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July 12, 2017 - Knowledge Fight - Bonus
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Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe's life and death are dissected, tracing her path from a troubled childhood to strategic scandal use under 20th Century Fox. The hosts debunk JFK and RFK affair rumors, noting only one verified encounter with the president. They analyze her August 5, 1962, death: found nude with locked doors, surrounded by pills but no water, potentially via an unverified enema. While theories range from CIA conspiracies to Dr. Greenson's betrayal or morgue misconduct, the discussion concludes that despite sensational speculation, she likely overdosed on drugs, possibly after a staged suicide attempt. [Automatically generated summary]

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Quitting the Coffee Shop Job 00:06:45
unidentified
All I do is smash heads, bro.
dan friesen
Hey, everybody.
How's it going out there in Podcastiverse?
What's up?
Dan Friesen here.
Happy Thursday to you and yours.
It's a good one over here in Chicago.
It's warm outside.
And to make a little bit of an announcement, I quit my coffee shop job.
unidentified
Yay.
dan friesen
To celebrate, I'm here joined in the studio by the one, the only, Marty DeRosa.
marty derosa
The quitter of quitters.
Boy, have I quit a lot of things.
dan friesen
I think you and I could trade good quitting stories.
Like, we could be the salty guys at a bar.
marty derosa
One time I. Did you give him notice?
Fuck no.
dan friesen
One time I called in, I was working at a Office Max, Office Depot or Office Max, can't remember.
I was working, I had to be in by like 7 in the morning, and I hated it.
The guy who was training me was this huge, bald, super Christian dude, and he was just talking to me about God while we're trying to restock shelves and stuff like that, and like, I'm carrying huge reams of paper in the morning, it's awful, and so one day I was just like, I'm not doing it.
I woke up, And I called my boss.
I'm like, hey, my car won't start.
I can't make it in.
And he's like, okay, look, I need you in.
I'll pay for your cab.
Just get a cab and when you get here, we'll pay for it.
I'm like, ah, I don't really feel comfortable with that.
You know, like, I feel like I would owe you money and I don't want to owe my employer money.
It just feels weird.
He's like, all right, I'll tell you what.
Then I'm going to send one of our coworkers.
They'll come and pick you up.
You know, no money.
unidentified
Shit.
dan friesen
I'm like, I don't, look, you got to open the store.
It would be, you know, you would be one man down.
It would be super inconvenient.
I just kept coming up with things.
And finally he's like, uh, he's like, what's going on?
He was like, I quit.
And he's like, fuck you.
I just hung up.
unidentified
Damn.
marty derosa
I remember one time.
Yeah, we were going to, we were going to do some day drinking and I was going to quit Barnes and Noble.
And I just called up.
I'm like, Hey, what's up?
It's Marty.
Uh, they're like, yeah, you're scheduled for today.
I'm like, Oh yeah, I know.
I'm not going to come in.
dan friesen
Funny story about that.
marty derosa
Funny story.
And I remember just so upbeat.
And then I'm like, and they're like, you know, if you don't come in, you can, don't bother coming back.
I'm like, Yep, no problem.
dan friesen
That's the idea.
marty derosa
And then I hung up.
My friends go, Well, that was the most upbeat, uh, quitting of a job I've ever heard.
dan friesen
Yeah, I quit on the phone yesterday, last night, and it was right before a recording of Jam Sandwich with Nick Rowley.
marty derosa
It's a jam sandwich.
unidentified
All right.
marty derosa
The Nick Rowley sound.
dan friesen
The thing that he said, he was like, that was very fun, not fun, but adult sounding.
I was like, I didn't even realize that I had a real chipper attitude about it.
It's this weird interaction because it sucks for them, but it's the best thing in the world for you.
marty derosa
Sure.
dan friesen
So you're happy about it, they're not happy about it.
marty derosa
Also, and maybe this is our.
Our generation, maybe.
dan friesen
Or milieu.
marty derosa
Or whatever.
But, you know, it'd be like, ah, they're a giant company.
They're going to be all right.
dan friesen
Yeah, these stupid corporations, these faceless.
marty derosa
Had you told people on the podcast, I don't know, you haven't said where you were.
dan friesen
It was Starbucks.
marty derosa
It was Starbucks.
I liked how far out tried to say, what does it rhyme with?
And you're like, nope, not going down that road.
dan friesen
I didn't know how long I'd be there, and I felt like inevitably disparaging things would be said.
So I didn't want to, like, and I accidentally let slip to the people that I had a radio show.
unidentified
Oh.
dan friesen
And so, like, I knew that they could Google it.
marty derosa
Did you ever see anyone you knew there?
unidentified
Huh.
dan friesen
I did boo Bobby Buds when he was on, he was giving a tour.
marty derosa
Okay, okay.
dan friesen
And I saw Matt Riggs giving a tour one time, and Drees visited me for lunch once.
But outside of that, no, not really.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
I did go on a date with a girl who sent a picture of me to her friend.
You know, it's sort of like, this is the guy I'm going out on a date with.
unidentified
Wow.
dan friesen
And her friend was like, oh, that guy works at my Starbucks.
What?
So that was one connection.
But no, there was never, it was weird.
I mean, when would any of our friends be downtown in the morning?
Except for jobs, maybe.
marty derosa
Maybe jobs.
dan friesen
That's the only.
A lot of our friends are fucking degenerates.
marty derosa
Maybe someone hooked up with a fancy lady.
dan friesen
Walk of shame from a downtown loft.
Oh man, that's not a walk of shame.
marty derosa
No, it's a walk of pride.
unidentified
Absolutely.
marty derosa
That's one of my old jokes.
dan friesen
Is that right?
marty derosa
Oh, we don't have walks of shame, ladies.
Then I walk down the street and I go to homeless people.
See that window up there?
I fucked the lady who owns that window.
So, you know what?
You close a short, a very short chapter in your life.
dan friesen
It was about a month.
I got a new job.
That's the reason I quit.
marty derosa
You know what they say in the wrestling business?
dan friesen
What's that?
marty derosa
You were there for a cup of coffee.
unidentified
Boom!
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's a good expression.
I did get another job, and that's the reason that I felt so comfortable with just like, peace.
unidentified
Yep.
I'm out.
dan friesen
So, I got another job to nine to five.
marty derosa
Gloria Jean's coffee beans.
dan friesen
More or less.
And still in the coffee biz.
unidentified
Woo!
dan friesen
Which is cool, but it's in the distribution sort of world.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Office, nine to five.
I didn't want to get into another office after, uh, Groupon.bomb.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
But, uh.
marty derosa
I don't know if I could work in an office.
dan friesen
I feel like this office, from everything I've observed and a couple friends who we have who've worked there.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
It seems like a very Different environment.
unidentified
Okay, good.
dan friesen
It's very few people.
marty derosa
It's a small team.
dan friesen
Everybody seems chill, seems cool.
marty derosa
You know people who've worked there in the past?
unidentified
I do.
dan friesen
We both do.
marty derosa
Perfect.
dan friesen
And they speak highly of it.
And a casual environment.
unidentified
Fuck yeah.
Jeans.
Fuck yeah.
dan friesen
A lot of autonomy.
I'm very excited.
marty derosa
They're going to force you to wear jeans?
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
You don't normally wear jeans.
dan friesen
No, they've been testing my jeans.
marty derosa
They're going to force you to wear jeans.
That's wild.
dan friesen
I think I'm going to go capitalize on a few new pairs of slacks this evening, man.
marty derosa
I like it.
dan friesen
They'll make a clothes roll.
unidentified
Why?
marty derosa
Have become a Dickies man.
dan friesen
Is that right?
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
The thick pant.
marty derosa
No, they've got a little skinny pant.
It's got a little stretch to it.
Not too much of a stretch.
dan friesen
That doesn't sound like a Dickie to me.
marty derosa
I enjoy them.
dan friesen
It seems like the world of work pants, like a thicker, hardier kind of a pant.
marty derosa
No, I can tell they're a sturdy pant.
dan friesen
Let me try and cut those things.
marty derosa
They're just, nope, not going to work.
It's just nice.
And my, you know, I have friends who are ladies who might be lady friends.
Likes me in them.
unidentified
Nice.
marty derosa
It's cool.
dan friesen
That's what's important.
marty derosa
It's nice to break up the jean monotony.
dan friesen
Sure.
marty derosa
That's what I'm trying to say because I have my black jeans, which I wear quite often.
dan friesen
I've noticed that.
marty derosa
And then I have my signature look.
dan friesen
Let's just say this.
Let's say jeans or black jeans, a white t shirt, and a leather jacket.
Not a leather jacket, a jean jacket.
marty derosa
You got it.
dan friesen
That's mostly what I see you in.
marty derosa
That's mostly what you will see me in.
dan friesen
That's why I can spot you from like three blocks away.
marty derosa
You did spot me that one time.
dan friesen
More than once.
The Struggle with Work Pants 00:05:24
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
More than once.
I just see you walking.
You got the cocky Marty DeRosa strut, but Rick flaring it down the street.
marty derosa
There's usually.
You know, just some great tunes in my ears.
unidentified
Of course.
marty derosa
And I'm just gliding down the street.
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
Just gliding down the street.
dan friesen
It's the best.
marty derosa
Or I'm listening to Freezing Point, Jam Sandwich.
dan friesen
Our sister podcasts.
marty derosa
It's part of that brotherhood and sisterhood of podcasts.
dan friesen
Our unofficial network.
marty derosa
We really do have an unofficial network.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I like it.
It's better than when I tried to make an official one.
marty derosa
Well, you know.
dan friesen
But anyway, I'm still in deep celebration mode.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I'm excited that we get to do this while I'm in this pink cloud before I realize that any job sucks.
But you know why we're here, Marty.
Yes, we're here to do another episode of That's What They Want You to Think.
marty derosa
Marilyn Monroe, you won the Twitter poll, but you lost the game of life.
unidentified
Was it suicide or was it murder?
marty derosa
I think we are gonna talk about murder more than suicide.
Elton John wrote a song about you.
dan friesen
Bernie Taupin did.
marty derosa
An Illuminati calling card.
That's what they want you to think.
unidentified
Wow.
marty derosa
That's what they want you to think.
You were de- Oh, sorry.
I was gonna do more about that.
unidentified
No.
marty derosa
You were found with no cup of water.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
That's, uh, that is true.
We'll get into that.
Guys, we put out a Twitter poll with three okay conspiracies and one Marilyn Monroe.
marty derosa
The way we crafted this.
dan friesen
Yeah, we were sitting at, uh, Riverview Tavern.
marty derosa
Riverview Tavern, middle of the afternoon.
dan friesen
We were getting into a bit of an argument about what our next episode would be about.
marty derosa
We don't want this to be the true crime podcast.
No.
dan friesen
And we don't want it to be the young women who die mysteriously podcast.
marty derosa
I know, but unfortunately, that's where we're going.
unidentified
No.
marty derosa
Uh, so Dan wants to just.
You know.
dan friesen
I want to talk about Hollow Earth, pretty much.
marty derosa
Let's talk about Hollow Earth.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
Uh, Planet X.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
Uh, what was the third?
dan friesen
Third one was Dracula, just as they like, so in a curveball.
marty derosa
I wanted Dracula so bad.
dan friesen
We'll get to Dracula in the future, I'm sure.
marty derosa
Alright.
dan friesen
Vlad.
marty derosa
Uh, and then we got into good old Marilyn.
dan friesen
We threw Marilyn Monroe almost as an afterthought, cause we need four entries here.
marty derosa
Should've known.
dan friesen
Should've known.
Seriously.
marty derosa
The Pointer Sisters.
You guys want to talk about women getting murdered.
dan friesen
God damn it.
marty derosa
And you want, I get it, you guys want the true crime.
And I'm all about the true crime too.
dan friesen
True crime is, uh, Interesting.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And, uh, it's one of those things that is more factually based than a lot of these other conspiracies.
Like, Hollow Earth, there's very little facts to go on.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
But if you have a murder, there's reports from coroners, there's, there's these things you can go on.
marty derosa
And one of the tasty things about this case, which I, I, maybe there's a lot about, but like, you know, your JFKs, your things like that.
