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- 0:00Speaker 1: Fifty k was offered to him to make it look
- 0:03Speaker 1: like a suicide.
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- 1:13Speaker 4: Hey do you smell that? It smells like teen spirit
- 1:16Speaker 4: up in here and shotgun residue.
- 1:20Speaker 1: It's shuck. Today we're going over the film, the nineteen
- 1:24Speaker 1: ninety eight film Kurt and Courtney, directed by Nick Broomfield,
- 1:28Speaker 1: which follows the conspiracy of what really happened to Kirk.
- 1:32Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting a round like to pick
- 1:35Speaker 1: this up because I've been like kind of dabbling in
- 1:37Speaker 1: the curtain Courtney stuff for a long time. I've liked
- 1:40Speaker 1: to figure out what was happening, like we all have
- 1:43Speaker 1: our own thoughts on it. But also not too long ago,
- 1:47Speaker 1: Daily Mail release an article that says her Coppwaine's death
- 1:51Speaker 1: was homicide, shocking new forensics investigation. So I was like,
- 1:56Speaker 1: let's go back to one of the classics. I had
- 1:58Speaker 1: not seen this. I had saw friend Kirk Cobain documentaries
- 2:02Speaker 1: and stuff about Courtney, so this was fresh for me,
- 2:05Speaker 1: and it was a stuff we've heard, but I think
- 2:09Speaker 1: it was well put together.
- 2:11Speaker 4: Yeah, well, we're gonna probably have to do more than
- 2:13Speaker 4: just this one too, because this is just one tiny insight,
- 2:17Speaker 4: and this one is also a little bit older. This
- 2:20Speaker 4: might be like one of the very first ones, not
- 2:23Speaker 4: that I've seen chronologically, but like probably one of the
- 2:26Speaker 4: first curtain Courtney documentaries to ever come out, questioning his death, plotting.
- 2:39Speaker 1: The course, This one's pretty easy to plot. It goes over,
- 2:44Speaker 1: gives you old footage kind of the story behind Kurt,
- 2:48Speaker 1: and like as you said, you alluded to, this is
- 2:51Speaker 1: probably one of the first ones. This was maybe in
- 2:53Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, right, so a few years well, I
- 2:56Speaker 1: think he did. He passed in ninety six. It was
- 2:58Speaker 1: ninety six. I believe that ninety five or ninety six
- 3:01Speaker 1: is when Kurt actually left this world right and it
- 3:06Speaker 1: was a huge megastar that had the masses right like,
- 3:12Speaker 1: and he was this prototypical that that we don't think
- 3:16Speaker 1: of at the time, but like now that you think of,
- 3:18Speaker 1: it's almost the catalyst of this progressive era, right Like
- 3:22Speaker 1: you wouldn't think the grunge, but like this whole Seattle
- 3:25Speaker 1: Antifa movement, you can trace a lot of it to
- 3:28Speaker 1: Kurk Cobain. In my opinion, I.
- 3:31Speaker 4: Remember that this was one of the first celebrity deaths
- 3:35Speaker 4: where like I had friends in school crying over a stranger.
- 3:39Speaker 4: I mean, and I get it, like it was traumatic
- 3:41Speaker 4: for a lot of people, but this is one of
- 3:43Speaker 4: the first moments where I felt like that the world
- 3:46Speaker 4: was weird, Like why is the world being so weird?
- 3:48Speaker 4: Why why is everyone in my middle school crying today
- 3:53Speaker 4: because like a rock and roller guy died. I mean,
- 3:56Speaker 4: not to be not empathetic about it, but it was
- 3:59Speaker 4: just it was like a it's a real moment that
- 4:01Speaker 4: I can't forget.
- 4:04Speaker 1: And the claims in this film go off right away,
- 4:06Speaker 1: like right in the beginning, like he's going like talking
- 4:10Speaker 1: to the ant Kirk Cobain's aunt and she wants to
- 4:13Speaker 1: show like some of the songs that he made as
- 4:15Speaker 1: a child, and they're like, we can't show you this
- 4:18Speaker 1: because a Courtney's team is like kind of pushing back
- 4:21Speaker 1: against us with legal and this will be a theme
- 4:23Speaker 1: throughout the film, which does make an interesting different layer
- 4:27Speaker 1: of claims. Right, they're not just making claims about Kurt
- 4:30Speaker 1: and Courtney, but they're making claims that Courtney's team still
- 4:34Speaker 1: to that day of up to around the I think
- 4:37Speaker 1: they shot around like ninety six to ninety seven. I
- 4:39Speaker 1: just looked. Nineteen ninety four was when Kirk Cobain's suicide
- 4:42Speaker 1: actually happened. So this film was shot a few years
- 4:46Speaker 1: after and released in ninety eight, and her team was like,
- 4:50Speaker 1: we own the rights to all that music.
- 4:51Speaker 4: Now.
- 4:52Speaker 1: They insinuate like you know, she's kind of bullying them,
- 4:54Speaker 1: Like now it could have just been just lawyers like
- 4:57Speaker 1: we want money, right and just grabbing royalties. They don't
- 5:00Speaker 1: necessary to explain. They kind of leave the mystery there,
- 5:02Speaker 1: like Courtney and her thugs where they're waiting for me
- 5:06Speaker 1: right out and like if I put that song in there,
- 5:08Speaker 1: I'm getting beat down. Like that kind of feel was
- 5:10Speaker 1: like right away in the film I thought was interesting.
- 5:14Speaker 4: Yeah, they're they're this documentary. It's called curt and Courtney,
- 5:18Speaker 4: but it should be called like Kurt and Courtney and Me,
- 5:20Speaker 4: because like they sort of insert themselves into now they're
- 5:24Speaker 4: also the victims. Like yeah, you might go into this
- 5:27Speaker 4: thinking you're just gonna learn about Kurt dying and like
- 5:30Speaker 4: how much of a tragedy, but also look what she's
- 5:32Speaker 4: doing to me?
- 5:33Speaker 1: Yeah, and they and then like I said, this team
- 5:35Speaker 1: comes up. They even have like towards the end and
- 5:38Speaker 1: just to wrap up like kind of like the Curtney
- 5:40Speaker 1: versus Me narrative. Towards the end, it's where he's like, yeah,
- 5:44Speaker 1: like he has a phone call, which you can tell
- 5:46Speaker 1: was Connor Rehearse, like it didn't seem natural. Like he's like, yeah, man,
- 5:51Speaker 1: I'm pulling out. Man. You know, the Ententvy execs their
- 5:54Speaker 1: relationship with Courtney. They don't want to fund this film,
- 5:58Speaker 1: and and I think he is trying to convey like
- 6:02Speaker 1: you know, like I'm noble, Like I'm trying to just
- 6:05Speaker 1: get the truth to you, and they're trying to pull it.
- 6:07Speaker 1: But like, don't worry, I'm gonna put work.
- 6:10Speaker 4: Think Nirvana is trying to stop us, and that was a.
- 6:14Speaker 1: Good point throughout this film. Like, like you said, he
- 6:16Speaker 1: kind of inserted himself a little bit more. But some
- 6:19Speaker 1: of the other key figures in this film was a
- 6:22Speaker 1: private investigator, Tom Grant, Right, He's one of the key
- 6:26Speaker 1: figures to what really happened. And Tom Grant was hired
- 6:30Speaker 1: when so Kirk was missing, Right, Kurt, he was a
- 6:34Speaker 1: heroin addict. Right, Let's not like put it out there
- 6:36Speaker 1: like he.
- 6:37Speaker 4: Escaped from rehab. He was a heroin addict that had
- 6:40Speaker 4: just escaped from rehab.
- 6:42Speaker 1: And so like he's investigating Kirk, whereas isabouts trying to
- 6:47Speaker 1: really get a part of it. Well, he's like one
- 6:49Speaker 1: of the lead figures of this whole He did not
- 6:52Speaker 1: commit suicide narratives. He kind of like really pounds his
- 6:55Speaker 1: fists on the table. Like he even has a part
- 6:57Speaker 1: where he's like, throw me one time in history that
- 7:01Speaker 1: a guy has been had that much heroin and he
- 7:04Speaker 1: was able to pick up a gun, right, Like that's
- 7:07Speaker 1: his like whole to me, his premise of like it
- 7:10Speaker 1: would be impossible the amount of heroin he had in
- 7:14Speaker 1: his system for him to be able to do that.
- 7:16Speaker 1: That was his like smoking gun.
