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Zealot 45: Doc Antle with Paul Verhoeven

Zealot

Jo Thornely

Comedy

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Jo Thornely talks to Paul Verhoeven about a man who made everyone who watched Tiger King say hmmmm: Doc Antle.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This podcast was recorded on Gadigal Land.

0:03.0

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land

0:06.0

and pay our respects to the elders past, present and emerging. Sell it.

0:13.0

We'll stop talking about.

0:17.0

Oh, sell it. We'll stop talking about Cream and we'll start talking about

0:26.2

broadcaster, TV guy, artist, podcaster, Jesus, high achiever clearly, and author of the books Loose units and Electric Blue, Paul Verhoven.

0:38.0

Hi, it's not so much overachieving as it's basically just career ADHD is what it is. I just sort of see shiny things and I run at them

0:46.8

I'm also very easily distracted and I have trouble kind of fixating on one thing at a time and

0:55.6

I'm inherently guilty about things like that. So I think I would make a terrible cult leader. I just I think I would just I'm just not

1:00.4

built for it which might be why this stuff fascinates me so much, because they're just,

1:04.4

it's like if you take my personality and run in the opposite direction, you end up with a bad

1:09.1

ponytail and a little chin strap and running a cult.

1:12.8

So.

1:13.8

Who could you possibly be talking about?

1:15.6

But I think you'd actually, by that description,

1:17.5

you'd make a good cult leader because they are free.

1:21.9

Well, because they're generally free of regulation they're free to just go you know what

1:25.7

this week this is what we're doing and this is who we are and this is and everyone's wearing blue today

1:33.0

yeah but there's generally like a more dogmatic ethos.

1:36.0

I think what would, I think my problem is I would become obsessed with a cult.

1:40.0

I join a cult very briefly and then I would snap out of it pretty quickly and then it would just be me being yelled at in a hotel room by Harvey Kaitel like the deprogramming would be the next thing maybe I could deprogram people I could bamboozle them out of their I mean do you

1:55.1

Which production company are we pitching this to but I mean as far as this podcast

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