander a film, but I feel like
Waves is the film that we'll floor you in the

(01:29:52):
way that queen and want to for you. You must
see Wave. I think I feel like that will be
this year's Moonlight. Yeah, black inde joy, you must see it.
A blend joint, but they use, they use I am
a God in such a way from me. That's a

(01:30:13):
song on Jesus. Remember you didn't listen to it more
than once, because neither did I. I saw the dancing
a new Slave. I was done like that. That ship
just did not beg for more than one listen because
it was just so abrasive and and not enjoyable. I
saw Jesus the way that I saw old dirty bastards.

(01:30:37):
They could please albums or someone or something you listen
to and then you enjoy, and then you feel bad
for listening to because you realize that the person behind
it needs some fucking help, but nobody around them wants
to give me any because they're all getting paid. Yes, yes,
that's exactly right. Yeah, exactly so. And that's why I
say Pablo is really that record. Like Jesus, what I

(01:31:02):
will say about Pablo, like what I thought it was
the true cry for help record. What I found what
I what I found interesting about Pablo was not the music,
was the fact that he was willing to to edit
it in real time, like as after yeh, Like, I
thought that was interesting. I thought that was an interesting approach.
Like I don't know if it was intentional, but I

(01:31:24):
thought that was definitely an interesting way to approach, you know,
releasing an album as something that was you know, once
it's out in the market, it's not necessarily finished. You
can still keep working on it. I thought that was interesting.
It was I can't believe you all talk about I
can't either, because how our university and gonna talk about
and we ain't gonna get caught like the rest of them.

(01:31:44):
I can't talking about something else too, But everybody likes
a just one who passed were worried. But you mean
they can't talk about this decade without talking about he can't.
They can't. Like again, it's not about your preferences. This

(01:32:07):
about what happened. I have a theory. I have a
theory about Yeah that I share before, which is basically,
I think he had a plan to troll list and everything.
You know, he put the the Instagram out with his
hat on I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that,
and he thought he was going to be slick with it.
He didn't. He didn't figure in that he was going

(01:32:28):
to get schooled on TMZ Live. He definitely, So yeah, Van,
he did for what because he got into it with
the White Boy. You hear about that job. I don't
want to like that, but so yeah, Van schooling Kanye
like that. Kanye was totally unprepared for that ship. And

(01:32:54):
Kanye also wasn't prepared for Donald Glover to host SNL
that Saturday and released This Is America on Sunday, which
basically just turned all that poopyy scoop conversation. It just
washed it out. And then suddenly This is America became

(01:33:14):
the conversation. Oh, it all sounds the same to me.
It all sounds like poop scoop. It was remember when
we discovered it, Like Donald Glover, don't be saying ship
his music. I'm sorry, but this is like I did.
I'm sorry, do we not remember this? Like this is America?
What the fun is? He saying? It's the video you remember?
And then it was the other sut us, y'all, Atlanta

(01:33:42):
is great, but child bullshit? I love Kauai. That was
my ship. Okay, So movies, like, did you see any movies? Like, yeah,
I saw all of them and I just did. Come on,
just get Out Black Panther. I still haven't seen Black

(01:34:05):
Panther yet. You have not seen I haven't seen Black
Panther yet. But remember it also took me like ten
years to see The Wire. So, but what movie resonated with? You?
Get Black Panthers, Get Out Black Panther, Brass Maid's Moon Like, Okay,
I wanted to keep it, keep it short and sustinct.

(01:34:26):
Sugar Steve, Ah, I'm sorry, I don't know what that snorty.
That porno movie you watched last night does not count
from the whole decade. Wow, I mean I got a list.
I can go while you think about it. Yeah, why
don't you go on? So my list the movies I

(01:34:51):
enjoyed from the last ten years include titles like bridesmaid
as as like you mentioned, Attack the Block. I thought
it was really good. What was that? Um? John Boyega
was in it? Oh yeah, yeah, it was really good.
It was a UK film. Um, this is the End
I thought was really fucking excellent. Uh. A movie that

(01:35:12):
I had forgotten about until it actually came out. Boyhood.
Yes you remember that, Steve Yes, I remember that good concept. Um.
Two movies that somebody I saw in the end it
recently said that we're really good, but they never really
feel the need to watch again Birdman and Whiplash. Really yeah,

