Jesus and Me, also known as J.A.M. Studio’s Talks about how after trying to establish some sense of permanency in life and true meaning through belief and faith, how Jesus Christ has made a significant difference in the level of success giving clarity for peoples destinies. This Podcast will give a voice to many success stories which had their beginnings in brokenness and despair but had a miraculous turn around once accepting and following the teachings of Jesus.
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Sup Doc is the #1 Podcast about Documentaries! This lively show features comedy, commentary & recaps with classic and not-so-classic documentaries! On each episode comedians Paco Romane and George Chen give actual analysis while hilariously discussing the documentary with their wide array of amazing guests, plus games and film clips. These hosts hit the right tone of funny and thoughtful. Sup Doc has been described as "a fun way to pore over docs" by Vulture, a "great idea" by Boing Boing an ...
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191 - MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM w Daniel Gill
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MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM is a 2022 doc based on the book of the same name by Lizzy Goodman. Directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, this look at '00s nostalgia focuses on a cluster of rock bands coming out of New York and Brooklyn at the beginning of the George W. Bush era. These bands that went on to define this scene were The Moldy Peaches, …
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190 - WATCH OR NOT 2022 Wrap Up
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Paco and George catch up on LOW COUNTRY: THE MURDAUGH DYNASTY (HBO) MOONAGE DAYDREAM PELOSI IN THE HOUSE (HBO) SENIOR (Netflix) STUTZ (Netflix) LAST CHANCE U (Netflix) FIRE OF LOVE (Disney+) LIGHT AND MAGIC (Disney+) Follow Sup Doc on: Twitter: @supdocpodcast Instagram: @supdocpodcast Facebook: @supdocpodcast sign up for our mailing list See Privac…
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189 - IT CAME FROM AQUARIUS RECORDS w director Kenneth Thomas, Windy Chien, Andee Connors, Allan Horrocks
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IT CAME FROM AQUARIUS RECORDS is a feature-length documentary about the SF-based independent record store, Aquarius Records. Having closed in 2016 after 47 years, this small apartment-sized store championed local, underground, independent, and challenging music to the masses - most memorably with their infamous bi-weekly, college essay-length, new-…
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188 - LIKE A ROLLING STONE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BEN FONG TORRES w Daniel Gill
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We’re covering Like a Rolling Stone: the Life and Times of Ben Fong-Torres. Released in 2021, Suzanne Joe Kai’s debut feature doc is now available on Netflix. Fong-Torres was the editor at the beginning of Rolling Stone magazine when it was based in San Francisco, and he has a fascinating background at the forefront of ‘60s and ‘70s cultural upheav…
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187 - THE KIDS IN THE HALL: COMEDY PUNKS w Paul Myers, Reg Harkema, Nick McKinney
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George is joined by the director and producers behind the brand new career-spanning Kids in the Hall documentary airing on Amazon Prime on May 20th. Amazon Prime launched a brand new season of The Kids In The Hall sketch show. George is joined by the team behind the new Kids in the Hall documentary, director Reg Harkema and executive producers Nick…
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186 - WATCH OR NOT: Seven Year LuLaRich
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Paco is back for a watch-or-not doc recap/review. It also happens to be the Seventh Anniversary of this podcast! We discuss: Jimmy Saville: A British Horror Story The Curse of Von Dutch: A Brand to Die For Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes The Tinder Swindler LuLaRich Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy stuff we're excited about but hav…
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185 - BAD VEGAN: FAME. FRAUD. FUGITIVES. w Laura Hooper Beck
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We cover the Netflix series Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives. a tale of manipulation, Stockholm Syndrome, and only tangentially veganism. It’s a four part series directed by Chris Smith (American Movie). After marrying a mysterious man who claimed he could make her dog immortal, celebrated raw vegan restaurateur Sarma Melngailis finds her life vee…
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184 - Biopsy: INVENTING ANNA w Luna Malbroux
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This is one of our BIOPSY episodes where instead of a documentary, we watch a ripped-from-the-headlines fictional account of a true story. Today we’re covering the Shonda Rhimes Netflix hit Inventing Anna. Anna Sorokin, who went by the made up persona of Anna Delvey, was convicted of larceny in 2019. Delvey rose through New York’s social strata and…
