The B.E.E. Podcast - 6/23/20 - Solo Bret - SILVER
Added 2020-06-24 00:17:37 +0000 UTCBret Easton Ellis talks about the rigid ideological conformity surrounding the eventful last few weeks in America and the remorseful Ad Rock of the Beastie Boys. Bret reviews Josephine Decker's Shirley Jackson "biopic" Shirley (2020) and the recent Netflix action film Extraction (2020).
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Carsten. Respectfully, you're a lunatic.
Dan brown
2022-04-07 20:48:23 +0000 UTCHard to believe that you <i>still</i> believe this BS. I guess you are 1. "liberal" and 2. independently wealthy.
Antonio Primavera
2021-11-11 17:58:25 +0000 UTCGreat monologue, as usual! I don't live in the US, but it is appalling to me that the media either barely reported on or they fully supported this rioting, looting, murder, and mayhem from BLM and anti-fa creeps, yet they refer to a "capitol insurrection" or <i>coup d'etat.</i> They are <i>still</i> on about that, and there is no comparison. Incredible.
Antonio Primavera
2021-11-11 17:56:45 +0000 UTCListening this more than a year after your record this I have to say that yet again you owe the press an apology. Maybe before talking about something like fighting viruses that you clearly have no knowledge about maybe you should just leave that to others. Rather than less shut downs we should have had more. It would be great to hear you set reflect on what you said in the past and hear if you actually learned something from it
Carsten Schmidt
2021-08-14 17:43:38 +0000 UTCSorry, Bret!!
DEWAINE R MCBRIDE
2020-07-07 00:59:22 +0000 UTCHi Brett. I'm not sure of the best place to post this, but have you reviewed Running on Empty? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096018/
DEWAINE R MCBRIDE
2020-07-06 19:34:30 +0000 UTCThought I’d clear up the ‘Wendy’s Burning’ thing in Atlanta. Two cops called about a drunk/drugged driver passed out at a Wendy’s drive through were utterly thrown under the bus by our mayor who in true delusion thinks she has a chance to be Biden’s VP and a corrupt rotten DA facing a tough re-election. In what was about as clear an example of a ‘good shoot’ as there can be (the guy attacked them, took ones Taser and smashed his face with it, then shot it at the other cop) they were fired and charged (and WAY overcharged, by intent, in order for further unrest upon dropped charges, by said corrupt DA-in true Atlanta style he paid himself an extra $300K from a slush fund) The Wendy’s (as if they had anything to do with it) was burned down by one of these skinny white people in black outfits who I’m guessing have daddy issues, for starters. APD is I’d guess about 70% black and I chat with some daily as my walk takes me by a station, which as it happens is all black officers. To a man & woman they are furious and demoralized. As I’m sure the LAPD NYPD Minneapolis PD etc are feeling. Criminals know this and are taking advantage. Trust me-one just shot at my car in my parking lot, JUST after I’d exited it. Enjoy. It won’t work out in your favor BEE pod comment readers.
MikeE
2020-07-06 08:40:31 +0000 UTCHow much addy is yung bret on
Erik Jerrard
2020-07-03 22:58:50 +0000 UTCI'm all for the logical right, but if you think Tucker Carlson is anything but an elitist shill being paid to promote fears and hysteria you are so lost lol
Chris Boyland
2020-07-01 21:52:57 +0000 UTCThis is my first listen since the podcast left the apple platform. I must that it feels really, really good to be back.
Wes Russell
2020-07-01 16:06:01 +0000 UTCRemember when all Clay wanted was to see the worst The internet is a giant snuff film
Ashley
2020-07-01 09:06:03 +0000 UTCI wish these had transcripts
LISA L MORTER
2020-06-29 01:24:22 +0000 UTCGreat pod. Wish Bret did two a week lol
Erick
2020-06-28 15:24:16 +0000 UTCHe was a good actor, I found him repulsive though. The way he breathed, not sure what it was
Erick
2020-06-28 15:23:44 +0000 UTCDear Lord please make this happen.
James Reeves
2020-06-28 14:14:20 +0000 UTCAnyone have a link to the old BEE podcast with Matt beringer of the National?
