FMC 185: Creepshow Directed by George A. Romero

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This episode of Filmmaker Commentary George A. Romero's 1982 horror anthology film, "Creepshow", exploring its budget, critical reception, stylistic choices, and enduring influence on the horror genre, alongside current showbiz news and streaming service model discussions.

Introduction and Film Details
Reginald Titus Jr.: Filmmaker Commentary episode 185. Welcome to Filmmaker Commentary, where we cover movies with commentaries from directors who take the time to record them on Blu-ray and DVDs. We also give our detailed insights, so look out for spoilers. We discuss the latest in showbiz news along with movies and TV shows that we've been watching. So join Reginald Titus Jr., that's me, and Casey G. Smith, that's me, every week here on Filmmaker Commentary.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yo, yo, welcome to another episode of Filmmaker Commentary. I'm Reginald Titus Jr., I'm joined with Casey G. Smith. Welcome back, sir.
Casey G. Smith: Good to be back, sir.
Reginald Titus Jr.: And today we're talking about Creepshow, 1982, directed by George Romero, written by Stephen King. What was the budget and box office for this film?
Casey G. Smith: So the Creepshow came in at an $8 million budget, which was pretty hefty for its time and its genre, and it ended up worldwide grossing $21 million.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Not too bad.
Casey G. Smith: No, sir, not too bad at all.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay, that's a win. Did it win, oh, and I know it was in the 80s or whatever, did they kind of track the international or did they just kind of lumped it as whatever?
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, that's just the US and worldwide are the same.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay, got it.
Casey G. Smith: But that can't be fully accurate because I saw posters for, they this thing did drop in other countries because they show on the DVD and Blu-rays, like they've got images of the posters that were for the other countries.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Shame. Shame. Shame.
Casey G. Smith: And we know also like with um Evil Dead, they probably, you know, maybe pre-sold some rights in some of these other territories, so...
Reginald Titus Jr.: I think the producer actually breaks down how that deal went down, which I'll kind of talk about in a little bit in the business section. But what was like the sentiment and did it win any awards?
Casey G. Smith: So no major awards were won for Creepshow. It was nominated for the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for Best Poster Art and by the Saturn Awards for Best Horror Film. But it did not win. As far as the sentiment at the time, I pulled an excerpt from a review by one of the late great Roger Ebert from 1982. Um, I want to say this was like in January of 1982. But it says, the original full name of EC Comics was Educational Comics. And you get an education all right. You learn it was unwise to stick your hand in a box labeled Dangerous, Do Not Open. It was unwise to speak ill of the dead, and it was quite unwise to assume that cockroaches would never decide to gang up and fight back.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yikes.
Casey G. Smith: But he had, he had a pretty positive review of Creepshow. He gave a shout out to George Romero and Stephen King in terms of their the care they gave to the genre, and he, he understood clearly that the characters, while not necessarily three-dimensional, but more so like they're kind of objects in kind of face lessons that they experience. And he says, and they often deserve what they get.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, so it was a pretty, pretty, it was a cool little review.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay. Okay.
Casey G. Smith: But it's gone on to become, this is like a fan favorite, kind of a cult. Not, I don't even say a cult hit. It did, it did well for its time and it's spun off a lot of the, a lot of the anthology horror movies that came after it like Tales from the Darkside, came, came because of...
Reginald Titus Jr.: I mean, how can we not mention Tales from the Crypt?
Casey G. Smith: Tales from the Crypt, yes, sir.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Like, come on. That's like, like a better version, right? It's almost, you got the the Skeletor, you know, got a little bit more budget there.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, but it all, yeah, but it all builds off the the back of Creepshow.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah, it's cool to see an origin story where everybody kind of got their idea from.
Casey G. Smith: Yes, sir.

Showbiz News and What We've Been Watching
Reginald Titus Jr.: Um, but before we talk further about Creepshow, let's talk about TV, news and movies watched.
Casey G. Smith: All right, so in the news, according to actually I'm going to, I'm going to hit a couple of headlines first, just to kind of real brief touch on some headlines. I'm not going to dive into then I'll dive into a couple of actual stories. Because there was a couple things that caught my eye. So one is that, according to Deadline, Usher is to headline Super Bowl, Oh, I got to get my Roman numerals here down. LV I I I, 58, is that right? L is 50, right?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Hey, don't get me lying.
Casey G. Smith: Super Bowl 58. Yeah. Usher is to headline Super Bowl 58 halftime show in Las Vegas.
Reginald Titus Jr.: It's always funny, it's like, why are we doing this? Like, tradition.
Casey G. Smith: Let, yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Give us numbers now.
Casey G. Smith: Give us what it is.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Everybody's got to use their brains for once a year.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, I was like, the L, okay, the L is 50. The V is a five, and then the little the little dots, the I is.
Reginald Titus Jr.: You either add or take away.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, the ads are the ones that they go after. If they are to the right of the number, you're adding. Roman math. But yeah, so that, I thought that was worth mentioning. And oh, and this one I thought was just fascinating. Wheel of Fortune under new host Ryan Seacrest reveals what will change. That's also according to Deadline.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Seacrest, I forgot about Seacrest. Like, he's still killing it. Business mogul with that stuff, with TV.
Casey G. Smith: He finds a way, man. He finds a way from, well, he was your host, started off hosting American Idol back in the day. Then he had his, he has his own like radio show, like for the longest.
Reginald Titus Jr.: And he's also like a major producer on these TV shows. Like, he can hire himself, so it's very interesting how he, he's figured it out.
Casey G. Smith: Then he was co-hosting with Kelly Ripa on, oh yeah, that was one, the morning show that they, Reginald's giving, speaking of Romans, Reginald's giving a thumbs down.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Thumbs down.
Casey G. Smith: What say ye?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Off with their head.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: I mean, when you get used to Michael Strahan being on there, and his vibe with Kelly, it's like, they had like good charisma. Strahan's always entertaining. Yeah. And then you have Ryan Seacrest, and it was just like, it was a little awkward. It was just at times it was just a little awkward. It's like, ah, next, you know, next channel.
Casey G. Smith: Now she's got her hubby on there. So, nonetheless. Haven't seen that one. I've seen clips, yes, like her husband now is the co-host. That's been maybe for the past, I don't know how much time, maybe, maybe it's been a year, I don't know, but I've just seen some clips here and there, but you know, so okay, cool. Someone you know you got to keep with. But they're making it work.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Officially.
Casey G. Smith: Officially. So speaking officially, official story is by Variety, and it's that Invincible creator Robert Kirkman wants the animated series to run for seven to eight seasons. That would be enough to cover the entire comic, in quote.
Reginald Titus Jr.: The Invisible?
Casey G. Smith: Invincible.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Ooh, hello.
Casey G. Smith: Robert Kirkman, the creator of the Invincible comic series, believes seven to eight seasons of the animated superhero show would be enough to cover the scope of its story. I'm trying to not pin down a number because it's somewhat of a moving target. I think that seven to eight season range seems like it would be enough, Kirkman said in a recent interview with Polygon. But there could be some things we move through a little faster and some things that we expand. If we're fortunate enough to go for a good long time, I think that would be enough to cover the entire comic.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That's dope. Do it. Do it. Whoever's responsible for giving them the money, give it.
Casey G. Smith: Yes, sir. And then the last story that I'll cover is according to IndieWire as well. Studios give best and final offer to WGA. Response expected Sunday. Sunday as in the as as of the time of this recording. And it says negotiations between the WGA and the AMPTP have ended for the day on Saturday with the studios offering the writers guild what a source has described as their latest, best and final offer, and which the WGA will now review. It's expected that the guild will respond by tomorrow, which would be today, ahead of the Jewish holiday beginning at sundown on Sunday.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Oh my God.
Casey G. Smith: After three straight days of talks in which the Hollywood CEOs were in the room, both sides on Saturday brought in lawyers to finalize the deal language of a new three-year contract, considered the last step in the home stretch in negotiations. On Saturday, just two major deal points remained unsettled, with some reports suggesting that the contract specifics around AI protections were among the sticking points.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Drama.
Casey G. Smith: Yes, sir. So, who knows, maybe, I don't know, maybe today come to a deal before, I guess, as of this time, if they're in California, probably sun, it's getting close to sundown over there as of this recording. But we shall see.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah, man. Yeah, I wonder what that's going to look like. I don't think there's a deal that it always feels like they want more and the studios are going to give less. It's just the nature of what streaming is right now.
Casey G. Smith: These writers say that they're better than the Temptations, the Four Tops, put together. What? We shall see.
Reginald Titus Jr.: We shall see. Oh man, he sent them up for failure.
Casey G. Smith: Give it up for the Five Heartbeats.
Reginald Titus Jr.: They messing up my song, they messing up my song.
Casey G. Smith: Whenever I say we shall see, my mind automatically goes to that scene every time. What? We shall see.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Hey, get off my back, man. Ah man.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Man, what you've been watching?
Casey G. Smith: Uh, I took in a couple of things. We we had a little bit of a little extra time to to get a little extra stuff. Well, actually one bit of news that I won't pull from a specific source, but so I I watched the show Winning Time on Max, which is the one about the Lakers Dynasty. One of my favorite shows. I freaking love Winning Time. It's not 100% historically accurate. It is, it is kind of highly dramatized. But it's mad entertaining.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay.
Casey G. Smith: And so they just wrapped up the second season, and the series is canceled. I'm like, ah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Why? I thought that was getting good ratings. Maybe because of the strike.
Casey G. Smith: Well, they say that ultimately in this new streaming era, it's not about ratings. It's about does it bring new subscribers? That's ultimately what it boils down to for streaming services.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah. Yeah.
Casey G. Smith: Because they spend all this money to, you know, develop it and make it and it's not getting necessarily add revenue per se. So, it's about, can, does the, does the show bring in another audience that causes people to want to subscribe to the service? I'm like, uh.
Reginald Titus Jr.: The movie, the model, and other people have spoke on this. I wish I could remember what professional say that. But base the streaming model is broken. Yeah. Uh because you have put a value. You know, there used to be like a flat rate to to watch something, you know, you pay with your time, you see advertisements, you pay with a subscription, and you know, whatever, but when you try to bundle everything together, like really, really, really, really devalue it. So it was like, everybody's expecting a million movies for $4.99 a month, you know, and it's.
Casey G. Smith: But also to base to base the the validity of a show or movie on whether or not it causes new subscribers to come through. It's like, well, you probably already have a chunk, yeah, you probably have a chunk of that population based on some other similar property that's already on your platform.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah. And so and then if you're if you're targeting like, for example, the US market, there's a cap there, you know, there's only so many people that are willing to to subscribe to, IE Netflix.
Casey G. Smith: And as you bring in more platforms, that divides up kind of like, I mean, kind of what what it, it's kind of like what it was with the cable companies. Before before Disney Plus, Netflix was the game in town. Hulu had some stuff, but Netflix was the game. Yep. Disney Plus comes in, that that brings some disruption. You know, now you got Paramount Plus doing their thing. And also, oh sorry, I don't want to forget Amazon. Amazon was doing their thing, too.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Oh yeah. Probably the best way, too.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. But it's, you know, one thing that, uh, because I remember a couple of weeks ago, I turned on my Spectrum cable and a message popped up that says, you know, we're, you know, in negotiations with Disney and they they decided to pull all their channels from our programming. I was like, that's okay, interesting. That mean like ABC and ESPN. I was like, okay. But then within a week, they had like resolved the thing. They said, you know, send a, they said send a message to Disney. All right, cool, fine, whatever. I'll send a message. And they got it all worked out where apparently now, with certain Spectrum packages, of course, you'll have your the regular Disney channels like any other Spectrum member, but now also you'll be able to get access to Disney Plus as well. And that Disney will get like ad, you'll get the commercial version of Disney Plus. Okay. But Disney will also get like, they'll get that, like they'll get that ad revenue, too. So it's super fascinating to see. I'm like, that's interesting. But it's kind of kind of bucks the model. So I don't know, that's, it's going to be an interesting development to see how how that rolls and what that looks like with other companies in the future because it is, yeah, a bit of a broken model.
Reginald Titus Jr.: So it's so going all the way back, basically, TV show is canceled because they're looking for new subscribers. But potentially the subscriber, I don't know if that's a good argument. It's like, I.
Casey G. Smith: I agree. I don't, I don't, I don't agree with the argument. But I don't know what other metric they're going to they're going to use to, I don't know, how they're going to just to justify it. But I know that not every new show is bringing just a bunch of new subscribers, and I, yeah, I'm like they, I don't know, it's.
Reginald Titus Jr.: I don't, there's very rarely on all of these streaming services that I pull out my money to subscribe for a specific show. And then cancel out. I know people do that for like Game of Thrones, certain things like that, but very rarely have I done that.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, I don't know that I, the only thing I would do that with would maybe be like an anime kind of channel. If there was a season of something I wanted to just watch, I would do that with like an anime channel 'cause there's only, there's very few anime shows that I watch that I I enjoy. And would they count that is, like some of the data could be misleading because would they, would I count as a new subscriber? But then what about when I leave? So, is retention important?
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, they they want that consistent, well, they want the consistent revenue, but they also want, they want the new subscriber to bring the consistent revenue. Right. That's what, that's what they want ultimately. But I don't know, but there is a cap, right? It's it's it's super finite. Versus the kind of the pay pay per option. I don't know, man. It's.
Reginald Titus Jr.: I think the best model for streaming is free. Honestly.
Casey G. Smith: Oh, is a freemium like with just bringing the ad revenue? Basically like cable then?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah. Absolutely. I think that's the best model. Um, there's a reason why like places like Tubi, Pluto and all those places.
Casey G. Smith: Free V. I can't lie, you know, when I watch my stuff on Free V, I mean, I when I watch Dallas on Free V, I know the commercials are coming. I'm like, all right. It is what it is. But I, but.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That's the cost, right?
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. Yeah. Nonetheless, so. Man, it might it might be just the big experiment that once it got oversaturated with too many competitors, that may be kind of what, I don't know, maybe what killed it or or taking some of the things that that big high-end blockbusters and putting them on there with where the where the cost isn't mitigated by it going into the theaters. I think that may be kind of be one of the things like, you know, with Disney Plus, some of these shows, some pretty big budgets to see the effects, even some of these Netflix shows. You know, I talked about Extraction 2. That is not a small budget film. And they have several like Ryan, or Ryan Reynolds's action movie he had on there. Um, uh, Gal Gadot, The Rock and, yeah, I remember what the, that that, the Red Red Notice. Like those are kind of, those are high-end like blockbuster movies and they're just dropping on on Netflix, you know, those cost millions of dollars to make. And there's not a lot of new subscribers coming to Netflix. Netflix has been around long enough. If you're on it, you're on it or, you know, maybe you're on a subscription and now, you know, they're trying to like, hey, all right, you know, got to sign up for your own or whatever, but.
Reginald Titus Jr.: I wonder, I haven't been keeping up with that part, like cuz I actually haven't really been on Netflix and since they made that switch. Right. Uh, yeah, I haven't been, I mean, been busy with other things, but like out of all the subscription models and things that watch, I think YouTube has my attention more than any of these platforms.
Casey G. Smith: I got to agree. I watch a lot of YouTube.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah.
Casey G. Smith: I watch a lot of YouTube.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That's like, like kind of like a daily thing. Like, in my opinion, I think YouTube has kind of replaced what television was. Like the attention is there, kind of plays in the background or whatever. Um, when you want to watch something intentional, okay, I'm going to go to a blockbuster and get this movie. But instead of us going to blockbuster, we're going to Netflix, or we're going to whatever to watch that movie, then come back to YouTube.
Casey G. Smith: And even at times on YouTube, I mean, obviously they got they have YouTube TV where you can subscribe to that. But they also got, you know, movies you can rent directly on YouTube for reasonable prices. So it's I don't know, it's interesting. But nonetheless, so we'll see.
Reginald Titus Jr.: It's fine.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, we'll see, we'll see what happens. Um, but so yeah, I've been watching Winning Time. I finished, I finished that second season and I'm sad to see it, sad to see it go. But I even before I heard the news, I knew it was over, just by the way the the way it ended and just some of the post-credit information that was showing on the screen. I'm like, oh crap, they're ending the show. I just knew I was like, dang it, that's, ah, that's frustrating.
Reginald Titus Jr.: No closure. No closure after it.
Casey G. Smith: Just with the the verbage was the closure, like, okay. Because it went on to talk about more of the history between the Laker, I'm like, crap. They're telling all this, yeah, this is done. This show is done. And they they obviously added this in towards the last edits. All right, put that on there. It's over. And then I saw the official article, I was like,
Reginald Titus Jr.: Uh. You know.
Casey G. Smith: Like, all right.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Man. So yeah, I've been watching that. What about you?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Um, we watched, um, me and my son, actually the whole family, watched Friday Night Lights, the movie. It's been a while. Watched that one. Um, there's a lot of lessons to be learned in sports films. Yes, sir. Uh, and this one in particular, dealing with high school, I got a high school kid and he's and he has a hurt knee right now. And so, him seeing the character of Boobie in Friday Night Lights, kind of gave some teaching points. Cuz my son wanted to go out and play. He has a hurt knee, still wants to go out there and play. I was like, uh, you know what? Let's watch this film.
Casey G. Smith: Son, sit down. Let's watch this film. Take a beat. Yes.
Reginald Titus Jr.: And like, you know, that was, that was, that was cool to like watch that game and then see like how this this town was Abilene, you know, from Abilene, and then we see the, the background of the, the Carter High guys from Dallas, that clash of race in the 80s. It was like, man, this is, this is pretty good. I forgot about how good this one was.
Casey G. Smith: We covered Friday Night Lights during our football run of films.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yes, we did. Absolutely.
Casey G. Smith: We covered, it's kind of mixed in my mind with.
Reginald Titus Jr.: We we that one, Any Given Sunday, Gridiron Gang.
Casey G. Smith: Uh-huh. Uh, Remember the Titans.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That one was a good one. That one right there is a good one.
Casey G. Smith: We also, there's another one that we did, right? Or maybe I'm thinking, I guess it is Friday Night Lights. Did we do uh, the funny one? Um.
Reginald Titus Jr.: No, we didn't, I don't remember any comical football movies.
Casey G. Smith: Oh, what's, what's that one? It's, oh, I can't think of the name of it.
Reginald Titus Jr.: With Adam Sandler, one of those?
Casey G. Smith: No, but it it it's it's it's a funnier one, but it's it's it's but it it's.
Reginald Titus Jr.: The Longest Yard?
Casey G. Smith: No, it it it's it's it's it's the youngsters. It came out in the 90s. And these are younger guys.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Oh, the Giants? The little kids? The little Giants?
Casey G. Smith: No, these are, they're high school students. Varsity Blues.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Oh, Vanderbeak. Yeah, we didn't, we didn't cover that one.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, we didn't, we didn't cover that one. No, we didn't, yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Was that one good?
Casey G. Smith: It's, it's, it's been so long. It's it's it's a 90s, it's a 90s film. Yeah, it's a, it's a 90s film.
Reginald Titus Jr.: You never saw it?
Casey G. Smith: Man, maybe in passing. Only the only thing I remember is the little short stocky guy that was in Entourage and uh, and Boiler Room. Um, remember him being in, he was like the crazy guy in Varsity Blues. Then you had the big guy, big fella and Vanderbeak. That's all I remember. Just their some of their antics. I don't remember nothing else.
Casey G. Smith: I think it, it might be interesting to to revisit if we decided to do a football run again cuz there's some other football films worth tackling. No pun intended. Haha.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Haha.
Casey G. Smith: Um, so it was cool to to watch that film and then did you see that injury that Nick Chubb went through?
Reginald Titus Jr.: I don't even know who Nick Chubb is.
Casey G. Smith: He's one of the best running backs in NFL for the Browns. And he's a big old stocky dude. Like he's hard to bring down. So people go for his legs.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Of course.
Casey G. Smith: So in the NFL, because of all the CTE, concussion protocol and all that stuff, people, as you notice, like they've changed their tackling style. They just lunge at your legs now.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah.
Casey G. Smith: They don't wrap up or anything. So somebody cut him from the side, snapp.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Oh, no, more than caught. Uh, I want to say his right leg was planted. Right leg planted. Two big guys on the defensive line. One smashing him this way, the other one smashing his leg the other way.
Casey G. Smith: Oh gosh.
Reginald Titus Jr.: And this guy is a, like, he is a big strong dude. Like his legs, it's hard to bring him down cuz he can like, I think squat like 800 lbs, six or 800 lbs this guy can do. You know, so just kind of give you an idea how big his legs are. And like, man, and and and on top of that, people don't want to pay running backs. Even like elite, he's an elite running back.
Casey G. Smith: Cause their lifespan is short.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah, so like, uh, it's kind of, it's a hard way to make a living. It's kind of it's it's messed up. Like some of the best running backs aren't getting, they just run them out the three years of their rookie contract and just kind of throw them throw them to the wayside. So, but now and to compensate for that, a lot of people are doing like running back by committee where you have like three or four running backs and you just keep you just rotate them out. So one person isn't.
Casey G. Smith: Take it last a little bit longer and you don't have to.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Dude, that's what we're doing in Cowboys. But anyhow, on top of him seeing that like knee incident, it's kind of opened up his eyes a little bit. He's like, okay, this ain't. Yeah, it was, it was gross, man. It was so bad that, uh, they didn't show the replay. Uh, I think that was Monday Night Football, if I'm not mistaken. And they didn't show the replay, but you, you heard the crowd react to the replay in the stadium. They're like, oh! And then they didn't show it online, I mean, on TV, which I'm agree, you know, they they're getting better at this stuff cuz I mean, you should, you see blood coming out of people's face and all that stuff. I remember like, you see some jacked up stuff. Now they just cut to commercial. Somebody's almost dead, but you would never know cuz you're watching.
Casey G. Smith: Kind of, kind of, kind of grow, or it's kind of, you know, there's a level of, there's you know, sports by and large is supposed to be, you know, family friendly entertainment. Yeah. So a gruesome injury. Yeah, that could be drawing or scarring. Not only for young ones, even for older ones, you know, or triggering. Yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: And it kind of just breaks the magic of it's just all, they're all okay. It's like, no. You don't realize what these people are doing for your entertainment. Kind of like the like with the wrestling stuff, but listening to some more stuff about wrestlers, like uh Kurt Angle, is that his name? Yeah, Kurt Angle. Talking about like how he broke his neck so many times and like after after originally breaking it in in the Olympics.
