“Podcaster Posers” plus 10 Offbeat Documentaries to Watch Right Now

WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:05.400 So I'm looking through my notes and it looks like this episode is about ten 2 00:00:05.480 --> 00:00:13.720 minutes of me bitch and about podcast or twitter and about twenty minutes of reviews 3 00:00:14.119 --> 00:00:19.600 on my favorite documentaries from the past like two years, things that have helped 4 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:24.359 me through the pandemic really the whole variety of documentaries, ones that you probably 5 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:28.519 haven't seen. They're not docuseries typically. These are mostly, uh, document 6 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:34.000 just straight documentary movies. So we'll get to that. I am John Podcasting, 7 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:41.000 so I gotta see. I just noticed when I put my headset on 8 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:45.560 man, my left ear is thrashed. I must have blown it out last 9 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:49.000 night at this uh, we went and saw a cover band for Motley crue 10 00:00:49.079 --> 00:00:52.960 called crue Leggins, I think, through out of Texas mostly. Anyway, 11 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:57.000 they were up here in Oklahoma City doing a free show outside down in the 12 00:00:57.039 --> 00:01:00.640 downtown area called the bricktown and it was fun. Good job, man, 13 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:04.640 cruel agains, if you ever get a chance to go see a band that 14 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:08.319 I don't know some of the songs that actually sounded better than Motley crue. 15 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:14.000 The singer definitely sound better, for sure. Um Good time stuff, but 16 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:17.239 I didn't realize I blasted out my ear getting so close to those speakers. 17 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:19.799 That's wild. I hope that heals. I got plugged my ear. I 18 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:25.359 literally had to take out of my left ear headpiece because when I talk into 19 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:29.959 the mic I just hear this like rattling, whistling wiry sound in there, 20 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:34.159 like damn. Anyway, yeah, so much for getting old and going to 21 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:37.439 rock and roll shows and standing near the speakers. Yeah, man, I 22 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:42.760 know, I know, I changed the name on the artwork again and I 23 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:47.319 will explain. Well, for one I probably don't have to explain because you 24 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:51.239 already know I have a d h d and things like that. Anyway, 25 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:56.760 the signal drops idea is going to take just too long for me to keep 26 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:00.439 using that name in the interim. Right. So, Signal Orobs, the 27 00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:05.040 idea of building a round table panel show is just going to take much longer 28 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:07.680 than I had originally thought, which I should have thought, because things always 29 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:13.000 are take three times longer cost three times as much. But you know, 30 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:15.000 I thought I had thought that part out. No, I guess not. 31 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:21.240 Maybe I'm in the three times part right now anyway. So the hard part 32 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:24.680 with that is just finding the right people to do the show with effectively. 33 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:30.360 I'm trying to build a band. The band is of podcasters, Um, 34 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:32.039 but it's like a band. I'm trying to find two, three, four 35 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:39.240 other people to jam with and then create cool entertainment with right. That's hard, 36 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:44.240 and well, okay, it's it's not entirely hard, but I have 37 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:49.280 a set of criteria that I don't I haven't really talked about in an episode. 38 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:53.240 That makes it more difficult and I'll explain why right now. The thing 39 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:58.879 is, in this particular band, uh, I only need one of each 40 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:01.080 instrument. Like in a regular band, I'll be the drummer, you beat 41 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:05.319 the guitarist, you'd be the Bass, you'd be the singer and so forth. 42 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:10.240 Well, in podcast I am the I'm the average fucking white guy, 43 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:14.560 right, so I don't need any more white guys. There are plenty of 44 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:17.120 white guys that will do the show, but I don't like. No, 45 00:03:17.240 --> 00:03:22.159 we've already got that role covered. So for the panel show that I'm trying 46 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:25.840 to build in the idea of signal drops, the other roles would be anything 47 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:32.479 that's not assist gender, middle aged white guy, meaning a woman, a 48 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:38.639 transgender person, uh, person that's not white, a gay person, anything 49 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:44.000 like that is what I'm looking for now. The trick is the most common 50 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:49.719 way to find other podcasters is on twitter, but the people I just mentioned 51 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:57.400 probably aren't that receptive. Two average white guy dropping in on their D M 52 00:03:57.520 --> 00:04:00.280 saying hey, do you want to be in my uh, vague podcast, 53 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:04.800 and a panel show is vague when you say it's current events that changes, 54 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:09.120 and whose choice of current events is it going to be? Well, I 55 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:11.639 can't even get the conversation to that point. Yeah, and yeah, of 56 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:14.360 course I've reached out to them. If because I kind of sounded like a 57 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:17.600 I don't reach out to them, but I have, and you know, 58 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:20.800 it's kind of like running the marathon in this sense, if you ever run 59 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:24.920 track, when you hand off the baton, sometimes I feel like a hand 60 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:28.199 to baton to someone and they just kind of stand there and I like no, 61 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:30.480 man, go do the next part, not asking them do anything except 62 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:35.639 follow through or follow up. But Um, you know often they don't and 63 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:40.040 that you know. So it just slows things down. It kind of hurts 64 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:43.720 my feelings in a moment, but I get over it pretty quick because, 65 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:46.879 you know, everyone trying to do their own thing anyway. That's not it's 66 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:48.639 not their fault, door my fault. It's just the way things are. 67 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:53.040 Everyone's trying to do their own thing and it's hard to convince others to get 68 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:56.839 interested in your thing. So I have high hopes for the people I've reached 69 00:04:56.879 --> 00:05:00.600 out to. One of them