Episode 69 -United We Heal

Summary

Grits and Eggs Podcast: Episode 69 - United We Heal

Host: Deontay Kyle
Co-Hosts: Big Ice Cup, Ebony Roberts, Jetta Simone
Guests: Representatives from the United We Heal Film Festival
Release Date: June 2, 2025

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Introduction and Welcome

The episode kicks off with Deontay Kyle expressing gratitude for another day and setting a positive tone with his original lyrics (00:04). Shortly after, Big Ice Cup introduces himself and the theme of the episode, hinting at something significant to share (00:50).

Quote:
Big Ice Cup: "What we got, son? We're gonna let them know in a minute." (00:50)

Introducing the United We Heal Team

Ebony Roberts and Jetta Simone from the United Wheel Film Festival join the conversation, bringing energy and enthusiasm to the discussion. They share their initial experiences traveling to Atlanta and dealing with traffic, adding a relatable touch to the podcast (01:26 - 02:34).

Quote:
Jetta Simone: "This is supposed to be serious. We are supposed to be healing." (03:03)

Origin and Motivation Behind United We Heal Film Festival

Ebony Roberts delves into the inspiration behind the United We Heal Film Festival. She highlights the lack of positive representation for Black and Brown filmmakers in mainstream media, which often focuses on trauma and negativity. The festival aims to uplift the community by showcasing short films centered on healing and empowerment (04:10 - 08:12).

Quote:
Ebony Roberts: "I wanted to make something that uplifted us and that showed how coming together could make us stronger." (06:05)

Challenging Media Stereotypes

The hosts discuss the pervasive stereotypes in media that exploit and misrepresent Black individuals. They emphasize the importance of telling diverse and positive stories to counteract these harmful portrayals. Big Ice Cup criticizes sensationalism in media and stresses the need for nuanced storytelling (08:05 - 11:01).

Quote:
Big Ice Cup: "There's a benefit to understanding how displaying harmful stereotypes of black people is beneficial. It makes people money." (09:13)

Big Ice Cup's Hosting Journey

A humorous segment unfolds as Big Ice Cup recounts his unexpected hiring as the host of the film festival. Initially believing he was being interviewed for a different role, he realizes he has been selected to lead the event. This anecdote showcases his unique personality and the organic growth of the podcast (16:24 - 25:09).

Quote:
Big Ice Cup: "I never knew this was an interview." (21:50)

Importance of Independent Filmmaking and Film Festivals

Jetta Simone and Ebony Roberts discuss the critical role of independent filmmaking in providing a platform for diverse voices. They highlight how film festivals like United We Heal serve as launchpads for aspiring filmmakers, offering distribution opportunities and fostering a supportive community (40:29 - 48:15).

Quote:
Jetta Simone: "You have to be in love with the process and the art itself." (46:02)

Upcoming United We Heal Film Festival Details

The conversation shifts to the specifics of the upcoming film festival. The team outlines the schedule, including a welcome concert featuring local artists on June 18th and the main event on June 20th. They also announce exciting collaborations, merchandise releases, and exclusive offerings available only at the festival (56:04 - 64:14).

Quote:
Ebony Roberts: "This is for black people to tell their stories, to see themselves on screen." (25:46)

Showcase of "Shopping Spree"

A highlight of the episode is the live reaction to Ebony Roberts' short film, "Shopping Spree." The film, a companion piece to her script "American Debt," uses poetry and dance to explore themes of financial empowerment and systemic change. The hosts provide insightful commentary and engage with the film's message, reinforcing the festival's mission (68:03 - 77:52).

Quote:
Deontay Kyle: "Now that's how I ride." (72:15)

Conclusion and Future Plans

As the episode wraps up, the hosts reiterate the importance of balancing serious discussions with moments of joy and laughter. They encourage listeners to attend the United We Heal Film Festival, highlighting the growth and future potential of the event. The episode ends on a high note, with anticipation for future collaborations and continued community support (77:52 - End).

Quote:
Big Ice Cup: "I'm looking forward to it, man. I've been thinking I've been... excited too, and I appreciate y' all for bringing me on." (63:51)

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Key Takeaways

1. Mission of United We Heal Film Festival: To provide a platform for Black and Brown filmmakers to showcase short films that emphasize healing, empowerment, and positive representation.

2. Challenging Stereotypes: The festival aims to counteract negative stereotypes in media by supporting diverse and nuanced storytelling.

3. Independent Filmmaking: Emphasizes the importance of independent films as a means for creative expression and breaking into the industry without major studio constraints.

4. Community and Collaboration: Highlights the power of community support, sponsorship, and collaboration in making the festival a success.

5. Upcoming Events: Details about the June 18th welcome concert and June 20th film festival, including performances, merchandise, and exclusive screenings.

Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Big Ice Cup: "What we got, son? We're gonna let them know in a minute." (00:50)
• Ebony Roberts: "I wanted to make something that uplifted us and that showed how coming together could make us stronger." (06:05)
• Big Ice Cup: "There's a benefit to understanding how displaying harmful stereotypes of black people is beneficial. It makes people money." (09:13)
• Big Ice Cup: "I never knew this was an interview." (21:50)
• Jetta Simone: "You have to be in love with the process and the art itself." (46:02)
• Ebony Roberts: "This is for black people to tell their stories, to see themselves on screen." (25:46)
• Deontay Kyle: "Now that's how I ride." (72:15)
• Big Ice Cup: "I'm looking forward to it, man. I've been thinking I've been... excited too, and I appreciate y' all for bringing me on." (63:51)

Final Thoughts

Episode 69 of the Grits and Eggs Podcast, titled "United We Heal," offers a deep dive into the motivations and significance of the United We Heal Film Festival. Through engaging discussions, personal anecdotes, and a showcase of impactful short films, the podcast underscores the importance of representation, community support, and independent storytelling in the film industry. Listeners are encouraged to participate in the upcoming festival and support Black and Brown filmmakers in their journey toward healing and empowerment.

Transcript

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah Woke up in the morning and to God be the glory Thankful for another day to tell my story Put my opinions in the universe and let them orbit I'm from the dirty soul with a dirty mouth My knee orbit, miss things things on me like a Norbit had to refuse them cause my no rest fusion she gorgeous As I dab my sons up and kiss my daughter forehead Tell them we gonna get this money to my pockets Mor remember living in apartments now we playing mortgage. You ain't gotta like a nigga Regardless baby I'm blessed and I keep that bleak with me we like grits and eggs as you sip your coffee Flick your cigarette and let a nigga vent yeah, we back.

[Big Ice Cup]

Oh, we back. Chris and eggs podcast episode 68 I'm your host, Deontay Kyle. But who's behind the camera? The coolest co host Big ice cup episod hey deontayantaykyle.com for all music submissions, advice submissions. But we ain't got none of them today. Cause we got something better. What we got, son? We're gonna let them know in a minute. 657234X that's 657-234-3447 for all voice call, ins, voicemails. But we ain't got none of those today.

[Ebony Roberts]

What we got, son?

[Big Ice Cup]

June Underground Arts Philadelphia. United Wheel Film Festival. Yes, sir. We got the ladies in the building.

[Ebony Roberts]

Drop a bomb.

[Big Ice Cup]

Drop a bomb. Where the bear horns at? We got Ebony Roberts and Jetta Simone from the United Wheel Film Festival in the building, long awaited.

[Ebony Roberts]

Here we go.

[Big Ice Cup]

How y' all doing?

[Ebony Roberts]

Doing great.

[Big Ice Cup]

We back.

[Ebony Roberts]

We back. We back like we never left.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Flight was good. Got into that Atlanta traffic. Yeah, ain't no joke either.

[Ebony Roberts]

Oh, yeah, we got some gristed eggs.

[Big Ice Cup]

Last night too, at the. At the. At the spot.

[Jetta Simone]

Nah, we need to go to the spot. We gotta go to the real spot, cuz. This spot.

[Ebony Roberts]

Go to the real spot, you mean?

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Where y' all go?

[Ebony Roberts]

Mm.

[Big Ice Cup]

I see. I got the full Atlanta experience. Yeah.

[Jetta Simone]

Got the traffic.

[Big Ice Cup]

Got some bullshit. Yeah, yeah. You can't. Let me tell you something. Everything's up front, baby. Can't go nowhere based off no looks. You gotta go and read them reviews.

[Ebony Roberts]

Understood?

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The shit look good? She look good. Did they have a grass wall in it? Keep it real, son. No grass wall. Oh, you got the old school finesse, man. Y' all should. I would. I would have put you on a few spots. We. We're gonna go somewhere after this fight, we gonna take them, per se. Grass wall. But good food. Grass wall, good food. Waiters, waitresses, a little bit of attitude. A little bit. Sometimes a little bit, depending on how busy it is. But we respect that food A1. It come out fast.

[Ebony Roberts]

That's it.

[Big Ice Cup]

That's all that matters. Them drink strong.

[Ebony Roberts]

Okay.

[Big Ice Cup]

Get you drunk. So let's talk more. Okay. Let's start. Because we are the fourth annual. This is the fourth annual that I'm hosting. Hey, yeah.

[Ebony Roberts]

Drop some bombs on.

[Big Ice Cup]

Oh, oh. If you in Philly, Philadelphia right now. No, we not doing that. We're not doing that. In Tech one, we got a little out of control. We not doing that. So let's get to know more about y' all on a personal level. Ms. Ebony Roberts, start with you.

[Ebony Roberts]

My name is Ebony Roberts. I'm the director and the founder of the United We Heal Film Festival. Yeah, filmmaker, director.

[Big Ice Cup]

All the things.

[Jetta Simone]

Oh. I am a multi hyphening creative. My top line is a writer. What's your name? Oh, I'm Jetta. Hello. And that's Onyx. So, yeah, I spent a little bit of time in the finance world, so I kind of merged that experience into my art. And now I'm a financial storyteller, as I call it.

