Speaker 1: 0:02

Previously on the Murphy Monday Podcast.

Speaker 2: 0:05

My top five Betty Murphy movies changes nearly every week. It depends on what mood I'm in. It depends, you know, there's some movies I really will always stick in that top five, but sometimes I'll put things in there that are a bit unexpected and it just depends on what I feel like watching, Like I don't always want to. I love the first Beverly Hills Cop, but I might not turn to that every time as my number one.

Speaker 3: 0:27

I don't know Like my mind has not changed since I started the podcast.

Speaker 2: 0:32

That's interesting.

Speaker 3: 0:33

Yeah, it's, it has and it hasn't, so like there'll be one movie in and then another movie out, for instance. Like I, I originally like the original test for this podcast was in 2017. And I listened to those original episodes, which I listened to, the original episodes. I actually aired one of them on here, but I listened to one of the original episodes and my top five hadn't really changed. The only addition that made it up there was Dolomite Is my Name this?

Speaker 1: 1:08

is becoming very irritating.

Speaker 3: 1:37

Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of the Murphy Monday podcast, the only podcast that celebrates the life and career of Eddie Murphy. I'm your host, nigel A Fullerton. This week we ask that famous question what are your top five Eddie Murphy movies? Now, when I first started this podcast, it got very controversial, because to have a top five means that you have to exclude something out of it. So whether your top five is solidified and you say, okay, I'm going to put Beverly Hills cop over nutty professor, or I'm going to put life over vampire in Brooklyn, or maybe I'll know, I like vampire in Brooklyn, let me put that back in and let me put the movie Showtime out.

Speaker 5: 2:28

Golden Child, I want to say Trading Places. I'll put Showtime up.

Speaker 3: 2:33

Ooh, Showtime.

Speaker 5: 2:35

Just the final. Just just fuck everybody and what they think, because this movie just needs more light. Fuck that Shrek. I'll put Shrek in that motherfucker. I want to say the Nutty Professor, I like the Nutty Professor. Somebody might say yo, you mad corny for that. You know what I'm saying. Bowfinger, I love Bowfinger. Oh shit Life.

Speaker 3: 2:59

Came out in the same year Hold up.

Speaker 5: 3:02

I got to change my top five. Life was one of my favorite movies. That's in my top five. We got to get Shrek out of there.

Speaker 3: 3:09

Oh, you're taking Shrek out. You're keeping show time.

Speaker 5: 3:11

Yeah, I'll put Shrek in there. I mean, take Shrek out and put Life in that shit, because Life is a classic.

Speaker 3: 3:20

Eddie Murphy movies. I always like to get into that.

Speaker 7: 3:25

That is a hard one. Okay, I would say Beverly Hills Cop Another 48 hours.

Speaker 3: 3:30

Ooh, why another 48 hours instead of 48 hours?

Speaker 7: 3:34

Well, I think maybe I'm getting them confused. Maybe I mean 48 hours, okay, because I know that it was the second one. I think another 48 hours is the one that I was more familiar with because I was a little older, because you're a little older, right? Okay, I went Beverly Hills Cop Another 48 Hours, coming to America, obviously Right. And I'm going to go number four. I'm going to go the Nutty Professor Okay, that was. I mean people that are old enough to remember that movie in the 90s slash 2000s, know how fire it was.

Speaker 3: 4:08

Yeah.

Speaker 7: 4:09

And soundtrack was pretty dope too, oh, I had that on.

Speaker 3: 4:13

I had that on cassette tape.

Speaker 8: 4:15

Yeah, I went to.

Speaker 3: 4:16

Nobody. Beats the Wiz the first day.

Speaker 7: 4:18

You had to, you had to, you had to, and it was pretty dope. That was pretty dope man. This last one is kind of hard. I'm gonna go metro. No, I'm kidding, not metro. The last one is just, it's so hard, it's so hard to pick one. I'm gonna go vampire in brooklyn.

Speaker 3: 4:42

Yeah, unpopular choice why vampire in Brooklyn? Ooh yeah, unpopular choice. Why vampire in Brooklyn?

Speaker 7: 4:49

Being from Brooklyn. Well, that, yeah, that's part of it too. John Witherspoon, who basically killed everything that he was in, oh you know what? Let me admit that. Let me admit that I'm sorry, you're right, that was a lie, that was kind of like when older than best. It was like big baby Jesus, I know where you're going Boomerang, boomerang.

Speaker 3: 5:14

I knew it.

Speaker 7: 5:15

And that's it. That's what I want to put there Boomerang.

