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December 22, 2025 19 mins
It's time for the show's annual gift exchange!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Jerry, sharing, shopping, pling, looking, laughing, praying.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
It's the lady came up to me at the SCU
Financial on Saturday and she's like, I've been listening so
long when the guy was there? Remember the guy that's
like the guy I'm like Jim, I said, Jim Harper.
She's like Jim Harper. But yes, Jim, she goes, What
does he say to you lately? I've been I've had
dinner with Jim Harper and like, I don't know, maybe

(00:42):
eight years ago. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
You don't do it one. That's fun.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah, he's a legend. He used at the start of
it all this w n I see Christmas Empire? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Was there anyone before him?

Speaker 3 (00:55):
I don't think so. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
We could go to the Wikipedia page find out out. No,
there had you been someone before him?

Speaker 1 (01:04):
What does he go back to the seventies?

Speaker 3 (01:06):
I think? So?

Speaker 4 (01:07):
Well, we just move along, all right, all right, we'll
google on our own time.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, okay, all right. So here's the thing. So this
year we decided, rather than just give each other a
bunch of gift cards and spend a lot of money.
Everybody's on a budget, we thought, let's do something fun.
I'll take it back. I said, let's do something fun.
Let's why don't the three of us will go to
Dollar Tree and let's give ourselves a fifty dollars limit
and let's get let's get some fun gifts for the
holidays and see what we come up with.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, it wasn't fun. It was such a hard assignment.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Let me first of no disrespect to Dollar Tree, no
love you. I didn't know.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
I was like, I'm buying my paper towel in a
regular store, like a sucker.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
I've never realized how for somebody with ADHD, how impossible
dollar Tree is. Yeah, it's hard mentally for me. Yeah,
it's fine when you like, if you need it, Like
there's been times when I've been at a convention I'm like, oh,
I need one of those bowls to put things in.
I'll run a dollar Tree and you know exactly where
to find it, You get it, and you leave. But
for browsing browsing to buy gifts a dollar Tree something

(02:05):
for Christmas is not easy.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
And it's really hard to spend fifty dollars.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
And there's a gigantic pole on the car.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Okay, I don't know where you're shopping.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
My Dollar Tree does not have poll mind here.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
And as I was walking out, there was a monitor
hanging down.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
No. I had the same car at that pole.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
They could kill someone in my In my situation, I
could not go past the monitor because the.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Pole kept leaving it.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
I was like, who did this right? And it was
very distracting. The pole very kid, It's always in the
corner of your eye and it feels like it's obstructing. Yeah,
So anyway, we got I guess we you know the assignment.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
I ended up going to five below as well.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
I went to three and I think that's it because
I mean I love the Dollar Store for like party
supplies and cards and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
You guys don't want that stuff.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Though, No, I saw things that made me think I
need to come back here for this, Like Jay said,
you know, for specifics, but to browse and think of
a friend.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
It was not crazy.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Here's our gift exchange will be on Fox Local streaming
this afternoon two thirty and you can watch it on
social media as well. So if you want to see
what we're talking about, if you're listening to this right now,
you'll know. But we'll start with Alison, I mean open
the card last.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
That's that's the Also, can I tell you this? Can
I do crazy lines?

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (03:29):
So when we kept it at a fifty dollars limit
and I couldn't get gift cards, which I almost caved,
I was like I I was like, well, what do
you use a card for if you're not going to
put something in it?

Speaker 1 (03:41):
There's no card, no cards? Sorry about that.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Okay, one thing at a time, pull up, not the car,
but one thing at a time.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Okay, wow, start with uh okay.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
And don't forget to show it to your camera. If
you're listening, we'll do some play by play. Oh my gosh,
yeah that this is from that's an oven myth that
says stay a while an okay, but I thought I
thought of your old you know, you could show it
to Christy, your.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Old roommaten't come back and stay a while.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Stickers say what wait?

Speaker 1 (04:09):
What do they say?