[Big Ice Cup]

Mmm. All right. Bet. Boom. I want to know more about that. Like, tell me, what is a financial. Your story?

[Jetta Simone]

Well, I gave myself that title.

[Big Ice Cup]

Oh, ain't it beautiful? Ain't that a beautiful. I'm making up my own terms out here. I'm merging worlds.

[Ebony Roberts]

That's it.

[Big Ice Cup]

That's a story of money.

[Jetta Simone]

Exactly, exactly.

[Big Ice Cup]

Money got a story, too.

[Ebony Roberts]

They got a story.

[Jetta Simone]

I mean, what you think about? Okay, I don't want to jump ahead, but, like, in general, I think all of our realities are predicated on the stories that we tell ourselves. And the media definitely influences how we view so much so I'm using the power of the pen to positively influence black folks and their money.

[Big Ice Cup]

Hey, drop a bomb.

[Ebony Roberts]

Drop a bomb.

[Big Ice Cup]

A lot of bombs in some. Tristan gonna be like, what the fuck are they doing? What are they doing? Guys, I already hear the phone call, guys. Let's talk about.

[Jetta Simone]

And when it comes to United We Heal, I'm the assistant director.

[Big Ice Cup]

Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay. We did that thing. We did that whole thing. All right, so let's talk about how we. What was the influence or the motivation to start your own film festival? Of course, everything, especially with black people, come from a lack of representation.

[Ebony Roberts]

For sure.

[Big Ice Cup]

That was what my initial idea was. Like, oh, y' all just got your own shit going. Cause y' all ain't seeing yourselves on film or represented in the right way. But on a personal level.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Big Ice Cup]

How did you get started? And what was your motivation behind starting it?

[Ebony Roberts]

So, yeah, so in 2020, you know, lockdown was happening and all of that. And then people had what was called, like, a racial awakening because of the whole George Floyd execution. So during that time, it's. There's always a lot of emphasis on our trauma. And, like, it's almost like trauma porn that's displayed in the media again, like, using black folks as just, like, whipping posts almost. You know what I'm saying? So I wanted to make something that uplifted us and that showed how coming together could make us stronger. And it was just my dedication to. I made a short film as a dedication to the black community, and it was called United We Heal. And then from that, like, we took it around to. We had our own successful film festival run. And I saw how that empowered how film festivals empower the filmmakers.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah.

[Ebony Roberts]

And just like, screening your films and seeing audience reactions and things like that is powerful.

[Big Ice Cup]

That is powerful.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah. So then. And with that, there aren't enough. There are a lot of black film festivals out there, don't get me wrong. And I love a lot of them and respect all of them. However, there aren't enough. So with the Kendrick say. There aren't enough.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah.

[Ebony Roberts]

Not enough. So I decided to make my own and dedicate it to black and brown filmmakers.

[Big Ice Cup]

That's great.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah.

[Jetta Simone]

And the difference between. Well, from ebony, from United We Heal, from a lot of others, is that it is, like, focused on short films. So, you know, which a lot of filmmakers start off by, you know, making their first short and then maybe go on to producer features. So. And all of the themes themselves are devoted to healing as well.

[Ebony Roberts]

Social justice.

[Big Ice Cup]

Oh, okay, cool. Yeah. So outside of. Yeah. Because I think. I think the easy people are. I think, like, what you said about trauma porn. Yes. But also, like, there's never. We don't ever see the other side of it. Right. We don't see the healing side.

[Ebony Roberts]

Exactly.

[Big Ice Cup]

And I think that there's a odd misconception about, like, that not being the story to tell.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah, right.

[Big Ice Cup]

I think that people go for, like, what's salacious and.

[Ebony Roberts]

Right. What they consider flashy. I mean, that's how we get Zeus tv, you know.

[Big Ice Cup]

Got the Africans on.

[Ebony Roberts]

There fighting, which is crazy.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah. You seen that? You seen that? The tribe was disturbed. Hold on. Who are These.

[Ebony Roberts]

We don't know them.

[Big Ice Cup]

Oh, God. No. But it's like, I think that there's a. There's a benefit to understanding how displaying harmful stereotypes of black people is beneficial. It makes people money. Yeah. And also one thing that people say to me all the time is like, you know, people, like, I be trying to speak up, but people don't want to hear me. And I'm like, well, I'm proof that people will hear you. So you just making excuses. You just don't want to do it. And it's the road less traveled, but the impact is greater. Right. Like, you know, I don't, I don't want to, like, you know, no shade. I mean, we shade Tyler Perry all the time here. Like, that's kind of our thing. It's kind of like our whole thing.

[Ebony Roberts]

That's what you do.

[Big Ice Cup]

Literally my first episode was Tyler Perry is the Antichrist. That was the first episode.

[Ebony Roberts]

That's the first episode.

[Big Ice Cup]

Very first one.

[Ebony Roberts]

Okay.

[Big Ice Cup]

But the reason being is there's like an exploitation to it. Like, there's never any, like, happy ending.

[Ebony Roberts]

No.

[Big Ice Cup]

It's weird. It's weird to constantly showcase people in these fucked up situations. And then you would think of somebody that like comes from the bottom and catapults itself, that there would be some middle ground.

[Ebony Roberts]

Right.

[Big Ice Cup]

Let's tell stories about successful black people and what they go through. But I think that of course, with religion, we look at struggle as divine, which is an issue. Yeah. We don't look at healing as divine. And so that's like boring. You know, it's just like we're rapping. We don't want to rap about anything positive because gunshots and gunfire is a lot more exciting. But this is all like extremes.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah.

[Big Ice Cup]

And like, there's not, you know, like, the mundane day to days of black people is just as exciting.

[Ebony Roberts]

But you know, who proved that wrong is like Atlanta. I feel like Atlanta proved that wrong. Like, it was just a slice of life type of.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah. It's a show. It's like the Seinfeld show. It's a show about nothing.

[Ebony Roberts]

Exactly.

[Big Ice Cup]

It's just these situations, like these things that you come upon. And there's a little bit of science fiction to it. There's Afro surrealism in it. Yeah. But like, that's interesting as hell.

[Ebony Roberts]

It was.

[Big Ice Cup]

And this also doesn't give the audience credit for being intelligent. Yeah. You know, we take that decision away from them to be smart. And then when somebody like a Kendrick comes out and with these videos and all these different things, that are being decoded in his lyrics. Niggas say you're doing too much. It's because you're not used to using your brain.

[Jetta Simone]

So, I mean, I think I appreciate this. I mean, so I understand how you feel about Tyler. I think there's. There needs to be room for everybody. You know what I'm saying? And I guess that's what you're saying. You know, everybody has his.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, we need Mouse Def and Talib Kweli. And we need Chief Keith.

[Ebony Roberts]

And we need Chief Keith.

[Big Ice Cup]

But I feel like the.

[Ebony Roberts]

And we need Flow Rider.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah. Shout out to Celsius. I ain't gonna lie. I ain't gonna lie. Flow Rider got some shit. If I'm drinking beer with the whites Put that Flow Rider on. Cause you got low Apple bottom jeans Boots with the fur.

[Jetta Simone]

Low, low, low.

[Big Ice Cup]

I'm trying to tell you, nigga, Flo.

[Ebony Roberts]

Rider got some.

[Big Ice Cup]

Flo R. Got some. We gonna take Flo Rida out the game. But the point being is that black people deserve a variety. Right?

[Jetta Simone]

Exact.

[Big Ice Cup]

Because the struggle is a real thing, right? Violence, you know, stemming from the drug era, the war on drugs. It's a real thing. It can't be the only story. Because I've been black for 34 years, gonna be 35 in a few months, and that hasn't been the bulk of my experience. You know what I'm saying? So, like, more like what you said about Atlanta. Those are some mundane, like, day to day experiences. That's still exciting because of the dialogue and because he uses the background as a character as well.

[Ebony Roberts]

Exactly.

[Big Ice Cup]

So it's like. Yeah. So off that first film, United We Heal, what was the decision? Well, so you had, like, a good screening behind it.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Big Ice Cup]

And you went to all the places? Did you go to all the places?

[Ebony Roberts]

We didn't go to all the places. But enough, enough, enough. We got enough. We got enough under our belt to where I saw the value in having that platform form. So then I. So here's. Here's how I usually go. I come up with an idea, and then this one elevates it to the next stratosphere. So I said, you know, I just, you know, and casually said. I was like, I want to do like a movie night where we come together and have all of these filmmakers. Because I had known a couple of filmmakers that I really respected in Philly, and I was like, I wanted to just do like a night where we come together and showcase and screen the films. Here she go.

[Big Ice Cup]

I mean, that's why you need Your corporate friends, though, Your corporate friends know how to. You know what? People have been telling me a lot lately, I want to think more along the lines of activation.

[Ebony Roberts]

Exactly.

[Big Ice Cup]

Niggas start talking to me like that, I'm like, let me call my manager.

[Ebony Roberts]

I know what you're saying.

[Big Ice Cup]

I don't know what you're saying. You telling me something.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah, but it sound good.

[Big Ice Cup]

It sound great. So. But then this is where the money. This is the storytelling of the money.

[Jetta Simone]

Right?

[Ebony Roberts]

She's like, we should. Why don't you just call it a film festival?

[Big Ice Cup]

Hard.

[Ebony Roberts]

And I was like, sounds like a lot. But the more I thought about it, I'm like, this makes sense.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ebony Roberts]

So then we decided to go ahead and do it.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, that's hard. And also, too, like, it just goes back to what you're saying, something you worked hard on out of your own pocket. And to see it on the screen, it's like making a song and hearing it on the radio. That's cool. Exactly. It's crazy. And then in front of an audience of however many matters, it doesn't matter. Yeah. It's the work.

