Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to my favorite murder the miniss Right,
Speaker 1: that's my line, I can say it, you.
Speaker 2: Got it, I did fine, you did it. I'm proud
Speaker 2: of you line.
Speaker 3: Then the minisod and it's a very special minisod. We've
Speaker 3: just announced that we are bringing the wonderful podcast Disgraceland
Speaker 3: onto the Exactly Right Network.
Speaker 1: We are so excited. Jake Brennan is finally here, joining
Speaker 1: our Marvel universe with us. That's right, and Disgraceland and
Speaker 1: Hollywood Land to amazing podcasts. Most of you probably have
Speaker 1: listened to them. They've been around forever. They're amazing. But
Speaker 1: now they're here with us.
Speaker 2: Jake's here with us.
Speaker 1: We're so excited.
Speaker 3: So we're going to read you some hometowns that have
Speaker 3: to do with like the music world, just to kind
Speaker 3: of give it the little homage to Disgraceland.
Speaker 1: Yeah it Disgraceland is about musicians behaving badly in criminal ways,
Speaker 1: and Hollywood Land of courses about celebrities doing the same.
Speaker 1: So we picked some stories to reference that.
Speaker 3: Yeah you want to go first, sure, Okay, We're starting
Speaker 3: off strong with a hardcore true crime story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hello, Murderino Sisters.
Speaker 3: Here it is taking all of our willpower not to
Speaker 3: fangirl over the mere thought of you reading our email,
Speaker 3: So we.
Speaker 2: Will try our hardest to cut to the chase.
Speaker 3: Our sister got married this summer in our hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3: Imagine a year filled with the flurry of bridesmaiding events
Speaker 3: and group texting leading up to our sister's big day. Finally,
Speaker 3: after a stunning wedding, it was party time. We were
Speaker 3: excited that our sister hired a local celebrity named DJ
Speaker 3: Freeze to host her reception. Think famous like every childhood
Speaker 3: school carnival, every high school dance house, DJ to or
Speaker 3: Grimy eighteen and up nightclubs famous. At the reception, the
Speaker 3: bridal party toasts and the speeches drew on and on.
Speaker 3: We snuck out to find the wedding coordinators and discussed
Speaker 3: adding an hour to our venue contracts so we could
Speaker 3: have more party time because the speeches went so long.
Speaker 2: Really, nobody wants that so boring?
Speaker 1: Who cares?
Speaker 2: Nobody cares?
Speaker 1: Talk about it privately, please.
Speaker 3: We had to talk separately to our boy, DJ Freese
Speaker 3: since he was on a separate contract. What I thought
Speaker 3: started as a schmoozy, Hey, what would it take for
Speaker 3: you to work an extra hour? Conversations soon went downhill.
Speaker 3: DJ Freeze was dramatically offended by my cash offer and
Speaker 3: threatened to tell the bride and groom. Luckily we were
Speaker 3: able to save the day, but it turned into me
Speaker 3: slapping too many hundred dollars bills into Freeze's hand and
Speaker 3: telling him your music sucks like the immature adult I am. Luckily,
Speaker 3: the party went off without a hitch, and our sister
Speaker 3: never knew what a dB DJ Freeze was to us.
Speaker 3: Thirty six hours later, our phones illuminate to a flurry
Speaker 3: of group texts. What could the bridesmaids possibly have left
Speaker 3: to discuss? Well, apparently murder h that Monday morning. I
Speaker 3: fucking remember this happening. Really that Monday morning. The headline
Speaker 3: read cold case cracked. Suspect arrested in connection to nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety two murder of Christi Mihrak rewind to Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 3: December nineteen ninety two. Christy Mihrack is a twenty four
Speaker 3: year old elementary school teacher who lived in the apartments
Speaker 3: about one point five miles from her childhood home in
Speaker 3: the same complex. As many of our friends, she had
Speaker 3: a classroom of students awaiting her arrival to school.
Speaker 2: On that last day before the holiday.
Speaker 3: Break, the school principal discovered her body as he visited
Speaker 3: her apartment after many phone calls went unanswered.
Speaker 1: She was twenty twenty four, so sad.