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183 - THE VELVET UNDERGROUND w Daniel Gill
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We deep dive into Todd Haynes’ Velvet Underground documentary (2021) on AppleTV. Haynes talks to the surviving members of the band and a lot of New York art world and the Warhol Factory scene about this legendary group that blended drone, multimedia, and doo-wop. The first-person accounts are great and you get steeped in the heady New York days of …
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182 - FOR MADMEN ONLY director Heather Ross and James Urbaniak
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Paco and George talk to the director of For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close Heather Ross, and actor James Urbaniak. This doc is currently streaming on Amazon, Google Play, AppleTV, and Hulu. For Madmen Only is an intimate look at the tremendously influential comedy and improv guru Del Close. This documentary is an eye-opener for anyone unfami…
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181 - FANTASTIC FUNGI w Jessica Sele
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We're discussing Fantastic Fungi (2019), directed by Louie Schwartzberg. We look at all the forms of fungi, the roles they play in recycling matter, communicating with the trees, and even their role in human evolution. You may never look at mold the same way again. Our guest for this episode is comedian Jessica Sele. Fantastic Fungi is a consciousn…
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180 - TOO SOON: COMEDY AFTER 9/11 director Julie Seabaugh
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We review the documentary Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11 which you can catch on Vice TV on Sept. 8th, just a few days before the 20th anniversary of the 2001 attacks. The documentary features interviews with comedians including David Cross, Gilbert Godfried, Janeane Garofolo, and Marc Maron about the struggle to re-establish humor’s place in the after…
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179 - WOODSTOCK 99: PEACE, LOVE, AND RAGE w Chaki and Adam Papagan
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We review the controversial Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage (directed by Garrett Price) out now on HBOMax. Boomer nostalgia meets nu metal in a fight where no one wins. The ceremonies took place in Rome, New York in 1999, three decades after the initial Woodstock festival. Seemingly small logistics issues roll into a massive (and literal) shits…
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178 - LOST SOUL: THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF RICHARD STANLEY'S ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU w Sam Mickens
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George talks to musician Sam Mickens about one of his favorite docs LOST SOUL: THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF RICHARD STANLEY'S ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (2014, David Gregory) It's the mid-'90s. British/South African horror director Stanley pitches a version of the H.G. Wells novel The Island of Dr. Moreau and New Line Cinema picks it up. Some huge movie stars g…
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177 - WATCH OR NOT DOCS
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Paco and George talk about some recent docs THE SPARKS BROTHERS - (Edgar Wright, 2021) In Theaters / Purchase THE DONUT KING (Alice Gu, 2020) Hulu SUMMER OF SOUL (Questlove, 2021) Hulu THE COCKETTES (Bill Weber & David Weissman, 2002) Documentary Plus Controversy around Summer of Soul footage We are also super excited about the upcoming Val Kilmer …
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176 - THIS IS POP: AUTO-TUNE w Eric Schwartz
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We are talking about This Is Pop, the music documentary series currently streaming on Netflix. This is Pop uncover’s the real stories behind your favorite pop songs and charts the impact of the festival scene, Auto-Tune, boy bands and more. Our guest is Eric Scwartz who is almost featured prominently — in Episode 2 — simply named Auto-Tune. In this…
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175 - A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX director Rodney Ascher
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George talks to the filmmaker Rodney Ascher, whose latest doc is A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX. We’ve had Ascher on the show before to discuss his inventive genre-bending docs Room 237 and The Nightmare. A Glitch in the Matrix is a look at the increasingly popular simulation theory using Ascher's hyper-referential editing style, CGI animated first-person …
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174 - ANIMAL PASSIONS w Butch Escobar
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We cover Animal Passions, a 2004 BBC Channel 4 documentary by Christopher Spencer about zoophiles, people who have sex with animals. Trigger warning! The conversation is longer than the doc itself, but we saved you from watching it yourself. Butch Escobar's furious rants have become his trademark at such clubs as the San Jose Improv, Cobb's and the…