[Ebony Roberts]

It's impacting.

[Big Ice Cup]

And it's also like, this is a step forward.

[Ebony Roberts]

Exactly.

[Big Ice Cup]

So, yeah, I mean, good on y' all for giving. So how. How did y' all see it grow from. Tell me about year one, like, the first film festival, of course.

[Ebony Roberts]

I mean, it's really been, like, a gradual, like, progression. Like, every year it gets better.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ebony Roberts]

And I mean, it's nothing that it was like. It's been a labor of love for sure. The first year, when we put it out, we put it together, and we've had a couple of sponsors that have just really been there for us. Like, our venue is. Has been there since day one. Underground Art, Shout Out, Underground Arts. And their guy over there, Jade, who does their marketing and, like, a lot of Facilitates a lot of their shows. He was like, we had one venue that kicked us out. Then he heard about it, and he was like, well, no problem. I got y' all. And from then, it's just been nothing but, you know, love from me.

[Big Ice Cup]

That's love.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Big Ice Cup]

Shout out. What's his name?

[Ebony Roberts]

Jade.

[Big Ice Cup]

Shout out to Jade. All it take is one person to believe in what you're doing and have a little pool.

[Jetta Simone]

Yeah, yeah.

[Big Ice Cup]

And you in there. And Underground Arts is where y' all have done it every year. Yeah. Hard, hard. So how do we land? Deontay Kyle is the host of the United Wheel Hill Film Festival. How do we land there?

[Ebony Roberts]

How do we land there? Well, for. For real. For real. You know, we was talking about it earlier. I was seeing you doing your stuff in the truck, and I was like, yo, I connect with this bull. Like, for real.

[Jetta Simone]

Yeah. And she sent me a tick tock one. She was like, yo, you gotta see him. You gotta see him.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah.

[Ebony Roberts]

Like, no, like, everything you said was hitting right? And I was, like, feeling it more and more. So I started seeing you there and then. And you started the pod. And I remember there's one episode where you. You behind the camera started singing about the means of production.

[Big Ice Cup]

Oh, that was Tristan. That was actually Tristan. No, the means of production. No, no, that's the thing. So it's funny enough, like, our ecosystem, like, everybody who works on our team, we all have, like, these similar mindsets, but we just experience expressed in a completely different way. So that was actually his first time, like, coming to kick it with us. Yes. And he was hitting, yo. He had a dying laugh.

[Ebony Roberts]

Hilarious. So I'm like, these some different.

[Big Ice Cup]

Started singing that Sydney Poitier. It's not Sydney Poirier.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yo. Yes, yes, yes. Harry Belafonte. Harry Belafonte.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yes. Nah, I just knew it was a tall with gray hair, but Fonte good hair and hair. Good hair. Hair on that man. You know what I'm saying? Had this slick back sing about being a. Working on a banana plan. Yo, son. To pick a banana at night. Nah, they was playing different in Jamaica with the slavery they was working in. Different. That shit is ignorant. That shit is ignorant. Nah, son, then think about. Think about this. Think about this, what the song is about. And then nigga Beetlejuice singing. What is he singing?

[Ebony Roberts]

What is he singing?

[Big Ice Cup]

Right?

[Ebony Roberts]

What are you talking about?

[Big Ice Cup]

And is shaking their hips to that.

[Ebony Roberts]

Just doing it.

[Big Ice Cup]

That is dark.

[Ebony Roberts]

It's absolutely dark either way.

[Big Ice Cup]

Well, I'm glad. I'm glad it connected.

[Ebony Roberts]

So. So we talking about different hosts. You know, we was. He was talking to different people. But I'm in my mind, like, I want this.

[Big Ice Cup]

We back. All right. You were saying so rudely.

[Ebony Roberts]

So. Yeah, so we talking to different hosts or different people that could potentially be hosts. But I really.

[Jetta Simone]

Interviewing.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah. Interviewing.

[Deontay Kyle]

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

[Ebony Roberts]

Let me go get back to that. Cause you was mad at that.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah. I ain't like that. I ain't like that.

[Ebony Roberts]

You ain't like that.

[Big Ice Cup]

I ain't like that shit. Now, look. Cause we had the. We had the, you know, the conversation. I'm like, I got this in the bag. This is great. I got chosen. It was like, we have this whole great ass conversation. What a great time we were having.

[Ebony Roberts]

What a great time we were having.

[Big Ice Cup]

And then it was like, yeah, we're still interviewing. I'm like, interviewing. I ain't interviewing. N. I got the job. Yeah. I was like, they gonna piss me off. Let me get off. Let me get off this call. I was like, oh, interviewing. Right. All right, well, it's gonna wrap this shit up since we interviewing.

[Jetta Simone]

Interview, I hear. I came here to claim I don't.

[Ebony Roberts]

Know about y' all.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I came here to accept. She said, he ain't like that shit. I didn't. I hated it, actually.

[Ebony Roberts]

I hated it, actually.

[Jetta Simone]

But, you know, speaking of corporate.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't know you was a financial storyteller at that point.

[Ebony Roberts]

At that time. You didn't.

[Big Ice Cup]

I ain't know that. I ain't know that's who you was. You know what I'm saying? I ain't know who I was dealing with.

[Jetta Simone]

I mean, I would like to say. I was not doing this sentence.

[Ebony Roberts]

Now. You gonna do so bad.

[Jetta Simone]

Oh, my bad. My bad. United we stand United we stand United.

[Big Ice Cup]

We heal how we gonna heal like that? Christine's conquering divine conquering divide yeah.

[Jetta Simone]

When I told you that we was interviewing, you didn't like what I had said.

[Big Ice Cup]

Okay, yeah, word. Word.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah, it's fine.

[Big Ice Cup]

I still have Faith was on my side. I was like. I was like, fuck, they gonna interview after me. I was like, cool, interview. Do your little interview.

[Ebony Roberts]

Definitely interview.

[Jetta Simone]

It was like, sure you think you gotta do.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah. What you say? Yeah, facts. Yo.

[Ebony Roberts]

And then he started breaking down. He's like, nine times out of 10, every interview I've ever been in.

[Big Ice Cup]

Oh, shit. Oh, God. Oh, God.

[Jetta Simone]

Son.

[Big Ice Cup]

I had to bust that out. I had to bust that out. I had to bust that out. Never been to an interview and didn't get the job.

[Ebony Roberts]

Get the job.

[Big Ice Cup]

First of all, I didn't even know this was an interview.

[Jetta Simone]

Give you my resume.

[Big Ice Cup]

Let me upload my shit. Let me put a PDF in your shit real quick so y' all can see who y' all talking to.

[Jetta Simone]

Nah, but like I said, you pivoted. Well.

[Big Ice Cup]

Obviously not. Obviously my poker face wasn't. I wasn't bluffing. Shit, I was tight.

[Jetta Simone]

But no, you didn't even fluff. Like, we don't do too much fluff. You know what I'm saying? So it was like you were honest and you were like, nah, this is Mine.

[Big Ice Cup]

Straight up, though.

[Ebony Roberts]

You was calling to just say this. This is what we're doing.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No word. That's where I'm at with it, too. It's like, these niggas crazy. I felt, though. I felt, you know, little due diligence, all that. You know what I mean?

[Ebony Roberts]

There you go.

[Big Ice Cup]

I ain't know I was dealing with the corporate. You know what I'm saying?

[Ebony Roberts]

You in a corporate. That's funny. Hey, that's funny.

[Big Ice Cup]

Just claim that.

[Ebony Roberts]

Just claim it. Just claim it.

[Big Ice Cup]

Cause when united, we here, it's like the place to take your film. You gonna have to fill that seat, you know what I'm saying? We wanna see you out here in a power suit, really doing shit. Pull up in a suit.

[Jetta Simone]

Well, no. So now I got a question. Between the two of us, you think I'm the corporate one and she's the. Which one are we?

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah. Corporate and creative. That's where I'm at with it. That's how I feel, and I'm gonna tell you why.

[Jetta Simone]

Okay.

[Big Ice Cup]

Cause you called yourself a financial storyteller.

[Jetta Simone]

No, but prior to today.

[Big Ice Cup]

Prior to today, I still thought you was corporate. Cause you always taking notes. And you just in the back. You in the back, like you in the background with it. You ain't saying too much. Every time I talk to you, it's about details. Every conversation we ever had, I want to circle back to. Oh, shit. All right, all right. When we start talking about circling back, we dealing with corporate. I'm dealing with HR right now. All right, all right. So I accept it. Right? Right, right, right, right.

[Ebony Roberts]

Move right along. We got there.

[Big Ice Cup]

We got there. Yeah. Because I was. I ain't gonna lie like I was, all right? They got me up. I'm gonna host this film. I swear, if they announce some of the other, I would activate the audience, shut the page down. Shut this down. Ain't no film festival.

[Jetta Simone]

This is the last one you'll ever have for final.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, I just got off the phone with them. Very rude. I want to pull that trump out. Very rude. Very nasty women. Terrible women. They hate black people.

[Ebony Roberts]

They actually hate black people.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, they actually. No, they're doing this to exploit black people. Yeah. Who activated the audience? Yeah. I would have been. Got nasty. We ain't healing. Nobody healing.

[Ebony Roberts]

Nobody healing. Oh, man. Yeah.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah. We did it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jetta Simone]

And now we're here. And now look how it worked out.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah. Everything worked out. Now we here.

[Ebony Roberts]

We on the camera.

[Big Ice Cup]

We got to talk about what is absolutely Not. This is stupid. Okay, okay, so.

[Jetta Simone]

But the funny thing is like. Like, listen, because we talk about really serious stuff a lot, but we cackle, like, probably even more so.