Speaker 3: She had wrapped a book for each student as a
Speaker 3: Christmas present, and the gifts were found scattered around the
Speaker 3: room where her body was found. After thousands of tips
Speaker 3: came in and interviews were conducted, the investigators were left
Speaker 3: without any leads and ultimately the case went cold. Christie's
Speaker 3: family continued to fight to keep her story in the
Speaker 3: forefront of our community. They used to have billboards along
Speaker 3: the freeway begging our community to continue to come with
Speaker 3: any leads. Then, in May twenty eighteen, twenty five years later,
Speaker 3: the case was cracked wide open thanks to our new
Speaker 3: favorite crime solving method, ancestry DNA oh Wow. This break
Speaker 3: came less than two months after the Golden State killer
Speaker 3: conviction using ancestry DNA, and it is our understanding that
Speaker 3: at this time this was only the second case in
Speaker 3: the United States that has been solved.
Speaker 2: Using this method.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Within only two days of receiving those ancestry DNA results
Speaker 3: and conducting interviews in Lancaster, investigators were able to locate
Speaker 3: their only suspect, now forty nine year old Raymond Row
Speaker 3: aka DJ Freeze. Once Raymond Row was identified as her
Speaker 3: suspect in May twenty eighteen, undercover agents surveiled him almost
Speaker 3: immediately at an elementary school carnival in Lancaster where he
Speaker 3: was working a DJ gig. The agents were covered chewing
Speaker 3: gum and a water bottle that Raymond Row had discarded
Speaker 3: in the trash. DNA tests on these items soon proved
Speaker 3: that he, in fact was a match to the mystery
Speaker 3: DNA found on in and under Christie Merak's body twenty
Speaker 3: five years before.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: This break in the case emerged for the investigators just
Speaker 3: hours before Raymond Row showed up to DJ our sister's wedding.
Speaker 1: No wait, did he know?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Oh, so that was like the cops knew, but he
Speaker 1: hadn't been Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh, I think after Raymond Roe was arrested less than
Speaker 3: two days after the wedding.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he would have known.
Speaker 3: It has not been determined if or how Raymond Row
Speaker 3: knew Christy Mehrak before murdering her. He lived in the
Speaker 3: same town, just miles from the crime scene for more
Speaker 3: years following the murder than Christy Mehrak lived her life
Speaker 3: in its entirety.
Speaker 1: Isn't that the creepy thing, Like same thing with the
Speaker 1: Golden State Killer, where they just sit in their own
Speaker 1: neighborhood and just their living regular life.
Speaker 2: It's baffling.
Speaker 1: It's so upsetting, and it's so like, yeah, I'm fair
Speaker 1: hiding and plant siet.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Police arrested him at his home without incident and he
Speaker 3: is currently being held without bond in the Lancaster County Jail.
Speaker 3: Well he awaits trial SSDGMAA.
Speaker 1: Wow, I know.
Speaker 3: And so this email was actually sent in October twenty six,
Speaker 3: twenty eighteen. Oh so a long time ago. Yeah, some updates.
Speaker 3: The story is still unfolding. But Raymond Rowe DJ Freeze
Speaker 3: pleaded guilty in January twenty nineteen, but less than a
Speaker 3: year later he began appealing his conviction. And this is
Speaker 3: from Lancaster Online. Rote testified at an August twenty twenty
Speaker 3: one hearing that he and Marrak had a secret relationship
Speaker 3: and the day she was killed, he said they had
Speaker 3: consensual sex and she was alive when he left the townhouse.
Speaker 2: And so he's appealing his.
Speaker 3: Latest loss in a bid to have DNA testing done
Speaker 3: on other items at the scene.
Speaker 2: So that's the update.
Speaker 1: Wow, slowly but surely you're going to convert me to
Speaker 1: liking cold cases, because when you start an email like
Speaker 1: that and people start telling that story where it's like,
Speaker 1: please tell me that they found it, Please tell me
Speaker 1: that it's over.
