One of Them Days Movie Review

[00:00:17] What's up fam and welcome back again to Recap Kickback. It's your boy Chappelle, the host of Recap Kickback and I'm here to bring you another iteration of our take on reviews for Black entertainment news, media, television, and this time specifically, a movie. We're talking about One of Them Days. Issa Rae brought us this, delivered it to us with Kiki Palmer, with SZA, and with me of course to talk about it. My co-host, the star of last week's episode and the star of this podcast, Mari Forth.

[00:00:46] Mari, welcome back. Hey Chappelle, glad to be back, glad to be talking about somebody other than myself. Yeah. But thank you to everybody who's reached out and said they loved it, said they wanted a Degrassi podcast. Stay crazy. I got so many people hitting me up talking about a Degrassi podcast, it was very funny. So I had a great time last week, so thank you for resonating with it. Yeah, people liked it. The comments is going up, the views, I was like okay.

[00:01:16] I should have been exploiting Mari's popularity for a long time. We should have been leaned into this. But Mari, yeah, you're right. The Degrassi kickback has like a good ring to it, what you think? Are you going to do 400 weeks of your life for this project? TBD, TBD. We'll see what my schedule is looking like soon, and then we'll see. Maybe. Okay. Maybe. No promises.

[00:01:41] Maybe if we get like a whole bunch of like comments or something, or ratings, maybe we should do something like that. Maybe you should plug our ratings. Yeah. And then if we get that, then I'll be forced to do a podcast. Yeah, I think so. I think, first of all, we need subscriptions. Number one, go to youtube.com slash at Recap Kickback and subscribe on our YouTube page, because we're getting some traction here, y'all.

[00:02:08] We're getting some traction, but we're not where we want to be as far as our subscribers. I think currently we're at 1692. That's cute or whatever. Can't we get to 1700? Can we get to 2,000 followers? That would be nice. Our Recap Kickback anniversary is coming up. And so I'm really hoping that we bring in some numbers for the occasion. And yeah, start letting us know, demand even, that you do get like a Degrassi kickback. Because I have some plans. I have ideas in my head, but I ain't going to share them until I know that we're all pot committed.

[00:02:37] Because we got to get Mari in on doing some extra work. And we got to talk. We got to negotiate. So let us know what you think about that. If you want to hear something like that, or if you have any other ideas, you can email us directly on our Gmail account, recapkickback at gmail.com. You can let us know on all our social media platforms, at Recap Kickback on all the various platforms. Mari, do you still have TikTok? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I do.

[00:03:05] Because I was asleep when it went offline. And by the time I woke back up, it was back. So I didn't delete it from my phone. Yeah. I don't have TikTok. I haven't had the app in months. And so because of that, when they told us you couldn't get back in, I don't have a TikTok app anymore. But we're on TikTok. We're on TikTok. I just can't do nothing. That explains why all of my DMs went unanswered to you. Got it. I can't see it. Can't see it.

[00:03:34] Can get into it if I want to. So Mari, maybe you have to go and take a peek at our, we'll have to share the login or something like that. You go take a peek and see if anybody's been letting us know anything on TikTok. We're on all social media platforms at Recap Kickback. Okay. So yeah, it didn't even occur to me until just now. Like, oh yeah, that's something we lost in the fire. You know, we really didn't. We can't take back TikTok page over. That's funny. Yeah. Hopefully we can rescue that. But yes, like Mari said, we had a big episode last week.

[00:04:04] Mari's top 10 greatest shows of all time, according to Mari, I believe. And it was so much fun. So if you like that, let us know. And we can try to bring that back with you as well. But this week, we're going to dedicate it to one of them days. Starring SZA, starring Kiki Palmer. And we're going to do a brief overview of the movie, our review, our takeaways, XYZ. And then we're going to give you a chance to tap out so we can spoil it for you. All right.

[00:04:31] So the first half of the podcast is going to be spoiler free. Okay. We're just going to talk about, you know, our thoughts about it, blah, blah, blah. And then, you know, it's stuff you could see in the trailer probably. But then after that, we'll start to talk about the shenanigans. Because I do want to know, you know, obviously what Mari thought about some of the specific scenes. But, you know, just for the sake of people who haven't had a chance to get out and watch it, this is your chance. Okay. So go check it out.

[00:04:58] Mari, I am like so happy with the outcome of this movie. You know, I think that I hate going to the movies. Number one, one thing about me, you need to know. I hate going to the movies. Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. I don't like it. At no point have I ever liked it. I was never that kid. I love me some TV. I like movies. But I hate the movie theater.

[00:05:23] Partially because I feel like if it's that dark and that chilly in there and there's that kind of food there, you need to be able to take a nap. Like it just needs to be acceptable. Like if I go to sleep in the movies, don't wake me up. Also, don't be mad that I missed the movie. Obviously, I made the choice. You know, they sell blankets, Mari, at the movie theater that I go to here in town. So as far as I'm concerned, they want me to go to sleep. The seat's too comfortable now. It didn't used to be like this. So I'm not going back.

[00:05:52] Listen, I, in the past three years, I have literally only gone to the movies for kids' movies that I can take my son with. Except for the very rare occasion when I go to see a movie that I want to see. AKA, I was able to get away to see Wicked. I'm trying to think anything after that.

[00:06:21] Can't think of another adult movie that I've seen in theaters since then. So getting out to go see one of them days on a football Sunday, mind you, was like before a huge game. I texted Chappelle and I was like, you better go see this movie because I barely made it out of this house alive to go and see it.

[00:06:49] But by myself, the person five chairs down for me was asleep and snoring in the theater. And I was like, good for that person. Real. So I agree. Like going out to see movies is it's one of the hardest things to do for me as an adult and this stage of my life with two young kids at home.

[00:07:11] So the fact that I was able to make it to the theater, support this movie and enjoyed watching it as well is just like icing on the cake. I'm really glad that we are able to talk about it. And it was something that as soon as it was announced, we were like, oh, we are definitely covering this because this sounds so fun. And it was I was not disappointed. Like Issa Rae never disappoints.

[00:07:39] Yeah, I saw a Twitter thread where someone was like, you know, because I'm not on there. So I'd be watching. I'd be catching the screenshots and stuff like that because I don't be tweeting like I used to. And so I saw the thread. It said something like, I don't like all that blackity black, black stuff. Like if you that if you that black, get away from me. It was like the people who like I guess it was like the I wear the shirt that say like my my my ancestors. Yeah, yeah. X, Y, Z. And then my like melanated black and proud, you know, all that kind of stuff.

[00:08:07] And then they were like, yeah, the people who do that, who who it feels like they just found out they were black recently. Like, I don't vibe with that. And I was kind of like, whatever. I got much about that. But the next comment, people were like and they're like, exactly, exactly. And somebody said, yeah. And these people who think Issa Rae can't do no wrong. Like, I don't agree. And people were like, wait, what? Hold on. Hold on. What you trying to say? He was like, I'm just making a point. I was like, no, what's your point? What you trying to get that? Because right now, as far as I'm concerned, Issa ain't never led me astray.

[00:08:37] I was so happy with that. I like that that person got jumped in that very questionable threat. Yeah. Like, it was like, exactly, exactly. Yeah. And Issa Rae too. Hold on. Hold on. Slow your own. Slow your own. Too much dip on your chips. Too much dip on your chips. You have me in the first half, you know. But I think that's a great point. We have a very pro Issa Rae here on this podcast. We love talking about Insecure. Rap shit was another thing. Gone Too Soon. Lost in the Fire. You know, pour one out.

