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Oh, what up? What up? What up? Yes. It is I, the homie Mac, a k a your boy.
Mac:And, for those watching live, I know it's a it's a tad bit late. For those watching on Monday, you should get it at the regular time watching, listening. Either way, you should get it on Monday, standard time. But for those tapped into the Patreon, which you can check the link below, normally, we try to go live Friday nights so you guys can, tap in and join in the shenanigans, but your boy just got back from, spinning, Friday up in Baltimore with, my brother and sister and and all my nieces and nephews and whatnot and, having fun up at the aquarium out there. It's a good time.
Mac:If you haven't been to that aquarium, if you're able and in the area, check it out. It's a great aquarium. But it is 4 and a half hours away from where I stay at. So, that caused us to have to drive again back up that way, and
Mac:not a fan not a fan of 95 North,
Mac:in in in Virginia, 90 5 north or south in Virginia. Virginia as a whole, y'all need y'all need to do something, but, we'll get into that a little bit later. But, ladies and gentlemen, this is episode 147 of the smoke pit. And tonight, I'll be sharing my thoughts on the drivers and Virginia roadways, and pretty much you you it's we're just gonna start it off with a rant, and then we'll get into a house meeting. We're talking the top 10 gangster film of all times and trying to pick the, top 3 from the list given.
Mac:Obviously, there are plenty of gangster slash mafia slash mob films out there, and people have their opinions. But we'll just go off this picture for the sake of time. We'll pull that up in house meeting. And finally, there's a past episode of the smoke pit where we kinda got on a a young lady for singing the national anthem at a NBA game, to to, I guess, some fanfare. But, apparently, this past week, there has been a even more egregious crime and sin when it comes to singing the national anthem from a professional Grammy nominated singer, and we'll get into that as well.
Mac:But, I'd say we go ahead and start the motherfucking show. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining me on episode 147 of the smoke pit starting right now.
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Blak:Come relaxing, get some lapsin', and let's talk about these brackets. And while we at it, tell me whose man's is this? Because I got questions, I'm hopin' you can answer it. Get ready because you know we gonna talk a lot of shit. It's Mack and Mack.
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Mac:Yep. What's good, everybody? Y'all know what it is. Saturday night, boots somewhat right. It is one half of the dynamic duo, Mac aka your boy.
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Mac:Shout out to my man, Black Mac. He should be coming back sooner rather than later. But, again, prayers and thoughts are still with you and your family as you go through this, this difficult time. So, as promised, let me start this off. I don't have a shot glass in front of me.
Mac:That's another foul. That's the 2nd show in a row I didn't have it, but libations are still available here in front of me. Oh, merch shot too. Look at this. Hey.
Mac:Hey. But, I got my, crown vanilla and my Coke 0 here. Toast up, again, to, to family. Get time to spin with mine up there in Baltimore. First time we actually went out, brought all the kids out and everything.
Mac:Cousins hanging out. It was a good time. Jokes were had. All of the all the good stuff, man. It just the driving just sucks, man.
Mac:Like and and I love to drive. I just hate driving when stupid people on the road. So that's pretty much all the time. Because you know you know how it is when you drive. You're the best driver in the world.
Mac:Everybody else sucks. Right? So, that's what we're working without here. But, here's the family, Good times, bad times. You know, it's it's good to appreciate them while they're here.
Mac:Even if you guys are not on speaking terms, you know, just remember, you got family out there.
Mac:Hit them up. Let them know
Mac:you're thinking about them. I ain't telling you to go out and try to recuperate and fix every relationship. Yeah. Y'all know where y'all are at with y'all family. But, for me, it was just good to spend time with them and everything.
Mac:And, yeah, it's a family. Here you go. Delish. Delish. Delish.
Mac:Now if you are watching on Patreon, make sure you're looking at the video. You click the little, there should be a YouTube icon on the video that'll have you watch over on YouTube, and then you'd be able to leave comments in there. Because that was I was getting a lot of not complaints, but, you know, comments saying, hey. I'm watching a video, but I can't comment with everybody. So if you're on YouTube or Patreon, you see the video streaming.
Mac:You see my beautiful face. Should be a icon on there. You click that. It'll say, do you wanna watch this over on YouTube? You click that.
Mac:It takes you to YouTube, and then you'll be able to comment. All that good fun stuff, that we love for you guys to do, when we go live. Anyway, I promised you guys a a small little rant on my experience driving on this. And we could probably tap into the last time I attempted to go to Baltimore to this aquarium. I was saving that for minutes, but I'll share it with you guys here.
Mac:And, we're bringing back a a segment that was one off. Thought I would never have to use this segment again, but, I believe it's time to sit down, cozy on up to the fireplace, gather around the chair, and enjoy this story time with Mac. So soothing, the strings and everything of that. But you know what's not soothing. Driving on these roads out here in Virginia.
Mac:Virginia, Virginia, Virginia. I can only speak for the eastern portion of Virginia. I have not been out to the western portion, driven through it on the way out here. I assume everything's cool out there because you don't have this congested BS that is the Hampton Roads area or, the DC area, which extends 2 hours south or an hour and some change south down to Fredericksburg and all that other stuff. But, so real quick real quick.
Mac:In the Hampton Roads area, there's a ton. There's only, like, a couple of ways to get over to the Virginia Beach side. Right? When when I get the post edits and stuff, I'll put up a map. But if you're from the area, you should be well aware of the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel and the Mer Mar Mac, whatever, the tunnel that's over by Norfolk.
