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However, I do have a lot of respect for Incubus because of how much they have evolved as a band and stayed together. The Morning View album was really the marker of change for them as a band, and while I did enjoy that album, everything after that just isn't my thing. I love the tone on that album, and the creativity with the guitar parts is amazing, IMO. However, I'll go ahead and say that my favorite album all-around is "Make Yourself". If so, I would concur in that it's a great album. There’s been times when he’s been on stage performing with Incubus and immediately afterward, gotten on a phone call about the case.I don't mean to be a jerk, but do you mean "Morning View"? He’s mulling over options, including a book of advice or offering guidance behind the scenes.Įinziger says Park’s disappearance has consumed much of his own life. “I’m doing very current cases, not old, cold cases.” Strauss wants to find out what happened to Park, but he also feels a call to help other families searching for missing loved ones. “It’s very just intense and stressful,” said Strauss recently over Zoom. This was chronicled in the 2005 bestselling book “The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists.” Ten years later, he examined his own struggles with intimacy and monogamy in “The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book about Relationships.” Strauss has also served as a ghostwriter for celebrity memoirs by Jenna Jameson and Kevin Hart and writes for Rolling Stone.īut it’s the dive into these missing persons cases that has taken up much of his focus in recent years. He famously went undercover in the world of pickup artistry, where men trained to attract women with tactics such as backhanded compliments and limited availability.
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Strauss can attribute some of his professional success to subjecting himself to unique situations. Strauss is back with a second season of his podcast, focusing on the 2017 disappearance of Elaine Park, a 20-year-old woman last seen in Calabasas. Strauss alludes on the podcast to his marriage breaking up, at least in part due to the intensity of the investigation.Īuthor Neil Strauss, left, and Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger, of the podcast “To Live and Die in LA,” pose for a portrait on June 17, 2021, in Malibu. Strauss helped too, now saying that at the time it was originally more to get along than to go along. She brought in neighbor and friend Mike Einziger - guitarist for the band Incubus - and his wife, violinist Ann Marie Simpson. De La O couldn’t shake the idea that something disturbing may have taken place in her community and joined the search. Strauss became aware of the case after his then-wife, Ingrid De La O, stumbled across a news report online that said Park’s abandoned car was found in Malibu - where they lived. The revelations were released in almost real time, and listening seemed intimate, not to mention terrifying.

In 2019, a listener of writer Neil Strauss’ podcast “ To Live and Die in LA” came forward with information that helped solve the case of a 25-year-old missing woman, Adea Shabani. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
