S21E12: James Brown
Trashy Divorces
Hemlock Creatives
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
James Brown was known by a lot of titles: The Godfather of Soul and The Hardest Working Man in Show Business among them, but as Alicia shares, his personal life was more than a little bit of a catastrophe. From trouble with the law, to trouble with the IRS, to extremely abusive relationships with women, this musical legend's legacy is mixed at best. And was he murdered?
Content warning: This episode contains graphic descriptions of domestic violence.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody and welcome to trashy divorces. |
| 0:03.5 | Everyone's favorite good podcast about bad relationships. |
| 0:07.4 | My name is Stacey. |
| 0:09.4 | And Alicia, what do you have for me today? |
| 0:12.6 | Y'all all got to get up off that thing and dance till you feel better. |
| 0:17.1 | Today, trashy divorces of the Godfather of Soul, the hardest working man and show business won James Brown. |
| 0:24.2 | Yeah, all right. |
| 0:25.4 | Talent, showmanship. |
| 0:27.3 | James Brown revolutionizes. |
| 0:28.9 | Legend, yeah. |
| 0:29.9 | The genre of funk music with his unique combinations of R&B and gospel when soul performs his way into being one of the most influential musicians |
| 0:39.5 | of the 20th century. For our purposes, so many wives. So, so, so much trash. |
| 0:49.6 | Putting this in after the recording, but adding it into the beginning part of the intro because, wow, this one probably needs a content warning. |
| 1:01.0 | There are some explicit depictions of domestic violence later in the story. |
| 1:05.3 | Drug use, evasion from the law. There's a lot. There's some true crime. |
| 1:11.8 | There's some murders. |
| 1:13.2 | There's some allegations. |
| 1:14.1 | Just heads up. |
| 1:14.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.3 | If you are sensitive to pretty much anything you could be sensitive to, |
| 1:20.6 | it's probably in the story. |
| 1:23.3 | It is probably in the story of James Brown. |
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