Newcomers: Sports, 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? Uh, yes. Let's take a break and we'll jump right into acrimony. And we're back. So, Acrimony was written by Tyler Perry, directed by Tyler Perry. It was released March 30th, 2018.

And should we get into the synopsis? We have to. Okay. This movie is bananas. Okay, so. Bananas. 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- But like, what battery? For what? It is not explained enough what he is making and what it does. And I consider this to be a huge- It's a self-charging battery. But it's- 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 well say i don't know if we're going to have it in this synopsis. The battery is called Gale Force Wins. And his last name is Gale. And his last name is Gale.

Okay, so he's like a cookie inventor, you know? But he seems unreliable. And there's this feeling that 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 Madeamas 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 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. This shit made no sense. So she literally bumps into him in the rain. In the rain. Books and papers fall on the ground

and she starts beating the shit out of him. 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 this 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 you headed he goes I'm gonna go home she goes I'll give you a ride 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'm 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. It just to me, I 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 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 what 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 yeah 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 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 here's moaning and sees a woman's hand on the window. She goes into a rage and this is 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, ah! 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 like, 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. Yeah. Both the young ones. I was like my heart and eyes were singing.

I was so happy to see what happened. Awful. No, she goes. She goes crazy throwing the cinder block at 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 ah 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 what it was like something that happened that caused the hysterectomy. And I can't remember. Yeah, I don't know. She was like, she's like, I had so much adrenaline. I didn't know how hard I'd hit that thing. And it'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. Why is he like that? Why is he like that?

I feel like he, when he was writing that part, it 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 feel it. It was so dramatic. The way it happens is so, 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 wheel.

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 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 then she was like, a felony? No, battery and she was like a felony now 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 this 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. 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 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,

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, is that how you 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 diane 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 and rob uh 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 live 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're going to think you're so crazy looking like this. You're always late. Everyone's so mean, you know? He comes in, he's clearly had a problem. And she's like, you look crazy.

You look awful. Now you're going to try to talk about this battery? Whatever. And then like, you know, he turns down $800,000. There's a lot of huge numbers in this movie. Like huge amounts of money. We 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 money. We should also add at this point that now Taraji and this actor Lyric Bent, love his name by the

way, have now it's like adult version of them. It went from basically the girl who looked like a young Rihanna right, the actress, 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 alright, I got it. A lot of time. But they're married the whole time. It looks like a lot of time. Married and 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 upset. That would 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'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 gonna give us extra money but we have to be on time if we're not on time and we miss this delivery they're gonna take our trucks and not pay us yeah because they're like 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 and or being re-gotten and now they're like you will give you three weeks in advance but if you miss one you're fucked 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 like they can tell because he just like turned around i was like this is or diana's or whatever it was very much a control room in like an 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, 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. 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 the battery. 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-million 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 to him and she's mad. Yes. bought back so he gives her and she's mad yes by the way this scene i'm sorry nicole i 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 a hundred million dollars my battery sold i put you through a lot of shit would you like to get back

together just put all that out yeah yeah and i also think if no matter what anyone said if they just handed me a check for 10 million i'd be 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. He came in, he 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, this is a mesh from heaven set for life. Kiss, blow him a kiss. 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 you 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 no no no it's great

i mean 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 pissed about it. And they're well we should go cash this let's call the bank and they're 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 did it. He's a great guy. They're all 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 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 actor look at them he just was kind

of like yeah that poor actor by the way had no lines in that movie was called a little dick and now get is a 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 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. There you go. I was like, so 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's like, I'm his fiance. And it's just 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, 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, um, 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 it. And Dan is like, I wouldn't have fit in it anyway. Little 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 being so smug about it and being like rubbing it in yeah and and that is that that's the part that really gets glossed over where they the sisters go to uh the house the mother's house that melinda's now living in it 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 gonna kill her 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 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 have 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 what the movie was shot in eight days no 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 have friends who have shot short films in more time.

In 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.

A pile of shit. I'm blown away. Okay, well, let's read the last make in eight days. Uh, I mean, I wish it. Okay. So please. Okay. Well, let's read the last section because there's gotta be, I mean, this is just nuts. So that's,

uh, it's inexorable. Uh, Robert and Diana leave on their honeymoon cruise. Uh, 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. Gail. Yes. Uh, and also that made me laugh so hard. The crew just, just 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 jumping, and they're underwater just swimming. It's so crazy. Melinda attempts to shoot Diana, but Robert tells Diana to take 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, doesn't Robert die? I mean, like he's basically shot and killed. He's laying there bleeding out. Yeah, it's sad.

