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

This week, Jake is thinking about Richard Pryor. If Pryor had died after setting himself on fire, would that be the strangest celebrity death of all time? Jake takes a look at some strange celebrity deaths, including Tennessee Williams, William Holden, and more. If you know some strange celebrity death stories, let us know! On Tuesday we're bringing you an episode on one of the most important musical figures of the 20th century - Louis Armstrong. But we're going beyond his musical and cultural impact to explore some of the other surprising stuff he was mixed up in - the mob, international intrigue, and a whole lot of marijuana. Jake wants to know: Which musician's behavior surprised you the most? Tell Jake at 617-906-6638, [email protected] mailto:[email protected], or on socials @disgracelandpod. For more great Disgraceland episodes, dive into our extensive archive, including such episodes as: Episode 108 - Sex Pistols pt 1. https://www.disgracelandpod.com/108/sex-pistols-pt-1 Episode 109 - Sex Pistols pt 2. https://www.disgracelandpod.com/109/sex-pistols-pt-2 Episode 193 - The Replacements (All Access) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-replacements-all-access-stink-bombs-broken/id1275172907?i=1000666189353 Episode 3 - Sam Cooke https://www.disgracelandpod.com/003/sam-cooke Episode 53 - John Denver https://www.disgracelandpod.com/053/john-denver Episode 153 - INXS' Michael Hutchence https://www.disgracelandpod.com/153/inxs To hear an extended version of the After Party and hear Jake's thoughts on the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, become a Disgraceland All Access member at disgracelandpod.com/membership. https://disgracelandpod.com/membership. Visit www.disgracelandpod.com/merch https://www.disgracelandpod.com/merch to see the latest Disgraceland merch! Sign up for our newsletter and get the inside dirt on events, merch and other awesomeness - GET THE NEWSLETTER https://mailchi.mp/doubleelvis/disgraceland-email-newsletter Follow Jake and DISGRACELAND: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/disgracelandpod/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@disgracelandpod X https://twitter.com/disgracelandpod (formerly Twitter) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• 0:01Speaker 00

  This is exactly right.

• 0:13Speaker 01

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• 0:47Speaker 02

  She'd throw things, wander, and started hoarding. Mom's Alzheimer's was already so hard, but then we found out she had agitation that may happen with dementia due to Alzheimer's disease. And that was a different kind of difficult. So we asked her doctor for more help.

• 1:02Speaker 03

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• 1:37Speaker 02

  I'm glad I asked for help.

• 1:39Speaker 03

  Ask your loved one's doctor about Rexulti.

• 1:45Jake Brennan?

  Hey, Discos. Need a little more DisgraceLand in your life? Just a touch to get you through? Yeah, me too. This is the podcast that comes after the podcast. Welcome to DisgraceLand: The Afterparty.

• 2:12Jake Brennan?

  Welcome to the DisgraceLand bonus episode, a little thing we like to call the after-party. This is the show after the show, the party after the party, the bridge to get you from one full episode of DisgraceLand to the other, the backyard to dig into the dirt. On this bonus episode, we are talking about this week's full episode subject, the icon Richard Pryor, incredibly bizarre celebrity deaths. That's kind of related to Richard Pryor. We get into that here. We're also previewing our upcoming episode on Louis Armstrong, and we get into your voicemails, texts, DMs, emails, and as always, a whole lot of rosy all right discos. Let's get into it.

• 3:00Jake Brennan?

  Back on June 9, 1980, Richard Pryor lit himself on fire while high on drugs. He then proceeded to bolt out of his house, run down the street, totally engulfed in flames. It wasn't until police spotted him and came to his rescue that the flames were extinguished and Richard Pryor was saved. He famously depicts this episode in his life in his Live on the Sunset Strip special. We obviously depicted it in our episode on Richard Pryor that we just released. It goes without saying that it's, it's nearly a miracle that Richard Pryor survived. It's a miracle, nearly a miracle that he survived this incident. It's nearly a miracle that he survived his childhood and numerous other incidents throughout his

• 3:44Jake Brennan?

  adulthood. He lived until December 10, 2005, when he died of a heart attack. It was his second or third heart attack. I can't remember which one. It was a death that many people saw coming, given that Richard's relationship with drugs was well-known, and he also had multiple sclerosis.