- 7:18Speaker 4: I looked that up and he's he was wrong according
- 7:21Speaker 4: to various information that I found. So just since we're
- 7:25Speaker 4: on that tangent right now, anyways, I guess Kurt was
- 7:29Speaker 4: found with like one point twenty five milligrams in his system. Well,
- 7:34Speaker 4: the real measurement is milligrams per leader, and the range
- 7:38Speaker 4: from like a typical heavy heroin addict is anywhere between
- 7:42Speaker 4: like zero point eighty five milligrams per leader all the
- 7:45Speaker 4: way up to four milligrams per leader, So he wasn't
- 7:48Speaker 4: even halfway to the higher end of the spectrum. So
- 7:51Speaker 4: for that to have been his like big smoking gun,
- 7:54Speaker 4: Like here's the thing that's going to convince you. I
- 7:57Speaker 4: mean I went and looked it up, and it didn't
- 7:59Speaker 4: really convince me at all. But I do think that
- 8:02Speaker 4: that guy is such a fascinating character because the idea
- 8:05Speaker 4: here was that Courtney he believes that Courtney Love was
- 8:10Speaker 4: behind Kurt Cobain's death, and that Courtney Love contacted him
- 8:14Speaker 4: to do private investigation just so that when he was
- 8:17Speaker 4: found dead, she could be like I hired a private investigator.
- 8:20Speaker 4: I was doing everything that I could to proactively, like
- 8:23Speaker 4: you know, prevent anything from happening, or to find out
- 8:26Speaker 4: what happened to Kurt. But in turn, this guy ends
- 8:29Speaker 4: up like investigating it as if it were a murder
- 8:32Speaker 4: that she was behind, and then he's like writing books
- 8:34Speaker 4: about it, and he's still years later advocating that she
- 8:38Speaker 4: was the one responsible for him dying. So it's sort
- 8:42Speaker 4: of ironic that she just randomly grabs this guy out
- 8:45Speaker 4: of the Yellow Pages and either he's good at what
- 8:48Speaker 4: he does, or he's good at grifting or a narrative
- 8:51Speaker 4: or who knows what happened necessarily, but like he turned
- 8:55Speaker 4: this the one hundred and eighty degrees from where she
- 8:58Speaker 4: was trying to push it.
- 8:59Speaker 1: Yeah, who knows if he's just an opportunitist, right, Like
- 9:02Speaker 1: he was like I was hired as an investigator and
- 9:04Speaker 1: he's like this looks a little weird. Let me just
- 9:06Speaker 1: add this stuff. Oh wow, it's those books. Let me
- 9:08Speaker 1: keep let me keep running with this. I think this
- 9:11Speaker 1: is profitable. And they do even say in the film
- 9:14Speaker 1: I forgot like they were talking about some doctors were
- 9:16Speaker 1: talking about like, well that first minute to five minutes
- 9:20Speaker 1: before the heroin actually is full effect, like same thing
- 9:24Speaker 1: with like I don't know how fast heroin hits you, right, Like,
- 9:27Speaker 1: but I know, alcohol, weed and different substances don't necessarily
- 9:31Speaker 1: the minute you use it. You're not like whoa like, right,
- 9:34Speaker 1: it takes a little bit to get into your system.
- 9:36Speaker 1: And he's like, you would definitely have enough time to
- 9:39Speaker 1: inject yourself and within that minute or five minutes before
- 9:43Speaker 1: it really hits you, you're probably could pick up a gun.
- 9:46Speaker 1: It's possible. It's not the way that he was making
- 9:49Speaker 1: it like, it is impossible. There was no way that
- 9:53Speaker 1: anybody could do that. I thought that was a funny narrative.
- 9:55Speaker 1: And then they start focusing more on painting who Courtney
- 9:59Speaker 1: was right there, they're building the villain, right, They're like,
- 10:02Speaker 1: they go to one of her exes, a Ross Rezubk,
- 10:06Speaker 1: a punk musician that obviously with scorn bro Like, this
- 10:10Speaker 1: was a good scene too, Like, you know, you can
- 10:12Speaker 1: see that they maybe did not have the best of relations.
- 10:14Speaker 1: He does not lack Courtney, Let's just say that, right,
- 10:17Speaker 1: And he's a little bit intoxicated when you get there.
- 10:20Speaker 1: You only see him with one beer. But then I'm like,
- 10:22Speaker 1: the way he starts talking, I'm like, Okay, this guy's
- 10:27Speaker 1: been drinking, right, He like wants to let stuff out.
- 10:30Speaker 1: So I will say that some of the people that
- 10:33Speaker 1: come out like they have already hatred and already a
- 10:37Speaker 1: bone to pick with Courtney, so this may be them
- 10:40Speaker 1: latching onto it. But he goes through some of her
- 10:43Speaker 1: old like writings and stuff, and it does give you
- 10:46Speaker 1: some insight where she's like, hey, I'm gonna be famous, right,
- 10:49Speaker 1: Like I'll do anything and everything to be famous. This
- 10:52Speaker 1: is my twenty step plan on how to get there,
- 10:55Speaker 1: and and some of it's like kind of like maybe
- 10:57Speaker 1: you would call it manifestations, you know, like go on tour,
- 11:00Speaker 1: like it's like, uh like going to her like become famous,
- 11:03Speaker 1: like do the Grammys, like all these like check points
- 11:07Speaker 1: of what she wants to do. And he kind of
- 11:10Speaker 1: then puts it through his perspective where he's like, yeah,
- 11:12Speaker 1: she'll step on anything. She took my career, right, she
- 11:15Speaker 1: took my image, which maybe she did, we can't say,
- 11:18Speaker 1: but I kind of give it a mix right there,
- 11:20Speaker 1: because I'm like, obviously you like have beef with her,
- 11:23Speaker 1: like you hate her, So it's I can't believe everything
- 11:26Speaker 1: you're saying, Like I think there's truth to what you
- 11:28Speaker 1: have said. I think that she may be like a manipulator.
- 11:31Speaker 1: She may be like this calculated person that's trying to
- 11:35Speaker 1: get ahead in life. But like, I don't know if
- 11:37Speaker 1: you should blame all your failures on her, and like
- 11:39Speaker 1: that seems to be why you want to be in
- 11:41Speaker 1: this film.
- 11:42Speaker 4: Well, he said a couple of things though that I
- 11:44Speaker 4: think that stood out as the point that this documentary
- 11:47Speaker 4: is trying to make. I think is that a was
- 11:52Speaker 4: she kind of would adapt a personality to fit whatever
- 11:56Speaker 4: the situation or whatever her goal was in. And one
- 11:58Speaker 4: of those examples that you find on this documentary is
- 12:01Speaker 4: it she goes to like England for a like a
- 12:05Speaker 4: month or two for music and going on tour and
- 12:07Speaker 4: just going to bands, and then when she comes back
- 12:10Speaker 4: to the States, she's got a thick English accent and
- 12:13Speaker 4: she's yelling about how like the punk that this guy's
- 12:17Speaker 4: singing isn't from like the real roots or something like
- 12:20Speaker 4: she's this expert because she had just been. It's you know,
- 12:23Speaker 4: it's like someone goes on a cur like a white
- 12:26Speaker 4: girl goes on a cruise to Jamaica and gets her
- 12:28Speaker 4: hair beat, and she comes back and she's like talking
- 12:30Speaker 4: like Patwa, you know what I mean, like all of
- 12:32Speaker 4: a sudden, like she's like a Jamaican or something like.
- 12:35Speaker 4: There's sort of that angle to Courtney. And then he
- 12:37Speaker 4: also is describing how she would sort of throw gas
- 12:41Speaker 4: on a fire so that if you had a certain
- 12:44Speaker 4: kink or like a weird habit or just like some
- 12:48Speaker 4: something that would make you different from other people, she
- 12:51Speaker 4: would use that and like bond with you over that
- 12:54Speaker 4: and like just make that a thing that the two
- 12:56Speaker 4: of you would share, Like, Oh, I can't believe this
- 12:58Speaker 4: person's into this thing that I I'm into. So there's
- 13:01Speaker 4: this idea that her opportunistic nature and just throwing like
- 13:06Speaker 4: fuel on the fire of people that you could kind
- 13:08Speaker 4: of like use you as a stepping stone by feeding
- 13:11Speaker 4: into whatever your thing is and then jumping to the
- 13:13Speaker 4: next person, the next person, next person. And then I
- 13:15Speaker 4: guess that the premise of this documentary and what this
- 13:19Speaker 4: guy is saying is how Kurt Cobain dies. And then
- 13:23Speaker 4: a week later is when she drops her first album
- 13:26Speaker 4: and it's like, now there's no more spotlight to share
- 13:29Speaker 4: and take all this momentum, which is sort of they
- 13:32Speaker 4: haven't said it in these terms, but this is like
- 13:34Speaker 4: that conspiracy theory angle of like a sacrifice, like a
- 13:37Speaker 4: blood sacrifice must be made in order for a new
- 13:40Speaker 4: star to be born. They're kind of describing that without saying.