Speaker 3 (04:10):
This belongs to your vision is always so bad with
that one eye. So it's a big pret calendar.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Oh my gosh, this is awesome that I bought you
that three months ago. That is not from the dollars.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Oh, this is so great.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Oh my god, don't subscribe to the radio listener, Allison.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
This is a Star Wars calendar, but with cats.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
Cat Wars called cat Wars, and I'm very excited about that,
and I will describe everything moving.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Oh, one hundred piece puzzle, not to overwhelm you.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
I got you one hundred piece.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
You can do that at your coffee table and akat
that kind of looks like that. Okay, gummies, gummies excited
about that.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
After o'n ca oh, shacklicious delicious Bayard. Is what happens
when you give.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
A dollar You kind of crushed it.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
I think you did really really well. I think so too,
sour bright crawlers.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Okay, oh, you're always blowing your nose.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Are you serious? You frowned Barbie tissues.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, a dollar tree, dollar general.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
I don't even want to blow my nose on these.
That's her thing.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Now she's gonna just look at them. Okay, this needs
to be opened.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
That one needs to be open. Okay, I thought it
just in case you need to get the cats excited.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Oh, this isn't the dollar store.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Cheated I went to CBS. I'm sorry for that.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Just for that Star projector.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
I mean I feel mad about Stars, Star projector Night.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Oh I'm so using that.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah, the cats will think they're outside.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
This is You did not get this at the dollar store.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
No, I know, but I had to. There's a couple
of little things I had to.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Wait stamp stare.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
Oh you did really well, but you you did. I
did not go outside of the five below and the dollars.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Promise you. Friends don't get mad at friends, right, No,
they don't promise, I promise.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Promise, I know exactly what you did.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Promise.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
How you doing this?

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Promise?

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, we don't get mad.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Okay, good, all right, you can open your car now.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Okay, now I'm scared, Marion. No, I can't believe you.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
A that's what you get when you.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Too much. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
I tried. I tried that. Don't show off that I
do well.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
I just want you to get don't show our money,
I know.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
I just want you to get the full good feels
from everybody.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Four minutes, Chelsea, I'm giving you ninety seconds.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well, you're you're you're don't get as distracted as.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Okay my biggest Russell Stover dollars.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
Obviously you finish your last one barely Okay, we have a.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Friend that is not that.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
I got that for you three months ago. To remember,
I told you guys, I got some three months ago,
but not this one.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Be Wild and Free to Wonder calendar, it's the guys.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
It's to be wild and Free to Wonder calendar from
Dollar General Create.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Your own Sunshine. Every month has a new saying.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
That's cute. All right.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
We have Santa and Elves, sour Patch kids.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
We have with Doggy hundred pieces. Oh my god, wait
there's more.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
A sushi five hundred piece puzzle.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Five hundred piece sushi puzzle at Dollar Dogs. Yeah. They
look like high quality puzzles.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Jurassic World.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
X well, I got you those because you know those
those nephews and all they put those little stockings. Get that.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
And you get an ovenfe is what you bake.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
It is what you bake. It so great because that's
just the kind of thing i'd get.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
I also get this belongs to Chelsea Stickers.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yes, I don't catch it.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
The office decals they had.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
That's so free.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
This is such a nice gift. Jason Patch kids.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Beautiful trolls and then a car thank you?

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Uh no, open it? Oh I I and don't get mad.
Oh my gosh, dogs and cats driving a car.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
There you go like that, dogs and cats driving a car.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Wow, thank you so much. That is so thoughtful, very thoughtful. Man,
don't even bother opening my.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Gift this holiday season. Wow, everyone's a winner.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Okay, all right, what are you gonna Are you gonna
go or we gotta go?

