Hello, hello.All right, this is 471, part two.There was just too much stuff.I've got too many stragglers.It's like too much negative energy, like my man Puff say.I got too many straggler topics that have been a dangling behind episode and episode.
I want to get it all out because it's starting to fucking annoy me that I have to keep carrying it over throughout the paper.This is all behind the scenes minutia.You don't need to know about this stuff.But yeah, here we go.
Luke Allen, your host at Uncle Luke two on Instagram live from the 405 podcast on Instagram.Yeah, yeah, yeah.So I finished the Godfather book.Here are my final thoughts.You don't want to hear about this anymore.I don't know.Was it interesting?
If you're a fan of the movie, does it matter?Does this make you want to read?I haven't read a fiction book in a long time.Go back and read those again.I've read mostly nonfiction for like 20 years.
I had no interest in reading fiction, but all of a sudden I have Well, I guess what this book has kind of unlocked it, and I kind of want to go back and read some fiction.Anyways.Ending of the book is fucking amazing.The movie, pretty damn good.
Decent ending, but the book really, really brings it home.There's only so much you could do on the screen to visually approximate what happens in the book.
No, actually, it's slightly different, but it's much more impactful the way it ends with Kay and the church.Fucking great. The weirdest things about this book, finally, in summation, after reading the whole thing.
Fredo is like a non-entity in this whole book.He's in the movie a lot more than he's in the book.After the Don gets shot, Fredo has a fucking nervous breakdown.He almost gets committed to a hospital.
And it's so bad and he's so useless, they end up sending him away to Las Vegas to go work with Mo Green. Now, in the movie, the whole Vegas storyline shows up pretty abruptly.
What is it, in the last 20 minutes of the movie, you know, when he meets Moe Green and everything?And I was hoping for a little bit more of an exploration into that and more of an explanation of how and why.
You get a little more in the book, but not that much. Everyone else all these other characters get their own chapter pretty much in a way at least Fredo never does he flips out?He goes to Vegas.You don't hear from him again.
Just like in the movie until the last Fucking almost chapter where he shows up and yeah, like Moe Green was slapping around and everything else And the Moe Green hit in the book is a little bit different.
I understand why they did it in the movie, it makes sense.But I just found that so weird.Like, the thing is about this family and these family members, and there's practically no mention of Fredo.It's really fucking... It was really weird.
And it doesn't really tell you this in the movie.In the book, it tells you it's a four-year time change from when the Don gets shot to when they send.
By the time Michael goes to Vegas to look into the, they want to move the whole family to the West Coast, which also like, they want to move them all to Vegas because they want to buy casinos and stuff like that.
And they want to get into a little bit more of a legitimate business.And I feel like the movie didn't really hammer that idea home.Like all of a sudden, they're just kind of like packing up and going there.
In the book, there's a little bit more of a buildup and more of a transition over there.So it reads a little clearer.But yeah, a four-year fucking time frame goes by.I don't think the movie really tells you that.
And you're like, oh, I guess the story takes place over a whole decade.The Godfather takes place, if you didn't, I don't think it explicitly tells you in the movie, but 10 fucking years go by in that thing, which is just crazy.
So Fredo doesn't get his own chapter. What's his name?Johnny Fontaine, the singer.He's got a way bigger part in the book.He's in it a lot more.He's got kind of an interesting storyline.
He loses his voice as a singer, because he was a famous crooner, because this takes place in that era.But he ends up losing his voice.He drinks and smokes too much, and he finds out that he's got these polyps on his throat, so he can't sing anymore.
So he's all fucking in the doldrums.And then the... The Corleones want to actually set up their own movie studio out there.So they start bankrolling Johnny Fontaine to open up, you know, so they can get in the picture business.
And he's going to be an executive now himself.So he starts putting movies and stuff together and producing stuff.And he makes a couple of hits and he casts his own self in it and stuff like that.
It goes into his struggles a little bit, but in the end, they all end up in Vegas.Johnny Fontaine does.The whole Corleone family does.
They go out there to meet up with Fredo, who was supposed to have been being tutored in the casino business all that time, but has actually just been running around, you know, like they kind of say in the movie.
He's just doing nothing but, like, drinking and fucking chicks, and he's really on the outs with Don.I don't think Don ever sees him again.I don't think Vito ever... Yeah, he's shot and he's in a coma, and then they send Fredo away.
I don't think they ever see each other Again, that just dawned on me.So he's really disappointed in his son.So that really helps cement the idea that Fredo is a fuck-up.But Johnny Fontaine gets his own chapter.
And you know who else has a huge part in this book that I had absolutely no idea about, and it's very odd?The chick that Sonny bangs at the wedding in the beginning.Remember the bridesmaid that he sneaks away with and fucks her?
That chick's name is Lucy, and she was like his side piece, right?
And the whole, another lurid detail, again, this is like such an exploitative book and they just want to make it sensational and sell books, which is one of the myriad of reasons I think this thing is just kind of trashy and not particularly well-written, was Sonny had a massive horse cock and this chick Lucy, she had a defect in her vagina that she was like the only woman that Sonny could really thrust with all his might and fuck properly because her vagina could handle it.
So she was like kind of obsessed because they had such a lustful sexual tryst, those two, Sonny and Lucy Mancini, who he impregnates and then she gives birth to who is, what's his name's character in Godfather 3? Andy Garcia, that's who that is.
He's the illegitimate son of Sonny, who he had on the side, right?And Sonny's wife just kind of gets waylaid in the book.You don't really, you barely hear from her anymore.
I think she takes the kids and she just kind of retires to Florida and she's out of the picture.But anyways, this chick Lucy ends up in Vegas too.
I don't know if they send her to keep an eye on Fredo, but I know she hangs around Mo Green's casino where Freddie works and she kind of sends reports back a little bit.
But she shacks up with this shady doctor who lost his license because he was doing illegal abortion stuff.But he's actually a pretty talented doctor.But the guy's kind of a sleazebag, right?So just by coincidence, he just ends up meeting Lucy.
At least, what, a whole chapter together?There's a whole exploration of these two's relationship.And then this doctor kind of gets inadvertently involved with the Corleones.He ends up helping.He starts dating Lucy.
And he's peripherally involved now with the family. and he diagnoses Johnny Fontaine's throat and actually fixes him, and Johnny Fontaine is able to sing again, which was kind of cool.
But in the end, there are little flourishes, but in the grand scheme of the story, it's all pretty inconsequential stuff.
One of the bizarre details this delves into is the doctor fucks Lucy and he determines that the wall of her vagina is too high and that sex with her is unfulfilling and will be unfulfilling for most men and for her because they can't hit the depth of her vagina that they're supposed to hit.
So he gives her this pussy surgery.He goes to work on her and this book spends almost a full fucking two, at least a page and a half on explicit details of this vagina surgery and her recovery afterward.I mean, just like pages.
I'm like, what the fuck is what is this doing?Who cares about the minutiae of this surgery?That's like kind of stomach turning.It's pretty fucking gross.I'm like, why the fuck did he dedicate so much time to it?Like, did we need all this detail?
Holy shit.It was really fucking straight.Like, we don't get a Fredo chapter, which I really, really wanted, which would have explained a lot of stuff.But we get Lucy's vagina surgery.OK, tasty pick bone head. as he said in Ghostbusters 2.
So that was all really weird.Al Neri gets his own chapter, you know, the bodyguard, the guy that dresses up as the cop and shoots Barzini on the courthouse steps, which was fucking really cool.
Al Neri in the book and Al in the movies is really strange.They didn't really explore his character at all.Al was a cop that got
he got caught up in a, he was kind of a brutal cop and he got, um, he, he like killed a, you know, back then nobody gave a shit, but it was like a, you know, a black suspect.
And this guy would like, had like chopped up, he sliced up these two girls, this pimp.And then he came after L with a knife and El Nery ended up beating him to fucking death with his flashlight.So, uh, he got convicted of, um,
You know, he got charged with, what do you call that, when you're roughing up a suspect or whatever, what do you call it?Excessive force.So he's going to go to fucking prison.And the Corleones find out about it.
They do some background checks on this guy.And he's like, he was a fair, you know, he wasn't, I don't think he was a crooked cop.He was just really, he was really violent.And they're like, well, this is, this guy's getting a raw deal.
And he was a fair, person and Luca Brasi's dead, he was our most feared henchman, we could bail this guy out and kind of make him our new Luca Brasi.
So that was supposed to be El's job because El Neri was so fucking violent and everything that they were grooming him to be like their enforcer and their next El Neri.
But they never get into, especially in Godfather 2, it almost seems like El Niri is like the consigliere, doesn't it?He kind of goes to El for counsel.He never really has a consigliere after fucking Vito dies.He lets Tom go.
And in the book, it makes a little bit more sense as to why he says, you're out, Tom.In the movie, it's kind of hard to figure out.I don't know, I could explain for five more minutes why he did that.I'll just say the book explains it a little better.
So that was a little bit more cleared up to me.It's still not 100%, The theory that I think definitely makes more sense with that.
But like yeah, they were shaping up El Neri to be to be the next Luca and he and in the second movie he doesn't really do anything He just he's just kind of hanging around and I was like, well what happened to that character?But it was a really cool
It was a cool setup.That's why he still has his cop uniform from when he was a policeman, so that he dresses up as the cop at the end and he shows up and fucking wastes Barzini on those fucking steps.
The biggest disappointment in this whole fucking book for me, and one of the things that was really... There's a whole bunch of unexplained things that I was hoping the book would tie up.Some of it it did, but...
I was really hoping to get, and you can do this with a book more than you can do in a movie obviously, is Michael's inner conflict from going from somebody that was totally estranged from his family and wanted nothing to do with them.
He shows up at the wedding in the beginning.He doesn't even want to go.He shows up out of obligation and all he wants to do is move away with Kay and go to Where are they, like New Hampshire or something?And Michael had just gotten back from the war.
He was wounded and everything like that.But he didn't want nothing to do with the mob or his whole family.He was sick of the whole city and he just wanted to get out of there.
And then, obviously, he ends up getting pulled into the family business, as it were. But just like in the movie, in the book it just happens a little too easily.There's no real like, you don't get Michael's inner thoughts about it.
You don't get any sense of real apprehension from him about it.
It just like, he just kind of slides into it and it's all, I think they missed a huge opportunity for conflict in that character and really could have kind of enriched the story a little bit more.And they didn't do that in the book.
I was so fucking disappointed.I was like, damn, I really wanted, more of Michael's like inner machinations and what he thought about that.And a little bit more, you know what I mean?
