DISGRACELAND - Bonus Episode: Tupac Shakur Case Closed?

Episode Date: September 3, 2026

Finally! The mystery is over! We know who killed Tupac and why. Or do we? This and more, plus your voicemails, text, DMs, and emails in this week’s After Party bonus episode.See omnystudio.com/l...istener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:58 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. our mission to uncover the truth to confront the myth to reclaim the story on this bonus episode,
Starting point is 00:01:35 we discuss the answer finally to one of music history's burning questions. Who killed Tupac Shakur? We also get into some of the new episodes that we're covering in our upcoming season. Plus, we get into your emails, comments, DMs, and as always, a whole lot of Rosie. 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. Disgrace land is where I tell the stories you'll end up telling someone else. All right, Discos, let's get into it. Usually when they solve a murder mystery in the movie or television series that you're watching,
Starting point is 00:02:19 there's a feeling of satisfaction. Sometimes that satisfaction is tinged with a bit of sadness because you know that what you're watching is about to end. And you know that these characters you've fallen in love with are about to no longer be a part of your life anymore. I feel like we're all experiencing this in real life right now. The end of the Tupac's secure case feels incredibly unsatisfying. I don't know about you, but when they convicted D. Davey Davis of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon for orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting death of Tupac that happened this week, I was left with this feeling of, is this it?
Starting point is 00:03:02 What happened has been staring us in the face for decades? This was over a street fight, a stolen chain, some bloods and crips beef. What about Diddy? What about the royalty? Shug no longer had to pay Tupac. What about the Illuminati, man? I thought Tupac staged his death to escape fame. I thought Castro and Tupac's aunt fake the hit.
Starting point is 00:03:27 What about the seven-day theory? Hold up. We're going to convict Dway, D.N. Davis on his testimony about being in the back of the car where the shots that killed Tupac were fired from, but we're going to ignore Dwayne Kief D. Davis's testimony alleging did he offered a million dollars to anyone who took out both Tupac and Shug Knight? I guess so. For numerous reasons.
Starting point is 00:03:53 The main one being that D. D. Davis proved himself to be an unreliable witness who could offer no proof for the theory that I just laid out. But his simple explanation of the stolen chain, the brawl that's on tape, and him admitting to being in the car and providing the gun to his nephew who fired the gun at Tupac
Starting point is 00:04:17 and Davis's own admission that had he been closer to Pock, he would have fired the gun himself. That testimony, that story, it was too simple to ignore. But sometimes conspiracy theories are, too big to fail. The mystery of who murdered Tupac Shakur has been present in our popular culture for nearly 30 years.
Starting point is 00:04:40 It's been pulsing through our collective bloodstream like an antibody for boredom. If the conversation at the party got boring, if a Tupac song came on randomly during a long drive, if 50 cent tweeted out something hysterical at Diddy, we could count on a good back and forth with somebody over the hows and wise behind the mystery of Tupac's murder. But now that's over, but not really. Because just like our favorite characters from the TV series that we love, we don't want to let go. Because we can't accept the resolution to this story. It's too simple.
