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Jake Brennan
This is exactly right. Double Elvis.
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Stephanie Young
In 2023, Bachelor star Clayton Eckerd was accused of fathering twins, but the pregnancy appeared to be a hoax.
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Narrator (Mind Games)
You doctored this particular test twice, Ms. Owens? Correct.
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Nancy Glass
I doctored the test once.
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Stephanie Young
It took an army of Internet detectives to uncover a disturbing pattern. Two more men who'd been through the same thing.
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Jake Brennan
Greg Gillespie and Michael Mancini. My mind was blown.
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Stephanie Young
I'm Stephanie Young. This is Love Trapped.
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Jake Brennan
Laura Scottsdale Police.
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Stephanie Young
As the season continues, Laura Owens Fall finally faces consequences. Listen to Love Trapped podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Bailee Taylor
I'm Bailee Taylor, and this is it, girl. This podcast is all about going deeper with the women, shaping culture right now. Yes, we will talk about the style and the success, but we are also talking about the pressure, the expectations, and the real work behind it all.
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Mind Games Guest
As a woman in the industry, you're always underestimated. So? So you have to work extra hard in a way that doesn't compromise who you are and your integrity. You know, I like to say I was kind of like a silent ninja.
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Bailee Taylor
Listen to it, girl, with Bailey Taylor on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Jake Brennan
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 afterparty. 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 is, as always, guys, to uncover the truth, to confront the myth, to reclaim the story. On this bonus episode, the music from the mob movies with the real life hits. Okay. As inspired by this week's full episode on Adele and her love of Al Pacino. Plus your voicemails, texts, 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. Disgraceland is where I tell the stories they didn't want told. The kind that you'll end up telling someone else. All right, Discos, let's get into it. Okay, so in this week's episode of Disgraceland as I just alluded to. As I just mentioned, we talk about Adele, and part of her story revolves around her love of Al Pacino movies. Gangster movies, to be precise. I share this trait with Adele, as I'm sure many of you do as well. But specific to Italian movies movies, Italian gangster movies. For some reason, at the end of the day, after my wife and kids have fallen asleep watching violent sociopaths navigate their way through a secret society to deal with their problems, it relaxes me. I don't know why. I do not know why. I've always been into gangster movies, specifically Italian mafia movies. Lately, though, it's become. I don't know, I've gone deeper and deeper and deeper and I'm even watching straight up garbage, just looking for historical nuggets that I can mine and that I can connect in my brain. Like, oh, that's based on this thing. That was based on this other thing that I learned from this thing. And I've watched all the good stuff, I think, and now I'm watching the trash. I don't want to. I don't want to call this show trash because that's unfair. It's unfair to the filmmaker or the showrunner. But. Have you watched Gravesend on Amazon? I have. I have. I've watched both seasons. Season three is about to drop. I'm going to watch that, too. This is not a good show. It's. It's bordering. It's right on the line of so bad it's good, but it's. It's doesn't go that far. So you can't even really use irony to appreciate it. But still, man, it's got all the actors from every great mob movie in every Sopranos episode that you've ever seen. Okay? So it should be great. The acting should be great. It's a testament to, I think, bad directing and bad writing because it's so bad, the acting can't save it. I say all that and I'm laughing and I'm kind of ashamed of myself for saying this because part of me really loves what this filmmaker is doing. He's completely. This guy grew up in Gravesend, Brooklyn. He's completely. I forget his first name. His last name is Demeo. I think it's William demeo. He's completely following his passion and what he knows and, and, and who he is, and he's making something that people clearly love. So who am