It should have been a little bit more of a, not so much of a clean transition from this dude into like, you know, the fucking kingpin of the whole family.It was kind of, that was very disappointing.So anyways.
I read the book, like I said, I'm just fucking sleeping like shit.
I just had one of those weekends, even if I went to bed early and got up, which I did, I think Saturday into Sunday, I was just tired, I just couldn't get my fucking ass in gear really, I was just kind of drunk.
And both fucking, I finished the book, and both fucking days I just laid in bed.
for hours, trying to, so this ended up pulling me, some of the, a few of the plot threads that are set up in Godfather 1 in the book, carry into the movie, but now I don't have a book with all the detail to explain all the things that went on.
And I fucking went, I was online for, and this is, I know I've touched on this, hopefully I never have to bring this up again, because I'm sure you,
Once again, after watching Megalopolis, what a sloppy and bad storyteller Francis Ford Coppola is really did such a bad job.The plot is so incomprehensible.I'm like, I always say like, it's, you know, it's just it's It's settled cinema.
It's like, nope, this is a classic.This movie is perfect.It should be studied.Every single scene is perfect.It's like, no, it's really not.It's missing tons of information.It jumps all over the place.
It introduces characters with no explanation whatsoever, like the 75-year-old bodyguard dude in Godfather 2.That doesn't even get one line.You know, the guy that tries to smother Hymen Roth with a fucking pillow.And the whole Hymen Roth storyline
It's so convoluted and ill-explained.I went through fucking, I would Google it and I would go down a rabbit hole for 25 minutes of a myriad of different people, and this movie's 50 fucking years old, of people trying to explain
What went on with Hyman Roth and Michael in their fucking deal that was supposed to be them collaborating on the casinos in Havana?He needed the Corleone family to help bankroll him.
But at the same time, he wanted to kill Michael because Michael was his competition.So it's like he tries to assassinate Michael in the beginning. But he needs the $2 million from him for the casino.
So why does he try to kill him before he even gets the money for him for the casino?
So there's a dozen different explanations from a dozen different fucking people, all like me, who have watched this movie a hundred fucking times, have been watching it for decades, and are still guessing as to what happened.
And some of the explanations are like, they'll seem to make sense and then someone else will comment underneath and go, yeah, but what about this character and that thing?
And they're like, oh yeah, and then it'll negate the previous fucking explanation that seemed like it totally made sense.It's such a mess.And honestly, like, I don't think anyone… I don't think anyone really knows, like, the whole plot of that movie.
And I was just so glad I wasn't alone, because for all these years, I'm like, am I stupid?Like, I know this seems to be a pretty intricate plot, but like, it really doesn't seem to make any sense and nothing really seems to tie together.
And in the end, It doesn't!It doesn't!
I wish I had FFC here right now to ask him, A, what the fuck were you thinking when you made Megalopolis, and B, can you explain Godfather— I'm looking at the fucking empty couch next to me here in Studio D as if Coppola's gonna appear like a force ghost to reference Return of the Jedi again at the fucking ending.
Like, is he gonna show up and be like, Can you tell us what on earth happened with the Frank Pantangeli hit in part two?It doesn't make any sense.
He shows up, the whole thing where they, was it a fake hit on purpose so that Pantangeli would survive and then testify against Michael?Was that whole thing a setup from Hyman Roth to go, That's why they didn't shoot Pantangeli in the head.
They choke him with a Garrett and they try to kill him and then the cop walks in.So did they pay that cop to walk in and screw up the hit and they all run away?So that fucking Pantangeli, you know what I mean?
So instead of just killing him, it would cripple Michael Moore?Or was it indeed they were trying to kill him and a cop just happened to walk in?No one knows and they can't really figure out why.The only thing I came away with was one,
I guess I never really put two and two together of how much Hyman Roth was mad at Michael for killing Mo Green, that he wanted revenge from him.So that's at least one goddamn motivation for all the things that he did.
But as far as this whole song and dance of trying to set up Michael like he's a, he wants to think I'm his successor, his son, he thinks he's going to live forever.Like the whole, like he's trying to bring him in.
I don't understand the whole, because they try to machine gun him right in the beginning.So what, If you already tried to kill him, then why is he trying to bring him into business and saying all this?It's really, really fucking confusing.
And then I even, I also heard, oh, to add, almost done here.To add to the confusion, I think I mentioned this, but when Danny Aiello, I never even realized he was one of the Rosado brothers.I thought he was just a fucking hitman working for them.
When Pantangeli goes to meet the Rosado brothers in that bar and they try to kill Pantangeli and then he survives and then ends up testifying against the government because he thinks, Michael tried to have him killed, remember?
Because he insults Michael when he's drunk because Michael won't give him the concession to kill the Rosato brothers, right?And Daniello goes, Michael Corleone says hello.But Daniello improvised that line.It wasn't in the script.
He just said that because it sounded cool. And Coppola left it in, making it even more confusing.It's like, well, was he supposed to say that on behalf of Hyman Roth?
Like, that lends more credence to the idea that the whole hit was a ruse to make it look like Michael was trying to have Pantangeli killed, you know what I'm saying?But it wasn't in the fucking script.And also,
Again, more confusing, more bad filmmaking storytelling.I'm not saying the movie's bad, there's a lot of great stuff in it, but as far as a coherent plot, it's so, and it's so frustrating because you want that.
It's like when you watch Chinatown, it's what makes Chinatown so compelling.It's such an interesting movie because you're learning things along at the same pace as the detective. And you're fed things through that.
The script is so expertly put together that you're fed just enough information as the viewer.It's like you're on the journey with Nicholson's character learning all these things at the same time and then it all ties together at the end.
And every single fucking thing in that movie ties into something.There's every piece of it.
It's so well constructed that every part of the story flows into another part and everything makes sense and everything is there for a reason and everything comes together in a perfect little fucking bow after a two hour long journey through discovery of finding out, you know, fucking Chinatown and all this stuff.
And God, I think it came out the same fucking year.That was like Paramount's biggest year ever.It was like 73 or 74.And it was, I'm not sure.I don't know if it was the same year, but it was, Pretty damn close.
They were like right on top of each other.And this is the direct opposite. More, further confounding the scene with Pantangeli.When he goes to walk in the bar, he goes, I never understood this either.
He goes, hey, Frank, we're looking forward to burying the hatchet between each other.And the risotto hands Pantangeli a $100 bill.And he goes, I don't like the C-note risotto.I find that disrespectful.And I'm always like, A, why did he give him $100?
B, why is it disrespectful?But part of the explanation was, apparently, there's a deleted scene in the beginning
towards the beginning, where when Pentangeli, when he's waiting to go in, you know when he's drunk and he ends up yelling at Michael, and they have this whole event that's, chi-chi, aborte!Remember when he yells at him?
They're not going to be any more trouble for me."I guess he gave Anthony Jr.or whatever, Michael Koylone's kid, the kid that had the fucking... They're all there at the beginning where they're having the whole ceremony and shit.
It's all for his son's... Whatchamacallit, not his baptism, his... His first communion.And Pentangeli gave his son a $100 bill.And then Michael sees it.He's like, where did you get that money?He goes, Pentangeli gave it to me.
So the $100 bill later on is almost like revenge or another calling card of Michael's going back to Pentangeli going, here's your $100 bill back, motherfucker.Now we're going to kill you. What happened to that scene?
And then they all go outside and there's just random shots of guys shooting at each other.And then Willie Chi Chi gets hit by the car.You don't see him again until the fucking Senate hearings.And then you never see him again.
He's out of the fucking movie.What the fuck are they doing?Why?No one else, if you go online and criticize these movies, like, right. What do you know, stupid?Go watch some more Marvel movies.Go watch Fast and Furious, idiot.
Leave the cerebral movies to us."It's like, okay, you explain it, dickhead.And then they start doing it, and they're just like, wait, no, because then they can't figure it out.No one can put it together. That's all part two.I just, it's just funny.
I mean, I dude, I literally, I sat there and read for hours.I wanted an excuse to not have to get up and go to the gym anyways.So I just went down like endless godfather one and two plot fucking plot holes throughout the whole fucking thing.So.
That's that.So the book's over.You don't have to hear about that anymore.I just did fucking 20 minutes on that.I apologize.But it's just such a weird... It was so not what I was expecting.
It really was an odd... I mean, obviously, there's always going to be changes from the book to the movie.But this one, compared to the movie, is just... Because you know it so well.
And it's so, you know, revered and, like, respected and, like, to the point where it's, like, sacrosanct.You're not even allowed to fucking criticize it or question it.People just flip out.They can't fucking... I'm just so...
I have more of that sort of thought process coming up.I'm just so tired of that in our fucking society.Everyone's gotten so stupid and so settled and so unwilling to ask questions or criticize anything or be objective.
One thing I'll have to fucking hand to Joe Rogan, he's one of those guys that never really, he's always like questioning stuff, sometimes very stupidly and things, but like, you know, in general, at least he has that attitude that he's more inquisitive about stuff and not just willing to,
take everything at face value or at, you know, popular opinion and stuff like that.It's just, you know.I'm having a Sprint Drift.Tonight is Thursday.
I'm supposed to go, so I agonized all day what to do, because I went out with the queen last night, Mr. Eric Rocha, happy birthday, we went to his birthday dinner, and I had a couple of fucking fan-fucking-tastic margaritas at the old Mexicali.
We went out, and I only had two.The second one was really fucking strong, so I'm slightly banged up today, among other things.I'm gonna have to...
It went from, I was hoping to take Friday off so I could see Norma Jean tonight and fucking rage, and then not have to get up the next day, to I can't get it off, but maybe I can come in late tomorrow instead, come in 10 or 11, sleep it off a little bit, to, Luke, it's super fucking busy tomorrow, and I have to actually come in early, so there's no way I can go to this fucking show and be able to operate, but...
gentle listener but Norma Jean is also playing they're playing a few dates in the SoCal area and tomorrow night they're playing the Glass House in Pomona so if I want to go and cut loose and be a goose uh Tony Saragusa and not to worry about getting up or work the next morning my only option is to go and see them at the fucking shitty miserable crap fucking venue
Glass house in Pomona where they have pit police and that goddamn stupid fire fucking laying around the outer edge.
Oh fucking can't stand that place, but Those are the only options so I'm probably gonna do that because I don't want it They're on their eras to her like fucking Taylor Swift Apparently like they're going through album by album and playing like a few hits off of each and they're moving through their whole catalog Which is pretty cool.
I don't hear bands doing that that much anymore.So I do want to see them But I guess that's a compromise I'm going to have to make.I'm going to have to ride out to fucking Pomona and see the fucking show and take it from there.So that's that.