Mac:Right? What can I say about these tunnels except when they were made, the ingenuity and the amount of brainpower and the money and everything that went into building these tunnels? I don't know why they just couldn't build a bridge. Now I know why it's because they'd be having these ships come over to the Norfolk shipbuilding and repair and everything, aircraft carriers and all that stuff because Norfolk's a pretty big naval station, by the way. But there's gotta be a better way, man.
Mac:Y'all y'all could've made these tunnels wider or something. I don't know if they understood how populated and condensed the population would be here. There is never a good time to drive through any of these tunnels. It is always traffic. It'd be 3, 4, 5 miles backed up, like stop.
Mac:Bumper to bumper. No go traffic. And you're like, boy, they better be an accident. The the standard, there better be a boy, if when I get up here, there better be a reason why traffic is like it is up here. You know what I'm saying?
Mac:Only to find out when you get up there. Traffic is slow and smoothly or something. So either people don't know how to merge. Right? People are letting people merge in.
Mac:I don't know what it is. But ever since I got here or actually before that, because I came out here t d y one time back in 2019, I believe, before COVID, and they were working on this bridge or some kind of new traffic management system that was gonna solve all of this shit. Fast forward to 2024. It is still under construction. I don't I do not know.
Mac:I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that I understand the architecture, the planning, the fucking mathematics, the skill that goes into figuring out how to make traffic flow better. I'm just a simple person. But what I do know is that this this plan that they had that was supposed to be done summer of before now, they took them signs down. You know, those signs would be like, could be completed by summer of whatever. They they took them shits down because they they they don't even know at this point.
Mac:They're like, bro, just trust us. Please believe us that this thing will get done on time. You know what I'm saying? That is that is where they're at right now. But I digress.
Mac:Any any traffic, anything in Virginia, when you see it on the interstate, we're just like, this is going to improve the flow of traffic. It is a lie. Ladies and gentlemen, I'll tell you right now. It is a lie. It is it is on the same page as your church's building fund.
Mac:You know, they you they promise you they get the the beautiful mock up. They have somebody draw what the the new church is gonna look like from the outside. Never no interior plans. Never no floor plans. Just a a gorgeous building on the outside is what they draw it up as.
Mac:And it's the same thing with these, the help ease the the the congestion of traffic. Like, none of that stuff works. None of that is just all a dream. And you can go to their page, and they'll have these beautiful mock ups about and how cars are flowing and how much time is gonna that's never going to happen, people. So when they be when they be, like, using your tax dollars to fix this, it's not gonna get fixed.
Mac:It's not gonna get done. It it's just not. Okay. It's just not. Speaking of that, so that that's just the tunnel going to Virginia Beach and stuff.
Mac:Stuff. If you wanna do something fun over in Virginia Beach, you gotta try to figure out when's the best time to go. Do I go the night before when, like, no traffic is out and get a hotel so I can enjoy the day out there in Virginia Beach, or do I try to just chance it and head over there about 11, 12 o'clock and there'd be traffic all over the place. Right? So it's it's either way.
Mac:You're you're it's it's gonna be annoying. You're either spending money at a hotel over there so you could do stuff, or you're just trying to plan and leave hella early to get to Virginia Beachside and just sit around and wait till the app you know what I'm saying? It's it's just it's it's shenanigans all around. It's shenanigans all around. On that note, I'm a just say this.
Mac:From here on out, family members, listen to me, Friends and and and family up in, up in Northern Virginia, DC, DMV area. If I have to drive more than 2 hours north, I'm not coming anymore. I'm not I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it to my my I'm not doing it to my my psyche. I'm not doing it for my mental health.
Mac:I'm not doing it for my overall safety. I'm just not doing it no more. The the payoff for the drive up there, I will say it was a good time. What's up, Brian? Yeah.
Mac:That's one of the things I was gonna I was gonna talk about. It's a good time. It's a good time, but, like, the trauma that I have to go through, to get up there is what I can go without. So 2 weeks ago 2 weeks ago, we tried this, tried this thing, tried to take some leave, right, and go up to Baltimore to check this aquarium out. My sister's son just, you know, turned 5, kindergarten starting up next year, trying to do something fun, take him to the aquarium up in Baltimore for the first time.
Mac:He's never been there. So I'm I mean, I'm pretty sure he's gonna have a a great time. So I'm laughing because this story's gonna get wild. Drive up there, meet him at the, meet him at my parents' house. We're, like, cool.
Mac:We're gonna head out, all that good stuff. We drive out there. As we're driving, Virginia, this is another thing on YouTube. I have never seen so much debris on an interstate in in my life, and I'm coming from Arizona, where, like, there's natural debris, like, rocks and shit. Right?
Mac:Windows windshield's getting cracked in in Arizona all the time, because rocks are just being kicked up. Right? Small pebble stuff, sometimes they they ding your windshield, sometimes they don't. It's terrible. But you you hear them hitting your car, you're like, man, this shit is gonna be fucking ridiculous when I get out and look at my car.
Mac:You look at it, it's not bad. Here in Virginia, bro, it's like I don't know what it is. It it's like the obstacle course from, like, when you finish a level in in Paperboy, and you get off the street and it turns into the dirt road, and there's, like, ramps and hoops and fucking moving gates, and it feels like paper. Like, you're trying to navigate the obstacle course in paper, boy, is what it feels like. Because there's literally everything in the road.
