Dragonfire And Hot Takes

A brand-new show falls into my lap right before a big premiere, and it turns into a perfect warm-up: Netflix’s The Polygamist. It’s got 22 tight episodes, heavy subtitles, and drama that starts at a funeral and never lets up. Once I saw the room full of black outfits and the one woman walking in wearing white, I knew exactly what kind of story we were about to get and I was locked in.

From there I go full House of the Dragon Season 3 mode. I talk through why Season 1 feels like the intro, Season 2 feels like the setup, and Season 3 looks like the moment the Dance of the Dragons finally turns into pure chaos. I lay out what we already know is coming, what the trailers hint at, which battles could be blended or moved, and where I think the season ends. If you’re spoiler-sensitive, consider this your warning, because I also dig into characters and turning points that could define the finale, including my biggest question: who has Otto Hightower right now?

Then I switch gears to real life. Oklahoma voters reject State Question 832, a plan to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2029, even though the current wage is $7.25. I break down how propaganda, election timing, and turnout shape outcomes that hurt working people. I also get into a tough relationship question for parents: what do you do when a partner treats your kid like a threat and the kid’s reaction shows fear?

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Transcript

A New Netflix Show Surprise

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Internet social media. Y'all ain't worth a damn. Not a single damn. Because here I am, roughly a couple of days before the season premiere of season three, House of the Dragon. I'm getting ready for it. And y'all allowed a new show to just fall into my lap. And not just any new show. No, no, no. A good new show. Now, I know y'all don't know what I'm talking about, but this thing is on Netflix. A show called Polygamist. The Polygamist. It got one season, 22 episodes. That alone is insanity. Because what new show gets 22 episodes on Netflix off the mark? Now, each episode is about 30 minutes long, but they're really good. And I'm going to tell you, I'm not even a fourth of the way through them. I'm on like episode four. But as of episode one, I knew the drama was here. I knew it. Because it opens up at a funeral. And this is not a real spoiler, but I'm going to give a little piece. It opens up at a funeral. Everybody in there is wearing black. And they keep showing these different women and their faces. So I'm assuming these are possible sister wives, I guess. And then they show a woman coming down the aisle and she's wearing white. So I know just because of the fact she's wearing white, she's wife number one. And now this show is the cast is predominantly Africans. And that makes sense because there are some parts, some cultures in Africa where polygamy is completely okay, completely legal. So I get it. Now it is mostly subtitles. You'll have to read the subtitles, and I'm cool with that. I have no problem with that. And then they got this thing where I used to find some old uh Japanese ninja movies where the lips don't match what's being said. And I thought that was going to be a problem for me, but as the drama ensued, didn't even bother me. Didn't care anymore about it. The polygamist on Netflix. Y'all need to tap in and watch that thing. The episodes aren't long, so you should be able to get through it in no time. But let's

