See Hear Podcast Episode 28 - Alice's Restaurant

Welcome to episode 28 of See Hear Podcast. It's Bernie's selection
this month, and he's gone for a film based on a song. It's the
Arthur Penn-directed "Alice's Restaurant" based on the song of the
same name by Arlo Guthrie.   The original song / monologue was
a funny (allegedly true) tale about how Arlo gets arrested for
dumping garbage away from the city dump and then gets rejected from
being drafted to fight in the Vietnam war.  He's not moral
enough to kill people because of his "criminal record" as a
litterbug.   The film tells this tale, but (by necessity)
fleshes out the story into an episodic series of events concerning
Arlo, his friends Ray and Alice, the hippies they become surrogate
parents to, and conservative America at war with itself as well as
being at war on the world stage.   The music connection? Well
it is based on a song, but music was a huge part of the counter
culture of the period. Arlo is caught up in the values and the
music of his predecessors as well as his contemporaries. Hear what
Bernie, Tim and Maurice thought.   If you dig what we do,
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