Mac:Fucking cargo straps, fucking, tires, whole tires. Like like somebody just took a tire out of their car and laid it on the road. Right? And you're you're just flying. You're going like 75, you know, 80 flying down the the the interstate.
Mac:And then all of a sudden, cars just start swerving. You know, like, the is going on? And then you see a tire just sitting in a road. Nobody's stopping to get this tire out. I'm not stopping in the middle of traffic.
Mac:But then okay. Let me let me just tell the story. So the 1st weekend we're going up. We're driving up. We're doing 80.
Mac:Car in front of me, little white pickup truck. Does a little swerve. Like, out of nowhere. Like, we're just going straight. He's like, trying to juke somebody or some shit.
Mac:I'm just like, the fuck is going on up here? Turns out, he swerves trying to avoid half of a tire that is just laying in the road. But because he swerved, he ended up running over the tire. Like, if he had just kept straight, the tire the the tire just would have went right in between the the 2 the wheels and everything. No problem.
Mac:Right? Apparently, he thought it was gonna do some shit to his car, so he's swerving and everything. So he swerves, runs over the tire, kicks the tire up in the air. He's doing about 80. So I'm assuming when he kicks it up, the wheels, whatever, kicks the tire going the so the tire is now going 80 miles an hour or however fast it's going.
Mac:I'm going 80 miles an hour. This tire comes in the air, and, like, I swear time slows down. It was like the scene in X Men where, Quicksilver goes into the mansion to save everybody when the the mansion's exploding. Right? Like, everything just slows down, and I have split seconds to try to think about courses of action to take here.
Mac:Right? Tires in the air. I'm looking. I'm like now in the left lane, do I swerve over into the shoulder where there's loose gravel, everything? My traction is probably not gonna be what it is.
Mac:Concrete wall right there. I got my wife, kids in the back. Lose control of the car, possibly. No. That's probably not the best bet.
Mac:Do I slam on my brakes hoping to stop in time before this tire smashes the windshield? But I look in the rear view mirror, and there's a car right on my ass going about 80. Probably a little bit faster because he's he's up on me. So I'm like, if I do that, it's gonna cause, like, a a ridiculous pile up and damage to the back of my car anyway. And my son's in that 3rd row, so probably not the best bet.
Mac:So I'm just like, let the tire hit the windshield. Right? The the on the on the the best sliver of luck, it bounces off and there's no damage. That's like 0% chance of happening. I know that, but I'm just like, alright.
Mac:My wife is in the passenger side sleep because she just got done working, night shift over at the clinic. So she's getting her rest as we're going up to the to the aquarium. The tire is kicked up on the passenger side. It's about the the passenger side of the windshield. I'm looking at my wife.
Mac:She's knocked out. Kids looking at their phones, playing games on their phone. So I'm just like, well, alright. You know, put my little arm over here like I'm a shield her from this this fucking massive tire that's floating at us at. The collision is what?
Mac:The the equivalent of a 106 I don't know about momentum and all that shit. Physics and all that stuff. I tried to take it in high school, got to the through through the 1st grading period. I was like, I can't do this, bro. You gotta let me up out this class.
Mac:Drop that shit shit like a bad habit. You know what I'm saying? Drop that shit. But, I'm just like now this is gonna make me sound bad. My arm is out, and for for for the public's knowledge, I was shielding my wife.
Mac:You know? I'd rather the brunt of this tire just fucking shatter my arm if it can, like, prevent any amount of damage to my wife. Alright? So let that be what's written down in newspapers and magazines. Right?
Mac:Let that be written down. The real reason, not the real reason, a big part of the reason is because I was, like, if this tire does come through and hit my wife and causes some harm to her, I don't want people to be like so, I mean, you didn't do anything? You didn't, like, try to protect her or any? I didn't wanna go down like that. You know?
Mac:I didn't want this her to wake up with a Michelin man permanently tattooed on her face and my arm be perfectly fine and every you know, she's the only one taking the brunt of all the damage, and everybody else in the car are cool. We couldn't have that. As a man, I couldn't have that go down. I don't want y'all to think I'm just out here letting my wife get slapped upside the head by tires going 90 miles an hour. Shit.
Mac:So I was like, hopefully, at least get a scar on my arm and be like, see, I tried. My old buddy from, The Blind Side trying to hold back the airbag from killing the the kid and shit. Like, I'm I'm not on that level. Right? And, also, Michael Orr, like, who that movie was based on, bro, he he let me down in the Super Bowl back in 2015, 15.
Mac:That'd be there or there. So here we are. Shattered. Window shattered. Pull over to the side.
Mac:Cops come. I'm sitting here talking to insurance, USAA. USAA. I think that'll be a rant for another day, but y'all gotta get y'all shit together because there's no reason I had to explain what happened to me, to 5 different people, 5 different times in order to get through and get the help that I needed. That that was unnecessary.
Mac:But the Virginia Department of Transportation, one of their workers pull up behind me and is looking at us. Yeah. We got called to pick up some debris that was in the road. Are you are you guys the cause of the debris? I was like, no.
Mac:We're the results of the debris. Y'all was like, 5 minutes late coming out here trying to stop traffic to pick this fucking tire up. And then and then the cop comes up. Right? So state trooper comes up.