[Ebony Roberts]

Like, this is life.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nah, that should be love, though. Yeah. If we're not laughing and having fun, then what we doing?

[Ebony Roberts]

What are we doing?

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah. We gotta have a good time on it.

[Ebony Roberts]

Exactly.

[Big Ice Cup]

So this is the. Much like the Grizzly Natives podcast. Yeah. For us, by us production.

[Ebony Roberts]

Absolutely.

[Big Ice Cup]

This is for black people to tell their stories, to see themselves on screen. Headed by black women doing our thing. Jade. Who is Jade?

[Ebony Roberts]

Jade is. He's a Filipino brother.

[Big Ice Cup]

Oh, shit.

[Ebony Roberts]

All right.

[Big Ice Cup]

Niggas is really united now. You know, the Filipinos is the niggas of Asians. All right, Let me not. Let me. Let me not say stuff like that for Filipinos. Start saying we too. Now they gonna blame me.

[Ebony Roberts]

I'm about to say, like, let's relax, you.

[Big Ice Cup]

It ain't jokes, jokes, jokes. But yeah. Cause you see that ginger shit, that got out of control.

[Ebony Roberts]

It got way out of control, man.

[Big Ice Cup]

You give man say take a mile.

[Ebony Roberts]

Don'T they who a green mob shit.

[Tristan]

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[Big Ice Cup]

I'm tired, boss. How to dream. It's the big cat. This episode is brought to you by Kings brand peachy passion. THC infused lemonade. King's brand, baby. United with heal. All right, let's take a quick break. Hold on. Came back dropping bombs, baby. Came back dropping bombs. Oh, shit. Hold on, hold on. Philly's in the building. We don't kiss it right now. Yo, we gotta. Yo, this is supposed to be serious. We are supposed to be healing.

[Jetta Simone]

Yes, we are.

[Ebony Roberts]

You gotta healing. Laughter is healing.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you were saying the who. What you say the who of it all.

[Ebony Roberts]

The who of it all.

[Big Ice Cup]

The who of it all.

[Ebony Roberts]

The who of it all straight.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, I was just got her Dr. Seuss bag real quick. Let's talk about the who's the who of it all. Uhhuh. No Gather, Collect. It's fine. Collect yourself.

[Jetta Simone]

I'mma pass it to evidence. Give us the rundown.

[Ebony Roberts]

You got it. Go ahead.

[Big Ice Cup]

All right, let's talk about this fubu. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jetta Simone]

So as we, as you already said, run by black women, we have also a black ticketing platform. Black Soul Summer.

[Big Ice Cup]

Black Soul Summer.

[Jetta Simone]

And one of the, you know, big reasons that people enter film festivals is for distribution. So we have a black owned streaming company called Quelly tv. They are go. Well, the, the founder is planning to come and she's going to choose a few of the standout shorts to be featured on her streaming platform. So distribution's on the way. Black owned distribution blueprint.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, we gotta show love to that. Yeah, yeah. See, it's a whole supply chain.

[Jetta Simone]

Exactly. There's so many levels that are involved, you know, in the whole filmmaking process. The whole. Just a successful artist or entrepreneurs. So we want to just make sure we tag in as many people as possible. We're also doing a couple of collaborations.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yes.

[Ebony Roberts]

And we'll show you a little celebration right now. So this is one that's coming up. Coming up. Yeah, we're gonna be revealing. Oh, we brought the first bottle for you. Oh, first bottle for you.

[Big Ice Cup]

The Ashe wine.

[Deontay Kyle]

Ashe.

[Big Ice Cup]

I say, I say, I say. Rose, what y go wrong with the Ashe Ros.

[Ebony Roberts]

There we go.

[Big Ice Cup]

Oh, let me see that. Let me see that. Justin, hit a zoom. Oh, this is very nice.

[Jetta Simone]

Yeah. This is a collaboration with a black owned winery that's local. She's, she's, her winery is in the outskirts of, of Philly. So yeah, she, I believe she's from Philly. The owner. Serenity sips.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yep. Y.

[Jetta Simone]

So yeah, we have more of that.

[Big Ice Cup]

That's hard.

[Jetta Simone]

Yeah. Yeah. That was Ebony's brainchild for sure.

[Big Ice Cup]

I love 12 pack of that. Yeah. First of all, my. A 12 pack of wine.

[Ebony Roberts]

What are we about?

[Big Ice Cup]

Talking went way past six. Normally we start at six. So it is.

[Jetta Simone]

It is.

[Big Ice Cup]

So it is. So you feel me? Amen. And Ashe.

[Jetta Simone]

One of our last that I want to mention is Recipe Philly. So that's a black owned creative space. And they are going to give sponsors where they're going to sponsor. They have a, it's a membership community for creatives.

[Big Ice Cup]

Okay.

[Jetta Simone]

So you know, content creators. It's also an event space. They're going to donate memberships as a prize.

[Big Ice Cup]

Oh.

[Jetta Simone]

You know, like we, we want to.

[Big Ice Cup]

Oh. To the two winners of the film. Oh, that's crazy. And they'll have a, they'll have a creative space to work At. Wow, man, y' all doing y' all up. Keeping it real black.

[Jetta Simone]

But, like, to your point of, like, how it's progressed, like, these are things that, you know, year one did not see, but because we stayed at it, like, now we're here in year four, now we see, you know, the blossoming.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, absolutely. Hey, you know, that's been a similar experience for us. Like, this has been a great year for us.

[Ebony Roberts]

And congratulations.

[Big Ice Cup]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Hey, man, it ain't every day get some Ashe Rosette.

[Ebony Roberts]

Look at you.

[Big Ice Cup]

You're ripping and rhyming.

[Jetta Simone]

Okay, listen, Deontay, deontay, deont.

[Big Ice Cup]

Y' all ain't the only with bars, okay? Y' all ain't the only one got bars. Chop that up. Make it a commercial. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like the spot up. That's. Yeah, I love when. I love when just. I love when shit just be black.

[Ebony Roberts]

But hold up, no, we're not stopping there.

[Big Ice Cup]

Oh, there's more black. Wait, there's more.

[Ebony Roberts]

So shout out to my girl, Jay Taylor. She's an artist out of Philly. She does a couple of dope events. Art under the Stars is one of them. But she is an artist who we. You said bring some art, so I decided to tap her and bring some art. And this is what she got for you.

[Big Ice Cup]

Oh, let me see that. Let me see that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hit the bomb flag. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ebony Roberts]

So she also gonna have a piece at the festival as well, but that's the one we brought down for you. She gonna be there. She definitely gonna be there. Absolutely.

[Big Ice Cup]

What's her name again?

[Ebony Roberts]

Jay Taylor.

[Big Ice Cup]

Jay Taylor.

[Ebony Roberts]

Jay Taylor on all platforms.

[Big Ice Cup]

Jay Taylor on all platforms.

[Ebony Roberts]

And we got another one on the desk for you.

[Big Ice Cup]

That's Jay Taylor. Oh, Jay Taylor. The truth. Drop another blog.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah.

[Big Ice Cup]

All right. Cheers. We're not gonna do it. Funk Flex never even dropped that many bombs. He gonna be on our ass. This is a nightmare to edit. That's really make my job hard as fuck.

[Ebony Roberts]

Sorry, Tristan.

[Big Ice Cup]

Bombs, gunshots. Yeah, toss him an extra hole. You know what I mean? Toss him a bottle.

[Jetta Simone]

Ace Rose, which we should. Let's. You wanna give the details of when it's available? June 2nd. It'll be live on Serenity Sips. If anyone wants to purchase a bottle of Ashe Ros. We're also going to be selling that at the film festival car.

[Big Ice Cup]

Make sure you give me all the details so I can put in the description. That'll be hard. Festival. Yeah, yeah. Oh, we own that. We f to bring the gullah Gullah back. Yeah, we remixing the Gullah. Gullah never had no Ashe Rose and Henny.

[Jetta Simone]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ebony Roberts]

Boom. I like that.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Ebony Roberts]

And Henny.

[Big Ice Cup]

That's what we do.

[Ebony Roberts]

That's what it is.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah. Taylor Ports. I'll show you. So it is. So I want y' all to detail. Okay, so how did, how did that, that first film, you know, how did that change not only, like, your life, but. Because it changed your life. Yeah, but I want to speak more to the importance of filmmaking as an independent filmmaker and like, how it expands your perspective on things too, because, you know, you have an idea, you flesh it out, you write the script, but then you see it on screen. And this has a real life impact. We know the negative negativity of films can have an impact just as much as the positivity, and then you turn into a film festival thanks to corporate. So. But I wanted to speak to the importance of independent filmmaking from your perspective.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah, so I mean, I had always wanted to make a film, so, you.

[Jetta Simone]

Know, feels like we should be closing in.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah, I always wanted to make my own, like, make a film just because of. Of how film has impacted me. So, you know, when you have an idea and you keep pushing it to the side. Keep pushing it to the side. And like, I feel like it was right place, right time because of the time we were living in and how I wanted to express myself with the art form that I respect. So it's just crazy how everything falls into place once you make that decision. So once I made the decision that I wanted to do this, it was like from pre production to. To film rep, it was probably like a month and a half, two months, like, and I found like everybody that, that I found to be in the film through social media. So I didn't.

[Jetta Simone]

Can we take a pause for the calls and set up the film? How's the structure, girl?

[Ebony Roberts]

So the film is 3X and it starts out as. It's like a. What is it called? The. The A Christmas Carol, if you've ever seen that movie. Yeah, yeah, like 3x, like past, present, future. So it's black people's past. How we were living in the present and how I like to see our future go.

[Big Ice Cup]

Very important. Yeah, yeah, like zeitgeist.

