DISGRACELAND - Bonus Episode: Muddy Waters, George Benson, The What-If's of Sly Stone, and Alfred Hitchcock's Best Movie

Episode Date: April 6, 2023

Jake's been listening to guitar greatness and has some classic recs to share. But first, he's fielding your recs in a packed mailbag of Disgo texts, VMs and DMs. We're talking the Mets, we're talking Lou Reed and Badlands get some fan love, and a whole lot of you are talking about your Top 5 Movies lists. Hit Jake with your own message at 617-906-6638 or on socials @disgracelandpod and come join the After Party!See 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 Sly Stone, Brian, Joan, Succession, my George Benson Cherry, and of course, your voicemails, text, DMs, and more. And as always, a whole lot of rosy. All right, Disco, let's get into it. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Thank you for let me be myself again. It's Sly Stone Week here in Discraceland because not to overstate the obvious, but we just released our Slystone episode in the discreet. Graceland feed this week, and I've got 60s crossover Funk Soul Styling's on my brain. Sly Stone.

The question is this, is there a greater waste of raw talent in the history of pop music? I know we get a lot out of Sly Stone, Sly and the Family Stone, Sly Stone solo, but it just feels like there was so much more to get from this artist. And he could have given us a lot more great music. So I was thinking, you know, excluding artists who have died, which living artists among us has as much talent as Sly Stone but is no longer in the game. And who hasn't been in the game for decades since their chart dominance or their cultural relevance or however we want to measure it, Sly Stone's wasted talent for reasons that we document in this episode that we just released is massive. It's like, you know, it'd be like if, you know, 1972 Neil Young was like, later, I'm out. Or, you know, what if Prince just after like, you know, the second record stopped making records?

Or Stevie Wonder went dark after, you know, his first few albums. The what if surrounding Sly Stone, they're immense. He's still alive. He's somewhere. He's 80 years old. Presumably up to something other than making music. I mean, 80, you know, tough to be active at 80. I get that.

But there was a lot of years leading up to that 80-year-old birth date. And Sly, you know, he's got issues, wasn't making music. And I feel like he could have been one of the greatest of all time. And I don't know what he's up to. Maybe he's watching clips of himself on Letterman from back in the day, but whatever he's doing, I hope he's keeping it funky. His music is missed. We still have those great records to go back to check out the Sly Stone episode in Disgraceland.

and speaking of wasted talent, over on our YouTube page this past week, we rebooted our Brian Jones story. This is, of course, the little Brian Jones story inside of the Brian Jones episode story that we released as part of season two of disgrace land. Back then, when I started the podcast, I had this vision of,

of releasing a Stones episode in every season. And in season one, we did the Keith Richards story about Maggie Trudeau and the heroin bust. And then in season two, we did Brian Jones. And of course, you know, we've done Altamont Exxon on Main Street, a bunch of other Rolling Stone stuff. Not quite every season, a Rolling Stones episode, but a lot.

We've done six episodes on the Stones, and the Brian Jones one was the second one that we did. and when I wrote this episode, there was this moment I had when I was writing it, trying to squish in all the debauchery and all the scandal and all the just insane, insane behavior of Brian Jones. First of all, hot take, not really hot take.

You know, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards get a lot of shit for kicking Brian Jones out of the band. I mean, it was his band. He started the band. But he was just completely. this functional, impossible to be in a bandwidth. And of course, you know, I get it. So, you know, for all the reasons that he was impossible to be in a bandwidth, I tried documenting them in that episode. And as I was writing it and stacking them all up, one after another, it just started to

remind me of this sort of like relentless, like just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, just pommeling of events. And I was like, what does this remind me of? And it reminded me of that great Roger Avery movie from the early 2000s called Rules of Attraction, and there's a movie within that movie called Victor Takes a Trip. If you know rules of attraction, you know exactly what I'm talking about. So I looked up Victor Takes a Trip. I got the script, and I lined it up, and I wrote the Brian Jones stuff beat for beat with Victor Takes a Trip, and then we got some cool visuals. We put that to it. It's up on YouTube now, and it's pretty freaking awesome. I think if you know this episode, the Brian Jones episode of Disgraceland, you're definitely going to know what I'm talking about here.

