Pablo Torre Finds Out - Why Listening to Action Bronson Makes Us Happy

Episode Date: December 26, 2024

Action Bronson raps, cooks, paints, hosts, and acts (for Martin Scorsese, at least). He also has philosophical explanations for why A) he never wears pants, B) his go-to move is the headbutt, and C) ...nothing is better than a VHS tape. But Action Bronson had still never heard of the Accidental Bronson tribute account. Until now. Plus: AOL screennames, robot vacuum murder, and saggy balls.This episode originally aired November 10, 2023  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. Doing lines off a Nintendo Switch in the back of a Hyundai Sonata. Yeah, I mean, I feel like they're tapping into things like that I would want to say. Right after this ad. You're listening to Draft King's Network. Yo. How are you?
Starting point is 00:00:36 What's going on, me? How are you feeling, man? I'm great. I'm great now that you're here, man. Are you sufficiently stoned enough? Oh yeah, I need an espresso, but can we lower this? Because I don't fuck with this height of a chair. It's like a three-quarter chair.
Starting point is 00:00:52 I don't like that. You approve, though. The espresso's all right. It's really good. It tastes of vanilla. That's what I chose for you. You chose the vanilla one? I did.
Starting point is 00:01:06 I usually wouldn't go for it, but man, wow. Wow. A wow from you means a lot to me. Not that I should take credit for whatever an espresso pod. Deheation. That's your usual go too. Well, no, I feel like you depotted it and then just laid all the bean in there for me. That's exactly what I did.
Starting point is 00:01:27 Thank you for noticing. Wow. There are some things in the city of New York that feel extraordinarily New York. And as a New York show, Pablo Torre finds out that feels the need to occasionally remind people that, yes, we have a physical studio in Manhattan where we tape our show by Marvel. at a person like Action Bronson, who is oozing New York out of every pore, and who is a rapper and an artist and a chef and a 30-something, I believe 39-year-old, native New Yorker, and a host of F*** That's Delicious, a wildly popular show about food.
Starting point is 00:02:28 He's a Renaissance man in a way that is entirely sincere. And so when I saw him on the sidewalk, on one of my many almost entirely random walks, through the city, I realized that I had many, many questions that I needed to ask him. What I wasn't sure was whether his particular strain of consciousness would indulge the many questions that I had for him. I knew this was going to be different. And so I just needed to tell him how I felt. I am so glad that you're sitting here. Oh, good. Thank you. For real. Like, I was trying to.
Starting point is 00:03:15 We were trying to figure out, like, how do we explain to someone who hasn't listened to your music, Action Bronson, before? And we had a couple of, like, well, first off, what do you, when you imagine a listener and appreciator of your music doing when they're listening to you, what do you imagine? I don't really fucking give a shit, to be honest with you, like, I'm just doing it for myself. I'm not even thinking about, like, anything else but new things. I'm just in like, I've just come back from a new path I'm riding a new path
Starting point is 00:03:54 I feel great it's hard to describe anything I don't, it's like if I wanted to describe it I would have talked to you about it you know what I'm saying? It's like when you paint I didn't want to fucking talk to you
Starting point is 00:04:12 I painted you something and that's that right now we're in the process of making new music, new breakthroughs. So then I'll be excited having a brand new band and doing things like that, like the tiny desk and shit like that, you know, like... That's the shit, though, that I've been listening to all week. That. The motherfuckers are crazy, man.
Starting point is 00:04:39 It's like one of those platforms when you're respected in music, they bring you on there. And I don't know, people seem to really enjoy. I just understand that I would die for this leather belt, man. Live from the moon. I just want to say this very clearly if you have not listened or learned much about Action Bronson before this interview somehow. This tiny desk concert at NPR in D.C., yo, Nadir behind the glass, one of my guys, we were trying to figure out how do we describe this music? And he was like, this music makes me want to ride a horse.
Starting point is 00:05:18 Yes. It brings out of eight thousand years I don't got no cheers I don't got no fears I don't get caught up in the bright lights dear It brings out all the emotions of carnal desires Yes riding horses on beaches naked Just things of that nature like fire
Starting point is 00:05:39 Just watching fire burn Watching the ocean roar Boy stay cozy Laying in a bed that's full of roses Sipping Rosie Chilling with some Kobe's on Go Roli on the phony arm I travel the stars like
Starting point is 00:05:56 Obi-1 A fuck Star Wars man Because Indiana Jones is better That's it Free flow and the acid jazz I'm a jazz instrument Just like a goddamn saxophone or the roads
Starting point is 00:06:15 I am You know So it's definitely reinvigorated me in that matter, but it's, I have to put myself in a hole to dig myself out right now. That's the zone.
