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Speaker 1: these last couple of episodes of season one are some

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Speaker 1: without further ado, let's get into it.

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Speaker 2: This is another one that I'm going to tell you.

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Speaker 2: If they came to Daddy and said, miss Challenges, we

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Speaker 2: can't Daddy had moved out here and everybody knew was

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Speaker 2: kind of an important guy, you know, the farm and

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Speaker 2: my brothers in the auction business solved the counting. You

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Speaker 2: was so far and they said, we can't get anybody

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Speaker 2: on the grand jury to go up against Joe Whitehead.

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Speaker 2: Nobody in the chapel touch it. She said, we're desperate. Peace.

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Speaker 2: I'm not well, I'm not scared of them. I'll pay

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Speaker 2: it up. Under one condition. He said, I want Bill

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Speaker 2: Fuller as a special prosecutor. And Daddy had that, and

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Speaker 2: he and Bill Fuller put one together and that's that All.

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Speaker 1: Star truck shot brothels run by a web of x

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Speaker 1: cons a Commonwealth attorney wasted on whiskey and power protection

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Speaker 1: exchanged for cash and flesh. A brash local reporter exposing

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Speaker 1: it all. This is Hooker Gate, criminals and libertines in

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Speaker 1: the South, and I am your host. Do you're Lindsay Byron, author,

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Speaker 1: historian and lifelong wayward woman, This forgotten scandal happened in

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Speaker 1: my hometown.

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Speaker 3: Join me as I use crumbling.

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Speaker 1: News, cliffees, interviews, and dramatic reenactments to bring to life

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Speaker 1: for the first time in nearly fifty years, this wild

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Speaker 1: ride of hedonistic corruption, Episode eight threats.

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Speaker 4: When he arrived at the Sheriff's department, Whitehead had been

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Speaker 4: Upon entering the Sheriff's office, Whitehead made a highly obscene

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Speaker 1: Joe didn't know the Feds were already hot when he

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Speaker 1: I told John to leave them goddamn people alone. Joe

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Speaker 1: Deputy Moss looked up from his desk. The truck stop

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Speaker 1: A bitch, You son of a bitch. Joe smacked his

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Speaker 1: your mind, Joe, I told you stayed the hell away

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Speaker 1: Mister whitehead, he stammered, I'm rolling Prince here. Joe knocked

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Speaker 3: That's enough, Now get him out of here, Moss whispered

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Speaker 3: Come on now, Joe, let's get you home.

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Speaker 3: They're suspending your law license.

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Speaker 6: I just started writing about this and I got smmoned

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Speaker 1: My quote of the week goes to Pennsylvania Counties esteemed,

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Speaker 1: former Commonwealth attorney Rodney scribbled into his notebook, then struck

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Speaker 3: No, still not in.

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Speaker 3: Yes, fearless, fearless.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, my quote of the week goes to Pennsylvania Counties

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Speaker 1: fearless former commonwealth attorneys Joseph Motley Whitehead, who said that

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Speaker 3: He read it over, nodded. It was a start. Rodney

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Speaker 1: He felt, if anything, it was gratification He'd toiled alone

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Speaker 1: for far too long, watching, taking notes, pinning articles in

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Speaker 1: And now, just like that, it was out in the open,

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Speaker 3: Well Son, you're gonna have to do it.

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Speaker 1: As Rodney imagined the parade of witnesses that would soon testify.

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Speaker 1: Which he was one, Rodney couldn't help but feel a thrill,

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Speaker 3: Rodney was soon to.

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Speaker 1: Know a witnesses, informants, working girls, and co conspirators alike

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Speaker 3: In the weeks and months to come, a gold.

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Speaker 1: Mine of information would be served up to him on

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Speaker 1: Over the days that would come, Rodney In six other

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Speaker 3: From the right one.

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Speaker 1: All would be called, all would be summoned. Not a

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Speaker 1: these folks ain't.

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Speaker 3: Easy to find. They're like carnies. They stay moving.

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Speaker 1: Some charges were clear, interstate trafficking, racketeering, prostitution, yet the

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Speaker 3: And listen, folks, you should all be warned. Austin told them.

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Speaker 7: Now, if I'm correct, you told us that its that

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Speaker 8: Well, he wanted to know what I was doing at

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Speaker 7: Did you report this to anyone else on the false.

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Speaker 8: Well, I called mister Dawson, who was in charge of

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Speaker 8: He's been calling me all night too.

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Speaker 7: And did you encounter harassment from mister Whitehead and any

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Speaker 8: Well, their posters put out throughout, especially the east of

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Speaker 8: The flyer said something along the lines of why is

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Speaker 1: Sure he done the crime, but that was years ago,

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Speaker 3: He was only a kid.

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Speaker 1: Then Deputy Moss ripped down another flyer, this one.

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Speaker 3: Stapled to a light post.

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Speaker 1: Do you want a convicted felon in your sheriff's department?

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Speaker 1: Read the paper A photo of his face alongside a

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Speaker 1: description of his crime followed selling stolen goods. Well, that

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Speaker 1: his youth, had made some mistakes.

