This is the FCB Podcast Network. Our prayers, Masoda. Day that we won't was sad and we won't to say all we got it? Does no one can take that away? Say it's gonna be okaya. Day that we won't was saying and we won't wast say all we got it? Does? No one get take that away? Don't bad it's don't be okay. Well, hello, everybody, welcome back to another episode of Just Listen to Yourself with Kira Davis. I am your host. You guessed at Kira Davis, and this is a podcast where we take hot topics, hot button issues, and we discuss the talking points on those issues, and we draw those talking points all the way out to their logical conclusion. Got bonus episode for you this week. It's a bonus listeners. I'll also be doing a regular episode, but I've had so many listener responses and some of them are so good I just didn't want to forget about them, so I usually don't do them back to back like this. I think I just had one in June, but got a lot of emails, and actually my listener response shows are some of my favorites, so I'm gonna do another one. Well, let's get started. Let's start with a really nice one. Just ease into this. Oh, by the way, before I start, I do want to say thank you to everybody who sent me condolences. So many of you sent me kind messages through the email and on social media expressing your condolences about the loss of my father. It's just been a trying time for the family, and so I appreciate all the prayers, the well wishes and the kind regards. It means a lot to me. Thank you that you took the time. So here is a nice little message from John says. I am a Greek American and a native born and raised in Gary, Indiana. I'm proud as a Hoosier. I was drafted in sixty five and have been living in Virginia ever since my discharge from the military in sixty eight. I like your presentation of the news on Fox News. Keep up the great work. I remember the Jackson five back in the good old days. Also well known football player Alex Carrass, etc. Et cetera. Good luck John. Thank you John. I just love that he had mentioned the Jackson five and Gary. Yes, that's right, the Jackson Five are from Gary, Indiana. It's sort of the claim to fame there. I actually didn't know Alex carass was from Gary as well, of course that he I don't know him as a football player. He's the guy from Webster, right, he's also an actor. Webster's where I remember him from. But yeah, the Jackson five were the Jacksons were born and raised in Gary, and Gary's a small place to you know, if you're from there, you probably know somebody who knew the Jacksons. Of course, they haven't lived there for a very long time, and unfortunately there is they They have made the house a historic site I guess, which is only recent and has taken forever. And it's just sad that the city of Gary, it's the one thing that they have to brag about, sort of the one tourist thing, and the city of Gary has never been able to get it together properly enough to give the home or any kind of museum the attention that it deserves. So the home is still you're still in the middle of the hood by the home, and they've been going back and forth about a museum forever. I think it's been approved. But the thing about Gary politics is it's an exact replica of Chicago politics. So everybody's entrenched, everybody's on the take. The Jacksons are such a legacy, and I know, I know there's a lot of controversy with that legacy, and we'll set that aside for now. Regardless, it just is a historical story. That's what a historical means. It's a historical notion. Event family. They're important to the history of Gary, and I've always been disappointed that they've never been able to do something properly with the Jackson legacy there. But maybe that's a sign of, you know, the trials and tribulations of the Jackson family in general. Okay, let's move on this one. I loved this is from somebody who wanted to remain anonymous. I will just they gave me a pen name, and i'll even shorten that pen name DW. So. And I don't know if this is a man or a woman, but DW sent a great response to something. Well, I'll just read it. I think this is a great letter. DW says, Hey, Kia, I've been listening to back episodes for a while, and you said in episode two oh seven, the relationship between government and the press, something about misinformation or disinformation, whichever you prefer to call it. I'll if I can correct you on a small point. Yes, you made, DW. That's what listener responses are for. MISS refers to wrong information and dis refers to intentionally wrong or manipulative. I'm putting wrong in quotes here because, as we both know, no one has a monopoly untruth. To be fair, my sources for this are MPR, HA HA and that legal disaster known as g d g B. See if you can remember what that stands for, DW. I didn't remember how to look it up. Of course. dB is the short lived Disinformation Government Board, which went the way of many poorly thought out schemes in our