is a woman. She's coming on in a 70 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:04.399 week or two. Maybe it's August, I don't know. I use a 71 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:10.319 calient Lee link. You guys familiar with Callid Lee. It's a calendar program 72 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:13.759 and you just get a link and it's automated. So I put that link 73 00:05:13.879 --> 00:05:16.120 up and whoever wants to be on the show can pick whatever day they want 74 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:20.800 to be. I've had people pick whatever day they want to be and still 75 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:27.120 flake. So that's an issue. That's part of twitter. Podcaster, podcast 76 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:30.000 or twitter, I should say. Uh, this problem is a lot of 77 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:32.879 people who are not a lot, maybe the average. Like I've talked about 78 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:40.240 rule. I think there's about of quote unquote, podcast or twitter. They're 79 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:45.560 just fucking flaky and they aren't. They aren't that. Then it brought up 80 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:47.319 the idea of labels. Okay, here's my thought on labels, especially the 81 00:05:47.399 --> 00:05:51.399 label podcaster. I don't really see a podcast thing as a label. You 82 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:59.959 would wear in that sense, because really you are a salesperson or a story 83 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:04.519 tailor or an activist or an entertainment you know, pushing a product like a 84 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:09.279 record or a book or something. So the idea that people just stop on 85 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:12.199 the term podcaster and say that that's what they are. I'm a podcaster. 86 00:06:12.600 --> 00:06:16.360 Well, that's like stopping on I type on the keyboard. I'm a typer 87 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:19.560 and that's and that's the label I carry around with that. You put it 88 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:25.120 all over my fucking twitter and facebook guests. Typer or UM. You know, 89 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:29.160 let's I get really vulgar about it. You probably take a ship more 90 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:32.399 often than you actually produce a podcast, but you don't say Shitter, like 91 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:36.160 well, that's not a thing. Everyone ships. Everyone knows how to podcast. 92 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:43.319 Podcast isn't the special. PODCAST is a common skill. Everyone has ino. 93 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:46.079 So it's kind you can't push a couple of buttons and turn on a 94 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:49.319 fucking Webcam, turn on a mic, push record button, upload a file. 95 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:53.399 Everybody knows how to do that. It's not special. All of those 96 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:57.920 are tiny little tasks. Like uploader. You're an UPLOADER, you're a keyboard 97 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:00.560 typer, shitter, whatever you want call it. Just like why did you 98 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:05.600 stop on Podcaster, and I think that's part of the problem of of twitter. 99 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:09.759 Podcaster, podcast or twitter. I don't know why I keep saying it 100 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:13.480 backwards, but I think that is the issues. They don't have an actual 101 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:17.879 purpose and they're stuck claiming to be a podcaster but they don't have a purpose 102 00:07:17.959 --> 00:07:23.120 for a podcast. Like what is your purpose for the podcast? Are You 103 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:27.759 an activist? Are you a journalist? Are you a hobbyist? What is 104 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:30.759 it like if your hobbyist? Cool, admit your hobbyists and say yeah, 105 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:32.680 I'm a obbyist, and it's funk around. I like obvious. I think 106 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:39.560 more podcast. I listened to our hobbyists and they make way better quality podcast 107 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:43.480 than a lot of people trying to make money with it. So the idea 108 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:47.639 that hobbyist is an inferior product is unfounded. That's a myth. Most obvious 109 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:51.800 podcaster are a higher quality product simply because they're not trying to make money, 110 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:55.920 they're trying to make a better product. So if that's the thing, you're 111 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:58.240 a hobby is trying to make a pot or whatever, you are back to 112 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:01.319 the point. You're not actually a pot caster. There's not really such thing 113 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:05.600 as a podcaster maybe a few people work for podcasting companies that podcast for podcasters 114 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:11.120 about podcasting. That's very few, though, and it makes sense for them 115 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:15.279 to stop at the label podcaster because it's all encompassing and it's their life. 116 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:18.959 But for the rest of the people that seem to trying to make podcasting or 117 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:24.439 make the label podcaster, you know, uh fit them. I'm looking. 118 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:26.480 I'm like, well, what are you podcasting about? What is your what 119 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:30.399 is your thing? Are you a storyteller? Tell the fucking story. Are 120 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:33.919 you a, you know, salesman? Then sell the thing. Um. 121 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:35.399 A lot of people don't have a problem with that. They've acknowledged that their 122 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:41.080 salespeople or teachers, instructors or whatever, doing their thing. But it's that 123 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:46.039 last few, like that that of podcast or twitter, that I'm like, 124 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:52.080 what the funk are you really doing except pretending you're a podcaster? Kind of 125 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:56.360 like in the music business, just posers. It's like you're not actually making 126 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:01.279 songs, you didn't make an album, don't tour your opposer, you just 127 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:05.320 like wearing the clothes and wearing the right band t shirt and rocking out and 128 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:09.120 hanging out with all the actual musicians. Cool, we got it, but 129 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:11.679 there's a name for that. It's already out there. There's a name called 130 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:16.600 poser. That's a poser Um. But why poser? I think a lot 131 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:22.159 of podcasters that claim the title podcaster without having a show that defines what they're 132 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:28.919 trying to do are basically attention seekers, which I guess is fine, but 133 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:33.159 I don't know, man, just say you're an attention seeker. That way 134 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:35.919 we'll understand and I won't assume you're a podcaster, because when I reach out 135 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:39.279 to some of these people that I would like to have on the show, 136 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:45.960 because there's such attention seekers on twitter, their flakes, they don't respond to 137 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:48.279 uh, you know, they'll they'll drop the ball. Basically, they'll drop 138 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:54.399 the baton and uh, just leave me on red like okay, I thought 139 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:58.200 I was doing them a favor to help them promote their show on this show, 140 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:01.519 which fine. If they don't need that, cool, but Um, 141 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:07.480 got get this weird narcissistic vibe, like they think they're helping me and I'm 142 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:09.360 like, you haven't listened to my show man. I could give a funk 143 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:13.120 if I have a guest on this show, but I do like helping people 144 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:16.159 that seem like they need help and the underdogs and that sort of thing. 