The Murphy Monday Podcast
This podcast is designed to celebrate the life and career of the legendary actor/ comedian EDDIE MURPHY. Each week our host (Nigel Fullerton @nigelfullerton_ ) and a special guest will breakdown a movie from Eddie’s catalog. We’ll talk about his influence , his impact and do some Eddie Murphy trivia.
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Celebrating 4 Years of The Murphy Monday Podcast
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The Best Of The Murphy Monday Podcast. The Top 5 most-downloaded-episodes . Let's celebrate these past 4 years. Thank you for listening.
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Celebrating Eddie Murphy's Film Career
Speaker 1Previously previously previously on the Murphy Monday podcast .
Speaker 3Just let your soul glow .
Speaker 5That fucking , that fucking shit's insane .
Speaker 1Just let your soul glow , just let it shine through . Just let your soul glow , baby Feeling , oh so silky smooth . Just let it shine through , just let your sun glow , sun glow .
Speaker 5That was the first time they played saxophone in the daytime in the movie . By the way , they usually play saxophone for nights when niggas about to talk In that movie it's high noon , it's cool .
Speaker 2Nigel , thank you so much for having us on . I absolutely love talking movies and we do listen to the podcast .
Speaker 4I love the show what do you guys love most about the podcast ?
Speaker 2Kev , what do you like I ?
Speaker 6would say the going back and re-watching a lot of stuff . Eddie's somebody who all three of us grew up loving . I've gotten away from watching Eddie Murphy movies the past decade or so of stuff because eddie , somebody who obviously all three of us grew up loving , I've kind of gotten away from watching eddie murphy movies the past decade or so , yeah , and you don't really talk about that much . And then having eddie come back , you know , in the forefront of my life's , like yeah , he put out some great stuff and we always , like I said , we look at the negatives , we forget just how big he was , because it's impossible to explain to somebody today what Eddie Murphy was in the 80s , right , but there's revisiting the old stuff's , like wow , I , I would give anything to relive that , right . I guess we kind of can with streaming services and stuff it's a trip down memory lane .
Speaker 4It's . It's like okay , this , there's some movies I've missed . There's some movies I thought were horrible when I first watched it . Now that I watched it , I'm like , okay , I've watched a . There's some movies I thought were horrible when I first watched it . Now that I watch it , I'm like , okay , I've watched a lot of bad movies over the years and this ain't as bad as I remember it being . Some of them are bad . When I watched Daddy Daycare , I was like I don't like this at all . Haunted Mansion I didn't care for . I still don't like Dr yeah , I don't like . As I rewatch , those are the only movies that like I've had a hard time watching .
Speaker 4Holy man , holy man I've had a hard time watching um , but it there hasn't been that many that I've had a hard time , while even the ones that like are really like people think are really bad aren't as bad as you think they are if you look at it with a different lens . I go for performance . I don't go for the whole movie . The movie could suck but the performance could be good or decent , and that's what it is .
Speaker 2More of a softer outlook on that , whereas I was going into watching all this stuff , just looking to rip apart and looking for the negative . And if you , if you do go back and you look at at least the stuff that eddie's doing it's he's , he's at least trying gotta give it to him we've been waiting for a long time yes , we've been waiting for a long , long time .
Speaker 5Good morning my neighbor jesus christ this is becoming very irritating .
Speaker 4Hey everybody , welcome to another episode of the Murphy Monday podcast , the only podcast that celebrates the life and career of Eddie Murphy . I'm your host , nigel A Fullerton . This week we are celebrating the fourth anniversary of the Murphy Monday podcast . Yes , four years . It's been since September 6th of 2020 .
Speaker 4It's been a long road since I started the podcast . I got married , I got on TV a couple of times , but then sometime last year , a lot of stuff slowed down , mostly because I was in a bad car accident and I was , uh , wheelchair bound for a couple for a couple months . So I'm sorry I couldn't give you guys the episodes that you wanted or that you needed . But I'm back , I'm here . We only have a couple movies to go . To be honest with you , it's a long road , but there's only a handful of movies to go and I'm trying to take my time . I'm trying to let you guys listen , catch up and watch the movies with me and , you know , just have something for everyone .
