The Disco Hicks Show

From Inkster Roots To Summer Blockbusters

Sean Disco Hicks Season 1 Episode 3

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Inkster comes up and we don’t treat it like a random hometown shoutout, because a small city can hold a huge story. We talk about the neighborhood names we grew up with, the places that are gone now, and the family history that makes Inkster feel personal and political at the same time. That includes the uncomfortable but necessary context: segregation-era housing, how “Henry Ford city” roots shaped who lived where, and what it’s like watching boundaries and school districts change over the years. 

Then we pivot to the fun stuff we actually live with day to day: what we’re listening to and what we’re watching. We break down Mya’s latest album through a real listener’s lens (phone, car, headphones) and get into why the production lands with that Prince and Morris Day flavor when it hits right. On the movie side, we run through upcoming summer blockbusters, give our honest Star Wars takes, and laugh at the trend of turning childhood characters into horror villains once “Popeye” and “Bambi” enter the chat. 

Sports closes it out with substance. We talk WNBA standouts, why the league still needs better marketing and storytelling, and how online noise around Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese can bring new attention while also exposing ugly agendas. We also get into the NBA playoffs, the Knicks’ energy, and why running offense through a skilled big can change a series. If you enjoy culture, history, and straight-shooting sports talk, hit subscribe, share the show with a friend, and leave us a review so more people can find it.

Welcome To The Disco Hicks Show

SPEAKER_00

Because here we believe in one thing, always be you. Those classic cards. This is the disco hicks show.

SPEAKER_02

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the disco hicks show. So we have to freestyle today, talk about some things, talk about some music, uh, some upcoming blockbusters movies is coming out that I'm thinking about going to check out. Talk about uh WNBA and NBA. I'm gonna introduce my boy, as y'all know, and partner of the show, Sean P. What up, though?

SPEAKER_04

What's up, my brother? Once again, back at it. Thank you for having me again.

Hometown Names And Neighborhood Pride

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, we probably won't be long, but I do want to kick it about let's kick it about a hometown real quick, man. All right, all right. You know, uh we listen to all these songs, man. People be boasting, you know, a Jay-Z and the Marcy projects and juvenile and make magnolia, yeah, and so man, we got what we got, Lamon, Lamon, Saigon, uh with Compton.

SPEAKER_04

I call it Easter Anster Row, they call it Compton over there. Uh, and you know what? Uh, because I I I grew up there, but it's it's Westland, but I'm gonna throw in uh that they they like ain't the cousins, man, Anna Napolis Park and over there.

SPEAKER_02

Annapolis, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

You know, the the middle belt and in Anna Napolis area, like a little south of there, those streets, McDonald's and Richards, and them all Insta folks, man. Them all Insta folks.

SPEAKER_02

So and you know what? Now I was doing my research, I was just you know, just looking up Insta because I know some things uh growing up. Uh I had one of the best teachers, Miss Johnson, was my fourth and fifth grade teacher, and she just she kept it a buck with us like all the time. We call it Saigon. You mentioned Saigon, but I never called it Demby terraces, did you?

SPEAKER_04

Never. It's always been Saigon to me, man.

SPEAKER_02

Always been Saigon or just Dimby, but terrace is terrace is like give it this little touch to it and make it seem like it's high profile.

SPEAKER_04

And I I I did say Dimby, but yeah, it's always been Saigon, bro. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

What is that? Uh those townhouses. Is that on Liberty next to Lamon? The ones that got like the bricks.

SPEAKER_04

Yep, that's Liberty. That's Liberty. Okay.

SPEAKER_02

But is that the name of the projects?

SPEAKER_04

Uh that's a good question. I'm not sure. I don't I think those are more or less townhouses. Uh those are you got Parkside down through there, through Carlisle, uh uh right next to Lamon. Uh, but Liberty, shout out to Liberty, bro. I I recorded one of my albums uh with Pwn. Uh uh Pwn Lope uh in uh in Liberty, man. He had a studio in his basement over there. I spent a lot of time over there.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, my aunt, my aunt Nooney Noonies lived over there, and uh man's I had a lot of fun over there, bro. So much fun, man. So much fun. Uh yeah, we uh Ingster, I looked it up. Inkster is 6.25 square miles, and um it said uh it suggested that it has about between 25,000 and 26,000 residents, man. Okay, that was as of 2023.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, my now forget the year, um, but my grandparents, Herman Smith and Frances Smith, they had the first official church wedding in the city of Inkster. Wow, um, and also my grandmother and her family, they were one of like the the maybe fifth or sixth families to move to Inkster back in like the late 20s, late 20s, early uh 30s.

SPEAKER_02

That's crazy, yeah man. Such rich for a small town, so rich history, bro. Absolutely. Uh, we know that my you know that the library is named after my grandma, Leanna Hicks. Oh wow, okay. Big up to grandma, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

And and shout out to uh my cousin, my first cousin. I think she would be my first cousin, she might be my second cousin. I always forget how those things go. First cousin, second removed, the whole line. But rest in peace to Catherine Elaine Shaffner. Um she was a part of the Marvelettes.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Motown their first goal record. So, yep, big shout out. And that that's my grandfather's uh sister's daughter.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, um, when that's when I say it on beach, I say it right next door to the young's, which you said the Marvelettes. Wanda Young was one Wanda Young was in my young, uh-huh. And I used to she used to come to the house all the time, man. Okay.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

And I and I lived in the car, uh, the George Washington Carver homes. Okay, all right. You know what those homes are. Yeah, uh around Brookside Park and where Fairrev used to be and all that.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, they're all gone now.

SPEAKER_02

Yep, yep.

Inkster Facts And Family Firsts

SPEAKER_02

Man, and uh lot, man.

SPEAKER_04

Them boys used to look scandalous though back in the day.