Speaker 3: 5:18

Because when you said John Witherspoon, I was like, hmm, yep, okay, yeah. I was like, okay, yeah, feels everything. In the previous episode where I talked to Matt Bradley, sergi, I said my top five has not changed. That isn't true. Cool, I'm going to get to my top five.

Speaker 2: 5:40

Yeah, what's your top five?

Speaker 3: 5:41

My top five Because you were Eddie Murphy, kind, kind of sore, so I know you probably it's like fine wine baby just sniff it swirling around my, my number one all-time, my, this is my favorite eddie murphy movie, uh, is unconventional to most people, but my, my first is no professor. My number two is beverly Cop. My number three is Coming to America. And I put Coming to America number three because I feel like it's on everybody's list and I reluctantly didn't want to put it on here. I didn't either, but I had to because it is a movie that I do love. It is a movie that I have watched several times. It is a movie that, like I said before, you watch this and you find little jokes in this that you never laughed at before.

Speaker 3: 6:29

My number four is 48 Hours. My last on my top five is Boomerang. That isn't true. There have been movies that I traded out for other movies. You know. I'll tell you my top five. My top five is in no order whatsoever, but my top five is and in my top five also I want to put a disclaimer out I try to exclude the top movies because everybody's going to pick Beverly Hills Cop. Everybody's going to pick Coming to America. Everybody's going to pick a certain movie. So I try to exclude those because those, you know, those are the royalties. So the Beverly Hills Cop and Coming to America take those out of effect so I can give you other movies that, like you might have missed.

Speaker 3: 7:15

Because if I say, if I say Beverly Hills Cop trading places 48 hours and I say what else I don't know Coming to America, I didn't say that yet. Eight hours, and I say what else I don't know Coming to America, I didn't say that yet. So like if I said those that that leaves out a whole bunch of other movies that he's done, Like he's done other movies besides that. I can't tell you about his performance in dream girls. I can't tell you about Dolomite is my name. I can't tell you anything else.

Speaker 5: 7:40

Right, right.

Speaker 3: 7:42

In my top five, excluding Coming to America. I have Nutty Professor, beverly Hills Cop, Boomerang, harlem Nights and my last one would probably be I really like Dolomite Is my Name. I would have to give it. It would have been life, right, yeah, but I have to say Dolomite is my name and, like I said again, that is excluding coming to America, that is excluding the 48 hours. Because if I give you my, my top five, it's like when you, when somebody asks you what's your, what's your top five rock albums, what it's like when somebody asks you what's your top five rock albums, what's your top five rap, you're going to say the biggest artist, right? Since I made the list, I think around the fourth episode of this podcast, I have not changed. I have said the same five movies every single time. Those five movies are Nerdy Professor, harlem Nights, life, boomerang and Dolomite Is my Name. What's your top five? Some people put Best Defense in their top five, like when y'all tell me what y'all podcast was about yeah, yeah, it's that big of a fan writing period.

Speaker 6: 9:01

I mean, I literally know every word this dude has said in the last 30 years. Wow, I watch Mr Church, I watch, I watch Best Defense.

Speaker 9: 9:15

Best Defense.

Speaker 3: 9:16

There's a movie that sucked real bad Money. They gave me to do it. Y'all would have did Best Defense too. Okay, from the Come to the Stage episode with Steve Turner. A lot of times on Murphy Money Podcast we like to do a top five, so we like to ask you what are your top five Eddie Murphy movies and why, and why, and why.

Speaker 4: 9:40

Okay. Well, 48 Hours is the first movie I saw Eddie Murphy. I really liked it and when I thought I was Eddie Murphy and now I could be Eddie Murphy because I can identify as Eddie Murphy, it just really shaped the beginning of my career. But then, in addition to 48 Hours, beverly Hills Cop another 48 Hours was good Boomerang and Harlem Nights, and those are my favorite movies of Eddie Murphy truthfully, but I'm going to be real with you, because those are the only movies I remember.

Speaker 3: 10:10

I was about to ask you why another 48 hours too?

Speaker 4: 10:12

No, another 48 hours because that came after the first 48 hours and now when you watch the first 48 hours, they talk about people getting killed in Cleveland and Detroit. So that's not the one I want to watch. I want to watch the Eddie Murphy one. He made me like that song. I mean, that song was the one I took many ass-whooping from my parents listening to that song in my head.

Speaker 3: 10:40

This is one of my favorite episodes where I find out my mother's top five Eddie Murphy movies. On a special Mother's Day edition of the Murphy Monday podcast is my mother? Hey, pastor Regina Ravenel Carr is here to talk about her top five Eddie Murphy movies. Wow, wow about her top five Eddie Murphy movies, wow.

