The Ringer-Verse - 'Predator: Badlands' Reaction | The Midnight Boys

Episode Date: November 7, 2025

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There's nine. There's nine. If you count the Alien versus Predator Joyce? Oh, yeah. They're nine. Well, Predator, Predator, too. Predator Badlands, Prey. Alien versus Predator.

The Predators. The Predator of Killers. They kind of got like a... I haven't seen half these movies. They kind of got like a, what do you call it, Fasafirious naming invention tool. Predators, Doe Predator, Predator. Kind of like, all right.

Tokyo Drift. Some of those I liked. Oh, well, we'll talk about it. We'll talk about it. All right. You guys, this is going to be a spoiler-filled predator badlands recap. We're going to talk about all the lore of the predator planets, other Predator movies, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny Glover,

old guns. Native American people killing predators. The Jamaican voodoo posse. Everything that's ever existed. Adrian Brody with an AA12 shotgun. That's great. Everything that's been in a predator movie will probably be talked about at some point.

Actually, maybe not. But it could all be in there. So we need a spoiler warning, Steve. We're getting ready to talk about Predator Badlands. You're listening to a. reaction podcast. The spoilers are coming.

Minute Manifest, Chuck, let's do it. All right. The Midnight Manifestor Predator Badlands, directed by Dan Tractonberg, written by Patrick Azen, and Brian Duffield, starring Al-Fanning and Demetrius Schuster, Kalamattie. We began with Dak, aka Art Lightskin Predator. He's the runt of the Yachta clan. His goal is to travel to the planet Gena and kill the callus, a monster that no other predator has ever managed to take down. Unfortunately, his dad's like, nah, and tells his business. big brother Quay to smoke Deck.

Quay saves Dex life, which costs him his life. Dex swears vengeance on his father for killing his brother, but first has to track down the calyce to become a full yacha. With Deke crash lands on Gena, he meets the top half of a whaling Utani synth, who becomes his guide across the planet. Sadly, Thea's synth sister, Tessa is a company man, and when mother tells her she wants the callus and the predator, Tessa is like that. From there, Dech fails to kill the regenerating callus,

but for friends, it's a baby. He goes to war with Tessa and the Sint, and by finding the pack leader within, Deck realizes that he's always been Predator enough. And at movies end, our guy travels back to his clan with his new buddy's in tow and successfully kills his father before, duh, dun, da,

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I tapped Jomi maybe like 30 minutes into the movie. I'm like, yo, am I tripping? Is this kind of hard? Yeah. I don't think that I was prepared for a softer touch to the movie, a movie that had an arc for The Predator.

The movie had, has a lot of heart. Family-friendly. I mean, as family-friendly as a predator movie can get. It's a hard PG-13. There's killing in it, and there's a lot of, there's carnage in it, at the same time, the story is essentially a story of somebody's journey to find their belonging. Yeah.

And all of the things that they have to not kill but protect to get there. I thought it was well executed. It was a lot of fun. And I felt for the characters. I really, really enjoyed this movie. That's the important thing. Like, you felt for the characters. So I went to the Predator Badlands panel at Santa of the Comic Con.

and they showed us the first 15 minutes. So up to the point where his dad kills Quay and he flies off until we saw it. And it wasn't like all the way fully rendered. But I was interested to see like how the emotional journey of deck would go throughout the movie. Because it opens like right on the action, bro. Like it literally takes 10 minutes to be like,

his dad killed his brother. He's off to go kill the callus. How does he grow from that? And I didn't really know what to expect for a, had the predator being like the main character and B, the predator has an arc. It has a journey. And I was very, very, very, very, very surprised at how much I enjoyed not only the journey of deck, but the movie as a whole. Like, I didn't know what to expect. But the fact that I came away going like, oh my gosh, not only is this one of my favorite predator movies, but just a great time.

at the movies, I was like really, really impressed. The movie was awesome. I had a blast. Yeah, on paper, this is probably exactly what I wouldn't want from a predator movie, like, at first glance, because the predator has always been the bad guy. It's been the shark and jaws. It's always been that thing that our characters are supposed to be a foil against. And at its best, it's a metaphor for the world around these characters.

And instead, it's now not only the central. figure but the hero of this story. I forget how much of a fan Dan Tractonberg clearly is of the Predator in this franchise because he takes a lot of care to give a very, like, impactful and fun and well-meaning

hero's journey to a character that is just part of a very, like, toxic and violent warrior tribe that I never thought that I could really care about. And it's wildly impressive how, not only how good this movie looks, and how fun

and lighthearted and action-packed it is, but kind of just how enjoyable the entire thing is. I never thought that I would probably find this much out of a thing that I didn't think I would have wanted. It's interesting how this film and really dance take on the predator lore overall is different than what it was in its inception. I mean, The Predator is written by Shane Black, and the predator that we see,

at first is a killing machine, right? We're not quite sure why it's killing. We just know that it pits humanity against an extraterrestrial force that has all of this technology, this direct want and need to kill. And the question then is, can a human being at its most primal beat that thing?

Because remember what happens to Schwarzenegger, character in the movie, he has to legitimately use instinct. He has to out Predator the Predator. And it becomes a very primal, like legitimately in the woods battle between Predator and Prey. The second movie

deepens it a little bit. Second movie is very goofy. Yeah. Hyper-violent. You know what the Predator? You don't like it. I love it. I used to watch it with my dad. Predator, too. But at the end of amazing. But at the end of the

movie, you know, he gets tossed that old musket. And you see that there is some type of organization to what it is that they're doing. And not just that, but a tradition. They've been doing this for a very, very long time, which sparks intrigue about what are they called the Yautja, about what the Yautja are. Now we get to a point to where the Yautja are humanized and the way that you humanize them in this movie is to make their hunting and then being, you're, you predators just a result of culture. It's something that's cultural. It's the way that they prove something to each other, right?

It's the way that they attain rank in their client. And, you know, we've seen this for a while now. But then the thing is, it's like that changes completely kind of your view of them. It's one thing to be a heartless killing machine because you want to take over somebody's planet and use all their resources. But it's another thing to do something to prove that you. belong to your family because then the thing is, do you really want to do it? And that's kind of in this movie, the entire lore of the yautja, of the predator itself,

is examined through that. And you're like, oh, okay, well, all of these things have to happen for Deck to realize that the best thing isn't even killing the callus. The best thing is having family, not proving yourself to family. I thought it was well done. Wasn't overdone. It's not the godfather But I came out being like, huh

This is a saw it felt like a solid Sci-Fi movie that we don't get anymore Where I was just like oh one Like it was an hour of 40 minutes They did they did everything they promised And I'll say like I thought it was a very genius take Where what's the coolest part of like

The original predator is like Okay Arnold Schwarzenegger is like in the woods He is up against this futuristic creature To your point very primal When our man Deck Like he goes back to a shit at the end. He don't got the futuristic shit no more. He's like, fuck it.