• 4:01Jake Brennan?

  But what if the accident where Richard Pryor lit himself on fire killed Richard Pryor? I'm sure, I was thinking about this this morning and I am positive and then I looked into it. Now I'm extra positive that this would have been the weirdest celebrity death of all time. No, is there a weirder celebrity death than somebody freebasing cocaine and lighting themselves on fire, running down the street and dying? It got me thinking, I've come up with nada. I dug in here to the old internerd and I did a little research. And I can't find anything that comes close. I did find some weird shit and I'm excited to talk to you guys about it.

• 4:44Jake Brennan?

  Cause I don't think we've ever talked about this in this space before. And I think the reason we haven't talked about it is because there's just not that many really compelling incidents of celebrities dying that are just really bizarre and weird. I'm talking about six feet under, you know, cold open weird. That's what I'm talking about here. Okay. So here's what I got and you guys might know more about these incidents than I do, these deaths than I do. And if you do, by all means, get in touch and tell me what you know about it. I didn't know, I didn't know hardly any of these. Tennessee Williams, okay, the famous playwright, author of A Streetcar Named Desire. He died while choking on a bottle cap, a bottle cap. Apparently a plastic eye drops bottle cap, like the cap for like a Visine container or something.

• 5:27Jake Brennan?

  Tennessee Williams had taken the cap off and put it between his teeth to hold it, tipped his head back, put the eye drops in. And the cap slipped from his teeth and caught in his, caught in his throat. And I gotta say, I never knew this, obviously this death though, this is the type of death that scares the hell out of me because it seems like something that could easily happen to me. Maybe I've watched, like I said before, too much six feet under, I don't know. But that's what it reminded me of. Here's another weird one, incredibly weird one. I didn't know this name, Isadora Duncan. Okay. She's like an early 20th century dancer, queen of modern dance. This is wild. Her day was back in the early, early twenties. She died riding in a convertible. She had a long scarf on, okay? And the scarf starts blowing in the wind behind her.

• 6:10Jake Brennan?

  Somehow the scarf gets tangled around the car's wheel. And tightens around her neck and it just rapidly gets super tight and then it it whips her out of the car by her neck. You know, the scarf was wrapped so tight, the car is, the car's flying forward and it's just like the scarf's caught onto the back wheel, hurls her out of the car, bam, onto the stone pavement, right on the street. She hits the street so hard, she's killed instantly from the force of the impact and nearly decapitated. Super strange death. Here's another one. William Holden. Okay, William Holden, actor from the middle of the 20th century, is in The Wild Bunch, he's in Sunset Boulevard, in some really

• 6:52Jake Brennan?

  huge, huge films. Super handsome dude. He's hanging out in his apartment one night in Hollywood. He gets blotto drunk, falls over, bangs his head on his nightstand and falls asleep. Unbeknownst to him, the cut on his head from banging on the nightstand is so bad that he just slowly bleeds to death. They find this guy four days later dead and the coroner says that had he been sober and simply called for help, that he would have easily lived. Oof, this is, this is what makes me cringe. Head wounds freak me out. Michael Hutchence from NXS did not die from auto erotic asphyxiation, even though large parts of the internet still think he did, but you guys know that because you listened to the NXS episode of DisgraceLand.

• 7:37Jake Brennan?

  David Carradine, however, from Kill Bill, he did die from auto erotic asphyxiation and I gotta say, I knew that, I forgot about it, and then I think I tricked myself into, into thinking that it wasn't real, but it was real. Keith Ralph from The Yardbirds, Jimmy Page's first band, died from playing guitar, okay, electrocuted, also very scary to me. I cannot tell you how many times I've been electrocuted on stage, electrocuted in the studio, brutally electrocuted, like knocked off my feet electrocuted. So Keith Ralph, I had no idea about this, from The Yardbirds, and didn't, uh, this can be thinking, didn't Steve Marion from The Faces

• 8:16Jake Brennan?

  die weirdly as well? And he did. He fell asleep, smoking a cigarette, set his house on fire, and he didn't burn up, but he died of the, the smoke inhalation. And they, they found, actually fans of his, like the guys in the fire department who found him were fans. I read about this this morning. Super sad. This would be a really cool episode to do, I think. You know, you could kind of write it with him falling asleep and kind of track, track the episode as you flashback to his past, to the burning down of the cigarette, until he eventually passes out. I don't know. I don't want to get creative here, but that's what I was thinking. Vic Morrow, the actor, I didn't know Vic Morrow. I'd heard of this story before.

