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Bonus Episode: Scene Showdown, Partying With Tyson, and Juvenile Stickups

DISGRACELAND - June 27, 2024 07:02 - 31 minutes
This week in the After Party, Jake talks different music scenes, balancing points of view, this week's DISGRACELAND episode on Bobby Brown, and of course your emails, texts, DMs, and voicemails. What is the greatest music scene of all time? Let Jake know at 617-906-6638, [email protected]...

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Presenting DISGRACELAND - Bobby Brown: Cocaine Chicken, Horny Ghosts, and His Prerogative

BADLANDS - June 26, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes
Bobby Brown thrusted and gyrated his way to the top of the charts with Don’t Be Cruel, one of the biggest records of the late 1980s and an album that brought hip-hop’s hard-knock sensibilities to R&B. But fame did not change the Boston bad boy. At the height of his superstardom, Bobby Brown was a...

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Presenting DISGRACELAND - Bobby Brown: Cocaine Chicken, Horny Ghosts, and His Prerogative

BADLANDS - June 26, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Bobby Brown thrusted and gyrated his way to the top of the charts with Don’t Be Cruel, one of the biggest records of the late 1980s and an album that brought hip-hop’s hard-knock sensibilities to R&B. But fame did not change the Boston bad boy. At the height of his superstardom, Bobby Brown was a...

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Bobby Brown: Cocaine Chicken, Horny Ghosts, and His Prerogative

DISGRACELAND - June 25, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes
Bobby Brown thrusted and gyrated his way to the top of the charts with Don’t Be Cruel, one of the biggest records of the late 1980s and an album that brought hip-hop’s hard-knock sensibilities to R&B. But fame did not change the Boston bad boy. At the height of his superstardom, Bobby Brown was a...

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REWIND - Van Morrison: Astral Weeks, Movement and Murder

DISGRACELAND - June 21, 2024 07:05 - 31 minutes
In 1968, Van Morrison was hiding out from the New York City Mafia in Boston, Massachusetts. Recently the victim of a physical attack from a Genovese crime family member, Morrison was desperately trying to piece together a band to complete what would become his landmark creative statement, Astral ...

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Bonus Episode: Boring News, Eighteen Banners, and Ghostwriter Grandstanding

DISGRACELAND - June 20, 2024 07:02 - 27 minutes
This week in the After Party, Jake talks boring versus exciting news, charitable organizations, this week's DISGRACELAND episode on OJ Simpson, and of course your emails, texts, DMs, and voicemails. What charitable organization benefiting victims of drunk driving should Jake donate to? Which thre...

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Bonus Episode: Justin Timberlake, Eighteen Banners, and Ghostwriter Grandstanding

DISGRACELAND - June 20, 2024 07:02 - 27 minutes
This week in the After Party, Jake talks boring versus exciting news, charitable organizations, this week's DISGRACELAND episode on OJ Simpson, and of course your emails, texts, DMs, and voicemails. What charitable organization benefiting victims of drunk driving should Jake donate to? Which thre...

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Presenting DISGRACELAND - O.J. Simpson: Stolen Memorabilia, Armed Robbery, and Fake Gangsters

BADLANDS - June 19, 2024 07:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
This is not the O.J. Simpson story you were expecting. This is the story of what happened after the former running back was acquitted of the murder of his ex-wife and her friend. It’s an insane story that involves sports memorabilia, ex-cons, a gun, a simple plan gone horribly wrong, and one of t...

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Presenting DISGRACELAND - O.J. Simpson: Stolen Memorabilia, Armed Robbery, and Fake Gangsters

BADLANDS - June 19, 2024 07:00 - 40 minutes
This is not the O.J. Simpson story you were expecting. This is the story of what happened after the former running back was acquitted of the murder of his ex-wife and her friend. It’s an insane story that involves sports memorabilia, ex-cons, a gun, a simple plan gone horribly wrong, and one of t...

