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88 Dune: Part Two

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 09:00:00 GMT

This episode we review the film Dune: Part Two. We are Blerding Out about Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, BlkMarket, Disney+ mini series Iwájú and Iwájú: A Day Ahead, Crossroads Arts Center, and the live action Avatar: The Last Airbender. The topics discussed in our Blerd Update segment are: the Avatar: The Last Airbender Netflix series renewal, GalaxyCon, Naruto live action director announced, and the death of Akira Toriyama. Review Timestamp 45:35 Artist Lizzie B From the Core Art Studio https://9fvb.short.gy/LizzieBCoreArtStudio *Correction Shang-chi director Destin Daniel Cretton Avatar Fakeout Video https://9fvb.short.gy/AvatarFakeout Marvel Cancellation Video https://9fvb.short.gy/MarvelCancellation Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun Show Notes by Bola Hanson Audio engineering by Whitney Booker Show Contact Info: Subscribe to our email newsletter: blerdtalkbw.ck.page Email: blerdtalkbw@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blerdtalkbw/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlerdTalkBW TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@blerdtalkbw YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@blerdtalkbw Bola’s contact info: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triplefqueenb YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@triplefqueenb Whitney’s company contact info: Email: whit@lumenavi.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/lumenavistudios

87 Bob Marley: One Love

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 10:00:00 GMT

On today's episode we are reviewing Bob Marley: One Love. We are Blerding Out about Self Reflection, self growth, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Wicked film trailer, and the Song Exploder podcast. Review Timestamp 36:14 Wicked Trailer https://9fvb.short.gy/Wicked Bad Times at the El Royale https://9fvb.short.gy/BadTimesElRoyale Nina Cried Power- Hozier https://9fvb.short.gy/NinaCriedPower Song Exploder podcast RSS feed: https://9fvb.short.gy/SongExploder Whitney’s favorite Song Exploder podcast episodes: Siddhartha Khosla - Only Murders in the Building (Main Title Theme) episode https://9fvb.short.gy/OnlyMurderstheme Seal - Kiss from a Rose episode https://9fvb.short.gy/KissfromaRose Hozier- Nina Cried Power (feat. Mavis Staples) episode https://9fvb.short.gy/NinaCriedPowerep Rastafarianism https://9fvb.short.gy/Rastafarianism Black Jeopardy https://9fvb.short.gy/BlackJeopardy Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun Show Notes by Bola Hanson Audio engineering by Whitney Booker Show Contact Info: Subscribe to our email newsletter: blerdtalkbw.ck.page Email: blerdtalkbw@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blerdtalkbw/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlerdTalkBW TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@blerdtalkbw YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@blerdtalkbw Bola’s contact info: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triplefqueenb YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@triplefqueenb Whitney’s company contact info: Email: whit@lumenavi.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/lumenavistudios

86 Origin

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:59:20 GMT

Today's episode your blerd girls review the film Origin by Ava DuVernay. We are Blerding Out about Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, Barbarian, the Moana 2 teaser, Brahmastra Part One: Shiva, What If Season 2, and Bridgerton Season 3 teasers. Our anime updates are on KhromaKon, the Spy x Family film trailer, the Naruto fan animation, and the Avatar: The Last Airbender live action series. Review Timestamp : 31:24 Ava DuVernay Interviews https://9fvb.short.gy/AvaInterview1 https://9fvb.short.gy/AvaInterview2 Isabel Wilkerson Interviews https://9fvb.short.gy/IsabelInterview1 https://9fvb.short.gy/IsabelInterview2 Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun Show Notes by Bola Hanson Audio engineering by Whitney Booker Show Contact Info: Subscribe to our email newsletter: blerdtalkbw.ck.page Email: blerdtalkbw@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blerdtalkbw/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlerdTalkBW TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@blerdtalkbw YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@blerdtalkbw Bola’s contact info: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triplefqueenb YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@triplefqueenb Whitney’s company contact info: Email: whit@lumenavi.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/lumenavistudios

85 American Fiction

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 10:00:00 GMT

On today's episode we are reviewing the critically acclaimed film American Fiction. We are Blerding Out about Kpop band BlackSwan, anime Spy x Family, anime music, Marvel's Echo and Max’s True Detective. Our Topics in Blackness discussed on the pod were the Jonathan Majors case and the Kat Williams Club Shay Shay interview.

Review Timestamp

40:33

Erasure by Percival Everett - the novel American Fiction is adapted from.

BlackSwan-Music Video

Jonathan Majors Interview

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Kat Williams Interview

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Article about American Fiction Ending

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American Fiction Cast Panel

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Jeffery Wright and Sterling K. Brown video

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84 The Color Purple

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 10:00:00 GMT

Happy New Year Folks! For our first episode of the year we are reviewing the new The Color Purple film from 2023 with a guest, our blerd friend, Jane Samuels. We are Blerding Out about Tooth and Claw Podcast, This American Life Podcast, book The Covenant of Water, the Temu shopping app, the film Saltburn, Xena: Warrior Princess, Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story documentary, Hulu series Black Cake and Small Island.

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Oprah and the Color Purple Journey documentary on Max:

Review Timestamp 1:01:58

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83 Wonka

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 10:00:00 GMT

Today's episode we review Wonka. We are Blerding Out about Christmas in general. That includes all the songs, decor, music, movies, activities and family time. Listen for a list of our favorite Christmas songs and movies. See some unique Christmas songs below.

Review Timestamp 25:00

Non problematic version of "Baby It's Cold Outside" from Netflix movie Love Hard:

“How Many Kings” - Downhere

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“Merry Christmas” - Ed Sheeran and Elton John

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“River” - Joni Mitchell

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82 Candy Cane Lane

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 10:00:00 GMT

Today's episode we are reviewing the new Christmas film Candy Cane Lane. We are Blerding Out about Netflix shows Big Mouth and Human Resources, the Janelle Monáe song “Make Me Feel”, RVA Explore Tour’s Tacky Light Tour, Christmas Tea at the John Marshall Ballrooms and On the Air Radio Players Christmas play “A Hearthside Holiday”. Our Topics in Blackness are bad hair braiders and Black food documentary High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America season 2.

Review Timestamp 26:58

Janelle Monáe - “Make Me Feel”

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81 Killers of the Flower Moon

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 10:00:00 GMT

On today's episode we are reviewing Killers of the Flower Moon in honor of Native American Heritage Month. We are Blerding Out about Thanksgiving, Dance Candy Band performance, the final season of The Crown, Six the musical, Murder on the Orient Express, the film Men, Loki season 2, and The Marvels film backlash.

*Correction Lily Gladstone is from the Blackfeet tribe not

Osage Review Timestamp 31:45

Documentaries on the Osage Murders

Contextualized explanation of why Osage Women married White Men https://9fvb.short.gy/ylyuW7

The Take Analysis on the film

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80 The Marvels

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 10:00:00 GMT

Today's episode we review The Marvels with special guest Shola Hanson. We are Blerding Out about Thai BL show I Feel You Linger in the Air, Teen Wolf: The Movie, Shah Rukh Khan action films Jawan and Pathaan, and the end of the Actors Strike.

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79 The Other Black Girl

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:00:00 GMT

On today's episode we review the Hulu original series The Other Black Girl. We are Blerding Out about the Lola Akerstrom book Everything is Not Enough, horror film Five Nights at Freddy's, and series The Haunting of Hill House, and The Fall of the House of Usher.

78 Lupin Part 3

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 09:00:00 GMT

Happy October Blerds. Today's episode is on Netflix's Lupin Part 3. We are Blerding Out about Fall activities like apple picking at The Market at Grelen and Carter Mountain Orchard; the pumpkin patch at Chesterfield Berry Farm; and Fall festivals such as the 2nd Street Festival, and the Richmond Folk Festival. Additional Blerd Outs are wheel throwing, the Broadway musical Frozen and the film Chevalier.

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77 Blue Beetle

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 09:00:00 GMT

In today's episode we are reviewing DC's Blue Beetle. We also talk about the Writers, Actors, and Auto workers' strike. We are Blerding Out about Bob Hearts Abishola, RVA LIT FEST, Netflix movie The Mother, the Interview with the Vampire series, and Netflix anime Ooku: The Inner Chambers.

Review Timestamp 39:00Cast Interviewhttps://9fvb.short.gy/H72MOF

Director interview https://9fvb.short.gy/58LtlE

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76 Lupin (Rerun)

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 01:00:27 GMT

In this throwback, rerun episode we discussed the heisty, thrilling Netflix show, Lupin. We also talked about new shows and movies coming out soon, Covid restrictions lifting, and the Juneteenth Dirty South Exhibit at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.41:01 90's Anime Cartoons05:01 Intro to Episode Lupin07:01 Languages and Subtitles08:01 "Dragostea din tei"

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10:17 Netflix and Foreign Films11:31 Workin' Moms on Netflix14:38 Live Action Cowboy Bebop teaser

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75 Barbie

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 09:00:00 GMT

Today's episode we are reviewing the blockbuster smash hit movie of the summer, Barbie. We are Blerding Out about Jo Koy Netflix Specials, the Book Bar RVA Lit Fest, Marvel's Secret Invasion*, Netflix's Heart of Stone, Boruto: Two Blue Vortex manga, Naruto Clue, My Happy Marriage*, Hulu's The Bear, Amazon's The Peripheral, and HBO's The Last of Us.

