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Bonus Episode: Strange Celebrity Deaths, Great Comedians, and Hot Takes · DISGRACELAND

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Speaker 1: Hey, discos, need a little more Disgraceland in your life,
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Speaker 1: just to touch to get you through. Yeah, me too.
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Speaker 1: This is the podcast that comes after the podcast. Welcome
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Speaker 1: to Disgraceland. The after Party. Welcome to the Disgraceland bonus episode,
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Speaker 1: a little thing we like to call the after party.
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Speaker 1: This is the show after the show, the party after
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Speaker 1: the party, the bridge to get you from one full
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Speaker 1: episode of Disgraceland to the other, the backyard to dig
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Speaker 1: into the dirt. On this bonus episode, we are talking
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Speaker 1: about this week's full episode subject the icon Richard Pryor.
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Speaker 1: Incredibly bizarre celebrity deaths that's kind of related to Richard Pryor.
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Speaker 1: We get into that here. We're also previewing our upcoming
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Speaker 1: episode on Louis Armstrong, and we get into your voicemails,
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Speaker 1: text DMS, emails and as always, a whole lot of rosie.
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Speaker 1: All right, goes, let's get into it. Back on June ninth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty, Richard Pryor lit himself on fire while high
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Speaker 1: on drugs. He then proceeded to bolt out of his house,
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Speaker 1: run down the street, totally engulfed in flames. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: until police spotted him and came to his rescue that
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Speaker 1: the flames were extinguished and Richard Pryor was saved. He
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Speaker 1: famously depicts this episode in his life and his Life
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Speaker 1: on the Sunset Strip special. We obviously depicted it in
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Speaker 1: our episode on Richard Pryor that we just released. It
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Speaker 1: goes without saying that it's nearly a miracle that Richard
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Speaker 1: Pryor survived. It's a miracle, nearly a miracle that he
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Speaker 1: survived this incident. It's nearly a miracle that he survived
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Speaker 1: his childhood and numerous other incidents throughout his adulthood. He
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Speaker 1: lived until December tenth, two thousand and five, when he
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Speaker 1: died of a heart attack. It was his second or
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Speaker 1: third heart attack. I can't remember which one. It was
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Speaker 1: a death that many people saw coming, given that Richard's
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Speaker 1: relationship with drugs was well known and he also had
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Speaker 1: multiple sclerosis. But what if the accident where Richard Pryor
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Speaker 1: lit himself on fire killed Richard Pryor. I'm sure I
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Speaker 1: was sing about this morning, and I am positive, and
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Speaker 1: then I looked into it. Now I'm extra positive that
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Speaker 1: this would have been the weirdest celebrity death of all time. No,
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Speaker 1: is there a weirder celebrity death than somebody freebasing cocaine
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Speaker 1: and lighting themselves on fire, running down the street and dying.
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Speaker 1: I got me thinking, I've come up with nada. I
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Speaker 1: dug in here to the old inter nerd and I
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Speaker 1: did a little research, and I can't find anything that
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Speaker 1: comes close. I did find some weird shit, and I'm
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Speaker 1: excited to talk to you guys about it because I
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Speaker 1: don't think we've ever talked about this in this space before.
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Speaker 1: And I think the reason we haven't talked about it
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Speaker 1: is because there's just not that many really compelling incidents
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Speaker 1: of celebrities dying that are just really bizarre and weird.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about six feet under, you know, cold open weird.
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about here. Okay, So here's what
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Speaker 1: I got. And you guys might know more about these
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Speaker 1: incidents than I do, these deaths than I do, And
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Speaker 1: if you do, by all means, get in touch and
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Speaker 1: tell me what you know about it. I didn't know
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Speaker 1: hardly any of these Tennessee williams Okay, the famous play
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Speaker 1: right author of a street car named Desire. He died
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Speaker 1: while choking on a bottle cap, a bottle cap, apparently
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Speaker 1: a plastic eye drops bottle cap, like the cap for
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Speaker 1: like a vizine container or something. Tennessee. Williams had taken
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Speaker 1: the cap off and put it between his teeth to
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Speaker 1: hold it, tipped his head back to put the eye
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Speaker 1: drops in, and the cap slipped from his teeth and
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Speaker 1: caught in his caught in his throat. And I got
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Speaker 1: to say, I never knew this obviously, this death, though,
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Speaker 1: this is the type of death that scares the hell
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Speaker 1: out of me because it seems like something that could
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Speaker 1: happened to me. Maybe I've watched, like I said before,
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Speaker 1: too much Six feet Under. I don't know, but that's
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Speaker 1: what it reminded me of. Here's another weird one, incredibly
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Speaker 1: weird one I didn't know. This name Isidora Duncan. Okay.
