S5 - E4: Celebrating 420 with "Next Friday": Comedy, Culture, and Cannabis in Film

As Ralph and I reminisce about "Next Friday," you're invited to a 420 celebration unlike any other – a nostalgic trip through the laughs and cultural milestones of this comedy classic. We tackle the challenge of Mike Epps filling Chris Tucker's big shoes, and how Epps' Day Day brought a whole new dynamic that's hard not to love. Get ready for a hearty discussion on the film's increased budget, the standout casting choices, and the side-splitting moments that solidified "Next Friday" as a 420 staple. We're serving up a cinematic feast of memories, analyzing the sequel's enduring impact on comedy and pop culture, and debating its place in the stoner film pantheon.

The "Friday" franchise has always been more than just laughs; it's a mirror to the urban LA experience. In this heart-to-heart, Ralph and I dissect how each film in the series handled the shifting tones of the '90s and early 2000s, maintaining relevance amongst its peers like "Boys in the Hood" and "Baby Boy." From the first film's chill vibes to "Next Friday's" grittier themes, we honor the humor that kept us coming back while delving into the franchise's legacy. This stroll down memory lane will awaken the fan in you as we ponder the irresistible charm that keeps these movies in the hearts of their audience.

But it's not just about the past; we also cast our gaze to the evolving landscape of comedy and stoner flicks. Swap tales with us about run-ins with the law, the potency of West Coast cannabis, and the evolution of humor in today's world. We don't just stop at film analysis – we get personal, comparing West Coast and East Coast strains and the nuances of CBD versus THC. This episode is a hybrid strain of comedy discussion and candid confessions, perfect for a 420 session. So grab your favorite munchies, light up if that's your thing, and settle in for a laughter-filled homage to "Next Friday" and the unbreakable bond of cannabis and comedy. Happy 420, everyone!

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

What's good, everybody. You're now listening to a Tribe Called Bleak podcast. I know it's been a minute. I apologize for the delay, but I got my great co-host, ralph, and you guys already know it's 420 season, and so happy 420 to all the stoners, potheads Rolling up papers using bongs. You got some good. Khalifa Kush, ralph and I are just going to talk about, you know, a classic Next Friday.

Speaker 2: 0:25

Next Friday part 2 Got some good Khalifa Kush, Ralph and I are just going to talk about you know a classic, you know, next Friday, Next Friday Part two, Part two, of course, Great movie.

Speaker 1: 0:32

And you know we just want to really get up in this and, just you know, talk about a good classic and everything. I want to ask Ralph, you know I'll say it like this as you know, Friday is a cult classic. Ice Cube movie put a lot of people out there as far as fame today. In your opinion for next Friday, did it reach your expectations from the first one, or did it exceed it, or were you disappointed?

Speaker 2: 1:00

I remember hearing that Chris Tucker's character wasn't going to be in it and then I kept on thinking how are they going to do that, like, how are they going to play that off? And then, like whenever it came out, I was like, oh wow, like the Day Day, characters showed up and showed out.

Speaker 1: 1:21

Yeah, you know it's crazy. I have to give credit to you know, Mike Epps, for really holding it down, because everybody had a lot of doubt.

Speaker 2: 1:29

A lot of people did, because a lot of people were stealing the Smokey character. That was a funny character.

Speaker 1: 1:34

I think. You know what, though In hindsight I think it made for credit for the first one. I think it made Smokey's character more iconic because he only had one movie and so sometimes when you just have that one it makes it more special versus the other two. And that's not to discredit Mike Epps. Mike Epps, he was kind of whining up in there his day-to-day because he was getting his ass whipped by his baby mama and shit and he was kind of like you know, I have to say Mike Epps was kind of like the punching bag he got it right.

Speaker 1: 2:03

Because I remember that scene where he got his ass whipped by his dad when he got fired from his job and he's trying to give him a hug. His dad's like what kind of shit.

Speaker 2: 2:11

Like what.

