The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 245 (Best of 9/26/22-9/30/22)

Episode Date: October 2, 2022

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I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Listen to the making of a rivalry.

Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Hello, the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laughstravaganza. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very talented journalist, activist, stand-up comedian. She hosted and was the head writer for Newsbroke on Al Jazeera, has hosted specials on MSNBC, is a regular contributor to The Young Turks. You can see her and hear her on the very funny and informative podcast, The Bitchuation Room,

and on stand-up stages everywhere where she has recently been performing just all the way pregnant, very pregnant. Please welcome the hilarious and talented Francesca Fiorentini! Hey! AKA, I have an AKA for the first time, AKA MILF does a body good, AKA preggo my ego. Hey! AKA, I have an AKA for the first time.

AKA, MILF does a body good. AKA, preggo my ego. Hey! Oh my gosh! MILF does a body good? Yeah. Absolutely incredible. Yeah, and other things.

Other jingles from the late 80s. Whatever you want. Let's do it. I realized, like, well, now I have an identity. It is mother. Yes. Yay. I realized, well, now I have an identity. It is mother. Yes. Yay. I'm a mama bear.

And when I get mama bear status, it's a watch out. Well, I'm changing all my bios. Suddenly it's going to be mom, American flag, lover of Christ. I don't even know who that dude is, but I love him. Oh, man. Fantastic. What a time. You get to choose your mom persona here in a couple weeks.

Will you be wine mom? Will you be pot mom? Will you be, you know, all of the above? You don't deserve to be tired mom. I want to be acid mom. Acid mom is underrated, but very cool. And, you know, very good at getting you down on the level of your children. Absolutely.

How am I supposed to endure like endless coloring or reading the exact same book 12 times to get them to sleep if I'm not on acid? Yeah, babies are very egoless. Might as well destroy your own ego. Get down there with them and be amazed at everything you see. Yeah. I'm learning. We're learning together. It's like such a stereotypical like stoner like thought that you have in college when you get high for the first time. But it's also a thought you have when you're a parent and there's just a lot of downtime to think all the thoughts but i just remember being like i bet what they're seeing is very similar like the the experience of being a baby and seeing everything new for the first time is very similar to you know

being on psychedelics of some sort yes just being like you and then they say the most high shit you've ever heard. You ever really look at your hands, bro? For real. How do my bones move me was one of the things that one of my kids said to me, like, very early on in his ability to speak. I was like, what the fuck? Wow. Where does that thought come in? The one thing when you get too high is like, how do I know when to breathe? That's always a fun one.

Yeah. Oh, shit. Oh, no. Oh, boy. It's bad. breathe? That's always a fun one. Yeah. Oh, shit. Oh, no. Oh, boy. It's bad. Yeah. That's, yeah, I was not good on pot. I was very, very not good on pot. Not good on pot.

That's my other AK. Not good on pot. Not good on pot. What is something from your search history? Oh, okay. Yeah. So I was searching this this morning. I'm not sure if you guys are into, Oh, okay. Yeah. So, so I was searching this, this morning. Uh, I'm not sure if you guys are into like meditation. I'm, I'm, I'm a pretty big connoisseur of, of that kind of stuff.

Yeah. Mindfulness, all that kind of stuff. So I'm always looking for, of course, I'm looking for like a way to kind of go above and beyond always. Right. So I was listening to a podcast this morning and this dude was like really selling this device that he uses that apparently puts him in like another world and i i looked it up it's called the soma dome oh and and it's kind of like you ever sent those flotation uh things where people like sit in salt water and like yeah yeah but this is like i guess installed in your house and it's like a little dome and it's got like speakers and and lights and shit and it's supposed to give you like the ultimate like you know just being present in your head meditation wise. So he was talking about that. That's like a

futuristic bobsled, right? Right. That's such a good way to, Oh my God. Yeah. A futuristic bobsled with a hood over it. That's literally what it was built in. So I was like, all right, let me, let me look into this whole thing. And as I'm researching, I hear him go, yeah, I mean, I dropped 25K on it. And I was like, all right, let me close out the old Safari search. It's back to turning off the lights and looking at Headspace. You're listening to Headspace on my Spotify playlist. Not only do you close the tab, but you have to erase the cookies

so that Amazon and the algorithm doesn't think you think to start sending shit about $25,000 they've made a broke boy version oh really? yeah and it looks like a fucking like a little collapsing camping chair you'd bring to a little league game or like a AYSO game with like a light flap on top it looks

like the low budget like brother of Soma Dome see I love that. And it's like if somebody breaks into your house and they see that, they're just going to walk right back out. It's like this broke ass motherfucker. Yeah. They're like, oh, you got the dome? You got the dome?

Bro, no, we're good. We're good. Whereas the other one, they'll think it's a time machine. Or just freak them out. They're like, a mad scientist lives here. Have you guys ever done sensory deprivation no i really want to do that i haven't i did it yes okay but i yeah god you have to experience i'd love to hear yours so i had built it up in my mind i talked to a lot of people who are really

into meditation i'm into like getting into meditation ish i'm into getting into i'm like preparing to be willing to get into getting into your meditation i'm doing the pre the prep to get to be into meditation so i went and did it and i think i think this is a good thing i'm told this is a good thing but they i closed my eyes the lights went down and then it seemed like a split second later the lights came back on and they were like yep that was 45 minutes and i i guess it was like just the most relaxing sleep or they were fucking with me i can't i can't tell which shifted all the clocks and shit right it's like that office episode where they michael fell asleep in the office like he's five bro he's like that office episode where Michael fell asleep and the office clocks like, it's five, bro. He's like, oh, alright.

Get out of here. It was the closest I've come to time travel since drinking and using drugs. Did you feel like your experience would feel like four and a half hours? And that was why it was maybe a little bit like, oh shit, time just went rapidly quickly without any stimulus.

It was just like 45 minutes but time just went rapidly quickly without any stimulant or it was just like 45 minutes but it just went so fast i thought yeah i think i'd build it up like okay that this could go one of two ways it could be like very trippy and like that's supposed to you're like traveling places in your mind right is what one thing i've heard and the other thing i had heard is like you just are in in there and you want get out. Like I've heard about it going badly. I've never heard someone just be like, yeah, close my eyes and it was over. Yeah.

