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Welcome to Hip Hop Movie Club, the show that harmonizes the rhythm of hip hop

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with the magic of movies.

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Today we're discussing Friday After Next,

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the third installment in the Comedy Classic Friday series

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starring Ice Cube,

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Mike Epps, and John Witherspoon.

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We're three old heads who put their old heads together to vibe on these films for you.

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I'm DynoWright, podcaster, filmmaker, longtime hip hop fan,

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and watch me whip, watch me Day-Day.

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I'm JB, 80s and 90s nostalgia junkie, longtime hip hop fan.

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And as both Whodini and Moly, the strip mall and donut shop owner in this one remind us,

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the freaks come out at night.

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The freaks come out at night.

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You

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I love that album.

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I'm Boogie, a DJ, long time hip hop fan.

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And I just recently went to the WBLS 50th anniversary

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featuring DJ Cassidy's Pass the Mic Live

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Had some old school artists, just a few Melle Mel, Full Force, Roxanne Shante, Nice and

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Smooth, the reunion of 3rd Bass,

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Dres from Black Sheep, Pepa from Salt and Pepa, BBD, and

a bunch of other R &B acts as well.

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and a bunch of other R&B acts as well.

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It was real, real dope.

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In this episode we'll answer the question,

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how does Friday After Next rank in the Friday movie trilogy?

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And we'll give you five key takeaways to make you a smarter hip-hop movie fan.

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Today, we unwrap the

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most festive chapter of the Friday franchise.

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Friday After Next takes us to a Christmas time in

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South Central LA with Craig and Day-Day, two cousins who just can't catch a break.

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Their holiday season kicks off with a bang

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when a ghetto Santa Claus raids their apartment,

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stealing their rent money and their presents.

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The boys take jobs as security guards at an urban strip mall

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to make their rent money back before their landlord's muscle-bound son comes collecting.

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The most wonderful time of the year turns into a wild adventure in the hood.

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And here are five things you need to know about Friday After Next.

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The first one, it's a Christmas movie.

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Number two, we see the evolution of the dynamic between Craig and Day-Day.

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Third one, there's a shift to a more slapstick style of comedy.

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Four, this is the last Friday installment for more

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more than two decades until the fourth movie, which is scheduled for release next year.

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And the last one, the movie helped launch the career

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of the hilarious Katt Williams.

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All right, now let's kick it off talking about the first one.

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This Friday After Next is a Christmas movie.

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We love our Christmas movies and we're releasing it as we're kicking off the holiday season.

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It's the first and only holiday themed entry in this series.

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So there's some little unique elements that you see like the robber that was dressed like Santa Claus

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and some of the challenges with their gifts were stolen and things like that.

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But yeah, I mean kind of puts you in the mood,

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but I feel like there was a little bit meat left on the bone with what they could have done with Christmas time.

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It's not one that you automatically think of like, hey,

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it's Christmas time, know, let's put on Friday After Next.

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What are your guys' thoughts about?

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No, not a classic.

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It's kind of like, that's the backdrop.

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Sure, it's Christmas time, but yeah.

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Yeah, I think the first thing that comes to mind when you call it the Christmas movie is the long standing debate

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surrounding Die Hard.

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Is it or isn't it a Christmas movie?

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Elsewhere in LA.

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Exactly.

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But yeah, one thing that they did, they did a couple of things right.

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I think even though there was a Santa robbing the apartment, they-

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did play one of the all-time classic Christmas songs at that time, which was the Temptations' Silent Night,

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which I think was very clever.

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And I was like, okay, you're trying to set the tone.

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had the animated sequence

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for the opening credits

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that had the, it was like a remix of the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

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from act two of the Peter Tchaikovsky

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Nutcracker.

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I was like, okay, all right, they trying to get it going.

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then there was also the classic “This Christmas” that played while they were on their way to work.

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And I thought that like those were like they were trying to get it going.

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But like you guys said, it kind of fell a little short, left a little meat on the bone.

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I mean, they did have a Christmas party at the end, if you want to call it that.

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But yeah.

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Yeah, the soundtrack is laden with Christmas tracks, like you mentioned.

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Santa Baby is played in it as well.

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There's a few other ones.