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173 - Director Jordan Brady (I AM COMIC, I AM ROAD COMIC, I AM BATTLE COMIC)
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Paco and George meet up with Jordan Brady, who was a stand up comedian before turning into a feature/documentary/commercial director. His trilogy of "I Am Comic" comedian documentaries shows what it takes to perform and live as a comic. Jordan Brady was a stand-up comedian touring nightclubs across America. A self-taught filmmaker, he directed four…
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Lo Fidelity Music Trivia Gameshow
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Special bonus episode! Former guest Kevin Seal runs this weekly music trivia game show on facebook, Paco and George competed against each other for bragging rights, so we only thought it fitting to share the audio in our feed. You can watch the archived episode here: Follow Lo Fidelity here: buy the Body Double album here. See Privacy Policy at htt…
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172 - Q: INTO THE STORM
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Today we’re talking about Q: Into the Storm, the six-part HBO docuseries where filmmaker Cullen Hoback goes down several rabbit holes and follows red herrings to track down the roots of the Qanon movement. Is it a movement, is it a conspiracy theory? Hoback investigates this question, and the bizarre father-son duo at its center. We also celebrate …
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171 - WATCH OR NOT DOCS
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Paco and George look at the new Chris Farley doc, Last Chance U, the Billie Eilish doc The World's A Little Blurry, A Glitch In The Matrix, and more backstory about how they ended up here. Our old interview with Rodney Ascher. Follow us on: Twitter: @supdocpodcast Instagram: @supdocpodcast Facebook: @supdocpodcast sign up for our mailing list And y…
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170 - OPERATION VARSITY BLUES w Aviva Siegel
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George and Aviva dig into the infamous 2019 college admissions scandal, where over 50 people faced criminal charges for racketeering and conspiracy. Mastermind Rick Singer funneled money from wealthy families to bribe coaches and admissions officers at major universities throughout the US, including actors Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin. OPERAT…
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169 - HEAVEN'S GATE: THE CULT OF CULTS director Clay Tweel and producer Shannon Riggs
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George and Paco talk to the filmmaking team behind the HBO docuseries - Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults. Director and Producer Clay Tweel and Producer Shannon Riggs chronicled the three-decade long saga of Marshall Appelwhite and Bonnie Nettles (AKA “Do and Ti”) who recruited scores of people to their alien-worshipping religious cult starting in t…
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168 - GREY GARDENS w Amber Preston
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We finally tackle all-time classic Grey Gardens! Our guest is comedian Amber Preston. The Maysles Brothers were approached by Jackie Onassis to make a movie about the Bouvier family. During the filming, their camera gravitated to The crumbling Long island estate known as Grey Gardens occupied by eccentric relatives “big and little Edie”. It’s a hot…
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167 - Watch Or Not Docs
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Paco and George crammed all the content so you don't have to! We rant. We review. We recommend. FRAMING BRITNEY SPEARS (2021) dir. Samantha Stark MY OCTOPUS TEACHER (2020) dir. Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed. CRIME SCENE: THE VANISHING AT THE CECIL HOTEL (2021) dir. Joe Berlinger CROCK OF GOLD: A FEW ROUNDS WITH SHANE MACGOWAN (2020) dir. Julien Temple …
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166 - FilmDrunk Frotcast Crossover special w Matt Lieb and Vince Mancini
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It’s a crossover episode with our friends from the FilmDrunk Frotcast. Vince Mancini is Senior Film and Culture writer for FilmDrunk and has been a guest on Sup Doc before (Episode 57). Matt Lieb is a comedian and writer for Newsbroke, and he was actually our very first guest on Sup Doc (Episode 1). This is a fun and loose conversation. We review a…
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165 - Hot Or Not Doc Reviews
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🔥or ⛔ Paco and George review new (and new-ish) documentaries in the streaming world. Night Stalker: The Hunt For A Serial Killer (Tiller Russell, James Carroll) 2021 on Netflix Tiger (Matthew Hamachek, Matthew Heineman) 2020 on HBO Operation Odessa (Tiller Russell) 2018 on Netflix Jasper Mall (Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb) 2020 Amazon Prime…
