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My name is Rob.
I am the Executive Producer of the Clubhouse Podcast, and if you ain't raising a little bit
of hell, you just ain't living.
Because it's time for another HOME SHOW!
This will be number 484 for those of you playing the home game.
It also means we are in striking distance of another milestone, which will then turn
into two milestones, which is also insane.
But I'm not alone sitting in the co-host chair, is Lady of the House?
And she raises a little heaven, less than she raises a little bit of hell.
She is Jen Roe, welcome friend.
Hello everyone, we're so glad you're back with us.
Running out the days is the official fact checker of sooner or greater productions.
And a man who believes he's going to arrive, raise hell, and leave.
You ain't no him as Igg Boonu, but his mama name I'm Don Ford, I'm a column Don Ford,
hey brother, you're talking about milestones.
I wonder what the origin of that kind of term is, was the stone every mile step on roads
back in the old days before they actually got measures and stuff.
Because there probably is something behind that.
You know something, if we had somebody that checked facts on this show, they might be able
to figure that out for us.
Maybe I should do that.
That would be a good idea at some point.
Maybe not today.
Maybe we'll talk about it on the big show Sunday.
Which is on the vocal now app.
I absolutely.
Absolutely.
Okay, I'll save it.
Whatever we do, one of these, it is to review something.
Today we are reviewing a documentary, oddly enough, directed by Janice Engel called
raise hell, the life and times of Molly Ivans.
For start this whole thing?
Yes sir.
We got to take Brandy, Brad, and everybody at Faun's PR for the invite, A.
We love our vendors, they take care of us and let us see movies and stuff in advance.
So we can talk to you guys about them and you can spend your entertainment dollar wisely.
So I'm just going to give you the M-Dib definition or description of this.
This is the story of media, fire brand Molly Ivans, six feet of Texas trouble who took
on the good old boy corruption wherever she found it.
Her razor sharp wit left both sides of the aisle laughing and craving ink in her columns.
She knew the Bill of Rights was in peril and said quote, polarizing people was a good
way to win an election in a good way to wreck a country, end quote.
His words have proved precedent, now it's time, now it's up to us to raise hell.
This runs, you know, it's a documentary, so an hour thirty five, now general is the
only one to do that's seen this.
I really wanted to check this out but we had a bit of a schedule conflict.
So general, let's talk about this thing, I did think it was interesting where you referenced
there were writers and I'm like it's a documentary.
So you know, I don't know if it was that they maybe they just get credit for that because
maybe.
I've heard, I've heard, I've never found the M did, but I found that there was a book
involved too.
Could be.
But it's also a matter of course, even with a documentary, there's still usually a screen
play.
So maybe it's that they wrote the screen play, which is the outline of we're going to do
this and then we're going to do this and then we're going to.
So I mean, there were writers, I wanted to give them credit.
I enjoyed this.
I was not truly familiar with the work of Molly before.
The friend who went with me, huge fan, her grandmother used to clip out of the paper
and send it to her.
Oh, very nice.
So she had deep ties to this.
So it was really nice to get to take her.
Hi Angie.
Sorry, have to do shout out Angie.
Have to do the shout out to her.
But it really was interesting on a couple of different levels because yes, she was a political
journalist.
But this wasn't just a political piece.
This was the story about a woman who helped change times too.
So would you see it more as a biography documentary or I mean, how would you classify this kind
of a documentary?
It is.
It is more of a biography.
It tells a little bit about her growing up and then it really focuses on her journalism
career.
It does leave some things out.
There was a possible plagiarism thing on it.
They didn't even touch on that.
Okay.
She owned up to, hey, you know what?
I forgot to give credit where credit was due.
You know who I am.
Deal with it kind of a thing.
How about you girl?
Yeah, but she's, she really was amazing.
They had clips from when she was on shows like Letterman.
So it was 80s hair.
Nice.
That was kind of fun to see.
They, she talks about how she called George W. Bush shrub, which is the name of a book
she wrote about it.
Yes.
That was another one of her books.
But she always called junior shrub because you had Bush and then you had shrub and it's
just that.
That was her.
But I mean, and, and they were okay with these things.
