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Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis.

The story The stories about Scott Weilin are insane.

He was sent to a psych ward at the age of 16.

He went to rehab 13 times, 13 times in three years, for addictions to heroin and cocaine.

Those addictions caused him to hallucinate quote-unquote demonic forces,

forces which he claimed tried to harm him in his own house.

Not unlike the real forces of evil, three muggers in Paris who abducted him and nearly killed him.

Scott Weiland, of course, did not die at the hands of French thugs, but instead by the grip of his own

habit, which took his life at the age of 48, leaving behind great music. Music made as the frontman

of Stone Temple Pilots and later Velvet Revolver. Unlike that clip I played for you at the top of the

show, that wasn't great music. That was a preset loop from my Melotron called Sentimental Shuffle, MK2.

I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to Jeannie in a bottle by Christina Aguilera.

And why would I play you that specific slice of rub me the right way cheese could I afford it?

Because that was the number one song in America on August 13th, 1999, and that was the day that Scott Weiland was sentenced to a year

in prison for repeatedly violating his probation on an earlier heroin possession charge.

On this episode, psych wards, rehab, Parisian muggers, demonic forces, and Scott Weiland.

I'm Jake Brennan, and this is Disgraceland.

Thank you. Graceland.

The buzz coming from the other side of the door was splitting his skull in two.

Everything was shaking, the floor, his hands.

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