(01:35:35):
I enjoyed both films, but I really don't feel the
need to watch them again. Like I really enjoyed them,
Like I thought they were excellent films, but I don't
think I'll ever watch either one of them again. The
comeback of Michael Keaton was really cool. Yeah. I'm always
a big Michael. I'm a big Michael Keaton fan. Like
he's still my Batman as far as I'm concerned. Um,
oh ship, Mr Mom I'm just gonna keep going. John Wick,

(01:35:57):
which one the first one, I haven't seen the continent?
Which one was common? And he was in the second
one I've I've only seen the first one. Okay, okay,
so john Wick is good. Yeah, john Wick was the
first one was I haven't watched the other ones yet,
so I really can't you know they're eating good or not.
Um Top five I thought was fucking excellent Chris Rocks movie. Yes, um,

(01:36:19):
Selma Salma was great. I thought that was good. Get
Out of Course and uh ex Machina. I used to
call it sex machine, matter of fact, matter of fact.
Whenever they were like like four GAST members came wanted
to promote it. We just do sex machines. Sex like

(01:36:44):
an X market. That's a title. Yes, it's look at it.
It's a really good movie. I think it came out
like two thousand and eleven about a lady robot and
guys who want to control a lady robot came out.
I'm jumping in line, turning on, I'm jumping in line.

(01:37:05):
I enjoyed. I enjoyed Going Girl, and I w also
say that Tyler Perry did a great I like Tyler
Perry as an actor. Yeah, you know, I felt that
he wasn't great as his cross with No, I'm just
saying that as an I want to see more of
Tyler Perry being directed by other people. By other people. Yes,

(01:37:31):
I hope I don't go to hell for that. You
know what, for all the talk of the Irishman, I went,
you gotta see it in the movie theater, like you
owe it to yourself to see the Swan. I see
it as a Swan song. So it's almost like putting
thriller on your I feel like it's going to be

(01:37:52):
this one. First of all, Denial don't want to act
no more for he's yeah, he's speaking like I'm retiring
all this stuff. Damn, but this is I mean, this
is really the last time you're gonna get my film, right,
right right? I got you, So I can't even conclude that.
So that said, I feel bad. I really liked Wolf
of Wolfe Street. Oh that was good. I enjoyed it. Yeah,

(01:38:15):
have you heard of the Lobster? I saw it, but
I don't remember. I saw it when I was on
the plane, and I love the Lobster. Colin Farrell, the
three people speaking of porn hub highlights. Shout out to
you ladies, google it, Colin Farrell, that's so two thousand
and it doesn't matter. Don't do that anyway. Um you

(01:38:40):
know what, you know what really shocked the ship out
of me that I had to see it twice? What's up?
Good Time? Good? I don't know, I don't all right?
So Good Time is a film that start okay, uh
Jonah Hills movie? No, no, no, Jonah Hill was supposed
to do the follow up that Adam Sandler is it now? Um?

(01:39:02):
Good Time is with Robert Pattinson, right, so there there there.
Their style of filmmaking is so fucking awesome that literally
I did not know I was watching Robert Pattison the

(01:39:24):
same way that you know. I'm certain that people well
probably shocked if Adam Sandler gets uh best actor talk
for this new film that he's in about the Jewel. Yeah,
playing the villain suburban villain. Oh wait, shout out, shout

(01:39:45):
out wait as a comedian. How did you feel about
his stand up special? Yes, um, you're indifferent to it? Sandlers? What? Yeah?
Like it was? I felt like you just same, acting
like Adam Sandler. Yeah, like it. It felt like a

(01:40:06):
kind of like some of the greatest hits type of
a thing. It didn't you know what, I don't know.
It didn't like I missed the Adam Sandler train of
the beginning, like the early nineties stuff we were living
in Europe, and then said, I, they're all gonna laugh
at you every day, all that stuff. I knew none

(01:40:26):
of that stuff. I knew sweatshirt shirt, yeah, I knew that,
but I didn't know anything. And the only Adam Sanding
I like was the serious stuff like Spanguish and Punch.
Yet Brennan, Well, Brennan hit me up and says, I

