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Welcome everybody to the first episode of The Dark Side of Music.
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I am Harley and joined by Danny.
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Danny, how are you, sir?
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I'm doing well.
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How about you?
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I'm doing good, man.
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I'm doing good.
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I uh I feel like I am too positive and upbeat for the content we're gonna be going over.
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I'm like I'm just excited to to be here and to dive into some like true crime mysteries like around the the music world and everything like that.
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So like please don't take my excitement and enthusiasm as like as as we're not talking about like material that is a little bit more on right side and everything like that, but I I'm just excited to kind of get into all this kind of like all these kind of uh cases and stuff like that.
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Yeah.
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Well, you know what?
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It would be a good idea to kind of um explain to the audience who we are, right?
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So go ahead and tell the audience who Danny is.
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Well, I I am Danny Otto.
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I'm the lead singer of the pop punk band, just happy to be here.
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Um, I've done other podcasts in the past, kind of where I yell and I'm super enthusiastic about uh pop culture, movies, TV shows, video games, everything you can kind of be super excited and upbeat about.
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So I'm carrying that energy into this.
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Uh I know, like I said, true crimes is a little bit darker than the material that I would normally cover or pop punk music in general.
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Um, but I'm bringing that enthusiasm in.
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I you know, enthusiasm when talking about stuff like this, I feel is important.
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You know what I mean?
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Yeah, like you you you want to bring a certain um lightheartedness to something so harsh, and it's one of the most famous cases in American pop culture today.
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So I mean, yeah, absolutely.
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At least it in our world, it definitely is.
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I don't know, because I mean there's so many true crimes out there, just in in every single category that you could possibly think of.
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But uh I I think it's really cool like that we are narrowing it to the the music world because there's so many, you know, documented, you know, true crimes that have gone on throughout the the the years in the music industry and in the music world in general and stuff like that.
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So it's really cool to kind of be in this this pocket of true crimes and stuff like that.
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But yeah, definitely one of the is it is it crash to ask you what your favorite true crime is?
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Like is that is that like a weird thing to ask somebody?
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I don't look I think the pandemic kind of set us all into like really getting into like diving into the true crime like culture and and everyone kind of like sharing all of these these insane true crime cases in general.
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I kind of err more on the true crimes and and and and mystery side of things because like have you heard of the the Alisa Lamb case?
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No, tell me about it.
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You've never heard about this?
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No, I mean it's not musical related, but like Alisa Lamb was this this college student from Canada.
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She goes to um the the Cecil Hotel in in LA, and just a bunch of really crazy stuff happens, and flash forward, like I think it's like a week or two, they find her in like a water tower.
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Oh on the roof.
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I do remember this, yeah.
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And the only reason they even thought to look up there is because people were complaining about like dark water coming out of their faucets and showers and stuff.
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Every like, look it up if if if any of that piqued your interest to anybody who's listening or watching this, like the details around it are insane, and the details around like the Cecil Hotel, which I know has been changed, that name has been changed, it's still there.
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Um, but like it it just goes all over the place.
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Like, I don't know if you've heard of the elevator game.
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Like they're thinking maybe, yeah, they're thinking maybe she, you know, was trying to do that.
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There, there's like military stuff that's registered like right next to, or was at one point, like registered to there with like involving like cloaking technology.
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And it's just like you fall down crazy rabbit holes when you start looking at up.
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So I don't even know if that counts as a true crime like thing, but like every time I I fall down a rabbit hole of that particular case, it's just on that edge of like true crime and just absolutely like paranormal mystery influences on everything.
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So that what about you?
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What do you do have I guess uh I was I was always uh very interested in the Jeffrey Dahmer case.
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Oh, okay.
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I always thought that that was a fascinating, like crime, uh just just a fascinating guy to kind of like figure out how he went down the path that he went down and and especially his early childhood stuff, like connecting those dots I thought was incredible.
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And and I've read a lot of books about like identifying early childhood um narcissistic uh tendencies or or you know things that would kind of lead you to say, hey, maybe maybe we need to have this this one evaluated.
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As a parent, as a new parent, I don't read any of that stuff because I'm like, I already am focused so much on my son's development that I'm like, I don't I don't want to read anything.
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Oh man.
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Um, but but today we are talking about the one and only Kirk Cobain from the band Nirvana.
