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

Episode Date: February 6, 2025

This week, Jake is thinking about Richard Pryor. If Pryor had died after setting himself on fire, would that be the strangest celebrity death of all time? Jake takes a look at some strange celebrity deaths, including Tennessee Williams, William Holden, and more. If you know some strange celebrity death stories, let us know!On Tuesday we're bringing you an episode on one of the most important musical figures of the 20th century - Louis Armstrong. But we're going beyond his musical and cultural impact to explore some of the other surprising stuff he was mixed up in - the mob, international intrigue, and a whole lot of marijuana. Jake wants to know: Which musician's behavior surprised you the most? Tell Jake at 617-906-6638, [e-mail], or on socials @disgracelandpod.For more great Disgraceland episodes, dive into our extensive archive, including such episodes as:Episode 108 - Sex Pistols pt 1.Episode 109 - Sex Pistols pt 2.Episode 193 - The Replacements (All Access)Episode 3 - Sam CookeEpisode 53 - John DenverEpisode 153 - INXS' Michael HutchenceTo hear an extended version of the After Party and hear Jake's thoughts on the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, become a Disgraceland All Access member at disgracelandpod.com/membership.Visit www.disgracelandpod.com/merch to see the latest Disgraceland merch!Sign up for our newsletter and get the inside dirt on events, merch and other awesomeness - GET THE NEWSLETTERFollow Jake and DISGRACELAND:InstagramYouTubeX (formerly Twitter)  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/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 bonus episode, we are talking about this week's full episode subject, the icon Richard Pryor. Incredibly bizarre celebrity deaths. That's kind of related to Richard Pryor. We get into that here.

We're also previewing our upcoming episode on Louis Armstrong. And we get into your voicemails, text, DMs, emails, and as always, a whole lot of rosy. All right, discos, let's get into it. Back on June 9, 1980, Richard Pryor lit himself on fire while high on drugs. He then proceeded to bolt out of his house, run down the street, totally engulfed in flames. It wasn't until police spotted him and came to his rescue that the flames were extinguished and Richard Pryor was saved. He famously depicts this episode in his life, in his Live on the Sunset Strip special.

We obviously depicted it in our episode on Richard Pryor that we just released. It goes without saying that it's nearly a miracle that Richard Pryor survived. It's a miracle, nearly a miracle that he survived this incident. It's nearly a miracle that he survived his childhood. And numerous other incidents throughout his adulthood. He lived until December 10, 2005, when he died of a heart attack. It was his second or third heart attack. I can't remember which one.

It was a death that many people saw coming, given that Richard's relationship with drugs was well known. And he also had multiple sclerosis. But what if the accident where Richard Pryor lit himself on fire killed Richard Pryor. I'm sure, I was thinking about this this morning, and I am positive, and then I looked into it. Now I'm extra positive that this would have been

the weirdest celebrity death of all time. No? Is there a weirder celebrity death than somebody free-baseding cocaine and lighting themselves on fire, running down the street and dying? It got me thinking, I've come up with NADA. I dug in here to the old internerd, and I did a little research, and I can't find anything that comes close. I did find some weird shit, and I'm excited to talk to you guys about it because I don't think we've ever talked about this in this space before.

And I think the reason we haven't talked about it is because it's just not that many really compelling incidents of celebrities dying that are just really bizarre and weird. I'm talking about six feet under, you know, cold open weird. That's what I'm talking about here, okay? So here's what I got. And you guys might know more about these incidents than I do, these deaths than I do. And if you do, by all means, get in touch and tell me what you know about it. I didn't know, I didn't know hardly any of these. Tennessee Williams, okay, the famous playwright, author of a street car named Desire,

he died while choking on a bottle cap. A bottle cap. Apparently a plastic eyedrops bottle cap, like the cap for like a vizine container or something. Tennessee Williams had taken the cap off and put it between, his teeth to hold it, tipped his head back to put the eye drops in, and the cap slipped from his teeth and caught in his, caught in his throat. And I got to say, I never knew this. Obviously, this death, though, this is the type of death that scares the hell out of me because it seems like something that could easily happen to me. Maybe I've watched, like I said before,