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Speaker 1: She's like an early twentieth century dancer, queen of modern dance.
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Speaker 1: This is wild. Her day was back in the early
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Speaker 1: early twenties. She died riding in a convertible. She had
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Speaker 1: a long scarf on, okay, and the scarf starts blowing
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Speaker 1: in the wind behind her. Somehow, the scarf gets tangled
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Speaker 1: around the car's wheel and tightens around her neck and
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Speaker 1: it just rapidly gets super tight and then it whips
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Speaker 1: her out of the car by her neck. Scarf was
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Speaker 1: wrapped so tight the car is. The car's flying forward
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Speaker 1: and it's just like the scarf's caught onto the back wheel.
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Speaker 1: Hurls are out of the car bam onto the stone
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Speaker 1: pavement right on the street. She hits the street so
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Speaker 1: hard she's killed instantly from the force of the impact
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Speaker 1: and nearly decapitated. Super strange death. Here's another one on
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Speaker 1: William Holden. Okay, William Holden, actor from the middle of
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Speaker 1: the twentieth century, is in the Wild Bunch. He's in
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Speaker 1: Sunset Boulevard in some really huge, huge films. Super handsome dude.
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Speaker 1: He's hanging out in his apartment one night in Hollywood.
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Speaker 1: He gets blotto drunk, falls over, bangs his head on
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Speaker 1: his nightstand, and falls asleep. Unbeknownst to him, the cut
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Speaker 1: on his head from banging on the nightstand is so
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Speaker 1: bad that he just slowly bleeds to death. They find
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Speaker 1: this guy four days later dead, and the coroner says
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Speaker 1: that had he been sober and simply called for help,
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Speaker 1: that he would have easily lived. O this is what
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Speaker 1: makes me cringe. Head wounds freaked me out. Michael Hutchins
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Speaker 1: from Xcess did not die from autoerotic asphyxiation, even though
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Speaker 1: large parts of the Internet still think he did. But
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Speaker 1: you guys know that because you listen to the NXS
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Speaker 1: episode of Disgraceland. David Carradine, however, from Kill Bill, he
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Speaker 1: did die from auto erotication, and I gotta say I
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Speaker 1: knew that I forgot about it, and then I think
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Speaker 1: I tricked myself into into thinking that it wasn't real,
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Speaker 1: But it was real. Keith Relph from The Yardbirds, Jimmy
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Speaker 1: Page's first band, died from playing guitar. Okay, electrocuted also
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Speaker 1: very scary to me. I cannot tell you how many
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Speaker 1: times I've been electrocuted on stage, electrocuted in the studio,
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Speaker 1: brutally electrocuted, like knocked off my feet, electrocuted. So Keith Ralph,
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Speaker 1: I had no idea about this from The Yardbirds and
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Speaker 1: didn't this is gonna be thinking. Didn't Steve mary On
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Speaker 1: from The Faces die weirdly as well? And he did.
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Speaker 1: He fell asleep smoking a cigarette, set his house on
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Speaker 1: fire and he didn't burn up, but he died of
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Speaker 1: the smoke inhalation, and they found actually fans of his,
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Speaker 1: Like the guys in the fire department we found him
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Speaker 1: were fans. I read about this this morning, super sad.
