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00:00Watch The Vampire Lestat After Dark on AMC Plus or wherever you get your podcasts.
00:11Previously on the show formally titled Interview with the Vampire.
00:15So, Mr. Dulac, how long have you been dead?
00:17The year was 1910.
00:20Louis, let me introduce you to Mr. Lestat de Leoncore.
00:23What exactly is the nature of your relationship with my brother, Monsieur Leoncore?
00:27I can swap this life of shame.
00:28Swap it out for a dark gift.
00:31Be my companion for all eternity.
00:33He had a way about him.
00:35Preternaturally charming, occasionally thoughtful.
00:37He was my murderer, my mentor, my lover and my maker.
00:40All of those things at once.
00:41Claudia was everything.
00:43The life of a vampire has its challenges.
00:50Can an immortal meet mortality?
00:53Theoretically, it can be done.
00:55But could it be done by us to him?
00:58Paris was an awakening for Louis.
01:00Paris was many things in those days.
01:04Bonjour, mon amour.
01:06Are you schizophrenic, Louis?
01:07I could feel the movement of air with his movement.
01:10His breath on the back of my neck.
01:13We were on trial for murder.
01:14Love has always been difficult for me.
01:17My first paramour, Nicolas Delafonte, a violinist.
01:20Do you remember all these boys who are in memory?
01:23Mickey!
01:24I am Armand.
01:26I am the chief of your clan.
01:28You led him there so he could destroy it.
01:31Yes.
01:31You saved Louis.
01:33Banishment.
01:33Go for it!
01:35But not her.
01:37Who made you?
01:38His name was Magnus.
01:40He took me from my room in Paris as I kicked and screamed.
01:44The light's going out of your blue eye.
01:47I've come to kill you.
01:48I have the blood of Akasha in me.
01:51He didn't save you.
01:53Lestat did.
01:54I'm guessing you haven't heard from my maker.
01:57I shouldn't have left you alone with him.
01:58Make it up to me.
01:59We'll do a follow-up book.
02:00No companion enough for myself now.
02:02I'm sorry I don't have much time.
02:03I'm in the middle of rehearsing.
02:05I'm going on tour.
02:06I just need about 50 more years of practice.
02:22I'm in the middle of rehearsing.
02:48Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby.
02:54All fall down, burn the ground.
03:02Up the ground, burn the, baby, baby.
03:11Baby, baby, baby, baby.
03:18C'est cool.
03:48Good evening.
03:50Hello.
03:51How's that?
03:51The House wishes to extend its gratitude to the gathering for your compliance with the unorthodox prerequisites of tonight's event.
04:00Furthermore, we wish to reiterate that the anonymity that you have granted us will be given to you individually as
04:07well as to any institutions that you are representing.
04:11Stating the obvious, we are not here and neither are you.
04:18Lot one of two, the master recordings of the complete works of the Vampire Lestat de Leoncore, which includes his
04:262025 self-titled album, The Vampire Lestat, additional session tracks that were discarded in the final assemblage of the album,
04:34original handwritten scores, and private recordings by the Vampire Lestat himself, which include a song cycle in the classical vein
04:42set to the poetry of Baudelaire.
04:47Before we begin the bidding, I perform the following action.
05:03We will begin the bidding at one yuan.
05:07Do I hear one yuan?
05:09E-U-N.
05:12E.U-N.
05:13Sold.
05:14To the gentlewoman, third row, good spirit.
05:19Lot number two, a music box curated by the Vampire Lestat himself, a 1978 Fernando Marchani Corinto sideboard inside a
05:32Roasner and Zun Mott turntable, with BLAB 90 speakers.
05:37speakers, two temperature-controlled wine cabinets, one holding a bottle of Neaport
05:431863 port wine, the other with a magnum of blood from the curator himself.
05:50The upper level, a singular vinyl pressing of the complete works of the vampire Lestat
05:57de Liencourt, previously delineated, along with 111 albums of audio best described as
06:03an omniscient history of the events of the 2025 album in supporting TOR and the consequential
06:11global catastrophes that sprung from said album and TOR as narrated by the vampire Lestat
06:17himself.
06:18The collection has been named The Failures.
06:23We will begin the bidding at 50 million yen.
06:29If you are hearing this now, you must be a very privileged individual.
06:35You could have fed a small nation for years while they paved over the rubble.
06:39You bought my box instead.
06:41I like you already.
06:44So let's begin in the middle.
06:46For I could and should have ended it there.
06:48My tour, my hedonistic pursuit of extremity, all of it.
06:54And had I done so, the regretful dead and the traumatized still alive would be somewhere
07:00other than they are today.
07:02And I am not saying that the attempted extinction of the Y chromosome across the continents was
07:07all my fault.
07:08Now that would suggest a level of self-importance even I am not comfortable with.
07:12But upon reflection, I made a contribution.
07:17It was the spring of 2025.
