34. The Tour (Jered Threatin)
A disastrous European tour reveals that an American rock band manufactured an entire fan base.
Prelude: German R&B duo, Milli Vanilli, are exposed for lip syncing.
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Comments (34)
Frank Farian did the same thing with his previous band Boney M, only back then, no one really cared. That's probably why he was so surprised by the negative response to Milli Vanilli not singing on their own album .
“Oh, honey, haven’t you heard? Jered Threatin is a solo artist.” You kill me with those one liners 😂
LOL THE AD IS HILARIOUS
Your wit is dryly amazing... Your podcast is wonderful, and absolutely worth my support. Thank you so much
Whoa whoa whoa...I realize I'm a little behind and I'm just getting to this episode, but this dude is from Moberly, MO??!? My whole extended family is from that super, super small town...hearing ACC say "Moberly, Missouri" is similar to hearing a celebrity say your name and feeling a little bit special lol
ACC, you make me laugh. Your sense of humor is great. Keep it up 👍👍❤
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CC, are you single? Love your work!
Haha thank you!
All that work for such terrible, derivative music. Boggles the mind.
That was great! keep em' coming.
Love your podcast! I am having a hard time finding the podcast from the advertisement. Can you let me know again the name and who it’s by? Thank you!
Wow.
I was having the same audio issues as well.
Ironic timing with the Crime Junkie podcast issues
This episode was amazing! I starting laughing and everyone around me thought I was crazy. Keep it coming!!!
I also get the weird noises both on Podcast Addict and if I listen in the Patreon app itself. 😕
Ugh sorry. Not sure what’s up with that. Seems like it’s only happening for a portion of you. I’ve re-uploaded the audio and verified that it’s clean on my end. Seems like an issue with Patreon. I wish I had a solution.
Great episode. What’s the podcast with the band interviews?
Hoax
Another excellent episode!
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Audio issue is happening for me too. No audio of them showing they can rap/sing with their own voices after being exposed.
I just re-uploaded the audio. Try to re-download.
I just wanna say, Parcast can suck it.
Excellent as always Mr. ACC.
Omg. Those poor musicians that got suckered in. Also he’s not that great. The Milli Vanilli guys sounded better in their own voices.
So this what someone thought was “Metallica” 😂 Now we need to figure out who the Honey Boo Boo person is. Hey, could the Metallica/Napster thing be an episode?!
OMG the milli vanilla thing could be its own episode. So sad.
A Concerned Citizen, you know it's true. Ah-ah-ah, I love you.
Might just be the way it download on my phone. Maybe for the best I can't hear Milli Vanilli try to prove they can rap/sing ☺️
I am lucky to be able to listen now 🥰 Wanted to give you a heads up though that at around the 7:56 mark the recording isn't working: no speaking just a weird alien noise. Happens again at 8:17.
Hmmm I'm not hearing it on my end. Anyone else having issues?
i got this notification on my phone and verbally hissed "YESSSSSS" to myself in the office. thank you sir