The Best Man (1999)

Jordan: Hey everybody, welcome to Out the Trunk Pile with Jordan and Darius. My name is Jordan. That's Jordy B. Riding on all socials.

Darius: And I'm Darius. That's Deez I Love the Ariel on all socials.

Jordan: And today we're going to be reviewing The Best Man. This movie came out in 1999, starring Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut, Harold Perrineau, Terrence Howard, Sanaa Lathan, Monica Calhoun, and Melissa DeSouza. The plot of Best Man sets his own Harper Stewart, who travels to New York to serve as the best man for his friend Lance's wedding. However, Harper's debut novel, an autobiographical story featuring thinly veiled versions of his friends, is circulating among the wedding party. His past secrets starting to destroy friendships and the impending ceremony. Toss to you, Fracklin.

Darius: Act one, the arrival of the manuscript. The college friends reunite in New York for the wedding while Harper tries to keep his controversial novel under wraps. An advanced copy begins circulating, sparking curiosity among the group. And I didn't even have this written down, but you know, I just got to thinking. How did he think this was going to go?

Jordan: That's what, okay, that's my point. Every time I watch a movie, I'm like, what the **** did you think was going to happen? You wrote a book.

Darius: About- What does success look like here?

Jordan: Yeah, when you wrote a book about ******* your best friend's wife when y'all were in college, you thought he would be cool with that? Like he thought he wouldn't figure it out? I don't understand. Also, why read the book?

Darius: Well, to sell, but... Oh my God, they're reading it.

Jordan: Breaking news, water wet.

Darius: It's like if I wrote a book at the minimum, I'd expect my friends to read it. What did he, what was he like? How did he expect this to go?

Jordan: That's by far the biggest plot hole in the movie.

Darius: The whole premise is stupid.

Jordan: Yeah, the whole premise is stupid. It only works if you're going to assume that Harper is an idiot. But he's not an idiot.

Darius: It's just every time he's like, oh my God, you're reading it too.

Jordan: Right. Damn, who else has my, who else has my best selling book that's about to come out?

Darius: They're the best dad at his wedding. He's like, oh my God.

Jordan: He's like, you have a copy. Yeah, it's like in the world of this movie, in the world of this movie, this book is basically going to be like ******* this generation is like Great Gatsby or Twilight or, you know, some **** like that. Some phenomenon that took over the world, basically. Like, no one would be like, it's like, who the **** heard Thriller?

Darius: Yeah. It's just, it's hard for me to like, obviously it's a good movie, of course, but that premise is just once you get past the absurd premise, you know what it's like? It's like the TV show Suits.

Jordan: Yeah, yeah.

Darius: Like the premise of someone getting into the most prestigious law firm in New York without going to law school is absurd. But once you get past that, it's a good show. And so once you get past the whole premise of him writing a book, not realizing his friends would read it, it's a good book.

Jordan: Yeah, so I always thought about that. I honestly think it was literally one stupidity, of course. But I also think it was just, honestly, I think it was guilt. And I think he just like needed to find some way to get it out. And I think some part of him wanted to tell Lance, but he didn't know how to. So he just did what a writer did and he wrote about it and it turned into a great book that he had to sell.

Darius: Well, okay, so. All right. Obviously, the way he did it when they were actually because he slept with Mia while they were her and Lance were together, correct?

Jordan: I don't know.

Darius: I'm pretty sure she wasn't.

Jordan: She wasn't talking to him. So like, is that a breakup? Is that a break?

Darius: Come on, this is the best minute of his wedding. It doesn't matter. Okay, yeah, wait, that's fine.

Jordan: Yeah. So they were.

Darius: You told me y'all weren't talking no more. They're going to have my wife. What are you talking about?

Jordan: They were together. But it was college.

Darius: If it had been before they met at all, I say take it to the grave. But yeah, I mean, I would never put myself in this situation. Right. But I guess those are deeper things later in the movie. But let me ask you this.

