DISGRACELAND - Bonus Episode: Mafia Murders and the Music Behind Them

Episode Date: June 4, 2026

Adele’s love of Al Pacino led us into a Mafia/Music Murder Rabbit Hole. Help us climb out of it in this bonus episode. Plus your voicemails, texts, emails, comments, DMs—and as always, a whole lotta Rosie.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is exactly right. Elvis. What happened in City Hall? Somebody tell me that. A shocking public murder. This is one of the most dramatic events that really ever happened in New York City politics. I scream. Get down. Get down. Those are shots. A tragedy that's now forgotten.

End of mystery. That may or may not have been political. That may have been about sex. Listen to Roershack. Murder at City Hall on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get. your podcasts. I'm Anna Navarro, and on my new podcast, Bleep with Anna Navarro. I'm talking to the people closest to the biggest issues happening in your community and around the world.

Because I know deep down inside right now, we are all cursing and asking what the bleep is going on. Every week I'm breaking down the biggest issues happening in our communities and around the world. I'm talking to people like Julie K. Brown, who broke the explosive story on Jeffrey Epstein in 2018. The Justice Department through, we counted four presidential administrations, failed these victims. Listen to Bleep with Anna Navarro on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

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Just a little bit bigger hips. This is a podcast. We're recording it as we take. Are you soccer games in the back of my Honda Odyssey? With all the snacks and drinks. Why did you get hard seltzer instead of beer? Oh, they hit a bogo. Well, then you got it.

Listen to soccer moms on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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 disgrace land to the other, the backyard to dig into the dirt. Our mission, as always, guys, to uncover the truth, to confront the myth, to reclaim the story on this bonus episode. The music from the mob movies with the real life hits, okay? As inspired by this week's full episode on Adele in her love of Al Pacino. Plus, your voicemails, text, emails, comments, DMs, and as always, a whole lot of rosy. This is the podcast for the musically obsessed,

the outsiders, the independent thinkers who know that the best history is the history that gets buried. Disgraceland is where I tell the stories they didn't want told, the kind that you'll end up telling someone else. All right, discos, let's get into it. Okay, so in this week's episode, a disgrace land, as I just alluded to, as I just mentioned,

we talk about Adele. and part of her story revolves around her love of Al Pacino movies, gangster movies, to be precise. I share this trait with Adele, as I'm sure many of you do as well, but specific to Italian movies, Italian gangster movies. For some reason, at the end of the day, after my wife and kids have fallen asleep, watching violent sociopaths navigate their way through a secret society to do. deal with their problems, it relaxes me. I don't know why. I do not know why. I've always been into gangster movies, specifically Italian mafia movies. Lately, though, it's become, I don't know. It's, it's, it's, I've gone deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper. And I'm even watching

straight up garbage, just looking for historical nuggets that I can mine and that I can connect in my brain. like, oh, that's based on this thing that was based on this other thing that I learned from this thing. And I've watched all the good stuff, I think. And now I'm watching the trash. I don't want to call this show trash because that's unfair. It's unfair to the filmmaker or the showrunner. But have you watched Gravesend on Amazon? I have. I have. I've watched both seasons. Season 3 is about to drop. I'm going to watch that too. This is not a good show. it's it's bordering it's right on the line of so bad it's good but it's it doesn't go that far so you can't even really use irony to appreciate it um but still man it's got all the actors from every great

mob movie in every soprano's episode that you've ever seen okay so it should be great the acting should be great it's a testament to i think bad directing and bad writing um because it's so bad the acting can't save it. I say all that and I'm laughing and I'm kind of ashamed of myself for saying this because part of me really loves what this filmmaker is doing. He's completely, this guy grew up in Gravesend, Brooklyn. He's completely, I forget his first name, his last name is DeMayo. I think it's William DeMayo.

He's completely following his passion and what he knows and who he is. And he's making something that people clearly love. So who am I to shit on it, right? and I but I do I do like it I watch it but I can't I can't tell you it's a good show it's not you should check it out let me know what you think Gravesend it's on Amazon again I watch it all okay but the mob movies that I love the most are the ones that incorporate rock and roll so I thought there's no rock and roll on Gravesend by the way I thought that it would be cool to look at mob hits like actual killings murders from mob films and

the music, the actual hits, that accompany those murders, okay? But the caveat is, the murders have to be based on real-life mafia murders. Okay, this will keep us in the realm of music and true crime. Okay, so I should tell you, spoiler alerts, all right? All over the place here. If you haven't seen these movies and you hear me mention them, just stop, stop what you hear, okay? And just wait 30 seconds. Now, first up, the infamous head in the vice scene from Martin Scorsese's casino. This murder executed by Joe Pesci's character, Nikki Santoro, who is playing a version of a real gangster named Anthony Spilatro. This murder, the real murder, it didn't happen in Las Vegas. It's based on the torture of a mobster named William McCarthy.

