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MOVIE MIKE: Actors Paid MILLIONS for Little Screen Time + Movie Review: Fantastic Four + Trailer Park: Mortal Kombat 2
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Noah de Barrasso
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Sarah Spain
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Noah de Barrasso
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Sarah Spain
Season two of Good Game with Sarah Spain is underway. We just welcomed one of my favorite people, an incomparable soccer icon Megan Rapinoe, to the show, and we had a blast. Take a listen. Sue and I were, like, riding the lime bikes the other day, and we're like, wee people ride bikes because it's fun. We got more incredible guests like Megan in store, plus news of the day and more. So make sure you listen to Good Game with Sarah Spain on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Brought to you by Novartis, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports Network.
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Noah de Barrasso
I'm Noah and I'm 13, and I started this podcast because, honestly, adults don't ask the right questions. Now, you know, with Noah de Barrasso is a show about influence. Who's got it, how they use it, and what it means for the rest of you. It's not the news. It's what the news should be if someone Gen Z or Gen Alpha made it. Politics is wild, and I'm definitely not here to tame it, but I'm here to make sense of it. Listen to now youw Know with Noah de Barrasso on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Summer's here, and with the kids home and off to camp, it's easy for moms to get lost in the shuffle on Good Moms Bad Choices. We're making space to center ourselves with joy, rest, and pleasure. Take the kids to camp. You know what? It was expensive, but I was also thinking, you have my kid. This is kind of priceless. Take her feed. Make core memories. I don't have to do anything. Main thing, I don't have to do anything. To hear this and more. Listen to Good Mom's Bad Choices from Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.
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Will Lucas
It's Black Business Month, and black tech green money is tapping in. I'm Will Lucas spotlighting black founders, investors and innovators building the future one idea at a time. Let's talk legacy tech and generational wealth.
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Noah de Barrasso
I had this skill and I had the talent. I didn't have the opportunity. Yeah, we all know, right? Genius is evenly distributed. Opportunity is not.
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Will Lucas
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Janae Cheekies
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Noah de Barrasso
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Will Lucas
Hello and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I am your host, Movie Mike. Today I want to talk about the highest paid actors with the lowest amount of screen time. These are actors who spent a very little time actually on set, but took home a huge payday. A lot of drama went into this in the movie review. Did they finally get it right with Fantastic Four? Is the fourth time a charm? Yes. Even before the movies we had in the 2000s, there was a failed Fantastic Four way back in the 90s in the trailer park. We'll talk about Mortal Kombat 2 and how this one is finally going to feature the tournament. Is it going to be a better version of the Mortal Kombat we got in the 90s? And thank you for being here. Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie Crew. And now let's talk movies from the Nashville Podcast Network. This is Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. Actors who took home a whole lot of money for very little work. It is good work if you can get it. Let's kick off the list by getting right into all of this drama. I actually saw this first post on Movie Facts on Instagram, which is a great follow, and this led me into diving into this entire topic. This story about Marlon Brando on the first Superman movie in 1978 is wild because he was paid $3.7 million plus 11.75% of the profits for 10 minutes of screen time. He ended up making $19 million in total, which in today's money would be $94 million for 10 minutes of screen time. Now, the theme we're going to see throughout this list is just because you're on screen for 10 minutes doesn't mean you go in and work for 10 minutes. Obviously movies take a long time to make. A lot of making movies is sitting around and waiting. So those 10 minutes, you probably put a lot more time than that. Some people here on this list are going to be on set for three to four days. Some people two weeks Some people will be there the entire time. But when you think about how much you pay an actor versus how much they are actually featured on the screen, it is wild to think about. But sometimes with a big name like Marlon Brando, you put his name on the poster, you put him in all the promotional materials, and that is going to sell your movie. So sometimes you are also paying for their name. We're also going to see a lot of these people are really big names. But not only that, Marlon Brando refused to memorize his lines. So what did they do? They placed cue cards all around the set. And on the other hand, Christopher Reeve, who played Superman, was only paid $250,000 compared to what Marlon Brando got. Brando was also deliberately late to set, and it was actually written into his contract that he received additional compensation every time the production went over schedule. So if he was late and then the production still went over schedule, it was a financial incentive for him to meet late and do whatever he wanted with this time, because he just kept making more and more money. He had an assistant at the time who was 16 years old who reportedly went with him on set to make sure he had a full stomach, because whenever he was full, he supposedly acted better. At this point in his career, he was just doing whatever he wanted. Christopher Reeve even openly called out Brando, saying, like, I. I'm not supporting that. Christopher Reeve said by the time that Marlon Brando was 53, he was just done with everything. He didn't give a crap. So Marlon Brando, $19 million for 10 minutes of screen time. Up next, Fantastic Beasts, the Secrets of Dumbledore, which came out in 2022. Johnny Depp was paid $16 million. How much time was he on screen? Let me think back to that movie. Oh, he's not in it at all. Zero screen time. He was actually dropped from the third film because of all the controversy going on in his personal life, because of all the court stuff with Amber Heard. He was replaced in the movie, but in his contract, he had a pay or play clause, meaning that he would receive his full salary regardless if he was in the movie or not. He even had a clause in there. If they replace them, he would still get paid that $16 million from Warner Brothers. So that is exactly what happened. So this was the final film in that franchise, which I thought started out really strong. I love the first one. I enjoyed stepping into that world with Newt. I thought Eddie Redmayne did a fantastic job. But I think historically, those movies got worse and worse, and they Ended up just becoming what I would dub as an airplane movie. But that's wild, though, that Johnny Depp only filmed one scene for this movie before being asked to resign. But still, he made that $16 million wild. Next up, George Clooney in Gravity. When I think about Gravity, I think of it as a Sandra Bullock movie. Very limited cast. It's pretty much her and George Clooney. And really from that, it's pretty much her the entire time floating in space. I thought that movie was great when it first came out. It was very immersive. 