Bonus Episode: A Disgraceful Christmas List – Rockstars Set Up, Busted, and Sentenced During the Holidays

Hey, discos, need a little more Disgraceland in your life, just to touch to get you through. Yeah me too. This is the podcast that comes after the podcast. Welcome to Disgraceland, the after Party. Welcome to the Disgraceland bonus episode, a little thing we like to call the after party. This is the show after the show, the party after the party, the bridge to get from one full episode of Disgraceland to the other. The backyard, to dig into the dirt, our mission to uncover the truth, to confront the myth, to reclaim the story. On this bonus episode, we're discussing the wild arrests, setups, and true crimes that happened during holiday season's past for music history. In the exclusive portion, we dive into the way in which Diddy

allegedly avoided serving hard time for one of those holiday true crimes. We share with you something pretty awesome that happened to us here in disgrace Land this past week, and we get into your emails, comments, dms, and as always a whole lot of rosie. This is the podcast for the musically obsessed, the outsiders, the independent thinkers who know that the best history is a history that gets buried disgrace Lands, where I tell the stories they didn't want told, the kind you'll end up telling someone else.

All Right, disc goes, Let's get into it. Merry Christmas, Happy Honeka. I hope everyone's having a great holiday season, however you celebrate, all right, listen, I'm late and putting my Christmas list together this year. But it's a different kind of list. It's not a list of what I want for Christmas. It's not a list of my favorite Christmas songs. It's not a list of my favorite unintentional Christmas songs, though more on that later. It's a list, a ranked list of true crimes from music history that happened during the holidays. Now, you'd be surprised how many of the stories that we cover here in Disgraceslam that happened around the holiday season. It's way more than I thought.

Pretty shocking, actually. But I have a theory. You've heard the phrase the devil finds work for idle hands to do well. I prefer one that is slightly similar but means the same thing. Idle hands are the devil's workshop. One could also say that music history is the devil's workshop, and the workshop gets real busy around the holidays, with all those rock stars sitting around at home without the structure of the road board to death by domesticity, just itching to get themselves into trouble. The holidays are the perfect time for rockstar true crime, as the record shows.

So here's a list, ranked, of course, of some of the more outrageous crimes committed in music history. Not all outrageous, I'm just interesting right around the holiday season. Okay, So many, of course have been covered, like I said in detail here in DISGRACELANMD, but most without calling out the relative holiday spirit until now. Number ten comes from an artist that we've yet to cover but definitely will at some point.

DMX now December fifteenth, two thousand and two, during a run of his career where running into authorities for all kinds of stuff, everything spanning weapons charges to animal cruelty, DMX was arrested a couple weeks before Christmas for burying his five four to eleven size seven in girls into the gas pedal and burning one hundred and four miles and an hour down the highway. I don't know that I've ever gone I've never pushed it that fast. I pushed it pretty fast sometimes, but I don't think I've ever been just under one oh five. I hope not. Anyways. Anyhow, speeding was the least of DMX's problems that Christmas. He was also arrested for driving an unregistered vehicle without a license on top of everything else DMX was up to.

He was sentenced to seventy days in jail event for that incident. And there's a whole bunch of other stuff the DMX got in trouble for the DMX story. To me, it's a very sad story, and I don't yet know how to tell it, but I know that we will at some point here in disgrace, and I got to find a different way of telling it than that doc that came out a couple of years ago. That's what's been holding me out anyhow. Number nine, Joan Bias, you can't accuse Bob Dylan's girlfriend of being idle during the holidays back in nineteen sixty seven, because on December nineteenth, Joan Bias, I kid about the Bob Dylan girlfriend thing.

I'm not a huge I don't like Joe Bias. There, I said it, but I don't. I don't mean to just you know, discredit her as being Bob Dylan's girlfriend. I understand how important she is in music history, and I actually think that Joe Bias, for whatever reason, doesn't get enough. I don't want to say credit. I guess credit.

I feel like we don't we don't understand fully how big Joan Biaz was because Bob Dylan is caught up in her story and she ends up in his shadow, and he's massive. But she was an enormous star before Dylan came along, and was after Dylan's split as well. But for whatever reason, you know, maybe it's like I said, the Dylan shadow thing. Whatever the reason is, it's we don't think of it that way anymore. I don't know why.

