Sup Doc: A Documentary Podcast

Trigger warning? It's about Ted Bundy. That's a lot of triggers. Paco and George look at Joe Berlinger's double dip into Bundy on Netflix, Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes and this narrative version starring Zac Efron and Lili Collins, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile . We also ponder what was considered handsome in the 70s, twitter Stan wars, Tarantino, John Wayne Gacy,...

We recap the 2019 HBO documentary series I Love You, Now Die with comedian Florentina Tanase.  I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth V. Michelle Carter centers around the suicide of Conrad Roy. Who was responsible, Conrad or his virtual girlfriend Michelle who encouraged him? This two-part series explores their complicated relationship drawing on thousands of texts exchanged over two years ch...

George talks to the director of 2018’s BATHTUBS OVER BROADWAY (2018) Dava Whisenant. Bathtubs Over Broadway (streaming now on Netflix) is the story of Letterman comedy writer Steve Young and his journey into an obscure sub-genre of theatre, Industrial Musicals. It starts off as a story about collecting weird records but turns into something much more emotionally involving. Along the way there are...

This is the pilot episode of our new sidecar project Biopsy! Our new show format recaps BioPics in a loose, funny way and we'll drop occasional episodes into your regular Sup Doc feed. We think BioPics are the real life version of our game Cast This Doc. We hope you enjoy it and let us know what Bi-OP-Pics you want us to cover. On the premiere episode we look at Rocketman (Dexter Fletcher, 20...

Paco and George have a new format where they discuss biopics - it's still film and reality adjacent! The first episode drops next Monday July 8th where they recap the Elton John musical bio Rocketman . You’ll find episodes of Biopsy right here in your Sup Doc Podcast feed. Just subscribe! [Cold Funk - Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license] See Privacy...

Paco can't quite get into Bob Dylan although our guest has tried to turn him on to the canon. Comedian Tony Camin joins the Sup Doc gang to provide a Dylan fan's insight into the obtuse Netflix concoction Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019). Netflix describes it as “part concert film, part fever dream” and an “alchemic mix of fact and fantasy.” “Rolling Thunder Revue...

On episode 118 George is joined all the way from Boston by director  Ian McFarland . They discuss Ian's start in documentary, playing bass in  punk bands of his own , and crafting a true story of friendship and chosen family out of three decades of hardcore punk history. Vinnie Stigma and Roger Miret have been the longest serving members of foundational New York Hardcore band Agnostic Fr...

We conclude our Mayhem Series of True Crime documentaries with a recap of the 2017 documentary LONG SHOT by Jacob LaMendola (streaming on Netflix). It’s the story of Juan Catalan who was accused of the execution style murder of 16 year old Martha Puebla in Los Angeles. Catalan was up for the death penalty but his dedicated lawyer hunted for his only alibi that would exonerate him - video footage f...

For our Mayhem Series of True Crime documentaries we recap the 2015 documentary Amanda Knox on Netflix. Amanda Knox was a year old American student studying abroad in Italy. One morning in November 2007 her roommate Meredith Kercher was found brutally murdered in their home. The small Italian town of Perugia became a media feeding ground for morbid details about Meredith, Amanda, and Amanda’s boyf...

Our Mayhem True Crime series continues with the HBO documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest directed by Erin Lee Carr. In July 2016, Gypsy Rose Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the brutal stabbing death of her mother, Dee Dee. Gypsy, then 24, was arguably the biggest victim of all, held hostage by her mother since she was a young child – a c...

The first episode in our month long MAYHEM series were we cover True Crime documentaries every Monday in May! It also marks four years since we began Sup Doc back in good ol' 2015. Today's documentary is The Legend of Cocaine Island (Theo Love 2019). A lazy wish-fullfilment DIY rags-to-riches story that is more rags than riches. Of course it goes down in the state that gave us every sharable bonke...

Every Monday this month is Mayhem, our hilarious guests will be helping us recap murder and misdeeds. Starting on Monday May 6th with THE LEGEND OF COCAINE ISLAND . Our guest is comedian Chris Riggins . [We'll also cover Mommy Dead & Dearest , Long Shot , and Amanda Knox ] George talks about Beyonce Homecoming We celebrate 4 years of Sup Doc! And we read from our Mail Bag See Privacy Policy at...

Today is our Earth Day special as we recap BEHIND THE CURVE , Daniel J. Clark’s look behind-the-curtain of the Flat Earth movement, currently streaming on Netflix. Clark follows the highly-online self-appointed flat earth conspiracists, who may just be misguided scientists in search of like-minded souls. But there’s plenty of unintentional comedy on this trail to blowing the globe cult wide open....

