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Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

But the minuteyou see in the paper or on the news--wherever I saw it first-- that there...

But the minute
you see in the paper or on the news--
wherever I saw it first-- that there were
refrigerated trucks, that means there's so many
dead bodies that the coroner doesn't
have room for 'em anymore

Full Transcript

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But the minute you see in the paper
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or on the news-- wherever I saw it first--
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that there were refrigerated trucks,
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that means there's so many dead bodies
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that the coroner doesn't have room for 'em anymore.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
26
Timestamp in Movie
00:09:18
Uploaded
Jun 13, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Kartemquin Films,Judith Helfand Productions

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Movie Summary

A life and death story about extreme heat, the politics of "disaster" and survival by zip code.
- You almost had to runa gauntlet - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:09
- You almost had to runa gauntlet
- I had to get up in a truck and basically had to go through - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:09
- I had to get up in a truck and basically had to go through
So in the event of someone that I was picking up, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:10
So in the event of someone that I was picking up,
It was just--it was-- yeah, it was sad, really. - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:04
It was just--it was-- yeah, it was sad, really.
- Saturday morning, I came in, and we had 87 cases, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:06
- Saturday morning, I came in, and we had 87 cases,
So what we're seeing here - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
So what we're seeing here
- We cannot say exactly how many deaths - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:13
- We cannot say exactly how many deaths
In the last four days-- - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
In the last four days--
I had to stop and replay the mayor's comment - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:09
I had to stop and replay the mayor's comment
- But the number of nonviolent deaths continue to climb. - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:04
- But the number of nonviolent deaths continue to climb.
- Because being cooked to death behind closed doors - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:07
- Because being cooked to death behind closed doors
- Oh, when you hear three-- well, when you have 339 people, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
- Oh, when you hear three-- well, when you have 339 people,
- The crisis intervention workers - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:04
- The crisis intervention workers
- Take all this away from here, and open this window up. - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
- Take all this away from here, and open this window up.
- As I watched this agonizing choice - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:22
- As I watched this agonizing choice
- Cooler air came rushing in across the country today - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
- Cooler air came rushing in across the country today
- Many are wondering tonight, - Many are wondering tonight, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
- Many are wondering tonight, - Many are wondering tonight,
- The sexiness for the news media was, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:10
- The sexiness for the news media was,
- Why is it that people die - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:06
- Why is it that people die
- Well, I think, you know, people die from the heat - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:08
- Well, I think, you know, people die from the heat