This episode features some stuff you probably won't want your kids to hear.

There's descriptions about sex abuse and a lot of it involves minors.

We'll begin in a few seconds.

If I had not discovered two things, round about age 13,

the music of the Velvet Underground,

and Leicester Banks writing about the Velvet Underground,

I think I'd be a fat racist Jersey City cop,

a sadistic prison guard, or a miserable depressed accountant in Montclair, New Jersey,

like pretty much everybody I went to high school with.

Jim D. Reggottis is a Leicester Banks fan.

Leicester Banks, for those of you who don't know, is a legendary rock critic.

He said in rock and roll, there are no facts. There are only myths.

Now, I disagree with him about that. Of course, there are facts.

But rock and roll and popular music are, of course, in large part, about myth-building.

Jim also just wrote a book called Solus, the Case Against Arkelli.

There's the myth of Arkelli, the voice of a generation,

the R&B superstar, the smooth lover, the soulful, religious man, and then there's the reality.

The biggest predator in the history of popular music.

I know the names of 48 women whose lives he's significantly damaged,

and I'm sure that there are many more.

How much do you know about Arkelli's early life?

I think I have a very good picture of his early life,

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