Newcomers: Scorsese, with Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus - Acrimony (w/ Michelle Collins)

Episode Date: April 20, 2021

Michelle Collins (The Michelle Collins Show, Midnight Snack) returns to help Lauren and Nicole examine Tyler Perry's psychological thriller, Acrimony (2018).Follow Michelle on Instagram and Twitter @michcoll and tune into The Michelle Collins Show on SiriusXM and her podcast, Midnight Snack.Next week's watchlist: Meet the Browns (TV Show)Episodes: "Meet Brown Meadows" and "Meet the Trainer"Like the show? Rate Newcomers 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what Tyler Perry hit they should check out next.Advertise on Newcomers via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Original. Forever. That's what he said. You don't know what he did to me. You don't know. He was so charming. So slick. Forever. That's what he said. Do you know the last thing a woman wants to hear about her man

is that he's cheating on her? Every time a black woman gets mad, she's a stereotype. Second time hearing that. You still messing around with her? I'm Diana. Robert's fiance. Maybe he did mean what he said. Maybe the deceit isn't what you think. Oh, no.

I don't think so. I want to offer you prayer. I would save my prayers for the wedding day. Let's do it. We're here. This is the sixth episode of the third season of Newcomers. I'm Nicole Byer. I'm Lauren Lapkus. We're already six episodes in. I think we have to go 20. I think we might have to. I don't think we can do just 10. This is going to be over so fast and we're having so much fun. I'm having a blast. Yeah, no, we are, we are working our way through Tyler Perry's body of work. This is the best season we've had, obviously. Yes, for us,

for us, this is the best season for the people who like to listen to us be tortured by Star Wars or I can't even remember what's the Lord of the Rings. Oh yeah. But, but it does feel like people are enjoying us having fun. So I'm enjoying it too. And this is our first time watching all of Tyler Perry's works. We are having guests on who are Tyler Perry scholars and super fans and sometimes people who've even contributed to his work. And yeah, we might not get to everything,

but I think we might have to expand. I mean, I think we might have to go a little longer. I fully agree. And to like full I mean, I think we might have to go a little longer. I fully agree. And to, like, full disclosure, I have seen Acrimony, but I did not watch it with an eye. Like, I had one eye on my phone, one eye watching it. So I only caught, like, a couple wild things. But, oh, baby, what a treat this was.

This movie is so intense. Today, we experienced Tylerler perry's psychological thriller acrimony on it like it was made or no it was released in 2018 it feels like it's years older it definitely does i would have guessed like 2014 yeah but it honestly does feel like it's that much older it's funny i said 2014 but like i get it but i get it it's not that much different but it's enough that i feel that it's from 2014 um if you want to watch acrimony before listening it's available on dvds you can go buy that at your local barnes and noble um or you can rent it on google play apple tv amazon youtube voodoo obviously we're going to

spoil it we're going to walk through the entire plot of the film you know there was someone driving to their local barnes and noble and as soon as you said that they were like oh i guess i could have ordered it online i guess i am dumb or i could have streamed it dang well we are so excited for our guest today. It's a return guest, someone who was on our L.O.T.R.C.'s. Michelle Collins, everyone. Michelle is a comedian and the host of the Michelle Collins Show on Sirius XM and the podcast Midnight Snack, which I love so much. Welcome, Michelle. How are you? How are you? Hi, I'm honestly, I'm so thrilled to be back, ladies. And thank you for this redemption episode for me after the cartoon you made me watch last season. I do feel like I'll be honest. I feel like you owed me a Tyler Perry movie after what you made me watch last time to

saying it. Hi, I think you're right. I totally forgot that we had made you watch that like children's cartoon from 1978 or something that was fully the hobbit and it uh sucked but i'm getting really loose with my like saying that the other things sucked and i think it's because i feel so free now yeah and i i feel like before i was having like stockholms stockholm syndrome where i was like this is actually good like by the end well because it was fun to talk about it but like i would we would finish episodes and i'd be like i guess it wasn't that bad but then i would go back and think about it and be like no that was hellish that was like a sad three hours for me i'll never get it back i hate lord of

the rings i hate it more than anything i've never cared about hobbits and fairies and and things that go i don't know them the big things the groogs i don't that's not what they're called the orcs the orcs have fueled 90 of my um covid fantasies are you kidding me right now i love the orcs oh my god i think nicole and i both almost wanted to have sex with an orc after watching that stuff but it's because we were so desperate for anything horny to happen yes Yes, nothing horny. This was a pretty horny movie. This movie was very horny.

When those orcs were born from the mud, people, all I'm saying is I think of them just getting birthed from the mud and I want to be like squatting over them. What's happening? I don't want to talk about it. I love the orcs. I love it.

Uruk-hai, I believe, is what they're really called. Anyway. We're not here to talk about that. I'm shook. They're like dirty and I believe, is what they're really called. Anyway. Well, we're not here to talk about that. I'm shook. They're like dirty and ashy. I don't like them. We literally cannot spend any more time talking about orcs. We have to talk about acrimony.

Michelle, have you seen Tyler Perry's movies? Are you familiar with his stuff? Like how in deep are you? How deep in are you, I should say? So I'm going to say something that is going to be a brag straight away. I don't know a lot of Tyler Perry stuff. I'm a fan of the man. I always like to see him in an interview.

I think he's always funny. He's just, I enjoy watching Tyler Perry as a guy. I actually went to the Acrimony premiere, which is the real, I don't like to like talk like that, even though you both know that's a lie. Love to talk about premieres, but I was just excited to be at a Tyler Perry premiere. And I have to tell you that sitting in a theater and watching this movie, it delivered on so many levels. I just remember laughing so much, probably at the wrong time. So you can talk all about it, but I went with my friend Greg Bennett from the Housewives of New Jersey, if you remember.

The Manzo friend, Greg. We had the best time. So I really, I don't know Perry's stuff that well, though, I will be honest. Medea here and there. Yeah. The experience in the theater, I, because we were talking about this earlier,

that, like, being in a theater watching a Tyler Perry movie must be, like, an experience. So, like, experience. So like, what was it like? What was the vibe? Well, it was funny because we also knew he was there. So, you know, you don't want to laugh too loud. You can't be like a full blown like Borat theater goer, you know, because you know that the guy you have to imagine that he gets it though, because he's so smart that he has to know when something is just going to play for comedy because it's so crazy. He has to know that he's

doing it. I refuse to believe he thinks it's serious. I can't. Yeah. I mean, this movie is fully dramatic. I mean, especially compared to the other ones we've seen so far that had some moments of humor, like intentional humor. I don't feel like this one has like anything that's intended to be lighthearted. There's like moment, there's like just every single scene is so dramatic and intense. And it's long.

