DISGRACELAND - Bonus Episode: Alter Egos, Sad Sack Songs, and a Tribute to Disgos

Episode Date: October 12, 2023

This week in DISGRACELAND saw the premiere of the Ol' Dirty Bastard episode, and it's got Jake thinking about other famous alter egos. Plus, Halloween music, seventies music, your voicemails, texts, and DMs, and a tribute to you, the listener. What's your favorite sad sack 70s music? What's your favorite Jim Croce album? What are the best alter egos in music? Favorite Halloween songs? And what's your favorite Disgraceland Halloween episode? Drop Jake a line at 617-906-6638, [e-mail], or on socials @disgracelandpod, and come join the After Party. 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/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Just wanted to chime in here real quick, let you know that the recording of these bonus episodes this week is going to be a little wonky. I'm in the middle of building a new studio here. We moved. It's a whole thing. Didn't want to go a week without recording any bonus episodes, though. So you're going to have to deal with a little extra reverb.

Just think of it as you're in, like, the studio at Motown back of the day. Also, quick shout out before we get into this bonus episode to all the listeners for the continued support. Thank you, as always. This episode is a special tribute to you guys. Thanks for inspiring and motivating me, as always. And, yeah, real quick, this past Tuesday, as you probably know, we released our eighth episode

in our Wu-Tang series, this one on Old Dirty Bastard. And this week, over in the Badlands Feed, we've got a brand new episode on David Lynch for you to check out. I killed Laura Palmer, just so you know, it was me. All right, let's get into the after party. Hey, Discos.

Need a little more disgrace land 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 After Party. 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 episode, we are talking, among other things about, well, you guys, The disgrace-saint community and what makes you all so awesome. We're also talking about old dirty bastard, amazing Halloween songs, and a call-to-arms against shitty music and boring music history.

And of course, your voicemails, text, DMs, and more. And as always, a whole lot of rosy. All right, discos, let's get into it. All right, we are here in the disgrace-land bonus episode in what we call the after-party, the place where we discuss the music and the sometimes flawed and sometimes larger-than-life characters that need discussing. And I've been reflective lately. Like I said earlier at the top here, I recently moved, had some, had some a little more alone time on my hands and I figured I would be having, allowing me to just sort of, you know, while I'm moving and unpacking the stuff from the

family, I'm thinking about what, what are we even doing here in this disgrace land that we've built? I put these bonus episodes together with the team, the help of the team here at Double all of this. And a lot of times I'm just caught up in the motion of doing it. I wanted to kind of hit pause on that this week and just sort of share my thinking with you guys. When I started Disgraceland, I did it in part to make the podcast that didn't yet exist, but that I wanted to hear. And before Disgraceland, there was no music and true crime podcast. And what's grown out of disgraceland is this community, you guys, the discos. And as we've grown together beyond music and true crime. It's not just about the piano player who got away with murdering his wife or the hip-hop star

who got gunned down on Crenshaw or the horror core artist who ate his roommate. Now it's about you and it's about me and it's about the relationship that we have. I've been thinking about what I bring to this relationship. You got to do that every once in a while to keep things fresh. You guys know this. You guys who were married, you guys who were in long-term relationships with other men and women and significant others. You got to know when to stop and just sort of do a little personal assessment, okay, reflect. I've been thinking about what I, like I said, what I bring to this relationship and I've been thinking about what you guys bring to this relationship as well. This engagement that we have in these bonus episodes, it's turned into this unexpected gift

for me. When I started doing the bonus episodes, I mean, quite honestly, it was a contractual obligation. That's how it started as one of the deals that I had earlier in the, in the lifespan here of disgrace land. And I didn't like just, you know, hacking up this bonus episode and, and packaging it up and sending it out to you guys. I thought there'd be a new, a more interesting, more nuanced way to do things. So we found a way to do this with some old school telephone wire,

some rotary telephones with voicemail and text and of course the modern tools of social media. And now I have this other place for me to talk to you and for us to talk together once a week in a real and tangible way. And what's come of that, you know, beyond all that, What's more important is that you guys provoke me to think about music and to think about musicians that we cover in a different way, which is refreshing.

