The Castle: Part 3
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 42 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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| 0:40.2 | Today we bring you part three of our series, The Castle. |
| 0:44.4 | Last episode, we heard about how Carly's frustration with the Magic Castle reached a breaking point during the summer of 2020, when they called out the castle on Twitter and Facebook. |
| 0:54.6 | I think it was a combination of a lot of things where I felt like I had been really quiet |
| 0:58.5 | and essentially complicit in some of this garbage for a while, and I hit a breaking point. |
| 1:04.1 | The murder of George Floyd and the castle's reaction to the protests opened a schism among members. |
| 1:11.0 | And for Carly, it was actually a moment of hope. |
| 1:14.1 | There's like this private Facebook group where like of all these like progressive, interesting |
| 1:18.4 | people that are at the Magic Castle. |
| 1:23.3 | And just as Carly was becoming excited to be a part of change at the castle, |
| 1:28.3 | two members took action to get Carly kicked out. |
| 1:32.3 | This episode. |
| 1:37.3 | If other people are expressing that they feel uncomfortable in this space, |
| 1:42.3 | I'm wondering how you grapple with that. |
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