139: 13th

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The title of Ava DuVernay's extraordinary and galvanizing documentary refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which granted freedom to enslaved people. Except, it didn’t really. The drafters of the amendment included a loophole that allowed for the re-enslavement of any person convicted of a crime. 13th explores The progression from that loophole to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American prison industry. With a potent mixture of archival footage and testimony from a dazzling array of activists, politicians, historians, and formerly incarcerated women and men, DuVernay creates a work of grand historical synthesis.

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0:00.0	Hey girl.
0:02.0	Hey girl.
0:03.0	Um, hi fam.
0:05.0	So you guys before we get to the, before we get to the episode thing, I wanted to let you
0:10.5	guys know so you guys we were supposed to be off this week.
0:12.9	We were going to take the week off for the 4th of July.
0:15.0	Right.
0:16.0	But girl, then we realized we had 13th.
0:18.0	Like ready to go.
0:19.0	We were kind of just sitting on it for next week and we thought, you guys why don't we
0:23.4	put this out this week and that way we can do it ad free and just like do this amazing
0:28.2	documentary and like give it to the people as like an extra not a bonus episode, but
0:32.4	just as like an extra episode.
0:33.7	Right.
0:34.7	And so here's what I want to say you guys.
0:35.7	I've been working on the editing of this episode.
0:37.6	It's not super funny.
0:38.7	This is not, this is not so much the comedy part of the True Crime Comedy Podcast.
0:43.6	We, yeah, you and I recorded this episode right after the George Floyd murder and right
0:49.5	when the protests were starting to happen, it was super important to us to do it and get
0:53.4	it out there.
0:54.4	We actually wanted to do this to learn to learn how to be better allies, to learn more about
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