3D was still popular at the time as far as being able to add depth to a movie in a way that we hadn't really seen before. We were really enamored with it in the 2010s because of Avatar, which came out in 2009, and. And then everybody started utilizing that technology. But I love space movies because they're always very isolated. And this movie really made me feel like I was isolated in space right there with Sandra Bullock. But George Clooney was in this movie for only 18 minutes, and it's pretty much only in the beginning. We have a lot of George Clooney's voice in the movie as well. And he was paid $20 million, and that was just the upfront money because he also got $14 million from the box office profits. So in just what. What was reported that he made for this movie, that's $34 million right there for 18 minutes. But George Clooney is one of those actors with that power in his name. And at least with this one, it doesn't really feel to me like his presence is not there. If you were to ask me before I looked up this list, I would have thought he was it more. So I guess that doesn't really take away from it. Some of these other people we're going to get to, you can tell that they were way overpaid for their amount of time, because sometimes you can be on screen for a very limited amount of time and have a big impact. We're going to get to somebody on this list later who won an Oscar for a very limited time that they were on screen, still got paid a pretty decent amount. But George Clooney, 18 minutes, $34 million. This next one is wild. Nicolas Cage was Superman. He was. The movie was cancelled. They only ever brought him back in the Flash movie whenever they had all those random cameos. But the movie was called Superman Lives. So total screen time he ended up having was zero minutes, because the movie was never made. But if you ever Google Nicholas Cage Superman, you'll see a picture of him in the Superman suit. Tim Burton was all gung ho about making this movie. They didn't really even have a script. They were kind of just piecing things together as they went along. I don't know what would have happened with this movie. Tim Burton doing a Superman movie. I mean, he did a really great job with Batman, but it kind of seemed like this thing was under wraps for so long. There was no clear plan. But for those zero minutes, because the movie was never fully made, Nicolas Cage was still paid $20 million, which he went on to spend on like a dinosaur skull or something or the blood of Dracula. But the movie was canceled in pre production in the late 90s. But Nicolas Cage had what we were talking about earlier, the pay or play contract, meaning he still got paid even though the movie didn't even shoot. So it wasn't even that the movie came out and it wasn't in it. Even though the movie never fully was finished, he still got paid those $20 million for basically wearing a weird wig and some test footage and putting on the suit that doesn't really look like it even fits his body. I'm not entirely sure it was made and fitted to him because it looks a little weird on him. But $20 million for doing a very limited amount of time on a pre production set. Movie not coming out, not having to press for it. I'll take it. Next up, we have Denzel Washington, an American gangster from 2007. This was a little bit different because the movie initially got canceled back in 2004 by Universal, and Denzel was really upset because he was set to make $20 million before that movie was canceled. So he sued them for breach of contract and ended up being paid $20 million anyway, even though the movie didn't come out. But then later in 2007, famous director Ridley Scott revived the project, still brought Denzel Washington back for that role that he was initially supposed to play Frank Lucas. But then here's the part where it makes this really lucrative for him. When he signed back on with the Ridley Scott version, he got paid another $20 million. So when all was said and done for American Gangster, denzel Washington made $40 million per that settlement and per that new deal. So sometimes you gotta fight for what you're worth and you gotta fight for the work that you've been promised. And that's the thing, not only with actors, but anybody in a professional setting, especially people like independent contractors. If you get hired to do a job, and that is going to set you for the rest of the year. Maybe you're in a point where like, oh, I just need to get this next big job, this next big opportunity, no matter what you do. And you're already accounting for that money. It is as impactful to you as it is to a Hollywood actor who maybe lives an entirely different lifestyle, maybe sometime lives in excess, but it impacts you the same way. So when that gets taken away from you, say that contract for building a new school goes away, you are already accounting for that money the same way Denzel Washington was already accounting for that money to maybe build a new wing in his house. So that is why these actors fight for all this money. And also, like we've been talking about recently in movie math, is that just because they are paid that $20 million, that greatly dwindles as they start to pay everybody. Which is going to be a reason that someone else on this list took a role that was like, oh, my gosh, why are they even in this movie? Now we have an answer. But Denzel? $40 million. When all was said and done for American Gangster. Next up, this one I felt. And this one I felt a little bit robbed by, a little bit cheated by even Robert Downey Jr. In Spider Man Homecoming from 2017, he was paid $10 million. He was in that movie for about 8 million minutes. And that was used in the poster, that was used in the trailer. This was at a time when the MCU was just banking on everything. Robert Downey Jr. He was carrying the MCU with all his cameos, with all the Iron man movies. He was holding up the Avengers, and he probably could have asked for more. And the only real gripe I have with the Tom Holland Spider man movies is, is that they've always been attached to the Avengers, especially this one. And really following the aftermath of the movie that came before it in the mcu. And that was exactly what happened with this movie. I wish it wasn't so tied to Iron man and we only got eight minutes of him on screen. But the difference between somebody like Robert Downey Jr. And a Marlon Brando is when Robert Downey Jr. Shows up, he is there. He is zoned in on his character. He is memorizing his lines. He you get full charisma. Robert Downey Jr. So I think you do get your money's worth for that $10 million, because he's going to give you the best possible version of Tony Stark that he can do in that role. So he's very pivotal. His presence was needed at the time in this movie. But I'm so glad now with the new Spider man coming out that they've revealed that Spider man is going back to street level crime, where it's not going to be in another universe. It's not going to be dealing with all these things. It's going to be Spider man getting back to his roots fighting just average criminals. We know that Frank Castle, AKA the Punisher, is going to be a part of this movie. So