It was a full two hours. I did not allot enough time for it. That's why I was running a little late. I was like, okay, two hours. It's going to be an hour and a half. Easy breezy. I'll stop for a snack why I was running a little late. I was like, okay, two hours. It's going to be an hour and a half. Easy breezy. I'll stop for a snack. And then I looked at it and I was like, wait a minute.

No, Tyler did me dirty. This is two hours. Yeah, it's a long one. And it's also interesting that this one was from 2018 because it feels like it would be an older work of his. And I wonder if maybe he wrote it before or something but it's so high drama but he just you know what he does he repeats like a lot of the same things i'm noticing like there was like even when that girl introduces the guy as oh that's her boyfriend well ex-boyfriend but she's still in love with him

it's like no one would do that but that has happened in more than one tyler perry movie where someone is introduced as their current because that was the one we watched last time which i can't already can't think of what it was called medea's uh medea's holiday palooza christmas yes yes and i've seen that i've seen that by the way with larry the cable guy yes yes hilarious to us he was very funny yeah i have i have seen that movie it was very funny very lifetimey though in that movie though the girl's like oh that's her or the woman the mom or whatever is like that's her boyfriend and it's like well she's married to this guy that's not her boyfriend but it's just like

a tactic that is being used and i think he thinks it's really mean or something i'm sure he has like a magic eight ball that he just flips over and it's like acts you know he just has or like like methods of killing or lines like ex-boyfriend he I feel like he must have a book that is like uh looks like uh Beethoven's you know fifth symphony the original manuscript of just like idioms you know know, because so many lines, like people are always like, well, the devil knows what you think. And he's watching you at every moment. Like the devil, the devil's always doing some shit in a Tyler Perry movie. It's always involved. You know, he's very, there, there are some good lines and I'm just going to say it. He gets great

talent in his movies. So as bad as the movie is the acting is like honestly and i say it about every i think it's better than nomadland i'll say it i felt like the acting i'm sorry francis if you're out there yet i don't know i liked it better i'm just gonna say it go on but no but the acting really is solid i mean like we have talked about this he gets like the best actors and taraji p henson i mean amazing this she's not in the first hour which i was kind of no which is very confusing and she also like probably says four words on screen but then like reads a full audiobook over the movie that's like a tyler perry thing where i i guess it's a device he uses because it's easier than showing. So it's just somebody who just talks for most of the movie.

And you're like, oh, okay. So there's just narration all the time. Even when like the first moment when she's telling her therapist about her past and she's like, she starts, I thought it was interesting where she's like, well, tell me how this began. And she's like, it was raining. And I was like, who starts a story from 20 years ago thought it was interesting where she's like, well, tell me what, how this began. And she's like, it was raining.

And I was like, who starts a story from 20 years ago? It was raining. I always talk about the weather. I always talk about the weather. I'd be like, Oh, boiling hot.

That's how I start every story. I was boiling. What was the temperature? But it doesn't come back in play later. No, that's true. It was raining and the rain makes me crazy. And then she bumps into him.

And then like an hour later, she's like, now you know why I hate the rain. He was probably fucking her in the shower. What moves I taught him. And I was like, wait, so shower and rain are the same. And she said water. Bad things happen when I'm around water or something. And then nothing ever happens again with water wait the end so that was like oh fuck oh the end such a vague foreshadowing because it's

literally two hours later i feel like the whole time i was going like when's it gonna end with water and then i didn't even think about it when the actual drowning is happening but that's not but also she's telling the story wait what i'm confused you guys are actually on such a much more intellectual plane than whatever one i exist on because everything you're saying you are blowing my mind i'm like i literally watched so much tyler perry i mean not even that much we like, we've truly just like dipped our little pinky toe in, but like we've analyzed these movies. So now we watch them like hardcore.

I did not look at my phone. Watch these movies. Well, and like with the movies, you really are blowing my shit up right now. Literally the last 40 episodes that we've done of this podcast before this, we have been not, we've been so confused about everything that's happening and like we need people to explain it to us so we feel amazing when we come into this and we're like she said there would be a water feature and then we're like oh and there was we feel like and we finally got a payoff two hours later and i didn't even i didn't even get it until i said it to you and you're like, uh, there is a big thing with water, but wait,

how did we go? I can't, I gotta get into all this. I think we need to jump into our news Medea segment, news media, Michelle, if you don't understand, go on.

Tyler Perry set up a vaccination site for his crew. Okay. Wow. After getting his vaccine on TV in January and the effort to instill trust in it. I wonder where that took place. Taylor Perry is now helping his production crew get the shot. Over the weekend, he set up a vaccination site at Tyler Perry Studios. This guy's amazing.

With the help of a nearby hospital. He also covered the logical, the logical costs, logistical. The vaccines were open to anyone at the studio who wanted one and hadn't received one yet, including his entire crew, along with their family and friends. Wow. The shots were not mandatory, but 250 Pfizer doses

were administered. For much of the pandemic, the studio has been in a bubble to protect against a spread, and with the vaccines rolling out, the precaution ended Saturday, April 10th. However, strict protocol,

COVID protocol, will still be in place for future productions. I mean, that's amazing. He's great. Godly. Godly. He's future productions. I mean, that's amazing. He's great. Godly. Godly. He's a god.

I believe that. I mean, every studio should be doing that if you're going to force people to come in and be working in close contact with each other. Well, I think that shows with teens or people in their early 20s should quarantine them. Me in my early 20s, And if I had money and I was on TV, I'd be like, fuck you. I'm not listening. I'm not staying at home. Totally. And I don't know.

I just yeah, I feel like studios could afford to do this. This is really incredible. And for the family and friends, too. He's he to me is someone who really has understood what to do with his billions. You know, there are so many wealthy people who just don't do shit with their money that matters. You know, they just kind of keep it and that's it. And Tyler has genuinely, in my opinion, achieved godlike status, not only because he's so generous, and I do believe he's incredibly just a philanthropic, generous man,

but he gets it. Like, he gives back, you know? And that to me is, can I say one Tyler Perry thing quickly that I forgot about until Nicole, I just saw your Zoom name and then I remembered something? Yeah. It is a celebrity name drop. So please don't get mad at me, okay? No, we want that to happen.

So, you know, I'm friends with Whoopi Goldberg, who I just adore like a godmother. Love her. And I was at Whoopi's house in New Jersey. This was so cool. That is very fucking. Yeah, it was. Well, you're both invited anytime. Like, I got you on a plane.

