S8E27: The Death Zone
Added 2024-07-23 09:38:30 +0000 UTCBret considers filling in some Felini gaps, wrestles with his complicated feelings for P.J. Soles and faces the futility of trying to read an aural experience as he fields questions from Platinum members on the air.
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“Rock ‘n’ Roll High School”was a Roger Corman production, but he didn’t direct it… and PJ Soles was very attractive:)
J Hay
2024-08-11 06:07:41 +0000 UTC“In Thru the Out Door” is the only Led Zep LP I bought. I preferred it to any other album of theirs.
J Hay
2024-08-11 06:00:03 +0000 UTCAdam is hilarious and plays off Bret so well.
Sodaheiress
2024-08-04 05:30:39 +0000 UTCI wonder if Bret has seen the show Seal Team on Paramount. It’s so good. I binged the first 6 seasons, season 7 is about to drop. Acting, directing, writing, it’s great. David Boreanaz stars and also produces it. It’s in no way a show I would have expected to enjoy.
Sodaheiress
2024-08-04 05:18:28 +0000 UTCtoo corny
Matteo Persivale
2024-08-01 15:37:42 +0000 UTCThe little drummer girl was only streaming for pay for years, but now it’s free on Amazon prime! I’m so excited I’ve been dying to see this
Nikki Ferrari
2024-07-31 17:45:09 +0000 UTC'Decision to Leave' was boring.
Thomas Matich
2024-07-31 15:09:07 +0000 UTCHe should still name it Shingy though.
Ashley
2024-07-31 13:54:03 +0000 UTCApologies if this has already been mentioned but maybe Bret should get a dog. Like a proper dog. Not like Shingy in the Shards. I reckon that would really sort him out of his current funk.
Chris Hough
2024-07-29 19:21:42 +0000 UTCI can hear Bret getting over his depression pontificating with his inexhaustible film knowledge
Seneca Garcia
2024-07-29 01:05:21 +0000 UTCALMOST FAMOUS.
Phoenix
2024-07-28 17:51:09 +0000 UTCThis is very usefull. Will read some of those.
Vincent Kouters
2024-07-27 22:31:18 +0000 UTCAt one point he was talking about how great Sudden Rain by Maritta Wolff is…. So I got it. It’s an amazing LA in the 70s book. The Crack Up by Fitzgerald he’s mentioned a few times. And that’s an autobiography of sorts. He’s mentioned Ladies Man as his fav of Richard Price books and that is excellent. He loved Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates no list that I’ve seen but those from memory
Darren Ankenman
2024-07-27 17:22:04 +0000 UTCIt's not perfect, but Oliver Stone's The Doors is worth a watch. A high-gloss, big-budget, operatic spectacle of 1960's excess. Sometimes camp, often funny, always exhilarating, with a great lead performance that goes beyond impersonation and becomes uncanny. I seem to remember people laughing at it when it was released, but I watched it for the first time during lockdown and was hugely entertained. Bombastic boomer pop-mythology on a grand scale.
Von Wintermarck
2024-07-27 14:52:00 +0000 UTCWould love that
Vincent Kouters
2024-07-27 06:55:45 +0000 UTCIt's so contrived. You can see every plot point coming a mile away. I've never understood the love for this hokey film, though Kate Hudson is luminous thru and despite her lame dialogue
E
2024-07-27 05:38:28 +0000 UTCNot sure on the Fitzgerald but I have started taking notes on the episodes to get the book titles. I’ll try to post once I have them.
Sodaheiress
2024-07-27 04:57:39 +0000 UTCI’m getting concerned about his melancholy. He sounds better in this episode but I hope he bounces back more. For his sake, I love his episodes regardless. Getting older is hard, I have no doubt turning 60 plays a part along with the stress over Todd, but it also seemed to correlate with his starting gummies. There’s a lot of research on thc causing depression. He also mentioned a while back that he was having a foot issue and his trainer thinks it’s caused by his shoes. As someone in healthcare, stress fractures and ankle instability become more of a risk with age, this would cause someone to be less active, also adding to depression.