(01:40:47):
guarantee you're gonna watch this ten times. And I was like,
I'm not even I'm standing free, get the funk out
of here. So I went to sleep and then like
woke up at four in the morning, like let me
see what he's talking about, and actually watched it. I it.
I was floored at how brilliant. Yeah, I was surprised too,
so brilliant. It's so brilliant, yo, Seriously, I actually found myself,

(01:41:12):
you know, my eyes were by the end, I was
tearing up. It's funny, and it's said also, and I'd
be remiss if I didn't mention O Jay's Made in
America documentary director of Made in America. That's yes. And

(01:41:32):
um also I loved Inside Out from Pixar, which I
recommend yes as yeah, as as a guy in that
world now, yo, I highly recommend Inside Yes. It is
there's so many shows and movies there is, think about it.

(01:41:55):
There is. We haven't even talked about music yet. We did.
We did did We didn't know? We did? We did?
We did? We did? So any last words later before
we sign off, just get it off all anything that
you want to No, man, I just want you all
to rock with us in the twin what was your
humble break of of this decade? No? What was your

(01:42:15):
tragedy of this decade? Was the most tragic thing of
this decade? Quickly quickly was wrapping up because my grandma died,
so that was really sad. Whatever, and also say the
death of black unarmed black man to police violence. That
was pretty that didn't Now what's your humble break? Uh?

(01:42:43):
In the last ten years of bit Strideouts and stand
Up and then she actually was a talent booker for
you Know, a show executive produced by Quest Level and
Treet Todd trotter. So that was pretty cool. That's my
humble brad cool. Yeah, all right, you're still stick with comedy.
Just be funny. Yeah, Man, you gotta fail, go on stage.

(01:43:05):
You gotta you gotta, you gotta feel it to heal it.
You gotta fail some more. Take it from a comedian,
the one that's desperate to get out of here right now.
Why I was promised three hours? What was your even
Once we wrap it up, I'm sticking around, me and James.
We're gonna order a pizza. All right. What was your

(01:43:28):
tragedy of a decade? Well, I never even got to
do a movie. What's your movie? Run it back? Let's
go to chapter seventeen in this episode, the movie I
was gonna say, in keeping with what defined this decade.
And I'm not saying this as a movie that I

(01:43:49):
think was like a great movie for the decade. It's
just what defines a decade. Uh was Suicide Squad. And
the reason I say that is because I feel like
in another twenty to thirty years, I feel like we
will look at this decade and what it did for
superhero movies in a way that we look at how

(01:44:13):
like Westerns had like their heyday, and eventually the Westerns
bubble kind of like burst and then we all look
at them like, not another fucking Western. Yeah, And I
feel like Suicide Squad was that movie where we kind
of gleamed the cube on superhero movies. Uh, and it

(01:44:35):
was like and not just that we did that, but
it now shifted to like, Okay, now let's focus on villains,
and now we have movies like Joker, which is you know,
gonna be so you do you do not like villains? Well,
I just feel like it's a weird thing. Like Joker

(01:44:56):
to me just feels like porn for in cells. And
it feels like these like it feels like there's a
part of this that it's like these movies are just
like for all the kind of for all yeah, for
all those disaffected bros. Like this is all just like
the things that they jerk off to before they go

(01:45:20):
and be shitty in the world. And so that's so
I So I kind of see all of these and
it feels like, Oh, Suicide Squad was like, Okay, yeah,
we can make a superhero movie about anything, and then
it kind of went this way of like Okay, yeah,

(01:45:40):
now let's make Joker why not sure? Yeah, I think
Old Girls probably gonna got a movie too, Joker's girl
Harley Quinn. I think they're making a movie yeah, or no,
they already. Yeah, I think they've already. Actually there's posters
out for it. But yeah, like in theory, these are
the monsters of these comic books, Like they're murderers, and

(01:46:03):
it's like, but let's hear let's hear him out like
that is it is very much the Trump's Like there's
good people on both sides. Yeah, I mean we we have,
you know, the entire horror genre which is basically built
off of villains. Yeah, but we don't love them though,
Like suicide Squat was like, oh, maybe we just need it,