[Ebony Roberts]

That's it. Yeah, yeah. So the. It's shorts, about 13 minutes. It is all poets and all dancers. So there's no music. It's the poetry that is the music in the film scored by poetry. Yes.

[Big Ice Cup]

Crazy.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah.

[Jetta Simone]

So, yeah. So like in the opening act we have. The opening is crunk, right?

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah.

[Jetta Simone]

The open first act is crunk. That's kind of like speaking to the past, you know, the traumatic past that we have experienced. Because it's not like we can avoid it or ignore it. We have to at least acknowledge it.

[Big Ice Cup]

Right.

[Jetta Simone]

So that's the past, then the present. That was. That was the.

[Ebony Roberts]

Okay. The Paul performer is what we would like to call.

[Jetta Simone]

That's for the present. And that was, you know, more spoken word. And then the future. That's a young ballet dancer, and that is. Yeah.

[Big Ice Cup]

Oh, that's hard.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jetta Simone]

That's the imagination of the future us.

[Big Ice Cup]

Just elegant.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah. And it was like. And that part is like. So I took it in, like, the three phases is, like, all black and white to, like, a little bit of color and then to full color in a very vibrant. Just vibrant. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's just like. Just living our lives. And because I think we spend too much time in the white gaze, like, and allowing real white supremacy to kind of run us versus, like, if we just come together, if we just bond together and don't worry about that outside shit, we gonna listen.

[Big Ice Cup]

I think the thing that we, as a collective don't really understand is how much, like, they're dependent on us 100%. Like, we're fueling them. Yeah. And, you know, it's like telling somebody, like, you ever notice, like, white people call themselves, like, superior and things like that, but they always look so fucking miserable. You know what I mean? And the only time, the only thing they seem to find joy in is tearing other people down. And black people can sit here and watch the world burn, and we just.

[Ebony Roberts]

Still gonna have fun, still have a good time.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, we still having a good time. You know, we dancing at graduation, we clapping fans, we learning new dances, we doing our thing. We having film festivals on Juneteenth. You know what I'm saying? Like, I think it's important, and I think to that point of the white gaze is like, it's important for us to shift our focus and perspective about what we think about each other and how we want to show up and.

[Ebony Roberts]

Only care about that and only care.

[Big Ice Cup]

About, at the end of the day, the opinions of them is to only make us insecure.

[Ebony Roberts]

Correct.

[Big Ice Cup]

About how we express. They trying to create a uniformity within us so that we reflect what they want us to reflect. Right. So I fuck with that. Yeah.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah, for sure.

[Big Ice Cup]

And let's talk about, like, independent film and film festivals being like, a launch pad for Independent creators.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I mean, I'll pass it to you. I've been talking a lot.

[Big Ice Cup]

That's what we here for. We here to talk.

[Jetta Simone]

Okay. But I mean, most. A lot of filmmakers, they. Again, you know, I was mentioning that they start with short films. That's oftentimes an independent film. So essentially, an independent film is one that's not produced by one of the, like, top. One of the big five studios.

[Big Ice Cup]

Right, right, right.

[Jetta Simone]

So if you're outside of that system, you know, you don't have their funding, you don't have their resources, you're doing it for yourself. And the importance of that is that, like, again, going back to not see, when you go through the studio, you're essentially. You have to go through their approvals. You have to kind of like, I won't say pander, but you have to do it their way.

[Big Ice Cup]

Right.

[Jetta Simone]

So, you know, there are different people that it works for. People can make it what they want. I think that Ryan Coogler is an amazing example of somebody who has, you know, gone through. He started off as an independent filmmaker at Fruitville with Fruitvale Station. He submitted that to Sundance and, you know, from there, took off, took off.

[Big Ice Cup]

Giving Michael B. Jordan that connection right there. They like. They. We called it last time, they like the new Spike and Denzel. And the thing is, we said that, and then two weeks later, Spike and Denzel announced that they was dropping another film. Yeah.

[Jetta Simone]

I mean, so, like, I really.

[Big Ice Cup]

Magic. And it's magic. It's magic in this room.

[Jetta Simone]

It's magic in this room. Right, right.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah.

[Jetta Simone]

So, I mean, like, he, to me, is someone who, like, just really, like, owns his voice and who owns, like, he studies it. He does the knowledge. You know what I mean?

[Big Ice Cup]

He does the knowledge, for sure. He's a very. He's a student of film.

[Jetta Simone]

Like, he's an extreme student, humble. It's, like, crazy to me how he, like, doesn't even see himself, like, the icon that he is, which is, you know, probably what keeps him going. That keeps the creative creativity flowing. But anyway, all that to say is, you know, like, when you start as an independent filmmaker and go through film festivals, you get more exposure. You. You never know. The next Ryan Cougar could be in the United Wheel.

[Big Ice Cup]

That's a fact, though.

[Jetta Simone]

Yeah.

[Big Ice Cup]

Well, now, also, too, like. Like, Freddie Gives is, like, one of my favorite rappers, but he had independent film. I think he just starred in it. I'm not sure if he had much to do with the direction and production of it, but As a fan, I'm, like, looking everywhere for this film and had to wait for it to come to Netflix, but the anticipation behind knowing it was something out there, it's like, damn, yo. Like, I just. I might need to just pull up to one of these film festivals so I can see. But I had never been to a film festival, so I also, like, just didn't know what to expect.

[Ebony Roberts]

Right?

[Big Ice Cup]

And it just was, like, one of those things that you just, like, put off. But.

[Ebony Roberts]

And I think that that's intentional, right? So I think that a lot of times, like, when I remember the first, like, we've been to Sundance, and the first time, like, we went there, people was like, you going. What do you mean? You going to Sundance? You can't just pull up to a film festival.

[Jetta Simone]

We were very, like, I don't know, green. Like, just very. At that time, kind of like, removed from the biz, the industry, everything. So we kind of treated Sundance like, almost like, you know, Coachella.

[Ebony Roberts]

Like, yeah, we're just gonna go have fun. We just gonna pull up. Yeah.

[Big Ice Cup]

We watching films, right?

[Ebony Roberts]

Like, that's what y' all doing, Right? Right.

[Jetta Simone]

So we got there, and it was just like, oh, shoot. Like, there are a lot of celebrities here.

[Ebony Roberts]

There's a lot of people just walking.

[Jetta Simone]

Around, like, you know what I mean? Like, it's very, like. Like, concentrated, and, like, it's wild to see, like. Like, for us, again, that was our first film festival experience, like, to start at Sunday. It's like, just like, hey, here we are.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah.

[Jetta Simone]

So, like, so it's just interesting to see, like, a lot of you kind of have a preview of films that are going to be released, because that's, like, where all of the bidding takes place.

[Big Ice Cup]

Exactly. So now we see what this is.

[Ebony Roberts]

This is. This is the business.

[Big Ice Cup]

This is the business. That's how they. That's how they decide. So you have to.

[Ebony Roberts]

Exactly.

[Big Ice Cup]

The investment up front is to see who takes on what. What big studio takes on this. So everything kind of starts as, like, a pilot or a short film.

[Jetta Simone]

Yeah. They're different. Like, features.

[Big Ice Cup]

I want to say something.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah.

[Big Ice Cup]

All right, so. Because I'm thinking about this, and I'm thinking about, like, why don't more people, especially with the resources we have now, make short films and, like, make their vision come to life. But if you think about this like, a nigga with a camera will always make a movie and put it out right? Without too much thought or anything like that. Like. Like, killer season, right? Same thing. It's just Cameron just Had this idea, I'm gonna make this movie. Right. It doesn't matter about, like, production quality. That's still. And those still become. Going to become, like, cult favorite movies in the black community. So it got me thinking about, like, Tubi and, like, niggas will clown a Tubi movie. But the reality is somebody set up a camera.

[Jetta Simone]

Yeah, exactly.

[Big Ice Cup]

Wrote a script, and that shit is on tv and people are watching it regardless of the quality they put it out. And oftentimes, like, people who are genuinely passionate will make up all of these reasons and excuses on why, because they want it to look like the films they fell in love with. But it don't start that way. It don't start like that. But if you get. If you get started, you can eventually land.

[Ebony Roberts]

We getting there. Yeah, you're gonna get there.

[Big Ice Cup]

Absolutely.

[Ebony Roberts]

And that's what. That's what it is. Like, you getting your reps in.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah. Word. Yeah.

[Ebony Roberts]

So, like.

[Jetta Simone]

Like, nothing is wasted. Nothing is.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah.

[Jetta Simone]

You got to be in love with the process and the art itself. I mean, like, obviously some people are not, but whatever. I definitely, like, to your point, like, if you can get it done, like, I being in LA just like, really made me see that, you know, the. The prize, so to speak, doesn't necessarily go to the person who you think is the, like, most talented. It to me, goes to the person who works hard and is courageous.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, you have to kind of always almost be shameless in a way. You know what I'm saying? I think that's a big thing for me is like, the podcast is like, it can't. It can't. Like, I had all these things in my head. Like, it has to look like this had to look like that. And I was like, well, okay, I can afford the set and it's gonna be in my spot. But as far as, like, the equipment, and we just gonna have to get it out the mud. Yeah, we have to figure it out. Yeah. And, like, you can go back and see a stark difference from episode 15 even to episode 30 to episode 45 to now we're on 68. But, like, it was progress, but it's like, no, we gonna show up and do this every time. You know what I mean? And I think that important thing for creators is just to be creative, like, do the work. Don't worry about, like. Because I think we all kind of. We fall in love with the highest form of these art forms. Like. Like, I'm a big Quentin Tarantino fan. Yeah. But I know that I'M not going to make a Quentin Tarantino film.

[Ebony Roberts]

The first, like, right out the gate.

