Splendid Speaking supports advanced learners of English who want to develop their top-level speaking skills and communication strategies. Each podcast features a recording of non-native speakers of English carrying out short tasks individually or in pairs such as making presentations or taking part in discussions. Each recording contains expert feedback on the speaker's performance. Also, visit the Splendid Speaking website at splendidspeaking.com to subscribe to our newsletter which gives a ...
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Soulful grooves from Motown to todays new R&B, Jazz, Funk, Hip Hop, Soulful House, Blues, Neo-Soul, Afro beat, & Reggae. The podcast is recorded live with a warm host who invites you to be part of the experience. Each week has a new theme so it's easily find a show to fit your mood. Bonus shows & content can be accessed via the premium podcast feed at djbenniejames.supercast.com ASCAP 400009874
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Munch My Benson, the seminal SVU podcast, is the twisted spawn of co-hosts Adam Schwitters and Josh Duggan, celebrating the splendid and often wildly inappropriate lunacy found only on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Each week The Randomizer spits out a new episode, and they dive deep into the heinous murk before rating it in terms of overall quality, guest star performances, the degree to which the episode was problematic (the more, the better), and the depth and breadth of lives ruined ...
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228 - He Has His Mitts in More than Just the Drawers Drawers (S8E16 Philadelphia)
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If watching beloved characters make terrible choices thereby endangering the careers and lives of basically everyone they come in contact with is your cup of tea, then this week's SVU starts hot and keeps on delivering. In it, we see Detective Olivia Benson blunder from one bad decision to another in a bizarre attempt to share a few giggles with a …
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Send us a text A selection of goodness! Enjoy! Join the premium family today at https://djbenniejames.supercast.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@djbenniejameslive/videos Special Thanks as always to: My Wifey "Faye Faye", Donna, Kenji, Brian & Omar. Support the show I.G: benniejames3 Twitter: @benniejames123 FB: bennie.james.10 Website: djbenie…
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227 - No Good Has Ever Come from Snapping with a Chase (S20E20 The Good Girl)
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A teen girl in a domestic disturbance call ends up being pregnant and unwilling to divulge much information about who provided the batter for the bun in her oven. While fighting off the urge to vomit, the Munchie Boys dive into the disgusting reality of what stepkid smut would have you believe is titillating but ABSOLUTELY is not. They also take up…
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Send us a text Enjoy! For more shows & exclusives, join the premium family today at https://djbenniejames.supercast.com Support the show I.G: benniejames3 Twitter: @benniejames123 FB: bennie.james.10 Website: djbeniejames.com Studio Line: 1-856 295-1753 - leave a voicemail message Licensed by ASCAP 400009874…
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97 - I Don't Like the Idea of Having Ninja Pedophiles Out There, That Scares Me (S12E12 Possessed)
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In conjuction with this week's interview with Michelangelo Milano, who plays Patrick Binder, Larissa/Brandy's boyfriend in this episode, we are dropping this classic episode back into the feed. Make sure to listen to Michelangelo's interview which dropped today, and check out his podcast, The Return Slot... Of Horror (YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spoti…
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We were fortunate enough to have been graced by the presence of Michelangelo Milano this week, who dedicated listeners will know as Patrick Binder, the boyfriend of Taryn Manning's character, Larissa in Season 12, Episode 12 "Possessed." Not only does he appear in one of just TWO EPISODES OF SVU TO RECEIVE A PERFECT 10.0 FROM US, but he plays a hug…
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Send us a text Good Vibes show with DJ Chief Rocka. Great music & talk. Join the premium family today for over 100 bonus shows & exclusive content at https://djbenniejames.supercast.com https://www.facebook.com/rardron https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=djchiefrocka%20productions Thanks to Omar & DJ Hooded Wolf for hanging out with us. https://w…
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226 - Inferno The Musical (S2E12 Secrets)