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I'm glad you mentioned that cartoon after the initial live scene, and it was a cartoon.

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It was reminiscent of the intro to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, which I always enjoyed too.

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It was kind of offbeat humor.

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Yeah, so those elements were nice.

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Santa Claus really does go straight to the ghetto.

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Without a chimney to slide down.

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Yeah, I I prefer again, East Coast bias.

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I want snow in my Christmas movies.

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You know, I want to feel that and warmth of a fireplace.

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I want to see reindeer, all that stuff.

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All the accoutrements.

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So yeah, it is a Christmas movie, but don't be like,

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I want to sit down with the family and watch a Christmas movie.

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You might be disappointed.

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Like you don't get all the feels of Christmas.

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we do see an evolution of the dynamic between Craig and Day-Day.

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So Boogie, you want to kick us off talking about how that evolves here?

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you know, we suggested you guys a view Next Friday

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you can kind of get the intro to Day-Day and we don't really see

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chemistry that we saw between Craig and Chris Tucker’s character of Smokey.

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I mean, they start to finish one another sentences.

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Yeah, Craig, Craig, he mentally abuses Day-Day in this movie.

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they're talking and Craig just looks at him says, don't try to out think me, man, you might hurt yourself.

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And like he's physically tossing him around.

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Like when they're trying to go somewhere, he's like, hey, man, just get him.

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Man, stop throwing me around.

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that I think is one of the funniest ones to me, and I say this all the time, is when

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Craig is trying to talk to Donna's character outside of the

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store and Day-Day just runs over to him and say, know, hey, I'm Day-Day,

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this is my big head cousin Craig,

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That was really good.

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And just this constant, you know, reminding Craig, you know,

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we're Top Flight Security of the world, Craig.

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trying to do too much, I call them Top Flight.

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Can’t help it.

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The Top Flight. We’re Top Flight Security.

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like he I was cracking up when there's those three older older ladies were just come around caroling

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It's kind of like he moves out to his cousin and uncle's house.

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it looks like they grew up together

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so yeah, and they become,

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I guess, quote unquote, business partners or coworkers.

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And I was cracking up the way they were

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fitting themselves into that little security

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booth, pushing each other back and forth.

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They had a very like Laurel and Hardy kind of relationship,

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always cracking on Day-Day.

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It was a good rapport.

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Yeah, opening scene when the intruder comes in and Craig's

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fighting him off and

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Day-Day is just daydreaming about women

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and ridiculous food and he wouldn't wake up.

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He's just talking in his sleep.

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the dynamic between the two.

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A great buddy movie with two of them, for sure.

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topic or takeaway was that

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the comedy is more of a slapstick

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style of comedy.

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It's not all about like the weed and just like

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meandering through

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that whole.

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it's like

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We kind of hinted at at that already,

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but you want to take us a little bit

more into that, BooGie?

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I mean,

we start to see some of that slapstick

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comedy like it

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Like we see, like we mentioned with,

you know, Craig and Day-Day,

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he's always tossing Day-Day around and

like, we see that over the opening when,

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Craig tries to stop Santa from robbing him

and Santa beats him

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with the Christmas tree. Like.

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Like what?

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You know, he's trying

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and in his trying to describe him is,

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you know, ODB in a Santa Claus suit

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So, yeah.

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Even the interaction when we first see,

Terry Crews’s character of Damon, when,

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they're trying

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and he's standing there and he said, come

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You just kind of snatches them up.

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He's like squeezing them,

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you know, just the

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the constant, like, you know physical,

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re-ntroduced to, Uncle Elroy and Pops.

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Their, their barbecue commercial,

you know, tastes

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so good, you want to slap your mama,

you know, and he Pops

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taps his mom on the shoulder and actually

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It's like what?

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just constant stuff like that is going on

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interacting with, you know, our favorite

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pimp slash store owner Money Mike.

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You know, the even with Moly,

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I mean, it's just over the top.

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It definitely my kind of humor.

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I love that.

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I always love, like, Three Stooges

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So the physical comedy, like,

it had me laughing a lot.

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the the cops’ names were A.

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Hole and B. Dix. Yeah.

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But and I alluded to before the

my opening

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and Moly was like,

the freaks come out at night.

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He's referencing Whodini.

