Happy Juneteenth! The Blackening Recap

[00:00:00] Hey, what's up fam? It's Chappelle and I am back with another episode of Recap Kickback, this time celebrating Juneteenth. That's right. This podcast is just in time for the Juneteenth celebration that I really hold near and dear to my heart here in Texas.

[00:00:34] And so because of Juneteenth, we're going to talk about a movie that is centered around Juneteenth but has nothing to do with it at all. Okay. This is our official Recap Kickback recap of The Blackening.

[00:00:49] And you know, this is a lot of fun, but I could not do this alone. So with me, I have some first time guests here on Recap Kickback. Number one, first up, being Camille AF. Hey. Camille, what's good? Nothing. Thank you for having me. I really appreciate it.

[00:01:06] The movie was fun and this was a good, we're going to have a good time today. Yeah, I bet we are. And especially because, you know, this was a momentous occasion, you know, bringing Camille on for the first time.

[00:01:17] So I felt like I needed to get one of my OG friends to come on for his first time as well. Somebody I know who's just silly enough to make this podcast go right off the rails. It's AJ Norris. AJ, welcome. I'm glad to be here.

[00:01:31] Finally, I've been missing my invitation in the mail. I've been checking Chappelle. I finally got it. I was like, baby, let's do it. And I'm here with Camille. So happy, excited. It's going to be a fun time. Yeah, it really is.

[00:01:41] First of all, thank you all for listening to Recap Kickback. Again, we do this every week, but I always have to thank the listeners because without you we don't get to do all this positive black shit that we'd be doing on this podcast.

[00:01:52] So keep listening, keep commenting, click like, subscribe on this YouTube video and show some love so that we can keep this kind of content going. But in the meantime, I do want to get a little bit into our guest here because it is your first time.

[00:02:07] So Camille, tell everybody a little bit about you. Hey, so my name is like a double entendre because I was in the Air Force for 23 years. And then now that I'm not in the Air Force, it stands for as fuck.

[00:02:20] But I did something completely different when I left the military. I sell weed now. I work in a dispensary. I'm a bud tender. So that's kind of my thing. And then I started a YouTube channel because I'm bored and I needed a hobby. And that's what I do.

[00:02:35] So I do reaction videos. I actually did a reaction for this. I just posted it today. So after this video, you could check that video out. I'm also covering House of the Dragons. So I'm getting back into it. I'm very inconsistent.

[00:02:45] I just want to whoever's listening, don't expect like she's going to be on time because this is a hobby. So yes, and listeners, you got to get into the way I came across Camille. I've seen Camille's content before on YouTube.

[00:03:00] I'd seen her streaming on Twitch and I thought, okay, cool. She's a bud tender. We have similar interests. And so I'll see what she got going on over there. But she DMed me and said, hey, look, I know this sounds crazy, but I think I could come

[00:03:12] on and be some help to the podcast. I did some vetting. I got my boy AJ involved. He did some vetting. We said Camille's good to go. And so Camille, very happy to have you. Thank you so much. I passed the background check. That's good. That's good.

[00:03:26] Now, AJ, you never passed the background check here on Retreat Feedback. So how did you end up here on this podcast with me today? Tell everybody where you come from. That's a great question because if Camille's inconsistent, then what the fuck am I?

[00:03:43] I just pop up whenever I can. Like AJ, I've been with RHAP, like class of 2020 with Chappelle. But outside of that, whenever Big Brother season's on, mine and my damn business, basically. Staying out the way. Worked in politics, and then I left politics, went into the entertainment.

[00:04:00] And now I decided to better myself, and I'm currently going to law school, which is exciting. Pray for your boy. I need it. Yes. But like overall, I'm just a Gemini that's here to have a good time.

[00:04:13] And have a good time we will because we're going to talk about the most unserious movie I've watched. The Blackening. So The Blackening is from 2022, and it is a horror comedy slasher film. So when I saw everybody talking about it, I thought, okay, I'll get to that eventually.

[00:04:34] It didn't feel like something I just needed to stop down and watch. But recently, I've been seeing more and more people talking about it again and saying how good they thought the movie was. So I was like, okay, I have to check it out.

[00:04:45] And I have to have just the perfect panel of goofy people to talk to me about it. So I watched it. I had a lot of good laughs, and I definitely wanted to be able to recap that with you all.

[00:04:56] So Camille, what did you think about The Blackening? I loved the opening sequence so much. I wish that the whole movie, that energy in the beginning. I was jumping out my chair. It was good. I was screaming at the thing.

[00:05:10] But I do have to say that immediately, I knew I'd be the first person to die. Yeah. Look, that's a good question. And we do have to stop down on it because we can't talk about the movie without answering some of these horror movie trope questions.

[00:05:25] AJ, they asked several trivia questions throughout this movie. One included is, who are the black people who survived the horror movie? We see our characters get this question wrong. They say Jada Pinkett. I believe they say Omar Epps. We know they don't make it through Scream 2.

[00:05:44] I've seen that movie enough to know that that's not how it happens. And so, AJ, can you name somebody? Some black characters that survived horror movies. So I'ma be a buck with you, right? Oh God, AJ.

[00:05:58] I was like, oh yeah, Regina Hall and the Wayans Brothers in Scary Movie Dayzen. And then I went back, I was like, wait a minute, they died. Wait till you see. They live. They died in Scary Movie 1, but they came back. They came back in Scary Movie 2.

[00:06:17] I couldn't think of one. I couldn't think of anybody that survived. But like, I was, I couldn't either. I was like, us? Like they made it out? They did.

[00:06:29] So off the top of my head, I'm not a big horror movie person, but on top of my head, I know I think Brandi Norwood survives I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.

[00:06:37] I think, if you want to count Deep Blue Sea, LL Cool J somehow survives that. I think Busta Rhymes and Halloween H20. You know, you sprinkle us around every now and then and we typically make it to the end.

[00:06:52] But normally, we're just not the ones who make it out of the horror movie. So you know, I have an uphill battle here, AJ. We are the ones who are not dumb enough to get ourselves in that situation in the first place. Let me tell you something.

[00:07:06] When they rode up on that cabin in the woods and being like, oh, this is shady. That's when I would have turned around to them. What? What are we doing in those woods? We're black people. We don't do this. Yeah.

[00:07:18] And that kind of like goofy stereotype is really what they lean into in the movie, right? Like just the tropes of, you know, this is a horror movie. But if these were black people, the horror movie would be going a little bit differently.

[00:07:31] You know, there would be moments where we would just shut stuff down. Camille, there's a couple times where a door will open and then one of the black people will just go shut the door. You know, they won't go through the door.

[00:07:42] They just push it closed and call it a day. But in this scene, she went to the door. She's like, hello. I'm like, girl, close the door. You had to say hello twice. Like no. Matter of fact, open the door.

[00:07:58] I'm running out the back door because, yeah, shit shouldn't be happening. That shouldn't be happening. Yeah. They definitely put them in spots where it's like there's a logical decision and then there's like a black decision, right? It's like, OK.

[00:08:09] And then they put them in a situation where they have to choose between those two things. It's like, OK, all the doors are open. Do you leave the house? Obviously you want to get out. But what if you leave and he's outside and you're stuck in the woods?

[00:08:20] You're like, God dang it. Now what am I going to do with this information? And so we see those twists and turns throughout this movie. And I really do think that it was a clever way of having one of these spoof movies.

[00:08:31] Like I said, I went in kind of thinking that it was going to be like Scary Movie 1 and 2, but this felt a little bit more subtle than them. A.J., Scary Movie 1 and 2 felt like to me, they just took all the biggest parts of other

[00:08:43] horror movies and just made them funny. Whereas this felt like its own horror movie that just happened to be funny throughout. Did you feel the same way? Oh, I felt 100 percent the same way.

[00:08:54] That's why I thought going into the movies, I was like, OK, there's going to be riffing on these already established horror movies. But now that black people are in them, we're going to treat them whole differently.

[00:09:04] But truly they were like, no, we're putting them in our own scenario. We're putting us in a position. And how would we react? And especially because I think it was Dwayne, who is actually one of the actors in the movie. He's one of the producers in it.

[00:09:17] So he's like, no, I'm not just going to do a hee hee ha ha. I'm going to have a comment. I'm having a subtle commentary along with now, let me tell you how we really going to do it. We ain't the stereotype.

[00:09:26] Like we can sometimes act a fool. But like when it's time to get serious and business, baby, we're playing. Yeah, for sure. So one of the big things that happens in this movie is that they're playing a game called The Blackening.

[00:09:38] And our first two characters that we end up seeing are played by, I think it's Jay Farrow and Yvonne Orji. You know, Jay Farrow's character does not make it out of the first scene. Pour one out for Sean. Yeah, but Yvonne Orji's character does make it out.

[00:09:57] And her name is Morgan. And she apparently has assembled her friend group. It's been 10 years since everybody saw each other and she's got the friend group together. They're all meeting at this cabin as a reunion.

