Supacell

[00:00:00] Hi everybody, welcome to the SyFy Sisters Podcast where we give you our point of view. We are proud members of the Trek Geeks Podcast Network and we've got a great show for you today. I'm honoured to be here with you today.

[00:00:43] I'm a member of the Trek Geeks Podcast Network and I'm joined by my sisters, Yvette Blackman Tom Hello Sabrina Wood whoop whoop and Franti was happening was happening was happening sis we got a great show we always say that I say that every time but it's true

[00:00:59] because we all just have a great show No false modesty here. And this is, this one's good because we're all back together again, which is nice. Hey sisters. Hey. And we're going to be talking about a cool, a really cool new show that we have all are

[00:01:24] all digging and it's if you haven't watched it yet, it is Supercell brought to you by Rapman on Netflix. And there's a lot to talk about with this show. If y'all have not seen Supercell yet, and yes, I'm saying Supercell, not Supercell,

[00:01:42] just like we are sci-fi sisters, not sci-fi sisters. It's Supercell. And the show is dope. So dope. It is so dope. First of all, Netflix. Thank you very much for not messing it up. Yeah.

[00:02:04] Rapman wasn't going to let that happen and let them do what they wanted to do. And Rapman, thank you very much for bringing this show to us. I mean, so proud. So proud of him. Right? Yeah. Very proud of him.

[00:02:21] Talk about some really amazing heartfelt, real truth storytelling. Right? Mm-hmm. Some real good sci-fi. I mean, this is, I think this is what we love about sci-fi, a good damn story. So if you guys, yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt you.

[00:02:41] Well, if you guys aren't familiar with Supercell, it is a show about, is it five of them altogether, right? Yeah. Five black folks from South London who all end up with superpowers. Yep. And it's dope.

[00:02:56] And like, think like heroes but black and south London and much more real. You know? That sums it up. That's about right. It's about right. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, there's lots of superhero shows out and about and have come out and people pander to this.

[00:03:15] But I think what, you know, what I love about this show is that it's very, the characters are so real. They're just like us. They're just like the dude that you know down the block.

[00:03:28] They're like the sister who that you know, who works like, you know, over at the store. Like they're just everybody. And what's refreshing to me as an American watching is to see my brothers and sisters across the pond. And I knew every single one of them.

[00:03:44] I'm like, damn, we are just alike. Oh my God. This is the same shit. That's conspiracy brother right there. And that's that chick that's always getting into some shit right there. You know? Yeah. I told Sabrina, I said, I love this because I know all those people.

[00:04:04] I know every single one of those people, you know, so I love that. Yeah. So I don't want to know too, too close. Right. Taze you got it. It is what it is. That brother. Oh my God.

[00:04:21] Let's start with like art, like sort of, you know, general thoughts about your feelings on the show, you know, just real general. Who wants to start us off? Okay. All right. Good. I want to start because you know how I feel. I love it.

[00:04:37] It got me when I knew there were superpowers involved and black people. So there's nothing I love more than black people and superheroes, you know, I love and put that together. I knew I was going to watch it, you know, I didn't know a lot about it,

[00:04:54] but that right there, all black cast superheroes and it was not the typical backdrop. You know, it was a South London, which I know nothing about. You know, so I wanted to know more. So that's generally why I wanted to watch it.

[00:05:15] I didn't know, you know, I didn't know anything about Ratman. I didn't know anything on any of these actors. I just knew that they look like me and there were going to be some kind of superpowers. I was like, I'm in.

[00:05:31] So, and it turned out to be one of the best things I've watched in a long time. Definitely. Agreed. You know, what I noticed was the dialogue. I mean, I know about this, you know, the sci-fi part of it and everything,

[00:05:47] but because I always have my closed captioning on right. And they're talking in their regular slang, you know, and it's different from American black slang. And you say, oh, because I was trying to figure out what this in it being. What is that?

[00:06:04] What is that word y'all ain't it? Is that what it is? Yeah, that's crazy. Ain't it? It's crazy in it. Oh, OK. OK, what is the what's name was showing it in it? They're writing. That's exactly what they're saying. You don't know what that means.

[00:06:23] That's what I didn't know. Yeah, that's the slang. And the way that they relate it to each other and this a state. What's the estate estate come to find out it's up to that housing, right? You know, I'm like projects. Yeah, you know, I'm like, I love this.

[00:06:41] And they seem like you say so regular, just so regular. You know, and different and different. And so that I love that part. Yeah. So I, I, I'm like, I don't know who did this, but he is genius. He is. I agree with you there, friend. Definitely.

[00:07:05] And he, you know, like you say, Netflix didn't look like they didn't get too many notes. I don't think they got any. They didn't get too many notes. I think they did exactly what they wanted to do. They were, they were coming up with nothing. That's right.

[00:07:28] No, the beginning of it kind of shocked me. You know, when you y'all know what happened with, are we doing wasteful on that? Yeah, I mean, by this time, yeah, by time, it comes out. Yeah. By times comes out. But then also y'all know us, right? Yeah.

[00:07:46] You know, to me is fake. She's like, really? Like y'all know us if you listen into us and you haven't watched the show we're talking about shame on you. Right. It calls and come back because you can do it. It's six episodes.

[00:08:03] You can come back tomorrow and see. I know I'm going to have to look at this again because yes, it takes more than one viewing. You are so right about that. Right about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I started again. Yeah.

[00:08:21] I had to, I want to, I actually wanted to watch that those last two episodes again. Because I was so into it by that time that I knew I just was like into it to get to the end and I'm like, I know I miss stuff. Yeah.

[00:08:38] Because you know how you're in it. You're like just watching. I'm like, all right. I need to find out exactly what I, what I watched just happen. So Sabrina, what about your, your thoughts, your intro thoughts? Well, I, what I loved about this is that yeah, everything you

[00:08:54] guys already said and something that a vet and I talked about a little earlier, the character development, the black love going on in this. Yes. Yes. Grandma to grandson, you know, father to daughter man to woman, brother to brother. It was all there.

[00:09:13] Everybody had something and one of the things that, you know, I was also saying is that, you know, when you're watching something and why we're reacting to this so strongly is that the stakes are really high for each one of the characters. Yes.

[00:09:28] And when they come in, you know, the thing happened, they realized they got some kind of power. They don't know what's going on and they don't, they are like whatever, you know, but something happens that takes him to that level where as we say in, I was

[00:09:42] telling you that in writing class when you lock in, lock that story and there's no going back. Now this thing just went down and, and we've got to see the lock for each one of the five. Yep. Yep.

