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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Jesse Kelly Show. Let's have some fun on a Thursday.
We are all most done with this week. I bet
you you have at least a day or two off
for Christmas. If not, I hope you're making time and
a half the weekend approaches. We have a great show

(00:24):
for you tonight. So here's what's on tap. Before we
get into some of the darker things, and there'll be
some of that, there's some good things happening out there.
We'll play a couple of tidbits from Trump's address last night.
Liked a lot of what I heard, like the tone
of what I heard a lot. And we'll talk about
a couple of things that are good. Let's remember there's

(00:45):
always something you can feel bad about, always something you
can feel good about. We'll focus on some positives here,
get into some more the system protecting illegals, foreign looters,
pillaging the place, some tranny insanity. A warning to everybody
on welfare. Believe me, it's a warning you're gonna want

(01:07):
to hear if you're one of the hateful commies who
hate listens all that emails. You have so many questions,
so much more coming up on the world Famous Jesse
Kelly show, and before I forget tomorrow is ask doctor
Jesse Friday. All three hours belong to you. It's the
last time you're going to talk to me for just

(01:27):
a little bit because a Christmas break is coming. Email
on now, Jesse at jesse Kellyshow dot com. Ask me anything,
and I am going to get to your emails tonight
that everything. Everyone asks questions about damn bon Gino and
the country and everything else. I will get to that.
But I know, I know that it is a hard

(01:50):
time right now in America and the near future I
should say, looks like maybe some rocky days ahead of us.
Speaking specifically about things like affordability. Here's a headline more
than seventy five percent of homes across the US are unaffordable.

(02:11):
I heard a statistic today the average home price ad
bridge four hundred and ten thousand dollars. That is a
jaw dropping amount of money, four hundred and ten thousand dollars.
So I know there's that, And part of the reason
it hurts so much is it's not that long ago.

(02:33):
We could afford so much more in twenty nineteen, before
the world collectively lost its mind and decided to forcibly
shut down its economies. For a chess cold, you could
afford so much more. A Friday night with red lobster
and then the movies was something you could do now

(02:54):
once a month, once every two months. Now that's a
three hundred dollars night. You remember, You remember what it
was like to be able to afford a new fridge,
to be able to afford a plane ticket to go
see your dad. You remember. And now that inflation has
gotten so bad, it's everything's twenty five, fifty percent, in

(03:17):
some cases, one hundred percent more expensive than it was.
It hurts, It sucks backtracking on your standard of living
because it's one of those things. It's part of the
human condition. I don't know whether this is a uniquely
American culture thing, but I don't think it is. I
think it's just human nature. You tend to think, at least,

(03:39):
you tend to hope that your standard of living will
get better and better and better as you walk through life.
As you get older, you're earning, power increases, you get
more established, more responsible. So basically, you're driving a nicer
car when you're fifty than you were driving at twenty five.
That kind of a basic way I would put it. Now,

(04:00):
we're seeing that go the other way in a lot
of ways. I know it sucks. It sucks. I get it.
That's why we have record credit card debt. I get it.
And that's why I have been critical of Trump when
he's been rolling out messages like this. This is not
last night, this is a flashback. This is why I
didn't like this. I didn't like an under Biden. I

(04:23):
call the affordability crisis as a democratic post. You also
want to make the air cut.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
You know the word, the word that they use is
a hoax. And because they're the ones that caused the problem,
I'm only you know I'm talking about when you you
know you're trying to say in a different win.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Trump has changed that because you yelled and screamed like
like I've talked to you about before, and I know
you agree with me on this. All politicians, even ones
you like a lot, they're all rental cars. Donald Trump,
to his credit, to his credit, he listens when you

(05:00):
get angry at him. He is somebody who's always just
going to vent whatever is on his mind. He's gonna
splatter it out there, for better or for worse. Sometimes
it'll be wonderful. Sometimes it'll make you WinCE. And sometimes
he'll start getting up in front of crowds, getting in
front of the camera and saying things like things are
way better and more affordable now. And you were outraged