[00:10:09] But Camille, there is one person who from Jump we should all be weary of. Who the hell invited Clifton? Why isn't he even here? He's just randomly at the gas station and then he just walks in. I was so confused on who he was the whole time.

[00:10:25] I kept going back and forth like, wait, is he part of it? Is he not part of it? But even still, if I don't recognize somebody like that, like I'm not comfortable with you staying with us this weekend. Yeah, you can't go.

[00:10:36] Especially he's all crooked mouth and stuff, you know? Yeah. Like if this was just like a party or something like that, it's like, you know, I can avoid Clifton. You know what? Clifton's here. I don't have to deal with him. But staying that night, we're here. Yeah.

[00:10:52] Like who? Like that was a lie. Like we asked who's coming for a reason. I don't know Clifton. They ain't know Clifton. Like Clifton don't need to be here. I don't care if he was like a good intentioned angel saint. Homie, you gotta go. And you know what?

[00:11:06] You know what the biggest problem was? The whole iPhone situation. He's an Android person. Like that's... We try to keep it a nice classy household, but somehow the Android user just keeps sneaking in. Now, obviously this is a pro Apple home. You know, we are pro Apple home.

[00:11:21] What we do here. What we do here on Rekindle Your Bag, we keep it classy, but you let the riffraff in and this is what you get. Because I could not understand for the life of me why they weren't questioning him

[00:11:31] more. He has nothing to do with anything that they do. They're not similar in any way. You can tell they're not really close friends. They don't... Nobody gets his name right. So I'm like, you know what? Nobody gets his name right. So... No. They didn't even remember him.

[00:11:44] They didn't remember him. She was like, I remember. And apparently this was a significant party, but they don't even remember his ass being there. So, yeah, you would have been weird. We ain't sitting in the woods with a stranger. I ain't doing that.

[00:11:56] Well, like I am the person who's like, who are you from the whatchamacallit? Yeah, have a drink. Yeah, he needs to be able to explain himself. And I don't think he did a good job, especially like AJ said, if we're staying overnight.

[00:12:10] If it was just a function and he there, you're like, I kind of remember him, but I don't know. I'm going to keep my distance. You know, maybe they cool, but we'll find out kind of slowly.

[00:12:19] But you jumping right into the same living quarters as this man and you don't know anything about him. Yeah. So immediately I was like, see, the black folk, black folks, we slipping. You know, that's why we ask who all going to be there.

[00:12:30] You're not supposed to just say who all going to be there and then show up when random people be there. When somebody walk in that you didn't know was going to be there, it's time to go. That's the end of the movie. All right. Peace out. Yep.

[00:12:42] So throughout the movie, we're going to see the friend group and their dynamics play out amongst each other. When we first meet Morgan and Sean, it's really difficult to say how long they've known each other. We don't we don't get a lot of Sean.

[00:12:55] He gets his throat slit very quickly by a masked character before Morgan is kidnapped and we don't see her until later on. But we do meet the rest of the friend group all in the car.

[00:13:05] And so as they're coming, we get to see the dynamic between everybody else. So we meet Allison, who I believe she's biracial and they're not going to let us forget it. At some point, somebody compares her to a zebra.

[00:13:18] And I just thought, you know, what are we doing here? Look at AJ, he's like, well, points are made. We also get Lisa, who seems like aside from Morgan, she's like probably our primary female protagonist in this. She's really close with her friend Dwayne.

[00:13:43] And then they're also joined by Shanika later on. And we'll see them interact with Nnamdi when he shows up. But the initial conflict we have is that Dwayne's happy. They're all going to have a good time.

[00:13:58] But Lisa and Allison are doing this thing that we'll see several times throughout the film where they're communicating, but they ain't saying nothing. They just kind of they looking at each other. Camille, you have experience with this. Yes, I actually do.

[00:14:10] This actually happened maybe a week ago at the grocery store. Me and this woman had an entire conversation walking past each other. I complimented her outfit. She complimented mine. We told each other, have a good day. It was all but all silent. It all happened.

[00:14:26] It has to happen like that sometimes. Sometimes you be close quarters AJ. You gotta just give somebody a look like. Well, see, I know the look of like we going. We gotta go like that. Look, I understand. But I don't know. Escape look. Yeah.

[00:14:40] Maybe it's more of a woman thing. You know what I'm saying? I don't know. No, you got it. You got it too. No, I think sometimes you got to be able to especially I do think for maybe it's

[00:14:51] from like from a male perspective, it is kind of like a this is a safety thing. So for us, so we're not just having like silence conversations, but we definitely checking in, you know, like somebody say something weird. Somebody say something wild.

[00:15:02] I'm a glance at AJ real quick. Like you heard that right? And AJ thinking it's a time to go. We trying to run like, you know, not yet. So now we look, I'll let you know when it's time to move.

[00:15:14] Um, but in this movie, yeah, it looked like a few of the women just had that connection. I think it wants you to really good friends with somebody, especially if you're black, you have to learn the short term, like, you know what, you

[00:15:25] know, hone in this skill at the club. Because yes, you dancing with that dude. You try to get your girl's attention. That's where soon as we get old enough to go to the club, we start like perfecting the internal talk. That's where it comes from.

[00:15:42] I'd even say that even just being a minority in like predominantly white spaces, sometimes you have to find a way to find the other black person in the room, make sure they cool. And then also communicate with them when white shenanigans start popping off.

[00:15:53] You know, it was kind of like, Oh, that person is getting way too excited right now. Let me know. You know what I'm saying? Let me make sure y'all good. You know, it's one of those things where you just got to make eye contact long

[00:16:04] enough for you to really have the conversation and they're going to use this telepathy throughout the entire movie to communicate. Um, so yeah, so that that's the friend group. We don't meet Nnamdi yet because he's going to be a source of conflict too.

[00:16:18] There is one part that that's really important that happens in the car. And that is when, um, Alison mentions that she, she's got all the goodies. She's got the shrooms. She's got all the drugs because drugs are going to play a big, big role in this movie.

[00:16:35] So many drugs, so many drugs and they do the real drugs. They're not the real drugs. They're not doing for play play. Miss Molly's going to show up. I think Adderall has a good time on this trip as well. AJ, you don't partake in Nnamdi's shenanigans though.

[00:16:48] This is not, this is beneath you. As we are recording. I do not partake. Um, yeah, I like to party. I'll just say that. So from, you know, whatever that means to you. Uh, but, um, yeah, that is very important because those, the drugs are going to take

[00:17:08] a toll on several different people throughout and it's going to affect things. You know? As the local, like legal drug dealer on the podcast, don't slip people things. They don't know what it is. Like if it's an edible, like they're just going to eat and go to sleep.

[00:17:23] Like you could trick somebody with an edible, but the, but what was her name? Um, Alison, she told Dwayne to open his mouth. He closed his eyes. He's thinking it's going to be like a cupcake or something. And she throws a Molly pill down his throat.

[00:17:35] You don't do that to somebody. Yeah. He look, I think for Dwayne, he says that's my drug of choice. So maybe they had that, they had an understanding already above, you know, like, it's like if I slip something to Camille, like I know she a bud tender.

[00:17:47] I know what to give her, you know? So he's like, that's my drug of choice. But you don't, you definitely don't throw Molly in somebody else's mouth and you would out like, yeah. You got to consent to that because just you, if you tell me he's a Molly,

[00:17:58] I'm going to go panic attack. I'm definitely going to be like, okay, how do I survive this? You know, that you do that for. And so they start off on the wrong foot. I think that's another thing that we might need to highlight in this movie

[00:18:10] is that for all the ways that people say black people are supposed to like survive horror movies. We love a good shenanigan. You know, sometimes we'd be doing extra stuff that really could put us in

[00:18:20] the line of fire because AJ, they're going to a cabin in the woods. Maybe you shouldn't all be high, you know? Maybe that's the safest thing to do. I understand. Like we are going to a cabin in the woods. We should not be.

[00:18:33] But my other half is like, I'm going out for the weekend. We're having a good time. It's been 10 years. Like, you know, it's a cabin. I can see the pictures on Airbnb, but it's not going to be the full thing. So it's like, you know what?

[00:18:47] I can let my hair down until I see the full thing. Yeah, that's probably fair. Yeah. Cause, cause again, I kind of see what you're saying. You about to go on vacation a little bit. You with your people, you're going to turn up. We're going to be bottles.

[00:19:00] We're going to be party favors, you know? Uh, but then at the same time, what if something pop off? Who's going to be the one to rescue us? Because if the Molly starts going around, I'm no good. We're dead. We're just going to die.

[00:19:11] And there's not going to be nothing I can do. See, this is where someone like Clifton, not Clifton, but someone like Clifton who like do not partake. That's why they are invited. We are a party. So we have someone here that can save us. Yeah.

[00:19:25] You got to have a designated, yeah. Designated driver type. There's it'll make sure that we can all get out of this bad boy alive once the shenanigans start popping off. Um, so that's a great point.

