DISGRACELAND - Bonus Episode: Jake's Disco Gym Playlist, Your Paul Simon Recs, and Jeff Buckley's Influences

Episode Date: June 8, 2023

This week in the After Party, Jake is ready to dive into the latest Disgraceland episode on Jeff Buckley, and to talk about his crazy influences, like Nina Simone, Edith Piaf, and more. We're also talking your Paul Simon album recommendations, why working out to disco is so great, and much more. If you wanna let Jake know what your favorite disco song is, or why you don't like disco, send a text or leave a voicemail at 617-906-6638 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.

This is exactly right. Double Elvis. 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 about Jeff Buckley, Paul Simon, Jennifer Jason, Lee's Georgia, a final Celtics thought. 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. Yes, yes, yes. Welcome to the disgrace land bonus episode. After Party Swimming Lesson Especial. Let's talk about Jeff Buckley. Jeff Buckley. What an incredible artist.

A very special singer, one of a kind. My wife's fave, my buddy stinks fave, a man too pretty and too talented and too real to be hated on because of his talent or his good looks because Jeff Buckley was all of it, man. He was the whole package. He was authentic. And there are so many angles to dive into here

relative to the full disgrace and episode that we just released on Jeff Buckley. but I just want to dive into this fact here, okay? Jeff Buckley released one full album, Grace, and then he disappeared, and then he was found dead. Now, a lot of stuff happened in between those things, and we get into a lot of it in the episode, but 200 years from now, you know,

they're going to end the illustrated Jeff Buckley timeline with a couple of bullet points that read just like that. He released one great album, he disappeared for a couple days, then they found his drowned body. Okay, did you notice something different? in those descriptors than the previous ones, very similar, except in those last timeline descriptors,

I added the word great when describing Jeff Buckley's album, Grace, because that is undoubtedly what that record is. Great. Okay? Nobody could sing like Jeff Buckley, but impressive singers are a dime a dozen. It's the artistry Jeff Buckley had, how he pulled together all of these crazy influences,

at least crazy for kids, kids of my generation. Led Zeppelin, Nina Simone, agnostic front, Edith Piaf, he created this thing that was totally unique. It was himself, himself as an artist, and of course, that great record, Grace. We get into Jeff's influences pretty heavily in the disgrace and episode. I'm not sure exactly why. We don't always do that. We always sort of hint at, more than hint, we'll list influences as they're pertinent to the story. But it just felt right here. It feels right now here in the bonus episode two to talk about it because Jeff Buckley's influences were all over the place.

And I find it fascinating. Even if you didn't know these influences when you first heard Jeff Buckley, you sensed that like all the greats, there was a deep, deep, deep reservoir of music, understanding and relativity. That's how I felt anyway when I first heard Jeff Buckley. I had grace the album. I had an advanced copy before it was released. When I was going to Northeastern, there was this older, way cooler. And if I'm being totally honest, smoking hot Sony rep who also went to Northeastern. She interned at Sony while she was going to NU.

And she was into grace because it was about to come out on Columbia. And Sony owned Columbia. So we knew of Jeff because of her. And we never heard anything like him before. Nothing. This is the beginning of the mid-90s, early to mid-90s. when Jeff Buckley first came to Boston, he played Johnny Dees in Davis Square,

Somerville, which for those of you who don't know, it's like a 250 capacity room. It's no longer there, closed a couple years ago. It's like a 250 capacity room, like a blues room with like a kitchen. They serve food. Like a weird place for Jeff Buckley to play, first of all. So like I said, though, like a 250 cap

might have been 20 people there, maybe less. And we were there, of course. And holy shit. shit did Jeff Buckley in his band bring it. And if I'm not mistaken, it was the same band that was on Grace. And this is, I checked, this is a month or two before that album was even out. And my friends, my friends and I, we knew in the moment, we knew we were seeing something great. I've seen a lot of bands that went on to be huge later that I didn't know we're going to be huge.