Starting point is 00:05:15 It's too clean. It's too boring. We've built the mystery of Tupac's death into something we're incapable of reconciling with because any explanation that doesn't achieve the same level of drama as the theories we've been obsessing over for the past three decades is inherently unsatisfying because the mystery of Tupac Shakura's murder is a conspiracy theory too big to fail. So I want to know, do you accept the verdict, the conviction of D. Davis? Do you believe that this is it? That Keith D. gave his cousin, Orlando Anderson, the gun to fire at Tupac in retaliation for the beat down. Tupac and his
Starting point is 00:05:58 crew gave Anderson over the theft of a necklace. Can you accept this explanation and put down the conspiracy theories for good? 617-90666-6-6-3-8 to leave me a voicemail or send me a text to let me know your thoughts, and you might hear your theory on next week's disgraceland after-party bonus episode. All right. So you heard me tee up some of the more popular conspiracy theories there involving Tupac. Zeth and I are going to dig into these in more detail in the exclusive section of the after party coming up at the end of this episode. Go to disgracelandpod.com to sign up to unlock exclusive content like this plus ad free listening. Okay. In your feed right now, we have a special preview of all the new episodes that will bring to you in the coming season. A little bit more
Starting point is 00:06:48 on these later, but we're talking about Queen, Screaming Jay Hawkins, who killed Bobby Fuller, and more. So make sure you check that out. Now, one of the stories that we're covering in this upcoming season of Disgraceland investigates the truth behind some of the wilder statements Quincy Jones made toward the end of his life. Now, there are three outrageous claims Quincy Jones made that involve musical crimes or music and crime. So I dug in to find out if Quincy Jones, the greatest music producer of all time, was
Starting point is 00:07:18 telling us the truth. First, theft was Michael Jackson a musical thief. Quincy said Michael stole a lot of songs. As producer of Michael's best work, off the wall, thriller, and bad, why would Quincy Jones say this? We're going to find out in our episode. The second, fraud. Quincy Jones claimed that the Beatles were, quote,
Starting point is 00:07:41 no playing motherfuckers, and specifically that Ringo couldn't play as instrument in the studio. Now, is there any truth behind this? We're going to find out in our episode. The third crime involves murder. murder because Quincy Jones claimed that because of his close relationship with Frank Sinatra, that he knew who killed JFK. Now, come on, by now, we all know who killed JFK. But did Quincy Jones know something else? And how exactly would he have gotten this information? Who killed JFK? No
Starting point is 00:08:13 playing motherfuckers in the king of theft. I mean the king of pop in the Quincy Jones episode of Disgracedland coming soon. So in addition to investigating the wild claims Quincy Jones made about Michael Jackson being a thief, about the Beatles being unable to play their instruments, about Frank Sinatra being the reason that Q knew who killed JFK in the upcoming season of Disgraceland. We're going to learn who killed Bobby Fuller. We're going to learn what the hell just happened with Reggie Watts and his recently deceased ex-girlfriend. We're going to learn if, as I lay dying, proves that the Christian medal scene is full of fake Christians. And just in time for Halloween, we're going to find out if Mr. I put a spell on you,
Starting point is 00:08:56 screaming Jay Hawkins was murdered. That's right. Everybody knows about his 75 kids or whatever, but very few people know about this theory that some of the people who were very close to Jay Hawkins believe, and that is that he did not die of natural-ish causes, but that he was instead murdered. We're also going to find out what the hell was up with the Queen Bile. pick from a couple years ago, was the real Freddie Mercury story just too fucking crazy, too debauch, too unbelievable to put on screen? Well, yes, yes, and yes. And we're going to give you
Starting point is 00:09:31 all the Radio Gaga details in the Queen episode of Disgraceland. That's coming up next. That's next week. Plus, we get into Alice Cooper, David Crosby, Blind Melon, Shannon Hoon, and more in the upcoming season of the Disgraceland Podcast. So that's part of our special episode. It's in the feed this week. We preview all of that. We get into it in lots more detail than I just did. Coming up right now after this bonus episode, because of the recent conviction, this happened last week with Dolly Parton's death. We had Billy Holiday all teed up. We're going to go to Billy Holiday in the rewind slot. We didn't. We went to Dolly instead for obvious reasons. This week, we're going to go to Nirvana, parts one and two in the rewind slot, but that's not happening
Starting point is 00:10:13 now because of the Tupac conviction. So we're going with our Tupac episodes, parts one and two. You want to hear about Tupac's rise and fall from his days in art school in Baltimore to being the face of one of the baddest record labels in the world. And you must listen to both parts of the Tupac episode in Disgraceland. I don't care if you've heard them before. In light of recent news, these are must listen episodes, as are our episodes on Biggie Smalls as well. Those are in the archive. You can find those. Now, on Tupac, though, has there ever been a more contradictory character for music history than Tupac Shakur. He was both a scholar and a brawler. He studied art, poetry, theater, and he had thug life tattooed across his abdomen. He was emotionally vulnerable
Starting point is 00:11:02 in his lyrics, but violent in the streets. He once shot two off-duty police officers, and he beat down director Alan Hughes. He honored his mother in song, but was sentenced for first-degree sexual assault. He dated the queen of cool, maddozing. Donna, but was prison pals with Alyssa Milano's lame TV dad, Tony Danza. Tupac was born on the East Coast, but repped Bloods Red for Death Row out on the West Coast. He was friends with Biggie until he wasn't. And his death has been one of music history's greatest mysteries that turns out wasn't that mysterious at all. We get into all of this and more in the Tupac two part episodes coming your way in the rewind slot this weekend.