[Big Ice Cup]

I can't. Yeah. Like, Cougar's, like, fast becoming, like, one of my favorites too. He's just put out some solid work, but it's like, also, it's like this. Somebody look like me, talk like me, he understand. He's making films that are reflective of me. Like, don't get Wakanda without Ryan Coogler. You feel me? So it's like, I think even. Even to that point of, like, just it. Like using film festivals as a launch pad or understanding that there's a bidding that's going on here. If you just put your hat in the ring. Another thing, too, is, like, somebody with money and with vision. You may not have the best film, but the story might be something. Okay, we can work with this story. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because all we got to do is use our resources to turn this into. To what it need to be. You know what I mean? Like, this person worked with a small budget, but I understand the story. And that's.

[Ebony Roberts]

That's a lot of what United We Heal is.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah.

[Ebony Roberts]

Like, people that, like, when you submit a film, like, just like you're saying, you think you got to have it all polished and everything else like that, what gets to me, what is compelling to me, is your storytelling.

[Big Ice Cup]

Right.

[Ebony Roberts]

Like, even if it's something like something we've already heard, like the Three Little Pigs, it could be like that.

[Big Ice Cup]

What.

[Ebony Roberts]

But what are you bringing different to the story? How are you changing the way that. That this story actually looks and feels?

[Big Ice Cup]

Well, I think to your point, we could make. Make a parallel with the Fresh Prince. Yeah, the Fresh Prince in. In its original form is sitcom. Yep. Very like, you know, this is the sitcom that we're used to in the 90s.

[Ebony Roberts]

Exactly.

[Big Ice Cup]

And then when it. As it resurges, it adds this modern drama to it and this reality, like, this raw reality to the characters where it's not even the same, the same show. Well, we know it because we know these characters, but even how they presented it is completely in tune with reality. Like, this seems plausible. They got it right. They got it right. They got it right also, too. Like, this is another thing too. This is on something totally unrelated. I love seeing, like, Marlon Wayans in a serious role. He be smoking.

[Ebony Roberts]

He kills him.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah. He does focus a lot of his attention on being funny, but, like, he powerful when he gets serious.

[Ebony Roberts]

He's one of those people with the. The. The. The drama. He brings that comedic, like, essence to it as well. And it can hit hard.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ebony Roberts]

And I, like, I just love that.

[Big Ice Cup]

You could tell he has, like, a real depth to him that he doesn't express a lot. But he's also the baby, too.

[Jetta Simone]

Comedians are, like, a lot.

[Big Ice Cup]

Comedians are always really good dramatic actors because there's some darkness behind that comedy. Behind that comedy. Yeah, there's some trauma there. You know, you gotta think about that. Like, I'm gonna get up on stage and just talk to just me.

[Ebony Roberts]

Just me.

[Big Ice Cup]

Really. The only thing I want to hear from y' all is laughter.

[Ebony Roberts]

Is laughter.

[Big Ice Cup]

You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you kind of gotta psych yourself out anyway. And then to get comfortable in that, you gotta shed, like, so much of, like, fear, perception and things like that so that, you know, just to get up there and first of all, I'm gonna make these niggas laugh. That's a tough step to take.

[Ebony Roberts]

That's tough.

[Jetta Simone]

Black people, too.

[Big Ice Cup]

Oh, what? Niggas is a hard bargain. Hey, look, once a nigga pay for something, Once a nigga buy a ticket, he determined, get my money's worth off this motherfucker. This nigga ain't funny. Boo. Get this shit off the stage. Hold on. Think about this. Showtime and Apollo. The whole thing is like, you really ruin the nigga's life.

[Jetta Simone]

With one salmon.

[Big Ice Cup]

One salmon. How to ruin. I don't want to be a comedy comedian no more. That it was 7,000 booing me just a minute ago. I'm good. Niggas tried to break Lauryn Hill. Yeah, poor Lauryn Hill. And the Mystery of Inequity. Nigga, y' all know nothing about that. Hey, Her MTV Unplugged performance made me cry. Real shit. Listen, I was in the. I was in the crib. Like, God Damn. Oh, shit.

[Jetta Simone]

Ms. Hill, that's him.

[Big Ice Cup]

I ain't know you was gonna have me at this. Bitch. Crying blood, sucky sucker, motherfuck full of lies. I was like, oh, shit. Well, with the acoustic, that's all she wrote. That's real hip hop. Real hip hop.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Big Ice Cup]

All right, so let's give people. Let's give people some incentives. What's some reasons why should people come to the United Wehill Film Festival other.

[Jetta Simone]

Than to see you.

[Big Ice Cup]

Other than to see me. I know that. Hey. Hey.

[Ebony Roberts]

How dare you?

[Big Ice Cup]

You. That's blasphemy. Humbly. Humbly, Humbly. I know, I know, I know. I get it. But as a person who has never been, I'm. I'm the the thing that got me the most excited about hosting was like, oh, I'm going get to watch some films. I love films. So it's like also too like there's a director in me back here that I want to. I. I don't want to like people be trying to get me to be and like I kind of want to be like I want to get into the storytelling part.

[Jetta Simone]

Coming soon.

[Ebony Roberts]

Coming Coming soon.

[Big Ice Cup]

Coming soon. Directed by Deontay, written by Ed M.E. roberts.

[Ebony Roberts]

But hold up then you would be the second then, cuz what people can look forward to is our host from last year has a film.

[Big Ice Cup]

Oh, look at that. Look at that. This year. Okay. United with Hill pipeline of filming. It's a pipeline. It's a pipeline. The host of director Pipeline. Yeah.

[Ebony Roberts]

The director fight.

[Big Ice Cup]

That's real.

[Ebony Roberts]

Shout out. Daryl man.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I'm all right. Bet next year. Next year we're gonna have a film. Me and prime finna get to work, baby. Boom. 20 minutes.

[Ebony Roberts]

Drop the bomb.

[Big Ice Cup]

Well, also too. Yeah. Reasons to visit. Yeah, Good dj.

[Jetta Simone]

Oh, good dj.

[Big Ice Cup]

Are we allowed to talk about that?

[Jetta Simone]

I mean I feel like we can like, you know, how many bombs can we drop?

[Big Ice Cup]

First of all. First of all, first of all. Yeah, okay, we'll get.

[Ebony Roberts]

There we go.

[Big Ice Cup]

We start going back to that. Let's talk about some reasons to visit. So must be a big announcement. Goddamn.

[Jetta Simone]

Stay tuned, stay tuned, stay tuned, stay tuned.

[Big Ice Cup]

Okay, now hold on. We're gonna take. We're gonna be right back at this quick commercial break.

[Ebony Roberts]

Sweet.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah. Shout out to. Shout out to that Ashe rose. It's gone, baby. No. Oh, no, no, no. I just. I just started it back up. I just started it back up. We back. We back. Okay, now put the bottle back. Let them see what we did. We'll just put that back up.

[Ebony Roberts]

Let's see what we did.

[Big Ice Cup]

Nigga. Doing damage to our shade. Okay.

[Jetta Simone]

Reasons circle back.

[Big Ice Cup]

Keep us on point. Keep us on point. Where do we leave off? Reasons to visit.

[Ebony Roberts]

Reasons to get to the festival.

[Big Ice Cup]

Reasons to get to that festival. Besides to see me.

[Ebony Roberts]

Besides to see you.

[Big Ice Cup]

But let's go just the A1 reason. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now let's go to 1B.

[Ebony Roberts]

Let's start at 1B.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah.

[Ebony Roberts]

We gotta go up. So like first and foremost, the films this year films are outstanding and prove me wrong.

[Jetta Simone]

Okay.

[Ebony Roberts]

I told you about the host. Our host from last year. He now has a film in the festival.

[Big Ice Cup]

Hard.

[Ebony Roberts]

Super excited about it.

[Jetta Simone]

Two repeat filmmakers.

[Ebony Roberts]

Repeat filmmakers.

[Big Ice Cup]

Oh, that's great. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[Jetta Simone]

Both black women. Amazing. Victoria Wilcox and Kyra Knox, both of them are lovely and, like, dope artists. So, like, I'm definitely excited for them to come back this year.

[Big Ice Cup]

Okay.

[Ebony Roberts]

You get, like, a full range of emotions. Like, film. No one film is the same.

[Big Ice Cup]

That's great.

[Ebony Roberts]

So, yeah.

[Jetta Simone]

And I mean, like, the themes, like, I don't know. I hate to keep saying it, but, like, everything just gets better and better. Like, we're. You know, our network is growing, so, like, the. The quality of the film to caliber, everything is. Is growing as well. You know, it's good to see people's interpretation of healing, you know, in so many. So many forms, so many tones, I should say.

[Big Ice Cup]

Right, right, right.

[Jetta Simone]

You know, like every. I don't stay there too long, but you'll see a variety of it.

[Big Ice Cup]

Okay, great, great, great.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah.

[Big Ice Cup]

So. So this is for the Cena Files.

[Jetta Simone]

Yes.

[Ebony Roberts]

Okay.

[Jetta Simone]

Okay.

[Big Ice Cup]

Gotta be careful with their word. You gotta move a little bit. Gotta know why you're using it.

[Ebony Roberts]

Exactly. Reason number two, we expanded our festival this year.

[Big Ice Cup]

Okay.

[Ebony Roberts]

So this year is two. Two days. So the first day is June 18th.

[Big Ice Cup]

Okay.

[Ebony Roberts]

It's a welcome concert called the Pregame.

[Big Ice Cup]

Okay, perfect.

[Ebony Roberts]

We got some dope artists performing at night. Our opener is Quelle Chris. And then the headliner is a group called. It's a super group called Breathwork. And we have ivysoul Kinsley and then Lee Clark. So they had always all been, like, producing together. Lee Clark is the producer, and they're all Philly. Yeah, all Philly base. You know what I'm saying? So they. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's like that Philly sound, that Philly vibe, that first night. And then the second night, that's the film festival. We running the screeners, and we're gonna.