Review Timestamp

28:04

*Wrong name was said on the podcast correction in the notes

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74 The Flash

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 09:00:00 GMT

In today's episode we review the controversial film The Flash. We are Blerding Out about fishing, the Roy Wood Jr. Comedy Show, electric car charging, the Manifest series finale,Yendidi Ghanaian Restaurant, and the Virginia Beach Funny Bone. Review Timestamp 30:35 Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun Show Notes by Bola Hanson Audio engineering by Whitney Booker Show Contact Info: Subscribe to our email newsletter: blerdtalkbw.ck.page Email: blerdtalkbw@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blerdtalkbw/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlerdTalkBW TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@blerdtalkbw YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@blerdtalkbw Bola’s contact info: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triplefqueenb YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@triplefqueenb Whitney’s company contact info: Email: whit@lumenavi.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/lumenavistudios

73 The Blackening

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 09:00:00 GMT

Bola is out for this episode, so Whitney is instead joined by guest host Liqua. We Blerded Out about so many things that we broke this episode into two parts! In this week's episode we review The Blackening. To listen to our Blerd Out super episode, check out episode 72 from last week. Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun Show Notes by Bola Hanson Audio engineering by Whitney Booker Show Contact Info: Subscribe to our email newsletter: blerdtalkbw.ck.page Email: blerdtalkbw@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blerdtalkbw/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlerdTalkBW TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@blerdtalkbw YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@blerdtalkbw Bola’s contact info: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triplefqueenb YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@triplefqueenb Whitney’s company contact info: Email: whit@lumenavi.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/lumenavistudios

72 Blerd Out

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 09:00:00 GMT

Bola is out for this episode, so Whitney is instead joined by guest host Liqua. We are Blerding Out about so many things that we broke this episode into two parts! In this week's episode we are Blerding Out about romance novels, including Kresley Cole and Sherrilyn Kenyon; other favorite authors, Tamora Pierce; and favorite book series, The Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce, and The Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix. We also Blerd Out about pro wrestling, period pieces, Rick and Morty, and TV show Yellowjackets. We also discuss Jonathan Majors and the video evidence that was posited may exonerate him. We review The Blackening in part two, episode 73. Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun Show Notes by Bola Hanson Audio engineering by Whitney Booker Show Contact Info: Subscribe to our email newsletter: blerdtalkbw.ck.page Email: blerdtalkbw@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blerdtalkbw/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlerdTalkBW TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@blerdtalkbw YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@blerdtalkbw Bola’s contact info: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triplefqueenb YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@triplefqueenb Whitney’s company contact info: Email: whit@lumenavi.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/lumenavistudios

71 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 09:00:00 GMT

This week's episode we review Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. We are Blerding Out about birthday activities, Pasta and Paint, Sea Suite Cruise: Paddle Club RVA, Pandora bracelets, the film Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Wednesday season 2, Ted Lasso, Manifest, and Never Have I Ever. Our **New Segment** is Blerd Out News. Those topics are Boruto Manga Update, Naruto board games, Disney+ Secret Invasion, the Tenoch Huerta sexual assault accusation, The Flash pre-reviews are not good and lastly BlerdCon is next month. Review Timestamp 36:50 Animation info video https://9fvb.short.gy/vaASGI Fantastic Franckey IG profile https://9fvb.short.gy/PBDxwh Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun Show Notes by Bola Hanson Audio engineering by Whitney Booker Show Contact Info: Subscribe to our email newsletter: blerdtalkbw.ck.page Email: blerdtalkbw@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blerdtalkbw/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlerdTalkBW TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@blerdtalkbw YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@blerdtalkbw Bola’s contact info: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triplefqueenb YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@triplefqueenb Whitney’s company contact info: Email: whit@lumenavi.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/lumenavistudios

70 The Little Mermaid (2023)

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 09:00:00 GMT

Today's episode we review the live action version of Disney's The Little Mermaid. We are Blerding Out about the musical Hadestown, band En'novation, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,The Book Bar book swap, and RVA explore tours. Review Timestamp 46:28 En'novation Band: https://9fvb.short.gy/ennova Westchester Commons Concert Series: https://9fvb.short.gy/Wescon RVA Explore Tours: https://9fvb.short.gy/RVAexp Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun Show Notes by Bola Hanson Audio engineering by Whitney Booker Show Contact Info: Subscribe to our email newsletter: blerdtalkbw.ck.page Email: blerdtalkbw@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blerdtalkbw/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlerdTalkBW TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@blerdtalkbw YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@blerdtalkbw Bola’s contact info: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triplefqueenb YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@triplefqueenb Whitney’s company contact info: Email: whit@lumenavi.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/lumenavistudios

69 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 25 May 2023 09:00:00 GMT

On today's episode we will review Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. We are Blerding Out about Nigerian Traditional Weddings, Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, The Color Purple remake trailer and TV show Fantasy Island. Groot Article https://collider.com/guardians-of-the-galaxy-3-groot-last-line/ Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun Show Notes by Bola Hanson Audio engineering by Whitney Booker Show Contact Info: Subscribe to our email newsletter: blerdtalkbw.ck.page Email: blerdtalkbw@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blerdtalkbw/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlerdTalkBW TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@blerdtalkbw YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@blerdtalkbw Bola’s contact info: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triplefqueenb YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@triplefqueenb Whitney’s company contact info: Email: whit@lumenavi.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/lumenavistudios

68 Polite Society

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 11 May 2023 09:00:00 GMT

We are reviewing the film Polite Society in honor of Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage month. We are Blerding Out about Sanditon, Queen Charlotte a Bridgerton Story, Vikings season 6 episode 7: "The Ice Maiden", and Vikings season 6 episode 11: "King of Kings". Maar Dala from Devdas https://youtu.be/UY5pjZkKo5c Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun Show Notes by Bola Hanson Audio engineering by Whitney Booker Show Contact Info: Subscribe to our email newsletter: blerdtalkbw.ck.page Email: blerdtalkbw@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blerdtalkbw/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlerdTalkBW TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@blerdtalkbw YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@blerdtalkbw Bola’s contact info: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triplefqueenb YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@triplefqueenb Whitney’s company contact info: Email: whit@lumenavi.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/lumenavistudios

67 Suzume

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 09:00:00 GMT

We are reviewing Makoto Shinkai's 3rd film of his anime disaster trilogy movies, Suzume. Topics in Blackness: recent in the wrong place gun shootings with Ralph Yarl, Jonathan Majors abuse allegations. We are Blerding out about 90's kids throwback, the Puzzle Place and new trailers: Polite Society, Strays, Blue Beetle, and Knights of the Zodiac. Blerdout timestamp - 32:58 Movie Review timestamp - 57:30 Puzzle Place https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpvuXUtPFGC/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= 90's Kids Throwback Instagram profile https://instagram.com/90skidthrowbacks?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Polite Society Trailer https://youtu.be/TRFM7HQmkH0 Blue Beetle trailer: https://youtu.be/vS3_72Gb-bI Strays trailer: https://youtu.be/BzwOLKTbCUw Knights of the Zodiac https://youtu.be/Sko0o_KoBHY Articles on Shinkai's Disaster Trilogy https://www.indiewire.com/2023/04/suzume-makoto-shinkai-animation-crunchyroll-1234827684/ https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/04/how-your-name-became-japans-biggest-movie-in-years/522279/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/makoto-shinkai-interview-suzume-anime-berlin-2023-1235329404/ The 2011 Earthquake in Tohoku region of Japan https://www.google.com/search?q=2011+earthquake+in+japan&oq=2011+eart&aqs=chrome.2.0i512l3j69i57j0i512l11.4435j0j4&client=ms-android-google&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 Suzume: Story Explained and Japanese Myths References https://youtu.be/yzVdW8Ijnbo Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun Show Notes by Bola Hanson Audio engineering by Whitney Booker Show Contact Info: Subscribe to our email newsletter: blerdtalkbw.ck.page Email: blerdtalkbw@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blerdtalkbw/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlerdTalkBW TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@blerdtalkbw YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@blerdtalkbw Bola’s contact info: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triplefqueenb YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@triplefqueenb Whitney’s company contact info: Email: whit@lumenavi.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/lumenavistudios

66 Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 09:00:00 GMT

This episode we are reviewing the Fantasy adventure film Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. We are Blerding Out about anime Naruto, Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Your Name., Marlon Wayans' comedy special God Loves Me, Bros, The Marvels trailer, and upcoming movie trailers. Review Timestamp 45:44 *See Episode 64 for links on Japanese Social Issues mentioned in this episode. Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun Show Notes by Bola Hanson Audio engineering by Whitney Booker Show Contact Info: Subscribe to our email newsletter: blerdtalkbw.ck.page Email: blerdtalkbw@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blerdtalkbw/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlerdTalkBW TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@blerdtalkbw YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@blerdtalkbw Bola’s contact info: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triplefqueenb YouTube: https://YouTube.com/@triplefqueenb Whitney’s company contact info: Email: whit@lumenavi.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/lumenavistudios

65 Shazam! Fury of the Gods

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 09:00:14 GMT

Today's episode we got DCU for you! We are reviewing Shazam! Fury of the Gods. We are Blerding Out about Lin Manuel Miranda's work, the 2023-2024 Broadway in Richmond lineup, the 2023 Oscars/Award Season, and Shadow and Bone Season 2. Review time stamp 41:10 Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

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64 Why Do Fools Fall in Love

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 09:00:36 GMT

For Women's History Month we are reviewing Why Do Fools Fall in Love. We are Blerding Out about: Elegant Cuisines Restaurant, Kotaro Lives Alone, Kaguya-sama: Love is War, Rosaline, Shotgun Wedding, You, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and the Romantics.