Starting point is 00:11:48 in disgrace land. Okay, coming up after those rewind episodes, our new episode on Queen. And our angle here was all the debauchery that Freddie Mercury got up to that was left out of the biopic. And the question of the week is
Starting point is 00:12:09 it's sort of the inverse of the Queen biopic. It's what music biopic have you seen do you feel gives an honest depiction of the musician's life? Which music biopic best gives an honest depiction of the musician's life? Let us know, 617-9-066-66-38. I'm constantly mulling this over in my mind. And look, guys, I think, you know, I don't think that music biopic should be just like, you know, documentaries, essentially. I get the things, believe me, I get that things need to be dramatized.
Starting point is 00:12:50 However, sanitized is a different story completely. And that's what I feel like this queen biopic was, it was sanitized. Not sensationalized, sanitized. Sensationalized isn't good either. Like an example of one that I think is great is a Serge Gainsberg music biopic. Loretta Lins, Coal Miner's daughter. There's a bunch that are great. We've talked about them, but I want to talk about them again in this context.
Starting point is 00:13:17 So hit me up, 617-906-66-6638 with your answer. And you might hear yourself on next week's after party. All right, discos, your answer to last week's question of the week with your voicemails, text, DMs, and more coming up right after this. Oh, we have incredible news. The Exactly Right Store is having an end of summer sale. From September 3rd through September 7th, you can save up to 30% off storewide on my favorite murder and exactly right merch. The more you spend, the more you save. Now's the time to grab that shirt, tote, hat, coozy, whatever else has been sitting in your cart for the last three months.
Starting point is 00:14:01 Head to exactly write store.com and use code summer sale for up to 30% off storewide. Some exclusions apply. Goodbye. Guys, I need you in here. You got to get in here. We've got to talk. You might be able to hear it in my voice, but I'm recording this really early today, much earlier than I normally do. And for no good reason, I just am.
Starting point is 00:14:38 Tootox got me all riled up this week. Let's get you guys in here. Let's do some questions. Hear your voices. Here's some voicemails. 617-906-66-3638. We had a lot of stuff going on last week. The Dolly Parton news really kind of shook everything up for us.
Starting point is 00:14:55 I get a feeling your answers, your voicemails, your DMs, your texts are going to be all over the place. And that's good. I like talking about a lot of different. things. All right, let's go to Clinton from the 317. Hey, Jake, it's Clinton from the 317. I was listening to you and Zeph talking about Dolly Parton stories, and there was one I saw that cracked me up. It's video footage from a concert, and a fan shouts out, I love you, Dolly, and she shouts back,
Starting point is 00:15:28 I love you too, but I told you to wait in the trunk. And it just hit me in a really funny way. She is such a funny lady, and just she will absolutely be missed. Keep on doing what you're doing, man. Love the show. Rockerola. Absolutely. Dolly Parton, just hysterical.
Starting point is 00:15:46 Clinton, love the story. I hadn't heard that one. If you guys missed that conversation, that was from last week's exclusive section of the after-party Zeth, and I got into sort of the lighter side of Dolly Parton and some of the more anecdotal, interesting kind of stuff that stories that people were sharing out there on the Internet, really, really funny ones after she died. Clinton hadn't heard that one.
Starting point is 00:16:06 Thanks, buddy. Appreciate it. All right, let's go to the 937. Hi, Jay. I really liked your show. I just finished the episode about Alice Bagg, and you'd asked about other underground artists that had an influence.
Starting point is 00:16:20 I'm from Dayton, Ohio. We had a band here called Brainiac. They were an amazing band. Their lead singer, Tim Taylor. He died in a car accident, but it was a pretty big shot. They actually did a documentary about him. Melissa Off Tomorrow was a big fan, and it might be an interesting story for you to look up.
