S7E6: Flying The Futile Skies
Added 2023-03-28 05:14:20 +0000 UTCBret Easton Ellis talks about rolling with the changes in business class before replying to questions from Platinum listeners on the air. Part 1 of 2.
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I have to say, I wish Bret would stop using animal cruelty as stock shock material in his novels. It is almost a trope with his books now, like bears in John Irving novels or authors in Stephen King books. Plus it is just really unpleasant to read.
Gnome
2025-03-16 14:28:39 +0000 UTCbret may be the only one to not interview him with any awkwardness 😂😂✌🏼✌🏼
Neil G.
2023-04-28 09:30:02 +0000 UTCThe whole Stephen King dollar deal isn’t a scholarship. It’s basically he sells the rights to make a student film of his stories for a buck.
Gatsby
2023-04-02 19:08:37 +0000 UTCI’m 53, and for almost my entire professional life worked at a reasonable level of success in an above-the-line field in scripted film and TV (for the last five years I’ve been meandering through a post massive burn-out ‘second chapter’) and I too find ZERO interest in, or energy for the cheap thrills of sex, the ‘right’ parties & places, etc. that used to literally rule my life. At first, I thought there was something wrong with me. Like, literally. Chemical imbalance? (a totally fake invention to sell worthless placebo tablets) Adrenal fatigue? Blah blah. Then the reality hit me: you’re a man in his mid 50’s. Of COURSE. As a gay GenX guy sans family, I don’t have the things that many do to fill their lives (family mainly) so my issue has been: what the fuck replaces all that other shit? But yeah it’s a starting experience to suddenly realize the stuff that was so very exciting literally does nothing for you. Did a spit-take when Bret said if he came back from a day of promo to find some rando in his room he may well be in prison. As for the rapidly accelerating slow motion crumbling of the things we took for granted as functional in the modern world (i.e. UPS packages being reliable, stocked shelves, medications being available, a general baseline standard of service) I’m not sure people have the slightest idea of how badly and rapidly it’s coming unglued. For obvious reasons to anyone even quasi awake.
MikeE
2023-04-02 19:02:47 +0000 UTCWho would possibly care about a Twitter non-relationship with someone who thinks of you either as somewhere on a spectrum of stalker or a bot? (and be sure that if they’re known, and you’re not, they do)
MikeE
2023-04-02 18:27:56 +0000 UTCThe Michael & Don Winslow bit was the funniest. It's just hard to imagine that Police Academy guy being this rather strenuous Twitter personality, but Adam clearly thought it was him, haha.
Dan Zilic
2023-04-02 12:46:57 +0000 UTCJames Ellroy. Get him.
BrienPiechos
2023-04-02 00:44:15 +0000 UTCGreat pod per usual. My only complaint is I wish the Q & A's were two hours instead of one. Also Adam is hilarious. Michael Winslow>Don Winslow
R. M.
2023-03-31 20:37:01 +0000 UTCDrank the kool aid - yes. Also it’s an open secret in the industry that his Hollywood agent at least partially runs his Twitter account - there was some controversy about this in the crime community. the final book in the Cartel trilogy was a real miss - Winslow using Keller as a sock puppet for what he wishes he could say to Trump. (In the novel, the Trump-like president is obsessed with Keller, and keeps tweeting about him. In reality Winslow seemed to tweet at Trump every day and never once got any kind of response).
Bookth
2023-03-31 13:32:16 +0000 UTCcouldn’t agree more
Lachlan Reid
2023-03-31 05:45:47 +0000 UTCI believe the thinking is that opening door the questions would never stop. I can't blame them. However, they could hire someone to do things like post schedules or whatever else. I'd do that for free! I don't have a lot going on. Shocking, right?
bpvalentine
2023-03-30 16:43:13 +0000 UTCThat guy drank the kool-aid pretty hard. I loved the guys work, but the more famous he got, the worse the material. A couple years ago, one of his books was really just a prosecution of Jared....uh, what his name? Trump's son in law? Guy who looks like a mean girl. Anyway, Winslow's plot was just an illustration of what Jared Trump was accused of. Like as if trying to prove how what he was accused of could have happened. And it was pretty absurd, I thought. (Insert HERE where I disavow any support for Trumps, haha.) I own Winslow's latest book, but still haven't gotten to it. That would have been unthinkable a few years ago.
bpvalentine
2023-03-30 16:35:13 +0000 UTCThey don't reply...I asked the same about Portugal. So few comments...is it so difficult to reply to questions about scheduling?
Jorge Espinha
2023-03-30 14:23:53 +0000 UTCDon Winslow and I followed each other on Twitter for a long time...until the day I (gently) questioned something he posted. I thought I was opening a discussion; not so, apparently. He yelled at me, unfollowed me. Overall, I found it to be stressful when a well-known author or celebrity would follow me on Twitter, because I knew there would likely be a "break-up" in the future. Don't tweet your heroes, kids.
Andrew Shaffer
2023-03-30 14:23:13 +0000 UTCthanks for confirming my xanax taking to go back to sleep lol 😂 off to sleep after listening to this ep 🫠
mia
2023-03-30 05:08:12 +0000 UTCMore tales of Bret on planes please.
Tom Davidson
2023-03-30 03:30:56 +0000 UTCI do love Adam gently trolling Bret, always entertaining
Todd
2023-03-30 03:12:24 +0000 UTCBret Beefeater, either strong porn name or Don Draper spiralling vibes. Might recommend Leslie Jamison's The Recovering (2018) on the subject of "luminous madmen who drank too much and drove too fast and scattered brilliant pages along their doomed trajectories" (Jay).
mr greyez
2023-03-29 19:04:59 +0000 UTCam going to listen on my run. will say more later, after my run.
richard owain roberts
2023-03-29 16:23:03 +0000 UTCYou coming to Denmark? When and where?
Martin Dan Rasmussen
2023-03-29 07:20:11 +0000 UTCFav opening to a show in forever. It’s a 🐝 fest! 🙌
Patrick
2023-03-29 00:53:37 +0000 UTCVery good. Great news regarding Bret's upcoming visit to Portugal. Please tell me the date!
Jorge Espinha
2023-03-28 16:55:29 +0000 UTCExcellent thank you
PETER GREER
2023-03-28 10:33:28 +0000 UTC