Speaker 1: 2:13

That fucking that Santa mask like that ball in his mouth. He's like what what? I'm more like dang, but I mean I love. I'll say this when I watch next Friday again. I'm not going to lie, bro. Honestly, it grew on me a little bit more than Friday. I actually kind of liked it.

Speaker 1: 2:34

I still love Friday, but you know you have some of those sequels where it's good, it's decent, but you kind of like, and then you get a little new watch again. You're like I're kind of feeling this one just a little bit more now, you know, versus the other one.

Speaker 2: 2:50

It was like it was kind of like there was more money thrown at the second one. They had more money left over to do the second one and they really went all out Like they got to go to Rancho Cucamonga.

Speaker 1: 2:59

Bro, the budget was nice, the casting I thought was excellent and I liked how we had more time with Craig's father and I like how you got to see his side of things when he's trying to get back up to Rancho Cucamonga.

Speaker 2: 3:15

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 3:17

So his son and he's having all that toilet issues. And then they had Stanley, yeah. He had a little cameo up in there, which was nice too. You don't want to be in there for a thing.

Speaker 2: 3:28

I don't know what happened.

Speaker 1: 3:31

I think it's one of those things when I definitely respect the Friday franchise. But I love Friday. Everybody knows that one. That's just a cult classic, I think, for an 80s stoner. But next Friday really kind of like I don't know, I was out there. They got something really nice. Look at women up in there too. And then the fight scene where he was fighting the little Mexican dude. Yeah, he said two milk duds, two milk duds. Yeah, golly, I can't believe I forgot his name.

Speaker 2: 4:05

Debo the actor who played Debo oh Prunes, terry Prunes. No Debo Tiny Lister.

Speaker 1: 4:15

This is the we Manage Poem and it was up in that damn dog Catcher vehicle that whole time. And what I thought was crazy too, they escaped prison Like no one noticed these guys in like orange jumpsuits running around, running around, running across the tracks, like and they was like riding that bike and everything.

Speaker 2: 4:35

I was jumpsuit riding the bike and he was like. Came to him running next to him, like, so can we even poke?

Speaker 1: 4:41

Like so I really do, I man. I gotta give Q credit, man. This dude is so talented for writing that it was good Like.

Speaker 2: 4:51

uh, it's in the group of like movies that the sequel could have almost been better or been up to par with the first one.

Speaker 1: 4:59

Yeah, because very few sequels even remotely come close.

Speaker 2: 5:03

Yeah, like usually like right whenever the sequel comes. The sequel's not any better than what the first one was. It's like alright.

Speaker 1: 5:10

I gotta say that's one of the few sequels I can say like you won't be disappointed. It might not live up to the first one, off of the shock value, because the first one was so iconic to come out when it did, but it's still a good like it kind of holds you over. You know what I mean? Yeah, and so let me ask you this for our second topic point has Next Friday crossed over 420 Culture? Like the original Friday, I don't think so.

Speaker 2: 5:41

A lot of people watched it. When that came out, a lot of people was going to go see that People was quoting different lines from the movie and talking about different scenes, like the scene when they were smoking at work.

Speaker 1: 5:55

Oh yeah, you had Pinky up in there. You know what? Now that you say that? Because I got to think about the scene where Craig he went to use the bathroom or some shit and then Pinky he was like he had that gun up.

Speaker 2: 6:15

Yeah, I had the gun up.

Speaker 1: 6:18

Oh, he was like you ain't got no gun when the weed at.

Speaker 2: 6:23

He was patting him down and shit like that.

Speaker 1: 6:25

And then then he was like what you in here for that crack, just looking like, because you think he was just going raw pinky huh, he's like uh, where did uh chris, or? Uh, I forgot the white dude's name. Uh, roach roach, I forgot the white dude's name, roach Roach Roach. They didn't Roach that, they didn't. My cousin, oh man.

Speaker 2: 6:47

It was just like that was funny. That was funny.

Speaker 1: 6:50

He kind of spit in his throat he was just no, no, even the part, bro, even the part where he pulls up in the limo, his driver, he goes look you know, whooping that turn is a little too hard. I told you about that shit.

