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Disgraceland is the award-winning music podcast hosted by Jake Brennan that explores the alleged true crime antics and criminal connections of musicians we love like Jerry Lee Lewis, the Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift, David Bowie, Cardi B, the Grateful Dead, Amy Winehouse, Bob Marley, and more. Disgraceland is a scripted, single voice narrative storytelling podcast that melds true crime, music history, mystery, and misadventure. Disgraceland is not a journalistic podcast. It is an entertainment podcast inspired by true events. Certain dialogue and scenes are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes as they are in most scripted entertainment based on true events. Sources and credits for each episode are available at disgracelandpod.com. Full scripted episodes are released every Tuesday. Bonus “After Party” episodes are released every Thursday. Disgraceland is available wherever you get your podcasts.
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Disgraceland is the award-winning music podcast hosted by Jake Brennan that explores the alleged true crime antics and criminal connections of musicians we love like Jerry Lee Lewis, the Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift, David Bowie, Cardi B, the Grateful Dead, Amy Winehouse, Bob Marley, and more. Disgraceland is a scripted, single voice narrative storytelling podcast that melds true crime, music history, mystery, and misadventure. Disgraceland is not a journalistic podcast. It is an entertainment podcast inspired by true events. Certain dialogue and scenes are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes as they are in most scripted entertainment based on true events. Sources and credits for each episode are available at disgracelandpod.com. Full scripted episodes are released every Tuesday. Bonus “After Party” episodes are released every Thursday. Disgraceland is available wherever you get your podcasts.
To listen to Disgraceland ad free and get access to a monthly exclusive episode, weekly bonus content and more, become a Disgraceland All Access member at disgracelandpod.com/membership.

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    Jose Canseco: SWAT Teams, Smuggled Drugs, and Roid Rage

    Jose Canseco: SWAT Teams, Smuggled Drugs, and Roid Rage

    Jose Canseco was a big league slugger who gave the people what they wanted. Not just massive home runs and a whole lot of stolen bases. He provided entertainment. And his audience, not just baseball fans but the world, ate it up. The private encounter with Madonna in her apartment that nearly cost him a spot on the roster. The obsession with performance enhancing drugs that made him the self-proclaimed godfather of steroids. But entertaining quickly spun out of control. Car crashes. SWAT teams. Smuggled drugs. Before too long, Jose Canseco found himself blacklisted, behind bars, and the focal point of a congressional hearing.
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    • 40 min
    REWIND - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes: Hit Me Again and I'll Burn Your House Down

    REWIND - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes: Hit Me Again and I'll Burn Your House Down

    TLC’s Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes was known as “the crazy one.” She did, after all, burn down the mansion of her boyfriend, NFL player Andre Rison. But given the fact that it was done after one of many domestic assaults, Disgraceland sees Left Eye as a badass—and not “the crazy one.” This episode digs into what really happened that night, who Lisa Lopes really was as a person, and the details surrounding her own premature death.
    This episode was originally published on April 17, 2018.
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    • 32 min
    Bonus Episode: Suppressing the Truth, A Brother Under the Bus, and Profit as Virtue

    Bonus Episode: Suppressing the Truth, A Brother Under the Bus, and Profit as Virtue

    This week in the After Party, Jake talks the nefarious nature of social media, the public's denial of obvious horrors, this week's DISGRACELAND episode on R. Kelly, and of course your emails, texts, DMs, and voicemails. Is R. Kelly the most evil villain in music history? Drop a line at 617-906-6638, disgracelandpod@gmail.com, or on socials @disgracelandpod, and come join the After Party.
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    • 29 min
    R. Kelly: Superstars, Super Predators, and a 20-Year Reign of Sexual Terror

    R. Kelly: Superstars, Super Predators, and a 20-Year Reign of Sexual Terror

    R. Kelly openly groomed teenage victims while on trial for child pornography – a trial based on sex tapes that were once sold at Tower Records. He wrote a song designed to help Michael Jackson turn attention away from his own troubling allegations, and he wrote that song while he was illegally married to a 15-year old. That marriage eventually brought about his downfall. But not before R. Kelly went on a 20-year reign of terror – all conducted in plain sight while he was one of the biggest R&B artists in the world.
    This episode contains themes that may be disturbing to some listeners, including sexual assault, child sexual assault, and domestic violence.
    To see the full list of contributors, see the show notes at www.disgracelandpod.com.
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    • 39 min
    REWIND - Johnny Paycheck: Pardon Me, I've Got Someone to Kill

    REWIND - Johnny Paycheck: Pardon Me, I've Got Someone to Kill

    Lots of country music stars wear the black hat but none of them wore it with more authenticity than Johnny Paycheck. Johnny Cash may have bragged about shooting a man “just to watch him die” but Johnny Paycheck actually pulled the trigger. He was a true outlaw and totally hardcore – hardcore honky tonk.
    To see the full list of contributors, see the show notes at www.disgracelandpod.com.
    This episode was originally published on August 14, 2018.
    To listen to Disgraceland ad free and get access to a monthly exclusive episode, weekly bonus content and more, become a Disgraceland All Access member at disgracelandpod.com/membership.
    Go to badlandsfood.com/DISGRACELAND to learn how you can see incredible changes in your dog’s health!
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    • 31 min
    Bonus Episode: Trust, Mythmaking, and Twin Joyrides

    Bonus Episode: Trust, Mythmaking, and Twin Joyrides

    This week in the After Party, Jake talks trusting our institutions, myths and conspiracies, the new Disgo Book Club, this week's DISGRACELAND episode on Bob Dylan, and of course your emails, texts, DMs, and voicemails. What story from pop culture do you call BS on? Get in touch at 617-906-6638, disgracelandpod@gmail.com, or on socials @disgracelandpod, and come join the After Party.
    To hear an extended version of the After Party with a story about yet another motorcycle accident in Bob Dylan's vicinity, and more from the DISGRACELAND community, become a Disgraceland All Access member at disgracelandpod.com/membership.
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    • 27 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
823 Ratings

823 Ratings

Sarah-zizzle ,

What!

You got me good with the John Denver episode!! Love this podcast, so happy all episodes are available now.

Kelsy Norman ,

Listen with a critical mind

The contents of this podcast are produced by an individual lacking journalistic integrity, relying heavily on obscene, salacious, and fabricated sources authored by similarly unscrupulous writers. This is particularly evident in the episode centered on Steve McQueen, where much of the purportedly truthful information presented by the host originates from a discredited defaming book, as acknowledged by experts on Steve McQueen and reputable historians. Instead of consulting credible sources, the host resorts to any available material to concoct narratives designed to attract gossip-hungry listeners, demonstrating a disregard for truth and legitimacy.

kikidreamer ,

Trash

Totally made up trash ….surprised he’s not sued out of existence.

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