Starting point is 00:06:41 So the zone sounds a little miserable if you're using a hole to describe it. Not, not really. It's all these are all like, I'm dramatic, I'm being dramatic. It's all dramatizations. I like how you said earlier, I'm not good at describing things.
Starting point is 00:06:57 And I'm like, you, I think, are one of the best describers of things going. No, it's not because it's not, I'm not trying, I'm not describing it exact. It's a rendition of my exact brain. This is like, it's like the picture behind you.
Starting point is 00:07:12 Yes, what's happening. I want to say people have questions like, how do I book this show? I literally ran into you on the street one day. Do you remember this? I don't even know if you remember this. On the street, like in Soho, I ran into you. I think we were both varying levels of stoned, incidentally. Yeah, listen, I love the round the horn.
Starting point is 00:07:29 That's how you booked this. But then I saw you then, I see you now, and it's kind of a fall day in New York, and I guess I should ask, like, when was the last time you wore pants? I don't, probably 15 to 20 years. The last time I put pants on, I had an accident, and I never wore them again.
Starting point is 00:07:54 What happened? Just wasn't good. It just wasn't good. It can't be discussed. It can't be discussed, but what I will say, that they were never to be touched on my skin again. Every time I've ever seen you, you're wearing shorts. And they're stretchy so I could squat, so I could work out.
Starting point is 00:08:16 I'm not fucking around with stiff shorts. You understand? I'm over here flexible. When did you learn that you needed to have stretchy shorts? I was a husky child. Everyone needs stretchy shorts. I don't think that anyone should wear a constricting situation. Anything constricting is like I get, like sometimes you get that heat flash that comes over you
Starting point is 00:08:43 and just want to rip everything off. It's a shirt off. I get that a lot. So for me, for me to be able to use the actual agility that I was given by nature and science with, you know, my body construction, it's only right that I put on a material that reflects and echoes all of the property. You know? I feel like when you were a kid, though, what was that like?
Starting point is 00:09:19 What's young Action Bronson like? Yeah, I mean, I don't know, like a fucking wild, man. Every kid's crazy I feel in some aspect. You're not even fully conscious, you know? You're just kind of like drunk. You're kind of like on ass, you don't know what the fuck is really going on. You're so, like, little bambi-ish, you know. So you're just running amok, doing whatever,
Starting point is 00:09:46 thinking that there's no consequence on earth. And then, I don't know, one day it just all hits you. You're old and gray, your ball sag, you know, your ass leaks. Not talking about me, but in general. things happen. I feel like as I get older, I get more sophisticated looking like Sean Connery. The gravitas is all over your beard now. It's happening.
Starting point is 00:10:16 It's happening. When you're a kid and someone picks a fight with you, what's the move? Headbutt. Hmm. I'm a headwater. When did you discover that that was your move? That's like a Zang-Gefe move. It's like this.
Starting point is 00:10:34 You ever watch the movie Gladiator? Of course. But with Brian Dennyhy, that one. No. Cuba Gooding Jr. It was an early underground fighting movie, boxing, and he used to say this was the hardest part of the head. On the top of the head, kid, hardest part of the body.
Starting point is 00:10:57 He hurts, don't they, huh? What are you going to do now? What are you going to do now? Here he comes. Here he comes. You never fucking seen Gladnihap. of Brian Dennehy? You kidding me right now?
Starting point is 00:11:12 I have this on VHS. Cuba Gooding Jr. Do you know that actor? Of course. You might have heard of him? I wish someone had shown me the VHS tape of Gladiator starring Kubrick Jr.
Starting point is 00:11:26 Yeah. It was starring Brian Denny here. Sorry. Cuba Gooding Jr. had the supporting role. But I had a grandfather a very good man who loved his VHS and that's what he collected
Starting point is 00:11:41 and I have about 3,000 in my house. Holy shit. Yeah, that he left me. All kinds of crazy shit. I've seen it all. I've seen them all. What's better about a VHS? This grain.
Starting point is 00:11:53 Everything is better about tape. There's some graininess. You have to be a kind of sword to understand it. It's like the in-between space. The imperfection of it. It's that, but it also adds. it gives comfort and warmth in some aspects.