Speaker 1: 7:08

He was like let's get it together. And then the driver's like whatever motherfucker, what are you doing? Whatever motherfucker, he did this to that yack and shit. And then Michael Blackson's cameo, like when he came up in there and he was like he was like this is, and then he had a lady of rage too. I was like whooping Dana's ass and shit.

Speaker 2: 7:38

No penalty and then just like that, because I was so dirty.

Speaker 1: 7:43

El Roy.

Speaker 2: 7:44

He's like El Roy.

Speaker 1: 7:47

Bro, that Okay see, it's almost like that now, and I think it's like refreshing, because next Friday still has to me more of those really hard, heavy moments that people kind of forget about.

Speaker 2: 8:02

Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1: 8:05

I'm really thinking about that shit Because you think about Friday, right, you think of the original. You always think about Debo whooping somebody's ass, the part where Chris he was up on the couch or Swanky's on the bed, and he's like hey. And then your dad comes in and he's like boy, why don't you take your ass home? Let's get him out of my house. He goes, damn what. You tell your bitch ass that and the shit, the fuck that nigga the cop was there and look like he got a bunch of spiders having a meeting on top of it and he's like hey, what you doing here?

Speaker 1: 8:42

And then Miss Parker and then Rest in Peace, burning Mac. I don't know that shit was funny.

Speaker 2: 8:49

I don't know, was it whenever he was in Pigeon Coup after?

Speaker 1: 8:56

oh yeah, it was like, and then you know it was yeah, but no, I mean next Friday. I think it had a little bit more, it was a little bit more serious yeah because that Mexican group across the street that they had beef with the whole damn time. Yeah, what was it? Because they were like sneaking in drugs. And I think it's funny because didn't the dad? He had to pay some mortgage, he was behind on something, because he spent all that lottery money.

Speaker 2: 9:33

Yeah, I don't remember what it was he was behind on.

Speaker 1: 9:37

I think it was like his mortgage or they were going to be put out because he was like behind and he goes like, well, how much money do you have left? He's like, oh, you know, day-day, I bought him a Beamer and this. I got about this much and then I was like I said his mic apps, I liked them in the movie, but he complained so much he was just not funny.

Speaker 1: 10:01

He was like he threw that roach on him and shit, he played too damn much. You know what I mean. He's like he said I hope she don gonna give you nothing. I hope she don't give you nothing.

Speaker 2: 10:19

I hope she don't.

Speaker 1: 10:21

He said nah, her mean ass brother. Then the dog like chasing him and shit, and then, uh, another cameo. We forgot about Michael Rapaport.

Speaker 2: 10:30

I played the mailman. He was like back to the ghetto. You go. And then the dog was chasing his ass and other shit. He was like back to the ghetto, you go. And then the dog was chasing his ass and other shit. He was like what are you a rapper?

Speaker 1: 10:40

He said wow, I wasn't expecting to see you. So he asked in the door so what are you like? An? Entertainer An athlete, I play for the crapper, some shit like that. Oh okay, well, I don't need you to bust a cap in my ass. Oh okay, well, I don't need you to bust a cap in my ass, oh shit. So what I think about Next Rider now, I think for me it eclipses. I think it's now if I had to say out of the franchise, I think I kind of prefer.

Speaker 2: 11:12

Like with me. I think they're equal. The reason why I say that is because both of them is completely of their time, like, if you think of Friday, everything that happened on Friday was completely of that time of like the 90s. It was like a staple. It was like, okay, yeah, I like this, this is good. Then when next Friday came out, it was completely of our time. It was like the throwback jerseys that Day Day was wearing.

Speaker 1: 11:44

I'll do it like this. I'll say, like this analogy, I can definitely see where you're coming from. I look at this Like Boys in the Hood, like Friday right, that kind of, because it kind of had somewhat of that not the gangbanger element in Friday but it kind of had that 90s, early 90s West Coast LA essence.

Speaker 1: 12:03

And then I would say next Friday is kind of like Baby Boy, like that 90s it was a little you know, because technically Boys in the Hood, the sequel was Baby Boy. A lot of people don't know that Baby Boy was technically the sequel of Boys in the Hood, the sequel was Baby Boy.