(05:22):
about it, but you didn't shut your mouth. You raised
up the flag and said, excuse me, No they're not.
Don't stop telling me how good I have it. No
they're not. Donald Trump went a different way last night,
promising a hopeful future. This is the kind of messaging.
Don't tell people how great they have it. Tell people

(05:43):
how great they're about to happen.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
When the world looks at us next year, let them
see a nation that is loyal to its citizens, faithful
to its work, is confident to its identity, certain to
its destiny, and the envy of the entire globe. We
are respect I did again, like we have never been
respected before.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
That shows hope. Doesn't tell people that you're doing just fine,
because when you're sitting there and you can't pay bills,
you're not doing just fine. But there's hope in that.
And he correctly. I love this because it's accurate. He
correctly informed people, not that they're doing great, because that's
not true. He informed people why they're.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Not inherited a mess and I'm fixing it.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
When I took office, inflation was the worst. In full pause,
I'll start it over again. You want to know why
that was so much better than what he's been saying.
He didn't say I inherited a mess, a mess, and
now I fixed it and everything's great. That rubs people
the wrong way. It's I'm on it. I know. I
know that you're struggling. I know you're on your third shift.

(06:48):
I know that you can't afford this. I know Christmas
is going to be leaner this year. I know I'm
gonna fix it. I'm fixing it. That sounds like somebody
with a plan. I love it. Inherited a mess and
I'm fixing it.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
When I took office, inflation was the worst in forty
eight years, and some would say in the history of
our country, which caused prices to be higher than ever before,
making life unaffordable for millions and millions of Americans. This
happened during a Democrat administration, and it's when we first
began hearing the word affordability.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Outstanding so much better and lays out some things that
are to come not telling you how wonderful it is now. Hey,
help is on the way. This is long. I may
stop it, I may not as the president. I'll let
them have a say.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Last administration and their allies in Congress looted our treasury
for trillions of dollars, driving up prices and everything at
levels never seen before. I am bringing those high prices
down and bringing them down very fast. The price of
a Thanksgiving turkey was down thirty three percent compared to

(08:00):
the Biden last year. The price of eggs is down
eighty two percent since March, and everything else is falling rapidly.
Here are just some of the efforts that we have underway.
You will see in your wallets and bank accounts in
the new year. After years of record setting falling incomes,
our policies are boosting take home pay at a historic pace.

(08:23):
Under Biden, real wages plummeted by three thousand dollars. Under Trump,
the typical factory worker has seen a wage increase of
one thousand, three hundred dollars. For construction workers, it's one thousand,
eight hundred dollars. For miners, we're bringing back clean, beautiful coal,
it's three thousand, three hundred dollars, and for the first

(08:45):
time in years, wages are rising much faster than inflation. Already,
I've secured a record breaking eighteen trillion dollars of investment
into the United States, which means jobs, wage increases, growth,
fact openings, and far greater national security. Much of this
success has been accomplished by tariffs. We wrapped twelve different

(09:10):
bills up into one beautiful bill that includes no tax
on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on
social security for our great seniors. Under these cuts, many
families will be saving between eleven thousand and twenty thousand
dollars a year, and next spring is projected to be

(09:31):
the largest tax refund season of all time. We are
sending every soldier one thousand, seven hundred and seventy six dollars.
Gasoline is now under two dollars and fifty cents a
gallon in much of the country. In some states, it,
by the way, just hit one dollar and ninety nine
cents a gallon. And within the next twelve months, we

(09:53):
will have opened one thousand, six hundred new electrical generating plants,
a record, and it's a record that I won't be
beaten by practically, I would say, by anybody, or certainly
not very soon, prices or electricity and everything else will
fall dramatically.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Now that sounds like a plan. It is the Jesse
Kelly Show on a fantastic Thursday, talking about just to
open up the show. Just there's some good things out there,
things I want you to feel good about. Here's something else.
It's not even something tangible, but it's something that matters. Remember,

(10:31):
entertainment matters, Patriotism matters. You are not an economic unit,
neither am I. There are other things. We have emotions,
things like that. Next year, twenty twenty six is our
two hundred and fiftieth birthday as a country. I want
you to pause for a moment. Just pause for a moment.

