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Ratchet & Respectable

Demetria L. Lucas & Studio71

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

After a 5 year hiatus, Demetria's Dad aka Papa Lucas returns to Ratchet & Respectable to discuss growing up in "The Ridge" Mississippi, listening to a lynching on the radio, living thru segregation, passing (but not), becoming "Luke the Lover", avoiding Vietnam, migrating to the Midwest, 13 days at the Chrysler plant, meeting Marvin Gaye and Medgar Evers, and moving on up like George Jefferson, as inspired by Demetria's obsession with "Sinners".

FYI: Almost the whole episode is an interview. Papa Lucas does not guest star, feature, or anchor.

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0:00.0	Oh, Steve, you're in a pickle.
0:02.7	Yes, Mrs. Jenkins, I will look after your house while you're away.
0:05.6	But right now, lunchtime spicy burrito is making a spectacular comeback.
0:09.8	If heartburn hits, have the Rennie, ready.
0:12.8	It neutralizes 99% of excess acid in just 60 seconds for fast heartburn relief.
0:18.6	Rennie peppermint, always read the label.
0:29.4	Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and those who don't identify as either,
0:32.8	you are listening to Ratchet and Respectable.
0:37.5	We're doing something a little different this week.
0:44.4	If you've been following the podcast for a while, you'll remember that during COVID, I was living in L.A.
0:49.8	And I moved back home to be with my parents in the suburbs, more space, more safety, sort of.
0:53.7	And while I was there, my dad allowed me to interview him. It has been almost five years since that interview happened.
0:58.0	I have asked him multiple times.
0:59.9	The answer is, eh, he don't really have nothing to add, nothing to share at this time.
1:04.8	But, you know, ask me again, who knows?
1:07.3	This time, I called him.
1:09.4	I told him I'd gone to the movies.
1:11.2	I'd gone to see the same movie, sinners, twice, in the same weekends.
1:15.2	I love this film.
1:17.2	The movie is set in Mississippi in the 1930s.
1:21.6	My dad was born in Mississippi in the 1940s.
1:24.2	A lot of settings in the film are places my dad would be familiar with. A lot of themes in the film would be something that he was familiar with.
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