Jordan: Yeah, for sure.

Darius: He plays Stevie Wonder's as for Nia Long's character. For my money, the greatest song ever written. It may not be the greatest song ever made, but as far as like songwriting is I think that's my favorite song written ever. It's just beautiful.

Jordan: Okay.

Darius: I won't bring it up on you right now. You can think of it later, but if you have an entry into the greatest piece of songwriting, you can share.

Jordan: Oh, yeah, I got an answer for that.

Darius: Oh, yeah. All right. Off the top.

Jordan: Either Chase Will Come, Sam Cooke or Fast Car, Tracy Chapman.

Darius: Great entries. Two iconic songs. I really.

Jordan: It's just ******* they're like perfect songs. And she wrote, she was like ******* 19 when she wrote that **** or something.

Darius: Yeah, that one's up there. That one's so, that song is so hot. It went platinum again by somebody else.

Jordan: As a cover.

Darius: It's somebody else's biggest song.

Jordan: Right.

Darius: And Luke Holmes ain't no hoe. He got songs. And that's still his biggest song.

Jordan: Yeah, that's one of them. I'd go, Killing me softly.

Darius: Yeah.

Jordan: Roberto Flack or the Fugees, whichever one you know you want to do.

Darius: A parcel to the Fugees. Sometimes me too is just better or the cover is just better.

Jordan: I had another tip of my tongue. **** I'm blanking. Oh yeah. Reetha Franklin.

Darius: I'll say speaking of covers being better than the original, Reetha Franklin's respect. was a Sam Cook song, I believe. Sam Cook. Oh, ****. Sam Cook song. She smoked them on the cover. Sam Cook. No, it was. There's the other old The Sam Cook. No, it was. Yeah, it was.

Jordan: It was. Okay. Okay.

Darius: So there you have it.

Jordan: That's a good one. I got a couple more. We should. We can do an episode of this, honestly.

Darius: Yeah, we're good.

Jordan: Yeah, actually, it's funny. I actually, that's like my third line.

Darius: Otis Redding note. Otis Redding.

Jordan: Oh, that's what, okay. I was thinking it was, I was thinking it was that. I was thinking it was that. I was thinking Otis James.

Darius: I just had to make, I'm not, I just, I knew that was wrong. So Otis Redding did respect and Aretha Franklin smoked him. So anyways, any other, any other entries?

Jordan: Any songs ever written.

Darius: Yeah, we can TBD it.

Jordan: I would say this is not this is not like a ballad. It's a rap song, but rap is obviously songwriting. Spaceships, Kanye, GLC, Consequence.

Darius: Spaceships. Yeah, that was hot.

Jordan: That was hot. Spaceships. I could fly. Yeah, that's my ****. I love that song.

Darius: If my manager insults me again, I will be assulting him after I **** the manager up.

Jordan: Then I'm going to shorten the register up.

Darius: I remember when Kanye was black. Shelly was the baddest one to me and she's the least famous one.

Jordan: She was so fine. Oh my God. She was so fine in this movie. And the second one too. She, they always great. They always great. But yeah, she's fun as ****. She's bad. I mean, I mean, personally, I love me some Sanaa Lathan though.

Darius: I mean, I would go Shelly, Sanaa, Nia, Regina, and I don't even like Monica Hall, I think. Call.

Jordan: Monica Calhoun.

Darius: Calhoun. Yeah. Just the test.

Jordan: Yeah.

Darius: All right. Respect though. I'm going to say RFP. She died. Her character died, not her. She's still with us people.

Jordan: Sorry to this man.

Darius: So he walks in the store with Nia Log and he says, So every so often you hear something that really dates a movie. He's about to check out and he asks, do you take Visas in here?

Jordan: Oh yeah, Because places really didn't take certain cards. You know, like remember like the card growing up, nobody took was Discover.