And you're probably going to be excited to see this video. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check it out. And then go watch Rules of Attraction. I know it's not the recommendations prior to the show yet, but that movie is fucking great. It's a Brady-Sennel's novel that was adapted by Roger Avery. Roger Avery, of course, was quitting Tarantino's co-worker back at that movie rental place that they worked at when they were kids. And he co-wrote Pulp Fiction. Just an awesome movie, Rules of Attraction.

So the Brian Jones take on Victor takes a trip is up on our YouTube channel right now. That is YouTube.com slash at disgrace land pod. If you're not subscribed, I say it every week. Get over there, people. Subscribe. You're getting a bunch of music and true crime content there that you're not getting here in the podcast feed. We're releasing daily shorts. We've got a bunch of deep dive videos on ancillary music and true crime stories

that haven't yet been in the podcast. and of course if you're just YouTube junkies, eventually we'll have the podcast available over there as well, just like we have it available here in the feed. So that is YouTube.com slash at Disgraceland Pod. That's over on YouTube, but here in the feed, as usual, we are continuing to release previously exclusive content into the disgraceland feed.

Since the last after-party, we've dropped our archive episodes that we've had sort of like locked up under lock and key. These episodes are on Jay Z, Little Richard, a two-parter on Guns and Roses. Our Jim Morrison episode from April 1st, 2019, our two-parter on the Beach Boys. All of these are available for you now

wherever you get your podcast. If you haven't heard these episodes before, now is your chance. They're available, like I said, wherever podcasts are available, and we are, of course, releasing more previously exclusive content in the coming days with episodes on the Who,

Tiger King, Run DMC, Ozzy Osborne, and Nipsey Hustle all in the lead up to our next new episode for season 11, which we are releasing this coming Tuesday on the MC5. So, as usual, lots and lots of disgrace land content for you to wrap your ears around in the coming days. All right? So you will be busy. I got to clean something up from the last after party.

I was responding to a texter or a voicemail. I can't remember which. And they requested a Joy Division. episode to which I said there is one coming. Have no fear. There's one coming soon in season 12 of disgrace land. But I was incorrect. It is a new order episode, not a Joy Division episode. You can forgive me for the mistake. It's an obvious one. I spoke and I didn't correct myself. So, you know, I didn't realize a mistake at the time. I got it. Someone flagged it for me. My guy Taylor did. We got it cleaned up right now. That's new order, not Joy Division. But for Joy Division fans,

you will be satisfied with the new order episode. So I am going to take a quick break and I will be back in a flash with your voicemails, your texts, and your DMs. All right, you guys know the drill. These bonus episodes, there's an ongoing conversation between me and all of you.

And I love it. I wish I could do more of it. I want to find a way to do more of it. For right now we got it in these bonus episodes. I'm digging it. Keep it coming. You're hitting me up on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook at Disgraceland Pod.

You know that I respond. Sometime I respond right in this episode. And, of course, you can call me and leave me a voicemail or a text at 617-90666-6638, just like this listener from the 9-14. Hey there. Love the show. I'm in the middle of listening to the Beach Boys episodes. And one thing I love so much about it is you're really kind of just exposing the 60s. for what they really were.

And the junk that we've been said about the 60s is just not true. So thanks for what you're doing and I'm going to go back to listening. Bye. All right. Thanks for the message. Yes, the myth of the 60s.

