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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

#241: Jeff Weiss

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8817 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2019

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we hit the West Coast to speak with one of Los Angeles' greatest cheerleaders, the founder of the popular music website Passion of the Weiss and the heartbeat of TheLAnd Magazine, writer and editor Jeff Weiss! Jeff details what sparked the boycott of LA Weekly, the history of alt newspapers in the United States, what local journalism means in 2019, and why he and so many others have chosen to put their entireties into launching a new publication that speaks the language of his city. We get into his family's long roots in California, his affinity for the Beat Generation, growing up on West Coast rap, writing about Kendrick Lamar and 03 Greedo at the beginnings of their careers, as well as Snoop Dogg on the eve of getting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. We discuss Jeff's work in documenting Lil Boosie's trial and the greater goings on in Baton Rouge, his history playing baseball and how a .360 batting average got him a writing job, how he ended up in feuds of different degrees with Magic Johnson, Post Malone and Deer Hunter, and the project closest to his heart that currently sits in his desk drawer. All that, plus stories about Eric Davis, Cobra Snake, Rick Ross, Alex Blagg, Mark Lisanti, blogroll placement, the resources necessary to keep music blogs alive, and much, much more! If you'd like to help support, or request a copy of TheLAnd, head to theLAnd.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, Jeff. Hey, Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? Doing well, thank you. I know that you were online today. Yes. And I know that you pointed out, Mary H.K. Choi's tweet to me. Do you want to just generally sum up what Mary said? Mary said a lot of things. I don't know which tweet you're specifically talking about. Well, wasn't there one that said, like, there's two things that go on on Twitter or social media. It's complaining or it's celebrating. Yes. And I'm like, oh, shit, she called out our whole career. That's it. That's my life. It's just complaining? Yep. Or celebrating. Yeah. So here we are. Well, okay. Well, that sort of segues very nicely into what I really want to talk about right now.

0:39.6

What's that?

0:54.9

My pants are ripped. How'd you rip them? I don't know. Well, I think it's just over time. Do you think that they are too far down the line to be replaced? Oh, yeah. I mean, I don't know how to sew. So here's where we are right now. It's one of those things I don't think that anybody will notice, but like they're ripped in the crotch. And so I'm, I'm super self-conscious about it. Well, hold on. Are you celebrating this or are you complaining about it? Let's just- Right. We need to figure out which box we're going to put this in. Right. I would say ladies. I'm celebrating.

1:12.9

No, I'm a celebrating.

1:14.0

I would say, ladies,

1:11.4

I'm celebrating. No, I'm, I would say I'm complaining. I have to go get new jeans. It's not, it's not like ripped pants are out of style. No, but nobody's walking around with like ripped cross jeans. It's everybody wants, yet, you're right. I'm a trailblazer, I'm a trendsetter.

1:26.9

That's right.

1:27.3

We're being progressive over here,

1:28.6

shots to flow.

1:29.4

Yeah.

1:29.6

I do want to say people, Everybody wants... Yet. You're right. I'm a trailblazer. I'm a trendsetter. That's right. We're being progressive over here. Shats to flow.

1:44.4

Yeah. I do want to say people usually walk around with ripped jeans in their knees. Mine is a little higher up. My rips. So what's the plan? The plan is to get new jeans. Maybe I can get sponsored. You know what? I celebrate that. Thank you for celebrating and complaining.

1:46.0

We checked off both boxes.

1:47.6

So, all right.

1:44.4

The plan? Maybe I can get sponsored. You know what? I celebrate that. Thank you for celebrating and complaining.

1:46.0

We checked off both boxes.

2:01.5

So, all right, the plan now. Yeah, you want to do something more meaningful than that. No, no, no, no, no. Go ahead. The plan now with your pants. The plan now with my pants is everybody. Do you keep wearing them? No, I want to get nude jeans. No, okay. But if you don't get them today, what will you do?

2:02.4

Stay indoors?

2:35.3

That just sounds unbranded for me, honestly. Honestly, if it's not... Just walk around with no pants? Yeah, no, that's not, that's not me. You're going to do shorts in the winter? No, I bundle up to the max. You're going to become that guy? What? The white guy in the winter who wears shorts? No, yeah. I need to like grow a ponytail first. So, so pants update. Pants update. Yeah. Huge. Huge news. Can that become a hashtag? What, Pants update? Pants update. Traveling pants. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, the brotherhood of the traveling pants. Do you have any? Well,'t I can't I can't fit in your jeans no wait I can't I can't join in this mission no I'm taller and

2:41.7

skinnier than both you and Dan you and Dan are like the same size you guys can share things this is true

2:46.0

I'm the freak of the family if If you guys, you sound like Conan.

2:55.2

If you guys out there know of a good pants connect.

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