Starting next week with the launch of our seventh season on Patreon, this classic episode with Bret and Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson will exist exclusively inside our Platinum Reserve, available for only Platinum members to hear. In the meantime, please enjoy this sneak peek inside our vault. This episode was originally released on July 27, 2015.
2023-02-15 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
As our new season rapidly approaches, here is a peek inside our vault of sound before we swing its doors open wide next week for Gold and Platinum members to explore the treasures within. In this classic episode from March 17, 2014 Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus joins Bret to share, among many other things, what he thinks of the Eagles.
2023-02-14 02:38:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello listeners! We are gearing up to launch our 7th season on Patreon next week. First episode of Season 7 will hit the air on Monday, 2/20 for Gold and Platinum listeners. Silver subscribers will be able to hear it on Wednesday, 2/22.
In celebration of the BEE Podcast turning 10 years old in 2023, we are breaking open our vault of sound and making every episode we have ever recorded available to you right here on Patreon.
As hardcore fans of the Bret Easton Ellis Podcast already know, we spent a few years nurturing our precious baby podcast at a studio on Maple Drive in Beverly Hills before taking the show home to Doheny in April 2018. Time's relentless passage has since morphed these early episodes into highly coveted and exotic phantoms over the years, some harder to track down online than others, some too slippery to ever surface again on the world wide web at all.
That is about to change. These elusive episodes are finally coming home.
All four seasons we taped long ago on Maple Drive will be available here on Patreon starting next week for your ears to behold.
The first season (2013-14) will be accessible to ALL listeners subscribed to our GOLD and PLATINUM tiers.
The second, third and fourth seasons spanning from 2014-17 will be EXCUSIVELY available to ALL listeners subscribed to our PLATINUM tiers. Bret will continue answering questions submitted by Platinum members on the air periodically as the new season unfolds. Nothing is changing there.
No prices are being raised. No action is required from you whatsoever. Just keep on truckin' with us and let the good times keep rolling.
Throughout this week we will be posting a couple of these early Maple Drive episodes for all Silver, Gold and Platinum members to enjoy as we usher in this long-awaited new era of the podcast on Patreon.
Thank you for keeping the scene alive with us all these years! What an incredible decade it has been! We have the most attractive listeners in the podcast game and we appreciate every single one of you gorgeous creatures. We wish love and luck to you and the ones you hold close for all of 2023 and beyond.
2023-02-14 02:15:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Producer/Songwriter John Shanks and Bret Easton Ellis discuss learning to love the journey from Brian Eno, coaxing hit songs from the neglected demos of superstars and the nearly lost art of telling stories through albums as they continue their conversation from last week. Part 2 of 2.
2023-02-07 01:36:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Grammy-winning Producer/Songwriter John Shanks and Bret Easton Ellis discuss the founding of Line One, observing the harsh reception of Prince's early sleaze up close and capturing the essential tension of a perfectly written pop song. Part 1 of 2.
2023-01-31 02:12:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Writer/Journalist Shane Cashman and Bret Easton Ellis discuss watching the zeitgeist break itself by the sea, the dwindling list of creative disruptors in America and seeing the future in Don Henley's laundry as they continue their conversation from last week. Part 2 of 2.
2023-01-24 03:18:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Writer/Journalist Shane Cashman and Bret Easton Ellis discuss transforming a military synagogue into a house of pop culture worship, tripping hard on the horse farm and the tangible benefits of teaching writing without cameras. Part 1 of 2.
2023-01-17 03:41:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Bret Easton Ellis dissects a tortured ghost of grunge, a Miracle of Romanian cinema and a genius filmmaker's relatable vision of every viewer's ultimate fate as he presents his twelve best movies of 2022.
2023-01-10 01:50:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Bret Easton Ellis bids farewell to 2022 as he talks about Mike White operating at the height of his powers, the abject misery of Whale watching and hanging out in the sushi tent as he replies to questions from Platinum listeners on the air. Wishing you all a safe and happy 2023 as the simulacrum persists.
2023-01-03 01:41:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Bret Easton Ellis pulls a rare reversal as he dives deeper into a recently discussed movie after experiencing it for a second time. Bret then talks about one of television's hottest shows, exuding power at a renowned Los Angeles restaurant and Norman Mailer as he answers questions from Platinum listeners on the air.
NOTE: If you haven't seen "Tar" and don't wish to have its plot points revealed, you should skip ahead to the 40-minute mark because the first section could potentially spoil the flick for you.