Bye bye. It's really true. I and you know, I love, love Whoopi. But she had this like box on the kitchen island. And I was just like, what? Like a big, beautiful thing. And she was like, open that. You have to kitchen Island. And I was just like, what? Like a big, beautiful thing. And she was like,

open that. You have to see that. And I opened it and there was like this velvet bag and this hard, like big thing inside. And I take this big box out and it was an invitation to the studio opening for Tyler Perry studios, which, you know,

that was a huge, massive whoopie of course went, I believe with her daughter, but it was a star studded, I mean, incredibly lavish opening. And this invitation, which I'm air quoting only because it was like an iPad,

you opened it up and it was a video of Tyler Perry on a little screen going, Hey, whoopie, uh, would love to see you. It was just like him talking to her on this little. That's so futuristic. Wow.

It was like the briefcase from Pulp Fiction. It just felt like otherworldly to me. And I was like, I cannot believe I'm touching Tyler Perry's invitation to Whoopi. I'm like sweeping streets. I'm cleaning chimneys. Like I'm an idiot, you know? So it's really unfair that I got to see something so nice. But I just thought I'd share

that with you because it was very special and I love that I think I saw Whoopi and um was it Tiffany Haddish on a talk show talking about going to the studio and that when you drive in like there was a huge screen that had like Whoopi's picture on it or something and then I hope I'm not mixing up this uh who was talking about this. And then Tiffany said when she drove in, there was no such image for her. I love her. There was no such image.

I want to say something, but I hope I'm not wrong. I believe Whoopi has a stage named after her. I'm 99% sure I'm actually going to Google it. That's a goal of mine. I want a stage named after me at Tyler Perry Studios hear me now good lord

I'm putting it out into the universe we have already said it if Nicole is not in a Tyler Perry movie by 2022 I'm gonna freak out I'm gonna lose my mind but honestly it's gonna happen by the way I want it I want to play young Madea in the showtime drama

that's what i really want that's all i want um i don't know how to make it happen uh i've mentioned it to my manager like i'm dead ass about it i love this they need to do a showtime has to do a version of succession with tyler perry and medea you know what i mean like they're super serious family. Please can I work on that? Well, I don't know if you know Michelle, they're literally making a Medea show about her 20s where she, it's a dramatic

show and it's about Medea being in her 20s and all the crazy hijinks she gets into. And so we're like, have they cast Medea? Well, we don't know who's going to be Medea. It's like, is it going to be Tyler Perry and Youngface? Is it going to have they cast Medea? Well, we don't know who's going to be Medea. It's like, is it going to be Tyler Perry in young face? Is it going to be Nicole being Medea? I mean, is it going to be a man dressed as a woman who's 20?

It's like it could go any way. I just got to say, people, you can't see what I just saw. But when you said, is it going to be Nicole? Nicole lit up like a Christmas tree, like your face. You truly smiled ear to ear. If they don't give this girl the part, well, gosh darn it. I'm going to march to LA. I'm demanding it happen for you. Who else could they give it to? I don't know. That's the thing. Maybe I'll go to like somebody who's actually in their twenties. I don't know. I read young, just, you know, uh, paint me a little younger. Look, I don't know. No, I think you could definitely play the role of someone in their 20s i don't know i read young just you know uh paint me a little younger look i don't know no i think you could definitely play the role of someone in their 20s oh my god of course

oh my god paint me young tyler perry giving everyone a vaccine like imagine if jeff bezos did any of that for the people at amazon studios who work for Amazon, who work in the Amazon fucking warehouse. Like he could afford to do that. That would be nice. He's bad. He's horrible. I mean, the idea that you would have that kind of money and not be willing to share it in that way

is so insane to me that I don't even know how to process it. It's like, what are you doing all day? Yeah, don't know. Such an ass. Well, should we take a break? Yes, let's take a break and we'll jump right into acrimony. If you're wondering what a NordVPN is, I'll tell you. VPN stands for Virtual Private Network, a service that protects your internet connection and online privacy.

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It was released March 30th, 2018. And should we get into the synopsis? We have to. Okay, this movie is bananas. Okay, so Melinda Moore, who is played by tarashi p henson supports her husband robert an engineer trying to sell an innovative battery design by the way this whole like this what battery for what it is not explained enough what he is making and what it does and i consider this a self-charging battery. Sorry.

I'm sorry. It's a self-charging battery. I got it from head to toe. What if I just, I'm going to defend this movie to the death. It is built inside a speaker from 1976 and it's a self-charging battery that the technology of which is worth obviously a lot. Can I say what it's called?

Or is that too big of a joke? I almost want you guys to say the name of it. Well, say well say i don't know if we're going to have it in this synopsis the battery is called gail force wins and his last name is gail and he's like a cookie inventor you know but yeah but he seems unreliable and there's this feeling that like she doesn't trust that it's going to pay off. Even though she keeps doing things. So after a series of events leaves them in debt, their marriage starts to deteriorate. The film is divided into categories based on the emotional spectrum that Melinda experiences as follows.

So the first one is acrimony, which lasts for about an hour and a half into the movie to the point where you forget that the movie is broken up into different things this is just like in medea christmas when suddenly there were jingle bell wipes going across the screen every five minutes when for the first hour there were no such things so yeah this is literally like it's they put a word up with a definition that does not happen again for so long that you fully are like wait what why are they telling me this other word now i i was so confused by that so melinda bumps into engineering student robert during college goes into a rage okay and assaults him physically and verbally made no sense so she literally bumps into him in the rain the rain books and papers fall on the ground

and she starts beating the shit out of beating him for no reason and it's never explained no so later that day he is unwell and goes to her dorm like who goes to the dorm of the woman who hits him so anyway he returns the papers that got shuffled around he offers to help her with a report and they become close on the day of her mother's funeral, Robert comforts Melinda and they have sex. And there is a voiceover where Taraji is like, he, my mom. Oh, wait, what was it? My mom, fresh in the ground, not even cold yet or something. And he starts in knowing that I'm vulnerable or something.

And I was like, oh, dear. And she's like, and he took my virginity. This funeral scene for me, I had to rewind it to say, was that her mom's funeral? Yeah. She's like, where are you headed? He goes, I'm going to go home. She goes, I'll give you a ride. Like, like literally like unsigned photos.

I'll drive you. Don't be silly. Wait. I was like, it's your mother's funeral. And she drives him back to that trailer, which plays a major part, major laugh in the theater, by the way. Um, it just,

to me, I'm like, this makes no sense that you would be so into him after kicking the shit out of him that on the day that your mama died, you're like, please get in my Jeep. I'll give you a ride. Didn't love it.