There's, uh, some bed, some, some, uh, hospital bed confessions.
dan friesen
Is that right?
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
I don't, I don't know about that.
marty derosa
I like that.
unidentified
Okay.
marty derosa
That's my favorite emo band.
Deathbed confessions.
dan friesen
Deathbed confessional?
So, just to break in, let's give a little bit of a background.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortensen on June 1st, 1926.
She was born to a woman named Gladys.
She was not the first child of this woman.
However, she had had these other children through a past marriage.
And so, when she got divorced from this other gentleman, he took the kids.
And Marilyn Monroe never knew that she had siblings until she was about 12 years old, grew up thinking she was an only child.
She was born and raised in Los Angeles, and soon.
Very soon after she was born, she ended up in an orphanage and foster homes for the extent of her childhood because her mom was Looney Tunes and ended up having like schizophrenic breaks and was hospitalized in mental institutions.
She was sent around from various orphanages and foster homes, routinely molested by people in those homes.
She ended up going, landing in Van Nuys, California, where she went to high school, which coincidentally, where I was born, and ended up in a situation where she was in a foster home.
The woman who, uh, was her foster parent, her husband had molested her in the past, and his company gave, uh, him a trip, uh, relocated him to West Virginia.
However, the state said, we can't let you take this child out of state boundaries.
Or, you can't, I know you've adopted her and your foster parents, but you can't transport her across state lines.
And in an effort to make sure that she didn't end up back in the orphanage system, what they ended up doing was she was 16 years old, and she married the neighbor's son.
unidentified
Oh, boy.
dan friesen
Son was 21 years old.
They ended up getting married for whatever that convenience is.
Marilyn stays around, or I guess she's still Norma at this point.
But she marries this dude.
They have not a very great marriage.
He ends up joining the Merchant Marines and going off.
And around the same time, she's about 18 years old.
She gets a job in a factory helping supply the war effort.
So she's in this factory making.
marty derosa
She's Rosie the Riveter.
dan friesen
Basically, yeah.
marty derosa
I love it.
dan friesen
She's making propellers and stuff for planes and all this nonsense.
And while she's there.
A photographer who I have to assume is a creep sees her and is like, you'd be great for modeling.
And she goes from the factory and begins her career in pinup modeling.
Marilyn's Rise to Fame 00:15:22
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
Which ends up involving some nudes.
marty derosa
Well, you got to.
dan friesen
Some tasteful nudes.
marty derosa
You got to.
dan friesen
So that's sort of a very brief version of her childhood to her beginnings in show business.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
So what do you know about Marilyn Monroe as a human?
unidentified
Okay.
That's a great question.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, not about her murder, because we'll get to that.
Well, I. Quote unquote murder.
marty derosa
Yeah, I, you know, I'm trying to think, like, as a kid, obviously, like, you hear about Marilyn Monroe, I think more as, like, a pop culture reference.
dan friesen
Sure.
As a style icon.
marty derosa
Yep.
And then I think, like, I think I remember, like, when Madonna was really popular, like, there was, like, she's the new Marilyn Monroe.
That was a thing.
dan friesen
It was very intentional.
marty derosa
Yeah.
And I just kind of feel like Marilyn Monroe was kind of like definitely, like, advertisements a lot, things like that.
dan friesen
You'd see that picture of her with the steam shooting up her dress all over the place.
marty derosa
And then movies, you know what I mean?
I feel like whenever you watch at the Academy Awards, there's always, like, a nod to, like, Marilyn Monroe movies and things like that.
And then I remember.
dan friesen
It's the 40th anniversary of Gentlemen Prefer Blonde.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
marty derosa
And then I remember getting into politics.
Like, and the history.
unidentified
Interesting.
marty derosa
I really did get into it.
Like, I really enjoyed.
Like, I, when I was, even as a kid, I could watch, like, a history documentary.
dan friesen
Or watch McNeil Lair Hour.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
marty derosa
I'm just, oh, this is great.
I'm just eating this all up.
Uh, well, cause I remember watching Saturday Night Live when they would do the McLaughlin group or whatever.
And then, you know, I'd be like, well, I want to watch the real one.
You know what I mean?
dan friesen
Because it's giving me a taste.
marty derosa
And I'd watch it a little bit and I'd kind of be like, okay.
I get what's going on here.
dan friesen
Probably the only child to have that response to a comedy sketch.
marty derosa
So then, uh, I remember hearing the rumblings of like, she had an affair with, uh, JFK.
And this isn't where you, there was no YouTube to go on to be like, let me check this out.
Um, but I do remember, uh, seeing it.
I think I remember asking, like, teachers and stuff like that, like in history class.
It was like whenever, like, JFK would come up.
dan friesen
What do you know about who put it into Maryland?
marty derosa
I'd be like, did he have an affair with Marilyn Monroe?
And they'd be like, ah.
unidentified
Hey, kid.
marty derosa
I don't know.
But then, then I was just like, okay.
Then it was, Like movies I'd see that started, you know, like the JFK biopic or whatever, the Sinatra one, like all those.
Then you start seeing, like, oh, these.
It was to me, it was like the world got smaller seeing how all these people were interconnectedness in each other's lives and stuff.
Then, I mean, just like looking back now, it's just some of it is so crazy.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
Just the level of access she had, the outright, I'm fucking this woman.
The happy birthday thing.
Like, I mean, to me, it's kind of one of those things of when, like, someone clearly brings, like, not their girlfriend to a show, and we all have to be like, okay.
Like, it's like a whole country had to do that.
Like, a whole country had to be like, awkward.
dan friesen
But they didn't know about that at the time.
unidentified
No?
No.
dan friesen
They didn't know about any involvement between JFK and her.
marty derosa
Okay.
dan friesen
At the time.
And we'll get more in depth into that.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because I have some, I have some findings.
marty derosa
Can't wait.
But then, and then I, then I started hearing the, I don't know if it was like, I'm trying to think if I got, when I got real into conspiracy theories, if I got books to the library that were like, guess what?
Or if it was like, a lot of these two came from like Howard Stern of him being like, well, you know, if you think she actually was killed.
And then like, what?
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
You know, so.
dan friesen
There have been a ton of books written about this whole stuff.
marty derosa
It's a sexy, I mean.
dan friesen
But a number of the people who have written these books eventually have come out and been like, that wasn't based on any truth.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
This is just like.
marty derosa
I mean, it's a very sexy story.
dan friesen
Of course.
marty derosa
You have the.
I mean,.
It would be like, you know, if Beyonce was having an affair with Obama right now.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's a great analogy.
marty derosa
And then if Beyonce was found dead, it would be like, yo, come on.
dan friesen
And after Beyonce does a seductive dance for Obama, come on.
unidentified
You fucked up.
marty derosa
That would be crazy.
dan friesen
You're so fucked up.
marty derosa
But that was what happened.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
marty derosa
Or at least that's what they want you to think.
dan friesen
Let's get a little bit of detail about her rise to fame.
marty derosa
Okay.
Yeah, okay.
I have a lot of questions, so hopefully you can answer them.
unidentified
Well, okay.
dan friesen
She was doing this pinup modeling stuff, and she wanted to get into acting.
And so.
She eventually meets some people and, uh, gets signed to 20th Century Fox around 1946.
And she's only signed to, uh, 20th Century Fox, uh, out of spite for another company.
So basically, she auditioned for the head of the studio and he wasn't impressed with her, but he didn't want RKO Studios.
marty derosa
Brandy, Brandy Orton.
dan friesen
Exactly.
Uh, they didn't want them to sign.
marty derosa
RKO Studios out of nowhere.
dan friesen
I only said the name of that.
marty derosa
I know.
dan friesen
So you would.
marty derosa
I love it.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Uh, he, he was like, I don't want them to have her, so we'll sign her, and she's given, like, A couple of lines on things.
Very unsuccessful.
marty derosa
Yeah, and I remembered watching some documentary about her.
Uh, and not a great actress.
unidentified
Nope.
marty derosa
A pain in the ass.
dan friesen
I want to say this before we get too far because we have to walk a pretty interesting line when talking about Marilyn Monroe.
Uh, I don't think that most of the things that she did were ethically wrong, but some of them are not great.
There are things, there's a lot of things, and I'm not in the slut shaming business, but there will be a lot of times where I say things about like how she fucked everybody.
marty derosa
Well, here's the deal, though.
And I mean, look at her childhood.
dan friesen
Exactly.
marty derosa
So, I'm not saying.
I mean, I think she's a product of her environment.
unidentified
Of course.
marty derosa
And I think she's somebody who maybe at a young age learned to use sex as survival.
dan friesen
Probably.
marty derosa
And I'm very.
dan friesen
And as a weapon.
marty derosa
Well, yeah, maybe too.
But also, I mean, like, my heart goes out to anyone who had to go through foster home after foster home getting molested by people.
dan friesen
Your entire childhood's sexual abuse.
marty derosa
So it's just like.
I could never sort of blame her for.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
Not at all.
marty derosa
I wouldn't say just about anything, but I mean.
dan friesen
The other interesting line that we have to walk that I find fascinating is that she is responsible for a lot of really interesting and important things in show business, and then a lot of the things that she does weren't earned.
So there's a lot of things that she actually worked really hard for, and she was.
Eventually, she ended up starting her own studio, the Marilyn Monroe Pictures, and it wasn't a wildly successful thing, but many people credit it with.
A sort of opening salvo in the destruction of the studio system in Hollywood.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So she's responsible for trying to break out on her own in the opening of the war against the studios, which is amazingly important to history.
But then at the same time, if you look at the beginning of her career, every single thing that she got, she got because she was fucking somebody.
She's the mistress of all these dudes.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And basically from 1946 to 1950, she doesn't do anything really of value in terms of show business.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
But she's banging all these dudes, and all of them keep paying for plastic surgery for her.
unidentified
Mm hmm.
dan friesen
So she gets like a jaw lift implant.
She gets her hairline changed through electrolysis.
She gets, it's never been really confirmed, but everyone pretty much suspects that she got rhinoplasty to change her nose at the time.
marty derosa
Okay.
dan friesen
She fixed an overbite that she had.
And basically, by 1950 and a little bit after, she's been sculpted into this mold.
They take her brown hair and dye it platinum blonde.
She becomes an entirely different product.
marty derosa
I like that.
And then she changes her name.
Like, to me, it's very, it's very, it's very, uh, Almost Shakespearean.
dan friesen
She changes her name to Marilyn because the dude that she was handling her at the time chose the name Marilyn, and then Monroe was her mother's maiden name.
And so she takes that and it becomes her moniker.
marty derosa
Like wrestling, we love.
Oh, man.
Cactus Jack?
Not alliteration.
What is it when it's like, be Brian Blair?
dan friesen
That is alliteration.
marty derosa
Oh, it's alliteration.
We love alliteration in wrestling.
dan friesen
Marilyn Monroe.
Yeah, it somehow helps your mouth say things.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
And so.
marty derosa
Except alliteration.
dan friesen
She ends up falling out of contract eventually with 20th Century Fox because nothing is going on.
And she gets picked up by Columbia Pictures.
She gets a little bit of success there, but not really all too much.
But while she's there, she ends up banging around with this guy named Johnny Hyde, who is 50 years old if he's a day.
marty derosa
You were very proud of yourself on that one.
dan friesen
That was my way of trying to cover.
I don't know if he was 50 or 53.
unidentified
I'm not sure.
dan friesen
But they start fucking around, and he is the vice president of William Morris Agency, one of the biggest talent agencies in Los Angeles.
He negotiates a seven year deal for her.
With 20th Century Fox.
unidentified
Mm hmm.
dan friesen
Mysteriously dies of a heart attack literally the next day.
marty derosa
Mysteriously, eh?
dan friesen
He's only 53 or so.
Like, it's not, you know, people lived a little bit harder back then, I guess, you know?
unidentified
Uh huh.
dan friesen
But, yeah, 1950, he dies of a heart attack the day after negotiating a seven year, much better deal with 20th Century Fox.
marty derosa
Okay.
dan friesen
For the lady he's fucking.
unidentified
Alright.
dan friesen
So, this leads to a resurgence in her career.