that is what excites me. Because the change we started to see in Tom Holland, Spider man, because of all the events of no Way Home, is I feel like he has that edge to him now. He's lost somebody important to him. He has gone through that trauma that every Spider man has to go through. So now taking them back to the streets. Oh, that's gonna be good. But we're not gonna have Robert Downey Jr. In this one. Although he's probably gonna make a lot of money for the next two Avengers movies playing Dr. Doom. But for Spider Man Homecoming for eight minutes, he made $10 million. And speaking of actors really needing a quick payday and not making as much money as you think with when all is said and done. That is the case with the next person on this list, Al Pacino in Jack and Jill from 2011, which is historically a bad Adam Sandler movie, even though it is my mom's favorite Adam Sandler movie. That is why I've seen this movie, I would say, at least three or four, maybe five times, because she loves it so much. So, yes, on paper, it is a terrible movie. But the enjoyment I get from watching it with my mom, that is priceless. But Al Pacino in this is very out of pocket. I wondered why he was even in this, but it turns out he did this cameo, which was a pretty short amount of screen time, but he played himself, I would imagine 10, maybe 15 minutes total, but probably less than that because it's pretty much a glorified cameo. Even though he does a whole commercial for Dunkin Donut. Oh, my gosh. It's so ridiculous because in the movie, there's a product that Dunkin Donuts is coming out with this whole promotional thing. And it's Duncan Chino because he's Al Pacino. Yeah, that is the level of writing we had in Jack and Jill. But my mom loves it, all right? So back off. But Al Pacino said what happened is he had a net worth before this movie of about $50 million. He went from having that to having nothing. He wrote about it in his memoir called Sonny Boy, saying that his accountant screwed him over. And he was an accountant who had a lot of celebrity clients, but I believe his accountant ended up in jail. And. And even though Al Pacino had property, he didn't have any money, not only due to the bad accountant, but also due to his overspending. Because once you get to a level of, oh, I'm rich and famous, I can buy whatever I want. If you have a bad accountant not telling you what you're spending, or maybe even allegedly taking some money from you, you're going to go broke. And $50 million sounds like a lot of money until you're just spending an excess and then not working a whole lot to make up for all the money that you're spending. So that's what happened to him. And then he said he took this movie because it kind of just landed in his lap at a time where he really needed the money. And of those $10 million, he says, after you pay the lawyers, the agents, the publicists, and the government, he got about $4.5 million of that 10 million. So what we've learned in movie math is they usually take home about half, at most, 60% of the money they are paid. But in this case, from that $10 million, he got 4.5. And for him and the lifestyle he was probably living, that was probably like taking a cup of water and trying to fill this empty tub. So it gave him a little bit of money, but it's like, man, I got so used to this lifestyle. And he's at a point in his life where he can't really take the roles he was taken in the 80s and the 90s. He's just not that type of actor anymore, being older in age. And the crazy part is, he even criticized this film afterwards. He was like, it's not a funny film. He only did it because he needed the money, and he was in such a tight spot. So if you ever see one of your favorite actors or an actor from back in the day end up in a movie, and you're like, why did they take this movie? They're rich and famous. They don't need this. They could actually probably really need it, much like Al Pacino needed Jack and Jill. So, the Sandman saving legendary actors one bad movie at a time. It did a bit. Next up, Dwayne the Rock Johnson in the Other Guys. He is on screen for 14 minutes, and he made $9 million. I do believe this is an underappreciated movie which stars Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell, which on paper it is just another dumb Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg comedy. But the fact that he was in the movie on screen for 14 minutes and made $9 million when Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg were in the entire movie and they made $20 million each for it. At that time, Mark Wahlberg was one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood. And because he ended up on this list, I have to say the Rock has to be probably the most overpaid actor. He is one of the only actors I could imagine was probably only on set for those 14 minutes and. And then he was in out of there and had to go lift weights or something. Because unlike Robert Downey Jr. I don't believe whenever you have the rock on set, you have his full attention. Even though that story came out that he would pee in bottles because he didn't want to waste time on set. So he'd be filming pee in a bottle, give it to like his assistant or a PA or something and then continue. I do just go take a pee break. You're already hours and hours late. Basically adding on another day to production. What's another two to three minutes for you to go take a whiz where we don't have to see your Johnson comma Dwayne. But $9 million for 14 minutes, not bad. That is more money than I'll ever make in my life. He could just hit me with the rock bottom and make millions. Next up, Jared Leto in suicide squad from 2016. He was paid $7 million for seven minutes of screen time, $1 million a minute. And this movie was really hurt due to the fact that he was in it so little because that was a big selling point of Suicide Squad was the fact that the Joker was going to be in it. We were supposed to see more of him. And Harley Quinn's story in that entire relationship just wasn't fleshed out in Suicide Squad. It was really just a quick villain origin story and then he was kind of scattered in the movie. On the other hand, Margot Robbie was paid $760,000 for doing a much better job and being in the movie so much more than Jared Leto. I am glad that Margot Robbie is getting paid now because before that, for her role in the Wolf of Wall street, she was paid $350,000. But then for Barbie, just a couple of years ago, she made $12.5 million. We still need to get her in that 20 million dollar range. I did see the trailer recently for a big, bold, beautiful journey with her and Colin Farrell. That looks fantastic. I might have to talk about that one in the trailer part because it looks really good. Let's get through a handful more of these. Bill Murray was in Zombieland for about five minutes in 2009. Pretty much a cameo, but a very memorable cameo. I think that is one of the funniest moments of the movie. He plays himself. He dies on screen. He was paid $3 million for those five minutes, and that is more money than he was paid for being the lead in Groundhog Day. He even came back in Zombieland Double Tap, which I thought was a little bit underwhelming. Still pretty good. Decent, but not as good as the original Zombieland. But it wasn't stated how much he made for that, but $3 million for five minutes. And you know, that was an easy filming day one location. All he really had to do was get into makeup and then hang out with Woody Harrelson. He probably could have been