SPEAKER_02

There's some old cribs, bro. They were old. Uh those are defense homes. I think they were built during uh World War II for black employees who were excluded from buying nearby only defense, white defense housing, bro. So to separate whites and black. Uh Angster was constructed to house the black population. For a motor company, too. Their workers reside in Angster. And um, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

For for for people that don't know you, Ingster is one of those, it's called it's a Henry Ford city. It's a city that was yeah, for black folks to be separated from you know white people during that time because they didn't want to work with black people and they definitely didn't want to live next to black people.

SPEAKER_02

So yeah. Man, and then uh over the time, other cities bought part of Inkster, so Inkster's constantly shrinking. Uh Dearborn Heights is one, Westland, as you mentioned.

SPEAKER_04

Uh did Garden City buy they I believe they're on that that corner, and I believe the city was split into four corners. So I do believe Garden City owns that particular side that they're close to.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_04

No, I was gonna say, yeah, and of course, our beloved high school was destroyed. I think it's what it's been about 10, 11, maybe 12 years now that it's been gone. Uh definitely bothers me, man, when I ride through this city and I see school districts like on Carlisle, I believe Garden City, that's the school they own that school. For me, I don't like that. I I hate riding through my city knowing that another city owns the school district, or you know, their name is is put in school. Um yeah, I just I just I dislike that for Inkster.

SPEAKER_02

And again, six 6.25 square miles. We had we had Adult Theater, the Melody, we had an Adult Bookstore, we had uh what else? We had uh Nasty Three Strip Joints, Flight Club, Bogards, and Harry the Ace, which were all close proximity, but all in different levels, right? Yeah, higher level, mid-level, and very low level.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

That would be Bogards.

SPEAKER_04

Bogards, yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I'm calling y'all out. Y'all are nasty up in there.

SPEAKER_02

And then uh uh plethora of um party stores and churches.

SPEAKER_04

We have two black-owned liquor stores, if I'm correct. I know the one on Harrison is is black-owned, Harrison and Carlisle is black-owned, and I believe the old Allen store is black-owned. Yeah. Bro, I remember when that place used to be a grocery store. I remember when it used to be Allen's store, and I used to go with my grandfather when I was a kid, and we would get groceries from there.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, we'll talk uh Eric and Eric West and I what up, Edub. I was talking to him with some of him how um I didn't like going to Allen's or Danny's, uh, because it's yeah, yeah, because this the meat smelled so bad, bro. It smelled like it didn't that produce section where I'm going there, it just smelled like rotten flesh, man.

SPEAKER_04

That was the beginning stages of you uh knowing that you was gonna make that baby.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I was smelling that blood, bro. I was like, my mom wouldn't, but my mom wouldn't buy meat from there, she would just get other stuff. I think I think she would get fish, but other than that, she didn't get any uh like meat meat from there.

SPEAKER_04

Man, that was my granddaddy's go-to. And I remember one night we were heavy, we were in the 80s, mid-80s, early 80s, we were heavy into wrestling, and we ran into Slick, the manager Slick. You remember him?

SPEAKER_02

Ah, I don't remember Slick.

SPEAKER_04

Slick was the brother, he was the uh man. Who was who did he manage? Uh black guy, tall, skinny. I think he managed like um he was with Bobby Heenan.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, I think I know what you're talking about. I

Carver Homes And Segregation History

SPEAKER_02

think I know who you're talking about.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, we ran into him one night, me and my cousin Mike, with my granddaddy. We was afraid to go speak to him, but we ended up getting an autograph uh from him.

SPEAKER_02

And uh not to men, and also we have to mention that there are also a lot of motels on Michigan Avenue. What was the name of the famous one? Was that the Evergreen? Yeah, Alberta, yeah, Alberta.

SPEAKER_04

We was it was uh wasn't it the Mona Lisa? It wasn't ever it was Mona Lisa.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, Mona Lisa before, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Well, Alberta Easter, and my cousin, so directly across the street going north from the Mona Lisa is Isabel Street. And my cousins, they stayed off of Isabel, maybe like two, three houses off of Isabel. We were at their house during that time that that standoff had happened. They had Michigan Avenue blocked off.

SPEAKER_02

I was there too. Yeah, yeah. I was at that, you know, the gas station on yeah, Michigan Avenue and Middle Belt, the gas station, the popular gas station, and you when you pass right there. Across the street, it was a party store. Remember before, yeah. I think it's a dispensary now or whatever, or tire.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_02

Um, but it was a party store, and I was there with my mom's friend, and I remember he was buying me coolers. I was young, he was like, my he was like my mom's brother type. He was like an uncle type.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_02

What you want, nephew? He gave me some gave me some coolers, and you come out to the car, you saw, like you said, they had Michigan Avenue blocked off. And yeah, man, the standoff between a woman and her was she, was it her six fifties or sixties at the time?

SPEAKER_04

60s, yeah. I'll say about 60s.

SPEAKER_02

And she had her two sons, and and then the police, and they killed two cops.

SPEAKER_04

Two, I think it was two, it might have been three. No, but I know because uh for a long time they were hoping that the police officers were alive because they were holding them hostage.

SPEAKER_02

Hostage, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Because they were writing bad checks, and that standoff went for a long time. And I think I was a kid, but nobody remembered hearing the gunshots that took out the police officers. Yeah, uh that's why they went so long wondering if they were still alive or if they weren't alive. But yeah, I was a kid, I forget what year that was in the 80s, though.

SPEAKER_02

That was 80, I want to say 86. 87, yeah, 87. Here you go. Alberta Easter and her three sons were responsible for the tragic July 9th, 1987, murders of three Yangster Michigan police officers at the Bungalow Motel, bro.