Right. I think I built it up in my head a lot too. I thought it was going to be life changing. And then I go and I open the thing and it's got like little like stuff at the bottom of like the water thing. And that just grossed me out because I was thinking what was the other person

that was in here before me? They obviously didn't think it was water. And then the part thing and that just grossed me out because i was thinking what was the other person that was in here before me they obviously yeah water and then the part of me that is like uh the child of an immigrant who like makes myself feel small it's like you know what i'm not gonna say anything i'm just gonna deal with it you know and then the first half hour get in my ear right right but the first half hour is just me thinking about what it could be and being grossed out by the fact i'm laying in this water and then i fell asleep at some point woke up and it was kind of a similar thing i was just kind of like all right i guess it was like good sleep i don't know it wasn't what i hoped it would be yeah it was super super fast but yeah yeah zeitgang let us know what what your experience is with sensory deprivation i've definitely heard from people who like had really trippy

experiences my one friend hunter is like got in there and really got after it. Hunter. Right, because you're saying his dad was putting a lot of pressure on him because he was running for office. Yeah, his dad put a lot of pressure on him. So he said he went in there and had a little party in there.

I didn't really exactly know what that meant. Right. But he left his laptop at the place, right? And he was like, he went back and was gone. I think he might have. Yeah. What's something you think is overrated, Ellery? We touched on this earlier i think fall

and winter are overrated go on go off in what sense they're nice for like a week i mean i get it yeah but i hate the time change i hate the night coming sooner i love summer and in la nobody works during the summer basically uh everybody has summer Fridays we're really sort of like a vacation culture and so I just don't like I don't know it's maybe it's like a back to school leftover feeling but I feel like I'm always chasing summertime like by the time it's May I'm like yes we're ready we're in it yeah we're in it and then around here I'm like sure the leaves sort of change but it's's not like, I don't know. There's just more debris on the ground.

That's really the only difference. Yeah, that's true. I'm not. Daniel, how do you feel about these colder months? You know, it's colder months is almost an exaggeration. We're talking like maybe a 10 to 15 degree drop in temperature at absolute most. And maybe instead of wearing a T-shirt, you wear a long-sleeve shirt. And God forbid a sweater. I will say... What do you mean, God forbid?

Motherfucker, I'll wear a North Face. That's what I was about to say. I look at my closet and I pray to be able to bust out a Letterman jacket or a pink coat or literally anything. Not me. And this is the big West Coast, East Coast divide on this.

Because yesterday our guest is a New Yorker. And I was talking about, oh, I love the cold. And he's like, basically like, you don't know the cold. You don't know the cold. The cold is Disneyland to you. You stop by that motherfucker for a day. You're like, ah! You don't live there where you slowly start losing your mind.

Because you've seen Fantasmic every fucking night three times in a row. where it's dark at 4 p.m it's too cold to leave your apartments it also doesn't get cold in new york the way that it used to when i was a kid but i remember like because at my high school you had to cross the street for like to go between buildings and i remember being so cold that like the earrings would freeze in my ears like or the snot my nose would have icicles like painful like stinging your skin that's so cool yeah literally like the movie a post nasal drip that freezes in there horrible just so really awful really or going outside with wet hair and having your hair freeze would know'm bald, so try another angle. That's a win in my column still, although my bald head

would probably freeze. I keep saying this, and I really just need to do a cultural exchange with someone in the deep freeze and be like, look, bro, you stay in my spot. You have to go for more than a month. I want to know, be like, okay,

are you going to chop your wood too yeah you get that stove going i'll be like that's legitimately what we did in my house we had a wood stove yeah i i'm so like my mom grew up in a really cold part of japan so like going to certain parts of like really cold winter japan is the same shit where it's like you gotta get you gotta wake up keep that fucking stove going in the middle of the night and shit unless you want to wake up to some nonsense frozen with all your pipes frozen right and insulation isn't that like big of a thing with like older built homes there too so i'm willing i saw somebody who was like come out to winnipeg i feel like when the zeit gang was like okay fool come out to winnipeg see what's up come see no this motherfucker in

his picture like all his shit was frozen on his face and i'm like okay i'm down to try it i feel like i would just smoke weed all day and be like oh look at the snow man that's really cool we'll see yeah we'll see but yeah i'm it's all it's the fashion you know it's the fashion it's the fashions honestly that's i i'm not gonna lie it is again this is a definitely a disneyland ass take but i just want to wear the clothes i have i just want to wear my mickey ears i just want to wear the mickey ears and go out that is like the funniest part about moving out here is that when it hits 65 degrees people wear canada goose down jackets fucking scarves and shit gloves i'll never wear gloves you'll never you'll never catch me wearing gloves that's like that's my god wait until you go to Winnipeg.

Oh no. That's what I'm saying is that's like my cold water, like my cold weather Rubicon. I will not cross in LA, which is to put gloves on. I'm like, unless I'm riding a bike and it's really cold. Fine. Like I'll do that to keep my hands warm, but it's the East coast or places with actual winter.

The gloves do come out. Amen. Amen. But yeah. And oh, sorry. I have to keep harping on fashion.ions all it took was a new yorker to be like damn he's like you look like a new yorker when i was in new york during like the like the winter and i was like oh my god okay all of a sudden the tims just emerged on oh my feet yeah i had tear away i had tear away shoes that were underneath that's so funny and then startedook One started playing out of my fucking speakerphone.

Yankee fitted, just emerging from the forehead. Sticker still on. Sticker still on, always. Always. My head turns to a Yankee fitted. What is something you think is underrated? People who were raised well. Okay.

Now what that means? You know, there are some human beings that you are just like, oh, it is so refreshing to know that you were raised well, like you're kind, you have emotional intelligence, you know, like you, you mind your business where, where you should, you know, like you're inclusive, you're still fun, but you know that your parents raised you well, their parents raised them well, rather. That's so underrated. I find that human beings in this world, oftentimes we just don't give enough props to the people who were truly raised well, and they're moving through life, and you're like, you're a Yes. Yes. I mean, you know, parenting is literally like a guessing game. I feel like it. We'll try to figure it out with the soul that we have. Right. And, you know, I'm like, good job. Shout out to your parents. What's the thing?

