Alice in Chains' Layne Staley: The Rooster, the Jungle, and Dying Young
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Though they were one of the first so-called “grunge” bands to sign to a major label, Alice in Ch...
Bonus Episode - Video Directors, MTV stars, and Big News From Hollywood
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake looks at video directors from the 80s and 90s who went on to have...
George Michael: Lewd Acts, Guilt, and Freedom
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Seven arrests in twelve years and more than a couple sleepless nights inside a London prison. This r...
Bonus Episode - Irish Artists, Def Leppard and Huey Lewis
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, all the stars come out to play: Def Leppard, Huey Lewis, Gene Hackman,...
Thin Lizzy: Gangsters, Drugs, Punks and St. Patrick
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What made the band Thin Lizzy different from your standard 1970s rock and punk? Crime, that’s what...
Bonus Episode: RIP David Johansen and Gene Hackman
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jake reflects on the recent passing of two legends: David Johansen and Gene Hackman. Plus...
Dennis Hopper: Dynamite, Cocaine, Cheating Death, Subverting Hollywood, and Life on the Fringe
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dennis Hopper revolutionized American cinema by bringing the counterculture to the mainstream with h...
Bonus Episode: The Madness of Moviemaking
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jake talks about his experience trying to get a movie made and reflects on the obsessive ...
Martin Scorsese (Pt. 2): One Night. One Murder. Five Directors.
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hollywood:1975. Martin Scorsese sits in his apartment, enraged. He wants to literally kill the man w...
Dorothy Stratten: A Playboy Pinup, a Private Investigator, and a Chilling Murder
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dorthy Stratten went from Dairy Queen counter girl to Playboy pinup to murder victim – in just two...
Bonus Episode: Jay-Z Developments, Sid and Nancy, and a One Buck Utopia
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jake shares some surprising developments in the Jay-Z case and their ramifications for th...
Bonus Episode: Satchmo and Secret Agents
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jake is thinking about the CIA and its role in our culture. Has the CIA played a part not...
Louis Armstrong: Gangsters, the CIA, and Hot Music
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You know Louis Armstrong, right? Jazz icon? Satchmo? Nice guy from the movies with the trumpet? Did ...
Bonus Episode: Strange Celebrity Deaths, Great Comedians, and Hot Takes
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jake is thinking about Richard Pryor. If Pryor had died after setting himself on fire, wo...
Richard Pryor: Stabbing, Shooting, F***ing, Burning, and Freebasing
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Pryor was one of the funniest people who ever lived. He elevated stand-up comedy to an art f...
Bonus Episode: Are We Alone in the Universe?
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jake wonders what might be coming in future disclosures about UFOs, the JFK assassination...
Blink-182: Tom Was Right. Aliens Exist.
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone thought Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge was a joke, until he proved them all wrong. This is the s...
Bonus Episode - Official Narratives, Influence, and Telling the Whole Story
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jake discusses the Beastie Boys and the challenges of creating an episode about a band th...
Beastie Boys: How They Inspired A Crime Wave, Caused New Laws to be Written, and Influenced Culture
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The news called the London crime wave an “epidemic." The Beastie Boys inspired it. Liverpool wante...
Bonus Episode - The Allegations Against Bill Murray, Your Bill Murray Stories and More
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jake wrestles again with the idea that an artist whose work he admires may, in fact, be a...
Bill Murray: Airport Drug Busts, Backstage Brawls, and Crashing Elvis’s Burial
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Before Bill Murray was busting ghosts and living in a loop of deja vu, he was a drug-dealing premed ...
Bonus Episode - From Charlie Sheen to Caligula, Hedonism Throughout History and More
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Who is the most hedonistic entertainer from throughout history? Hint: his name might rhyme with “D...
Sean “Diddy” Combs (Pt. 2): The Explicit Story Behind the Indictments
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does a music mogul satiate himself when he’s rich, famous, and can have whatever he wants? Whe...
Bonus Episode - Disgraceful Music and Movie Recommendations and More
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's After Party, Jake shares some music and movie recommendations based on the research t...
Bonus Episode – What You Guys Have To Say This Christmas
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Your wild tales of rock ‘n’ roll animalism, UFOs, Christmas songs, SNL characters, Jay Z and Did...
Chris Farley: Raging Bulls, Insatiable Appetites, Dead Comics, and a Four-Day Plunge off the Edge
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Everything about Chris Farley was larger than life. His comedy, his laughs, the risks he took in fro...