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164 - IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL w Jared Logan
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Paco and George visit with comedian and game master Jared Logan to discuss the sad and surprising life of Henry Darger, the loner whose exhaustive creative work was discovered posthumously. The ultimate Outsider Artist, Darger created a memoir, a 15,000 page hand-written novel, and giant fifteen-foot paintings, none of which were intended for an au…
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163 - RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE directors Chris Metzler, Jeff Springer, Quinn Costello
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George covers a lot of ground with Chris Metzler, Quinn Costello, and Jeff Springer; co-directors of Rodents of Unusual Size. Documentary about the nutria overtaking and destroying Louisiana's swamp land. I also ask Chris and Jeff about their earlier collaborations, Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone and Plagues & Pleasures On the Salton Sea,…
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162 - Director's Cut
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Paco and George have been interviewing documentary directors for over five years! We play some interesting clips from these super fun and interesting talks. Ep 137 -Arthur Jones and Giorgio Angelini director and producer of Feels Good Man Ep 4 - Jodi Wille director of The Source Family Ep 160 - Jeff Feuerzeig director of The Devil and Daniel Johnst…
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161 - ZAPPA w Kevin Seal
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George and Paco sit down with musician and journalist Kevin Seal to recap Alex Winter’s 2020 documentary Zappa. On this episode we have three different Frank Zappa fans ranging from George, who is new to Zappa’s music, to Kevin, who loves Zappa but occasionally needs a break to Paco, who has been a life long Zappa-head. We get into many topics incl…
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160 - Director Jeff Feuerzeig (DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON, AUTHOR:THE JT LEROY STORY, HALF JAPANESE)
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Very excited to have the director of some of our favorite docs, and a huge influence on the kinds of docs we love - Jeff Feuerzeig made HALF JAPANESE: THE BAND THAT WOULD BE KING (1994), THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON (2005), THE REAL ROCKY (2011), AUTHOR: THE JT LEROY STORY (2016), as well as writing and producing many others. He is at work on a do…
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159 - Upcoming Doc Reviews
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Paco and George talk upcoming documentaries, their upcoming interview with Jeff Feuerzeig, "Stickergate", Queen's Gambit, and whatever has been on our watchlists. Alex Winter's Frank Zappa doc is available Thanksgiving weekend HBO's The Mystery of D.B. Cooper releases Nov 25th The Lady and the Dale Judd Apatow's George Carlin doc The Perfect Weapon…
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158 - THE VOW finale w Johnny Pemberton
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Today we wrap up the docuseries THE VOW on HBO, the story of the whistleblowers who left the cult group NXIVM, started by “the smartest man in the world” Keith Raniere. We are again joined by the very funny comedian Johnny Pemberton, who loves cult-leader stories. Directed by Jehane Noujaim (Control Room, The Square) and Karim Amer (The Square, The…
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157 - JACO w Chaki Sklar & Bret Berg
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It's JAC-tober! On episode 157 we recap the 2014 documentary Jaco currently streaming on Hulu. Jaco, the doc, is about the brief, brilliant and brutal musical career of the legendary electric bass player Jaco Pastorius a self-taught musician who changed the course of modern music. Never-before-seen archive footage plus interviews unveil the story o…
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156 - THE VOW w Johnny Pemberton
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Today we cover the docuseries THE VOW on HBO, the story of the whistleblowers who left the cult group NXIVM, started by “the smartest man in the world” Keith Raniere. After a decade as a leader in NXIVM, Sarah Edmondson finds herself blindfolded and branded as part of an inner ring of women called DOS. Grooming women and controlling their weight Sa…
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155 - CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS w Curtis Cook
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Today we recap an all-time classic, Capturing The Friedmans, and get into a lively debate about how this documentary stacks up in today’s world. Was director Andrew Jarecki irresponsible in how he handled the footage and information he had? Was there a bias towards helping Jesse? Will our guest Curtis Cook and Paco ever see eye-to-eye on this doc? …
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154 - ROBIN'S WISH director Tylor Norwood
