Sinners Movie Review: Ryan Coogler’s Vampire Horror & Coachella 2026 Highlights

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It is Parallel Frequencies. I am just Blaine.

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That's Coco over there, and you are the freaks.

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Welcome back. It was a weekend. It was a weekend.

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What'd you do this weekend, Coco? I can't even

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remember at this moment. Right? I have no idea.

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Yeah. A whole lot of nothing. It was one of those,

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huh? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah. I mean, it's been a day

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already. Like, I even said to you earlier, I

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was like, it's still Monday? I couldn't believe

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it. I know. It's just been one crazy thing after

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another. Guys, I just have to be honest. The

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technology, we're running into issues. And so

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I'm on like four different screens all trying

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to make this work so I can record with you today.

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And so I apologize if I look a little scattered.

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I'm looking at the camera and I'm looking at

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Blaine down here and I'm looking. So it's a little

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crazy. It's just a little crazy right now. But

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it's okay. We're here. We're here. You got. parallel

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monitors around you, but everything's on the

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same frequency. It's all on the same frequency.

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That's what we're doing here. You know what I

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tuned into over the weekend? What I saw was Coachella.

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Okay, tell me about this. And I like to say it's

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Couchella, like they call it online, Couchella.

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And it's way more comfortable. doing it from

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right here than having to be out there in the

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desert then people look like they were in the

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movie dune the wind was blowing so bad sand everywhere

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it's wild out there so i'm glad i got to sit

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here at home and watch i saw some incredible

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performances though like it was i couldn't believe

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some of the stuff and i don't normally get into

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it you know are you big into the music and big

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into the festivals coco no no I'm going to be

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honest. That's not my fault. I'm going to tell

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you why. I didn't have older siblings to guide

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me through the musical journey that I think is

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supposed to be done. I think that's up to older

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brothers and sisters. And I didn't have them.

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So I knew what my friends' older siblings were

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listening to, and I wasn't taking to concerts.

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I didn't go to many concerts as a teenager. So

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when somebody asked me who my favorite artist

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was, I said Michael Jackson because it was the

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only artist I could remember the name of most

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of the time. Okay. So I'm just not good at that

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stuff. I'm sorry. No, but Michael Jackson, that's

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a big name. I mean, my first cassette tape I

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ever owned was Michael Jackson's Bad. I used

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to play that bad boy on repeat and watch myself

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in the mirror. I didn't have older siblings,

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so I was that person. You're the one. Yeah, you

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know what, though? There's going to be people

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out there that see this that I went to school

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with, and they're going to be like, yep. They

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won't deny it. They'll be like, Blaine did bring

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us somebody new that we hadn't heard. That's

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somebody big now. I remember carrying cassette

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tapes that Linkin Park. handed out to us at a

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they opened some concert for cottonmouth kings

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now i'm talking about people that's a that's

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a name you don't even you've probably never even

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heard of and lincoln park was there and i was

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like yo you guys gotta watch these guys i mean

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it's not like i wouldn't tell nobody nothing

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they couldn't figure out but yeah but i watched

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coachella i'm always into the festivals and i

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enjoy seeing what they do i enjoy Even the negative

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stuff, because the negative stuff, like I guess

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it was last year, maybe the year before, Frank

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Ocean bombed and they got new headliners for

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the second weekend because it's two weekends.

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So if you missed this past weekend, you can watch

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it all again this coming weekend. But yeah, they

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got Skrillex, Fortet, Fred again to come in and

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fill that slot. And that was an iconic set. I

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think that was last year. It might have been

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two years ago, like I said. But this year. I

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tuned in, and they do it really cool on YouTube,

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on the Coachella YouTube. They've got the four

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screens, four in one, and you can look at all

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the different stages, and you can just click

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which one you want. Wow. Got the schedule up.