So anyways. Moving on now, throughout the rest of the show, there's going to be a... I apologize for bringing politics in the show.I don't like talking about politics and things, but we're three weeks away from an election, so it's kind of hard.
It's a pretty significant election if you're paying attention.Let me fill out your ballot for you.Do you have an early ballot?Fucking get in touch with me.I'll fill the whole thing out for you.Don't fuck around.You got to vote this election.But...
There's a movie out called The Apprentice.It got a pretty limited release.It's up in a handful of theaters in LA.I don't know if you saw anything about this.It's kind of like, it feels like an A24 movie.It's kind of like low budget-ish.
It's not, you know, it's not a big budget movie.That guy Sebastian Stan, who is Bucky from the Avengers movies, who I don't know, I just like that guy for some reason.There's something about that actor.I think that guy's interesting.
And the guy from Success, I didn't really watch Success, I watched a handful of episodes, I couldn't really, it wasn't bad or anything, I know I'm one fucking, that is a beloved fucking show, but I just couldn't get into it, I don't know.
But the actor Jeremy Strong from Succession plays the lawyer, famous lawyer, famous 20th century figure, sleazy lawyer, Roy Cohn, if you know him, he's a notorious, the man is, Nefarious.He's a nefarious figure.
And I didn't know that Trump was once an acolyte of Roy Cohn.He learned all his business savvy and social savvy and everything else from his...
Trump's whole also nefarious process of things from Roy Cohn, and that ultimately the story is about him coming up under Roy Cohn's wing as a young on the make realtor and name around New York City in the 70s, and then ultimately kind of betrays him and sort of casts him off, right?
So I just saw the poster of it.It's just, if you've seen the poster, it's like this weird little model figure of Roy Cohn standing behind Trump that's on his fucking throne.And they're both, I don't know, it's whatever.
But it kind of looks like two fucking bobbleheads together.I'm like, this is the fucking poster.But I knew nothing about it.I saw it listed in my Fandango.Yep.And I read the brief little description.I'm like, no, thanks.I don't need to see.
Yet another liberal cinematic hit job against Trump, who they are obsessed with and drove these people fucking insane.
They're always kooky, but really, really motivated these people to be the absolute fucking worst they could possibly be, the lowest of the low.
Zero morals, zero scruples, just nothing but hard, refined revenge of just the obsession to destroy this fucking man at any cost, up to and including literally blowing his fucking head off.
He drove half of this country into such a fucking tizzy, and I still cannot understand why.I think it's a self, it's kind of, not an uroboros, but it's like a self, perpetuating mentality.
They found him annoying in the beginning and obnoxious and then they just kept quantifying and then they found him dangerous and now they have whipped themselves into a frenzy and they have convinced themselves that this guy is literally Hitler.
There was a fucking headline and the The Atlantic the other day, and it said, yes, Trump is literally Hitler.That's what the fucking line, they did the thing, they became the meme.
This is how wound up these people have gotten themselves, and it's all of their own making.It's a problem that didn't exist, and they have now turned it into an existential threat.It's just the craziest thing, he is the most reviled,
political figure.It's got to be in US history, at least in the last 100 years, at fucking least.I don't think anyone's hated anybody this much since the secessionists in Lincoln.
Honestly, just the vitriol and the burning scorn for this fucking man is just unparalleled. I initially had no interest in this movie.And I read the, somewhere I started, just for shits, I started reading reviews.
And it got like, you know, I figured like, you know, the fucking liberal leftist reviewers on Rotten Tomatoes and things would just fucking worship this to the moon because it probably denigrates Trump.
And it's like, that is the lifeblood of their fucking existence at this point, because they're just such empty, nasty, unbound, un... People with no foundation, and this is what drives them, you know what I'm saying?And it unifies them.
They're all their fucking mutual hatred for this fucking guy, it's just so silly.And actually, the reviews were kind of... When I read them, it gave me the same feeling I got as when Oliver Stone made W. Do you remember that movie W?
Oliver Stone made it while Bush was still in office.It might've been his last year in office, right?And I really was only interested in it because Josh Brolin was playing Bush and I just fucking love that guy.
And he's just such a, he's such a goddamn cypher.He's so good at playing people.His fucking, remember he played, I talk about it all the time, but like, you know, Men in Black 3 was an embarrassing pile of shit.
Honestly, one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Men in Black, and I like Men in Black 1.2 is like not great.3 is abysmally fucking bad.I mean, one of the worst part 3s I've ever known of, you know?
But he's so good as a younger... Tommy Lee Jones, it's amazing.Like, he doesn't even just get his... He gets his whole...
physicality right and his whole, you know, he's got the voice and the delivery and everything, but he just like, you believe this guy a hundred percent that he's a fucking younger Tommy Lee Jones.It was really, I really, I couldn't believe it.
It was the only fucking saving grace of that piece of shit movie.But, um, um, Or was I going with that?Oh, yeah.So I still hate him.Probably hate him even more now, considering how he's become a leftist darling somehow, George W. Bush.I hated him.
I hated that whole fucking administration.I hated the fucking religious right.I hated all of it. So I went into that movie just kind of, they said the same thing.They're like, it's actually kind of, it's almost a sympathetic portrayal of Bush.
Like it's kind of, he really went surprisingly easy on him.And it's kind of an interesting character study.
And it was, I really wasn't expecting anything when I went to CW, but I walked out at like actually liking it and almost having a, uh, I guess it lessened my hatred of George W. Bush.
about 5% but he gained it all back in the year since and his little cozying up to all the fucking Marxist laughter and everybody else now all of a sudden him and fucking Cheney are almost all they got to do is come out say the magic words I don't like Trump and they're automatically accepted into this fucking hive mind anthill of a fucking country we've devolved into one of these people but uh
So for that sake, they said kind of the same thing about this movie.They said it's almost a sympathetic portrayal of Trump.Like, we really were expecting a total fucking hatchet job on this guy.
And the movie's kind of, it kind of gives him a fair shake.So I wasn't expecting that.And I said, well, I liked W. I don't know if W's held up over the years.I need to rewatch that.But at the very least, Josh Brolin is fucking great.
He's so good as fucking George. So I said, in the words of Frank Pantangeli, sometimes I can do a really good Pantangeli, and sometimes I cannot.Hang on, I'm taking a sip.This is a Purple Haze.Bang!Energy drink.Bang!
Very little sleep and a lot of caffeine.I'm a little banged up from all the fucking margaritas I drank, but I'm trying to hold it together.So, handful of theaters.So I went to the... The Lamley Noho, a theater I really love.
It's kind of an independent kind of artsy theater.I went there to check it out.And again, bar is low, but I'm like, who knows?Maybe I'll have another W here.So I'll give it a shot.Now, first of all.
The movie begins and uh, I can't remember if there's any trailers that pissed me off.I don't, I don't have any notes on it.So I guess not, but remember how I've been complaining?Like I went to see Romulus, something's going on all of a sudden.
And I don't know if I don't know where the problem is here.I don't know if it's. From the way the, what they call the DMSC is sent to the right, it's their digital projectors.I think that's what it's called.
It's, it's the, you know, instead of a, instead of the real, the physical reels of the movie, the, whatever the, uh, whatever they use to, to, uh, to project the movie onto the screen.
I don't know if it's given to the theater in the wrong format or the theater is fucking it up somewhere.But you know, we keep getting black bars on the top and bottom of the screen.The image is not filling the whole screen.
And then this time, there's black bars on the sides of the screen.Like it was a 16 millimeter film or something that we were watching.It didn't have the right format to fit on the whole screen. And it never fucking fit.It never straightened out.
I'm like, why is this fucking thing not taking up the whole screen?What the fuck are these black bars?There was another one of these movies.It's so frustrating.It looks so... You're missing fucking a quarter of the fucking image on the side.
So you can't see what's going on.So it opens up with Trump in the 70s.He's facing that infamous
They accused the Trump family of racism because they owned a series of a bunch of properties in New York City and they were trying to say that they wouldn't rent to black people or when black people came to inquire about rent in the apartment they would lie and say that it was way more than it was so they couldn't rent the apartment.
sued for racism and things, which that's a key element of the first part of the movie, which they end up winning that case with the help of fucking Roy Cohn, a famous lawyer, Roy Cohn, who was a big, I don't know how much you know about Roy.
He's a big, pretty fascinating figure.There's a whole, There's a whole documentary about him on HBO, which I'll get to later here, which is a factor.But leftists and liberals absolutely fucking hate Roy Cohn.
He was an America-loving Republican, a bit of a far-right figure. I keep wanting to say the Goldbergs.The Rosenbergs to the electric chair because they were spies and everything.
But most controversially, he was a key aide to Joseph McCarthy and all the anti-communists. Looking back now, was it a witch hunt, or were they correct in a lot of these?
Because Hollywood's favorite pearl clutching ever is the Blacklist and the McCarthy hearings of the 50s, where they went through Hollywood and parts of our society and tried to find out if people were subversive communists and were selling secrets to the Soviet Union.
If you remember historical context, which leftist liberals also fucking hate, is we were in a very neck-and-neck heated, not heated, The direct opposite word.
We were in the Cold War, the height of the Cold War back then, but you know, teetering on the brink of real war.
And then you find out later, most of these people were Soviet sympathetic, communist sympathetic, communist, bringing in anti-American elements in the society. Well, you fast forward to 2024 and look how things are going.
Do you think they were maybe right about a lot of these people, a lot of these factions, that if you don't nip these things at the bud, the vine keeps on growing and maybe takes over your entire culture, society, and government?
What do you think they're teaching on college campuses?Do you think they're communist friendly?What other anti-American... ideas, do you think that they are huge fans of and indoctrinate all these students and things with?
Have you walked into a fucking bookstore lately?Walk into a Barnes and Nobles and take a look at all the new releases and tell me how many pro-America, pro-American society fucking books there are on the fucking shelf.
If you find one, I'll buy you a bottle of fucking Glenlivet, right?So that's another factor in the story.So their portrayal of Roy Cohn is never
usually, especially to the leftists, you know, in liberal Hollywood media and stuff, is never favorable either.
I'll say in this one, because they want to make Trump the bad guy ultimately, they actually almost kind of give a sympathetic portrayal of Roy Cohn.But this fucking guy's Roy Cohn is a, what an amazing approximation.
It's such a, all the, like the physicality, the way he moved his head and stuff, like he was really fucking interesting and,
I don't know, I watched a bunch of Roy Cohn stuff after, and I think the guy oversold it a little bit, but regardless, his version of Roy Cohn on screen was really fucking captivating.It was really cool, it was really interesting.