No. And then they go back to his RV and that's where they have sex. Right. And he teaches her about Nina Simone, who she's never heard of one time in her life doesn't want to hear the record and then he's like it's sad yeah he puts it on she goes it's sad i'm like not how i would describe it she heard one sentence it was like okay it's sure it's sad he's like oh i'm sorry and then she's like no it's fine and then yeah he takes

her virginity her mom's dead sorry i mean you really don't hear anything about her mother dying. She has no sadness about it. It's just like a thing that happened to her. Yes. So anyway, Robert and Melinda start seeing each other and then she doesn't hear from him. This is one day, but it's two days. She doesn't hear from him. And then Melinda decides to call and Robert picks up and she's like, why haven't I heard from you and he's like i thought you were busy and i'm a little busy my hands are tied i gotta go so she goes to his rv to investigate and after an hour of waiting outside she starts to leave but hears moaning and sees a woman's hand on the window

she goes into a rage and this is nuts nuts she goes into a rage and rams the rv with her car seriously injuring herself in the process she knocks this rv over on its side and then you hear people going and they have to climb out of the rv she hits it twice first she hit it and i was like i've seen the movie twice and i was I forget. Does she go back reverses and hits it again, knocks it off the cinder blocks and then picks up a cinder block that it was resting on to smash the window. And she looks by the way, the girl is like maybe 110 pounds gorgeous by the way. The both the young ones, I was like, my heart and eyes were singing. I was so happy to see what happened what happened awful no she goes she goes crazy throwing the the cinder block of the car she confronts robert about cheating on her with the

woman diana then while she's like screaming at him she passes out and he's grabbing her like and she's rushed to the hospital and has to have an emergency hysterectomy rendering her unable to bear children and that voiceover the voiceover is like i didn't realize how hard i had slammed into the steering wheel i uh what it was like something that that happened that caused the hysterectomy and i can't remember yeah i don't know what she was like she's like i had so much adrenaline i didn't know how hard i'd hit that thing that's like you drove into an rv that twice and knocked it over I mean I'm confused about how that affected your ovaries specifically but it was it was just true it's a very Tyler

Perry moment to be like she's 21 and now she has to have a hysterectomy and it's like Jesus man like that why is he like that I feel like he when he was writing that part was like howling with laughter don't you think I love him but don't you think he was like i know hysterectomy like you know he just reveled in removing her ovaries you could totally it was so dramatic the way it happens is so in it's like oh why did you have a hysterectomy oh because i drove my jeep wrangler into a trailer twice knocked it over and i guess my stomach slammed into the steering i don't even know how that happens i don't either and she only had a nosebleed so it was kind of a lot yeah so melinda and robert reconcile which honestly all parties should have been like this isn't good for either of us no but they get married despite the objections

of her sister june and brenda brenda warn warns Melinda not to tell Robert about the amount of money that their mother left her. So years later, Melinda supports them both. Robert's unable to find work after he robbed a grocery store. I feel like that was glossed over. It was very glossed over. She was like, get a job. And he's like, I can't. I once robbed a grocery store and I have a felony.

Nobody wants to hire a felony. Better make another battery. And she was like, I can't. I once robbed a grocery store and I have a felony. Nobody wants to hire a felony. Better make another battery. And she was like, a felony? No, this will never work out, okay? Meanwhile, she's literally so traumatic as a person. But June and Brenda are wary of Robert's intentions with Melinda's inheritance. Robert talks Melinda, I hated this part.

Robert talks Melinda into mortgaging their house, which she's like, my mom saved up to pay off that house her whole life. And then I mortgaged it for him so he can build a battery. They ran through $1 million. $1,203,000. And I was like, Tyler Perry just wrote one,

two, three. So yeah, he wants the money to build a battery prototype which he hopes to sell to prescott a venture capitalist and diana now working as an assistant to prescott this is the woman that he had cheated on melinda with arranges for robert to have a meeting with him but this is after he's written letters and sent videos to this person which i was like crazy videos get jobs and it's so it's weird because i feel like the year is so hard to tell on this movie because there are points like when he's

building the battery i'm like it's 1960 and then like other times i'm like it's 2018 like i don't know it's just like it has a weird energy in that way those videos were straight up what like the daily mail would put on their website when he blew up the building. You know what I mean? Like they had an energy of domestic terrorism. They just felt crazy. I was like, this is not if and she was like giggling at them. This woman was just like something about that guy.

I don't know. And he really genuinely was unhinged. Very unhinged. And then they put a restraining order on him. And then they had a file on him. And I was like, do companies don't have files on people? Like everything was just so confusing. Yeah.

No, it's so Melinda finds Diana. Oh yeah, you read this part. Yeah. After finding Diana's wallet in Robert's truck, which is a scene we don't see, June and Brenda tell Melinda that Robert is cheating on her. Melinda's family runs a catering business. I didn't even realize it was catering.

Runs a catering business. They offered Robert a job. They warn him that they'll lose their truck contract if they miss a delivery, which is like, what? As Robert is en route to his delivery, he gets a call from Diana saying Prescott wants to reconsider his deal. Robert abandons his delivery. Prescott offers Robert $800,000 for the design,

but Robert wants to license the technology to them instead and declines the offer. After finding out about Prescott and Diana, Melinda files for divorce and moves in with Brenda. Robert moves into a homeless shelter, but Diana finds out and insists that he lived with her so it's so this is such a crazy part because yes she's like look at this wallet i found it's so out of context we have no explanation of where the wallet came from and then he goes to do his like pitch meeting

or whatever but he had just gotten again the shit beat out of him by melinda and his his suits all askew and he shows up at the office and and diana's like oh yeah this is gonna work they're gonna think you're so crazy looking like this you're always late everyone's so mean you know he comes he's clearly had a problem and she's like you look crazy you look awful now you're gonna try to talk about this battery or whatever and then like you know he turns down eight hundred thousand dollars there's a lot of huge numbers in this movie like huge amounts of money add at should also add at this point that now Taraji and this actor, Lyric Bent,

love his name, by the way, have now, now it's like adult version of them. I went from basically the girl who looked like a young Rihanna, right? The actress. Yes. And the guy who's also good are now adult. And it just made me laugh

just seeing how much they aged. Because how much time passed? Was it 45 years? 18 years. I mean, mean all right i got it a lot of time but they're married the whole time a lot of time they are just miserable they didn't have sex yeah he was sleeping in a different room he didn't even say hello imagine living with your husband the man doesn't say good morning to you i would be so not work and then he goes to a homeless shelter to live there it's like it's so it's so dramatic it really is just very dramatic i'm like he doesn't have any family he doesn't know one I would be so upset. That would not work. And then he goes to a homeless shelter to live there. It's like, it's so dramatic. It really is just.

It's very dramatic. I'm like, he doesn't have any family he can stay with. He doesn't know one friend. But I just don't understand this catering business. So they're like, we have these trucks. If we make all of these deliveries, they're going to give us extra money, but we have to be on time.

