RTW Weekly Signal | Week of July 27, 2026
Your weekly briefing on everything dropping, building, and coming up across the Ride The Wave Media network. Week of July 27, 2026.
🎬 PARALLEL FREQUENCIES
This Week
No new episode from Blane and Coco this week — but the Dark Tsunami pipeline had Ep109 running a full content pass, which means the machine is awake and the show is in motion. If you haven't heard The Bride Is the Most Important Frankenstein Film Ever Made, now is the moment. Two filmmakers — Guillermo del Toro and Maggie Gyllenhaal — tackled the same 200-year-old story at the exact same cultural moment and made two completely different movies about two completely different questions. Del Toro asks: why was I created? Gyllenhaal asks: why was I created for you? That single word is the whole episode. The monster renaissance is here and Parallel Frequencies called it.
Ep110 — The TV Dads Who Shaped How We Think About Fatherhood — is still sitting in the feed and worth your time. Uncle Phil catching a broken kid when nobody else would. Gomez Addams celebrating his daughter's darkness instead of trying to fix it. Bob Belcher as the quiet counter-argument to every absent-dad trope television ever built. Blane and Coco do what they do: find the emotional architecture inside the pop culture you grew up on.
🔜 Coming Up on Parallel Frequencies
The pipeline is running. Watch this space.
🎙️ YES AND LAND
This Week — Ep. 34: Angie White
Perfectionism isn't discipline. It's fear wearing a productive disguise. Angie White — COO at Jolley's Corner — spent her life setting only goals she was certain she'd win, conforming to every expectation placed on her, measuring her worth against everyone in the room. She called it ambition. She was wrong.
Ryan frames it through Encanto — Mirabel waiting her whole life for a magical gift she already has — and Angie maps onto that story with the kind of precision that makes the Disney-as-mirror format work. The inflection point: she found an eight-year-old version of herself with frizzy red hair, bossing everyone around, fully alive. And she had to choose whether to let that version of her back in. Curiosity over shame. Permission to fail. The difference between safe goals and real ones. This is the episode if you've ever talked yourself out of something before you even started.
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🔜 Coming Up on Yes And Land
- Ep. 35 — Alton Fitzgerald White: He played Mufasa on Broadway 4,380 times. He grew up in Cincinnati's projects — abuse, poverty, a father lost to alcoholism. What made him different wasn't a lucky break. It was one choir teacher who looked at him after he finally sang and told him the truth. One person who sees you can unlock decades of potential. Coming soon.
- Ep. 36 — Marianne Johansen: Why the best leaders build teams that don't think like them. A school principal uses The Great Mouse Detective to explain why Basil of Baker Street needed Dr. Dawson — and why the visionary-plus-opposite-partner formula is the actual law behind everything that scales.
🔮 PRACTICALLY MAGICK
This Week — Season 4, Episode 2: Tarot Cards Explained
Season 4 is open and Courtney Pearl is doing the thing she does better than almost anyone: stripping the performance off something people fear and showing you what's actually there. This week she sat down with the hosts of Make Me a Believer and gave them — and everyone listening — the most direct breakdown of what a professional tarot reader actually does that we've heard in this space.
Tarot isn't fortune telling. The death card isn't what you think. And yes, you can be religious and spiritual at the same time. What matters is the distinction between a reader who serves your clarity and a reader who takes advantage of your need for certainty. Courtney names the fraud problem directly. She tells you how to spot it before you sit down. This is tarot without the mystique. Just the work.
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🔜 Coming Up on Practically Magick
- S4 Ep. 3 — The Three Pillars of Magick: Words, will, and way. This is why manifestation fails for most people — they only have one piece of a three-part equation. Courtney builds the whole framework. If you've ever read The Secret and wondered why it didn't work, this episode is the answer.
- S4 Ep. 4 — The Word Witch: The word was weaponized — deliberately, strategically, to suppress knowledge held by women outside of church authority. Reclaiming it isn't performance. Courtney walks the etymology back to Old English wicca and makes the case that what the word originally described is exactly what modern neuroscience has now confirmed.
💋 LADY FACE A.M.
Lady Face A.M. is in production. No episodes to report this week — but when this show launches, the RTW Weekly Signal will be the first place it's announced. Keep your ears open.
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