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What We've Been Watching: Spring Edition
In this episode, we discuss our spring watchlists. Shows discussed in this episode:
- "Swagger" (Apple TV) delivers authentic portrayal of young Black basketball players navigating social movements and showcasing Black joy
- "Court of Gold" (Netflix) and "I Beat the Dream Team" (HBO Max)
- "Paradise" on Hulu presents an intriguing take on end-of-the-world scenarios with unexpected plot twists
- HBO's Luther Vandross documentary reveals the music legend's struggles with crossover success despite extraordinary vocal talents comparable to Whitney Houston
- Ikon Media Short Film - Tomorrow Is Your Day.
- And more
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• "A Thousand Blows" on Hulu
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Hello Massive and Crew. You already know Another episode of Reels and Rhythms brought to you by Carry On Friends in partnership with Style Plus, beer Vibes and Red Fruit Media and Reels and Rhythms brings you commentary, reviews and perspective on what's going on in the world of TV, film and concerts concerts with plenteous vibes as only Michaela and I can, and this is all through the lens of Caribbean culture, caribbean American immigrant. First, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, all of the generation experiences. Michaela, why are you laughing?
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Speaker 1:You know, you always go have the tall ear and I will have the ear.
Speaker 2:It not tall today. Can you take out the brains?
Speaker 1:Yes, will have it, not all today. Can you take out the brains? Yes, so in today's episode. I love these, um, what we've been watching episodes because we get to talk about a whole bunch of stuff we're watching. So, yes, this is our what we've been watching spring edition indeed indeed I've been watching a lot of stuff, but my only one focus upon a few teams. Um yeah, so I'm excited. And then, after we talk about what we've been watching, we talk about what we look forward to.
Speaker 2:Either new release or something will already come out that we haven't watched yet, so I was looking at the list I'm like there's only a handful of overlaps, overlaps, yes, I think that this would also be interesting. So should we save the ones where we overlap for the end or the chat it out tonight beginning?
Speaker 1:No, do like what we did do the last episode you just run your list and then me run my list, and then we just talk to whichever one.
Speaker 2:All right, all right, all right. So on my list I have swagger, which is on apple tv, zero day on netflix, the walking dead, the ones who live. Which is on netflix, trial by fire on netflix. Lots of netflix recently back in action um. Apple cider vinegar on netflix, apple Cider Vinegar on Netflix. Young, famous and African on Netflix, luther Documentary on HBO Max, clean Slate on Amazon Prime and Paradise on Hulu. Lots of things All right, some overlap, all right.
Speaker 1:So I did start Zero Day and you know what? I didn't watch too much of the mix up thing and my brain no need the entanglements, so I watched the first episode of zero day. So me get to finish that. Um, I'm watching paradise on hulu. Well, I don't watch paradise on hulu. Luther on hbo, max, court of goal on netflix. I beat the dream team on dream Max. I did watch Night Agent on Netflix back in action, we watched that. And then I've been really enjoying some short films and projects by Icon Media straight out of Jamaica, and I watched a documentary on the history of surfing in Jamaica, which is very interesting, and a short film called tomorrow is your day, all right.
Speaker 2:So what's swagger about? So swagger is about it stars um O'Shea Jackson, um son, I didn't want to run into my teeth in Europe.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, I did. I did watch that movie. I didn't put to let in my teeth. And now you're up. No, no, no, I did. I did watch that movie. I didn't put it on the list. So, no, this is. This is a. It's such an underrated series. I think you would like it. The boys would absolutely love it. It is a teen back, not even a teen, he's a preteen. When we are introduced to him, he's like 13, 14 years old basketball phenom and, um, he is going to yeah the one that um kevin durant had something to.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's kevin, okay yes, it's kevin durant's production company, um, and it follows. It's only two seasons and it stops there. It's on um apple tv and it's really the journey of this young basketball star basketball player and his team and I love how they kind of position it. It's very in modern times. It says at the beginning it was like pre-ABC and it was like pre-Brianna Taylorlor black lives matter movement. But the way that they had should I write it down in the notes? And so like it was their journey in this current situation, like it goes through covid and what happened to the protests, and it's not a real story. Um be Amari, um um Ahmad Aubrey yeah.