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Speaker 3: That vengeful faster. I told you, don't fuck with me.

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Speaker 1: Joe had warned Moss in a late night phone call

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Speaker 3: What are you.

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Speaker 9: Saying, Joe, I'm saying your house might get blowed up.

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Speaker 9: I'm saying one of your kids might I don't know, disappear.

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Speaker 3: A dial tone sounded in Moss's ear, the lying dead.

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Speaker 3: Was the job of the law man to keep the.

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Speaker 3: No, Moss snatched a.

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Speaker 3: Do you want a convicted felon in your Sheriff's department?

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Speaker 1: Now? Wasn't that the pot calling the kettle seen some

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Speaker 1: when he'd sold that washing machine. Yeah, he still owed

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Speaker 3: Now do you.

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Speaker 1: Want a convicted felon in your sheriff's department? Deputy Moss

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Speaker 3: By the end of the month.

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Speaker 4: A member of the grand jury, Rodney A. Smith, was

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Speaker 6: One time and again, it was late at night. I

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Speaker 6: And at that point I thought, well, is it frightening?

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Speaker 3: A bet?

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Speaker 6: You bet it is. Yes, I clearly had too much

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Speaker 10: Shut out, Cut that shit out, Joe growled into the

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Speaker 1: Rodney cradled the phone on his shoulder before him. In

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Speaker 1: the dark of his office, A single desk lamp glowed,

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Speaker 1: Who is this, Rodney asked.

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Speaker 11: I said, cut that shot out, all them little articles.

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Speaker 11: I know you writing all that digging. I wouldn't do it, Joe,

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Speaker 11: cut that shit out, I said, are you going sorely?

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Speaker 11: And I mean sorely? Regret fucking with me?

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Speaker 1: Rodney looked to the picture window, black and empty, the

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Speaker 1: He couldn't see anything but the stars above. But those cows,

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Speaker 1: if they lifted their sleepy old heads, they could certainly

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Speaker 1: see Rodney. His desk glamp cast a glow upon him,

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Speaker 1: like a beacon in the night, or a target. Promise me,

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Speaker 1: he'll be careful, Rodney's wife had pleaded the deeper. He dug,

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Speaker 1: I love you, he promised, because he couldn't.

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Speaker 3: He could not honestly promise to be careful.

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Speaker 1: His heart pounded as he looked dumbfounded at the receiver

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Speaker 3: The man.

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Speaker 1: Joe Whitehead was off his rocker, far gone, making bad decisions, dangerous.

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Speaker 3: And Rodney was scared, only getting scareder.

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Speaker 1: Yet with each turn of the screw his bravery increased.

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Speaker 1: We mistake ourselves for cowards. Yet the noble among us

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Speaker 1: We will do hard things when hard things do us first.

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Speaker 3: The higher the fire, the higher we leap.

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Speaker 1: Bravery is our survival instinct, understood as poetry. Rodney was afraid, sure,

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Speaker 1: but he wasn't a coward. My quote of the week

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Speaker 1: goes to Pennsylvania County's fearless former Commonwealth Attorney Joseph Motley Whitehead,

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Speaker 1: who said that a federal grand jury investigation of which

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Speaker 1: he is currently a target, is purely political. Rodney typed,

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Speaker 1: there is nothing political about looking into a situation that

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Speaker 1: has existed in Pittsylvania County for a number of years.

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Speaker 1: He lifted his fingers from the keyboard, furrowed his brow

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Speaker 1: in contemplation. And prostitution has flourished here, as we all know,

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Speaker 1: for quite some time. Rodney leaned back, thinking through his

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Speaker 1: next lines, I think that Whitehead is trying to use

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Speaker 1: his political connections to stop the federal.

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Speaker 3: Grand jury investigation.

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Speaker 1: If Whitehead can succeed in this, it will be the

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Speaker 1: biggest injustice I have ever witnessed.

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Speaker 3: Suddenly something caught his.

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Speaker 1: Attention in the window. His head shot up from the page.

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Speaker 1: Movement outside car driving by a man walking by at

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Speaker 1: It was nothing, he was sure of. It, Probably just

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Speaker 1: Bessie the cow kidding comfortable, Rodney returned to his article,

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Speaker 1: poised his fingers over the keys. For a moment, he wondered,

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Speaker 1: is this worth it? The paranoia, the squinting into the night?

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Speaker 1: But was it paranoia when the man was making real threats,

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Speaker 3: Again?

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Speaker 1: Rodney sighed, rubbed his eyes, looked to the clock on

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Speaker 1: the wall.

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Speaker 3: Three am. Was it worth it?

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Speaker 1: I am not stating that Joe Motley white had as

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Speaker 1: guilty of anything Rodney type. Nonetheless, I sincerely believe the

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Speaker 1: Federal Grand Jury should be allowed to complete its investigation

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Speaker 1: to find out if Whitehead is in fact the poor, innocent,

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Speaker 1: little lamb he claims to be.

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Speaker 3: In the field.

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Speaker 1: Across the street, the cows slept on, unmoving, undisturbed.

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