80s Movies,Classics & Hip-Hop Memories

 On this episode of Once Upon a Time in Music, EL and Cheryl Poizon dive deep into  entertainment — from their favorite 80s movie classics like Predator, Beetlejuice, and Trading Places, to cult gems like Once Upon a Time in America and Brewster’s Millions. They swap stories, share behind-the-scenes trivia, and even take a detour into the gritty world of early 2000s hood web series. Along the way, snack time gets a retro twist, album anniversaries spark debate, and the conversation rolls through music, memories, and moments that still hit decades later. 

Transcript

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What up, what up, what up? What's up? We're back. It's another episode of Once Upon a Time in Music. I'm Al. I'm Cheryl Poison. And we're here. What's our topic today? Today's topic, we're going to bounce on a couple of things. I think it's going to be a good episode. Today, we're going to touch on favorite 80s movies, right? Is that it? Favorite 80s movies? Favorite 80s. And 80s. 80s had a lot of good movies. They had, well, I'm not going to say any.

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Yeah, they had a lot, though.

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Yeah. How many you wrote down? I know you probably wrote down a hundred of them.

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Don't worry about my list. I got a lot.

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What's up? How are you? I'm good. How you doing? Pretty good. Glad to see you here. I'm glad to see you. Yeah, man. What you been watching? I know you've been watching some.

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What have I been watching? I've been watching the rest of BMF. Getting mad.

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Me

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too. I hate all the

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characters on there. I think I'm two episodes behind. Or one. Possibly one. But it'd give me something to watch tonight. Yeah. Have you watched that show I told you? No, not yet.

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What?

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Not yet. You usually up on it. What you got going on in the house? I have

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some

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stuff to do. I know you have something going on. Yeah? Yeah, because you usually... Oh, yeah. I don't watch it already. I'm going to watch it. I'll watch it this week coming up. You'll be sending me messages. Why do you do this? Yeah,

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because they do be acting stupid on some shows.

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Yeah. If you listen, we're talking about it's a web series. You know, was it the late 2000s? When was that? Like 2000? No, it was the early. Early 2000s? I don't think it was early. Early 2000s, they had like a big wave of... web series. They were all hood classics. One was Money and Violence. Respect Life. Respect Life. Another one called Mayhem. They had a lot of... I

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never watched that

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one. That one was good too. That was based out of Jersey. So you know each one is Harlem or Brooklyn or something like that.

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Queens,

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whatever. Yeah, that was Jersey's Money and Violence. That was their version. And there was another one I told her about. It was called Pieces. It was about credit card scamming. That one was good. I did like that one. I liked the cinematography of it. I liked the sound of it because, you know, back then it was hit or miss. The sound was okay.

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It was looking like

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2B back then. Exactly. But it was so good, the content of it. You watched it. I'm

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going to watch it. I'm going to watch it this week coming up. We'll talk about it next

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week. Yeah. Pieces. I think we had two seasons, two seasons on there. And matter of fact, maybe, maybe I'll reach out to, you'll see there's a detective on there. I'm cool with her. She, she might, maybe we'll do an interview. Yeah, do an interview with her. All right. Well, I guess that's going to be our segment of flashback movies or what we call it, what we call the movie section again. That's it. Second time around. Second time around.

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Let's do the movie flashbacks. Let's do that.

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Okay. That's cool. We're going to have a movie flashback segment later on in the show. And I'm ready to get into it. I'm ready too. You ready? Okay. Well, set it off. Give

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me your first one. Okay. Let me give you my first one. My first one is going to be Predator.

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Oh, wow. The first one? Yeah. The first one. The first one was the best. I think it was too. It was the best. I think it was too. I think I really liked Bill Dukes, the black guy. I liked him. Yeah, he was good. Yeah. I think the second one

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had Mr. from The Color Purple. What's

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his name? I'm not going to say Mel Gibson. Mel Gibson. Danny Glover.