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A couple times they come back to “you

got knocked the F out,”

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which is a callback to, in the scenes

with Deebo in the first movie.

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You guys catch

the one store was called Toys in the Hood?

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love that.

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And one actor that had a smaller

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cameo was Chris Williams, was Vanessa

Williams brother in real life.

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He was the shoplifter with the girl

pretending to be pregnant,

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which I thought was a funny,

funny scene where he was.

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He was kind of having a, like a seizure

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he's in one of my all time

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favorite episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm,

the episode’s called Krazee-Eyez Killa.

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And if you haven't seen that one, that

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he plays a prominent role in that one.

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The dynamic between him and Larry David,

you could only imagine.

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the style of comedy was right up my alley.

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Miss Pearly,

also the landlord seducing Willie.

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That was a funny scene.

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Yeah, that was hilarious.

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Yeah.

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We got to mention John Witherspoon,

his signature comedy,

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where he's over enunciating the words.

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Love it.

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He had to go to the bathroom.

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Had to go to the bathroom.

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That whole thing. Yes.

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Yeah.

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At least one and one time in the movie,

he's going to have to make a dash for

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the bathroom somewhere.

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Yep. Oh man.

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Always funny.

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Always funny.

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Yeah.

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So comedy I was cracking up.

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It was, it was very funny.

I like the slapstick style.

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I'm an easily amused guy

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and this was mildly amusing,

but I didn't think it was as funny

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as the original Friday.

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And so. Yeah,

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well, the original Friday,

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it has those iconic lines

that perpetuate throughout.

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It's a different kind of movie

too, different kind of comedy.

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Yeah. Right.

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Yeah.

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It's you know first

Friday was more serious than this one.

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Yeah. True.

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I find it funnier because it was

more serious then this was like straight

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slapstick and I don't my

I like slapstick too and everything.

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But yeah,

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I wasn't laughing as hard

as some of the things

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that I was laughing at in the first one.

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Right?

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Yeah, yeah.

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The first Friday, the dialogue was,

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was dialogue propelled that movie like.

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Yeah.

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Because it was like even like,

you know, there weren't a lot of like

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flashy or action type scenes

or where's the like a lot, a lot going on.

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There's moreso dialogue

and just sitting around and just,

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you know, people just sitting around

having a conversation.

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But the one liners that came out of those

convos was the straight up

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classic material.

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Yeah.

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I mean, still like

cultural touchstones for me.

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Yeah, yeah yeah yeah, definitely.

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So one of the things mentioned like I,

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I think the first Friday

probably holds up as the best, right?

303

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I mean.

304

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Oh yeah. Yeah,

yeah. That that's a classic.

305

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You're going to tell somebody

watch Friday.

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It's the original like a lot of trilogies

or sequels like the first one.

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It's like yeah.

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The one you have to see. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We see the same thing

with, the House party series.

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It's like the second one didn't

hold up as well as the first one,

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and most people

have never even heard of the third one.

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Even little on the fourth one. Yeah.

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Like there's a third and fourth one?

315

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I'm like, yeah. There are.

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I've never watched the fourth one.

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I've watched the third one. But yeah.

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The fourth, the one with Kid ‘n’

Play in it, or the fourth

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one that came out like last year?

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No, the fourth one.

321

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It was like a House Party 4.

322

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Yeah, there’s a House Party 4. Yeah.

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In the house.

324

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It follows the same storyline,

but like the House party three

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shows, kid get married and introduces

his cousins, his younger cousins, and they

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they're the main characters

in the fourth one.

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Yeah, right. Sure.

328

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But yeah, exactly. Sure.

329

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It sounds great.

330

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Right?

331

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Exactly.

332

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Yeah.

333

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Like Breakin’ and Breakin’ 2, right.

334

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Breakin’ is solid.

335

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The Breakin’ 2 was good for a bit

and then went off the rails.

336

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Yeah.

337

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You gotta have Breakin’ 2: Wrath of Khan

338

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The secret of the ooze.

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Yeah.

340

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Oh, man.

341

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Yeah, yeah.

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Khannn!

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C C O N N.

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Khan.