too much six feet under. I don't know. But that's what it reminded me of. Here's another weird one, incredibly weird one. I didn't know this name. Isadora Duncan, okay? She's like an early 20th century dancer, queen of modern dance. This is wild. Her day was back in the early, early 20s. She died riding in a convertible. She had a long scarf on, okay? And the scarf starts blowing in the wind behind her. Somehow the scarf gets tangled around the car's wheel and tightens around her neck and it just rapidly gets super tight. And then it, it whips her out of the car by her neck. You know, the scarf was wrapped so tight. The car is the car's flying forward and it's just like the scarf's caught onto the back wheel. Hurls are out of the car. Bam, onto the stone

pavement right on the street. She hits the street so hard. She's killed instantly from the force of the impact and nearly decapitated. Super strange death. Here's another one. William Holden. Okay, William Holden, actor from the middle of the 20th century is in the wild bunch. He's in Sunset Boulevard and some really huge. huge films. Super handsome dude. He's hanging out in his apartment one night in Hollywood. He gets blotto drunk, falls over, bangs his head on his nightstand, and falls asleep. Unbeknownst to him, the cut on his head from banging it on the nightstand is so bad that he just slowly bleeds to death. They find this guy four days later dead, and the coroner says that had he been sober and simply called

for help that he would have easily lived. this is what makes me cringe. Head wounds freak me out. Michael Hutchins from in excess did not die from autoerotic asphyxiation, even though large parts of the internet still think he did, but you guys know that because you listen to the NXS episode of disgrace land. David Caradine, however, from Kill Bill, he did die from autoerotic asphyxiation.

And I got to say, I knew that, I forgot about it, and then I think I tricked myself into thinking that it wasn't real. But it was real. Keith Ralph from the Yardbirds, Jimmy Page's first band, died from playing guitar, okay, electrocuted. Also very scary to me. I cannot tell you how many times I've been electrocuted on stage. Electrooted in the studio, brutally electrocuted, like knocked off my feet electrocuted. So Keith Ralph, I had no idea about this from the Yardbirds. And didn't, this can be thinking, didn't Steve Marion from the faces die weirdly as well? And he did. He fell asleep, smoking a cigarette. set his house on fire and he didn't burn up but he died of the the smoke inhalation. And they found, actually fans of his, like the guys in the fire department who found him were fans. I read about this this morning. Super sad. This would be a really cool episode to do, I think.

You know, you could kind of write it with him falling asleep and kind of track the episode as you flash back to his past to the burning down of the cigarette until he eventually passes out. I don't know. I don't want to get creative here, but that's what I was thinking. Vic Morrow, the actor, I didn't know Vic Morrow. I'd heard of this story before. Vic Morrow was on the set of the Twilight Zone, and I'm not talking about the Rod Serling Twilight Zone from the 50s. I'm talking about the Steven Spielberg feature film from the 80s. And this movie, kind of like Poltergeist, it's got a lot of lore around it. It's got, you know, believed to be cursed.

Vic Morrow was decapitated by a helicopter on set of the Twilight Zone. So look, so far I'm like halfway through this list. And, you know, none of these names approach the level of Richard Pryor. Maybe William Holden did at one point. But you see where I'm going here, right? If Richard Pryor had died from lighting himself on fire, this easily would have been the craziest celebrity death we've ever had. But he didn't.

He lived. But let's keep going here for the purpose of the argument. Sonny Bono of Sunny and Cher died in a skiing accident. We knew that from the impact of hitting a tree. This one I didn't know, and I'm surprised I didn't know this because it happened fairly recently. It happened in 1999. Owen Hart, pro wrestler, okay?

Now, I wasn't paying attention to pro wrestling in 1999, but a lot of people were. I know what I was doing and how this escaped me, but this is crazy, man. This dude, it's a live pay-per-view special. He's being lowered from the rafters into the ring. He's super high up. he's being held by a harness. The harness comes undone. And the wrestler, Owen Hart,

he falls 60 feet on live television or paper view, whatever, it's live, and dies right there, right there. It's awful. That's so awful and so bizarre. Imagine being that dude's family and seeing that, having to deal with that. Incredibly traumatic. Others that were mentioned that we have covered here in disgrace land,

Sam Cook, you know, mysterious circumstances, sure. John Denver. Yeah. I'm not going to spoil it here. Parts of the internet still think Mama Cass Elliott died from eating a ham sandwich. She did not. We covered that in two episodes. So I was pretty surprised to not know the stories of many of these deaths, like I said.

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

You know, we need some, I'm sick of the conjecture and the speculation. We need some real hard evidence to move this story forward, okay? Not a lot has gone on. Diddy apparently was snuck out of prison under the cover of darkness for an MRI on his knee. Some people thought that that meant that he was going to get Epstein. but apparently Diddy's back in his cell, safe and sound, bad knee and all. There are a few more lawsuits this week from the Busby camp. Apparently there's about 10 more coming in the next few days.

