149 | Pursuing A Predator
Best Case Worst Case
X-G Productions
4.1 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Big John McCarthy sits his first stake out hunting a serial rapist in Hollywood. Will he catch the slippery criminal?
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| 0:00.0 | You're putting a puzzle together. You're trying to figure things out. This is the same thing. This |
| 0:09.5 | seems to be the same type of look. All that is telling you why would he come back there a second time? |
| 0:20.7 | Why did you think that this beeping Tom might be related to this serial right? |
| 0:30.9 | Hello and welcome to Best Case Worse Case. I'm your host, |
| 0:40.1 | Francie Hakes, former state and federal prosecutor. Everyone, Jim is on a special TV assignment. |
| 0:47.6 | It's top secret, but we'll be able to tell you about it eventually. Today, though, I'm really |
| 0:52.1 | excited. I'm in the studio here in LA and I am joined in person by a very special guest. It's |
| 0:58.9 | someone you guys have not heard from before. His name is John McCarthy. John McCarthy. Who are you? |
| 1:06.1 | John McCarthy. I'm so-and-so as people know from fighting, but I used to be on LAPD for 23 years |
| 1:12.4 | and started in 1985 and had a lot of fun being a police officer. I did a lot of fun stuff and |
| 1:19.2 | got to be part of some good times, some bad times, just the way it is. Let me just say this. I'll |
| 1:25.6 | post some pictures because you guys have to see Big John McCarthy, especially I'll make sure I have |
| 1:30.9 | one with me standing next to him, which is going to make me feel like a tiny human because that's |
| 1:35.6 | your nickname, right? Big John McCarthy. At least that's the rumor. |
| 1:39.6 | Someone gave it to me long ago. I've heard that. How tall are you? |
| 1:43.3 | Now, I'm shorter after three neck surgeries and stuff. I used to be about six, four and a half, |
| 1:48.0 | six, five. Now about six, three. With the Afro six, nine, just like that. |
| 1:52.6 | Now there you go. I wish I had a good Afro. I know. I do. I can do it. I can do one. |
| 1:57.6 | My hair definitely gets big. All right. So you intrigued me though when you said people might |
| 2:03.1 | know me from fighting. Is that because you just wander around and fight people? What is that? |
| 2:06.5 | I try not to. No. I've been part of mixed martial arts from the inception when it first began here |
| 2:13.1 | in the US back in November 12th, 1993. Wow. And so I started with the UFC and was with that for |
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