Speaker 1: 11:06

Okay, you'll have to call out some movies and then I'll give you a response to them.

Speaker 3: 11:15

From the dropping jewels in the PJs episode. Here's Jewel Singletary giving you her top five. Let's see we have. So far we have. The first movie was Life. The second movie was Harlem Nights. The third movie is probably Boomerang.

Speaker 10: 11:36

Yep, look at this. We put Boomerang on there.

Speaker 3: 11:41

Okay.

Speaker 10: 11:43

The fourth I'm putting. Dolomite is my name on the top five.

Speaker 3: 11:49

Why Dolomite is my name?

Speaker 10: 11:51

I love a good biopic. I love a good biopic and it's just, it's the story. For me, this is a real life story of a man in his forties. There's like, nah, fuck that, I'm gonna make my movies, I'm gonna do my standup, and you, if you're not going to help me, it's okay, I'm gonna put together a team and we're going to get this done. Like, when I tell you I first saw Dolomite, I was probably in my teens, twenties.

Speaker 10: 12:18

I was so confused what is this? It took me until the replay scene. I was like, oh, this is supposed to be a comedy, that instant, and that shit happens at the end. And it finally clicked like, oh, okay, but to know, I didn't know what it took him to make it. And then to see Dolemite is my name it's like wow, that's what you really put this whole shit together from writing it. Even more, so impressive that it got to be that big of a cult classic that 30 years after it came out, I was watching it for the first time. And then I don't even know how many years it's been when eddie made the movie to give rudy ray more the shine that he deserves. The fifth one. I debated this because I've been writing this list since I started this podcast.

Speaker 3: 13:18

Oh, wow.

Speaker 10: 13:19

Okay. So I'm going to tell you what the toss up was. It was the clumps vampire in Brooklyn, but I'm going to tell you what one I think. I think it might have been fudge. He went rogue and he was the only one that put Raw on there. He gave something that wasn't an Eddie Murphy movie on the list. I'm going to go rogue too. I got to put the PJs in the top five.

Speaker 3: 13:48

Ah, okay.

Speaker 10: 13:50

Eddie Murphy projects.

Speaker 3: 13:52

The PJs.

Speaker 5: 13:54

It does.

Speaker 3: 13:57

From the Big Barry White Mother episode. Here's one of the big barry white motherfuckers. This week we have a very special guest. I reached out to one of the actors that was in the jail cell scene of trading places. Ladies and gentlemen, I have former player for the New York giants, mr James D Turner, on the podcast. Yes, you might know him from his very, very, very, very, very special catchphrase. Yeah, I just want to let you know that, from what I heard, eddie does listen to this podcast. I'm not sure that's what.

Speaker 5: 14:37

Can I?

Speaker 3: 14:37

say something to him.

Speaker 6: 14:39

Sure, go for it. Yeah, Eddie, it's been a while, but good luck to you. I appreciated the working with you, and that's my grandkids up there, but it was great and hopefully we'll be able to do something else. Maybe we'll do a remake of Trading Places, yeah.

Speaker 3: 15:00

Definitely so. On this podcast, I normally ask people what are their top five Eddie Murphy movies.

Speaker 6: 15:08

Okay, I'd have to say Golden Child. I also like Coming to America. I thought that was great. I like Shrek Okay, I liked Shrek. Okay, I liked Shrek and my grandkids got me to like that movie, but I thought he did a hell of a job in that also All right. And of course, trading Places. That's my favorite Eddie Murphy movie.

Speaker 3: 15:32

Let's see, was that four or five? That's four. I think you got one more. Okay, let's see. That's four.

Speaker 6: 15:36

I think you got one more. Okay, let's see. Yeah, I guess his first movie was the best one Beverly Hills, oh, beverly Hills, yeah.

Speaker 3: 15:46

I find it funny when I do these top five Eddie Murphy movies. I find it funny that everyone's top five isn't the same. It's never the same. It's always something different. It's always something different. There's always an outlier, there's always something that resonates with one person but doesn't really resonate with somebody. Like, for instance, I had somebody tell me that the Haunted Mansion is in their top five Eddie Murphy movies and I'm like you haven't watched a lot of Eddie Murphy movies. In my mind, I don't say it. I don't say it in person because on the Murphy Monday podcast, we do not judge people's five. We don't judge. However, we do question. It's okay to make questions. This is getting my family and friends top five, and one of my guests with me right now is my sister, brianna Fullerton. Say something to the people, bri.