Speaker 2:Rihanna Taylor and maybe.
Speaker 2:COVID COVID. Yes, yes, pre-abc, yeah, that's that's how they kind of started. Um, and it's such a great story, it's such a refreshing experience for a young black cast young, young Black boys experiencing like, watching them, experiencing joy. It gave me so many heart palpitations anticipating what was next, but it ended on such a beautiful note that I think that it's a really good watch. And if you remember Annie, the remake with Jamie Foxx and Quvenzane, so Quvenzane is in there and she's all grown up, so you know you see her in a much different light because she's his best friend. It's definitely just a touching tug at your heartstrings kind of story that Kirk and I both watch and enjoy. So I watched it as well and it was really good.
Speaker 1:A lot of sports themes in our thing because you watched the swagger where I watched the documentary, and I know me and your husband watch court.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, the two of us chat through my ears. I thought, boy, this is a documentary.
Speaker 1:Years I thought about this documentary yes, and then um backed up watching. I beat the dream team and you know nico, and I had watched, you know, over covid, the dream team documentary. So it was very interesting, um, to see, because I personally liked the players, the college players. So, um, you know c-web, you know grant hill, all of them, so you know Grant Hill, all of them. So it was very interesting just to see that angle of it. And, of course, court of Gold was really just nice to watch and just see it from that angle, which is like we've seen it, watching it as it's happening in the Olympics. And now to see the behind the scenes and the preparation behind it was really cool.
Speaker 1:I did like that they showed the players enjoying the other athletes, like following them to go watch different Olympic finals. Of course, sga, his mom is a track athlete from Antigua so he had to go techie in the men's 100-meter finals, so that was cool to kind of see that as well. So, yeah, there's definitely a sports theme in there. I want to save the two that we watched together for last because I really want to go into them. Anything else you want to talk about, I mean let me see.
Speaker 1:I think apple cider vinegar is worth to watch too listen no, listen, alright, I'm gonna say this, and I don't know if I want to edit this out I does not want to watch any more white scammer stories. Exactly, you said it. I does not want to watch any more White scammer stories. Exactly you said it, I did not. I don't want to watch it because I feel like the treatment glamorizes it and if I was somebody else of color, it wouldn't get a special artist level of treatment. That's just how I feel. Yeah, me, can't watch it.
Speaker 1:Besides, what I haven't told you is that my watch how I Escaped a Cult. I watched two episodes the first episode and I was like, oh my God. And then I scrolled down and saw the black episode with the black cult and I was like, oh God, I'm traumatized. So my husband is like why are you watching? I'm like because, me curious. You know, none of them said that, oh, I'm going to get up today and join a cult. None of them said that. All right, it just so happened that, as they were going along, they were in a cult.
Speaker 1:So I'm curious because I'm not going to say I will never fall victim. I want to understand how this happened. This happen, but it's traumatic. And then we watch the hulu one with the woman who gets sentenced for abusing 60 years, for abusing her kids um I didn't watch that one so my good, my good pun is the scammer, and all of them me. Just good.
Speaker 2:Pun it, my good no, I, I was intrigued and it's funny because one of the actors that was in the an Delvey story she is in this one too, so that must be her lane. It's scamming because she's also in another show on Netflix. So you know, I think that it is what it is. I totally understand I liked young, famous and African, but I wanted them. I'm like, do they just get dressed up to go sit down in all of these events and extravagant gowns that they're wearing, just to sit at a table where nobody is? I'm just like. I want some life.
Speaker 2:I want to see more of what they do in their day. All they do is sit down and talk about issues that they have with each other. I want to know more about like their careers, like what they do, like take me on a swanky shoot. Like I want to see swanky, like in his element, doing his thing. You know Annie doing her thing with her kids. I mean, I know you probably don't want your kids in there, but a lot of them aren't just socialites, so I feel like they're only highlighting that particular part. So I like the people on on young, famous and african. I do want them to show more of like them and their working element, besides all of this drama, so that I think was probably the only other one walking dead. You don't really watch them, type of sure, this so and then zero day. I feel like zero day and paradise there are.
