BADLANDS
201 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 days ago -Badlands is a true crime podcast that explores the real life stories of the famous at their most infamous. Badlands is voiced by Jake Brennan, host of the award-winning podcast DISGRACELAND. In Badlands, each episode digs into the crimes and scandals of our most beloved cultural figures. How did Marilyn Monroe really die? What caused Heath Ledger to end up on the bad side of revenge-seeking paparazzi? How did Winona Ryder help solve a kidnapping case in her adoptive hometown? New scripted episodes of Badlands are released every Wednesday while bonus episodes are released every Friday. Badlands is not a journalistic podcast. It is an entertainment podcast inspired by true events. Certain dialogue and scenes are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes as they are in most scripted entertainment based on true events. Sources and credits for each episode are available at disgracelandpod.com/badlands. Badlands is available wherever you get your podcasts.
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Episodes
The Misfits: Car Wrecks, Heart Attacks, Marilyn Monroe, and One of Hollywood’s Most Cursed Films
November 01, 2023 07:04 - 40 minutesGlenn Danzig named his punk band after one of the most cursed Hollywood films of all time. The Misfits was where actor Montgomery Clift, permanently disfigured from a car accident, tried in vain to restart his stalled career. The director, John Huston, lost the film’s entire production budget at a craps table. The lead actor, Clark Gable, suffered a heart attack the day after shooting ended and died ten days later. But was there any truth to the rumor that Gable was driven to an early grave n...
Presenting Disgraceland - The Misfits: Robbing Graves, Night of the Living Dead and the Teenagers from Mars
October 31, 2023 07:04 - 51 minutesThe Misfits were truly unique. Scary. Violent. Angry. Nihilistic. These words can easily describe not only their music, but also the band as people, particularly frontman Glenn Danzig. Rumored to have been arrested for grave robbery, locked up abroad and inciting riots here in the States, the Misfits blazed a path of annihilation trading on fictional B-movie and scandal rag imagery to create one of the most enduring cult followings of all time and combating the very real sense of alienation t...
Bonus Episode: Firewalking, A Sam Spade Concept Record, and The Mystery of Dennis Farina
October 27, 2023 07:12 - 30 minutesIt's John Huston week in BADLANDS, and it's got Jake wondering about your favorite rags-to-riches -- or riches-to-rags -- stories from film history. What's your favorite John Huston movie? Any last-minute horror recommendations? What are your top five horror movies? Let Jake know at 617-906-6638 or on socials @disgracelandpod - and come join the Wrap Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
John Huston: A Duel, a Fatal Car Crash, and Living Hand to Mouth
October 25, 2023 07:03 - 40 minutesDirector John Huston lived the adventurous life that was frequently depicted in his movies. As a young man, he was made an honorary lieutenant in the Mexican army. He was nearly shot during a poker game and challenged to a duel in the middle of the street. His thrill-seeking antics soon turned fatal, when he accidentally struck and killed a woman with his car while driving down Sunset Boulevard. He ran off to London to lay low, but soon found himself with no job, no money, no prospects–and no...
Bonus Episode: The Addiction, Ed Gein and Danny Rolling, and Improbable Career Transitions
October 20, 2023 07:11 - 37 minutesHalloween season continues as BADLANDS releases our episode on Alex Rocco, and Jake has gangsters and serial killers on the mind. Who are your favorite gangsters from Hollywood history? What's your favorite non-Godfather Alex Rocco performance? What's your favorite Moe Greene line? What horror movies are you watching? Plus, send dog pics. Get in touch at 617-906-6638 or on socials @disgracelandpod - and come join the Wrap Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Alex Rocco: A Mob Murder, a Boston Gang War, and Leaving Winter Hill for the Corleones
October 18, 2023 07:02 - 38 minutesOrganized crime. A brutal assault that kicked off a gang war. Car bombs. The brazen assassination of a mob boss in broad daylight. These things all happened in Francis Ford Coppola’s groundbreaking film The Godfather – but first they happened in the real life of Alex Rocco, one-time Boston gang member turned Hollywood character actor whose star turn as Moe Greene in the classic mobster epic is one of the most improbable career shifts in movie history. To see the complete list of contributors...
