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Episode Date: March 8, 2025MY FAMILY HAS BEEN KNOWN TO PREY ON THE WEAK!! The Family That Preys Full Reaction Watch Along: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Visit https://huel.com/rejects to get 15% off your order Visit... https://www.liquidiv.com & use Promo Code: REJECTS to get 20% off your first order. Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys is a 2008 drama that intricately weaves the lives of two families from different socioeconomic backgrounds. The film features a stellar cast, including Alfre Woodard (12 Years a Slave) as Alice Pratt, Kathy Bates (Misery) as Charlotte Cartwright, Sanaa Lathan (Love & Basketball) as Andrea, Cole Hauser (Yellowstone) as William Cartwright, Taraji P. Henson (Hidden Figures) as Pam, Rockmond Dunbar (Prison Break) as Chris, KaDee Strickland (Private Practice) as Jillian Cartwright, Robin Givens (Boomerang) as Abigail Dexter, and Tyler Perry (Diary of a Mad Black Woman) as Ben. Notable scenes that have garnered significant attention include "Charlotte and Alice's Road Trip," "Andrea's Confrontation with Chris," and "The Boardroom Showdown." Tyler Perry's directorial filmography, in order of release, includes Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005), Madea's Family Reunion (2006), Daddy's Little Girls (2007), Why Did I Get Married? (2007), Meet the Browns (2008), The Family That Preys (2008), Madea Goes to Jail (2009), I Can Do Bad All by Myself (2009), Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010), For Colored Girls (2010), Madea's Big Happy Family (2011), Good Deeds (2012), Madea's Witness Protection (2012), Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013), A Madea Christmas (2013), The Single Moms Club (2014), Madea's Tough Love (2015), Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016), Boo 2! A Madea Halloween (2017), Acrimony (2018), Nobody's Fool (2018), A Madea Family Funeral (2019), A Fall from Grace (2020), A Madea Homecoming (2022), and A Jazzman's Blues (2022) Follow Aaron On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealaaronalexander/?hl=en Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad: Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM: FB: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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All right, guys, we've just watched the family that prays.
If you're listening on Apple or Spotify, give us five stars.
We have finished it.
Greg, how are you feeling?
What to thinking?
I'm feeling good, man.
I'm feeling good.
that was a nice soap opera movie yes and yeah i got some opinions i liked it i liked it i did i enjoy
my time uh with the movie and it's like i think if i immediately start off with saying that even
though from daddy's little girls to why i get married why i get married
it's been like a church at first there was a diane goes to jail for us
it's been like better better better better
my black woman first no i mean
i mean in this trajectory of like what was right
before daddy's little girls it was media goes to jail
oh sure yeah so it was like good
even much better than
like oh my god this is great i love this one
and this would not be
like i put it below
like dea goes
to jail maybe i don't know
i think
there are things to be appreciated about it and i think i do have
positive to say but i think out of all the
Tyler Perry movies we watched.
This one was my least favorite.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
I've enjoyed all of them thus far, but I thought this was okay.
I thought it was okay.
I think there's the strength, there's stuff that's strong and good, I think, really, really hits, I will say.
Like, I think the performances were pretty good, especially the two older women.
I think, yeah, let's get through.
That's why I'm having this on my lap because I've been trying to pull this up.
the family that prays yeah i mean i'm in a tough position if i dislike anything about
tyler perry movie flamed i am i'm going they're going to come to my home
it's very delicate balance you know how it is man so what happened that was
i i mean i i i would say i would definitely put it a little bit more on the uh on the
weaker end for sure but i've just kick it off with positives they're not just saying
positives to be positive, like our genuine positives. I think Kathy Bates and Alphrey Woodard is her name
are so good in this movie. Their relationship is the heart and soul of this experience.
It really is. The melancholic vibes, the letting go, the creating memories, what really matters,
the values of that. Even the funeral messaging at the end of like, hey, you know, there's a
lot of responsibility put on parents for obvious reason good reason rightfully so that the
development of a child a lot of that comes down to how you are as parents at the same time there's
other influences in this world that do get in the way and you can't take full responsibility
for some of the stuff that ends up happening i actually really like that sentiment a lot you know
because you got like two great women who've turned out like shit i got like horrible kids
And I tried instillings, especially for Alfred Wooder, like, I tried instill in some values, but some shit just happened that was like life happened.
