Unveiling the Power of Comics in Addressing Mental Health
This podcast episode delves into the intricate interplay between comic culture, mental health, and the representation of Black identities in the media. Halston Canty, a distinguished mental health advocate, joins us to share his insights on how comics can serve as a therapeutic outlet and a means of understanding personal struggles within the African American community. We also explore the recent partnership between Crunchyroll and Delta Airlines, which promises to enhance in-flight entertainment with anime content, thus broadening accessibility to diverse narratives. Furthermore, we discuss the casting of Tramell Tillman in the upcoming Spider-Man film, as well as the return of beloved comedic actors Regina Hall and Anna Faris to the "Scary Movie" franchise. This episode emphasizes the significance of fostering open dialogues about mental health, particularly in underrepresented communities, while also celebrating the multifaceted nature of comic storytelling and its impact on personal identity.
Halston “Slimzell” Canty @lifewithhalston joins Blerd’s Eyeview to tackle mental health in the African American community and how we can break the stigma. The crew also dives into what mental health looks like in nerd culture and content creation and even explores which iconic comic book characters might struggle with mental health today. From Batman’s trauma, Joker’s instability, and Spider-Man’s anxiety, to Storm’s resilience under pressure and Cyborg’s battles with identity, we unpack how these stories connect to real life challenges.
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Takeaways:
- Halston Canty emphasizes the importance of mental health discussions in the black and nerd communities, advocating for openness and vulnerability.
- The podcast explores the intersections of comics, mental health, and black culture, highlighting how superheroes mirror real-life struggles.
- Humorous actors transitioning to serious roles showcases their versatility and opens conversations about mental health in unexpected contexts.
- The partnership between Crunchyroll and Delta Airlines signifies a growing recognition of anime's cultural impact in mainstream media.
- The return of Regina Hall and Anna Faris to the Scary Movie franchise signals a revival of comedic horror that reflects contemporary societal fears.
- The episode illustrates how mental health advocacy can be integrated into various forms of media, resonating with audiences across different platforms.
Companies mentioned in this episode:
- Always Press Record tv
- Apple
- Spotify
- Mandalorian
- Mayhem Media
- Psycho Image Films
- Blur Eye View
- Journey to Manhood
- bgsa
- Syracuse University
- Veteran organization
- Journey to Manhood
- Mental Wealth Academy
Transcript
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Speaker A:Mandalore, are you on the.
Speaker A:She's not on deck yet.
Speaker A:That's all right.
Speaker A:We'll get our Chaos demon, Mayhem Media.
Speaker A:What's going on, my guy?
Speaker C:Tip of the hat to you all.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:For those who don't know, me and Mayhem have been running a pretty tight ship, you know, behind the boards and everything else, getting everything on time, so I appreciate you.
Speaker A:I'm glad.
Speaker A:I. I'm glad I picked a good team.
Speaker A:Hey, it's.
Speaker A:It's so much appreciated.
Speaker A:So Whoopty's in the building.
Speaker A:Hey, what's going on, Whoopty?
Speaker D:Nothing much.
Speaker D:Just getting comfortable.
Speaker A:That's what they call it these days.
Speaker A:I didn't know the way.
Speaker D:I just ran up in here.
Speaker A:But the ship can't leave yet, and so.
Speaker A:No, but what's.
Speaker A:But it's.
Speaker A:It's Thursday.
Speaker A:I literally did not realize it was Thursday because it was so much going on.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's been a.
Speaker A:It's been a week.
Speaker A:It's been a busy week.
Speaker A:Like, I like.
Speaker A:Mayhem knows He's.
Speaker A:He's wrestling with his little one.
Speaker C:Down there washing hair now so she can do the.
Speaker C:The Huntrix braid for her first day of school.
Speaker A:Oh, boy.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Always the first day of school.
Speaker A:That was mine.
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Speaker A:Adding hair to her hair.
Speaker A:Like, why are you adding hair?
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Speaker D:Why not?
Speaker A:Because I try.
Speaker C:Like, this is intentional.
Speaker A:Like, I have hair.
Speaker A:It's growing.
Speaker A:I. I just choose to keep it bald.
Speaker A:Just.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:It's your thing.
Speaker A:And then finding loose hair everywhere and Me and my son are like, so whoopty.
Speaker A:What's going on in your neck of the woods?
Speaker D:Nothing.
Speaker D:I realized instead of moving to Atlanta, I found myself in the Pacific Northwest with all the rain and the flooding.
Speaker D:I had to swim to work this morning and I had to swim back on my way.
Speaker D:I had to take a boat back to the house.
Speaker D:So once again, if the power goes.
Speaker A:Out, geez, I'm like, yeah, look, that Hurricane Aaron is not here to joke around.
Speaker A:So for those who stay in the Carolinas, battered down, batting down the hatches and all that great stuff, I hope you stay safe out there.
Speaker A:I want to give out congratulations to a certain couple.
Speaker A:Six Wakage and Coco Afro, Cocoa Puffs, who just got married.
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Speaker A:Just a.
Speaker A:Last month.
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Speaker A:So congratulations on their nuptials.
Speaker A:One of my favorite cosplaying couples.
Speaker A:Because if you've seen them cosplay, never disappointed.
Speaker D:They are adorable.
Speaker A:They are.
Speaker A:They are never disappointed.
Speaker A:They do a lot of work with Psycho Image Films.
Speaker A:They actually did a short that we reviewed on here.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:It was a love story, but it was.
Speaker A:It was a short story.
Speaker A:It was a love story, but it was a zombie flick.
Speaker A:And I'll be damn.
Speaker A:From the.
Speaker A:From the score to the color palettes and everything, I'm like, this.
Speaker A:This is really damn good.
Speaker C:That was a phenomenal piece of work, especially for the short time frame in which they had to tell so much story.
Speaker A:Okay, so.
Speaker A:But we actually have a guest here today, and this brother is.
Speaker A:He's a mental health advocate.
Speaker A:And we're going to be talking about mental health in the African American community, the nerd community in comics.
Speaker A:Where do we see it most often?
Speaker A:All the above.
Speaker A:Halston Canty is in the building.
Speaker A:What's going on, Halston?
Speaker E:Hey, how you doing today?
Speaker E:How you doing?
Speaker A:I went over your bio, my guy, and this is what I can appreciate.
Speaker A:You do the work, you do the work, and I appreciate that.
Speaker A:So thanks for that.
Speaker A:So let me just give everybody out here a quick rundown.
Speaker A:He runs a program called Journey to Manhood.
Speaker A:He's working with the youth on the south side of Syracuse.
Speaker A:He was the president of the organization called the bgsa, which is the black grad student organization at Syracuse University.
Speaker A:He's also part of the Veteran organization, where veterans had to tell their story of being in the military on stage for a verbal stage play.
Speaker A:That what he says that always sold out.
Speaker A:He's a counselor for also for a flag football coach in Brooklyn, working with middle school kids, dealing with Everything from anxiety, being bullied, anger issues, trauma, and much more.
Speaker A:He's an actor and a musician.
Speaker A:He's also a life coach.
Speaker A:The man's got a resume.
Speaker A:I'm just saying.
Speaker A:He's also a life coach.
Speaker A:He keeps his life coaching services.
Speaker A:He's an educator for the Opportunity program at a community college upstate.
Speaker A:But he's also a geek and also do life like the rest of us.
Speaker A:Halston, dude, amazing.
Speaker E:I appreciate that.
Speaker E:Thank you so much for having me here.
Speaker E:First and foremost, it's an honor.
Speaker E:I, I love the work that you all do.
Speaker E:So continue just doing great things.
Speaker E:Appreciate it.
Speaker A:Look, we, look we, what we preach here amongst encouragement and, and keeping people entertained and educated is we talk about mental health from time to time and we try to keep our people exposed, you know, to talk about the things that really don't get to be said too much too often.
Speaker A:So we appreciate.
Speaker A:So amongst the many things you've already.
Speaker E:Done.
Speaker A:What brought you to those stages?
Speaker A:What, what, what kicked this whole thing off.
Speaker E:In regards to what, which like being a part of the, the comics or just like.
Speaker E:What do you mean?
Speaker A:Also as far as starting off the mental health journey?
Speaker E:Oh yeah.
Speaker F:So.
Speaker E:You know, I, I, I grew up, you know, my father was a workaholic, but in the process of that, my father became an alcoholic, right?
Speaker E:And my mom, my mom is, is from Jamaica.
Speaker E:So a lot of times, you know, my mom was very, just cut and dry.
Speaker E:Like, listen, you go to school, get an education and that's it.
Speaker E:And my dad was like, we don't want to talk about nothing else but, you know, work, work, work, work, work.
Speaker G:Right?
Speaker E:So a lot of times for me growing up, it was trying to figure out who I was, you know, where I fit in and just the things that I was dealing with internally, like not really having a place to like, speak out, not really having a place to talk.
Speaker E:If you don't know anything about Syracuse, just know it's not a big culture up there in terms of like Caribbean culture.
Speaker E:Like, it's, it's just you, you're, you're hard pressed, trying to find anybody that pretty much is, can identify with you in certain spaces.
Speaker E:So just like having that internally and having to deal with that, but then coming outside and dealing with like, you know, the neighborhood, lack of resources, all of those things that you typically hear about within the poverty, impoverished communities and trying to figure out just who I was as a person.
Speaker E:But one day, you know, my mom ended up, you know, buying me some comic books and it was the X Men, comic books.
Speaker E:I'll never forget that.
Speaker E:And then from there, like, my mind totally just changed, right?
Speaker E:It just.
Speaker E:Totally, just expanded.
Speaker E:But I got into.
Speaker E:So I know you asked about how did I get into the mental health?
Speaker E:But it was just like.
Speaker E:That was like my journey into just becoming, like, I've started realizing, like, oh, this is a world that I fit in.
Speaker E:This is a world that I wanted to be a part of.
Speaker E:This is a world that escapes me from just this.
Speaker E:This world of not knowing who I am, not being able to find someone to.
Speaker E:That I can identify with, not being able to talk to my father and my mother.
Speaker E:Closing the door.
Speaker E:And once I closed the door and I got into these books, I totally just drifted into a.
Speaker E:Just a world that was, you know, just continuously pulled me in.
Speaker E:I'm learning characters, I'm learning who they are.
Speaker E:I'm learning names, I'm learning stories and origins.
Speaker E:I'm identifying and relating.
Speaker E:So as I got older, I started realizing, like, you know, I started reading the Bible more and things of that nature.
Speaker E:I started just looking at any and everything that was just taking me from my reality.
Speaker E:And from there, I kind of started just realizing, like, you know, I. I have something that I.
Speaker E:That's inside of me, something I want to discuss, something that I feel that makes me feel different.
Speaker E:And I started just getting into more of, like, trying to be aware of who I am as a person.
Speaker E:And, I mean, I would go to the library for hours and read and just figure things out.
Speaker E:And long story short, I went to college and I ended up learning about social work.
Speaker E:And I wanted to see more of what that was about.
Speaker E:I wanted to try that and just see how that can help me as who I am as a person, just what I have to offer.
Speaker E:Just trying to figure out the tools and things that I've.
Speaker E:I've been dealing with.
Speaker E:And that's how I pretty much got into it.
Speaker E:Just trying to figure more about myself because I had a lot of moments in life of rage, anger, you know, just like, getting fired from things, ruining relationships.
Speaker E:And I said, you know, I. I have to figure out I'm gonna have to save myself, because, you know, there's.
Speaker E:I don't have any mentor that I can look to that can help me out.
Speaker E:So I had to figure out, you know, what I'm gonna do to save myself.
Speaker E:And so I went that route to learn more about mental health as I got into college and social work and things of that nature.
Speaker E:And that's how I got into it.
Speaker E:That's How I got into it.
Speaker A:You know, not a lot of people think that down that path.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And is.
Speaker A:It's very interesting when people like.
Speaker A:Like you just mentioned comics for a lot of people, especially the blurred community that is like, that's you.
Speaker A:When you mention the X Men.
Speaker A:There are a lot of blurds who recognize themselves in X Men even now, what we deal with in today's reality.
Speaker A:So, Navy, you got a question?
Speaker F:You would put me out there, See?
Speaker F:See how you treat me?
Speaker A:I would.
Speaker A:I would go to second command, but she's got a bat down the hatches real quick.
Speaker F:First of all, Mr. Halton, sir, it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance.
Speaker F:Thank you for your service.
Speaker F:You know, as.
Speaker F:As you're part of the veterans organization I saw.
Speaker F:So bravo.
Speaker F:Thank you for that.
Speaker F:Question 1.
Speaker F:Can I have that poster in the back?
Speaker F:Because I need to add that to the wall.
Speaker F:You know, it's.
Speaker F:I ain't quite covered the entire wall space, but as a blurb and definitely someone who is definitely an advocate for mental health, what has been one of the most challenging obstacles in that.
Speaker F:That you still deal with today as a blurt and as a black man.
Speaker E:For one, Getting black people to understand that it's not about weakness, it's not about, you know, being less masculine or it's not about, you know, being soft.
Speaker E:It's actually a strength, right, to go and actually talk about how you feel, to express yourself to.
Speaker E:To just get things off your chest and off your mind that you probably don't have an opportunity, you know, you probably may not have someone in your corner to really just to talk to about your issues.
Speaker E:Like.
Speaker E:Like, if you really want to be real.
Speaker E:Heart disease is like, number one thing that kills us.
Speaker E:Cancer is another number two thing that kills us.
Speaker E:Strokes are like the number three things that kills us, right?
Speaker E:So not having that community where I can express and talk to and reach out and be able to speak to people, that in itself holds us back, right?
Speaker E:Like, just sitting there and keeping that inside and not feeling like I have a community, because with comic books, right, you have that world.
Speaker E:Like, I identify with these people over here who.
Speaker E:And I can't say it for everybody, but for some people, it's like, I didn't fit in.
Speaker E:I didn't.
Speaker E:I couldn't find my circle.
Speaker E:I couldn't find the people that, you know, that represented me, right?
Speaker E:And.