I had a lot to say about that in the Beach Boys episodes. And just so you know, I go a little deeper with some quantifiable facts about that myth in the two-part Woodstock episode. Woodstock episode.

that I did back in, God, I don't even know. I'm not going to pretend to know when I released those. I think it was the end of 2021. So, go back, check out those Woodstock episodes for more on this myth

of the 60s take that I have. That's in your disgrace land feed. Those are out now. Thank you for calling. Appreciate it. Leaving a voicemail. Let's do another one. Let's check in with the 6-4-6.

Hey, man, how you doing? This is Kevin from New York City. I send you, bitch. and send you the pictures. In any event, man, I just, I had to call you, man. The show is amazing. Your content is brilliant. I love history and I love to be entertained. And man, you just rock out, man. You are awesome. I appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And go next. Kevin, my man, good to hear your voice and to match it up to the text. Thank you for calling in. Thanks for the kind words. Dude, more mobster gravestone picks. You might a little. Might a

appreciated here. So, you know, when you have time, no big deal, get around to it. I can get with the Mets as my National League team. I've liked them since I was a little kid. You know, largely when you're a little kid, you're picking teens beyond your little local team. You sort of, you know, you go with the uniforms. And I like that blue and that orange. I like those blue pinstripes. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know why. I like Doc Gooden. I like Darrell Strawberry. I dug Keith Hernandez, is that whole thing. I still like those guys. Crazy as they are.

Anyways, yeah, the Mets. I can get with the Mets. Like I said, I can get with the Mets, especially because my Red Sox aren't going to crack 500 this year. I don't think. They're going to be horrible. But, dude, I can't get with the Nix, despite the uniform color scheme.

So hit me back, Kevin. Whenever you get a chance, talk more sports, more mafia guys, dead mobsters gravestones. All right. Thanks for listening, dude. All right, let's see what we got here. Let's do.

Oh, you know what? I have not done this before. I don't think, I don't think I've played a voicemail from the same listener more than once. I'm not going to make a habit of that. But I just do something about this listener. I like her. She's awesome. I like her energy that she brings to these calls.

This is Sherry from the 215. So Sherry, on repeat. Let's hear what you get to say. Hey, Jake. It's Sherry. Over here, 215. First of all, you did honors to me. I asked for.

Robin Williams and I boo-hooed all the way through it, but it was so wonderfully done. You did the damn thing. And now you're releasing Whitney Houston. So let me tell you, I'm excited. Thank you for this good shit. As always, keep it rolling, rock'n'roll. Thank you, Jake. Hearts out to you.

Sherry, thanks to spreading the LUV love. We don't disappoint with the Whitney Houston episode. I hope you dug it. And I'm happy to hear that you dug the Badlands episode on Robin Williams. We should, Sherry and everybody else out there listening. We should have some Badlands news for all of you guys very shortly that I think you're going to be excited about. All right, lots of texts. Lots of texts on the top five movie question, which I love.

I love this. So we're going to start here at 864. Jake, it's Elaine. Come to ATL, even though I'm from Greenville. Actually, small town, a fountain in. My top five, Tombstone, number one, pulp fiction, number two, my cousin Vinny, number three, Goodfellas number four, steel magnolias because I'm Southern and well, because Dolly.

Also recommend Friday Night Lights on Netflix, seen it, excellent, I know, and shrinking on Apple TV, Jason Segal and Harrison Ford, funnier than you think, I'm sure it is, but it's about loss and grief, and I just, you know, I can't, I don't know, I don't get the space for shrinking right now, I watch the trailer, maybe sometime soon. If I'm wrong, if it's not a bum out right back and let me know, Elaine, Laney. Let's see, Tombstone, number one.

God, I need to rewatch Tombstone. I haven't given that it's a, I haven't given that it's due. You're putting Tombstone above Pulp Fiction. Really, Elaine, really? My cousin Vinnie, I feel that. Goodfellas and Steel Magnolia's. Good, solid list, Elaine. Thank you so much.