[00:09:57] And once that happened, you were like, okay, some of them locked real early. Yeah. Michael was right in there because they took him right in the beginning, but the other ones took a little while to come along, but once they got their lock, they were all okay.

[00:10:09] On the arm, let's go. This was beautiful. Yeah. I think that that what you brought up that point about the black love in this show, you know, this show. Well, first of all, and Fran's point too about needing to watch it multiple times, you know, because

[00:10:30] and that's a testament to a really strong story, you know, because that means you have layers. You have depth. Yes. And that's what this story does. So like I really didn't know anything about Ratman before this show, you know, and then I started

[00:10:47] learning more about him and the brother is just skillful. I mean, he's just a brilliant storyteller of the highest order. And, you know, and so this show, like we're, we get the benefits. We get to reap the benefits of that. And I think he's created something so interesting.

[00:11:05] And while it's like, while it's familiar, it's also new. Yes. You know, and that is new in its visual forms of storytelling sometimes. I think it's new in the fact that, you know, it just shows you the difference when we're telling stories about ourselves, you know, that

[00:11:25] none of these characters are pastiche one dimensional sort of characters. They are fully fleshed out human beings with real problems, with real concerns, with real love, you know, and we're seeing that like these characters that people normally will dismiss or

[00:11:45] that in here that Hollywood will treat as a stereotype. Thank you. Reaches the. Yeah. As a stereotype as these real human beings with real desires and motivations and reasons for why they do what they do. Yes. You know, and how did somebody end up in the

[00:12:04] situation that they're in its empathy at the heart of it to me that really sealed the deal from that makes this show far beyond far more special than any other superhero show I've ever seen. And that includes black superhero shows done in this country. Oh yes. I agree.

[00:12:24] Oh, how heartedly you know, because they don't know. No, but they're not sure that humanity is there subject to an ownership by a by a racist culture here that rat men has a lot more freedom had a lot more freedom in the development of this project than that

[00:12:43] mainstream. I'll. Quaddle. Quaddle. Quaddle. What's the word looking for anyway crap crap. Yeah. Sure. Not not that you can take out that other word that I will thank you because that wasn't the word twaddle. Oh, that was not the word. Truly. No, that was not the word.

[00:13:08] Anyway, y'all know what I'm saying. Yep. You know, I mean it just makes it so much more special than what we've been giving. I mean, endearing isn't the word like I love the love, the love, the love. Everybody's got a love motivation. Yes.

[00:13:28] So okay, so let's get into who, you know, as we talk about some of these characters, I think we'll talk about those motivations. Like, who was your favorite character that this six episode arc that we're getting? Sabrina was mine. I mean, not because she has my name, but

[00:13:49] sure was something. I don't have a sister. So this is really interesting to watch her with this crazy little sister that she has. Yes, yes. This is the one that brings the trouble, you know. Every time. Every time. Well, let's go over to his house. Let's go. Right?

[00:14:10] Like, yeah. Come on. Sabrina, don't go over to the man's house. He's not coming. He doesn't want, he's texting. Why is he texting him? I can't even call you. Well, let's go over there and find out. Let's go. Oh my God.

[00:14:21] And so Sabrina, I thought was really interesting because she's also giving us this look into this world of racism that she's feeling on a job. You know, well, you know, Shara is telling her she's not going to get promoted because she goes in early all the time.

[00:14:36] So she's dedicated. She's taking care of her sister, all this stuff. She's got this boyfriend. She's believing every stupid thing he's telling her. Right? And then she, you know, she gets the lock happens and then it's on.

[00:14:47] I mean, she goes mama bear so hard that I loved her. I loved her when she was like, where is my sister? I was like, y'all all you men better clear out the way. Right? Right. Any prisoners right now. They were underestimating her like a mug,

[00:15:05] like, yeah, nevermind. She's like, who's this girl coming in with such confidence? Right. Stupid you shame on you. Exactly. That's my favorite. What about you? Me? Mm hmm. My favorite surprisingly has been Taser. What that crazy dog? Taser's. Yes, I love him.

[00:15:31] I love his portrayal and I really feel like he's one of the most fleshed out characters of the series. He's got a lot of depth and Taser again because he's the type of character that would be a stereotype. A thug. A thug, just another thug, right?

[00:15:54] What's going on with these boys on the corner? There's more stuff to the boys on the corner. What did Sabrina say to him? Who raised you? Right. Right. And like, and the key to him is his grandmother,

[00:16:11] you know, that love that he has for him and for his boys and for his boys. He loves them fiercely, you know, and he's trying his best with what he's been taught to protect them and to help them.

[00:16:25] Now I'm not saying I agree with his methods and I know he's crazy as hell. He's crazy as hell. He's a killer. He's got a reason. But he's got like, he's got a reason and I feel like

[00:16:38] what I see in him is the seeds of hope, you know, because he's got love in his heart. Like there's still hope for redemption, but you know, that he would choose that he can learn to channel his love and his protectiveness in a different way.

[00:16:55] You know, I think it's really beautiful that he's meeting up with these other brothers and sisters who can help show him another way. He's like the youngest. He's almost, I think he's the youngest out of them. Oh yeah.

[00:17:08] You know, and so he's the least developed and what he needs is role models who are not the role models that he had. Like there was only one positive role model force in his life and that was his grandmother and craze.

[00:17:23] Crazy was the other one was his real role model that he was looking up to. And that dude is just what his name sounds like. He's cray-cray. He's cray-cray. But even that brother stood up when, you know, his mother and father are gone, Taze's, and he said,

[00:17:40] I had to stand up and be the big brother to him. So even this, even craze had some love in him. I thought he was the, I mean, he was... That's what every drug dealer tells little kid. Right, I don't believe it's love. You don't believe it either.

[00:17:56] That's not love. Exactly. Well, craze said it. He said, you've only been using me. Craze said it to, I mean not craze. Taze said it to craze. Yeah, he was. He was. One thing about Taze that I really thought was really good

[00:18:09] was that he got knifed and his boys ran. They left him on the ground. They did, they did. Yeah. And he forgave them. When they came to the hospital room, he forgave them believing him there. Yes.

[00:18:22] And I thought, wow, I thought we'd be going to have a scene because they walked in and I was like, oh, here we go. Well, if he didn't forgive them, what else does he have? Yeah, he did though. You know, he didn't.