Review timestamp

37:20

Japanese Institutions

Throwaway Children of Japan

https://youtu.be/I50yAoCnA64

Child Abuse and Lack of Foster Care in Japan

https://youtu.be/2HCXGn_SuoE

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63 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 10:00:08 GMT

This week's episode is getting back to Marvel. We review Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. We are Blerding Out about the Black History Exhibit at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Naruto: Shippuden, Negro Spirituals, and Hulu's The Bear.

Review Timestamp

30:00

Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood] podcast You People Episode https://play.stitcher.com/episode/211581735

Three Men Weeping

Frederick Douglas Exhibit

https://vmfa.museum/exhibitions/exhibitions/isaac-julien-lessons-hour-frederick-douglass/

Quantumania Ending Explained

https://youtu.be/BdsB6_X0V68

Quantumania Full Break Down

https://youtu.be/cL5ueyLWeU4

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62 You People

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:00:16 GMT

For today's episode we got a film that hits the double whammy for Valentine's Day and Black History Month. We are reviewing Netflix's You People. We are Blerding Out about Naruto: Shippuden, the book Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes, Black trends: Hallelujah Roll Call, The Proud Family reboot, Hulu's The Bear, Apple TV+ show Shrinking and The Grammys. For Topics in Blackness we are talking about the backlash of The Proud Family slaves built this country poem and Beyonce concert tickets.

Review timestamp 38:18

Hallelujah roll call:

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61 Glass Onion: a Knives Out Mystery

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 10:00:29 GMT

Join us as we review murder mystery film Glass Onion: a Knives Out Mystery. We are Blerding Out about the musical Hairspray, Cyrano, Naruto: Shippuden, Docuseries The Hair Tales, the VMFA Art After Hours party, and Hotel Greene mini golf.

Check out links to some mentions during the episode:

https://www.hotelgreene.com/

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60 The Banshees of Inisherin

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 09:30:23 GMT

New Year, New Movie and this time we are getting indie. This episode we are reviewing the critically acclaimed film The Banshees of Inishiren. We are Blerding Out about Netflix's Persuasion, Pressure Cooker, The Park RVA, Apple TV+ movie Swan Song, and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.

Movie review timestamp

34:34

Film Analysis

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59 Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 09:30:22 GMT

Last episode of 2022 and we're keeping the musical theme going for the month by reviewing Netflix's Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical. We are Blerding Out about Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Matilda (1996), The Little Rascals, Troop Beverly Hills, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, old movies, From Scratch, This Christmas, and Christmas time in general. Have a happy New Year!

*Olsen Twins Movie was called It Takes Two

"No guidance" - Chris Brown

"Someday at Christmas" - Stevie Wonder

https://youtu.be/y__tczZDkTo

"Grown-Up Christmas List" - Pentatonix feat. Kelly Clarkson

https://youtu.be/pG3sEidLS8k

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58 Spirited

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:30:23 GMT

It's Christmas time and your blerds are getting in the Spirit! Pun intended. We are reviewing the Apple TV+ film Spirited. We are Blerding Out about Christmas movies, books, Leo and Diane Dillion illustrations, Wednesday, Upload, Demon in the Wood, the new season of The Crown, the Harry & Meghan docuseries, the Lensa AI app, and The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.

Review timestamp:

31:23

Movie Trailer:

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57 Loving Vincent

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 09:30:40 GMT

This week your Blerds get artsy with the unique biopicLoving Vincent. We are Blerding Out about Chincoteague and Assateague Island, Manifest, Wednesday, the Pretty Woman Broadway, Enchanted, Disenchanted and Warrior Nun. Listen in and let's all get Van Garde with Van Gogh.

Movie Review Beginning time stamp

39:43

Making of Loving Vincent

Bola and Matt at Van Gogh Immersive Experience

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRCmSmWu/

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56 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 09:30:49 GMT

It was the Black and world cultural event of the year and your blerd girls were here for it. We bring you our review of the most anticipated film of 2022, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. This episode we are Blerding Out about Black Panther/merch, Manifest, The School for Good and Evil, Savage x Fenty Show Vol. 4, The Watcher, and The Last Kingdom.

Check out links to some mentions during the episode:

Nigerian Premiere Outfits

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55 Black Adam

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 09:00:12 GMT

Today's episode we review DC's Black Adam. We have an extended Blerd Out about House of the Dragon. In addition, we discuss The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Lord of the Rings Extended Edition, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Hasan Minhaj: The King's Jester, and Leaving the Theater podcast.

To avoid House of the Dragon spoilers skip ahead to 37:49.

For the Black Adam review skip ahead to 48:00.

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54 Hocus Pocus 2

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 09:00:01 GMT

It's October, the month of pumpkin spice, orange leaves, cozy sweaters, and spooky time. So for Halloween, we are reviewing Hocus Pocus 2. We are Blerding Out about Never Have I Ever, Resonate Podcast Conference, Virginia Institute of Contemporary Art VCU, a Lizzo Concert, Beauvine Burger Concept restaurant, new friend Kerri, The Empress, and Netflix's Daredevil. Get spook-ish with us and listen to our review and Blerd Out!

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@mavviola Comedian/Podcast host

On TikTok

On Instagram

@nattlegregs Podcast producer

On Instagram

Virginia Institute of Contemporary Art VCU

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53 The Woman King

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 09:00:08 GMT

Hey Blerdnation, this week we are embodying our woman warrior spirit by reviewing The Woman King. Our guest this episode is our friend Chadney Thompson. We are Blerding Out about the novel In Every Mirror She's Black, Mean Girls the Musical, My Hero Academia, Murder Mystery Dinners and Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls. Listen in to this great conversation on black female excellence! Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu & Gina Prince-Bythewood Talk The Woman King', Redefining Femininity + More https://youtu.be/28BsZ2f9AHI Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun Show Notes by Bola Hanson Audio engineering by Whitney Booker Show Contact Info: Email: blerdtalkbw@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blerdtalkbw/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlerdTalkBW TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@blerdtalkbw Subscribe to our email newsletter: blerdtalkbw.ck.page Bola’s contact info: Twitter: https://twitter.com/bolastorybee Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bolastorybee/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSOXQ6Tc_i81DlWSqCC78Ig/featured Whitney’s company contact info: Email: whit@lumenavi.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/lumenavistudios

52 Fruits Basket

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 09:00:30 GMT

We've got anime fever because this week we are reviewing the anime seriesFruits Basket (2019). For Topics in Blackness we discuss the backlash of Blacks in Fantasy media and Black Twitter roasting the death of Queen Elizabeth II. We are Blerding Out about Netflix's Resident Evil series, the Mean Girls Broadway, meeting fellow Blerds, the novel American Royalty, The Nevers and House of the Dragon. Listen and Blerd Out with us! @ayokas_accessories for Jewelry @keke.dahling_ Hair Dresser Comparison of 2001 v 2019 https://youtu.be/zrgNi5gNMow Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun Show Notes by Bola Hanson Audio engineering by Whitney Booker Show Contact Info: Email: blerdtalkbw@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blerdtalkbw/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlerdTalkBW Subscribe to our email newsletter: blerdtalkbw.ck.page Bola’s contact info: Twitter: https://twitter.com/bolastorybee Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bolastorybee/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSOXQ6Tc_i81DlWSqCC78Ig/featured Whitney’s company contact info: Email: whit@lumenavi.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/lumenavistudios

51 Belle

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 09:00:22 GMT

We are going back to classic nerdom and reviewing anime film Belle by Mamoru Hosoda. We are Blerding Out about House of the Dragon, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, One Punch Man, Fruits Basket, Wedding Season, Grantchester, and axe throwing. Listen in as we reminisce about our favorite animes past and present. Check out links to some mentions during the episode: Axe Throwing https://www.thevirginiaaxecompany.com/ Grantchester https://youtu.be/4mWwWMob7ZI "Anime: Worlds Apart" research paper (Just enter 0 in the name a fair price field to download it for free) https://lumenavistudios.gumroad.com/l/awarp/awawsss Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun Show Notes by Bola Hanson Audio engineering by Whitney Booker Show Contact Info: Email: blerdtalkbw@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blerdtalkbw/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlerdTalkBW Subscribe to our email newsletter: blerdtalkbw.ck.page Bola’s contact info: Twitter: https://twitter.com/bolastorybee Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bolastorybee/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSOXQ6Tc_i81DlWSqCC78Ig/featured Whitney’s company contact info: Email: whit@lumenavi.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/lumenavistudios

50 RRR

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 09:00:44 GMT

For our 50th episode we are reviewing for the first time a Tollywood Indian movie- Historical Action film RRR: Rise, Roar, Revolt. We also have a special guest - TripleFQueen Bola's sister Shola aka Shawshi. Topics in Blackness is back this episode! We talk about the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever trailer and the Recast T'Challa debate. We are Blerding Out about KinnPorsche the TV Series, Netflix's The Sandman, and Belle the anime film. Join our spirited discussion and dive into Indian Cinema with us.