(10:51):
In fact, I'll play you something. I want you to pause,
and I want you to think about something. I want
you to think about what the two hundred and fiftieth
birthday quote celebrations would have been with this woman as president?
How dare we speak Merry Christmas? How dare we Can

(11:13):
you even imagine how much America trashing it would have been?
And I don't want to act like this as a
side issue. I'm telling you for me personally, because I
love my country so much. I'm just being honest with you.
I would have found it incredibly demoralizing. The articles that

(11:34):
would have come out, the videos, the displays. It would
have been, you know, standard Democrat politics. Now, America's evil
white people are evil, America's slavery and genocide of the
Native America. It would have been all the standard America
hating commie crap. And it would have been our official

(11:54):
two hundred and fiftieth. And remember, you only get one
two hundred and fiftieth. And realistically, if we're being on honest,
countries generally don't get a five hundreds to celebrate ever. Right,
it's just not a normal thing. This is possibly our
big boy, our big one. And if we as a
country would have selected President Dome, the America hating savages

(12:20):
she would have put in charge of that two hundred
and fiftieth would have destroyed it for you and destroyed
it for me. You would never have even wanted to
go to anything. Trump just announced today that he's doing
the Patriot Games, a man and woman, a female athlete
from every state. They're going to compete like an America Olympics.

(12:41):
And this is one small thing. I heard from Senator
Tommy Tupperville that it's basically going to be all three
hundred and sixty five days of the year is going
to be our two hundred and fiftieth celebration. Trump, in
his own way, is going to be so insanely over
the top with red, white and blue. It's going to

(13:02):
be awesome. It's going to be awesome. And I know
that doesn't put food on the table, but it does matter.
Remember that, at its core, patriotism is really what makes
a country go. If you have a country full of
people who love it, that country will improve, it will

(13:25):
be wonderful. If you have a country full of people
who hate it, it will degrade over time until it
is no more. Next year is going to be so
insanely patriotic you might as well tattoo an American flag
on your forehead right now, what, Chris, don't think I won't.
I've got tons of forehead now that I lost my hair.

(13:48):
It's another thing to feel good about. So separating that,
here's another one. Trump seeks to strip naturalized citizenship from
immigration fraudsters because of the ratchet way we've done immigration
in this country. The insane suicidal way. We have always
acted as if the second you get here you can

(14:11):
never leave. And of course once you get made a citizen,
well you might as well put your feet in concrete.
You can never leave. That's bunkers. No country would ever
operate that way that wanted to continue. We should be
stripping citizenship of people all the freaking time and sending
them back to the dumps they came from. And here's

(14:32):
another one I want you to I want you to
picture what the HHS secretary under President Dome would have
been doing with that position. Here's what happened today. Here
was RFK Junior.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
So called gender affirming care has inflicted lasting physical and
psychological damage on vulnerable young people. This is not medicine,
it is malpractice. This morning I signed a declaration sex
rejecting procedures are neither safe nor effective treatment for childrenless
genderness for you.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
Would that have happened under President Dome? Headline Trump administration
to cut all funding to hospitals performing pediatric sex changes. Again.
I know there are so many problems, and believe me,
we're actually about to get into them. I'm not trying
to put some smiling face on a lot of ugly situations.