Speaker 1: 12:16

A lot of people don't know that Baby Boy was technically the sequel of Boys in the Hood because it was to showcase the 90s of that whole West Coast kind of game. You know what I mean, that type of era and stuff like that. So I kind of because you definitely see a lot more mid-late 90s in Next Friday versus Friday, you see a lot of that early, early 90s kind of because, if you think about it too, smokey's character could have been considered a crip with the blue, with the chucks. You know that's yeah.

Speaker 2: 12:49

I think so, I think it was the early 2000s or maybe maybe 99 or something like that.

Speaker 1: 12:54

I can't be for something I can look it up. I do want to go for 2000, because it did have what the swag was that? The colorful jerseys. You were right on the dot 2000 2000. No, I mean it was just Damn man. I remember when that was coming out and everybody was like so 2000. No, I mean it was just damn man. I remember when that was coming out and everybody was so happy.

Speaker 2: 13:21

Bro, is it?

Speaker 1: 13:21

gonna, because everybody was gonna compare it to the first one.

Speaker 2: 13:25

Is it better than the first one? Does it hold up to the first one? And what was so good about the Friday franchise is all three of the movies. People still talk about one. They talk about one together after the other. They like all three of the movies. People still talk about one. They talk about one together after the other. They were all good. They were all good in one way or another. Some people may hold some movies better than the others, but then in a whole, I believe the majority of people thought they were all good, no matter if they hold one above the other or not, but they can go back and watch either one of them and still be satisfied, still be entertained.

Speaker 1: 14:01

I agree, man. I feel like with Next Friday it's I'm not going to say it's a slept on classic. I just don't think it's as appreciated as Friday. When you talk about that whole series, that franchise, most people are just familiar, Not to say they forget about the other two. But Chris Tucker really liked Friday.

Speaker 2: 14:24

He did. But when Next Friday came out then there was a whole lot of focus on what was going on next Friday. They never forget the first original fight. Smokey was a very interesting character.

Speaker 1: 14:40

I had to say he was going to make that whole, Not to say the other people weren't talented.

Speaker 2: 14:45

Right, you were familiar with the two main characters being Craig and Smokey, and then Mike Epps had to really step up to the plate for the next one.

Speaker 2: 15:00

Chris Tucker wasn't going to be in that one and some people already heard this because it was already a rumor, so some people already heard that this was going to be the case, that chances are you ain't going to see Chris Tucker, you ain't going to see Smokey in this one, so it's probably not even going to be as good. And I mean Mike Yancey did such a great job as his character that people was like okay, I'm interested, I'm a little invested, like I kind of like this. And you know it went on to make Friday After Next.

Speaker 1: 15:29

Friday After Next is a classic too. I did like that one.

Speaker 2: 15:32

Yeah, what made that movie that I believe was Cat.

Speaker 1: 15:34

Williams. I was about to say that, bro. Yeah, cat Williams didn't make that. I completely agree with you. Cat Williams did like kill that shit.

Speaker 2: 15:41

That was like, like I think that's what got it. Like, oh wow, like I think that's what got people Because, like, if this character wasn't in the movie, it probably wouldn't have been good, but it wouldn't he was. It was like an introduction. Then they had a new version of Debo, which is played by Terry.

Speaker 1: 15:57

Crews. Yeah, because you know what's interesting, though I wish certain characters in those franchises could have crossed paths. I would have loved to see Big Worm come across, debo To see how that? Because I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 2: 16:15

From what I heard I don't know if it how that because I'm pretty sure really you know. From what I heard, I don't know if it's true, but I heard that like Ice Cube actually had a plan of making a Friday to where, like they were all in the same movie.

Speaker 1: 16:26

What Okay, I heard there was a moment he was going to bring it back. I heard that Chris Tucker didn't want to be a part of it. Yeah, chris Tucker didn't want to be a part of it.

Speaker 2: 16:35

But that's like he wanted to do a Friday movie, like a last Friday and like have it be like all the characters from all the different.