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We all remember that great teacher from high school who would go the extra mile for all of their students. This episode of SVU presupposes that said exemplary educator is most likely a gang-bang-addicted sex-club enthusiast on the side. This wild ride takes us from the heights of the pre-2.0 internet to the depths of "Dante's Inferno" and to every …
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Send us a text A mix of soulful grooves. Enjoy! Support the show I.G: benniejames3 Twitter: @benniejames123 FB: bennie.james.10 Website: djbeniejames.com Studio Line: 1-856 295-1753 - leave a voicemail message Licensed by ASCAP 400009874By DJ Bennie James
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Stepdads can really be jerks, right? This episode of SVU definitely agrees with you. Your stepdad might be a one-of-a-kind A-hole, but I'm guessing he didn't get you into an underground fight club run by the white cabbie cabal where their adolescent children or charges throw down instead of them. This being Season 12, the episode careens all over t…
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Send us a text A mix of 80's Flashbacks. Enjoy! Check out my new shop! https://www.djbenniejames.com/category/all-products Join the Premium family at https://djbenniejames.supercast.com/ Support the show I.G: benniejames3 Twitter: @benniejames123 FB: bennie.james.10 Website: djbeniejames.com Studio Line: 1-856 295-1753 - leave a voicemail message L…
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Send us a text Here's a great interview with my good friend Gyn. The music is on point and the stories are & revealing https://www.iammotherless.com https://www.doubeyourself.com New store location - 1717 Sth Decatur, G-37, Las Vegas, 84130 Join the premium family today at https://djbenniejames.supercast.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@djbenn…
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224 - We Know Whether JD Vance Shaves (or Not) in His Grindr Profile (S25E12 Marauder)
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In our first brush with Season 25 of SVU, we are immediately thrown into a deep backstory flashback featuring a character hitherto unknown to Munch My Benson. If that wasn't jarring enough, a certain hit single from the seminal '90s album Pocket Full Of Kryptonite features heavily in said flashback, which obviously means the Munchie Boys have A LOT…
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223 - Why Don't They Have Someone Sexily Peel off a CPAP? (S24E15 King Of The Moon)
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There are strange episodes of the longest running primetime drama in television history, but none come close to matching what is happening in this week's entry. To say that the last four minutes of this episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is unlike any moment in any other installment in the show's 25-plus years of existence would be a grot…
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Send us a text This show celebrates my 5years of Podcasting. First & foremost I want to thank you for joining me on this journey. Your love, support & feedback has been my fuel to make it this far and see going. Thank you to my friends who left touching voice messages. I appreciate you soooo much. One Love! Here's to another 5 years!!! Mixcloud: ht…
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Send us a text Here's an interview I did with Rocky Wilson, a talented Poet in Camden NJ. His stories are captivating and his music selection healing. This man is dedicated his community and with his big heart and his little monkey Bongo, he helps brake down barriers and creates lots smiles on the way. He has written poetry books, hosts monthly poe…
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222 - Speaking Of Stereotypes (S17E13 Forty-One Witnesses)
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The rape of a woman just outside her apartment building frays the social fabric of New York when so many of her neighbors saw something happen but none of them took action to help or even notify the police. This being a Season 17 SVU one can't help but notice the racism bubbling very close to the surface in the portrayal of the three bad teens who …
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Send us a text Groovy Jazz, Soul, Funk & Reggae Vibes Enjoy! Special Thanks as always to: The Wifey "Faye Faye", Donna, Kenji, Brian & Omar Boyles Promotions Support the show I.G: benniejames3 Twitter: @benniejames123 FB: bennie.james.10 Website: djbeniejames.com Studio Line: 1-856 295-1753 - leave a voicemail message Licensed by ASCAP 400009874…
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221 - Can Credits Just Roll in Very Slo-Mo? (S20E2 Man Down)
