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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.
03:13Bang, bang.
03:14Bang, bang.
03:15Bang, bang.
03:15Bang, bang.
03:16Bang, bang.
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.
07:37راive move to the exact movement of the world's...
08:04Oh, oh, oh
08:08Oh, oh, oh
08:12Oh, oh, oh
08:14Oh, oh, oh
08:21I've got long fangs
08:23My pretty baby
08:24I've got long fangs
08:27Come up recently
08:29No more long stings
08:31That doesn't faze me
08:36I'm an actor
08:38And I make her
08:40I get fat to her
08:42When we break her
08:45What does it matter
08:46Who I take her
08:49Naturally I named the band after myself
08:52And the four that backed me
08:54Played their parts as instructed
08:56There was Larry
08:58The front man made side man
09:00Choking his guitar neck nightly
09:01Wishing it was mine
09:03Brother Alex
09:04The 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
09:18In art school bands
09:19Keeping 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
09:27Called FOMO
09:28They came for cosplay
09:29Left converted
09:30And I baptized them
09:31The beautiful unwell
09:33And yet
09:34Here 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
09:44I'm piano
09:46Your forte
09:48Your allegro
09:52Amandante
09:53With a letter
09:56Prostitué
10:08Hello
10:10Welcome to Detroit
10:11Lovely city
10:13Your song sucks
10:14Thank you for the feedback
10:16Pick up the pace
10:17Pack up the gear
10:18Give me some face
10:19A souvenir
10:20Here come the gaze
10:21Here come the fear
10:22Oh no
10:23Would you hear me?
10:25Free
10:29Free
10:30Free
10:32Ah
10:41Ah
10:42Ah
10:43Ah
10:43Ah
10:45Ah
10:46Ah
10:46Oh yeah we're coming
10:49Yeah we're coming
10:51Oh yeah we're coming
10:55Oh yeah, we're coming
10:57Yeah, we're coming
10:59Oh yeah, I'm coming
11:01Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh
11:14Well 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
11:22Singers 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 Harmony Room, Larry Slater shredding it tonight and 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
11:41Suck it
11:42What am I saying?
11:42You're back in Corvallis
11:44You're buying the wife early retirement and her lawyer lick, but use the pen
11:47But it's funny because it's blood and I'm a vampire
11:51Notarizing organ, notarizing 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
12:08You try 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
12:19I'm a little
12:20I'm a little
12:21I'm a little
12:28I'm a little
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
12:46With less war and pity
12:47Anyone see Yarda?
12:49Yarda
13:05Yarda
13:23Yarda
13:25Yarda
13:33Yarda
13:35We?
13:35We fit him for lifts, blue eye contacts, and a wig
13:38And otherwise, let him be Neanderthal meat
13:41I hunted this way and we sent him that way
13:44And every sad photograph uploaded to red-diet or discord
13:48Of Yarda eating up tuna melt by himself
13:50only confirmed, for most, what they already believed.
13:55That I, the Vampire Lestat, was Daniel Molloy'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.
14:10And I've only myself to blame for the timing,
14:12having locked us in an attic for a year plus perfecting our sound.
14:16The 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, because the point was, the point forever is...
14:28I know you're real!
14:29Most of humanity moved on from vampires.
14:32And rather quickly.
14:34Congratulations.
14:35Now go make friends.
14:38They lifted their heads from their algorithmic handmasters, uttered a collective...
14:43And swipe left.
14:45I am the Vampire Lestat.
14:48I am a god.
14:51Gods are not swiped.
14:54The Contessa.
14:56The useful idiot.
14:58Great show.
15:00You left before we started.
15:02Yeah, I figured Spotify some T-Rex and drag a little oneg from Dr. Fareedgood here.
15:06Same, Tiff.
15:07I am not here.
15:09Can we mic you?
15:10TC punched the boom again.
15:12Yeah.
15:13Okay.
15:18So, uh, you and Louie 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.
15:40You've been alive and undead for 265 years.
15:43You witnessed the French Revolution first hand, the electric light, penicillin, two world wars, the atomic bomb, the moon landing,
15:52the Berlin Wall...
15:53It's just not.
15:54What?
15:55He eats hot dogs for a living.
15:57He's extraordinary.
15:58I hope to meet him one day.
15:59Was there a question?
16:00Having accumulated profound wisdom and experience through the dark gift of immortality, why have you chosen to waste at singing
16:07music?
16:07No one wants to hear, in 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, 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 to animal, a vampire slayer.
16:26They said you requested me.
16:28Absurd.
