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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 full of close calls.

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

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Speaker 1: Goons as hard as Nails manager Michael Jeffrey would fight

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Speaker 1: And another one would be the number of UFO as

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Speaker 1: he saw eskate through the sky outside his childhood home

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Speaker 1: with his brother as co witness. He'd be a lifelong

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Speaker 1: true believer of the impossible, the improbable, the other worldly.

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Speaker 1: He had those earth blues. Another would be the number

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Speaker 1: of phone calls the Luczy crime Family would need to

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Speaker 1: make in order to rearrange the pecking order Jimmy's tour

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Speaker 1: and give an untested band a taste of the good life.

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Speaker 1: In Seventeen would be the number of days Jimmie Hendricks

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Speaker 1: would have left to live after Eva son Quist confronted

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Speaker 1: him backstage in Sweden with a photo of their love child.

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Speaker 1: All totally on this our ninth episode of season one,

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Speaker 1: Back Alley Goons UFOs Crime Family influence and the always

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Speaker 1: searching Jimmie Hendricks. I'm Jake Brennan and this is the

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Speaker 1: Seven Club. Michael Jeffrey wasn't worrying too much about the

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Speaker 1: other seven guys right at this moment, and the other

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Speaker 1: The eighth guy. Guy brought an axe to a fistfight,

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Speaker 1: his bell. It always calmed him down. Touching the revolver's handle,

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Speaker 1: just grazing his hand over validated his paranoia, made him

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Speaker 1: no matter the situation, whether it was a particularly tough

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Speaker 1: He made Michael Jeffrey flinch. Two of the other goons

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Speaker 1: happening up back. Jeffrey straightened his suit jacket, tasted blood

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Speaker 1: the brute twirled the axe in his hand. The group

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Speaker 1: moved closer in on Jeffrey. You boys really want to

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Speaker 1: be doing this right now, Jeffrey yelled in his South

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Speaker 1: Of course, it was his life, his story, and he

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Speaker 1: that time, That time that Mike Jeffrey took on a

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Speaker 1: at all times, knives were fun to spy gear. You

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Speaker 1: Guys jumped him all the time, Guys who wanted to

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey was sinking down deeper into all of it, and

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Speaker 1: he had Jimmie Hendricks right where he wanted him. Jimmie

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Speaker 1: of light purplish haze was how the author had described

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Speaker 1: Look at your son, Jimmy, and Jimmy looked at the

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Speaker 1: Make it fact. The baby had Jimmy's eyes, no, denying

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Speaker 1: that his hair too. It was uncanny. His eyes went wide.

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Speaker 1: He put his right hand on his afro massage to

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Speaker 1: he wouldn't live to see thirty. The tarot cards and

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Speaker 1: Morocco Brian Jones. Would it be responsible to be a

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Speaker 1: in New York City. Presently, Jimmy's legal team was fighting

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Speaker 1: Officially recognized as Jimmy's flesh and blood and now Eva

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Speaker 1: he has guardian goddess. In the past, he had dedicated

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Speaker 1: he was really only looking for Eva. Take it and

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Speaker 1: take another little piece of my heart now, baby. Jimmy

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Speaker 1: He asked her for directions, and that face of his,

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Speaker 1: for him if he asked her for directions. Jimmy had

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Speaker 1: to him in his hotel room in nineteen. The next year,

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Speaker 1: each other in an insane backstage scene. Eva asked Jimmy

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Speaker 1: stared down at the photo of baby James. But Roady,

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Speaker 1: wearing a Canadian tuxedo, tugged on Jimmy's shirt put a

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Speaker 1: red hot roach up to his face, and Jimmy did

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Speaker 1: his best to inhale whatever smoke was coming off of it.

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Speaker 1: Glasses clinked together in the back of the room, laughter,

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Speaker 1: on a catering table rife with decimated snacks. Eva started

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Speaker 1: to plead with Jimmy again, but his entourage beat her

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Speaker 1: laid themselves on Jimmy's arms. People back in. Jimmy over here, Jimmy,

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Speaker 1: you gotta meet this guy. Jimmy, how did you feel?

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Speaker 1: The show went and Jimmy was pulled into the breach.

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Speaker 1: Eva stood alone, holding her tiny photo of James and

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Speaker 1: felt her goddess powers faith. She knew it then she

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Speaker 1: had been replaced by another seductress fame. After Jimmy's death,

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Speaker 1: Diana Carpenter would lose her battle to get Tamika recognized

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Speaker 1: as Jimmy's daughter, but Swedish courts would recognize James sun

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Speaker 1: Quist as Jimmy's son. The decision didn't mean anything in

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Speaker 1: order to get financial support for James from Jimmy's state.

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Speaker 1: Hoping to avoid too much press al han tricks, Jimmy's

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Speaker 1: dad settled with a one million dollar payout short money

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Speaker 1: in September. However, Eva's visit in Diana's lawsuit were but

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Speaker 1: a few of the things weighing on Jimmy's worried mind.

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Speaker 1: He continued to obsess over the direction of his music,

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Speaker 1: whether or not Michael Jeffrey should continue to be a manager,

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Speaker 1: the unceasing reminder of his own mortality, and now babies,

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Speaker 1: could they be his babies? All of these things, though,

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Speaker 1: and a nihilist audience. On that day, he simply wondered,

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Speaker 1: if you would make it off of that German island alive.

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