Speaker 3 (08:53):
I gotta go on TV and I'll be back all right,
one under point three Our Gifted Shane Show, our final
show of the year continues. Uh, and then we'll be
back when we back January fifth, Yes, yeah, January fifth.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
It seems like forever.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
I know.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
I'm looking so forward to it, though. I don't know
about you, guys. I'm wiped after this year. It just
it feels like it's been a long year.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
It has been.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
I'm not a fan of twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
No, I'm glad twenty twenty five is over.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, yeah, happen it up.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Big things in twenty twenty six. Big things. That's what
I wrote in your card. Tell me this will be
our year.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
I think it will be.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
So we're going to continue our gift exchange. We decided
this year that we're going to do fifty bucks at
Dollar General and see what we could come up with.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
And no, not even Dollar General, Dollar Generals like five
dollars yeah, dollar.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Store, dollar store dollars three hard yeah and we uh
we Alison Chelsea open their dist for me and we continue.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, why don't you go open yours?

Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Okay, now you go. This would yes, I would think, so,
I bet, I bet.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
That's mean you Hey, it's a super open.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Wow, you already started off good. Where'd you get that bad?
The dollar Store?

Speaker 4 (09:58):
I go, way, yeah, look at you.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
You could carry your groceries in it. Now, there you go.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
I love that beautiful decorative. Who's this from?

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Who's from?

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Jels? Okay? Beautiful paper plates?

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Who doesn't need holiday paper plate? Everyone?

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Shoelights for my crocs?

Speaker 1 (10:20):
That is awesome.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
I love shoelights for my crocs. I love it.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
I didn't even know shoelights were a thing.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
I either Santa Napkins.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, those will go with your paper plates.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
You're fantastic. I love it. Peep Jerkey.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
This is because you're like a health nut.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Now, so I I centered a lot of my gifts
around protein based meals.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
I don't for after your big workout. Yeah, that you're
doing behind our back.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
I lift little weights and then we got to balance it.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
I do love you know. I love Bueno skinny Pop,
very nice. I love it.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
It doesn't need that. Yeah, this is just a lot
of food for the most part.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yeah, it seems like that more food. Okay, I didn't know.
It's a bulldog.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Oh that's awesome, and I got well before.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Bulldog ornamentantastic looks a little like Frank him right there.
I lose him so cute Wild mounta blueberry coffee.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
If you met at the dollar store, that was somewhere else. Man,
everybody cheated.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
I told you though that I went to multiple places.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
You yes, with but you oh some Captain Morgan.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
Yeah, you know what. I can't play games with cheaters anymore. Hey,
guess what I stayed strictly at painted out to you
days ago that I was true.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
She kept it at the budget. She kept it at
the fifty dollars though.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
Okay, I'll be sailing with the captain later.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
Yeah, Hey, why don't you down one of those bottles
really quick before you go back?

Speaker 3 (11:50):
Get my voice back.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
I don't know. Fun though, Fun news break for the
viewers liquor.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
A one. What's that meaning? One?

Speaker 1 (11:59):
Well, was like eighteen grams of protein.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
Oh delicious. There you go, all right, very good?

Speaker 1 (12:05):
Got that from the Dollar Store.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
That took away half of the prize, half of the gifts.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
I never thought to buy that.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
That's good, I thought, So that's.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
Very nice of you.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
And you got a card and no cash or anything
in there though, no I know, but that's nice. I
probably had nice thoughts in it.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
I love that bag.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, good, you liked it.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (12:29):
And that one from Allison.

Speaker 4 (12:32):
Yeah, because one gift was big and it took up
the space. So yeah, that one looks heavy. Here's here's
what else does at the dollar store? And five below,
I did my best.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
You got glitter This is glittering gay a backseat organizer.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
You never know when you need that.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
That's a great gift.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
Put your Fox pass in there in the computer thing
that you're always losing.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Yeah, I love that.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
That makes sense that I thought you could at least use.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
But did you got all this in the Dollar store? Below?

