Freestyle return to the game! I’m really cooking. LOL! Good stuff but still...Shoutout to you and you and you and you!

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Back at it with the real talk and the real talk. Gonna be combining real talk about Summer 2020 with some reel talk about the Summer movies I grew up with. This episode covers the diversity and beauty of blackness in today’s America as well as in the various movies that graced summer movie screens through the years; including a review of the relevance and brilliance of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, then and now.

Phrankly Speaking taking a quick break from the Reel Talk for some REAL TALK about more of the recent murders of black citizens at the hands of the police, police brutality/harassment at large, the resulting protests and occasional riots, white supremacy, and why BLACK LIVES MATTER!

Coming off the top of the dome with the 90s high school movie review. Swirling glasses of wine on the 2020 tip. Dope movies! Dope analysis! “The style is fantastic!”

This episode starts (and ends) with the latest in stay your butt at home entertainment including the superb ESPN doc Michael Jordan: The Last Dance. Then we hop in the Ferrari and joyride through the incredible catalog of the late great Chicago writer/director John Hughes including his impressive writing credits, his collaborations with John Candy (RIP) and of course his iconic high school movies that defined a genre and an era. Mad props! (Also props is a Chicago word...who knew?)

Shoutout to all my 4/20 peeps. The 420 Reel Talk episode is passing out phat bags of weed comedy commentary and stoner buddy suggestions. Check for the jokes and rambling and get some history with lots of movie talk and 420 shoutouts and safety tips. Be safe and smart y’all!

Come for the Tiger King takes stay for a comprehensive list of excellent documentaries. Some of the all time greats. Some of my personal favorites. Recommendations, spoiler free, summaries and personal thoughts covering a veritable buffet of documentaries on so many different yet interesting topics, for any and all tastes. Politics to history, social issues to great people with a focus on ones that are available for streaming and the 411 on where to find them. Phrankly Speaking style of course!

Reel Talk debuts with an in-depth look at the great Harrison Ford and his super dope catalogue - with a focus on movies that are currently streaming and the 411 on where to find them. Starting with a look at how he started, my personal relationship to him and his films and some alternate history. Then it’s deep cut and ala carte suggestions from his library of bangers. And finally the main course takes on the the masterpieces that made him the Hollywood Legend he is and where to check those out. H Dot Reel Talk - Frankly Speaking, of course!

After a lengthy delay Frankly Speaking says goodbye to its first season of political and social commentary, pop culture, entertainment and sports shenanigans with a look at the current state of affairs in regards to Covid 19 and our political dynamics. Don’t fret the return is just around the corner with a soft pivot to entertaining takes on movies movies movies with season 2: THE REELNESS, a time appropriate mix of movie history, streaming suggestions and reviews of some of the great and my personal favorite movie stars, directors, genres and years! So enjoy this last episode calling of a season chock full of meat, potatoes and veggies. And get ready for a spread of appetizing takes, intoxicating suggestions and delightfully decadent reviews and endorsements.

Happy to be joined by my long time homeboy, fellow politics junkie and attorney at law Sahr, making his podcast debut, to discuss the start of the 2020 election season including the Iowa disaster, the impeachment of President Trump, the current lineup of Democratic contenders and their various strategies of defeating President Trump, and the flaws of the progressives vs moderates narrative instead of divide and conquer tactics. It’s a burner of an episode with a lot of insight into the current state of political affairs as the 2020 election train starts to really pick up steam.