07:20A good nation was making itself great again.
07:24Again.
07:27And every vampire, those converting and those enduring, well, they were doing exactly as they
07:35pleased.
07:54If you think I did the first part of your life, what are your thoughts on you?
07:57You both are throughout the earth.
07:57It was the first part of your life.
07:57But it's the first part of your life.
07:58You both are throughout the world seemed testimonially charged.
07:58Above and throughout the world, you try to record everything by saying,
08:12Ooh, ah, ah
08:13Ooh, ooh, ooh
08:16Wah, ah
08:18Ooh, ooh, ooh
08:20Why the long face
08:22My pretty baby
08:24I've got long faces
08:27Come up recently
08:28You're my long stays
08:31That doesn't faze me
08:36I'm an actor
08:38In my makeup
08:40I get fatter
08:42When we drink
08:44What does it matter
08:46Who I take
08:49Naturally
08:50I named the band after myself
08:52And the four that backed me
08:54Played their parts as instructed
08:56There was Larry
08:57The front man made side man
08:59Choking his guitar neck nightly
09:01Wishing it was mine
09:02Brother Alex, the more talented seedling
09:06Straight edged in half the fun
09:08Salamander
09:10Bassist
09:11Dumb
09:12Shockingly dumb
09:13And TC
09:15The abandoned bride
09:16Of a dozen should have died in art school bands
09:18Keeping us all in the dirty pocket
09:21We dropped songs on the streams
09:23And booked intimate venues
09:25To induce what Jen's snooze called FOMO
09:28They came for cosplay
09:29Left converted
09:30And I baptized them
09:31The beautiful unwell
09:33And yet
09:33Here we were
09:35In the inn
09:36Of the stooges
09:37And the stripes
09:38Thirty performances
09:39Notched
09:40And already resting
09:41On the alps of adequacy
09:43Unacceptable
09:44On piano
09:46In your forte
09:48In MIRA
09:49A laning
09:50You're an alegre
09:50In all Ο
10:08Hello, welcome to Detroit lovely cities your song sucks
10:45Oh yeah, we're coming, yeah, we're coming, yeah, we're coming
11:01Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh
11:13Well that was boring
11:15Do you seem to like it?
11:16Harmonies on Plastic Fiends were trash
11:18He's right
11:19And the front head on your kick is shimmering, turn it up a step
11:21Singer's right
11:23You left your tambourine in his stand, Larry
11:25Yeah, I was feeling the guitar
11:26No one is coming to hear your guitar, Larry
11:28No, they come for the Aussies today
11:30Rage called Harmony Room, Larry Slater shredding it tonight
11:33And no one ever
11:35You sign the checks there
11:36I do, I do sign the checks
11:37Sign this
11:38The tambourine tomorrow is rehearsed and perfected
11:41What am I saying?
11:42You're not in Corvallis
11:43You're buying the life, early retirement and the lawyer lick
11:46But use the pen
11:47But it's funny because it's blood and I'm a vampire
11:50Notaries in Oregon don't notarize in red ink
11:53There's the band and there's the shell that protects the band from the world's envy
11:58Our band shell was Christine Clare
12:02She hired, fired, dictated and castrated with extreme prejudice
12:08I'll do this
12:08Try your best not to be you tonight
12:09We want the car
12:10No
12:11We'll be good
12:12Corvallis
12:14What do you think?
12:17Me?
12:19Alright Slats, out to go
12:20I'm going into my vampire dressing room now
12:24A little draining both ways
12:26You'll have to guess who gets the fangs and who gets the vodka bottle
12:29And yes, it's a vodka bottle
12:33He did it again
12:36Fucking asshole
12:36Did I mention that I was filming a documentary at the time?
12:40A bootless errand helmed by a first time director
12:43I've seen a rough cut
12:45Truthful and daring, with less war and pity
12:47Anyone see Yarda?
12:48Yarda, sky blue waters
12:54Missing a contact again
12:57How many drinks have you had?
12:59Uh, one and a half
13:01Drive to the burbs, sit by yourself in a booth at Applebee's, order the usual
13:04Big tip, meet us back in the city
13:06Now you'd think a 54 city rock tour would be a wonderful cover for a blood drinker
13:11Hide your keel up on the bus, wave to the morgue reports in the rear view mirror, that kind of
13:16thing
13:16But niche celebrity is a hunter's handicap and a sloppy night in Corvallis made urgent the need for a body
13:22double
13:23His name was Yarda Klapek
13:25And the Albanian gangsters Christine hired to find my doppelganger found him working construction in the Czech Republic
13:31Three inches shorter than your velvet mouth, narrator
13:35We fit him for lifts, blue eye contacts and a wig
13:38And otherwise, let him be Neanderthal me
13:41I hunted this way and we sent him that way
13:44And every sad photograph uploaded to reddit or discord of Yarda eating up tuna melt by himself
13:50Only confirmed, for most, what they already believed
13:54Let's go!