We just kind of forget about it, you know, we just kind of, Oh, that's John Bias anyhow. Joe Bias nineteen sixty seven, also John Bias. This guess is absolutely stunning, beautiful, And even though I don't like Joan Bias's music, her voice, you can't you can't argue with how, I guess compelling an artist she was, and she captivated not just the American public, but she captivated men like John Lennon, for example, Johnny Cash, all kinds of guys who were just blown away by John Bias. Anyhow, nineteen sixty seven, like I said, she was not resting during the holiday season, she was arrested for leading an anti war, anti Vietnam War sit in in Oakland, California, at an Army induction center. Joan

was putting in work during that holiday off time, unlike Number eight Chuck Berry, who was fucking around in the worst possible way, or one of the worst possible ways. A couple of days before Christmas in nineteen fifty nine, when Chuck was arrested in Saint Louis, Missouri for transporting a fourteen year old girl across state lines for immoral purposes, a crime known as the Man Act. Chuck Berry was sentenced to five years hard time in federal prison. Chuck appealed that sentence, and Santa smiled upon the Rock and Roll pioneer and reduced his sentence to just three years.

Chuck ended up serving just twenty months. You know, I've done a lot of work on Chuck Berry. We did that chuck Berry episode, but there's also an expanded version of that story in my book, and I don't think the Christmas of it all ever really came into the story. Apologies, if you can hear my the faint, the faint yelp and shout of my kids. They're out in the front yard here playing baseball, and you know what, it's Christmas break.

I can't, I can't, can't squash their spirit, all right? Moving on from Chuck Berry at number eight, number seven. In early December nineteen seventy three, as The Who were wrapping up their tour in time to return home for the holidays, they celebrated the performance of a particularly explosive show in Montreal by destroying in epic fashion. They're suite at the Hotel Bonaventure. Now, before allays said and done, this is Look, this has been documented elsewhere, but it's still shocking to me. And I didn't really get into it in the Who Who episodes that we've that we've produced, because it's just it's just such a part of rock and roll lore. But let's fuck it, let's do it before all was said and done. Okay, after this after

show party, this after party, after the Who show in Montreal, they're back at the Hotel ponn Adventure and they decide they're so excited. They're so pumped, they're so blitz on whatever they're taking that they're going to destroy the hotel suite, which you know, back in nineteen seventy three wasn't as wrote as it is now for rock stars. But anyhow, after all of a sudden, don sofas had been rocketed out of the hotel suites windows, a television set ended up in the pool, Pete Townsend's blood somehow was splattered across the art on the hotel suite's walls, and Pete, Keith Moon, and John Entwhistle were all hauled into jail by the local police and in the end let go and just ordered to pay damages. And with all that activity,

that who still made it to their gig in Boston in time the next night before eventually breaking for the holidays. So a little bit of epic rock star debauchery there from the holidays. I'd heard that story before, I did not know it took place during the holiday season number six, just after celebrating the New Year's holiday in two thousand and eight, Lil Wayne Lowayne, you might remember back from season six, season seven of Disgray Sand, was arrested in Arizona after his tour bus was raided. He was given probation for that charge, probation to be completed once his stay in prison was finished. I know it's all very confusing.

You can hear about it all in Our Little Wayne episode number five. We just talked about this one. Trey, anastagio of the Fish as the kids call them, was arrested just before Christmas in two thousand and six while whipping down the road, blitzed on prescription meds and charged with heroin possession, an event that no doubt made for a tense Christmas around the Fish camp that year. Trey eventually pleaded guilty in avoided prison time, and got clean, and continues to perform with the Fish and without the heroin.

So there you go. That's number five, Number four on New Year's Eve. This is my favorite one on because it's so fucked up. On New Year's Eve, nineteen forty eight, Holiday, who I Love Okay, one of my favorite singers and just I don't care. One of the greatest vocalists of all time, Billy Holiday was caught up in a club melee a brawl and charged with assault with the deadly weapon on three counts. This is on New Year's Eve nineteen forty eight. Now, on the day of her hearing, she heads up to San Francisco to perform for a sold out crowd at a club which the name is escaping Me. While staying, however, in the San Francisco hotel, Mark Twain, I can't forget that name. Billy was then, so this is New Year's Day. Billy was then the

target of a just despicably shameful FBI raid and I believe set up by her manager, which is a whole other story. Billy was charged with opium possession and her career speeds to an end quickly after this, and her demise is just horrifically sad. But in a weird twist, that notorious publicity for the arrest and the brawl a fueled ticket sales for the rest of her tour. So she got a little you know, New Year's Holiday bonus for Billie Holiday there, who no doubt likely needed it given all that was going on at the time in her life. Number three in December nineteen ninety nine at the club Kitcat in New York. You know this one.