Starting point is 00:12:11 Film is just captured differently than digital. You know, it's like, whatever. Anyone can pick the camera up and make the thing, you know? I should point out that you have acted for Martin Scorsese when you talk about film. Yes, I'm accredited as a film actor in the Guild. That's right. I mean, you were in the Irishman.
Starting point is 00:12:34 It's pretty fucking bizarre. Can you explain what meeting Martin Scorsese and being directed by Martin Scorsese was like? Most of the time, people are as stoked as you ought to meet them as they ought to meet you. He was a fan of yours. I don't know if that's the case, but he definitely showed enthusiasm
Starting point is 00:12:53 and showed a lot of love and it was nothing but happiness and laughter. And, you know, we had a good time. We only did about three takes, and that was it. What was the role you played for people who are unfamiliar? Just some fucking weird, like, casket salesman in about the third hour, 10-minute mark. It was a pivotal point.
Starting point is 00:13:22 They're like the catalanx of caskets. Now, if we're putting you in the fucking oven, it really doesn't matter what you're going. The cheapest shit possible. Particle board, that's it. What are we doing today? Are we doing a cremation? I remember distinctly waking up on my couch to the third hour thereabout Mark and thinking
Starting point is 00:13:41 to myself, am I hallucinating Action Bronson into this film? With that beard, it was bizarre. He asked me to take the beard off. But I, you know, at that point, I was like, man, this is like, I have like six chins under here. So I'm probably not. I'm imagining your home. And I'm imagining the 3,000 VHS tapes.
Starting point is 00:14:03 I'm imagining your incredible. incredibly worn down rewinder. You already know there was a rewinder. Of course. There's no, you can't put your machine through that type of wear and tear. You need a separate rewinder. And it was a corvette. Oh, shit.
Starting point is 00:14:20 You know how the corvette rewind. Yeah, yeah, the red rewinder. And so if I were to put your brain inside of your corvette rewinder, what is the memory that comes up that is not actually on tape anywhere, but you think of as, oh, this is a core memory that I, Action Bronson have? I mean, so many. I couldn't tell you those. Those are for me.
Starting point is 00:14:42 I can't tell you. The pants ones in there, isn't there? No, the pants. With pants? There's no secret of the pants. I don't wear them. I just don't think that they're nice. Fashion-wise, I don't like to cover my leg.
Starting point is 00:15:01 I work hard to get a calf that has some sort of diamond shape. I am ashamed. Why would I want to take away from that calf? I'm ashamed. I'm ashamed. I like a sock. I like to show the shoe. I like a full, like my shit is like my quadricep is literally out, fully flexed.
Starting point is 00:15:22 Yes. Yes. Quads out. It's a quad season. I'm just trying to recover from a saccharoliac injury. It's under your like ass area like your nut groin from the back. Like, this is... It's a very specific area.
Starting point is 00:15:38 It's like these muscles that keep them a hamstring nice. So that's not like the grundle. It's near it. Grundle adjacent. It's parallel to the grundle. It's running parallel. Yep, yep, yep. It's in a grid.
Starting point is 00:15:52 Yep. Almost asymptotic to the grundle. Sort of like always approaching but never touching it. No, it runs congruence. Mm. Yeah. I should point out that your calf philosophy shames me because I consider the Filipino people on Filipino to have excellent calves.
Starting point is 00:16:15 I consider my calves excellent. I have artwork about the Filipino calf. Wow. This is not the first time I pointed this out to a guest, but on the left is like a standard, like a white guy, you know, just very vertical calf on the right is the Filipino calf in my view. And I've been told I should wear more shorts. You do. You have to show that you have to show. You have to condition your shin also.
Starting point is 00:16:37 The shin. The shin bone muscle is very important as well. You have to do the front flex, not only the calf. You can't just do front. You got to do back also. So how do you work out your shin? You flex your toe upwards. Mm.
Starting point is 00:16:55 Do you feel that muscle? I do. Now put it back down. No, no, no. You doesn't have to go all the way up. No, no, no. Put your leg down. You're right there, right there.
Starting point is 00:17:02 Flex your foot Now really flex it uptight Oh yeah there it is That muscle There it is That one What is your workout routine like now I just fucking go hard
Starting point is 00:17:16 For an hour and a half And you know I do I do things that I like doing And then I do things that I hate doing Give me the thing you love the most Give me the thing you hate the most I don't really like
Starting point is 00:17:30 Bench pressing It's not really like I don't fucking love that shit I love that shit I love to squat. I love to fucking do like zircher squats with the weight in front of you.
