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Starting point is 00:00:46 Happy to see that. Man, man, you know what is really gnarly to me? Tell me. Is how with Louis race and how much, like him being a black man of how much that factors into the storytelling of this. And watching like the divide happening with how, like, Luselius. Statt is so vampire. Like he's just like nothing but vampire, right? He's at a lot of time to become that.

Starting point is 00:01:11 Yeah, exactly. And all this is happening. Like, it's so much more than Louis wanted to be a human being. And what's going on? It's like, this is his people, like, who's watching them suffer right now. And you could kind of see in like Lestat's performance at the very end of like, they're not your people anymore. Like, everything that is just human is just not. I feel like he associates on him.

Starting point is 00:01:35 Even when it comes to like being a black man, I think. Totally. Definitely. I mean, he's a part of many minorities. Like when he's referring to his people, it's the sexually fluid people in the brothel where he can be himself and people can be themselves and be queer. It's black people. It's his family.

Starting point is 00:01:57 And now none of them are his people because he's no longer a person. Yeah. So I do think that that loss of, humanity in him whether it's as much as he's trying to hold on to it even when we see in the last episode as he's sitting there talking uh doing the interview and eating real food human food because he wants to hold on to that part of his humanity but he's no longer that so that struggle is really interesting to watch uh and also the power dynamic of while you are you don't fit in with people

Starting point is 00:02:29 anymore because you're a vampire, you're also still not as vampire as the person that turned you. Never will be. You'll never catch up to him. So it's like where do you belong and what is your North Star? Yeah. It's so well written. It's so good.

Starting point is 00:02:48 It's so good. It's written so well. But I also thought it was sexy. I know I'm harping on that a lot, but like vampire stuff to me. I think that the relationship between Louis and LaStat is super toxic and super sexy. The fact that Louis is stepping out after

Starting point is 00:03:05 permission and Lestat's been doing that and Louis's like, am I not enough for you? And then Lestat's like, no, do whatever you want. Then he followed him. That's because it was emotional. Yeah, and it was kind of hot. And like, watching, again, wrong. Not hot if you're actually living it. Just hot to watch it. But the

Starting point is 00:03:22 Louis Wood's scene, too, was super sexy. And even having all the men in the house like now that i know your type like look what i've brought you a bunch of soldiers it's like yeah the there's a there's a lot there's a lot to uh like about the show i mean i thought i'm the weird guy who's like i think it's hot when he's killing the white that that's what i'm like you pretty sexy guy right now like that's what i think that like that's really cool do you also like when he's killing the cat no of course not you find that hot no i was how about

Starting point is 00:03:57 the rats where's your line i don't My line is animals. If he's killing snakes, I'm like, I don't really care. The rats were really gross to me. I have a weird thing where I'm like, I don't like watching animals. I'm, for some reason, snakes, I'm totally cool. Would you rather eat a cat or a rat? If I had to choose, a rat.

Starting point is 00:04:16 I have four cats. I know. Why would I eat a cat? Bigger, probably taste better. No. Oh, my God. Why would you eat a human, Greg? I would much rather eat a human.

Starting point is 00:04:30 Humans are terrible. You'd really, in, in 2026, as Gregory Alba, you would rather eat a human than a cat? Yes. Oh, my God. What? Greg. I could easily dexter this shit the way how he's wanting to justify it. That'd be so easy.

Starting point is 00:04:46 There's so many terrible people out there. Yeah, okay. But that's why I said as Greg Alba in 2026. I didn't say you could. You mean just as a human being? Yes. If I had to choose? Yeah, absolutely.

Starting point is 00:04:55 I would still go with the human being. We got it overpopulated, man. There's too many bad people. I love cats too. I hear you. Got to Dexter it up. But I also love... You know that Dexter doesn't eat the people, right?

Starting point is 00:05:10 Like, did you watch Dexter? He's not a cannibal. With the way how he was psychologically pushed to death. You just kill them. I know. The way how he was psychologically pushed to that point. How this, it all comes back to what makes the writing so good to me is like, keeps coming back to the key ingredient is it always in some way ties back to Lestat and Louis.

