446: Murder Under the Friday Night Lights: Game of Privileges (S1E4)

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In the summer of 2008, Luis Ramirez was brutally beaten during a block party in the Pennsylvania town of Shenandoah. After his death in the following days, members of the local high school football team would be accused, but would the local police and community circle around their hometown "heroes" to protect them? Ugh, buckle up, Fam!!!

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0:00.0	I always love it when we talk about football.
0:01.9	Well, it is one of my absolute favorite joys in life.
0:04.4	I've said it once.
0:05.1	I'll say it again.
0:05.7	Everything I know about high school football, I learned from a television show called Friday Night like that's right. That's a good show. Yeah, it is. There's a lot of like, oh, come on moments. But no, it's great. But I have zero experience with this. No, me either. Oh, my God.
0:07.1	Hi, Julie Pesvali. Hello, Patrick Hines. What are we talking about today, girl? Welcome to our bonus episodes. This is our ninth one of the year. Wow. How are we only on nine? I don't know. We have a lot to go. We have a lot to go. But I love doing these. I know. These are good.
0:38.1	So this is a new series that we're starting. Oh, is it, it's a new series? It's a series that we haven't done as a bonus. But this is a very highly requested series. It's called Murder Under the Friday Night Lights. And this episode in particular was also highly requested from our listeners. It's funny.
0:33.9	I was making a joke about how much I love talking about football.
0:36.1	But, like, every time I meet people, they're like, you guys have to do more sports ones.
0:39.2	They love it. also highly requested from our listeners. It's funny. I was making a joke about how much I love talking about football, but like every time I meet
0:55.8	people, they're like, you guys have to do more sports once. They love it when we do the sports. I know. This one is not about sports. Unfortunately, this doesn't really have to do with sports, right? You're like, did you even watch the episode? Because this does not have to do the sports. Not really. More than any other event, high school football unites our community.
1:18.4	Everyone played football or everyone tried playing football.
1:22.3	We were always competitive. We were always winning.
1:31.3	Yeah. we were always winning. But then, the truth started coming out.
1:33.6	Everything kind of went right downhill.
1:39.9	911, one, worse emergency.
1:42.2	If you can send the cops down on the baseball field behind the wandering,
1:45.0	the boys that beat them up or down there?
1:47.0	People were divided.
1:51.0	I realized that I couldn't trust anybody.
1:54.0	Hey, these are the football players.
2:01.5	They're allowed to do whatever they want.
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