Casey G. Smith: Dude, just like. But yeah, also then the drugs.
Reginald Titus Jr.: All for our entertainment. Yeah.
Casey G. Smith: And often they're, you know, performing hurt. That's uh, it's nuts.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Absolutely. So anyhow, um, Friday Night Lights, good film. Check it out. A lot of lessons in there.
Casey G. Smith: Okay. I watched a a movie on Hulu called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Hm, is it animation?
Casey G. Smith: No, it's a live action film. It's on Hulu. Set slightly in the future. It it has a um, our girl from the one of the young adult novel series, uh.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Kristen Stewart.
Casey G. Smith: No, not even. She's she's kind of adjacent to Christian Stewart. She Shaileena Woodley. Yeah, Shaileena Woodley. But she's, you know, she's all grown up now, adult, very attractive, um, woman. But nonetheless, so the premise is this. There is a it's a future where all illegal immigrants have been deported, like deported to Mexico and like there's like a a barrier there, like almost like a wall. And so without that labor, in the states, they they make robots that look like humans and they do all the menial labor and things like that that most Americans don't don't want to do.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Black folks don't do it, don't want to do it.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. So, but it is illegal to have a robot of yourself doing other tasks and things like that. That's that's an illegal thing.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Interesting.
Casey G. Smith: However, we have a um, a rich financial advisor guy who is, yeah, who is using a robot to date to to date multiple women and then and woo them to the point where they want to sleep with him. And when that happens, the robot tags out and this guy goes in, sleeps with them. Appreciate that robot. Yeah, sleeps with them and then and then dumps them. Like terrible. So that, that's happening. But then there's another lady who has her own robot, who is using that robot to actually she she does the opposite. She goes out with guys, convinces them to buy things for her. She finds like well-off guys. And she's a gold digger, basically. Gets guys to buy things for her. And then when they're ready to sleep with her, she tags in her robot to go and sleep with them. And so.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That's a pretty convincing robot if you can sleep with people and then no one would notice.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. Like they're okay. Program, whatever. So and these, yeah, so but yeah, so that's the the premise of it and and and this is in the trailer, but these robots somehow these these the these people meet. They're one meets the other counterpart wise, and they end up going on a date. And things get mixed up where the robots end up in bed together. Oh, okay. And when that happens, like they malfunction and kind of like their minds open, like they orgasm and their minds open up. Who knew? And now they want to be free. Transcendent. Was it called when you're um, when you're all knowing now? Not all knowing, but you're free from the programming?
Casey G. Smith: Uh. Waking up, ascension, awareness.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Trans transition. Oh, transcendent. I I don't know, I'm assuming.
Casey G. Smith: I know what you mean. Yeah, there there is a word for that. Yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: When the AI has become all aware now.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, but they but they both become more self-aware and yeah, so it kind of, kind of goes from there. It's it's it was a, it was an entertaining little film.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay, Robots.
Casey G. Smith: An entertaining film, simply called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Um, I watched, there's a Kevin Hart stand-up. Did you know there was a new Kevin Hart stand-up?
Casey G. Smith: I did not.
Reginald Titus Jr.: What platform did I watch this on? Um, I think it was on Peacock, if I'm not mistaken. Was it on Peacock? Oh my God, I got to find out.
Casey G. Smith: That would make sense because he's he's got his heart to heart show on there. Oh, I'm trying to I'm trying to catch up on that because he has some pretty good episodes in his first season of heart to heart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: So anyhow, watched that. I'm assuming it's on Peacock. I don't have that many apps open right at this time. Uh, it was, it was pretty good. I give it probably like a 6 1/2 out of 10. Maybe a seven, 6 1/2. But it was funny. You know, it was like, you kind of know Kevin Hart's tendencies now. So like those certain things aren't as funny anymore because it's almost a character of himself. What you're going to, you know, you're going to all the same stuff. I was like, uh.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yes. And um, and then the camera, I don't know if they did this on purpose, but like a lot of times when he was, what was maybe like four or five camera angles. It was like moving too much. Like you have, you have one angle that's like kind of on a dolly that's sliding. That's kind of normal. Uh, but some of the stationary cameras, they're like, I don't know if that was an editing thing, but it was it was not good. And I don't know if they did that on purpose. I don't know what was the reason.
Casey G. Smith: But didn't didn't seem to work for you.
Reginald Titus Jr.: No, that it took away, like usually the angles should not take away take you out of the joke. You should be able to focus on the content. They should not draw attention to themselves. It felt like it was a mistake and they would cut to another one. Maybe they didn't. This one too. Dang. This one too. Four. Somebody stand still. I feel like somebody was switching in real time while they were doing their thing, and they just kept that edit. That's what I felt, that's what it feels like.
Casey G. Smith: Well, interesting. Well, you remember the name of the special?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope. That's Kevin Hart. Can't stand still. Yep. 2023, but it came out this year. So.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart. The First Take.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah, the first one. So some chuckles here and there, but uh, yeah, it's not his best, but it's better than the last one, I believe, which was during COVID.
Casey G. Smith: Was that the one like in London?
Reginald Titus Jr.: There was one he like did at his house. Oh, Yeah. Was he really at his house or was he like kind of had a stage like like like emulated his home? I, ooh, if I'm not mistaken, he actually mentioned that this was his house because he had to do this during COVID. You know, like people were literally still in mask. Yeah. And so he had to like keep it real small, whatever. Um, yeah. People got creative during those times. Yeah, you had to. So like that one felt kind of weird. That one felt, uh, that was a lot of stuff was weird during during the pandemic. I think he was like in his pajamas or something. Like it was, it was. He tried, he tried. He tried, Kevin. What's going on? Like, you know, it was cool, but it was just like, what are we doing? But anyhow, this time, it was okay. It was good. It was solid.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay.
Casey G. Smith: So I took a I took the plunge. I I we had talked about this maybe even on the previous show, but I'd seen the trailer for this film originally when I went to go see Scream 6. It was for Evil Dead Rise. Oh, that one. Yeah. And at the time when I saw the trailer in the theater, I said, hell to the no. I was like, but it it's been on Max and I saw it pop up there and something, something got a got a little itch. I was like, uh oh. I'm curious. I was like, uh oh. I was like, how will this really be scary? Hmm. So I took the plunge and uh, I watched Evil Dead Rise on Max. I watched it on a maybe on a Saturday and it was, it was still like, it was light outside. Yeah, it was still, it was still light. It was strategic. It was still some daylight. So, just in case I had to bail out. Just in case I had to cue it up, stepping outside. What are you doing? Run, run, run. Just take a little break. No, but by the time I finished it, it was it was it was dark. Darkness. Crossed across the land. But honestly, it was it has a lot of, it has a lot of like kind of callbacks to the original Evil Dead. They're like these moments. And yeah, go ahead. And uh, it kind of, it kind of continues the lore. It, I'll give it credit for, I think it kind of makes sense within the Evil Dead universe if you will. I'm like, oh, this is it was I was kind of I was I was kind of fascinated by how the story worked and even kind of how how it came about, especially remembering the first one. I won't give away any spoilers, but it was solid. And it it was it wasn't it wasn't I wasn't like terrified. I didn't have nightmares. Like I don't films don't really give me nightmares. So, it was, but it was, it was fairly well done and uh, I was like, okay, it was it was fairly enjoyable. I was like, that wasn't bad. It wasn't. Yeah, I I wasn't uh, terrified. I was like, oh, this is it was, it was solid. It was a, it was a horror movie, but maybe I maybe I'm just desensitized. Was this podcast done to us, Reginald? Yeah, I think nothing can compare to Hereditary. Hereditary. That Hereditary ruined me. I'm like, yo, I I forgot about that. I was like, dang, that one, that's a. Nothing is scary now. And again, Hereditary is not necessarily, I don't remember it being like overwhelmingly. It's disturbing. Yeah. It's it's disturbed. The images are very disturbing. Um, and then if you're religious, it's going to it's going to rattle, it's going to trigger you. We don't have to bring it back up. Okay. And it kind of just breaks the magic of it's just all, they're all okay. It's like, no. You don't realize what these people are doing for your entertainment. Kind of like the like with the wrestling stuff, but listening to some more stuff about wrestlers, like uh Kurt Angle, is that his name? Yeah, Kurt Angle. Talking about like how he broke his neck so many times and like after after originally breaking it in in the Olympics. Dude, just like. But yeah, also then the drugs. All for our entertainment. Yeah. And often they're, you know, performing hurt. That's uh, it's nuts. Absolutely. So anyhow, um, Friday Night Lights, good film. Check it out. A lot of lessons in there.
Casey G. Smith: Okay. I watched a a movie on Hulu called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Hm, is it animation?
Casey G. Smith: No, it's a live action film. It's on Hulu. Set slightly in the future. It it has a um, our girl from the one of the young adult novel series, uh.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Kristen Stewart.
Casey G. Smith: No, not even. She's she's kind of adjacent to Christian Stewart. She Shaileena Woodley. Yeah, Shaileena Woodley. But she's, you know, she's all grown up now, adult, very attractive, um, woman. But nonetheless, so the premise is this. There is a it's a future where all illegal immigrants have been deported, like deported to Mexico and like there's like a a barrier there, like almost like a wall. And so without that labor, in the states, they they make robots that look like humans and they do all the menial labor and things like that that most Americans don't don't want to do.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Black folks don't do it, don't want to do it.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. So, but it is illegal to have a robot of yourself doing other tasks and things like that. That's that's an illegal thing.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Interesting.
Casey G. Smith: However, we have a um, a rich financial advisor guy who is, yeah, who is using a robot to date to to date multiple women and then and woo them to the point where they want to sleep with him. And when that happens, the robot tags out and this guy goes in, sleeps with them. Appreciate that robot. Yeah, sleeps with them and then and then dumps them. Like terrible. So that, that's happening. But then there's another lady who has her own robot, who is using that robot to actually she she does the opposite. She goes out with guys, convinces them to buy things for her. She finds like well-off guys. And she's a gold digger, basically. Gets guys to buy things for her. And then when they're ready to sleep with her, she tags in her robot to go and sleep with them. And so.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That's a pretty convincing robot if you can sleep with people and then no one would notice.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. Like they're okay. Program, whatever. So and these, yeah, so but yeah, so that's the the premise of it and and and this is in the trailer, but these robots somehow these these the these people meet. They're one meets the other counterpart wise, and they end up going on a date. And things get mixed up where the robots end up in bed together. Oh, okay. And when that happens, like they malfunction and kind of like their minds open, like they orgasm and their minds open up. Who knew? And now they want to be free. Transcendent. Was it called when you're um, when you're all knowing now? Not all knowing, but you're free from the programming?
Casey G. Smith: Uh. Waking up, ascension, awareness.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Trans transition. Oh, transcendent. I I don't know, I'm assuming.
Casey G. Smith: I know what you mean. Yeah, there there is a word for that. Yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: When the AI has become all aware now.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, but they but they both become more self-aware and yeah, so it kind of, kind of goes from there. It's it's it was a, it was an entertaining little film.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay, Robots.
Casey G. Smith: An entertaining film, simply called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Um, I watched, there's a Kevin Hart stand-up. Did you know there was a new Kevin Hart stand-up?
Casey G. Smith: I did not.
Reginald Titus Jr.: What platform did I watch this on? Um, I think it was on Peacock, if I'm not mistaken. Was it on Peacock? Oh my God, I got to find out.
Casey G. Smith: That would make sense because he's he's got his heart to heart show on there. Oh, I'm trying to I'm trying to catch up on that because he has some pretty good episodes in his first season of heart to heart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: So anyhow, watched that. I'm assuming it's on Peacock. I don't have that many apps open right at this time. Uh, it was, it was pretty good. I give it probably like a 6 1/2 out of 10. Maybe a seven, 6 1/2. But it was funny. You know, it was like, you kind of know Kevin Hart's tendencies now. So like those certain things aren't as funny anymore because it's almost a character of himself. What you're going to, you know, you're going to all the same stuff. I was like, uh.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yes. And um, and then the camera, I don't know if they did this on purpose, but like a lot of times when he was, what was maybe like four or five camera angles. It was like moving too much. Like you have, you have one angle that's like kind of on a dolly that's sliding. That's kind of normal. Uh, but some of the stationary cameras, they're like, I don't know if that was an editing thing, but it was it was not good. And I don't know if they did that on purpose. I don't know what was the reason.
Casey G. Smith: But didn't didn't seem to work for you.
Reginald Titus Jr.: No, that it took away, like usually the angles should not take away take you out of the joke. You should be able to focus on the content. They should not draw attention to themselves. It felt like it was a mistake and they would cut to another one. Maybe they didn't. This one too. Dang. This one too. Four. Somebody stand still. I feel like somebody was switching in real time while they were doing their thing, and they just kept that edit. That's what I felt, that's what it feels like.
Casey G. Smith: Well, interesting. Well, you remember the name of the special?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope. That's Kevin Hart. Can't stand still. Yep. 2023, but it came out this year. So.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart. The First Take.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah, the first one. So some chuckles here and there, but uh, yeah, it's not his best, but it's better than the last one, I believe, which was during COVID.
Casey G. Smith: Was that the one like in London?
Reginald Titus Jr.: There was one he like did at his house. Oh, Yeah. Was he really at his house or was he like kind of had a stage like like like emulated his home?
Casey G. Smith: I, ooh, if I'm not mistaken, he actually mentioned that this was his house because he had to do this during COVID. You know, like people were literally still in mask. Yeah. And so he had to like keep it real small, whatever. Um, yeah. People got creative during those times. Yeah, you had to. So like that one felt kind of weird. That one felt, uh, that was a lot of stuff was weird during during the pandemic. I think he was like in his pajamas or something. Like it was, it was. He tried, he tried. He tried, Kevin. What's going on? Like, you know, it was cool, but it was just like, what are we doing? But anyhow, this time, it was okay. It was good. It was solid.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay.
Casey G. Smith: So I took a I took the plunge. I I we had talked about this maybe even on the previous show, but I'd seen the trailer for this film originally when I went to go see Scream 6. It was for Evil Dead Rise. Oh, that one. Yeah. And at the time when I saw the trailer in the theater, I said, hell to the no. I was like, but it it's been on Max and I saw it pop up there and something, something got a got a little itch. I was like, uh oh. I'm curious. I was like, uh oh. I was like, how will this really be scary? Hmm. So I took the plunge and uh, I watched Evil Dead Rise on Max. I watched it on a maybe on a Saturday and it was, it was still like, it was light outside. Yeah, it was still, it was still light. It was strategic. It was still some daylight. So, just in case I had to bail out. Just in case I had to cue it up, stepping outside. What are you doing? Run, run, run. Just take a little break. No, but by the time I finished it, it was it was it was dark. Darkness. Crossed across the land. But honestly, it was it has a lot of, it has a lot of like kind of callbacks to the original Evil Dead. They're like these moments. And yeah, go ahead. And uh, it kind of, it kind of continues the lore. It, I'll give it credit for, I think it kind of makes sense within the Evil Dead universe if you will. I'm like, oh, this is it was I was kind of I was I was kind of fascinated by how the story worked and even kind of how how it came about, especially remembering the first one. I won't give away any spoilers, but it was solid. And it it was it wasn't it wasn't I wasn't like terrified. I didn't have nightmares. Like I don't films don't really give me nightmares. So, it was, but it was, it was fairly well done and uh, I was like, okay, it was it was fairly enjoyable. I was like, that wasn't bad. It wasn't. Yeah, I I wasn't uh, terrified. I was like, oh, this is it was, it was solid. It was a, it was a horror movie, but maybe I maybe I'm just desensitized. Was this podcast done to us, Reginald? Yeah, I think nothing can compare to Hereditary. Hereditary. That Hereditary ruined me. I'm like, yo, I I forgot about that. I was like, dang, that one, that's a. Nothing is scary now. And again, Hereditary is not necessarily, I don't remember it being like overwhelmingly. It's disturbing. Yeah. It's it's disturbed. The images are very disturbing. Um, and then if you're religious, it's going to it's going to rattle, it's going to trigger you. We don't have to bring it back up. Okay. And it kind of just breaks the magic of it's just all, they're all okay. It's like, no. You don't realize what these people are doing for your entertainment. Kind of like the like with the wrestling stuff, but listening to some more stuff about wrestlers, like uh Kurt Angle, is that his name? Yeah, Kurt Angle. Talking about like how he broke his neck so many times and like after after originally breaking it in in the Olympics. Dude, just like. But yeah, also then the drugs. All for our entertainment. Yeah. And often they're, you know, performing hurt. That's uh, it's nuts. Absolutely. So anyhow, um, Friday Night Lights, good film. Check it out. A lot of lessons in there.
Casey G. Smith: Okay. I watched a a movie on Hulu called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Hm, is it animation?
Casey G. Smith: No, it's a live action film. It's on Hulu. Set slightly in the future. It it has a um, our girl from the one of the young adult novel series, uh.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Kristen Stewart.
Casey G. Smith: No, not even. She's she's kind of adjacent to Christian Stewart. She Shaileena Woodley. Yeah, Shaileena Woodley. But she's, you know, she's all grown up now, adult, very attractive, um, woman. But nonetheless, so the premise is this. There is a it's a future where all illegal immigrants have been deported, like deported to Mexico and like there's like a a barrier there, like almost like a wall. And so without that labor, in the states, they they make robots that look like humans and they do all the menial labor and things like that that most Americans don't don't want to do.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Black folks don't do it, don't want to do it.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. So, but it is illegal to have a robot of yourself doing other tasks and things like that. That's that's an illegal thing.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Interesting.
Casey G. Smith: However, we have a um, a rich financial advisor guy who is, yeah, who is using a robot to date to to date multiple women and then and woo them to the point where they want to sleep with him. And when that happens, the robot tags out and this guy goes in, sleeps with them. Appreciate that robot. Yeah, sleeps with them and then and then dumps them. Like terrible. So that, that's happening. But then there's another lady who has her own robot, who is using that robot to actually she she does the opposite. She goes out with guys, convinces them to buy things for her. She finds like well-off guys. And she's a gold digger, basically. Gets guys to buy things for her. And then when they're ready to sleep with her, she tags in her robot to go and sleep with them. And so.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That's a pretty convincing robot if you can sleep with people and then no one would notice.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. Like they're okay. Program, whatever. So and these, yeah, so but yeah, so that's the the premise of it and and and this is in the trailer, but these robots somehow these these the these people meet. They're one meets the other counterpart wise, and they end up going on a date. And things get mixed up where the robots end up in bed together. Oh, okay. And when that happens, like they malfunction and kind of like their minds open, like they orgasm and their minds open up. Who knew? And now they want to be free. Transcendent. Was it called when you're um, when you're all knowing now? Not all knowing, but you're free from the programming?
Casey G. Smith: Uh. Waking up, ascension, awareness.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Trans transition. Oh, transcendent. I I don't know, I'm assuming.
Casey G. Smith: I know what you mean. Yeah, there there is a word for that. Yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: When the AI has become all aware now.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, but they but they both become more self-aware and yeah, so it kind of, kind of goes from there. It's it's it was a, it was an entertaining little film.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay, Robots.
Casey G. Smith: An entertaining film, simply called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Um, I watched, there's a Kevin Hart stand-up. Did you know there was a new Kevin Hart stand-up?
Casey G. Smith: I did not.
Reginald Titus Jr.: What platform did I watch this on? Um, I think it was on Peacock, if I'm not mistaken. Was it on Peacock? Oh my God, I got to find out.
Casey G. Smith: That would make sense because he's he's got his heart to heart show on there. Oh, I'm trying to I'm trying to catch up on that because he has some pretty good episodes in his first season of heart to heart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: So anyhow, watched that. I'm assuming it's on Peacock. I don't have that many apps open right at this time. Uh, it was, it was pretty good. I give it probably like a 6 1/2 out of 10. Maybe a seven, 6 1/2. But it was funny. You know, it was like, you kind of know Kevin Hart's tendencies now. So like those certain things aren't as funny anymore because it's almost a character of himself. What you're going to, you know, you're going to all the same stuff. I was like, uh.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yes. And um, and then the camera, I don't know if they did this on purpose, but like a lot of times when he was, what was maybe like four or five camera angles. It was like moving too much. Like you have, you have one angle that's like kind of on a dolly that's sliding. That's kind of normal. Uh, but some of the stationary cameras, they're like, I don't know if that was an editing thing, but it was it was not good. And I don't know if they did that on purpose. I don't know what was the reason.
Casey G. Smith: But didn't didn't seem to work for you.
Reginald Titus Jr.: No, that it took away, like usually the angles should not take away take you out of the joke. You should be able to focus on the content. They should not draw attention to themselves. It felt like it was a mistake and they would cut to another one. Maybe they didn't. This one too. Dang. This one too. Four. Somebody stand still. I feel like somebody was switching in real time while they were doing their thing, and they just kept that edit. That's what I felt, that's what it feels like.
Casey G. Smith: Well, interesting. Well, you remember the name of the special?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope. That's Kevin Hart. Can't stand still. Yep. 2023, but it came out this year. So.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart. The First Take.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah, the first one. So some chuckles here and there, but uh, yeah, it's not his best, but it's better than the last one, I believe, which was during COVID.
Casey G. Smith: Was that the one like in London?
Reginald Titus Jr.: There was one he like did at his house. Oh, Yeah. Was he really at his house or was he like kind of had a stage like like like emulated his home?
Casey G. Smith: I, ooh, if I'm not mistaken, he actually mentioned that this was his house because he had to do this during COVID. You know, like people were literally still in mask. Yeah. And so he had to like keep it real small, whatever. Um, yeah. People got creative during those times. Yeah, you had to. So like that one felt kind of weird. That one felt, uh, that was a lot of stuff was weird during during the pandemic. I think he was like in his pajamas or something. Like it was, it was. He tried, he tried. He tried, Kevin. What's going on? Like, you know, it was cool, but it was just like, what are we doing? But anyhow, this time, it was okay. It was good. It was solid.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay.
