for Tuesday, March 14th. You can watch the full VOD here. Let's get into it:
First up, Pallavi Pundir with a deep dive into 'dead' men who are fighting to be declared alive.
It starts off with a 68-year-old man named Lal Bihari, who was declared 'dead' in 1976. He says his cousins bribed a local land official to declare him 'dead' in order to grab his land.
Once you've been declared 'dead', it's pretty much impossible to overturn. If you’re dead in Indian government records, you can’t buy a phone, rent a home, start a business, get married, or get divorced.
The article goes way deeper than that, and it's this bizarre kafkaesque situation that thousands of people find themselves in, and there's no clear way out.
Also, shout out to the weirdo in chat who accused one of these 'dead' men of Photoshopping(?) a video(??) of himself trying to get the government's attention. Truly bizarre.
Next up, Greg Walters with an interview with Trump's #billiondollarlawyer
The Waka Flocka interview on this is pretty hilarious.
And for Vice Book Club, we'll watch Daria, which we somehow spent ~10 minutes talking about:
(by the way, whoever uploaded this slowed it down a bit - maybe to get around copyright or something. I recommend watching it on 1.25x, that will put it back at normal speed).
That's it for this time. You can watch the full VOD here:
We're live on Twitch every Tuesday and Thursday, starting 11am until whenever we feel like it, at http://twitch.tv/VICE. See you in the next one!