1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,880 Speaker 1: Dear listeners of Hollywood Land, does it feel like you're 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: stuck in limbo? Standing under a flickering street light at 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:09,880 Speaker 1: the corner of Hollywood and True Crime, waiting for the 4 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:13,159 Speaker 1: next episode of hollywood Land to drop. I got you. 5 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: Welcome to Hollywood Land, the Rap Party. What has happened 6 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: in all y'all? What is going on? Happy New Year? 7 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: It's time once again to roll up to Hollywood Land, 8 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 1: the place for obsessives just like you, the movie geeks, 9 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: the true crime freaks, the ones who like their movie 10 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 1: history with the side of grit and grime. This, of course, 11 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: is the place where we dig up the stories often 12 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: lost to history, buried in the corner of the cutting 13 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:51,520 Speaker 1: room floor, the stories they didn't want told, the very 14 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 1: same ones that have now made you the most dangerous 15 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: person at the party. I'm Zeth Lundy, and today in 16 00:00:57,320 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: the Hollywood Land Rap Party, we are talking about eight 17 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: eight five two Sunset Boulevard and infamous location on the 18 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: Sunset Strip you may know as the Viper Room, but 19 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 1: which has had many lives over many years and many 20 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,679 Speaker 1: eras of Hollywood. We are also talking about this week's 21 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 1: full episode subject of Hollywood Land, River Phoenix, as well 22 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: as a sneak peek of next week's subject, Elizabeth Short 23 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 1: aka the Black Dahlia. And of course we're gonna check 24 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: out your voicemails, texts, DMS and emails. So come on, everybody, 25 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: let's party. All righty, my good people, Happy New Year 26 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: once again. Great to see you, Welcome to you another 27 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: edition of the Rap Party. I know that's silly to 28 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: say great to see you. By the way, I can't 29 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: see you, obviously, I know that, but I'm just saying 30 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: in the in the larger sense of you're here. I'm here. 31 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 1: I feel your presence, and I appreciate it, especially all 32 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: the new listeners here in Hollywood Land. I know there 33 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 1: are a lot of you. I see you. I appreciate you. 34 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for jumping on board here with 35 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: me and the rest of the crew. I mentioned in 36 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 1: the introduction to this week's full episode on River Phoenix. 37 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 1: Hopefully you've heard that already. I'm talking, of course, about 38 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: the short intros I record for each of our fully 39 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 1: scripted sound design episodes that come out on Mondays that 40 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:27,640 Speaker 1: are narrated not by me but by Jake Brennan. I 41 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:30,119 Speaker 1: basically in this intro quickly made the case for River 42 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: Phoenix being a one of one, not only an incredible actor, 43 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 1: but also that rare representation of popular culture in the 44 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: very moment that culture is shifting into something different. For River, 45 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: it was the transition from the nineteen eighties into the 46 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 1: nineties and his screen presence, his taste in the movies 47 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 1: and roles he took on. It was that era. He 48 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 1: wasn't Corey Feldman or Fred Savage or Alyssa Milano or 49 00:02:55,840 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: Drew Barrymore. Absolutely no shade thrown at any of those actors, 50 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 1: by the way, but River found a different gear, and 51 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 1: I think they would all probably agree with that if 52 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 1: they were being honest. Probably the actor who comes closest, 53 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 1: probably Ethan Hawke. I guess now that I'm thinking more 54 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 1: about that, But I stand by what I said about River, 55 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: and I also stand by what I said about how 56 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 1: when he died on Halloween Night in nineteen ninety three, 57 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: and then his death was followed very quickly by the 58 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 1: death of Kurt Cobain, that something in the culture was 59 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: forever changed. It was the end of an era, so 60 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: to speak, a very short era that had barely lasted 61 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: a decade. And now here we are in twenty twenty six, 62 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 1: over thirty years later, and I've got to say, it's 63 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: really cool to see River's brother, Joaquin become one of 64 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: our greatest working actors. I will watch anything that Joaquin 65 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 1: is in. He is that good. And you know, I 66 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: really struggle to think of a comp for this, A 67 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 1: comp for a one of one actor, a unique presence 68 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: on this screen who died very young, only for their 69 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 1: younger sibling to go on and become their own one 70 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: of one. I cannot think of a comf for that. 71 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: At the top of my head. Joaquin had just turned 72 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 1: nineteen when River died. River was twenty three, and he 73 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 1: was present there on the night of River's death. I 74 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:19,479 Speaker 1: believe he was the one who made the nine to 75 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: one one call. But I'm not going to get into 76 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:25,279 Speaker 1: all that. I have no interest in the tabloid, sensationalized 77 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: narrative of it all. What I am interested in is 78 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:33,279 Speaker 1: where it happened, which is a famous, slash infamous, slash 79 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: notorious club on the Sunset Strip called the Viper Room, 80 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:40,359 Speaker 1: which in the early nineties, if you didn't know what 81 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: the Viper Room was, you definitely knew when you read 82 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: the news about River Phoenix. It's possible that I heard 83 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 1: about the existence of this tiny, two hundred and fifty 84 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: person capacity club a few months before this tragedy, because 85 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:57,600 Speaker 1: Johnny Depp had just bought the place with sal Jenko, 86 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 1: one of his co stars from the TV show One 87 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,839 Speaker 1: Drum Street, just a few months earlier. Maybe I was 88 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: super into Tim Burton and Johnny Depp movies at this time. 89 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 1: This is the beginning of their collaborative period. But I'm 90 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:10,839 Speaker 1: not sure at any rate. For much of the world, 91 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 1: this was the first time we'd ever heard of the 92 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: Viper Room, which its name alone just sounds deadly and 93 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 1: off limits, you know. And then when you see photos 94 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: of the place, it's like this black matte color on 95 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 1: the outside, this black box. It's very