[00:09:06] And so, when this is being announced, I mean, we gotta go see it. And I am A1. I will find a link to a movie in a heartbeat in the dark web, okay? I will go find one. I will look far and wide. I will find somebody bootleg copy that they aired once in a barbershop. And I will find it to avoid going to the movies. But I had to support. I had to support. I also couldn't find it. But I had to support the Black kids this year. And give my dollars to this amazing movie.

[00:09:35] It was so fun. I had such a good time. It was funny. It was relatable in a lot of ways. And I also thought, like, yeah, of all the movies, this felt like it kind of reminded me of Friday. But, like, if the women leads in Friday, or if the leads in Friday were women, that's kind of what, if I had to sum it up, you know, that's kind of how I read it. I agree. I agree.

[00:10:01] And, I mean, everybody was talking about that. That's how it was pitched to us. Like, that's how the trailers kind of pitched it to you. That's what all of the early reviews pitched it to you. And those are lofty shoes to fill. And they did. They completely filled those shoes. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, sometimes it's like you want to be like, oh, do something original, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[00:10:28] But if you are going to do something where it is being compared to one of the greatest Black movies of all time, then at the very least, at least it stands up to that critique. And it did. I had so much fun with this movie. Yeah. Yeah. Even the style of the movie, I think, reminded me of some of those movies in the late 90s, early 2000s. Oh, yeah. It's almost cartoonishly funny. Yes. Yes.

[00:10:56] Like, it's not, it doesn't take itself so seriously. You know, comedy, but also like, there might be a prosthetic here. Somebody got to get shocked by lightning. Some physical comedy. You know? It really was lighthearted. It's very lighthearted. Yes. Because it's like, at first I was going to say it's like our Afro-surrealism, you know, how we've talked about Atlanta and stuff like that. But it's not even that surreal, right? You know what I'm saying?

[00:11:22] It's not even so absurd that it becomes unassertive. It's not even that. It is literally just that type of family-friendly, animated, like, weird goofiness that is just like, just this side outside of reality. Like, not real. Yeah. Yeah. Like, think about movies like Sprung and, you know, Friday and, you know, just like, I'm gonna get you suckers. No, not how.

[00:11:53] That's a little good. Yeah. How to be a player. Maybe I got the hookup. You know, it's like, this stuff is happening, but it don't really happen like this all the time. But to somebody, it could have possibly happened. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's just close enough to real where it's kind of like, no, this is entertaining and I really enjoyed it. What did you think about Kiki Palmer as our lead here? For the people who don't know, this quick, quick summary. We have Dre. I'm always gonna get this name wrong.

[00:12:23] Drew. Sorry. We have Drew. We have Alyssa, Kiki Palmer, and SZA. And they are, they have one of them days. You know, they have a day where they have, everything is going wrong and they really gotta make rent today. And so shenanigans are gonna ensue as they do that. Kiki Palmer is the comedic lead here. Kiki Palmer has been hilarious forever. So I was not shocked. I was not shocked by anything we got from Kiki Palmer. No, exactly. And it was, it was honestly Kiki Palmer being Kiki Palmer.

[00:12:50] I literally sat in that, I sat in that, that movie theater and be like, I bet you about 85% of this is all improv. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I was saying like, especially Kiki's part. Cause she was just saying her, at like several points, she was just saying her own catchphrases. Mm-hmm. Yeah. She said, you ate that. And I screamed.

[00:13:19] She, um, to me watching, watching Kiki Palmer, like you're right. It felt like Kiki Palmer was just doing Kiki Palmer things. So it made it feel even that much more believable, that much more relatable. It's the same kind of vibe you get from Insecure where the characters don't feel like they're acting at some point. It just feels like, yeah, that's just Issa, you know, like Issa and Issa are the same person, but you wouldn't know that watching Insecure. I think, um, Kiki Palmer was very much tapped in. She was funny.

[00:13:48] She was a great lead for this, but I guess one of the people, I guess we really should talk about is, I think this is her acting debut. What'd you think about Issa? It is. Um, like, how does it feel to be God's chosen favorite? It's, that's not fair. You can't be like that fine and then like funny. Yeah. That's just rude.

[00:14:14] Um, and before this, I watched, um, I watched Issa Rae, Kiki and SZA, you know, they've been on the press tour junket. I watched them do like the hot ones versus. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, did you watch that? Did you see it? I saw the clips. I saw the clips. I haven't watched the whole thing. I saw, I saw the video. Hilarious. SZA is even funnier in that. I was like, that's, that's not fair. Like she did a great job in this movie.

[00:14:43] Like I had to like keep reminding myself that she's not an actress. Like that. She's like, she's a singer, but she was just so funny and very natural in this role. And again, I think that's why both of these, um, the leads were like the movie translated so well. It's just because it felt real. It felt like, like two home girls talking to each other. It didn't feel like, you know, somebody writing lines that try to sound like black people talking.

[00:15:13] I don't care. Like it, it just, it just felt natural. Yeah. Uh, I, I was asking myself at certain points, is SZA acting or is this just SZA? Like that girl, you know, cause it kind of felt like SZA was just, that's just SZA, you know? So I don't know if there was a script for this or if they just said, you know, make it do what it do. And they made it happen. It was so good. It felt so awesome.

[00:15:39] And you know, um, Sarita Singleton, uh, the woman who wrote this is, was a writer on rap shit, right? Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. So, oh, did you, so, um, I would, I would love to talk to Sarita Singleton. You gotta reach out. Cause they really owe us, first of all, they owe us another season of rap shit. They really do. They really do. And I think we deserve an explanation as well. So we gotta get this podcast to the right people over there, uh, at radio or whatever he's doing over there.

[00:16:09] Cause we gotta get it. So, well, I know this because as an avid listener of the read, uh, Kid Fury was talking about being in the writer's room with Sarita, um, and, uh, how he was just amazed to see this, uh, come to fruition, one of the days coming to fruition. He was able to see it early. Um, he had nothing but good things to say about it. And like Sarita just like put her foot in this again.

[00:16:38] And, you know, I wonder if she just said, she just wrote prompts and let Kiki and SZA go. But either way, it took, it took a whole team to put together this very funny black comedy that can really go down with some of the greats. Yeah. And, uh, speaking of the greats, we had a great supporting cast as well. Uh, I was not familiar with, I didn't know who was all in this movie. Right.

[00:17:06] I saw the original trailer and I don't think I ever looked back. Right. So very happy to see, you know, some, obviously some like black movie royalty and like Vanessa Bell Calloway is Mama Ruth in here. Very happy to see her. Lil Rel, Lil Rel, who is somebody who's becoming a state. Popped up. Yeah. Just popped up. Happy to see him. And still got fourth billing. Still, still. Cat Williams also here. Uh, you know. Who all, they showed all his parts in the, the trailers. That was kind of weird.

[00:17:36] Yeah. But his parts were to me that he, it made sense. It did make sense. Um, very shocked to see Ava from Abbott Elementary. Janelle Jays pop up. Loved Ava. And then yeah. Keyshawn as well. Joshua David Neal playing Keyshawn. Um, and what I would consider his like breakout role as a movie star, but we know him from, you know, TikTok and Instagram Reels and YouTube. Yeah. Caught in 4K. Yeah, exactly. And so, uh, this was fun.