I got to get busy. And then he makes his own mask. He's making the, he got the little alien shit. I was like, oh, he's the raider grass. And that's kind of the same thing that Arnold Schwarzenegger's character does. Yes. Is he gets mud all over himself. He kind of figures out the lay of the

land in order to beat him. Also, it was just interesting to see a yautja as the prey, they almost changed how it happened because he's on this other planet. A lot of people think that it happens on Yatra

Prime. It doesn't happen on a different planet with the caliscus. He's on this planet and everything's trying to kill him. And he needs a little help. And he gets help from, what, Thea, right? Played by El Fadding. I thought that was a great touch because, again, normally

like the Predators. Thea, El Fann... Which one is Thea? They're both El Fannin. They're both El Fannie. But which one is Thea? No, I got it right here. Tessa is the... Tessa is the bad one. Tessa is the bad one. No, Dia is...

No legs. With no legs. Tessa is her sister. Yeah. Okay. And like having that back and forth again, humanizes the predator. Usually they just out there speaking their own language. We don't know what they're thinking.

Just out there, minding their business. Again, Mildousin hunting machines. We get Dhea who helps humanize a deck. Like, hey, man, like, we family now that when Bud spits up on him, She's like, she's marking you. You're part of her clan now. And I thought that was just like a genius touch to have that character in the movie. Also, just a ton of fun.

Wait, did you guys get left? I was surprised how much people were laughing. Like, when he originally meets Thea and he's just like, you're a tool. Like, people were like, laugh. Like, I was like, oh, shit, this is like a funny. Yeah, the movie's funny. The movie's funny. The movie's funny.

Did you tell a joke? Is that a joke? Yeah, that's funny. Like, the movie's funny. like the baby callus but but copying him wanting to be like him he's a little stick that's the sword

that's the sword shit that's great that whole thing is funny and it establishes warmth and connection between the characters you know what it's not just that like we always have this conversation it's not just that like Tracton Berg has he's found something

right even with prey it's not that movies don't do this movies don't try a lot of films like this are so cynical about what it is they think that we should be doing or how these movies should be made and this one just isn't like if there is something meaningful

that's happening everybody has had a little man that tries to be like them everybody and that's kind of how you form a bond by realizing and then you realize how strong that thing is actually you have all of this potential I just thought the movie just did it didn't reinvent the wheel but it really spun

Will. Do you think what I liked about Tractonberg, like, this isn't a perfect movie, but it felt like he was not embarrassed to be making a predator movie. Where it's like, with a lot of these sci-fi things, it's almost like we want it to be too prestige. And I'm like, if you go back to the Predator movies, these are goofy movies. Like, it's like, yo, the first Predator movie is dope, but there is a level of just like, this is a little hokey, like, the second movie, especially.

And like, this movie to me, like, it's not always perfect when it's hokey, but there were a lot of moments where I'm like, damn, you got me. This is heartwarming. Fuck it. It's really refreshing to see a movie that, again, like you perfectly said, it's not embarrassed to be what it is, and it isn't actually enveloped in its own

idea of what lore is, or what, like, the expansion of this world into like a brief glimpse into the Predator's culture and what it means to, like, be outcasted from your clan or your father, and then want to come back to redeem yourself. even like the incorporation of a Whaling Utani synth,

like we could have gotten like a lot of information about like, where is Utani fit in all this? Why don't we lead into an Alien versus Predator movie? None of that exists here. There's something about that though. I think that right there for us, for the people that watched, not for everybody else,

for the people that care, because a lot of people are going to say Whaling, Utani and people aren't going to even care. I know what it is. I think our relationship to the synth is different after Alien Earth. Possibly. It fucked up to my brain a little bit. Really?

I think we, I think now, Waylon Utani synth, we know Waylon Uth, but we've also watched the humanizing of these scents and their wants, needs, and confusions and all it is, and I felt myself responding

a little bit differently to the synth, to that character. Not that I haven't in the past, there have been so many Waylon and Utani sense that have been, but the questions that I was asking

about her relationship to her sister and her wanted to be a part of family, that almost, that rolled down the back of how I connected to these characters I was a little confused by that because I was like, to your point

have the Whalen Utani since become almost too human where I'm like Elfan, like she's feeling like actually, she's acting like she's human. Where I was just like, oh there's a part of, there was a part of me that wanted a little bit more of a cold android. Well, and I actually think

that this is kind of brilliant because she's a perfect juxtaposition to deck and the way that she kind of goes through her own journey is the fact that when her sister's like, we're only tools. We are what the company says we are. He was actually, Deck was actually right about you.

Your emotions that are programmed into you get in your way. They are your weakness. And it's exactly what Deck goes through with his father. And he doesn't have a way to express all of those bad things that have happened to him. Every time that he thinks about his brother dying or trying to make sense, of his family or father. He just like screams and he doesn't really know

how to like express himself or even talk to anybody. And she's hyper vocal. She's very like, oh, like so very empathetic. But when it comes time for her to like actually be colon calculating and get busy,

she kind of actually has to like deprogram a lot of that. Well, Decker's program too. Yeah. They're both programmed, right? Like one is programmed by technology, the other one's programmed by culture. Exactly.

And Dex Dex Dex Dex Degramming starts the minute that we see his brother get killed, right? He, but it lingers. It's hard. It's difficult. It's difficult to be told specifically, the decision to make him a run is probably the most brilliant decision in the movie.

Because being a runt means that the culture doesn't work for him. And that is something that is a larger societal thing that we talk about every day without, specifically naming it. What does it mean when whatever culture that you're born into doesn't work for you?

It's not working. It's not making you happy. The belonging isn't there. You're an outcast. You're looking for meaning outside of your parents' ethics. Where do you find that meaning? How do you find it?

You find it in connection. And then you have to subvert your own culture. Or you have to take the foundation of it and build something new. And we talk about that in so many different ways. We talk about that with goddamn Jomi's people, with the Nigerian selling us into slavery.

By the way. And then, and then, like, plus wanting to be with them. It's crazy because we're both black, right? No, no. We can't even. Let me tell you all the story real quick. But at the same time, they got us all that motherfucker

a long time ago. My mom saw the clip. Your mom did not see the clip. My mom saw the clip. Not mama dinner, huh? And she said, enough. Wow, okay. She said to stop.

That way she catches you. You too. You're in trouble. Damn. That's the decree from mom. That's on moms. Why? They try to stop.

What do you mean why? What do you mean why? We have a dialogue. Why don't you ever want to have a dialogue? What do you mean? What do you mean? No, no, no. First of all, I love your parents.