• 8:59Jake Brennan?

  Vic Morrow was on the set of The Twilight Zone, and I'm not talking about the Rod Serling Twilight Zone from the 50s. I'm talking about the Steven Spielberg feature film from the 80s. And this, this movie, kind of like Poltergeist, it's got a lot of lore around it. It's got, you know, believed to be cursed. Vic Morrow was decapitated by a helicopter on set of The Twilight Zone. So, look, so far, I'm like halfway through this list. And, you know, none of these names approach the level of Richard Pryor. Maybe William Holden did at one point. But you see where I'm going here, right? If Richard Pryor had died from lighting himself on fire, he easily, this easily would have been the craziest celebrity death we've ever had.

• 9:44Jake Brennan?

  But he didn't. He lived. But let's keep going here for the purpose of the argument. Sonny Bono of Sonny and Cher died in a, died in a skiing accident. We knew that from the impact of hitting a tree. This one I didn't know, and I'm surprised I didn't know this because it happened fairly recently. It happened in 1999. Owen Hart, pro wrestler, okay? Now, I wasn't paying attention to pro wrestling in 1999, but a lot of people were. I don't know what I was doing and how this escaped me, but this is crazy, man. This dude, it's a live pay-per-view special. He's being lowered from the rafters into the ring. He's super high up. He's being held by a harness. The harness comes undone and the wrestler, Owen Hart, he falls 60 feet on live television or pay-per-view, whatever, it's live, and dies right there, right there. It's awful.

• 10:29Jake Brennan?

  That's so awful and so bizarre. Imagine being that dude's family and seeing that, having to deal with that. Incredibly traumatic. Others that were mentioned that we have covered here in disgraced land, Sam Cooke, you know, mysterious circumstances, sure. John Denver. Yeah, I'm not going to spoil it here. Parts of the internet still think Mama Cass Elliot died from eating a ham sandwich. She did not. We covered that in two episodes. So I was pretty surprised to not know the stories of many of these deaths, like I said. And just to make the point, Richard Pryor's accident, had he died from those, from that fire, had it been cemented in stone that the cause of the fire was freebasing cocaine, which I think we're all pretty sure

• 11:12Jake Brennan?

  was the case, even though the fact is somewhat disputed. I think that given Richard's popularity, this would have gone down as the strangest celebrity death of all time. But you guys know a lot about this subject, I'm sure. So get in touch. And if you know anyone else that I'm forgetting here, weird celebrity deaths, let me know. Maybe some of them will make for good episodes. I'm particularly interested in musicians. I feel like I've covered all that ground. I've researched, I've researched it all. I feel like I got it all. But I don't know. I didn't know the Keith Ralph thing. So that was news to me. Maybe there's some more stuff here. If you know anything, hit me up. Let me know which celebrity death I'm leaving off of our list here. All right, moving on. Not a lot of super compelling news in the Sean Diddy Combs case. You know, it's in part because I'm

• 11:55Jake Brennan?

  kind of sick of this story, if I'm being honest. You know, we need some, I'm sick of the conjecture and the speculation. We need some real hard evidence to move this story forward. Okay. Not a lot has gone on. Diddy apparently was snuck out of prison under the cover of darkness for an MRI on his knee. Some people thought that that meant that he was going to get Epstein'd. But apparently Diddy's back in his cell, safe and sound, bad knee and all. There are a few more lawsuits this week from the Busby camp. Apparently there's about 10 more coming in the next few days. This is all according to the BBC. So I'm not just giving you TikTok speculation here. I am not caught up on the Diddy HBO series, but I will be soon. The series is a tough watch for me. It's an outrage machine. That's what the series is. I'm not trying to throw you off the

• 12:39Jake Brennan?

  series. I think you should watch it. It's done really, really well. I've just already consumed a lot of this information and I'm sort of, I got a full lid on Diddy and the grossness. I'm gonna watch it though. I'm gonna try to be all caught up by the next time we talk in case anything else breaks, although I said that last week and I have not done that. I've been busy making stuff, making a lot of stuff over here, lot of stuff. And I have an update on my studio, finally, after getting screwed by a contractor who just took my money and bailed, who will be dealt with in time. Um, we have hired a new contractor and they're moving very fast and my new studio will finally be done by the middle of March, which I cannot wait for. So, but that's not, we're not letting it slow us down. That's the point I'm trying to make.