[Jetta Simone]

Introduce, I believe, a nice collaboration design.

[Big Ice Cup]

I'm gonna have that on. Imma have it on.

[Jetta Simone]

What is this?

[Big Ice Cup]

Yes. So this. We having a merch collab June 20th? No, that's. That's. Is that June 19th or the 20th?

[Jetta Simone]

June 20th.

[Ebony Roberts]

June 20th.

[Jetta Simone]

The Live. The actual film festival. The. The screenings take place June 20th.

[Big Ice Cup]

Okay, cool. But June 19th.

[Ebony Roberts]

June 18th. June 18th is the concert.

[Big Ice Cup]

Concert.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jetta Simone]

Get a day off day.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, Rest day.

[Jetta Simone]

Rest on Juneteenth. Then we're gonna come back June 20th, right?

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah. And that merch collab united with Hill Grayson next podcast, merch collab, and it'll only be available at the film festival, so you got to pull up to get that. Yeah. Suki gonna be out there in the Booth Big cat gonna be somewhere. I mean, so that's gonna be walking around moving and shaking.

[Ebony Roberts]

Reasons three, four and five.

[Big Ice Cup]

Oh, hey, hey. Say less.

[Ebony Roberts]

There we go.

[Jetta Simone]

And then our after party. What's happening then?

[Big Ice Cup]

We're having an after party. We are. We are having an after party.

[Ebony Roberts]

We got a dope ass lineup of DJs headliner. We have an announcement to make.

[Big Ice Cup]

Okay, okay.

[Jetta Simone]

Do we have a drum roll?

[Big Ice Cup]

We got air horns and bombs, baby.

[Ebony Roberts]

What we got? We got Zack Fox.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah. Zach Fox.

[Ebony Roberts]

Zach Fox. The one and only.

[Big Ice Cup]

The one and only Zack Fox.

[Jetta Simone]

As seen on Alvid Elementary.

[Big Ice Cup]

As seen on Abbott Elementary.

[Ebony Roberts]

Philly's own Abbott Elementary.

[Big Ice Cup]

But also. But also a dope ass dj.

[Ebony Roberts]

Dope ass.

[Big Ice Cup]

Funny guy.

[Jetta Simone]

Funny guy.

[Big Ice Cup]

Great mustache, yo.

[Ebony Roberts]

Great mustache.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, he come from my lineage.

[Jetta Simone]

Great mustache.

[Big Ice Cup]

He come from my lineage. Nigga come from a long line of great mustaches.

[Ebony Roberts]

Mustache eye, if you will.

[Big Ice Cup]

Nah, they thought it was me. They thought it was me. Have asked me like, you on Apple Elementary. Like, no, my name.

[Ebony Roberts]

Stop me.

[Big Ice Cup]

Two different light skinned men. Totally different light skinned man.

[Jetta Simone]

Real talk. He's one of my favorite Abbott elementary characters.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yo. He's funny as hell. He's funny as hell. Yeah, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Come. Come on down.

[Jetta Simone]

Like that's the whole process. Process of healing.

[Big Ice Cup]

Right?

[Jetta Simone]

You know what I'm saying? Like we, we open with some fun. It's a sandwich. It's a little fun sandwich. You know, we open with some, some sweet tunes.

[Big Ice Cup]

It's a cheesesteak.

[Jetta Simone]

The United wheel cheese steak.

[Big Ice Cup]

The United wheel cheese. If we, if we, if we could, we could deconstruct the sandwich. We could deconstruct the cheesesteak. The cheese whiz. That's the, that's the after party. Little cheese whiz on that motherfucker. I don't know. Do. Do the cheese whiz.

[Ebony Roberts]

No.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, I didn't think so because I'm not a fan. I was never gonna do it.

[Ebony Roberts]

Nah, nah, nah, nah.

[Big Ice Cup]

What type of cheese niggas do? Provolone.

[Ebony Roberts]

Provolone. American. Either way.

[Big Ice Cup]

American.

[Jetta Simone]

I mean, back when I used to eat cheese steaks.

[Big Ice Cup]

Back when. Oh, okay, all right. We don't fuck with that no more with the red meat.

[Ebony Roberts]

Oh, okay.

[Big Ice Cup]

All right. No meat period.

[Jetta Simone]

I eat seafood like pescatan.

[Big Ice Cup]

Pescatan. Hard to give up that shrimp. Shrimp and crab.

[Jetta Simone]

Lego crab cake. I do.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You already asking a lot.

[Jetta Simone]

I mean, they make salmon cheesecakes. Cheesesteaks now. Salmon.

[Big Ice Cup]

A salmon cheesesteak Never heard of that. Sounds amazing. Yes. Make me one when I pull up.

[Ebony Roberts]

Absolutely.

[Big Ice Cup]

I gotta try that.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yes.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yes.

[Ebony Roberts]

Give me two of them.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jetta Simone]

We gonna round up a list for y' all.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yes. Yeah, but absolutely, though, I think, you know, we start out, we have to get through the healing part, but we gotta have fun, too.

[Ebony Roberts]

We gotta have fun. We gotta have fun.

[Jetta Simone]

Like, that's proof, right?

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah.

[Jetta Simone]

Yeah, you can have fun. You healed.

[Big Ice Cup]

Oh, God. Oh, God. I want reparations for everybody that lived on Osage Avenue in Philadelphia.

[Ebony Roberts]

Amen. Amen.

[Big Ice Cup]

Okay. Yeah.

[Ebony Roberts]

Shout out to Mike. Africa doing things.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah. Cause you can't just bomb a block and then just be like, nah.

[Ebony Roberts]

And then just run away like, hey.

[Big Ice Cup]

Guys, it was oops. Please. It's not an oopsie, nigga.

[Ebony Roberts]

No.

[Big Ice Cup]

It's like the second bomb ever dropped in America. The first.

[Tristan]

Tulsa.

[Big Ice Cup]

Tulsa. What's up with y' all? Niggas always dropping bomb on the blacks. Nigga dropped a suitcase bomb on it. Niggas out the helicopter. I'm not.

[Ebony Roberts]

I wanna use you. You want to do it. You won't do it.

[Big Ice Cup]

Let me see first.

[Ebony Roberts]

You want, you want.

[Jetta Simone]

Listen, the person see what he do.

[Big Ice Cup]

It just don't seem right.

[Ebony Roberts]

This don't seem right. Listen, you good?

[Jetta Simone]

HR.

[Big Ice Cup]

We taking things too far. You shout out to Ashe Rose. This is very good.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah.

[Big Ice Cup]

I can't wait to get little Henny. Put a little Henny in there.

[Ebony Roberts]

Serenity sips.

[Big Ice Cup]

Serenity sips.

[Ebony Roberts]

Serenity sips.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, man. Yeah. Basically, yeah. That's the whole thing, man. Shout out. Zach Fox pulling up, hosting the whole thing everywhere.

[Jetta Simone]

I think this duo is gonna be, you know, like, epic. It's gonna be, you know, the Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan of a film festival.

[Big Ice Cup]

She said it, not me. She said it, not me. Now that I dropped the ball.

[Ebony Roberts]

Two magnificent mustache.

[Big Ice Cup]

Two magnificent mustaches. You know what I'm saying?

[Ebony Roberts]

Magnificent mustaches.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah. Trying to bring, put, put Light skinned back in style back in St. Me, Zach Fox, Tyler Perry. We not just going to start lying. You know how crazy that is? Yes. Let me come see what I can steal. Chocolate. His name was Dr. Chocolate. Ain't that what his name was? I would never call another man name Chocolate. All right. HR Is not coming.

[Ebony Roberts]

HR Is coming. HR Is on the way.

[Big Ice Cup]

Fully pissed. Is wild in the name of healing.

[Jetta Simone]

You know what I'm saying? Like, we gotta show love.

[Big Ice Cup]

We gotta have a good time. I'm looking forward to it, man. I've been. Think I've Been people's like, when you come to Philly, like, bro, next month. I can't go everywhere. I can't be everywhere. I got a job to do. Do.

[Ebony Roberts]

I do have a job to do, but.

[Jetta Simone]

So you go sign autographs, kiss babies.

[Big Ice Cup]

All that good. All that good. Kissing babies, shaking hands. I might hit a with some holy water. Anything, Anything. Anything. We do whatever we want to do. But we're gonna have that merch collab on deck.

[Ebony Roberts]

Absolutely.

[Big Ice Cup]

Suki the Saint will be man in the merch booth. Big Cat will be Peru. You know, he's gonna be walking around. Big Head gonna be somewhere with ice cup in his hand. Be relaxing. I'mma be working. If you see me in Philly and you see me working, don't with me. All right? We on a contract, huh? You know what? I know what Big Head go do. I'm going be mic'd up with a mic, just walking around. Yeah, yeah, yeah, That's. That's hard. That's hard. That's hard. All right, all right. Get you a grizzly next street interview with Big Cat.

[Jetta Simone]

No, we were just talking about that. So, like, you know, like, we're pre. Produced. Yes.

[Big Ice Cup]

Oh, I just got him a job. See how it work, baby? All you gotta do is be in the right place at the right time.

[Ebony Roberts]

You've been discovered. Yeah, you got discovered.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah. Hey, look, that's real, though. That'd be good. Like, little street interviews. People gonna know who you are, bro.

[Ebony Roberts]

Oh, yeah.

[Big Ice Cup]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. You can't run away from it no more. Absolutely not. You can be behind the camera all you want.

[Jetta Simone]

And they stick.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yo, they be knowing. They be like, yeah, big ice cupcat. We was in the Publix. Just. We was in there cooling. Yeah. Girl walked over, she said, big ice cup. I was like, oh, oh, big ice cup. Let me. Let me take a Go ahead.