- 13:44Speaker 1: It, and this film does do a good job of
- 13:47Speaker 1: like at least the people that have interacted with it
- 13:50Speaker 1: are like, right, we didn't have every aspect of like
- 13:52Speaker 1: the people are like, oh, Corney's a great person, Like
- 13:54Speaker 1: we didn't get that feel like a lot of the people,
- 13:56Speaker 1: like ros one of the first he's like, well, how'd
- 13:59Speaker 1: you meet her? And he's like, well, I got off
- 14:00Speaker 1: stage and she's like, you suck, you're the worst music.
- 14:03Speaker 1: You didn't do this, Look how you're dressed, and just
- 14:05Speaker 1: like berating him and like really tearing him down. And
- 14:09Speaker 1: that's kind of what she did, right, That's how she
- 14:11Speaker 1: latches on to different people, And I think that does
- 14:14Speaker 1: give you a little bit of like how she was
- 14:16Speaker 1: as a person. They even like have one of her
- 14:19Speaker 1: former friends. Now again we don't know how these relationships were,
- 14:22Speaker 1: like her former friend Amy No One documentary way, Yeah,
- 14:29Speaker 1: it's so that's like and she's like calling her a harpie,
- 14:32Speaker 1: Like she's just like this latching on, like this person
- 14:35Speaker 1: that manipulates and uses anything. So there's this theme of this.
- 14:39Speaker 1: Even they go as far as to talk to her dad,
- 14:42Speaker 1: Hank Harrison. Her dad is like they had two major
- 14:48Speaker 1: interviews with him in this in this film, and the
- 14:51Speaker 1: first one is, I would say, so so intense. The
- 14:55Speaker 1: last one is super intense, right where he's just like
- 14:57Speaker 1: I'm coming for you, Like he's like, I know you,
- 15:01Speaker 1: I know how you think? Like he he has some
- 15:04Speaker 1: and it's hard to say, right is it some kind
- 15:07Speaker 1: of thing that he did or some just family core
- 15:09Speaker 1: or does he really know?
- 15:10Speaker 4: And is she doesnticular he's selling books and he's getting interviews.
- 15:15Speaker 1: So that's that's what like you got to see in
- 15:17Speaker 1: some of this too, with some of these people are
- 15:18Speaker 1: selling books and they have incentive to really go after Courtney.
- 15:22Speaker 1: So it's like almost like okay, you're going after her
- 15:25Speaker 1: for like benefiting off this death, but you are also
- 15:30Speaker 1: trying to benefit off this debt and profit off his
- 15:32Speaker 1: death by like selling books and and saying conspiratorial things.
- 15:36Speaker 1: But it is interesting that like the dad is like
- 15:39Speaker 1: just going I couldn't see myself being that way, but
- 15:42Speaker 1: I mean, each to each his own, like maybe they
- 15:45Speaker 1: have some like their past is not good. And then
- 15:48Speaker 1: he tries to like he's like basically like they'd say,
- 15:51Speaker 1: she's from this hippie family, but then you see the
- 15:54Speaker 1: dad and he seems very conservatively strict, like it's it's
- 15:57Speaker 1: kind of like this blur line. So I don't know,
- 16:00Speaker 1: like he was like so.
- 16:02Speaker 4: Well, no, he was. He was the manager to the
- 16:04Speaker 4: grateful death, grateful dead. He was if you're the grateful dead,
- 16:08Speaker 4: like maybe you're good at money and you're an accountant
- 16:11Speaker 4: or whatever, but you're gonna be with like hippies and
- 16:14Speaker 4: like ninety nine percent of the time.
- 16:15Speaker 1: Outside of that that that makes a lot of boarder.
- 16:18Speaker 1: Did you do put more context to it? And he
- 16:20Speaker 1: just said that from the get go that you know,
- 16:23Speaker 1: she was not following the rules and that like she
- 16:26Speaker 1: was doing Heroin and bringing her Heroin buddies. But then
- 16:29Speaker 1: it was interesting that she He's like, we had to
- 16:31Speaker 1: prevent this. I bought piples and she did not like pipples,
- 16:35Speaker 1: and you know that's how I kept her away. And
- 16:37Speaker 1: I'm like, like it was just kind of like a
- 16:41Speaker 1: weird moment because you're like kind of like listening, Okay,
- 16:43Speaker 1: I get where you're coming from, Like, dang, she was
- 16:45Speaker 1: a very troubled kid. It's not always the parent's fault
- 16:48Speaker 1: when they have troubled kids, right, they maybe meet the
- 16:50Speaker 1: wrong people or get into the wrong situations. But you're like,
- 16:52Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I feel like you played a
- 16:54Speaker 1: factor in this.
- 16:55Speaker 4: Like he almost seems like she screwed up when she
- 16:59Speaker 4: was like seventy's like writing a book about this, you
- 17:01Speaker 4: know what I mean? Like he is so like easy
- 17:04Speaker 4: to jump onto the attack over this stuff. So as
- 17:07Speaker 4: I'm watching this too, and then they start making all
- 17:10Speaker 4: these claims about like horrible ways that Courtney's treated people,
- 17:14Speaker 4: and like, om, I wonder where she got that from.
- 17:17Speaker 1: Yeah, you could see it right in his face. But
- 17:20Speaker 1: I will say, then they kind of like go through
- 17:24Speaker 1: like who how did this happen?
- 17:25Speaker 4: Who did it?
- 17:26Speaker 1: And my favorite character of I'm sure you could probably
- 17:30Speaker 1: guess it. My favorite character of this entire film, L
- 17:33Speaker 1: Duce bro Like when they introduced L du say, I'm like, okay,
- 17:37Speaker 1: all right. L Duce was the lead singer of a
- 17:42Speaker 1: punk band in La called the Mentors. I think it
- 17:45Speaker 1: was like the Mentors is the name of it, And
- 17:48Speaker 1: they drive out to Riverside, California. Actually that's where I
- 17:51Speaker 1: was born and raised, So I was I seen him.
- 17:54Speaker 4: I knew.
- 17:56Speaker 1: I was young, you know, du say you know I
- 17:58Speaker 1: was a young kid. I knew it. It's a conspiracy man.
- 18:01Speaker 1: And then let me not spoil that yet. But they
- 18:05Speaker 1: talk to him and he's an obvious trunk, right like
- 18:08Speaker 1: when I see him, Like I was watching it with
- 18:10Speaker 1: my girlfriend. She's like, oh, is he on meth? I'm like,
- 18:12Speaker 1: that is not meth. Like that's a guy that drinks
- 18:14Speaker 1: all day every day, Like I can tell that's about that.
- 18:16Speaker 1: And he's like, I got a beer. I'll tell you
- 18:18Speaker 1: more if I got a beer, you know what I mean?
- 18:20Speaker 1: And he claims, now, they didn't say this specifically, right like,
- 18:25Speaker 1: they kind of dance around it because throughout the film,
- 18:28Speaker 1: Nick is like, well, we can't put this because the
- 18:30Speaker 1: BBC says we can't factually trace this out, so you know,
- 18:34Speaker 1: we can't have his whole thing aired. But he's talking
- 18:38Speaker 1: and alluding to that, like he says it, but they
- 18:41Speaker 1: don't specifically say Courtney said it. But he's like fifty
- 18:44Speaker 1: k was offered to him to make it look like
- 18:48Speaker 1: a suicide to come in there. And then the funniest
- 18:51Speaker 1: part is when al Duc He's like, yeah, me and Alan,
- 18:56Speaker 1: sorry about that.
- 18:56Speaker 4: Alan, you know, like.
- 18:59Speaker 1: He just slip like that, Me and Alan, I mean
- 19:03Speaker 1: suspect one, like he forgot the code names. He was
- 19:06Speaker 1: drunk and he's out there. But he claims that that's
- 19:10Speaker 1: what was supposed to happen, that he was supposed to
- 19:12Speaker 1: get that money. So I think he believes that somebody
- 19:17Speaker 1: did this, that he didn't pick it that job up,
- 19:19Speaker 1: but somebody else did.
