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FROM DRUG DEALER TO MEDIA CELEBRITY: LEONARD LEE BUSCHEL RETURNS 8/6/2022

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   One of our "fan favorites" is Leonard Buschel. When he's our guest, ratings soar to almost stratospheric heights as if he were Kevin Sullivan talking about Ted Bundy!  Nowadays, Leonard is more animated than ever! Here's proof:

Leonard also has a highly praised new book all about using drugs, selling drugs, watching movies, and putting on film festivals.

***** (Five stars)

Absolutely brilliant.  Never preachy, always entertaining, and endearingly honest, Buschel proves recovery is not about meetings unless you mean meeting your true self and having an authentically good time. Leonard didn't just follow his passion (movies), he stalked it like a man on a mission. Result? All manner of excellent and rewarding experiences and events. Get HIGH, really! --BRB REVIEWS

OMFG!! CLARENCE THOMAS SCANDAL/ JEFF EPSTEIN SCANDAL: NICK BRYANT RETURNS!

This is one hot show -- LISTEN LIVE SATURDAY  2pm pt/5pm et 

Investigative journalist Nick Bryant returns with insights into  Clarance Thomas....in other words , dirt.  PLUS  more about his research concerning sex scandals  and Jeff Epstein whose private  jet was mockingly called the Lolita Express

• Passengers included former President Bill Clinton, the actor Kevin Spacey, the lawyer Alan Dershowitz, and the supermodel Naomi Campbell.

ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER-- PART TWO Special Guest: author William J. Craig

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ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER BY WILLIAM J. CRAIG   

This horrific story of American injustice needed more than one program --so here is part two this Saturday.

A penetrating look into the controversy that enshrouds one of the most complex criminal cases in US history: a former Green Beret’s murder of his wife.

It was a dreary winter afternoon in Ayer, Massachusetts, a quintessential New England town, the type which is romanticized in Robert Frost’s poems. But on January 30, 1979, a woman’s scream was heard piercing the northeast tempest wind.

In an unassuming apartment building on Washington Street, Elaine Tyree, a mother, wife, and US Army soldier, had her life brutally ripped from her. Her husband, William Tyree, a Special Forces soldier, was convicted of this heinous murder, which he has always vehemently denied.

Some elements of this case seem to be chilling echoes of the Jeffrey MacDonald case, made famous in the book and film Fatal Vision. A military doctor and US Army Captain, MacDonald was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters but always maintained his innocence. As in the MacDonald case, the case against William Tyree raises questions as to whether the government and military suppressed evidence that could prove his innocence.

The Tyree case sent a shockwave through the idyllic community of Ayer, the United States Army, and the judicial system of Massachusetts. This case provoked suspicions of judicial misconduct, government cover-up, clandestine Black Ops by the military, and various conspiracy theories ultimately implicating “Deep State” involvement.

The events that took place that fateful day, the subsequent courtroom showdown, and the ongoing legal battles raise provocative questions that continue to revolve around this case to this day.

 

 

 

Author William J. Craig joins Burl Barer and Mark Boyer for another fascinating hour of true crime

NICK BRYANT BBC CORRESPONDENT PENETRATES SEX SCANDALS IN AMERICAN POLITICS

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Nick Bryant returns with more  revelations about corruption, coverups, blackmail and politicians having sex with underage prostitutes..stupid and illegal,.. they aren't even old enough to vote!

Nick's controversial book THE FRANKLIN SCANDAL just pissed  people off -- one of his primary sources was several pancakes short of a balanced breakfast, and the allegations became so bizarre they made the McMartin case sound rational.  Today were going to get into more recent sex scandals and why Jeffery Epstein got a free pass from law enforcement for decades, and when  he was finally arrested, the charges were originally minimal.

Nick is a famed and infamous BBC correspondent who, for reasons inexplicable, gets a kick out being on our show, and I hope he will invite me on his -- the Nick Bryant Podcast.

SETH FERANTI RETURNS! PSYCHEDELICS, DRUGS, GUNS, AND MOVIES

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When writer / director Seth Ferranti received a twenty-five year LSD kingpin conviction, after faking his suicide and landing on the US Marshals Top-15 Most Wanted list, he thought his life was over. As a first time, non-violent offender, the lengthy sentence attracted media attention from The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, The Washington Times, and others.