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Picking up where we left off in MMB 219, we had a SUPER bad dad who was just found not guilty of ummm, SAing his son to show him what a real man is. The Munchie Boys were left to wonder what fresh hell awaited them upon returning to this foul ground in a second part that seemed unnecessary, and this one did not disappoint in terms of exceeding thei…
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Send us a text Here's some of my favorite R&B and Hip Hop from my club days. Enjoy! To listen to the After Hours show, visit https://djbenniejames.supercast.com/ Aloha! Support the show I.G: benniejames3 Twitter: @benniejames123 FB: bennie.james.10 Website: djbeniejames.com Studio Line: 1-856 295-1753 - leave a voicemail message Licensed by ASCAP 4…
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220 - Carmy's Cum To Jesus Moment (S11E21 Torch)
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For our 220th episode, the Munchies voted and selected a wild Season 11 SVU which sees the unit inexplicably called to investigate an arson leading them first to suspect streaming TV's It Boy, Jeremy Allen White, who is sporting the most disgusting zit makeup ever imagined, before the investigation shifts to a grief-stricken dad. This one marks the…
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219 - His Pecs Were Unleashed (S20E1 Man Up)
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There are bad dads, and then there's the dad played by Dylan Walsh in the first half of a two-parter to kick of Season 20. Hold onto your--wait, are we still doing phrasing? Ummm, be prepared, yeah, be prepared for some gnarly stuff in this installment of SVU. Also, be ready to watch seasoned detectives on this unit have no idea how to investigate …
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MMB Movie Club 00 - The Heartbreak Kid
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Who loves ya, baby? That's right, the Munchie Boys do. This month we did an entire bonus Movie Club entry for all of our audience, not just the Munchies on Patreon who get one of these a month. And we didn't do just any old movie. We did the anti-rom-com that might just have been the origin of cringe comedy, Elaine May's 1972 masterpiece The Heartb…
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218 - They Don't Whip Out That Stamp for No One (S12E7 Trophy)
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This Season 12er takers us on a wild ride from unionizing dry cleaners, to piss-wielding nurses who just need an early-morning quickie, to militant environmentalists, and finally to the first installment of the Calvin Arliss saga which might have spared us all from the horrors of Baby Boy Doe, but for the fact of a clearly non-legally binding guard…
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217 - Always Be Brewing (S2E17 Folly)
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This week's installment really takes the Munchie Boys on a wild ride, starting with a working boy stumble-crashing a wedding in his boxers, dipping its toes in the water with Finnish furniture design and Altoona-style pizza, and finishing with a perp stroking Elliot's hand asking if he's going to protect them. Along the way, we take a voyage throug…
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216 - She's Just Kim Novak-ing Bailee Madison (S12E1 Locum)
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When an overprotective mom has a second daughter disappear, only to be accused of smothering the second daughter and murdering the first, you know SVU is going to be involved. This one features an aggressively weepy Joan Cusack and some seriously sassy kid work from Bailee Madison. Watch as the entire world gaslights this mom into insanity while sh…
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Send us a text A mix of newer Reggae music from 2024. Enjoy! Support the show I.G: benniejames3 Twitter: @benniejames123 FB: bennie.james.10 Website: djbeniejames.com Studio Line: 1-856 295-1753 - leave a voicemail message Licensed by ASCAP 400009874By DJ Bennie James
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215 - God, I Miss Neal Baer (S23E6 The Five Hundredth Episode)
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Cold Case comes in with a cold case, and Olivia's ancient history comes screaming into this week's big-round-numbered installment of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. The old friends who join us this week are a welcome sight. Olivia's personal relationship with an older man alluded to in prior episodes, however, was much less welcome, as everyone …
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Send us a text Celebrating my 55th Birthday, Here's a random music mix. Special shout out to Donna too (my Gemini friiiiiiieeeeeend). Join the premium family at https://djbenniejames.supercast.com Thanks to Omar for another fun show and to my Wifey for making my birthday so special. Aloha! Support the show I.G: benniejames3 Twitter: @benniejames123…