Speaker E:And when you're even coming up in certain neighborhoods, it's like people only either, like the thugs and the gangsters, right, or they, like, you Know, I don't know, just the people that are kind of like, you know, just living a wild kind of lifestyle in certain spaces, or just those who just seem to, like, are always doing good things and being popular and represent, you know, and then, like, there's like, you know, kids who are in between trying to figure out, like, well, who am I?
Speaker E:You know, how do I, you know, get a chance to, like, get people to see me?
Speaker E:What can I do, you know, to talk to somebody?
Speaker E:So it's very.
Speaker E:It's very hard to get people to, like, reach out and, like, really find someone to talk to.
Speaker E:And people being comfortable to talk about their feelings and to talk about who they are.
Speaker E:Right.
Speaker E:Like, we got 30 of our community doesn't go to.
Speaker E:I mean, does therapy.
Speaker E:And within that, it's like 10, 15 is black women.
Speaker E:And then like 5 to 6% is men.
Speaker E:Black men who go to therapy.
Speaker E:So the number gets lower and lower in that spectrum.
Speaker E:So it's kind of like, that's the hard part of, like, really talking about therapy and getting people to discuss it, because what.
Speaker E:What do some people do?
Speaker E:They find toxic ways to take care.
Speaker F:Of themselves or they lock inside themselves.
Speaker E:They lock inside themselves.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker F:It's really.
Speaker F:Out loud or not at all.
Speaker E:Right.
Speaker F:And as someone who grew up in the sphere, when you mentioned comics.
Speaker F:Comics was the gateway for me to, you know, go on my blur journey to this very day.
Speaker F:And I still remember the obstacles that I had to go through, but when it came to a moment of pain, I didn't have anyone that I could explain it to that wouldn't look at me sideways or give me that eye, like, take a nap.
Speaker F:You'll be okay, right?
Speaker F:I don't want to go sleep.
Speaker F:Let me.
Speaker F:Let me talk about this, okay?
Speaker F:I can sleep at night, but I got a problem in front of me while I'm holding this comic book in my hand.
Speaker F:So.
Speaker E:Yeah, and that's big.
Speaker F:This for you, by the way, Chris.
Speaker F:Shout out.
Speaker A:Oh, well, I'll be waiting for that one.
Speaker C:What's going on, brother?
Speaker C:Like Navy said, thank you for your service.
Speaker C:First and foremost.
Speaker C:My.
Speaker C:My question, like, I. I talk a lot about mental health because of my own challenges with mental health.
Speaker C:And I find it easier to demystify by just being up front and.
Speaker C:And conversational about whatever it is that I may be going through.
Speaker C:Not trying to expose and put too much out there.
Speaker C:But, like, like we were saying, the.
Speaker C:The people need to see it in order to.
Speaker C:To be able to say, oh, okay, that's something I can identify with.
Speaker C:If he's able to do it, maybe I'm able to do it too.
Speaker C:What, I guess drives you personally to work with the.
Speaker C:I'm, I'm assuming, you know, working with the veterans group because you're a veteran yourself, but the, the journey to manhood, like, what has.
Speaker C:You want to reach out and work.
Speaker E:With the youth, man, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker E:I've always have a given heart ever since I was a kid, you know, like, I've always wanted to, like, be in a position to like, help people.
Speaker E:And I just, I've always felt like I saw the world differently.
Speaker E:I've seen different things.
Speaker E:So I'm like, if I have this, this way of thinking, somebody else needs to know this information.
Speaker E:It's not to say that they're not going to let, they're going to listen to me, right?
Speaker E:Because, you know, especially if you're growing up in like, these bad neighborhoods or whatever, you who do the kids are going to pay attention to, they're going to pay attention to the people that probably got the money, you know, get all the girls right, that hang out and do all of the, the things that might not be so good, so kosher for the families at that particular time, but they also need to see that it's other people out there who is just as cool and, you know, can, can talk, can, can go through things and also be able to express, you know, like, hey, man, I've been through that before.
Speaker E:I know where that journey goes.
Speaker E:I know where you're headed.
Speaker E:And down that road, like, I meet kids who get shot and then they're talking about like, hey, I'm ready to go retaliate.
Speaker E:I'm ready to go back out there and.
Speaker E:And hurt somebody and kill somebody, right?
Speaker E:And then being able to like, you know, think about that, think about the long run on where that's going to lead you and where that's going to take you, right?
Speaker E:Like, maybe you can put that.
Speaker E:That energy into writing your own story, or maybe you can put that energy in creating music or put that energy into a project or something within your own neighborhood, right?
Speaker E:Like, and I'm a.
Speaker E:And I'm a prime example of someone that's coming from those type of communities and choosing a different path.
Speaker E:Like, a lot of times, especially growing up in the early 90s, it was like, what are you gonna do?
Speaker E:Either, like Biggie said, either you sling and crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot.
Speaker E:And that was like the thing, like, which road are you gonna take within this space, right?
Speaker E:Like, which world do I see myself?
Speaker E:But I'm like, man, I'm a whole different person.
Speaker E:I'm an example of another roles you can take and still feel like a man.
Speaker E:Still be secure in who you are and still live a.
Speaker E:You know, go through your trials and tribulations.
Speaker E:It won't be easy, but, you know, you can still be impactful and still make a difference in this world.
Speaker E:So that's where I.
Speaker E:That's where I'm at a lot of times with it.
Speaker E:And I just want to make sure if I can, like, save somebody or not save someone, but help someone see a different light, then that, you know, that means a lot to me.
Speaker A:That's what's dope, lady.
Speaker A:Mandalore.
Speaker H:Sorry, I had to unmute myself.
Speaker A:I know.
Speaker E:You better therapy them dishes.
Speaker G:That's for real.
Speaker E:You depressed, you better depress them dishes.
Speaker F:You want some help?
Speaker F:You better help that room.
Speaker A:That's right.
Speaker H:Yeah.
Speaker H:Triggered.
Speaker H:I wanted to know what do you.
Speaker H:You help both.
Speaker H:Do you have.
Speaker H:You have adults and students, man, as well, right?
Speaker E:Sure do.
Speaker H:Okay, my.
Speaker H:My question is for the kids.
Speaker H:And I guess.
Speaker H:Well, I guess the kids right now that are like, in the middle of the road, like, they're like.
Speaker H:They're like, just hitting the line because I feel like those are the kids that kind of get lost in the shuffle.
Speaker H:They may not necessarily be, you know, superstar A plus students.
Speaker H:You know, everything looks like it's going great, but they're quiet.
Speaker E:Right.
Speaker H:Like, they're literally just coasting.
Speaker H:How do you keep an eye out for those kids?
Speaker H:Or what are your tactics to kind of bring those type of kids out of their shells?
Speaker E:I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker E:I don't really have a blueprint or a framework really, when it comes to that.
Speaker E:It's trying to sit and have a discussion with them, pry, ask questions, do assessments.
Speaker E:It's so many different things to get through to them because every individual is different.
Speaker E:You made.
Speaker E:You don't know really what's going to work.
Speaker E:It's kind of like sometimes I might approach you some days and, like, have a conversation and see what's going on, see if this was something you want to do.
Speaker E:And some days I might not be so heavy on you and just give you space to really wait for you to come around to me, but just do check ins with you.
Speaker E:I mean, I think that's one of the main things is just not giving up and always just giving hope more than anything.
Speaker E:Like, as long as they are understand, like, they.
Speaker E:They text me to this day, like, man, you are somebody that was really big in my life.
Speaker E:You were somebody that did a lot of amazing things for me and helped me out.
Speaker E:And it was just simply like when everyone's laughing at them, you know, I'm not gonna laugh at you, man.
Speaker E:I'm actually gonna talk to you about what's happening, what's going on.
Speaker E:I'm gonna be there for you.
Speaker E:I might pull up and drop you off or pick you up for something.
Speaker E:I might take you with me somewhere and help you see a different thing.
Speaker E:I might come over and just talk to you and your mom and we all eat dinner and laugh and joke.
Speaker E:I might bring you a present.
Speaker E:I might just, you know, come over, we go for a walk.
Speaker E:But anything is better than just completely acting like I don't see you, even if you don't want to speak and don't want to talk, Giving you that space.
Speaker E:And guess what?
Speaker E:Even with my son, I'm like, here, read this comic book, brother.
Speaker E:Tell me how you feel about that.
Speaker E:You know, like, giving him an opportunity to like, you know, take.
Speaker E:Figure his mind out and see what he likes.
Speaker E:So I, I'm never pushy.
Speaker E:I'm always just giving them a space.
Speaker E:And I let them know I see them all the time.
Speaker E:I see you.
Speaker E:I always see you.
Speaker E:And even.
Speaker E:And I'm never gonna leave them with a bad, like, remark or something.
Speaker E:I'm gonna, like, you know, they do need real talk, but also in that space, I'm gonna always give you.
Speaker E:Well, like, you know, today was not your.
Speaker E:Your best day.
Speaker E:You know, you had moments where you didn't.
Speaker E:You didn't shine, but I know you can do better.
Speaker E:And I, And I see that in you.
Speaker E:And I.
Speaker E:And I always let them know I see something bigger in you every single time, you know, and so that, that resonates a lot.
Speaker E:And they just, you know, they just become like, they just do check ins all the time for the rest right now, for it's been so long, but they continuously do check ins with me all the time, and I love it.
Speaker A:So, yeah, I think that's dope, honestly, that you still have people that you've helped and they, you know, grown up, they've gotten older, and they say, you know what?
Speaker A:I need to go talk to Halston.
Speaker A:I need to go talk to.
Speaker A:Steve's out real quick because he, He.
Speaker A:He got it.
Speaker A:He understood what I was saying.
Speaker A:He didn't judge me.
Speaker A:He didn't put me on Front street.
Speaker A:He didn't do any of the things that Everybody else would do.
Speaker A:He just gave me an ear.
Speaker A:And sometimes that's all it takes is just that ear.
Speaker A:No, the.
Speaker A:No judgment and.
Speaker A:And having that person to talk to and just vent, you know, I want.
Speaker E:To know, do you all remember someone in your life who gave you just that solid advice or just says something to you every day?
Speaker E:It could have been just a word, right?
Speaker E:But you remember that person because even when you were not feeling your best, that little word made you feel, you know, like, all right, he see me or she see me.
Speaker E:I needed that today.
Speaker E:And they don't even know that.
Speaker E:Do you know anybody like that?
Speaker A:They're not here anymore for me.
Speaker A:They're not here anymore.
Speaker A:But I still hear her.
Speaker A:That's my great grandmother.
Speaker A:That was somebody who I pretty much.
Speaker A:I stayed under her wing consistently.
Speaker A:But even the moments where it was a quiet moment where she just knew there's something going on in his head.
Speaker A:He's.
Speaker A:He's stressing.
Speaker A:She knew how to.
Speaker A:She knew that I addressed that, you know, where everybody else was like, he being quiet, he doing this.
Speaker A:She just knew how to reach it, you know, and she didn't judge.
Speaker A:And sometimes.
Speaker A:Sometimes it was just sitting back and watching Xena, the Warrior Princess and.
Speaker A:And being done.
Speaker A:It was just.
Speaker A:And it was those moments of quiet that she was like, you know, I seen what was going on with you.
Speaker A:You okay?
Speaker A:Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker A:So, yeah, that's who that was for me.
Speaker H:It's a few people for me.
Speaker H:My aunt and my great uncle Cecil, as far as family goes.
Speaker H:And then Mr. Sparnroft.
Speaker H:He was my high school math teacher.
Speaker A:He's cool as there.
Speaker A:There was one.
Speaker A:I'm glad she said that.
Speaker A:There was one other woman.
Speaker A:She's no longer here.
Speaker A:Her name was Mrs. Lockley.
Speaker A:We used to call her.
Speaker A:She was a little black one.
Speaker A:She was about your hike here.
Speaker A:She was our high school history teacher, and she.
Speaker A:She fought for us to get black history taught, but she couldn't teach it during this.
Speaker A:During the curriculum.
Speaker A:But she fought for us to get black history taught.
Speaker A:She would.
Speaker A:She was like the aunt.
Speaker A:And we used to.
Speaker A:Her name was her.
Speaker A:Her name was Justine, but her initials was J.L.
Speaker A:we used to call her justice and Liberty because she did not play that.
Speaker A:She.
Speaker A:She handled business and she got everybody together.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker D:Whoopty a question or the person that I.
Speaker A:Either one or both.
Speaker D:Well, the person that I can recall always giving me encouragement is Mr. Cullen Parkinson, my sixth and eighth grade teacher.
Speaker D:We have such a connection that he even came to my college graduation.
Speaker D:That man is still around and he'll always be a part of my life.
Speaker D:He's family at this point.
Speaker D:My question for you is I find that, you know, speaking about mental health has become commonplace among a certain age group.
Speaker D:What do you think needs to happen so that we can normalize similar decisions, discussions among our elders.
Speaker E:So we can normalize it amongst our elders with mayhem.
Speaker A:And it looks like yo, I was.
Speaker C:About to say we need to become the elders.
Speaker C:Like I don't want to give up hope on them but it feels like good Lord.
Speaker F:What do you mean become the elder?
Speaker F:I already am.
Speaker E:I agree though.
Speaker E:I think we need to continue educating ourselves.
Speaker E:I think that's extremely important.
Speaker E:We need to address policies, we need to address the political figures in our communities about, you know, mental health programs and things of that nature.
Speaker E:We need to continue to rally the community behind, you know, advocating for mental health or putting in things that may help better our community that will change mental health features.
Speaker E:I mean there are communities that don't have any grocery stores, right?
Speaker E:Like food deserts and things of that nature.
Speaker E:There are places doesn't have any parks or just is dangerous for kids to walk and all of those things just in a self care day, like just think about what you do for your self care on a regular day basis, you know, like things you may take advantage of and just take for granted.
Speaker E:There are people who don't have the access to that and don't have liberty for that on a regular basis.
Speaker E:And sometimes I know for my older generation of family it was like, like I said, the older generation doesn't really want to talk about mental health, doesn't really need it.