16:29Oh, as absurd as a documentary about a rock band posing as vampires, fronted by an actual vampire.
16:36Directed by a vampire, passing as a human.
16:39You tell him for me.
16:41Is it true you were a stutterer as a child?
16:44Louis 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?
17:01No.
17:02No.
17:02And impossible, because I had buried myself underground for the vast majority of the 1800s.
17:08I wrote what he told me.
17:10I 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.
17:50Facts are irrelevant, feels are everything, and the value of human life, it has never been more arbitrary.
18:04David, David, Freddy, Prince Rogers, they're all gone, and the lights on Tay-Tay's ears had dimmed, fire coming down
18:15the hill, water moving in on Nantucket.
18:20No more safe spaces.
18:24It's my era, now.
18:30Post Malone and Jelly Roll playing there tonight, 60,000 for a face tattoo Palooza.
18:35You played an 800 seat venue, how is it your era?
18:43I'm vain and shallow and pure an empty seat, ask 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.
19:26What do you think?
19:28It's nice.
19:30Nice?
19:30Yeah, it's nice.
19:32I don't see Beyonce covering it, but it's nice.
19:37Nice is nothing.
19:38Oh, it's nice.
19:40Nice is a balloon.
19:41It's your back right music.
19:41A flower box is nice.
19:42It's nice.
19:43You got yourself a nice place.
19:45It's a nice word, and it says everything I wanted to express.
19:49Don't be a bitch about it.
19:52You should come visit.
19:54I have a space above the bed in one of the guest rooms I 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, young professionals, a smattering of Christe Troste von Bebe.
20:10Good eating.
20:14Same potholes, but no hurricanes, no witches, and everyone mangles French just like you do.
20:23Come to me.
20:24Montreal.
20:26I am he, and he is me.
20:30That's baggage here.
20:31I get it.
20:32I get it.
20:34Besides, there's an Olmstead Park nearby if I get homesick, and there's a garage band
20:41rehearsing across the street who call themselves, of all things, Satan.
20:47They call themselves, of all things, Satan?
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 called 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, and you talk about me and it to a mortal?
21:11Well, yeah.
21:12Uh, yeah.
21:12Gonna, you know?
21:14No, I don't know, Louie.
21:17Please, explain yourself.
21:18It's gonna be here and gone in a minute.
21:20No one reads anymore.
21:22The stat is like, whatever.
21:24100%.
21:25But Armand, he is like mysterious.
21:28Yeah, there's layers.
21:29You killed his wall at Louvre.
21:31Hey, all the boomers were going to go see the other good woman with his resting batrice.
21:37I skipped that and I would help you to see my beta boy in the corner of the room.
21:41Hmm.
21:42I would do it.
21:44You have to do it.
21:46I would kill it.
21:48I would kill it.
21:49I would kill it.
21:50And I would kill it.
21:55The stat, man.
21:56You gotta kill it.
21:58You gotta kill it, buddy.
21:59You gotta kill it.
21:59You're gonna kill it.
22:00100%
22:01You're gonna kill it already.
22:03Oh!
22:04You want to become a member?
22:05You have to kill it.
22:05It's like...
22:06No, thank you!
22:11Oh!
22:14Oh, I know what Infinitettimo means.
22:19It was raining.
22:20No, no, never fucking play up.
22:29I'm not a harlequin.
22:30Your sources are your sherpets.
22:33Your editor is your priest.
22:36Don't go to the F.
22:38Jesus out.
22:40Why must you complicate it?
22:43Hello.
22:51Oh, I want to put full-size bars.
22:54Is that a two?
23:00Your 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.
23:32Come on, we'll take.
23:33Come on, we have to.
23:35Come on.
23:37Come on.
23:38Come on.
23:39Come on.
23:41Come on.
23:43Come on.
23:48No!
23:49No!
23:50No!
23:52No!
23:54No!
23:55No!
24:03What the fuck?
24:05T!
24:06Minor!
24:07This is in 1979.
24:12Pela Lugosi is not dead.
24:14You don't need to finger her
24:16for five bars.
24:17You're hurting her.
24:19Is that her neighbor?
24:22Apologies for the squire.
24:24My mandatory will
24:25come in the morning with your replacement
24:27and 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.
24:48What are we doing here?
24:51We're doing a rewrite.
24:54So this whole tour
24:55is just some
24:57ironic reaction to my book.
24:59Who better to refute the book
25:02than the man who wrote the book?
25:05The songs of my story.
25:07Your documentary,
25:08The Liner Notes.