Check out links to some mentions during the episode:

Black Girl Nerds Featuring EMan Reviews Episode 308:

Tony Weaver Post Kilmonger Trash:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CgfQkMSjkmo/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

The Sandman:

https://youtu.be/83ClbRPRDXU

Belle:

https://youtu.be/izIycj3j4Ow

Om Shanti Om - Drum reference:

https://youtu.be/TjUXr560Gu0

O Re Piya - Singing reference:

https://youtu.be/iv7lcUkFVSc

Director and Cast Interview:

https://youtu.be/4nGRhKmnV18

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49 Thor: Love and Thunder

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 09:00:51 GMT

In this episode we review the much anticipated summer blockbuster Marvel installation Thor: Love and Thunder. We are still reveling in the BlerDCon afterglow and Blerding Out about the novel In Every Mirror She's Black by Lola Akinmade Åkerström, and VMFA's Art After Hours event, including MMG Photo Booth. Listen in and Blerd Out with us!

Check out links to some mentions during the episode:

In Every Mirror She's Black:

MMG Photo Booth:

https://www.mmgphotobooth.com/

Thor: Love and Thunder breakdown:

https://youtu.be/S1VEZ1Zdu8c

Positive Review:

https://youtu.be/qKDagIGcQ4I

Negative Review:

https://youtu.be/lutYwPDTdh8

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48 BlerDCon 2022

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 09:00:59 GMT

We've got a special treat for you Blerdnation! Today's episode was recorded live at BlerDCon where Whitney and Bola gave a panel at BlerDCon. We also did a drawing for one of the attendees to come be our special guests. The winner was Sasha and her husband, Marco. Listen to us Blerd Out about anime we like, all the Marvel movies and TV shows, and our favorite things and highlights from BlerDCon.

Sasha also makes and sells skirts inspired by Japanese fashion. Check her out at IG: @ichigoblack and @ichigoblackbooks for her writing, and www.ichigoblack.com for her merchandise

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47 Single All the Way

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 09:00:44 GMT

In honor of Pride month we are reviewing Netflix's Single All the Way. We are also Blerding Out about Beyonce's new single "Break My Soul", Netflix's The First Kill, Supernatural, musical Jesus Christ Superstar, Marvel's Ms. Marvel, novel The Love Con by Seressia Glass and a Bourbon Dinner.

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46 High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:22:09 GMT

Happy Juneteenth everybody. To commemorate this important holiday we are reviewing the Netflix Docuseries High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America. Join us as we dive into this exploration of history through food and talk about what this freedom means to us. We are also Blerding Out about Classic Bollywood films, Café Beignet, and HBO series The Time Traveler's Wife. Some honorable mentions are Ranking of Kings, Crash Landing on You, classic Korean Dramas, and the novel Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. As always don't forget to Blerd Out!

Check out links to some mentions during the episode:

To learn more about Juneteenth take this fun info quiz:

African Ancestry:

https://africanancestry.com/

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45 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Tue, 31 May 2022 01:25:42 GMT

This week we are diving into the MCU multiverse reviewing Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. We are Blerding Out about Downton Abbey: A New Era, Ranking of Kings, and Senior Year.

Check out links to some mentions during the episode:

Mr. Malcolm's List trailer

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44 ANTIDOTE Interview with Creator William Lee Mapp, III

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 19 May 2022 17:00:59 GMT

ANTIDOTE comic, William Lee mapp III, astrid comics, comics at home, Melissa Mejia, Patrick Mejia

Fellow Blerds and Blerd friends, this week we have got a special episode for you. Whitney and I had the pleasure of interviewing writer and creator William Lee Mapp, III. We talked about the first issue of his new crime noir comic, ANTIDOTE. Oh, and we got two goodies for you! The interview will be on the pod and a YouTube video will come out later. You guys don't want to miss this. Come Blerd Out with us!ad the pleasure of interviewing writer and creator William Lee Mapp, III. We talked about the first issue of his new crime noir comic, ANTIDOTE. Oh, and we got two goodies for you! The interview will be on the pod and a YouTube video will come out later. You guys don't want to miss this. Come Blerd Out with us!

Check out links to everything ANTIDOTE:

Astrid Comics

astridcomics.com

ANTIDOTE #1

Purchase the Kindle Edition of ANTIDOTE #1 on Amazon https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B09LRJDB89/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_09CR85S5GJK531QETDAN

Social Media:

Instagram: @astridcomics

Twitter: @ComicsAstrid

Facebook: @astridcomics

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43 The Lost City

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 09:00:27 GMT

The word for this week's episode is Comedy because we will be reviewing the action Rom/Com, The Lost City. We are Blerding Out about the musical Fiddler on the Roof, TV series The Last Kingdom and Big Bang Theory, foam airplanes, TV series Half And Half, sitcoms on UPN, TV series Blackish and This is Us, and upcoming Marvel movies. Come Blerd Out with us!

Check out links to some mentions during the episode:

Thor Love and Thunder trailer

Haesindang Park

https://youtu.be/SR5LWuwW0gM

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

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42 Everything Everywhere All at Once

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 09:00:00 GMT

Join us as we traverse the multiverse surrealist drama adventure comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once. This week we are Blerding Out about Bridgerton season 2, The Adam Project, Abbot Elementary, The Last Kingdom, SIX the musical, Woke season 2, Summer of Soul, and the Jon Batiste album We Are. Listen in and Blerd Out with us.

Check out links to some mentions during the episode:

A Performance from SIX the musical of the song "Ex-Wives":

Summer of Soul:

https://youtu.be/1-siC9cugqA

Summer of Soul on Hulu:

https://www.hulu.com/movie/6f2160ed-eaa2-462a-b495-f61f4f31714d?utm_source=shared_link

"Freedom" John Batiste:

https://youtu.be/3YHVC1DcHmo

Everything Everywhere All At Once talk with filmmakers/cast:

https://youtu.be/3trFt71LXGE

"Here Comes a Thought" from Steven Universe:

https://youtu.be/dHg50mdODFM

Bridgerton season 2 on Netflix:

https://www.netflix.com/us/title/80232398?s=a&trkid=13747225&t=cp&vlang=en&clip=81189027

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https://youtu.be/4LdJ67285W0

41 The 355

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:00:00 GMT

In honor of Women's History Month we are reviewing the girl power action film The 355. We are Blerding Out about Miss Marvel, The Batman, Bridgerton Season 2, Black Lady Sketch Show, Abbot Elementary, Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, Netflix's Marvel series, and Lillie's of Charleston hot sauces. Catch the Girl Power wave and listen in with us.

Trevor Noah Idris Elba Bond

Lillie's of Charleston Sauces

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B098Q53RNM?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_image&th=1

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSOXQ6Tc_i81DlWSqCC78Ig/featured

Whitney’s company contact info:

https://www.rvabookbar.com/main

40 Adaptation of Musicals: tick, tick... BOOM! and Dear Evan Hansen

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 10:00:14 GMT

This week we are getting musical and talking about the adaptation of musicals to film. Our case studies are Netflix's tick, tick... BOOM! and Dear Evan Hansen. We are Blerding Out about The Book Bar, Soul Taco restaurant and HBO Max series Peacemaker. Join our riveting convo and Blerd Out with us!

The Book Bar

Soul Taco

https://www.soultacorva.com/

Dear Evan Hansen Negative Critique

https://youtu.be/wRuK0EcHk2A

Dear Evan Hansen Positive Critique

https://youtu.be/Y4sTkMYYsTs

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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39 Ruth E. Carter: Afrofuturism in Costume Design Exhibit

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 10:00:00 GMT

This is our special minipod episode. We talk about our trip to Roanoke to see the Ruth E. Carter: Afrofuturism in Costume Design exhibit at the Taubman Museum of Art. It features costumes designed by Academy Award winning designer Ruth E. Carter, and films like Black Panther, Do the Right Thing, Selma, and Dolemite Is My Name. We also talk about the wonderful meal had at the local restaurant Sidecar.

Check out links to some mentions during the episode:

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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38 Black is King

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 10:00:00 GMT

In the spirit of Black History Month, we are reviewing Black is King on Disney+, featuring Beyonce and a slew of African artists like Yemi Alade, Shatta Wale, Tiwa Savage and Buena Boy. We also are Blerding Out about Netflix's High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America, Ali Wong's newest comedy special, HBO Max series Raised by Wolves and Love Life, Hulu's Only Murders in the Building and the Book Bar RVA. Listen in and Blerd Out with us!