Speaker 3: I know, and there was like less than nothing as
Speaker 3: far as evidence goes back, you know that they had
Speaker 3: as he wasn't a suspect. I don't think he was
Speaker 3: just nobody in her life. Yeah, so the fact that
Speaker 3: they found him is just purely because of DNA and
Speaker 3: investigative research.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the cold case heam.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is also you know, true crimey, but definitely
Speaker 1: a different direction. The subject line of this email is
Speaker 1: I almost got fired for refusing to serve R Kelly
Speaker 1: and one of the it's a great email that has
Speaker 1: a lot of interesting tidbits in it. But also Jake
Speaker 1: covered R Kelly on Disgraceland his episode one seventy nine
Speaker 1: June of twenty twenty four, and the title is R
Speaker 1: Kelly Superstars Super predators and a twenty year reign of
Speaker 1: sexual terror. Wow. So if you have not heard Disgraceland's
Speaker 1: coverage of the R. Kelly You Know journey, I guess
Speaker 1: we could call it episode one seventy nine. Go listen
Speaker 1: to that. It's episode one seventy nine. So this email starts, Hello, all,
Speaker 1: I've been in the fire. I'm dining service industry for
Speaker 1: almost sixteen years. Naturally, many celebrities have dined at establishments
Speaker 1: that I've worked at. I won't name names, but just
Speaker 1: note that Patty Smith is a sweetheart and just to
Speaker 1: now double plow, just Gracelind has an episode that's all
Speaker 1: about Patty Smith. It came out April seventh, so you
Speaker 1: can go listen to it now. Wow, he does it all. Okay,
Speaker 1: So back in July of twenty nineteen, I was working
Speaker 1: in the Gold Coast of Chicago in what they call
Speaker 1: the Viagra Triangle, which is essentially where rich old men
Speaker 1: bring their mistress out.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, gross shower.
Speaker 1: It's a bleach bath. Please. So it says R. Kelly
Speaker 1: and his group of lawyers came in to dine in
Speaker 1: my section. His bodyguard or manager had overheard the conversation
Speaker 1: I had with a matre D about my refusal to
Speaker 1: wait on a fucking predator and blue up on me.
Speaker 2: Good for you.
Speaker 1: He said something along the line of everybody's got to eat,
Speaker 1: to which I replied, if I ran a bodega, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't sell him ramen noodles. Let's not bring Rochmond middles
Speaker 1: in it, and they're just as good as any fucking
Speaker 1: steak and bodegas. The matre d told me to go
Speaker 1: outside and cool off. What a classic matre D move.
Speaker 2: Go cool off?
Speaker 1: Okay, how about you, coola, Needless to say, Yet another
Speaker 1: employee serve the table. Also in my section was a
Speaker 1: group of men who had repeatedly asked to take pictures
Speaker 1: with him. The undistinguished mister Kelly refused photos due to
Speaker 1: bad press at the time, but instead decided to pick
Speaker 1: up their check because he knew I was their waiter
Speaker 1: and it would be an excuse for me to approach
Speaker 1: him again after the scene that was made earlier. Dude,
Speaker 1: I handed him the check to sign, which he did,
Speaker 1: but he had written a zero on the tip line.
Speaker 1: I opened the book, holding the check in front of him,
Speaker 1: saw that he had stiffed me, laughed and said, yeah,
Speaker 1: that sounds about right, and walked away. His entourage complained
Speaker 1: to management about my behavior to a point where I
Speaker 1: was almost fired, and they waited outside the restaurant and
Speaker 1: followed me to the train, calling me multiple derogatory terms
Speaker 1: the pinnacle of class. Though I no longer work at
Speaker 1: this establishment, and I highly doubt he listens to your
Speaker 1: show in prison, I relish the fact that this story
Speaker 1: helped me have a dialogue with my wonderful girlfriend I
Speaker 1: met only a few days before. This incident drew us
Speaker 1: closer together. She introduced me to your show, and when
Speaker 1: we go on road trips, one of us always ask
Speaker 1: the question, you want to listen to the girls? Thank
Speaker 1: you both for all you do, stay sexy, and please
Speaker 1: remember that tipping twenty percent is bare minimum. Yes, sincerely, Hayden.
Speaker 2: Wow, Hayden, Hayden.
Speaker 1: Standing up fighting the good fight all alone.