This is all according to the BBC, so I'm not just giving you TikTok speculation here. I am not caught up on the Diddy HBO series, but I will be soon. Series is a tough watch for me. It's an outrage machine. That's what the series is. I'm not trying to throw you off the series. I think you should watch it. It's done really, really well.

I've just already consumed a lot of this information, and I'm sort of, I got a full lid on ditty in the grossness. I'm going to watch it, though. I'm going to try to be all caught up by the next time we talk in case anything else breaks, although I said that last week, and I have not done that. I've been busy making stuff, making a lot of stuff over here, a lot of stuff. And I have an update on my studio, finally, after getting screwed by a contractor who just took my money and bailed, who will be dealt with in time. We have hired a new contractor and they're moving very fast.

In my new studio will finally be done by the middle of March, which I cannot wait for. But we're not letting us slow us down. That's the point I'm trying to make. We're making a ton of stuff here. Lots of new video content, working on some cool new projects. I'm excited. And I'm writing a banger of an episode right now, Martin Scorsese, another one, part two. This is the, we're going to have this release for you in time for the Academy Award.

So I've been doing that this week. I'm really excited about it. can't wait for you guys to hear it. And yeah, what else? I saw the Dylan movie, a complete unknown. Finally, I'm going to give you my review in the bonus section of this episode. You guys want to be bonus members. You know how to do it. Go to disgrace landpod.com.com slash all access. You sign up. It's five bucks. You get ad free listening. You get an extra exclusive episode per month. Plus you get me here in the bonus episode giving you some bonus content. Okay. Extra bonus content, I should say. And this week, it's going to be my review of a complete unknown.

Okay, moving on from the update, moving on from Diddy, moving on from Richard Pryor. Next week, we have an episode on Jazz Great 20th century icon. Louis Armstrong, you know Louis Armstrong. Like I said, he's an icon. He's a horn player, raspy voice guy. What a wonderful world. I see trees. That dude looked like your average happy-go-lucky grandpa by the end of his life.

And that's the iconic image of Louis Armstrong. But the dude was not what he seemed. He was involved with a coup d'etan Africa here in the States. he was heavily involved with a mob and was a world-class number one reeferhead, dude got stoned, despite his image and way before grass was made fashionable in the 60s. So when you're listening to this episode, be thinking about all the musicians we've covered in disgrace sand, okay? All of them. And which artist's behavior surprised you the most? Were you like, holy shit, I didn't know she was up to that, or I didn't know what that dude was doing that. That's what I want to know. That's going to be the

question of the week for next week. Think about that when you're listening to the Louis Armstrong episode and let me know 617-90666-6-6-6-3-8 voicemail and text at disgracelam pod on the socials. Coming up before Louis Armstrong, though, coming up next in your feed is our two-part episode on Miles Davis in the rewind slot. These are two of my favorite episodes. They sound incredible, if I do say so myself. Matt Bowden mixed the hell out of him. He's a jazz head, so I think he really got into these ones creatively.

If you've heard these episodes, you're going to want to hear them again, okay? And if you haven't, you're like, but I don't like jazz, man. Or, you know, you're like, I don't know that much about Miles Davis. I don't care. Listen, listen, listen, I don't care. I don't care that you don't like jazz. I don't care that you might not think that often of Miles Davis or think that you're interested in Miles Davis.

I'm going to tell you something about you right now. You're cool. You know how I know you're cool? Because you listen into this podcast. You know who else was cool? Miles Davis. Miles Davis, I'm pretty sure the dude invented cool. He might be one of the most rock and roll, most badass musicians of all time.

And he was a beast of an artist whose story is insane. There's tons of drama in these episodes. The dude is just on, he was just on another level, and he's kind of low-key, hysterical. So you're going to want to listen to this, okay? Plus, there's all these arrests, car crashes, just like Richard Pryor, there's lots of cocaine, all right? And it's probably also got one of the best intros that we've ever done for any episode of disgrace. So check that out. Miles Davis coming up in the rewind slots.

