S2 E17 Victory Palmisano-Bruckner cover art

S2 E17 Victory Palmisano-Bruckner

S2 E17 Victory Palmisano-Bruckner

Listen for free

View show details

About this listen

 Guest: Victory Palmisano-Bruckner – Hollywood Producer, Stunt Industry Survivor, and Daughter of a Vietnam Vet/AddictWho this episode is for:Anyone with an alcoholic parent or a complicated grief storyDaughters who loved their dads even when it hurtFolks haunted by the war they never fought inSurvivors of church trauma, spiritual abuse, and Hollywood bullshitCreatives chasing their own IP dream (and still broke)Anyone who’s ever loved someone they couldn’t saveAND anyone not in recovery who thinks “just stop drinking” is solid adviceThis one hits the gut and the funny bone in equal measure.Victory Palmisano-Bruckner stops by the studio for a raw, hilarious, and soul-punching convo with Chris, Jeff, and Jakob. She may be Hollywood through and through—raised on sets, daughter of a legendary stuntman turned director—but she’s also as grounded as a St. Louis brick house and just as scarred.Her story is soaked in love and loss. Growing up the daughter of a Vietnam vet and lifelong alcoholic who doubled as a real-life action hero, Victory paints a brutal but beautiful picture of what it means to carry the legacy of a man who could survive car crashes, war, and fire—but not himself.There’s talk of strip club scouting (for a low-budget film, we swear), the trauma of church camp cults, daddy issues, and how alcoholism shape-shifts through generations. She helped her dad detox in her damn living room, only to watch him go back to the bottle. She buried him a year and a half ago. He was in the In Memoriam at the Oscars. Big time.You’ll laugh. You’ll ugly cry. You might want to call your dad. Or curse his name. Or both.Also: Chris drops one-liners like “flop a titty out” that are now canon in the Palmisano family. Jeff nerds out on stunt IMDBs. Jakob gets exposed as ChatGPT-ing guests. And Victory, despite growing up in the biz, reveals her realest role ever—daughter of an addict, and survivor of it all.Episode Timestamps:00:00 – Intro, sponsor shoutouts01:25 – Victory joins the chaos03:00 – Stunt double stories, Hollywood roots08:00 – Her path into podcasting, NBC Universal10:00 – Church trauma & leaving evangelicalism13:00 – Titty jokes, family legends15:00 – Launching Quantum Spin Studios19:00 – Husband’s script: Sopranos meets This Is Us22:00 – Her dad’s legacy: stunt safety & SAG activism28:00 – Oscar’s stunt category & grief spike33:00 – Vietnam trauma, PTSD, and substance abuse38:00 – Alec Baldwin, stunts, and industry danger41:00 – ACA & Al-Anon, strip club scouting horror46:00 – Making cocktails for dad at age 752:00 – Detoxing dad at home, COVID chaos56:00 – The rare apology before it was too late1:00:00 – Loving someone who doesn’t love themself1:05:00 – Boundaries, therapy, codependency truth1:10:00 – *World of Vesser* and the loneliness cure1:13:00 – Braves talk, Chipper Jones & Daniel nerd-out1:15:00 – Advice for people with addicted parents1:18:00 – Al-Anon’s power to make you feel less alone1:22:00 – After he died: health crashes, then calm1:23:26 – Naming the episode: Dad’s Club1:27:00 – Weekend at Bernie’s stunt reveal1:28:15 – Gino Lucci black car story, NYC-style sendoff1:30:00 – Viola, Serenity Prayer, and future visits1:31:36 – Game name slip: World of Vesser1:31:59 – Closing gratitude, grief, and fanboy loveResources Mentioned:Adult Children of AlcoholicsIllinois Recovery CenterBertarelli CutlerySponsored by:Bertarelli CutleryIllinois Recovery CenterEpisode Title: Dead Dad’s Club
No reviews yet