What's the what's the quality that you appreciate most when you when you throw somebody in the column of raised? Well, like, what's that? What's the most potent quality for you? Like, oh man, I love, love that. I love politeness and human kindness. Like there's sometimes I will meet a child, like, I don't know, like through their parents or whatever, but like a child that is kind, I'm like, you're going to turn out to be raised well.

Like you're going to grow up to be a good one. Or you are a sociopath and you're figuring it out. Oh no. Look, see, that's it. I'm always on edge. I'm like,

why is this kid smart? Are they the fucking next fucking who knows what, but that's just my own trust issues. I think. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah.

I'm like, no, you know, the little ones say they're like, okay, but I would say, and you know, I, I say they're like, OK, but I would say and, you know, I have this conversation at length. A human being that is raised well, that you just know is raised well.

And I have not met him, but I know he's raised well. Keanu Reeves, like he's probably one of those people that you're like, I know he's raised well. Like you could just tell. Yeah, I think there's two ways right to arrive there. You can be raised well or you can see enough bullshit that you end up figuring it out. And you're like, I actually ended up like this because I saw so much shit. I figured it out pretty quickly that this was probably the way to actually

exist rather than in the chaos I witnessed. So I definitely, the wisdom is either way. It's either coming from the parents or it's coming from your life. But I do, I do like when you, when you meet people that arrive there, I know what you mean. Like you can feel it like, OK, you got a good guy.

You got some good going on. I think I think wisdom like that is deeply, deeply underrated. Being able to see something and learn from it. It's not simply my experience is my experience. It's I see something you're like, actually, you know what? I think that's something that I could take on. And that's that's a trait that I need to practice more in my own daily life and that kind of wisdom very very underrated so i see that 100 right i think yeah just be somebody who pursues wisdom

right because so much of our lives we go through a lot of shit it's easy to be like i'm not thinking with that i'm not thinking about that i don't want to deal with that right now and we push it away and try and like go on like automation mode and like let shit just simmer in the back but really you want to be able to confront those moments feel the totality of what you're experiencing as a person because the more you sit with a thought like that i was just you know i've had to grieve a lot of people over the last couple years is you know like even when you you think about like loss right and you're like i don't want to fucking deal with it's just too heavy or whatever but a lot of the pain you feel is like loss, right, and you're like, I don't want to fucking deal with it's just too heavy or whatever.

But a lot of the pain you feel is because it's the love that you feel for that person and the love, you know, this person has had for you. And I think part of that, you know, is being able rather than running away from that, it should try and sit and feel the grief and tell yourself it's going to be OK. But also remind yourself that it's the love that's there that you're really feeling. That's what you're running away from and try and evolve your thinking around it. So rather than a topic, I don't want to think about it's too sad. You can think about it like, damn, I love that person and they love me. And that's what I get when I think about it. I think it's also, too, just the fear that you won't have that again.

Right. Like there's a little bit of that in the grieving process, just kind of being like, oh, no, will I ever, you know, be able to love like this again in this capacity? So sitting I do think you're right. We just have to kind of sit in it and also just remember the good times you did have. Like, yeah, of all the feelings, you know, because that's where the wisdom that the wisdom people run away from opportunities to to accept the wisdom. But that's part of it. But yes, I love that point. And if you're somebody who's walking around like a decent human being, shout the fuck out to you. Shout out to you.

Yes. Less generational wealth, more generational mental health. Oh, wow. Look at that. Come on, dude. Is that the truth? Okay, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back to talk some weird shit. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult.

And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high control groups and interview dancers, church members, and others whose lives and careers have been impacted, just like mine. Through powerful, in-depth and others whose lives and careers have been impacted, just like mine. Through powerful, in-depth interviews with former members and new, chilling firsthand accounts, the series will illuminate untold and extremely necessary perspectives.

Forgive Me For I Have Followed will be more than an exploration. It's a vital revelation aimed at ensuring these types of abuses never happen again. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline, a new podcast from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts.

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try to hold Donald Trump accountable for, you know, trying to barter like weapons for political secrets in the case of the impeachment that actually went through. Yeah, I don't know. It seems like they're going to be trying to impeach Biden on like the Hunter laptop. Who knows what else? Maybe Afghanistan has been mentioned in his handling of that. So we might have another Benghazi. I mean, I certainly woke Afghanistan gas prices.

We remember that segment. Right. Yeah. Max, where they helped us realize yeah and like that's the other thing is that so they're impeaching him about Afghanistan and I'm like yeah I mean he fucked that like he like a lot of the stuff he did there was terrible but like that is I have to think that's part of the strategy is like okay you're gonna defend this guy and like that's such a distraction such a drain on just the genuine political energy that people have to like see see some things change yeah i don't like if part of me thinks like this is just them trying to figure out what to say like it's all about chumming the waters for the like for their for their base right and like we've seen a few

different attempts like just constantly backfire right so then maybe they're like okay what if we get back into revenge mode maybe revenge mode we'll get them out out the seats again yeah but it doesn't i don't know if revenge mode will like right now there was a new poll that said trump's his support like went down like 20 points recently among Republicans. So I don't know. Like there's there's clearly there's clear whatever the polling says or doesn't say. There's clearly like an enthusiasm gap that they're trying to address. And they and they're like they're normal tools of being just inhumane to people who are trying to look for a better life or going after trans people or whatever isn't moving the needle enough.

So I think that's why it feels like remember, like I think they're like just like Democrats are like, hey, y'all, if we. for a better life or going after trans people or whatever isn't moving the needle enough so i think that's why it feels like remember like i think they're like just like democrats are like hey y'all if we you know get the senate like we will then give a fuck about you know abortion access this time we swear this time yeah because everybody's got to paint a picture of what happens oh when we win honey look this is what's gonna come and i think for them they've tried all these other things like we are gonna fucking you know just completely mistreat human beings or they're like okay how about we go after biden's ass that's what it feels like but either way i i definitely believe them when they say that right but when do we reach like peak crazy though right like because this has to

tip at some point every time you think all right, there's no way his base is going to go along with this. These asinine stories they're making up or trying to defend this. There's always another excuse. There's always another crazy person trying to do something. I just wonder, when does the crazy get too crazy for even the majority crazies

that follow the MAGA party almost? I don't know. I feel like right now it's more like that the optics are so blunt, so blunt and so plainly fucked up looking that they're like, oh, okay. Cause like there was a, somebody went on George Stephanopoulos' show. I forget which, I think it was Barrasso,

Senator Barrasso. And he like, he was trying to like, Stephanopoulos was like, fam, you know you can't just declassify shit with your mind. You know that. Like, you know better, fool. And he's like, fam, you know you can't just declassify shit with your mind. You know that. Like, you know better, fool. And he's like, well, I don't. Like, he was like, mm-mm-mm.

