My ohmie Nigel Fullerton is an actor and comedian. He’s been both BIGGIE and Biz Markie, a podcast host and self-proclaimed Eddie Murphy Stan. In this episode we touch on humor being a higher coping skills, suicide, and self-harm. Please consider this your trigger warning. Grab your tea and meet us on the mat.
My ohmie Nigel Fullerton is an actor and comedian. He’s been both BIGGIE and Biz Markie, a podcast host and self-proclaimed Eddie Murphy Stan. In this episode we touch on humor being a higher coping skills, suicide, and self-harm. Please consider this your trigger warning. Grab your tea and meet us on the mat.
https://www.murphymondaypod.com/
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Jewell Singletary [00:00:03] My Ohmie, Nigel Fullerrton, is an actor and comedian. He's been both Biggie and Biz Markie, a podcast host and self-proclaimed Eddie Murphy stan. In this episode, we touch on humor being a higher coping skill, suicide, and self-harm. Please consider this your trigger warning. Grab your tea and meet us on the mat. [Yoga Wit the Ohmies Intro music]
Jewell Singletary [00:00:26] I was trying to remember the first time that I've seen you and Fudge perform. I can't remember if it was an on a Long Island stage or out in one of the boroughs, but
NIgel A Fullerton [00:00:36] I don't remember
Jewell Singletary [00:00:38] to see where you two started.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:00:44] Yeah.
Jewell Singletary [00:00:45] To where you are now.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:00:48] I apologize.
Jewell Singletary [00:00:51] Listen! I saw sparks back then, even seeing yall jump on the stage in NOLA and just commanding the stages in different cities early on in your careers like that was fantastic to see. To the point now where I could turn on the TV and see either one of yall in a random television show, a commercial, any kind of project, a digital project.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:01:16] You have to be niche. You have to. That's what took me so long with Murphy Monday, because, again, I need to know, are there people out there that want to hear me talk? Like, is this something that I need to do? And I got a lot of resistance before I did it because again, people were like, oh yeah, but Pluto Nash and. Oh, yeah, but this and, you know, I, I tried to start this back in 2017. And I did it with my friend, you know, mutual friend of ours, John Fudge Rickenbacker, and around that time I had lost my job and I was like, all right, well, I need to try something, let me do podcasting. And that whole summer, I was like, you know what? I'mma be a struggling actor and I'm going to push myself to the limit. And I'm going all these auditions. And I was going to auditions for that movie Bad Trip that just came out. And a couple other movies Coming to America 2. A whole bunch of movies that were eh, but nothing really for me. Nothing that really fit me; so I was like, you know what, I need to try something. And it was 2017 I had a friend that committed suicide and she wrote on my Instagram the day before. She said, I always believe in you. You're going to be the next Eddie Murphy. And, you know, it hit me like because I didn't find out till, like two days later that she had passed and then I couldn't find out how she passed or what happened. And, you know, and then I found out the whole story and I was like, oh, wow. So when I hear that and I say, you know what? If I'm going to do a podcast, I need to talk about something that I know a lot about. Let me go with this Eddie Murphy thing and see what happens. So that's basically where the story happened. That and the fact that I was listening to "Denzel Washington is the Greatest Actor of All Time Period".
Jewell Singletary [00:03:22] Mm hmm.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:03:23] So a mixture of things happened to make me want to start doing the Murphy Monday Podcast.
Jewell Singletary [00:03:31] Yeah. ummm. whew!
NIgel A Fullerton [00:03:34] yeah, there's a lot. [hearty chuckle]
Jewell Singletary [00:03:38] Yeah, no, I just... Your friend... My heart aches for her.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:03:46] It was sad, too, because I had text messages from her from between 2017 and 2017. And when I was shooting Roxanne, Roxanne, I actually was like calling her and texting her while I was in my trailer. You know, like, you get that fly trailer and stuff like that.
