Series: Sup Doc

Magician

Ep 127 THE AMAZING JOHNATHAN/ALWAYS AMAZING with magician Andy Deemer

October 14, 2019
Tagged as: Andy Deemer, Ben Berman, comedy, Detroit, George Chen, Las Vegas, Macaulay Culkin, magic, Meth, Paco Romane, Pranks, Steve Byrne, The Amazing Johnathan

Ep 127 THE AMAZING JOHNATHAN/ALWAYS AMAZING with magician Andy Deemer Paco and George are joined by magician Andy Deemer to discuss both of The Amazing Johnathan documentaries out now: Always Amazing (Steve Byrne 2018) from…

Comedian

Ep 126 WESTSIDE VS THE WORLD with comedian Jesse Hett

September 30, 2019
Tagged as: Barbell Club, Cleveland Ohio, Culver City, drama, Jesse Hett, Louis Simmons, netflix, Paco Romane, powerlifting, Ron Perlman, Westside vs The World

Ep 126 WESTSIDE VS THE WORLD with comedian Jesse Hett On episode 126 Paco is joined by comedian Jesse Hett to recap the 2019 Netflix documentary Westside vs The World. This documentary tells the history…

Comedian

Ep 125 SCREWBALL with comedian Ben Kolina

September 16, 2019
Tagged as: Alex Rodriquez, Anthony Bosch, Ben Kolina, coach, Coen Brothers, Florida, Major League Baseball, Manny Ramirez, Paco Romane, Screwball

Ep 125 SCREWBALL with comedian Ben Kolina Paco talks with Bay Area comedian and baseball coach Ben Kolina about the 2018 Netflix documentary Screwball. Screwball Recounts the high-profile doping scandal that rocked Major League Baseball. This…

Comedian

Ep 124 THE HISTORY OF STAND UP with comedian Wayne Federman

September 2, 2019
Tagged as: comedian, David Crosby, Gary Gulman, History Of Stand UP, interview, legendary, podcast, Podglomerate, Recap, talk, Tom Petty, USC, Wayne Federman

Sup Doc – By Doc Fans. For Doc Fans. Ep 124 THE HISTORY OF STANDUP with Wayne Federman George welcomes back three-time guest Wayne Federman (comedian, author, adjunct professor at USC, comedy writer, musician) to…

Ep 123 Biopsy EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL AND VILE “Not not guilty”

August 19, 2019
Tagged as: Biopsy Ep 123 Extremely Wicked, BTK Killer, Dennis Rader, James Hetfield, John Wayne Gacy, Lili Collins, netflix, Phil Collins, Shockingly Evil and Vile, Star Wars, Ted Bundy, true crime, Zac Efron

Biopsy – Biopics Under The Scope Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile “Not not guilty” Trigger warning? It’s about Ted Bundy. That’s a lot of triggers. Paco and George look at Joe Berlinger’s double dip…

Some of the themes we talk about with our guest Florentina Tanase in this episode are mental illness, loneliness, pop culture, technology and how this bizarre tale led to a deadly convergence.

On Ep 121 George interviews director Dava Whisenant about her award winning film Bathtubs Over Broadway (streaming on Netflix). The film follows the arc of comedy writer Steve Young (Late Show with David Letterman) as he discovers the little-known world of industrial musical theater.

Ep 120 Biopsy ROCKETMAN “Robb Stark Gets Bottom Billing”

July 8, 2019
Tagged as: Amy Poehler, Apple, Armistead Maupin, Bennie Maupin, Bernie Maupin, Biopsy, Cast This Doc, Elton John, Piano, Pricks, Robb Stark, Rocketman, Who Died

Welcome to Biopsy! Our new show we recap BioPics in a loose, funny format and dropping episodes whenever we can. On episode 1 we look at “Rocketman,” about the life and music of Elton John

Biopsy: A New Segment on Sup Doc!

June 30, 2019
Tagged as: biopic, Biopsy, Cast This Doc, movies

Biopics get the Sup Doc treatment as we examine them, pick ’em apart and finally present our prognosis. This is a fun sidecar project to our regular Sup Doc episodes. We thought biopics are the perfect compliment to documentaries and they are SO MANY of them! So we’ll be recapping biopics in a loose, funny format and dropping episodes whenever we can.

We recap the Bob Dylan concert film Rolling Thunder Revue. Rolling Thunder is a Martin Scorsese mocumenatry that is part Zelig part This Is Spinal Tap

Director Ian McFarland explains his great love for his Godfathers Of Hardcore subjects, Agnostic Front.

Long Shot is 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 from a Dodgers game.

Writer

Ep 116 AMANDA KNOX with author Sarah Enni

May 20, 2019
Tagged as: Amanda Knox, Author, documentaries, documentary, funny, George Chen, interview, Los Angeles, mayhem, netflix, Paco Romane, Recap, Sarah Enni, true crime, writer

There are many reasons that this case entranced the world, but it may be what Knox says herself: “Either I’m a psychopath in sheep’s clothing or I am YOU.”

Ep 115 Mommy Dead and Dearest with comedian & actor Ally Johnson Sup Doc The Premier Podcast About Documentaries Every Monday in May: A New True Crime Documentary for MAYHEM MONTH! Just in time…

The first episode in our MAYHEM series were we cover True Crime documentaries every monday in May! First up, the documentary The Legend of Cocaine Island.

EARTH DAY! Ep113 of Sup Doc podcast we tackle the Flat Earth documentary BEHIND THE CURVE. Our guest is comedian Sean Keane (“Another Period,” “Billy On The Street,”)

Hosts Paco Romane and George Chen recap the Alex Gibney’s HBO documentary The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley with Bay Area comedian Sara DeForest. If you’re not familiar with this story it centers around the latest captivating fraud from the tales of Silicon Valley “geniuses”, and is worthy of discussion next to Hulu’s Fyre Festival documentary, “Fyre Fraud.

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.

On episode 110 we recap the HBO doc “Leaving Neverland” with comedian Chris Martin. This was a great interview and we get deep in the details. We lead with our hearts in this talk as this is a tough but important subject matter.