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Danny Glover. The second one had Danny

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Glover, I think. That's when he was in the city, right? Yeah. I think you're right. I think you're right about that. That one was all right, too. But the first one was the best. What was the guy from Action Jackson name? Remember the show, the movie Action Jackson? Carl Winslow. Carl. Carl. Carl. He was from Rocky, too. Rocky. Apollo. He's Apollo. Carl Weathers? Carl Weathers. Yeah, he was in that first... Okay. Predator also.

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Yeah, when he was in

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the jungle. I like that one. I like that one too. That one was good. They said, you know that Indian guy, the big Indian guy? Mm-hmm. They said they used to have to have security when he was like, when he wasn't filming, like they go out to the bar. Everybody wanted him? No, he used to, you know, beat people up and all sorts of stuff. Like he's really... He was really crazy. He was really like that. Yeah. He was kind of off.

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You learn something new every day.

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Yeah. The Predator.

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The Predator.

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Dang. That was

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1987. I

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was going to ask you what year that was.

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1987.

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Dang. The Predator. All right. Let's see what I got. I got an 88 one. The movie Beetlejuice. This movie, I think I played that thing over and over and over. Really? Beetlejuice.

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I don't know how I feel about Beetlejuice. For real? Did you watch the new one?

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No, I stopped it. I turned it off. It was trash. Okay. To me, it was...

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Was it good? I didn't really watch it because I didn't really watch the first one.

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I don't know if I could get with Beetlejuice. Michael Keaton's good. His comedy... Michael Keaton's comedy is good. And when he plays Beetlejuice, I think he's real funny. Um...

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They should have just left that alone. Let it stay a classic and don't read it. Some movies don't need to be remade. I can't believe you didn't watch that. I did. I've watched it, but it's not something I would put on constantly. Like, oh, let

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me throw on Beetlejuice. Wow. See, you know what? I wouldn't put it on now, but back in the 80s and 90s, I was watching it favorably. When it came out, I was probably watching it favorably. I'm not a Beetlejuice fan.

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I need some action. I need some killing. I need something, some fighting. Okay. Some gangster. I like stuff like that.

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Beetlejuice is my first one for the day. What you got?

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Okay, we're going to go with Once Upon a Time in America. A lot of people haven't watched that. It's a gangster movie. It's with Robert De Niro and some other people I can't name. I can't think of their names. It's pretty good. It's like set in the 20s or the 30s. For real? It's good. Once upon a time? Once upon a time in America. Let's

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see. And what year did that come out, you know?

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That is 84. My brother put me under that one. For real? I missed that one.

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I think I missed that one. So you got some homework to do. Yeah, I didn't see that one. I'm going to have to write that down.

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It's pretty good.

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And are you still watching it to this day? I

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have watched it. I watched it this year sometime. For real?

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So this is a gangster movie? It's a gangster movie. Is it mob gangster or just like? Mob gangster. For real? Oh, okay. You might put me on to something then. Yeah, it's pretty good. Check it out. Okay. Well, 1983. A classic. Mr. Eddie Murphy. Dan Aykroyd. Trading Places. Trading Places. That was on our list too. Man.

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I love that movie. That's a good

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movie. My favorite scene gotta be there's two scenes on there. It's gotta be the jail scene and the party scene. The party scene.

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Okay. I haven't watched

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it in a minute, but. What? All right. So when you go back and watch it, if you go back and watch it, the jail scene got, remember, didn't he tell you the phone in the limo is busted? Oh, so you don't remember. I don't remember that. Okay. Well, there's a young Juan Carlos Esposito.

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Okay.

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Standing there with him while he's talking to

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him. I might watch it. He looks really

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young. Yeah. It's a classic. Yeah, that is. Especially an Eddie Murphy classic. That's an Eddie Murphy classic all the way. Yeah, Trading Places. 1983.

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Okay, my next one. I'm going to go with Bruce Does Millions.

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Oh my gosh.

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I love that movie.

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You know how often I watch that over

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and over? That is good. He had to spend$30 million in 30 days to get$300 million. And he couldn't tell nobody? Yeah, he couldn't tell nobody. Man, I'm

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telling you. Could you do it? No. Because you know why? You couldn't have nothing to show for it. No, you know what? I could. You know why? Because he couldn't have anything to show for it. But at that time, I didn't know you can rent all these foreign cars and all these rent all these houses. So you just rent a whole

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bunch of houses

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and cars? You have to. You can't buy it. But you can give it away. So I'll be doing sneaky stuff by... You know.

