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DISGRACELAND
DISGRACELAND is an award-winning music and true crime podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. Jerry Lee Lewis's 5th wife? Dead. Sid and Nancy? Both dead. Why? Because musicians are insane, and insane things happen to them.
Why did we lose Amy Winehouse at 27? Was Debbie Harry really abducted by Ted Bundy as she claims? Is Patti Smith not just the "Godmother of Punk", but also the "Original True Crime Girl"? What really happened the night of the Jay Z nightclub…
Episodes
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Townes Van Zandt: Dreaming Hit Songs, Detox, and Waiting Around to Die
Country songwriter Townes Van Zandt was an incredible talent who toiled in obscurity. Most of his albums never sold more than a few thousand copies. Like his…
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Bonus Episode - The Allegations Against Bill Murray, Your Bill Murray Stories and More
This week, Jake wrestles again with the idea that an artist whose work he admires may, in fact, be an a**hole. Plus, a listener's story of rock and roll…
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Bill Murray: Airport Drug Busts, Backstage Brawls, and Crashing Elvis’s Burial
Before Bill Murray was busting ghosts and living in a loop of deja vu, he was a drug-dealing premed student with a knack for comedy. When he was caught with…
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Bonus Episode - From Charlie Sheen to Caligula, Hedonism Throughout History and More
Who is the most hedonistic entertainer from throughout history? Hint: his name might rhyme with “D. Piddy." Caligula is blushing, and your voicemails, texts…
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Sean “Diddy” Combs (Pt. 2): The Explicit Story Behind the Indictments
How does a music mogul satiate himself when he’s rich, famous, and can have whatever he wants? When he compares himself to gangster-pimp-king-hustlers…
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Bonus Episode - Disgraceful Music and Movie Recommendations and More
In this week's After Party, Jake shares some music and movie recommendations based on the research that went into this year's Disgraceland episodes. On Tuesday…
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George Jones: Voices, Vices, and a Comeback for the Ages
George Jones possessed one of the finest and most expressive instruments God ever created: his voice, which is widely considered the greatest in country music…
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Bonus Episode – What You Guys Have To Say This Christmas
Your wild tales of rock ‘n’ roll animalism, UFOs, Christmas songs, SNL characters, Jay Z and Diddy, and so much more; we get way into your comments, your…
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Chris Farley: Raging Bulls, Insatiable Appetites, Dead Comics, and a Four-Day Plunge off the Edge
Everything about Chris Farley was larger than life. His comedy, his laughs, the risks he took in front of a live studio audience – they were all bigger than…
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Bonus Episode – The Cocaine Enema Was Real and More Rock ‘N’ Roll Truths and Mythbusting, Plus Ken and Barbie Did WHAT On Christmas?
This week in the After Party, Jake gets into the great rock 'n' roll myths: we're talking cocaine enemas, ham sandwiches, mud sharks, and stomach pumps. And…
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Elvis Presley and Johnny Ace: A Deadly Christmas Story
Elvis Presley loved the Memphis singer Johnny Ace. Johnny died long before Elvis’ became the King of Rock ‘N’ Roll and the way in which Johnny Ace died was as…
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Bonus Episode - Chilling Words Diddy Allegedly Said Before Jay Z and He Did What? Plus Shane MacGowan and More
This week in the After Party, Jake dives into the recent allegations against Jay-Z and hears from you about your favorite Christmas songs. Plus, we've compiled…
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Shane MacGowan: Outsiders, Underdogs, and Christmas Eve in the Drunk Tank
Shane MacGowan lived his life as an outsider. He was an Irishman living in England, a troublemaking jug-eared punk with rotten teeth and a voracious appetite…
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Bonus Episode - Preserving Rock n' Roll, Solo Beatles, and Remembering John Lennon
This week in the After Party, Jake looks back at John Lennon and gets your take on which Beatle had the best solo career. Next week, we're bringing you the…
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Bonus Episode - The Band, Concert Films, and Giving Thanks
This week in the After Party, Jake reflects on Thanksgiving and The Last Waltz. Plus, Jake hears from you on your favorite concert films, and it turns out you…
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Martin Scorsese, The Band, and The Last Waltz: A Thanksgiving Story
Martin Scorsese’s death wish. Bob Dylan’s theft. Robbie Robertson’s cocaine purchase. Four thousand pounds of turkey. Two thousand pounds of candied yams…
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Bonus Episode - Disgraceful Disclosures, Conspiracies, and 11.22.63
This week in the After Party, Jake looks forward to the possibility of 2025 being a year of disgraceful disclosures about JFK, UAPs, Jeffrey Epstein, and…
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Woody Harrelson: Contract Killers, JFK Conspiracies, and Fathers & Sons
One of Hollywood’s most eclectic and unpredictable actors, Woody Harrelson has played a hayseed barback, a streetball hustler, a natural born killer, a true…
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Bonus Episode - More Sports, Celebrity Politics, and Diddy's New Digs
This week in the After Party, Jake wonders about celebrities and the sincerity of their political convictions and hears more from you on great sports cities…
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Aaliyah: Married Illegally at 15, Drugs, Corruption, and a Fiery Crash
Married to R. Kelly at 15 years old and dead by the age of 22. Aaliyah was supposed to be as big as Beyonce, but drugs, corruption, and a fiery crash prevented…
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Bonus Episode: Sports Towns, Sports Films, and Diddy's Birthday
This week in the After Party, Jake talks about the 1986 New York Mets and what made them such a special baseball team. Jake hears your thoughts on great sports…