SPEAKER_04

The bungalow, I said the Mona Lisa, the bungalow. That's right.

SPEAKER_02

That's right. The warrant was for a bad check and amount of $286 for a car rental, an offense that typically would have resulted in probation. Yeah, but upon entering the motel room, the officers were met with a barrage of gunfire and tragically killed. Following the initial volley, Easter and her sons barricaded themselves inside the room, sparking an hour-long police standoff that eventually ended when they surrendered to the authorities.

SPEAKER_03

Man, dude.

The 1987 Bungalow Motel Standoff

SPEAKER_04

I remember that. And that was the year I entered high school in '87. And that what uh what month was that? That was during the summer, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, July, yep. July. Yeah, it was hot because I was uh I was living with my grandparents, but I was spending spending like a couple of weeks with my mom's house in Detroit. Okay, for some reason we drove to Easter to get some some, I don't know, Bartles and James. I don't know what was up. I can't remember why we traveled so far, but uh, but yeah, that was the thing.

SPEAKER_04

You gotta think though, people back then they had their favorite stores, man. So if you was in Detroit, you had to come all with Easter. That's what you had to do.

SPEAKER_02

All

Mya Album First Impressions

SPEAKER_02

right, man. Let's get into some music. Did you get a chance to listen to that Maya album?

SPEAKER_04

I listened to a couple joints off of there.

SPEAKER_02

Do you remember what they were?

SPEAKER_04

You know what? I don't remember it. I know I listened to the first three tracks. I'll I'll say this. I really, really enjoyed those tracks. I'll be honest with you, man. It kind of gave me a kind of gave me um actually the the track that I really liked was No Pressure. So I heard that one. Uh Masterpiece, Good to You was really good. And Saturday night. It gave me um, it gave me, it gave me a Prince and Moore's Day type of production feel.

SPEAKER_02

Yep, yep, absolutely. Uh bro, I'm gonna tell you this. I've given it, I've listened, that's all I've been listening to. So I gave it the three threefold, listen. First, first the phone, okay, then the car, and then the headphones.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

And um, so this the album has 13 cuts, and then they got three remixes, and the three mixes of the songs are are the probably the best songs on the album. Okay, but like you said, that that uh with that Morris Day feel, even she went, she tried to capture her um her influences. So yeah, Prince, Rick James, you would you're gonna hear all of that. But I would say from track four, just a little, featuring two short, from four, from four, five, six, seven, eight. Yeah, from four to eight, this bangers, man. I mean straight bangers, then it goes to nine games for my love. It's okay. It's not a it's something I wouldn't call it a skippable track, but it's not as fire as the previous that I named. But the best song on the album is called Face to Face, and it has two versions. I have the remix version, the DMV uh remix, which you know that means District, Maryland, Virginia remix. Okay, so so yeah, she knows she's from that area, so area, so she's cool with Wale, and then the dude that raps on. Do you know of Fella Day? He's a rapper.

SPEAKER_04

Fella Day, no, I'm not familiar with okay.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, he's with he's he's Wale's boy and and and um Maya's boy as well. Okay, who his flow on there is so dope, so it goes face to face, and then it hits another track, and then it goes uh to anytime, bro. So anytime, and face to face are my favorite songs on the whole album. Okay, and I would say the album, 13 tracks. I say it has seven bangers, three bops, and three okay. But it's well, and then I would get his album about a B plus, maybe an A minus, bro.

SPEAKER_04

That's yeah, okay. And that's all I've been listening to. Tune in now, like I said, those first four tracks were really, really good. Uh yeah, um, and it gave me the disco, it gave me the disco um vibe to it. I you know, I love depth, so and that's what I see, and that's what I've seen so far with the first four uh tracks. So looking forward to hearing the rest of that, yeah, bro.

SPEAKER_02

Uh uh man, those songs that I tell you are really named, but yeah, so I'm gonna give a thank out to Miss Maya Marie Harrison. Thank you.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, dog, they're gorgeous.

SPEAKER_02

So, yeah, man. She whew that's an understatement. All right, that's it, man.

Summer Blockbusters Worth Watching

SPEAKER_02

Uh, are you have you been to the movies lately, man? Have you been checking out any flex?

SPEAKER_04

Man, you know, I have planned so many times to go to the movies. Unfortunately, I have not gotten there. It's been a busy year for me, man. I got a daughter that just graduated. I got a young daughter that is heavy into dance. And if you're a dance dad, you know a lot about just constantly on the move, uh, six to seven days a week. I literally just got back home from dropping her off to practice, and so no, I have not, uh, but I got a lot on my list. I want to go see the He-Man uh, yeah. Sad to say, I have not seen the Michael yet, but I gotta go see that.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, it's about to come streaming pretty soon. I saw I know I saw that. They said it I think next week, man. Maybe next week.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, yeah, and I'm I'm such a big kid, man. I want to go see, I've been a fan forever. Uh, and I'm a fan of all of the movies I'm about to mention, but Toy Story 5 is coming out. Yep. So I want to go see that.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, so um Master Universe dropped yesterday. Okay. And I was hesitant to go see it, but now I've been seeing the reviews, people saying it's hot. They're going to see it more than once. So the summer blockbuster season has started. So yeah, Master Union Disclosure Day. I want to see that movie. That's what um Emily Blunt. I like Emily Blunt. It's a Steven Spielberg movie about alien, alien invasion. Okay. So, you know, Spielberg and Aliens is probably usually a good movie, at least a good popcorn movie.

SPEAKER_04

Man, that brother's still still banging them out.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, that boss come out June 12th. And you mentioned Toy Story 5, that's June 19th.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. And uh Supergirl, June 26th.

SPEAKER_04

Now, is that part of the DC or the Marvel?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, did you see that? Did you see The Last Superman?