striking, and it's 96 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,040 Speaker 1: it's well, I don't know, how much more black can 97 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 1: you get? The answer, of course is none, none more black, 98 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: And the Viper Room was none more black. But the 99 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: Viper Room was also a notorious place for all manners 100 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:42,920 Speaker 1: of vice amongst the Hollywood elite, long before Johnny Depp 101 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 1: bought it in long before River Phoenix is Passing accidentally 102 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:49,480 Speaker 1: put it on the map. We only scratch the surface 103 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: of this in our episode this week, and so I 104 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 1: wanted to get into it here with you guys a 105 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: little bit more. Okay, So eight eight five to two 106 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:00,599 Speaker 1: Sunset Boulevard. The first business at this location was not 107 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: a club, but a grocery store, and this was one 108 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: hundred years ago, back in the nineteen twenties. Some say 109 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 1: that in the forties it became a nightclub called the 110 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,359 Speaker 1: Cotton Club, not to be confused with the Cotton Club 111 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 1: in New York City or the other Cotton Club in 112 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: La this one in Culver City at the time, where 113 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: black entertainers like Cap Callaway and Duke Ellington performed for 114 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: all white audiences. But by the nineteen fifties, eight eight 115 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: five two Sunset Boulevard had become a jazz slash lounge 116 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 1: club called the Melody Room, which it remained through the sixties, 117 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: and it was here that Hollywood stars mingled with organized crime. 118 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 1: The Melody Room was a known hangout for local gangsters 119 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 1: like the Mixer aka Mickey c that's Mickey Cohen, as 120 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: well as Bugsy Siegel. And they're there rubbing elbows with 121 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:56,599 Speaker 1: actors like Sezar Romero, who played the Joker on the 122 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: Batman TV series, and also Jackie Coogan who was Uncle 123 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 1: Fester on The Adams Family. I mean, just imagine that 124 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:08,280 Speaker 1: you've got the Joker, You've got Uncle Fester hanging out 125 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 1: with Mickey Cohen and Bugsy Siegel. I mean, man, what 126 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 1: a time to be alive. And then in the nineteen 127 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 1: seventies it became known as Filthy Mcnasty's, which has got 128 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 1: my vote for the greatest name for a club ever. 129 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: This was a hangout for celebrities who didn't want their 130 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 1: picture taken because Filthy Mcnasty's did not allowed photographers inside, 131 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: so the clientele during this era reportedly included the likes 132 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: of Evil Caneval Tom Waits, Phyllis Diller, John Wayne, Little Richard, 133 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 1: and Elvis Presley. True to its name, Filthy Mcnasty's hosted 134 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: loud music and mud wrestling. You see Elvis Presley is 135 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 1: hanging out eating fried peanut butter and banana sandwich and 136 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 1: taking in some mud wrestling there at Filthy mcnasty's. I 137 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: kid you not. In the nineteen eighties and you changed 138 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 1: hands again and was re christened the Central John Belushi 139 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 1: hunt out there, Ricky Lee Jones performed there. Chuck e Weiss, 140 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: the guy that Ricky Lee wrote that great song about 141 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: Chuck E's in Love off her incredible debut album. He 142 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: played there with his band The Goddamn Liars every Monday 143 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 1: night for a decade. Allegedly, John Enwhistle of The Who 144 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 1: used to sit in on an open jam there on 145 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 1: Tuesday nights. In the nineteen eighty three film Valley Girl 146 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 1: with Nicholas Cage, you can watch the Plimsuls perform their 147 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 1: amazing song a Million Miles Away there at the Central. 148 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: The Go Gos shot their music video for Our Lips 149 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 1: Are Sealed there, and then in nineteen ninety, shortly before 150 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 1: it became the Viper Room, when it was still The Central, 151 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 1: Oliver Stone took his film crew there and shot some 152 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: scenes for his movie The Doors. The Central was a 153 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: stand in for the defunct club The London Fog for 154 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: that movie, and then, as event earlier, Johnny Depp and 155 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:05,680 Speaker 1: Saljenko took over, and on August fourteenth, nineteen ninety three, 156 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 1: a little over two months before River Phoenix's tragic death, 157 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:11,679 Speaker 1: the Viper Room embarked on its maiden voyage with a 158 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:14,559 Speaker 1: set by none other than Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. 159 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 1: Can you imagine being in a room with two hundred 160 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 1: and fifty people in nineteen ninety three watching Tom Pitty 161 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: in the Heartbreakers blow the fucking roof off the place. 162 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 1: This is right after Into the Great Wide Open, possibly 163 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: my favorite Tom Petty record, and right before Wildflowers, also 164 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:36,960 Speaker 1: possibly my favorite Tom Petty record. This is the year 165 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 1: of Mary Jane's last dance. Holy shit, dude, if any 166 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 1: of you listening, we're at that show, Tom Petty and 167 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: the Heartbreakers the Viper Room, Los Angeles, August fourteenth, nineteen 168 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 1: ninety three. You gotta let me know. It's the law. Okay, 169 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 1: there will come after you. If you don't let me know. 170 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 1: You gotta text me or call me and let me 171 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: know the story. Okay. So, two years after River's death 172 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety five, Johnny Depp threw a birthday party 173 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 1: at the Viper Room for his girlfriend at the time, 174 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 1: the model Kate Moss. One of the partygoers there was 175 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: Jason Donovan, an Australian actor and singer. He odeed on 176 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 1: coke that night, collapsed on the floor of the club 177 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 1: began having these violent seizures. Unlike River, Jason Donovan was lucky. 178 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 1: He was carried out in a stretcher, taken to cedar 179 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:25,679 Speaker 1: Cy and I and he lived to talk about it. 180 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: And then in November nineteen ninety seven, Michael Hutchins in 181 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:33,959 Speaker 1: Excess was in La working on songs for his debut 182 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 1: solo album. He was getting ready to hop a plane 183 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 1: and rejoin his band in Australia for their tour, but 184 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:44,239 Speaker 1: before he left town, he performed at the Viper Room. Allegedly, 185 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:47,680 Speaker 1: the one night only band that was assembled at particular 186 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: night included Billy Gibbons of Zizi Top and Bernard Fowler, 187 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 1: who is perhaps best known for his years singing with 188 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: the Rolling Stones. And then Michael hopped a plane and 189 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 1: not even two weeks later he was dead sidebar again, 190 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: just like the Tom Petty Show. If you were at 191 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 1: this Michael Hutchins show at the Viper Room, you gotta 192 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 1: let me know. Give me a call, send me a text, 193 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 1: let me know what's up. Also in the nineties and 194 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,679 Speaker 1: into the early two thousands, the Viper Room was allegedly 195 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: the site of Hollywood's craziest, most illicit high rollers poker games. 