Richie Laufman (Dixie who went Yank)
2020-06-28 05:31:22 +0000 UTCBret has to try and interview James Woods. Between his contributions to film playing great, detestable characters from the 70s -90s and his post-empire not giving a f—k what people think now in the age of cancel culture is an interview made in heaven.
George Chumo II
2020-06-27 22:49:35 +0000 UTCLife is a pigsty. If you don’t know this, what do you know? - Morrissey
James Reeves
2020-06-27 21:44:13 +0000 UTCGiven the current culture war battles, I find myself looking at the words of Ronald Reagan. Not only was Reagan good-humored, his view of life was clear and balanced. Where is this generation’s Reagan?
Clive Desmond
2020-06-26 10:51:27 +0000 UTCMichael, it’s wild how off the farm he’s gone. What the fuck happened?
M. Nero Nava
2020-06-26 00:37:59 +0000 UTCApparently you can't edit your comments. Please disregard the misplaced "was"
Alec K. Redfearn
2020-06-26 00:03:01 +0000 UTCWell put. This was monologue was some broad-brush bullshit. I turned it off after the first 10 minutes. BEE is usually more nuanced than this. Disappointing. Loved the Casale interview, though.
Alec K. Redfearn
2020-06-26 00:02:08 +0000 UTCTom Sizemore mentioned my favorite actor, Philip Seymor Hoffman, but I suspect that Bret doesn't share the admiration for the late performer. Oh well...
Jorge Espinha
2020-06-25 19:00:54 +0000 UTCHe is an astute cultural critic. When the "other side of the isle" goes as far off the deep end as the Left I'm sure he'll be right there to criticize them. As an artist, he is most concerned about a faction of the Left that not only is censoring art, but is using it as a ideological weapon.
Christopher Webster
2020-06-25 16:57:09 +0000 UTCBret Easton Ellis Red Pilled me. I thought I was alone, watching the Left I felt I was a part of descend into the madness of Identity Politics and the car crash of intersectional theory over the last ten years. I came for the film reviews and interviews with creators, stayed for the cultural commentary which continues to be spot on.
Christopher Webster
2020-06-25 16:53:47 +0000 UTCBret should publish all his film reviews online at some point just to shame most current "critics".
Christopher Webster
2020-06-25 16:51:15 +0000 UTCSo many comments already — Bret is touching a nerve?
James Reeves
2020-06-25 16:39:32 +0000 UTCWell said, Bret
Tommy Stronach
2020-06-25 14:18:13 +0000 UTCThe Idea of the podcast is perhaps, listening to Bret go on about a movie, art or society. Not necessarily agreeing with him. Sometimes we might think "well Bret I don't agree with you on that topic" and then we move on. What did you expect?
Jorge Espinha
2020-06-25 10:49:12 +0000 UTCOh Bret! You really don't need guests. I could hear you talking for hours
Jorge Espinha
2020-06-25 10:39:19 +0000 UTCI really want to share that monologue. It’s so well observed. Gratified to hear that so many liberals and even leftists are disgusted.
David Adamowicz
2020-06-25 09:12:25 +0000 UTCSolo Bret is the best Bret. Keep the entrancing monologues coming.
Ken Ward
2020-06-25 05:56:34 +0000 UTCI can’t think of a more arrogant response Michael well done
David Willis
2020-06-25 02:47:59 +0000 UTCI’m finally done with this podcast after being a fan from its inception. Bret rattling on about indoctrination camps and online responses to Lea Michelle?? I could feel myself growing more stupid with each passing moment. So long Bret. It’s been a good era but fuck dude...you’re losing it.