convinced he wasn't even making a movie and just hanging out in some random rich person's house. I bet the hardest thing about that was getting him just to show up on set. Mark Hamill in Star wars the Force Awakens, which came out in 2015, he was paid an estimated one to $3 million. Screen time, 30 seconds. And the best part of those 30 seconds, he speaks no dialogue. So Disney reportedly had what is called a legacy PA pay scale for actors from that original Star wars trilogy, which is probably why he ended up being paid so much that it stated if those legacy actors do come back in a Star wars project like this, they get a flat rate no matter how much they are in the movie. They kept his cameo under wraps for a vast majority of the time. I don't even think I knew about it or most people knew about it until we saw that movie in theaters. That was an event. Seeing the Force Awakens in theaters really made me love Star wars and get back into diving into all those films. And I know that's probably not the case with that trilogy. A lot of people took that to get out all their hate and their disdain for Disney taking over the franchise and what most people say ruined it. Not for me. Those movies made me love Star Wars. I love Daisy Ridley as Ray. I love Mark Hamill in those movies. And I love the fact that he got $3 million for not saying anything. I wish I could do that. I would make so much money to get paid for not speaking. Next up. I referenced it earlier, but Anthony Hopkins was in the Silence of the Lambs on screen for just 16 minutes. Now, he only made between 125 to 175,000. That's why I put it lower on the list. But the most impressive thing about those 16 minutes that he was on screen, he ended up winning the Oscar for Best Actor for this movie. And that was enough to get him the record for having won an Oscar with the least amount of screen time. That is impressive. So that probably didn't push his net worth to a crazy amount like some of the other people on this list. But he's the only person on this list to win an Oscar for being there for such a little time on the screen. Julia Roberts in Mother's Day from 2016, she was paid $3 million for four minutes of screen time. But not only that, she was only on set and filmed all of her scenes in just four days. So that is almost $1 million a day to have Julia Roberts show up on your set. So when all was said and done, she made $750,000 per day. And the movie wasn't even good. This was one of those weird ensemble cast movies that they tried to make for every holiday. None of them were good, but either way, she got paid also for four days of work. Bruce Willis made $3 million for his work on the Expendables 2. He was on screen for about seven to eight minutes. After that, they tried to get him for Expendables 3, but instead of $3 million for four days, he wanted to get $3 million for three days. And I know Bruce Willis is going through a lot right now. If you saw the news that came out about him last week, he is in bad spot right now. He can no longer speak, read or walk amid his dementia decline. And I think what we saw is later in his career as what he was going through really started to affect him. His time was just more precious. So you may say $30 million for four days of work. I really think he was taking on roles later in his career to really save more of his money to be able to give to his kids, to have something to pass along to them. Because if you look at his filmography from the last 10 years, some movies you maybe haven't even heard of, he's just been consistently working, I think, with the time that maybe he thinks he has left as far as just being able to be in front of the camera. So in this case, I'm okay with it. And finally, Shailene Woodley, who was in the Amazing Spider Man 2. Except she wasn't. She was supposed to play Mary Jane Watson in the sequel to the movie with Andrew Garfield, and even though she actually filmed all of her scenes, it ended up being cut from the final film, which I just don't know how it would have even worked in there. I would be curious to watch those scenes put into the movie just to see that cut of it. But apparently director Marc Webb shot three scenes with the actress, including her kind of being the secondary love interest to Andrew Garfield. But why he ended up cutting her out of the movie is because the runtime was just getting too long. So in order to sacrifice it just being more concise of a story, they completely took that storyline out of this one. But even though she was cut from the movie, she still made about half a million dollars. So not bad. We'll come back and I'll give my spoiler free review of the Fantastic Four First Step I always had to be so good. No one could ignore me, carve my path with data and drive. 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Noah de Barrasso
Joy Hardin Bradford and in session 421 of Therapy for Black Girls, I sit down with Dr. Afia and Billy Shaka to explore how our hair connects to our identity, mental health and the ways we heal. Because I think hair is a complex language system, right? In terms of it can tell how old old you are, your marital status, where you're from, your spiritual beliefs. But I think with social media there's like a hyper fixation and observation of our hair, right? That this is sometimes the first thing someone sees when we make a post or a reel is how our hair is styled. We talk about the important role hairstylists play in our communities, the pressure to always look put together and how breaking up with perfection can actually free us. Plus, if you're someone who gets anxious about flying, don't miss session 418 with Dr. Angela Neal Barnett, where we dive into managing flight anxiety. Listen to therapy for Black Girls on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Janae Cheekies
Your entire identity has been fabricated. Your beloved brother goes missing without a trace. You discover the depths of your mother's illness, the way it has echoed and reverberated throughout your life, impacting your very legacy. Hi, I'm Danny Shapiro and these are just a few of the profound and powerful stories I'll be mining on our 12th season of Family Secrets. With over 37 million downloads, we continue to be moved and inspired by our guests and their courageously told stories. I can't wait to share 10 powerful new episodes with you. Stories of tangled up identities, concealed truths, and the way in which family secrets almost always need to be told. I hope you'll join me and my extraordinary guests for this new season of Family Secrets. Listen to Family Secrets Season 12 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
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Noah de Barrasso
I'm Noah. I'm 13 and as you might have seen from the news, I got a podcast and I explain those fake headlines like your uncle would like your cousin would if he actually did the research. Honestly, adults don't ask the right questions. Now you know with Noah de Barrasso is a show about influence. Who's got it, how they use it, and what it means. For the rest of you, it's not the news. This is what the news should be if someone Gen Z or Gen Alpha mating when I'm watching everything.
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Will Lucas
Sheesh.
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Noah de Barrasso
Majority of the youth 18 through 24 say they trust Republicans more than Democrats to fund the economy.
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Will Lucas
You kidding me?