- 19:20Speaker 4: Well. He said that he was offered fifty k to
- 19:24Speaker 4: take out Kurt Cobain. Uh And then coincidentally, a week
- 19:28Speaker 4: after he said that on this video, he dies. He
- 19:32Speaker 4: ends up being found on train tracks. So no one
- 19:37Speaker 4: ever gets to ask him anything else about Alan or
- 19:39Speaker 4: anything else about his involvement with us ever again. But
- 19:42Speaker 4: he he was adamant, and they go on to mention
- 19:46Speaker 4: very briefly that he took a polygraph test, saying the
- 19:50Speaker 4: exact same thing he said to the camera here, and
- 19:52Speaker 4: he passed the polygraph test. So even if it's a
- 19:55Speaker 4: missile of the quarter or not, he got this drunk guy,
- 19:57Speaker 4: and the way that he describes it, he he was like,
- 20:00Speaker 4: I wish I would have done it. I wish I
- 20:02Speaker 4: would have taken that money. Like, hell, I regret it
- 20:05Speaker 4: every day of my life that I didn't take that
- 20:07Speaker 4: fifty k because Alan took it. Oh sorry Alan.
- 20:13Speaker 1: And then it's funny ironic as well, like not only
- 20:16Speaker 1: he died mysteriously on the train, checks that they say
- 20:18Speaker 1: he just fell asleep on the tracks, man, like common things.
- 20:22Speaker 4: After saying this to the VBC that that Courtney Love
- 20:26Speaker 4: was calling people threatening to kill them if they would
- 20:29Speaker 4: talk to the BBC, this guy talks to them and
- 20:31Speaker 4: he ends up that all coincidentally and.
- 20:34Speaker 1: Uh they released way later, but the Mentors released a
- 20:38Speaker 1: lot of old Eldus stuff and their material. They have
- 20:41Speaker 1: a song called Shotgun Suicide and he like sings in
- 20:46Speaker 1: the song like and he's like Kurko Bain like he's
- 20:48Speaker 1: like like the way and you're like this was heavily
- 20:51Speaker 1: influenced he I. I'm not saying he's reliable because it
- 20:55Speaker 1: sucks as people say, like, oh, well he drinks and
- 20:58Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I think that that he seemed
- 21:00Speaker 1: a lot more reliable than some of the other people
- 21:02Speaker 1: that you see in some of these films. I believe him, Like,
- 21:05Speaker 1: I'm not saying like it seemed like it was offered.
- 21:08Speaker 1: Now is that what happened? We don't know, but I mean,
- 21:11Speaker 1: I believe that he was offered that.
- 21:13Speaker 4: Well here and I'm sure we're gonna get into this
- 21:15Speaker 4: in a second too, but here's the one thing that
- 21:18Speaker 4: was surprising to me. But then it makes sense. But
- 21:21Speaker 4: also it's like just this weird thing that even after
- 21:25Speaker 4: they're millionaires, right, they're making all this money on MTV,
- 21:28Speaker 4: and and Courtney Love is already has some music going
- 21:32Speaker 4: for even before her album comes out. Kurt Cobain is
- 21:34Speaker 4: already famous. Like they're they don't need to worry about anything.
- 21:38Speaker 4: And she's going out and she's buying like a new
- 21:40Speaker 4: Lexus and they're getting like a mansion, and he's not
- 21:42Speaker 4: really happy with all this. But while this is happening,
- 21:46Speaker 4: they're still hiring like junkie heroin addicts to be like
- 21:50Speaker 4: their babysitter and their nanny, and and Courtney Love is
- 21:53Speaker 4: going and hanging out with l Duce this like drunk
- 21:57Speaker 4: biker guy. Like even though they have fallen into all
- 22:01Speaker 4: this money and they can live like Hollywood movie stars
- 22:04Speaker 4: for the rest of their lives, like there's still deciding
- 22:07Speaker 4: to go back to skid row and just hang out
- 22:09Speaker 4: with their homies at skid row. And when you consider
- 22:12Speaker 4: that dynamic, she probably bro She probably had hundreds of
- 22:17Speaker 4: people that she could offer fifty k two to do anything,
- 22:21Speaker 4: kill anybody she wanted fifty k. You know how much
- 22:24Speaker 4: hair whin I can get for fifty k? Yes, but
- 22:26Speaker 4: some of these people, like I guarantee you l Duce
- 22:29Speaker 4: probably would have considered it for like fifteen k, maybe
- 22:31Speaker 4: for ten k. So when when Courtney Love is coming
- 22:35Speaker 4: up to one of her junkie friends and offering fifty
- 22:38Speaker 4: thousand dollars, that seems very likely that that could have
- 22:42Speaker 4: been a real conversation.
- 22:44Speaker 1: And who knows how like not that it wasn't serious,
- 22:47Speaker 1: but right like you're in these places where people are
- 22:50Speaker 1: getting messed up, right like whether it be alcohol, whether
- 22:53Speaker 1: it be like heroin, and people say a lot of
- 22:56Speaker 1: crazy stuff. I've been to a lot of parties, I've
- 22:58Speaker 1: been a lot around people that do wide varieties of drugs,
- 23:01Speaker 1: and there has been crazy conversations, right like what would
- 23:05Speaker 1: you say if somebody you know, per se someone offered
- 23:08Speaker 1: you fifty k?
- 23:08Speaker 4: Would you do?
- 23:09Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
- 23:09Speaker 4: Those?
- 23:10Speaker 1: And then with inflation, right, what's that one fifty a
- 23:13Speaker 1: like two hundred k, like that was a lot of
- 23:15Speaker 1: money in nineteen ninety four, right like ninety three, whenever
- 23:18Speaker 1: it was originally offered. And I do think that someone
- 23:22Speaker 1: told him that now were they willing to follow through
- 23:25Speaker 1: on it? Was it just some drunken rage? Was it
- 23:27Speaker 1: just some like drug induce like crazy thoughts?
- 23:31Speaker 4: Who knows?
- 23:31Speaker 1: Right, that's the possibilities. But to your point, I think
- 23:35Speaker 1: that they paint even Kirk like the ant says like
- 23:38Speaker 1: he I always thought he was depressed, right, they she
- 23:41Speaker 1: talks about some of the songs he wrote and was
- 23:42Speaker 1: like seaside suicide and she's like he's always had this
- 23:46Speaker 1: like low like kind of personality, that he's like a
- 23:50Speaker 1: Debbie Downer. Right, That's kind of how they they've like
- 23:53Speaker 1: described him. And I think latching on to Courtney Love
- 23:58Speaker 1: was probably the worst thing that could have happen, And
- 24:00Speaker 1: to someone like that, it's not necessarily that he was killed,
- 24:05Speaker 1: like maybe there was plots of that on the table.
- 24:08Speaker 1: Because then now we get into uh, the nanny Jackie Ferry,
- 24:12Speaker 1: who is reluctant to be interviewed. At first, it seems like,
- 24:16Speaker 1: right they have one of her friends that's like doing
- 24:19Speaker 1: the old like, yeah, I have a friend that used
- 24:21Speaker 1: to work for them, and you know, she's kind of
- 24:22Speaker 1: telling the story for you. And then they're like, well
- 24:25Speaker 1: we call her, and then they're like all right, and
- 24:27Speaker 1: then like it's like, well.
- 24:28Speaker 4: There were they were both nannies for the family at
- 24:32Speaker 4: some point, but it was the the girl that she
- 24:34Speaker 4: calls over was the nanny like a week before.
- 24:37Speaker 1: All this all this, yeah, all this unfolded and you
- 24:41Speaker 1: could see like that she did look a little bit scared,
- 24:44Speaker 1: but again the nanny is like living in a basement
- 24:48Speaker 1: like the first one, like is living in a basement
- 24:51Speaker 1: in a corner of a basement, like doesn't own the
- 24:53Speaker 1: full basement, even you're not even running out the full basement.
- 24:56Speaker 5: Bro like that.
- 24:56Speaker 4: Well guarantee they were both heroin auticts as well, both
- 25:00Speaker 4: these nannies, no question about it.
- 25:01Speaker 1: Maybe former now right, like but they were still doing
- 25:04Speaker 1: somethance because they're like the when the other nanny comes on,
- 25:06Speaker 1: she's just like nodding.