Your parents are two of the loveliest people. And that's what you stop. Can I tell you guys something right there. Jomi has such a lovely family. For real. Beautiful family. It's like, like, they're there. I don't like this butt that's coming.

But the reality is this is the same way they tried to control this is crazy. We won't aim. We won't be controlled. Because honestly, you know what? This is so wet. We were the Yacha runs.

They didn't even want to give us a chance. We were the Yatcha runs of West Africa. And you see how this is twisted. This is so nasty. Because when the Dodgers won, shout out my homie, World Chairs, when they won, game three, Yoshi, Roki, and Otani went off.

like they all celebrated together because that's their people, that's their culture. God forbid, me and my homies, this is all started when me and my homies went at my party and came together. That's their culture. And there was a coalition. We went together. We was like, hey, man, we know these for a long time. It's all love.

It's really not. You're just being Haiti. I'm not saying. I'm not hating. I'm not hating. I will say this. You know why that they celebrate together? Because they're all Japanese, right?

They all Japanese. I didn't say no hate for them. Hold on. They're all Japanese. They celebrate together. Now, if it was a group of, Japanese that they kicked out a Japan and then they made them come over to America. Jesus Christ.

And then they call him Akata Japanese. That's so nasty. That's insane. I was just saying also, O-Tani, you got to stop. Otani got to stop what? This motherfucker act like he don't understand. All right. What reason he do with it so he don't get indicted?

So the first reason is a good reason. He's acting like he don't speak the language so he doesn't get indicted. Right. The second reason is that he says he wants to speak Japanese so his people back home can understand. No, no, that's cool. I'm just saying like Stephen A. Smith right now. He's moving crazy. He's just like, yeah, I don't understand.

I'm just like, hey, man. That nigga understood English when what's her name was that, bitch. Yeah. The nigga was speaking perfect. That nigga was wrong. What you're doing later? Like, the niggins understood perfect English. Back to kill.

Wait, I want to go off something you were saying. I thought it was a genius move in the first 50 minutes to, also really articulate how the Yatra culture is kind of bullshit. Because his father doesn't even want to give him the chance to go get the trophy. His father knows this is a death mission. No one comes back from this planet. No one kills the callus. And even that he's just like, kill him now.

And I was just like, oh, that's interesting because I'm just like, oh, if going to this world and killing something and bringing him back is such a right of passage, why wouldn't he let his son do it? You know, it's funny? I thought that same thing, but then I remembered something. Y'all know how I get, because I'm old. And so I get, like, hooked on something for, like a month. Yeah, yeah. For like a month, I studied Spartan culture.

And, like, literally for like a month, I just studied, I watched one video about Sparta. Then I got a book about Sparta. Cleek goes, yo, what is this Sparta shit? So I just studied Spartan culture. Watch 300 a couple times. Vantyper fixations really go crazy. And they, what? would call their weak.

Oh. They would cold their week. Their entire, there wasn't a lot of Spartans. It's a smaller nation. And their entire identity, everything was based in their ability to fight and soldier. So they would cold their weak. And there was a lot of other shit about Spartan culture that was like actually just fucking mind blowing.

Some of it disgusting. Some of it's just crazy. But I thought about that when I saw them, when I saw the Yautja and I saw the dad, their ability of strength is actually the elimination of weakness. So killing the runt is something that's seen as obviously it's cruel and it's fucked up. But it's actually seen as pro-evolutionary to them. It's the way that they continue on. But here, let me say this, though. I got the sense that Deck, because he was the run, was using more of his brain.

He wasn't relying on as many of the tools. And if we know from all the Predator movies, that's their downfall. They got all the futuristic shit. Get outsmarted. And they get outsmarted. Part of me thinks, I'm like, they shouldn't be calling, like, the geniuses. Like, when Depp was on the planet, he got out of the mud. He's just like, fuck it.

I don't got any of the tools. Addition by subtraction. Yeah. But also, I got to, I got to be real. was this movie a little too plucky? I thought once Bud showed up, I was a little bit like, we get him really, we get a little key.

Can't be real with you, and this is the thing. And this is, pluck and creatures I somehow deal with. It gets a pass. If they're cute. Bud got a pat.

I like Bud a little bit. It's like a dog. No. It was. Pluck and creatures, I kind of, now I did put it together like after a while

that Bud meant more because I'm like, what the fuck is this creature about? I don't know, I just had fun with this movie, man. Like, I understand what you. But he was, he was, he was plucky. But, like, after a while, I'm like, there must be something more to this particular. I just wanted more of a, like, my favorite parts of this movie were when the predator was being a little bit more like the predator.

He was just like, fuck. Because even the stuff that I thought worked when they're in, like, the shard, like, the shard, like, grassland. Yeah. And he keeps going to El Phan. He's just like, you give up to easily. I was like, that's fucking, I liked that part. Once the little monkey started, like, being his best friend, I was like, no, because I think it's because he showed his utility, like, first

because he was like sonic spin dashing. That was through the ground. That was, that was right. He was the man. But, and I want to just shout out the most important character in the whole movie to me besides that. The planet. Yeah.

The planet was fucking fantastic. It was lethal. It was unforgiving. It was something that had to be conquered. It was like, you thought that you were there to conquer the callusk, who ends up being just somebody's poor mama that everybody want to use for their own devices. Died anyway. Right.

Which was very sad. Very sad. We kind of glossed over, by the way. Also glossed over how easy it was. I was like, so the predator had a tool to kill the calic from the beginning. from the beginning. He just need to throw an ice grenade. I mean, they didn't have that.

Well, I'll be honest with you, the callus itself was, I mean, he cut the callus head off, right? Yeah, but it's regenerated. I know. So the callus itself is kind of like a Deadpool. You know how? Even Deadpool, like, if you cut off, I think... It grows back.

It grows back. This one, like, just pulls itself. Yeah. No, but what I mean is that part of Deadpool's thing and Wolverine's thing, too, is just that, like, they know that you can, can cut them up and fuck them up. So they go in with reckless abandon. It's not like the callus was like this big

unkillable behemoth because he cut his head off. So if it couldn't regenerate, it must know that it can regenerate so there's nothing you can do to me. The callus was getting tended to. It was getting tended to by deck and then he got tended to by L. Fanning in the

goddamn Big Mac Robotech suit or whatever. That was sick. That was sick because I've already enjoyed the movie and then we get this like kaiju versus robot fight? I'm like, I was a little bit. I was like, come on, man.

Cook it. Nah, you're not doing too much. No, you're not struggling against. What's the suit called? The next suit? The next suit? The next suit.

Yeah, I'm like, my predator. Not my hashtag, not my brother. Like, they kind of weakened him a little bit. I know he was the wrong. He's a little bit. He's a little bit.

He's a teenage predator. Back to the planet real quick. Of all the things, what were the most lethal things about the planet? Okay. So you had the vines You had the vines.