13:55That I, the Vampire Lestat, was Daniel Malloy's fictitious creation
14:00And the Vampire Lestat the band was fronted by a bricklaying karaoke fanatic from Ostrova
14:06Nothing but a desperate cash grab at the end of a chuggy vampire fad
14:09And I've only myself to blame for the timing, having locked us in an attic for a year plus perfecting
14:15our sound
14:16To sound I hope would counter Mr. Dulac's portrayal of me as a mayonnaise villain with sociopathic tendencies
14:23I'll beside the point because the point was, the point forever is
14:28I know you're real
14:29But most of humanity moved on from vampires
14:32And rather quickly
14:34Congratulations
14:35Now go make friends
14:37They lifted their heads from their algorithmic handmasters
14:41Uttered a collective
14:42And swiped left
14:45I am the Vampire Lestat
14:47I am a god
14:50Gods
14:51Are not
14:53Swiped
14:54The Contessa
14:55The useful idiot
14:57Great show
15:00You left before we started
15:01Yeah, I figured Spotify some T-Rex and drag a little oneg from Dr. Fareedgood here
15:06Same, Jeff
15:07I am not here
15:09Can we mic you? TC punch the boom again
15:11Yeah
15:12Okay
15:19So, uh...
15:20You and Louie talking again?
15:22He doesn't return my texts
15:25Or my telepathy
15:28I hear he's back in the States
15:32We good?
15:33We're good
15:34It's late
15:36Okay
15:40You've been alive and undead for 265 years
15:43You witnessed the French Revolution first hand
15:46The electric light
15:47Penicillin
15:48Two world wars
15:49The atomic bomb
15:50The moon landing
15:51The Berlin Wall
15:53The moon landing
15:54The Berlin Wall
15:55He eats hot dogs for a living
15:56He's extraordinary
15:57I hope to meet him one day
15:58Was there a question?
15:59Having accumulated profound wisdom and experience through the dark gift of immortality
16:04Why have you chosen to waste at singing music no one wants to hear in pants no one should ever
16:10squeeze into?
16:11You ask this question every night
16:13And I get a different answer every night
16:14You get me to repeat myself soon enough I am sure once you confront your transformational trauma
16:19I don't have transformational trauma
16:21That's why these movie producers hired you Danny Malloy vampire slayer
16:26They said you requested me
16:28Absurd
16:28Oh as absurd as a documentary about a rock band posing as vampires fronted by an actual vampire
16:35Directed by a vampire passing as a human
16:38You tell him for me
16:40Is it true you were a stutterer as a child?
16:44Louie said you were
16:51Was he there in 18th century Auvers?
16:53He said you told him that
16:54Did I threaten Claudia with rape on a train?
16:56Was I in the room when Donizetti wrote Don Pasquale?
17:01No, no and impossible because I had buried myself underground for the vast majority of the 1800s
17:08I wrote what he told me
17:09I don't have trauma
17:11I love being a vampire
17:13And can you drop the fledgling speak and spell?
17:22The dark dreary industrial world has finally submitted to automation
17:30Laborers stand in their doorways hitting their pipes as their children half pipe in their drained empty swimming pools
17:39Drugstores locked up baby formula and shaving cream while Saks ate Barneys and someone told everyone that Lululemon was sexy
17:51Facts are irrelevant
17:54Fields are everything
17:57And the value of human life
18:00It has never been more arbitrary
18:04David, Freddy, Prince Rogers
18:08They're all gone
18:09And the lights on Tay Tay's ears have dimmed
18:13Fire coming down the hill
18:16Water moving in on Nantucket
18:19But
18:20No more safe spaces
18:24It's my era
18:26Now
18:30Post Malone and Jelly Roll playing there tonight
18:33Sixty thousand for a face tattoo Palooza
18:35You played an 800 seat venue
18:38How is it your era?
18:40Hmm
18:43I'm vain and shallow and pure and empty seat
18:45Ask me an easy one
18:48Is it true your band was formed on Halloween?
18:57You are listening to The Failures
19:01Album 2, Side B
19:06You are listening to The Failures
19:26What do you think?
19:28It's nice
19:29Nice?
19:30Yeah
19:31It's nice
19:32I don't see Beyonce covering it
19:34But it's nice
19:36Nice is nothing
19:38It's nice
19:39Nice is a balloon
19:40That you're back writing music
19:41A flower box is nice
19:43It's nice
19:43You got yourself a nice place
19:45It's a nice word
19:46And it says everything I wanted to express
19:48Don't be a bitch about it
19:52You should come visit
19:53Mm-hmm
19:54I have a space above the bed in one of the guest rooms
19:57I can't find a painting for
19:59Oh, a guest room?
20:00You want me to come and see your guest room?