It is totally refreshing, and I have a lot of gratitude for it. What I like to believe that I bring to the relationship is similar. It's a unique point of view on the musicians that we cover and the music that we love or the music that we are in love with learning about. We are music lovers, all of us. We're obsessives. It's not enough to know that old dirty bastard spent time in prison. We want to know and feel his state of mind in the moment while he experienced hard time.

It's not enough to simply read on Rollingstone.com that ACDC was accused of inspiring a serial killer. We want to peek inside the state of mind of that serial killer and find out what he was doing when he was listening to ACDC. It's not enough to be told by Billboard magazine that Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska was inspired by real-life gangsters from Philadelphia. We want to be sitting on the corner across the street in South Philly at that moment when they blew up the chicken man and when they blew up his house, too. And the New York Post might interview me about Taylor Swift and her many stalkers, but you want to hear the lunacy and derangement that contributes to those stalkers scaling walls and bypassing the security of the biggest pop star in the world and to try to understand the reason behind all of that. These artists, they're all entertaining, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. That tip of the iceberg is all throughout the mainstream music press.

It's easy to find in biopics. It's easy to find in biographies. But the things that these artists do, they're crimes, the things that happen to them, they're attackers, and the things that inspire them, provide a whole other level of entertainment for us to explore here in disgrace land. A new kind of storytelling that we can tap into. Edge of Your Seat storytelling spawn from music and true crime. And we've got a whole different but similar thing going on with Badlands, which I'll address in our rap party bonus episode one of these weeks.

You get us subscribe to that over in the Badlands Feed. But here in the Disgraceland Feed, this is the place for the true music obsessives. For the freaks, the geeks, the stoners, the burnouts, and the gearheads, and for like I said, the obsessed. For those who want the story behind the story, that's what I've always wanted. For those who want to be transported into the story, that's what I've always wanted as well. For those long rides, those lonely nights, those endless commutes, and those rare moments of you time when it's just you and your headphones. You're walking the dog. You're doing the dishes.

Who the fuck knows what you're doing? It's you time you can do whatever you want. You have great taste. You drive the conversation here as much as I do. Try doing that at Rolling Stone or at Billboard or at pitchfork or anywhere else of consequence. They aren't going to listen to you. They have their own agenda. They have publicists to answer to.

They have records to sell. Here, we're behind the board together mixing our own music, and we do it old school and new school. Telephone, 617-90666-6638 voicemail. And new school, 617-90666-638 text. At Disgracelampod on socials, disgracelamp pod at gmail.com on email. I can't wait to hear from you guys this week on all things music and true crime. I'm going to be back in two seconds right after this break with your voicemails, your text, in your DMs.

There's two golden rules that any man should live by. Rule one, never mess with a country girl. You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes. And rule two, never mess with her friends either. We always say that trust your girlfriends. I'm Anna Sinfield, and in this new season of the girlfriends, oh my God, this is the same man. A group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist.

I felt like I got hit by a truck. I thought, how could this happen to me? The cops didn't seem to care. So they take matters into their own hands. I said, oh, hell no. I vowed. I will be his last target. He's going to get what he deserves.

Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe. On the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This season on Dear Chelsea, with me, Chelsea Handler, we have some fantastic guests like Amelia Clark. Like young people come up to me and they want to be an actor or whatever. And my first thing is always, can you think of anything else that you can do?

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And the air marshal is trying to. grab my arms and screaming. I immediately know that I've been at sleepwalk. David O'Yellowo. I love this podcast, whether it's therapy or relationships or religion or sex or addiction or you just go straight for the guts. Guy Branham. So anyway, Nicole Kidman broke up with Keith Thurban.

Being half of a country couple was always a hat she was going to wear, not like a life she was going to lead. Oh, interesting. I like that. Did you practice that on your way over? Gaten Madarazzo from Stranger Things. Tena Monsu. Camilla Marone,

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All right, we're back. And real quick, before we get into your voicemails, texts, and DMs, I want to illustrate what I was talking about in the earlier block. So here are some recent headlines from the major music sites right now. From Billboard.com. This is an actual headline. Jason Maraz's Motown Night Jive brings season best scores on Dancing with the Stars. Also from Billboard.com, BTS, Young Cook, shares golden concept photo ahead of album release.

