Medium Cool w/ Charlotte Albrecht & Donald Borenstein

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.3 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Anders talks with pals Charlotte and Donald about Haskell Wexler's legendary 1969 movie, "Medium Cool." A hybrid between documentary and narrative, "Medium Cool" follows a Chicago cameraman tasked with filming the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the infamous police riot outside. ALSO, we talk an upcoming short film called "Kitchen Conversations" that Charlotte produced and AD'd, Donald shot and PDA's very own Anders J. Lee wrote and directed! Follow @kitchen_conversations_movie on Instagram for updates!

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0:00.0	Locked them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness.
0:10.0	The government gives them the drugs, bills bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law,
0:16.0	and then wants us to sing God bless America.
0:19.0	No, no, no, not God bless America.
0:21.6	God damn America that's in the Bible for killing innocent people.
0:26.6	God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human.
0:31.6	God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and she is supreme.
0:43.3	Hello and welcome to Pod Damn America at the movies.
0:47.5	Anders J. Lee here.
0:49.5	The J is for Jake, as we established.
0:52.1	I'm changing my middle name to Jake,
0:54.0	and it's to replace him because this week he is gone.
0:57.9	We are discussing a movie film that he hasn't seen.
1:02.9	So I have, again, hijacking the podcast to talk about a nerdy thing I'm interested in
1:07.3	with two friends, two guests we have on the show, Charlotte Albrecht's.
1:12.8	Hi.
1:13.4	And Donald Bornstein.
1:15.7	Ahoy.
1:16.4	And the three of us actually just made a movie.
1:20.4	This is the soft launch of the fact that we have concocted or are in the process of
1:26.1	concocting something for your consumption that'll be coming out
1:29.7	uh soonly uh but in the meantime we want to discuss a a movie that is very relevant to what's
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