(01:46:23):
Maybe we just need you know, take a good look
at you know, the way we're our thought process and
how we're looking at these things. Why you ask him everything? Yeah, Hey,
did you watch movies, Steve? Now I'm going to go
to tragedies for a hundred um the school shootings, the

(01:46:49):
mass shootings is the tragedies. The biggest tragedy for me
this decade, this year and all that why we didn't
really get your sorry because you did the movie day Yeah,
I did the movie thing. I don't really have a
humble brag. Yeah. Sorry, that's really really really humble not

(01:47:11):
to have one at all. That's true. So I guess
that's my humble brag cam next level. Yeah, go ahead
and give us your huncle brags. Is he capable? I
will say that my tragedy was no doubt. I consider

(01:47:31):
Prince Stein more fun up than Trump being president. I
actually think, I think, I think I think Trump being
president it was probably more important than Obama being president

(01:47:52):
because we needed to. I feel like with Obama being president,
we got comfortable. Well, it was just a thing of
we just swept under the We just swept ship under
the rug, like was on the door. We swept it
under the rug before. But now with Trump, it's it's
almost undeniable. What you can deny anything if you if

(01:48:14):
you try hard enough. I'm no, I'm it's diamond and silk,
nice one, nice one, nice listening diamonds. So yeah, I
you know, I just think that was hella tragic. Humble

(01:48:40):
brag is. Hopefully we'll still be here next week. I
hope we've got a good show lined up. That's why
we got Yeah, you don't have you don't have me
the replacement. Yes, that's the secret that nobody knew. Everybody
everybody can agree that you've been on our list since

(01:49:03):
the fucking show started. Yeah, it's just that A mere
text me two hours and it's like, no, listen, listen,
come and dropped out. You've got you've got facial hair too,
show up. Look, we will properly have you the show
so we can analyze your life where you from, because

(01:49:25):
it's gonna be I mean, that's it's a mystery. Now
now you've got a there's incentive. Um, all right, so
what do we what do we hope for in this
next second? Why are you real? I wasn't really, you're

(01:49:47):
the boss. Some people do hope for. Well, for me,
my hope for the future more money, more money, more money,
more money, and more money, Steve Man, that's a tough question.
Why Steve and I finally buy that boat speedboat. In

(01:50:08):
the words of my brother Fante, I would love to
just be able to be in my own orbit. Yeah,
because you're definitely in some other fucking orbit right now.
I'm in a lot of people's orbits, a lot of
things orbits. There. You have it, Ladies and gentlemen, the
last two hours and thirty five minutes is pretty much
out of the decades. But it's not even gonna be
two hours in thirty five minutes, cause it's a whole
bunch that ship that's gotta get cut out. All right. Well,

(01:50:34):
you didn't answer what you look forward to in the
next decade, dude. This is the happiest I've ever been
in my fucking life. That's so excited you guys. No,
that's not even about that. I'm just dating the most
incredible woman ever and we're going to change the world. Goddamnit.

(01:50:55):
Um and do our mushrooms. Um, I will say that.
Uh yeah, it's it's been fun and uh, I hope
you guys have a great new year, great new decade
in and as we all face our fifties, who are
you talking to? I don't know what? Was just just

(01:51:18):
being Steve or in this this boat, I have just
entered my forties. Yeah, will there be a number five
on the left digit of both of your ages at
all in this upcoming decade at the very end whatever,
at the very end, at the end of the decade, Okay,

(01:51:38):
So yeah, everybody's gonna have a five at some point
in in a ten year span. Okay, so I'm the
only one facing fifty then next year, okay though, y'all
got that. Yeah, that's right there, you go, all right,
when we have Miss Ye and Sugar Steve and Boss

(01:52:03):
Bill and I'm when the fun is on Bill, he's working.
He got like two plays Assass Street Sound and maybe
fon table come back from cigarettes one of these days. No,
he's not talking. He's not. That's never coming back, is he.
All right? Well, why we thank you very much for
filling in for some lines and for now Rogers and

(01:52:24):
Fonte and Little Brother album. That was a great thing
that happened. Thank you, Thank you quest Love for making
that happen. And that's losing a teammate. Thank you, thank you,
thank you. Yeah, care about what you asked? Yeah, yeah,
we will see you on the next girlround of course,
Love Supreme. This is of happy New Year m H.

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