Mac:Shout out to him. I know he's just doing his job. I'm on the phone losing my shit of keeping my cool, but close to losing it with USAA. He knocks on the door. Like, I need to talk to you.
Mac:It's like if I roll this window down and talk to you, these cars are gonna buy 90. Insurance ain't gonna hear me. I'm a you know, it it is what it is. I have to talk to you. Alright.
Mac:Cool. Give the phone to my wife. Go talk to the trooper. He's asking me what happened. So it's, like, the 11th time I'm I'm explaining this thing.
Mac:He looks me in my eye, looks me right in my optic stems, and he says to me, did you get the license plate of the car that's that was in front of you that caused this? So I I looked to him and and, like, I'm a sarcastic person. Right? If you know me, you know me. Like, I I I can only take some that's all I can stands.
Mac:I can't stands no more. It's a quote, Popeye. I'm sitting here like, do you mean when the tire was flung in the air or after my windshield was shattered? Like, when when was I gonna get this license plate? I don't know if he was expecting me to just every time my car's in front of me, to write down to get the license plate, or after the accident, like, hang my head out the window while still going 80 with holes in the windshield trying to write this this this this license plate down.
Mac:Like, bro, it's not happening. You know it wasn't gonna happen. He's like, I know it's a stupid question. I just had to ask it. Right?
Mac:So I'm just like, Virginia. And can we talk about this this random ass express lane? So again, in in post edits, you're gonna you're gonna see the the the the the fucking stretch of 95 I'm talking about. It's the stretch that goes from Fredericksburg up to DC, And they have an express lane, like there's southbound, and there's northbound, and then in the middle of both, there's the express lane. So instead of having an express lane dedicated to each direction, it's just one lane that is not shared.
Mac:But throughout different times of the day, they shut it down, and it's just the express lane for the north. And in certain times of day, it's just the express lane for the south. I have traveled that road I don't know how many times, and I don't know the hours, the timing, or whatever, but that lane is never open for the way I'm going. Now people say, well, at least it's open because when you're not on it, obviously, it's the I believe I'm I'm in complete belief that that lane is never open. And when you see cars in it, those aren't real cars.
Mac:Those are holograms or something. Because I've been like, the express lane will be floating, and then the other lane is just traffic. There's traffic in both interstates, and traffic in that lane is flowing. I'm like, like, if the southbound lane is flowing, if the express lane for southbound traffic is just wide open, why aren't people using it? And I'll tell you why.
Mac:Because them gates stay closed, and them cars is fake as fuck. Either that or you just gotta know the person that's controlling those gates. Like, you have to call in and pay them money and tell them, hey, bro. I'm headed up to DC. We'll be up there about 3 o'clock.
Mac:Can you have these lanes open for your boy at 3 o'clock? Paid him some money. Give him a Cash App. I don't fucking know how it works, but I'm pretty sure that's the only way a motherfucker can use that express lane going either up to DC or back down from DC. Because what is the point of having that if it's never used?
Mac:If it's never fucking open and used to ease the flow of traffic, to lessen the congestion of traffic, which then lessens the chances of an accident happening. Why have those? Why have that? I would gladly like, if you bro, I'm a tell you right now. I'm gonna get fucked about these trees over here.
Mac:Knock them holes down. Widen this this this interstate or build me, express lane or something. Y'all need to get it together. Jersey Turnpike, beautiful. I will gladly pay tolls, fines, whatever for using that thing, man.
Mac:If it if for my mental health, I ran right through there without a easy pass. They have gates there where you can stop, pay cash, and keep going. I'm like, this is beaut. Like, I have no problem with that. That is an amazing adventure.
Mac:Should we need that? No. Because I feel like, you know, you should be able to want to ease traffic for free for your people, for tax paying citizens such as myself. But, no, I understand you gotta make a quick buck for your state, whatever. So tell people, if you if if I'm paying a price for convenience, I will gladly pay money to save time.
Mac:That's why I'm a house painted, paying somebody, all that, you could do it yourself. Home Depot can help. Man, fuck all that. All you handymen out there that like do it yourself DIY projects, more power to you. Your boy, Matt?
Mac:No, sir. No, sir. All up, bro. I will bring up Google, search high rated, you know, painters, interior decorators, remodel, all that stuff. I'm paying people money to do that for your boy, because I got better things to do with my time than to sit there and be doing all that stuff.
Mac:I wish I would work Monday through Friday, then come home after work trying to regroup my bathroom floor. What the? Don't hey. I'm not the one. I'm not the one.
Mac:So that that's I'm a get off my soapbox. Virginia. I don't know who the governor is. I'll look him up later. You need to do better, bro.
Mac:You need to do better. I don't know what you're doing. I don't wanna have to slide through Richmond. Just check up on you. Making sure you're doing what you're making sure you're doing what you're supposed to be doing with the taxes and tax monies.
Mac:But these roads need to get better, man. It's goddamn Mad Max out there on these streets, trying to go up there, spend time with my family, but I'm like, is it worth it? I was about to fly up there. Glad I did it based on what was going on in these airports, crowd strike, but I'm a just leave it at that. So with that being said, promise you, a nice little debate about these gangsta movies over in the house meet.
Mac:So, let's go ahead and start that up. Where we at? There we go.
Announcer:I think we need to have a house meeting y'all.