196 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: The buy ins for these games started at around fifty 197 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 1: thousand dollars and according to Molly Bloom, a former waitress 198 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 1: who had a hand in orchestrating this, when she spoke 199 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 1: with twenty twenty about it, said that some of the 200 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 1: big celebrities who gambled at this underground poker game at 201 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 1: the Viper Room included Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck, and Toby maguire. 202 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:46,320 Speaker 1: Now here's one last thing that I will say about 203 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 1: the Viper Room and its strange and sortied history. At 204 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 1: some point, this guy named Anthony Fox became a business 205 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:56,960 Speaker 1: partner with Johnny Depp there at the club. In nineteen 206 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: ninety nine, he hit Johnny Depp with a multimillion dollar 207 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: lawsuit alleging that Depp and four others had defrauded him 208 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,319 Speaker 1: to the tune of millions of dollars, and then, shortly 209 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 1: before he was set to testify against Johnny Depp in 210 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:15,559 Speaker 1: court in December of two thousand and one, Anthony Fox disappeared. 211 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:19,720 Speaker 1: His truck and a thirty eight caliber revolver he owned 212 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 1: disappeared as well. The truck was later found, the gun 213 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: was not. Anthony Fox's ex wife claimed that she saw 214 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 1: him months later in the summer of two thousand and 215 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 1: two inside of Barnes and Noble, and that when they 216 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:35,439 Speaker 1: made eye contact, he immediately ran out of the building 217 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 1: and she never saw him again. To this day, Anthony 218 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: Fox remains missing and the case remains open. Okay, let's 219 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 1: peer into our crystal ball, now, shall we coming to 220 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 1: your feed next week on Monday, We've got our episode 221 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: on Elizabeth Short aka the Black Dahlia. Perhaps you don't 222 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 1: know who Elizabeth Short was. Perhaps the Black Dahlia rings 223 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 1: a bell. This is one of the most serpentine unsolved 224 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: murders in LA's history, from way back in the nineteen forties, 225 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: when a young woman that's Elizabeth Short, moved out west 226 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: from Massachusetts seeking what many young people seek when they 227 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 1: go to Hollywood, only to find not fame in fortune, 228 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 1: but pure evil. Elizabeth Short's severed body, yes, her body 229 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 1: was severed in half was discovered, and the mystery of 230 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 1: who did it and what happened has been floating around 231 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 1: in Hollywood's storytelling for decades, including the world of the 232 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:39,960 Speaker 1: writer James Elroy and the great adaptation film adaptation of 233 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:42,560 Speaker 1: his novel La Confidential is the film that I'm going 234 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 1: to be covering next week. In the screening room after 235 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 1: this episode on the Black Dahlia. By the way, the 236 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 1: Black Dahlia episode, this is like an edge of your seat, 237 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: the true crimest of true crime stories. For all you 238 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,200 Speaker 1: TC heads out there, that's my new term for your 239 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 1: true crime people. TC heads. You're gonna love the to 240 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 1: you haven't heard it, and you know, thinking about Black 241 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: Dahlia got me thinking for next week's Question of the Week. 242 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:09,839 Speaker 1: I want to know what is the most compelling unsolved 243 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:13,959 Speaker 1: mystery in Hollywood history and do you have your own 244 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: thoughts or theories about it? Is it the Black Dahlia? 245 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 1: Is it Natalie Wood, Marilyn Monroe. Hit me up and 246 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 1: let me know. You can text or call me at 247 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 1: six one seven nine oh six six six three eight. 248 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: You can email disgracelampod at gmail dot com. You can 249 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: hit me up at the socials at disgrace lampod or 250 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 1: if you're a member a Patreon all access so you 251 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 1: can jump in the chat over there. Let me know. Okay, 252 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 1: maybe I will read or play your response next week 253 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 1: in the Rap Party. Now, before then, I want to 254 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 1: get into this week's question of the Week, which is 255 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 1: all about which actor's death hit you the hardest, and 256 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 1: we're going to do that right after this quick break. 257 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 1: Oh right, all right, all right, we are back back 258 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 1: in the saddle back in the wrap party. And before 259 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: I get into all your responses about which actor's death 260 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 1: hit you the hardest. That was the last week's question. Sorry, 261 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: this week's question of the week. I asked it last week, 262 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 1: but it's for this week. It's that weird you know, 263 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 1: remember back in the day, that's tomorrow on today. They 264 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 1: would say on NBC, like when they are preview today show, 265 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 1: Tomorrow on today is like would like blow your mind? 266 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 1: And they would say that, like, what is happening? Anyways, 267 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 1: I want to give you guys a heads up on something. 268 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 1: You know, We've got this Patreon thing going on. It's 269 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 1: where the most action in the Disgracedland, Hollywoodland world is 270 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 1: happening right now. We're more active over there than we 271 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: are anywhere else. Disgrace then All Access, which you can 272 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 1: become a member of via Patreon or Apple Podcast. But 273 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 1: if you join on Patreon, one of the benefits there 274 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 1: is that you can get access to this brand new 275 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 1: video podcast hosted by Yours Truly and Jake Brennan called 276 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 1: this film should be played loud. It's all about the 277 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 1: great music featured in some of our favorite movies of 278 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 1: all time. Soundtracks, needle drops, scores, all that jazz. Now, 279 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: we launched this show last month with an episode on Goodfellas, 280 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 1: got a lot of great feedback from you guys. Jake 281 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 1: and I are about to record the next episode, which 282 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 1: is going to come out at the end of this month, 283 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 1: the last week of January. Okay, but here's the deal. 284 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 1: Right now, I think anyone who is an All Access 285 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:44,840 Speaker 1: member on Patreon at any tier can watch this first 286 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 1: episode of this film should be played loud. But starting 287 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: at the end of this month, the last week of January, 288 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 1: when we release episode number two, you're going to have 289 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 1: to be a member of the Sound and Fury tier 290 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 1: to watch all future episodes. 