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🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, what is up, discos? |
0:01.3 | Jake Brennan, your host here this month. |
0:03.1 | As you know, we're celebrating our fifth year, our five year anniversary of this great |
0:06.9 | sign. We just launched our eleventh season to go along with that. So if you haven't already, |
0:11.7 | go listen to our new episodes, our episode on 50 Cent. We've got a great episode on ACDC. |
0:16.4 | They're both great, but ACDC is probably my first favorite band and I'm really pumped on the work |
0:21.7 | we did with both of these. So check them out. If you're already caught up, if you've heard these |
0:25.7 | two episodes, you can go listen to where it all began. You can go back to the beginning. |
0:29.5 | Listen to the previously exclusive season one of Discrease Land with stories on Jerry Lee Lewis, |
0:34.3 | Sid Vicious, Bob Merley, James Brown, and many more. You can listen to Discrease Land right now, |
0:38.8 | wherever you get your podcasts, Apple podcasts, iHeartRadio app, Spotify Stitcher, |
0:42.8 | CastBox, and Amazon Music, RakaRolla. Discrease Land is a production of Double Elvis. |
0:52.8 | A quick heads up for those who may be triggered by tales of sexual abuse and violence. |
0:57.2 | This episode of Discrease Land depicts both. |
1:12.4 | The story about the king of western swing, Spade Cooley, is insane. He was a violent, drunk, |
1:18.9 | and homicidal psychopath with a time was one of the biggest stars in the country. |
1:23.2 | His TV show reached millions. He appeared in countless movies scored numerous top 10 hits, |
1:29.8 | and once hosted Frank Sinatra as a favor to help Frank get his career going again. |
1:36.1 | But Spade Cooley had no heart. Spade Cooley cared only about Spade Cooley. |
1:42.1 | He was mean, jealous, abusive, and almost totally driven by the deep-seated insecurity |
1:48.1 | that he wasn't good enough for any of the women in his life. A fear that in the end proved to be |
1:54.1 | tragic for both him and his family. But Spade Cooley made great music. That music you heard at the |
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