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The ‘86 Mets: Cocaine, On and Off-field Brawls, and a Murder Outside Shea Stadium
The World Series-winning 1986 New York Mets were, in a word: assholes. But their fans loved them anyway. The Mets were brash, scandalous, addicted, violent…
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Bonus Episode: Horrifying Books, Disgraceful Diddy Developments, and the Power of Imagination
Happy Halloween, disgos! This week in the After Party, Jake hears from you about the scariest books you've read and catches you up on the latest Diddy…
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The Exorcist: Demonic Possession, Mass Hysteria, and NYC’s Unsolved Murders
William Friedkin's film The Exorcist terrified audiences upon its release in 1973. They fainted, vomited, and went into hysterics in the theaters. Some…
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Bonus Episode - Scary Movies and an Interview with Low Cut Connie's Adam Weiner
This week in the After Party, Jake sits down with Adam Weiner of Low Cut Connie to discuss the state of rock n' roll and Adam's new film "Art Dealers." Plus…
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Harry Houdini: A Ghost Story
Harry Houdini was the world's greatest escape artist and at the height of his powers was one of the world's most famous people. His unearthly ability to escape…
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Poltergeist Curse: Paranormal Activity, a Plane Crash, and Murder
Four different actors from the 1980s horror franchise Poltergeist died within a 6-year span. Dominique Dunne was murdered. Julian Beck succumbed to stomach…
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Bonus Episode: Dangerous Music, Great Rock n' Roll, and More Shocking Allegations
This week in the After Party, Jake wonders if every disgraceful story covered in Disgraceland is mere child's play when compared to the latest Diddy…
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The Cramps: Zombies, Teenage Werewolves, and Rock ‘N’ Roll Saviors
The Cramps, led by the husband and wife team of Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach, had one one mission: To save rock n' roll from the corporate monsters…
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Bonus Episode: Heart Issues and Hurricanes
This week in the After Party, Jake hears from you on which artists were taken from us too soon, and continues to dive into the latest scuttlebutt on Sean…
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Brandon Lee: Hungry Ghosts, Cursed Movies, and a Goth Masterpiece
Haunted by the legacy of his superstar father and by an old family curse, Brandon Lee tried to outrun the past. But the past came after him all the same. It…
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Bonus Episode: More Diddy Allegations, Travis Scott and Tony Buzbee
This week in the After Party, Jake weighs in on the latest development in the explosive Diddy saga: the 120 alleged victims being represented by Texas attorney…
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Travis Scott and Astroworld: The Devil Went Down to Houston
Travis Scott’s 2021 Astroworld music festival turned out to be a deadly disaster. Was it greed? Satanism? Or was something even more mysterious and evil behind…
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Bonus Episode: Deep in the Diddyverse and Sci-Fi Curious
This week in the After Party, Jake takes a closer look at the Diddy indictment and gets your recommendations on sci fi. Spooky Season is just around the corner…
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Pete Doherty: Benders, Burglary, and a Shocking Fall
The Libertines were at the vanguard of the early 2000s garage rock revival. Fronted by friends Pete Doherty and Carl Barat, the band was seen by the UK press…
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Sigourney Weaver: A Goddess, Beasts and Demons, and Paying Tribute from Death Row
In classic ‘80s films like Ghostbusters and Aliens, Sigourney Weaver battled demons and beasts. But to one particular inmate on death row in Georgia, she…
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Bonus Episode: Freak Offs, Great Television, and a Waitress in the Sky
This week in the After Party, Jake gets into the latest news on the indictment and arrest of Sean "Diddy" Combs, the greatest television shows of all time, and…
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Matthew Perry: The One Where He Dies
Friends star Matthew Perry battled addiction through the white-hot glare of fame while having the number one show on television and the number one movie in…
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Bonus Episode: One Night at the Viper Room, a Disgraceland Special Event, and Remembering River Phoenix
This week in the After Party, Jake looks back at the fateful night of October 31, 1993, when River Phoenix collapsed and died at the Viper Room in Los Angeles…
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River Phoenix: Religious Cults, Deadly Speedballs, and a Disappearing Act
River Phoenix was a once in a generation actor. His death shocked Hollywood and is still hard for many to accept. His deadly drug overdose has never been fully…
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Bonus Episode: Sixes and Sevens and Nines
This week in the After Party, Jake talks about gambling and its role in his family. Plus, listeners weigh in on disgraceful athletes, Lana Del Rey songs, and…
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The NFL: A Dead Owner, A Dead Gangster, A League Founded on Gambling
The image of the National Football League is one of integrity. It’s a squeaky clean brand that NFL commissioners have gone to great lengths to protect. This…
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Bonus Episode: Madonna, The Rolling Stones, and a Critical Double Standard
This week in the After Party, Jake wrestles wonders why certain artists, especially female artists, have a harder time with the critics and the press. Plus…
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Lana Del Rey: Three Dark Stories Inspired by an American Risk Taker (Rewind)
Illicit romance. An abduction. An international manhunt. Starlets, sex appeal, and psychopaths. Sexual liberation and a scandalous story that’s almost…
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Bonus Episode: Problematic Artists, and Did Life Peak in the 90s?
