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Best Case Worst Case

167 | Joe Mantegna on Art Imitating Life in a Tragic Way

Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Criminal Minds actor Joe Mantegna played SSA David Rossi for years but three episodes hit very close to home for him personally.

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The show actually helped us get the word out that we're there to help.

0:08.6

And in that way, you guys helped save lives.

0:12.2

It was kind of our imitating life when you put your hand on your commanding officers

0:16.9

casket and you were thinking of your dear friend.

0:20.6

People whose career are involved in service.

0:23.2

In other words, what you do for a living is in service to your fellow human beings.

0:28.0

You need to meet your real heroes.

0:37.0

Hello and welcome to Best Case Worsecase.

0:39.0

This is Jim Clemente, retired FBI profiler, former NXC prosecutor and writer-producer

0:43.2

of CBS's Criminal Mides.

0:45.0

And with me today is...

0:46.8

Hi everybody, it's franceyhakes, former state and federal prosecutor.

0:50.4

Jim, we are not in the studio together.

0:52.8

I am on XG Productions East Coast Feed.

0:57.8

That's right, francey, but I have the very great distinct pleasure of having a very special

1:04.4

guess with us today.

1:05.4

And that is...

1:06.4

Chomantanya.

1:08.4

AKA David Rossi.

1:10.4

Yes, the Chomantanya.

1:14.6

And the David Rossi, both I kind of got.

1:18.0

Jim, I'm totally fangirling out here and I'm really suspecting that you've done this

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