Karl Puschmann: Sean Combs: The Reckoning, 25 Years of Location Location Location, South Park

Sean Combs: The Reckoning  

Unpacking the allegations behind Sean "Diddy" Combs and his Bad Boy empire, spanning decades of his life and career (Netflix).  

 

25 Years of Location Location Location 

Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer have been finding homes for the people of the UK. Now, as they hit their silver anniversary, Kirstie and Phil remember the happy moments and turbulent times of helping house hunters navigate their search for a home (TVNZ+).  

 

South Park  

New season is absolutely brilliant, massive return to form as they take on the Trump presidency with malicious glee. Stan, Kyle, Eric and Kenny are four foul-mouthed friends who live in South Park. They have several bizarre misadventures in and around town, involving both the ordinary and supernatural (SkyGo). 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast
from News talks AB.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
It is screen time time on Saturday morning. Carl Pushman
is here with three shows to recommend for watching or
streaming at home. This morning. Killed to Carl, Good morning Jack.
We're going to begin this morning with a show on Netflix,
tell us about Sean Coombs The Reckoning.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Now, this is the long awaited, shocking and quite damning
four part documentary series on disgraced rapper Puff Daddy Sean
Diddy aka lots of various hip hop names, but we
all know how I'm talking about. His lawyers had fought
to get this taken down but were unsuccessful, and once
you start watching it, you'll see why they didn't want
people to watch this thing. It was produced by longtime

(00:50):
rival fifty cent, and there was speculation that it would
be an over the top tabloid style hit job, but
it's not. Instead, it's a deeply researched, highly credible, and
quite uncompromising expose on this disgraced rapper, charts's rise to fame,
how he built his empire and also the criminal, violent
ways that he kept it. And of course along with that,

(01:12):
there is all the horrific sexual abuse allegations and that
kind of thing that he was also involved in. It
starts as his childhood and goes right through to the
present day, where he's currently serving fifty months in a
federal prison, and he's also got a whole range of
civil cases waiting for him when that happens. With all

(01:33):
these allegations, it's damning and horrific what that guy's been
up to. The documentary makers, they interviewed an impressive number
of people from his life, you know, associates, former friends,
former enemies, journalists, business partners, gang members, entourage members, just
anyone who's had anything to do with this guy has
been spoken to. And many of these people have been

(01:53):
too scared to speak out before because he had such
power in the industry. You know, we often think of
puff Daddy as the joke rapper from the nineties, but
he was a serious, unpleasant person in a lot of ways,
and people were genuinely scared to the sky. The documentary
is filled with fascinating archival footage, loads of it previously unseen.

(02:16):
But what's also remarkable is that it's got daily video
footage from the week before he went to stand trial.
Because he was trying to make a documentary that would
show his innocence and sway the court of public opinion
over to him, and this is in the documentary. So
it's just mind blowing out.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
It's a hard hitting documentary. It's a powerful watch. But
by no means is it an easy watch. But I
think it's definitely worth everyone's time.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Sounds very interesting. Okay, that's Sean Combs The Reckoning. It's
on Netflix, on TV and Z plus twenty five years
of Location, Location Location.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, let's pull the handbrake up and go from not
an easy watch to a totally breezy watch, you know.
Let's go back two thousand. The PlayStation two had just
come out, Britney Spears had just released Upside Did It Again,
which had gone to number one in our charts. In
a reality show called The Great house Hunt about two
property finders helping people by their dream home was about
to debut. Before it hit the screens, there's a quick

(03:10):
name change to Location, Location, Location, because one of the
hosts frequently stumbled saying the Great house Hunt as I
almost am now, and you can see how that could
have quite an unfortunate rhyming skin going on there the rest.
As they say, it's history. It's been going for twenty
five years. Popularity has not declined whatsoever. It's just such
an easy to watch show and frequently fascinating watching the

(03:32):
various couples they have on there, or person whoever they've
got trying to buy their dream home. They take into
three different properties, try and convince them which one is great,
and it's just fascinating watching people justify properties or dismiss
properties based on not much more than whims or vibes,
which you know, a show could house could tick all

(03:52):
the boxes, but they're just not feeling it, which is
what house hunting is like. And yeah, it's a show
that I never really went out of my way to
watch over its twenty five years, but I've watched a
lot of it because if it was on, it was
just so easy to watch it get sucked into the.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Jury exactly, exactly, Yeah, but not.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
So secret source of the show was the chemistry between
the two hosts, Kirsty and Phil, and you know that's
tried to be replicated. We've got a local version which
came out a few months ago, and they've tried to
replicate that chemistry that's sort of like jokey Bantry antagonism,
but that hasn't quite worked as well, so they're a
not so secret source behind the show. But it's just
a breezy light show. This is a nice twenty five

(04:31):
year anniversary. It shows you all the highlights from the show,
their reflect on how the UK housing market and social
conditions have dramatically shifted, which of course has the parallels here.
So you can either just sit back and watch it
and enjoy the nostalgia, or it's also you know, a
little bit of a documentary of social change and how
technology and fashion and all that stuff has changed so
dramatically in twenty five years. So just a nice fun

(04:52):
little watch there.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Very good. Okay, that's twenty five years of location, location Location.
It's on TV and Z Plus and on Skygo. The
new season of south Park.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Oh and the gloves have come off in this new
season of south Park. They are going for it. In
my view, the only good to come out of the
second Trump presidency is the fuse that is lit under
the creative team of South Park, because they are just
off the chain at the moment, politically satirizing, just an
abiting and brutal fashion, especially the time when In America

(05:24):
talked to Her. Hosts are being pulled off the air
for sort of mild political jokes. TV networks are spending
millions of dollars sitting settling fairly frivolous court cases against
them by the administration. South Park is just fearlessly satirizing
the federal government at the moment, and in a way
that's truly defiant, gleef and gleefully brutal, you know. And

(05:45):
when it comes to Trump, specifically exuberantly obscene, it's just
a giant middle finger. So, I mean, at this point
we all know what South Pak is. If you have
been checked out for a little while, because it has
been going for so long that it's easy just to
not watch it. If you ever did like it, now
is a great time to jump back in because it
is just top notch. It is so funny, so satirizing,

(06:08):
just all the stuff that it makes it great. It
is there right now. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
It's the thing I love about South Pak is they
truly are equal opportunity satirists, but they just tease everyone.
They target everyone of every kind of political dimension, every sphere,
every cultural tear. I totally agree. I think South Park
is outstanding. Thank you so much, Carl So. South Park
is on Skygo twenty five years of Location. Location Location

(06:33):
is on TVNZ plus Sean Coombs. The Reckoning is on Netflix,
and you can hear more from Carl of course, on
his substack. It's called screen Crack.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
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