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O.J. Simpson: Stolen Memorabilia, Armed Robbery, and Fake Gangsters

DISGRACELAND - June 18, 2024 07:01 - 39 minutes
This is not the O.J. Simpson story you were expecting. This is the story of what happened after the former running back was acquitted of the murder of his ex-wife and her friend. It’s an insane story that involves sports memorabilia, ex-cons, a gun, a simple plan gone horribly wrong, and one of t...

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Badlands is Now Disgraceland

BADLANDS - June 18, 2024 07:00 - 46 seconds
Are you a fan of edge-of-your-seat storytelling about Hollywood icons getting caught up in wild scandals and true crimes? About athletes falling from grace? Rockstars getting away with murder and more? All of these types of stories can be heard in the DISGRACELAND podcast feed, hosted by award wi...

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Badlands is Now Disgraceland

BADLANDS - June 18, 2024 07:00 - 46 seconds ★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Are you a fan of edge-of-your-seat storytelling about Hollywood icons getting caught up in wild scandals and true crimes? About athletes falling from grace? Rockstars getting away with murder and more? All of these types of stories can be heard in the DISGRACELAND podcast feed, hosted by award wi...

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REWIND - XXXTentacion: Mellow Beats and Ultra Violence

DISGRACELAND - June 14, 2024 07:06 - 44 minutes
XXXTentacion was one of Generation Z’s most talented hip hop stars but his ascent was marked by violence and drama; beatdowns, beefs (what’s up, Drake?) and abuse. XXXTentacion’s music quickly rose from Soundcloud to the top of the charts due in part to the relative loneliness and alienation he r...

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Bonus Episode: The Punk-Rock Dock Ellis, Canseco the Troll, and "a Gorilla in a Zoo"

DISGRACELAND - June 13, 2024 07:00 - 31 minutes
This week in the After Party, Jake talks the super-fame of José Canseco, the exploits of Dock Ellis, performance... altering? drugs, this week's DISGRACELAND episode on José Canseco, and of course your emails, texts, DMs, and voicemails. What athletes embody the rock star vibe? Get in touch at 61...

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Presenting DISGRACELAND - Jose Canseco: SWAT Teams, Smuggled Drugs, and 'Roid Rage

BADLANDS - June 12, 2024 07:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Jose Canseco was a big league slugger who gave the people what they wanted. Not just massive home runs and a whole lot of stolen bases. He provided entertainment. And his audience, not just baseball fans but the world, ate it up. The private encounter with Madonna in her apartment that nearly cos...

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Presenting DISGRACELAND - Jose Canseco: SWAT Teams, Smuggled Drugs, and 'Roid Rage

BADLANDS - June 12, 2024 07:00 - 40 minutes
Jose Canseco was a big league slugger who gave the people what they wanted. Not just massive home runs and a whole lot of stolen bases. He provided entertainment. And his audience, not just baseball fans but the world, ate it up. The private encounter with Madonna in her apartment that nearly cos...

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Jose Canseco: SWAT Teams, Smuggled Drugs, and 'Roid Rage

DISGRACELAND - June 11, 2024 04:01 - 40 minutes
Jose Canseco was a big league slugger who gave the people what they wanted. Not just massive home runs and a whole lot of stolen bases. He provided entertainment. And his audience, not just baseball fans but the world, ate it up. The private encounter with Madonna in her apartment that nearly cos...

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Jose Canseco: SWAT Teams, Smuggled Drugs, and Roid Rage

DISGRACELAND - June 11, 2024 04:01 - 40 minutes
Jose Canseco was a big league slugger who gave the people what they wanted. Not just massive home runs and a whole lot of stolen bases. He provided entertainment. And his audience, not just baseball fans but the world, ate it up. The private encounter with Madonna in her apartment that nearly cos...

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REWIND - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes: Hit Me Again and I'll Burn Your House Down

DISGRACELAND - June 07, 2024 07:06 - 32 minutes
TLC’s Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes was known as “the crazy one.” She did, after all, burn down the mansion of her boyfriend, NFL player Andre Rison. But given the fact that it was done after one of many domestic assaults, Disgraceland sees Left Eye as a badass—and not “the crazy one.” This episode digs ...

