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Ronald Young Jr.

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600 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Normal and What’s Making Us Happy

I want to go like a bunch of pictures to this film.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Normal and What’s Making Us Happy

I mean, yeah, apparently they're not thinking that all the way through, you know?

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Normal and What’s Making Us Happy

It's so funny because you say that.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Normal and What’s Making Us Happy

You mean in the 80s because they would have been doing it for black characters.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Normal and What’s Making Us Happy

Or women.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Normal and What’s Making Us Happy

Yeah, or women.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Normal and What’s Making Us Happy

Anything that's like sexist or racist.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Normal and What’s Making Us Happy

Oh my God, this person is evil.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Normal and What’s Making Us Happy

Which, to be clear, I don't agree with sexism or racism.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Normal and What’s Making Us Happy

To be clear.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Normal and What’s Making Us Happy

listen, you got to say it these days.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Normal and What’s Making Us Happy

I'm not trying to get canceled on a pop culture happy hour.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Normal and What’s Making Us Happy

To use it as a trope in a film to say, this person's so evil, they can't even accept queer folks.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Normal and What’s Making Us Happy

And I'm like, yo, that's definitely a nuanced stance.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Normal and What’s Making Us Happy

But if you use it as just black and white in films, you actually undercut the importance of acceptance and inclusivity.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Normal and What’s Making Us Happy

And in this film, you definitely do that because

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Normal and What’s Making Us Happy

I'm like, they have bigger fish to fry in this film, but you want us to care about this one issue, which of course we do care about, but it adds to the mess.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Normal and What’s Making Us Happy

It just adds to the mess.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Normal and What’s Making Us Happy

You know what?

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Normal and What’s Making Us Happy

I got a simple one.