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Podcast for Octboer 8, 2011 [ 4:00:20 | 110.02 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1583)

Yesterday, Saturday, October 8, 2011, This is Hell! broadcasts live, completely unedited and uninterrupted four hour show beginning at 9 AM (US central time time) over-the air on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming and podcast shortly after here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … live from London, [...]

September 24, 2011 - Hour Two - Erica Gaston [ 1:10:24 | 64.45 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (928)

This is Hell! aired a live and completely uninterrupted four hour show today, Saturday, September 24, 2011, beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM. In the second hour live in-studio, Spencer ’Thunderball’ Thayer and Chuck talked about Positive Loitering and its racist implications in Chicago. Later we attempted to talk to Erica Gaston, a program officer for the Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Policy Initiative of [...]

Vincent Bugliosi v. Spencer "Thunderball" Thayer [ 29:10 | 27.34 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (291)

Rough transcrip: So as I write this some moron is singing the national anthem at the Uptown Rib Fest just a few blocks away and the smell of dead pig marinated in sugar is wafting into my room. So I apologize if I am a little more harsh  on Mr. Bugliosi than I probably should be, but [...]

You watch too many movies, police don't need a warrant. [ 24:02 | 22.44 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (176)

Rough transcrip: One of my favorite parts of being a Copwatcher and a member of the National Lawyers Guild is a class I get to teach called “Know Your Rights.”* It’s great. I get to meet lots of people, learn from their experiences and generally get to blow their freakin minds… Seriously. You would be [...]

Cameras Are The New Gunsa [ 18:50 | 17.52 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (137)

Rough transcrip: So, I have a confession to make. Not the kind you tell a Priest in a confessional, but the one you tell your lawyer when you’re in an holding cell.My lawyer advises me that it’s not a good idea to confess to a crime- on an international radio show, but I’m not one [...]

Torture Is As American As Apple Pie [ 24:47 | 22.69 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (75)

Last week something unimaginable happened,finally after 20 years Police Commander Jon Burge walked into a Chicago Federal court house to select the jury that will be judging him on charges of perjury.