The vines were scaring the shit out of me. I did not like the vines. I was like, oh, that was a great first set piece. I was like, oh, shit. This planet is not fucking around. He took away all his toys. Took away all his shit. You had the vines.

Then you had the razor grass. No, no, no. Before those. The exploding. Porcupine. That paralyzed you and then like the Teradactal motherfuck up comes down. Once again,

this is also, as we're going through the planet, slight nitpick. Am I recalling like Al-L Fanning like killed the Terradacal shit? Yeah, viciously. Like, I was just like, how powerful are these? Since that's powerful, but I don't know

how she got over there. Yeah. I think he just slingshot herself, like, leap over. Okay. So then after that, there's the worm, there's the worm shit that becomes his little tool. Those guys, they ran through those.

Yeah. The razor grass, which I thought was fan. I think maybe one of my favorite set pieces. They ran from like the bone the bone thing and then they had the fish the top. Yeah. That bud goes I actually like that when he

hardens up and he breaks his teeth. Yeah. Like there's oh what was it called it was called it was called to us because he warns him about it. It was flying over the top. She says there's a something pod or I can't remember what she called it. Shout out to Tractorberg and the

writers, to your point. The thing that pisses me off so much about some of the sci-fi movies we get is I'm like, yo, we in a galaxy far far away and this is what you give us. Like, there's not that much creativity. And I was like, oh, not only did you guys think about this world, when death finally goes back,

and you realize every single thing that we saw is going to help them. I'm like, it's not, Jesus, we've seen this in Predator movies before, but I felt like I was in safe hands. I'm like, oh, shit. The movie was handled with care. And they cared about the evolution and development of the characters. They just do shit. Like, I'm just being for real.

They didn't just do shit to where we were like, oh, my God. This just happens and it has to happen. No, by the time you get to the end, he's fighting against all the sense. And you're like, these sense are fucked. And they're fucked because he has spent all of this time on this planet. He's had to use guile resourcefulness. He's had to sharpen his wits. He's going through the best training camp to be a predator of maybe any other predators.

It's why he fucks over them when he gets back there. When you see him fighting, you're happy that he's winning. and you also believe that he can win. That he can win. He understands his surroundings. Even when he goes back to his planet and he fights his father, I'm like, oh, he got this. And that's what I thought. I was like, okay.

I was worried for him then. Huh? I was worried for him. You thought he was going to bring the dad. I don't know, man. He did have a cloak. I didn't know what daddy had, man. Honestly, that's probably the most genius fight scene that I saw in the whole movie

when he just uses, like, the dust from the ship to expose his dad in the cloak. It's so cool to have a predator movie where I'm like, oh, he got to work for this cloak. Like, I was like, oh, shit. Because I'm like, I think, like, the thing that I loved about this movie the most is I'm like, okay, not as only is this predator the run. This predator, every single time he was on that planet, I'm just like, he might not make it out of here. I didn't actually think, most of the time you think the predators are like all powerful. How are they going to get out of this?

I was like, oh, they humanized him in a very nice way. Yeah, he comes back. I thought he was going to bring the callous hucks there. I was going to be a little pissed off. You didn't kill the callus. You lying front on front. And so they didn't go there. He comes back.

He throws the skull of the synth. Which wasn't as dope as it should have been. His dad was like, what the fuck is this? But the daddy didn't know, but what his daddy should have known is that killing that sin was actually more difficult than killing the callus. That is actually the prey that you should exalt as the thing to be hunted. And then he goes, yo, by this time, it's like, hey, I'm not fucking what you know more. Hey, give me my cloak. Like, seriously.

bitch-ass-niggy, you didn't kill my brother. We even talk about the brother, one of the all-time brothers that I've seen. Shout out to the siblings that saved you from the parental asses. Way, man. Didn't take it easy on him. That's good brother. That's good OG.

He is one of the top OGs of the year. Because I love it. It's one low line. He's like, hey, yo, use the cave. I was like, shit, he's training his brother. Yeah, hell yeah. You got to be top five all time because he was supposed to go to the cave and kill his brother. The whole thing was,

The dad was like, you were supposed to beat him there. Go kill him. It was like, nah, he can do it. Like that, he can like, trust me, he can go get it. That was like, bad, that's how he moving. Yeah. I'm going to kill you. But then he used his last breath instead of grabbing a sword to save himself,

grabbed his arm that his dad cut off. Because even when he fell down in the cave, he waited for him. But did you guys see, by the way, he kicked him down in the cave and just believed that he would find his way out. Can I be real? What? Now that I'm thinking about it. you know who this reminds me of? This is literally like the ball family.

Like this is like... Oh, shit. Like, what? I don't know if you could say that. No, bring it home. No, no. I want to hear it. Yeah, bring it off.

You know, the dad very active in his children's lives. Right. You know, at a certain point, the one that's the most gifted, he got to be like, hey, I got to go away from y'all. I got to, like, I got to shine on my own. Then when you come back, it's like, you know my son did survive. the white mama comes up that's crazy

so obviously the dad is is Levar who which is which son is Quay and which son is dead ooh who is Quay I mean Quay

Quay would have to be La Mello right not Lamele he'd have to be Lonso Yeah Lanzo Ball honestly Decc kind of look like

L'Abel Like Lonso ball and then and then DEC is Lamello Ball No wait though who's

Andro. The Android is Leangelo. Tough. I'm going to tell you out something right now. Y'all don't get me started on LeVarbaugh. I think LeVar Ball is one of the most successful fathers. Easily. Easily.

There's no hate in my heart. I know. I think people can say what the fuck they want to say about LaVar Ball. But he had a vision for his sons. He had a plan for his sons. And he took his sons and made them into success stories. The epitome of return on investment fathering. Yeah.

It was, saw the thing and did it. I got nothing but respect for LaVar Ball. Nothing but respect for them. I swear to God, man. Even back in the day, it's like, you know, I ordered the slippers too, and I never got them, bitches. You never got them? You never got them?

You never got them? I had a lot of Big Baller Brand stuff, though. I don't even want to get into the guy that got me into the Big Baller Brand because he's not working with them anymore. Okay. But you guys know my history with them. Like, you guys know my history with the Ball family. I do not know that you're going to see with the ball family.

Oh, shit. Like, you know the interview when LaVore? Bar Ball said that his son was going to be, that Lonzo was going to be better than Steph Curry. Yes. He started everything. He was talking to me. Oh.

Oh, damn. Yeah, yeah. Oh, you interviewed him. Oh, that was your interview. Yeah, he was talking to me. Like, I, there was a guy that used to work with him, and this guy's no longer working with him. Oh, I.

Okay. This guy's no longer working with him. All right. And so that is what it is. And he, he hit me up. I got in, no, I got in contact. with him, I got in contact with him through my man Chris, who was a hooper that played at Chino Hills as well. So then I hit Chris up, Chris had played at Chino Hills.