Starting point is 00:16:39 They basically recorded an album that was OK computer before OK computer. It was called Hissing Prigs and Static Couture. Just something for you to look into. All right, thanks. Have a good day. Hey, 937, appreciate the voicemail. I didn't know that about, I didn't know the singer Braniac died. I had no idea.
Starting point is 00:16:59 I actually saw Brainiac back in the 90s. the Middle East, upstairs maybe, or downstairs. I can't remember. They were great. Never really listened to any of their albums. I remember the show, though, and I remember them being a thing. But damn, man, I feel like an idiot because I didn't know that their singer died. I'll look into this.
Starting point is 00:17:19 Sounds really interesting. Appreciate the call. I had no idea about the OK computer influence there as well. I love that stuff, too. We were just talking about that as it pertains to Beck in Serge Gainsburg. I love when you hear an album, you know an album. you think you know the shit out of it like i know okay computer and then you hear something else and you're just like oh my god i cannot believe how similar this is i cannot believe that this was sort of
Starting point is 00:17:44 the deep dive that the artist whose album i've been digging on this is where they were going for for influence it's so obvious now that's the case with beck see change and uh surge gainsberg's melody den Nelson it sounds like it's the same thing here with brainiac and hissing pricks and static Couture and OK computer. 937, really great call. Appreciate it. All right, we got a, from 978, we got a video here who's texting into us.
Starting point is 00:18:14 I'm going to play this. It's short, super short, kind of noisy. But check it out. Damn it of Jake, now what do I do? That's Helltown Mark in the 978. If he didn't hear what he said, he said, damn it Jake, now what do I do? And he did that because his text,
Starting point is 00:18:33 The text that he accompanied with that video says, boom, all caps, done, lull. Okay, I guess I should say current. Just finished the Alice Bag episode. And I will continue to add from each future episode, but here you have it. Every song ever mentioned from every full episode of disgrace land in one playlist created by Helltown Mark disco. I was going to say disco of the year. Disco of the century. I'm looking at the playlist on Apple Music here. Let's get some data. How many songs? What am I looking at? This is big. The description says it's called Discreland Songs, and then the description says, I compiled this list because I don't
Starting point is 00:19:28 need the rights to podcast cheese. And this is all the number ones and every other song mentioned in Disgraceland, Rocka Rola. And I'm just, this is everything from Van Morrison to NWA to Bob Marley. So this isn't just the number one songs I talk about in the A block in the tops of the episodes. This is even when I reference a song, there's like, you know, nine Who songs I'm looking at here that were mentioned in the Who episode, I'm guessing. I'm going down here. It's got a bunch of Oasis. Stone Roses, a guy called Gerald. I don't even know what the fuck that is, but I must have talked about it at some point
Starting point is 00:20:09 because Helltown Mark went through all of our episodes, notated each song that was mentioned and put them in this playlist. A bunch of Tupac here that I'm looking at, Wanads by Honeycone, Graham Parsons, Jay Giles Band, The Misfits, Dolly Parton, Rambling Jack Elliott, Slim Harpo, Donna Summer, my goodness. This thing goes on and on and on. Great job, Mark.
