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Please listen to me. And do rescues with your cousin Ethel. She grows up, she marries Matros Freeman together. They have a beautiful baby boy.

We call them take because Atticus is really a mouthful. And I fell in love with him. I am in love with him. I don't want him to not exist. But we can't change any of it.

Because of the future. My baby.

Mama.

Mama.

Okay. Um, that messed me up. That really messed me up. And I met you.

You're mad at me. You're mad at me again. We're not warning you. I'm mad. This episode is so huge and so much and all the feelings and haddie and letdie.

Okay. So it took a lot for these characters to learn that they have to work together. But a trip to the past might have been all they needed to finally get their shit together.

This is episode nine rewind 1921.

Welcome to Lovecraft Country Radio. I'm Ashley C Ford, podcast host writer and horror enthusiast.

And I'm Shannon Houston, a writer for the HBO series Lovecraft Country and mother to three free black children. Amen. Amen.

And a turtle named John Avelli. We will never leave John Avelli out of this. Hello John Avelli. Mommy loves you.

So quick recap. There was so much going on in this episode. So so Atticus, letdie and Montrose go back in time to the night of the Tulsa riots to save the book of names and reverse Lancaster's curse.

So not only do they have 24 hours to save D before she dies, they also have to try to get the book of names before it burns in Tulsa, which forces them all to confront horrible family trauma that occurs in the middle of a massacre. And it is vivid.

It's very vivid. All the Tulsa scenes are hard to watch. And we talked a lot in the writers room about how we could do an episode that is set in Tulsa during the riots.

And how there's a way to do that episode where you just feel awful the entire time and you just basically want to die. And there are definitely parts of this episode where I'm like, I can't, I can't deal with this.

But true to love craft country, there's still beauty in this episode. There's beauty in Tulsa. There's beauty in these black families. There's beauty in the resistance, the fighting back that I can't wait to talk about.

But sometimes you just watch, you know, you watch the history of things that have happened to black people in this country and you're just like, we have really been fighting for a long time. And we are really tired. And in the middle of watching this episode again, I just thought about Jocelyn Hernandez, that iconic line came to mind.

The line is, ho, why is you here? Why is your here? Why white people? We did this thing. We create this town. It's beautiful. It's black. It's well to do. And you can't leave us the fuck alone. So again, ho, why is you here? Ashley help.

Listen, you know what this episode reminded me of, you know when white people like to ask you what decade you think you should have been born in. Like this was some, this was like it when I went to college, this was an icebreaker that people tried to do a lot, which was like, what decade should you have been born in?

What decade would you go live in if you had the chance? And I sort of understood what they were trying to do with it, but as a black person, obviously the only answer for me was bitch, the future future.

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