• 13:23Jake Brennan?

  We're making a ton of stuff here, lots of new video content, working on some cool new projects. I'm excited and I'm writing a banger of an episode right now, Martin Scorsese, another one, part two. This is the, um, we're gonna have this released for you in time for the Academy Awards. So I've been doing that this week. I'm really excited about it. I can't wait for you guys to hear it. And, um, yeah, what else? I saw the Dylan movie, A Complete Unknown. Finally, I'm gonna give you my review in the bonus section of this episode. You guys want to be bonus members? You know how to do it. Go to disgracelandpod.com/allaccess. You sign up, it's five bucks, you get ad-free listening, you get an extra exclusive episode per month, plus you get me here in the bonus episode, giving you some bonus content, okay? Extra bonus content, I should

• 14:08Jake Brennan?

  say. And this week, it's gonna be my review of A Complete Unknown. Okay, moving on from the update, moving on from Diddy, moving on from Richard Pryor. Next week, we have an episode on jazz great 20th century icon Louis Armstrong. You know Louis Armstrong. Like I said, he's an icon. He's a horn player, raspy voice guy, what a wonderful world. That dude looked like your average happy-go-lucky grandpa by the end of his life. And that's the iconic image of Louis Armstrong. But the dude was not what he seemed. He was involved with a coup d'etat in Africa. Here in the States, he was heavily involved with the mob and was a world-class, number one- Reeferhead dude got stoned despite his image and way before grass was made fashionable

• 14:50Jake Brennan?

  in the 60s. So when you're listening to this episode, be thinking about all the musicians we've covered in Disgraceland, okay? All of them. And which artist behavior surprised you the most? Were you like, holy shit, I didn't know she was up to that, or I didn't know that dude was doing that? That's what I want to know. That's going to be the question of the week for next week. Think about that when you're listening to the Louis Armstrong episode and let me know 617-906-6638. Voicemail and text at Disgraceland Pod on the socials. Coming up before Louis Armstrong, though, coming up next in your feed is our two-part episode on Miles Davis and the rewind slot. These are two of my favorite episodes. They sound incredible, if I do say so myself. Matt Boden mixed the hell out of them. He's

• 15:33Jake Brennan?

  a jazz head, so I think he really got into these ones creatively. If you've heard these episodes, you're gonna want to hear them again, okay? And if you haven't, you're like, but I don't like jazz, man. Or you're like, I don't know that much about Miles Davis. I don't care. Don't listen, listen, listen. I don't care. I don't care that you don't like jazz. I don't care that you might not think that often of Miles Davis or think that you're interested in Miles Davis. I'm going to tell you something about you right now. You're cool. You know how I know you're cool? Because you're listening to this podcast. You know who else was cool? Miles Davis. Miles Davis, I'm pretty sure the dude invented cool. He might be one of the most rock and roll, most badass musicians of all time. And he was a beast of an artist whose story is insane. There is tons of drama in these episodes.

• 16:16Jake Brennan?

  The dude is just on, he was just on another level and he's kind of low-key hysterical. So you're gonna want to listen to this, okay? Plus, there's all these arrests, car crashes, just like Richard Pryor. There's lots of cocaine, all right? And it's probably also got one of the best intros that we've ever done for any episode of Disgraceland. So check that out. Miles Davis coming up in the rewind slots. Right now, I'm gonna take a quick break. I'll be back to you shortly with your voicemails, texts, and DMs from our question of the week last week.

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• 17:26Speaker 02

  She'd throw things, wander, and started hoarding. Mom's Alzheimer's was already so hard, but then we found out she had agitation that may happen with dementia due to Alzheimer's disease. And that was a different kind of difficult. So we asked her doctor for more help.