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But the ten dollars Tier is going 300 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 1: to be where you get this film should be played 301 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,959 Speaker 1: loud going forward. Okay, And here's the thing I want 302 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 1: to let you know about the best part right now, 303 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:39,359 Speaker 1: starting today, we're offering thirty three percent off annual memberships 304 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 1: to the ten dollars Sound and Fury Tier, and you 305 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:44,919 Speaker 1: can take advantage of this right now up until we 306 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,440 Speaker 1: launched the new episode of the show. Okay, I think 307 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:51,000 Speaker 1: I think this deal goes until like that Sunday leading 308 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 1: into the last week of the month or whatever. But 309 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 1: it's happening for a few weeks right now, and this 310 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 1: will save you like forty bucks or something for the year. Okay. 311 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: And listen, however you contribute, whether you become a ten 312 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 1: dollars Sound and Fury member, or you're a Talking Heads 313 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:06,919 Speaker 1: member or a Rock and Roller member, whatever tier you're on, 314 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you. It is because of 315 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 1: all of you. 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And now I'm going 325 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:40,440 Speaker 1: to take off my salesman hat and I'm going to 326 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 1: go back into my rec conteur question of the week 327 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 1: answering hat guy here. So we got a lot of 328 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:49,840 Speaker 1: responses from you guys about the question of the week, 329 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:52,159 Speaker 1: which actors death hit you the hardest? And I'm going 330 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 1: to start here with a text from the six one seven. 331 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 1: Here we go, Hi there, This is Laura from Ashville, 332 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 1: North Carolina. I used to live in Boston and have 333 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 1: kept my Massachusetts cell number six one seven forever. The 334 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 1: celebrity death that affected me the most deeply was River Phoenix's. 335 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:11,119 Speaker 1: I was twenty when he died, and I still remember 336 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:13,720 Speaker 1: clearly which college class I was in when I heard 337 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:17,200 Speaker 1: the news. Women in lit and how shocked and saddened 338 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 1: I was. He was obviously beautiful and forever crushworthy. My 339 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:23,639 Speaker 1: fifteen year old daughter saw stand by Me and within 340 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: days put his picture on her wall. But more importantly, 341 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 1: he was such a huge talent, and it's heartbreaking to 342 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,679 Speaker 1: think of what he could have meant to cinema. I 343 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 1: truly believe that had he lived, he'd be considered one 344 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: of the finest actors of his generation or of any generation. 345 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 1: Sidebar River walked so Leo could run. Thanks for reading, 346 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:45,960 Speaker 1: and thanks for always sharing such great content. I learned 347 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: something new every time I listened to an episode of 348 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,960 Speaker 1: Hollywood Land or Disgraceland, even when the subject is one 349 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,399 Speaker 1: I feel I know pretty well. Happy New Year and 350 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:57,480 Speaker 1: RockA Rolla, Laura, RockA Rolla and happy New Year to 351 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:02,800 Speaker 1: you as well. I totally agree, and despite his untimely death, 352 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 1: I think he remains one of the finest actors of 353 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 1: his generation. And I also liked the Leo Coompannardo DiCaprio. 354 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 1: Both actors seemed most interested in leaving their teen idol 355 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,359 Speaker 1: image in the dust, and very early on, you know, 356 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 1: you look at the choices that DiCaprio has made since Titanic. 357 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:25,120 Speaker 1: Most other actors in his position, they would have made 358 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:28,640 Speaker 1: obvious choices, you know, like a big romantic comedy or 359 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 1: a Marvel movie. Everybody's doing Marvel movies, right. DiCaprio has 360 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:36,439 Speaker 1: famously never been in a superhero movie, and I do 361 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 1: not think he ever will be. There's that great piece 362 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 1: of advice he gave to Timothy Chalome early on that 363 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:45,679 Speaker 1: Chalomea has talked about where DiCaprio just told him no 364 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: hard drugs and no superhero movies. You know. Instead, DiCaprio's 365 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:54,280 Speaker 1: collaborated with Scorsese and Spielberg and Pta and Tarantino. He 366 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 1: got all roughed up by a bear in the Revenant, 367 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 1: and I think we already saw evidence that, you know, 368 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:03,359 Speaker 1: River Phoenix was making very similar choices, and I think 369 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 1: you would have continued to do so well into his 370 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 1: life and career. So thanks for the message, Laura Well said, 371 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:11,760 Speaker 1: I appreciate you getting in touch. Going over here to 372 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 1: another text, this one from Cherry. In the eighth five, 373 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: Schary writes, what actor's death hit me the hardest is 374 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: Matthew Perry. As a baby gen X friends raised me. 375 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 1: I literally have the same tattoo as Rachel Lol, and 376 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 1: out of everyone's character, Chandler was most relatable. It was 377 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: more than just a show. Reading Matthew's book, you could 378 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 1: feel his pain. It took a piece of my adolescence 379 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: and young adulthood when he passed, and I still get 380 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 1: emotional watching him. You can see his pain and growth 381 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:47,120 Speaker 1: season to season. Cherry, Yeah, thanks for writing. You know, 382 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,919 Speaker 1: Matthew Perry was a that was a mega bulmer. Friends 383 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 1: was such a phenomenon. I remember back when I was 384 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:54,959 Speaker 1: in college in the second half of the nineties when 385 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,040 Speaker 1: the show was at his height, and every Thursday night 386 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 1: before everyone went out to a party or a bar 387 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 1: or whatever to unt because Thursday was like the night 388 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,120 Speaker 1: back in the day. I don't know if it still 389 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,119 Speaker 1: is or not. Let me know, it's Thursday, so the night. 