Speaker E:Right.
Speaker E:I'm a veteran, so the veteran community definitely doesn't want to be a part of discuss those mental health challenges as well.
Speaker E:But it's also like they, the statistics need to be shown on like how this has, you know, hurt us.
Speaker E:You know, how things like how this hasn't, you know, help benefited us at any way, shape, form or fashion.
Speaker E:And like having someone to talk about, you know, having someone to speak to and discuss this with is, is extremely important and very helpful for our own sanity and for the next generation.
Speaker E:So I think that's some of the challenges that we need to continue to stand on.
Speaker E:So yeah.
Speaker A:I agree.
Speaker A:I've seen those discussions, I've seen some of those posts on social media how people, they'll say things along the lines of sometimes you have to separate yourself from the, the familiar, the familiar people who really don't walk the path that you need them to walk.
Speaker A:So that could be the elders, that could be your peers.
Speaker A:It could be anything.
Speaker A:You know, just.
Speaker A:You know, people say, even with family, they say, yeah, sometimes you have to separate from that toxicity that's in family, you know, in the family trees, where they're just like, yeah, it's always the negative, the negative, the negative.
Speaker A:It's never.
Speaker A:It's never the.
Speaker A:The encouragement.
Speaker A:It's never the.
Speaker A:The achievements.
Speaker A:It's never anything else.
Speaker A:It'.
Speaker A:Yeah, but remember that time or this, that another is that weight.
Speaker A:And there are people who are dealing with so much weight, even now, they are dealing with so much weight that they're just like, how could you.
Speaker A:Knowing that this could affect me?
Speaker A:So I think that's something that a lot of people, especially the black community, could really learn from.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker E:And even.
Speaker E:Even within the comic book, the.
Speaker E:The comic books and the blurred community.
Speaker E:Right.
Speaker E:Like, part of it is that escape.
Speaker E:I am able to get away from the reality of what's going on around me.
Speaker E:Right.
Speaker E:I used to love when the X Men came out.
Speaker E:I couldn't wait to go watch the X Men every single Saturday.
Speaker E:I needed to see what it was like to have powers so I could deal with these haters.
Speaker E:I needed to see what it was like to have powers so I can blow you off the face of the earth if I don't want to talk to you no more.
Speaker E:I needed to be a part of that world.
Speaker E:I needed that energy.
Speaker E:But sometimes people feed their own thoughts, right?
Speaker E:All the time.
Speaker E:Completely.
Speaker E:So as a kid, if you go to school and they don't like you, and you might have a moment where everyone's talking about you, you think from now and from three weeks moving forward, the whole school doesn't like me.
Speaker E:They hate me.
Speaker E:Right.
Speaker E:So now you're escaping into this world and you're not dealing with reality in some spaces, and that.
Speaker E:That might seem comfortable in a great place to be in, but at the same time, it's like, you got to get back to having the conversations, doing the work, addressing what's going on with you.
Speaker E:And that may come later on in your life, but the comic books for me helped me.
Speaker E:Like, just learning about those deep words and the feelings and seeing Wolverine crash out so many times, I needed to see that.
Speaker G:Right.
Speaker E:I needed to be a part of that.
Speaker E:I needed to see how he just battled sentinels, and he was the smallest dude in the.
Speaker E:In the X Men.
Speaker E:I'm like, yeah, I need that.
Speaker E:So it was.
Speaker E:It was.
Speaker E:I needed that.
Speaker E:I needed to see that, man, it was.
Speaker E:It was definitely therapeutic for me in a sense.
Speaker E:And it gave me a sense that's how I ended up getting into music.
Speaker E:Like I wanted to another way to get myself out.
Speaker E:Like, now I got the power to speak more and be more of an advocate for myself and I got the strength to do that.
Speaker A:So, yeah, I was going to ask you, so, like, what got you into your music?
Speaker A:This is why I love doing this stuff.
Speaker A:Because when we have guests like you that just.
Speaker A:That have that energy, this works.
Speaker A:Your music, your music.
Speaker A:You just said that this was another avenue, another.
Speaker A:Another route for you to speak out, to explain to, to, to vent, to do whatever it is and reach that other person or people who could hear it.
Speaker A:So let's talk about your music.
Speaker A:How long you been doing, man?
Speaker E:I started doing music when I was like 15, 16, but I didn't take it serious.
Speaker E:And then when I went to the military, me and my friends from Chicago, they bought a laptop.
Speaker E:We all bought a laptop together.
Speaker E:I probably was like 20.
Speaker E:And we started recording songs on the laptop.
Speaker E:So this is like, you know, a long time ago.
Speaker E:And, you know, from there it's been like 20 years.
Speaker E:And it was.
Speaker E:It was always just great to hear myself explain, express how I feel, express what's going on in my mind.
Speaker E:Yeah, I love music, man.
Speaker E:I love it.
Speaker C:What kind of music?
Speaker E:Just hip hop, you know, hip hop.
Speaker E:But I will listen to jazz, I will listen to.
Speaker E:Shoot.
Speaker E:I listen to some country, I'll listen to reggae.
Speaker E:Just anything that has a message sometime.
Speaker E:I'm definitely, you know, I'll definitely tune into, but I'm more hip hop and R B more than anything.
Speaker F:On the, on the hip hop level, who has been your muse or who's been your inspiration as far as that?
Speaker E:On a hip hop, Biggie Smalls was somebody that I really liked.
Speaker E:He.
Speaker E:I identified, right.
Speaker E:At one point, he was black and ugly as ever, right?
Speaker E:So I. I needed to hear that.
Speaker E:I needed to hear that comp.
Speaker E:I needed to see that and then hear the confidence, right?
Speaker E:It was a great.
Speaker E:The way he.
Speaker E:His style is cadence.
Speaker E:It was a dope MC to me.
Speaker E:Nas.
Speaker E:I'm Lauryn Hill, man.
Speaker E:There's so many, so many, so many dope artists that I really, really liked that really gave me some inspiration when I was listening to them.
Speaker F:I wanted to answer your question about who your inspiration.
Speaker F:For me, it was three people and two of them were teachers.
Speaker F:Taylor, this was the only lady.
Speaker F:I was the only black kid on the journalism staff at my high school.
Speaker F:And she took me to different things as far as journalism, to be a writer and to just excel.
Speaker F:And I became probably the first black president of the Indiana High School Press association because she pushed me and she believed in me.
Speaker F:Mr. Reed.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker F:I love that woman.
Speaker F:God rest her soul.
Speaker F:Mr. Reed was the first man who saw me do cosplay and said I should keep doing it because my first cosplay was Mahanda's Gandhi.
Speaker F:And let me tell you, I got an A plus on that.
Speaker F:Project Mayhem.
Speaker F:Don't laugh at me, bro.
Speaker F:Them legs had to come out, okay?
Speaker F:When you wanna a.
Speaker F:Them legs will come out on curve.
Speaker F:I don't care what you say.
Speaker F:And finally was.
Speaker F:There's a tie between my Uncle William and my dad.
Speaker F:I lost my dad earlier in the year, but he encouraged me to be a blurb.
Speaker F:My Uncle William was the one who encouraged me to love comics.
Speaker F:In fact, every time I got a good report card, he would take me to the local, local comic store.
Speaker F:He says, Here's $50.
Speaker E:That's right.
Speaker F:Buy whatever you want.
Speaker F:If you got questions, I'll let you know.
Speaker F:And because of him, I have this.
Speaker F:It's over 4,000 comics and I've never let go.
Speaker E:I love that man.
Speaker E:Yeah, My father, I remember he went to the, the birth to the comic book store and got like a coupon for like $20.
Speaker E:And I took that coupon, ran straight to that store.
Speaker E: iner Daredevil the night them: Speaker E:Submariner, daredevil, X Men, Avengers.
Speaker E:Just so many.
Speaker E:I'm not a D.C. head per se, but I do like some of the things they, they do.
Speaker H:But you're a good man.
Speaker F:No, no, down in front.
Speaker F:Okay, down in front.
Speaker F:Oh my gosh.
Speaker A:So let's, let's talk.
Speaker A:I'm glad we got to the, the comics part of it because there are several characters in comics who we know deal with several versions of mental health issues.
Speaker A:You mentioned Wolverine.
Speaker A:He's a prime example for somebody that has lived as long as he has.
Speaker E:Right.
Speaker A:And has as much trauma as anybody else on that team.
Speaker A:Actually, more from the time his claws came out, even before then, because it was shown that, you know, his, his, his mother was not.
Speaker A:She was a very social person, let's put it that way.
Speaker A:Very social person.
Speaker A:And she was social.
Speaker A:Yeah, right.
Speaker A:And she was social with the wrong person who had a lot of issues, you know, so dealing with, dealing with that level of strain and trauma every day of his Life for over 200 plus years.
Speaker A:Yeah, I'm sure you're gonna walk away with something.
Speaker A:Especially when you.
Speaker A:Your.
Speaker A:Your main enemy's favorite version of happy birthday is killing people close to you or loved ones and then leaving them sprawled out.
Speaker A:Happy birthday.
Speaker A:See you next year.
Speaker A:You know, I'm like, God, that's brutal.
Speaker A:That's all levels of brutal candle, that's for sure.
Speaker A:Oh, my Lord.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Forever catches strays.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:He forever catches trails.
Speaker A:Batman is another one that is nothing but severe ptsd.
Speaker E:That's a fact.
Speaker E:Never healing.
Speaker A:Yeah, people say, oh, it was.
Speaker A:It was when I'm like, you don't understand this kid.
Speaker A:He was young and it happened in front of him.
Speaker A:That will break anybody, you know, and.
Speaker A:And he just chose a somewhat healthier path to.
Speaker A:To deal with it.
Speaker A:You know, he's like, I. I'm going to train myself.
Speaker A:I'm going to build myself up.
Speaker A:Which he did.
Speaker A:Problem is, he's bringing a bunch of kids along with it, so.
Speaker A:Including his own.
Speaker A:Including his own offspring.
Speaker F:Can we say that whoopty brought up a perfect one.
Speaker F:Madeline Pryor.
Speaker A:Madeline Pryor is a prime example.
Speaker A:Identity disorder.
Speaker F:Jesus, I thought I was her.
Speaker A:Yeah, you're not, Gene.
Speaker A:But yeah, that's a problem.
Speaker A:Madeline Pryor is one.
Speaker A:Moon Knight has dissociative identity disorder.
Speaker A:Disorder running around with three identities, and you never know which one you're getting.
Speaker F:And they're all loud.
Speaker A:They're all loud.
Speaker A:Spider man.
Speaker A:Ptsd.
Speaker A:Consistent ptsd.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And having that whale.
Speaker A:What's going on, man?
Speaker A:Oh, wow.
Speaker A:Thank you, Matt.
Speaker A:Consistent ptsd.
Speaker A:You know, losing your uncle and blaming yourself for it, and then losing your girlfriend and blaming yourself for it.
Speaker A:Losing your child and blaming yourself for it.
Speaker A:Constantly fighting against the grain, feeling like he's never enough, not really realizing for everybody else, he is, he's enough.
Speaker A:And then more.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker E:You mentioned some phenomenal characters that are staples within the comic book culture, man.
Speaker E:And you don't get a great character without a messed up mentality, without a dysfunctional family upbringing.
Speaker E:And I think, I think that's even included in.
Speaker E:I mean, I can't speak for everybody, so I don't want this to be a monolithic thing.
Speaker E:But that's even included in terms of like hip hop in your artists.
Speaker E:Right?
Speaker E:I need to know your story, and I needed to be as greasy as possible or I don't want to believe you.
Speaker E:Right.
Speaker E:So I need this story to be as bad as possible.
Speaker E:I mean, Spider man, his issues.
Speaker E:Batman, his issue.
Speaker E:Cyborg.
Speaker E:You mentioned Cyborg and Cyborg.
Speaker E:Issues of his mother getting killed or dying.
Speaker E:And then it's like his body blown up, and now they're putting him back together in pieces with other metal pieces.
Speaker E:Like, it's just such a.
Speaker E:A crazy space.
Speaker E:But do you know how else would we want our characters to be?
Speaker E:You know, like, we've so been so accustomed to seeing that.
Speaker E:And they deal with these problems and these issues always.
Speaker E:Like, you mentioned, somebody mentioned Mr. Sinister.
Speaker E:Like, he is the.
Speaker E:The prime hater.
Speaker E:He knows I am going to continuously just ruin your life and get into your brain and just make you bug out.
Speaker E:Like it's.
Speaker A:It's somewhere Scott Summers and Jean Gray are like, why us?
Speaker A:Why do you keep messing with us?
Speaker A:And he told him.
Speaker A:He's like, because it's something.
Speaker A:Your bloodline becomes the strongest.
Speaker A:That don't mean every time, like, you just.
Speaker A:All the time is me or my wife or.
Speaker A:Come on.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:These characters.
Speaker A:Joker is a prime example in when.
Speaker A:When you see those conversations between him and Batman, they are two sides of the same coin.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:There is just one.
Speaker A:They dealt with it differently.
Speaker E:You know, But I ask you this.
Speaker E:I think every single one of you, maybe not as extreme, but every single one of you may have a Joker in your life.
Speaker E:Right?
Speaker E:How do you.
Speaker E:How do you deal with your Joker?
Speaker F:I divorced her.
Speaker E:How did you deal with this Joker?
Speaker F:I did not have kids with her, and I divorced her.
Speaker F:There we go.
Speaker F:Kept it moving, I think.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, it was one.
Speaker A:It was the ex Balsamore.
Speaker H:Like.
Speaker A:Oh, to the brink.
Speaker A:Like, what is.
Speaker A:What is it about me?
Speaker A:You know, I'm here all the time.
Speaker A:All of a sudden you show up.
Speaker E:Because you think you Batman.
Speaker E:Right.
Speaker A:Like so.
Speaker A:But yeah, that's.
Speaker A:It was one of those, I think.
Speaker A:Yeah, you're right.
Speaker E:That's probably how a hater thinks.
Speaker E:Like, oh, you think you somebody.