Starting point is 00:05:36 Right. Even when we're so much focused on Louis psychology and it's his narration, it's a story he's telling and he's having adventures of his own and he's having these struggles with all these fucking white businessmen and shit and what they're pushing him to and he's losing his family. I love that it's like the emotional push that he's losing every, in order for him to like go to the breaking point, he's getting. disconnected from humanity from the way how human humanity is treating him not even knowing he's a vampire just how he's being treated as a human being when they think that he's just a black queer man

Starting point is 00:06:11 in this world yeah the fact that like he isn't accepted by all the white businessmen which is all of the businessmen in this city uh checks out for the times like it it's horrible but i feel like that he might be able to accept, not like, but accept. The fact that his own mother doesn't accept him is what is like, to me, it's crushing my soul. Because when you go out into the world, you can't predict how people are going to treat you as anybody. But at home, your mom, you provided the house that she lives in. Remember there was those early episodes where he was like, oh, Louis is going to figure it out for us. you know he's like basically like he took over in the daddy's um sugar business or whatever like he he'll

Starting point is 00:06:59 figure out how to keep this house for us and then she just lost her faith in him and blamed the death of their other son on him and then like create almost created this monster by not loving her own son that was surviving that that just so sad to me well it's it's all sad but it's an interesting like conversation when they're talking about nature because when you're talking nature i'm like oh i usually associate that with where you come from with your bloodline of like oh is it in your nature of that from where he's contemplating is it in my nature of the devil within me and the mom like holds on to pain and motivates her actions and it seems like when you look at the stat he's so at least he postures as a free spirit and that's way he comes across right whereas louis he's

Starting point is 00:07:44 so motivated by pain all the time too so i think like there's a lot of great psychology to how he is in some ways like still the product of his family environment totally by the way how he chooses to operate too I was so sad to see his sister scared of him when she was like the last hope on that yeah that's true that was tough that was tough I was just like every little detail like even right down

Starting point is 00:08:08 when he's hooking up with that one guy and that um Jonah Jonah but yeah how his heartbeat was just getting so fast and how it was messing with because it's certainly I mean, it always comes back to somebody to La Stad and Louis. But then it came to, like, Louis in that moment, how he was tempted to then feed off of him, you know, eat him because he could feel the heartbeat. Like, what a complicated life.

Starting point is 00:08:32 Yeah. But if he's... That was hot, too. But if he's able to satisfy those urges by just eating humans, maybe then he can enjoy in the pleasures. But the subtlety of the conflicts that are rising within them, like he comes back home to Lestat, but he doesn't feel, you know, satisfied or like good about it. It's like, oh, I get it. He doesn't come back like, oh, I get it now, Lestat.

Starting point is 00:08:55 I could be on board with this open relationship. He's in a lot. He seems even more distant with Lestat when he comes back home because he's still got so much of his psychological conditioning of the rules he's been taught to a bye-bye. Even though he's a queer man in a society that hates queer people, he still believes in like monogamy when it comes to relationships, you know? Yeah. And when he says, am I not enough for you?

Starting point is 00:09:19 I was like, oh my God. That's a very real relationship conversation. Yeah. Yeah. This is a really rich episode. So good. I agree. I agree.

Starting point is 00:09:30 And they have like little touches of, but it's like even with Lestat though, they have little touches that they constantly do at like tease of like cold. Even like the cultural appropriation side of him going with the music. And like he invented this music, this blues music cue, you know. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:09:46 I was like, oh, this is so neat how much Lestead. That will even then charm a whole room full of black people right now in this very moment. And that's been one of those things that I've always thought has been in the show a little bit of a guy who, like, gets this black guy. Then they have so much commentary about that. And he kind of, he doesn't, like, call him directly a, he doesn't make him as slave per se. But it's some. In some ways, he is his master.

Starting point is 00:10:17 Yeah. There's some other version of that. It's some weird thing. Yeah, for sure. I think that the, you mentioned this throughout a little bit, the concept of memory, too. But I'm really enjoying how the actual interview is unfolding because the, I think this interview is taking place in 2022. And we're talking about 1917, which I don't know if you know this, Greg, but we're talking about World War I era. That was World War I, I believe.

Starting point is 00:10:43 Yeah. The World War I era. But the thing about that is I often wonder, like even when, okay, so that's, that's 105 years. My grandmother is 98 years old. My grandfather was almost 100 when he passed. And when they're telling stories of their childhood, you know, that's what they really are. They're stories.

Starting point is 00:11:06 They're what you remember. And then you tell the same story a hundred times in your life. And that story kind of morphs a little bit. And I'm not saying people exaggerate on purpose, although some do, of course. But when we see that one scene with the rain, and he's like, I don't even know anymore. It's like, I sometimes struggle, even memories from when I was in my 20s, which is 10 years ago. So it is interesting that this is a retelling. This is an interview when he's done so many in the past and things change.