You know, she wasn't getting attacked back.
There are some publications that bought her syndicate but then would refuse to publish because
I mean, she's, she's a liberal.
Cut a sister or check.
Yeah.
And that was her thing was they're going to pay me the money.
Yeah.
And she's doing this up to you.
I got to check.
And it was really interesting though to see what her history was and the past she followed
because she was a beer drink and boot wear and six foot.
I'm not going to make apologies for who I am.
Deal with it.
And this is, this is how it is and this is what the rules are and this is the bill of
rights and this is what we have to follow and when you goof up, I'm going to call you
out on it.
That was interesting in your written review currently located at www.theclubhousepodcast.com.
That's our website.
Is that she made friends with both sides of the aisle and that's so rare, especially
now.
Oh, yeah.
And I feel like this, this documentary is very timely in that fashion that maybe there's
lessons that can be learned by some of our modern day politicians that it's okay to
reach across the aisle and, you know, be with fellow man.
Yeah.
She would hang out with them when they would go off for drinking.
She would go hang out with the both sides chicken, you know, she could out drink some of
them.
She impressed them.
There enough.
She held her ground.
She, she would say what she saw as the truth.
They were getting ink.
They were getting attention.
They loved and they would even laugh about some of the stuff that she said about them.
Like, I can't believe you said that, but, you know, we're still going to be friends.
And it was really fascinating to see that she could, you know, stay the line.
Still be herself and be true and give other people to think about other things.
Right.
They had, you know, home video.
They had still photos.
They had voiceovers from her speeches of pieces she wrote.
So it was a variety of things and at no time did I ever feel like a lag.
Okay.
It had a really good pace.
It kept moving.
The audience I was with enjoyed it.
There were times where everybody was clapping at something or they were hooting about something
she said.
And of course, as I was walking out, somebody made the comment about, you know, I really
would love to see a Molly article with what's going on right now.
Okay.
Don, any questions from you?
So how would you compare her in this movie?
There's another iconic person, I think, in the press corps, Helen, hold on, was her name?
I would not be able to compare it to somebody else in the press corps.
We don't normally address politics on the show.
I personally am not someone, I mean, I know of politics, but it is not a focus of my life.
So I would not be able to address that question.
But Helen Thomas, she knew I'm talking about Rob.
She was an old lady who was always an iconic, yes, four lady.
Yeah.
I think they might be in that.
It's kind of same boat, possibly.
I don't really respect it.
Maybe.
But I think Molly was a little bit more bold, if you will.
Molly was a Texan, how we do it, any downside to it, that she's not still with us.
Fair enough.
We lost her in 2007 to health issues.
She knew it was happening.
She kept smoking and drinking anyway, they were inseparable.
Yeah, she does have, she does have that voice that has to, yeah, she's got the Texas twang.
And yeah, it was, I really enjoyed it.
I got one.
What was, all the stuff you learned from her?
What was the, the most interesting thing out the whole list, probably?
She did go to school and live in France for a while.
And then she came back and she, you know, got into the political writings and her education
was quite impressive.
And she didn't fall for the times of, you need to get married, you need to have a family.
She's like, I'm not going to be a journalist, I'm going to do my thing.
And it was really nice to have, to see that she was able to do that.
All right.
Anything else, so I get to the final analysis?
The way we do the final analysis on the show, we're not going to give you thumbs up, thumbs
down, letters, numbers, articles, anything like that.
I'm going to ask the general one up to two questions, question number one is, would she see
this film again if the answers know that we're done here, but if the answer is yes, then
she's going to tell me how far she'd be willing to go to see it again.
From best of the best of the worst of the best, here's how it goes.
Full price at a theater down to a twilight show, down to a matinee, down to an early morning
on a weekend, down to buying the physical media, down to streaming on her favorite streaming
service, down to cable, Jen Rome, would you see Ray's hell the life of time, Molly, I
can't.
I will see it again.
How far you willing to go?
Early morning matinee.
All right.
There are no.
It depends on how much sleep I need that day.
Indeed.
Directed by Janice Engel, it is Ray's hell, the life and times of Molly Ivens.
For a way, there's something?
Yes, sir.
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