I to on it, right? And I, But I do, I do like it. I watch it, but I can't. I can't tell you it's a good show. It's not. You should. You should check it out. Let me know what you think. Gravesend, it's on Amazon again. I watch it all, okay? But the mob movies that I love the most are the ones that incorporate rock and roll, so I thought. There's no rock and roll in Gravesend, by the way. I thought that it would be cool to look at mob hits, like actual killings, murders from mob films, and the music, the actual hits that accompany those murders. Okay, but the caveat is the murders have to be based on real life Mafia murders. Okay? This will keep us in the realm of music and true crime. Okay, So I should tell you. Spoiler alerts. All right? All over the place here. If you haven't seen these movies and you hear me mention them, just stop. Stop what you hear. Okay? Just wait 30 seconds. Now, first up, the infamous head in the vice scene from Martin Scorsese's casino. This murder executed by Joe Pesci's character, Nikki Santoro, who is playing a version of a real gangster named Anthony Spilotro. This murder, the real murder, it didn't happen in Las Vegas. It's based on the torture of a mobster named William McCarthy. McCarthy was part of the Chicago outfit and was tortured and killed in 1962. And yes, just like in Casino, his eye popped out from the pressure of the vice around his head. The song that that's playing in the scene is Cream's instrumental Toad from their debut album, Fresh cream, released in 1966. This murder, I believe, is also connected to the real life murder, is also connected to the kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr. So there's another music connection here, I believe, of the four connected guys who were killed in relation to. To that crime, one of them was killed, or at least reportedly killed in the same way with the vice around the head. And that was not William McCarthy. I don't think. I don't think I could have it wrong. All right, next we're gonna travel back to the great year of 1996 and the HBO film Gotti starring Armand Assante in the title role. First of all, this movie is incredible. It's great. I love it. I love it. And if you watch, as I do interviews with real life Mafia members on YouTube, they will tell you that this is one of the most accurate portrayals of Mafia activity that's ever happened on film. Do I believe that? I don't know how accurate it is, but it is dramatic as hell and it is really interesting. And Armand Asante is just. He's so cool. He's such a great John Gotti. He's so awesome. But early in this film, very early on, Armana Sante as John Gotti enters a bar and he kills an enemy of mob boss Carlo Gambino. It's a real life hit. It happened in retaliation for the kidnapping and murder of Gambino's nephew. That actually happened. Somebody fucking kidnapped and murdered Carlo Gambino, the boss of all bosses, I believe at the time, and kidnapped and murdered his nephew. Anyways, this hit John Gotti does in retaliation for Carlo Gambino. It puts him on the fast track to becoming a leader in the Gambino family. But more important, it made me love Three Dog Night. Because when Gotti kills this dude in the movie Gotti, the dude's name is James McBratney. That was his real name. When this happens, Three Dog Nights, excellent tune. Shambhala. Shambhala. That song is so good, it's playing in the background. Now Shambhala was released on May 11, 1973, and the murder of James Jimmy McBratney took place on May 22, 1973. So kudos to the filmmakers for the historical accuracy here. Side note, Jimmy McBratney didn't actually kidnap and kill Gambino's nephew. It was a case of mistaken identity. It was a bad hit, but still it worked for Gotti. Again, put him on the fast track in the Gambino family. All right, number three on my list, but probably should be number one. We're going back to Joe Pesci here. But it's Joe Pesci's character, not from Casino, his character From Goodfellas, Tommy DeVito, based on real life gangster Thomas D. Simone. Tommy D. Simone. And it's the scene where Tommy kills the Billy Batts character for the first time, played by Frank Vincent. Or they think that he kills him. And when this happens in Henry Hill's bar, we hear Donovan's excellent Atlantis playing in the scene. Okay, now this scene is a fairly accurate portrayal of what went down in real life. Desimone. Tommy Desimone murdered a guy named William Bentvena. I think that's how you say that. Who was a maid member of the Gambino family. The hit happened in 1970. Donovan's Atlantis was released in 1968. I don't know. Would that have been playing in Henry Hills Bar? Maybe. Maybe. The interesting thing about this, in the movie, they attack Billy Batts after Billy Batts insults Tommy. Or later on