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The Vampire Lestat Interview Episode 1 Engsub
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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?
00:18The 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.
00:34He 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.
00:42Claudia was everything.
00:44The 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?
01:08I could feel the movement of air with his movement.
01:11His breath on the back of my neck.
01:13We were on trial for murder.
01:15Love has always been difficult for me.
01:17My first paramour, Nicolas Delafonte, a violinist.
01:20Do you remember all these boys who have made my memory?
01:23Mickey!
01:24I am Armand.
01:26I am the head of Tom Clon.
01:28You led him there so he could destroy it.
01:31Yes.
01:31You saved Louis.
01:33Darnishment.
01:34Go for it!
01:35But not her.
01:37Who made you?
01:38His name was Magnus.
01:41He 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!
01:55I'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.
02:04I'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.
02:39Where the rock and roll is.
02:41Where the guitar.
02:43Where the heart will be loving.
02:45The beat is in the mood.
02:46Where the stupid rain.
02:49Bang, bang.
02:50Bang, bang.
02:51Bang, bang.
02:53Bang, bang.
02:54Bang, bang.
02:54I'll fall down.
02:58Burn the ground.
03:02I'll fall down.
03:06Burn the ground.
03:09Bang, bang.
03:11Bang, bang.
03:12Bang, bang.
03:14Bang, bang.
03:15Bang, bang.
03:16Hmm.
03:18C'est cool.
03:33I don't think I'll do it.
03:49Good evening.
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.
04:20The master recordings of the complete works of the Vampire Lestat de Leoncore, which includes his 2025 self-titled album,
04:28The Vampire Lestat, additional session tracks that were discarded in the final assemblage of the album,
04:33original 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 1yuan.
05:07Do I hear 1yuan?
05:111yuan.
05:12Sold.
05:14To the gentlewoman.
05:15Third row.
05:17Good spirit.
05:18Lot number two.
05:21A music box, curated by the Vampire Lestat himself, a 1978 Fernando Marciani Corinto sideboard, inside a Rosner and Zonn
05:33Mott turntable, with Bialab 90 speakers.
05:37Two temperature-controlled wine cabinets, one holding a bottle of Kneeport 1863 port wine, the other with a magnum of
05:47blood from the curator himself.
05:50The upper level.
05:51A singular vinyl pressing of the complete works of The Vampire Lestat, Deliancore, previously delineated, along with 111 albums of
06:02audio best described as an omniscient history of the events of the 2025 album and supporting tour and the consequential
06:11global catastrophes that sprung from said album and tour as narrated by The Vampire Lestat himself.
06:18The collection has been named The Failures.
06:23We will begin the bidding at 50yuan.
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, my tour, my hedonistic pursuit of extremity.
06:53All of it.
06:54And had I done so, the regretful dead and the traumatized still alive would be somewhere other than they are
07:01today.
07:02And I am not saying that the attempted extinction of the Y chromosome across the continents was all my fault.
07:08Now that would suggest a level of self-importance even I'm 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,
07:32well, they were doing exactly as they pleased.
07:38The End
07:38The End
07:38The End
08:04Oh, oh, oh
08:08Oh, oh, oh
08:12Oh, oh, oh
08:14Oh, oh, oh
08:20What a long face, my pretty baby
08:24I've got long faces come up recently
08:29No more long stains that doesn't face me
08:36I'm an actor and I make her
08:40I get fat to her when we break her
08:44What does it matter who I take her?
08:49Naturally, I named the band after myself
08:52And the four that backed me played their parts as instructed
08:56There was Larry, the front man, made sideman
08:59Choking his guitar neck nightly, wishing it was mine
09:03Brother Alex, the more talented seedling
09:06Straight-edged in half the fun
09:08Salamander, bassist, dumb
09:12Shockingly dumb
09:13And TC, the abandoned bride of a dozen should have died in art school bands
09:19Keeping us all in the dirty pocket
09:21We dropped songs on the streams and booked intimate venues
09:25To induce what Jen's snooze called FOMO
09:28They came for cosplay, left converted
09:30And I baptized them, the beautiful unwell
09:33And yet, here we were
09:35In the inn of the stooges and the stripes
09:38Thirty performances notched
09:40And already resting on the alps of adequacy
09:43Unacceptable
09:44I'm a piano
09:46I'm a piano
09:47I'm your forte
09:48I'm your alegro
09:50I'm a Dante
09:52I'm a valero
09:54I'm a prostitute
10:08Hello
10:09Welcome to Detroit
10:11Lovely city
10:13Your song sucks
10:14Thank you for your feedback
10:16Pick up the pace
10:17Pack up the gear
10:18Give me some face
10:19A souvenir
10:20Here come the case
10:21Here come the fear
10:22Now I have a fear
10:25Fear
10:29Fear
10:30Now I have a fear
10:45Oh, yeah we're coming
10:48Oh, yeah we're coming
10:49Yeah we're coming
10:50Oh, yeah we're coming
10:55Oh yeah, we're coming
10:57Yeah, yeah, we're coming
10:59Oh yeah, I'm coming
11:01Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
11:06Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
11:13Well that was boring
11:15Do you single like it?