[00:18:04] I, I, I thought the whole show, the whole movie was fun, uh, to me, not a dull moment. And I think that it really did explore, you know, this, you know, this platonic friendship between two people who kind of live in the hood. You know, it was like, it talks about the poverty aspects of that. Cause anytime you, you film something that, uh, is taking place in the hood, you got to deal with the lack of money, right? You got to deal with the reason why we're here. And they dealt with that, but they still, uh, really explored their friendship, their unwavering support for each other at times.

[00:18:33] And then like, you know, just the idea that financial instability can just throw your life into shambles. And we saw all of that. Yeah. And I just like how there wasn't a lot of exposition. Like we're just kind of thrown directly into their day, like starting at 7am, we're thrown into their day and we're, um, we're trying to follow them as, as it goes.

[00:18:58] Like to me, as much as I call it, like it's definitely as a comedic, like a Friday and stuff like that. But the, um, just chaoticness of it definitely reminded me of uncut gems. Did you ever watch? Did you ever see uncut gems? Well, yeah, I was just stressed out the whole time. You know, that was when the tension was too, it was in your chest the whole time. Yeah. I said, I don't like this. You know, it was a good move. It was good. But at what cost? Oh my God. Exactly. We'll talk about that later.

[00:19:27] But like, as somebody with anxiety, watching uncut gems, my heart the whole time was just like, and that's what I mean. Like, it was just like, though, just random chaoticness of like, what, what do you mean? Like you have to come up with that amount of money in a day. And, and then just as things unfold throughout the day and the course of the day, you're just like, you just want them. You, you just want the best for them. And, and that's what kept, kept you hooked.

[00:19:56] Again, we're, we're, we're trying to unravel the, the friendship and, and, and all of that. It's just, it was, it was such a good movie. It was so good. It was so funny. It, it, it felt so real. So, um, yeah, I, I loved it. Yeah, me too. So look, that's our glowing endorsement for the movie. Check it, check it out. Two thumbs up here from Recap Kickback. Um, but go watch it and then let us know what you think.

[00:20:25] Get in these YouTube comments and tell us what you thought, what, what you thought was funny, what you want to see more of from these actors and actresses and Issa and, uh, and stay, and stay tuned to the conversation. But if you have seen the movie, Mario and I are about to talk about what we thought was funny and great about the movie and a little bit more depth after this. So come right back after the break and catch our deep dive, I guess we'll call it, into one of them days right after this. We're Teresa and Nemo. And that's why we switched to Shopify.

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[00:21:24] Mario, before we get into one of them days, you know, I host the Nothing But Netflix Podcast with Rob. And on Nothing But Netflix, we try to talk about, you know, whatever's popping on Netflix. This week, this week says, hey, I don't really want to look at a Netflix show. And that wouldn't be the first time we've deviated from that plan. He says, I want to talk about Watson. And I was like, oh, yeah. Morris Chestnut. Yeah.

[00:21:50] Watson, the Sherlock Holmes type universe show. And I was like, Rob, that's kind of a recap kickback kind of thing. You know what I'm saying? Like a Black Watson feels like it needs to go here. We still talked about it on Nothing But Netflix, but I will give my endorsement for that as well. I thought it was pretty cool. Yeah, I thought it was pretty cool. It wasn't like nothing extremely groundbreaking. You know, you've seen Sherlock Holmes done a billion times.

[00:22:15] But if you want a fun podcast where you get to see that I have like an untapped well of knowledge when it comes to Sherlock Holmes. And I really I feel like I wasted it on on Nothing But Netflix. Go check it out. It's on there. And I'm talking a lot about Sherlock and all the things and even gave Rob a history lesson about Morris Chestnut. I was like, where do you know him from? That is hilarious. Yeah. An untapped knowledge of Sherlock Holmes. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:22:45] So because Rob asked me, he said, are you a Sherlock Holmes guy? And I was like, I mean, about as much as everybody else is. But then as we started talking, I was like, maybe I'm more than everybody else. Like, what are we doing? So, yeah, we got we got to some conversation. And I was just like, am I the only person who knows these things? You're talking to the person who read the complete works of Sherlock Holmes. I mean, I mean, yeah. So go check it out on Nothing But Netflix. And then, you know, Mari, I don't know.

[00:23:12] Maybe we do a season review of Watson one day or something like that. Yeah. No point to talk about it episodically. But I think I think over an overview will be fun at one point or another. But that's not why we're here today. That's not why we're here today. We're talking about one of them days. And Mari, I'm going to give you the background of how this happened. So you text me. Hey, you better go see this movie. And I was like, oh, my God. Throw a hoodie on. I guess I got to go.

[00:23:42] I'm like starving. I haven't eaten. But I refuse to go to the movies when other people are at the movies. I'm like, I got to go to the like the noon at the one the 112 show. I got to get there now. I was literally on my way when I text you. I went at noon as well. And I went with the closed captions. Yeah. Closed captions. Yeah. On the screen. I love that. I need to do that. I need to see if we got that. I don't think we have that here. That's great. Yeah, I need that. So I rush out. I ain't ate nothing.

[00:24:12] You know, I got like a bag of cereal. I was real good on it. I had a bag of cereal in my pocket. You know, I was like trying to eat. Trying to eat healthy. So I got the honey bunches of oats. You know, I get to the movie theater. And you don't go to the movies hungry. Because you know you're about to go spend $100 on food if you do. But I was driving knowing. I was like, no, I'm going to go in here and mash. I got, I had pizza. I had like popcorn. I got wine. You know, they do wine now at the movies. So I'm sitting there, fat fool, watching this movie. Wine drunk.

[00:24:42] Just laughing loud by myself. It's six people in the theater. You hear all of us. I'm just in there cackling. So the wine is next level. I had a brunch cocktail as well. Like a Prosecco cocktail mix. It was like a, almost like a mimosa. Yeah. And then, but I just had fried pickles and a large truffle parm. Yeah. See, we was in there doing it right. You go to the movie festival. Yeah.

[00:25:12] You got to do it. You got to do it big. You know, make this an event. So there was a moment where I did have to run to this concession stand to get my food. I got the little buzzer because they were like, sir, you ordered so much food. Like, sir, there's no way we have all this stuff. I had a lot of food. Like French fries. I mean, in there, badass. Okay. So. How many people were in your theater? It might've been 12. Might've been 12 people in there because we were so early. And also, because it's black. And so, yeah.

[00:25:42] But the food made the experience that much better because I was so comfortable watching it. And then, again, it reminded me so much of just those movies that you grow up watching that come on UPN in the morning, you know, that you've seen a billion times at somebody's house on VHS that you watch them. Like, how high, Mari? That's another one that just stands out. And I know that's a movie that we both like, but it's just, it's like almost like a buddy comedy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I thoroughly enjoyed that.

[00:26:10] But the thing that popped out to me first is that Issa's so California. Like everything she does is so L.A. It's just so L.A. So L.A. You love it. Yeah. It's like, I can't relate, but I get it. Exactly. Yeah. Like, I understand. We can't relate at it. My East Coast ass, your deep South ass. Yeah. Well, Texas A. No. But, you know, like. Hold on. Shut up. Shut up. Ain't nothing more Southern.

