Latest / DISGRACELAND / Bonus Episode: The Criminal Element, Awkward Garth, and Armchair Psychoanalysts
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hey discos, you can listen to an extended version of
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- 0:54Speaker 1: Disgraceland in your life, just to touch to get you through? Yeah,
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- 1:01Speaker 1: podcast Welcome to Disgraceland the after Party. Welcome all Access
- 1:11Speaker 1: members to the Disgraceland Bonus episode, a little thing we
- 1:15Speaker 1: like to call the after Party. Welcome to the Disgraceland
- 1:20Speaker 1: Bonus episode, a little thing we like to call the
- 1:22Speaker 1: after Party. This is the show after the show, the
- 1:25Speaker 1: party after the party, the bridge to get you from
- 1:28Speaker 1: one full episode of Disgraceland to the other, the backyard
- 1:31Speaker 1: to dig into the dirt. On this episode, we are
- 1:35Speaker 1: talking about our new story on Garth Brooks, the sources
- 1:38Speaker 1: that we use for our Garth Brooks episode which helped
- 1:41Speaker 1: us uncover this crazy theory about the connection between Garth's
- 1:44Speaker 1: tour route and missing persons, and of course your voicemails, texts,
- 1:48Speaker 1: dms and more, and as always, a whole lot of rosie.
- 1:52Speaker 1: All right, this goes, let's get into it. Serial Killers,
- 2:09Speaker 1: Ed Kemper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Ed Geen, Richard Ramirez,
- 2:14Speaker 1: Garth Brooks. You know by now, of course, that I
- 2:17Speaker 1: am not serious. Garth Brooks is not a serial killer,
- 2:21Speaker 1: but a large portion of the Internet is obsessed with
- 2:24Speaker 1: the fact that he could be a serial killer, which
- 2:27Speaker 1: got me wondering about the public's ours. Really our obsession
- 2:30Speaker 1: with true crime. True crime, of course, is a big
- 2:34Speaker 1: part of what we do here. We have a broader definition,
- 2:37Speaker 1: the most sure, but still the world's fascination with serial killers.
- 2:41Speaker 1: In my own fascination with the criminal element, I've often
- 2:46Speaker 1: wondered where this comes from, Where this fascination comes from.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Why are we collectively obsessed with true crime serial killers
- 2:55Speaker 1: in particular bad people now obviously speak for the world
- 3:01Speaker 1: at large, but my thinking is that our collective obsession
- 3:05Speaker 1: with serial killers is derived in part from the fact
- 3:08Speaker 1: that these people, these murderers, they do the unthinkable, and
- 3:13Speaker 1: their actions they force us to think about these heinous acts,
- 3:17Speaker 1: and there's a visceral fear that goes along with putting
- 3:19Speaker 1: yourself in the shoes of the victims who do come
- 3:22Speaker 1: face to face with Garth Brooks excuse me, Ed Kemper
- 3:25Speaker 1: and the like. But when it comes to my obsession
- 3:27Speaker 1: with the criminal element at large, my fascination with the
- 3:31Speaker 1: musicians and artists of the world whose transgressions aren't just
- 3:35Speaker 1: minor sins but mortal sins, felonies, It's hard for me
- 3:40Speaker 1: to come up with an answer as to why I've
- 3:42Speaker 1: been so fascinated my whole life. Basically, since I started
- 3:45Speaker 1: reading novels in the sixth grade or thereabouts, I gravitated
- 3:49Speaker 1: towards crime. I still do, of course, It's hard for
- 3:52Speaker 1: me to create anything that isn't related to crime in
- 3:55Speaker 1: some way. Even when I was making music and punk bands,
- 3:58Speaker 1: hardcore bands, and later a singer songwriter, I often wrote
- 4:01Speaker 1: songs and the perspective of a criminal, and I obsessed
- 4:05Speaker 1: over murder ballads and old weird Americana, all the bad
- 4:08Speaker 1: bad men, all those stories that we covered in the
- 4:10Speaker 1: pig Pen episode of Disgrace Land. Of course, like most
- 4:15Speaker 1: of you, I'm nothing like these men. I live a
- 4:18Speaker 1: fairly conventional life. I live on a fairly normal looking street.
