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Speaker 1: Disgraceland as a production of Double Elvis. A quick heads

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Speaker 1: up for those who may be triggered by tales of

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Speaker 1: sexual abuse and violence. This episode of Disgraceland depicts both.

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Speaker 1: The story about the King of Western Swing Spade Coolie

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Speaker 1: is insane. He was a violent, drunk and homicidal psychopath

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Speaker 1: with the time was one of the biggest stars in

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Speaker 1: countless movies, scored numerous top ten hits, and once hosted

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Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra as a favor to help Frank get his

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Speaker 1: career going again. But Spade Cooley had no heart. Spade

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Speaker 1: Cooley cared only about Spade Coolie. He was mean, jealous, abusive,

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Speaker 1: and almost totally driven by the deep seated insecurity that

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Speaker 1: he wasn't good enough for any of the women in

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Speaker 1: his life, a fear that in the end proved to

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Speaker 1: be tragic for both him and his family. But Spade

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Speaker 1: Coolie made great music. That music you heard at the

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Speaker 1: top of the show that wasn't great music. That was

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Speaker 1: a preset loop from my melotron called slow Waltz Guitar

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Speaker 1: Low MK two. I played you that loop because I

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Speaker 1: can't afford the license for wedding bell blues by the

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Speaker 1: Fifth Dimension, And why would I play you that specific

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Speaker 1: slice of champagne soul infused cheese? Could I afford it?

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Speaker 1: Because that was the number one song in America on

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Speaker 1: November twenty third, nineteen sixty nine. And that was the

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Speaker 1: day that the Heartless Spade Coolie stepped out on stage

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Speaker 1: for the last time. On this the final episode of

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Speaker 1: season two of Disgraceland, Psychopathic Jealousy, Champagne soul, slow waltz

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Speaker 1: and guitars, and the King of Western Swing, the Heartless

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Speaker 1: Spade Coolie. I'm Jake Brennan and miss Graceland. You gotta

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Speaker 1: shake your hips and snap your fingers too, move them shoulders.

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Speaker 1: Of course, moving them shoulders was a ruse to force

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Speaker 1: her to shimmy your breast. She was eighteen and beautiful, shy,

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Speaker 1: though not quite jailbait, but quite positively a cock Tea's

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Speaker 1: Spade Coolie didn't care yet. He dragged on his cigarette,

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Speaker 1: as she could sing. But could she pull it all together?

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Speaker 1: And could Spade put her in the sack? He wondered,

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Speaker 1: Not tonight, not on the day of her audition. The

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Speaker 1: for Christ's sakes. So Spade decided to give her the

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Speaker 1: now viewed as rightfully his. And he could wait at

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Speaker 1: least until tomorrow. Spade's mind wandered back to this day

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Speaker 1: Ella May Cooley. Why as mine did this? He had

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Speaker 1: no idea. Ever since his dick got hard. He had

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Speaker 1: his days at the Santa Monica Ballroom was a welcome distraction,

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Speaker 1: suit grilling him in this dusty Baker's field court. Those

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Speaker 1: of the century, the biggest thing since Fatty Arabuckle. This

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Speaker 1: he was, a murderous creep. But that didn't stop Spade

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Speaker 1: Spade at least to sleeping with two men at a

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Speaker 1: perhaps even more damning to Spade, his wife was rumored

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Speaker 1: Roy Rogers, the Singing Cowboy. It wasn't like Lma at all,

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Speaker 1: Spade testified, it was though she was an animal. Mister Cooley,

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Speaker 1: do you own any animals? No, sir, but I've used

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Speaker 1: Would you ever hurt an animal? No, sir. I hardly

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Speaker 1: Sociopaths can develop long lasting family relationships and live out

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Speaker 1: Lawrence Welk a man Spade Cooley hated and saw us

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Speaker 1: partly responsible for his slide and popularity in the entertainment world.

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Speaker 1: Spade was jealous of wealth success. Spade was jealous of

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Speaker 1: Without Spade Cooley's jealous streak ran a mile long, but

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this, word, word word. The

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Speaker 1: who was Spade the prosecutor, asked, my father, did you

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Speaker 1: But Spade couldn't shake the jealousy. It had ruled him

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Speaker 1: This story is about to get very graphic, in very dark,

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