I'm going to rewatch Tombstone. back to you, one of these after parties. All right, from the 510, I also struggle with Jimmy Buffett. That's right, guys. I was supposed to listen to early Jimmy Buffett. I said I wouldn't last after party. And you know what? I didn't do it.

But still, I want to read this text. So the 510 says, I also struggle with Jimmy Buffett. One thing made him a teeny bit more palatable to me. I am an OG Star Wars fan from way back. Empire Strikes Back came out when I was like six and I forever changed. So I found out that Harrison Ford was with Jimmy Buffett when he got his ear pierced. There's a story there. Harrison Ford, pot dealer to Michelle Phillips during the whole Laurel Canyon scene.

Hans Solo, Indiana Jones, and he's rocking it in the show shrinking. Just saying, that's another shrinking reference. Two in a row. I didn't mean to do that. Harrison Ford gives a nod to Jimmy Buffett. So it made me lift my lifelong band of him. I mean, I'm not suddenly a fan, but I let his music play without always changing the channel. That's kind of where I'm at there, 510.

Uh, 510 goes on to say, sometimes I still change the channel, but no longer with disdain. Hope that helps. Uh, definitely helps. Excuse that sound of the background. That is the garage downstairs. The garage door opening up and closing. I think it's gone now. Um, hey, so, all right.

That's another, I don't know, yeah, that was very much about Han Solo, but to me, it's really about Jimmy Buffett. And I didn't know Han Solo. I didn't know Harrison 4 was dealing dope in Laurel Canyon. But you learn. Maybe there's a bad land. episode there on Harrison Ford at some point. Thank you for that awesome text. All right, let's do some more texts. Let's see what we got. All right from the 911. Hi, Ethan from the 911.

I recently discovered and have been binge listening through work days. The Lou Reed episodes, holy shit, wild ride, man, love your work. Thanks, Ethan. I really appreciate it. We took a wild swing with those Lou Reed episodes, went out of them completely different than we have other episodes in the past. So it makes me very happy to receive some positive feedback there about those Lou episodes

we've received quite a bit of it. But, you know, it's always gratifying when you take a risk and it pays off. So thanks, man. Appreciate that. Let's see. What else do we have? All right, from the 714.

I'm at Barnes & Noble right now and look what I found. And there's a picture of my book, the Disgraceland book, Musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly, and the text goes on to say, real quick, I've always wanted to ask you this. When you do an episode of Disgraceland or the 27 Club

and you do your research on the artist or band, does your impression of them change it all, especially the groups are artists you're a big fan of? Do you ever find yourself saying, man, I don't know if I can be a fan of this band slash artist after what I now know? It's a good question. And I don't know.

It's a tough one. I still don't have a good answer for it after five years of being asked this. You know, not really. You know, if anything, I know this is going to sound fucked up, I walk away with more empathy than I had going in, despite whatever horrific behavior has happened. And that's not a blanket statement. It doesn't apply to every single artist that I've covered, obviously.

But with a lot of these subjects, you just get into the backstory and you start to see how entirely fucked up their lives were and how the signs were there and how they're damaged and how, you know, damage begets more damage. And does it excuse anything? That's not what I'm saying. You guys are intellectually advanced enough to understand the nuance there. I'm not saying that that excuses anything. I'm just saying that it counts. It counts for something. I am an empathetic person. I can't help that. most of us humans are, and I think the older we get, the more we strive to be better versions of ourselves and try to understand people a little bit more than we did when we were younger. And that causes me, all that in totality causes me to sort of look at these artists with a little

more flexibility than I did going in. Of course, there are examples where I walk away and I'm just like, fuck this guy. I'm trying to think of one off the top of my head right now. It's the usual suspects. It's the big lurch one, of course. I don't know. I don't want to dwell on the negative. I do enough of that in these episodes.

But, you know, to me, a lot of these episodes, a lot of these subjects, a lot of these stories, they're redemption stories in a lot of ways. And, of course, when you have redemption, a lot of times you have empathy. So that might not be the answer you were looking for, but that's the honest answer from my point of view. All right, we got another wheelchair text from somebody different.