McCarthy was part of the Chicago outfit and was tortured and killed in. in 1962. And yes, just like in casino, his eye popped out from the pressure of the vice around his head. The song that's playing in the scene is Cream's instrumental Toad from their debut album, Fresh Cream, released in 1966. This murder, I believe, is also connected to, the real-life murder is also connected to the kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr. So there's another music connection here. I believe of the four connected guys who were killed in relation to that crime, one of them was killed, or at least reportedly killed in the same way with the vice around the head. And that was not William McCarthy. I don't think. I don't think. I could have it wrong.

All right. Next, we're going to travel back to the great year of 1996 and the HBO film Gotti starring Armand Asante in the title role. First of all, this movie is incredible. It's great. I love it. I love it. And if you watch, as I do, interviews with real-life mafia members on YouTube, they will tell you that this is one of the most accurate portrayals of mafia activity that's ever happened on film. Do I believe that? I don't know how accurate it is, but it is dramatic as hell. And it is really interesting. And Armana Sante is just he's so cool. cool. He's such a great John Gotti. He's so awesome. But early in this film, very early on, Armana Sante as John Gotti enters a bar and he kills an enemy of mob boss, Carlo Gambino.

It's a real-life hit. It happened in retaliation for the kidnapping and murder of Gambino's nephew. That actually happened. Somebody fucking kidnapped and murdered Carlo Gambino, the boss of all bosses, I believe at the time and kidnapped and murdered his nephew. Anyways, this hit, John Gotti does in retaliation for Carlo Gambino. It puts him on the fast track to becoming a leader in the Gambino family. But more important, it made me love Three Dog Night because when Gotti kills this dude in the movie Gotti, the dude's name is James McBrattney. That was his real name.

When this happens, Three Dog Nights, excellent tune Shambala. Shambala. That song is so good. It's playing in the background. Now, Shambela was released on May 11, 1973, and the murder of James Jimmy McBrattney took place on May 22, 1973. So kudos to the filmmakers for the historical accuracy here. Side note, Jimmy McBrattney didn't actually kidnap and kill Gambino's nephew.

It was a case of mistaken identity. It was a bad hit, but still, it worked for Gotti. Again, put them on the fast track in the Gambino family. All right, number three on my list, but probably should be number one. We're going back to Joe Pesci here, but it's Joe Pesci's character, not from Casino, his character from Goodfellas. Tommy DeVito, based on real-life gangster, Thomas D. Simone, Tommy D. Simone. And it's the scene where Tommy kills the Billy Bats character for the first time, played by Frank Vincent. All right, they think that he kills him. And when this happens in Henry Hills Bar, we hear Donovan's excellent Atlantis playing in the scene. Okay. Now, this scene is a fairly accurate portrayal of what went down in real life. D. Simone, Tommy D. Simone, murdered a guy named William Bent Vena. I think that's how you say that, who was a made member of the Gambino family. The hit happened in 1970. Donovan's Atlantis was

released in 1968. I don't know. Would that have been playing in Henry Hills Bar? Maybe. Maybe. The interesting thing about this, in the movie, they attack Billy Bats. after Billy Bats insults Tommy or later on in the night. It's not immediate. You know, Billy Bats tells him to go get a shine box and, you know, a couple hours go by. They wait for the girls to leave. They let Billy Bats relax. And then once everyone's gone, Tommy goes to work on Billy Bats and they think they kill him.