Speaker E:So I just want to be the person to just get under your skin.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker E:Maybe.
Speaker E:Right then.
Speaker E:I'm not saying that's for every single person, but somebody sees something and, like, I don't really like you, you know, And.
Speaker E:And it becomes.
Speaker E:Then it becomes a thing.
Speaker E:Right?
Speaker E:I'm like, I don't want to go over, hang out with him.
Speaker E:I'm gonna stay over here.
Speaker E:I'm gonna.
Speaker A:You know.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:Mal says Black Blade, Raven, Dr.
Speaker A:Fate, Forge, Maximus, Ty, Ford, Mary.
Speaker A:Yeah, all of them.
Speaker A:All of them.
Speaker A:They all have an issue, and they.
Speaker A:They can't seem to just break from.
Speaker A:From the norm of it.
Speaker A:All.
Speaker E:Right?
Speaker A:And that.
Speaker A:And that's what hurts them.
Speaker A:And Blade, Blade, me.
Speaker A:Blade being born half vampire at birth because his mother was turned Raven, whose father is practically the devil, you know.
Speaker A:You know, and you mentioned, you meant like Cyborg.
Speaker A:Cyborg.
Speaker A:Survivor's guilt and then identity, you know.
Speaker A:Now, mind you, we're not diagnosing any of these characters.
Speaker A:This is how they're portrayed to us in comics and, and in some forms of media, you know, and you see that, you see that suffering Superman who lost an entire planet.
Speaker A:His fan.
Speaker A:Well, is his blood family.
Speaker A:Not knowing who he is.
Speaker A:Not being able to connect to that, you know, that part of himself being lost.
Speaker A:There's that level of, you know, that teenage angst of finding out he, who he is.
Speaker A:Growing up with that.
Speaker A:That's a lot.
Speaker A:That is a lot.
Speaker E:Wow.
Speaker F:Coming in.
Speaker A:I tip my hat and salute to you, sir.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:Yeah, Lady Mandalore.
Speaker A:What, what heroes or villains or anti heroes do you think have some, some of those quirks, those issues?
Speaker H:I, I, I have a different question.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker H:Kind of.
Speaker F:Of course.
Speaker H:I'd want to get your thoughts.
Speaker H:Did you see Thunderbolts?
Speaker E:No, I didn't.
Speaker E:No, I didn't see it.
Speaker E:I'm going through is.
Speaker H:No, no, you're fine.
Speaker H:I promise.
Speaker H:It's okay.
Speaker H:Wait for the dvd.
Speaker H:It's all right.
Speaker A:Or whatever.
Speaker H:It's gonna come out.
Speaker A:It's not bad.
Speaker A:It's not bad.
Speaker A:She's not saying that.
Speaker A:No, no, no.
Speaker H:I wanted to know.
Speaker H:Well, I guess with a character like Sentry, you know what I mean, he's got the, I guess he's got the personality.
Speaker H:With him, it's not really did.
Speaker H:It's just an entity that kind of met.
Speaker H:Is manifested in him.
Speaker H:That is just an absolute.
Speaker H:Oh, no, it's the void that he expresses.
Speaker H:And it's like the darkest of dark things, whatever anybody comes into contact with him.
Speaker A:Bob has a lot of issues.
Speaker H:Yeah, a lot.
Speaker A:And that's not just in the movie.
Speaker A:In the.
Speaker A:That man has issues.
Speaker H:Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker H:I, I don't know how you handle.
Speaker H:I don't think he has anybody to handle him in that, in the MCU universe yet.
Speaker H:He kind of.
Speaker H:The power of friendship.
Speaker H:He's got to help him in the mcu.
Speaker H:I, I don't know if that narrative is a little irresponsible.
Speaker H:I don't know.
Speaker H:What do you, how do you feel about the way the m. Well, I guess superhero movies in general tackle these issues of bullying, of mental illness, things like that.
Speaker H:Is there, is there a movie that you liked that maybe touched on it, or do you think they could do a better job?
Speaker H:Are they doing a job at all.
Speaker E:That'S a great question.
Speaker A:Sorry, I don't know.
Speaker A:I've.
Speaker E:I've never like fully sat and like processed it.
Speaker E:I do know, like I mentioned before, if the character isn't almost narcissistic, psychotic, you know, if they aren't like bugging out in a way, some way, shape, form or fashion, you're not going to get a great story.
Speaker E:And I think that's part of like the energy that they give to the rest of the world, to the audience, on, like, we need our characters to just be going through something chaotic and psychotic.
Speaker E:Right.
Speaker E:Just.
Speaker E:We need, we need them to.
Speaker E:And that's how we're going to get our story.
Speaker E:So it's almost like you need that energy in order to turn into somebody and get people to rally behind you.
Speaker E:Right.
Speaker E:And these people deal with many head issues and problems and, and they never really fully recover from anything.
Speaker E:Right.
Speaker E:It's just the next story with the next story and the next director gets it and they painted another way.
Speaker E:But it's the same stories pretty much going around.
Speaker E:I, I asked a question and I don't really want to get too race heavy, but if you really think about it, besides, you know, like Wakanda, do we have any other black families or black superheroes that are painted in almost on a level of omega, Right.
Speaker E:Like, where is that being shown at all?
Speaker E:Within the comic book?
Speaker E:The world.
Speaker A:In the comic book world, you, outside of Wakanda, you have Storm.
Speaker E:Right, Right.
Speaker H:She got all that in Wakanda and.
Speaker E:She was in Wakanda.
Speaker E:Right.
Speaker E:So to me, it shows.
Speaker E:Like.
Speaker A:Yeah, she's honorary.
Speaker E:She's honorary Wakanda.
Speaker E:Right.
Speaker E:And then she's also a part of like a strong leader handling her business on the X Men team, dealing with the warlocks.
Speaker E:I mean, the, the, the people that's under the ground, the Morlocks.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker E:But in that sense, where else is there a character that is being portrayed and shown as, you know, a black character, as someone as great as the Wakandans.
Speaker E:Wakandians.
Speaker E:In America.
Speaker E:In America also.
Speaker E:Right.
Speaker A:I think the only character, and I wouldn't say as great, but still deals with a lot of inner turmoil is Sam Wilson.
Speaker A:He still deals with.
Speaker A:He, he's have, he has the wings, he has the shield.
Speaker A:People look up to him.
Speaker A:However, he still deals with that internal.
Speaker A:Am I enough?
Speaker A:Can I do this right?
Speaker A:I don't have a serum live action or comic book in the pages.
Speaker A:He doesn't have that.
Speaker A:He's, he fights that all the time.
Speaker A:You know, you See it.
Speaker A:He has that inner.
Speaker A:The inner monologue.
Speaker A:I can do this, but I have to be up front for everybody else.
Speaker A:I have to stand in for everybody else.
Speaker A:Still.
Speaker E:Those are just things I've noticed within this space.
Speaker E:And it's like, you know, you're fighting the gang, you're fighting the.
Speaker E:Your neighborhood, your mother, father, not being around, you're fight.
Speaker E:You're continuously fighting that inner turmoil, your.
Speaker E:Your neighborhood.
Speaker E:But then, you know, so that's one of the things.
Speaker E:It's like, if we don't even see that in comic books, it's, you know, representation is everything, you know, and so it's almost like it's not going to exist.
Speaker E:And we.
Speaker E:We continuously need to feed this energy.
Speaker E:So, you know, not being too reliant on the comic books, in a sense, to.
Speaker E:Not to give, to understand how we should move, but also understanding, like, it's.
Speaker E:We're gonna have to still do the work within ourselves in this reality of trying to be better people.
Speaker A:All right, Laney, we're gonna go to you, and then we're gonna take a break.
Speaker E:What's up?
Speaker I:What's up?
Speaker I:Actually, Kara took my question because I really wanted to get your thought process of how the revengers, I guess you could say how that.
Speaker I:How you liked how they dealt with mental health and that.
Speaker I:So I think I'll just go back to maybe an origin.
Speaker I:Hopefully.
Speaker I:You didn't answer it.
Speaker I:How does it feel to be a black man representing mental health?
Speaker I:Because I feel like before even meeting you, I'm 45.
Speaker I:I've never seen that.
Speaker I:You know what I mean?
Speaker I:So how does it feel to be a black man in the mental health space?
Speaker E:I feel great, I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker E:But I do.
Speaker E:I do think that that comes with a sense of knowing who I am and having a little bit of, you know, I'm not really worried about how other people view me and see me, but I also know it's not received well all the time.
Speaker E:You know, some people, you know, I.
Speaker E:Some people think, like I've mentioned before, it's soft, is.
Speaker E:Is not masculine.
Speaker E:It's something that we shouldn't talk about.
Speaker E:I've had people, like I said, I'm not trying to be race heavy with this, but I had.
Speaker E:I had a, you know, a white lady tell me she doesn't want me in the field.
Speaker E:You know, I don't know why men are in the field.
Speaker E:Right?
Speaker E:Like, why are you here?
Speaker E:You know, so I've.
Speaker E:I've dealt with my own issues at, In a sense But I'm not here for you, you know, I'm here for myself.
Speaker E:I'm here for my community.
Speaker E:I'm here to better, you know, my.
Speaker E:On my family, right?
Speaker E:This is bigger than just talking to you and trying to, like, figure out what's going on with her.
Speaker E:You could ignore me for all I care.
Speaker E:I'm gonna still do what I have to do and push forward and do what I got to do for my family.
Speaker E:So it's.
Speaker E:It's.
Speaker E:It hasn't always been an easy thing, you know, But I don't let anything stop me in terms of, like, just going forward and doing what I have to do, right?
Speaker E:Like, I'm.
Speaker E:I'm gonna.
Speaker E:I'm gonna make a way, some kind of way.
Speaker E:And now I have.
Speaker E:I have family calling me, telling me, hey, because of you, I've reached out to my son that I've never talked to, and me and him had a conversation, and he told me he loved me the other day, right?
Speaker E:And that's big because, you know, these guys been to jail, these guys been accused of a lot of things, and now they're opening up and want to speak to their kids.
Speaker E:I have veterans contact me and like, hey, man, because of you, I. I've.
Speaker E:I've now decided to go to therapy or people we've known.
Speaker E:That was like, I give my daughter.
Speaker E:I now want to speak to my daughter more.
Speaker E:And I've listened to her when I used to get mad and just get angry so fast.
Speaker E:Now I give her the space to talk to me, and I kind of take a step back, right?
Speaker E:And I.
Speaker E:And I change how I'm.
Speaker E:How I'm speaking to her.
Speaker E:So it's like, once you understand that it's bigger than you.
Speaker E:It's really.
Speaker E:There's people relying on you, people depending on even this space right here.
Speaker E:There's people who love this space and come here to.
Speaker E:To get away and blurreds.
Speaker E:That's not always even.
Speaker E:I used to ask, you know, Laney, like, exactly.
Speaker E:Like, how does.
Speaker E:How does it feel?
Speaker E:Like, what are you.
Speaker E:What is this about?
Speaker E:Like, explain more to me because you put me in a different world, and you gave me a different viewpoint on how to look at certain things.
Speaker E:Things where I just was, like, for a second, I didn't even know this existed.
Speaker E:And I was always like, wow, this is great.
Speaker E:Like, I can be a part of this.
Speaker E:And we all good.
Speaker G:We.
Speaker E:We don't have to judge each other.
Speaker E:We just laugh and joke.
Speaker E:Like, so, yeah, this is amazing.
Speaker E:So I love it.
Speaker A:This.
Speaker A:This Is what's dope.
Speaker A:I. I built this platform.
Speaker A:And my very first co host, I brought him in because he runs what the.
Speaker A:That's D.C. chambers over at what the.
Speaker A:Shout out to him.
Speaker A:And his.
Speaker A:His father had passed and he had to watch that.
Speaker A:He had to pull the plug.
Speaker A:He had to do the whole thing.
Speaker A:And I brought him in because I seen it was a need, you know, like, this is my guy.
Speaker A:We.
Speaker A:We joke around and stuff.
Speaker A:But, you know, he had went radio silent for like two weeks and he finally reached out and I said, I tell you what, because I know you like talking about the stuff.
Speaker A:I know you're not as knowledgeable about it, but you know enough about it, like, you know, to.
Speaker A:To.
Speaker A:To stay in the game.
Speaker A:Come on.
Speaker A:You know, and he.
Speaker A:And he tells that.
Speaker A:He says that, you know, he's like, yeah, if.
Speaker A:If, you know, that helped him out, you know, to get that, you know, to not just take his mind off it, but it helped him cope and it helped him, you know, deal with those emotions and everything else.
Speaker A:And he's the one that's done therapy, you know, so.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And that circle of black men that I know reaching out for therapy is getting bigger and bigger.
Speaker E:That's right.
Speaker A:And I'm glad that it is Spartan real quick.
Speaker A:Got a question.
Speaker E:I don't know.
Speaker G:I had to get the Ms. Rachel and Gracie's corner out of my head from putting kids to sleep.
Speaker G:So I. I apologize.
Speaker G:Right now.
Speaker G:Right now all I hear is go to sleep with a trap beat.
Speaker G:So I just stopped myself for a second.
Speaker G:Sorry I didn't get to catch you in the beginning, but I just want to echo the fact of just, you know, the whole emphasis on mental health.
Speaker G:I guess my only question is, and this.
Speaker G:If this has already been answered, forgive me, but how did you come to find your.
Speaker G:Your purpose as far as mental health in the black community and how you can actually, you know, where did you find your.
Speaker G:Your why?
Speaker G:If you haven't already answered that, man.
Speaker E:I felt like I was the last person ever to talk about mental health.
Speaker E:I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker E:Like, I. I was just talking to your family here about having anger issues and not really being someone that was willing to listen and, like, feeling like I knew everything at one point.
Speaker E:And I just.
Speaker E:I just started to, like, really, like, you know what?
Speaker E:I gotta change my energy.
Speaker E:And when I was doing the Journey to Manhood program and I was working with so many different kids, it was an opportunity to, like, go back to school and really open my Brain to like therapy and like social work and really figure out, like, what are these skills and tools.