This is from the 828 saying, oh, wow, I literally just got wheeled out of a colonoscopy. And I saw this and I was like, what the fuck am I hallucinating? Either way, something long form and video form would have me captivated. I don't know what the fuck this dude's talking about. And then just goes on to say, top five flicks in my head, jaws, sling blade, back to the future, magnolia, rocky, 28 days later. I know. Not the boilerplate, top five, but there you. go crap that's six kill the last one the last one being 28 days later and uh i've never seen that

i get to check that out i think that's is that the schwarzenegger one no is it i don't know um back to the future solid solid number three i recently read that script it's flawless that movie is flawless funny story too i have a very young son um just turned five but about six months ago when he was four we were watching back to the future and it was a family movie night we're sitting there i'll make this quick we're sitting there and it's it's the part where doc takes off in the in the uh in the car for the first time right it's like the first time he blasts off into the past and as he does my four and a half year old at the time just goes oh fuck and it's like this amazing point in a kid's life, like the parents will know this where the kids know the swear

word, but they don't yet know it's a swear. So you just kind of look at your wife or you look at your husband and you're just kind of like, do we say anything? Of course we didn't say anything. And even my nine-year-old was smart enough not to say anything. It was just hysterical. But back to the future, amazing, amazing movie. Top three. I love that Rocky's on here too. You know, Rocky might be in my top five. I've long thought Rocky is one of the greatest love stories of all time. It's, it's just, you know, it doesn't get thought of in that way because of all the machismo attached to it. And believe me, I'm here for the machismo. I'm here for the sports movie aspect of it. But there's that, just that end scene, man, that end scene. And for the five of you out there who have not yet

seen Rocky, I'm not going to spoil it for you. But if you're resisting, because you think it's just one big sweaty man fest you should watch it and you might surprise yourself you might be into it. All right, what else we got? All right, subject. It's Patrick from the 607 Living in the 505. Love your podcast and started

Tooney. Don't know what that means. I'm a big true crime documentary and any sort of music history buff. Your Nightstocker recommendation by Tiller Russell had me craving for more. Any other true crime documentary recommendations. Also, top five movies in my lifetime, Shoshank Redemption, Jaws, Rocky, again, and Jaws, and Shoshank Redemption again,

Forrest Gump, and Back to the Future again. Also, not a big Pulp Fiction fan, boo, but loved QTs once upon a time in Hollywood. So, you know, I think we're getting some consensus here on the top five. Shoshank Redemption seems to be on most lists, as does Jaws on my list for sure. Rocky probably should be on my list. And back to the future, not on my list, but it's close. Close, close, close, close. So, yeah, man.

If I'm going to recommend another documentary for you, I'm going to recommend to you Taylor Russell's new doc, new doc series called Waco American Apocalypse. That's out now on Netflix. Taylor was on the podcast a couple weeks ago. And check out his new series, mini-series. I have not seen it yet. And when I get into the recommendations part,

you'll know why I'm stuck in a different TV wormhole at the moment. And I want to create space for Taylor's new show. Stoke to see it. All right. What else do we got here? Let's do some DMs, shall we? Because last week I did not do any DMs. All right, from Fred Noland on Instagram.

Hi, please pardon my sliding into your DMs. Just wanted to say I thoroughly enjoyed the Iggy Pop episode of Disgraceland. I'm a big fan. You shared a great many things I hadn't heard before. Always nice to learn. Also, I did a comic about Iggy Pop a few years ago. might enjoy it. So I'm sharing. So I'm basically reading this text from Fred here because he sent me the comic book, the digital version of it, or a couple pages, and it's fucking awesome. I'm going to share

this. When you hear this, you'll be able to see on my Instagram stories, Fred's work. And if you're an Iggy Pop fan, I think you're going to dig it. So check that out. Let's keep moving here. Another DM from Chris On It, my old friend Chris here, who I've never met, but who I, uh, I can verse with quite frequently here has made this disgrace land mix and by mix I don't mean playlists of songs I mean an actual fucking DJ mix of bangers that's beat matched that takes you on a ride roller coaster ride it's relevant to the disgrace land artists you're going to hear little bits and pieces throughout this mix is fucking great you can tell that Chris worked his ass off on it he's a very talented guy and I'm going to post this there's a link to the mix I'll post that

