1
00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:28,040
Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. This is a

2
00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:32,120
Speaker 1: story about a bomb threat, about a drug bust, about

3
00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,920
Speaker 1: the burial of a king crashed by a court jester.

4
00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,440
Speaker 1: It's about a fight with Chevy Chase backstage at SNL

5
00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:44,800
Speaker 1: that almost aired live on national television. And it's about

6
00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:49,400
Speaker 1: a world renowned smartass, a comedic actor who never fails

7
00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:53,760
Speaker 1: to subvert and always succeeds in cutting me up. This

8
00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:59,160
Speaker 1: is about Bill Murray, a great comic, a comic who

9
00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,880
Speaker 1: is currently on tour or making music, some of it great,

10
00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:06,000
Speaker 1: I'm sure, unlike that music I played for you at

11
00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:10,360
Speaker 1: the top of the show. That wasn't great music. That

12
00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:13,760
Speaker 1: was a preset loop for my mellotron called Crashing the

13
00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:18,720
Speaker 1: Party MK. Two. I played you that loop because I

14
00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,679
Speaker 1: can't afford the rights to Bridge Over Troubled Water by

15
00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:25,440
Speaker 1: Simon and Garfunkel. And why would I play you that

16
00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:29,520
Speaker 1: specific slice of algebra Teacher Cheese? Could I afford it?

17
00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,600
Speaker 1: Because that was the number one song in America on

18
00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:38,680
Speaker 1: September twentieth, nineteen seventy, And that was the day Bill

19
00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:42,400
Speaker 1: Murray was arrested for possession of over twenty thousand dollars

20
00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:45,880
Speaker 1: in marijuana, an event that shifted his career course from

21
00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:52,240
Speaker 1: drug dealer to comedy legend. On this episode, a bomb thread,

22
00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:56,400
Speaker 1: a drug bust, burying a king and brawling with Chevy

23
00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:58,400
Speaker 1: Chase and Bill Murray.

24
00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:20,280
Speaker 2: I'm Jake Brennan and this this disgrace Sland.

25
00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:34,200
Speaker 1: He says he's got two bombs in a suitcase. The

26
00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:37,520
Speaker 1: ticket agent kept her voice down on the phone. No

27
00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,079
Speaker 1: need to advertise that there might be a terrorist at

28
00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:45,080
Speaker 1: O'Hare International Airport walking among them right the second. Thank

29
00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:47,480
Speaker 1: god she didn't let him board that flight to Denver.

30
00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,400
Speaker 1: Maybe she just saved a few dozen lives, and maybe

31
00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:55,360
Speaker 1: they call her a hero. She whispered information to the

32
00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:59,960
Speaker 1: US marshals on the line. The suspect was young, college ade,

33
00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:06,560
Speaker 1: brown hair, tall, definitely over six feet, and he looked smug, Yeah, smug,

34
00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:08,480
Speaker 1: with a big mouth. It gave her a lot of

35
00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,000
Speaker 1: lip when she wouldn't let him board the next tw waveflight.

36
00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:14,600
Speaker 1: It was against protocol to let someone board without an ID,

37
00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,560
Speaker 1: and this kid had nothing to show for himself. If

38
00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:20,960
Speaker 1: only he had a driver's license, he could prove that

39
00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:25,920
Speaker 1: he was in fact William James Murray Bill to his friends.

40
00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:30,160
Speaker 1: But the stewardess stood her ground, no ID, no entry.

41
00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,120
Speaker 1: Bill then dropped the alarming comment, that's too bad. I

42
00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:36,760
Speaker 1: wanted to get on because I got two bombs in

43
00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:41,080
Speaker 1: my suitcase. Yeah, that wasn't gonna fly, and neither was he.

44
00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:48,360
Speaker 1: September twenty first, nineteen seventy aka Bill Murray's twentieth birthday

45
00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,280
Speaker 1: aka the day he was arrested for the first time.

46
00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,840
Speaker 1: Of course, Bill Murray wasn't a terrorist. He dabbled in

47
00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:59,520
Speaker 1: some nefarious ship, but the flight attendant had it all wrong.

48
00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,160
Speaker 1: Bill wasn't a threat. He was just a drug dealer,

49
00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:06,000
Speaker 1: a run of the milk kid selling Jamaica's finest grass

50
00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,040
Speaker 1: to get him through college. Bill was a student at

51
00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:13,200
Speaker 1: Regis College in Denver pre med leafy Green Medicine was

52
00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:19,040
Speaker 1: practically part of his education. Technically, he was healing people. Besides,

53
00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:21,560
Speaker 1: every college kid needed a shitty job to help them

54
00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:24,440
Speaker 1: scrape by. Bill just happened to opt for a gig

55
00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:26,960
Speaker 1: that aligned with his career path and traveled the country

56
00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,559
Speaker 1: peddling pot by the kilo. It was a surprisingly rewarding job.

57
00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:34,800
Speaker 1: Every time Bill returned to Denver, he had a new

58
00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:38,760
Speaker 1: story to regale his friends with. Bill observed his clients

59
00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:43,400
Speaker 1: carefully made up little bits about their characteristics and quirks.