Michael MacGowan
2020-06-25 01:33:10 +0000 UTCI really feel without BEE I’d be in worse shape mentally. Someone still is able to see, analyzes, and PUBLICLY discuss things from a perspective of logic, sanity, and what’s most missing almost lENTIRELY from the public ‘conversation’-PRINCIPLES. From which derive actual, consistent VALUES. As in, human life. Does it matter to you? When you’ve never seemed remotely concerned about it, in general, before, but SUDDENLY are devastated by one murder out of hundreds a day in America? What about the literal million killed in the War On Terror. Nary a peep from these life lovers. Black lives matter to you-good, so you’ve established you’re not a psychopath, well done. Do the 24 murdered in Chicago last weekend, including a 13 yo girl and THREE YEAR OLD boy matter? They don’t seem to, haven’t heard a word about it, let alone any upset. 99% of these suddenly ‘woke’ are utter fakes,. Ditto the cynical corporate movement suddenly mobilized. But guess what. A whole lot of black people KNOW it., smell the bullshit a mile away. You assume your patronizing exploitation to appear as a ‘savior of the other’ selfie opps on social media will be welcomed by said ‘others’ with open arms. Nope. I moved to Atlanta from LA (having spent my entire adult and professional life there, 20 years) and it was the best decision I’ve ever made . It’s a super cool city and I love it, and I’ve made many very good black friends here. Unlike utterly segregated ‘woke’ LA, Atlanta is truly desegregated and everyone just mixes, lives, works, plays together and the hang ups about race are largely gone., don’t hang in the air like a toxic gas as they do in LA. You just do you, nobody gives a shit. Be it black drag queen, white yuppie, or, as often, the other way around-NOBODY CARES. And as such, I can tell you many black people literally laugh at all the sudden white BLM obsession. My friend Ash who is a tough smart and very successful black lesbian chef and restauranteur—and NOBODY’S fucking victim—had me and my partner literally in tears laughing on a hilarious rant about the ‘black squares’ thing, and white Georgia Tech students marching in the street as she was trying to get to work with their ‘BLM’ signs giving her the power fist. She rolled down the window and said ‘I’m fully aware my life matters, now get the fuck out of my way so I can go run my fucking business!’ The lack of awareness at the level of just insulting phony patronization is astonishing, and I’m here to tell you, at least here in the ATL, it’s noticed , not exactly appreciated, and mocked. I cannot imagine how awful and surreal life in LA must be now. Particularly in showbiz. Some demented combo of Victorian Puritanical moral panic and East German Stasi spy on your neighbors and turn them in society. No thanks. If it’s any consolation, it’s not like that everywhere.
MikeE
2020-06-24 23:03:19 +0000 UTCMark, ‘inconsensusty’, I’m sure. And, why are you caring on about yourself ?
M. Nero Nava
2020-06-24 21:52:22 +0000 UTCI like the character, Jonzey. I’m willing to bet you’re fat and no taller than 5,7”. But, I like it. I also like the bongo and coffee shop motif. It’s dated but I like it. So, why the muscle man character? Still wrapping your head around the wrestler in the tutu concept?
M. Nero Nava
2020-06-24 21:49:34 +0000 UTCGroupthink is what other people do. I share a consensus.
Michael Walsh
2020-06-24 21:38:09 +0000 UTCI have seen no one use the word "revolution"....so, I'm not sure people ARE aware of it. People seem to think it's lots of other things and words. Also, it doesn't seem to be about Marxism. Also, it seems like a lot of America IS "going along with it" (still up in the air if it will be "most"). The rest of your comment is extremely dismissive language, as if you are speaking about children, and I think there is no evidence of any of it. I think the actions are passionate and deep and with good reason. So, we fully disagree, Paul Pridgeon.
Kristeen
2020-06-24 20:36:55 +0000 UTCYou want to see inconsistency? Put a liberal person on the show. I’m not asking him to take them to task—but you’ll see BEE soften and end up wishy washy... much like conservatives faced with facts or even a bit of confrontation. Maybe that’s why the earlier shows were tighter and focused. If you think his political leanings (hysteria) are consistent—then ‘YOU really don’t listen to the show at all’. (That’s a particularly rich deflection)
M. Nero Nava
2020-06-24 20:04:05 +0000 UTCI think America is well aware that this is an attempt at anarchy and Marxist revolution. The problem is that most of America is not going to go along with this. So it's just acting out and self-indulgent, self-destruction on the left.
Paul Pridgeon
2020-06-24 20:03:48 +0000 UTCBret Easton Ellis' play by play of Extraction is one of the funniest things I've ever listened to.
Joesph Martin
2020-06-24 20:03:27 +0000 UTCYeah, right, Nero. Cigarettes are for beatniks. I kick sand in their faces whenever I see them at the beach. While you’re at the coffee shop playing your bongos, I’m getting completely shredded at the gym.