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Speaker 1: This would be a really cool episode to do. I think,
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Speaker 1: you know, he could kind of write it with him
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Speaker 1: falling asleep and kind of track track the episode as
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Speaker 1: you flash back to his past, to the burning down
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Speaker 1: of the cigarette, until he eventually passes out. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to get creative here, but that's what
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Speaker 1: I was thinking. Vic Morrow, the actor, I didn't know
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Speaker 1: Vic Morrow. I'd heard of this story before. Vic Morrow
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Speaker 1: was on the set of The Twilight Zone. And I'm
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Speaker 1: not talking about the Rod Serling Twilight Zone from the fifties.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about the Steven Spielberg feature film from the eighties.
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Speaker 1: And this this movie kind of like Poltergeist. It's got
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Speaker 1: a lot of lore around it. It's believe to be cursed.
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Speaker 1: Vic Morrow was decapitated by a helicopter on set of
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Speaker 1: the Twilight Zone. So look, so far, I'm like halfway
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Speaker 1: through this list, and you know, none of these names
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Speaker 1: approach the level of Richard pryor maybe William Holden did
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Speaker 1: at one point. But you see where I'm going here, right.
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Speaker 1: If Richard Pryor had died from lighting himself on fire,
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Speaker 1: he's this easily would have been the craziest celebrity death
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Speaker 1: we've ever had. But he didn't. He lived. But let's
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Speaker 1: keep going here for the purpose of the argument. Sonny
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Speaker 1: Bono of Sonny and Cher died in a skiing accident.
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Speaker 1: We knew that from the impact of hitting a tree.
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Speaker 1: This one I didn't know. And I'm surprised I didn't
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Speaker 1: know this because it happened fairly recently. It happened in
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine. Owen Hart pro wrestler. Okay, now, I
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Speaker 1: wasn't paying attention to pro wrestling in nineteen ninety nine,
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Speaker 1: but a lot of people were. I know what I
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Speaker 1: was doing and how this escaped me. But this is crazy, man,
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Speaker 1: This dude. It's a live pay per view special. He's
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Speaker 1: being lowered from the rafters into the ring. He's super
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Speaker 1: high up. He's being held by a harness. The harness
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Speaker 1: comes undone in the wrestler Owen Heart. He falls sixty
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Speaker 1: feet on live television or pay per view whatever it's live,
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Speaker 1: and dies right there, right there. It's awful. That's so awful.
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Speaker 1: It's so bizarre. Imagine being that dude's family and seeing
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Speaker 1: that having to deal with that incredibly traumatic. Others that
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Speaker 1: were mentioned that we have covered here in Disgraceland, Sam Cook,
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Speaker 1: you know, mysterious circumstances, sure, Denver, Yeah, I'm not gonna
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Speaker 1: spoil it here. Parts of the internet still think Mama
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Speaker 1: cass Elliott died from eating a ham sandwich. He did not.
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Speaker 1: We covered that in two episodes, so I was pretty
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Speaker 1: surprised to not know the stories of many of these deaths,
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Speaker 1: Like I said, And just to make the point Richard
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Speaker 1: Pryor's accident, had he died from those from that fire,
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Speaker 1: had it been cemented in Stone that the cause of
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Speaker 1: the fire was freebasing cocaine, which I think we're all
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Speaker 1: pretty sure was the case, even though the fact is
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Speaker 1: somewhat disputed, I think that given Richard's popularity, this would
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Speaker 1: have gone down. Is the strangest celebrity death of all time.
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Speaker 1: But you guys know a lot about this subject, I'm sure,
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Speaker 1: So get in touch, and if you know anyone else
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Speaker 1: that I'm forgetting here weird celebrity deaths, let me know.
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Speaker 1: Maybe some of them will make for good episodes. I'm
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Speaker 1: particularly interested in musicians. I feel like I've covered all
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Speaker 1: that ground. I've researched it. I've researched it all. I
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Speaker 1: feel like I got it all. But I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know the Keith Rolf thing, so that was
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Speaker 1: news to me. Maybe there's some more stuff here. If
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Speaker 1: you know anything, hit me up. Let me know which
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Speaker 1: celebrity death I'm leaving off of our list here. All right,
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Speaker 1: moving on, Not a lot of super compelling news in
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Speaker 1: the Sean Ditty Combs case. You know, it's in part
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Speaker 1: because I'm kind of sick of the story, if I'm
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Speaker 1: being honest, you know, we need some I'm sick of
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Speaker 1: the conjecture and the speculation. We need some real hard
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Speaker 1: evidence to move this story forward. Okay, not a lot
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Speaker 1: has gone on. Diddy apparently was snuck out of prison
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Speaker 1: under the cover of darkness for an MRI on his knee.