1952, she's starting to get more roles.
Better movies.
She's starting to be like actually in films as opposed to like, oh, he's in the background.
She's getting write ups and things like, oh, this is a star turn, these sort of things.
marty derosa
Star making performance from Mel Monroe.
dan friesen
Read all about it.
Hear ye.
Hear ye?
unidentified
Is that it?
No.
Hear ye, hear ye.
marty derosa
Extra, extra.
Read all about it.
dan friesen
That's it.
Yeah.
So 1952, her career starting to pick up momentum, and at that point, nude pictures of her surface from her pinup days.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Now, this is where something I think really interesting happens in her life that will come back.
This is the sort of thing that would have destroyed a career in 1952.
marty derosa
It ruined careers in the 80s and 90s.
dan friesen
Yeah, and even more so in the 50s.
Everyone was pretty uptight.
marty derosa
Sure.
dan friesen
So nude pictures of her come out, and instead of being apologetic.
marty derosa
Even though they were tasteful nudes.
dan friesen
Tasteful pin up nudes.
And everybody kind of wants her to be apologetic about it.
And instead, her position is I took those because I was desperately poor, and I needed to survive.
And the public is like, oh, that makes sense.
And they start to like her more.
And it becomes this publicity stunt.
An unintentional publicity stunt, much like the Kim Kardashian sex tape.
marty derosa
Making lemonade and making lemonade out of lemons.
dan friesen
I can't say this without any certainty, but it's one of the biggest, earliest versions of this.
Taking something negative and making it work for you.
And so I think she learns a lesson from that.
Because in the near future, you get her having an interview where she talks about how she never wears underwear.
There's instances of her accidentally taking really ribald pictures.
Like fake candid shots and stuff like that.
I think that she learned about thirst trapping really early.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
And that really served her career.
Yeah.
marty derosa
And it was that whole thing of there's no, all publicity is good publicity.
unidentified
Uh huh.
dan friesen
But it wasn't.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
That's a very untrue statement.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
But the way she did it, I think that that, to me, in looking at the history of her career, 1952 marks the beginning of.
A new mold.
And it marks a new mold in the way that we treat celebrities, too.
Because, like, this thing that we should be judging her for, at least according to mores of 1950, we're now like, oh, oh, Marilyn.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Sorry you had to do that.
We like you.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Humanizing.
Unfortunately, at the same time, she was, as we mentioned, across the board seen as one of the worst people to deal with in Hollywood.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
She would often not show up for cheats and then not know her lines.
Yep.
She'd be high on drugs.
unidentified
Woo!
dan friesen
She'd be insistent that people do tons of takes because she just didn't feel like she'd gotten it right.
Often her acting coaches would have to be there on set.
marty derosa
I recently saw something about all this.
dan friesen
It's nuts.
Yeah.
So she, like, basically everyone was like, fuck, she's marketable, but I hate her.
So everyone didn't like her.
She ends up marrying Joe DiMaggio for nine months.
He becomes a creep and super jealous and starts spying on her and things like that.
They end up getting divorced.
Unfortunately, also at the time, she becomes one of the biggest celebrities in the world, but she still has the contract that she signed.
With Johnny Hyde back years before.
So her contract sucks.
She's being forced to do these movies she doesn't want to do because that's her contract.
She's getting paid way less than she should be.
So she's not living the luxurious life that she presents.
So there's this schism between truth and lies.
And eventually she ends up marrying Arthur Miller, a playwright who's being investigated by the House Un American Activities Committee.
Everyone's afraid that she's going to get blacklisted by Hollywood because she marries or she's.
Banging around with Arthur Miller.
She tells him to fuck off.
She's like, hey, you guys are cowards.
I like this guy.
I don't give a shit what you're saying.
marty derosa
I mean, cementing her badass reputation.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
marty derosa
And there's no, to me, when you start hearing some of these things, there's no mystery why she stuck around for so long and is kind of an icon of a strong woman.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Between that, I will like who I like.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And then on top of that, the starting her own studio.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Those two things are so, it's impossible to overstate.
How crazy it is that she did those things in the 50s.
Amazing.
So, anyway, the movie studio, Arthur Miller, she makes a bunch of movies.
Her studio isn't really successful because they don't really have the money to be.
So, she signs another deal that is better, more lucrative.
She starts making about $100,000 per movie with the understanding that every four movies that she makes on studio, she can make one for her own company.
unidentified
Nice.
dan friesen
And so, you know, that gets into a thing.
She makes the gentleman prefer blonde, some like it hot.
The Seven Year Itch, all of these very critically acclaimed movies and the very successful movies.
And then.
marty derosa
When she makes Mama's Big Old Fat Titties.
That was her fourth one.
dan friesen
I'm just kidding.
She makes a ton of movies, but her star starts to lose it.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And her reputation as being insufferable and on drugs and all these things really starts to catch up with her.
She ends up.
Fuck, what was the.
I can't remember what the last movie she made was.
She's making.
Something's Gotta Give.
marty derosa
Okay.
dan friesen
I believe was the last movie that she made.
And it was such a disaster that she ended up getting fired from the production.
And she was making it.
And Dean Martin was co starring in this.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
How you doing, Dan?
Robert Kennedy and Back Issues 00:15:24
marty derosa
It's me, Dean Martin.
dan friesen
Hey, Daddy O. How you doing?
Talking about Marilyn.
She's making this movie.
She's a pain in the ass.
She's like, get the fuck out.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Dean Martin is like, I don't want to make this movie with anybody else but Marilyn Monroe.
And they're like, Okay, we're suing you too.
unidentified
Oh shit.
dan friesen
So they sue him and they decide, like, fuck, it's not even worth it.
And so they shut down production of the whole thing.
They try and get $750,000 in damages from Marilyn Monroe.
It's just a huge disaster, and it's sort of like her career is.
It's not ruined, but man, it's not good.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
So that was.
I forgot the year on that, but it's not too.
marty derosa
This would have been where maybe now she would have started.
She would have gotten a show on HBO or something, maybe, you know?
dan friesen
Maybe.
That seems even too good.
HBO is a great movie.
unidentified
Netflix.
dan friesen
ABC.
unidentified
ABC.
FX.
dan friesen
FXX.
marty derosa
Maryland.
Coming soon to FXX.
Maryland.
dan friesen
So that was all going on around 1962, early 1962.
unidentified
All right.
dan friesen
Then August 5th, 1962, death.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
She's dead.
Sorry about that, Marty.
That was a lot of info, but I feel like it sets the scene.
marty derosa
Let me ask you a couple questions just to start with.
Sure.
Okay.
You didn't talk about any of the JFK stuff?
unidentified
No.
marty derosa
Okay.
dan friesen
There's a reason.
unidentified
Why?
dan friesen
Because a lot of that, in my research, I've found to be incredibly overblown.
unidentified
Fuck.
dan friesen
I don't know if this is 100%.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Like, you know, everything could, there could be like, oh, yeah.
The, the reality is, blah, blah, blah.
But, uh, in my research, I found, uh, accounts that indicate that they didn't have an affair.
They fucked once.
marty derosa
Okay.
dan friesen
JFK really wanted to fuck her.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
That is, that is definitely true.
marty derosa
Okay.
Uh, and he was our hor, he was, I don't want to say our horniest president, because I don't know that could be.
dan friesen
Bill's pretty strong.
marty derosa
No, no, I think JFK blows Bill away.
dan friesen
Really?
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
marty derosa
I think JFK is our horniest.
dan friesen
Probably.
And he, and he like, fucked with drugs, like, But a lot of that was prescribed.
marty derosa
Sure, wink, wink.
It's so much easier to get prescriptions back then.
My back hurts.
Now, what about his brother?
What about RFK?
dan friesen
That is 100% not true.
marty derosa
What?
He was a real straight shooter, Bobby?
dan friesen
Well, here are the things that I learned that lead me to these conclusions.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
So, JFK wanted to fuck Marilyn Monroe, bam.
And in March of 1962, JFK and Marilyn Monroe were guests at Bing Crosby's house.
marty derosa
Hey, how you doing?
I don't know if that's a good Bing Crosby or not.
dan friesen
I'd take it.
marty derosa
Hey, how you doing?
It's me, Bing Crosby.
dan friesen
Before you.
Before you got to the second part of that sentence, it sounded like it was going to drift into Harry Kerry.
marty derosa
No, no, hey, it's me, Bing Crosby.
And then JFK's like, Eric, where's Melly?
And I really want to fuck her bad.
And he's like, hey, she's out on the back porch, Jay.
Go get her.
dan friesen
So there was like a, you know, in that time, celebrities often had like crazy houses and they didn't fight tons of celebrities over and whatever happens, happens.
marty derosa
And they all named their houses.
dan friesen
Word wouldn't get out.
Like it was a cooler time.
There wasn't the internet.
marty derosa
Nah, dude.
And so yeah, you know what they would have done to a TMZ reporter back in the day?
dan friesen
String them up.
They would have flayed him alive.
marty derosa
Sinatra would have had him in some concrete shoes.
Did Sinatra and Marilyn never?
dan friesen
It's very unlikely.
marty derosa
Go to didthefuck.com and put them in.
dan friesen
Is that a site?
marty derosa
I wish it was.
Who knows?
dan friesen
Someone's gotta make it.
marty derosa
I don't know.
dan friesen
Uh, so yeah, March, March of 62, she dies in August of 62.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
She, they hook up at his, at Ben Crosby's house.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
And that's pretty sure.
unidentified
Mm hmm.
dan friesen
Because JFK had requested that she be there.
marty derosa
God, he was probably losing his mind.
dan friesen
And he'd requested through Peter Lawford, who had fucked Marilyn in the past.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
Two of them were sort of a thing.
And then Peter Lawford ended up marrying JFK's sister.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
So they had this connection, and he's like, hey, can you get her over to this house?
And so they end up staying together.
And the reason that we can concretely assume that they had fucked was that Marilyn had a personal masseur named Ralph Roberts.
unidentified
And wow.
marty derosa
Jesus to the stars, Ralph Roberts.
How are you doing?
Double R. Double R. Ralph Roberts.
He uses the Rolls Royce logo on his card.
dan friesen
He's a genius.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Branding.
marty derosa
Good at branding.
dan friesen
So he is called to Maryland's bedroom.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
And it's to assist JFK with some issues with his back.
They discussed some of his back issues.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And there's no reason why he would have been called to JFK.
JFK would be in Marilyn's bedroom.
It's obvious they'd be fucking.
marty derosa
Wait, he threw his back out fucking Marilyn Monroe?
dan friesen
Oh, he just had back issues in general, but yes.
unidentified
Yeah, I love it.
dan friesen
That's what I take away from it.
marty derosa
Damn, girl.
dan friesen
So later in an interview, Ralph Roberts, uh, this is the quote that he gave.
Um, Marilyn told me that night in March was the only time of their affair with JFK.
Of course, she was titillated beyond belief because for a year he'd been trying to fuck her.
Uh, that's, I, I, that's paraphrasing now.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
I said it was a quote and then I put fucking in it.
marty derosa
He wanted to bust them guts, as he said.
dan friesen
He'd been trying through Peter Lawford to have an evening with her.
A great many people thought after that weekend that there was more to it, but Marilyn gave me the impression it was not a major event for either of them.
It happened once that weekend, and that was that.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
And he was, beyond just being a masseur, he was a friend and a confidant of hers.
I take that to be more factual than a lot of speculation.
marty derosa
I like that.
dan friesen
At the same time, who knows?
A lot of my friends don't know all the stuff I get into.
marty derosa
Oh, I know everything you get into.
dan friesen
You don't know a lot of it.
unidentified
But.
dan friesen
There are gaps.
So it's possible that she saw him more, but who knows?
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
The time when she sang Happy Birthday, Mr. President, at Kennedy's 45th birthday party was after that, which is interesting.
unidentified
Oh, shit.
dan friesen
The whole public did not know that they had fucked, and then there was.
