Okay, we are live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show. I have a very special guest. His full name is Judge Michael Randazzo. Last name is spelled R-A-N-D-A-Z-O. He's just published a book. September 2025. Full title of it is presiding over shadows from chaos to order in the court and he is a judge

and it's a really interesting book i got about halfway through it highly recommended it does

it just came out on amazon in the u.s so you can get a kindle audio book paperback or hardcover

and um there's a lot of information here that's

pretty unique pretty different trajectory as somebody who is still a lawyer

inactive however but it's kind of a unique we all a lot of lawyers have kind of a

unique backstory getting all the way to the law and passing the bar practicing

so his is definitely unique which he's going to share lawyers have kind of a unique back story, getting all the way to the law and passing the bar, practicing.

So his is definitely unique, which he's going to share.

And anyway, welcome to the show, Judge Michael Rendoza.

Thank you so much, first, for having me.

I can appreciate that you're a lawyer, but not in practice anymore.

There are lots of lawyers

there's a lot of lawyers yeah lots of lawyers and lots lawyers that end up that way i'm sorry i uh sorry had a momentary lapse there where i couldn't didn't have a feed coming in i'm sorry that's okay

and my path is absolutely unique to have a feed coming in. I'm sorry. That's okay.

And my path is absolutely unique to the bench, frankly because I never should have been.

I think against the odds, I even am alive today, but much more important, I've been able to thrive in not such great conditions and certainly conditions

that if I had it my way would have changed early in my life a lot of struggles lots of sort of

personal torment and frankly a lot of things that I was I inherited that I had no control over that I had to

overcome.

Right.

And it goes back kind of like you.

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