145 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:18.320 But you know, funk all that. I'm done with all that ship because, 146 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:22.519 uh yeah, just why waste the time? But I am going to 147 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:26.360 invest the time and trying to build a team of a panel show. So 148 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:28.919 the signal jams, I mean signal drops, they're messing it up already, 149 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:35.120 should evolve eventually, but I need to start interviewing people live on this show 150 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:41.240 in the context of them becoming panelists on an upcoming panel show. Follow means. 151 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:45.600 So the GAL coming up is from Chicago. I won't say her name 152 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:48.320 yet, inkause she doesn't show up, I don't want to, you know, 153 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:52.039 throw her in the flake pile. But UH, she works on a 154 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:56.559 popular crazy show. I can say her name because there's probably not her name, 155 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:00.519 but she worked on the Jerry Springer show in the back, like on 156 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:05.559 the production side. So she would make a great co host. Slashed panlist 157 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:13.679 as well. And then a friend of mine somewhere in the spectrum of a 158 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:16.360 guy I know, friend of mine. We used to hang out a bit 159 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:18.159 and did a lot of work together, like a few years ago, and 160 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:22.679 hadn't talked in a minute and then I found out he is on the up 161 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:28.240 Shaws, that TV show on Netflix, like a comedian comedy show. He's 162 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:33.600 a comedian. He's on a comedy show on Netflix called the UP SHAWS and 163 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:37.080 I think he would also make a great uh man, fucking recurring guests, 164 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:43.159 panelists, celebrity reporter from Hollywood, whatever, whatever he wants to do on 165 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:46.960 the PODCAST, I'd love to have him on. And I don't want to 166 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:50.399 put him on blast either right now because who knows, you know, maybe 167 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:52.840 doesn't want to. But he expressed interest in doing that as well, so 168 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:56.279 that's cool. So I'm making headway in building signal drops, but for the 169 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:01.000 next few months. And frankly, what if we build the team and then 170 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:03.960 nobody likes the name signal drops? So I've it's probably better just to wait 171 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:07.879 until I build the team and if and when I get the team built, 172 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:11.720 let the team come up with the name together. So, anyway, enough 173 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:16.919 ranting about twitter. It's really the only place podcasters can hang out and I 174 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:20.879 hate communicating professionally on twitter, so I just don't do it. And a 175 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:24.279 lot of times in podcast or twitter there are a lot of new podcasters come 176 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:28.960 on. So most of podcasts or twitter is simply are restating things that experience 177 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:33.279 podcasters already know and that gets tiresome. So it's kind of like, I 178 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:41.440 don't know, people advertising and pushing products for podcasters as such, you know, 179 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:43.399 for people that go through the active podcasting, when you already know how 180 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:46.559 to do the active podcasting. For example, I know how to wipe my 181 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:50.080 butt with toilet paper. Okay, so therefore I don't need to see toilet 182 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:56.399 paper instructions every day. I do not, or have never used the Tampon, 183 00:12:56.799 --> 00:13:00.840 so I don't need to see a tampex commercial. It's like that. 184 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:05.279 When you know how to podcast and push the button and upload a file and 185 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:07.600 mark the MIC. Uh Yeah, you don't need to be told how to 186 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:11.679 do that over and over again. So there's not really it's not my thing, 187 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:13.639 but when I do reach out to even some of the professionals, I 188 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:18.960 reach out through their email. So I always prefer email over direct messages because 189 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:22.159 then at least don't know serious. I know they're serious and I see where 190 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:26.960 their domain is, I see if they have a professional email address, the 191 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:31.600 whole thing. Yeah, I do judge people on that a little bit at 192 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:33.200 first, because a lot of times that's the only thing you have two people 193 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:37.960 have to judge people on. Is Is that not? They're fucking weird reddit 194 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:41.519 handle or something. But even then there's plenty of quote unquote professionals that don't 195 00:13:41.559 --> 00:13:46.000 reply to emails either. So a lot of times in in podcasting or whatever 196 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:48.919 you do as an entertainer, sometimes you have to kind of build your team 197 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:54.360 on your own, without mentors or without people that are willing to respond or 198 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:58.200 help. And you know, and then when you're trying to collect other creatives 199 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:03.519 to build a team, that parts like corralling cats, because every other creator 200 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:05.559 is out there trying to create their own thing. Like, for example, 201 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:07.879 if someone asked me, hey, you want to be on my podcast thing 202 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:13.799 I'm forming, I would definitely consider it, but I'm not sure. Uh, 203 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:16.399 you know, I would say yes, although it's something I want to 204 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:18.360 do, is being on a show with multiple co hosts. I definitely wouldn't 205 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:24.759 blow them off, because what that doesn't do any good um anyway. So 206 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:30.360 that's the end of rant. Four. fucking podcast or twitter, if you're, 207 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:33.360 you know, taking a ship more than your podcasting, just say that 208 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:37.200 you're a Shitter, please then just save us all the time and effort. 