Speaker 8: 16:47

Hi people.

Speaker 3: 16:51

Now I wanted to get your top five Eddie Murphy movies.

Speaker 8: 17:01

Okay, it's a little tough for me to narrow it down to five, but definitely Coming to America. The huge classic came out the year I was born, so that was definitely on my list. Boomerang for sure Beverly Hills, Cop 2, which is probably my favorite Eddie Murphy movie of all.

Speaker 3: 17:20

Why is Beverly Hills, cop 2, your favorite?

Speaker 8: 17:23

I love the soundtrack. The music throughout the movie just goes along with the storyline, in that there's so many people in the movie that weren't quite yet stars. For example, chris Block is in the movie, and then Bronson Pincott is in the movie as well, and it's just a great. This is a great storyline, a great movie all together, and I used to watch it at McDonald's when I worked there in high school like every day, because it was like the only seat in the lunch. So I've seen it a million times. Trading Places is also a good movie as well. I would put that in my top five, and the fifth one I would probably go with Harlem Nights. There's a lot of good people in that movie as well, so I think that would be my top five.

Speaker 11: 18:17

So just imagine being able to talk to animals to really see, like, how they feel and whatnot. I think, like Dr Doolittle, just Wow, that was so creative, that was so creative.

Speaker 3: 18:30

I have done about almost 40 episodes of this podcast and you're probably the second or third person to put Dr Doolittle in their top five. I don't know if it's an age thing, I don't know if it's, but you are the third person to say Dr. And do you like Dr Doolittle, the series, like both movies or just one more than the other.

Speaker 11: 19:00

No, I think I like, I like them both equally, like I Spy and Life, and you know, just like you know, and Life was. But you know, just, I don't know, just the. I'm so stuck to the, to the concept, definitely. His three best movies were definitely, in my opinion, were definitely Coming to America Harlem Nights and, oh shit, what about Boomerang? Damn Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha. Damn Ooh, wait, that's five. That's five. Right there, that's five. Okay, that's five.

Speaker 3: 19:32

If we condense the Nutty Professors.

Speaker 11: 19:35

Yes, that is five, because you said Nutty.

Speaker 3: 19:37

Professors 1 and 2. Oh yeah, dude, you know, if we condense just the Nutty Professors series, I'll let that slide, nutty. Professors series, and we're good to go.

Speaker 11: 19:47

Yep Nutty Professors series coming to America. Nutty Professors series coming to America. Harlem Nights, dr Dolittle and Boomerang, boomerang, boomerang.

Speaker 3: 19:58

From the Mr Church episode. Here is Sterling Milan, the head of content for Westbrook Media. Do your top five Eddie Murphy movies? Okay, wow.

Speaker 9: 20:13

Number one Boomerang Okay. Number two Beverly Hills, cop. Okay, one and two Okay, number two, beverly Hills, cop. Okay, one and two. Okay, mr Church Mm, and Coming to America.

Speaker 3: 20:31

Okay.

Speaker 9: 20:32

I know those are all big movies. They're all big movies, but I resonate with those movies for a reason. I love those movies because they inspired me and made me who I was. I think those are my top five. In no Order, boomerang Coming to America, beverly Hills Cop went into Mr Church Down the line. I can go into a bit more. I can kind of go down the line and do more Eddie Murphy movies, but I think those are the ones that really define me and who I am.

Speaker 3: 21:01

I got you.

Speaker 9: 21:02

What are your favorites?

Speaker 3: 21:03

Oh, you want my oh sure, my top five I just said this last night too, my top five. And I omit Coming to America, because I feel like everybody says it. So it's up there and I don't want to touch it. So I want to go through other ones. So I want to go through other ones, so I give Nettie Professor, Beverly Hills Cop, Boomerang Dolomite is my name. Oh, stop, Stop.

Speaker 9: 21:28

Dolomite is the number one reason why I did my show. Ok, ok, I'm sorry, forget about that. I need a minute to talk about this. Sure, I was so inspired by Dolomite. I was so inspired because I know it's the film that Eddie has been wanting to do for a long time, right, right, and coming from Chicago and being immersed in, like you know, dolomite albums and vinyl.

Speaker 9: 21:52

I so love the idea about being 40-plus years old and not giving up on your dream. Yeah, I so love the idea about watching everybody else around you who thinks they got it. And you know you can do a better job at it. I was so. I was so enamored with the idea about not quitting, but I'm not giving up on my life. Like I was like, I know, like there's a place that I want to go. There's a certain place I want to like, see myself going, and I know, to get there, that I've got to share that thing deep inside myself.