11:16Harmonies on Plastic Fiends were trash
11:18He's right
11:19And the front head on your kick is shimmering
11:21Turn it up a step
11:22Singer'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
11:29No, they come for the Aussie shit
11:30Do rage call the Harmony Room, Larry Slater shredding it tonight
11:33And no one ever
11:35You sign the checks, dude
11:36I do, I do sign the checks
11:38Sign this
11:38The tambourine tomorrow is rehearsed and perfected
11:41What am I saying?
11:42You're not in Corvallis
11:44You're buying the wife early retirement and her lawyer lick
11:46But use the pen
11:47But he's funny because it's blood and I'm a vampire
11:51Notarizing organ
11:52Notarizing red income
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
12:08Try 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?
12:15I'm a little
12:17I'm a little
12:19Alright, Slater, out to go
12:21I'm going into my vampire dressing room, huh?
12:24A little draining both ways
12:26You'll have to guess who gets the fangs and who gets the vodka bottle
12:30And yes, it's a vodka bottle
12:33You did it again
12:36Fucking asshole
12:37Did 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
12:46With less war and pity
12:47Anyone see Yarda?
12:49I'm blind on Skype for one hours
12:54Missing a contact again
12:57How many drinks have you had?
13:00One and a half
13:01Drive to the burbs
13:02Sit by yourself in a booth at Applebee's
13:03Order the usual
13:04Big tip
13:05Meet us back in the city
13:07Now you'd think a 54-city rock tour
13:09Would be a wonderful cover for a blood drinker
13:11Hide your keel up on the bus
13:13Wave to the morgue reports in the rear view mirror
13:15That kind of thing
13:16But niche celebrity is a hunter's handicap
13:19And a sloppy night in Corvallis
13:21Made urgent the need for a body double
13:24His name was Yarda Klapik
13:25And the Albanian gangsters Christine hired to find my doppelganger
13:29Found him working construction in the Czech Republic
13:32Three 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
13:47Of Yarda eating up tuna melt by himself
13:50Only confirmed for most
13:52What they already believed
13:55That I, the Vampire Lestat, was Daniel Malloy's fictitious creation
14:00And the Vampire Lestat, the band
14:02Was fronted by a bricklaying karaoke fanatic from Ostrova
14:06Nothing but a desperate cash grab
14:08At the end of a chuggy vampire fad
14:10And I've only myself to blame for the timing
14:12Having locked us in an attic for a year plus
14:14Perfecting our sound
14:16A sound I hope would counter Mr. Dulac's portrayal of me as a
14:20Mayonnaise villain with sociopathic tendencies
14:24I'll beside the point
14:25Because the point was
14:26The point forever is
14:28I know you're real
14:29Most of humanity moved on from vampires
14:31And rather quickly
14:33Congratulations
14:35Now go make friends
14:38They lifted their heads from their algorithmic handmasters
14:41Out of the collective
14:42And swipe left
14:45I am the Vampire Lestat
14:48I 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
15:02Yeah I figured Spotify some T-Rex
15:04And drag a little oneg from Dr. Fareed
15:06Good here
15:06Same, Jeff
15:07I am not here
15:09Can we mic you?
15:10TC punched the boom again
15:12Yeah
15:12Okay
15:19So uh
15:20You and Louis talking again?
15:23He 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 firsthand
15:46The electric light
15:47Penicillin
15:48Two world wars
15:49The atomic bomb
15:50The moon landing
15:52The Berlin wall
15:53Joey Chestnut
15:54What?
15:55He eats hot dogs for a living
15:57He's extraordinary
15:57I hope to meet him one day
15:58Was there a question?