[Jetta Simone]

Johnny Gill. She threw a draw there.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I said let me get ahead. I don't want to interrupt nothing. I don't want to interrupt.

[Ebony Roberts]

Hey, I'm gonna get on.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah. Let me go to the bread aisle, right?

[Ebony Roberts]

You in the produce. I'll be in the bread.

[Big Ice Cup]

I'm being bread on the other side. You come catch me.

[Jetta Simone]

Yeah, like, because we get it. We get a nice, you know, chunk of the south to come up. Up north. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Big Ice Cup]

Hey, we'll be there, man. We can't wait. We excited, too, and I appreciate y' all for bringing me on, for sure.

[Jetta Simone]

Oh, yeah. You gotta tell us how many black flips you did when we, like, said, okay, interview is over. You're hired.

[Big Ice Cup]

Oh, when we confirmed. When we confirmed. I was geeked. I was geeked. We go from host a film. I called this nigga immediately. You ain't never seen a nigga host a film festival? Never seen that before.

[Jetta Simone]

You've never seen it.

[Big Ice Cup]

We never seen a shit. Hey, look, I think the funniest thing is, like, for him, it's like this nigga just be picking up odd jobs.

[Jetta Simone]

And odd jobs is crazy.

[Big Ice Cup]

What you mean hosting a film festival? Like, what does that mean?

[Jetta Simone]

Like, what does that mean?

[Big Ice Cup]

I said, n. We gonna find out together. All I know is we gonna be in Philly on Juneteenth. That's all I know.

[Ebony Roberts]

That's it.

[Jetta Simone]

Because, like, okay, considering the tone, you know, and the different emotions that we. It's about balance. It's all about balance. And I do think that that's.

[Ebony Roberts]

That's.

[Jetta Simone]

That's definitely one of your good gifts is, you know, how to balance it all. And that's exactly what the film, the film festival needs because, you know, we don't want the audience to get too, like, in a sunken place.

[Big Ice Cup]

Right, right, right.

[Jetta Simone]

Like, tap dance on people's, you know, like, emotions.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, you.

[Jetta Simone]

I feel like you're gonna be great at, you know, just keeping the room even.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah. I'm be good at that for sure.

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah, yeah.

[Big Ice Cup]

It's one of my strengths. Hey, you learn that shit through trial and error. You get in trouble in school a lot. Yeah, but I'm just trying to keep it balanced. We just had a serious test. Why can't we laugh?

[Ebony Roberts]

Everybody need that release.

[Big Ice Cup]

Get everybody's spirits back up. That shit is real serious in this bitch right now.

[Ebony Roberts]

Let's even it out.

[Big Ice Cup]

But I'm excited because of the films. I'm excited to see black people just, like, put they doing they shit exactly. You know what I'm saying? And putting it on the screen. Little silver screen dream. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that.

[Ebony Roberts]

Nothing wrong with it at all.

[Big Ice Cup]

Speaking of, we have a shopping spree. Oh, oh. Let's talk about that.

[Ebony Roberts]

Talk about that. All right, so before you say anything, I'm gonna introduce. I'm tee it up.

[Jetta Simone]

Okay.

[Ebony Roberts]

All right.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jetta Simone]

Every gonna tee it up.

[Ebony Roberts]

So the. The financial story storyteller, she wrote a script called American Debt. American Debt is basically the story of a banker who is changing the lives of black people by showing us the game of the system and breaking in and making us debt free. Starting at zero. In her own little way, in her own little way.

[Jetta Simone]

It may not be, you know. The bank's way.

[Ebony Roberts]

Exactly. It may not be the bank's way. Sometimes, sometimes.

[Jetta Simone]

Sometimes it ain't the right way.

[Big Ice Cup]

The bank's way ever been our way. Exactly. Exactly.

[Ebony Roberts]

Exactly.

[Big Ice Cup]

That's real.

[Ebony Roberts]

So from the script, like, she came up with this, like, a song to introduce the concept, and she sings the song, and the song is crazy, but it's dope. And then from that, like, we all came together and made a short film, or AKA a video off the song. Music video of the song. So this is the depiction of what a shopping spree is in that world of American debt.

[Jetta Simone]

Yes. I don't know what we call. It's a companion piece. It's not a proof of concept because it's us in the video. And when I wrote the script, it wasn't us in the script.

[Ebony Roberts]

And what she's saying us. So Jenna and I are sisters, and then we have a third sister that's sitting next to us. So when she's saying us, that's who she's referring to.

[Big Ice Cup]

Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Can we watch them?

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah, of course.

[Big Ice Cup]

Hold on. What? Do you want to play it on the podcast?

[Jetta Simone]

I do. I would love that.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yeah.

[Jetta Simone]

We gotta get you, like. Wait, when you say play it like.

[Big Ice Cup]

You, all you gotta do is send me the file. Tristan will put it up.

[Ebony Roberts]

Oh. Oh, okay.

[Big Ice Cup]

I got you.

[Ebony Roberts]

Oh.

[Big Ice Cup]

So introduce your film. Introduce it. Yeah.

[Ebony Roberts]

Jetta. Simone.

[Jetta Simone]

My Banker Jets.

[Ebony Roberts]

My banker Jets. You're about to watch Shopping Spree.

[Big Ice Cup]

Mm. Drop a bomb. All right. We're going to do a live reaction to Shopping Spree. Jetflix presents Shopping Spree. My Banker Jet Story. All right, let's.

[Jetta Simone]

Hi, Maggie. My banker Jet's calling from the bank of Hoffman. How are you? Okay. I was just calling to see if you wanted to come in for your annual review. Complimentary, of course. Reparations. Oh, what a question. No, I don't believe in those. This is America, Jack. What? Here we pull ourselves up by the bootstraps, we work hard, and we make an honest living. Exactly. I'm glad we are seeing this picture the same.

[Big Ice Cup]

Okay. Oh, Nino Black.

[Jetta Simone]

Now there's a time for reckoning A time for pain A time for peace and there's a time for blame how many times can we say her name? Time to develop the new plan that one on a shopping broken to the.

[Big Ice Cup]

Face so made me want to spend some money yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

Now that's how I ride.

[Jetta Simone]

That is a time for silence when you make.

[Big Ice Cup]

Your move oh, this hard It's a time for silence Girl move. Oh, oh, shit. She got real Caribbean, Ms. Chiquita Nah, it stopped me in my tracks they gotta shut up, shut up when you make your move.

[Ebony Roberts]

Shut up and make.

[Big Ice Cup]

It your move Shut up and make your move it's our time for silence now that gangster you talking about? I got to run that part back.

[Jetta Simone]

Hold up, cat.

[Ebony Roberts]

Why you turn the camera?

[Big Ice Cup]

Cuz I got to change this joint. Change the joint?

[Jetta Simone]

Yeah, you a little.

[Big Ice Cup]

You charging. I got.

[Ebony Roberts]

Oh, my God.

[Big Ice Cup]

We going to wrap it after this. Oh, it's all about you now It's a time for silence when you make your move this fro it un froze hold on. Yeah, yeah, yeah what, Man, I like different too, you know and then the way y' all blending it with to set it off yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Also too to go up top like I don't believe in no reparations really Next thing you know they the same yeah, yeah Dancing Tito Black. First of all, where does damn dog come from? Tito Black. Tito Black. All right, here we go. My girl bag.

[Ebony Roberts]

Is that.

[Jetta Simone]

Oh, it's the nut.

[Big Ice Cup]

Are you good now this hard on.

[Jetta Simone]

A shopping spree coming for all my equity I'm going on a shopping.

[Big Ice Cup]

In a bag N. That's crazy, guys. We did it. We did it, guys. Got her such money. Got to eat yourself a sn A Macy's bag. I'm not going to play with y' all, bro. Look at Tito Black. Nah, y' all are funny, though. This is funny as hell. It's like the song actually slapped, but the comedic value of it. Got that I'm up.

[Jetta Simone]

Exactly. I'm glad we are seeing this picture the same. All right, so then let's do it. Oh, my gosh. Get out of my head. Next. Next week.

[Big Ice Cup]

Yes.

[Jetta Simone]

Can't wait to see you, Maggie. Alrighty. Bye bye now.

[Big Ice Cup]

Champagne out of a straw. Now. We got random Philly in this video. A ball with a beard.

[Jetta Simone]

That's our director that sounds of it.

[Big Ice Cup]

Is he from Philly?

[Ebony Roberts]

Yeah, he from Philly.

[Big Ice Cup]

Philly, y' all funny as hell.

[Jetta Simone]

So we did. We seen that last year as a customer.

[Ebony Roberts]

We're not now.

[Jetta Simone]

You get what a financial storyteller does?

[Big Ice Cup]

No, I get it from the back door America. All right, we go. We gonna up wrap it there. Now that time for silence when you're making your move. Nah, nah, listen. Niggas dream of having a line that people can remember. That was crazy. That was hard. That shit was hard. Most songs you listen to, you don't remember shit this shit was set it.

[Ebony Roberts]

Off.

[Big Ice Cup]

That shit was setting off his shotas all in all in one all in one Shut it off Shot us then that's our time first time nigga that shit hard I fuck with it nigga we fucking with it I fucking with it oh shit. The b cam is dead so b cam is over Ms. Roberts, Ms. Simone, y' all have to tell y' all salutations yes I think we got it See you in June in Philly I'm gonna grow a beard I'm gonna go baldy with the beard it's gonna be a whole new I'm gonna get on my dean get on my y' all I mean yeah I'm hosting the whole event of the th yeah yeah whole new I'm a little like common oh wow all right well we just going to wrap it there drop a bomb we'll see you at episode 69 we'll see you in June SA.