Rod Blagojevich
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701 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 26 Mar
Rod Blagojevich’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
But you couldn't allow that. You couldn't get that in. Damn.
Look, I met a lot of guys. A lot of these guys are not bad guys. They broke the law, and they should be held accountable and have justice but also mercy. And a chance at a second chance.
Absolutely. Chance of redemption. Please, let's have more of that. We don't have enough of that. Rehabilitation. Whatever happened to that? Some of these guys have such good hearts. There was this bank robber in prison, Michael Torres. Good guy. His name is Sox. Robbed a bank.
You know, I don't know that, but I have a chapter about him because I taught history with him. He loved General Grant. He wanted to be a lecturer in my Civil War history class. But what he did was he robbed a bank in Central California. You'll appreciate this. His father was a Pentecostal minister.
And he walks into this bank. His father taught him to always respect the values of respecting your elders, okay? So he storms into a bank with an assault weapon shouting, motherfuckers, everybody go to the side.
You don't follow my orders. He didn't say comply, right? So they all scatter around, but he spies out of the side of his eye, this little old lady in a corner trembling, standing there. And at that point, he recognized her, and he puts his bank robbery on pause, puts it on hold.
And all of a sudden, he goes from this Dr. – this Mr. Hyde character where he's screaming motherfucker with his assault weapon to a gentle Dr. – Jekyll. Jekyll, right? Goes to the woman. Okay. Calms her and soothes her and tells her, ma'am, don't worry. This won't take too long. No one's going to hurt you. I won't be long. Let me get you a seat.
And so some guy's sitting in the chair and he says, get up, motherfucker, or I'll fucking blow your brains out. And he ushers her to the seat, sits her down. Then he goes back to the bank robbery, gets all the money. Stops by, says goodbye to her, leaves, didn't plan his getaway so good. They get him within, I don't know, 10, 15 minutes. It didn't take long. He's apprehended. He's got no defense.
There's all these witnesses who saw it all. So his lawyers correctly say, we better just ask for mercy. Don't even pretend you didn't do it. Plead guilty. Prosecutors want 20 years in prison for socks, okay? And they mostly always get what they ask for, these federal prosecutors. The defense lawyer recognized the judge was like 83 years old or something.
They bring this little old lady in as a witness in what they call mitigation, a mitigation witness to say that Sox, the bank robber, had some good qualities. She tells the story about how kind he was to her in the midst of this bank robbery. And the judge gave him 10 years.
So his kindness to the old lady and respecting the values of his father saved him 10 years. And he was a great guy to do prison time with. If you've got to do time in prison, Sox was your kind of guy. Fun. And he lectured in my class, and he talked about General Grand at Shiloh, and he kept telling these guys, the motherfucker was a badass, dude.
Amazing people. They're very resourceful, very enterprising, very smart.
Tell me, is that the singer?
Was it state prison or federal prison?
Yeah, okay.
How long was he in?
You know what I'd like to do with my new beginning? Make enough money where we can have financial security for my family and my law. I was making $62 a year. Every year for eight years, right? I'm a lawyer. I went to law school. This is what I get for going to college and law school.
I was a tutor for my first couple years in the higher prison. And then when I got to the camp, you know, orderly where you mop floors, you sweep floors. Worked in the library for a while. I had all kinds of jobs. Worked in the gym.
The worst job was in the kitchen. And I write in the book about the day. It looked like I was going to go home in August 2019. Trump was pulling me out. But he's getting all this pushback from the politicians. And he had a problem because he had called Zelensky in Ukraine and the Democrats were going to impeach him over that telephone call, which was absolutely the right thing for him to do.
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