The Suspicious Deaths Surrounding Democratic Political Donor Ed Buck
Eating For Free
Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson
4.8 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
We advise listeners to be prepared for stories concerning drug use, exploitation, graphic imagery, and death. Please be advised. Anyone who has information or corrections on what we discussed, please email us at eatingforfreepodcast@gmail.com
Fact Correction January 17th, 2019: Jasmyne Cannik's tweet/thread that Lawson discusses about Gemmel Moore was published on July 28th 2018, not the day after his death (originally stated as July 28th 2017.)
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Links:
- Ed Buck And The Black Queer Lives That Don't Matter (January 14th 2018, VIBE)
- MORE DETAILS (Nov 18th 2018, LA Times)
- PRELIMINARY WARNINGS (Aug 12th 2017, Jasmynne Cannick)
- The Family of Germaine Releases Moore's Journal (Feb 2018)
- Jasmyne Cannik on Twitter (July 28th 2018, Twitter):
- Witness Stories: Damar Love, Steve Martin, and James D'Jarnette (Aug 14th 2017, WEHO Times)
- Witness Stories: Jermaine Gagnon Tells His Ed Buck Story (January 9th 2019, DailyMail)
- LaTasha Nixon After Second Incident (January 12th 2019, DailyMail)
- Second Incident (January 14th 2018, VIBE):
- DCCC, 'deeply disturbed' About Ed Buck (January 14th 2019, Fox News)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Dear listeners of eating for free, this is a general warning that today's episode is a departure from the usual pop culture bullshit. |
| 0:09.4 | It is a true crime-specific episode that contains drug use, sexual predation, and possibly murder. |
| 0:18.2 | If these are topics that you're sensitive to, please listen with caution. Thank you for listening and enjoy the show. |
| 0:24.5 | What do I think of her? Yes. I don't think of her. |
| 0:28.4 | Bitch. Shut your fucking mouth. That's not enough of you. You've made. |
| 0:33.3 | Beast? Yeah. How dare you? |
| 0:36.4 | Glass of red wine in a |
| 0:52.1 | 27th and upstairs apartment up there is where Ed Buck lives. |
| 0:56.0 | He's a very prominent Democratic donor here in the LA area. |
| 0:59.5 | And it was inside that apartment where 26-year-old Jamel Moore was found dead, |
| 1:03.8 | apparently from a meth overdose. |
| 1:05.8 | Now Moore's mother is questioning whether or not Buck had something to do with her son's |
| 1:09.8 | death, whether or not he was responsible for it. But Buck's attorney says his client has done nothing wrong and he only tries |
| 1:16.3 | to help people. Well, hello there. Welcome back to eating for free true crime mystery hours. |
| 1:25.9 | It really will be. |
| 1:29.1 | Going to be a different episode. |
| 1:29.8 | Very different. |
| 1:31.8 | Not going to be a funny episode, everybody. |
| 1:35.2 | I'm needing you to know that right at the top. |
| 1:38.3 | Yeah, comedy category, temporarily suspended. |
| 1:44.1 | Okay, so I'm going to say this quick thing and then hand it over to Lawson. |
| 1:45.3 | My name is Local Menace Jones Summers. |
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