Beyonce's husband jay Z back before he was Beyonce's husband was busted for stabbing Lance on Rivera. Remarkably, somehow, jay Z only got probation for stabbing a dude. Santa doesn't fucking a round with no dirt on jay Z's shoulder, is what I'm saying now. Number two not to be outdone by his rival jay Z. A couple weeks later, Sean Puff Daddy Combs was busted two days after Christmas following a shooting in a different New York City club.

Puffy as he was known then, was charged with criminal possession of a weapon and stolen property, but eventually eat the charge. Now a lot of theories about how Sean Combs avoided a guilty charge here and he avoided going to prison. Lots of lots of smoke out there. Some of it is more than smoke, I think. Anyways, we're gonna get into these theories in the exclusive section of the after Party for All Access members coming up in a bit. But first number one on our list, Number one country singer Merle Haggard, whose voice rivals Billy Holidays in my estimation, I actually think, and this is because I've been listening to a ton of Merle Haggard lately, I think Merle Haggard has surpassed George Jones in my

opinion as far as country singers go, just you know, subjectively my fave. I'm not saying that Merle Haggard is the greatest country singing you know. Whatever. You might have your if you might think it's George, you might think it's Willie, Johnny whoever. But for me it was George Jones for most of my life. But there's just something about Merle that has has got me hooked lately. The richness, the depth of that voice. I envy it, I really do, and I just can't get enough of it. Anyways, Merle was busted on Christmas Day for knocking over a restaurant the night before in an armed robbery, and this was an event that led Merle to do hard time at San Quentin and eventually to getting serious about his musical

career after he saw Johnny Cash perform live at San Quentin, and ultimately this all led to Merle Haggard writing one of the greatest Christmas songs of all time, if we make it through December, a song I'm proud to say that my seven year old now loves. We've been listening to It's actually there's a Merl Christmas album. We've been listening to the whole album a lot lately, and that might have something to do with why Merle Haggard is number one on my list here. And the numbering doesn't matter.

The ranking doesn't matter. These are all fascinating stories that you can tell this Christmas while you're hanging out with your fans. You know, it gets to the later part of the day. Football is, you know, not as interesting as it was earlier. You know, you're all kind of you get to get a little turkey hangover, maybe you get a little a little too much bourbon in you, whatever it is, and you need something alive and up the party. You can go to any one of these stories and there will be relevance, of course because of the holidays, and you know, you'll, you know, you might be a little entertaining yourself telling these stories of you know, massively transgressive entertainers. This list could easily have been a

top twenty, maybe even a top fifty. I don't know. I didn't mention holiday season arrests for a ton of disgraceland artists, Jas Brown, Jim Morrison, Sam Cook, gig Allen. I'm sure with more research into the Disgraceland archive, I could have pulled out a ton more the holidays in music history the Devil's workshop as demonstrated by Disgraceland. When we get back, I'm going to play something that's sure to blow your mind. And then we're also going to get into your calls, voicemails, an texts. All right, we are back, and before we get into your voicemails, text and more, I wanted to mention that one of my favorite disgrace Land stories is available for you guys right now in the feed, and that is the Christmas story

on the death of one of Elvis Presley's favorite singers, Memphis own Johnny Ace. And if you're looking for something to do, this is you know, you know, get round the tree here on Christmas, fire up the old disgrace Land feed and get into the Christmas fives. This is a dark but fascinating story and it's absolutely a holiday story.

Johnny Ace in the myth of Johnny Ace and his death on Christmas Day was most definitely an influence on an artist that I think most of us know and love. Lou Reid from the Velvet Underground now Lou just like those who spread the false myth of Johnny Ace's death after the Johnny Ace Christmas tragedy, lou Reid himself was about as unreliable a narrator as is possible to find in rock and roll history. So because of that, we thought it was a good time of year to bring Lou back into the feed with our unreliable take on the Lou Reed origin story. These two lou Read episodes are I'm just gonna say it, they're fucking weird. Man.

