Welcome to another exciting edition of Black Geek Energy,
and on today's episode our guest is breaking the kind of chaos to
filmmaking that honestly feels perfect for the Internet era.
Imagine just making a movie and the characters realize that
they're actually in the movie and start crashing out about it.
Director William Adams is the mind behind To Be Movie, a
Chicago made independent comedy that breaks the 4th wall and
takes aim at today's So Bad Is Good content coaster.
It's matter, it's self aware and it's ridiculous in the best way
possible. Well, anyway, joining us today
is director William Adams. Yay.
Hey there. You go.
Glad to have you on the show. Will Adams.
Will sorry, I mean that's what
your IMDb says so. I, I get what you're saying, I
and I, you know, I have to, I, I, my most of my Internet, when
you Google me, is pretty much Will Adam straight across.
So a little sprinkle of William. But but my brother's name is
William. My father's name is William.
My nephew's name is William. So yeah, say it again.
Say it all again. So so when when your dad or your
uncle, your grandpa call somebody, does everybody come
running? We all do this.
Oh. My goodness.
OK, well we'll let's get started.
We're going to talk about to be movie coming up, but I just want
to ask you, how has your previous week been?
Oh, it's been good. It would be better if I could
get on the on that wall behind you with one of those posters.
I'm like, man, he didn't even put Tubi back there.
He didn't know I was coming. It would be awesome.
Just put one of my posters back there on that wall.
Awesome. You know, like man, you know.
So. I was like, I was happy.
And then I was like, not, not one of my posters.
Now I feel like a fool, but I I need to actually start doing
that for all of our guests that come.
Not unless you have me first. It was my idea.
Don't say. Oh, yeah, One of my old guests,
he had, you know, no, no, no, no, no.
We'll fix it in the post. Oh yeah, we can fix it in post
all. Right.
Cool, cool, cool. OK, wait a minute.
Let's start over. I'm doing great.
Plus I see my poster behind you and everything.
Awesome. Oh my goodness.
So. So we were talking about all the
stuff that you just did this morning.
It was like a whole bunch of stuff.
I was in bed watching YouTube. Can you just tell DeMarcus what
you've been doing this Sunday morning?
Oh, woke up, had breakfast, went to the gym, I said I went.
Oh yeah, I forgot the grocery store.
I wanted to get fruit from the grocery store.
I went to The UPS Store and ship off packages and then showered
and here I am. Yeah, I have been in bed all
day. I did shower, I did brush my
teeth or did I hop straight back into bed like I had nothing to
do today. That's why why I haven't eaten
all day 'cause I just been in bed.
No, the buffet is like you haven't eaten all.
Day. Oh yeah.
I also told him that I went to the buffet yesterday, that same
buffet I've been talking about, and I ate so much.
I had so much. I got my $40 worth and yeah, OK.
OK. He got his $90.00 worth.
Right, right, right. Because I did take some food
home illegally. Well, so besides today, how's
the rest of your week been? It's, it's been pretty chill,
you know, I did a podcast earlier on in the week and it
was fun and just been getting cancellations back and forth.
Like man, am I not hot anymore people.
Cancelling on me. I'm like, you know, and but it
didn't, it didn't break my stride or anything.
You know, I just been pretty much focusing on keep staying
on, I guess message when I come on these podcasts, because a lot
of times I go off to left field or whatever.
And also I got other stuff that I'm trying to write that I
haven't been writing. Because if I start writing, I
won't be thinking about being on the podcast and staying on
message. I'll start just writing.
And then that'll become what we're talking about in the
podcast. Because a couple of podcasts I
went on, I was like, yeah, so this movie I'm writing, I was
like, oh, should I really be talking about that?
You let the cat out of the bag. You.
Yeah, so. Yeah, DeMarcus, how's your week
been? My week has been good.
We we started out we in a new office today at my company.
It's like a better office. It feels like more like a tech
company. Does it have in office bathrooms
because your last. Office.
Yeah. The bathrooms, like in the
office now. Like in the middle of the
office, Yeah. A luxury, a real.
Luxury. My old office, like the
bathrooms, they weren't like they were enclosed, but you had
to leave the building to go to the bathroom.
The building. Yeah, we had to leave our
section of the building. They were so.
You So let's say you worked at McDonald's and you had to leave
McDonald's to go across the street to Wendy's.
She's the wife. OK, not that far.
Not that far. You had to leave McDonald's and
go to the sidewalk and there's like a, there's like a small,
like enclosed, there's an outer party.
There's a house on the sidewalk that he has to.
Use it was nice though, like it was heated.
It was it was heated in the winter.
It's like cooling. No, it was always hot.
They always let the in there. Well, you work in LA, so it's
going to always be kind of, you know, in the winter.
But I mean, Google is coming up now that you got offices in the
middle, right? Yeah, like now, I mean, yeah,
now we got the now we got the bathrooms in the building.
They're in the middle of the bathroom.
So it's much better, much better on that front.
But I got a Free TV from the old office, 85 inch TV.
What do you do with that? I'm gonna mount it and I'm gonna
watch it. That's it.
Did you have a place in your apartment for that TV?
Yeah, yeah, you can fit in the living room.
So. So where would the TV go?
That was in the living room in. His bedroom, I'll probably bring
it to the office because we try not to keep ATV in the bedroom.
Like when it's time to go to bed, go to.
Bed. Go to sleep.
Yeah, that's how. No TV in the bedroom.
Yeah, already bad enough. I got the phone but no TV.
Because I'll like, I'm going to bed and stay up for two more
hours watching. Watching.
Watching something I've already seen.
Already seen because I need a comfort show to calm me down
but. Yeah, I I would.
I don't sleep. I have insomnia, so I will
sleep. I'll lay in the dark and I'll
think of the most ridiculous phase.
Like if I was a superhero, I wouldn't fly like head first.
I would like fly like horizontal straight.
That's what I think about for two hours instead of sleeping at
3:00. O'clock But you wouldn't fly
like this. You would fly like this.
Like just light up. Because you would be a slow
flyer. That's, that's I was thinking
too, but like, I was like, is the drag going to affect me more
or it's like craning my neck up and looking like that going to
affect me more? And I I think that like looking
like that for like 15 minutes is more, more hurtful than just
flying straight. But you're going to be a slow
fly. You're going to be flying so
slow because of all this drag. You just turn like this and like
a missile opposed to, you know, you almost be like, you might as
well flap your arms. Well, yeah, I, I, I, I I think
that flying would be the benefit.
So I wouldn't mind being a so far cause hey, I'm flying.
But anyway, so you're in your new office, you have your 85
inch TV. What else?
Only thing I went to like this, this party, it was supposed to
be like a pool party, but it ended up just being like a lake
party at Lake Merritt. And like this dude like started
trying to like talk to my girlfriend while he was there
like like we like touch her a little bit.
And I was like like at first I was like I was like what's going
on is am I seeing what I think I'm seeing?
And eventually I had to say something.
I'm like hey man, she came here with me bro.
She not available. So you got jealous?
No, like he was actually like touching her and like by the
time I said something he had his hand like all in her hair and
shit. Oh yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
What did what did she do? She was like, she was like, hey.
And then she was like, hey, she was like, that's not OK.
I didn't. I didn't say you.
Could do that. OK.
All right, OK. OK, yeah, it wasn't like she was
like feeding into it or nothing like that.
OK, OK, OK. She just.
Thinking it's a friendly because like these are we got invited to
this party like and it's like a lot of folks we don't know.
It's just like to meet new people.
So we thinking, you know, I'm like, at first I'm like, I don't
want to like. Oh, you went to a swingers
party? It's not a whoa, whoa, whoa.
Nothing like that. It was at a lake.
It was outside. They swing outside.
That's just California, yeah. But I'm just, you know, so at
first I was like, if if you just being nice, I don't want to, you
know, I don't want to step in and and you know, if you just
being nice. But I was at a certain point I
was just like, hey, hey, man, you got to back up.
OK. Well I have a question for you.
What would you do if she was feeding into it?
I mean, that'd be like a conversation we got to have.
I'd be like, I'd be like, Hey, yo, what?
I'm not going to embarrass her like in front of this whole
crowd of people. I'm going to pull her to the
side. But hey, what's going on?
Like, what are we doing? Like let let make sure that put
me on the same page You own. Like we out here just talking to
folks and getting numbers like I can play the fucking game too.
Oh, you know. Oh, you say I ready set.
Right, I'm going to put a 20 on the 10 wheel.
So. So what was his reaction after
you were like, hey, you're back up?
He was like he like, oh, my bad, bro.
I didn't mean I didn't mean no offense.
It's like you, you done offended because I got to say something
and then she like walks behind me trying to like put put me in
between him and her and like one of his homeboys come over.
It's like, hey man, you know, let it die.
Like, like pushing him back. It was about to be a fight.
I don't think it was going to go that far, but I think the
homeboy just came over just to, you know, to make sure.
OK, OK. My week was pretty good.
I did. Oh yeah, I'm sorry.
Excuse, excuse. Me, how was your week?
Yes. Thank you very much for asking.
I didn't think anybody was going to ask.
My week was pretty good, really doing a lot.
I, I went to the Chinese buffet yesterday as well as the movie
I'm going to talk about later, but that was really, really
good. I did start, it's kind of not,
it is kind of heavily protected with the NDA.
So I'm trying to really pick my words wisely, but I started this
new job, this new company. OK.
Basically what I'm doing is training AI bots and it's
freelance. I'm not that happy about it, but
it's money and I definitely need some money, right?
Now, all right, I I understand money.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
But yeah, that is what I've been doing.
And yeah, it's been, I've been doing that all week and I've
been having a lot of interviews. I've interviewed for Coke this
week, Royal Caribbean at the beginning of next week.
I never for 2K and. What were you gonna do?
Where your Caribbean? What position were you
interviewing for there? It is a onboard brand marketing.
Position So you gonna be selling stuff at the ship store?
Well, that's a sales position. A branding position is how the
customers are perceiving their actions and how they're going to
talk about the actions on the ship.
And we're talking about Coca-Cola and not Coke.
You know, I'm not sure yet, they didn't specify, but either way,
2 huge companies that I would be happy to work for. 11 legal, one
illegal. Got it.
All right, the Vikas, let's move on to the put you on segment.
And we'll, this is a segment where we like to just talk about
something that we have watched recently or experienced recently
where there's a podcast, a movie, TV show, a buck or comic
or game that really would light our listeners fancy.
And this is called the Pitchy 1 Secret is sponsored by
MoviePass. So, DeMarcus, can you please
tell them a little bit about MoviePass?
Absolutely. So MoviePass is a subscription
based service that allows users to go watch multiple movies in
theaters for a monthly fee. It was designed to make movie
going more affordable and accessible.