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I tuned in, and I saw Iggy Pop right here, and

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he's on our screen right now. This man's 78 years

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old. He is the original punk rocker. And he,

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I'm telling you, put on a performance that ain't

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no other 78 -year -old out there doing. That's

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for sure. I saw a lot of comments in the Coachella

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YouTube comments section, and they were talking

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about, oh, who is this? And then by the end of

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it, they were like, okay, you know, clapping

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their hands, legend, because the guy went in

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there and crushed it. Iggy and the Stooges. from

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back in the day, from the 70s. You're not going

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to beat that. And Iggy, to be performing, to

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be alive at 78 years old with what this man's

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been through, much less taking on the stage at

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Coachella and absolutely crushing it. Oh, my

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God. They did all the hits. When he did Be My

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Dog, I was on it. I was on it. And then I saw

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some more. Are you familiar with Iggy and his

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work? That's a rabbit hole. Yeah. The OG, the

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real guys, the guys that, I don't know, like,

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what do you say? Started it. Yeah, started the

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whole movement. I'll tell you about Iggy. I saw

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comments in the YouTube section that were positive,

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and they were highly positive. And it was like,

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hey, there was one guy that said, everything

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in rock music that has followed Iggy. took influence

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from Iggy. And I corrected this comment. And

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I said, scratch that. Not just rock, but all

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music. There's an influence of Iggy popping.

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I don't want to say ego. I mean the attitude.

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The character. And this is what it is. It's F

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the man. And it's always been that. I can get

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on board with that message. We'll talk about

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Iggy again. I'm going to watch it again this

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coming weekend. But then I saw Justin Bieber.

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How's he doing? Little Bieber came out there.

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Everybody else putting on these huge productions

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and all this fireworks, explosions. Little Bieber

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comes out there with a desk and a laptop, and

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that's it. And he's playing videos off YouTube.

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And here's the thing. It's controversial. People

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are like, oh, my God, this guy, he made $10 million

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to headline. Coachella, highest paid ever. He

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did that without an agent, by the way. So there's

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one piece of this puzzle before we get too deep

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into it. And then you got people out there saying,

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oh, my God, this was low energy. This was low

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effort performance. But then you look at what

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he played and you look at the things he did,

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and he was so intimate and engaged with probably

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100 ,000 people that I would say just the opposite.

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I think he crushed his performance. He played

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all the hits. He played what the audience wanted.

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Yeah. Okay. He sang songs that he sang like baby.

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Like one of his first songs from when he was

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literally Little Bieber. And we saw it. He was

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singing that on stage. Here's something else,

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too, that people aren't necessarily thinking

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about. And there's some business in here somewhere.

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But Justin Bieber sold his catalog a couple years

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back. A couple hundred million dollars, right?

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With him playing the videos off of YouTube and

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being able to perform the songs means that he

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didn't have to get a band and didn't have to

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get the licensing to play his actual music from

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who owns it now. So I think there might have

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been a workaround that he found a loophole to

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be able to give the people what they want and

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not put money in somebody's pocket that already

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has too much. I know. It's a fine line between

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is it insane or is it genius? Yeah. Watch it

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this weekend. If you missed it, he'll be on Friday

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night or Saturday night. Check the schedule on

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Coachella. One more performance I got to talk

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about, and I don't normally do this. And what

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I mean by this is pick up my phone in the middle

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of watching something and it be, I think it was

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1130 at night. It's late. And I'm texting everybody

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I know. I'm like, oh my God, guys, you're missing,

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you're missing history right now. All right.

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Like this is a. historic and iconic it's going

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to go down as one of the greatest performances

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live performances ever and it all came together

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a couple months i don't know it's been a while

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i guess but it's trent resner and boys noise

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nine inch noise showed up to coachella without

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anybody really knowing what to expect and this

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and that and put on the most gothic Rave from

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hell I've ever seen. Boys Noise is an electronic

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music DJ. And Trent Reznor is just a genius,

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if you ask me. And once again, I'm going to point

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out something. Trent Reznor was 60. He's 60 years

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old. Oh. And commanded a crowd, commanded an

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audience. And sure enough, the headlines the

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next day everywhere I look, iconic performance.