209 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:43.480 We won't waste it on you anymore. Now. The next part is my 210 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:48.759 fun part. I watch a whole bunch of documentaries, like lots of documentaries. 211 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:50.799 Most of the documentaries I'll try to watch, especially if they're varied. 212 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:56.200 I'll try to jump from genre to category to different things. I try to 213 00:14:56.240 --> 00:15:01.879 avoid overtly propagandic kind of documentary is if clear they have a message, they're 214 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:07.279 beating you over the head with too strong without adding any other information. I 215 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:13.840 was watching last week they started something on Hbo Max called the Anarchists, and 216 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:20.200 I believe in the principles of anarchy, not no like no rulers and no 217 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:22.600 gods. Basically, that's how I define anarchy anyway. I don't think we 218 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:28.320 need rulers or gods. I'm not anti government, I'M NOT ANTI TAXES, 219 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:31.279 I'm not pro chaos and terror and vandalism, none of that. I'm just, 220 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:35.759 at the core, lower case anarchists that believes I don't. We don't 221 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:41.960 need presidents and we don't need priests, we don't need gods. We just 222 00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:45.799 we can run ourselves just fine without people like dictating what we need to do. 223 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:48.879 I Guess Anti Authoritarian. That's a good way to put me. But 224 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:54.480 also that's a form of anarchy. Whatever the anarchists are doing in this documentary 225 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:58.279 and watching on HBO. That's not anarchy. They're charging ticket prices for events 226 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:02.159 and aid speakers. I'm like, well, I don't know what the funk 227 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:06.519 that is. Oh, they called themselves anarcho capitalists, which are too completely 228 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:11.240 opposite. Things like jumbo shrimp kind of bullshit. I'm like whatever. So 229 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:15.919 at the end of episode one last week there's a cliffhanger. I think someone's 230 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:19.080 gonna get killed. So I'm gonna Watch that later tonight anyway. In the 231 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:25.200 meantime I was rearranging my furniture in the studio slash living room out here at 232 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:29.360 Imo do jo and I took the TV away because I like it. I 233 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:30.960 like when people come over we just focus on talking, not a TV, 234 00:16:32.519 --> 00:16:37.480 and then I set the furniture at more in a conversational shape and strategy there, 235 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:41.960 but because I wanted to watch that program again tonight. Episode two of 236 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:45.600 the anarchists like I need a place to put the TV I need to watch. 237 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:51.480 So I have a like a voice booth and a walking closet back near 238 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:56.840 the bedroom and I'm like, Oh yeah, that's fucking perfect. So there's 239 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:00.919 like a keyboard in there, like a you know, synthesize are in uh, 240 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:04.000 the good Mike, the good Mike and some other stuff. But basically 241 00:17:04.039 --> 00:17:08.880 it's empty, soundproof and UH, sound sound treated on the inside. It 242 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:12.400 sounds nice and warm. Moughly I put that fucking TV in there. So 243 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:15.160 it's really interesting. It's almost like I have a little TV booth. You 244 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:19.960 ever remember going to like the audio video lab or the computer lab in school 245 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:23.359 and you got your own little cubby just to look at your screen? Well, 246 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:26.680 imagine that, but dark. It like as dark as I wanted to 247 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:33.359 down to complete pitch black, and then soundproof and not much more than arms 248 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:37.480 with the cross. So it's pretty dope. And for a person with a 249 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:41.480 D H D, I found it was way easier to watch TV when I 250 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:45.079 didn't have my laptop. No other lights, no distractions, nothing. I 251 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:48.119 just focused on that one program for like forty five minutes. So I tried 252 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:52.039 it with the thing on Netflix about DB Cooper this morning, the guy who 253 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:56.920 jumped out of airplane with some money and basically escaped got away with it. 254 00:17:57.000 --> 00:18:02.680 Pretty interesting. But my point being I got more into intentional viewing and that 255 00:18:02.759 --> 00:18:07.359 got me to think about a lot of the cool documentaries I've seen through the 256 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:11.920 pandemic that most people might not have seen, but I think you would love 257 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:14.680 them. So I made a list and of course I'll put them down in 258 00:18:14.680 --> 00:18:18.880 the notes below and then I'll share the h like the cover artwork, on 259 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:21.960 twitter or something so you get a vibe for it. A lot of these 260 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:26.440 now are onto different services to like. They might be free on youtube or 261 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:30.480 you maybe could rent them on Amazon or free on other services. I see 262 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:37.000 most of my documentaries like these on a service called canopy, which is spelled 263 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:41.119 with a K, and that is a service that basically kind of rents videos 264 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:45.759 out, lens videos out, I guess you would say, under the terms 265 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:49.039 of the copyrights, through your library card. So I have library cards and 266 00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:52.720 like Los Angeles and San Francisco, stree report wherever, and I have a 267 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:56.880 bunch of different accounts with these in there. And so for each library offers 268 00:18:56.960 --> 00:19:02.880 various amounts of free rentals and they just expire after you watch them, so 269 00:19:02.920 --> 00:19:06.359 you don't have to return anything. It's just interesting stuff that you can't find 270 00:19:06.359 --> 00:19:10.240 on Netflix or any of the main you know, kind of network or corporate 271 00:19:10.359 --> 00:19:15.359 platforms of services. However, they're