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Speaking of sequels and trilogies

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and whatnot, this movie Friday After Next

347

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is the last Friday installment

for more than two decades

348

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until the fourth movie, which is scheduled

for release next year, apparently.

349

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So we're just looking at that.

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Yeah.

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So even as of June of 2024,

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Ice Cube was saying

that it's in the works.

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For 2025. It’s in the works.

354

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There's an article from Entertainment

Weekly that, talks about it

355

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June and according to Ice Cube he’s

not actually that pleased

356

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that it took so long,

obviously 23 years. To.

357

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Get the next one, especially since

major characters have now since passed,

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like John Witherspoon and Tiny Lister and,

Anthony Johnson are all gone.

359

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Oh yeah.

360

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Yeah, even though Ezal

wasn't in this third movie.

361

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You know, he was.

362

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You know, pretty good character

from the first one.

363

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Yeah. There's no Deebo in this one either.

364

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Yeah.

365

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The Deebo role is played by Terry Crews.

366

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Yeah.

367

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He's the muscle, different muscle

this time.

368

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Yeah.

369

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Different muscle. Yeah.

370

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That's right. Right.

371

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And this one took us back to the hood.

372

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So original Friday was in the hood,

South Central.

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And the Next Friday

they move out to the suburbs with,

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Day-Day and Elroy

and then back here to the hood.

375

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So you have more of the urban feel

with the strip mall.

376

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A lot of it happens.

377

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A wild and crazy strip mall. Yeah.

378

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So. So one thing that I did notice

about the strip mall.

379

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And this is a callback to, Boyz n

the hood.

380

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There was a liquor store, and a check

cashing place in the strip mall.

381

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That's right. Yeah.

382

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It's like.

383

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Yeah, I was like, yep there we go,

384

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there we go.

385

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Art imitates life. Yep.

386

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Yeah.

387

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So where it was.

388

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Right? Right, right. All along.

389

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Furious is right.

390

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It was one of Terry Crews' earlier movies, but

391

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what I think is more impactful is the movie helped launch the career of Katt Williams.

392

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That was our fifth takeaway.

393

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Katt Williams played Money Mike and he was hilarious

394

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as he was fending off Terry Crews in this one

395

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and with his pimp style and way of speaking.

396

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And it was around the same time where he was launching his comedy career,

397

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his standup comedy.

398

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And Katt Williams is a...

399

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He's everywhere today, media mogul.

400

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And this is early, early days of Katt Williams getting that recognition on the big screen.

401

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Katt was he he every scene he was in it was just fun so funny

402

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because I mean for one I mean his physical stature

403

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he's a little guy

404

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but he talks so big

405

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yeah he talks very big and

406

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yeah he talks so big

407

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it's just like you know if you've seen any like

408

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you know 70s you know

409

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blaxploitation flicks and you've seen any pimps in those kind of movies

410

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he's he's carrying that persona

411

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like full on steam through this movie but in a very

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comedic tone and the thing about it, his character is not trying to be funny.

413

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He's absolutely dead serious,

414

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but you can't help but to laugh at it because it's so hilariously over the top.

415

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I mean, he's down to his dress.

416

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I mean, he's got the permed out hair, which

417

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became a signature of his.

418

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He's got the flashy, shiny clothes on, the hat, the glasses, the rings.

419

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And, you know, I mean, he's even has a...

420

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a cameo scene with him

421

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and Bishop Don Magic Juan, know, who's

422

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well known in the hip hop world for accompanying Snoop throughout his journey.

423

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There's the one liners that come out of his mouth, like you know,

424

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pimp in distress, pimp in distress.

425

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It's like, what?

426

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That was part of my favorite parts of the movie even though I didn't particularly find it all that funny.

427

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He was really funny and he wasn't even that loud, but he talked big.

428

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Yeah.

429

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Yeah.

430

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The way, the one part when, you know, after, you know, Craig and Day-Day,

431

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you know, foil the shoplifters, you know, plot to get away with some clothes.

432

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And he's walking towards the booth with the blade

433

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and the way they grabbed him up, his feet are just kicking in the air as he snatched them up.

434

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And then when he meets Damon at Craig and Day-Day's party and he...

435

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and Damon snatches him

436

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and he's like, ooh, that was like I was in the Matrix.

437

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It's like, man

438

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That was good.