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historic performance and all the words that i

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used were used to to talk about trent resner

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atticus was there his wife trent resner's wife

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was up there singing with him and i'm talking

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about you got to hear all the hits like closer

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we know everybody knows closer i want up you

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like an animal But they remixed every song live.

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And it was Boys Noise remixing Trent's vocals

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as he sang. I'm telling you, this weekend, it'll

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be Saturday night, Sahara Tent. If you're not

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in that Sahara Tent, you can be on YouTube watching

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it. And I'm going to tell you, if you don't and

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you want to be a part of something, it gave me

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chills. I don't normally get a bunch of chills

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watching that kind of stuff. So, yeah, Nine Inch

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Noise did it for me for Coachella. Yeah. I mean,

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I'm a huge Nine Inch Nails fan. You know, like,

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Trent Reznor's always been a genius to me. And

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he made all the soundtracks and stuff for Tron.

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They even did a Tron part in the set. They did

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a Tron part where there's red lasers and this

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and that. It's wild. I'm telling you right now.

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What else is wild is it is Movie Monday. And

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the movie we're talking about today, it's got

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a vibe. And it's got a soundtrack. And it kind

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of goes along with my Coachella talk. It's a

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great segue. Or an awful one, whichever way you

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want to look at it. Which, sure. But Sinners

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is what we are talking about today. And it's

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a movie that I said could have, should have won

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an Oscar and all that if it would have come out

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any other year except for one battle after another

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dropped. And that's what happened. What did you

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think? Because it's been a while. You didn't

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watch this one right off the bat. You just recently

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watched this, Coco. Yeah, yeah. We're trying

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to get all these award -winning and award -nominated

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movies that we've kind of missed or that we were

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late to the game to, but we're plugging them

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into our schedule now. So I'm glad we got this

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one on the schedule because I definitely wanted

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to see it. I wanted to see it. And it kind of

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goes along with the... the newer horror movie

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genre that's sort of, it's sort of like drama

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horror. I mean, you know, when Get Out came out,

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it kind of created this whole new genre, I think,

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where people are like, oh, this is a horror movie,

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but this is going to show up in the awards season

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because it has this whole other element, you

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know, more meaningful, more character development,

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more than you usually typically see in a horror

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movie. I think that's what we're seeing with

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this movie, for sure. I think the creators and

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stuff here are... Jordan Peele did the Get Out

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movie, and then you got Ryan Coogler, who directed

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and wrote Sinners. So you got some powerhouses

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right there. But I think what we're doing, and

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they're tapping into, is it's almost making us

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feel nostalgic, but it's in a genetic memory

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kind of way, and you probably know more. about

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that kind of stuff. I don't know how they're

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tapping into, to making us feel like we're in

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these, like in this environment, but it's, there's

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something about it. And they're, they're, it's

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not just introducing you to, to its world, but

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it kind of assumes you've already been there.

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Like we're expected to know the rules of centers.

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They're not laid out for us. And we happen as

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a viewer, if you got it, if you watched the movie

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and you enjoyed it, you knew what they were doing.

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How? How is that, you know? Yeah, historical

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accuracy matched with really in -depth, I don't

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know, character layers. I mean, it spends a lot

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of time before kind of the... mystical supernatural

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part of the plot line comes into it it really

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takes its time setting that up like Jim Crow

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era Mississippi how do these characters know

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each other what past do they have in depth The

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emotions are happening with grief and the experiences

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they've had together, especially with the twins

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relationship to each other, but then also their

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relationships to significant others around them.

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It's all set up really well before you even get

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to the part where, well, now we're going to throw

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in this other element, which as people come into

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more of an awakening, I hope they're understanding

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that although that this feels like fictional.

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It's not quite as fictional as we were led to

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believe as children. We were taught there was

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a big difference between fiction and nonfiction.