Starting point is 00:17:42 I like picking up stones and sandbags and shit like that. I don't like running. I don't like doing running for long distance. You like the world's strongest man, shit? I do, but then I also like skinny boy shit. I want to be
Starting point is 00:17:57 in shape as well. I like the MMA type of cardio training. I like the fighting training. I like that type of shit. I like to be pushed to the physical limits. There's a tattoo you have that I believe
Starting point is 00:18:13 is... Nothing means anything. So the one that you have... It doesn't mean a f***ing thing. Barry Bonds his season? It doesn't really mean a thing. Well... I was a stupid kid. This is going back to be in an idiot. Why did I do that? He had other
Starting point is 00:18:29 seasons where he was juiced up, but that was his most juiced up season. I can't wait to get on G-H, honestly. Barry Bonds... As soon as I turn 40, I'm taking G.H. Barry Bonds' 73 home run season. You have that stat line tattooed on your body. And the growth hormone...
Starting point is 00:18:49 It wasn't his most impressive average season. You know that. Well... He hit like 380, right? 375. Barry Bonds... Hit 370 the year after. that. Exactly. That was more impressive. Less home runs. Less home runs,
Starting point is 00:19:08 but hit 3-7. Yes, yes. Got walked all the time, was the most feared player in baseball. And by the way... That's how I step to the plate. You put that thing on the fucking long. When you have that on and you have a dangling ear and who were you to be f***ed with? Just about the head butt of fucking baseball.
Starting point is 00:19:23 His head was like his jaw. He had GH face. So the GH face, the growth hormone. Yeah. Have you taken steroids before? Yeah. 24 years old. I was juiced up. I don't know. I was taking Project Juice. My boy was like you know from my boy
Starting point is 00:19:39 from the neighborhood was getting some juice and we was shooting it up. Shooting up juice. Into what part of your body were you shooting up project juice? Arm, leg, ass cheek, rear dealt. Seriously. Bad shit. Who knew
Starting point is 00:19:55 where this juice was coming from? Could have been canola oil. Could have been whatever. Mazzola. I could have been fucking giving myself goddamn project surgery, you know, like BBLs. Yep, yep, yep, yep.
Starting point is 00:20:11 And what would you go do, though, with all of the... I would go fucking do ballet. An ice skate. We might go fucking lift weights, bro. Meathead shit. Eat turkey. Raw turkey. Rolled in...
Starting point is 00:20:31 Rolled... rolling raw chicken meat, and then rolled in Provalo. Isopure, EAS, Bill Romanowski. Yes. You understand? That's the type.
Starting point is 00:20:45 I was taking creatine at 13 years old. I imagine you now. I imagine young Action Bronson eating a raw fucking turduckin like John Madden. Straight up to, I mean, turducken is ridiculous, but I like it. It does seem a little like unholy.
Starting point is 00:21:03 Well, when it's done right, it's delicious. The idea of just like all that, I think it's craziness. That's more for like, it seems like it started for a party. That's right. Someone wanted to have a party. So like, let's do something festive. I want to explain to people.
Starting point is 00:21:34 I think of you as like the ambassador of Queens. So I'm from New York. I grew up on 30th and first in Manhattan. Brands lived in Queens, all of that. Yeah. Spend way too much time in like the Floral Park area growing up. The hell were you doing in a Floral Park? My friend Pietro de Zario lived in a floral park, Flopo.
Starting point is 00:21:52 Okay. Also Woodside, Filipino food. Oh, yeah. How do you explain Queens to people who have not been there? It's a mixture of every single life on earth in one place. So it's kind of like it's a holy land. It is the most diverse place maybe on earth, dude. It is, it is.
Starting point is 00:22:11 It's a holy land. I've been a lot of place. I couldn't see anywhere else being this diverse. there's s sacked up other places but it's not with all these different cultures it's truly unbelievable it's truly an unbelievable place it's somewhere you never ever
Starting point is 00:22:32 ever have to leave and you've already been everywhere so I feel like a lot of people the export from Queens that they think they're getting is like Kevin James King of Queens When I think of Queens, I think of coming to America. Yes.
Starting point is 00:22:49 That's the first thing I think of. And I think that that's a tremendous depiction of Queens. That one, you're right. That shows Queens in one of the most incredible lights ever. You've got to go to Queens. That's where you're going to fucking meet one of the most incredible. Royalty. Literally royalty.
