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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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J Hay
“Rock ‘n’ Roll High School”was a Roger Corman production, but he didn’t direct it… and PJ Soles was very attractive:)
J Hay
“In Thru the Out Door” is the only Led Zep LP I bought. I preferred it to any other album of theirs.
Sodaheiress
Adam is hilarious and plays off Bret so well.
Sodaheiress
I 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.
Matteo Persivale
too corny
Nikki Ferrari
The 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
Thomas Matich
'Decision to Leave' was boring.
Ashley
He should still name it Shingy though.
Chris Hough
Apologies 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.
Seneca Garcia
I can hear Bret getting over his depression pontificating with his inexhaustible film knowledge
Phoenix
ALMOST FAMOUS.
Vincent Kouters
This is very usefull. Will read some of those.
Darren Ankenman
At 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
Von Wintermarck
It'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.
Vincent Kouters
Would love that
E
It'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
Sodaheiress
Not 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
I’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.
Sander August Schadenberg
Nice ep!
Mitchell
I always love listening to Bret and Adam!
Collin Myers
agree it has not aged well at all. a lot of great actors--good cast--but it's very clean and sentimental and kinda boring
Vincent Kouters
Does 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?
Chris N
24 Hour Party People
Steven Hamilton
The only music film that works is 'The Great Rock 'n Roll Swindle'
Ashley
Almost Famous is beyond cornball!
N.M. Janice.
I 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.
Jimmy Holmgren
Why not Almost Famous from 2000?
LM
The ‘70s Star Is Born probably captures an aspect of the music scene that Daisy Jones could have been hinting at.
N.M. Janice.
I know people don’t like it and call it “Altman light,” but I really like Welcome to LA.
Darren Ankenman
Re: 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
Normaling
I love that adam immediately went to OJ
Harold B
Can’t believe it’s taken me this long to realize Adam has rock DJ voice what’s wrong with me ?
Brian Kenna
Me 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.
Nick Not Nolte
ALMOST 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.
richard owain roberts
am going to listen on my run. will say more later, after my run.
Billy Schafer
Less Than Zero opens with a lyric from "Stairway to Heaven" as an epigraph.
Billy Schafer
I 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!
Patrick
Vanderpump Rolls. Adam! 😂
PETER GREER
Fabulous….
Steve
Almost Famous. Surprised Bret didn't mention or seem to recall this one.
N.M. Janice.
Agreed! Great question.
M. Nero Nava
Thanks 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!