60
00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:46,600
Speaker 1: It made him a better storyteller and an even more

61
00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:50,720
Speaker 1: convincing actor. Bill already wasn't half bad at putting on

62
00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:53,760
Speaker 1: a show, thanks to years of taking roles in high

63
00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:58,400
Speaker 1: school plays. It was a win win job. The stories

64
00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:01,040
Speaker 1: from dealing Grass elevated his work ice cracks and kept

65
00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:05,560
Speaker 1: cash in his pocket with zero repercussions. The police only

66
00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:10,599
Speaker 1: sniffed him out once in some unremarkable Midwest town. It

67
00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,840
Speaker 1: was the most podunk, ragtag team of cops Bill had

68
00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:16,880
Speaker 1: ever seen. They arrested him for dealing, but had to

69
00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,440
Speaker 1: release Bill when they lost the evidence. Other than that

70
00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:27,240
Speaker 1: pitiful running, Bill's record was squeaky clean until today. The

71
00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:30,120
Speaker 1: ticket agent was watching him like a hawk. If this

72
00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,280
Speaker 1: so called terrorist was sweating it, he sure didn't show it.

73
00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:37,120
Speaker 1: Bill was down the hall, tugging on the lockers. He

74
00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:40,400
Speaker 1: felt around his pants pockets for change and found none,

75
00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:44,720
Speaker 1: just a personal check from his last client. No quarters

76
00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:47,640
Speaker 1: meant no locker, which meant no place to stash the

77
00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:53,120
Speaker 1: luggage he just called attention to. Now Bill started to sweat.

78
00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:56,200
Speaker 1: There were five bricks of grass dashed in his suitcase,

79
00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:00,480
Speaker 1: two pounds each worth twenty grand. Total, it's over one

80
00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,800
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars in today's money. It was

81
00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:07,040
Speaker 1: too late for Bill to save himself. Chicago vice detectives

82
00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:09,560
Speaker 1: were already on the move, barreling towards him from down

83
00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,320
Speaker 1: the hall. He had to think quick. Bill took the

84
00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:14,760
Speaker 1: check from his pocket, stuffed it in his mouth, and

85
00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:20,120
Speaker 1: swallowed the mystery client was safe, but Bill wasn't. The

86
00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:22,279
Speaker 1: cops tore apart his luggage and found the weed, which

87
00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:24,200
Speaker 1: was a welcome relief compared to what they thought they

88
00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:27,560
Speaker 1: were searching for. But that relief didn't spare Bill a

89
00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,760
Speaker 1: date in narcotics court. He was arrested and slapped with

90
00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,560
Speaker 1: a charge for possession of marijuana with no prior rap sheet.

91
00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,599
Speaker 1: The court let him off with five years probation and

92
00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:42,200
Speaker 1: no jail time, but Bill's days in medicine were over

93
00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:45,680
Speaker 1: as a dealer and a doctor. It would only be

94
00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:48,320
Speaker 1: a matter of time until Regi's college learned that one

95
00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:50,680
Speaker 1: of their students not only made a bomb threat, but

96
00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:54,200
Speaker 1: was also earning his tuition with illegal drug sales. And

97
00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:56,560
Speaker 1: the entire ordeal was so stupid that it made the

98
00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:01,600
Speaker 1: Chicago Tribune. The article mentioned Bill by name. Before Regis

99
00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,919
Speaker 1: could expel him, Bill showed himself out. There would be

100
00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:07,479
Speaker 1: no flight back to Denver. He was stuck in the

101
00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:13,760
Speaker 1: suburbs of Chicago. Now back to Evanstone. Back home. For

102
00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,440
Speaker 1: Bill Murray, home was where everything and nothing happened all

103
00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:21,800
Speaker 1: at once. His parents' house crawled with nine children, and

104
00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:24,880
Speaker 1: that was the everything. Bill was a fifth kid, a

105
00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:28,080
Speaker 1: true middle child, with all the textbook symptoms of craving

106
00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,880
Speaker 1: attention his childhood. The house was his first stage, a

107
00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:35,040
Speaker 1: place where he commanded his parents' attention with goofy Jimmy

108
00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:38,440
Speaker 1: Cagney impressions at the dinner table bonus laughs if he

109
00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:42,160
Speaker 1: fell down and hit his head afterwards. But outside of

110
00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:45,800
Speaker 1: that house there was a whole lot of nothing. Evanston

111
00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,880
Speaker 1: was twenty miles north of Chicago, which meant it was

112
00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:51,640
Speaker 1: twenty miles north of anything they could get your blood pumping.

113
00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:57,680
Speaker 1: Bill pivoted between jobs basic stuff like landscaping and surveying

114
00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:01,040
Speaker 1: and laying concrete bricks, which was nearly as much fun

115
00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:04,400
Speaker 1: or lucrative as transporting bricks of weed across America, by

116
00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,160
Speaker 1: the way, and then he took shifts at Little Caesars

117
00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,800
Speaker 1: as a pizza maker, where he swiped chunks of raw

118
00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,360
Speaker 1: doau to eat when no one was looking. He was

119
00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:16,760
Speaker 1: that hungry. The pay was that bad. Life in Evanstone

120
00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:21,320
Speaker 1: just wasn't happening, and there was no promise, no metaphorical

121
00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:24,760
Speaker 1: stage to act out on. If you wanted culture, you

122
00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:27,600
Speaker 1: get a head into the city, just like Bill's older

123
00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:32,080
Speaker 1: brother did. Brian Murray had an apartment in the Old

124
00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:35,400
Speaker 1: Town section of Chicago that Bill liked to visit. As

125
00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:39,800
Speaker 1: it turns out, entertaining ran in the family. Brian worked

126
00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,600
Speaker 1: with a well established improv troop called the Second City.