Speaker 2:Just that's why my paws off for the zero day because I was like wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait interesting because you told me about paradise, but I watched zero day first, so I'm not having the same reaction that everybody else is having around paradise, and I think it might be because I I watched you or watch zero day yeah, yeah, um, okay, to be honest, they're not really the same, but it's like this presidential yeah, yeah, yeah element to it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it feels similar uh, yeah, I don't know when I'm gonna go back into zero d and I'm just like I just need a minute, you know, um, and because lately I feel like I've been like having brain fog robert denier, a character that I remember, and they go say you know who is so and so is so-and-so. At the end I was like, lord Jesus, no, me need a break, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's an. I do like the angle. What I love about is, you know, these types of themes aren't new, but what they are bringing is different angles, as long as you like kind of watch it through. So that initial shock is there and then when you watch it through, like you see the nuance and the differences and it's like oh gosh, and it's just like how do they come up with some of these things? Like it's so so, so interesting. So for paradise I, I didn't watch, I didn't get to I didn't get to my other one.
Speaker 2:All right which?
Speaker 1:is Icon Media's Tomorrow Is your Day. It's a short film. May I try and remember how short it is? Yeah, it's about 33 minutes, but I really enjoyed it. It's a short film filmed in Jamaica and I didn't know what I was getting into, but I think maybe in five, 10 minutes I kind of had a sense I was picking up certain things. And it follows this young boy and his friends and they're almost like what I would call them the street boys, the young boys of Madepaneroda, jamaica, and one of them is extra special and the reason why I'm excited about or I like it is because I feel like it's a different genre, you know, of film. I don't know if I'm going to give away everything, I just want people to watch it. It's almost like I want to say a little sci-fi-y, without being a sci-fi. It kind of reminded me of when I watched it, supercell. It kind of reminded me of Supercell.
Speaker 2:So you mean special in a good way? Way, yeah.
Speaker 1:Like they have, it's like.
Speaker 1:I want to say almost powers, yes, but it's not like dress up in a kia pa everything. But I did enjoy watching it because I was like, oh OK, yeah, so I would watch Tomorrow Is your Day because I feel like, as it unfolds, you kind of realize what is happening, and I would love to see it developed a little bit more, because as a short film it's just really in a compact time, but it's worth a 30, 33 minute watch. So yeah, now To Paradise. I watch every single episode and you know, luckily for you, you are spared the wrath of when I'm watching something and I am mad with certain characters. I pick up the phone and I'm texting Indira. I'm like this woman, I don't like her. Sinatra, yes. And the psychologist, she's a fool. You see, she's just gullible. She thinks I was chasing the whole time. I'm like I'm pre-the thing.
Speaker 2:I'm pre-the thing, I'm like I did pre-S sinatra and I like, I was like about the therapist. I was just like she seemed too convenient.
Speaker 1:I mean you're going, you're planning for watching last episode?
Speaker 2:I'm gonna watch it. Yeah, I'll probably finish it tomorrow.
Speaker 1:I mean I was just she. She keep defending sinatra and I'm like my girl, wake up, wake up and see you know the color of the sun. But I really truly enjoyed it because you know, when you watch a lot of movies you kind of can see the plots and where it's going. So you kind of not really chat out the movie but you already know. You know we can chat it out with my husband because my husband said, babe, what you know, what you go up and this and this and that go happen, and he's used to it. But for this one it was just like I don't know what is gonna come here. It's so unusual. But Paradise, I was telling Nico that it reminded me of another similar movie, to your point that these aren't new, um, it was with Chiwetel, um, but this time that they were where they were on the boat.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, noah's Ark, noah's Ark, yes yes, end of the world, and it said one. It said one one, 2012 was the name of it. So I was like this idea of the end of the world. Only few people go or survive. I personally feel like them are writing a story about it. My God believes. Rich people them already booked them ticket on a space shuttle with their families. Yes, I fully agree.
Speaker 2:I fully agree, and I'm going to go take the black people where they like.