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Noah de Barrasso
Politics is wild and I'm definitely not here to tame it, but I'm here to make sense of it. Just what's happening, why it matters, and what it means for us. Bring your brain. Listen to now youw Know with Noah de Barrasta on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
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Will Lucas
Foreign let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review of the Fantastic Four. I was excited going into it, but really hesitant because historically I have not been a fan of the films. I can finally say they have done Marvel's first family justice because I've always believed that the Fantastic Four are very fascinating and interesting characters in the comics. If it wouldn't have been for the success of The Fantastic Four. Marvel would have folded way back in the day before we got any of our favorite superheroes. They are what established Marvel's identity. They were the first superheroes with problems. There are so many things about Fantastic Four that really embody Marvel and set itself apart from DC and everybody else out there. But for some reason, when it comes to their adaptation in film, it just hasn't worked. And while, though I believe they're all great characters, they have really great superpowers that look good inside the panels. Whenever you put that into the big screen, I just feel like it's hard to make that look just not completely childish. But here they finally got their character designs right. The special effects in this movie were great. I think Marvel finally listened to all the people online saying that the special effects have been trash for the last two to three years. They look great. There are moments where you're like, oh, man, that looks a little bit sus. But I still don't believe it was enough to take you out of it, because all the characters felt like it was the Silver Age comics coming to life. And that was something that really made me excited about this movie. It felt to me like one of the best comic book adaptations. It felt like I was watching that Silver Age on the silver screen. And that is what brought me the most enjoyment. Because being somebody who has read the comics and has been fascinated with these stories and these characters for so long, to finally have that vision that I've had just reading them with my eyes, finally seeing them in live action on the big screen, I think that was exciting for me and just so that other people could finally see why people love these characters so much. And it was almost like erasing a lot of that history of these movies being so bad. Because the costumes looked fantastic. Not just the best of Fantastic Four have ever looked, but I think quite possibly the best superhero suits that we've had in the last 10 years. Because there's no nanotechnology, they don't hit a button, and suddenly they're in their suit. These suits have texture. These suits have style. They have bright and vibrant color. They fit them so perfectly. And they look so good on the screen, especially in imax, which I was so glad we went to see this movie in imax, because I think seeing it on the biggest screen possible allowed me to enter that world. And there were so many moments that I was just engulfed in the story simply due to the fact that I was watching it on the biggest screen possible in IMAX format. Especially the moments with Galactus where he takes up the entire screen. That was just my favorite part of the entire experience, that I got to see every little detail come to life. And it made Galactus feel like that much more of a threat. When you see him taking up an entire just wall in front of you, you feel that threat, and you see that contrast between these characters of how huge Galactus is and how small the Fantastic Four feel in comparison. And for that reason, for the entire movie, I was worried for them. And for the entire movie, I was thinking, like, how are they going to even have a shot at this guy? I will say that did lead me to my biggest criticism with this movie, is I never felt like all of them had the perfect chemistry throughout, because all individually, they were really good. Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards. I got the sense that he was playing a really smart character. I understood the complexity of him wanting to do the right thing and save the world and working through every scenario in his brain. I think I identified a lot with this character. Not saying that I'm as smart as him. I'm not smart whatsoever, but I could understand him being so logical and thinking things through much more like an equation and taking the emotion out of it. I really felt that in his character. And I think that is something that is taken from the comics and put onto the screen to develop this character. So I love that. Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm. I think she stole the show. I think this was her movie. She was the most just emotionally driven throughout. It starts with her finding out that she is pregnant, and it's a lot of Reed Richards reaction to that. But her just kind of being the boss and dominating throughout this entire movie was my favorite. Joseph Quinn as a much different Johnny Storm. Where the Chris Evans version was just a hothead, just wanted to hook up with chicks and be famous. This was so much more sophisticated. Joseph Quinn also looked so unique on screen, where he just had this look to him. The color in his eyes and when he was engulfed in flames, look perfect. Which I think they got that CGI down just so well because it looked believable. Aside from Sue Storm, I just love the Thing. Any big Marvel character I'm just a huge fan of. That's why I'd put the Incredible Hulk in my top five. Evan Moss Bacharach, Obviously, I loved him from the Bear, but seeing him really take a different approach to the thing to make him feel very lovable and soft and very comedic. I thought that was the perfect way to capture the essence of the Thing. Because in the first movie from 2005, he very much feels trapped in his body, like he's a freak, loses the love of his life. But here he is so accepting of it and he's like, yeah, I'm the thing. He embraces it. Yes, he does get a little bit annoyed by some of the public reaction as we see him struggle with people wanting him to say his catchphrase. It's clobbering time. So he obviously has some struggles here. He is trying to form relationships outside of being a superhero. But I love seeing him actually enjoy certain parts of it, whether it's entertaining the kids on the street who are a huge fan of him, and obviously they are four years into being the Fantastic Four here. So maybe he's taken some time to deal with it. After coming back from space and turning into the Thing and having your entire life just completely changed and you can't go back to how you were, which that was. Another thing I did enjoy is they didn't do an origin story here, which I think is something not only Marvel is doing, but all superhero movies right now saying, we don't need to do origin stories. People know these characters. I do think some people are a little bit less familiar with the Fantastic Four. So they did kind of condense it at the very beginning because they go on a talk show and they use that talk show as a way to tell you how they got their superpowers for maybe anybody who didn't see the 2015 version, doesn't remember the 2005 version, or just has no idea about these characters, which I think is something Marvel is also showing us now, is that maybe all these movies aren't going to connect as much and they are going for quality over quantity. Given that this movie is kicking off a new phase in the mcu. You could just go into this movie, not have seen any Avengers movies, not have seen any Marvel movie whatsoever, and you would understand it completely. While it is obviously