16:00Having accumulated profound wisdom
16:01And experience through the dark gift of immortality
16:04Why have you chosen to waste it singing music?
16:07No one wants to hear
16:09In pants no one should ever squeeze 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
16:16I am sure once you confront your transformational trauma
16:19I don't have transformational trauma
16:21That's why these movie producers hired you
16:24Danny Malloy, vampire slayer
16:26They said you requested me
16:28Absurd
16:29Oh, as absurd as a documentary about a rock band
16:32Posing as vampires
16:33Fronted by an actual vampire
16:36Directed by a vampire
16:37Passing as a human
16:38You tell him for me
16:41Is 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?
16:57Was I in the room when Donazetti wrote Don Pasquale?
17:00No, no, and impossible
17:04Because I had buried myself underground
17:06For 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
17:26Has finally submitted to automation
17:30Laborers stand in their doorways
17:33Hitting their pipes
17:35As their children half-pipe
17:37In their drained, empty swimming pools
17:39Drugstores locked up baby formula
17:42And shaving cream
17:44While Saks ate Barneys
17:46And someone told everyone
17:48That Lululemon was sexy
17:50Facts 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 Tete's ears had dimmed
18:13Fire coming down the hill
18:16Water moving in on Nantucket
18:20No more safe spaces
18:24It's my era
18:26Now
18:30Post Malone and Jelly Roll
18:32Playing there tonight
18:3360,000 for a face tattoo
18:35Palooza
18:35You played an 800 seat venue
18:38How is it your era?
18:43I'm vain and shallow
18:44And pure an empty seat
18:45Ask me an easy one
18:48Is it true
18:49Your band was formed on Halloween?
18:57You were listening to The Failures
19:01Album 2, Side B
19:26What do you think?
19:28It's nice
19:30Nice?
19:30Yeah
19:31It's nice
19:32I don't see Beyonce covering it
19:34But it's nice
19:37Nice is nothing
19:38It's nice
19:40Nice is a balloon
19:40It's your back right 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
19:49Don't be a bitch about it
19:52You should come visit
19:53I have a space above the bed
19:56In one of the guest rooms
19:57I can't find a painting for
19:59Oh, a guest room?
20:01You want me to come and see your guest room?
20:03It's an affluent neighborhood
20:05Old money
20:07Young professionals
20:08A smattering of Christ a trust from baby
20:10Good eating
20:14Same potholes
20:15But no hurricanes
20:18No witches
20:19And everyone mangles French
20:21Just like you do
20:23Come to me
20:24Montreal
20:26I am he
20:27And he is me
20:30That's baggage here
20:31I get it
20:32I get it
20:34Besides, there's an Olmstead Park nearby
20:36If I get homesick
20:38And there's a
20:39Garage band
20:41Rehearsing across the street
20:42Who call themselves
20:43Of all things
20:45Satan
20:46They call themselves
20:48Of all things
20:49Satan?
20:50Satan's night out
20:52Satan's night out?
20:53Out
20:54Satan's night out
20:55Okay
20:56Makes sense
20:57Louie, do you know someone
20:58Called Daniel Malloy?
21:02I burned his 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
21:09And you talk about me and it to a mortal?
21:11Well, yeah
21:12Yeah
21:12Gonna
21:13You know
21:14No, I don't know, Louie
21:16Please
21:17Explain yourself
21:18It's gonna be here and gone in a minute
21:20No one reads anymore
21:21Le stade, il est genre
21:23Whatever
21:23100%
21:25Mais Armand
21:26Il est genre mystérieux
21:27Ouais
21:28Il y a des layers
21:29T'as tué sa toile au Louvre
21:31Et toutes les boomers
21:33Faisaient la file pour aller voir l'autre bonne femme
21:35Avec sa resting but trace
21:36Moi j'ai skippé de ça
21:38Puis je t'aiderais de voir ma bella boy
21:39Dans le coin de la salle
21:42Je le ferais
21:44Faut que tu l'en sers
21:46Je le ponnerais
21:48Je le mordrais
21:49Faut que tu es un bras
21:49Puis je le lèche lèche lècherais
21:55Le stade, man
21:57Il aurait dû le brûler les motifs français sur Rural Street
21:59100%
22:01Compliment wild sleeve l'eau
22:03Tu veux-tu devenir membre ?