From Rollingstone.com, Tizo Touchdown is the future of rap rock. And one more from Rollingstone.com. From Kindles to Crest White Strips, these are the best October prime deals worth shopping now. Are you fucking kidding me? Does any of this interest you? No, of course it doesn't. Because like me, you aren't interested in dancing with the stars, K-rock, rap rock, or giving a flying fuck about Rolling Stones' take on Crest White Strips.

And why would you? This is at best, asinine clickbait about music that doesn't interest you or at worst advertising disguised as music content. Here's what you care about. Josh, from the 801, on the question of how we discovered music before the internet. Hey, Jake, this is Josh from the 801, calling about how we found music before the internet. For me, it was skateboarding videos.

You could hear anything from Johnny Sunder's to GZ in the same video. So you got a good mix of everything. And then it was a 90s kid, so the internet came out shortly after that. But yeah, skateboarding videos and magazines were mostly how I found music. Thanks. Love the show. Bye. Right on, Josh.

I was never a skater myself, but most every kid I hung out with was a skater. So I know exactly what you're talking about. Skate videos from the 80s and 90s, 90s, especially treasure chores of great music. And Dogtown and Z-Boys, the sort of higher-end skate documentary, great documentary, one of the greatest documentaries I've ever seen. Sean Penn narrates it.

It really, I know it's not a skate video, but it really drives your point home with the soundtrack for that film. It's an incredible mix, as you probably know here, Josh. It's an incredible mix of early metal, classic rock, pre-punk stuff that you would have heard during the time of skateboarding's origins, which is what Dogtown Sea Boys is all about.

All right, let's check in with Chris from the 573 on how he got into music. Hey, everybody. This is 573. I was going to comment on your request to talk about musical come-ups. I had a summer where the parents had gotten divorced and I did proverbial stay at the grandparents for the summer. Newtown, I think of about a third grader. and I meet a kid named Jesse Lee. And the first thing Jesse Lee did was hand me a TDK cassette tape, as it said,

the marching band with my little saxophone. And it was Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson. I just didn't have experiences. No Jesse Lee's were in my world prior to that, but I listened to that tape. Shred her off and said, I don't know what those guys are talking about, but I want to be like them. Also, I'm going to see if you had ever heard the thing. that Garth Brooks is a serial killer.

There's a lineage, not a lineage, but there's a comparison to murders in each of the cities he's played at. Every city he goes to, there's been a murder, or there's an alarming amount of coincidences that there's murders in each town that Garth Brooks has played. And so I think it was Burke Kreischer that connected the two details, and he's been saying that Garth Brooks is a serial killer. that might make a good April Fool's Day episode possibly. But anyway, you guys keep doing what you're doing.

Thank you for everything. Cheers. Chris, Jesse Lee, your guy, Jesse Lee, sounds like a Gen X delinquent kid that I would have known growing up as well. And I can relate to the summers at my grandmothers. That's why that Nirvana, grandma, take me home. That hit fucking hard, man. Anyways, I've never heard the Garthbrook serial killer story about hot damn, Chris.

I am listening, all right? I'm loving the music discovery stories. Keep them coming. Let's check in with Patrick from the 904 out there eating up asphalt, working hard delivering beer for you guys in the great state of Florida. Hey, Jake, what's up? It's Patrick. I'm in St. Augustine, Florida, driving a truck, delivering beer.

Love the podcast. You were talking about discovery music stories. I got one for you. I was a kid, and I was exploring this building that had been in construction and abandoned. and walking around, checking it out, you know. And inside this little hole in the wall, I saw a backpack and whatnot and thought someone was in there, said hello, got no response, went in, checked it out. It looked like the stuff belonged to like a traveling kid.