[00:19:36] Cause we're going to, we're definitely going to have to revisit that a couple times. Later on, we see Nnamdi, uh, who, um, I believe he shows up and he's unexpected. Dwayne does not expect him to show up at all because, uh, Nnamdi and Lisa

[00:19:50] have had an on again, off again relationship. He's cheated a bunch of times. And it seems like every time he does the cheating, Lisa runs to Dwayne and just, you know, Vince to him and he comforts her. And, um, she is ashamed Camille.

[00:20:03] She is ashamed that she is dating this man because she knows Dwayne is going to judge her. But this feels so real. This feels so normal, right? Where people go back to that one person you tell it, Hey, you said we told you

[00:20:16] stop going to them, they not good for you, blah, blah, blah. And then you backslide and then you got to shamefully tell your folks or your friends, you can't show up to Christmas dinner with the person that you told him, you know, this is nasty behavior. Yeah.

[00:20:31] See, I'm when I'm, when I'm done, I'm done. So there is no, I've never really went through that, but I have had friends that love, love to do that. You just gotta let them do what they do. You know what I'm saying? People are grown.

[00:20:41] You ain't finna sit here and talk my ear off and get all my, my empathy and emotion just for you to turn right back around and go back to the person. And us have to have the same conversation in six months. So girl, you know what?

[00:20:52] I support you do what you do. I'll be here when you want to go have some fun. I'm not going to judge. I'm a, I'm a, I'm a leave an open path to talk. You know what I'm saying? But, but we ain't listening to every six months.

[00:21:08] You know what I'm saying? And plus my face don't hide what I'm thinking. So even if I am trying to like, be like, yeah, girl, good for you. She, she gonna know. I ain't even gonna say that. AJ, you got any experience in this realm?

[00:21:22] Like, so here's the thing. I don't need to be judged. I understand what I'm doing is not right, but I'm just here to have fun. You just gotta have a good time. I'm just trying to have a good time. I don't need judgment on top of it.

[00:21:36] Just be there for me when it all goes down. Like that's all. And I know it's asking a lot of you, but I'm going through this too. I can't go through this alone. So here's the issue though.

[00:21:49] Like you, you know, darn well who Dwayne is, you know, darn well who he is. What you doing bringing both of them around? You know, it is not going to end up well. He's not going to miss well.

[00:21:59] Like if you're going to do this to each other side, not with the person who will judge you. That wasn't the right time to bring him. I don't think. But I did. I enjoyed the conversation that him and King had out in the back when he

[00:22:12] was telling them, like, you ain't changed. I was like, everybody needs that friend right there. That's going to be like, yeah, I hear all this shit you saying, but it's all bullshit because you just said it six months ago, right?

[00:22:22] And we haven't really talked about King yet, but King is here as well. Apparently he is the reform thug. He's now, uh, he's now a little bit more Zen, a little bit more woke to some things. He's also dating a white woman.

[00:22:34] And so they're starting to question his blackness and question people's blackness throughout this film is going to be the running through line. Right. Cause we know Alison is biracial, so, you know, they're going to get on her a little bit.

[00:22:45] Uh, King, we know he was a thug, but now he's dating a white woman. So that, I mean, that could go either way. Maybe he is black, you know, they throw that joke out there too.

[00:22:54] Um, but then of course you have, uh, our favorite Clifton who, um, later on throughout the film, we will find out that, uh, Clifton is black. You know, but he's making some interesting choices that maybe doesn't agree with the, with the dominant population here.

[00:23:11] Uh, so we'll talk about that once we get into the game of the blackening. Uh, but first, but first, um, spades. Yes. Yeah. AJ you play spades. Yes. Okay. I need to make sure, you know, Mari don't play spades. AJ. I know.

[00:23:30] I thought one time, I think it was what we were wanting to be seen. It was like, we're going to go play spades, something like that. And like, here's the thing. I am a better person because of this movie, because I have actively have you taken black?

[00:23:46] Say that again. I said, have you taken black cards because of spades? I've taken black cards. Like, listen, here's the thing. Like, I feel like we are in 2024. If you don't know how to play spades at this point in time, this is like you

[00:24:01] choosing not to know how to play spades. It's not a thing like, oh, I wasn't around the people that around me didn't play space. You can find people who play space. You just been choosing not like, I feel like there's like a personality for them.

[00:24:14] I don't play space so I'm different. Like get the F out of here. Camille, what about you? I grew up in a military family and any black military family. They have a gatherings on the weekend and they stand up and playing spades and all

[00:24:35] the kids trying to look. So as soon as I knew what cards were, we was playing spades. So yes. Now I have gotten ridiculed for, for things that I've done in space throughout my life. I kind of understood, you know what I'm saying?

[00:24:50] You're like, I just, it was a mistake. I was drunk, but you know, you can't fuck up in spades with certain people. Right. Every look, everybody will renege at least one time in a life it's going to happen, but you have to deal with the consequences.

[00:25:04] You cannot hide from it. So when it happens, you're going to get jumped. We go, we go and ridicule you. People gonna say you suck. You sorry, you not good. They're gonna take your black card or whatever. You have to come back and fight another day.

[00:25:16] You can't leave with that blemish on your record. And, um, it's just, it's common knowledge, you know, for, especially for the celebration of Juneteenth, you know what I'm saying? Like they got there. That's probably the day that the most spades are being played in the United States.

[00:25:33] So I love that they spent time just really focusing on, okay, we're going to play games, but we're going to play our games, you know, uh, one of the games I don't like, you know, this is completely off topic, but I'm not gonna lie to y'all.

[00:25:47] I hate playing Uno with black folks. I hate it. Cause cause I'm, I'm, I listen as chaotic as I am, I'm a rule follower. I'm going to pull out the paper. I'm going to be like, you can only put one card down.

[00:25:59] You can't stack and you what, what do you mean? You can't reverse reverse. It's not even your turn no more. Like that's me. AJ, I can already tell you a problem. Uh, you AJ, yeah, you be, you be stacking up. What do you mean? That's how you play.

[00:26:15] That's not how you play. The Chappelle like pause. I saw the tweet. They was like, Uno provides the cards. We do the rest. Like if you know, listen, the game is called Uno because you play one card at a time. One card.

[00:26:31] You don't get to play Uno because you say Uno at the end. That's a part of the game. Yes. But you don't get to just come in and put all five of your, uh, your reverses down at the same time. It's not your turn no more.

[00:26:45] Why do I have five reverses? I'll play spades with anybody. You'll never catch me playing Uno because the moment somebody do something, I'm be like, but you can't draw, draw eight. I can't draw eight. What are you talking about? It says draw four on here.

[00:27:06] And now y'all, they got the new fancy Uno cards where you can just write your own rules down and stuff like that. No, I refuse. I refuse. I played some like, I forgot what it was called. Like death Uno or something.

[00:27:17] It was, it had like draw 20 on there. Yeah. See, and the way AJ play, he'd be like, draw 20, draw 40, draw 60. See, that's what I'm saying. Like, that's not how you play the game. You play one card at a time. Okay. I'm sick of these shenanigans.

[00:27:37] Chappelle, this is only you. You do not know how to build alliances in Uno. Like you be the leader of a group. See, I don't want to do this to you, friend, but like it's too much. It's too much.

[00:27:50] Uno and Monopoly are strictly forbidden around me because I'm going to pull out the rule book every time and be like, we ain't supposed to auction this off. How are you just buying Mark Place? That is me. I'm that guy every time. Leave me alone. Okay.

[00:28:02] Um, what about, what about, uh, Domino's? Now I will only play. I'm terrible at math. I'm terrible. I'm terrible. I'm so slow at Domino's. Me too. And that's why, cause I want to, I want to check and double check my math before I put my shit down.

[00:28:21] Cause ain't nothing worse than slamming the damn domino down. And it's the wrong shit. And you're like, I've done that yet. Yeah. Been there. I know I, I, as outgoing as I am, I turned into a little turtle when I played

[00:28:37] dominoes over, I'm looking at my, I've counted each of the little dots, the pips, and I'm just trying to be, I'm trying to get through it, you know? Yes. I'd be playing dominoes. I'm like, I just need to make it out of here alive.

[00:28:47] Get a few points to make sure I don't embarrass my partner. You'd be playing with them people that'd be like, okay, there's a, there's this left and that left, and you're like, how are you doing that? AJ, you must be the smart one.

[00:29:06] You can, you, you can count them. I stay in my lane. I better. That's how it goes. And that's why you gotta bring the drugs on the trip because everybody can't play every game and sometimes you just need to sit in the corner.

[00:29:24] Um, speaking of Dwayne is all introspective because, uh, his Molly is kicking in and eventually, uh, he starts dancing and I mean, he has the breakaway pants on, but listen, this is the type of, uh, intoxicated friend. I appreciate it.

