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Pod Damn America

PREVIEW: Grachel Dolezowl

Pod Damn America

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.3691 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

We watched a Canadian movie from 1999 called Grey Owl in which Pierce Brosnan plays an indigenous guy who is actually a British guy and it is hella confusing what with all the cultural appropriation going on. Then we talk about Rachel Dolezal, Native Americans in movies, and beavers. SOURCES: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128239/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Owl https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-layered-deceptions-of-jessica-krug-the-black-studies-professor-who-hid-that-she-is-white FULL EPISODE AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

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0:00.0

the end of the movie is now that he's the most famous man in the world he's elevated the

0:04.5

indigenous experience in america so they want him to meet with all of the chiefs

0:08.9

archie we've got all the chiefs here just for you you're gonna do our rain dance at the

0:15.4

chiefs and so they invite him in for a special ceremony and he makes up with pony who he stays with and uh he goes into

0:23.7

the tent and there's like 20 chiefs there and they look at him and then this isn't explained in

0:30.3

the movie and they just laugh for a while yeah and i interpreted that as they They obviously know he's white

0:39.1

Yeah, no, they touch his face and shit

0:41.5

Okay, yeah

0:43.6

They hand him a jar of mayonnaise

0:45.9

Yeah, may

0:48.3

They measure, they say you love this

0:51.8

Don't you? You put it on everything

0:53.4

And he goes, ha, I do ha ha ha they make

0:56.8

fun of the way he walks the way he drives there's people taunting him during the war dance

1:03.1

he can't dance well it's funny because in there's another story from real life, he wasn't always that

1:15.1

good at being authentic.

1:16.8

Like he was learning how to be a member of a certain tribe, right?

1:22.5

And that doesn't mean he was like always just master of, you you know doing all this stuff and performing this

1:30.7

identity like he it took a while for him to get it and they were some of them were nice enough to like

1:35.1

teach him um but there is one story about him doing uh i think a rain dance with drums um in front

1:43.5

of a few different North American tribes.

1:45.9

And it's just like they were just, he had no idea what he was doing.

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