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Speaker 1: Some people thought that that meant that he was going
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Speaker 1: to get epsteined, but apparently did. He's back in his cell,
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Speaker 1: safe and sound, bad knee and all. There are a
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Speaker 1: few more lawsuits this week from the Busby camp. Apparently
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Speaker 1: there's about ten more coming in the next few days.
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Speaker 1: This is all according to the BBC, so I'm not
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Speaker 1: just giving you TikTok speculation here. I am not caught
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Speaker 1: up on the Diddy HBO series, but I will be soon.
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Speaker 1: The series is a tough watch for me. It's an
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Speaker 1: outrage machine. That's what the series is. I'm not trying
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Speaker 1: to throw you off the series. I think you should
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Speaker 1: watch it. It's done really, really well. I've just already
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Speaker 1: consumed a lot of this information and I'm sort of
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Speaker 1: I got a full lid on Diddy in the grossness.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch it, though, I'm gonna try to be
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Speaker 1: all caught up by the next time we talk in
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Speaker 1: case anything else breaks, although I said that last week
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Speaker 1: and I have not done that. I've been busy making stuff,
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Speaker 1: making a lot of stuff over here, a lot of stuff.
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Speaker 1: And I have an update on my studio finally, after
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Speaker 1: getting screwed by a contractor who just took my money
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Speaker 1: and bailed, who will be dealt with in time, we
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Speaker 1: have hired a new contractor and they're moving very fast,
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Speaker 1: and my new studio will finally be done by the
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Speaker 1: middle of March, which I cannot wait for. So but
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Speaker 1: We're not letting it slow us down. That's the point
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to make. We're making a ton of stuff here,
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Speaker 1: lots of new video content, working on some cool new projects.
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Speaker 1: I'm excited, and I'm writing a banger of an episode
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Speaker 1: right now. I'm Martin Scorsese. Another one, Part two. This
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Speaker 1: is the We're gonna have this release for you in
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Speaker 1: time for the Academy Award. So I've been doing that
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Speaker 1: this week. I'm really excited about it. I can't wait
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Speaker 1: for you guys to hear it. And yeah, what else?
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Speaker 1: I saw the Dylan movie A Complete Unknown. Finally, I'm
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Speaker 1: giving you some bonus content. Okay, extra bonus content, i
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Speaker 1: should say. And this week it's going to be my
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Speaker 1: review of A Complete Unknown. Okay, moving on from the update,
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Speaker 1: moving on from Diddy, moving on from Richard Pryor next week,
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Speaker 1: we have an episode on jazz great twentieth century icon
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Speaker 1: Louis Armstrong. You know Louis Armstrong, Like I said, he's
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Speaker 1: an icon. He's a horn player, raspy voiced guy. What
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Speaker 1: a wonderful world trees. That dude looked like your average
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Speaker 1: happy go lucky grandpa by the end of his life.
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Speaker 1: And that's the iconic image of Louis Armstrong. But the
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Speaker 1: dude was not what he seemed. He was involved with
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Speaker 1: a coupde todd Africa. Here in the States, he was
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Speaker 1: heavily involved with the mob and was a world cloud
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Speaker 1: number one reefer head dude gut stoned despite his image
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Speaker 1: and way before grass was made fashionable in the sixties.
