Speaker 1: What's up? And you're listening to another episode of Nerve
Speaker 1: Day of a Sad and sitting across from me as
Speaker 1: always is Danny Fernandez, and you're yeah, I didn't say
Speaker 1: my name was gonna try and rectify, but you're already
Speaker 1: on it. I was there. Yeah, tag team partner, tag
Speaker 1: team partner from the top rope into the middle of
Speaker 1: the I don't know enough wrestling to three D Macho
Speaker 1: Man Randy Savage. Yeah, you're you're, you're, you're half wag.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I know that all the people who well,
Speaker 1: we already did the wrestling episode. Now I got to
Speaker 1: do the new Japan episode. I almost said Seth Rogan,
Speaker 1: but that's Joe Rogan, and that's different than I'm almost there.
Speaker 1: I mean that was a yeah, double goof. But we're
Speaker 1: not here to talk about wrestling or m A today.
Speaker 1: We're not talking about Stone Cold Steve Austin. That is one.
Speaker 1: That is one. Thank you? Do you do you know
Speaker 1: what is what is famous? Do you know what Austin
Speaker 1: three sixteen stands means? What it's there for? Um? I
Speaker 1: know it's from the Bible. Now, that's that's John three
Speaker 1: six Austin three sixty means something different than the Bible.
Speaker 1: But it's supposed to be a reference to the Bible, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a reference to the Bible because he had a
Speaker 1: feud with with someone whose whole like persona was like
Speaker 1: he was like this almost like pastor kind of Christian
Speaker 1: person So then he coined the term austin three sixteen
Speaker 1: blankety blank blank blank. Do you know what that is? No,
Speaker 1: it's I just whooped your ass? Okay, what didn't he
Speaker 1: like have a cann of whoop ass? Was that him? No? No? Okay,
Speaker 1: do you think goldberga Goldberg Goldberg? Let's not forget about
Speaker 1: the most famous wrestler move that there is, Rickish or
Speaker 1: wrestler there is Rickishing. No, that's forgettable. Yeah, Rikishi and
Speaker 1: he had the stink face. Yes, that's what it was.
Speaker 1: He he has a a wrestling school out here, Knox Pro.
Speaker 1: My buddy, yeah, my buddy Brett trains there. And I
Speaker 1: went to see one of their, like, uh, their matches
Speaker 1: in Rikishi came out and he hit somebody with a
Speaker 1: stink face, and I was like, we're back. Maybe. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I did have a ten episode show with Xavier Woods. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and um, probably good that I didn't know who he
Speaker 1: was because I was chill about it before were writing
Speaker 1: me like, what the heck? You're friends with Xavier Woods? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's just my friend. Is he famous? He is? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Austin Creed Okay, Xavier Woods Okay from New Day Yeah, ok. Budios, Budios.
Speaker 1: That was That was a gimmick. But we're not here
Speaker 1: to talk about w W or M or Austin three sixteen.
Speaker 1: Did you know? Wait? I want to say one thing
Speaker 1: because it's in my blood. My uncle is world champion
Speaker 1: Brazilian jiu jitsu fighter. You do know that. I know
Speaker 1: that Any used to be all in the b j J. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you just removed to j um so different last name.
Speaker 1: But people are going to google. Yeah, it's not in
Speaker 1: my wiki. I don't have a wiki. We're not here
Speaker 1: to talk about M, M A, b J J, w
Speaker 1: W E, Austin three. We're here to talk about today
Speaker 1: the Power of three. The Power of three hit a
Speaker 1: hit w B show. It's called charm. Yeah, and we
Speaker 1: brought our friend Omar Allen to talk about it. How
Speaker 1: you doing good? How are you? How didn't feel to
Speaker 1: sit through all of that? Like based on what you
Speaker 1: thought this podcast was about. And then what you just
Speaker 1: witnessed right and right in front of you, the whole
Speaker 1: wrestling thing, or well, it wasn't like them that, But
Speaker 1: I mean I'm well versed and all of my grew
Speaker 1: up in the nineties. You have wrestling, you had Charmed,
Speaker 1: you had your video games, Game Boy, you had your everything.
Speaker 1: So I'm pretty well rounded when it comes to all that.
Speaker 1: Oh man, Well, before we get into Charmed and all
Speaker 1: that good stuff, we'd like to talk about what we're
Speaker 1: geeking out about this week. So what's your geeking out
Speaker 1: about this week? This week? I'm definitely gegging out about
Speaker 1: all of them, the flash sales at PlayStations having right now.
Speaker 1: I recently started reviewing indie video games UM rating and
Speaker 1: reviewing indie video games. So whenever I catch like a
Speaker 1: flash sale and just an obscure no name title that
Speaker 1: you and your friends have never heard of, I'm just
Speaker 1: on it like that. Yeah that sounds like fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So it's what's an indie title that's kind of caught
Speaker 1: your eye recently? Recently, I've been stuck on Wizards of Legend.
Speaker 1: It's um kind of like a dungeon crawling eight bit
Speaker 1: pixel art game, and it's I've been stuck on Afflictible
Speaker 1: two months. I've been a little obsessed with it. I
Speaker 1: think that this is the first game that I've ever
Speaker 1: got a platinum trophy in, and I've had p S three,
Speaker 1: PS four. I was never like a trophy hunter or anything,
Speaker 1: but I just accidentally got a platinum. Well. I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, did y'all see that Garfield Racing is getting
Speaker 1: a sequel? Did you see that announced? Oh, it's been
Speaker 1: all over the tweets, It's been a twitters and um,
Speaker 1: but this is like, come on, what about Diddikong Racing y'all?
Speaker 1: I will fight for diddy Kong Racing until the day
Speaker 1: I die. Didn't you just bring back Crash? Why he
Speaker 1: was bringing back? Why? What's wrong with my man Diddy?
Speaker 1: And he had conquer in there? You know. I remember
Speaker 1: Conquers Bad for a day because that was the first
Speaker 1: like adult game that was a very explicit scene between
Speaker 1: a b and a flower, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is Nulty also Banjo Kazooe. Yeah, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm Garfield is cool. I'll play it. I love all
Speaker 1: the kart games. I'm actually really good. Oh ada so
Speaker 1: we have a mutual friend Christopher Smith Bryant. He's a
Speaker 1: part of the l A Gaming Society which Omar is
Speaker 1: also in UM and he was on our SIMS episode
Speaker 1: and a couple of other episodes. But he had a
Speaker 1: Mario Kart tournament at his place and I beat everybody.
Speaker 1: It was very proud of myself. Who's your driver? Who's
Speaker 1: your main driver? I'm not going to give that secret
Speaker 1: a way actually change it. I don't yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you you have a main driver, a kart main uh?
