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This podcast episode made us nervous! Activists and protest organizers like Bryce Greene are today facing scary repercussions for exercising their Free Speech and Freedom of Assembly like has rarely been seen before in American history. If you’ve been curious to better understand the people behind the controversial campus events opposing the Gaza War, Bryce’s story is for you. As one of organizers of the 2024 Indiana University enc...

Last year we started a tradition on this podcast of having Ruth’s BFF “Bling” on the day after The Oscars to get a fresh take on “Hollywood’s biggest night.” This is something Ruth and Bling have been doing for decades and that Ray started doing with Ruth after they met. One of our favorite topics! Join us for a laugh-filled convo among old friends about this year's movies and moments at the Academy Awards 2025.

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If you’re a good person wishing you knew how to run for office, to make a difference during these troubled times, listen to this episode. Repping the famous #Ferguson area of St. Louis during the birth of the movement for Black Lives, Maria Chappelle-Nadal was no stranger to controversy or adversity over her 2 terms in the Missouri senate and 4 terms in the house of representatives. Now she’s an NAACP Image Award nominee for her ve...

Happy Groundhog Day, everyone! The Bill Murray movie set during this quasi-holiday has inspired and made laugh people the world over, and it was conceived and written by Daniel Rubin, our guest this episode. This show’s hosts, spouses Ruth and Ray, fell in love - yuck - 15 years ago watching this movie together from two different coasts, a story they tell here. Rubin was a brand new screenwriter when he came up with, as his first r...

True crime media personality Collier Landry was only 12 years old when he gave the courtroom testimony that sent his father Dr. John Boyle to prison for the murder of Collier’s mother Noreen. 26 years later, Ray became friends with Collier while making their 2017 Investigation Discovery documentary ‘A Murder in Mansfield’, directed by Barbara Kopple. Collier is today a seasoned cinematographer and media maker in Los Angeles who has...

Our ELECTION EP with the best possible guest for the subject, our Max documentary Gumbo Coalition’s Marc Morial! He’s a civil rights leader who turned out a record Black and Latine vote in 2020, president of the National Urban League, fmr mayor of New Orleans, spouse of CBS News’ Michelle Miller, son of Sybil Morial & first-black-mayor of New Orleans Dutch Morial and just a helluva good guy! We talk about 4 years of documenting...

The MovieFilm Podcast has grown a huge audience of cinephiles who love getting besties Brian Hall's and Zaki Hasan's takes on movies and Hollywood since 2012, including their popular commentary tracks. Now, join us for a more up close and personal conversation than you might get on their own show, one filled with laughs and insights! Brian is living his dream as a writer on the Star Wars series Young Jedi Adventures, while Zaki is ...

We're back, with a new one for "After the Uprising" fans! After a summer off to release and promote season 2 of our NAACP Image Award nom'd iHeartPodcasts Black Lives Matter true crime, Ray talks with co-creator John Duffy about how the new season almost killed them. One of Ray's oldest friends, most frequent collaborators & Double Asterisk** partner, they laugh and banter while talking big topics, including the Ferguson 10th a...

'20 Days in Mariupol' captured the invasion of Ukraine and won this year's Oscar and Peabody Award. Ray didn't even know that Christine Giordano, his friend and former commercials collaborator from Ruth's and Ray's days in Austin TX, had landed at the storied PBS Frontline as an assistant editor until he got a message from a friend day after that Oscars that Christine was part of the 'Mariupol' team!...

Ruth & Ray left their beloved New York City just over 5 years ago to have Pablo in semi-affordable Bloomington Indiana.  There they came to know Mitch Teplitsky, another New Yorker taking what has turned out to be a prolonged sabbatical in the Midwest – and also feeling a little “seller’s remorse” about it.  But “everything happens for a reason,” they say, and in Mitch’s case he met fellow documentary filmmaker Charles Pearce a...

Just in time for March Madness, Ruth & Ray talk with old friend and hit "Hoosier Hysterics" podcaster Ward Roberts about his new movie "Invaders From Proxima B" -- just snapped up by Buffalo 8 and coming your way soon -- the time Ward made Bloomington IN explode when he got IU legend Bobby Knight to return; life as an actor and moviemaker in Hollywood as part of Drexel Box; his daughter's acting debut; a...

Watching The Oscars has been a hallowed tradition for both Ruth & Ray since long before they met. This episode we are joined by Ruth's BFF Julia "Bling" -- who she has watched The Oscars with since they were teens -- for her first of what will hopefully be many appearances on the show. Join us for a funny convo about this year's movies, moments and the best ceremony in years!

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Happy new year!!! Before they worked with Ruth & Ray to create iHeartMedia podcast "GEORGE BAILEY WAS NEVER BORN", husband-wife KURT ENGFEHR & ELIZABETH MARCUS worked with Michael Moore on two of the biggest and most controversial documentaries ever, Oscar-winning "BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE" and Cannes Palm d'Or-winning "FAHRENHEIT 9/11". And boy do they have some stories to tell! Just their i...

Ruth & Ray are coming off the release of their latest iHeartMedia podcast, "GEORGE BAILEY WAS NEVER BORN" about IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and, just in time for Christmas, have on special guest KELLY STEWART HARCOURT, daughter of "George Bailey" himself, one of the greatest Hollywood actors ever, Jimmy Stewart. They talk intentions for this podcast and expand a bit on their story that you may have first heard...