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Speaker 1: So when you're listening to this episode, be thinking about
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Speaker 1: all the musicians we've covered in Disgrace sand okay all
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Speaker 1: of them, and which artist behavior surprised you the most
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Speaker 1: where you're like, holy shit, I didn't know she was
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Speaker 1: up to that, or I didn't know that dude was
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Speaker 1: doing that. That's what I want to know. That's gonna
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Speaker 1: be the question of the week for next week. Think
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Speaker 1: about that when you're listening to the Louis Armstrong episode
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Speaker 1: and let me Know six one seven nine oh six
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Speaker 1: six sixty three eight voicemail text at Disgrace lampod on
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Speaker 1: the Socials. Coming up before Louis Armstrong though. Coming up
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Speaker 1: next in your feed is our two part episode on
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Speaker 1: Miles Davis and The Rewind Slot. These are two of
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Speaker 1: my favorite episodes. They sound incredible. If I do say
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Speaker 1: so myself, Matt Bowden mixed the hell out of him.
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Speaker 1: He's a jazz head, so I think you really got
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Speaker 1: into these ones creatively. If you've heard these episodes, you
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Speaker 1: gotta want to hear him again, okay. And if you haven't,
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Speaker 1: you're like, but I don't like jazz man or you know,
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Speaker 1: you're like, I don't know that much about Miles da
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Speaker 1: I don't care. Don't listen, listen, listen. I don't care.
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Speaker 1: I don't care that you don't like jazz. I don't
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Speaker 1: care that you might not think that often of Miles
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Speaker 1: Davis or think that you're interested in Miles Davis. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to tell you something about you right now. You're cool.
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Speaker 1: You know how I know you're cool because you're listening
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Speaker 1: to this podcast. You know who else was cool? Miles Davis.
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Speaker 1: Miles Davis I'm pretty sure the dude invented cool. He
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Speaker 1: might be one of the most rock and roll, most
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Speaker 1: badass musicians of all time, and he was a beast
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Speaker 1: of an artist whose story is insane. There is tons
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Speaker 1: of drama in these episodes, so dude is just he
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Speaker 1: was just on another level and he's kind of low
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Speaker 1: key hysterical, So you're gonna want to listen to this, okay.
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Speaker 1: Plus there's all these arrests, car crashes, just like Richard Pryor.
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Speaker 1: There's lots of cocaine, all right, and it's probably also
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Speaker 1: got one of the best intros that we've ever done
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Speaker 1: for any episode of Disgrace Science, so check that out.
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Speaker 1: Miles Davis coming up in the rewind slots right now.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a quick break. I'll be back to
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Speaker 1: you shortly with your voicemails, text and dms from our
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Speaker 1: question of the Week last week. All right, we are back.
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Speaker 1: Just a quick reminder to make sure you Apple podcast listeners,
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Speaker 1: as always, have auto downloads turned on so you're not
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Speaker 1: missing any episodes. You guys know how to get in
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Speaker 1: touch with me six one seven nine oh six six
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Speaker 1: six three eight to leave me a voicemail sent me
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Speaker 1: a text just like Scott in the six two three.
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Speaker 2: Hey Jimmy, it's Scott from the six two three. I'm
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Speaker 2: actually out in Ohio right now for work, but I
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Speaker 2: was catching up and listening to the Richard Pryor episode
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Speaker 2: that you just put out, and he asked for comedian
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Speaker 2: that meant them most to you, and Uh, for me,
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Speaker 2: it has to be Robin Williams by far. Everything the
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Speaker 2: man did was just incredible. The golf might be one
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Speaker 2: of the best comedic efforts ever. And then I was
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Speaker 2: fortunate enough to get to see him live all four
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Speaker 2: times total. My dad worked in the industry and happened
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Speaker 2: to work on Hook and I got to have lunch
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Speaker 2: with Robin at the Coach Roach Roach Coach on set
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Speaker 2: at Columbia Studios back then, and the man made me
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Speaker 2: laugh for forty five minutes NonStop because his mind just
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Speaker 2: never stopped and that's how he worked. And then I
16:42
Speaker 2: was fortunate to see him at the Humbles of Each
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Speaker 2: Comedy Magic Club in a small little setting where he
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Speaker 2: basically did two hours of what do you want to
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Speaker 2: hear from the audience, and it was insane. The band
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Speaker 2: was a genius and unfortunately we're finding out a broken mind,
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Speaker 2: but in a very sad story. But I miss him
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Speaker 2: and I loved him, and I think he was just
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Speaker 2: amazing Rock and Roller. Keep up the great work.
