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It's only available until September 30th, so order yours now at shopdisgraceland.com hey discos, need a little more Disgraceland 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 Afterparty. 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 we are talking about Old Dirty Bastard and the body in the trunk of the car registered to a modern day hip hop artist. On this bonus episode we are talking about Old Dirty Bastard in the body in the trunk of the car allegedly registered to a modern day hip hop artist. We're rewinding back to our Dime Bag Daryl from Pantera episode Previewing next week's Led Zeppelin in the Haunting of headley grange part 2 episode we get into your voicemails, text 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 best history is the history that gets buried. Disgraceland is where I tell the stories they didn't want told. The kind you'll end up telling someone else. All right, discos, let's get into it. Balance in life is key. Too much of anything is harmful. I love the Beatles, and there was a time in my life when I loved smoking grass. But if I locked myself in my room all day, every day and did nothing but bong hits and listened to John, Paul, George and Ringo, the results would not be good. And I'm not saying I'd emerge from my bedroom all googly eyed with ideas about Armageddon, Race wars, like Crazy Charlie. No, that would require much more than just weed. That would also require lsd, dmt. My overall point, however, I believe holds. If all I did was listen to the Beatles and do drugs, I'd have less of a perspective on music, on life, on whatever. This is obvious, I don't have to tell you this. If all I did, if I. All I did was what I was doing all the time was healthy, if I was just lifting weights all the time and eating protein, those things in excess wouldn't be good either. You need balance. Okay, if all I did was watch violent gangster movies and eat popcorn, which is basically all I really want to do in life, I'd have a warped view on society and probably a little bit thicker. I'd be a little bit thicker around the waist. You need balance. If all I did was talk into this microphone to you guys and write and record stories about crazy musicians and ignore my wife and my kids in the process, I'd probably be more successful, but I would also be less happy in life. Balance. Balance. Balance. Balance. A couple of years ago, a teenage gamer from Houston decided to make his own music to accompany the YouTube videos that he was creating. Videos that were gaming montages displaying his Fortnite skills. Fortnite was his obsession. Music was secondary. But soon that unhealthy obsession with video games was transferred somewhat to music. And music became the thing for this young gamer. He released a song on TikTok, and that song blew up, and then another, and that song blew up. And within no time he was signed to Interscope Records. Now he has this burgeoning career and he took his foot off the gas a little bit and reignited his first passion, gaming. While making music, the artist never really abandoned his love for gaming, specifically for Fortnite, a violent but not gory game where cartoonish shooting. I've never played Fortnite, but for those of you who have, and I'm not entirely accurate, I apologize. But I did look into this today and I wanted to give you an accurate depiction of this. For those of you who don't know Fortnite. A lot of violence, but it's cartoonish, it's not gory. Certainly there are other video games that go way further with the violence than Fortnite. Fortnite is a game where cartoonist shooting and combat are at the center of the gamers action. The game is known to be highly, quote, unquote addictive. Okay, now if we're to believe some of the parents who allow their kids to play Fortnite and, and those parents who have raised concerns about their kids being consumed by the game, addictive is an understatement. Online there are numerous stories about kids completely disconnecting from not only their parents, but from reality over their obsession with the game. Fortnite kids so addicted that they literally cannot disconnect. They stop showering, they stop sleeping, they stop eating. I am not a psychologist, I'm not pretending to be, but you look, just go online, look this stuff up. Many have chimed in. There's lots of online videos from psychologists, from people in the medical field on the subject of the harmful nature of obsessive gaming. I'm not going to sit here and tell you video games are all bad. That's not what I'm doing. Okay, Again, it's about balance. And my larger point is this is specifically about Fortnite. So after hours upon hours of violently eliminating, you know, understandably in a non gory way, but still eliminating your enemies, it's not hard to imagine a twisted reality presenting itself to the gamer. I spent last weekend, I spent four days more than the weekend reorganizing my entire record collection. Every free moment I had was spent alphabetizing records, staring at records, moving records around, flipping through records, picking records up, putting records down, putting records on shelves, taking them off shelves. Records, records, records, records, records. When I went to bed at night and closed my eyes, I literally saw vinyl. Okay, you know what I'm talking about. Those of you who've worked on assembly lines, those of you who have done tedious jobs, you know, as part of your hobby or part of your labor, whatever it is, you know, when you do something over and over and over and over again physically, you close your eyes. That's what you see. The brain is impressionable. The brain is fragile. The teenage brain is not yet fully formed. The teenage artist that I'm referring to here, the one obsessed with Fortnite, his name is David, spelled D4, the numeral 4D4VD. In 2022 at the age of 17, David took a break from gaming and and allegedly started dating a 12 year old named Celeste Rivas. He also released a song that blew up online at the same time called Romantic Homicide. The lyrics go in the back of my mind I killed you and I don't even regret it. I can't believe I said it, but it's true. I hate you. A video for this song was released on Celeste Rivas birthday September 7th. In April of 2024, then 15 year old Celeste Rivas went missing. David continued with his career releasing an album in the earlier part of this year, 2025 through Interscope and