SPEAKER_04

I did not.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, she was in there, so it is it's connected to that universe. Okay. So yeah. Uh Moana, July 10th. I didn't even, I haven't even seen the cartoon. So this is supposed to be a live, live uh action version of that.

SPEAKER_04

That was really good. I've seen the first one. I didn't see the second one. I watched the first one with my daughter.

SPEAKER_02

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

So that was it was really good.

SPEAKER_02

Uh The Odyssey, July 17th, Christopher Nolan.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

And uh, I guess it's supposed to be a uh an epic, a post-Trojan War adaptation. Uh I kind of want to see that. Uh Spider Spider-Man brand new day, July 31st.

SPEAKER_04

Can't wait for that.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. And um I didn't, man, that's I didn't, I wasn't curious about Mortal Kombat, so I'm good on Mortal Kombat.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, you know, I that it you know, I loved the video game, but that was like a a video game to movie that uh it just it just didn't I wasn't attracted to that.

SPEAKER_02

Uh I do still want to see the Mandalorian and

Star Wars Highs Lows And Backlash

SPEAKER_02

Grogu.

SPEAKER_04

Man, big man, me too, man. Me too. Let's see, man. Because Mandalorian, that's that's part of the Star Wars. Yeah, mm-hmm. Boba Fett. How do you feel about the um the Star Wars uh series? And everything has come out, I would say the past 15, 20 years, or I'd say 25 years.

SPEAKER_02

A lot of it trash. I like I like the original three.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, and then when they added the other one, I liked um Revenge of the Sith, uh the other three. The other two, they can you can leave that, and then I like um Rogue One. Okay, Rogue One is so dope. Rogue One and the Revenge of the Sith. Rest of them you can you can take. I'm cool on all of that stuff.

SPEAKER_04

Now, what what was the name of was Rogue One the one with the brother, the British actor?

SPEAKER_02

No, no, he was in the he was in the this he was in a uh the third installment of the other three. Um, let's see, let's look them up real quick. Uh Star Wars.

SPEAKER_04

I thought that one he was in was it was pretty good. I mean it wasn't spectacular, but it was pretty decent.

SPEAKER_02

It started off cool, but then they, you know, uh course. Um do you know the behind the scenes of that stuff? Because then he has some racism stuff. He he's denounces, he's denounced the the franchise because you know they were supposed to, he was his character's supposed to. Be a love interest of the main character, but they now didn't allow it to happen because she was white and he was black. And he he spoke on that, bro.

SPEAKER_04

George, that's all is it George Lucas?

SPEAKER_02

George Lucas. But he he sold. I think he sold everything, bro. Uh, so um, yeah, I don't think he owned the owns them anymore.

SPEAKER_04

It's funny how Bubba uh Bubba Fat he be. I mean, but he was an interesting character, I would say, because as a kid, man, collecting Star Wars figurines was just that was they were some of the best figurines you can get. But his that Bubba Fett was really uh that was a tough figurine coming up as a kid.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, you know, I I collected none of the one I got now. I was dope. Man, they ain't made these toys when we was when we was a kid, man. Oh my god. They just so articulate, so it just like because back then they didn't have any elbows, man. They didn't they elbows in band, they knees in band. They were just you're right. I couldn't stand that, man. Yeah. Uh let's let's go through that one. Uh The Phantom Menace came out in '99. Uh Tackle the Clones 202, uh 2002, and then Revenge of the Sith 2005. Now those ones is uh, yeah, then George Lucas. So hit he sold so Lucas filmed to Disney, so Disney owns it. And then that's when they came out with The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, okay, and the Rise of Skywalker, all of them just straight garbage. Okay. I didn't like them.

SPEAKER_04

Man, they oh yeah, falling ever since. I mean, that's kind of I can buy more, but uh I'm I'm anxious to see them kind of turn it around and grab the spotlight again if they can.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah, it's just they just get that push and pull. You got you got this group over here saying this, and you got this group. Stand for what you stand for and just go with it, you know. They because they uh they're being accused of being too woke, quote unquote woke, whatever that means. Whatever that means now. I guess facts. Uh let's see, but yeah, uh, you know, scary movie, man. I'm not gonna check out the scary movie. Are you gonna check out scary movie?

Horror Remakes Gone Too Far

SPEAKER_04

Uh you know what? I'm I'm I'm a huge fan of the Wayans. I I really love like they have the the type of black family that I wanted to have coming up. A bunch of brothers and sisters. Uh, everybody's talented, uh, they love on each other. Their mom and dad uh both were I believe both their parents are gone now, but I love their family structure. But the scary movies, like, I'm not really into that type of comedy. Like the I'm not into gross comedy. And okay. Marlon has a lot of gross comedy, but I but I love um Marlon as an actor. I love his vision. Um, but those those movies like I'm not a huge, I'm not a huge, um, I don't dislike them, but I'm not a huge fan of them. So I might wait till that come out on Prime or you know, Hoo or something like that.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Uh that's about it, Manfires of Summer Boys. I'm just looking at this list and I'm not seeing anything else that jumped out. Uh, but there is a movie called um Let's see, I just saw the preview. The End of Oak Street.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

August 14th. Uh, and Hathaway's in it. Hean McGregor. Okay. And um, the film is originally slated. It was slated for 2025. I don't know, but it was a pushback. But uh, but it's a thriller, and I think it's a horror and thriller, if I'm not myself.