Starting point is 00:11:37 And it's like, how much is that of that is on purpose? How much of that is just by the nature of being human and retelling these stories. So he's not a reliable narrator. And that always makes things kind of interesting. Yeah, the concept of writing of unreliable narrator and while he's talking to a writer. Right. And then to do an actual literal story of unreliable narration of how when time passes, your memory gets thwarted, but also who you are as a person where you are emotionally might

Starting point is 00:12:14 remember that memory different because of where you are in the present at that point emotionally with it. Or was he protecting Lestat? Because when we are our interviewer, what's his name? Henry, I think. Is it Henry? It's not Henry? Definitely not. I like that name Henry. I don't want to say definitely not, but I don't think so. So when he asks Louis, was it raining that night? Because we saw those muddy shoes. And he's like, I don't know. It could have been one thing in the court or one thing.

Starting point is 00:12:47 Otherwise, what he doesn't say is, but he saw us. So I don't know. Oh, damn, we got some questions. Oh, shit. I didn't know that we had any because you weren't pulling it up. My bad. Hey. How dare you?

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Starting point is 00:14:30 Legalities. Thank you, Cash App, for working with us and for helping to keep us working with other people. Malik. Yay, our vampire. This is an episode where you really get a sense of the stats controlling nature. La stat being upset about Louis being intimate, but then they're just finding him advocating for open relationship. And Louis leaning into the boundary now has a vampire.

Starting point is 00:14:52 Do you think that them bringing a new person into their lives would help fix things? Or do you think it's just a small fixed distraction for a larger problem? Ladder. Definitely the ladder. I would say it's the ladder, man. Yeah. How could them bringing in a new person help fix things? No. No. Certainly not. That's not the problem. I mean, they're two very, very different people and they're both trying to like change each other. Like neither one is truly accepting of the other. They just keep judging each other.

Starting point is 00:15:23 Yeah. Yeah. But are like addicted to each other at the same time. Mm-hmm. You know, I guess that's what they call a toxic relationship. Yeah. Care bear. Carebear says, question. You created a new vampire story

Starting point is 00:15:36 In a uniquely hedonistic place slash time Where would you go? 50s Vegas, 80s Bangkok, modern Ibiza, or your own pick. Wow, you really just threw out some interesting ones, Care Bear. I don't know enough about 80s Bangkok To choose there.

Starting point is 00:15:55 I choose World War I. Specifically, the grounds of World War I. Watch what it's like being a vampire. For some reason I thought that we were in the 1800 still, but I guess we were in the 19th, 17. It's a soldier, soldier's outfit that gave it away. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I was like, how's that possible?

Starting point is 00:16:17 Vegas would be really fun. But I kind of think like a farm, like somewhere like way more mundane. I know that might not be like uniquely hedonistic place in time. Like what's a vampire doing? I have no idea. Like Iowa. or Alabama. Okay.

Starting point is 00:16:40 Our brains are not equipped for this question today, Caraberry. You're always participating and we will answer modern and Bisa. Listen, if you want to do modern Bisa, Mika knows, put them on an island, see how it goes. A lot of sunshine. M. I know we're moving through this quicker than usual.

Starting point is 00:16:56 It's just my fault, though. Sam Reed, who plays Lestat, said that part of the reason Lestat laughed and reacted the way he did during the open relationship conversation was because he was happy Oh, it was his choice to react that way. The first time Louis came close to admitting he cared as much as Lestat did. Did you interpret that moment in the same way, or did you think he was being patronized?

Starting point is 00:17:14 I thought he was being patronizing, for sure, like of control. I didn't interpret it like that at all. I really liked the choice, actually, because I thought it was open for interpretation. And I like that. Louis said, don't laugh at me, you know. And so I think Louis also thought that it was patronizing. but I don't think Lestat necessarily meant it that way. I think he found it humorous.

Starting point is 00:17:38 I think, no, my initial reaction was that patronizing. But then when he started to say some dialogue afterwards, I understood that it was the affirmation like he's laughing because he cares so much about him. Yeah. Yeah. Olivia Steele. Stale. Hi, guys.

Starting point is 00:17:57 Great reaction series so far. Hell yeah. Hell yeah, son. my question for you today how do you feel about the relationship between louie and the stat as far as your opinion of the level of infatuation slash obsession slash true respect they have for each other and is there any side of their relationship you're hoping to show the show explores more in depth going forward thanks liby a good question is hoping for listen i just don't want less of that so just keep up the uh i definitely think there is a lack of true respect. It's not giving true respect. You rarely see their get along, honestly. Yeah, it's not giving true respect.