127
00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:46,559
Speaker 1: They were a wise cracking set of gestures from Chicago,

128
00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:51,200
Speaker 1: a perfect organization for Bill to fit into. It wasn't

129
00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:54,359
Speaker 1: long before Bill was tagging along and taking improv workshops

130
00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:58,000
Speaker 1: with the troop. It wasn't interstate drug dealing, but it

131
00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:00,400
Speaker 1: was more interesting than whatever day job had a breaking

132
00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:04,320
Speaker 1: his back from minimum wage. What's the worst that could happen?

133
00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:10,600
Speaker 1: Bill Murray walked off the stage, through the wings of

134
00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,080
Speaker 1: the theater and right out the back door and toward

135
00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:18,360
Speaker 1: the street. It was the only way to leave with dignity. This,

136
00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,800
Speaker 1: This is the worst thing that could happen. Bill's on

137
00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:27,360
Speaker 1: stage comedy debut was to be frank disastrous. Bill bombed

138
00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:29,160
Speaker 1: so badly that he didn't want to stick around and

139
00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:32,440
Speaker 1: hear what people had to say. On the outside, he

140
00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:35,280
Speaker 1: looked cool, but on the inside Bill was breaking down.

141
00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,319
Speaker 1: It was clear this comedy thing wasn't going to work out.

142
00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:42,240
Speaker 1: Just like his attempts at becoming a dealer and a healer,

143
00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:47,040
Speaker 1: the confident, smartass inside of him shrank away. He walked

144
00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:50,200
Speaker 1: down the sidewalk away from the theater. He kept going.

145
00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:52,880
Speaker 1: He wasn't going to stop until he reached Lake Michigan,

146
00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:55,719
Speaker 1: and when he got there he would swan dive from

147
00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:59,360
Speaker 1: this life into the next. Comedy was his third strike

148
00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:04,120
Speaker 1: out for good. His inner compass pointed toward Lake Michigan,

149
00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:07,960
Speaker 1: toward the end. That was the right direction, he was

150
00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:12,600
Speaker 1: sure of it. He gained speed and headed straight down

151
00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:15,440
Speaker 1: Michigan Avenue. He didn't stop until he hit the Art

152
00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,760
Speaker 1: Institute of Chicago. His compass told him to turn a

153
00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:22,160
Speaker 1: corner and duck inside, and Bill brushed past the donation

154
00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:25,520
Speaker 1: bin without even reaching for his wallet. I mean, he

155
00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,040
Speaker 1: was going to die, so what was the point. He

156
00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:30,640
Speaker 1: didn't stop walking until he saw a painting that stopped

157
00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:34,280
Speaker 1: him in his tracks. It was an oil on canvas

158
00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:37,280
Speaker 1: piece by a peasant woman barefoot in the fields with

159
00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:40,520
Speaker 1: a scythe in her hand, The Song of the Lark

160
00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:44,920
Speaker 1: by Jules Breton. The sun poked out on the horizon

161
00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,800
Speaker 1: behind the woman. Her back turned away from the light,

162
00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:53,320
Speaker 1: but the sun was rising regardless. Bill paused, his compass

163
00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:57,240
Speaker 1: spawn out of control. Why was he following it? This

164
00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:01,400
Speaker 1: compass was broken? Lake Michigan was the wrong direction. Actually,

165
00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:04,600
Speaker 1: it was so plain to see. Now is in her

166
00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:08,040
Speaker 1: smartass piped up? That woman doesn't have a lot of prospects,

167
00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:10,959
Speaker 1: But the sun's coming up anyway. She's got another chance,

168
00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:14,520
Speaker 1: and so did Bill Maury. He stepped out of the

169
00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:19,320
Speaker 1: museum and faced the sunlight. Lake Michigan would have to wait.

170
00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:49,240
Speaker 1: The whole audience is under arrest. The voice on the

171
00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:52,719
Speaker 1: megaphone cut through the crowd. People winced and threw their

172
00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:56,040
Speaker 1: hands over their years. The strong ones squinted and leaned

173
00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:58,640
Speaker 1: forward in their seats to see who was admonishing them

174
00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:05,200
Speaker 1: on stage? Was that Marlon Brando Truman Capoti? No, it

175
00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:10,400
Speaker 1: was John Belushi dressed as an archbishop. It made no

176
00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:15,320
Speaker 1: sense wasn't supposed to the core of the National Lampoon

177
00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:20,040
Speaker 1: Show was absolute nonsense. Committing blasphemy was child's play for

178
00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:24,439
Speaker 1: these actors, especially for John Belushi. Belushi was the spirit

179
00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:29,319
Speaker 1: of the Lampoon in Karnate Ir Reverend Witty truly edgy.

180
00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:33,680
Speaker 1: We're talking about the National Lampoon, a publication that once

181
00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:36,040
Speaker 1: published an issue with a dog on the cover a

182
00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:39,320
Speaker 1: pistol pointed straight at its head with a caption that said,

183
00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,480
Speaker 1: if you don't buy this magazine, we'll kill this dog.