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Speaker 1: Wow, Scott, that's amazing thanks to the voicemail. I cannot
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Speaker 1: believe you saw Robin Williams in a tiny club just
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Speaker 1: kind of riffing, and that is amazing, And you get
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Speaker 1: I mean that. I mean, getting to meet him is
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Speaker 1: one thing, but really getting to see him up close
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Speaker 1: and personal perform like that must have been mind blowing.
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Speaker 1: And I'm very envious. Robin Williams was on another level.
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Speaker 1: I mean, as you know, as most people know that
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Speaker 1: I think of when I think of Rob Williams so
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Speaker 1: much great dramatic acting, but when I think of the comedy,
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Speaker 1: I think of those Letterman appearances and him just going
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Speaker 1: completely uncontained, just off the hook all over the place,
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Speaker 1: just unable to sit still. And you can see, as
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Speaker 1: you said, his broken mind is sort of just going
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Speaker 1: off the rails, were making all these incredible references flying
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Speaker 1: into Tom Waite's impersonations out of nowhere. Just truly, what
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Speaker 1: a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful mind. Incredible stuff. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: the voicemail question of the Week last week, guys, was
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Speaker 1: which comedian from your youth most resonated with you. Obviously
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Speaker 1: that's what Scott was talking about there. This one comes
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Speaker 1: from Matthew in New Jersey.
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Speaker 3: Hey, Jake, this is Matthew from New Jersey calling about
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Speaker 3: favorite comedian of my generation. I was born in eighty
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Speaker 3: five and in the summer in ninety nine, Chris Rock
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Speaker 3: dropped his Bigger and Blacker special, and as a fourteen
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Speaker 3: year old boy, I have to say that was my
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Speaker 3: favorite comedy special. And at the time my parents told me,
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Speaker 3: you know, he was just kind of copying off Eddie Murphy.
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Speaker 3: But that's not my generation. My generation is Chris Rock.
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Speaker 3: And that particular special he talked, he makes flight of
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Speaker 3: the Columbine shootings, which you know, that was, oh, I
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Speaker 3: don't know, twenty six years ago, and it was just
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Speaker 3: the beginning of the school shooting epidemic. It's got some
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Speaker 3: pretty funny things to say about being scared of young
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Speaker 3: white kids with guns. And obviously the Monica Lensky scandal
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Speaker 3: was going on at that time, so there's a lot
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Speaker 3: it or seen it. I think just going back and
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Speaker 1: Listen, Matthew, thank you. Yes, Chris Rock. Chris Rock was
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Speaker 1: not in any Murphy knockoff, not in any way. Chris
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Speaker 1: Rock was his own thing, truly kind of came out
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Speaker 1: of I mean, I don't know, I would think that
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Speaker 1: the same You could say the same thing about Eddie
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Speaker 1: Murphy that he was just ripping on Richard Pryor, but
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Speaker 1: he was uniquely his own thing as well. To me,
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Speaker 1: the answer is Eddie Murphy. I'm a little bit older
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Speaker 1: than you, Matthew, and for me it was just I mean,
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Speaker 1: delirious and raw. It was on rent free in our
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Speaker 1: heads constantly, and we were always quoting from those films.
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Speaker 1: Probably not the best thing. You don't want your kids
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Speaker 1: us Latchkey kids. But I hear you, though, Chris Rock
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Speaker 1: amazing and being able to make light of things like Columbine,
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Speaker 1: the Lewinsky scandal, all that is what a fascinating time
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Speaker 1: can see just being like, Hey, I think Michael Jackson's
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Speaker 1: better that I can that I can get with. I
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Speaker 1: don't actually agree with your point though, that Michael Jackson
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Speaker 1: was what had a more varied musical style or however
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Speaker 1: you put it. I mean, they're both great. You know,
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Speaker 1: They're both. They are both great. It's it's just super
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Speaker 1: hard to compare the two. But you did say you
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Speaker 1: if you got I kind of I gotta say, I
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