Episode Summary
Part two of a raw, no-filter family conversation from the Slider family room. Michael, Karen, and Dallas move from Black Beethoven and cultural erasure to Hollywood identity shifts, Samuel L. Jackson’s global impact, and what it means to move through the world as a Black family over six feet tall. The conversation expands into language, respect, confrontation, politics, money, farming, labor, and the myths people repeat about history. No scripts. No polish. Just real opinions and lived experience.

Topics Covered
Black Beethoven and rewritten history
Hollywood casting and racial identity
Ricky Ricardo and name changes
Samuel L. Jackson and box-office power
Being Black and over six feet tall
Presence, respect, and confrontation
Language, slurs, and power
Politics and distrust
Farming, labor, and subsidies
Cotton myths and the cotton gin

Timestamps
00:00 Welcome back and Part 2 setup
01:00 Black Beethoven and historical identity
02:40 Hollywood casting and race
03:10 Ricky Ricardo and changed identities
03:40 Ariana Grande and shifting identity
04:35 Samuel L. Jackson’s impact
05:20 Culture and language differences
06:10 Generational engagement
06:45 Being Black and over six feet tall
08:15 Respect and confrontation
11:00 Language and power
13:10 Workplace dynamics and authority
16:00 Politics and distrust
19:10 Money, farmers, and subsidies
21:00 Labor and produce
22:10 Cotton, the cotton gin, and slavery
25:10 Closing thoughts

Desi Arnaz & Hollywood
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Desi-Arnaz

Black Beethoven:
Snopes – https://www.snopes.com/articles/459202/was-beethoven-black/
The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/07/beethoven-was-black-why-the-radical-idea-still-has-power-today
Samuel L. Jackson
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-L-Jackson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_L._Jackson?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Ariana Grande & Pop Culture
https://neirad.org/11303/pop-culture/what-ethnicity-is-ariana-grande-whichever-one-is-trending/
Cotton Gin & Slavery
https://www.britannica.com/technology/cotton-gin

• (00:00) - 12-6-25 Fin Slider Family Part 2
• (00:55) - Beethoven is black
• (02:19) - Ricky Ricardo
• (04:02) - Samuel Jackson
• (05:33) - Engaged
• (06:22) - Over six feet
• (10:46) - The C word
• (11:59) - Don't piss him off!
• (13:09) - Deal with my husband
• (15:40) - The election was rigged
• (17:32) - Why did they vote for him
• (19:10) - The money game
• (19:46) - The farmers soybeans
• (21:06) - Picking grapes
• (22:00) - Picking cotton