I'll tweet it out and also I'll put it on Instagram. I'm going to do this on the day this episode is released so you should hear it then. Let's move on to some more DMs. What else do we got here? What else? Oh, yep, this is from Matthew Eric Jones, 1980.

I already responded to this. Just a special shout out here in the after party to Matthew Eric Jones 1980 on Instagram. He got a new zombie Elvis tattoo. Matthew, you're a legend. If you, any of you guys out there, have disgrace land tattoos.

I've seen them before. Go ahead. Obviously hit me up. I'm going to share it. This is one of the cooler ones. A couple weeks back, another sort of disgrace land world tattoo appearance. A friend of mine, or I should say an acquaintance, had heard the disgrace land episode on The Who. And wherein I described Keith Moon as a jet engine with octopus arms.

And she went and she actually got a jet engine with octopus arms. She's a drummer and a Keith Moon fan tattooed on her thigh. And we used the image of that in our Who video that's over on YouTube. You can check that up. Tattoo's fucking great, by the way. I was like, damn it, why didn't I think of that? Okay, let's see. What do we got here?

So another DM from Coco Cookie. Hey, Jake, hope all as well. On your next bonus episode, can you please explain why slash how Boogie Nights is in so many men's top five films? I remember watching and thinking it was good, but not all that memorable. I also don't get how the departed doesn't cut it for you. I'm also tempted to rank it above casino. My top five are Pulp Fiction, Goodfellows, American Pop, Heart and Souls, and Kill Bill. Thank you, the 403, and that is from at Cocoa Cookie on Instagram.

Well, at Cocoa Cookie, not to speak for all the men out there. I'm certainly not the spokesman for male film watchers. But I don't know. Maybe it's the porn in Boogie Nights. Certainly not from my perspective. I mean, that movie is unlike any movie I'd ever seen. When I went to see it, I'd never seen anything like it before. It was like, now when I watch it, I can tell why I responded to it the way I did.

It wasn't the porn aspect of it. I mean, being in the world of it. porn, sure, because we hadn't given, we hadn't yet been given that that sort of tour in culture. The internet was not here yet, like it is now, and

porn wasn't as ubiquitous as it is now. There was no such thing as only fans in the sex work industry was not what it is now. And that was a view into it that was heavily stylized and romanticized and also kind of raw and real

at the same time. and I think it was more about the world than the actual porn. And then Paul Thomas Anderson, just as a filmmaker, he just does things and did things in that movie that hadn't been done before. And I'm not smart enough sort of a critic of film to really explain what those things are

without doing a lot of research. But I can tell you, I felt it viscerally, and I still feel it when I rewatch it. I'm not sure it's a male-female thing, but maybe it is. What do I know? I don't have a female perspective. Any of the ladies out there have a burning hatred for boogie nights, by all means, let me know.

But I think it's fucking great. On your list, though, this is a solid list, especially because it's got one that I don't recognize, heart and souls. You have ripped Tom Seismore here. I've never seen, nor do I even know what heart and souls is. And I'm intrigued and I'm psyched to check it out. So thank you for writing. All right. So those are the DMs.