Of course, they don't. They kill him later in the trunk of the car. He survives. for a couple more hours. However, in real life, what happened was the insult happens in a couple weeks go by before Tommy DeSvone kills William. How do you say his last name? Bent Venna, who is the Billy Bats character. So there you go. All right, next, I want to take you to a rooftop in Boston, Massachusetts here in the early odds. Billy Costigan, played by Leonardo DiCaprio. He gets a bullet in the head, okay, in the elevator, in the departed. And just before,

that happens, there's a bit of the live version of Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd, but it's the Roger Waters live version, okay? It's when he's up on the roof with Matt Damon. It's also earlier in the movie. It also happens earlier in the movie when Matt Damon is in the middle of a sex scene. But anyways, it happens on the roof there, just a bit of it. It's like some guitar playing. Now, the reason I mentioned this is because, again, spoiler alert for the Sopranos here. It's the same version of Comfortably Numb that is playing in Christopher Maltesante's truck before Kennedy and Heidi run him off of the road and Tony as well. And then you know what happens there. Now Christopher Maltesante, that character in the Sopranos, is based loosely on mobster

Anthony Bruno and Delacanto, from the Bonano family, a gangster with a severe drug addiction. That's who they based the Christopher Maltesante character on in Sopranos. Now, Bruno in Delacado is also the inspiration behind the Bruno character from Donny Brasco, the son of Sunny Red. The actor who plays Bruno and Donnie Brasco is Brian Tarantina. Brian Tarantina plays Salvatore, Mustang Sally, and Tile in the Sopranos. Mustang Sally is eventually murdered. There is no music accompanying the hit and the death is not inspired by true events,

at least that I know of, but Mustang Sally is a song by Wilson Pickett that I never need to hear again, and neither do you. They can take that one in Brown-eyed Girl and they can send them straight to the moon. Now listen, Bruno in Delicado is still alive. Okay, I wonder what he thinks of being portrayed in two iconic mafia. I was about to say films, but the Sopranos and in Donny Brasco. Now, let's talk about Tony Soprano. Killed a bunch of people, obviously. But let's talk about his musical taste. I loved it. Struck me is totally accurate. Basically, he's got like, you know, middle-aged classic rock radio tastes. I love it. It's perfect. Pink Floyd makes all the sense in the world when they're driving in that car and they're listed in. And Christopher is excited to play

Tony that Roger Waters, Pink Floyd CD. When I heard that Roger Waters version of Comfortably Numb and the departed, however, it struck me as. is weird because it wasn't the studio version of the song. And I immediately thought, oh, well, you know, Scorsese just couldn't get Pink Floyd to license him the studio version. Maybe they wanted too much money or they just didn't want it used or whatever. And he ended up going with the live version. Turns out that's exactly what happened.

I was right about that. I'm not sure, however, why it's used in the Sopranos. Because they use one of these days. they get to license Pink Floyd's one of these days in a 2006 episode called the Fleshy Part of the Thigh. It's used in the credit sequence. This episode is the one where Bobby Bacala gets paid by the aspiring hip-hop artist Marvin MVP Belfield to shoot him on purpose so that Marvin can gain some much-needed street credibility. And that storyline is reportedly a parody of the real-life 50-cent shooting. And Marvin, to further connect to music history into real-life

music. Marvin is played, the character is played by Nottie by Nature's Tretch. And Tretch's manager, excuse me, Marvin's manager in this episode is played by Lord Jammar from Brand Newbian. There's even a brand newbie in the dialogue. Now, the depiction of hip-hop artists like MVP being so desperate for street credibility was so accurate that Nas references this episode on his 2006 album, Hip Hop is Dead. Incredible. Love these connections. All right. I'm going too deep down the rabbit hole, but we will go deeper. We're going to do that in the exclusive section of this after party. Zeth and I, we're going to talk about real-life rock stars, real-life musicians caught up with real-life gangsters. Madonna, Marilyn Monroe. You're like Marilyn Monroe. She's an actress. No, she's also a pretty damn good singer.

Okay? Put out records the whole bit. Okay. Anyways, some surprising connections between real-life musicians and the mafia that we're going to discuss in the exclusive section of this after party. Go to www. Disgracelampod.com to sign up, become an all-access member to unlock exclusive content like this plus ad-free listening. Now, this is the stuff that I am obsessed with. I probably need a hobby. Maybe Adele needs a hobby as well.

Like I said, our new story on Adele is available for you to listen to right now. Coming up in the rewind slot this Sunday, we've got our episodes on Paul McCartney and John Lenin. Both of their early 70s solo career stuff, that's what's going to be detailed in these episodes. Paul McCartney's stint in jail. John Lennon's stint under FBI surveillance. These are great episodes. You're going to dig them. I promise, if you haven't heard them before, get in there and listen. And then on Tuesday, we've got our episode on the Hillsborough disaster. This is a special episode of Disgraceland. We are releasing it because the World Cup is about to get underway. and we originally wrote this episode for a different series other than disgrace land.