Bonus Episode – The Cocaine Enema Was Real and More Rock ‘N’ Roll Truths and Mythbusting, Plus Ken and Barbie Did WHAT On Christmas?
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake gets into the great rock 'n' roll myths: we're talking cocaine en...
Elvis Presley and Johnny Ace: A Deadly Christmas Story
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elvis Presley loved the Memphis singer Johnny Ace. Johnny died long before Elvis’ became the King ...
Bonus Episode - Chilling Words Diddy Allegedly Said Before Jay Z and He Did What? Plus Shane MacGowan and More
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake dives into the recent allegations against Jay-Z and hears from yo...
Shane MacGowan: Outsiders, Underdogs, and Christmas Eve in the Drunk Tank
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shane MacGowan lived his life as an outsider. He was an Irishman living in England, a troublemaking ...
Bonus Episode - Preserving Rock n' Roll, Solo Beatles, and Remembering John Lennon
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake looks back at John Lennon and gets your take on which Beatle had ...
Bonus Episode - The Band, Concert Films, and Giving Thanks
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake reflects on Thanksgiving and The Last Waltz. Plus, Jake hears fro...
Martin Scorsese, The Band, and The Last Waltz: A Thanksgiving Story
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Scorsese’s death wish. Bob Dylan’s theft. Robbie Robertson’s cocaine purchase. Four t...
Bonus Episode - Disgraceful Disclosures, Conspiracies, and 11.22.63
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake looks forward to the possibility of 2025 being a year of disgrace...
Woody Harrelson: Contract Killers, JFK Conspiracies, and Fathers & Sons
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of Hollywood’s most eclectic and unpredictable actors, Woody Harrelson has played a hayseed ba...
Bonus Episode - More Sports, Celebrity Politics, and Diddy's New Digs
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake wonders about celebrities and the sincerity of their political co...
Aaliyah: Married Illegally at 15, Drugs, Corruption, and a Fiery Crash
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Married to R. Kelly at 15 years old and dead by the age of 22. Aaliyah was supposed to be as big as ...
Bonus Episode: Sports Towns, Sports Films, and Diddy's Birthday
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake talks about the 1986 New York Mets and what made them such a spec...
The ‘86 Mets: Cocaine, On and Off-field Brawls, and a Murder Outside Shea Stadium
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The World Series-winning 1986 New York Mets were, in a word: assholes. But their fans loved them any...
Bonus Episode: Horrifying Books, Disgraceful Diddy Developments, and the Power of Imagination
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Halloween, disgos! This week in the After Party, Jake hears from you about the scariest books ...
The Exorcist: Demonic Possession, Mass Hysteria, and NYC’s Unsolved Murders
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
William Friedkin's film The Exorcist terrified audiences upon its release in 1973. They fainted, v...
Bonus Episode - Scary Movies and an Interview with Low Cut Connie's Adam Weiner
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake sits down with Adam Weiner of Low Cut Connie to discuss the state...
Poltergeist Curse: Paranormal Activity, a Plane Crash, and Murder
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Four different actors from the 1980s horror franchise Poltergeist died within a 6-year span. Domin...
Bonus Episode: Dangerous Music, Great Rock n' Roll, and More Shocking Allegations
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake wonders if every disgraceful story covered in Disgraceland is mer...
The Cramps: Zombies, Teenage Werewolves, and Rock ‘N’ Roll Saviors
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Cramps, led by the husband and wife team of Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach, had one one m...
Bonus Episode: Heart Issues and Hurricanes
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake hears from you on which artists were taken from us too soon, and ...
Brandon Lee: Hungry Ghosts, Cursed Movies, and a Goth Masterpiece
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Haunted by the legacy of his superstar father and by an old family curse, Brandon Lee tried to outru...
Bonus Episode: More Diddy Allegations, Travis Scott and Tony Buzbee
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake weighs in on the latest development in the explosive Diddy saga: ...
Travis Scott and Astroworld: The Devil Went Down to Houston
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Travis Scott’s 2021 Astroworld music festival turned out to be a deadly disaster. Was it greed? Sa...
Bonus Episode: Deep in the Diddyverse and Sci-Fi Curious
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake takes a closer look at the Diddy indictment and gets your recomme...