government. Or which is to say that the board itself went away and the idea of it just got absorbed into the rest of government, because no bad ideas ever go away in government. They just get another label. D W says. Something I've noticed is that the culture is really terrible at distinguishing similar things. Occasionally, even on NPR, shocking, I know, they'll get MISS and DISK confused. But this is coming from the people who told us that radiation was coming over the Pacific Ocean from the Kushima two things. That was contamination, not radiation, and the average radiation dosage cause was less than that from the X ray at the dentist's office. Thank you for that. Thank you so much, because I mean, thank you for that sidebar, DW congratulations, famous Davis sidebar in your email. But yeah, when we were told like the nuclear reactor at Fukushima was going to like kill the ocean, and I was like, okay, but is it like we have set off atomic bombs in the ocean on a pretty regular basis, still do and the ocean seems to keep on oceaning. So I think we greatly underestimate the ability of the Earth to heal itself, even from the terrible things that we do. But also just the majesty of it, right, like how big it is. Ocean is so big it has the ability to absorb a lot of abuse and keep on going. And so I'm glad you cleared that Fukushima thing up. Like I was like, Okay, if this is really the end of the world, then we should all be, you know, dying of radiation poison in a year. And obviously that didn't happen, And of course not because I've lived ten miles from a nuclear reactor which is offline right now unfortunately and will be because it's California. But the thing, the people who design these things aren't idiots, right, They're people. Say they're on ocean and that's dangerous. They're there for a reason, for exactly the reason that happened during that unfortunate tidal wave. I know unfortunate is an understatement, that Japanese tidal wave that wiped out the Fukushima plant. The whole reason it's on the ocean is because if there's an accident, the safest place for all that stuff to go is to the ocean. But even still, there are so many safety features that the fact that that Fukushima plant didn't cause some kind of global emergency like we have been promised what happened with nuclear power, I think speaks to the fat speaks to the validity of nuclear power. Anyways, another famous Davis sidebar. Also, thank you for clearing up, miss and I'm probably still going to get it mixed up. And I think you're right. We do have a tendency to conflate or mix up things that are similar. This probably goes back to the idea that nuances is dead. And I'm going to read another part of your email. You actually sent me a second email, DW, but to read this as part of this email because you made a great you asked a great question in there as well, made a great point in there as well, So it probably speaks to the fact that nuance is dead, but also that we live in these bite sized times, right, So you have you listen to NPR. Even NPR has a clock that they're working against, so hosts, reporters, you've got thirty seconds, one minute, five minutes to get a point in Sometimes you can't get detailed or you get distracted thinking about the clock. You don't have time to think about those nuances. So it's probably just a sign of the carelessness of modern media in general. And I would include myself in that. So thanks for that, Thanks for that. All right, let's take a quick break because when we come back, I DW had made a point that I want to speak to, So don't go anywhere, So DW says, DW, I don't want to read this whole email because it's actually a very detailed discussion of categorizing like types, variants, fields, structures. But basically what DW is saying is that if we look at the structure of a decision, there are you know, there's black and white and there's gray. And I talk a lot about nuance on this show and how nuance is dead and we don't have room for the nuances an argument, and DW makes an argument that nuances should not be the end all be all, because a decision must be made based on information regardless if there's nuance are not so the basis is that a decision can be three things that can be black, white, or not gray. DW says gray is reductive and glosses over the fact that there is a decision to be made. Moreover, it ignores the fact that each aspect of that decision might lead other people to a different conclusion. My argument isn't that nuance is isn't important. It's just saying that there is gray. Cannot adequately adequately describe such nuance. The only thing that can is recursive structure, which has no gray. Okay, So I loved this because I think that DW is bringing up a point that I probably don't talk about enough on the show when I talk about nuance, and I think this is absolutely a great opportunity to make this clarity. Nuance is nothing but informations. Basically with Dw's whole email