25:09I won two Pulitzers.
25:11I'm taking this thing to Cannes.
25:14Okay?
25:14I'm gonna be slapping Chris Rock
25:16and stroking my Oscar.
25:19The Brat sings.
25:20The Brat dies.
25:21The great laws are clear on this.
25:24More exposure for us.
25:26More risk for us.
25:29He sings for himself.
25:35Make more!
25:36Only a coven leader can make more.
25:38The great laws are clear on that.
25:40First the book,
25:42now the singer.
25:43This is chaos.
25:44Unpained.
25:44Now it's a bit of a sherbet.
25:46If he comes to your people,
25:47kill him.
26:27There is another training for you
26:28It feels like he can come and break up the Words.
26:31They were making sure that it is not true
26:32that he is so sensitive.很冷
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29:59Blood 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 center 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, under the white hot lights, my bandmates began to feed.
30:46And that sound I had been grinding them for was finally unleashed.
30:52A euphoric grattiness spilling into the crowd.
30:56Into their bodies enveloping the venue.
30:58A euphoric grattiness spilling into the crowd.
31:28A euphoric grattiness spilling into the crowd.
31:38Which one of you is OD'd before?
31:41What do you do?
31:43What did she take?
31:45Not her.
31:47Me.
31:47Get her on the ground.
31:50Her blood.
31:53Ecstasy.
31:55LSD.
31:56What 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, you know that, don't you?
32:29I can't die.
32:30Everything dies.
32:32You die, I die.
32:34She dies.
32:36She dies.
32:38Though 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.
32:54Just 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?
33:19Don'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,
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 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.
34:40Heh.
34:41Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on!
34:42Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on!
34:45The band is inside with Dan and the VIP perch.
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 Jinx.
35:05Okay, baby, tell me, why do you like the vampire Lestat?
35:09Like I'm gonna be in the movie?
35:11Oh, you're in it now.
35:12I 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?
35:30Because, 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,
35:53I'm still not there yet.
35:56MDMA and LST.
35:58The Torval and Dean of hallucinogenics.
36:01And so then everybody's like,
36:02is rock and roll actually dying?
36:04Were you a stutterer as a child?
36:06They walk into the ER,
36:08they are, like, the doctor.
36:10Unless that's the scalpel.
36:12I'm the scalpel, printed T-shirts.
36:14And 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.
36:25He's like,
36:27do you want to fuck?
36:29And rock and roll is like,
36:30yes, bitch!
36:32I excused myself to the men's room.
36:35Didn't read about vampire physiology
36:37in 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
36:47ever had his initials inscribed onto them.
36:49I mean, these are the editorial wags
36:51of an insane person.
36:55Note to self-edit that out
36:56in the final version.
36:58Starting again.
37:00Vampire's pee.
37:01We don't do it as often as you do,
37:03assuming you're not one of us.
37:04And we generally avoid
37:05eco-friendly urinals.
37:17Detroit.
37:19Detroit.
37:37What's up there, Ross?
37:51Crossed. We 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. Long face sucks.
38:05Russ wanted to apologize.
38:08What? Black licorice?
38:11Why do I have to feel?
38:14Hmm. I like those ones.
38:17Frankly, Mr. Shankly almost ruined the Queen's death.
38:20I apologize. I 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 Bradmore.
38:34Our own farm under the floorboards.
38:37Hmm. Sure. What about tomorrow night?
38:40You're on the road tomorrow night.
38:42Yes. That was me being polite.
38:46No. That was you lying.
38:48Hmm. Eco-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 maurice, come on.
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, you fool me once, shame on me, you fool me twice, MDMA and LSD
39:49are excellent drugs.
39:51Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, twirl, twirl, overshare.
39:56I 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 that radiated the fun that I sang about
40:13in my song, Long Face.
40:15And then, regionals.
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, ooh, they want a little scrap with a scalpel.
40:34No worries, I 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.
40:46Bullshit.
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, wearing a kufi and a mouthful of ammo.
41:00So I thought about having sex with Christine.
41:03And then I thought, that's all the way upstairs.
41:06And then I thought, I'm the scalpel.
41:09What does the scalpel do between here and upstairs?
41:14Mr. Deluxe Memoir tiptoed around vampire sex, didn't it?
41:20He 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, leaving your victim near death unparalyzed for an unhurried escape.
41:38And 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.
41:54And I have had a lot of sex over the years.
41:56It's not all pain and toxicity.
41:58I have an immortal life 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.
42:12I 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 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.
42:41I'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 two thousand and twenty-five.