in the night it's not immediate. You know, Billy Batts tells him to go get a shine box. And you know, couple hours go by, they wait for the girls to leave. They let. They let Billy Batts relax. And then once everyone's gone, Tommy goes to work on Billy Batts. And they think they kill him. Of course they don't. They kill him later in the trunk of the car. He. He survives for a couple more hours. However, in real life, what happened was the insult happens. And a couple weeks go by before Tommy Desavone kills William. How do you say his last name? Bent Vena, who is the Billy Batts character. So there you go. All right, next, I want to take you to a rooftop in Boston, Massachusetts. Here in the early aughts, Billy Costigan, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, he gets a bullet in the head, okay. In the elevator in the Departed. And just before that happens, there's a bit of the live version of Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd, but it's the Roger Waters live version, okay? It's when he's up on the roof with Matt Damon. It's also earlier in the movie. It also happens earlier in the movie when Matt Damon is in the midd of a sex scene. But anyways, it happens on the roof there just a bit of. It's like some guitar playing. Now the reason I mentioned this is because it again, spoiler alert for the Sopranos here. It's the same version of Comfortably Numb that is playing in Christopher Maltisante's truck before Kennedy and Heidi run him off of the road and Tony as well. And then you know what happens there. Now Christopher Maltisante, that character in the Sopranos is based loosely on mobster Anthony Bruno. Bruno Indelicato. Anthony Bruno Indelicato from the Bonanno family, a gangster with a severe drug addiction. That's who they based the Christopher Maltisante character on in Sopranos. Now Bruno Indelicato is also the inspiration behind the Bruno character from Donnie Brasco, the son of Sonny Red. The actor who plays Bruno in Donnie Brasco is Brian Tarantina. Brian Tarantina plays Salvatore Mustang Sally and Thiele in the Sopranos. Mustang Sally is eventually murdered. There is no music accompanying the hit and the death is not inspired by true events, at least that I know of. But Mustang Sally is a song by Wilson Pickett that I never need to hear again and neither do you. They can take that one and Brown Eyed Girl and they can send him straight to the moon. Now listen, Bruno Indelicado is still Alive. Okay. I wonder what he thinks of being portrayed in two iconic Mafia. I was about to say films, but the Sopranos and in Donnie Brasco. Now let's talk about Tony Soprano. Killed a bunch of people, obviously. But let's talk about his musical taste. I loved it. Struck me as totally accurate. Basically, he's got like, you know, middle aged classic rock radio tastes. I love it. It's perfect. Pink Floyd makes all the sense in the world when they're driving in that car and they're listening and Christopher is excited to play Tony that. That Roger Waters Pink Floyd cd. When I heard that Roger Waters version of Comfortably Numb in the Departed, however, it struck me as weird because it wasn't the studio version of the song. And I immediately thought, oh, well, you know, Scorsese just couldn't get Pink Floyd to license him the studio version. Maybe they wanted too much money or they just didn't want it used or whatever. And he ended up going with the live version. Turns out that's exactly what. What happened. I was right about that. I'm not sure, however, why it's used in the Sopranos because they. They use One of these Days they get to license Pink Floyd's One of these days. In a 2006 episode called the Fleshy Part of the Thigh, it's used in the credit sequence. This episode is the one where Bobby Bacala gets paid by the aspiring hip hop artist Marvin MVP Bellfield to shoot him on purpose so that Marvin can gain some much needed street cred. And that storyline is reportedly a parody of the real life 50 Cent shooting. And Marvin, to further connect to music history into real life music, Marvin is played. The character is played by Naughty By Nature's Tretch and Tretch's manager. Excuse me, Marvin's manager in this episode is played by Lord Jamar from Brand Nubian. There's even a Brand Nubian reference in the dialogue. Now, the depiction of hip hop artists like MVP being so desperate for street credibility was so accurate that Nas references this episode on his 2006 album Hip Hop is Dead. Incredible. Love these connections. All right, I'm going too deep down the rabbit hole, but we will go deeper. We're going to do that in the exclusive section of this after party. Zeth and I, we're going to talk about real life rock stars, real life musicians caught up with real life gangsters. Madonna, Marilyn Monroe.