Speaker 3: Appreciate you. That's fucking awesome. Yeah, twenty two percent is
Speaker 3: my minimum now.
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, Yet, Also, the excuse everyone's got to
Speaker 1: eat is disgusting.
Speaker 2: Come on, seriously, I have one more? Where are you going?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Two?
Speaker 2: More?
Speaker 1: Yeah? No? No, I sorry, I was not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: I just tell you to see what I was doing.
Speaker 2: David Bowie's a rest story in Rochester, New York.
Speaker 1: Oo.
Speaker 3: And so David Bowie was covered in disgrace Land on
Speaker 3: episode seventy one.
Speaker 2: So check that out.
Speaker 3: It's called David Bowie, the Occult, Cocaine, Orgi's arrests, exorcism,
Speaker 3: a weird flirtation with fascism, and a dead body. That's
Speaker 3: the Disgraceline episode.
Speaker 1: It's so good. Yeah, I listened to that whole thing
Speaker 1: and it's great.
Speaker 3: And you know David Bowie's mugshot, right, you've seen that everyone.
Speaker 1: He was only snorting cocaine and eating red peppers at
Speaker 1: the time, like that was his diet, that was his thing.
Speaker 3: Hi, Georgia and Karen, I'm originally from India, but I've
Speaker 3: been living in Rochester, New York for four years now.
Speaker 3: What a weird switch to go from India to Rochester,
Speaker 3: New Upstate New York.
Speaker 1: A little bit chillier, I would say, in upstate remark.
Speaker 3: The city has a lot of history, home of Susan B. Anthony,
Speaker 3: Frederick Douglass began publishing the north Star newspaper here, and
Speaker 3: of course George Eastman but after the demise of Kodak,
Speaker 3: nothing exciting has really happened here today.
Speaker 2: I was looking through a local.
Speaker 3: Boutique I want to say, Bouquet so bad and found
Speaker 3: a wallprint of David Bowie's mugshot dated March twenty fifth,
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 2: Had to google the backstory.
Speaker 3: Back in the day, famous people held concerts here must
Speaker 3: be nice. Bowie performed at the Community War Memorial and
Speaker 3: headed back to his hotel room for general merriment. With
Speaker 3: him was his bodyguard, Iggy Pop, and three girls, one
Speaker 3: of whom was a local he had taken a fancy
Speaker 3: to during the concert.
Speaker 2: Iggy Pop and David Bowie together, We're just.
Speaker 1: Going to go hang out at the at the Higott.
Speaker 2: Zero percent body fat. Let's just do so much cocaine.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent cocaine, zero percent body fat, so many
Speaker 1: red peppers.
Speaker 3: As they were hanging out, three police officers showed up
Speaker 3: at the door. Bowie opened the door and was instantly
Speaker 3: knocked backwards by the officers trying to get in. The
Speaker 3: entire party was busted for possession of half a pound
Speaker 3: of marijuana. Turns out, two of the girls present at
Speaker 3: the party were undercover, acting on a tip that they
Speaker 3: would find cocaine in his hotel room, and police had
Speaker 3: set up shop in the adjacent room, listening through the
Speaker 3: wall using a stethoscope.
Speaker 1: The fuck come on, Rochester, bring reggae please. We thought
Speaker 1: you were good than that.
Speaker 3: When one of the girls asked where she could score some,
Speaker 3: which is entrapmentt for sure, it was reason enough for
Speaker 3: them to barge in Guys Enjoy. Although no cocaine, there
Speaker 3: was ample marijuana to make the arrest. Bowie and company
Speaker 3: were held in Monroe County jail for a few hours,
Speaker 3: but let go on a two thousand dollars bail each
Speaker 3: so that he could drive on to his next concert location.
Speaker 3: Apparently Bowie was afraid of flying. After his American tour,
Speaker 3: he went back to England on a boat. Oh shit anyway.
Speaker 3: In May nineteen seventy six, the charges were dismissed after
Speaker 3: a grand jury declined to indict Bowie because they're not
Speaker 3: fucking narks. At the time of his initial hearing, a
Speaker 3: reporter had asked you if he had any sour feelings
Speaker 3: about returning to Rochester after the arrest, to which Bowie
Speaker 3: had replied, certainly, not absolutely not, needless to say, he
Speaker 3: never performed in Rochester again.
