Bonus Episode: Conspiracies, Kanye, and Contrition

DISGRACELAND

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Society & Culture, Music, True Crime

4.6 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This week in the after party Jake consider's Ye's recent ad in the Wall Street Journal apologizing for his actions over the last few years. Is Kanye's contrition genuine, or is there some other, more cynical motivation behind it? We get into all of it plus some extra crazy Kanye and David Bowie related conspiracy theories in the exclusive All Access section, and as always Jake takes your voicemails, text, emails, and more. For more wild stories from the world of music and true crime, check out these Disgraceland episodes: Bjork David Bowie To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Double Elvis.
0:08.4	Hey, Discos.
0:09.9	Need a little more disgrace land in your life?
0:12.0	Just a touch to get you through?
0:14.4	Yeah, me too.
0:15.7	This is the podcast that comes after the podcast.
0:18.7	Welcome to Disgraceland, the after party.
0:34.9	Welcome to the disgrace land bonus episode, a little thing we like to call the after party.
0:40.2	This is the show after the show, the party after the party, the bridge to get you from one full
0:44.1	episode of Discrace Land to the other, the backyard to dig into the dirt.
0:48.1	Our mission to uncover the truth, to confront the myth, to reclaim the story.
0:51.9	On this bonus episode, we are discussing Lady Gaga conspiracies, Kanye West's apology. And in our exclusive section, we're gonna dig into the David Bowie Kanye West conspiracy to end all conspiracies. Plus, tell the stories they didn't want told, the kind you'll end up telling someone else. All right, discos, let's get into it.
1:24.1	Okay, as noted in our recent episode on Lady Gaga, the best conspiracy theories are fueled by bizarre truths, which is why the Gaga conspiracy theories are compelling compared to say the conspiracy theories about Kanye West.
1:41.9	The theory that Kanye is a clone, the theory that Kanye is Taylor Swift's
1:47.9	protector, that Kanye is David Bowie's star man. This theory, by the way, is bat-shake crazy,
1:54.4	and Zeth and I are unpacking it in the exclusive section of the after-party. That's coming up later. The Kanye-Bowie theory aside,
2:03.8	though, there are also the numerous conspiracy theories. Kanye himself has spread. Now,
2:10.3	most are gross, anti-Semitic vitriol that I'm not going to repeat here, but good examples of the awful behavior that Kanye is now
2:21.6	seeking to redeem himself of. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is news, okay? Just this past Monday
2:30.6	on January 25th, 2006, Kanye, excuse me, I keep calling him Kanye. I'm supposed to call
2:36.9	him Ye or Ye or however the hell it's pronounced. I'm calling him Kanye. Kanye took out a full
2:43.5	page in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week on Monday. Okay. I'm going to read it in its
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