(15:31):
Let's stop for a moment with all the ugliness around
us and acknowledge November was a really important election to win.
And I don't know what's going to happen this next November.
Everyone's saying we're gonna get wiped out. Maybe we will.
I don't know what's going to happen in twenty twenty eight.
I talked to a political analyst yesterday who told me that,

(15:53):
uh has thanks. We're getting wipe out there too, lose
the presidency. Of course, no one knows that, right knows it.
No one knows what the future is going to bring.
But November was important. Elections do matter, and we can
all get black pilled from time to time with the

(16:14):
slow pace of change or just the lack of any
change at all, and we can all get black pilled
and convince ourselves that nothing matters. I'm done. I'm moving
to a cabin in the mountains. No, we did a
good thing in November. Didn't solve all our problems, was
never gonna but we did a good thing in November.
All right, all right, let's talk about something ugly. You

(16:38):
have some questions. I want to get through some of
these emails. Someone wants to talk to me about Dan Bongino.
FBI will get to that in a moment. It is
the Jesse Kelly jo on a fantastic Thursday, nearing the
end of the week. Do not forget to get your
ask doctor Jesse questions in for tomorrow. Fridays all three
hours are yours? You asked me. I already have some

(17:02):
rolling in. Oh yeah, this is the last ask doctor
Jesse Friday of the year. Good point, Chris, yet Jesse
at Jesse kellyshow dot comcert dot com send him in now. Hey, Jesse,
what is the real reason behind Dan Bongino leaving the FBI?
I must have got fifty of these last night. What's

(17:23):
the real reason? What's the real reason? All right, So
let me tell you this. As you may know already,
Dan Bongino is a friend of mine, as in I've
I've been in his home. He is a friend of mine.
Been honest with them. I've been honest with you about
that from the beginning. Okay, do Dan and I talk

(17:48):
and text yep, talked with him yesterday, actually texted with
him yesterday. And there are things, obviously because we are friends,
that he's going to tell me that I can't and
won't tell you because I don't do that. I don't
reveal private information. I never have, I never will. However,

(18:11):
I promise you this promise. I have not asked Dan
yet why he walked out the door. Therefore I have
no personal knowledge of it yet. Am I going to
ask him absolutely when I find out what it is.

(18:37):
I'm also going to ask him if it is okay
that I share it with you on my life, cross
my heart, hope to die. I am not knowledgeable of
the specific reason why. Yet I'm not holding out on you.
I promise I've always told you everything I can possibly

(18:59):
tell you without violating someone's trust or confidentiality, and that
will never ever change. I will ask him. Maybe we'll
get together for a beer at some point in time
in Florida something. I don't know what it would be.
Maybe we'll get together at some point and I will
talk to him, and I'll ask him, and I'll bring
you everything I can possibly bring you. All that aside,

(19:24):
This is not him talking, this is me talking. I
understand the complaints people have still about the FBI. Why
haven't they done this? Why haven't they fired that? What
about the whistleblowers who are still getting screwed over what
about this? What about that? I understand that, and I'm
never going to tell you different, all right. I have

(19:47):
never wavered on this, not when Dan was there, not
now that he's gone, and certainly not beforehand. The FBI
is a criminal organization then and now. It is a soulless, evil,
secret state police organization. It does not need new leadership,

(20:08):
It does not need reformed. It cannot possibly be reformed.
It must be ended, defunded, Fire every employee in demo
the building. Otherwise it only gets more evil from here.
That was the case yesterday, that's the case today, It

(20:30):
was the case five years ago. It will be probably worse,
undoubtedly worse five years from now. Now. Maybe you're sitting
there screaming, well, what we just need a new leader,
new leadership, We need uh, we need me. I need
to get in there, Jesse. You need to get in there, Jesse.
We need to resurrect General Patton and gett him in there. Okay,

(20:51):
So let's talk about something the Gambino crime family. You
know about the Gambino crime family. Of course, it's one
of the one of the biggest Italian mafia families in
the country. Traditionally, it's been one of the most powerful,
based in New York City. John Gotti was the head
of the Gambino family. All right, you got it, You
got it, got it. And you're probably at least vaguely

(21:13):
aware this is an organization that is old. It's more
than a century old. It's an organization of criminals. And
you are aware that the mafia. You're aware that that's
what they do. Their job, their daily life is finding