Sodaheiress
2024-07-27 04:06:01 +0000 UTCNice ep!
Sander August Schadenberg
2024-07-26 19:53:23 +0000 UTCI always love listening to Bret and Adam!
Mitchell
2024-07-26 19:21:38 +0000 UTCagree it has not aged well at all. a lot of great actors--good cast--but it's very clean and sentimental and kinda boring
Collin Myers
2024-07-26 16:19:01 +0000 UTCDoes anyone possibly keep a reading list for this podcast. Bret keeps mentioning good books and I keep forgetting to note them down. I remember him mentioning a Fitzgerald biography that I want to read. But which one is it?
Vincent Kouters
2024-07-26 13:25:14 +0000 UTC24 Hour Party People
Chris N
2024-07-26 05:37:49 +0000 UTCThe only music film that works is 'The Great Rock 'n Roll Swindle'
Steven Hamilton
2024-07-26 01:09:51 +0000 UTCAlmost Famous is beyond cornball!
Ashley
2024-07-25 15:44:44 +0000 UTCI know that everyone keeps bringing up Almost Famous, but isn’t it kinda cheesy? I have not seen it in years, but I remember it being very light on the kind of gritty 70’s realism that Bret is talking about.
N.M. Janice.
2024-07-25 14:51:35 +0000 UTCWhy not Almost Famous from 2000?
Jimmy Holmgren
2024-07-25 11:55:46 +0000 UTCThe ‘70s Star Is Born probably captures an aspect of the music scene that Daisy Jones could have been hinting at.
LM
2024-07-25 06:07:12 +0000 UTCI know people don’t like it and call it “Altman light,” but I really like Welcome to LA.
N.M. Janice.
2024-07-25 04:58:48 +0000 UTCRe: the world of the music industry and the other aspects of 70s 80s hollywood , like Shampoo… Welcome to LA by Alan Rudolph. And 10 by Blake Edwards. Not exactly rock and roll but super close to what Bret is liking about Shampoo. Altman’s Nashville too
Darren Ankenman
2024-07-25 03:04:21 +0000 UTCI love that adam immediately went to OJ
Normaling
2024-07-25 02:18:19 +0000 UTCCan’t believe it’s taken me this long to realize Adam has rock DJ voice what’s wrong with me ?
Harold B
2024-07-24 23:18:48 +0000 UTCMe too! Hey Bret, you are 60 not Joe Biden. Enough with the one foot in grave bit. You have another 20-30 years in you.
Brian Kenna
2024-07-24 22:41:33 +0000 UTCALMOST FAMOUS ALMOST FAMOUS ALMOST FAMOUS ! my goodness the food network with the sound off really frying both pop culture minds😂 yall be slipping hard omg. it was right there.
Nick Not Nolte
2024-07-24 21:34:39 +0000 UTCam going to listen on my run. will say more later, after my run.
richard owain roberts
2024-07-24 18:34:21 +0000 UTCLess Than Zero opens with a lyric from "Stairway to Heaven" as an epigraph.
Billy Schafer
2024-07-24 03:47:46 +0000 UTCI was practically yelling "Almost Famous" at the screen. I'm surprised Adam didn't think of it either. Plus, it was written and directed by someone who actually lived it!
Billy Schafer
2024-07-24 03:45:01 +0000 UTCVanderpump Rolls. Adam! 😂
Patrick
2024-07-23 23:49:16 +0000 UTCFabulous….
PETER GREER
2024-07-23 22:19:19 +0000 UTCAlmost Famous. Surprised Bret didn't mention or seem to recall this one.
Steve
2024-07-23 21:22:49 +0000 UTCAgreed! Great question.
N.M. Janice.
2024-07-23 15:58:48 +0000 UTCThanks for taking my questions, fellas. Born Liar is on the Criterion channel right now. Casanova is still hard to find, and not streaming anywhere. Later Fellini is overlooked and under praised. Thanks for entertaining my suggestion. Enjoyable episode!
M. Nero Nava
2024-07-23 15:47:27 +0000 UTC