Speaker 1: 16:42

Fridays Damn bro.

Speaker 2: 16:43

Oh my God. But you know, chris Tucker didn't want to be a part of it and usually they say one monkey can't stop a moose shell. Yeah, that always true. Like there's certain movies like the character's so iconic that like you know what an iconic characters go and it makes it that much harder to really keep people's interest. It's kind of like the screen franchise. Uh, what's her name? Melissa borrera? Yeah, yeah, jenna ortega. Like there was like the like part of the main cast of characters and then now that they're gone, and then they said they got the person who played Sidney back, but then people are interested, but then they're like well, what are you going to do with it? Because you started this whole other story people got interested in with this whole other group of cast members, and now they're gone. So what are you going to do?

Speaker 1: 17:30

Yeah, it's like so. Would you, as a fan of the series, the franchise right? Would you want to see a Friday or would you want them to reboot it?

Speaker 2: 17:44

Or do you think they should just leave it alone? That's a hard one, because I think that they probably could do a Friday. Okay, like, depending on the writings there, they probably could do a. Still do a good Friday, like still figure something out especially being Best Cat Williams as part of the Bro.

Speaker 1: 18:00

As all y'all bleeks know, I have respect for Cat Williams. I just think right now because he's had so much controversy over the. Shea Shea interview where, like some people, like I know the actor who played Faison Love, he kind of had some smoke or was really upset with some of the things Cat Williams was exposing.

Speaker 2: 18:21

And.

Speaker 1: 18:21

I think Ice Cube addressed it too publicly or something like that, but I heard there was a woman like DC. Youngfly was supposed to play Smokey or be Smokey's son. They were supposed to have him.

Speaker 2: 18:34

This is what they wanted to happen. Still, Chris Tucker, he's not trying to do it. I think that's what kind of made it happen.

Speaker 1: 18:43

Love for Chris Tucker man, but let's be honest, Tucker's last raw Chris Tucker from back in the day was kind of like Rush Hour 1, Money Talks. That was the kind of last before I understand religious purposes. That was the kind of last, like before and I understand religious purposes. He wanted to change his image. I get it, but that was like the last Chris Tucker that we got, that real raw raw.

Speaker 2: 19:08

Dude I have like so hard to stomach. Yeah, he would say some crazy, some slick shit.

Speaker 1: 19:13

It's kind of like with like I respect this guy as a comedian and I get it when you get all deep and want to change your image. It's like I look at Chris Tucker almost like Eddie Murphy. Eddie Murphy hasn't really been that raw, raw 90s, like 80s, you know what I mean. He'd really be saying some slick shit. That's like the comedy right now.

Speaker 2: 19:32

That's like the comedy that's considered underground. It's like a problem you consider underground Nowadays. You gotta be a little clean With it Politically correct and you can't say nothing. Yeah, comedy doesn't make you Laugh as hard as what it used to.

Speaker 1: 19:48

And it's like you and I. It's just like how you and I discussed With like Harry Spears that interview in the Breakfast Club, like how he addressed like Comedy's just not what it once was without being cancelled for speaking your mind and I hate to say it, but I haven't really seen. I think like the last comedies out here have to be associated with some type of stoner aspect, because I don't see comedies in general, like I love 420 movies but I feel, like 420 movies are the real last bit of comedy relief that you get.

Speaker 2: 20:18

Yeah Well, it is rumored that they're trying to bring back a scary movie now.

Speaker 1: 20:25

Okay.

Speaker 2: 20:27

That would be good but, like the conversation we was having, they can get rid of one person or two people. If they're one of the main characters, then the movie just doesn't work. It's harder to make it work. If it does work, it's never hold up to what the first movie did with that character. Another example of this is if they got a scary movie and it's not the Waynes.

Speaker 1: 20:49

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 20:52

They made the movie Ray Ray and what's his name?

Speaker 1: 20:57

Smokey also no it wasn't, it was Ray Ray, and oh, I gotta look it up because it was something it was kind of along those lines because oh, obviously scary movie, yes, the original Shorty, yeah Shorty it was, yeah, shorty, ray, ray and Shorty, like those characters, was funny as I don't know bro, that yeah.