all well made documentaries and most of them 272 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:18.559 like to get out to the public eyeballs. So once they get off of 273 00:19:18.599 --> 00:19:22.200 canopy, they are usually put over to Amazon. I know they've got a 274 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:26.000 pretty pretty good pipeline to get independent documentaries over there, if the documentarian knows 275 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:30.519 how to do the paperwork and get this stuff up on the screen. Uh, 276 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:33.359 not that troubling. Anyway. I guess what I'm saying is many of 277 00:19:33.400 --> 00:19:37.319 these you can find just by searching on the Internet and I will give you 278 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:42.319 a little synopsis and then also trying to tell you why each one moved me, 279 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:45.960 you know, well, like what about it? And we'll start these 280 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:49.319 are I just wrote them down randomly as I was scrolling through my past watched 281 00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:52.920 list about movies that I'm pretty sure I had not talked about Um, but 282 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:57.039 that I had seen recently. So there is no order. Uh, the 283 00:19:57.160 --> 00:20:00.960 order starts with the movie and most recent. We saw it last week, 284 00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:10.720 and that is a twenty nineteen documentary called Pigeon Kings. Now, this stuck 285 00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:17.680 out with me the most because this is some parts of culture that in America 286 00:20:17.720 --> 00:20:21.279 that I didn't know existed. And I had lived in many cities where this 287 00:20:21.319 --> 00:20:25.880 would have existed. I just didn't know about it, and that is something 288 00:20:25.880 --> 00:20:29.039 I would guess. You'd call it pigeon raising. I don't think they specifically 289 00:20:29.079 --> 00:20:30.839 use the term raising. The mighty use it a couple of times, but 290 00:20:32.039 --> 00:20:37.559 it's called pigeon racing. And so what pigeon racing and tails is you raise 291 00:20:37.640 --> 00:20:42.359 your own pigeons in some coops and I guess pigeons will come back to eat. 292 00:20:42.680 --> 00:20:48.160 They never explained how pigeons actually work. It wasn't totally the gist of 293 00:20:48.200 --> 00:20:51.799 the documentary, but it is fascinating. I guess we're supposed to know that 294 00:20:51.920 --> 00:20:53.480 how they work. So pigeons, if you keep them in a coop, 295 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:56.640 will keep coming back to you, unless they get scared off by a bird 296 00:20:56.680 --> 00:21:00.519 of prey, like a hawk or something, and then who knows, they 297 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:03.119 might leave and go into somebody else's cooper, fly away all together, go 298 00:21:03.160 --> 00:21:08.920 to a different town or whatever. So pigeon kings follows some o g dudes, 299 00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:14.960 like some black guys about my age, like generation x age, that 300 00:21:15.039 --> 00:21:18.559 are in south central Los Angeles, and each of these guys in their own 301 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:25.160 backyards of their homes got little pigeon coops and they race them. So these 302 00:21:25.160 --> 00:21:30.240 pigeons basically and then they have a competition. They'll come around your neighborhood and 303 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:33.119 all the guys will come around, and a lot of guys to several cars 304 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:37.559 blocking up the streets. You know, lady going to church saying, yeah, 305 00:21:37.559 --> 00:21:41.880 I'll need to get out of street trying to go to church, and 306 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:45.319 so they just come and watch the guy's birds. So a guy will let 307 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:48.559 his birds out of the cage and it looks to be maybe twenty to thirty 308 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:52.559 birds out at once. And most of these guys know their birds really well 309 00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:56.200 and they know how to keep some out keep some in. So they're given 310 00:21:56.240 --> 00:22:00.039 points based on how tight their pack stays together. So you don't want any 311 00:22:00.039 --> 00:22:03.640 birds straying too far. If they're obviously out of the pack, that's bad. 312 00:22:03.759 --> 00:22:07.119 If the pack is generally too loose, not too many points there. 313 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:12.720 And then these fucking birds start rotating, like doing somersaults in the air. 314 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:18.119 Apparently specific kind of breed a bird caught a roller and these and some of 315 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:22.559 them even named their clubs rollers and uh, they have some kind of epileptic 316 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:26.920 fit in midair that causes them to roll. They are bread this way so 317 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:30.440 that they have the fits and rolling. You get extra points if you're birds 318 00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:34.920 roll. So if you can imagine a flock of pigeons all forming, you 319 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:38.759 know, kind of flying in general same area, and then almost in unison, 320 00:22:40.279 --> 00:22:42.920 they start rolling, like one role another role. So apparently they're the 321 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:47.960 synopses are kind of the same. I guess it only takes so much before 322 00:22:47.960 --> 00:22:51.240 they start rolling. Um, so they get points for that. So that 323 00:22:51.319 --> 00:22:53.319 was a fascinating part of the story. And then there's the other part of 324 00:22:53.359 --> 00:22:56.359 the birds of prey coming in to kill the flocks or scare them away, 325 00:22:56.799 --> 00:23:02.559 and one of the gentlemen took to getting an air rifle, like a pellet 326 00:23:02.559 --> 00:23:07.400 gun, and he actually killed one of the hawks. Well, also you 327 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:11.559 had some little snitch guys from the wildlife and rescue or whatever that were scoping 328 00:23:11.559 --> 00:23:17.160 out this joint. Apparently they were just spying on the pigeon racer and got 329 00:23:17.240 --> 00:23:22.160 him on video shooting the Hawk with the Pellet Gun. So he got busted 330 00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:26.799 and it became a whole thing, like a fucking front the front story on 331 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:30.799 the local news that night and it was something else. But we get to 332 00:23:30.839 --> 00:23:36.359 follow along the whole thing of this documentary called Pigeon Kings, so I think 333 00:23:36.400 --> 00:23:40.160 you should dig that. It's from twenty nineteen. I watched it on canopy 334 00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:44.839 and you can probably find it somewhere else. The next one is pretty controversial. 