So now, the secondary question about Robert Kennedy that's where things become a little bit more clear to me.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
That's where I feel like.
We start getting into some scandalous stuff.
dan friesen
I don't think so at all, actually.
marty derosa
Well, but from my point of view, from the uninitiated.
dan friesen
Yeah.
If you believe that she fucked both of them.
marty derosa
I'm going to go one step further.
unidentified
Okay.
marty derosa
I heard she fucked Castro.
dan friesen
She fucked Castro for sure.
marty derosa
I heard she fucked Fidel Castro.
dan friesen
I remember talking about Ariel Castro.
marty derosa
No, no, no.
I heard she fucked Fidel Castro.
I didn't.
And that was when the Kennedys were like, I think we got to get rid of her.
unidentified
Wow.
dan friesen
That's the theory you're proffering?
marty derosa
I'm just saying that's one of the ones I've heard.
dan friesen
That's a bad one.
marty derosa
Well, I don't know if she.
That's what I.
This ex. FBI or CIA guy said on his deathbed.
dan friesen
Seriously?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Seriously?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's something that a CIA guy, some government spook, said on his deathbed.
She fucked Castro, so Kennedy was like, that's it.
marty derosa
Gotta get rid of her.
unidentified
Wow.
marty derosa
She knows too much.
dan friesen
I think that is, without being insulting, the worst conspiracy that I've heard in this episode.
marty derosa
If you go down certain wormholes of the internet with Meryl Monroe, you would think.
They're fucking in the White House.
Right.
You would also think that Jackie O is just like, well, you know, he's got a bit of a sweet tooth.
dan friesen
She's fine farming out her dick.
Yeah.
marty derosa
And there was just that whole notion of, hey, brother, I'm going to give this a shop share, brother, and they're passing her back and forth.
dan friesen
That's 100% inaccurate.
marty derosa
That's a sexy one, though.
dan friesen
It is sexy, but then what about Ted?
unidentified
Huh?
marty derosa
What about him?
dan friesen
What about Ted Kennedy?
He doesn't get a taste.
marty derosa
He's busy killing girls at Chappaquiddick.
dan friesen
That was later.
marty derosa
That is fact.
Anyways, that one's fast.
Uh, that we don't have to do.
That's what they want you to think.
That's on, that's what they want you to know because it's happening.
dan friesen
He was just drunk, right?
Drunk and drove off the bridge or something.
marty derosa
Yeah, he was a party boy.
He was drunk, drunk, drove off.
Oh, no, no, well, no, see, something might, something may say.
dan friesen
Uh oh.
marty derosa
It was actual murder.
unidentified
Could be.
dan friesen
So, uh.
marty derosa
Maybe it's not a clear-cut case after all.
dan friesen
The reason that people think that Marilyn and Robert Kennedy fucked was that she appears on his calendar, uh, meeting four times.
Uh, there's four concrete examples of the two of them meeting.
Uh, but all of these instances are very easily Explainable.
They were basically.
Marilyn Monroe was deeply involved in a firm supporter of the civil rights movement.
And she and Robert Kennedy were working together in terms of how can I help, how can we help each other with this cause.
Most of the instances of them ever being together were in the company of other people, and anybody who was around them never were like, ooh, they, something going on there.
marty derosa
Okay, okay.
dan friesen
Also, Robert Kennedy was notoriously loyal to his brother.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
Especially John, Ted, a little bit.
marty derosa
John, John.
dan friesen
Him and Jack, he hero worshiped Jack growing up.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
And there's no way that he would have, like, I've been like, hey, you're going to get a taste of this?
marty derosa
See, I felt it was Roberts to get a taste of.
dan friesen
What do you mean by that?
marty derosa
That she was more Roberts girl, and JFK was like, let me get a taste.
dan friesen
See, now that's interesting, but also way wrong.
marty derosa
Okay, okay, okay, this is great.
I'm glad you're teaching me this.
I need to know this stuff.
dan friesen
The thing about it is, I always assumed it was true, too, but if you look at facts, there's not really a lot of.
All the stuff about, like, JFK fucking Marilyn Monroe, it's fan fiction stuff.
marty derosa
And this goes back to you saying a lot of these authors, after a while, they went, nah, I just made that up.
dan friesen
Well, it's like, hey, I heard some guy say it in a bathroom.
marty derosa
And that was especially back in the times where I think you wrote that book.
You got a little heat.
dan friesen
Oh, yeah.
marty derosa
But you sold a lot of books.
dan friesen
You sold a lot of books, and then you get the heat later.
And by then, maybe they don't even remember your name.
They just remember, hey, that guy who wrote that book's an asshole.
And by then, you've already written another book.
marty derosa
And if you say something enough times, it kind of becomes true.
dan friesen
Case in point, this.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like, I had always assumed it was 100% true.
marty derosa
Look when we were doing the research for the Black Dahlia.
unidentified
Yep.
marty derosa
And I kept, oh, heard this.
That's not true.
Heard this?
Nope.
It's proven wrong.
dan friesen
And it's just a tiny bit of digging you have to do to be like, well, this does not, it doesn't pass muster.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
The thing that really nailed it for me, though, about RFK not banging around with Marilyn Monroe or anybody, I think, is that he and his wife had 11 kids.
marty derosa
Yeah, they seemed pretty Catholic to the fucking.
dan friesen
They were fucking all the time.
He had so many kids.
11 kids is crazy.
And the last one.
marty derosa
Why aren't they fucking all the time?
They might have only fucked 11 times.
unidentified
I don't believe that.
marty derosa
There's no way.
But I think, okay.
dan friesen
You can't have 100% batting average with your jizz.
You know what I'm saying?
marty derosa
Tell that to.
I don't know.
unidentified
I don't know who.
dan friesen
But the last child, Robert Kennedy's last child, was born months after he died.
So, like, the whole time period that they were together and alive, they had a good marriage, it seems.
Not just based on that, but all the reports where he and his wife were simpatico.
marty derosa
I guess it also just makes me seem like.
Well, I mean, yeah, I'm thinking about, like, my brother and I are different.
Like, we're not the same because we're brothers.
unidentified
Sure.
marty derosa
So I can see that being the case where one brother's like, I gotta fuck this girl.
I'm like, you're the president.
I don't care.
I gotta fuck this girl.
Versus, like, I'm a family man.
dan friesen
Jack loved to fuck.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
Robert Kennedy was a social warrior.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
Kind of.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And Ted Kennedy was a party boy.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, like, the three of them were very different in terms of their sort of defining qualities.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
Even though Jack did also do a lot for social causes and all that.
So, that to me, almost any of these theories that have the Kennedys involved, I think, fall apart a little bit.
Because they are based on us overplaying what the Kennedys' relationship with her was.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
I. Would you murder a girl who you fucked once?
That's a strange question.
marty derosa
Let me think of some girls I've only fucked once if I would have murdered them.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
If you're the president and you're worried about it getting out or something like that, that's not worth murder.
unidentified
I think.
marty derosa
Well, see, I disagree there because I think people have been murdered for a lot less.
dan friesen
Well, that's definitely true.
marty derosa
For presidents.
unidentified
Maybe.
marty derosa
Or future presidents.
dan friesen
Oh, boy.
unidentified
Vince Foster.
Oh, boy.
dan friesen
That's also not going to be an episode.
marty derosa
No, but.
I think that I honestly think people have been killed for less.
dan friesen
Sure, sure.
To me, it seems like that would have been an overplaying of a hand.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
But that's just coming from me.
unidentified
I don't know.
marty derosa
And that's fine.
But I pose this question to you.
dan friesen
I'd love to hear this.
marty derosa
If not the Kennedys, then who?
Who the fuck killed her?
dan friesen
So, also, okay.
Go ahead.
unidentified
No, no, no.
dan friesen
I want to hear your second question.
marty derosa
Do you think that there was anything in your research?
Do you think there was anything suspicious in the way she was found or what caused her death?
unidentified
Yes.
Okay.
dan friesen
I think there is some suspiciousness, and let's get to it.
unidentified
Thank you.
dan friesen
Uh, so, here are the facts on the ground.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
Uh, August 5th, 1962.
We'll set the scene.
There are three people, four if you count her publicist, who ends up leaving in the middle of the day, so she's not really all that, not taking in too much consideration.
And then if you actually do that, there's only two people, who play really relevant factors in the day Marilyn dies.
So in the morning, Lawrence Schiller, who's a photographer, comes over.
And the two of them have a discussion because he wants to publish nudes of her in Playboy.
And I think from everything I could gather, she was amenable to the idea.
The process was more negotiation.
And so she was probably going to have some nudes come out.
marty derosa
They want to do new nudes.
unidentified
Yes.
Okay.
marty derosa
Because Hugh Hefner bought the old nudes.
unidentified
Uh huh.
dan friesen
So they were going to publish new nudes that were taken on set of the last movie that she'd done.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Because there was a big scene in that movie where she swims naked.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And so they had taken some photos.
He was on set and they'd taken some photos.
And I think it was just a thing where it might have even been working out rights.
Because, like, does the studio own these?
Or, you know.
But from all accounts, it was a productive and non contentious meeting, and he ends up leaving in the middle of the day.
At that point, Eunice Murray is her housekeeper.
She was there.
A little bit older lady.
Also, Dr. Ralph Greenson is a psychiatrist, and he makes a house call at 4 30 in the afternoon.
He comes over to discuss some therapy, they do a session, and he ends up leaving before 7 o'clock.
We know this for sure.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
So, at 7 p.m., she makes a call to Joe DiMaggio Jr.
Pardon me, he calls her.
unidentified
All right.
dan friesen
The two of them have a relationship still, even though she had divorced his dad.
The two of them are still tight.
He has quoted, he's gone on record saying that she wasn't weird at all.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
He had a conversation with her about how he had left this woman that Marilyn didn't like.
Seems like a little bit of a codependent relationship, considering her dad and.
Excuse me.
The divorce had happened years ago.
So it seems very weird.
But yeah, she was cool.
It was fine.
Nothing weird.
After that, she calls Greenson, the doctor who had left.
And this is about 7 45.
He has a conversation with her.
She's excited that Joe Jr. had left the woman.
Everything seems on the level.
At about 8 o'clock, Peter Lawford, the guy who's married to JFK's sister and probably had something to do with the two of them fucking.
But they're good friends, too.
He and Marilyn are good friends.
Conversations About Suicide 00:08:49
marty derosa
I remember that.
Sinatra HBO movie, they kind of make him out to be a little bit of a bozo.
dan friesen
A bozo?
marty derosa
A little bit of a like, oh, what can I do for you guys?
I just want to be cool with you guys, yeah.
dan friesen
I'm sure there were a lot of people like that with the Rad Pat.
marty derosa
Sinatra, JFK, all them.
dan friesen
So he calls at 8 o'clock to invite her to a party he's throwing that night.
And she, according to him, sounds fucked up.
marty derosa
She sounds fucked up.
dan friesen
Yes.
marty derosa
Okay.
dan friesen
He says that she's like slurring and sounds completely out of it.
marty derosa
Okay.
dan friesen
And on the phone call, she says, say goodbye to Pat.
That's his wife.
marty derosa
Okay.
dan friesen
And then, hey, goodbye to you.
Say goodbye to the president.
Goodbye to everybody.
unidentified
Whoa.
dan friesen
And then she fades out.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
And he tries to call back.
He's unsuccessful in getting a hold of her again.
He alerts some people and they end up.
Actually, he doesn't alert anybody.
That's not how this plays out.
He's just sort of weirded out.
But also, she has a history of doing drugs, tons of drugs.
How many times have you called someone and they're fucked up and you're like, well, they're having a night of it?
marty derosa
It's happened.
dan friesen
It's happened with friends a lot.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
So at about 3 in the morning, the housekeeper, Eunice Murray, is like, hey, something's weird.
Her light's on, but her door is locked.
marty derosa
I thought she was in the back house.
dan friesen
She was in her room.
unidentified
Okay.
Yeah.
dan friesen
It might be in the back of the house.
marty derosa
I thought she was in a back house.
Okay.
dan friesen
She's in her bedroom.
unidentified
All right.
dan friesen
And so she tries to, the housekeeper tries to get her to answer the door.