Thank you, everyone, for writing in. Continue to write in at Discrasemned POD, Facebook, TikTok. Twitter, and, of course, Instagram. You know, I found out a couple months ago, about three months ago, that we've been what's called shadow band on Instagram. All that means is our content has not been recommended. Going back two fucking years now,

I posted a video from a friend's band back in 2020 that had Charles Manson in it. And I got dinged by the Instagram police for the content, like being violent content or some such designation. Never noticed it. But I did notice that Instagram stopped growing. And it was when we were exclusive as a podcast on Amazon. So I was kind of like, yeah, maybe we're just not growing

because not as many people can hear the podcast as they can otherwise. And then when we came out of the Amazon exclusivity, I looked into it. Sure enough, I noticed, but I also noticed when we released the Charles Manson episode of disgrace land back in November of 2022, we get dinged again for more Charles Manson so-called violent content,

which is fucking ridiculous. So anyways, our content on Instagram has not been being recommended. We've not been growing there at all. I spend a lot of time there. just as a user, but also engaging with you guys. And I don't know what's going to happen. I got to get this fixed because there are other platforms out there that maybe I take the conversation there.

I don't know. We'll see. We've got to fix this. We've been trying to get in touch with Instagram going on four months now and we are getting nowhere. But, yeah, if you're getting our content, congratulations. If you're hearing this and you don't engage with us on Instagram, but you yourself are on Instagram at Disgraceland Pod, find us, follow us, like us, comment, DM me, whatever. Let's get the fucking algorithm churning over there and show these knuckleheads that we're not

some stupid like fucking hate-mongering violent profile. We're not. Of course, we're not. Anyhow, that's what's going on over there. Just let you guys know what's up. Hit me up wherever, though. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, at Disgraceland Pod. I'm going to be back right after this.

All right, it's the recommendations part. This is the recommendations part, the part of the show where we recommend the things that are worth recommending. The recommendations part. The recommendations part. Maybe that's what I'll do. Maybe I'll punt on the cheesy 90s sitcom music that I have planned for this and do a death metal vocal mnemonic instead. I can do that on my own. I don't need anyone at all to do that, but you don't want to hear that.

I don't either. All right, what I'm reading, what I'm watching and what I'm listening to. I'm going to start this week with what I'm listening to. I'm listening to the Muddy Waters album, Hard Again. Who knows this record? Do you know this record? This record's fucking incredible. I've known this record for a while, known about it, been listening to it forever.

Get it on vinyl. I listen to it in the car all the time. I was listening to it again this past weekend, Sunday. I was driving out to my mom's house. And it just fucking hit me over the head. Wallop. It's like, this is a record worth mentioning. because if I didn't know about this record,

I would want to know about this record. It is worth recommending. It's by far my favorite Muddy Waters recording. You can just in this album, man, it just sounds like dudes having fun. You know, you can hear the joy, the cool, the confidence, the awesomeness of everyone who's playing on this album

and almost every single note. This is from 1977 this record. It's electric. It's over the top. It's produced by Johnny Winter. It swings fucking hard. You've heard the version of Muddy's iconic Manish boy

from this album so many times, so many times before. Even if you don't know that you've heard it, you've heard it, trust me, it's been over-licensed, overused in films, and there's a reason because it's the definition of badass, but when you hear it in the context of the full album kicks off the album, you're just like,

oh, fucking A, this, this is music. But for me, it's less about this track, this super famous track and more about the entire record. Not only is there not a bad song on the same, album there's not a bad moment it is truly great a plus muddy waters hard again go get some all right this past weekend uh no this past week not this past weekend this past week and the last week uh somehow

popped my george benson cherry whoa what a monster guitar player monster musician this is exactly though the type of music that i hated as a kid even before i even really had any sort of musical point of view i would just hear this type of shit and be like stop mom stop i fucking hate it. This is the stuff my mother played in our Ford Explorer, Explorer while she's fucking driving me around town of baseball practice, chain smoking Winstons and getting attitudey about rolling down the windows. This music is like bordering on smooth jazz, dare I say, but holy crap, I do not care. It's incredible. And by it, I'm talking about the album, Breezin by George Benson. Here's what happened. I heard a George Benson song last week,

and I took a picture of it on Spotify or something, and I storied it, and someone hit me up. I don't have your name or your Instagram handle, so forgive me, but someone hit me up immediately and sent me this album, Breezing, by George Benson. And thank you, because this record is so fucking good. There aren't any hits on it. You know, he's got hits, but they're not on this record.