390 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:11,920 Speaker 1: I don't know, do people still go out. But anyways, 391 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,880 Speaker 1: before everybody went out on a Thursday night, everyone would gather, 392 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 1: like in one dorm room, this crowd around the TV 393 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 1: to watch that week's episode live because of course that's 394 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 1: the only way you could catch it because there was 395 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 1: no streaming and there were no you know, there were 396 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:29,399 Speaker 1: the reruns came later NBC truly had that musty TV 397 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:32,200 Speaker 1: thing on lock back then. But I too, always found 398 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 1: Chandler to be the most relatable and also very much 399 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 1: a gen X character. You know, he's a little jaded, 400 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 1: he's got a great bullshit detector, and he has this 401 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:43,119 Speaker 1: acid of humor that is like sugar going down. I 402 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 1: haven't read his book. I know Jake did. There's a 403 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 1: Matthew Perry episode of Disgraceland that Jake wrote, but it 404 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 1: does seem like like Matthew Perry had a really hard 405 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 1: time coming out of friends and finding the next thing. 406 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 1: You know, a lot of them did after that show ended. 407 00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 1: I can only imagine how tough it is after you've 408 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:02,440 Speaker 1: played the same for years at such a great height, 409 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 1: and then four to go away completely and you know, yeah, 410 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:07,920 Speaker 1: you've got the money from it, but you're kind of 411 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,440 Speaker 1: left trying to figure out who you are, what you're doing, 412 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,360 Speaker 1: what your next movie is. Anyways, Sherry, thanks for righting 413 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,920 Speaker 1: and appreciate you. Okay, next message here is from Ali 414 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 1: in the five to four Oh. Ali from the five 415 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,639 Speaker 1: four Oh. Firstly, Zeth, how could you forget the board 416 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 1: game movie Battleship, starring none other than Rihanna. A celebrity 417 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 1: death that really affected me was, for sure, Robin Williams. 418 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,919 Speaker 1: His movies made my childhood, and his death happened shortly 419 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 1: after I had gotten my depression diagnosis. He brought so 420 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: many people, so much joy, so it was hard to 421 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:41,200 Speaker 1: know how badly he was hurting Ali. First of all, 422 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: I missed up. I missed out on battleship completely. Did 423 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 1: I miss out? Like? How does Rihanna measure up against 424 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:50,120 Speaker 1: other musicians turned actors? Let me know someone on Patreon. 425 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 1: By the way, I mentioned Jumanji as another board game 426 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,440 Speaker 1: turned into a movie, which does that doesn't count because 427 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:57,680 Speaker 1: that was a fictional game from a from a fictional 428 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 1: book that became a movie. Okay, but I digress. Rob 429 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 1: Williams is one hundred percent one of the roughest actor 430 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 1: deaths for me as well. I was just watching the 431 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:10,159 Speaker 1: other day his appearance on Martha Stewart's TV show. It 432 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 1: popped up in like my social feed or something, which Ali, 433 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:14,400 Speaker 1: if you need like the biggest laugh in the world, 434 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 1: you probably already know this, But if you don't or 435 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 1: have spent a while, just go YouTube that. The entire 436 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:21,680 Speaker 1: clip is like, I don't know five, six, ten minutes long. 437 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:23,959 Speaker 1: Whenever it is, it's just the two of them cooking, 438 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,439 Speaker 1: and every single thing she says, he turns into a 439 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:31,199 Speaker 1: joke on the spot on a dime. He is like 440 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: going right up onto the line as so like what 441 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 1: is appropriate for daytime TV? Like what he can again say, 442 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 1: he was so fast, so funny. He probably gets my 443 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 1: vote for funniest dude ever. And you know, you're so right, 444 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,199 Speaker 1: it's hard to know how badly he was hurting. It's 445 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 1: always hard to know how badly any of us are hurting. 446 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 1: And so I for what I'm thankful for forces of 447 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: nature like Robin Williams who bring the light when it's 448 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 1: needed the most. And thanks Ali for bringing the light 449 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,439 Speaker 1: and for reminding me about what a great presence he was. 450 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,399 Speaker 1: Now we've got an email from Alan in the five 451 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,680 Speaker 1: four to oh, okay, I'm pivoting here. I'm kind of 452 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 1: pivoting away from the question of the week. Sorry I 453 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,639 Speaker 1: should have led with that here, but this is still 454 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 1: relevant to what we're talking about this week. Alan writes 455 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 1: in the following I've been listening for just over six months. 456 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:23,480 Speaker 1: Your River Phoenix episode is arguably the best written piece 457 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: you Cats have released the usual noir tinged street jive 458 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: of the storytelling, crashing headfirst into gen X introspection, reached 459 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,520 Speaker 1: for something deeper this time. That haunting final line gave 460 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 1: me goosebumps. River was the closest thing our generation had 461 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 1: to James Dean. Both men lived their lives and rocked 462 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 1: their art on their own terms. Side note. River died 463 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,160 Speaker 1: on the same day as Federico Fellini. I remember going 464 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 1: to my film production class that following Monday and filling 465 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,760 Speaker 1: in my professor about both. The only response he had 466 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,960 Speaker 1: was a shocked River Phoenix died. When I asked about 467 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: his lack of response to Fellini, all the professors said 468 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: was Fellini had a brilliant career and left us with 469 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 1: brilliant art. River hadn't even begun to shine. The best 470 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 1: was yet to come. He was right, Alan Wile, thank 471 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 1: you listen. First of all, thank you for that. I 472 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,200 Speaker 1: really appreciate that the way you put it, the noir 473 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:19,199 Speaker 1: tin street jive meets gen x introspection. I don't know 474 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,160 Speaker 1: that I would have put it into those words, but honestly, 475 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 1: that is exactly what I was going for when I 476 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,320 Speaker 1: wrote this, and I'm really glad it paid off. Jake 477 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:28,399 Speaker 1: and I had talked a lot about how to approach this, 478 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,480 Speaker 1: and when I was