Sigourney Weaver: A Goddess, Beasts and Demons, and Paying Tribute from Death Row
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In classic ‘80s films like Ghostbusters and Aliens, Sigourney Weaver battled demons and beasts. Bu...
Bonus Episode: Freak Offs, Great Television, and a Waitress in the Sky
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake gets into the latest news on the indictment and arrest of Sean "D...
Matthew Perry: The One Where He Dies
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friends star Matthew Perry battled addiction through the white-hot glare of fame while having the nu...
Bonus Episode: One Night at the Viper Room, a Disgraceland Special Event, and Remembering River Phoenix
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake looks back at the fateful night of October 31, 1993, when River P...
River Phoenix: Religious Cults, Deadly Speedballs, and a Disappearing Act
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
River Phoenix was a once in a generation actor. His death shocked Hollywood and is still hard for ma...
Bonus Episode: Sixes and Sevens and Nines
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake talks about gambling and its role in his family. Plus, listeners ...
The NFL: A Dead Owner, A Dead Gangster, A League Founded on Gambling
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The image of the National Football League is one of integrity. It’s a squeaky clean brand that NFL...
Bonus Episode: Madonna, The Rolling Stones, and a Critical Double Standard
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake wrestles wonders why certain artists, especially female artists, ...
Lana Del Rey: Three Dark Stories Inspired by an American Risk Taker
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Illicit romance. An abduction. An international manhunt. Starlets, sex appeal, and psychopaths. Sexu...
Bonus Episode: Problematic Artists, and Did Life Peak in the 90s?
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake wrestles with the works of problematic genius Alfred Hitchcock an...
Alfred Hitchcock: Killers, Auteurs, and Survivors
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alfred Hitchcock grew up on murder. He was the OG crime junkie; obsessed with true stories of strang...
Bonus Episode: Hollywood and History’s Worst Moms and the Hitchcock Dilemma
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake looks at Brittany Murphy's mysterious death and the history of ba...
Brittany Murphy: The Suspicious Death of a Starlet or an Unsolved Murder?
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When actress Brittany Murphy died of pneumonia at the age of just 32 years old, it seemed that all o...
The Hillsborough Disaster: A Fatal Crush, Soccer Hooligans, and a Massive Cover-Up
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On April 15th, 1989, 95 men, women, and children were crushed to death during a soccer match between...
Bonus Episode: Can a Heavy Metal Band Be The Most Successful Band of All Time?
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake looks at Metallica's rise from the vanguard of a niche sub-genre ...
Metallica: Thrash Metal, Murder, and the Death of Cliff Burton
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the early days of Metallica, their bass player carried a hammer on tour and had a gun that shot k...
Bonus Episode: Great Actors of the 1970s, Juvenile Delinquency, and the Luck of The Draw
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake dives into your thoughts on the greatest actors of the 1970s and ...
Al Pacino: Good and Evil, Attempted Robbery, and the Role of a Lifetime
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The death of a neighborhood friend, an attempted robbery that almost went horribly wrong, good vs. e...
Bonus Episode: POV in Storytelling, 1970s Actors, and Sarah Vaughan vs. Ella Fitzgerald
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake has the 1970s on his mind as he prepares for next week's episode ...
Bonus Episode: Teenage Obsessions, Your Suggestions, and Great Singers
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake talks about how his sixteen-year-old self influenced who he is to...
Bonus Episode: "Crazy" Artists, Ultraterrestrials, and Arnt Poppy in the Gararge
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake talks about the artists who have faced challenges to their mental...
Donny Hathaway: Angels, Demons, and Unexplained Visions
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Donny Hathaway was a singer, songwriter, and performer so inspiring that he compelled Stevie Wonder ...
Bonus Episode: Crime and Grime in 1977 NYC, Great Music Cities, CBGB Qu'est-ce que c'est?
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake talks about the unique social conditions that created the vibrant...
Talking Heads: Punk Rock, New Wave, Blackouts, and Psycho Killers
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From 1976 to 1977, unsuspecting young people in New York City were snuck up on in the darkness and s...
Gianni Versace: Sly Stallone, Madonna, Elton John, a Serial Killer, and the Death of the Sun King
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gianni Versace was a runway iconoclast who outfitted the likes of Madonna, Demi Moore, Prince, Sylve...