building to Avengers Doomsday and Avengers Secret Wars, I just felt like for the first time, it felt like this was a completely self contained movie. Even though I love thunderbolts, that was still connected in all the remnants of the mcu and that was closing out that chapter. But it just felt refreshing to me, much like Superman did a few weeks ago, that we can have superhero stories like this, that stand alone, that establish themselves, that don't need to rely on what now feels like MCU gimmicks. There wasn't even, I feel, the biggest emphasis on the post credit scenes. So I think Marvel is Listening to what people have been saying about them for the last few years, that we just want good, solid standalone stories, good looking characters, great comic book action. And that is what we got with the Fantastic Four. Now where it ranks on all the Marvel movies I've seen lately. It is really good. There's very few things I can say that I didn't like about it. That being said, I still didn't completely love it because it looked good. It went by really quickly. It clocked in right around an hour and 44 minutes. You end up hitting that one hour and 55 minutes if you stay for the post credit scene. And then there's a second post credit scene. But it went by really quickly, about the hour mark. I was like, I don't want this movie to end. And by the time it did end, I was wanting more. And I felt that I kind of held that against the movie because they were able to give us a bunch of interesting characters that I just wanted to see more of. And aside from just our superheroes, I was really invested in both of these villains, which is something that excites me as well as Marvel has just had historically forgettable villains. And I wanted to see more of them fighting. And I don't think this movie had enough of that. I think they were really trying to establish this family story and. And really shape them into the superhero family that we need to carry on into the Avengers, where I wanted them to prove a little bit more why they deserve our trust, why I feel safe with them. And that goes back to what I was saying is I never really felt them fully become a team in this movie. Even though they were all great individual characters, I still think they need to mesh together a little bit better. I feel the fact that I'm also coming off a Superman, which I think was just on another level. And I know it's not the same world, it's not the same universe, but it is the same genre of superhero movies. And I just think the fun was captured a little bit more in Superman. And it's kind of weird that both of these movies have similar aesthetics. Even though Superman is set in modern day, they almost feel like twin films to me. Which is something that Marvel and DC have gone back and forth on in their history. Where in Superman everything was related to the number three. Three years, three minutes. Here, everything was related to four. I don't know if that was on purpose of it being four years later, the Fantastic Four, that could just be a strange coincidence. But being the fact that they both came out in July, and they are both from the two biggest superhero studios. I just kind of feel like maybe they both knew what they were dealing with. Maybe D.C. was trying to beat Fantastic Four to the punch. And in this case, I kind of think they did, because after I watched Superman, I was like, oh, man, I don't know how Fantastic Four is gonna compete with that. So maybe that influenced my score a little bit. If this would have came out at a different time of the year, if it had taken the Thunderbolt slot, maybe I would have rated it a little bit higher. This movie had a lot going for it. It's good. It could have been great. It could have been even more fantastic. Really has me excited for the MCU overall, moving Doomsday into Spider Man. Oh, I can't wait. I am so in right now. Once we get to Secret wars, it's just I'm. I'm probably gonna explode. So maybe I'm holding my higher scores for those movies before. The Fantastic Four. First steps. I give it four out of five. Clobbering times in sitcoms, when someone has a problem, they just blurt it out and move on. Well, I lost my job and my parakeet is missing. How was your day? But the real world is different. Managing life's challenges can be overwhelming. So what do we do? We get support. The Huntsman Mental Health Institute and the Ad Council have mental health resources available for you at loveyourmindtoday.org that's loveyourmindtoday.org See how much further you can go when you take care of your mental health. Our iHeartradio Music Festival, presented by Capital One, is coming back to Las Vegas. Vegas, September 19th and 20th, streaming live only on Hulu. Ladies and gentlemen, Brian Adams, Ed Sheeran. Fade Glorilla Jelly Roll. 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Noah de Barrasso
Bradford, and in session 421 of Therapy for Black Girls, I sit down with Dr. Afia and Billy Shaka to explore how our hair connects to our identity, mental health, and the ways we heal. Because I think hair is a complex language system, right? In terms of it can tell how old you are, your marital status, where you're from, your spiritual beliefs. But I think with social media, there's like a hyper fixation and observation of our hair, right? That this is sometimes the first thing someone sees when we make a post or a reel. It's how our hair is styled. We talk about the important role hairstylists play in our communities, the pressure to always look put together, and how breaking up with perfection can actually free us. Plus, if you're someone who gets anxious about flying, don't miss session 418 with Dr. Angela Neal Barnett, where we dive into managing flight anxiety. Listen to therapy for Black Girls on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Janae Cheekies
Your entire identity has been fabricated. Your beloved brother goes missing without a trace. You discover the depths of your mother's illness, the way it has echoed and reverberated throughout your life, impacting your very legacy. Hi, I'm Danny Shapiro and these are just a few of the profound and powerful stories I'll be mining on our 12th season of Family Secrets. With over 37 million downloads, we continue to be moved and inspired by our guests and their courageously told stories. I can't wait to share 10 powerful new episodes with you. Stories of tangled up identities, concealed truths, and the way in which family secrets almost always need to be told. I hope you'll join me and my extraordinary guests for this new season of Family Secrets. Listen to Family Secrets Season 12 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Sarah Spain
Get fired up, y'.
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Will Lucas
All.
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Sarah Spain
Season 2 of Good Game with Sarah Spain is underway. We just welcomed one of my favorite people and an incomparable soccer icon, Megan Rapinoe to the show and we had a blast. We talked about her recent 40th birthday celebrations, Co hosting a podcast with her fiance, Sue, Bird watching former teammates retire and more. Never a dull moment with Pino. Take a listen. What do you miss the most about being a pro athlete? The final. The final and the locker room. I really, really like you. Just you can't replicate. You can't get back showing up to the locker room every morning just to talk. We've got more incredible guests like the legendary Candace Parker and college superstar Az Foot. I mean, seriously, y', all, the guest list is absolutely stacked for season two. And you know we're always going to keep you up to speed on all the news and happenings around the women's sports world as well. So make sure you listen to Good Game with Sarah Spain on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Janae Cheekies
Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports.
