College Radio For The Eyes with Bret Berg

Homophilia

WOW Podcast Network

Comedy

4.4 • 926 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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*Recorded before the SAG-AFTRA strike

Founder of Museum of Home Video— aka the best thing on the internet— Bret Berg is here to talk about how the whole thing came together, and why it’s his form of therapy (and should be yours). Also: Asian night market videos, WikiHow, the enduring appeal of Charo, commercials for bathhouses, bummer gay movies, Robin Byrd, Huell Howser, David Lynch’s Dune, growing up in ‘90s Los Angeles, coming out via William S. Burroughs, the challenges of 2000s-era archivism, the midlife joys of weed, and the absolutely critical importance of Ben & Arthur. Check out museumofhomevideo.com and join their Patreon!

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1:07.8	Dave Daveth you're coming to us live from the Ace Hotel in New York?
1:14.0	I am at the Ace Hotel in New York.
1:16.0	By the time this drops, I will have checked out.
1:18.0	So, you know, nobody come and charge things to my room, please.
1:22.0	But yeah, I am out here yeah for a
1:26.8	documentary project which we cannot reveal yet but it's very exciting I'm at the ace it's very exciting. I'm at the Ace. It's I am not built for
1:35.7	humidity anymore. I've had to change clothes three times a day. But other than
1:40.6	that I'm doing just great.
1:43.6	And I am so excited because I have wanted
1:47.6	to get our guest on this show for a long time now.
1:51.2	He is a fascinating gentleman.
1:54.6	He is an archivist, a collector of strange and wonderful video.
2:00.1	He is the mastermind behind Museum of Home Video,
2:02.4	which I've talked about on this show many a time.
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