[00:18:31] I said if he doesn't forgive them, he doesn't have anybody else. He has to forgive them. He has nothing else. Well, he's got nothing else, but also it seemed like the forgiveness was not motivated out of necessity. Like it seemed like it was motivated out of a deep

[00:18:47] understanding of what they were facing and why they ran. Right, you know. And who they are. I told you to go out there with a bag of them out there. Right, and they were outmatched and, you know,

[00:18:58] like he knew that running was the best thing for them to do to keep them alive. Oh, man, that's seen. Yeah. Yeah, well, that's the first 15 minutes. Yeah. The party. Yeah, this is yeah. So my favorite character is Andre.

[00:19:16] And I think and he's also the most unutilized character. I think I think we I would love to know more about him. I think he's like the older version of Taser, you know, like he's been through that part already because he went to jail

[00:19:32] for drugs and he was stupid like, you know, Taser, because I see all of those. Those little gang bangers is just real stupid. And he was one of those stupid gang bangers. That's how he got caught up. He didn't want to tell. He didn't want to snitch.

[00:19:47] So he went to jail instead and it cost him everything. You know, he's a lot of it all. He's a lot of it all sorted out. Yeah. And it did not, you know, he his son, you know,

[00:19:59] he has to come back and try to make it up to his son. And because he's an ex con, you know, he can't get good jobs. He can't keep good jobs. They're really. Yeah. And but he's I don't know.

[00:20:14] I just wish we would have known more about him. But I get it because he had to buy in last because they, you know, he had to be used by the villains. I'm going to call the company the villains.

[00:20:27] And that's the only way that he didn't buy in yet. You know, but I do love, love his story. I love the love that he has with his son. You know, I just love that he just, but.

[00:20:41] And my this is probably my only negative for the show is that. I just wish, I guess they needed more time. It just seems so rush that the change between being this father who was always there to just totally forgetting about him.

[00:21:01] You know, and that was so quick for me. And I was like, you know, I was wondering, you mean like when, when his son was knocking on the door? Yeah. When he was calling, he called him back and he was. Oh yeah.

[00:21:15] He called him back and he didn't answer. I told him, I'll call you back. He got so, yeah, he got so blinded by, you know, this money and he forgot about why he wanted the money. He wanted the money to take care of his kid.

[00:21:29] But it got it became his stupid. Why is everybody named John? Just a problem. Oh my God, John. Who comes up with with first of all, he says, the craziest plan. Right.

[00:21:44] When the whole thing, when it was standing out in the street, Rodney came up to the two of them and said, Hey man, you want to buy some weed? Mr. Recreational Reed said, we said no. Right.

[00:21:55] And acted like an act that like no, I don't ever do that stuff. Exactly. Appalled, up fronted upset Rodney. Yes. Well, maybe that was Andre. But then gets a password to go to the trap house. And he goes right to the crack house.

[00:22:11] And he goes, what are you doing? Right. Right. But I'm saying, you know, friend, you could get anything you want in this place. Oh my God, John. Like what like, like is there ever, is this ever again? Like what are you doing in there?

[00:22:26] You don't want the weed but you want what they got in the trap house. Boy, they said I didn't see any guns. Like every time they said that I was like, are you kidding me? I was like, why would you see them? Why would you see them?

[00:22:44] And why wouldn't they be there? Right. Like what exactly make no sense to me that I was like, come on, you got to come stronger than that. I didn't buy it. I didn't buy that. That was the thing. I didn't buy that Andre was this gullible.

[00:23:01] Yeah, I didn't buy that. Yeah, yeah. I didn't buy, I didn't buy that, you know, he was going to fall for this dumb ass plot of his friends. I mean, like that was shit was just dumb. And John was even driving the car. John was at home. Right.

[00:23:15] And Andre was the one who had been the most sensible, had been very sensible up until that point, you know. So that transition I did not buy. It was a lot of it. I mean, the transit, that transition plus the fact that he

[00:23:30] just didn't be, he stopped being the father that he originally was that we all loved him for. Right. And he just, yeah, he just changed. So that part, I don't know, I'm hoping for season two.

[00:23:42] So we'll get more because as I said, it's going to be fleshed out. He did go through a lot of changes that were off screen. So, you know, I would like to see more. But yeah, he was my favorite because, you know, first of all, he was fine.

[00:23:55] That's always the number one. And he was the strong man like that too. But the single dad, I love it. You know, Xcon, single dad thing. That's kind of like, you know, you want to know more and you want,

[00:24:09] I always want to see that black man make it. Make it. You know, that's the, you know, especially for drugs, you know what I mean? He didn't go to, That wasn't even his. He wasn't even his. That's where it is, you know. The dude left it.

[00:24:21] We know that brother. The dude. Oh boy, I know if that's not the case. Wow. More than one. I know people that have gone to jail for being in that moment. In the car. In the wrong place. That ended up with somebody else's shit that they didn't even

[00:24:35] know was on them. Did not even know. That story hit so hard. I was like, yeah, brother, I know that. And that scene. I'm sorry. Stevie Wonder did it and living for the city. Living for the city. Oh yeah. Definitely. Yeah. Hold it. Hold it. Hold it.

[00:24:54] I gotta go across the street. And then like, oh, yeah. What? You know what? Yeah. So gullible do this. That's the song and heartbreaking. It is. You know, get in the cell please. And he's like, what? I do, you know.

[00:25:11] And Andre telling that story to that employer and I thought that was heartbreaking. Yeah. That brother was going to cut him a break. He said, I've never told anybody this story before. And I was sitting there like, who's cutting onions? Why am I crying? Right.

[00:25:28] But no, it didn't. It still didn't work out. But that was realistic. And I appreciated that because there was no way he was going to get hired because that's just not the way it works. And especially not there.

[00:25:40] I feel like, you know, it might be a little bit different. I don't know. I don't know. But I don't know honestly. I wish I had some friends from there. If you, you know, the listening and you're across the pond like, let us know.

[00:25:53] That man is telling us about a few. He's already telling. He's telling us what happened. Exactly. I was telling us it's the same over here. It's the same ass thing. So I want to know, like, Fran, did you have somebody, a character that stuck out to you?

[00:26:07] Of course. It was Sabrina. Oh, okay. You know, because what woman or maybe man, you know, when she goes and she finds out, you know, the boyfriend is in the ass, of course. And you just turn around and you go, whoosh. And the building almost falls on her.

[00:26:26] That was so funny. Yeah, I love it. You know, you've been in, in, in, in, I've been in situations where I really wanted to do that. When they do it, I kick somebody's dough in one time, but I wasn't able to, I didn't have it.

[00:26:39] I didn't have superpowers on me. Now just super heat. Your eyes did not turn yellow first. No, no tingling of the eyes. But I wish, and I know a lot of people out there do, mostly women, which they can take somebody down like that. What I'll actually touch.