House Of The Dragon Season 3 Forecast

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get to the meat and potatoes. House of the Dragons season three premieres this Sunday, 8 p.m. And I'm ready. I'm so ready. We've had about three trailers, a sneak peek scene, and I can tell this season is about to give us everything. Everything, everything. Okay? Now there are some people out there that had their issues with season one and season two. You didn't like the time jumps in season one. You didn't like the pacing in either season. The lack of action was a problem for you. Me personally, I didn't like how they let Lenor just roll off into the sunset and never gave us any resolution to his part of the story. That's a laundry list of issues people have had with this show. But for those of you like myself that have been patient, you love a good story, let me tell you something. It's time, it's about to be good. This thing is about to move, and you don't want to miss it. If you blink, you're gonna miss something good, okay? Now, as I've said before about House of the Dragon, season one was the intro. Season two, the setup. Season three is about to be utter and complete chaos. It's gonna be complete chaos, okay? Now, before we can really kind of say what all we're gonna get this season, I'm gonna give you where I think season three is going to end. I think season three stops at either the butcher's ball or the fall of Dragonstone, somewhere in there. Because I think the season is going to end with a major character's death. I'm not gonna say which character. And to those of you who've read the book, by me saying the butcher's ball, I've probably given away that character already. But oh well. But I think it's going to end in a major death. But I think Butcher's Ball or Dragonstone, they both could happen in the same episode. Or they could separate it and have one happen in episode seven and then one happen in separate episode eight. That gives both sides a major victory going into the season finale. So what are we getting this season in between before those moments? Chaos, like I said, everything is gonna be fucking crazy. Okay. Now, episode one, we already know we're getting the Battle of the Gullet. So that's chaos and a big loss first episode. Like I said, you blink, you're gonna miss something. And a lot, some of this is spoilers. If you have not read the book, I'm going to give you a couple of spoilers here. So if you don't want the spoilers, fast forward. But so I'm just gonna give you some of what I think we're gonna see and some of the things that we already know we're gonna see just from looking at the trailers. One of my favorite characters from this story, Lord Roderick Dustin, aka Roddy the Ruin, and his Winter Wolves from the North. We've seen them enter into the Riverlands at the end of season two, and now they're here in season three, and of course, they're going to be getting to work. They're going to be in battle. The Winter Wolves are only involved in about three battles from the Dance of the Dragons, uh, Battle by the Lakeshore, also known as the Fish Feed, The Butcher's Ball, and the First Tumbleton. Now, which battle in the season are they going to be in? Um, I think they're going to blend a couple of things together because we get a sneak peek uh scene of Damon and Lord Tully in a post-battle. And it looks like a battle the blacks have won. And Damon mentions Jason Lannister. And Jason Lannister does fall in battle during the Dance of the Dragons. He falls at one particular battle, but I think they're going to have his death at a black victory instead of a green victory, like in the story. So, and I think that battle will be the battle by the lakeshore, which directly involves the Winter Wolves and uh Westerlands, and not Westerlands, but Rivermen. Now, what's different about that would be is that Damon is not involved in the battle by the lakeshore in the book. But of course, we know book canon and show canon, it's going to be two different things. Also, I'm sure just from the trailers, we're going to get Rainier taking King's Landing in season three. And Raineira taking King's Landing is going to be like a major part of this season because it's one thing to be on Dragonstone trying to win this war. And it's a whole nother thing being in King's Landing, holding the Iron Throne, trying to run the kingdom while also manage a civil war inside your family throughout the Riverlands, the Reach, and everywhere else. So this season is going to have a lot of moving parts. And we were, and we see while Rainier is in King's Landing, there's going to be interactions with Allison, of course. And I think there's definitely going to be a major moment for Rainier with Helena. Her and Helena share a tragedy. Rainero lost Lucerius at the beginning of this war. Helena lost her son, Jay Serius, at the beginning of this war. And so they have that. And I think there's going to be this moment where her and Helena are going to talk, and Helena's going to hit her with some of that prophecy, like she did Eamon about losing his eye in season one and how Eamon is going to die in season two. I think Helena's going to give that to Rainier in season three. Another moving part, I'm interested to see what they're going to do with Reina Targaryen. They've blended her story with nettles, which I think is a travesty to remove nettles from the story, but that's neither here nor there at this point. But I'm ready to see how they move her back into the mainstream of the story. I also want to see how Rainera is going to respond after the Battle of the Gullet, because Reyna was supposed to be the one looking after Rainira's remaining two children with Damon. And she basically left them to go chase a dragon, which she comes face to face with this dragon. So I'm interested to see how her story turns out with the dragon and how they move her back to the story and how Raineira responds to the fact that you weren't at your post when my children needed you. Another uh moving part, we get the dragon sees and their progression as dragon riders and what they're going through in this story, especially um Hugh Hammer, because he's, you know, very closely, you know, per the story. He's very closely related to the Targaryens, and he probably feels like he's owed more. And as the story goes in the book, of course, he feels that way and he's going to act on it at some point. Sorry for the spoiler. And of course, we're going to have Eamon and Cole taking Heron Hall, which is a major key part of Damon and Rainier taking King's Landing because they believe when they get to Heron Hall, they'll be able to defeat Damon. But when they get there, Damon's gone. He's not there. Um, then we also have Aegon and Laris. They're just out on the work. We don't know where they are. We know they left King's Landing at the end of season two, and they're out there somewhere. And we have Aegon, who I think as the season goes, he's going to fall deeper into his distrust of people around him. Um, you know, he's his the last real interaction he had with his mother, she said, Hey, you're the king, you got the crown, but that don't mean shit. You still ain't nothing, you ain't, you, you're not doing anything, and you don't need to do anything. And which eventually leads to him flying off on sunfire and getting injured. So he's still dealing with his injuries. He doesn't know where his dragon is. He knows that his brother is the direct cause of his injuries. So he got to deal with those things. And so we're gonna see him fall deeper into his issues and how he's dealing with the people around him that he no longer trusts. Um the big question as we get to the end of this, the big question for me going into this season is who the hell has auto hightower? The last time we seen auto, he was sweating, he looked a little defeated, he was locked in a box. Who the hell has auto? I'm gonna give you my opinion. Who has auto hightower? I'll tell you who I think has him. I think auto hightower has been captured by the red kraken, also known as Dalton Greyjoy. Now, Dalton Greyjoy was offered the role of Master of Ships on King Aegon II's small council. He turned it down because that's not his style. That's not great. Greyjoys aren't people who are gonna come to meetings and sit down and talk politics. No, that's not their style. But I believe he's the one who has captured Otto Hightower. Because while Ray Mira is in King's Landing, she wants her enemies brought before her. She wants Aegon. She wants Amond. She wants Cole. And she has her people out there, Damon and all the rest. I want, I want my enemies brought before me, and I want them taken down. And I think the red crack and Dalton Greyjoy is going to show up in King's Landing and he's going to give her what she wants. Something that the rest of her people have not done. And she's going to get auto high tower from him. And in return, he's going to get what he wants. See, Greyjoys, they like to raid and pillage and all those things. And in the book, that's what Dalton Greyjoy does for the blacks. He sides with the blacks, and Ray Mira gives him free reign to just wreak havoc on the coastlines of the Reach and um the Westerlands. He sacks Lannisport. He does all manner of things on the coast of that side of Westeros. So I believe he's the one who has auto. He's going to bring Rainera. I mean, he's going to bring auto to Raineira. And of course, we're going to get what I've been wanting since the first episode of House of the Dragons season one. The execution of Otto Hightower. Damon is going to get that head. And I can't wait to see it. Season three, House of the Dragon. This Sunday, y'all, 8 p.m. is the start. It's going to be good. It's going to be everything we want. I can't wait. But it's