Speaker 1: I mean in Mario Kart is definitely gonna be my
Speaker 1: man's Toad. I feel like he has the flexibility to
Speaker 1: to get where I needing to get and I and
Speaker 1: I like those like newer kind of Formula one style cars,
Speaker 1: but the tiny wheels. I love Toad, But I don't
Speaker 1: know how I feel like they made me because like
Speaker 1: they had all picked already. I feel like they made
Speaker 1: me be Bowser or something. And I hate Bowser too,
Speaker 1: but I won. I don't know. Whenever you crash into
Speaker 1: the back of them, then that like knocks you out,
Speaker 1: like you hit like a banana or walks of the
Speaker 1: spikes on the shell. No one ever expects that like
Speaker 1: the heavier characters. Yeah, okay, here we are. Jenny's trying
Speaker 1: to rush past her geeks. I'm actually getting out about
Speaker 1: a book. I'm reading a book right now. Um it's uh,
Speaker 1: I think it's like a self help book, but that's chill.
Speaker 1: It's Eckart Toles A New Earth, and um I found
Speaker 1: it from listening to old episodes of Super Soul Stunday
Speaker 1: from Oprah, which those are kind of hit or miss
Speaker 1: for me, but this one in particular, she did like
Speaker 1: an entire series on his book, so much so that
Speaker 1: I went and got it and I like it a lot.
Speaker 1: It talks about your pain body, which is something that
Speaker 1: I relate to heavily, how we live with trauma and
Speaker 1: how uh we kind of like that we to like
Speaker 1: separate ourselves from that that doesn't like define us, and
Speaker 1: how a lot of times you'll meet someone else that
Speaker 1: has a pain body similar to you, and that's how
Speaker 1: people get in like abusive relationships or they carry that
Speaker 1: from when their children. Um, it's really fascinating. A New Earth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's called a New Earth and uh, yeah, it was great.
Speaker 1: I mean I've just been listening to it NonStop. Another
Speaker 1: one that I recommend, especially if you're in the creative space.
Speaker 1: And I've read this three different times is Big Magic
Speaker 1: by Liz Gilbert. It is so good if you are
Speaker 1: a writer, especially because she's a writer. She's the one
Speaker 1: that did Eat, Pray, Love, and a bunch of other books.
Speaker 1: But it is so great for creative artists who are stuck.
Speaker 1: I mean, she's just I I've read it. I have
Speaker 1: the audio book of it. I just like I wanted
Speaker 1: to listen to it in my car. It's it's really
Speaker 1: great for uh, for kind of helping you get out
Speaker 1: of your own head and whatever stopping you from pursuing
Speaker 1: a creative life. So yeah, those are mine. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: and mine is you know, uh, it's gonna be something
Speaker 1: you should you should know about this by the time
Speaker 1: this episode drops. And if not, this is the first
Speaker 1: you're gonna hear of it. And don't make it hot,
Speaker 1: you know, don't make it hot. That is coming. But um,
Speaker 1: I am the new host of twitches show fresh Stock,
Speaker 1: which is a sneaker show live on Twitch on Thursdays. Uh.
Speaker 1: And while you're listening to this, I'm in New York.
Speaker 1: Probably have a show. Probably check my Twitter and see
Speaker 1: if I'm around you, but I'll be up in New York.
Speaker 1: But I'll be up in New York. Uh Uh. This
Speaker 1: at this point would be this past weekend. UH doing
Speaker 1: a segment for the NBA two K League Finals, talking
Speaker 1: to them about you know, basketball sports games. You know
Speaker 1: a game genre that admittedly I don't play much of.
Speaker 1: What I do love sneakers, and we're gonna bena be
Speaker 1: talking about kicks. It's gonna be interesting to side and
Speaker 1: what kicks i'd bring up to New York because I
Speaker 1: don't like traveling with like my like super dope kicks.
Speaker 1: I think I'm bringing the sakis up because our friend
Speaker 1: friend of the pote has the skis and a different color.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna be matchy boys. I'm gonna force him
Speaker 1: to do that with me too. Nigerians. But yeah, so
Speaker 1: I'm really hyped about that. Definitely tune in on Thursdays
Speaker 1: on the Twitch. I'll be uh posting it online. We're
Speaker 1: talking sneakers. If you like sneakers and if you like
Speaker 1: you know, nerdy stuff, that's where you need to be. Yo.
Speaker 1: Did you see that photo shoot I did though with
Speaker 1: my sneakers? Were you proud of me, Oh, yeah, those
Speaker 1: are the ones. I uh you. I remember when you
Speaker 1: were telling me about those sneakers and I was like,
Speaker 1: those do look like DBZ sneakers? Yeah? Those are great.
Speaker 1: They look like Bolma from Dragon Ball And I got him,
Speaker 1: uh and ever I felt bad because I got him
Speaker 1: a couple of months ago, but I didn't want to
Speaker 1: wear them until I had time to shoot in them.
Speaker 1: So I finally went out and did this photo shoot.
Speaker 1: They were super dope. Um you can check out my
Speaker 1: if you're in l A and you want to shoot
Speaker 1: with the artist that did it, highly recommend um Mackenzie Lenora.
Speaker 1: All of her stuff is on there on my thing.
Speaker 1: But I didn't wear them for a couple of months.
Speaker 1: So I felt bad when I dropped that photo shoot
Speaker 1: because I was like, where can I get these? And
Speaker 1: they're all sold out. They've been sold out for like
Speaker 1: two months for a while. Now you can check stock
Speaker 1: x see if they got Yeah, that's true, they don't,
Speaker 1: but I looked. I try to send people a leak,
Speaker 1: but maybe they do now I don't know. Um, we're
Speaker 1: talking about Charmed. Speaking of the magic of shoes, let's
Speaker 1: talk about the magic of sisterhood. Let's talk about the
Speaker 1: magic of being a hit w B show for eight seasons,
Speaker 1: started in the nineties up until I graduated high school
Speaker 1: in two thousand and six. Yeah, there's a really long time.
Speaker 1: Were you watching it that whole time? Omar, Definitely. I
Speaker 1: didn't watch it in order, which I kind of hate it,
Speaker 1: like because growing up you would just catch like real
Speaker 1: you never knew when um just growing up, I just
Speaker 1: came into like the middle of list series, but catching
Speaker 1: on FX every morning they would show like rerun, so
Speaker 1: I would watch it before I would go to school
Speaker 1: every day. Eventually, once Netflix and streaming we became a
Speaker 1: thing and I didn't have to buy like box sets anymore.
Speaker 1: I just sat down and just benched watch the entire
Speaker 1: series after like two or three months, and that was
Speaker 1: my new like show that I would go to really,
Speaker 1: So that's yeah, because it does feel like everyone has
Speaker 1: their one show that they will just rewatch as many
Speaker 1: times that Like for my sister and Heiro, it's uh friends.