439

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I do I do like some of the other pop culture references.

440

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They referenced Deion Sanders and doing the Deion dance

441

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now Deion's back in the spotlight as the Colorado coach.

442

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And it's just something about Barry Bonds and I love sports references.

443

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So I want to Barry Bonds you with this.

444

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Yeah, Uncle Elroy came out with the bat.

445

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Mm hmm.

446

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Yeah.

447

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That kind of stuff will be memorable for sports fans and kind of

448

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date what timeframe where these guys were at the top of their game.

449

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Both Barry Sanders and Deion Sanders as players.

450

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Hall of Famers.

451

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For sure.

452

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Yeah, so.

453

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Yeah, There you have it with Katt Williams,

454

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big time role for him, on his meteoric rise there.

455

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Yeah.

456

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Yep.

457

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He's internationally known right now.

458

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I think right now there's a lot of

459

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references to his name in the media because

460

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not to bring a dark cloud, but there's this whole situation with P.

461

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Diddy that's been going on.

462

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And Katt Williams mentioned stuff about this like

463

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years ago and everybody thought he was joking

464

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years ago and everybody thought he was joking and he was dead serious.

465

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Like, wow. Seems like Katt was right along.

466

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seems like Katt was right all along.

467

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Mm-hmm.

468

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Katt well Katt, Katt's with

469

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the Club Shay Shay right with Shannon Sharpe he’s on his show

470

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is he regular on the show or he's he's is he co-host?

471

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I don't know.

472

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I know he's I've seen a lot of clips with him with him

473

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Now he had a long infamous interview with Shannon

474

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on that Club Shay Shay where he just kind of

475

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was open and honest.

476

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- I'm airing everything out.

477

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He just called out everybody.

478

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He called out everybody.

479

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Yeah.

480

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He put it out that like Hannibal Burress did with Cosby

481

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We got you.

482

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Yep, yep.

483

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So there you have it with Friday After Next.

484

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We covered all the aspects here.

485

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If there's anything left out, speak up.

486

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Otherwise, we can go around do our ratings of the movie.

487

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(record scratching)

488

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Boogie for Friday After Next.

489

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Would you bring that funky flick back

490

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or leave it in the vault?

491

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I mean, despite I'm not being fully on with it being a Christmas movie,

492

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even though, you know, it's got the undertone, saying, yeah, I'm gonna bring that funky flick back.

493

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I enjoyed it.

494

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I don't think it holds up to the original, but it was good for some laughs.

495

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I hear you.

496

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DynoWright, Friday After Next.

497

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Bring that funky flick back or leave it in the vault.

498

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Despite me not being all that-

499

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laughing at it so much, I will bring this funky flick back.

500

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It has a few good laughs.

501

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Yep, and I'm aligned with you guys.

502

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I will bring this funky flick back.

503

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Again, I'm a big fan of slapstick and it did have me laughing quite a bit.

504

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Yeah.

505

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So I enjoyed it.

506

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Right on.

507

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Wow, look at that, that's a trifecta.

508

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All three Friday movies bring that bring that that

509

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We did it, guys.

510

00:24:01,583 --> 00:24:05,333

Yeah, we don't need Cube on our bad side.

511

00:24:05,333 --> 00:24:07,583

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

512

00:24:07,583 --> 00:24:09,625

you got a hat trick, man, a hat trick.

513

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(laughing)

514

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Hip Hop Movie Club is produced by your HHMC's JB, BooGie and Dyno Wright.

515

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Theme music by BooGie.

516

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We've got a bunch of live events in 2025 coming up.

517

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You can learn more at our website, hiphopmovieclub.com.

518

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On February 5th, 2025 at SteelStacks in Bethlehem,

519

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we are presenting a screening of Breakin’

520

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with some live breakdancing demos.

521

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Tickets at SteelStacks.org.

522

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Whether you're listening to the podcast or watching us on YouTube,

523

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524

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It's a real power up for us.

525

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Thanks for tuning in.

526

00:24:48,083 --> 00:24:50,958

And remember, don't hate, meditate.

527

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Namaste

528

00:24:55,583 --> 00:24:56,625

Yeah.

529

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Nice job, fellas.

530

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Yessir!

531

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