Oklahoma Rejects A $15 Minimum Wage

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time to switch gears and let's get to something else. Have you ever heard the phrase, you are your own worst enemy? Well, that happened in Oklahoma this week. On Tuesday, there was an election. And on the ballot was state question 832. And state question 832 was a motion, I guess, to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by the year 2029 statewide in Oklahoma. Now, the current minimum wage in Oklahoma is $7.25. Same as the federal minimum wage. And it's been there since 2009. That is 17 years, no change, no raise whatsoever in the state minimum wage of Oklahoma. And some other states follow the same, like Texas. I hate it here sometimes, but I don't make $725 an hour. But I'm thinking about other people that do make $725 an hour. And I don't think that's right. But anyway, the question is asked: you have to ask yourself, why did the state of Oklahoma, why did 55% of their voters vote against this measure? Well, propaganda. You know, those who are against minimum wage going up to $15 an hour, they'll say things like, oh, if we raise minimum wage that high, the price of a burger and fries will be $20. But truth of the matter is, you can go to five guys and get a burger fries and a drink for $20 right now. Okay? That's just a scare tactic. That's just propaganda to get you to feel like, oh, I don't want prices to go up, so I'll just keep making pennies on the dollar. Now, also another reason why it probably failed is because of the time of the year. And I do believe this is planned that way. And I'm not blaming either side for that kind of planning, but I'm pretty sure it's planned this way. And let me explain. These special elections, runoff elections, they don't happen in November. Some do, some don't. A lot of them don't happen in November. And I think not having them in November is part of a plot. Because nine times out of ten, most people are not really paying attention to random elections in April, May, June. Okay. They're just not. No, most people are not paying attention. But if you take that election and put it in November, more people are paying attention, especially if it's around the same time as a presidential election or midterm elections. So I think that's one of the reasons why this ballot measure also failed. Because I feel like if you put that on the ballot in November instead of a random week in June, it might have passed. But then again, this brings into frame the fact that from an education standpoint, Oklahoma always ranks near the bottom of the 50 states, around 48 to 50. And this makes sense to me because you got to be a special kind of stupid to not want a raise. To say, ooh, they want to raise my pay to $15 an hour. I bet you I'll vote against that shit. I don't know. Maybe I'm crazy, but I just feel like that's the stupidest thing I've heard this week because that should have been a no-brainer for the people of Oklahoma. But 55% of the people that voted said, nope, we don't want it. Go figure. Question