• 17:41Speaker 03

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• 18:16Speaker 02

  I'm glad I asked for help.

• 18:18Speaker 03

  Ask your loved one's doctor about Rexulti.

• 18:31Jake Brennan?

  All right, we are back. Just a quick reminder to make sure you, Apple Podcast listeners, as always, have auto downloads turned on so you're not missing any episodes. You guys know how to get in touch with me, 617-906-6638, to leave me a voicemail, send me a text, just like Scott in the 623.

• 18:47Speaker 06

  Hey, Judy, it's Scott from the 623.

• 18:52Speaker 06

  I'm actually out in Ohio right now for work, but I was catching up and listening to the Richard Pryor episode that you just put out and he asked for comedian that meant the most to you. And for me, it had to be Robin Williams by far. Everything the man did was just incredible. The golf thing might be one of the best comedic efforts ever. Period. And then I was fortunate enough to get to see him live all four times total. My dad worked in the industry and happened to work on Hook and I got to have lunch with

• 19:36Speaker 06

  Robin at the Coach Roach, Roach Coach on set at Columbia Studios back then. And the man made me laugh for 45 minutes nonstop because his mind just never stopped and that's how he worked. And then I was fortunate to see him at the Homme de Beach Comedy and Magic Club in a small little setting where he basically did two hours of what do you want to hear from the audience? And it was insane. The man was a genius and unfortunately we're finding out a broken mind, but in a very sad story. But I miss him and I loved

• 20:21Speaker 06

  him and I think he was just amazing. Rock and roll. Keep up the great work.

• 20:25Jake Brennan?

  Wow, Scott, that's amazing. Thanks for the voicemail. I cannot believe you saw Robin Williams in a tiny club, just kind of riffing. And that is amazing. And to get, I mean, that, I mean, getting to meet him is one thing, but really getting to see him up close and personal perform like that must have been mind blowing and I'm very envious. Robin Williams is on another level. I mean, as you know, as most people know, that I think of, when I think of Robin Williams, so much great dramatic acting. But when I think of the comedy, I think of those Letterman appearances and him just going completely uncontained, just off the hook.

• 21:07Jake Brennan?

  All over the place, just unable to sit still. And you can see, as you said, his broken mind is sort of just going off the rails, making all these incredible references, flying into Tom Waits impersonations out of nowhere. Just truly, what a, what a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful mind. Incredible stuff. Thank you for the voicemail. Question of the week last, last week, guys, was which comedian from your youth most resonated with you? Obviously, that's what Scott was talking about there. This, this one comes from Matthew in New Jersey.

• 21:40Speaker 07

  Hey Jake, this is Matthew from New Jersey, calling about favorite comedian of my generation. I was born in 85, and in the summer of 99, Chris Rock dropped his Bigger and Blacker special. And as a 14 year old boy, I have to say that was my favorite comedy special. And at the time, my parents told me, you know, he was just kind of copying off Eddie Murphy, but that's not my generation. My generation is Chris Rock. And that particular special, he talks, he makes light of the Columbine shootings, which, you know, that was, I don't know, 26 years ago, and it was just the beginning of the school shooting

• 22:23Speaker 07

  epidemic. He's got some pretty funny things to say about being scared of young white kids with guns. And obviously, the Monica Lewinsky scandal was going on at that time. So there's a lot of fodder for current events. And if anyone hasn't heard it or seen it, I think just going back and giving it a listen.

• 22:41Jake Brennan?

  Matthew, thank you. Yes, Chris Rock. Chris Rock was not an Eddie Murphy knockoff, not in any way. Chris Rock was his own thing, truly kind of came out of, I mean, I don't know, I would think that the same, you could say the same thing about Eddie Murphy, that he was just riffing, ripping on Richard Pryor, but he was uniquely his own thing as well. To me, the answer is Eddie Murphy. I'm a little bit older than you, Matthew. And for me, it was just, I mean, delirious and raw. It was, it was on rent free in our heads constantly. And we were always quoting from those films, probably not the best thing. You don't want your kids in the, you know, fourth, fifth, sixth grade, doing Eddie Murphy bits at the bus stop. But

• 23:24Jake Brennan?