What's up? Will?
What's up? You do not have to raise your
hand. They made a documentary about
it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, I hit him on. I hit him on LinkedIn.
OK, Yeah. Yeah, he responded, you know,
because I said what he, what he was trying to do was great.
And I'm glad he was able to buy his company back because the
guys he linked up with, they took it, but now they're under
investigation. I watched the whole documentary
and I was very happy that he was able to circle back and get it
and then try to create something that he thought was better.
I also think that the theaters are dumb for not even jumping in
on it because when you think about it, even if he's charging
a small price to come to the theater, you already charging
you get the same candy you get from the Dollar Tree is there.
So when I when I get the screenings for my movie to be
movie, I would create these buckets.
Hold on one second. I got a bucket right here.
I create these buckets. Oh man, I just dumped a lot of
stuff on the floor. All right, so I create these
buckets. So this bucket right here.
Got it from dollars, got it from.
Got it from the Dollar Tree for a dollar right?
Put candy in here. Everything that you might want
from good bars to not the fun size Snickers, real Snickers and
like 3 candies posters all for a dollar.
So all that stuff that I just talked about, those probably
cost $21.00 for those three pieces of candy at at the movie
theater. People are going to go to the
concession stand, which is weird.
I'm like why wouldn't you partner up with this dude?
You butts in the seats is what you want.
Get the bus back into the seats. Then turn your MoviePass thing
off if you want to. But butts in the seats because
you think, I think personally, I would rather watch a a brand new
movie in the theater. But studios are not making
movies for the theater. They're making movies.
So you can just do this. When you watch it.
But just think, how would you have felt if you watched The
Matrix at home? Oh, and for the first time,
yeah, yeah, that would have. Been think about it, but yeah,
think about it. So you watching the matrix at
home for the first time, It's like, oh, it's OK, you know, but
getting that whole movie experience that and people at in
a theater that you don't know want this oh with you.
So you feel like connection. That's that's the dope thing.
So, you know, movie. I mean movie.
Pass. I'm sorry.
I apologize for interrupting. Spouse and shit.
But I really think that that was, it was a dopest idea.
And I, I really feel like, man, the theaters, you know, I went
to go see They Will Kill you. That's a movie that I should
have saw at the theater. 200 C Theater, 6 people there.
Yeah. I'm like, and it was a good
movie. It was a good movie.
It wasn't a bad movie. It was a good movie.
And you, you got all this space and you're not using it.
You're not using it to your full potential.
It wasn't. And then I, I talked to the
theater. OK, well, we can put one movie
in. Oh, well, we, we got obligations
to the studio. I'm like, they making movies
that's just playing. And you got air conditioning and
heat. You heat in the theater or
you're cooling a theater that has nobody in it, that has
people from other movies just letting me sit up in here.
I, I sat up in here and saw where it first started.
Now my other movie started and then we come back and now the
movie is halfway through and I, I jump back in where I left off
and I can watch the rest of it and leave.
You don't have you, you have nothing.
I mean, the concession stand, it makes money.
When my movie was at the theater, they charged me $1500
to rent the theater. And I hate throwing prices out.
I charge, I charge $15 a seat. OK, I made the, I, I broke even.
OK. Now I did not get any of the
money from the concession stand. Yeah.
None. None.
But I went back to the theater and said, look, I sold the
theater out. People, people that didn't know
about the movie, that saw people coming to them when we wanted to
come to the movie. Let's talk about making a deal.
Well, I guess that's the run. Well, we got obligations to
theaters, but you can rent a theater again and we're going to
charge you additional $300. Really.
An additional 300 after I just sold out a auditorium.
And I didn't get any of the concession money because I
started pulling people from the concession stand because they,
you know, they say, oh, well, it's a black movie.
It's not going to stop. My stuff starts on time no
matter what. So even my first, my first film
that I put in a theater is like, well you know, everybody's not
in a theater, forget it. Start the movie.
They they have to learn that you have to learn.
I start on time. So if you want to see the
beginning, you got to get there on time.
So I know the movie you want to start.
I see 30 of my people online. I said Oh no, y'all got to come
out of line. What the movie is about to start
in 5 minutes. But but I said no, no trailers,
just my movie. They got 30 people that was in
line. So let's say thirty of those
people buy popcorn and drink. That's $15 and we ain't.
We're not going to try to do the math on that.
That's one screening. Just think if we had multiple
screens of that movie in that theater, how much how much would
you have made? So that's why I understand why
they not pushing movie pad. It's just it's just a no
brainer. But it's but.
It's, it's such a good product, a good service for like the
average person, 'cause you're like, I went to go see Mortal
Kombat over the weekend and. On purpose, yeah.
Yeah, like I like Mortal Kombat. I'm sorry.
I'm a fan. I.
Like the video game, but I like. The and and that's what And
that's what. Like the video games is where it
started and then the old movies from the 90s.
And you know, I'm going to stick with it.
Once I'm a fan, I'm a fan. OK, I guess you can.
Hopefully you'll stick with me that long.
I'm in there now I'm a fan now I'm.
Saying you continue. And I spent like $14.00 on the
tickets because the movie pass wasn't working at that
particular theater. But with MoviePass, you know, I,
you at the lowest tier, you're spending $10.00 for your, for
your subscription and you're seeing multiple movies.
So I had I used my MoviePass, I would have already made my money
back on that $14.00 ticket. Yeah, but when you went to the
theater, did you buy anything for the concession stand?
I didn't. I did not, not this time because
usually with most theaters and Jared always like to say this
like you can sign up for their like membership, their MoviePass
equivalent, and still earn points by using your MoviePass
account. And so you get the concessions
for free. You know what I'm going to say,
I'm going to tell you Mark's theater, I signed up for their
points and they just basically just took my information of what
kind of movies I like. I I because look, I was I, I did
it for the points for the when buying tickets, when buying the
food. And I'm like, how am I still at
0? OK, yeah, I'm still is, I'm I
today I'm still at 0 points. I tried it for like 7 months and
I was in at the month seven. I'm like, I'm not seeing
nothing. And and my girl was like, oh,
you go, what's your points? I said we're not using them no
more. Because.
Because because what's more valuable than money information.
So you get my information saying, OK, well, this type of
movie he liked so we can market it toward him.
Plus we got your e-mail address. We can always send it out to a
dozen folks, you know, So and oh, wait a minute.
We have phone number two. Yeah, they have some politicians
call you. Know right, Right.
The other The other thing I really like about Movie Pass is
I'm not going to see every movie, but I do like when black
movies are supported like you, me and Tuscany that just came
out. I'm not going to see that lovey
dovey mess. But I do like with their
supporters that they use my points to say, oh, I went to go
see you, me and Tuscany at this theater on this day and it
appears that I went to go see it.
But so that's another reason that I like you, me and Tuscany
and there are a lot of great black movies that are coming out
and I'm probably not going to see but but that's my other
great benefit to movie. Pass, but you did see Toby
movie. I did see Toby movie The Bike
is, so when are we going to put them on to for this week?
What do I have to put them on to?
I saw in addition to Toby movie I saw swapped on Netflix with.
The bike will be Jordan. Yeah, so good.
So such a good movie. And it's it just like the the
twist in the movie is, is so good because, you know, I don't
want to spoil it, but like me, me and my girl, we were
watching, we had to pause and we looking at each other like what?
Like, how did that happen? It is, it is it's a great it's
about this like squirrel, like animal that gets that swaps
bodies with this like bird, like animal.
And then they're trying to like, figure out how to change back
the whole movie. But I threw it all to discover,
you know, the the bigger message in the movie is like, you know,
we're all different, but we all, you know, should be working
together, learning how to communicate.
You know, everybody has different skills and different
things they're good at. And the only way the community
succeeds is if we all work together.
OK, OK. The movie I saw was Oblivion Not
not Oblivion Obsession. This movie is about a guy who
wishes that his that the person that he likes falls in love with
him more than anybody in the world and the thing I liked
about this horror movie is that once he.
Did a horror movie? Yeah.
Thinking it's a romantic movie like.
No. I like about this horror movie
like. Okay, no, it's a horror movie.
And the thing I like about is that once he makes the wish, the
stuff happens instantly. The the, the ball starts
swelling down the hill instantaneously.
It's not like that ramp up and things are getting crazy 45
minutes after the wish. It was instantaneous.
And I also liked some of the directorial things, like every
time she started to turn or go eviler, like she would be
completely washed out. It was like a backlight was
against her so she would be completely washed out against
that scene. So thought that was really
creepy. Creepy mums I don't see very
often, but I enjoyed it. The thing I didn't notice while
I was watching it was that it was not made for the theaters.
This is the first movie I've ever seen in theaters that
wasn't made for theaters. It was.
So were you doing this the whole time?
No, I no, I wasn't. Because I was.
I was, you know, enthralled with the movie, but it was not made
for theaters. Like, it was formatted weird.
It wasn't like. Why?
It was like formatted. 4 by 3. 4 by 3.
It was 4 by three. It was very ginzy.
It was a great story, but it was not made and I've never seen a
movie I this is the first movie I've ever seen in my whole
entire life that was made for Street.
So that was my only knock on. It was a fantastic movie.
I loved it. I got one for you.
Oh, wait, you didn't ask. Wait a minute.
Hold on. You're going to ask.
Me. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. You have to wait for us.
What? Do you want to put us on to this
this week? Good luck, have fun, don't die.
Oh, OK. I've heard of that one me.
Too. Yeah, and it's a it's a uncut
gem that you really should watch.
It's about the AI pretty much taken over and somebody coming
from the future trying to stop it.
But it's it's 11. I'll just say just like 1 battle
after another, it's bam bam bam bam bam.
And it keeps you engaged and scrolling on your phone is not I
I wish I would have known it was out.
I would have went to the theater to see it.
OK, OK, OK. It's it's not in theaters no
more. It's on streaming now.
Oh, it's on prime. You can run, but you also on
prime for 699. So we watched another movie.
I don't know what the movie what what what it was called, but it
was 1999 to rent. So usually it'd be like 999 to
rent, $20 to buy. I was like, look, it says 1999
to rent. That means the movie is trashed.
She. Was like, no, it might be good.
And we said I'm like, it was, it was straight garbage.
So I can't even think. That's crazy.
I would think that the the good movies would be more expensive.
But 1999 to buy it, 1999 to rent it.
Now you heard what I said. Usually it's like 599 or 1099 to
rent or 999 to rent and $20 to purchase.
It was I was like, yeah, they they tricking people.
I was like, well, somebody said, well, I don't want to buy.
I just want, I just rent it and then they rent it.
Like yeah, they got, they got me.