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Um Danny, do you want to tell us a little bit about Kirk Cobain?
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Uh Kirk Cobain, front man of Nirvana.
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I I mean basically the the voice of the grunge generation, as as far as you know both of us are concerned.
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I mean, there there are some sticklers out there that can kind of but no matter what, we can all agree in the music world, he he had some of the the biggest impact on the on the grunge movement in general.
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Um had an an incredible career for the amount of time that he actually you know had his career, um, which unfortunately was you know cut short with uh a suicide.
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Yeah.
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Um he's part of the 27 club.
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Um we'll we'll dive into that later.
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Um I would honestly say he completely changed the landscape of what we know as music today.
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Um, were you a big Nirvana fan growing up?
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It's so, and I I've said this plenty of times.
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I may have even said it on on your other on one of your other podcasts.
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Um I was very fortunate to to grow up in a household where my dad showed me uh just so much you know music, rock music in general, but every single you know facet of rock music.
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So of course I grew up you know hearing Nirvana and and listening to Nirvana.
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There are select songs by them that I absolutely like love.
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I will say what I gravitate towards uh with Nirvana is actually you know where we get you know Dave Grohl having some influences and stuff like that.
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Because I really like just you know what he does with the drums, with the like that kind of like really heavy in like drum parts and stuff like that.
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Those are the songs that I will always kind of more gravitate towards.
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Because I mean, if you can't tell already from from my voice or my like just kind of personality in general, I like the the the kind of brighter, the kind of like the bigger, the the the louder stuff.
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So like more of that side of Nirvana as opposed to you know some some of the more soft and and melodic and and stuff like that that I know you know are also very popular.
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Because I I feel like with Nirvana and Kirk Cobain in general, there were very there were kind of like two sides to it, where you know you had these big songs and these big hits and and stuff like that, and then you also had these kind of more mellow, you know, which also were hits and and stuff like that.
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So yeah, I mean I definitely I don't think there's a musician that's in the the the rock genre that can't say that they you know were influenced at least to some degree right by Kirk Cobain.
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I mean, obviously not pre-Kirp Kirk Cobain musicians or something like that, but you know, us moving forward in in the rock world and and and stuff like that, I mean it it was a ripple effect, you know, you know what I mean?
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Like there are so many bands that were created post Nirvana that you know wouldn't be around or wouldn't have you know looked at those influences and the influences of the grunge era in general, because I feel like we kind of in the music world, it's kind of always like you know, a build of what had just happened previously, like what was a big movement, and then it's either you know you go opposite, which is still you're affected by it if you're you know an opposite of what the the last kind of big movement was, or you kind of take some influences of that and adapt them to something new and and stuff like that, but you still get those elements in general, so yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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Um, let's talk a little bit about Kirk Cobain's darker side.
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Um, so we we know him as this charismatic front man of Nirvana.
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Um, interviews with him will show him in this light of uh humor, he was a very funny guy.
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Um, he was very charismatic, he would constantly do everything for his fans.
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He loved people, he loved interacting with people, but there was some very serious things going on in the background.
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Um, Kirk Cobain suffered from severe depression.
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Um, he had chronic stomach pains that led to uh drug abuse.
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Um, he had a very, very heavy heroin addiction, and he had this underlying feeling of being misunderstood by society, misunderstood by the industry.
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Uh, few interviews have talked about how he didn't want Nirvana to be successful.
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He wanted to stay the local Seattle band.
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Um, so when when the success started to come, he kind of resented himself in a way.
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And I I think that leads us into some of the darker moments that lead up to the horrific suicide that happened in 1994, I believe.
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Yeah, 94.
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Um Kirk Cobain, I think was not only influential in music, but influential in in pop culture, influential in style.
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Um, and I think that the pressures of fame pushed him towards a path that I'm sure a lot of musicians go through.
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So, on top of dealing with the the horrific crime that happened, we're also going to be talking a little bit about mental health for musicians everywhere, you know, and and understanding that the the pressures that come from the industry, uh, there are people to talk to, there are resources to reach out to.
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Uh, feel free to reach out to us if you're struggling.
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You know what I mean?
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I'm glad to have that talk.
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Um, but let's let's talk about his last few months on this planet.
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Um so in March of 1994, Kirk gets hospitalized in Rome after an incident originally described as an accidental overdose by Courtney Love.