- 25:07Speaker 4: As they're interviewing her, Like you kind of feel like
- 25:10Speaker 4: nodding out a little bit. Yeah, You're like like she
- 25:13Speaker 4: was reluctant until off camera they're like, well, bo't pay
- 25:16Speaker 4: for your heroin like oh yep, bam, like we're here, and.
- 25:19Speaker 1: Then that's what the other friends like, yeah, I'm on board, right,
- 25:21Speaker 1: And she talks about how they referred to themselves as
- 25:26Speaker 1: Sid and Nancy and uh uh, they're the punk rock
- 25:29Speaker 1: you know what's his name, Sid Vicious and Nancy Sponge
- 25:34Speaker 1: Like that's the punk rock rock king and queen, right,
- 25:38Speaker 1: like the Bonnie and Clyde of punk rock. And that's
- 25:41Speaker 1: kind of how they describe themselves, these outlaws the word.
- 25:44Speaker 1: That's what punk rock was. That's what underground hip hop is, right,
- 25:47Speaker 1: Like it's this young, rebellious like era of time when
- 25:51Speaker 1: people are like no, I hate the government. But also
- 25:55Speaker 1: then then they later grow up and they're like, well
- 25:57Speaker 1: they're not all bad, Like that's a different annoying part.
- 26:00Speaker 1: But in this scene, she's also talking about like leading
- 26:04Speaker 1: up to that week that you know, Courtney's talking to
- 26:07Speaker 1: Kurt a lot about his will and like what's going
- 26:09Speaker 1: on with that? And then she leaves and she comes back,
- 26:12Speaker 1: and I have this strange like connection that the second
- 26:17Speaker 1: nanny Jackie is like has some kind of either lust
- 26:22Speaker 1: or like romantic view of Kurt, right, like because she
- 26:25Speaker 1: talks very well about him, and then that happens at
- 26:28Speaker 1: times like maybe they had some deep conversations. I'm not
- 26:30Speaker 1: saying that they did anything with each other, but it
- 26:33Speaker 1: seemed like she like was like he's a good person
- 26:35Speaker 1: and she's just an evil bitch, right, But like sometimes
- 26:39Speaker 1: that angle comes out where it's like, oh, well, I'm
- 26:41Speaker 1: only seeing that because I kind of like you, right,
- 26:43Speaker 1: You're this big rock star and you seem to have
- 26:46Speaker 1: like this gentle like personality towards me, So I'm cool
- 26:50Speaker 1: with it. So she was pretty much just only really
- 26:52Speaker 1: talking about about Courtney. But I do think one of
- 26:55Speaker 1: the prolific things that she said was like if Kirk
- 26:59Speaker 1: wasn't murdered, he was driven to murder himself. And I
- 27:04Speaker 1: was like, maybe that's an angle that we should look
- 27:07Speaker 1: down a little bit more, like not that you can
- 27:09Speaker 1: really do anything about it, but that seems to like
- 27:12Speaker 1: add up right with some of this depression and like
- 27:15Speaker 1: this little fit and then you're with this toxic, manipulative
- 27:18Speaker 1: woman that's gonna do anything and everything to be the star,
- 27:22Speaker 1: and she doesn't really want to share the limelight with you,
- 27:24Speaker 1: And maybe that she did have ideas of hiring a
- 27:27Speaker 1: hitman at some point, but like then she's like, or
- 27:30Speaker 1: I could just be me and you know, eventually off himself.
- 27:34Speaker 4: Well, because there was another thing too that came up
- 27:37Speaker 4: in this, and it was about how Courtney would say
- 27:42Speaker 4: things constantly occur, like oh is today the day they're
- 27:45Speaker 4: gonna kill yourself? Or what are you gonna kill yourself over?
- 27:47Speaker 2: It?
- 27:48Speaker 4: Like she kept introducing these thoughts and like these things
- 27:52Speaker 4: over and over again and to the point where like
- 27:55Speaker 4: she was sort of antagonistic about this and so part
- 28:00Speaker 4: of these conspiracies too. It's like he never would have
- 28:02Speaker 4: done that. This had to have been her, you know,
- 28:05Speaker 4: he probably would have had more willpower. It was all staged.
- 28:07Speaker 4: But there's this one clip in here where apparently Vanity
- 28:11Speaker 4: Fair was writing an article on Courtney love and it
- 28:15Speaker 4: and this is while they're still together, Kurt's still alive,
- 28:18Speaker 4: and it was just like writing about how she had
- 28:22Speaker 4: admitted to taking heroin while she was pregnant with their kid,
- 28:26Speaker 4: and it was kind of like, look at this horrible mother,
- 28:29Speaker 4: bad human being that everyone's worshiping. And it was a
- 28:32Speaker 4: little bit of a hit piece, and I guessed that
- 28:35Speaker 4: she was calling and making death threats and writing like
- 28:38Speaker 4: ransom style letters about killing and cutting your dog up
- 28:42Speaker 4: if you ever talked to Vanity Fair. If Vanny Vere
- 28:44Speaker 4: publishes this, and there was like one of her friends,
- 28:48Speaker 4: I guess, someone that had known her that lived in upstate,
- 28:52Speaker 4: like the northwest region, and that they got content by
- 28:56Speaker 4: Vanity Fair. Courtney Loves finds out about this and starts
- 28:59Speaker 4: calling and leaving these death threats and then gets Kurt
- 29:03Speaker 4: to call and leave death threats as well, and you
- 29:06Speaker 4: can hear his voice and like it is the most
- 29:09Speaker 4: beta sort of like weakest death threat I've ever heard,
- 29:14Speaker 4: but man, it's it sounds like someone's got a gun
- 29:17Speaker 4: to his head to make him make the death threat.
- 29:20Speaker 4: But it's like, hey, if you say anything that ever
- 29:24Speaker 4: hurts Courtney, I'll kill you, I'll end you. I'll make
- 29:27Speaker 4: sure that you know you regret it the rest of
- 29:30Speaker 4: your life. And that's it. And then there's like one
- 29:32Speaker 4: other one that's kind of a follow up where he's
- 29:35Speaker 4: saying that, you know, we've taken this to the courts,
- 29:38Speaker 4: but maybe it's not gonna happen in the courts. Maybe
- 29:40Speaker 4: we're gonna have to bring this to the streets or whatever.
- 29:42Speaker 4: It is that he's saying so clear, like there is
- 29:45Speaker 4: some direct evidence that he was being manipulated to the
- 29:50Speaker 4: point where now even Kurt Cobain this everyone describes him
- 29:54Speaker 4: as like this meek, nice person that can never hurt
- 29:57Speaker 4: a fly. Yet here's a voice mail where he's the
- 30:00Speaker 4: threatening to murder somebody for writing a hit piece in
- 30:04Speaker 4: like a magazine about his wife.
- 30:06Speaker 1: I think it should be noted that you still said
- 30:08Speaker 1: it tougher than him, right, like my best it's it
- 30:13Speaker 1: was really hard because when I was I was chuckling him.
- 30:16Speaker 1: I know, it's like morbid and he's gone, and like
- 30:18Speaker 1: what and then that and those ladies are in fear
- 30:20Speaker 1: right like because they were starting a biography about courty
- 30:24Speaker 1: love and he's like if this ever gets out, he's like,
- 30:26Speaker 1: could settle in the court?
- 30:28Speaker 4: Could not?
- 30:28Speaker 1: So it's just such a nerdy like I'll be like what,
- 30:31Speaker 1: bro like come down, like you know, like one down buddy.
- 30:34Speaker 4: Then the threat really is that these these are people
- 30:39Speaker 4: that have a lot of money and a lot of
- 30:41Speaker 4: junkie friends that will do anything for a buck. So
- 30:44Speaker 4: if you flow a fifty thousand dollars, you know, carrot
- 30:48Speaker 4: in front of them. Yeah, like they can make things happen.
- 30:51Speaker 4: I think that that legitimately would scare me.
- 30:53Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm like, but you're not going to be
- 30:56Speaker 1: talking like that to Douce Kirk, you know, yeah, you
- 31:00Speaker 1: know what I mean. You're not gonna be like, oh
- 31:01Speaker 1: enj you He'll be like yeah, like it's gonna happen.