And, like, Stephanopoulos started to laugh, basically laughing at this dude. And he's like, yeah, maybe you're right. Like, it's clear that there's, like, even, like, the Hannity thing. When he had that terrible interview with Hannity, even, like, Hannity was like, well, like, isn't there a video of the FBI planning shit? If you, like, are saying they're planning shit. And he's like, interview with Hannity. Even Hannity was like, well, isn't there a video of the FBI planning shit? If you are saying they're planning shit. And he's like, I don't know. No, I think it happens in the house. Anyways.

Not living in a room. Anyways, moving on. I feel like the instincts to be like, they're going to figure it. Like, eventually, this is going to hit a bottom and they will bounce back. That, to this point, has not served me well. I feel like I was asking that question three years ago, you know, and they,

now we have Trump giving a speech with like dramatic music behind him as they give him the one, the, the Q and on where we go one, we go all salute. That feels like it would have seemed beyond what anybody would go

along with a while back. I guess QAnon seemed like it was beyond what people would go along with a while back. But QAnon keeps going. It's like they're going through records at a record store. They're like, okay, what about xenophobia they're like okay that was not hitting uh like they're djing this shit okay uh switch it up oh i got this new white label from q anon i hope y'all ready for this they haven't been playing in one club out here

and recently at the north carolina rally uh the like people to like people that were officials with the trump rally they were stopping people from doing the q anon salute right so clearly from the even the trump side they're like bro we can't we no no no like that's a bridge too far even for like the what they call quote unquote normal republicans right what the fuck is this uh that they're constantly like you're the flip-flopping it's they're just in this very very wild phase that's why i'm like curious right like i just i do want to play this clip of kevin mccarthy because just like we're talking about this like like painting a vision of what it looks like when the republicans take the house this is like one of the main this this soundbite of him of of kevin mccarthy on fox news just sums up just how bizarre they think like what motivates people to vote for them

uh so just listen to this about why you're going to be loving a fucking republican controlled house hold the law we will secure our borders so your kids won't have to fear wondering that they're buying fentanyl and are going to od hold on okay i'm sorry, Kevin. I think I misheard you. What was that again? We will secure our borders. Okay.

So you secure the... Okay. So no more brown people. Okay. I'm with that. I'm with that. What the... So your kids won't have to fear wondering that they're buying fentanyl and are going

to OD. Oh, I don't know how many of the homies are buying fentanyl. Unless you like have terrible pain and like, you know, like you don't have the health insurance. Maybe you have terrible pain and you don't have health insurance, maybe you're using it like that. Or, again, they keep... That is a blind swipe. So now you're with drug use?

Look, we're going to allow that your kids are doing drugs, but they're going to be clean drugs. They're going to be the purest product. That's pretty progressive, actually. I didn't know that was going to work with the Republican base.

I'm sorry. I don't think through things. I'm just word salad-ing talking points. I said border fentanyl safe. So your kids can safely feed their coke habit and not have to worry about right coming from over the border and i maybe that's what he does or doesn't mean but it's just wild like because like you're saying what if they win in the house

they're going to they're not going to advance a single fucking bill that would help anybody if anything they're going to try and dismantle any progress that's been made because that's the whole thing. The lack of forward progress is exactly what Republicans need, because the less progress there is, the more people that are on the edge and the more people that are on the edge, the more susceptible they are to their autocratic bullshit. And they need that. They can't have people that are supported or people who are like getting in touch with

their like worker power and shit like that that's completely antithetical to like this the sort of environment they need to sort of you know swoop in and get all these votes that they think they can get and it's just wild watching their whole platform is just basically shift like it's it's watching them kind of deal with this shift in like the racial status quo or like just like white male dominance, because that's everything that's like it's a reaction to all of this. And it's like I'm trying to figure out what phase of like the Kubler Ross grief cycle they're in. Like we're definitely past denial. That may have been like five years ago or something. They're stuck on anger.

Yeah. Like we're we're fully in anger mode. We are fully in anger mode we are fully in anger mode like of all this shit like you know think of any time you felt wronged like you first you're like no it's not that bad and then you start going man you know what if only this motherfucker did this or if only this shit happened if only these people weren't in the way that's what all their legislation looks like it's just going outward and being like fuck all these just putting everybody like just

they're on attack mode and i mean if there's if americans are smart enough and their numbers decrease you know in elected office i maybe will see them start bargaining in a weird way or maybe they're bargaining now you know because right now they're like oh shit xenophobia is not working oh shit q anon what the fuck who do i gotta embrace now but yeah it's just wild to watch it you know because at the end of the day all they want is to watch people suffer yeah it's it's scary to think there's no like logical end in sight because i think you've dismantled the idea of like thinking rationally right so like you've basically programmed them to say anything that is brought out there is a conspiracy theory right so you know bill gates is behind everything that's happening out there is a conspiracy theory, right? So, you know, Bill Gates is behind everything that's happening and this is behind this,

right? And so where do you end at that point? Because to me, even one thing I might have thought for a while, okay, well, if Donald Trump gets like the charges come up and he gets, you know, held to justice for any of the things that he's done, there's solid proof and maybe that'll kind of begin to like settle things. But that might actually make things even worse because these people might then be even more angry and feel like they you know have to quote-unquote save this this country and things get even crazier you know so right yeah i don't

know i'm just trying to wrap my head around like what does the the end of this really scary story we're living in you know look like i mean there is a logic where with you know they they're doubling down on a non-functioning society the non non-functioning civilization that we have right now. And the primary symptoms of that is profound spiritual emptiness and deep, deep loneliness. And drugs is one of the most popular ways of dealing with that. So maybe they're going to just be like, we're the drugs party, man. We we're gonna make sure your drugs are clean like so all the way

yeah just like brave new world it like if republicans did that that would actually they're like yo man can you get some drugs for this weekend they're like yeah i got the homie tucker bro out of connecticut bro his shit fire oh for sure and safe and safe they don't fuck around those conservative drug dealers yeah that's the your kids doing drugs with fentanyl and it is like the the they are so desperate for a you know the immigration situation to like affect them negatively in some way that they're just reaching. They're like your kids, man.

