Today, the Kicking the Seat Podcast and Don Shanahan of Every Movie Has a Lesson meet in an underground parking garage to discuss All the President's Men! Yes, the second installment of our "Reelpolitik" miniseries centers on Alan J. Pakula's 1976 profile of Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman), whose dogged reporting on the Watergate scandal helped bring down a presidency.
In addition to exploring how this excellent political thriller turned phone calls, interviews, and chain-smoking into white-knuckle cinema, the guys compare Woodward and Bernstein's era to the new-millennium infotainment landscape (and, yes, the parallel impeachments are brought up).
Episode 486 is not a crook!
P.S. Here's a link to the Media Bias chart Don references in this episode.
Show Guide:
Intro Music: 0:00 - 0:14
Intro: 0:14 - 3:18
All the President's Men Trailer: 3:18 - 5:46
All the President's MenDiscussion: 5:46 - 58:17
Outro Music: 58:17 - 58:33
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