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Um, she would say that she believed this was actually a suicide attempt by Kurt Cobain.
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Um, not long after Kirk checks into rehab in Los Angeles, he leaves the facility early and begins um searching Los Angeles area for a gun.
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Um, specifically, I believe it was a 12-gauge Mossberg shotgun, was the I know it was a shotgun, yeah.
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Yeah, I think the actual make or anything.
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I think that's what he was after.
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Um but between leaving rehab and April 8th, his body is discovered.
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Uh Kurt's movements aren't fully accounted for.
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There's not a 100% accurate understanding of what all went down in that timeline.
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Um, I will say that the general idea there there is video of him leaving the facility in Los Angeles.
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Um, I believe he checked himself out of the facility.
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Um so it wasn't like he snuck out or anything.
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I believe he he just simply checked himself out of the rehab facility.
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Um there were some phone calls that were made.
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Um again, no 100% factual evidence behind it.
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So I'm not gonna call out the names of the people that he called, but there are witnesses who have come forward that said that he called them prior to the events of April in search of a place to crash.
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Um so that leads us into what we will call the discovery stage.
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Um in on April 8th in 1994, Kirk Cobain's body is discovered in the greenhouse above his garage in Seattle.
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He had been dead for several days.
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A shotgun was found resting against his body with a handwritten note uh discovered nearby.
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Within hours, the police rule the death a suicide.
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And for many people, that's where the story ends, but for others, that's where the questions start to arise.
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Um, Danny, let's talk about Courtney Love.
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What what would we like to say about Courtney Love?
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Like, here's the thing.
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Uh, you know, we're gonna look at this situation as you know, outside observers and everything like that.
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So we really don't know, you know, the true side of you know their relationship in in general.
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We only know the accounts from other people, we only know the accounts from public, you know, records and and and everything like that.
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But it seemed like their relationship was a bit toxic in in in general and and stuff like that.
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And it also seems, you know, from other people that that were you know close with you know Kurt in general, like Dave Grohl and the rest of his band and stuff like that, that that uh some of the events and and some of the things that were you know going on during the events to lead up to this um were different, I guess, like as far as you know Courtney Love, you know, maybe not wanting, you know, Nirvana to ever be on pause or or to ever end or anything like that.
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And and you know, so then we kind of, you know, this is like I said, we're looking at this from an outside perspective.
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So no, we're not trying to push either side or or anything like that, but there are a lot of, you know, just like you said, you know, uh uh originally the events in in Rome, originally they they were thought to be, you know, an accidental overdose, but then after that, we have Courtney Love kind of changing the story of hey, no, actually Kurt tried to overdose on purpose type of thing.
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But I don't know you know if anybody else ever really said that type of thing.
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Um, so we already kind of have a little bit of inconsistencies and and kind of sets the stage for questions, I guess, after um the events of you know his suicide slash if it is a suicide, I guess, is the only way to kind of tease that or say that as gently as possible.
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Um, obviously, you know, you you brought up the the thing of of we don't want to be crass or or we don't want to, you know, you know push a narrative in general, but there are a lot of things that just seem uh uh to to to make you question.
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Absolutely.
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Like the the you know, recanting certain things, um the fact that you know we after you know after his death, obviously there was a drug test or and and you know many things, and and for him to have such high levels of of heroin in his system, you kind of beg to ask the question, how did this person also operate a shotgun?
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Which seems like a very difficult weapon if you're going to commit suicide.
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Like, I just think that like I'm a very short person, so I don't and I don't think I have any kind of arm length to to do anything like that.
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But at the same time, even a normal-sized human, it it's it seems like a very difficult thing.
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Like if you're right premeditated, you're planning this out, it seems like a one of the the last things I guess you would pick type of thing.
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Just in my mind at least.
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But there's a so Courtney Love, who is the lead singer of a band called Garbage.
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Um Hole.
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Hole, you're right.
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It's not garbage, it's Hole.
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Oh, I've always gotten those two confused.
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So bad mouth garbage.
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I like garbage.
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Hole had one good hit.
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I will say, I like that song.
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Uh, what is it, dolls?
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Oh, I know which song you're talking about.
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It's not the one that I there's there's another song by them that I know better, and I can't remember off the top of my head.
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Oh, celebrity skin.
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That's it.
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That's it, yeah.
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And then doll parts.
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Though so they they had two good hits.
