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Cordially In Your Face


Podcast for October 8, 2011

By Chuck Mertz in Cordially In Your Face,Shows with 1 comment  Tags: Chuck Mertz, Geoff Dembicki, Jeff Dorcdhen, Keesha Gaskins, Loretta Napoleoni, Occupy Wallstreet, Simon Kuper, Spencer "Thunderball" Thayer
spacer Podcast for Octboer 8, 2011 [ 4:00:20 | 110.02 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1773)

Yesterday, Saturday, October 8, 2011, This is Hell! broadcasts live, completely unedited and uninterrupted four hour show beginning at 9 AM (US central time time) over-the air on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming and podcast shortly after here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … live from London, [...]

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09
Oct
2011

September 24, 2011 – Hour Two – Erica Gaston

By This Is Hell Admin in Cordially In Your Face,Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Erica Gaston, Spencer "Thunderball" Thayer
spacer September 24, 2011 - Hour Two - Erica Gaston [ 1:10:24 | 64.45 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1103)

This is Hell! aired a live and completely uninterrupted four hour show today, Saturday, September 24, 2011, beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM. In the second hour live in-studio, Spencer ’Thunderball’ Thayer and Chuck talked about Positive Loitering and its racist implications in Chicago. Later we attempted to talk to Erica Gaston, a program officer for the Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Policy Initiative of [...]

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27
Sep
2011

Vincent Bugliosi v. Spencer “Thunderball” Thayer

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spacer Vincent Bugliosi v. Spencer "Thunderball" Thayer [ 29:10 | 27.34 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (450)

Rough transcrip: So as I write this some moron is singing the national anthem at the Uptown Rib Fest just a few blocks away and the smell of dead pig marinated in sugar is wafting into my room. So I apologize if I am a little more harsh  on Mr. Bugliosi than I probably should be, but [...]

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16
Jul
2011

You watch too many movies, police don’t need a warrant.

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spacer You watch too many movies, police don't need a warrant. [ 24:02 | 22.44 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (325)

Rough transcrip: One of my favorite parts of being a Copwatcher and a member of the National Lawyers Guild is a class I get to teach called “Know Your Rights.”* It’s great. I get to meet lots of people, learn from their experiences and generally get to blow their freakin minds… Seriously. You would be [...]

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21
May
2011

Cameras Are The New Guns

By This Is Hell Admin in Cordially In Your Face with 0 comment  Tags: Cameras, Chicago, Cordially In Your Face, CPD, Police, Spencer Thayer, Torture, Twitter
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Rough transcrip: So, I have a confession to make. Not the kind you tell a Priest in a confessional, but the one you tell your lawyer when you’re in an holding cell.My lawyer advises me that it’s not a good idea to confess to a crime- on an international radio show, but I’m not one [...]

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22
Jan
2011

Torture Is As American As Apple Pie

By Spencer "Thunberball" Thayer in Cordially In Your Face with 1 comment  Tags: Chicago, Cordially In Your Face, CPD, Jon Burge, Police, Spencer Thayer, Torture
spacer Torture Is As American As Apple Pie [ 24:47 | 22.69 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (115)

Last week something unimaginable happened,finally after 20 years Police Commander Jon Burge walked into a Chicago Federal court house to select the jury that will be judging him on charges of perjury.

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May
2010