Casey G. Smith: So I took a I took the plunge. I I we had talked about this maybe even on the previous show, but I'd seen the trailer for this film originally when I went to go see Scream 6. It was for Evil Dead Rise. Oh, that one. Yeah. And at the time when I saw the trailer in the theater, I said, hell to the no. I was like, but it it's been on Max and I saw it pop up there and something, something got a got a little itch. I was like, uh oh. I'm curious. I was like, uh oh. I was like, how will this really be scary? Hmm. So I took the plunge and uh, I watched Evil Dead Rise on Max. I watched it on a maybe on a Saturday and it was, it was still like, it was light outside. Yeah, it was still, it was still light. It was strategic. It was still some daylight. So, just in case I had to bail out. Just in case I had to cue it up, stepping outside. What are you doing? Run, run, run. Just take a little break. No, but by the time I finished it, it was it was it was dark. Darkness. Crossed across the land. But honestly, it was it has a lot of, it has a lot of like kind of callbacks to the original Evil Dead. They're like these moments. And yeah, go ahead. And uh, it kind of, it kind of continues the lore. It, I'll give it credit for, I think it kind of makes sense within the Evil Dead universe if you will. I'm like, oh, this is it was I was kind of I was I was kind of fascinated by how the story worked and even kind of how how it came about, especially remembering the first one. I won't give away any spoilers, but it was solid. And it it was it wasn't it wasn't I wasn't like terrified. I didn't have nightmares. Like I don't films don't really give me nightmares. So, it was, but it was, it was fairly well done and uh, I was like, okay, it was it was fairly enjoyable. I was like, that wasn't bad. It wasn't. Yeah, I I wasn't uh, terrified. I was like, oh, this is it was, it was solid. It was a, it was a horror movie, but maybe I maybe I'm just desensitized. Was this podcast done to us, Reginald? Yeah, I think nothing can compare to Hereditary. Hereditary. That Hereditary ruined me. I'm like, yo, I I forgot about that. I was like, dang, that one, that's a. Nothing is scary now. And again, Hereditary is not necessarily, I don't remember it being like overwhelmingly. It's disturbing. Yeah. It's it's disturbed. The images are very disturbing. Um, and then if you're religious, it's going to it's going to rattle, it's going to trigger you. We don't have to bring it back up. Okay. And it kind of just breaks the magic of it's just all, they're all okay. It's like, no. You don't realize what these people are doing for your entertainment. Kind of like the like with the wrestling stuff, but listening to some more stuff about wrestlers, like uh Kurt Angle, is that his name? Yeah, Kurt Angle. Talking about like how he broke his neck so many times and like after after originally breaking it in in the Olympics. Dude, just like. But yeah, also then the drugs. All for our entertainment. Yeah. And often they're, you know, performing hurt. That's uh, it's nuts. Absolutely. So anyhow, um, Friday Night Lights, good film. Check it out. A lot of lessons in there.
Casey G. Smith: Okay. I watched a a movie on Hulu called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Hm, is it animation?
Casey G. Smith: No, it's a live action film. It's on Hulu. Set slightly in the future. It it has a um, our girl from the one of the young adult novel series, uh.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Kristen Stewart.
Casey G. Smith: No, not even. She's she's kind of adjacent to Christian Stewart. She Shaileena Woodley. Yeah, Shaileena Woodley. But she's, you know, she's all grown up now, adult, very attractive, um, woman. But nonetheless, so the premise is this. There is a it's a future where all illegal immigrants have been deported, like deported to Mexico and like there's like a a barrier there, like almost like a wall. And so without that labor, in the states, they they make robots that look like humans and they do all the menial labor and things like that that most Americans don't don't want to do.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Black folks don't do it, don't want to do it.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. So, but it is illegal to have a robot of yourself doing other tasks and things like that. That's that's an illegal thing.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Interesting.
Casey G. Smith: However, we have a um, a rich financial advisor guy who is, yeah, who is using a robot to date to to date multiple women and then and woo them to the point where they want to sleep with him. And when that happens, the robot tags out and this guy goes in, sleeps with them. Appreciate that robot. Yeah, sleeps with them and then and then dumps them. Like terrible. So that, that's happening. But then there's another lady who has her own robot, who is using that robot to actually she she does the opposite. She goes out with guys, convinces them to buy things for her. She finds like well-off guys. And she's a gold digger, basically. Gets guys to buy things for her. And then when they're ready to sleep with her, she tags in her robot to go and sleep with them. And so.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That's a pretty convincing robot if you can sleep with people and then no one would notice.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. Like they're okay. Program, whatever. So and these, yeah, so but yeah, so that's the the premise of it and and and this is in the trailer, but these robots somehow these these the these people meet. They're one meets the other counterpart wise, and they end up going on a date. And things get mixed up where the robots end up in bed together. Oh, okay. And when that happens, like they malfunction and kind of like their minds open, like they orgasm and their minds open up. Who knew? And now they want to be free. Transcendent. Was it called when you're um, when you're all knowing now? Not all knowing, but you're free from the programming?
Casey G. Smith: Uh. Waking up, ascension, awareness.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Trans transition. Oh, transcendent. I I don't know, I'm assuming.
Casey G. Smith: I know what you mean. Yeah, there there is a word for that. Yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: When the AI has become all aware now.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, but they but they both become more self-aware and yeah, so it kind of, kind of goes from there. It's it's it was a, it was an entertaining little film.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay, Robots.
Casey G. Smith: An entertaining film, simply called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Um, I watched, there's a Kevin Hart stand-up. Did you know there was a new Kevin Hart stand-up?
Casey G. Smith: I did not.
Reginald Titus Jr.: What platform did I watch this on? Um, I think it was on Peacock, if I'm not mistaken. Was it on Peacock? Oh my God, I got to find out.
Casey G. Smith: That would make sense because he's he's got his heart to heart show on there. Oh, I'm trying to I'm trying to catch up on that because he has some pretty good episodes in his first season of heart to heart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: So anyhow, watched that. I'm assuming it's on Peacock. I don't have that many apps open right at this time. Uh, it was, it was pretty good. I give it probably like a 6 1/2 out of 10. Maybe a seven, 6 1/2. But it was funny. You know, it was like, you kind of know Kevin Hart's tendencies now. So like those certain things aren't as funny anymore because it's almost a character of himself. What you're going to, you know, you're going to all the same stuff. I was like, uh.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yes. And um, and then the camera, I don't know if they did this on purpose, but like a lot of times when he was, what was maybe like four or five camera angles. It was like moving too much. Like you have, you have one angle that's like kind of on a dolly that's sliding. That's kind of normal. Uh, but some of the stationary cameras, they're like, I don't know if that was an editing thing, but it was it was not good. And I don't know if they did that on purpose. I don't know what was the reason.
Casey G. Smith: But didn't didn't seem to work for you.
Reginald Titus Jr.: No, that it took away, like usually the angles should not take away take you out of the joke. You should be able to focus on the content. They should not draw attention to themselves. It felt like it was a mistake and they would cut to another one. Maybe they didn't. This one too. Dang. This one too. Four. Somebody stand still. I feel like somebody was switching in real time while they were doing their thing, and they just kept that edit. That's what I felt, that's what it feels like.
Casey G. Smith: Well, interesting. Well, you remember the name of the special?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope. That's Kevin Hart. Can't stand still. Yep. 2023, but it came out this year. So.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart. The First Take.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah, the first one. So some chuckles here and there, but uh, yeah, it's not his best, but it's better than the last one, I believe, which was during COVID.
Casey G. Smith: Was that the one like in London?
Reginald Titus Jr.: There was one he like did at his house. Oh, Yeah. Was he really at his house or was he like kind of had a stage like like like emulated his home?
Casey G. Smith: I, ooh, if I'm not mistaken, he actually mentioned that this was his house because he had to do this during COVID. You know, like people were literally still in mask. Yeah. And so he had to like keep it real small, whatever. Um, yeah. People got creative during those times. Yeah, you had to. So like that one felt kind of weird. That one felt, uh, that was a lot of stuff was weird during during the pandemic. I think he was like in his pajamas or something. Like it was, it was. He tried, he tried. He tried, Kevin. What's going on? Like, you know, it was cool, but it was just like, what are we doing? But anyhow, this time, it was okay. It was good. It was solid.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay.
Casey G. Smith: So I took a I took the plunge. I I we had talked about this maybe even on the previous show, but I'd seen the trailer for this film originally when I went to go see Scream 6. It was for Evil Dead Rise. Oh, that one. Yeah. And at the time when I saw the trailer in the theater, I said, hell to the no. I was like, but it it's been on Max and I saw it pop up there and something, something got a got a little itch. I was like, uh oh. I'm curious. I was like, uh oh. I was like, how will this really be scary? Hmm. So I took the plunge and uh, I watched Evil Dead Rise on Max. I watched it on a maybe on a Saturday and it was, it was still like, it was light outside. Yeah, it was still, it was still light. It was strategic. It was still some daylight. So, just in case I had to bail out. Just in case I had to cue it up, stepping outside. What are you doing? Run, run, run. Just take a little break. No, but by the time I finished it, it was it was it was dark. Darkness. Crossed across the land. But honestly, it was it has a lot of, it has a lot of like kind of callbacks to the original Evil Dead. They're like these moments. And yeah, go ahead. And uh, it kind of, it kind of continues the lore. It, I'll give it credit for, I think it kind of makes sense within the Evil Dead universe if you will. I'm like, oh, this is it was I was kind of I was I was kind of fascinated by how the story worked and even kind of how how it came about, especially remembering the first one. I won't give away any spoilers, but it was solid. And it it was it wasn't it wasn't I wasn't like terrified. I didn't have nightmares. Like I don't films don't really give me nightmares. So, it was, but it was, it was fairly well done and uh, I was like, okay, it was it was fairly enjoyable. I was like, that wasn't bad. It wasn't. Yeah, I I wasn't uh, terrified. I was like, oh, this is it was, it was solid. It was a, it was a horror movie, but maybe I maybe I'm just desensitized. Was this podcast done to us, Reginald? Yeah, I think nothing can compare to Hereditary. Hereditary. That Hereditary ruined me. I'm like, yo, I I forgot about that. I was like, dang, that one, that's a. Nothing is scary now. And again, Hereditary is not necessarily, I don't remember it being like overwhelmingly. It's disturbing. Yeah. It's it's disturbed. The images are very disturbing. Um, and then if you're religious, it's going to it's going to rattle, it's going to trigger you. We don't have to bring it back up. Okay. And it kind of just breaks the magic of it's just all, they're all okay. It's like, no. You don't realize what these people are doing for your entertainment. Kind of like the like with the wrestling stuff, but listening to some more stuff about wrestlers, like uh Kurt Angle, is that his name? Yeah, Kurt Angle. Talking about like how he broke his neck so many times and like after after originally breaking it in in the Olympics. Dude, just like. But yeah, also then the drugs. All for our entertainment. Yeah. And often they're, you know, performing hurt. That's uh, it's nuts. Absolutely. So anyhow, um, Friday Night Lights, good film. Check it out. A lot of lessons in there.
Casey G. Smith: Okay. I watched a a movie on Hulu called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Hm, is it animation?
Casey G. Smith: No, it's a live action film. It's on Hulu. Set slightly in the future. It it has a um, our girl from the one of the young adult novel series, uh.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Kristen Stewart.
Casey G. Smith: No, not even. She's she's kind of adjacent to Christian Stewart. She Shaileena Woodley. Yeah, Shaileena Woodley. But she's, you know, she's all grown up now, adult, very attractive, um, woman. But nonetheless, so the premise is this. There is a it's a future where all illegal immigrants have been deported, like deported to Mexico and like there's like a a barrier there, like almost like a wall. And so without that labor, in the states, they they make robots that look like humans and they do all the menial labor and things like that that most Americans don't don't want to do.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Black folks don't do it, don't want to do it.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. So, but it is illegal to have a robot of yourself doing other tasks and things like that. That's that's an illegal thing.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Interesting.
Casey G. Smith: However, we have a um, a rich financial advisor guy who is, yeah, who is using a robot to date to to date multiple women and then and woo them to the point where they want to sleep with him. And when that happens, the robot tags out and this guy goes in, sleeps with them. Appreciate that robot. Yeah, sleeps with them and then and then dumps them. Like terrible. So that, that's happening. But then there's another lady who has her own robot, who is using that robot to actually she she does the opposite. She goes out with guys, convinces them to buy things for her. She finds like well-off guys. And she's a gold digger, basically. Gets guys to buy things for her. And then when they're ready to sleep with her, she tags in her robot to go and sleep with them. And so.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That's a pretty convincing robot if you can sleep with people and then no one would notice.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. Like they're okay. Program, whatever. So and these, yeah, so but yeah, so that's the the premise of it and and and this is in the trailer, but these robots somehow these these the these people meet. They're one meets the other counterpart wise, and they end up going on a date. And things get mixed up where the robots end up in bed together. Oh, okay. And when that happens, like they malfunction and kind of like their minds open, like they orgasm and their minds open up. Who knew? And now they want to be free. Transcendent. Was it called when you're um, when you're all knowing now? Not all knowing, but you're free from the programming?
Casey G. Smith: Uh. Waking up, ascension, awareness.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Trans transition. Oh, transcendent. I I don't know, I'm assuming.
Casey G. Smith: I know what you mean. Yeah, there there is a word for that. Yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: When the AI has become all aware now.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, but they but they both become more self-aware and yeah, so it kind of, kind of goes from there. It's it's it was a, it was an entertaining little film.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay, Robots.
Casey G. Smith: An entertaining film, simply called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Um, I watched, there's a Kevin Hart stand-up. Did you know there was a new Kevin Hart stand-up?
Casey G. Smith: I did not.
Reginald Titus Jr.: What platform did I watch this on? Um, I think it was on Peacock, if I'm not mistaken. Was it on Peacock? Oh my God, I got to find out.
Casey G. Smith: That would make sense because he's he's got his heart to heart show on there. Oh, I'm trying to I'm trying to catch up on that because he has some pretty good episodes in his first season of heart to heart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: So anyhow, watched that. I'm assuming it's on Peacock. I don't have that many apps open right at this time. Uh, it was, it was pretty good. I give it probably like a 6 1/2 out of 10. Maybe a seven, 6 1/2. But it was funny. You know, it was like, you kind of know Kevin Hart's tendencies now. So like those certain things aren't as funny anymore because it's almost a character of himself. What you're going to, you know, you're going to all the same stuff. I was like, uh.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yes. And um, and then the camera, I don't know if they did this on purpose, but like a lot of times when he was, what was maybe like four or five camera angles. It was like moving too much. Like you have, you have one angle that's like kind of on a dolly that's sliding. That's kind of normal. Uh, but some of the stationary cameras, they're like, I don't know if that was an editing thing, but it was it was not good. And I don't know if they did that on purpose. I don't know what was the reason.
Casey G. Smith: But didn't didn't seem to work for you.
Reginald Titus Jr.: No, that it took away, like usually the angles should not take away take you out of the joke. You should be able to focus on the content. They should not draw attention to themselves. It felt like it was a mistake and they would cut to another one. Maybe they didn't. This one too. Dang. This one too. Four. Somebody stand still. I feel like somebody was switching in real time while they were doing their thing, and they just kept that edit. That's what I felt, that's what it feels like.
Casey G. Smith: Well, interesting. Well, you remember the name of the special?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope. That's Kevin Hart. Can't stand still. Yep. 2023, but it came out this year. So.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart. The First Take.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah, the first one. So some chuckles here and there, but uh, yeah, it's not his best, but it's better than the last one, I believe, which was during COVID.
Casey G. Smith: Was that the one like in London?
Reginald Titus Jr.: There was one he like did at his house. Oh, Yeah. Was he really at his house or was he like kind of had a stage like like like emulated his home?
Casey G. Smith: I, ooh, if I'm not mistaken, he actually mentioned that this was his house because he had to do this during COVID. You know, like people were literally still in mask. Yeah. And so he had to like keep it real small, whatever. Um, yeah. People got creative during those times. Yeah, you had to. So like that one felt kind of weird. That one felt, uh, that was a lot of stuff was weird during during the pandemic. I think he was like in his pajamas or something. Like it was, it was. He tried, he tried. He tried, Kevin. What's going on? Like, you know, it was cool, but it was just like, what are we doing? But anyhow, this time, it was okay. It was good. It was solid.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay.
Casey G. Smith: So I took a I took the plunge. I I we had talked about this maybe even on the previous show, but I'd seen the trailer for this film originally when I went to go see Scream 6. It was for Evil Dead Rise. Oh, that one. Yeah. And at the time when I saw the trailer in the theater, I said, hell to the no. I was like, but it it's been on Max and I saw it pop up there and something, something got a got a little itch. I was like, uh oh. I'm curious. I was like, uh oh. I was like, how will this really be scary? Hmm. So I took the plunge and uh, I watched Evil Dead Rise on Max. I watched it on a maybe on a Saturday and it was, it was still like, it was light outside. Yeah, it was still, it was still light. It was strategic. It was still some daylight. So, just in case I had to bail out. Just in case I had to cue it up, stepping outside. What are you doing? Run, run, run. Just take a little break. No, but by the time I finished it, it was it was it was dark. Darkness. Crossed across the land. But honestly, it was it has a lot of, it has a lot of like kind of callbacks to the original Evil Dead. They're like these moments. And yeah, go ahead. And uh, it kind of, it kind of continues the lore. It, I'll give it credit for, I think it kind of makes sense within the Evil Dead universe if you will. I'm like, oh, this is it was I was kind of I was I was kind of fascinated by how the story worked and even kind of how how it came about, especially remembering the first one. I won't give away any spoilers, but it was solid. And it it was it wasn't it wasn't I wasn't like terrified. I didn't have nightmares. Like I don't films don't really give me nightmares. So, it was, but it was, it was fairly well done and uh, I was like, okay, it was it was fairly enjoyable. I was like, that wasn't bad. It wasn't. Yeah, I I wasn't uh, terrified. I was like, oh, this is it was, it was solid. It was a, it was a horror movie, but maybe I maybe I'm just desensitized. Was this podcast done to us, Reginald? Yeah, I think nothing can compare to Hereditary. Hereditary. That Hereditary ruined me. I'm like, yo, I I forgot about that. I was like, dang, that one, that's a. Nothing is scary now. And again, Hereditary is not necessarily, I don't remember it being like overwhelmingly. It's disturbing. Yeah. It's it's disturbed. The images are very disturbing. Um, and then if you're religious, it's going to it's going to rattle, it's going to trigger you. We don't have to bring it back up. Okay. And it kind of just breaks the magic of it's just all, they're all okay. It's like, no. You don't realize what these people are doing for your entertainment. Kind of like the like with the wrestling stuff, but listening to some more stuff about wrestlers, like uh Kurt Angle, is that his name? Yeah, Kurt Angle. Talking about like how he broke his neck so many times and like after after originally breaking it in in the Olympics. Dude, just like. But yeah, also then the drugs. All for our entertainment. Yeah. And often they're, you know, performing hurt. That's uh, it's nuts. Absolutely. So anyhow, um, Friday Night Lights, good film. Check it out. A lot of lessons in there.
Casey G. Smith: Okay. I watched a a movie on Hulu called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Hm, is it animation?
Casey G. Smith: No, it's a live action film. It's on Hulu. Set slightly in the future. It it has a um, our girl from the one of the young adult novel series, uh.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Kristen Stewart.
Casey G. Smith: No, not even. She's she's kind of adjacent to Christian Stewart. She Shaileena Woodley. Yeah, Shaileena Woodley. But she's, you know, she's all grown up now, adult, very attractive, um, woman. But nonetheless, so the premise is this. There is a it's a future where all illegal immigrants have been deported, like deported to Mexico and like there's like a a barrier there, like almost like a wall. And so without that labor, in the states, they they make robots that look like humans and they do all the menial labor and things like that that most Americans don't don't want to do.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Black folks don't do it, don't want to do it.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. So, but it is illegal to have a robot of yourself doing other tasks and things like that. That's that's an illegal thing.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Interesting.
Casey G. Smith: However, we have a um, a rich financial advisor guy who is, yeah, who is using a robot to date to to date multiple women and then and woo them to the point where they want to sleep with him. And when that happens, the robot tags out and this guy goes in, sleeps with them. Appreciate that robot. Yeah, sleeps with them and then and then dumps them. Like terrible. So that, that's happening. But then there's another lady who has her own robot, who is using that robot to actually she she does the opposite. She goes out with guys, convinces them to buy things for her. She finds like well-off guys. And she's a gold digger, basically. Gets guys to buy things for her. And then when they're ready to sleep with her, she tags in her robot to go and sleep with them. And so.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That's a pretty convincing robot if you can sleep with people and then no one would notice.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. Like they're okay. Program, whatever. So and these, yeah, so but yeah, so that's the the premise of it and and and this is in the trailer, but these robots somehow these these the these people meet. They're one meets the other counterpart wise, and they end up going on a date. And things get mixed up where the robots end up in bed together. Oh, okay. And when that happens, like they malfunction and kind of like their minds open, like they orgasm and their minds open up. Who knew? And now they want to be free. Transcendent. Was it called when you're um, when you're all knowing now? Not all knowing, but you're free from the programming?
Casey G. Smith: Uh. Waking up, ascension, awareness.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Trans transition. Oh, transcendent. I I don't know, I'm assuming.
Casey G. Smith: I know what you mean. Yeah, there there is a word for that. Yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: When the AI has become all aware now.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, but they but they both become more self-aware and yeah, so it kind of, kind of goes from there. It's it's it was a, it was an entertaining little film.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay, Robots.
Casey G. Smith: An entertaining film, simply called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Um, I watched, there's a Kevin Hart stand-up. Did you know there was a new Kevin Hart stand-up?
Casey G. Smith: I did not.
Reginald Titus Jr.: What platform did I watch this on? Um, I think it was on Peacock, if I'm not mistaken. Was it on Peacock? Oh my God, I got to find out.
Casey G. Smith: That would make sense because he's he's got his heart to heart show on there. Oh, I'm trying to I'm trying to catch up on that because he has some pretty good episodes in his first season of heart to heart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: So anyhow, watched that. I'm assuming it's on Peacock. I don't have that many apps open right at this time. Uh, it was, it was pretty good. I give it probably like a 6 1/2 out of 10. Maybe a seven, 6 1/2. But it was funny. You know, it was like, you kind of know Kevin Hart's tendencies now. So like those certain things aren't as funny anymore because it's almost a character of himself. What you're going to, you know, you're going to all the same stuff. I was like, uh.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yes. And um, and then the camera, I don't know if they did this on purpose, but like a lot of times when he was, what was maybe like four or five camera angles. It was like moving too much. Like you have, you have one angle that's like kind of on a dolly that's sliding. That's kind of normal. Uh, but some of the stationary cameras, they're like, I don't know if that was an editing thing, but it was it was not good. And I don't know if they did that on purpose. I don't know what was the reason.