says, nuances information. It's just more information then you have from an initial look, from a quick look. Right. The nuance is what is underneath an argument that could give you added information to help you make a decision. But nuance is not a gray area. There are gray areas, but the gray areas only need more nuance so that you have more of the information so you can make a decision. I am not for a gray area. I'm for digging into the gray areas so that you can clear out that gray and make a decision black or white, left or right, right or wrong whatever. I hate indecisiveness, and to talk about nuanced away I do is not an approval of quote the gray area. God doesn't like the gray area. He hates the lukewarm. He hates it. The Bible doesn't talk a lot about what God hates, but there's a few things he hates. Sin is one of them, and lukewarm people or another. The imagery is so stark and harsh, I will turn my head and spit you out of my mouth like something that tastes terrible, so to be lukewarm, to be it's it's kind of why I like, I don't really like this thing that I see some pundits doing where they're like, yeah, I'm not hard right, I'm not on the left, you know, I'm just really independent. I'm in the middle, as if they're better than the rest of us because we've made a decision for one side of the other. No, I think that that's that's being lukewarm. It's sitting on a fence, and I think that's cowardly and weak. I do. And I have friends who have made a whole brand on being fence sitters, and they're proud of it, and I don't find it appealing. I don't. I don't think it's a very brave position to take. I think, like dw is saying, if you dig into the gray areas, if you look at the equation as having three parts two black, white, and gray, you need to make a decision for one of it. You're either getting out of the gray area, or you're choosing black, or you're choosing white. You need to make a choice. The nuance is only there for you to have as much information as possible in order for you to make a decision. But making a decision is the end goal of every argument that I make on this show. If you ever hear Kara Davis say I don't really care about that, you can damn well take it to the bank that I am being genuine and I do not care about that because I have an opinion about nearly everything. So if you and I believe in making choices about nearly everything, So if you hear me say, oh, I haven't decided how to feel about that, I'm genuinely just uncaring or unbothered about it. Thank you DW for that excellent point and giving me a chance to clarify that love it. Your emails were fantastic. Thank you so much for writing in and listening. As always, you are greatly appreciated. If you have comments to match WS or any other don't forget you can write us at j L. T Y at ProtonMail dot com. J lt Y at ProtonMail dot com. All right, James wrote me. James says, I thoroughly enjoyed your podcast about the black history curriculum in Florida. I appreciate the struggles you went through in reading it. At least it wasn't the voter laws this time, right A men, my friend. By the way, I had Kesha King on to talk about it as well. We had a great discussion about it. It's posted this week as well, So go look at that interview. Listen to that interview. We had a good time. Anyways, James goes on to say, I think you hit on a couple of pieces that are at the heart of why progressives want it struck down. First, the movement of former slaves and descendants of slaves toward the North was a factor in leading to the formation of labor unions, which, in being a student of history, I have to admit I did not know. Just consider the union support of Democrat politicians and you'll understand why they don't want that taught in schools. The reality that their number one source of campaign cash for more than a hundred years was founded under racist principles is not something they can admit. The other is a personal finances portion and the understanding of how taxes work. I recall a line about distribution of tax money for welfare and other government entitlements. Income redistribution was a big tenant of the Obama administration. And they've been lying about that ever since. The truth is the truth. Here is something that cannot be spoken. This is just another progressive distraction tactic of firing people up about something minor to try to keep their lives hidden. Unfortunately, some of the conservative side have taken the bait. I appreciate your podcasts, I enjoy your substack and have recommended your book. Thank you for all you do well, thank you so much. And Jim he signed it Jim. His email is James, but they signed it Jim. Thank you so much. Jim. I really appre shape that I got a lot of emails about the Florida curriculum that we're similar to yours, and a lot of them were people going I just really did not see. I didn't understand what was going on here, why people were so upset. Even Keisha was like, I