Starting point is 00:20:38 I'm obviously going to put this in the Patreon chat where Mark hangs out with the rest of the discos who are in there as part of the disco community. But I'm also going to do something else. I think I'm going to make a reel so that I can bring this to the masses and point people to this epic playlist. Mark, I'm trying to figure out how many songs
Starting point is 00:20:58 are on this freaking thing. And I think because I'm not signing. into Apple at the moment, and perhaps maybe because there are so many damn songs, and I just keeps scrolling and it just keeps loading, it's not telling me how many tracks are in here. Call us back, text us back, 617-9066-6-6-3-8. Give me a song total, if you don't mind. Not that you need more work, not that you haven't done enough. But I'm interested to know how many tunes we have mentioned in all 290-ish episodes of
Starting point is 00:21:28 disgraceland up to this point. Amazing, dude. Incredible. I can't wait to listen to this. Thank you so much. Very cool. All right, this one comes. This is a two-part text from the 681. It says, hey, Jake, this is going to be a two-parter. It's blue from the 681. I just had to tell you how absolutely beautiful your tribute was to Dolly Parton. I've been trying to find a word to describe her, and you nailed it. She had immense grace. I grew up listening to country music via my huge extended family, and I loved her voice music, and most of all, her wit. Music has been the soundtrack to my life from all the bubblegum pop music right up until I discovered my older brother's Beatles, 45 records. Yeah, I'm that old. I loved a wide variety of music as a teenager, got away from the contemporary stuff and got into metal and then graduated to other genres, goth, punk, bluegrass, rap, country, and blues. And as a kid, I wanted to learn to play slide guitar, but my mother decided that I should play piano. So I took 10 years of classical lessons. Blue goes on to give praise for Zeth and I and the shows that we do and the
Starting point is 00:22:30 conversations we have in Blue, I just got to say. Thank you so much. Hope the broken ankle is healing up. I appreciate your writing in. Thanks, Blue. Lisa, text in from the 907. Hey, Jake, you might have already covered this great quote from Dolly Parton in the exclusive section of your last after party with Seth, but it's worth repeating. Quote, I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb, and I also know I'm not blonde either. We should all be so self-aware. Lisa from the 907, that's great. Love that. Thanks, Lisa. All right. Guys, discos, 617-90666-6-6-3-8.
Starting point is 00:23:08 Hit us up, voicemail and text. You might hear yourself in the after-party next week. Going to want your music biopic recommendations, specifically on the ones you think are the more honest depictions of the musician's lives. You can also hit me up at Disgracelam Pod. get in the comments. That's going to get a shortfire quick response,
Starting point is 00:23:32 if not from me, from some other fucking lunatic, or maybe a fellow sane disco. And if you want immediate access, just jump in the Patreon chat, and the discos will get at you. I'll get at you. Zeth will get at you. We're all over there.
Starting point is 00:23:46 If you want to get into the Patreon chat, go to disgracehandpod.com. Sign up to become an all-access member. And, you know, get in there with your fellow discos. get all the exclusive content, the upcoming conversation I'm about to have with Zeth. This film should be played loud video podcast, plus ad-free listening all by becoming an all-access member. Go to disgracelampod.com to sign up. All right.
Starting point is 00:24:12 I'm going to be back right after this with your emails. Don't go anywhere. We have incredible news. The exactly right store is having an end of summer sale. From September 3rd through September 7th, you can save up to 30% off store. on my favorite murder and exactly right merch. The more you spend, the more you save. Now's the time to grab that shirt, tote, hat,
Starting point is 00:24:42 coozy, whatever else has been sitting in your cart for the last three months. Head to exactly write store.com and use code summer sale for up to 30% off storewide. Some exclusions apply. Goodbye. All right guys, we're back. Last week after Dolly Parton departed, we were talking about Dolly's place in the sort of Mount Rushmore of American songwriters and was we asked the question if she's not in the top five list who is mary from
Starting point is 00:25:20 the 510 writes in hey big fan of the pod i've been listening for years and the way you tell stories is the absolute best in the business as for your question this week i have the ultimate respect for dolly rest in peace but i didn't grow up with her and she doesn't hold that much nostalgia for me as she does for others my top five american songwriters would be bob dill bruce springsteen neil pert laudan Ray and Paul Simon with Stevie Nix as an honorable mention. Keep up the great work. And if you read this on the pod, I will literally die. Rock a rolla. Don't die. Please don't die, Mary. Okay. Mary goes on to say, I know, I just sent this in, but I realized and totally forgot that you asked about American songwriters and Neil is Canadian. Because of this, I replace him with Stevie Nix.
