LAist Studios presents Imperfect Paradise: The Castle: Part 3

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🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Part 3: Carly Usdin is at risk of getting kicked out of the Magic Castle. Plus, after 2020, the Magic Castle makes changes to address issues of inclusion, including setting up a Diversity and Inclusion Committee. LAist Senior Producer Natalie Chudnovsky explores how the Castle’s promises to do better pan out, several years later.

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0:00.0	From homemade burritos to water to backpacks, teams of volunteers hit the streets to provide services to Gunn House.
0:07.0	Meet these folks on LAA Studios How to LA, whoever. A Lé. Who ever do get your podcasts.
0:16.5	Hey, this is In Perfect Paradise from Léa Studios.
0:19.4	I'm your host, Antonia Cérejido.
0:22.0	Today we bring you part three of our series The Castle.
0:25.0	Last episode we heard about how Carly's frustration with the Magic Castle
0:30.0	reached a breaking point during the summer of 2020 when they called out the castle on
0:34.7	Twitter and Facebook.
0:36.0	I think it was a combination of a lot of things where I felt like I had been really quiet
0:40.1	and essentially complicit in some of this garbage for a while and I hit a breaking point.
0:45.8	The murder of George Floyd and the castle's reaction to the protests opened a schism among
0:51.2	members and for Carly it was actually a moment of hope.
0:54.8	There's like this private Facebook group where like of all these like progressive
0:59.2	interesting people that are at the Magic Castle.
1:05.3	And just as Carly was becoming excited to be a part of change at the castle, two members
1:10.4	took action to get Carly kicked out this episode.
1:19.0	If other people are expressing that they feel uncomfortable in this space.
1:23.8	I'm wondering how you grapple with that.
1:26.8	That is a dilemma because I have my perspective.
1:30.4	It feels like every time something happens,
1:32.8	the kind of like a layer of brick gets put down,
1:35.8	and eventually the wall gets so big,
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