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Speaker 1: The twenty seven Club is the production of I Heart

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Speaker 1: Radio and Double Elvis Media. Jimmie Hendricks died at the

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Speaker 1: age of and he lived a life unlike any other.

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Speaker 1: I can give you twenty seven reasons why that statement

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Speaker 1: is true. Three would be the number of famous guitar

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Speaker 1: players who seriously considered quitting after first hearing Jimmie Hendricks

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Speaker 1: play Pete Townsend, Eric Clapton, and Jeff Beck. Ten would

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Speaker 1: be the number of fingers that shredded psychedelic lightning out

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Speaker 1: of his Vendor stratocaster. Another three would be the amount

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Speaker 1: of heroin viles he was busted with in Toronto. One

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Speaker 1: would be the number of famous frontmen who were so

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Speaker 1: enamored of him that they accosted him on stage. I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about you, Jim Morrison. Two more would be the

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Speaker 1: hours he spent being chauffeured around Seattle by a complete

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Speaker 1: and total stranger, a fan he had just met backstage.

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Speaker 1: Seven would be the amount of lies he would spend

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Speaker 1: searching as a professional musician, and one would be the

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Speaker 1: number of years he'd have left to live after he

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Speaker 1: stepped off a plane in Canadian mountains. When digging through

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Speaker 1: his luggage, all totally on this our first episode of

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Speaker 1: season one, heroin Bust, a very drunk lizard king a

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Speaker 1: joy ride through Seattle, and they always searching Jimmie Hendrix.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jake Brennan and this is the seven clock. Jimmie

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Speaker 1: Hendricks was searching for more vodka. His glass was empty,

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Speaker 1: His nerves were rattled. He felt something flare beneath his

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Speaker 1: quiet and expressive face, something contrary, something volatile. Eager to

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Speaker 1: so quickly from his glass? His girlfriend d Carmen Barrero

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Speaker 1: walked around the living room of the mansion Jimmy was

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Speaker 1: Jimmy stood empty glass in his hand and watched as

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Speaker 1: Jimmy had met her recently at the Whiskey a Go

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Speaker 1: ravine connecting Los Angeles proper to the San Fernando Valley. Oaks, sycamores, evergreens, coyotes, rabbits, rattlesnakes,

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Speaker 1: the Fab Four hosted the party attended by Peter Fonda

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Speaker 1: high on acid, who would provide the inspiration for their song.

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Speaker 1: She said, She says, I know what it's like to

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Speaker 1: be dead. The same neighborhood where the Manson family would

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Speaker 1: a warm August night, but that wouldn't happen until next year.

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Speaker 1: Until Jimmy and Kerman party together in l a that

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Speaker 1: other mansions with other musicians, with other bunnies. A regular

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Speaker 1: spot was the bel Air mansion of Eric Burden, lead

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Speaker 1: of Jimmy's co manager and producer Chas Chandler. Jimmy's little

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Speaker 1: brother Leon, a while from the Army, partied with the too.

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Speaker 1: So did a gaggle of playboy bunnies. Jimmy, Leon and

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Speaker 1: be famous coups and infamous l A scenesters. They smoked,

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Speaker 1: Carmen turned around and resumed talking about Eric. Eric Burden.

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Speaker 1: This Eric Burden, That Eric Burden. What a great host,

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Speaker 1: what a great guy, what a great singer. Jimmy I

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Speaker 1: Booze was a red herring. Booze pumped the brakes and

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Speaker 1: the cows came home. But Booze Booze was Jimmy hendrix kryptonite.

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Speaker 1: His father Owl was an alcoholic, abusive, and neglectful. His

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Speaker 1: like his father, Jimmy got jealous when he drank, jealous

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Speaker 1: Carmen could tell Jimmy was getting irritated and thought she'd

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Hendrix was gonna get Piste off about her platonic

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Speaker 1: the days until she sees you again in London. Oh, Jimmy,

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Speaker 1: The bubble inside Jimmy inflated more. It got him hot,

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Speaker 1: just the soul whose intentions are good. Oh Lord, please

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Speaker 1: The more Jimmy drank, the clearer it got. If Karmen

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Speaker 1: fast and dramatic, NonStop, and the bottle hit the floor

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Speaker 1: blood back into her brow, she thought, Jimi Hendrix can

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Speaker 1: in the marker directly in front of him, say something,

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Speaker 1: trying not to sound too stupid. Would you sign this, Jimmy,

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Speaker 1: I'm a Seattle kid, just like you. He didn't have

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Speaker 1: The windshield wipers sprang to life, where too, Jimmy. When

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Speaker 1: Just look at these guys, big hair, freaky clothes, and

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Speaker 1: the belly of the plane. A pity, really, but no

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Speaker 1: one was gonna bit Himan about not getting arrested. Jimmy's

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Speaker 1: tour manager, Tony Raffino, looked down at Jimmy, slouched in

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Speaker 1: his seat. You good, Jimmy, got anything on you? Jimmy

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Speaker 1: looked up, groggy and ran his hand across his mustache

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Speaker 1: Jimmy and his entourage were the last to step off

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Speaker 1: the plane in Toronto on the morning of March third, ninette.

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Speaker 1: As they walked towards customs, they could see red coated

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Speaker 1: figures lined up in the distance. One stood with his

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Speaker 1: at waist level. Real still, real patient, Royal Canadian mounts

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Speaker 1: of police just like they had been warned. It's all good,

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Speaker 1: Mitch Mitchell said under his breath as they closed in

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Speaker 1: on their inevitable fate. Nothing is fucked. Mitch had the

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Speaker 1: pockets before getting off the plane. He wasn't wearing underwear

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Speaker 1: full on commando baby. He had nothing to hide. They

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Speaker 1: want to search him? Then, look at the full Mitch Mitchell.