Bonus Episode: Musician David Lynch, a Young Jeffrey Lebowski, and Bob from the Black Lodge
October 13, 2023 07:10 - 38 minutesThis week in BADLANDS brings an episode on David Lynch, and Jake is getting into the Halloween mood by wondering what other true crimes inspired movies and series? What is your favorite Lynch movie? Your favorite Lynch villain? And who's the biggest creep in a film? Let him know at 617-906-6638 or on socials @disgracelandpod - and come join the Wrap Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
David Lynch: A Brutal Murder, a Corrupt Small Town, and the Secret Origins of Twin Peaks
October 11, 2023 07:01 - 41 minutesIn 1908, a girl was brutally murdered in a small town in upstate New York. The town was seemingly idyllic, but beneath the surface, it was crawling with prostitution, orgies, deceit, and corruption. It was fueled by a political machine so powerful it could cover up not just one but multiple murders. The truth behind the murder of Hazel Drew was meant to remain unsolvable. Just like the television show it inspired over 80 years later. This episode contains themes that may be disturbing to some...
Bonus Episode: Trailerization, Horror Films, and Fiddling With a Severed Hand
October 06, 2023 07:09 - 28 minutesThis week brings the trailer for Season 9 of BADLANDS, and it's got Jake thinking about movie trailers, and the trend of "trailerization" of popular songs. What do you think about this trend? What's your favorite trailerized song? Also your voicemails, texts, and DMs, and the questions: Can you boil down a top five Coen Brothers films? and What are your favorite modern horror films? Get in touch at 617-906-6638 or on socials @disgracelandpod - and come join the Wrap Party. Learn more about yo...
Badlands Season 9: Hollywoodland (Trailer)
October 04, 2023 04:00 - 2 minutesKidnappings. Blackmail. Banished from the biz and begging on the streets. The mob, mysterious deaths, misfits, and stories that can still haunt us decades later. It's all happening in a brand new season of Badlands. Badlands Season 9: Hollywoodland launches October 11, 2023, with new episodes on David Lynch, Alex Rocco, John Huston, the curse of The Misfits, Phil Hartman, Thelma Todd, Dorothy Stratten, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Robert Blake. New episodes are released every Wednesday, with bon...
Bonus Episode: First Reformed, Burn After Reading, and Insightful Hillbillies
September 29, 2023 07:08 - 42 minutesThis week in BADLANDS saw the release of our episode on Jane Fonda, and it's continued the conversation about famous acting families. Plus, your correspondence, and Jake asks: What is the greatest paranoid psychological thriller of all time? Have you seen John David Washington’s new movie the Creator? What’s your favorite Jane Fonda film? What’s your favorite Coen Bros Movie? Let Jake know your thoughts on these and more at 617-906-6638 or on socials @disgracelandpod - and come join the Wrap ...
Jane Fonda: Hailed for Heroism, Accused of Treason, and Targeted by the President
September 27, 2023 07:08 - 37 minutesJane Fonda was so beloved that she was once named the fourth most admired woman in the world. She was also so hated that her face was used for target practice in urinals at military bases across the country. This all stemmed from a ten-day tour she took of North Vietnam in 1972: a trip that would forever cement her as either a patriot or a traitor in the eyes of a divided nation and would put her in the crosshairs of the President of the United States. This episode contains themes that may be...
Bonus Episode: Camp Firewood, Movie Set Deaths, and Great American Jawlines
September 22, 2023 07:07 - 37 minutesIt's Brandon Lee week in BADLANDS, and Jake is talking actor dynasties, tragic shoots, soundtracks, and more. Plus your voicemails, texts, and DMs, and Jake asks; What are your favorite acting families? Have you seen American Boy? What were some other famous directors who made documentaries on the side? And what books became great movies? Drop a line at 617-906-6638 or on socials @disgracelandpod - and come join the Wrap Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Brandon Lee: Hungry Ghosts, Cursed Movies, and a Goth Masterpiece
September 20, 2023 07:06 - 36 minutesHaunted by the legacy of his superstar father. Haunted by an old family curse. Brandon Lee tried to outrun his past, but it came after him all the same. It was said that his father, Bruce Lee, was taken by that family curse at just 32 years old. And that it then followed Brandon, when he was 28, to the set of The Crow, a cross between a superhero blockbuster and a brooding art film that was all goth. The shoot was plagued by injury, electrocution, storms, fires, and car crashes – and culminat...