Speaker 2: 21:26

Shorty, that was just like. Oh was funny as hell, bro, that shit. Yeah, shorty, that was just like a whole thing.

Speaker 1: 21:28

Oh my God, I don't know, you know honestly I feel like if they could do a movie right, if they could have Shorty, the original Smokey Chris Tucker, like the original Smokey Cat Williams, like in some type of like Crazy Stoner world movie comp, like just those three or something like that, and Mike Epps, mike Epps' character Bro, that shit would be crazy to see.

Speaker 2: 21:51

That'd be wild. He probably did the premise for a new Friday.

Speaker 1: 21:55

Bro, oh my god, we're already thinking because we're seeing and I'm sure you blinks know we're seeing some of the craziest crossovers and franchises ever.

Speaker 1: 22:05

If the Fast and Furious franchise. You put all these crazy actors and wrestlers from different movies. There was a rumor saying they were going to have Transformers in Fast and Furious. I actually believe that shit too, because I said, well, shit, they brought Jason Statham from the Transporter in there and all these other people. You know the stoner world needs to do that. They need to be like hey, let's get Debo Big Water all the hooters all in one stoner movie, and let's just make this shit happen.

Speaker 2: 22:34

Yeah, but the ultimate stoner movie it would be. It would be a hit For your 420 people. Friendly people in places where it's not legal, where you're having CBD day. Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, you know, and another move for Yacht Enjoy, they come out with that.

Speaker 1: 22:51

And it's crazy because it's only a matter of time before they legalize it everywhere. But I know all the bleaks out there. I again, when I became older and got out the service, my 420 experience for the very first time was when I was 26. I had some sour OG from Cali, my homeboy. He put me on with it and I never forgot. I hit a blunt and I didn't realize. A blunt creeps up on you Like a joint. It's not instant, so I'm just hitting that shit. You know you think you have an idea.

Speaker 1: 23:21

Well, as a person who was not into the stone world at that time, I thought I had an idea of what feeling high would be. You know what I mean. And then I remember yeah, yeah. So I should kind of have an idea of what that experience is like. Right? So, bro, I'm hitting this shit. And then I'm just chilling. I'm like man, this shit weak. By 20 minutes later I started feeling like uh-oh, uh-oh, okay, something feels a little different, like just calm down, it's okay. And then when they said the creeper knot and I was like walking all crazy, he's like oh shit, bro, you hit that blood too hard. I was like I said yeah, man. But then, once the high came down, bro I was. Music sounded better, like everything tasted better, everything was just, it was its own point. And for the bleaks out here, you're all going to laugh at me. All right, it was my very first time getting high.

Speaker 1: 24:12

I'm in Maryland, northeast Maryland. I'm driving back to Newcastle, delaware, right, I'm off of South DuPont Highway. It's a straight shot, it's 40 minutes, that's all it is, so my eyes are blushing. I'm riding. It is so my eyes are blushing. Right, I'm high and I'm driving. It's really dark at night and then it just so happens.

Speaker 2: 24:33

There was a cop behind me.

Speaker 1: 24:33

He flashed his lights and I'm like, oh shit. I said I cannot believe this. I had all the time, my first time ever, getting high, and I'm about to get pulled over and get a ticket, bro all of it. And I'm doing the speed limit, I'm not swerving nothing, and all of a sudden he just goes around me he speeds off right at the job, was through the room and I was like, oh shit, we good so I just like hit the seat back and I put on like some music and everything and then that was my you know, uh, first time really getting exposed to 420.

Speaker 1: 25:05

And I really think about. It was one of my favorite songs from Snoop Dogg and I think it's off of Blue Carpet Treatment or golly. You basically gotta forgive me. I know you're probably doing the shit for this right now. Now I gotta look up the album, but you know because it was, but Cause it was. I think it was Blue Carpet Treatment and it was. Oh yeah, shout out to Snoop, cause I know he's Having a good ass time, cause it is 420 time.

Speaker 2: 25:39

So yeah, you know, he's been celebrating 420 ever since March.