22:05Il y a 10%
22:05No, thank you
22:11Huh
22:14Oh
22:15I know what infinitesimal means
22:18It was raining
22:20No
22:20No
22:21Never
22:26F***ing
22:27L'élia
22:28Not a harlequin
22:30Your sources
22:31Are your sherpets
22:33Your editor
22:34Is your priest
22:36Don't go to the end
22:37Jesus out
22:39Why must you complicate it
22:41Mmm
22:47Hello
23:00Your camera
23:01Your camera is not period correct
23:03I have a finite allergy
23:04Well, allergies are delusional
23:07Take the mounts
23:08You'll take whatever I give you
23:10What kind of looks like
23:12What kind of looks like
23:25What kind of looks like
23:40Doooooooooo Ahhhh
23:56Ehhhhhhhhhh
24:00Yay!
24:03Ohhiss!!
24:03Yeah! What the fuck años?
24:05D
24:05Miner
24:08Slash
24:11This is in 1979.
24:12Bela Lugosi is not dead.
24:14You don't need to finger her for five bars.
24:18You're hurting her.
24:19Is that her neighbor?
24:22Apologies for the squire.
24:24My man, Arturo, will come in the morning with a replacement
24:28and a new front door.
24:31More frequent showers?
24:38What was the question again?
24:41Why music?
24:42Hey, hey!
24:44Why now?
24:46Dude, that was sick.
24:47What are we doing here?
24:51We're doing a rewrite.
24:54So this whole tour is just some ironic reaction to my book.
24:59Who better to refute the book than the man who wrote the book?
25:05The songs of my story.
25:07Your documentary, The Liner Notes.
25:08Liner Notes.
25:10I won two Pulitzers.
25:11I'm taking this thing to Cannes.
25:14Okay?
25:14I'm going to be slapping Chris Rock and stroking my Oscar.
25:19The brat sings.
25:20The brat dies.
25:21The great laws are clear on this.
25:23More exposure for us.
25:26More risk for us.
25:27More music for us.
25:31The brat sings.
25:31They sing for himself.
25:33That's why I want to be slapping him.
25:35I want to make more.
25:36More cook for us.
25:36Only a coven leader can make more.
25:38More music for us.
25:38The great laws are clear on that.
25:40First the book.
25:42Now the singer.
25:43This is chaos.
25:44Unpained.
25:44It doesn't have to share with you.
25:46If he comes to your people, kill him.
26:44I can't see you.
27:11I don't know.
27:16I don't know.
27:52I don't know.
28:23I don't know.
28:47I don't know.
28:53I don't know.
28:54I don't know.
28:56I don't know.
29:08I don't know.
29:25I don't know.
29:48I don't know.
30:07I don't know.
30:32I don't know.
30:37I don't know.
31:00I don't know.
31:03I don't know.
31:09I don't know.
31:15I don't know.
31:27I don't know.
31:29I don't know.
31:29I don't know.
31:35I don't know.
31:36I don't know.
31:37I don't know.
31:38Which one of you is OD'd before?
31:42What do you do?
31:43What did she take?
31:45Not her.
31:47Me.
31:48Get her on the ground.
31:50My blood.
31:53Ecstasy.
31:54LSD.
31:56What the hell happened up there?
31:59What the hell happened up there?
32:01What the hell were you doing?
32:04I should have quit right there and then.
32:07Would 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.
32:26This 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.
32:38Oh, he dies, Ben.
32:42I'm a mortal.
32:43Yeah.
32:44You 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.
32:54Just 265 years round and round.
32:58Why are you so sad?
33:01Thousands of fans loving you.
33:03I 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?
33:16Huh?
33:17Who told you that?
33:19Don'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, and the band was asked
34:11to lend its celebrity status to the event.
34:13Don't tell me to pose. Fuck you!
34:16There was a red carpet, a pap line, and a vampire DJ of some renown, seducing corporate employees, provincial influencers,
34:24and party crashing beautifully unwell.
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.
34:41Come on, come on, come on!
34:42Come on, come on, come on!
34:43Come on!
34:45The band is inside with Dan and the VIP purge.
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.
34:57I'm getting ahead of myself again.
34:59I arrived fashionably late, of course.
35:02State your name through the camera?
35:04Baby Jinx.
35:05Okay, baby.
35:06Tell me, why do you like the Vampire Lestat?
35:09Like I'm going to be in the movie?
35:11Oh, 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.