was really confused and had no idea that this would even be controversial at all. And I do think it is. It is drummed up, and I've I've said it several times in the episode, but the whole curriculum is excellent. It should be a model for the for the rest of the States. And so if that if that one single line in two hundred and sixteen pages of information is the only thing that Democrats could pounce on that tells me that this is a really good curriculum, because there's two hundred and sixteen pages of information in there that you could pull from, you know what I mean, Like in two hundred and sixteen pages, there's got to be something. If this is a terrible, racist, awful curriculum, then in two hundred and sixteen pages, there has to be more than one single line that would corroborate your case. And there and this is it. This is just the one line that they pulled out, and and that's all it is. It's just one line. Go back and listen to my episode. I think I made my case very clear. I think I won the argument that I was making with myself. Congratulations to me. Isn't an amazing how on my own show. I win all my own arguments, I know, But yeah, Jim, thank you so much for that observation. And yeah, I when I became a conservative, one of my mentors was a gentleman who's it was a black man who did a lot of niche work on union stuff, and so I learned a lot from him. That he was a and I hate to anti union activists, but he really believed that public sector unions were detrimental to black prosperity. So he did a lot of research on it. It's what he focused on whenever he was discussing and writing. And so I learned a lot from him, especially about the Davis Bacon Act, and I would it's one of the things that really pushed me hard to the right, was learning. Because you guys know I've said this often. In fact, I just did. I recorded I'll be on radio this Sunday. I recorded a show with John Wood Junior, who is the CEO, or not the CEO, but one of the co founder founders of braver Angels, which is a network website podcast YadA Ya YadA dedicated to sort of bringing together different points of view and love what he does. And so he's got a new radio show on Tabith Smiley's new network, and so, but his show airs on Sundays and his wife doesn't like him to work on Sundays. We went we prerecorded this week, and I was telling him about my journey from from liberal to conservative, and I was telling him the look, the reason I am a conservative is because of black people. It's because I felt so moved by the way history has affected and the way modern politics, as a result of that history has affected the plight of Black America. And I saw and see every day so much potential and so many glorious things about this community, this wide and crazy community we call Black America. I wanted things that worked for us, and I, using logic and reason and empirical evidence, looking around me the policies we were voting for and that I was supporting, I saw they didn't work for us, and I wanted to do things that work for us. So that's why I became a conservative. It's why i'm a conservative to this day. It's because of Black America. And I feel passionately about enacting policy and cultural norms that support and prosper Black Americans, and I think conservatism is the quickest way to that. I got an email from another gym and he did something that I thought, oh, you know, it's so kind, But I realized maybe other people want to be kind as well, and I haven't shared properly where you can be kind. Jim donated a little money to the show, completely imprompted, and he actually made an effort to find out how we could do that, and I realized, maybe I've made it hard for people. It's hard. I think you probably feel the same way. It's hard to sort of ask people for things. I provide a product, and I think that's fair. You know, it's fair for you to subscribe to my sub stack and we have an exchange there. The idea that people would want to support my voice and what I do just by being generous is odd and it feels so antithetical to you know, what I do and what I believe that I almost feel uncomfortable about it. So Jim reach out to me, said I want to support you. Where do I give you money? So thank you, Jim, thank you for your support. First of all, thank you for making the effort to find out how you can support me. I mean, man, that just meant so much to me. And if you would like to join Jim, you don't have to. It's not a requirement. I'm not asking you to do anything. But I do have a tip jar on my website. Just Creadavis dot com or sign up for my substack. I mean, just give me your six dollars a month or I think it's I think it's five dollars a month, sixty bucks a year. You can do that. But that's a way you can support me. Go to my website and there's a tip jar right on there and you can just like drop cash in there. Thank you so much. So. Jim, in addition to his gift, also gave me the gift of some thoughts, and he