20:03It's an affluent neighborhood
20:05Old money, young professionals
20:08A smattering of Christ de Troce von Bebe
20:10Good eating
20:14Same potholes, but no hurricanes
20:18No witches
20:19Everyone mangles French just like you do
20:23Come to me
20:24Montreal
20:26I am he
20:27And he is me
20:30There's baggage here
20:31I get it
20:32I get it
20:34Besides, there's an Olmstead Park nearby if I get homesick
20:38And there's a
20:40Garage band rehearsing across the street
20:42Who call themselves, of all things
20:45Satan
20:47They call themselves, of all things, Satan?
20:50Satan's Night Hour
20:52Satan's Night Out?
20:53Out
20:54Satan's Night Out
20:55Okay
20:56Makes sense
20:57Louis, do you know someone called Daniel Malloy?
21:03Uh...
21:03His laptop?
21:04I didn't know he had it saved in the cloud
21:06I only found out it was coming out a month ago
21:08You've known for a month and you talk about me and it to a mortal?
21:11Well, yeah, uh... yeah, gonna... but... you know...
21:14No, I don't know, Louis
21:17Please, explain yourself
21:18It's gonna be here and gone in a minute, no one reads anymore
21:21The stats, he's like, whatever
21:23100%
21:24But Armand
21:26He's like, mysterious
21:27Yeah, there's layers
21:29You've killed his wall in the Louvre
21:31And all the boomers
21:33Did the film to go see the other good girl with his resting buttress?
21:36I skipped all that and I would help you to see my beta boy in the corner of my room
21:42I would do it
21:44You have to do it
21:45You have to do it
21:45You have to do it
21:46I would kill it
21:47I would kill it
21:49I would kill it
21:51I would kill it
21:55The stat, man
21:57He's going to burn the French words on the Royal Street
21:59100%
22:00He's so wild, he's like
22:02Huh?
22:03Do you want to become a member?
22:05He has 10%
22:05No, thank you!
22:11Huh
22:12Huh
22:15I know what infinitesimal means
22:19It was raining
22:20No
22:20No
22:22No
22:22Never
22:25Fuck
22:25King
22:27Lelia
22:28I'm not a harlequin
22:30Your sources are your sherpas
22:33Your editor is your priest
22:36Don't go to the F
22:37Jesus out
22:39Why must you complicate it?
22:47Oh
22:48Hello
22:51Oh
22:52I wanted the full size box
22:54That it
22:55Oh
22:55Oh
22:57Thank you
22:58Oh
22:59Your camera is not period correct
23:04Well, allergies are delusional
23:07Take the mounts you take whatever I give you
23:36Oh
24:10This is in 1979 Bela Lugosi is not dead you don't need to finger her for five bars
24:17You're hurting her
24:22Apologies for the squire my mandatory will come in the morning with the replacement and a new front door
24:31More frequent showers
24:34Thank you
24:38What was the question again
24:41Why music
24:42Hey
24:44Why now
24:45Dude that was sick
24:47What are we doing here
24:51We're doing a rewrite
24:53So this whole tour is just some
24:57Byronic reaction to my book
24:59Who better to refute the book than the man who wrote the book
25:04The songs of my story your documentary the liner notes liner notes. I won two Pulitzers
25:11I'm taking this thing to can okay. I'm gonna be slapping Chris Rock and
25:16Stroking my Oscar the brat sings the brat dies the great laws are clear on
25:23I want to retire
25:23I want to serve them
25:24I want to see the most труд
25:27I'll be like
25:29He sings for himself
25:33He sings for himself
25:34He sings for himself
25:34Of course
25:34I'm going to have to Excel
25:36Hey Oh
25:36He sings for himself
25:36Only a covenant leader can make more
25:38the great laws are clear on that first the book now the singer this is chaos
25:43it does a bit of share with who it's he'll yet to wear
25:47mother
25:59you used to fly
26:30you used to carry her
27:38Didn't try to run, I got a real life one
27:44Sucking on the sun, no time for going up
27:47No time for throwing up, no time for bathing out
27:50Your boat is blowing up, I got a real life one
27:54No time for hold my step brother until you come
27:58Do, do, do, da, da, da
28:00Don't wanna smile, just let it be a morning star
28:03Don't wanna learn another TikTok dance
28:06Wanna see a bear, eating blind like a man
28:19The Beef House and the Twin Oaks Mall
28:21Order at the bar this time, take some photos with the fans
28:25Keep it scrolling, roll it, buy a mountain home machine
28:32Hi, Poppy
28:34I've been a bad boy, deep down in my heart
28:37I kept a million dark secrets from the very start
28:40Give me a million more screams
28:43He's a sign for me, what you think it means
28:46Do, do, do, da, da, da
28:49Don't wanna smash us and you'll be your morning star
28:52Don't wanna learn a fucking TikTok dance
28:55Wanna see a bear, eating blind like a rush
29:05Pick up the fucking tambourine
