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Disgrace Land is a production of Double Elvis.

The stories about Marilyn Monroe are insane.

She was without a doubt the biggest female star on the planet.

She went from orphaned to power player at a time when actors, never mind female actors, controlled little in Hollywood.

Yet she was ravaged by anxiety, depression, addiction, and insecurity.

But it didn't hold her back.

She single-handedly changed America's attitudes on sex, posed nude in 1952, and didn't apologize for it. She betted, married, and otherwise conquered America's most impressive men, Joe DiMaggio, Arthur Miller, Frank Sinatra, and President

John F. Kennedy, to name a few. And up until her untimely death, Marilyn Monroe made

great films. Unlike that loop, played for you at the top of the

show, that wasn't from a great film. That was a preset loop from a Melotron called the one that says

some pulp, MK2. I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to Hey Baby by Bruce Chanel.

And why would I play you that specific slice of dirty log dancing cheese could I afford it?

Because that was the number one song in America on May 19, 1962.

And that was the day Marilyn Monroe sang happy birthday to the president of the United

States of America in front of the entire world and firmly cemented the rumors that they were

both entangled in a scandalous affair. Rumors that were proved to be at the center of a long-running

conspiracy theory

surrounding Marilyn Monroe's death three months later.

On this episode,

anxiety, female power moves, sex, scandal, conspiracy,

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