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Dog Hey, everybody. It's Julie Klausner back for another episode of How Is Your Week?

Interview Edition. We have a very exciting filmmaker on the show this week. Zeb Newman has

directed a really, really astonishing like documentary about Susan Powder called Stop the

Insanity as it should be. It should be called that. I had never met Zeb

before, but I'm a little obsessed with him. I'm kind of in love with him after this conversation.

I think he's just, it's kind of amazing that this is his first feature it is so as I think I said before

on the show like masterful confident patient he really has an appetite for you know finding the

story in a character and letting it reveal itself to the audience.

And the first 35 minutes, as we say in the chat, are challenging

because he's hanging out with her in these extended jags.

And she is, you know, if you have read any of the news about Susan Powder sort of

in the last 20 years or so that she's been, you know, if you have read any of the news about Susan Powder sort of in the last 20 years or so,

that she's been, you know, delivering for Uber Eats and living in like a situation, like a week to week situation in Las Vegas.

And, you know, he kind of like shows where she is and sits with it and shows her kind of like

struggling with car troubles and money stuff and it's, um, it's, it's something that in the

process, I mean, it's like, I obviously love documentaries, but this is the kind of documentary that sort of says things through

one particular story. It says things about the country and the state of the world while we are

spending this extended time with this like really, really, you know, loud, outrageous, fascinating, of crazy character. And I mention Albert Maisel's like a million

times in this interview because I really do think this movie is more in the tradition of gray gardens

than anything else. It's not like a linear kind of presentation around this is how Susan Powder got started.

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