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In this week's excellent edition of the BFG Podcast, host Neal Pollack calls up Daniel Cohen to talk to him about 'Telemarketers,' the three-part Max docuseries about phone scams that Neal calls "one of the best shows of the year." If you want a time-capsule depiction of what America was really like in the early 21st century, you could do a lot worse than this show by and about loser New Jersey telemarketing drones. Yet those drones, Sam Lipman-Stern and the great Patrick J. Pespas, manage to perform the greatest act of documentary investigative journalism since Roger and Me. They uncover terrifying truths about the police, non-profit fundraising, and governmental indifference, and do it all in their unintentionally wacky working-guy way. ... ... Read moreKeywords
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