Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer, Anthony Bourdain, Robin Williams and Robert Downey Sr.

Another unusual podcast.

Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer, Anthony Bourdain, Robin Williams and Robert Downey Sr.

As we’ve noted in the past, it’s rare that people show up to insist on being interviewed. In this case, it was someone we’d interviewed in the past, in fact a year ago, July 17th, 2020 Anthony Bourdain and Robin Williams stopped by on a podcast named “Exiting Early.” (Anthony and Robin appear in the books “Backstage Pass to the Flipside,” both interviewed extensively.)

But in this case, Anthony wanted to weigh in on the film about his life, called “Roadrunner.”

He says he was disappointed in it, that the filmmaker “didn’t have a clue” as to what happened to him — how he himself didn’t have a plan to exit early, and it had nothing whatsoever to do with his relationship with Asia Argento.

He pointed out that he thought the AI of his voice sounded “robotic” (neither I nor Jennifer have seen the film) and the ending, having an artist deface a mural on camera for the film was “shitty.” Again — I haven’t seen it, but I took the time to ask him about it. He also called the filmmaker “amateur” but gave the film a “five” out of ten because at the very least, it…