Jonze
2020-06-24 20:02:26 +0000 UTCBrett's political views have been nothing but consistent on this show. So when you claim that he had a sudden sea change is false and proof that you really don't listen to the show at all.
Paul Pridgeon
2020-06-24 19:59:38 +0000 UTCJonzey, I’d make you my girlfriend, and sell you for a cigarette. Work those gloots this leg day, you’ll need it, honey.
M. Nero Nava
2020-06-24 19:38:47 +0000 UTCListen up, pipsqueak. I bench-press geeks like you all the time. I’m at the gym 6 hours a day, 5 days a week (2 recovery days) building mass and sculpting my body. Your precious BEE won’t help you when you see a completely shredded 6’4”, 275lb Adonis heading your way. Lucky for you, I’m busy at the gym right now (it’s leg day)
Jonze
2020-06-24 19:14:53 +0000 UTCIt's interesting to me that people who are championing this podcast as being a refreshing take against groupthink....then demonstrate groupthink in the comments. Maybe "interesting" is not the right word. Oh right, it's "typical".
Kristeen
2020-06-24 16:52:23 +0000 UTCI think maybe what people are missing about what's going on right now: is that it's an attempt at revolution....and revolutions don't tend to be politely performed (although, this one has been so far in the sense that a guillotine has not been introduced to the town squares). The polite version, the legal version, have been pursued since the civil war and haven't been completely successful. The people who want to be in charge are clearing the way for themselves. Maybe they won't be much different than the people before them. Who knows. Often this is the case: only the faces change. But, this is what I believe is happening and what the evidence (statues and icons of the previous regime being toppled) shows. Also, that Beastie Boys song, Girls, is poetry. It's an absolutely accurate description of a certain kind of male's, and perhaps some females', mindset (if not now, back then) and no apologies are necessary. Quite the opposite.
Kristeen
2020-06-24 16:45:19 +0000 UTCThere are plenty of people not on Fox News who agree with Bret. But I guess that’s all the left have left now since they have gone totally insane.
David Willis
2020-06-24 16:29:12 +0000 UTCSure, hearing BEE in lock step with Fox News isn’t embarrassing. Him lock step with anyone is embarrassing. Truth hurts, I guess
M. Nero Nava
2020-06-24 16:10:16 +0000 UTCNot mad, it’s a critique, sweetheart
M. Nero Nava
2020-06-24 16:08:00 +0000 UTCI fear cancellation by just listening - excellent solo podcast Bret!
David M S
2020-06-24 15:44:02 +0000 UTCHe’s at his sharpest when he’s breaking it down. But, he’s at his flattest when he’s fastening, and cherry picking the “truth”. This isn’t my first year with the show. And, he absolutely does sound like a Trump apologist at times. I love his smashing of groupthink. But, he’s aggressively became a total groupthink guy, echoing tired talking points by Fox News, and OAN. I completely agree with your NPR assessment. It’s why I’m here. BEE’s insight use to be thoughtful and fresh. But, at this point, I can predict his ‘hot take’ with depressing accuracy—it’s whatever the intellectually-challenged right says. He doesn’t deviate anymore. It’s bizarre, and boring.
M. Nero Nava
2020-06-24 14:21:56 +0000 UTCBret if you read this. Your best solo podcast yet. Excellent job, strong topics, amazing execution.
Knokkel knokkel
2020-06-24 14:17:20 +0000 UTCFair. Not every week. I guess I'd say, Bret doesn't come off as a Trump apologist. To me, Bret is critical of his liberal peers because art and expression are being turned into insipid, banal groupthink. I understand your perspective and feel it too. But Bret's take is refreshing after my endless hours of NPR listening :-) helps me pop the bubble of my own thinking.
Brian Rooney
2020-06-24 14:11:59 +0000 UTCCompletely agree. I used to laugh at the "Fair and Balanced" slogan! Back then I used to detest Fox News for its warmongering. But it seems to have turned a corner. Tucker is such a reasonable and refreshing voice in the mainstream cacophony. He's the only one I can listen to without grinding my teeth.
Christopher Ward
2020-06-24 14:03:19 +0000 UTCBig Bry, I’ve made comments like this in the past. I’ve always praised “White” for its writing, and applauded monologues. It’s easy to just dismiss me if I make a comment like this every week. But, it’s just not the case.