Speaker 2: Of course, stay sexy.
Speaker 3: And only reveal your stash to the trusted sale pronounced sale,
Speaker 3: she her.
Speaker 1: I mean, such a good story. Yeah, I'm sure they
Speaker 1: did that to anybody that coming through town for whose
Speaker 1: hair was like longer than her chin, who.
Speaker 2: Was like a feminine man. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that crazy, those crazy rock and roll boys. I
Speaker 1: told you that. My dad and I one holiday break,
Speaker 1: we're watching the Bowie documentary and I just kind of
Speaker 1: flipped it on and left it there, and he he
Speaker 1: was flipping around. He left it there, and then I
Speaker 1: was like, he's not turning it, so I was just
Speaker 1: staying quiet and watching it with him. And he watched
Speaker 1: it for like a half an hour, through all these
Speaker 1: crazy stories and performances, and then he in one shot
Speaker 1: he's walking on stage barefoot, and my dad goes, oh,
Speaker 1: he's barefoot and changes the channel. That's what gets him off.
Speaker 2: The bar foot was barefoot to live it.
Speaker 1: Too far, dropping acid, dressing like a spider from Mars,
Speaker 1: none of it. It's all fine with Jim.
Speaker 2: He can't he just can't tolerate bare feet.
Speaker 1: Oh look at this, I mean I think it's gross,
Speaker 1: but you're on board. Okay, Well, now that we're in
Speaker 1: true rock and roll worlds and I'm not going to
Speaker 1: read to the subject line, and I'll tell you about
Speaker 1: the disgrace lined episode that this connects to a can't
Speaker 1: This just starts. When I was a very punk rock
Speaker 1: teenager in Boston in the late nineties, I worked at
Speaker 1: a fancy punk goth clothing store on Newberry Street. We
Speaker 1: worked on commission, and whoever greeted the customer first was
Speaker 1: their salesperson throughout and got the sale. One day, the
Speaker 1: store was empty on a Friday afternoon, and this middle
Speaker 1: aged couple came in. They weren't in my section, but
Speaker 1: after fifteen minutes, no one had gone to help, and
Speaker 1: the man was holding a bunch of pants to try on.
Speaker 1: I went over and introduced myself and offered to start
Speaker 1: a room for him. He had a British accent, and
Speaker 1: he told me his band was playing in town that
Speaker 1: night and he was looking for clothes to wear on stage.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of musicians, so I didn't really
Speaker 1: react or ask any follow up questions. Instead, I just
Speaker 1: started offering him more pants. I remember specifically complimenting him
Speaker 1: on his Diamond Star earing. He shopped with me for
Speaker 1: about thirty minutes and then went to the dressing room,
Speaker 1: where I explained that we had a three item per
Speaker 1: room limit. Who was it? Okay, but I would stand
Speaker 1: outside the and just swap things out with him. His
Speaker 1: wife and he both laughed and said, you think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna run off with something? He said, you think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna run off with something in a joking manner. I responded,
Speaker 1: also in a jokey way. You never know. So I
Speaker 1: stood there as he tried on pants and opened the
Speaker 1: door to hand them back out and get new ones.
Speaker 1: After he bought about five hundred dollars worth of stuff
Speaker 1: and they left, My manager came over with the sales
Speaker 1: receipt and said, dumbfounded, do you know who that was? Got? Okay,
Speaker 1: some guy whose band's playing tonight, I answered uncertainly. He
Speaker 1: then showed me the signature, very clearly written, Ringo Star.
Speaker 1: One of the Beatles was gonna shoplift some pants from
Speaker 1: their store.
Speaker 2: Okay, go on, I just don't speaking. Okay.
Speaker 1: I could not have been more embarrassed, but I hope
Speaker 1: he enjoyed not being recognized and being treated like everyone
Speaker 1: else got it, Actually.
Speaker 2: I fucking doubt it. You're a beetle.
Speaker 1: Well, but maybe for that very reason, Like since ever
Speaker 1: since he was twenty eight years old, Yeah, no one's
Speaker 1: treated ever treated him like that, I bet, unless they're
Speaker 1: trying to be cute.