Speaker 1: 25:44

Yeah, Him and Wiz. So yeah, it was called the Blue Carpet Treatment and oh, the song was called I Missed that Bitch and it was one of my favorite songs from him. Just because he talked about the way he rapped in that song, you really thought he was talking about a woman.

Speaker 2: 26:03

You're right.

Speaker 1: 26:04

You know what I mean, and he goes. I remember I was like like 14, you know, uh, the first time I hooked up with her yeah, one time I took the hit and I couldn't stop tripping.

Speaker 1: 26:14

And then you know what I'm not, you know. And then my mama got mad because I couldn't, you know, leave her. And he's, you know, you really think he's talking about a woman. He's talking about the first time. He got high like it goes like I'm passing around let my homeboy take the air. It goes like you're driving me crazy, you know what I mean. And then he tried to Credit to Snoop. I don't know why he tried to. I know it wasn't going to last long. Rappers sometimes go through phases and shit. You remember he was on his Rastafarian trip. Oh yeah, snoop Lion, right, he did that Even before that. Right, he did that. I didn't. Even before that he did where he was signed to, uh, no limit, and he had that one down south album or whatever like that.

Speaker 2: 26:54

And then he had that time where he actually was trying to stop smoking weed for just like a small window a little bit and then, like on his uh comedy show, he was showing an example of like how it really went down and then he said I stopped smoking.

Speaker 1: 27:09

on Twitter he put some shit out there recently.

Speaker 2: 27:12

Everybody really thought he was advertising smoking some shit like that Smoke is fire.

Speaker 1: 27:20

I said yo when he said that in that song, I thought about that moment where he did say yo, I can't You're driving me crazy, baby right now anything. But I will admit this I've had some strains of bud that I still never forget to this day, good and bad. Good and bad Like, as you know, 420 Advocate. As myself, there have been some strains where I was like you know what Once was enough, never again. But then when I lived out in LA, that sobered my ass. La butt, cali butt sobered me to the point where I was like what I thought was cool on the East Coast I was missing the East Coast butt because it was so mild in comparison. And I know in Oklahoma they have to have some good.

Speaker 2: 28:11

Oklahoma. I'm sure they got it. Oklahoma is crazy, Bro, like they got all those expenses. Yeah, it's wild because, like I think about places where it's illegal and everything, and I think to myself that that's kind of tricky because, if you think about it, they got CBD that looks like actual weed. So then, like if you wasn't trying to arrest somebody over marijuana, how are you going to know it's not CBD, like that's? Like that's a tricky situation.

Speaker 1: 28:39

And they even have hybrid strains. I've smoked some where it's literally like a 50, it is like a 50-50 between a cross between weed and cbd. Yeah it, it doesn't get you ass.

Speaker 2: 28:50

I don't have different rat like ratios, yeah like uh, like they do it like in numbers, like take the one, or like yeah, yeah, it's like a certain ratio, they call it something eight, yeah, eight or something like that yeah yeah, well, I've heard delta eight can get you.

Speaker 1: 29:08

Your joe is pretty there yeah, yeah, they extract like certain thc chemicals, but it won't get you hot.

Speaker 2: 29:16

Yeah, certain, I guess, elements that uh, I guess is illegal. I don't know how you would work that, but I think I'll start the elements uh oh well.

Speaker 1: 29:26

Well, let me ask you this, and we addressed this a little bit, but we'll kind of come back to it just for a little bit.

Speaker 2: 29:40

Overall, did Mike Epps reach your expectations the way Chris Tucker did in his absence for this movie he actually went above my expectations. I didn't think the movie was going to be that good at all because you know Chris Tucker's character wasn't going to be in it, but it ended up being a good movie in it's own right. It was real good. I was anticipating part 3 whenever that came out yeah, okay.

Speaker 1: 30:01

So what about? I would say this I think he definitely exceeded my expectations. I have a lot of respect for Mike Epps for that movie, for sure. I think I kind of preferred him in the third one, friday After Nights.

