Our guest is Dr. Mark Caleb Smith, political scientist and professor at Cedarville University.

https://markcalebsmith.substack.com/p/wake-up-dead-man-and-frederick-douglass

Dr. Smith joins us to talk about his new Substack article engaging the latest Knives Out film, Wake Up Dead Man. We explore what the movie gets right, what it gets wrong, and why stories like this resonate so strongly in our cultural moment.

The conversation goes deeper than film critique as we discuss how Christians should think about storytelling, moral imagination, justice, and truth—and how pop culture can both reflect and distort deeper realities.

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