Bonus: We Need More Black Male Booty in Film with Marck Angel

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome filmmaker and musical artist Marck Angel to discuss the making of his film Seraphim: The Motion Picture, tracing its origins back to the Trayvon Martin verdict and his 2019 album Angel Dust. Marck Angel walks through the film's COVID-disrupted production, the diverse cast and crew he assembled, and the specific influences behind his lead performance, citing the Nina character from Love Jones and Dow Stevens' role on Noah's Ark.

He also details the musical lineage behind the Seraphim soundtrack, naming Janet Jackson's Reformation, Michael Jackson's Bad and Moonwalker, Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, Prince's Purple Rain and Sign o' the Times, and Beyoncé's Break My Soul and Lemonade as touchstones, alongside his father's early introduction to Alvin Ailey's choreography. The conversation moves into a mental health check-in where Mo "Kid" Licorish speaks about living with bipolar II disorder and Marck Angel discusses the exhaustion of a four-year independent film process.

A news segment follows in which Marck Angel raises the case of Nolan Wells and the absence of Black-led queer films at the Toronto International Film Festival, while Ode covers the death of former Cambridge professor Jason Arday amid plagiarism accusations, a lost publishing deal for Southern Methodist University student Jerry Falade, and ongoing disaster recovery in Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Cuba. The episode closes with a tribute to actress Hayden Panettiere and her past work on Remember the Titans, Bring It On, and Heroes, along with details on where to stream Seraphim: The Motion Picture on Deku through Roku, Apple TV, and Amazon Prime.