Latest Disgrace Podcast Episodes
REWIND - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes: Hit Me Again and I'll Burn Your House Down
DISGRACELAND - June 07, 2024 07:06 - 32 minutesTLC’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 ...
Bonus Episode: Suppressing the Truth, A Brother Under the Bus, and Profit as Virtue
DISGRACELAND - June 06, 2024 07:07 - 29 minutesThis 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...
Presenting DISGRACELAND - R. Kelly: Superstars, Super Predators, and a 20-Year Reign of Sexual Terror
BADLANDS - June 05, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutesR. 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...
Presenting DISGRACELAND - R. Kelly: Superstars, Super Predators, and a 20-Year Reign of Sexual Terror
BADLANDS - June 05, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsR. 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...
R. Kelly: Superstars, Super Predators, and a 20-Year Reign of Sexual Terror
DISGRACELAND - June 04, 2024 07:01 - 39 minutesR. 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...
REWIND - Johnny Paycheck: Pardon Me, I've Got Someone to Kill
DISGRACELAND - May 31, 2024 07:05 - 31 minutesLots 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...
Bonus Episode: Trust, Mythmaking, and Twin Joyrides
DISGRACELAND - May 30, 2024 07:06 - 27 minutesThis 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...
REWIND - Aaron Hernandez: A Botched Execution, a Rattled Cage, and a Disgraced Patriot
BADLANDS - May 29, 2024 07:03 - 35 minutesIn 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 ...
REWIND - Aaron Hernandez: A Botched Execution, a Rattled Cage, and a Disgraced Patriot
BADLANDS - May 29, 2024 07:03 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsIn 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 ...
Bob Dylan: How Does It Feel to Be Booed, Heckled, Hated, and Attacked?
DISGRACELAND - May 28, 2024 07:01 - 39 minutesBob 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...
REWIND = Roman Polanski: Nazis, Murder, and Life on the Lam
BADLANDS - May 24, 2024 07:12 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 1.4K 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 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...
REWIND - Roman Polanski: Nazis, Murder, and Life on the Lam
BADLANDS - May 24, 2024 07:12 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 1.4K 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 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...
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 ★★★★ - 1.4K 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 ★★★★ - 1.4K 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 ★★★★ - 1.4K 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 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...
REWIND - Diego Maradona: Stolen Blood, Italian Gangsters, and the Hand of God
BADLANDS - May 15, 2024 07:05 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 1.4K 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...
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 minutes ★★★★ - 1.4K 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 ...
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