And then I look back on now and I'm fond of, like I saw, you know, Rage Against Machine. and the first time they came to Boston. And I could go on. There's a list. I'm not going to do that now. But the point is with Jeff Buckley, it was more than just these guys are going to be, this guy's going to be big.

It was like, this is fucking special. This guy is, there's something extra happening here. And again, this is a month or two before Grace was even out. It was obvious to us. And I think it has something to do with those influences. You know, even singers and songwriters and musicians and bands, they don't get up on stage and just proclaim what they're into. you know like that'd be pretty silly but you can kind of sense it as a kid you can sense it from them

from the stage emanating from you can see it in the way they carry their gear what kind of equipment they use what type of instruments they use how they set their gear up on stage you know how they how they engage with the crowd what they talk about what riffs they fiddle with between between songs um and one of the coolest things that we found out about jeff and i know this is messed up but i can't remember, I can't actually remember if I met him that night. I might have. It seems more likely than not than I did, but I can't say for sure. I don't know. But what I do remember is that again, our friend, who I mentioned earlier, our friend from Sony, she was with Jeff all day that day. And she told us that all he wanted to do was driving around Boston with her and her shitty little

Volkswagen and smoke grass and listen to ACDC. And when I heard that, I was like, this dude is one of us. It's just, it was like the telltale thing. It's because Jeff Buckley's music had sounded nothing like ACDC or Leonard Cohen or Nina Simone or Agnostic Front. And of course, none of those artists sound like each other, but they all share that same thing, that realness. So real, right? That authenticity, that commitment to their craft, to their art, to their standing in the music history canon. The Lower Resides, Agnostic Front, is the hardcore band. And who was more hardcore than blues and soul singer Nina Simone?

And Nina Simone is so intense, but who was more intense than agnostic front? See what I'm saying? Jeff Buckley was part of that. His hero, Jimmy Page, recognized that. I read somewhere recently that the two of those guys wept when they met each other. Not just Jeff Buckley, but Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. Satan spawn himself, the master of the black dog, Alistair Crowley's mortal vessel.

That dude cried when he met Jeff Buckley. or so the story goes. Fuck. Come on. But only one record. Just grace. The question is so obvious, I don't even want to ask you guys,

but I'm going to anyways, is Jeff Buckley's grace the greatest one-and-done album by any artist of all time. Which other artists or band released only one great record and then pieced out? The Sex Pistols?

Never mind the Bullocks. Here's the Sex Pistols, that record. Lauren Hill, the miseducation of Lauren Hill? Is that the whole list? Is that all of it? Is Jeff Buckley's grace

better than those two records? Probably? Maybe? I don't know. I like it more than the Lauren Hill record. I'll tell you that. The sex pistols, though, I don't know. It could be.

And if not, one of those three, who? And which album? 617-906-6638 to leave me a message or send me a text to let me know or at Disgraceland Pod on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok. You can let me know there too.

I'll be back right after this. All right, you guys know the drill. 617-9066666363636363.8 to send a text or leave a voicemail, just like Jason here from the 731. Hey, Jake. This is Jason from the 731 Area Code. I'm calling about Paul Simon in an album that you might want to listen to that is not Simon a Garfunkel at night, not Grace Land. I'm a big Simon and Garfunkel fan. I'm a big Paul Simon fan.

but the best album, single album you should listen to by Paul Simon is probably there goes Ryman Simon from 1973. That's got Cota Chrome. It's got Loves Me Like a Rock. It's also got the great American tune on it that Simon a Garfunkel did in their 1981 concert in Central Park. But after that, if you wanted the second one, in 1975 he did still crazy after all these years. which had the song still crazy after all these years and 50 ways to leave your lover.

