Live From The 405 Podcast

The ramblings of Luke Allen, an increasingly unhinged Los Angeles resident who spends an unhealthy amount of time in LA traffic. These are his social observations, rants, complaints, movie reviews, and weekly life wrap ups. From upstate NY. Angry.

Live From The 405, Episode 533 01/21/2026

Live From The 405, Episode 533 Minutes from the big meeting with a Hollywood producer. At least Alto Knights didn’t have De Niro trying to convincingly beat someone up on screen when he’s 79 years old again, like in The Irishman. Kathleen Kennedy has stepped down as head of Lucasfilm. I saw a movie in theaters for every day of the 3 day weekend: Badlands, Dead Man’s Wire, and We Bury The Dead. I have thoughts and elaborations on all of them, if you can believe it. /episode/index/show/lft405/id/39812440

Live From The 405, Episode 532 01/14/2026

Live From The 405, Episode 532 Iphone updates have done nothing but make our phones undeniably worse and more complicated for 20 fucking years. Del Taco? More like HELL Taco, and I officially retire from Cherry Coke if it’s coming out of a soda fountain. The last time you used a payphone was the last time you used a payphone. The opening five minutes of the Naked Gun reboot was about as funny as a child’s cancer ward. I spent an unfathomable amount of time at California mandated gun safety courses this weekend, but in between I found time to hate watch The Alto Knights. /episode/index/show/lft405/id/39725195

Live From The 405, Episode 531 01/08/2026

Live From The 405, Episode 531 The final days of my Christmas beast coast vacation extravaganza in enchanting Buffalo, NY. I went to see Marty Supreme, and something happened that has never happened to me in a movie theater in my entire life. (Tantalizing!) A requiem for the plastic bag. /episode/index/show/lft405/id/39656115

Live From The 405, Episode 530 01/03/2026

Live From The 405, Episode 530 People are still consciously going to see Avatar movies, and if it’s not a harbinger of the ultimate collapse of our society, I don’t know what else is. I’m thrilled that DiCaprio is apparently playing Al Pacino in Heat 2. Ax throwing and driving…range’n. The Billy Joel documentary. Bugonia. Buffalo, new years, and my brudder’s house things. That’s a wrap on 2025, doggie! (How’d you do?) /episode/index/show/lft405/id/39597670

Live From The 405, Episode 529 12/26/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 529 Accidental hangover. The art muze-zeeyam. Christmas shenanigans. Christmas movie round up. Travels. The Pee Wee doc. Florida shit. Kiss my ass. Kiss my ass. Kiss his ass. Kiss your ass. Happy Hanukah. /episode/index/show/lft405/id/39539675

Live From The 405, Episode 528 (Part Two) 12/18/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 528 (Part Two) The loquacious Lukester’s wild weekend continues! Dude/Boges and I spend a long hard day in Long Beach and Orange County. We met up with metal Travis and the dudes from Deaf Club to get a tour of a rad rocket factory, then we all went to the (dreaded) Observatory in Orange County to witness Dillinger Escape Plan perform Calculating Infinity (and a few other hits) in its entirety, at about 36% energy level. Then I pontificate about the Rob Reiner slaying, and Jerry Seinfeld appearing on We Might Be Drunk podcast. /episode/index/show/lft405/id/39451535

Live From The 405, Episode 528 (Part 1) 12/18/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 528 (Part 1) If you listen closely, you can hear the crumpling up and throwing out of a winning talk radio formula! I went to the set of the new Tarantino/Fincher movie, and then I went to see Bear vs Shark at the Regent, after a very long and stressful day preceding it. /episode/index/show/lft405/id/39451445

Live From The 405, Episode 527 12/11/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 527 Gym locker drama. I lament and lambast the fact that Ted Sarandos and Netflix are taking over 80% of the entertainment industry, which is a really good idea for someone trying to break into the industry. (Calling him “the anti-christ of cinema” probably won’t bode well for my first meeting) I went to see Blade Runner at the Million Dollar Theater (FROM the movie). I give my thoughts on that, and the abusive relationship we’re all trapped in as sci fi fans. I extoll my excitement for a myriad of events this Friday, Dec 12 will be one of the most exciting days/nights of the year. (For realz) I went to one of the worst bars with the worst bartenders I’ve ever been to, but I also got some karma back from Floyd’s Barbershop. I did my first stand up set in 5 months, and had some revelations. (The audience had one too; “this guy isn’t funny.”) /episode/index/show/lft405/id/39365630