And now here we are.
So their performances, I think, are strong and moved me quite a bit.
A scene where she's saying that she has Alzheimer's, I was getting very much moved.
And I found there was some pretty good, like, cathartic moments for some characters here.
I liked when Chris punched Mr. Cartwright.
It was earned, yeah.
It was an earned moment.
I think, you know, sometimes, sometimes the stuff where it's weird, you can say some stuff of like Tyler Perry consistencies with sometimes it's on the nose, you know, sometimes being down a little bit of like obvious messaging.
It happens.
And sometimes that is exactly.
right for the movie so it's what this is what the movie needed it's what's striking
that tone yeah I think like daddy's little girls but perfect for that and it was
fun as hell and and moving same thing with why did I get married I love that
movie you know and this one does border on like melodrama soap on as a border
sometimes it's straight up is especially with the white folk like the the mr.
car like his like car ride in his wife like all that shit was like so at like
It was like watching days of our lives or some shit.
You know?
Do you love her?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
When they came to them, it was like embarrassing.
Well, like, I feel like the weird, this still takes place in Atlanta?
I don't know if they specified.
I don't remember them specifying.
Well, I imagine so.
His production companies out there.
I hear so much about Atlanta all the time.
And I forget like, oh, it's Southern.
You know, I forget that.
Yeah.
And this seemed to be the first Southern drama.
of his that we watched and so i was able to kind of see it in that lens of like a modern day
southern drama at the same time does it border on a little bit like corny and sappy and and
sometimes not just border but really is just like you know a little predictable
that's what i mean sometimes you say those things for some of the movies but it's totally
fine but then other times like i don't know i just kind of read as like not as uh not as
emotionally engaging this time around especially when he's going for this one's
really going for like the heavy and the drama the whole time right i think it felt a little
inaccessible for me granted there are like human obviously universal human themes that we explore
within tyler parry movies and just film in general but something about just like oh i'm just gonna
get back at my mother for taking the company and she's she's rich and just i don't know some of these
things just didn't like hit me the same way some of the other tyler perry films did because
i feel like with those other films there was like a an era of
familiarity, maybe not experiences that I've directly had, but maybe things of family members
I have who've gone through similar or semblance of things. I like seeing the struggle of the
common man. I think that's where tapping into the heart and seeing the struggle of
common people is where Tyler Perry, I feel like he excels. And I feel like that's what's garnered
him such a wide audience. But I think doing something that feels more days of our lives.
live as dealing with like the top one percent um you get because you get that a little bit of that
that one percent with uh the people at the top with the business and the and the company and
the wife working away up to the top and like oh i went to harvard and then you have the more
common uh 99 percent or stuff with with chris and with tyler perry's character but i feel
like never neither one of them goes deep enough into the heart of what the the root of everything is
to really get you super invested i think
it gives you just enough
to understand
where everybody's coming from
but not enough to get your heart attached
I can't even speak for
for everybody because I'm sure
maybe there's some people out there
like yeah like this really hit me
this is like really like my bread and butter
my like touch me at home
but I don't for some
I don't know what it was
and I found myself at the beginning of the movie
having a hard time like kind of locking in
because I felt like it was super exposition heavy
rather than getting into like
it was like setting up the the chest pieces
without giving us an anchor point to kind of latch on to.
I don't want to speak for you.
I don't know if you felt that or if you were just kind of in it from the start.
But I think once we start to get to the stuff at the end,
we finally see why Andrea is the way that she is
and we talk more about the relationship with the father.
I feel like it's already a little too late at that point
because we've seen her just be so monstrous
and so mean the entire movie.
