In the 90s, New York Detective Louis Scarcella locked up the worst criminals.

Putting bad guys away.

There's no feeling like it.

Then jailhouse lawyers took game led by Derek Hamilton.

Scracella took me to the precinct and alive.

20 men eventually walked free.

Now, in the Burden Podcast, after a decade of silence,

Louis Scarsella finally tells his story, and so does Derek Hamilton.

Listen to the burden on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. lasts.

with Joseph Scott Morgan.

I, by no stretch of the imagination. I'm a historian. Actually, I think I'm kind of a frustrated historian.

I'm somebody that kind of romanticized the idea about becoming one at some point in time. Perhaps I saw myself in a book-filled

office at a university somewhere. But then I realize those jobs are really hard to come

by. The rigor that you have to go through in order to achieve doctoral status in the field.

And the competition, oh my gosh, it's difficult to say the very least. And then I knew that I

didn't know that I would even be able to keep the lights on in whatever home I

was living in. But that doesn't mean that I'm not fascinated and I have

followed history my entire life. It's just something I do. Most people and

here's another little slice of life from me from behind the curts. People will say, hey, just got, what

your crime shows do you watch? And I smile, a knowing smile, and look at them and say, I don't. You know what I spend most of my time watching history videos on YouTube. Matter of fact you could probably turn the television off in my house. I don't really watch it. But there are those pivotal moments in any

country's history that kind of dictate the course of the way things are going to go. And I've got to say we're going to talk about one such

event today that altered the direction of the history of our nation in a way that I don't know that even now we can take the full measure of we will be able to

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