But make no mistake, this is a disgrace land episode, and it depicts the horrible tragedy where 97, 97 Liverpool football fans died in a fatal crowd crush during a 1989 soccer match at Hillsborough Stadium. This is one of the episodes that we've produced here at Double Elvis that I am most proud of. It's an incredible story. We are releasing it once again, timed with the World Cup that's about to start happening this weekend. Now, whether or not you're a soccer fan, you're going to dig this, so I hope you check it out. And when you're listening to that episode, be thinking about tragedies, be thinking about music tragedies, sports tragedies, and what's the most tragic event from music history, sports history, just culture in general.

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Your body is not what you saw it was. Your identity is formed by a secret history. I'm Danny Shapiro, and these are just a few of the stunning stories I'll be exploring on the 14th season of Family Secrets. And just then, we felt the plain turn in the air, so much so that the bags that were under people's seats just kind of flew into the aisle. Each week, we dive headfirst into the complex power of secrecy, how it shapes our identities and relationships,

and how it ultimately can reveal to us our truest selves. My daughter, she's pretending she doesn't know, but is trying to cook and feed me and keep me alive because I wasn't eating anything, and me pretending like everything was fine. He kind of shoved me out of the way and said, move. And he went out the front door and he jumped in a car and drove off. And that was the last time I saw him. Listen to season 14 of Family Secrets on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Five, City Hall building.

How could this have happened in City Hall? Somebody tell me that. A shocking public murder. This was one of the most dramatic events that really ever happened in New York City politics. I scream, get down, get down. shots. A tragedy that's now forgotten and a mystery that may or may not have been political, that may have been about sex. Listen to Roershack, murder at City Hall on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, we got a lot of different conversations

going on with you guys. Let's check in with Rob from the 303. Hey, Jake, this is Rob from the 303. It's first time I've ever had to stop a podcast and doll your number man. You asked for unlikely covers. And I worked for a radio station in Denver, and I did not know. It's a classic rock station that PM Dawn covered Beatles, Norwegian Wood. Really good song, both versions. That's all I got, man. Thanks. Rob, thanks for the call.

I love the PM Dawn vibes. I had no idea. They covered Norwegian wood. Did they cover it or just sample it? I'm going to check it out. Very interested in this, Rob. Thanks so much. Russell from the 704. Hey there, Russell from the 704.

I just finished listening to the 1994 after party. I graduated high school in 1994, so a lot of what you talked about really hit home for me. I listened to it because I wanted to find out about these punk albums, not by punk artists, see who mentioned what. And there's one that came to mind that I was surprised it wasn't mentioned. And that is, Great Against the Machine's album, Battle of Los Angeles. You know that

a punk album is relevant when you have someone like Weird Al covering, not parodying, but covering braids against a machine in one of their concerts. All I say about that is, fuck you, I will do what you tell me.

Love the show, love Hollywood land, looking forward to hearing more of it. Have a great day. Love the passion, Russell. Is that true? Weird Al covered Rage Against Machine and didn't parody it? That's pretty interesting. What's more punk than fuck you? I won't do what you tell me.

That's what I want to know. Chad from the 604. Hey, Jake. Chad. More, nothing disgraceful. Just like you feel good. You know, music. Which for me, it's the number one supergroup.

The only fucking supergroup that exists on the planet ever of all time. It's my opinion traveling Wilburys. Chad, thank you. I appreciate the call. And traveling Wilburys might be the greatest supergroup of all time. But are they the only one? The only one? I don't know, man.

What about the firm? Come on, dude. I'm kidding. The firm were a B-team supergroup at best. It's got to be other examples of a great supergroup. So someone was just talking about rage against machine. audio slave there you go there's one but there's a mythology to the traveling willberries that some of these other supergroups just don't have appreciate the call chad get back at us anytime

amber from the 620 writes and hey jake amber from the 785 but amber i'm looking at your area code it's 620 um umber says hey i would also love a toriamos episode for a crime perspective Tori was raped at, oh my God, at knife point by a fan. I did not know this. My goodness. Her song, that's my, I just said that. Not Amber here. Amber goes on to say her song, Me and a Gun on the Little Earthquakes album is about that experience.

It's also one of the main reasons. She's a spokesperson, co-founder for Rain. I hope this helps. Keep up the great work, rockerola. Amber, it absolutely helps. Thank you so much. Wow, that's heavy. That is heavy.