[00:27:00] Yeah, we do. I'll put my hand on him through the building. I didn't touch him. Yeah. My favorite part of that scene is Shaw took the chicken with it. That was my favorite. I said, wait, she taking the food? She looked in the bag and said, you know,

[00:27:22] it took her to the car. Shaw is a trip, man. Shaw is that girl. She is that girl. She gets on your damn nerves, but you can't leave her alone. You know, like, you just like, you call them up, like, Shaw, what are we doing tonight? Right?

[00:27:40] Not when she's going to get your ass in trouble. You know it. She is the one that's totally going to get sucked to fight. Oh, yeah. Straight up. And she's all about her. I think the sister said, we can't tell anybody what happened.

[00:27:54] She said, I think she said, and then she said, like, you know, what if he gets out and comes after me? Like, all she was thinking about is what it was going to be for her. That's every baby sister. That is a baby sister thing.

[00:28:08] They got that so right. That is what baby sisters do. I mean, probably baby brothers too, but I know baby sisters and that's what they do. Okay, so y'all direct all your mail to Yvette. That's right. Shaw was definitely, I mean,

[00:28:28] that was a character that you needed in this story because she was just... Yeah, I can't. I really want to season two because I want to find out what happens with her because I think there's more to it with her. Oh, for sure.

[00:28:42] So do I because I feel, yes, I'm not going to leave it there. Yeah, let's leave it there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to leave some mystery because I also really want people to watch the show and really want people to support it because it's an important show

[00:28:55] and because we don't get these points of view very often. And you know, if we support it, then maybe we can get a season two. Yeah. You know, because at this point, I don't believe that that deal, I mean, it's not at least publicly,

[00:29:11] I've not seen it that... I have not seen it publicly yet. I just, a lot of commentary about it, but that's it. And I think that according to Ratman, it's planned for three, like he's written all three seasons of six episodes each.

[00:29:25] So there is a complete story out there that we just need to bring to fruition. So, you know... Why did you see it got 100% on rotten tomatoes? Yes. Yes. That's great. Yes. The critics all love it. This is the critics' darling right now. They're talking about, you know,

[00:29:47] this is for Netflix where the boys was for Amazon. I'm like, oh my... That's some strong... I think so. I think it's better than... I agree. Boys is good. It's in the top 10 on Netflix. You know, well, it's just a personal taste thing for me.

[00:30:01] The boys is too graphic for me. I just can't watch that every so. The writing is phenomenal, but you know. But this is... One of the things that you guys said earlier that is also another reason why I love this show is that it's black and a black.

[00:30:16] Hey! Hey! There's like three white people up in this show, and that's it. Black and black and black. Right? You know? And I love it. Cut Spud a break. You know, it's our... A spud. Black and spud. It's black and spud. A spud. Don't believe how spud.

[00:30:36] Black and spud. No, man. A spud. And I also like that they have the... They have the character who's mixed as well. Yes. You know? And thank God for that. For all of us mixed babies out here. Oh sure.

[00:30:51] You know, they just get totally underrepresented half the time. You're not black enough. You're not this. You're not like we don't want... We don't know where to put you. What are you... That was a sad... His story is pretty sad. His story was wretched.

[00:31:02] Yeah, his story is pretty straight. And I talk about... In a beautiful vehicle to demonstrate that racism and that colonized mindset. His mother is just the epitome of a colonized mindset. Like she dyed her hair blonde and knows that the new husband doesn't want the son around

[00:31:20] but will accept the lighter child. I mean, oof. Yeah, that was a lot. That's so painful. And that was like one scene and you got all of that. That's how good this is.

[00:31:32] This is one scene and we found out so much information and it was gut wrenching information. Watching him beg his mother. Oh, good God. Can I call him? Could you show him... Look at another little mixed kid. Yeah, he's... And then I almost...

[00:31:51] I was getting kind of vibes about him and Spud for a second but then... Because he said he was so upset because while he went there he said, I can't be alone Spud is usually with me. And I'm like, whoa, what's up with that?

[00:32:04] But then I get the feeling that he got some feels with Sabrina. Rodney. So I saw that too but I don't think it's a romantic feel. No. No, I felt it. No, I don't think it's that... Maybe like another thing? An older sister. Older sister thing.

[00:32:25] Auntie, something like that because Sabrina is very caring. She's a nurturer. She's a nurturer. Like that's who she is. And he needs that. And so he's looking for that. He's just lost. He's a lost little puppy. Yes, especially from a woman and then I don't know if his...

[00:32:42] So I really don't know what's going on with his mother. I don't know if his mother's mixed and she like changed her appearance so she could be with the white man. I don't know what's going on with her. That's what was like implied. That's what was implied.

[00:32:55] That was implied. You know? That subtle nod, like I see you changed your hair and her hair was obviously fake. Yeah. Right? Like they made a point of... Because you know, like lots of sisters will get some dye jobs going but they made a point to her to...

[00:33:12] And because it was the cut and the style of it too was white-asized. You know? That was not assisted with a dye job as a white... White-asized. White-asized. White-asized. That's another one I can't... That's the other child. That's the high five sisters book.

[00:33:29] He was too dark but she took the other child. Greg exited the other child. I didn't catch all that in the first... I wasn't sure it's... See that's why you gotta watch it again. That's why this show deserves multiple watchings. Like yeah, that... I didn't know what...

[00:33:46] Yeah, because he said the other child. I was like, well is she white? And then she went with a black man and she had a baby with a white man. Yeah, it was... It's a lot in that scene.

[00:33:55] If you're not that kid, I'm like, oh what's going on? There's a lot going on in that scene and it's only the two of them. It's like one of those ship shows from Star Trek, you know? It's just two people with this dialogue and you're like...

[00:34:07] You're getting all this information. She was so nervous. She was like Greg's coming home. Oh yeah. She was... Right. The anxiety from her was giving me anxiety. Anxiety. I was like, get out of the house. So these are controlling, dominating man.

[00:34:21] That's another level that they layered into the... Right. Let me... This cast is amazing. You don't have to take this anymore. Right. Oh it was a lot. The writing is wonderful but this cast is amazing and they are acting. They're little black asses off. Yes they are.

[00:34:37] And Spud. And Spud. And Spud. You should ask Spud. And Spud. Do it again man. Run again. Let me see. Like the blast. Right. And he was telling Spud. Run again. He said, okay wait a minute. Okay. Okay here I go.

[00:34:54] He didn't have that lady where he was. Edinburgh. That was crazy. That threw me. Because I was like... When he got there I was like... That does not look like London anymore. I was like, I don't know where I am. I'm like, I don't know where I am.