Mac:Forgive me while I adjust the calls to my hookah here. But ladies and gentlemen, you could see down at the bottom top 10 gangster films of all times, and I'd like to share the screen so you can see what's up.
Announcer:We're not I'm not
Mac:I'm not knocking any of these movies up here. Where we at? Share screen. Here we go. And voila.
Mac:This is what we got up here. Top 10 gangster films of all time. No. I will say they No. I will leave that.
Mac:So both The Godfather and Godfather 2 are taken up 2%, 20%. 2 of the 10 slots are being taken up by Godfather movies. Now, I am glad that Godfather 3 is nowhere near this list. It's widely renowned as the worst of the trilogy. I've been seeing a couple of couple of posts, around.
Mac:They haven't gone viral or anything, but that Godfather 2 is not as good as what people are saying. I love it. Right? I love Godfather 1, and I love Godfather part 2. Going back to the other one, my brother says, I'll take that easy lane without a easy pass in a minute.
Mac:Used to work in DC. I'd take an hour to get home than 3, indeed, and pay the toll. I don't care, bro. Send me the send me the bill. Send me the bill.
Mac:Y'all know where I stay at. I gladly pay that shit. But, we're sitting here looking at Godfather 12. Casino was up there, obviously. Goodfellas, obviously.
Mac:Carlito's way, Scarface. We've talked about Scarface on this show before. You guys know how I feel about it. If not, you'll you'll understand. American gangster, the departed.
Mac:Great. Donnie Brasco and the untouchables. Am I okay with this list? I am. Do I wanna sit here and try to think about other movies which I can replace, Mitch, Match, and take one out, put one on?
Mac:Not really. So I would say my top 3 are already up here. Top 3. And we'll start with my number 3. Believe it or not, I'm a have the departed as my number 3 on here.
Mac:Now departed is one of my all time favorite movies, so that should let you know something. But if I'm looking for just I don't like gangster movies, like The Departed, one of my all time favorite movies. So saying that it's number 3 in my top 3 of gangster movies, like, people would be like, well, then the other 2 gangster movies should also be in your all time favorite movies. And they're not. Okay?
Mac:They're they're great movies. Like, they wouldn't be in my top ten. Departed is in my top ten. So what what's what can I say about departed? That's been said about departed before.
Mac:Leo killed it. Probably one of the only few movies I could watch with Mark Wahlberg in it that that I'm not just like, hurry up and turn this shit off. Right? Matt Damon's in it. Jack Nicholson's in it.
Mac:Man, it's it's it's awesome. Awesome movie. If you haven't seen it, I don't know where where you've been at, or maybe you're just not in the gangster movies, whatever. Amazing movie, departed, number 3 in my gangster films of all time. Going to number 2, I would have to say to Godfather.
Mac:Outdated? Yes. Is it hard to watch now? Like, if you were just to never have seen it, be like, I'm a check it out. You know what I'm saying?
Mac:It might be a hard watch for you. Right? Because movies obviously are done different now. They're shot better. You can do a little bit more when it comes to the the graphic nature of what all these films are about.
Mac:Right? It it's become more acceptable to that. The Godfather, I just feel like it is it it just opened the door to start making movies about mafia and mob life. You know what I'm saying? So that's why I'm sitting here, like, the God The Godfather 2 is great.
Mac:Al Pacino, as a, you know, Colione's, son grown up. I think it's just a progression. Like, you see him as a kid in The Godfather, and then you see him as an adult in Godfather part 2, continuing that saga. But, Marlon Brando as as the godfather, Like, it it's it you're paying homage. And to me, like, I I I've seen that movie.
Mac:I don't know how many times. It's not just up there because it started this gangster shit, and this is the motherfucking thing. No. I'm playing. But it's just a it's a great story, and it and it opens the door to what could have been one of the greatest trilogies, if not for part 3.
Mac:But, The Godfather, is number 2. And number 1 for me is Goodfellas, man. Number number bro. Goodfellas is up there, and it and it's staying up there. Is it in my top ten movies of all time?
Mac:If I had to sit and think about it, give you an answer now, probably not. But if I sat down and really thought about my top ten movies, which is probably difficult task for anybody to do, really, I would it's probably not. It's probably not. I'm not gonna wag and then say it's in my top 15. But when if I had to watch a gangster's film and somebody's like, hey.
Mac:Recommend a gangster mafia mob movie. I'm a say you guys start with Goodfellas. Right? Goodfellas just has it all. You got De Niro in there.
Mac:You got Ray Liotta in there. You know, rest in peace. You got, is Ray Liotta dead? I think bro, if you're not dead, Ray Liotta, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Mac:I could've swore I read something a while back saying that you passed. That's how out of it I am right now. But, you got Joe Pesci in there. Who else? You got, what is it?
Mac:Dennis Ferreira Ferreira, I believe it is. Bro, it's just it's just the who's who when it comes to this this mafia stuff, man. Goodfellas, and and it's quotable lines, man. Quotable lines. You know, it's it's a movie where you just see the the the outsider kinda get adopted into the the family and make a name for itself, start moving up and all of that stuff.
Mac:And then you also see the downside of it. Getting a little bit too big, start slipping up, you know, FBI on you and every Brad, it's it's such a good movie. So that'd be my my top three right there. Got God, now departed number 3, the o g, the first godfather, number 2, and good fellas, number 1. Now there's some very, very there there was some, like, I already talked about Godfather 2.