335 00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:48.480 Probably it should not be, but if you are a man or a 336 00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:56.640 boy or love man or boys, you should probably watch it. It's from 337 00:23:56.640 --> 00:24:03.000 it's called T FW, no g. Now you probably don't know much about 338 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:07.559 this culture of what the initials meant, but I'll tell you. So tfw 339 00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:14.599 is that feeling when no, and then GF is girlfriend. So if you 340 00:24:14.640 --> 00:24:18.839 had spell the whole title of the Movie Out, it's called that feeling when 341 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:25.400 no girlfriend. This is a really interesting movie about rejection and what happens to 342 00:24:25.480 --> 00:24:30.680 people, or young man and boys who are continually rejected of love, and 343 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:34.640 it's pretty poignant because, Um, a lot of these people end up being 344 00:24:36.279 --> 00:24:41.480 the most violent types of criminals in history, like school shooters, mall shooters, 345 00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:45.200 parade shooters, people like that. A lot of these people have been 346 00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:51.240 bullied and rejected. And that's not to say everyone who's been bullied and rejected 347 00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:55.799 goes on and goes on murderous crimes. Freeze but it does give you an 348 00:24:55.839 --> 00:25:00.200 insight as to the roots of all the anger and sadness that caused that out 349 00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:03.240 of death. So, while it's controversial, and I'm not waving to flag 350 00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:07.400 either way, although I am, I am a man, just gendered Hetero 351 00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:11.200 Male, and I have three sons, so it meant something to me and 352 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:18.759 any guy watches this movie could definitely feel some empathy with the characters. They're 353 00:25:18.759 --> 00:25:21.880 not characters, it's a documentary. I mean they are characters, but the 354 00:25:21.920 --> 00:25:23.880 people they interview, the guys they interview, Um, you really get a 355 00:25:23.880 --> 00:25:26.720 sense of like, Oh yeah, I've felt that before, Um, and 356 00:25:26.759 --> 00:25:30.319 it just makes you wonder, I hope. I think that was the whole 357 00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:33.519 point of the documentary. It makes the viewer wonder, how can we do 358 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:37.039 better by these people? Obviously nobody's entitled to love, definitely not entitled the 359 00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:41.359 Sex. Of course, not overpowering women or killing people by any means, 360 00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:45.880 but I'm saying what happens to people they just never get love? Look what 361 00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:48.960 does become of the brokenhearted? And that's I mean. It's a great song 362 00:25:49.039 --> 00:25:55.079 and it's also just a really excellent question that should be answered, because look 363 00:25:55.119 --> 00:25:57.240 what happens when we don't answer it. So this next one, it's cool. 364 00:25:59.359 --> 00:26:03.319 It was actually from nineteen six and it's called the new deal for artists. 365 00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:07.720 It was narrated by Orson Welles, so really smooth, Nice, great 366 00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:15.640 narration, and it talks all about how FDR's new deal actually affected true artists. 367 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:18.039 So I didn't really thought about it, but now, when you see 368 00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:22.839 the documentary, it became really clear. But all of the old post offices, 369 00:26:22.359 --> 00:26:27.680 the public artworks, the murals on the wall, the pillars, the 370 00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:33.880 architecture, all that had to be paid for by somebody. So FDR apparently 371 00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:38.200 was really big on paying the artists, finding real artists in every town, 372 00:26:38.519 --> 00:26:44.440 forming guilds, having the guilds going and build and construct and decorate public buildings, 373 00:26:44.839 --> 00:26:48.400 parks and, uh, you know, all kinds of avenues and things 374 00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:52.359 like that. So really interesting covers lots of great artists from back in those 375 00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:56.960 days, like Diego Rivera. That was a really interesting side story, how 376 00:26:56.160 --> 00:27:00.079 he so wanted the love of the Communists, but they're like not, he 377 00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:03.759 hates you because you work with those other fuckers. Really interesting though, how 378 00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:07.119 all the artists came to be and how the government funded it. I think 379 00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:11.359 that's most interesting now because we're in kind of the same situation. You know, 380 00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:15.759 there's so much dilapidation around America. If the government simply funded artists to 381 00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:19.799 beautify the place, I think that would go a long way in making people 382 00:27:19.799 --> 00:27:23.839 feel better and have a little more hope and reinvest in themselves and, you 383 00:27:23.880 --> 00:27:26.880 know, get out from the idea that fascists of trying to take over. 384 00:27:27.440 --> 00:27:34.559 The next one is called planet of the humans and it's from super disturbing. 385 00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:40.799 Uh, I really won't get into it. It's just an environmental movie. 386 00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:47.359 If you ever wondered how screwed we are, watch planet of the humans from 387 00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:52.599 it's executive producer, the guy who funded it, probably is Michael Moore. 388 00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:56.759 So if you're a right winger, rolling your eyes right now, but if 389 00:27:56.799 --> 00:28:02.400 you're lefty you're probably rolling your eyes right now. Nobody likes Michael Moore. 390 00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:06.480 Anyway, he doesn't talk or appear in planet of the humans, but it's 391 00:28:06.599 --> 00:28:10.359 excellent and it will blow your mind at how shitty things are and how hopeless. 392 00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:12.680 It almost is like wow, what, okay, let's Party and have 393 00:28:12.759 --> 00:28:17.640 fun while we fucking die. Um, it's bleak, but it's just well 394 00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:21.359 done. I mean I I don't know how else to rip to to say 395 00:28:21.400 --> 00:28:25.000 watch it, but you know, it's so well done yet it's so bleak. 396 00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:30.680 That's planet of the humans. Now the next one not nearly as bleak. 397 00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:34.240 It's actually wasn't produced anytime recently. It was from two thousand. It's 398 00:28:34.279 --> 00:28:41.880 called Jimmy and sly the skin I'm in. So this one I liked a 399 00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:47.200 lot because it shows Jimmy Hendrix in a whole different light than you, well, 400 00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:49.359 I don't know, than I had thought about Jimmy Hendricks. I thought 401 00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:53.359 he was crazy party guy and he just super into drugs, just like wild 402 00:28:53.400 --> 00:28:59.160 man. And now not at all. Jimmy Hendricks was a calm, peaceful, 403 00:28:59.319 --> 00:29:03.720 chill, loveing dude, kind like kind just oozes out of his pores. 404 00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:04.559 When you see this kind of movie, I'm like, oh, he's 405 00:29:04.559 --> 00:29:11.039 a kind guy and he died accidentally happy drugs. He was having a happy 406 00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:15.480 time party. It wasn't like an angry thing and just he died accidentally like, 407 00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:18.440 you know, I don't even know how to say. There's good accidental 408 00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:23.559 overdoses and bad accidental overdoses, but Jimmy's was nowhere near the accidental. Where 409 00:29:23.559 --> 00:29:27.559 he was you know, in a fucking alleyway, behind a dumpster alone. 