Casey G. Smith: But didn't didn't seem to work for you.
Reginald Titus Jr.: No, that it took away, like usually the angles should not take away take you out of the joke. You should be able to focus on the content. They should not draw attention to themselves. It felt like it was a mistake and they would cut to another one. Maybe they didn't. This one too. Dang. This one too. Four. Somebody stand still. I feel like somebody was switching in real time while they were doing their thing, and they just kept that edit. That's what I felt, that's what it feels like.
Casey G. Smith: Well, interesting. Well, you remember the name of the special?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope. That's Kevin Hart. Can't stand still. Yep. 2023, but it came out this year. So.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart. The First Take.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah, the first one. So some chuckles here and there, but uh, yeah, it's not his best, but it's better than the last one, I believe, which was during COVID.
Casey G. Smith: Was that the one like in London?
Reginald Titus Jr.: There was one he like did at his house. Oh, Yeah. Was he really at his house or was he like kind of had a stage like like like emulated his home?
Casey G. Smith: I, ooh, if I'm not mistaken, he actually mentioned that this was his house because he had to do this during COVID. You know, like people were literally still in mask. Yeah. And so he had to like keep it real small, whatever. Um, yeah. People got creative during those times. Yeah, you had to. So like that one felt kind of weird. That one felt, uh, that was a lot of stuff was weird during during the pandemic. I think he was like in his pajamas or something. Like it was, it was. He tried, he tried. He tried, Kevin. What's going on? Like, you know, it was cool, but it was just like, what are we doing? But anyhow, this time, it was okay. It was good. It was solid.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay.
Casey G. Smith: So I took a I took the plunge. I I we had talked about this maybe even on the previous show, but I'd seen the trailer for this film originally when I went to go see Scream 6. It was for Evil Dead Rise. Oh, that one. Yeah. And at the time when I saw the trailer in the theater, I said, hell to the no. I was like, but it it's been on Max and I saw it pop up there and something, something got a got a little itch. I was like, uh oh. I'm curious. I was like, uh oh. I was like, how will this really be scary? Hmm. So I took the plunge and uh, I watched Evil Dead Rise on Max. I watched it on a maybe on a Saturday and it was, it was still like, it was light outside. Yeah, it was still, it was still light. It was strategic. It was still some daylight. So, just in case I had to bail out. Just in case I had to cue it up, stepping outside. What are you doing? Run, run, run. Just take a little break. No, but by the time I finished it, it was it was it was dark. Darkness. Crossed across the land. But honestly, it was it has a lot of, it has a lot of like kind of callbacks to the original Evil Dead. They're like these moments. And yeah, go ahead. And uh, it kind of, it kind of continues the lore. It, I'll give it credit for, I think it kind of makes sense within the Evil Dead universe if you will. I'm like, oh, this is it was I was kind of I was I was kind of fascinated by how the story worked and even kind of how how it came about, especially remembering the first one. I won't give away any spoilers, but it was solid. And it it was it wasn't it wasn't I wasn't like terrified. I didn't have nightmares. Like I don't films don't really give me nightmares. So, it was, but it was, it was fairly well done and uh, I was like, okay, it was it was fairly enjoyable. I was like, that wasn't bad. It wasn't. Yeah, I I wasn't uh, terrified. I was like, oh, this is it was, it was solid. It was a, it was a horror movie, but maybe I maybe I'm just desensitized. Was this podcast done to us, Reginald? Yeah, I think nothing can compare to Hereditary. Hereditary. That Hereditary ruined me. I'm like, yo, I I forgot about that. I was like, dang, that one, that's a. Nothing is scary now. And again, Hereditary is not necessarily, I don't remember it being like overwhelmingly. It's disturbing. Yeah. It's it's disturbed. The images are very disturbing. Um, and then if you're religious, it's going to it's going to rattle, it's going to trigger you. We don't have to bring it back up. Okay. And it kind of just breaks the magic of it's just all, they're all okay. It's like, no. You don't realize what these people are doing for your entertainment. Kind of like the like with the wrestling stuff, but listening to some more stuff about wrestlers, like uh Kurt Angle, is that his name? Yeah, Kurt Angle. Talking about like how he broke his neck so many times and like after after originally breaking it in in the Olympics. Dude, just like. But yeah, also then the drugs. All for our entertainment. Yeah. And often they're, you know, performing hurt. That's uh, it's nuts. Absolutely. So anyhow, um, Friday Night Lights, good film. Check it out. A lot of lessons in there.
Casey G. Smith: Okay. I watched a a movie on Hulu called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Hm, is it animation?
Casey G. Smith: No, it's a live action film. It's on Hulu. Set slightly in the future. It it has a um, our girl from the one of the young adult novel series, uh.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Kristen Stewart.
Casey G. Smith: No, not even. She's she's kind of adjacent to Christian Stewart. She Shaileena Woodley. Yeah, Shaileena Woodley. But she's, you know, she's all grown up now, adult, very attractive, um, woman. But nonetheless, so the premise is this. There is a it's a future where all illegal immigrants have been deported, like deported to Mexico and like there's like a a barrier there, like almost like a wall. And so without that labor, in the states, they they make robots that look like humans and they do all the menial labor and things like that that most Americans don't don't want to do.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Black folks don't do it, don't want to do it.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. So, but it is illegal to have a robot of yourself doing other tasks and things like that. That's that's an illegal thing.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Interesting.
Casey G. Smith: However, we have a um, a rich financial advisor guy who is, yeah, who is using a robot to date to to date multiple women and then and woo them to the point where they want to sleep with him. And when that happens, the robot tags out and this guy goes in, sleeps with them. Appreciate that robot. Yeah, sleeps with them and then and then dumps them. Like terrible. So that, that's happening. But then there's another lady who has her own robot, who is using that robot to actually she she does the opposite. She goes out with guys, convinces them to buy things for her. She finds like well-off guys. And she's a gold digger, basically. Gets guys to buy things for her. And then when they're ready to sleep with her, she tags in her robot to go and sleep with them. And so.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That's a pretty convincing robot if you can sleep with people and then no one would notice.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. Like they're okay. Program, whatever. So and these, yeah, so but yeah, so that's the the premise of it and and and this is in the trailer, but these robots somehow these these the these people meet. They're one meets the other counterpart wise, and they end up going on a date. And things get mixed up where the robots end up in bed together. Oh, okay. And when that happens, like they malfunction and kind of like their minds open, like they orgasm and their minds open up. Who knew? And now they want to be free. Transcendent. Was it called when you're um, when you're all knowing now? Not all knowing, but you're free from the programming?
Casey G. Smith: Uh. Waking up, ascension, awareness.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Trans transition. Oh, transcendent. I I don't know, I'm assuming.
Casey G. Smith: I know what you mean. Yeah, there there is a word for that. Yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: When the AI has become all aware now.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, but they but they both become more self-aware and yeah, so it kind of, kind of goes from there. It's it's it was a, it was an entertaining little film.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay, Robots.
Casey G. Smith: An entertaining film, simply called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Um, I watched, there's a Kevin Hart stand-up. Did you know there was a new Kevin Hart stand-up?
Casey G. Smith: I did not.
Reginald Titus Jr.: What platform did I watch this on? Um, I think it was on Peacock, if I'm not mistaken. Was it on Peacock? Oh my God, I got to find out.
Casey G. Smith: That would make sense because he's he's got his heart to heart show on there. Oh, I'm trying to I'm trying to catch up on that because he has some pretty good episodes in his first season of heart to heart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: So anyhow, watched that. I'm assuming it's on Peacock. I don't have that many apps open right at this time. Uh, it was, it was pretty good. I give it probably like a 6 1/2 out of 10. Maybe a seven, 6 1/2. But it was funny. You know, it was like, you kind of know Kevin Hart's tendencies now. So like those certain things aren't as funny anymore because it's almost a character of himself. What you're going to, you know, you're going to all the same stuff. I was like, uh.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yes. And um, and then the camera, I don't know if they did this on purpose, but like a lot of times when he was, what was maybe like four or five camera angles. It was like moving too much. Like you have, you have one angle that's like kind of on a dolly that's sliding. That's kind of normal. Uh, but some of the stationary cameras, they're like, I don't know if that was an editing thing, but it was it was not good. And I don't know if they did that on purpose. I don't know what was the reason.
Casey G. Smith: But didn't didn't seem to work for you.
Reginald Titus Jr.: No, that it took away, like usually the angles should not take away take you out of the joke. You should be able to focus on the content. They should not draw attention to themselves. It felt like it was a mistake and they would cut to another one. Maybe they didn't. This one too. Dang. This one too. Four. Somebody stand still. I feel like somebody was switching in real time while they were doing their thing, and they just kept that edit. That's what I felt, that's what it feels like.
Casey G. Smith: Well, interesting. Well, you remember the name of the special?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope. That's Kevin Hart. Can't stand still. Yep. 2023, but it came out this year. So.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart. The First Take.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah, the first one. So some chuckles here and there, but uh, yeah, it's not his best, but it's better than the last one, I believe, which was during COVID.
Casey G. Smith: Was that the one like in London?
Reginald Titus Jr.: There was one he like did at his house. Oh, Yeah. Was he really at his house or was he like kind of had a stage like like like emulated his home?
Casey G. Smith: I, ooh, if I'm not mistaken, he actually mentioned that this was his house because he had to do this during COVID. You know, like people were literally still in mask. Yeah. And so he had to like keep it real small, whatever. Um, yeah. People got creative during those times. Yeah, you had to. So like that one felt kind of weird. That one felt, uh, that was a lot of stuff was weird during during the pandemic. I think he was like in his pajamas or something. Like it was, it was. He tried, he tried. He tried, Kevin. What's going on? Like, you know, it was cool, but it was just like, what are we doing? But anyhow, this time, it was okay. It was good. It was solid.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay.
Casey G. Smith: So I took a I took the plunge. I I we had talked about this maybe even on the previous show, but I'd seen the trailer for this film originally when I went to go see Scream 6. It was for Evil Dead Rise. Oh, that one. Yeah. And at the time when I saw the trailer in the theater, I said, hell to the no. I was like, but it it's been on Max and I saw it pop up there and something, something got a got a little itch. I was like, uh oh. I'm curious. I was like, uh oh. I was like, how will this really be scary? Hmm. So I took the plunge and uh, I watched Evil Dead Rise on Max. I watched it on a maybe on a Saturday and it was, it was still like, it was light outside. Yeah, it was still, it was still light. It was strategic. It was still some daylight. So, just in case I had to bail out. Just in case I had to cue it up, stepping outside. What are you doing? Run, run, run. Just take a little break. No, but by the time I finished it, it was it was it was dark. Darkness. Crossed across the land. But honestly, it was it has a lot of, it has a lot of like kind of callbacks to the original Evil Dead. They're like these moments. And yeah, go ahead. And uh, it kind of, it kind of continues the lore. It, I'll give it credit for, I think it kind of makes sense within the Evil Dead universe if you will. I'm like, oh, this is it was I was kind of I was I was kind of fascinated by how the story worked and even kind of how how it came about, especially remembering the first one. I won't give away any spoilers, but it was solid. And it it was it wasn't it wasn't I wasn't like terrified. I didn't have nightmares. Like I don't films don't really give me nightmares. So, it was, but it was, it was fairly well done and uh, I was like, okay, it was it was fairly enjoyable. I was like, that wasn't bad. It wasn't. Yeah, I I wasn't uh, terrified. I was like, oh, this is it was, it was solid. It was a, it was a horror movie, but maybe I maybe I'm just desensitized. Was this podcast done to us, Reginald? Yeah, I think nothing can compare to Hereditary. Hereditary. That Hereditary ruined me. I'm like, yo, I I forgot about that. I was like, dang, that one, that's a. Nothing is scary now. And again, Hereditary is not necessarily, I don't remember it being like overwhelmingly. It's disturbing. Yeah. It's it's disturbed. The images are very disturbing. Um, and then if you're religious, it's going to it's going to rattle, it's going to trigger you. We don't have to bring it back up. Okay. And it kind of just breaks the magic of it's just all, they're all okay. It's like, no. You don't realize what these people are doing for your entertainment. Kind of like the like with the wrestling stuff, but listening to some more stuff about wrestlers, like uh Kurt Angle, is that his name? Yeah, Kurt Angle. Talking about like how he broke his neck so many times and like after after originally breaking it in in the Olympics. Dude, just like. But yeah, also then the drugs. All for our entertainment. Yeah. And often they're, you know, performing hurt. That's uh, it's nuts. Absolutely. So anyhow, um, Friday Night Lights, good film. Check it out. A lot of lessons in there.
Casey G. Smith: Okay. I watched a a movie on Hulu called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Hm, is it animation?
Casey G. Smith: No, it's a live action film. It's on Hulu. Set slightly in the future. It it has a um, our girl from the one of the young adult novel series, uh.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Kristen Stewart.
Casey G. Smith: No, not even. She's she's kind of adjacent to Christian Stewart. She Shaileena Woodley. Yeah, Shaileena Woodley. But she's, you know, she's all grown up now, adult, very attractive, um, woman. But nonetheless, so the premise is this. There is a it's a future where all illegal immigrants have been deported, like deported to Mexico and like there's like a a barrier there, like almost like a wall. And so without that labor, in the states, they they make robots that look like humans and they do all the menial labor and things like that that most Americans don't don't want to do.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Black folks don't do it, don't want to do it.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. So, but it is illegal to have a robot of yourself doing other tasks and things like that. That's that's an illegal thing.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Interesting.
Casey G. Smith: However, we have a um, a rich financial advisor guy who is, yeah, who is using a robot to date to to date multiple women and then and woo them to the point where they want to sleep with him. And when that happens, the robot tags out and this guy goes in, sleeps with them. Appreciate that robot. Yeah, sleeps with them and then and then dumps them. Like terrible. So that, that's happening. But then there's another lady who has her own robot, who is using that robot to actually she she does the opposite. She goes out with guys, convinces them to buy things for her. She finds like well-off guys. And she's a gold digger, basically. Gets guys to buy things for her. And then when they're ready to sleep with her, she tags in her robot to go and sleep with them. And so.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That's a pretty convincing robot if you can sleep with people and then no one would notice.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. Like they're okay. Program, whatever. So and these, yeah, so but yeah, so that's the the premise of it and and and this is in the trailer, but these robots somehow these these the these people meet. They're one meets the other counterpart wise, and they end up going on a date. And things get mixed up where the robots end up in bed together. Oh, okay. And when that happens, like they malfunction and kind of like their minds open, like they orgasm and their minds open up. Who knew? And now they want to be free. Transcendent. Was it called when you're um, when you're all knowing now? Not all knowing, but you're free from the programming?
Casey G. Smith: Uh. Waking up, ascension, awareness.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Trans transition. Oh, transcendent. I I don't know, I'm assuming.
Casey G. Smith: I know what you mean. Yeah, there there is a word for that. Yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: When the AI has become all aware now.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, but they but they both become more self-aware and yeah, so it kind of, kind of goes from there. It's it's it was a, it was an entertaining little film.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay, Robots.
Casey G. Smith: An entertaining film, simply called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Um, I watched, there's a Kevin Hart stand-up. Did you know there was a new Kevin Hart stand-up?
Casey G. Smith: I did not.
Reginald Titus Jr.: What platform did I watch this on? Um, I think it was on Peacock, if I'm not mistaken. Was it on Peacock? Oh my God, I got to find out.
Casey G. Smith: That would make sense because he's he's got his heart to heart show on there. Oh, I'm trying to I'm trying to catch up on that because he has some pretty good episodes in his first season of heart to heart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: So anyhow, watched that. I'm assuming it's on Peacock. I don't have that many apps open right at this time. Uh, it was, it was pretty good. I give it probably like a 6 1/2 out of 10. Maybe a seven, 6 1/2. But it was funny. You know, it was like, you kind of know Kevin Hart's tendencies now. So like those certain things aren't as funny anymore because it's almost a character of himself. What you're going to, you know, you're going to all the same stuff. I was like, uh.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yes. And um, and then the camera, I don't know if they did this on purpose, but like a lot of times when he was, what was maybe like four or five camera angles. It was like moving too much. Like you have, you have one angle that's like kind of on a dolly that's sliding. That's kind of normal. Uh, but some of the stationary cameras, they're like, I don't know if that was an editing thing, but it was it was not good. And I don't know if they did that on purpose. I don't know what was the reason.
Casey G. Smith: But didn't didn't seem to work for you.
Reginald Titus Jr.: No, that it took away, like usually the angles should not take away take you out of the joke. You should be able to focus on the content. They should not draw attention to themselves. It felt like it was a mistake and they would cut to another one. Maybe they didn't. This one too. Dang. This one too. Four. Somebody stand still. I feel like somebody was switching in real time while they were doing their thing, and they just kept that edit. That's what I felt, that's what it feels like.
Casey G. Smith: Well, interesting. Well, you remember the name of the special?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope. That's Kevin Hart. Can't stand still. Yep. 2023, but it came out this year. So.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart. The First Take.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah, the first one. So some chuckles here and there, but uh, yeah, it's not his best, but it's better than the last one, I believe, which was during COVID.
Casey G. Smith: Was that the one like in London?
Reginald Titus Jr.: There was one he like did at his house. Oh, Yeah. Was he really at his house or was he like kind of had a stage like like like emulated his home?
Casey G. Smith: I, ooh, if I'm not mistaken, he actually mentioned that this was his house because he had to do this during COVID. You know, like people were literally still in mask. Yeah. And so he had to like keep it real small, whatever. Um, yeah. People got creative during those times. Yeah, you had to. So like that one felt kind of weird. That one felt, uh, that was a lot of stuff was weird during during the pandemic. I think he was like in his pajamas or something. Like it was, it was. He tried, he tried. He tried, Kevin. What's going on? Like, you know, it was cool, but it was just like, what are we doing? But anyhow, this time, it was okay. It was good. It was solid.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay.
Casey G. Smith: So I took a I took the plunge. I I we had talked about this maybe even on the previous show, but I'd seen the trailer for this film originally when I went to go see Scream 6. It was for Evil Dead Rise. Oh, that one. Yeah. And at the time when I saw the trailer in the theater, I said, hell to the no. I was like, but it it's been on Max and I saw it pop up there and something, something got a got a little itch. I was like, uh oh. I'm curious. I was like, uh oh. I was like, how will this really be scary? Hmm. So I took the plunge and uh, I watched Evil Dead Rise on Max. I watched it on a maybe on a Saturday and it was, it was still like, it was light outside. Yeah, it was still, it was still light. It was strategic. It was still some daylight. So, just in case I had to bail out. Just in case I had to cue it up, stepping outside. What are you doing? Run, run, run. Just take a little break. No, but by the time I finished it, it was it was it was dark. Darkness. Crossed across the land. But honestly, it was it has a lot of, it has a lot of like kind of callbacks to the original Evil Dead. They're like these moments. And yeah, go ahead. And uh, it kind of, it kind of continues the lore. It, I'll give it credit for, I think it kind of makes sense within the Evil Dead universe if you will. I'm like, oh, this is it was I was kind of I was I was kind of fascinated by how the story worked and even kind of how how it came about, especially remembering the first one. I won't give away any spoilers, but it was solid. And it it was it wasn't it wasn't I wasn't like terrified. I didn't have nightmares. Like I don't films don't really give me nightmares. So, it was, but it was, it was fairly well done and uh, I was like, okay, it was it was fairly enjoyable. I was like, that wasn't bad. It wasn't. Yeah, I I wasn't uh, terrified. I was like, oh, this is it was, it was solid. It was a, it was a horror movie, but maybe I maybe I'm just desensitized. Was this podcast done to us, Reginald? Yeah, I think nothing can compare to Hereditary. Hereditary. That Hereditary ruined me. I'm like, yo, I I forgot about that. I was like, dang, that one, that's a. Nothing is scary now. And again, Hereditary is not necessarily, I don't remember it being like overwhelmingly. It's disturbing. Yeah. It's it's disturbed. The images are very disturbing. Um, and then if you're religious, it's going to it's going to rattle, it's going to trigger you. We don't have to bring it back up. Okay. And it kind of just breaks the magic of it's just all, they're all okay. It's like, no. You don't realize what these people are doing for your entertainment. Kind of like the like with the wrestling stuff, but listening to some more stuff about wrestlers, like uh Kurt Angle, is that his name? Yeah, Kurt Angle. Talking about like how he broke his neck so many times and like after after originally breaking it in in the Olympics. Dude, just like. But yeah, also then the drugs. All for our entertainment. Yeah. And often they're, you know, performing hurt. That's uh, it's nuts. Absolutely. So anyhow, um, Friday Night Lights, good film. Check it out. A lot of lessons in there.
Casey G. Smith: Okay. I watched a a movie on Hulu called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Hm, is it animation?
Casey G. Smith: No, it's a live action film. It's on Hulu. Set slightly in the future. It it has a um, our girl from the one of the young adult novel series, uh.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Kristen Stewart.
Casey G. Smith: No, not even. She's she's kind of adjacent to Christian Stewart. She Shaileena Woodley. Yeah, Shaileena Woodley. But she's, you know, she's all grown up now, adult, very attractive, um, woman. But nonetheless, so the premise is this. There is a it's a future where all illegal immigrants have been deported, like deported to Mexico and like there's like a a barrier there, like almost like a wall. And so without that labor, in the states, they they make robots that look like humans and they do all the menial labor and things like that that most Americans don't don't want to do.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Black folks don't do it, don't want to do it.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. So, but it is illegal to have a robot of yourself doing other tasks and things like that. That's that's an illegal thing.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Interesting.