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They had two good hits.
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Because now all I'm thinking about is garbage, and I like garbage.
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Who doesn't like garbage?
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Yeah, exactly.
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Um, so Courtney Love, uh their relationship was very toxic.
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Um there were also reports.
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This is this is where we start to slowly dive into the conspiracy theories.
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Right.
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Uh, there were reports that Kurt Cobain, after the birth of their daughter, um, realized that he needed to get clean, that he needed to be there for his daughter.
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Um and he had gone on this this rehabilitation journey and he had been on a good straight narrow path, and people relapse, things happen.
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Um however, it seemed that that event in Rome happened very unexpectedly after a a good track record of working towards sobriety.
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Right.
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Um, so again, yeah, there there are these questions that come up.
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Kirk O'Bain also denied the suicide attempt um the entire time he was alive.
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Right.
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Um that was a narrative spun by Courtney Love.
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The people close to him never suspected him as someone who would try to take their own life.
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Uh Court Courtney Love, I will say, being the spouse, would have known details of him that the public just wouldn't from you know being around him so closely.
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I I think that so full transparency, I come from a background of uh a drug-addicted father, so I know the journey of sobriety really well.
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And from an outsider looking at that person's journey, I also know how detrimental the words the people around that individual use can be to that sobriety.
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So if their relationship was already toxic, um there there are chances that maybe he kind of went on a bender after a fight.
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Um I also know that from an outside perspective that addicts tend to uh pick arguments with individuals close to them as a chance to use.
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So they they use it as an argument of like, well, if I just get a little bit, it'll help me through this pain, right?
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So there could there could have been some demons going on there for sure.
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Um however, I do think that the relationship with uh Kurt and his daughter is such an important piece to all of this.
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And uh there are videos of Kurt with his daughter, um where he seems to be clean and sober and and uh doing everything that he can to take care of his daughter.
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Um I really Really think that Courtney Love may have been jealous of the relationship that he had with not just his daughter, but his fans and just the industry as a whole, uh pun intended.
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Um where I think that her band was maybe struggling a little more in the industry, and female artists in that time period for sure had a harder road than most.
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So um she already had to work harder for the notoriety that she had.
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She had to prove herself more, and I think that there may have been a layer of jealousy to all of that.
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I'll definitely agree with that.
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And I mean, you have a really interesting perspective on this because you being, you know, uh not only you you being a new parent, so you can you can kind of understand that side of things, but you can like like you just mentioned, you know, having a family member with with an addiction, so you're coming also from that side.
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So you have two really unique perspectives on this because uh I mean the the thing about you know mental health and and and addiction in general and and now combining both of those things, there are always going to be you know good days, but on the flip side of that, there's always gonna be bad days, too.
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So, you know, you just you don't know, you know, what what can result in a bad day or from a bad day, I guess.
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Right.
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Whether it's the thought of I don't want to be around anymore, or if it's the thought of I just need a little something to to ease the pain to get through this, or or just something like that.
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You you know what I mean?
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Like there's there's always gonna be the other side of the coin for yeah for mental illness and for addiction in general, but when like like I said, when you combine the two, it's even more.
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So, you know, ha having all of that add up, it's it's definitely you know possible that this the Rome incident was you know a combination of those things, plus, you know, like you were you were getting at maybe an argument between Kurt and Courtney and and and something like that, or just you know, waking up on the wrong side of the bed, like anything that kind of spiraled into the events of what what happened in Rome to kind of you know what kind of kicks the months of events that that result in his death, basically.
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Right.
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On a lighter note, just just to lighten things up a little bit, um what I've always found fascinating about this story is so his his addiction to drugs has always been linked to his chronic stomach pain.
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And the the idea that you can be like, man, my tummy hurts.
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I think I'm gonna do heroin.
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Like that's such a such a leap, man.
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Like, that's that's a crazy, you know what I mean?
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There's there's Tums, there's I mean anti acid pills, maybe he just didn't have any Tums.
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Like, I don't know.
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Like that's like that one's that's always been the baffling thing for me in this case, has been like every report I read goes he went from from pain pills for a stomach pain straight to heroin, and it's like, dude, there's so many steps.
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Yeah, well, what they do say about, and I mean, there's plenty of, you know, and and there's not that Kirk Cobain's not a normal person, but there are plenty of average people who, you know, get prescribed.
