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Le Show For The Week Of December 29, 2024

Le Show

Harry Shearer

Sports, News, Tech News, Music, Society & Culture, Politics

4.6972 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

It’s time for Le Show’s annual “Year In Rebuke!” This week Harry looks back at news stories that were big, small, overlooked, forgotten, or simply ridiculous. He also keeps us on pace for the new year with regular segments like News of the Godly, The Apologies of the Week, News of A.I., and News of Crypto-Winter. Give us a listen and wrap up your year with Le Show!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Here it is!

0:02.1

From deep inside your audio device of choice.

0:06.4

Ladies and gentlemen, this week's edition of the show is mainly the year in rebuke,

0:12.8

but some stories that deserve rebuke at the top of the program.

0:18.3

From News of the Godly, admitted child rapist and retired Roman Catholic priest Lawrence

0:24.4

Hecker have told you about him on previous broadcasts.

0:29.5

Just a little more than a week after he began serving a life sentence, he up and died, as they say down south. He up and died. He was 93, pleaded guilty

0:43.5

earlier this month to charges he had kidnapped and raped a teenager in 1975. He received a

0:51.0

mandatory sentence of life imprisonment just about a week ago.

0:55.7

Natural causes?

0:57.5

Sure.

0:58.7

What else?

1:00.7

His client was eventually to be sent to Angola, Louisiana's maximum security state pen.

1:09.4

He could have been in the rodeo.

1:11.7

The child rape survivor who successfully pursued criminal charges against Hecker

1:15.8

said over the weekend he felt vindicated and free upon learning of his abusers' death.

1:23.5

I can't find any words of kindness for his passing, the survivor said.

1:27.0

The words, may he rest in peace, are so hollow.

1:29.3

I hope he spends eternity in hell after God's judgment of him, unquote, or at least in heck,

1:37.7

came to be one of the faces of the New Orleans Catholic Church's decades-old clerical molestation scandal.

1:45.9

That's a nice thing for a church to have.

1:48.2

Had been protected from justice by his religious superiors for most of his life.

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