They got me. That's insane.
Do you buy movies on Prime Will? I bought one movie on Prime and
that was, what's his name, comedian Alex Sadiq.
Stand up because I want I really wanted to see it.
I really wanted to see it. And that's the only movie I
bought on Prime. And then I haven't bought
anything on Prime. So and I've never bought
anything on prime either and so and I and it's because I don't
fully understand how it works. Like if I lose if I lose access
to my prime account do are all the movies I bought gone?
No, I mean you won't lose access to the teleprompts because
what's crazy about Amazon is your sign in login is the same
for everything. So your login for prime is the
same as your login for buying something on Amazon, which is
horrible because what if I give you my Amazon account to watch
something on prime? He was like, I see a little ring
light. I want you know so but it's also
they have a platform. They they had a what was it Not
a situation, but it's another. Part.
I guess arm of the company where you can upload movies.
So before they start making you go through a a third person
aggregator where you can just upload your film and then push
that out. But it's all up under the same
username and password. Even if he's trying to sell on
Amazon. Same username and password.
That's it's on one hand that's convenient, on the other hand is
like you said. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But but if I but if I had But one day I stopped paying for
Amazon Prime. Any movies I bought, I'll still
have them. I can still log in with no
Amazon Prime TV or whatever and still watch the movies I bought.
Well, I don't know how that works.
Yeah, that that that part. I don't know how that works
because you know, Amazon, just like when they took Sex Ain't
Love and Stuff off the block off of Prime, I was like so you know
why y'all do it? We can do whatever we want,
whenever we want. And that, that was that.
Was the time. For you, that was the time for
your movie being on our platform.
I was like, but I just, you know, I OK, I understand that.
Can you tell me what happened and why you did it?
No. Yeah.
Yeah, no, no, we can't tell you. No, we don't have to tell you
and we're not going to tell you. But your movies are still up
there, so people can rent them. But what about the Prime set we
was making? A lot of it was like a million
and something strange. Minute strange.
Yeah, we hear what you're saying now with me saying a million or
something minute strange. That's when I found out that it
was on that it was killing on Prime.
The months before that it was 2 million.
It was 5 million minutes stream. Now that's not 5 million views,
that's 5 million minutes stream. So you divide that by you divide
that by 80 minutes and then you get, you get the real number.
How many people really saw it? But again, I had no clue.
And when I found out it was 1,000,000 minutes stream, like
man, you know, that's when I called in trying to find out
what I can do. And then all of a sudden, OK,
man, that's crazy. Take him off of Prime.
But we were making money together because I was I wasn't
getting all the money myself. Y'all was getting the money.
Too. Yeah, you know.
We we know, but your your farewell, your farewell now now
without with the film hub and now with Buffalo 8.
Buffalo 8 is a distributor that is a bonded company and we're
seeing how this goes with Toby movie because they want another
movie that they want not movie, but they want a show that I
created called Fluke. I'm trying to figure out, hey,
let's see how Tubi movie works on your platform before we start
not platform, but it's your company before we move on into
something else. I don't want to just say, all
right, well, I see you got this. Cook the chicken cooking.
Put me some fries in there. Hold on.
Let me see how some chicken come out.
Yeah, let me see how this chicken come out first and then
we'll, you know, talk about fries.
So, you know, just trying to juggle everything because when
you're a single person doing this all on their own, you know,
I don't have. I am the team.
Do you do you think with the the situation with Amazon might have
had something to do with like your movie was doing so well it
was killing something else that they wanted to succeed?
I have no clue. It didn't make, it didn't make
sense because it was killing here, Japan, Germany and the UK.
OK. So it wasn't even just here, it
was overseas and it did not have, it was not dubbed
subtitles and it was not dubbed. So people were watching it over
in the UK, over in Japan with the regular English sub, with
the regular English captions because I had subtitles with
regular English captions and not dubbed.
So because it made me think, I said, well maybe I should just
dub my movies and then they'll have me on these.
I said I'm not going through all that.
You know, if they want a dub, then you request a dub.
I will get a dub. But if you're not requesting a
dub, just leave it as is. I'm not going to do some extra
work just not to get money for it.
The thing I the thing I don't like about Jeff Bezos platform
is that one even if you are subscribed they don't.
You have to get the highest tier for them to play it in 4K.
Like their usual resolution is 7720P.
I'm like why are y'all doing that in the year 2026?
So want me to tell you a secret? Yeah.
Have you ever tried to send somebody a video that was 10
gigabytes long? Yeah.
How long does it take you to send a video to gigabytes?
Song it takes a. While all right so 2B movie is
like 30 something 30 something gigabytes big is it 30 It might
be a little bit more that signal that you see going through your
television. You wouldn't be able to that
that's as stereo as the impossible for you to see it at
that speed because remember I said 10 gigabytes that's a chore
that's that's at least that's at least an hour and some change
and if my movie is not ten gigabytes big it's more than
that how long would it take you to see it?
You know so the signal they're sending through is not a 4K.
It's not a it's I hope the people don't come for me, but
it's it's not what it's not what everybody because you think I
got a four KTV. So because because you think
about if you, because you both are tech guys, you sending, you
sending files that like 10 gigabytes send a three GB file,
you're still waiting 20 minutes. But that's what I'm saying, I
just would like more clarity on my resolution.
You could give me 1080 Pi. Don't know the difference
between 1080P and 4K on my TV anyway because I'm probably
watching a lot of 1080P stuff but to have my stuff at 7:20
for. The difference between the
difference between 4K and HD. Actually, when I when HD first
came out, they say you can see that the strings of the hairs on
people's heads, 4K now you can see the potholes in their face,
you know, so now you got that. That's where it comes from.
But you know, if the show is good, who's paying attention?
Yeah, yeah. That's how I often feel.
Jerry often brings up these like, oh, I want to see it in
higher real resolution. I'm just like, I just want to
see it. Even if it's at 7:20, if it's
good at 7:20, it's going to be good.
Right, because you can get something that's 4K and be a
dumpster. Yeah.
And it's yeah, I don't wasted my time watching something at 4K
and it was garbage. Come on.
Right. So yeah, just do the story.
OK. DeMarcus, do we have an activity
for today? We absolutely have an activity
for the day and for those first joining us, Will and our
listeners. The way games and activities
work here on Black Geek Energy is DeMarcus comes up with the
games, he comes up with the questions, he comes up with the
answers, he decides the winners and losers.
He's pretty much the judge during execution of all things
games here on Black Geek Energy. In today's game is going to be
called so Bad It's good. And what we're going to do is
we're going to take a look at some some some classic black
movies and that have been, you know, that didn't have the best
reviews at their at their time. And what y'all are going to have
to tell me is whether this movie is bad, bad, not that bad or so
bad that it's good. And I want you to think in terms
of the Rotten Tomatoes scores, what the people are saying, you
know, the bots, the, the, the, the, the people, the advertised
people, who knows who's actually in there scoring these movies
all. Right.
Well, you both upset, you both upset guys, so you know, but.
And see, the twist here is y'all are going to have to agree.
Oh. No, the movie.
Goes into We'll talk about it to convince the other guy.
Does it all make sense? Any questions before we get
started? No, I'm, I'm, I'm probably going
to say none of the movies are good, but I continue.
OK, OK, so if if you're thinking in I'll, I'll, I'll add this one
last piece. Maybe it'll make it a little
easier. If you're thinking in terms of
the Rotten Tomatoes score, the bad bad is something that's like
less than 25%, not that bad, somewhere between 26 and 50.
So bad it's good 51 to 100. But I don't really look at the
right tomato scores. You don't give us you going to
give us the right Noah doesn't because.
Yeah, because you like. Well, so IMDb when they say from
1:00 to 10:00 and I'm like, it's a four, I'm like, it's
definitely always a four. If it say six or seven, OK, it's
good. But 4, when it says 4, it's a
four or below. It just being modest, it's a
four so but Rotten Tomatoes, it depend on who's watching them,
you know, hyping it up so. Really, all of those rating
days, it's like they don't rate movies to say, well, I think of
movies and I think that that's why this is just going to be
hilarious. But I mean, you think about
Siskel Eber, what they said about Harlem Knights, Harley
Knights is a good movie, Harley. Knights is a good movie.
Yeah, and they tore apart so bad, Eddie Murphy said.
I'm not going to ever write anything or direct anything
again. I'm like those two dudes that
sit up in the in in the balcony that never made a movie.
You going to let them? I.
Just wish. I just wish I could talk to them
and say look man bro you should not let those two dead guys stop
you from writing and creating again because you did it great
how the nights was dope. It's a classic.
Yeah. I watch it all the time but
let's let's get started. Do y'all understand how the game
worked? Nope, let's go all.
Right #1 undercover brother. Undercover brother.
Now it was just two. It was the current exploitation
of black. It was, it was a black, black
exploitation movie. Definitely, definitely.
I think that Rock Tomatoes for the indie not so bad as good,
but in the very. In the bad, bad and it's it's
it's a bad movie. Yeah.
It's a bad movie, all right, all right.
If I won those movies, he shouldn't have said yeah, you
know, probably tanked his career.
So actually this one got a 78% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Oh wow, it's, it's so bad. It's good people.
The people loved it. Higher than coming to America.
And Coming to America is a great movie.
Better than undercover brother. All right.
All right, all right, let's go to the next one.
All right, Joanna, man. Joanna man, again I'm going to
say, wait, what are the choices again?
Bad, bad, not that bad. And so bad it's good.
OK, I'm going to say not that. Bad.
Not that bad. Not that bad, OK.
Yeah, it's not that bad. I mean, I didn't the premise of
it and trying to fool everybody but all that, but I think it
wasn't that bad. OK, OK, what?
What made it not that bad? Because it was real acting.
It wasn't that exploitation thing.
So I mean, it had a story and even though the story was for me
was kind of unbelievable that somebody thought that the the
dude was the woman. But at the same time, you know,
it still had a decent storyline in the beginning, middle of the
end, and it wasn't doing it, wasn't doing some buffoonery or
nothing like that. OK, OK.
And so and Rotten Tomatoes says this movie is bad.
Bad. It only got a 9%.
Look, you have white people rating these movies.
This is not what Black Geek Energy is about.
That's what I was going to say. I feel like it's a lot of white
people in Rotten Tomatoes and so black movies always score lower
than they should. Right, unless there's
exploitation. Unless they're exploitation
movies. It's like, oh, it's black
people, Coonan, we love it. All right, the next one, don't
be a menace. While drinking your juice in the
whole. One, don't you know, I didn't
mean the other one. Buffoonery.
So bad is good.
Yes.
That's what we're going with. Will, are you in agreement?
No, so bad, So bad is bad. All.