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Listener Callers
You're.
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Jake Brennan
Wait, you're like Marilyn Monroe? She's an actress? No, she's also a pretty damn good singer. Okay, Put out records. The whole bit. Okay. Anyways, some surprising connections between real life musicians and the mafia that we're going to discuss in the exclusive section of this after party. Go to www.gracelandpod.com to sign up. Become an all Access member to unlock exclusive content like this. Plus ad free Listening now. This is the stuff that I am obsessed with. I probably need a hobby. Maybe Adele needs a hobby as well. Like I said, our new story on Adele is available for you to listen to right now. Coming up in the rewind slot this Sunday, we've got our episodes on Paul McCartney and John Lennon. Both of their early 70s solo career stuff. That's what's going to be detailed in these episodes. Paul McCartney's stint in jail, John Lennon stint under FBI surveillance. These are great episodes. You're going to dig them, I promise. If you haven't heard them before, get in there and listen. And then on Tuesday we've got our episode on the Hillsborough disaster. This is a special episode of Disgraceland. We are releasing it because the World cup is about to get underway. We originally wrote this episode for a different series other than Disgraceland, but make no mistake, this is a Disgraceland episode and it depicts the horrible tragedy where 9797 Liverpool football fans died in a fatal crowd Crush during a 1989 soccer match at Hillsborough Stadium. This is one of the episodes that we've produced here at Double Elvis that I am most proud of. It's an incredible story. We are releasing it once again timed with the World cup that's about to start happening this weekend. Now, whether or not you're a soccer fan, you're going to dig this. So I hope you check it out. And when you're listening to that episode, be thinking about tragedies. Be thinking about music tragedies, sports tragedies, and what's the most tragic event from music history, sports history, just culture in general. 617-906-6638 Leave me a voicemail, send me a text and let me know. Disgracelandpod on the socials you wanna get at me there. Disgracelandpodgmail.com if you want to email me your answers. I'll be back right after this quick message with your answers to last week's question of the week, your voicemails, texts, emails and more coming up. Wait.
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Bailee Taylor
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Narrator (Mind Games)
Before Nexium, Nancy Salzman wanted to help people.
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Mind Games Guest
Being able to help somebody, it's probably the biggest motivator of my entire life.
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Narrator (Mind Games)
She trained in something called neuro linguistic programming.
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Mind Games Guest
People loved our training.
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Narrator (Mind Games)
Then everything changed.
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Mind Games Guest
Yeah, and they called it a cult.
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Narrator (Mind Games)
How does a method designed to improve lives end up in a cult?
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Mind Games Guest
A knife in the hands of a surgeon is an amazing tool. A knife in the hands of a murderer is a weapon.
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Narrator (Mind Games)
Listen to Mind Games on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Nancy Glass
I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season two podcast. This is a story about a horrendous L that destroyed two families. Late one night, Bobby Gumpright became the victim of a random crime. The perpetrator was sentenced to 99 years until a confession changed everything.
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Jake Brennan
I was a monster.
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Nancy Glass
Listen to Burden of guilt season two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Jake Brennan
All right, we got a lot different conversations going on with you guys. Let's check in with Rob from the 303.
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Listener Callers
Hey, Jake. This is Rob from the 303. It's first time I've ever had to stop a podcast and dollar your number, man. You asked for unlikely covers and I work for a radio station in Denver and I did not know it's a classic rock station that PM dawn covered. Beatles, Norwegian Wood. Really good song, both versions. That's all I got, man. Thanks, Rob.
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Jake Brennan
Thanks for the call. I love the PM dawn vibes. I love the 90s vibes. I had no idea they covered Norwegian Wood. Did they cover it or just sample it? I'm gonna check it out. Very interested in this, Rob. Thanks so much. Russell from the 704.