[00:35:16] I'm like London anymore. So I had just finished watching Doctor Who. I was like, why am I thinking he's like in North England? You know. I hadn't... I'm thinking Wales for some reason. Then they say Edinburgh. I'm like, what is Scotland?

[00:35:37] She's like, what other Edinburgh do you know? Right. No other. I'm like, we didn't get a bus ticket. Spud picked them up. Yeah. We ain't going to stand. You know. And I like that relationship too. Because that's...

[00:35:59] I mean I like how they show relationships between men that are real and platonic. And like you know, they... Like it doesn't... You know. That exists. And they're underrepresented... Area of underrepresentation. Right? For us. We very seldom see healthy buddy relationships between black men. Like going Gabriel. Right.

[00:36:24] Oh yes. Beautiful friendship, right? When he tells him he's going to marry Dion and she's going to ring. He's like a girl. Yeah. He was like, yeah. Big wake you're going to do it. I thought you said that because she was eight, nine years old. Okay.

[00:36:42] I love Gabriel. He was so good. Yes. That was a good friend. Unlike John. Unlike John, the knucklehead. He is not. John needs to go. Hey John, he needs to go. And three John. Tweedledom. Tweedledom man.

[00:37:01] But Gabe and his boy is telling him that he could see that he was into the future. He's just like, okay, let's just go with this. So in the future. Right. You know what it is they've been friends forever. He knows that Michael is not that guy. Right.

[00:37:17] You know, he's a down to earth. He's just like that. He wants his life. Steady. Steady. He doesn't want any check. He doesn't want nothing to change that. You know, and then when he comes up with this craziness Gabriel is like, All right, we need to sit down.

[00:37:31] Sit down. Let's talk about this. Walk me through it. He's so serious. I love Gabe. I love Gabe is really great. Yeah. Okay, can we go ahead? I know we talked about black love with the. Andre and AJ.

[00:37:50] But I would love to talk about the black love that starts this. And that's Michael and Dion. I mean, yes, the whole story. Herb. By the way, yes. I mean, she's just a quick sidebar. Yes. Quick sidebar. Let's talk about the on. Please let's talk. I'm glad. Yeah.

[00:38:09] Like she's the only one up here that has no powers. But guess what? She is a persevering little guy. She's like a, a terrier. She just digging it out. And she's like, first of all, she stands her ground with Michael like you are not going to

[00:38:21] just, I know you were going through some shit. I know you were going through some shit. But I swear for God, you talked to me like that one more time. One more time. You got one more time. But she wasn't threatening him with like,

[00:38:32] I'm going to leave you. It was like, no, we gonna work this out. We, we are going to work this. You didn't ask me. Did you bark at me? Disrespecting me and talk to me like I'm a dog. Yeah. It's like, okay, I'm clear. Right.

[00:38:46] And now also I'm going to help you solve this problem because this is an issue. And you can't tell me not to like, because I'm not going to talk to you about it. It's an issue and you can't tell me not to like, because we're a unit.

[00:38:56] We're a team brother. That's how we do right or die. You know, and yeah. And she was, she was, yeah. She's the, she's the glue. I mean, she is, I think honestly, I think she's the star of this show because it all centers around her. She's different. Right.

[00:39:14] And then she's the one that has to, she's the one that finds out what this is all about. Yeah. She's the brains behind all of them. There it is. Exactly. She figures it out. That's right. And she does, she does investigation. She's like, she just like,

[00:39:31] I'm not going to leave this alone. We are going to solve this problem. Right. Yep. We're going to figure it out. And I don't want to give away the evidence. No, I don't want to give away that. So I'm just going to let you know that she is

[00:39:43] the reason for all of this. You know, so you'll figure out in the end what, what I mean by that, but just know that Dion is not there as just window dressing. You know, she's a beautiful woman and she's the love interest,

[00:39:58] but she means so much more to this, this series. And here's the thing that I love about her portrayal too is again another characterization that we are not always privy, you know, we're not, what's the word? I'm blessed to see is that, you know, she's not a shrew.

[00:40:23] She's not, she's not the black woman yelling at somebody. She's not the black woman disrespecting her man or being like, or like being like, you know, it's one or the other. I don't think you can make it strong. Yeah. Or like you did this.

[00:40:37] No, she's like, she's a reasonable, you know, she's an intelligent woman. She's a professional woman. She's extremely smart, you know, and she's and she, and she wants to work as a unit as a team. She's just terrified for him. She doesn't know what's going on.

[00:40:53] And the reason why she's asking and calling and nudging and calling is like, she is scared to death. Like where are you? She's scared for his life. For his life, exactly. Which is ironic because, you know. Yeah. So yeah. So anyway, that's the sidebar about Dion. Yeah.

[00:41:10] And I just what I want, what I love about it, Sabrina and I talked about this is that this storyline starts because of the love of a woman. And the love of this woman is a black woman. Yeah. And my heart just melted. Yep.

[00:41:27] Because I know this is a black cast. We've had a lot of black cast. We've had a lot of black centered TV movie, but do have we ever had a show that said, I love this woman so much that her not being there anymore

[00:41:47] is something I have to fight for. Right. You know, and I mean fight everybody for, I will move heaven and earth to make sure that this does not happen. And you melt. I mean, I mean, you had me at superheroes and black folks,

[00:42:02] but then you put in the love of a black woman and the black man who just his heart cannot take, not having her in his universe anymore. And that just, like I said, this show has everything. Yeah. You know, people are talking about the superheroes,

[00:42:23] but it's not about superheroes. It's not about black women being black and love and black love. That's what it's about. Because I think they both felt that way about each other. Oh God. Yes. And we could tell by what we just said,

[00:42:39] they're both fighting for each other's lives. You know, everything they're doing because they don't, she doesn't know what he knows. And because he's not right, he doesn't know what she knows. And they're all fighting. They're both fighting to make sure they're both safe

[00:42:54] and that they're not being hurt. That's what they're fighting for. Unfortunately doing separately, but you know, eventually they'll, they figured out. So, uh, such a good show. One more person I want to mention in this gave a great performance was Jasmine Z.

[00:43:08] Was Jasmine's father played by Robbie Keaton. Mr. Johnson. Oh, Mr. Johnson. Oh my God. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. Both of them. I loved both of them. Came out fighting. You talk about love. The love of a child. There's my Jasmine. Yeah. The love of a black girl. Yep.

[00:43:30] A little black girl that's missing. A little black girl that's missing. And do you know how much that, I mean, you know, you always get these things like, Oh God, little white girl's gone missing on some trip with her boyfriend. And it goes makes nationwide news, right?

