Pearl: The Death of Janis Joplin

History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

Tim Scott

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2017

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

In the 1950s, Janis Joplin grew up as a outcast in the small, conservative town of Port Author, Texas. Leaving her home town behind, Janis would go on to become a Rock and Roll Icon by the age of 25. By the time Janis was 27, she was dead of a heroin overdose.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome once again to History Dweeps. I am Tim and welcome to the podcast where we take a lighthearted look at the dark side of history.
0:14.3	And today we're going to talk about one of the greatest legends of rock and roll, and that is Janice Joplin.
0:22.7	The title of our podcast is Pearl, the Death of Janice Joplin.
0:26.8	We're going to talk about Janice's life, her career, and her tragic death at the age of 27.
0:36.3	She was a member of the 27 Club.
0:39.7	She is.
0:40.1	There's a bunch of about that, Timmy.
0:41.8	Yeah.
0:43.1	Kirk Cobain was the last one, wasn't he?
0:45.8	No.
0:46.4	No, Amy Whitehouse.
0:48.4	Yeah.
0:49.0	So we're going to talk about Janice.
0:51.1	But before we do, let me introduce my co-host.
0:57.2	Our regular, we don't have a regular panel here today.
1:01.3	Brandy had an important event that she had to attend.
1:04.1	So today you're going to be with me and the colonel.
1:07.3	It wasn't really important.
1:08.9	It's a Friday.
1:10.2	Well, it is Friday.
1:11.4	The devil tends to schedule a meetings on Friday's and then run out of here. Let's face it, she's at a bar. Yeah, she's at a bar. Yeah, I was just trying to, you know, I was trying to sugarcoat it. But yeah, she's at a bar someplace. But that's okay. We can do this, Colonel. I would like to introduce the most dangerous man in podcasting today.
1:12.2	The very,
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