I was reading a bunch of Raymond Chandler books at the time, because Lou Reid was heavily influenced by Raymond Chandler, and I had just had my head buried in that massive book of Lou Reed lyrics, and I was obviously reading and watching a ton of Lou Reed interviews where Lou is basically just lying through all of them about himself.

So what you hear in these two episodes is a result of me taking all of that in and kind of channeling Lou as an unreliable narrator into this storytelling. And you know, it's weird, but it's fun. And they're produced in an excellent way. If I just I'm very proud of the job that the Double Elvis team did with these stories. So those are going to be available in the archive coming up right right after this, right yeah.

Next week, we of course keep the holiday vibes alive with our episode on Derek and the Dominoes, those Dominoes being Dwayne Allmon and Eric Clapton and one Jim Gordon, and we tell this story of violent schizophrenia in conjunction with the story of the Lost and Family Murders, which happened on Christmas Day back in nineteen twenty nine and was immortalized in song in the Great Murder Ballad The Loss and Family Murder by the Carolina Buddies and later popularized by Doc Watson. If you're from the American South, if you're a true crime fan, if you're from North or South Carolina, if you love Clapton, the Almonds, or are a drummer and want to hear about one of the greatest drummers of all time and his slip into madness,

then you are going to want to listen to this episode. If you are any of those things, and even if you're not all right, let's hear from you guys, because you know it's been about a week and you know we haven't checked in. Charlie checked in from the nine to one to two.

Yo, Jake, this is Charlie calling it from Georgia. All right. So here's the thing.

I think it goes out saying that you and your team and everyone that listens to the show knows what an awesome podcast that Disgraceland is. But I wanted to take this opportunity to take you two reasons why specifically love the show personally.

Okay.

Number one, it's not about race, or politics or religion of all the other horspreneur that we use to tear each other apart day after day. No, it's a show that has a great host, all right, that tells great stories about great.

Artists that make the great music that we all know and love. And at the end of the day, that's what unifies us. Okay. Number two is.

I know I'm not alone when I say this, but I think the best part about the show are the introductions, Okay, and listening to you go and why what I play you that.

Specific slice of such and such cheese? Could I afford?

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Just cracks me up every single time.

Man.

I love it, and I wish you guys the best of the luck and I who success you could possibly handle. And again, thank you so much for a great show.

All right, man, Peace, Charlie.

I appreciate the message. Thank you man, thanks for spreading a little holiday, little Christmas cheer. I hope you and your family are doing all right. Peace and love and much more cheese coming my man. That's all I get to say, specific slices of cheese. All right, Matt, let's go to the seven three one.

That was the end of the seventry one. Just following up on the video podcast of you and Zets talking about the Christmas songs. The band was politically incorrect disdaining your voice for Baby It's Code Outside, But right after that you kind of understood the whole earth of kid sultry performance. The thing with Baby It's Code Outside is the same thing in the performances sometimes, like on television, different things. The man would block the door kind of keep it from going out, and I think that's what led to some of the backlash, more so than just the lyrics of the song. I'm not saying one hundred percent agree with it. But I also could see the point in the me through movement this song coming out

of Christmas kind of a bad timing situation, not that it was a new song, but playing them again, and a lot of it was the performance. The man blocking the door not allowing her to leave. It did give a little cringe factor not gonna lie and those very depending on who performed it. So I think that might play into it just as well as earth a Kid be Infective's girl can hit it, you know what I'm saying.

So anyway, just following up on that definitely, so like, uh, there's a little a little of that in there and not be why pease enjoy your holidays?

Ah seven three one great great call. I didn't realize this. I did not understand that. Uh, And I totally see it. You know, there were TV performances of this song baby It's Cold outside back in the day, and I can I can, as you're describing it, I can see them hamming it up and kind of acting it out and dramatizing, and with that visual, I can see the thing being a little more I can see the problem with it a little bit more clearly. However, anyway you cut it, baby it's cold outside, politically correct, politically incorrect, however you view it. It's a fantastic song. Appreciate this little bit of information here though, seven three one, Thank you all right over on the text machine four one six, I

love this text four to one six right saying, Hey, how about Christmas albums that don't exist but should, like the Smiths, Maybe songs such as Christmas Is Over or The Last Star I shall see. How about Santa will not Arrive? Happy Christmas? It may be my last away in a manger and it is cold there. This guy's got a whole track listing for a fake Smith's Christmas album.