touring couple weeks ago this month. In September of 2025, two towyard employees out in Los Angeles walked past an impounded Tesla and noticed a strong putrid smell. Authorities were called. The front truck of the Tesla was opened up and inside were the dismembered remains of the missing 15 year old Celeste Rivas. The car. It has been reported that the car was registered to David. Now David is cooperating with the police, but the Internet is not cooperating with David. His alleged online discord chats, some alleged to be with Celeste or about Celeste have gone public. I can't verify if they're true or not. I'm not going to speculate here. But hey, you're free to search this up online, they're easy to find. It was also discovered by online quote unquote sleuths that David has an unreleased song, allegedly and its title is Celeste. And it's been reported that Celeste's mother has verified that her now deceased 15 year old daughter had the same tattoo on her finger as David. That tattoo reads Shh. I don't know if this guy David had anything to do with Celeste Rivas's death, but I know that we're going to find out soon. And if David is responsible for the cruel and callous end to Celeste Rivas life. There's no telling yet why or how something like this could happen. But in these early days this case reminds me of the Aaron Hernandez case. The former New England patriot whose brain was so scrambled from PCP and weed that he turned himself into a homicidal sociopath. I was there when this news broke up in Boston. It was unbelievable. It was truly unbelievable. You just couldn't understand it. And now it's Understandable, because we've learned about his life. We learned about the drugs he was taking. We learned about the. The concussion stuff, the ct, all that. And there's something about how this story about Celeste Rivas and David is unfolding that just brings me back to those days. I don't know why Celeste Rivas was killed. I don't know if anybody knows why besides the killer right now. And like I said, I have no idea if all this information that's out there right now adds up to this guy David being responsible. I don't know what could compel somebody to do something like this. Even after all this time researching these episodes, trying to understand this behavior, I'm left clueless. Some murderers, I suppose, are just born bad. They're just born that way. There's evil, and evil is sometimes like water. It finds its way. I truly believe that. But I also believe that sometimes outside influences impress upon the brain in ways that are so strong that murderers are made. Now, is David a murderer? Again, I don't know. I'm not going to sit here and say that he is. Is he another musician driven to kill through some mix of hubris and perhaps video game induced violent fantasy and psychosis? I have no idea. But I have my theories and we're going to have more on this story as it develops because it's a fascinating one and, and I feel for the victim's family here. I haven't read. You know, I'm just going to stop because there's a lot out there. There's a lot to talk about here. But this case is so fresh and we have to be careful about what we talk about publicly. But I invite you all to look into this online and I'll keep bringing you news as it breaks, and eventually there will for sure be an episode on this story if David's involvement proves to be what people suspect it to be. This right now already, it reminds me of an old school Disgraceland episode. You know, the whole art imitating life thing with Tay K47 from season one. I don't like Tay K's music, and I don't like David's music either, for that matter. But there's plenty of music from Bad, Bad Men, as we say, and some women that I do like. And that's the subject of our recommendations section that Szeth and I are diving into later in the exclusive part of this episode for All Access members on Patreon and in app subscriptions. What music from truly deplorable artists do we still love and that we would recommend even it's up to think of it as like, yeah, I'm still, still watching, you know, still listening to XYZ by that guy who did that thing. But you know, I, I, I'm also recommending we're really pressing ourselves and challenging ourselves here with the whole art, verse, artist thing. Zeth is going to be approaching this from the film angle. We what films by or featuring demonstrably bad, bad men and maybe a few women can we not do without? And the answer to these questions, you know, I'll be answering the music side of it. Like I said, coming up in the exclusive section of this after party for our All Access members. Just $5 a month to become a member at Disgracelandpod.com membership before prices go up. All right, Old Dirty Bastard is in your feed right now. And you can use this episode, this ODB episode as your introduction to the 10 episode story that we did on Wu Tang Clan. Coming up next in your feed right after this. We're re to our Pantera and Dime Bag Daryl episode. And then, hey, it's October. So that means we here in Disgraceland are unleashing a ton of Halloween related content to keep you spooked all month. Beginning with our Part 2 episode on LED Zeppelin and the haunting of Headley Grange. Jimmy Page was on some other fucking level, people. You're not going to want to miss this. Nor are you going to want to miss our new episodes on Judas Priest, Pentagram and AC DC all coming in the next few weeks. And we're going to be rewinding our classic Halloween Disgraceland episodes all month on artists like the Cramps, Brandon Lee, the Misfits and more. All right. When that Part 2 Led Zeppelin episode hits, though, like I said, an episode about Headley Grange, the haunting of that studio. I want you guys to be thinking about your run ins with haunted homes. Haunted anything, really. What are the spookiest things that have ever happened to you guys? Run ins with ghosts, seances, Ouija boards, life after death experiences. Anything can be about you can be about, you know, your, your family, your friends. Anything spooky that's happened to you, let us know. Let's kick off this October, right? You don't have to be Jimmy Page to give me a call and give me your answers, but just call and let me know. 617-906-6638 Spookiest shit that's gone on in your lives. You might hear yourself on next week's afterparty. I'll be back in a flash with your answers to last week's Question of the Week. 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