[00:29:39] The guy who's just going to get over there in the corner and just dance, you know, and mind their own business. That's the person that I love to see, you know, no fighting, no arguing. Just go have your moment in the corner. You know what I'm saying?

[00:29:53] Keep it cute. But don't, don't be emotional. Don't, I don't want, I don't want to talk about your sadness and your love. I want you to just have fun. If you can have fun while you're on your drugs, then we're good.

[00:30:06] But if I got a baby sit, go ahead. Your ass better not be a mess. Like I'm not picking you up. I'm not taking care of you. Baby, you are on your own. I'm having my fun. Yep. We all grown here. Yeah. Uh, we haven't talked about Shanika.

[00:30:20] She, uh, we see her at the, at the convenience store earlier, picking up some cheap alcohol and, uh, she runs into the store clerk who has one eye. She's the first one who will meet, uh, Clifton and, uh, you know, she's, she's a fun character.

[00:30:33] I really enjoy her. She's going to end up popping up on Dwayne as he's looking for, um, he's looking for Yvonne orgy's character Morgan because they found her earring on the ground. We will later on find out that she wouldn't have just left her earring out.

[00:30:47] We saw her get kidnapped, so we know what's up, but they're still trying to figure out what happened to them. And so they end up finding their way into that very game room. Uh, that, um, that Yvonne orgy's character and Jay Pharaoh got snatched up into, uh,

[00:31:02] and they have to play the blackening and this game is racist. The game is racist. The game is racist. That is a fact. Okay. The game is racist. There's a big Sambo character in the middle with a big black ass face.

[00:31:19] What did you think when you first saw it? What'd you think? I don't even know. I think when my first interaction was, I wasn't thinking cause the, this, at first I thought they were finna do some Jumanji type stuff, you know, like,

[00:31:31] like the board game, you didn't open it up. Now we stuck in the game and now what we gonna do? I didn't know this was going to be Saw, Camille. What did you think? Well, the first thing I thought was the story added on and the Drake photo.

[00:31:46] We're like, uh, Jay Z, still nigga. You know, like, I feel like it's the same concept, right? I was like, it's Drake. Listen, perfect timing to be talking about that man right around these times.

[00:32:00] But yeah, um, they get this game and the game, like I said, it's racist. It just is. Um, they are supposed to play the game and it has like different, I guess like monopoly pieces almost to where each of them has like a specific one that goes

[00:32:15] to them, um, there's a really funny joke where they give Nnamdi the pyramid and he's like, why would I have this one? And they're like, dude, you African, you know? You know, um, he's like I'm from Oakland. You know who's in?

[00:32:27] So, um, so they get into the game. Oh, another red flag. I'm sorry. I can't breathe past this. Clifton picks up the Ouija board. Yeah. I said he liked it. I've never, I've never seen a black person touch a Ouija board. AJ. That was a lie.

[00:32:42] Listen, I do not deal with the spirits. I do not deal with y'all. Y'all stay in your corner. I stay in mine. Ouija? He picked it up so quick and so calmly. Like, don't get me wrong.

[00:32:53] I'd probably pick it up, but it's going to be a whole to do like, y'all look, it's a Ouija board, you know? What should we do? We have to take it out the room because we don't want that spirit in the room.

[00:33:06] So many red flags surrounding this man and they just let them cook. So again, this was, this was default, you know? Um, so the game is to save Morgan. They find that the TV comes on and it's very much like Saw where they can see

[00:33:20] that Morgan's being tortured in another room and they have to get every answer right in order to, uh, to get her out of, you know, get her free or they will end up dead like Sean, who we see is indeed, you know, murdered.

[00:33:33] Um, so they start off with a few questions, start off with some black history questions, who is Sojourner Truth? They eventually get to like, how many seasons do we have? Dark skin at Viv versus light skin at Viv and the Fresh Prince.

[00:33:46] And I was thinking, okay, I think I'd still be alive right around now. You know, um, the NAACP question, I would have got that one. But when they got to seeing the second verse of the black national anthem, we all did. Because why is there a second verse?

[00:34:03] AJ, do you know? You don't know. It goes like this. It goes like this. Yeah. Like when Homie D said, I'm just making up words as I go. I'm like, okay, so I'm not alone in this. It's not just me. Right. Um, but Allison gets that question right.

[00:34:27] And so they make a few, uh, they make their way through a lot of the questions. Um, but the question that really gets them stumbling is, uh, who were the black people that were on the show? Friends. Uh, and so they name a lot of them.

[00:34:39] They probably named 90% of them. They might've named them all. Hell I wouldn't know. Uh, because, uh, over the course of 10 seasons, there might have been 15 black people in, in, on any given episode, like period in 10 seasons of a television show, at least.

[00:34:55] And, um, if you can count all the black folks on two hands, then, uh, you know, it, it ain't, it ain't got that much representation on the show. However, that is not the answer they were looking for. Anyway. The answer was, I don't know.

[00:35:07] I'd rather watch Living Single. Yeah. And we all know the story of Living Single, how Friends is basically based on Living Single. Living Single was first. And then, uh, they recreated it for this white audience and it takes off.

[00:35:20] And it's this huge phenomenon that people live and die by even to this day. They, people love Friends. Um, but Living Single never got the, the, the respect it deserves in my opinion. You know what I'm saying?

[00:35:31] Like it deserves much more, um, because it does birth this show. So that's the answer that the racist game is looking for. And because of that, they got to kill Morgan. They got to kill Morgan. Morgan's dying. Uh, we see her wig gets snatched off during the pilot.

[00:35:44] I'm not quite sure if that was part of the torture, Camille. And she just, they just snatched her wig off, but she seemed to be fine. I was covering my eyes. Then, oh girl, she said, Oh, that's some good wig glue. I was like, Oh. Yeah.

[00:36:04] I thought she was about to get like ripped in half or something and it just pulled her, snatched her wig off a little bit. She good. Yeah. They eventually hear her knocking in the basement and they're watching this whole thing on TV.

[00:36:14] AJ in this scene, Morgan is coming up the stairs. They're watching Morgan come up the stairs on TV directly behind her is the killer. Why are they yelling to Morgan? He's behind you. They're yelling at the TV screen. She there, she know.

[00:36:28] Like where all these supposed to be in front of her on the other side of the door, like down there together, like you're giving me useless stuff. Oh, like this goddamn door. What are you doing? She's coming up. He's coming up the stairs. Morgan.

[00:36:40] They're like, she like, I know. I see. Yeah. This, the part of this scene that bothered me more than that was, um, when King was like, Morgan move out the way I'm going to shoot the lock and immediately pulled the trigger.

[00:36:53] Like you got to give her time to move. I was like, he just shot her. Shot her. The man is coming up the stairs. She stayed at the top of the stairs in front of the door. She only got a few inches of movement.

[00:37:05] You know what I'm saying? Like you can't just start shooting at the lock. Um, yeah, I was surprised when the door opened, I thought her lifeless body was going to fall out and she was going to be like, shut up.

[00:37:15] Um, but she is not, uh, this is when we meet the bad guy for like the second or third time. It's this guy in like a mask. Uh, he's got arrows, which is such a choice, honestly, for a killer.

[00:37:29] It is feel like if the killer has a crossbow, like my odds, you know what I'm saying? Like I think I'd be all right. I could take him. Like he's using the car, but he can't do nothing. He can't do nothing. Why are you using a crossbow?

[00:37:41] Like I just want to use one of the crossbows. I think Michael Myers is just like, he's like, Jason has like a big ass machete, like Freddy Krueger got those claws. Those are scary things. This man got a crossbow. I'm like, I don't know, man.

[00:37:57] I don't think I'm too threatened by this. I think it would be all right. Even when I think he shoots King with the crossbow about five times, Camille, throughout the entire movie and King survives. I don't know how, I don't know how.

[00:38:11] But no, he kept pulling it out. You, if you get impaled with something, you supposed to leave it in or you're going to bleed out. I was just, I was screaming though. I'm like, no, leave it in. I think he's like, just, just break it off.

[00:38:23] So it's not hanging off. In you. So it's not, you know, so it don't let all the blood out. Uh, he's a G. I think they shot him twice in the same spot. So it really just clean shot the second time.

[00:38:37] Um, oh, there's also a funny moment where they're trying to keep the man from coming in and Nnamdi grabs the gun and he starts shooting the gun sideways. It takes Clifton to fix his hand like dog. And then he's out of bullets, you know, wasted the bullet sideways.

[00:38:57] Trying to shoot a TV character. Yeah. What do you, why are you shooting him like that, sir? Have you ever held a gun? Why? Who shoots like this? It's like a John Singleton movie. Um, so obviously they're having a hard time.

[00:39:12] They ended up stabbing the man in the foot and getting away. Uh, there are definitely some goofy moments between Nnamdi ripping his shirt in half and everybody kind of looking at this man's muscles out of nowhere. Um, and we even see some conversation about, you know, why would

[00:39:26] they be trying to kill us? Right. Like who has it out for us? Because we see that there's a bounty on their heads. They're being paid. Someone's being paid to kill all these black folks. That's only a thousand dollars.