I mean, they, when they go to cut up a line, you know, whoa, whoa, whoa, what?

Speaking to the base of, you know, other senators and the free base. Yeah. Their house members. Yeah. But like, again,

like this is just sort of fits into with like DeSantis is Martha's Vineyard, you know, human circus. Right. In his mind, his mind, he's like, OK, I get it. The playbook is cruelty. I get it. That's what every Republican knows. The playbook is fucking cruelty right now. And so, again, it was no surprise when he's taking living human beings as like pawns and like a irl shit post like when he rounded up migrants under like this like the false pretenses and flying them to martha's vineyard and his hope like you know you could you could tell what his idea was because basically tucker carlson like just completely messaged this like a month or two ago to him

being like and what if the migrants went to martha's vineyard i'm sure the liberal elites there would would surely at that point not would have to be would have to deal with the reality because they're so far away from the southern border etc so they show up there and he was probably thinking that these people would be like ah gross get them out i'm sure maybe some people were but on the other hand there are other people like holy shit what happened this world just what and they just dumped you here do you know anybody here no okay you have a place to stay well shit here's food well you don't got shit and and now he's looking at multiple investigations of like lawsuits and this whole stunt is really beginning to look like now like a 1.6 million dollar tax funded event and this is

now it's not only pissed off like Hispanic voters in Florida And just around the country He's also upset like fellow trash governor Homie Greg Abbott Because DeSantis as we know They are not where's their border Like they don't have a southern border I mean aside from yes people who might be coming over

The ocean or whatever but it's not in the same way Like in terms of the discourse that Conservatives talk about the border And Abbott was like What the fuck bro like you just coming to my state and grabbing people up and i don't think it was that it was like it was inhumane is what put greg abbott off it's like bro you can't come into my fucking state and do this kind of shit and not tell me about it like now now now i'm dragged into now. Like we didn't really get our story straight. So now that like, I feel like most of America has been aligned on how just terrible this like stupid fucking stunt was. DeSantis is now trying to paint like, like this as part of his outstanding record on helping people. The office said, quote, Florida gave them an opportunity to see greener pastures in a sanctuary jurisdiction that offered greater resources for them. They have been provided accommodations, sustenance, clothing and more options to succeed.

That wasn't from the state. That was from the people there who responded to seeing other humans get dumped off like garbage. That wasn't because of the we say like, oh, these great sanctuary jurisdictions. That wasn't because of the, we say like, oh, these great sanctuary jurisdictions. So it's just this, it's wild to then again, see this same playbook, like white supremacists were using in the sixties with like what they call reverse freedom rides, where they're like, how about we get you out the South black people? And we'll tell them, we'll lie. Here's a one-way bus ticket to a Northern city. We'll lie to you and tell you there's all this, that, and the other, and it's not there,

but guess what? You got no way back now. And it's not there. But guess what? You got no way back now. And it's weird. Like drama was when you say like, what's too much? Because Jared Kushner, like obviously he's a good barometer of like what's like what's going to be the most self-serving take right now. And and he wasn't doubling down. He actually used the phrase, we have to remember these are human beings. the phrase we have to remember these are human beings so oh so it's clear enough to the self you know like the the ghouls who are like always acting in self-preservation it's like right

fucking go that far y'all that's how you know you fucked up when jared kristian becomes a voice of reason yeah 100 100 but i mean yeah like and now like Charlie Crist, his opponent that's running against him in the, in the election, you know, like this one poll has Crist now in the lead. Like it's, it like inverted and other people, I think more realistically, it's the, I think it's probably just tightening, but it was 100%. Like many people like this, just that just looked like a stunt really. And that maybe only energized like 5% of your voters really in a way that they're like, yep, that's it. Right. Yeah. You hope that, you know, that this was like a terrible thing that leads to somebody like him getting ousted.

You know what I mean? From from his his seat. You know, that's kind of what the only thing you can kind of hope out of this thing. But I'm still pessimistic, regardless of any of those polls or anything like that. Cause it just seems like, man, nothing really, like there's so many,

there's far more hardcore, like lovers of this whole MAGA ideal that like nothing is, is, is too far for them. So I, I don't ever want to get like optimistic, like, okay,

is this going to be the thing that wakes people up? You know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I don't think it ever will i think the only thing is to see that like more people are just becoming savvier and i guess what's sad is like the bar for how savvy you are is like can you see someone being mistreated and be like that's not good

right that's like objectively that's bad pr yeah right some people are i think some people are at it's bad pr other people may have graduated to the next level of sympathy and empathy and be like that is not good to do to another human person because i wouldn't want that to happen to me but right yeah i think all of this shows though like that for all of the you know influence that they have over the movement like it's just it should become clear to just most people that it's like they're never offering somebody like a better life actually like as their campaign promise like they're just like we will make motherfuckers cry and live in fear yeah are y'all good are y'all

also upset that like you see too many people who don't look like you know this town used to look around yep okay then we can do something about that and we can just wallow in our inability to like grieve the fact that maybe the country is changing and it's time to embrace something different i think the country is better when it's not all elderly white men running the whole fucking thing and that's what hurts them most of all i think right you know yeah and that's why they're so, I think you were right on that. They're just stuck in the anger stage of coping. And that's, that's the only stage of coping that really works with the, you know, overall

Republican comportment, you know, is of toxic masculinity is just being mad and trying to hurt people. Absolutely. And it takes so many like that's i feel like so many people just get stuck in any like any situation where you're actually like if you're grieving anything yeah like anger is the one i think that feels the most like feels right to a lot of people and then obviously like depression and many other things too but yeah it feels like a lot of people get stuck in the angry part and you meet people too, like who have gone through tragedies

and like that's usually the thing that when they have breakthroughs as human beings is that like, I let go of the anger. Right. Well, the anger is the easiest thing, right? You can be upset with a tragedy happening in your life and you can go out and be cursing people out on the street or in your car or whatever, right?