29:08From the alps of adequacy to the canyon of coup d'etat
29:12Two nights in a row, my violin competing with his guitar for the solo break
29:18Two centuries waiting to share my music
29:21Two years
29:22As Mr. Dulac's B-movie brooped
29:26But just as I was about to bridge the bridge
29:29With murder and mayhem
29:31Something quite surprising happened
29:34My music wrapped itself around me like a jungle snake constricting its prey
29:41And a lifetime of blood-bartering overwhelmed the temporal lobe
29:47Muses appeared in my mind
29:49And in the now around me
29:53Memories taking their turn
29:58Blood in
30:01Blood out
30:05Hammering away at the performative vampire persona I had welded into armor
30:13The armor cracked
30:17The bridge buckled
30:20And the bonafide vampire emerged
30:23Center stage
30:25It was I who had been adequate
30:29It was I who had been holding us back
30:34And now, exposed in the roar
30:37Under the white hot lights
30:39My bandmates began to feed
30:45And that sound I had been grinding them for was finally unleashed
30:51A euphoric grudiness spilling into the crowd
30:55Into their bodies
30:56Enveloping the venue
31:03A euphoric grudiness spilling into the crowd
31:06A euphoric grudiness spilling into the crowd
31:10A euphoric grudiness spilling into the crowd
31:12A euphoric grudiness spilling into the crowd
31:13A euphoric grudiness spilling into the crowd
31:14A euphoric grudiness spilling into the crowd
31:15A euphoric grudiness spilling into the crowd
31:15A euphoric grudiness spilling into the crowd
31:16A euphoric grudiness spilling into the crowd
31:17A euphoric grudiness spilling into the crowd
31:17A euphoric grudiness spilling into the crowd
31:18A euphoric grudiness spilling into the crowd
31:21A euphoric grudiness spilling into the crowd
31:25A euphoric grudiness spilling into the crowd
31:37Which one of you is O'Dea'd before?
31:41What do you do?
31:43What did she take?
31:45Not her.
31:47Me.
31:48Get her on the ground.
31:50Her blood has...
31:53ecstasy...
31:54O'Dea'd.
31:55What the hell happened up there?
32:01What's the wrong with you doing?
32:03I should have quit right there and then.
32:06Would have been a lovely footnote to my life, the band.
32:10But the muses were just beginning.
32:14You done this to me?
32:16What are you doing?
32:19I lost myself on stage for a moment.
32:22Seems you still lost.
32:25This song's gonna kill you.
32:27You know that, don't you?
32:29I can't die.
32:30Everything dies.
32:32You die.
32:33I die.
32:34She dies.
32:36She dies.
32:37Oh, he dies bad.
32:42I'm immortal.
32:43Yeah, you kill some wolves and fall in love.
32:46Get the gift.
32:47Fall in love.
32:48Go to ground.
32:49Get dug up and fall in love.
32:51You like some wet clothes and a coin-op dryer.
32:53Just 265 years round and round.
32:58Why are you so sad?
33:00Thousands of fans loving you.
33:02I want millions.
33:04And that'll top off that heart of yours.
33:09Billions.
33:10Then why you always gotta make it so hard for someone to give it to you?
33:15Huh?
33:17Who told you that?
33:18Don't worry.
33:20They coming.
33:22Who's coming?
33:23Oh, they gonna tell you themselves.
33:27Who's coming?
33:28Great show, didn't I?
33:30Who?
33:34You are listening to The Failures.
33:37Album 5, Side B.
33:39If you take nothing else away from your exorbitant purchase, heed this advice.
33:45Never play two nights in Detroit.
33:49You'll wind up in Windsor with a broken orbital bone listening to transactional sex through the adjoining walls.
33:55How I came to this squalid real estate is the premise of Side B album 5, so...
34:04Come.
34:06Now, the boutique hotel we were staying at was having a grandish opening that night,
34:10and the band was asked to lend its celebrity status to the event.
34:13Don't tell me to pose.
34:15Fuck you!
34:16There was a red carpet, a pap line, and a vampire DJ of some renown,
34:20seducing corporate employees, provincial influencers, and party crashing beautifully unwell.
34:26Thank you, thank you.
34:27I was having sex in an elevator with Dee and the girl I had just overindulged myself with early in
34:33the night.
34:34Actually, that happens... later.
34:38A lot of things happened that night.
34:40Huh.
34:40Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on!
34:49I'm giving the paps my pussycat with no idea that I would be in a fang fight less than an
34:54hour later.
34:56No, no, no, no. I'm getting ahead of myself again.
34:59I arrive fashionably late, of course.
35:02State your name for the camera.
35:04Baby Jink.
35:05Okay, baby. Tell me, why do you like the vampire Lestat?
35:09Like I'm gonna be in the movie?
35:10Oh, you're in it now.