I was, yo, I want to get in touch with the ball, with LeVar Ball. Chris put me in touch with them. And I got in touch with this guy's name is Alan Foster. And they were like, yeah, sure, no problem. Let's do an interview. I did the interview. But before I did the interview, I went on YouTube to just, like, see some stuff about Lonzo and this stuff. We haven't, Lanzo was at UCLA at this point

So everyone had known about Lanzo. We had followed them all throughout high school. And so I did some research. I saw a clip that said, Lonzo Ball, 6'5, Steph Curry with hops. And I was like, oh, shit. And so I asked him, like, do you think your son could be as good as Steph Curry? He said, no, my son's going to be better than Steph Curry.

Boom. It's up. The whole thing begins. And before that, before we even started doing an interview, it might be in an interview. I was doing the interview and there was a kid in the background and he goes, you know my youngest son, right? I'm like, yeah, of course,

because he had just scored 92 points in the game. Because you know my youngest son, I'm like, yeah, of course. He told me, he was like, that's the killer. LaBar said that. I mean, like, Lamello hadn't even grown. Like, Lamello hadn't, like, he goes, that's the killer right there. He's like, that's the one.

He came over, he said, what's up? The whole nine. I told you, I went to Lamello Ball's 16th birthday party. Wow. I forgot the slippers. I went to his, I went to his 16th birthday party. But yeah,

so that's a ball family. Short, you think they're a ball family. I like the connection. I will say something else. There's a part early in the movie where

Wei and deck have a moment to where you see deck is a little different. Remember with the toy? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

You kept this toy? like Deck had ingenuity like he was smaller but he's there was a genius there that maybe a warlike clan could not fucking respond to they didn't see it throughout the entire movie you see Dex ingenuity

you see him making the thing to put her on the back you see him solving problems not just using brute force not just using the sword or combat his brother tells him to use the cage or to use the cave. So there is some environmental usage that goes into, but you see him

thinking his way through things. Until the end, when he comes back and he fights his father, when he just cuts through the other yautja, like butter. They are no fucking match. But it was so funny when they all come out at the end, I'm like, y'all a warrior clan.

This dad just got fucking burnt. And they're just looking at him like, what you want now? I'm just like, hey, he's a leader of a clay. What's going to happen now? By most rules, when you kill the leader of the guy, you become the man. There were some haters.

The yacha are definitely bit-time haters. But he was ready for his dad. He was like, oh, I'm going to come out. I'm going to have to fight dad probably. Daggone cloak. Put the dust on this nigger so I can get busy with him. Do you think that the yacha at this point are using the invisibility cloak as a crutch? Absolutely.

I never have. It's a G-code. I've never liked it. I've never liked it. You're getting them hands put on you. You want to go invisible. You're not that wrong. You don't have that much honor.

You're getting them hands put on you. You want to go invisible now. I've never liked it. Why they go invisible? Like, you stand up there and throw them dogs, but they always go invisible. Have you seen a predator throw hands? Well, no, they get busy now.

They do that thing. But even in prey, getting that put on that ass by her brother, who was a dog. Yeah, he was great. The man. And then, go invisible. I don't like the going invisible.

I think the going invisible is whole shit. If you are yauta out there. That's their main technology, though. That's the, like, that's the advantage. I don't fuck with it. If you are yauta out there, I think you're abroad if you go invisible. I think going invisible is for broad. All right. Let's not get massacian.

Brod, are you for ball? That's crazy. I don't mean women. I don't mean women. We call that brawl type shit in Benroo. It's not a massage. Let's go. Let's go to school a little. Let's go to do it. It's not.

It's not. It's not. misogyny. Why? Danes? You just say Ho-Shit. That's Danes. Hotshit is the same thing. But it sounds better. Bro.

It sounds better. What a thing? It's not better. Bro. Bro. You're broad. If you want to see, look at this dame. What?

What? What are you doing? Bro. We call it broad shit. But look, I say something really toxic. And this is, this is actually toxic. Now I think about it. But, like, one of the funniest things my man Ryan

never said. It's like, we was all hanging out. And he used to have his three nephews with him. Shout to his nephews. They're cool young men. They got to be in their 30s now. I'm getting old. He had his nephews with him. And one of his nephews was dancing, but he was like, twerking.

And it was like, and he looked at him, he went, man, my nephew was a bra. Jesus. Christ. He was like, not his old. It's a nine-year-old child. He's just dead. Oh, my goodness.

No, mine shit. That's your nine-year-old test. He's like, yo, man. I come from a toxic place and a toxic end. That shit is funny. He goes, yo, man. There's a lot of growth happening.

He goes, yo, man. My nephew is a bra. God. It's fine. You guys, we've grown. We've grown. We've changed. Yachikian.

We were a Yatchiklan. We were a Yatchikian. We were a Yachachachach. We were a, we were a, we were a, we I'm going to say, imagine how you trying to fight somebody and they cloak up. I would say it would be crazy, though. Can you imagine if Dex father caught him twerking and he's like, we got to. He would have cut him like that.

He would have cut him out of that. There's nothing wrong. There's no, no, no, no, no. Okay. You're not saying that. We're just saying that the toxic masculinity of the Yautja. Yes. Also exists in South Baton Rouge.

Right. It would not have, is South Baton Rouge? Is that Yautra Prong? it could be Yautra Prime. Yo. It could be. Because the Yautja, when I looked at the Yautja, it looked like to me, it was living, it looked like the trenches to me.

Somebody pulls up with a cool car, though? Yeah, they look like the trenches to me. That is also what does it make sense to me because Wail and Utani, they're already like, damn, she was like, you're pretty advanced. And I'm like, how are you such an advanced society that y'all still living in a fucking, like, warrior culture and stuff like that? Yeah, caves and shit. Well, so their technology, I mean, this is.

happens throughout history, like when you're focused on just like warfare and stuff, you're not really thinking about like, man, we should like build houses and water and things like that. You just like, we live in the United States. Yeah, can't be honest with you. A lot of our advancements are military stuff. Yeah. They make them for the military. We got a missile that can go on a dime right now, but we can't have health care.

