The Backstory: The Great Gatsby Was a Total Failure!

📺 Watch this Episode On today’s MKD, we kick off the week discussing the death of Epstein accuser, Virginia Giuffre, problems at a nude park in Seattle, a mummified child found in a closet, a botched circumcision, how white meat can shorten your life, and a mortuary owner who experimented on corpses.  Want to submit your shocking story? Email [email protected] Support The Show: 🧠 Join The Gross Room 🖤 Sponsors 🔬 Buy Nicole's Book 🥼 Merch Follow: 🎙️ Mother Knows Death 🔪 Nicole 🪩 Maria 📱 TikTok More Info: 📰 Newsletter 📃 DisclaimerSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What are some strange (and slightly genius?) ways some homeowners have hidden bizarre items just to mess with future buyers? Nate wants to know if you are a “through the hole” or “over the fence” kind of person? Plus, do you check to see who unfollowed you on Instagram?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From caftans to kaftans and WTF about conjoined twins?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nate compares Elvis to Shakespeare, Danielle saw a great show this weekend, Froggy has been hearing a lot more from Danielle than usual, Gandhi is biting her tongue today, Skeery felt like his driver was ageist, and Scotty has a reminder for us.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's National Zipper Day, so we dive into the grooves of the zipper! A motor zipper, pulling through a zipper, plus a caller phones in with their opinion!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Here are your daily horoscopes for April 29th, 2025. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Danielle went on vacation with her friend with mom's credit card, and promised no mini bar. So Garrett calls mom to let her know HOW MUCH was spent!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Tommy is joined by actress Madeline Brewer who is currently starring in the Netflix series YOU, opposite Penn Badgley. YOU is back for its fifth and final season and Madeline’s character finds herself as the new object of Joe’s affection. You also know and love Madeline from her Emmy-nominated portrayal of Janine in Hulu’s THE HANDMAID’S TALE, which is also out right now in its sixth and final season. It’s safe to say she is delivering some of the most powerful performances this spring in all of television. Today, Madeline opens up about the intensity of working on two hit shows that involve traumatic storylines, if she’s ever spoken to a therapist about her characters, being a super-fan of YOU before joining the final season, why she loves playing characters with some loose screws, what working on those intimate scenes with Penn was like, three ways anyone can outsmart Joe Goldberg, how she learned to feel comfortable enough to use her voice after feeling like she couldn’t earlier in her career, what it’s like being on a show that is analyzed and talked about across social media non-stop, why she wants Penn to win an Emmy for his portrayal of Joe, the actress she once fan-girled over at an audition, the truth about that fire red hairstyle in YOU, that iconic surprising moment for her character during this final season, the very real and important message behind the show, a dream project she would want to do next (hint: Christmas), that one celebrity that was on her birthday cake when she was 15, how she ended up in the Jersey Shore house at 2am, why the final episode of THE HANDMAID’S TALE is the most extraordinary episode of the entire series, and so much more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How does a book start out as a complete failure only to suddenly be celebrated as one of the great American novels, decades later? And what was its heartbreaking inspiration? This is the story of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic The Great Gatsby, published 100 years ago this month.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The show members discuss what they did while the show was on vacation. Our listener Claudine wants to hear Gandhi's pepper spray story. Plus, caller Tonni met someone very interesting in the airport while waiting for her delayed flight. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.