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Double Take June 14, '26 The Butler

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Double Take: critical, sometimes confrontational podcast conversations about movies. A Cinema Classics production hosted by John DeSando, Double Take is listed by Feedspot in the top 10 NPR movie podcasts.

Host: John DeSando is a Los Angeles Press Club national entertainment broadcast winner and also hosts NPR’s It’s Movie Time for WCBE.
Contact at JohnDeSando52@gmail.com.

Guest host Mary Yerina is a community volunteer serving on the board of the Sphinx Alumni Society of Ohio State and the executive committee of The ProMusica Sustaining Board.

Guest David Weaver is retired executive director of the Ohioana Library and author of Black Diva of the 30's—The Life of Ruby Eizy.

Notes:

The 2008 article that inspired the film: A Butler Well Served by This Election by Wil Haygood for The Washington Post

Forward from the 2013 book The Butler: A Witness to History by Wil Haygood: The Story that Inspired Lee Daniels' The Butler by Lee Daniels

Explore other Ohio-born authors in the film world on the Ohio Goes to the Movies Literary Trail.

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