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PREVIEW - #251 - Accredited Media Only
PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/53583912 Gadfly documentarian Nick Broomfield claims he wanted to make a movie about the "real" Marga…
5 years ago
#250 - Conquest of the Useless
The classic documentary BURDEN OF DREAMS (1982) captures director Werner Herzog as he's mounting the most ambitious feat of his career: attempting to…
5 years ago
PREVIEW - #249 - The Reunion Episode
PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/53342923 Your hosts met in person to record for the first time since March 2020, and the result is th…
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#248 - Enemy at the Gaetz
The HBO documentary THE SWAMP (2020) follows three "maverick" Republican congressmen who seek to fulfil Donald Trump's promise to "drain the swamp," …
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PREVIEW - #247 - Bring Me the Head of Alexander Hamilton
PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/53013461 We did everything we could to avoid watching Lin-Manuel Miranda's HAMILTON, but our Superdel…
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#246 - PhD in Freakonomics
We're still not entirely sure what the mega-bestselling 2005 book "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" was about,…
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PREVIEW - #245 - No War But The Culture War
PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/52738757 The acclaimed documentary CRUMB (1994) tells the story of Robert Crumb, the legendary underg…
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#244 - Late Capitalist Slam Poetry
He once served under Gerald Ford and rose to become Bill Clinton's labor secretary, but the economist Robert Reich has more recently been been a two-…
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PREVIEW - #243 - The More Things Change
PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/243-more-things-52451160 In 1961, a famous Hollywood actor named Ronald Reagan recorded an LP warning…
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#242 - The Dirty Trickster
The archetype of the shadowy, Machiavellian political strategist is potent in the popular imagination, and no strategist has leaned into this potency…
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