This is fantastic. It goes on the present I cannot give the present I cannot give. That's a RC song man Christmas, Christmas for Caligula, this Charming Elf, and last but not least, Shoplifters of the world unite on Boxing Day, Merry Christmas, Happy Honukah, and rock a rolla four one six You text in any time you want. That was amazing.

Appreciate you. We had this whole thing going last week. Guys. We made a mix and an unintentional Christmas mix that's available for you to hear on Spotify if you're following a Disgrace sampot or if you're in on the chat. If you're in with us, this goes in Patreon. I posted the link up there. You can find the link to the mix the playlist very very easily. Get another one here. Another suggestion for untraditional Christmas songs. This one, the five Awight says an interesting Christmas song or a version of a Christmas song. I believe it was the band Weezer, Oh Holy Night, and it was in a sitcom show called Raising Hope. That's when I first heard it, and I was like, oh shit, love that five Await

Thank You two four eight writes in on the same topic the Last Days of December. It's an obscure, neo synthpop song from an obscure band on an even more obscure Christmas compilation. It's one of the prettiest songs I've ever heard, and one of the best things about December is that I get to go play it again and again.

Here's too many more Decembers. Two four eight. Love That Ish wants an episode on Paris Hilton, Sorry on Lionel Richie and we work our way in through the gateway of Nicole Richie in Paris, Hilton Ish. I like this idea. I think there's a lot that I think. Lana Richie has an autobiography as of as of recently recent as of recently as of lately recently published. Yeah, yah yay, I need more coffee that I'm just interested in reading as a as a fan and learning more. I bet he's got a great perspective. The guy's been around forever.

So ish you know, you might get your wish ish okay, Christmas wish for ish. Unintentional holiday songs, now, this is different from non traditional Christmas or holiday songs. Unintentional I forget who was on Patreon brought up in the Ghetto as being an unintentional Christmas song by Elvis Presley and I can hear it. So we had a little convo going on Patreon about that, and some folks chimed in.

Joni Mitchell's River has Christmas imagery, but I don't think it classifies as a Christmas song. But I think it should or no, she says, I think it could go either way. That's christy kay. I don't know that song, KRISTI, but I'm gonna check out. Michael Murphy writes in Apollo one hundred Joy, a disco fied version of Jayhu Joy of man's desiring? Is that drive like Jay Hum? Michael has a bunch here human sexual response from Boston, Land of the Glass Pine Cones. Wow, never heard that Ben Folds five Brick as a Christmas song. Michael could have started and stopped his list with this next recommendation here for an unintentional Christmas song, and it just perfectly embodies this concept. It is a long December by counting crows.

I mean, come on, love this tune. Haven't talked about it at all this holiday season could have It's just smashing, absolutely fabulous. Great TV show by the way, absolutely fabulous. Okay, maybe next year we'll do more on this topic. I really like it because it's hard. You know, my brain just doesn't go to like ten exam this. You got to think about it for a minute. Unintentional Christmas song songs that weren't intended to be Christmas, but somehow I've ended up representing the holiday season for us. Anyways, I love this idea, and perhaps we'll do more of it next year. Over on Instagram, let's see here Sam Dullivan commented which membership tier is This film should be played loud available to This will definitely persuade me to sign

up for Patreon, even if it's only for you guys, Well, you can just sign up and have it be only for us in Patreon. That's how it works. You can support us a number of different levels. A ten dollars tier is going to get you our new video podcasts that you asked about. This film should be played loud. It's going to get you ad free listening. It's going to also get you extra exclusive content every month, the mini episode, the bonus section of this bonus episode, the video version of these bonus episodes, and it's also you're going to unlock the opportunity to meet with me and fellow discos twice a year to get on a zoom and figure out what episodes we're going to be covering.

There is also a whole bunch more Patreon dot com, slash Disgrace and actually just go to disgraceandpod dot com. Right there in the home page you can sign up for Patreon. You can get a link to sign up. Hope to see it in the chat over in Patreon dude, with all the other with all the other discos. Now I'm gonna take a quick break, and when I come back, I got to lay this this thing on you, guys, this thing that happened this past week that was pretty awesome.

