Documenteers: The Documentary Podcast

Welcome to Listener Request Month and welcome to our first docuseries mindfuck courtesy of your demands. Eric’s been obsessed all his life after a government stooge told his family that his father died from “falling or jumping” out of a hotel window. Finally, because you demanded it, Angela and Bob discuss the Errol Morris Netflix docuseries “Wormwood” and boy are these waters bitter. When the onion peels and we get all the evidence is it LSD induced brainwashing that did it? Why would anyone want Frank Olsen dead? Who in their right minds believes he WASN’T killed by the government? But why? As if Bob isn’t inherently paranoid already, doesn’t Angela deal with enough in this marriage? Wormwood. It was the guberment, maaaaaaaannnnn!!!!

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The trailer: https://youtu.be/b01DL8DTUGM

Whoa, Nelly: https://www.history.com/mkultra-operation-midnight-climax-cia-lsd-experiments

Whoa, Nelly: https://youtu.be/RtSDWq6HsJE

Yaaaaas: https://youtu.be/BHlAlN3z4ss

What’s old is new again. Same old shit, different day as they say. Our knee-jerk sense of exceptionalism might just lead into another “Night of the long knives”. HISTORY, BRAH! LOOK IT UP! Eldridge and Bob lay their month of Shorties to rest with a documentation of an American event that occurred in Madison Square Garden in 1939 and it had nothing to do with the Rangers or the Knicks. It was a Nazi rally and a disturbing amount of the American people were all about it. Hard not to draw some parallels here. We’re talking about “A Night at the Garden” by Marshall Curry. If James Dolan were around then, you know JD & the Straight Shot would play at this rally. All lighting aside, this is educationally awkward and our only evolution might just be that they mostly figured out not to say the “N” word out loud. Special appearance by Jerkin’ Joe Biden and The Champs.

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The short doc we’re discussing: https://vimeo.com/237489146

Probably 6 out of 6 Baby Herzogs: https://youtu.be/aFh08JEKDYk

Song of the week: https://youtu.be/jKVnur5DkdI

This one is fun too: https://youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ

Can you dig it? I SAID CAN YOU DIG IT!? That shit from that “Warriors” movie? Real! At least stylistically. Stuart steps in with Bob to discuss more 1970s New York at a time when white flight, and some city construction, segregated the Bronx from the rest of the city. From the rubble (literally there’s a lot of rubble) rose gangs, some more outrageous than others. All looking cool as fuck except for that swastika shit. We’re talking about the Shan Nicholson documentary “Rubble Kings” and yeah…we can dig it. The struggles of poverty that produced extremes of violence and a path to cornerstone genres of music. Maybe South Bronx gang style jackets are a good merch idea for the show? Maybe some official Documenteers guns, yeah? We should do gun ads.

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The trailer, jack: https://youtu.be/xmJ39Tmg540

YOU GOT AN ASS??? SHAKE IT!!!: https://youtu.be/HRxakq9dJXE

Ohhhhhhhhhshit: https://youtu.be/0RR6hxlfaCI

DAAAAAYYAAAAAMMNNN: https://youtu.be/jYrwGW3lJks

WHOA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapping

It ain’t just a mountain, folks. It’s also a badass wrestler that can fuck you up despite the fact that he has no bottom half. That’s Zion. His origin is sad, but this ain’t a tragic short documentary. Eldridge and Bob ask way too many questions regarding the Netflix short documentary “Zion” by director Floyd Russ. Please don’t fight us Zion. We won’t win. Also….Lauryn Hill. Don’t find us. Circus peanuts? Don’t find us. Hemorrhoids? Don’t find us. Wrestling? Find us. Zion…it’s a movie.

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Trailer (find it on Netflix): https://youtu.be/hr7FGrTlQWo

So nice of Ellen to chat up a non-rich person: https://youtu.be/_at3UCoo3Yw

Song of the week: https://youtu.be/1sQjh261rU8

Feel the power! The Black Power! Who can we get to help us out with this? How about the blackest country in Europe….SWEDEN! This week Eldridge and Bob dive into the history of Black Identity and the Black Panthers and all things great and sad beyond that all told through the eyes of the Swedish mews media during the time. We’re talking about the documentary “The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975” by Göran Olsson and it’s quite the flick. Best/Worst of all? Everything feels as relevant today as it did then. Rent this flick and then maybe join us. Keep on Doccin’

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The trailer: https://youtu.be/jFWHNpfjByQ

Angela Davis 1972: https://youtu.be/HuBqyBE1Ppw

Stokely Carmichael 1966: https://youtu.be/dFFWTsUqEaY

Oh wow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden

Week two of February shorties and Eldridge and Bob thought maybe it’s time to get really really fucking sad. Unfortunately, Chris Farley is nowhere to be found in this one. A 10 year old Nigerian boy is stabbed in London and a scared Nigerian family move to Essex to escape the hub-bub of big city drama. Of course we’re talking England outside of London so what is this Nigerian teenager seeing? Whiteys. Whiteys and their janky faces. Cornelius can only take two much of the racism until he decides to join up with those who hate him for the color of his skin. Eldridge and Bob discuss the Ed Perkins documentary short he made for the Guardian called “Black Sheep”. (Hence the Chris Farley reference.) Layers and layers of sad. Even the Pillsbury Dough Boy is crying. Cry laughing actually. That thing is fucking scary now that I think about it. But not scarier than racism.

