Amanda Palmer

I had the Merlins and High on Wire, which is another American metal band.

And the next night, on the Tuesday night of the earthquake, I had Amanda Palmer coming back for her second time around.

And she got stopped at Wellington Airport and said, sorry, you're not going to Christchurch.

I think that night before the quake, Don McLean was at the town hall.

But he was shacked up with one of wife of the pod, friend of the pod, Caroline, a.k.a.

Bat Free's favorite favorite musicians, Amanda Palmer, for many, many years.

And there were some pretty salacious allegations about him that surfaced a couple of years ago in summer of twenty twenty four.

I believe there were eight women who accused him of sexual misconduct, one of whom sued him and Amanda Palmer, his wife, from whom he was estranged at the time of the suit.

for sexual assault and for trafficking her.

He has denied wrongdoing, but I think this one's probably true.

Yeah, there's a lot to be said.

Again, I'm somebody who loved Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer.

Yeah, me too.

And everything happened.

I did not realize how loaded the cast was for all seven seasons of Tales from the Crypt.

The first season alone has William Sadler, Elizabeth Elmore-Trainer, Joey Pants himself, Leah Thompson, Amanda Palmer, M. Emmet Walsh.

Then the second season starts off with Demi Moore, Jeffrey Tambor, and the third episode is directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger and the only thing he's ever directed.

Later seasons, Brad Pitt directs an episode, the only thing he's ever directed.

I've, I've fou-I've fought it, like, my whole career.

I remember years ago, I did a story about Amanda Palmer, the, um, the singer, and, um, they headlined it, "Amanda Palmer: Visionary or Egotist?"

Mm.

And I'm always trying to not do things like that in my stories.

Anyway, um-

... just play some fucking Amanda Palmer and just let it, let it-

So-

... let it wash over you.

Oh, yeah

... what is it, uh, uh, was it Amanda Palmer or whatever did the art for it really.

Pamela Colman Smith, yeah.

Pam, Pam, Pamela Colman Smith.

What did I say? Amanda Palmer? Bro.

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He designed those cards

And I went full steam ahead with that.

Are you familiar with Amanda Palmer?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Amanda Palmer.

She's awesome.

Um, he took in a homeless, uh, I think, yeah, quite, quite a young woman to work as a, quote-unquote, "babysitter", um, at his Waiheke mansion.

Um, he ended up repeatedly sexually assaulting her, um, with his w- with kind of the assistance or complicity of his wife, Amanda Palmer.

Um-

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