Starting point is 00:23:08 He got his face on the money, man. You know? He's rich. He is rich. What? He's got his own money. And baby, when I tell you, he's got his own money. I mean the boy has got his own money.
Starting point is 00:23:22 You did it this time. You hit the jackpot. That type of shit. Were you on AOL? Hell yeah. What was your screen name? Ace Wade 56. Hmm.
Starting point is 00:23:35 How'd you get settled on that? How did I get settled? It didn't take much. I just thought it some shit, and that became that. My jersey number was. 56 in high school, like a meathead. And that was it. So A-Suade 56.
Starting point is 00:23:52 Yep. At AOL.com. At AOL.com. Net zero. Oh, yeah. The CD. Yep. Yep.
Starting point is 00:24:01 I was on Earthlink. Damn. Those are two off-brand ones. Absolutely. I had this kid in my neighborhood. It was a computer whiz. You fucking built the computer. And he got me all set up on the compact for Sario.
Starting point is 00:24:17 Yeah, man. And then I got the Dell. I didn't have the good shit. When we had a word processor, I thought we had a computer. I would try to enter launch codes, but it never worked. What sport did you play number 56? Football. Position?
Starting point is 00:24:34 Bayside High School, Center and Nosegard. Prestige. Give me this counting report on you as a player. Deceptively quick, hard hitting. long-lasting IQ on unbelievable my awareness is 100
Starting point is 00:25:00 100 on Madden so I'm like the field general I'm the quarterback of the line I know what the I know more than the quarterback does I question his throws I question his decision making why did you do that
Starting point is 00:25:20 What was the reaction when you are questioning what's happening on this team? I'm not that type of guy. In my mind, what the fuck was that, you know? I could, like, throw him under the bus. On to the next play. Your athletic hero was who? My true athletic hero, I don't really know. Who did I look to is like, wow, Mike Tyson.
Starting point is 00:25:49 Yeah. Yeah. He captivated. me as probably many others. Did you ever meet Mike? Yeah. He fucking kissed me on the hands. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:26:03 How does that work? It's like we kissed each other on hands. His respect. It just happened. It just happened. I feel like Mike Tyson kissing you on the hand is kind of like, I don't know. It was crazy. Diana Ross kissing you on the vocal cord.
Starting point is 00:26:20 That's pretty heavy duty, but yeah. Yeah, I'd say so. You like Diana Ross? I was trying to think of spontaneously who was the person who I'd most value vocal cords of. You would want her to kiss you on the vocal chord? Yeah, who's the equivalent of Mike Tyson? That's the SAT problem.
Starting point is 00:26:37 Mike Tyson is to hands as blank is to vocal cords. Let's see. I don't know. Diana Ross, though, I guess. Celine Dion. Nah. I'm not really into her. I mean, Stevie Wonder.
Starting point is 00:27:01 Now, that's a vocal chord. Absolutely. That's a vocal chord kisser right there. You made a music video, though, in which you, this is like pre-deep-fake. You edited your face onto the body of Magnus. Her Magnuson. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:31 Can you explain Magnus Ver Magnuson for people who don't know the world's strongest man mythology? Yeah, Magnus Ver Magnuson is one of the, like, one of the top strong men of the world. I think he won three. He's just one of them in this world. Marius Puginowski. Yes. Yucahola won it twice. Magnus won it four times.
Starting point is 00:27:54 Excuse me. 91, 94, 95, 96. Excuse me. But right now I'm in bulk season. I'm back in bulk season. But not too much bulk. Just enough that when I come down, I'm shredded. And it's really showing.
Starting point is 00:28:12 What is bulking up for you look like? This is it. I'm 275 right now. That's it. Can't allow myself to get over that. Bringing myself down to 230, I'm going to look like fucking Jean-Claude Van Dam. It's doing a split between two trucks.
Starting point is 00:28:29 Volvos. Volvos. Remember that commercial? Of course. This doesn't look like I'm f***ed up in this fucking picture. See? Like, it's both. I'm a little bit better now.
Starting point is 00:28:43 Leaning forward, I don't look jacked. That's the issue. I mean, you're wearing a sweater. I'm wearing a DeKimbe Mutumbo jersey under this, bro. Are you really? I'm sure I'm. Nuggets? Who else?