43:03Praise the wall, my dear.
43:05You'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.
43:20Almost 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 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.
43:44Law four.
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 port of Detroit wasn't waving the dark gift like red cups
44:02in a piss bar.
44:04Collecting fledglings like they were the booboo dogs.
44:06I mean I haven't even told my band I was an actual vampire.
44:10I was just singing my songs and fucking my food and defending myself from the vibrant life choices I had
44:15made.
44:16On 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.
44:30Jesus 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?
45:29CCTV.
45:30Eco flush toilets.
45:31IMF freezing your accounts because you have the blood of a patricidal queen inside you.
45:36Hello again.
45:38We had to love you.
45:40Telemasker dragged me into that.
45:41And 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 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.
46:50But what can I do it?
47:05It's a big deal.
47:06Why are you?
47:08I'm hungry.
47:09You're maître.
47:12Why do you feel like you're hungry?
47:15You're hungry.
47:19I'm hungry.
47:20and it's something I can't get out of music's opened up the batch of it and I'm not sure if
47:28I can close it again I'm not really at my best but it's very nice to see you again
47:49I like what you've done with your hair Mike Mike
48:03my Gabrielle
48:07it's not much of a reveal I guess I know it's common gossip now the first thing one thinks
48:13about when my name comes up I assume a privileged individual such as yourself
48:20enjoys a little dirt in their sandwich so I serve it to you know how it felt then
48:31fledgling
48:34lover
48:37mother
48:40listen to tracks from the vampire list ad wherever you stream
48:44music if you're still listening after the last hour welcome back so bring
48:51on the music
48:54do you kill people
49:01let's talk about your mother
49:03I've been a bad boy
49:05my maker called for his mama and I can't
49:10give 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 shall we scorch the mortal world
49:37what do you think about the great conversion
49:39fucking stupid
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
50:28know from the previous seasons we're just putting them in an entirely new world and
50:32as they do in the books and as we do in this show like the world continues to crack open
50:36larger 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 a lot of the beauty and elegance that you would usually see him surrounded by is
51:00gone
51:01it feels really grungy and really rough and really raw and so it's a very fun environment to be putting
51:07him in
51:12you know
51:13come to me
51:13montreal
51:15i am he and he is me
51:18louis and let's start a facetiming and you're probably going to get the sense that
51:20louis is going to come over pretty soon they'll probably get back together or like work it out
51:25nice yeah it's nice one of the first conversations i had with
51:30rolling and hannah and the writers was that i think louis's watched
51:34just a ton of youtube in his time off you know like cat videos probably hungrily
51:44louis do you know someone called daniel molloy well the stuff finds out about the book and then
51:49that completely throws all those plans out of the window one of my favorite things about the second
51:54season of interview the vampire is that i burned his laptop i didn't know he had it saved in the
51:59cloud louis sets fire to a laptop to try and erase the book um but like no one told him
52:06about the cloud
52:08i only found out it was coming out a month ago you've known for a month and you talk about
52:12me and
52:12it to a mortal well yeah uh yeah gonna but you know no i don't know louis please explain yourself
52:20both louis and lestat are not necessarily happy with the way that either of them were portrayed in
52:25the book it's like a mix of guilt and probably a sense of vengeance about it lestat sees that book
52:31come
52:32out sees what he perceives are lies and distortions mistruths and he's like you know what i'm gonna set
52:40the record straight was he there in 18th century over he said you told him did i threaten claudia
52:45with rape on a train no and impossible daniel molloy is an investigative journalist of the absolute top
52:53shelf who better to refute the book than the man who wrote the book he has a incorrigible need to
53:00find
53:00out what the truth is why do you like the vampire lestat see el yega tu pueblo mattley there was
53:08an
53:08after party on the asshole floor this isn't just sex drugs and rock and roll it's sex drugs rock and
53:15roll and sucking blood out of people's necks you're for real
53:22so
53:37my black is just a great song it's about the first kill that lestat made after he reconciled with louis
53:44in new orleans
53:51particularly in episode one you do see that he's pushing and pushing to get this sort of moment of
53:57grace 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 happened
54:10and that's what he gets from black licorice he does have his first breakdown of many muses appeared in
54:17my mind and in the now around me he 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 and that sound i
54:29had been
54:29grinding them for was finally unleashed he started it to be i'm going to go and tell my story i'm
54:37going
54:37to do a rewrite this is my version of events and it's evolved into something different he's tapped into
54:43his past
54:55which one of you so did before
55:13was
55:14was
55:16was
55:16so
55:16was
55:16was