35:24Riding the wonders of Dr. Fareed's blood transfusion quick pick-me-up cocktail.
35:29Who's this guy? Because 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?
35:45It's rock and roll, you know?
35:47Have a nervous breakdown on stage,
35:49chatted 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.
36:01And 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.
36:23And he has the heart in his mouth.
36:26He's like, do you want to fuck?
36:29And rock and roll is like, yes, bitch!
36:32I excused myself to the men's room.
36:35Didn't read about vampire physiology in 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,
36:46no ticket pocket of mine ever had his initials inscribed onto them.
36:49I mean, these are the editorial wags of an insane person.
36:55Note to self-edit that out in the final version.
36:58Starting again.
37:00Vampire'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.
37:17Detroit.
37:19Detroit.
37:32Oh.
37:33Um, name's Tim. She's Russ.
37:39Bear, Russ.
37:42Pronouns.
37:43Hmm, and yet it's respectful, like silence at a urinal.
37:49Mm-hmm.
37:50He's got a bit, uh, crossed.
37:52We were minding each other the other night.
37:54Russ here has a hot mouth.
37:58And a strong pelvic floor.
38:00I admire your aim.
38:02Hmm.
38:03Long face sucks.
38:05Russ wanted to apologize.
38:08What? Black licorice?
38:11Why do I have to feel?
38:14Hmm. I like those ones.
38:17Franklin, Mr. Shankly almost ruined the Queen's death.
38:20I apologize. Accept it.
38:23We have a coven out here in Detroit.
38:26Do you?
38:27The Fang Gang.
38:29You want to see a real vampire bar? Come with us.
38:31We have a huge house out past Bragmore.
38:34Our own farm under the floorboards.
38:37Hmm, sure. What about tomorrow night?
38:40You're on the road tomorrow night.
38:42Yes, it was me being polite.
38:46No, that was you lying.
38:48Hmm, hmm, hmm.
38:49Hmm, hmm.
38:49Eco-friendly urinals.
38:51Good for the planet, so we're told.
38:53Good for vampires.
38:55Hmm.
38:56We 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 to your bright nourish color.
39:22Lilac.
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.
39:47You fool me twice.
39:48MDMA and LSD are excellent drugs.
39:51Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce.
39:53Twirl, twirl.
39:56Overshare.
39:57I saw your soul.
39:59I saw yours, too.
40:04Still feeling good.
40:06I went looking for my band.
40:08Looking for sex.
40:09Looking for anything that 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?
40:23Long Face sucks.
40:24Does it suck?
40:25I wondered.
40:27Did you have a point?
40:28And then I thought,
40:30Ooh, they want a little scrap with a scalpel.
40:34No worries.
40:35I thought I have 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.
40:47Went to party.
40:50Upstairs.
40:52So I'm scoring dick pills in Mogadishu for a UN peacekeeper.
40:56When in walks Stuart Copeland.
40:58Wearing a kufi and a mouthful of ammo.
41:00So I thought about having sex with Christine.
41:03And then I thought,
41:04That's all the way upstairs.
41:06And then I thought,
41:07I'm the scalpel.
41:09What does the scalpel do between here and upstairs?
41:15Mr. 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.
41:26That 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,
41:34Leaving your victim near death unparalyzed for an unhurried escape.
41:37And after that,
41:39There's the petticoot,
41:40The little drink,
41:41The sip.
41:42And after those three,
41:44It's sex.
41:45So now you know,
41:46The fourth best thing a vampire can do to avoid thinking about the past,
41:50Is to have sex.
41:52Sex.
41:53Sex.
41:53Sex.
41:54And I have had a lot of sex over the years.
41:56It's not all pain and toxicity.
41:58I have an immortal life,
41:59And I carry with it an immortal erection,
42:02And I am not ashamed of it.
42:04Sex is fun.
42:05Like the fun I sing about in Longface,
42:07Which,
42:08Looking back on it now,
42:09Does suck.
42:12I still have residuals coming in, actually.
42:15Carnal pleasure is essential to a vampire survival.
42:19If only to keep time's baggage from burying you.
42:24Sex with the bellman,
42:26And 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.
42:50Law 4.
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 wall, my dear.
43:05You'll not want to see this.
43:07Mmm.
43:09The tooth team.
43:11The fang gang.
43:16I killed a pack of wolves when I was immortal.