Bonus Episode: Scene Showdown, Partying With Tyson, and Juvenile Stickups
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake talks different music scenes, balancing points of view, this week...
Bobby Brown: Cocaine Chicken, Horny Ghosts, and His Prerogative
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bobby Brown thrusted and gyrated his way to the top of the charts with Don’t Be Cruel, one of the...
Bonus Episode: Justin Timberlake, Eighteen Banners, and Ghostwriter Grandstanding
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake talks boring versus exciting news, charitable organizations, this...
O.J. Simpson: Stolen Memorabilia, Armed Robbery, and Fake Gangsters
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is not the O.J. Simpson story you were expecting. This is the story of what happened after th...
Bonus Episode: The Punk-Rock Dock Ellis, Canseco the Troll, and "a Gorilla in a Zoo"
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake talks the super-fame of José Canseco, the exploits of Dock Ellis...
Jose Canseco: SWAT Teams, Smuggled Drugs, and 'Roid Rage
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jose Canseco was a big league slugger who gave the people what they wanted. Not just massive home ru...
Bonus Episode: Suppressing the Truth, A Brother Under the Bus, and Profit as Virtue
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake talks the nefarious nature of social media, the public's denial o...
R. Kelly: Superstars, Super Predators, and a 20-Year Reign of Sexual Terror
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
R. Kelly openly groomed teenage victims while on trial for child pornography – a trial based on se...
Bonus Episode: Trust, Mythmaking, and Twin Joyrides
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake talks trusting our institutions, myths and conspiracies, the new ...
Bob Dylan: How Does It Feel to Be Booed, Heckled, Hated, and Attacked?
Tue, 28 May 2024 07:01:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bob Dylan was booed at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival – but not for the reason you’ve been led t...
Bob Dylan (Part 1): How Does It Feel to Be Booed, Heckled, Hated, and Attacked?
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Dylan was booed at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival – but not for the reason you’ve been led t...
Bonus Episode: Dealing With the Darkness, Book Club, and WHERE IS IT?!
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake talks the recent Sean Combs developments, the new Disgo Book Club...
Marilyn Monroe (Part 2): The Three Deaths of an Iconic American Actress
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The conspiracy theories surrounding Marilyn Monroe’s death in 1962 continue to entertain the imagi...
Bonus Episode: Forces of Nature, Jealousy, and Grief Will Out Itself
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake talks the impact of departing icons, jealous exes, this week's DI...
Marilyn Monroe (Part 1): JFK, RFK, and a Conspiracy Theory that Won't Quit
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marilyn Monroe is one if not the greatest Hollywood stars of all time. She rose from orphan to icon ...
Bonus Episode: Overrated Authors, a Boy Scout Knife, and I Can Get the Cabin
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake talks the uncanny fascination with Beat poets, their numerous run...
William S. Burroughs: Obscenity, a Decapitated Mouse, and the Deadly William Tell Routine
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
William S. Burroughs was a literary icon whose novel Naked Lunch, one of the signature works of the ...
Bonus Episode: The Criminal Element, Awkward Garth, and Armchair Psychoanalysts
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake talks humans' fascination with true crime, crossing the line, thi...
Garth Brooks: Earthquakes, Internet Rumors, and Missing Persons
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Garth Brooks has more albums that have sold over 10 million copies than any other artist in history....
Bonus Episode: Rap-Metal Schlock, A DAT Dilemma, and It's All Folk Music
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake talks collaborations, new genres, this week's DISGRACELAND episod...
Jean-Michel Basquiat: New York City Squalor, Art-World Slumming, and the 27 Club
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jean-Michel Basquiat's graffiti in Lower Manhattan was mistaken for a CIA operation. He was the toas...
Public Enemy: Revolution, Scandal, and a Message Louder than a Bomb
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Public Enemy were revolutionaries – both in their message and their music. In the 1980s and 1990s...
Bonus Episode: Fantastic Fight Scenes, Predatory Paparazzi, and Goon versus Slapshot
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake talks actors committing fully, this week's DISGRACELAND episode o...
Heath Ledger: Cowboys, Junkies, and Maniacal Clowns
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Heath Ledger’s preparation for and disappearance into his movie roles is legendary, and it’s wha...
Bonus Episode: Creative Swings, Just a Gigolo, and the Funniest Moment of L.L.'s Life
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake talks great films, this week's new DISGRACELAND episode on Kobe B...