SPEAKER_04

That's type of stuff. My daughter, uh, they my oldest daughter, she would love that. I know they just went to see, I believe, was it Obsession or Obsessed?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, it says uh after a mysterious comic, cosmic event rips Oak Street from Surberbian transport their neighborhood to some someplace unknown. So I said the plat the Platt family soon discovered that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their own unrecognizable uh surroundings.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, he's it was funny. That's that's the type of movie that will win an Oscar out of all of the movies we mentioned.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, yeah. All right, man. Uh oh, speaking of movies, man, a ridiculous movie. So I got this co-worker, man. He he always he downloads the movies and stuff. He like come to me, like, hey man, have you seen this? This cat come to me and asked me, Have I seen Popeye? Like, yeah, I've seen Popeye. No, not this. No, the other Popeye. What Popeye you talking about? The Popeye, he's killing people. No, I haven't seen that. So what? So this is so ridiculous. So I was like, man, let me go, let me go look at the trailer. So I went up, pulled up the trailer on YouTube, and uh Popeye, man, it's these kids, man, are going into an abandoned spinach factory, and the ghost of Popeye is killing them. Dude, you know what took me out? I looked at the I looked at the trailer and I saw him eat spinach. Oh I'm done. I stopped it. I'm like, man, and I was like, bro, come on, man, stop it.

SPEAKER_01

No, no, no. Don't suggest me that. Don't I suggest like a vibe or something?

SPEAKER_04

I think that you know, because we've been doing a um podcast on a lot of history and music and even entertainment. And I always tease my kids about how their generation has had a tough time. Like they they just kind of recreate a lot of the things that we've already done. Yep. Um, and that's that's what I get from that movie. That's not something that I would just be like, oh yeah, I gotta go see that. And just by what you just told me, yeah, I think I'm okay on that.

SPEAKER_02

I will say this, I did he because he also he also just suggested Bambi, and they got a Bambi killing people right now. But I would say that it was like the Bambi came across as like a sci-fi channel horror flip flick, it was campy and stupid, but it wasn't bad, bad. I wasn't like I wasn't eye rolling because you know, whatever the reason they said that this deer got uh rabbit, whatever reason he got rabbit, man, but he was rabbit and he was killing and he had teeth, sharp teeth. Oh man,

WNBA Game Recap And Standouts

SPEAKER_02

all right, man. Let's switch skiers to some sports, man. I want to talk about the WNBA, bro. I don't know if you've been watching. I've been I've I watched a crazy game uh Thursday against the Golden State Valkyries and the Minnesota Lynx. Okay, man, they were lighting it up.

SPEAKER_04

I was like Who won?

SPEAKER_02

Uh the Lynx won 87 to 84. It was close all the way to the end. Okay, and um I'm a fan of the Minnesota Lynx because I like Courtney Williams and I like Nafisa Kalya, but she's still hurt.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_02

They rookies, they picked up Olivia Miles, man.

SPEAKER_04

I love her game, man. I love her game. I I actually I posted one of her reels on my page. The other man, that girl is she's nice, she's real nice.

SPEAKER_02

She's the reason why they're in first place, man.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, she's a rookie, right? She's a rookie.

SPEAKER_02

And and so Courtney Williams is taking the lead, and then Miles is right behind her, and and they're and McBride right too. And so they just win it. Man, in first place, they are their record right now is eight and two. So 10 games in a season. They're eight and two in first place. Uh the Valkyries is is a good team. Um let's see, the Valkyries, they got uh Kayla Thornton on there, and then they got their girl Caitlin Chin and Gabby Williams, and they're there's and they're what's I believe they're six and four. So they're not, and you would think, I mean, their expansion team what two years ago, and okay, and now they compete in big time.

SPEAKER_04

Big time. Let me tell you, I I really got back into the uh WNBA. I'm always a little slow. What I wish for the WNBA is uh, and I've been saying this for years, I would love to see them increase or do better with their marketing of their product. Um, I'm a big fan of my of athletes being actors. Like to give you an example. Um, what's the quarterback? Uh, the Manning, the Manning brothers, Eli and Pei, man, they do they are great in commercials. Um, LeBron James is great in commercial.

SPEAKER_02

I'll tell you another guy who's Baker Mayfield, too.

SPEAKER_04

Baker Mayfield, great at commercial. Uh, who's the brother that played? Blake Griffin.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, he's funny.

SPEAKER_04

Uh I I want to see, especially since the WNBA, when you look at their uniforms, is littered with, you know, I know, yeah. All of the uh sponsors and different things like that. I want to see those let because Asia Wilson, she does a couple car commercials, a couple other ladies in there. She does a great job. I just want to see them tap into their um their acting skills more, man. Draw us into the sport more. I want to get to know more about the ladies as individuals.

SPEAKER_02

Um, and not necessarily their relationships, but more about you know the only reason I laugh, you know where we are laughing, right? Because this is a like, do you even talk about this? I don't know. You know, I I know they won't talk about on TV, but right like, you know, uh what makes the WNBA unique than any other sport or league is that you have couples on a team. And so yeah, that just that makes them unique. But also it makes them man, I was listening to uh Carrie Champion and Jamel Hill. Yeah and you know, I've I like you were saying, I I when the WNBA came into existence, I was all in because we had the shock, and I watched them all the way till Shock got when I when Shock moved away and went to uh Tulsa. I stopped watching WNBA as much. But what I would do is I would watch the playoffs and and in the finals. So I did I I did keep up with the players. I ended up I did keep up with coming in, who was coming in, and I did watch the uh uh women's bat uh college basketball too. But I but as far as the WNBA, I would just watch the playoffs and uh the finals, but it wasn't until this this class what with uh Andrew Reese and Clayton, Caitlin Clark and Cameron Brink, when that class came in, it was like, okay, let me check them out. Because we know that you had some people that was coming in, like Paige Beckers was about to come in, you know, and Flag A Johnson, oh my god, and um Flagge and just yeah, just that class. Uh who else? I'm missing somebody. But um, but what what I was getting at, they were talking about the new fans that's coming to the league to watch in the WNBA, they're not fans of the league or even maybe basketball, but they're just fans of Caitlin Clark. And so they Caitlin Clark has been coming, and I love that the way Jamel Hill uh said this because I couldn't articulate it. She said Caitlin Clark has become the avatar for hatred against black women and gay women, and it's like, yeah, or the league, or the W League, because you can't say I might for instance this morning, this morning, bro, um I was on Facebook and I saw this thing that said field goal efficiency among guards, right? Right, guards averaging

Marketing The League And Player Stories

SPEAKER_02

15 plus this season, ranked by field goal percentage. So they they list the top 14, and Caitlin Clark is not listed, and the comment section was lighting this post up, bro. Okay, and and it's like they wasn't dogging it, it's talking about efficiency. She's not efficient, she just not, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

But I'm gonna say this uh shout out to both Caitlin and um she just was traded to uh uh Angel Reese.

