Latest Brennan Podcast Episodes
REWIND - Roman Polanski: Nazis, Murder, and Life on the Lam
BADLANDS - May 24, 2024 07:12 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsAs 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...
REWIND = Roman Polanski: Nazis, Murder, and Life on the Lam
BADLANDS - May 24, 2024 07:12 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsAs 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...
REWIND - Motown Records: Pimps, Prostitutes, the Detroit Mafia and the Sound of Teenage America
DISGRACELAND - May 24, 2024 07:04 - 43 minutesMotown Records is one of the most successful musical industry endeavors of all time. The music and the megastars Motown produced, like Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, and the Jackson 5, defined a generation. But that success is marred by rumors – rumors that the record label and its i...
Bonus Episode: Dealing With the Darkness, Book Club, and WHERE IS IT?!
DISGRACELAND - May 23, 2024 07:05 - 38 minutesThis week in the After Party, Jake talks the recent Sean Combs developments, the new Disgo Book Club, this week's DISGRACELAND second-part episode on Marilyn Monroe, and of course your emails, texts, DMs, and voicemails. Which explanation of Marilyn Monroe's death do you think is most plausible? ...
REWIND - Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom, Sofia Coppola, and The Bling Ring
BADLANDS - May 22, 2024 07:04 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIn 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 po...
REWIND - Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom, Sofia Coppola, and The Bling Ring
BADLANDS - May 22, 2024 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 po...
Marilyn Monroe (Part 2): The Three Deaths of an Iconic American Actress
DISGRACELAND - May 21, 2024 07:01 - 34 minutesThe conspiracy theories surrounding Marilyn Monroe’s death in 1962 continue to entertain the imaginations of those obsessed with celebrity and scandal. The stories, many of them fantastical and one of them true, feature cameos by the likes of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Attorney Genera...
REWIND- Mickey Rourke: Organized Crime, the IRA, and Method Acting into Oblivion
BADLANDS - May 17, 2024 07:06 - 41 minutesActing came easy to Mickey Rourke. He was admitted to the prestigious Actors Studio after one audition, which is nuts when you consider that it took Jack Nicholson five auditions and six for Dustin Hoffman. But just because something came easy to Mickey Rourke didn’t mean he did things the easy w...
REWIND - Mickey Rourke: Organized Crime, the IRA, and Method Acting into Oblivion
BADLANDS - May 17, 2024 07:06 - 41 minutesActing came easy to Mickey Rourke. He was admitted to the prestigious Actors Studio after one audition, which is nuts when you consider that it took Jack Nicholson five auditions and six for Dustin Hoffman. But just because something came easy to Mickey Rourke didn’t mean he did things the easy w...
REWIND - Mickey Rourke: Organized Crime, the IRA, and Method Acting into Oblivion
BADLANDS - May 17, 2024 07:06 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsActing came easy to Mickey Rourke. He was admitted to the prestigious Actors Studio after one audition, which is nuts when you consider that it took Jack Nicholson five auditions and six for Dustin Hoffman. But just because something came easy to Mickey Rourke didn’t mean he did things the easy w...
REWIND- Mickey Rourke: Organized Crime, the IRA, and Method Acting into Oblivion
BADLANDS - May 17, 2024 07:06 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsActing came easy to Mickey Rourke. He was admitted to the prestigious Actors Studio after one audition, which is nuts when you consider that it took Jack Nicholson five auditions and six for Dustin Hoffman. But just because something came easy to Mickey Rourke didn’t mean he did things the easy w...
REWIND - Tom Petty: House Fires, Hiding a Heroin Habit, and Run-Down Dreams
DISGRACELAND - May 17, 2024 07:02 - 46 minutesWhen a mystery arsonist set Tom Petty’s house on fire in the late 1980s, he barely escaped with his life. But there was another danger looming around the corner — a heroin addiction that drove him into a pit of isolation from his family, his fame, and his bandmates. Petty barely hoisted himself o...