Jewell Singletary [00:04:11] [Giggling]
NIgel A Fullerton [00:04:11] she was always like egging me on. And she was always like trying to be like the biggest cheerleader, like always in my corner. And she would come to shows and stuff. And I was just showing her like, look, I got this! I got that! And the conversation started changing between, you know, you always like when somebody passes and you look at those old text messages and you're like, this person was like reaching out but didn't know how to. And the way she was telling me stuff... She kept telling me she felt like she was dying. And I'm like, so what are your doctors saying? Like like, are you getting a second opinion? Like, I was concerned, but I'm like, you're going to be great. Like you're going to be better. And like I would always try to cheer her up, not knowing that she was, you know, self-diagnosing herself. She was, you know, taking a drug that had, I guess, it was psychological like like it... Something was messing with her mental. And she wasn't sleeping. She was getting worse. And she ended up committing suicide. And it was you know, I had a long talk with a brother as I'm like in a hotel room in L.A. and he's like telling me this whole thing I'm about to shoot "Who Shot Biggie and Tupac?" And he's telling me this whole thing. He was telling me that she was dying and doctors could not diagnose.
Jewell Singletary [00:05:30] Oh. Oooo
[00:05:31] So when I found out on Facebook that she passed away, I'm like, oh, you know, she's been telling me this, but, you know, and I felt sad. And then I felt even worse when I found out it was suicide. That was a lot. I'm sorry. [laughter]
Jewell Singletary [00:05:45] Noooo. I umm.. You don't have to apologize because it actually is a very serious, real topic that a lot of people struggle with, and especially now post Panini Express, so much more instances of depression and anxiety and people either completing suicide or having the thoughts alone. So I do appreciate that you chose to speak about your friend and honor her memory for a moment. Like even for myself, I've been having more anxious thoughts at night and legit feeling like I'm going to die. Not that I want to hurt myself, but what's what it really is, is I'm having more... And it's funny now that I'm awake, but at night it's really scary. But I'm having more instances of heartburn and indigestion. So it's a lot of tightness and constriction that happens around my chest. And if it gets kind of stuffy in my room and I can't breathe to full capacity, I start to get worried and anxious. And it's to the point that I may doze off and I wake up like really scared and, like, jolt up and awake and like like I can feel my heart palpitating because I wake, like, shocking myself out of sleep, scared, thinking that something is going to happen to me and I might not wake up the next morning. And this is not the first time in my life that I've experienced feelings like this when I was a very younger. I guess to some extent we were latchkey kids, but I feel like when my mom was at work then mostly we were at my grandma's house, but the TV was always on at my grandma's house, even though there was always people there watching us. And especially the news. They love watching the news. Even to this day, my grandmother is no longer with us, but the house still belongs to my family and my aunt. her daughter. It is still very much so the tradition of that household to always be watching the news and to be talking about current events, which I love. It's a very informed household. But at the same time, when you're a child growing up in that environment, like I remember watching on the news when the Gulf War was happening and thinking that the Gulf of Mexico was getting bombed. And so I was so scared thinking that the U.S. was getting bombed and that we were under attack. And I I just looked up the date today because my therapist had asked me to write a trauma timeline of all of the things that I personally experienced as trauma. But then also the things that happened collectively in society that we experienced as trauma. And I remember that incident and I remember being so scared. And that was January to February of 1991. The Rodney King beatings happened on March 3rd of 1991. I remember watching that video on the news. One of my cousins, she took us to Pizza Hut. After that happened, I was maybe like seven or eight years old and she wanted to talk to me, and my other eight year old cousin. And just ask us, like, what did you see the LAPD doing? Like, how did that make you feel? And I remember being so scared seeing that and then maybe like. Five or six days after Rodney King beating my dad passed away. Wow. And this is the 30 year anniversary of him passing away. And so I say all of those instances to say, like, I actively remember being so fearful of dying when I was younger. And I kind of grew out of it, but that feeling has now come back in the Panda Express. And so when you bring up your friend... I'm again, grateful that we can honor her life by speaking of her presence and her existence. And hopefully, if someone else if their friend reaches out to them and you're not sure how to interpret the message, you can ask your friends, are you thinking about hurting yourself? You can be direct and ask them that. Ask them do you need help? And keep asking them. If there's any kind of concern or inkling in your mind... And not to say that you did anything wrong in that instance, because I know a lot of us don't know what to do.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:10:21] You don't know. my new thing. Well, my thing now is to check on my friends and see if they're OK.