This week in the After Party, Jake wrestles with the works of problematic genius Alfred Hitchcock and gets your take the dilemma presented by such artists. And…
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The Replacements: Stink Bombs, Broken Guitars, and Self-Sabotage
A teenage bass-playing f*ck-up prodigy. A big brother in an ill-fitting bodysuit on national television. A drummer playing chicken with the cops on his…
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Alfred Hitchcock: Killers, Auteurs, and Survivors
Alfred Hitchcock grew up on murder. He was the OG crime junkie; obsessed with true stories of stranglers, bodysnatchers, necrophiliacs, and serial killers. He…
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Bonus Episode: Hollywood and History’s Worst Moms and the Hitchcock Dilemma
This week in the After Party, Jake looks at Brittany Murphy's mysterious death and the history of bad moms in Hollywood and crime. As we prepare for next…
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Brittany Murphy: The Suspicious Death of a Starlet or an Unsolved Murder?
When actress Brittany Murphy died of pneumonia at the age of just 32 years old, it seemed that all of Hollywood had questions about her death. All but her…
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The Hillsborough Disaster: A Fatal Crush, Soccer Hooligans, and a Massive Cover-Up
On April 15th, 1989, 95 men, women, and children were crushed to death during a soccer match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest – two additional…
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Bonus Episode: Can a Heavy Metal Band Be The Most Successful Band of All Time?
This week in the After Party, Jake looks at Metallica's rise from the vanguard of a niche sub-genre of Heavy Metal to become one of the most successful bands…
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Metallica: Thrash Metal, Murder, and the Death of Cliff Burton
In the early days of Metallica, their bass player carried a hammer on tour and had a gun that shot knives – or so the story goes. Their former lead guitarist…
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Bonus Episode: Great Actors of the 1970s, Juvenile Delinquency, and the Luck of The Draw
This week in the After Party, Jake dives into your thoughts on the greatest actors of the 1970s and ponders the road not taken by Al Pacino in this week's…
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Al Pacino: Good and Evil, Attempted Robbery, and the Role of a Lifetime
The death of a neighborhood friend, an attempted robbery that almost went horribly wrong, good vs. evil, and the road not taken: this is the Al Pacino origin…
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Bonus Episode: POV in Storytelling, 1970s Actors, and Sarah Vaughan vs. Ella Fitzgerald
This week in the After Party, Jake has the 1970s on his mind as he prepares for next week's episode on Al Pacino. We want to know: Who is the greatest actor of…
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Motörhead: Speed, Sex, and Revenge
Motörhead influenced some of the most important acts in heavy metal and punk rock history. Led by the inimitable Lemmy Kilmister, they invented a sound and a…
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Bonus Episode: Teenage Obsessions, Your Suggestions, and Great Singers
This week in the After Party, Jake talks about how his sixteen-year-old self influenced who he is today. We want to know: What were you listening to when you…
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Bonus Episode: "Crazy" Artists, Ultraterrestrials, and Arnt Poppy in the Gararge
This week in the After Party, Jake talks about the artists who have faced challenges to their mental health and wonders if they actually have a truer…
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Donny Hathaway: Angels, Demons, and Unexplained Visions
Donny Hathaway was a singer, songwriter, and performer so inspiring that he compelled Stevie Wonder to change the way he sang, got Amy Winehouse to name-check…
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Bonus Episode: Crime and Grime in 1977 NYC, Great Music Cities, CBGB Qu'est-ce que c'est?
This week in the After Party, Jake talks about the unique social conditions that created the vibrant 1970s NYC music scene that birthed Talking Heads, the…