And I didn't know any of this story, so it was interesting to me.So Trump starts out as a mover and shaker in New York, and his family, he's becoming a rising name in the real estate thing, and he's going on dates and stuff and going around.
trying to make a name for himself and he also needs help with this court case because it could ruin their whole real estate enterprise and stuff like that.
So he's like hanging out in these kind of high-end New York clubs and then he runs into Roy Cohen because Trump wants to be a winner and he knows that Roy is rich and powerful and can politically help him.He kind of befriends him.
And then Roy likes him so much, he kind of takes Trump under his wings and shows him, you know, kind of how to be a sleazebag and how to get things done legally or less so.
But there really is the first, I really liked the look of the first part of this movie.It looked like, Somebody here?I thought I heard the gate open.It was like a really cool, grainy 70s New York.You know, this is like the Studio 54 era.
Did I say this?Roy Cohn was a closet homo.The guy was gay, but he was outspoken against homosexuals.And in the end, he was one of the early HIV victims and HIV deaths.But he swore until his dying day on his deathbed that he did not have AIDS.
And everyone knew, but he could not admit to himself or anyone else that he actually had AIDS.He tried to say that he had liver cancer or something like that.He would not fucking cop to it.
So Trump comes under his wing and he starts climbing the New York ladder.And it was cool to see And it really is a pretty objective view of Trump.And you actually kind of like him.You admire his tenacity and his ambition, you know what I mean?
To move up and make a name for himself and to get rich and to be the best in New York real estate and everything else.They don't really get into politics until later.But Sebastian Stan's portrayal is pretty good, pretty accurate.You like him.
You like Trump. In the beginning, you like him.And it's so funny.So he's got to navigate all these social circles and go to a lot of parties and stuff like that, and a lot of bars and stuff involved.
And it's just so interesting to think that Trump never drank.The guy just didn't drink.So we'd have to go to all these things where everyone's getting wasted.
We just have to kind of stand around awkwardly and he's just drinking like waters or fucking Diet Cokes and like there's a couple scenes like, well, he'll go, you know, he was always kind of like a reserved guy.
Like he'd go to these parties and he would just be in his business suit and there'd just be, you know, he'd go to Roy Cohn's parties and there's like, you know, all kinds of like, uh, there's a great Andy Warhol.Holy shit.Was it?
I think it was, um, God, I didn't even think to check the credits, but I, I, I swear it was, uh, I think it might have been Crispin Glover, but whoever was Andy Warhol, and this was fucking perfect.Trump doesn't even know who he is.
He's like, oh, you're a photographer?He's like, yeah, my name's Andy Warhol.But he'd go to these kind of parties at Roy's house where there's girls pulling their tits out, people doing coke and stuff everywhere.
And Trump's just walking around in his suit and his trench coat, just sipping on a water.They're all uncomfortable because he doesn't party like that.And I'm like, I have been that guy.It was so...
One of the great portrayals I've ever seen on screen of somebody that is socially awkward and doesn't know how to conduct themselves.I've been to so many clubs.And I would like to go just to see all the fucking wackiness and the hot chicks.
But I couldn't dance and I couldn't... In later years, I drank and stuff, but for a long time, I didn't even drink.And I was just like, God, this is so... I want to be here, but I don't want to be here. It's this weird fucking in-between world.
And I was like, oh my God, I fucking know that feeling.I know exactly how he feels right now.I had a fucking 500 of what's happening to this fucking guy on screen right now.So it looked cool, but there was this weird thing where I don't know.
I can't explain it.I don't know if he, it looks like he has lipstick on.It looks like Trump has lipstick on for the whole first fucking like two acts.And he'll be in the club and he's got this weird pink hue to his lips.
And I'm like, what the fuck is that?What was that about?I don't know.That was very strange.But if you see it, and if you think the same thing I do, it's like, is he wearing lipstick?Is he supposed to be?
But then it would be in a more, a scene with more light in it, like when they're outside and it doesn't look like it.It was very strange.But anyways.So, pretty objective view, a somewhat sympathetic view, a likable character for most of the movie.
And like, I wasn't, it was okay.It was, it was, like I said, I didn't know anything.I didn't know that he had any kind of Roy Cohn connection.So all this stuff was kind of interesting to me.
And I'm like, there's no way, this is going way too soft on this reviled figure.And then, of course, in the third act, now the knives gotta come out.
I was in a whole theater of such fucking overt liberals, there was this whole fucking row of these old ladies, I heard them chattering before the movie started, and they were just these old fucking blue blood, they were there to get their fucking,
because they don't get enough of it throughout the day, through every single cultural institution we have that spends its entire existence just completely admonishing Trump and making him look terrible and lying and exaggerating about him and everything else.
They got to do this, too.Now they got to come to a movie at a movie theater and sit and watch another two hours of it because they didn't get enough of it all day on MSNBC and CBS and fucking... PBS, MSNBC, you fucking name it.
The Washington Post, the fucking, how many more institutions could I possibly, that are all 100% geared towards maligning this fucking man?Because these children, these emotional children cannot control themselves.
So you get what you paid for by the third act.Now the knives come out.So I don't know if this was on purpose.Again, I don't know if this was a defect in the projector at the theater or if they intentionally did this when they shot it and put it out.
If they did, it's really stupid and extremely off-putting.The whole last fucking half hour or so, the last third act, Looks like you're watching it like it was all shot with kind of a shitty 80s camcorder.
Like the visual kind of gets distorted on the screen and it just kind of looks yucky.And then they make Trump get fat and they make his skin all... They're so childish.There's a scene where he's talking to Ivana and he's at a ski resort.
He's first courting Ivana Trump, his first wife, you know what I mean?The girl that played her was really cute.The actress was fucking adorable. And he's like, all right, well, I'll see you later.And then he slips on the ice and falls on his bum.
And I'm like, this is what we were, this is what, this is the fucking humor level for these childish idiot.Pratt falls, Trump fell down, go boom, they left everybody.But most of the movie didn't do that.
It was, it was, but they had to throw that in there midway through the second act.Cause like, oh, these people all came to see Trump look terrible.We haven't done that yet.So we better give them just a little something.
Don't worry, folks, the knives are coming soon.
So then Trump ascends to power, he becomes the king of New York real estate, and now he's starting to have political ambitions, and we get into the 80s and everything else, and he's got his whole real estate empire.
And then the whole movie kind of falls apart. They say this, I think Norm MacDonald said, I heard a clip of him talking about this the other day.They said, do you like Alec Baldwin's impression of Trump on Saturday Night Live?
And Norm said, no, I don't.And it's not funny.And you know why it's not funny?Because when you're impersonating somebody, you can't hate their guts.Because you're not going to get a fun or funny interpretation of them.
You're just going to get your vitriol shown under a surface level of your version of them. So it makes it not funny.
Now, if you hate the guy, you laugh along with it and you enjoy Alec Baldwin's impression, because you hate Trump and it makes him look like an asshole.And that's the thing that makes you go throughout the day.
So that's what they did in this third act.And then the story just starts falling apart.And they just take a shovel and they take every fucking Trump... tabloid story and just shovel heaping fucking loads of this stuff onto the fucking screen.
And before this, it really was, like I was saying, like an interesting kind of objective movie.It shows him doing, you know, I don't know how true all this, I've heard tons of stuff about Trump.
The guy was a millionaire in New York City, a millionaire real estate developer.He had to cut some corners to get things done.If you didn't work with the mafia, you didn't get your fucking building built back then.And people, you know,
Shocker, he's flawed.He's a flawed person.It's crazy.It's almost like if you examine any historical figure ever, you'll find things that they did that were less than perfect. Shocker, this guy has that going on.The movie, it touches on those things.
That's why I'm like, he's getting off pretty easy here.I have a feeling they're not through with him yet, and they're not.And this fucking third act is just insane.Just ridiculous stuff.
And then there's a, most shockingly, and this is, I was doing research on it afterwards,
The Trump was trying to sue them get the movie to stop put out because there's a scene where he's married to her But she insults him and calls him fat and tells him his hair is falling out and he fucking rapes Ivan and Trump his wife he like fucking forcefully Has sex with her
pretty graphic, pretty vile fucking scene.And I was like, I don't think that happened.That was pretty fucking egregious.You could say whatever you want about the guy, and then he left fucking Roy Cohn in the dirt.
They made a huge deal about him not wanting to touch Roy, because Roy obviously had AIDS, and then Trump didn't want anything to do with him. I don't know how much of that, again, he was a flawed guy.No one knew anything about fucking AIDS back then.
They didn't really know how it was spread or anything else.This is like the first days of it.So yeah, it was probably, if that really happened, it's less than ideal.I'm sure he wasn't the only one doing it or thinking it.
It was, no one knew how it worked yet.Anyways. That fucking rape scene was insane.
I was like, oh my God, like what the... I love that they can just say or portray anything about this guy with pretty much no fucking legal consequences or none of that because the entire fucking machinations of the country and the law are all united against this fucking dude because they hate him so much because he's Orange Hitler.
And then I look it up, and you know where they got that story from?It was from testimony from Ivana Trump's, not only was it testimony from her during their divorce trial, it was later recanted by her.She said it never happened.
And even when she initially said it happened, she doesn't describe it any, she basically said he like threw her to the floor and insulted her.
She didn't say he climbed on top of me and forced his dick inside me and violently raped me like they show in this movie in fucking graphic detail. I'm like, that is so insanely fucking irresponsible and reprehensible.
You cannot like the guy, okay, and you can make a movie maligning him, but to lie and say that this is the lengths that these people will go.They have lost all touch with reality.
I want her to have been raped by him, so I'm going to put that in the movie and convince people, maybe people that don't know that much about him to go, oh yeah, he is a rapist.
He's such a rapist because E. Jean Carroll's testimony of him allegedly raping her 50 fucking years ago, that has changed 18... It's the most ridiculous story.It doesn't... She's changed it a million times.She doesn't know the date.
She doesn't know when.She doesn't know what she was wearing.It's all changed.At one point, she said, rape is kind of sexy.Look it up.It's on YouTube when she was getting interviewed by Anderson Cooper.It was so bad, they had to cut away from her.
Cut the commercial.Cut the commercial.You better cut the commercial if you still want this job or you won't be here tomorrow with this corporate rip-mob.
They cut the commercial in the middle of her fucking thing, and then they came back, and she was gone!Because she's a fucking kook!Lydia, you are a flake.You've always been a flake.If you insist on scaring someone, do it with your sculpture.
She was like Lydia from Beetlejuice, E. Jean Carroll.She's a fucking retard, and she's a liar! So now he's got to pay what?