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Paco and George are pleased to have on today’s guest Tylor Norwood the director of Robin’s Wish. This documentary centers around the final years of Robin Williams and the confusion around why this comedy icon killed himself in 2014. After his death, the media narrative skewed the facts surrounding why Williams died. It wasn’t until a coroner’s repo…
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153 - THE GO-GO'S w Dakin Hardwick
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Today Paco and George are joined by Dakin Hardwick to recap the new Showtime documentary The Go Go’s. Notably the first all-femme band to write their own songs, play their own instruments, and snag a #1 US album. Directed by Allison Ellwood, this straightforward music documentary looks at the LA group's rise, reign and breakup, along with youthful …
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152 - CIRCUS OF BOOKS director Rachel Mason
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Paco and George are excited to have Rachel Mason, the director of Circus of Books, as their guest on the podcast. Rachel’s parents, Barry and Karen, ran a gay bookstore and porn distribution company out of Los Angeles for over three decades, all while maintaining their tight-knit family, battling the FBI, and living through the AIDS crisis. Her fil…
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151 - A GENUINE FORGER w Scott Simpson
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We look at the 2016 documentary A Genuine Forger (Un Vrai Faussaire) directed by Jean-Luc Leon. Available on Amazon Prime. Our guest is comedian and podcaster Scott Simpson. This doc profiles Guy Ribes, one of the world's most notorious art forgers. For over three decades Ribes scored major deals selling works by Picasso, Matisse, and other legends…
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Episode 150! We’re commemorating by taking a look back at one of our favorite documentaries, the 2010 Jeff Malmstein documentary Marwencol. After recovering from a brutal attack that left him in a coma, Mark Hogancamp builds a miniature World War II-era town in his backyard and creates photographic stories of its intrigues. This is a story about ha…
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149 - ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL
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Paco and George recap the 2008 documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil directed by Sacha Gervasi, who was a teenage Anvil fan and roadie in the '80s. This doc is tragic brilliant and hilarious and is as close to the real life Spinal Tap as possible (and even involves a player named Robb Reiner). Canadian heavy-metal band Anvil delivered an influentia…
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Paco and George look back at one of our favorite docs, Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man (2005). Pieced together from Timothy Treadwell's own video footage, this is a remarkable examination of the calling that drove Treadwell to live among a pack of wild grizzly bears in Alaska. A devoted conservationist with a passion for adventure, Treadwell believed h…
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Hosts Paco and George review the 1989 Michael Moore debut Roger & Me. Foundational to modern American documentary, this is a biting, vital, and angry film that is sadly still relevant today. Michael Moore demands answers when General Motors suddenly closes the doors of all its auto plants in the Flint, Michigan, the city where he grew up. With over…
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146 - JEFFREY EPSTEIN: FILTHY RICH w Haley Hoffmeister
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This episode we watched Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich a four-part Netflix docuseries directed by Lisa Bryant. Based on James Patterson’s 2016 book, Filthy Rich takes a look at the stories of Epstein’s abuse survivors, so - Trigger Warning! Our guest is Haley Hoffmeister an actor and comic from Eugene, Oregon currently living in Los Angeles. She can …
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145 - FAT: A DOCUMENTARY w Priyanka Wali
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To conclude our Munchie May series on food documentaries we watched FAT: A Documentary by Peter Curtis Pardini (2019). Trainer-to-the-stars Vinnie Tortorich exposes the history behind widespread myths regarding healthy eating, fat, and weight loss. Is the American Obesity epidemic a product of culture, government intervention, corporate greed, or l…
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144 - CITY OF GOLD director Laura Gabbert
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We roll on with our fifth anniversary and Munchie May, our food documentary theme month. Our guest is the director of one of our favorite ever food documentaries, City of Gold. Filmmaker Laura Gabbert joins the show to talk about the film and the legacy of the late Jonathan Gold. Jonathan Gold was the Pulitzer Prize winning food critic who came up …
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