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I mean, this is a big thing now.
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It's it's not even just talking about back then.
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This is a big thing now that they go in for an injury or something like that, and they're prescribed painkillers, and then they get hooked on them.
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And so, like, maybe I I get I get yes, it's a very big leap from prescribed pain medication to heroin.
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But well, all I'm saying is like we have we we already know like that that pain medication that's prescribed is very addictive, and it the average person can can get addicted to that.
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And maybe when that dries up and you can't, you know, legally get anything anymore, you kind of just get pushed into whatever you can find legally, and maybe that just happened to be the you know, somebody who knew somebody who knew somebody else was like, Oh, I got this.
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I mean, it's drugs, like you know what I mean.
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Like, maybe it was just that kind of thing, like it wasn't like, or maybe it was just like, I don't want cocaine, like I call it upper, and I can't imagine Kurt Cobain on uppers or or anything like that, but just like I mean, could you imagine you're out like on stage or getting ready to go do a show and you're like, Man, I have such a headache, and somebody's like, I got crack.
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It's like whoa, I was just looking for an ibuprofen, man.
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I am look, I am the most boring musician.
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Like, like I, you know, energy drink before maybe a show or or something like that, uh like and maybe a couple of drinks after my set, but I I I don't even drink I won't drink before I'm done on stage.
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Yeah, because I'm like ultra like more so ultra about my voice, because I've had like a shot or a drink before I've gone on stage and it's affected the way that it feels for me to sing.
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Um, but yeah, I think it puts a little soul in your voice.
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It just puts a little extra less control, which is a weird way to describe because I mean I already have a rasp in my voice.
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I don't know by the by the way, anyone's listening to my music, I have no idea what my voice actually sounds like.
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I just know the way it feels when it feels right, type of thing.
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So, like that's always a thing.
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So I admire musicians that can go up there and like you know, cheers everybody with a drink or or something like that on stage.
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For me, it's like if I did that and I don't drink the exact same stuff that I always drink, I don't do do the same thing that I always do, it just throws me all like a little bit like out of sync.
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That type of thing.
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No, that makes sense, and it's all on feel and it's all on control and and stuff like that.
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So I I really feel like with singing and and performing in general, it's what you get used to.
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And I've I've actually and and it's it's not funny, but it it's it it definitely has to do with it.
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There's a documentary, because I know we're going through you know a lot, uh, some of our a lot of the stuff we're pointing towards our documentaries and stuff like that.
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But there's another documentary that we didn't cite that is all about the foo fighters, and the way that that documentary starts, it actually starts still with Nirvana, and then it goes from the end of Nirvana to the beginning of you know Dave Grohl just in you know his depressive state after the death of Kirk Cobain and what does he want to do next and and all this stuff, but it also shows how this underlying you know bored is the wrong word, or or you know, mundane, getting used to doing stuff and and having to add alcohol or having to add you know something to that to make it less boring for every like for the band and and stuff like that.
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Because at one point I know there's an interview with Dave Grohl where he's saying like you know, after like the third Foo Fighters album, they were like doing handles before they got on stage and and and stuff like that.
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Like, and it just goes to show how even the craziest jobs, jobs that like some of us would kill for, like you know what I mean, to be playing sold-out shows across the the entire world and and stuff like that, even those can get to be mundane or boring, and you need to kind of you know do something to you know liven those up and to like make make it fun for yourself again.
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Like right, it's just crazy hearing that kind of stuff, but like just hearing that from other bigger musicians and and stuff like that leads also into into some of this and and how like maybe you know maybe it wasn't even him you know having a bad day, maybe it was just like him going, oh I gotta do another show and I don't feel like it.
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Maybe I need this like to help me, you know, feel a little bit more.
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Like it's just there's so many things that can affect you know the mental state of anyone in general, but like just Kurt when he had kind of this fragile you know mental state and and dealing with addiction, even if he wanted to, you know, pull himself out and and and you know be this clean you know parent to to his his daughter and and and stuff like that, you can just see how many things that could possibly push him into you know to a relapse or into drugs again and and stuff.
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And you brought up such a great point.
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I didn't even think about that, uh, about the monotony of like if if you're already resentful of your already resentful of what you're doing, you don't.
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I mean, he was very open about hating smells like teen spirit and hating most of the Nevermind album, right?