As a drug dealing teen Ferranti sold LSD and marijuana at 15 East Coast colleges, crisscrossing across five states- Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Maryland- a wanna-be rock star and Hunter S. Thompson-style outlaw whose hero’s were Henry Rollins, Axl Rose, and Jim Morrison. He followed the Grateful Dead and considered himself a counter culture rebel, not a criminal, as he was breaking laws which he thought were wrong.

He stands by those convictions today and see’s himself more as an activist who was a little ahead of the times. A trailblazer of the legal cannabis and psychedelic movements. As a twenty-two year old from the suburbs, who basically grew up as a military brat in California and overseas, the prison sentence Ferranti received due to the War on Drugs was longer than he’d lived to that point.

But despite the unjust sentence, Seth decided to rise above his past and focus on his future. He began building a writing and journalism career from inside the belly of the beast. With unlimited access to criminals and their stories Ferranti started crafting raw portrayals of prison life and crack era gangsters. Discovering a passion and talent for writing Ferranti also studied the trade earning an associates, bachelors, and masters degree while in prison.

With hope for his future renewed Ferranti started penning prison and gangster stories for Vice, Don Diva, FEDS, Hoopshype and others. He took it one step further and established his brand, Gorilla Convict, from prison. Ferranti became a true-crime publisher and built a website documenting stories that the mainstream media was not willing to share.

 

These stories reside in his books- Prison Stories, Supreme Team, and Street Legends, among others, and his 500 blog entries written by him and other prisoners. Along with the hundreds, if not thousands of pieces Ferranti wrote for other publications and websites, he became the most prolific prison writer of the War on Drugs era. In February 2015, after serving 21 years, he was released from the Bureau of Prison, to seek his fortune.

 

Back in the world Ferranti continued his writing career as a journalist penning pieces for Vice, Ozy, The Daily Beast, Dazed, Merry Jane, and features for Penthouse and Real Crime Magazines, among others. He also started writing and publishing comic books under his imprint GR1ND Studios and embarked on his true passion, filmmaking.

Fresh out of prison Ferranti wrote and directed a web-series, Easter Bunny Assassin, played the antagonist in an indie feature, Dog Days, wrote and played the lead in The Precious and the Damned, and joined forces with Shawn Rech and Transitions Studios to make White Boy, a feature documentary on Richard Wershe Jr. that aired on STARZ and became a Top Ten hit on NETFLIX.

 

Ferranti starred in the Season One Finale of Vice TV’s I was a Teenage Felon. Has appeared on Fox News, Inside Edition, and News Nation as a subject matter expert, and is currently directing several documentary projects- Nightlife, Dope Men, Tangled Roots, The Secret History of The LSD Trade, and Generation ECSTASY- which are in various stages of production. He also has numerous scripted and television projects in development. It appears there is no stopping him.

 

 

We Return Saturday the 21st with Bundy expert Kevin M. Sullivan!

 

 

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“For Ted Bundy, college libraries were the epicenter of abduction and murder. Although he made use of every opportunity to snatch young girls and women from wherever they might be, he was still a creature of habit. And for Bundy, a percentage of the murders began at his favorite hunting ground: university libraries.”
― Kevin M. Sullivan, The Trail of Ted Bundy: Digging Up the Untold Stories

 

 

“Before Bundy ever stretched out his hand to murder his first victim, he was a victim himself, of his own internal devices. No matter how monstrous he ultimately became, the first life to be destroyed would be his own.”
― Kevin M. Sullivan, The Trail of Ted Bundy: Digging Up the Untold Stories

PLEASE DON'T HATE US FOR BEING ON HIATUS! WE SHALL RETURN LIVE MAY 30TH

As Moses may have said, "Grab your Matzo and hit the road!"  Burl and Mark are observing Passover and ProducerMatt Alan is observing how to fix the technical problems that pre-empted  the visit with Seth Ferranti.

Meanwhile, Mark and I were stunned to discover that not only did Moses come down from the mountain with stone tablets engraved with the 10
Commandments, He also came down with tablets containing 10 ROMAN NUMERALS!!

 

we shall return May 30th  meanwhile enjoy our library of true crime shows on iTunes, Spotify, Anchor.fm and all the usual podcast outlets! 