Speaker 2: Or was he like, oh no, I've lost it. I
Speaker 2: don't know, solastened because it wasn't the Beatles.
Speaker 1: Oh maybe the Traveling Wilbury's there you go. And then
Speaker 1: it just assigned Erica and then it says ps his boxers.
Speaker 2: Was what he saw his boxers.
Speaker 1: PS's boxers were white with a blue pinstripe, and he
Speaker 1: and his wife were both incredibly nice. You just gave
Speaker 1: away at the most secret piece of information you possibly could,
Speaker 1: and they're like, but they're such lovely.
Speaker 2: People, that Ringo star Wars boxers. Oh my god.
Speaker 3: But like I feel like the nineties, if it was
Speaker 3: someone like you didn't really know in a band and
Speaker 3: a big band, but ring Ghosts, I feel like everyone
Speaker 3: recognized from ghostar back then.
Speaker 1: I guess you'd think so, but maybe that she was
Speaker 1: punk rock. That's what she was, punk rock, and like
Speaker 1: our generation would maybe.
Speaker 2: We're the cutoff. Wow, that was so entertaining.
Speaker 1: So if you want to hear more about Ringo Star,
Speaker 1: go to episode one to eleven of Disgraceland, because that
Speaker 1: episode is called Ringo Star busted by Mexican Federales, threatened
Speaker 1: by French Canadian separatists, and the King of Feel.
Speaker 2: Anywhere Boxers and white box boxers over bies.
Speaker 1: That's our addition to the show.
Speaker 3: Okay, this one is about Taylor Swift, who was covered
Speaker 3: in Disgraceland on episode ninety three. Hey KG, thank you
Speaker 3: for being my ear drum besties these past eight years
Speaker 3: and counting. In twenty ten, I was in a college
Speaker 3: a cappella group called the UCSD Tritones Tritones.
Speaker 2: The name is a musical pun on.
Speaker 3: Our mascot, King Triton, Oh Tritones Perfect.
Speaker 2: One casual day about cash was a serious day?
Speaker 1: Is this uc San Diego U No, Yeah, SD CSD
Speaker 1: Yeah India the Tritons. I want to see that mascot.
Speaker 2: One casual day.
Speaker 3: About halfway through the school year, we receive an email
Speaker 3: from someone claiming to be the business manager of none
Speaker 3: other than Taylor Swift. They asked if we were interested
Speaker 3: in being backup singers for Taylor's upcoming performance at the
Speaker 3: American Country Music Awards, but it was a secret act
Speaker 3: since we the choir would not be revealed until the
Speaker 3: end of the song for dramatic effect. We all thought, yeah, right,
Speaker 3: there was no way this email slash opportunity was legit.
Speaker 2: Well it totally was.
Speaker 3: Turns out they were looking for singers around her age
Speaker 3: and they found us via video we posted to YouTube
Speaker 3: singing a te Swift cover of You Belong with Me?
Speaker 2: Pretty sure? Is that the same song from the fucking
Speaker 2: first one? Different song? Damn it? That would have been cool,
Speaker 2: Pretty sure.
Speaker 3: The video was terrible quality by twenty twenty four standards
Speaker 3: and was taken in a poorly lit lecture hall, but
Speaker 3: it did the trick in helping us get discovered.
Speaker 1: Yeah it did.
Speaker 3: A few months later, in April, we a random collection
Speaker 3: of college kids, had the gig of a lifetime at
Speaker 3: the forty fifth Acmas in Last Vegas.
Speaker 2: We did our best.
Speaker 3: To keep it from our friends and family, who mostly
Speaker 3: found out from watching us on national cable TV. Says
Speaker 3: Hello twenty ten so cool. I will say, Taylor is
Speaker 3: truly a class act. We had to record the bas
Speaker 3: track on Easter weekend due to limited studio availability, she
Speaker 3: took the time out of her holiday to call in
Speaker 3: from Nashville to say hi and personally thank us for
Speaker 3: our time.
Speaker 1: I mean, that is classy beyond belief. There's so many
Speaker 1: celebrities and people who let everybody else do work like that, right.
