S7E25: Practically In The Present with Warren Zanes
Added 2023-08-08 06:54:29 +0000 UTCAuthor/Musician/Songwriter Warren Zanes and Bret Easton Ellis discuss voyaging deep into Nebraska to craft Deliver Me From Nowhere, scouring the ruins of The Del Fuegos decades after their disappointing demise and running down Tom Petty's demons. Part 1 of 2.
SOUNDTRACK: When The World Gets Weak by Warren Zanes
Comments
Maybe one of the best interviews I’ve ever heard
Sam Leuenberger
2023-10-24 21:56:36 +0000 UTCThis guy is a good tonic for Mr BEE.
Thomas Edwards
2023-09-08 11:26:32 +0000 UTCYou’ve made my day. After hearing Zane on The Moment podcast I got the audiobook of DMFN, which is wonderful, and am now reading the Petty. Love his subjects but LOVE his style. Westerberg’s my favourite songwriter, so I’m really looking fwd to watching.
Bookth
2023-08-26 21:22:03 +0000 UTCSuch a soothing voice, this is my kind of episode.
Phoenix
2023-08-21 01:01:27 +0000 UTCMentioned it on the other half because I didn’t realize it was a second part, by My Sister-the Violent Femmes and the Del Fu-ay-gos!!
John Presnall
2023-08-18 04:16:21 +0000 UTCBro, take your meds.
BrienPiechos
2023-08-17 00:43:44 +0000 UTCGlad others have enjoyed it but this was possibly the most boring episode of BEE podcast I've ever heard. Cannot believe there's a part 2.
Tom Syverson
2023-08-16 19:18:47 +0000 UTCLoved the guest. Loved the episode !!
Harold B
2023-08-16 16:23:05 +0000 UTCI think there are a lot of nostalgic people who don’t want to let Hollywood go out of the mainstream and so y’all are motivated to make these movies massive hits. But come on, outliers don’t make a trend. You all cant keep this momentum going forever and young people are still not going to the movies except when movies are propped up to high holy hell by the media constantly talking about them like they did with these two. These movies doing crazy numbers wasn’t an accident it was the result of a long save the theaters campaign. But you will lose in the end. Hopefully there’s a landmark near where you live or work.
Harold B
2023-08-16 16:13:30 +0000 UTCGreat episode. Laid back easy going conversation.
Brian Borough
2023-08-15 22:56:23 +0000 UTCOkay, so you may or not have those credentials which you probably lie about just to intimidate me, and Bret's whole podcast is about the decline of the former category as having cultural relevance, and you, out of your own level of mental deficiency, use that as any kind of signifier of anything, unaware you are embarrassingly contradicting yourself 😂😂...and contradicting the thesis of this podcast host...seriously, are you just making up your credentials and firing insults at me just to, like a whiny, mentally deficient, man child who lives in his mother's basement, intimidate me because you've never had any life??? Fine, then I hold several black belts in several martial arts 😂😂...you're just like "I HOLD A BLACK BELT IN JU JITSU (SHEEEIT JU JITSU, THAT'S SUPER TOUGH 😱😱😂😂): I CAN KICK YO ASS" 😂😂😂...seriously, sit in a certain chair with a certain electric shock...you are truly a subhuman mentally deficient hypocritical parasite of the highest order and life has clearly and never will and never should work out for a thing like you
Neil G.
2023-08-14 22:10:55 +0000 UTCExcept I’m a published author who holds a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and you’re the reason the soyjak meme exists. So…
BrienPiechos
2023-08-14 03:32:42 +0000 UTCBrienPiechos, you qualify as subhuman due to your mental deficiency and that is why you probably live in your mother's basement...see how I just make assumptions about you to make myself feel better??? Except in my case, it's true, because a person with any kind of basic functioning would not write a paragraph of words that are so wrong, they pretty much equate to "1+1=3" logic...simply wrong. So, the only place for you SCIENTIFICALLY is in a certain chair with a certain electric shock for even having the gall to comment again...no need to try and act tough because you don't have the functioning to even throw a basic punch, let alone probably even write, which is why your aid was most likely nice enough to write that steaming pile o' garbage out for you
Neil G.
2023-08-14 03:27:04 +0000 UTCNeil, I'm sure you are either 50 lbs overweight or the opposite and qualify as a male in medical definition only. If it weren't for the anonymity of the internet you wouldn't have the courage to say anything to anyone, and that would be the correct behavior given the stupidity of your comment.
BrienPiechos
2023-08-14 01:46:15 +0000 UTCdude...why don't you sit in a certain chair with a certain electric shock for even thinking what you think, let alone saying it...
Neil G.
2023-08-14 01:43:14 +0000 UTCLoved this convo. 🙌
Patrick
2023-08-13 23:09:41 +0000 UTCI hope the writers are replaced by AI. Even a computer could write better content than has been released since 2015. These elites spent decades shaming working Americans who said this same thing about foreign labor and now they won't even have the dignity of being replaced by a third world person willing to work for less. They'll be replaced by a computer chip that might actually be smart enough to cater to market demand instead of preaching leftism. Delicious.
BrienPiechos
2023-08-13 21:12:30 +0000 UTCI love these old timey conversations.
Paul Richardson
2023-08-11 19:24:04 +0000 UTCLoved every minute of this one. I’m not a huge Springsteen fan, but I’ve always loved Nebraska and a couple of others. Hearing Bret and Warren discuss Paul Westerberg and The Mats was great too. Is anyone else pumped for the new Tim remix that’s been announced? Ed Stadium’s remix of Left Of The Dial sounds incredible. Warren interviewed Paul years back too. Pretty cool conversation. Here’s a link for anyone interested. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EW5d64KvLZY Hearing the Petty stuff at the end was fascinating. Looking forward to part 2.