[00:26:39] And us relating to L.A. shit so much, you know. Well, we learned it all through Issa at this point. I mean, all our recent content, you know, it's so, it's so L.A. So it felt very much like at home. It felt almost like a spinoff to Insecure in the same world. I just knew they were going to pull up at the Dunes. Yeah, me too. I did too. I was like, oh, the Dunes is the same. And I mean, we have the one lady, the one actress who's been in every single thing that Issa's done. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:27:08] Our girl, Dominique Perry. Dominique, yes. Yeah. Shout out to TV. You know, that's my friend in my mind. We don't know each other. Look, we were just there at the same time. But, but yeah, we had the greatest hits from Issa, obviously, like cast, like people that we know would pop up in some Issa stuff. But again, Issa giving opportunities to people like Joshua Neal. Exactly. You know, it's just, I don't know. Like for me right now, she's doing exactly what needs to be done in the movie. It just really stood out as somebody.

[00:27:35] There's something that like something that I could just sit and be like, no, this is, this is so real. You know, it didn't, it was cartoonish, but also I know people like this, you know, when we get Drew, this woman is, you know, she's trying to make it. She got her roommate. Her and Alyssa have been roommates for seven, seven years, I think like, or something like that. And she's working at a diner and she's trying to move up in management. But, you know, it's really hard to work your way out of poverty.

[00:28:04] Like that's just, it's just a myth. Yeah. Well, it's a fact that it's hard to work your way out of poverty. Yeah. It's a myth that it's possible. Right. Damn near impossible. So while she's trying to just do basic human things like go to work, she's also got to deal with the ghetto. No. And by the ghetto, I'm talking about the apartments falling apart. The landlord ain't shit. Her roommate is digmatized and the money is coming up missing. It's a lot, Mari.

[00:28:35] It's a lot. Yes, it really is. And I mean, again, it's so relatable. People having to make the rent, being stuck in these damn jobs. You know, at this point, nobody, we can't afford, nobody can afford to live alone. Nobody. Nobody. You know what I'm saying? So you have to, yeah, you have to check up. And then if your roommate has a lazy ass boyfriend, you got to deal with this ass too. You know what I'm saying?

[00:29:01] Like it just was so many things that is just so easy to like recognize that again, it just makes you instantly fall in love with, with just the premise of the movie. But before we move on, literally all of the leads, like the lead roles, like Kiki's Drew, SZA's Alyssa, Josh, David, Neal's Keyshawn and Aziza, Scott's Bernice, like four, three

[00:29:30] out of the four leads are like new actors. They're new here. Yeah. That's amazing. And that's what Issa does like for our community, you know, and then that's not even included. I'm included. I think Kayla Matros Meja, who plays Kathy, the payday loan lady. I'm pretty sure she's from like, yeah, well, she's, well, she looks like she's a pretty established actor, actor, but I could have sworn she's from like TikTok.

[00:29:59] I like, I know her from TikTok or something, but yeah. No. Oh, Abbott from Abbott. She's hilarious. Yeah. She's, she was the, she was the, the TA. Yeah. Yeah. She was funny. Yeah. She was one of, she put the, she was so funny. Like she was so funny in this. So quick rundown about, about Drew. She's ambitious. She's resourceful.

[00:30:27] She's determined to get this, like to get this new position at her job. She's hilarious and fiercely loyal to her best friend, Alyssa. And one of them days, she starts off her day, just trying to handle, handle a simple task, but a series of like unexpected obstacles since her on a wild journey through the city and throughout. It's like, she just can't catch a break. The title of this movie being one of them days. I think we've all been there.

[00:30:54] Just a day where everything is just going wrong. And you have to say, what, what did I do? You have to talk to the universe, Mario. Be like, what, what do y'all want from me? I do. Can I, can I tell you the moment that resonated with me immediately? Was that? And I thought it was just so brilliant. And so she, so, so we, we see her finishing up her shift at a diner. She does an overnight shift. She's sitting there waiting for Alyssa to pick her up. Alyssa picks her up and Alyssa thinks she's, she's late. She's like, I'm so sorry, girl. Oh my God.

[00:31:24] And Drew's like, ha, I just got off. It's, she's like, I told, I really got off at seven, but she had told her a different time. So she would be there on time. And I'm like, damn it. If I don't, if you don't have to do that with me and if I don't have to do it with my friends. But the, the part that got me was Kiki Palmer had on a bandana this whole time. And then she goes to her courtyard and she said, she see Jamil, the hair braider in the courtyard, starting another client.

[00:31:54] And she's like, you didn't even finish me. And she takes the bandana off and you can see that her braids are done in the front, but she got a whole part in the back that's not done. And that sent me, it absolutely sent me. There's so many times where I'm like taking my braids out and you always start in the center. So like, just in case you don't finish. You can just put it in the chair.

[00:32:21] He said, don't, don't add in a ponytail and go home. It was so bad because again, like you said, super relatable, right? We, I've seen this a billion times where it's like, I can only braid so much. So we left the back, you know, we left that part so you could just cover it up and then we can come finish this later on. She's waiting on Jamil to do her hair, but he's too busy doing other people's hair because rent is due today. It is due today. It's the first of the month. It is the first of the month. Right. So we hustling at this point, trying to make rent.

[00:32:49] And so he, she probably already paid him. So it's like for her, Hey, you, you can wait, you know, you can wait. I got that. She didn't pay him or something like that. Well, that's even worse. Well, that's the case that ma'am, you really got away. Yeah. Yeah. She, um, Jamil, he's, he's been in a few other, uh, he's from the blackening. Yes. From the blackening. We talked about a year on recap. Yeah. Yeah. No, good.

[00:33:19] Good for him. Uh, another, just like another star where I saw him like, Hey, I remember him. Yeah. So funny. He was. Yeah. So of course, a lot of the conflict in this movie is going to come between Kiki Palmer and Alyssa due to Alyssa's relationship with her, her, uh, boyfriend, Keyshawn. Now everybody know a Keyshawn. Everybody knows one. Everybody knows one. My brother is a Keyshawn.

[00:33:48] I felt so bad watching the movie because I was the whole time I was watching it. I was like, I just want this boy to do better. And I just, you know, like, Hey, I know exactly what he about to do. He definitely not going to pay that rent. You know, it was just, I wasn't shocked by nothing that man did because I just, I've seen it before, but it's something about this idea that sometimes things can be going right in your life and then bam, digmatized.

[00:34:13] And then what, you know, I just, many women have fallen prey to the digmatist. Digmatist. Is that a person? Digmatism. Oh no. Not I. It took, it took her down. Alyssa was so down bad. And you know, I, again, I think this is also relatable where you, you have a friend who just be parked on dumb and stuck on stupid, you know, just like over a dude, over a dude. Yeah. She threw their whole rent money away.

[00:34:43] He had all his shoes all over the house. Like just not paying a thing. They were like, they met the whole, uh, the whole movie. They're, uh, making jokes about him being homeless. Yeah. Homosexuals. Gotta watch out for them. Yeah. He just, look, you identify someone with, uh, four walls and a roof. And then you say, well, if I date that person, now I have four walls and a roof, you know, it's an easy, it's an easy concept.

[00:35:10] But for some people, you know, the power of, of the penis is enough to, uh, to take, to take you out of your, your normal headspace and put you in a, in a blender. And, uh, we do get a shot of said penis. Mari, the woman behind me gasped and said, I get it. It was like, okay. All right, lady. I was like, calm down. Calm down. This is going to sound so stupid, but. But I just so happened to look down on my phone to do notes at that part.

