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I Don't Speak German

UNLOCKED! Bonus Ep#3 Bob Roberts (1992)

I Don't Speak German

IDSG

Politics, News, Currentaffairs, Society & Culture

3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

It's been a while since we released an episode so, to tide you over, here's a bonus show, previously for patrons only.

It's on the subject of the satirical mockumentary Bob Roberts (1992), written, directed by, and starring Tim Robbins (with Alan Rickman, Ray Wise, Giancarlo Esposito, Harry Lennix, Lynne Thigpen, Susan Sarandon, James Spader, Fred Ward, Bob Balaban, John Cusack, Gore Vidal, and Jack Black).

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is I don't speak German.

0:15.2

I'm Jack Graham, he, him, and in this podcast, I talk to my friend Daniel Harper,

0:20.8

also he, him, about what he learned from years of listening to today's Nazis,

0:26.4

white nationalists, white supremacists, and what they say to each other when they don't think we're

0:32.1

listening. Be warned, this is difficult subject matter. Content warnings always apply.

0:38.2

Okay, so it's the third bonus episode of IDSG, which for the benefit of people listening

0:59.4

potentially in the in the future, we're recording on the 22nd of March, at least it's the 22nd for

1:06.0

me. It might be the 21st for Daniel. I don't know how that whole time thing works.

1:10.8

And it's timing whimy as they say. And on the BBC, I just imagine anytime time is mentioned on

1:19.3

the BBC, it is pronounced timing whimy. I think that's that that's me as an American,

1:24.4

that's how I believe things work on the BBC. So yeah, we'll sadly it is these days. There you go.

1:31.2

There was a time when the BBC used to make decent shows, but now you just

1:36.4

get David Tennant to say something stupid and the entire internet loves it. So they don't bother

1:41.2

making good stuff. Yeah. Anyway, that's a very old grudge. The whole of the BBC is just written

1:48.6

by Stephen Moffett, which would explain Boris Johnson, I think, but we don't have to go there,

1:55.2

it's fine. Yeah, but yeah, we're talking about another movie. We're talking about Bob Roberts

2:02.8

from I believe this was released in 1992. Yeah, a couple of months before the 1992 election.

2:09.7

Yeah. Yeah. And written and directed by Tim Robbins,

2:15.5

starring a pretty amazing cast, to be honest, which we'll probably talk about a little bit.

2:22.4

And yeah, it's what they call a mockumentary, isn't it? It's a pseudo-documentary,

2:29.9

very much like Punishment Park, actually, although quite different as well in many ways.

2:35.2

Very, very many ways, yes. Partially inspired by this is Spinal Tap for about

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