It felt like, I don't know, we put.
characters and archetypes and we simplify them for the needs of the plot rather than showing
them three dimensionally as people and not to say that people like injury and chris don't exist but
i feel like if we see why they're in love in the first place and then see their division because
we skip over their wedding entirely and then we jump for four years and then they're already
separated and then she's just mean to him the entire time and he's just hopeful and wants to build
its business up and then you see all the things like oh well you're always like trying to get get rich quick
and like we don't see any of that we don't see the nuances of your relationship hell we don't
even get to see him be a dad for any of the films I feel like there's just some semblance of
of heart missing amongst the the drama of the interplay of the three stories that are going on
not to mention the Tyler Perry and Tamagri P. Hansen were barely in the movie and they kind of
felt like afterthoughts with the other two plots I don't want to harp on the movie
on the negative. So I'll say some positives. Again, Kathy Bates and Alphrio Woodward were great in their
performances. Tarragia B. Hanson was really funny. And I like the dichotomy or the relationship
between Chris and Ben. I think they had an interesting interplay with them being business partners,
one of them kind of being more cynical and the other one being carrying enough hope for the both
of them. I would have liked to see more of that to see.
how they got to this point why their partners in the first place
but again I think just for what we established
I did enjoy it for what it was
Greg
I was just listening
I'm not gonna say I think you're
I guess I take go I was
I'm at a weird point where I find my
and I've actually not a weird point because I've kind of had it
since we even started watching with like diary of a mad black woman because I've heard so much about Tyler Perry for years without ever seeing a single thing he's made so I've been so fast I'm under the and that's the thing with why did I get married that was the first time no I would say I happen as little girls too where I was a very much I lost awareness that Tyler Perry made the movie
Yeah, and then I found myself kind of wondering about like certain choices or things he was going through in this movie.
So like even the lie, the very, you know, the messaging part, one of the messaging parts when when the C-O-O lady, Robin, is telling, nope, that's Robin.
Robin Givens is the actress.
Affie is the character.
who's and then andrea's the the bad sister yeah yeah Andrea Andrea okay Abby is like it's
sisters like you who give us a bad look and I'm going is that a thing that I don't know about
like black women who sleep their way to the top is that a thing I'm not aware I was like I know
the cliche of women but is it something specifically about black women that's a stereotype
that we are targeting right now I think it's a thing about people that are um what's the word
that opportunistic but i think they mean sisters by black women or just women well they meant they
meant black women as well i think that you know and obviously i'm black women so i can't speak
too heavily on this but is uh there are people within the black community that we kind of had
talked about this before we started filming um about assimilating to positions of power or and just
so happened in this movie that power has to be a white man who holds all this
you know notoriety within the position that he's in so I think him being white on top of
being powerful she wanted like a taste of that coupled with her own trauma because her father left
and like okay that's the only way you can have a good life you know if you stick to the
the person who is willing to leave uh at least that was my take
away from it so i think that you know maybe there comes like a negative connotation with that and
you know again i'm not a block one myself so i can't speak too heavily on that so if you guys have
more insight into that please like let us know in the comments but i think that's kind of what i was
getting from that well you see i think there's a lot of as much as some stuff can be very on the
nose there's other parts when it comes to a little bit more of the racial elements here that they're
commenting on that
I don't know if the right word is subtle but it's not
as on the nose I would say
and if you look at it like right before the wedding
Andrea is is saying
the Kathy Bates character Charlotte
is only doing this because
to look good to tell her friends it's like
and then you see what unfolds
and you're like oh Kathy Bates is not that person
who she who she
presumed her to be but she's sleeping with a man
who probably has points of views like that right you know who will like sleep with the black
woman take advantage of the black woman when it comes time i'm like no i'm not going to be seen
with a woman like you in public yeah right the undertone's were there so there is like a self
racism i think she kind of harsh punishment form or something there happening that i'm not sure
what she really had i don't know if it's self racism what is the thing that i'm talking about
andrews and yeah yeah i'm like i definitely felt that thing would then be so wrong but then
sleep with the man who would be that thing you know no i i definitely felt those tones because she like
didn't have any empathy for her mother didn't have any empathy for her sister and like oh you guys
were just like the the undertones of they were like you guys were the struggling black people and
i'm here to to lift myself up and then attach myself to power yeah so there was white power
white power there's definitely some of that in there for sure and you're like no he he loves me he
will he sees me for what i am i have a child with him that's
secures my safety just for that not to really mean anything in the end um so that's what i think
they were getting out with that and you know like just it opens up a whole other can of
conversations but you know bad it does exist in our real world and it's it's it's sad well this is
me i was kind of wondering more of like what he was going for and i think i think there's just some
really good scenes in here like okay to give you a little bit more the benefit of the doubt too
And maybe there is a bit of, um, of me wanting to really like it just because I feel like,
hmm, do I feel the pressure to really like it?