184
00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:46,320
Speaker 1: You get the idea. The National Lampoon Show made the

185
00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,400
Speaker 1: magazine's cost a commentary leap from its pages and take

186
00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:52,480
Speaker 1: form and actors such as Gilda Radner and Harold Ramis.

187
00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:55,880
Speaker 1: John Belushi even tapped Bill Murray, an up and coming

188
00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:58,480
Speaker 1: comedy pal from Chicago, to dine at this all you

189
00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:02,520
Speaker 1: can eat buffet of vulgars, skits, and cheap shots. Bill's

190
00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:05,480
Speaker 1: flippant attitude made him a perfect fit for the Lampoons.

191
00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:10,160
Speaker 1: Traveling Offendathon, the Review toured American colleges in Canadian bars

192
00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:13,079
Speaker 1: in the mid nineteen seventies and eventually found a home

193
00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,040
Speaker 1: off Broadway at the New Palladium. Theater on West fifty

194
00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:19,640
Speaker 1: first Street, New York. Audiences gathered late at night to

195
00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:23,679
Speaker 1: witness the cast shock schlock brand of comedy, The Wildest

196
00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:27,560
Speaker 1: Reality Is unfolded after midnight on stage at the New Palladium.

197
00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:32,240
Speaker 1: The skits were tasteless, but so was the audience. Crowds

198
00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:37,720
Speaker 1: were rowdy, often drunk stoned. Nightly brawls were inevitable. The

199
00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:40,640
Speaker 1: show mostly brought up the worst in people, being the

200
00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:46,240
Speaker 1: crowd and the cast. The chatter and the audience hummed

201
00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:49,800
Speaker 1: in Bill Murray's ear. It was incessant, like a buzzing fly.

202
00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:52,320
Speaker 1: He tried to block out the noise as he acted

203
00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,440
Speaker 1: out a skit, a shockingly normal number about living in

204
00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:59,240
Speaker 1: the Big City. Bill was used to heckling, but this

205
00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:03,920
Speaker 1: was different. This was just plain rude. The National Lampoon

206
00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,760
Speaker 1: Show actors were rude too, but they were funny. Bill

207
00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:11,440
Speaker 1: didn't see any humor in this situation. He projected his

208
00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:14,240
Speaker 1: voice over the chit chat. Whoever was yucking it up

209
00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:16,280
Speaker 1: in the front must not have heard how Bill Dealt

210
00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:19,960
Speaker 1: would push the audience members. One drunk schmuck in Toronto

211
00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:22,920
Speaker 1: was so mouthy that Bill personally pulled him into a

212
00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:25,920
Speaker 1: back alley and broke his arm. He was prepared to

213
00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:28,720
Speaker 1: do it again if he had to. Bill scanned the

214
00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:31,280
Speaker 1: crowd for the asshole who couldn't keep his mouth shut,

215
00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:35,120
Speaker 1: and the jerk was seated up front, some blondheaded prick

216
00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,320
Speaker 1: who was nearly spilling his drinks on himself, fully absorbed

217
00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:42,040
Speaker 1: in a conversation with his buddy. His name was Martin Maull,

218
00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:44,920
Speaker 1: a name you might recognize from his roles in nineteen

219
00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:49,320
Speaker 1: eighties comedy classics like Mister Mom and Clue, except those

220
00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:53,320
Speaker 1: films didn't exist yet. In nineteen seventy five. Martin Mall

221
00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:56,480
Speaker 1: was a folk singer, years away from his first movie role.

222
00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:00,160
Speaker 1: He opened for Billy Joel, for Randy Newman. He was

223
00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:03,320
Speaker 1: a performer of that caliber. The point is, a performer

224
00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:05,920
Speaker 1: of that caliber should have known how to behave when

225
00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:10,440
Speaker 1: someone else was on stage. But Martin Maull was too

226
00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:14,400
Speaker 1: shit faced to keep quiet, so he didn't. He talked NonStop,

227
00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,120
Speaker 1: and then he took his fat mouth backstage to congratulate

228
00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:19,720
Speaker 1: the crew on the great performance that he barely saw.

229
00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:24,120
Speaker 1: Bill Murray had already heard enough. He recognized Martin Maull

230
00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:26,680
Speaker 1: was the loud mouth from up front. And he instantly

231
00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:29,600
Speaker 1: lunged at him. He wrapped his hands around the folk

232
00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:33,000
Speaker 1: singer's throat, and this was no fistfight. Bill Murray was

233
00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:35,600
Speaker 1: ready to wring Martin Bull's neck like a damn towel.

234
00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:39,520
Speaker 1: I'll kill him. I'll kill that fucker, Bill yelled as

235
00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:43,040
Speaker 1: he pressed his thumbs into Martin's neck. Rage funneled into

236
00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:46,680
Speaker 1: his fingertips. He talked through the whole thing, I fucking

237
00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:50,240
Speaker 1: hate him. Lucy rushed over and pried Bill's hands off

238
00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:53,080
Speaker 1: Martin's neck before he could do any real damage, and

239
00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:55,920
Speaker 1: Martin didn't stick around to say goodbye. He made his

240
00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:00,800
Speaker 1: exit stage left. Medium talent Talent Billy yelled as Martin

241
00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:07,320
Speaker 1: rushed away. Medium Talent Bill was incensed. He had no

242
00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:11,080
Speaker 1: interest in hanging around these half ass phonies and their mediocrity.