researching it, we just had a 479 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 1: similar conversation actually about a Disgraceline episode. I'm currently writing 480 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,200 Speaker 1: about me as a PoTA of the gets. But yeah, 481 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 1: River was our James Dean in many ways, especially in 482 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 1: how he represented the shift that youth culture was making 483 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 1: at the time. You know, James Dean represented like the 484 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,760 Speaker 1: creation of the teenager in a way, and you know 485 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:51,639 Speaker 1: River Phoenix represented how teenagers were moving from the eighties 486 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 1: into the nineties. You also kind of blew me away 487 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 1: with that Fellini nugget. I had no idea that the 488 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 1: two of them died on the same day. I had 489 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:01,879 Speaker 1: probably us gotten into Fellini at the time, or I 490 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,359 Speaker 1: was about to. I have one of my high school 491 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 1: teachers to thank for that. By the way, I probably 492 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:08,920 Speaker 1: watched Eight and a half for the first time right 493 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 1: around here, followed by Amakord and Lestrada, and then many 494 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 1: more to come. But yeah, your professor was absolutely right. 495 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 1: The best was yet to come. Another email here, this 496 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,200 Speaker 1: from our guy sal in Ontario, who writes in is 497 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 1: Zeth heard you talking about the movie Life of Chuck. 498 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 1: My wife and I decided to stream it. We both 499 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 1: cried at the end. What an absolutely beautiful movie told 500 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 1: with compassion, love and life in general, best movie of 501 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,960 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five that I've watched. Thanks for recommending it. Ps. 502 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:41,880 Speaker 1: MIAs Sarah is awesome in the movie. Sal in Ontario. Yeah, 503 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 1: sal Mia Sarah is great in it. And I feel you, Man, 504 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,679 Speaker 1: I too got something in my eyes many times throughout 505 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,920 Speaker 1: this movie. It wasn't even the ending. It was a 506 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,880 Speaker 1: couple of things early on. It was actually, man, those 507 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: brilliant quick cuts that Mike Flanning it makes to Mia 508 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,760 Speaker 1: Sarah dancing in the kitchen and like doing the thing 509 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:05,440 Speaker 1: with her hand, and how that echoes back to something 510 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:09,120 Speaker 1: Chuck was doing earlier, like for whatever. That just that 511 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 1: cut was like a it was like a just hit 512 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 1: me in the gut. Was incredible. So anyways, I'm really 513 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:17,199 Speaker 1: glad that you and your wife, Doug itt sal and 514 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:22,400 Speaker 1: thanks for letting me know. In the keeping me honest departments, 515 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 1: there's a text here from the three six to Oh. 516 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,080 Speaker 1: The three six O writes the following Zeth in The 517 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:31,679 Speaker 1: Princess Bride, the Count is not missing a finger. He 518 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:36,359 Speaker 1: has six fingers. On one hand, I'm disappointed in you today. 519 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 1: Three six oh. Fuck man, I am disappointing to me 520 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,920 Speaker 1: today too. Damn it. I can even picture the six 521 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 1: fingers those gloves he's wearing. I please believe me when 522 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 1: I say I know he has six fingers. I don't 523 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 1: even remember saying that he was missing a finger. I was, 524 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 1: I was in the zone. I'm gonna blame the holidays. 525 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 1: I'm gonna blame Jake Brennan for working me like a dog. Okay, 526 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 1: this is what happens, Larry, this is what happens when 527 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 1: you work like eighty hours around the holidays. You disappoint 528 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 1: the listeners. But seriously, three six oh, thank you for 529 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 1: calling me out on that. That's not the first time 530 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 1: the listeners call me out. And what can I say? 531 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 1: I probably make at least five mistakes a day. This 532 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 1: one happened to be on Mike. Okay, note to self, 533 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 1: trying to make any more mistakes today, Lundy, Okay, listen, 534 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,720 Speaker 1: Let's get into some recommendations. Does that sound good. Let's 535 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,800 Speaker 1: talk about some movies, music books, something like that. Let's 536 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 1: get into all that after we take a wicked quick break. 537 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 1: All right, hang tight, I'll bear it back. Hey Gaine, 538 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,840 Speaker 1: Welcome back to the recommendations portion of the wrap Party. 539 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 1: I am scrolling through my letterboxed account here. If any 540 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 1: of you are on letterbox, you can find me by 541 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 1: the way over there at Zeth not Seth. That's z 542 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 1: E t H and ot sEH. I will tell you 543 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 1: how many times I've been called Seth in my life. 544 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:06,520 Speaker 1: But we'd be here all day and all night and 545 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,880 Speaker 1: in the next week. I think Matt Boden's mom here 546 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 1: at Double Levis still calls p Seth after all these years. 547 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: So anyways, I'm looking at my letterbox account. Here is 548 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: Zeth not Seth, and I don't know. I watched a 549 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 1: few things recently that I'm not super amped about, so 550 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 1: I don't want to go into full detail here, but 551 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,719 Speaker 1: I did watch Together, which is that recent body horror 552 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,960 Speaker 1: movie starring real life husband and wife Alison Brie and 553 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 1: Dave Franco, kind of had some like substance vibes. Their 554 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:35,880 Speaker 1: characters are exposed to something out in the woods, which 555 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:40,000 Speaker 1: causes their bodies to become like literally physically attracted like 556 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,400 Speaker 1: magnets in a way, and they start to literally fuse 557 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,160 Speaker 1: together like flesh to flesh and all that, and it's 558 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,560 Speaker 1: delivered in this like I don't know parable of sorts 559 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 1: about codependency. I don't know. It was fine, And some 560 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 1: of the body horror stuff did make me squirm in 561 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,320 Speaker 1: my seat and invert my eyes and all that jazz, 562 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 1: because I'm, as you probably know, I'm very squeamish to 563 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. But there was like the desire 564 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,640 Speaker 1: to explain so much more about what was happening, and 565 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,480 Speaker 1: there were these other characters that were wrapped up in 566 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,239 Speaker 1: this greater conspiracy or this backstory, and it just kind 567 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 1: of bogged the whole thing down for me. So I 568 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 1: don't know, it was all right. I also watched Bogonia, 569 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:15,560 Speaker 1: which is Yrgo's Lanthemo's latest movie, starring Emma Stone, his 570 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 1: frequent collaborator, and Jesse Plemmons. You can stream this one 571 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 1: on Peacock. Now I'm pumped that Jesse Plemmons. Listen, it's 572 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,960 Speaker 1: Jesse Plemmons time. Okay, He's He's quietly become one of 573 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,360 Speaker 1: my favorites. Have you seen his scene, his one scene 574 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,200 Speaker 1: in Civil War, just that one scene. It's like god 575 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:37,080 Speaker 1: level Philip Seymour Hoffman one scene shit. But Jesse Plemmons 576 00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,800 Speaker 1: has never really had I guess he's had maybe some 577 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:44,080 Speaker 1: smaller movies where he's he's had the lead role, but 578 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:45,960 Speaker 1: this is really like the biggest lead role movie I 579 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 1: think he's had so far. So I'm grateful for that. 580 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:52,120 Speaker 1: I'll watch Jesse Plemmons anything, just like Joaquin Phoenix. But 581 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,200 Speaker 1: you know when you like watch like five movies from 582 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 1: a director and then you finally say, like, you know, 583 00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,280 Speaker 1: I don't think this guy is from me, Like that's 584 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,880 Speaker 1: the realization. I think I'm finally coming to you. With 585 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,880 Speaker 1: Yurgo's Lanthem most I loved Poor Things the first time 586 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:06,680 Speaker 1: I saw it, like I talked it up to anybody 587 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 1: who would listen. But then I watched it a second 588 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:11,320 Speaker 1: time and I was like, you know, the lobster was 589 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:15,000 Speaker 1: I the kinds of kindness was not this one. I 590 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:17,840 Speaker 1: love the concept. The plot here is that Jesse Plemmons 591 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 1: kidnaps Emma Stone, who's the CEO of a pharmaceutical company, 592 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 1: because he thinks that she's an alien from another planet 593 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,120 Speaker 1: who wants to destroy the Earth, and he goes to 594 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,360 Speaker 1: great and disturbing lengths to prove this. Has a great 595 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:34,960 Speaker 1: setup great performances by the actors, and it has an 596 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,360 Speaker 1: incredible ending, probably my favorite ending of any of Yorgos's movies. 597 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:42,520 Speaker 1: But in between it's the great setup and the great ending, 598 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,040 Speaker 1: it's just kind of lost me in a lot of sameness. 599 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,480 Speaker 1: There was I don't know, there wasn't enough variety for me. 600 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 1: At some point. I kind of got a little lost. Anyways, 601 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,160 Speaker 1: that's just me. You know, I was talking to Matt 602 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 1: here at Double Love Us but this other day, you know, 603 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,480 Speaker 1: like Yurgo's just ate my flavor of gum, you know 604 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 1: what I mean? What I am into right now are 605 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:02,360 Speaker 1: some of the records I picked up at my most 606 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,960 Speaker 1: recent trip to the local record store. We now have 607 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,360 Speaker 1: like three used record stores in the area, which is 608 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 1: kind this kind of newsworthy here my part of the world. 609 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,120 Speaker 1: I guess four technically if you count the other store 610 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:15,640 Speaker 1: that sells new stuff too. I missed the old record 611 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,760 Speaker 1: stores in Boston in LA when I lived there, like 612 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:22,720 Speaker 1: the really these big impactful stores like Amiba obviously in 613 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:26,080 Speaker 1: LA that's like the mothership, but like Nuggets and Planet 614 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,719 Speaker 1: Records in Boston before that block of Ken Moore burned 615 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:32,440 Speaker 1: Nuggets is still there. Planet Records is Not in Your Ear, 616 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,480 Speaker 1: which was up on commav on Bu's campus which is 617 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:39,000 Speaker 1: no longer there the great Great Stereo Jacks that's still 618 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,720 Speaker 1: there and is great. Also, there used to be this 619 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:44,280 Speaker 1: place in Gloucester that ruled the name is escaping Me. 620 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:48,320 Speaker 1: Matt probably knows. I remember one day I went on 621 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 1: the same day and I found Jerry Lee Lewis is 622 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:54,200 Speaker 1: live at the Star Club and James Brown's Sex Machine 623 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,200 Speaker 1: double live album in one trip. That was a good trip. 624 00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,280 Speaker 1: But anyway, we got good options here in town. There 625 00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,360 Speaker 1: are great stores about the state of Maine, including a 626 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,080 Speaker 1: newish one down in the mid coast that I have 627 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 1: to check out. But I went to one of the 628 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:10,440 Speaker 1: local shops recently and I got The Dead's Blues for Allah. 629 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,520 Speaker 1: Always continuing to expand my Dead collection. This one, of 630 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,399 Speaker 1: course has the iconic opening of Help on the Way 631 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,080 Speaker 1: that goes in the Slipknot and then into Franklin's Tower. 632 00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:22,160 Speaker 1: Also has some batshit stuff on SIDEB I was not 633 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 1: prepared for. Side A is definitely the more listener friendly side, 634 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 1: but still good shit. You know, people like to drag 635 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,400 Speaker 1: the Dead's studio shit through the mud, like you know, 636 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,000 Speaker 1: the true stuff is in the live shows, and true 637 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,359 Speaker 1: it's a different, different beast, different entity. If I had 638 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,800 Speaker 1: to pick one dead thing to keep with me forever, 639 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,600 Speaker 1: it would be the Cornell Show from seventy seven. But 640 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,319 Speaker 1: I really like their studio records. I really do, and 641 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,800 Speaker 1: not just American Beauty and Workingman's Dead. I like pretty 642 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:52,200 Speaker 1: much everything. It's great shit Dead's always great for a spin. 643 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,440 Speaker 1: I also picked up an original pressing of Tom Waite's 644 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,120 Speaker 1: Small Change. This is a course from the early years, 645 00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,920 Speaker 1: the Gutter Poet Barfly Years, Nighthawks of the Diner Years. 646 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,160 Speaker 1: This has one of my favorite songs of all time. 647 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,520 Speaker 1: Step Right Up, which if you don't know this one, 648 00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,640 Speaker 1: go right now to Spotify or Apple Music or YouTube 649 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:12,520 Speaker 1: or wherever you stream music and listen to it. Step 650 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:16,520 Speaker 1: right Up. It's the greatest clip on tie wearing pencil mustache, 651 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:19,400 Speaker 1: having salesman pitch of all time. In a socide of 652 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,920 Speaker 1: Tom Waits that never really went away, this is kind 653 00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,160 Speaker 1: of the same thing he's mining with the spoken word 654 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:29,040 Speaker 1: Frank's Wild Year's track or What's he building in there? 