Speaker 9: 22:21

Dolomite did. Dolomite was so happy to get out there in that street corner in the final scene and tell them jokes, yeah, and to see like, like, we have this thing, like I mean it, man, we have this thing in us that powers us. Right. There is a God given gift. Regardless if you believe in God or not, there is a thing inside of us that strengthens us, that powers us, that pushes us, and it won't let us go. And we can live our entire lives and not pursue that one thing and then hit the reset button and come back here and do it again many years later on, or you can take the time you've been given, dive into your heart and your passions and do that thing Right.

Speaker 9: 22:58

Dolomite is a perfect example of a man who was could have been at the end of his life, right, and he finally said Hollywood says I can't make movies. I'm going to make movies. My friends say I can't tell jokes. I'm going to tell jokes. I'm going to do it in my apartment. Dolomite was the reason why I watched that movie by myself downstairs in my old den in Brooklyn, and I watched him and I knew that I had to pursue that thing inside me. I knew I had to and I couldn't let like I'm 40 years old. Now I'm getting older, I got gray hairs, you know. I think my penis is, you know, not even doing the same things anymore, I'm joking.

Speaker 9: 23:34

I'm joking, but it's like you got this thing, you got to pursue this thing and I love that. In Dolomite he did it on his own. And if you get like three or four good people around you who believe in you, who know what you can do, dude, there's nothing that can stop you. The universe is yours to manipulate. You can make. You can make any dream come. I mentioned earlier about Will's level of commitment and I'm going to share a story with you guys and then I'm going to let you guys go All right, cool, or you can let me go, whatever the case is.

Speaker 9: 24:04

But Will Smith requires a discipline from those closest to him. You have to get up and do something every day, without question, be it working out, be it reading, be it writing. You have to do something every single day, without without, without pause, without stop. Why? Because when the tough gets going in life, you have to have the wherewithal to not quit. You have to have the strength to be used to doing something. Like, if your thing is getting up and working out or going for a jog when it's like 14 degrees outside, you got to have the mindset to say, nope, I'm going to go jogging. Imagine if you had this thing that says I'm not going to quit in life, you would push yourself to the limits always. So, dolamite, he didn't want to quit, he didn't want to settle for that life in a record store and, that being it, he knew he had a bigger thing in him and he kept pushing for it, and I think think that's that's me Like. I know I'm not here to quit, I know I'm not here to do something great and I'm using my time to do that. I think this platform is helping me do this even more.

Speaker 9: 25:08

So, you know, I look at people like you. You know you're one of the first black guys I reached out to who was comedian and I was like yo, you funny, how do you do this? Because you got this thing. You got this thing too. You know what I'm saying. So I hope that Eddie Murphy and Dolomite inspires you to never, ever quit. Oh, yeah, definitely yeah, because you got it. You got that gift. You know what I'm saying and I think this, what you're doing right now, is a way of doing so. You know what I'm saying, and so keep sharing and keep putting it out there. But Dolomite is by far not even my favorite Eddie Murphy movie.

Speaker 3: 25:47

It is a reason for my existence to this day you know, as you can see, everyone's top five is different. What's your top five, please let us know. If you haven't already. Please like, share and subscribe to the podcast. We're also on Instagram and TikTok at murphymondaypod. Slide us a DM. Let us know what your favorite Eddie Murphy movie is Next week Walking Talking Donkey, the episode. Yes, we're doing a Shrek episode next week. Hey, everybody get ready. Next week we are doing, finally, a Shrek episode. This one's titled Walking Talking Donkey. My good friend Jasmine Adair, I'm surprised you chose this movie Only because I know you for theater. I put Dreamgirls on there and you choose.

Speaker 1: 26:52

Shrek? Yes, it really. I think I chose it this go-round with you because it really resonates where I'm at in life right now. Why does it resonate with you now? So the story of shrek is basically he was living a calm life in a swamp, being who he is. Everything was fine. And then these damn crazy ass fairy tale characters that many of us have grown up on, they, they like, come crashing into his world because some dude Lord Farquhar, like, really like, set the town on fire, you know. So, basically, to regain his peace, he had to set out and make things right for them so they could leave him the hell alone. I do that every day, b Like. So when it was like Dreamgirls or Shrek Irek, I was like, oh, right now you're an ogre and like I'm shrek.

Speaker 3: 27:43

Right now, like in my life, I'm shrek and with all hearts and minds clear, let's end this show.