It's the dearly departed podcast, featuring your host, historian Scott Michaels and filmmaker Mike Dorsey.

Okay, it is the next episode of Dearly Departed Podcast.

I'm Mike Dorsey.

I'm Scott Michaels.

And this is Dearly Departed Podcast.

And today we are talking about one of the greatest sitcoms in history, a groundbreaking sitcom.

I love Lucy.

Yeah, it's certainly probably the biggest, and most, like you say, groundbreaking, it really

established precedent that's still being used today. So, so yeah, hugely popular and hugely important show.

Yeah, so we'll be talking about Lucy and Desi and the rest of the main cast.

Before we get into that, though, I want to do, in general news,

we had two big things related to the Cecil Hotel come out this past month,

and you were in one of them.

I was, yeah. Yeah, we did an episode of Ghost Adventures, and Zach had done, we both worked with

Zach in the past, and this is something that they brought me in for a historic background on the hotel.

So the hotel basically, you know, the Cecil Hotel is notorious and mostly because of

the Elisa Lam story. But the Cecil Hotel has also had an incredible amount of terrible

things happen there over the years. It's bizarre and it leads people to think that it's some kind of evil portal.

And it's not very often that I would say maybe they're right, but there's so many terrible

things that have happened there, so many dozens of suicides, murders, overdoses, serial killers,

just an insane amount in one small place.

So the Cecil, because American Horror Story, hotel season with Lady Gaga, was based on the Cecil Hotel.

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