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S7E6: Flying The Futile Skies

🕑 Added 2023-03-28 05:14:20 +0000 UTC

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Gnome

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.

Neil G.

bret may be the only one to not interview him with any awkwardness 😂😂✌🏼✌🏼

Gatsby

The 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.

MikeE

I’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

Who 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)

Dan Zilic

The 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.

BrienPiechos

James Ellroy. Get him.

R. M.

Great 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

Bookth

Drank 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).

Lachlan Reid

couldn’t agree more

bpvalentine

I 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

That 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.

Jorge Espinha

They don't reply...I asked the same about Portugal. So few comments...is it so difficult to reply to questions about scheduling?

Andrew Shaffer

Don 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.

mia

thanks for confirming my xanax taking to go back to sleep lol 😂 off to sleep after listening to this ep 🫠

Tom Davidson

More tales of Bret on planes please.

Todd

I do love Adam gently trolling Bret, always entertaining

mr greyez

Bret 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).