But it also had a song that he and Garfunkel did, again, the first song they recorded that they had done together since 1970, that was called My Little Town and actually appeared on a Paul Simon solo record and on an Art Garfunkel solo record at the same time. So you have the same song on two different records. It was kind of interesting. Anyway, I hope you check those out, I hope you like them.

I love the show. I love Badlands. I love disgrace lands. I love everything you do. Thank you. Keep on doing what you're doing. Rock on. All right.

Thanks, Jason. There goes Rhyman Simon. Great recommendation. Thank you. Kodachrome. I know that tune. I know a couple of the other ones you mentioned as well.

Great songs. Again, these Paul Simon songs, they come on. I'm here for them. I hardly ever skip them. I'm down. I've just never interacted with this guy as an album artist.

and I need to. Still crazy after all these years. I'll go to that one too. Maybe there's a Paul Simon episode here. Let me know. Let me know there's any fucked up weird adjacent. I know Paul Simon never committed any real crimes or anything like that or was arrested, I don't think, or anything like that.

But maybe there's some adjacent crime stuff from the world that Paul Simon was in at the time that would allow us to do a look into his career or a particular moment in time in his career. And then maybe I just had this idea, paging Mr. Zethlundi. Maybe it's a, you know, maybe it's something we do sort of in post. We can't do it like we did Sharon, Tate, and Mama Cass,

but maybe we can do some mirroring episode effect with the Kerry Fisher episode with a Paul Simon disgrace land episode. Just a thought. Here I am. I'm just fucking iterating in public, making shit in real time, I guess. I don't know.

Who knows? But I like the idea of a Paul Simon disgrace land. episode. All right, let's check out Hal. Here at Hal had to say from the 407. Hey, Jake, this is Hal calling from Orlando, Florida. By the way, you have the best fucking true crime rock and roll podcast. Oh, wait a minute, the only true crime rock and roll podcast. What I want to say is that in the early days, season one of Disgraceland, when you had a mere couple hundred followers on Facebook, I messaged you and said that I think you should cover the Alman Brothers.

And you responded me back politely and said, well, what was the crime? So the crime that I said was, well, you know, Red Dog got charged with murder and let off on insanity plea by a lenient judge in Georgia, I believe. but anyway, so much has come to light about the almond brother. Just wondering if you're ever going to do an almond brothers disgrace land. Probably a two-parter, maybe a three-parter. I'm not sure how you and your writers get this shit done, but I think it needs to be done.

And the only one that can do it, Jake, is you. Almond brothers. Give a dog a bone, man. I love you. Hal from Orlando, who love you, brother. Love you back, Hal. That's right, man.

The only rock and roll true crime podcast. Thanks for the long time listening. Thanks for the Allman Brothers take and for reminding me about this. Yes, yes, yes, yes. We will do an Almond Brothers episode. You probably know this, Hal,

but we got into Dwayne with the Derek and the Domino's episode. But yes, the band, the Almond Brothers deserves a full episode, perhaps two. Definitely not three. I don't think we've ever done a three. Well, yeah, I guess we did those like six-part stones and eight-parts episodes, eight-part-part-er.

Never a three-parter. But we're going to look into it. Can't say when, but we're on it how. It's high on the list. All right. Let's check it with the 503. Hey, Jake. This is Alicia from the 503.

And I recently found your podcast. I love it very much. I can't get enough. And I was wondering if you've actually covered Elvis Presley. and if so, what season and episode? I can't find it anywhere, if you have, including on Apple or Amazon music. So, anyway, let me know.

And, yeah, thanks for telling the stories the way you do. They're really awesome. I'm trying to watch the Elvis Presley movie right now. I keep calling to sleep every night, but I love it, and I thought it'd be cool to hear your way you tell the story, because you do it so well. Thank you so much. Peace out.

