Shadow Kingdom Season 2: Coal Survivor (coming August 25)

Shadow Kingdom

Crooked Media

Documentary, History, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.7 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On New Year’s Eve 1969, Jock Yablonski, a union hero, is mysteriously gunned down in his bed. Jock’s son is convinced top brass at the United Mine Worker’s union are behind it. But why, and can he prove it? Decades later, lawyer Nicolo Majnoni embarks on a journey to find out who killed Jock and uncovers a conspiracy at the heart of the union. Shadow Kingdom is a series from Crooked Media and Campside Media. Each season starts with a crime, and as the layers are peeled back to find out who did it, a larger system at play is revealed. Get early access to the full season by joining Crooked’s Friends of the Pod at crooked.com/friends or subscribe directly on the Shadow Kingdom Apple Podcasts feed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You've asked, foolishly asked for some pictures.
0:02.6	Chip Yablonsky is a friend of mine,
0:05.8	and his family mementos carry a darker story than most.
0:09.3	It was a nightmare.
0:11.3	It was just bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
0:15.3	As the clock struck midnight, on New Year's Eve, 1969,
0:19.3	three men snuck into Chip's childhood home
0:22.0	and gunned down his family while they slept.
0:25.5	And she'd come walking to us and she was young.
0:29.0	They killed them.
0:30.0	They killed them all.
0:31.5	Chip's dad, Jock, was trying to take over one of the richest unions in America,
0:42.3	a union that literally controlled electric power across the country, the United Mine Workers.
0:44.3	But Jock Yablonsky was also about to expose
0:48.3	a dark and dirty secret about the mine workers.
0:51.3	And Chip was convinced the incumbent union president,
0:55.0	one of the most powerful men in America,
0:58.0	was behind his dad's murder.
1:00.0	And I'm saying, hang on you son of a bitch,
1:03.0	because I want you to get your just desserts.
1:06.0	But to find evidence, Chip, who was just 29 at the time, had to take his dad's place.
1:13.6	He had to beat the seemingly invincible president at the ballot box and take the union back.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Crooked Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Crooked Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.