BADLANDS

By Jake Brennan

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Episodes: 40

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The mysterious death of Brittany Murphy. David Lynch and the real-life brutal murder that inspired Twin Peaks. Steve McQueen’s brush with Charles Manson. The three conspiracies surrounding Marilyn Monroe’s death. The indecent arrest of John Waters. Dennis Hopper’s easy riding and excessive 70s Hollywood. Woody Harrelson’s Dad’s connection to the JFK assassination. The obsessive murder of Dorothy Stratten. Bill Murray’s bust. Chris Farley burning out too soon. Al Pacino’s armed robbery. The serial killer and Gianni Versace. Heath Ledger’s overdose. If it’s a story that meets up at the corner of Hollywood and True Crime, then it’s an episode of HOLLYWOODLAND, the show that explores the lives of our most celebrated actors and actresses through the true crimes that have most impacted them. Hosted and produced by award winning podcaster Jake Brennan, creator of DISGRACELAND, HOLLYWOODLAND is the first true spin-off of DISGRACELAND and is produced similarly with edge-of-your-seat storytelling and gripping, immersive sound design by the folks at Double Elvis. Episodes are roughly 30 minutes long and released every Monday.

Episode Date
Introducing: HOLLYWOODLAND…
Mar 24, 2025
James Dean: A Death Foretold, a Gruesome Publicity Stunt, and a Haunted Car
Mar 17, 2025
Charlie Sheen: Tiger Blood, Porn Stars, and the High-Priest Vatican Assassin Warlock
Mar 17, 2025
Danny Trejo: A Prison Riot, the Gas Chamber, and Becoming Fear
Mar 17, 2025
Drew Barrymore: Curses, Corpses, and a Coked-Up Child Star in the Club
Mar 17, 2025
Sean Penn: A Prison Escape, The Night Stalker, and Madonna’s True Blue Bad Boy
Mar 17, 2025
Patty Hearst: Brainwashing, Cyanide Bullets, and an Heiress-Turned-Terrorist 
Mar 17, 2025
Mel Gibson: Sin, Salvation, and Staring Down the Barrel of a Gun
Mar 17, 2025
The Black Dahlia (Elizabeth Short): A Gruesome Murder, a Corrupt Police Department, and an Unsolvable Mystery
Mar 17, 2025
Armie Hammer: Dirty Texts, Bloodthirsty Fetishes, and a Cannibal Kink
Mar 17, 2025
John Huston: A Duel, a Fatal Car Crash, and Living Hand to Mouth
Mar 17, 2025
Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom, Sofia Coppola, and The Bling Ring
Mar 17, 2025
The Dating Game Killer: Persuasion, Charm, and a Depraved Murderer at Large
Mar 17, 2025
Lucille Ball: Gun Wounds, Refugees, and the Redhead Who Survived the Red Scare
Mar 17, 2025
Robert Blake: Child Actors, Killer Roles, and the Murder of Bonny Lee Bakley
Mar 17, 2025
Jane Fonda: Hailed for Heroism, Accused of Treason, and Targeted by the President
Mar 17, 2025
George Reeves: Elusive Truth, Absent Justice, and the American Way...Hollywood Style
Mar 17, 2025
Judy Garland: Seconals, Benzedrine, and Dexedrine…Oh My
Mar 17, 2025
The Misfits: Car Wrecks, Heart Attacks, Marilyn Monroe, and One of Hollywood’s Most Cursed Films
Mar 17, 2025
Bob Crane of Hogan’s Heroes: Sex, Lies, Videotape, and Murder
Mar 17, 2025
Andy Warhol: Fame, the Future, and Back from the Dead
Mar 17, 2025
Steve McQueen: Mustangs, Magnums, and Manson's Hit List
Mar 17, 2025
Heath Ledger: Baited with Drugs, Beaten to a Pulp, and Beyond the Point of No Return
Mar 17, 2025
William S. Burroughs: Obscenity, a Decapitated Mouse, and the Deadly William Tell Routine
Mar 17, 2025
Gianni Versace: Sly Stallone, Madonna, Elton John, a Serial Killer, and the Death of the Sun King
Mar 17, 2025
Al Pacino: Good and Evil, Attempted Robbery, and the Role of a Lifetime
Mar 17, 2025
Brittany Murphy: Pills, Paranoia, and Poison
Mar 17, 2025
Alfred Hitchcock: Killers, Auteurs, and Survivors
Mar 17, 2025
Harry Houdini: A Ghost Story
Mar 17, 2025
River Phoenix: Religious Cults, Street Kids, Speedballs, and Viper Rooms
Mar 17, 2025
Sigourney Weaver: A Goddess, Beasts and Demons, and Paying Tribute from Death Row
Mar 17, 2025
Brandon Lee: Hungry Ghosts, Cursed Movies, and a Goth Masterpiece
Mar 17, 2025
Woody Harrelson: Contract Killers, JFK Conspiracies, and Fathers & Sons
Mar 17, 2025
Chris Farley: Raging Bulls, Insatiable Appetites, Dead Comics, and a Four-Day Plunge off the Edge
Mar 17, 2025
Bill Murray: Airport Drug Busts, Backstage Brawls, and Crashing Elvis’s Burial
Mar 17, 2025
Richard Pryor: Stabbing, Shooting, F***ing, Burning, and Freebasing
Mar 17, 2025
Dorothy Stratten: A Playboy Pinup, a Private Investigator, and a Chilling Murder
Mar 17, 2025
Dennis Hopper: Dynamite, Cocaine, Cheating Death, Subverting Hollywood, and Life on the Fringe
Mar 17, 2025
Marilyn Monroe (Part 2): The Three Deaths of an Iconic American Actress
Mar 17, 2025
Marilyn Monroe (Part 1): Who killed Marilyn? JFK? RFK? The KKK? Probable Suicide and a Conspiracy Theory That Won’t Quit
Mar 17, 2025