- 4:22Speaker 1: I wake up with similar hopes, dreams, aspirations and fears
- 4:25Speaker 1: as you all do. So then why am I currently
- 4:28Speaker 1: pouring myself into books about Boston's Chinatown drug dealers and
- 4:31Speaker 1: early twentieth century American anarchists and the Coke Field eighty
- 4:35Speaker 1: six mets instead of spending more time watching the Boston
- 4:38Speaker 1: Bruins in the playoffs and getting excited about my summer
- 4:41Speaker 1: break that's coming up. And I've been thinking about this
- 4:44Speaker 1: all morning knowing that I'm coming into the booth to
- 4:47Speaker 1: record this episode on the heels of this Garth Brooks
- 4:50Speaker 1: serial killer nonsense. I've been thinking about why, why, this
- 4:53Speaker 1: is why am I fascinated with crime, Truman Capote's In
- 4:57Speaker 1: Cold Blood, Mario Puzo's The god Father, Everything by James Elroy. Why.
- 5:03Speaker 1: Perhaps it has something to do with the line, the
- 5:06Speaker 1: line that Springsteen talks about on Nebraska quote, there's winners
- 5:10Speaker 1: and losers and don't get caught on the wrong side
- 5:13Speaker 1: of that line. Now, that lyric from that song Atlantic City,
- 5:18Speaker 1: it always resonated with me. And I'm not from New
- 5:20Speaker 1: Jersey or Philly. I knew no chicken men growing up,
- 5:22Speaker 1: but there was a universal element in that lyric, the
- 5:25Speaker 1: wrong side of that line. Like I said, I didn't
- 5:29Speaker 1: know any chicken men, but I knew plenty of guys
- 5:31Speaker 1: who ended up on the wrong side of that line,
- 5:33Speaker 1: and not just passing acquaintances, like the prison break party
- 5:36Speaker 1: I found myself at in high school with recently escaped felons,
- 5:40Speaker 1: where we watched news of their prison break on the
- 5:42Speaker 1: eleven o'clock news. The story that I told when I
- 5:45Speaker 1: went on my favorite murder. Now I didn't know those
- 5:47Speaker 1: guys really, but I was in their orbit. Of course.
- 5:50Speaker 1: The important part of what I'm trying to say, though,
- 5:52Speaker 1: is that I did know other guys who knew them well,
- 5:55Speaker 1: guys who crossed that line, and it was like, one
- 5:58Speaker 1: minute they're part of our lives, smoking grass, listening to music,
- 6:02Speaker 1: fucking off, and then they're robbing little old ladies coming
- 6:05Speaker 1: out of ATMs and being sent away to conquered MCI.
- 6:08Speaker 1: Crossing that line then and now it seems like a
- 6:11Speaker 1: very easy distance to traverse, And I think that's why
- 6:16Speaker 1: I'm so fascinated by it. That slip, that slip from
- 6:20Speaker 1: a normal life to a criminal life. It is not
- 6:24Speaker 1: that hard for some to make, especially if you grow
- 6:27Speaker 1: up poor, you grow up desperate, or you just don't
- 6:30Speaker 1: have options or imagination. I never lacked an imagination, and
- 6:35Speaker 1: neither do the millions of Internet trolls out there who
- 6:37Speaker 1: imagine Garth Brooks to be a serial killer. Is it
- 6:40Speaker 1: so hard to imagine, really, especially, like I said, when
- 6:43Speaker 1: that line is so easy to cross, I don't think so.
- 6:46Speaker 1: Which musicians other than Garth Brooks creep you out and
- 6:49Speaker 1: make you question their motives? Which rock stars, which country stars,
- 6:53Speaker 1: which hip hop stars any musicians at all? Which ones
- 6:56Speaker 1: fit the serial killer profile for you? If Snoop Dogg
- 7:00Speaker 1: a real life pimp, which he was, doesn't it stand
- 7:03Speaker 1: a reason that eminem could be stacking bodies. Let's have
- 7:05Speaker 1: some stupid fun and let me know which artist you'd
- 7:08Speaker 1: be least surprised to find out was a serial killer.
- 7:10Speaker 1: Six one seven nine oh six six six three eight.