SETH FERRANTI - A MAN OF CONVICTIONS, VISIONS, AND AN APPRECIATION OF PSYCHEDELICS

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 Seth Ferranti returns to True Crime Uncensored Saturday 25 years for selling LSD                                                                                                                                                           

Seth Ferranti is an American journalist and writer.  

In 1993, after two years on the United States Marshals Service's 15 Most Wanted Fugitives list, he was arrested for drug trafficking; At the start of his run, in 1991, he had organized his mock suicide by leaving his car, his clothes, an empty bottle of Vodka, and a letter on the banks of the Potomac River.

Sentenced to 304 months in prison for trafficking LSD, Seth Ferranti began his career as a journalist in prison and wrote for VICE and The Daily Beast, among others. In 2005, he opened a blog, Gorilla Convict , dealing with prison life and gangs.

He was released in 2014 after 21 years of prison. Obviously, a bright and promising young man, Ferranti evolved into an excellent journalist, documentary filmmaker, author, and advocate for the evidence based therapeutic use of psychedelics,

 

RON FRANSCEL RETURNS! Always a treat to have Ron join us on the show to discuss SHADOWMAN!

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On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana where her family was vacationing. Somebody had slit open the back of her tent and snatched her from under her family’s noses. None of them saw or heard anything. Susie Jaeger had vanished into thin air, plucked by a shadow. That single chilling disappearance mobilized Montana’s largest-ever manhunt and energized FBI agents, all searching for … a shadow. When the investigation later turned cold, agents were frustrated and ready to hear any idea that might help them close their grim case.

 

AUTHOR RON FRANSCELL RETURNS THIS SATURDAY!

 

 

SHADOWMAN tells the entangled tales of a harrowing crime and the introduction of sophisticated criminal profiling at the FBI. 

DENNIS MCDOUGAL - INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST'S BRILLIANT CAREER

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Before he began writing books and film, McD ougal was a staff writer covering movies and media for the Los Angeles Times,  TV Guide and the New York Times. A UCLA graduate, McDougal earned a B.A. and an M.A. in English and journalism at UCLA. IN 1981, he was awarded a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University and spent a year teaching and studying in Palo Alto, Japan and Canada. Over a career spanning nearly half a century, his journalism has won over fifty honors, including the National Headliners and George Peabody Award. 

A contributing writer with TV Guide, McDougal has also written for Los Angeles Magazine, Premiere, and the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine.

McDougal has lectured in journalism and creative writing at UCLA, Stanford, and the California State Universities at Fullerton and Long Beach. McDougal and his wife, Sharon, live near Memphis, Tennessee.

DANIEL GENIS RETURNS WITH HIS RAVE REVIEWED TRUE CRIME DEBUT: SENTENCE!

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   Our favorite ex-Heroin addict, bon vivant, and brilliant author, Daniel Genis, returns with his long-awaited literary debut.

In 2003, fresh out of NYU, Daniel Genis was working in publishing as his writer father had always expected. But he was also hiding a serious heroin addiction that led him into debt and burglary. After he was arrested for robbing people at knifepoint in 2003, Daniel Genis was nicknamed the "apologetic bandit" in the press, given his habit of apologizing to his victims as he took their cash.

He was sentenced to 12 years (10 with good behavior), surviving the decade by reading 1,046 books, weightlifting, having philosophical discussions with various inmates, encountering violence on a daily basis, working at a series of prison jobs, and in general observing an existence for which nothing in his life had prepared him.   

Sentence is one of the most striking prison memoirs - and memoirs in general - in recent years - written with intelligence, wit, empathy, and remarkable style.                             

    (Daniel Genis & Burl Barer)

Genis is the son of a famous Soviet émigré writer, broadcaster, and culture critic in Russia. He grew up in a home whose visitors included Mikhail Baryshnikov; Russian nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov; authors Kurt Vonnegut, Umberto Eco, and Norman Mailer; and Czech film director Miloš Forman. The education and culture so prized by his family were his lifelines during his decade in prison, and he describes in unsparing and vivid detail the realities of daily life in the New York penal system, from Rikers Island through a series of upstate institutions. 

Daniel Genis' debut has the potential to be both a critical and popular success, for few books have portrayed prison so vividly or with such insight.