Jewell Singletary [00:10:27] Yes!
NIgel A Fullerton [00:10:28] I will call, like, you know, out of random. You get a call from me and said, hey, what are you working on? What are you doing?
Jewell Singletary [00:10:34] Yeah!
[00:10:34] LIke, you'll get that from me. And I'll say so. so what's the idea? Give me the idea. Tell me what's up. And I have those like with all of my friends, I call them up and I see what's going on and I say, hey, you know, I'm here if you need me. Whatever you need, let me know. And I do that because we all go through stuff. While she was going through her depression, I was going through my own.
Jewell Singletary [00:10:55] Yeah!
[00:10:55] You know, I had lost my job. I was dating somebody who was completely wrong for me and I was dating her for a very long time. And we were on the outs. Mainly everything started spiraling after I lost my job. And I was trying to be a, you know, struggling actor role, as most people say. But she didn't understand that and she didn't get that. And, you know, it made me doubt myself to say, you know what? Well, I don't have the time to do this. I need to I need to make money. I can't do the struggling actor thing. I got to make money. I got to get bags. I got to do this. I got to do that. So, you know, a lot of times we're in depression, but we're also in denial. And it's not until we accept what we can and cannot do and say, listen, I am not in a good place right now. I need to accept it. I need to figure out what the cause of it is. And I need to find out what makes myself happy.
Jewell Singletary [00:11:55] Right! Right, and more so than happy, because happy is a fleeting emotion, but more so, what makes you feel fulfilled? What makes you motivated to want to get up and do things in the morning and or at night, whatever? You might not be early bird, but whatever inspires you, what motivates you, what brings you joy? And a lot of those things are things that we did when we were children. Like I always remember I loved to write and to create. And a lot of the work that I do now is rooted in those two things. And so you're just finding those things and friends who reach out. I love that you are taking the initiative to reach out to your friends and I would hope that, as your friend, that I'm reciprocating that, but also all the people that you reach out to reciprocate that and that we all be better to each other and try to check in on each other and really move as a collective and a unit and lifting each other up, particularly as a creative community. Those of us that are not in 9 to 5 spaces. As a Black Community. Black Creative Community with alternative careers that are really, we are of a generation that we're blazing a new trail, and so we need a lot of support and encouragement as we do things, that there is not necessarily a blueprint for us to do. So, yeah, but yeah,
NIgel A Fullerton [00:13:38] The reason why that compelled me to do that is because when I go on social media and I see that people you know, and if you haven't posted in a while, I haven't heard from you in a while, like I'll definitely like call and reach out to you, like, hey, what's going on? What's up? And nine times out of ten, somebody is like, you know, I just don't feel like posting, but the other part of it is saying that, you know, I... I want to see what's up with you. I want to know how you're feeling because social media, you can get like trauma from social media. You can get fear of missing out. [FOMO] You can...
Jewell Singletary [00:14:12] Hell yeah! That shit is real!
NIgel A Fullerton [00:14:14] My mother, I had the conversation with my mother because my mother's like she... My mother's a pastor, so she sees all these other pastors and people she's friends with doing this stuff and becoming... my mother is also a life coach, so my mother's like sees other people becoming life coaches. And she's like. Well, they're doing way better than I am, I said, Ma, you're just having like, this is just triggering you. This is nothing.
Jewell Singletary [00:14:37] Right!
NIgel A Fullerton [00:14:39] Keep doing what you're doing, you know? Don't let what you see people on social media do like that doesn't do that doesn't mean anything. I guarantee you, if you call them and ask them how they're doing, I guarantee you they'll tell you: "yeaa it is only 12 people coming to my stuff."
Jewell Singletary [00:14:57] Right!!! [laughing].