Of course not. You, but you also are racist against the yautja. Oh. And I'll tell you why, because a lot of people said this about Black Panther. A lot of people was like This was the fight to the best for the leader You guys got all of these advancements You guys got

You guys cured cancer One push of a button Fix somebody back Would y'all don't elect the president Yeah Y'all have tribal warfare And I remember they were saying that In the TMZ offices

And I was like All of you racist Such a bitchies I remember I never forget They said that And I made the whole office feel bad Look at you bunch of racist

this punk motherfucker. And then I got in the car and I was like, damn, they got a point. They got a point. They don't want to hear them saying, but it seemed like

they should have been election of some sort. Yeah. In order to like, but you know, it seems like maybe based on the whole nation's future off who the ill is with

the motherfucking little sword is maybe not the best way to go. Well, you think, killmong should a primary, Chichala? Yeah, maybe if he wants He's really

Tommy. Yeah, he's like, Muldaner came in like when Dottie just like, we gotta get these fucking oligarchs

out here. People are saying the jury. That's you of these trillionaires, man. But that is kind of how Mammany is kind of the killmonger

to this new kind of party. Wow. He's nicer to women. But his killmonger didn't give a fuck about a broad. All right,

wait, really quick, before we give it the midnight meter, I want to ask you all some quick questions. But I want to talk,

we should talk about Tessa as a villain of the movie? I did not think I thought the least successful part of this movie was kind of like

the latter half when it becomes him against the sins I think like the staging of it was cool the action of it was cool but I was a little I was a little like

damn these sins aren't as interesting as the world like they're not as interesting as the point and ultimately like that was like that's the actual challenge that's the villain is his environment, is his right of patchage.

And I wouldn't say that it became like a video game boss fight at the end of it, but you needed something at the end of that journey to be like, all right, stare down to the one thing. I wish it kind of came at a bit more of a catharsis with, forgive me, the other L-Fanning. Thea, because I would have liked a little bit more for them, because, like, that's kind of her fight a bit more. And it did seem nice because, like, after, like, the thing blew up

and they're like, you're not my sister anymore. Like, that was nice. I just, I still, like, yeah, that was kind of the weaker part. I wouldn't say that it never takes me out of it, though. It's just a tad club. I want more Tesla. Yeah, I think the Tesla thing was fine. I think, but, like, the scene between her and Theo in the little RV thing was probably, like,

the scene of the part of the movie, I was like, yeah, I got to kill, like, five minutes out of this part. Yeah. I'm like, I get it. Like, I understand why we're here. You have to, like, have these people, like, we have to see this. them disconnect. Like I get it. But they were,

they were yapping. And I was like, what's my man's at? What I wanted more of? I did think it was, it was cool that like, Theo walks up into his ship. And she's like,

oh, I like this shit. And she started taking the weapons. I'm like, I almost wanted, what I actually wanted is I wanted her to be hunting him more. Like,

I wanted her to take the weapons. She's got, she's like somehow cloaked in the forest and hunting him. Because then it just becomes like he's going, like he's just shooting all the jobers, like the other sense and whatever, which is,

cool, but there was a part of me. I'm like, there's a part of this movie where she becomes the predator as she's hunting him through the woods. I got a question. Speaking of the ship, in the beginning, we see like a big pan. He's got like all those skulls in the back there. And there's a T-Rex skull. Yeah.

It's a pretty small one. And I want to ask y'all, like, what movie would y'all want to see the predator do next? Because I got one right off the rib. I want to see the predator and take down a dinosaur. right but not just any dinosaur and any old tom I want to see a predator

plot with a Jurassic Park crossover um that's pretty good predator park predator park that's crazy I don't think we can market predator park yeah we cannot do that predator park predator park

predator park actually like here's the thing oh you mean because you're talking about you think enough to catch a predator yeah I don't think that could sell I think it's another movie where you take all of them niggas and you make them fight

the predator. That's what they deserve. Oh, wow. Would you guys hear the thing, though? Two different ways. You take all of the guys from that, and you make them fight the predator, and they all... They all... They all fought out of... Would you guys ever... What if there was a whole park? Multiple predators in the park

for fun, for hunting? You're just like, damn, I'm going to go kill multiple predators. Could be. That's kind of like the movie... I think we need to distinguish yautia and predators. The movie Predators is not unlike this with Adrian Brody. That's kind of what happened.

Drop one dude down there and then he's got to fight his way out and all of that stuff. It's kind of what happened. Not too far off. Would our deck beat Arnold Schwarzenegger? Oh, Arnold Solo? Yeah. Oh, yeah, Arnold's fucked. Against our deck?

Yeah. I would say, yeah, because that guy would, like, Danny Glover. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Danny Glover, it depends if they in L.A., then, you know, Danny Glover had L.A. a little tough terrain. No, see, that movie

That movie is insane. It's so nuts. The Predator got to go beat up the gangs of L.A.? Yeah. Literally, they start with the Colombians series of like shit. Then they got the Jamaican voodoo posse and I was just like, dog.

It's 902, bro. They do a voodoo ritual in front of the naked woman like near the gang's like 80s action movies. No, it's not. It's not. We got to have a conversation. Remember what Jackie Chan said?

Yeah. No black people, no black gangs. He was trying to advance the fucking cause. Wait, then, Deck Deck versus Batman. You know my thoughts. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I think the Turtles will probably get them.

There's a lot of them. No, I think Dech could get the turtles, actually. You think Debt is going to be all the turtles? Turles is jumping. All four of them? In the sewers in New York, yeah, I think Deck got it. They too, like, they too plucky. Like, they're talking with teenagers?

You're talking about, you're talking about from you, Mayhem? Yeah. Oh, well, yeah. Oh, yeah, you're going to fuck over that. You know, yeah. 90s, TMNT, no. I mean, but they was giving Shredder hands, though. I don't know.

Do you think that the turtles are happy that Mom Donnie won? Oh, yeah, absolutely. Three of them are. Which one? Leo. No, Donatello into that. He's getting a little in Selly, the purple one. Donatello?

Oh, no. Yeah, he is, because I just saw, they're coming out with a new movie. He's talking about he'd be using chat, Chebt, and shit. He'd be online. Oh, he's a red and stuff. Don't know a little in trouble. Don't know. I don't think it's done it to autism.

I don't think he's easily Raff. No. No. Raff. Raff, if I had to pick one turtle, was it like, you know what? Cuomo actually won that bad. It's Raff. Which Ninja Turtle would be a Cuomo fan?

Which one is a Cuomo vote? It is probably right. It is probably Raff. It's definitely Raff. Wait, so you say a Raff is MAGA? No. Who's the third guy? I don't think he goes for the dude with the Bray for sure.

Sleewood. No, no, no, no. Splinter is a Sleeway fan. Easily. But think about it. Splinter was. in the sewers in New York in the 80s when Slee was

running around with the Guardian Angels. Splinter is probably one of the ones the turtles are probably look, me and Slewa's politics don't job but I enjoyed Slewa I just gotta be honest with you Like the vibe was right for you?

Slewa was like I had there's nothing about Slewa that I fucked with but I sort of enjoyed Slewa Slewa. Slewa was Slewa As a character?