[00:35:40] And by the time I looked back up, it was, he was gone. Oh, you're so lucky. And she, and, and I was like, oh, cause I, cause I, I heard the reaction. It was, I pray for this man's health. If it's not, if it wasn't a prosthetic, I'll just put it like that. Like, uh, he might trip over it in the morning. And so, um, yeah, but it also kind of leveled the, like, you know, Kiki Palmer's expectation. Cause you're like, well, now that I've seen it, I understand how you down bad, but like,

[00:36:10] you got to stand up, baby. You got to get up. We're, we're, we're losing here. We're, we're out here about to get put out. Their landlord ain't shit. When I tell you the apartment is falling apart. This is so real. I think it's because I still, I still be over in the area where this stuff kind of be happening. That's why I think it feels so, cause I really wish I had grown up and moved out and just kind of like had gone, like moved out the hood. You know what I'm saying? Like got away. Like, I just can't get out of there. Like that's where my friends be at.

[00:36:37] And so I was like, yeah, but I don't live over there. I go visit, you know? So I come in and be like, y'all live like this? There's a hole in the walls, a hole in the roof. There's, uh, you know, potential animals running around. It was very bad. And so they're dealing with a slumlord essentially. And they got to make rent. Alyssa has been given the task to pay the landlord. And instead she gave Keyshawn the money to pay the landlord. The digmatism.

[00:37:06] Which makes no sense because from what we understand, Alyssa is an artist. So she's, my understanding, she's at the house. She don't have no job? Yeah, she don't have no job. Why did she give it to Keyshawn? I think he asked that question at least seven times in the movie. Like, why did you give our money to Keyshawn? It doesn't make any sense. It really don't. It really don't.

[00:37:33] So eventually they got to figure this out. And, uh, they have to go. They have to, they decide to go get a payday loan. Um, now payday loans for people who don't know. If you're in a certain, if you're in a certain neighborhood, there's probably one on a corner. Probably not far from a liquor store or something like that. Sometimes probably connected.

[00:37:56] Um, but they prey on poor people because they offer them money now with extremely high interest rates. So that when you have to pay it back, it's almost like, you know, you're assigning away your life. Like, you know, the money is not worth it. I think the interest rate was 1900.5%. Yeah. Like, what? 1,900% is the interest rate? He said, oh, I thought that was the year established.

[00:38:29] This place has been here since 1905. I was done. Oh my God. Like, Cat Williams' character outside, Lucky, is outside the building. And they play him like a homeless man who might be a little crazy. But everything he said was, like, 100 billion percent true. It is not worth it. If you don't have it this month, you will not have it next month at these interest rates. It ain't happening. And what sucked?

[00:38:58] Because they literally showed every single, his whole, every part in the trailer. In the trailers, in one of the trailers, it was a Cat. It was a Cat Williams-focused trailers. I guess to, like, capitalize off of, like, you know, last year, Cat Williams opened up the year with the Crazy Club Shea Shea interview. And then, of course, the year we had. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:39:23] So, like, they literally showed all of, every single part in the trailer. And I was like, why would you do that? And then on top of that, I saw, before I went and saw the movie, I, like, people were critiquing his performance. Saying, like, it was kind of, like, not much energy behind it. Okay.

[00:39:46] Um, so then when I did see it, I was like, okay, these jokes are funny, but I've already seen them all in the commercial. And then I was like, his energy does seem a little flat. But it was still great. It was still funny. I just don't understand why they did that. I don't, I mean, hopefully if you, you didn't see a lot of the trailers, it doesn't matter for you because you weren't spoiled on that. But, literally, did you see that trailer I'm talking about?

[00:40:16] Okay, good. Like, yeah, I mean, you can look it up now that you've seen it. But there was literally one trailer where every single, the part where he was in the payday loan, where he said the, you don't have it now, you don't have it later. The part where he slides down the glass. The part where she's at the top of the thing. And he, he, not the, she didn't take heed, but like every single thing was, was in that trailer.

[00:40:46] And I don't know, I don't know why companies do that. But other than that, it was, like I said, it was funny. He, he was spitting truths and nobody was listening. To me, his energy was low because he was so defeated. Like, he clearly had come into, he'd come into contact with these payday loan people too many times because they're unbothered by him. He's outside there, just like a, like a, like a homeless, like a vagabond. And they're just looking at him like, oh well, whatever. And he's out there trying. And like, like almost like one of those like, like doomsday conspiracists or something like that.

[00:41:15] No, go in there. Don't try. Like, no, he's, he's not lying. Okay. This is, this is historical. Like, just, just like years and years and years and years of data have shown that this is just people preying on poor people. And putting people in basically 360 deals for their life. And we will see that come back and be true at the end of the movie. Also on the hunt, Big Booty Bernice. Um, I thought this was so funny.

[00:41:44] Uh, Aziza Scott playing, uh, Bernice in here. Big Booty Bernice. She is like the neighborhood Debo? Yeah. Yeah, basically like Debo or, uh, what's her name? Uh, uh, uh, uh, from, from, from Baby D. Yeah. Baby D. Yeah. Yeah. You don't know Baby D. You don't know Baby D like I do. You don't know Baby D. Like, you know, all the snacks before they come out. You know? I love that.

[00:42:13] I love Big Booty Bernice. The interaction that she has with Keyshawn. He's, he's in the park and the story is being told to us by Alyssa. That, that Bernice has basically hunted her man. But that's not really what we see. Keyshawn about broke his neck riding on the bicycle. Cause you know, he ain't got no car. Um, looking at her as she twerks down in front of him and just kind of scoops him up. They even eat ice cream in a tandem. Like, maybe in a front style.

[00:42:43] Yeah. Like, he poppers out of shit. I don't even, I don't know if it went down like that. They really do that ice cream thing in public in front of the children? In front of the kids? I was like, I don't know. I wasn't there. Yeah. That's how the story was told to her. So Big Booty Bernice is part of the problem here. Because now Alyssa, being that she's dickmatized, she has to go confront Keyshawn about this. He's cheating. And the, the, the big thing that she just keeps forgetting is that he stole the money.

[00:43:12] He has their money. So they roll up on him. And, uh, when they do, I was dying the whole time. Kiki Palmer's trying to act like she knows this girl from school. She's like, she messed up and said that she didn't have no ass back in the day, but turns out she always been caked up. Gave the whole thing away. And this is when Alyssa finally comes to terms with Keyshawn ain't here for her. He stole the money. He got away. He's run off with this new girl. And so they have no choice but to sell plasma again.

[00:43:43] I need to get out the hood because I, I got so many friends right now that isn't selling plasma. Like I remember, I remember the first time, I remember the first time, the first time my friends were deciding to sell plasma. I was in eighth grade and my friend was in, my friend was in 10th grade. And he told me that his dad like would always sell plasma and he was going to do it. And I was like, you can't sell plasma until you 18. And he was like, nah, we know the person who worked there. And this man would go sell plasma to buy a lot. Yeah.

[00:44:13] Yeah. So go sell plasma at like 16 years old. I was like, how are you getting away with this? Now, don't get me wrong. I encouraged it because if he got money, then we got money. But at the same time, I was, I've never done this before. I kind of, Mark, I kind of feel like it's like an untapped resource for me. You know, I was like, do I need, do I need the plasma? So I can just sell it, you know? Yes, you can sell it.