- 31:05Speaker 1: It had to be these authors and these interviewers and
- 31:09Speaker 1: these reporters and journalists that they're like yeah, and but
- 31:12Speaker 1: it's still was so funny. I'm so glad you said
- 31:14Speaker 1: that because it was to me too, the most weakest
- 31:17Speaker 1: threat I've like, just like as a man, like I
- 31:19Speaker 1: understand why they were like felt away because you're right,
- 31:22Speaker 1: like there's a bunch of junkies they know that are like, yeah,
- 31:24Speaker 1: I'll kill you for ten grand bro, I'll kill you
- 31:27Speaker 1: for like one hundred dollars worth of heroin maybe, like
- 31:30Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like.
- 31:31Speaker 4: Some people right now, yeah, man, a line right now.
- 31:36Speaker 1: You could see that. And now after like they kind
- 31:39Speaker 1: of go through all that, you get to see like
- 31:41Speaker 1: the reporters, they kind of tail off. And I like
- 31:46Speaker 1: this part of it because now he gives the man
- 31:48Speaker 1: on the street the Alex Jones the what's it called
- 31:52Speaker 1: the Roger and mean feel of let me get in
- 31:57Speaker 1: your face, let me talk to you. And now they
- 31:59Speaker 1: fast full word to where it's like no more modern
- 32:02Speaker 1: time in ninety eight and they've here Courtney Love is
- 32:06Speaker 1: going to be speaking at an acl U event about
- 32:11Speaker 1: freedom of speech. Now, at first you have the guy's talk,
- 32:15Speaker 1: the one guy talking to her, and he's very very
- 32:18Speaker 1: like not pushing anything. He's just like, so, oh, yeah,
- 32:21Speaker 1: you know, you're doing pretty good.
- 32:22Speaker 4: Huh, Like, how's a new album, how's the band? Yeah?
- 32:25Speaker 1: Yeah, And then and then he even buffs that because
- 32:28Speaker 1: she's like, no, we've been together for a lot. And
- 32:29Speaker 1: he's like, oh sorry, Like he's scared, right, he's nervous.
- 32:32Speaker 1: But then nick I will say, he's he's a pretty
- 32:35Speaker 1: good interviewer, right. I liked how he pushed his back
- 32:38Speaker 1: a little bit and and kind of gets you where
- 32:40Speaker 1: he wants you. And then he's kind of like talking
- 32:43Speaker 1: nice about her, gets her sucked in so that way
- 32:45Speaker 1: she's like read and he goes, I think it's kind
- 32:48Speaker 1: of crazy that you're like, I'm paraphrase, and obviously I
- 32:50Speaker 1: think it's kind of crazy you're talking at this freedom
- 32:52Speaker 1: of speech event and then you're threatening journalists and she's like,
- 32:56Speaker 1: I don't want to talk to you anymore. But in
- 32:58Speaker 1: that small segment, I will say looking at Courtney Love,
- 33:03Speaker 1: which I'm sure she probably still did drugs at that time.
- 33:05Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'm like, this is a looney bitch, right, Like,
- 33:08Speaker 1: I'm like, she is not all there. Like I could
- 33:11Speaker 1: see her like in one breath, being like I love you,
- 33:13Speaker 1: and then as she's saying I love you, stabbing you
- 33:16Speaker 1: at the same time.
- 33:17Speaker 4: Yes, since she asked that question, you could almost hear
- 33:21Speaker 4: her thinking like, I'm gonna have you killed. That was
- 33:25Speaker 4: the look that she gave him on that Yeah.
- 33:27Speaker 1: And I think that that's part of the lure of her.
- 33:30Speaker 1: I think, like maybe she's not as obviously like crazy
- 33:33Speaker 1: as far as like fighting everybody, but I think she
- 33:35Speaker 1: got this hold of this money and you you laid
- 33:38Speaker 1: it out perfectly. She has enough money and enough junkie
- 33:42Speaker 1: friends that will do pretty much anything for a hit
- 33:45Speaker 1: that like, she is scary. That's what makes her scary.
- 33:48Speaker 1: It's not like, oh, but she also has a lot
- 33:50Speaker 1: of incidents where she fought people, like one of the reporters.
- 33:53Speaker 1: There's a scene alleged that she was backstage at the
- 33:57Speaker 1: Emmys and she tried to hit this lady with Quentin
- 34:01Speaker 1: Tarantino's oscar, right, like there's other violent issues. There's one
- 34:05Speaker 1: of the photographers that's talking about it and she's like, yeah,
- 34:08Speaker 1: she attacked this person, like there there is legitimate fear
- 34:12Speaker 1: that people have from her, and like they're like, hey,
- 34:15Speaker 1: this this lady's crazy, like her connection, she will like
- 34:19Speaker 1: go off on you. And then I thought they the
- 34:22Speaker 1: cherry on top was she leaves she's doing her acceptance speech,
- 34:26Speaker 1: and I guess they must have had people that were
- 34:29Speaker 1: able to walk up or talk. I don't know how
- 34:31Speaker 1: Nick was invited, but he gets and then he goes, well,
- 34:34Speaker 1: I think it's again. He doubles down and goes a thing.
- 34:37Speaker 1: It's crazy that you have this lady at a freedom
- 34:40Speaker 1: of speech thing and she's threatening reporters, and typical fashion
- 34:45Speaker 1: of any kind of these organizations. They're like, boo, get
- 34:47Speaker 1: them on stage, like we're not really for freedom of speech,
- 34:51Speaker 1: we're just for certain speech.
- 34:52Speaker 4: And then the director of the ACLU is like, get
- 34:56Speaker 4: him off the stage.
- 34:58Speaker 1: That's just's wild hidden treasures and overboar moments. I'm gonna
- 35:12Speaker 1: go off first, because I don't. I mean, there is
- 35:14Speaker 1: a lot of hidden treasures, but my favorite hidden treasure
- 35:18Speaker 1: is El Duce. Like I did not know about l
- 35:20Speaker 1: Duce before this. One of my new favorite characters, like
- 35:24Speaker 1: the name his whole like ensemble, Like he just came
- 35:28Speaker 1: out like like chomping his lips and like full of
- 35:32Speaker 1: scraggly beard and like a let's get a beerd god.
- 35:35Speaker 1: Like he's some guy I can have a beard with.
- 35:37Speaker 1: And I'm sure rest his soul because I wish I
- 35:41Speaker 1: could interview him because he probably has some crazy other stories,
- 35:44Speaker 1: not just about Kurt Cobain, because he's been in the
- 35:46Speaker 1: music scene and he just gets faded. And the thing
- 35:50Speaker 1: that people don't understand is that this music circles are
- 35:52Speaker 1: very small, and you could be a local legend in
- 35:56Speaker 1: LA and you'd be like, oh, there's no way he'd
- 35:58Speaker 1: know this guy. You're like yeah, because they come out
- 36:00Speaker 1: and they perform in these areas and you you rub
- 36:03Speaker 1: elbows with these guys, right, you have drinks with them.
- 36:06Speaker 1: Like there's a lot of ways to meet these upper
- 36:09Speaker 1: echelon stars, especially some like these where they're trying to
- 36:12Speaker 1: you know, Kurt and Courtney's whole thing was like, we
- 36:15Speaker 1: got to stick to our roots, right, we don't want
- 36:17Speaker 1: to be rich, we don't. I'm tired of these Bentley's, right,
- 36:20Speaker 1: that's kind of their stick. I think maybe more of
- 36:23Speaker 1: Kurt maybe than Courtney, because I think Courtney was like
- 36:25Speaker 1: Bentley's are pretty good. But I think I'll do say
- 36:28Speaker 1: was my huge hidden gem in this.
- 36:30Speaker 4: I mean the hidden gems are really the they get
- 36:34Speaker 4: boots on the ground, live interviews with Courtney Love's dad,
- 36:38Speaker 4: with friends ex like Kurt Cobain's first girlfriend, Courtney Love's
- 36:43Speaker 4: ex boyfriend. They're talking to the nannies, they're talking to
- 36:47Speaker 4: like people that actually have real life insight into this.
- 36:51Speaker 4: So again I realized that I'm not a big fan
- 36:55Speaker 4: of these outside looking in documentaries where they just find
- 36:57Speaker 4: a bunch of archival footage and it's like, here's what
- 36:59Speaker 4: we think based on the video footage that we spent
- 37:02Speaker 4: a couple of years looking at. This is Hey, you
- 37:05Speaker 4: knew them personally, what do you think?
- 37:07Speaker 6: Right?