Like that's the easiest emotion to sort of live in and to get some sort of like instant gratification you know if you like yeah you know yeah exactly yeah and people have turned their whole car into i am not over whatever i'm grieving right with all my bumper stickers it's like yeah fuck you, Nancy. Yeah, we need to make the TDZ bumper sticker. I am not over whatever I'm grieving. Right, exactly. But do it in the MAGA font. Like, that's truly all these people. Like, they never, they're incapable of having an actual discussion on the merits or about policy.

Because they're not even existing in a world where there are policy based solutions to anything or solutions to anything. They're living there. They're caught in this like anger cycle of I don't have this or I feel like life can be better, which many people are experiencing. wrong people rather than okay i how many of us can accept that the world needs to change and then find a way to energize yourself to say well there's a direction i can move in rather than just turn the heat up on my ass and just fucking be a pot that boils over and eventually causes a kitchen fire yeah i am curious how this read how the martha's vingert stunt read in right-wing media like i just looked on the front page of fox news to to your point dramas though like it how the Martha's Vineyard stunt read in right-wing media. Like, I just looked on the front page of Fox News to your point, Dramos, that it feels like, yeah, this is a pretty clear cut. This should be just an argument in and of itself to everybody.

But front page of Fox News is not mentioning this story at all. Instead, the only DeSantis story they have, Florida Democrat County Commissioner proudly endorses DeSantis. He's done an incredible job. So, which feels like kind of a weak, yeah, I'm sure it's hugely within their interest. Like I think Fox News generally, when you hear people talk about what the Murdochs in charge want, they want DeSantis to be the president and Trump to be kind of out of the, so the fact that the best they can do right now, as we're this close to the midterms is have a,

a County commissioner endorsing Ron DeSantis is pretty, I don't know, man. I think they want, I think they want it better for this Martha's vineyard story. They got one. Oh, one went up this morning,

Florida based Hispanic conservatives approve of DeSantis is Martha's vineyard strategy, despite media narrative. That's one of the fucking main things. And they base this on a poll that they did on Fox news, digital of their own viewers. Right, right,

right. Come on. Like, man, the, the, it's just the media fucking cycle of like algorithmic giving you exactly what you want,

you know, just like social media. And I think that's the answer as to why people aren't getting awakened, just because they keep getting inundated with things that just continue to double down on the bullshit that they believe. Oh, wait, here's another one. Professor Charles Xavier proves that things

can be done merely through thought, which is very interesting. Wow, so we do an X-Men lore now. professor x is now giving uh you know credence to the the idea that fucking trump can declassify documents yeah for sure love that okay fox all right let's take a quick break we'll be right back i'm jess casaveto executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult.

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or wherever you stream podcasts. Cultura Podcast Network, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts. And we're back. And it's not just Jeanette McCurdy who's glad their mom died. King Charles also, because now he's the king. And now that the official period of mourning has passed for Libby too, it's now, it's time to see what has happened now that the dust has settled. Just a couple, just kind of quick things to touch on.

His face will be on banknotes and coins starting in the middle of 2024. So get ready for that. Which face? I don't know. Does he get to choose? It has to be this one, right? His current, because that's when he was named king. Exactly. Something with my regal visage upon it

no i would not want i wouldn't i would i would want like my 22 year old face or something on this not where he's at now he looks like someone put him in the microwave for a couple could you think if he was in a like if he was in a pixar movie he could be like yo actually could you put my pixar rendering that's a fuck up that would be wild i I'm just saying like if you had the power. I thought you were going to go with like the Monsters Inc. No, I'm just saying if you had the clout, you got the clout as king. I'm just saying if you were going to be on money,

I would want to look good. What's the point of being rich and being on money? I think, Dani, you would feel a little gross if your face was on money. You as the person that you are, I think you would want to have fun. I know you also have a sense of humor and I feel like you would maybe lean into the humor of it more than like no this is I'm gonna look I'm just saying all of our presidents that are on money was at the end of their life I know for Abraham Lincoln it was but for all the other

presidents was at the end of their life that was snapshot and put on that bill or was it when they first you know like i'm just saying he i'm just saying he doesn't look great okay how does andrew jackson look the healthiest when he was the one of the most evil motherfuckers too like you should look more like shit dude but so do they always have to do this i don't pay attention to british do they always have to change the money when they must be on anything else anymore yeah i think the canadian dollar if i remember correctly like elizabeth looks younger on that right and that's why like australians are like we want fucking that we want uh crocodile hunter instead mr erwin and rather

than fucking the queen on our such a waste do they retire though like i'm sorry i'm fascinated by this but that's such a waste like we don't do they just like take out all those all the ones with her face and they're not i don't know if they're like melting them down or restamping them or i'm not sure how it works yeah let's uh uk zeitgang let us know what happens to all that oh here we go here's an article what happens to the banknotes featuring the revered monarch yeah just i think they just start circulating it out it's kind of like when you get new 20s and shit like sometimes you're like oh shit you got one of these old 20s okay drug dealer i see you're not interacting with banks and shit i got a two dollar bill and

i thought it was so cool but i tried to use it to buy a lottery ticket and it rejected it what oh like in a machine yeah yeah machines don't take because i'm like this is legal tender so exactly this is illegal take this money make this money ain't no way you could take this from me anyway shut up bad boy records this is another thing i do want to touch on the royal family's website just so you notice let's see here our our homies have been demoted okay so when you go to the royal family page on the royal.uk you say okay here we go members of the royal family you got obviously the king and them got their own shit then we got the princess of wales oh wait hold on let me get them

their framing is terrible on this page oh my god who designed this website let me get it so it's actually stacking there we go so in order here we go the king king. The queen consort. The prince of Wales. The princess of Wales. The Earl of Wessex. Who? Okay. Who is this other? Oh, the countess of Wessex? Okay.

I've seen her around. Oh, shit. Is that? Who is that? Is that Hugh Jackman in Logan? Stop it. Oh, that's the queen's sister. Yo, her hair.

