Aug 21, 2026 · 1 hr 33 min · 12 segments
This week on the pod, we’re traveling back in time and heading west to soak up all the cocaine, booze and tits that 1988 LA has to offer as we watched the documentary “The Decline of Western…
Pete RadwanskiHost
Aaron RayburnHost
We were talking about doing the whole trilogy here, The Decline of Western Civilization, Parts 1, 2, and 3.
And you were the one who took the dive first and watched the first one and said, this is just really cool punk band footage.
And also, the rest of it is you're just watching drunk kids talk about their band.
But I realized, hey, if this follows the same formula across all three movies, which I did end up watching, we should really just pick the one that's the absolute heat seeker here.
either that or like a hundred of the least metal moments or something like that.
Somewhere, we all know the footage of Wasp's guitar player, Chris Holmes, bathing in vodka, handle after handle, in his pool at night with his mom beside herself, beside her son at the edge of the pool.
She has this look in her eyes where I feel like she is also a degenerate alcoholic.
There's this look of what happened to my son, but I did this to my son like a quiet night.
We were talking about doing the whole trilogy here, The Decline of Western Civilization, Parts 1, 2, and 3.
And you were the one who took the dive first and watched the first one and said, this is just really cool punk band footage.
And also, the rest of it is you're just watching drunk kids talk about their band.
But I realized, hey, if this follows the same formula across all three movies, which I did end up watching, we should really just pick the one that's the absolute heat seeker here.
either that or like a hundred of the least metal moments or something like that.
Somewhere, we all know the footage of Wasp's guitar player, Chris Holmes, bathing in vodka, handle after handle, in his pool at night with his mom beside herself, beside her son at the edge of the pool.
She has this look in her eyes where I feel like she is also a degenerate alcoholic.
There's this look of what happened to my son, but I did this to my son like a quiet night.
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