- 7:14Speaker 1: Send me a text, leave me a voicemail. Six one
- 7:16Speaker 1: seven nine oh six six six three eight. Let me
- 7:18Speaker 1: know which musical artist you'd be least surprised to find
- 7:22Speaker 1: out was a serial killer. I'm gonna take a quick
- 7:24Speaker 1: break and I'll be back in a flash. All right,
- 7:47Speaker 1: Let's talk for a minute about the sources that we
- 7:48Speaker 1: used for this week's episode on Garth Brooks. First, when
- 7:52Speaker 1: it comes to the true story of Garth's unprecedented rise
- 7:56Speaker 1: to fame. I mean, if you're not a Garth Brooks fan,
- 7:58Speaker 1: you don't know much about him. Think he's one of
- 8:00Speaker 1: these commercial country artists who got famous and you know,
- 8:03Speaker 1: kind of dominated the charts for a while. There's so
- 8:05Speaker 1: much more to his rise to his fame, and most
- 8:10Speaker 1: of what we got from a book called The Garth Factor,
- 8:13Speaker 1: The Career behind Country's Biggest Boom by Patsy bail Cox.
- 8:17Speaker 1: Patsy rest in Peace helped write the autobiographies of artists
- 8:20Speaker 1: like Loretta Lynn, Tanya Tucker went on a Judd even
- 8:24Speaker 1: pat Benattar and she worked for Nashville based publicity firm
- 8:28Speaker 1: which handled pr for Capitol Records, where Garth was a
- 8:31Speaker 1: major artist. But if you've heard the episode, you know
- 8:35Speaker 1: that it's anything but a typical episode of Disgraceland. The inspiration,
- 8:39Speaker 1: of course, being this incredible joke started by comedian Tom
- 8:44Speaker 1: Segia and his wife Christina Christina Pazitski. If I'm saying
- 8:47Speaker 1: that wrong incorrectly, I apologize Christina to joke about Garth
- 8:52Speaker 1: being so weird and so awkward and so strange that
- 8:56Speaker 1: he maybe, just maybe was a serial killer. It's a
- 9:00Speaker 1: fucked up joke, I know, I get it, but it's hysterical.
- 9:03Speaker 1: It's incredibly compelling. A serial killer who struck while he toured,
- 9:08Speaker 1: evidenced by the number of people who went missing along
- 9:10Speaker 1: garth seemingly eternal touring route. We fully committed to this
- 9:16Speaker 1: joke by chasing down the data, and by that I
- 9:18Speaker 1: mean we looked at Garth's tour dates year after year,
- 9:20Speaker 1: painstakingly plotted each and every date against Missing Persons data
- 9:23Speaker 1: in each city where he performed. And I'm talking about
- 9:25Speaker 1: a lot of data, dates upon dates upon dates, cities
- 9:28Speaker 1: upon cities, year upon year. Most of the time this
- 9:30Speaker 1: research led to nothing, but sometimes it gave us something,
- 9:34Speaker 1: a nugget, a disappearance that he could easily tie to
- 9:37Speaker 1: Garth Brooks being in town. And in doing this leg work,
- 9:40Speaker 1: it helped us build this dramatic case that Tom Segura's
- 9:44Speaker 1: joke had legs for real. And it does, excuse me,
- 9:47Speaker 1: the joke does, at least, but the actual insinuation that
- 9:51Speaker 1: Garth is some kind of serial killer obviously is not true.
- 9:54Speaker 1: All right, don't come at me. You know that you
- 9:56Speaker 1: know I'm having fun here, and you know I understand
- 10:00Speaker 1: this is not a novel idea. This is Tom Segura's idea. Uh.
- 10:04Speaker 1: We just we like to think that we took it
- 10:07Speaker 1: somewhere else in the way we do things here. Disgrace him,
- 10:11Speaker 1: all right. A major source of inspiration, uh in making
- 10:13Speaker 1: this episode Michael Jackson's thriller video. Why do you know
- 10:17Speaker 1: we didn't include this in our list of sources on
- 10:19Speaker 1: the website because as I said, it's more a source
- 10:22Speaker 1: of inspiration than anything else. But the thriller video was
- 10:25Speaker 1: a major creative device for us and making this episode.
