Felipe Esparza
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919 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Feb 2025
Felipe Esparza’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Charles Bukowski.
If you're going to go, go all the way or don't even try. It could mean losing girlfriends. It could mean losing wives, relatives. It could be time spent in jail. Lonely nights in the dark. Lonely nights by yourself.
But in the end, it's all worth it. I don't know the rest.
They did two movies? The one with Matt Dillon called Factotum, too.
That came out in 2000-something, and he plays him. There's Barfly and there's Factotum. Factotum, he plays him at that age. He's way too handsome.
He plays him good.
Yeah. Charles Bukowski is actually in Barfly. He's one of the drunks in the bar.
All women in the world aren't whores. Just mine.
Yeah, man. When I started reading, I wanted to read books about authors that were from Los Angeles, like in the 40s and 50s. And I said, I've got to find something that... that talks about Los Angeles, these streets that I live in. And there was Charles Bukowski. He writes about Los Angeles. And I found out that his inspiration was a guy named, oh, man, what's his name?
He writes just like Charles Bukowski. He wrote a book called Ask the Dust and The Adventures of Arturo Bandini. I'm lost here of his name, but John Fonte, yes, John Fonte. John Fonte wrote books in the style of Charles Bukowski, and Charles Bukowski, when he found out about him, He helped him publish all his books again.
So that's why I know that John Fonte exists, because John Bukowski, he republished all his books for him when he was dying of diabetes. So after this, bro, he talks about Los Angeles during 1932, bro, when Los Angeles had a metro rail and the 1932 earthquake in Los Angeles. Wow. So it's all about, this guy's from Los Angeles. He talks about Armenians and... working the docks in 1920s. Wow.
That's a great catch. And they're alcoholics, bro. This guy's an alcoholic, and so is Charlie Bukowski. These are dudes that worked jobs and still were authors.
Exactly. Yeah, exactly. These guys actually had jobs during the day. Charlie Bukowski, he worked at the post office. He never quit. Yeah. And Antonio Bandini, well, what's his name? The other guy, he started writing for Hollywood and he just disappeared.
Yeah.
Writing screenplays. He got into under contract.
Did you ever get hired to be a writer and then you said, this is not for me?
Yeah, why would you write your whole set list on a book?
That's crazy, huh? Insane.
Oh, my Netflix special is available right now. Raging Fool on Netflix. Go check it out. Directed by my wife, Lisa O'Daniel. And I want to give a shout out to my brother-in-law. who listens to you religiously with his daughters, Johnny O'Daniel. What's up, boo? Shout out to Johnny. In Dayton, Ohio. All right. Instagram, all that shit. What is it? My Instagram is Felipe Esparza.
My website is felipesworld.com. I'll be in, I don't know when this airs, I'll be in Grand Rapids, Iowa, and Indianapolis, Helium. When are those dates? I don't know.
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