Casey G. Smith: However, we have a um, a rich financial advisor guy who is, yeah, who is using a robot to date to to date multiple women and then and woo them to the point where they want to sleep with him. And when that happens, the robot tags out and this guy goes in, sleeps with them. Appreciate that robot. Yeah, sleeps with them and then and then dumps them. Like terrible. So that, that's happening. But then there's another lady who has her own robot, who is using that robot to actually she she does the opposite. She goes out with guys, convinces them to buy things for her. She finds like well-off guys. And she's a gold digger, basically. Gets guys to buy things for her. And then when they're ready to sleep with her, she tags in her robot to go and sleep with them. And so.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That's a pretty convincing robot if you can sleep with people and then no one would notice.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. Like they're okay. Program, whatever. So and these, yeah, so but yeah, so that's the the premise of it and and and this is in the trailer, but these robots somehow these these the these people meet. They're one meets the other counterpart wise, and they end up going on a date. And things get mixed up where the robots end up in bed together. Oh, okay. And when that happens, like they malfunction and kind of like their minds open, like they orgasm and their minds open up. Who knew? And now they want to be free. Transcendent. Was it called when you're um, when you're all knowing now? Not all knowing, but you're free from the programming?
Casey G. Smith: Uh. Waking up, ascension, awareness.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Trans transition. Oh, transcendent. I I don't know, I'm assuming.
Casey G. Smith: I know what you mean. Yeah, there there is a word for that. Yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: When the AI has become all aware now.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, but they but they both become more self-aware and yeah, so it kind of, kind of goes from there. It's it's it was a, it was an entertaining little film.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay, Robots.
Casey G. Smith: An entertaining film, simply called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Um, I watched, there's a Kevin Hart stand-up. Did you know there was a new Kevin Hart stand-up?
Casey G. Smith: I did not.
Reginald Titus Jr.: What platform did I watch this on? Um, I think it was on Peacock, if I'm not mistaken. Was it on Peacock? Oh my God, I got to find out.
Casey G. Smith: That would make sense because he's he's got his heart to heart show on there. Oh, I'm trying to I'm trying to catch up on that because he has some pretty good episodes in his first season of heart to heart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: So anyhow, watched that. I'm assuming it's on Peacock. I don't have that many apps open right at this time. Uh, it was, it was pretty good. I give it probably like a 6 1/2 out of 10. Maybe a seven, 6 1/2. But it was funny. You know, it was like, you kind of know Kevin Hart's tendencies now. So like those certain things aren't as funny anymore because it's almost a character of himself. What you're going to, you know, you're going to all the same stuff. I was like, uh.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yes. And um, and then the camera, I don't know if they did this on purpose, but like a lot of times when he was, what was maybe like four or five camera angles. It was like moving too much. Like you have, you have one angle that's like kind of on a dolly that's sliding. That's kind of normal. Uh, but some of the stationary cameras, they're like, I don't know if that was an editing thing, but it was it was not good. And I don't know if they did that on purpose. I don't know what was the reason.
Casey G. Smith: But didn't didn't seem to work for you.
Reginald Titus Jr.: No, that it took away, like usually the angles should not take away take you out of the joke. You should be able to focus on the content. They should not draw attention to themselves. It felt like it was a mistake and they would cut to another one. Maybe they didn't. This one too. Dang. This one too. Four. Somebody stand still. I feel like somebody was switching in real time while they were doing their thing, and they just kept that edit. That's what I felt, that's what it feels like.
Casey G. Smith: Well, interesting. Well, you remember the name of the special?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope. That's Kevin Hart. Can't stand still. Yep. 2023, but it came out this year. So.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart. The First Take.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah, the first one. So some chuckles here and there, but uh, yeah, it's not his best, but it's better than the last one, I believe, which was during COVID.
Casey G. Smith: Was that the one like in London?
Reginald Titus Jr.: There was one he like did at his house. Oh, Yeah. Was he really at his house or was he like kind of had a stage like like like emulated his home?
Casey G. Smith: I, ooh, if I'm not mistaken, he actually mentioned that this was his house because he had to do this during COVID. You know, like people were literally still in mask. Yeah. And so he had to like keep it real small, whatever. Um, yeah. People got creative during those times. Yeah, you had to. So like that one felt kind of weird. That one felt, uh, that was a lot of stuff was weird during during the pandemic. I think he was like in his pajamas or something. Like it was, it was. He tried, he tried. He tried, Kevin. What's going on? Like, you know, it was cool, but it was just like, what are we doing? But anyhow, this time, it was okay. It was good. It was solid.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay.
Casey G. Smith: So I took a I took the plunge. I I we had talked about this maybe even on the previous show, but I'd seen the trailer for this film originally when I went to go see Scream 6. It was for Evil Dead Rise. Oh, that one. Yeah. And at the time when I saw the trailer in the theater, I said, hell to the no. I was like, but it it's been on Max and I saw it pop up there and something, something got a got a little itch. I was like, uh oh. I'm curious. I was like, uh oh. I was like, how will this really be scary? Hmm. So I took the plunge and uh, I watched Evil Dead Rise on Max. I watched it on a maybe on a Saturday and it was, it was still like, it was light outside. Yeah, it was still, it was still light. It was strategic. It was still some daylight. So, just in case I had to bail out. Just in case I had to cue it up, stepping outside. What are you doing? Run, run, run. Just take a little break. No, but by the time I finished it, it was it was it was dark. Darkness. Crossed across the land. But honestly, it was it has a lot of, it has a lot of like kind of callbacks to the original Evil Dead. They're like these moments. And yeah, go ahead. And uh, it kind of, it kind of continues the lore. It, I'll give it credit for, I think it kind of makes sense within the Evil Dead universe if you will. I'm like, oh, this is it was I was kind of I was I was kind of fascinated by how the story worked and even kind of how how it came about, especially remembering the first one. I won't give away any spoilers, but it was solid. And it it was it wasn't it wasn't I wasn't like terrified. I didn't have nightmares. Like I don't films don't really give me nightmares. So, it was, but it was, it was fairly well done and uh, I was like, okay, it was it was fairly enjoyable. I was like, that wasn't bad. It wasn't. Yeah, I I wasn't uh, terrified. I was like, oh, this is it was, it was solid. It was a, it was a horror movie, but maybe I maybe I'm just desensitized. Was this podcast done to us, Reginald? Yeah, I think nothing can compare to Hereditary. Hereditary. That Hereditary ruined me. I'm like, yo, I I forgot about that. I was like, dang, that one, that's a. Nothing is scary now. And again, Hereditary is not necessarily, I don't remember it being like overwhelmingly. It's disturbing. Yeah. It's it's disturbed. The images are very disturbing. Um, and then if you're religious, it's going to it's going to rattle, it's going to trigger you. We don't have to bring it back up. Okay. And it kind of just breaks the magic of it's just all, they're all okay. It's like, no. You don't realize what these people are doing for your entertainment. Kind of like the like with the wrestling stuff, but listening to some more stuff about wrestlers, like uh Kurt Angle, is that his name? Yeah, Kurt Angle. Talking about like how he broke his neck so many times and like after after originally breaking it in in the Olympics. Dude, just like. But yeah, also then the drugs. All for our entertainment. Yeah. And often they're, you know, performing hurt. That's uh, it's nuts. Absolutely. So anyhow, um, Friday Night Lights, good film. Check it out. A lot of lessons in there.
Casey G. Smith: Okay. I watched a a movie on Hulu called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Hm, is it animation?
Casey G. Smith: No, it's a live action film. It's on Hulu. Set slightly in the future. It it has a um, our girl from the one of the young adult novel series, uh.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Kristen Stewart.
Casey G. Smith: No, not even. She's she's kind of adjacent to Christian Stewart. She Shaileena Woodley. Yeah, Shaileena Woodley. But she's, you know, she's all grown up now, adult, very attractive, um, woman. But nonetheless, so the premise is this. There is a it's a future where all illegal immigrants have been deported, like deported to Mexico and like there's like a a barrier there, like almost like a wall. And so without that labor, in the states, they they make robots that look like humans and they do all the menial labor and things like that that most Americans don't don't want to do.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Black folks don't do it, don't want to do it.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. So, but it is illegal to have a robot of yourself doing other tasks and things like that. That's that's an illegal thing.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Interesting.
Casey G. Smith: However, we have a um, a rich financial advisor guy who is, yeah, who is using a robot to date to to date multiple women and then and woo them to the point where they want to sleep with him. And when that happens, the robot tags out and this guy goes in, sleeps with them. Appreciate that robot. Yeah, sleeps with them and then and then dumps them. Like terrible. So that, that's happening. But then there's another lady who has her own robot, who is using that robot to actually she she does the opposite. She goes out with guys, convinces them to buy things for her. She finds like well-off guys. And she's a gold digger, basically. Gets guys to buy things for her. And then when they're ready to sleep with her, she tags in her robot to go and sleep with them. And so.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That's a pretty convincing robot if you can sleep with people and then no one would notice.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. Like they're okay. Program, whatever. So and these, yeah, so but yeah, so that's the the premise of it and and and this is in the trailer, but these robots somehow these these the these people meet. They're one meets the other counterpart wise, and they end up going on a date. And things get mixed up where the robots end up in bed together. Oh, okay. And when that happens, like they malfunction and kind of like their minds open, like they orgasm and their minds open up. Who knew? And now they want to be free. Transcendent. Was it called when you're um, when you're all knowing now? Not all knowing, but you're free from the programming?
Casey G. Smith: Uh. Waking up, ascension, awareness.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Trans transition. Oh, transcendent. I I don't know, I'm assuming.
Casey G. Smith: I know what you mean. Yeah, there there is a word for that. Yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: When the AI has become all aware now.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, but they but they both become more self-aware and yeah, so it kind of, kind of goes from there. It's it's it was a, it was an entertaining little film.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay, Robots.
Casey G. Smith: An entertaining film, simply called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Um, I watched, there's a Kevin Hart stand-up. Did you know there was a new Kevin Hart stand-up?
Casey G. Smith: I did not.
Reginald Titus Jr.: What platform did I watch this on? Um, I think it was on Peacock, if I'm not mistaken. Was it on Peacock? Oh my God, I got to find out.
Casey G. Smith: That would make sense because he's he's got his heart to heart show on there. Oh, I'm trying to I'm trying to catch up on that because he has some pretty good episodes in his first season of heart to heart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: So anyhow, watched that. I'm assuming it's on Peacock. I don't have that many apps open right at this time. Uh, it was, it was pretty good. I give it probably like a 6 1/2 out of 10. Maybe a seven, 6 1/2. But it was funny. You know, it was like, you kind of know Kevin Hart's tendencies now. So like those certain things aren't as funny anymore because it's almost a character of himself. What you're going to, you know, you're going to all the same stuff. I was like, uh.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yes. And um, and then the camera, I don't know if they did this on purpose, but like a lot of times when he was, what was maybe like four or five camera angles. It was like moving too much. Like you have, you have one angle that's like kind of on a dolly that's sliding. That's kind of normal. Uh, but some of the stationary cameras, they're like, I don't know if that was an editing thing, but it was it was not good. And I don't know if they did that on purpose. I don't know what was the reason.
Casey G. Smith: But didn't didn't seem to work for you.
Reginald Titus Jr.: No, that it took away, like usually the angles should not take away take you out of the joke. You should be able to focus on the content. They should not draw attention to themselves. It felt like it was a mistake and they would cut to another one. Maybe they didn't. This one too. Dang. This one too. Four. Somebody stand still. I feel like somebody was switching in real time while they were doing their thing, and they just kept that edit. That's what I felt, that's what it feels like.
Casey G. Smith: Well, interesting. Well, you remember the name of the special?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope. That's Kevin Hart. Can't stand still. Yep. 2023, but it came out this year. So.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart. The First Take.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah, the first one. So some chuckles here and there, but uh, yeah, it's not his best, but it's better than the last one, I believe, which was during COVID.
Casey G. Smith: Was that the one like in London?
Reginald Titus Jr.: There was one he like did at his house. Oh, Yeah. Was he really at his house or was he like kind of had a stage like like like emulated his home?
Casey G. Smith: I, ooh, if I'm not mistaken, he actually mentioned that this was his house because he had to do this during COVID. You know, like people were literally still in mask. Yeah. And so he had to like keep it real small, whatever. Um, yeah. People got creative during those times. Yeah, you had to. So like that one felt kind of weird. That one felt, uh, that was a lot of stuff was weird during during the pandemic. I think he was like in his pajamas or something. Like it was, it was. He tried, he tried. He tried, Kevin. What's going on? Like, you know, it was cool, but it was just like, what are we doing? But anyhow, this time, it was okay. It was good. It was solid.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay.
Casey G. Smith: So I took a I took the plunge. I I we had talked about this maybe even on the previous show, but I'd seen the trailer for this film originally when I went to go see Scream 6. It was for Evil Dead Rise. Oh, that one. Yeah. And at the time when I saw the trailer in the theater, I said, hell to the no. I was like, but it it's been on Max and I saw it pop up there and something, something got a got a little itch. I was like, uh oh. I'm curious. I was like, uh oh. I was like, how will this really be scary? Hmm. So I took the plunge and uh, I watched Evil Dead Rise on Max. I watched it on a maybe on a Saturday and it was, it was still like, it was light outside. Yeah, it was still, it was still light. It was strategic. It was still some daylight. So, just in case I had to bail out. Just in case I had to cue it up, stepping outside. What are you doing? Run, run, run. Just take a little break. No, but by the time I finished it, it was it was it was dark. Darkness. Crossed across the land. But honestly, it was it has a lot of, it has a lot of like kind of callbacks to the original Evil Dead. They're like these moments. And yeah, go ahead. And uh, it kind of, it kind of continues the lore. It, I'll give it credit for, I think it kind of makes sense within the Evil Dead universe if you will. I'm like, oh, this is it was I was kind of I was I was kind of fascinated by how the story worked and even kind of how how it came about, especially remembering the first one. I won't give away any spoilers, but it was solid. And it it was it wasn't it wasn't I wasn't like terrified. I didn't have nightmares. Like I don't films don't really give me nightmares. So, it was, but it was, it was fairly well done and uh, I was like, okay, it was it was fairly enjoyable. I was like, that wasn't bad. It wasn't. Yeah, I I wasn't uh, terrified. I was like, oh, this is it was, it was solid. It was a, it was a horror movie, but maybe I maybe I'm just desensitized. Was this podcast done to us, Reginald? Yeah, I think nothing can compare to Hereditary. Hereditary. That Hereditary ruined me. I'm like, yo, I I forgot about that. I was like, dang, that one, that's a. Nothing is scary now. And again, Hereditary is not necessarily, I don't remember it being like overwhelmingly. It's disturbing. Yeah. It's it's disturbed. The images are very disturbing. Um, and then if you're religious, it's going to it's going to rattle, it's going to trigger you. We don't have to bring it back up. Okay. And it kind of just breaks the magic of it's just all, they're all okay. It's like, no. You don't realize what these people are doing for your entertainment. Kind of like the like with the wrestling stuff, but listening to some more stuff about wrestlers, like uh Kurt Angle, is that his name? Yeah, Kurt Angle. Talking about like how he broke his neck so many times and like after after originally breaking it in in the Olympics. Dude, just like. But yeah, also then the drugs. All for our entertainment. Yeah. And often they're, you know, performing hurt. That's uh, it's nuts. Absolutely. So anyhow, um, Friday Night Lights, good film. Check it out. A lot of lessons in there.
Casey G. Smith: Okay. I watched a a movie on Hulu called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Hm, is it animation?
Casey G. Smith: No, it's a live action film. It's on Hulu. Set slightly in the future. It it has a um, our girl from the one of the young adult novel series, uh.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Kristen Stewart.
Casey G. Smith: No, not even. She's she's kind of adjacent to Christian Stewart. She Shaileena Woodley. Yeah, Shaileena Woodley. But she's, you know, she's all grown up now, adult, very attractive, um, woman. But nonetheless, so the premise is this. There is a it's a future where all illegal immigrants have been deported, like deported to Mexico and like there's like a a barrier there, like almost like a wall. And so without that labor, in the states, they they make robots that look like humans and they do all the menial labor and things like that that most Americans don't don't want to do.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Black folks don't do it, don't want to do it.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. So, but it is illegal to have a robot of yourself doing other tasks and things like that. That's that's an illegal thing.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Interesting.
Casey G. Smith: However, we have a um, a rich financial advisor guy who is, yeah, who is using a robot to date to to date multiple women and then and woo them to the point where they want to sleep with him. And when that happens, the robot tags out and this guy goes in, sleeps with them. Appreciate that robot. Yeah, sleeps with them and then and then dumps them. Like terrible. So that, that's happening. But then there's another lady who has her own robot, who is using that robot to actually she she does the opposite. She goes out with guys, convinces them to buy things for her. She finds like well-off guys. And she's a gold digger, basically. Gets guys to buy things for her. And then when they're ready to sleep with her, she tags in her robot to go and sleep with them. And so.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That's a pretty convincing robot if you can sleep with people and then no one would notice.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. Like they're okay. Program, whatever. So and these, yeah, so but yeah, so that's the the premise of it and and and this is in the trailer, but these robots somehow these these the these people meet. They're one meets the other counterpart wise, and they end up going on a date. And things get mixed up where the robots end up in bed together. Oh, okay. And when that happens, like they malfunction and kind of like their minds open, like they orgasm and their minds open up. Who knew? And now they want to be free. Transcendent. Was it called when you're um, when you're all knowing now? Not all knowing, but you're free from the programming?
Casey G. Smith: Uh. Waking up, ascension, awareness.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Trans transition. Oh, transcendent. I I don't know, I'm assuming.
Casey G. Smith: I know what you mean. Yeah, there there is a word for that. Yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: When the AI has become all aware now.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, but they but they both become more self-aware and yeah, so it kind of, kind of goes from there. It's it's it was a, it was an entertaining little film.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay, Robots.
Casey G. Smith: An entertaining film, simply called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Um, I watched, there's a Kevin Hart stand-up. Did you know there was a new Kevin Hart stand-up?
Casey G. Smith: I did not.
Reginald Titus Jr.: What platform did I watch this on? Um, I think it was on Peacock, if I'm not mistaken. Was it on Peacock? Oh my God, I got to find out.
Casey G. Smith: That would make sense because he's he's got his heart to heart show on there. Oh, I'm trying to I'm trying to catch up on that because he has some pretty good episodes in his first season of heart to heart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: So anyhow, watched that. I'm assuming it's on Peacock. I don't have that many apps open right at this time. Uh, it was, it was pretty good. I give it probably like a 6 1/2 out of 10. Maybe a seven, 6 1/2. But it was funny. You know, it was like, you kind of know Kevin Hart's tendencies now. So like those certain things aren't as funny anymore because it's almost a character of himself. What you're going to, you know, you're going to all the same stuff. I was like, uh.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yes. And um, and then the camera, I don't know if they did this on purpose, but like a lot of times when he was, what was maybe like four or five camera angles. It was like moving too much. Like you have, you have one angle that's like kind of on a dolly that's sliding. That's kind of normal. Uh, but some of the stationary cameras, they're like, I don't know if that was an editing thing, but it was it was not good. And I don't know if they did that on purpose. I don't know what was the reason.
Casey G. Smith: But didn't didn't seem to work for you.
Reginald Titus Jr.: No, that it took away, like usually the angles should not take away take you out of the joke. You should be able to focus on the content. They should not draw attention to themselves. It felt like it was a mistake and they would cut to another one. Maybe they didn't. This one too. Dang. This one too. Four. Somebody stand still. I feel like somebody was switching in real time while they were doing their thing, and they just kept that edit. That's what I felt, that's what it feels like.
Casey G. Smith: Well, interesting. Well, you remember the name of the special?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope. That's Kevin Hart. Can't stand still. Yep. 2023, but it came out this year. So.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart. The First Take.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah, the first one. So some chuckles here and there, but uh, yeah, it's not his best, but it's better than the last one, I believe, which was during COVID.
Casey G. Smith: Was that the one like in London?
Reginald Titus Jr.: There was one he like did at his house. Oh, Yeah. Was he really at his house or was he like kind of had a stage like like like emulated his home?
Casey G. Smith: I, ooh, if I'm not mistaken, he actually mentioned that this was his house because he had to do this during COVID. You know, like people were literally still in mask. Yeah. And so he had to like keep it real small, whatever. Um, yeah. People got creative during those times. Yeah, you had to. So like that one felt kind of weird. That one felt, uh, that was a lot of stuff was weird during during the pandemic. I think he was like in his pajamas or something. Like it was, it was. He tried, he tried. He tried, Kevin. What's going on? Like, you know, it was cool, but it was just like, what are we doing? But anyhow, this time, it was okay. It was good. It was solid.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay.
Casey G. Smith: So I took a I took the plunge. I I we had talked about this maybe even on the previous show, but I'd seen the trailer for this film originally when I went to go see Scream 6. It was for Evil Dead Rise. Oh, that one. Yeah. And at the time when I saw the trailer in the theater, I said, hell to the no. I was like, but it it's been on Max and I saw it pop up there and something, something got a got a little itch. I was like, uh oh. I'm curious. I was like, uh oh. I was like, how will this really be scary? Hmm. So I took the plunge and uh, I watched Evil Dead Rise on Max. I watched it on a maybe on a Saturday and it was, it was still like, it was light outside. Yeah, it was still, it was still light. It was strategic. It was still some daylight. So, just in case I had to bail out. Just in case I had to cue it up, stepping outside. What are you doing? Run, run, run. Just take a little break. No, but by the time I finished it, it was it was it was dark. Darkness. Crossed across the land. But honestly, it was it has a lot of, it has a lot of like kind of callbacks to the original Evil Dead. They're like these moments. And yeah, go ahead. And uh, it kind of, it kind of continues the lore. It, I'll give it credit for, I think it kind of makes sense within the Evil Dead universe if you will. I'm like, oh, this is it was I was kind of I was I was kind of fascinated by how the story worked and even kind of how how it came about, especially remembering the first one. I won't give away any spoilers, but it was solid. And it it was it wasn't it wasn't I wasn't like terrified. I didn't have nightmares. Like I don't films don't really give me nightmares. So, it was, but it was, it was fairly well done and uh, I was like, okay, it was it was fairly enjoyable. I was like, that wasn't bad. It wasn't. Yeah, I I wasn't uh, terrified. I was like, oh, this is it was, it was solid. It was a, it was a horror movie, but maybe I maybe I'm just desensitized. Was this podcast done to us, Reginald? Yeah, I think nothing can compare to Hereditary. Hereditary. That Hereditary ruined me. I'm like, yo, I I forgot about that. I was like, dang, that one, that's a. Nothing is scary now. And again, Hereditary is not necessarily, I don't remember it being like overwhelmingly. It's disturbing. Yeah. It's it's disturbed. The images are very disturbing. Um, and then if you're religious, it's going to it's going to rattle, it's going to trigger you. We don't have to bring it back up. Okay. And it kind of just breaks the magic of it's just all, they're all okay. It's like, no. You don't realize what these people are doing for your entertainment. Kind of like the like with the wrestling stuff, but listening to some more stuff about wrestlers, like uh Kurt Angle, is that his name? Yeah, Kurt Angle. Talking about like how he broke his neck so many times and like after after originally breaking it in in the Olympics. Dude, just like. But yeah, also then the drugs. All for our entertainment. Yeah. And often they're, you know, performing hurt. That's uh, it's nuts. Absolutely. So anyhow, um, Friday Night Lights, good film. Check it out. A lot of lessons in there.
