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S7E25: Practically In The Present with Warren Zanes

🕑 Added 2023-08-08 06:54:29 +0000 UTC

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Sam Leuenberger

Maybe one of the best interviews I’ve ever heard

Thomas Edwards

This guy is a good tonic for Mr BEE.

Bookth

You’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.

Phoenix

Such a soothing voice, this is my kind of episode.

John Presnall

Mentioned 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!!

BrienPiechos

Bro, take your meds.

Tom Syverson

Glad 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.

Harold B

Loved the guest. Loved the episode !!

Harold B

I 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.

Brian Borough

Great episode. Laid back easy going conversation.

Neil G.

Okay, 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

BrienPiechos

Except I’m a published author who holds a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and you’re the reason the soyjak meme exists. So…

Neil G.

BrienPiechos, 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

BrienPiechos

Neil, 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.

Neil G.

dude...why don't you sit in a certain chair with a certain electric shock for even thinking what you think, let alone saying it...

Patrick

Loved this convo. 🙌

BrienPiechos

I 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.

Paul Richardson

I love these old timey conversations.

Iain

Loved 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.

Todd

Adam I loved the music in this ep between interview segments, can you give us a track list?

Thomas Matich

Go woke go broke? I’m kidding.

Richard MacManus

I 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.

Jorge Espinha

He 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

I really enjoyed it. Thank you.

Ryan Dacko

Totally 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.

Brian Rooney

This fuckin’ rocks.

Allan Sherwood

Sounded older to me, too, but fellow BEE listeners have enlightened me that this is fresher than I thought. Will re-consider.

Allan Sherwood

I 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

I'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.

richard owain roberts

am going to listen on my run. will say more later, after my run.

N.M. Janice.

Man, I couldn’t disagree more. Give me Springsteen, 70’s cinema and 19th century literature over just about anything happening now.

Ryan Dacko

I'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?

Constantine

he's a great story teller. helps that I love the Nebraska record so I'm really into hearing him talk about it.

Constantine

no, 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

you're not a lemonhead. stop pretending

Bookth

I’m half Bret’s age and love Nebraska, as well as Zane’s great book about it.

Bookth

He was also on the moment with Brian Koppelman, which covered some similar ground.

Happyhead

Wish I had grown up amongst bales of weed. What's this fool complaining about?

Allan Sherwood

This 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.

Nick Not Nolte

he did not write the terrible anti trump song, he was just featured on it

Nick Not Nolte

BRUUUUUUUUUCE

Dave Mason

I always look forward to Wednesday

Steve

Through 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.