Speaker 4Since it's the anniversary , I want to talk about the top five most downloaded episodes on this podcast . Number five on the list it's the very first episode that we did . The Dolomite is my name episode . Yes , I did this with my good friend Neil Charles . He was actually in the movie . Dolomite is my name . We actually have really fun with this one . This is the first one I asked him to do this . I thank him for doing this . He's part of this swatches and boom podcast which I've been on a couple of times . Why don't we sit here and take a listen ? Eddie Murphy's like five , eight and like Ken Abbey Wayne's is like six , two .
Speaker 7Right , Eddie Murphy's a very small man . He is very small man . That that caught me by surprise , man , Because I've always felt like he was a larger than life dude and when I saw him I was like yo , he was the opposite of what I expected . Wow , he's a very quiet , very reclusive dude Like you . Barely saw him until it was time for him to act .
Speaker 4When you saw him , did you think you could take him um , you know what that time , that type of disrespect never , entered my mind , nigel , that type of disrespect , never entered my mind .
Speaker 4Number four on the list is one of my favorite movies the nutty professor episode . Yes , I love the movie Nutty Professor . It's one of the movies that made me . It made me start doing stand-up . It made me more of an Eddie Murphy fan . It was Eddie Murphy's comeback story . It was the thing that , like , kept him relevant in the 90s . I love this movie . The number fourth downloaded episode the Nutty Professor .
Funny Moments From Various Episodes
Speaker 5I put a tube in somebody's ass , but I can't break wind .
Speaker 1I didn't say nothing about putting the hose up nobody's ass .
Speaker 6I said what do you ?
Speaker 7think of calling again .
Speaker 3You think you run the asshole by the car wash . He's choking the baby .
Speaker 5I do what I want to do at this table . Case in point who did that call my name ? Yeah , I called you . If your name is .
Speaker 3Keep in front of me . I'll toss this between the crack of your ass . Yeah , you know , I can go all night . Keep it going . I hope you fart to your asshole .
Speaker 5Fosie . Oh , baby too . See what you made me do . God damn it . I messed up my thing . Damn Dave . You got to clean him yourself , you rotten .
Speaker 4Yeah , but like , what's funny is like , like , and I didn't want to give you this movie , like I feel like it's pandering no , it's because I've been there , though I we've all been there yeah , and as I was re-watching this movie , you know some parts do still have , like you know , ptsd .
Speaker 3Right , you know , like for any kind of furniture and fitting into things .
Speaker 4And so I still do the whole furniture test , like I still check to make sure I don't break chair .
Speaker 3Yeah , the test I do is I'll , like you know , put my hand on the chair and give it like a push down , a little wiggle , yeah , and I feel the legs going .
Speaker 4I'm not sitting , that's yeah , we're not doing that yeah that's how I do it .
Speaker 3But yeah , it was . I thought I know you didn't mean it , but I was laughing like they were like oh , of course , this is the movie I'm gonna have number three .
Speaker 4this is one of my favorite episodes . It's with my good friend John Fudge Rickenbacker , one of my favorite movies . Ladies and gentlemen , let me introduce you to Life , speaking of which , since we're talking about the songs , from this movie . I have to play something for you . I played it before we started , but I have to play something for you . This is KC and JoJo singing Life on Tom's Yoner .
Speaker 5Oh my gosh , we ain't no dead up and not get home . We gotta go home , boy , home for the world . It's gone now Send it to all of you , Baby it ain't good . Baby , it ain't good oh dear Somebody get me life that just sounded like oh my gosh , if Dudu had a face , if Dudu was a person , if Dudu was a noob Number two .
Speaker 4Number two . This is actually a shock to me , because this is an episode that I did not know that I wanted to do . This is one of the episodes where it's just me , which I'm not sure if you guys like , dislike , whatever , but it's one of the episodes that I didn't expect a lot of people to listen to , and a lot of people listened to this one , which was funny , because the episode was so short . Ladies and gentlemen , the number two most downloaded episode is the you People review episode . Ironic , right , let's take a listen . Music , what the fuck .
Speaker 3What are you doing , you , okay ? Ironic , right , let's take a listen Music what the fuck , what the fuck .
Speaker 2What are you doing ? Stop you okay , but you're not getting five stars Uber driver .
Speaker 5I mean honestly , you guys are twins oh my God , wait , she really does look like me .
Speaker 7I'm sorry , this was insane . Let me make it up to you . You're dating a black girl .
Speaker 4I've never felt so understood by somebody in my entire life .
Speaker 5Whether you like it or not , we kind of go together . Now You're my boo , come on , I'm going to ask her to marry me .
