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Ep. 587 - Dick Johnson is Dead (GUEST: Stephen Tobolowsky)

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4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

David, Devindra, and Jeff are joined by Stephen Tobolowsky, actor and friend of the show, to chat about life in quarantine, state of movie theaters, and content they have been watching. For the feature review, the cast changes course from Enola Holmes to Dick Johnson Is Dead, documentary film directed by Kirsten Johnson.

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Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~28:00)
David - Raised By Wolves Ep. 1-3
Stephen - Michael Clayton, The Deer Hunter
Devindra - Lovers Rock
Jeff - Fargo Season 4 - first 2 episodes

Feature (~1:06:00)
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Spoilers (~1:34:00)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the Slash Filmcast. I am David Chenin with me R.

0:24.0

You've been to Hardware, Jeff Canada, and joining us today he is the man who played Ned

0:31.0

Ryerson in Groundhog Day, Sammy Jankus in Memento, Stu Begg's in California Cation, and

0:36.9

also Dr. Leslie Berkowitz in one day at a time, which is airing right now on CBS I should

0:41.5

point out. Stephen Tobalowski, welcome back to the Slash Filmcast, Stephen, how you doing

0:46.4

today? I'm doing fine David, it's been a while since I've been in the hot seat.

0:51.8

Yes, we kept it warm for you though. Yeah, yeah. Hey Stephen, I'm curious. I we haven't heard

0:58.4

I maybe you have talked to Dave on other podcasts, but how is the quarantine situation treating you?

1:04.7

Oh, it's it's it's ghastly. It's terrible. We're hallucinating where I went to a doctor's

1:12.2

appointment the other day and the nurse, you know, and you have to go in with social distancing

1:17.5

and masks and all this and she asked like, have you been drinking anything? And I stared

1:25.0

at her. I did one of those what? She says, are you drinking alcohol? I said often and I

1:32.4

start early. What are you talking about? Everybody drinks alcohol now. It's it it is not a joke

1:39.7

and I guess I'm lucky in that I have a couple of pursuits I can do besides acting like

1:47.2

either writing or doing the podcast or meeting with you, Jens here, but it it has really driven

1:54.6

home what social creatures we are, not just in terms of schmoozen, but in terms of seeing our

2:02.4

reflection in other people's eyes. It is time. Well, Stephen, we welcome you to the slash film

2:10.1

cast is a place where you can get that socializing going and we're grateful to have you here. Of

2:15.9

course, Stephen also is one of the hosts. I would dare say the primary contributor of the podcast

2:22.8

that I create with him called the Tobalowski files. And so happy that's back. Yeah, I do a fair

2:31.4

piece of work on that, David. Yeah, you've been known to occasionally contribute to that show.

2:38.4

Just a bit just a bit. Yeah. We'll talk a little bit more about that during our weekly plugs

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