All right. Thanks for reaching out, Alicia. I've always said that the last episode of Disgraceland will be on Elvis. So if you see that Elvis Presley, Disgraceland episode pop up in your podcast feed, then you know I've left the proverbial building. But, but, but, but, fear not, I cover Elvis extensively in my book, Disgraceland, musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. the first and second chapters are dedicated to the king

and as it pertains to your mention of the Elvis movie I deal specifically with Elvis's relationship with Colonel Tom Parker and I give my take and my vision of what was and what could have been so check out the disgrace slam book Alicia you can get that on Amazon or wherever all right let's do one more this one from Providence from the 401

This is Mark in Providence, a Celtic super fan. I was in the Boston Garden every week. The starting five were Larry Bird, McHale, Parrish, DJ, and Ainge. I caught up on all your podcasts last night because there was no basketball to watch. There was redstock stink. And I listened to everything. I just finished up all your podcasts. I'm looking for, I'm,

getting ready to listen to your bonus podcast that you posted, I think, last night. You're the best. I've been with you a long time. I never call and ever write. I'm not on Twitter. I'm 71 years old. Rock and roller. Okay, Mark, I'm not on Twitter either, man.

Not really. I mean, I am, but not really. But Mark, I appreciate you sticking with me, even though I bailed on the Celtics. Sounds like you saw some amazing games back in the day. I went to the Bird Era games once or twice as a very young boy. but I'm as connected to the Pierce, Garnett, Allen team. But that's all gone for me now, man. You know this.

The Celtics are fucking dead to me after that last series. And especially after coming out the day after the game seven loss, committing to Missoulo, I hate to celebrate anyone losing their job or to wish for anyone losing their job. It's not my place. I'm not a Celtics fan anymore. If the Celtics want to stick with this guy, go for it. But the commitment to the Tatum Brown loser tandem as well, I don't even know what to say.

Good luck, Mark. I'm a Heath fan. What can I say? And they're fully in this somehow. Despite Yokevich's awesomeness, Jimmy Buckets, Jimmy Buckets, Jimmy Buckets. Appreciate you, Mark. All right. Let's do some texts.

All right, new listener from the 530. Hey, this is Hector from Orland, California. Is that how you say it? Orland. Orland? Why would it be Orland? It's O-R-L-A-N-D. It'd be Orland.

Right? Is it Orlando and you just forgot the O? Is there an Orlando, California that I don't know about? Anyways, this guy, Hector, texting. I just recently found your podcast and love your work. And Ho tell stories. I binged all your episodes for about two weeks straight at work and home. Keep doing what you're doing.

And if I may make one request, can we possibly do an episode on Earl Salmons, a.k.a. Darkman, aka DMX. Great, great suggestion, Hector. Yes, we can do an episode on DMX. We will. Hector, have you seen the documentary that Bill Simmons made? It's fucking really good, really good. It was on HBO for a bit. I'm sure it's on HBO Max. Check that out, Hector. All right, from the 406. Hey, Jake, I absorbed your Nebraska episode with Warren Zanes a couple days after I finished his book, deliver me from nowhere. I'm one of those people who thinks Nebraska is the best album ever recorded. Wow, that's a statement. That's me saying that's a statement. Textor goes on to say, it's the one that made me a Springsteen fan. Me as well, man. 40 years, I've been listening to that record learning to play every song. And at the end of your episode, when you went into that story, that wove all the songs into a single narrative,

I lost my shit. I'd never heard that suggested before. Did you come up with that idea or had you heard it? Seriously, man. It's like studying the Zapruder film and spotting a sign in JFK's hand that says Lee Harvey did it. It was my favorite episode ever in your consistently great podcast. Thanks, Bob from Missoula, Montana. Well, thank you, Bob. Let's see here. What was the question you asked? Did you come up with that idea?

I did come up with that idea. And I think you're talking about the scripted full episode that we did where we run everything through one narrative, right? I mentioned that in the Warren Zanes episode, but we actually went and did it. And I'm guessing you heard that, and that's what you're talking about.