says, Kira, I'm listening to your podcast episode about the hubbub around the Florida curriculum. It's brilliant. Thank you so much for your level headed analysis and perspective, including you're celebrating the curriculums incorporating the history of the American slaves into the general American history. Yes, yes, yes, this particular example is representative, in my honest opinion, of what the nation should be doing culturally. Don't blinch, don't get huffy for goodness sake, don't develop or nurture grievance. Let's all just look it in the face, embrace it, even and get back to our lives together. We're all Americans. We come together and move forward, or we eat ourselves to the extent that there are Neil Mark so participating in the public discourse. One supposes that perspective would like us to tear everything down so that the utopia can finally emerge. You and I know better. I presume you're reading Chris Rufo's new book. I'm not reading it, but I do know Chris. It's excellent. I recommend it his scholarly dive into recent history, particularly Herbert Marques lays Bear. How what we're seeing today is something we've seen before. Jim, Amen, you are a listener to this show because you know I say that all the time there is nothing new under the sun, and I find a strange sort of comfort in that for us, these issues are new, and the ferocity with which they have pounced on the public discourse has been disconcerting and disturbing, all the disses, not the missus dw and so I get it feels like, well, it's never been like this before, It's never been like this for us before, and yeah, it is unnerving, But there are many examples you can look to in history of other nations even and the trajectory is the same. I mean, once you get rid of God in society, then we start worshiping, Like what we worship gets whackier and whackier, the idea of men being women, of human trafficking, of making sex with minors normalized. Like these are all things that have happened in many different societies throughout history, slavery, racism, sexism, misogyny, entertainment, culture, trends, and entertainment. Did you know that in the eighteen hundreds there was a true crime obsessions, right? And that somebody pointed out that the true crime obsession directly preceded World War One? And I read that it made some kind They made some kind of connection between the public public discontent and obsession with dark things, sort of being a bell weather for the darkness of war to come, like where we all were at, I guess as as humanity. So I don't know how much validity is in that, But in the eighteen hundreds people were obset. Early eighteen hundreds, there was all of a sudden, this huge push for crime stories. And that's when you started a lot of these true crimes shows now that we see are using reports and books written in the eighteen hundreds, because all of a sudden people can get it, couldn't get enough of it. They were selling books like crazy. There were cereals and magazines. I mean, it was an absolute obsession. So even that's not new for us, you know, right, So the idea of a social contagion, I would say, like like transgenderism. I'm really seriously thinking about writing a book about this. But if you know anything about the Salem witch Trials and that whole era of accusing people of being witches or involved in witchcraft, we now look upon it as a quaint and disturbing time in American history, but it really it echoes a lot of what is happening right now with social contagions, and the satisfaction people get out of it, the self righteousness of people who who were sold out to the idea, and the judgment they had for others who didn't tow the line. I mean, some of the things that you read people saying about those who were trying to bring a little logic to these witch trials. You read some of the things that their detractors were saying. You could put it in twenty twenty three. All that to say, I know I'm getting on a sidebar here, but all that to say is that there is nothing new on in the sun. Jim is absolutely right. This has happened before. Chris Rufo knows it. Lots of people know it, and I do find a strange comfort in that it doesn't mean that bad things aren't happening, and it doesn't mean that we should resign ourselves to all It is just history repeating itself. That's not it at all. But I do think it means that you don't need to panic. I do. I don't think it's healthy for us to be sitting around with our guts and knots every day thinking about the decline of the American era and what's happening in society. We're we're in a historical cycle. That's where we are. We have our part to play. We don't know how it all ends up at the end of the day. I think we can find a little comfort in the knowledge that we're not the first people to ever gone through this, and humanity will survive this as well. Last female from one of my regulars, Neil always look forward to your emails. Neil, thank you. I look