43:20Almost 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 faze me in the least.
43:30I'm building a career that supports my well-being.
43:33But...
43:34The drug blood in my sex legs and the distracting past my music had unleashed on me put me at
43:40a momentary disadvantage.
43:42I'm in charge of my work-life balance.
43:45Law 4.
43:46As if the Dulac Malloy memoir hadn't outed us all two years ago.
43:49The Dulac.
43:50As 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 porn of Detroit wasn't waving the dog gift like red cups
44:02in a piss bar.
44:04Collecting fledglings like they were the boo-boo dogs.
44:06I mean I haven't even told my band I was an actual vampire.
44:10I 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 8th 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.
44:30Jesus fucking God.
44:33Our mom told the truth if you met him.
44:36What the fuck does that even mean?
44:38I heard there was an after party on the asshole floor.
44:43I 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-fledged 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 all of 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.
45:55Were 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.
46:35And my vampire gift winged me away north of the rivers off of the country.
46:43But I was saved from such rational thought.
46:48Love will do that to you.
46:50Love will do that to you.
47:19I got myself into something I can't get out of.
47:25Music's opened up the bat show bed.
47:27And I'm not sure if I can close it again.
47:35I'm not really at my best but...
47:42It's very nice to see you again.
47:49I like what you've done with your hair, Mike.
47:53Mike.
48:01Mike.
48:07It's not much of a reveal, I guess.
48:10I 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.
48:31Fledgely.
48:33Love her.
48:37Mother.
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.
49:05What did you done in my heart?
49:07My maker called for his mama and I came.
49:10Give me a million more screams.
49:15You are caught in great danger with the stuff.
49:18You stole my personal position.
49:21You hired my biographer.
49:23The song's in there to build you.
49:30Shall we do it?
49:31Shall we scorch the mortal world?
49:34I wanna stay in bed, eating black and brown.
49:37What do you think about the Great Conversion?
49:40It's fucking stupid.
49:41I wanna stay in bed, and I'll ignore it.
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
50:05after a bunch 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
50:28know from the previous seasons.
50:30We're just putting them in an entirely new world, and as they do in the books, and as
50:34we do in this show, like the world continues to crack open larger and larger.
50:42Just like the plot changes, the whole attitude of the show changes, and we move into this
50:48completely 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, and so it was a very fun environment
51:07to be putting him in.
51:12Come to me.
51:14Montreal.
51:15I am he, and he is me.
51:18Louie and Lestat are FaceTiming, and you're probably going to get the sense that Louie's
51:21going to come over pretty soon.
51:22They'll probably get back together or 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
51:33Louie's watched just a ton of YouTube in his time off, you know?
51:38Like, cat videos, probably hungrily.
51:44Louie, do you know someone called Daniel Malloy?
51:47Well, Lestat 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 the 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.
52:00Louie sets fire to a laptop to try and erase the book, but 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, and you talk about me and it to a mortal?
52:13Well, yeah, uh, yeah, gonna, but, you know?
52:16No, I don't know, Louie.
52:18Please explain yourself.
52:20Both Louie and Lestat are not necessarily happy with the way that either of them were
52:24portrayed in 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,
52:38and he's like, you know what, I'm gonna set the record straight.
52:40Was he there in 18th century Auvergne?
52:43He said you told him that.
52:44Did I threaten Claudia with rape on a train?
52:46No, and 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 a incorrigible need to find out what the truth is.
53:02Why do you like the vampire Lestat?
53:04If he comes to your people, kill him.
53:07I heard 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?
53:36Well, Blacker Cribs is a great song.
53:39It's about the first kill Lestat made, after he reconciled with Louis in New Orleans.
53:45Didn't blink, didn't try to run, I got a real-life one.
53:52Particularly in episode one, you do see that he's pushing and pushing to get this sort
53:57of moment of grace, to be completely engulfed in the music.
54:02But just as I was about to bridge the bridge with murder and mayhem, something quite surprising
54:09happened.
54:10And that's what he gets from Black Licorice, he does have his first breakdown of many.
54:16Muses appeared in my mind and in the now around me.
54:20He realizes that he was the one that was holding them back.
54:24So 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.
54:34He started it to be, I'm gonna go and tell my story, I'm gonna do a rewrite.
54:38This is my version of Revence and it's evolved into something different.
54:43He's tapped into his past.
54:55Which one of you's OD'd before?
54:57And he
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