Bonus Episode: Forces of Nature, Jealousy, and Grief Will Out Itself
DISGRACELAND - May 16, 2024 07:04 - 33 minutesThis week in the After Party, Jake talks the impact of departing icons, jealous exes, this week's DISGRACELAND episode on Marilyn Monroe, and of course your emails, texts, DMs, and voicemails. Which celebrity death affected you the most? Is Marilyn Monroe the biggest icon in entertainment history...
REWIND - Diego Maradona: Stolen Blood, Italian Gangsters, and the Hand of God
BADLANDS - May 15, 2024 07:05 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsDiego Maradona was busted for drugs, prostitution, and shooting an air rifle at reporters. He was also associated with one of the biggest and oldest organized crime families in Italy. Despite all of this, Diego Maradona somehow still showed up the next day and played a great game of soccer. He ev...
REWIND - Diego Maradona: Stolen Blood, Italian Gangsters, and the Hand of God
BADLANDS - May 15, 2024 07:05 - 40 minutesDiego Maradona was busted for drugs, prostitution, and shooting an air rifle at reporters. He was also associated with one of the biggest and oldest organized crime families in Italy. Despite all of this, Diego Maradona somehow still showed up the next day and played a great game of soccer. He ev...
Marilyn Monroe (Part 1): JFK, RFK, and a Conspiracy Theory that Won't Quit
DISGRACELAND - May 14, 2024 07:01 - 38 minutesMarilyn Monroe is one if not the greatest Hollywood stars of all time. She rose from orphan to icon by creating an on screen character America could not peel their eyes away from. And she did it all while battling anxiety, depression and addiction. Along the way she bedded, married and otherwise ...
Listen Now: Blame it on the Fame: Milli Vanilli
DISGRACELAND - May 13, 2024 07:00 - 4 minutesWhen Frank Farian first laid eyes on Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, he saw everything he wasn’t. They were handsome, young, and Black. But Frank had something they didn’t. He had power. So, Frank offered them a devil’s bargain. Almost overnight, Milli Vanilli’s debut album went five times platinum a...
REWIND - Drew Barrymore: Curses, Corpses, and a Coked-Up Child Star in the Club
BADLANDS - May 10, 2024 07:03 - 41 minutesDrew Barrymore spent her childhood charming audiences on movie screens and cramming cocaine up her nose at the most exclusive clubs in the country. Her breakout role as Gertie in E.T.: The Extraterrestrial rocketed her to such far-reaching fame that she became a regular at Studio 54 when she was ...
REWIND - Drew Barrymore: Curses, Corpses, and a Coked-Up Child Star in the Club
BADLANDS - May 10, 2024 07:03 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsDrew Barrymore spent her childhood charming audiences on movie screens and cramming cocaine up her nose at the most exclusive clubs in the country. Her breakout role as Gertie in E.T.: The Extraterrestrial rocketed her to such far-reaching fame that she became a regular at Studio 54 when she was ...
REWIND - Chet Baker: Heroin, Romance, Missing Teeth and the James Dean of Jazz
DISGRACELAND - May 10, 2024 07:02 - 40 minutesChet Baker, with his natural talent, unique voice and beautiful looks was known as “the James Dean of Jazz.” He was also a savage junkie and part time criminal. A one of a kind musician, his soft singing style and romantic playing enraptured Hollywood, the jazz world, and Europe. However, violenc...
Bonus Episode: Overrated Authors, a Boy Scout Knife, and I Can Get the Cabin
DISGRACELAND - May 09, 2024 07:04 - 30 minutesThis week in the After Party, Jake talks the uncanny fascination with Beat poets, their numerous run-ins with musical icons, this week's DISGRACELAND episode on William S. Burroughs, and of course your emails, texts, DMs, and voicemails. Which icons, living or dead, do you think are overrated? Wh...