forward to all your emails again if you want to send them to me, jail to lie at ProtonMail dot com. Neil says, I'm currently in the middle of listening to the episode of you and your daughter discussing the Barbie movie. I am perplexed how other conservatives have had different reviews. But you know something that just occurred to me. If someone likes, say Ben Shapiro, really wanted to torpedo a movie and destroy a director's career, he should give it a glowing two thumbs up. Go see this movie. They would be like what, No, it's a kiss of death, and the rage mob will eat their own They'll get blacklisted by the Hollywood left, and it will all be over. I totally, I totally agree. It's so funny. This isn't in regards to a movie. But I think this story will illustrate what you were saying, Neil. A couple of years ago, maybe before COVID, Ben Shapiro was getting some kind of hack on Twitter for who knows what right, Like whatever's that's the whole deal with Shapiro on Twitter. So he was getting a lot of heck from the left. And Mark Duplas, who is a Hollywood very accomplished, award winning Hollywood screenwriter, actor, comedian. I'm a big fan of his. He is a part of a duel, the Duplas brothers, and there's sort of a powerhouse on the Hollywood scene. Now, Mark Duplass knows Ben Shapiro. Ben Shapiro is not the fact that benj Hero was so well known as not an accident. He was born into into the Hollywood scene. He was raised in la and went to school with a lot of the people that he criticizes and talks about. He was a wealthy kid and he grew up with other wealthy Hollywood kids. So he I say, let's say he knows a lot of these people personally. A lot of them know him personally, and they still take jabs at him. And I think this one time, Mark was like, oh okay, Like I get it that I disagree with basically everything Ben believes. But I'll tell you what. When I needed something in Hollywood to get a project done, Ben was the only person who could make this connection for me, and he helped me and then some he went out of his way to help me get this that he didn't mention what it was, but he said he went out of his way to help me, and I'll always remember that. Well, he got canceled like that. I mean, he had to go on the apology tour. And it's the same language isn't it. It's like, I am so sorry. I have been educated, and I'm just going to keep educating myself, you know, on bigotry, and I'm not going to enable bigotry. He Ben being nice about something that Mark was involved in was enough to get Mark canceled. Oh, Neil, you're dead on now. Mark dug himself, He dug himself out with that apology. He apologized, and then he got off Twitter for a long time, which was a smart thing to do. Mark. I would like to say that you're a coward. I love all your work, but you're a coward. That was an especially crappy thing to do to Ben when you know him personally. Not returning the favor. Dude, that was not a return of a favor. What you should have done, Mark is told everybody to take a hike. We're not getting involved and I'm not having this discussion. I said what I said, everyone move on. The news cycle moves so fast, dude, the quicker you just it'll go away. It'll go away, just these apologies, or I should do a whole show where I just read people's dumb ass apologies. What was I talking about? You guys just been rambling. Good. Great, Sorry, I gotta get to the last part of this. Sorry, Neil, all right, last part of the email, Neil says, I'm in the middle of listening to episode three ninety nine of the Babylon b podcast, and they're talking about the Barbie movie and they said that at the end of the movie, Barbie chose to go live in the real world, the real world where women are supposedly treated so terribly with a wage gap. So I'll speak to that. Neil made a couple of points here. I don't think you've seen the movie, Neil, and so you're sort of speaking on what other people are saying. So that is the good thing about the Barbie movies. In the end, she chooses to be in the real world because what she realizes is that she is a an idealistic copy. She has become an idealistic copy of what a real woman is. So on Barbie Land she thinks that Barbies have solved all the problems of women, and we have created strong womanhood and things are great, and this is what a woman looks like. And then she comes to realize that Barbie Land is a utopia and the real world is something different and the real world. Being a woman is complicated and nuanced, and it comes with all kinds of beauty and grace and awkwardness and pain and suffering, and it has all of these things that go into it. So in the end, she chooses to be in the real world because she wants to be a real woman, not a copy of one. I think, I think, I don't know if Greta Gerwig meant to do this. I think this movie is very subversive. My goodness, I don't know why Ben Shapiro hated it so much. I, honest to God, cannot figure it out. It's a movie that celebrates