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Will Lucas
It's time to head down to Movie Mike's Trailer park, Mortal Kombat 2, the sequel to Mortal Kombat, which came out in 2021. It is the fourth movie in the franchise. We got two of these movies in the 90s and after watching this trailer, I thought, man, why couldn't they just take this a little bit more serious? Why does it have to be so comical and over the top? Why do the characters have to look the way they do? And then I really sat with that and thought about that because to me that sounded like somebody who wasn't a real fan of this video game, which I was back in the day. But that's not what this movie is. This franchise has grown so much since that video game we played back in the 90s on SNES and in arcades where the graphics were just very, very early on. At the time we thought this is the best, most advanced video game ever. The thing that was so appealing about Mortal Kombat was the blood. The blood splattering, you actually killing people. Finish him. You falling down that tunnel. If you played it in the arcades and it's counting it down like, do you want to continue that countdown keeps going. You're like, where's the quarter? I need the quarter. And then your guy or girl would hit the spikes and it'd be game over. But that's not what this video game is. Because we got those movies in the 90s which were charming at the time. I love the first one in 95, but again, I was four years old when that movie came out. Of course I was going to love it. Didn't love the follow up to that. Annihilation. That was an Abomination. Get over here. But the franchise has grown so much since then and has gone from generation to generation console, from the PlayStation to the PS5 now. And I'm just not that in tune with this fan base anymore because after watching this trailer, I see a lot of people excited about that, that it is giving the gamers what they want who have been there with the franchise. And I think that is smart for them making references and using characters that you would be familiar with if you'd played this game in the last 10 to 15 years. Which is where video game movie adaptations have succeeded. Most recently with Minecraft, but also Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario. I also watched this trailer and set my expectations now because for some reason I kind of want a Mortal Kombat movie to have more of a Game of Thrones vibe. Because I think the level of intensity is just. It's at that level, you fight to the death. In these situations, when I think about fighting to the death, I think of every battle in Game of Thrones. But that wouldn't make this movie fun. It wouldn't create that same action. You have these very just out of this world characters that would not fit with that. So now that I kind of have put myself in the mentality of if I was a fan of this franchise, given what happened in the 2021 version, which you didn't even have the tournament in that one. It was all a build up to this one. I think this is where the good stuff is going to be. We have Carl Urban joining the cast now. He is going to be Johnny Cage. Before I get into more about the Mortal Kombat 2 movie, here's just a little bit of the trailer. Where the hell am I?
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Janae Cheekies
It's a fighting tournament to the death.
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Will Lucas
That's got to be against the rules. Can't just go around killing people. It's called Mortal Kombat for a reason. Are you kidding me? You don't have repels. Just incredibly handsome. So that is who Johnny Cage is played by Carl Urban, who you would be familiar with if you're a fan of the boys on prime video. He plays Billy Butcher and he does a fantastic job there. He is very Australian, really leaning into the character of Johnny Cage, who is a pretty boy actor. And in that movie he said a lot and did a lot of cheesy things. Phrases like let's do dance. Hitting Goro right in the junk. All right, let's dance. That is the kind of material that you're working with in a Mortal Kombat movie. And they even point out there that Johnny Cage has no powers. He is just incredibly handsome. In this movie you have Shao Kahn as the main big bad who showed up at the very end of the original movie from 1995. And I thought this movie ending was so intense and so impactful. And since then I've been fed clips here and there on Tick Tock. And one, I realized how bad the CGI was back in the day. Like we were a long way from doing that movie justice. So I think at the time I enjoyed it because I was a kid. It did capture what the video game franchise was at that time. They just didn't have the technology to do it. And at that very end scene where you do see this villain show up in the sky, which goes from a bright blue background to really dark, and you see this image of this character emerge behind this pyramid. And whenever he delivered this line as a kid, I thought that was the most intense thing ever. It told you that they're going to make a sequel which it felt so forced. You couldn't do this ending now. It would be utterly ridiculous. And if they do something like this in 2025, it wouldn't be at the very end of a movie. This is giving more post credit scene. But here's that moment. Oh, it's a little cringe. What is it? The Emperor.
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Noah de Barrasso
We pathetic fools.