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Bonus Episode: Suppressing the Truth, A Brother Under the Bus, and Profit as Virtue

DISGRACELAND - June 06, 2024 07:07 - 29 minutes
This week in the After Party, Jake talks the nefarious nature of social media, the public's denial of obvious horrors, this week's DISGRACELAND episode on R. Kelly, and of course your emails, texts, DMs, and voicemails. Is R. Kelly the most evil villain in music history? Drop a line at 617-906-66...

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Presenting DISGRACELAND - R. Kelly: Superstars, Super Predators, and a 20-Year Reign of Sexual Terror

BADLANDS - June 05, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes
R. Kelly openly groomed teenage victims while on trial for child pornography – a trial based on sex tapes that were once sold at Tower Records. He wrote a song designed to help Michael Jackson turn attention away from his own troubling allegations, and he wrote that song while he was illegally ma...

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Presenting DISGRACELAND - R. Kelly: Superstars, Super Predators, and a 20-Year Reign of Sexual Terror

BADLANDS - June 05, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
R. Kelly openly groomed teenage victims while on trial for child pornography – a trial based on sex tapes that were once sold at Tower Records. He wrote a song designed to help Michael Jackson turn attention away from his own troubling allegations, and he wrote that song while he was illegally ma...

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R. Kelly: Superstars, Super Predators, and a 20-Year Reign of Sexual Terror

DISGRACELAND - June 04, 2024 07:01 - 39 minutes
R. Kelly openly groomed teenage victims while on trial for child pornography – a trial based on sex tapes that were once sold at Tower Records. He wrote a song designed to help Michael Jackson turn attention away from his own troubling allegations, and he wrote that song while he was illegally ma...

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REWIND - Johnny Paycheck: Pardon Me, I've Got Someone to Kill

DISGRACELAND - May 31, 2024 07:05 - 31 minutes
Lots of country music stars wear the black hat but none of them wore it with more authenticity than Johnny Paycheck. Johnny Cash may have bragged about shooting a man “just to watch him die” but Johnny Paycheck actually pulled the trigger. He was a true outlaw and totally hardcore – hardcore honk...

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Bonus Episode: Trust, Mythmaking, and Twin Joyrides

DISGRACELAND - May 30, 2024 07:06 - 27 minutes
This week in the After Party, Jake talks trusting our institutions, myths and conspiracies, the new Disgo Book Club, this week's DISGRACELAND episode on Bob Dylan, and of course your emails, texts, DMs, and voicemails. What story from pop culture do you call BS on? Get in touch at 617-906-6638, d...

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REWIND - Aaron Hernandez: A Botched Execution, a Rattled Cage, and a Disgraced Patriot

BADLANDS - May 29, 2024 07:03 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
In April 2015, Aaron Hernandez, a former tight end for the New England Patriots, was found guilty of the cold-blooded murder of a semi-pro footballer and sentenced to life in prison. But there’s more to this story than the tragic death of Odin Lloyd. The story of the most disgraced player in NFL ...

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REWIND - Aaron Hernandez: A Botched Execution, a Rattled Cage, and a Disgraced Patriot

BADLANDS - May 29, 2024 07:03 - 35 minutes
In April 2015, Aaron Hernandez, a former tight end for the New England Patriots, was found guilty of the cold-blooded murder of a semi-pro footballer and sentenced to life in prison. But there’s more to this story than the tragic death of Odin Lloyd. The story of the most disgraced player in NFL ...

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Bob Dylan: How Does It Feel to Be Booed, Heckled, Hated, and Attacked?

DISGRACELAND - May 28, 2024 07:01 - 39 minutes
Bob Dylan was booed at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival – but not for the reason you’ve been led to believe. He went from Folk Music Jesus to Rock ‘n Roll Judas, alienating thousands of fans with ear-splitting, confrontational music. Many of those fans heckled him. One even tried to attack him on s...

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REWIND - Roman Polanski: Nazis, Murder, and Life on the Lam

BADLANDS - May 24, 2024 07:12 - 38 minutes
As 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...

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REWIND = Roman Polanski: Nazis, Murder, and Life on the Lam

BADLANDS - May 24, 2024 07:12 - 38 minutes
As 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...