SPEAKER_02

Angel Reese, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Um, they really brought eyes to the WNBA, and I know that that caused a huge uproar with a lot of the players, Asia Wilson, a lot of them, because you know, a lot of those ladies have put in work, they've put in work for several years to you know make the WNBA what it is. But those two ladies, Drew, put eyeballs on the WNBA, unlike any other time before, whether people like it or not. And unfortunately, in this country, cultures sometimes, whether it's black or white, they choose an individual to like to get behind and push for their agenda. And unfortunately, that's kind of like what Caitlin Clark kind of represents. Like she represents a part of white culture that um they have their own agenda and they really really push it. But I will say this the girl has a bad attitude. But one thing about her, man, she's a hell of a basketball player. Um, she's she's top five in the WNBA, their rankings prior as but you're right. She shoots a little bit too much, she might be a little bit too full of herself.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, she's she's at 30, she's at 38.7 percent, bro.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, yeah, she I know she got pulled out of a game the other day because of how bad her attitude uh was or is uh rather uh but man, uh Caitlin is number two far as like the most followers, and Angel Reese is number one as far as you know their followings on social media. So yeah, that's just kind of how it is, man. You know, you when you get somebody that's really really good, whatever their culture is, you'll you'll get that particular culture to back that person with their own agenda in this time.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, and it's and but but you can do that and not give hate to like anytime you see a Angel Reese post, you're gonna see a laughing reaction, and then they all talking about her. And yeah, man, I and I go on sometimes I get tricked and I go in the comment section, like, man, this girl is 22 years old. What are you talking about? Like, why she's a kid, man.

SPEAKER_04

Those those comment sections are mean and they are they are, they are, especially I guess that's probably why like I kind of stick to Facebook with old school. Uh, but yeah, man, you get on a on a really like a national or uh a huge platform and you say anything, man, you're gonna run into some very nasty people. She's young, uh, she leads the WNBA in rebounding. Um she's a and I mean and and unfortunately, there are a lot of black folks. Um, fortunately, a lot of black men that don't like Angel Reese.

SPEAKER_01

I know, it's crazy.

SPEAKER_04

Why she's beautiful, she's an entrepreneur, she's doing extremely well. So my my advice to her is hey, when you got haters like you got haters, baby, that you're doing the right thing. Keep it pushing, keep it pushing.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that's like man, like I say, man, you grown ass, y'all grown ass men in here just talking bad about a young 22-year-old girl.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, yeah, sad.

SPEAKER_02

What do they be doing that at it, man?

SPEAKER_04

But I think it says a lot about them than it does her.

SPEAKER_02

It does, you know. Um, but yeah, but what you do you uh could you rank your what is your who is your favorite players in the WNBA?

SPEAKER_04

Uh right now, uh uh Asia is is number one for me. Um number two, I I like um Angel Reese. I just I'm just attracted to what she does. Um you know, because she's doing uh like kind of like how we talked about Shaq in the last uh when he was rapping, and you know, so she has a lot going on. The uh the young lady, no, she's still hurt, but Nefisa Collier. Yeah, um Brianna Stewart from the New York Liberty is very good.

SPEAKER_02

Stu.

SPEAKER_04

Yep. Um a number five would be for me, would be uh, and she's a beast, she's been climbing every year, but uh Alyssa Thomas. Um I really like her game. Uh, but and then I have a different top five too. Uh there's a lot of um there's a lot of cuties in the league, man. Um Pedro Reese. Uh, but my one of my favorites, and I love her game. Uh, but she's older now, uh, she's a veteran.

SPEAKER_02

I know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_04

Um Skylar Diggs. Higgins, yes. Skylar Diggins.

SPEAKER_02

She had a game for herself last night, too.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, she uh she's a competitor, man. She's really, really tough. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Unfortunately, not doing well. They um they're four and six. She had 24 last night, man. She went for 24 last night. Yep. And they she got uh they got uh Camela Cardoso on that team as well.

SPEAKER_04

Cardoso, yeah. What college did she go to? You know, you remember uh because she did she was a top draft pick.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, South Carolina. She was South Carolina, South Carolina. She went to South Carolina. Uh my players is I like uh I like Stewie, I like Sabrina Unescu, uh Paige. I watched Paige, I like Courtney Williams, the feasible Asia, of course, Asia. Uh man, I tell you who's a dog. Um, my girl Kelsey Plum, bro.

SPEAKER_04

Kelsey Plum, she nice.

SPEAKER_02

She went for 27. She was she went from 10, she went 10 for 16 last night. And whenever she played against her former team, the Asians, man, she give them the business, man.

SPEAKER_04

It's something about seeing that former squad. You just can't wait to see them.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, and say, what we got today? Oh, it's a game right now. The storm of the links. Uh the links is losing 17 and 9.