- 10:27Speaker 1: And if you think you know what it is, you
- 10:29Speaker 1: gotta let me know six one seven nine oh six
- 10:31Speaker 1: six six three eight voicemail and text. That's how you
- 10:35Speaker 1: get at me. Just like this person in the nine
- 10:38Speaker 1: to two.
- 10:39Speaker 2: To oh gratings at this grace Land, this is ever
- 10:43Speaker 2: more doll Low in the nine two oh re listening
- 10:49Speaker 2: to Public Enemy requesting rage against the machine.
- 10:56Speaker 1: All right, nine to two oh, thanks for the call.
- 10:58Speaker 1: Uh yeah, rage against the machine perhaps someday, someday. We
- 11:02Speaker 1: just did Public Enemy though, So it's going to be
- 11:04Speaker 1: a minute, but I dig it. All let's check in
- 11:07Speaker 1: with the five o eight here, answering the question we
- 11:10Speaker 1: had from last weeks after party, who the greatest folk singers,
- 11:15Speaker 1: folk musicians, folks songwriters, folk artists were and I and
- 11:18Speaker 1: I was talking about beyond just the genre, uh like
- 11:23Speaker 1: a you know, a guy with an acoustic guitar to
- 11:25Speaker 1: coffee house or playing Newport or something like that. And
- 11:27Speaker 1: I guess that last voicemail kind of hit on that
- 11:30Speaker 1: too with the rage against the machine requests. That's what
- 11:32Speaker 1: I'm talking about, artists that represent what's going on, uh
- 11:35Speaker 1: in their time and place. Let's check this one out
- 11:38Speaker 1: from the five O eight.
- 11:39Speaker 3: Jict Mike from the five oweight. I was just calling
- 11:44Speaker 3: in my verse to your question about who is the
- 11:47Speaker 3: greatest folk artist or singer, and I would say I
- 11:55Speaker 3: actually would go with the Oaks. First of all, Obviously
- 11:59Speaker 3: he was folks sing are in the sense of the genre,
- 12:03Speaker 3: but much unlike the you know, kind of watered down
- 12:08Speaker 3: folk of like his contemporaries like Ian and Celia or
- 12:12Speaker 3: like Gordon Bifer whoever, or Eric Anderson. You know, he
- 12:16Speaker 3: was really topical every single song. I guess you would say,
- 12:22Speaker 3: first and foremost who was a Vietnam protester? But he's
- 12:26Speaker 3: talking about everything if you want to look up more
- 12:31Speaker 3: about I mean, in addition to listening to his album's,
- 12:35Speaker 3: there's this great book I forget what's by, but it's
- 12:38Speaker 3: called Death of a Rebel. It's worth checking out anyway
- 12:43Speaker 3: of the show. Okay, rocker roll.
- 12:46Speaker 1: Thanks by Yeah, Mike, I hear you. And that's uh.
- 12:50Speaker 1: I gotta admit, though I don't know a lot about
- 12:52Speaker 1: phil Oaks, and now I'm interested, so I'm going to
- 12:54Speaker 1: check that out. I appreciate the call, and I'm hoping
- 12:57Speaker 1: to get into some some heavy folk with phil Oaks.
- 13:00Speaker 1: Let's see what we got here this one. Let's do
- 13:02Speaker 1: one more from the four.
- 13:04Speaker 2: One two yo brother, it's aid Dan Electro. Anyway, I'm
- 13:09Speaker 2: gonna I'm gonna get back to work a poculator.
- 13:14Speaker 1: Four one two. I played that voicemail because it's uh
- 13:17Speaker 1: fucking ridiculous. I have no idea what you're talking about
- 13:19Speaker 1: four one two. I don't know who you are. Are
- 13:22Speaker 1: you a friend of mine that I just don't recognize
- 13:25Speaker 1: your voice? And uh, the answer to a question that
- 13:28Speaker 1: I cannot recall seems to be Dan Electro, which is
- 13:32Speaker 1: a guitar of course. But you know, call back four
- 13:36Speaker 1: one two and let me know what the hell it
- 13:37Speaker 1: is you're talking about. Six one seven nine oh six
- 13:39Speaker 1: six six three eight hit me up voicemail and text.