[00:43:44] Everybody else that I get alerts every day for black girls and black women who are missing every day from this little city alone. And you never hear about it on anybody's news. Doesn't even make the local news. Much less than national news. No.

[00:44:02] And we go missing every day. There is nobody more underloved in this world than a black woman. Little black girl. There is nobody more underloved than we are. We take everybody's in reality. In reality. In reality.

[00:44:23] In reality as by, by the cultural norms anywhere in this damn world. Women are already on the bottom of the damn totem pole, but you put a black woman up there. You have somebody to choose between a black woman and then an Asian woman,

[00:44:39] a Latina woman and a white woman. And the black woman is going to lose every single time. And a black girl never even think about it. The damn world on our shoulders. We make this whole world go round. We say everybody's asses all the time.

[00:44:58] Listen to black women. So, you know, we have to learn how to love ourselves and be good with ourselves. But this is another reason why I don't care what rap man, rap man can do no harm in my book because he put us on center,

[00:45:17] at center stage in this. And I think that Jasmine, this little black girl that is missing. I love the fact that she was dark skinned. Yes. I just did. And there was another thing about this when I was,

[00:45:32] I'm like, okay, these some really melanin enriched people on this show here. Vanilla them up. They did not have the, you know, I really liked them. Nobody had a high yellow damn their white girlfriend. Yeah. You know, I'm sick of it.

[00:45:51] I mean, I know we exist, but it's like there's a thing. Yeah. There's a thing. It was not in this series. These people are real, real. This is us. Yeah. You know, and we know we've all seen it.

[00:46:03] Like I swear to God, like one more football player or basketball player comes up with a white wife or a damn near white wife that like, and the sister that's been with him the whole damn time, the whole way through, like where she gone,

[00:46:16] making no babies with her. He's not like, you know, she's not getting the house. It's like it's like it's considered like a level up or something like that. And that's the bullshit that I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about.

[00:46:29] Like as black women that we're facing every day, the whole society is telling us that we're not attractive, that we're not lovable, that we're not worthy of love. That we're not smart. Yeah. That we're not smart, you know, like we have to constantly re and push

[00:46:45] our position in art and art existence on the world. There's a line in this film and in the series where the white guy says they're looking at all the tape and everything and they're like, how are they finding each other? Someone must be helping them.

[00:47:02] It's like no fool. They figured out a way to find each other. Right. Hey, you know, there's as simple as that. I did it with a thing and just figured it out. Andre is, you know, they're all doing their part to figure this out.

[00:47:13] And it was at that line just struck me. Ray man is not even playing with us. He is not even playing. It's like, yeah, how'd they do that? I'm just saying that's like, no, no fucking aliens built the pyramids black people built the pyramids period end of discussion.

[00:47:32] I was built on me. I don't need another damn show on discovery or whatever. Talking about some aliens building some damn pyramids. Y'all get out of my face. So can we talk about the other star of the show? Get us back on track, which is sickle cell. Yes.

[00:47:50] Yeah. I know Sabrina wanted to kind of give us because this is a big deal. Right. Yeah. I have utmost kudos for the man for bringing in this disease. I, you know, it's definitely one of those things that has gone to the wayside.

[00:48:06] There was a big push about sickle cell awareness, maybe 10, 15, 20 years ago. Yeah. But you really have not heard about it. I mean, and I just want to give you sickle cell anemia as is fully called is something that is prevalent in the black community.

[00:48:23] And so one in 12 people of African descent. And I love this show because the people in this show, they were from all the colonies. We had the Jamaicans with their we had the Africans with their I was like, yeah, okay, all the colonies are sitting

[00:48:38] up in London now Nigeria and everybody was in there. But they had different names, different accents. It was hilarious. But um, so one out of 12 in African descent have the sickle cell gene to compare that to the rest of the ethnicities in white people.

[00:48:54] It's one out of every 58,000. Wow. But white people can get sickle cell anemia Asians one out of every 11,500. And now this is a weird one Hispanics in the western part of the United States one out of every 32,000 have the trait

[00:49:11] Hispanics on the east coast one out of every 27,000 2700. That makes sense. Yeah, it makes sense. That makes sense because on the west they're mostly white people that speak Spanish and on the east coast there are people from the Caribbean from the Caribbean. Afro Latino.

[00:49:29] So that's why you have a drop way down. So now the disease actually is an evolutionary thing and it was prevalent in people who come from countries that there was malaria. And the body actually developed a cell to protect them from malaria.

[00:49:49] Then how it ended up becoming like this horrible disease I don't know, but that's all I'm mutated psychopedia under six. I know a set of twins who actually died. They were in their 30s. Some were at the work and they were a set of fraternal twins,

[00:50:10] two brothers, and they both had it. Oh my God. They both had it because we used to take one to the ER because he would be in crisis. You know, he died first. He was 33 and his brother was 34 when he died. Oh my God. The poor parents. Yeah.

[00:50:31] When you say in crisis and actually the blood is being cut off from organs, I mean that must be some kind of pain. It's pain. Oh, the mother in this, you know, when Tina went down and that was something because they said, I love that, that Tina

[00:50:45] is Michael's mother. And when she had the crisis episode, right? No one was coming. None of the nurses were coming. Michael got to the hospital. None of the nurses are coming. And then Dion says, well, what's going on because she hasn't had a crisis in years. Yeah.

[00:51:01] And I said, what's going on with this? They did something. They're trying to get her in that center. I always had suspicions about this center. Oh, yes. From the junk. Yes. Oh, so the Victoria walk. Yeah. Soon as Victoria walked it out. Thank you.

[00:51:18] The minute she sat on that T tickling. Right. The minute she sat on Michael's mother's bed and then she got a little bit of a shock. And then she said, I don't know what to say.

[00:51:30] I'm not sure if she was going to tell her about her first name. I was like, yes. I was like, bitch. Like this woman's old enough to be your mother. You better treat her with some respect. Right at the minute that.

[00:51:43] First of all, get the hell up off of her bed. Why are you sitting on the bed with your street clothes? We all saw it. I thought about you. I thought about you. It's just germs and bacteria. Oh, no. I was and then she look right.

[00:51:58] And then she called up. She had called up on her first name. I was like, uh, right. That's a respect on that woman's name. Right. But I knew from then I was like, uh-uh. And they may. I love that they made her, you know, this white blonde lady.

[00:52:12] So we already already know. We already know all our little spiky senses were like, yep. We know it. But I do. I do love that. Um, rat man, um, made super cell made sickle cell super cell. The antithesis of sickle cell. I think I said that right. Right.

