339: Kiss The Future with Bill Carter
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
4.6 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Host Reed Galen is joined by Author, Filmmaker and Activist, Bill Carter where they discuss the soon-to-be released documentary, Kiss the Future. The film explores the perils of nationalism and art’s role as a weapon of resistance and activism through the lens of the 1990s Siege of Sarajevo and how American aid worker Bill Carter forged an unlikely relationship with the band U2 to raise global awareness to the conflict. Plus, the parallels between the climate surrounding the Siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s and the climate of nationalism the world is experiencing today. Kiss the Future will soon be streaming on Paramount Plus…for more details on the film and Bill Carter’s book that inspired the film (“Fools Rush In”), check out BillCarter.cc. For more from Reed Galen, be sure to subscribe to “The Home Front”. If you’d like to ask a question or share a comment with The Lincoln Project, send an email to podcast@lincolnproject.us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, it's Reed. Before we get started, I think it's important for us to understand exactly why there is an expression, those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. |
| 0:10.2 | Guys, so much of our trouble, yes, it's political, yes, it's personal, some of it's economic, but really, it all comes down to two things, I think. |
| 0:18.5 | A lack of imagination and a lack of will. Guys, we must have the |
| 0:22.7 | imagination to understand what American democracy failing means, and we must have the will to say, |
| 0:29.7 | not on our watch. I want to say thank you to all of you who listen, all of you who work on a daily |
| 0:36.4 | basis out in democracy, and all of those of you who |
| 0:39.4 | will help us in the next seven months make sure that this great American experiment continues. |
| 0:46.1 | And now, on with the show. |
| 1:00.5 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reid Galen. Today, I'm joined by author, |
| 1:06.1 | filmmaker, and activist Bill Carter. Bill is the author of three books, including Fools Rush In, |
| 1:12.3 | Red Summer, and Boom, Bust Boom, all critically acclaimed journalistic memoirs. He's an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose own film of Sarajevo during the Bosnian |
| 1:16.6 | War, Miss Sarajevo, has won numerous awards and accolades, and both his memoir and the |
| 1:21.8 | film have since led to the making of the Paramount film, Kiss the Future, which just completed |
| 1:26.7 | a very successful theater run and will be available to stream soon on Paramount film Kiss the Future, which just completed a very successful theater run |
| 1:28.0 | and will be available to stream soon on Paramount Plus. Today, he's coming to us from beautiful |
| 1:33.1 | Sedona, Arizona. Bill, welcome to the show. Hey, thanks for having me. I appreciate it. It's great. |
| 1:38.2 | All right, so I watched the film and so, I don't even know where to start because Bill I'll be egotistical here |
| 1:46.3 | we're all the stars of our own lives right there were so many threads that came together for me |
| 1:51.9 | first in high school me and my friends were fanatical you two fans absolutely fanatical. I started my sophomore year |
| 2:03.9 | of high school in Dallas when we just moved there right as Actun Baby came out. And I was the |
| 2:09.8 | new kid, but the day it came out, everybody had a copy of the CD, right? The jewel case. And so I |
| 2:16.3 | had to go out and get it. And I hadn't really known it. But then, you know, you start working back through the catalog, right, the jewel case. And so I had to go out and get it. And I hadn't really known it, |
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