Check out links to some mentions during the episode:

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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37 Black Love: Sylvie's Love and Needle in a Timestack

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 10:00:00 GMT

This Valentine's Day we are talking about Black Love. We have a double feature in reviewing Amazon Prime's Sylvie's Love, and Needle in a Timestack. Our Blerd Out Topics for this week are: The Black Film Archive; For Colored Nerds Podcast; HBO's Love Life; Target's Black History Month clothes; The Shaved Duck Restaurant; Come From Away, the Broadway musical; Disney's Jungle Cruise; Netflix's Red Notice; and Centaurworld.

The Black Film Archive:

https://blackfilmarchive.com/

SNL's Black Jeopardy with Chadwick Boseman

https://youtu.be/hzMzFGgmQOc

The Shaved Duck Restaurant:

https://www.theshavedduckrestaurant.com/

Encanto Trauma therapist breakdown:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CYvJvdJFDmf/?utm_medium=copy_link

Interview with Eugene Ashe, Director of Sylvie's Love:

https://youtu.be/jgLcP4_gZXs

Director John Ridley Talks 'Needle In A Timestack:

https://youtu.be/O6PXM55cSjg

Trevor Noah Considers Idris Elba as James Bond:

https://youtu.be/4LdJ67285W0

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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36 Spider-Man: No Way Home

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 10:00:00 GMT

Join us as we review Spider-Man: No Way Home. We also revisit Disney's Encanto. Whitney mentions her binge list of weekend Horror films and series and Bola makes Whitney take a Nerd Percentage quiz.

Whitney's weekend horror movie binge watch list:

Eli
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Insidious
Insidious: Chapter 2
Insidious: Chapter 3
Fear Street: Part One - 1994
Fear Street: Part Two- 1978
Fear Street: Part Three- 1666
The Orphanage
Mama
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

Buzzfeed Nerd Quiz

https://www.buzzfeed.com/farrahpenn/what-percent-nerdy-are-you

Romeo and Juliet Nextel commercial:

https://youtu.be/M-cZtWefN8s

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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35 Encanto

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 10:00:00 GMT

This week's episode we review Disney's Encanto. We also discussed various shows on Apple TV+ such as: Ted Lasso, See, The Morning Show, Servant, and Defending Jacob. We also talked about Amazon Prime Series Modern Love and films Everybody's Talking About Jamie, Boxing Day, and Being the Ricardos. Last but not least was the Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts special on HBO Max.

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSOXQ6Tc_i81DlWSqCC78Ig/featured

Whitney’s company contact info:

https://youtu.be/hNqWw759rtg

34 A Naija Christmas

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 10:00:00 GMT

Keresimesi! Merry Christmas everyone! Our last episode of the year is here. As advertised, we are reviewing Neflix's A Naija Christmas, produced and filmed in Nigeria. We also Blerd Out about the Van Gogh Immersive Experience, and TV series Hawkeye, Doom Patrol, The Witcher, and Santa Inc. Listen on Christmas day. Deck the halls with Festive Glasses.

Link to Yoruba Christmas Song in this episode

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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33 Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 10:00:00 GMT

It's the Christmas Season and this month we are coming at you with reviews of new Christmas movies. This week's episode features our review of Netflix's Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey. Other topics discussed are Crocs, Christmas gifts, Christmas music, Christmas movies, Xena: Warrior Princess, Hawkeye and the live action Cowboy Bebop. Listen in and Blerd Out with us!

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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32 Promising Young Woman

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 10:00:00 GMT

This week on BlerdTalk, we have a recurring guest, Jane Samuels, on the pod to discuss the film Promising Young Woman and all the important themes and topics that emerged from the movie. We are Blerding Out about films: tick, tick...Boom!, and Passing; TV series: The Queen's Gambit, Maid, Bones, Centaurworld, and 13 Reasons Why; and music from Adele and Taylor Swift.

Links and extras to check out:

The Take: "Promising Young Woman, Explained - Look in the Mirror"
- https://youtu.be/XQQd043uyV8
The Take: "Why Women Love True Crime"
- https://youtu.be/N05Q8yzJhb0
Molasses Tea: "Promising Young Woman: The Importance of Good Casting"
- https://youtu.be/y3KZZhTM7Bc

Books to check out:

Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/0241428297/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_KRM6RBMF2H27RVARE7B1
Passing by Nella Larsen
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/1694407470/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_4B83GDHNSAGXNR6RM760?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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31 Black Widow

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 10:00:00 GMT

In this week's episode we review Marvel's Black Widow. Other topics we discuss are the films The Harder They Fall, and the Twilight series. We also discuss the TV shows I May Destroy You, Sex Education, Lucifer, Legacies, Marvel's What If…?, food service HelloFresh, and Harry Potter merch. Listen in as we sing, talk, and all around Blerd Out.

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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Bola’s contact info:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSOXQ6Tc_i81DlWSqCC78Ig/featured

Whitney’s company contact info:

https://mobileyumyum1.com/#

30 Dune (2021)

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 09:00:00 GMT

We review the new Sci Fi epic, Dune, and also compare and contrast the 2021 film with the 1984 version. Other topics we Blerd Out about are local food truck, Mobile Yum Yum, Halloween costumes, and Netflix series, Squid Game and Midnight Mass.

Links from the show:

Mobile YumYum

Squid Game Parody:

https://youtu.be/vWdHPMhy270

Armie Hammer Vogue Article

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/03/the-fall-of-armie-hammer-a-family-saga-of-sex-money-drugs-and-betrayal

Top 10 Differences Between Dune 1984 and Dune 2021:

https://youtu.be/DKPtDrIRX9s

Dune Explained in Five Minutes (No Spoilers):

https://youtu.be/UMU8FCPYeRw

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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Bola’s contact info:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSOXQ6Tc_i81DlWSqCC78Ig/featured

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29 In the Heights

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 09:00:00 GMT

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we reviewed the summer musical, Lin Manuel Miranda's In the Heights. This episode, we are joined by our friend Jane. Join us as we Blerd Out about various TV shows, movies and topics.

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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Bola’s contact info:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSOXQ6Tc_i81DlWSqCC78Ig/featured

Whitney’s company contact info:

https://www.disneyplus.com/

28 Pixar's Coco (Rerun)

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 09:00:00 GMT

0:00 Rerun intro, and where to watch Pixar's Coco right now

1:40 Starbucks issue

6:15 Marvin Gaye song

7:08 You should be on American Idol

8:04 Yoko Kanno

9:33 Composing

12:05 Blerding Out- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Whitney)

13:08 Krypton

14:02 “I’m a Dude” from Goodburger

14:38 Blerding Out- Threading eyebrows (Bola)

19:51 Blerding Out #2- Jacuzzi (Bola)

23:41 Pixar’s Coco

24:12 Loving Vincent

27:11 Summarizing Coco

27:58 Hispanic TV and media- Jane the Virgin

29:48 Whitney the show adulterer

30:33 Taxation without representation- Puerto Rico

31:42 The real home wreckers- ICE

33:07 Coco representing hispanic culture

34:02 Day of the Dead

38:50 Main characters

39:58 The colors, the animation

42:20 Youtube video- the skeletons, the spirit animals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkB6dW0uSfQ

44:52 The feels

45:16 “Waterfalls”- TLC

45:37 Tearjerker animated films

46:40 Plot summary

47:10 “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” - The Temptations

47:36 Plot summary continued

53:20 Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions -Individualism vs Collectivistic:

https://geerthofstede.com/culture-geert-hofstede-gert-jan-hofstede/6d-model-of-national-culture/

57:07 Theme: Sacrifice

1:01:01 Theme: Pursuing passions

1:05:30 Dante spirit guide

1:06:49 Research and details

1:08:10 Rating

1:08:51 Suggestions for Hispanic media:

Ugly Betty, Jane the Virgin, Brothers Garcia, One Day at a Time

1:10:29 Had they been black -Barber shop readers story

1:12:44 Read a book song: https://youtu.be/GlKL_EpnSp8

1:13:50 Invocation to Read

1:14:40 Coco giving back- Grammy Music Education Coalition

1:16:16 Pokemon theme song again

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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27 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 09:00:00 GMT

This week we discuss and review Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. We also discuss the Teen Wolf TV series, our vacations, trying new foods, and as always, there will be singing. Join us while we Blerd Out!

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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26 Ready Player One

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 09:00:00 GMT

2:07 Reminiscing About Old Cartoons

10:37 Blerd Out Whitney - Teen Wolf TV Show

15:00 Blerd Out Bola- Ben Barnes Music, “Hyrise”:

https://youtu.be/p7kG5xnAMT8

20:20 Intro to Topic- Ready Player One Movie

23:31 Movie Plot

25:00 Negatives

36:37 Positives

44:34 The Shining Second Key

50:00 The Third Key

54:06 The Annoying Villain

59:30 Representation Matters

1:02:47 The Heartless Villain

1:05:15 Final Thoughts and Ratings

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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25 Free Guy

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 09:00:00 GMT

2:54 Intro to Month's Theme - Video Game Movies

4:53 Intro to Topic - Free Guy

6:13 Blerd Out Bola - Lizzo Song "Rumors"

9:35 TripleFQueen Theme Song

10:30 Ben Barnes' Birthday

10:50 Blerd Out Whitney - Humans TV Show

15:30 AI/VR Dangers and Ethics

18:45 What is Sentient?