[00:14:58] "only 3 people bought my book." [hearty chuckle]
Jewell Singletary [00:15:01] I was going to be generous and estimate 20. But yeah, you're probably right. Between three and 12 is more accurate. And they got like 50,000 fifty thousand followers.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:15:09] Exactly. And they look like they're doing the most. But like... And I tell her, I said, listen, just keep going. Like even my mother, she had breast cancer about ten years now. No, it hasn't been ten, 2013 between 2013 and 2014. I found out my mother had breast cancer. And from that, she had to be on bed rest, she had a double mastectomy and she had to be on bed rest for a good year. She could not go back to work for year.
Jewell Singletary [00:15:43] Woooow!
NIgel A Fullerton [00:15:45] I challenged my mother to write a book.
Jewell Singletary [00:15:48] Yeeeessss!!!!
NIgel A Fullerton [00:15:50] So since then, my mother has written two books and she has another book on the way.
Jewell Singletary [00:15:55] Yes, come on, Mama, Fullerton!!! Three-time published author and survivor of Breast Cancer!!
NIgel A Fullerton [00:16:01] Yeah. So she's you know, she's done a lot. She's become a life coach. She's done a whole bunch of stuff since that thing happened. It just slowed her down. It didn't stop her.
Jewell Singletary [00:16:13] Yeah!
[00:16:14] And a lot of times I think we see things that we think are so detrimental. But again, we can't let it stop us. It might slow us down, but we can't let it stop you. You have to keep going. You have a purpose in your life and you might not know what it is at any point, but you know that there's something out there for you. And as long as you know that you can keep pushing and keep striving, keep going toward it.
Jewell Singletary [00:16:43] Yeah, I think your purpose is revealed along the path. Like you have to walk towards the path. And like you said, you might not know where you're going at first, but as you keep walking towards what... Follow that feeling of what brings you joy, what lights you up, and as you keep following that feeling, your purpose will reveal itself.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:17:01] It's the light at the end of the tunnel. It's it's ... I joke around about it, but it's like in the Golden Child where he's like trying to get the knife and he's like in the dark trying to get in. And he just he sees this flame. They're like, that's kind of how it is. It's like you're on a quest and you have to find... There's bumps and bruises along this journey, but you're on a quest to find something.
Jewell Singletary [00:17:26] Right. Right. Is like The Alchemist. Have you ever read The Alchemist?
NIgel A Fullerton [00:17:30] I have not. I've heard so much about it.
Jewell Singletary [00:17:32] Mm hmm. Yeah, it's a quick and easy read, too. But it I mean, this is exactly what we're talking about, just following that light and finding a purpose through that. Hmm. Wow. This just went so many different places. I don't know where to jump back in with my questions. I love this!
NIgel A Fullerton [00:17:51] Whatever questions you got for me, I'm ready.
[00:17:54] Maaan, listen, um, well, we've touched on it a little bit, so I guess we can jump back there. Whew! jumping back into the trauma, because so many comedians share trauma stories. They talk about how standup and comedy in general is really therapeutic for them. So I'm curious to know your thoughts. Do you think that laughter is truly healing or is it masking pain?
NIgel A Fullerton [00:18:22] Oh, I think it's both.
Jewell Singletary [00:18:24] Hmm.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:18:24] I think it's both. A lot of comedians and the most successful ones have trauma like comedy comes from pain. And whether you were bullied in school, you were born in a whorehouse like Richard Pryor. Oh, yeah. You know, like everybody has those dark secrets and stuff that happened to them. And it's like bringing them to light is like it's it's giving off your soul. You're giving your personality while you're on stage. You are generally making people laugh. But then there's also the sad clown effect to where you see, even though you make other people laugh, do you know how to fulfill yourself?
Jewell Singletary [00:19:05] Right.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:19:06] And we see that in and I always make this reference, the sad clown reference. When I say sad clown, I'm talking about people like Robin Williams.
Jewell Singletary [00:19:14] Yeah. Yeah...
NIgel A Fullerton [00:19:15] You know that. I mean, that's the most that's that's the one that everybody knows. But that's the laugh to keep from crying. He had mental health issues, but, you know, he masked them with cocaine, he masked them with drugs and he just never got over them. And it's just like. That's what you deal with, with comedy, you get so many and I think it happens with all creatives, but this is not a job that loves you back all the time. This is the job where doors get slammed in your face. You mean to tell me I have to go out there and entertain strangers?