I'm not. Tell me that doesn't look like Wolverine hair. No, it do. It do. Okay. And I'm sorry no disrespect to the princess royal walk-in so that's how many that's where else we're at we're at the princess royal we passed logan now we're at the duke of gloucester now we got the duchess

they put eight white men up and they were like oh i think it's this dude in the corner where he's cut off yeah look i told you the framing whoever did the ux on this is or ui i don't know i'm not into web design do better then you get the duchess of gloucester then we get the duke of kent where the fuck is harry and megan then we got the princess alexandra hello where oh shit there we go the duke of sussex oh there we go the duchess of sussex and in bottom prince andrew they moved harry and megan's ass all the way to the fucking bottom you know what's funny this is a petty move like blocking someone that's actually a blessing right like if someone i loathe blocks me that's amazing i don't have to see your face anywhere you did all my casual streets what a blessing like you think you're hurting me but this is so wonderful i feel the same way here

people who are ever going to visit this website and take a look at it you should be thinking about them last anyway don't be checking in on them don't talk to them you're either you came here for megan and harry or you came for these other folks. Right, right, right. And most likely it's these other folks. So yeah, put them at the bottom. Get them out of everybody else's mind so they can leave left alone. Yeah, you're like, good,

I'm glad I'm at the bottom of your dusty-ass website. Fucking sucks. You can't even look at that shit on mobile. You do not want to be anywhere near you. You can't sign a document without having a hissy fit. And you're not even running this country. Like, you're not, you're just a figurehead.head well they say this is the intentional move by racist king grandpa because since they want to be all woke and shit and not you know keep their distance from the royal family okay

then you can be with the the worst of them prince andrew you married a beautiful woman and i lost one like an idiot oh it sucks you might win but you just lost one and finally this one really rubbed me the wrong way i don't know why but prince george william's son prince william's son is out here flexing on his classmates saying quote my father will be king so you better watch out end quote this is from royal reporters now they're saying he's just being cheeky and a young man no he's not i've been i've had motherfuckers say shit like this to me to my face as a kid we've all been around some kids like my dad's a cop my dad's a lawyer you better shut the fuck up man see and i'm like oh so Prince, you see a tough guy now, huh? Because your dad's the king, I think. Oh, my God. Him and his Draco Malfoy ass. It's the epitome of like, oh, Doyle rules.

Like, I just, I know this kid. We all have dealt with this kid. Right. We've all dealt with like the rich, the richest kid in class. What's weird is like we know how his dad was in high school, which is similar to this. Is that how William was too? Yeah. You know, he was all brolic.

He was like, plus William was a teen heartthrob. Lest we forget. Children, if you only know William by his looks now, go ahead and take a peek around 96 when he was your age and you'll be like, holy crap. And so, yeah, he was out here flaunting. It's cheating on Kate back then. Like, I mean, this is not at all he's a wealthy white kid whose family thinks they run a country like yeah of course he's gonna have this kind of inflated ego and uh disconnect from you know regular people i read

that shit and i go oh man he's getting bullied they bullying him for that like that's like snitching you know what i mean like if you said i don't know why like this was just kind of the thing like the kids that would say shit like that were like the most insecure kids obviously because they have to be like i'm bolstering my identity vis-a-vis my connection to this external thing my dad or parent who is a lawyer and then but they would always be like bullying you about shit i don't know this reminds me of somebody very specifically i'm not gonna drop names but they're they will always talk about their parent doing this i'm like bro i'm here right now in your face now do something now give me your slunchables oh man okay maybe the other kind of treatment which is adored to their face but just smoked

behind their back you know it was just i think it's much more painful because then the delusion is built around them so that they don't know until they're actually face to face with it i mean he's yeah it's a that's a tall order to be raised in like a royal family and like you literally you're like and daddy's gonna be king you're like in the the weird tv shit i watch oh that's cool watch me be unrelatable also like your whole entire family like the stuff that the insults people can use against you it's like your whole entire family's in a tabloid like their business your dad cheating on your mom is like constantly with her best friend yeah oh my god they're like oh yeah people love your try guys

yeah goes back you you are a You look like a thumb. You are a three and you're with a ten. Although I've heard that she's not very nice either. So I'm just a Harry and Meghan. Who could be after this? Could you imagine one day I'm just a girl at school who literally falls in love with a prince. Literally falls, like lived the fairy tale at a young age. Went through hell with that just from a first love standpoint. Gets married. It's called like held up to crazy high standards. at a young age, went through hell with that just from a first love standpoint, gets married,

is held up to crazy high standards of like, oh, it's the most beautiful bride and it's like the first royal wedding in forever. And then everyone turns on you, including your husband and you have no friends inside.

What a miserable existence. Okay, wait. Are you talking about Princess Diana or Prince King? Because these are the same stories. They have the similar trajectories. Wait, who are you talking about there? Kate?

I was talking about Kate, but they do have similar early life trajectories. Yeah, because I was like, wait, I hope you know that obviously, like, I feel every black and brown person is a Princess Diana fan. Of course. Yeah. Well, it's funny. And then for Kate to be like, and then at your wedding, everyone's talking about your sister's butt. And that's what it was. Wasn't that her sister? It was. Pippa pippa pippa what's your name wasn't that like i

remember that was like the meme from that wedding was like and pippa get out the way y'all where because she was the next one to get married they're like oh she's on news now she's married who goes fuck who's next well i want to keep kind of checking in with them because the netflix they released a teaser for the new season of the crown and it's all about charles and diana's divorce and i guess they're you know the real royal family they're freaking out because they are worried everyone is gonna realize that charles fucking sucks i don't know maybe that's where they find out but you know what it will introduce an entire new generation to the scandal in a way that us simply telling them about it cannot.

Oh, the TikTok discourse alone. Bring it straight into my veins when I watch these kids laugh this up. Look at how they clamored to both Princess Diana movies. And we already have Princess Diana. What do they call those fan videos that they make? Fan cams. Fan cams. Yes, those things. Yeah.

I love however they frame it. It'll always be like, did you know that Prince Harry's dad is actually also a king? And that he, they always do it like that. Okay, here's the deal. They're like, this is Sofia Coppola. This is Nicolas Cage. This is Francis Ford Coppola. This is Jason Schwartzman. This is Nicolas Cage. This is Francis Ford Coppola.

This is Jason Schwartzman. Here's the deal. They're all in the same family, like wild zooms. And we're like, yeah, we've been known. We've been knew. But it's cute. I told my parents, I was like, yo, you guys hear this really old band named Queen? And they were like, sweet baby chops.