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Listener Callers
Hey there, Russell from the 704. I just finished listening to the 1994 after party. I graduated high school in 1994, so a lot of what you talked about really hit home for me. I listened to it because I wanted to find out about these punk albums. Not by punk artists, see who mentioned what. And there's one that came to mind that I was surprised it wasn't mentioned, and that is Rage against the Machines album, Battle of Los Angeles. You know that a punk album is relevant to when you have someone like Weird Al cover you not parodying but covering Rage against the Machine in one of their concerts. All I have to say about that is you. I will do what you tell me. Love the show. Love Hollywood Land. Looking forward to hearing more of it. Have a great day.
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Jake Brennan
Love the passion. Russell, is that true? Weird Al covered Rage Against Machine and didn't parody It. That's. That's. That's pretty interesting. What's more punk than you? I won't do it. You tell me. That's what I want to know. Chad from the 604.
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Listener Callers
Hey, Jake. Chad calling from up in Niero, British Columbia, Canada. More. Nothing Disgraceful. Just, like, feel good, you know? Music, which, for me, it's the number one super group, the only fucking super group that exists on the planet ever, of all time, in my opinion.
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Jake Brennan
Traveling Wilbur, Chad, thank you. I appreciate the call. And Traveling Wilbur's might be the greatest supergroup of all time, but are they the only one? The only one? I don't know, man. What about the Firm? Come on, dude, I'm kidding. The Firm were a B B team supergroup at best. There's gotta be other examples of great supergroups, though. Someone was just talking about Rage Against Machine, Audioslave. There you go. There's one. But there's a mythology to the Traveling Wilburies that some of these other supergroups just don't have. Appreciate the call, Chad. Get back at us anytime. Amber from the 620 writes in. Hey, Jake, Amber from the 785. But Amber, I'm looking at your area code. It's six two zero. Amber says, Hey, I would also love a Tori Amos episode for a crime perspective. Tori was raped at. Oh, my God. At knifepoint by a fan. I did not know this. My goodness. Her song. That's my. I just said that. Not. Not Amber here. Amber goes on to say her song Me and a Gun on the Little Earthquakes album is about that experience. It's also one of the main reasons she's a spokesperson co founder for Rain. I hope this helps keep up the great work. Roc A Rolla Amber. It absolutely helps. Thank you so much. Wow, that's heavy. That is heavy. Yeah, we'll definitely get into a Tori Amos episode at some point. 206 writes in the question of outlier albums. This spawning from our Weezer conversation last week, relative to Pinkerton and our Weezer episode 206 texts in. Hey, I'm behind on the podcast. I agree with Pinkerton. For Weezer, I would say Paul's Boutique is the Beastie Boys best album. Best Beastie Boys album and an outlier. I never thought of Paul's Boutique as an outlier because. But it is. I see your point, but at the time, they were still defining who they were going to be. And I look at License to Ill. Paul's Boutique. Check your head chronologically. Their first three albums as a progression you can hear them creatively going from one to the other versus Weezer, which is the Blue album, Pinkerton, and then what, the Green album after that. And the Green album kind of reverts back to what they were. It'd be like if Check your Head reverted back to license to ill. But to your point, however. 206 the Beastie Boys, once they Once they land on Check your head, they kind of stick the landing for a while. Ill Communication is still in that vein. They've kind of found what they're doing. They've identified themselves. But pretty interesting to think of Paul's Boutique as an outlier. Certainly sounds like one now. 917 writes in hey Adele, where's the Fiona Apple episode? 917? How'd you know we were going to do a Fiona Apple episode? 917 also writes in Pavement. He just wants to keep your hardcor ness in check and sounds extremely insecure. Nothing about Swans? No Deaf Heaven. Weak. I don't know what the hell you're talking about. 