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Speaker 1: The mount He stood there in between the Jimmie Hendrix

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Speaker 1: gass hats. Jimmy thought of Dudley do right and chuckled

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Speaker 1: to himself. Tony raffino elbowed him be cool man. The

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Speaker 1: We need to search your bags. The Mounties separated Jimmy,

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Speaker 1: Mitch and No. Jimmy put his bag on the counter,

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Speaker 1: unzipped it, spread it open, and the mount he stuck

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Speaker 1: his hand inside and started to pull things out. A

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Speaker 1: postcard a bottle of shampoo, a bottle of vitamin C,

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Speaker 1: a dog eared paperback copy of Joy and Chases You

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Speaker 1: Can Change your life through psychic power, And, finally, conveniently,

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Speaker 1: almost like a dramatic third act reveal, the Monty pulled

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Speaker 1: the small glass vial and metal tube from the depths

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Speaker 1: of Jimmy's bag. The vial was filled with three packets

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Speaker 1: of white powder, and the metal tube was stained with

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Speaker 1: something dark and sticky. Jimmy panicked. His jaw dropped way up.

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Speaker 1: This wasn't this was it? Ship? Was it? No? This

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Speaker 1: wasn't his glass vial white powder. He couldn't remember where

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Speaker 1: he could have picked that up, but what it could

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Speaker 1: possibly be, and maybe it was slipped in there. But

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Speaker 1: I Girly met last night in Detroit. They got high

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Speaker 1: fucked around. She told him she had a present for him.

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Speaker 1: He was just now remembering that moment, remembering that she

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Speaker 1: never gave him that present for that other crazy chick

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Speaker 1: in l A last week. He wasn't thinking her vibe

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Speaker 1: at all. He let her know, let her down easy,

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Speaker 1: or so he thought. You'll regret this, she had said

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Speaker 1: to him as he walked away. Jimmy flat out denied it.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't his, was not his. He'd never seen it before. Ship,

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Speaker 1: he thought to himself, Tony is gonna be pissed. All

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Speaker 1: that ship flushed down the cannal plane and this tiny

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Speaker 1: little thing is going to ruin us. All follow me,

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Speaker 1: the mount he instructed, polite but with zero emotion. We

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Speaker 1: needed to wait while we test this. Jimmy sat alone

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Speaker 1: in a small, brightly lit room in the airport while

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Speaker 1: the Mounties did their sleuthing. He panicked some more, sat down,

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Speaker 1: stood up, paced the room. They had a sold out

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Speaker 1: show that night at Maple Leaf Gardens, eighteen thousand people.

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Speaker 1: What if they couldn't play the show? Ship? What are

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Speaker 1: the whole tours canceled? What if it's over brought down

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Speaker 1: in Canada, of all places, fucking Canada. Hours went by.

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Speaker 1: A cop occasionally checked in on him. Could they get

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Speaker 1: him a glass of water, a cup of coffee? Holy

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Speaker 1: sh it, He'd go for a fat joint right about now,

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Speaker 1: something to calm his nerves. Would have been hours now

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Speaker 1: since he had a puff. If there was ever a

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Speaker 1: time for a long, slow drag from a freshly rolled joint,

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Speaker 1: the time was now, But more time passed and then

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Speaker 1: a detective from Toronto's Metro Police stepped in the room.

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Speaker 1: Jimmy read his face before he could get him close

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Speaker 1: the door, and he knew it wasn't good. The testing

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Speaker 1: from the mobile lab was just finishing. The baggies in

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Speaker 1: the vial were heroin, and the resident on the pipe

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Speaker 1: was Hashish and they were placing him under arrest for possession.

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Speaker 1: And the detective assured Jimmy that they would play their

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Speaker 1: show that night at the Maple Leaf Guardians. His own

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Speaker 1: kids were holding two of the tickets to the Solda show.

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Speaker 1: They'd kill him if he had any part in the

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Speaker 1: show not taking place. The detective chuckled, maybe he could

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Speaker 1: even get Jimmy's autograph for his kids before that the airport,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy forced to smile onto his face. What the funk

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Speaker 1: was going on here, the detective continued. The show would

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Speaker 1: go on, Jimmy would play for the detectives, kids and

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Speaker 1: the other seventeen thousand screaming fans in Toronto that night,

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Speaker 1: go about the motions, be cool man. But then after

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Speaker 1: that he'd be arraigned, he'd face the judge in Toronto.

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Speaker 1: He was staring down ten years in prison. It would

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Speaker 1: be a long nine months before Jimmie Hendricks saw that judge.

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Speaker 1: He needed to keep his ship together, keep out of trouble,

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Speaker 1: try not to do anything too stupid, and that would

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Speaker 1: be easier said than done. After playing the show and

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Speaker 1: returning to the States, the court date hung heavy on

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Speaker 1: Jimmy's mind. Sometimes he'd wonder if he'd even lived to

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Speaker 1: make it to the witness stand in that Toronto courtroom.

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Speaker 1: This was one of the many things going through Jimmie

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Speaker 1: Hendricks's mind. Later that year, when he stepped out of

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Speaker 1: the Salvation Club in New York City, he got himself kidnap.

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Speaker 1: The twenty seven Club is scored and co written by

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Speaker 1: me Jake Brennan. Zeth Lundy is the lead writer, editor,

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