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Maybe you could like pay for people's stuff. Man, let me pay

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your mortgage. Let me do this. I'd go crazy with that.

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Yeah.

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I'd do that. Buying, you know.

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Go to the restaurant and pay for everybody.

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Friends. Yeah. I'd be a new, I'd be a new social media celebrity. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I'd go crazy. I'd go. Yeah. Could you do it? I don't know.

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Because I want to buy something. I want to buy some sneakers. I don't know. Yeah, but you're going to get the bigger money after. Ah. I guess I'll probably do the same thing.

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You could do sneakers, but you can't keep them. You got to throw them. You got to throw them away. I can't throw sneakers away. I do a Dame Dash. New outfit every day. Wait one time

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and throw it away? I can't.

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That'll be hard. I'm thinking about that. I want to do that. Give me the chance.

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Give

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me the$300 million.

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Let me at least try.

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Dang. And he was buying igloos. He was buying everything. What else? He made money off the igloo. That's why he was mad.

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But something happened at the end. I can't remember. He had like something that was an asset. They tried to trick him some kind of

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way. They tricked him by... It was money. They wanted him to... I think it was for the interior decorator. They wanted him to... He gave the money to the guy to give them.

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As a

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deposit

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or something?

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Yeah. Okay. And they kept it.

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Because I think if he didn't get the money, the firm got the money.

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Ooh.

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Wow. So they was trying to trick him.

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Bruce's Million. Bruce's

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Millions. That was 1985.

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John Candy and Richard Pryor, right? Was that John Candy? John Candy. Yeah.

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They were baseball players. Yeah.

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Amateur baseball players. The Bulls. The Hackensack Bulls. That was good. That's how much I watched. The Hackensack Bulls. All right. Nineteen eighty four. The Gremlins came out. And I watched the Gremlins so much that first. I think I went to the movies to watch the Gremlins. You did? Yeah. Your age is showing. It's fine. The Gremlins. I mean, it kind of was scary. But then again, it was, it really

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wasn't. If you're watching now, it's not

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scary. It was film dark. Like, like the, the scenes was dark. I still remember the first scene where the guy like walks into a shop. And I remember it was kind of dark looking, but a good memory. Certain movies. I like these movies like that. I really, really. Yeah. Bruce is a million. I, that should have been on my list. Cause that was one of them. Um, all right. That was 1984. Gremlins. Gremlins. Okay. They came out with

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like four

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different ones. Yeah, I was going to say they came out with other ones with the

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girl. I don't think I like the other ones. The main one. Give me the first one and leave it alone.

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Yep. I couldn't even tell you about those other ones no more.

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Yeah, that's a good one. Yep. Yep. All right. I'm going to go with Fatal Attraction. For real? That was 1987. Oh, you grown. Yeah. She had a little rabbit in a pot. She was mad. She had what? She boiled a rabbit. The little girl. She was messing with the man. He was married and he had a daughter and she had a rabbit. And she took the rabbit and boiled it in the pot. Ooh. Is that the one with the crossing the legs thing? No. That's Basic Instinct. Oh, so I didn't see that. That might have been the 90s, Basic Instinct.

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Dang,

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so I didn't see neither one of those. You had to watch that too. That was good. For real? It's Michael Douglas and Glenn Close. Okay. What year was that? That's 1987.

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All right. I got one. If you say you didn't see this one, I'm shutting my mic off. 1986. Fail is real is day off.

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I've watched that. It ain't one of my favorites. What? But I've watched it. That was such a classic

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at the time. Yeah, the principal was on his back. He was. He was showing up at the house. Everywhere, yeah. That nigga, he was in the backyard trying to peek through the window. Yeah. They can't do that now.