917 I did find out an interesting thing about the Swans recently, though. Michael Gira dated Madonna for a while back in the day. 917 A lot of text here. Also writes in look up Kanye's obsession with Adele before his first album came out. Okay, I will. Keep texting me. 917. Appreciate it. 617-906-6638. You guys want to get at me about anything here? Jeff McDermott writes in hey episode request Jeff here from the 815. It just finished the re release, the rewind of the Aaliyah episode, and it got me thinking of a hip hop artist that started to blow up around the same time that she did. Dmx. Please make a DMX episode Four exclamation points. There is enough crime and drama to make a very interesting story and believe it or not, he did make some pretty great music. Keep on keeping on, Jeff from the 815. Jeff, we got DMX on the list this year. I believe it's in the works, so to speak. We're planning for it to be in the works, I should say. You guys want to hit me up with requests for subjects to cover in Disgraceland? You can do so. Disgracelandpodgmail.com in the exclusive section of last week's After Party, we were talking about Pulp Fiction. Casey writes in. Casey Juvenile writes in. Hey, I heard in the After Party exclusive section on Pulp Fiction this week, and I wanted to bring to your attention something that I recently noticed about the movie. It is my all time favorite, and I watch it about two times a year and always find something new. You guys mentioned Steve Buscemi playing Buddy Holly. Well, I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but there is a theory that Buddy Holly is actually Mr. Pink from Reservoir Dogs. And I'm sure you remember his classic dialogue in which he talks about how he doesn't tip waiters and waitresses. So the theory is that Mr. Pink went underground after the robbery and is hiding out as a waiter because no one would expect it anyways. Just something to think about. Love your work. Keep up the good work. That's from CJ. CJ, this theory is awesome. I love it. Would. Would Mr. Pink, though, would he recognize Vincent Vega as Vic Vega's brother? You know what I mean? Because he's waiting on him. You know, he might have. He. Is there anything. Is there anything in that scene where Buddy's kind of like. Where Mr. Pink is kind of like, wait, who the fuck is this? This guy looks like someone I know. You know what I mean? Maybe a look, a glance, a raised eyebrow even. Last one here, relative to Weezer. G'. Day. Jake Robb, originally from Auckland, now living in Queensland, Australia. Love your podcast. I am so glad someone else thinks Pinkerton is a great album. Weezer played Auckland in 1996, right in that strange where Pinkerton was still new and uncomfortable, and I really liked it, but none of my mates did. It was no Buddy Holly. Slightly unhinged in a way that didn't quite fit Weezer's blue album. And Weezer played Auckland just after we finished high school. End of exams Blowout. That weird feeling where your life is suddenly open, but no one has told you what it's supposed to look like yet. Damn, Rob. Well put, Rob. We hope to capture that sentiment in the sentence you just. You just wrote or that I just read that you wrote in our latest episode of this film should be played loud, which is on Dazed and Confused. We're releasing it this month. We recorded it last night. We're releasing it this month because it is the end of the school year and it is probably the greatest graduation movie that I've ever seen. Even. Even more than the Graduate. How about that? How about that? Is Dazed and Confused better than the Graduate? I watch it more. I appreciate it more. I don't know. I don't know if I'm actually saying that I should probably watch the Graduate again, but, you know, I don't love the Graduate. I never have. What's wrong with me? I don't know, Rob, you're a good writer. Right back anytime. All right, you guys want to email me disgraceandpodmail.com now listen, may madness. May madness has been consuming all of us here at Double Elvis and everybody over in the Patreon feed for the last 30 plus days. Okay, we have arrived at the end of the line. We have a winner. And that winner will be announced to you coming up right after this.
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Narrator (Mind Games)
Before NXIVM, Nancy Salzman wanted to help people.
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Mind Games Guest
Being able to help somebody, it's probably the biggest motivator of my entire life.
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Narrator (Mind Games)
She trained in something called neuro linguistic programming.
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Mind Games Guest
People loved our training.
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Narrator (Mind Games)
Then everything changed.
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Mind Games Guest
Yeah. And they called it a cult.
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Narrator (Mind Games)
How does a method designed to improve lives end up in a cult?