[00:39:36] I feel like, I feel like my life just alone is worth more than a thousand dollars, right? Like I'm offended. Yes, actively. My life is worth more than a thousand dollars. But like someone also has never offered me a thousand dollars straight up.

[00:39:52] You're kind of like, damn, I do need the money. You know what I'm saying? Like we struggling over here, baby. Like I'm like, I'm not going to kill y'all, but like I could take the money. I can run. We want to see you again.

[00:40:02] We can fake y'all death. Yeah. We can fake y'all death. Let's get the money and run. Like let's talk cuddle. We can make a plan. You want to split it? Like that's still 250 for me. Like Camille.

[00:40:12] So that the white people are like, oh, we're going to split it. So that the white people they come up with, they might want to kill them. Uh, apparently there was, um, a conversation on Twitter, I think between

[00:40:22] Alison and some white people that said the, the, the theme song for the O'Reilly auto parts is more relevant culturally than the star spangled banner. She didn't lie. She didn't lie. She didn't lie. She did not lie. And it, did you sing along when this part came on?

[00:40:37] On okay. Just make sure. Auto parts. Like I went to the, I saw this movie in the theaters and when I told you the theater song, this is proved it's not just me. This is all of us. Like who's singing the star spangled banner?

[00:40:50] Like I, it was a, it was a daily part of my life back in the day. We're thankful for growth and deliverance. You've retired. Let's move on. You know, uh, you know, it's crazy too. It's crazy.

[00:41:08] It's crazy too, because we said, what's the second verse of the black national anthem and we all struggled. They said, what's O'Reilly auto parts. You know, like we went straight into that. Maybe that should be the second verse of the black national anthem. We just switched songs completely.

[00:41:23] Because it might've worked. Um, but their next prompt is that they have to sacrifice the blackest person in the friend group. And so they each start making a case for each other. So he's the first one they throw under the bus.

[00:41:37] Uh, Shanika says, nigga, the most, she's also a good candidate. If listen y'all if, if that's the metric, I'm probably the one going down at that point, cause I, you know, like I don't say it a lot on podcast, but in my daily

[00:41:50] life, it's like water, you know what I'm saying? Like I say it, I don't think about it. I have to check myself sometimes. I'd be like, you know, maybe this is inappropriate. Maybe someone's uncomfortable. And then I remind myself, I don't care. You know?

[00:42:00] And so, um, so I felt like I had to be careful. So I felt like I had Shanika's back in this moment. Uh, Alison says she's out because her daddy is white. No fair point. They've been picking on you about being biracial.

[00:42:12] You might as well stand on it now, you know? Um, but, but King is married to a white woman and carries a gun. He strong case, strong case for King being a black man, uh, and being the blackest one here.

[00:42:25] Uh, but they end up looking at, um, oh no, I'm sorry. I almost skipped Dwayne. They said Dwayne could be a candidate, but he says he can't because he's gay. And gayness is just whiteness wrapped up in a pack of dicks.

[00:42:38] And I think I was like, I think I was eating my lunch and I'd like just choked on a chicken bone. Because what does that even mean? You know what I'm saying? But, um, but they land on Clifton AJ. Clifton ain't black. Uh, not black.

[00:43:00] He's, he's not black enough. You know what I'm saying? Like they, they, he outlines why he says Beyonce's halftime show made him feel uncomfortable. Points are made. Points were not made. And she did that thing twice. And you know what?

[00:43:15] Both times I felt empowered, but you know what? And I literally only watch the Superbowl for the halftime show. So for me, it was just a concert. Yeah. Like he was the one when she dropped lemonade, he was like, Oh no. What happened to the good old Beyonce?

[00:43:31] I have a question. If, if it was, if you were in this scenario and you had to point out something to try to save yourself, what is that fact about yourself? Yeah. To unblack yourself? What would the thing be that you throw you over?

[00:43:44] Oh, I code switch like nobody's business. Okay. The way, the way I'll transform in the middle of the night, I'm going to be like, Oh, I'm going to be like, Oh, I'm going to be like, I'm going to transform in the middle of a conversation and start

[00:43:56] saying the whole word, you would not believe it. Um, also I podcast about big brother and survivor professionally. Black folks didn't even watch that show until like 10 years ago. So, um, I got a good, a good solid foundation for, for dodging this one. Uh, Camille, what about you?

[00:44:16] Uh, I would say that I like to throw myself out and off of things. I've done the bungee jumping and skydiving. And, and, and again, I grew up in a, in a, in a different, you know, kind

[00:44:27] of background military background where you just kind of do stuff, you know? But yeah, I know, I know that that would probably help me save my life. Yes. I've jumped out of a plane on purpose. Ooh. Oh yeah. See that. Yep. You would have, you'd have been good.

[00:44:40] I did. They still don't enjoy being the best. AJ, what's the unblackest thing you've ever done? Like similar to you, like big brothers, uh, survivor watched that mess. Uh, like, listen, my black car has been taken away many times for reasons.

[00:44:55] Uh, I would do a similar thing that Clinton did and I'd be like, I've never seen him coming to America. So, yeah. Like still tonight. Let me tell you something. I just survived. You might've lost.

[00:45:18] I might've had to throw you under the bus, like Clifton, like, you know, like, all right, well, you basically just told me you were the Trump supporter so you can go. Um, but that's what they ended up landing on.

[00:45:26] They can't prove who is the blackest, but Clifton says he ain't the blackest. He, the Beyonce's, uh, halftime show didn't make him feel comfortable. He don't know how to play spades. He voted for Trump twice. And so they all unanimously decide to sacrifice him, um, you know,

[00:45:43] and throw him out to the wolves. And so, um, he, he was trying to tell them the game wants you to turn on each other. It wants you to act like animals. He even slapped King on the way out and said, all lives matter just

[00:45:55] to, uh, just to prove his point. Uh, and so as he goes outside, they watch from the inside as he is attacked by the mass figure. Now this is a setup, right? Because we will find out at the end of this all.

[00:46:09] There's a good question is behind this. So why are they attacking him outside? Was this all just for show Camille? Yep. It was just for show. But again, I was confused because I was like, I thought he was part of the, I

[00:46:20] didn't, so it did what it was supposed to do. It confused me. Oh yeah. Um, Clifton was asking to get voted out though. Like we don't even know your name. So it's like, what am I expecting? Like here's the thing. There's a point of like, okay.

[00:46:33] Trying to prove that you're not the blackest. But as soon as he was like, oh, I voted for Trump twice. Like, listen, it's no longer about who's black enough. It's like, you know what? I just don't want you around. Yep. I don't want you around. Yeah.

[00:46:48] You can go. Yeah. Um, but Clifton was right. The game has rules. They end up getting three minutes of safety before all the doors open. Uh, they get the option to go out into the woods.

[00:47:00] They don't want to sit and be sitting ducks, but they have to decide what to do. Everybody's trying to figure it out. King is needing painkillers because he's got all these arrows in them. Um, Allison is on painkillers.

[00:47:12] It turns out she's on Adderall and that's got her through the roof. Um, very jealous of her. And then, um, eventually they all land on, well, Allison comes up with the bright idea that they have to split up.

[00:47:23] Now, this is a pivotal moment in the movie because black folks for centuries have been saying these scary movies. We not splitting up. There are power. There's power in numbers. We got each other's back. We're not, what do I look like walking off by myself?

[00:47:36] I don't trust y'all like that. And I don't trust, I don't know what's in his house. So I'd rather be with the group. But they forced them Camille to, to have, they had no other option, but to split up. I know this killed them.

[00:47:48] They even just saying the words, I was like, roll up. No. Well, in this situation, what would you choose? Would you stay in a house or would you go outside? See, a part of me is like, if I barricade myself in one room and I'm just like in

[00:48:04] that room all night, the sun gonna come up, it's going to be less scary to go out into the woods. You know what I'm saying? I just got to make it to the sun up. But another part of me is like, but we can get out of here.

[00:48:14] I think I can run. I can run and I ain't got to be the fastest. I just got to outrun all y'all. And so as far as that's concerned, I kind of like my odds, but I don't know.

[00:48:25] I feel like if you find you a nice little safe corner, arm yourself with some, with some household items that can be used as weapons and keep that door, keep that door shut, keep your eye on it. I think you can stick it out all night.

[00:48:36] I don't know. What would you have done? I don't know. My first thought was outside and I wanted to climb up a tree. AJ, what is the right answer? What should we be doing here? Cause we definitely should not be splitting up. I mean like splitting up.

[00:48:53] That's just not. Like we're barricading ourselves in together, we're leaving together. No matter what, there is six of us going head first, strong together, solid as a unit, like we are not divided. I would have left personally. Like, let me tell you something. I'm not sticking around.

[00:49:11] I already saw two people died in this place. My homie gets a shot in this place. Like, you know what? And there's cameras. They're watching you the whole time. Like, I feel like you're more of a sitting duck in the house. See, they can watch you.