Speaker E:So the lady told me, she was like, you know, there's no black men really within that field.
Speaker E:She was like, you should possibly open up and just think about it.
Speaker E:Because I wanted to get in the business.
Speaker E:I was like, I want to go to the business world.
Speaker E:I'm trying to get some.
Speaker E:Some money.
Speaker E:I need to do something to get some paper.
Speaker E:That's therapy for me.
Speaker E:Like, the more my bank account comes with old's, the better I'm gonna be, right?
Speaker E:But then all that's great and dandy, but still that will not help you in the inner kid that you have inside of you that still needs to be healed, that's still dealing with trying to figure out how to talk to people and work relationships.
Speaker E:So once I. I've discovered that about myself, like, I'm gonna go to this world and then when I got in there, I'm like, yo, this is crazy.
Speaker E:All of these things that I didn't know that's triggering me.
Speaker E:Like, people have ptsd and you think it's just your mentality.
Speaker E:It's also in your body.
Speaker E:It's also in the way you sleep.
Speaker E:It's the way you make carry yourself.
Speaker E:It's when the light hits your eyes, you don't want to look the certain way, right?
Speaker E:These are all things that you don't know that you're experiencing from problems and complications in your life.
Speaker E:And you think it's just a natural way.
Speaker E:Like, you're like, oh, that's just how I am.
Speaker E:It might not be how you are.
Speaker E:That's really things you have experienced that you don't know your body is dealing with.
Speaker E:And it's time to.
Speaker E:You got to let some of that stuff out.
Speaker E:So once I started understanding that, I'm like, no, I need to teach this.
Speaker E:Because as I mentioned before, I grew up, I love my family dearly, but I also had a toxic household at times.
Speaker E:And I was like, man, I need to share this with my mom.
Speaker E:I need to share this with my brothers.
Speaker E:Like, I need to share this with my family more because this is is amazing stuff.
Speaker E:And then at first it was like they weren't really listening, and then they started coming around because they started noticing I was doing the work at the same time.
Speaker E:You know, the kids is like, look, running up to me and having fun and talking to me more, and people are really picking my brain more.
Speaker E:And I stay with it.
Speaker E:I just stayed with it.
Speaker E:I was like, I'm gonna stay in this space because I need this to save my life.
Speaker E:I need this, you know?
Speaker A:So, yeah.
Speaker A:So, Austin, we're getting ready to take our break.
Speaker A:I'm gonna come back.
Speaker A:We got a couple news bites to cover.
Speaker A:Can you stick around?
Speaker E:Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker E:I'm here.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:We'll be right back with our guests.
Speaker A:We're gonna talk about.
Speaker A:So some little news bites that we've got picked up and we might touch a little more on these crazy comic characters that, you know, got some mental issues.
Speaker A:So we'll be right back.
Speaker A:Let's reach out one time, Sam.
Speaker A:Let's reach out one.
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Speaker A:All right, we are back and our private chat is blowing up.
Speaker A:We got some.
Speaker A:We got a couple news bites.
Speaker A:So here we go.
Speaker A:So, Mayhem.
Speaker A:I know you're gonna love this.
Speaker A:He's a big Severance fan here.
Speaker A:But Tillman has been cast in the new Spider man brand new day film.
Speaker A:And rumors are already running rampant about who he may play.
Speaker A:My money's on Robbie Robertson.
Speaker A:That's just what it is.
Speaker G:I still blame.
Speaker G:I still blame chaos, even for that rabbit hole he sent me down.
Speaker C:Yes, Severance is a phenomenal show that everyone should watch much.
Speaker I:What is it?
Speaker I:What is it really about?
Speaker I:Just what is it about?
Speaker H:7 liveaction version of One Piece.
Speaker F:Girl.
Speaker A:Girl, go to your room.
Speaker A:A lie.
Speaker F:Go to your room.
Speaker I:You're.
Speaker A:You're.
Speaker I:You're spot on.
Speaker I:So that's interesting.
Speaker A:Oh, my.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker G:Says something to me on second Sunday.
Speaker A:And I feel like I gotta sit there.
Speaker C:This is Kira's fault for besmirching severance.
Speaker F:Well.
Speaker A:I hate to Kira's.
Speaker G:Kira is spot on about severance.
Speaker G:That's why I'm like, she's right.
Speaker A:How.
Speaker H:Oh, said the blind man.
Speaker H:Okay, all right.
Speaker H:Now go on.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:No, I'm wrong.
Speaker H:I'm wrong.
Speaker H:I'll be wrong.
Speaker H:It's okay.
Speaker A:No, no, but he's.
Speaker A:He's been coming up in the world and.
Speaker A:Yeah, I guess.
Speaker A:I guess he's made.
Speaker A:I. I haven't watched Severance, so don't do it.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:But I know.
Speaker A:I know the actors that.
Speaker A:That are on the show, and he's one of them.
Speaker A:And him being cast in Brand New Day, people were saying, oh, he's gonna be Norman Osborne.
Speaker A:I said, I don't know.
Speaker A:Think so?
Speaker H:No, he's not Coleman Deo, right?
Speaker H:There ain't no way.
Speaker I:Wait a minute.
Speaker I:Norman Osborne, that was in the anime series To Brand New Day.
Speaker A:No, that.
Speaker A:That.
Speaker A:That Norman Osborne is Coleman Domingo put.
Speaker G:That on the Ways the Waves was immaculate.
Speaker G:So we.
Speaker G:We already know off the bat that he's not going.
Speaker I:That's a fact.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:But no, I.
Speaker A:My money's on Robbie Roberts Johnson.
Speaker A:I figure if this is going to be Peter starting from scratch, so to speak, you gotta have.
Speaker G:You gotta have a.
Speaker G:You gotta have a Robin to a Batman.
Speaker G:You gotta have somebody to Triple J. Yeah.
Speaker H:I apologize to our guest.
Speaker H:I cuss a lot.
Speaker A:He works at the Daily Bugle.
Speaker G:He's the only person.
Speaker G:He's the only person that J. Jonah Jameson will never cuss out.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker F:And he will listen to.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:He's practically.
Speaker A:He's practically his second in command.
Speaker G:Yeah.
Speaker A:He was played by Bill Nunn in the Ted Raimi's Spider man films.
Speaker F:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker H:Okay.
Speaker A:Every time.
Speaker A:Every time.
Speaker A:Radio Raheem.
Speaker G:Yeah, Radio Raheem played him in the Rami.
Speaker G:In the Rami series.
Speaker A:Because every time Jonah went off, he was the.
Speaker A:He was the calm one that always came in there.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker G:But you notice in the Spider man movies, he never yelled.
Speaker G:Everybody else never yelled at him.
Speaker A:In other words, every time Jay, Jonah had.
Speaker A:Every time he was yelling, he was like, jonah, we gotta have this in by this time.
Speaker A:That was.
Speaker A:That was.
Speaker F:In other words, Kara, he was you.
Speaker G:Yeah, he was the one.
Speaker G:He was the one that had tried Jesus, not me.
Speaker G:Literally on his own.
Speaker H:Okay.
Speaker I:He's a mess up.
Speaker F:You know, it's.
Speaker F:It's gonna click and I'm gonna get that text message.
Speaker A:I know who he is.
Speaker F:Took you two hours.
Speaker I:Just look him up.
Speaker I:Kira, you.
Speaker I:You've seen.
Speaker H:No, no, I believe.
Speaker H:I believe y'.
Speaker A:All.
Speaker H:I. I know who, like, I know who he is now saying Radio Raheem.
Speaker H:And I'm like, oh, okay, that dude that was in Spider man for like five minutes.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:You can't miss.
Speaker A:Can't miss, right?
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And in other news, since the Wayne brothers has the rights back to their scary movie franchise, of course Anna Faris and Regina hall are coming back.
Speaker I:Yeah, I know.
Speaker A:That's right.
Speaker A:Back together.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Oh, God.
Speaker A:We're gonna see Crazy heads with Gina Hall.
Speaker A:Love to see.
Speaker G:They got.
Speaker G:They got a decade.
Speaker A:Oh, they do.
Speaker A:They have.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:They have so much ammo to work with now, like, as if they didn't have ammo to work with before, but they have so much to work with.
Speaker F:Level material.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I. I'm not gonna be.
Speaker A:I'm not surprised that that would even happen at this point.
Speaker A:I need.
Speaker C:I need.
Speaker C:Just give me three real good Chris Pratt jokes.
Speaker C:That's all I really want in my.
Speaker I:In my spirit, you know that's going to happen.
Speaker A:Talk about somebody who just disappointed everybody.
Speaker A:Star Wars.
Speaker G:Star Lord.
Speaker A:Star Lord will not be seen in Avengers.
Speaker A:Doomsday.
Speaker G:Starlord gonna be in the dark Star.
Speaker G:Starlord gonna be in the Sunken Place.
Speaker E:For a little while.
Speaker A:Still gonna be his grand.
Speaker A:At his granddaddy's house eating cereal.
Speaker F:There's some good cereal.
Speaker F:Shut up.
Speaker A:They'll probably.
Speaker A:They'll probably have him just like his counterpart did.
Speaker A:And what if working at the ice cream shop.
Speaker G:I feel.
Speaker G:I feel.
Speaker G:I feel bad for his PR person.
Speaker G:His PR Person is probably on the fifth bottle of alcohol right now.
Speaker G:Like, all you had to do was shut the up.
Speaker F:Won't wear it wear off after a while.
Speaker A:I was with you, Peter, when you.
Speaker A:And they said you didn't pull the trigger and you did.
Speaker A:But this.
Speaker A:I can't.
Speaker A:I can't back you.
Speaker A:I'm sorry.
Speaker A:But yeah, that.
Speaker A:I. I'm like mayhem.
Speaker A:I. I'm looking for that.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:That would be the level of petty only a Waynes could do.
Speaker G:But I want the.
Speaker G:Actually between.
Speaker G:Between that and Marlon's role in him, I. I want to see so much weigh in.
Speaker G:Fans just succeed right now.
Speaker G:That's nice.
Speaker A:Let's talk about Marlon.
Speaker A:Because they don't.
Speaker A:They used to seeing the goofy side of Marlon.
Speaker F:Serious side.
Speaker G:Anybody see the serious side?
Speaker A:His serious acting is to be his next level.
Speaker C:Marlon gets in his dramatic bag.
Speaker A:It's a rap.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker C:He can do it better than you think.
Speaker A:This would be, like, at least the third that I know because it was Noah, because it was, was requing for a dream.
Speaker A:And then he's the Fresh Prince of Bel Air where he plays Will's father.
Speaker A:And now, now this.
Speaker G:Yep.
Speaker A:Seeing him in that ser.
Speaker A:You be like, this ain't the same Marlin.
Speaker A:This is not the same dude.
Speaker H:He's.
Speaker H:He's been showing, like, little flits here and there amongst, like, some of his comedy movies, too.
Speaker H:I think it.
Speaker H:What is it in.
Speaker H:In Mo Money there.
Speaker H:It's not a long scene, but he turns it when he gets pissed at his, his brother for.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:Because they were like.
Speaker A:Because they were broke all the time.
Speaker H:He's.
Speaker H:It's been there.
Speaker H:It's been there.
Speaker H:He just doesn't have the role to let it, like, rock.
Speaker A:And I think, I think him is going to be that thing that's like, yep, absolutely, the lead actor is.
Speaker A:Because everybody's looking at Marlon like they gonna, they're gonna be talking about this.
Speaker G:All I gotta say is I feel bad for the NFL when that movie comes out out.
Speaker I:It's not gonna do nothing to them.
Speaker I:They.
Speaker G:There's gonna be some references.
Speaker G:That's all I want.
Speaker G:I'm looking forward to the fact of just.
Speaker G:It's like, how bad do you want it?
Speaker G:And then the, you know, the goat sacrifice out of nowhere, like.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's.
Speaker A:I, I, they didn't get no slack.
Speaker H:After any given Sunday.
Speaker F:They're good forever.
Speaker A:They are good forever.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker G:You didn't give it Sunday.
Speaker A:They, they still, they still talk about the stuff that went on behind the.
Speaker G:Scenes of that movie.
Speaker G:Lt wasn't acting.
Speaker G:He was.
Speaker E:No, let me Shut up.
Speaker E:Here's a question.
Speaker F:Here's a question, everybody.
Speaker F:Who was the one comedic actor that really impressed you when they decided to do dramatic acting?
Speaker H:Always going to be Robin Williams.
Speaker H:Always.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker G:At the list, Robin Williams is one.
Speaker I:I'm, I'm gonna go against the coven.
Speaker I:Say, Adam Sandler.
Speaker G:Yep.
Speaker A:He does it.
Speaker A:He does.
Speaker A:When he does it, he does it.
Speaker A:Well, I'll out.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:Jim Carrey.
Speaker G:Jim Carrison.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker E:I like some care.
Speaker I:Oh, yeah.
Speaker H:I mean, yeah.
Speaker A:And see, I think just like comic.
Speaker I:Book marketing, actually one of my favorite.
Speaker A:Movies, like My Cabin Book Marketer.
Speaker A:Said comedians make fun of their pain.
Speaker A:So it's not, not hard to believe they make great dramatic actors, especially serial killers.
Speaker A:I mean we've just named, we just named what, four already who have managed to show a serious side that you're not used to seeing.
Speaker G:Pretty much.
Speaker A:Like you're like the Majestic.
Speaker A:And what's the other one he did Truman Show.
Speaker A:It was another one that.
Speaker A:It was like number room 23 or number 20.
Speaker A:And you're waiting like his first dramatic role for Jim Carrey and you're waiting for him to turn him like, oh, this is a joke and it's it.
Speaker A:You're not getting jokey Jim Carrey at all.
Speaker A:Like, like you were just waiting and it didn't come something you're just like, wow.
Speaker A:Like.
Speaker A:And I think that was a lot of people's take that they were waiting for the funny to come in it.
Speaker A:Like, no, this ain't that movie.
Speaker G:Wayne Brady, if you ever did a serious role, dude, you gotta do it.