Bonus Episode: Crossing Delancey, The Big Sleep, and Stone-Cold Sexual Charisma
September 15, 2023 07:06 - 33 minutesIt's Humphrey Bogart week in BADLANDS, and Jake is diving into the actor's massive trove of films and his music connections. Plus, your voicemails and texts, and the questions: Who is the most iconic "bad guy" in a movie? What is your favorite Bogart film? Let Jake know at 617-906-6638 or on socials @disgracelandpod - and come join the Wrap Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Humphrey Bogart: Mob Assassins, Rat Packs, and the Downfall of Murder, Inc.
September 13, 2023 07:06 - 40 minutesMurder for hire. Murder for business. Murder for profit. In the 1940s, a crew called Murder, Inc. protected the interests of the Commission, a collective of American gangsters who banded together to run the American underworld like a legit business. Murder, Inc. thugs shot, stabbed, and strangled upwards of 1,000 snitches who dared rat on the mob. But the mob never bargained that their chief executive executor would himself turn rat. Or that the story of their downfall would be laid out for a...
Bonus Episode: Amadeus, Scorsese on Scorsese, and an (almost) French Pop Star
September 08, 2023 07:05 - 40 minutesThis week in Badlands, Jake is talking Jodie Foster, child actors, the Blue Zone, and assassinations. Who are your favorite child actors? Favorite Jodie Foster movies? Let Jake know at 617-906-6638 or on socials @disgracelandpod - and come join the Wrap Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jodie Foster: A Teenage Star-Turn, a Deranged Stalker, and the Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan
September 06, 2023 07:05 - 38 minutesAfter being nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a child prostitute in the 1976 film Taxi Driver, Jodi Foster gave up acting to go to college. It was there that her Oscar-nominated performance made her the target of a deranged stalker. That stalker, John Hinckley Jr., was obsessed with Jodie Foster. He wrote her letters and called her on the phone. He was convinced she needed to be saved and that he was the one to do it. And in 1981, in Washington, D.C., Jodie Foster was the unknowi...
Bonus Episode: The King of Karaoke, Made Men, and the many Hunter S Thompsons
September 01, 2023 07:04 - 36 minutesJake dives into this week's BADLANDS subject, Bill Murray, and his storied career. Is Bill Murray the greatest comedic actor of the 80s? If not, who is? What is your favorite Bill Murray movie? Jake takes your voicemails, texts, and DMs, and wants to know your favorite Jamie Lee Curtis role. Get in touch at 617-906-6638 or on socials @disgracelandpod - and come join the Wrap Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bill Murray: Airport Drug Busts, Backstage Brawls, and Crashing Elvis’s Burial
August 30, 2023 07:04 - 37 minutesBefore Bill Murray was busting ghosts and living in a loop of deja vu, he was a drug-dealing premed student with a knack for comedy. When he was caught with five bricks of pot at the airport, his career in medicine came crashing down, forcing him to make a living with his smart mouth. His obsession to rise above “medium talent” brought him to volatile blows with musicians, fellow actors, and even himself. Yet in his cockiest moments and most despairing lows, the universe always found a way to...
Bonus Episode: Rags to Riches, Westerns, and the Hoover FBI Connection
August 25, 2023 07:03 - 45 minutesIn Joan Crawford week, Jake dives into the history and continuing relevance of the late icon, and asks you: What is the best example of an actor playing another actor? What are some more great songs about Hollywood icons? And what are your favorite westerns? Drop a line at 617-906-6638 or on socials @disgracelandpod - and come join the Wrap Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Joan Crawford: Stag Films, Dead Presidents, and No Wire Hangers
August 23, 2023 07:03 - 39 minutesJoan Crawford once threatened the director of the FBI when she wanted an old stag film destroyed. She accepted an Oscar that wasn’t hers for the sole purpose to get revenge on her co-star. She wrote her daughter out of her will, before she knew the kid was about to permanently ruin her legacy. But how did she wind up at a party with Richard Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover, and Lyndon Johnson – on the eve of the Kennedy assassination? And why did some say the answer to that question was murder? To see ...