Live From The 405, Episode 526 12/04/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 526 Is this a gym, or a dance studio? Thanksgiving and the whipped cream embargo. I’m not into this new AFI album, but everybody else apparently is. Landman Season 2 is upon us, and I finally caught that “American Primeval” series on Netflix. If you really want to get into the spirit of these new modern western series, you should flagellate yourself while you watch them. I went to see The Thing and pissed 115x. I shot a .357 Magnum and fell in love, and I went to see Roger Deakins speak at a screening of a gorgeous movie he shot, and then promptly made an ass of myself in front of one of my favorite directors. Quentin Tarantino shit talks Paul Dano, and Mel Gibson has an ugly black British wife for no conceivable reason in “Fat Man.” (Yep, you guessed it – Netflix!) /episode/index/show/lft405/id/39264900

Live From The 405, Episode 525 11/27/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 525 The tyranny of local radio. Do you also have an inexplicable retention for “parody versions of popular songs” that people made up? My moral quandry about “AI-sh Robert Duvall in a True Lies 2.” Misfits will probably be stolen from me. (I don’t have authorship over the actual event, you see.) There’s incompetence afoot, from a certain Mexican corporate food chain. I owe god money, and I’m dodging Him. The Charlie Sheen documentary (one more quick point), then I complain about The Rookie and Collateral, because I’ve run out of new movies to complain about. They’re going to reboot Baywatch, and it will probably total nightmare fuel. (Instead of the jack off fuel that it was originally intended for /episode/index/show/lft405/id/39189485

Live From The 405, Episode 524 11/21/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 524 Polish Brandon from The Liquor License podcast graciously joins the loquacious Lukester for this episode, as we get into a myriad of tantalizing topics. The Charlie Sheen Netflix doc. How Polish Brandon technically made MTV history, and I/we had no idea. How no one feels bad about Kevin Spacey being “homeless.” Ruminations and lamentations about the current state of cinema, and how we hope for better days ahead. AI porn potential. How the world has turned against Bill Burr, and how he’s handling it about as badly as possible. And “what constitutes classic rock” in the modern era, among a myriad of other evocative topics and pop culture observations. You’ll love it, you’ll be fondling your nipples in no time. /episode/index/show/lft405/id/39119975

Live From The 405, Episode 523 11/13/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 523 There’s about no reason to bother getting a concealed carry permit in Los Angeles. (Im finding out the hard way) I’m dying. (Again. Probably.) I have thoughts about Happy Gilmore 2. I discovered “Reckless Ben,” and aliens are landing in random towns/places in full view of dozens of people, but nothing is happening. (Or it gets covered up. Men in black shit.) /episode/index/show/lft405/id/39017850

Live From The 405, Episode 522 11/07/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 522 Big yet somewhat vague news on Misfits. Watch out for the nasal sprays! Instead of doing something fulfilling on Halloween like “taking my children trick or treating,” or perusing LA Halloween whores, I went home and watched GI Joe: The Movie (from 1987) Subway got rid of their flatbread for breakfast sandwiches, because of course they did. I went to see a myriad of old movies around town in the fortnight since we last spoke: Bullitt, Fitzcarraldo, and Annie Hall (RIP Diane Keaton)I did stand up for the first time in 3 months, and I went to see Michael Knowles speak at the Nixon Presidential Library, but I forgot most of what he said because I was having a full blown panic attack for most of it. (What fun it is to be me) /episode/index/show/lft405/id/38947120

LFT 405 521 10/30/2025

LFT 405 521 “Spooky season” is almost over. (Ugh) The guy who came up with the marketing catchphrase “Burger King: Where YOU rule.” Things about my new car. (That I missed half the talking points for, shit) I went to see two brand new movies: Good Boy, and Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. They went about as well as the rest of the new releases of 2025. Big Trouble In Little China 2 may be on the way, but “someone” had an idea for it a long time ago. I bought a GI Joe comic book, because I was getting laid WAY too much and had to find some way to stem that non stop flow of cheerleader pussy. /episode/index/show/lft405/id/38840250