Again, the Springsteen episode, it's more, for those who haven't heard, This is a Springsteen Disgraceland episode, and it's about the characters mainly of Nebraska, true crime, both fictional and non-fictional. So check that out. All right, what else we get? The 601 writes,

when I was 15, I visited my Mormon cousin in Texas, and she played a bootleg cassette of Master P, ghetto D, and my world changed. I didn't jump in, but I was open to more. That tape led me to outcast, do or die, Twista, the late great pimp C, May he rest in peace. And Bun B of U.G.K.

I love me some OG Southern rap, and my 40-year-old heart still lives for those dirty lyrical poems and beautiful beats. That's fucking great, man. That's from the 601. Thank you for that text. It's going to make me go dig into some Master P. All right, what else we got? All right, from the 805.

Hey, Jake, thanks for your recent disgrace-line episode on George Harrison. He was always my favorite Beatle. I think you handled his demeanor with the class that he deserves. Keep the stories coming. At 805, just a quick programming note. That wasn't actually a new episode. We released that back in the end of 2021 of Memory Serves.

And it was when we were with Amazon exclusively. So it was behind the old Amazon gate there. We just put it back out into the world. All right, from the 562. This is Jose. First and foremost, I think you have an informative and entertaining podcast. When I was 15, that was the time I discovered

five great artists, Big L, atmosphere. Reagan youth, the germs, Black Star and Immortal Technique. It was a fusion of punk rock and underground hip hop. Plenty of other artists came around, but those were a few. Lastly, I sent you a message a few years ago, and I had to say, I'm in a much better place. That's great, Jose. I'm fucking happy to hear that, man. You're in a better place.

And you know it about the germs. I saw the Food Fighters a couple weeks ago. And, you know, Mr. Pat Smir was up there kicking it. From the 617. Hey, Jake, it's Steph. In the 617. Well, actually, 508, but I'll never give up my. exchange. Where's the

Arrowsmith episode? The toxic twins, the bad boys from Boston. We have a running family joke that Stephen Tyler is really my dad because he was so close with my mom, but she was one of his dealers. Oh my goodness. The band has blown apart and come together time and time again. Come on, man. Where's the big 10-inch

episode on this? Well, you'll be happy. This episode's coming soon. This season, in a couple weeks, you will have this, Ms. 508. Your Arrowsmith episode. It is is a common. All right. All right. How's that for some texts? Did we do it? Did we do all the things we needed to do? Let me read some DMs. All right. Let's see. How do I say this? SDS-Sostek 760 writes. Are you planning on making an episode on Christopher Lee at some point? Well, I can't say I am because I don't know who Christopher Lee is. He goes on to say, my girlfriend tells me the story she's heard about Christopher Lee. are so crazy that you need several episodes to scratch into the surface in his life.

The fact that I don't know who Christopher Lee is is leading to me believe that maybe this is in reference to Badlands. If so, I apologize for crossing bonus episodes. Someone tell me who Christopher Lee is. All right. At Chuck Destruction writes, also on Instagram. Hey, running a few episodes late, started a new job on top of my work for bands and tattooing. Wife wants to buy a house.

Ugh. Cowboy junkies did Sweet Jane. Concrete blonde did Joey. CB also covered Cohen's everybody knows on the pump up the volume soundtrack. By far, one of the most cynical and depressing songs by that epic man. Otherwise, keep it all up. The new episodes are great. Also, check out the sweet things, great band, especially for Groving Through the Afternoons.

That's a hell of a... See, that's how you do it. I'm into that. That's good, you know? Comes in, tells me what he's up to. He's got a new job. I love that. Tells me, he's got a little, you know, soft bitch about his wife there.

Wife wants to buy a house. goes into cowboy junkies, corrects me. I think I asked the cowboy junkies, do Joey? No, he tells me Concrete Blondid. I like that. Why am I breaking down this direct message? I don't know. It was a good one.

