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6/23/09 Podcast:
The Jenny Abel Interview
A conversation with independent filmmaker Jenny Abel
- producer, director, and writer of Abel Raises Cain
with media prankster dad – Alan Abel
Abel Raises Cain – Trailer
WARNING!
Side effects from listening to this podcast include:
decrease in appetite for anchovies, nostril-hair loss,
and in some rare cases – facial cramps due to laughter.
After-effects: smiling out-of-context.
(6/23/09) (Total time – (59:59)
What’s inside The Jenny Abel Interview?
- Listen to the movies: “Able Raises Cain” (0:53 & 1:22)
- Dad encourages young Jenny to eat a “high-in-protein”
hair sandwich (3:15) - (R)Ambling with Jenny and Alan Abel (4:28)
- When Jenny’s license plates got stolen (5:45)
- “Somewhere over the rainbow” (7:08)
- What is Jenny doing in LA? (8:56)
- Alan in Connecticut, why? (10:39)
- Alan and NYC – before and after (11:12)
- Jenny on: Keeping your soul intact in LA (16:34 & 17:57)
- Alan’s therapy advice (18:39)
- How to make a hoax (19:23)
- The Internet as “party pooper” (21:05)
- Jenny charges Alan: “Your pranks are animal-inspired!” (22:23 & 25:02)
- Jenny’s “Room with a View” (22:52)
- What Alan sees outside his window (24:10)
- Who is listening to this podcast, anyways? (25:25)
- Alan Abel: from media prankster to “matchmaker” (25:40)
- How Alan Abel got started as a hoaxer (27:56)
- Alan Abel does not do dry walling (29:15)
- “Jenny’s List” – All the reasons her dad got into hoaxing (29:32 & 30:52)
- Alan’s mother as provocateur (31:03)
- Alan falls into an orchestra pit – first crack at deadpan (32:02)
- Starting SINA: The Society for the Indecency of Naked Animals (33:53)
- On starting a “euthanasia cruise line” (35:12)
- What’s the point of Alan’s hoaxes? (35:41)
- Alan Abel on how to make a relationship work (36:28)
- Why Jenny made “Abel Raises Cain” (37:37 & 38:12)
- “Dad, did you just tell Lois to shut up?” (37:55)
- Archival material the “size of a football field ” (39:25)
- How Alan almost sold Jenny when she was born (41:33)
- How Jenny triumphed where Cary Grant, Dustin Hoffman,
and Woody Allen failed (42:03) - The critics rave about “Abel Raises Cain” (43:07)
- Riding on a Danish bicycle seat with Alan Abel (43:55)
- Weekly Hulu viewers versus festival circuit numbers (44:10)
- Alan’s work inspires the younger generation (45:09)
- Jenny’s commitment to making “Abel Raises Cain” (45:48)
- Indieflix distribution across digital platforms (46:35)
- “The media falls prey to the outrageous.” (47:09)
- Alan Abel – a man ahead of his time? (47:22)
- A lone satirist (48:18)
- Alan Abel’s impact on the world (48:58)
- Where does the money come from to do these pranks? (50:22)
- Alan shoots craps with John Wayne (51:03)
- Alan’s “Looking Glass” (51:32)
- Jenny (to her dad): “You’ve led a kind of crazy life.” (53:33)
- “Both of my parents are bizarre, innately funny. I call my
growing-up experience ‘wonderfully weird.’” (54:08) - How Jenny embarrassed her parents (54:38)
- Jenny refuses a “hair sandwich” (57:02)
- Alan on “laughter” (57:40)
- “We mustn’t lose the human touch.” (58:07)
STILL FROM ABEL RAISES CAIN
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Meet Indieflix Podcast Host: Lois Fein
Lois Fein is IndieFlix Filmmaker Interviewer,
Podcaster, and Host for IndieFlix Play It Again Podcast.
Lois is a recording artist, songwriter, and performer.
Her songs “It Ain’t Easy” and “Chasing the Moon”
are featured on IndieFlix Play It Again Podcast.
Listen to more of her music from her debut CD
Step Into the Water at: www.LoisFein.com
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Podcast Music Credits: “As Time Goes By” (Herman Hupfield);
“It Ain’t Easy” and “Chasing the Moon” (Lois Fein)
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Today’s edition of IndieFlix Play It Again Podcast was recorded with
audio-technica’s AT2020 USB Cardoid Condenser Microphone,
Skype™ and CallBurner; and edited and mastered with
Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH™’s WaveLab Studio 6.
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“Connecting people through movies.”
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6/23/09 Edition – IndieFlix Play It Again Podcast
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I actually enjoyed listening to the entire hour interview. At first I thought I’d tune in for maybe five or six minutes. But I became enchanted by the discussion and remained hooked throughout. Jenny is a remarkable young lady, certainly a “poster girl” for all ages to admire. I certainly do!!!