One billion fucking dollars to this idiot because she sued him in a civil trial because the criminal trial completely fell apart.There was no evidence.It was all conjecture from her.And now he's got to pay this fucking idiot, this lying twat.
in perpetuity, because, well, I say he raped me, so I guess he did, and all these activist judges that don't like him and can't wait to make a name for themselves, and then write a book about their version of the Trump trial, where they came out the fucking hero, and now they get a million dollar fucking book deal.
That's all that goes on with all this stuff.There's no, this guy can, whether you like him or not, we're supposed to have a system of laws and things that keep citizens, like, you know, he's not the president right now.
I was supposed to protect you, and we're supposed to have equal justice and fairness under the law, and this guy does not.It's just he cannot get a fair shake.He cannot get anything.
He can hate his guts, but he got to at least say he should have a fucking fair trial in these things where there's little or no evidence.Whatever.I can go down the whole rabbit hole, but yeah, they make his skin look like shit.
They make him look all fat.They turn him into just a complete retard, like the way he talks and the stuff that he says.
He went from this kind of like, from this wily, ambitious climber in the first part of the movie to just like, how did he turn into such a fucking dummy by the end?The whole movie, you know what it reminded me of?
It was Wall Street, the plot was Wall Street meets Raging Bull.That's what it was.The whole first part of the movie reminded me so much of
Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox in Wall Street, you know, cozying up to Gordon Gekko and, you know, doing illegal trades and stuff so that he could rise to the top of the stock market.It was just like that.It was a fucking Wall Street plot.
And then he becomes this self-destructive tyrant, just like fucking Jake LaMotta and abusive and everything else, and chases away everybody else in his life because only his own fucking success and ambition is all he's got.
It was just, it was so ridiculous.It like wrecked the whole movie because it wasn't,
They still could have kind of showed him like that, like going back to the Norm MacDonald thing, like you could have got your digs in on him but still told the story in a historically accurate way.
And then you probably would have had more people watching it.You probably would have got more people, you would have got a bigger audience.
You could have got more people from the right to go and see it, to go, well, if they could tell his story objectively, yeah, maybe he's got some flaws and stuff and you have to put them in there, especially if they really happened.
historically, of course, but then to just come out in the end and just make them into fucking Freddy Krueger, like everybody, everybody wanted.That was the real, and then now look how limited the audience is.
It's open in a fucking handful of theaters.
The whole thing will probably make, you know, fucking 30 million bucks, and it could have made a ton more money if you could have appealed to the other side too, but they can't, they don't have the fucking maturity to do that.
These people, they are fucking, they are adolescents inside.It's fucking, fucking really ridiculous.And the fucking soundtrack was terrible.It sounded like they made it with a Casio keyboard and you got a Kmart for fucking $35.
I was like, what are they doing here?The fucking look and that visual thing they did with the fucking video camera.I am dying to know.In fact, I'm going to keep an eye on the next issue of
American cinematographer next time I go to fucking Banpro and picked it up and see I hope there's an explanation in there as to whether or not that was intentional or not because it fucking it was so Visually off-putting and if like if that's like the filmmaker nudging you going get it guys.
He's so gross I want the movie to be physically revolting to even look at like I No, it's physically revolting to look at, and it's hard to watch, and it looks like shit.Your movie looks like shit.It's really distracting.
You're trying to tell a story here, and now you've got all this fucking crap in the way, and now we can't concentrate on it.You shot your own self in the foot.Again, I don't know.
Maybe the projector was fucked up, and it wasn't supposed to be like that. I have a feeling it was intentional.I think they really thought that was really fucking clever, guys.
We're going to make his skin all blotchy, and we're going to have a really graphic scene of him getting all the fat sucked.He's laying on a table all fat, and they're sucking all the fat out of him.
And really graphic detail, again, like Lucy Mancina's vagina, cutting his head open and giving his hair a fucking transplant.It's like,
it's supposed to be like he's turning into a monster get everybody he's like frankenstein and that's what he's gonna do if he gets an office it's gonna be like evil frankenstein everybody fucking fucking split this country up please national divorce today let's please split up and get away from these people i don't want to fucking
Share a country with them anymore.I don't want to coexist.They're fucking crazy.They want us dead.They are completely irrational and impossible to fucking deal with.Let's all just figure out a way to go our own fucking separate ways.
Maybe just for a while.Can we have a trial?Let's have a decade where we split up and we all go our own ways and don't deal with each other.And they can go have their fucking leftist utopia.
And they can have all the unicorns and wishes that they want on their side.And we'll stay over here and do our thing. like America was in the 80s, let's say.We'll bring it back to that.Can we fucking, can we do that?
And one more thing, I'm sorry about the politics.I can't help with this episode.I gotta hit something.I'm moving on to a non-political story in a second, so I'll try and break it up.So my roommate is a big, like I said, this guy's,
Not a bad guy, he's okay, he's trustworthy to live with and stuff, and a nice guy overall.Definitely on the spectrum, hard to have a conversation with and stuff.Very odd dude, but an okay guy all around.
And one night we're in the, we barely see each other.He works nights, I work, I see him a couple fucking times in the whole week.It's a pretty good deal.
So one night we came in and he's like, he's like, I've got a story for you, man, you want to hear it?
It's always like this, all of it with leftists, this haughty, I'm better than you, I'm your intellectual superior tone to when they talk, he goes, I got a story for you, and he might like this one, because I know you're a far, what do you say, he goes, you're a far right conservative.
I go, whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm not a far right conservative, I'm barely conservative. I'm more center right.I'm pro-choice and I'm not a religious conservative.And he's like, oh really?And I was like, yeah, yeah.
See what happens when you actually talk to somebody and suck your head out of the fucking bubble that you ensconced yourself with?
Every day, 24 hours a day, again, where every single fucking political and social institution is almost completely ideologically captured by these fucking people and feed you an endless supply that you just fucking slap my wrist like a heroin junkie.
Give me more, more, more.Give me more fake bullshit and lies and exaggeration so I can get all worked up.The fucking division that is manufactured.I don't know.
I don't know how we can possibly go forward as a fucking country, speaking of national divorce, with a media like this that is 100% geared on total division and just getting people worked up and completely lying.
I mean, every quarter they get more out of control with the things that they say, with the complete... Fantasy, this is like literal fantasy.
The things they say about Trump, like if Trump's gonna win the election, the thing, he's gonna arrest all of his political opponents.It's the end of democracy as we know it.
Women's vaginas will be sewed shut and you'll have a, they'll heat up a fucking crucifix and burn it onto your forehead like a, it's just insane.
It's just insane, especially the closer the election gets, because they're so desperate, because they know they're losing and that they're still,
Some modicum of common sense that cannot be fucking denied in this country and just Justin for now We'll see how long this lasts if he wins.I don't pull something.
I know he's not gonna but Somehow is prevailing and people see through Four years of the complete insanity.We just had under this fucking administration how much worse things will get and these people just
Orange Hitler has been such a sleight of hand.Like, no, no, no, Trump is so fucking scary.Don't pay attention to any of the multitude of fuck-ups and disasters that have made your life infinitely fucking harder and more difficult.Don't ignore that.
Listen to all our fucking stories about this, you know, using him as a fear cudgel to get you to vote the way they want you to vote.Anyways, so,
That's how he starts the conference, and like laughing, like this, like, I know you're a far-right conservative, but... And then he tells me this story about... He was at 7-Eleven over by our house.He goes, I watched this guy.
And it's like, this is how fed up people are.This fucking guy is like one of the people in the Matrix.They show all the people and they got the fucking tubes all fed in.This is how indoctrinated this guy is.
But even he is starting to see through this shit.He goes, I went to 7-Eleven.I went in there.This fucking guy. That's the ethnicity.I'll just say a non-white person, what I dare.And like filled their arms full of shit and just walked right out.
And it was all, my roommate got all pissed off.
And he was like, what the, I can't fucking believe this guy's allowed, he goes, so I start talking to the clerk and the clerk tells me, yeah, they passed, he goes, did you know there's a law here that you can steal up to like $950 worth of stuff and you don't get prosecuted?
I'm like, or it's not a felony?I'm like, yep, yes, that's been on the books for a while.And I think he's like, I mentioned, because a couple ballots got sent to our house, and as a joke, I was like, hey, you want one of these ballots?He was like, no.
I don't even think he's going to fucking vote, this fucking guy.But here he is complaining about the fucking laws.So then he goes, I called the cops to see if the cops would come fucking.He goes, no, no cops showed up.
They weren't even going to fucking bother.The city's completely out of control.He's all pissed off.And he wanted to come vent to me, because as the far right fucking, I don't know, bigot that I am.I could understand these things.
He's got someone to talk to about it.Because if he talks to one of his liberal friends, they'll go, well, you don't understand the plight of the non-whites and the systematic oppression and racism.
They're probably just stealing bread to feed their family.Like, yeah, that's what's going on.
But he tells me all that stuff, and I was like, yeah, man, you should get out and vote and get fucking George Gascon out, because he came in here and basically made crime legal in the city.The guy doesn't care.He's like a living Batman villain.
So I'm like trying to get through to him.And he's like, yeah, yeah, it's pretty crazy. I forgot, somewhere along the line, I said something and I was like, yeah, but this stuff's all over the news.
And I was like, you're probably more informed than me.I think you pay a lot more attention.He tells me. You know where he gets his, he told me he gets his news from The Daily Show and Stephen Colbert.That's where he gets his quote unquote news from.
That's it, he listens to the show every day.And those interpretations of it, from late night comedy, quote unquote comedy fucking hosts. This is where this guy gets his worldview and his political fucking opinions.
Rarely, sometimes he'll be home eating or something, and he'll be watching that day's Jimmy Kimmel on YouTube or something like that.And I'll sit there and listen to these fucking god-awful, truly unfunny monologues.
Their sense of refined humor boils down to, Trump!Trump!Am I right, Trump?And he'll sit there and he'll snicker at him.I actually caught him this morning when I was leaving and he was listening to it. And the monologue was so bad.
It was Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.And they played some clip of Trump talking, and it cuts back to Jon Stewart.I'm on the other side of the kitchen, I can just hear this.And Jon Stewart repeats what Trump said in a dumb voice.
Trump is like, I'm gonna keep campaigning in Michigan, and we're gonna keep moving on, and we're gonna make America great again.
And it cut back to Jon Stewart, he goes, we're gonna get to Michigan, and we're gonna get, this is their level of humor and fucking maturity.This is how the left handles things. fucking childish, this adolescent nonsense.
And then he said just some really shitty joke.And of course, he's got to swear and say a bunch of F-words in it.I'm like, yeah, you guys are real serious political commentary here.Your emotional control is really considerable.
