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

Just a touch to get you through?

Yeah, me too.

This is the podcast that comes after the podcast.

Welcome to 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 you from one full episode of disgrace land to the other, the backyard to dig into the dirt.

On this bonus episode, we are talking about this week's episode subject, Martin Scorsese,

and his violent fantasy and itty-bitty-biddy-ditty.

We are also getting into the next two episodes hitting your feed in honor of the upcoming

Academy Awards,

our classic two-parter on Marilyn Monroe. And we get into your voicemails, text, DMs, emails,

and as always, a whole lot of rosy. writing a script for one of the biggest stars in the world in collaboration with his production team, his key producer, and in partnership

with a screenwriting buddy of mine. This was a movie, a biopic, not about a rock star, but

nonetheless about a legend. Someone that my buddy and I, but mainly my buddy, not me,

had put all the pieces together for,

including meeting with and working with this legend's family multiple times. It was all

quite heady. And for the first six months or so, it was difficult, but nothing seemed too

hard and certainly nothing about the project seemed impossible, despite, you know, the people we were

working with and who we were writing this screenplay about. This, however, as they say, would not last.

The project, like most film projects, crashed and burned. I was just about to say crashed

and burned for reasons that were beyond my control. But if I'm being

honest, some of those reasons were within my control. If only I had the insane drive that it takes

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