When A Partner Threatens Your Child

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to the mothers out there Why would you stay in a relationship with a man who has toyed with the thought of hurting your kid? I'm gonna tell you where I got this from. I was watching a video earlier this week, and there's this woman, she has a 13-year-old son, and they're laying in the bed in her room at the place she calls home, watching a movie. Then all of a sudden, the boyfriend comes home, and when he walks in the bedroom, the kid automatically jumps off the bed, just jumps off the bed real quick. Put a pen in that part though. Put a pen in that. And I'm trying to figure out, sir, why are you so upset about this kid watching a movie in the bed with his mom? Like, I don't understand that. It didn't make sense to me. Like, I can understand you don't want dogs in the bed, you don't want cats in the bed. Hey, pet dadder, hair, and all that. Totally getable, totally understandable. But a kid, her son, you don't want the kid in the bed? Why? And as I continue to watch the video, he makes this comment. He's like, you know, he brings up this moment in recent history where he almost hurt the kid. Like, oh, he's gonna puff up his chest to me. I almost hurt him. And I'm like, ma'am, in that moment, when this man says to you, I almost hurt your kid, that's the time for you to get up and leave. If this is your house, he needs to go. If it's a house you share together or his house, pack y'all stuff and dip. Okay? Because the fact of the matter is this. This is how I feel. If you are willing to verbally tell me you almost hurt my kid, to me, that makes me feel like you're testing the waters a little bit. I'm gonna say this and see how she responds. And if she don't respond a certain way, then maybe I can be a bigger disciplinary and really put my hands on this boy when he decided to puff up his chest to me. Because when he said that, she was still really calm. And you know, maybe she was playing calm in the moment because you know, when once the next time he left, they was gonna get their stuff and leave. I don't know. But the simple fact that I didn't like the way she responded to it. Because why? And now let's take the pen out the part where he jumped off the bed. The fact that he jumped off the bed, when the moment this guy walks in the room, that shows me a some sign of fear. Like at some point in time, he truly threatened that kid, okay? Because any moment in my history of being a kid and raising kids, when a kid immediately stops doing something, when a parent walks in the room or a parental figure walks in the room, that means this is a conversation that this parent, a parental figure, has had with that kid before. And that kid knows if I'm getting caught here, I'm gonna be in some sort of trouble. So he fears this guy already. Now, growing up, I feared my parents, but it wasn't like a fear that they're going to hurt me. I feared disappointing my parents because I knew things that disappointed my parents. If I did them, there would be consequences. I grew up getting whoopings, not gonna lie to you, I didn't get a whooping for every little thing. A lot of the times, if me or my brothers got whoopings, it was because things piled up, and we had a number of infractions that led to a whooping. Now, of course, there were some things that were automatic whooping: stealing, lying, being disrespectful to school, bad grades, oh, automatic whoopings, those are automatic. But I feel like she should have got up and left. I really do. I feel like she should have got up and left because your kid is showing fear, and this guy is snapping about your kid laying in the bed with you watching a movie, not sleeping in the bed, not coming into the bed with y'all in the middle of the night, like my little brother used to do, my mom and my stepdad. No, no, no, no. He's mad because your kid's laying in the bed with you watching the movie. That's a red flag. And as I'm watching the video, I go into the comment section. Because the comment section sometimes is always better than the video. The comment section, you got a lot of men in there, and I'm disappointed to say black men was saying, well, he set a boundary, she should respect it. Bro, that's the dumbest freaking boundary I've ever heard. I'm all for setting boundaries, but come on, he can't sit in the bed with his mama and watch a movie. That's the dumbest boundary I've ever heard. And let's also understand something. That kind of boundary, this is not just his house. This is our house, our bed. When you set a boundary in a communal place, we both need to agree on it. So just because you set a boundary don't mean I gotta respect it, especially if I didn't agree to it. All right, just Carrie's opinion. Now