Jewell Singletary [00:19:52] Yeah.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:19:52] You know, I got to get strangers to like me. You know, that's like you're looking for acceptance from people who don't normally accept you!
Jewell Singletary [00:20:03] Right! I think... Was it Dave Chappelle that said something like that? That it was kind of freaky to be in a business where you need people's validation in order to be successful and make money. Because essentially, like if people don't laugh at your jokes or don't find you funny, then you don't have a career in comedy.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:20:23] Right. And what's sad is that that's actually what's happening in social media to where if you don't get a certain amount of likes, you're like, I quit, I'm done. I'm not doing this anymore.
Jewell Singletary [00:20:36] Yeah.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:20:37] You know, I get 11 likes on a picture. I'm like it, eehhh this ain't hitting. [hearty chuckle] You know, it's it's we've become a vain society and it's we struggle with it all the time.
Jewell Singletary [00:20:52] Yeah, but then also keep in mind, yall, that algorithm is fucking with yall.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:20:56] Yeah, it's the algorithm
Jewell Singletary [00:20:59] So none of it is real! [laughing]Sometimes when. When I am most intentional with my healing practices, I'll be mindful about OK, Jewell make sure you make yourself laugh at least one time today, like to make sure that I keep myself in a good mood. Like I've heard... And I mean, I can definitely feel the shift when I make myself laugh. It feels lighter and adding more ease and taking away stress. And I've actually heard therapists describe comedy and humor as a higher coping skill, or it's like a personal strength being able to be lighthearted and making people feel at ease, but more importantly, making yourself feel at ease through comedy and humor.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:21:45] That's interesting because I never saw it that way. [chuckles] I've always saw it as a defense mechanism. I think you and I have talked about that off air. I've never seen it as a strength, though I should, because, again, like when tough situations happen, I don't really, quote-unquote fold under pressure.
Jewell Singletary [00:22:08] Yeah!
NIgel A Fullerton [00:22:10] I try to make light of it rather than and sometimes it's not needed for the situation, but I try to make light of it rather than, you know, go through the moment. So I think it's a double-edged sword, kind of, that's what I said. I don't see it as a strength all the time, because again like... like, for instance, when we were talking about my friend, you know, I laugh and I smile about certain things that I remember from her now.
Jewell Singletary [00:22:35] Yeah.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:22:35] It is a sad situation and what comedy is and what comedy does: You try to take situations that are serious and you try to, the best comedians do it well, you try to take a serious situation, but see light and humor from it. But anyway, like, you know, I try to make humor from painful situations as my coping mechanism, as the thing that helps me heal.
Jewell Singletary [00:23:06] Alright, we're going to get to our final segment
NIgel A Fullerton [00:23:10] The last 10?
Jewell Singletary [00:23:11] What was that?
NIgel A Fullerton [00:23:13] uhhhh the last ten?
Jewell Singletary [00:23:13] Yes. Yes. The final ten questions. This segment is called Inside the Ohmies Studio. So it's a rapid fire questionnaire. You can answer these with one word or just short phrases. Don't think about them too much. Just have fun with it.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:23:30] OK.
Jewell Singletary [00:23:30] So we'll take a collective breath to begin. Just emptying all the air that's currently in your lungs. And together, we inhale. Exhale.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:23:47] I was holding that for a while. [laughter]
Jewell Singletary [00:23:52] Let's jump in. Describe your personal style in one word.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:24:01] Unique.
Jewell Singletary [00:24:01] What's one thing you wish you can change about the world?
NIgel A Fullerton [00:24:07] Tolerance.
Jewell Singletary [00:24:09] What brings you joy?
NIgel A Fullerton [00:24:11] House Party
Jewell Singletary [00:24:14] What makes you cry?
NIgel A Fullerton [00:24:17] Not watching House Party.
Jewell Singletary [00:24:20] what type of impact do you want to have on this earth?