Bonus Episode: Divine Goddesses, Steve McQueen, and Telemarketers
August 18, 2023 07:02 - 32 minutesIn Sigourney Weaver week, Jake dives in to the most badass actresses and female roles in film. What actress or role is the most badass of all time? What are the best group dynamic mission movies? Are you watching Telemarketers? Get in touch at 617-906-6638 or on socials @disgracelandpod - and come join the Wrap Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sigourney Weaver: A Goddess, Beasts and Demons, and Paying Tribute from Death Row
August 16, 2023 07:02 - 36 minutesIn classic ‘80s films like Ghostbusters and Aliens, Sigourney Weaver battled beasts and demons. But to one particular inmate on death row in Georgia, Sigourney Weaver battled beasts and demons in real life as well. To Alexander Williams, a convicted murderer, she was a goddess, a divine being sent to this earth to do battle with evil. He worshiped her from the floor of his prison cell. And as his day of reckoning drew closer, he waited for glimmers of hope that his goddess would send in hopes...
Bonus Episode: Rockabilly Haircuts, Rocky is a Love Story, and The Getaway
August 11, 2023 07:01 - 36 minutesThe Season 8 premiere of BADLANDS brings us Johnny Depp, and Jake is diving in to some of his history, as well as your voicemails and texts. What is the wildest thing an actor has done to prepare for a role? Who are the greatest crime-spree couples on film? And who is the best leading man of the seventies? Let Jake know your thoughts at 617-906-6638 or on socials @disgracelandpod - and come join the Wrap Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Johnny Depp: Homemade Bombs, Bootleg Quaaludes, and Unsolved Disappearances
August 09, 2023 07:01 - 41 minutesJohnny Depp prefers the shadows to the limelight, whether he’s building a bomb with Hunter S. Thompson in the Rocky Mountains, or downing bootleg quaaludes laced with arsenic. After emerging as the leading art flick actor of the 1990s, prodding paparazzi’s desire to paint him as a “novelty boy” often drove him to outbursts that ended in arrests, wrecked hotel rooms, and a miffed Kate Moss and Roger Daltrey. Yet even with camera flashes constantly lighting up his private life, plenty of myster...
Badlands Season 8: Hollywoodland (Trailer)
August 02, 2023 07:00 - 2 minutesHomemade bombs, bricks of weed, deranged stalkers, an old family curse, an attempted presidential assassination, and one of the most violent murder crews in American history. It's all happening in a brand new season of Badlands. Badlands Season 8: Hollywoodland launches August 9, 2023, with new episodes on Johnny Depp, Bill Murray, Jodie Foster, Sigourney Weaver, Brandon Lee, Humphrey Bogart, Joan Crawford, and Jane Fonda. New episodes are released every Wednesday, with bonus episodes release...
Bonus Episode: Jaws, Asteroid City, and the Greatest Movies of the Seventies
July 28, 2023 07:12 - 43 minutesThis week Jake is talking Roman Polanski's film history and music connections -- and the two crimes that define his legacy. Plus, Jake responds to voicemails, texts, and DMs, and dives in to the greatest movies of the seventies. What are your top five 70s movies? Did you see Asteroid City or The French Dispatch? What are your favorite Wes Anderson films? Let Jake know at 617-906-6638 or on socials @disgracelandpod - and come join the Wrap Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...
Roman Polanski: Nazis, Murder, and Life on the Lam
July 26, 2023 07:12 - 38 minutesAs a child, Roman Polanski escaped from a Krakow ghetto on the day the Nazis took his father to a concentration camp. As a new filmmaker, he became the toast of young Hollywood with his 1968 horror masterpiece, Rosemary’s Baby. But after the brutal murder of his wife, Sharon Tate, at the hands of the Manson family, Polanski unraveled. He wound up committing a heinous crime that led him to escape yet again – this time fleeing the country when an angry judge was ready to throw the book at him. ...