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Mind Games Guest
A knife in the hands of a surgeon is an amazing tool. A knife in the hands of a murderer is a weapon.
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Narrator (Mind Games)
Listen to mind Games on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Stephanie Young
Will Ferrell's big Money players and iHeart podcast presents soccer Moms.
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Leigh Ann and Janet
So I'm Leigh Ann.
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Listener Callers
Yeah.
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Leigh Ann and Janet
This is my best friend, Janet.
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Jake Brennan
Hey.
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Leigh Ann and Janet
And we have been joined at the hip since high school.
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Mind Games Guest
Absolutely.
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Leigh Ann and Janet
A redacted amount of years later, we're still joined at the hip.
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Jake Brennan
Just a little bit bigger hips.
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Leigh Ann and Janet
This is a podcast. We're recording it as we tailgate our youth soccer games in the back of my Honda Odyssey with all the snacks and drinks. Why did you get hard seltzer instead of beer?
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Mind Games Guest
Well, they had a bogo.
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Jake Brennan
Well, then you got them.
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Stephanie Young
Listen to soccer moms on the iHeartRadio
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Jake Brennan
app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So we are back here in the afterparty and over on Patreon. You may or may not be aware, for the month of May, which is not now ended, we were covering May Madness. Now May Madness, you might be like, what are you talking about? I know about March Madness. Is May Madness the NCAA baseball tournament? No, it's not. But I am deeply invested in that as well. May Madness is our sitcom theme tournament. Okay? And we have a winner. The sitcom O Tron 2000. It finally tabulated all the votes and, you know, it started spewing out some. Some white smoke just like the Vatican. And we. We got news. Okay, So I going to blow it here. I'm going to go to our. Our special May Madness correspondent, Matt Bowden, check in with Matt here. Matt can give us a recap of what exactly went down with May Madness and how we arrived with our winner and who that winner is. Matt, give it to him.
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Special Agent Riegel
Well, we had a lot of, you know, great, deserving theme songs in this contest, but ultimately we wound up with an all New York final with Mr. Cotter and the Sweathogs from Brooklyn going up against George and Wheezy on the east side of Manhattan, formerly of Queens. And ultimately, our winner was the Jeffersons, who defeated. Welcome back, Cotter, 54 to 25. I don't think anybody was surprised to see the Jeffersons in the final. It's an incredible theme with the indelible end images of Wheezy wiping her eyes and George with that hilarious yet confident strut as they head into the apartment building. So there you have it. The Jeffersons, the greatest sitcom theme of all time, according to our listeners.
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Jake Brennan
All right, Matt, thank you for that. We appreciate the recap, appreciate all the work you put into this, and appreciate everybody over on Patreon who voted and took part in May Madness this year. This was a lot of fun. I think the thing we learned is that we like doing, we like doing tournaments. We want to do another one. We want to finally figure out these long mused about cultural questions like what the greatest sitcom theme of all time is. Obviously the Jeffersons. I kind of feel like that's not my answer. My answer is Taxi, maybe Cheers. But I can understand, actually the story behind the creation of the song that is the theme song for the Jeffersons is really fascinating and also speaks to that tune's greatness. But there, there are other great cultural questions that we want to answer here in Double Elvis. So I think we're going to do some more tournaments over in Patreon. You guys want to become an All Access member. You want to take part in these conversations, you can do so for as little as a buck. Go to Disgracelandpod.com to sign up. You're also going to get access to our new video podcast, this Film should be Played Loud, which explores our favorite movies and the soundtracks behind them. We've got episodes on Goodfellas, Royal Tenenbaums, Boogie Nights, got a new episode on Dazed and Confused that's coming up this month. You're not going to want to miss that. Go to disgraceandpod.com to sign up. Become a member today. So we all of a sudden in Hollywood, we have young people