Sam Pollard

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Sam Pollard is an Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated director and producer. Sam joins the Armchair Expert to discuss growing up in Harlem in the 50s, his path into becoming a film editor, and working with Spike Lee. Sam talks about his new film MLK/FBI: the red scare, non-monogamous activity, and racism. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:13.2	Welcome, welcome, I'm arm, chair expert, I'm Dan rather, I'm joined by maximum mouse.
0:19.2	You're doing a weird voice.
0:21.0	Did you like it? I liked it because it was just slightly off.
0:25.0	You're right. I had to note it.
0:27.0	In fact, if you were listening to it, you're like, am I listening to this at 90% or 110?
0:31.0	It's not like it was 200 percent or 50
0:33.3	cent. You hate you when I say that. So today in our Black Voices series we have
0:41.0	Sam Pollard who I fucking love talking we nerded out too much I'm sure you
0:44.4	had to cut a bunch of it out but he's an editor he's an incredible editor and
0:47.6	I love talking to editors because there's movie editor yeah movie and document or
0:51.5	maybe it is on some TV but the editor is such an unsung
0:55.0	here on the movie making process they are so creative and I don't think people
0:58.6	realize that but Sam is an Emmy Award winning and Oscar nominated director and producer and he is a really
1:05.8	great documentary that I saw called MLK FBI which is this incredible story of
1:12.3	the FBI's involvement with Dr Martin Luther King
1:15.8	and all the crazy things that happen with them trying to sabotage him.
1:19.9	So it was a great conversation and I really enjoyed it and I think you will too. So please enjoy Sam Pollard.
1:24.8	Oh wait and should be noted. I am missing from this episode.
1:29.7	Mm-hmm. You were mad at me. I was not. You were traveling.
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