If we're not on time and we miss this delivery, they're going to take our trucks and not pay us? Yeah, because they're like, we will get an advance. And if we, like, basically, like, we're about to go under because we lost, now we know about this mortgage being lost or whatever, or being re-gotten. And now they're like, we'll give you three weeks in advance, but if you miss one, you're fucked.

And then, like, they watch his car on, like, a GPS computer that is, like, so weird. They're watching the And then like they're watch his car on like a GPS computer. That is like so weird. They're watching the truck like drive and they're like, yeah. And I was like, why do you have to do it? If he's the fuck up, you two aren't doing anything. You make the delivery. They're sitting there just watching the dot move. And then they're going, he's going to Melinda's or whatever.

They can tell he just like turned around. I was like, this is diana's or whatever it was very much a control room in like a action movie he's going to melinda's we have to go babe i love you goodbye it was very so strange well all the prop work in this film i would say is poor you know they whoever was responsible for like i feel like they got the guy from Sandra Bullock's The Net. And they were like, look, bring the technology from The Net into acrimony. We need it, you know, 25 years later. The battery looked like shit. Everything looked bad.

Like, even, I mean, just it all looked very shit. No one watching this movie was thinking that battery was a good invention. I still don't understand. It self-charges for what? A car? A home? And it's worth apparently so much money as we later find out.

A hundred million dollars or something. Yeah, and that check, I was like, I literally paused it and rewound and was like zooming in like, what amount is it? That's so much. Okay, the next section is Sunder. The definition is not here,

so I don't know it. But Prescott reconsiders and offers Robert a multi multimillion dollar deal while allowing him to keep the intellectual property of the battery technology, which he accepts. Robert visits Melinda at work and she refuses to reconcile. He gives her like flowers and whatever. And then Robert accepts Melinda's decision, but insists she accept a $10 million apology gift. And he also gives her keys to her mother's home, which he has bought back. So he gives her 10 million and she's mad.

Yes. By the way, this scene, I'm sorry, Nicole. Well, I feel like Tyler Perry set this up in a way where it seems like it's Taraji's fault, but I'm like Taraji put up with so much. This scene needed to go. He walks in and he's like, hey, before you say anything, I now have $100 million.

My battery sold. I put you through a lot of shit. Would you like to get back together? Just put all that out there. Yeah. And I also think, no matter what anyone said, if they just handed me a check for 10 million, I'd be happy. Okay. I'm sorry. I have seen this movie before. And when he handed her

the check, I think my instinct was, oh, he's going to fuck her. Like while you're watching the film, I think this is for me, the twist that I thought he was going to fuck her over so badly with the money. He's going to become so successful and she's going to be poor and kill him. What ends up really happening is he, it's like the man is always the hero in a tyler perry movie yeah he came in he was like you were you beat me in the rain as a child now you're horrible to me even though you like supported me here's a check and when i saw that he wrote her a 10 million dollar check first of all i guffawed because that is hilarious yeah second of all i was like what she won the lottery and bought the house too i'm like she's a man from heaven set for life kiss blow him a kiss yeah live your life it's crazy i mean y'all didn't have sex for

like the 20 years you were living together so how can you all of a sudden expect him now and she oh sorry we forgot to mention one thing she's dating the hottest man i've ever laid eyes on that bald guy i was like and then she's like and he got a little dick like at one point she gets so mad at him and i'm like what did he do he's hot as shit shut the fuck up she comes into her family's house yeah i mean i think i don't know if this is even here so yeah she comes in her family's house oh no so this is the bewail section oh yeah it's a bewail. Sorry. I just got very upset. No, no, no.

It's great. I got upset. It's okay. And you need the details. Okay. Thank you. After showing her sisters the money and berating them for their influence,

Melinda visits Robert in his new penthouse apartment and attempts to seduce him and rekindle their relationship. Diana enters and introduces herself as Robert's fiancé. Okay. So, yeah, she goes to see her sisters. She throws the $10 million check and the keys on the table, and she's, like's fiance. Okay. So yeah, she goes to her to see her sisters. She throws the $10 million check in the keys on the table and she's like pissed about it. And they're like,

well, we should go cash this. Let's call the bank. And then, and she's like, it's good. I already called them. And like,

she already like proved it was real or whatever. And she's like, well, we should get, we should deposit this before he changes his mind. She's like, Nope. Like she's so,

it's so unhinged that like yes the the sisters that everyone's going like wow he really did it he's a great guy and then they're all like playing cards or something and then the guy that she's dating she's like you need to get out of here and your dick is too little for your body or whatever yeah it was so rude and he didn't really have a response he was just like yeah sorry about it guys my dick is too tiny for her truly when i saw that i was like he's admitting that his dick is really small he like didn't even like that poor he didn't even look at them he just was kind of like that poor actor by the way had no lines in that movie was called a little dick and now get is

sag after rules probably gets four cents per viewing he probably got 12 cents because of the three of us that poor guy that hot as shit bald i don't know that man but he was better looking than the husband i was like what are we arguing about here she has 10 million bucks is hot bald you can do something with that you can work with what he has you know anyway truly i was fuming and then after she leaves one of her brother-in-laws is like i knew he'd make money that dude's smart i was like so you all support you all liked him the whole time or whatever and then so yeah she goes over to the penthouse and it's like stunning amazing apartment and she starts like taking off her clothes and she has like this crazy lingerie on and she's like we're back together now basically and then diana comes out and she has like this crazy lingerie on and she's like, we're back together now, basically. And then Diana comes out and she's like, I'm his fiance.

And it's just crazy. But it's like how much time passed between him getting the money, him buying this penthouse that's fully furnished, him getting this like brand new car, him getting engaged. Everything happens so quickly. He uses the money so fast. Yes, he makes it all happen and it's like decared diana's my hero i think diana's the hero of the film she she smelled an opportunity and she just absolutely that's my dream i want to be like diana i want to find a guy with an idiot invention make him rich force him to marry me, and, you know, I won't

ruin the ending, but she really figured her shit out. And I just want to say, I'm proud of her. She really does. So the next section is called Deranged. And it's angry and hurt. Melinda becomes obsessed with Robert and Diana. She sues them, which we see some of at the beginning.