35:13I am feeling good.
35:16Surfing the sublime candy-flipped wave of the girl's blood.
35:19Hear him. Hear that voice.
35:22The girl is feeling good.
35:23Wow.
35:24Riding the wonders of Dr. Fareed's blood transfusion quick pick-me-up cocktail.
35:29Who's this guy? Cause like, rock and roll, it's dying.
35:32I sat there, soaking up her praise, along with the band.
35:36Still somehow blind to the vampiric mysteries of their front man.
35:40So what if the dead and buried past was now a fresh and eager groupie?
35:44It's rock and roll, you know?
35:46Have a nervous breakdown on stage.
35:48Chatted up with the floating girl on the ceiling you almost killed.
35:51Have sex with her in the elevator.
35:53Ah, I'm still not there yet.
35:56MDMA and LSD.
35:58The Torval and Dean of hallucinogenics.
36:00And so then everybody's like, is rock and roll actually dying?
36:04Were you a stutterer as a child?
36:06They walk into the ER, they are like, the doctor.
36:10Unless that's the scalpel.
36:12I'm the scalpel printed t-shirts.
36:15And so he, the scalpel, cuts into rock and roll's heart.
36:20Like he cut into mine tonight.
36:22And he has the heart in his mouth.
36:25He's like, do you wanna fuck?
36:28And rock and roll is like, yes bitch!
36:32I excuse myself to the men's room.
36:35Didn't read about vampire physiology and Mr. Dulac's memoir, did you?
36:39No mention of the scars on my chest either.
36:42Hair stopping way above my shoulders.
36:45And just for the record, no ticket pocket of mine ever had his initials inscribed onto them.
36:49I mean, these are the editorial wags of an insane person.
36:54Note to self-edit that out in the final version.
36:58Starting again.
36:59Vampire's pee.
37:01We don't do it as often as you do, assuming you're not one of us.
37:04And we generally avoid eco-friendly urinals.
37:06fabrics.
37:10Hmm.
37:14Hmm.
37:17Hmm.
37:17De-tr-ro-i-d.
37:21Hmm.
37:32Ahhhh.
37:34Hmm.
37:35Hmm.
37:36Hmm.
37:36Hmm.
37:36Her name's Tim. She's Russ.
37:39They're Russ.
37:58I admire your aim.
38:06I wanted to apologize.
38:09What? Black licorice?
38:11Why do I have to feel?
38:15I like those ones.
38:17Frankly, Mr. Shankly almost ruined
38:19the Queen's death. I apologize.
38:21Accept it.
38:23We have a coven
38:24out here in Detroit.
38:26Do you? The Fang Gang.
38:28You wanna see a real vampire bar?
38:30Come with us. We have a huge
38:32house out past Brightmoor.
38:34Our own farm under the floorboards.
38:36Hmm, sure.
38:38What about tomorrow night?
38:40You're on the road tomorrow night.
38:42Yes, it was
38:44me being polite.
38:46No, that was you lying.
38:47Hmm.
38:49Eco-friendly urinals.
38:50Good for the planet, so we're told.
38:53Good for vampires.
38:55Hmm. We chardonnay them.
39:02And then there's regional vampires.
39:06Always trying to make a name for themselves.
39:09I chardonnay them, too.
39:12Obligations, I'm afraid.
39:13But please do send my most sincere bonjour
39:15to your Brightmoorish, governor.
39:21Lilac.
39:37I have a blind spot when it comes to blood poisoning.
39:40I didn't think a vampire of my stature would know better.
39:43But then there's that old saying.
39:45You fool me once, shame on me.
39:46You fool me twice.
39:47MDMA and LSD are excellent drugs.
39:51Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce.
39:53Twirl, twirl.
39:56Overshare.
39:57I saw your soul.
39:58I saw yours, too.
40:04Still feeling good.
40:06I went looking for my band, looking for sex, looking for anything
40:10that radiated the fun that I sang about in my song, Long Face.
40:16And then...
40:18Regionals.
40:20Wait, did you say that Long Face sucked?
40:22Long Face sucks.
40:24Does it suck?
40:25I wondered.
40:27Did you have a point?
40:28And then I thought, ooh, they want a little scrap with the scalpel.
40:33No worries, I thought I had the Queen's blood in me.
40:36I could take 20 regionals at once with the Queen's blood.
40:41Where's the band, then?
40:44They called corporate bullshit.
40:48Went to party.
40:50Up still.
40:51So I'm scoring dick pills in Mogadishu for a UN peacekeeper.
40:55When in walks Stuart Copeland wearing a kufi and a mouthful of ammo.
41:01So I thought about having sex with Christine.
41:02And then I thought, that's all the way upstairs.
41:06And then I thought, I'm the scalpel.
41:08What does the scalpel do between here and upstairs?
41:14Mr. Deluxe Memoir tiptoed around vampire sex, didn't it?