Speaker 1:Yeah, listen them. Have an earth exit strategy right and we are not part of the earth?
Speaker 2:exit strategy. We are not part of the earth. Exit strategy. Yes, I have already come to that conclusion.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes no, we are not part of it, but yeah, like enough movies have done it, I'm like this is happening in real life, you know that's what happened with a lot of sci-fi, Because if you think about it like Eagle Eye, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:I loved Eagle Eye, if you think about the concept of Eagle Eye and where we are now iRobot, irobot, you know, it's all the like someone thinking of it, and then eventually it kind of-.
Speaker 1:Or the technology exists, and by the time this is what I think by the time they put it in movies that this is happening, they've already developed the technology that surpasses that. It's the same thing about-.
Speaker 2:I think I was. I was watching something. It was something science related. It might have been like a clip or a video and it said a lot of times scientists use sci-fi as, like the, imaginary exploration of what could happen, and then they kind of use that as the hypothesis and then start to work towards well, what if? What would this look like? So it's like art imitating life, that's imitating art kind of a conversation, which I it's definitely interesting.
Speaker 2:But, like you said, I think, if any kind of end ideas thing would just like a prayer to the lord and and hope for the best.
Speaker 1:And yeah, that's how we yeah, but you know, I've been trying to watch eagle eye again, but my non-pfeat, you know.
Speaker 2:But I really did enjoy it I did like yeah, yeah um, sometimes we feel like more, what's something like really good, I'll watch it um, I think, if you're, if you need like a, a refreshing different perspective, clean slate is good. It's a, it's a comedy. On on on amazon prime it has. Um, I think his name is george wallace is a, he's a comedian, oh yeah, with um laverne co.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's basically about her character returning. He left Desmond and came back, desiree, to this Alabama city with her, her dad, and it's really that coming home kind of story, and it's it. It is pretty funny, like it's hilarious, so it's a good, hilarious, so it's a good, like it's one season, um and it's laugh out loud Kind of funny it was. It was a good watch. If you liked um, like the neighborhood with Cedric the entertainer, or like um, what's that one with Mike Epps on Netflix Upshaws I've been watching that Upshaws. Yeah, if you like Upshaws, like stuff like that, like just feel good, laugh out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sometimes we need a break from the trilla the suspense the pie pie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a good one to to, to kind of break too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I did enjoy. Back in action with Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz, I did enjoy and it's funny we mentioned Annie, and they were both in that too. Yes, my girl said it is my what she said, something like my extraordinary thigh muscles that kept you alive. I was just like mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:They were good together. They had really good chemistry. Yeah, I did enjoy it too. Them kids was bratty though. Oh my God, I wanted to ring the little gal.
Speaker 1:As I was watching it with my sister-in-law. My sister-in-law said yes, little boy, right question you asked. She done asked the wrong question, like little boy's, like you know. But I did enjoy it. It was a good laugh. You know the look the girl was like it's your mother's white. You don't like him because he's white and I really like Glenn Close as the grandmother yes, and the boyfriend in my top secret.
Speaker 2:You're not really here for that sweetie. It was good. Yeah, I yeah. It was an easy watch.
Speaker 1:I think I watched it like on a friday night yeah all right so the big thing that we are saving for last is luther. Can I tell you I love luther vandross like. I cannot tell you how much I love luther vandross like as little as I knew about his career.
Speaker 2:I did not know he was from harlem, I did not know about him being on sesame street and it's just like this is crazy, because I grew up watching set like old school sesame street and I don't remember, but I don't think by the time I was watching Sesame Street that he was on there. I think it was in those early years.
Speaker 1:Early, early days.
Speaker 2:And I'm just like he had a career.
Speaker 1:But let's talk about that, like when. I mean, there were some things I didn't really realize about his career and this is what I enjoyed about it. So let's go back to sesame street. The creator of sesame street model sesame street of harlem yes, yes, and I was just like.