Like, why is your light on?
What's going on?
Is everything okay?
She's unresponsive.
So she calls Dr. Greenson.
And he comes over, knocks the door down.
marty derosa
They always have a therapist or a doc.
unidentified
It's always very weird.
dan friesen
There's also speculation that she and Dr. Greenson were fucking.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
But that's the speculation with everything in her life.
marty derosa
But also with like, I mean, you had like Michael Jackson, you know, like Brian Wilson, all these like, Successful people have these like doctors.
dan friesen
You got to make friends with the doctor because that's how you get the beans.
unidentified
Dr. Feel Good.
dan friesen
That's right.
So he comes over, knocks down the door, finds her dead, and they call in paramedics and what have you.
She's dead.
unidentified
She's nude.
dan friesen
There's pill bottles near her bed and no glass of water.
That's what you brought up.
That I agree is very weird.
She's found naked.
And yeah, no glass of water to me is very strange because if you're taking a ton of pills, you can't do that without water.
Also, her door is locked.
Her window is closed.
unidentified
I have seen.
marty derosa
Might have been Hulk Hogan in that AE did a bio documentary on him a little while back.
And I think he takes all his pills and puts them in a coffee mug and just takes it.
dan friesen
I've seen some people doing that.
Yeah.
I think it's hard.
And that's 80s or so.
This is 50s, back when pills didn't have gel caps and stuff like that.
unidentified
That's true.
dan friesen
It would all be chalky pills.
marty derosa
Oh, yeah.
No, this was even more current time with Hogan.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So, like.
The idea of 1950s pills, it would be tough.
marty derosa
Or she does what I do and just puts them up her butt.
dan friesen
Interesting you bring that up.
unidentified
I know.
dan friesen
Because whenever they took her to the hospital and did a report on her, they found that she had recently had an enema, which is fodder for almost all of these conspiracy theories.
marty derosa
Oh, yeah.
Because she was found also on her stomach.
dan friesen
Face down, ass up.
marty derosa
That's the way we like to murder people.
dan friesen
We like to give barbiturate enemas.
marty derosa
That's the CIA's old theme song.
unidentified
Face down, ass up.
marty derosa
That's That's the way we like to give Barbage a win and a Mos, and then they die.
dan friesen
It's a little clunky.
I would have had two live crew come in and put them in.
marty derosa
Took them a couple decades to figure it out.
dan friesen
So, yeah, he comes and he finds her dead.
They go through the rigmarole.
Suicide's declared, which makes sense.
Yeah.
One of the reports that I read of speculation that her intestinal tract or the route from the mouth to the stomach was clean of the barbiturates that ended up killing her, as were her stomach.
And that leads people to believe that anally would have been the only way she could have taken it in.
Which is possible, but in the time that I had to do the research, I could not verify that as truth or not.
I have to eliminate the there's no drugs in her esophagus or whatever.
I have to take that off the table because I couldn't find any medical report.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Any primary source.
marty derosa
So, what is your Dan Friesen conspiracy theory brain telling you right now?
dan friesen
My conspiracy theory brain is telling me that a lot of people are making up a lot of stuff.
Sure.
So immediately, my brain is telling me you got to be on guard here.
You got to be careful.
marty derosa
Yeah.
Because this could just be somebody who was careless with drugs.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And her history of drug use indicates someone who would definitely accidentally overdose.
marty derosa
I want to say that I've heard somewhere audio of her, and she sounded very fucked up.
dan friesen
It's Anna Nicole Smithy.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
In the level of, like, oh, you're not yourself.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Well, here's something that I would think.
Now, this is also not based on any evidence except for what I've already presented.
She is a drug addict.
She loves downers.
Mm hmm.
She had a.
Much like.
You know what?
Me and Marilyn Monroe have a few things in common.
marty derosa
What do you got?
dan friesen
Spent time in Van Nuys, California.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
I was born there.
She went to high school there.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
Love downers.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
Have trouble sleeping.
She had a lot of insomnia issues.
marty derosa
They always do.
unidentified
Mm hmm.
dan friesen
That's what leads to the.
marty derosa
Took tasteful nudes to make ends meet.
dan friesen
Of course.
I took some boudoir shots.
So, my theory, and I'm not married to this.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
But a way that suicide makes sense is Joe DiMaggio Jr. calls her.
She's so excited that he's left this girl.
marty derosa
Okay.
dan friesen
That she takes some drugs to celebrate.
marty derosa
Okay.
dan friesen
It's possible.
marty derosa
Okay.
unidentified
It's possible.
Alright.
dan friesen
So she takes the drugs, and then she's still sort of fine when she talks to Greenson, like half an hour later.
unidentified
Alright.
dan friesen
But another half hour after that, when Peter Lawford calls to invite her to the party, the drugs have kicked in.
She's pretty loopy.
I know that sometimes when I've taken downers, I've fucking said things I don't remember and I didn't mean.
Like one time, I thought I was gonna die.
I legit thought I was going to die.
I don't remember this, but I texted a couple of my friends.
marty derosa
Oh, I heard about this.
dan friesen
I don't think you did.
I don't think I've ever talked about this.
unidentified
Oh, really?
dan friesen
This was back in Missouri.
I texted some of my friends and told them how much I loved them, and it was really over the top.
Yeah.
And then I woke up the next day and I had texts from them, and they're like, hey, love you too, man.
Are you okay?
And I was like, oh, dudes, I thought I was going to die.
marty derosa
So you were living in that house?
dan friesen
It wasn't a house.
marty derosa
Like the drug house where we came to hang out?
dan friesen
Oh, no, no.
This was probably just the year before I moved to Chicago.
This was like 07.
marty derosa
Okay.
dan friesen
That sound right, 07?
I don't know.
Yeah, that's about right.
marty derosa
Maybe, maybe, maybe.
So, I mean, what?
dan friesen
Oh, wait.
marty derosa
Do you think this is.
dan friesen
I'm saying that's a possible way that suicide works in the world.
marty derosa
Suicide or accidental death.
dan friesen
Accidental death.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Which I would rule.
I think that anybody.
marty derosa
I think suicide's off the table.
dan friesen
I think that the category of suicide.
Now, this is a controversial opinion, and I don't mean to offend any drug addicts.
I think when people accidentally overdose, that's a passive suicide.
Because I believe that when you're doing tons of drugs.
You are kind of trying to kill yourself.
I know, and maybe I'm projecting, but if I got really drunk and died, like if I died of alcohol poisoning, you can chalk that one up as suicide.
marty derosa
Like you just kept going, knowing the repercussions.
dan friesen
Well, every night that I go out and I end up drinking a whole lot, I'm playing with fire.
I know that.
marty derosa
And fireball.
unidentified
Mm hmm.
dan friesen
You shouldn't have said that so quietly.
unidentified
And fireball.
dan friesen
All right.
So I think that suicide and accidental death are kind of bundled together for me.
In this case with Marilyn Monroe, I add to the fact that she had constantly been talking to people about suicide.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
She was very depressed.
She had a history of, like, if you listen to Arthur Miller talk about their marriage, it's abundantly clear that she's at least bipolar.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
She had very serious mental issues, and I don't think that, like, I really sincerely don't think that suicide is off the table.
marty derosa
So is it just one of those things, again, where we as a society just can't accept the fact that she just.
Took too many drugs and died?
dan friesen
I think that's part of it.
marty derosa
Like, we have to keep that narrative going of like, no, it can't be.
dan friesen
So now, yes, I think that's true.
But then also the JFK stuff is, is like, uh, in the Iliad, the siren song, drawing people to the rocky cliffs of idiocy.
Gallows Humor at the Morgue 00:15:28
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like I really think that a lot of people take the JFK and RFK stuff and they're like, well, because of that, they got the mob to kill her, or, you know, there's all, like, almost every conspiracy I read about this has to do with either the Teamsters, has to do with the mob, has to do with the CIA, all of them killing her because of JFK.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
And to me, that doesn't pass the smell test digging into it a little bit.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
I'm not the world's foremost researcher, but the little that I've done and the things that I've learned in preparation for this, that doesn't make sense.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Now, here's one that does.
unidentified
I love it.
Okay.
marty derosa
Can I just real quick ask you a question?
unidentified
Yes.
marty derosa
Did you come across anything about a morgue employee having sex with her body?
dan friesen
No, but there's the great joke.
marty derosa
I got it up right now on my phone.
dan friesen
What is it?
marty derosa
Danny Callis, friend of the show.
unidentified
Uh huh.
marty derosa
He wrote allegedly more, is a tweet, allegedly it's pinned on his page at Danny Callis.
dan friesen
He's not dumpster butter anymore.
marty derosa
No, he's not dumpster butter.
Allegedly, morgue employees had sex with the dead body of Marilyn Monroe.
Boy, talk about handling someone at their worst.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's fun.
marty derosa
That's pretty great.
dan friesen
What were you going to say?
No, there's a classic joke that's like, who's the last person to have sex with Marilyn Monroe?
Dr. Taguchi or whatever.
I can't remember what his name is, but there's a guy who has an Asian last name who's the county coroner of LA.
marty derosa
Okay.
dan friesen
And so it's like, he.
I'm doing a bunch of weird gestures here.
marty derosa
You're not quite sure how you want to say this.
dan friesen
I want everyone to understand take this with a grain of salt.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
I think at least a lot of dead bodies are groped.
marty derosa
Yeah.
Oh, for sure, for sure.
dan friesen
I don't think that's good.
marty derosa
Those boobs were squeezed.
dan friesen
I am not comfortable with the fact that I think a lot of people who handle dead bodies probably don't follow code.
marty derosa
Could we say it's not unlike pedophiles joining the priesthood knowing what they're getting into?
unidentified
Maybe.
marty derosa
Like, you mean I can be around these bodies?
Yeah, I think- I can grab, I can squeeze boobs whenever I want.
dan friesen
I think that there may be something to that.
And, you know, uh, now I'm projecting again.
If I were dead, I wouldn't care if someone did that to me.
But like, a grab, if you're grabbing a tit, grabbing a tit, that's not gonna leave any, like, ligature marks or anything like that.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
That's the perfect crime.
It's not.
marty derosa
But like- I do, I do feel like, uh, yeah.
I don't know.
I would say- I mean, I know we're silly.
unidentified
A little.
marty derosa
And maybe, maybe it gets drilled into you like, look, you have to respect these bodies.
Like, you can't be goofy and being like, check out the tits on this one.
You know what I mean?
dan friesen
I bet there is that gallows humor.
marty derosa
That's what I'm thinking.
There might be some gallows humor.
dan friesen
But fucking a dead body is a gallows humor.
marty derosa
But also, there might be, look, I'm not going to not grab Marilyn Monroe's poops.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
You know what I mean?
Like, stuff like that.
dan friesen
I don't know what I would do in that position.
unidentified
Or just.
dan friesen
I mean, I wouldn't fuck the dead body.
I'll tell you that 100%.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
But would I.
I don't know.
Or would you just be like, I hope I never know the answer to that question.
marty derosa
Or would it be like, hey, Dan, you know, we got Marilyn Monroe down, down, down in the basement.
unidentified
Uh huh.
marty derosa
You wanna, you wanna see her naked?
dan friesen
See, that's so hard.
That's, I know that my morals and my ethics say absolutely not.
Yeah.
But on paper, I don't know, man.
I don't, in reality, I don't know.
What would you do?
You'd go.
marty derosa
Would I what?
dan friesen
You'd go.
You'd look at the dead body.
marty derosa
I mean, I'd wanna, yeah, I probably would, I would be like, well, if this is for history.
unidentified
Let's take it, let's take it back.
marty derosa
I could tell my grandchildren about this.
dan friesen
Let's take it back and make it, Hopefully, I don't want to be morbid, but let's say Beyonce died and you had an opportunity to see her naked.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Because we can make it more current.
Because the Maryland Rose is such an abstraction.
marty derosa
Sure.
If I'm working at a hospital.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
Take it away.