Starting point is 00:28:55 I mean, yeah, the Hawks. Hawks. It is. It's one of the greatest jerseys of all time. Is Mutumbo Nuggets jersey. And the Matumbo Hawks jersey. Both great. I once talked to DeKameh Mottombo about his life,
Starting point is 00:29:07 and he told me that his house, he had to have special toilets installed because, of course, he's like 7'2 or whatever it is. The importance of a good toilet I was speaking to my colleague yesterday. You don't really know life until you sit on a warm toilet seat. Bro. You literally shit immediately. And it's like, it's not just a regular shit.
Starting point is 00:29:33 Everything comes out. You know what I mean? Can I bond with you hopefully about... But you know the toilet you sit down and start spraying something real quick, but you get up, I get up so it doesn't hit me. So you don't like the bidet toilet? I duck it. I don't let it touch me.
Starting point is 00:29:49 Oh, come on. What are you doing? This is the mist prior. Oh, okay, okay. Because I guess they f***ing moist in the area. But this is the pre-miss. I don't let that touch me. But under your control, you like a bidet?
Starting point is 00:30:03 No. Oh, come on. What are you doing? I'm old school. I come from a grandma with no paper, just a hand. Just a hand. Can I... For the podcast, I'm actually...
Starting point is 00:30:16 A grandmother doing this, not me. ...is almost like flipping an imaginary pizza with his right hand. My most disliked version of a toilet is the toilet with the padded seat. That's old school I hate it I mean that's fucking weird When you It deflates as soon as you sit on it
Starting point is 00:30:40 Yes It's weird It's like someone asking you To shit into a pillow Pull over I'll shit out the window If I need to go It's happening
Starting point is 00:30:49 But you like a warm seat But that's about it The warm seat is definitely a game changer Cold cold Cold floor warm seat Yes Dual So you get the dual heat
Starting point is 00:31:00 Yep Cool feet Shins extended Oh my God I mean, I don't know who wears clothes to shit, but I don't. You go full on... No matter where if I'm in Kmart, Caldore, wherever. Caldor.
Starting point is 00:31:16 Yeah. Yo, Caldor, man. I don't know if kids respect Caldor the way they need to. I used to take Caldor to the cleaners. What are you doing inside of a Caldor? Steal anything that's, you know, all the paint. Take all the home products, the rollers. Handheld dust busters
Starting point is 00:31:35 When that red devil came out The dirt devil I've had a dustbuster in my house I can't even remember when I didn't Right now we don't even have a regular vacuum We have a fucking handheld dust buster There's no need Either the shark or the dustbuster
Starting point is 00:31:56 So the world of rumbas does not appeal to you The robots It actually makes me crazy when they put the thing on there, I fucking trip over it, it creeps up on you. It does. You'll be cooking up and some bull-s-hut. I heard a story once about someone falling asleep on their floor. The room buck comes out.
Starting point is 00:32:16 They have long hair. Now they're being murdered by their vacuum. I mean, listen, all that shit, we saw Terminator 2. This is what they were talking about. You understand? The machines. Skynet this is what they were speaking of
Starting point is 00:32:35 Arnold told you already this was happening and this is why when they bring the food with the robot it freaks me the fuck out you know
Starting point is 00:32:46 I don't want to see that shit you fucking drop underwear from where's it from drones like Amazon drones like Amazon underwear you drop the underwear
Starting point is 00:32:58 with the plane why you're I like to imagine you like trying and a, like, throw a discus at those drones. Discus was one of the best
Starting point is 00:33:11 sweatshirts brand that ever lived. One of the best athletic brands that I don't know what happened to discus, but man, Queens, if you had a fucking discus hoodie or a discus, whatever this one is called, you were the one. I want to ask you about...
Starting point is 00:33:28 12 pack of sunwear shirts and a trunk. Talha. Do you know about these? You know about this? You know about Talha shirts? No. It's from the White Tea days. Made in Bangladesh.
Starting point is 00:33:41 So how is a Talha shirt different from like the Haynes, you know? Because it's fucking Talha. Tallty. Remember six XTs? Of course. We warns you doing fucking who I think they like me dances. Laffy taffy. I mean, but this is the NBA, my favorite era of the NBA.
Starting point is 00:34:03 Throwbacks. I mean, I don't think I've ever taken a throwback off since they came out. There's no need. Have you heard of this Twitter account called Accidental Bronson? No. I don't know if you're going to love this or hate this, but would you be okay with me explaining this to you? Sure. So I was sitting at a New York Liberty game in the second row right behind court's side. And in front of me was Carmelo Anthony.