[00:44:38] As somebody who literally has worked all facets of blood bank and blood banking jobs. Yeah. You don't, you, you, I mean, you need your, everything in your body, but you can donate plasma. Plasma normally you might get more for plasma because it normally takes longer to harvest it because when they harvest your plasma, they have to, it's kind of like, it's kind of like being on dialysis in a sense.

[00:45:05] They have to remove the blood from your body, separate out the plasma from the blood, the whole blood product and put, put your red blood cells back in. Yeah. So, you know, if you don't know, there's three main components of like blood or blood products that we try and get, try and get you to donate in the blood bank. So it's your red blood cells, your plasma and your platelets.

[00:45:30] So when you're doing like a plasma or a platelet donation, then they have to like extract the whole blood, separate it just to take your plasma and then put your red blood cells back into your body. So that can take about like three or four hours. The most common type of donation is whole blood donation where you just donate it all. So that takes less time. You know, they're just taking your whole blood out. So that can take just. So that's what they was doing. They was definitely.

[00:46:00] Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. And platelet, platelet donation is the same thing. It's like, it takes, it takes forever because they have to try and they, they take it out. And that's why normally if you're doing a plasma donation, it'll be a plasma and a platelet donation. Yeah. So, um, it, it is a, it is a source of income that a lot of people do. I remember when I was in college, people were started selling their bone marrow. I was like, Oh yeah.

[00:46:29] People were selling their bone marrow for like $800 or something like that. I sold a little pee. Well, okay. Well, I wasn't doing the, I wasn't doing the things back. I know. You know what I'm saying? I know. But I mean, like, I mean, you, you just, anybody can sell pee. They was like going to the people and getting the things and stuff. Like the scraper thing and all that. We was real broke. We was real broke. You know what I'm saying? But I'm real broke now.

[00:46:59] And I, and I just, I just always, I always equate selling blood, plasma, whatever to poverty. Right. Cause it's something that I, I feel like there's a stigma to it where it's like, nah, that's for broke folk. But I feel like, well, you've got money. There should be no reason why you should be avoiding it unless it's like detrimental to you, you know? Again, please go and donate blood. Right. You can look at, look for your, your local, um, like donation centers.

[00:47:25] Think, uh, do pop up mobile blood, blood, uh, banks, blood donations, especially black people because like, um, blood shortages. We've had blood shortages for a long time. And then COVID came and COVID like just really, really hit up all the stores and made blood shortages happen. So, um, we really want everybody, you know, don't listen to that, you know, yes, there are universal donors. Oh, Nick, whatever, whatever. But we, we would need all blood.

[00:47:55] And again, we also want black people to donate because, um, I'm not even going to get into that, but basically it's easier if we have patients that need certain amount of blood, it's normally easier to match. Like we don't match via race. Yeah. Yeah. We like that's a race. Doesn't come into a factor when we match blood, but you're more than likely, we're more

[00:48:21] than likely to have the same similar markers when you, when it, when you are the same race. So I don't want anybody to take from this. I like, Oh, we use race to no, no, no, no. Oh, none of the bags are markers. I'm just saying we're more than likely to find matches. Like randomly. If there's more blood. But see, I don't have no problem donating blood. I, why haven't I got paid for my blood? That's what I was about to say. High school. Where the money at?

[00:48:50] That's what I was about to say. Like some places, some places don't even, um, don't pay. I remember I, I used to always donate blood cause my hospital used to do it right, right in the hospital, but they would give you two movie tickets, like two movie ticket vouchers. I used to love that. I would go there for the movie ticket vouchers. And then they stopped doing that. So, cause I, like, I don't know if it was a law or something, but it slowly became like,

[00:49:17] Oh, like I, I, I, I, again, I think maybe what happened in this movie happened where people were trying to, were giving blood when they probably shouldn't have to get that money. So they kind of like backed off of that. Man, I'm going to sell, I'm going to sell me some plasma this year. I want to go to London. So we're going to see, let me see how much, how much plasma I'm going to sell to pay for my trip to London. Okay. Okay. Well, you can only donate, you can only donate like once every so-and-so many days.

[00:49:46] So check out the criteria for all of that. Oh yeah. I got time. Yeah. Let me far away. I'm on a payroll plan. Don't be like Kiki and try and donate four bags in one sitting. That was so funny. Oh my God. Well, that was the thing. Ava here, Janelle James playing the phlebotomist, I guess. And what is that? Is that what she is? Yeah. Yeah. Phlebotomist. She F's this all the way up. There, there, it's a, it's actually SZA's fault because why did she rip that, uh, that

[00:50:15] needle out of her like that? Um, blood goes flying everywhere, gets all over their clothes and they have to, they end up having to wear donated clothes for the entire rest of the movie. SZA is dressed like almost like a, like a baby pimp and Kiki Palmer is definitely, definitely wearing like, I've seen this, I've seen this exact stretch, stretchy, stretcher, stripper

[00:50:40] outfit before at any bazaar, you know, flea market stripper suit, like run. She wears this love green ass out. So her ass ain't even got the personality to pull this off. I said, now, Mari, I know you called SZA fine earlier, but I have some directorial questions about, about Issa Rae in this film because you had the opportunity to put SZA in this outfit and you chose Kiki Palmer. And that, and that is the comedy. That is SZA's comedy.

[00:51:07] She made sure that there's comedy and that we weren't distracted. You can't be distracted for the rest of the movie. I was very much still distracted by SZA. I really was. Exactly. And yeah. And you, you brought up your movie vouchers. And I was going to run with a bodysuit, a bodysuit under that, that track. You brought up your movie vouchers. They ended up getting apple pie vouchers in this movie. And they went to Church's Chicken. Mari, I had tears in my eyes.

[00:51:35] First of all, I do not love Church's Chicken. I love Church's Chicken. And it's, it's just a biscuit. It's just a honeybee. The biscuit and maybe the apple pie. That frosted apple pie, the baked one is, it's pretty good. But Mari, I was, I had tears in my eyes because again, I was eating. And so like they, I got like plates of food just like I'm in there. They eat. Oh my God. This chicken is so goddamn good. Oh my God. That's where I was the whole time too. Just like dying because the food was so good.

[00:52:05] I really had a joint moment with them. There's a biscuit thief. And then we also see for the second time. I really need to know who it was. Nobody ever gets into it. He just has started camping out at churches and just snatching biscuits from the drive-thru line, which to me reminds me of the Church's Chicken down the street from my house. Yeah, very much so. We meet Maniac. We've already met him one time. Kiki Palmer's got eyes for this swole, dark-skinned dude named Maniac. We don't know why they call him Maniac.

[00:52:33] I was going to say, shout out to Tony Baker who plays the, who has a cameo as the drive-thru attendant. He's a really funny comedian. Yeah. Check out Tony Baker comedy for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then Maniac in one of them days as well. He's the love interest for Kiki Palmer. At least she liked the way he looked. Um, but his name is Maniac. He got a lot of tattoos and he dark-skinned. So there's some, there might be an idea that this man, this man might've done some crimes.

[00:53:03] Um, so. Can I tell you, I immediately clocked that he was a firefighter. Really? You got it just off the axe? Off the axe. Off the axe. But then like off the axe, I was like, oh, I think this is a firefighter. And then as soon as they got to where Sidda was climbing the pole and he started, I was like, oh, he's definitely a firefighter. Like, hands down. He knew all the names of the paramedics and stuff like that. Yeah.