Casey G. Smith: Okay. I watched a a movie on Hulu called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Hm, is it animation?
Casey G. Smith: No, it's a live action film. It's on Hulu. Set slightly in the future. It it has a um, our girl from the one of the young adult novel series, uh.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Kristen Stewart.
Casey G. Smith: No, not even. She's she's kind of adjacent to Christian Stewart. She Shaileena Woodley. Yeah, Shaileena Woodley. But she's, you know, she's all grown up now, adult, very attractive, um, woman. But nonetheless, so the premise is this. There is a it's a future where all illegal immigrants have been deported, like deported to Mexico and like there's like a a barrier there, like almost like a wall. And so without that labor, in the states, they they make robots that look like humans and they do all the menial labor and things like that that most Americans don't don't want to do.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Black folks don't do it, don't want to do it.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. So, but it is illegal to have a robot of yourself doing other tasks and things like that. That's that's an illegal thing.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Interesting.
Casey G. Smith: However, we have a um, a rich financial advisor guy who is, yeah, who is using a robot to date to to date multiple women and then and woo them to the point where they want to sleep with him. And when that happens, the robot tags out and this guy goes in, sleeps with them. Appreciate that robot. Yeah, sleeps with them and then and then dumps them. Like terrible. So that, that's happening. But then there's another lady who has her own robot, who is using that robot to actually she she does the opposite. She goes out with guys, convinces them to buy things for her. She finds like well-off guys. And she's a gold digger, basically. Gets guys to buy things for her. And then when they're ready to sleep with her, she tags in her robot to go and sleep with them. And so.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That's a pretty convincing robot if you can sleep with people and then no one would notice.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. Like they're okay. Program, whatever. So and these, yeah, so but yeah, so that's the the premise of it and and and this is in the trailer, but these robots somehow these these the these people meet. They're one meets the other counterpart wise, and they end up going on a date. And things get mixed up where the robots end up in bed together. Oh, okay. And when that happens, like they malfunction and kind of like their minds open, like they orgasm and their minds open up. Who knew? And now they want to be free. Transcendent. Was it called when you're um, when you're all knowing now? Not all knowing, but you're free from the programming?
Casey G. Smith: Uh. Waking up, ascension, awareness.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Trans transition. Oh, transcendent. I I don't know, I'm assuming.
Casey G. Smith: I know what you mean. Yeah, there there is a word for that. Yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: When the AI has become all aware now.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, but they but they both become more self-aware and yeah, so it kind of, kind of goes from there. It's it's it was a, it was an entertaining little film.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay, Robots.
Casey G. Smith: An entertaining film, simply called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Um, I watched, there's a Kevin Hart stand-up. Did you know there was a new Kevin Hart stand-up?
Casey G. Smith: I did not.
Reginald Titus Jr.: What platform did I watch this on? Um, I think it was on Peacock, if I'm not mistaken. Was it on Peacock? Oh my God, I got to find out.
Casey G. Smith: That would make sense because he's he's got his heart to heart show on there. Oh, I'm trying to I'm trying to catch up on that because he has some pretty good episodes in his first season of heart to heart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: So anyhow, watched that. I'm assuming it's on Peacock. I don't have that many apps open right at this time. Uh, it was, it was pretty good. I give it probably like a 6 1/2 out of 10. Maybe a seven, 6 1/2. But it was funny. You know, it was like, you kind of know Kevin Hart's tendencies now. So like those certain things aren't as funny anymore because it's almost a character of himself. What you're going to, you know, you're going to all the same stuff. I was like, uh.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yes. And um, and then the camera, I don't know if they did this on purpose, but like a lot of times when he was, what was maybe like four or five camera angles. It was like moving too much. Like you have, you have one angle that's like kind of on a dolly that's sliding. That's kind of normal. Uh, but some of the stationary cameras, they're like, I don't know if that was an editing thing, but it was it was not good. And I don't know if they did that on purpose. I don't know what was the reason.
Casey G. Smith: But didn't didn't seem to work for you.
Reginald Titus Jr.: No, that it took away, like usually the angles should not take away take you out of the joke. You should be able to focus on the content. They should not draw attention to themselves. It felt like it was a mistake and they would cut to another one. Maybe they didn't. This one too. Dang. This one too. Four. Somebody stand still. I feel like somebody was switching in real time while they were doing their thing, and they just kept that edit. That's what I felt, that's what it feels like.
Casey G. Smith: Well, interesting. Well, you remember the name of the special?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope. That's Kevin Hart. Can't stand still. Yep. 2023, but it came out this year. So.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart. The First Take.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah, the first one. So some chuckles here and there, but uh, yeah, it's not his best, but it's better than the last one, I believe, which was during COVID.
Casey G. Smith: Was that the one like in London?
Reginald Titus Jr.: There was one he like did at his house. Oh, Yeah. Was he really at his house or was he like kind of had a stage like like like emulated his home?
Casey G. Smith: I, ooh, if I'm not mistaken, he actually mentioned that this was his house because he had to do this during COVID. You know, like people were literally still in mask. Yeah. And so he had to like keep it real small, whatever. Um, yeah. People got creative during those times. Yeah, you had to. So like that one felt kind of weird. That one felt, uh, that was a lot of stuff was weird during during the pandemic. I think he was like in his pajamas or something. Like it was, it was. He tried, he tried. He tried, Kevin. What's going on? Like, you know, it was cool, but it was just like, what are we doing? But anyhow, this time, it was okay. It was good. It was solid.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay.
Casey G. Smith: So I took a I took the plunge. I I we had talked about this maybe even on the previous show, but I'd seen the trailer for this film originally when I went to go see Scream 6. It was for Evil Dead Rise. Oh, that one. Yeah. And at the time when I saw the trailer in the theater, I said, hell to the no. I was like, but it it's been on Max and I saw it pop up there and something, something got a got a little itch. I was like, uh oh. I'm curious. I was like, uh oh. I was like, how will this really be scary? Hmm. So I took the plunge and uh, I watched Evil Dead Rise on Max. I watched it on a maybe on a Saturday and it was, it was still like, it was light outside. Yeah, it was still, it was still light. It was strategic. It was still some daylight. So, just in case I had to bail out. Just in case I had to cue it up, stepping outside. What are you doing? Run, run, run. Just take a little break. No, but by the time I finished it, it was it was it was dark. Darkness. Crossed across the land. But honestly, it was it has a lot of, it has a lot of like kind of callbacks to the original Evil Dead. They're like these moments. And yeah, go ahead. And uh, it kind of, it kind of continues the lore. It, I'll give it credit for, I think it kind of makes sense within the Evil Dead universe if you will. I'm like, oh, this is it was I was kind of I was I was kind of fascinated by how the story worked and even kind of how how it came about, especially remembering the first one. I won't give away any spoilers, but it was solid. And it it was it wasn't it wasn't I wasn't like terrified. I didn't have nightmares. Like I don't films don't really give me nightmares. So, it was, but it was, it was fairly well done and uh, I was like, okay, it was it was fairly enjoyable. I was like, that wasn't bad. It wasn't. Yeah, I I wasn't uh, terrified. I was like, oh, this is it was, it was solid. It was a, it was a horror movie, but maybe I maybe I'm just desensitized. Was this podcast done to us, Reginald? Yeah, I think nothing can compare to Hereditary. Hereditary. That Hereditary ruined me. I'm like, yo, I I forgot about that. I was like, dang, that one, that's a. Nothing is scary now. And again, Hereditary is not necessarily, I don't remember it being like overwhelmingly. It's disturbing. Yeah. It's it's disturbed. The images are very disturbing. Um, and then if you're religious, it's going to it's going to rattle, it's going to trigger you. We don't have to bring it back up. Okay. And it kind of just breaks the magic of it's just all, they're all okay. It's like, no. You don't realize what these people are doing for your entertainment. Kind of like the like with the wrestling stuff, but listening to some more stuff about wrestlers, like uh Kurt Angle, is that his name? Yeah, Kurt Angle. Talking about like how he broke his neck so many times and like after after originally breaking it in in the Olympics. Dude, just like. But yeah, also then the drugs. All for our entertainment. Yeah. And often they're, you know, performing hurt. That's uh, it's nuts. Absolutely. So anyhow, um, Friday Night Lights, good film. Check it out. A lot of lessons in there.
Casey G. Smith: Okay. I watched a a movie on Hulu called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Hm, is it animation?
Casey G. Smith: No, it's a live action film. It's on Hulu. Set slightly in the future. It it has a um, our girl from the one of the young adult novel series, uh.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Kristen Stewart.
Casey G. Smith: No, not even. She's she's kind of adjacent to Christian Stewart. She Shaileena Woodley. Yeah, Shaileena Woodley. But she's, you know, she's all grown up now, adult, very attractive, um, woman. But nonetheless, so the premise is this. There is a it's a future where all illegal immigrants have been deported, like deported to Mexico and like there's like a a barrier there, like almost like a wall. And so without that labor, in the states, they they make robots that look like humans and they do all the menial labor and things like that that most Americans don't don't want to do.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Black folks don't do it, don't want to do it.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. So, but it is illegal to have a robot of yourself doing other tasks and things like that. That's that's an illegal thing.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Interesting.
Casey G. Smith: However, we have a um, a rich financial advisor guy who is, yeah, who is using a robot to date to to date multiple women and then and woo them to the point where they want to sleep with him. And when that happens, the robot tags out and this guy goes in, sleeps with them. Appreciate that robot. Yeah, sleeps with them and then and then dumps them. Like terrible. So that, that's happening. But then there's another lady who has her own robot, who is using that robot to actually she she does the opposite. She goes out with guys, convinces them to buy things for her. She finds like well-off guys. And she's a gold digger, basically. Gets guys to buy things for her. And then when they're ready to sleep with her, she tags in her robot to go and sleep with them. And so.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That's a pretty convincing robot if you can sleep with people and then no one would notice.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. Like they're okay. Program, whatever. So and these, yeah, so but yeah, so that's the the premise of it and and and this is in the trailer, but these robots somehow these these the these people meet. They're one meets the other counterpart wise, and they end up going on a date. And things get mixed up where the robots end up in bed together. Oh, okay. And when that happens, like they malfunction and kind of like their minds open, like they orgasm and their minds open up. Who knew? And now they want to be free. Transcendent. Was it called when you're um, when you're all knowing now? Not all knowing, but you're free from the programming?
Casey G. Smith: Uh. Waking up, ascension, awareness.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Trans transition. Oh, transcendent. I I don't know, I'm assuming.
Casey G. Smith: I know what you mean. Yeah, there there is a word for that. Yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: When the AI has become all aware now.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, but they but they both become more self-aware and yeah, so it kind of, kind of goes from there. It's it's it was a, it was an entertaining little film.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay, Robots.
Casey G. Smith: An entertaining film, simply called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Um, I watched, there's a Kevin Hart stand-up. Did you know there was a new Kevin Hart stand-up?
Casey G. Smith: I did not.
Reginald Titus Jr.: What platform did I watch this on? Um, I think it was on Peacock, if I'm not mistaken. Was it on Peacock? Oh my God, I got to find out.
Casey G. Smith: That would make sense because he's he's got his heart to heart show on there. Oh, I'm trying to I'm trying to catch up on that because he has some pretty good episodes in his first season of heart to heart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: So anyhow, watched that. I'm assuming it's on Peacock. I don't have that many apps open right at this time. Uh, it was, it was pretty good. I give it probably like a 6 1/2 out of 10. Maybe a seven, 6 1/2. But it was funny. You know, it was like, you kind of know Kevin Hart's tendencies now. So like those certain things aren't as funny anymore because it's almost a character of himself. What you're going to, you know, you're going to all the same stuff. I was like, uh.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yes. And um, and then the camera, I don't know if they did this on purpose, but like a lot of times when he was, what was maybe like four or five camera angles. It was like moving too much. Like you have, you have one angle that's like kind of on a dolly that's sliding. That's kind of normal. Uh, but some of the stationary cameras, they're like, I don't know if that was an editing thing, but it was it was not good. And I don't know if they did that on purpose. I don't know what was the reason.
Casey G. Smith: But didn't didn't seem to work for you.
Reginald Titus Jr.: No, that it took away, like usually the angles should not take away take you out of the joke. You should be able to focus on the content. They should not draw attention to themselves. It felt like it was a mistake and they would cut to another one. Maybe they didn't. This one too. Dang. This one too. Four. Somebody stand still. I feel like somebody was switching in real time while they were doing their thing, and they just kept that edit. That's what I felt, that's what it feels like.
Casey G. Smith: Well, interesting. Well, you remember the name of the special?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope. That's Kevin Hart. Can't stand still. Yep. 2023, but it came out this year. So.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart. The First Take.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah, the first one. So some chuckles here and there, but uh, yeah, it's not his best, but it's better than the last one, I believe, which was during COVID.
Casey G. Smith: Was that the one like in London?
Reginald Titus Jr.: There was one he like did at his house. Oh, Yeah. Was he really at his house or was he like kind of had a stage like like like emulated his home?
Casey G. Smith: I, ooh, if I'm not mistaken, he actually mentioned that this was his house because he had to do this during COVID. You know, like people were literally still in mask. Yeah. And so he had to like keep it real small, whatever. Um, yeah. People got creative during those times. Yeah, you had to. So like that one felt kind of weird. That one felt, uh, that was a lot of stuff was weird during during the pandemic. I think he was like in his pajamas or something. Like it was, it was. He tried, he tried. He tried, Kevin. What's going on? Like, you know, it was cool, but it was just like, what are we doing? But anyhow, this time, it was okay. It was good. It was solid.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay.
Casey G. Smith: So I took a I took the plunge. I I we had talked about this maybe even on the previous show, but I'd seen the trailer for this film originally when I went to go see Scream 6. It was for Evil Dead Rise. Oh, that one. Yeah. And at the time when I saw the trailer in the theater, I said, hell to the no. I was like, but it it's been on Max and I saw it pop up there and something, something got a got a little itch. I was like, uh oh. I'm curious. I was like, uh oh. I was like, how will this really be scary? Hmm. So I took the plunge and uh, I watched Evil Dead Rise on Max. I watched it on a maybe on a Saturday and it was, it was still like, it was light outside. Yeah, it was still, it was still light. It was strategic. It was still some daylight. So, just in case I had to bail out. Just in case I had to cue it up, stepping outside. What are you doing? Run, run, run. Just take a little break. No, but by the time I finished it, it was it was it was dark. Darkness. Crossed across the land. But honestly, it was it has a lot of, it has a lot of like kind of callbacks to the original Evil Dead. They're like these moments. And yeah, go ahead. And uh, it kind of, it kind of continues the lore. It, I'll give it credit for, I think it kind of makes sense within the Evil Dead universe if you will. I'm like, oh, this is it was I was kind of I was I was kind of fascinated by how the story worked and even kind of how how it came about, especially remembering the first one. I won't give away any spoilers, but it was solid. And it it was it wasn't it wasn't I wasn't like terrified. I didn't have nightmares. Like I don't films don't really give me nightmares. So, it was, but it was, it was fairly well done and uh, I was like, okay, it was it was fairly enjoyable. I was like, that wasn't bad. It wasn't. Yeah, I I wasn't uh, terrified. I was like, oh, this is it was, it was solid. It was a, it was a horror movie, but maybe I maybe I'm just desensitized. Was this podcast done to us, Reginald? Yeah, I think nothing can compare to Hereditary. Hereditary. That Hereditary ruined me. I'm like, yo, I I forgot about that. I was like, dang, that one, that's a. Nothing is scary now. And again, Hereditary is not necessarily, I don't remember it being like overwhelmingly. It's disturbing. Yeah. It's it's disturbed. The images are very disturbing. Um, and then if you're religious, it's going to it's going to rattle, it's going to trigger you. We don't have to bring it back up. Okay. And it kind of just breaks the magic of it's just all, they're all okay. It's like, no. You don't realize what these people are doing for your entertainment. Kind of like the like with the wrestling stuff, but listening to some more stuff about wrestlers, like uh Kurt Angle, is that his name? Yeah, Kurt Angle. Talking about like how he broke his neck so many times and like after after originally breaking it in in the Olympics. Dude, just like. But yeah, also then the drugs. All for our entertainment. Yeah. And often they're, you know, performing hurt. That's uh, it's nuts. Absolutely. So anyhow, um, Friday Night Lights, good film. Check it out. A lot of lessons in there.
Casey G. Smith: Okay. I watched a a movie on Hulu called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Hm, is it animation?
Casey G. Smith: No, it's a live action film. It's on Hulu. Set slightly in the future. It it has a um, our girl from the one of the young adult novel series, uh.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Kristen Stewart.
Casey G. Smith: No, not even. She's she's kind of adjacent to Christian Stewart. She Shaileena Woodley. Yeah, Shaileena Woodley. But she's, you know, she's all grown up now, adult, very attractive, um, woman. But nonetheless, so the premise is this. There is a it's a future where all illegal immigrants have been deported, like deported to Mexico and like there's like a a barrier there, like almost like a wall. And so without that labor, in the states, they they make robots that look like humans and they do all the menial labor and things like that that most Americans don't don't want to do.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Black folks don't do it, don't want to do it.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. So, but it is illegal to have a robot of yourself doing other tasks and things like that. That's that's an illegal thing.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Interesting.
Casey G. Smith: However, we have a um, a rich financial advisor guy who is, yeah, who is using a robot to date to to date multiple women and then and woo them to the point where they want to sleep with him. And when that happens, the robot tags out and this guy goes in, sleeps with them. Appreciate that robot. Yeah, sleeps with them and then and then dumps them. Like terrible. So that, that's happening. But then there's another lady who has her own robot, who is using that robot to actually she she does the opposite. She goes out with guys, convinces them to buy things for her. She finds like well-off guys. And she's a gold digger, basically. Gets guys to buy things for her. And then when they're ready to sleep with her, she tags in her robot to go and sleep with them. And so.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That's a pretty convincing robot if you can sleep with people and then no one would notice.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. Like they're okay. Program, whatever. So and these, yeah, so but yeah, so that's the the premise of it and and and this is in the trailer, but these robots somehow these these the these people meet. They're one meets the other counterpart wise, and they end up going on a date. And things get mixed up where the robots end up in bed together. Oh, okay. And when that happens, like they malfunction and kind of like their minds open, like they orgasm and their minds open up. Who knew? And now they want to be free. Transcendent. Was it called when you're um, when you're all knowing now? Not all knowing, but you're free from the programming?
Casey G. Smith: Uh. Waking up, ascension, awareness.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Trans transition. Oh, transcendent. I I don't know, I'm assuming.
Casey G. Smith: I know what you mean. Yeah, there there is a word for that. Yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: When the AI has become all aware now.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, but they but they both become more self-aware and yeah, so it kind of, kind of goes from there. It's it's it was a, it was an entertaining little film.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay, Robots.
Casey G. Smith: An entertaining film, simply called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Um, I watched, there's a Kevin Hart stand-up. Did you know there was a new Kevin Hart stand-up?
Casey G. Smith: I did not.
Reginald Titus Jr.: What platform did I watch this on? Um, I think it was on Peacock, if I'm not mistaken. Was it on Peacock? Oh my God, I got to find out.
Casey G. Smith: That would make sense because he's he's got his heart to heart show on there. Oh, I'm trying to I'm trying to catch up on that because he has some pretty good episodes in his first season of heart to heart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: So anyhow, watched that. I'm assuming it's on Peacock. I don't have that many apps open right at this time. Uh, it was, it was pretty good. I give it probably like a 6 1/2 out of 10. Maybe a seven, 6 1/2. But it was funny. You know, it was like, you kind of know Kevin Hart's tendencies now. So like those certain things aren't as funny anymore because it's almost a character of himself. What you're going to, you know, you're going to all the same stuff. I was like, uh.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yes. And um, and then the camera, I don't know if they did this on purpose, but like a lot of times when he was, what was maybe like four or five camera angles. It was like moving too much. Like you have, you have one angle that's like kind of on a dolly that's sliding. That's kind of normal. Uh, but some of the stationary cameras, they're like, I don't know if that was an editing thing, but it was it was not good. And I don't know if they did that on purpose. I don't know what was the reason.
Casey G. Smith: But didn't didn't seem to work for you.
Reginald Titus Jr.: No, that it took away, like usually the angles should not take away take you out of the joke. You should be able to focus on the content. They should not draw attention to themselves. It felt like it was a mistake and they would cut to another one. Maybe they didn't. This one too. Dang. This one too. Four. Somebody stand still. I feel like somebody was switching in real time while they were doing their thing, and they just kept that edit. That's what I felt, that's what it feels like.
Casey G. Smith: Well, interesting. Well, you remember the name of the special?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope. That's Kevin Hart. Can't stand still. Yep. 2023, but it came out this year. So.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart. The First Take.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah, the first one. So some chuckles here and there, but uh, yeah, it's not his best, but it's better than the last one, I believe, which was during COVID.
Casey G. Smith: Was that the one like in London?
Reginald Titus Jr.: There was one he like did at his house. Oh, Yeah. Was he really at his house or was he like kind of had a stage like like like emulated his home?
Casey G. Smith: I, ooh, if I'm not mistaken, he actually mentioned that this was his house because he had to do this during COVID. You know, like people were literally still in mask. Yeah. And so he had to like keep it real small, whatever. Um, yeah. People got creative during those times. Yeah, you had to. So like that one felt kind of weird. That one felt, uh, that was a lot of stuff was weird during during the pandemic. I think he was like in his pajamas or something. Like it was, it was. He tried, he tried. He tried, Kevin. What's going on? Like, you know, it was cool, but it was just like, what are we doing? But anyhow, this time, it was okay. It was good. It was solid.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay.