26:30 Free Guy Plot

34:45 Other Cast Members & Cameos

42:45 Video Games

49:48 Portal game

53:57 Game Makers

55:25 The Love Story

57:38 Channing Tatum

58:25 Fun Commentary Parody on Video Games and AI

1:03:50 Rating

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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24 Raya and the Last Dragon

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 09:00:00 GMT

1:42 Intro to Raya and the Last Dragon

4:07 Blerd Out Bola - The Olympics

7:09 Simone Biles and Mental Health

11:48 Nigerian Food Cart

13:12 Blerd Out Whitney - BlerDCon

14:55 Bad Comedians

19:55 BlerDCon 2

27:36 The Good Fight

28:57 Creepy Images in Films

31:01 First Impression of Raya

37:07 Story/Plot

53:53 Main Messages

1:02:32 Lesson of Trust

1:09:34 Rating and Final Thoughts

1:10:42 Push to Watch More Animated Films

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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23 Wish Dragon

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 09:00:00 GMT

2:00 Reboot and Toonami

5:20 Intro to Month's Theme: Animated Dragon

6:45 Reality Show Blues

10:11 Blerd Out Whitney - Masters of the Universe and Masters of the Universe: Revelation

14:16 Blerd Out Bola - Naija Wedding and Amtrak Train

19:24 Hot Pot

22:24 Wish Dragon

23:23 Love of Animated Movies

30:20 First impression of Wish Dragon

34:35 The Story

45:35 Cultural Points

49:10 Characters - Din and Li Na

54:04 Friendship Theme

56:55 Long Learned Lessons

1:04:05 Final Thoughts on Ending

1:06:05 Rating

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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22 Cruella

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 09:00:00 GMT

0:30 "Rock the Casbah"

4:10 Intro to Episode Cruella

5:00 New Disney Films

7:56 Blerd Out Whitney - Darkangel book series

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0010KIIDU/ref=cm_sw_r_u_apa_glt_fabc_ETB90WH8781A99C39YXT

10:38 Blerd Out Bola - Shadow and Bone book series

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/125019623X/ref=cm_sw_r_u_apa_glt_fabc_T3HQAFTDY81PDE49KNWY

11:30 Audiobooks

15:58 Writing and Worldbuilding - Leigh Bardugo, Tamora Pierce

19:00 Cruella's Origin Story

20:28 YouTuber Lindsay Ellis' Video: Villains Have Fun

https://youtu.be/NeuLEu9ZePc

22:34 Twisted Tales

http://www.amazon.com/Twisted-Tale-12-book-series/dp/B082MDG348?ref=dbs_m_mng_awm_0000_share

25:00 Sympathetic Villain

27:00 Breaking Down the Film

31:16 Emma Stone

34:00 The Crazy of Cruella

41:00 Plot Points - Pros and Fashion Wars

54:50 Romance? - Estella and Jasper

1:02:10 Rating

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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21 Lupin

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 09:00:00 GMT

0:40 90's Anime Cartoons

4:00 Intro to Episode Lupin

6:00 Languages and Subtitles

7:00 "Dragostea din tei"

https://youtu.be/ILtz5nX3_fc

9:16 Netflix and Foreign Films

10:30 Workin' Moms on Netflix

13:37 Live Action Cowboy Bebop teaser

https://youtu.be/te1kMMogOKk

15:41 Blerd Out Bola - Opening Up, Restrictions Lifting

18:18 Blerd Out Bola 2 - Juneteenth Dirty South Exhibit VMFA

21:23 Future Movies and TV Coming Out

23:42 Omar Sy's Background

25:18 Lupin Inspiration- Arsène Lupin

25:30 Lupin Show Plot

31:25 Characters

32:21 Lupin: the Heist Drama

35:12 Master of Disguise

34:00 Favorite Things About Lupin

54:10 Sexiness of Omar Sy

55:57 Racism in Lupin

1:01:35 The Finale

1:13:35 Rating

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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20 Minari and Parasite

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 27 May 2021 09:00:00 GMT

1:45 Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

2:25 Intro into Episode Korean Movies Minari and Parasite

5:58 Where to watch both movies

7:08 Blerd Out: Bola - Ben Barnes

10:50 Ben Barnes Sings

12:54 Shadow and Bone Netflix show and book series

14:43 Blerd Out: Whitney - Fishing

22:35 Minari - Analysis

23:56 Slice of Life Film

30:33 African Doctor

31:45 Minari Male American Dream

34:54 An Immigrant's Tale

40:14 Other Characters in Minari

43:11 Minari Analysis Video:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=65l-PokSEQI&feature=share

45:35 Final thoughts on Minari

49:22 Parasite

52:22 Parasite Analysis Video by The Take:

https://youtu.be/ci-gFovSJf0

53:45 Class Dynamics

1:04:21 Message - Danger of Hope

1:10:31 Poor vs Poorer

1:12:13 Parasitic Relationship - Rich vs Poor

1:15:01 Push for Understanding

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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19 Mulan

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 06 May 2021 09:00:00 GMT

1:36 Topic intro Mulan

3:22 “Be A Man”

4:35 Mulan live action reaction

8:27 Chi - conceal, don’t feel

11:13 So many questions

15:24 Controversies around the film

19:24 Liu Yifei

20:25 Why Mulan didn’t work YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXjK50kEgvo&t=326s&ab_channel=Sideways

22:48 Replacements

27:52 The Witch

29:55 Likes

36:37 Dislikes

42:39 The Villain

44:15 Better Asian Movies

45:23 Blerd Out - Comedy Specials

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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18 Black Biopic: Judas and the Black Messiah and The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:00:00 GMT

0:39 DMX Songs and Death 1:30 Prince Philip Death 2:28 Intro to topic Judas and the Black Messiah and The United States vs. Billie Holiday 3:43 Blerd Out: Whitney - New Equipment 5:43 Master Class 9:40 Blerd Out: Bola - Rege-Jean Paul not coming back for Bridgerton Season 2 16:10 Black Biopic 18:15 The Parallels 20:06 Institutional Racism 26:00 Whitney's Rating 28:22 Fred Hampton and Jesus 30:00 Bill O'Neal and Judas 34:00 The Sum of Us: What Racism Cost Everyone and How we can Prosper Together by Heather McGee on Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/0593207718?action_code=SNGGBWS072717001P&ipRedirectOverride=true 39:09 Watchmen - Tulsa Race Riot 39:50 Words are Powerful 43:00 Daniel Kaluuya 44:00 Black American Actors vs. Black British Actors 52:40 Idris Elba 53:58 Daniel Kaluuya Part 2 55:50 Lakieth Stanfield 57:30 FBI 1:03:52 "This is America" by Childish Gambino music video: https://youtu.be/VYOjWnS4cMY 1:04:07 Dominique Fishback 1:09:16 Wrapping Up Judas and the Black Messiah 1:15:21 Bola's Rating 1:17:34 Billie's Abuse 1:22:08 Audra Day 1:26:56 "Strange Fruit": https://youtu.be/Epm0v1px2oM 1:31:13 Pros of Billie 1:33:48 Final thoughts on Both 1:35:18 "Let America Be America" - Langston Hughes: https://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again 1:36:08 Black History Through Media and Art Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun Show Notes by Bola Hanson Audio engineering by Whitney Booker Show Contact Info: Email: blerdtalkbw@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blerdtalkbw/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlerdTalkBW Bola’s contact info: Twitter: https://twitter.com/bolastorybee Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bolastorybee/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSOXQ6Tc_i81DlWSqCC78Ig/featured Whitney’s company contact info: Email: whit@lumenavi.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/lumenavistudios

17 WandaVision

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 09:00:00 GMT

1:19 Welcome to Season 2

2:13 Intro to topic WandaVision

2:22 Whitney - Blerd Out

3:25 Explaining Blerd

4:55 Bola - Blerd Out

8:08 Stop Asian Hate

14:43 Shout Outs - Anna Akana and Iamdulo

16:05 WandaVision - Initial Thoughts

34:28 Episode Breakdown

43:41 Quicksilver Controversy

49:21 The Bad Guy

50:16 Monica Rambeau’s Powers

56:55 Agatha All Along

1:04:45 Scarlet Witch - Wanda’s New Power

1:08:15 A Woman Grieving

1:14:30 WandaVision Rating

1:18:48 Final Thoughts

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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16 Captain Marvel

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 09:00:00 GMT

00:43 Welcome Back

01:47 Springtime and Weather

03:11 Season Two

03:49 The Black Eyed Peas

04:47Captain Marvel

06:06Shazam!- Zachary Levi

06:45 Whitney and Bola Rate DC movies

08:18 First Impression of Captain Marvel

09:33 Brie Larson - Carol Danvers

11:07 Story

15:17 Other Characters

17:34 Jude Law

19:26 Themes

21:34 Brief Disney Interlude

22:36Us- Winston Duke (Bola’s husband)

24:01Game of Thrones

25:35 Gemma Chan - Minerva

28:18 Back to Themes

29:53Avengers: Endgame

32:14 Movies Coming Out Soon

36:00 Plugging the MCU

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud athttps://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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Email:blerdtalkbw@gmail.com

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Twitter:https://twitter.com/BlerdTalkBW

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Email:whit@lumenavi.com

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15 Bohemian Rhapsody

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 10:00:00 GMT

01:30 Welcome Back

02:00 Blerding Out Whitney- Broadway trip

02:50 Dear Evan Hansen

06:00 Voices and Bastille

07:35 Ben Platt

08:15 Themes of Dear Evan Hansen: “You are enough”

09:00 THANKSGIVING SONG

11:50 Danny Glover vs Donald Glover

13:21 James Earl Jones- Mufasa

14:57 The Birdcage

15:28 Trevor Noah Netflix special -Son of Patricia

17:10 Black Friday/Cyber Monday

19:20 Election Results & Voting

23:08 Movies!