Live From The 405, Episode 520 10/21/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 520 From my lips, to your ears – don’t eat McDonalds hamburgers. Under any circumstances. I’m falling out of love with movies as I get older. (Are you?) One complaint after another, and I submit to you a reason the movie industry and movie culture is in a state of stagnation for a reason no one else is considering; a lack of visionary PRODUCERS. Roofman, the movie. My 2,500 cents on Mr. Scorsese, the documentary. Big shake up at Studio A. /episode/index/show/lft405/id/38722725

Live From The 405, Episode 519 10/17/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 519 Not-so-fast-times on the 405. (Which is double ironic, because the story takes place within 3 miles of most of Fast Times At Ridgemont High) Guess who’s got his 3rd cold in 5 months?? I had a real mini screenplay crisis, it’s quite the harrowing tale, buckle up! I went to see “my AMIGO, question mark?” Eric Rocha open for Andrew Dice Clay at the Comedy Store, and it was one of the best comedy shows of the decade. /episode/index/show/lft405/id/38615360

Live From The 405, Episode 518 10/09/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 518 The Mysterious Whore Of Sepulveda Blvd. Someone “upgraded” the California DMV, and it worked out about as well as you’d expect. One of my biggest Hollywood crushes semi-flirted with me. (Maybe. Kind of.) More like LAME-ian Echols. In one of the worst sell outs/hypocrisies in the history of this podcast, I went to see One Battle After Another, and give my thoughts about it. The new AFI stuff is making its way out there, and people are embracing the weirdness. In one of, and possibly THE most metal nostalgic nights of my life, I went to see Sepultura-ish do Chaos AD, with Fear Factory and Prong also on the lineup. (Unfortunately….in Orange County.) /episode/index/show/lft405/id/38521355

Live From The 405, Episode 517 (Part II) 10/03/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 517 (Part II) You have a better shot getting a square deal in Mos Eisley spaceport than you do trying to sell electronics online. One Battle After Another (which also describes Paul Thomas Andersons’ attempts at making an enjoyable movie) I went to see The Hold Steady Saturday night, and then make endless excuses as to why I felt like crap at Vinnie’s (beautiful) wedding the next day. /episode/index/show/lft405/id/38452110

Live From The 405, Episode 517 (Part One) 10/01/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 517 (Part One) Work has basically reduced me to Bob Cratchit from A Christmas Carol. (That’s a real high-brow reference, you know you’re in for an intellectually stimulating podcast. Fuck “NPR,” LF405 is hella edumacational) The guy who played Cobra Commander’s voice was a gift from on high. I forgot an important BTS fact from Blow Out from a couple episodes ago and regale you with THAT one, and I say “no thanks” to Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories. (And conspiracy theories in general, or at least people that thrive on them for some inexplicable reason) /episode/index/show/lft405/id/38420300

Live From The 405, Episode 516 09/24/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 516 Charlie Kirk, with “the usual suspects” at work. I finally won a film festival with this friggin pilot. The Bernie Madoff of movie scripts. The Bourne Legacy and Inherent Vice were worse than I could have possibly fathomed. A busy day at work, but I got to hang out with the guy that shot the Van Halen “Hot For Teacher” video?? Get the fuck out!! /episode/index/show/lft405/id/38335705

Live From The 405, Episode 515 09/10/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 515 “Somebody up there likes me,” headphones edition. More things that I’m forgetting and costing myself money, for being a dunski. (As the old New Yorkers call it) Couple minor and relatively pointless things about my script, but what the hell. People who cave dive, and have died in caves. Or almost died. And/or the rescuers died too. (Why the fuck do people cave dive??) I watched Blow Out (the old Brian DePalma movie) for the first time and had some thoughts about it, I also went to see the new Spike Lee (ugh) movie Highest 2 Lowest (“tWoOo??”) and was surprisingly surprised by it. I really am extra inarticulate and scatter-brained this episode, I owe you all a beer. /episode/index/show/lft405/id/38168765

Live From The 405, Episode 514 09/04/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 514 I spend like 25 minutes telling you how good The Insider is. Then I tell you about my labor day weekend, where most of the labor was “the work I put into trying to get laid, or meet a girlfriend.” I went to see my friends’ stand up show at the Improv, and try to figure out if Catherine Keener was there. (I think she was. Was she? I think so. Yes.) /episode/index/show/lft405/id/38082370