Speaker 1: She likes friends in the office because those are the
Speaker 1: office people. The office is great. I love it, but man,
Speaker 1: they're just like, instead of watching a new series, they
Speaker 1: just go back to the office mins like Scrubs or
Speaker 1: Charge is good. Scrubs is good throwback. But you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get the nitty griddy out of the way
Speaker 1: like I normally do at the top of every episode
Speaker 1: and give you the you know, straight up breakdown, which
Speaker 1: is the fact that. Charmed is an American fantasy drama
Speaker 1: television series created by Constance Emberge and produced by Aaron
Speaker 1: Spelling and his production company, Spelling Television, with Brad Kern
Speaker 1: serving as showrunner. The series originally was broadcast by the
Speaker 1: WB for eight seasons from October until May twenty one,
Speaker 1: two thousand and six. The series narrative follows a trio
Speaker 1: of sisters known as the Charmed Ones, the most powerful
Speaker 1: good witches of all time, who use their combined power
Speaker 1: of three to protect innocent lives from evil beings such
Speaker 1: as demons and warlocks. Each sister possesses unique magical powers
Speaker 1: that grow and evolve while they attempt to maintain normal
Speaker 1: lives in modern day San Francisco. Keeping their supernatural identity
Speaker 1: separate and secret from their ordinary lives often becomes a
Speaker 1: challenge for them. They're like Spider Man, but sisters, Uh,
Speaker 1: this is that I added that one with the exposure
Speaker 1: of magic, having far reaching consequences on their various relationships
Speaker 1: and resulting in a number of police and FBI investigations
Speaker 1: throughout the series. The series initially focused on the three
Speaker 1: Halliwell sisters Prue, Piper, and Phoebe. Following Who's death in
Speaker 1: the third season finale spoiler alert, their long lost half sister,
Speaker 1: Page Matthews assumes her place within the Power of Three
Speaker 1: from season four onwards. I'm gonna run that back. Prue
Speaker 1: was Shannon Doherty, Piper was Holly Marie Combs, and Phoebe
Speaker 1: was a Lissa Milana. This is a wild because I
Speaker 1: can't wait to yeah, which that was a big deal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see what was the real reason
Speaker 1: Prue ended up dying, which I think might smell either
Speaker 1: contract or I mean, Shannon Doherty might have been getting
Speaker 1: that movie check and was like I'm out. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: the w B, which is now the c W, and
Speaker 1: I was like, why is it called that? I never
Speaker 1: realized why is it called the c W? Yeah? Do
Speaker 1: you know why? It's CBS and WB combining, So they
Speaker 1: took the C in the w That's why. I It's
Speaker 1: very simple and easy thing that I had no idea about. Yeah. Right,
Speaker 1: So anyways, and now we have the new Charmed which
Speaker 1: is on CWW. Yes, did you have a particular character
Speaker 1: that you gravitated towards? Definitely Piper. And Piper was just bad.
Speaker 1: She could control time. She just flash her hands at
Speaker 1: you everything with stuff. She could also just blow stuff up.
Speaker 1: She points at you and just make explosions appear out
Speaker 1: of her hands. And she was just like kind of
Speaker 1: like the leader. She was the older sister of everybody,
Speaker 1: and she was just She's just badass all around. Would
Speaker 1: you say that the fan base that that's their favorite.
Speaker 1: Do you think the fan base has a favorite? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I just feel like depending on your personality
Speaker 1: and your nature and who you are, you're going to
Speaker 1: gravitate towards one system more than another because out they
Speaker 1: have their own like things in their personal lives that
Speaker 1: make them each unique. Like Page is always going through
Speaker 1: relationship drama because she's like excuse me, um Phoebe is
Speaker 1: always going through relationship drama because she's an impath or
Speaker 1: um Page is focused on her career, and Pipers like
Speaker 1: worried about mother like parenthood and trying to like lead
Speaker 1: a normal life and like lead a well rounded life
Speaker 1: for her children. So depending on what you're going through
Speaker 1: in life, you could definitely like gravitate more towards one
Speaker 1: than the other. But she was definitely like the role
Speaker 1: model in my opinion. I was always adjacent to this,
Speaker 1: Like I didn't really grow up watching the original Charms,
Speaker 1: but it was my understanding that everybody, not everybody, but
Speaker 1: I thought it was like Alissa Milano was like a
Speaker 1: big deal. Yeah, this was like my mom's and her
Speaker 1: sister's like favorite show. So like I definitely wasn't like
Speaker 1: going to see it, but I was forced to see
Speaker 1: it because you know, they had the TV on locks.
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, I guess I'll watch episodes,
Speaker 1: which y'all see. The interesting part about Elissa Milano's character
Speaker 1: is that she was a half witch half white Lighter,
Speaker 1: which is basically like a guardian angel to the witches.
Speaker 1: So each one each which is assigned like a guardian angel,
Speaker 1: and that's who like watches over them and guides them
Speaker 1: through like becoming in a witch. So she was like
Speaker 1: not supposed to happen, because you're not supposed to fall
Speaker 1: in love with a white Lighter and she's like the
Speaker 1: forbidden child, so she she had a lot going for
Speaker 1: as well, so I could see that being a fan favorite. Um.
Speaker 1: She also had a romantic relationship with fellow employee Leslie
Speaker 1: st Clair Nick Lache talk to talk me through this. Yes,
Speaker 1: Ni was her was her a significant other for a
Speaker 1: good while. Believe he was killed by a demon unfortunately
Speaker 1: sounds like it, yes, but um, yeah he was. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, he looks so much like an angel,
Speaker 1: like who da Yes, Nick Lash and David looks so
Speaker 1: much alike that it was the same time Angel. I
Speaker 1: think was also out right because it was after Buffy,
Speaker 1: So I feel like they were just grabbing all those
Speaker 1: dudes with the strong jaws to the upfronts and be
Speaker 1: like they're like alternate universe versions of each other. Um okay,
Speaker 1: so yeah, So so you talked a little bit about
Speaker 1: some of their powers. What about Prue. Prue she had
Speaker 1: she was a telepath, so she was able to move
Speaker 1: things with her mind. Um. She also died, and at
Speaker 1: the end of the season four, she died, and that's
Speaker 1: when things got at wonky because it's all about the
Speaker 1: power three and sisterhood and without there being three Charmed Ones,
Speaker 1: their powers don't work. So there was this weird little
Speaker 1: hiatus where they're trying to figure out what like, if
Speaker 1: we're not the Charmed Ones, then who are we? What
Speaker 1: are we? And then they find out that their mom
Speaker 1: had this secret affair. That's when Melissa Milano comes in.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, that's when McGowan. McGowan, excusence. But if we're
Speaker 1: for those who are like what happened behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: So Sannon Aherty, who who plays Prue, was coming hot
Speaker 1: off the heels of a great career. She was on
Speaker 1: Beverly Hills nine one Oh, she had cloud she came up,
Speaker 1: but she also had a record of being a little
Speaker 1: bit of a diva. She apparently on set she was
Speaker 1: having like just straight out lashing out at people, and
Speaker 1: it's rumored that her and Jenny Garth through hands like
Speaker 1: they like, that's how intense it got. So then that
Speaker 1: was Beverly Hills, Yes, yes, yes, yeah, but um but
Speaker 1: so she goes on to UM two Charmed and then
Speaker 1: her and her and Enlist Milano did not get along
Speaker 1: and so eventually it kind of ramped up to the
Speaker 1: point that that they just ended up. I don't think
Speaker 1: she got the boot. I think Shannon dipped. Uh, you
Speaker 1: know it's all hazy because you know it's all it
Speaker 1: says here. Well, that is true, it says here on Charm.