243
00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:13,880
Speaker 1: If Bill was going to be the best, he needed

244
00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:17,080
Speaker 1: to be around the best all the time, on the

245
00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,560
Speaker 1: stage and off of the stage, even if it meant

246
00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:29,360
Speaker 1: catching a last minute flight to Memphis. The crowd rammed

247
00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:32,640
Speaker 1: into the fence again, harder this time, and they had

248
00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:35,760
Speaker 1: no reason to hold back. Soon their idol would be

249
00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:39,520
Speaker 1: gone forever, never to be seen in the flesh ever. Again.

250
00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:43,360
Speaker 1: A cemetery gate separated them from their last glimpse of

251
00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:47,040
Speaker 1: the king, and that gate had to go. It was

252
00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:50,520
Speaker 1: now or never. The crowd heaved into the back gate

253
00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:53,640
Speaker 1: again and their bodies a sweaty wrecking ball. The ninety

254
00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:58,400
Speaker 1: degree Memphis heat helicopters hovered overhead. It was August eighteenth,

255
00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:04,000
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven, the day America buried its only royalty Elvis.

256
00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:08,879
Speaker 1: Presley had left the building. The King is dead, Long

257
00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:12,720
Speaker 1: Live the King. Bill Murray watched the riot wrestle with

258
00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:16,040
Speaker 1: the back gate at Forest Hill Cemetery, which by the way,

259
00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:18,840
Speaker 1: was where Elvis was initially buried next to his mother

260
00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:21,920
Speaker 1: before they were moved to the plot at Graceland. Bill

261
00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,920
Speaker 1: shook his head. If they wanted to get inside the cemetery,

262
00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:28,160
Speaker 1: they needed to be subtle, sneaky, do something like hop

263
00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,960
Speaker 1: on the press bus that was headed stray for Elvis's gravesite,

264
00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:34,800
Speaker 1: just like Bill had done. He missed the actual viewing

265
00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:38,080
Speaker 1: at Graceland. The Presley family closed it off once they

266
00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:41,120
Speaker 1: heard the National Inquirer was paying big money for photos

267
00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:44,080
Speaker 1: of the King in his casket. Bill grabbed an empty

268
00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:46,440
Speaker 1: seed on the press bus, though, and he headed into

269
00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:50,200
Speaker 1: the cemetery. Regardless, It crawled forward at five or six

270
00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:53,520
Speaker 1: miles an hour, stifled by the number of mourning fans

271
00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:57,639
Speaker 1: clogging the streets, and the hears inched along behind them,

272
00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:00,320
Speaker 1: surely moving even slower. It would be a way while

273
00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:03,480
Speaker 1: before the King reached his final resting place. But when

274
00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:06,359
Speaker 1: the bus finally pulled into the cemetery, Bill got a

275
00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:09,120
Speaker 1: good look at the riot. The crowd never broke down

276
00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:12,480
Speaker 1: the gate. In fact, when Elvis made his grand entrance,

277
00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:17,520
Speaker 1: Bill was the only person standing in the cemetery. The

278
00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:20,440
Speaker 1: cops pulled in first, twenty four of them in a row,

279
00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:25,600
Speaker 1: each one eyeing Bill Murray like prey. Their militant glares

280
00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:29,040
Speaker 1: told Bill everything he needed to know. One move, motherfucker,

281
00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:32,359
Speaker 1: and your funeral will be next. So he froze in place,

282
00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,920
Speaker 1: and people began to point, and they signaled Bill out,

283
00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:43,040
Speaker 1: and they stared. Wait were people recognizing him? Bill was

284
00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:47,080
Speaker 1: a fresh face on Saturday Night Live SNL. Producer Lauren

285
00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:49,840
Speaker 1: Michaels had freed Bill from his rut of rude comedy

286
00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:53,560
Speaker 1: with the National Lampoon Show earlier that year, and maybe

287
00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:56,399
Speaker 1: he really was rising up in the ranks on his

288
00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:58,639
Speaker 1: way to being one of the greats, one of the best,

289
00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:02,600
Speaker 1: just like Ella. That's when Bill saw the name on

290
00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:06,240
Speaker 1: the grave in front of him, Gladys Presley. He was

291
00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:10,160
Speaker 1: standing at the grave of Elvis's mother. That was why

292
00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:13,199
Speaker 1: people couldn't stop looking at him. It had nothing to

293
00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:16,879
Speaker 1: do with Bill or SNL or fame. Bill Murray was

294
00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:19,719
Speaker 1: just the guy who played characters like Nick the lounge

295
00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:23,200
Speaker 1: singer on late night TV in the presence of the King.

296
00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:32,280
Speaker 1: Bill was the medium talent. We'll be right back after this.

297
00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:33,800
Speaker 2: We're we're, we're.