Right now, I'm going to take a quick break. I'll be back to you shortly with your voicemails, text, and DMs from our question of the week. last week. All right, we are back. Just a quick reminder to make sure you Apple podcast listeners, as always, have auto downloads turned on so you're not missing any episodes. You guys know to get in touch with me 617-906-66-66-3 to leave me a voicemail, send me a text, just like Scott in the 6-2-3. The 6-2-3. I'm actually out in Ohio right now for work, but I was catching up and listening to the Richard Pryor episode that you just put out and he asked for a comedian at

meant the most to you. And for me, it has to be Robin Williams by far. Everything the man did was just incredible. The golf thing might be one of the best comedic efforts ever, period. And then I was fortunate enough to get to see him live all four times total. My dad worked in the industry and happened to work on hook. and I got to have lunch with Robin at the coach Roach coach on set at Columbia Studios back then. And the man made me laugh for 45 minutes nonstop because his mind just never stopped and that's how he worked.

And then I was fortunate to see him at Homeless Beach Comedy Magic Club in a small little setting where he basically did two hours of what do you want to hear from the audience and it was insane the man was a genius and unfortunately we're finding out a broken mind and a very sad story but I miss him and I loved him

and I think he was just amazing rock and rolla keep up the great work wow Scott that's amazing thanks to the voicemail I cannot believe you saw Robin Williams in a tiny club just kind of riffing. And that is amazing. And you get to, I mean, that, I mean, getting to meet him is one thing, but really getting to see him up close and personal perform like that.

Must have been mind-blowing. And I'm very envious. Robin Williams was on another level. I mean, as you know, as most people know, that I think of, when I think of Robin Williams, so much great dramatic acting. But when I think of the comedy, I think of those Letterman appearances

in him just going. completely uncontained, just off the hook, all over the place, just unable to sit still. And you can see, as you said, his broken mind sort of just going off the rails, making all these incredible references flying into Tom Wait's impersonations out of nowhere. Just truly, what a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful mind. Incredible stuff. Thank you for the voicemail. Question of the week last week, guys, was,

which comedian from your youth most resonated with you. Obviously, that's what Scott was talking about there. This one comes from Matthew in New Jersey. Hey, Jake. This is Matthew from New Jersey calling about favorite comedian of my generation. I was born in 85, and in the summer in 99, Chris Rock dropped his bigger and blacker special. And as a 14-year-old boy, I have to say, that was my... my favorite comedy special.

And at the time, my parents told me, you know, he was just kind of copying off Eddie Murphy, but that's not my generation. My generation is Chris Rock. And that particular special, he talks, he makes light of the Columbine shootings, which, you know, that was, I don't know, 26 years ago. And it was just the beginning of the school shooting epidemic. He's got some pretty funny things to say about being scared of young white kids with guns. And obviously the Monica Lewinsky scandal was going on at that time, so there's a lot of fodder for current events.

And if anyone hasn't heard it or seen it, I suggest going back and giving it a listen to back. Matthew, thank you. Yes, Chris Rock. Chris Rock was not in Eddie Murphy knockoff. Not in any way. Chris Rock was his own thing. Truly kind of came out of, I mean, I don't know. I would think that you could say the same thing about Eddie Murphy, that he was just ripping on Richard Pryor.

but he was uniquely his own thing as well. To me, the answer is Eddie Murphy. I'm a little bit older than you, Matthew. And for me, it was just, I mean, delirious and raw. It was on rent-free in our heads constantly. And we were always quoting from those films. Probably not the best thing. You don't want your kids in the fourth, fifth, sixth grade,

doing Eddie Murphy bits at the bus top. But such was the reality for us latchkey kids. but I hear you though Chris Rock amazing and being able to make light of things like Columbine the Lewinsky scandal all that is what a fascinating time to be alive and consuming comedy and culture and politics in general we're talking 1999 early 2000s all right guys this text comes from Don in the 801 Don writes hey like Heidi I was also diagnosed with cancer at the end of 2024 I'm 48 years old that reminder that MCA was 47 when he died of cancer hit me really hard keep up the great work don't worry about me i start

kemo in 12 days and should take care of what's left after surgery listen don we are sending you all of the pma that we can possibly muster here in disgrace land i'll be praying for you my brother i hope you pull out of this i hope you doing as good as you can be doing and i hope you uh hope these disgrace land episodes these after party episodes give you a little bit of comfort i know you're going through a tough time hang in there you're going to be good as new when you come out the other side. 910 writes in, hey man, discovered disgrace land podcast recently and I'm hooked. Lots of catching up to do my new podcast of choice on my hikes and gym adventures. Though I'd ask, ever do anything on the infamous sex pistols U.S. tour that extinguished the