Speaker 1: She was allegedly fired by producer Aaron Spelling after an
Speaker 1: ultimatum from Milano. So Milano said, and I'm sure that
Speaker 1: there's an etrue Hollywood story about this. I'm sure the
Speaker 1: that just shows like the transfer of cloud, Like that's
Speaker 1: the thing is when you when you get spicy and
Speaker 1: then the cloud transferred to one a Listen, Milano, she
Speaker 1: can be the one that's like, which one you pick?
Speaker 1: I wonder if it's different not like you know, anytime
Speaker 1: I hear that a woman is difficult on set, I'm like,
Speaker 1: show me receipts. What did she do? You know? Um?
Speaker 1: And because I feel like, you know, sometimes women get
Speaker 1: a bad rep for doing the same exact thing that
Speaker 1: men do, but men get away with it and are
Speaker 1: often kept um and so well, she told people, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying I don't have my moments of bitchiness because
Speaker 1: everyone has them, but it's never for no reason. And
Speaker 1: I also went on to say, I've always been a
Speaker 1: ballsy kid. I know it pisses some people off, but
Speaker 1: it isn't the end result much better? Yea, she sounds
Speaker 1: like she might have been running her mouth. You know.
Speaker 1: It's it's funny because it is that thing of like,
Speaker 1: there's the assertiveness and where we should just call this
Speaker 1: tea time whenever where Uh, we don't always get drama
Speaker 1: with everything that we are covering, so but it does
Speaker 1: say here um. For her part, she has admitted to
Speaker 1: making mistakes, blaming her behavior on the pressures of fame,
Speaker 1: her youth, and problems in her personal life. The thing
Speaker 1: about youth is you and I know young people who
Speaker 1: are famous who don't act like this, So like I
Speaker 1: get it to some extent, but this is such nineties drama.
Speaker 1: We're actually going to take a really quick break and
Speaker 1: then we're gonna hop back into the messiness and the
Speaker 1: beautifulness that is Charmed right after these messages and we're back.
Speaker 1: So yeah. Charmed actually had a cult following, and with
Speaker 1: its first episode that dropped on the WB something wicked
Speaker 1: this way comes. I imagine though that the actual witch community,
Speaker 1: probably because that was an issue now, so the charm
Speaker 1: now was very important. I think they have a Breuja
Speaker 1: that's on it. As a writer, it's very important I
Speaker 1: know that you're not just using witchcraft and that, you know,
Speaker 1: for TV or whatever, when this is actually people's beliefs.
Speaker 1: So but also I can imagine like one million moms
Speaker 1: not being okay with it. My mom, that might have
Speaker 1: been a reason I didn't really watch it. My family
Speaker 1: is super Catholic and anything that involved Auji board which
Speaker 1: they had and stuff, yeah, I mean they're weird about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't mess with wegi bards either. I
Speaker 1: love some charms. But if I go on someone's house
Speaker 1: and there's a Weiji board there, I'm leaving. I was
Speaker 1: at I was at a party and it was like
Speaker 1: a witch party in quotes or whatever, and people had
Speaker 1: someone posted in the Facebook group, oh we have a
Speaker 1: I'm going to bring a Wegi board, And I said,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go. I don't blame if I'm there,
Speaker 1: you will contact somebody if you know that I'm spooky
Speaker 1: and haunted. Yeah, you're very spooky, very haunted. So Charmed
Speaker 1: was the second highest rated series on the WB behind
Speaker 1: Seventh Heaven. Totally forgot about that show. Wow, those are
Speaker 1: two totally separate shows. You have an extremely Christian show.
Speaker 1: Did you watch Seventh Heaven two? Okay, no, did you
Speaker 1: watch Seventh Heaven? Uh? Actually I did. I was watching
Speaker 1: it pretty pretty religiously as a kid, pun intended. And
Speaker 1: then like those twins got involved in for some reason.
Speaker 1: They thought it was a good idea that they always
Speaker 1: would talk at the same time, but they weren't good actors,
Speaker 1: so it was always off, just two kids trying to win.
Speaker 1: It was very bad. But yeah, no, I was deep
Speaker 1: in Seventh Heaven. I was. I was watching like Jessica
Speaker 1: Bill of course. Okay, okay, no, I mean I did too.
Speaker 1: Uh so um. In two thousand six, Charing became the
Speaker 1: longest running hour long an hour long long episodes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: getting kids to watch that is that's impressive. It became
Speaker 1: the longest running hour long television series featuring all female
Speaker 1: leads and uh and then was later surpassed surpassed by
Speaker 1: Desperate Housewives in so omar, why don't you hit us
Speaker 1: off with some of your favorite episode was just to
Speaker 1: give you know, a viewing guide for anyone who's like
Speaker 1: jumping in and and want to just check out some
Speaker 1: maps to get them, you know, sucked into the Charmed Life. UM.
Speaker 1: So one of my favorite episodes would definitely have to
Speaker 1: be when Phoebe she was dating a demon named Cole,
Speaker 1: and it was a really hectic on again off a
Speaker 1: game relationship and secrets on both sides. Because she can't
Speaker 1: give up her secret that she's a witch and her
Speaker 1: sisterhood and everything. He can't give up his secret that
Speaker 1: he's a demon, going for kiding. Everybody knows this about
Speaker 1: them but them basically, ok um, that he's a demon
Speaker 1: and trying to be king of the underworld and go
Speaker 1: for the release the source of all evil upon mankind.
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, Are they in college? No, they're they're
Speaker 1: all out of college. Actually, I'm trying to figure out
Speaker 1: their age. Um, so it's like mid twenties to early thirties.
Speaker 1: Phoebe actually went back to school. Um in a later season,
Speaker 1: probably season three or four. But yes, um, she was
Speaker 1: dating a demon named Cole who was played by h.
Speaker 1: Julian McMahon which I totally butchered his last name. But
Speaker 1: you know him from niptok. He was one of the
Speaker 1: main doctors. Oh my gosh, yes, wow. And he's in
Speaker 1: something else recently. Oh, he's in um. Oh the Marvel
Speaker 1: the Runaways. I think, yes, yes, the tech guy, oh
Speaker 1: super dope okay, um so yes. They eventually the secrets
Speaker 1: get out and they discover that well, he's always known
Speaker 1: all along that he fell in love with the charmed
Speaker 1: the charmed wing Phoebe, And once the sisters find out,
Speaker 1: they have to vanquish him, and it's up to Phoebe
Speaker 1: to throw like the last vial. And I just remember
Speaker 1: this heart wrenching episode of the first two sisters throw
Speaker 1: the vials down on the ground and the smokes like
Speaker 1: starts coming up to dragon the hill and she's like
Speaker 1: crying and sobbing, and she just can't do it, but
Speaker 1: she knows she has to, and she finally throw musters
Speaker 1: up the courage to throw it, and that was it,
Speaker 1: and that they had vanquished him like four or five
Speaker 1: times before, because like I said, it was like on again,
Speaker 1: off again, but this final time when they were just like, no,
Speaker 1: we we have to get rid of him. He's too strong.
