Okay, Tocos, here we go. Let's decide poor Joe's fate. If you haven't listened to the previous

death row Joe episode, then go back and start there.

For everyone else, let's grab some tissues.

To start, John's going to talk a little history,

but don't get scared.

He's simply trying to understand how society,

albeit one nearly 100 years ago, could rationale the killing of a kind-hearted soul like Joe Erredy.

In fact, similarities between Joe's story and our world today are striking,

although perhaps just hidden in plain sight.

Joe had the mind of a four-year-old child

endured with a sense of wonder,

bringing so much joy and laughter to those around him, even to the ones who believed he should die.

Maybe we can all learn some things from Joe.

Perhaps it's not the Joe's who grew up too slow, but for all of us who grow up too fast.

I am going to run through Henry Arady, the father, his background.

I'm going to run through a lot of stuff this is going to be very dense

Henry Erredy we do not have a picture of him he immigrates it from Mount Lebanon he's Syrian-born emigrated to America. Okay. His wife Mary comes three years later. They have a bunch of children just like in the 30s a lot of them die that's just how it happened back then he

worked in the same place that everyone else worked at which was CFI which was the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.

Everyone worked at that.

In fact, Pueblo, where he moved to, and then his wife joined him. Huge population there.

50,000, even today standards, that's huge. Everyone worked at the same place.

They worked at the mill there. That's where people just where everyone worked.

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