[00:49:22] Whereas you get outside, you can, you can find something to hide under. You can find something to hide under. Y'all can just start running. Like do what you gotta do. Get away. Just don't split up. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:49:34] They have a moment before they split up where they say, uh, you are my sister, my strength and my pride. And I was like, why is this set it off moment happening? I had just like, I just, you, cause when I hear that song, I think of Jada

[00:49:47] Pinkett driving away from the dead bodies of all her fellow bank robbers. You know, she riding off into the sunset, rich as hell and all her friends are dead. You know?

[00:49:55] Um, so I was like, is this really the song that y'all want to lean on in this moment? But, um, Alice's Adderall is, uh, is getting, you know, it's getting her cooked. Right. She really doesn't have, uh, a lot going on with her.

[00:50:10] Like her senses are all over the place. And so they have no choice but to make this move. So some of them go out into the woods and some of them will end up still in the house. Allison looks like she's not going to make it.

[00:50:21] She sits down by the tree and they're trying to hype her up. And I think it was King who says, Hey, you have Rosa Parks on your shirt. Would Rosa Parks sit down at a time like this? Into that, Alice says, yeah, yeah, probably.

[00:50:35] That's kind of what she did. That's her whole thing. But AJ, if you want to be somebody, if you want to go somewhere, you better wake up and pay attention. Now for your black card, do you remember what this is from? Nope. Come on, AJ. You gotta try.

[00:50:55] I didn't remember. I don't remember. That's all me. This is Sister Act, AJ. Come on, man. You got to see that forever. Y'all both did. It's fine. This is what I saw that like in the movies. Oh, yeah. You're like, I was there day one. Yeah.

[00:51:12] I didn't see it in the movies, but like seeing Sister Act, Sister Act 2, like, okay, you have, okay. We'll be back. I admit when I don't see shit, it's like, let me tell you something. I'm going to take that thing to the grave earlier. And I'll admit.

[00:51:26] Yeah, you could have, cause you definitely coming back when we talk about coming to America on this podcast, you will be there. Don't make no mistake. And I'm telling Tyrone, he's going to be so mad. Uh, so inside the basement, they do find the lair of the killer.

[00:51:40] Um, and in the middle of the room, there's the chair that Morgan was tied to. The killer has been watching every move. Camille pointed out earlier, there's cameras everywhere. We even see that there's a Confederate flag. So we know that's a rednecks involved as well.

[00:51:51] Um, the outside crew has lost Alison. Uh, and King has decided to climb a tree to hide. Shanika's going to swim across the water. See, these are all just very odd choices for the black folks in this movie. What's happening? I can swim.

[00:52:06] I can swim like a fish, but I ain't getting in that lake in the middle of the night. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. I'd be under the tree. Like I, you know, like King's in the tree. I'm under the tree. We together.

[00:52:18] Oh, I'm in the tree too. Like I'm already not going to get in that water. That's the first thing I'm not going to do. I can swim. I'm not getting that water, but then to get in that water in the middle of the

[00:52:26] night, it just felt like that is probably the most dangerous situation. And she finds herself a sitting duck because the killer comes out and he has his crossbow and he's just shooting at her in the water. I'm thinking you did not think this through at all.

[00:52:39] You didn't think this through because there's a well-placed boat and this man has you dead to rights. What are you going to do? Um, so what'd you say? He said a well-placed boat. You know what I'm saying? That's all I'm saying.

[00:52:54] Uh, so the outside crew is struggling, but the inside crew is equally struggling, uh, cause Dwayne Lisa and Nambi are, uh, they've run into Ranger White. Now we haven't talked about him, but earlier in the film, they did run into who they thought was a park Ranger.

[00:53:10] And he turns out to, Oh, well, they thought it was a cop, but he turned out to be a park Ranger. He was kind of doing like. I don't know if he was just, he was questioning King, even though as a park

[00:53:19] Ranger is not really any of his business to my knowledge, like who's staying at the Airbnb that they were renting out. Uh, but obviously it's a black ass movie. He's a suspicious white man.

[00:53:30] We have to assume that he's involved in this some way, but he shows up and he's cool. They say, all right. Um, he says I'm one of the good ones. And they're like, I don't know about that. But somebody said they're one of the good ones.

[00:53:43] They're normally not, but he does have a response that I thought was very interesting. He says, um, I would like, if I was invited to the cookout, I wouldn't even go because that's not the space that I should be in and I shouldn't be putting my

[00:53:56] whites, my whiteness into black spaces. And I'm not going to lie to y'all. My little guard went down a little bit. I said, okay, we can, to me, that's a good answer. Can you, it is a good answer. Hey, Jay, it is a good answer.

[00:54:10] Like, I think that was the best answer you could have possibly gave. Like, I'm be honest in my guard go down a little bit as well. Yes. Comma. But at the end of the day, that's a white man and my guard always has to be a

[00:54:21] little bit up. But like, Oh, that was such a good answer. Especially how many of these people be like, oh, I'm invited to the cookout or I can go to the cookout. No, you guys can't stay the fuck home.

[00:54:30] And he's like, I don't want to invade your space, baby. You know what? Yeah. Who was you? Yeah. He might be one of the good ones. Uh, where he lost me, where he lost me was right after that.

[00:54:43] They go to the car, he lets them in the car and then he says, stay here. I'm going to be right back. And he would've got jumped. I, he would have been my new concern. I wouldn't even been worried about that motherfucker with the mask on.

[00:54:57] I would've jumped his ass and took the keys and been out of that. Where are you? Cause where are you going? Why are you leaving us right here? What are you about to do that we can't come or that we need to be sitting still for?

[00:55:06] Because I mean, at least leave the key, leave the car running or something, you know, what's that about? Um, yeah, look, the cookout thing is a, it's a complicated conversation. You know, for a while it became like a badge of honor.

[00:55:20] Black folks was just giving it out to their favorite white people. Like you can come, you can come, you do, you act like this so you can come. You, you know, you've seen coming to America so you can come look, I have taken

[00:55:29] a four, a firm stance on this. None of y'all can come to the cookout and that's okay. Now, if a black person wants to save you a plate, bring it out to the street and you can pick it up. That's cool too.

[00:55:40] But you can't be in the cookout because again, that will defeat the purpose of the cookout. So it's not about which black, which white person gets the badge of honor to come to the cookout. I'm actually more impressed with the white person who got invited and said, you

[00:55:52] know what? That is not for me. And it made us really sit down and be, huh, you're right. You don't have to come. And I can still appreciate you as a white person.

[00:56:00] So I enjoyed that point, even though this man had them effed up when he left him out for dead in the middle of nowhere. Um, they even find the mask of the killer in his car.

[00:56:12] And so at this point in my head, I've seen a lot of movies. I know he's probably not the bad guy, but there's too much evidence. We can't trust him. Uh, they locked him out of the car and Camille, I was waiting on him to die. I'm sorry.

[00:56:24] I was, I was like, okay, when he dies, maybe we can get away, but he can't get back in the car. Well, he, he only lasted maybe three seconds. He got killed by somebody else. He tried his best. You know, he's like, I know that, that, that mask.

[00:56:39] I found it as sir. The evidence is astounding against you, sir. It's piling up. There's nothing we can do here. AJ it's above me. Like, honestly, I've seen all that I need to see, sir. Thank you for your services. You can go away for now on.

[00:56:52] I feel safer with you out there and me in here. Honestly, if I roll down the window a little and throw your keys in, that's how I earned your trust because then I can get in the driver's seat and drive

[00:57:01] off without you because you ain't coming back from that. Leave him for dead. Um, but yeah, this is when we find out that he's not the killer, uh, because they're being attacked by the killer.

[00:57:10] But also, like I said, Shanika is getting shot at by the killer as well. And so we got two different killers y'all. Uh, we find out that one killer obviously has a big stab wound in his foot from

[00:57:20] when Lisa stabbed him earlier in the movie, uh, and the other killer does not. So, uh, King ends up jumping down and fighting with the first killer. Uh, and he realizes that the killer can't fight and he has, he has asthma. He got asthma. He's asthmatic.

[00:57:35] I just feel like you can't be a serial killer with asthma, you know? Could you imagine running from like Michael Myers and then he just stopping and being like, Oh God, you know, like at that point, kick him in the chest and see what happens.

[00:57:51] You know, um, you can't be a serial killer with allergies. You can't be a serial killer with asthma. Uh, these are just basic, basic things that I'm not going to take you seriously. And so we find out that, Hey, it's the store.

[00:58:04] It's the store clerk guy with the messed up eye. That's the killer. But there's still the question of who the other killer is. And so, um, toward the end of the movie, of course they're, they're running from that killer.