41:19He and Dan made it out to be this tortured act or obligational foreplay before blood drinking.
41:25That is not the case at all.
41:28It's not the capstone of empiric desires.
41:30That would be the taking of life.
41:32And next would be a good draining, leaving your victim near death unparalyzed for an unhurried escape.
41:37And after that, there's the petticoot, the little drink, the sip.
41:42And after those three, it's sex.
41:45So now you know, the fourth best thing a vampire can do to avoid thinking about the past is to
41:51have sex.
41:52Sex.
41:53And I have had a lot of sex over the years.
41:56It's not all pain and toxicity.
41:58I have an immortal life and I carry with it an immortal erection and I am not ashamed of it.
42:04Sex is fun.
42:05Like the fun I sing about in Long Face.
42:07Which, looking back on it now, does suck.
42:11I still have residuals coming in, actually.
42:15Carnal pleasure is essential to a vampire's survival.
42:19If only to keep time's baggage from burying you.
42:24Sex with the bellman and Dee and honey trapping baby Jenks.
42:29Probably should have gotten off the seventh floor when I had gotten off.
42:35But I didn't.
42:39I'm getting married in a week.
42:42I'll never forget you.
42:52No vampire shall ever reveal his or her true nature to a mortal.
42:57And let the mortal live.
42:58You do know it's 2025.
43:03Praise the world, my dear.
43:04You'll not want to see this.
43:09The tooth team.
43:11The Fang gang.
43:16I killed a pack of wolves when I was immortal.
43:19Almost likely tell you about that later as I let it define me for a time.
43:23A normally confining architecture and a thrift store coven galvanized by medieval dogma wouldn't faz me in the least.
43:30I'm building a career that supports my well-being.
43:33But the drug blood in my sex legs and the distracting past my music had unleashed on me put me
43:40at a momentary disadvantage.
43:42I'm in charge of my work-life balance.
43:45Law four.
43:46As if the Dulac Malloy memoir hadn't outed us all two years ago.
43:49As if my entire stage show wasn't a bawdy burlesque of is he or isn't he.
43:55As if half the vampire population outside the ruined pool of Detroit wasn't waving the dark gift like red cups
44:02in a piss ball.
44:04Collecting fledglings like they were the booboo dogs.
44:06I mean I haven't even told my band I was an actual vampire.
44:09I was just singing my songs and fucking my food and defending myself from the vibrant life choices I had
44:15made on my way from the Auvergne countryside to the eighth floor of this why bother hotel.
44:20And this is how it was all going to end for me.
44:23We are the fang gang.
44:25We are the children of the darkness reborn.
44:29Jesus fucking god.
44:33Our mom told the truth if you met him.
44:36What the fuck does that even mean?
44:39I heard there was an after party on the asshole floor.
44:42I like to think I was owed the reinforcements.
44:46Dan and the oddly familiar DJ.
44:49But that's me looking back on it now.
44:51Anything I had done to deserve their timely rescue hadn't happened yet.
44:55I'd be dead I think without Dan.
44:58But then maybe more of the world would still be alive had Dan not rallied his army downstairs.
45:05Consider this sliding door of Dan.
45:08As you decant my blood and devour my words.
45:24It's hard hiding you're a god.
45:27You're for real?
45:28CCTV, eco flush toilets.
45:31IMF freezing your accounts because you have the blood of a patricidal queen inside you.
45:35Hello again.
45:38We have to love you.
45:40Telemasker dragged me into that.
45:42And once you reveal yourself you have to be on all the time.
45:46And remember every face you've ever met.
45:48And everywhere you go everyone remembers the thing they said to you in the room that you shared.
45:54Were you a stutterer as a child?
45:59This is why gods prefer hiding in the clouds.
46:03There's nothing there.
46:06But water waiting to fall.
46:15So many opportunities to call it a night that night.
46:19After the song unleashed the muses.
46:23After I saw my first soul.
46:26After I was nearly decapitated in a boutique hotel hallway.
46:32After my vampire nature was revealed to the band and my vampire gift winged me away north of the rivers
46:39off of the country.
46:43But I was saved from such rational thought.
46:47Love will do that to you.
46:50Let's go.
46:55Let's go.
47:00Let's go.
47:11Let's go.
47:19I got myself into something I can't get out of.
47:25Music's opened up the batch of it, but I'm not sure if I can close it again.
47:34I'm not really at my best, but...
47:42It's very hard.
47:43It's very nice to see you again.
47:49I like what you've done with your hair, Mike.
47:53Mike.
48:02My...
48:02Gabriel.
48:07It's not much of a reveal, I guess.
48:09I know it's common gossip now.
48:12The first thing one thinks about when my name comes up.
48:16I assume a privileged individual such as yourself enjoys a little dirt in their sandwich.
48:24So I serve it to you now.
48:27How it felt then.
48:31Fledgling.
