51: The Dog

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 July 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The working title for this one was: “Three Gays Rob a Bank”. And we have an idea for the sitcom version.

In August 1972, John Wojtowicz attempted to rob a Brooklyn bank to finance his lover's sex-reassignment surgery. The act resulted in a fourteen-hour hostage situation that was broadcast on TV. Three years later Al Pacino portrayed his crime in DOG DAY AFTERNOON.

Directors Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren began filming THE DOG in 2002 and continued for ten years. Drawing upon extraordinary archival footage, the film shuffles between the 1970s and the 2000s. We gain a historic perspective on New York's gay liberation movement, in which Wojtowicz played an active role. In later footage, he remains a subversive force, backed by the unconditional love of his mother Terry, whose wit and charm infuse the film. How and why the bank robbery took place is recounted in gripping detail by Wojtowicz and various eyewitnesses.

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0:29.2	Gilliam Pensavale. Patrick, I'm spying up.
0:34.0	Girl, we gotta get right to it. Oh my God. You guys, you guys. You guys, we talked to
0:42.2	Asia. We talked to Asia. I don't know who's Nisha. Who is it? The Nisha call has been
0:48.4	replaced with the goddamn Asia call. For anybody that doesn't know who Asia McLean is, she
0:54.2	is Adnan Sayed's alibi witness. She is the reason his conviction was vacated. She is
1:02.0	amazing. I'm in the library. I know. By the time you heard this episode, that interview
1:08.0	will be live on our Patreon feed. She was not what I was expecting at all.
1:14.2	Well, I mean, she was lovely. Lovely. She's super empathetic. Yeah. You know, I agree.
1:21.3	She was awesome. Yeah. But also at the same time, I was like, oh my God. Like 10 minutes
1:26.0	in. I'm like, we're just hanging out with our girl Asia. What? I thought that she was
1:30.4	going to be kind of sassy or even a little bit like media savvy. She's not. She's intensely
1:35.7	private. Yeah. She's intensely like, you know, she's like just in talking to her. Like
1:40.9	she seems like she has like a very small tight knit group of like people that she's close
1:45.4	with in her life. Like she keeps everything very like close and pretty. But like you guys,
1:50.4	she opened up to us. I mean, jaws on the floor. And at one point, I was like, you know,
1:54.9	Asia, you don't suffer fools that she went like I heard. She tells us about the time she
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