Speaker 6Do you plan to talk to her family ? Yeah , I just haven't had the chance to meet them . What's going on , tell me about life .
Speaker 5How , how are you this ? Does your white granddaddy come back to haunt me ?
Speaker 3what now ?
Speaker 4this is my fault so you want to marry my daughter ? Yes , yes , I do . Well , ezra , you could try . However , this is not an eddie murphy movie . By no means is this an Eddie Murphy movie . This is a Jonah Hill joint . It's like Spike Lee has joints , jonah Hill has joints . This is a Jonah Hill movie . This has all of the humor of 21 Jump Street , of Superbad , of the Sitter .
Speaker 4Now , before I get to number one , I got some some episodes that have honorable mentions . Over the years I've done many episodes with many different people , one of them being one of the barbers from coming to america . Yes , one of the mighty sharp barbers from coming to America . You might know him as that boy . Good , I had Eddie Murphy's best friend , clint Smith , on the podcast . I was talking about you the other day when I spoke to , uh , james D Turner , who was in the . He was one of the big Barry white motherfuckers . Um , in the trading places seen with you , that one kid that that did most of the talking . That was one of eddie's buddies . Yeah , clint , that's . That's who I was referring to . Clint smith , that's his buddy , yeah right , yes , yeah , no , I remember .
Speaker 5I didn't realize .
Speaker 4I didn't realize who he was at the time and uh , he was just telling me how great you were in that jail scene . He was like it's Durag Lenny Clint man Clint was on .
Speaker 1Yeah , we were just cracking jokes and improv , so you know a lot of it ain't making it in there , yeah , but we kind of killed it ?
Speaker 4What didn't make it in there ? I'm just curious .
Speaker 1Just in that jail cell , you know , because me and Eddie were just bullshitting and improv and doing a lot of shit and Landis was like no , no , no , Stick to the script . That's Landis . Landis is like . He wants you to read the words .
Speaker 4Oh , wow . Another episode that should be mentioned is the Eddie Murphy knows my name episode with a special guest , Rodney Perry . Uh , he was actually in the movie coming to America , Um , but he's a great friend of ours . Uh , we've known him for over 20 years . Uh , we had , we have a great history with him . He's he's known , he's known me since I first got on TV . So that was big . That was a big episode .
Speaker 5He said my name on TV the other day , yo yeah . That's crazy . He was on Regis . He was on Kimmel Kimmel and it's like yo , we had so many comics , you know so-and-so , so-and-so . Roddy Bear I was like Roddy Bear Comics in the movie and it's like yo , we had so many comics , you know so-and-so so-and-so Rodney Perry .
Speaker 4I'm like Rodney Perry Comics in the movie . Yeah , we could really go into . You got myself , you got Arsenio , you got Jermaine Fowler , trevor Noah , michael Blackson , lunell , leslie Jones .
Speaker 5Rodney Perry , it ain't moving , no money . Yeah , like I want to be close enough where I can be myself around , like I still ain't myself around . Yeah , yeah , you know what ? I'm saying Like you know , like I think the next time I'm around I'm going to be cool , but the , the , the . We shot this movie . Yeah , that's a clip right there , nigel .
Speaker 4That's a clip right there one of my personal favorite episodes is titled how the dukes lost money . It was a trading places episode . I did about three trading places episodes , Um . One of them was about how the Dukes lost money . Now I had an issue with the end of trading places . I did not understand exactly what it meant for the Dukes to lose money in the stock market exchange or whatever it was like . I wasn't sure what was going on , so I asked the financial advisor to walk me through what is going on with the Dukes and why they lost money .
Speaker 8You know , in English class I had to write the lyrics to a song and I wrote the lyrics to Party All the Time . Why ?
Speaker 4Did you write down . That's what I did for my homework . That is hilarious . You wrote down the lyrics to Party all the time .
Speaker 8Yes , I did yeah right In the . I don't know what grade it was . I don't want to give away my age , so I don't know what grade it was .
Speaker 3Well , why ?
Speaker 8You know , the song just came out and I liked it . It's a good song . It's a good song , it's a fun song and he's in it . I don't know it seems super corny , but back when it came out it was somewhat of a hit .
Speaker 5I'm going to put this down . He likes to party all the time .
Speaker 8That is a haiku and I also thought it was probably a simple song to write too .
Speaker 4See , you guys don't understand it . The thing is that he wants to be home with her , but she wants to go out and party all the time .