M. Nero Nava
2020-06-24 14:01:44 +0000 UTCSame here. I used to roll my eyes at their "Fair and Balanced" slogan ten years ago, but the irony today is, they really do seem "fair and balanced" compared to the rampant leftism in all of the other news outlets. Now when I hear people say, "Sure, mainstream media has a liberal bias, but at least it's not as bad as Fox News," I roll my eyes. No, they're not as bad, they're worse!
Billy Schafer
2020-06-24 13:53:36 +0000 UTCI’m in love Olivia Newton John.
James Reeves
2020-06-24 13:09:17 +0000 UTCI used to be on the left. Just fifteen short years ago I hated Fox News and anybody on the Right of the political spectrum. Today? I detest the left and think Tucker Carlson is one of the only honest and intellectually/morally consistent voices on mainstream news. Too much psychotic and fascistic craziness on the so-called left now unfortunately. It's identity politics on steroids and too many false narratives (white cops hunting black people on the street) propagated by the lying media and swallowed wholesale by idiots. Horrific state of affairs.
Christopher Ward
2020-06-24 12:21:27 +0000 UTCI appreciate your enthusiasm. But you make a comment like this every episode. You seem to be missing the point every time...
Brian Rooney
2020-06-24 11:52:05 +0000 UTCI don’t know about you guys but Bret still seems like the same cynical author that wrote ‘Less Than Zero’ and ‘American Psycho’ to me... maybe your just pushing your own agendas onto Bret? By the way can we get the infamous ‘Millennial Boyfriend’ Todd on the podcast... That’d be a doozy!
Mitch Jordan
2020-06-24 11:00:07 +0000 UTCM. Nero Nava is mad, guys
Chase
2020-06-24 09:29:27 +0000 UTCNothing wrong with critiquing the show, but I’m not sure “embarrassing pap” and calling him a right wing nut is such a thing. Perhaps the truth just hurts I guess.
David Willis
2020-06-24 07:00:51 +0000 UTCThe opening monologue was sloppy, and dripping with bias, lock step with republican talking points. How could the man who so carefully wrote “American Psycho” go on to mention a Wendy’s burning down and failing to mention that it was caused by a drunk grabbing a taser and running—and being shot in the back by police. It’s just lazy. The show is haphazard. To think I was excited to hear BEE all by himself... and then I get Tucker Carlson with possibly better accessories. All this time in the apartment and we get tired talking points. This show use to have a point of view. Now it’s just clunky and gaudy Hannity. I know it’s bad when I’m begging for a deep dive into the Olivia Newton John filmography. BEE where are you?! And, all the BEE drones will get mad, try to straw man, and feel slighted by me because I critique the show. And, I won’t be responding to those man-babies. But, come on... a scribbly monologue about the riots? Talk about pandering. BEE if you’re relevant to an echo chamber—do you make a sound? Again, I loved this show. I recommended it to my friends, especially my liberal ones. Now, it’s just embarrassing pap. I went from a Gold to Silver membership. May I request a ‘casually check-in when BEE isn’t a total wing nut’ membership option? So so sad. PS. I hold out hope until BEE goes full retard and stops wearing a mask.
M. Nero Nava
2020-06-24 02:22:18 +0000 UTCGood points. To quote Rita Panahi: 'Cancel culture wouldn't exist without coward culture. Don't apologise unless you've done something wrong.' In 2020, it helps to have a big pair.
Benjamin Terpstra
2020-06-24 01:54:42 +0000 UTCExcellent opening monologue on the protests/riots and cancel culture. I share Brets fears over this. I was one of the people who commented on Aaron Paul’s absolutely absurd Instagram, and got called “sigh” a racist. Tiresome and crazy times we are living in, but rational voices like Bret are very appreciated and needed.
David Willis
2020-06-24 01:44:00 +0000 UTCWas very patiently waiting for his take on this, it delivered.
Thomas Rankin
2020-06-24 01:24:57 +0000 UTCBeen refreshing my apps for the last 2 days like a madman! Can I ask that someone kindly send out a post informing us of a delay, like other Patreon creators?
Reservoir Frog
2020-06-24 01:23:25 +0000 UTC