Kind of?
No, not really.
Not really.
I'm just kind of wondering, I want to be honest with myself first.
I feel like I've been harsh around it than you have.
Well, yeah.
I mean, but I also don't want to just seem like I'm being like, because you're not wrong.
Like there's a plenty of shortcomings.
I feel like the movie has of things not being as fleshed out as, as they really,
could be like you got fucking homeless nick in here uh you know he was like an
after five it's like christmas movie character like yeah i'm not really sure what he's doing it's
so it's a strange it's a strange part of the film for sure uh again like those soap opera
elements feel very very very very soap opera and i did restrain from making jokes in that certain
times because i was like i just wait till the end to talk about but yeah there were definitely times where i was
like oh god this is like pretty cheesy especially by the pool like did you love her because i wanted to get
i wanted to like see if i could take in the drama still and not get in the way of my own because that's
something that i've been doing too is knowing when i'm trying to be aware of when i i get frustrated when i'm
in conversation with people who are obviously using humor as a way to hide what they're really
feeling and it's caused me to be aware of like oh i'm frustrated by that because i do that sometimes
so i'm trying to be aware of like when i'm when i'm filming and using humor to hide
like when i'm really feeling something so i was trying to see if i really feel something but i really
i thought that was like really cheesy and the and the jillian car right character like
you know it's i like that they they bother to do something with the character but i think in like
this was one of the cases where it seems like you need a longer thing and i do feel like the
movie's kind of missing like a pulse to it it's it's sort of like this one line in terms of like
an overall piece it doesn't really have like an up and down or it really feels like it's building to
something or whatever you know like and why did i get married when we're watching that not that it's
like i'm the masterpiece of all masterpieces but that was one of the impressive parts about the
film it's like in the first half of it everything's really fun but you're like but i feel like
something terrible is around the corner and it is and it doesn't stop and this was something
where it didn't really feel like it was building to something it was kind of it was a little bit
flat in the overall like pace of it but that wasn't it didn't mean it didn't have like some really
great scenes like and a lot of it is on alfred wood and kathy bay it's like when when um uh andria
is really laying into her mom and alfred woodard's not when if i feel like a typical movie
would probably be like this is when the mom's going to say some fucking shit and they're
going to have like a real heart to heart here just like her taking in the hurt and not
insulting back fighting back putting her daughter down she's like everything about the subtext and
nuance of what alfred woodard's going through of like this level of hurt i was so impressed with
that scene even including with the way it was written and directed and acted so i just think there's
like so many moments in here that i thought were really were at the end of the day really great
scenes even if a lot of the overall experiences of home like yeah definitely could
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I would say, yeah.
Yeah, I feel like it may be a combination of having too many characters.
and not enough to do
and it's interesting that this movie
came out the same year as why did I get married
because I feel like that title
felt very relevant and was like
the I don't know if this is the right word
but like it made sense for that movie
I don't know why this movie is called the family that prays
because it never
I guess we like really think about it
like sure but I feel like
it's more of an abstract title where
why did I get married is like the perfect thing that
encapsulates what that movie is
and the questions that it's posing
and you see that the different variations
of what that question means
over the course of these four couples relationships
and I feel like when it comes to
matters of the heart, when it comes to
love, when it comes to
struggle in the dynamic
that's where he excels but this felt
like
it felt like drama
I felt like he was trying to make a
series into a film
without really
understanding what makes the heart
accessible in the first place and I mean and as we're watching made me curious because I know that
Tyler Perry takes a lot of pride on you know the amount of of products he puts out you know like
look at all these scripts look at all these scripts that I wrote in like four days that's what I mean
that's the Tyler Perry I knew before I watched anything yeah and it makes me wonder like okay
what's his writing and directing style because the thing I will say about this you know this is
definitely different from the other work that we've seen in the sense that it's not a
about the bottom line street block struggle.