You see, like, this court case, and it's so weird. She sues them, claiming that the deal with Prescott happened before their divorce, but the case is dismissed. And Robert and Diana file a countersuit against Melinda and obtain restraining orders. Melinda retaliates by visiting the bridal shop and destroying Diana's wedding gown with hydrochloric acid. She's caught and sentenced to court mandated counseling where she tells her therapist that Robert took advantage of her. Her therapist suggests that she may have borderline personality disorder after melinda finds out diana is pregnant her family and friends are forced to prevent her from leaving the house and ruining their wedding oh this is another tyler perry moment so they're in court and then like she's like talking about the wedding dress being rooted in diana's like

i wouldn't have fit in it anyway little ones ones growing really fast every day. And I'm like, yeah, they drop pregnancy news in these movies like so hard. It's so intense. Not only that, do you want to get killed? I mean, they already know that this woman has like the Zodiac killer letters being written about Diana. Why would you then throw it at this point? You won. You have the penthouse you got the man you got the baby you literally are the winner why make this crazy woman any angrier

shut the fuck up I know being so smug about it and being like rubbing it in and that is that's the part that really gets

glossed over where the sisters go to the house the mother's house that Melinda's now living in that was bought back

it's like basically there's no furniture in it, but she has a table full of like Diana's pictures with her exes crossing out her eyes and stuff. Like she's going to kill her. Then there's the scene where this man is walking a dog, looks in her window, shakes his head. You get inside the house.

She's covered the lamp in this red scarf and she's dancing like modern dance. And she's like throwing her coat over her head i'm like what is this it really is one of these movies where you don't know who you're supposed to side with because she's the lead she's the narrator but then they're like you have borderline personality disorder she's like no i don't and then everything she does is bizarre. But like, there's no like grounding. That scene with the red light with her, like just in a full Twyla Tharp.

I don't even know how to explain what the hell that was. I was howling with laughter. That shit. Taraji must've gotten a big old check. Don't you think? To like just agree to do it. She's a genius. Like I absolutely love her.

To agree to do that and all that shit does she know that it's funny she has to i don't know i think so but she like committed so much to it like she commits to this character fully that i'm like okay but the one thing that i can't get on board with is she smokes a lot and there's no ashtrays. Oh, that's funny. I just glanced at the trivia and there's something in there. I just have to say it right now. The movie was shot in eight days. No.

How? The Hanukkah of Tyler Perry movies. Oh my God. It's a miracle. It's a Hanukkah miracle. That's so insane. That's good for eight days i mean a whole you could i i have friends who have shot short films in more time eight days it's a masterpiece like let's call it what it is it's an eight-day masterpiece

yes i would like to give us the budget let's see the kind of movie we can make in eight days. I'll pilot it. I'm blown away. Okay, well, let's read the last section because there's got to be. I mean, this is just nuts. So that's it's inexorable. Robert and Diana leave on their honeymoon cruise. Melinda sneaks onto the boat, which is her boat, shoots Robert and makes the crew jump overboard.

Yeah, they have their own boat now. It's called Mrs. Gale. Yes. And also that made me laugh so hard. The crew just being like, goodbye. I know. She's like, jump, jump. And then they all go, woo!

And they're like jumping and they're underwater just swimming. It's so crazy. Melinda attempts to shoot Diana, but Robert tells tells diana to take the the dinghy and rescue the crew then he overpowers melinda and throws her into the water but melinda returns and attempts to kill robert with an axe and she's so she comes back with an axe she's like dragging it robert's limping and then she hits him and he yells but i don't think she actually makes contact with him his leg goes up his foot comes down because i guess there's a lever for an anchor on a boat had no clue no and they really filmed this carefully so you could see her step into the loop of the anchor

chain so when the anchor goes into the ocean it pulls her down i don't think i've laughed harder than that uh and then diana returns with the crew yeah she's screaming underwater like she's like still mad like she's literally being drowned and killed and she's like it's so funny i wish you could see lauren's face i mean she's so mad it's so intense and and so wait does doesn't robert die i mean like he's he's basically he definitely shot and killed oh he's laying there bleeding out yeah it's sad but then i'm like when did the therapy set like sessions happen because she's dead so it happened before so this is all in real time so like the first half of the movie before

you get to the boat is her telling the therapist about what happened and then when the therapist goes you have a borderline personality disorder and she's like fuck you i'm done it's real time she's now now she's like i'm going to go die i'm gonna go kill somebody which i think this movie's taught me about script structure. Like, I'm like, you know, he put some thought. I have so much respect. I'm like, he put some real thought into it. There was a lead up, and then there was a real time.

That's clever. Yeah, I mean. I'm a fan. Sorry. I will say, I think they spent too long with their younger selves. I agree. I agree. Because you don't, like like the fact that they're

married for 17 years and we see none of that. I would like to know what has been going on because it feels like all of the bad stuff kind of happened, meaning the mortgage and whatever happens when they're young. And then she's mad about it. And it's like, I don't know, we don't get enough about about what life is like while they're married. That makes her go. And like, how is even if she was like this the whole time, then how is he even handling it? Like, she's obviously been like that since she was in college. Men love women like that, don't they?

They love borderline personality disorder, don't they? I feel like usually this kind of like violent relationship is balanced out by like a hot sex life in a movie at least. Yes. And they don't have that. So you also never see him exercise. And the guy has a killer body. What's that about?

I mean, he's so fit. And I didn't see a Peloton. He's like a perfect guy, ultimately, because he's like really smart. He focuses on an idea for many years until it makes him extremely wealthy. He's ripped. And he's like, he just cares about her even though she treats him horribly. I just don't understand why there wasn't a conversation

that's like, hey babe, I fully believe in your battery, but you have to go work at a grocery store part-time or you have to go do something part-time. I think there was, and he just didn't want to. The thing is, he was, this is where the movie makes no sense. Cause the first half I'm like,

I hate this guy. So he's got the borderline personality disorder. That's what I said to the nobody who lives with me. Cause he's sitting there just wrapped and ensconced in wires, you know, and for a battery that shouldn't take 20 years to figure out. Yeah. Batteries are like a double-ended source.

I mean, it's, I don't know shit about them, but I can't imagine it's that complicated. Thanks. That's nice. It's, so you got your A,

A, C, D, C, come on. It's not that hard. I don't know what I'm saying. Yeah.

So it doesn't make sense that all of a sudden he went from being a true, like doc from Back to the Future and now he's wearing tuxedos and is, like, hot and chill and giving her checks. I didn't connect that for me. I agree. I mean, I'm just astounded by how quickly this was made that I can't even wrap my head around that.

That eight days. Eight days. Honestly, I take every note back. No notes. Eight days? It's a perfect movie for eight days. And days. Honestly, I take every note back. No notes. Eight days. It's a perfect movie for eight days. And it got an award.