Yeah, we'll definitely get into a Toriamos episode at some point. 206 writes in the question of outlier albums, this spawning from our Weezer conversation last week relative to Pinkerton and our Weezer episode. 206 text in, hey, I'm behind on the podcast. I agree with Pinkerton for Weezer. I would say Paul's Boutique is the Beastie Boys' Best album, Best Beastie Boys album and an outlier. I never thought of Paul's Boutique as an outlier because,

but it is, I see your point, but at the time, they were still defining who they were going to be. And I look at Licensed to Ill, Paul's Boutique, check your head chronologically, their first three albums as a progression. You can hear them creatively going from one to the other versus Weezer, which is the blue album, Pinkerton, and then what, the green album after that, and the green album kind of reverts back to what they were. It'd be like if Check Your Head reverted back to License to Ill. But to your point, however, 206, the Beastie Boys, once they land on Check Your Head, they kind of stick the landing for a while.

Ill communication is still in that vein. They've kind of found what they're doing. They've identified themselves. But pretty interesting to think of Paul's Batique as an outliner. It certainly sounds like one now. 917 writes in, hey, Adele, we're, the Fiona Apple episode? 917. How'd you know we're going to do a Fiona Apple episode? 911 also writes in, pavement. He just wants to keep your hardcoreness in check and sounds

extremely insecure. Nothing about swans. No deaf heaven? weak. I don't know what the hell you're talking about 911. I did find out an interesting thing about swans recently, though. Michael Gira dated Madonna for a while back in the day. 917, a lot of text here also writes in, look up Kanye's obsession with Adele before his first album came out. Okay, I will. Keep texting me 911, 917, 9-16-66-36-3-8. You guys want to get at me about anything here. Jeff McDermen writes in, hey, episode request. Jeff here from the 815. It just finished the re-release, the rewind of the Alia episode, and it got me thinking of a hip-hop artist that started to blow up around the same time that she did DMX. Please make a DMX episode for exclamation points. There is enough crime and drama

to make a very interesting story. And believe it or not, he did make some pretty great music. Keep on, keeping on. Jeff from the 815. Jeff, we got DMX on the list. This year, I believe it's in the works, so to speak.

We're planning for it to be in the works, I should say. You guys want to hit me up with requests for subjects to cover in disgraceland. You can do so. Disgracelandpod at gmail.com. In the exclusive section of last week's after party, we were talking about pulp fiction. Casey writes in,

Casey Juvenile writes, and hey, I heard in the after-party exclusive section on Pulp Fiction this week, and I wanted to bring to your attention something that I recently noticed about the movie. It is my all-time favorite, and I watch it about two times a year and always find something new.

You guys mentioned Steve Bouchemmy playing Buddy Holly. Well, I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but there is a theory that Buddy Hawley is actually Mr. Pink from Reservoir Dogs. And I'm sure you remember his classic dialogue in which he talks about how he doesn't tip waiters and waitresses. So the theory is that Mr. Pink went underground after the robbery and is hiding out as a waiter because no one would expect it.

Anyway, it's just something to think about. Love your work. Keep up the good work. That's from CJ. CJ, this theory is awesome. I love it. Would Mr. Pink, though, would he recognize Vincent Vega as Vic Vega's brother? You know what I mean?

Because he's waiting on him. You know, he might, is there anything, is there anything in that scene where buddy's kind of like, where Mr. Pink is kind of like, wait, who the fuck is this? This guy looks like someone I know. You know what I mean? Maybe a look, a glance, a raised eyebrow even. Last one here relative to Weezer.

G'day, Jake, Rob, originally from Auckland, now living in Queensland, Australia. Love your podcast. I am so glad someone else thinks Pinkerton is a great album. Weezer played Auckland in 1996, right in that strange window where Pinkerton was still new and uncomfortable. And I really liked it, but none of my mates did. It was no Buddy Hawley.

slightly unhinged in a way that didn't quite fit Weezer's blue album and Weezer played Auckland just after we finished high school. End of exams blowout. That weird feeling where your life is suddenly open, but no one has told you what it's supposed to look like yet. Damn, Rob, well put. Rob, we hope to capture that sentiment in the sentence you just wrote, or that I just read that you wrote. In our latest episode of this film should be played loud, which is on Dazed and Confused. We're releasing it this month. We recorded it last night.