Starting point is 00:34:44 and I was eating paki. You're familiar with paki? Of course. Which flavor? Macha. Nice. Yeah, yeah. Good choice.
Starting point is 00:34:53 Exactly. A rare, a rare version of it. Did it come from Japan? Yes. Of course. I'm not f***ing around, man. Rare snacks, man? Rare snacks.
Starting point is 00:35:01 Okay. So I'm eating this macha green paki behind Carmelo Anthony. And I tweeted out and I just captioned it quietly eating Pocki behind Carmelo Anthony. And a Twitter account, which I did not know about till then, titled Accidental Bronson, retweets it. And I'm like, what the fuck is this? Oh, it sounds like something I would say. And it's just all of the things that people are tweeting inadvertently. And I'm like, that is exactly a thing that Friending Action Bronson would say.
Starting point is 00:35:34 It's true. I mean, to think about it like this, real life is much crazier than anything that you can scream. You know? All the bullshit that you can conjure up in your mind really isn't that cool. If you just assess the situation around you real quick, like, okay, this is what's happening. So you immediately intuitively understood the premise of accidental Bronson. I get it.
Starting point is 00:36:03 Can I show you some other ones that people have? Sure. I feel like... Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. Let's hear it. I feel like you got to say them, though. No, no, no, no. You have to say it.
Starting point is 00:36:14 All right. Let me say it. Okay. Let me say. And then what you can do, though? Let me see it. You can grade it, okay? You can grade it.
Starting point is 00:36:20 Let me just, I'm going to expand the window on my laptop. I mean, this is going to be a thing because this is a tribute account to you. Okay, so put me and Timothy Shalamee in the Oklahoma drill and I'm putting them in a hospital. I mean, boom, that's hard. That's fucking hard. It's all about that type of word. Timothy Shalamee, Shamae, Shamae, Shalame. It's a good word.
Starting point is 00:36:43 It is. a nice name. It flows nicely off the tongue. 12 a.m. on the Amalfi Coast watching the Raptors playing preseason in Edmonton, hard. So we're going to do this on binary scale of hard and not hard. Because there's
Starting point is 00:36:59 different depths of description. Yes. Why are they playing in Edmonton and it's preseason? There's different depths. There's things that add character to it. Absolutely. Absolutely. For sure. Representative George Santos was charged with theft
Starting point is 00:37:18 for stealing puppies from an Amish dairy farmer. That's a dud. That's a dud. That's a dud. That's just a news headline. Just spilled an entire box of shallots in the backseat of the Uber. That could be a hook. That could definitely be a hook. That's pretty good.
Starting point is 00:37:39 That's pretty good. It could be a fucking hook. Young Droz and Petrovich with a great pair of Adidas top tens. It's the photo of a shirtless young Drozzenpetrovich holding sneakers. You could just take Young Drozzen Petrovich with and then put whatever after. Yep. This is a rap class. I am taking notes.
Starting point is 00:38:00 Girl, you got the ass of a young Vladi Divoc. Hell you. I f***ed that hard. Bladdy Divots was smoking. That's right. I would probably mention something about that or got the ass of a young Vladi Dvok. It's heavy. I once mentioned my bitch was thick like.
Starting point is 00:38:16 John Lovitz. Mm. The critic. It's one of my favorite actors. He's thick. He is. Multiple C's. Ashing a sesame bagel like a cigarette
Starting point is 00:38:28 in front of a Roomba. That's just an incredible It is. That's a visual right there. Just poetry. Ashing a sesame bagel. I love that that's a... In front of a Roomba.
Starting point is 00:38:37 That type of thing that's attached to me I'm happy about. Lizzo probably be hitting people in the knee with her flute like Tanya Harding. I actually I just did a show where I was the chief support for
Starting point is 00:38:56 incubus in L.A., which I don't know, it was a 18,000 people sold out show. It's an incredible sentence. All right, exactly. And Paris Jackson, Michael Jackson, one step away was in the dressing room next to me. And as we walk out to go do the thing,
Starting point is 00:39:15 There's this woman in a tuxedo with the tail. And, you know, she had, like, very shiny shoes on, and she was holding something. And Lizzo was the special guest. So she was in front of Lizzo's dressing room holding the flute for her. She had a flute butler. White glove, flute butler. White glove flute butler.