Right, you got to vote for bad bad, and a vote for so bad is
good when you. Go with the actual directors.
I like this one though. So bad is bad.
All right, all right, this one was actually not that bad.
It scored in the middle. Had y'all compromised you would
have got it. What 50?
5032%. 32% that's bad. That's.
Bad. If that was on your paper,
that's an F. You right, right.
That's 100% F That's bad is bad. All right, on to the next one
Soul Plane. Oh, that's.
Bad. I feel like this is when we
first saw Kevin Hart first came to the scene.
And that's how Kevin Hart almost lost his career.
Yeah, No, yeah, Kevin Hart talks about in interviews that that
that movie almost tanked his career.
Yeah, I also enjoy soul playing. I like soul.
Playing I haven't seen it like over a decade.
Though but I really. I haven't seen it.
I I think I saw it once, maybe twice, and I haven't seen it
again. It's just.
I've never seen it straight through.
I saw I started it and I was like Nah, I can't this.
Really turned it off. A plane with rims on it?
Come on man, I thought it. Was hilarious.
Oh, like, man. Like, are they typecasting us?
Oh, what? You know, like, yeah.
Oh man. I mean, it was like, it was like
a airplane for black people. No, no, My airplane for black
people is any airplane. When I when I was younger, I was
in a complete agreement with you, Jerry.
I was like, yeah, this seems like a fun airplane for black
people. But now I'm older, it's like,
no, I just want to get on an airplane.
Yeah. I don't need a jacuzzi and a
casino on the airplane. And the and the flight
attendants doing splits and all that, you know?
They're passing out shots of Hennessy.
I don't. I don't even drink Hennessy no
more. I don't even, I don't drink.
So, yeah, yeah. But I.
Will say what Will said so. Bad, bad.
And that's correct. This only got like 18%.
Wow. The critics hated it.
Kevin Hart hated it. OK.
And it, you know, and the bootlegs made him 40 million
before the before the the movie even came out of theaters.
That's crazy. All right, Pootie Tang.
I remember Pootie sang on the Wanda Sykes show.
I remember Chris Rock talking about how he thought Pootie Tang
was going to be good until he saw it.
Yeah, this one as like, it's not one of my favorite movies.
Like I've seen it. And I was just like, OK, I'm
like, I tip. Attack No, No.
Yeah. It's, it's still a cult classic
though, like a lot of people like it, but it really feels
like that a lot of like a lot of people I know a lot of a lot of
black men I know, especially they, they like Pootie Tang.
If I saw it on cable, I would never turn.
Like if it was Pootie Tang and something else, I would.
I would watch something else or I wouldn't watch anything at
all, you know? What?
Let me, Let me read a book. Yeah, so bad is bad.
I've I've never liked Pootie saying.
Bad, bad. All right.
That's what we're going with. A game from a game.
Chris Rock. Hey, yo, you got a movie?
Yeah. What you going to do?
Put A tag? So what is that script for
Pootie saying y'all was serious? All right?
That's how I felt like. Right.
Yeah, it it, it definitely seemed like that.
Low brow, low effort humor. And yeah, like those don't
really land with me. No thought behind it.
But you know, the people at large thought it was not that
bad. But these are white people, the
migrants. You said what you said what it
was, was. It 27%, no, 27%.
That's the old. Selling no so so these
categories are bad, bad zero to 25%.
Not that bad. 26 to 50 and then so bad, as good as anything over
51%. I think 6.
I think 60 to 80 should be I agree so bad.
And the way black movies are scored, it's either they get in
their lower section because I looked a few of these up, they
either score like below 50% or above 50%.
Like it's not. And a lot of them get below you
only get a few. That's like really cracking, you
know, really cracking at 50%. At least in like this.
I'm doing a certain kind of movie Tier 2, so you.
Know these are. Those like blaxploitation like
bad, stereotypically bad movies. All right.
You make me look up Harlem nights right now.
All right, number number six, we, we in the final stretch,
Bebe's kids as. A As a cartoon, I think it was
pretty decent. Yeah, yeah.
So bad is good. Yeah.
What's the thing? OK, OK.
Definitely a cult classic. Definitely a cult classic and I
I also enjoy baby's kids. They didn't even get rid of
tomato. They they didn't even get rated
on tomatoes. It's like a what's what's that
green thing? What is that green thing?
The. Green.
Thing tomatoes. Yeah, I'm Rotten Tomatoes.
Can you see my screen? Oh, that's the.
That's the. 111 is the user score and the other one is the
critics score. Yeah.
Yeah, but the 27%, Yeah. Anyway, Anyway, yeah, let's keep
it moving, all right? OK, well babies, kids was bad,
bad people. People thought they was like
people saw and they were like no.
And I think that this might have been because it was animated.
I feel like animated movies don't get no respect.
Unless they're like Studio Ghibli or something.
Well, you know, Robin Harris, he still wasn't out there yet,
though. He was just, he was just getting
momentum before he passed. All right, I think this one,
this one might be a Gimme but scary movie.
Vomit, I mean. Sorry, no.
You did my scary movie. No, it's buffoonery.
It's still buffoonery. It's still buffoonery.
It's still like, let me do something stupid to make you
laugh, you know, I just, I mean, well, don't be a man's like.
What you going to do come? On and don't be a menace.
That was the only character I didn't like because I was like
this is way too far. Like without him I feel like the
movie could have been better. I agree.
And because I didn't, you see, I
didn't say nothing about Sean. But but all right, So what do
you think about a scary movie? I'm sorry, we already know what
you think about Scary movie. So Lamarcus what?
What's the score? What's the what's the score?
Oh, oh, what, what do we, what do we say?
Jared said. It's.
Not he liked it. He liked it.
So that's why I said. Do we want to go middle ground?
Not so bad. For who?
Scary Movie. For Scary Movie.
Now so come out for me. For you, yeah.
Oh, that's isn't a dumpster for me.
But we need to agree, guys. We got to come to.
I liked it but I don't know different white people.
I have to be in the white mindset and I just can't.
My brain is hurting. So I will say bad is bad.
Bad people. White people kept making more
scary movies even without the weigh.
In they like they like the they said, This buffoonery is so
good, we're going to take it from you.
And we're going to put some more black people in there.
Yeah, let's go with so bad is good.
So bad is good, all right? That's correct.
You guys think like a white person?
Because we don't live in the only black world, y'all.
Of course I'll say the same thing.
They actually got a 51% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The pair is. Still failing.
But you, you are right.
You are right. And we'll, we'll, we'll redo
this game with without the curve.
OK. All right, booty call.
Booty call was fine. It was I, I was I, I had AI had
a good time watching this movie. These the dudes were ridiculous.
You know, I would. I would never go this far.
Yeah. Jamie Foxx.
And what's the other? Guy, I just.
Saw I just saw him on woo. He was on living color and
that's really bad. We all got the vice man we.
We know who he is and like he's is.
It Phil Lamar. No.
Tommy Davidson. Tommy Davidson.
Yes. Yes.
I enjoyed Booty Call but I don't think a lot of white people
liked it or even seen or know about this movie so I'm going to
have to go with so glad it's back.
OK, OK. They might like it because the
exchange that somebody's going to get the coochie so you know.
I, I would, I would also put it in the middle, you know, just
because I agree, I like white folks ain't really going to see
it. So the so the black folk holds
the black vote holds more power here.
Well, Tommy, Tommy Davidson was kind of dancing for them for a
little bit. So, you know, because he started
getting these movies here and there.
So I he he might have because they was calling him new Sammy
Davis. OK, OK, OK, so where we landed,
gentlemen, it sounds sound like we got to vote for a bad.
So bad is bad not? That bad, so not that bad not.
That bad, Jared? I thought it was fun, yeah.
Hey, that's right, you guys, you guys are getting it now.
It's not that bad. It's about 31%.
Jamie finds the time. Jamie Dennison have a very long
night trying to find condoms. You know what, I have had this
experience. Like if I went back and watch
this movie now, I feel like I will be able to relate more
because I've been out and been like, oh, it's one in the
morning. I met this girl.
I need to find I need to find some condoms.
You are very, you are very, you are a very courageous man
because I meet you at 1:00 in the morning.
I really don't know you, you know?
You know, we had a we had, it was a vibe.
It was about sometimes you. See you and you're still here,
so it worked out. Not addicted to no drugs or
nothing. And I I I've heard.
So what are you doing? I'm going home, so you take
care. She asked me.
She did ask me to help her walk her dog.
She's like, you want to come walk my dog?
I was like, no, that's not what I came here for.
It's 2:00 in the morning. I agree.
Last last two white chicks. How gay bad did white people?
Like this? I didn't like white chicks for
real like. And, and white people didn't
like white taste because that it's like, oh, they can put
white face on and we can't put black face on.
You know how they talk. Yeah.
You know, I think like at one point my perspective was like,
you can do whatever you want as long as it's done well, because
then you, because remember Tropic Thunder had.
Yeah. That was, that was.
That should have been in in this whole thing, but yeah, yeah, but
yeah, I, I agree it wasn't it was it's always with it's always
buffoonery, you know, it's like and, you know, and, and they
really don't take that. They don't take being made fun
of well. They.
Don't. So it's probably so bad as bad.
So bad as bad all. Right.
Will you think so? Oh, it was awful.
That's correct. It was the IT was a really bad
movie. Yeah.
So Robert Roger Ebert said it required a full frontal lobotomy
to enjoy this movie. Roger Ebert.
Ebert. Yeah, that's always the movie
that white people say. Like Will said, it's the reason
why we can't do blackface. So yeah, they would have saw
that in line also. They could do they could do
white face, but we can't do blackface.
It's always a double. It's a double standard when it
comes to black people. What?
No, whatever they want. You was doing black, but you was
doing blackface before. We just want you to stop because
we could do the roles that you're doing and you're not
portraying us, you know, and this was something different
where they portraying. But now what's the difference
between us doing? Oh, here we go.
All right, you're right. You got it.
You got it all right, Last one, last one.
Leprechaun in the hood. Didn't see it.
I didn't see it in that. It was, it was good.
I think it's, I thought it was kind of I thought it was.
And and I didn't see it on purpose.
It was, it was a blaxploitation and it was like the leprechaun
is getting drunk and. It's a white leprechaun.
Which he's Irish so he don't get drunk anyway.
Fair. Enough.
Fair enough. But was he like drunken Hennessy
and stuff? Or 40s.
Or like yeah, 40s. He was drinking 40s.
They gave him a 40. He.
Should have been drinking whiskey, that would have made it
right, but yeah, didn't see it. In the hood, though, so we ain't
got whiskey, We got 40s, we got we got E&J.
We got at the at the liquor store, you got everything.