It wasn't, there was no lawyers in this movie for when I remember.
That it is inconsistency.
There's a lot of lawyering in those films.
So, you know, it's different in that regard.
So I'll give Tyler Perry props for having a semblance of diversity.
But for me, this one just did not work as well, even though I am able to recognize that there are positive.
within the performance
and I think on the surface
the types of relationships
we're looking to explore
could be enriched
had it been a stronger script.
You see,
there's moments that
I just like how it got me
to think about some stuff
that I was surprised to that
that this movie is making me think about.
Like how
I initially just believed
Andrea at the wedding
and that Kathy Bates is racist
in some way.
I'm like, oh shit,
I really just believed it for some reason.
And the flippoor of, it's not an abusive husband this time,
it's an emotionally abusive ass wife.
Yeah, that is different.
And I don't, we don't really see that a lot.
And a lot of, we've seen a lot of movies where it's like the emotionally abused wife
and you want her to grow some strength, but you're never like, come on, man, grow a pair.
but you do that when it's a guy sometimes
you're like come on man
grow bare like stand up
so I like that it was bringing that
out of like the slap when he slaps
her you know
like you said something like no weak man
would ever do that and then my mind was going
I don't know I found it feel like
I've never slapped a woman like that
I've never a fucking way no
even if my wife did something terrible
like to that degree I just
I couldn't she'd murder me I know her too well
She would win. She would win.
I'm really bad.
So.
But my point is, in this, with these people, though, with these characters, I'm going,
she's kind of like the worst person.
If the gender's were flipped, I don't feel like it'd be a problem with this one slap, you know?
Like, yeah, all this stuff, you feel like all the stuff is built up to it.
And like, okay.
It's like, they people say, like, there's not.
I think there's a Bill Burb bit.
Yeah, there is.
There's a Bill Burb pitch about it.
About it.
Like, the people say there's no reason to slap.
woman like there's no reason but then you watch something like I don't know just kind of had a
comment you know I understand what you what you mean like if if I if there's a guy who was just
demeaning to his wife and built up all of this yeah like I understand generally yes it's like
it's so much more dangerous for a man to be for a woman to be around a man I still up her over the
counter I know yeah yeah I got pretty funny man it's backhanded her he did but she like
flew over the counter.
Yeah, man, that was wild.
But I was surprised.
It was a very strange moment for me.
I was shook if because I was like, oh, I didn't expect him to go to take that route.
And it was weird because she was so demeaning to him over the course of the entire film.
And I never really got the sense that he was like battered or like locked over confidence.
This is like, oh, whoa, but I love my wife and I want to get my business to go for.
I'm sorry, baby.
No, no, he's kind of dumb.
Like, there are, and I, I know there's men who are in relationships where usually, if a relationship is toxic, both parties are involved in some way of both being abusive to each other.
However, we do know that there's a lot of times, there's, you know, predominantly it's the man who's abusive to the woman.
And then it's, and there are cases where the woman is predominantly the abusive one to the man.
Right.
and I don't know what that's like
and I don't know any men who have
I don't know any men like specifically
who have been in something like that bad
so I don't know what a realistic portrayal of that is
are they just like Chris to be like
oh no she's upstairs with William
and they're clearly his wife's crying and everyone's like
she's upstairs of William I love her
you know it seems super obvious but what I
I will say that I think that kind of got me thinking like it did you is the fact that they were in a relationship where clearly the, obviously he's on the bottom level.
She works very closely to the top.
She's in a position of power within their relationship.
She's the breadwinner, but she's only in that position because she is also looking up to somebody within a more traditional dynamic of the man having more power and more resources.
Right.
So because of that, she feels in bold.
to disrespect her husband
because she feels like
she has the leverage
within their relationship.
