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Interview with Harry Shearer on the (returned!) Philly From Scratch podcast
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Interview with Harry Shearer on the (returned!) Philly From Scratch podcast
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Yes, it's been about a year ... OK, try 18 months ... since the last episode of the Philly From Scratch podcast.
(UPDATE: We're having some trouble with the feed presently. For now, if you're just dying to be notified of new podcasts — and yes, they will come! — click here to subscribe to the Philly From Scratch Google Group for notifications of new episodes. It's not perfect, but I'll at least keep you posted and won't spam you. You can also email me, just for the hell of it. Once our feed gets restored, you'll click here to subscribe via iTunes; you can try anyway, if you like.)
But anyway, the podcast is back now, with none other than the great Harry Shearer.
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Shearer is a man of many hats: actor (This is Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind); comedian (Saturday Night Live); author (Too Many Indians), Simpsons-voice-extraordinaire (Mr. Burns, Smithers, Flanders, Lenny, Principal Skinner, Dr. Marvin Monroe, and others), radio host (Le Show), and his latest act: film documentarian.
A long-time critic of the role of federal government played in the flooding of New Orleans, Shearer has never let listeners to his radio show forget that what happened to the city was not a natural disaster, but a man-made one.
Seeing the approach of the five-year anniversary of Katrina — and seeing that this point, five years later, seems to have escaped most of the media, as well as President Obama — Shearer put together a documentary, The Big Uneasy, featuring a small handful of whistle blowers and researchers who present a compelling case that the federal government (the Army Corps of Engineers, in particular), and not Hurricane Katrina, nearly destroyed New Orleans.
Unfortunately, the film screened in most cities for one night only, but it's playing in New York City for a week starting this Friday (click here for showtimes).
In this interview, Shearer talks about the film, his show, why NPR rejected an ad for his show, and how the hell he manages to do as much as he does.
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