David French
speaker
1,997 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4d ago
David French’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In other words, the crew does not all look Greek, right?
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The crew is different ethnicities and sort of this idea that
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You could have Greek and be different ethnicities as sort of also kind of a very modern or contemporary.
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It's a mythology.
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Right, exactly.
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It's not actual history we're talking about.
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But the main issue was identity.
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It was there's a trans actor.
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It was Helen of Troy as a black actor.
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You know, this kind of – it was all identity.
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And you know what it reminded me of?
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I remember seeing criticism of The Walking Dead years ago when it was very, very, very popular because it had gay characters in it.
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And yet The Walking Dead was –
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The Walking Dead was, in many ways, like the Second Amendment enthusiast's dream story.
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It was like, this is why you own guns, because the impending zombie apocalypse.
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And I can remember writing about some of the criticism and saying, look, you can paint the battleship New Jersey in rainbow colors, and it's still the battleship New Jersey.
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If you have a story that is...
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that is fundamentally oriented towards self-reliance and the Walking Dead, like the right to keep and bear arms, et cetera, the inclusion of some characters that you may have some qualms with doesn't change the underlying narrative thrust and arc of the whole story.
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It's the same thing with this.
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It's the inclusion of people from different backgrounds and identities into the story
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