(21:37):
new ways to illegally make money. Maybe that's illegal gambling
or loan sharking, or I mean, take your pick. They
have a million different scams. They're big into credit card
scams and stuff like that. You take your pick, whatever
it is, drugs, whatever it is. And you know that

(21:57):
every member of the Gambino fan which still very much exists.
Some may be listening to me right now, every single
member is a criminal and they commit crimes to earn
a living. You are aware of this, Okay, So this
is all very very basic, right, and there is a
history to the organization. That's what it's designed to do,

(22:19):
commit crimes, enrich its members, avoid prison or getting killed.
That is the entire purpose. Of the organization. Now you're
probably also aware of this if you've watched enough movies
or documentaries that a crime family, like the Gambino family,
at the very tippy top, they have the boss, and
right under him they have what is known as the underboss. Now,

(22:44):
let me ask you something. If I had the power
to make you, right now the underboss of the Gambino
crime family, could you change their ways? I know you're

(23:04):
a good person. You're not a thief or a murderer,
or a drug dealer or a law breaker. You want
to do the right thing, right, of course you do.
And hey, I just made you the underboss. I mean, shoot,
I could make you the boss. What you forget, Underboss?
What if I made you the boss? You kicking the door?
All these Italian gangsters are standing there, and you say, gentlemen, Tony,

(23:30):
put that down. Gentlemen, no more crime. I have decided
we are changing our ways. There's no more crime. I
want you to all be legal at all times. How
would that go for you? I mean shoot, not only
would it be ineffective, how long do you think you

(23:52):
would actually live? You're the boss? You see, when an
organization is rotted from the ground, up, and it is
a historically criminal, in evil organization. You can dream all
day long about turning the Gambino crime family into a

(24:16):
charity organization that helps veterans and sick puppies, and you
can want the best in the world, and in fact,
you can even be put in charge of it. But
the truth is the organization exists to commit crimes. That's
the entire point of it, and so is the f
b I. The FBI is not a crime fighting organization.

(24:40):
It's an organization full of committed communists still to this day,
and these communists believe they should use their power to
move the communist revolution forward and smash any and all
opposition to the revolution, and they have an insane amount
of power to do exact that. You cannot save the FBI.

(25:05):
It's not possible. You cannot reform it. You can't move
a leader here or move a leader there. You can't
look and you know, I love the guy said he's
a friend. A thousand dan Bonginos could not save the
FBI because the FBI cannot be saved. You couldn't either.
I couldn't either. It's not humanly possible to reform a

(25:28):
historic criminal organization. If you want to truly save the country,
you'll break the FBI into a thousand pieces and scatter
it to the wins. That's the truth. Now, let's talk
about the DEI movement now that more and more information
is coming out, and what is the Jesse Kelly Shoe

(25:50):
on a Fantastic Friday or Thursday, I'm sorry, Thursday, the
day before Friday. Whatever. If you've messed any part of
the show, you can download the whole thing on iHeart, Spotify, iTunes.
I am glad that you enjoyed our interview last night
with Rhodesian Bush War veteran Buddy Lilly. I'll be honest,

(26:13):
it was a long interview. I've never done one even
close to that long in my life. I don't even
do interviews most of the time. And I was sitting
here nerding out on it. But remember, it's a weird
thing I guess about radio, something that took me a
while to get used to, because I guess I'm still
fairly new to this profession. There's nobody here. There's no

(26:35):
one here. You're not sitting here with me. I'm stuck
with Chris and Corey and they're no help. Meaning I
don't have any idea whether or not you're enjoying it.
I only know whether or not I'm enjoying it. And
as it kept going and going and going, and we
were walking through the story, I'm looking at the clock, thinking, man,

(26:59):
this is long, and I'm loving it. I'm geeking out.
But I got myself a little paranoid last night, and
I said to myself, Man, wonder what if they're bored?
But if they don't like it? Wow, did you love it?
The emails were overwhelming. I loved it too. Believe me,
our long interviews are not going to become a thing
here on this show. Obviously, that's going to be the

