ON THIS DAY - April 8th
The Big Honker Podcast
Andy Shaver & Jeff Stanfield
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this series, Jeff and Andy look at historical events that took place on this day.
Today in history, the body of a grunge music icon is found, a former First and Second Lady is born, and a wrestling superstar passes away days after being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
This series is brought to you by the great Boss Shot Shells.
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| 0:00.0 | And... I'm All right. |
| 0:48.3 | Three, two, one. |
| 0:51.6 | Boom. |
| 0:52.4 | And welcome to the Big Honker podcast. |
| 1:10.9 | Today's episode of today, brought to you by Boss Shotshel. Go check him out at bossshotshel's.com. What do you got, Andrew? April 8th. This is the day we found Kurt Cobain. Found him dead. Dead. Okay. |
| 1:17.9 | On April 5th, he died by apparent suicide, shotgun blast to the head. |
| 1:22.9 | He has found three days later by an electrician going to install something. |
| 1:23.6 | I'll get to that in a minute. |
| 1:30.8 | Kurt Cobain had struggled with drug addiction, particularly heroin, as well as some mental health issues, including depression. |
| 1:35.9 | And he was married to Courtney Love. She's still alive? I think so. I think she is too. |
| 1:45.1 | So he was also, it was rumored that he felt uncomfortable with fame and the direction that his music career was taken, despite Nirvana's massive success, |
| 1:47.7 | especially after Nevermind 1991. |
| 1:54.2 | Kurt Cobain expressed disillusionment with the music industry and how his message was being interpreted. |
| 1:55.4 | So 1994, he is dead. |
| 1:59.7 | How old was he when he died? |
| 2:01.2 | He joins the 27 club. |
| 2:03.3 | Well, he was very talented. |
| 2:04.8 | Join the 27 club. |
| 2:06.1 | Do you know who else is in the 27 club? |
| 2:08.2 | Janice Joplin. |
| 2:09.6 | She is. |
| 2:13.6 | Jim Morrison? |
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