Shalewa Sharpe

2008? 2008?

Paul Rudd.

Hello! Hi, everyone. Welcome, welcome.

Oh, the dirty, dirty streets of Atlanta, Casey. Oh, my God. Where there were just young people roaming, just looking for their next, you know, Britpop fix or just any dive bar that needed people in horn-rimmed glasses to hang out around the edges. Yeah.

Yes, absolutely.

I mean, when you say, like, sure, I'd love to date women that aren't white, but my... My penis is racist? Yeah, you're going to have people who are not white sit down and go, what? Yeah. And so that's that's what we had to do for hours.

My area of expertise that I'd like to discuss today is the Magic Mike universe. Fabulous.

The trilogy, the trilogy, yes.

It was the Step Up movie, the first one. I didn't see it in the theater, and I did end up renting it and watching it. And I remember at some point... standing up and yelling, why didn't I see this in the theater? Because it's so amazing.

But that definitely was my entry point into Channing Tatum. And I viewed him in a particular way, which definitely evolved. as I got to know him more air quotes around. No, but yes, he came in and he, he really stole my heart very quickly because he is what I like to call one of our chin strap beard warriors. Yeah.

And that is what I call any young Caucasian man who has an affinity for Black music, for R&B, especially for hip-hop, for all aspects of hip-hop. All of the graffiti, the breakdancing. The breakdancing is important.

I truly am stone cold. I'm the deuce out here. But If you are a young white man with a respectable fade or a shaved head and or a chin strap beard, I don't know. There's going to be problems. I'm a weekend.

Yes, we did. Full disclosure. Full disclosure. I was there. We saw it together. We like ran. We ran. But I enjoyed Magic Mike, but it also was a little dark. Yes.

And I remember walking out and I was like, I mean, yeah, they dance, but oh my God. They could have danced more.

Yes.

Yeah, absolutely. I think so. I think what they did is they took the montage in the first one. First, they took out all the Soderbergh-ness. And for XXL, they took the montage of Matthew McConaughey teaching the new kid how to move like a rattlesnake in the mirror and then you stick it. They took that and then they took it out of the golden hour lighting and put it in brighter lighting.

Did some color correction on the second one. Yeah, let's brighten this up. Let's technicolor this bitch. And then they were like, let's make a whole movie of that energy. Yeah.

America loves a road movie.

The second one is definitely, it's a magic, magic, magic, magic bike.

It has its own like ballerina John Wick type movie. Exactly. Yeah. And I may be getting ahead of us, but this is why I was so angry with the last dance. Yes. Magic Mike's last dance, the third one. We'll get there. Yeah, but because of what they did in the second movie.

Like, there were a couple of stories that definitely could have been just, like, offshoots from this main thing that would have been fine. You know, maybe not theatrical release. I don't know. But you could have thrown that either straight to DVD or a streamer, wherever it would have fallen in the timeline of things. Pluto. Pluto. Yeah. Excellent Tubi movie. An excellent Tubi movie.

Yeah, freebie. Yes, a freebie original of like... What's his name? Big Dick... Big Dick Ritchie. Big Dick Ritchie. Like, he... Finally finding his glass slipper and now moving in, like probably taking up with that woman. What did that look like? Yeah, totally. Also to find out the personalities of these dancers.

Right. And then it was in Desert Storm. Like all kinds of stuff that it's like, what? And it's not like I need you to give me a movie for each one of these guys, like a children's book or something. I don't need to know all of that. But there were a couple of things that happened to them that it's like, how did you end up here? Yeah. Yeah.

you know, you definitely could be, we could do a four rooms. Sure. Yeah. Different directors, just to, you know, directors for each one, like an anthology. Yeah. I feel like we could do that for them at the very least. That would have been something.

Yeah, I was so mad.