Speaker 1 (13:13):
I think you need a party light speaker.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
It's a party light bluetooth speaker. Yeah, I know. I
like to keep the party.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
It's so funny. I think you should, yeah, make a
video of it. Yeah, all right, that's so good.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
Hey, look at that.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
It's just for your Christmas decorations.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
You got great stuff.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
I don't know what are you talking about.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
I mean some grinchy stuff.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
And it looks like there's a speaker there where music
will come out. Is it's a wireless speaker.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
It's a grinch wireless speaker, led.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Water tower speaker. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
All right, I love it. And a punching.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
Bag, so I anticipate a better year next year, but
just in case.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah, something to punch if you need to.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Instead of me being one, I can actually punch.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
One, punch one.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
And also with your fitness oh there, it's perfect fitness theme.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
I don't think he even went below. Love this is okay?
And Allison got me these are makeup wipes. Makeup wipes,
nice beautiful. I love that.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Okay for his sensitive skin. I got the coconut X extract.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Why the crayons.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
For adult coloring?

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Why you can't lose those? There you go, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
And I couldn't find Prince of Christmas Papa Claus.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
And it also came from the Kroger seasonal, Aisle.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
I know you like I do love that.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
Papa clothes very nice. There's two other things, okay, hang.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
On, that's just spray it, Allen and Derek.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
This is an l e ed coaster.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
To go with your party speaker.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
That's great.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Set a light up and drink Chelsea's booze.

Speaker 4 (14:59):
And Chelsea's and that's to just spray and silly string.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, don't do it.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
Is never allowed to have this as a kid.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Just get them real good. One of these days I will, okay.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
I'll open this later. Beautiful, all right.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
I love that time.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
Why don't you? Because you guys got it. You guys
got each other.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
Ship, right, okay, all right, Oh my gosh, this is
from Chelsea, and I do want to show this because
I love this kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
Look at this nice little bit that's part of the gift.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
And then I got jelly shot.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Shoes, their little jelly sandals for your cat.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Is he you're wearing these later? Oh? We are getting
these on your.

Speaker 4 (15:44):
Oh foodies, oh cat toys, Oh my gosh, with us.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah. Maybe glitter lamp.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
You wanted a lava lamp basically the same you did good.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Oh my god, my Christmas cats. You got this at
the dollar store. Not those ornaments. I got napkins too.

Speaker 4 (16:06):
Nice nice chip top Margarita.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
You like a little bit like, yeah, she likes getting wasted.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
We're just talking about I know now that I'm a
big drinker.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Friday's potato skin. Oh another, I'm gonna have to bake something.
You never know how many mits you need. And then
I got a door dashkift card too, Chelsea. That is
so great.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
If you're listening to this on w and I see
our jay towards Morning Gift Exchange, you can watch it
today on Fox Local at two thirty on Fox Local,
Fox Streaming, and it'll be on our social as well.
Why do you open up all ye a little bit,
Let's wrap it up. You did awesome, Let's do it.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
You really did?

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Okay, So oh we've got chip clips, Girl Dinner Gift Chelsea,
Twilight mug and spoon and coaster bundle.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
That's cute.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
Dword like I know you like, I don't know wash
cake book and ki I don't know what that's about,
but I want you to make it.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Oh god, and then we can try it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
I wish I would have went to five below, a
five and fifty piece dog puzzle and so cute.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Let's see, Oh, a notebook for all of my I
like that.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
I know the poor notebook hates to see me coming.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Oh the word.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
Search an office word search book.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
I love that. Beautiful.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
And let's see pens.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
And last but not least, very seductive Champagne perfume.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
Is going to be about finding man, finding love. Yeah,
it's funny trying to help.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
You know what's funny? Though? You bought this perfume.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
From Yeah, Victoria's Secret.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
Initially when she said it, I thought she was describing
it with adjectives. It is actually called very seductive champagne.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah. I want to write for it. I was like,
we're going to make this happen. Did you smell the sample.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
Our impression of Victoria's Secret Bombshell nights oh below, It's like,
you know, Stanley smells like Charlie.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
I'm going to get a date in no time. I know.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Seriously, that spells like seductive shampoo, seductive champagne, all of it.
There you go. This was fun and it was a
good time, all right, very good. Why it's fun to
hang in our little group We're not extravagant, but we uh,
we know, I have fun.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
We drink a lot and go to the dollar store.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
That's right, that's US one hundred point three w N
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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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