So it's a backpack, a guitar, some cardboard with markers, and a CD case. I was a little kid, so I decided let me look through this CD case, see what I can find. it obviously took some stuff with them on the road to listen to but I found the Funkadelic Cosmic Slop album well CD and it looked cool I never heard of it before so I took it home so I don't know if you can say this on the pod but got a little stone listen to it and it blew my mind

and to this day I am a huge Funkadelic fan and cannot hear them without thinking of that story So anyways, we love the show, brother. Keep up what you're doing. I listen to you while I'm driving around doing my thing. Peace. Thanks for the call, Patrick. Dude, the beginning of your story sounds like the opening scene of a horror movie.

What a wild and daring way to discover none other than Funkadelic. Cosmic Slop. Yes, incredible album. And yes, an even more incredible album when you're stoned. At some point, dude, we're going to do an episode on Funkadelic. Thanks for this, Patrick, and thanks for working hard out there. All right, let's switch topics and hear from Ian Maybe up in Canada on top five Halloween songs. Hey, Jake.

This is Ian Mayby, 705 up in Canada. I have to give you my top five Halloween songs in no particular order. Got a bowels, Belaugos who's dead. Ministry. Every day is Halloween. That's got to be in there. Love and Rock. It's haunted.

Swish Blade Symphony, which is. Typo negative, black number one. And if I had to give an honorable mention, it'd be Uncle Acid and the Zed beats. I'll cut you down. All right. Rock and Roll. Fucking great list. And none of which would have been on my list, but will be now.

Great titles, especially Bella Lugosi's dead. If you're interested Ian Quentin Tarantino's latest book, Cinema Speculation, it's got a great insert on the death of Bella Lugosi. It's absolutely fascinating and worth checking out for that alone, but the whole freaking book is incredible, as you would imagine. There will be a Badlands episode on Bella Lagosia at some point. All right, so let's recap, just real quick. Some of the artists you guys brought up already on these calls and texts,

Johnny Thunders, Guns and Roses, Bauhaus, Funkadelic, to the earlier point of why we are here in this feed right now together, it's not just to dig into edge of your seat storytelling about insane rock star behavior, but it's to talk about great music and the people who make it. And you guys have great taste, and I hate to break it to you, but you're just not going to get Johnny Thunders, Guns and Roses, Baha's, Funkadelic. You're not going to get them on the pages of Rolling Stone right now or Billboard or really anywhere else with the level of context and perspective that we're dealing with here. You guys built the space, the space where we are unashamed and make classic rock great again, where we know in our bones that there isn't a hip-hop artist on the charts right now who could ever hold the mic to any number of 90s or early aughts emcees. It's right here, right here where metal, punk, dance music, hell, even disco takes flight

through wildly entertaining, transgressive behavior. And it's here where the DIY can-do hustle of hardcore music and blue-collar blues, country, and soul, where it inspires us to always search for and unpack the most entertaining stories from music history. Not the same old textbook bullshit peddled by the mainstream music press or the Hackneyed biopics entire biographies. Right here in Disgraceland, right here because of the same. of you, the disgrace land community, the discos. This isn't a podcast. This is a revolt against

shitty music, a call to arms against boring music history. Discos, fire all of your guns at once, explode into space, disgrace land, after party, pre-party, three pods in the truth, back in a moment with more from you guys. There's two golden rules that any man should live by. Rule one, never mess with a country girl. You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes. And rule two, never mess with her friends either. We always say that trust your girlfriends. I'm Anna Sinfield, and in this new season of the girlfriends, Oh my God, this is the same man.

A group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist. I felt like I got hit by a truck. I thought, how could this happen to me? The cops didn't seem to care, so they take matters into their own hands. I said, oh, hell no. I vowed. I will be his last target. He's going to get what he deserves.

Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe. On the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This season on Dear Chelsea, with me, Chelsea Handler, we have some fantastic guests like Amelia Clark. When, like, young people come up to me and they want to be an actor or whatever,

and my first thing is always, can you think of anything else that you can do. Rather be disappointed in. Do that. Dennis Leary. I wake up and I'm hitting him in the head with a water bomb. And Bruce Jenner is on the aisle in a karate stance like he's about to attack me. Like making karate noises.

And the entire the Kardashian family over there, everybody's going. And the air marshal is trying to grab my arms and screaming. I immediately know that I've been asleep walking. David O'Yellow-I. I love this podcast, whether it's therapy or relationships or relationships or religion or sex or addiction or you just go straight for the guts. Guy Branham. So anyway, Nicole Kimman broke up with Keith Thurban.

