Tyrannical Couty Sheriffs in the United States Threaten Democracy / Jessica Pishko

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Journalist and lawyer Jessica Pishko joins us to discuss her new book, "The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out Jessica's book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/the-highest-law-in-the-land-by-jessica-pishko/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0	Oh, the water would be. The water. The war will be? Take it down.
0:24.0	Take it down.
0:26.0	Take it down. I'm not going to see. I want to be able.
0:34.0	I want to.
0:35.0	I want to...
0:36.0	Make it back! This is hell.
0:47.0	Chris because we are always trying to raise the level of discourse within the popular public debate and discussion.
1:02.0	Can you please share with us what the music was before we started up today's show?
1:06.0	Oh, it sang by a guy who recently died called Pinche Quasada.
1:10.0	The band's called Bruharia and they did the macarina melody and the song about it was like marijuana
1:16.4	So it's like it's mostly a Mexican death metal band that this kind of like has a humor to it
1:22.3	But this is yeah, it's marijuana by Bruheria.
1:25.0	When I was working for a local TV news station here in Chicago,
1:30.0	working for their newsroom,
1:31.0	one of the last assignments they sent me out on which was like the straw
1:35.9	that broke the camels back for me. I had to go to Daily Center, Daily Plaza downtown
1:42.4	because the Macarena was a big song at the time
1:46.2	and McDonald's had decided to create a new dance called the Big Macarena, and we actually
1:52.1	had to cover that as a news story.
1:55.7	Amazing. It was brutal. The person from McDonald's came up to me. I went there with a
2:00.6	shooter with a cameraman and I said just take whatever B-roll you want to and then the person from McDonald's came up to me and they said,
2:06.5	do you have any questions for me? And I said, no, I just have a question for my editor.
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