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Speaker 1: My name is Sean McEwan, and I'm the writer, director

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Speaker 1: of one of the producers of the feature film American Outlaws,

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Speaker 1: which is coming out in select theaters on Friday, September fifteenth.

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Speaker 2: You can also see it from the comfort of your own.

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Speaker 1: Home on video on demand Apple, iTunes and Amazon, etc.

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Speaker 1: The Dockerty Gang is a feature film story based on

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Speaker 1: the true life events of three siblings, Ryan Doherty, Dylan Doherty,

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Speaker 1: and league raceed Docerty who back in a little over

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Speaker 1: a decade ago, they went on a cross country crime

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Speaker 1: spree where they were robbing banks, and each one of

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Speaker 1: them are currently serving an excessive amount of time thirty

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Speaker 1: plus years in three separate federal prisons. The reason I'm

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Speaker 1: here today is for a couple of reasons. One is

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Speaker 1: we do have a feature film is coming out selects on.

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Speaker 2: The fifteenth of September Friday.

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Speaker 1: Also, it will be available for home viewing in the

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Speaker 1: VOD video on demand space. You can go to Apple,

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Speaker 1: Amazon and check out the film. We think it's an

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Speaker 1: extraordinary film because it does fit that true crime space.

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Speaker 1: Based on a true story, I had the very good opportunity,

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Speaker 1: as people might recollect from the podcast of working and

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Speaker 1: getting to know directly the actual individuals that were involved

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Speaker 1: in the real true events, including Ryan, Lee Grace, and Dylan,

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Speaker 1: got very close with each of them, close with some

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Speaker 1: of their family members and some of the other.

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Speaker 2: Individuals that were involved in the story.

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Speaker 1: What's interesting about talking today in particular is the fact

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Speaker 1: that there are some updates just to kind of see

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Speaker 1: where things have gone from the original events that we

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Speaker 1: portrayed in the earlier episodes of the podcast. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of time has passed, a lot of change,

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Speaker 1: a lot of growth, which I kind of find interesting

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Speaker 1: even from a psychological standpoint, a human interest standpoint. I'll

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Speaker 1: start with Lee Grace. Lee Grace has definitely acclimated, I think,

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Speaker 1: to the prison life, if you will. Each of the

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Speaker 1: siblings are currently still facing various charges, not all the

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Speaker 1: same charges, of various charges with some other states. Again,

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Speaker 1: even a decade later, this is still ongoing legal problems

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Speaker 1: and issues and complications that they did cross state lines

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Speaker 1: which created a federal dynamic here that they have to

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Speaker 1: deal with, so that still hangs over their head. As

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Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, they're each serving terms that are roughly

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Speaker 1: between thirty and thirty five years a piece. So they

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Speaker 1: do have the opportunity to eventually pay their debt to

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Speaker 1: much more advanced in age obviously at that point.

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Speaker 2: So back to Lee.

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Speaker 1: Grace in particular, I think she's acclimated quite nicely to

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Speaker 1: has some contacts and some penpals, shall we call them,

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Speaker 1: on the outside. I think that's kind of her lifeline.

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Speaker 1: I think a big part of the story and the

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Speaker 1: thing that interested all of us from the beginning is family.

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Speaker 1: She still is very connected to her brothers, as in

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Speaker 2: They write letters to each other.

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Speaker 1: That's obviously the primary way that they're able to communicate,

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Speaker 2: But it still is that that mantra family first.

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Speaker 1: They all still talk like that and how important family

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Speaker 2: I think then.

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Speaker 1: For Dylan has one time he was in South Carolina,

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Speaker 1: If I'm staying this correctly on his behalf, I think

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Speaker 1: If I dare say that, he's very conciliatory and repentive

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Speaker 1: But that being said, they did some things that were

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Speaker 1: just that growth. I think then specifically, Ryan, who probably

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Speaker 1: and you know Eric is now ten or eleven.

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Speaker 2: I know that he is able to do as I.

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Speaker 2: Without saying too much about this, but I know they

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Speaker 1: A couple of the siblings have definitely struggled with drug

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Speaker 2: Of see all shades and hues of it.

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Speaker 1: myself as a filmmaker also was there was a lot

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Speaker 1: I think seeing one of the big I hate to

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Speaker 1: I don't think I'm giving way too much of personal information,

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Speaker 1: You can sense the tragedy and all because as much

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