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And now we're blurring those lines quite a bit

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when we realize there's a lot going on in this

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world that's not seen, that's unseen. So, you

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know, maybe literal vampires don't exist, but...

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The folklore has been around for so many centuries

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in so many different indigenous peoples around

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the world. How can there not be something to

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it? Right. They kind of open that up in the beginning

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when they talk about the folklore. You know,

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in the Irish community, they called it this.

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In the African world, they called it this. And

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there's a word for these folklore mythical creatures

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that we just don't necessarily have an explanation

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for. So it kind of blurs the lines between what's

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real and what's potentially just something we

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don't understand yet. And that's where this movie

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really hits. I mean, when I saw it, I didn't

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know about the vampires. I mean, spoiler alert,

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if you haven't seen it, stop it now. Go watch

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the movie and come back. Yeah. But I didn't know

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about the vampires. I was one of these early

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watchers of the movie. And the ones that were

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word of mouth, oh my God, you got to go watch

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this movie, sinners. And so I'm watching this

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movie not knowing anything about supernatural

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stuff coming. And that might be why it hit me

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even harder because I'm watching it with a different

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perspective. And let's not dance around it because

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the movie is soaked in racial tension that never

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fully gets announced. It's not somebody yelling

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racial slurs every five seconds, or it's more

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way realistic than that. And that's what we're

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talking about, the realistic part of this movie.

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You know, it's who gets believed, who gets protected,

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who gets sacrificed first, literally. And check

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this out. The characters aren't always reacting

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to racism in real time. They're anticipating

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it. They feel it coming. That's a different kind

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of pressure. The whole movie, the vibe, the tension,

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the atmosphere is tension. you know and that's

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and that's what got to me and then you realize

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when it's over it's it's halfway in the movie

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at least if not longer before we even get to

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the vampires coming in and then you're like oh

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my god racism we don't even have what like that's

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the least of our worries at this point like we

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got to worry about succumbing to that or yeah

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yeah actually the question here is Are the vampires

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the biggest threat? Exactly. Because while, yes,

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they are a big threat in that they are killing

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and then turning this group of people into vampires,

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but their side of it or their... Their pitch,

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I guess, is we don't care what race you are here.

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You'll be accepted, everybody. We will become

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one. Your thoughts and feelings will become my

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thoughts and feelings. We will all understand

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each other. And by the way, the main vampire

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says, you were never going to last here anyway.

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Yeah. The clan was coming for you. They were

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never going to let you open this juke joint here.

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Like, just letting you know, there's a threat

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to you. outside of us and they walk around in

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the daylight they're not just waiting for night

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nightfall right yep and so that kind of begs

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this question with like actually um and again

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spoilers if you guys haven't watched the movie

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what are you doing here because we're gonna we're

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gonna tell all here but uh with stack and mary

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turning into vampires they get to go on and live

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as vampires for immortality forever um The problem

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is the Klan comes the next day. I mean, everything

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they said was going to happen happened. And so

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it makes you realize that actually the vampires

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may not be the biggest threat. I think that the

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white people that were turned into vampires at

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the beginning in the first part, they were improved

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upon by becoming vampires rather than being Klan

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members as they were originally. And that's where

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this movie gets real slick. It's when these two

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things combine, they collide, you know? And that's

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Michael B. Jordan playing Smoke and Haley Steinfeld

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as Mary. But the vampires don't feel separate

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from the racism. They feel like just an extension

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of it. Like, what if the monster isn't invading

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the system? What if it's just revealing what

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was already there? And that's what you're talking

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about. Because think about it. Who do the vampires

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target first? Who do they move? Through the easiest.

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It's the same people that society already made

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more vulnerable. That's not a coincidence. It's

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by design. And that's the real scary part here.

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The scariest thing in this movie is not getting

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bitten. It's realizing this, you know? Yeah,

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and the themes of race and the complexities of

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that, I love how that's shown even before the

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vampires show up in Mary showing up to join.

