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🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Jane here. I'm excited to share with you the newest season of our limited series |
| 0:06.8 | made in partnership with Campside Media that we know you'll love. Shadow Kingdom, coal survivor. |
| 0:13.0 | In 1972, American coal miners cast a historic vote, not just for new union leadership, |
| 0:18.3 | but against the corruption and violence that had taken over their organization. Months later, their ousted boss, Tony Boyle, stood trial for ordering the |
| 0:25.0 | murder of his rival, Jacques LeBlonsky, and his family. Coal's survivor is the unbelievable true |
| 0:30.5 | story of how Tony Boyle, head of one of the most powerful labor unions in the country, was taken |
| 0:35.3 | down by a crew of young, working-class organizers |
| 0:37.9 | who fought like their lives depended on it. Because they did. At the center of it all is Chip |
| 0:43.4 | LeBlonsky, Jock's son and the sole survivor of the attack. Along with a crew of friends and allies, |
| 0:49.1 | Chip set out to reform the union from the inside. I love this show because it has tape, original reporting, and voices |
| 0:55.9 | no one has heard before. It's like peeling back the layers of a cold case that changed the entire |
| 1:01.3 | country. Here is the first episode of the series. If you enjoy this episode, you can binge all |
| 1:06.4 | episodes by subscribing to Friends of the Pod at crooked.com slash friends. |
| 1:10.5 | Friends of the Pod subscribers can listen to the full season of Shadow Kingdom right now. |
| 1:15.8 | Join Friends of the pod at crooked.com slash friends. |
| 1:26.0 | Campside Media. |
| 1:32.5 | It had been a long year for Jock Yablonsky. |
| 1:34.9 | Maybe the longest year of his life. |
| 1:39.2 | And it had come at the end of a long and tumultuous decade. |
| 1:42.1 | It was November of 1969. |
| 1:48.1 | Jock was tired, so he did what he always did at 11 p.m. |
| 1:54.0 | He sat back in his recliner, closed most of the curtains in his Pennsylvania farmhouse, |
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