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214 - They Only Serve Beef Grogan-off (S11E15 Confidential)
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The Randomizer finally gifted the Munchies with a Season 11 Stablersode, and in classic fashion, our beloved, bechiseled-butt-cheeks boy takes an already convoluted mess of a case, and thoroughly Fs it in the B. Here we see a karate-loving ponzi schemer get off on rubbing out his accountants whenever the market takes a downturn, before passing the …
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Send us a text A mix of original songs "sampled" by Hip Hop & R&B tracks. https://soundplexstudios.com/ Support the show I.G: benniejames3 Twitter: @benniejames123 FB: bennie.james.10 Website: djbeniejames.com Studio Line: 1-856 295-1753 - leave a voicemail message Licensed by ASCAP 400009874By DJ Bennie James
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213 - He's a Senile Train Perv (S14E8 Lessons Learned)
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SVU takes on the tony world of upper-crust prep schools, which would often be quite the turn-off for the Munchie Boys, but an episode that could otherwise have fallen into any number of traps is buoyed by fantastic performances from some heavy hitters. The gloves come off and whoever had it in for prep schools in the Season 14 writers room lucked o…
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212 - The Load Distance King Of Lancashire (S21E1 I'm Going To Make You A Star)
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When the Randomizer chose an SVU featuring one of the Munchie Boys' all-time favorite actors (Ian McShane) as the Harvey-Weinstein-esque heel in Warren Leight's triumphant return to showrunnerdom, we were understandably excited. While McShane shines, certain choices by said showrunner leave the boys baffled and wishing for what might (should?) have…
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Send us a text A mix of new Soul, Jazz, Reggae, R&B, Hip Hop & House. Enjoy! Support the show I.G: benniejames3 Twitter: @benniejames123 FB: bennie.james.10 Website: djbeniejames.com Studio Line: 1-856 295-1753 - leave a voicemail message Licensed by ASCAP 400009874By DJ Bennie James
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211 - Oh, He Wants to Plumb Her Depths (S23E14 Video Killed the Radio Star)
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A shock jock cut from the same cloth as any number of high-profile sexual predators (be they Hollywood execs, former Presidents, or unassuming television hosts) enters the world of SVU, and everyone loses their minds. Or at least forgets how things like logic, character motivations, or professional storytelling would dictate where the episode shoul…
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210 - Watch the Voltage, Babe (S7E2 Design)
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After nearly four months, the Randomizer finally rolled a Neal Baer-era SVU for us to watch, and despite a slow beginning, "Design" really delivers the wild stuff we love. This episode was supposed to star disgraced former President Donald J Trump as a hot piece of genetic material who's disrupting the mortuary sciences industry. Instead it feature…
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Send us a text A mix of forgotten soul tracks. Enjoy! Join the premium family at https://djbenniejames.supercast.com Support the show I.G: benniejames3 Twitter: @benniejames123 FB: bennie.james.10 Website: djbeniejames.com Studio Line: 1-856 295-1753 - leave a voicemail message Licensed by ASCAP 400009874…
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209 - You Don't Skip off the Curb Because You're Going to Get Meet Joe Blacked (S23E17 Once Upon A Time In El Barrio)
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Realizing they had added an actor to the main cast but given him very little to do in the intervening episodes, vics tangentially related to Velasco via his parish priest back home bring Juárez screaming into this week's installment of SVU. Heavy on Mexico but light on events occurring with a semblance of storytelling logic, this episode bounces ba…
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208 - Trial Chief Ghislaine Maxwell (S24E4 The Steps We Cannot Take)
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A DIY renovation leads to a kidnapped daughter which leads to yet another case referencing the Ariel Castro and Josef Fritzl kidnapping cases. This one introduces us to notorious welder, Elias Olsen, who we at Munch My Benson first met in his final appearance in "Bad Things" (S24E21). Can Grace Muncy's colorblindness and Fin's Eric Adams impression…
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Send us a text A mix of classic movie soundtracks. Enjoy! Special Thanks as always to: The Wifey "Faye Faye", Donna, Kenji, Brian & Omar "The Manager" Boyles Promotions Support the show I.G: benniejames3 Twitter: @benniejames123 FB: bennie.james.10 Website: djbeniejames.com Studio Line: 1-856 295-1753 - leave a voicemail message Licensed by ASCAP 4…