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That was a good movie. That was a

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good one. You go to jail, now you're peeking through windows. Yeah, man. He had it all set up, man. From the sounds at the house of him snoring and... Went and got his girlfriend. I might revisit that and watch it again. Yeah, that's one of those fun movies. Like, they don't really make too many fun movies like that. Well, I'm not going to say that. Like teenage type movies. Yeah, that was, you know, when you were young, like, you know, you're thinking about cutting school too. Like Pretty

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in Pink, all stuff like that.

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Yeah, The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. Yeah, they were all following the same thing. That was it. 1986, Failure's Realist Day Off.

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All right, I got one. I got The Lost Boys, 1987, a vampire movie.

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Yeah, I remember that one. I like that movie. I remember that. And you know what? When I watched it, you know, when it came out when I was younger, but I wasn't into it because I don't know if I really didn't get it. But at the same time, I just, I don't know. What year was that? 1987. 87C... I'm trying to think of what I was into. I was into Failure's Brutal's Day Off. You

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didn't want to see the vampires.

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You

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wanted to cut class.

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That's what you wanted to do. That's a good one, though. That's a classic movie. Did they make another one? I don't think so. Recently, I think they might have. I don't think so. I've watched it recently.

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It was pretty cool.

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Yeah, that was a good one. What else I got? The Karate Kid. Is that on your list? It's not on

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my list. Oh, my gosh. I don't know. I couldn't get into the Karate Kid. For real? For real.

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Oh, you're a girly girl.

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Yeah. I need some real fighting, not no karate fighting. Oh. If it's karate, it's got to be Steven Seagal.

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Mark for Death?

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All of them. All his movies. I love all of them. License to Kill, Mark for Death. What

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was your favorite one? What was your favorite one?

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Whichever one was with the Jamaicans.

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Mark for death. I think that was Mark for death. Yeah. Screw face.

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Yeah.

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Screw face. Um, yeah. Karate Kid with, uh, Pat and Mark. What's his name? Pat? Moraine? Ralph Macchio. Ralph Macchio and Pat Moraine. Moraine or something like that. Uh, whatever. Daniel Son. Daniel Son. And Mr. Miyagi. Yeah. That's what we know him as. Um, uh, Another one just came out. It kind of going crazy with the franchise.

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Because Will Smith's son had one, right?

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He had one. His was pretty good. I would say. I never watched that. Yeah. It's not bad. Okay. The series, Cobra Kai. That was, that was all right. First. I hear a lot of people talk about that one. Yeah. The first two or three seasons was good, but then it started getting a little rocky. Yeah. And it gives you the teen feel also, like the younger feel. And let me see. I think that might have been my last one. What was your last one?

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Yeah. What you got? I know you got some extra. I'm going to go with this one. Little Shop of Horrors, 1986. Feed Me Seymour. Feed Me Seymour. I used to watch that movie all the time.

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So what's goes in there? Pam and Gina.

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Pam and Gina.

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We didn't know it was Pam and Gina then. No, we definitely didn't know. They stayed together since then. What year was that?

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That is 1986. They've been together a long time. They've been friends.

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So what else were they in together? They was in that more and were they in school days together? I think Gina was just in school days. I wonder why they didn't do Pam. What about... No. That wasn't them in... She wasn't in House Party either, I don't think. Shireen, that was the other one. That was Baby Boy's mother, right? She would have did good in House Party, though. She would have. I think, I kind of feel the jokes would have been harder. It would have been Martin Lawrence against BDV.

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Yeah, I didn't think about that.

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Yeah, that was a good one. That was a good one. I got another one. Do the right thing. Radio Rocky.

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Yeah, I like

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to do the right thing. Can you watch it over? Mookie. Can I watch it over? I like the ice scene. I'm sorry. I gotta be a boy. I bet you did like the ice scene. How was it? I ain't gonna say how. Go ahead, tell your age. Don't be ashamed. When that came out? That came out in 88? Either 88 or 89. Okay. 89 because Fight the Power came out in 89, right? And that was the song for the soundtrack. So 89, I was 11.

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You shouldn't even been looking at the icing. The icing was the scene. It was. It did make the movie. That's probably why a lot of people watched it.

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I wonder if they use a stunt double, like a body double. Or was that really her?