candle for the group or anything on the replacements, a new loyal fan in North Carolina. That's from Rob in the 910. Rob, my man, I love these texts. I love the new listeners. I love when you ask me about episodes that we have waiting for you in the canon, in the archive right now two episodes two two episodes on the sex pistols plus we got one on sid and nancy that we're going to we're going to be launching that one again as a rewind come valentine's day but right now you can go get those two two sex pistols episodes just do a quick search also replacements episode we got a

replacement's episode that's that's for our all access members though rob you want to get that extra disgrace land content every month you got to become a member it's five bucks go to disgraceandpod dot com slash membership to sign up. You're going to get ad-free listening. And as I mentioned at the beginning, you're going to get a little extra bonus here in the bonus episode as well, okay? Thanks for the text, Rob.

Happy to have you along for the ride with us. Steve Wilson over on X writes at Disgraceland Pod. Just listen to the Richard Pryor episode. I love the toy too. I love the toy. I love the toy. You guys not love the toy. You ass.

Of course you do. Scott C. over on Facebook writes in relationship to our Apollonia, David Lee Roth, Prince love trying. video that we posted. Scott C. He writes, hey, I know I'll get hate, but I think Prince was overrated. Most of the songs sounded similar, and he couldn't dance like Michael. Michael had a greater range with music, so much so that a lot of his songs didn't sound alike. Scott,

I'm not going to light you up here. Like you're getting lit up on Facebook right now on our Facebook page. I appreciate the boldness, Scott. I too have bold takes. That's a bold one right there not like in prince i can see just being like hey i think michael jackson's better that i can that i can get with i don't actually agree with your point though that michael jackson was uh had a what a more varied musical style or however you put it um i mean they're both great you know it's like comparing michael jordan and lebron no it's not because lebron sucks not that michael jackson sucks or prince they're both they are both great it's just super hard to compare the two but you did say you just don't like Prince.

That's taste. So I'm not going to, you know, whatever. Okay, you got it. You got it. I like, my point is, I read your comment because I like, I like the boldness, my man. I do. Whether or not I agree with it, I like it. You guys can make comments all you want on our Facebook page.

Facebook. At disgracelam pod on Facebook at disgracelam pod on X and on Instagram. Speaking to Instagram, Instagram, are you done fucking around trying to win over TikTok users who are never coming to your platform? can we go back to putting the algorithm the way it was where it was serving up our reels to all the people who wanted to see them and you weren't just holding us sort of, you know, vet creators back to make room for the new TikTok users who again are not coming? Can we go back to the way it was just like six weeks ago? Can we do that? Please? Okay. Thank you. All right. I'm going to take a quick break. I'll be back in the flash with your emails, reviews and the story of the week. All right, guys, we are back with the story of the week. You know the drill. Listen, we're looking for your crazy. rock and roll stories, the stories that you have experienced, the stories that you have heard, the stories that best preserve the spirit of rock and roll. That's what we're doing here in Disgraceland. I want to hear from you. Email is best, but you can hit me up at Disgrace

land Pot on the socials. You can even call me and leave me a voicemail, send me a text. This one comes via email from Disco Fox, aka Jim from Montreal. This is an email. Says, hey, back to your stones and Trudeau dust up in Canada. I was there at the Macombo. We saw Maggie Trudeau at the club right there next to us getting down to the stones. It was incredibly surreal. When the night was over, we thought that was fun. We thought that was cool. We thought no one would believe what we saw. And then the next day, it's all over the papers. It's all over the news. The biggest story in the country. And we were right there as it happened. And oh, by the way, the stones rocked. This is incredible. Thank you, Jim. Listen, if you got, I kind of, I got to say, I just, I have such

fomo from the rock and roll era before the one that I came up in that I really appreciate these stories where you guys were there at some of these events. It makes it very compelling to me. Hit me up. Like I said, Story of the Week gets right here in disgrace land. I don't know that I mentioned that, but I'm reading it. I get some message here in the after party. We're also going to be shouting you guys out on social as well. So check out the Instagram, Facebook X, TikTok. Your story might be the story of the week. Got an email here from Robert Vogel to suggestion. You know me. I love the episode suggestions. Robert says, hey, a band to cover. Have you thought about doing episode on Poison? Well, listen, Robert, you know, I really haven't. But Robert, you're kind of