We're releasing it this month because it is the end of the school year and it is probably the greatest graduation movie that I've ever seen, even more than the graduate. How about that? How about that? Is Dazed and Confused better than the graduate? I watch it more.

I appreciate it more. I don't know. I don't know if I'm actually saying that. I should probably watch the graduate again. But, you know, I don't love the graduate. I never have. What's wrong with me? I don't know.

Rob, you're a good writer. Right back anytime. All right, you guys want to email me, disgrace land pod at gmail.com. Now listen, May Madness. May Madness has been consuming all of us here at Double Elvis and everybody over in the Patreon feed for the last 30-plus days, okay? We have arrived at the end of the line. We have a winner.

And that winner will be announced to you coming up right after this. Pride month, Toronto. Pride is an opportunity for you to create your own space, to celebrate your existence. IHeart Radio is proud to be an official sponsor of Pride Toronto Festival, and we won't stop. Celebrate Pride. Turn up the love and listen to IHeart Pride Canada.

Your 24-7 radio stream and the only playlist you need for your Toronto Pride celebrations. Pride is so great because it gives a whole bunch of people this visibility that they've never had before. We have a ton to celebrate Toronto. Happy Pride. IHeart Radio. Your husband is not who you think he is.

Your body. is not what you saw it was. Your identity is formed by a secret history. I'm Danny Shapiro, and these are just a few of the stunning stories I'll be exploring on the 14th season of Family Secrets. And just then, we felt the plain turn in the air, so much so that the bags that were under people's seats

just kind of flew into the aisle. Each week, we dive head first into the complex power of secrecy, how it shapes our identities and relationships, and how it ultimately can reveal to us our truest selves. My daughter, she's pretending she doesn't know, but is trying to cook and feed me and keep me alive because I wasn't eating anything and me pretending like everything was fine.

He kind of shoved me out of the way and said, move. And he went out the front door and he jumped in a car and drove off, and that was the last time I saw him. Listen to season 14 of Family Secrets on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Will Ferrell's Big Money Players and IHeart podcast presents soccer moms. So I'm Leanne. Yeah.

This is my best friend, Janet. Hey. And we have been joined at the hips since high school. Absolutely. A redacted amount of years later, we're still joined at the hip. Just a little bit bigger hips. This is a podcast. We're recording it as we tailgate our youth soccer games in the back of my Honda Odyssey.

With all the snacks and drinks. Why did you get hard seltzer instead of beer? Oh, they had a bogo. Well, then you got it. Listen to soccer moms on the IHeart Radio. Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. So we are back here in the after party and over on Patreon, you may or may not be aware for the month of May, which has now ended, we were covering May Madness. Now May Madness,

you might be like, what are you talking about? I know about March Madness. Is May Madness the NCAA baseball tournament? No, it's not, but I am deeply invested in that as well. May Madness is our sitcom theme tournament. Okay? And we have a winner. The Sick Comotron 2000, it finally tabulated all the votes. And, you know, it started spewing out some white smoke, just like the Vatican. And we got news, okay? So I'm not going to blow it here. I'm going to go to our special May Madness correspondent, Matt Bowden.

Check in with Matt here. Matt can give us a recap of what exactly went down with May Madness and how we arrived with our winner and who that winner is. Matt, give it to him. Well, we had a lot of, you know, great, deserving theme songs in this contest, but ultimately we wound up with an all New York final with Mr. Cotter and the Sweatogs from Brooklyn going up against George and Weezy on the east side of Manhattan, formerly of Queens. And ultimately, our winner was the Jeffersons, who defeated Welcome Back Cotter 54 to 25.

I don't think anybody was surprised to see the Jeffersons. In the final, it's an incredible theme with the indelible images of Weezy wiping her eyes and George with that hilarious yet confidence strut as they head into the apartment building. So there you have it. The Jefferson's, the greatest sitcom theme of all time, according to our listeners. All right, Matt, thank you for that. We appreciate the recap. Appreciate all the work you put into this. and appreciate everybody over on Patreon who voted and took part in May Madness this year.

This was a lot of fun. I think the thing we learned is that we like doing tournaments. We want to do another one. We want to finally figure out these long, these long mused about cultural questions, you know, like what the greatest sitcom theme of all time is, obviously the Jeffersons. I kind of feel like my answer, that's not my answer. My answer is taxi, maybe cheers. but you know, I can understand.