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That was her. What? I'm

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going to watch it

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tonight. I got one more. The Untouchables. Okay, old school. Old school. With Kevin Costner. Was Robert De Niro in it? Yes, he was Capone.

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That's what I thought. He played a good Capone too. It was a good movie. They had a scene in there at a dinner table like Scarface kind of. I

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can't remember that. The one scene I remember is at the train station, the Indian scene.

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Did he have a pet? A pet cat or a dog in that movie? I don't think so. Okay, I might be thinking something else. Adding two movies together? Yeah, doing like old people do. I do know Robert De Niro was in it. That was good, though. That was a good one. Yeah, that was a good one. Untouchables. What year was that?

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That is 1987. Hey, so

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you was watching that then? Mm-hmm. You enjoyed it back then? Mm-hmm. Wow. Okay. I know there's something different about you. I guess I was a tomboy back then. Yeah, but I didn't watch it. I'm a boy. Or maybe I'm a... Maybe you know about it. Hey, that's a good one. Okay. All right. Well, let's get into snack time. Okay. Snack time, we talk about classic foods or snacks that we enjoyed or would like to come back out or something,

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right? Yeah, I got one I want to come back out.

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You got one? All right, go ahead. I'll let you go first.

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Mine is a banana twin from Little Debbie. Little Debbie took away banana twins.

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I don't even remember that. You got a picture of it? You don't know a banana twin? No. Show me it. Show me what it look like. Okay, I'm going to show you. Yeah, I need to see that. A banana twin. That

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was the only snack cake I liked from Little Debbie.

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No, man. Don't

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do Little Debbie

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like that.

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I don't really like the

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other ones.

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They don't have no

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good ones.

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That

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was the best one. Little Debbie's is the one that's in stores now, right? Yeah. The fudge rounds. I don't like that. Oh, my gosh. You're picky now. The oatmeal pie. You don't like that? Not really. What? Do you eat snacks? I eat

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snacks.

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So you are picky. Okay. We learn about you every day, Ms. Pike.

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Yes, they said it wasn't a high demand for them, but every time I went to go get them, they was never there.

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Because they didn't order them?

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Somebody was eating the banana twins.

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Let's see. Let me see what it look like. Oh, okay. I remember it. It was like a pound cake on top with the...

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With like cream in the middle.

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Okay. That was my favorite. So wait, they don't make those no more? They don't make them no more. Discontinue. Dang, I kind of almost remember seeing them like in the stores. It wasn't that long, right? You ain't seen them. For

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real? Oh, it's been a while.

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Wow. At least two years. Well, mine is something you might have to think about. They're little candies. Uh, they come in a package that look like bubble gum. They call bonkers. And he had the little fruit in the, in the middle of it. Yeah. Bonkers. Those, I mean, it came with different flavors, like cherry.

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Maybe I know what you're talking about.

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Yeah. They came in like cherry. Um, what was that? Were you getting from the corner store? Of course. Yeah. As soon as I showed it to you, you were like, ah, I remember those. But I guess you didn't eat them. Bonkers.

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I don't remember

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that. No? They were like a soft, chewy kind of candy. Kind

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of like an

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Owlator? Nah, Owlators are hard. They were like a... A Starburst. Exactly. But they had like... It was a fake Starbucks. Yeah. No, it had fruit in the middle of it. Like not fruit, but it had like a softer, chewy.

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This was a long time ago.

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Yeah, of course. You know, this is the 80s, mid 80s, 85, 86. I'm sorry. I thought I was going to have another one that you. All right. I'm sorry. Also. 30 years ago. August, let's say the last week of August, an album came out. Why are you laughing? And it had hits on it like Get Money, Player's Anthem, Miss Poison's favorite song on the album. I Need You Tonight.

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That ain't my favorite. My favorite is Get

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Money. The name of the album is Conspiracy. Junior Mafia. By Junior Mafia. Really, it was Lil' Kim and them boys.

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Lil' Kim with features from Biggie.

