Bill Murray: Airport Drug Busts, Backstage Brawls, and Crashing Elvis’s Burial

DISGRACELAND

Jake Brennan

True Crime, Music, Society & Culture

4.6 • 13.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Before Bill Murray was busting ghosts and living in a loop of deja vu, he was a drug-dealing premed student with a knack for comedy. When he was caught with five bricks of pot at the airport, his career in medicine came crashing down, forcing him to make a living with his smart mouth. His obsession to rise above “medium talent” brought him to volatile blows with musicians, fellow actors, and even himself. Yet in his cockiest moments and most despairing lows, the universe always found a way to show Bill Murray he still had a lot to learn. What's your favorite Bill Murray performance? Do you have any Bill Murray stories? Let Jake know at 617-906-6638, [email protected], or on socials @disgracelandpod. To listen to Disgraceland ad free and get access to a monthly exclusive episode, weekly bonus content and more, become a Disgraceland All Access member at disgracelandpod.com/membership. Sign up for our newsletter and get the inside dirt on events, merch and other awesomeness - GET THE NEWSLETTER Follow Jake and DISGRACELAND: Instagram YouTube X (formerly Twitter) Facebook Fan Group TikTok To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Double Elvis.
0:07.4	Disgraceland is a production about a bomb threat, about a drug bust, about the burial of a king, crashed by a court jester.
0:43.5	It's about a fight with Chevy Chase backstage at SNL that almost aired live on national television.
0:51.2	And it's about a world-renowned smartass, a comedic actor who never fails to subvert
0:57.1	and always succeeds in cutting me up. This is about Bill Murray. A great comic. A comic who is
1:06.3	currently on tour making music. Some of it great, I'm sure. Unlike that music I played for you at the top
1:13.3	of the show, that wasn't great music. That was a preset loop from my Melotron called Crashing the Party
1:21.2	MK2. I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to bridge over troubled water by Simon and Garfunkel.
1:31.2	And why would I play you that specific slice of algebra teacher cheese could I afford it?
1:37.8	Because that was the number one song in America on September 20th, 1970.
1:44.3	And that was the day Bill Murray was arrested for possession of over $20,000 in marijuana.
1:50.8	An event that shifted his career course from drug dealer to comedy legend.
1:56.4	On this episode, a bomb threat, a drug bust, burying a king, and brawling with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray.
2:05.4	I'm Jake Brennan, and this is Disgraceland. He says he's got two bombs in his suitcase.
2:40.0	The ticket agent kept her voice down on the phone.
2:44.0	No need to advertise that there might be a terrorist at O'Hare International Airport
2:49.0	walking among them right the second.
2:51.6	Thank God she didn't let him board that flight to Denver.
2:54.6	Maybe she just saved a few dozen lives.
2:57.6	And maybe they call her a hero.
3:00.6	She whispered information to the U.S. Marshals on the line.
3:03.6	The suspect was young, college age, brown hair, tall, definitely over six feet.
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