[00:53:32] Well, they, yeah, they're like, he knew all the names of the paramedics. And then they were like, how many people, how many people you got to shoot in order to know all the names of the paramedics? Why would that be your first thought? Right. Look, they, they had already thought this man was a criminal. It's a shot to Patrick Cage in this role. So, um, but yes, he scoops up Kiki. SZA's trying to leave her to potentially get digmatized. Like, hey, you got it. Uh, Bernice is on the hunt. And so they end up going.

[00:53:58] And I think their next tactic to get some money is that they have to go and SZA decides to get some shoes off the power line. Now, this is something that maybe children think of when they see shoes hanging on the power line. But adults in my mind are not thinking along the lines of this is something that I should go and try to get. You are our resident sneaker head. Would you have known how much those J's? Oh, I knew they were expensive. I knew they were expensive. But that's the thing.

[00:54:26] Retro J's are going to be expensive all the time, especially like they're like the OG's. Um, but the thing is like, I wouldn't have known how much they go for. Mari, you know, don't rob me. But I got a pair of J's that I could sell right now for $2,000 right now. Oh, yeah. Right now. And, uh, have worn them and probably could get like worn. I could probably get like $1,200 for one pair of shoes. Did I buy them for that much? No. But the resale price on these things be outrageous.

[00:54:52] So, SZA, no, I don't think she should have climbed that pole trying to get those J's because one, it's stupid. Why are you climbing a power line, SZA? Uh, you're grown as hell. What are you doing? But then also, this is King Lolo's neighborhood. And he's not going to let him fly. Yes. And King Lolo is not a stranger to this podcast. Have we talked about him and Joseph on this podcast? Yes. Well, okay.

[00:55:22] Okay. Okay. Should I say the before podcast? Oh, back in the day. Yeah. In the before time. In the before time. Back in the connect days. Is that what it was? Yes, yes, yes. Yeah. Yeah. Um, we haven't seen our boy, uh, since Snowfall. Snowfall, yeah. But here he is as King Lolo. And, uh, he's got an issue because he wants them shoes back. Unfortunately for him, they've already sold the shoes. The little rail howling. Um. Yeah.

[00:55:51] Who plays the hell out of Kiki Palmer for them shoes. Well, she was trying to play him too. Yeah. You know, like why are you trying to sell these used shoes for $2,000? Basically. Uh, how dare you? He talks her down to like a smooth $1,500 and she goes for it. Literally how much they need. Yep. Uh-huh. To the penny. So, they deal with online shoe sales, which is crazy because I thought they were going to get scammed. I really did. I, I'm so afraid to buy shoes off of random people.

[00:56:21] Like, I know people be buying stuff off the Facebook marketplace now. I, I can't. I just, I got trust issues, y'all. I can't do it. Um, especially when it comes to shoes like this. So, I was, I was not in on it. But, little rail ends up basically getting murdered, I think, by King Lolo for these shoes. Because he's holding him. Yeah. Was that? Oh. Yeah. I think he dead now. Yeah. I think he dead now. So? Hmm. Hmm.

[00:56:47] But he, but, but he was calling her on the phone asking for the money. But then he, but why would he do that if he already had the shoes? He didn't have the shoes. I mean, he, he didn't have the, uh, the shoes, I don't think. Because when he's holding them upside down, I think, I, honestly, I think he did have the shoes. I think he didn't care at that point. I think it was more like principle. Like, why are you doing this if you're in a little hood? Yeah. Yeah. I'm pretty sure. I want that again. Yeah. I'm pretty sure that man is dead now.

[00:57:16] Um, is that, um, he asked, he asked them for $5,000. Yeah. That was the thing. That was the thing. He wanted the money. Like he didn't care about them shoes. $5,000. Sir, I'll just give you the shoes back. You know? Um, but nah, he didn't want the shoes. It was about the money. Matter of fact, he wasn't going to wear the shoes. The shoes were up on the power line, you know? So it's not like it was his shoes anyway. This was all just a big, like he's the goon of the neighborhood. It's his, it's his block. He want to make sure people ain't doing no shenanigans on his wife.

[00:57:46] Um, so they have the money. Kiki Palmer has this big job interview and she has to hype herself up. We see Alyssa hyping her up. The universe is in your favor. You are bad bitch. You can do this. You're that girl. But Kiki Palmer got to wear this lime green dress. I really was like, I know she's not about to wear this lime green stripper outfit that

[00:58:12] Lucky gave her a oversized blazer to put on top of herself. He's like, he's like, you're showing too much skin. And he, he gave her an oversized blanket. She really walked into a job interview like that. Just put her hair up in a bun. I was like, this is what we're doing today. Yeah. And, and the interview goes well. She really cooked. Yeah. She really cooked. She kept that blazer on tight though. They didn't really see the lime green of it too much.

[00:58:40] You know, she was sitting down, you know, I seen it, you know, her pants. Like, oh my God. Okay. Is it racist to look at somebody crazy if they come in dressed like that for a job interview? Is it racist? Is it racist specifically? Because it's like. It just feels unprofessional. But based on whose standards?

[00:59:08] If a white lady came dressed in with a strip, in a stripper jumpsuit with an oversized blazer on top of it, I'm looking at her crazy. Uh huh. But which, would a white lady be wearing this outfit? This feels targeted. You know, I just like, I always have questions about like modern professionalism. Cause it's like stripper outfit, but stripper outfit with blazer. Okay. Outblazer not okay. With blazer. Okay. I was like, it feels like we're splitting hairs here. Okay. I was like, I feel like. We're going to slope. Right. Exactly.

[00:59:38] Um, so it goes well. She, she, it looks like she locks up the interview pretty well until big booty Bernice rolls up outside and just starts beating Alyssa's ass. Because Alyssa told Keyshawn where they were at. She just could not resist testing this man. So, yeah. So the, since you, you can't sing about taking people's men if you can't fight.

[01:00:09] she hit his own I'm just saying like she was getting her butt beat and then I'm so bad that one she was getting her butt beat she was like Drew Drew leave the job interview Drew tried to act like this has nothing to do with her like I don't know what that ghetto ass stuff outside is doing I have no clue and meanwhile and meanwhile scissors just throw her under the bus Drew can you hear me can you hear me inside please help me

[01:00:39] Drew do you know this woman no I don't know her Drew she had no choice but to go out there and join the fray if you were in her position well that's what I'm about to ask you if you're in her position you got a homegirl let's just call her Regina and she outside and she outside getting her ass beat saying Mari talks too much at Mari talks too much please help me the fact that

[01:01:07] Regina would never be in that position is very hilarious so suppose the supposed homegirl would never be in that position allegedly allegedly allegedly oh did you say Regina can fight no quite opposite no this alleged friend is the type that is like I don't fight I call the police I call the police help I'm the fighter I fight so Mari so you're running out there to pull up

[01:01:37] normally but like she really needs this job we about to get evicted today you know what I'm saying like we really need this job so I mean I might just be like let's come on y'all let's go go back yeah we don't know them you know cover your eyes let's look we start the side door yeah um yeah I mean I was kind of like thinking the same lines like okay so she getting her ass beat what would you about to do get your ass beat too yes absolutely yes

[01:02:06] yeah booty beat out at that she hit her with a rikishi yeah several rikishi she she twerk fuck this girl hey twerk fool is a real is a real uh martial arts clearly clearly because they both got their butts beat yeah so and she snatched their money and she and she robbed them people okay and she robbed them people now this leads to the big conflict