Starting point is 00:26:06 I didn't even realize Neil Purt wrote Rush songs. I don't know a lot about Rush guys. But, you know, Mary's prompting me. She's compelling me. I'm compelled by the email of Mary. I'm compelled by the email of Mary. I must learn more about Neil Perr in Rush. There's a rush episode out there. I know there is something about a brawl. I don't know. Something. I heard something once. I know there's enough. I got a written down somewhere. Disgrisandpod at gmail.com. Darren emails us. Hey, Jake, I understand that sometimes there are just certain roadblocks that prevent entrance into the catalog of a band. Willing was your roadblock. But that tune is just the tip of the iceberg. Do not miss out on one of the great bands of the 70s. Lowell George is indeed one of the great singer, songwriters, side guitar players of
Starting point is 00:26:53 his era. He had so much soul and played with such a beautiful touch, and he left us way too soon. Here's a playlist of songs that you should listen to, and they were so funky and just in the pocket. Tons of soul. Spanish moon. Ah, Feats don't fail me now. Skin at Black, two trains, fool yourself. Fat man in the bathtub. It's a bunch of other ones here. He goes on to say at the end of the email and check out Robert Palmer's first album sneaking Sally through the alley. Little Feet and the meters are the backing band, killer album, including a version of the feet tune, Sal and Shoes. I know that album. I own that album. I love that album. And somewhere in the back of my brain, I knew the Little Feet was affiliated but had blocked it out. All right, you have convinced me, sir. I think
Starting point is 00:27:37 what I'm going to do, I love the playlist. Thank you. But I think I'm just going to cue up Feats, don't fail me now. I'm going to start there. All right. Maybe while I'm cooking. Sounds like this would be good kitchen music. Okay? Kitchen music. There's an idea. All right. One of my favorite Hollywood subjects in Hollywoodland this week. In the Hollywoodland feed with Zeth, Dr. Zeth Lundy, we're talking Sharon Tate. All right. And in the dirty wrecks, we get into songs from 1969.
Starting point is 00:28:02 And I promise you, I did not recommend songs from 1969 that are obvious. All right. I promise you that. Go to the Hollywood Land feed. make sure you're subscribed. Get in on that conversation with Zeth and I. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. IHR Radio app, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts. Listen, this film should be played loud.
Starting point is 00:28:22 Got to say, new episode on Lickrish Pizza is up now. We are filming the next one this week. That's going to be a gross point blank. Next week, I think we're doing it. I don't know, Zeth and I can't seem to figure out when we're filming the damn thing. Anyways, here's a clip of the Lickrish Pizza. This film should be loud.
Starting point is 00:28:40 episode that's available for all access members right now on Patreon, go to disgrace and pod.com to sign up and join. Matt, playing the clip. I was really excited to cover this movie and this film should be played loud because I saw this movie whenever it was made first available, like the first minute you could watch it at home. I watched it. And I don't remember if it was one of those things where it was like it had a long
Starting point is 00:29:06 theatrical release or a short one. I don't remember. All I know is I was there for. it. I watched it in the fog of having a new young child in our home. And I promptly just, I don't know, it didn't get my full attention. Yeah. And I remember being completely excited to watch this movie because of the music in the trailer in particular. And so anyways, I'm stoked to dive back into this. That was my first experience seeing the film. You being a PTA mega fan. I'm sure. I'm sure you were like camping out at your local theater to get tickets. Well, I wish. I wish, dude.
Starting point is 00:29:46 But if I recall correctly, this didn't have a super wide release. And I think, and it didn't perform exactly all that well at the theater. I think it lost money. Yeah. So when it was released, I don't even think it played anywhere near me. So I saw it the way you did. The minute it hit streaming, I think I bought it on Apple TV. And this is, what, 21, 2000?
Starting point is 00:30:09 The very end of 2021. probably saw it early 2022 is my guess so it's in that weird period uh where like a year and a half a year and a half outside of covid and things are still kind of half open not open depending on where you are in the part of the country and what fucking strain of the virus was currently trendy that week and so every it was it was still weird is my point we weren't we weren't back to normal um so i wonder what that had to do with the the sort of the the the the business side of this film, but doesn't matter. This film's fucking great. I don't care what anybody says. It is. And the music is amazing as the music in all Paul Thomas Anderson's
Starting point is 00:30:50 movies are. And he does this beautiful thing that I love that Spike Lee does that we were talking about and do the right thing in the last episode of this film should be played loud, where he just let he lets these songs go and go and just creates this like beautiful atmosphere where he's using needle drops as score in the truest sense of the word. Totally. Almost like a big 1950s John Ford type of thing, you know, with this expansive orchestral piece. But instead here you've got, I don't know,
Starting point is 00:31:23 Susie Quattro or whatever it is. Right, Gary Puckett. Yeah, Gary Puckett. But he also does a similar thing that Spike Lee does, where there is a score in this film composed by Johnny Greenwood of Radiohead, who's done, I think, all of PTA scores since there will be blood. He does this thing where Johnny Greenwood's score is playing, and the characters will go into a place, a store, or a bar,
Starting point is 00:31:48 and there's a song playing in there. And so the score and the needle drop are both playing at the same time. And it's incredible filmmaking. I remember he does this in Magnolia, in the bar scene in Magnolia. And I remember with William H. Macy, and he's got a crush on the bartender. And there's a super tramp song playing in the bar. while John Bryan's score is playing, and it's just incredible. So he hasn't worked with John Bryan since starting to work with Johnny Greenwood, huh?
Starting point is 00:32:19 That's interesting. Yeah, so John Bryan did Magnolia and Punch Drunk Love, right? And then he pivoted to, he must have met John, because he's shot music videos for amongst other people, Radiohead and Hime and Fiona Apple. So he must have met Radiohead that way, I guess, or maybe it was vice versa. I don't know. He's doing something with geese now, isn't he? PTO? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:38 He and Benny Safdi were seen shooting Cameron Winter's solo show at Carnegie Hall, right? Yeah, I read that. That's going to be incredible. Whatever that is. Whatever it is, yeah. Whatever that's going to be, we are absolutely here for it. All right, again, you want to watch that? You want to watch this film?
Starting point is 00:32:58 Should we Play Loud in its entirety? Sign up. Come an All Access member at disgracehandpod.com. Listen, I'm going to get Dr. Lundy. He's knocking at the door. I'm going to get him in here. we're going to have this conversation about, what are we talking about? We're talking about Tupac conspiracy theories, some of the more crazy ones. I want to know about the seven-step thing.
Starting point is 00:33:14 So have anything to do with the 12-tone theory, John Coltrane, that whole thing? I don't think it does, but, you know, both are swimming around my head at the same time. Perhaps. Maybe we're just going to talk Fidel Castro and the Black Panthers. I'm not sure. Zeth's bringing it to us. You can find out alongside me. Go to disgracehandpod.com, become an all-access member, and let's get into this conversation. We'll be back right after this. And I'm ready to get out of here, but before I do, I'm just going to say, hey, thanks. Thanks for being awesome. Thanks for being you guys.
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Starting point is 00:34:50 Send me a DM at Disgracelandpod. I think I just said that. Email me, Disgracelandpod at gmail.com. Let's recap, shall we? Number one, this week, our new episode is the preview of the coming episodes in the new season of Disgraceland. Check that out if you want the inside dope on what's coming down the pike. Number two, in the rewind slot this weekend, our classic episodes, part one and part two on Tupac Shakur. Next week, number three, our new episode on Queen. Number four, Zethe's going to give you
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Starting point is 00:36:02 It's a community, a community of the obsessed, and no one cares about music, books, records, and the crime and grime that ties them all together like you do, and that's a disgrace. All right, back on September 13, 1996, two pop. was killed and this is what America was listening to on that day according to the billboard charts. Number one, Macarena, Bayside Boys Mix, Los Del Rio. Last week, one, peak position, one, weeks on chart, 39. Number two, I love you always forever, Donald Lewis. Last week, two, peak position, two, weeks on chart, 13.
Starting point is 00:36:44 Number three, twisty, keith. Sweat. Last week. Three. Peak position. Two. Weeks on chart. 13. Number four. Lounge. L.L.3. Last one. Peak position. Weeks on chart. Pitcher. Number five. Six. Quit talking and start mixing. Cut it. Hello. We have incredible news. The exactly right store is having an end of summer sale. From September 3rd through September 7th, you can save up to 30% off storewide on my favorite murder and Exactly Right merch. The more you spend, the more you save. Now's the time to grab that shirt, tote, hat, coozy, whatever else has been sitting in your cart for the last three months.
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