- 13:42Speaker 1: Let's do a couple of texts here as well. While
- 13:45Speaker 1: I got you three to one oh rights and how
- 13:47Speaker 1: about Iced Teas band body Count? They deserve a shout
- 13:51Speaker 1: in any discussion about rap metal between Slayer Public Enemy.
- 13:54Speaker 1: Uh I think he means anthrax in public Enemy. Uh,
- 13:57Speaker 1: and you know what, you're right? Three one Oh. I
- 14:01Speaker 1: was gonna talk about body count, but I just there's
- 14:03Speaker 1: only so much you could talk about in that blurb,
- 14:05Speaker 1: all right? Seven to seven five rights, and hey Jake.
- 14:07Speaker 1: On the folk artist front, the gen X folk artist
- 14:10Speaker 1: is Todd Snyder. This one is actual folk music proper.
- 14:14Speaker 1: But he's on point and truly funny. He offers that
- 14:16Speaker 1: spoonful of sugar for the medicine he's edition out. Check
- 14:19Speaker 1: him out if you haven't. Good place to start is
- 14:21Speaker 1: his live album Near Truth and Hotel Rooms. But check
- 14:24Speaker 1: out songs for the Daily Planet for a dose of
- 14:26Speaker 1: early nineties what's going on vibes. Uh. You know, I've
- 14:30Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure have seen Todd Snyder before, perhaps played
- 14:33Speaker 1: with him in a galaxy far far away, however, you say,
- 14:37Speaker 1: And I but still I don't know his music that well.
- 14:41Speaker 1: And I think I was just reading about how Todd
- 14:43Speaker 1: Snyder was super critical of Garth Brooks, so that kind
- 14:46Speaker 1: of ties it all together here six one seven nine
- 14:50Speaker 1: oh six six six three eight voicemail and text hit
- 14:53Speaker 1: me up. Let me know. Answer to my question from
- 14:56Speaker 1: earlier in the a Bloc, which musician gives you the
- 14:59Speaker 1: most serial killer vibes? Or you can just hit me
- 15:02Speaker 1: up a butt anything, send me pictures of your dogs,
- 15:04Speaker 1: whatever you guys want to do. I love the dog picks.
- 15:07Speaker 1: Keep them coming. I'm gonna take a quick break. All right,
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- 17:25Speaker 1: that ain't your bag, then number two right now in
- 17:28Speaker 1: your feed, this week's brand new episode on Garth Brooks
- 17:31Speaker 1: number three coming tomorrow. A rewind episode on iced Ta
- 17:34Speaker 1: number four. Over in the bad Lands Feed. We've got
- 17:36Speaker 1: a brand new episode on Adrian Shelley number five. Next
- 17:39Speaker 1: week in the Disgrace Slam Feed, a brand new episode
- 17:41Speaker 1: on williams Burrow's number six. My number is six one
- 17:44Speaker 1: seven nine oh six six six three eight. Call me
- 17:47Speaker 1: on the telephone or text me number seven. Remember, no
- 17:50Speaker 1: one cares about the music you love more than you do,
- 17:52Speaker 1: and well that is a disgrace. Now my moment of
- 17:55Speaker 1: bliss an honor of this week's episode on Garth Brooks
- 17:58Speaker 1: me reading you the city directory from Tulsa, Oklahoma in
- 18:02Speaker 1: nineteen twenty two. Brooking Gus three one two South Denver Avenue,
- 18:10Speaker 1: Brookings Burt, Vice President Gibralt To Oil Company one four
- 18:15Speaker 1: one four South Carson Avenue, Brooklyn Hotel one O six
- 18:19Speaker 1: and a half South Boston Avenue, Brooklyn Oil and Gas
- 18:23Speaker 1: Company C. G. Taylor President, L. E. Little, Vice President
- 18:27Speaker 1: and Secretary L. E. Taylor three one nine Robinson Building,
- 18:32Speaker 1: Brooks Adele Jefferson School Rooms one two one one East
- 18:37Speaker 1: Fifth Place, Supply Brooks ALEX, Williams and Harvey five eleven
- 18:44Speaker 1: Csomber Gas office in warehouse two to one US First
- 18:53Speaker 1: one Secretary of three Supply Company, South Springs, Tonal's stout,
- 19:04Speaker 1: Quit talking and start mixing.
- 19:10Speaker 2: H