NIgel A Fullerton [00:24:24] I want to leave a legacy to where people can say, I knew this person and they can say great things about me when I die.
Jewell Singletary [00:24:33] What's your favorite thing about being Black?
NIgel A Fullerton [00:24:39] I can be unapologetically Black.
Jewell Singletary [00:24:43] What do you hope for your community?
NIgel A Fullerton [00:24:47] I hope we survive and get over.
Jewell Singletary [00:24:51] Yeah. What do you love most about yourself?
NIgel A Fullerton [00:25:02] I love the way that I talk to people. That's a loaded question, but yeah, I love the way that I can convey and I love to teach and show and be heard.
Jewell Singletary [00:25:21] What's your favorite book?
NIgel A Fullerton [00:25:23] Oh, "A Snowy Day" Ezra Keats.
Jewell Singletary [00:25:26] OK!
NIgel A Fullerton [00:25:26] [hearty chuckle] It's a children's book, but I love that book.
Jewell Singletary [00:25:31] Final question. Name five music artists that would appear on the soundtrack of your life.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:25:38] Oooooo! One of them would be New Edition.
Jewell Singletary [00:25:41] OK!
NIgel A Fullerton [00:25:42] Um, I would have Stevie Wonder. Oh. I would also have...mmmh soundtrack of my life... This is a good one. Nas. Let's see who else am I rea...Like this is hard because I'm a real big fan of music and you've learned this about me.
Jewell Singletary [00:26:10] Right! Which I'm surprised... I don't want to give you any suggestions, but what about Earth, Wind and Fire? or the Isley Brothers?
NIgel A Fullerton [00:26:17] That's in my head. Don't get me wrong. That's in my head.
Jewell Singletary [00:26:22] OK!
NIgel A Fullerton [00:26:23] I don't know if I want to say Earth, Wind and Fire or Isleys,
Jewell Singletary [00:26:30] I mean final two slots? I don't want to force it, though. I don't want to force it.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:26:37] I don't know because it's like I love a lot of different styles of music. So it's like
Jewell Singletary [00:26:43] So we know....This is not a comprehensive list. There would be more than five artists on the soundtrack of your life. We know this.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:26:50] oo OK.
Jewell Singletary [00:26:51] Don't think about it too much
NIgel A Fullerton [00:26:53] All right, I would have to say the Isleys.
Jewell Singletary [00:26:58] OK!
NIgel A Fullerton [00:27:00] And then last but not least, I would have to say Michael Jackson.
Jewell Singletary [00:27:06] Come on with it! I love it. MJ King of Pop.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:27:09] Yeah, I would have to because like, man. a lot of people love that Triller album.
Jewell Singletary [00:27:15] Yeah.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:27:17] I'm BAD fan.
Jewell Singletary [00:27:20] Mmhmm OK! okay!
NIgel A Fullerton [00:27:20] I remember that album. I remember every single music video. I used to... I watched that tape so much that they had to tell me that the tape broke.
Jewell Singletary [00:27:31] Awwww [laughing].
NIgel A Fullerton [00:27:31] LIke my cousin was living with us at the time and she would like I would sit by the radio and wait for "Man in the Mirror" to come on.
Jewell Singletary [00:27:41] Awwwwww! [laughing]
NIgel A Fullerton [00:27:43] Like I would look at the "We are the World" record and I would point out who everybody was like, that's Michael Jackson and that's Lionel Richie.
Jewell Singletary [00:27:56] Awwww. Rest in peace, M.J. for real.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:27:58] Yeah. Definitely.
Jewell Singletary [00:28:01] Thank you so much, I appreciate you always being a joy to be around, always bringing ease and levity and just reducing stress with your presence. You are such a dope person. I am so proud of you. I'm so proud to see the journey from the beginning. I'm proud I can say "I knew you when." I already told you I'd be bragging on your IMDB, "I got it for real friend! He got credits! okayyy!! [laughing].
NIgel A Fullerton [00:28:30] [Hearty chuckle] It's not just Instagram credits. He not just funny with his friends! He's funny with the whole place!