Speaker 2: 30:19

I think his character was more like really, because he went from complaining to like just doing wild shit because, like by the time part three came, they probably got to more of an understanding of how his characters were played out.

Speaker 1: 30:34

And then the chemistry, I felt like, was a little bit better too. In the third one there would be roommates and all that other shit. You know what I mean.

Speaker 2: 30:43

Yeah, right back in the hood.

Speaker 1: 30:45

They did yeah, they did Okay. So let me ask you this who was your favorite character in Next Friday?

Speaker 2: 30:55

Oh, I would have to say Dan, okay, the reason why is because he was somebody who was stepping into Chris Tucker's shoes Not exactly stepping into his shoes, but somebody that you had to put in there to make people not forget but be satisfied with. Okay, this could work, I'm cool with this. And they did it with Mike Epps' character. So then I would have to say Mike Epps there's other characters I thought was interesting. I liked Baby Joker and all the other stuff. I liked that whole setup and how they did that. But then the fact that Day Day was basically like the new homeboy that you was going to see with Craig's character and he stepped into that role and then like people. When she's seen him as that role, I would have to say he's my favorite, even though I did like Kim, oh yeah.

Speaker 1: 31:54

I'll say damn.

Speaker 2: 31:56

If.

Speaker 1: 31:57

I had to choose my number one in that movie. Probably, who had me laughing, probably going to say Elroy, elroy was a trip bro. The part where he I don't give a fuck, I don't give a fuck, I don't give a fuck. And the part where he was getting high on the couch and he passed out. Yeah, he's like and then he whooped in his ass when he got fired and shit I don't know. Then he walked out. He goes like he said he went to the pool. There was like that used car, Used car.

Speaker 2: 32:34

And he's like get in the car. He was in the back yard.

Speaker 1: 32:48

He fucked up his back. What you doing right here. He goes I lost my mom and I'm not okay. And he goes like damn, you mean around them dogs too damn. He starts thinking like you still got your illegal cable or associate, because they used to banter back and forth, but I did like their banter. In the third one where he says what was it? Willie said my dick is bigger than yours, it was cold. I was like you're wrong, this should not be wrong. But he said it was cold that night. Oh my God, man. Okay, so final talking point All right, so if next Friday was a strain of bud, how many puffs on a scale of one to five would you have to take a hit before you pass it? Five, five, okay. Why is that?

Speaker 2: 33:42

Because it raised above my expectations. Really, first and foremost, it completely exceeded it. I thought that Michael Epps did a good job of playing his character to where you're just like, okay, well, smokey's not there, but I can still just sit and relax and watch this movie and it's still funny within its own right. So, yeah, that's why I would have to give it a full five.

Speaker 1: 34:05

I agree with you A full five puffs. This is a movie that I still love, the very first one, but it's eclipsed the first one for me now, just because I think it has funnier aspects to me now Because I think Friday has been. It's so embedded in us for a 20 culture. Everybody knows who's going to say what feel like next Friday. There was some scenes that we kind of forgot that when we go back over the movie I'm like, oh shit.

Speaker 1: 34:31

I forgot how funny that was you know what I mean like. And then another part too.

Speaker 2: 34:36

I think about the part where they gave the dog that brownie and the dog was like, and Roach was laying there with the dog and shit like it was just those minor things, or the part with Miss Ho where they were like trying to say I'm Korean moron or that Chinese bitch like yeah, they used to always get into it and shit. So, so sorry you got to go, miss Ho. So that's it, motherfucker that shit.

Speaker 1: 35:06

She used to always give a shit.

Speaker 2: 35:11

Because I remember he tried to dab her shit. Hey, hey.

Speaker 1: 35:15

And then Craig. She's like hey, craig, you cool as a daddy. Hey Yo that yo Next Friday. It was it so Leaks. Sorry about the absence, you know. Happy 420 to all you know. Be safe, you know.

Speaker 2: 35:35

Enjoy y'all still.

Speaker 1: 35:36

Enjoy yourselves, and I'll be like I don't give a damn how high you get. You know, Everyone gets their head some and you know, until next time, you know, be safe there, leakers.