The Originals

Somehow, Andrew made it through 26 episodes of the pod without one single guest telling him to fuck off or referring to him as a “cocksucker.” Thanks to novelist James Ellroy, this long national pod-mare is over! The celebrated 74 year-old author of The Black Dahlia came on to promote his new Audible Originals series, “James Ellroy’s Hollywood Deathtrip,” but was not at all interested in discussing his life as a pervert and womanizer, a reputation borne not of tabloid gossip or rumor, but rather exhaustively copped to in his two very dirty memoirs, 1996’s My Dark Places and 2010’s The Hilliker Curse. Whoops! Noted. Come for the swear words and dramatic walk off, stay for the return and the host/guest fragile, edgy détente. Discussed: his father’s alleged “18 incher,” his “Hitler-esque” moustache and John Wayne’s purported life as a crossdresser.

In light of Peter Bogdanovich’s January 6 death, “The Originals” releases a never-before-heard 2019 interview in which the Oscar-nominated director narrates his own story. Candid, shocking, and often hilarious, Bogdanovich shares tales of the rapturous reception to The Last Picture Show, the sex that changed his life, the Cybill affair that ended his marriage, the mistakes that bedeviled his career, his affection for Singapore’s hookers, and why he wasn’t broken up when Billy Wilder died. Also, discussed: the shocking 1980 murder of Dorothy Stratten—and how he ended up marrying the sister he met at 11. A mind-blowing hour with a legend.

Holiday special! Andrew breaks out the horn of plenty to celebrate Thanks-for-giving-us-the-hottest-sex-scene-ever with Jennifer Tilly, Oscar-nominated star of the groundbreaking, super-steamy lesbian thriller, Bound. Tilly, currently reprising her role as murderous doll consort Tiffany in Chucky on USA/SYFY, discusses her ambivalence about her decades-long close association with an evil piece of plastic. Plus: loving, and looking after a dying ex-husband, why she still works even though she has beaucoup Simpsons dough, and the reason she could, but doesn’t, hate her sister Meg. Plus, the real possibility that the self-described poker “degenerate” may well gamble away her entire fortune. ALSO the tale of one very unlucky showbiz bird.

Andrew Goldman interviews "Master of Chaos" music manager Allen Kovac, who shares all the grisly details of managing Mötley Crüe, Meatloaf, Duran Duran....and Richard Marx.

Remember 2014’s McConaissance? Thanks to a newly-unearthed and beautifully brutal Trump interview and her cameo in The Undoing, 2020 marks the beginning of Connie Chung’s Conniessance. The 74 year-old news legend brings a Gatorade cooler full of tea to spill on and about, among others, grumpy, frumpy scene partner Hugh Grant, former TV pal David Letterman, onetime CBS Evening News co-anchor Dan Rather as well as Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer, who treated her to a Jeff Gillooly/Nancy Kerrigan style welcome when she joined ABC News. Plus: Covid-era homicidal feelings about hubby Maury Povich. Oh, and here’s where you can watch Andrew Goldman’s unhinged 2015 doc about getting fired from The New York Times, The Desk. https://player.vimeo.com/video/123948379