2022-12-27 02:05:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Bret Easton Ellis reviews faulty memory movies from Steven Spielberg and James Gray before discussing short story writers and David Lynch's heartbreaker about Hollywood as he answers questions from Platinum listeners on the air.
2022-12-20 02:18:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Writer Walter Kirn and Bret Easton Ellis discuss witnessing the true meaning of Christmas come alive on the December dance floors of elite holiday parties, the contemporary need for a daring rascal to crack open cultural illusions and authors of yesteryear following orders from Dr. Freud.
2022-12-13 00:53:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Writer Bruce Wagner and Bret Easton Ellis discuss the chorus of voices giving form to Roger Orr, evading the ego's creative blockade and seeing stars in the fading light of a perfect Los Angeles afternoon.
2022-12-06 01:17:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Bret Easton Ellis recounts memories of charming his neighbors, celebrating Long Island's favorite piano man and Rod Stewart's fabled homeopathic elixir as he fields questions from Platinum listeners on the air.
2022-11-29 01:08:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Author Sam Wasson and Bret Easton Ellis continue their conversation from last week and discuss Hollywood's longtime tradition of self-censorship, Cate Blanchett's chilly turn in Tar and Francis Ford Coppola failing to bring his utopia to fruition. Part 2 of 2.
2022-11-22 00:55:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Author Sam Wasson and Bret Easton Ellis discuss having a blast compiling an oral history of Hollywood, early editors blowing minds with film's first cuts and the tragic casualties of sound entering the cinema. Part 1 of 2.
2022-11-15 00:29:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Screenwriter Max Landis and Bret Easton Ellis continue their conversation from last week and discuss friendly collaboration creating Chronicle, watching the Color Society fracture as it fades to black and craving a weirder Batman. Part 2 of 2.
2022-11-07 20:01:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Writer/Director Max Landis and Bret Easton Ellis discuss coming of age in tragedy's cruel shadow, being publicly vilified for your private life and bridging emotion with action and dialogue on the page. Part 1 of 2.
2022-10-31 22:47:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Producer J.D. Lifshitz and Bret Easton Ellis discuss eschewing college to chase Hollywood glory, unleashing a big screen Barbarian to widespread acclaim and the key ingredients of a bad movie.
2022-10-24 20:36:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Bret Easton Ellis discusses turning a faded fashion interest into the foundation of a legacy novel, being overwhelmed by the sound of Robert Wise's music and having had enough of an annoying screen legend as he fields questions from Platinum listeners on the air.
2022-10-17 22:42:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Podcaster 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.
2022-10-11 00:29:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Filmmaker Tom Holland and Bret Easton Ellis discuss Hitchcock's Psycho as a formative encounter with screen spectacle, becoming an actor to launch a career behind the camera and watching Anthony Perkins wrestle with Norman Bates.
2022-10-03 21:10:32 +0000 UTC View Post
A.M. Homes and Bret Easton Ellis continue their conversation and discuss the challenge of presenting madness on the page, the glaring lack of great humorless novels and the endless pleasure of Woody Allen's Interiors. Part 2 of 2.
2022-09-26 18:14:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Writer A.M. Homes and Bret Easton Ellis discuss an unsettling occupational hazard of being an author, unfolding the Big Guy and grasping for human connection through youthful correspondence with famous strangers. Part 1 of 2.
2022-09-20 00:32:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Bret Easton Ellis discusses the sweet reward of finishing a book, the often contentious tug of war that is casting a movie and professional heights unreached as he fields questions submitted by Platinum listeners.
2022-09-13 01:07:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Bret Easton Ellis rides solo and laments one of our last movie stars languishing on an absurdly silly Bullet Train before examining a recent French film adaptation of one of literary fiction's most revered masterworks. Bret also reviews two very different films with similar Italian settings, including an often overlooked farce from 1966 starring Peter Sellers in fine early form.
2022-09-06 03:54:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Congratulations to 1990's Tom Cruise on his big win.
2022-09-02 22:07:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Actor/Filmmaker James Morosini and Bret Easton Ellis discuss the pure cinema of Wolfgang Petersen and the riveting Rehearsal of Nathan Fielder in Part 2 of their conversation.
2022-08-29 23:12:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Actor/Filmmaker James Morosini and Bret Easton Ellis discuss the autobiographical elements of I Love My Dad, the peculiar cadence of Al Roker and the inability to resist reading Anna Karenina. Part 1 of 2.
2022-08-22 23:32:15 +0000 UTC View Post