Speaker 2:I do know that yeah I did not know that. Yeah, I did not know, because if you look at the, the structure of, of, like, those old, like when they were outside, it was basically you saw the bodega, you saw like the school bus, the school like in the, the houses were in, like, they were basically like row houses but you also have to remember when you are watching sesame street, or at that time I don't have any context yeah, yeah of what harlem is, and by the time I come here, Manawa, Tessamy Street, either, the Pitney, I mean, when Ira was young, all she watches Elmo's world and Elmo really wasn't on the street, you know, he was in his own world.
Speaker 1:So, um, that was fascinating to know. So I did know about him growing up in New York. I did know that his family calls him Ronnie. I did find it fascinating that I knew he worked with Roberta Flack, because when I was growing up in Jamaica I loved my brother and I would kill this movie that was on VHS called Bustin' Loose and it starred Richard Pryor and Cicely Tyson and the entire soundtrack was Roberta Flack and in the background Luther was singing. You know, like backgrounds on some of the songs there and I thought like, oh my God, just so beautiful.
Speaker 1:But what I didn't realize was how he worked with David Bowie.
Speaker 2:You know, I did not know that she, I did not know, that I didn't know, but I like I didn't know about the commercials. The commercial, like I just didn't know, like I also think what was so intriguing and it wasn't the first time, I think even the Whitney documentary kind of talked about how much she loved background singing and how that was a legit career option to just do background vocals for people and the frequency of what they would do and live performance and that's how they honed their craft. And I think the last true stories that I heard around background singers is Sheryl Crow and Mary J Blige.
Speaker 1:Actually, no, we missed one, kelly Price, because remember, Kelly Price was background singer for Mariah Carey.
Speaker 2:Me never even know that. Oh yeah, Me never know that.
Speaker 1:You just tell me that, and I've heard of singers?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I never knew that. You just tell me that and I've heard of singers I know singers who have turned writers but the ability to kind of transition this background singing career into they didn't just sing back up on stage, it was on the records and multiple records and for different kinds of artists, records and multiple records and for different kinds of artists, and I'm so in love with that 70s, 80s era of collaboration that happened between artists that I just think doesn't happen anymore. And so just watching it from the outside, like jam sessions, and being in the same studio and going next door and doing this and going somewhere else and just tinkering on different types of instruments, does that happen though? I don't know. I'm making assumptions, but I really just don't know if that happens.
Speaker 1:We're not musicians, we are music lovers, and I don't know if the artists nowadays are finding ways for that collaborative initiative, because it is human to collaborate. Like you and I, we find ways to connect and to collaborate. So I'm thinking they find their own way. We just don't see it or it's not really visible to us. But back then in the 90s, 80s and before that, it was clearly visible because there was no one doing it in their house. They had to go to a studio, to a place kind of established to do that, so it was easy to see them assembled in one place.
Speaker 1:But one of the shows that I edit, they always talk about how a lot of the songs that we know of Luther are not his songs.
Speaker 1:they're mostly songs by Dion Warwick right and it was good to kind of see how he felt about Dion and, like the Supremes, and how much they were an inspiration for him, that for him he felt it privileged to sing their songs. And notice he didn't try to sing their songs when he started out. He did them at a point in his career where he felt like he had done something enough to be able to give the songs justice. I mean, the Dion version of the songs are classic but Luther just gave them a whole new life and I love those stories where someone could take a song, cover the song and make it an entirely new thing, the way that you know Whitney did the I Will Always Love you, you know, like, like there's just something about that.
Speaker 1:But the other thing that was fascinating for me was hearing, I think for the first time, luther feeling that he was boxed in and he didn't win awards or he wasn't able to cross over in a particular way. I think that was new and I think it's because of who he was that he didn't make a cross over in a particular way. I think that was new and I think it's because of who he was that he didn't make a fuss out of it, I mean the weight thing.
Speaker 1:I didn't pay it any mind because, fatar Skinny, I love Luther you know, I think when I look at the documentary I keep thinking the one regret like I remember listening to the radio and he was at Radio City Music Hall. But also, at the time I was young, I was in my early 20s, you know.