Speaker 8That's why I don't think we had to analyze it , but maybe we did . What grade did you get on this paper ? Oh , I'm sure I got a C plus or B or something like that . I don't think I analyzed it well enough , but you would have been better off saying huh , what was Eddie really trying to say when he wanted to party all the time ? There was more to it , Nigel . It was deeper .
Speaker 4You don't understand you were better off writing about . We all live in a yellow submarine Right right , yeah that would have been the one yeah . That would have been the one , or Cat Stevens , the cats in the cradle .
Speaker 8Oh , those are A's . Those are A's . There's a lot to get right about that , yes absolutely Rick James produced .
Speaker 5Hit is not going to get you an A , and it didn't .
Speaker 4Yeah , produce hit is not going to get you an A and it didn't . No , I bring you back to my thesis on Super Freak . Alright , let's get back to the top five now . The top five the top most downloaded episode is not a surprise . It is an episode that I had no faith in , that I did not know was going to be so well listened to , so well loved . You guys really surprised me with this one because I wasn't sure if you guys would even like it , but it's my Norbit episode . I titled it Rasputia vs Everybody and I called it a Lost Nor versus everybody and it I called it a lost Norbert episode , because that's what it was .
Speaker 4It was an episode that I held on to for for years , didn't want to put it out . I have a lot of episodes like that , like I have a lot of episodes that I think are not great until I put it out . And then , when I put it out , I'm like , oh , it wasn't as bad as I thought . It's funny because I have . I have dozens of those and like , instead of getting that , like , instead of giving you a lackluster or mediocre episode , I try to scale back and say you know what ? I can't do this . I can't let this happen . So this was an interesting one . Let's check that one out as well .
Speaker 1It got nominated for an Oscar .
Speaker 4For makeup .
Speaker 1Still got nominated for an Oscar .
Speaker 5Mr Church did it .
Speaker 4Hey , listen , I just did a Mr Church episode . That's really good .
Speaker 1That's hilarious .
Speaker 4And there's a lot of nuances that they don't say in the movie . They never make reference to the fact that he's gay . How do you know ? You get that in little spurts . So it makes you say I want to know more about Mr Church . Right , you know . And he has a line in the beginning of the movie Never heard of grits ? A lot of secrets in my grits . Oh so Mr Church is like the grits , he has secrets . But just because you don't know what the secrets are doesn't mean it's not good .
Speaker 1Huh , what do grits have to do with secrets ?
Speaker 4He has secrets in his grits .
Speaker 1Is the secret dick . I don't understand the correlation .
Reflections on Eddie Murphy Podcast Journey
Speaker 4This has been an amazing four years . I couldn't ask for anything better or more or worse or whatever . I've gotten to talk to people that have written for Saturday Night Live when Eddie Murphy was on . I've gotten to talk to directors that work with Will Smith and know Eddie Murphy personally . I've actually gotten to talk to Eddie Murphy's bodyguard , which is on one of the podcasts that I probably would never release , but I've had a very interesting conversation with Eddie Murphy's ex-bodyguard , let me tell you , yeah , I'd probably get sued for that one , but it is what it is . It is what it is . I've had so much fun .
Speaker 4I got to do an episode with my mama . My mother was on the podcast . I'm your host , nigel A Fullerton . Here with me today on a special Mother's Day edition of the Murphy Monday Podcast is my mother . Hey , pastor Regina Ravenel Carr is here to talk about her top five Eddie Murphy movies Wow . Car is here to talk about her top five Eddie Murphy movies Wow .
Speaker 4So just going through and having fun , and I like to thank all the guests that I've had on here , but mostly Jewel Singletary and John Fudge , rick and back , and for holding me down when I didn't have guests to be on . A lot of times they help fill in for people who cancel , for people who couldn't be on the episode , for people who you know backed out , you know , or just I feel like I need them to talk about this because they are so energetic and so lovely and I thank them for being on this podcast with me . Um , it's hard . It's hard doing the podcast , it's hard being excited to keep going and keep doing and I do this for you guys .
Speaker 4I don't get , I don't get paid for this , I don't get any money from this . I just love being able to talk , share and just go through these Eddie Murphy movies . We only have a couple left . Like I still haven't done Shrek , I still haven't done Harlem Nights , I still haven't done Eddie Murphy Raw , like there's still more to unpack and talk about . And if you guys would , I would love it . If you guys would email me .