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wanting to be a part of the juke wanting to be

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um obviously in love with stack wanting to be

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a part of his life and and figure that out but

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the reaction that they have to her is you've

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got to get out of here yeah and why i mean i

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think somebody who is ignorant about race and

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the the very complex histories behind all of

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it would be like i don't understand why wouldn't

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they let the white people in their joint why

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wouldn't they want mary there um i mean He says

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it is like, what if somebody looks at him wrong?

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What if somebody spills something on their shoe?

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We are all in danger here if there's something

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that goes down. And that needs to be brought

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to light. Like this is self -preservation. They

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know there's a big difference, right? I'm going

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to throw this out there for the freaks. I'm going

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to throw it out there for you too if you want

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to answer it. But it's going to be a tough one.

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This is an uncomfortable question. But that's

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what we're going to do here at Parallel Frequencies.

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We're going to talk about this stuff. Who's the

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victim in all of this is one of the main kind

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of overviews, right? So I want to ask, does racism

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create monsters or is racism the monster? And

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we just needed a visual metaphor to finally see

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it in this movie. So is racism the monster or

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does racism create monsters? And I think those

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are... two totally different things and i keep

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going back and forth yeah well i think that's

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the beauty of a great well done movie is to ask

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the questions to have us be asking the questions

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i mean that's what we're meant to do with something

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that's good art it is and it's good art and and

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let me talk about the scene And I'm talking about

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the music scene, almost the time traveling scene.

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My favorite scene. Oh, my God. I've run that

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thing back. I've watched it multiple times. It's

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incredible how the music already was telling

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the story if you listen to it. It's tipping you

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off pretty well. It's something ain't right here.

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And when we see the juke joint. had that concert.

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I'd like to see that on stage at Coachella. They

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should bring that back and see if they can get

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that going because that was incredible to me.

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Showing the thread of ancestral line in connection

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to the current moment, the music, what the energy

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is bringing in, and then the thread outward into

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the descendants, the future, connecting us all.

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This is powerful stuff. love the entire soundtrack

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and that song is called i lied to you which it's

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got some emotional weight already you know and

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it feels like these songs in the movie were telling

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you the story and they're not but they are at

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least giving you some sort of spiritual signal

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you know like the lyrics don't have to necessarily

00:22:52.019 --> 00:22:54.299
spell it out just like the whole movie didn't

00:22:54.299 --> 00:22:59.539
spell out every single thing that you knew But

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like I said early on in this, it comes from like

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an almost genetic memory type thing that's something

00:23:04.460 --> 00:23:07.119
ingrained in us that we have been here at some

00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:10.980
point or something. And that's wild to me. But

00:23:10.980 --> 00:23:14.640
yeah, I think the movie's soundtrack could have

00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:16.519
its whole show, could have a whole show dedicated

00:23:16.519 --> 00:23:19.359
to it. Wang Dang Doodle, that was a rocker too.

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This Little Light of Mine, like they did all

00:23:22.079 --> 00:23:24.019
these songs in this movie. Dangerous by Haley

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Steinfeld. You know, I thought this movie was...

00:23:29.390 --> 00:23:34.609
It's completely amazing. And like I said, any

00:23:34.609 --> 00:23:37.329
other year, and one battle after another is not

00:23:37.329 --> 00:23:40.670
in the mix, it probably wins Picture of the Year.