I can really tell you're a person whose opinion should be fucking taken seriously with some real gravitas.You know what I'm saying?I couldn't believe that.I get my news from The Daily Show and fucking Jimmy Kimmel.
Oh my God, we are so fucked, but even that guy is starting to fucking see through it, so I don't know, probably won't vote and he'll just sit there and keep complaining about it until he gets robbed or he gets his windows broken and the thing's stolen out of his car, but hey, no more mean tweets, right?
The bad orange man is not in there giving us the most peaceful four years in the last fucking 30 years.Good economy, peace in the fucking Middle East, great, awesome. So, yes.Did I miss anything?Right.OK.All right.OK.Oh, yeah.And one last note.
I found out that, did you see Trump at that Al Smith dinner last week?It's like a political, you know, one of these things where they get together and kind of roast each other.
And she, of course, come out and show him, because she doesn't have a fucking sense of humor to save her goddamn life.She said in that awful, did you see that fucking,
I'm sure this wasn't covered on fucking Colbert or Kimmel or the fucking Daily Show, but that awful that got, I'm sure they didn't have a word to say about that terrible sketch she tried to make with fucking Molly Shannon playing the fucking superstar with the hands in the armpits.
And it was so dreadfully unfunny.Again, just keeps going back to the same thing. You can't, none of this liberal humor is funny.You only, you don't even, you laugh with it, not even at it, because it aligns with your political idea.
It's not actually funny.You get an endorphin release from hearing people make fun of your fucking political enemies slash Trump, because they're all so stupid, everyone's so dumb.You guys are all so much fucking smarter.You believe in the science.
Hello?Hello? Sorry, it is still technically work hours.But you know what I'm saying?This is all it takes to entertain these people.They just have to hear the magic words, Trump is bad, or some variation of that.
But they had that dinner, and Trump had some pretty good jokes.And I started a thread on... stand-up, Reddit stand-up, going, does anyone know?I'm like, I'm not trying to get political.
I'm just curious if anyone knows who wrote Trump's jokes for that dinner and how that process works.Like, how do they find it?Does anyone, is anyone on here?Were they involved?Like, do you know how they find a comic?How do they vet a comic?
Do they send Trump the jokes?And he says, yes or no.I'm like, not trying to get political.Again, I'm just curious.And the actual business side and the process of writing those jokes.And it actually shockingly stayed.It got a lot of responses.
It got like 100 responses or something like that.The thread was going for days.And it stayed pretty civil.It really didn't degenerate into politics too much.
But in the end, after some investigation, I heard that... There was maybe a couple of others, but Nick DiPaolo was the chief writer of those jokes.And then after I heard that and went back and listened, they were such fucking... Especially the...
I forgot what the punchline is.Because their wives and their wives' lovers all voted for him or whatever.Wife, lover, what?I was like, oh, that's such a fucking Nick joke.
There was a whole bunch that were very, had a real DiPaolo fingerprint all over them.So that was kind of fun.
I know that my fucking man, Nick, who I wrote a whole fucking pilot for and tried to get a TV series made, he never fucking read it, neither did his manager or anybody else.
Even though he read it in the green room and everybody fucking laughed and said it was a good property and something he should pursue.But he didn't. I guess that'll just languish in obscurity.I'm not bitter.I'm not bitter at all.
But that's good for him, you know, that he got to do that.That's cool.Roll for the president.And I wonder if there was some kind of NDA, because he didn't... He has a sort of podcast.He's with Steven Crowder, who I'm not a fan of.
So you have to pay, you have to subscribe to Crowder's network or whatever to get Nick's full show, but they very cleverly I don't know why more shows don't do this, but they'll take 20 minutes of Nick's show and put it out for free on a podcast.
So you could subscribe to his podcast, but you only get like a quarter of the show.But even then, I'll still listen just because I fucking love Nick and I like his... political insights and things.
Um, again, if you're of the leftist, I'm sure you won't agree with it, but, um, he's pretty, uh, he's of sound mind, but, uh, um, he hasn't mentioned it.He didn't say anything about it.I don't believe I listened almost every day before or after.
I don't remember him saying, uh, mentioning that he was writing those jokes.So I don't know.I wonder if there's, he's a sworn to secrecy or something.I'll cut here for a minute.I've been talking for an hour and 10 minutes straight.
Give me a second here.Give me a second.Okay. Cough drop time.We have reached that part of the episode.So this last weekend, I went to a heavy metal concert that was held at the classic Los Angeles venue, the Troubadour.
And the bands were one of my favorites.Wilhaven, the long defunct metal band that is back.And I'm very happy because I loved for a very long time when they were out of the picture. And they're also playing with this classic hardcore band, Strife.
One of the first big victory bands, early to mid 90s, had a huge following.I completely forgot or I wasn't even aware that they are from here.Strife are LA locals.I could never get in Strife.I always wanted to.
It was just a little bit too straightforward, kind of. It's like LA version of New York Hardcore, but shockingly at least it wasn't, you know, they didn't pussify it.Like they do everything else they try to adopt from these guys.
They were very respectable.I just never, there wasn't enough breakdowns.There wasn't enough, I was more into metalcore back then.I was more into like metal type bands.
I was never a huge New York Hardcore guy as much as I have a general affinity for it and definitely respect for it.There's not that many bands I can get into because it's just kind of the, a lot of it's not too musically, Not diverse.
What's the word I'm looking for?Dynamic.You know what I mean?It sounds kind of like the same song over and over again.It's just, you're really pissed off and you want stuff to yell about and here's just a very basic forum for you to do it.
So never was that, but anyways. But I must've seen them at some point in my lifetime.I'm sure I saw Strife, but if I have, it's been at least since the 90s.And I wasn't there to see them.They just happened to be on another show.
So I went there with Dude Bogues.I haven't been to a show with The Troube in many years.There was a chunk there from when I first moved here, like 04, 05, to the...
to, uh, uh, well, he said he and I, he said that we went to see hot water music there in 2014 books.And I, I don't even remember that, but that might've been the last show I ever went to there.It's been a long time.
Um, I know the day I, the week I moved here 20 years ago, I think the, the next night Was it the night we landed?I don't know.It was literally the night that we got to the apartment, or the next night.
Hot Water was playing at the Troubadour, which I knew was this legendary venue and everything.There's so much fucking history there, the doors and everything else, and Metallica used to play there when they were starting out, all that stuff.
But with everything going on with the move and stuff, I wasn't able to get tickets in time, and the fucking show sold out. And I was so determined to go see him.I mean, I was fucking 24, still full of piss and vinegar.
And I showed up to the Troubadour venue.I think it was the only time I ever did this and it worked.I saw the band, I saw a band loading in, in the back door.
And I went, I went into the back alley and there was a fucking, um, somebody was moving a fucking, you know, like a big ass guitar cabinet on wheels.
And I just grabbed the other side of the handle and just walked with, like I was part of the road crew and I walked right into the place.It was so awesome.I was so happy.I'm like, I'm in LA.I'm in the Troubadour.I fucking made it.Hot water music.
Here we go.And I went crazy.That was so fucking fun.That was awesome.I think that was the only time I ever was able to pull that off.But so it's been a long time.Yeah, I don't think it's bad.I couldn't tell you the last time I was in there.
So I'm there to see Will Haven.Now, an important aspect of this was or is that as much as I love the Haven, They're not great live.The singer, uh, is, is not exactly Mr. Personality.He's not, he's not a very entertaining front man.
He barely addresses the crowd.Um, they, they just, they finished their set and leave pretty abruptly.They don't do things like, I don't know.I don't know if the guy's got stage fright or what, but he never, uh,
He barely talks to the audience or anything.They don't say like, we got two songs left.You barely even get a, how you guys doing?Now I'll say at this show was the most vocal he's ever been as far, the most, uh, Polite.
I don't know if somebody finally gave him a talking to, because this is the third time I've seen them in like a year and a half or something.And he at least was like, how's everybody doing?That kind of thing, like a little bit.
I mean, he's really fucking stiff and awkward, kind of awkward.But their track, like all their track listing is so strange to me that they never play like their hits or anything.
The last couple, you know, the first time I saw them, they played that whole album from start to finish.My favorite fucking album of their soul.I didn't give a fuck.I was in outer space.I was so fucking...
Wound up, that was last August, yeah, when they played the whole Carpe Diem album.That's the zenith of my Wilhaven experience, because that's my fucking favorite album.I've been waiting my whole life to fucking, at least 20 years.
Yeah, they came out in 99 or 2000, that album, and I never, they broke up right after, and I never got to see it, and I had it stewing in my fucking bones for two decades, and then I finally got to, two and a half almost, it was 2023.
You know what I'm saying?So I went batshit.So I like, I think I've said this before, they have a, I gotta go back, I gotta do a deeper dive on them, get into their other albums.
But I know for one album, they had a different singer for a little while.But there's two, two and a half albums that I love.And then there's a couple other albums I don't, I never got into or just didn't like.And so there's a lot of songs in between.
So it's hard to keep a good, it's hard to keep a good mosh momentum going for that.Cause I don't know what they're going to play.But anyway, I wasn't really planning on going cuckoo because the last time I saw them they were quite underwhelming.
They only played like three or four songs I wanted to hear.They're still not playing any of their new songs.They just put out a new album like this year or the end of last year.They still have not played that Fury of Five fucking song.
I love that fucking song.What are you doing Haven?God damn it.I'm still waiting to hear that song.Anyways. So I really wanted to fucking take pictures.
I wanted to take pictures, so I hit him up on Instagram, and I hate bothering people like you heard last episode.
I'm like, I'm sorry to be a pain in the ass, but can you guys, another venue, they won't let you bring in a camera for whatever fucking reason.I'm like, can you guys put me on the press list?And he's like, yeah, I'll try.
Now, Cave-In did this for me last year, and that was really cool of them, and I got to take pictures at the Teragram Ballroom when they played there, because they're another one.I like a handful of Cave-In songs, but it's not...
You know, it could be a half hour before I hear another song I want to, like, march to.And then by then it's, you know, all the fucking energy's gone and stuff.So, it's fun to still watch them and hear the songs, but I can take pictures of them too.
It gives me a little something else to do, instead of just standing there, because it kind of gets boring, you know?So, uh... They were working on it.And then like the night before, I go, I go, how's tomorrow looking?He goes, you know what?
He goes, it's not our show.We're going to try to get you on.So I'm going to, I'm going to, I'll let you know in the morning, Saturday morning, because the show was Saturday night.Saturday morning, nothing.Didn't get a hold of me all day.