Starting point is 00:39:39 That's a fucking hard line also at the bar watching Japanese youth baseball. Absolutely. I would word it differently, but yes, it's hard. I'm at the club showing women to Montes-a-bonus D-H-O highlights. I know his father. Yeah, of course. I'd be showing his father. That would also be weird.
Starting point is 00:39:58 Well, some of those lost tapes, though. Not even on VHS, Arvita-a-Bonis. Oh, yeah, being ahead of his time. One of the great pastors of all time, big men pastors. Not me getting j-ed off at Beetlejuice the musical. I like the premise of this. Well, that actually happened. To you? To who?
Starting point is 00:40:19 It was Representative Lauren Bobert, that security video. And Black and White. And Beatlejuice the musical? Yeah. I love that I am breaking the news to you that Lauren Bobert gave, like, her date a hand job at... Through the Pants. At Beel Juice the Musical in, like, Colorado. Doesn't count.
Starting point is 00:40:35 Yeah. Fair. What are we in, 6th grade? Hand job through the pants. She should fucking be ashamed of herself. That was not the takeaway for most people, but I see where you're, coming from. Doing lines off a Nintendo switch in the back of a Hyundai Sonata. Yeah, I mean, I feel like they're tapping into things like that I would want to say.
Starting point is 00:40:54 We got big men doing cartwheels on our offense. Yeah. Hard. I saw a fox eating sour cream and cheddar. Nah. I like the idea of this, though. Using animals in illiteration. Yes.
Starting point is 00:41:11 Is that the right term where they're speaking as human? That's anthropomorphizing. Anthropomorphizing. What is alliteration? That's when the words in a row have the same first letter. That was totally off. Got the letter A right. That was eliteration or alliteration?
Starting point is 00:41:29 Alliteration. What is elyteration? I don't think that's a thing. I bet you it is. Someone Google that. All right, that's it. I'm getting the f*** out of here. I got to go e, bro.
Starting point is 00:41:41 I'm done. Action, Bronson. Thank you for being everything I'd hope for. Can I kiss your hand? No, you're not, but you're going to hug me. You're going to hug me hard when he's game and brisk me. So what I found out today is why listening to Action Bronson makes me happy. And it's one of the first things I told him, right?
Starting point is 00:42:19 Your music makes me feel good. And the reason why, it turns out, is because he embodies this contradiction between this abiding deep seriousness and also the exact opposite. Often at the same time, Akronson loves a high-stakes scenario decorated with low-brow details. He makes music for Don Corleone. If Don Corleone also loved the NBA, He is somebody who makes music to listen to while walking around New York City, because New York City is the greatest city in the world.
Starting point is 00:43:10 That also, at times, is aggressively the opposite, which is why it is worth celebrating. And so here Pablo Torre finds out a New York show that has just introduced Action Bronson to Accidental Bronson, reflecting our capacity, individually. to spontaneously embody this very contradiction, no matter where you are on this planet. We wanted to send you into your weekend, into your wanderings around wherever you are, with just something to, um, to listen to. 12 a.m. on the Amalfi Coast,
Starting point is 00:43:49 watching the Raptors playing pre-season in Edmonton, young dries and Petrovich with a great pair of Adidas top tens. Hard. Girl, you got the ass of a young Vladi Divac. Not me getting jipped off at Beetlejuice the musical, but at the bar watching Japanese youth baseball. We got big men doing cartwheels on our offense. Just spilled an entire box of shallots.
Starting point is 00:44:11 Hard and not on. In the backseat of the Uber. Asher your sesame bagel like a cigarette in front of a Roomba. Yes. And I'm putting them in a hospital. Doing lines off a Nintendo Switch in the back of a Hyundai Sonata. Yeah, it could be a fucking hook. I once mentioned my bitch was thick like John Lovitz.
Starting point is 00:44:28 Multiple Cs. All right, that's it. I'm getting fuck out of here. I got to go eat, bro. Hard and not hard. And on that note, Pablo Torre finds out, could not be produced without Michael Antonucci,
Starting point is 00:44:59 Ryan Cortez, Sam Dayway, Juan Galindo, Patrick Kim, Neely Lohman, Rachel Miller-Howard, Ethan Schreier, Carl Scott, Matt Sullivan,
Starting point is 00:45:07 Chris Tumenello, as well as studio engineering by RG Systems, post production by NGW Post, our theme song by John Bravo. as always. And for now, we're going to go on a walk, but we'll talk to you soon.

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