Darius: Yeah, I remember when I used to work retail, like there was a certain cards we didn't take or it was like, it was not universal. And now you don't even need a card. Your phone pays for it.

Jordan: So yeah, now it's weird if you have cash.

Darius: Yeah, it's gonna be, we're getting get to the point where it's weird if you have your card.

Jordan: That too.

Darius: I'm, that's where I draw the line. I need, there needs to be something when you spend money. I need to hand you the card. It's too much easy if I'm just.

Jordan: Going to need to be able to do this.

Darius: I don't need to just be able to do this. too much. There needs to be some friction in your consumption habits.

Jordan: So that's why sometimes I just take out a couple 100 cash and just be like, so I can remember that I'm actually spending real money. And it's not just like a play thing on my, like an app on my phone that I'm playing with.

Darius: One of my, something I still live by, man, before I go on a date, I always go and get a couple 100 cash because if my card is declined, I will not, I know.

Jordan: No, I feel that happened to me once, but I had money. It was, I needed a new card and it got here in the mail, but I didn't realize it had gotten here yet. And I was at Bartaco. I mean, if it's written there, but it's, you know, card only, you pay like as you go. So I'm on a thing and I'm like, it's not going. And I'm like, oh ****. And she's like, you asked me out and brought me here with no money.

Darius: She really said that to you?

Jordan: Yes. So I literally had to got on the phone, call the bank to get my new, get the e-card. I got the e-card on my phone so that I was able to pay. It was fine. I was able to pay whatever. But I just never recovered. Like we're so friends.

Darius: No, no, you could have just gone ahead and went home.

Jordan: I wanted to kill myself. I thought about driving away, like walking out of the restaurant and just never coming back and just driving home.

Darius: Swing by the store to get some cyanide and just end it. No, that's why to avoid that horrifying situation. I always go grab a couple 100 bucks cash just because it really, I know it always, it's ****. Like the system sometimes just don't talk and it would just be my luck. Like it was just, she really said, You brought me out here with no money.

Jordan: Yes. Oh my God. Like, cause she thought, so I think she thought I was trying to finesse her. Cause she was like, is it cool if, like before I was gonna pay, she was like, is it cool if I pay? Like, and I was like, I'll let you put your card on file, but I'll just cash app you whatever. Cool. And the cash app wasn't going through, right? Cause it was linked to the card that was expired because I got the new card while I didn't see it in the mail.

Darius: My God.

Jordan: And we're sat there and we're like eating. And by the way, I ordered something unique on the menu. I didn't like that. The tequila wasn't hitting, so I'm stone cold. So I'm anxious. I'm wearing a turtleneck, so I'm like getting close to foot because I'm stressed. I'm like, it was the worst. Like it was like an episode of Insecure, bro. I wanted to shoot myself. After that date, I went to the bar and I got plastered. I was.

Darius: You had her put her card down and then your cash app didn't work to pay her back.

Jordan: Eventually it did because I got the new, I had to call the bank and get the, whatever. But no, it was awful. And the worst part about it was if I didn't have money, I wouldn't have been ashamed because I would have been a scammer. But because I had the money, it was worse because I knew it looked like I was lying.

Darius: I almost want to cancel the rest of the segments and just talk about this. Oh my God.

Jordan: No, and what the worst part is? It wouldn't, that was obviously awful, but you've actually seen the girl. Like she's like insanely attractive. So like, I really wanted to kill myself. I was like, oh my God.

Darius: Oh, no. Oh, oh, no. Yes. I know who you're, oh my God. Yeah. You should have taken your car and driven it right off a bridge. I'll give you great.

Jordan: I know. We hung out one of the time and it's just like, I think I just was so embarrassed when the first time it was, you know?

Darius: She would have never seen me again. I would have been like, I just, what?

Jordan: I recovered nicely, but that I still, whenever I see her, I'm still like a little bit embarrassed. I still think about it sometimes. Like it's.

