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The Case of Jason Flom and Michael Rubin with Meek Mill

📻 Episode #66
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Aug 13, 2018

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About This Episode

Since his release in April 2018, Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill is using his voice and freedom to fight on behalf of those still behind bars. In this special interview, Meek Mill is joined by his friend and ally Michael Rubin, e-commerce billionaire and co-owner of the Philadelphia 76ers, to discuss their hopes for criminal justice…

The Case

Since his release in April 2018, Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill is using his voice and freedom to fight on behalf of those still behind bars. In this special interview, Meek Mill is joined by his friend and ally Michael Rubin, e-commerce billionaire and co-owner of the Philadelphia 76ers, to discuss their hopes for criminal justice reform.

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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts

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00:07:02
“Speaker 5: people have witness a crime, they're adrenaline, especially violent crime, Speaker 5: their adrenaline goes crazy and their perception gets screwy and Speaker 5: the brain doesn't function properly, so it almost becomes like guessing. Speaker 5: But it gets even worse. And there's a movement now Speaker 5: to try to in various places, to try to put”
00:26:17
“Speaker 6: in the system for and not being the system. We Speaker 6: just took a bunch of rational people. The number is Speaker 6: probably half. And so to me, what's such a travesty Speaker 6: is you've got millions of people stuck in the criminal Speaker 6: justice system that don't belong there, and by the way,”
00:44:03
“Speaker 6: so many people are in this country as well. Speaker 2: Just when you speak on jail that is like it's Speaker 2: just like it's just like a place, a hotel where Speaker 2: you go to sit at. Nah, it's some shit that Speaker 2: will ruin your whole train of thought, like you were”

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