- 37:08Speaker 4: So you don't get that, And like without this documentary,
- 37:12Speaker 4: you don't know who El Ducha is. You don't really
- 37:14Speaker 4: understand that he said that he was offered money and
- 37:18Speaker 4: like I passed a polygraph and all that you could
- 37:20Speaker 4: read it in an article or reading a book, but
- 37:22Speaker 4: actually seeing the guy say it for himself on camera
- 37:25Speaker 4: alive and then find out that he died a week
- 37:28Speaker 4: later under a freak accident, Like that is is so huge,
- 37:32Speaker 4: Like and the access that the BBC was able to
- 37:36Speaker 4: get to make this documentary is just a hidden treasure
- 37:39Speaker 4: like that, there's no way else that you could do
- 37:42Speaker 4: this ever again again because hel Ducha is freaking dead.
- 37:46Speaker 1: And I'll say some of the overboard moments was just
- 37:49Speaker 1: nippicking a little bit, but you know, like the angle
- 37:52Speaker 1: of like court like they really want to villainized Courtney,
- 37:55Speaker 1: but like it there's a lot in the film where
- 37:56Speaker 1: they're just like, yeah, you know, Corny doesn't want to
- 37:59Speaker 1: let us play this, and like we know that that
- 38:03Speaker 1: happens in general, right, Like you can't just play whatever
- 38:05Speaker 1: music you want, someone owns the rights to it and
- 38:08Speaker 1: someone not saying that she didn't bully anybody or that
- 38:11Speaker 1: she's some good figure. But I do think they played
- 38:13Speaker 1: into that a little bit. And then just that over
- 38:15Speaker 1: dramatic scene of where he's talking on the phone and
- 38:18Speaker 1: they're like, we're pulling the plug. Man, you're gonna be
- 38:21Speaker 1: on your own you know what I'm saying, You're gonna
- 38:22Speaker 1: have if you want to put out this film, you're
- 38:24Speaker 1: gonna have to be on your own time because the
- 38:26Speaker 1: MTV execs are pulling out. Man, they love Courtney and
- 38:28Speaker 1: this and which I'm not saying it wasn't true, but
- 38:31Speaker 1: I and what else can you do? You wanted to
- 38:33Speaker 1: emphasize it, and you wanted to make it part of
- 38:35Speaker 1: the film, so you may have like fabricated a little
- 38:38Speaker 1: bit or like redramatized it would probably be the better
- 38:40Speaker 1: way to say it.
- 38:42Speaker 4: I got a long list of overboard moments on this one.
- 38:46Speaker 4: So the biggest one was like I've got I've got
- 38:49Speaker 4: notes here, Like every ten minutes, I was checking in
- 38:51Speaker 4: and like, has anything interesting happened or have been said yet?
- 38:55Speaker 4: So twenty over twenty minutes in, and you've just been
- 38:59Speaker 4: talking to his am about like his favorite songs growing
- 39:03Speaker 4: up and here's how he was as like a kid,
- 39:04Speaker 4: Like okay, like this is about Curt and Courtney. Let's
- 39:08Speaker 4: get into the meat a little bit. Thirty minutes in,
- 39:10Speaker 4: still like not a single interesting claim. It's all just
- 39:13Speaker 4: about here's the kind of art hurt like to make,
- 39:16Speaker 4: and here's how he was and here's how they were
- 39:18Speaker 4: in high school. And then finally they start talking to
- 39:22Speaker 4: the dad and it starts getting into this conspiracy that
- 39:26Speaker 4: Courtney Love might have been behind the murder or would
- 39:28Speaker 4: have helped facilitate getting the gun, like all of these
- 39:32Speaker 4: weird aspects of it. But then the documentary takes a
- 39:37Speaker 4: turn about and here's why Courtney Love is a bad
- 39:40Speaker 4: person because she goes after journalists. So in all of
- 39:43Speaker 4: these documentaries that we've seen over the series, some of
- 39:46Speaker 4: the better ones, they have this formula where it starts
- 39:50Speaker 4: out like, okay, whatever, yeah, it's a competition about tickling.
- 39:53Speaker 4: You know, how crazy could that be? And then there's
- 39:55Speaker 4: like a twist. You're like, wait what, there's organized crime.
- 39:59Speaker 4: And then there's another tw you're like wait, people are dying.
- 40:02Speaker 4: And then it's like wait, there's politicians. Like it keeps
- 40:05Speaker 4: turning it up, but more and more and more. Right
- 40:07Speaker 4: in this documentary, it does the exact opposite. It starts
- 40:10Speaker 4: like really boring and then it drops this like maybe
- 40:13Speaker 4: Courtney Love was involved in Kurt's death, and then it's
- 40:16Speaker 4: like gets more boring and more boring and more boring,
- 40:19Speaker 4: to the point where the last half of it is
- 40:22Speaker 4: Courtney Love is against the freedom of speech of journalists
- 40:25Speaker 4: because she called people up that were writing hit pieces
- 40:28Speaker 4: on her. I was like, I don't know, man, the
- 40:30Speaker 4: whole angle of she might have killed her husband and
- 40:32Speaker 4: used that as a launch point for her career. That
- 40:35Speaker 4: seems far more interesting than any aclu accolades or all
- 40:40Speaker 4: this other stuff. So there was there was this angle
- 40:42Speaker 4: of the documentary again where it went from Kurt and
- 40:45Speaker 4: Courtney to Kurt and Courtney and me and like we
- 40:47Speaker 4: don't need you, and I don't. I mean maybe I
- 40:50Speaker 4: just was like having like a chip on my shoulders.
- 40:52Speaker 4: I was watching this, but every time the interviewer Nick
- 40:56Speaker 4: said something, I was like, God, this guy is such
- 40:59Speaker 4: a freaking it. Like he would he would ask questions,
- 41:02Speaker 4: and it was like, here's an example one of the
- 41:05Speaker 4: very first interviews that he's having with Kurt Cobain's first girlfriend,
- 41:10Speaker 4: and she's walking around the inside of like her apartment.
- 41:12Speaker 4: It's like a freaking mess too. And they walk into
- 41:15Speaker 4: a room and she's like, oh, here's something that Kurt painted,
- 41:20Speaker 4: and like all he painted was like like fetuses, Essentially,
- 41:23Speaker 4: it's like this favorite thing. He's like he was super edgy, right,
- 41:26Speaker 4: like edgy, you know, grunge guy. So the interviewer was like,
- 41:30Speaker 4: what's that a fetus? And she's like, yeah, he made
- 41:34Speaker 4: collages of like diseased vaginas and meat. And here's what
- 41:38Speaker 4: the interviewer says, really, and then there's a pause and
- 41:41Speaker 4: she's like yeah, And I'm just thinking, like, dude, you
- 41:45Speaker 4: like you flew all the way to the US and
- 41:49Speaker 4: you're gonna talk about like some heavy stuff. Here's like
- 41:51Speaker 4: this rock star that Nayorman had killed himself and Courtney Love,
- 41:55Speaker 4: and the level of interview was like, what's that? Oh,
- 41:58Speaker 4: it's an apple? Really? Whoa Like, come on, bro, like
- 42:03Speaker 4: get into some And the same thing too when he
- 42:05Speaker 4: was taught when you were mentioning the Second Maid the
- 42:09Speaker 4: Second Nanny, and you're like, oh, she's like maybe had
- 42:12Speaker 4: a thing going on, or at least was like thinking
- 42:14Speaker 4: about in a positive way. But at the same time,
- 42:16Speaker 4: when I'm watching that interview, I'm like, here's this guy
- 42:19Speaker 4: talking to and nodding out junkie that's like maybe not
- 42:23Speaker 4: even fully there. And the questions that he's asking her
- 42:27Speaker 4: are like the most leading questions ever, because like it
- 42:30Speaker 4: would go silent and then he would be like, so
- 42:32Speaker 4: we just think of Kurt, and she'd be like he
- 42:35Speaker 4: was like a lot of people said he was like
- 42:37Speaker 4: you know, real nice, like a nice guy, right, like
- 42:39Speaker 4: a nice guy, and she's like, oh yeah, he was
- 42:42Speaker 4: like a real nice guy. So part of it just
- 42:44Speaker 4: felt And then there was all these other aspects too.
- 42:47Speaker 4: They go into like a public library or like a
- 42:50Speaker 4: public station, and the lady there is like, you can't
- 42:54Speaker 4: be filming in here. You gotta get out of there,
- 42:55Speaker 4: and like the way that he just plays dumb and
- 42:58Speaker 4: then like leaves again. It just felt that why is
- 43:01Speaker 4: that scene in this documentary? You went in here for
- 43:04Speaker 4: an unknown reason. You didn't ask anyone any questions. It
- 43:07Speaker 4: was just a way to insert yourself into this documentary.