Darius: Fellas, keep a cup of hundo on you. Keep a couple 100 in the safe. At the crib, you never know. Keep a go bag, keep a couple 100 in the safe. And whenever you go out on a date, at least get 100 in cash. Do not. Also, you put your card down, I'll cash app you later. That don't even, that's not player either. Don't do that.

Jordan: She's so fun. I still, oh my God. Oh my God.

Darius: She should in theory be able to leave her wallet at home. Like there should be no, oh, I'm gonna send you this 30%, no, just pay for it. Especially the very first date.

Jordan: The first date, yeah.

Darius: In theory, she should not even have to have a wallet with her. Yeah, I don't even I don't even know how to get back to this movie. Would you feel betrayed if someone wrote personal details about you in a fictional book? If I wrote about this date.

Jordan: Yeah, if you read about.

Darius: If I wrote a book and I was like, I was at Bar Taco and my car got declined and the girl was fine. Would you be away? Would you feel away about that?

Jordan: I mean, we might need 5 minutes.

Darius: That's so bad. You tried to cash app her and it didn't work.

Jordan: We would be having words. We would be having some words, man.

Darius: I mean, the whole, all 17 of our listeners are gonna hear this now. So.

Jordan: Oh no, like this situation is fine, whatever. Like it's funny. Like if I was a comedian, I would tell this on stage, you know what I mean? Whatever. But, you know, I mean, it depends on what the details were, but I probably would be a little upset, especially if, because if you want to air your **** out, cool. But run it by me first. Don't just throw me like.

Darius: Again, it depends on the detail, but it's actually very easy to write fiction inspired by true events with plausible deniability. Like you don't have to like.

Jordan: Because if he had put this **** in like the world of Hogwarts, I don't think they wouldn't even have thought that it was about them probably.

Darius: He just, he literally just wrote a biography of himself. Yes. And was like, my name is Chad. And expected no one to know.

Jordan: Yeah, right. He's like, so I kissed him for it after I ****** her.

Darius: It's like, oh my God, you have me in the track one. Brokey. I'm just ******* with you. Bar taco. And it was declined for like.

Jordan: $5. No, it wasn't even that. It was like, I would take the card on file because the card would like technically expired because I got the new one.

Darius: She actually calls you out. She said you really invited me out.

Jordan: Yeah, she was like, did you? She was like, did you really just You really just brought me out with no money.

Darius: All right, I'm off it. I'm done. I'm sorry. I just did not expect it. Where do you get back to?

Jordan: Well, actually, real quick for act what I got to bring this one point up. Also, like writing the book is one thing, but dedicating the book to the couple whose layership just blew the **** ** is psychotic.

Darius: What's his name? Lance? No, Lance was a football player. Harper. Harper. Not a great guy.

Jordan: Not a great guy. It's funny because he's a protagonist, but he's literally the villain.

Darius: Yeah. And I don't know if the maybe it was. I don't know if it was poor writing or good writing because he's the protagonist, but you never feel sorry for him. He's not a great guy. Like in Brakeman, it's like Walter White is terrible, but you empathize with him because.

Jordan: You know why he's doing the things that he's doing. Yeah.

Darius: I never felt an ounce of anything for Harper. He's God.

Jordan: I like even I forgot to bring this point up like you just like are basically dogging out your girlfriend like she's like, oh, I love you. I could do this forever. And he's like, well. He was not good to anyone in this movie.

Darius: I concur. Act 2, Bachelors and Betrayals. At the bachelor party, tensions boil over as secrets from the past resurface. Harper's anxiety grows as the contents of his book threaten to reveal a devastating truth to Lance. Sorry, I'm still ****** **. What you got for Act 2, man.

Jordan: I so if you were in Harper situation and Nia Long, who's I guess your college would have been crushed or whatever, says like one night only. Let's get it on. You going?

Darius: Yeah, for sure. Not even close. No, no, not even. I mean, he's not married to Sanaa's character, right?

Jordan: Yeah, he wasn't.