298
00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:46,680
Speaker 1: It was minutes before Saturday Night Live went on air,

299
00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:50,440
Speaker 1: but no one was laughing. The cast members were keeping

300
00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:55,400
Speaker 1: to themselves. Backstage. The crew eyed tonight's guest host with distrust,

301
00:19:56,040 --> 00:20:00,960
Speaker 1: and they were not fans. February eighteenth, teen seventy eight,

302
00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:04,240
Speaker 1: barely a year prior, Chevy Chase had been one of

303
00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:08,280
Speaker 1: the vital members of SNL, original cast member, the first

304
00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:12,000
Speaker 1: anchor ever to host the satirical weekend Update segment, which

305
00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:15,200
Speaker 1: remains part of the show today. Chevy was hot shit

306
00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:17,320
Speaker 1: and he knew it, and when he signed a three

307
00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:21,119
Speaker 1: picture deal with Universal, he made sure everyone around him

308
00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:25,680
Speaker 1: knew it too. Chevy's departure from Saturday Night Live was

309
00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,320
Speaker 1: less than graceful. He made it seem like he was

310
00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:32,439
Speaker 1: graduating from TV to film while everyone else was a

311
00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:35,679
Speaker 1: dunce being held back a grade. Yet SNL have been

312
00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:38,960
Speaker 1: able to replace him in just five weeks. In early

313
00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:42,200
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven, Bill Murray filled the Chevy Chase sized

314
00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,240
Speaker 1: hole in the cast. He was back to working with Belushi,

315
00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:49,240
Speaker 1: Gilda and Harold Ramis again. The Lampoon gang was back

316
00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:52,680
Speaker 1: on their old bullshit. His old pals quickly brought Bill

317
00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:56,119
Speaker 1: up to speed on Chevy Chase's whole deal, like how

318
00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,080
Speaker 1: Chevy treated the rest of the actors as if he

319
00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,480
Speaker 1: was better than them. And now he was back as

320
00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:05,320
Speaker 1: Tonight's guest host the movie star mingling with the not

321
00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:09,399
Speaker 1: ready for Primetime Peasants, and there was an unspoken expectation

322
00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:12,800
Speaker 1: that Bill would strike back, knocked Chevy down a peg

323
00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:14,560
Speaker 1: or two, since he had the gall to show his

324
00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:18,600
Speaker 1: face here again. Bill and his temper were happy to oblige.

325
00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:23,280
Speaker 1: No two stories about what happened next are exactly alike,

326
00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:27,359
Speaker 1: and this thing is stuff of thirty rock legend passed

327
00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,840
Speaker 1: down from generation to generation, with the details shifting in

328
00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:35,960
Speaker 1: each retelling, but we do know it went something like this.

329
00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:40,480
Speaker 1: Bill and Belushi were shooting the shit on the couch

330
00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,160
Speaker 1: in a dressing room when Bill saw Chevy in his doorway.

331
00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:45,960
Speaker 1: He told Chevy to knock off the big shot act,

332
00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,280
Speaker 1: and Chevy changed the subject and immediately went for the jugular,

333
00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,560
Speaker 1: said the acne scars on Bill's face looked like craters

334
00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:55,320
Speaker 1: on the moon. Bill bit back and made a comment

335
00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:58,800
Speaker 1: about Chevy's floundering second marriage. Why don't you fuck your

336
00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:02,320
Speaker 1: wife once in a while, she needs it. Then the

337
00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:05,480
Speaker 1: gloves really came off. Bill sprang up from the sofa

338
00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:08,600
Speaker 1: in charge toward Chevy. Chevy hopped into a fighting stance,

339
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:12,560
Speaker 1: straight back, feet shoulders in length the park. Chevy knew

340
00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:14,680
Speaker 1: on a scrap he had an older brother who kicked

341
00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:17,800
Speaker 1: a crap out of him, even boxed for fun. Chevy

342
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,480
Speaker 1: was a pro and fistfights. To him. This was no

343
00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:24,159
Speaker 1: sweat like David versus Goliath, and He's sure wasn't. David.

344
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,399
Speaker 1: Belushi launched off the sofa to block Chevy from the attack.

345
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:29,960
Speaker 1: In the nick of time, Chevy threw punches at Pepper

346
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,439
Speaker 1: Belushi's forehead. Bill's fist met the back of Belushi's scalp

347
00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:38,000
Speaker 1: was a tangle in ego, screams, slaps, savage, name calling.

348
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:41,760
Speaker 1: Another cast member eventually forced Chevy's arms behind his back

349
00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:45,919
Speaker 1: and pulled him away. Chevy, dude, you have an opening

350
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,679
Speaker 1: monologue to do, like right this second, and Chevy pivoted

351
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,960
Speaker 1: to hosting mode like a seasoned pro. As he made

352
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,199
Speaker 1: his way towards the stage, Bill chanted a familiar phrase

353
00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 1: at his back. Medium talent, medium talent. But wait, what

354
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:09,399
Speaker 1: if Bill was the medium talent? After all, Chevy was

355
00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:13,080
Speaker 1: SNL's first choice. SNL had hired Chevy first and left

356
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 1: Bill behind to sling crude jokes with the National Lampoon Show.

357
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 1: SNL didn't want him until after Chevy left for Hollywood.

358
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 1: And if he was Chevy's replacement and Chevy was medium talent,

359
00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:29,040
Speaker 1: what did that make him? No, Bill didn't want to

360
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,040
Speaker 1: go there. His inner wise ass wouldn't even entertain the

361
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 1: thought his own break was coming. He knew it, He

362
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,359
Speaker 1: just had to wait it out a little longer. His brother,

363
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 1: Brian had been working on a film script for Ages

364
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:42,880
Speaker 1: and said he needed one more actor to round it out.