Let's say you're a comedian on tour.
marty derosa
Okay.
dan friesen
Somehow you meet a guy who works at a morgue.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
You visit him at work.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
And he's like, hey, you want to see Beyonce?
marty derosa
See, that's different.
That's like, if I worked there and it would be.
unidentified
Fine.
dan friesen
Let's say you work there.
unidentified
All right.
marty derosa
Let's say comedy never worked out in a different world than doing hearing tests at Northwestern Hospital.
dan friesen
You stumble onto a gig at a morgue.
marty derosa
And then someone goes, Hey, we got Beyonce.
dan friesen
Beyonce's on tour in Chicago.
She collapses on stage, passes away tragically.
Maybe a CIA hit.
unidentified
We'll see.
marty derosa
Now I need it now.
For history's sake, I need to get down there.
dan friesen
We've turned it into a moral obligation for you to see her naked now.
marty derosa
I mean, just for this podcast alone, I have to go down there and see it.
dan friesen
Well, you're not going to do this podcast in that version of reality.
Or what if you do?
What if, even though you went down that path, somehow you and I end up meeting and doing this podcast?
marty derosa
I know.
That's what they want you to see.
dan friesen
You'd be wearing a different shirt.
unidentified
Yes.
marty derosa
Uh, so I think, I think, uh, I don't know, man.
I don't know if I want to go see a dead body.
unidentified
I don't know.
marty derosa
Like, I like what I like.
I mean, I, I'm, I'm, no, no, no, no.
I meant to say, like, I like going to, like, the Museum of Death and I'm fascinated by stuff.
I have morbid curiosities, but now we're starting to be like, this is a per, this was a person.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
You know, that to me is like, I don't know.
dan friesen
That's why I'm saying my ethics and morals are against it because even if you're a, If you're dead, I still think you have some dignity.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Like, I also feel like you deserve some dignity.
marty derosa
I remember growing up, someone's mom worked at a hospital, and they were like, you know, the whole story's about, like, oh, yeah, they got something stuck up their butt or this or that.
And it's just like, do we not value HIPAA at all?
dan friesen
Yeah, you took an oath.
marty derosa
That's where I'm starting to think about, like, look, you took an oath.
I'm a comedian.
All right.
I don't live by man's laws, you know?
But I do sort of feel like I would feel like a real creep.
dan friesen
Like, By the way, it's Thomas Noguchi.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
That's his name.
Who's the last guy?
If you want to tell that joke at work tomorrow, who's the last guy who had sex at the middle of the road?
Thomas Noguchi.
marty derosa
Thomas Noguchi.
I go, oh, was he married to her?
What were they dating?
dan friesen
Wink.
That's the big street joke.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, to get off the whether we would look at her naked, which I think we're both in the middle on, let's say.
Okay, that's in the middle.
So, here's my theory.
marty derosa
Just the boobs.
dan friesen
That I. Not the puss?
marty derosa
I don't want to see a dead puss.
dan friesen
What if?
What if?
Now, hear me out.
marty derosa
No, boy, this podcast is derailed.
dan friesen
So, this guy is like, hey, you want to see Marilyn Monroe's dead body?
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, you go in, you see the tits.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And you're like, those are nice tits.
marty derosa
I don't want to see them.
dan friesen
And he takes it a little bit lower.
marty derosa
Dick.
dan friesen
And we realize that all of these dudes who had been giving her all this plastic surgery gave her a lot more plastic surgery.
I don't know what this serves to accomplish.
marty derosa
What the fuck are you talking about?
dan friesen
So, here's.
Let's get away from that.
unidentified
All right.
dan friesen
So, here's my theory that I read.
I found a theory.
That I thought was plausible in terms of a conspiracy.
It's speculated that she was fucking her doctor, Dr. Greenson.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
And it is definitely known or very reasonably assumed that she.
Because people had talked about this.
She talked about this in her life, even.
She had a book, like a diary, that included a lot of information about people that could not get out.
unidentified
Fidel Castro.
dan friesen
Maybe.
At least that night at Bing Crosby's house.
marty derosa
Hey, Bing, it's me, Fidel Castro.
dan friesen
What if he was there?
unidentified
What did you get this dip?
marty derosa
It's amazing.
dan friesen
That double R had to give him a massage.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
Throughout his back, fucking that puss.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
So, you know, it's theorized that he was in that book.
The doctor was in the book.
Because they may have had an affair.
So, taking into account that she learned through her life that you can take these possible negative things and make them huge PR stunts, much like her nude pictures in 1952.
Now, a decade later, I think it's reasonable that with her career waning as it was, she may have tried to fake a suicide attempt.
marty derosa
Oh, like a cry for help?
dan friesen
No.
A publicity stunt.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
Because.
Part of the reason that her career was failing is no one pitied her anymore.
unidentified
Ah.
dan friesen
No one felt.
marty derosa
And then going back to what worked before.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
No one felt a great sense of empathy.
Now, again, much like those dudes who wrote that book, all the books, this is based on pure conjecture, and I'm just right.
I'm fantasy booking a timeline possibility.
marty derosa
I love that term.
dan friesen
It's great.
I have headcanon.
I'm using like weird wrestling blog terms.
But, um, so she tries to fake a suicide attempt.
The best way to do that would be to actually try and commit suicide, taking a bunch of pills.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And then planning it so your doctor would find you, knowing that you could have your stomach pumped, everything would be okay.
So you'd have to have the doctor in on it.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
So my speculation is she tries to fake a suicide attempt.
Dr. Greenson, I thought it was going to be a green bomb.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Dr. Greenson is in on it.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
But because he knows that he's in that book, double crossed her.
He does not resuscitate her and allows her overdose to happen so he can take the book.
And make sure that that information never becomes public, all of the affairs that she's had.
unidentified
Wow.
dan friesen
Yeah.
That theory, I think, is possible.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Because it's the simplest to execute.
It fits the psychological profile of Marilyn Monroe.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And I don't really know too much about Greenson.
Like, I don't know what his character is like as a dude.
But he's married.
He definitely doesn't want that to get out.
If he's found that he's fucking Marilyn Monroe, his practice is gone.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because that's a clear breach of patient, doctor, don't fuck each other.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
But also, I think it's kind of like, do you want to be the guy who's.
Client dies.
dan friesen
I think that it's easy to play that off.
I think many doctors have many doctors or many clients who die.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Some mental illness is too difficult to overcome.
That's just a part of life.
marty derosa
There definitely is a thing with these celebrity doctors that they become very much the Metallica documentary is some kind of mockster.
I'm going to have to be with you guys 24 hours a day.
dan friesen
I'm on the road with you guys.
marty derosa
I'm on the road with you guys now.
This is going to have to happen.
Or Michael Jackson's doctor where it's just like, and then it becomes.
dan friesen
It's like you can't survive without me around.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
There's a codependency and like a.
A control that comes.
unidentified
Absolutely.
dan friesen
So, the instance of that is like Marilyn Monroe knows PR stunts work to gain empathy and pity from audiences, and that could revitalize her career.
This guy is a controlling doctor.
He's definitely controlling.
marty derosa
Oh, maybe he said, take these.
unidentified
Uh huh.
marty derosa
They'll make you fall asleep.
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
They won't kill you.
dan friesen
He definitely was giving her sedatives and stuff like that.
I mean, he had prescribed her a ton of weird shit, like the phenobarbital, the.
Suboxone.
No, what's that?
I can't remember the other name of the pill.
There's another pretty heavy sedative he was going to get.
I think that the fact that he was there at 4 30 to make a therapy house call, and then on top of it, as soon as she gets off the phone with Joe DiMaggio Jr., she calls the therapist again.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
It leads me to at least believe that they have a less than client doctor relationship, or more than, as well.
unidentified
Right.
marty derosa
I mean, I think it's a celebrity doctor relationship where he's kind of on call.
dan friesen
It's intrusive, too.
marty derosa
And I'm sure.
I mean, if I.
Okay, let's go back to our Don days.
dan friesen
Hey, you know what's fucked up?
Let's talk about Don for a second.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Isn't it interesting that Don is the best therapist either of us have ever had, and he's not a celebrity doctor?
Whereas every celebrity doctor I think you've ever heard of is a terrible doctor.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
Wouldn't you, if you're a celebrity, need a better doctor?
A more trustworthy doctor?
marty derosa
I would say Metallica would have been much better off seeing Don.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
He wouldn't want to be in the documentary.
marty derosa
Yeah, and I'm not going to be in your documentary.
This is unethical.
dan friesen
I guess we're crossing a line.
marty derosa
Yeah, I don't feel good about this.
dan friesen
I'm going to go hang out with the actors.
marty derosa
Like he'd be like, Lars, this is going to be weird, but Kurt's going to be outside when you leave here.
Remember that we were both seeing Don one day and he got all weird.
dan friesen
Me and he goes, uh, that happened a couple times.
marty derosa
I don't know.
Oh, and I'm just like, Don, what is it?
Like, spit it out.
dan friesen
You and I had back to back sessions, yeah.
marty derosa
And he's like, Um, okay, when you exit this office, there may be someone you know.
And I'm like, I know it's Dan.
dan friesen
We already talked, we texted about it.
marty derosa
And he's like, Oh, okay, thank god.
dan friesen
I think you came out and we like high fived in the waiting room, the tag gen. Yeah, that was such a great period.
I miss him a lot.
I had a dream about him the other day.
marty derosa
I told you I saw him.
Oh, yeah, I saw my way to the laugh factory and he's retired now.
dan friesen
Yeah, that hurts.
marty derosa
How's retirement?
He goes, I've seen 50 movies.
dan friesen
That's so great.
marty derosa
He loves movies.
dan friesen
I had a dream that he came into my Starbucks.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And I tried to buddy up.
I tried to be like, Don, how's it been?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And then he was like, I think we should keep this professional.
marty derosa
But he's retired.
dan friesen
I know.
marty derosa
Oh, he fucked you over.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
He's like, even though I'm retired, we still gotta not be friends.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's totally out of his character, but it was like, I think it's one of those fears in my head kind of dreams.
marty derosa
I think psychologically he's always been a little jealous of me and Don's friendship.
dan friesen
I'm the original.
I'm the oldest child.
marty derosa
You might be the OG.
unidentified
No.
marty derosa
I mean, I definitely think, yeah, I think throughout the history of celebrity, Doctors have, I mean, I feel like they play an enabling role.
They all have these fucking doctors.
And I wonder with me, and it's one of those things too where you wonder with celebrity if you stay cool or if you can become a monster.
And it's, I mean, like.
dan friesen
Oh, whether power corrupts, so to speak?
unidentified
Right.
marty derosa
Like, let's just say, you know, tomorrow Freezing Point became the hottest show on the planet.
dan friesen
It's entirely possible.
marty derosa
It's very possible.
dan friesen
It's not possible.
marty derosa
Howard, let's say this.
dan friesen
Howard Stern hears me and he's like, Hey Dan, you're the new Jackie the Joke man.
marty derosa
No, Sirius is like, Howard, uh, Howard gets real sick and he's like, I, I, ugh, I'm dying.
I gotta call, I gotta go.
dan friesen
He's got pneumonia.
marty derosa
I've gotta get a replacement in here.
And they're like, who?
And he goes, listen, I know I've been bad, I know I've been shitty to podcast before.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
But I, I've listened to one so much.
dan friesen
Listen, when I let David Lee Roth take over for me when I left the, oh, I guess that wasn't his choice.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
Never mind.
marty derosa
No.
dan friesen
Corolla was his choice.
marty derosa
But he goes, I want this guy Dan Friesen to take over the podcast.
dan friesen
He's got a great tone.
And, and, I would not make women ride Sibians.
marty derosa
Or, Let's just say this.
Let's just say more realistic.
Not that it's not realistic.
dan friesen
Let's just say WGN, let's say.
marty derosa
That's what I'm saying.
Somebody makes a commitment to making Chicago radio what it used to be.
dan friesen
Boy, I wish they would.
marty derosa
Where the DJs were rock stars.
dan friesen
Like dolls.
unidentified
Yes.
marty derosa
And you are the man.
dan friesen
I'll get a morning show.
marty derosa
Your billboard is all over the city.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
You're on every train, on every bus.
dan friesen
I'd be so uncomfortable with it.
marty derosa
Well, but anyway.
dan friesen
Do I get.