25:15 MoviePass

26:33 Bollywood wedding Ranveer Singh & Deepika Padukone

28:09 Blerding Out Bola -Queen

31:09 Bohemian Rhapsody - Rami Malek

31:50 Bohemian Rhapsody - The Bitchass

32:31 Freddie Mercury and Aids epidemic

34:30 Freddie & Mary

36:25 Freddie & the band

37:17 Allen Leech- Paul Prenter

39:15 Freddie's Background

42:13 Biopics

46:03 Queen legacy and music

47:14 Taron Egerton

50:28 Final thoughts on Bohemian Rhapsody

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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14 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 09:00:00 GMT

1:14 Intro to topic Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

1:39 Original Jumanji movie

2:54 Blerding Out Whitney - Atypical season 2 and Black Mirror

5:56 Dark TV in America

7:59 Blerding Out Bola- Sorry for Your Loss on Facebook Watch

14:45 Ambiguous endings

16:15 Netflix live action Avatar: The Last Airbender

18:17 Jenny Han and Diversity

19:45 Amanda Seals' theory, Adult vs. Grown up

22:17 Monster High

23:57 Blerding Out Bola - Flight of the Conchords is back:

https://youtu.be/i8iK1rhfYpI

27:13 Blerding Out Whitney - Dark Phoenix trailer

29:53 Captain Marvel

32:08 Well wishes to Hurricane Florence survivors

35:25 “Welcome to the Jungle” - Guns N’ Roses

35:45 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

40:32 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

42:30 Characters, story, RPG games

48:16 The House with a Clock in its Walls

53:37 Plot points and favorite parts

59:11 Had They Been Black

1:01:09 Future movies to come out

1:02:25 Favorite games

1:04:34 Board games we would like to be dropped in

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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13 Folklore, Fairytales, and Fantasy Series, Part 1: Tale of Tales and I Kill Giants

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:00:00 GMT

1:45 Folklore, Fairy Tales, and Fantasy

4:00 Urbantoons

6:00 Blerding Out Whitney - Captain Marvel pictures

8:49 Blerding Out Whitney 2 - Atypical

10:23 Chewing Gum

11:30 Blerding Out Bola - Magic for Humans

15:00 Topics in Blackness - Geoffrey Owens and Trader Joe's

https://twitter.com/i/moments/1036053342915457024

20:00 I Kill Giants - Fantasy movie or Magical Realism

32:00 Final Thoughts on I Kill Giants

34:00 Mental Health

34:45 Tale of Tales

36:40 Giambattista Basile - First Collection of Fairy Tales: Pentamerone

41:15 Story 1 -The Enchanted Doe

47:30 Story 2 - The Flea

55:00 Story 3 - The Flayed Old Lady

1:00:55 Ending of Tale of Tales - Theme of Obsession

1:02:56 Had They Been Black - Barbara's Behavior

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

Show Contact Info:

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSOXQ6Tc_i81DlWSqCC78Ig/featured

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https://geerthofstede.com/culture-geert-hofstede-gert-jan-hofstede/6d-model-of-national-culture/

12 Crazy Rich Asians

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 09:00:00 GMT

1:24 Introduction of our guest Kimlee

2:23 Blerding Out Bola - Networking events: CreativeMornings and Untold RVA

8:46 Blerding Out Kimlee - Movies: Slenderman, The Meg, Sharknados, To All the Boys I Loved Before

11:53 Netflix adding ads/praising skip button

14:57 Blerding Out Whitney - Dear Evan Hansen

17:50 Blerding Out Whitney 2 - Steven Universe

21:17 Opening Act - “Bao”

21:49 “Danger” - Mystikal

22:29 “Bao” again

30:15 Geert Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions

33:00 Pitch Perfect

33:52 Crazy Rich Asians

34:23 Constance Wu is from RVA!!!!

https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/Who-Plays-Rachel-Chu-Crazy-Rich-Asians-45130865

36:30 First all-asian cast movie since The Joy Luck Club

38:00 Harry Shum, Jr. - Crazy Rich Asians sequels

39:00 Kimlee’s perspective

39:53 Twitter story highlight, “A Personal Story Shows Why Representation Can Be Powerful”

https://twitter.com/lumenavi/status/1030846860729233408?s=09

46:12 Crazy Rich Asians - Traditional RomCom

48:58 Asian tropes in Crazy Rich Asians

50:48 Kdrama- I Do I Do

52.54 Astrid

53:53 Humans

55:00 Astrid Storyline

58:07 Fashion/bachelorette party

1:00:26 The Wedding

1:02:24 No plus size asians

1:03:32 Henry Golding is a fine leading man

1:06:30 Internal struggle of two cultures

1:07:30 Ending - Show, not Tell

1:11:11 Where were the dads?

1:13:0 The claws were out - Grandma and mom

1:17:56 Chinese versions of Pop english songs and Twitter story highlight, “An emotional letter from the director of Crazy Rich Asians convinced Coldplay to let Yellow in the filming”

https://twitter.com/i/moments/1031675628318150657

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSOXQ6Tc_i81DlWSqCC78Ig/featured

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11 The Darkest Minds and Sorry to Bother You

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 09:00:00 GMT

00:45 Clap for 10 episodes

01:21 Introduction of episode

02:12 Topics in Blackness - Black Panther and Oscar’s new Popular Movie category

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/08/black-panther-academys-abc-oscar-show-1201992483/amp/

10:22 Topics in Blackness- Lebron James’ I Promise School

12:05 Melania Trump is “Resisty”

https://twitter.com/i/moments/1025897379482853376

14:30 Blerding Out - BlerDCon

22:05 Malika Warrior Queen

22:40 Weird Enough Productions

34:28 Sorry to Bother You

35:23 Code Switching

39:09 Characters in Sorry to Bother You

48:00 The Darkest Minds - Background info

51:00 The Darkest Minds rating

52:17 The Darkest Minds - The Story

1:0216 The Darkest Minds - Love and sacrifice

1:08:29 The Darkest Minds - Reading the books vs. watching the films

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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10 Ant-Man and the Wasp

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 09:00:00 GMT

https://twitter.com/lumenavistudiosAnt-Man and the Wasp

2:00 Blerding Out Whitney - Harlots

7:30 Legion

8:43 Blerding Out Bola - Jesus and Jollof

13:12 Blerding Out Bola - Luke Cage season 2

16:00 Topics in Blackness - John Schnatter racist comments

24:40 Topics in Blackness - Cardi B and Offset new baby

https://twitter.com/i/moments/1017057689501921280

26:33 Charmed reboot

27:06 Bolas issue with names

28:40 Topics in Blackness - Shea Moisture and Essence Investment Fund

https://newvoicesfund.com/#community,blerdcon

33:12 Ant-Man and the Wasp - the fun romp

34:24 Transmedia

36:24 Wasp

38:32 Ghost - sympathetic villain

43:47 Janet Van Dyne

47:28 Paul Rudd - funny, sweet, & hot

48:00 Other characters

49:30 Plot points

53:52 Ending scene

59:00 Two glasses

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSOXQ6Tc_i81DlWSqCC78Ig/featured

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://twitter.com/lumenavistudios

9 Resistance Series, Part 1: V for Vendetta

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 09:00:00 GMT

00:53 Why resistance?

2:00 Blerding Out Whitney- Top Shot TV series

4:11 Blerding Out Bola- Luke Cage season 2

5:45 Netflix- Game Over Man

9:52 The Defenders

10:15 Opening words about V for Vendetta the movie

13:10 Theme of fear

13:45 Star Wars

14:26 Jar Jar Binks so annoying

16:20 Star Trek

17:10 Censorship

18:55 Trump audible sigh

20:45 Graphic novel vs. comic book

22:17 V for Vendetta backstory

25:12 V the character

28:15 Evey the character

30:55 V, moral conflict

38:58 Ben Franklin quotes

41:06 Power of words

44:20 Trump comparisons

50:15 Resistance inspires

52:48 Apathy, the new enemy of resistance

55:05 Melania Trump

56:00 Anarchy vs. order

1:00:01 California the nation state?

1:00:51 Comedy/satire as resistance

1:05:18 Hardship to overcome fear

1:06:35 Does resistance beget death?

1:09:18 Our experience with racism

1:12:32 Final thoughts on the V for Vendetta movie

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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8 Ocean's 8 and Girl Power!