410 00:29:27.960 --> 00:29:32.359 No, they're actually at a party and just ship went haywire. So and 411 00:29:32.400 --> 00:29:34.480 it happened to be Jimmy so um. But this was all before that. 412 00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:37.440 So we get to see a lot about that. And sly. So, 413 00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:41.759 Jimmy and and sly, we're friends. Sly came to my attention because my 414 00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:47.119 mom had gone to high school with him in the city of Vallejo, California, 415 00:29:47.880 --> 00:29:51.000 and I was always him to slide his music growing up as a kid. 416 00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:55.240 You might remember sly from summer of soul, last year, was a 417 00:29:55.279 --> 00:30:00.400 great documentary from quest love that highly featured slide the family stone. anyways, 418 00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:06.519 Jimmy and sly features both of them as friends and it's just a really cool 419 00:30:06.640 --> 00:30:11.359 documentary featuring two slim, Tall Brown guys with great afros uh talking this ship 420 00:30:11.400 --> 00:30:15.359 about music and life and all things good. So that's Jimmy and sly. 421 00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:19.960 The skin I'm in from two thousands. The next thing I think should watch 422 00:30:21.759 --> 00:30:26.039 if you can tolerate it. It's called Hansi. It's H A and Z 423 00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:33.440 I, and it's all about Chinese typography. It's actually from but I would 424 00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:38.119 describe it as the Chinese version of the documentary HELVETICA. If you haven't seen 425 00:30:38.160 --> 00:30:41.440 the documentary hell Vetica, you should put that in this part of the list 426 00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:45.240 as well. Uh, if you're a type Geek at all or just a 427 00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:51.039 curious person and wonder how the words that we type out of our computers became 428 00:30:51.119 --> 00:30:56.039 formed, watch HELVETICA. Great, it's such an awesome documentary. And then 429 00:30:56.079 --> 00:30:59.920 the next level one would be this Chinese one called Hansi, which of course 430 00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:06.599 subtitled from which goes all through the history of Chinese typography, which is infinitely 431 00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:11.480 more fascinating, since we didn't know nothing about it. We just know European 432 00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:17.240 and American typography. So that's Hans from. Now the next one is kind 433 00:31:17.240 --> 00:31:22.599 of bleak but also highly entertaining. If you have not seen will work for 434 00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:30.519 views, low Fi life of weird Paul from you should go look at that. 435 00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:33.240 Weird Paul is a cat about my age, like again a generation. 436 00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:37.480 Next Guy has like a d D Ramon Haircut, I think. I think 437 00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.240 it's d d he kind of looks like Peter Tork from the monkeys. Anyway, 438 00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:45.839 this guy used to record himself with vhs back in the day, like 439 00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:48.640 people do with Youtube now, when I'm talking back in the day, like 440 00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:52.240 when vhs was first fresh, when people are this giant VHS Cam cord of 441 00:31:52.279 --> 00:31:55.559 things that you know, you just had to huff around on your shoulder like 442 00:31:55.599 --> 00:31:57.799 a boom box, that's how big the camera was. So Weird. Paul 443 00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:02.640 was making videos like APP way back in the early eighties and saving them and 444 00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:07.640 then he started to digitize them and put him on Youtube and he's achieved some 445 00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:13.519 acclaim on Youtube because of that. Well enough attention. So that's some Hollywood 446 00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:16.720 types up and comers, like documentary makers. I guess I found him. 447 00:32:16.759 --> 00:32:21.319 I want to make a movie about him, and the story is basically they 448 00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:28.200 hire him to come do a Gig in Hollywood, down there loaded and you 449 00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:30.920 just you watch the whole process. It's really it's kind of sad, but 450 00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:34.160 it's also heartwarming and I don't know how to put it. I'm not judging 451 00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:37.960 the guy, just really it's it's really wild. I it's a great that's 452 00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:43.440 a great documentary about your persona, how you feel about yourself and persisting. 453 00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:45.920 That's what I like, because we all see people that seem dork. You're 454 00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:50.079 geeking. You just can't wonder how they make it, but they so believe 455 00:32:50.119 --> 00:32:53.440 in themselves, like self included. You know, sometimes like who the fund 456 00:32:53.480 --> 00:33:00.000 does this person think is? And it just doesn't match with their skills or 457 00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:04.799 of their presentation or whatever. Yet they keep going, almost like they're unaware 458 00:33:04.839 --> 00:33:07.359 of their blind spots or something. Or maybe they just don't have any other 459 00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:13.000 options. But yeah, Weird Paul is a trip and his girlfriend is like 460 00:33:13.079 --> 00:33:16.119 honey bunny from pulp fiction. So these two are a crazy little pair. 461 00:33:16.960 --> 00:33:21.000 And Uh, it's just really neat that he's got to take a leave from 462 00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:24.079 his job at hot topic to go do his little novelty like weird hole style 463 00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:29.119 songs in Hollywood in front of a uh, you know, loaded crowd down 464 00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:32.079 there on Hollywood boulevard and gets to hang out with the band in the studio 465 00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:37.599 and play with real rock band musicians and stuff. Is A trip. So 466 00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:42.440 yeah, check that out. That is will work for views low fide life 467 00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:46.559 of Weird Paul from okay, so just three more left. Almost done here. 468 00:33:47.400 --> 00:33:53.880 Next one is California typewriter. This is from and it's narrated by Tom 469 00:33:53.920 --> 00:33:59.920 Hanks who, it turns out, is a huge typewriter buff. Big Afish 470 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:02.960 Anato collector can name all the different models and and brands and things. He 471 00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:07.880 knows his ship really well. Well, California typewriter is about a little mom 472 00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:15.880 and pop typewriter repair shop in Berkeley California, and I only if that sounds 473 00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:17.800 interesting to you. Cool. It's captivating. It's not very long. I 474 00:34:17.800 --> 00:34:22.159 think it maybe forty five minutes long. It's not super long as documentaries go, 475 00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:24.760 which is nice, but it feels very thorough. It's got interviews with 476 00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:29.000 lots of people who are also into typewriters. Will see lots of Cameos for 477 00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:32.239 people should be surprised with but knowing that Tom Hanks produced it, you'll understand 478 00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:37.679 how we got those cameos. And it's super well shot. Lots of great 479 00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:42.079 uh like I call it typewriter porn, just great camera shots and well that 480 00:34:42.199 --> 00:34:45.440 shots of some of the best antique collectible typewriters. So much so it got 481 00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:47.840 me thinking, because I was watching this whole movie when I was in San 482 00:34:47.840 --> 00:34:52.840 Francisco and uh, I'm like when I finally understood it was in Berkeley, 483 00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:57.199 because I got a street sign in one of the in the scenes and I'm 484 00:34:57.199 --> 00:34:59.280 like, Oh, that's in Berkeley. I looked it up on the Internet. 