48:34Lover.
48:36Mother.
48:40Listen to tracks from the Vampire List ad wherever you stream music.
48:46If you're still listening after the last hour, welcome back.
48:50So bring on the music.
48:52Give me a million more screams.
48:54Do you kill people?
48:57Give me a million more screams.
49:00Please!
49:01Let's talk about your mother.
49:04I've been a bad boy.
49:05My makeup called for his mama and I came.
49:09Give me a million more screams.
49:15You are caught in great danger with the stuff.
49:18You stole my personal position.
49:20You hired my biographer.
49:23The songs are not about you.
49:30Shall we do it?
49:31Shall we scorch the mortal world?
49:34I wanna say I'm mad.
49:35Eating black and brown.
49:37What do you think about the great conversion?
49:40Fucking stupid.
49:41I wanna say I'm mad.
49:44Eating black and brown.
49:47You are listening to The Failures, album eight, side A.
49:57At the top of our first episode, we show a scene that is probably happening in real time after a
50:06bunch of catastrophic events have happened.
50:13If you are hearing this now, you must be a very privileged individual.
50:24What makes this season special is that it's still the same characters that you love and know from the previous
50:29seasons.
50:29We're just putting them in an entirely new world.
50:32And as they do in the books and as we do in this show, like the world continues to crack
50:36open larger and larger.
50:39Ooh, ooh, ooh.
50:42Just like the plot changes, the whole attitude of the show changes.
50:46And we move into this completely crazy rock and roll world.
50:54He did it again.
50:55A lot of the beauty and elegance that you would usually see him surrounded by is gone.
51:01It feels really grungy and really rough and really raw.
51:04And so it was a very fun environment to be putting him in.
51:12Come to me.
51:13Montreal.
51:15I am he.
51:16And he is me.
51:18Louis, and let's start a FaceTiming.
51:19And you're probably going to get the sense that Louis is going to come over pretty soon.
51:22They'll probably get back together or like work it out.
51:25Nice.
51:25Yeah.
51:26It's nice.
51:27One of the first conversations I had with Roland and Hannah and the writers was that I think Louis
51:33has watched just a ton of YouTube in his time off.
51:37You know?
51:38Like, cat videos.
51:41Probably Hungryly.
51:44Louis, do you know someone called Daniel Malloy?
51:47Well, the staff finds out about the book and then that completely throws all those plans
51:50out of the window.
51:51One of my favorite things about this second season of Interview with the Vampire is that
51:56I burned his laptop.
51:58I didn't know he had it saved in the cloud.
51:59Louis sets fire to a laptop to try and erase the book.
52:05But, like, no one told him about the cloud.
52:08I only found out it was coming out a month ago.
52:10You've known for a month?
52:11And you talk about me and it to a mortal?
52:13Well, yeah.
52:14Uh, yeah.
52:14Gonna.
52:15But, you know?
52:16No, I don't know, Louis.
52:19Please explain yourself.
52:20Both Louis and Lestat are not necessarily happy with the way that either of them were portrayed
52:24in the book.
52:25It's like a mix of guilt and probably a sense of vengeance about it.
52:30Lestat sees that book come out, sees what he perceives are lies and distortions, mistruths,
52:37and he's like, you know what, I'm gonna set the record straight.
52:41Was he there in 18th century Auvers?
52:43He said you told him that.
52:44Did I threaten Claudia with rape on a train?
52:46No.
52:47And impossible.
52:49Daniel Malloy is an investigative journalist of the absolute top shelf.
52:53Who better to refute the book than the man who wrote the book?
52:57He has an incorrigible need to find out what the truth is.
53:02Why do you like the vampire Lestat?
53:04Si el llega a tu pueblo, matale.
53:07Heard there was an after party on the asshole floor.
53:10This isn't just sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
53:13It's sex, drugs, rock and roll, and sucking blood out of people's necks.
53:19You're for real?
53:36I mean, Black Lives Matter is just a great song.
53:38It's about the first kill that Lestat made after he reconciled with Louis in New Orleans.
53:45Didn't blink, didn't try to run, I got a real life worth.
53:51Particularly in episode one, you do see that he's pushing and pushing to get this sort of moment of grace.
53:58To be completely engulfed in the music.
54:01But just as I was about to bridge the bridge with murder and mayhem, something quite surprising happened.
54:10And that's what he gets from Black Licorice.
54:12He does have his first breakdown of many.
54:16Muses appeared in my mind and in the now around me.
54:19He realizes that he was the one that was holding them back.
54:23So then all of a sudden it cracks open and the real thing starts to appear.
54:28And that sound I had been grinding them for was finally unleashed.
54:33He started it to be, I'm gonna go and tell my story, I'm gonna do a rewrite.
54:38This is my version of events.
54:40And it's evolved into something different.
54:42He's tapped into his past.
54:54Which one of you is OD'd before?
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