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Yeah, we was Biggie hungry when this came out. This album... All right. Maybe they rushed it or something. I don't think they could. I mean, Lucy's, he was cool on the mic. He didn't write, I don't think. Lil' Kim, she didn't write. Biggie wrote both of them. Biggie

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probably wrote the whole album, but they just didn't deliver it

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right. Exactly. This is a Biggie album. Biggie's the narrator starring I

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bet you if Biggie wrote the rhymes and he rhymed them.

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Oh, it'd have been a killer. Yeah, this would have been a killer. I'm not going to down it too much more. They're

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the three giants. Them are the three songs I listen to. Yeah. Layers of Anthem, I Need You Tonight, and Get Money. And they right there behind each other.

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Yeah.

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So I probably didn't even go down to the bottom.

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Exactly. I had the cassette. So... I think all those songs are on one side of the CD, on one side of the cassette. And what it seems like, you know, Biggie was back in this. I think this song, this whole album might have been

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underpaid. Yeah, because that's all this whole crew.

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Yeah, this is not a bad boy album. It's Big Beat. So that might be Biggie. Big Beat was the production company. And it was Big

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Beat

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Records. Big Beat Records.

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1995. So

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I bet you that was Biggie. But it wasn't under Bad Boy. They did shout Puff out in the comments. And not the comments. The special thanks in the back of the CD. And this is one of those ones. You open the CD up. It's cool, but the pitches look rushed.

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Yeah, I think it was just a rush project.

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Yeah, they were trying to get it out. They needed some artists in development. I think when this came out, Lil' Kim still had the buzz. So it was basically riding off of that Lil' Kim buzz. And the Biggie. Because when you thought, you know, Biggie would always talk about Junior Mafia. So you kind of think like Biggie would be on this. Was Biggie on it? Let me see. I'm about to check. If he was, it wasn't as many songs as we would want.

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He was on Players Anthem.

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Okay.

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And he was on Get Money. I don't...

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The two chart... Mm-hmm. Yeah, he was on a couple. There's another one, too. He was on number four. What's the other one? Number four? Yeah. I don't even know that song. It says performed by the notorious B.I.G., Yeah, well, he was on some of them, I guess. But it wasn't a Biggie album. And it wasn't a Lil' Kim album. It was Lil' Kim and some other guys from the block. Yeah, Lil' C's album was his album that he came out with. It didn't have too much, but it had Crush on You.

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So that was on his album?

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I think so. Now that's Lil' Kim's song. No, but... We'll see. I don't even remember a little scene. I was at the Crush on You video shoot. And I don't remember. He was there.

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Was that a skate ring?

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No, it was at one of those green, not green screen, but a big warehouse with like white wall. I think it was a white wall behind it or something like that. I might be mistaken. That might be a Lil' Kim song. I think so. I was trying to look. Well, if you look, I'll pull up a little snippet of the Dream Mafia album. They had a couple songs, like you said. Yeah,

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Marnie. What you say, huh?

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Yeah.

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The best one.

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This is a big one.

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Yeah.

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And really, this could have been a Lil' Kim song. But it was a classic. I guess you could say it was a classic. So that's Player's Anthem. And this is Get Money. Everybody know that one. Which one you think is bigger? Get Money, right? Everybody don't know that. They made a video for both of

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them, right? Because, um, look at this anthem. He's getting off the jet.

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Yeah, all of them was getting off the jet. They would snap the picture. Yep, yep. So, 1995. 30 years ago. 30

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years. It don't seem like it's been that long.

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That's crazy. When you say 30 years, just think about- And I would rock Get Money till now. Yeah, you can still play Get Money. I would play that before I play- Players Anthem? Yeah. Because Players Anthem is- It's cool though. It's just not Get Money. It's a bop song. Like you kind of bop to it. You know, you can't dance to it. You got to bop.

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Yeah, Crush On You was Lil' Kim's song.

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Was it featuring?

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Featuring Lil Cease.

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Okay, I know he was at the video shoot, so I do remember that.

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I like that video. She had the different color hair.