Speaker A:You gotta do it.
Speaker G:You gotta do a serial killer.
Speaker A:The day Chappelle skit was enough.
Speaker A:Dude like, oh, he's.
Speaker A:Oh, oh, okay.
Speaker G:Wayne Brady's not friendly.
Speaker G:No, that was Wayne Brady being himself.
Speaker F:As grave digger in Black.
Speaker G:Oh yeah.
Speaker G:Black Lightning.
Speaker G:He was great.
Speaker F:There was no joke in him at all.
Speaker F:He was, he was straight up.
Speaker F:Now the one comedian that I really enjoy his dramatic side was Richard Pryor when he did some, when he did Some Kind of Hero.
Speaker F:That is one of my all time favorites.
Speaker A:Yeah, I remember my father watching that and him like thinking it was going to be a comedy him.
Speaker A:Because that was like at the peak of his.
Speaker A:Now that wasn't even.
Speaker A:Yeah, that was at the peak.
Speaker A:He was peaking in his comedy run.
Speaker G:But that's a comedy that always goes, My mind always goes back to that.
Speaker A:But he, he wasn't.
Speaker A:The thing about Richard Prior in Harlem Knights, he didn't do a lot of funny lines.
Speaker A:He was kind of a straight shooter, you know, except for like when, when, when, when, when Eddie Murphy when he was little and dude was like, get these kids out of here.
Speaker A:They bad luck shot him.
Speaker A:Like he did say he was bad luck.
Speaker G:Rest.
Speaker G:Rest in peace, Del Re.
Speaker G:Rest in peace.
Speaker H:Kiss my entire ass.
Speaker A:So yeah, there's, there's, there's a lot of.
Speaker A:You're right.
Speaker A:There are a lot of comedic actors who, when they do something serious and I think because the general public is so used to them doing something funny that when they do something serious they are either really impressed, shocked or not impressed because they're just like, that's not what I was here for.
Speaker A:They're, like, disappointed.
Speaker A:They're disappointed, right?
Speaker A:You know, Kira mentioned Robin Williams.
Speaker A:Never in a million years I would have thought he had that level of range to play something serious and to play a serial killer in another movie.
Speaker G:Like, One Hour Photo?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker E:One Hour Photo.
Speaker H:Wait, why?
Speaker H:What am I.
Speaker E:No.
Speaker G:What, you didn't like One Hour Photo?
Speaker A:No, it's good.
Speaker H:No.
Speaker I:Was not good.
Speaker A:Would you.
Speaker G:Would you rather see it as Pennywise?
Speaker G:Because he could have pulled that off, too.
Speaker F:Oh, man, that would have been insane.
Speaker I:Now, see, I would have actually liked to seen that.
Speaker H:That's not funny.
Speaker A:I know you mentioned Jim Carrey.
Speaker A:What role are the comedians that you've seen?
Speaker A:What role has shocked you or, like, put you in a place like, yo, I had you him or you her?
Speaker E:I think majority of the ones.
Speaker A:Y'.
Speaker E:All.
Speaker E:Y' all pretty much mentioned Robin Williams.
Speaker E:Jamie Foxx sometimes actually is funny.
Speaker E:And when he does a serious role sometimes it's kind of weird to see him in those spaces.
Speaker E:He's not.
Speaker E:His acting range sometimes is kind of like, he's great at his characters, you know, Like.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, at that.
Speaker E:At that character range.
Speaker E:But sometimes to see him in, like, those serious roles is.
Speaker E:Is.
Speaker E:It's funny to me because I'm.
Speaker E:I'm used to, like, Wanda and.
Speaker E:And things of that nature.
Speaker E:And then when I see him really play a serious role, like, it was a movie that recently came out on Netflix.
Speaker E:I forgot it.
Speaker E:But to see him in the Rock, I checked it out.
Speaker E:I'm like, I want to see how he.
Speaker A:He.
Speaker E:He acts.
Speaker E:He plays this role.
Speaker E:So it was.
Speaker E:It was different a little bit to see that.
Speaker E:I just want to see them step outside of the label more than anything.
Speaker E:Like, even Laney mentioned Adam Sandler.
Speaker E:To look at him and see him get kind of serious is weird for me at times because I'm like, I don't.
Speaker E:Like, I don't know where they're at mentally, but I know they're probably pushing the.
Speaker E:Pushing things forward for themselves.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:Yeah, I always forget this because Mel just mentioned it.
Speaker A:Robin Williams was a drama major from Juilliard.
Speaker A:I always forget he was roommates.
Speaker A:Marie.
Speaker F:Oh, yeah.
Speaker F:He got his legit.
Speaker A:So, yeah, I guess it's the circle you come from.
Speaker G:Pretty much.
Speaker A:It's the circle you come from.
Speaker A:Whoopi Goldberg and Ghost.
Speaker A:The story behind her and Patrick Swayze, him standing up for her.
Speaker A:Yeah, like, because the studio was trying to play her, you know, they was like, it.
Speaker A:The movie Is led by Patrick Swayze and Demi and Demi Moore.
Speaker A:They were trying.
Speaker A:Not.
Speaker A:They were trying to downplay Whoopi Goldberg's role.
Speaker A:And he said, no, if she doesn't.
Speaker A:If she doesn't get some billing in this, I'm not doing this movie.
Speaker A:And Ghost is really good.
Speaker G:Really, really creepy too.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So I. I tell you, one comedian who's no longer with us who I think was definitely on their way to doing something dramatic and Ellis Birdie mad.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:I think he was.
Speaker A:I think he was the one.
Speaker A:He was.
Speaker A:There's.
Speaker A:There was.
Speaker A:I think there was a film.
Speaker A:Really.
Speaker A:They was.
Speaker A:I think there was a film ready for him that.
Speaker A:Yeah, that was something he was gonna tackle.
Speaker F:That was.
Speaker E:There was a role with his name on it before.
Speaker F:Before he left us.
Speaker I:I think the way even he delivers comedy, you can see that seriousness in it.
Speaker I:I mean, that was just a part of his way.
Speaker G:Soul minutes.
Speaker G:Soul man and life and shoot.
Speaker G:Guess who.
Speaker A:Yeah, because he was on a.
Speaker G:He.
Speaker A:He was there.
Speaker A:He was there.
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker A:It's kind of a formula if you're the, you know, comedy, comedy, comedy, comedy, comedy.
Speaker A:Give him something dramatic.
Speaker E:Just watching his.
Speaker E:His TV show that he had, like, to see him being as a father and.
Speaker E:And dealing with, you know, the teenage or the kid issues and his wife issues and all of that, you.
Speaker E:You really didn't expect.
Speaker E:But it was good to see him be in that space and that take that range like it was.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker E:Gone too soon.
Speaker E:Definitely.
Speaker A:Especially when you're.
Speaker A:When he takes the situation, which was based on real life, and.
Speaker A:And make it comedic so you can just imagine what the reality would actually was and how.
Speaker A:How do you have to deal with it?
Speaker F:What I was thinking.
Speaker F:Chris Rock as well.
Speaker A:What was it?
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker E:I think you broke Wy.
Speaker A:Outside.
Speaker A:Outside of Pooky.
Speaker A:Outside of Pooky.
Speaker F:He did one of the.
Speaker F:He.
Speaker F:Was he in Jigsaw?
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, That's.
Speaker A:That's when I spiral.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's when I had already stopped watching.
Speaker F:It was one of those.
Speaker G:It wasn't bad.
Speaker A:He said it was one of those.
Speaker F:It was one them.
Speaker A:Mad.
Speaker G:Because that.
Speaker G:That was a role that not written by black people.
Speaker E:You.
Speaker G:You are not about to go into a warehouse by yourself and immediately not think, maybe I should wait for backup.
Speaker F:That's that Scooby Doo syndrome right there.
Speaker G:I just hate.
Speaker G:I just hate roles that, you know, were not written by black people.
Speaker A:Let's go to the hottest woods.
Speaker G:No.
Speaker A:Let'S not.
Speaker H:For who.
Speaker G:It's like Maybe we should stop for gas in this town that's only got one person that looks like he's missing three teeth.
Speaker G:Keep pushing.
Speaker G:We gonna make it to the next town.
Speaker G:Yes.
Speaker A:Kevin Hart, Fatherhood.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker I:There was no black person in that story though.
Speaker I:So, you know, that's why that happened.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And that father fatherhood was one of those.
Speaker A:I'm like, yo, I wasn't the level I really wasn't ready for.
Speaker A:I'm like, oh, oh, you got right to it.
Speaker A:Oh my God.
Speaker A:Okay, so yeah, you're right.
Speaker A:You're right.
Speaker F:So you come out of town, all.
Speaker A:Of us in here watching some anime.
Speaker A:Well, I don't know how I feel about this one yet, but.
Speaker A:But Crunchyroll has made a deal with Delta Airlines and you can.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker F:Oh my God.
Speaker A:Anime on their flights now.
Speaker F:I. I ain't said this all show.
Speaker E:No.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker H:I'm honestly, I'm not paying for it any other way.
Speaker H:Sir, that put that on the airline.
Speaker H:I'm not paying for it any other way.
Speaker H:I'm so sorry.
Speaker A:How long is this flight?
Speaker A:Okay, you're how we're lay over on the tarmac.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:I guess I can watch this a little bit, I suppose.
Speaker C:Why are you opposed?
Speaker C:Navy.
Speaker G:Go ahead.
Speaker F:Delta's hot garbage.
Speaker F:And I'll never fly them.
Speaker F:And there's no point because I flew them at one point and then there was a stewardess named Carolyn who I wanted to toss off the plane, which is the reason why I'll never fly on Delta.
Speaker A:That was not the way I was expecting that to go.
Speaker A:Remember?
Speaker F:Listen, you never know what to expect when it comes to me.
Speaker F:Come on now.
Speaker A:Come on.
Speaker G:Apparently there's, there's a.
Speaker G:There's a stewardess named Caroline on adult airline that's still cussing out the river.
Speaker A:That that definitely was.
Speaker A:She's like when he said and there's a stewardess that I wanted to toss and I'm like, where's this going?
Speaker A:But I guess I wasn't waiting till the end of the show for that.
Speaker H:Why did you do that?
Speaker F:You catch me off guard every time.
Speaker A:I wasn't waiting till the end of the show for that one.
Speaker I:You supposed to.
Speaker A:You know.
Speaker F:You know.
Speaker G:That'S between Delta and Spirit.
Speaker G:And I'm sorry, I'm.
Speaker G:I'm just not a good flyer.
Speaker G:So I can't say which airline.
Speaker G:Not as bad.
Speaker G:If I, if I feel a little bump in the air, I turn to a five year old girl.
Speaker E:So.
Speaker I:I gotta see this.
Speaker I:I have to see that.
Speaker F:No No, I don't want to see that.
Speaker G:Because the last time I flew, this 80 year old black woman sat there and treated me like the kid at church that was acting up, but still thought I was gonna be a good person.
Speaker E:Just.
Speaker A:Just.
Speaker G:Baby, it's so.
Speaker G:It's okay, baby.
Speaker G:It's just a little bump in the air.
Speaker G:I'm sitting there sweating, and I'm holding this one, this old lady's hand, and she's like, would you like some candy?
Speaker E:Hard candy?
Speaker G:The strawberry.
Speaker A:The strawberry raffle candy.
Speaker G:No, you just don't understand.
Speaker G:Understand this scene.
Speaker G:Me in the middle aisle.
Speaker G:She's right next to me.
Speaker G:Tears and stuff not rolling down my eyes.
Speaker G:My big old ass is a big ass, baby.
Speaker G:And that is embarrassing as hell to actually tell that story.
Speaker E:But you know what?
Speaker E:In a mental health.
Speaker E:In the mental health space.
Speaker E:I'm glad you told that story, brother.
Speaker A:Yeah, had to get that.
Speaker C:Austin, are you familiar with football at all?
Speaker E:A little bit, yeah.
Speaker C:All right, so what you can't really fully appreciate in this story is that Spartan is like, if Vince Wilfort and Ray Lewis had a baby, like, he's.
Speaker C:He's a large human being.
Speaker C:So now just hear what he said again in your head about this old black lady nursing him through this fight.
Speaker A:Oh, man.
Speaker A:All that was in my head was the Ed Norton Hulk was like, you're gonna put me inside of a small tube with a bunch of angry New Yorkers?
Speaker A:I think not.
Speaker A:That's not.
Speaker A:But that, however, is a better analogy.
Speaker A:So I'm only.
Speaker G:I am six two.
Speaker G:I am not that big.
Speaker A:Since this guy.
Speaker A:That's six two.
Speaker F:Thank you, Kara.
Speaker F:Thank you.
Speaker G:I have sat there and said multiple times on this podcast, I am the smallest one out of my family, if y' all ever met the rest of them.
Speaker H:Okay?
Speaker H:So that does not.
Speaker G:Though I have sat there and said, I am the smallest one in my family.
Speaker G:Which again.
Speaker H:To the rest of us trapped on this planet with you, sir, you are a large man.
Speaker H:You are a large man.
Speaker H:That is irrelevant.
Speaker C:It's definitely a video.
Speaker I:And a cop and trying to shoot him or something like that.
Speaker I:And it didn't happen like you.
Speaker I:We had that running joke.
Speaker I:What was that about?
Speaker G:Wait, where was it again?
Speaker I:Nah, the cop came to you and was like, trying to shoot and like, nah, they just walked away.
Speaker I:Something like that about coming to your house.
Speaker I:We had a running joke about that.
Speaker E:I'm gonna look.
Speaker A:It was like a John Wick moment.
Speaker H:Okay?
Speaker I:Y' all know what the I'm talking about.
Speaker G:It took me a Second.
Speaker G:I'm sorry.
Speaker G:It took me a second.
Speaker G:Yeah, because I say.
Speaker H:Just showed up up.
Speaker G:And they sat there, was like, we.
Speaker G:We ain't.
Speaker G:No.
Speaker A:Look at me.
Speaker A:Was like, no, wait up to your house.