Being half of a country couple was always a hat she was going to wear, not like a life she was going to lead. Oh, interesting. I like that. Did you practice that on your way over? Gaten Matarazzo from Stranger Things. Tena, Monjou, Camilla Morone, Carrie Kenny Silver, and more. Listen to these episodes of Dear Chelsea on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Join me and step inside the investigation. New episodes drop every Monday on the Exactly Right Network. Listen to Wicked Words on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Guys, 617-90666-6638 to leave me a voicemail. Let's keep going on this music discovery thread. How did you guys get into music in a pre-internet era? Which juvenile delinquent got you into the pre-poursome sugar on me, deaf leopard? Which stone skaters slipped you to the first suicidal tendencies album? What was the name of the cool older dude who dated your sister and introduced you to Jay-Z for the first time?

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Just like Dylan from the 260. And the question of favorite Halloween songs. Dylan writes, Jake, Dylan, from the 260 here, we'd like to submit my list of my favorite Halloween songs. None of these mention the word Halloween, but who the hell cares? They're great. I agree with that. Favorite Halloween songs don't have to explicitly mention Halloween or even be about

Halloween. They're just going to be spooky, fucking creepy. You know, you're driving late at night and you're like, fuck. I got to get home, man. I'm scared. Number one, children of the grave, Black Sabbath. I totally agree. Underrated, by the way. Number two, for whom the bell tolls, Metallica. Number three, symptom of the

universe, Black Sabbath, great. Might be my favorite Sabbath song. Awesome taste dill. Number four, zero, the smashing pumpkins. Wouldn't have picked that one, but I'm okay. And number five, Go Song, Jim Morrison and the Doors? I don't know Go Song. Do I? People are strange is where I go to with spooky door stuff.

Great list. Nonetheless, Dylan, thank you so much. All right. Let's check in with the 775 on more Halloween songs. Right here, they go in with number one. How to Make a Monster by Rob Zombie, both versions. Is that Cheating? Number two, Crip Zombie Hula by Dead Cats. Number three, bloodletting by Concrete Blonde. Number four, Night Prow by ACDC. Five, Ain't No Grave by Johnny Cash.

six zombie crush by groovy goolies. I would totally have Werewolves of London on here, but it was on your list. Hope you had some of mine on yours as well. They're on mine, and here's the playlist. Awesome playlist here. All Hallows Eve, excuse me, is the name of the playlist. I want to get you the playlist username. It's Brent N Sandy.

B-R-E-N-S-A-N-D-I-E. Check that out on Spotify. Brent and Sandy. And there's a great playlist. here called All Hallows Eve. And it starts with a fucking banger that they didn't mention heads will roll by, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a great one, great one. Science fiction, damn, good, good, good stuff on here. I'm looking at the Psycho Killer. Godzilla. Nice. Good, good, good, good, good, good list. Thank you, 775. Jane from the 306 writes in, hey, Jake, you asked

about discovering music slash bands, et cetera. I was a kid when Smashmouth released, I'm a believer, and I had zero concepts of what a cover song was. We were in the city with my dad, who usually only listened to Talk Radio, when the song came on the local station. We were absolutely blown away when dad, a child of the 60s, knew the words to this quote-unquote cool new song. It opened the doors to the monkeys and beetles and all sorts of great music and still a favorite memory of my dad from Jane.

Awesome story, Jane. Appreciate this. Appreciate you, I should say. and a little bittersweet because the singer from Smash Meltz just passed away a couple weeks ago. Great text. Let's check in with Thad from the 402, who writes in, Hey Jake, Thad from the 402, formerly from 612, love the series on Wu Tang, worked at a mom and pop record store in the early 90s and sold a ton of Wu and associates on 53 and finally going to give them a listen.

