S6E20: The Park Was Never Built with The Perfume Nationalist
Added 2022-10-11 00:29:37 +0000 UTCPodcaster The Perfume Nationalist and Bret Easton Ellis discuss sharing a lifelong fascination with Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, Jeffrey Dahmer's victims getting their own Netflix series and feeling Linda Tripp's pain.
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Great episode, would love to see jack back on the show (or vice versa).
trueblue1098
2024-09-29 23:06:58 +0000 UTCOne of few podcast episodes I’ve listened to more than once. Jack has such a unique perspective, I love him. ❤️
Rebecca Tague
2023-10-27 16:43:51 +0000 UTCLoved this episode!
Tracy Stapleton-Lutkins
2023-05-10 14:31:30 +0000 UTCNever heard of this pc. Thank you.
paul dakota
2023-03-29 00:47:38 +0000 UTCThis and Simon Rex are two of the best BEE podcasts
Andrew McGovern
2023-02-15 00:20:34 +0000 UTCOh shit! I was on TPN a few years back. Cool to see Jack here!
Don Jolly
2022-11-09 23:26:28 +0000 UTCFantastic guest - Bret and Jack had great rapport, with both super knowledgable about movies.
Bazayer
2022-10-19 19:14:17 +0000 UTCHaha, good references :) Sleepovers were fun esp in the 80s. Mannequin and Labyrinth were also in heavy rotation
Phoenix
2022-10-19 18:39:50 +0000 UTCCompletely agree about Blonde. What a fantastic emotional and visual ride. Like a David Lynch Hollywood nightmare so I get the Fire Walk With Me comparison. The reaction is surely coming from trigger warning culture. I noticed on Twitter the other day, an amateur writer was asking whether she should put trigger warnings at the start of her novel because it’s about suicide. Of course not. If you aren’t strong enough to deal with the reality of human pain and suffering don’t read or watch anything. Lock yourself in a padded room.
David Willis
2022-10-19 07:25:31 +0000 UTCAlthough I haven’t gotten past episode six of Dahmer yet I think I will end up having quite a similar view to Bret. The first episode may end up being the best horror film of the year (haven’t seen Barbarian or Smile as I live in Japan) and I found it creepy, disturbing and brilliant in terms of how well they recreated his apartment. It really works as just one full short movie in its own right. It’s gone downhill since then.
David Willis
2022-10-19 05:48:44 +0000 UTCI miss the monologues!!!
Elizabeth
2022-10-19 01:07:31 +0000 UTCA return to form. Loved it.
Mark DeCaro
2022-10-18 21:25:23 +0000 UTCThe only way to get a radio-friendly, ten-track album out of Tusk is to remove Lindsey’s songs, at which point you lose the thing that makes it so compelling, the juxtaposition of his eccentricity with the more conventional material of Stevie and Christine.
Stuart Chivers
2022-10-18 19:19:19 +0000 UTChaha. No, I get it. I was just being a dude. To be honest, I hung out with just girls when I was around 9 thru 12. I'm disabled, not gay. (Sorry, I thought that'd be funny.). But seriously, I was jealous of that whole sleepover thing they had. In the end, I was always the dude. Kinda similar to Lloyd in Say Anything except I'm a much less likeable asshole. Even now I don't get along with dudes that well. I'm too weird for them. And they're fucking boring.
bpvalentine
2022-10-18 19:15:58 +0000 UTCi cannot believe that the Perfume Nationalist and Bret spoke to each other! Who's next?!
LH
2022-10-18 04:57:23 +0000 UTCIt’s because you’re a dude. I was 9 and in Girl Scouts when it came out. Trust me, it was on heavy rotation at sleepovers.
Phoenix
2022-10-17 14:52:07 +0000 UTCNo Down Payment is great. I think it's the first Hollywood movie I'm aware of that isn't a noir that deals with the suburban American dream gone wrong. Joanne Woodward is great. Looking online right now, it looks like you can watch the full movie on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_fOZ_wBJ0Q
Ben
2022-10-17 04:58:36 +0000 UTCThis is a great episode- great conversation.
john m
2022-10-16 23:38:40 +0000 UTCGreat pod, BEE. More conversations (rather than interviews) with like-minded people would be appreciated!