Iain
2023-08-11 10:35:51 +0000 UTCAdam I loved the music in this ep between interview segments, can you give us a track list?
Todd
2023-08-11 07:57:49 +0000 UTCGo woke go broke? I’m kidding.
Thomas Matich
2023-08-11 00:58:35 +0000 UTCI enjoyed this episode. Went and bought the Nebraska book after and am about halfway through now — it’s really good. While I’m not a Springsteen fanatic like Bret, the Nebraska album has always held a fascination for me. Looking forward to part 2 of the podcast.
Richard MacManus
2023-08-10 21:57:22 +0000 UTCHe is complaining about being raised by an irresponsible adult that never grew out of adolescence. And getting a dead beat father as if the dope growing mummy wasn’t enough.
Jorge Espinha
2023-08-10 16:37:07 +0000 UTCI really enjoyed it. Thank you.
Jorge Espinha
2023-08-10 10:21:43 +0000 UTCTotally agree. Dare I say that his episode reviewing them will send reverberations throughout the strike-dormant industry going forward. Something is happening and I can't put my finger on it...MI7 underwhelms while Top Gun Maverick filled theaters...Barbie reaches 1 billion, while Indiana Jones can't break even...Oppenheimer charging past half a billion with a 3 hour run time. What is going on? Bret seems to have his finger on a pulse when taking on cinematic riddles such as these. Looking forward to it all.
Ryan Dacko
2023-08-10 03:37:47 +0000 UTCThis fuckin’ rocks.
Brian Rooney
2023-08-09 23:54:28 +0000 UTCSounded older to me, too, but fellow BEE listeners have enlightened me that this is fresher than I thought. Will re-consider.
Allan Sherwood
2023-08-09 22:38:23 +0000 UTCI get what you are saying, for sure. Just couldn't get into Nebraska, now or then. Or even into Springsteen, at least not as fully as Bret. To each his own. In total agreement on the movies and classic literature, though.
Allan Sherwood
2023-08-09 22:34:33 +0000 UTCI'm with you, Ryan! Have been looking forward to Bret's Barbenheimer opinions for weeks. This is a topic that is just made for him.
Allan Sherwood
2023-08-09 22:30:33 +0000 UTCam going to listen on my run. will say more later, after my run.
richard owain roberts
2023-08-09 21:58:02 +0000 UTCMan, I couldn’t disagree more. Give me Springsteen, 70’s cinema and 19th century literature over just about anything happening now.
N.M. Janice.
2023-08-09 20:42:48 +0000 UTCI'm dying for Bret's Barbie/Oppenheimer review. His take on how some movies seem to ignite theater box office, while others fall flat is needed. Nothing is a guarantee anymore. Has marketing really become an Oscar-worthy category if that's what makes and breaks a theatrical run?
Ryan Dacko
2023-08-09 19:48:59 +0000 UTChe's a great story teller. helps that I love the Nebraska record so I'm really into hearing him talk about it.
Constantine
2023-08-09 19:39:02 +0000 UTCno, you know what it was. he was on with marc maron and its almost the same course of interview. looking fwd to part 2
Constantine
2023-08-09 19:37:51 +0000 UTCyou're not a lemonhead. stop pretending
Constantine
2023-08-09 19:36:38 +0000 UTCI’m half Bret’s age and love Nebraska, as well as Zane’s great book about it.
Bookth
2023-08-09 19:29:06 +0000 UTCHe was also on the moment with Brian Koppelman, which covered some similar ground.
Bookth
2023-08-09 19:26:54 +0000 UTCWish I had grown up amongst bales of weed. What's this fool complaining about?
Happyhead
2023-08-09 18:59:07 +0000 UTCThis episode was far too retro for me, and I am the same age as Bret. I prefer it when he talks more about today than yesterday. Even when he's reminiscing, he usually puts the past in context with the present. This one seemed like a total look backwards. A scrapbook episode. Still love the podcast; just trying not to get old. (Or, perhaps worse, to sound dated.) Lol.
Allan Sherwood
2023-08-09 17:47:57 +0000 UTChe did not write the terrible anti trump song, he was just featured on it
Nick Not Nolte
2023-08-09 16:57:24 +0000 UTCBRUUUUUUUUUCE
Nick Not Nolte
2023-08-09 16:49:53 +0000 UTCI always look forward to Wednesday
Dave Mason
2023-08-09 16:02:33 +0000 UTCThrough his opening monolgues Bret is documenting a cultural history of the late 20th century. Stephen King, Bruce, Spielberg, Don DeLillo, Raymond Carver, Richard Gere, Friedkin, Joan Didion, etc. Nobody does it better.
Steve
2023-08-09 00:59:15 +0000 UTCGreat opening monologue. Also totally with Bret on Westerberg.
Stuart Chivers
2023-08-08 18:28:30 +0000 UTCExcellent 👌🏻
PETER GREER
2023-08-08 16:16:44 +0000 UTCI thought I heard this conversation posted already. It’s a great interview.
Constantine
2023-08-08 14:47:31 +0000 UTCIs this an old posted podcast
Constantine
2023-08-08 14:46:03 +0000 UTCOh wow - Zane’s book on Nebraska’s wonderful. Totally transporting.
Bookth
2023-08-08 12:39:08 +0000 UTC
