Introducing Crimetown, Season 2

The Ballad of Billy Balls

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History, Society & Culture

4.4 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

From the same team behind The Ballad of Billy Balls comes Crimetown, Season 2.

This season, Crimetown heads to Detroit, Michigan. From its heyday as the Motor City to its rebirth as the Brooklyn of the Midwest, Detroit’s history reflects a series of issues that strike at the heart of American identity: race, poverty, policing, loss of industry, the war on drugs, and our universal desire for a savior. Detroit’s a tough town, and its residents are even tougher. They’ve weathered riots, a drug epidemic, political scandal, and innumerable other hardships, but they’re still here—and they have stories to tell.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's IO.
0:02.8	Listen, we're working on a few more bonus episodes, surprise, surprise.
0:06.9	But in the meantime, I want to tell you about what I think is the best podcast ever.
0:13.5	I want to tell you about Crime Town.
0:16.4	Crime Town is essentially the mother podcast of the ballot of Billy Balls because the guys
0:21.1	who made Crime Town are the guys behind this show.
0:24.8	Crime Town is part of why I fell in love with podcasting and what made me realize there
0:29.0	was something beyond just two people sitting in a room with a microphone.
0:32.8	You can have a movie for your ears.
0:35.8	The first season of Crime Town told the story of crime corruption and the intersection of
0:40.2	the mob and politics in Providence, Rhode Island, where they had this wild mayor, Buddy
0:45.3	Cianci, who beat up a guy he thought was sleeping with his wife and then he was forced
0:50.1	to resign.
0:51.1	But then he got reelected several times.
0:53.8	It's insane and it's incredible.
0:55.8	That's truly the best thing I think that's ever been made in the podcast space and I'm
0:59.8	not biased at all.
1:00.8	Why would I be biased?
1:02.9	In season two, Crime Town goes to Detroit where a new mayor is at the center of the story,
1:08.3	Kwame Kill Patrick.
1:09.3	And if you don't know anything about Kwame Kill Patrick, give that a little Google.
1:14.3	It's really juicy.
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