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Firstborn with Chad Byrnes, film critic at The Village Voice/LA Weekly - Main Event
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***We wanted you to check out our new podcast, Unkind Rewind, so we've dropped the newest pair of episodes into the feed. They are a real blast. We have another couple cycles of movies that we've done which are just as awesome--Labyrinth with Kay from F**k My Work Life and Night of the Creeps with one of Josh's industry buddies from L.A., Leon Hend…
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Qs and Tease with Chad Byrnes, film critic from The Village Voice and LA Weekly
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***We wanted you to check out our new podcast, Unkind Rewind, so here's the newest pair of episodes, which are a real blast. We have another couple cycles of movies we've done--Labyrinth with Kay from F**k My Work Life and Night of the Creeps with one of Josh's industry buddies from L.A., Leon Henderson Jr.--so there's more Unkind Rewind out there …
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207 - I've Known Five Boys Who Went JonBenet (S1E21 Nocturne)
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Getting kicked back into the Pre-History of SVU could have been jarring for the Munchie Boys, but Nocturne had them speculating that it might have served as a blueprint of sorts for the Neal Baer years that episode.lol seems dead-set against ever letting them revisit. Despite not having guest stars who Adam or Josh knew, this episode really ticked …
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Send us a text Some of my favorite Afro-House tunes from various shows. Enjoy! Special Thanks as always to: The Wifey "Faye Faye", Donna, Kenji, Brian & Omar "The Manager" Boyles Promotions Support the show I.G: benniejames3 Twitter: @benniejames123 FB: bennie.james.10 Website: djbeniejames.com Studio Line: 1-856 295-1753 - leave a voicemail messag…
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206 - That's Not Egg Foo Young on Your Tongue (S24E22 All Pain Is One Malady)
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Saddle up as we discuss the fourth part of a five-part mega-crossover event between Laws & Orders Organized Crime and SVU. This week, we wonder if part-time adjunct professorship confers magical powers, while Josh becomes CBS-show curious. We also see Chief McGrath turn the flummoxed dial up to 11, and we see the last time SVU is graced with the pr…
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Send us a text Here's a mix of hidden gems. Enjoy! Special Thanks as always to: The Wifey "Faye Faye", Donna, Kenji, Brian & Omar "The Manager" Boyles Promotions Support the show I.G: benniejames3 Twitter: @benniejames123 FB: bennie.james.10 Website: djbeniejames.com Studio Line: 1-856 295-1753 - leave a voicemail message Licensed by ASCAP 40000987…
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205 - It's Not as Dark as the Licorice Hole (S24E21 Bad Things)
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The Randomizer (episode.lol--use it!) decided that we didn't have enough on our plate already and gave us a FIVE-PART ORGANIZED CRIME CROSSOVER EVENT to unpack, starting with the second of the five installments (and first of the SVUs), S24E21 Bad Things. Often these unwieldy offerings aren't particularly fun, but despite the fact that a dark story …
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Send us a text Classic Mellow Jazz. Enjoy! Special Thanks as always to: The Wifey "Faye Faye", Donna, Kenji, Brian & Omar "The Manager" Boyles Promotions Support the show I.G: benniejames3 Twitter: @benniejames123 FB: bennie.james.10 Website: djbeniejames.com Studio Line: 1-856 295-1753 - leave a voicemail message Licensed by ASCAP 400009874…
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204 - I Can’t Breathe Because of the Patchouli Stench (S14E23 Brief Interlude)
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The discovery of a raped and battered woman in a rowboat next to the Mayor's mansion leads SVU on a wild adventure through the strange and spicy world of world music festival groupies. We meet bawdy bouzouki players, peek behind the curtains of a legendary Midtown motor lodge, contemplate the economics of the Canadian podcast ecosystem, and learn, …
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Send us a text A selection of soulful grooves from across the globe. Enjoy! Support the show I.G: benniejames3 Twitter: @benniejames123 FB: bennie.james.10 Website: djbeniejames.com Studio Line: 1-856 295-1753 - leave a voicemail message Licensed by ASCAP 400009874By DJ Bennie James
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