Taraji P. Henson was nominated for Best Actress at the BET Awards or got nominated at least. And as we always see with Tyler Perry movies, critically,

the film was not well received. It currently has a 17% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a critic from Rolling Stone wrote,

Taraji will rise again. She always does. but enduring a full 120 minutes of this shit storm takes a toll i disagree i don't think it was that bad of a movie to call it a shit storm i have got to say the critics are so hard on tyler perry films even though they make a ton of money yeah so i'm like maybe critics should like take a step back and be like what are my biases like what yes not to make it a race thing but i'm like if it's white critics watching this movie made for a black audience and they don't like it it might be because they don't identify with it i agree oh audiences also did not like this film so to you just you know really uh counteract what i just said they gave it a 45%

audiences saw it what audience is like all white audiences I'm like well they're fools they're absolute idiots well I got a 45% on audience score on Rotten Tomatoes its budget was 20 million and it grossed 46.4 million at the box office so I mean and he always

does at least double his money I feel like don't you want to be friends with him? I want to I really want I think we could do it, guys. I don't mean to infiltrate your incredible podcast, but I think the three of us can be friends with him. I think I think it's leading to that, which is also why we have to do more episodes just to gain traction and get his attention. So a little bit of trivia here. Agiona Alexis

also played the younger version of Taraji P. Henson's character Cookie on Empire. Oh. So that's nice. And then Taraji P. Henson, she had to wear colored contacts to match her light gray eyes. I noticed that. I was wondering why wouldn't they give colored contacts to match her light gray eyes i noticed that i was wondering why wouldn't they give darker contacts to the younger person just because it's but i mean they

didn't look cool on her well when you have eight days you don't have the time to really work things out yeah maybe that pre-prep was probably two days yeah like taraji was coming in later so like it's easier for her to just wear the contacts we'll just swap them in but honestly like good on her for learning all those lines so quickly. Yes. What do you think of everything she did in eight days? I mean, she probably worked four days then because the young part was like such a

huge part of it. And the film was originally entitled. She's living my life, which I actually like a lot more, but I don't much as you don't get that until the last 20 minutes of the movie. That's true. But acrimony is a word that doesn't mean anything to me,

even though they showed the definition. But what would you what would have been a better name for the movie? I'm trying to think. Water makes me crazy. Rapid would have been a good name. Yeah. Rapid because like water makes rabid people nuts. They're afraid of water.

Oh, I like rabid. There's a water connection there. Wait, what does acrimony mean again? I know. I forgot. I don't even know. It sounds like acrid to me, like burnt. Bitterness or ill feeling.

It's a good name for it. Yeah. I mean, it's good. I'm chock full of it. I didn't even know until that second I'm I'm knee-deep in acrimony daily go on Tika Sumpter was originally cast as Diana Wells but later left the project and Crystal Stewart took the role I wonder why she left oh god I can't I'm honestly just I'm shook of it all it took eight days I don't know I'm honestly just. I'm shook that it took eight days.

I don't know that I've ever done any any job that like a TV episode typically would take longer than that. Like I just am so amazed by this. And I mean, when you think about it, it's like it does it does make sense of like a lot of the things that are lacking. Like even when you're like, oh, they didn't show how she got the wallet or they don't show this like they just kind of i mean having narration over it probably saved them like 20 days of work but like some so it's like you you lose some stuff by going that fast and i just wonder why is it so fast why are you rushing so much he does everything so fast huh limited budget i feel like it's just money like let's crank it out we know the audiences will be there he knows that he has like a rabid fan base

rabid again so whatever put whatever on the screen and they'll show up i wonder if he shot it so fast to pay taraji what she was worth i was just thinking that and then to like oh i don't know eight days is a wild amount of time it's a 20 million dollar budget and then like if you're paying people a million dollars here and there or whatever you know ends up being of course not everyone's gonna get that but taraji might get that and then like that's a big chunk of the budget right there plus all the stunts i mean you think about the boat just the ending scene must have cost a lot of money and been really hard to film. Soundstage.

That's a word I know from my days in LA. Not easy. You got to fill a soundstage up with water. That's for those non-cinema people who are listening. And I mean, and he has his own stages. So then I'm like, do you save money by having that? Like, I guess. Probably.

He probably makes money on having stages because then he. But he's his own production company. I don't know. I want him to redo Titanic. I just had a fantasy of Tyler Perry's Titanic where it's it's like he has to do the stunts. He has to recast all the people like it's not the same movie like Leo. But I wonder what his version of that boat sinking would be i just feel like it would be very entertaining being like i don't know why we gotta be down here i don't want to be i want to be up there where the people

are they call me steerage where'd he get iceberg 1.2 million, 3 million, a million, a million, a million people have already drowned. Tyler Perry loves numbers. There's so many numbers in his movies. And this movie, the numbers in this movie

really did make me pause. I kept thinking, wait, they're getting a hundred million. He's giving her 10 million. Even when he got an offer for 800,000 and turned it down,

I was like, he was just in a homeless shelter. This is all really wild. I've watched enough Shark Tank to respect that. I was like, all right, I've seen Shark Tank. He sees it's a bad investment. He's not going to have the control.

Yeah, I do love Shark Tank. That's so much money for him to retain all of the control as well. I was like, how much money is this? What is this battery for and then why does he get killed right when he's about to have his dream come true i know because i don't know i don't know why the devil is present well the devil comes up a lot in this film oh and there was no jesus in this film Usually there's like Jesus in Tyler Perry's films. There wasn't really a religious storyline.

It didn't feel like. There was a line. She had a line about the devil that I wish I would have written down. I was wondering because I started taking notes. She said, get out. You know I can be the devil. Something's better. Oh, she said, the devil sure knows how to put a package together.

That's what she was talking about when they first met him. And I was like, oh, I love that. Like that, I really felt deep. I was like, he sure does, Taraj. That's what I said. It just felt like her character has basically no redeemable qualities. But I was on her side for a lot of it. Like I was confused.

Maybe I'm supposed to be confused. I'm like, she's being really uh you know evil like she just like starts like hitting him for no reason and i'm like driving her car and this thing but then it's like is he because he did seem like he was the bad guy at the beginning i don't know well also i mean if i was with someone for like 18 years made something made a hundred million dollars. 10 million is what? 10% of what I made. Yeah. Give at least 30.

Well, I mean, when they go to court at the end and she's like saying she should have half because the deal was made while they were still together. And then the judge is like, no, the deal was not made while you were still together. And she's like,

Oh, well, like trying to get half, I feel like is really bitchy at that point because like like you did not you didn't really believe in it. You were there, but you kept telling him to stop and chances. Yeah. And then ultimately, yeah, he offered to go get back, you know, get back together. And she was like, no, but I will take you to court.

It's like, just be with him. I don't know if you really just want the money that bad but yeah i think everybody in this movie was a bad person except for her sisters who wore those awful shorts for their catering the shorts the shorts the part where melinda's like shorts the belted, Cavaricci. That's how you know the shit was eight days. Orjo was like, we cannot find any of their khaki shorts. He's like, all right, we gotta go to set. You gotta wear the shorts. They were like, these, you know, there was like an argument about it.