You do, you do and. But the, the, the, the 40s was
more so because they were like a dollar some, some change or
something. That's why everybody got them.
But you know, he'll leprechaun, he got gold.
He can go, he can afford him a pint.
But we stole his gold, you know he.
Was Oh yeah, that's what he was. At the movies, he stole his gold
and then he's killing everybody to get it back.
Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, it's.
A horror movie, you know. I, I you.
Said a snoring movie. I think that all those
stereotypes are what do white people like so so bad is good.
OK, OK, so bad is good. Probably because they're killing
black people, so go ahead. You know what?
Not quite. It's not that bad.
It's not that bad, you know, I'm going to see what it say here.
We we're not going to make it so bad it's good.
We're not going to make it great, but we're just going to
make it not that bad because we don't want, we don't want the
black people to know that we secretly trying to kill them.
Got it. We want them to overtly know
settle in this movie. Yeah.
All right. Y'all final score of the team is
4 out of 10. I I think, you know, in the end,
y'all started warming up. Y'all really started to kind of
like get into the mindset of these Rotten Tomatoes scores.
So we we're. Kind of we we're almost back.
So we are we, what's it called? Just OK, we are just.
Yeah, not so bad y'all. Not so.
Bad. We're not so bad.
We're not so bad all. Right, and that's today's game.
All right, let's get into the meat of this episode to be
movie. It was a surprising, OK, let me,
let me just go back When I was watching this movie, I turned it
on and I got on my phone. I looked up and there's this
shot where the two people were kissing and then and then it
goes around and they are nowhere near each other.
I said let me start this over without my phone.
Let me. Start maybe put your phone down.
Let me put your phone down when? Is about to answer, which is
foolishness. Oh my God, this was a funny
surprise and I was laughing the whole time.
When you've been writing this, what were you thinking?
What was going through your mind?
All right, so what's crazy about you saying, you laughing the
whole time, the way the Internet has us scrolling and scrolling,
stop. You looking, you scrolling,
scrolling and stop. I wrote kind of sort of toward
that so you so you don't scroll, so you don't turn away, so you
don't want to miss what's happening next.
So once that first that laugh hit, you're like, you need to
slow down laugh because you're going to miss the next laugh.
Because it was very joke heavy. Because like when Damon is
explaining to him like, Hey, we on the wrong side, he's like,
man, what are you talking about? We on the same side.
We on the we on the same side. And while he's saying that we on
the same side, we walked from one spot to the next spot and
then here we are. You see.
Hey, did you see that guy with a microphone?
Yes, and before and before you can say anything, before you can
say anything, damn it, say it. And he's like, I was just he
man, you know, it's like you start cracking up some more.
So when they walk in the house, that other part that happens
that a lot of people didn't see because they were still laughing
about the microphone. It's very joking, very joke
heavy. So the mindset was people on the
Internet posting these movies for with these bad scenes and
they tubey movies. Nobody knows the name of these
movies at all. Nobody knows that.
Nobody knows the name of these movies.
Nobody gets credit for these movies.
Everybody's called them tubey movies.
So why they call them tubey movies?
They're promoting this movie because this movie is not making
fun of the bad movies. It's creating a movie that
they've been asking for because they post these clips and get
people to respond, get people to comment.
So I created a movie that bridges that gap, which goes
back to the song. The bridge is over in the
credits at the beginning. The bridge is over because now
this is bridging the gap between the Internet and what you really
want to see, because now you're seeing what you've been talking
about for four years. You've been talking about this
end. Now there's a movie out there
that exemplifies exactly what you see.
And you can enjoy it without trying to cut it up because you
can cut this movie up if you want to.
But people don't want to see what this movie's about because
it has every element that people talk about on the Internet
except, except for it's not like anything that's out there which
says it in the in the disclaimer.
If there's anything else, no, this is this is satirical.
If there's anything out there, it's purely coincidental.
And if it is something out there like this, be a better film
maker. So.
Film independent film makers, studio film makers, you can do a
lot with this movie. This could be your blueprint to
how not to make a bad movie. Yeah, it, man.
Like this is intentional. Everything in here is
intentional. It's not by accident.
It felt that way. Yeah, it did feel that way and
it took me a second. I think like Jerry, like when I
first turned it on, I was like, oh, I was like this.
I was like, the quality is not that great.
I was like, it's I was like, what's going on?
And then like I started picking up.
I was like, oh, they doing this shit on purpose.
I'm like. Yeah.
Yeah, and then just like, just like the old son.
Yeah. Oh my God, that was so Nope, I
was. Just I was just about to bring
that up. That was the part that like
clued me and I was like, oh, this is that was like, this is
kind of heavy-handed. Yeah, our tubies because I watch
a lot of tubes, but I watch all the horror on tubes.
So I I do know about some of the creative choices that the
directors make, but are black movies on 2B really like?
That they post them all over the Facebook.
So it's one it's one movie. The first time I was really not
paying attention so I said this movie.
They say hey y'all should watch this.
This is crazy. This 2 movies is crazy.
I'm like 2 movies. OK, let me watch it.
Lady in the she's in the hospital bed and in a real
hospital room. I didn't have one but in a real
hospital room. So handcuffed to a bed, security
guard comes to the bed. She chokes him out with her
legs. I said, you know, I don't really
believe she's strong enough to choke nobody out with her legs,
but we can go with it. Let's let's say she is strong
enough. So he falls out.
Dude has locks shorter than yours but has locks, right?
He hits the floor out of the shot.
She reaches down to get the key off of him and he has a short
haircut. She takes a handcuff off, get
out the bed, go back down to him, get his ID.
He got locks on him again. So that's how bad this is.
So I'm not going to give you any more examples because it'll be
like I'm talking about or, or making fun of them because the
movie is not making fun of them. The movie is pretty pretty much
giving the Internet what they've been asking for.
Anybody who posts a bad clip of a movie, I'm giving you exactly
what you want because instead of me just saying I'm about to make
a bad movie and and y'all cut it up and then y'all say oh look at
this horrible movie. I don't get credit for it.
But if I make a a good bad movie or bad good movie, however you
want to phrase it, you will sit down and watch the whole movie
and tell your friends you got to see this because it's crazy.
It, and it definitely was. Now one of my other favorite
parts is you are saying with this hospital room and I text
the Marcus I was like this hospital room in all caps.
He was in He wants to just ask me like it becomes this like
house and he's like and she's like what's going on?
And she kept saying why is this van rackets only tissue and
doctor. She kept saying every time she
said it, I was cracking up. And then what the doctor said he
says something about like the the drug it steroids the
fighter. I got a flight response.
I'm. Like what are you talking about?
But that's epinephrine. So epinephrine does it aids in
your fight or flight response. That's true.
But it was in, it was in a Ziploc bag that was water.
It was written on top of the Ziploc bag with an extension
cord. So I don't want to have a tool.
I wanted to have it so ridiculous.
It was an extension cord. But the whole thing is what
about what about this hospital spot?
Did anybody say anything about that?
It was a smoking jacket. Oh.
I I yeah, the jacket. It was a smoking jacket.
I have a smoking jacket. Oh my God, this movie was so
it's like kind of genius because the days that you have done in
this movie, they like really make you think like it reminded
me of Airplane and Naked Gun and those type of movies from long
ago that were so. So what's funny about you saying
that so recently the first Toby movie to ever come out that's
not called Toby movie is I'm going to get you, sucker.
Oh, OK. Did you see it?
I did not see it. I heard of it.
OK. If you look up, if you look up
the diner scene, they have a guy who's the stunt double of the
mother of Keen, Ivy Waynes. She gets into a fight with a
dude in the diner, but it's actually the stunt double.
They didn't put. They didn't put no makeup on
them. They put a wig on them and a
dress and they left his mustache on them the whole time.
Nobody called it out. We saw it.
We saw that nobody called it out, but it happened.
You say Dynasine. I'm going to get you sucker.
Dynasine Dynasite scene, you'll see that and he got he has a
mustache. He has that.
That's the first Tubby movie. I gotta watch this later.
Yeah. That's that's the first Tubby
movie. And like, I think like, the more
I watched movies, the more I started to pick up on this kind
of stuff. I think like as a kid, like I
never saw like this kind of stuff.
They're like, oh, like if you watch Star Trek, you can see
like the wires on the spaceships and stuff.
And I'm like, like, I never saw it.
But then like as I got older and maybe I just got like more
attention to detail. I'm like, wait a minute.
I was like, this is supposed to be a a a little, this is
supposed to be a child in this fight scene.
This is why something they biggest shit.
Yeah, but you know, quality got better, so.
So I think and the signal when and the quality of video and
film was better in black and white than it was in color.
And the reason being we didn't we didn't care how good the
quality was in color because it was already color.
You know what I'm saying? See, with it being color, it's
like who found we got something in color?
You know what I'm saying? Because if you think about
watching 3's company, those colors were all over the place
that it, it wasn't anything that looked anywhere close to decent.
It wasn't until you watched Taxi where you get kind of something
going on that look, that spectrum.
But you know, when, when you, when the quality starts
increasing, you start seeing imperfections and then people
start calling it out. But I feel like at this point
it's kind of too late, you know, you know, it's over that
happened and it's over now. If you see that type of thing,
it's something new. They didn't call it out, but
something Oh no, I mean, and it's other things that that's
that happened in to the movie that a lot of people didn't
catch. Like what the doctor had a he
had, he had just had a piece of cardboard in his hand.
He didn't have a clipboard. Nobody caught it.
I thought, I thought people was going to catch it, but because
he opened the cardboard up and all that and I'm like, it's
really a piece of card. Nobody said that.
Like some stuff is is just too subtle.
It's like and it yeah, too quick.
It was like those details. Yeah, like one thing I noticed,
I don't know, like the the couple were the couple that we
started with in the beginning was like, those are my favorite
characters because every time they showed up, there's like
they will say be saying something like, oh, like this
ain't our part of the movie yet. Like we worked our way to the
plot, right? Right.
It is just so it seemed like like they kind of came online
1st and was like, hey, look, we're in the movie and this is
not making sense. And like maybe some of the other
characters started coming online as the movie went on.
Like was that was like that the plan or like from the very
beginning is everybody like we're in the movie and this and
this is, you know, and this doesn't make sense.
So the direction of the movie, first of all, when I'm doing all
these different parts where the characters, I mean, actually
break character and complain about things on screen, that's
intentional. I did not want to just have a
section where I am complaining here.
And then we move on with the story because it turns into
Hollywood Shuffle because Hollywood Shuffle was basically
a movie full of sketches. I'm just just full of sketches,
you know, it's a movie to have a beginning, middle and end, but
it's just sketch here, sketch there, sketch there.