Bonus Episode: Satanism, Hot Sticky Summertime Noir, and The Dirty Dozen
July 21, 2023 07:11 - 35 minutesThis week is all about "sexpot" Jayne Mansfield, and Jake is talking more crazy connections - like a supposed collab between her and Jimi Hendrix. What other entertainers got caught up in satanism or the occult? Let's keep the conversation on best summer movies going. Plus, introduce yourself! What's your favorite movie to watch over and over again? What are your favorite Kubrick or Bogart films? How about anti-war movies? Jake wants to get in to English noir; can you recommend any? Let's get...
Jayne Mansfield: Nude Scenes, Satan’s Slave, and a Gruesome Death
July 19, 2023 07:11 - 37 minutesWhether she was filming Hollywood’s first major nude scenes, or posing against a backdrop of Satanic skulls and pentagrams, Jayne Mansfield lived for exhibitionism. As a leading sexpot of the 1950s, Jayne was a genius, a bombshell, and a mother in an industry that demanded women be single, dumb, and blonde. When people whispered that Jayne lived in Marilyn Monroe’s shadow, she fled to the Church of Satan and started dancing in the shadows with its founder, Anton LaVey. Her final headlines sen...
Bonus Episode: The Bear, Movie Remakes, and Hugh Grant
July 14, 2023 07:10 - 40 minutesIt's Hugh Grant week in Badlands, and we're talking leading man meltdowns over the press and paparazzi, The Bear, actors in musician roles, and family movie nights. Jake responds to voicemail and texts, and asks: what are some notable dramatic leading man press meltdowns? Your favorite actors in musician roles? What's your favorite Hugh Grant film? Examples of great actors, past their prime, in batshit roles? And what remakes are better than their originals? Let Jake know at 617-906-6638 or o...
Hugh Grant: Sex on the Sunset Strip, Assault with a Non-Deadly Weapon, and Cracking Open
July 12, 2023 07:10 - 33 minutesHugh Grant infamously almost tanked his budding movie career when he was caught with a sex worker on the Sunset Strip. He was arrested a second time when he assaulted paparazzi outside his house…with a Tupperware container full of baked beans. But perhaps most shocking of all, he wore a wire to interview a tabloid reporter and wound up cracking open a phone-hacking case that implicated both the London police and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. To see the complete list of contributor...
Sharon Tate Pt 2: Rape, Drugs, and Murdering New Hollywood
July 07, 2023 07:08 - 42 minutesSharon Tate’s entanglement with Charles Manson and her husband, filmmaker Roman Polanski, as well as her involvement in some of the long-rumored hedonistic events at her home on Cielo Drive put her at the center of a counter-narrative that explosively disrupts the supposed motive for the Manson family murders. Was Sharon Tate blissfully ignorant of the darkness that had been bubbling beneath Hollywood’s shiny veneer for years? Or is there more to this story than we’ve been told in the past? T...
Sharon Tate Pt 1: Wild Parties and Dangerous Company
July 05, 2023 07:07 - 41 minutesSharon Tate was a sophisticated beauty who literally stopped traffic when she walked down the street. She began her movie career when America was becoming sexually liberated, and despite the ease with which she was made a sex symbol, she aspired to be respected as a serious actress. Decades later, however, she is perhaps best-remembered as one of the victims found brutally murdered at her Cielo Drive home, the one she shared with her husband, director Roman Polanski. Sharon and Roman welcomed...