Speaker 1:So going to a Luther concert was like, oh, I got time until I didn't you know, so the other thing too, like Nico was like I've never seen the interview with him and Oprah after the stroke and I'm like I don't remember seeing that either, and that was for me very striking and I think that affected me. After I've watched it I couldn't help but think about it and think about how he must have felt because he lived to sing. You know he didn't sing to make a living, he lived to sing and you know, having experience with someone who's had a stroke and who didn't get medical attention within that critical window, it is difficult because you're never going to be the same again. So for me, not only did it kind of bring up the emotions with my experience and my loved one, but to see somebody's music who I enjoyed so much, kind of in, that really affected me a lot, yeah, but it was wonderful, I loved it.
Speaker 1:Just to sing.
Speaker 2:It was just amazing and there were so many parallels between he and whitney in terms of like, just, they were like singers, singers like singer and they were like fans of singers and true to their gift, to the very end, Like I mean, I remember his dance with my father song. I remember you know the song, with the video with Garcelle Bouvet. You know, like I remember him being on 106 and Park and not even really thinking that that was like his next act kind of situation. It was just like oh, that's Luther, he's like a legend. You know what I mean. I just think it was so nostalgic and to really learn a lot about his early years. I have so many memories. My father loved him.
Speaker 2:Some Luther, All he would play is Luther Michael Jackson. Like all he would play is Luther Michael Jackson, a couple of disco records and like two Tupac songs. But the catalog was like Luther jazz and like a couple of deep cut records that he, he, he happened to enjoy. But Luther was on repeat all the time. Luther was on repeat all the time. All the cassettes, all the like vinyl. Like you cleaning the vinyl, Like I have, you know so many really good memories and just like he has such an extensive catalog too.
Speaker 2:And can we talk about the fashions on stage too? And can we talk about the fashions, on, on, on stage like he was having, like these full sequence, the gowns and the clips that they had.
Speaker 1:I believe there was a show he did. I mean it was the same costume, but at Radio City Hall there is some special they did. They filmed it and I remember seeing that, like he was a singer, and I think this is the part that I didn't see not only was he a singer, but he was really arranging and he was deep into the production and I did not realize that about him, like he was doing the, he was doing everything and it was just like, yeah, wow, I'm not saying I'm, but it was just how he carried himself. You're just like, we just know him as a singer. He was way too nonchalant for the talent that he had.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. Like he could have been, but I feel like he seemed to be that way amongst his friends Because remember when he won that Grammy, he's going to be like you're going to address me as award-winning, but to the public he was just so gracious, almost too gracious to a point, because I was so annoyed with some of the questions that they were asking. I'm like his weight should not have been an issue or a topic of conversation, Because I think that by focusing on it so much, it hindered his confidence in the public eye. And everybody loved Luther. And to make his weight a PR moment, I want to throw whoever that publicist was over a rail.
Speaker 1:I think you just hit the nail on the head. He was so gracious beyond gracious about his talent and he was humble, like we just didn't see. That's why we didn't know the challenge he was having being only played on black radio and I think I just felt like I don't want to say Luther could be more, because he is more, but I just felt like he was denied, really, that ability to shine fully, truly, because he was black and he was big.
Speaker 2:Yep, because talent-wise and range-wise and song category-wise, him and Whitney were basically in that same realm. And if you remember, a lot of Black radio didn't want to play Whitney's early records because they sounded too pop-ish, pop-y and you know and remember like those really slow ballads were extremely, extremely popular. We call them like sappy ballads, but we love them because we are Yachty, so we love souls, our souls, it's not even this is, but we love them because we are Yachty, so we love souls, our souls, it's not even. This is why we grouped them in the same category, because vocally and talent, from a talent perspective, and it's the same to us To me.
Speaker 2:Luzga and Whitney is right there. It's just that the world saw them, awarded them very differently and they, you know they had their, but their voice was their tool, it was their magic. It was something that I'm just like those voices, even like now, I'm like I don't care what Mariah looks like on stage. She could stand there and just sing. I really don't care Mariah's voice, her catalog, she ain't got to do nothing. But Mary ain't got to do nothing, but just stand up there and sing. You're not going to tell me nothing about these legends. They don't have to perform and do all the acrobatics that the young people are doing, the catalog that they have, with just their voice. I didn't even know about the moment with him and mariah talking, speaking about mariah, like, but it was like singers recognizing other singers, like, and that that had like this vocal range of. I mean, talent is one thing, but but you know his voice alone, like even that. I got chills when they just told me he did it in a commercial and then he didn't share it ever again.