A couple of suggestions. Okay, three, Black Flag, Hawkwind, or maybe Jesus Lizard, saw Jesus Lizard open for Rollins, on the goat tour, was never so scared for my life, keep up the great work, rockerola. I think I saw Jesus Lizard on that tour with Rollins in Rhode Island, Providence, at Babyhead. I've seen Jesus Lizard like three times. I believe I saw them downstairs at the Middle East, and I think I saw them at the Paradise as well. Of course, my memory is very foggy, and I could just be making this shit up. No, I'm not. Jesus Lizard is one of the greatest bands I've ever seen in my life. one of the greatest live shows I have ever, ever, ever seen.

And Henry Rollins is doing a spoken word tour, and he's doing a gig about 15 minutes from my home. And I think I'm going to go see him in a couple weeks. And I hope to meet the man. Been a fan forever. Also, there's a dude of my gym who wears a Rollins band shirt, and I'm going to introduce myself one of these days. I almost did it yesterday, but I didn't. I was like, yeah, shirts inside out. It's kind of fucking weird.

All right, let's keep going here at the text. The 416 writes in, hey, have you done an episode about ministry and Al Jorgensen? And I respond with, hey, no, I haven't. But I might at some point. I used to work in a moving company where the original drummer from ministry worked. He worked there before I got there, like a couple days before, and he was legend. And I don't know what the original drummer from ministry's name was. I think at the time they even had a drum machine. So this could all be moving company myth for all I know. Anyone connected a Dan's Van and Somerville from back in the day.

Hit me up and let me know what I'm talking about. All right, let's do another text here from the 4-2-3. Who writes in, Yo, Jake Warner, MC, and Colorado here. Not really a band, but I'd love to hear a Bob Dylan album produced by Rick Rubin, a la Johnny Cash's late career American albums. Dylan being backed by Fish would be a personal preference, but doubtful it would be any good.

I love it. you're suggesting it and you're doubtful it'll actually be any good. You're just there for the chaos of it all, which I can get with. You go on to say, speaking of fish, farm-made, and backing legends, did you know that after backing Neil Young for an absolutely scorching down by the river at Farm Aid in 1998, Neil approached fish to back him on tour, but the band declined. One can only imagine how cool that tour would have been. Thanks to all the great content and keep up the great work, Rocka Rolla.

I love the idea of Rick Rubin producing Bob Dylan. I don't think it'll ever happen. But stranger things have happened. Maybe it will. Who knows? I fucking love it, though. I'm here for it. I can't believe I didn't think of that.

That's like something I would think of, but you did. So cheers to you, 423. Appreciate it. Let's do this one from the 4-40. Hey, Jake, Sean, from Cleveland, Ohio, long-time listener. My question for you is, I know you do disgrace land, Badlands, 27 Club, but on the tracks, dead and gone, and the research that goes. into these subjects. What's the day like for Jake Brennan? Do you do all the recording in one day?

Do you do one week of this show and next week, focus on that show, whatever and however you do it, it's working. I look forward to everything every week for a new episode and for the new seasonal shows as well. Lastly, I just wanted to say, you're awesome with how you interact with the fans. A lot of podcast hosts won't do that and you do, and it's really cool. Take care, man. You got it, Sean. Answer your question. It's, yes, I do the research. Yes, I do the writing. But I have a whole team here who does research and writing as well. And we pretty much divvy up the episodes. It depends.

It used to be that I did everything, but that's not the case anymore. It's impossible, as you can probably imagine with all the content. But typically and generally speaking, a week for me is either a research week or a writing week. And I alternate. And I typically split my days, generally speaking, again, generally speaking. I split my days in half. The early morning, I'm a very early riser, and the first half of my day are dedicated to either researching or writing.

And the second half of my day, I'll typically take a break. I'll go work out, go to the gym or go for a swim, and then I eat. And then the second half of my day is done, is this stuff here, talking into a microphone and doing that part of it. Or reviewing mixes, which I have such a great team here on the music and mix side that I barely even review the mixes anymore. Matt Bowden is sort of our mix czar, and I have a lot of faith and trust in him to handle that. So that's that's generally speaking how I do