Speaker 2: And like you're lucky to be working with me. Yeah.
Speaker 3: No. Then after the performance, she did her best to
Speaker 3: give as many of us individual hugs before being whisked
Speaker 3: away by her security team.
Speaker 1: I wonder how many people are in that choir.
Speaker 2: Probably a lot, just like it's a choir.
Speaker 3: Yeah. We also got hugs from her super sweet mom,
Speaker 3: who at the time said she'd never missed one of
Speaker 3: her daughter's performances to date. And then that emoji that's
Speaker 3: about to start crying the little you know. Oh, and
Speaker 3: there were a ton of extra bonus lob sightings from
Speaker 3: the night, including Reba, Carrie Underwood, Matthew McConaughey, Kristen Bell,
Speaker 3: share An ll cool Jay who introduced us by name NBD.
Speaker 2: For Trytones, the try Tone Ladies and Gentlemen. Fourteen years later.
Speaker 3: This is still by far the coolest thing that has
Speaker 3: happened to me, well up until the birth of my
Speaker 3: baby Boy six weeks ago, Stay Sexy and Trust Sketchy
Speaker 3: emails from people claiming to be business managers question Mark, Chelsea.
Speaker 1: I mean, I love that story, Chelsea, so exciting.
Speaker 3: That did happen to me and ally with Food Network
Speaker 3: in two thousand and nine, Hey, we likedre video on Facebook.
Speaker 2: Do you want to make more videos like fuck you creep?
Speaker 2: It was Food Network, but.
Speaker 1: It was actually Food Network, Fuck you creep? Did you
Speaker 1: say the words fuck you creep?
Speaker 2: No, just did respond I would.
Speaker 1: Love it in an email fuck you great.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 1: That happened when I was, of course very young, and
Speaker 1: I got a call on a Saturday, can you come
Speaker 1: into audition for Seinfeld? And I immediately said fuck off,
Speaker 1: whoever this is and hung up the phone. And they
Speaker 1: called back and were like they were laughing, but they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we understand why you would do that, but it is
Speaker 1: actually because they were calling me directly and normally that's
Speaker 1: not how it went. And I couldn't stop laughing. And
Speaker 1: then I had actually a very good audition for the
Speaker 1: first word I said, but I got a laugh and
Speaker 1: then distracted myself and then didn't remember the last of
Speaker 1: the rest of my single. Line. But the good news
Speaker 1: is it the character in the line didn't make it.
Speaker 2: To the line. Give it to us now, like the
Speaker 2: she could do.
Speaker 1: You know how Lane danced weird. So we're back at
Speaker 1: the same staff party where she's going to dance weird again,
Speaker 1: and I am the cater waiter who comes up and
Speaker 1: the line I got to laugh on because the first
Speaker 1: thing was you're just offering people floutas floutas, and so
Speaker 1: I went floutus and I did it with a fake accent,
Speaker 1: and it got a laugh in a room that Jerry
Speaker 1: Seinfeld and Larry David were in, and there was literally like,
Speaker 1: to me, in my mind it was like thirty writers,
Speaker 1: but I bet you it was ten. But it was
Speaker 1: a huge Sirifel writer Seinfeld writer laughing.
Speaker 2: And so then.
Speaker 1: I gave it a nice pH and then the casting
Speaker 1: dictor said, whatever the next line was, I think it's
Speaker 1: a Lane's line, and then I was just kind of
Speaker 1: blanked out because I was like, man, that was awesome.
Speaker 2: I did it. Who was the line?
Speaker 1: It was something like, remember, hey, remember the lady who
Speaker 1: danced crazy last year, But I'm saying it to her
Speaker 1: the whole.
Speaker 3: Joke and never eaten a flower? Does it get I mean,
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't look at them. It gives me acid stomach
Speaker 1: and holy shit, I know. So okay, here's my last one.
Speaker 1: The subject line of these email is trash Grandma shushed
Speaker 1: at noozies. So there's no Disgraceland episode connecting to this.
Speaker 1: But talk about a punk rock Gramma. Okay, Hi, Karen
Speaker 1: in Georgia. My Nan is the best kind of trash grandma.
