Sup Doc: A Documentary Podcast

Episode 77! Hosts Paco Romane and George Chen recap some highlights of the show in 2017. We have a lot of documentaries, guests, theme months, and live shows to discuss! Ah memories!

(We recorded this before the recent Morgan Spurlock news.)

Dirty John

My Favorite Murder

Mayhem True Crime month

Rocktober Music month

SNL Rap History sketch

Dana Gould on Some Kind of Monster

Wayne Federman on Crumb

YACHT on Tickled / Triforium / Claire Evans on her investigative journalism for Motherboard

Our live Sketchfest show on Memorial Day 2000

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Succotash podcast

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and we have a bonus Patreon only episode recapping some recent documentaries

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A podcast about a documentary about radio? Only on this show! George spoke with the director of Sex and Broadcasting, Tim K Smith in Los Angeles.

Sex and Broadcasting is a 2014 documentary about New Jersey’s longstanding freeform radio station WFMU, and its struggles to stay afloat. Along the way we encounter Tom Scharpling’s Best Show, The Minutemen, Jack Kevorkian, Irwin Chusid, the recession, the Free Music Archive, pragmatic utopias, ant invasions, The Hound, and the singular Ken Freedman who’s made it his life’s mission to keep WFMU on the air. The film also features appearances by Paul F. Tomkins, John Hodgman, Matt Groening, Lee Ranaldo, and Adam Horovitz.

You can find Sex And Broadcasting on Netflix, Kanopy, and iTunes. It should be out on DVD in the Spring and it’s also playing at the Seeyousound International Music Film Festival in Turin, Italy.

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Solomon Georgio joins the show to talk about 20 Feet From Stardom, the Academy Award Winning 2013 documentary about the lives of backup singers. We also talk about Seattle, living in fear of Phil Spector, favorite karaoke spots, Fresno, and open mic weirdos.

Solomon Georgio flawlessly intertwines biting social commentary with stories of his life as an openly gay African immigrant. Solomon had his television debut on CONAN, followed up with appearances on The Meltdown with Jonah & Kumail, This is Not Happening, Viceland's Flophouse, and Last Call with Carson Daily. He just premiered his first half hour comedy special on Comedy Central Stand Up Presents alongside his debut album with Comedy Central Records, Homonégro Superior.

20 Feet From Stardom stars Darlene Love, Judith Hill, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Táta Vega, and Jo Lawry, among many others. On March 2, 2014, it won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 86th Academy Awards.

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To know Nick Stargu (or DJ Real) is to love him! Nick is a friend of the show (he appeared in character on our LIVE Sketchfest episode 2 years ago) and is a very talented comedian and musician. Nick brought to us We Jam Econo the revealing doc that looks back at the history of the influential 1980s punk band the Minutemen. We also get into music, tech, Nick's formation of the DJ Real act, Paco's bands, George's jam with Mike Watt, Andy Kaufman and more!

We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen, is a full-length 2005 documentary about the influential 1980s punk rock band Minutemen, created by director Tim Irwin and producer Keith Schieron.

Nick Stargu is a musician, comedian, writer and filmmaker who is best known for his multimedia / musical comedy act, DJ REAL, which has been featured at Comedy Central’s Colossal Clusterfest, Outside Lands, San Francisco Sketchfest, Bridgetown Comedy Festival and more! Nick also performs as Imaginary Radio with comedy partner, Drennon Davis.

He is an audio producer, composer and sound designer at Audible’s comedy division. He has written the theme songs for “Bedtime Stories for Cynics” (w/Nick Offerman), “Hold On with Eugene Mirman”, “Limelight” and more. He co-produced the audio series McSweeney’s Internet Tendencies, and has worked on the production of a number of shows including “Wedlock with Kurt Braunohler and Lauren Cook” and most recently “Dr. Katz: The Audio Files”.

He also, currently co-produces San Francisco’s premiere weirdo multimedia show, Talkies, where he has premiered live audience interactive virtual reality experiences, characters and short films. He produced the hit live show, Pitch!, in San Francisco, where guest comics pitched ideas for movies, inventions, video games and more. He also co-produced the monthly storytelling show, Shit Creek, at Lost Weekend Video with comedians Mary Van Note and Jessse Fernandez.

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ROCKTOBER winds to an end with a huge guest and doc combo!

Paco and George sat down with the brilliant writer and comedian Dana Gould. They talked about the 2004 Metallica doc Some Kind of Monster which Dana rightfully described as "the best documentary ever made about marriage". They also get into a discussion about therapy, his favorite jokes from The Simpsons, JFK,divorce, stage worthy jokes, father figures, Brian Wilson, John Lennon, and so much more! Dana Gould was a long-running head writer on The Simpsons, a legendary stand up comic who came out of the Boston and San Francisco scenes, and he is the creator of the television show Stan Against Evil. His latest comedy album Mr. Funny Man just came out on Kill Rock Stars and the second season of Stan Against Evil premieres Nov 1st on IFC.

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Shout out to our Patreon folks: Angi Brzycki, Karl Dotter, James Reling, Jana Jo Beltz, Annette Marines, Alina Mansfield, Jaime Borschuk, Janet Flemer, Jaan Shenberger, David Roth

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