Is your question, do I then get a celebrity doctor?
I mean, do I turn into a man cow, is the question.
marty derosa
I mean, do you get out of control?
dan friesen
That's what the phrasing I used was do I turn into man cow?
Sure, because he is a prick.
marty derosa
He's an out of control person, I think, in a lot of ways.
But yeah, I mean, that's the thing.
dan friesen
No, the answer is no.
marty derosa
Okay.
dan friesen
I don't think so.
unidentified
Okay.
Huh.
dan friesen
But then again.
marty derosa
I mean, that's that whole thing.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
We've never had absolute power.
dan friesen
No, but I don't think having a popular show in Chicago would be absolute power.
I think that, you know, we get little tastes of it.
Scary Thoughts on Her Body 00:11:26
dan friesen
I don't think that you are necessarily any different than you were before comedians you should know was a thing, probably.
Like, I don't think that you're an ethically worse person than before you were one of the five or six people behind the best show in the city.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
So you don't, like, that gives you a ton of power.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
And I don't think it's changed you.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
But then again, my perspective is as your friend.
unidentified
Yeah.
So I don't know.
marty derosa
I mean, I'm trying to think of.
dan friesen
And to be fair, I didn't know you before.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
I'm trying to think of anyone I know who's.
Yeah, I know some people who've gotten some.
dan friesen
We know some people who've been on television.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
We know some people who've been on Comedy Central, Higher Half Hours and stuff like that.
And to the best of my ability to tell, I don't think that they've changed that much.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
You're looking at me like some of them might have.
marty derosa
Some of them might have a little bit.
I also think, too, it's just that it's that whole.
dan friesen
But again, that's absolutely power.
marty derosa
What's that documentary overnight about the guy who wrote Boondock Saints?
unidentified
Ooh.
marty derosa
And he was like the toast of the town.
dan friesen
Seriously.
marty derosa
They were like, find us the next Tarantino.
And they're like, it's this guy.
Boondock.
He's got this script.
And they bought him the bar he worked at.
unidentified
Wow.
marty derosa
To get him to sign with them.
Harvey.
dan friesen
Levinson?
marty derosa
No, Harvey Weinstein, the Weinstein brothers, they like tried to woo him and bought him this bar and all this stuff, and he just became a monster.
dan friesen
Wow.
unidentified
And.
dan friesen
Who would have thought?
unidentified
The whole thing.
dan friesen
The guy from Boondock Saints.
unidentified
I know.
marty derosa
And the whole thing at the end, the, the, is kind of like, there's a quote from somebody, and it's kind of like, uh, celebrity is basically who you are just cranked up.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
You know, and that's kind of the thing.
dan friesen
I think that's probably true.
I mean, I feel like it's a drug that amplifies.
So I.
unidentified
So I.
dan friesen
But think.
marty derosa
With Marilyn, I think you have, and this is obviously purely speculation on my part.
dan friesen
So maybe this, is this your theory?
Are you working a theory?
marty derosa
It's not even a theory about death.
It's a theory about her as a person.
dan friesen
I'm going to choose the fake suicide attempt as my official theory.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Because we've got to choose something juicier than it was an accident.
marty derosa
Yeah, okay.
dan friesen
That's the angle I'm going with.
And would explain the glass being gone.
marty derosa
He took it?
dan friesen
Yeah.
But I don't know why he would do that.
Maybe the housekeeper did it by accident and then didn't want to fess up with it.
marty derosa
That I'm kind of thinking.
Or, like, someone working the scene was like, hey, I took a glass for a keepsake.
dan friesen
I mean, think about it.
That OJ knife just turned up, like, six months ago or whatever.
So, like, it's possible that.
Someone took a memento.
unidentified
I know.
marty derosa
And you never know, too.
dan friesen
Or if the doctor was, like, kind of perving out over the fact that he had assisted this murder, he might have taken it as a memento or something.
marty derosa
You never know, too, the level of police corruption or, like, hey, fellas, help me out here.
And they just, like, push her from one room to another or something.
dan friesen
I did hear something about that, but I couldn't get to the bottom of it.
The idea that her body was moved a couple times.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I don't know what the case is about that.
And I don't know what it means.
marty derosa
And they're saying, like, there were no sheets or anything.
Like, she was just, like, naked on the bed.
dan friesen
The housekeeper was like trying to wash the sheets.
Apparently, which is weird.
marty derosa
So there were no sheets on the bed.
Yeah, I saw a picture of the bed.
No bed frame either.
unidentified
I don't know.
marty derosa
I'm just saying.
dan friesen
Pointing at my bed.
unidentified
No.
marty derosa
Tell the girls to give me shit about not having a bed frame.
No, I think that this is a person who lived a very rough childhood.
I'm sure self medicated like most of us would in those situations, or most of us do in those situations.
I think, you know, I think she might have been playing with fire and OD'd.
unidentified
Yeah?
Yeah.
dan friesen
So that's kind of just what the mainstream.
marty derosa
The drive by media thinks.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's what they would tell you.
That's what they want you to think.
marty derosa
I know, but I also think.
dan friesen
Okay, by the way, that's our instance of that.
We're not going to end with the normal send off.
marty derosa
No, yeah.
dan friesen
Because that's too hard to pull off.
marty derosa
It's too hard to pull off, and it doesn't sound organic.
unidentified
Yes.
marty derosa
You know, I kind of think it's just one of those things, too, where people just don't.
Want to believe what happened?
Happen.
And I think that can happen where there's instances where there's like all these like red flags of like, whoa, You know, like with 9 11, people think, how can it be that just these people from this country just came over here and did this?
And then they go, well, what about this, and this?
You know what I mean?
dan friesen
Well, I think what you're trying to say, if I can put it another way, is like the death of Marilyn Monroe, if you just take the fact that she died, people are like, what?
What the fuck?
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
But then all the details that surround it, like horrible childhood.
Crippling depression, severe bipolarity, drug addiction, all these things are like, oh, well, that's why.
marty derosa
You're right.
dan friesen
If you reject those things and just look at the death, it looks weird.
Much like with 9 11, if you take just the act and take all the circumstances out of it, it's fucked up.
marty derosa
I remember in a sociology class, we had a coroner come in, I think.
It was a coroner.
unidentified
Nagooch?
marty derosa
No.
And he showed us photos.
And he was saying, was this a suicide or an accidental death?
unidentified
Of who?
People.
dan friesen
Okay.
marty derosa
And it was like.
dan friesen
He was trying to teach you how to tell the differences?
marty derosa
Yeah, I think he was kind of showing in a lot of ways, like, you can't tell the difference.
dan friesen
There's a lot of vagary.
marty derosa
There's a lot of that.
And it was very weird.
I'm just like, oh shit.
dan friesen
That's scary as a kid.
marty derosa
I know.
Well, no, we were in college.
dan friesen
Scary as a kid.
marty derosa
But it was very much like, Jesus Christ.
And he's like, this guy, like, tripped and fell and smashed his head open.
He wasn't murdered.
So, I mean, there's a lot of stuff like that where I think just, I don't know what the.
I mean, I'm sure there's been reports and case histories and stuff, but what is it about us as.
People living in this time where we can't just accept a death.
dan friesen
Well, look at it like.
marty derosa
We have to go, no, something else happened.
It's got to be.
dan friesen
Look at the current landscape that we live in in terms of the mass violence.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
And look at the responses that you get online to that.
marty derosa
Oh, right away.
Controlled killers.
dan friesen
Right.
marty derosa
Crisis actors.
False flags.
dan friesen
Which, I mean, look, maybe.
Absolutely not, but maybe.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like if something comes out one day and it's like, oh, hey, everything was fake.
I'm not going to be like, I can't believe it.
My worldview is shattered.
I believe that it's possible people are that evil.
marty derosa
But also, maybe.
dan friesen
But also, bullshit.
marty derosa
Maybe we need to create these things because we can't handle the fact that people are just that evil.
dan friesen
It hurts too much to accept that.
Maybe it hurts too much.
I'm getting marble mouthed just about to introduce this topic because it's hard.
But the day after the Orlando shooting recently, all I could think about when I was at work was.
How horrible it would feel to shoot somebody.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like, I kept thinking about, like, me in someone's shoes shooting somebody and knowing that I have taken their life.
Like, I've taken the life out of them because I can't not feel empathy for other people.
Like, I'm not the most feeling person in the world.
I'm not the most sensitive person in the world, but I know that, like, whatever rights I have, you have to.
And whatever experiences I'm experiencing, you have your version of it too.
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
So it's fucked up to me to think.
That someone would go in and randomly start shooting things with disregard for the fact and not even feel that they were taking someone's life.
That to me is so scary, and crisis actor stuff is a little bit more appealing because you don't have to wrestle with the fact that, like, nah, some people just don't get that other people are alive.
marty derosa
I know, I know.
And I felt that I hear what you're saying too because when the girl from The Voice was murdered two days earlier, I was watching MSNBC and they were covering it like crazy.
dan friesen
Really?
marty derosa
Yeah.
dan friesen
I missed that story until like a day later.
marty derosa
The Voice, which is NBC, and they were really.
And I was.
And then just that whole idea of, you know, if you're going to kill yourself, don't kill an in first.
Just kill yourself.
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
You know?
dan friesen
It's cool.
Like, not it's cool, but it's fine.
Suicide happens.
marty derosa
Sure.
dan friesen
And, like, we'd rather you don't kill yourself.
But if you're going to kill other people, let's keep the death toll to a minimum.
Just you.
marty derosa
And it was just such a horrible story.
And then the Orlando shooting happened.
dan friesen
Back to back.
marty derosa
Back to back.
And they both happened in Orlando or Florida, at least.
dan friesen
Yeah, both in Florida.
marty derosa
In Florida.
dan friesen
I think one was like St. Peter's.
marty derosa
Yeah.
And then it's just that thing kicked in where, like you said, I go right away, oh, I wonder what Alex Jones is going to say about this.
And then it's gross how then everybody is just like.
All right, now how does this fit into my narrative now?
dan friesen
It's a humanity deflection, I think.
It's too hard to see.
marty derosa
Yeah, and there is that thing, and I think we're talking about it with Marilyn Monroe where it's just like, no, she can't just die.
dan friesen
She is so important.
She made a difference.
marty derosa
People had a bond with her, or it's just this whole idea of, nah, nah, nah, nah, there's too many things going on here.
The fact of the matter is, sometimes people just die.
dan friesen
Yeah.
marty derosa
Sometimes people just do a bunch of drugs and they fucking die.
dan friesen
I think in the case of Marilyn Monroe, too, there's an added level of it that is like she's so powerful as a woman.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Between, I mean, granted, a lot of it was surgically enhanced, but who cares?
I'm not going to judge that.
She was gorgeous.
unidentified
And this?
dan friesen
She created, like, an embodied sexuality of a generation.
marty derosa
Right.
And a generation that wasn't quite ready to deal with that.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And beyond.
marty derosa
And she was.
dan friesen
And on top of that, she stood up to these men in power.
With making her own studio.
She stood up to people saying that she couldn't date a communist sympathizer.
She did all these things, and so to have that person just fucking OD?
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
It's a bummer.
dan friesen
You can't possibly, and even worse than just OD, die of her own weaknesses.
Yeah.
There is a feeling, I think, and it's maybe unfortunate, but when you OD, it's like, eh, you're too weak.
Your addictions are stronger than your will or whatever.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And those two things inhabiting the same body is really confusing for people.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So of course it was the CIA.
Of course, it was communists.
marty derosa
And I think it's so easy, too, to just, like, you know, it's just, I don't know if we watch too many movies or whatever, but it's just so easy to think, just like, someone slipped in the back door, injected her with something while she was sleeping, put a tube up her ass, put some stuff in her butt, and that was it.
dan friesen
And in terms of, like, explaining away the enema thing, she could have just gotten an enema.
marty derosa
Yeah, I know.
dan friesen
I know.
marty derosa
It's funny how if you break some stuff down, it's just like, I mean, yeah, like, you think about stuff and you're like, why is this on your table, Dan?