I want the movie to have a beginning, middle and end where
everything is still flow while while I actually break
character, complain about what's going on because it made it
funny. And then also the intention was
having the comedians like Damon, Adele and B Cole, even though
they're always looking for funny or looking to be funny, they
were mostly calling out the bad stuff because it made more sense
in it. And I felt like that was funnier
for the comedians to be like, wait a minute, hold on, this
ain't right where you would think that they would just ride
on with it and keep it moving. Now tell me in in your writing
and you're directing, when you were coming up with this movie,
it seems so natural. Like was a lot of this improv or
did you actually write out some of these scenes?
Because it seemed completely natural that these people were
having these weird moments. I wrote out everything except
for the part with my daughter and I.
So you remember the two cars with my daughter?
Oh yeah, the cars. Yeah, that's one day.
One daughter with a guy said can we do this?
But I asked everybody because I said the, the the the follow
scene, it felt super long to me. And I said, I was thinking about
doing that. And then it was like, OK, and I
did it and it hit. Some people say that's their
favorite scene because she was like, like dad, dad.
I'm called director, director. I'm cold.
Yeah, that see, she's like like that child who does not want to
be there do with that thing that that seemed like an amazing
scene, but. That was that was the only thing
that was improv. Everything else was script.
Wow. And you came up with that?
Yeah, I there was nobody else to write it, so this is how it
happened. I kept seeing these films dogged
out by people on online. I said, you know what?
Maybe if I make a film that's self aware that the actors break
character and complain about what's on screen before the
people watching it so we can get a laugh of them laughing at us.
I mean, laughing with us instead of at us.
I wonder if that'll help. So I asked, one of my friends
said, you should write it. I said, OK, yeah, you going to
tell me I should write it because that means you work.
So then I called Damon, and Damon was like, yo, me and my
wife was just sitting here talking about that.
I'm like, really? All right, So then I wrote the
script. Took me about four or five days
to write the script. I think I really want to say 3
days about. I'm going to just say I'm going
to have it say four or five days.
Send it to Adele. Didn't hear nothing from Adele.
Dale hit me up probably a week later.
It's funny as hell. I'm only on page 19.
I was like, Oh, you haven't even made it to your page yet Because
she said this is funny as hell, but she hadn't even made it to
her page yet, right? But she hadn't made such scenes.
So when I did that, I mean, after that, it's just trying to
figure out how to coordinate everybody's schedule.
Because usually when I create a movie, I grab my I do my script,
grab the locations, lock those in and then the actors.
Because that means if you can't, if you if you're not available,
that means I have to find somebody else because my
location is already locked in. But this particular movie, I had
to work around everybody's schedule because I got working
comedians in this and but you know, I had to make sure that
everybody can be on board because these are people I
wanted in the movie. And this is actually I think
probably the only movie that I created where I said, you know
what, I want you, you, you, you, you, you all, all these people
that are in the movie. I want it in the movie.
No, it wasn't no auditions like it was a phone call.
Hey So what you doing on the 8th?
OK, how long did the filming take?
About six to seven months, I want to say 6 to 8 months.
And the reason why because I'm working around everybody's
schedule. Now think about it.
I don't know if you saw Sex Ain't Love.
Sex Ain't Love is another movie of mine you can watch on my
website, lokekey.com. But Sex Ain't Love.
Took 13 days to shoot. But but 13 days to shoot?
Script. Locations locked then grab the
actors so probably 2 months before we started shooting I
grabbed all the actors They were all locked in to the days we
were shooting. So there was no mistake on Oh, I
thought we shoot on this day. No, it wasn't like on the fly.
Hey, what you doing Saturday we got a location can we It was all
locked in. So that was for sex Ain't love
two people movie. On the other hand, Adele and I
text for probably like 30 minutes trying to land on a date
in December to get her scene done.
Oh, but but when everybody's, I think I started shooting before
I even got a confirmation without confirmation, but before
I got yeah, confirmation is right before I got, you know,
times from Damon and Adele and B Cole.
I just started shooting. That's, that's when I, I shot 3
times, first the three time you seen first and then I shot the
young, the young parents, the old son 2nd and then then I then
I shot the hospital room 3rd and then everything else.
And then Damon scene came after that, and then everything else
came after that. OK.
So that like kind of like the
major, the major scene, the major points done first.
Y'all available? Cool, are you available?
It don't, it don't even matter. We just go and do it.
I know she picked my I I need somebody to pick my daughter up
from school because she was 16. And, like, I need somebody to
pick her up because I can't because I'm, you know, yeah.
Shoot enough. Fair.
Enough. Let me ask because you can tell
that because like you said, after watching this movie and
what I felt like I was locked in, I still did not pick up
everything that happened. I I thought that like him say
Pew Pew with the gun. Oh my God, that got that was
hilarious. But like I'm sure that I need to
watch the kid to pick up everything else.
So like where did that come from?
Where did your love for directing and writing?
Like like how long have you had that?
Where did that come from? So what's funny, I never knew I
could write until college. Oh, you can.
I never knew. I didn't know.
And I was in English class and the teacher passed me a
paperback when it was a minus and I was like, what's this?
He was like, that's a minus. She had typos and some
misspelled words. She's like, no, I'm like, it's a
minus. So yeah, you're a good writer.
Really. I am.
I didn't know that. I was just writing down some
thoughts and asking what the paper was about and pushed
$1,000,000 in front of me. I was just pushing right back to
you because I couldn't. Tell you what it was.
Like, but you know, from that point on, I was able to, I mean,
I'm, I'm putting stuff together because it's a lot of stuff up
here. I had a very vivid imagination
when I was younger because, you know, I only had 2579 and
nothing ever came on those channels when I was at home.
So I'm playing with toys, creating my own stories and
narratives. So that's where that came from.
But when it comes to writing, I guess I evolved because with
this and another script that I can't really talk about because
as Jay said, he under NDA, I'm under something like that
because this other script is a is, is a IP of Marvel I can't
really talk about. But when I, when I wrote it, it
doesn't give you a chance to breathe.
Like it's bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
But it has to be that way. And that's the way I would
explain it because you don't want people to pick their phone
up and start scrolling. You want them to stay glued to
the the screen. They stay glued to the screen
and they leave the theater and they're talking about a movie.
That means it was a good movie. Anytime you go see a movie and
nobody say nothing about it or ATV show, nobody say nothing
about it, it wasn't a good show. I've told multiple people about
1 battle after the next. I want to go see the theater
again, but I forgot. I forgot also, they will kill
you. I want to go see that again.
But it was a because it was a good movie.
It was a good experience. It was a fun movie, but you
know, when people are not people picking their phones up and you
making a movie that just basically so people can scroll.
It's like, so for me, the way I what I what I evolved into
writing, which I saw not only with that last script I was just
telling you about, but with this script too, to be that
everything is booming. I don't give you a chance,
chance to catch your breath, which is good for studios when
you think about writing, because that means I need to see that
again because you know, I, I can't just see this once.
So that means instead of it being $15.00 for a ticket, it
becomes $1330 for a ticket. And that's better for the
theater because instead of us spending $40 that time, they're
going to spend another 40, which is $80.00 because they went to
the show. Twice, so go ahead.
I was just saying my writing has evolved into that.
Yeah. And and that's, that's.
And I didn't notice that until people kept telling me that they
laughed through one joke. They had to go see it again so
they can see what they missed. So they they can laugh through
the. I mean, see the other joke.
I had to rewind it a lot. That's how I was.
Laughing too much. I was the same way.
Like I, I go back. What was that like?
Was this folks sitting in the mirror and they just like kind
of slid? Exactly.
You said you were saying how when it's a good movie, people
lock into it and then they go tell their friends about it.
Do you think that sort of that formula has changed?
Like now with like social media and just like the advancement.
So like if it's a good movie, people are clipping it and
reposting the clips like well. Well, the whole thing is people
right right now, they fixed it. When you can't, you can't.
What do you call that screen record?
It turns, the screen turns black, so you can't do that
anymore. But if there's a good movie out
there, people are going to tell somebody about it.
If. It's a bad movie.
People are going to tell somebody about it.
But you know, the good movies, they don't share as much because
they don't. People who don't like to hear
about good stuff as much as they like to hear about bad stuff.
You know, they're like, oh, he shit the bed.
Oops. Am I supposed I can't curse him?
OK All right, cool. All right.
So you know, he's saying, oh, he's hit the bed on this.
Watch this bad movie. Watch the scene from this bad
movie. And he like.
And the point and the. And the problem with that is the
filmmaker that they're posting don't get any credit.
And you think about when you post, when you post it in any
video, you post it, say hey, you want to put some music behind
it. Yeah.
So Lil Wayne get credit for the song you play.
You know, he get well the filmmaker, they post the
filmmaker don't get no credit. Not only the filmmaker not get
credit, they're only called the tubing movie.
That's it. Where did your love for
directing come? From you know what, it's funny
because I heard so, all right, it wasn't.
I never really thought about it as something that I wanted to do
because I was, I started off being a shooter.
I was a camera guy because it's easier to shoot the footage,
give it back to you. Because just like the gold rush,
you know, people going to California for the gold rush to
look for gold, but they had to go to the pickaxe salesman to to
buy pickaxe is to pick for gold. Now, if you find gold, you're
good. If you don't find gold, you
still need the pickaxe. So I was a pickaxe salesman.
So if your movie was good, I'm I'm a cameraman.
If your movie was bad, I'm still a cameraman.
So I got I was on somebody else's movie.
I said, yeah, I can do better than that.
So I wrote a script, did a movie.
Then I was like, I guess I couldn't do better than that
because this is awful too. This is bad.
So then I dissected the movie, found out all the stuff was bad
and decided to Add all the stuff that I need to add to make sure
that listening to a Quentin Tarantino interview saying that,
you know, he used to want to be an actor because he noticed that
the actors are the heroes of any movie.
And then he started thinking like, no, the actors are not the
heroes of the movie because the director is the one who says,
all right, that's the take, that's the cut.
So the director is the hero of the movie.
So that's like, so when you ever you see a movie and you say, oh,
that actor was horrible in the movie, you can't blame the
actor. You got to blame the director
because he said, all right, that's that's we take a nap.
Let's move on to the next scene. That's the director's fault, not
the actor's fault. But a lot of times the actor
takes blame. And the director was like, but
you had the power to say, yeah. Let's take that.
Or let's do. It again because me personally,
I have you on set until you get it right.
If you go to my website, lokek-y.com, a movie called in a
in a movie called A job is a job.
You Scroll down there, it's a short film called A job is a
job. It's a guy that's it's two
people in a movie, a woman and a guy, A guy.
It took him 45 minutes to a. Hour to get his.