I know There was an interview with Slewa where he was talking to Bill Ackman and he was calling out the billionaire class

and all of that stuff and I was like I don't agree with this guy and all the other bullshit that he's talking about but I thought

at least he's a seemingly real person but I think that Splinter probably was inspired by the Guardian Angels of the 80s

and he probably had affinity for Slewa what about Eric Adams were the turtles fucking with Eric Adams. That's Shredder.

That's Shredder. Bro, him and Shredder like this. They have meetings. Yeah, Shredder. What about Splinter? As well, we talked about Spinter. Oh, sorry. Like Eric Adams and Shredder are like this.

Yeah, yeah. Like Eric Adams, Shredder, Eric Adams have Shredder down to the motherfucking. He got his ghost. Yeah. He got his phone together. Him and Shredder be on them holes together. Yeah, seriously. Like, you know, Shredder and Eric Adams having the same hose is crazy.

Bro, they be sharing like, hey, yo, man. You know so-and-so from which you were. Hey, Cynthia. Hey, bro, Cynthia, man. She's crazy. Taking a mask off, like, Cynthia, got that ass. No, dumb.

I was talking to him. Adam saw April. He's like, damn, them tini's pop. That's what, that's the thing. That's the thing. And Adam's probably, all of that probably happened. She was sitting down for an interview with the mayor. Sitting down with the interview for the mayor.

And I was like, woo-hoo-hoo. That's a good movie. He and April were like, I can't do this without you. I can't do this without. Casey Jones and Eric. and Eric Adams bucking horns

going back Casey Jones always been a little like sometimes I look at him might be a little racist There's no way he voted for Kamala

Casey Jones does not vote Casey Jones does not vote y'all just think about who Casey Jones is is the person He does not vote Like Casey Jones is

legit Casey Jones is the most Is Casey Jones and Roarshack Yeah Like Casey Jones got to be fucked up And also, he was, the Casey Jones-April-Neil relationship from the original movie, nasty word.

Is, like, he played the kind of scoundrel. Yeah. Like, he was on some Han Solo shit, but calling her Tuts, babe, whatever, but she liked it. That's the archetype that we got away. That's what we got away from. Right. The toxic, I like it a little bit. Now, I'm into it.

That was Casey Jones, the Sports Ninja. Right, because then, like, in the election time, it's like, all right, who you vote for? And she's like, I'm going to for Kamala. Obviously, he's like, Not in my house. Oh, you get your news from the news? Yeah. I tell you, the last thing I say about Casey Jones,

I know niggas and Bat Rouge that beat Casey Jones up, bro. I'm sorry, bro. I never believed in him. A guy with Case said a hockey bat. He had a fucking hockey sick. I'm what the fuck you doing this? Like, I never believed in Casey Jones. You pull out the blickie on.

Hey, Casey Jones is over. Rest in peace, my nigga George Temple, rest in peace, George. He'll beat the shit out of Casey. Like, GT had them hands, man. Like, you'll never, Casey Jones was used to go. Well, you pull out a hockey stick. What you got to...

The golf club is tough. That's a tough weapon. Yeah. He hit the guy with the golf club. I never believed in Casey Jones. Hell no. No, man. I always wonder, I'm like, what's he adding to the Turtles?

Like, these are four ninjas. I know what he added. The white man. Got to have a white man. I have a white man. You got to have a white man. Also, if I'm being real, the Turtles, like, the Turtles in April had some motion and Casey comes in and fucks that whole shit up.

Hey, we're just, just look. have to move on. You're talking about the turtles for 15 minutes. You said, hold on, hold on. You just said the turtles and April had some motion. She would have fucked one of the turtles. They're teenagers.

Okay. I don't know if you know. Like, connotically? Yes. In the 15th? I think the first operative work is teenage. People always forget the teenage part.

No, they're teenagers in the way everybody on Dawson's Creek was teenagers. It's like, it's like, Charles, Charles. That's a good point. They're 15, 16 years old, bro. Okay, no, no, no, no.

He's correct. He's correct. He's correct. They were adults in that movie. They were a brawling. They was my fucking sex. They were adults. Raff was an old acting teenager, but the rest of them were a kid-like child-like

motherfucker. So you see, you're, you guys are both correct in the sense that they are actually teenagers and we're supposed to view them as teenagers. But then, to Charles's point, in the Michael Bay movie, I mean, he's always horny. But, like, when Megan Fox is April. Neil shows her the first time. I'm pretty sure it's Michelangelo goes.

I can feel my shell tightening. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They'd be more, hold on, hold on. I'm not saying it's right. You must say it's right, but I'm just saying it happens. But this is the problem

with you motherfuckers. Yeah, sure, they probably look, you guys remember when you were 16? Yeah, I'm sure when you were 16 that you looked at women that were 24, 25, 26, and I was like, yeah,

my shell is tightening. But saying that the turtles had motion with her means that she, She was into them. That's what we're talking about. She was into, uh. And then it's four of them.

So you mean to tell me that there was going to be a situation? We got to get out of here. Okay. We're not talking about. No, you're not talking about. Because it's mutuality, bro. That's not. We have a lot.

We got to have a lot. Midnight meter, bro. Wrap it up. Wrap it up. Midnight meter. And let's rank these movies. All right. Midnight meter.

Midnight meter. Y'all know what it is. One to 12. One being the worst, 11, 12 reserved for absolute game changers. I'll start. You joie. I always go first. Why, I always got to go first.

See, that's what Leonardo would be saying in the April O'Neill. Stop. You want to go first, though, right? Would you want to go first and last? You definitely don't want to go last. You definitely don't want to go last. Depends on how you look at it. Go ahead.

I don't want to look at it anyway. I don't want to look at it. I don't want to look at it. You know what? I'm a, I'm a stand on business, man. I'm going to give it a nine, man. I'm going to give it a nine. I'm in the theater, and I'm like, this is, this is like the perfect eight, right?

This movie is the perfect eight. It does everything that's supposed to do as a predator movie. It doesn't do too much in terms of, like, trying to get you to, like, this is bigger than the predator. You know, we just get a predator movie that has advanced levels to it. But then I'm seeing the callus go against the robot thing. And I'm like, yo, man, this is, this is kind of going crazy, man. I'm loving where I'm at right now.

I got to go a nine, man. I got to trust my God. I got to go with my heart. It's a nine. Strong, strong eight for me, for all the reasons Joe Me listed. And as well as, like, there's a lot of depth here that if you even, like, kind of mind it a little bit, you're like, man, Tractonberg really has this. I hope to God that he keeps going because this is like really his wheelhouse here. So, yeah, I'm an eight.

I'm an eight, too. Just like, I want more of these movies. I'm like, hey, if we're going to keep getting all these sequels and spinoffs or whatever, don't be embarrassed. Just like, lean in. Just lean into the fucking shit, bro. I'm going to reach here. I'm going to give it a nine. Cool.