blatantly girlhood. It celebrates the difference between men and women, like unapologetically, it's about wanting to be the natural woman you are because that's what you were created to be. So yeah, Barbie does go to the real world where things aren't great, but that's because that's where real women live in the real world, and we need to start looking at women as complicated creatures and not just Barbie dolls. Neil goes on to say, in the Barbie world, Barbie can be anything she wants. It's Barbie's world, and Barbie is in charge. Not Ken. He should serve for Barbie. He's a houseboy like Kato Kaylan, open to interpretation as to why he's even there. Yeah, that's the whole point. I wrote a substack about this also, in which I made some further points if you want to read that. But that is the whole point. Ken. This is not a movie about the relationship between men and women. And I think that's the problem people are having. They think it's supposed to be saying something about men and women, and that's not what it's about. Ken has never been an important character in the Barbie universe. Nobody played with Ken dolls. When I was a kid, you had a Ken doll because kind of needed him to make the other stuff work. But the way that the Barbie movie treats Ken is a way we treated Ken when we were kids, which is he's just a guy. He's just there. And there's a song in this movie called I'm Just Ken, and and that's that's who Ken, the Barbie doll was. He was always just Ken. You didn't you didn't ask for a Ken for Christmas? Who asked for a Barbie? So the movie's just reflecting how we have always treated Ken. It's not supposed to be some kind of deep dive into the male psyche. It's about how the Barbie Movie is about women, so it's not about men. It's not about men. I think this is what some conservatives are having trouble with. They think that it's supposed to be saying something redemptive about the male female relationship, and it's not about men. Neil says, I kind of want to go see the Barbie Movie now, and wondering if the ending sets it up for a sequel and where that story will go. Well, Neil, I don't know if I will recommend you see I mean, if you're curious, go see it. It's made a billion dollars at the box office, and that's a big deal for a movie that's not a Marvel movie. I think that's that speaks to like the legitimacy of this story. But it's a girl movie. It's a blatantly unapologetic girl movie. It's made for girls, and that's who it's speaking to. And so I don't know if you want to You didn't probably didn't play with Barbies when you were a little boy, So it's okay if you don't want to go see the Barbie Movie as a grown man, but I recommended I thought it was really good, and maybe you want to see it because you just want to see what all the fuss is about. Again, I think that's a good reason to go see it as well. I hope there's no sequel, but you know, that's just a billion dollars. How could they not make a sequel. I just don't see how you would follow up such a great story. And the downside of that is also all anything that they make moving forward is going to reflect the social media fuss, and so they're gonna respond and react, and that always changes the voice of a movie and changes the direction, and it always adds a heaviness to a sequel that like Peter Jackson had it right. He made all of his movies at the same time. And I think if studios want to do multiple if they want to do franchises, I think I'm in favor of like locking down those actors for three years of their lives, paying them handsomely and just knocking out three or four films at once, and then you have a pure story and you're not reactive. So I hope there's not a sequel because I feel like it'll be reactive in all the wrong ways. But you know, I don't hold out hope. Crossing the billion dollar mark pretty much guarantees some kind of sequel. I bet we would see some kind of can Sequeloh, because I'll say this, I'll end on this. Ryan Gossling was amazing as Ken. It's the most ridiculous thing to say out loud, but I think he scissors an oscar for this performance. And I am not even kidding. I wish I were, I am not even kidding. Margot Robbie is great as Barbie, but and she gives the perfect performance, but I think she's limited by the character because she's playing generic Barbie. Literally, her Barbie in the movie is stereotypical Barbie. She has a line where she's like, I'm stereotypical Barbie. You know, the Barbie you think about whenever somebody says the name Barbie. That's me. This is all kinds of Barbies. But there's one Barbie. And so she has to play this very generalized role. But Ryan Gosling gets to dig into some and he's got some layers. He gives Ken some layers. I'm just like, wow, how did he do this a whole new level of respect for Ryan Gosling. Do not be surprised if you see him making the rounds at awards season for this role. I promise you. 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