WEBVTT - Alphabet Boys, One Year Later

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<v Speaker 1>If you're trying to implicate that I'm a fucking snitch,

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<v Speaker 1>check this out. Three things. I ain't a punk, I

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<v Speaker 1>ain't a bitch, and I had a fucking snitch. Remember

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<v Speaker 1>that voice, that's Mickey Windecker. As you know from season

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<v Speaker 1>one of Alphabet Boys, Mickey was a snitch. The FBI

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<v Speaker 1>paid him to infiltrate an undermine the racial justice movement

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<v Speaker 1>in the summer of twenty twenty, I'm Trevor Aronson, the

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<v Speaker 1>host of Alphabet Boys. A year ago, we released the

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<v Speaker 1>show's first season, titled Trojan hears a reference to the

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<v Speaker 1>Silver Hearst Mickey drove around Denver while secretly working for

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<v Speaker 1>the FBI. Since the show's release, I've received a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of questions, among them, what has been the show's impact,

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<v Speaker 1>what happened to Zeb Hall, the activist Mickey set up

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<v Speaker 1>in a gun charge, and of course what happened to

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<v Speaker 1>Mickey and I have some answers. In short, there's been impact.

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<v Speaker 1>The ACLU of Colorado has sued the FBI, alleging that

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<v Speaker 1>the secret investigation we revealed an Alphabet Boys violated the

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<v Speaker 1>constitutional rights of Colorado activists. Zeb has petitioned the court

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<v Speaker 1>to vacate his guilty plea based on information we disclosed

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<v Speaker 1>in Alphabet Boys, and we found Mickey thanks to a

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<v Speaker 1>listener who was driving down a bike weekend Daytona Beach

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<v Speaker 1>last year. While listening to Alphabet Boys in Daytona. The

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<v Speaker 1>listener spotted Mickey's silverhears and confronted Mickey. Well, we fucking

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<v Speaker 1>cornered him out behind one of the bars, and from

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<v Speaker 1>there the story gets wild, because of course it does.

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<v Speaker 1>We're talking about FBI in format Mickey Windecker here, there's

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<v Speaker 1>a lot to catch you up on. For details on

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<v Speaker 1>all this and more, I need to ask you to

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<v Speaker 1>head over to my newsletter on Substack. You can find

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<v Speaker 1>it at Trevor Aaronson dot substack dot com or at

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<v Speaker 1>Trevor Aaronson dot com and click on newsletter in the

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<v Speaker 1>top right corner. By subscribing to the newsletter, which is free,

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<v Speaker 1>well as other stories related to the FBI and federal

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<v Speaker 1>law enforcement. Again, go to Trevor Aaronson dot substack dot

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<v Speaker 1>in the top right corner. See you who have read

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<v Speaker 1>the newsletter, which is not exactly endorsed by Mickey wnducker Buck.

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<v Speaker 1>The three p's, the politicians, the press, and the police.

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<v Speaker 1>It's just the way it is