I like this guy. Chuck Destruction. Right back, Chuck. What else we got here? All right, from at Luke, I'm not going to read his last name. Well done, Jake. Awesome show. Has always been listening to Disgrace.

Since you started, I live in Australia and travel to Melbourne from Wallagong to rehearse with my band Rockefeller. It's a 9-to-10-hour drive. Whoa, that's a fucking long way to drive to fucking practice. They have this thing called Zoom. Just letting you know. Just letting you know, Luke, you guys might want to try practicing on Zoom. I've seen people do it.

It looks fucking horrible, but a 9 to 10 hour drive sounds horrible. We listen to disgrace in all the time. Okay, the drive just got better. It's a 9 to 10 hour drive, and we listen to disgrace in all the time to pass the hours on the road. Anyway, keep it the good work. I thought you might like to hear two songs. We have just finished recording. We're going to release them as a 7-inch single.

Thanks, mate. I'm reading this in real time for the first time. I have not listened to these songs. It's from Rockefeller. Looks like these are unreleased songs. So I will check them out, man. I'll check them out. I'll check them out or report back.

Or if anyone else knows Rockefeller and wants to write in, you can do that. All right? Let me know what you think of Rockefeller. All right, let's do a couple more here. I'm going to head over to the Facebook box. And it's going to fucking send me on this wild goose chase into this other fucking app to,

read my messages, which I've complained about in the past. Yes, I'm going to continue. No, I don't want to continue as this person. I want to be this person. Here we go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, da-da-da-da. All right. All right. All right. David Miletsky writes, Jake, your podcast is all-time great, amazing topics and expert storytelling. Thank you, David. David, you look like you have a really good-looking family. Congratulations. All right, what else we got here? All right, Lawrence Carlson writes in on Facebook. What kind of glasses are those? And then there's an emoji with this guy laughing hysterically. Are you making fun of my glasses, Lawrence?

It's not fucking cool, man. I'm not making fun of your glasses. I wouldn't make fun of anyone's glasses. Come on, dude. All right, Nicholas at Nicholas Heineke writes, just discovered this podcast earlier this week, been listening nonstop since, been jamming Easy Does It by EasyE all week.

So good from the 605, by the way. All right, Nicholas, thanks. for writing in, man. Appreciate that. All right, Sean Hill writes in reference to the favorite disgrace land episode. Bruce Springsteen, hands down. I love how the episode was put together. All right, Sean Hill, thanks, man.

Appreciate that. That does it. You know how to get in touch with me at Disgraceland. Pod on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok. 617-9066638. Voice mail, text. I'm going to take a quick break right back with some recommendations. All right.

Recommendations part, this is the recommendations part, the part where we recommend the things that need recommending the recommendations part. Guys, all right, what I'm watching. Yes, yes, I say it every week. The movie recommendations part is now in the Badlands bonus rap party episode. However, I watched an incredible music movie over the weekend, so it seems pertinent for the after party because this is disgrace land. It's a movie from the 90s, and I can't believe that I've never heard of this movie before. and I'm guessing a lot of you haven't either and it's really fucking good

and I'm excited to tell you guys about it. It's called Georgia. It stars Jennifer Jason Lee Mayor Winningham who you might not know her name but you will definitely recognize her when you see her. She was nominated for an Oscar for this.

I'm not sure for what I'm guessing best supporting actor, actress, excuse me I think that's the category. And Jennifer Jason Lee's mom wrote this movie and it's about these two sisters. One, played by Mayor Winningham, who is a,

she's kind of like a, first of all, this is a heavy 90s movie, right? Like heavy 90s music scene both from the sort of like, I don't want to say adult contemporary or Americana or Lilith Fair, but there was this weird,

I know everyone's fucking tuning out right now, just trust me. There was this weird music thing going on that was actually very good in the 90s with female artists that were adult. It wasn't rock and it wasn't Americana and it wasn't folk, but it sat somewhere between all of that. And a lot of them got grouped into that whole Lilith Fair thing that happened,

which was unfortunate. I'm talking about artists like Mary Chapin Carpenter, the indigo girls. Of course, Alison Krause came later, a little bit later. So Mary Winningham plays that singer. And she's got this. incredible career. She's playing like theaters, you know, like 5,000-seat venue or something like that. And she's not a huge star, but she's big enough. She's got a family. She's got a shit together.

And she's got some kids. She's got a husband. He used to manage her. Not a perfect marriage, but they're making it work, right? Then she has a sister played by Jennifer Jason Lee, who is like, she's a full-time alcoholic, and she's younger, and she's a fucking mess. She's an addict. And she's a singer. And she's like a backup singer in a rock band. And like a 90s bar band in Seattle that is fronted by John Doe of X, not as John Doe, he's just playing this other dude, and John C. Riley on drums and some other dudes. And I can't fucking believe I never saw this or never even knew about this.

It's on the Criterion app. You can probably get it anywhere, like on Apple or something like that, Amazon. But it's on Criterion this month or this couple months. I don't know. I don't know how they do it. Anyways, and John Doe, you know, I know, I think I know all the movies the guy's been in. And for those of you don't know, my friends know this. I toured with John Doe.

We were on the same record label for a while. We became friends for a minute. And he was a big musical hero of mine. He actually recorded a vocal track for a record of mine that never came out. But just point is, like, I know the dude. And I'm a big fan. And he's phenomenal in this movie. He's got a real role.

he's a big part of it and this I can't for the life of me understand why this film is not mentioned with some of the great music movies if not the 90s like just in general

it's that good it's really raw it's about like I said these two sisters one's an addict it's about their relationship it's also got Max Perlick in it you guys don't know

Max Perlick drugstore cowboy he hung out with the Beastie Boys just a really cool film it's called Georgia I highly recommend it check it out let me know what you think. All right, that's what I'm watching. What I'm reading, this is a weird one. I read this book when I was probably 12 years old. Yeah, I think I was exactly 12 years old.

Sixth grade. Obsessed with baseball most of my life. The book is called The Science of Hitting by Ted Williams. You know, obviously Red Sox great or actual baseball great, one of the greatest, if not the greatest hitter of all time. I mentioned this book, right? Not because I think all of you are into baseball or sports. In fact, I know a huge portion of you are not into sports at all. But you are obsessives. I know you're obsessives because you're obsessed with music, which is why you listen to disgrace land. It's why you listen to Badlands,

because you're obsessed with Hollywood lore and true crime. I can tell by talking to you guys for the last five years that you're obsessed. So if any of you are interested in either how to hit a baseball at 90 miles an hour consistently and do it well, or are just obsessed with people who are obsessed with being great, then this book is for you. It's a clinical book on how to actually hit a baseball. And that might sound boring to you, and I get it.

It's boring to me. It was boring to me when I was 12 years old. I basically started reading it again now because my five-year-old is fucking raking out there in the backyard. He's hitting live pitching with hard balls, not T-balls, not off a T. So I don't know what I'm doing. Beyond eye on the ball, I have no idea what to tell the kids, so I'm trying to read this book to figure some shit out.

And what I found in reading it is that it is so refreshing to read in this age of all these sort of self-help expert books. There's every fifth meme on Instagram is somebody telling you how to live your life better or how your career would be so much better if you just follow these three steps. Everybody's got to hustle on how you can hustle to better live your life. or to better do whatever. Everything, everything. Sex, politics, religion, business, doesn't fucking matter. Parenting, all of it. We're in the age of information.

We're inundated with information. And I get it all the time and I don't think twice about it. And what I've realized from reading this book is that it's very rare when we get information on how to do something by someone who was the absolute fucking best at it. No one hit a baseball better than Ted Williams did. No one. He had it broken down to a science, thus the science. of hitting. And he explains that. And you can feel his obsession in his telling of the story.

And it's told in that great way that dudes of that generation told stories where they don't really care if you like them or not. And they don't really care of who they're talking about if those people like them or not. It's completely devoid of false niceties. It's just this dude being like, this is how you do this fucking thing. I know because I do it better than anyone. And it's really great. It's truly refreshing. I can't put it down. I'm reading it. it during the commercials of the heat and Nuggets games, it's just awesome. So look, if you're interested in obsessives, if you're obsessed, or if you're interested in baseball, the science of hitting by Ted Williams, especially if you've got kids who are interested in baseball.

All right, what I'm listening to, listening to today, had a big workout today. Is that the Y? Went to the Y to get into the pool. There was like 45,000 people in the pool today. I don't know what the fuck was going on. So I'm like, oh, God, I got to go. I go on the elliptical to do cardio, which I don't want to do. So I get on the cardio machine. I'm like, what am I going to listen to? For some reason, last days of disco soundtrack pops into my head. So I put that baby on. Fucking awesome, awesome soundtrack to a great movie.

I don't know if you've seen this movie or not. Go see it if you have it. Watch it again if you have not. Go to Spotify to get the soundtrack. It's awesome. And it just really underscores this thing about 70s disco. Sheik, Nile Rogers, everybody dance. Everyone talks about Le Freak, but it's everybody dance.

That's the song. That's my favorite disco song. I think of all time. What's yours? 617-906-6638. Favorite disco song of all time. Tell me why you hate disco, by the way. I love that.

I love when fucking dudes tell me they don't like disco and how disco sucks because you sound dumb when you do. It does not suck. It's fucking great. It's great music. Some of it. Of course, there's cheeseball, disco duck, whatever. YMCA, don't care.

But everybody danced by Nile Rogers by Sheek. Great, great, great. All right. Take a quick break. Back in a flash. All right, let's recap, shall we? Number one, Jeff Buckley is the latest episode of Disgraceland in your feeds. Now, number two, we are about to re-release the previously exclusive episode on the Eagles,

so keep an eye on your feed for that. Number three, we also recently released my 2020 graduation speech, a graduation speech heavily influenced by the Foo Fighters tour writer, and in honor of the release of the new Foo's album, too, I guess. Also, next after party, more Foo Fighters content. I got an interview with Food Fighters guitarist Chris Schifflett. That's coming your way. Number four, Jimmy Hendricks is the next new full episode of disgrace land.

That's coming next week. Number five, Will Smith this week in Badlands. Look out. Number six. My number is 617-9066666338. Call me on the telephone. Or text me, all right? In honor, Ted Williams, me reading you, the phone book from the early 1950s from somewhere in

Greater Boston. Pretty sure Ted was still a Red Sox at that time, a Red Sock. You know what it is? This is a pet peeve of me when people say a red sock. It's not a red sock. If you're on the Red Sox, if you're on the Red Sox, you're a member of the Red Sox. That's what you are. All right.

So I'm not sure. I think Ted was still playing for the Red Sox in the early 50s. Or maybe I'm wrong. But I couldn't find a phone book that went further past that from Boston or Greater Boston. So here we go. Arthur Murray's Studio, 332, Gramby, Mass 2-7079. Fred Astaire. Dance Studios, 7510, JU7-7228.

Peggy Baird School of Dancing, Private and Class Lessons for Children and Adults, Mass 5-6265. Lawrence Blick Ballet Studios, Director, Ballet Master, Hampton Boulevard, Mass 2-0524. Kaepard and Preston School of Dancing, 501 Columbus, Mass 2-459. Capiro Wilson Dance Studio 381B Newbury Mass 5-6847 Dean and Peace School of Dancing 712 399-89771

Dolly Donaldson School of Dance 4109 Hampton Boulevard Mass 7-859 George Keys 310 Bush 622-7982 Fred Astaire Dancing Quit talking and start mixing

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