RTW Weekly Signal

Week of July 21, 2026 — What's Moving Across the Network

Five shows. Multiple conversations. One place to find what's worth your time this week. This is the Ride The Wave Weekly Signal — your guide to the best content across the network, with links to the full breakdowns.

🎬 PARALLEL FREQUENCIES with Just Blane and Coco

The TV Moms Who Actually Raised Us

Forget the dads for a second. Just Blane and Coco just finished a deep dive into the women who showed up on your screen five nights a week, year after year, and quietly shaped how you think about motherhood, resilience, and what it means to hold a family together. From Kitty Foreman's nervous-laugh love to Claire Huxtable's monologues on feminism and power to Roseanne Connor refusing to pretend — the conversation is a full excavation of why TV moms hit different than anyone admits.

The argument: TV dads had a formula. TV moms didn't. And that variety — that refusal to be molded into a single "good mother" shape — is exactly why they stuck with us.

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🔜 Coming Up on Parallel Frequencies

Stranger Things Season 5 Finale — The Duffer Brothers didn't give you a happy ending. They gave you something harder. Blane and Coco go episode by episode through the final season, covering Will's coming-out arc (and the review bombing that followed), Dustin's grief and joy as resistance, and the scene nobody's talking about enough — Karen Wheeler becoming the hero of the whole thing. Coming soon.

The Monster Renaissance — Two filmmakers. Same source material. Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein asks "why was I brought into this world?" Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride asks "why was I brought into this world for you?" That single word is the entire conversation. Coming to the feed.

🎙️ YES AND LAND with Ryan Gregerson

This Week: Perfectionism Is Fear in a Suit — Angie White

Angie White, COO at Jolley's Corner, spent her entire childhood being the rule-follower, the conformist, the person who wouldn't pursue nursing because the program was competitive and she might not get in. She thought it was discipline. It wasn't. It was perfectionism — fear dressed up as ambition, costing her everything she could become.

Ryan and Angie use Encanto as the lens: Mirabel didn't wait for a magical gift to decide she was worthy. She just kept showing up. This conversation is about the shame-guilt distinction that changes everything, what self-abandonment actually costs, and why curiosity is the only real antidote to perfectionism.

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🔜 Coming Up on Yes And Land

Alton Fitzgerald White — He performed as Mufasa in The Lion King on Broadway 4,380 times. Before that: a kid from Cincinnati's projects, abuse he couldn't tell anyone about, and a church choir teacher who heard him sing and said "you've got something special." That one person changed everything. Alton talks about how trauma becomes creative fuel, why gratitude is the antidote to ego, and what Mufasa's quiet strength actually teaches you about leadership. This one hits hard. Coming soon.

Marianne Johansen — Why do the best principals, lawyers, and executives actively build teams that don't think like them? Marianne took her elementary school from the bottom 5% in the state to sustained improvement — not by doing it herself, but by surrounding herself with people whose strengths covered her blind spots. The Great Mouse Detective is the frame. The leadership lesson is real. Coming soon.

🔮 PRACTICALLY MAGICK with Courtney Pearl

This Week: Tarot Cards — Real vs. Fake Readers

Season 4 premiere. Courtney sits down with the hosts of Make Me a Believer to answer the question everyone's circling: Is tarot insight or illusion? She walks through the actual mechanics — why the death card isn't something to fear, how to spot readers who are exploiting your desire for certainty instead of serving your clarity, and why the real work doesn't happen in the reading. It happens in the sessions after, when you're willing to look at what the cards actually showed you about yourself.

Direct. No performance. Just the work.

👉 Listen to the episode → | Watch at YouTube.com/@PracticallyMagickpodcast

🔜 Coming Up on Practically Magick

The Three Pillars of Real Witchcraft — This is why The Secret failed for millions of people. Words, Will, and Way — the three pillars that actual manifestation requires. You can visualize until you're blue in the face, but if your subconscious is running a belief that you're not worthy of what you're asking for, your affirmations will hit a wall every single time. Courtney breaks down each pillar and explains what inner child work, shadow work, and energy healing actually have to do with manifestation. Spoiler: everything. Coming soon.

Reclaiming the Word Witch — The word "witch" didn't start as a slur. It came from Old English roots meaning knowledge, magic, the ability to shape reality. Then the medieval Church rewrote the definition to control who held spiritual authority — and specifically to control women who held it. Courtney makes the case that calling yourself a witch isn't edgy positioning. It's reclamation. It's honoring the women who were killed for knowing things. Coming soon.

💋 LADY FACE A.M.

🔜 Coming Up on Lady Face A.M.

Lady Face AM is in the pipeline with new episodes coming. The show goes places most morning shows never do — honest, smart, and entirely unafraid. Stay tuned.

📡 From the Network

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