You might have heard of it, you might not have. Either way, we're going to get into it back in the flash, all right, guys. So the other night, I'm up in my eleven year old's bedroom. It's just after dinner, and I'm using his stereo, his double cassette recorder to try and dub these cassettes of this holiday mix that I had made for a bunch of my friends. And it's a Christmas mix, all stuff from mine and my wife's Christmas vinyl collection. And anyhow I'm putting the mix together.

I'm fighting with this crappy little stereo because my my double cassette recorder had broken previously wasn't working, So now I'm using his, and he has a really shitty stereo. It's not his fault. I bought it for him, and I'm trying to get the thing to work. I'm super frustrated, you know, trying to do this thing. It's supposed to be easy it's suposed to be fun like it was when I was a kid. It's not fun. It's paying the ass. It's a pain in the ass to make mixtapes, it really is. I'm so spoiled. We're also spoiled by the by the ease with which we can put together digital playlists. I'm in here, you know. Here's the thing about making a making a cassette tape, you know, dubbing cassettes.

How the hell did we write the track listings on those tapes? How did we fit the song and the artist in one in fifty percent of the size of the cassette tape? Insert It's impossible, absolutely impossible. So I'm super frustrated trying to do this. My wife yells up, She's like, hey, my aunt Anne just just texted me and she told me that Disgraceland was just on Jeopardy.

And I'm going, that's not true. She's she's She's wrong. At least it wasn't, you know, the podcast Disgraceland. Maybe they just said the word or something. That's what I was thinking. And I go back to being frustrated, and about five minutes later, I get a text from Abvi'spivick, who Aviy does all the great illustrations for disgrace Land and has since we launched the show. And Abby lives in somewhere in New York City. And I get this text from Avi. He's like, pretty cool man, Disgraceland on Jeopardy.

I'm like what Now, I'm like, you're you're kidding? What? Because now I'm thinking, I'm thinking two things. I'm thinking it's real and wow, this is really freaking cool. Like I loved, I love Jeopardy. I don't watch it every night, but I've watched it a lot throughout my life and it's, you know, obviously a huge part of the fabric of our culture. So of course I'm like, this is amazing.

But then I'm also just thinking, like, wait a minute, don't don't Shouldn't they have given me a heads up if this was real, I'd know it was gonna happen, And of course I had no heads up, So that I text Matt and Zeth, who you guys know obviously, and I know I just something without even asking. I'm assuming that Matt Bowden is like the biggest Jeopardy fan on the planet, and uh, I'm thinking if anybody watches this every night, it's him, and yeah, he's super fan.

But these guys aren't watching TV. They're doing whatever. Neither of them know what's up, and I think they're both kind of like. As I'm texting them, my thought thinking is like, dude, you're out of your freaking mind. Then my sister, my little sister, who's like hours from going into labor, texts me and she's like, we're watching it, and they saw it. They actually like had the clip and they sent it. And turns out it aired up in the Northeast an hour before it aired where I'm at, so I was able to actually watch it, tape it and with my two sons, who didn't know what the hell was going on but thought it was pretty cool, as did my wife. And I don't know why, you know, I don't know why I think this is such a

special thing. I've been the show has been mentioned on you know, other stuff that's as big, arguably, I guess or I don't know, part of the culture, but this is something about Jeopardy. It's been around forever since I was a little kid, and it's just, like I said, such a fabric of our culture. It really made me happy that our show Disgraceland was mentioned. And we're going to play the clip for you guys right now so you can you can hear this. It was quick, of course, Matt, go ahead and play this for the Peeps podcast before ahead here as it focuses on music and misdeeds. Disgraceland discussed the May through July twenty twenty five trial.

Of this rap modal.

Chris who is did yes? John Colmes, all right, guys, that's Disgraceland as part of the question in Jeopardy and the answer was, of course Sean Combs, who we will be talking about in the exclusive section of this after party. Going to be doing that with Zeth as I as I typically do, typically do the exclusive sections of the after party with Zeth, And like I mentioned before, guys, if you signed up to become a Patreon member, you're going to get access to that exclusive content plus other bonus content, including the mini episodes that are released pretty much every week, and also our new video podcasts. This film should be played loud. You also get ad free listening of all Disgraceland and hollywood Land episodes, So go

to disgrace landpod dot com. To sign up to become a Patreon member. Got a lot going on in hollywood Land. I mentioned Zeth and the show that he helms hollywood Land. We did these special features for the holiday season. We did two of them on Christmas films. I did one, Matt did one, and we got one coming up on New Year's Films, which I think are going to be into.