To get his lies, but I wasn't letting him out of there until.
You got it right, God. Lead Hey, I.
Wasn't I wasn't letting him out of.
There till you got it right but. Remember, the director is the
because they're people look at him say, oh, he was bad, but
that still reflects me. It reflects on me.
So I'll just make sure that, you know, whenever we're doing
something, we put out a good product and when you see it,
it's not like you looking at it like they phoned it in, like
man, this is good, this is really good.
And you can share and tell a friend about it now 2.
Years ago I wrote a movie. I didn't really, I think it was
going to do anything. I didn't really want it to.
I shared it with DeMarcus. I don't know if he read it or
not, but one of the days that I have problems with is making
sure that each character in the my movie felt unique.
That was something that you did to the 20th degree.
How did you really make sure that every character felt and
sounded unique in this movie? I have to give that.
To all the. Actors that that.
That was them. That wasn't me.
I mean, it was written so they had different, but the acting
that that the way they pushed through it.
That's why everybody said, what do you want to work with any
actors in Hollywood? Oh, these people in Chicago,
they killing it. They killing it because they
really put forth effort to make sure this was on pop.
So now as of recent what? Has elevated my writing was.
A book called. Story.
It's called this. Is this story?
And it's about as thick as the Bible and but it has elevated my
like I got into the first 3 chapters I was as I'm writing
another script now, I haven't touched it in like probably a
month, but I'm writing another script.
But it made me revamp the whole whole beginning of the movie and
I just trashed the first. Part and then it.
Started off from scratch and I feel like it's better by 500 *
500% is better. And I think that helped me flush
out my characters. And also it's a lot of times
that when you think about Movies Now, there's a lot of exposition
and exposition is because they know you're in your phone.
They know you're in your phone. You can listen just like, just
like Jay tried to watch the movie and then he said, I was in
my phone and I looked up, wait a minute, they're not kissing.
Hold on. Let me put my let me turn my
phone off, all right? All right.
I can't I I thought I'd be able to watch this with my phone but
no. So if you make a movie like.
That. I believe that that will carry
people back to the theater that will make sure that that because
because I mean I mean when you have a movie like that's that's
Plex. My movie's on Plex right now.
OK, Plex, there go your strain time, because every time they
play a commercial, you can pick your phone up without back.
You got to put it back down because if you continue to watch
it without while watching your phone, I'm looking at your
phone, you're going to miss the whole movie.
I've had people say, Oh, well, you know, I just didn't
understand how you didn't understand it.
What were you doing? Well, you know, I was I was
working. I said you can't watch it and
work. What you what you mean I can't
watch it and work? I said, it's not one of those
type of movies. Then they come back a week
later. It's like you was right and it
was really a good movie and I say I would you really.
Shouldn't watch a movie? And work or do anything else
anyway. So.
But right now studios are making movies just for that.
Like Invincible. I sent out 60 emails.
I was able to send out 60 emails while binge watching them and
but watching. The boys I.
Wasn't able to do nothing with my phone but watch the boys.
Are you watching the season of the?
Boys, Yeah. Do you like it?
It's OK. I don't remember.
That though I don't remember the seasons.
Before that and somebody said, oh, you need to watch.
The other seasons, too, I said. Yeah, I'll just, I'll just clip
it off right here. Yeah, the the season before on
the boys. Was not as good.
I think we have a lot. You think it's what I think.
I think it's got a little. Stale and I think a lot this
happens. With a lot of shows.
Like the more the longer it's on air, the kind of it kind of like
mellows out. Well, they try to end it anyway,
but they you can always go out with a bang.
But I think the the first, the first season of that show was
when freight train or whatever you call a train, a train, a
train ran into the girlfriend and blew her up.
And that was dope. I was like, OK, I'm listening.
And then Homelander came by, stopped for the robbery, and the
little kid said, can I take a picture?
And he tossed the guy up in the air.
And I was like, OK, he's all right, Cheese.
And the guy following the car and bouncing.
All right, I'm vested because usually when a superhero throw a
character actor or whatever out of the screen, they hanging on
something. Hell, get me down.
Nah, he he killed him. Yeah.
I'm not liking this season at all.
They have neutered. Or killed every black character
there is none. That that bothered me too.
They only keeping. They only keeping.
That one, yeah. And they just, I just saw that
they killed the the dude like snake ass from GI Joe.
I don't know what his character's name is, but it
don't matter because he's gone. Yeah.
The there's no. Real plot.
There was a whole 48 seconds of two people sniffing each other's
butts and Oh yeah, that's that was buffoonery right there
because they was in. The IT was like I so you can
smell what she ate today, but you can't smell them above you.
Exactly. And the characters.
All say that the season finale is going to be stupid and we're
all going to be like, that was very unclimactic.
And they're all setting this up for their Nazi movie or their
Nazi show that's coming out next year.
And in two years. What's Nazi?
They are Soulja Boy. They are.
Oh, with the Soulja Boy. Soulja Boy, OK.
Yeah, so anyways, especially. It don't even matter since they
killed him off. Too.
So yeah, anyways. You have succeeded with the
interview portion. You've got to come back.
I want to ask you our patented 17 questions now.
These are quick fire questions based on previous episodes and
some days that you may have said during this episode, these are
quick fire. But of course this is a podcast
that we want to know if you have anything else to say about them.
But they are quick fire. You're not you.
You could just tell us the answer.
So Are you ready for the 17 questions?
The 17? I don't even think I got 4.
Answers. OK, I'll go quick.
What? Superpower would you have?
You can have superpowers. I got to be quick, right with
the answers, huh? No, you don't.
You can. Take.
Oh, oh, what Sage has, OK. Yeah.
Yeah, 'cause. I was going to say Bruce Trent.
Bruce Trent doesn't mean anything.
They can see who. You are doing whatever you can
break open. You can break open an armored
car, but it's like, oh, Will did that.
Who do you? Favor professor X or Magneto.
Well, you know I'm bald. That's you can't answer.
That question. You could answer that question.
And I'm going to give you that. 1.
OK, what is your favorite comedy movie?
Dark comedy. Yeah, but no snatch.
Snatch, snatch. Snatch, snatch, snatch, snatch.
Snatch I got. I don't have a DVD player.
I still got the DVD. OK, OK, OK.
Let me see, as a director. Do you like binge?
Watchers Do I like binge watchers?
Yes. Or do you?
No. Week to week.
OK, OK. Because if once you watch.
The whole thing are you going to talk about?
It if you do talk about it, other people haven't seen it and
it's like, you know, it gives people something to talk about.
Gives people something. To look forward to right now
when you binge watch something now you I've now since I've
binge watched that show what am I going to do yeah if.
You weren't making films. What would you be doing?
Maybe a lawyer? Lawyer.
OK. A criminal or.
Prosecutor. Criminal because I know a lot of
criminals. You will never.
Go out of business. OK, Right.
As a parent of a small child. Well, you said she was 16.
See 19 now. OK, well.
Thank you, have a nice. New thank you wish.
She was smaller. What?
Shows were OK for her to watch. We watched all of them except.
For anything that had nudity. Like we all watched stuff
together. Like she, she watched Blade, the
part where, you know, I forget what his name is, the white guy
that was getting hit in the beginning, Fast forward past
that part, but everything else to kill him.
She saw all of that. And you know what's funny about
that? She wants to see it.
So I said you. Watched it.
I watched it and I was like, this is not scary at all.
It's more hilarious than scary. So then she watched it and while
she watched it, she laughed. I mean, I'm sorry, I laughed at
her because she was complaining about all the stuff that I was
thinking while I was watching it.
Like it said that door says. Scary, that door says.
Really. Scary, that door says.
Not scary at all. It's obviously the scariest door
at all. Why would she even go through
there? So great minds, great minds.
All right, what's better? Martin or Living Single.
Can I do a pass? As in, they are both really.
Good or both? Really bad.
I think the second 10. No, you know what?
Let's. Say, let's say.
Let's say you know what? Living Singles.
Better. And the reason why I say living
singles better is because at least we didn't have the
buffoonery of Wanda, you know? Or the janitor or none of that.
Yeah, that's. OK, OK.
Because let me ask you a quick question.
While doing a Rap the fire. Do you have a friend that acts
like Martin from the show? DeMarcus, Wait, would you?
Would you? Would would you want a?
Friend like Mark, we said DeMarcus, wait for real?
I don't. I don't feel like I act like
that all the time. You act like that more times
then. You are like.
DeMarcus, I don't know, I maybe. You.
Maybe you're. Thinking of like acknowledge me
before I had a chance to like fully mature before my frontal
lobe was fully developed. DeMarcus, I value for 15 years
you. You are.
My most Martin like friend that I most Martin like.
Not that I act like that. This is a quick fire question.
But the answer is. Not really.
Living Single. Living Single.
All right, Living single. We're going to living single.
OK. Who in your opinion?
Is the best gay Disney villain? Oh, I have to.
Apologize because I don't know. Any gay Disney villains I don't
OK my daughter. Grew up after.
She grew up off. From Disney.
I was done. Yeah, I was done because I
hadn't watched. All The Little Mermaid, I mean.
Not all. I watched the first Little
Mermaid. I watched all the Disney
princesses all the way down to Tiana and I was pissed off of
Tiana being a frog through the whole entire movie.
So, you know, after she was like, yeah, I don't like being
Princess. Any one of her girlfriends said
I don't want to be Princess no more.
Me neither. I was like, thank you for
letting her be a final with Disney.
And then that was the, That was the.
End of the Disney thing. So I don't I.
Don't a lot of people, Said Doctor Facilier.
From fridge at the. Frog a lot of people said Ursula
from The Little Mermaid so I don't think we said that Ursula
was Ursula was gay. Well, I don't think because.
We had this whole episode about how.
Cartoons would make villains gay coded gay coded.
In the 90s. And in the past and we, but she
was brought up a lot. I mean, she was Butch, but she
wasn't. Really.
But Ursula? Was.
Based off of the drag character. Divine, who was a drag queen in
Florida. Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't.
I I I didn't. Learn something new.
Everyday. Learn something new everyday.
OK, what is your? Favorite TV?
Theme song. I don't have one.
I hate TV theme song. Do you?
But just think about it. It's why.
You playing? We live in, we'll get into the
show. That's that.
That's space for the show. Like my fluke show does not have
a theme song to it. My fluke show.
You see the opening scene is the opening scene and then whatever
happens during that after the opening scene that makes you go
whoa or ha ha ha, then Fluke pops up, creator Will Adams, and
then the show starts. So for me watching just for me,
just I, I really think that it's a waste of time for the tickers
because you can add more show. Fair enough, fair enough.
I miss TV. Theme songs.