I would have liked to have seen
one, how it got to that point
and actually how he felt about that
because he just seemed okay with it
the entire time.
And he's like, well, because she's,
you know, she makes more money.
And like, maybe,
they implied that he's had many failures
and he's just like been a massive dreamer
the entire time.
But you never really get to see
their relationship during that point.
You just see the aftermath
which you know if you're hearing something it doesn't hold as much weight as if you were seeing it so you just seems like you're just being mean to him for no reason yeah you know and i think the reason why the expectation to want to experience that is because we've seen tyler perry's movies explore something similar and pay it off or explore it well yeah and that's why it's like huh it's kind of like falling on the shorter because you know abuse and relationships family dynamics
community, religion, or faith, I would say.
Like, these are all very much in, like, all the movies.
And we've seen them do a really good job.
And especially in the last couple.
So to see this fall on the shorter side, it feels like a little bit of a backtrack in terms of, like, the growth that it was happening in the executions.
Yeah.
And it's interesting that this movie is called The Family That Praise, because it would imply it's like a very heavily Christian-focused film, but it's really not.
Has one scene of the church.
Is it a family that prays with an E or a Y?
It's with an E.
Oh, with the E.
Okay.
Like family that pray is like praying on.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Fair.
Okay.
These aren't like actually,
is this better.
Is this better reviewed than why did I get married?
No way, dude.
If it is,
that's kind of crazy.
It's because Kathy Bates is it.
And she was great.
Oh, my God.
Okay.
The audience scores.
But it's the same amount of reviews.
That's so.
interesting for the critics it's the same damage the same amount of reviews
moral uprightness yeah that is a great way to do it yeah yeah soap opera
all right uh well i'm good man i mean i i i still yeah no there's no way it's better than
why did i get married why did i get married it's like it was great chef's kiss to me
definitely tyler parr's one asked me in an interview like
What's on the great watch recently?
Honestly, I said it's like, I was yesterday at the Multicot.
Oh, that's true.
And I was doing an interview.
I said, this is a movie called The Family That Praise.
I think it's a great film.
Yeah.
Why did I get married?
I mean, why did I get married?
Yeah.
Freaking A.
Well, that's, it was definitely an interesting experience.
I don't know what the next movie we're watching is, but I'm excited.
I'm still, you know, into this Tyler Perry universe.
I want to see what else he has coming down the pipeline.
But I think that'll be up.
It for us today, guys.
Thank you so much for watching.
And we'll see in the next one.
Duceus.
I'm sinking.
Josh Asana.
You know, while the family that prays hints at something a bit more sinister about nefarious families.
Cannibalism.
That is what Josh's family is all about.
Yep.
Cannibalism.
They're the family that truly praise.
People just don't understand you guys.
This is part of your culture.
Because they are the family of predators.
Oh.
And we, we civilization are prey to Josh Osano's crazy, messed up cannibalistic family.
It's messed up, dude.
I don't want to end up between your teeth.
I wouldn't, but I would want to end up between you and your parents.
at a dinner table.
Yes.
Because I would love
to be there
for a cannibalistic meal
once in a lifetime opportunity.
You could be one of those sushi girls
and they just eat human remains
off of your body.
And you leave the sushi there.
Yeah, and you leave the sushi underneath
and it remains for me.
Touch the sushi.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh my God, that would be such a cool dinner.
You can have some delicious sushi
maybe later that's a little bloodstained
but otherwise perfectly fine
and you guys can enjoy.
I have sushi.
I'm a vegetarian.
I only eat.
plants and human flesh. They're all
just avocado rolls, just
avocado cucumber rolls. I go
for that. Yeah, why not?
But, you know, not you. I understand
that you don't need any vegetables. You're going to get me hungry for
some gluteous maximus right now.
Yeah, man, for a good quadricep.
Let me chomp on that.
Ooh, who's got
the juiciest bum? We might be the
influencers, but you're the one influencing right now.
I've got a whole new lifestyle
to embrace.
I love you, Josh. You're looking tasty.
It's one thing to be cannibals, but an earth thing to be gay.
Wow.
I went too far.