things. Now I've been moving for the last, it seems like months, a few months here. So everything's been upset and disrupted. But I will say the team here at double Elvis, Zeth Lundy, Sean Cahillan, Matt Taney, Matt Bowden, Brady Sadler, Jamie DeMis, Dennis Brennan, everybody involved, who I'm forgetting off the top of my head, chips in and helps with these episodes, touches them in one way or another, it makes it possible for us to deliver so much goddamn content. And we have even more in store for you. And I just got off a call about an hour ago talking about a new idea that I think we're going

to try to bring to life next year as well. So I hope that answers your question, Sean. Let's do one last one here from the 215. It says, hey, the season's hip-hop episodes have been incredible. Can't wait for liquid swords and liking it raw. Badlands has been on point as well. I'm spreading the word to all in Philly that these podcasts are the ones to follow. I'm about to mellow out with some slow, funky West Coast vibes

and Tupac Radical Truth on my lunch break. Keep up the good work. Double Elvis. You got it, 215. Appreciate that. As you know, we're in the middle of this Wu-Tang Clan serialized season, 10 episodes on the Wu, one each for each member. One episode for each member we just delivered,

just launched our old dirty bastard episode that's in your feed right now odb was beloved i can tell from the response i'm getting from you guys on social media he was one of these incomparable artists uh and just a crazy true crime story connected to him as well he's charged with attempted murder of an NYPD officer chased down by rotweiler shot by men at ski masks addicted to cocaine arrested 10 times in just a few months time, suffered through some harrowing experiences while doing time at a notorious prison. Of course, you can hear all about this in the brand new episode that I just mentioned that's available in your feeds. But, you know, just while we're in the after party here, I want to talk a little bit about

this gonzo thing that ODB perfected. And as we say in the episode, Old Dirty Bastard was not Russell Jones. Old Dirty Bastard was a character. Just like all the guys in Wu-Tang are, to some extent, characters, alter egos. ODB himself said, quote, dirty is just the negative side of me, the pressure that builds up inside me. Then when somebody gets on my nerves, it's got to come out. Which, that quote, got me, Jake Brennan, thinking here, what are some of the best alter egos in music history? Some of the best alter egos. Is it David Bowie, is Ziggy Stardis? Is it Garth Brooks? Is Chris Gaines? Is it one of

Prince's many alter egos? Maybe it's ODB. Who do you got? Who do you think? Best altered egos and rock music 617-90666-6638 leave me a voicemail, send me a text, and let me know. All right, real quick recommendation here, Jim Crocey, specifically the album I got a name from the film The Last American Hero with Jeff Bridges that I'm going to talk about in Badlands this week. You can hear that. Real Sad Sack 70 shit that I'm a sucker for. That I got to say I've never gravitated toward Jim Croce, but I'm watching this movie.

This song is in the opening credit scene. I'm just like, oh yeah, this song. this song's fucking great i go i take a bath i listen to the whole record and i'm just fucking blown away smoking my dad grass um just awesome so uh i need more of this i don't need it but i want it i don't even really want it i just want to know what sadsack 70 shit you guys are suckers for okay is it cat stevens leonard cohen bread america christopher cross is christopher cross 70s or 80s i think he's 80s but anyways what sadsac 70s album should i be checking out. What Jim Croce album is your favorite? Let me know. 617-906-66-6-6-3-8. Other questions

to ponder. Best Alter Egos and Rock and Roll, Who Was Better Than Old Dirty Bastards? Ziggi Stardust, Chris Gaines, Bruce Springsteen, as Bruce Springsteen. I'm kidding. It's still only the second week of October, okay? So I also want to know what your favorite Halloween songs are. And not only that, I want to know what your favorite disgraceland Halloween episodes are. Big Lurch. Jim Morrison as a Zodiac Killer, The Misfits, Black Sabbaths. ACDC. Who is it? Send me a quick text or voicemail. 617-906-66-66-3-8 to let me know. The reason I want to know is because I'm doing this informal poll because I want to top 10 these disgrace land episodes and re-release them for you in the 10 days leading up to Halloween. And we're almost there. So I've got to