(27:21):
rarest thing in the world. But I couldn't get enough
of it. I'm glad you felt the same way if
you missed that little cherry on top of our Rhodesian
Bush War history. Again, iHeart Spotify iTunes. So let's do this, Jesse.
I'm not sure what the Communists gain by excluding white

(27:42):
men from corporate America, given that many of those doing
the excluding are likely white themselves, and I would think
there are plenty enough COMMI white male job applicants to
make hiring white men safe for the revolution. What purpose
does the endless d Ei serve? Is it simply intended

(28:03):
to create another aggrieved class young white males? What say you?
All right, So there's a lot to this, but first
of all, we have to walk through a couple basics.
Basics we have talked about before. Warriors. You know what
pauspospos remember speaking of Buddy Lilly, Rhodesian Bush war veteran.

(28:27):
Do you remember what he said? The makeup was of
the communist terrorists who were ravaging Rhodesia last night. The
guys who would come in and they would rape, and
they would murder, and they would set land mines off
and they would They just the worst people in the world.
Do you remember? I asked him, I said, what kind
of soldiers were they? Do you remember what he said

(28:47):
to me? He said, well, the leaders, they were, of course,
well trained communists. They had gone to the Soviet Union,
or to China, or to East Germany or Brilliant or
wherever they had gone to communist countries receive training, and
now they're leading. He said. The leaders were those guys,
but most of them, the normal guys, just criminals, just savages,

(29:13):
just animals, murderers and thieves and rapists who found a
cause that would give them an outlet for what they
wanted to do. Anyway, what I loved. I loved the
slaughter people with machetes and rape. Oh, what's that? Your
organization will not only allow me to do so, they'll
pay me to do so. Oh, I'm all in. What's

(29:34):
our cause? Communism? Yep, sounds good, I'm all in. Communist
revolutions are fought by angry, bitter, miserable people who are
hell bent on revenge. It's common to think about communist
revolutions wherever they take place, whether it be America today

(29:57):
or China or Russia or anywhere else. It's common to
think about them as if they're a bunch of nerdy,
colleged socialists who've read too much Karl Marx and they
just have a different utopian view of how we should
construct an economy and a society that is not true
at all. Are there some of those people in there,

(30:19):
There's no question about it. But Communism is the religion
of the malcontent. As we have discussed so many times,
those are your recruits. If you're a communist, they are
your prize recruits. Find the groups of people who are
bitter for whatever reason, maybe justified, maybe not justified. Find criminals,

(30:42):
Find people who are angry about this or angry about that,
are mad about this, and you know what, You give
them an outlet, a purpose. You harness their anger, and
you point it at your political enemies and watch these
malcontents go tear through and burn down own everything. Something
you asked specifically about companies, and we're going to go

(31:04):
into this in a little bit more detail here, but
you asked specifically about companies. When a communist censors people
out of the employee pool, let's say, for being a
white male, because that's the most common form of employment
discrimination out there. Now, that communist knows knows that that

(31:27):
person was the most qualified. Remember that quote from the article,
They said, we knew we were censoring out some of
the most qualified people. That communist knows that by censoring
out this whole group of people, that they are making
their company worse, less profitable, their product, their goods, their
services will be worse because they told that white guy

(31:49):
go home, you're not eligible. That communist is not confused
as to what the results of that will be. That
communist knows that they don't care. And in many cases.
That's the entire point. Large American corporations still don't understand

(32:12):
why I'm about to tell you when I know you
already get this. Large corporations don't fully grasp yet how
much the communists they brought in enjoy hurting the corporation.
That tubby lesbian you hired in HR you know, the
one that forces everybody to do racial sensitivity training and

(32:35):
on Fridays it's lesbian Day. You know, everybody bring your
birken stocks. That communist she loves it that she's hurting
the company. She's an angry, bitter person. Her only outlet
in life is softball and destroying the profit margin of