About four o'clock, the show's at like seven.They're on stage at like seven fucking 15 or whatever it is. So at like four o'clock, I'm like, what's going on?Was I able to get it on?
And this is the reason this is such a significant question is if I don't have to bring the camera, I could take the motorcycle to go there because there is no fucking parking.I don't know what happened in Beverly Hills.
It was always bad there to park.But now that whole intersection with like Santa Monica and Doheny over there, There is no fucking street parking available anywhere.
All those fucking side streets and all those rich neighborhoods there, like near the Troubadour and near that intersection, the fucking streets are just empty.There's no cars parked anywhere because you're just not allowed to park.
Even the residents don't get like, it's all like, every parking sign has like 15 fucking signs on the signpost.It takes us seven minutes to read it all and shit.
And in general, it's like, if you don't have a local permit to park there, you can't park there. And they don't fuck around, they'll just tow your car away now, it's nuts.
So, yeah, Bogues is like, I'm trying to find parking, it's a fucking ghost town.Now... A key element here, if they would have answered me and I could have taken my bike, Tree Man lives 100 yards from the fucking Troubadour and he has a parking pass.
So one of us will have a pass, but Bokes and I both drive fucking Challengers.I didn't hear from them and I'm assuming they got my name in.So to err on the side of caution, I took my car so I can bring my whole fucking camera kit there.
So I park at Tree Man's house and I get the parking pass.Bokes is driving, I'm looking for parking for like 40, Fucking minutes.There is nowhere because the next it's it's a drive.
It's about a half mile But the next you know, you're on Santa Monica Boulevard the next big Boulevard up is sunset So you got to try it there's at least some like a paid parking up there But you got to walk all the fucking way down probably a half mile down to fucking Doheny So he can't find fucking parking anywhere
And it turns out they never got my, they never answered me.They never got, they did not get my name.And I go to the fucking ticket windows.They're like, no, your name is not on here for a press pass.I'm like, motherfuckers.
So I could have just given him the fucking pass and taken my motorcycle here and parked it.Fuck. I was so pissed.Again, I hate to bother them, but they were working with me.I'm like, I'm going to give you cool pictures.
You couldn't take one more step?You walked me this whole way.We exchanged three messages.And now the day of, and you can't or won't confirm whether or not you got my fucking name.That's what pissed me off so bad, because it fucked the whole parking.
It would've been so much easier for everybody if they just told me.They fucking didn't.I was so annoyed.Anyways, that aside. So I don't plan on moshing, but I'm excited to watch them.
And they come out and the first fucking three songs in a row, fucking bangers.They finally, God, they finally open with Fresno.I wish I would've known the track listing ahead of time, because I probably would've got drunk and fucking moshed.
I fucking, the first song off WHVN.God, it's a song in a week.Fucking Fresno.Go, it's so fucking tough.And they finally played it.
I'd never heard that song in person before, and I heard the opening thing, and I was like, oh my God, they're playing it.
They played three in a row, and they played some song, and then they played that fucking awesome, do you want a piece of me fucking song. That Fast One, that was so good.
And it was a pretty short set, but they played, I still can't believe they didn't play, what the fuck's that one off the end of Carpe Diem?It's like the heaviest fucking song I've ever heard.
They're like, blow the fucking speakers out of your car, it's so tough.It's really weird track listening.They don't play like all their heaviest songs, it's strange.But I was really happy to play it.Good set, good, good.
Good song choices, and he actually addressed the crowd a little bit more.Like, he's getting better.He's starting to warm up a little bit, but Jesus Christ.I mean, these guys used to fucking open for Deftones at, like, arena shows and shit.
It's like, you haven't mastered this yet, sir?Or, like, I don't know, maybe he's just been out of the picture so long.He's just extremely rusty, but... Anyway, pretty good set.So... Now, the headlining band was this band called Barbarians of...
Barbarians of California, which I'd never heard, which folks told me was refused mix with every time I die.And I was like, all right, you got my attention.That sounds kind of good.
And the whole week leading up to the show, I kept forgetting to listen to them up to including the night of the show.I kept forgetting to check them out to hear if I would like them or not.But I guess the singer is famous because he was in, um,
He had a huge hit with that song.I didn't even know he was saying air.It's that song called Air.Here, I'll shove in a little piece of it.This is how I show my love I made it in my mind because
Like that guy in that song is now like this screamy like kind of metal band singer.And I didn't know that.I was like, oh my God, I think the guy's like a millionaire off that fucking song or that album.
But that's like the only other band he'd ever been in.And now he's in this all things considered like pretty much hardcore kind of band, like metal, hardcore.They were pretty good.They were, I mean, they sounded all right.
I still need to go and listen to their fucking songs and the thing, but on the day they sounded okay.Now Strife comes on. Boy, they're all this shit.The singer, he looks like an old firefighter.He looked like an old firefighter.
He could have been in Backdraft, the fucking singer.He was bald with this fucking porn.He kind of looked like Stone Cold Steve Austin.He had this big, thick mustache.
And the thing that drove me crazy about Stripe is they always had the coolest fucking merch.Their shirts and stuff were always so cool.And I wanted them so bad, but I didn't listen to them, so I'd be a poser.And this time was no different.
Their fucking merch stand in the front, they had the best stuff.
had a fucking basketball jersey nobody makes jerseys anymore fuck god he wanted it so bad i'm like you you strife fans are so lucky this band has a fucking basketball jersey they're so rare i do i love fucking hardcore band fucking basketball jerseys my fucking favorite but uh
So a lot of these places, it's weird, I've talked about it before, a lot of the big venues like the Whiskey, the, I always forget the name, what the one right next door to the Rainbow Room, the famous old, the last of like the famous old Sunset Clubs that are still standing, that have been around for like decades and classic.
The Roxy, the Roxy right next to the, the rules for what you can do at these shows are just so arbitrary and they just fucking change on a whim.
Like sometimes you get kicked out for moshing too hard, you get kicked out for clapping too fucking hard at one show and at the next one you can do fucking stage dives and like jump around with fucking metal spikes in your, like no one gives a shit and other ones like you get thrown out fucking for nothing.
And I've been dragged out of the troubadour in a chokehold where I was losing consciousness because I stage dove one more time after they told me not to.And the guy was dragging me.I literally was about to fucking pass out.
And somebody ran up from the crowd and punched that bouncer in the face and he let me go.And I immediately got up and ran right back into the fucking crowd.I'll never forget that.It was a lifetime show. Whoever that guy was, I wish I knew.
I'd buy him a fucking beer.Oh, there's a big giant fucking spider on the wall again.God, this place is a spider factory.Let's go see what is this.Let me see.Oh, all my butt cheeks hurt.I did legs yesterday.All my muscles are starting to hurt.
What is this?Is it a black widow?Hi, spider.Looks like it might be.It's a nasty looking fucking spider.It's a nasty looking spider.Trump.Should I kill it?I hate killing stuff.I hate killing insects.But I don't want to.So. Where was I?Anyways, yeah.
So Strife plays, and it's a fucking just complete mayhem.I'm like, well, it's nice to see this allowed this to fucking stage diving, a pile.I have not seen a pile on fucking years.
The singer gets down in the fucking crowd, starts singing, like 15 people will fucking jump on this huge, huge pile.I haven't seen that in forever.I forgot about the art of the pile on.
The annoying thing was, and I noticed this during Wilhaven and throughout the rest of the show, The place was fucking packed.I don't think it was... It might have been sold out.It was pretty packed.
It's really not that big of a venue, honestly, the Troubadour.
Now, there's a whole upper level where people can hang too, but as far as enough population on the floor to safely allow for stage diving and stuff, that there's enough people down there to catch people properly and stuff like that.
It was pretty good, but there was this gang, I know some of you will, they were pushing each other around, these little fucking dorky 16-year-olds.And then there was this one, this kid just kept fucking crowd writing over and over and over again.
And you could tell, I don't even think he was in any of these bands, I think he just came with his friends. But it was just like, look at him, and he went up like 10 fucking times.And it's not a Green Day concert.You don't do this at a show.
You crowd surf once or twice, and you mostly do it, especially at a hardcore show, to climb up to the front so that you can sing with the singer, because he's elevated on the stage, and now you're the same height as him, and you get to sing some of the lyrics with him.
It's fucking great. And this kid just kept going up over and over and over again.It's like, these are the ones that ruin it for everybody else.Because this moron keeps going up and just being like, woo, like smiling with his hands in the air.
And it's like, then you get dropped and you get hurt.And now we're not allowed to fucking, the professionals that know what we're doing are not allowed to fucking crowd stir for stage dive anymore.
Because you had to fucking keep going up over and over again.Like, what the fuck is the thrill of that?Like, what is the point?It's so fucking stupid.And at least twice, I remember he was getting passed around and people were getting sick of him.
And they just took this kid and launched him over into the fucking pit where it was an open area, throwing him onto the floor, trying to hurt him.Because everyone was so fucking annoyed with this kid.
Yeah, they were playing and people were fucking... to stage dive and overplay, great, classic fucking hardcore stuff, and you know it was fucking beautiful as much as I never became a fan of Strife.
This singer, conversely, had tons of crowd interaction, very good fucking hardcore frontman, knew how to keep everybody wound up and positive, and then he said, I think maybe the second song, and it's so rare that you get this, he says,
Fuck politics.I know hardcore and everything else is like, let's all have fun.Fuck your politics.Fuck everything else.And there was no other talk about politics in their song.There was no political rants in between.It was fucking wonderful.
I begged for that.I was like, God bless this band.At least one fucking band can do this and go, let's all just have fun and be fucking retards together.We don't need to talk about politics in here.I was like,
Fucking yes, fucking finally, it was so nice.That really made me fucking happy.
I really could go for more of that, because every goddamn show I go, I don't think Norma Jean does it, they don't get any political, they're metal, they talk about like the devil and shit, but these guys are all, it was so nice to hear that.
And then finally, so they played, it was, I wasn't really, they played a long time, people went fucking nuts for them.It was fun, it was like old school fucking hardcore shit.
I was like, it's nice to see LA and the West Coast can bring it, at least a little bit, you know.
And then that Barbarians band came on, and one of the big selling points is Bokes said that the singer from Snapcase does guest vocals on two songs on that album.And Snapcase is a classic Buffalo band.
They were the band that got us into fucking hardcore, basically, because back then, in the mid-'90s, they were fucking huge.One of the biggest bands around.They were on there.In fact, there was a classic album from, like, 95.
I still jam on all the time.I still love Snapcase's version of...
