Hey Dreamers, welcome back to the show. This is episode 152 and it is the next part in our series entitled

The Tale of Jesse Smollett's Hate Crime Hokes.

If you have not listened to part one yet,

please pause this now, go listen to episode 151,

and then come back to this afterwards.

I am pleasantly surprised at the interest that many of you had in the story.

I understand that some of you were big fans of Empire and even pointed out that the character that Smollett

portrayed was a standout favorite which is sadly ironic based on what we will

learn about the possible reasons why the staging of his hate crime occurred.

We are going to start part two by finishing up our analysis of Smollett's interview with Robin Roberts. I want to talk a bit about his body

language in the interview and I will get into the investigative timeline, the superintendent

of police Eddie Johnson and his press conference,

as well as Johnson's career, which took a strange turn later on towards the end of 2010 and we will finish with where the case

stands today.

Now if this starts to exceed an hour to an hour and a half again and I haven't really gotten everything

out there that I wanted to say I'm most likely going to take this into a part

three which will be out hopefully not too long after this one.

I wanted to try to keep it down to two parts but I'm also falling behind schedule as usual.

But at the same time I don't want to leave anything out or rush through the things that I want to tell you

Because oh mr. Smollett his story is a story that keeps on giving

I do want to take some time right now to thank some

Patreon supporters.

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