Mac:Casino is up there. It's another great, gangster movie. And then I'd say American gangsters. For the culture, I put it up there. Very underrated is the untouchables, though.
Mac:Check out the untouchables. Now everybody's talking about Scarface. Before, you know, Scarf you ain't say Scarface, Mac. What's up up with you? You ain't say Scarface.
Mac:Ladies and gentlemen, Scarface is not a good movie. Scarface is just it's not a good movie. It is not a good movie. And people are only saying that it's great. It's because, like, when MTV Chris was popping, every time they go to a rapper's house, they'd have a movie poster of Scarface.
Mac:Like, is this what we're is is this the idol that we're going after? Is this the person that we want? Scarface. First of all, you had this Italian dude trying to do a a Cuban accent. Right?
Mac:Not not it wasn't working. Horrible accent through the whole thing. I'm surprised people weren't suing, Al Pacino for for appropriation and shit. You know what I'm saying? Like, bro, this is you couldn't find an Italian person?
Mac:You couldn't find a real Cuban person to play this role? Man, I hear with the worst accent.
Announcer:You say hello to my little friend.
Mac:Okay. Oh, you need people like me. You need me to be the bad guy. Why are people talking about that more? Why are people talking about how horrible Al Pacino was at Scarface?
Mac:How horrible his accent was? And everybody's looking past that, because everybody just wants to talk about the main scene at the end where he comes out. Say hello to Balu.
Announcer:Oh, that's a gangster way. That's a gangster way to go out.
Mac:He went out like a g. Like, bro, that that's not it. That's not it. It's not a gangster movie. It's a drug lord.
Mac:That's what I'm saying. It was just and and a horrible one at that. He just who nobody would do that. You know what I'm saying? I get it.
Mac:Like, he was he was partaking in the product that he was selling. Right? Kind of led to certain things. First of all, that when he has the mountain of of his product on his, on his desk, He just puts his face into it and they instant death.
Mac:Instant can we not talk about that? That's instant death.
Mac:Nobody does that. It is still functioning, bro. Like, you you would be like, you would be coughing. Like, I don't care how wide open your nostril is. I don't care how many lines you've done in your life.
Mac:You cannot literally put your face in powder like that and snort up and be like, without fucking losing your shit, bro. Like, I can't even pour flour from the bag into the little container that we have it in, and that stuff gets in my nose without me fucking about the apple stick, bro. I feel like I'm drowning. Oh, man. But, yeah, like, Scarface is way the fuck out there, bro.
Mac:Way the fuck. It ain't even it ain't even considered for me when it comes to movies like this, man. But, when you all get a chance, I would love it. If, if you do have any additions that you would like to add, and what omissions you would take out, put them in the comments. This is also I told you we all about these plugs over here.
Mac:If you check out the, the links in the description for the Smoke Pit Podcast fan group, you can join there and be able to comment on these real times. As you see, we already got somebody here. Goodfellas departed in scar oh my god. Tim Decker. My boy, Tim, with the Scarface shit.
Mac:I don't know why. Like, he hasn't seen these other ones, I'm assuming. I'm assuming. But, shout out to you for, 2 out of 3. 2 out of 3 ain't bad, man.
Mac:66%. 66%. Proud of you. But that's a that's a hard l. That Scarface is a hard l.
Mac:Like, I would've I would've accepted any other any other one except Starface on there, but that's just me. But, yeah. Just, join the join the crew. Join the group. Join the club.
Mac:However you wanna call it, and, add to these here. So shout out to the homie, pit master, Aldrete, for joining in and posting that in there, man. It's I'm I'm assuming he just posted it in there too, like, 2 hours ago. I just checked it out. Felt like sharing it with you guys.
Mac:So, if you have comments, omissions, you wanna add your 3 in there, let me know. Let it be known. Let your voice be heard in the group or down in the comment section of this video. We love to hear from you. But this is the moment we've all been waiting for.
Mac:I wanna let you guys know. Here at the smoke pit, we are nondiscriminatory. We're not sexist. We're not racist. We wanna let you guys know when it comes to whose man's is this, anybody can get it.
Mac:Anybody. And I know we've been on Tyrese's neck for a while. You know? We've been on my man, what was his name? Corey Harris.
Mac:He'd be on his neck for a while. But I will say, like, we teased in the cold opening there, There was a couple episodes ago, young girl, about 7, 8, out there singing the national anthem horribly. And, she's touring. Like, she does it at other other gaming other games and everything like that too, which I'm just like, how? You know?
Mac:Not knocking you. Get your money, girl. Do what you gotta do. But her rendition of the national anthem was not it, and people were still cheering her on. I get it.
Mac:She's young, but come on now. Everybody talking about, you know, participation trophies and stuff like that. Like, y'all gotta let her know, man. Call a spade a spade. It ain't it, girl.
Mac:With that being said, I feel, not an apology, but maybe it's just, like, maybe we'll work a little too hard on her. We're out here, like, she just sang the worst national anthem all times, and and we know that's not true. Because if you go on YouTube, Google worst national anthems I mean, there there's a whole playlist of that. What if I told you last week at the Major League Baseball Home Run Derby, They brought out a 4 time Grammy nominee, professional singer, country singer, professional, though. She makes her living off of singing songs to the point where she gets nominated for what some would consider the highest award in her profession, the Grammy, but she bombed it.