And actually the story behind the creation of the song that is the theme song for the Jeffersons is really fascinating and also speaks to that tunes greatness. But there are other great cultural questions that we want to answer here in Double Lovus. So I think we're going to do some more tournaments over in Patreon. You guys want to become an all-access member. You want to take part in these conversations.

You can do so for as little as a buck. Go to disgraceandpod.com to sign up. you're also going to get access to our new video podcast. This film should be played loud, which explores our favorite movies and the soundtracks behind them. We've got episodes on Goodfellas, Royal Tenen Bombs, boogie nights, got a new episode on Dazed and Confused. That's coming up this month.

You're not going to want to miss that. Go to disgraceandpod.com to sign up and become a member today. So we all of a sudden in Hollywood, we have young people making great movies that are also wildly successful. This is kind of happening out of the blue. Zeth gets into all of this in the Hollywood Land Feed this week,

relative to our Lucille Ball re-release episode that's over there. But in the rap party, we're giving music recommendations based on music recommendations and film recommendations, but my wrecks are music based from artists who were very young,

under 20 years old in most cases, making great music. that we're still listening to today. All my recommendations are happening exclusively in the Hollywoodland feed during the Rap Party episodes, which are released on Wednesdays. If you're not a Hollywoodland listener, make sure you become one today. Go to the Hollywoodland feed and subscribe on Apple Podcasts or the IHeart Radio app

or wherever you get your podcasts. All right. As promised, Zeth and I are going to dig into some pretty, pretty revealing music connections, rock and roll connections, music history connections to the mafia, ones you likely haven't heard about here in the exclusive section of the after party coming up right now.

Go to disgracehandpod.com to sign up if you're not already a member. All right, we'll be back right after this. All right, guys, welcome back. Listen, we talked about, which artist do we discuss? Going back to my memory here, we talked about Cream,

so we got an Eric Clapton episode in our archive. You can check that out. We've got a Pink Floyd episode. We talked about Pink Floyd. We talked about Nass. Brand new being naughty by nature. We don't have episodes on any of those artists.

We do have a full season on the Wu-Tang Clan. That's in the archive. If you really want to go deep on the Wu, we got you covered. Matt will provide information on these episodes in the show notes section of this here after party to help you easily navigate our archive. All right, let's recap, shall we? This week, our new episode on Adele in the Rewind Slot

coming up on Sunday. This is number two. We've got Paul McCartney and John Lennon, the solo episodes. not going to want to miss those. Next week, our episode on the Hillsboro disaster, timed with the World Cup event, which will be happening.

Number four, Zeth gives you those Hollywood and crime vibes in the Hollywoodland podcast, so make sure you're subscribed. That way you can get my music wrecks. That's over in the rap party. Number five, this film should be played loud. Our new episode on the Royal Tennebombs is available for you.

Right now, we just recorded our latest episode on Dazed and Confused. Go to disgraceandpod.com to sign up, become an all-access member. get into the Patreon chat, let us know what other types of tournaments should we be doing, cultural tournaments. Number six, six, 17, 9906, 636-6338. Your voice keeps us digging into the dark corners of music history. So keep calling, keep texting with your answers to this week's question of the week or whatever else you want to talk about. Number seven, don't forget discos. This isn't

just content. It's a community, a community of the obsessed. No one cares about music, books, records and the crime and grime that ties them all together like you do. Well, that's a disgrace. All right, Adele's mega smash album 21 was released on January 8th, 2008, and here's what America was listening to on that day, according to the Billboard charts. Number one, low, flow rider featuring T-Pain. Last week, one. Peak position, one. Weeks on chart, 12.

Number two, no one. Alicia Keys. Last week, two, peak position, one. Weeks on chart, 19. Number three, apologize. Timbalin, featuring one republic. Last week, three, peak position, two, weeks on chur, 24. Number four, kiss kiss, kiss.

Chris Brown, featuring T-Pain, last week, four. Peak position, one, weeks on churn, 18. Number five, clumsy, ferdy, last week, five, Pete, quit talking and start mixing. Cut it! Hey, it's us to Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news.

What's the news? Huge news. We created our own podcast called Hey Jonas. How do we actually come up with a name Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. We were talking about a bit for the podcast where people could call in and say, Hey Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys.

Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care. where you hear it. How much you wait, Wanda? Right now, about 130. I'm at 183. We should race. No, I want to leave here with my original hips.

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