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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...
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 - 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? ...
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 - 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...
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 - 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...
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 – 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...
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...
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...
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...
Garth Brooks: Earthquakes, Internet Rumors, and Missing Persons
DISGRACELAND - April 30, 2024 07:01 - 41 minutesGarth Brooks has more albums that have sold over 10 million copies than any other artist in history. He cut one of the biggest record deals in history – bigger than Madonna or Prince, a deal matched at the time only by Michael Jackson. His live shows are just as big, like when he triggered an act...
Garth Brooks: Earthquakes, Internet Rumors, and Missing Persons
DISGRACELAND - April 30, 2024 07:01 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.2K ratingsGarth Brooks has more albums that have sold over 10 million copies than any other artist in history. He cut one of the biggest record deals in history – bigger than Madonna or Prince, a deal matched at the time only by Michael Jackson. His live shows are just as big, like when he triggered an act...
REWIND - Frank Sinatra: Frankie Is the Reason...That the President's Dead
DISGRACELAND - April 26, 2024 07:04 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.2K ratingsFrank Sinatra had it all, then lost it all, then got it all back tenfold. He was a man of extreme talent, confidence and insecurity. And he had powerful and dangerous friends. He orchestrated some of the greatest music ever made. And he also orchestrated an alliance between two friends—mob boss S...
REWIND - Frank Sinatra: Frankie Is the Reason...That the President's Dead
DISGRACELAND - April 26, 2024 07:04 - 33 minutesFrank Sinatra had it all, then lost it all, then got it all back tenfold. He was a man of extreme talent, confidence and insecurity. And he had powerful and dangerous friends. He orchestrated some of the greatest music ever made. And he also orchestrated an alliance between two friends—mob boss S...
Bonus Episode: Rap-Metal Schlock, A DAT Dilemma, and It's All Folk Music
DISGRACELAND - April 25, 2024 07:02 - 32 minutesThis week in the After Party, Jake talks collaborations, new genres, this week's DISGRACELAND episode on Public Enemy, and of course your emails, texts, DMS, and voicemails. Which artist has best represented the world in a "folk music" way? What are your thoughts on PE's Fear of a Black Planet? L...
Bonus Episode: Rap-Metal Schlock, A DAT Dilemma, and It's All Folk Music
DISGRACELAND - April 25, 2024 07:02 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.2K ratingsThis week in the After Party, Jake talks collaborations, new genres, this week's DISGRACELAND episode on Public Enemy, and of course your emails, texts, DMS, and voicemails. Which artist has best represented the world in a "folk music" way? What are your thoughts on PE's Fear of a Black Planet? L...
Public Enemy: Revolution, Scandal, and a Message Louder than a Bomb
DISGRACELAND - April 23, 2024 07:01 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.2K ratingsPublic Enemy were revolutionaries – both in their message and their music. In the 1980s and 1990s, they elevated hip-hop to an art form. They did this with Chuck D's booming voice, Flavor Flav's comic levity, and the auditory assault of the Bomb Squad's production. But with that revolution came s...
Public Enemy: Revolution, Scandal, and a Message Louder than a Bomb
DISGRACELAND - April 23, 2024 07:01 - 41 minutesPublic Enemy were revolutionaries – both in their message and their music. In the 1980s and 1990s, they elevated hip-hop to an art form. They did this with Chuck D's booming voice, Flavor Flav's comic levity, and the auditory assault of the Bomb Squad's production. But with that revolution came s...
REWIND - Marvin Gaye: Father, Father There’s Far Too Many of Us Dying
DISGRACELAND - April 19, 2024 07:08 - 31 minutesMarvin Gaye was born into a God-fearing home to a sweet, wholesome mother and crossdressing, philandering, pentecostal preacher father who ruled his children with an iron fist. Despite his tense upbringing, Marvin Gaye found his calling—music—and used it as his ticket out of his repressive home l...
REWIND - Marvin Gaye: Father, Father There’s Far Too Many of Us Dying
DISGRACELAND - April 19, 2024 07:08 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.2K ratingsMarvin Gaye was born into a God-fearing home to a sweet, wholesome mother and crossdressing, philandering, pentecostal preacher father who ruled his children with an iron fist. Despite his tense upbringing, Marvin Gaye found his calling—music—and used it as his ticket out of his repressive home l...
Bonus Episode: Fantastic Fight Scenes, Predatory Paparazzi, and Goon versus Slapshot
DISGRACELAND - April 18, 2024 07:12 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.2K ratingsThis week in the After Party, Jake talks actors committing fully, this week's DISGRACELAND episode on Heath Ledger, and of course your emails, texts, DMS, and voicemails. What are your top five favorite fight scenes? What is your favorite Heath Ledger performance? Is Heath one of the best actors ...
Bonus Episode: Fantastic Fight Scenes, Predatory Paparazzi, and Goon versus Slapshot
DISGRACELAND - April 18, 2024 07:12 - 28 minutesThis week in the After Party, Jake talks actors committing fully, this week's DISGRACELAND episode on Heath Ledger, and of course your emails, texts, DMS, and voicemails. What are your top five favorite fight scenes? What is your favorite Heath Ledger performance? Is Heath one of the best actors ...
Heath Ledger: Cowboys, Junkies, and Maniacal Clowns
DISGRACELAND - April 16, 2024 07:00 - 41 minutesHeath Ledger’s preparation for and disappearance into his movie roles is legendary, and it’s what helped him play repressed cowboys, junkies, and maniacal clowns equally well. His research led him to junkies who taught him how to properly shoot up using a stolen prosthetic arm and fake blood, and...
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