365
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 1: Brian didn't even have a specific role for Bill yet,

366
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 1: but He knew Bill could nail whatever was thrown his

367
00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 1: way better, yet he knew Bill would do it for cheap.

368
00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:55,359
Speaker 1: The two brothers shook on it. Bill was going to

369
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:58,639
Speaker 1: be a movie star and everything was going to be

370
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:05,600
Speaker 1: all right. There was only one question that mattered at

371
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 1: Rolling Hills in the summer of nineteen seventy nine, and

372
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 1: it was this, Do you take drugs? Good? Good? Drugs

373
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 1: were in high demand at the Florida Golf Club that season,

374
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 1: not from their guests, from the camera crew. The club

375
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,359
Speaker 1: was foolish enough to allow on site to film Brian

376
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 1: Murray's movie Caddyshack. Brian had written a movie about what

377
00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:30,399
Speaker 1: he knew best, and that was life spent lugging clubs

378
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,680
Speaker 1: between the tea and the Fairway. He and Bill pocketed

379
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 1: plenty of cash working as teenage caddies. Not unlike one

380
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:42,240
Speaker 1: of Caddyshack's main characters, Danny Newnan, Brian had a meager

381
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 1: six million dollar budget to replicate his experiences for Hollywood,

382
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,360
Speaker 1: and the dollars were already dwindling thanks to an unending

383
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: supply of cocaine to keep everyone feeling all right all

384
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:56,879
Speaker 1: the time. It started small, a little Bompierre and a

385
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,480
Speaker 1: quick hit there, and just a few grams at a time,

386
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,680
Speaker 1: but it was hard to curb the cast and cruise appetite.

387
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: This wasn't just any old coke. This was a palate

388
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 1: cleanser from the cheap stuff. It was pure, it was clean.

389
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 1: It's like it was made to order straight from Colombia

390
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:18,439
Speaker 1: and directly up your nose. Overindulging was easy. Lines at

391
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 1: lunchtime became normal. Quick bumps screwed to binges by the ounce,

392
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 1: and the madness peaked when the cast and crew allegedly

393
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:30,360
Speaker 1: inhaled eighty grams of cocaine every week. And then there

394
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,560
Speaker 1: was the booze, and that was even easier to overdo.

395
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: You needed the right vice for the right situation. Cocaine

396
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 1: was powdered and energy. It kept you upright on long

397
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,600
Speaker 1: days getting down to the hard work of movie making.

398
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:49,640
Speaker 1: But alcohol was for killing time, especially when the elements

399
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: in Florida trump the production schedule. Elements like category five hurricanes.

400
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 1: Hurricane David ripped the path through the Dominican Republic where

401
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 1: it's one hundred and twenty five mile per hour winds

402
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 1: killed two thousand people and left one billion dollars worth

403
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:12,400
Speaker 1: of damage in its wake, and soon Hurricane David's eye

404
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:16,119
Speaker 1: would be staring down at Florida. So production on Caddyshack

405
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:20,199
Speaker 1: came to a halt. The party was over, sort of.

406
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,480
Speaker 1: The cast and crew fled to their rooms to board

407
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 1: up their windows. They kept all the essentials in stock,

408
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 1: clean water in the bathtub, extra batteries for power outages,

409
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 1: and enough booze to last them through hurricane season. And

410
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 1: the film's budget shrank yet again, and it was about

411
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 1: to shrink even further. One of the film's biggest expenses

412
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: would arrive soon and drained two hundred and fifty thousand

413
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:47,399
Speaker 1: dollars a week. Brian had wildly underestimated the cost of

414
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 1: paying his brother, who was now counted as a mainstay

415
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 1: on the SNL cast, and did not come as cheap

416
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 1: as previously thought. Hurricane David passed over rolling hells, though

417
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 1: without much harm, and before were too long, the ominous

418
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,920
Speaker 1: storm clouds would part and the Florida sun would beam

419
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: over the golf course once again, just like that day

420
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 1: years earlier, when Bill Murray stepped out of the Art

421
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: Institute of Chicago and stepped into the light.

422
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 3: It was a new day, a new beginning, Chevy.

423
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 1: Chase stirred in bed. He looked at the clock in

424
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 1: the nightstand three am. It was too early for this,

425
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 1: and the knocking at his hotel door escalated to urgent banging.

426
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 1: It was becoming clear that rolling over wasn't an option.

427
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,200
Speaker 1: Chevy stumbled to the door in the darkness. Two Murray's

428
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 1: were on the other side. Bill and Brian didn't bother

429
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 1: with pleasantries. Hey man got any grass? No, Chevy didn't

430
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 1: have any grass on him. Caddy Shack was a cocaine crew.