Casey G. Smith: So I took a I took the plunge. I I we had talked about this maybe even on the previous show, but I'd seen the trailer for this film originally when I went to go see Scream 6. It was for Evil Dead Rise. Oh, that one. Yeah. And at the time when I saw the trailer in the theater, I said, hell to the no. I was like, but it it's been on Max and I saw it pop up there and something, something got a got a little itch. I was like, uh oh. I'm curious. I was like, uh oh. I was like, how will this really be scary? Hmm. So I took the plunge and uh, I watched Evil Dead Rise on Max. I watched it on a maybe on a Saturday and it was, it was still like, it was light outside. Yeah, it was still, it was still light. It was strategic. It was still some daylight. So, just in case I had to bail out. Just in case I had to cue it up, stepping outside. What are you doing? Run, run, run. Just take a little break. No, but by the time I finished it, it was it was it was dark. Darkness. Crossed across the land. But honestly, it was it has a lot of, it has a lot of like kind of callbacks to the original Evil Dead. They're like these moments. And yeah, go ahead. And uh, it kind of, it kind of continues the lore. It, I'll give it credit for, I think it kind of makes sense within the Evil Dead universe if you will. I'm like, oh, this is it was I was kind of I was I was kind of fascinated by how the story worked and even kind of how how it came about, especially remembering the first one. I won't give away any spoilers, but it was solid. And it it was it wasn't it wasn't I wasn't like terrified. I didn't have nightmares. Like I don't films don't really give me nightmares. So, it was, but it was, it was fairly well done and uh, I was like, okay, it was it was fairly enjoyable. I was like, that wasn't bad. It wasn't. Yeah, I I wasn't uh, terrified. I was like, oh, this is it was, it was solid. It was a, it was a horror movie, but maybe I maybe I'm just desensitized. Was this podcast done to us, Reginald? Yeah, I think nothing can compare to Hereditary. Hereditary. That Hereditary ruined me. I'm like, yo, I I forgot about that. I was like, dang, that one, that's a. Nothing is scary now. And again, Hereditary is not necessarily, I don't remember it being like overwhelmingly. It's disturbing. Yeah. It's it's disturbed. The images are very disturbing. Um, and then if you're religious, it's going to it's going to rattle, it's going to trigger you. We don't have to bring it back up. Okay. And it kind of just breaks the magic of it's just all, they're all okay. It's like, no. You don't realize what these people are doing for your entertainment. Kind of like the like with the wrestling stuff, but listening to some more stuff about wrestlers, like uh Kurt Angle, is that his name? Yeah, Kurt Angle. Talking about like how he broke his neck so many times and like after after originally breaking it in in the Olympics. Dude, just like. But yeah, also then the drugs. All for our entertainment. Yeah. And often they're, you know, performing hurt. That's uh, it's nuts. Absolutely. So anyhow, um, Friday Night Lights, good film. Check it out. A lot of lessons in there.
Casey G. Smith: Okay. I watched a a movie on Hulu called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Hm, is it animation?
Casey G. Smith: No, it's a live action film. It's on Hulu. Set slightly in the future. It it has a um, our girl from the one of the young adult novel series, uh.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Kristen Stewart.
Casey G. Smith: No, not even. She's she's kind of adjacent to Christian Stewart. She Shaileena Woodley. Yeah, Shaileena Woodley. But she's, you know, she's all grown up now, adult, very attractive, um, woman. But nonetheless, so the premise is this. There is a it's a future where all illegal immigrants have been deported, like deported to Mexico and like there's like a a barrier there, like almost like a wall. And so without that labor, in the states, they they make robots that look like humans and they do all the menial labor and things like that that most Americans don't don't want to do.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Black folks don't do it, don't want to do it.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. So, but it is illegal to have a robot of yourself doing other tasks and things like that. That's that's an illegal thing.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Interesting.
Casey G. Smith: However, we have a um, a rich financial advisor guy who is, yeah, who is using a robot to date to to date multiple women and then and woo them to the point where they want to sleep with him. And when that happens, the robot tags out and this guy goes in, sleeps with them. Appreciate that robot. Yeah, sleeps with them and then and then dumps them. Like terrible. So that, that's happening. But then there's another lady who has her own robot, who is using that robot to actually she she does the opposite. She goes out with guys, convinces them to buy things for her. She finds like well-off guys. And she's a gold digger, basically. Gets guys to buy things for her. And then when they're ready to sleep with her, she tags in her robot to go and sleep with them. And so.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That's a pretty convincing robot if you can sleep with people and then no one would notice.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. Like they're okay. Program, whatever. So and these, yeah, so but yeah, so that's the the premise of it and and and this is in the trailer, but these robots somehow these these the these people meet. They're one meets the other counterpart wise, and they end up going on a date. And things get mixed up where the robots end up in bed together. Oh, okay. And when that happens, like they malfunction and kind of like their minds open, like they orgasm and their minds open up. Who knew? And now they want to be free. Transcendent. Was it called when you're um, when you're all knowing now? Not all knowing, but you're free from the programming?
Casey G. Smith: Uh. Waking up, ascension, awareness.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Trans transition. Oh, transcendent. I I don't know, I'm assuming.
Casey G. Smith: I know what you mean. Yeah, there there is a word for that. Yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: When the AI has become all aware now.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, but they but they both become more self-aware and yeah, so it kind of, kind of goes from there. It's it's it was a, it was an entertaining little film.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay, Robots.
Casey G. Smith: An entertaining film, simply called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Um, I watched, there's a Kevin Hart stand-up. Did you know there was a new Kevin Hart stand-up?
Casey G. Smith: I did not.
Reginald Titus Jr.: What platform did I watch this on? Um, I think it was on Peacock, if I'm not mistaken. Was it on Peacock? Oh my God, I got to find out.
Casey G. Smith: That would make sense because he's he's got his heart to heart show on there. Oh, I'm trying to I'm trying to catch up on that because he has some pretty good episodes in his first season of heart to heart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: So anyhow, watched that. I'm assuming it's on Peacock. I don't have that many apps open right at this time. Uh, it was, it was pretty good. I give it probably like a 6 1/2 out of 10. Maybe a seven, 6 1/2. But it was funny. You know, it was like, you kind of know Kevin Hart's tendencies now. So like those certain things aren't as funny anymore because it's almost a character of himself. What you're going to, you know, you're going to all the same stuff. I was like, uh.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yes. And um, and then the camera, I don't know if they did this on purpose, but like a lot of times when he was, what was maybe like four or five camera angles. It was like moving too much. Like you have, you have one angle that's like kind of on a dolly that's sliding. That's kind of normal. Uh, but some of the stationary cameras, they're like, I don't know if that was an editing thing, but it was it was not good. And I don't know if they did that on purpose. I don't know what was the reason.
Casey G. Smith: But didn't didn't seem to work for you.
Reginald Titus Jr.: No, that it took away, like usually the angles should not take away take you out of the joke. You should be able to focus on the content. They should not draw attention to themselves. It felt like it was a mistake and they would cut to another one. Maybe they didn't. This one too. Dang. This one too. Four. Somebody stand still. I feel like somebody was switching in real time while they were doing their thing, and they just kept that edit. That's what I felt, that's what it feels like.
Casey G. Smith: Well, interesting. Well, you remember the name of the special?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope. That's Kevin Hart. Can't stand still. Yep. 2023, but it came out this year. So.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart. The First Take.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah, the first one. So some chuckles here and there, but uh, yeah, it's not his best, but it's better than the last one, I believe, which was during COVID.
Casey G. Smith: Was that the one like in London?
Reginald Titus Jr.: There was one he like did at his house. Oh, Yeah. Was he really at his house or was he like kind of had a stage like like like emulated his home?
Casey G. Smith: I, ooh, if I'm not mistaken, he actually mentioned that this was his house because he had to do this during COVID. You know, like people were literally still in mask. Yeah. And so he had to like keep it real small, whatever. Um, yeah. People got creative during those times. Yeah, you had to. So like that one felt kind of weird. That one felt, uh, that was a lot of stuff was weird during during the pandemic. I think he was like in his pajamas or something. Like it was, it was. He tried, he tried. He tried, Kevin. What's going on? Like, you know, it was cool, but it was just like, what are we doing? But anyhow, this time, it was okay. It was good. It was solid.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay.
Casey G. Smith: So I took a I took the plunge. I I we had talked about this maybe even on the previous show, but I'd seen the trailer for this film originally when I went to go see Scream 6. It was for Evil Dead Rise. Oh, that one. Yeah. And at the time when I saw the trailer in the theater, I said, hell to the no. I was like, but it it's been on Max and I saw it pop up there and something, something got a got a little itch. I was like, uh oh. I'm curious. I was like, uh oh. I was like, how will this really be scary? Hmm. So I took the plunge and uh, I watched Evil Dead Rise on Max. I watched it on a maybe on a Saturday and it was, it was still like, it was light outside. Yeah, it was still, it was still light. It was strategic. It was still some daylight. So, just in case I had to bail out. Just in case I had to cue it up, stepping outside. What are you doing? Run, run, run. Just take a little break. No, but by the time I finished it, it was it was it was dark. Darkness. Crossed across the land. But honestly, it was it has a lot of, it has a lot of like kind of callbacks to the original Evil Dead. They're like these moments. And yeah, go ahead. And uh, it kind of, it kind of continues the lore. It, I'll give it credit for, I think it kind of makes sense within the Evil Dead universe if you will. I'm like, oh, this is it was I was kind of I was I was kind of fascinated by how the story worked and even kind of how how it came about, especially remembering the first one. I won't give away any spoilers, but it was solid. And it it was it wasn't it wasn't I wasn't like terrified. I didn't have nightmares. Like I don't films don't really give me nightmares. So, it was, but it was, it was fairly well done and uh, I was like, okay, it was it was fairly enjoyable. I was like, that wasn't bad. It wasn't. Yeah, I I wasn't uh, terrified. I was like, oh, this is it was, it was solid. It was a, it was a horror movie, but maybe I maybe I'm just desensitized. Was this podcast done to us, Reginald? Yeah, I think nothing can compare to Hereditary. Hereditary. That Hereditary ruined me. I'm like, yo, I I forgot about that. I was like, dang, that one, that's a. Nothing is scary now. And again, Hereditary is not necessarily, I don't remember it being like overwhelmingly. It's disturbing. Yeah. It's it's disturbed. The images are very disturbing. Um, and then if you're religious, it's going to it's going to rattle, it's going to trigger you. We don't have to bring it back up. Okay. And it kind of just breaks the magic of it's just all, they're all okay. It's like, no. You don't realize what these people are doing for your entertainment. Kind of like the like with the wrestling stuff, but listening to some more stuff about wrestlers, like uh Kurt Angle, is that his name? Yeah, Kurt Angle. Talking about like how he broke his neck so many times and like after after originally breaking it in in the Olympics. Dude, just like. But yeah, also then the drugs. All for our entertainment. Yeah. And often they're, you know, performing hurt. That's uh, it's nuts. Absolutely. So anyhow, um, Friday Night Lights, good film. Check it out. A lot of lessons in there.
Casey G. Smith: Okay. I watched a a movie on Hulu called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Hm, is it animation?
Casey G. Smith: No, it's a live action film. It's on Hulu. Set slightly in the future. It it has a um, our girl from the one of the young adult novel series, uh.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Kristen Stewart.
Casey G. Smith: No, not even. She's she's kind of adjacent to Christian Stewart. She Shaileena Woodley. Yeah, Shaileena Woodley. But she's, you know, she's all grown up now, adult, very attractive, um, woman. But nonetheless, so the premise is this. There is a it's a future where all illegal immigrants have been deported, like deported to Mexico and like there's like a a barrier there, like almost like a wall. And so without that labor, in the states, they they make robots that look like humans and they do all the menial labor and things like that that most Americans don't don't want to do.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Black folks don't do it, don't want to do it.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. So, but it is illegal to have a robot of yourself doing other tasks and things like that. That's that's an illegal thing.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Interesting.
Casey G. Smith: However, we have a um, a rich financial advisor guy who is, yeah, who is using a robot to date to to date multiple women and then and woo them to the point where they want to sleep with him. And when that happens, the robot tags out and this guy goes in, sleeps with them. Appreciate that robot. Yeah, sleeps with them and then and then dumps them. Like terrible. So that, that's happening. But then there's another lady who has her own robot, who is using that robot to actually she she does the opposite. She goes out with guys, convinces them to buy things for her. She finds like well-off guys. And she's a gold digger, basically. Gets guys to buy things for her. And then when they're ready to sleep with her, she tags in her robot to go and sleep with them. And so.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That's a pretty convincing robot if you can sleep with people and then no one would notice.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. Like they're okay. Program, whatever. So and these, yeah, so but yeah, so that's the the premise of it and and and this is in the trailer, but these robots somehow these these the these people meet. They're one meets the other counterpart wise, and they end up going on a date. And things get mixed up where the robots end up in bed together. Oh, okay. And when that happens, like they malfunction and kind of like their minds open, like they orgasm and their minds open up. Who knew? And now they want to be free. Transcendent. Was it called when you're um, when you're all knowing now? Not all knowing, but you're free from the programming?
Casey G. Smith: Uh. Waking up, ascension, awareness.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Trans transition. Oh, transcendent. I I don't know, I'm assuming.
Casey G. Smith: I know what you mean. Yeah, there there is a word for that. Yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: When the AI has become all aware now.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, but they but they both become more self-aware and yeah, so it kind of, kind of goes from there. It's it's it was a, it was an entertaining little film.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay, Robots.
Casey G. Smith: An entertaining film, simply called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Um, I watched, there's a Kevin Hart stand-up. Did you know there was a new Kevin Hart stand-up?
Casey G. Smith: I did not.
Reginald Titus Jr.: What platform did I watch this on? Um, I think it was on Peacock, if I'm not mistaken. Was it on Peacock? Oh my God, I got to find out.
Casey G. Smith: That would make sense because he's he's got his heart to heart show on there. Oh, I'm trying to I'm trying to catch up on that because he has some pretty good episodes in his first season of heart to heart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: So anyhow, watched that. I'm assuming it's on Peacock. I don't have that many apps open right at this time. Uh, it was, it was pretty good. I give it probably like a 6 1/2 out of 10. Maybe a seven, 6 1/2. But it was funny. You know, it was like, you kind of know Kevin Hart's tendencies now. So like those certain things aren't as funny anymore because it's almost a character of himself. What you're going to, you know, you're going to all the same stuff. I was like, uh.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yes. And um, and then the camera, I don't know if they did this on purpose, but like a lot of times when he was, what was maybe like four or five camera angles. It was like moving too much. Like you have, you have one angle that's like kind of on a dolly that's sliding. That's kind of normal. Uh, but some of the stationary cameras, they're like, I don't know if that was an editing thing, but it was it was not good. And I don't know if they did that on purpose. I don't know what was the reason.
Casey G. Smith: But didn't didn't seem to work for you.
Reginald Titus Jr.: No, that it took away, like usually the angles should not take away take you out of the joke. You should be able to focus on the content. They should not draw attention to themselves. It felt like it was a mistake and they would cut to another one. Maybe they didn't. This one too. Dang. This one too. Four. Somebody stand still. I feel like somebody was switching in real time while they were doing their thing, and they just kept that edit. That's what I felt, that's what it feels like.
Casey G. Smith: Well, interesting. Well, you remember the name of the special?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope. That's Kevin Hart. Can't stand still. Yep. 2023, but it came out this year. So.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart. The First Take.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah, the first one. So some chuckles here and there, but uh, yeah, it's not his best, but it's better than the last one, I believe, which was during COVID.
Casey G. Smith: Was that the one like in London?
Reginald Titus Jr.: There was one he like did at his house. Oh, Yeah. Was he really at his house or was he like kind of had a stage like like like emulated his home?
Casey G. Smith: I, ooh, if I'm not mistaken, he actually mentioned that this was his house because he had to do this during COVID. You know, like people were literally still in mask. Yeah. And so he had to like keep it real small, whatever. Um, yeah. People got creative during those times. Yeah, you had to. So like that one felt kind of weird. That one felt, uh, that was a lot of stuff was weird during during the pandemic. I think he was like in his pajamas or something. Like it was, it was. He tried, he tried. He tried, Kevin. What's going on? Like, you know, it was cool, but it was just like, what are we doing? But anyhow, this time, it was okay. It was good. It was solid.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay.
Casey G. Smith: So I took a I took the plunge. I I we had talked about this maybe even on the previous show, but I'd seen the trailer for this film originally when I went to go see Scream 6. It was for Evil Dead Rise. Oh, that one. Yeah. And at the time when I saw the trailer in the theater, I said, hell to the no. I was like, but it it's been on Max and I saw it pop up there and something, something got a got a little itch. I was like, uh oh. I'm curious. I was like, uh oh. I was like, how will this really be scary? Hmm. So I took the plunge and uh, I watched Evil Dead Rise on Max. I watched it on a maybe on a Saturday and it was, it was still like, it was light outside. Yeah, it was still, it was still light. It was strategic. It was still some daylight. So, just in case I had to bail out. Just in case I had to cue it up, stepping outside. What are you doing? Run, run, run. Just take a little break. No, but by the time I finished it, it was it was it was dark. Darkness. Crossed across the land. But honestly, it was it has a lot of, it has a lot of like kind of callbacks to the original Evil Dead. They're like these moments. And yeah, go ahead. And uh, it kind of, it kind of continues the lore. It, I'll give it credit for, I think it kind of makes sense within the Evil Dead universe if you will. I'm like, oh, this is it was I was kind of I was I was kind of fascinated by how the story worked and even kind of how how it came about, especially remembering the first one. I won't give away any spoilers, but it was solid. And it it was it wasn't it wasn't I wasn't like terrified. I didn't have nightmares. Like I don't films don't really give me nightmares. So, it was, but it was, it was fairly well done and uh, I was like, okay, it was it was fairly enjoyable. I was like, that wasn't bad. It wasn't. Yeah, I I wasn't uh, terrified. I was like, oh, this is it was, it was solid. It was a, it was a horror movie, but maybe I maybe I'm just desensitized. Was this podcast done to us, Reginald? Yeah, I think nothing can compare to Hereditary. Hereditary. That Hereditary ruined me. I'm like, yo, I I forgot about that. I was like, dang, that one, that's a. Nothing is scary now. And again, Hereditary is not necessarily, I don't remember it being like overwhelmingly. It's disturbing. Yeah. It's it's disturbed. The images are very disturbing. Um, and then if you're religious, it's going to it's going to rattle, it's going to trigger you. We don't have to bring it back up. Okay. And it kind of just breaks the magic of it's just all, they're all okay. It's like, no. You don't realize what these people are doing for your entertainment. Kind of like the like with the wrestling stuff, but listening to some more stuff about wrestlers, like uh Kurt Angle, is that his name? Yeah, Kurt Angle. Talking about like how he broke his neck so many times and like after after originally breaking it in in the Olympics. Dude, just like. But yeah, also then the drugs. All for our entertainment. Yeah. And often they're, you know, performing hurt. That's uh, it's nuts. Absolutely. So anyhow, um, Friday Night Lights, good film. Check it out. A lot of lessons in there.
Casey G. Smith: Okay. I watched a a movie on Hulu called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Hm, is it animation?
Casey G. Smith: No, it's a live action film. It's on Hulu. Set slightly in the future. It it has a um, our girl from the one of the young adult novel series, uh.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Kristen Stewart.
Casey G. Smith: No, not even. She's she's kind of adjacent to Christian Stewart. She Shaileena Woodley. Yeah, Shaileena Woodley. But she's, you know, she's all grown up now, adult, very attractive, um, woman. But nonetheless, so the premise is this. There is a it's a future where all illegal immigrants have been deported, like deported to Mexico and like there's like a a barrier there, like almost like a wall. And so without that labor, in the states, they they make robots that look like humans and they do all the menial labor and things like that that most Americans don't don't want to do.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Black folks don't do it, don't want to do it.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. So, but it is illegal to have a robot of yourself doing other tasks and things like that. That's that's an illegal thing.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Interesting.
Casey G. Smith: However, we have a um, a rich financial advisor guy who is, yeah, who is using a robot to date to to date multiple women and then and woo them to the point where they want to sleep with him. And when that happens, the robot tags out and this guy goes in, sleeps with them. Appreciate that robot. Yeah, sleeps with them and then and then dumps them. Like terrible. So that, that's happening. But then there's another lady who has her own robot, who is using that robot to actually she she does the opposite. She goes out with guys, convinces them to buy things for her. She finds like well-off guys. And she's a gold digger, basically. Gets guys to buy things for her. And then when they're ready to sleep with her, she tags in her robot to go and sleep with them. And so.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That's a pretty convincing robot if you can sleep with people and then no one would notice.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. Like they're okay. Program, whatever. So and these, yeah, so but yeah, so that's the the premise of it and and and this is in the trailer, but these robots somehow these these the these people meet. They're one meets the other counterpart wise, and they end up going on a date. And things get mixed up where the robots end up in bed together. Oh, okay. And when that happens, like they malfunction and kind of like their minds open, like they orgasm and their minds open up. Who knew? And now they want to be free. Transcendent. Was it called when you're um, when you're all knowing now? Not all knowing, but you're free from the programming?
Casey G. Smith: Uh. Waking up, ascension, awareness.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Trans transition. Oh, transcendent. I I don't know, I'm assuming.
Casey G. Smith: I know what you mean. Yeah, there there is a word for that. Yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: When the AI has become all aware now.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, but they but they both become more self-aware and yeah, so it kind of, kind of goes from there. It's it's it was a, it was an entertaining little film.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay, Robots.
Casey G. Smith: An entertaining film, simply called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Um, I watched, there's a Kevin Hart stand-up. Did you know there was a new Kevin Hart stand-up?
Casey G. Smith: I did not.
Reginald Titus Jr.: What platform did I watch this on? Um, I think it was on Peacock, if I'm not mistaken. Was it on Peacock? Oh my God, I got to find out.
