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Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. Mama Cass Elliott's life, career, both with and without the Mamas and the Pappas.

Her complex relationship with both the victims of the Manson family murders and with the

murderers themselves,

both alleged and convicted, is so complex that we needed two episodes to properly tell this story.

If you're just getting hip to this now, I suggest you hit pause and go back to the previous episode

of Disgraceland, part one of the Mama Cass Elliott story,

where we get into Cass' skyrocketing fame and mold-breaking pop stardom,

her challenging solo career, her romantic relationship with not one but two international drug

dealers, her role as Hollywood's hippie denmother, her connections to the Manson family, and her arrest

in Hollywood.

In this episode, we further explore Cass's entanglement with Charles Manson, her close friend Sharon

Tate and Sharon's husband filmmaker Roman Polanski, as well as Cass's alleged involvement in

some of the long-rumored hedonistic

events at Sharon and Roman's home on Cello Drive, events that put Mama Cass at the center

of a counter-narrative that explosively disrupts the supposed motive for the Manson family murders.

And we debunk the silly, fat-shaming myth surrounding Cass

Elliot's own death that has persisted for nearly 50 years. We, of course, hit upon Cass's

solo music career, great music made by one of the last century's most unique stars. Unlike that music

I played for you at the top of the show,

that wasn't great music. That was a preset loop from my Melotron called Play You, Play Me,

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