Season 12 · Episode 61
Poop Culture with Rene Perez and David Rodriguez
WORD UP with Dani Katz · dani katz
February 26, 202554m 59s
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (content.rss.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
Feature film director, Rene Perez, and visionary voluntaryist, David Rodriguez, joined me for a rollicking and illuminating conversation about the propaganda machine that has become (or always was?) the film industry, and their new project – a modern take on Romeo & Juliet called “Sacred Life”.
Part 2:
All things Dani:
Register for Confluence (with Promo code KATZ10):
https://brushfire.com/confluence/Confluence2025/590269
Find Rene:
Find David:
https://linktr.ee/DavidJamesRodriguez
Movie trailer:
Show notes:
- Origin of collaboration between Rene and David
- Rene’s background as a film-maker
- Turning off the TV- Rene’s awakening
- Engineering via emotions and story-telling
- 1990’s- demoralization/propaganda in movies
- Top-down edicts in Hollywood- villains & heroes
- How does Rene push back against edicts?
- We are a 'McDonald’s culture’
- 1970’s & meritocracy
- Race in movies- Star Wars, George Lucas, and Obama
- Jews in Hollywood
- Taking his kids to see movies
- 90’s- elevating villains to hero status
- Madonna- model for “feminism"
- J-Lo & Hollywood- aging
- Cultural impact of Star Wars- hero’s journey
- Death of art & beauty- demoralization
- Creating solutions w intentional story-telling
- Evil in movies = “We need more government”
- Catastrophic imprinting supplanting possibilities
- “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for”
- Movies- most powerful messaging medium
- Rene's & David’s film project narrative- exit & build
- New storytelling with new heroes- voluntaryism, lawful, freedom
- David’s favorite movies- hero journey
- Divide & conquer- fake anti-woke movies
- Top Gun/ Sound of Freedom
- Tax cattle and covert slavery
- Bravery and speaking truth