Speaker A:Yeah, you want to be.
Speaker G:No, they sat, though.
Speaker G:They sat there, and old boy was like, you know what?
Speaker G:We were just going to the backyard, but then we saw you.
Speaker G:We just decided we want to ask permission first.
Speaker G:Well, I'm glad, because I have no problem shooting people.
Speaker A:People.
Speaker A:So let me write this down.
Speaker A:We need several.
Speaker A:We need several Spartans in his family on the front line.
Speaker A:Is that what you're saying?
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker E:I know.
Speaker G:I. I tried to defend myself.
Speaker E:I just.
Speaker G:I just dug the hole deeper.
Speaker H:I just.
Speaker H:I'm confusion.
Speaker H:I'm.
Speaker H:I'm not.
Speaker H:I'm not on the understanding you make.
Speaker F:A backhoe look like a Tonka truck.
Speaker F:Okay, what are we doing here?
Speaker H:Sir, you have lifted cars.
Speaker H:Trucks.
Speaker H:I'm sorry.
Speaker H:Trucks.
Speaker A:Where's Demetrius at?
Speaker A:Given when he gives that.
Speaker A:Look.
Speaker G:Don'T give me too much credit.
Speaker G:I pull trucks not lifted.
Speaker H:On the Internet.
Speaker H:I appreciate that.
Speaker H:Thank you for that admission.
Speaker G:Don't give me that much credit.
Speaker G:If I could lift a pickup, there's.
Speaker A:Some people I would go knocking on doors on right now.
Speaker H:Mr. Spartan, what.
Speaker H:What was the make and model of the truck?
Speaker H:That.
Speaker G:That.
Speaker A:I'm not reading that.
Speaker F:Oh, oh, oh, so we're not.
Speaker H:Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Speaker G:That doesn't help your case.
Speaker A:That's why I'm not.
Speaker G:That's why I'm not gonna repeat it.
Speaker H:Would you say that it was a large truck?
Speaker G:I plead the fifth.
Speaker H:Okay, don't stop with that.
Speaker F:What was that one line in that movie?
Speaker F:Come on, Cletus.
Speaker H:Come on.
Speaker H:Anyway.
Speaker H:Tldr Spartan.
Speaker H:Large, y'.
Speaker A:All.
Speaker H:He large.
Speaker A:He's the reason why he handles the engine of the ship.
Speaker A:That's why y' all trying to get me dressed.
Speaker A:He's literally.
Speaker A:He literally has said on this show that, yeah, I just went ahead and put the.
Speaker A:Lifted up the engine.
Speaker A:I'm like, yeah, engines are heavy.
Speaker A:Dude.
Speaker A:Dude, I know you have.
Speaker A:I know you have a.
Speaker A:A crane to put it in, but you just made it seem like, oh, this is just every day.
Speaker A:I built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn.
Speaker G:Like, that was not my.
Speaker G:That was not a good idea at the time.
Speaker A:That was definitely not a good idea.
Speaker F:Feel like you go to gay bridge.
Speaker E:That was.
Speaker H:Was me.
Speaker A:That was me right there.
Speaker I:And mind you, he's wearing.
Speaker I:He's wearing Superman today.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker F:You are not helping your case, sir.
Speaker G:No, I'm not.
Speaker D:Not at all.
Speaker A:I need a.
Speaker A:Don't.
Speaker A:Look.
Speaker A:Spartan's wife has literally said, I will call my husband.
Speaker A:Please don't.
Speaker H:Did that today.
Speaker G:She did that today in a freaking.
Speaker A:Which every wife should do, however.
Speaker A:She's just like, I'm using every bit of this man for intimidation.
Speaker G:I don't know how this became my therapy session today, but, yeah, this is the safe space.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker G:No, no, Austin.
Speaker G:My wife does that.
Speaker G:My wife has sat there and said multiple times because she's.
Speaker G:She's fun size and she's angry.
Speaker G:So anytime.
Speaker G:Anytime that she says husband, and she goes, I'm gonna call my husband.
Speaker H:Hold on.
Speaker A:Your partner.
Speaker A:I like it.
Speaker A:It wasn't me.
Speaker E:I love you.
Speaker H:Be brave.
Speaker H:Be brave.
Speaker F:I love you.
Speaker H:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker H:All right, let me laugh.
Speaker H:How is it.
Speaker A:How is it?
Speaker A:I'm the captain of the ship and I'm the one who doesn't go after Kirk.
Speaker A:Kira, because I know better.
Speaker H:If y' all are unhappy with your world, just let me know.
Speaker H:I will leave.
Speaker G:Sending Kira in is like.
Speaker G:You basically just sit in.
Speaker A:Baba Jaeger.
Speaker H:Stop it.
Speaker H:All right now.
Speaker H:Don't gas my up.
Speaker H:I ain't that goddamn bad.
Speaker F:I'm sorry, what was that, Madam Bob.
Speaker G:You can't even look at the camera.
Speaker G:You can't even look at the camera at that statement.
Speaker I:No, you can't.
Speaker H:I'm not.
Speaker A:It works.
Speaker I:I'm very reasonable, and that's why your voice.
Speaker H:I'm just sitting.
Speaker H:Okay, Just don't be stupid.
Speaker H:That's all I'm saying.
Speaker A:That's all she's saying.
Speaker H:So that's not my fault, though.
Speaker H:That don't make me bad.
Speaker H:Be better.
Speaker F:Okay, Let me tell you straight up.
Speaker G:Yeah, sure.
Speaker G:Kira's friendly.
Speaker H:I am.
Speaker H:All right now, y'.
Speaker A:All.
Speaker H:Okay.
Speaker H:Okay.
Speaker F:I love it.
Speaker F:We do it all in front of company.
Speaker A:It wouldn't be nice if we didn't.
Speaker H:No, hold on.
Speaker H:He's from a West Indian house household.
Speaker H:He knows exactly what the hell I'm talking about.
Speaker H:Don't come in here with no.
Speaker H:And we'll all be fine.
Speaker H:Go do that at your mother's house.
Speaker H:Don't do that here.
Speaker F:Tell us how you really.
Speaker E:Thank you.
Speaker G:Thank you.
Speaker A:I'm not the only one.
Speaker G:I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed that Bama.
Speaker A:Looked over.
Speaker A:He like, hey, me, I. I recognize.
Speaker A:I recognize it.
Speaker A:Not.
Speaker A:I'm gonna deny it.
Speaker A:I recognize it.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:No, we.
Speaker A:We do all this.
Speaker A:Everybody that Knows us, that watches and follows us.
Speaker A:They know, they know how we joke is is this is normal.
Speaker A:We, we aren't tearing anybody down.
Speaker G:It's all up.
Speaker A:It is always all up.
Speaker A:But see, this is something that we deal with like, like I'm from a family where the men on my mom's side of the family might as well been like the Wayne's brothers.
Speaker A:It's dozens all day.
Speaker A:Yeah, you learn to rock and head jokes for sure.
Speaker A:Like, we all got big heads.
Speaker A:So what's the.
Speaker H:Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker E:They say that makes a strong, a strong.
Speaker E:A healthy relationship, man.
Speaker E:A healthy friendship.
Speaker E:So you need that banter?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Oh, God, yeah.
Speaker H:I.
Speaker H:Look, you tell me to talk and then I don't.
Speaker H:And then you tell me to what don't say nothing more.
Speaker H:And I stop.
Speaker G:Oh, no, keep going, keep going.
Speaker G:And no, it's your turn now.
Speaker A:Keep going.
Speaker A:No, I'm okay.
Speaker A:I, I had my, I had my.
Speaker G:Time in the therapy seat.
Speaker G:Go for it.
Speaker F:This is beautiful.
Speaker H:I need, I need that 150 per hour type therapy.
Speaker A:Said this is why I'm afraid to hook with a woman from nyc.
Speaker A:What?
Speaker H:All right, well, let's stay over there.
Speaker E:Wow.
Speaker H:Good.
Speaker H:Stay.
Speaker A:Open it before we get to the.
Speaker I:You're nice, right.
Speaker H:Beyond skin off.
Speaker H:My God, the shirt off my back.
Speaker H:Except for now because I'm cold.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker F:She's so nice right now.
Speaker F:It's nice.
Speaker H:I am, I am very nice.
Speaker H:I tell all you in here how much I love your asses all goddamn day.
Speaker G:Oh, yeah, you love.
Speaker G:You love with force.
Speaker A:We got it.
Speaker A:I don't have a problem with it.
Speaker G:We called you our life coach.
Speaker G:We did.
Speaker G:We did say you was the life coaches girl.
Speaker A:I'm just saying.
Speaker H:It's just, look, we're all of a certain age and we're at the point where I can't just, you know, say, oh, you can do it.
Speaker H:I say, get.
Speaker H:What the are you doing?
Speaker H:Get off your ass.
Speaker A:Yes, exactly.
Speaker G:What are you doing?
Speaker A:I, I, I will.
Speaker A:I'll be the first one, the first to say that when, When Lady Manador senses something is up with me, she calls me same.
Speaker H:And she said, I have left you alone.
Speaker H:Don't think I haven't called you in my head though.
Speaker H:But I've been leaving.
Speaker A:Oh, I know it.
Speaker A:I sense it.
Speaker A:I trust me, I know, I know.
Speaker F:She'Ll hit me up and I'm going.
Speaker A:It's almost like, it's almost like big sister slash auntie vibes.
Speaker A:So she's like, captain, I'm Like, I'm fine.
Speaker A:I'm fine.
Speaker A:I. I assure you, I am fine.
Speaker A:You know, and there's never any question after that.
Speaker A:I'm like, nope, I'm fine.
Speaker A:You're sure?
Speaker A:I. I'm fine.
Speaker A:I will let you know.
Speaker A:Or trust me.
Speaker A:I'm not holding back.
Speaker F:This is how I know when I'm in trouble with Kira.
Speaker F:She'll text me and she'll call me by my first name, and I'm going.
Speaker H:I say Monty all the time.
Speaker F:Is fine.
Speaker F:Because you.
Speaker F:You got that privilege.
Speaker F:You've been given that right.
Speaker F:But when you say Montel, I'm going.
Speaker G:He said, everything tucks.
Speaker F:And he's just back side of the hemisphere.
Speaker A:He's like, I'm back in.
Speaker A:I'm back in the Navy.
Speaker A:What's going on?
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker F:I will pretend to be an emperor penguin to get away.
Speaker F:Give me a black suit.
Speaker H:I don't want you to think anything.
Speaker H:Whatever.
Speaker H:Y'.
Speaker H:All.
Speaker H:God damn.
Speaker H:I'm trying to be nice to y'.
Speaker A:All.
Speaker E:Never last.
Speaker G:And there's New York because.
Speaker H:Why.
Speaker H:Why am I getting dragged.
Speaker A:Dragging you?
Speaker I:They're just saying, look from a distance vibes all day.
Speaker H:Huh?
Speaker A:What?
Speaker A:Lady?
Speaker I:I said, you're giving Leo and Gemini vibes all day.
Speaker A:Look, look.
Speaker A:Mayhem.
Speaker A:Hardy vibes.
Speaker A:Mayhem said, like, she's easy on Leo.
Speaker A:She's an honorary.
Speaker A:What kind of Nazi.
Speaker H:What are you doing?
Speaker H:Just kidding.
Speaker A:It fits.
Speaker H:It works like a hyena.
Speaker H:Is this.
Speaker G:Not.
Speaker G:Not the.
Speaker G:Not.
Speaker G:Not the.
Speaker A:A.
Speaker G:Not bringing it back.
Speaker A:Not going back to Lord in.
Speaker E:In our.
Speaker A:In our last piece of news.
Speaker A:And in the last piece of news when we get around here and I'm calling it the.
Speaker A:Who's interrupting my kung fu section of the news.
Speaker A:Somehow China.
Speaker A:China's government will now be using AI to revamp a lot of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan classics.
Speaker F:Come on, man.
Speaker F:Come on.
Speaker A:I. I don't leave the alone.
Speaker F:It ain't broke.
Speaker A:I don't like it.
Speaker G:Skynet phase three.
Speaker A:I don't like it.
Speaker A:I really don't like it.
Speaker A:You want to know how much?
Speaker A:You want to know how much I don't like it?
Speaker E:Now, Billy, how many times I told.
Speaker A:You not to call here and interrupt my kung fu.
Speaker A:I'm just saying I don't like it.
Speaker A:You know, they're not remaking any movies.
Speaker A:They're.
Speaker A:They're doing the George Lucas and that's the problem.
Speaker A:They're enhancing Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan classics for four examples.
Speaker A:And I. I.
Speaker G:You really want to see into the Dragon where Bruce Lee goes super saiyan.
Speaker A:I don't want to see that at all.
Speaker F:Oh, or they do the Drunken Master with Jackie Chan.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker G:What happened to.
Speaker A:What happened to just reading the old school way of like revamping your films without doing that, without using there, without.
Speaker G:Using AI because everybody wants to see stuff in 4K and 8K.
Speaker G:And honestly, the stuff that was actually made during the late 80s, early 90s was actually great filmmaking.
Speaker G:Just leave it alone.
Speaker F:I go to YouTube to watch my favorite Kung Fu flicks, Five Deadly Venoms.
Speaker F:Let's go.
Speaker A:I like the grainy look.
Speaker A:It's fine.
Speaker G:I mean, Snake.
Speaker G:Snake and Crane.
Speaker C:I'm going to be so specifically and particularly upset like this.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker C:The action movies of that ilk was like me and my mom's thing.
Speaker C:Like this was my entry into film and action film specifically.
Speaker C:And it's like, I. I don't want to see Game of death in 4k if it means you're going to get rid of Bruce 2 and copy paste Bruce Lee over his.
Speaker A:Like.
Speaker C:Like, I don't.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker A:I know exactly what.
Speaker C:In such a very specific way that I want to feel like.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker C:It's me personally.
Speaker C:And because I am an uncultured swine, I'm going to feel like China has ever done.
Speaker C:And they're doing it to me specifically.
Speaker A:I don't like it.