making great movies that are also wildly successful. This is kind of happening out of the Blue Zeth gets into all of this in the Hollywoodland feed this week relative to our Lucille Ball re release episode that's over there. But in the wrap party, we're giving music recommendations based on music recommendations and film recommendations. But my recs are music based from artists who were very young, under 20 years old, in most cases making great music that we're still listening to today. All my recommendations are happening exclusively in the Hollywoodland feed during the wrap party episodes, which are released on Wednesdays. If you're not a Hollywoodland listener, make sure you become one today. Go to the Hollywoodland feed and subscribe on Apple podcasts or the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, as promised, Zeth and I are gonna dig into some pretty, pretty revealing music connections, rock and roll connections, music history, connections to the Mafia, ones you likely haven't heard about here in the exclusive section of the afterparty coming up right now. Go to disgraceandpod.com to sign up if you're not already a member. All right, we'll right after this. All right, guys, welcome back. Listen, we talked about go. Which artist did we discuss? Going back to my memory here. We talked about Cream. So we got an Eric Clapton episode in our archive. You can check that out. We've got a Pink Floyd episode. We talked about Pink Floyd. We talked about Nos Brand, Nubian, Naughty by Nature. We don't have episodes on any of those artists, but we do have a full season on the Wu Tang Clan that's in the archive. If you really want to go deep on the woo, we got you covered. Matt will provide information on these episodes in the show notes section of this here after party to help you easily navigate our archive. All right, let's recap, shall we? This week, our new episode on Adele in the rewind slot coming up on Sunday. This is number two. We've got Paul McCartney and John Lennon. The solo episodes, you're not going to want to miss those. Next week, our episode on the Hillsborough disaster, timed with the World cup event, which will be happening. Number four, Zeth gives you those Hollywood and crime vibes in the Hollywoodland podcast, so make sure you're subscribed. That way you can get my music recs. That's over in the wrap party. Number five. This film should be played loud. Our new episode on the Royal Tenenbaums is available for you right now. We just recorded our latest episode on Dazed and confused. Go to disgracesandpod.com to sign up. Become an all access member. Get into the Patreon chat. Let us know, what other types of tournaments should we be doing? Cultural tournaments. Number six, six one, seven nine zero six, six six three eight. Your voice keeps us digging into the dark corners of music history. So keep calling. Keep texting to your answers to this week's question of the week or whatever else you want to talk about. Number seven, don't forget discos. This isn't just content, it's a community. A community of the obsessed. No one cares about music, books, records, and the crime and grime that ties them all together like you do. Well, that's a disgrace. All right. Adele's mega smash album 21 was released on January 8, 2008. And here's what America was listening to on that day. According to the Billboard charts, number 1 Low Flo Rida featuring T Pain last week 1 Peak position 1 Weeks on chart 12. Number 2 no. 1 Alicia Keys last week 2 Peak position 1 Weeks on chart 19. Number 3 Apologize Timbaland featuring One Republic. Last week 3 Peak position 2 Weeks on chart 24. Number 4 Kiss Kiss Chris Brown featuring T. Pain last week 4 Peak position 1 Weeks on chart 18. Number 5 Chris Clumsy Birdy. Last week 5, 6, 5. Quit talking and start mixing. Cut it. Protein packed meals in 10 minutes. TikTok's got millions of them. Could you whip one up in under eight? Probably. But hey, it's not a race. Grab the recipes on TikTok and start cooking.
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Nancy Glass
I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt season two podcast. This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families. Late one night, Bobby Gumprite became the victim of a random crime. The perpetrator was sentenced to 99 years. Until a confession changed everything.
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Jake Brennan
I was a monster.
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Nancy Glass
Listen to Burden of guilt Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Special Agent Riegel
This is Special agent Riegel, Special Agent Bradley Hall.
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Jake Brennan
In 2018, the FBI took down a ring of spies working for China's Ministry of State Security, one of the most mysterious intelligence agencies in the world. The sixth Bureau podcast is a story of the inner workings of the MSS and how one man's ambition and mistakes opened its vault of secrets. Listen to the 6th Bureau on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.