Speaker 1: It was it was heartbreaking because like you were kind
Speaker 1: of fighting for her. She was just like she was.
Speaker 1: She was an impath. She wore a heart on her sleeve,
Speaker 1: and like you were, she felt everything more than everybody.
Speaker 1: So you you were rooting for and just to watch
Speaker 1: like that crumble apart and then her have to like
Speaker 1: rebuild her love life and everything afterwards. It was it
Speaker 1: was amazing episode. Okay, but wait, it says he later
Speaker 1: returns for a guest appearance in the season seven episode
Speaker 1: The Seven Year, which where it has revealed his spirit
Speaker 1: is trapped between realms. People really must have liked. What
Speaker 1: that means to me is people really liked him because
Speaker 1: they kept bringing him back. Um, but yeah, he didn't.
Speaker 1: He came back for that one episode. Yeah, just as spirit,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't. They finally got rid of him because
Speaker 1: he was he was hard as hell to kill. He
Speaker 1: was that one character who which just just kept coming back. Okay,
Speaker 1: So yeah, so what are some of your other favorite moments?
Speaker 1: Definitely the Big finale or the final battle. They I
Speaker 1: hate to keep skipping around like this, but it's just, um,
Speaker 1: they discovered that they had They took on an apprentice
Speaker 1: named Billy and then her sister who ended up becoming
Speaker 1: the source. Yeah, can you tell people what the sources like?
Speaker 1: What that means? So the sources basically like the greatest evil,
Speaker 1: That's what the charmed ones are made to that's what
Speaker 1: they're destined to fight there. It's the source of all
Speaker 1: magic itself, so whoever gets their hands on it, basically
Speaker 1: it's whether it's used for good or evil. It's it's
Speaker 1: like raw energy, raw power, which is where they all
Speaker 1: draw everything from. And UM, that's that's where that's who
Speaker 1: they're destined to fight. UM. So, like I was saying,
Speaker 1: at the season finale of the entire series, there was
Speaker 1: apprentice named Christie. Christie and her sister had been taken
Speaker 1: hostage by I believe it was the the The assistant
Speaker 1: was Billy Right and her sister who ended up working
Speaker 1: for her sister. Christie ended up working for the Source
Speaker 1: and UM and being manipulated by them when they were kidnapped. UM,
Speaker 1: when they kidnapped her from a very young age to
Speaker 1: like because she was like one of the most powerful
Speaker 1: witches out there. UM. At the final battle, Piper and
Speaker 1: the other Piper, Phoebe and Page, they lost everything. Their
Speaker 1: house literally exploded in like this ultimate battle, and that
Speaker 1: was like they're everything, the magic, the books, the everything
Speaker 1: was just destroyed and at the end it was just
Speaker 1: her and her husband, who was later returned to her
Speaker 1: um because he was her husband, was their white lighter
Speaker 1: and their protector, and he kind of came and he
Speaker 1: was just like whoa, Like everything's like destroyed, and he
Speaker 1: took them out. He took Piper out, and there was
Speaker 1: nothing that she thought she lost everything. But of course,
Speaker 1: like so season finale of a w B show back
Speaker 1: then you get your everything wrapped up in a nice
Speaker 1: little bow and everyone got what they wanted in the end,
Speaker 1: but it was it was a little heart wrenching at
Speaker 1: the moment where you're just like, oh my god, did
Speaker 1: her sisters die? Isn't just her that's left? What's what's happening.
Speaker 1: Something that I didn't realize is that there's Charmed comic
Speaker 1: books and those actually worked. So with the series finale,
Speaker 1: which we said what it ended in two thousand and six,
Speaker 1: that there was comic books that were released in that
Speaker 1: were a continuation of the television series, and it's actually
Speaker 1: set eighteen months after the events of the final episode
Speaker 1: Forever Charmed. Paul Rudatis was the lead writer for the
Speaker 1: first series, and Raven Gregory helped him co write the
Speaker 1: first three issues. The second and final comic book series,
Speaker 1: Charms Season ten debuted at New York Comic Con. That's
Speaker 1: so fascinating. So it was like they were literally called
Speaker 1: Charm season nine and Charm season ten. I just think
Speaker 1: that's so like, who does that? Who would do that? Now? Like,
Speaker 1: if show got canceled, what does the show recently that
Speaker 1: got canceled? Can you imagine like them continuing it on
Speaker 1: with comic books? Yeah, well then you remember they did
Speaker 1: that with Buffy, So that, like w B already was
Speaker 1: kind of like I thought Buffy was completely different, not
Speaker 1: completely different, but I don't know that it was a
Speaker 1: continuation of Like right after she ended that, the comic
Speaker 1: book was then you know what I mean, just picks
Speaker 1: up where you can like essentially fan fiction where you
Speaker 1: can sit on. I feel like if Supernatural ever got canceled,
Speaker 1: it would do that. Supernatural has been on for years. Look,
Speaker 1: Brooklyn nine nine could have had a comic book up everyone.
Speaker 1: You didn't have to say it now, I'm just kidding. Uh.
Speaker 1: There was also several board games of Charmed. Um, did
Speaker 1: you ever get to play any of those? Omar? I
Speaker 1: did not know, but I thought we can go on
Speaker 1: eBay and find some. The show's first board game, Charmed
Speaker 1: the Book of Shadows. I love that people are just
Speaker 1: like just low key being a part of the occult.
Speaker 1: If you bought the DVD box set, it came in
Speaker 1: a giant book of spell like a spell book, the
Speaker 1: Book of Shadows, and each like little page was a
Speaker 1: sleeve for your DVDs. It was it wasn't joking around,
Speaker 1: gonna I know, not kidding your little Lucy's gonna start
Speaker 1: speaking in tongues. And and honestly, the box set this
Speaker 1: is kind of cool. The complete series box set that
Speaker 1: was re released had all four sisters on it. So
Speaker 1: some of these other characters that were really important to charm.
Speaker 1: So Darryl Morris, he was a lieutenant. He was a
Speaker 1: lieutenant for the police department. And because they're the Charmed
Speaker 1: Ones and they're protecting San Francisco from all of the
Speaker 1: ghouls and goblins and demons that are out just like
Speaker 1: murdering people. Uh, he kept noticing that these three sisters
Speaker 1: would show up at all of his cases, and eventually,
Speaker 1: a nosy cop, he ends up discovering their secret and
Speaker 1: they can only basically erase his memory or like stop
Speaker 1: him from trying to pry on there. He basically became
Speaker 1: an issue to where it was just like, look, we
Speaker 1: either have to trust him with our secret and or
Speaker 1: we have to get rid of him. And he was
Speaker 1: such a nice person and his his wife and everybody,
Speaker 1: they basically the charmed ones. They trust that he was
Speaker 1: the only mortal that they trusted with with his with
Speaker 1: their secret. I love it because it says at the
Speaker 1: end of season seven, Darryl and his family moved to
Speaker 1: the East Coast. That was like the writers. That was
Speaker 1: like the writer's solution of like, this guy knows about
Speaker 1: them and he can either do something or they can
Speaker 1: only wipe his brain like so many times, and they
Speaker 1: trust him. It does say that they eventually considered him
Speaker 1: part of their family. He was like the brother. Basically
Speaker 1: they were like, we don't need you anymore. Moved to
Speaker 1: the East Coast. I think it just got too much
Speaker 1: for him. He was a brother and all this witchcraft
Speaker 1: and stuff going on. He has to get out of
Speaker 1: there and move his families somewhere. Sick. I mean, if
Speaker 1: San Frandisco is haunted, I can understand the Halloway sisters.