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The short: https://youtu.be/A-Y5zvnDxsI

What started this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Damilola_Taylor

Song of the week: https://youtu.be/mkMQNRYlVAQ

Long Island or the Deep South? They might have more in common than you think. Angela picks up the true crime baton to join Bob on a sad tale where the attempt at justice barely exists. Yance Ford refuses to led the narrative of his late sibling, William Ford, be controlled by anybody else. When William was shot, unarmed, in a Long Island garage it seemed very clear very quickly that the shooter in this scenario was gonna get slapped on the wrist with a pillow. Long Island courts paint a narrative of William that Yance refuses to accept. A new look at a decades old tragedy. Sad as fuck. We maybe cried in this one. Our mascara really ran. You can find this on Netflix if you want to be sad with us. Keep on Doccin’

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The trailer: https://youtu.be/h64qugj_iDg

Yance Ford interview: https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/24/strong_island_trans_filmmaker_yance_ford

This douchebag: http://longisland.news12.com/story/34754574/datre-family-accused-of-illegal-dumping-says-family-name-business-reputation-smeared

Just what the world needs. Two dudes discussing periods. Punctuation and Menstruation. We’re not sure where the usual women co-hosts are. My guess, as a man, is that they’re on their period? (Waits for laughter. Receives none.) Eldridge and Bob unite like a lame Voltron to discuss all Shorties for the month of February and to start us off we go to a small village in India where mentioning of that time of the month results in giggling and pretending you’re talking about something else other than girly bodily fluids. We tackle the Netflix short documentary “Period. End of Sentence” by Rayka Zehtabchi. You can’t just walk into small-town shops in India and find pads and tampon, so who do you call? The Pad Patrol and their Uncles think they’re making diapers or something. Men…they say the darnedest things. Ruby and Jackie be trippin’

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A trailer for a short doc (find it on Netflix): https://youtu.be/KocJP8dG1OA

Never knew: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstruation

Song of the week: https://youtu.be/FAkbDf7KNP4

Get raged up and check your....beef? It’s 30 for 30 time so Bob and Drew reexamine another crossroads between sports and music. Tupac Shakur and Mike Tyson were fast friends with a lot in common and in Reggie Rock Bythewood’s 30 for 30 film “One Night in Vegas” their bond is posited as parallel lives leading to the death of Tupac on the same night Mike Tyson regained the WBC Heavyweight title. Also, the surprise reveal that Drew is something of a 2Pac connoisseur, whereas Bob was more concentrated on Notorious B.I.G. growing up, means they are forced to fight to the death using only the freestyles that come out of their heart and mind and also a fork. Podcast is mostly an audio medium therefore you can't see the copious amounts of blood and sperm. What the fuck is going on with these episode descriptions?

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The trailer (I think): https://youtu.be/FWunoUzZ4Rg

Classic: https://youtu.be/cQZqPi1aHNo

Remember this tense shit??: https://youtu.be/VAcuDk4ovsw

Probably the worst song on a very bad album: https://youtu.be/NafTuGr9xvo

Listen to Drew’s radio shows “Loud Love” and “Walk It Off” here: https://www.wxnafm.org/shows/walk-it-off

Drew and Bob lay their vaguely sports themed shorties to rest for January and we end it all on nothing less than the mascot world’s very own version of Jesus Christ. The 1984 San Francisco Giants were in the toilet for the season. A silly television commercial starring a touristy San Fran mascot reject became an on-field sponge for fan hate. A mime named Wayne + A hand full of batteries ÷ director Colin Hanks and you have a short documentary appropriately titled “The Anti-Mascot”. Grab your water balloon full of fun and prepare for the most hated crab in Giantsland. It got body slammed by the San Diego Padres for our sins.

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The full short: https://www.espn.com/watch/player?id=12876146&lang=en

The original commercial: https://www.facebook.com/Giants/videos/love-that-crazy-crab-sfgiants/10155582373836828/

Listen to Drew’s radio shows “Walk It Off” and “Loud Love” here: https://www.wxnafm.org

Song of the Episode (sorry): https://youtu.be/Nf_dqyI808o