[00:58:15] Um, they're that's the inside, the, you know, Dwayne, Lisa, Nnamdi, and they do have to stop down and have the conversation about, you know, this tension between Dwayne, Lisa, Nnamdi, because Lisa obviously has taken Nnamdi

[00:58:28] back and Dwayne is feeling the type of way he's like, I, I'm sorry. I, I've been, I've been there for you whenever this man treats you wrong. And here you are not caring about yourself.

[00:58:40] I'm caring about this situation way more than you even saw him do a toast to it earlier, like, yeah, this is for making sure that you care about yourself more than you care about, you know, like caring about other people, but not more

[00:58:50] than they care about themselves, you know, he does, he does make that toast. And so they do have to talk about, you know, what it looks like when Nnamdi is around versus when Lisa doesn't have Nnamdi and she's making Dwayne her number one priority.

[00:59:02] So I thought it was a fun conversation to have because they definitely needed to talk about it, but it was just so far out of the realm of what we got going on. Like y'all it's a killer on the Lucy. Y'all Yeah.

[00:59:11] I was going to say I was the exact opposite of you. If I was Nnamdi, I would have pushed them both out the vent. Like y'all just die. Why are we talking about this right now?

[00:59:21] We there's a killer and y'all want to talk about your friendship like nah, nah bruh. And Oh, we back up really fast. The part they get out of the truck and, um, and uh, what's his face? Uh, what's his name?

[00:59:34] He tells them to go and they're like, okay, bye. He's like, I didn't mean it. He said go on without me. And I said, all right, bet. He's like, wait, when we in this situation, that's not the time to test me. That's not the time.

[00:59:49] I like to play. We ain't playing now. Yeah. Not right now. When I know I'm going to survive the next day, that's when we can play. But AJ, the way he took that personally, he's like, why would you leave me?

[00:59:59] And they're like, you told me to leave you, but what would you take it personally if you said go on without me and people actually left you? Yeah, because that's on me. You know what? I said what I meant and they meant it when I said it.

[01:00:11] So that's all I got. I made a mistake. I thought we were on a different level, but we're not. So I would just never say it. I would never say go on without me. Nah bitch. Wait. No, you ain't. Without me. For the love of God, don't leave.

[01:00:25] There's some people out here that think they funny. They think can do a hee hee ha ha and they just don't know the right time or place. Yeah. And now, now is not the time. So the killer ends up popping into the vent where they're hiding.

[01:00:36] Dwayne gets overwhelmed and he throws up in the killer's face. There's a lot going on in this scene. When he throws up in the killer's face, the vomit makes the killer fall down the stairs, they fight, Dwayne shoots him with an arrow and um, before it's all said

[01:00:48] and done, Lisa is the one who's going to have to step up and beat the hell out of this killer. And she beats the brakes off of this man. I could hear his like, like his face disfiguring and all of those things. Like you could tell.

[01:01:01] And I think she yells out, why the fuck black women got to save everyone all the time. Did you feel like, did you feel this in your soul? I felt that in my soul. I felt it. I felt it in my soul. Yes. Yeah.

[01:01:12] We get put in that situation often. Yeah. And she, she knocks it out. She kills them. They all are very concerned and weary of her. I will say this. I was terrified of Lisa at that point.

[01:01:21] AJ, once somebody does this in front of you, I don't feel like you could ever trust them again. You know what I'm saying? Like you always got to know that this person kind of has a separate level of

[01:01:30] insanity that they can just go to when they need to. Like it's hard because the correct, yes. I just witnessed this person kill someone else. Like that is a different level that I don't know I can get to. So of course there's going to be that barrier there.

[01:01:46] How am I, but Lisa did what she needed to do. The job had to get done. So God bless her. She, I will always have love for that woman. They going to need dental records to figure out who he is because she, she obliterated his face.

[01:02:03] Which, which is dope. They end up looking in his wallet and finding out that he is the store clerk as well. Turns out they're twins. Uh, cause I, for a second I was like, what?

[01:02:12] And I was like, all right, you know, they're twins and someone has paid these evil racist twins to kill all these black folks. Um, they end up back in the basement and they find Clifton's lifeless body with an

[01:02:24] arrow into in it right next to a Ranger White's body as well. Um, they try to pry the door opens on the outside. Clifton is supposed to be, uh, they found out Clifton is supposed to be arraigned on manslaughter.

[01:02:37] This whole, this whole subplot going down that Clifton is actually a crazy person. AJ, this is exactly what we're talking about. Y'all didn't do no research. Y'all have Facebook stalked this man or nothing? Nothing. Not a single check.

[01:02:49] Like it failed the background check because it wasn't even happening. Like Clifton should not be around y'all. Like Chappelle, if I found out y'all were like manslaughter charges against y'all, I want to be here. Like what are we doing? Clifton got a weird case. Why is he around?

[01:03:03] You know, that's the first thing I thought. I was like, wow, why did we bring him here? Um, so yeah, he is, uh, he is, he has killed somebody and they're trying to figure out what he has to do with all of this, but he's alive and well.

[01:03:16] And he pops up, he has explosives in his pockets and he then tells us his evil plan, you know, like every super villain has to have their moment where they outline why are they doing this? And Clifton says, well, I love to play games.

[01:03:29] I said, okay, where are we going with this? He says, but I love games so much that the one game that always escaped me was spades and then the one time I tried to learn it, I reneged and everybody was on

[01:03:43] me and y'all took away my black card. It ruined my life. It caused me to drink for the first time. I got in an accident. I hit a woman, killed her and I went to jail for like four years.

[01:03:55] And the entire time I was just jealous of y'all's amazing life and determined to come back and ruin yours like you ruined mine. So I'm here to take away black cards and kill each of you, but I'm going to start with the blackest person.

[01:04:08] AJ, how'd you feel about this plot twist? Like nigga, you reneged. Like, like all I'm hearing is that you don't know how to take accountability. That's all I'm hearing. That's all I'm hearing. You really care. Like, like, like you said earlier, we all do it.

[01:04:24] It happens to all of us. My black card has been taken away many times in the past hour. It has been taken away. So it's like, okay, it happens to the best of us.

[01:04:33] Like yo, yo ass decided to get drunk for the first time and hit a girl in the car. That's not all. That's you. Yes. That's on you. All on you. You telling me I am in a bad spot because you can't take responsibility

[01:04:45] for yourself because you don't know how to play a card game? Yeah. Camille, were you expecting this to be the plot twist? Not at all. Not at all. No, I, again, I understood his like, like getting his black card revoked

[01:05:01] because he played a game and you just feel terrible about it, but not that bad. Not that bad to wait 10 fucking years and plot this whole thing out, pay some white people and bows and arrows and cameras and all this other shit up.

[01:05:14] No, no, you went too far. Look in his defense, they don't play spades in Vermont. So, you know, he never had a chance to learn, but like AJ said, the year of our Lord 2024, you can go online as spades games on like you could play spades on

[01:05:29] your iPhone for sure. See, he got an Android so he wouldn't know that, but see, that's the problem. That's the problem. But that's the problem. That's where your first mistake was. See, let's really talk about taking accountability here, Clifton.

[01:05:37] Uh, he tells them they have a black selfies choice. They have to choose who's the blackest one so that they can again, actually play the game he wants to play, which is the blackest one got to die. Lisa chooses herself. This throws him all off.

[01:05:50] The way ends up, uh, having a telepathic moment of his own with NAMD, which means they're finally on the same page, right? Cause these, these conversations can only work if we're on the same page. Sadly, Clifton is on the same page as him as well.

[01:06:03] And he hears the whole telepathic conversation. That was my biggest laugh of the night. I'm not going to lie to you. He said, I heard that. I was like, yeah. Um, so they've lost the element of surprise. Um, eventually, uh, King and, uh, Alison get the lights off.

[01:06:23] Dwayne fights Clifton. Shanika can't see where to shoot, but eventually she does shoot him. Uh, Dwayne has some chili powder left over from when they were arming themselves with weapons. Um, and then, um, I don't know y'all when he fell into the well, it's

[01:06:37] not like he was laughing. It sounded like he didn't die. He was just down there kind of cackling. But then I was like, maybe I'm just in a horror movie mode. I'm expecting him to pop back up. Maybe that was just me.

[01:06:46] Am I the only one who heard that AJ? No, you heard it because I heard it too. Alison. Okay. Oh yeah. I was like, oh, the movie ain't over. But then I was like, oh, the movie is over. I'm just going to watch it again.

[01:06:57] And then I was like, oh, the movie is over. I'm just going to watch it again. Yeah. Oh, the movie ain't over, but then I'm like, maybe a sequel. Yeah. Maybe a sequel. Blackening in blackening again, the black, the black, the black album, you know?

[01:07:14] Um, I think it's another thing too, where you don't see the body Camille. I feel like in a horror movie, when you kill somebody, they have to be dead. You know, when Lisa, when Lisa beat that man's head in, I was like, okay,

[01:07:25] whoo, we can all breathe a little bit. You know what I'm saying? They couldn't even Scooby do mask unmask him. Right. Because he was so beat up. This guy, you push him down a well, shoot down there or something.