(32:56):
the country where she's been hired. Those are her true joys.
She found a religion that gives her an outlet for
the bitterness and hate and jealousy that has filled up
her insides, right alongside the donuts. She loves hurting the
company she works for. She's not trying to make it better,

(33:19):
That's part of it.
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The Burden is a documentary series that takes listeners into the hidden places where justice is done (and undone). It dives deep into the lives of heroes and villains. And it focuses a spotlight on those who triumph even when the odds are against them. Season 5 - The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another young man admitted to the murder, and David breathed a sigh of relief, until the confessed murderer fingered David; “He paid me to do it.” David was sentenced to life without parole. Two decades later, Pulitzer winner and podcast host, Maggie Freleng (Bone Valley Season 3: Graves County, Wrongful Conviction, Suave) launched a “live” investigation into David's conviction alongside Jason Baldwin (himself wrongfully convicted as a member of the West Memphis Three). Maggie had come to believe that the entire investigation of David was botched by the tiny local police department, or worse, covered up the real killer. Was Maggie correct? Was David’s claim of innocence credible? In Death and Deceit in Alliance, Maggie recounts the case that launched her career, and ultimately, “broke” her.” The results will shock the listener and reduce Maggie to tears and self-doubt. This is not your typical wrongful conviction story. In fact, it turns the genre on its head. It asks the question: What if our champions are foolish? Season 4 - The Burden: Get the Money and Run “Trying to murder my father, this was the thing that put me on the path.” That’s Joe Loya and that path was bank robbery. Bank, bank, bank, bank, bank. In season 4 of The Burden: Get the Money and Run, we hear from Joe who was once the most prolific bank robber in Southern California, and beyond. He used disguises, body doubles, proxies. He leaped over counters, grabbed the money and ran. Even as the FBI was closing in. It was a showdown between a daring bank robber, and a patient FBI agent. Joe was no ordinary bank robber. He was bright, articulate, charismatic, and driven by a dark rage that he summoned up at will. In seven episodes, Joe tells all: the what, the how… and the why. Including why he tried to murder his father. Season 3 - The Burden: Avenger Miriam Lewin is one of Argentina’s leading journalists today. At 19 years old, she was kidnapped off the streets of Buenos Aires for her political activism and thrown into a concentration camp. Thousands of her fellow inmates were executed, tossed alive from a cargo plane into the ocean. Miriam, along with a handful of others, will survive the camp. Then as a journalist, she will wage a decades long campaign to bring her tormentors to justice. Avenger is about one woman’s triumphant battle against unbelievable odds to survive torture, claim justice for the crimes done against her and others like her, and change the future of her country. Season 2 - The Burden: Empire on Blood Empire on Blood is set in the Bronx, NY, in the early 90s, when two young drug dealers ruled an intersection known as “The Corner on Blood.” The boss, Calvin Buari, lived large. He and a protege swore they would build an empire on blood. Then the relationship frayed and the protege accused Calvin of a double homicide which he claimed he didn’t do. But did he? Award-winning journalist Steve Fishman spent seven years to answer that question. This is the story of one man’s last chance to overturn his life sentence. He may prevail, but someone’s gotta pay. The Burden: Empire on Blood is the director’s cut of the true crime classic which reached #1 on the charts when it was first released half a dozen years ago. Season 1 - The Burden In the 1990s, Detective Louis N. Scarcella was legendary. In a city overrun by violent crime, he cracked the toughest cases and put away the worst criminals. “The Hulk” was his nickname. Then the story changed. Scarcella ran into a group of convicted murderers who all say they are innocent. They turned themselves into jailhouse-lawyers and in prison founded a lway firm. When they realized Scarcella helped put many of them away, they set their sights on taking him down. And with the help of a NY Times reporter they have a chance. For years, Scarcella insisted he did nothing wrong. But that’s all he’d say. Until we tracked Scarcella to a sauna in a Russian bathhouse, where he started to talk..and talk and talk. “The guilty have gone free,” he whispered. And then agreed to take us into the belly of the beast. Welcome to The Burden.

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