  Such was the reality for us latchkey kids. But I hear you, though. Chris Rock, amazing. And being able to make light of things like Columbine, the Lewinsky scandal, all that. It's just what a fascinating time to be alive and consuming comedy and culture and politics in general. We're talking 1999, early 2000s. All right, guys, this text comes from Dawn in the 801. Dawn writes, hey, like Heidi, I was also diagnosed with cancer at the end of 2024. I'm 48 years old. That reminder that MCA was 47 when he died of cancer hit me really hard. Keep up the great work. Don't worry about me. I start chemo in 12 days and should take care of what's left after surgery.

• 24:04Jake Brennan?

  Listen, Dawn, we are sending you all of the PMA that we can possibly muster here in Disgrace Land. I'll be praying for you, my brother. I hope you pull out of this. I hope you're doing as good as you can be doing. And I hope you hope these Disgrace Land episodes, these after-party episodes, give you a little bit of comfort. I know you're going through a tough time. Hang in there. You're gonna be good as new when you come out the other side. 910 writes in, hey, man, discovered Disgrace Land podcast recently and I'm hooked. Lots of catching up to do. My new podcast of choice on my hikes and gym adventures. Though I'd ask, ever do anything on the infamous Sex Pistols US tour that extinguished the candle for the group? Or anything on the Replacements? A new loyal fan in North Carolina. That's from Rob in the 910. Rob, my man, I love these texts. I love the new listeners.

• 24:48Jake Brennan?

  I love when you ask me about episodes that we have waiting for you in the canon, in the archive, right now. Two episodes, two, two episodes on the Sex Pistols. Plus, we got one on Sid and Nancy that we did before. We're gonna, we're gonna be launching that one again as a rewind come Valentine's Day. But right now, you can go get those two, two Sex Pistols episodes. Just do a quick search. Also, Replacements episode, we got a Replacements episode. That's, that's for our all-access members, though, Rob. You want to get that extra Disgrace Land content every month? You got to become a member. It's five bucks. Go to disgracelandpod.com/membership to sign up. You're gonna get ad-free listening. And as I mentioned at the beginning, you're gonna get a little extra bonus here in the bonus episode as well, okay? Thanks for the text, Rob. Happy to have you along for the ride with us. Steve Wilson over on X.

• 25:33Jake Brennan?

  Writes @disgracelandpod, "Just listened to the Richard Pryor episode. I love the toy, too. I love the toy. I love the toy. You guys not love the toy? You ass. Of course you do." Scott C. over on Facebook writes in relationship to our Apollonia David Lee Roth Prince love triangle video that we posted. Scott C. writes, "Hey, I know I'll get hate, but I think Prince was overrated. Most of the songs sounded similar and he couldn't dance like Michael. Michael had a greater range with music, so much so that a lot of his songs didn't sound alike." Scott, I'm not gonna light you up here like you're getting lit up on Facebook right now on our Facebook page. I appreciate the

• 26:13Jake Brennan?

  boldness, Scott. I too have bold takes. That's a bold one right there. Not liking Prince. I can see just being like, hey, I think Michael Jackson's better. That I can, that I can get with. I don't actually agree with your point, though, that Michael Jackson was, had a more varied musical style, or however you put it. I mean, they're both great, you know? It's like comparing Michael Jordan and LeBron. No, it's not, because LeBron sucks. Not that Michael Jackson sucks, or Prince. They're both, they are both great. It's just super hard to compare the two. But you did say you just don't like Prince. "That's taste, so I'm not gonna, you know, whatever. Okay, you got it. You got it. I like, I, my point is, I read your comment because I like, I like the boldness, my man.

• 26:56Jake Brennan?

  I do. Whether or not I agree with it, I like it." You guys can make comments all you want on our Facebook page, facebook.com/disgracelandpod, @disgracelandpod on Facebook, @disgracelandpod on X, and on Instagram. Speaking of Instagram, Instagram, are you done fucking around trying to win over TikTok users who are never coming to your platform? Can we go back to putting the algorithm the way it was, where it was serving up our reels to all the people who wanted to see them, and you weren't just holding us sort of, you know, vet creators back to make room for the new TikTok users who, again, are not coming? Can we go back to the way it was just like six weeks ago? Can we do that, please? Okay, thank you. All right, I'm gonna take a quick break. I'll be back in a flash with your emails, reviews, and the story of the week.