Steps on there, California Takeover, and it was Earth Crisis, Strife, and Snapcase all playing at the, I think it was at the Whiskey, but that was like when we were like 15, that thing was legendary, it was so cool, it was like all the hits from all those fucking bands, it was awesome.
The last time I saw Snap, I hadn't seen them in a very, very long time, I saw them a million times growing up in Buffalo, and their fucking shows were, those Snapcase shows at the fucking show place, especially when it was sold out,
Fucking absolute man.People would jump off these speakers.There was these fucking stacks of speakers on the stage.The stage is what, six feet off the ground?And then like 10 feet fucking high on the stage were these huge speakers.
And people would fucking climb on top of those, fucking jump off and do somersaults, flips into the crowd and everything.It was fucking awesome.I think like, I remember at least, Well, that last despair show, I'd never seen it before.
The owner came out and stopped the show, because it was getting so fucking out of control.And people were like climbing up to the ceiling and everything.They're like, you guys got to stop this.We're going to shut the fucking show down.
But other than that, pretty much anything went.That's why it's so hard to grow up all those years, my prime years, of going to those shows in Buffalo, where you could do whatever the fuck you wanted.And 99% of the time, it was fine.Nobody got hurt.
Everyone knew what they were doing.And then you come out here, and you get a wrist slap for fucking, for jumping up and down and shit.You're like, what the fuck?They're such goddamn babies.But anyways, so it was a long set.
There was so much fucking smoke.That's the problem with the True Bros.They have like smoke machines that'll blow smoke.And by the end of it, you couldn't see shit.It looked like you were in the middle of a fucking forest fire, for Christ's sakes.
But for the last couple songs, indeed, Daryl was there.We would hang out at the record store downtown.We would skip school when we were like 16, and Daryl Snapgates worked at the record store.
And we would hang out there and bother him with punk rock questions and everything. So, you know, he was like a youth, like a punk rock hero of our youth.So to see him out here is pretty cool, because, you know, he's always in LA.
But he showed up and his voice sounded a lot better this time, because his voice is fucking gone.He was never like a super, he wasn't like a Cookie Monster vocals guy.He was just kind of a screamy-yelly kind of sing.
But you could pretty much tell what he was saying, too, which was always nice, it always helps.But definitely sounded better.So he comes out, he does his... His song that he does, the guest tracks on, he flew all the way out here apparently for this.
That's what the singer fucking said.But he got up, he does his song, he's like, oh, cool, Daryl.And he's like, oh, if everybody doesn't know, Daryl was in a band called Snapcase.You guys like Snapcase?And I was like, yeah.
And he was like, all right, we're gonna do a song from Snapcase.And me and Boak were like, get the fuck out of here.And he takes the fucking, hands the thing to Daryl, and they fucking covered Caboose. best fucking Snapcase song.Holy shit.
It was so fucking awesome.I was like, oh my God.And his voice sounded way better.And the, I mean, the last time we, Bokes and I saw Snapcase years ago and everyone was like, they're fucking old and they're not good.And it fucking sucked, man.
We went, I was like, I don't think I'm ever going to go see them again.Like it was just depressing.It was nowhere near, I hadn't seen them in fucking 20 years, you know?And they just, they didn't have the energy.
They didn't have the, I don't know, maybe it was just a shitty show from them.Cause I've heard other people said they saw Snapcase and like they were, they weren't bad, but. I don't know, whatever, but it was fucking rad.
I cannot fucking believe we got there.I was so mad.Curse my metal body.I wasn't fast enough.Listen to them, R2.They're dying.
I should have ran up in the fucking bar, because lucky for us, we're old and we don't want to stay in the whole show, so we just had nice seats at the bar for the whole fucking thing.We just kind of watched in the back.I'm like, why am I not running?
Why am I not getting up and running into the pit?Why aren't you stomping Private Pyle's guts out? I should have got off my fucking ass and ran in, I didn't, like an idiot.
It was a fucking great rendition of... of fucking Caboose, it's such a fucking good tune.God, should I make that song in a week?No one cares, they're not gonna listen to it anyways.Should I do that fucking Wilhaven song?
Maybe I'll make Caboose from fucking Snapcase, why not?That was the best fucking... Oh, it's a fucking tie between Fresno from Wilhaven and Caboose from Snapcase.Two of my fucking favorite songs ever of that genre, god damn it.
Yeah, I'll make a caboose.Fuck it.I don't know if I've ever done a Snapcase song.That whole album is so fucking good.That progression, Do & Learn, it came out the year I graduated high school from Snapcase in 97.
And that fucking album is such a... Still to this day, I love it.It's a fucking banger.From start to finish, it's so good. That's one of my break glass in case of emergency gym records where I'm fucking gassing out at the end of a goddamn set.
I'm like, I fucking need something to carry my ass through and I'll put on fucking... And the production's so good.Fucking album sounds like a million... Well, not like a million bucks.
It's got that clean, all the right parts sound the way they should type of mix, which sounds like the most childish and elementary way to describe any sort of musical recording, but I just did that and now you're gonna have to live with it.So, yes.
We should have talked to him after.We didn't.We kind of half-assed waited around and were like, I don't know, you want to go?And we did.And the whole night I was like, why didn't we hang out and talk to Daryl?He's a fucking hero.
I should have got a picture with him.I hardly ever see the bloke, once every couple of years.I mean, not that I was ever friends with him or anything like that, but he's still, like I said, he's still kind of a fucking childhood hero of ours.
You still see him and you go, weeheehee, you get all excited when you see him at the fucking mall or anytime we'd see him out anywhere.
Yeah, and then we went to, so we walk up Doheny to Sunset, not realizing how long, it took us like 20 fucking minutes.It was such a long walk, uphill the whole way.It was fucking cold out when we got outside.It was hot in the venue.
We get outside, we're like, wow, it was like 60 degrees out.And so I went all the way to my car by Tremance to get my jacket.And we were halfway up Doheny.It's uphill the entire fucking, it's probably a mile.It's gotta be close to a mile.
I was fucking sweating my tokus off by the time I got off to Sunset Boulevard.I was like, Jesus Christ. And so they reopened, there's always been like a, so over there, Rainbow there on Sunset, it's near Doheny and Sunset, right?Rainbow.
And there's always, there's this building next door, there's a Bank of America that touches Rainbow pretty much.And then there's like, you know, a side street and there's been this building there for decades. that it's like on and off.
Sometimes it's just closed for years, but it usually solely exists as like one of these really exclusive kind of nightclubs.It doesn't have a sign or anything on it.
It's just the building's black and there's a door, you know, and there's a fucking doorman in a suit or whatever.And there's always a fucking line.I haven't seen it open in a long time, but apparently it's open again.
And it's all just youths trying to get in and the fucking... All of the hottest chicks on the fucking planet all come here, and they're dressed to the nines in the sluttiest outfits they can fucking cobble together with their ass treaks hanging out.
And folks, if we're just walking on Sunset Pass, like these lines of people trying to get this club, just the hottest fucking college-age chicks, incomprehensibly, just exotically beautiful from all over the place, like, oh my fucking God, these chicks are hot.
Jesus!Bru, every time I go to the fucking store and hang out on the patio, just a fucking pussy walking up and down Sunset, you're like, Jesus, oh my God.How is that a real person?She's so fucking hot.It's incomprehensible.
So we go to the fucking Rainbow.I was there jumping for a Saturday night.Pretty good.I didn't really fucking drink Saturday.I think I was burned out.I think I had like one or two drinks the whole night, but we got a fucking pizza there.
And then the fucking waitresses, oh my God.This one chick was so hot.She looked fake.She looked like a fucking porn star, the one waitress in the rainbow.She was metal hot.She had like a thing in her nose, but she was fucking beautiful.
Perfect little body, great tits.We're like, girl, look at this fucking girl.Fuck, there was like two in there that were just smoking.It was ridiculous. Pretty good pizza.I'll hang out afterwards and walk back.
And then we're walking back down Doheny, and they are just fucking... They don't fuck... No ticket, no nothing.They just tow your car.There was like an army of fucking... What a fucking scummy, sleazy fucking city.
They don't take the money out of your fucking pocket constantly anyways.Just towing fucking... There was a line of tow trucks.
after like midnight it must have been like a certain they were just waiting for the minute to turn midnight or whatever the meters or whatever the signs were you are the length you were allowed to park there the second it expired they just fucking towed your car right out of there all over the place i was like what fucking slime balls fucking place is unbelievable but uh
I'm still bummed.Why the fuck didn't I?I didn't talk to goddamn Dana Gould, and I didn't talk to Daryl, either.0 for fucking 2 on people.
There's no other, aside from sheer laziness, that I didn't... You know, that would have changed my... Well, it could have.I mean, Dana, who knows?
But... I didn't know it was going to change my world, but just, you know, it's... Everyone's getting old.You got to get these things done while you still have a chance.You know what I'm saying?So... That was that.That was fun.That was Saturday night.
Hang on, I got to go pee.I'm going to cut here for a second.OK, I peed.You know, maybe I'm going to cut it here.I had a couple more political things here, things that happened that I wanted to complain about.But I don't know.
I've had enough of the last two fucking episodes, right?Again, sorry, I can't help it.I really try not to. It is so ever pervasive, especially this time of year.It's in all our faces.But yeah, fuck it.I'll wrap it up here.
I will come back and give you, we'll do, or maybe I'll carry this in the next episode or something. Yeah, that'll do it.Thank you.Thank you again for listening.And I'm going to go see the old Norma Jean tomorrow night.
I'm going to try and see Smile 2 between now and the next episode.So I have more art to complain about.And hopefully try to make it funny somehow or some way. Boy, it got fucking chilly.It was so nice out here today.It was straight up hot out.
And then right around four o'clock, it turned into the Sherlock Holmes mystery.It got all fucking overcast and foggy and drizzly and everything else outside.So, yeah, it was nice.
Listen, I'd rather have it happen like this later in the afternoon than get over here in the morning and go from sunshine to just complete fucking muck in the morning.It's no good.But... I can't complain too much.
It's fall everywhere else, and it's probably chilly out today, and it's been sunny and fucking warm here, but... Boy, does it drop precipitously at night.It gets very cold.
It's very frustrating motorcycle weather, especially if you leave early in the afternoon when it's warm out.You're gonna have to adjust all your clothing and things for how chilly it's gonna get at night.You know what I mean?Yeah, that's it.
So, Luke, Luke, are you really gonna leave this episode by complaining about the weather? I wasn't really complaining.It was half and half, right?I half exalted it and half complained.
But I wish my life could just stay in that exact medium there, you know, right there in the middle.All right, here's Kaboosh from Snapcase.Fuck it.Love you.Bye.
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