655 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:31,920 Speaker 1: But he was never again as funny as he was 656 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:36,040 Speaker 1: here or on the Nighthawks album A plus plus stuff 657 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:39,120 Speaker 1: from mister waits here. I also found this incredible Chess 658 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:42,600 Speaker 1: Records two LP set of Little Walter stuff. I guess 659 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:46,000 Speaker 1: it's called the Chess Blues Master Series. It's got this 660 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,799 Speaker 1: like Bonker's illustration of Little Walter standing at a bar 661 00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:52,840 Speaker 1: that is seemingly shipwrecked, though it is no shipwreck, no 662 00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,239 Speaker 1: ship I mean on a tiny tropical island. It's kind 663 00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:58,520 Speaker 1: of random, but this has got everything. It's got my 664 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:02,320 Speaker 1: babe juke blues with the feet, sad hours. A record 665 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,799 Speaker 1: set like this is what I put on to set 666 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,680 Speaker 1: the mood, to make a boring afternoon and feel like 667 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:11,640 Speaker 1: an event, you know, Little Walter, Chuck Berry, Sam Cook, Otis, 668 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,440 Speaker 1: Redding hallan Wolf. These great two LP sets that you 669 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,520 Speaker 1: can't find on CD or streaming, maybe because they were 670 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:21,000 Speaker 1: lost to time or wereever repressed, but these are like 671 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:24,439 Speaker 1: the definition of all killer, no filler, and this Little 672 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,840 Speaker 1: Walter one in particular, it's like what God would listen to, 673 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:28,360 Speaker 1: you know, on his day of rest when he's just 674 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,880 Speaker 1: chilling on the couch eating some pub cheese with some pretzels. 675 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:35,600 Speaker 1: And then finally I picked up an original pressing of 676 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:39,319 Speaker 1: Graham Parsons' debut solo album GP. You know the one, 677 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,879 Speaker 1: Emmy Lou Harris, I'm backing vocals, Elvis Presley's TCB band 678 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:46,400 Speaker 1: getting it done. Graham just bringing it some River Phoenix 679 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:51,879 Speaker 1: vibes here musically, perhaps Graham Parsons representing a certain time 680 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,919 Speaker 1: in music, an era getting trolled by the Stones, who 681 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,680 Speaker 1: he had once hoped to join, and then responding by 682 00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:59,719 Speaker 1: not going off the deep end, but by making this 683 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,400 Speaker 1: man piece. And you know, just like we were a phoenix. 684 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,960 Speaker 1: You got to think for Grand Parsons the best was 685 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,160 Speaker 1: yet to come, and I have more to come here 686 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,480 Speaker 1: in the rap party on the other side of this 687 00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:33,160 Speaker 1: very quick ad break hang type, well, that just about 688 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:36,080 Speaker 1: does it. Everybody. First wrap party of twenty twenty six 689 00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,280 Speaker 1: feels good. I'm ready as Muddy Waters once said, ready 690 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:43,440 Speaker 1: as anybody can be. Next week, we're talking about unsolved 691 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,839 Speaker 1: Hollywood mysteries, and I want to know what you all think. 692 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,400 Speaker 1: What is the most compelling unsolved mystery in Hollywood history? 693 00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:53,040 Speaker 1: What are your thoughts and theories about it? That is 694 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:54,799 Speaker 1: our question of the week for next week, And you 695 00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,680 Speaker 1: can let me know what you think by calling or 696 00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:01,200 Speaker 1: texting me at six one seven nine six six six 697 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:05,560 Speaker 1: three eight. You can email disgracelampod at gmail dot com. 698 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,600 Speaker 1: You can hit me up on the socials at disgracelampod, 699 00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,880 Speaker 1: or if you're a member of Patreon All Access, just 700 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:14,239 Speaker 1: jump into the chat over there and let me know. 701 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,040 Speaker 1: We've got so much going on here in Hollywood Land 702 00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,960 Speaker 1: right now and also over on Disgraceland that it helps 703 00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:21,760 Speaker 1: me just to go through it all piece by piece 704 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,640 Speaker 1: and lay it out so that nothing is forgotten. So 705 00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,799 Speaker 1: let's do that together, now, shall we. First of all? 706 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:30,360 Speaker 1: Number one, right now in your Hollywoodland feed our episode 707 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:34,240 Speaker 1: on River Phoenix. Number two coming at you this Friday, 708 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,000 Speaker 1: We've got a new episode of our brand new weekly 709 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,880 Speaker 1: feature called The Screening Room, and this week I'm talking 710 00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:43,000 Speaker 1: all about the nineteen eighty eight film Running on Empty, 711 00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,880 Speaker 1: starring River Phoenix along with Judd Hirsch and Christine Lotti, 712 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,799 Speaker 1: directed by the Great Sidney Lumet. Number three next week 713 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:54,120 Speaker 1: on Monday, we've got our fully scripted and sound designed 714 00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:59,000 Speaker 1: narrative episode on Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia. Number four. 715 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:03,600 Speaker 1: Unlock add free listening and exclusive audio for Hollywood Land 716 00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:08,000 Speaker 1: and Disgraceland over in Patreon All Access, as well as 717 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:12,880 Speaker 1: our Patreon exclusive video podcast. This film should be played loud. 718 00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:16,759 Speaker 1: Subscribe to the Sound and Fury Tier right now to 719 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,720 Speaker 1: watch future episodes of that and save thirty three percent 720 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:23,440 Speaker 1: for a limited time. Number five. Over in the feed 721 00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,879 Speaker 1: of our sister show, Disgraceland, We've got a brand new 722 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,239 Speaker 1: behind the scenes episode that takes you into the editorial 723 00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:35,239 Speaker 1: room with yours truly and Disgraceland host Jake Brennan, where 724 00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,800 Speaker 1: we preview what's coming to that show in the next 725 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:43,480 Speaker 1: few months, including brand new episodes on Lady Gaga, Johnny 726 00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,920 Speaker 1: Thunders of the New York Dolls, Mia Zapata of The Gets, 727 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:51,160 Speaker 1: The Runaways, and more. And Now, in honor of this 728 00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,480 Speaker 1: week's episode, Here's what America was watching at the movies 729 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,919 Speaker 1: during the month of October nineteen ninety three, the month 730 00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:01,640 Speaker 1: that River Phoenix died at the age of twenty three. 731 00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:08,600 Speaker 1: Number one Demolition Man directed by Marco Brambla. Number two 732 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:14,280 Speaker 1: Cool Runnings directed by John Turtles Hobbs. Number three Malice 733 00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:18,680 Speaker 1: directed by Harold Beckers. Number four The Good Stuff Wang 734 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:23,040 Speaker 1: directed by Joseph Ruberstaff directed by Age. Number five Beverly 735 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:27,640 Speaker 1: Hilberbses directed by the Penelope Spears Wang Number six The 736 00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:30,400 Speaker 1: Joce Luck Club, The Age, directed by Wang Wang by 737 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:34,120 Speaker 1: the Parses. Number seven, The Age of Innocence directed by 738 00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:41,240 Speaker 1: clintin Scorsese. Number eight. The girls whisp talking and start mixing.