Jewell Singletary [00:28:37] [laughing] Right. So as you mentioned, IG, let the people know where they can find you, where they could follow up with you. All of this social media. The websites. All of the things.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:28:45] Sure, you can find me at Nigel Fullerton__underscore on Twitter and Instagram. If you want me to tweet something, just tweet at me and I'll tweet something back. You can also find me on. I have an actor page on Facebook, Nigel Fullerton, where you can see a couple of clips that I post and I'm working on my website now. So it's NigelFullerton.com. There is some stuff on there, but it's not been updated in a while, so I'm revamping that website. And you can also go to Murphy Monday Pod Dotcom, where I have every single episode of the Murphy Monday podcast on there to listen to. And like I was telling somebody the other day, I was like, I want the podcast to be something like a record, like a record that you're really not supposed to listen to. And, you know, these clips and videos that you might see would be like, you know, commercials for it. But I want to be like a party record.
Jewell Singletary [00:29:43] Yeah!
NIgel A Fullerton [00:29:44] You know, like something that you can listen to while you're at work that you like giggling but you can't really like, you know, like some people can't watch videos at work so, you know...
Jewell Singletary [00:29:52] Right! Naw, I definitely gives that vibe. I love the pod! I listen to when I'm doing like art projects or other stuff where I don't have to hear audio. And I could just like listen to the pod in the back. And that's why I enjoy it most. or when I walk in the park. So I'm excited that it's getting warm again. So I could catch up on some of the episodes that I missed. And what about The Jump Cut? Why you don't be promoting The Jump Cut?
NIgel A Fullerton [00:30:16] The Jump Cut, yes! That's on Facebook, people you can go to on at Facebook dotcom slash Jump Cut. I do a bi weekly movie review show with a very young costar that has not seen anything. And I guess I like I but you know, it's funny, like it's a joke, but I give him like Black movies all the time to talk about. Like I'll be like, hey, why don't we all do this movie called Do the Right Thing or what do you feel about Judas and the Black Messiah?
Jewell Singletary [00:30:47] Unhuh! You better teach through Black Art! Come on with it!!
NIgel A Fullerton [00:30:51] I do that with him just because and I give and take with with the shit that he likes. I don't really like half the movies he gives me, but you know, I give him my real take and I, you know, and I bring movies that normally he would not have seen. So there's like a good fifty percent of movies like he's never seen Lean On Me. And I didn't even recommend the movie. Someone else recommended that we watch Lean On Me. And I was like, oh well you're in for a shock there, sir.
Jewell Singletary [00:31:20] Rest in Peace. Joe Clark. He just passed away this year. Well, 2020.
NIgel A Fullerton [00:31:24] Yeaa, he did. He did. He did. Definitely. Well, yeah.
Jewell Singletary [00:31:28] Which, yall, Morgan Freeman is not the real Joe Clark, OK?
NIgel A Fullerton [00:31:31] A lot of people think that a lot of people.
Jewell Singletary [00:31:35] [laughing] i know!!! What is wrong with yall? these are entertainment purposes only
NIgel A Fullerton [00:31:39] Hey, Joe Clark was Joe Clark. Listen, Black people, when they love something, they really hold their name like Florence, Florence from The Jeffersons, Florence from The Jeffersons. We know her name is Marla Gibbs. But a lot of times it's whatever we know you from, that's who you are.
Jewell Singletary [00:31:54] We are so disrespectful! Imma need yall to learn these entertainers' real names, oK?
NIgel A Fullerton [00:31:59] My mother was watching Captain America. She goes and sees Derek Luke and says, is that Antwone Fisher?
Jewell Singletary [00:32:07] [laughing].
NIgel A Fullerton [00:32:10] I'm Like, Ma, it's Derek Luke. "Yea Antwone Fisher is shooting people. That's good." I was like, OK, Antwone Fisher. Got you.
Jewell Singletary [00:32:22] Hilarious!!! Thank you again, Nigel. I appreciate you!
NIgel A Fullerton [00:32:26] Any time, any time, thanks. Thanks for having me.