Kiss The Future with Bill Carter

The Lincoln Project

News, Government, Politics, News Commentary

4.6 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.0	Hey everyone it's Reed. Before we get started, I think it's important for us to understand exactly why there is an
0:26.0	expression those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
0:30.9	So much of our trouble, yes it's political, yes it's personal, some of its economic, but really it all comes down to two things I think.
0:38.0	A lack of imagination and a lack of will.
0:41.0	Guys, we must have the imagination to understand what American democracy failing means,
0:47.8	and we must have the will to say, not on our watch.
0:51.5	I want to say thank you to all of you who listen,
0:54.2	all of you who work on a daily basis out in democracy
0:58.0	and all of those of you who will help us in the next seven months
1:02.0	make sure that this great American experiment
1:05.0	continues. And now on with the show. Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Galen. Today I'm joined
1:20.0	by author, filmmaker, an activist Bill Carter.
1:23.4	Bill is the author of three books,
1:24.8	including Fool's Rush Inn, Red Summer,
1:27.4	and Boom Bust Boom, all critically acclaimed
1:30.7	journalistic memoirs.
1:32.2	He's an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose own film. acclaimed journalistic and the film have since led to the making of the Paramount film Kiss the Future,
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