No, we didn't even get a good like boys in that they found. That's really what got me. I was like, OK, it really was bad. It was it was Godfather three. It was the whole thing gave me my purse. I was like, oh, this is my personal godfather because I I love the first one. I really love the second one. The second one had two stories going on, really. And then the third one is.

questionable at best, but I do not like it.

It really does. And I mean, after the first performance that he gives for, he did a few things. I was just like, physically, I'm like, oh, wow. Okay. You still got it, Mike. And I'm like, you don't want to train like Magic Mike, the next generation or like a... Like, you know, which I think is already like a reality show or something.

they concentrated on the wrong thing because they paid for Salma Hayek to be there. That's why.

I don't think the reviews were great on three. And that may have stuck in Channing Tatum's craw maybe a little bit because that is, I feel like, what it would take. for a fourth one to be made. There's room. You can save it if you have a movie with a little life in it. Honestly, I really love the idea of doing the Jada story, but that might be too far gone now.

But I think that they could do some sort of a reboot.

That's my new favorite guy. Ha ha ha! I love him so much.

If they called it the son of Magic Mike, that would be enough. Son of Magic Mike is like so funny. Yeah, I think that's what they would have to do. They'd have to do it like they did the Step Up movie, like where Channing just comes through for one scene and he's literally glowing like... I don't know, Obi-Wan Kenobi or some shit.

And he just kind of comes through and is just like, I give you the power or something, something glittery. And now he's able to hit his son or his nephew or some whatever is now able to. I think that's what it would take.

Yeah.

Let's go.

big dick and he's like translucent you know like smiling down on them because they're dead absolutely i would love nothing more than to see nicholas gallatin in an attic lifting out of a dusty box a penis pump yes just blowing the dust off a penis pump And just like, what is this? And then like packing it all up, leaving the house, you know, give us a little bit of the love is a battlefield.

Pat Benatar video vibe, like all of this, a little bit of footloose, very 80s, like us against the system vibe.

Anything that ends with somebody with their fist up at the end in a freeze frame. I think we got it. Yeah. No, I think that's it. Yeah. I think that's it. Oh, my God. It's a way in. It's a way in. And it's so wild. And then you just want to see what happens. Yes. Oh, man.

I'm here for it. I'm here for it.

Oh, sure. I am tragically and chronically online at still at all of the things. My handle on all of them is at Silky Jumbo, all one word, traditional spelling, except for TikTok, where the O at the end is a zero. But if you actually just put the O in, you'll find the other account that I forgot the password to. You'll find me. Look, I'm there. I'm there. I swear.

My website is shalewasharp.tumblr.com because I don't know what I'm doing. Why would I leave Tumblr? Yeah, I'm on Instagram a lot. I'm on Twitter. The only dead name I use. I'm on Twitter all the time. That's usually where you can find where I'm going to be. If you are in the New York City area, UCB has a theater on East 14th Street.

And on Monday nights, there's a free stand-up comedy show called Whiplash. And I am the host of that. That's a... a very storied standup show that has is back from the risen from the ashes along with UCB again. And, and so I'm hosting that so you can find me there just stumbling through jokes and, and pointing at people in audiences and laughing at them. And yeah, that's about it.

I, I teach at the Brooklyn comedy collective online. If you look up brooklyncomedy.com, that's them. Yeah. And then otherwise I'm just kind of haunting the streets a lot. Yeah. I could easily be found.

Every, yeah, every Thursday for sure. And occasionally on Mondays, that's our bonus episode that we still seem to have done and people expect. And I'm like, I don't know if we understand what bonus means, all of us. But yeah, it's me and Gaston Aramonte, who's a very funny comedian and he's a very Brooklyn, a Brooklyn boy and just very New York. And I have to break him of that. Yeah.

break him of that because he's so brooklyn and i just gotta it's enough it's too much so that's that's what we're doing while talking about news stories well thanks again shalewa you're the best we really appreciate thank you shalewa this is great my pleasure thanks for having me i just would be sitting in my living room talking about these movies anyway so there you go so