I like. It it's got to be a good one.
Yeah. OK.
What? Is your favorite.
Adult type cartoon or favorite cartoon you have watched as an
adult? It used to be The Simpsons until
they started trying to be like Family Guy.
Yeah, yeah. Which I feel like it was just.
A robbery for us 'cause The Simpsons already had their own
thing, their own formula. Family Guy was trying to be The
Simpsons. But you know how the producers
go. Hey, look, you need to be more a
Family Guy. But we already got our own
thing. Yeah, we get it.
Be more a Family Guy. We we saw.
We we come, we come on at 7:00. Yeah, we understand.
Be more or less a Family Guy. Yeah.
All right, all right, you are tasked with giving.
Aliens, a movie that will save. Humanity after they watch it,
what movie do you give them? The Matrix 00.
That's not a bad. Answer.
OK, I can see that. OK, OK.
Who in? Oh, maybe no followers.
Yeah, go and follow. I want to follow.
Like it's like, are you giving
them? That movie like once they watch
this movie. Like the plot of this movie will
make them want to save the human race or is it This is such a
good movie that humans have done.
They will want to preserve humans.
No, they will want to save the human race because we.
Use batteries for AI because they didn't they didn't they
didn't call it AI again right, right you know, but makes.
Them want to rethink. About the whole all right.
That. AI do everything.
Yeah, OK, great, great answer. Who?
Is the best dad on? TV he's he's no longer the best.
Comedian. But you know, I would say Mr.
Cosby and the reason why he he. Created He created the show
different. World because that's where
Denise was going a different world, Miss Feldman, that's
where Denise was going. Hillman, Hillman, that's where
Denise was going. And watching that show made me
want to go to college before I didn't want to go to I never
wanted to go to school because what you going to do?
I'm going to get a job at steel mill.
It went, I didn't even know what the steel mill was.
But that's why that's why I hear was I'm going to get a job at
steel mill, worked there for 70 years and then get my pension
and then die. But you know, watching that show
and I was and I went told my friends y'all they said what
college you going to? I'm going to Hilman.
They started laughing. Me and Hilman ain't no damn
college, Brooke. I definitely say I was going to
Hilman. After watching that.
After being, you know, having that in my life for so many
years because The Simpsons and Bill Cosby started up, The Cosby
Show started up at the same time it was on.
I think they even rivaled. Each other on that.
Thursday, Cosby started at 7, Simpson started at 7:00.
So I wasn't really watching The Simpsons because I was like, I'm
riding with Cosby Show. So right.
Are you going to watch the reboot on?
Netflix. What of what of a different
world? No, I, I I finished college
shows so I'm OK. Who is your favorite?
Superhero of all time, Hancock. And I'm mad that will.
Smith didn't do another one, but I.
Heard that it was budget issues or getting people to come back
issues because I felt like that was a franchise that could have
spun off and become being big as Marvel, being big as Marvel and
and then I was like. OK, well, he did.
Hancock But now he's doing Suicide Squad.
You went from being the main superhero.
They asked powers like Superman and in which we've never seen.
And now you're doing Suicide Squad, a shooter.
So, you know, I was more so like, man.
That would have been. Because the movie is dope, You
know, it's a dope movie. He's a he finds out why he's
having these issues. Now it's time to build on that
story and go further. Yeah, find him a new nemesis,
that probably. Has the same powers.
That he has or don't like? That he has powers at all.
You know, I would like to see that.
Who? Is your favorite black?
Character who is in black and on the past, we say like Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles. We say Panthro from Thundercats.
Yeah. Do you have Dragon Ball Z?
Dragon Ball Z do you have? What's his name?
He's in Tropic Thunder. Thunder.
Robert Downey Junior. Tropic Thunder, OK, who is your?
Favorite. Rapper turned actor.
I would say Mark Wahlberg. And what's funny?
Is I never listened to any of his music.
I didn't know he rapped. I didn't.
Know he was a musician, Mark. Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.
Oh my. Goodness, man.
Yeah. I'm a Tupac.
What? I'm a the Queen.
Latifah, of course what? Because I've seen him play.
He's played fun, he's played goofy.
He's. Played soft, he's played hard.
So that's, you know, Will Smith is pretty much hi, I'm Will
Smith, you know, just like. Just like the rock is.
You know, he's always just out. Yeah, well, I'm the Rock, so I'm
going to go over here and do this.
And, you know, only time I've seen Rock play something softer
than when he played the gay guy on shit.
What's the name of that movie with Josh Travolta?
Get Shorty. That's the only time he plays
soft. And he still really didn't play
soft then. He still played pretty much
tough and rough and hard. He did not play soft at all.
He was. Still the rock.
No. And and Get Shorty.
Did you see Get Shorty? Yeah, Get Get Shorty.
He was, yeah. He played again.
No, he was still getting. His foot and he just.
He had just started getting roles.
That's what I think he played. He took that role, but he he so
when you look at him in Central Intelligence and Get Shorty two
different actors. Yeah, yeah.
OK, two more questions. I did 17 that quit.
Wow, that's crazy. Yeah.
Kevin Faggy. And James Gunn.
Come to you and tell you to like a solo movie based of why and
their characters in Marvel or DC.
Who do you pick and what is the premise?
I'm actually. Writing a A.
Movie similar to that, and I can tell you about this because
nobody knows about it, but this is the one I remember I was
telling you I'm writing it, I'm sorry, talking about it, but
it's Superman. Superman has a son Superman
loves They have a son, but they die and the son is.
Not a superhero. He is actually.
I'm not going to say a. Bad guy, but he doesn't view
the. World like a.
Superhero would and he's just making his way doing it little
backroom deals or whatever. So but he he eventually becomes.
A superhero when he learns. The truth.
But right now, in the phase that I'm at, he's pretty much not
villain but. A crook.
That sounds incredibly and it's. Almost.
It's almost written in the same. Vein as Hancock because thinking
about Hancock coming. Out and then you seeing him.
Having superpowers and everybody's scared of him and
then he having to change and or, or I call it Orion because
that's what I call the character.
Even though my boy, he's a big DC fan.
It was like, well, you know what, Orion was somebody else.
And then I said, no, we going to name this kid Orion because he
that's because Lois Lane and Superman are dead.
They're not coming back. And he's left here and there's a
boy that's trying to be filled, filled by the police and they
can't handle the amount of crime that's happening because because
he's committing the crime. So we got cameras that got 360
frames per second. And they still can't.
See him because he's moving so fast still, so OK, OK.
And his grandparents already been there.
His his mother. No, it was his mother, right?
Yeah, it was his mother. No.
Grandparents, right? You know Superman's mother,
right? Grandpa?
Yeah. So.
Yeah. So his grandmother is basically
telling how awesome a person his father was.
Because if you think about his father, he was this superhero,
but people still shitted on him and he he never gave it a second
thought. So he he taking it from that
perspective. Like look what he he look at all
the abuse he took. You know the mental abuse.
And look, now, what does he have to show for no life?
I'm going to do things the way I do it.
And pretty much that's how the movie's moving.
And but he moves with caution so nobody really knows who he is.
And he moves with stealth because he can fly, he can see
through stuff just like his father.
And he has, he has everything his father got.
But the twist of him is kryptonite makes him stronger.
But the villain? The villains.
Don't know that. But they also don't know.
That he's Superman's son. OK, OK, I have so many follow up
questions. But we are running.
Swiftly out of time we. So yeah, you got to come back on
what you have that more complete.
OK. Final question.
You are given. One fictional item from any
fictional world. What do you pick?
A time machine. OK.
Like a Doctor Who style. Time machine where I can go back
like, oh, like the lottery. Numbers what, yesterday?
Thank you. Thank you.
I'm kidding all. That lottery money.
Because if, if nobody ever win it yesterday, I mean, today I
was like, I'm. Going back and I'll win it
today. I'm a win today.
Now if somebody won it yesterday.
I'm not going to. Knock them, but if you didn't
win it yesterday, I win it yesterday and I'll do it.
I'll win probably like 6 or 7. Times, then I'll.
Stop. You don't think they'll they'll
catch on and be like, hey. This man is doing something to
win these lottery numbers. Win this, to win six times in
one lifetime. Oh my God, I won again.
Y'all Oh. I keep winning.
Yeah, yeah, you. You and.
Now they have to. Prediction, Marcus, You could
you could do a lot with a time machine now.
All right, well, thank you for coming on and sharing your
genius with us. I have never spoke with somebody
that actually love their craft as much as you do.
You can see it in your work, but you can definitely hear it in
everything that you're saying. You gave us so much laughs with
this, Like I wonder what another conversation with you that it's
not recorded. I wonder what that's like.
But you are such a delightful person to talk to.
You are an amazing, amazing director and inspiring writer.
I've I've gotten some gems from this and you are just an amazing
person to be around. Thank you so much for coming on
this show and I hope that this wasn't too much of intrusion on
your day. No, I just can't wait to come
back on the show so I can see my my my poster behind.
And I was already. There we fixed the post.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, can you tell our listers
where they can? Find you.
Let's say we're going to say LOKE, k-y.com.
Because that shows. You the current work, the
password and all my social media so and go to another page you'll
find about me. So that's the best way because I
I don't have like sway like sway in the morning on everything.
I this will Adams here is shy time will here is WWA video.
So you go to WI mean yeah, www.lokekey.com that shows you
everything LOKE key.com. I'm on it right now and we will
of course. Link it at the bounded show.
Notes DeMarcus. Do you have any final words?
Don't be afraid to watch a bad. Movie, don't be.
Afraid to make a bad. Movie.
I made a bad movie, but it was just happening to be good.
To. Watch a bad movie to watch a bad
movie. I could do other things with my
time. You know, you see a lot of, it's
a lot of great books out there, but how do you know?
How do we know? How do how do we find the bad
movies that are it's so bad it's good without giving the bad
movies a try? Well, you know from the
beginning when it's not intentional.
And it's bad at the very beginning.
This to be movie was a very intentional.
So it lets you know at the very beginning with text like this is
going to be a ride. And I left it up there long
enough for everybody to read it because I, I, I tend to read
slow. And I'll say, are we reading
like this, satirical? And I started to say, I'm kind
of hungry. What?
Oh, yeah, I need to keep reading.
So I left it up there long enough for everybody to read it
because I know that people read slow because I read slow.
And so when you read it, you'll get the full experience from
watching the movie and enjoy it. Now, when you have a bad movie,
it's just bad. It's kind of bad.
And you like I spent an hour in change.
Of my life. Watching this like somebody made
a movie still owe me. Two hours of my time.
All right, and. That will end today's episode.
Thank you again, Will, and we'll see you next time on Black Geek
Energy BG. Thank you for having me.