Live From The 405, Episode 513 08/29/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 513 “Luke Biden,” over here. A wild weekend of unhealthy food, booze, old movies, bad service, good service, police, hipsters, heroes, dive bars, beaches, and lousy pie. /episode/index/show/lft405/id/38017705

Live From The 405, Episode 512 08/21/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 512 The big 405 prize giveaway! The 4’ of safe space in my entire neighborhood to park my bike has been compromised, so now we all suffer. T Dog’s pre-birthday, and more wonderful, reliable service at another California Mexican restaurant. I went to see an old movie with Barbara Hershey and John Lithgow and they were there, and so was the piece of shit director. Nobody saw Nobody 2, and deservedly so. Like the old saying goes: “people that host shows in Glass Houses should have stones thrown at them.” (It was a reach, but I went for it) /episode/index/show/lft405/id/37900490

Live From The 405, Episode 511 08/13/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 511 No one knows how to write TV shows OR songs anymore, apparently. (Lucky us) We’re up to two white male protagonists in a new Star Wars movie?! The earth might spin off its axis!! I saw that new movie “Weapons” and have many thoughts, then Bokes, Mrs. Bokes, and I travel to Las Vegas to hang out with Billy Biohazard at the Punk Rock Museum. It was a glorious occasion that I spend way too much time talking about. (Can you believe it?) Finally, the eternal Los Angeles conundrum: “Rats or Mexicans?” /episode/index/show/lft405/id/37793170

Live From The 405, Episode 510 (Part Two) 08/08/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 510 (Part Two) Chipotle Incompetence, and at this point, I should almost make a separate podcast dedicated to complaining about gyms. (Im SO sorry) The Bore Of 1812, and a comically angry, tiny, Italian would-be assassin, lost to history…until now. (It’s a good one) /episode/index/show/lft405/id/37727495

Live From The 405, Episode 510 (Part One) 08/07/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 510 (Part One) Lukester: The eternal Familiar Stranger. No one drinks at 8pm here. Liam Neeson and Pameler Anderson are apparently an item, and I have thoughts about it. Fantastic Four had a massive audience drop off in its second week, and I’d be lying if I didn’t say it made me “low key” happy. (As the kids say) I saw the Robert Altman movie “Nashville,” and really wished I hadn’t. /episode/index/show/lft405/id/37715290

Live From The 405, Episode 409 (Part Two) 07/30/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 409 (Part Two) Why would the expensive wireless headphones I bought actually work? I went to the Deftones themed bar event in downtown LA this weekend hoping to meet chicks, and it went about is as well you probably expect it did. I saw the movie “Eddington” and 10 minutes of The Fantastic Four, so you don’t have to. Lungs update: “Go fuck yourself (basically)” – My Doctor. The Arnold nod. Motorcycle madness. /episode/index/show/lft405/id/37604900

Live From The 405, Episode 509 (Part One) 07/29/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 509 (Part One) “War is hell.” (Seriously) Big update at Golds Gym Venice, get ready. The usual suspects are glad that Hulk Hogan is dead. (Here’s a clue: “they’re probably cat owners.”) AFI: WTF? (take 2) I saw Andre The Giant, and my mom once met…Richard Nixon and Dwight D Eisenhower?! (And other historical Allen revelations!) New aggravation just dropped: “someone” leaving their coffee cup on the filthy sink surface. I went to see Aliens in 70mm at the Egyptian with Gale Ann Hurd (the producer) doing q&A, and shit got wild. /episode/index/show/lft405/id/37590655

Live From The 405, Episode 508 07/24/2025

Live From The 405, Episode 508 It’s Polish Brandon’s birthday, and Ozzy Osbourne’s death day. (God damn DEATH dedication…) More bands in 90s movies, and ruminations on Kim Basinger’s bush. Ka-mara. Rebuffed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. “Movers.” AFI: WTF? Grant rant. A night out in Toluca Lake, and the impossibility for anyone in the greater Los Angeles area to not fuck up my hamburger. /episode/index/show/lft405/id/37529915

Live From The 405 Podcast

TOPICS