431
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,919
Speaker 1: Weed was the light beer of this drug world. It

432
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,880
Speaker 1: was good enough, But why settle for good enough when

433
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 1: you could get ghacked. The Murray brothers didn't budge from

434
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,639
Speaker 1: the doorway. If there was any bad blood left between

435
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 1: Bill and Chevy, Bill seemed willing to put it behind

436
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 1: him for the sake of getting stoned. Besides, the tension

437
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 1: from their fight at Saturday Night Live had dissolved while

438
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,719
Speaker 1: shooting their low scene together in Caddyshack, You know, the

439
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: one where Chevy's character Ty Webb is forced to enter

440
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 1: the dingy boat of greenskeeper Carl Spackler. Spackler played by

441
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 1: Bill Murray. Maybe it stroked Chevy's ego that he was

442
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 1: playing the posh golf player while Bill took the role

443
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 1: of a crooked mouth burnout living in his own filth.

444
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 1: Bill even contributed to said filth directly. He provided the

445
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 1: hustler centerfolds, the walls, and the tattered car seat to

446
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 1: use his Carl's couch. It's really awful, Chevy's character says

447
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 1: as he scans the shack right before Carl probably shows

448
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: him a type of grass. He claims to have invented

449
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 1: a hybrid of Kentucky bluegrass, featherbed bet and northern California

450
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: since Amelia perfect for thirty six holes by day, even

451
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: better for getting stone to the Jesus Belt at night.

452
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: It was a phenomenal scene, but Bill needed the real

453
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: thing right now, The unspoken question lingered in the air.

454
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: All right, so who does have grass? Younger members of

455
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 1: the crew, Maybe, No, it would be too cheap, like

456
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: smoking trash. They didn't need to go down the chain

457
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 1: in command. They had to go up right to the top.

458
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: Chevy would be the gateway. He saw himself as the

459
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: biggest source of star power in the entire movie, except

460
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: for one man, Rodney Dangerfield. Now that was a man

461
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 1: whose resume you really had to respect. He made so

462
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 1: much bread headlining comedy shows and must Vegas that he

463
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: actually lost money to step away and film Caddyshack. Rodney

464
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 1: Dangerfield hustled hard, laughed hard, and partied even harder. When

465
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: he first visited the film studio, he arrived in a

466
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 1: bright blue leisure suit, pulled out a bag of coke,

467
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: did two lines on the spot, and asked, where's the pussy?

468
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 1: If anyone on set had drugs, it was Rodney who,

469
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: luck would have It was just two doors down from Chevy.

470
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: Bill and Brian let Chevy do the talking as the

471
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 1: so called main star who could approach a comedy giant

472
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 1: like Rodney Dangerfield. Rodney had some grass, all right, the

473
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: good stuff, not the kindie gave away for free, even

474
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 1: to cast mates. He'd need a fat water of cash

475
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 1: for this stuff. Rodney pulled a plastic baggy from a

476
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 1: suitcase to dangle under their noses. Bill and Brian phoned

477
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 1: up a few hundred bucks between the two of them

478
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: and walked away with rodney stash. It wasn't until they

479
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: got into some decent lighting that they saw what they

480
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 1: had actually just copped it was just a bag of seats.

481
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: He sold them a glorified grow your own kit and

482
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: the smart asses have been out smarted. One former drug

483
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 1: dealer swindled. Some folks might have been pissed. Bill, Brian

484
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: and Chevy just laughed it off. Apparently they still had

485
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 1: a lot to learn. In a rare occurrence, three egos

486
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: went up in smoke at Rolling Hills that night. Anything

487
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: less would have been a disgrace, Tom Jake Brennan and

488
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: this this disgrace slamp all right. This week's question of

489
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: the week is which Bill Murray performance from which film

490
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 1: is your favorite? And why there are so many iconic

491
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 1: options life aquatics, stripes lost in translation, and also if

492
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: you have any Bill Murray experiences, if he's ever served

493
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 1: you a drinker, crash to your house, party in Brooklyn,

494
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: or pet your dog. Whatever I want to know about it,

495
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: Hit me up, let me know and we will discuss

496
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 1: in this week's after Party Bonus episode six one seven

497
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: nine oh six sixty six three eight. Leave me a voicemail,

498
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: send me a text. You can also reach me at

499
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: disgracelampod as well on Instagram, X and Facebook, and do

500
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: me a favor if you're an Apple podcast listener, make

501
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 1: sure you're following Disgraceland and have automatic downloads turned on

502
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: so that you are guaranteed not to miss one of

503
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: our episodes. It really helps the show, all right, you

504
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 1: know the drill. Leaver a review for disgrace Sland on

505
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts or Spotify and win some free merch. Here

506
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: comes some credits. Disgracelam was created by Yours Truly and

507
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 1: is produced in partnership with Double Elvis. Credits for this

508
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: episode it can be found on the show notes page

509
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: at disgracelampod dot com. If you're listening as a Disgracelan

510
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,239
Speaker 1: All Access member, thank you for supporting the show. We

511
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 1: really appreciate it. And if not, you can become a

512
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: member right now by going to disgracelampod dot com slash Membership.

513
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 1: Members can listen to every episode of disgracelam ad free,

514
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: Plus you'll get one brand new exclusive episode every month,

515
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 1: weekly unscripted bonus episodes, special audio collections, and early access

516
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: to merchandise and events. Visit disgraceslampod dot com slash membership

517
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 1: for details, rate and review the show, and follow us

518
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 1: on Instagram. TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook at disgracelampod, and on

519
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: YouTube at YouTube dot com, slash at disgracelampod, Rock a Roller,

520
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 1: He the Man,