Darius: They weren't married. You got to charge that one to the game if Neil Lunkum calleth. Sorry.

Jordan: Yeah, that's true.

Darius: Some stuff. You just got to be like, take one person.

Jordan: You just got to. Yeah, it's a once in a lifetime kind of, you know. What I will say is that what my thing that annoyed me with her character, though, was like, you could have at any point in time flown to Chicago or had him come to New York or like y'all could have y'all known each other for over a decade. We said this point. Like, what was the holdup?

Darius: So context of the time, air travel was much more cost prohibitive in the 90s unless people just didn't do it as much. And these are supposed to be, I think we are watching this, thinking of them present day as like, you know, seasoned elder. These are kids in their early 20s at the time.

Jordan: Yeah, it's just like 27, 28.

Darius: Yeah, I mean, it doesn't, I don't know. Like it just, if you're not in the same city, I mean, I can count on one hand the number of times I've flown out to meet a woman or flown a woman to me. It's been less than five. And it doesn't strike me as outrageous that they couldn't make that work in the 90s when air travel was much more of a luxury thing. And they were young and broke in New York City and Chicago. So I don't know. I don't think that's, obviously you'd like it to line up a little better than that, but it doesn't strike me as out of bounds.

Jordan: Yeah, that's true.

Darius: Strippers at the crib. How do you feel about strippers at the crib?

Jordan: Like at my crib or at somebody's crib?

Darius: Have you ever had a house party where like strippers popped out?

Jordan: Yeah, I've had a couple times. Not at my house.

Darius: A couple times.

Jordan: Yeah, a couple times. Yeah, not at my house, at other people's houses. It was a, it was a, when was a friend's bachelor party.

Darius: Okay, all right.

Jordan: And then, and then the other was after Friendsgiving.

Darius: Dude, what is happening in this podcast? Red flag. We got a challenge. It's time out. I got to go to the repay booth. I need to see the what. Yeah, we did the end up with strippers at the crib.

Jordan: I mean, I didn't plan it. I just was told about it and told to bring ones.

Darius: So you didn't know ahead of time?

Jordan: Yeah, I didn't know ahead of time.

Darius: So y'all had a ***** Friendsgiving planned?

Jordan: No, It was really like a postgame. So what happened was we had Friendsgiving and then all the casuals like left. And then it was like...

Darius: Any parties. It's like it was a regular party. And then the people happened in the real party started in the real party.

Jordan: So we talked about this on my birthday party where all my friends came on.

Darius: I could not keep up with 17 different conversations.

Jordan: That's true. That's true. Keeping the trains. It was. Yeah, we talked about it on that party that that was the people that we had the, you know, the party with and The guys, my homeboys, they knew some girls who worked in that industry and they had them come over and put up a pole and.

Darius: Where'd the pole come from?

Jordan: Did they bring the pole or did he have it? I can't remember. But when was installed in the dining room?

Darius: So y'all just moved the turkey and the dressing and the collars out the way and just brought in the ***?

Jordan: And we made it rain on them hoes.

Darius: So y'all DoorDash strippers after the Friendsgiving. Okay. How long were the strippers there? Did you feed the strippers? Did they get a plate?

Jordan: I think they did. Pretty sure they ate. Yeah, I'm pretty sure they ate. Yeah.

Darius: Were they on the clock while they ate? Did you like, I know they charged per hour. Did you stop the clock while they ate?

Jordan: That I do not know. I'm not gonna lie to you. I was probably faded at that point. So I can't tell you. There's a picture of me in my friend's phone with like money and I'm just like.

Darius: You is too ***** for me, bro. I, Friendsgiving is for charades. Let's do a little Pictionary, little karaoke. Why are strippers after Friendsgiving? That's too ***** man.

Jordan: I don't know. They, we gotta, I gotta ask the boys about that. I didn't, I didn't, you know, I just partook. I did not plan. But it was a guitar.