[01:07:36] Throw some arrow, you know, shoot some arrows down there to measure or something like that. You gotta double, you gotta double click. You can't just leave it out there. So I don't know. I feel uneasy about the ending. I think that's right.

[01:07:50] Because like, like you said, if you don't see the body, then they ain't dead. Like, because there'd be some weird people. I don't know Clifton from him and Joseph. Like it could be anybody could have some supernatural natural issue with them. Like, I don't know.

[01:08:03] I don't care what throw something heavy down there just to make sure. Drop the lamp down there and see if it hit him. You know, like you've got, I'm sorry. You can't just leave it up for chance.

[01:08:17] I know you pushed him down a dark hole, but I don't know what's in that hole. You know what I'm saying? He landed a lot of water and he just swim up. Then what? You know what I'm saying? So I don't know.

[01:08:26] I have my, I have my reservations, but this is basically the end of the movie. They try to decide if they need to call the cops. Obviously they laugh it off because you know, calling the cops in this situation might get them all arrested.

[01:08:36] Um, but that's pretty much it. That's the movie. They, uh, they, they sit down, they, uh, celebrate their winning with a little, uh, smoking of their own. Uh, and then the movie ends as, uh, the rescue team shows up and water hoses them all down because they black.

[01:08:52] So they gotta be guilty of something. Something. Um, yeah, but that's the movie Camille. Overall, this was fun. How'd you feel about it? Now that we talked it through, it was really fun. And as somebody, because I partake as I do my reactions.

[01:09:06] And so at the end, the very end scene, um, Dwayne changes clothes, but I didn't get that part. That was my biggest laugh. Cause I was just sitting there in my tripping and then she was like, nigga, I know I'm high, but it, AJ, he changed clothes.

[01:09:22] Cause he said the news cameras were coming and he was right. He, like he ain't wrong. Like, honestly, when you're about to be on camera, you better be dressed to dress to impress. We've had to show up, show out. Like this is your time. This is your moment.

[01:09:35] I see enough clips of people going viral. Some of them looks like they just got out of bed. You don't want to be that one. So yeah. Oh my God. Some of the viral videos they have a black people over the years is reacting

[01:09:45] to something that happens in a moment. Like that poor lady who went outside. She didn't have her shoes on and nothing. Jesus. Remember that lady? Lord Jesus is a fire. You know, I said, that ain't gonna talk to that lady. She's going to be, yeah, I got bronchitis.

[01:09:56] Ain't nobody got time for that. I said, they could have told that lady to go with, okay, give her 10 minutes. Let her go in the house, get herself together, come out. But she was so adamant to tell the story. I'm sorry. I am not her.

[01:10:05] The way I would have came outside and be like, hold on, let me get my do rack because I ain't combing my hair today. You know, you can't come out here looking any kind of way.

[01:10:11] So I appreciated Dwayne and his, uh, his ability to, to, to not lose sight of what was really about to happen. Right. These are, this is about to make national news probably. Cause there's at least three people dead.

[01:10:21] Uh, it's been a plot for over 10 years to get them all. I mean, there's five people dead. This is a massacre, you know, no, uh, seeing that the two rednecks are dead, um, the killer is dead, you know, Clifton and then also their two friends.

[01:10:34] And so all they really, and officer white, you know what I'm saying? So this does kind of put you in the same mind of scary movie and that it was a massacre. You know, it really was. And then the second movie comes back, they brought back

[01:10:46] the same character somehow. But, uh, they also, you know, were able to play off of, okay, well, these are the people who survived the massacre. So now we have our new survivors and if they came out with a second, the blackening, I think I'd watch it.

[01:10:59] I think I'd be back for it in the theater for this one. What about you? I think I'd watch it too. I might wait for it to come on streaming, but like it's still, I'd watch it. Like, like, listen, the movie price is out here nowadays.

[01:11:16] It's like, Oh, for real. But like, it was really good time. I enjoyed myself. I think if they want to do a sequel, I think they've shown that they can put something fun, something interesting, something that will get people on talking.

[01:11:30] So I think, especially like I remember when the promotion was happening, like everyone was ready for it. It was like, Oh my God, we all can't die first. Got that right? So it's like, so I'm like, I will be here for it.

[01:11:40] I will be happy to see a sequel. If not, I'm happy with what we got. Yeah. No, I'm just, I'm happy that there's more us movies in the genre. As it is just period. So as it continues to grow and move and people are, are exploring more things.

[01:11:55] And I just really appreciate that more sci-fi, more horror, more, more all that good stuff. So I really enjoyed it. I would definitely watch the second one like AJ and I'd stream it. I wouldn't, I wouldn't pay a hundred dollars to go to the movies and see it.

[01:12:07] But I do, I do. I think they can go in a lot of different directions. They could, but if I was part of that friend group and we met up again and some shit happened again, we just can't be like in person friends anymore.

[01:12:19] Like we can only zoom each other. We can't, we can't be in the same space ever again. Cause something happens when we together. No, that's a good point. At that point we all cursed. It was nice meeting y'all. I'll follow y'all on Twitter.

[01:12:33] Keep, you know, keep tabs, but don't invite me to nothing else. I'm not going to no friend groups. Um, we really all need to be in therapy, but you know, like we're gonna talk about it.

[01:12:40] We might not actually go, but we're going to talk about it for sure. Um, but yeah, I enjoyed this as well. I'm mad. It took me this long to finally watch it because I was like, Oh, you know, eventually I'll get to it.

[01:12:50] And I knew this wasn't like an Oscar nominated movie that I had to go see the day it came out or anything like that. But I am glad I took time to watch it, especially upon, uh, the observance

[01:12:59] of Juneteenth, which is now a national holiday, no matter how you feel about that. Um, but, um, you know, Juneteenth is this week as well. So if you're listening to this on Juneteenth, happy Juneteenth, uh, yeah. Official emancipation, uh, national independence day, you know, the one

[01:13:16] when everybody was independent at that point, right? Not just some people. Um, and so if you don't know a lot about Juneteenth, check it out, read up on it. Uh, cause it is a federal holiday now and it ain't going nowhere anytime soon. Fingers crossed.

[01:13:28] Uh, and this movie is definitely going to highlight that as well. So fun times here. On Juneteenth. I think most people that are going to be watching this video are also going to be watching Ken and friends because, cause Kendrick Lamar stepping out.

[01:13:41] That's going to happen on Juneteenth. Yeah. I'm excited for that. Sometimes you got to pop out and show niggas. And so, and he did not lie. So yeah. So this Juneteenth turn up, watch this movie and then check out this podcast.

[01:13:54] Make sure you subscribe, all that good stuff and make sure you keep up with, uh, AJ and Camille because y'all, this was so much fun. It was fun. Thank you so much for being here, Camille. Thank you.

[01:14:04] So again, again, thank you for giving me the time of day. Chappelle could have thought I was a crazy person, but he gave me a chance. I really appreciate it. Again, my channel is being Camille as fuck. I'm very inconsistent, but I did do this movie.

[01:14:16] So if you wanted to see the reaction for that, go ahead and check that out. I am covering them thrones and dragons. So go ahead and check that out. And Chappelle, I look forward to working with you in the future and AJ, you too. Mr.

[01:14:27] Grown man with your beard. With his beard. AJ, I know you've been busy with your real life and all your fancy things that you got going on, but tell everybody where they can find you and what you got going on. Uh, you can't, cause I'm minding my business.

[01:14:41] However, um, uh, me and the great Jay, uh, our podcast too, can't keep a secret. You can check us out there. We're currently taking a little break. Um, send out all your love to my great cohost Jay, um, on Twitter at Jay

[01:14:56] Maji underscore, um, they are an amazing person going through, um, amazing things right now. So go show them love also. Um, because we're coming out like so soon, I'm also going to be on the survive 50 wishlist, like really soon. So get excited.

[01:15:10] Talk about one of my favorite season in the team. So like, you know what? I'll be around more now that the summer's here. Okay. Good to know. Good to know. I can't wait to hear that.

[01:15:19] And then as far as us here on recap kickback, um, like Camille, we are also covering house of the dragon. So this week you should have seen a season two episode one recap between me and Mari. Uh, we had a good time at the end of every podcast.

[01:15:32] We do talk about the book a little bit as well. So if you're into that kind of thing, check out the house of the dragon. Uh, the Westeros kickback, uh, that we have here on recap kickback.

[01:15:41] And then of course you can catch all the other content here as well. We got a WNBA documentary up on us coming soon. That we'll be talking about here on recap kickback. Of course, we'll be doing more coverage for the summertime as you know, things

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[01:16:31] Everybody can come here. Uh, you might just have to sit in different locations. You know what I'm saying? We'll work out the rest when we get to it, but for Camille and AJ, I'm Chappelle and this has been a fun episode of recap kickback.

[01:16:43] You ain't gotta go home, but you got to get the hell up out of here. We'll talk to you all next time. Peace.