Speaker 1: She has always been sassy, independent and brutally honest growing up.
Speaker 1: If we complained about being thirsty, she'd say, drink your
Speaker 1: spit ew hungry, bite your tongue. These are my people.
Speaker 1: She pulled out my first tooth with slightly rusty needle
Speaker 1: nosed pliers. You get the picture. In around twenty twelve,
Speaker 1: my family and I all went to see Newsies on Broadway.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that musical? My poor Nan has always
Speaker 1: had bad hearing, which caused issues when watching the show.
Speaker 1: She couldn't hear anything that was happening, and she kept
Speaker 1: loudly whispering to my sister, what did they say? And
Speaker 1: what's going on? And who is that? We kept telling
Speaker 1: her that she was whispering too loudly, but that only
Speaker 1: made things worse because then she would yell, what did
Speaker 1: you say? Oh God, it was pointless to try to
Speaker 1: get her to be quieter. And it must be really
Speaker 1: hard to not be able to hear what's going on
Speaker 1: around you, for sure. That's a nice little parenthetical of empathy.
Speaker 1: At some point, people around us started to notice, including
Speaker 1: the man in front of us who started shushing her.
Speaker 1: He eventually got so frustrated that he turned around and yelled, please,
Speaker 1: just please.
Speaker 3: Oh I want to rate this man, but I feel
Speaker 3: for him.
Speaker 1: No, I was him when we went to see Hamilton,
Speaker 1: a full family that was like, hey, do you ever
Speaker 1: see it? Like full voice conversation.
Speaker 2: That's not okay, but like a little old lady.
Speaker 1: A little old lady's different. But this was like every
Speaker 1: member of the family, now, fuck you all making small
Speaker 1: talk back there, And I did a full leaned forward
Speaker 1: and turned my upper body like a horror movie as
Speaker 1: a far around as I could, and I was like,
Speaker 1: will you please stop talking?
Speaker 2: And they say.
Speaker 1: The father was like, I'm so sorry, and he got
Speaker 1: them all together and they did. Only then do we
Speaker 1: realize that the man who had been shushing my nan
Speaker 1: was none other then star trek Legend. George to Kai, No,
Speaker 1: you can't hurt George to Kai, No, please don't infuriate George.
Speaker 1: Of course, my trash grandmother just responded, excuse me, Who
Speaker 1: the hell does he think he is? George to Kai,
Speaker 1: that's who. That's what they wrote.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: My nan is ninety years old and has pretty aggressive
Speaker 1: dimension now, but this story always reminds me of who
Speaker 1: she is at her core, which is a blunt, hilarious,
Speaker 1: badass woman who has lived a long and wonderful life.
Speaker 1: Stay sexy and hug your grandparents if you still have them.
Speaker 3: Grace, Oh my god, Gracie. There couldn't have been a
Speaker 3: better person to like that, to surprise you with the
Speaker 3: you're crying.
Speaker 1: It's so it's like a sketch on TV, because George
Speaker 1: Kakai is like the chillest, greatest, like lovely person, right,
Speaker 1: and he you pissed him off. You know that he's
Speaker 1: gonna be funny like hello, like that whole character of Georgechicai,
Speaker 1: and you pushed him to the brink. Newsy's, which is
Speaker 1: the award winning Newsy, the winning news everybody loves, Everybody's
Speaker 1: favorite I'm trying to listen to the newspaper musical Grandma.
Speaker 2: Well, that was a just Graceland.
Speaker 3: Make sure you check that out, Hollywood Land to subscribe,
Speaker 3: great review, all the good things that help so much.
Speaker 1: We're so excited to have Jake Brennan on this network.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: Tell us your your fucked up musician stories, whatever they are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll start doing disgrace Land right out from under him.
Speaker 1: Great idea, stay sexy and don't get murdered.
Speaker 2: Goodbye, Elvis. Do you want a cookie?
Speaker 3: Ah?
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Speaker 3: Our senior producer is Molly Smith and our associate producer
Speaker 3: is Tessa Hughes.
Speaker 1: Our editor is Aristotle Ascevedo.
Speaker 2: This episode was mixed by Leona Squalacci.
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