- 43:11Speaker 4: And then dude, did they flub it at the end. Right,
- 43:15Speaker 4: So here's the big chance they got Courtney Love. They're
- 43:18Speaker 4: gonna like gorilla journalism, like shocker with these questions and
- 43:22Speaker 4: they say that here's the questions. We're gonna be like,
- 43:25Speaker 4: did you kill Kurt? You know, like what about all
- 43:28Speaker 4: this other evidence? Did you try to bludgeon this girl?
- 43:32Speaker 4: Hirschberg with Quentin Tarantino's Oscar. They've got these questions that
- 43:37Speaker 4: they're gonna ask her, and the first guy flubs it.
- 43:40Speaker 4: He's absolutely Courtney, how's the album going? And then after
- 43:44Speaker 4: he comes back, they're all like, dude, what happened? You
- 43:46Speaker 4: were supposed to ask her if she killed Kurt? And
- 43:48Speaker 4: he's like, I got starstruck, man, I don't know what
- 43:50Speaker 4: to say. So then when Nick grabs the reins that
- 43:54Speaker 4: the one thing that he does where I was like, Okay,
- 43:56Speaker 4: that was smart, is that you can tell that Courtney
- 43:59Speaker 4: is like trying to have void them. She just wants
- 44:01Speaker 4: to go from the bathroom to wherever she's going. But
- 44:03Speaker 4: they're like, Courtney, what do you think about the ACLU?
- 44:06Speaker 4: And it's like you're at the ACLU events, so you
- 44:09Speaker 4: can't just ignore that question. So then she goes up, Oh,
- 44:13Speaker 4: the ACLU is great, blah blah blah, and then he
- 44:16Speaker 4: breaks the question about like what about the you know,
- 44:19Speaker 4: the journalism and stuff, But he was just criticizing a
- 44:22Speaker 4: homie for not asking if she helped kill Kurt, and
- 44:25Speaker 4: now he's got the opportunity to do it, and he
- 44:28Speaker 4: doesn't do it either. So I mean, at the end
- 44:30Speaker 4: of this documentary, I felt the people they interviewed were amazing,
- 44:35Speaker 4: the resources, the access they had amazing, But the freaking
- 44:38Speaker 4: questions that these bumbling Keystone cop idiots that had a
- 44:43Speaker 4: camera and a microphone like, they fumbled every single like, dude,
- 44:46Speaker 4: they could have had such a great interview with El
- 44:49Speaker 4: Duca right. Who knows. Maybe all the good stuff had
- 44:53Speaker 4: to get left on the cutting room floor because of
- 44:55Speaker 4: legal suits against them from MTV and everything. Maybe that's
- 44:58Speaker 4: the case. Maybe I'm being overly harsh and they weren't
- 45:01Speaker 4: able to show all the good stuff, but the things
- 45:04Speaker 4: that they were able to show, it just felt like
- 45:06Speaker 4: Amateur Hour.
- 45:11Speaker 1: It's time for everybody's favorite segment, sink or Swim.
- 45:16Speaker 4: I'll start it off. I think that if you're interested
- 45:20Speaker 4: in the death of Kirk Cobain, then one hundred percent
- 45:23Speaker 4: this is a documentary that you have to watch because
- 45:26Speaker 4: of all the exclusive interviews with people that were so
- 45:29Speaker 4: close to it. Even if you don't necessarily walk away
- 45:32Speaker 4: with any kind of answers, this is not something that
- 45:36Speaker 4: you can just like read an article about, so one
- 45:38Speaker 4: hundred percent, if you care about Kirk Cobain, you need
- 45:41Speaker 4: to watch this. If you don't care about Kirk Cobain,
- 45:44Speaker 4: you can absolutely pass on this. There's like nothing of
- 45:47Speaker 4: value outside of some interesting trivia stuff, and for me,
- 45:51Speaker 4: it's just an absolute sink. I was dumbfounded and frustrated
- 45:56Speaker 4: at the lack of questions that they were giving to
- 45:58Speaker 4: the nannies and the ex girlfriend and the dad and
- 46:01Speaker 4: horrible follow ups. They chickened out three times in a row.
- 46:05Speaker 4: The best journalist thing they did the entire time was
- 46:09Speaker 4: that one question, Hey, Courtney, what do you think about
- 46:11Speaker 4: the ACLU? Like when he said that, I was like, okay,
- 46:14Speaker 4: that that was a genius way to get her attention.
- 46:16Speaker 4: That was literally the only redeeming quality that they had
- 46:20Speaker 4: the entire time. So, I mean, I feel like the
- 46:23Speaker 4: topic and the content that this was supposed to be
- 46:26Speaker 4: about is so interesting that it's amazing they were able
- 46:30Speaker 4: to make it as boring and vanilla as they were.
- 46:34Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that it kind of puts you into
- 46:36Speaker 1: this perspective when you see Kurt and Courtney and your
- 46:40Speaker 1: first like introduction of it is like, this is where
- 46:43Speaker 1: I think they copped out a little bit, where they're like, yeah,
- 46:46Speaker 1: Courtney's team, He's coming after us. And I felt like
- 46:48Speaker 1: that they had a turd burger in a film and
- 46:52Speaker 1: that they were trying to like push this narrative of Courtney,
- 46:56Speaker 1: like the reason you're not getting a good film is
- 46:58Speaker 1: not my fault. And then they could have that little
- 47:02Speaker 1: asterisk it's because you know, it's on the cutting room
- 47:04Speaker 1: floor because the BBC wouldn't let us, an MTV wouldn't
- 47:06Speaker 1: let us, and Courtney's people with thugs, and I thought
- 47:09Speaker 1: they had like so much gold. The only reason I
- 47:12Speaker 1: would suggest anybody to watch it is for al Duce.
- 47:15Speaker 1: And they they didn't even do him perfect like justice,
- 47:18Speaker 1: like you're just like, okay, you wasted it. He's dead
- 47:20Speaker 1: now now. The only interview we could have had that
- 47:24Speaker 1: is unless you can go show me the footage now, right,
- 47:27Speaker 1: which if you can show me, they didn't even talk
- 47:29Speaker 1: to him very well. They would talk over it. Remember,
- 47:33Speaker 1: they were like, well, we can't fully show you everything
- 47:35Speaker 1: that he said because the BBC and this and that,
- 47:37Speaker 1: and then he just kind of like says the claim
- 47:40Speaker 1: of the fifty k and Alan and then it's wiped
- 47:42Speaker 1: off and El Duce is no longer. They're like yeah,
- 47:45Speaker 1: and then he died like a week later. And just anyways,
- 47:48Speaker 1: now we're gonna go on to this other stuff, and
- 47:51Speaker 1: they just dance around. And I really wanted to like
- 47:54Speaker 1: this film, right because they do have a little bit
- 47:56Speaker 1: of like the conspiratorial stuff. But I have to give
- 47:59Speaker 1: it sink because it didn't. It just dragged on too long.
- 48:03Speaker 1: It seemed like they didn't know what they were doing
- 48:05Speaker 1: and that they were too afraid and didn't have the
- 48:07Speaker 1: balls to really be in this. Like you were right
- 48:11Speaker 1: in front of her face and you were criticizing everybody.
- 48:13Speaker 1: Then I'm thinking, you're gonna turn it around and you
- 48:15Speaker 1: walk up on the mic, and I'm like, okay, even better,
- 48:18Speaker 1: he's gonna say this in front of everybody, like, hey, Kurt,
- 48:21Speaker 1: did you kill Kurt? Like right, then, at least okay,
- 48:24Speaker 1: maybe she can't answer, but at least it's right. We
- 48:27Speaker 1: know she's asked that, and he doesn't. Right, he knows
- 48:30Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. You know, you get one question when
- 48:32Speaker 1: you get up there that they're not gonna like. So
- 48:35Speaker 1: I give it a sink. I thought it was a
- 48:37Speaker 1: try hard, right. He tried to stretch this into something
- 48:40Speaker 1: and it could have been done way better.
- 48:43Speaker 4: I wish literally anyone else would have made this documentary
- 48:47Speaker 4: and had the same access because they had the opportunity
- 48:51Speaker 4: to take a conspiracy theory and turn it into such
- 48:54Speaker 4: a great story, and they just didn't. They they fumbled
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