Speaker 1: White Lighter, is that what we talked about? A guardian angel? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a guardian angel. Four Witches. So their original guardian
Speaker 1: angel was Leo, which ended up becoming Piper's husband. Oh
Speaker 1: that's did they have a wedding episode? They had a wedding.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, I've always done for those. Um, they had
Speaker 1: a wedding episode. It was amazing. But of course, like
Speaker 1: it's a supernatural show, it always gets bombarded and interrupted
Speaker 1: by some kind of demon monster or yea, even a funeral,
Speaker 1: their sister funeral got disrupted. So Leo is introduced into
Speaker 1: season one as a sister's handyman hired to fix up
Speaker 1: their house, but they later discovered that he just casually
Speaker 1: happens to be a White Lighter, and then his duties
Speaker 1: often caused problems for his marriage to Piper. So how
Speaker 1: long did they date before they got married? Was it
Speaker 1: like a couple of seasons? Technically they weren't allowed to
Speaker 1: date at all, that's like forbidden. So then after like
Speaker 1: season I believe it was like season two or three,
Speaker 1: they sort of started like testing the waters. But that
Speaker 1: was just like all the Elders, the higher up, which
Speaker 1: is who basically employ the White Lighters, they're just like
Speaker 1: powerful stages. They they tried to intervene, but eventually she
Speaker 1: got um, she got pregnant, and yes that was They
Speaker 1: were just like, well, there's no going back. So he's
Speaker 1: an angel. I'm trying to understand. He's an angel, right,
Speaker 1: like a guardian angel basically. Yes, okay, I mean that
Speaker 1: doesn't sound very heavenly. But he was like, look, he's
Speaker 1: a Lucifer traded in his wings. Well he's not the
Speaker 1: first one. That's how their secret sister came about. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a history with them. They're going for the
Speaker 1: good guys. Yeah, well we'll talk. It seems like, you know,
Speaker 1: the story on the old Charm is wrapping up and
Speaker 1: after this break, we'll start talking about the new Charm.
Speaker 1: After these messages and we're back. So omar. I mean,
Speaker 1: it had eight seasons. There's so many things we could
Speaker 1: talk about with the original Charm, but essentially wrapping up.
Speaker 1: What should people know about it? You should know you're
Speaker 1: in for a hell of a ride, Like you're gonna
Speaker 1: have heartbreaks, You're gonna have moments where you're just on
Speaker 1: the edge of your seat wondering what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you have you gone back and watched it, Okay,
Speaker 1: it holds up because it holds a place like deer
Speaker 1: in my heart because it's just it holds up for me, like,
Speaker 1: of course there's some problematic things with it being an
Speaker 1: old ninety show, and like it it it just watch it,
Speaker 1: you'll you'll enjoy it. It does its best. It's not
Speaker 1: as bad as a lot of like nineties shows that
Speaker 1: don't hold up at all. I just feel like, if
Speaker 1: you're into that supernatural sort of sci fi television series,
Speaker 1: it'll be good for you. So every episode, did they
Speaker 1: have a Monster of the week essentially that they were
Speaker 1: so the book would so basically would start off with
Speaker 1: a murder that happened in the city and then they
Speaker 1: get like they get notified that it's a supernatural thing,
Speaker 1: like oh, hey, this body was found drained of all
Speaker 1: its blood or no organs or inside out whatever the
Speaker 1: craziness of San Francisco. San Francisco was going to bring
Speaker 1: to them that week, and um, they would basically investigate
Speaker 1: and that's like the first ten fifteen minutes of the episode,
Speaker 1: and then go back to their Book of Shadows, which
Speaker 1: was a book of spells and like information about monsters, demons.
Speaker 1: It's like an arcana of the supernatural and the book
Speaker 1: was basically sentient in itself where they could just be like, well,
Speaker 1: we're looking for X, Y and Z, and the pages
Speaker 1: will start flipping around and it'll alert them as to
Speaker 1: what it is that's causing this trouble and how to
Speaker 1: defeat it. Isn't it crazy that this this was so
Speaker 1: popular in the nineties because we had the Craft, which
Speaker 1: came out in ye six. We had Practical Magic, We
Speaker 1: had Sabrina the Teenage, which which let's like, all of
Speaker 1: these are coming back. We also had like when you said,
Speaker 1: you know there it would start with a murder where
Speaker 1: all their blood would be drawn. Immediately thought of X files,
Speaker 1: you know, so uh, and then of course Buffy the
Speaker 1: Vampire Slayer. So I would like to think that these
Speaker 1: all exist in the same world, in the same universe,
Speaker 1: that they're all just like actively trying to like how
Speaker 1: did all this blood get sucked up? And like Scully
Speaker 1: and Molder show up. But then also these sisters are
Speaker 1: on the side and they all think they're the ones
Speaker 1: that caught him. That would be the ultimate crossover episode. Everybody,
Speaker 1: someone needs to do that. So now we're hopping into
Speaker 1: the New Charm the reboot, which premiered October, right before Halloween.
Speaker 1: We are introduced to three new sisters who, after the
Speaker 1: death of their mother, discovered they are the Charmed Ones. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so the new series, how do you feel about it? Omar?
Speaker 1: I felt great, Like, like I said, I love Charmed,
Speaker 1: It's my go to show, so here and it's going
Speaker 1: to be rebooted. Like I was on top of the world.
Speaker 1: And then I sat down and Ben's watched it, and
Speaker 1: I was not the biggest I was not a happy camper.
Speaker 1: Let's just say that it was. It was kind of
Speaker 1: a heartbreak for me. How did it feel different than
Speaker 1: the original? It felt very instead of it being about
Speaker 1: sisterhood and um and just like Witchcraft overall, and it
Speaker 1: just felt very we have a lot of boxes that
Speaker 1: we need to check because of today. It felt like
Speaker 1: they were pandering just to be honest, was very Um,
Speaker 1: we need a Latino, we need a black check, we
Speaker 1: need we need representation from all, we need an LGBT character,
Speaker 1: We need to check all of these boxes. And I
Speaker 1: feel like they got so lost and checking these boxes
Speaker 1: that they weren't able to basically make two reclaim what
Speaker 1: the TV show used to be. So do you feel like,
Speaker 1: that's so fascinating because I feel like so many shows
Speaker 1: are able to do that. You know, it's it shouldn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, in my opinion, it doesn't feel forced, because
Speaker 1: that's just how the world is. You know, you do
Speaker 1: have Afro Latinas and in Queer Latinas and and things.