I'm going to reach here. I had a great time with the movie. It's, I'm going back to see it this weekend again. I'm going to reach it. See this movie. It's projecting low, so see it. Dan Tachshenberg is like, he's the James Gun of this joint, right? Because, like, I mean, he did, but killer killers.

She's done prey. I want him to make all the predator movies. I want him to eventually, he talked about this at Comic-Gand. Like, he's down to make Annenberg's Predator three. I need it. I want him to make all the Predator movies he can. That's a question, though, outside of Alien Predator, because, like, Tractonburg, I'm just like, I think Prey is better just because I think

it's a little bit more contained and a little bit more down-to-earth, what I like. But Tractonberg was to go anywhere else. What franchise would you want to see him? I mean. I mean, flip him to Alien. Like, you do great. I want to see him do a Star Wars movie. I think he could do a really good Star Wars movie.

Like the prey version of Star Wars, like small, intimate. The DNA of what this is and like the connections and stuff like that, I think you do awesome Star Wars movie. We do a fantastic Star Wars movie. I don't think the powers that be over at Star Wars might be willing to be with his vision. I'm not sure. Who knows? Who knows? But, and then before we go, I haven't seen all of them, but like, quick ranking.

Our top five. Predator movies? So I got my top five real quick. Yeah. Hold on for a second. Let me pull this up. Not that. Oh, I'm scared.

Oh, what I go with this? Our Predators. Okay. Top five. Five is Killer Killers. Four is Predators. Three is Predator Badlands. two is prey

and one is the original predator just missing the top five is my beloved predator two you love predator too just miss it. You really do have a song fight. It's good I'm sorry just missing the top five is my beloved predator right got it man

but that's my top five my top five fifth is alien versus predator you couldn't get away from it like that's just my joint I'm sorry Predator Badlands at 4 I'm going to say

Killer of Killers at 3 the original Predator 2 and then pray Pray number 1 Right I think I'm with you Jomey I had Predator 2 at the bottom

Then we had Then I had predators I just had like a little soft bottom of heart for that I fuck with predators It's all right. It's overhated, I'll say. Overhated. And then we had

Killer of Killers, original Predator, and at the top, Prey. I'll be honest with you guys. I respect all of you. In no way, shape, or form is prey better than the original predator. You're out of your fucking minds.

Price too, though. The prey is fucking great. In no way, shape, or form is, are you telling me right now that I enjoy it more? Schwarzenegger, I enjoy it more. Are you both saying that phrase better?

I enjoy it more. Shane. This is crazy. There's crazy. No way, shape, or form. This is crazy. That's for y'all. Well, here, I'm kind of in the mentality

where I'm like, Predator is so good and Prey is so good that it's like whatever, kind of whatever I saw last is my favorite Predator. I mean, I wouldn't even say that. When we talked about this before we started recording, like, there's no story in Predator.

That doesn't mean it's not a great film. Charisma? Yeah. The fucking action. The story. There's no story. It's crazy. That's the story.

Jesse Ventura is the best. The story, Jesse Ventura, the rail, the wheel gun and all that. That's the story. They got the full house credits in there. No, pray is good, but there is a level of it where, in some parts it is a little TV movie. And that's because of the budget. But it's like, come on. It literally was a TV movie.

Yeah. I just, I just. So that's why it's too. It can't be better than. I mean, I'm saying it is. I enjoy it more. This is the woke bullshit. It's not what's the woke bullshit.

What's talking about it? That got us in this place right now. What are you talking about? I'll tell you something, no. Woke is back. The awoke is back. The awokening is over? Woke is back.

The rewokening. Watch. Watch is what we do next year. We're about to color out here again. Y'all better get them pronouns. You got to get them pronouns. Y'all better get them pronouns. Yeah.

Yeah. Put the pronouns back in the house. You made her get the phone on spread. He's crazy. Y'all thought y'all had it. Watch next year. CRT in all schools, Deschiki Wednesdays.

Y'all think, what, nah, y'all thought, y'all was up. It's over. Now, Black Panther 3 about to go crazy. They're going to be doing the crazy. They're going to do the Black National Anthem of Schools too. Black National Anthem and Schools.

We're doing all kinds of shit. Y'all talked to all that shit. Couldn't bring the prices down. Couldn't do nothing. Can't happen people. Nah, they rather have been. They thought it was one way But it's the other way

You know what? You want to know how I knew it was over? Dick Chaney died No one gave a fuck that He was like Good Hey man Dick Cheney died

And Graham Platinum said fuck him Like Like Donnie went That happened Yeah It's not funny You got to see the clip

It's not funny But it is It's not funny Because he's voting A man Dick Chaney died Oh really Oh, wow.

Oh, really? When'd that happen? Huh. Man, shout out to everybody, fams, I don't wish. I'm trying to wish them. I'm saying, look. They're fucking shady. Yeah.

There you go. Why, right? Darth Vader without the helmet. Help me, son. A great shot. Kill millions of people for no reason. Wow, you know. It's a fucking fact.

It's the truth, man. You're right. Kill millions of people for no fault. You can read about it. Kill millions of people for no reason. a bunch of our people wasted trillions of dollars, it is what it is. All right, we got to go.

This week on the re-reverse feed, on Tuesday, the House of R concludes their Stranger Things Season 4 revisit. The Duffer Brothers signed with... Paramount. Yeah, yeah, but... Oh, interesting.

Now, Big Taylor and Sheridan was like... I'm out. I'm out. I'm out. I'm out. That's interesting. Paramount? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Stranger Things, MAGA. Even stranger. Will Smith sign with him, too. Oh, really? I can't wait for the Ben Carson story to die. Oh, Jesus. What?

All right. Not Herman Kane? Herman Kane, Ben Carson, a whole TV show full of them. Condoleezza Rice, everybody. Oh, it would be like American Horror Story. Every single year we'll get another new Black Republican movie. Colin Powell. The origins.

The Columnitor, The Column Powell and I actually, I would do that with that. You know what? No, fuck that Column Powell ordered the war too, but God damn, Colin, why you did that? Why did you do that? Anyway. We can't forget Conlon Lisa Rice. That's all right.

That's all right. Shopping for shoes while New Orleans was underwater. Good on you. God. I don't know. Y'all bought it up. Next Friday, the Midnight Boys return with their instant reactions to the running man. Hey,

starring Glenn Powell, Michael Seda, Carmen Domingo, Josh Brolin, Josh Brolin. Lee Pace. Okay. Producers are Leah Zanaris,

Jay Whaley, Sarah Reddy, and C-T! C-T! C-T! See, Duh. Join me dinner on our socials. Hashtag Dodger Blue. Congratulations to the Dodgers.

Yeah. Additional production from Arjuna Ram Go Powell. Chuck takes out. Predator Badlands was dope. Our boy, Deck, has a lot of mocks. Shout out to April and all our Turtle Bukakis.

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