Or maybe they were hits, and I'm just not aware. I didn't recognize any of the actual songs on this album, but I did recognize some of the beats, some of the grooves, because they've been, if you're into hip-hop, you'll hear they've been sampled and repurposed as samples and hip-hop songs. George Benson, let's party. Breezen is the album. Go check that out. All right, what I'm reading?

What am I reading? I'm, you know, I'm not really reading anything right now. It's New Testament week here in the Brennan Household, specifically the Gospels, Holy Week, you heathens, Easter's around the corner. As Tom Wait said, Jesus's going to be here, going to be here soon. What I'm watching. speaking of the opposite of Holy. Yo, Succession much.

Don't mind if I do. The series finale season premiere episode last week. Thoroughly satisfying. Episode two, great as well. The battle lines have been drawn. Here we fucking go. Let's fucking land this plane. Who else is on the Succession Jet with us, PJ?

Who's on it? All of you. I know you are. I know you are. Don't pretend like you're not into the show, America. You fucking love it. Just like I love it. Where does it all?

I'll end though. That's what I want to know. Who prevails? Does Logan die? Does Kendall finally take over? Does Shiv best Tom? Does my homie roam me get his tiny little hands all over ATN? Hit me up with your succession predictions. And if there are any fellow watch geeks out there, let's get in touch. Let's talk. Let me know what Tom's wearing on his wrist in the first two episodes. I got to know. Hit me. At this Graceland Pod, 617-9066638. Text, voicemail. I also re-watched. I was going to say Robin Hitchcock. but Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Is it Hitchcock's best film?

That's the question I was asking my wife. And you know what? It's top two for me, but I don't think it's better than rear window. Is it? Is North by Northwest better than rear window? I don't think so. What do you think?

Let me know. Top five, your Hitchcock movies for me. At Disgraceland Pod, 61790666-36-38 on the text machine in the voice message box. I'm still here for the top five movie debate too. You know how to get at me? What are you watching?

What are you reading? What are you listening to? Hit me up. Let me know. Let me know what you thought of that Muddy Waters album. Let me know what you think of George Benson. You know, let me know what you think of the Gospels. No, don't let me know.

I don't want to talk about that. Don't let me know. Just get in touch. Give me your recommendations. I'm going to be back in just a flash. All right, let's do the recap thing. Number one, Slice Stone episode is currently in your podcast feed. Number two, we've got a ton of videos,

including our Brian Jones, Rules of Attraction, homage video on our YouTube channel right now. That's YouTube.com slash at Disgraceland pod for your visual music and true crime storytelling. Number three, next up in Disgraceland is the MC5. Number four, tons of previously exclusive episodes continuing to hit your feed. And right now, my moment is then, me reading you, the phone book from 1940, from the 304. Here we go. Beverages. Dover Coca-Cola bottling company. Lincoln, Dover, 262-74. Greenberg's Package Store, One Clark, Harrington, 223-15.

High Rock Ginger Ale Company, 403, North Walnut. Milford, 472304. Hubbard, Jason, Dover Camden Road, Dover, 231. 14462. Milford Liquor Store, North Walnut. Milford, 262-193. Bicycles, repairs, and rental. Buchanan Service, 209 South Governors Ave.

Dover, 578-302. Dover Garage, King's Highway, 304-319. Economy Auto Supply, South Walnut. Milford, 621573. Bicycles, two, six, hairs, and red, you can and service. 209 South Dumbers, Dover, and so, 578, 209, 172, Dover Garage. Quit talking and start mixing.