They're like, all right. I thought they were moving people. I literally thought they were moving paperwork like people's files. What caterer shows up in a long Steve Irwin short and a belt? I'm asking you, have you ever seen caterers look like Bindi Irwin? I haven't. Well, in the part where Melinda's beating Robert on the lawn and then the sisters pull up and start attacking both of them like to make it stop. Like they start,

she just, she's running up in her uniform and she just starts hitting Robert with the purse that like what that Taraji dropped, like just hitting him with, I'm like, they don't even know the context. And then he has to run off and go do his pitch to sell his thing for a hundred million dollars. And it was just like,

he doesn't have time to like tuck his shirt back in. I just love it. I love it too much. It's a great movie. I will not hear any negative acrimony talk. I really enjoyed it a second time. I don't ever want to have to watch it again. I will say that I liked it.

I'm telling you, in the theater, I walked out with Greg, and I think I thought it was going to be so bad that the fact that I was entertained, maybe not in the way intended, but laughed and whatever, I thought, what more can you ask for? I've seen boring... I'll be honest, I would watch... People are going to hate this. I would watch Acrimony any day over a Marvel film

that I swear up and down that I mean that. I don't care about Marvel. You get it. Yeah, no, no. I mean, I agree. I mean, I've only seen two Marvel movies, but I agree. But you know what I mean? It's like, it's just more fun.

This has been dubbed the real MCU, the Madea cinematic universe. And so instead of Marvel, we're just more fun. This has been dubbed the real MCU, the Madea Cinematic Universe. And so instead of Marvel, we're going with that. I mean, you know, we might end up doing Marvel next season. So I don't know what to think. But I want to stay in the joy. I'll gladly guest star. I'll gladly guest star.

But I'll be furious about it. We'll need you back. But I'll watch something. We will need you back. Oh, my God. Well, Michelle, we've come to the end of our show. Sadly. Oh, my God. Because we would love to talk to you forever. I know. We work quickly over back. Oh my God. Well, Michelle, we've come to the end of our show. Sadly, we would love to talk to you forever.

I know we work quickly over here. Yeah. Thank you for doing it. Michelle. In eight days, editing down eight days of podcasting. Thank you for honestly, eight days.

I'm amazed. Is there anything you would like to plug? Obviously people should listen to your show on Sirius. That's so kind. Yes. I'm on every morning on Sirius channel 10's so kind. Yes. I'm on every morning on Sirius channel 109 from seven to 10 AM. I have my podcast midnight snack, both Lauren and Nicole have been guests. So listen, we had a next week we have Shea Coulee from drag race is

going to be on very excited about that. And yeah, follow me on Instagram and on Twitter at Mish call M I C H C O L L Just, you know, DM me, whatever you want. That's it. I did hear on your podcast that you're really looking forward to getting back out into the scene. Now that the vaccine is out there. Yes. What kind of scene? The dating scene? The dating scene. Well, I'm sort of ish back on the scene a little bit, but I'll be honest, I'm like so over New York. I know you're going to edit this whole thing out. It's fine. I'm just so over New York. We'll leave it in, leave it in people. Check out my profile. Um, yeah, I just, I'm over New York. So I was actually in Miami. I don't know where I'm going guys. I really don't.

I, I just, I was in Miami where my family is for two months. Did not plan on staying that long. And it was so nice that I'm like, why the fuck would I go back to New York when I have like the ocean there? You know, I have friends there. I really had a nice time. COVID safe. No one come for me. But yeah, just New York is like so dusty feeling now. I'm just like, oh, I don't know. I've been here 20 years. So it's not like I just moved here and I'm like, I'm over it. Yeah. I just need something. Sublet your apartment and go somewhere. I know. I want to, Nicole, you want to come to London with me for the summer? Ooh. Oh my God. That would be so cool. Yeah. Yeah. Let me come with. Okay, great. So Nicole and I are going to be in London. Oh my God. I'm excited for you.

Have you spent time there ever, Nicole? I've never been. Not one time. Oh, you really have to. Nicole, I'm not kidding. Wait, actually. Is it dreary? I know we don't know each other though. No, not dreary. Okay. I'll go to my grave. Look how I just interrupted you. Especially in the summer. Especially in the summer. It's, it's, it's, uh, it rains from time to time, but it's so beautiful there. The winter is a little bit hard. I would say I had to be there for a few months in the winter and I was alone and it got dark so early and it was kind of freezing and sad. But see, that's what I'm scared of. I don't want to do that.

No, but in the summer, it's so nice. OK, everybody's literally so dumb and slutty there. It's like everyone gets drunk all day. People are barefoot in sleeping in sewers. Like everyone's out of their heads. They're so funny. They would love you. I mean, I'm not even just saying the reason why I go there is because they appreciate a funny woman. They love funny women. It's not like in this country where we're like pariahs. We go there. No offense to anyone on this podcast. I'm just speaking for myself, but like I go to London and I'm telling you the,

the switch flips 180 degrees. It is wild. You would have the best time. We'll talk about it. I really mean that. Okay. I want to go. I want one of those men drunk in a dumpster to love me.

Yes. There's literally, take it from me, from experience, nothing easier to make happen. Just please believe me when i say it's gonna happen i really look at my face look how shiny i am this is i'm selling you i'm hot thinking about it all right let's talk about it let's take it off the pod and we'll we'll okay it's gonna be fun i love this thank you guys oh my god thank you so much well we have our five hallelujahs segment, of course.

I'm getting more and more casual with how I say it. It's my favorite thing. When you say hallelujahs. This one comes from bazooka sharks for life. I fell love, love this podcast. Nicole and Lauren make me laugh so much. And I love their takes on these franchises was trying to do pull-ups at the

gym while listening and accidentally let go due to laughter fell right on the ground. Still a five-star podcast. I love their takes on these franchises. Was trying to do pull-ups at the gym while listening and accidentally let go due to laughter fell right on the ground. Still a five-star podcast. I love that. And this one comes from Plum Trevor. I've been on this earth 41 years and I've never seen a Tyler Perry movie until I listened. I've been listening to newcomers for a while, but usually I would watch the movies before listening to the podcast until they hit the Tyler

Perry season. But listening to Lauren Nicole's wild takes on Tyler Perry's The Family That Prays finally broke me to watch a Tyler Perry film and I'm here to say do it. Whatever magic in a bottle Perry has, it's crazy. It's bonkers and I'm glad to be along for the ride. So please, thank you for those great reviews. You guys should

write a review and we will read more next time. And we'll be back next week with another one of Tyler Perry's works. So I can't wait. And we'll see you then thanks Michelle thank you Michelle bye thank you Thank you. That was a Hidgum Original.