Presenting DISGRACELAND - William S. Burroughs: Obscenity, a Decapitated Mouse, and the Deadly William Tell Routine
BADLANDS - May 08, 2024 07:01 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWilliam S. Burroughs was a literary icon whose novel Naked Lunch, one of the signature works of the Beat Generation, was banned and went on trial for obscenity. His writing inspired generations of musicians, from the Rolling Stones and Patti Smith to Nirvana and Sonic Youth. But long before all t...
Presenting DISGRACELAND - William S. Burroughs: Obscenity, a Decapitated Mouse, and the Deadly William Tell Routine
BADLANDS - May 08, 2024 07:01 - 41 minutesWilliam S. Burroughs was a literary icon whose novel Naked Lunch, one of the signature works of the Beat Generation, was banned and went on trial for obscenity. His writing inspired generations of musicians, from the Rolling Stones and Patti Smith to Nirvana and Sonic Youth. But long before all t...
William S. Burroughs: Obscenity, a Decapitated Mouse, and the Deadly William Tell Routine
DISGRACELAND - May 07, 2024 07:01 - 41 minutesWilliam S. Burroughs was a literary icon whose novel Naked Lunch, one of the signature works of the Beat Generation, was banned and went on trial for obscenity. His writing inspired generations of musicians, from the Rolling Stones and Patti Smith to Nirvana and Sonic Youth. But long before all t...
REWIND – Brittany Murphy: Pills, Paranoia, and Poison
BADLANDS - May 03, 2024 07:06 - 45 minutesThe only thing more shocking than Brittany Murphy’s untimely death at the age of 32 was what happened next: more unexpected deaths, rumors of poisoning, and even murder. To see the full list of contributors, see the show notes at www.disgracelandpod.com/badlands. Learn more about your ad choices....
REWIND – Brittany Murphy: Pills, Paranoia, and Poison
BADLANDS - May 03, 2024 07:06 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe only thing more shocking than Brittany Murphy’s untimely death at the age of 32 was what happened next: more unexpected deaths, rumors of poisoning, and even murder. To see the full list of contributors, see the show notes at www.disgracelandpod.com/badlands. Learn more about your ad choices....
REWIND – Ice-T: Crip Rhymes, a Cop Killer, Thieving Jewels and Inventing Gangsta Rap
DISGRACELAND - May 03, 2024 07:01 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.2K ratingsIce-T stoked the wrath of the President of the United States, led the life of a successful jewel thief, ran with one of LA’s most notorious street gangs, the Crips, and was a soldier in the US Army. Along the way, he invented gangsta rap. But it wouldn’t be rap music that would threaten his caree...
REWIND – Ice-T: Crip Rhymes, a Cop Killer, Thieving Jewels and Inventing Gangsta Rap
DISGRACELAND - May 03, 2024 07:01 - 42 minutesIce-T stoked the wrath of the President of the United States, led the life of a successful jewel thief, ran with one of LA’s most notorious street gangs, the Crips, and was a soldier in the US Army. Along the way, he invented gangsta rap. But it wouldn’t be rap music that would threaten his caree...
Bonus Episode: The Criminal Element, Awkward Garth, and Armchair Psychoanalysts
DISGRACELAND - May 02, 2024 07:03 - 24 minutesThis week in the After Party, Jake talks humans' fascination with true crime, crossing the line, this week's DISGRACELAND episode on Garth Brooks, and of course your emails, texts, DMS, and voicemails. What artist would you be least surprised to find out is a serial killer? What do the real Garth...
Bonus Episode: The Criminal Element, Awkward Garth, and Armchair Psychoanalysts
DISGRACELAND - May 02, 2024 07:03 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.2K ratingsThis week in the After Party, Jake talks humans' fascination with true crime, crossing the line, this week's DISGRACELAND episode on Garth Brooks, and of course your emails, texts, DMS, and voicemails. What artist would you be least surprised to find out is a serial killer? What do the real Garth...
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