Mac:Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, it is time to get into this week's whose man's is this?
Who's Manz:Hey, Gomez is this? Oh, man's is this?
Mac:Ingrid Andress. Right? Ingrid Andress. Now before I play the video, I just wanna run through who she is and what, she has been nominated and all that stuff for. Right?
Mac:So Ingrid Elizabeth Andress is an American country music singer and songwriter. She first gained prominence with her when her US breakthrough single, More Hearts Than Mind, back in 2019 peaked at number 30 on the billboard hot 100. Not billboard hot country hot 100, like, across all genres. Number 30. Her single, the stranger, in 2020 peaked at number 49 on country air player, and her single, Wishful Drinking, became her 2nd entry on the hot 100.
Mac:She released 2 albums, ladylike in 2020 and good person in 2022, and cowritten for numerous numerous artists. Right? I wanna get to our awards and nominations. So in she's been nominated for an Academy of Country Music Award or an ACA twice well, actually, 3 times, twice in, 2021, once in 2020. BMI country awards in 2020 and 2023, where she won both of those.
Mac:Country music television music awards, she was nominated 3 times, 2020 and 2023. Country Music Association Awards, Grammy Awards. Alright. So in 2021, she is nominated for best new artist, for best country song with more hearts than mine, and best country album for Ladylike. Nominated.
Mac:3 nominations in her 1st year. 2023, wishful drinking. She was nominated for best country duo group performance. She's won, Nashville songwriter awards and music role awards. Right?
Mac:So the biggest thing is these Grammy Awards, like the the academy or the association, the the cult, the whatever you wanna call it that bolts for these things. It was like, yo. She's she's on her way. One of the best of the best that we have in the business. I wanna share with you.
Mac:If you haven't heard it, if you have dogs around, please shield their ears. I cannot guarantee and will not be held responsible for any trauma that I caused your 4 legged friends when I play this video. Again, this is very bad, but, again, I want you to know that this is a 4 time Grammy nominated country muted artist professionally. Alright? We're gonna let this ride.
Announcer:It's bright stripes and bright stars
Mac:Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen. Now, you heard it here. You heard it here. What in the Carl Lewis? So she has since come out and said that, the reason her performance was as such is, she was drunk.
Mac:Right? She was she was already drunk before it was her time to sing. Right? And then second, that she is going she has checked herself in the rehab. Bro, that sounded so bad.
Mac:Like, laugh for somebody checking themselves in the rehab. If if that's what you need to do, ma'am, to get your life back and everything, please do, because there is life after country music. There's life after fame and everything. So if that's what you need to do to get your life back, awesome. But why did it have why did you have to go through this before you realized you needed help?
Mac:Why did you have to do this to yourself before being like you need help? That is that is what caused me to laugh at you. Oh, I'm checking myself in the rehab. You know? Props to you, my mom, for going to rehab.
Mac:Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. I hope it helps you out. I hope you get what you need, and I hope you come out better on the other end.
Mac:However, I'm assuming Grammy nominated 4 times 4 times Four time Grammy nominated artist. You don't have a team around you to be like, hey. You probably should not be drinking all these beers or whatever that wherever it was that that caused you to to get that drunk. Right? Your your your your publicist, somebody should have been like, she cannot sing.
Mac:Just play play a instrumental of the national anthem or something. Play the instrumental so that she doesn't go out there and embarrass herself because she has a image. Her whole livelihood is based on how well she sings. And if she comes out here singing this bad, it's gonna hurt her moving forward. Brother said, PR told her to say that.
Mac:She ain't know. She she she had to have known, because they go out and ask people, would you like to sing? And they'd be like, yeah. Sure. I'd love to sing.
Mac:And she shows up. So that lets me know how seriously she was taking this. Right? Where she thought, like, I could just give you know, I'm good. I'll get out there and kill this shit.
Mac:And she killed it. Right? Just not in the way that she thought she was going to kill it. You know what I'm saying? So that that that there's that.
Mac:Right? 2nd, at what point in the song does she not realize, like, oh, I ain't got it today? Like, at what point does she not go, like, that, like, when you when you miss the first couple of notes, you know, you're just like, you know what? This ain't it today. You know, I'm not I'm not hitting what I'm supposed to be hitting on.
Mac:You know what I'm saying?
Mac:It just be like, let me just sing it regular. Let me not try to add high notes. Let me not try to add no flares, no waves, no no falsettos. Let me just get through it as quick as possible, sit my drunk ass down somewhere, and get on with the night. You know?
Mac:But nope. She wanted to hit them notes, And where we at? We'll fast forward up to this one, this part here. When she tried the free tried to add all them extra, you know, waves and variations at the free. Is is this the part?
Mac:All of the Oh, this one here. No. That's not it. You know where we're trying to hit. Oh, here we go.
Mac:Girl, if you don't sit your ass down there.
Mac:Can't pull the Jessica Simpson from SNL. Stop singing the vocal track. Oh, that was a Jessica. That was a Ashley Simpson. I remember that one.
Mac:They played the same song twice as she got up there, started doing a little jig.
Mac:Bro, that's what I'm saying. Like,
Mac:y'all need to start surrounding. I don't care how famous you get. Y'all need to keep your real friends around you that's gonna keep you from embarrassing yourself. Like, quit surrounding yourself with a bunch of yes men, yes women, and get somebody out there that's gonna keep it real. Because now you're out here telling people you were drunk, you've been drinking, you had issues with substance abuse, and now you gotta go to rehab.
