Hello, and welcome to best case, worst case.

This is Jim Clementi, retired FBI profiler, former New York City prosecutor and writer-producer of criminal lines and bluebeard on Audible.

And with me today is the lovely Maureen O'Connell, retired FBI agent.

And I speak much slower than Jim when I do an intro. If you hadn't noticed. I've just done 7,000 of these. That's all. I know. So it's great to see you and happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving. We had a great dinner here. That's great. Everything was cooked from scratch.

That's how the O'Connell's role.

And it's the firehouse rules.

And everybody's got a, you know, the firehouse rules like the chefs don't clean, cooks don't clean.

Right, right, right. I think those are all all cooks rules.

Yeah.

But the important thing is that we're kicking off a very special, very special holiday, beginning of the holidays episode.

Because, you know, a lot of what we talk about are pretty tough cases.

And my brother always used to say that some cop told him that, you know, life is a circus

and cops have a front row seat, a ringside seat.

And it's true.

And unfortunately, it's not always an entertaining circus.

No.

You're a very dark, dismal circus.

Right.

And so what's great about us doing this episode is I would like to talk to you, get from you and tell you, you know, what we're grateful for in our careers. We see a lot of bad stuff,

but the good stuff. What are the good things that you would say that you're grateful for,

thankful for over the course of your career? First of all, tell us how long it was, when it started,

when it finished.

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