These are fun discussions. I get to indulge my fandom of film history, and Zeth, of course, is the real expert here. Matt give the people a little taste of I don't know. I just pick one of the special features here from the holidays, and guys, if you aren't subscribed to hollywood Land, get over to that feed and subscribe now.

Okay. So a couple of movies here that I think are connected by the fact that they both have very pivotal scenes that play out during New Year's Eve parties are Boogie Nights and Godfather Part two. Boogie Knights has this New Year's E party that takes us from the decade of the seventies into the eighties, from film to video.

It's the beginning of the end. There's a good Fellow's camp for this. You know, the moment where there's no turning back with the story. You've been seduced by the lifestyle, and then all of a sudden, you know, William H. Macy puts a gun to his head and blows his brains out, and the now you're paying for that lifestyle, right.

And then The Godfather too, of course, has this iconic New Year's Eve party scene in Cuba, which is the moment where Michael tells Fredo he knows that he was the one that betrayed him. What do you want to talk about first, boog Knights.

Well, I want to talk about both of them. I want to make this point that one of them seems like a New Year's movie and the other one does not. And I feel like it goes to what I was saying earlier where Boogie Nights it does. I don't know, it just feels like they make they reinforced the New Year's piece of it more than in Godfather. Godfather, It's just part of this massive you use the word set piece earlier, and certainly the party for Batista, that's all you know. It's yeah, it's New Year's and feels it's just everything kind of seems the drama is paying off so fully in that scene, everything between Michael and Fredo and Michael's plan is coming to fruition or starting to the mechanics anyways of it, and the drama almost seems

like it's too big for the New Year's scenery piece of it. So maybe that's why I never really think of that movie as a New Year's movie. Great movie obviously, Whereas with Boogie Knights, they're set in this New Year's Eve party and the drama that unfolds there is more of a surprise, perhaps more of a shocking turn that you're not expecting. You can kind of and Godfather too, you can kind of see what Michael's working up to.

He kind of knows this is gonna happen. He doesn't set Fredo up, but he's kind of fishing to get the information from Fredo because he already suspects him. Somewhat does the audience kind of being brought along even if you don't realize it. The Little Bill thing in Boogie Nights, the first time I watched it was a total shock.

Absolutely, It was up until that point like you were laughing, and you've been laughing at Little Bill every time he turns around. His wife's like going to town with some guy, and there's a whole group of people watching and it's and he's sort of like the butt of the joke.

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And I definitely encourage you to dig into the two hundred and fifty five plus episode archive of Disgraceland if you're a new listener and get some of that archive action in your life. All Right, I get to get out of here. I got to go to the gym. Then I gotta wrap a ton of presents. I think I'm gonna watch someone emailed Zeth. I saw this email in the inbox mentioned Beautiful Girls as a Christmas movie, and I never think of that Timothy Hutton Natalie Portman film as a Christmas movie, but it absolutely is. And I think I'm going to put that on tonight while I'm wrapping gifts later on. And if you haven't seen Beautiful Girls, there you go. There's a little recommendation for you, all right. Number one, this week our episode on Johnny

Ace and Elvis Presley that is available for you right now. Get the Christmas tragedy vibes there. Number two rewind episodes on lou Reed coming this week right after this after party. Number three Derek and the Dominoes happen to next week with the Loss and Family Christmas Murder. Number four Zeth is going to give you those Hollywood and crime vibes and Hollywood lands, so make sure you're subscribe. Number five, this film should be played loud. Our new episode on Goodfellas.

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Joan Biez was arrested on December nineteenth, nineteen sixty seven, and yere's what America was listening to on that day, according to the Billboard Charts. Number one Daydream Believer The Monkeys last week one weeks on chart six peak position one, number two. I Heard It through the Grapevine. Gladys Knight and the Pips last week two weeks on chart ten, peak position two, number three, Hello Goodbye the Beatles last week in the Miracles weeks on chart four weeks on position number four. And my second last emotion last week Smokey Robinson in the Miracles last week four last weeks on chart eight numbers peak position number five. Woman Woman Gary Pucket. Quit talking and start mixing

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