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• 28:20Speaker 02

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• 29:24Jake Brennan?

  All right, guys, we are back, back with the story of the week. You know the drill. Listen, we're looking for your craziest rock and roll stories, the stories that you have experienced, the stories that you have heard, the stories that best preserve the spirit of rock and roll. That's what we're doing here in DisgraceLand. I want to hear from you. Email is best, but you can hit me up @disgracelandpod on the socials. You can even call me, leave me a voicemail, send me a text. This one comes via email from Disco Fox, aka Jim from Montreal. This is, uh, this is an email, says, "Hey, back to your stones and true..." Trudeau dust up in Canada. I was there at the McCombo. We saw Maggie Trudeau at the club right there next to us getting down to the Stones. It was incredibly surreal. When the night was over, we thought that was fun. We thought that was cool. We thought no one would believe what we saw. And then the next day, it's all over the papers. It's all over the news.

• 30:09Jake Brennan?

  The biggest story in the country and we were right there as it happened. And oh, by the way, the Stones rocked. This is incredible. Thank you, Jim. Listen, if you got, I kinda, I gotta say, I just, I have such FOMO from the rock and roll era before the one that I came up in that I, I really appreciate these stories. Where you guys were there at some of these events makes it very compelling to me. Hit me up. Like I said, story of the week gets right here in disgraced land. I don't know that I mentioned that, but I'm reading it now. Gets a message here in the after party. We're also going to be shouting you guys out on social as well. So check out the Instagram, Facebook, X, Tik Tok. Your story might be the story of the week. Got an email here from

• 30:52Jake Brennan?

  Robert Vogel. It's a suggestion. You know me, I love the episode suggestions. Robert says, hey, a band to cover. Have you thought about doing an episode on Poison? Well, listen, Robert, you know, I really haven't. But Robert, you're kind of convincing me. Robert goes on to say, I know they had a really, really wild days back at the start, but no idea they were bad enough to warrant an episode. Listen, Poison was one of those bands I rebelled hard against as a kid. I have a newfound respect, if not musical liking for the band. I realize now they're just another, just another rock and roll band. They looked like poodles or whatever. And I think that CC Deville guy is hysterical. And someone told me the other day what that guy's doing lately and it's really interesting. And it's, it's like right on the tip of my brain right now. I can't

• 31:33Jake Brennan?

  think of what it is. But yeah, perhaps, perhaps, perhaps, Robert. Thank you for the, for the email. What else we got here? Reviews, guys. Reviews are key. Reviews help with discovery. You hear me say it every single week. We are an independent podcast. We rely on the reviews to help propel the episode, help others find it. Once a week I pick out a review or two. I read them here. One from Apple Podcasts, one from Spotify. If you hear your review mentioned, you can hit me up and I will get you some free merch that we got. Lying around the studio here. Just so you know, if you've, if you've reached out to me and I have not responded, we do these once per month. So, uh,

• 32:12Jake Brennan?

  excuse me, we read them every week, but we sort of get into the fulfillment of it, sending out the, the merch once per month. So it's a coming. This review comes on Apple Podcast via Chuck Destruction. Chuck, what a fucking name, my man. I love it.

• 32:29Jake Brennan?

  Solid storytelling about everything you can... dot, dot, dot. Five stars. Chuck goes on to say, Jake has made the controversial comment that rock and roll is dead. It is. Over the years, he and his esteemed team have gone through the hard work of collecting and archiving the worst behavior in musicians, let alone humans. And if your dark passenger needs a little fill of debauchery, this podcast will help you experience terror and laughter over what humans can do to one another. Serial killers are interesting, but how hostage-taking, stalking, arson and covering up murders happens by those we love dancing to occurs? Well, now that is riveting. Chuck Destruction. Love the review. Love your name. Thank you, brother. Get in touch. We'll get you some merch.

• 33:08Jake Brennan?