Yeah. Go sit down. I was a nine-year-old little girl i said my first run with freddie mercury i was like they're just man queen they're amazing i know that was me when wayne's world came out and i'm like yo we got to get the soundtrack for this one song and they're like what and i played it they're like motherfucker are you for we have this album i'm like you just bought this old tape. Anyway, so now the family has really planned. Apparently, they have some sort of, like, plan to protect his reputation.

I have no idea. Yeah, like, do you have a time machine to do that? That seems like an effective way. And now, the one thing that we've learned is, since the queen passed away, she actually watched the crown. That's wild. Yeah. That's wild. Yeah. Her, like, biographer or someone said that the queen had a habit of settling in to watch the Netflix series on Sundays. What masochistic.

What did she think of the Olivia Colman years? What did she think about the early relationship with— Because those early, like, really, like, past—right as she's getting married and crowned, like, that shit was bananas cruel yeah so much stuff happened and they say charles might be too because apparently at an event he did like so he came up to a group of people and introduced himself and he said hello quote this is a quote apparently he said hello nice to meet you i'm nowhere near how they portray me on netflix this is all they have to worry about, though, is the reputation.

Exactly. Look, that's how Vecna introduces himself at parties, too. So you're in good company. So I don't know what this plan is exactly, because there's nothing really you can do, except for, I don't know, just seed stories like in the paper. But like in 2020, the UK culture secretary tried to add a health warning to this show, being like, hey, this is fictional, just so y'all know. And then last November, the royal family had sought legal advice for how to deal with the show. But at the time, it would be like for a potential libel case for the queen.

But now that she is, you know, she's in the ether. Maybe there's no there's no case there. But just an interesting sidebar from our writer, J.M., like, you know, like when you read all these things like or when you watch a like a historical drama or whatever, like even if it is historical, they'll always be like, this is a work of fiction. that came about because of a lawsuit involving a royal family specifically the exiled russian prince who had murdered rasputin he sued mgm or but his wife actually sued mgm after they made a rasputin film because in the film the prince was like yes i admitted to killing rasputin but his wife's character was sexually assaulted by rasputin in the film, which didn't happen in real life. And MGM was like, yo,

you're adding this like salacious thing in there that has, it's not, it's completely inaccurate. And when they were warned of the fact, you know, quote factual discrepancy, they fired the woman who was doing the research. Whoa.

Yeah. And then, so the Prince's wife won the lawsuit and a judge was basically like, you should add a disclaimer to the movie. And eventually all movies started doing similar things just to avoid litigation. So shit is wild and never ending. I do want to talk about one thing, though, while we're still here, because we do have time. Rather, I'm going to make time.

Speaking of upcoming projects, we were just before we started recording. We saw the headline about the upcoming Blade film, which I am very, very excited about. And apparently that Mahershala Ali, who is playing Blade Academy Award winner, is unhappy with the script. put that out here as i know we're various fans for various reasons but what the is do you think the script is that bad like how bad does a film have to be for the actor to be like yo man this shit is fucking well they lost their director basam tariq right before shooting it's not good the rumor is just that apparently there's two fight scenes. It's not really connected. People feel Kevin is not there enough, or whatever that means. Kevin's running an entire studio. I don't know how much he's visiting each individual project.

I just, I don't, I hope they figure it out. Mahershala Ali is an Oscar winner. This is his first really big project post that Oscar. Oh, yeah. We've seen what happens to great black oscar winners who enter superhero movies with terrible scripts and not great direction uh we don't need a halle berry repeat okay she deserved better mahershala deserves better yeah bleed like come on it's gonna be so sick if you get it right so i just hope they bring in uh a new writer franklin leonard who i know has been on the show before and created the Blacklist, said, I have no stake or influence over this process, but I would love to see what Gina Price Blythe would do with it.

She just did The Woman King, so maybe Marvel's listening. Who's writing the script now? I don't know who the writer is on Blade. know who the writer is on blade i think the only thing that i would say is um at this point there are so many people to service there's so many you could and by that i mean like so many characters no no longer do you have just typically solo films that are completely on their own you are like we saw with dr strange the recent Strange, they had to infuse multiple other characters right in there. One was the introduction of America Chavez. And so I feel like with Blade, it's not just because of how many,

how it has to also infuse with the Disney Plus shows. It just does like all has to be canonical. Right. That that can be a lot for anyone undertaking this. You're not typically just making a Blade movie. You're making a Blade plus an introduction to maybe the X-Men or I don't know. Like crazy. They're finding crazy ways to backdoor enter in new characters to build on new Avengers

or this or that. And like eventually because all of these have to connect. And so I do think that that could hurt sometimes but also marvel always available if you hey we'll punch this real good for you i'll send you my real i'm repped by caa kevin yeah uh daily zeitgeist kevin so let me know you know uh haven't seen most of the i haven't seen a lot of your work so in that way my brain is not tainted i'm bringing original ideas because i don't know about the mcu so think about that kevin but do you know what i mean like with that they

made a joke about it in she hulk of how many cameos that they had to have or were going to have and i love that they made that joke but i do feel that it every writer that takes on something is going to have to make this connect in the MCU in multiple ways to both the Disney Plus shows and the future films. And so it doesn't mean that every, obviously, that every character is going to show up, but it does mean that you're servicing multiple different storylines. I don't think that Shang-Chi had to do that that too much but obviously it was setting him up to be joining the avengers right and so we'll uh the next uh captain america film will be introducing and and so i think maybe people don't always consider that when you're taking this on it's not just typically a solo film it's a solo plus who else are we introducing to them because even then it's like because wasn't mahershala sort of like teased out at the end of was it eternals yeah there's just a quick glimpse of

him like just off camera right yeah right so like it's even then it's like okay we gotta we're so far ahead of it okay make sure he gets his little voice in there at the end like yeah the writer stacy osse kufur who is best known for watchmen and pen 15 so not like a very talented writer obviously i'm just curious to know like what's going on and how it's happening and why it's not working for several of like the leaders on the project right i just want a good blade movie that's all i'm asking for like please figure it out take another year or two whatever you need to do but like please give us that for all the half people out there blade speaks to me please please and just i need and also just oh man i just need that music too but i i honestly the complaint that there's only two fight scenes is a little worrying for for a blade film like unless

it's so fucking good, like that there he's like, I know it only sounds like just two fight scenes, but there's a lot, there's a lot of internal fighting. That's also occurring off camera. And that is in fact, the biggest show piece of the film.

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