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Documentary filmmaker Lance Oppenheim returns to the show and talks with Bret about preserving entropy in Spermworld, inadvertently betraying the expectations of his subjects and watching dreams die on reality television.

Listen to Lance's prior appearance from 2021: B.E.E. Podcast 3/21/21

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Keith campbell

56:00 Bret brings up lesbians who go straight to get a baby, an interesting counterpoint to last week’s straight dudes going gay for pay.

Alex Waller

Vanilla Sky is awesome and a great movie, no need for the "guilty pleasure" qualifier

Moz

What does he think about the Eagles?

Poetical Gore

gay for pay and non lesbian for baby....the world is just fine

Ashley

“constantly congratulated and thanked profusely for ejaculating” 😂

Moz

A brilliant film. It’s genuinely ambitious and avant-garde, not sure how he even got to “guilty pleasure”

Reservoir Frog

Haven’t listened yet but just realised Vincent Gallo would be a superb guest

MB

I need shards HBO updates I’m going crazy over here

Sean Preston

Awesome! The original Lance Oppenheim episode was one of my favorites ever. Excited to listen to this one

John Q. Thompson

Post-nut clarity is very real. Turned down sex many times after nutting because I've lost the lust.

richard owain roberts

am going to listen on my run. will say more later, after my run.

Brian James

Some great doc recos in this and the earlier episode.

Marthe Beckers

Please try to have one of the Safdie brothers as a future guest! Would be awesome

Patrick

Excellent guest, again! 🙌

Darren

Excited to hear Bret mention the directorial gig is looking likely, with a potential November start. I hope we hear more about the pre-production of "Relapse" in future episodes.

Reno D.

Bret saying "Villeneuve" more or less properly and the guest "correcting" him with a pronounciation completely off was quite a reversal of what we're used to 🤣 I had a big laugh.

Nick

Watched his doc tonight after hearing this. He is super talented.

Stephen

I think he was mispronouncing it as a joke. Guest said warren Beatty wrong though which was wild.

James__

I think Lance was gently poking fun at a YouTuber who genuinely could not pronounce the name and had multiple attempts. Wonderful guest BTW.

Reno D.

Yes he brought that up afterward. I wasn't sure if he was serious or not with his pronounciation. I'm so used to hear Villeneuve's name being butchered, I was surprised that Bret got it right the first time

Reno D.

I will fully admit that I used to pronounce Warren Beatty that way as well... until about 10 years ago max hahaha

Chris N

The last 20 minutes of the movie are very bad, exposition heavy. What makes the movie interesting is its turn from a totally earnest early ‘00s rom-com (complete with Peter Gabriel cornball soundtrack) into a pretty disturbing psychological horror flick — it’s just that the movie doesn’t really commit to this tonal transformation and resorts to a tacked-on happy, redemptive ending for Cruise. I watched it back to back with Eyes Wide Shut last month, and in that context Vanilla Sky comes off as somehow both really confused and totally obvious.

Happyhead

In sex addicts anonymous they teach you that whenever you’re feeling the urge to see a prostitute just jerk off and the PNC will set in and kill the urge.

Neil G.

it is an objectively horrible attempt at an experimental film, and to suggest it is good is a scientific foray into pseudo intellectualism...so you are objectively wrong, regardless of what you say...but nice try 😂😂

Casey

Would be an instant top 5 episode for me. Also Vincent knows a thing or two about DIY sperm donation if you're familiar with his website.

BrienPiechos

And then one day, for no reason whatsoever, the people of Germany....

Rebecca

I watched Spermworld after listening to this. Compelling doc and beautifully shot!

Chris S.

What was he saying about a doc he wanted to do... and then described Grizzly Man?

J Hay

Clu Gulager is, indeed, John Gulager’s dad. They used to be seen at my local Astro Burger. Clu died a couple of years ago, in his 90s. He’s in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

J Hay

That wasn’t Grizzly Man. The guy (and his partner) on that Herzog doc didn’t have special anti-bear clothing/gear.

Chris S.

Duh, I got my grizzlies mixed up. So he described Project Grizzly, which I saw as a kid.

James Kennedy

DNF - dry, too long on his documentaries without explaining what they are about.