  Ashley Pickholz writes simply over on Spotify in relation to the Rick James Rewind episode. Ah, this is so good. I am squealing. Ashley, love it. Get in touch. We will hook you up. All right, guys, this episode is nearing its end, but the after-party continues for our All Access members. You can sign up today. You're going to hear an extended version of this after-party with that bonus content I've been blabbering on about this week. It's going to be my review of A Completely Unknown, the Bob Dylan Story, brought to you by Timothy Shamalama Ding Dong. That's coming up right after this. Don't forget, All Access membership is also going to get you guys an extra bonus episode per month. And guys, these bonus episodes, we're going to have some very interesting news on these coming up next week, I believe.

• 33:52Jake Brennan?

  And in case it bears repeating. The cost of becoming an all access member is pretty affordable, you know, if you ask me, five bucks a month. Okay, I paid more for my coffee this morning than than that. I'm not saying that, you know, we should be paying more for for coffees than $5 a month. We should not, absolutely. There are certain things, I'm on record as saying this, there are certain things that just there should be a law passed that there are certain things that should not cost more than a dollar. And a coffee is one of them. A beer is another one. You should be able to get a glass of beer, a small glass of beer in a bar for a dollar. Okay, I don't care. It can be Bush Light. It can be frickin' Meisterbrot, doesn't matter. There should be

• 34:33Jake Brennan?

  a dollar beer option. All right. And maybe just to, you know, cut down on people getting sloshed, maybe, maybe there's a limit. Okay, maybe you can only buy three, $3 beers, three $1 beers. Okay, hot dogs, hot dogs, they should only be a dollar. I don't care where you are, Fenway Park, doesn't matter. You always have a, you know, you can charge more for the fancy ones. Just give me the dollar option. Okay, I don't like fancy hot dogs either. I just like simple. Don't fuck it up on me. It's a simple thing. So there you have it. Beers, coffee and hot dogs should not be more than a buck. And Disgraceant All Access is only five bucks. Okay, go to disgracysampod.com/membership.

• 35:29Jake Brennan?

  All right, we are back, guys. A bunch of archive episodes were mentioned in this bonus episode. Michael Hutchins from Inexcess, Sex Pistols, Replacements, Sam Cooke, John Denver, you can hear all those in the archive with the exception of the Replacements episode. You've got to be an all access member to hear that one. But Matt will, as always, he will put in the, he'll put the the show info in the show notes here, and you should easily be able to grab that info and head into our archive and find those great episodes that are waiting for you. All right, let's recap. Shall we? Number one, I want your story. Call me, text me, hit me on socials with your favorite story of rock and roll animalism. All right, this can be a wild Story about you and a rock star, personal experience, or something you've heard along the way. Let me know. Hit me up. Number two, right now in your feed, our episode on Richard

• 36:12Jake Brennan?

  Pryor. Number three, coming tomorrow, rewinding back to our two-part Miles Davis story. Number four, merch winners. Get in touch. You know who you are. Number five, remember, no one cares about preserving the spirit of rock and roll more than you doing well. That's a disgrace. All right, this week's episode subject, Richard Pryor died on December 10, 2005, and this is the Billboard charts from the day we lost this icon. Number one, Run It. Chris Brown, last week, one. Peak position, one. Weeks on chart, 16. Number two, Gold Digger, Kanye West, featuring Jamie Foxx, last week, two. Peak position, one. Weeks on chart, 20.

• 36:53Jake Brennan?

  Number three, My Hups, The Black Eyed Peas, last week, three. Peak position, three. Weeks on chart, 17. Number four, Laffy Taffy, D4L, last week, six. Peak position, four. Weeks on chart, 11. Number six, Photograph, Nickelback, last week, five. Peak position, two. Weeks on chart,

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  Escape set sail March 20th, 2027 to Grand Turk in the Beach Club at Bimini. The difference between this year and last will be that I will be on the cruise this year along with Zeph, and he and I will be taping a live version of Disgrace Land along with podcast hosts from Exactly Right's Buried Bones, Podcast of the Year Award winners Wisecrack, and other fan favorites. Get on this cruise with us, guys, and enjoy live podcast recordings, behind-the-scenes storytelling, exclusive meet-and-greets, and immersive true crime programming throughout this one-of-a-kind voyage. Head over to www.virginvoyages.com/trucrime to secure your spot.

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