Backseat Drivers

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From the backseat it looks like America is at a crossroads. We drive into stories, incite conversations and indulge in curious games, all to ask the ultimate question – build it up or burn it down? Wednesday's Drop beginning August 23, 2023, is She the People, by Julie Proudfoot. A fierce feminist had faith in the American Dream until Donald Trump and his enablers came to power. She the People comes to terms with the past with both eyes on the 2024 of MAGA, Trumpism, and the threat of the anti-democracy movement, inciting conversations instead of insurrections. Thursday's Drop beginning on September 7, 2023, is Rest Home Rampage, by Ed Proudfoot. A girl, her grandma and a disillusioned sales rep fight to stay alive in a retirement community. They battle drug-addled seniors, a closed-loop AI surveillance system and a management company hellbent on killing anybody who knows their dirty secret. Unpacking corporate corruption to put the crooks away – for good! Backseat Drivers Media owners Julie Proudfoot and Ed Proudfoot have shared stories and conversations as professional writers in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. Julie is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and has been seen on multiple stages and tv screens. You may have seen Julie in Gilmore Girls, The Practice and Chicago Med among others. Her writing includes Harm (screenplay), Rape Club (play), She the People (memoir) and Abortion Wars – Whose Life is it Anyway? (play). Ed has written many screenplays and plays. His most recent productions were Chewing on Beckett and Visiting at Artemisia, A Chicago Theatre. According to Wikipedia "a backseat driver is a passenger in a vehicle who is not controlling the vehicle but who excessively comments on the driver's actions and decisions in an attempt to control the vehicle." The podcast is the car. America is the driver. We're the backseat drivers screaming our friggin' heads off.

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