Speaker 1: And I'm not I know that's not what you're saying,
Speaker 1: but you're saying essentially that you felt that took center
Speaker 1: stage over okay, over like fighting demons. Yes, okay, And
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I appreciate the representation um of just
Speaker 1: everybody and trying to be inclusive um to to all
Speaker 1: other cold chersan and religions, the races, and trying to
Speaker 1: include everybody. And I feel like they even got lost
Speaker 1: in their own dialogue into their daily life where one
Speaker 1: of the for example, one of the characters, uh Maggie,
Speaker 1: she discovered that her um she'd been saying in her
Speaker 1: entire life identifying against Puerto Rican. Then it turned out
Speaker 1: that her what her father was black, and it was
Speaker 1: just this really interesting debate on she was up for
Speaker 1: a school scholarship, and she found out that because now
Speaker 1: she's black, that she's open to all of these different
Speaker 1: opportunities now, but she doesn't resemble black at all. She's
Speaker 1: not black passing. And it was this very like unique
Speaker 1: episode where you had to sit down and had a
Speaker 1: like a come to Jesus moment with your sister and
Speaker 1: just like, look, you're you're black passing. You go out
Speaker 1: to the world, they see a black woman. They don't
Speaker 1: see a Latin woman, or or they just see you
Speaker 1: as black. So I feel like I'm taking this opper
Speaker 1: trinity from somebody else who deserves it with the scholarship.
Speaker 1: How do you like? I'm it was a very interesting,
Speaker 1: like personality conflict that they did address, and on some
Speaker 1: episodes they're able to do it accurately and and interestingly,
Speaker 1: but most of the time it just feels very forced
Speaker 1: and just very just not you can't connect with the characters.
Speaker 1: So Carter Covington U served as a show owner for
Speaker 1: the first season, and I do know that it was
Speaker 1: picked up for a second season, which will come out
Speaker 1: this October. UM. I imagine that they feel that was
Speaker 1: something that they needed to address. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you if you want to wigh in on this, I mean,
Speaker 1: it is different than the original Charmed because those were
Speaker 1: white women, and I feel like if they didn't address
Speaker 1: it in Slash twenty nineteen, I don't know, I totally.
Speaker 1: It's such a weird balance. You know. It's like you
Speaker 1: want to just talk about supernatural things, but then you
Speaker 1: don't always have the luxury of doing it, and when
Speaker 1: you have a platfor form, you kind of want to
Speaker 1: use that platform to show how their lives, even if
Speaker 1: they are witches, are going to be different than the
Speaker 1: other sisters. They're just going to in America, in the
Speaker 1: world in general, but they're just not going to have
Speaker 1: the same lives. Uh So I understand why, But if
Speaker 1: you what are your thoughts? Yeah, I feel like a
Speaker 1: lot of you know, newer shows, and I don't think
Speaker 1: it's anyone's fault. Besides, you know, like a lot of
Speaker 1: times I feel like it could be you know, networks
Speaker 1: and studios that want you to to tackle like these
Speaker 1: things of like this is what the kids are talking about,
Speaker 1: because on Twitter we're always having these debates and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, this is a show about which is
Speaker 1: you're kind of reviving an I P that has a
Speaker 1: history and you know, you ruin the chance of just
Speaker 1: having this diverse show that it just happens to be
Speaker 1: diverse when you kind of get kind of drowning in
Speaker 1: like the discussion of identity. I think you had like
Speaker 1: a one off episode like that where you kind of
Speaker 1: talk about like, you know, essentially the debate of Afro
Speaker 1: Latin x folk. But it's still a witch show and
Speaker 1: that should always come first. Uh, you know it is.
Speaker 1: It does have a second season, and it can course correct.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm not gonna count it out just yet.
Speaker 1: I think, uh, you know there there they've heard us
Speaker 1: loud and clear, or maybe they have. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not the fan base, so I haven't.
Speaker 1: I haven't said anything to them. I think they have
Speaker 1: a new showrunner for the new season. Interesting, okay. Uh,
Speaker 1: And you know, sometimes it takes finding your ground, you know,
Speaker 1: whenever this was originally set to so like we see
Speaker 1: the stuff in uh, you know that this was announced
Speaker 1: a couple of years before that, the reboot, and you
Speaker 1: know it might so that's like right after the election
Speaker 1: if you think about it. H So it might be
Speaker 1: things that they felt that they had to tackle. So
Speaker 1: you're writing these you're writing these episodes and then by
Speaker 1: the time you go to shoot it, and then by
Speaker 1: the time you edit it, then by the time it airs,
Speaker 1: it's like we've already had these conversations and it's just
Speaker 1: still to us. Yeah, but it might have been super
Speaker 1: relevant or like they felt it was necessary for them
Speaker 1: to put into their art. But I totally feel both
Speaker 1: of you all that sometimes it's like, we deal with
Speaker 1: so much of this pain. Why do we have to
Speaker 1: be reminded of it constantly? Why can't we just fly
Speaker 1: around as witches fight demons, Like we're not the ones
Speaker 1: that need to be reminded of our own pain like
Speaker 1: other people. And I mean, don't get me wrong, they
Speaker 1: did a great job at some points, like the inclusivity
Speaker 1: of like you said about the Bruhas and that like
Speaker 1: now they have Latin spells that they because their mother
Speaker 1: was was Puerto Rican, so they have like the Latin
Speaker 1: spells in the spell book that they'll go through and
Speaker 1: they have different little blessings and prayers and spells that
Speaker 1: are authentic through to the to the Latin x culture.
Speaker 1: Which is interesting because if it was just like you
Speaker 1: said back then in the nineties with Shannon Doherty and
Speaker 1: three white women as witches. They only read the spells
Speaker 1: basically in English. They were like rhymes and chants instead
Speaker 1: of actually Latin things. Um, Latin spells that came straight
Speaker 1: from from history. I think this is hilarious at there
Speaker 1: because like if a Brujas in that writer's room giving
Speaker 1: them this that she'd be like, man, I can't believe
Speaker 1: they're saying this out loud. You guys saying it three
Speaker 1: or four times on set. Something's going to happen. Okay,
Speaker 1: So so talk to us through the new characters. We
Speaker 1: have Mel, Yes, Mel, who is the LGBT representation of
Speaker 1: the show. She um recently. As you said before, they
Speaker 1: both recently lost their mother and they were both Mel
Speaker 1: and Maggie were sisters, the original sisters living in the
Speaker 1: home they were. Mel was a PhD student and she
Speaker 1: was dating a cop named Nico Um who was Um.
Speaker 1: She was also one of the characters who checked the box.
Speaker 1: She's a Asian American actress and Um. It was interesting
Speaker 1: when they first introduced the character because she she felt
Speaker 1: the need to say it a loud kind of like
Speaker 1: the meme where no one's asking and then it's just
Speaker 1: like dot dot I'm Asian and it was just it
Speaker 1: was interesting how they how they presented her character. Um.
Speaker 1: So then you have Maggie who just started college as well,
Speaker 1: or excuse me, who just started college and she's all
Speaker 1: about like the greek life and she's all about rushing
Speaker 1: and uh sorority and um, just an overall party girl.
Speaker 1: And then you have Macy, who's the secret sister. Um,
Speaker 1: she's the black one, and she's a she's a scientist. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Maggie has the power of telepathy and the ability
Speaker 1: to read the thoughts of other people. This was one
Speaker 1: of the first differences from the original show. Is the
Speaker 1: original youngest sister who said Phoebe, which was a list
Speaker 1: of Milano's character. She had the power of premonition a
Speaker 1: little bit different. So that was their mom's power. Their
Speaker 1: mom had the power of premonition. Um. And then Mel
Speaker 1: she she has power at the time time yes, time
Speaker 1: freezing yes. And then which is similar to the original
Speaker 1: middle sister, which was Piper, which is Holly Marie Combs
Speaker 1: from the original series. Um. And then, like we said,
Speaker 1: it's later revealed that Mel is in fact the half sister, yes,
Speaker 1: not Mac. And then we have Macy, who we haven't
Speaker 1: gotten into yet Macy's powers. She's the telepath, so she's
Speaker 1: able to move things with her mind. Also spoiler if
Speaker 1: you haven't seen the series, Macy is a half demon,
Speaker 1: half witch, so that's her main struggle while she's going
Speaker 1: through um the basically the series and discovering not only
Speaker 1: that she has sisters that she didn't know about and
Speaker 1: this whole other life of being a witch, but she's
Speaker 1: also a demon, which basically no one around her can
Speaker 1: relate to because they're the charmed ones they're supposed to
Speaker 1: be killing demons. Yeah, and she's the like science nerd,
Speaker 1: she has a PhD. I love that they threw in
Speaker 1: their sciences magic. Yeah. Yeah, and it's interesting she actually
Speaker 1: she's the only one who merges her magic with science. So,
Speaker 1: like she was fighting somebody and she's like, I said,
Speaker 1: she's a telepath, so she was just like, well if
Speaker 1: I psychic psychically grabbed his karatid artery and hold it
Speaker 1: really tight, and she she has science magic. Uh. And
Speaker 1: we have Rupert Evans as Harry Greenwood, who is the
Speaker 1: sister's white lighter. Is it ever? I might have missed this?
Speaker 1: Is it ever? A woman that's a white yes, um,
Speaker 1: white lighters can be women. I know. It just seems
Speaker 1: like the last Like in the last Charmed, in this Charm,
Speaker 1: they have a male white lighter and the last one
Speaker 1: page was a white lighter, the Secret Sister. So she
Speaker 1: was half white lighter half witch because Okay conceived her. Yes, um, yes.
Speaker 1: And then also later on in this series they get
Speaker 1: a substitute white lighter named Tessa and she it's a
Speaker 1: female as well. Cool. Um. So yeah, elders, elders and
Speaker 1: white lighters they can be men or women. Are you so?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna? Are you going to tune into season two?
Speaker 1: I'll give it, I'll give it a second chance. I
Speaker 1: will because I'm as I'm I'm at the very last
Speaker 1: episode of the reboot actually, and I'm interested to see
Speaker 1: what direction they take it for a second season. Um.
Speaker 1: I kind of grew a little bit of attachment to
Speaker 1: Macy and hair character, and I want to see where
Speaker 1: they go with the whole like just Macy. Um, but
Speaker 1: I do want to see where they want to go
Speaker 1: with the whole demon twist and um and and seeing
Speaker 1: it's like you said, they have a new showrunners or
Speaker 1: maybe maybe they can win me back over and we'll
Speaker 1: sing um, this is to be fascinating because Tanya Saracho
Speaker 1: has a new show called Brujas coming out, so that'll
Speaker 1: be I don't know when that's dropping, but that sounds
Speaker 1: like it'll be competition. Um, we'll see how they tackle it.
Speaker 1: She's the show inner for Vida. M hm. Well, final thoughts, thoughts,
Speaker 1: what should people know about this season? That? Now? What's
Speaker 1: your elevator pitch as to why people should get into Charmed?
Speaker 1: If you, like I said, if you've liked anything science fiction, nerdy, magical,
Speaker 1: if you like Sabrina growing up, anything anything magical, whimsical, like,
Speaker 1: just just give it a shot. It's it's interesting where
Speaker 1: they go with like the lore and everything from all
Speaker 1: the demons and and like mystical beings that they fight
Speaker 1: because they're there. They come from a place of different
Speaker 1: lords and histories throughout different cultures, so you're able to
Speaker 1: learn a lot of different things that you didn't really
Speaker 1: know that like people believed in and of course like
Speaker 1: superstisters and supernaturally. I'm not saying these are like actual things,
Speaker 1: but it's just cool to see the different like beliefs
Speaker 1: of like of the supernatural world that that other people
Speaker 1: believe in I y'all was exactly correct about my thing.
Speaker 1: I'm just reading now that Jessica O'Toole, who's a writer.
Speaker 1: She told BuzzFeed News that the reason the redeveloped script
Speaker 1: was changed the present day was because of the results
Speaker 1: of the US presidential election. So I do imagine that
Speaker 1: probably did. If you're looking at when they were developing,
Speaker 1: this might have really affected their writing, especially if you
Speaker 1: think of everything that was happening then they were just
Speaker 1: going to make all those CW people watch this and no,
Speaker 1: you know, but they really did check all the boxes.
Speaker 1: They have their personal that they have a Laddin, they
Speaker 1: have black, they have LGBT, they have Asian. It's a
Speaker 1: very inclusive show and I love it, and I wish
Speaker 1: more shows could be like that. But it also feels
Speaker 1: like a lot got lost into delving into that so deeply.
Speaker 1: It is hard because that is a note that you like,
Speaker 1: I'm working on a show and that is you know,
Speaker 1: one of our producers is Asian, and she was like,
Speaker 1: can we have an Asian characters? Like? Of course, and
Speaker 1: then we want to have a black character, We want
Speaker 1: to have a like we just want to see ourselves represented.
Speaker 1: So badly that I understand what you're saying, but it's
Speaker 1: like so hard when when it's finally your show and
Speaker 1: you're like, I get to do this thing and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna and then but you don't want it to feel like, uh,
Speaker 1: like The Power Rangers or like Captain Planet, where you're
Speaker 1: just like one of everybody. Um, not saying that that's bad,
Speaker 1: but you wanted to feel organic, is what you're saying.
Speaker 1: You don't want it. You don't ever want someone to
Speaker 1: say that about your show that it just feels like
Speaker 1: you're checking off boxes. You want it to feel organic.
Speaker 1: And I imagine that, uh, you know, they were, they
Speaker 1: were coming up against a lot when this was being developed,
Speaker 1: and now that they've said what they needed to, I
Speaker 1: think that maybe with the future episodes they can really
Speaker 1: and with the success of a lot of the other
Speaker 1: you know, um, Sabrina coming back, a lot of these
Speaker 1: other ones coming back, I feel like they can they
Speaker 1: can play around a little bit more and hopefully they do. Omar,
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