Casey G. Smith: That would make sense because he's he's got his heart to heart show on there. Oh, I'm trying to I'm trying to catch up on that because he has some pretty good episodes in his first season of heart to heart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: So anyhow, watched that. I'm assuming it's on Peacock. I don't have that many apps open right at this time. Uh, it was, it was pretty good. I give it probably like a 6 1/2 out of 10. Maybe a seven, 6 1/2. But it was funny. You know, it was like, you kind of know Kevin Hart's tendencies now. So like those certain things aren't as funny anymore because it's almost a character of himself. What you're going to, you know, you're going to all the same stuff. I was like, uh.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yes. And um, and then the camera, I don't know if they did this on purpose, but like a lot of times when he was, what was maybe like four or five camera angles. It was like moving too much. Like you have, you have one angle that's like kind of on a dolly that's sliding. That's kind of normal. Uh, but some of the stationary cameras, they're like, I don't know if that was an editing thing, but it was it was not good. And I don't know if they did that on purpose. I don't know what was the reason.
Casey G. Smith: But didn't didn't seem to work for you.
Reginald Titus Jr.: No, that it took away, like usually the angles should not take away take you out of the joke. You should be able to focus on the content. They should not draw attention to themselves. It felt like it was a mistake and they would cut to another one. Maybe they didn't. This one too. Dang. This one too. Four. Somebody stand still. I feel like somebody was switching in real time while they were doing their thing, and they just kept that edit. That's what I felt, that's what it feels like.
Casey G. Smith: Well, interesting. Well, you remember the name of the special?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope. That's Kevin Hart. Can't stand still. Yep. 2023, but it came out this year. So.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart. The First Take.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah, the first one. So some chuckles here and there, but uh, yeah, it's not his best, but it's better than the last one, I believe, which was during COVID.
Casey G. Smith: Was that the one like in London?
Reginald Titus Jr.: There was one he like did at his house. Oh, Yeah. Was he really at his house or was he like kind of had a stage like like like emulated his home?
Casey G. Smith: I, ooh, if I'm not mistaken, he actually mentioned that this was his house because he had to do this during COVID. You know, like people were literally still in mask. Yeah. And so he had to like keep it real small, whatever. Um, yeah. People got creative during those times. Yeah, you had to. So like that one felt kind of weird. That one felt, uh, that was a lot of stuff was weird during during the pandemic. I think he was like in his pajamas or something. Like it was, it was. He tried, he tried. He tried, Kevin. What's going on? Like, you know, it was cool, but it was just like, what are we doing? But anyhow, this time, it was okay. It was good. It was solid.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay.
Casey G. Smith: So I took a I took the plunge. I I we had talked about this maybe even on the previous show, but I'd seen the trailer for this film originally when I went to go see Scream 6. It was for Evil Dead Rise. Oh, that one. Yeah. And at the time when I saw the trailer in the theater, I said, hell to the no. I was like, but it it's been on Max and I saw it pop up there and something, something got a got a little itch. I was like, uh oh. I'm curious. I was like, uh oh. I was like, how will this really be scary? Hmm. So I took the plunge and uh, I watched Evil Dead Rise on Max. I watched it on a maybe on a Saturday and it was, it was still like, it was light outside. Yeah, it was still, it was still light. It was strategic. It was still some daylight. So, just in case I had to bail out. Just in case I had to cue it up, stepping outside. What are you doing? Run, run, run. Just take a little break. No, but by the time I finished it, it was it was it was dark. Darkness. Crossed across the land. But honestly, it was it has a lot of, it has a lot of like kind of callbacks to the original Evil Dead. They're like these moments. And yeah, go ahead. And uh, it kind of, it kind of continues the lore. It, I'll give it credit for, I think it kind of makes sense within the Evil Dead universe if you will. I'm like, oh, this is it was I was kind of I was I was kind of fascinated by how the story worked and even kind of how how it came about, especially remembering the first one. I won't give away any spoilers, but it was solid. And it it was it wasn't it wasn't I wasn't like terrified. I didn't have nightmares. Like I don't films don't really give me nightmares. So, it was, but it was, it was fairly well done and uh, I was like, okay, it was it was fairly enjoyable. I was like, that wasn't bad. It wasn't. Yeah, I I wasn't uh, terrified. I was like, oh, this is it was, it was solid. It was a, it was a horror movie, but maybe I maybe I'm just desensitized. Was this podcast done to us, Reginald? Yeah, I think nothing can compare to Hereditary. Hereditary. That Hereditary ruined me. I'm like, yo, I I forgot about that. I was like, dang, that one, that's a. Nothing is scary now. And again, Hereditary is not necessarily, I don't remember it being like overwhelmingly. It's disturbing. Yeah. It's it's disturbed. The images are very disturbing. Um, and then if you're religious, it's going to it's going to rattle, it's going to trigger you. We don't have to bring it back up. Okay. And it kind of just breaks the magic of it's just all, they're all okay. It's like, no. You don't realize what these people are doing for your entertainment. Kind of like the like with the wrestling stuff, but listening to some more stuff about wrestlers, like uh Kurt Angle, is that his name? Yeah, Kurt Angle. Talking about like how he broke his neck so many times and like after after originally breaking it in in the Olympics. Dude, just like. But yeah, also then the drugs. All for our entertainment. Yeah. And often they're, you know, performing hurt. That's uh, it's nuts. Absolutely. So anyhow, um, Friday Night Lights, good film. Check it out. A lot of lessons in there.
Casey G. Smith: Okay. I watched a a movie on Hulu called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Hm, is it animation?
Casey G. Smith: No, it's a live action film. It's on Hulu. Set slightly in the future. It it has a um, our girl from the one of the young adult novel series, uh.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Kristen Stewart.
Casey G. Smith: No, not even. She's she's kind of adjacent to Christian Stewart. She Shaileena Woodley. Yeah, Shaileena Woodley. But she's, you know, she's all grown up now, adult, very attractive, um, woman. But nonetheless, so the premise is this. There is a it's a future where all illegal immigrants have been deported, like deported to Mexico and like there's like a a barrier there, like almost like a wall. And so without that labor, in the states, they they make robots that look like humans and they do all the menial labor and things like that that most Americans don't don't want to do.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Black folks don't do it, don't want to do it.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. So, but it is illegal to have a robot of yourself doing other tasks and things like that. That's that's an illegal thing.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Interesting.
Casey G. Smith: However, we have a um, a rich financial advisor guy who is, yeah, who is using a robot to date to to date multiple women and then and woo them to the point where they want to sleep with him. And when that happens, the robot tags out and this guy goes in, sleeps with them. Appreciate that robot. Yeah, sleeps with them and then and then dumps them. Like terrible. So that, that's happening. But then there's another lady who has her own robot, who is using that robot to actually she she does the opposite. She goes out with guys, convinces them to buy things for her. She finds like well-off guys. And she's a gold digger, basically. Gets guys to buy things for her. And then when they're ready to sleep with her, she tags in her robot to go and sleep with them. And so.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That's a pretty convincing robot if you can sleep with people and then no one would notice.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. Like they're okay. Program, whatever. So and these, yeah, so but yeah, so that's the the premise of it and and and this is in the trailer, but these robots somehow these these the these people meet. They're one meets the other counterpart wise, and they end up going on a date. And things get mixed up where the robots end up in bed together. Oh, okay. And when that happens, like they malfunction and kind of like their minds open, like they orgasm and their minds open up. Who knew? And now they want to be free. Transcendent. Was it called when you're um, when you're all knowing now? Not all knowing, but you're free from the programming?
Casey G. Smith: Uh. Waking up, ascension, awareness.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Trans transition. Oh, transcendent. I I don't know, I'm assuming.
Casey G. Smith: I know what you mean. Yeah, there there is a word for that. Yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: When the AI has become all aware now.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, but they but they both become more self-aware and yeah, so it kind of, kind of goes from there. It's it's it was a, it was an entertaining little film.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay, Robots.
Casey G. Smith: An entertaining film, simply called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Um, I watched, there's a Kevin Hart stand-up. Did you know there was a new Kevin Hart stand-up?
Casey G. Smith: I did not.
Reginald Titus Jr.: What platform did I watch this on? Um, I think it was on Peacock, if I'm not mistaken. Was it on Peacock? Oh my God, I got to find out.
Casey G. Smith: That would make sense because he's he's got his heart to heart show on there. Oh, I'm trying to I'm trying to catch up on that because he has some pretty good episodes in his first season of heart to heart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: So anyhow, watched that. I'm assuming it's on Peacock. I don't have that many apps open right at this time. Uh, it was, it was pretty good. I give it probably like a 6 1/2 out of 10. Maybe a seven, 6 1/2. But it was funny. You know, it was like, you kind of know Kevin Hart's tendencies now. So like those certain things aren't as funny anymore because it's almost a character of himself. What you're going to, you know, you're going to all the same stuff. I was like, uh.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yes. And um, and then the camera, I don't know if they did this on purpose, but like a lot of times when he was, what was maybe like four or five camera angles. It was like moving too much. Like you have, you have one angle that's like kind of on a dolly that's sliding. That's kind of normal. Uh, but some of the stationary cameras, they're like, I don't know if that was an editing thing, but it was it was not good. And I don't know if they did that on purpose. I don't know what was the reason.
Casey G. Smith: But didn't didn't seem to work for you.
Reginald Titus Jr.: No, that it took away, like usually the angles should not take away take you out of the joke. You should be able to focus on the content. They should not draw attention to themselves. It felt like it was a mistake and they would cut to another one. Maybe they didn't. This one too. Dang. This one too. Four. Somebody stand still. I feel like somebody was switching in real time while they were doing their thing, and they just kept that edit. That's what I felt, that's what it feels like.
Casey G. Smith: Well, interesting. Well, you remember the name of the special?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope. That's Kevin Hart. Can't stand still. Yep. 2023, but it came out this year. So.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart. The First Take.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah, the first one. So some chuckles here and there, but uh, yeah, it's not his best, but it's better than the last one, I believe, which was during COVID.
Casey G. Smith: Was that the one like in London?
Reginald Titus Jr.: There was one he like did at his house. Oh, Yeah. Was he really at his house or was he like kind of had a stage like like like emulated his home?
Casey G. Smith: I, ooh, if I'm not mistaken, he actually mentioned that this was his house because he had to do this during COVID. You know, like people were literally still in mask. Yeah. And so he had to like keep it real small, whatever. Um, yeah. People got creative during those times. Yeah, you had to. So like that one felt kind of weird. That one felt, uh, that was a lot of stuff was weird during during the pandemic. I think he was like in his pajamas or something. Like it was, it was. He tried, he tried. He tried, Kevin. What's going on? Like, you know, it was cool, but it was just like, what are we doing? But anyhow, this time, it was okay. It was good. It was solid.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay.
Casey G. Smith: So I took a I took the plunge. I I we had talked about this maybe even on the previous show, but I'd seen the trailer for this film originally when I went to go see Scream 6. It was for Evil Dead Rise. Oh, that one. Yeah. And at the time when I saw the trailer in the theater, I said, hell to the no. I was like, but it it's been on Max and I saw it pop up there and something, something got a got a little itch. I was like, uh oh. I'm curious. I was like, uh oh. I was like, how will this really be scary? Hmm. So I took the plunge and uh, I watched Evil Dead Rise on Max. I watched it on a maybe on a Saturday and it was, it was still like, it was light outside. Yeah, it was still, it was still light. It was strategic. It was still some daylight. So, just in case I had to bail out. Just in case I had to cue it up, stepping outside. What are you doing? Run, run, run. Just take a little break. No, but by the time I finished it, it was it was it was dark. Darkness. Crossed across the land. But honestly, it was it has a lot of, it has a lot of like kind of callbacks to the original Evil Dead. They're like these moments. And yeah, go ahead. And uh, it kind of, it kind of continues the lore. It, I'll give it credit for, I think it kind of makes sense within the Evil Dead universe if you will. I'm like, oh, this is it was I was kind of I was I was kind of fascinated by how the story worked and even kind of how how it came about, especially remembering the first one. I won't give away any spoilers, but it was solid. And it it was it wasn't it wasn't I wasn't like terrified. I didn't have nightmares. Like I don't films don't really give me nightmares. So, it was, but it was, it was fairly well done and uh, I was like, okay, it was it was fairly enjoyable. I was like, that wasn't bad. It wasn't. Yeah, I I wasn't uh, terrified. I was like, oh, this is it was, it was solid. It was a, it was a horror movie, but maybe I maybe I'm just desensitized. Was this podcast done to us, Reginald? Yeah, I think nothing can compare to Hereditary. Hereditary. That Hereditary ruined me. I'm like, yo, I I forgot about that. I was like, dang, that one, that's a. Nothing is scary now. And again, Hereditary is not necessarily, I don't remember it being like overwhelmingly. It's disturbing. Yeah. It's it's disturbed. The images are very disturbing. Um, and then if you're religious, it's going to it's going to rattle, it's going to trigger you. We don't have to bring it back up. Okay. And it kind of just breaks the magic of it's just all, they're all okay. It's like, no. You don't realize what these people are doing for your entertainment. Kind of like the like with the wrestling stuff, but listening to some more stuff about wrestlers, like uh Kurt Angle, is that his name? Yeah, Kurt Angle. Talking about like how he broke his neck so many times and like after after originally breaking it in in the Olympics. Dude, just like. But yeah, also then the drugs. All for our entertainment. Yeah. And often they're, you know, performing hurt. That's uh, it's nuts. Absolutely. So anyhow, um, Friday Night Lights, good film. Check it out. A lot of lessons in there.
Casey G. Smith: Okay. I watched a a movie on Hulu called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Hm, is it animation?
Casey G. Smith: No, it's a live action film. It's on Hulu. Set slightly in the future. It it has a um, our girl from the one of the young adult novel series, uh.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Kristen Stewart.
Casey G. Smith: No, not even. She's she's kind of adjacent to Christian Stewart. She Shaileena Woodley. Yeah, Shaileena Woodley. But she's, you know, she's all grown up now, adult, very attractive, um, woman. But nonetheless, so the premise is this. There is a it's a future where all illegal immigrants have been deported, like deported to Mexico and like there's like a a barrier there, like almost like a wall. And so without that labor, in the states, they they make robots that look like humans and they do all the menial labor and things like that that most Americans don't don't want to do.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Black folks don't do it, don't want to do it.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. So, but it is illegal to have a robot of yourself doing other tasks and things like that. That's that's an illegal thing.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Interesting.
Casey G. Smith: However, we have a um, a rich financial advisor guy who is, yeah, who is using a robot to date to to date multiple women and then and woo them to the point where they want to sleep with him. And when that happens, the robot tags out and this guy goes in, sleeps with them. Appreciate that robot. Yeah, sleeps with them and then and then dumps them. Like terrible. So that, that's happening. But then there's another lady who has her own robot, who is using that robot to actually she she does the opposite. She goes out with guys, convinces them to buy things for her. She finds like well-off guys. And she's a gold digger, basically. Gets guys to buy things for her. And then when they're ready to sleep with her, she tags in her robot to go and sleep with them. And so.
Reginald Titus Jr.: That's a pretty convincing robot if you can sleep with people and then no one would notice.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah. Like they're okay. Program, whatever. So and these, yeah, so but yeah, so that's the the premise of it and and and this is in the trailer, but these robots somehow these these the these people meet. They're one meets the other counterpart wise, and they end up going on a date. And things get mixed up where the robots end up in bed together. Oh, okay. And when that happens, like they malfunction and kind of like their minds open, like they orgasm and their minds open up. Who knew? And now they want to be free. Transcendent. Was it called when you're um, when you're all knowing now? Not all knowing, but you're free from the programming?
Casey G. Smith: Uh. Waking up, ascension, awareness.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Trans transition. Oh, transcendent. I I don't know, I'm assuming.
Casey G. Smith: I know what you mean. Yeah, there there is a word for that. Yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: When the AI has become all aware now.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, but they but they both become more self-aware and yeah, so it kind of, kind of goes from there. It's it's it was a, it was an entertaining little film.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay, Robots.
Casey G. Smith: An entertaining film, simply called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Um, I watched, there's a Kevin Hart stand-up. Did you know there was a new Kevin Hart stand-up?
Casey G. Smith: I did not.
Reginald Titus Jr.: What platform did I watch this on? Um, I think it was on Peacock, if I'm not mistaken. Was it on Peacock? Oh my God, I got to find out.
Casey G. Smith: That would make sense because he's he's got his heart to heart show on there. Oh, I'm trying to I'm trying to catch up on that because he has some pretty good episodes in his first season of heart to heart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: So anyhow, watched that. I'm assuming it's on Peacock. I don't have that many apps open right at this time. Uh, it was, it was pretty good. I give it probably like a 6 1/2 out of 10. Maybe a seven, 6 1/2. But it was funny. You know, it was like, you kind of know Kevin Hart's tendencies now. So like those certain things aren't as funny anymore because it's almost a character of himself. What you're going to, you know, you're going to all the same stuff. I was like, uh.
Casey G. Smith: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yes. And um, and then the camera, I don't know if they did this on purpose, but like a lot of times when he was, what was maybe like four or five camera angles. It was like moving too much. Like you have, you have one angle that's like kind of on a dolly that's sliding. That's kind of normal. Uh, but some of the stationary cameras, they're like, I don't know if that was an editing thing, but it was it was not good. And I don't know if they did that on purpose. I don't know what was the reason.
Casey G. Smith: But didn't didn't seem to work for you.
Reginald Titus Jr.: No, that it took away, like usually the angles should not take away take you out of the joke. You should be able to focus on the content. They should not draw attention to themselves. It felt like it was a mistake and they would cut to another one. Maybe they didn't. This one too. Dang. This one too. Four. Somebody stand still. I feel like somebody was switching in real time while they were doing their thing, and they just kept that edit. That's what I felt, that's what it feels like.
Casey G. Smith: Well, interesting. Well, you remember the name of the special?
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Nope. That's Kevin Hart. Can't stand still. Yep. 2023, but it came out this year. So.
Casey G. Smith: Kevin Hart. The First Take.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Yeah, the first one. So some chuckles here and there, but uh, yeah, it's not his best, but it's better than the last one, I believe, which was during COVID.
Casey G. Smith: Was that the one like in London?
Reginald Titus Jr.: There was one he like did at his house. Oh, Yeah. Was he really at his house or was he like kind of had a stage like like like emulated his home?
Casey G. Smith: I, ooh, if I'm not mistaken, he actually mentioned that this was his house because he had to do this during COVID. You know, like people were literally still in mask. Yeah. And so he had to like keep it real small, whatever. Um, yeah. People got creative during those times. Yeah, you had to. So like that one felt kind of weird. That one felt, uh, that was a lot of stuff was weird during during the pandemic. I think he was like in his pajamas or something. Like it was, it was. He tried, he tried. He tried, Kevin. What's going on? Like, you know, it was cool, but it was just like, what are we doing? But anyhow, this time, it was okay. It was good. It was solid.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Okay.
Casey G. Smith: So I took a I took the plunge. I I we had talked about this maybe even on the previous show, but I'd seen the trailer for this film originally when I went to go see Scream 6. It was for Evil Dead Rise. Oh, that one. Yeah. And at the time when I saw the trailer in the theater, I said, hell to the no. I was like, but it it's been on Max and I saw it pop up there and something, something got a got a little itch. I was like, uh oh. I'm curious. I was like, uh oh. I was like, how will this really be scary? Hmm. So I took the plunge and uh, I watched Evil Dead Rise on Max. I watched it on a maybe on a Saturday and it was, it was still like, it was light outside. Yeah, it was still, it was still light. It was strategic. It was still some daylight. So, just in case I had to bail out. Just in case I had to cue it up, stepping outside. What are you doing? Run, run, run. Just take a little break. No, but by the time I finished it, it was it was it was dark. Darkness. Crossed across the land. But honestly, it was it has a lot of, it has a lot of like kind of callbacks to the original Evil Dead. They're like these moments. And yeah, go ahead. And uh, it kind of, it kind of continues the lore. It, I'll give it credit for, I think it kind of makes sense within the Evil Dead universe if you will. I'm like, oh, this is it was I was kind of I was I was kind of fascinated by how the story worked and even kind of how how it came about, especially remembering the first one. I won't give away any spoilers, but it was solid. And it it was it wasn't it wasn't I wasn't like terrified. I didn't have nightmares. Like I don't films don't really give me nightmares. So, it was, but it was, it was fairly well done and uh, I was like, okay, it was it was fairly enjoyable. I was like, that wasn't bad. It wasn't. Yeah, I I wasn't uh, terrified. I was like, oh, this is it was, it was solid. It was a, it was a horror movie, but maybe I maybe I'm just desensitized. Was this podcast done to us, Reginald? Yeah, I think nothing can compare to Hereditary. Hereditary. That Hereditary ruined me. I'm like, yo, I I forgot about that. I was like, dang, that one, that's a. Nothing is scary now. And again, Hereditary is not necessarily, I don't remember it being like overwhelmingly. It's disturbing. Yeah. It's it's disturbed. The images are very disturbing. Um, and then if you're religious, it's going to it's going to rattle, it's going to trigger you. We don't have to bring it back up. Okay. And it kind of just breaks the magic of it's just all, they're all okay. It's like, no. You don't realize what these people are doing for your entertainment. Kind of like the like with the wrestling stuff, but listening to some more stuff about wrestlers, like uh Kurt Angle, is that his name? Yeah, Kurt Angle. Talking about like how he broke his neck so many times and like after after originally breaking it in in the Olympics. Dude, just like. But yeah, also then the drugs. All for our entertainment. Yeah. And often they're, you know, performing hurt. That's uh, it's nuts. Absolutely. So anyhow, um, Friday Night Lights, good film. Check it out. A lot of lessons in there.
Casey G. Smith: Okay. I watched a a movie on Hulu called Robots.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Hm, is it animation?
Casey G. Smith: No, it's a live action film. It's on Hulu. Set slightly in the future. It it has a um, our girl from the one of the young adult novel series, uh.
Reginald Titus Jr.: Kristen Stewart.
Casey G. Smith: No, not even. She's she's kind of adjacent to Christian Stewart. She Shaileena Woodley. Yeah, Shaileena Woodley. But she's, you know, she's all grown up now, adult, very attractive, um, woman. But nonetheless, so the premise is this. There is a it's a future where all illegal immigrants have been deported, like deported to Mexico and like there's like a a barrier there, like almost like a wall. And so without that labor, in the states, they they make robots that look like humans and they do all the menial labor and things like that that most Americans don't don't want to do.
Reginald