SPEAKER_04

I just wish, just like like uh like with the NBA, I just wish that being able to watch them, like trying to find that's why I say the marketing, like I don't I don't get the commercials to see where they're at, you know, what stations they're playing on. Like I said, with the NBA, that's been that's been my the flopping and not being able to well having to jump to so many different stations to watch.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, man. Dang, dude. Yeah, so with the WBA, you got you got US, Ion, ESPN, uh Prime. I I end up getting I end up signing up for the League Pass. The League Pass is only $40, so I'm like, I just gonna do that.

SPEAKER_04

So I guess so you get to see everything on the League Pass?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, well, the thing about it is I don't know if the same games, I just know it seemed like the day, the days uh the games are on the league pass, they're not on the other channel, so it seems like they take their turns. Um, because I usually like most of the games seem to be on ion and prime video, so that's what I usually watch the most. But then they on USA now and dude, and then uh what's the other one? Peacock, man, Peacock, y'all can kick rocks because I I I man, I allow myself to get a subscription because of the Pistons because I wasn't I was like, Man, when once they entered the playoffs, like I gotta watch these playoffs games because some of these games are just on Peacock, so I had to go on and hand over the money, but only did it for two months. I'm like, uh, y'all got me for two months and I'm leaving y'all, man.

SPEAKER_04

That's it, yeah. Yeah, and it's it's business, but uh it it bothers me as a as a consumer, man.

SPEAKER_02

It's cool, that ain't cool, man. That ain't cool at all, bro. All right, all right, man.

Knicks Spurs Series And Key Adjustments

SPEAKER_02

Before we get out of here, just like I said, I meant to be short one, but it seemed like it'd be running a little longer. But I do want to talk about the NBA, bro.

SPEAKER_04

Yes, sir, bruh, the New York game two, two really good games, exactly what the NBA needed, yes, uh, and the games have been they are exactly what you want to see in basketball games. Like, they've been so good that you really can't get up and and walk away from the TV.

SPEAKER_02

Man, especially that game last night. I was like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_04

Yes, that was that was tough.

SPEAKER_02

And then like I know they were letting allow him to play, so it was being physical, but man, it was some crazy fouls going on, and it was a calling them.

SPEAKER_04

Sure was cat shouldn't have that.

SPEAKER_02

Man, if you're gonna call it loose like that or tight like that, whatever you're gonna do, man, he was those are questionable calls against Kat that I saw. I think when he picked up his, I think the third, fourth, and fifth hours. All three of those are questionable in my opinion.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, I agree. Um shout out to uh Josh Hart. We're talking about I think it's two games now that he hasn't scored a basket. Well he might have, I don't know how many scored. I know he didn't score anything last night, but he gave you playoff um numbers. Six rebounds, four assists, he had a steal, had a block, you know, hardly no turnovers. He did, you know, five bucks. Didn't really show up in the stat sheet, but he was very impactful um last night. Um and Obi, man. I I I he he he's tough. He's he is tough, yeah. Defensively uh and offensively, he helps them out um quite a bit.

SPEAKER_02

And that, you know, on Pets, I don't know if you listened to the last couple of piss and podcasts. They talked, they brought about, they talked about him. We were talking about free agency and having your um having your trying to you know keep your players to develop them. So they were talking about Ron Holland, and they was comparing how Ron Holland should be developed like how OG Ananobi was when he was with the Raptors. Because the Raptors were winning games, he was on the team, but he he played during the season, but you know, a couple of times playoff stretches he wasn't playing. But now look at him, man. Look at him now, man.

SPEAKER_04

You know, with that being said, too. I hope that the Pistons, because think about it, man, we dominated the Knicks in the regular season. Crushed them. And we crushed them so bad that even Stephen A. Smith was worried he did not want to see the Pistons in the playoffs. I don't know what it would have been like had we met up with them. They look focused, but I I think by the Knicks being there, doing what they're doing, that's a testament that we don't need to we don't need to make any drastic changes because the team that possibly will win the championship is a team that we dominated in the regular season. A few tweaks here and there. Uh you know, we finish first. Pay attention to, you know, both sides, the Spurs and the Knicks, and don't make any drastic moves, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_02

Uh man, I mean, what happened with the Knicks was what Mike Brown did. He switched, he switched focus and made Kat the hub. Instead of just being ISO, ISO Brunson, let Kat make the decision at the top of the key. And once they went to that style of play, they've been blowing people out. That's how they was like, I think they made that adjustment in the Atlanta series. And it seemed like after that adjustment, they just started blowing people out. And to the point where they were saying that this Knicks run, if they win the championship, would probably be one of the best playoff runs in the history of the NBA.

SPEAKER_04

Absolutely. I mean, they are they've been dominant, and you know who else uh follows that same formula, they won a championship with it, is the Denver Nuggets. Yeah, they ran offense through the big fella.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, if you got a big fella that can pass, has court vision, and can shoot, man. Yeah, let him be the hub. Triple hands off, pick and roll, whatever.

SPEAKER_04

That's the Wimby key to beat Wimby is you need a mobile center that will drag him all over the floor. You gotta get out on towns. You can't let him shoot the three, and he's good enough to where he can shoot the three, he can put the ball on the floor and get to the hole. And that drags Wimby away. That keeps Wimby busy.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

You know, because they're like for a team like us, they dominated us because for one, we didn't have Stewart, our shooting was bad. Um, you know, Dorne bodied him up. He did very, he did very good against him. I think if you're feasible, you know, but if you can't pull him from out that paint, man, and you don't have any shooters, you're not gonna beat that team.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, and I love how they use him, and then and then man, he's I don't want to say the word punkin', but he's been getting in my man's face, man, yelling like anyone.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I've never seen cat. I don't all that the cat that I remember is the one with Jimmy Butler's like, man, give me the give me the third second string, and I'll I bet y'all beat y'all starters, and that's the cat. That's the cat I remember.

