Jump Off a Doc: Recent Episodes
DJ Demers and Alex Nussbaum
Comedians Alex Nussbaum and D.J. Demers watch a new documentary every week! Then they talk about it. It's a fun time with a little bit of accidental learning.
This week, Alex and DJ jump off a documentary called The Art of Political Murder. It's about the 1998 murder of Guatemalan human rights activist Bishop Juan Gerardi.
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Happy Valentine's week, to all our friends and lovers alike. To celebrate, we watched The Tinder Swindler. It's about a man who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from unsuspecting women under the camouflage of love. How romantic.
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This week we jump off of Roadrunner, a documentary about author, chef, TV personality, and raconteur Anthony Bourdain.
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https://youtu.be/1fgpTLz5BEI
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This week, we jump off Children: Full of Life, a documentary about a Japanese schoolteacher who forges a special connection with his fourth grade students. You can watch the show on YouTube as well:
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This week, we jump off The Rescue, a documentary about the rescue of a youth soccer team in an underground cave in Thailand. You can watch the show on YouTube as well:
https://youtu.be/iBTufPEYFdQ
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This week, we jump off The Beatles: Get Back, Peter Jackson's new 3-part documentary on the making of the Beatles' iconic 1970 album 'Let It Be".
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This week, we jump off 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas, a documentary about one man's battle with his entire neighborhood over his extravagant Christmas event.
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https://youtu.be/5bRJrYg7pP8
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This week, Alex and DJ watched Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know. It's about the painstaking work and research that went into the first-ever photo taken of a black hole, M87, in 2019.
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https://youtu.be/JQhFBldCLqI
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This week, we watched The Donut King, a great documentary about Ted Ngoy, the Cambodian refugee who created a donut empire in the the United States.
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https://youtu.be/l3NPDHinkWE
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Alex and DJ have different levels of enthusiasm for Oliver Stone's new documentary about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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https://youtu.be/SSiUQzksgFY
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This week, we talk about Tickled, a documentary about one man's tickling video empire, full of lots of sordid twists and turns.
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This week, we talk about I Am Greta, a documentary about the Swedish environmental wunderkind, Greta Thunberg.
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https://youtu.be/png2FwkUFoQ
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Icarus is originally about doping in cycling, and then turns into a broader look at a state-sponsored Russian doping program. The star of the doc is the inimitable Grigory Rodchenkov.
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https://youtu.be/o3OqYFkEFw4
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This week, Alex & D.J. talk about Edible Insects, a documentary about, well, edible insects, and how they are perceived and consumed in North America compared to the rest of the world.
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https://youtu.be/PacbGvKVSkg
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Some Kind of Heaven is about a few different groups of older people living in The Villages in Florida. It made Alex and D.J. think about getting older, which is probably the point of the movie, maybe.
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The Game Changers is a documentary that aims to convert you to a plant-based diet, with testimonials from elite athletes and slightly dubious scientific evidence to back their claims.
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https://youtu.be/t9woaOC2ypg
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This week, Alex and D.J. learn that there is a lot of plastic in the world, and it's not being recycled nearly as effectively as they thought.
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Collective is a documentary about a Romanian nightclub fire, government corruption, negligent healthcare, and many more bleak, terrible things. It hurt to watch.
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Last Breath is about a deep sea diver who becomes trapped at the bottom of the ocean floor. Does he live? Does he die? These questions, and not many more, are answered in the film.
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Bibliography:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-a-saturation-diver.amp
https://youtu.be/-jL2MLzMTyM
Class Action Park shines a light on Action Park, the mythical New Jersey theme park of the 1980's, famed for the ridiculous amount of danger it posed to all of its patrons.
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Bibliography:
https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a33795371/class-action-park-rides/
Crip Camp tells the story of Americans with various disabilities who met at a camp and ended up changing the world.
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Bibliography:
https://www.provideocoalition.com/aotc-crip-camp/
https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/3/25/21192859/crip-camp-netflix-streaming-interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU2NBntjMqA
Three Identical Strangers is a fantastic documentary that sent Alex and D.J. into a discussion around adoption, gene editing, ethics in science, and more.
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Val is a new documentary about the life and times of actor Val Kilmer. We watched it. And you better believe we talked about it.
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Alex & D.J. watch the 2007 documentary, The King of Kong, a tale of two men and their battle for the title of "Best Donkey Kong player in the world". And what a battle it was!
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This week, we watched Fantastic Fungi, a documentary about fungi, mycelium, mushrooms, the magical kingdom of the earth that is involved in all of life - and all of death, too!
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Alex is officially a citizen of the United States of America! To celebrate, we watched a documentary that chronicles the naturalization ceremonies of new American citizens across the country.
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Alex and D.J. talk about The Power of the Fed, a PBS documentary that examines the Federal Reserve and their response to the economic collapse of 2008 and the current COVID crisis.
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Alex & D.J. talk about Summer of Soul, a documentary directed by Questlove about a legendary outdoor concert that took place in Harlem in 1969 that featured the likes of Stevie Wonder, BB King, and Nina Simone.
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https://youtu.be/ZzzXNjur_PY
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Alex & D.J. talk about the One and Only Dick Gregory, a fantastic documentary about, you guessed it, the one and only Dick Gregory, comedian, civil rights activist, and health guru.
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Alex & D.J. talk about HEARTS OF DARKNESS: A FILMMAKER'S APOCALYPSE. It's a documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's seminal Vietnam War movie, Apocalypse Now.
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Alex & D.J. talk about Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee, a 2016 documentary about the wild and crazy life of the recently deceased anti-virus pioneer, Belizean kingpin, and US Libertarian presidential candidate, John McAfee.
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https://youtu.be/Zw0aRN-q31w
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Alex and D.J. talk about Pelé, a reflection on the glory days of Pelé's soccer prime. Glory days doesn't mean there wasn't any trouble, of course, what with injuries, increasing pressure, and Brazil's military coup.
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Alex & D.J. talk about Seaspiracy, a delightful peek at the myriad ways in which we are destroying earth's oceans and marine life.
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https://youtu.be/RFjAEXZ0Bp8
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Alex & D.J. talk about Framing John DeLorean, a documentary about the life, career, and travails of the creator of the DeLorean, the car famously featured in Back to the Future.
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https://youtu.be/nZ5n3Iz97Os
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Welcome to the show! In our very first episode, Alex & D.J. talk about Lucy the Human Chimp. Thanks for joining us. You can watch the show on YouTube as well!
https://youtu.be/xLNIVwMRdx0
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