Speaker 1:I was just like no, no, no, no he didn't want to, but it became a signature. No, he said. They said once he did it in the commercial.
Speaker 2:He never did it again in another commercial because it became his signature sound.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, so ah yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm glad they did the documentary because I think that it kind of really solidifies his. You know the the catalog and the respect catalog and the respect I'm totally looking forward to if it reaches biopic level and put him on a big screen and and do his story.
Speaker 1:You know, completely, I'd watch it speaking of which michael jackson biopic not supposed to come out later this year?
Speaker 2:I saw the announcement and I haven't seen anything since, so I I can't confirm nor deny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, but.
Speaker 2:I just love. I cannot confirm nor deny. I truly enjoyed Luther, you know who I think could actually do his biopic really well, at least from a singing perspective. Wolf James Is it Wolf James?
Speaker 1:He did the new edition. Wolf James, hold on. No, wolf, not in my name. Something.
Speaker 2:James, luke, james, I was like no, no, no. On his Instagram. His Instagram name is Wolf James, so that's right, luke James. All right, I was like wait, luke James, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. I didn't get the DM Roof. Luke James, luke, look James, look James, look James. Yes, he has a phenomenal voice, I think he would be able to carry it.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I don't really care who plays Luther. I will always have Luther playing. I just love so many songs. I don't have a favorite. Right now, as we're recording, there's nothing better than love is playing in my head, and that's the one he did with Gregory Abbott no, the actor, he was also in wait and text hail Gregory not Gregory. Hines. I love that song, the video for it I think it was a black and white video, so many songs.
Speaker 2:That's also true. He didn't have, like. I can't remember a lot of his videos. I remember his music more than I remember the videos. I remember the later videos because you know.
Speaker 1:He did have some. He had a few, but, and then the song with him of Janet Jackson. Maybe he chose not to do a lot of videos. No, he did a video for the Power of Love. Power of Love.
Speaker 2:I remember, but it wasn't just him, it was like him and other people and it was like a mirror.
Speaker 1:But I think that was a treatment for back in the day Because no one was dancing, it was just like when we walk down the street. Yeah, you know all of that stuff. Well, that's what we've been watching. So what are you looking forward to?
Speaker 2:I only really have a short list. I couldn't think of any major projects. I did watch squid games. So the second half either the second half of the second season or a third season is supposed to come out. So, um, there was a big cliffhanger for that. And then there is the show on Netflix called Mo. It's about a Pakistani guy who gets into all kinds of trouble.
Speaker 1:He's about to be in Mexico.
Speaker 2:It left off with him in Mexico. The second season is out. I haven't watched it yet, so I'm going to watch that.
Speaker 1:I'm looking forward to A Thousand Blows. That is a period one. It's on Hulu where the Jamaican guy that fights may fight for my whole country?
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, he did send it to me.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, Um, so I'm looking forward to watching that, just to kind of see what that is, um. But I'm also going to go in the catalog. My coworkers who be knowing what I do Um, there they you know one told me about a film, that, or a project or a documentary that I really think we should watch. It sounds fascinating. I don't know where it's going to be available, but I'll tell you off the air, just in case we don't get to watch it. But we should definitely try to watch it. But that's what we've been watching Spring Edition. We'll probably do another one before we wrap up the season around the summertime, because it looks like the studio has not come out with much or anything, given that Faya Bondong, mosa, la, and where they would typically film, so some production is probably going to be halted typically filmed, so some production is probably going to be halted. Um, we will continue to go into the catalog. Yeah, I think that's a good place that we could go.
Speaker 2:So we'll see Plenty in the catalog.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we'll see if we reach our June. But me think June is a nice place because if it takes summertime fun and just go on and palaver, enjoy the summer. You know what I'm saying as much as we can, yeah, as much as we can, but that's it. That's it, man. I have nothing else to say. Later, walk good All these things, take care, bye, bye.
