Episode 192: True Story Fake Pictures, Iqaluit's Dumpcano, Great Bad Movies and more
Verifying Images of Breaking Stories
"Humans naturally kind of reject corrective information. We stick to the things we know, we stick to the things we believe, because that's more comfortable for us ... I don't know that we're going to crack the code, but I think that there's going to be better means of storytelling and communicating information that will hopefully get past some of the barriers that we naturally have as humans."
- Craig Silverman edits the website Regret the Error and is the editor of the Verification Handbook
La Bestia: A Song to Discourage Immigration
"Now we have a good problem ... this is a song commissioned by the US government that now is a hit in Central America."
- Jaime Ruiz, campaign director and the Northern and Coastal Branch Chief of US Customs and Border Protection
Iqaluit's Dumpcano
"It shocked me that you could smell the dump at a hospital. It's supposed to be healthy for you, right?"
- New mother and Iqaluit resident Julie Alivaktuk
Sharknado and The Art of the Awful Movie
"I think far more often people trying to great a film that's so bad it's good, create something that's smug and winking at the audience. It's the equivalent of the nerd sitting next to you in class going "I just made a joke, check me out." It's not funny if they're trying to get you to laugh and they're poking you until you do."
- Tasha Robinson of The Dissolve
"Deliberate camp is always worse. It's the naive quality that lends it sort of an innocence and a sweetness and some heart, dare I say. And that's what I appreciate in a filmmaker like Ed Wood, for instance, that I don't necessarily see in something like Sharknado."
- Cinema studies professor Blair Davis
David Sedaris on Family and Suicide
"I think it's something that you don't talk about. So there's this whole population who have gone through this thing... and they don't talk about it. That was it. I joined this community."
- Essayist David Sedaris, author of Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls