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DISGRACELAND

Prince: Dark Funk and Fentanyl

DISGRACELAND

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

Music, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.613.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Few pop artists achieved the dizzying creative and career highs that Prince did. An artist who famously stayed away from drugs and most anything that would cause him to lose control, Prince was aided in his legendary musical output by a small army of creative alter egos, who helped him maintain control and helped him reign supreme as one of the greatest pop musicians of all time, until of course, all control was lost. This episode was originally published on June 9, 2020. To view the full list of contributors, see the show notes at www.disgracelandpod.com. To listen to Disgraceland ad free and get access to a monthly exclusive episode, weekly bonus content and more, become a Disgraceland All Access member at disgracelandpod.com/membership. Sign up for our newsletter and get the inside dirt on events, merch and other awesomeness - GET THE NEWSLETTER Follow Jake and DISGRACELAND: Instagram YouTube X (formerly Twitter)  Facebook Fan Group TikTok . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Double Elvis.

0:07.3

So in 1999, Blink 182 released a song called Aliens Exist.

0:13.1

I thought they were joking.

0:14.8

Turns out they weren't.

0:16.0

Turns out that not only was Blink 182's tombed along dead serious about aliens,

0:20.6

but that also Tom was right.

0:24.0

You might have seen the hashtag, hashtag Tom was right.

0:26.6

So I saw it.

0:27.4

I wanted to know what the hell was going on.

0:28.8

And then when I found out a little bit about it, I wanted to know why a successful rock star,

0:32.3

like Tom DeLong would risk his credibility and dedicate such a large part of his life

0:36.9

to the disclosure of government

0:38.6

secrecy around the subject of whether or not aliens exist. So I made a little disgrace land

0:45.7

documentary for you guys in partnership with Moment.com and Patreon. This doc is entitled,

0:51.4

We are Not Alone. Music won't save us, but Tom DeLong might.

0:55.3

And it'll be available exclusively to both our free and paid Patreon members as a drop.

1:00.9

And will premiere in Patreon on December 12, 2024 at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

1:06.7

So mark your calendars.

1:08.1

I'm going to be part of this event.

1:09.2

I'll be in the chat live commenting while we're all watching it.

1:12.2

I'll be answering your questions.

1:13.9

This is going to be a lot of fun.

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