convincing me. Robert goes on to say, I know they had a really, really wild days back at the start, but no idea that they were bad enough to warn an episode. Listen, poison was one of those bands I rebelled hard against as a kid. I have a newfound respect, if not musical, liking for the band. I realize now they're just another, just another rock and roll band. They looked like poodles or whatever. And I think that C.C. DeVille guy is hysterical. And someone told me the other day what that guy's doing lately and it's really interesting and it's like right on the tip of my brain right now and i can't think of what it is but yeah perhaps perhaps perhaps robert um thank you for the for the email what else we got here reviews guys reviews are key reviews help with discovery

you hear me say it every single week we are in an independent podcast we rely on the reviews to help propel the episode help others find it once a week i pick out a review or two i read them here one from apple podcast, one from Spotify. If you hear your review mentioned, you can hit me up and I will get you some free merch that we got lying around the studio here. Just so you know, if you've reached out to me and I have not responded, we do these once per month. So, excuse me, we read them every week, but we sort of get into the fulfillment of it, sending out the merch once per month. So it's a coming. This review comes on Apple Podcast via Chuck Destruction. Chuck, what a fucking name, my man. I love it. Solid storytelling about everything you can dot, dot, dot, five stars. Chuck goes on to say,

Jake has made the controversial comment that rock and roll is dead. It is. Over the years, he and his esteemed team have gone through the hard work of collecting and archiving the worst behavior in musicians, let alone humans. And if your dark passenger needs a little fill of debauchery, this podcast will help you experience terror and laughter over what humans can do to one another. Serial killers are interesting, but how hostage taking, stalking, arson and covering up murders happens by those we love dancing to occurs well now that is riveting chuck destruction love the review love your name thank you brother get in touch we'll get you some merch ashly pickholz right simply over on spotify in relation to the rick james rewind episode ah

this is so good i am squealing ashley love it get in touch we will hook you up all right guys this episode is nearing its end but the after party continues for our all access members you can sign up You're going to hear an extended version of this after party with that bonus content I've been blabbering on about this week. It's going to be my review of a complete unknown, the Bob Dylan story brought to you by Timothy Shamillama Dingdon. That's coming up right after this. Don't forget, All Access Membership is also going to get you guys an extra bonus episode per month. And guys, these bonus episodes, we're going to have some very interesting news on these coming up next week, I believe. And in case it bears repeating, the cost of becoming an All Access Member.

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Okay, maybe you can only buy three dollar beers, three one dollar beers. Okay, hot dogs, hot dogs, they should only be a dollar. I don't care where you are. Fenway Park, doesn't matter. You just always have a, you know, you can charge more for the fancy ones. Just give me the dollar option. Okay. I don't like fancy hot dogs either. I just like simple. Don't fuck it up on me. It's a simple thing. So there you have it. Beers, coffee, and hot dogs should not be more than a buck. And Disgraceland All Access is only five bucks. Okay. Go to disgraceandpod.com slash membership. All right. We are back. Guys, a bunch of archive episodes were mentioned in this bonus episode. Michael Hutchins from in excess sex pistols, replacement Sam Cook, John Denver. You can hear all those in the

archive with the exception of the replacements episode. You've got to be an all access member to hear that one. But Matt will, as always, he will put in the, he'll put the show info in the show notes here, and you should easily be able to grab that info and head into our archive and find those great episodes that are waiting for you. All right, let's recap. Shall we? Number one, I want your story. Call me, text me. Hit me on socials with your favorite story of rock and roll animalism. All right? This can be a wild story about you and a rock star, personal experience or something you've heard along the way. Let me know. Hit me up. Number two, right now in your feed, our episode on Richard Pryor, number three, coming tomorrow.

rewinding back to our two-part Miles Davis story. Number four, merch winners, get in touch. You know who you are number five. Remember, no one cares about preserving the spirit or rock and roll more than you doing well. That's a disgrace. All right, this week's episode subject, Richard Pryor died on December 10th, 2005,

and this is the Billboard charts from the day we lost this icon. Number one, run it. Chris Brown. Last week, one. Peak position. One. Weeks on chart.

16. Number two. Gold Digger, Kanye West, featuring Jamie Fox. Last week, two, peak position, one, weeks on churn, 20. Number three, my humps, the black-eyed peas. Last week, three, peak position, three, weeks on charm, 17. Number four, Laffey Taffy, D4L. Last week, six, peak position, four, weeks on charade, 11.

Number six, photograph nickel back. And start mixing. Cut it!