Paco and George are joined by comedian Sara DeForest to recap Alex Gibney’s HBO documentary THE INVENTOR: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley . It's the story of Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes, the low-talking, non-blinking CEO that promised to revolutionize blood testing. Elizabeth Holmes became the world's youngest self-made billionaire and was heralded as the next Steve Jobs until a huge fraud scand...

A SUP DOC EXCLUSiVE INTERVIEW! Today we talk about the shocking documentary  P is For Party with Frankie Peterson the maverick documentary filmmaker. This Sup Doc exclusive was put together when Peterson approached us about his access to the infamous "Pee Tape" referred to in the Steele Dossier , suspiciously left out of the Mueller Report . "Dedicated." "Unstoppable." "On YouTube." All of th...

EXCLUSIVE!! In a BIG moment for Sup Doc on Monday April 1st we drop our talk with maverick documentary filmmaker Frankie Peterson  about his earth shattering new documentary P is For Party . Frankie claims to have access to the infamous pee tape that was part of the  Steele Dossier . We also discuss: Biopsy - George and Paco have another show idea. Biopsy would be a recap show dedicated...

We recap Dan Reed’s two part HBO Documentary LEAVING NEVERLAND , a harrowing tale of James Safechuck and Wade Robson coming to terms with being abused as children by their hero, Michael Jackson. We should add “allegedly abused”; it’s part of the complicated story that emerges over this four hour watch, which is potentially triggering in the graphic descriptions of its subject matter. But we’re her...

Paco is joined by Bay Area comedian Hayley Beacon to recap the bizarro '70s kidnapping documentary Abducted In Plain Sight . *Trigger Warnings and Spoiler Alerts abound.* Jan Broberg said she was “groomed” by her kidnapper to believe UFOs and extra-terrestrial life were a plausible possibility.  If truth is stranger than fiction it doesn’t get stranger than this hit true crime documentary Abd...

Monday March 4th Paco discusses Abducted in Plain Sight with comedian Hayley Beacon. If you haven't seen this crazy ass documentary yet do so now and then join the conversation. We also cover: Oscar predictions (recorded before Sunday night) Remastered: The Two Killings Of Sam Cooke Murder Mountain Season 1 Conversations with A Killer: Ted Bundy Tapes Lorena Untitled Amazing Jonathan Doc Leaving N...

Today we're talking Theory of Obscurity: A Film About the Residents , directed by Don Hardy Jr. This 2015 film peels back some of the mysterious layers surrounding the San Francisco experimental music entity that has been churning out bizarre and uncompromising albums for over 40 years. Along the way there are talking head interviews with Les Claypool, Penn Jillette, Matt Groening, and (probably)...

On this episode we discuss the phenomenon of battling Fyre Festival documentaries. We concentrate more on FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (Netflix) than Fyre Fraud (Hulu), but you don't really have to watch either to follow along. Our guest is Andrew Ti ( Yo, Is This Racist? , Problematic with Moshe Kasher ) and we break down antiheroes with white privilege, scammer culture, and how C...

Monday Feb 4th we drop our talk with Andrew Ti ( Yo, Is This Racist ) on the new FYRE documentary by Chris Smith on Netflix. Paco also shares his views on the four-part Ted Bundy series Conversations With A Killer and George waxes nostalgic about Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape . Free plug for Videotheque in South Pasadena. Follow us on: Twitter:  @supdocpodcast Instagram:  @supdocpodcas...

Recorded Jan 12th at PianoFight for San Francisco Sketchfest. Our very first Sup Doc Documentary Quiz Show was standing room only! Our esteemed guests and comedians Alex Falcone (Voted Portland's Funniest Person 2018),  Kate Willett (Netflix, Jim Jefferies Show) , Mike Drucker (The Tonight Show, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee), and Molly Sanchez ( Failure to Launch, Red All Over: A...

William Badgley has made two music documentaries - Kill All Redneck Pricks: A Documentary Film about a Band Called KARP and Here To Be Heard: The Story of the Slits. Both bands were hugely influential, in vastly different ways for different generations. KARP has a small but mighty cult following, especially for the ‘90s Pacific Northwest, the scene that Badgley grew up in. The Slits were a wild ba...

Hosts Paco and George sit down and recap 2018! What happened this whirlwind year in documentaries and podcasts, plus the interviews, live shows, and even retweets! We discuss new segment ideas for 2019 and all kinds of Sup Doc goodness that took place in a wild and unforgettable 2018. Follow us on: Twitter:  @supdocpodcast Instagram:  @supdocpodcast Facebook:  @supdocpodcast sign up...