00:23:41.650 --> 00:23:44.710
Yeah. I can easily see that. There's a lot of

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people that didn't like this movie, and I can

00:23:46.170 --> 00:23:49.490
probably see that, too. Most of those people

00:23:49.490 --> 00:23:50.950
aren't our freaks out there, I can tell you that,

00:23:51.009 --> 00:23:53.269
because, yeah, we don't. We don't go for that,

00:23:53.349 --> 00:23:55.529
but I would see, I would definitely see that

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as, as, as being a thing. So what's your final

00:23:58.890 --> 00:24:01.490
thoughts on centers? I'm glad you finally got

00:24:01.490 --> 00:24:04.809
a chance to catch this one. Yeah. Okay. So I,

00:24:04.849 --> 00:24:06.930
I don't think it's going to be any surprise to

00:24:06.930 --> 00:24:10.150
anybody who knows me, my favorite thread through

00:24:10.150 --> 00:24:16.769
this movie is Annie, the role of the witch, because

00:24:16.769 --> 00:24:21.470
as people know, I, I proudly call myself a witch

00:24:21.470 --> 00:24:26.809
and I'm, hoping that the term of which will come

00:24:26.809 --> 00:24:31.490
to light as the wise woman or wise person that

00:24:31.490 --> 00:24:33.809
it is that the role that they play in society

00:24:33.809 --> 00:24:36.809
is knowing the herbs and remedies and medicines

00:24:36.809 --> 00:24:40.369
and folklore and all of the generational connections

00:24:40.369 --> 00:24:44.809
that apply here because annie is the one who

00:24:44.809 --> 00:24:48.089
it's clear that When we first meet her, she's

00:24:48.089 --> 00:24:50.869
the one handing out herbal remedies to people

00:24:50.869 --> 00:24:53.349
in the town, people in the community. She's the

00:24:53.349 --> 00:24:56.329
one that people go to for charms, amulets, protection,

00:24:56.710 --> 00:25:01.789
whatever kind of witchcraft is needed. And she's

00:25:01.789 --> 00:25:05.869
respected for that role and position. And then

00:25:05.869 --> 00:25:08.670
she's kind of the one who is going to know what

00:25:08.670 --> 00:25:12.700
to do here. They have to turn to her when normally

00:25:12.700 --> 00:25:15.140
they would turn to Smoke and Stack to be like,

00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:17.480
what do we do here, guys? They're the soldiers.

00:25:17.559 --> 00:25:19.740
They're the ones who are going to be the brawn

00:25:19.740 --> 00:25:24.579
around what's going on and take action. But in

00:25:24.579 --> 00:25:26.940
order to make a plan, in order to know what they're

00:25:26.940 --> 00:25:28.900
up against, in order to know what tools they

00:25:28.900 --> 00:25:31.140
have, they're going to be looking at Annie because

00:25:31.140 --> 00:25:33.559
she's going to be like, so we've got garlic,

00:25:33.660 --> 00:25:37.859
we've got this going on, we've got... And when

00:25:37.859 --> 00:25:41.299
we kill them, when we kill their maker, they

00:25:41.299 --> 00:25:43.299
keep going because they're vampires. This is

00:25:43.299 --> 00:25:46.019
what we need to know about all of this. We need

00:25:46.019 --> 00:25:48.140
wooden stakes. This is the only way to kill them.

00:25:49.039 --> 00:25:54.940
So I really respect that, that that was highlighted

00:25:54.940 --> 00:25:58.339
here, that that knowledge and wisdom is passed

00:25:58.339 --> 00:26:01.480
down mother to daughter, typically, and that

00:26:01.480 --> 00:26:05.440
it was women who held this kind of... a respected

00:26:05.440 --> 00:26:09.200
place in society at one point more so than men

00:26:09.200 --> 00:26:14.539
and it has been a 6 000 year patriarchal push

00:26:14.539 --> 00:26:18.779
to get women out of the medical community or

00:26:18.779 --> 00:26:22.000
to have their wisdom and knowledge on the subjects

00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:24.059
that you're seeing in this movie to have them

00:26:24.059 --> 00:26:29.180
be um squashed squandered hidden uh debunked

00:26:29.180 --> 00:26:33.549
like made to look stupid made to look fake made

00:26:33.549 --> 00:26:37.809
to look like it's just hocus pocus whatever it

00:26:37.809 --> 00:26:40.690
is yeah illegitimate right like to just be like

00:26:40.690 --> 00:26:43.089
ah you don't know what you're talking about exactly