Tommy Stronach
2022-10-16 19:47:20 +0000 UTCI’ve started looking forward to this comment almost as much as the Eagles q.
Pp358
2022-10-16 17:21:20 +0000 UTCAgree on BLONDE. What a fantastic film. Similar situation, most people I’ve spoken to loved the film outside the outraged. Make sure to watch HALLOWEEN ENDS, can’t wait for your response to that…
Nick B
2022-10-16 16:12:44 +0000 UTCFamily car trips with videos ? Feeling 👴🏼 now
Keith campbell
2022-10-16 12:57:23 +0000 UTCLol. It was in our family car trip rotation with Good Burger, Casper, Clue, Gold Diggers: The Secrets of Bear Mountain, Tommy Boy, and Addams Family Values … flooded with memories.
Brian Rooney
2022-10-16 12:55:43 +0000 UTCFor me, Troop Beverly Hills is best remembered for Jenny Lewis from Rilo Kiley being in the cast. Maybe it's because I'm a dude, but I just couldn't get on board with that movie as a kid. And I was an Outrageous Fortune fan, haha.
bpvalentine
2022-10-16 01:05:05 +0000 UTCPlease do more episodes together. But pushing back on Tango in the Night…it’s a great album!! Also Stevie’s solo album Rock a Little is sooo good. Of course this could be because I’m in the Troop Beverly Hills generation. Still holds up.
Phoenix
2022-10-15 22:51:31 +0000 UTCI only ever heard Tusk when The Americans used it in its pilot. All. I wanted to know is WHAT IS THAT SONG?! The link I've posted (hope that's OK) goes to a Pulp song that makes me think of THE SHARDS every time I've listened to it recently. Something about the mood. The dread that's palpable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXbLyi5wgeg
bpvalentine
2022-10-15 03:59:14 +0000 UTCDrudge would be an awesome guest. In fact, if memory serves, I may have been drawn into the works of BEE via the Drudge site back when the site was at the top of its game (I also became interested in Paglia’s works via the site). On the other hand, BEE notes Drudge is a friend so that may make a podcast invite uncomfortable.
Dave
2022-10-14 22:22:25 +0000 UTCWonderful guest - the Rob Lowe interview is here on the Lost Hills podcast… https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-hills-dead-in-the-water/id1549249596?i=1000549232161
Dave
2022-10-14 20:00:23 +0000 UTCLove this. Great guest. Please consider doing monologues once in a while. Totally understandable why you don’t want to do them, but we do love them!
R. M.
2022-10-14 15:32:51 +0000 UTCwell played sir lol
Constantine
2022-10-14 14:58:49 +0000 UTCI found a copy of the Oate's "Blonde" in my grandmother's collection in early 2010s - fantastic book (one of her many)
Alex Bielovich
2022-10-14 12:08:22 +0000 UTCGreat podcast, but I do miss the opening monologues.
Lachlan Reid
2022-10-13 23:05:03 +0000 UTCTPN is a fascinating podcast. Start from the beginning.
Brendan M Campbell
2022-10-13 19:32:51 +0000 UTCLoved this one. Mirage has some good songs though!
K. Joseph
2022-10-13 18:59:08 +0000 UTCJack Mason is the man. Love TPN almost as much as BEEP. Bret, your turn to go on TPN!
Adam Chin
2022-10-13 18:57:00 +0000 UTCSo good! So glad you had Jack on!
adam r
2022-10-13 18:11:35 +0000 UTCBlonde was awesome.
Stephen Fletcher
2022-10-13 04:54:50 +0000 UTCExcellent episode! Great conversation!
Old Herringbone
2022-10-13 03:04:56 +0000 UTCcan i ask you about your history with fragrance? lol. this podcast never lets me down.
