Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Weekender edition of the Muckray podcast. I'm going to

a backstage now. We're here with Nick Alstman. I hope everybody had a fantastic week. We're going to do

something today that we've done in the past. We've always heard compliments about it. We've

always enjoyed. We're going to use a little bit of media,

a couple of movies, a series to talk about larger context. And Nick, you want to tell the people

what we're talking about? Well, we decided to watch both documentaries on Woodstock. Actually,

I guess there's three. Woodstock 69, which apparently we have to call it that now, because there was a Woodstock 99, and there's a half to differentiate. So we decided, let's go look at the documentaries done on both of these events to figure out how they connect to each other and what the differences were. I think that it's fascinating when you look at it in terms of social,

contemporary social American history and the cultural wars and everything about those times are fascinating.

Yeah, so this is going to be a pretty free-ranging kind of conversation.

You know, not just necessarily talking about like what the media representations are,

whether or not they're good movies.

I'll tell you this,

the Woodstock 69 documentary is long. It is very, very long. I mean, I could only find the director's cut, and it's longer than we all remember it. And it's a concert footage, really,

when you really boil it down, and hey, it's a hell of a concert to have filmed.

It is.

And I got to say there's like some real beautiful parts to it.

But we're going to be talking about this and using this as a jumping off point.

To talk about a couple of things.

One, comparing and contrasting the political and social cultures of the 60s, late 60s, early 70s, with the late 90s, early 2000s.

There's a lot of meat on them bones and a lot that we can learn about how America has changed and what it did.

But we're also going, I personally, I have a lot to say about sort of misconceptions about the 60s and the 70s and what it was and what popular culture was and what it represented but if you want to listen to the whole thing go over to patreon.com slash muckgric podcast there you will get the whole episode your weekenders plus, plus also access to the Moncrack community.

Plus, you'll also be supporting the show.

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