The Meteor Man

Different.

This, this is, this is gonna be an interesting episode because, um, it is a little bit emotional for me because fun fact, when we did Meteor Man, when Shaggy was on, Shaggy was one of our first, uh, guests.

That was the day my dad found out I podcast.

[laughs]

Mm-mm.

They weren't in there with us, bro.

You wanna talk about heroes that are pillars of the Black community, somehow since the advent of Blur Con, all three of us have seen Black folks that put Meteor Man as like the pinnacle of pinnacle of heroes.

Bear in mind, Shag-

And that's why I know Robert Townsend from Criterion.

But he's also he's made plenty of movies made like Meteor Man.

He actually directed Eddie Murphy Raw.

So if you've seen Raw, then you you've seen one of his movies.

Let's go back.

When did you first see the first movie? What did you think of the previous ones? Wasn't that the first movie? There's other movies? Yeah, there's like three before this.

There was Resident Evil, then Apocalypse.

News to me, Tony.

I wonder if this was very confusing.

Oh, yeah, maybe.

So you didn't even know that there were movies before this?

Nope, I thought this was the only

You

know what's so funny about Luther Vandross' thing? Do you know Luther Vandross had a prominent role in Meteor Man and didn't say one word?

He said a couple words.

He didn't say one word at all.

Get off me, crack boy.

Drug dealer people, Meteor Man's in town.

Great Scott.

I got some very important for my man Fresh to do.

If you get that, let me know

and I'll send you my copy of Meteor Man that's in German because I couldn't watch it.

I forgot you bought that.

That's funny.

hollywood shuffle came after right i think and then yes he had the opportunity he did five heartbeats the only thing wrong with that movie it opened up passover good friday easter sunday weekend and that weekend and they had a coca-cola commercial with it and uh and they had everything going it still makes money it's still a hit but uh it got burned by that weekend you know what i mean nobody went that weekend i love that movie it was my memory was uh Just I love doing it.

And, you know, I did Meteor Man for him.

Yeah.

And I did a movie produced called Book of Love.

Sorry.

Someone said, uh, YouTube blows, still up on Rumble, and they meant the Meteor Man episode.

I thought they-

Oh

for sure.

You got Meteor Man and I got Hollywood Shuffle.

You

all right? You cool? You straight? You straight?