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Episode 44: "There's Jojoba Oil in the Wind"

See Something Say Something

Ahmed Ali Akbar

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8550 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week, we stan Ryan Coogler. Ahmed talks Black Panther with BuzzFeed culture writer/co-host of Thirst Aid Kit Bim Adewunmi and Senior Interactive Editor at Cosmopolitan Alexis Nedd. They explore the film's representation of diaspora, queer erasure and plot their dream Marvel Cinematic Universe movie.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, I'm Amidale Yuckper and this is See Something Say Something. Today we're going to be geeking out about Marvel's Black Panther.

0:11.0

If you see something, you better, you better say something. Nothing at all, nothing at all.

0:24.2

So if you haven't seen Black Panther, first of all, love yourself.

0:28.9

Second of all, it just came out this past week to huge acclaim.

0:31.9

It smashed tons of box office records.

0:34.1

Top five, I think, opening weekend ever, which is insane. The film follows the

0:40.2

assent of King Tachala of the fictional Afro Futures Kingdom of Wakanda. And it also follows a lot

0:45.9

of conflicts within Wakanda, which as a nation has never been colonized and is also the most

0:51.1

technologically advanced society in the Marvel universe.

0:59.8

I have a lot of thoughts about this, and I'm a huge Marvel fan, so I invited on some fellow Marvel fans.

1:02.3

So welcome to the show, I'm Bim Atta OneMe.

1:08.1

She's a senior culture writer at BuzzFeed and co-host of Thirst Aid Kit, one of our fellow podcasts,

1:11.6

and they recently tackled the hotness of the Black Panther cast.

1:13.0

Yeah, we did. It's a tough job.

1:16.3

I think it's very easy, right?

1:20.3

I mean, sure. Because they're all so hot. Let's say it's easy. It was very difficult,

1:22.1

trying to quantify thirst in that way.

1:28.2

There's a lot of material in Black Panther. And also with us is Alexis NED,

1:30.5

who's Senior Interactive Editor at Cosmopolitan.

1:32.1

Hi, thank you for having me.

1:32.7

I'm so hype.

1:38.7

And also, like, the author of a Nikki Minaj monster version of Black Panther.

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