The Filmmaker Who Cracked Open Lance Armstrong

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The first question most people have when they hear about Lance, the new documentary series about the world’s most infamous cyclist, is: Why now? Back in 2013, we watched Armstrong give his first doping confessions to Oprah. That same year, Oscar-winning director Alex Gigney released The Armstrong Lie, a documentary that had the cyclist offering lengthy admissions of guilt and claims of sincere remorse. Since then, there’s been a number of tell-all books by seemingly anyone who had the slightest connection to the story. Armstrong himself has launched multiple apology tours. So what’s the point of reexamining the saga yet again? According to Lance director Marina Zenovich, the answer is that Armstrong—and the rest of us—are still wrestling with the same big questions about cheating, forgiveness, and recovery. And the answers keep changing. Zenovich, a veteran filmmaker who’s crafted portraits of Roman Polanski and Robin Williams, manages to get Armstrong to open up in a way we’ve never seen before. In this episode, Outside editor Christopher Keyes asks her how she pulled it off and why she was so drawn to the project. This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by Visit Florida, one of the country’s great adventure destinations. Have you met a manatee? Airboated in the Everglades? Snorkeled the coral reef? Plan your next Florida adventure at visitflorida.com/outside

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0:00.0	This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by Visit Florida,
0:05.0	one of the country's great adventure destinations, and also the home of conservation photographer,
0:10.0	Carleton Ward Jr.
0:12.0	My name is Carleton Ward Jr. And name is Carleton Ward Jr and I'm a National Geographic photographer and explorer.
0:16.0	I'm 8th generation Floridian and my family goes back at least until the mid 1800s here and that's given me a lot of connection
0:25.6	to Florida's heartland and to Florida's heritage.
0:28.0	Carlton grew up on the Gulf Coast and after leaving to travel the world as a
0:31.6	photographer he realized that some of the greatest
0:33.9	adventures he could find were in his own backyard.
0:37.4	He kind of fell in love with wild Florida and had a chance to wander among the mangroves and wait among the salt marshes and look at the
0:45.6	osprey nest and get a sense of the adventure that waits out there.
0:51.2	You may not know it, but public lands cover huge areas of Florida.
0:55.0	In addition to stunning national parks, there are 175 state parks.
1:00.0	Thousands of species live here, including endangered black bears and panthers.
1:05.0	In an effort to help preserve this incredible wilderness,
1:08.0	Carleton helped establish the Florida Wildlife Corridor.
1:12.0	It's the largest protected mangrove ecosystem in the Western
1:15.2	Hemisphere. It wraps the entire southern tip of the state. It's the area where you
1:19.2	have the Everglades Wilderness Waterway. It's a 99 mile canoe trail where you can start in Everglades City and end in Flamingo.
1:27.0	In addition to that, once you get into North Florida and Northwest Florida,
1:31.0	it's the highest concentration of freshwater springs in the world.
1:34.3	Amazing places to dive into snorkel and to get a literal lens down into the underground
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