get on it and so do you. Let me know what your favorite disgrace and Halloween episodes are. 617-906-66-6638. All right, quick break and I'm back in a flash. All right, welcome back again. 906 6663-8. Let me know your favorite disgrace land Halloween episodes, text or voicemail, big lurch, Michael Allig, Ozzie, the Misfit, Sabbath. Let me know. You can hit me up on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook as well. Justin G writes in on Instagram. Just finished the ODB episode. He was my fave to, wish he would have got his shit together or not OD. And yes, he made some great fucking music. Yes, Justin, old dirty bastard certainly did it. Eli Ordez writes in on Instagram, hey Jake, I just heard your latest bonus episode and it got me

thinking about my cosmic connections to music, a super long story short. When I was a teenager, I had this little yellow AM FM radio and I exclusively listened to a rock station called K-Rock, L.A. And it changed the way I see music in general because I was introduced to all these different bands that most of the kids I went to school with knew of already. But I was so sheltered in a racist-as-hek household where my grandfather would only ever let us listen to and watch anything in just Spanish. So finding my way into music enlightenment, it was very, rather difficult, at least at first, but once I get to keep listening and in between listening to other stations too, I pretty much expanded my music selections, as most people these days.

I listen to a little bit of everything, and as for Spanish, it's absolutely within my heart and soul, and I'll always flock to it from time to time. Great music discovery story there from Disco, Ellie Ordez. Thank you so much. Let's check in with Michael Lane Heath on Facebook real quick, who writes in, hiah Jake, got hip to your disgrace land podcast the other day, and I'm impressed by your noir delivery and awareness of culture, facts, et cetera, and the Melotron intros. For what it's worth, a few yonks back. I did a collection of interviews with Lou Reed you might have seen. My week beats your

year. Paperback will be out soon. Nice to reach out. Keep in touch and keep on, keeping on, all the best from San Fran, MLH. Michael, I'm not sure you're going to hear. I responded in the, in the disgrace land. I'm sorry, in the Facebook app. Thanks. I appreciate it. I've heard of your book, by the way, your collection. I believe I even read some of it when I was researching Lou Reed. And as I mentioned in my message back to you, I did this whole double episode on Luz Origin story that's almost entirely fictionalized, but based on the facts that I think you're going to dig.

It's basically me copying Raymond Chandler in honor of Lou Reed. All right, at Disgraceland Pod on Instagram, Facebook, and X. Let's recap, all right? Number one, a new episode on Old Dirty Bastard, the eighth episode in our serialized season on Wutang Clan, is in your disgrace land feeds right now. We've got two more episodes on Wutang coming, and then we're done. And then we're moving on. We're moving into the spooky Halloween season. So, hit me up.

Number two, hit me up. Hit me up with your favorite disgrace land Halloween episodes. All right. Number three, over in the Badlands Feed, we got a brand new episode on David Lynch and the Unsolved Murder that inspired his great television show, Twin Peaks. Number four next week in the disgrace land feed. Like I said, this is also kind of number two. We're wrapping up our Wu-Tang season with two new episodes on Mass. Takila and the Jizzah.

All right? Both next week and then Puth. We're out. Number four, my number is 617-906-66-66-3638. Favorite Disgraceland Halloween episodes? Favorite Halloween songs. I also want to know your favorite musical alter egos. Hit me up.

I'm still listening for Discovery Stories as well. Text and voicemail, 617-90666338, and number five or number six, I can't remember anymore what number we're on. Just you remember. You remember this. No one cares about the music that you love more than you do, okay? And that's a disgrace. All right, my moment of bliss, me reading you, the phone book from the city where old dirty

bastard was in drug rehab when he went AWOL, Pasadena, California, circa 1986. Jeholla, Anthony, 337-2433. Jeholla, Delphino, 284-9731. Jojo's flooring, 7142-2-84-31. Jokennan, Anthony, 445-3419. Jokal, Dave, 9666647. Joko, Bob, 213, 283-7-2-65.

Joko. Frank. 284-9-2-4-2. Joel Green, C. 793-7-4-5-0. Joel, Grin, Russell, 963-5102. Joel and Ninyong. 213-255-56-5-8.

Joel, James, 796-80-62. Quit talking and start Mixing. Cut it. When a group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist, they take matters into their own hands. I vowed. I will be his last target. He is not going to get away with this.

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