You know, well, because I had dinner earlier.
dan friesen
Yeah, like, why is there soy sauce on the table?
marty derosa
He had soy sauce on his table.
dan friesen
It's not a clue.
I like rice.
marty derosa
Explain the soy sauce, and it's like, okay.
I mean, you know, there's always going to be.
I don't think this is as sexy as, like, a Kurt Cobain or something as far as red flags all around.
dan friesen
Yeah, I think that there's more to analyze there as opposed to this.
I think I really took a lot of air out of this with the sort of not refuting but deflating the JFK stuff.
marty derosa
I was ready to walk out.
unidentified
That's all I had.
dan friesen
I saw it in your face.
marty derosa
That's fucking all I had.
dan friesen
So I think what we've come to is that I don't think either of us are very worked up on this one.
Analyzing Historical Slave Trades 00:03:28
dan friesen
No.
The suicide or accidental death angle seems very valid.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And beyond that, if you want to get really weird, a fake suicide where maybe we can cast the doctor as an evil guy is maybe possible.
marty derosa
Cry for help.
dan friesen
Cry for help is also possible if you want to take the evil doctor out of it.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, guys.
This topic sucked.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
No, it didn't suck.
But, like, hey, guys, when we're doing these Twitter polls in the future, come correct.
marty derosa
Well, I mean, I think the next time we're going to have to have just an all star lineup.
dan friesen
I say, here's what I think.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
For the future Twitter polls, the last three that lost are still on there, and we just replace Marilyn Monroe with something else.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
So then we have, like, it's cycling out.
Because I want to talk about Dracula, Hollow Earth, and Planet X eventually.
I don't want them to go out of contention.
marty derosa
Okay.
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
Do you finally remember what it was?
unidentified
No.
marty derosa
It's the first topic.
unidentified
Oh.
marty derosa
But how, how, how, uh, um, oh man, this is going to take us down a whole other wormhole.
dan friesen
I don't mind.
I got a few minutes.
unidentified
Okay.
marty derosa
How familiar are you with Slavery in this country?
dan friesen
I didn't experience it firsthand.
marty derosa
Dan, come on.
dan friesen
Okay, I'm pretty familiar.
I've learned a bit.
marty derosa
How did we come up with Africans?
unidentified
What do you mean?
marty derosa
Whose idea was it to get Africans?
dan friesen
I think that there was an already established slave trade going on.
unidentified
Okay.
marty derosa
So someone's like, yo, I know this guy in Africa who can get us a bunch of.
dan friesen
I think it might be.
Yeah, it might.
I think that that's the way it went.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Because I don't think we built the slave trade industry.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Like slavery existed for thousands of years.
marty derosa
I got very high the other day.
dan friesen
Oh, boy.
marty derosa
And I was watching some TV.
And there was.
unidentified
I think.
dan friesen
Can I say something before you tell any facts?
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
Just in case I'm right?
marty derosa
Sure.
dan friesen
I feel like I've heard that it was like the Moors.
marty derosa
Okay.
Oh, here's what I was watching.
unidentified
Okay.
marty derosa
There were like banned television commercials on YouTube.
unidentified
Oh, boy.
marty derosa
And one was these black guys, and they're just like black people, something about their skin, they can't get like sunburn or whatever.
And they like laughed about white people.
dan friesen
Now, is that a chuxy bit?
marty derosa
No, Now, that being said, like, this is such a weird thing, but like, if you had to find the perfect slaves for the stuff, people wouldn't be sunburned.
People wouldn't be sunburned.
Like, is it, was that much thought went into it, or did it just so happen to be like, like, I mean, like, we're not going to go to Canada and get a bunch of people who are going to, you know, roast in the sun and get sunburned so bad they can't work the next day.
dan friesen
I think a big part of that was the chaotic nature of.
Colonialism in Africa.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Like there were countries taking over countries kind of on a regular basis in the 16th century or so.
And other places had slightly more established centralized governments and stuff.
I don't even know how to put it.
And I'm talking about stuff I don't really know about.
But I'm looking this up and it seems like the Atlantic slave trade was originally run by the Portuguese.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
So I don't know what that means in terms of your question.
Not either.
It does seem like there were countries that had this set up, and then we just took part in it and took their goods.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
And I hate to say goods.
I don't mean to dehumanize.
That's awful.
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unidentified
I know.
dan friesen
Maybe we'll do something on that in a future episode.
Let's not.
unidentified
Who knows?
dan friesen
Marty?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Marilyn Monroe's dead.
It's sad, but it was not JFK.
marty derosa
I think the key here and the real thing to take away from is if any of you guys ever do hit a certain level of celebrity and you get your own doctor, pace yourselves.
dan friesen
Be careful.
marty derosa
Be careful.
dan friesen
And get a doctor you can trust.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Speaking of people you can trust, Marty.
It's been fun.
marty derosa
Thanks, Dan.
dan friesen
People can follow you at Marty DeRosa.
marty derosa
At Marty DeRosa.
dan friesen
And at Marty and Sarah Pod.
marty derosa
Yep, and our little wrestling podcast, Marty and Sarah, love wrestling.
dan friesen
Today, you premiere on the MLW Network.
marty derosa
The MLW Major League Wrestling Network.
unidentified
This is huge.
marty derosa
It's a big deal.
Yeah, we're very happy.
We're excited.
dan friesen
So, everybody who's listening, if you enjoy, go check out Sarah Shocky, who was just on your co host.
She was just on Freezen Point last episode.
The two of you have a wrestling podcast.
It's great.
People should listen to it.
unidentified
MLW.
You got it.
dan friesen
Let's get the stats up so those jackasses over at the network are like, these kids are, they're gold.
marty derosa
You got it.
There's a lot of fun other shows too on there too, so check it out.
dan friesen
What do you got?
The Jim Cornette show?
marty derosa
Uh, well, yeah, but we're not really, uh, part of, we're not on that team.
dan friesen
Oh, well, but that's on there, right?
marty derosa
But it's on there.
dan friesen
Uh, I don't know any other writers.
marty derosa
Writer's Room, uh, Conan, my man Conan.
unidentified
Conan?
marty derosa
My main.
unidentified
The Barbarian?
marty derosa
No, just Conan, the NWO member.
dan friesen
The Filthy Animal?
marty derosa
The Filthy Animal.
unidentified
Arriba la Rasa!
marty derosa
Uh, he is on there too, so it's very cool.
Lots of awesome, uh, people.
dan friesen
And then also you have, uh, Wrestling with Depression.
unidentified
You bet.
dan friesen
Another podcast you can get on iTunes and wrestlingwithdepression.com.
marty derosa
New app dropped just the other day with, uh, Zach from the band Pup.
dan friesen
That's real cool.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Also, uh, comediansyoushouldknow.com.
Every Wednesday night, Timothy O'Toole's fucking awesome stand-up comedy.
Everyone should go check that out.
unidentified
Check it out.
dan friesen
I've got nothing.
marty derosa
Also, this weekend.
dan friesen
I just got six plugs for you.
marty derosa
I know.
Also, this weekend.
unidentified
Fuck all.
marty derosa
Uh, this weekend, uh, if you love wrestling, if you love comedy, if you love burlesque, if you love, uh, NWO member Scott Hall, uh, I'm going to be doing some shows.
dan friesen
Are you doing a show with Scott Hall?
marty derosa
I am doing a show.
I'm doing two shows with Scott Hall.
dan friesen
Can I come?
marty derosa
I'm going on the road with Scott Hall.
dan friesen
Where is this?
unidentified
Iowa City.
dan friesen
Seriously, can I come with you?
marty derosa
No, you can't.
unidentified
Why not?
marty derosa
I mean, I don't know how.
I mean, man.
dan friesen
Are you driving?
marty derosa
No, I'm not driving.
dan friesen
I thought you might have rented a car or something.
unidentified
No.
marty derosa
Come on, man.
I get all that.
dan friesen
If I come, can I meet Scott Hall?
marty derosa
I don't have that kind of.
I can't.
dan friesen
You're doing a show with him.
He's a good man.
marty derosa
But I can't say.
dan friesen
I want to say hello to the bad guys.
marty derosa
I can't say that.
dan friesen
I want to get him to sign a toothpick.
marty derosa
All right.
Maybe that can happen.
I don't know.
But anyway, let me just.
dan friesen
This is in Iowa City?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Secondary question.
Is Scott Hall doing stand up or burlesque?
marty derosa
No, he's doing neither.
He's doing wrestling stuff.
There's wrestling also, too.
Oh, okay.
But our friend Eric Cannon is putting it together.
unidentified
Oh, awesome.
marty derosa
So here's the deals.
I'm sorry this is taking so long.
dan friesen
I was trying to vamp while you got the details.
marty derosa
Oh, now you did it.
Friday.
unidentified
Friday.
marty derosa
Uh, we are going to be in, uh, Des Moines, Iowa.
unidentified
Uh huh.
marty derosa
Uh, at Woody's?
unidentified
At Woolies.
marty derosa
Uh, it's a concert venue.
unidentified
Okay.
marty derosa
And then on Saturday, Wrestlepalooza, we're going to be at First Ave, Prince's Old, uh, home away from home.
unidentified
All right.
Uh, and that's.
dan friesen
I got some, I got some peeps in Iowa City.
unidentified
Yeah.
marty derosa
So Saturday, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Wrestlepalooza.
Uh, it's going to be so awesome.
Uh, so many people are going to be there.
Colcabana, uh, Scott Hall, uh, b-b-b-b-b-b-b.
Um, you know.
Uh, uh, Chuck Taylor, son of Havoc, Heidi Lovelace, uh, Eric Cannon, I think I already mentioned.
unidentified
I wanna meet Scott Hall.
marty derosa
Maybe Aria Davari, who's gonna be in the Cruiserweight Classic.
Uh, it's gonna be great.
dan friesen
I wanna meet Scott Hall!
marty derosa
And maybe I'll have him send you a video message.
dan friesen
Dude, that would be amazing.
unidentified
Ayo.
marty derosa
Or at least just.
unidentified
Dude.
dan friesen
If you could do that, I would do anything.
marty derosa
I don't know.
dan friesen
You could do recorded on your phone!
marty derosa
I mean, I can, but I don't know how to do it.
unidentified
Why not?
marty derosa
How about going to- Ask me.
unidentified
He's on a monkey.
dan friesen
He's a nice guy!
marty derosa
Alright, we'll see.
dan friesen
I don't know if he's a nice guy.
unidentified
We'll see.
dan friesen
Alright.
unidentified
Anyway.
dan friesen
Thanks for listening.
Please subscribe to Freezing Point.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
It means a lot.
marty derosa
Great review.
dan friesen
We've been getting some new subscribers or at least new listings.
marty derosa
Patreon.
dan friesen
I love it.
marty derosa
Thank you so much.
The Patreon page.
dan friesen
Patreon.
We have a link on the site to a fundraising thing.
Please, if you want to, donate some money.
We're doing a lot of shows here.
I got a new job.
It's much better than the Starbucks one, but it's not going to make me rich.
I don't even know what that's up for.
marty derosa
It's not going to get Dan his own celebrity doctor.
dan friesen
Right.
We put a lot of time into this show between the research for that's what they want you to think.
And then just the recording, you know, it's, it's a lot.
So anyway, if you want to, blah, blah, blah.
Also, freezingpoint.com website.
Thank you all so much for listening.
Marty.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
It's been fun.
marty derosa
Thanks, Dan.
dan friesen
Thanks for joining us in the brain battle.
We will check you next time right here in Boomtown, but until then, I've been Boglejub, the white mystery.
Now, please go out there, do your job, which of course is loving someone.
unidentified
That was.
That's what they want you to think.
marty derosa
We did a show about Marilyn Monroe, and in the end, we figured she just took a little too many drugs and then she died.
But where did that cup of water go?
If you know, maybe your grandpa had something to do with her death, hit us up on Twitter or Facebook because we need to know what happened to Marilyn Monroe.
unidentified
That's what they want you to think.
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