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Will Lucas
I come for your souls. I don't think so. Theme song. I love how they just get ready and who are they doing that for? They go into like the fighting motion. They're about to fight him right now. But I think that is what I am excited about with this sequel. That it's actually going to feature the tournament, which the 2021 version did not. It was a lot of backstory on Sub Zero and Scorpion. And now we're getting to the good stuff. Now we're going to see what we did see in that original 1995 movie. But with today's technology. And the thing about that in watching this trailer, it looks to me obviously like they couldn't film this movie on a real life set. These places don't exist. All these crazy worlds that they go to. Which was also a great thing about the Mortal Kombat game back in the day is the different actual levels you could play on. But movies like this are starting to have this identity where they use these LED huge screens. Maybe you've seen on Socials recently, James Gunn sharing behind the scenes moments from Superman. Whenever they were filming the flying scenes, they had what is called the volume, which are just these giant LED screens. I think the Mandalorian was one of the first TV shows to use them. And now more and more movies have used them because they're able to cast these really bright and vivid scenes onto these LED screens where it looks like you're actually there. And that's how they film it. So instead of filming to nothing like a green screen, the characters or the stun performers can actually see something. I think it looks a lot cooler when used. Right. But watching this trailer, I feel that's what they used. Even though I searched and they didn't explicitly say that they use the volume to film a lot of Mortal Kombat but it's starting to have this kind of identity in a lot of things that we see now on this level in certain superhero movies where you can tell that they are using it and you can tell that there's not this level of depth. Between the characters and their environment, which in the 90s, 2000s, even 2000s, for the majority of that time it was just green screen and blue screen, where I think this technology did have a lot of benefits of making it feel a little bit more real, but now it's kind of feeling a little bit more homogeneous, where all these movies are kind of starting to look the same. And the only thing that really stands out from this trailer is the unique character designs, because this movie does look like it's going to be a lot of fun, which I think the 2021 version really wasn't that that I remember watching that movie and I was like, did I hit play on the right thing? Because this doesn't feel like a Mortal Kombat movie. But I think in order for this franchise to carry on, because I assume they want to make a three, they want to make a four, I think they're going to lean into the fun more. And if that works, which overall, I really enjoyed the 2021 version, was it my favorite movie of that year? No, but I gave it a three out of five, which was pretty solid. So we're seeing some new characters here. We're also seeing characters return like Sonya Blade, Jax, Liu Kang and Kano Hiroyuki. Sonata is back as Scorpion, which that guy has incredible range. Whenever I saw him win the Emmy for, I believe it was Outstanding Lean Actor in a Drama series for his role in Shogun, I really felt for that guy because he did that entire speech in Japanese. He talked about how that show was a huge gamble but now is a major success. And what he was referencing in that show being a gamble was the fact that it has a high percentage of Japanese dialog. So for no one else, I'm watching this movie for him. It is coming out in theaters on October 24th and that was this week's edition of Movie Trailer park. And that is going to do it for another episode here of the podcast. Before I go, I got to give my listeners shout out of the week for the last couple of episodes. It has been a hater line on the shout out and I don't want to do that again this week. I didn't dive back into that well, even though I did get some of that last week. But I'm actually going over to Facebook, which has surprisingly been one of the more supportive places recently, which is unusual for Facebook because normally it's just people yelling at each other. Facebook is usually the place where people comment on a video referencing me not really understanding that they are commenting on my page. So they're talking about me like I'm not going to read it. They're like, this guy is an idiot or this creator is stupid. And I'm like, you're commenting on my video? You could say that directly to me. And then I feel weird replying to that. But Facebook has been surprisingly supportive. This week's listener shout out of the week goes to Jennifer Sneed, who commented on my post about my I know what you did last summer review and said when you're rooting for the fishermen, you know it is bad which of the people I did see that actually went to go see I know what you did last summer. I don't think anybody was happy with that. Even bigger fans of the original than I was, which I'm not the hugest fan of it, but there were people I know went to see that movie that loved the first one. They still did not like this movie. The highest rating I saw for it was a 2.5 out of 5. And that was from a big fan. I don't know what happened here. I'm still trying to figure that one out. So thank you, Jennifer, for commenting on that. Hopefully I saved you from going to see that movie in theaters. Maybe, just maybe, I would say it's worthy of a stream. Yeah, I'll give them that because it was entertaining enough for me to stay till the very end. It does suck you in in a really annoying way, so probably not one you need to see in theaters at all. But give it a stream. Maybe if it's been hanging on a service for a while now and you have nothing else to watch and just want to be sucked into something really dumb, that is the only real indication. Or if you get stuck on a plane. Although they don't really put horror movies on planes anymore. But if you're stuck on a plane and you have nothing else to watch, check out the new I know what you did last summer because that's where it's probably coming to you the in. So thank you for listening, thank you for being subscribed and until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later.
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Sarah Spain
Get fired up, y'.
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Noah de Barrasso
All.
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Sarah Spain
Season 2 of Good Game with Sarah Spain is underway. We just welcomed one of my favorite people, an incomparable soccer icon Megan Rapinoe, to the show and we had a blast. Take a listen. Sue and I were like riding the lime bikes the other day and we're.
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Will Lucas
Like, wee like this.
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Sarah Spain
People ride bikes because it's fun. We Got more incredible guests like Megan in store, plus news of the day and more. So make sure you listen to Good Game with Sarah Spain on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Brought to you by Novartis, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports Network.
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Noah de Barrasso
I'm Noah and I'm 13. And I started this podcast because, honestly, adults don't ask the right questions. Now you know it. Noah de Barrasso is a show about influencer, who's got it, how they use it, and what it means. For the rest of you, it's not the news, it's what the news should be if someone Gen Z or Gen Alpha made it. Politics is wild and I'm definitely not here to tame it, but I'm here to make sense of it. Listen to now youw Know with Noah de arrasto on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Summer's here, and with the kids home and off to camp, it's easy for moms to get lost in the shuffle on Good Moms Bad Choices. We're making space to center ourselves with joy, rest and pleasure. Take the kids to camp. You know what? It was expensive, but I was also thinking, you have my kid. This is kind of priceless. Take her, feed her, make core memories. I don't have to do anything. Main thing, I don't have to do anything to hear this and more. Listen to Good Mom's Bad Choices from Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast.
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Janae Cheekies
Hey guys, it's Janae, AKA Cheekies from.
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Noah de Barrasso
Cheekies and Chill Podcast. And I'm bringing you an all new.
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Janae Cheekies
Mini podcast series called Sincerely Janae.
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Noah de Barrasso
Sure, I'm a singer, author, businesswoman and podcaster, but at the end of the.
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Janae Cheekies
Day, I am human.
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Noah de Barrasso
And that's why I'm sharing my ups and downs with you in real time.
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Janae Cheekies
And on the go. Listen to Cheekies and chill on the.
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Noah de Barrasso
Iheartradio app, Apple podcast or. Or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Will Lucas
It's Black Business Month and black tech green money is tapping in. I'm Will Lucas spotlighting black founders, investors and innovators building the future one idea at a time. Let's talk legacy tech and generational wealth.
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Noah de Barrasso
I had the skill and I had the talent. I didn't have the opportunity. Yeah, we all know, right? Genius is evenly distributed. Opportunity is not.
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Will Lucas
To hear this and more on the power of Black innovation and ownership. Listen to Black Tech green money from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Noah de Barrasso
This is an iHeart podcast.