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106: The Twinkie Defense; Or, A Whole Hostess of Legal Craziness
We're back, baby! Since it was just Halloween, and we've all been gorging ourselves on sweet treats, we've probably also experienced the inevitable crash that comes after a huge sugar high. And it just so happens that the aftereffects of eating too much junk food is exactly the topic of today's episode, because that's the defense that lawyer settled on in one of the most notorious crimes of the 1970s. So grab yourself a cream-filled cake and listen up!
Rob teaches Ray and Daniel (yes, a third host's joined the gang!) about San Francisco city council member Dan White, a decorated former fireman and San Francisco city council member who eventually murdered both Harvey Milk, California's first openly gay elected politician, and SF mayor George Moscone; the political dealings and fallout that led to the disintergration of Dan White's political career and might have motivated his crimes; Daniel's lack of Twinkie expertise; how a newspaper cartoonist spun a throwaway comment about White's diet into a national meme; how a phrase from South Park has replaced the Twinkie Defense in modern parlance; and later cases that have deliberately used "Twinkie Defense" tactics to secure acquittals for their clients.
If you like what we’re doing, please support us on Patreon, or you can subscribe to our bonus content on Apple Podcasts. And we’d love to find even more listeners, so if you have time, please leave us a rating or review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. And if you have any other thoughts or feedback you’d like to share with us, we’d love to hear from you - feel free to email us or send us a message on social media.
TEAMRay Hebel
Robert W. Schneider
Mark Schroeder
Billy Recce
Daniel Schwartzberg
Gabe Crawford
Natalie DeSavia
EPISODE CLIPSMilk 1978 Prop 6 ( The Briggs Initiative)
The Chewbacca Defense Is Used in Court - South PARK
ADDITIONAL MUSIC & SOUND EFFECTS“Happy Bee” and “Awesome Call”
• Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0
• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Additional Sound Effects from Final Cut Pro, iLife, and Logic Pro
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We're back, baby! Since it was just Halloween, and we've all been gorging ourselves on sweet treats, we've probably also experienced the inevitable crash that comes after a huge sugar high. And it just so happens that the aftereffects of eating too much junk food is exactly the topic of today's episode, because that's the defense that lawyer settled on in one of the most notorious crimes of the 1970s. So grab yourself a cream-filled cake and listen up!
Rob teaches Ray and Daniel (yes, a third host's joined the gang!) about San Francisco city council member Dan White, a decorated former fireman and San Francisco city council member who eventually murdered both Harvey Milk, California's first openly gay elected politician, and SF mayor George Moscone; the political dealings and fallout that led to the disintergration of Dan White's political career and might have motivated his crimes; Daniel's lack of Twinkie expertise; how a newspaper cartoonist spun a throwaway comment about White's diet into a national meme; how a phrase from South Park has replaced the Twinkie Defense in modern parlance; and later cases that have deliberately used "Twinkie Defense" tactics to secure acquittals for their clients.
If you like what we’re doing, please support us on Patreon, or you can subscribe to our bonus content on Apple Podcasts. And we’d love to find even more listeners, so if you have time, please leave us a rating or review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. And if you have any other thoughts or feedback you’d like to share with us, we’d love to hear from you - feel free to email us or send us a message on social media.
TEAMRay Hebel
Robert W. Schneider
Mark Schroeder
Billy Recce
Daniel Schwartzberg
Gabe Crawford
Natalie DeSavia
EPISODE CLIPSMilk 1978 Prop 6 ( The Briggs Initiative)
The Chewbacca Defense Is Used in Court - South PARK
ADDITIONAL MUSIC & SOUND EFFECTS“Happy Bee” and “Awesome Call”
• Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0
• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Additional Sound Effects from Final Cut Pro, iLife, and Logic Pro