[00:52:34] So, um, for what's super cell like grew out of sickle. So so the it's the one person in the family. Um, it's the one person in a family with sickle cell that doesn't have it or the trait. So like your parents can have sickle cell.

[00:52:51] You can have a child that has the trait and then a child that doesn't. And I usually, I think is what happens. So the child that doesn't have sickle cell of the trait is the one that has super cell. So they're the one that have the superpowers.

[00:53:04] You know, so everybody's eyes were lighten up. I was like, oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, um, he also said that, um, he wanted to turn this weakness that affects mainly people of color to a strength and then raise awareness for sickle cell. So that was his purpose.

[00:53:26] He also said that it all started after George Floyd. Like he knew he had to do something. You know, George Floyd didn't, you know, have anything with super cell, but he knew he had to do something to make black people look at something and feel proud about it.

[00:53:44] Yeah. So, I mean, I just love that part because when I think of those things that happen, I don't think of other people, ever the black people around the world. You know, of course I think about us, how it affects us because that's all I know.

[00:53:59] But I think this show with everything else it's done, it's opened my eyes to the black dysphoria and, you know, the things that we all go through. I mean, I'm watching this going everywhere. I'm like, really? Are we doing this red and blue handkerchief over across the pond?

[00:54:20] Really? Are we doing this? Why you got LA Dodger hat, New York? Yeah, I was like, really? Are we really doing this? You know, it was like the East West thing. He put all of that in it, you know. The Sixes boys against the Tower boys.

[00:54:34] Yeah, I was like, really? I'm a cover six in your head. I was like, these guys are just wow. I was like, yeah, I mean, hopefully they're a little more harder than that. But that's another podcast. But it was good entertainment, you know. Yeah.

[00:54:49] But it's true. That's a good point. I mean, that's one of the things that I think I loved about the show too is that it definitely opened this. American blacks, we can be really insular, you know? Like we're really far removed from a lot of the rest

[00:55:05] of the world and especially a lot of the rest of the diaspora. And we know, and you know, what we know is just our own stuff. You know, and I, you know, it's so important to us that we see our own struggles in the context

[00:55:23] of the struggles of black folks all around the world. Globally. Globally. And what colonization did to all of us, not just the slave trade, but colonization. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. And, you know, and that's, you know, that's one of the things I love about this too.

[00:55:40] And I think that's a really good point that you brought up because it really does open your eyes to other cultures. And then I think that for a lot of us, and especially a lot of Americans, whether you're black or white or whatever,

[00:55:51] like a lot of Americans don't get out of their own neighborhoods, don't see much of the rest of the world. They don't even see much of another state a lot of the times. You know, they get very sometimes it can get very stuck.

[00:56:03] And so to have anything that broadens your horizons. But I think a lot, I think even people who travel and I've traveled the world and I, of course, when I travel, I'm not going to the hood, you know, so I'm not going to see that.

[00:56:17] I'm going to see, you know, the tourist attractions or, you know, I'm going to go on an adventure or something, you know, South London is just not where my adventure is. Right. I'm not going to go to London and be like, take me to the hood.

[00:56:30] Well, I'm especially not going to London because the food is terrible. But I might now just an entire city. That's just such a New Yorker. She's correct. I am so correct. Obviously have been to London. Not since I was a kid.

[00:56:47] The best thing to do when you go to London is either go to, go to an Indian restaurant. Yes. Some of the best Indian food is in London. But if I go back to London,

[00:56:56] I would go now to South London because I know it's going to be good food. That's right. I would go to some of these African joints. I'm sorry. Well, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.

[00:57:07] I would go, I would go to a Nigerian spot, a Guineas spot. Or the Mrs. Johnson's an order something. You're right. I'm going to go to Mrs. Johnson's place. Jamaica's, Jamaica's. The Caribbean. Right. Something, you know, at least I know now that there is good food in London.

[00:57:23] Speaking of being insular on, I would say not listening when they did the geography thing. Had a young man that was working with him and he had Africa all over his face. He had more melanin in him than I did.

[00:57:36] And I was talking about Africa and he said, well, my people are not from Africa. My people are from the Caribbean. And I looked at him and I'm like, what? He repeated it. I'm like, okay, the only difference between you and your folks,

[00:57:53] you say from the Caribbean is a boat drop. But it dropped off the boats. I said, did you listen in school? I say, research it. Come back and tell me I'm wrong. He didn't come back and tell me I was wrong.

[00:58:09] He actually didn't believe he had no roots in Africa. Wow. He really believed that, but he, he, and we still work together for months after that. We did. And he, he had no, he didn't have a clue that it was a boat drop.

[00:58:24] You know, they took you to, you know, whatever. He just, he just had no history knowledge. Stop number one. He wouldn't believe that. He said it to me and I believe, I believe you. Yeah. I totally believe you.

[00:58:38] I know, I know a lot of people who believe that. I know a lot of people that know that we're African descent, but don't want to be called African. They want to be called black. They don't want anything to do with the continent for various reasons. Right.

[00:58:54] So well, it's part of that endowment. I mean, no, no, no. I think it's that a lot of it is pride also because they want, I know I, I wouldn't say I don't like being called African American.

[00:59:06] I interchange it, but I would rather be considered black American mainly because of my history, my family history. I know it, you know, and I don't ever want that. I know, I know my history back to the civil war.

[00:59:21] You know, so there are things that I don't want to get lost and my family is very proud of our black American history. So, you know, either way as it works for me, but I do, I never want to lose that because that's my culture.

[00:59:37] And so a lot of people from the Caribbean, I believe also believe that, you know, it could be either way. A lot of people don't want to lose that culture that they have. I think the thing is, I think the distinction in the conversation comes

[00:59:49] like, you know, I can know, I mean, you're talking about Fran, you're talking about somebody who had no clue that they were of African descent. Right? Like that's one case. That's a different thing. You know, like, and I have met some of those ignoramuses before too.

[01:00:03] And it's not their fault that they have been educated and brainwashed into a racist system. And it's a very difficult truth. And especially if you're coming from the nation, I was talking. Yes. And especially if you're coming from a position, some of these places are

[01:00:19] way more colonized and thought than we are in this country. And so it's a whole different, I get that, you know, but what I see also see what Evette is talking about, like, I know a lot of people like I'm not from Africa.

[01:00:33] My people might just my, my ancestors, some of my ancestors are from Africa, but I have zero connection to African culture in this country right now. And I am thrown through a product of America, which is a unique culture in and of its own.

[01:00:51] Now, I can go to Africa and I can learn something and adopt some cultures and cultural attributes and see what fits, you know, if I want to. But, you know, I'm a product of Western American culture. My thinking is generations of it. Generations of it.