00:26:43.089 --> 00:26:46.049
and so I love that that was highlighted and it

00:26:46.049 --> 00:26:48.710
was shown as what it really is yeah and that's

00:26:48.710 --> 00:26:54.970
Amy Wunmi Mosaku Zaria Nigerian born she's also

00:26:54.970 --> 00:26:59.029
been in Deadpool and Wolverine and was in Lovecraft

00:26:59.029 --> 00:27:03.329
Country The television series. I love her. She

00:27:03.329 --> 00:27:06.890
was fantastic. And there's so many great actors

00:27:06.890 --> 00:27:11.049
in this movie that we're talking about. Michael

00:27:11.049 --> 00:27:15.250
B. Jordan, Smoke Stack, you know, Jack O 'Connell

00:27:15.250 --> 00:27:18.369
even. He was great in it. There's tons of them.

00:27:19.109 --> 00:27:22.829
And I just think that this movie will probably

00:27:22.829 --> 00:27:26.450
live for a while. I think it will hold up well

00:27:26.450 --> 00:27:29.660
and we'll be able to see this again. in a couple

00:27:29.660 --> 00:27:32.619
years, maybe even a decade, maybe even longer,

00:27:32.700 --> 00:27:36.859
and still feel the same way. And that's crazy.

00:27:36.980 --> 00:27:40.099
Maybe this will be more of a piece that people

00:27:40.099 --> 00:27:42.960
can watch 50 years from now and say, oh, my gosh,

00:27:43.079 --> 00:27:45.700
things were like that back then, and not think

00:27:45.700 --> 00:27:49.200
about how bad. Yeah. I mean, I hope that it's

00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:53.940
very much. still relevant in that people will

00:27:53.940 --> 00:27:56.680
go, yes, absolutely, that's what it was like,

00:27:56.759 --> 00:28:00.720
that Black history isn't something that is so

00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:03.519
buried that it's like, oh, that's not real, that's

00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:05.720
fake, or that's not really what it was like.

00:28:06.420 --> 00:28:09.559
Pretty much it was, and in some places and some

00:28:09.559 --> 00:28:13.119
things it still is. So yeah, I'm hoping that

00:28:13.119 --> 00:28:17.000
that still shows true. Let me throw out one more

00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:20.849
shout out to Jedediah. played by Saul Williams.

00:28:20.970 --> 00:28:24.170
I've been on Saul Williams for the longest time.

00:28:24.210 --> 00:28:28.569
He is a spoken word poet slash rapper. If you

00:28:28.569 --> 00:28:32.410
haven't heard some of Saul Williams songs, go

00:28:32.410 --> 00:28:34.869
check that out. And you're going to be, you've

00:28:34.869 --> 00:28:38.710
heard one because Nike finally got smart and

00:28:38.710 --> 00:28:41.750
put one of his songs in a commercial, oh, a decade,

00:28:41.829 --> 00:28:45.849
maybe 15 years ago. But Saul Williams, on point

00:28:45.849 --> 00:28:48.950
with the poetry. You've got to check it out.

00:28:49.029 --> 00:28:53.769
And that's going to do it for this episode of

00:28:53.769 --> 00:28:55.410
Parallel Frequencies. I don't really know what

00:28:55.410 --> 00:28:57.390
we've got coming up this week. I haven't had

00:28:57.390 --> 00:28:58.349
a chance to leave the schedule. Neither do I.

00:28:58.569 --> 00:29:02.049
You don't either? Freaks, we're sorry. We've

00:29:02.049 --> 00:29:06.369
got some, again, technical issues. We're just

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switching over the schedule so that we can get

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back on track. But, yeah, we'll figure it out.

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All right. It'll be a surprise for now. Well,

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that's going to do it for this episode of Parallel

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Frequencies. We broke down centers. I am just

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Blaine. That's Coco. You are the freaks, and

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we will see you on the other side.