485 00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:00.440 I called the shop. Yeah, I talked to the dude. You're 486 00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:06.119 able to call the guy in the movie California typewriter at the Shop in Berkeley 487 00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:07.840 and say hey, what's up, how are you doing? You've got some 488 00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:14.320 typewriters anyway. Very cool. UH, California Typewriter Sen narrated by Tom Hanks. 489 00:35:14.599 --> 00:35:19.199 You gotta check that out. Second to last one here is probably one 490 00:35:19.199 --> 00:35:22.440 of my most watched documentaries. I think I've seen it like three or four 491 00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:25.679 times now, and it's called harmontown and I don't know if the name Dan 492 00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:31.599 harmon sounds familiar to you. He was the creator of the show community on 493 00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:37.239 NBC and he is also the creator of Rick and Morty, which is, 494 00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:43.760 you know, cartoon on wherever you find cartoons. So after he created community, 495 00:35:44.119 --> 00:35:49.320 Dan h NBC apparently hired Chevy Chase, and Chevy Chase apparently as an 496 00:35:49.360 --> 00:35:52.400 asshole and got Dan fired from his own show. Well, a lot of 497 00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:58.519 people say Dan got himself fired because he's also drinks quite a bit. Anyway. 498 00:35:58.519 --> 00:36:00.800 Can you imagine an asshole running into a guy who drinks quite a bit? 499 00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:04.719 So you can imagine, long and short, of it. Dan Has 500 00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:08.760 No more show during this documentary and decides to take his podcast on a tour 501 00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:14.119 across America in a bus with a cast of characters, like he's got an 502 00:36:14.159 --> 00:36:17.960 announcer guy, he's got his wife and then he's got a dungeon master, 503 00:36:19.159 --> 00:36:24.119 a dungeons and dragons dungeon master, and Dan is very into the hero's journey 504 00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:29.199 storytelling all the methos and things like that, which is really interesting because this 505 00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:34.639 documentary becomes very Meta and that the Dungeon Master Kid, I can't recall his 506 00:36:34.719 --> 00:36:37.719 name, but he fucking turns out to be the hero in this whole journey, 507 00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:42.639 because the fans, while they like Dan, at each stop along the 508 00:36:42.639 --> 00:36:46.079 way, talking about the podcast or talking as a podcast, they love the 509 00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:51.280 part of the podcast where Dungeon master comes out and does his D and d 510 00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:53.840 thing. So I think that's amazing and I like the bit that it's kind 511 00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:59.599 of Meta. I like the behind the scenes Hollywood bit where you see how 512 00:36:59.679 --> 00:37:02.079 Dan just struggling to write things. You know he's like behind deadline, he 513 00:37:02.119 --> 00:37:06.800 didn't have anything written and he's hopping out a bus to go do a podcast. 514 00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:09.239 Just very chaotic, but I like that a lot about it and Dan, 515 00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:14.360 even though I don't know how his drinking is then or now. Uh, 516 00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:17.199 he seems like a charming guy and I hope things are well with him 517 00:37:17.199 --> 00:37:22.079 now. But anyway, was quite a while ago and Rick and Morty is 518 00:37:22.119 --> 00:37:28.719 super successful. So check out harmontown about Dan Harmon and the last one is 519 00:37:28.760 --> 00:37:35.320 really inspirational. It's available on Youtube now and it's called carts of darkness. 520 00:37:35.639 --> 00:37:40.679 Carts like shopping carts of darkness. This thing is shot up in Vancouver and 521 00:37:40.719 --> 00:37:44.239 the premise, when you hear the premise, it'll just be like, oh 522 00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:47.840 yeah, I should watch that sounds cool. So the premises there is a 523 00:37:49.159 --> 00:37:54.440 snowboarder who was involved, like an extreme snowboarder and videographer who was involved in 524 00:37:54.440 --> 00:38:00.000 an accident and lost the use of his legs. Well, then he's looking 525 00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:06.639 for a new thing to do a documentary on and he happens upon homeless people 526 00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:10.599 who steal carts out of the shopping centers and walk them or get them. 527 00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:15.599 However, they can up the top of the local hills in Vancouver, Canada. 528 00:38:16.119 --> 00:38:20.400 So apparently there's some really decent hills. You can walk up them and 529 00:38:20.440 --> 00:38:25.800 there curvy and fun to write the carts back down. So our protagonists here 530 00:38:27.400 --> 00:38:31.079 the snowboarder guy. He's kind of fearless anyway. Just because he lost his 531 00:38:31.159 --> 00:38:37.000 legs doesn't mean he has fear. He's still into extreme things. Long and 532 00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:39.360 short of it, we followed these folks around. We learned how to pick 533 00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:45.199 the best kind of shopping cart. We learned how you really go through shoes 534 00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:49.199 too, apparently, is you're barreling down these long, steep roads in a 535 00:38:49.239 --> 00:38:52.360 shopping cart, you're standing on the back and you're dragging one foot as a 536 00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:55.840 break. Well, they burned through shoes that south fast they're going. They 537 00:38:55.880 --> 00:39:00.360 burned through the rub rother shoes. So, uh, it's to watch, 538 00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:02.360 like what kind of shoes to use and how to get all set up for 539 00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:07.880 that. And then at the last scene it isn't. I don't know if 540 00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:08.719 I should tell you now. You probably not gonna Watch it, so I'll 541 00:39:08.760 --> 00:39:13.920 tell you anyway. The last scene is great. The snowboarder with no legs 542 00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:19.559 trusts the homeless guy he's been hanging around to push him down the hill. 543 00:39:19.679 --> 00:39:23.480 So we've got snowboarder guy with no legs in the shopping cart barreling down a 544 00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:29.719 hill about forty miles an hour with a homeless guy on the back dragging his 545 00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:34.480 foot. That is a great documentary right there. That is called carts of 546 00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:37.800 darkness. Check that out on Youtube. It's about an hour long. So 547 00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:42.679 there you have it. There's ten documentaries that you will probably like, that 548 00:39:42.719 --> 00:39:46.039 you could probably watch right now, that are not on corporate media, not 549 00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:52.360 just things you've seen a hundred times before and not random, insightful, hyper 550 00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:55.440 believe like the anarchists I'm about to watch again. So anyway, cool. 551 00:39:55.519 --> 00:40:00.159 I will talk to you soon. Hanging there. I appreciate sticking around like 552 00:40:00.199 --> 00:40:01.960 while. I changed the name of the show and everything, but folks like 553 00:40:02.079 --> 00:40:07.239 Chris B thank you for sharing and tweeting around that stuff. Ames, I 554 00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:10.920 always appreciate you Kaya same. You guys are awesome. Thanks for helping out 555 00:40:12.280 --> 00:40:14.480 and anything I can do for you. If you ever want me to help 556 00:40:14.639 --> 00:40:17.440 promote something you're working on, let me know. Everyone else, I'll talk 557 00:40:17.480 --> 00:40:21.239 to you in a little bit. Just let it ride in a new episode 558 00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:22.079 will pop right up in a second. Joe