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DISGRACELAND

Bonus Episode: One Night at the Viper Room, a Disgraceland Special Event, and Remembering River Phoenix

DISGRACELAND

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4.613.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week in the After Party, Jake looks back at the fateful night of October 31, 1993, when River Phoenix collapsed and died at the Viper Room in Los Angeles. We announce a special Disgraceland Live Stream event coming on October 9th, plus, we hear from listeners on the greatest actors of the 1990s and more. As we prepare for next week's episode on Matthew Perry, we want to know: What do you think is the greatest television show of all time? Why? Let Jake know at 617-906-6638, disgracelandpod@gmail.com, or on socials @disgracelandpod.

For more great Disgraceland episodes, dive into our extensive archive, including such episodes as:

Episode 94 - Tom Petty

Episode 63 - Chet Baker

Episode 188 - Al Pacino

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0:00.0

Hey Discos, need a little more disgrace land in your life?

0:05.0

Just a touch to get you through?

0:07.3

Yeah, me too.

0:08.7

This is the podcast that comes after the podcast.

0:11.7

Welcome to Disgraceland bonus episode, a little thing we like to call the after party.

0:33.4

This is the show after the show, the party after the party, the bridge to get you from one full

0:37.9

episode of disgrace land to the other, the backyard to dig into the dirt. On this bonus episode, we are

0:44.2

talking about this week's subject of the disgrace land full episode, River Phoenix. Great actors from the

0:49.6

1990s. We've also got a special disgraceland announcement, and of course, we are diving into your

0:54.9

voicemails, texts, and more. And as always, a whole lot of aggravated assault for shooting his gun at two off-duty police officers the day before.

1:25.8

Also, on October 31, 1993, English actress Letitia Wright was born.

1:32.1

Letitia would go on to act in the film Black Panther, a big budget, mainstream superhero

1:36.4

flick that loosely played homage to the radical Black Panther political party from the 60s and

1:40.8

the 70s, an organization that Tupac Shakur was raised in, basically.

1:46.0

Tupac's mother and stepfather were both members of the Marxist-Leninist Black Panther political

1:50.3

group. Federico Fellini, the famous and influential filmmaker, had no politics.

1:56.0

His films, at least, were apolitical in nature. He died on October 31st, 1993. Phelini was a major influence on

2:04.3

director Tim Burton. Tim Burton's filmmaking, with its distinctive style, is described as Burton-esque,

2:10.5

in the same way that Felini's filmmaking is described as Felini-esque. On the day that Federico

2:16.7

Fellini died on October 31st, 1993,

2:20.2

Tim Burton had the number one movie at the box office, A Nightmare Before Christmas.

2:25.4

Currently, in 2004, 31 years later, the internet is alight with rumors that a live-action

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