[01:02:36] the biggest conflict of the day which is Alyssa and and Drew are now no longer on the same page because Drew is blaming Alyssa for basically effing this whole day like everything that has happened has been her fault but let's just go like you trying to put your all your disdain for life on me the reason why we're in the ghetto why you work at a diner why you can't can't get this promotion it's not on me yeah the rent situation is definitely on you like I was on I was on Drew's side still like hey bro like I understand that like this time

[01:03:05] it is your fault like today it is your fault yeah the blood bank was your fault the shoe situation is low key your fault high key also this beat down is your fault outside the office building your fault your fault your boyfriend is the one yeah Alyssa she didn't have a leg to stand on but she really lined her up she kind of told her like hey bro you're not good with your life that's on you but don't put it on me so they go their separate ways to walk to the same apartment and here they meet Bethany

[01:03:36] and Bethany is the neighborhood white lady she has moved in people are thinking like hmm is this gentrification what's happening she has her dog and it is and she has been offered the good stuff at the apartment she's got the apartment you know the like the one the one that they use for the website you know so she doesn't even have the same lived experience despite living at the same apartment complex as them Bethany sees their stuff has gotten put out because they're already evicted

[01:04:06] it ain't even time to get evicted yet they still are already on the curb can I just say before you continue I just loved how that goalpost moved like it was like you know it was like we have to make $1,500 to make rent and then it was like F it we don't have it like now we got now we need to we need $5,000 so we don't die like right yeah we're already evicted so that's not even that's not a today issue today's issue is that we're about to get murdered by King Lolo okay

[01:04:35] so we'll worry about that later on outside Bethany played by I believe this is Maude Maude Apatow yeah sometimes I was like Maude yes daughter of filmmaker Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann obviously from Euphoria from Euphoria yeah so good to see her here she sees the paintings that Alyssa does and she really likes them so she starts throwing money at them hey me and my white friends would buy this basically it's the undertone here and so

[01:05:04] they have a makeshift like art gallery in the courtyard to try to make this money they essentially have like they invite all the people she's got some connections she brings in her white friends they got the black friends coming out the candy lady comes outside sets up shop it's a whole situation only for King Lolo to show up and King Lolo I thought King Lolo would have been deterred by the amount of people and spectators that were here no no he will kill you

[01:05:34] in broad daylight or in front of your friends and family and don't care your typical like 1980s like bully type character like he does not care he does not care I believe this is a murder yeah I will murder everybody yeah so now our girls are running away from the bullets gunshots they're dodging stuff they end up hiding under a box truck until King Lolo basically gets in a shootout with who we think is the cops

[01:06:04] it's not it's not the cops this is the this is the twist they got me it was pretty funny they will hunt you down they said the payday loan people then pulled up on this man to get their money back he was one of the people because they put for some reason they put the delinquent loan lenders or whatever or clients up on the wall they put their pictures on the wall like they'd be stealing from the store or something like that I mean kinda

[01:06:34] but yeah so it happens and this was Alyssa's doing she called the she called the payday loan people when she saw King Lolo's face up there and she recognized them and so that was able to buy them some time so they didn't have to worry about getting murdered unfortunately they still have other issues because in their apartment um Keyshawn is there they have the money they finally have made the way they sold the paintings everything's going up King Lolo is going to jail I mean

[01:07:03] or worse payday loan jail everything should be fine but Keyshawn has worked his way back into the apartment and he has set up all these candles because he wants his Alyssa back um because Bernice is scary she like frightens him uh yeah she's she's scary she's been chasing him throughout the movie well he says she has strong will and like she's very opinionated and she has strong will like he basically said I can't run over her like I run over Alyssa I need

[01:07:33] my old thing he makes me do things okay which again I was like my poor brother and so he they end up knocking over some candles because they're all over the place and they almost burn the house down but they are rescued by the fire department um and our fireman reveal maniac as Mari has pointed out he had an axe in the car because he's a firefighter and uh because he's a firefighter he also knows what kind of insurance fraud things that uh this

[01:08:03] landlord has going on and she they even hooked them up they gonna have a nice little claim they gonna get some money kiki could have a new job too we didn't talk about it but at the art gallery her uh her interviewer from the job interview the art gallery and decided to give her another chance from her ingenuity so at the end of one of them days it seems like it wasn't a bad day after all like it all ended up for the better and that's the movie Mari that's it from

[01:08:32] beginning to end that's one of them days so fun just a fun buddy comedy jaunt through la uh honestly i'm so glad we got this movie again uh we need more movies like this it i think it it made back its budget domestically i believe and globally so it did very well it was number one i want to say oh it's opening weekend so again it made our black asses

[01:09:02] get out of our houses to go see look so now that we done made back the money i can watch it on bootleg like i feel like i did my time i did my part i contributed and now if i if y'all got a link send it to me that's all i'm gonna say because i want to watch it again okay it was pretty good it was funny um have you ever had a cheeto martini a hot cheeto martini no that sounds disgusting and it wasn't whatever my cheeto it was a vodka with cheetos around the rim

[01:09:32] that's all that's what it's like they didn't even shake nothing like what's happening yeah i know yeah we have questions about the hot cheeto martini what the hot ghetto mess is that they made it up but this was fun this was fun i definitely recommend it if you haven't watched it first of all if you didn't watch it then we just told you the whole movie but if you made it this far hopefully yeah hopefully you enjoyed it just like we did let us know in the comments here on our youtube page youtube.com slash every cap kickback uh if you are listening to this on your apple spotify whatever

[01:10:02] make sure you leave us a five-star review because we don't get none of those no more y'all stop y'all stop hooking us up what's going on we're coming up on the we're coming up on year two the one year anniversary of recap okay back is upon us and uh we're trying to get some more energy here so let us know you enjoyed it and um tune in we got more we got more good ones coming your way soon uh she and i are talking about after elevation still uh we did our crossover episode with dr amanda and and ariel from uh the crying laughing

[01:10:31] podcast a couple weeks ago and so we'll be bringing the most recent recap to you soon uh so that we can keep those uh coming as we uh get ready to wrap uh this most recent season of abbot and then uh g and i are still working on our trilogy our uh how to ruin christmas trilogy the baby shower is coming soon so check that out stay tuned and uh marie what else we got going on we got some um so you know

[01:11:01] might might be time for some some wrestling talk here yeah on the recap kickback so um keep your eyes glued to the recap kickback youtube page uh where uh the wrestling kickback might be making its debut just in time for the royal rumble um yeah other than that you can catch us over on catch me over on crime scene go to crime scene pod dot com in order to subscribe unfortunately this week i was suffering from laryngitis i don't

[01:11:31] know if you guys can kind of still hear it so i wasn't able to speak with uh sarah and dr伯母s and dr amanda about an update on our family but it uh it was left in great hands they did a great job so make sure you go listen to crime scene um talk about an update on our family it's about the stauffer family who had um did an international adoption for a child um and plastered it all over their youtube page and then all

[01:12:00] of a sudden the child disappeared i'll leave it at that and that you can watch that on max and then go listen to us on crime scene pod dot com where you can subscribe wherever you listen uh you just put in crime scene that's s-e-e-n pod so yeah uh oh find me on blue sky at maritalkstomuch i'm only there only there nowhere else nowhere else um but having having a blast so that's it yeah check us out make sure you follow

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