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The true story of corruption, greed and self interest that destroyed Penn State, its iconic coach Joe Paterno and an alleged monster. This series follows the nearly ten year investigation of this case conducted by journalist John Ziegler. Ziegler has uncovered a massive amount of evidence that will have you questioning everything you thought you knew about this case.

With the Benefit of Hindsight..‪.‬ Workhouse Connect

    • True Crime
    • 4.5 • 438 Ratings

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The true story of corruption, greed and self interest that destroyed Penn State, its iconic coach Joe Paterno and an alleged monster. This series follows the nearly ten year investigation of this case conducted by journalist John Ziegler. Ziegler has uncovered a massive amount of evidence that will have you questioning everything you thought you knew about this case.

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    The Death Of Journalism Episode One Hundred Sixty One: Drunk On The Blood Of Liberty

    The Death Of Journalism Episode One Hundred Sixty One: Drunk On The Blood Of Liberty

    Just as Zig predicted, the post-verdict polling has been largely inconclusive (0:00-10:30). A few thoughts on the Hunter Biden gun trial (10:30-13:45). The Wall St. Journal has a new report about what's happening behind the scenes on team Biden as it become harder to ignore his diminishing mental acuity (13:45-29:30). Fauci testifies to House committee and John breaks it all down (29:30-58:00). Some fresh thoughts regarding Covid vaccines as two new studies are released (58:00-1:16:00). The Washington Post fires a female Executive Editor and the woke staffers speak out about it (1:17:00-1:29:00). Breaking sports stories from Caitlin Clark to Bob Costas to Lebron James to NIL (1:29:00-1:57:30). John wraps up with some thoughts on courage, faith and patriotism and the soldiers who ran towards almost certain death 80 years ago on a beach in France (1:57:30-END).

    • 29 min
    The Death Of Journalism Episode One Hundred Sixty: Louisville Slugger

    The Death Of Journalism Episode One Hundred Sixty: Louisville Slugger

    In episode #160 Zigs has a great interview with Louisville radio legend Terry Meiners. Nobody was closer to the Scottie Scheffler, PGA Championship fiasco than Terry so Zig gets all the details plus the two share some thoughts about Zig's defamation trial and the state of college athletics. The interview starts at about 38:00.Before the interview John shares his initial take on the aftermath of the Trump verdict, the top 5 most conflicted juries of all time, the revelations revealed during Dr. Fauci's testimony before the House Select Committee on the Coronavirus , a NY Post story that uncovered hundreds of millions in Big Pharma royalties paid to NIH scientists, bumper cars between the Philly Pride Parade participants and Pro-Palestinians and the new Jordan rules being applied against Caitlin Clark in the WNBA.

    • 32 min
    The Death of Journalism Episode One Hundred Fifty Nine: Below The Law

    The Death of Journalism Episode One Hundred Fifty Nine: Below The Law

    A frustrated Zig couldn't wait until next week to deliver his thoughts regarding the Trump conviction. In true John Ziegler fashion, his take and the analogy he presents are unique.

    • 1 hr 25 min
    The Death Of Journalism Episode One Hundred Fifty Eight: "He's My A*****e"

    The Death Of Journalism Episode One Hundred Fifty Eight: "He's My A*****e"

    As the Trump NYC jury begins deliberations Zig looks at the variety of possible outcomes and makes some predictions (0:00-23:00), actor Robert DeNiro delivers perhaps his worst performance as Biden's surrogate outside the NYC courthouse (23:00-45:00), Zig wonders if actors have any impact at all on elections and turns to Dennis Quaid for his thoughts ((45:00-50:00), as Zig predicted the charges are dropped against Scottie Scheffler as newly discovered audio spreads online (50:00-1:05:00), the passing of a legend and a character in Bill Walton has Zig longing for the days when we could look past our political differences (1:10-1:28:00), are reparations coming in the MLB (1:24:00-1:48:00), a new book is declared "most important ever" written on race but is it even original (1:48:00-1:55:00) and the story of WAPO, the NY Times and Justice Samuel Alito (1:55:00-2:02:00).

    • 45 min
    The Death Of Journalism Episode One Hundred Fifty Seven: Straight White Female

    The Death Of Journalism Episode One Hundred Fifty Seven: Straight White Female

    We start off with the tragic news from the world of golf regarding 30 year-old Grayson Murray taking his own life and then Zig rolls into the continuing ridiculousness of the Louisville police pressing forward with charges against Scottie Scheffler (0:00-23:30). Zig breaks down the latest news in Trump World including the first whispers about polling in the Omaha congressional district plus Trump in the Bronx and at the Libertarian Convention (23:30-57:00). Zig does an extensive review of Biden's attempts to make race the focus of the election (57:00-1:31:00). Zig breaks down some of the latest examples of media bias with a coordinated takedown attempt on Supreme Court Justice Alito (1:31:00-1:42:00). The hosts of the view say Caitlin Clark's popularity is about white privilege and "pretty" privilege (1:42:00-1:55:00) and Zig wraps with his latest thoughts on Bronny James, Harrison Butler and South Park

    • 24 min
    The Death Of Journalism Episoe One Hundred Fifty Six: Back On Team Trump

    The Death Of Journalism Episoe One Hundred Fifty Six: Back On Team Trump

    Zig has a great interview with journalist, pollster, TDOJ subscriber and all-around good guy, Steve Cortes who is back supporting DJT following a dedicated effort to try and get Ron DeSantis nominated. Zig gets inside the battle ground polls Steve is conducting and the two friends have a direct and spirited conversation you don't want to miss. They make some time for some football talk near the end of the interview.

    • 1 hr 58 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
438 Ratings

438 Ratings

ChazzMattazz ,

Love Zig. He showed go solo

Zig stays on task with all of his content. If his partner could do the same this pod would be great.

shaqnel ,

The Greatest True Crime Podcast

This.. not Serial, not Dr Death, or whatever, is the greatest true crime episode ever.

zetaphi820 ,

Hogwash

I could only handle one episode of this. Just a bunch of yelling about nothing. Jopa and Penn State are trash.

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