Bonus Episode: Improbable Duos, Congas, and Marlon Brando
June 30, 2023 07:09 - 39 minutesThis week on the Wrap Party, we're diving in to some strange Marlon Brando stories we didn't tell in the full episode. We've got some more listener Capone reviews and heist movie recommendations, and we're talking season two of The Bear. What are your weird, improbable celebrity combos? Want to recommend a movie? Send a text or leave a voicemail at 617-906-6638 - or message @disgracelandpod on socials - and come join the Wrap Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Marlon Brando: A Fake Kidnapping Gone Wrong, Jungle Madness, and a Dead Boyfriend
June 28, 2023 07:09 - 34 minutesMarlon Brando once broke a paparazzo’s jaw with one punch. He hired private investigators to find his son when a fake kidnapping went horribly wrong. He nearly sank an already doomed film shoot all by himself when he arrived in the Philippines overweight, underprepared, and demanding millions of dollars. And at the very moment he was trying to resuscitate his career, he found himself desperately trying to resuscitate his daughter’s dead boyfriend in his own living room. To see the complete li...
Bonus Episode: Great Movies with Not-So-Great Soundtracks, Mel Gibson and the Hungerford Massacre, and The Lion in Winter
June 23, 2023 07:09 - 35 minutesIn this week's Wrap Party, we're talking Mel Gibson's "Lethal Weapon", a film that grossed over $120 million worldwide, despite its unfortunately timed release date in the UK and its insanely cheesy soundtrack from Eric Clapton. We're also talking Peter O'Toole in "The Lion in Winter", responding to your voicemails, texts, and DMs, and so much more. What movies were released into unforeseen circumstances and suffered because of it? What are some movies you love with soundtracks you hate? Sen...
Mel Gibson: Sin, Salvation, and Staring Down the Barrel of a Gun
June 21, 2023 07:07 - 36 minutesMel Gibson is the explosive action star who plunged straight into Mad Max’s Wasteland and straight into insanity. Molded by a violent childhood and an early taste for alcohol, his reputation as a thrill-hungry lunatic extends from movie sets to the director’s chair, where he’s unflinchingly recreated scene of bone-crushing torture and human sacrifice. His ability to fly off the handle at a moment’s notice made him Hollywood’s most in-demand actor for playing wildcards and antiheroes. That is,...
Bonus Episode: Eerily Similar Celebrity Deaths, The Boston Red Sox, and Anna Nicole Smith
June 16, 2023 07:08 - 33 minutesThis week on the Wrap Party, we're talking about Anna Nicole Smith, a woman who lived and died almost exactly like Marilyn Monroe. We're also talking about your summertime jams, how great it is to be a Red Sox fan, especially when they're not playing so well, and so much more. If you want to let Jake know about your favorite summertime and/or baseball movies, or any other eerily similar celebrity deaths you can think of, send a text or leave a voicemail at 617-906-6638 or @disgracelandpod on ...
Anna Nicole Smith: Methadone, a Murder Plot, and a Fate Like Marilyn’s
June 14, 2023 07:07 - 36 minutesAnna Nicole Smith transcended the laws of celebrity. She was a blond sexpot who was famous for being famous, and that was reason enough for pop culture. People around the world recognized her Marilyn Monroe-esque curves filled out Guess jeans, and her squeaky baby speaking voice on The Anna Nicole Show. In the early 2000s, the FBI investigated her regarding an alleged hit she organized to take out her 60-year-old “stepson.” But when Anna Nicole and her grown son Daniel died under eerily sudde...
Bonus Episode: Jake’s Summertime Jams, Defending HBO’s “The Idol”, and Will Smith, the Double Threat
June 09, 2023 07:07 - 36 minutesIn this week’s Wrap Party, Jake is ready to talk Will Smith, the subject of the latest Badlands episode. He also lists off his favorite summertime jams, including “Summertime” by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, defends the widely controversial show, “The Idol”, and so much more. Let Jake know what stars are equally talented musicians and actors like Will Smith at 617-906-6638 or on socials at @disgracelandpod and come join the Wrap Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....
Will Smith: Fist Fights, Jail Cells, and the Slap Heard 'Round the World
June 07, 2023 07:07 - 35 minutesIn 1989, shortly after winning his first Grammy Award, at just 20 years old, Will Smith was arrested and charged with assault after a brawl at a popular Philadelphia radio station left one man nearly blind. It nearly ended his career just as things were getting started. But Will Smith overcame this challenge, and so many others, to become one of the most successful actors in Hollywood. That is, until decades later, at the 2022 Academy Awards ceremony, when trouble once again bubbled to the su...