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 09:00:00 GMT

1:50 Topics in Blackness- Issa Rae Comments

3:30 Black Women and Dating

4:29 Singing: Destinys Child - Independent Women

5:22 Black Women Asian Men Dating Apps

6:20 Article

http://hiphopwired.com/751062/issa-rae-book-quote-on-black-women-dating-asian-men-has-sensitive-twitter-in-their-feelings/

7:37 Hollywood Portrayal of Race

15:16 Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life

16:22 Girl Power

16:48 Go-To Movies

17:40 Blerding Out Bola- Dua Lipa

18:18 Blerding Out Whitney- Dear Evan Hansen

21:21 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

26:08. Twisted Sister - Were Not Gonna Take It

26:48 Girl Power Trailers - The Girl in the Spider's Web

31:15 Girl Power Trailers - Widows, featuring Viola Davis

37:27 Girl Power Trailers - Mama Mia! Here We Go Again

38:00 ABBA - Dancing Queen

40:11 Altos

42:12 Girl Power Trailers - A Star is Born

43:40 Lady Gaga stripped down

46:22 Timing is Everything - Black Panther

48:27 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

51:15 Oceans 8

53:35 Noomi Rapace looks like Michelle Dockery

55:10 The Heist Movie is All About the Heist

59:25 Characters of Oceans 8

1:04:46 Plot Summary and Sandra Bullock, the Leader

1:05:02 Cate Blanchett as Lou

1:06:45 Fence Defined, Sarah Paulson as Tammy

1:08:42 Anne Hathaway as Daphne

1:12:15 Les Mis Sketch on SNL

https://youtu.be/Pj-D0jc17D0

1:13:38 Helena Bonham Carter as Rose

1:15:28 The Diversity

1:16:23 Mindy Kaling as Amita, the Jeweler

1:19:05 Rihanna as the Hacker, Nine Ball

1:20:16 Mossad Defined

1:22:03 Jane Austen and Jane Eyre

1:23:43 Awkwafina as Constance, the Thief

1:26:16 Final Thoughts

1:26:43 The Heist

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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7 Deadpool 2

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 09:00:00 GMT

1:26 Avi, formerly of Pentatonix- “Daft Punk”

2:28 Guys with deep voices

4:03 Whitney giving Bola shade

4:27 Deadpool topic intro

5:03 Rolling R’s

5:45 Blerding Out- Whitney Relaxation

9:08 Day Spas

11:05 Massages

11:12 Hot guy qualities

12:46 Singing “Full Moon”- Brandy

14:58 What Whitney does at the gym

16:38 Blerding Out - Bola TV

16:58 Dear White People aka Black Dawson's Creek

17:58 Vocabulary

19:08 Singing “Promiscuous”

20:23 Summarizing Dear White People

26:00 Blerding Out Bola Two- Red Table Talk

28:46 Blerding Out Bola Three- Grandstaff and Stein Restaurant

32:36 Pronunciation fail- Wheel of Fortune: https://youtu.be/npgzz42IEiE

34:01 Inside the restaurant Grandstaff & Stein

35:13 Blerding Out Bola Four- Body Positivity Brunch/ Vision Boarding

37:38 Venturing out alone

38:57 Everybody has issues

40:45 Bola’s vision board https://youtu.be/LxPpPYi3bXk

42:16 Singing “You Are Not Alone” Michael Jackson

43:18 Topics in Blackness- The Royal Wedding

44:44 Happy Days Theme

45:24 The Royal Wedding so Black

51:27 Whitney's mom and Princess Meghan doll

53:00 Final points about the wedding

55:44 Deadpool 2

1:00:15 Story

1:01:08 References & zingers

1:02:37 Cameos X-men

1:04:38 Vanessa

1:07:25 X -Force

1:11:01 Theme: Family/Russell

1:13:30 Bhupinder

1:15:32 Juggernaut

1:17:33 Deadpool moral compass

1:19:48 Negasonic Teenage Warhead long name

1:21:57 Josh Brolin as Thanos vs. Cable

1:24:01 More Deadpool points

1:25:58 Theme: Purpose

1:30:33 Ending and final thoughts on movie

1:32:01 Predictions and time travel issues

1:33:45 Nicholas Sparks films

1:35:00 Call to action

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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6 Black Heroes

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Mon, 21 May 2018 09:00:00 GMT

0:37- Black Superheroes

0:57- Looking at Luke Cage and Black Lightning

1:28- Black Renaissance

1:38- Insecure

3:45- 50 Cent multiplying

5:07- Other black TV shows

6:24- Black representation

7:28- Who we identify with

8:04- How black people are portrayed globally

11:27- X-Men

13:06- Bola’s Story- “The Sponge”

14:47- Lost Girl

16:52- Back to X-Men + Heroes

19:27- Why we love superheroes

28:55- Dearth of Black Superheroes

30:50- Luke Cage

31:51- Message to the black man

33:28- Black Lightning

35:28- We need uniforms

37:36- Jefferson Pierce from Black Lightning parallels to Elsa from Frozen

38:66- Cress Williams

39:50- Black Lightning’s wife

41:06- How do both shows depict Blackness

51:09- Underbelly of crime- black villainess

55:30- Real life parallels

1:00:00- Are Luke Cage and Black Lightning reluctant heroes

01:02:33- We need representation

1:05:18- Anissa- the empowered young black hero

1:10:23- Had They Been Black: Alexa laughing

https://www.fastcodesign.com/90163588/why-alexas-laughter-creeps-us-out?utm_source=postup&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Co.Design%20Daily&position=1&partner=newsletter&campaign_date=03092018

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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5 Avengers: Infinity War

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Mon, 14 May 2018 09:00:00 GMT

01:26 Blerding Out- Bola (Miami)

02:30 You Should Be Dancing - Bee Geese Gees

02:53 Miami

03:53 Alligators in Orlando

05:42 Bar Hopping in Miami

08:01 Driving in Miami

09:32 What Miami means

10:35 Blerding Out- Whitney- Forged in Fire: Knife or Death

13:14 Dwight from The Office

13:43 Knife or Death Explained

15:02 Blerding Out 2- Bola (The Moth Podcast)

The Moth: Aryana Rose: https://youtu.be/Zrw_xdNgMLE

18:25 The Moth Explained

19:20 Stories and the Story Lover

21:45 Whitney put Bola on blast

22:43 Uber or Lyft

23:53 Drinking and Kamboucha?

26:06 Topics in Blackness- Kanyes Comments- https://youtu.be/FN-FW_yk5ko

30:53 Slave mentality

34:42 Black people should support each other

36:04 Bolas explanation of why blacks don't support each other

37:37 Whitney- Microcosms of support

39:34 Shawshi Designs plug

41:07 Topics in Blackness- Bill Cosby conviction

42:23 Don't put people on a pedestal

45:00 Me Too Movement

47:33 Conviction means evidence

49:35 13 Reasons Why

51:00 Justice for Victims

52:00 Avengers: Infinity War - DEATH

1:01:13 Theme: Love and Sacrifice

1:05:04 Parallels: Regina and Abraham

1:07:40 Chris Evans hotness

1:09:58 Favorite parts-Girl power fight scenes

1:14:15 No Hulk

1:15:34 Props to Marvels Storytelling

1:29:00 Logical or reasonable

1:31:17 Overall impression & rating

1:36:01 Had They Been Black- Adrift

Sad background music:

The Big Decision by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSOXQ6Tc_i81DlWSqCC78Ig/featured

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkB6dW0uSfQ

4 Pixar's Coco

Bolashade Hanson and Whitney Booker — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 09:00:00 GMT

0:40 Starbucks issue

5:15 Marvin Gaye songg

6:08 You should be on American Idol

7:04 Yoko Kanno

8:33 Composing

11:05 Blerding Out- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Whitney)

12:08 Krypton

13:02 “I’m a Dude” from Goodburger

13:38 Blerding Out- Threading eyebrows (Bola)

18:51 Blerding Out #2- Jacuzzi (Bola)

22:41 Pixar’s Coco

23:12 Loving Vincent

26:11 Summarizing Coco

26:58 Hispanic TV and media- Jane the Virgin

28:48 Whitney the show adulterer

29:33 Taxation without representation- Puerto Rico

30:42 The real home wreckers- ICE

32:07 Coco representing hispanic culture

33:02 Day of the Dead

37:50 Main characters

38:58 The colors, the animation

41:20 Youtube video- the skeletons, the spirit animals

43:52 The feels

44:16 “Waterfalls”- TLC

44:37 Tearjerker animated films

45:40 Plot summary

46:10 “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” - The Temptations

46:36 Plot summary continued

52:20 Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions -Individualism vs Collectivistic:

https://geerthofstede.com/culture-geert-hofstede-gert-jan-hofstede/6d-model-of-national-culture/

56:07 Theme: Sacrifice

1:00:01 Theme: Pursuing passions

1:04:30 Dante spirit guide

1:05:49 Research and details

1:07:10 Rating

1:07:51 Suggestions for Hispanic media:

Ugly Betty, Jane the Virgin, Brothers Garcia, One Day at a Time

1:09:29 Had they been black -Barber shop readers story

1:11:44 Read a book song: https://youtu.be/GlKL_EpnSp8

1:12:50 Invocation to Read

1:13:40 Coco giving back- Grammy Music Education Coalition

1:15:16 Pokemon theme song again

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun

Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun

Show Notes by Bola Hanson

Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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