[01:01:12] So I understand when some people also some people make that distinction that I am not from Africa. You know, I have ancestors from Africa, but, you know, and I respect Africa as a continent and individual countries, you know,

[01:01:26] like, but I'm an American, you know, and I think so I see, I see both sides, but I also, you know, there are times in my life where I felt like I'm not an American.

[01:01:37] You know, but you know, I mean, like, but I say that with a little bit of salt, you know, because, you know, you travel any other place in the world and you know damn well where you come from and you're grateful for this shit.

[01:01:51] You know, I mean, like, you just grateful for it, like shut your mouth. You're grateful for it. I can say whatever the hell I want to say in this country and my ass is not strung up the next day.

[01:02:01] You know, like there's a lot of things or shot or shot before it right or killed, you know, so, you know, I see all sides of it. Yeah, it's complicated. All right. Last thing I want to talk about. Go ahead please. Soundtrack. The soundtrack on this thing.

[01:02:20] Give it to me. You all, you can go to Spotify and get the entire soundtrack, which I did and down. It is a lesson in, you know, British hip hop. Everything trapped me this there. I mean, I'm sitting here like, who are these people?

[01:02:37] Because I was bouncing to that soundtrack. Yeah, it was dope. And one of the stars is a hip hop artist. Please please. It was confusing to me because, you know, young on the post captain, they got the people talking and

[01:02:55] they got the music, you know, the lyrics, the lyrics to the music going on and I'm trying to get it all in. I'm like, okay, what is going on here? Yeah, what, you know, but I was loving it.

[01:03:09] I was I would just roll back and make and get what I missed. I was like, okay, I'm reading lyrics instead of dialogue. Okay. Love it. Love it. It sounded fantastic, but I had to figure out who was saying what, you know. That's true though. It really was.

[01:03:27] It was definitely something in it. I can't wait to watch this. I can't wait to give it another watch. I had to do a real quick watch through so that we could record tonight, you know, but like I said, it's only six episodes long.

[01:03:47] I had a binge four of the six. I screamed at the TV. Like, you know, like why are we ending now? What come on with the sixth episode thing? Like what the hell? What is that even about? Who ever heard of such and yes. Yeah.

[01:04:05] Let me just go on the record saying six episodes of some do do. Is that a Netflix thing though? It is a Netflix thing. I don't like, I'm sorry. I hate to say it. I don't like it. I'm not down for it.

[01:04:16] I feel like I'm not down for it. I'm not down for it. I'm not down for it. I don't like it. I'm not down for it. I feel like you're playing with my emotions. Can I bring it back to Star Trek? Sure. Of course. Why not? Okay.

[01:04:30] Two times I was feeling Star Trek. When they went to a town, I had a definite past tense vibe when they went to that city and I was like, ooh, this is the past tense feeling going on here. Like another little city in a city that nobody's

[01:04:47] caring about or knows about and you all are stuck in this mess. I was like, what is going on? For sure. I thought about past tense as well. That's a good call out. And then I don't know about you guys but for real, I shouldn't even say that.

[01:05:00] Well it's not a spoiler because I was wrong. But I swear I thought the people, the other guys, the other super girls, guys girls, I thought they were going to be like mirror like, I thought they were, I thought we were going to see their faces. Oh, okay.

[01:05:22] Because they had the same powers. I was like, well there's a strong one, that's a strong one, he's got electricity. I get that. Oh my god, they're coming out of the thing there. It's the mirror. But you all find out. Yeah. Yeah, that was, yeah.

[01:05:37] That happened to all of us. Yeah. Okay. It did. Well I thought, was I watching? Was it this show? Did somebody actually make a verbal Star Trek reference in the show? I didn't hear one. I heard a lot of Marvel. Yeah, I didn't hear any Star Trek.

[01:05:56] They were into the Marvel big time. I wonder if it was something else that I was watching at the same time. Now I'm going to watch it over again. I know, like I watched something in this past week

[01:06:07] and I can't remember what it was and they made a very direct Star Trek reference. I think we would have had a... A couple of direct Star Trek. Oh yeah, it wasn't this. You know what it was? It was Doctor Who. Did they? It was Doctor Who.

[01:06:21] Oh, okay. When we finish I'll talk to you about that. Yeah. Anyway. But the last one, I had a gym moment when little Jasmine did her thing and I was like, oh it's like gym. The TOS? Like what, which, you need to say more.

[01:06:41] Oh, I was trying not to give it away. But when Jasmine was pulled into the room... Gym moment. Yeah, and she, Jasmine pulled into the room and Andre was all cut up and she did her little stuff on Andre.

[01:06:54] I was like, oh this is like when Jim fixed McCoy. Oh, okay. I was like, wow, another Star Trek moment. Okay. What's the... That whole thing was just so... I was scared. I was so scared for her. The animated? No, TOS. Last season was called Gem.

[01:07:13] I do not remember that. She couldn't speak. I'm such a bad person. She was a complete empath. She was a complete empath. Oh, okay. It was one of those ones that had like no set. Yeah. Okay. All right. Yeah, McCoy was all screwed up.

[01:07:29] That was a deep cut. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I wasn't right there with you on that. I was a side. Side. I've been deep in Star Trek writing that. But anyway, those were the three times that I had a Star Trek. I was watching it.

[01:07:50] It always comes back to track. Always. I grew to say to me it was when all the same. Didn't I make a Star Trek reference earlier? Yeah. I think I did. It's crazy. All right. I want Emmys for this.

[01:08:07] BAFTA is over there in London and Emmys over here in the United States. This show has got everything, music, writing, acting. Thing. It's an amazing show. I mean, I'm surprised by how much impact it had on me.

[01:08:27] I know that I love something when I'm still thinking about it days later. Yeah, it's still to leave you. The characters are still running around in my head. The situations are still running around. And that I have a desire to go back and watch it again.

[01:08:44] A lot of times, once I've seen it, I don't want to go back and watch it again. At least not for a long time until I can kind of forget what happened. And it's a little bit fresher and newer again.

[01:08:57] But I'm ready to watch this again right away. Right tonight. And the only other thing in my life that is like that is Trek. Yeah, that's what I was... I think I said this earlier that I love it because of the stories.

[01:09:11] We get pulled into Trek because of the relationships and the storyline. And I think this has that. It has great relationships and it has great stories to them. And that's why I think we're really, really loving this show. Totally. Yeah, we were going to do that. Yep.

[01:09:33] So anyway, y'all, it's been a great show. I mean, I could honestly talk about it for a long time, but I really want you guys, our listeners to go out and watch the show, please.

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