Executive-producing Telemarketers, a new HBO docuseries out August 13.
and Josh Safdie, together with Danny McBride. The upcoming HBO three-part series follows two office bros who realize that they are unwittingly scamming on behalf of their bosses and decide to get their lick back. Sam Lipman-Stern is a 14-year-old high-school dropout in the 2000s when he finds employment at a freewheeling telemarketing company that allegedly raises money for charity.
Together with his unlikely friend, top salesman Pat Pespas, an adult struggling with addiction, they realize that their employers are only sending 10 to 15 percent of the money they convince people to “donate” to charitable organizations and pocketing the rest following a government investigation. So they do what any work besties would do — become amateur sleuths and eventually make their way to the halls of Congress to expose the telemarketing companies’ greed over a 20-year journey.
“We’re going into Civic Development Group, and what we do is we call up people and chisel ’em out of money,” Pespas says in the trailer. A title card tells us that this is New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 2003 over footage taken by Lipman-Stern. An on-camera interview with an employee tells us that the vibes of the place are akin to a “big-ass cookout,” as we see footage of someone using a watercooler as some kind of baseball bat and a tiny turtle crawling on those old white PC keyboards.
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