Bonus Episode: Succession Series Finale, Paul Simon, and Star Wars
June 02, 2023 07:06 - 38 minutesJake just finished watching the series finale of Succession and he's ready to dive into why it was so great. But first, we're talking Carrie Fisher and her relationship with Paul Simon. Jake also has a lot of Carrie Fisher related questions for you all like, was Princess Leia her best role? Why doesn't Jake love Star Wars? What is he missing? And what Paul Simon album should he listen to? Leave your message for Jake at 617-906-6638 or on socials @disgracelandpod and come join the Wrap Party....
Carrie Fisher: Acid in the Desert, Snakes in the Amazon, and More Postcards from the Edge
May 31, 2023 07:05 - 35 minutesCarrie Fisher once dropped acid in the desert with Paul Simon. She did ayahuasca in the Amazon jungle, where she was attacked by a giant snake that may or may not have been real. She did so much cocaine that legendary partyman John Belushi told her to ease up. Her mood swings were such a dramatic part of her personality that she gave them their own names. And her personality was so galvanizing that it became an avatar for real-life resistance fighters. To see the complete list of contributors...
Bonus Episode: Hoosier Actors, Bad UFO Documentaries, and The Bling Ring
May 26, 2023 07:04 - 39 minutesJake has exhausted all of your sci fi movie recs and is ready to report on a mediocre U.F.O. documentary he watched, but first, we're talking the Bling Ring and other celebrity scammers, and correcting this week's Badlands episode which said that James Dean is from Illinois, not Indiana. Sorry Hoosiers! Leave your message for Jake at 617-906-6638 or on socials @disgracelandpod and come join the Wrap Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom, Sofia Coppola, and The Bling Ring
May 24, 2023 07:04 - 36 minutesIn the early 2010s, a group of burglars ransacked Hollywood homes like the city was their personal shopping mall. No celebrity was safe from their sticky fingers: Not Lindsay Lohan, not Orlando Bloom, and especially not Paris Hilton, who perhaps lost the most luxury loot of anyone. The thieves pocketed over $3 million dollars' worth of custom couture, cocaine, and cold card cash before they were caught. And when “The Bling Ring” finally traded their designer digs for orange jumpsuits, the wor...
Bonus Episode: M. Night Shyamalan's "Signs", Your Favorite SNL Sketches, and the Curse of the James Dean Death Car
May 19, 2023 07:03 - 37 minutesThis week on the Wrap Party, Jake is raving about Signs, the M. Night Shymalan sci-fi masterpiece that plenty of Disgos recommended. But first, we're talking about the "James Dean Death Car" and other Hollywood curses, your favorite SNL sketches and cast members, and more. The Badlands episode on Paris Hilton and the Bling Ring is out next Wednesday and the Disgraceland episode on Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska" is out now, wherever you get your podcasts. Leave your message for Jake at 617-906...
James Dean: A Death Foretold, a Gruesome Publicity Stunt, and a Haunted Car
May 17, 2023 07:03 - 36 minutesJames Dean died in a high-speed car crash at the age of 24, but his legend lives on. Fan clubs held monthly memorial services and wrote movie studios begging for relics of their patron saint. Professional illusionists swore they could resurrect his body. Rumors that Dean survived the deadly crash were spurred on, and in some cases planted, by a film studio with a financial stake in keeping his memory alive. The car that killed him had a grisly afterlife of its own, taking two more lives befor...
Bruce Springsteen: Shootouts, Killing Sprees, and the Making of Nebraska
May 16, 2023 07:02 - 38 minutesUnprovoked killing sprees. Nightclub gunfights. Mafia assassinations. True crime stories and modern folklore make up the backbone of many of the characters from Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, one of the Boss’s greatest albums. Which ones are real, and which ones are myth? This is the story of those stories: the story of the making of Nebraska. This episode contains themes that may be disturbing to some listeners, including graphic depictions of violence. To see the full list of contributors, s...