SPEAKER_04

That's the cat, yeah. The Minnesota cat. This cat here, what yeah, he yelling and man, physical, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

He using that body, bro.

SPEAKER_04

You know who else needs uh high praise is uh Shamet off the bench. He's been he's been lights out, man.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Lights out. Another cat that in the playoffs, if you get a guy that can score like that for you coming off of the bench, man, that is reliable. And this kid, this kid is getting like 25 to 30 minutes a night. Oh, that's big.

SPEAKER_02

Dude, the first the first game he had 30, he played 33 minutes, man. Yeah, that's big. And it was effective. Yeah, 13 points, five out of nine, five out of nine, and three out of six for the three-point line.

SPEAKER_04

But I'm gonna give uh I'm we'll we'll see what game three holds, because I've seen series like this. I've seen uh uh on the way team come in, man, win the first two, and then go home and lose two straight, and then you got a series again. But New York looks dominant, they look focused, they have won. Man, if if they sweep, it will be probably the greatest run. It might be the greatest run in NBA history, yeah. Because I will say this too, not to cut you off. I am praying for the streets of New York and praying for security, police officers, because New York will be off of the chain. It almost would be best for the Spurs to get one and for the for the Knicks to win it in San Antonio and then come home.

SPEAKER_02

It don't matter, bro. You see how they man, when they you see how the streets in New York looked last night? Yeah, man, it was in front of it was at the bodegas, man, off the street, watch watch parties all outside, bro.

SPEAKER_01

Everywhere.

SPEAKER_02

Uh it was I was watching this, it was a story. I guess they had a big screen outside this store, and people were sitting in chairs just looking at it, people walking by, all these parades, not parades, but just gathering of just all these people just everywhere in Nick gear, man. They just I don't know what fan base love their team. And thing about it is it kind of reminded me, I was talking to E. West again. We were talking about uh how the fans of New York love their New York team, the Knicks, but they haven't won anything since the 70s, but they love that they love that team, they do, man. And just like our team, uh the Lions here, they haven't won nothing since what 56 or whatever that is, yeah. And they love the Lions, bro.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, man, and

New York Fandom And Oakley Fallout

SPEAKER_04

you're right. That the Knicks, I mean, you you you think about Spike Lee, you know, like I said, the last time they won a championship was the year I was born in 1973. So it's been a long time for that franchise. And you know what's crazy, and not to spin off of that, but uh I seen an article where Oakley, Charles Oakley, still has been banned from not.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, Jim Dolan, man, because Dolan behind, man.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, but Charles Oakley has a lot of pent-up anger because he called out Patrick Ewing. He's upset with Ewing for not defending him and not speaking to him. Uh Oak, I think, has a lot of pent-up anger. After a while, man, you gotta take accountability. When you falling out with everybody, well, you always end up in a situation because man, that dude fell out with um Judge Mathis. He was recently on the podcast calling out uh Judge Mathis. So when you be with everybody, man, eventually you gotta, you know, you gotta the common denominator is uh is you, but he'll be able to celebrate outside of Madison Square Garden.

SPEAKER_02

Man, uh they was man, you got the Fat Joe, Spike Lee, Ben Stiller, Timothy Shamelette. Um, yeah, just uh Michael J. Fox was I don't know is he's I haven't seen him. Is he he not he didn't pass away, did he?

SPEAKER_04

No, he he's still around.

SPEAKER_02

I haven't seen him at any games. Uh I don't want to see him.

SPEAKER_04

He's probably balling in that disease really tough. Yeah, yeah, big upset. One of my favorite people, man.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, good series, man. Game tomorrow. You know what time it is? It is they all about 8.30, ain't they?

SPEAKER_04

8.30. Yep. All the games are 8.30. Now uh I believe uh uh no, I believe the next game is not till Monday.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, Monday, 8 30. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, Monday at 8 30, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, then Tuesday.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. I like I like the way that the games have been played this year, because uh a couple years ago, several years ago, that was one thing I didn't like. Yeah, you have a game on Monday, then you might not have a game till Thursday. Like it was like too many days in between the games. So I kind of like the way this the setup has been this year.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah. Man, I I I could take some, I could take any some of the stuff that Adam Silver has implemented. Um I guess the new trade stuff, uh, I'm gonna get into that. I'm gonna talk about that in a later episode. But yeah, he's changing the trade thing. So I don't know how it is gonna affect these teams, especially our team, because now we're good. It seems like because they're trying to they're trying to avo uh avoid teams from taking and and they're trying to penalize so they're trying to penalize the lower the lower teams, man. But the way it looks like how it's constructed, if you're not a good team now, you're in you can never be a good team because uh how things are set up. But I want to I wanna deep do a deep dive into it and learn what exactly was talking about. I heard it, but I want to get a better understanding before I like relay it to the

Final Salutes And How To Support

SPEAKER_02

people on this show. Right, but yeah. All right, my brother, man. Got anything to say before you bust up?

SPEAKER_04

Um, you know what? As always, man, thanks for the opportunity. Uh, shout out to the city of Angster, man. Um you know, uh ready. I can't wait to see how this playoff uh ends. I'm definitely getting to the WNBA. All of the subjects we covered today. Thank you to our listeners here and abroad. And um, you know, salute to everybody, man.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I got some new I got new uh listeners in Oregon. I don't know who you are, but thank you. Yes, sir. That's like three downloads, three, four downloads in that uh Oregon. I don't know anybody out there, so but big up me either.

SPEAKER_04

But you know, I thank you guys. Tell a friend, share it, tell a friend, share it.

SPEAKER_02

Subscribe, please. Subscribe. I appreciate that. And as I always say, always be you, share your gift, and keep those classes current. Peace out, everybody.

SPEAKER_00

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