Speaker A:I don't like it.
Speaker A:Because what's gonna happen and what's gonna happen is they're probably gonna do like, re releases overseas anyway, and then they'll probably come over here next.
Speaker A:And all that's going to be on mine is finding the faults.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A:You're gonna.
Speaker A:You're not even gonna be focused on the.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker A:On the film itself.
Speaker A:You're going to be worried about where.
Speaker F:Every mistake, every error, every glitch, that's.
Speaker H:That's for y' all that have seen it already.
Speaker H:Not for the kid.
Speaker H:You know what this is?
Speaker H:This for y' all is what?
Speaker H:Like you said, Chris, what the prequel Star wars series was me, I'm the OG 4, 5, and 6.
Speaker H:When that, when those three movies came out, I. I said, what.
Speaker H:What did you do?
Speaker H:But what did you do?
Speaker H:Why would you do this?
Speaker H:It was fine.
Speaker H:And then they.
Speaker H:They around with the, with 4, 5, and 6.
Speaker A:That's where I was like, that's where I had the mix up at or the.
Speaker A:The upset at is that I didn't like.
Speaker G:Do you really want to see it?
Speaker G:Do you really want to see a remake of Master the Flying Guillotine?
Speaker F:Oh, hell no.
Speaker A:Sorry.
Speaker E:Hold on.
Speaker C:Hold on respectfully, I feel like Kira, are you saying that you are like not.
Speaker G:Hey, not the, not the prequel warning.
Speaker A:No, she's a purist.
Speaker H:What are you gonna say?
Speaker F:Yeah, she's okay.
Speaker C:Have you, you, you've seen the kung fu movies, right?
Speaker H:What does that have to do with the conversation that we're having?
Speaker I:That's all about to say.
Speaker I:I was about to say the same thing.
Speaker I:I thought she was going after what she said for Star Wars.
Speaker A:I think that's his point.
Speaker A:That, that's his point.
Speaker A:I think that's the point.
Speaker H:What does that have to do.
Speaker H:I'm.
Speaker H:I.
Speaker H:What I'm saying is I like the way that the original films looked.
Speaker H:Don't touch them.
Speaker H:But for the new kids that had never seen a it before, it was the greatest thing on, on the planet.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker H:Me knowing what it looked like originally was great.
Speaker H:Me seeing what they did and changing, I'm like, but what was.
Speaker H:But what?
Speaker H:What?
Speaker A:For who it was.
Speaker A:And let's be honest, it wasn't bro.
Speaker F:There was nothing wrong.
Speaker A:Before we check out.
Speaker A:Let's be honest.
Speaker A:At the time when those prequels were first released, that was a new thing.
Speaker A:The CGI was a couple completely new thing.
Speaker A:So Disney was the first to put their hands on something like that and really play with it.
Speaker H:Yeah.
Speaker A:However, it does not hold up when they, when you, whether you have it on dvd, whether you have Blu Ray, whether they showing like on TNT or whatever, you look at it completely different now and you say, wow, it doesn't look that great.
Speaker A:We're not saying anything about the storyline.
Speaker A:The storyline is completely fine.
Speaker A:The look, the aesthetic, it doesn't hold up.
Speaker H:You know what it makes me do?
Speaker H:It makes me.
Speaker H:I wanna.
Speaker H:I'm holding my purse a little bit tighter.
Speaker A:That's why when they went and.
Speaker A:And re released 4, 5 and 6 and did the same thing, adding stuff, I'm like, you didn't need to do that because now it really looks off off it.
Speaker A:It looks completely unnatural.
Speaker A:That's why when they did 789, especially with seven and first thing fans were looking at, they went back to Jim Henson.
Speaker A:They went back to the puppets and it worked.
Speaker I:Grounded.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You know, so what it was almost the same story retold in a different format.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:They went back to basics, which was the.
Speaker A:The best thing they could have done.
Speaker A:There's nothing wrong with using cgi, you know, but don't do it.
Speaker A:Just there's an abundance in which you.
Speaker G:Use it just because you.
Speaker G:Just because you should never thought about it you shouldn't.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:You right now in movies, you're starting to see more and more people say practical effects to working.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker F:So sorry, ma', am, I can't watch the original Star wars because I was in the theater when they original one came out.
Speaker F:So trust me, that memory lays heavy on my mind, so.
Speaker A:All right, well, here we go.
Speaker H:Wrap up protocol initiated.
Speaker A:Captain, we are wrapping up Halston Canty.
Speaker A:Talk to the people, let them know where they can find you.
Speaker E:Oh, you can find me on Life with Halston.
Speaker E:H A L S T O N on Instagram.
Speaker E:You can find me at the Mental wealth at mental Wealth Academy 8.
Speaker E:You can find me at Mental Wealth Academy 8 on YouTube.
Speaker E:That's where I'm at for right now.
Speaker A:Look, brother, we need more people like you in our communities.
Speaker F:Yes.
Speaker A:To speak and to act and to make those pathways.
Speaker A:So thank you for doing what you've done.
Speaker A:Thank you for everything you're getting, you're doing in the future.
Speaker A:Thank you for coming on and talking about it because there are a lot of people who are going to listen to this and you know, who have watched it.
Speaker A:We're going to watch it and say, yeah, yeah, this is, I needed this.
Speaker A:So I appreciate you.
Speaker A:Appreciate you, my guy.
Speaker E:I appreciate you all for having me, man.
Speaker E:This has been a cool experience.
Speaker E:It's great to meet you all.
Speaker E:Thank you for the questions and just the, the camaraderie.
Speaker E:Overall has been pretty great.
Speaker E:So thank you.
Speaker A:Appreciate it.
Speaker A:Lady Mandalore, talk to the people.
Speaker H:Hi, my name is Lady Mandalore.
Speaker H:I am a very friendly New Yorker.
Speaker H:You can always.
Speaker H:I'll be happy to offer my services in giving you a tour of my beautiful crime ridden city.
Speaker H:But no, seriously girl, no, listen, you miss, you missed whole thing.
Speaker H:There's a whole prisoner.
Speaker H:That's my street right now.
Speaker H:The helicopters are flying in the whole night.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, you missed this part.
Speaker A:You missed it.
Speaker H:Yeah.
Speaker H:But you can find Mar and the lovely Mr. Navy Martel on Sundays at 7pm Eastern Standard Time on room words on YouTube and Twitch and possibly Tick Tock if I can figure it out.
Speaker H:Where we talk about independent comics.
Speaker H:We have lovely comic book creators that are on and then me and Navy, we just be shooting a shit about comics that we love in general and sometimes pop culture stuff like movies and TV shows.
Speaker H:And I also do voice acting and I also stream video games on Fridays at 7pm Eastern Standard Time.
Speaker H:I am still running the gamut of my first RPG that is Expedition 33 and Star Wars Legos.
Speaker H:It's fun, yay.
Speaker A:Whoopi freaking do.
Speaker A:Talk to the people.
Speaker D:You can find me on Instagram at once.
Speaker D:You freaking do.
Speaker D:And also on Tick Tock.
Speaker D:Also, if you're in the market for nerdy nails, you can find me at Fresh Pressed by Z on Instagram and also now on Tick Tock.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:Very own horror aficionado, Queen of the Kebab Cabra.
Speaker A:Whatever.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker E:I'm hungry.
Speaker H:I didn't eat today.
Speaker A:That's why I was like that.
Speaker A:What I snacked on was not sufficient.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:I was not happy with it.
Speaker A:That's what it was.
Speaker A:I hope you clipping that.
Speaker A:Go ahead, lady.
Speaker I:What's up, y'?
Speaker I:All?
Speaker I:Geek by Heart.
Speaker I:Me and my husband run Geek by Heart.
Speaker I:You can find us on all socials, including YouTube, IG, Twitch, and tick Tock.
Speaker I:I right now am am streaming Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild.
Speaker I:Having a great time doing it.
Speaker I:And when Sound Hill F comes out, which I believe is September 26th, I'm gonna be up on that.
Speaker I:So I'm very, very excited about that to get scared.
Speaker I:Other than that, me and Jay talk about trailers and movies all the time.
Speaker I:So come join us.
Speaker I:We are a lot of fun, right?
Speaker A:You don't want to be like that old lady on weapons.
Speaker A:I have got to go watch this movie, Mayhem.
Speaker H:It's a little funny.
Speaker H:It's a little funny.
Speaker H:It's a little scary.
Speaker C:Yeah, we'll be watching.
Speaker C:You can find me at Mayhem Media.
Speaker C:That's m a y e h e m Media.
Speaker C:I talk movies and comics and TV shows.
Speaker C:The most important thing I talk about is mental health.
Speaker C:So please remember to take your meds, take your pto, Take a deep breath, let that go.
Speaker C:And tomorrow's not promised.
Speaker C:So cause Mayhem today.
Speaker E:I was working, right?
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Navy Mon.
Speaker A:Talk to the people.
Speaker F:Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, BLS of all ages, good evening, good morning, good afternoon.
Speaker F:Design Navy Montel.
Speaker F:Your frosty bearded BL here with the crew on a Thursday.
Speaker F:If you want to know what I'm up to, just follow me on Navy Montel to see what shenanigans I'm up to.
Speaker F:Sometimes I just do check ins because here lately we need to check in with each other because everybody's on a certain, certain level of mental health.
Speaker F:They need to be checked upon.
Speaker F:That makes a difference.
Speaker F:You say, hey, are you okay?
Speaker F:Or say, hello, I'm with this incredible lady every Sunday at seven as we talk about comics and creators and all types of stuff and we just shoot shit and do whatever.
Speaker F:I'll be At Atlantic Comic Con this weekend and next week I will be at Dragon Con.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker F:And after Dragon Con to my.
Speaker F:My streaming schedule and the Blur chrome combos are coming back.
Speaker A:So shout out to.
Speaker A:Shout out to Duron flood for Atlantic ComicCon.
Speaker A:They are doing some.
Speaker A:He is doing some great stuff out that way.
Speaker A:So if you are in the area and you can still get a ticket, good luck.
Speaker H:Shout out.
Speaker H:Shout out.
Speaker F:Oh and I do voice acting too, so from time to time I do.
Speaker A:Voice acting so well, it's bound.
Speaker A:It's down to me.
Speaker G:I just said it.
Speaker A:Spartan, go ahead.
Speaker G:Damn.
Speaker H:Just don't waste a moment.
Speaker C:He gonna bench press you for that?
Speaker A:It does.
Speaker G:It doesn't help.
Speaker G:I'm going to the gym after this either.
Speaker G:My cases.
Speaker G:My case is falling faster apart than Boosie's right now.
Speaker A:Now.
Speaker G:Anyway, black underscore.
Speaker G:Spartan 615 is where you can find me on the interwebs.
Speaker G:Shows are still going on.
Speaker G:We still cover all the mess.
Speaker G:Including you cracker barrel fans on how the fact we got here every Wednesday at 7:30.
Speaker G:Yeah, people are losing their minds over a dog on logo.
Speaker G:Myself, Safari and Joe will cover everything from Gamescom that just happened these last couple of days on Get Bit podcast.
Speaker G:Uh, there's a lot.
Speaker G:Especially with Laney's, uh, Silent Hill, which I know you're gonna love and other ones.
Speaker G:But we'll cover that tomorrow at 8:30.ish.
Speaker G:Still doing Wu Chang Fallen Feathers.
Speaker G:Although my streaming is a little bit off because you know, babies gotta go to sleep and no, it's on my plays at midnight so.
Speaker G:Good because I do cuss a lot of my.
Speaker G:I do cuss a lot of my streams.
Speaker G:Thank y' all for watching at the same time guys, the rules still apply.
Speaker G:Please respect the cosplayers.
Speaker G:Cosplay is not consent.
Speaker G:Please wash your ass.
Speaker G:You're grown adults.
Speaker G:Soap is not that.
Speaker G:Soap doesn't cost that much at the same time.
Speaker G:Be nice, be kind, talk and share your fandoms.
Speaker G:Don't be a dick and we'll all be cool.
Speaker A:All right, now it's down to me.
Speaker A:Thank you for tuning in.
Speaker A:Thank you to our guest, Halston Canty, mental health advocate.
Speaker A:Stand up guy.
Speaker A:We need more community.
Speaker A:Absolutely whole his whole platform.
Speaker A:Go check him out on all those folks platforms.
Speaker A:You can catch us Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8pm Eastern.
Speaker A:YouTube and Twitch.
Speaker A:You can also go to always press Record tv.
Speaker A:That's APR TV on Roku where you can watch the full show.
Speaker A:No ads.
Speaker A:Isn't that fun?
Speaker A:Also don't be afraid to donate.
Speaker A:It helps.
Speaker A:It helps keep the ship afloat.
Speaker A:But thank you to the crew.
Speaker A:Thank you to Trey.
Speaker A:Trey Mosley.
Speaker A:Thank you to Mal for those donations.
Speaker A:Shout out to Moon storytellers.
Speaker A:Shout out to Bama.
Speaker A:Everybody that's been in the comments, thank you for showing up.
Speaker A:Always, always.
Speaker A:This is fun to do.
Speaker A:This is always dope when I can reach out to people, to the community.
Speaker A:Shout out to Laney for bringing Halston in.
Speaker A:This was amazing.
Speaker E:This is great.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:So nervous.
Speaker E:A little nervous, all of you people in here, but it.
Speaker E:I. I maintain.
Speaker A:Oh, we, We.
Speaker A:We're.
Speaker A:We're a party.
Speaker A:Don't worry.
Speaker A:We're a party.
Speaker A:So remember, everyone, to remember to always entertain yourself and others, educate yourself and others.
Speaker A:Most of all, encourage yourself and others.
Speaker A:I'm Chris Fury with this amazing crew along with our guest.
Speaker A:Come back Tuesday.
Speaker A:You never know who we got or what we're talking about, but guaranteed for about good two hours, you ain't got to worry about the rest of the world.
Speaker A:So until then, we're out of here.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Snake, are you okay?
Speaker A:Snake?
Speaker E:Snake.
Speaker A:Sa.