But then I'm like, when did the therapy 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 going to go kill somebody. Which I think this movie has taught me about script structure. Like I'm, I'm like, you know, he puts some thought. I have so much respect. 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'm a fan. Sorry. I will say, I think they spent too long with their younger self. I agree. I agree.

Because you don't, 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 like we don't get enough about about what the life is like while they're married that makes her go and like how is he even if she was like this the whole time then how is he even handling it like she's the whole time then how is he even handling it? Like she's obviously been like that since she was in college.

But men love women like that, don't they? Yeah. 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 where I didn't see a Peloton. He's like a perfect guy ultimately because he's like really smart. He focuses on 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 because the first half, I'm like, I hate this this guy so he's got the borderline personality disorder that's what i said to the nobody who lives with me um because 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 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 of 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 what audiences saw it? What audience? It was like all white audiences. I'm like, well, they're fools. They're absolute idiots. Well, it 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?

Yes. I want to... I with him? 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 feel like it's going to happen. 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 b henson's character cookie on empire oh so that's nice and then taraji b henson she had to wear 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 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 slap them in. But honestly, like good on her for learning all those lines so quickly. Yes. When 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 titled She's Living My Life, which I actually like a lot more. But I don't because 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 I feel like... What would have been a better name for the movie? I'm trying to think. Water Makes Me Crazy. Rabid. Rabid would have been a good name. Yeah.

Rabid, because water makes rabid people nuts. They're afraid of water. 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 uh 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 that it took eight days. I don't know that I've ever done any job that,

like a TV episode typically would take longer than that. Yeah, that's 30 minutes. I'm just so amazed by this. And I mean, when you think about it, it's like 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 and then to like oh i don't know eight days is a wild amount of time. It's a $20 million 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. 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 but... Soundstage stage that's a

word i know for my days in la not easy you gotta fill a sound stage 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 yeah 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. I don't know why we got to be down here.

I don't want to be up there where the people are. They call me steerage. We're taking an iceberg. 1.2 billion, actually a million, million, million people have already drowned. Tyler Perry loves numbers there's

so many numbers in his movies and this oh my god 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 yeah there wasn't a 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. 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 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, oh, she's being really evil.

She just starts hitting him for no reason. And I'm like, she's being really, you know, evil. Like, she just, like, starts, like, hitting him for no reason. And I'm like, drive your car and this thing. But then it's like, is he? Because he did seem like he was the bad guy at the beginning. Mm-hmm. I don't know. Well, also, I mean, if I was with someone for, like, 18 years, made something, made $100 million, $10 million is what? 10% of what I made? Yeah made yeah i 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 but trying to get half i feel like is really bitchy at that point because 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 then 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 company. The shorts, the belted.

That's how, you know, the show was eight days. Orjo was like, we cannot find any of their khaki shorts. He's like, all right, we got to go to, we got to go to set. You got to wear the shorts. They were like these 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 we gotta go to set you gotta wear the shorts they were like these you know there was like an argument about it 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 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 all days 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 but I will say that I liked it talk. I really enjoyed it a second time. I don't ever want to have to watch it again, but I will say that I liked it. I did. I really, 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 like 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, we 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 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, because we would love to talk to you forever. I know we work quickly over here. Yeah. Thank doing it michelle in eight days editing down eight days

of podcasting i'm thank you for honestly going 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 uh channel 109 from 7 to 10 a.m. I have my podcast Midnight Snack. Both Lauren and Nicole have been guests. So listen, we had a next week of Shea Coulee from Drag Race is going to be on. Very excited about that. And yeah, follow me on Instagram and on Twitter at Mishcall, 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

um now that the vaccine is out there yes I'm ready 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 gonna edit this whole thing out it's fine

I'm just so over New York we 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. Um, 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, listen to me. 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 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 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 okay 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 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 going to 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's my favorite thing when 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 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 Lorna 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 bon 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. Thank you, Michelle. Bye. Bye. Thank you. That was a Hiddem original.