Starting point is 00:18:41 It is definitely giving obsession. Yeah. On both of their ends, which I think has to do with infatuation. But we also aren't seeing them as intimate in this. So, like, it's more obsession than infatuation, I feel. What do I hope they explore? I do want to, I know this is less with them, but I am curious with especially the sister storyline.

Starting point is 00:19:06 I kind of have a bad feeling that this is going to end in Lestat, killing Louis's mom. But I am curious to explore more of Lestat and Louis with Louis family. I'm also really curious of where Lestat was for the last 200 years and what he, like where he comes from and exploring that. I know that he mentioned to Louis like, going on a vacation or a trip, I would love to see where they would go,

Starting point is 00:19:32 what that would look like. You know, I don't really remember how, who the Kirsten Dunn's I honestly can't tell you who the Kirsten Dunn's character was. I think it's who he just found in the corner. No, isn't Claudia the girl who's, um, I thought

Starting point is 00:19:48 Claudia was the girl who, like, works for him. No? Am I wrong about that? Like the money counter? Yeah, was that wrong about that? I don't know. Oh. I thought that that was Kirsten Dunn's character. I could be wrong. Who does Kirsten?

Starting point is 00:20:02 I might be wrong about that. Play in interview. Let's just get the name. Oh, you're right. Oh, shit. Oh, damn. That re contextualizes that entire moment for me. I do not recognize.

Starting point is 00:20:14 Oh, so yeah. I was like, oh, I guess I want to see how much they lean into the parental side of them as like the, as like the fix of that. Yeah, I'd be curious about that, too. I, you know what I'm not hoping for is any kind of. of romantic vibes with Claudia and... Oh, no, we should bring that back.

Starting point is 00:20:34 Tenfold. Nope. Tenfold. All right. Last couple ones. Mike Joyce, if you were a vampire, would you use your powers

Starting point is 00:20:41 for good or evil? Oh, my God. For sure, Dexter style. You know? Definitely for good. If it's exactly these powers, find bad people, feed on them.

Starting point is 00:20:52 Rid the world. Yep. There's some people in the news lately. That's doing for good. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Totally. There's a whole group of...

Starting point is 00:20:58 Certain people Yeah. They're like, I've got to find a good chunk of people here or you may be able to find some good tasty people. Do you think there's a person on planet Earth who would answer this question that they would use their powers for evil? Like, who's going to say that out loud?

Starting point is 00:21:10 Depends in the definition of what good or evil actually is, you know? Maybe you do evil for the sake of good in the end. Do the ends justify the means? Jay Rushden. Question, ever been to Mardi Gras? No. What is your favorite southern food or southern drink? Yes, I have been to Mardi Gras.

Starting point is 00:21:26 You did? The girl's gone wild. No. That's what I think of Mardi Gras. Not that, but I did go to Mardi Gras. I was like the greatest trip ever. I've been to New Orleans a couple of times. I went once for Mardi Gras while I was in college.

Starting point is 00:21:38 I was standing on top of a cooler and I looked across the parade and my cousin was standing right on the other side doing the same thing. We didn't even know each other were there. It was crazy. Crazy. Favorite Southern food? I don't know. Like Po boys are so good.

Starting point is 00:21:53 I like the vegan popcorn chicken from KFC. when they had that I don't think there are any vegans in the South yeah there are they sell vegan beyond chicken okay

Starting point is 00:22:07 those were our answers yeah I do great in the South no sorry can I just have beans and mashed potatoes you could get that

Starting point is 00:22:17 for sure I love barbecue food I love barbecue biscuit I love ribs yeah

Starting point is 00:22:25 apple pork corn bread corn bread yeah that'd be nice I don't like corn though but I like corn bread isn't that weird no I get that that doesn't taste like corn

Starting point is 00:22:37 yeah I hate when there's like little chunks actual corn in there still though so you don't like corn on the cob I hate corn I actually hate corn it's corn pickles is the number one I hate I have no idea what you're saying I have no idea what you're saying what

Starting point is 00:22:51 it's a lot of it has a juice it has a juice I have no idea what you're saying. Pickles, corn, sourcrap. Do you like olives? No. Okay.

Starting point is 00:23:04 This is part of the category, though, right? You would associate it in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't like olives. Does Olivia like olives and pickles? She likes pickles. I don't know if she likes olives. That's supposed to be the thing you're supposed to find a partner.

Starting point is 00:23:18 If one person doesn't like them, the other person's supposed to. No. So you're good on the pickle front. I'll see if our marriage will. last based off of this question you don't like all those words of serious deep shit man

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