Collin Myers
2022-10-13 00:56:58 +0000 UTCMy two favorite podcasters in one room. Fantastic
Patrick Crowley
2022-10-13 00:30:26 +0000 UTCSuch fun. Lovely shared humour, and can just picture chuffed Brett rifling through the bathroom showing off his fragrance!
Thomas Edwards
2022-10-12 21:19:49 +0000 UTCTroop Bev Hills is a perfect camp movie - Bret you must watch!
Elizabeth
2022-10-12 21:01:32 +0000 UTCAmazing! Jack is an awesome guest…must have him back! Would have loved to have heard Bret & Jack get into a conversation about Shampoo…would have been interesting to hear them discuss their different points of view
Elizabeth
2022-10-12 21:00:06 +0000 UTCFINALLY
Nick Vitou
2022-10-12 20:02:21 +0000 UTCSubscribe to Perfume Nationalist. Been waiting years for this one!
Joseph Murphy
2022-10-12 18:16:12 +0000 UTCJack is great. I heard him on Red Scare.
Jon A.
2022-10-12 17:13:58 +0000 UTCOff point- Bret- I went to the Village theater for the first time last week to see Amsterdam. Wow! What a theater! Projection and sound is fabulous. It’s the only theater I will go to now. Amsterdam was so weird- in the middle of it I felt like I was in an insane asylum!
aaron weisblatt
2022-10-12 17:08:33 +0000 UTCAlso, PG keeps saying 2006 when referring to Tusk before “hipsters liked it”, and then saying everyone liked it in the late 2010’s. I worked at a record for twenty years: cool kids always liked this record, it was huge in early 2000’s
M. Nero Nava
2022-10-12 16:51:32 +0000 UTCThe backlash and vitriol over Blonde is pure hysterics. If you don’t like the film, fine, but no one is even critiquing it in good faith. Showing a character in a work of fiction have an emotional or complicated response to an abortion is right wing propaganda now? This would be comical if it wasn’t actually happening.
N.M. Janice.
2022-10-12 16:41:39 +0000 UTCBEE and TPN are the two Patreon podcasts I subscribe to. This is wonderful; I hope the two of you talk again!
Michael Cennamo
2022-10-12 16:11:24 +0000 UTCam going to listen on my run. will say more later, after my run.
richard owain roberts
2022-10-12 16:04:16 +0000 UTCTroop Beverly Hills and Judith Krantz … I am less than halfway through but could this get any gayer ?
Keith campbell
2022-10-12 15:11:55 +0000 UTCSurprised they didn't bring up Oate's book Zombie...which is pretty much about Dahmer without the name.
Poetical Gore
2022-10-12 13:28:08 +0000 UTCAs someone who worked in and out of the beauty product industry—I appreciate Perfume Nationalist. Also, I love talk of old LA, and I’m a big Tusk fan. Fun chat to listen in on.
M. Nero Nava
2022-10-12 13:20:52 +0000 UTCGood guest. Great review of Bros .
Jorge Espinha
2022-10-12 12:25:29 +0000 UTCThe best guest in the history of this podcast.
LowRes Wünderbred
2022-10-12 02:51:24 +0000 UTCGreat guest / conversation - heard him on red scare recently and now, after this episode, I’ve subscribed to his channel
Tom
2022-10-12 00:48:20 +0000 UTCFantastic. Love Fire Walk With Me getting its due. 🙌
Patrick
2022-10-11 22:01:59 +0000 UTCThe crossover we never knew we needed.
Vincent Nappi
2022-10-11 17:02:24 +0000 UTCI hoped Jack would make it on and I’ve been awaiting the Bros review since I first saw the trailer. This was a perfect episode!
Mike B
2022-10-11 15:08:46 +0000 UTCNot Bret one upping the Perfume Nationalist with some obscure swedish cologne 😂😂😂
Normaling
2022-10-11 14:23:01 +0000 UTCFabulous episode…thank you
PETER GREER
2022-10-11 08:33:36 +0000 UTCDiving in! 😀
Patrick
2022-10-11 00:54:18 +0000 UTC
