Hey everyone welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour.

And I'm L'Orian McKenna and today we are thrilled to be chatting with poet, rapper, actor, filmmaker, and showrunner

Raphael Kossa.

Raphael is best known for blind spotting a feature film turned TV show that he co-created

with his longtime creative partner,

DeVy digs.

His work explores the complicated social dynamics

of urban life in the 21st century, particularly

in Oakland where he grew up. We're going to be chatting with Raphael about the season 2

premiere of the award winning show Blind Spotting,

which dropped last Friday and amazing.

We love it.

We're going to talk so much about it. We're excited. But before we get into that, we're going to talk so much about it. We're excited but before we get into that we're going to first welcome him to the show.

So welcome to the screen writing life. Yeah, thank you so much for having me. This is so cool. We're going to talk shop about writing. I can't wait.

Yeah, yeah. And you've also, I hope, or will you join us? We always start the show with what we call

Adventures in Screenwriting or how our week was or how our week of writing went and the ups and downs of the week getting a little bit real.

If you'll join us that would be fun. Great. We'll let Lian go first lorian how was your week it's good so this

week I'm really trying to figure out how to manage my stress in healthier ways right a lot of

personal life stress work work stress, potential writer strikes,

stress, health insurance, like all these big big things. And I realize that the only

way I'm going to deal with all this bullshit is to write into it and I'm scared because I wear sort of all of my stress and my warrior armor like it's like an armor like to keep myself protected from myself, right?

If I'm like so busy and so stressed, then I don't ever have to feel vulnerable or pain and that is but the only way I can really deal with this stuff it's you know I have to stop eating chips and

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