Darius: Friendsgiving is supposed to be when the college friends get together and like share pictures of the kids. You got. Buffy the body, busting it wide open on a pole, a homemade pole. Not even going to the strip club. You door dashed the strippers.

Jordan: Yeah, pretty much they did.

Darius: Okay.

Jordan: Yeah, it was a fun time. It was a great night. I didn't do the girls. It wasn't, you know, it was a little more.

Darius: Do you have to pay a premium? I guess it's not Thanksgiving Day. It's Friendsgiving. So yeah, Friendsgiving.

Jordan: Yeah. So the week before. Yeah, it was cool. It was fun. Our homegirls, they loved it too, because girls like it just as much as guys do. it was a good time.

Darius: I'm judging everybody that was in attendance. That's trifling.

Jordan: That's fair. That's trifling.

Darius: Would you date a stripper?

Jordan: Like if she was still doing it or like.

Darius: Actively stripping. Like hey.

Jordan: Actively.

Darius: Heading out towards 10 o'clock in my stilettos.

Jordan: Stiletto pumps in the club.

Darius: Is that a dated reference? Is that not that what stripper is?

Jordan: No, it's a song.

Darius: I'm old.

Jordan: No, I don't know if I would. I don't know what I have to think about that. I don't know. What about you?

Darius: I have. It's a bit of a different proposition at 37 than at the time. I think I was like 25, 24.

Jordan: Got you, got you.

Darius: But it really was less weird than you think. It really was. No, yeah. It was. Yeah, I mean, I've dated a handful of bartenders in my day, and it's not terribly dissimilar. They just work 10 hours.

Jordan: It's the same work schedule. It's the same work schedule.

Darius: They just work 2 hours and you work.

Jordan: Around and they hang out until 5 in the morning. So it's not really that much different, honestly.

Darius: I mean, it wasn't like I was married to someone having children with her. We were just having a good time. But yeah, I have. It really wasn't that weird. It was quite normal, except for the IELTS.

Jordan: Yeah, I was Good friends with a dancer, shipper, a few years back. We grew up together and we reconnected and she just happened to be, we didn't meet through her job. And it was super cool. Like she, we'd hang out, live night, I'm a night owl, whatever. She'd cook for me. It was fun. I could probably, I probably could. I probably could.

Darius: What you got for Act 2?

Jordan: Anything else? What was I going to say for act 2? Oh yeah, so the card game with all the guys.

Darius: Yeah.

Jordan: And I'm going to say it's always the worst thing, you know, dog and his girls out the most, always talking about some loyalty and God.

Darius: Yeah, I mean, yeah, fair. I mean, I don't know. Like he's a star football player. They were in college. By then, by the time the movie came around, he had cleaned his act up. So I don't know.

Jordan: Yeah. But I always love that conversation, though, where Terry Tower is kind of like goading Morris Chestnut, kind of like be like, what makes you think that you like that she's exempt from being desirable? Pretty much, you know. He was out of.

Darius: Pocket for that, by the way. What are you, her spokesperson? You go to the bachelorette party then, why are you here? You know, like you're supposed to be part of my wedding crew. Yeah, I just felt that was a little weird. Like if you, he was moving like he was her little brother. And it's like, yeah, I don't know. Nothing he said was wrong, but it's just a.

Jordan: Yeah, he was writing everything he said.

Darius: Just a bizarre. Why is this? Why you bring this up here? It's bizarre.

Jordan: So I think, honestly, I think he did that to make a point to Harper. I think he was basically saying like, I just insinuated that she might have ****** somebody else and he choked me up. You did it. You actually ****** her. So what do you think is gonna happen to you?

Darius: Yeah, that's what I took from it is that he read the book and had put 2 + 2 together because he was always, you know, Terrence Howard's character in the movie is like the audience. He's like, you know, coming in to say what we're all thinking. And I think that's kind of how I took that scene is like, he's speaking for the audience through the character Like Harper, we read your book. What's your plan?