Mac:None of this was coming up when you was getting nominated for Grammys all over the place. But one bad national anthem thing, and now people are looking at you like, were you was that you singing on all the mother songs? Was that you really singing on the mother songs? Are you out here Milli Vanilli in this thing? Bro, imagine being a player out here.
Mac:I know there was one one part where the player looked like he's about to just laugh. Like, he was looking around like, can y'all believe this shit? Can y'all this this dude right here. Watch his face while she's singing, man. Look at my bear right here, bro.
Mac:What in the fuck are we doing right now? Oh, does she hit this note? I'll tell you right now. I've been to some promotion ceremonies. I've been to some, some some retirements, change of commands.
Mac:You know what I'm saying? There's a lot of military functions where they play this shit before it gets started. Sucked beautifully by nonprofessional, non Grammy nominated military members. Sound this amazing. You know why?
Mac:Because they stay in their zone. They stay in their range. They don't try to do nothing special. They sing the song, and then they get off stage. They know what their job is.
Mac:They understood the assignment. You all remember that shit. I understood the assignment.
Mac:Who did did you know that was a white chick that sang
Mac:that song too? Blew my mom when
Mac:I found out. Anyway,
Mac:so here she is, though. The and and like I said, we out here doing this to the anthem, and they clapping. Stadium full of people clapping to this murdering of the national anthem. Roseanne went out there saying it couple decades ago, probably about 30 some years ago, if I'm not mistaken. They booed her.
Mac:I'm just like, well, she deserved that boo because that was a trash, and she went out there to make a mockery of it. So maybe because she was out there giving it the good old college try. Like, I can see the little 7 year old trying to sing it and getting applause, not getting booed. But, I mean, if you got a 4 time Grammy nominated artist up here. 4 time Grammy nominated artist.
Mac:Singing it, like she sang We we we we not booing? We not booing? Killing the anthem like this. Nobody's saying nothing. My man, take a knee.
Mac:Y'all ready to throw him out the country. What was more disrespectful? This rendition or taking a knee? I'm a leave that up to y'all. But Ingrid and Dreis, put your motherfucker head down, and go to rehab, and don't say no no no.
Mac:Yo. That's wild. But without further ado, let us get back to our regularly scheduled programming.
Announcer:And now we return you to our regular scheduled program in progress.
Mac:Yes. Yes. Again, day late for my Patreon members, but, again, Monday, you'll be getting it on time. Shout out to, my bro who was in the comments, man, keeping me going. Energy was kinda needed to get to where we needed to get to, but, you know, hopefully, next Friday, we'll be back in full swing.
Mac:I will say, I'm trying to do better at making sure you guys get a episode, at least once a week. And, I know we took the previous 2 weeks off. Not last week because I did one last week, but you know what I'm talking about. So we don't we never wanna leave you guys hanging, without a good episode, without something to, you know, get your week started off right if, if you're you're signing in on on Monday to check us out or, start your weekend, right, which is kinda in the middle of the weekend right now. But, hopefully, if you you listen to this and you get to check it out, early over on Patreon before the the world gets it, get a couple laughs in and whatnot.
Mac:But, as always, appreciate the supporters and everything. Check out the links below. Shout out to Queens and Nerd them again. Drop the, the next episode of our of our fallen star, adventure. And then, next Saturday, usually a gaming night, because we try to game every other Saturday.
Mac:But, our friends, EJ and Jen, they'll be down, out on vacation, so they'll be away. So I'll be stepping up, and we'll be having a, DFPN game night where you could win free merch, such as the shirt you see on me right now, as well as probably a mug or a hat. I've turned this around, but it's a whole lot of extra stuff going on. But, free merch is on the line. The game that we'll be playing is called Lyrically Correct.
Mac:And, like I said, I got, nineties R and B. I got, nineties 2000 hip hop, and I got, eighties, kinda like punk. Not punk, but like eighties pop, R and B, and stuff like that. So just ask some questions, see if you know your music. We'll probably play some music as well.
Mac:Keep it going. Keep it light. Things like that. So if you're interested, let us know. We'll be sure to send you a link so you guys can join in.
Mac:I'll create a ad and all that stuff for it, but I'm looking forward to it. Should be a good time. Wife, did a couple questions with me. She's excited. She wants to she wanted to play it, like, a couple nights ago or whatnot.
Mac:So we'll see we'll see how it goes. The last one we had was a success. Shout out to, Megan, and shout out to, Mark for jumping in there, winning some merch. And, hopefully, we could find a couple more winners, this Saturday coming up, 27th. So, without further ado, I'll be signing off.
Mac:And to kinda make this sound like an official ending of the smoke pit, I'll sign off with, the famous quote from my, better half of this show, Black Mac. Have love. Make sex. Peace.
Blak:Welcome to the smoke pit. It's Friday night. Come and take a load off. Come sit in the smoke pit. It's time for us to show off.
Blak:It's been a long week. Come relaxing. Get some lapsing, and let's talk about these brackets. And While we at it, tell me whose man's is this? Because I got questions, I'm hoping you can answer it.
Blak:Get ready, because you know we gonna talk a lot of shit. It's Macky Mack. Welcome to the smoke pit.