Pulling A Thread Quick Questions

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we've reached what has become my new favorite segment of this podcast, and we call it pulling a thread. And this is where I take random questions that I found on the threads app, and we're gonna rapid fire. We're not gonna dig too deep into it, but we're gonna answer these questions real quick. Maybe some of them may take a little bit more, but for the most part, we're just gonna run through it real quick. Are we ready? Let's get to it. Question number one: if you had a MySpace profile song today, what would it be? Let me tell y'all. Back in May, I went to a Bruno Mars concert, The Romantic Tour. And I'm gonna tell you, Bruno Mars puts on one hell of a show. And I've always been a Bruno Mars fan, but after seeing him live, a lot of his music is just stuck in my head. But the two songs that stick out to me, if I had to choose, I would choose it would be between I Just Might by Bruno Mars and Locked Out of Heaven. Most likely Locked Out of Heaven because Locked Out of Heaven goes hard. And your sex takes me too, Pat Red Yo. That's my jam. I don't care. All right. Next question: What's your favorite non-sexual form of intimacy? Watching TV together. I love it. I love watching a show with my significant other. Now, it can be a show we're both watching for the first time together, which is really cool, or it can be a show that I've seen before and she hasn't. So now, as we're watching it together, I've already seen it, I get to see the look of amazement and wonder and wow on her face as we're watching. And it is it gets me excited, especially when they go to asking you, well, what happens next? What's gonna happen? And I'm just sitting there like, You gotta keep watching, you gotta keep watch. I'm not gonna tell you, so I'm not gonna ruin it for you. So, yeah, that right there is probably my favorite non-sexual form of intimacy. Next question: Do you guys care about women wearing lingerie before intimacy? Let me say it like this I think lingerie is cool. I think lingerie has its place, I think it has a time, but for the most part, it's not that big of a deal to me. Like, I don't need lingerie. She doesn't have to put it on, honestly. You know, on a special occasion, Valentine's Day, anniversary, maybe my birthday, cool. But on a random Tuesday, baby, go put my big t-shirt on and come through here barefoot. Hey, oh, start the party, start the party. I don't know what it is, but barefoot and a big t-shirt just does it for me, especially if she got white toenail paint. Oh god. Anyway, I'm sorry. Next question: Do you expect the woman you're dating to eventually pay for a date or at least offer? Yes, yes, I do, and I'm gonna tell y'all something. Social media will have you out here believing that women don't pay for dates, that it's always on the man to pay for the date. That is a falsehood, that is a lie, and I'm gonna tell you why it's a lie. Because a woman that genuinely likes you, that genuinely wants to be around you, genuinely enjoys being in your presence, she's going to show it, she's going to do things for you, okay? I promise you this, I have experienced this myself, okay. I have had a number of meals paid for, cooked by women. Okay. I have been in, I've been in the I've been in the trenches, okay? I know what I'm talking about. A woman that genuinely likes you, she's gonna do things for you because she's gonna get to know you, she's gonna learn those things that you truly like, and then she's gonna go out and find those things. Oh, I know this, I found this thing, I know he would like, and I want to take him. And when you when she gets ready to take you over there, guess what? You ain't gonna have to pay for nothing. She's gonna be done bought the tickets, whatever necessary. Why? Because she genuinely likes you, she genuinely cares about you, and a woman who genuinely cares about you will do the things to let you know that. Promise you that. Last one, and this is not a question. This was a sentence. This was somebody wrote two sentences, and I'm gonna say tell you what it says don't bang your co-workers, don't date them. I'm gonna put another piece on the end of that. Don't bang your co-workers, don't date them if you cannot be an adult about it. Hear me when I say this. A lot of people will tell you, don't get your honey where you make your money. And for a lot of people, that is true, and they live by that. But let's be honest. Studies show 60% of people have had a romantic relationship in the workplace. 43% of those relationships led to marriage, and another 40% went by the wayside, breakup, cheating, whatever, whatever. So the thought process that workplace romances is going to go somewhere is BS. And you're not gonna tell people, hey, don't. You shouldn't have relations with the people you work with. Okay, and you're right. If you're not capable of being an adult about it, you shouldn't. If you're not capable of separating your work from your personal, you shouldn't. Okay, because if you're dating a baddie, fellas, and she's fine, other men in the workplace are gonna try to holler at her. And if you're gonna cause a scene at work because other men in the workplace are trying to talk to her, yeah, you don't need to date in the workplace. Okay, ladies, that man's attractive. You're not the only one that finds him attractive. So if other women are key key keying in his face and you're gonna blow up the spot and have and make issues at work, then you don't need to date somebody you work with because you're not adult enough to handle it. Okay, that's all I'm saying. If you can't be an adult about it, you no, don't bang your co-workers, don't date them because you are not capable of operating within the confines of relation of a relationship and working with that person. Now, grant you, I will say this I don't think you should be in a relationship with somebody that you are their supervisor. That's not that that's just a conflict of interest. You shouldn't do that. But if I but if you work in human resources and she works in the other side of the building doing something else, then hey, I don't see a problem with that. You know, long as y'all not working directly together in a as a in a supervisory role where one is over the other, I don't see the problem. Long as y'all can be adults about it, long as you're capable of leaving your personal shit at the gate, okay, or in the parking lot. If you can leave your stuff in the parking lot and keep a professional at work, if both of y'all can do that, I say go for it. Again, 43% of workplace relationships lead to marriage. That's all I'm saying.

Final Thoughts And Where To Follow

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All right, but that's my time for this week. I'm Lord Cisco the Great. If you want to reach me, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Threads, Lord Cisco the Great on all of those, YouTube as well. But this right here, this is the Southeast Kingdom podcast, and I'll see y'all next week.