Jordan: What is your plan?

Darius: I love Darren's character in this movie.

Jordan: Me too. That would have role would have been so fun to play.

Darius: Yeah, he was he's even better in the second one. Yeah, which we've already reviewed, but nonetheless, good movie. Anything else for act 2? You stripper at the Friendsgiving skipping out on the tacos. Any other bombshells you want to add to this act? Let.

Jordan: Me think. No.

Darius: Act 3, walking on down the aisle. On the wedding day, the group faces the fallout of revelations. Friendships are tested as they decide if the bond they share is strong enough to overcome the truth. Movie got a little stupid in act three. Yes, it did. Got a little, that last 30 minutes got a little stupid. That's okay though. They didn't really land the plane, but that's okay.

Jordan: They did not.

Darius: Beautiful cast, sparked the trilogy.

Jordan: Beautiful cast, beautiful gowns. Well, I think the problem with Act 3 is because they built the bulk of the story on a betrayal. And then third act is just like, we forgive it.

Darius: It's not, that was my biggest gripe with Wakanda forever. It was like they built up this huge rivalry between the ocean people and Wakanda. And then they just decide not to be rivals anymore. And it's just like, okay.

Jordan: Right, everybody go home, pack them up.

Darius: The core tension of this movie is never resolved. He's like, build it up, they build it up, he finds out, he damn near kills them and they hold one after school speech and everything's okay.

Jordan: Yeah. It's like, yeah, **** it. You come my mom. Who cares?

Darius: It's just. Didn't really like that. It just it all got a little too neat at the end. It was like. It ended a lot like Game of Thrones, where it was like, I have all of these strands out there. How do I wrap them up as fast as possible? And I don't even care if it makes sense. Correct. How do we get out of here?

Jordan: And they weren't even getting Star Wars.

Darius: No, no, not at all. We did get a great posse cut out of this. Best man I can be. Genuine Tyrese, RL and someone else. Great little song. Oh **** okay.

Jordan: Yeah, that's right. Forgot about that. Yeah, that's what the, yeah, it's just like, so even like when he told his girlfriend, like, yeah, I was gonna cheat on you, but don't leave me. And she's like, okay.

Darius: It just got, it just, it was like, Very sick copy where you hear the Hallmark music in the background and they just have a deep talk and everyone just accepts the talk as the end of the conflict. It just, I just didn't, the act three, it got a little stupid.

Jordan: And then even him proposing at the wedding, which is the techiest thing a human being could ever ******* do. It's like the day after you just, like you have a black eye from trying to **** another girl.

Darius: Still got the black eye, you're at the wedding, all is well, and you're proposing at his wedding and everyone's happy. And then we do the electric slide.

Jordan: The electric slide. Because why? Of course, of course. Right.

Darius: Do you have anything else for act three? I got one question left.

Jordan: Yeah, I got a couple of questions for you.

Darius: What's up?

Jordan: If you were in Lance's situation and he was to the point where he was going to cancel the wedding, is there anything that someone could have said to change your mind?

Darius: This is the woman I have decided to marry. Right. That is, I would probably still go through with that in the sense that I'm much more logistical about marriage than romantic. You know, It's as much of A logistical and financial decision as it is a loved one. So I would probably go through with that. But Harper's out of there. We can't be friends no more. You know, like I made a decision to be, you know, to be with this woman for the rest of my life. And I made that decision. You know, I just, I could, I'd be fine with that. I just could not look her in the face ever again. And let alone be in the wedding. Like, I've always said, the sitcom thing where the ex-boyfriend shows up and goes, stops the wedding. Why aren't the groomsmen stomping him out? I never understand.

Jordan: Yeah.

Darius: And so, no, I could see myself, because in a way, her betrayal is less stinging because she knows me. She's known me a shorter period of time. And just like the best man in my wedding. And this is not even if it was before me, I could it'd be tough, but I could see my way t