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I went to the casting call for that video, too. My then girlfriend went for it. It was kind of out of the league. Okay. But they just sent it because she was, I guess, a pretty face or whatever. But that was it. I guess you could go back and kind of check this album out. Just listen to those three songs. Yeah, you will like those couple three songs. And maybe, you know, if you're a real backpack rapper. I won't

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say that though. Maybe you'll go back and pick up another song. Maybe another song will tickle your fancy.

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Hey, yo, ain't nothing tickling my fancy. Pause. What else we got? Also, September 21st, 1988, they premiered, this is 37 years ago, they premiered the first episode of Yo! MTV Raps. 1981? No, I might be off. August 6th, 1988. So, in that episode, they had videos like Airbnb and Rakim, Follow the Leader, Dougie Fresh. I think it was like Keep Rising to the Top or something like that. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince was on that episode. You know, whatever was hot and was out.

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Run DMC hosted it. I can't remember that far back.

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I do know their video was on there. It might have been Tricky. Tricky might have been that. I think that video was on

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there.

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Yeah. And that was a big era. I liked UMTV raps. So

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was that Fab Five Freddy or was that?

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No, that was just Ed Love and Dr. Dre at the time. And UMTV raps also had like these, they were like cards, like collectible cards, like, you know, like baseball cards. They had cards. With the different rappers on it? Different rappers on it.

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Oh.

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Like. I know you got some. Naughty by nature. Nah, I wish I did. You don't have none? It's hard to find those in good condition, too. You can find Garbage Pail Kids and stuff like that, but it's hard to find those.

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Not the Garbage

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Pail

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Kids. I used to love collecting the little cards.

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Yeah. They also had the trading cards. I guess that's what they call them. I should have kept my cards. What else we got? I think that might be it. That might be it for the episode, guys. Oh, yeah. One more. One more segment. The movie flashback. We can't forget the flashbacks of the movies. This week's flashbacks of the movies is sponsored by Digital Studios Podcasts and also sponsored by Digital Based Media. If you ever need audio or video podcasts or just content creating, Digital Based Media is the place to go. Check them out. Yep, yep. And all right. What's your flashback movie of the week?

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Okay. I watched a movie called The Dallas Buyers Club. What? It was 2013. It's about a guy. He was like a player player and he would sleep with prostitutes and he got AIDS from a prostitute and he was trying out a drug, but he had to get it from Mexico. Okay. So then it's good. It's good. It's with Matthew McConaughey. It's good. This is new. He was getting, it's 2013.

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Oh, I think I remember that. He was all for the role. He

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was skinny. Yeah. I remember that. He was like bones. Okay. It's good. So he started up a little club and start selling the drugs to the people who can get them and the USA. What's

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the name of it again? Dallas by his club. Hey, pretty good. Well, I went way back compared to that. I went back to I think it was like 1985. I think it was 1984, maybe. I got to look it up. Crush Groove. This Who's who of rap? Because everybody was in crush group. Oh, my gosh. It was Curtis Blow, the Fat Boys. Run DMC. Run DMC was the main star. I think LL Cool J was in there, the Fat Boys. Yeah. And the movie was basically, it was basically based off of like Def Jam. Def Jam, yeah. Yeah. So it was like they had a Russell Simmons guy and they had a guy that played

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Rick Rubin. Who was the guy who played?

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Russell Simmons? Yeah.

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Blair

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Underwood. Blair Underwood, yeah. And I think this might have been Blair Underwood's first role because I think it said introducing Blair Underwood when you watch it. So that was his start. So it might have been his start. Sheila E. I can't even think of like cameos that was in it, but if you're a hip hop fanatic. You've

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probably already seen it, though. You think so? Yeah. If you're a hip-hop fanatic, definitely. Yeah, if you like hip-hop, you cannot not

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seen it. Especially Run DMC. Run, like, when you hear him rapping, like, whose house is this? You know, they really did a scene, like, where he was mad, and he ran up on the stage and snatched a mic, and that's where it all came from. Yep. And that was my flashback of the week. Alright. Yep, yep. Um... It's

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poison.

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Why don't you sign us off for the week?

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All right, everybody. I hope you enjoyed the episode. Check us next week for our next one. I'm L. I'm poison. We out.