Episode 447: Tell Him About the Twinkie

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Show Notes Episode 447: Tell Him About the Twinkie

This week Host Dave Bledsoe insists he cannot be legally responsible for this bar tab because he was drunk when the charges were incurred! (The bartender dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning the bouncers threw him in the dumpster out back. Again.) On the show this week we examine how a snack cake entered the lexicon of American jurisprudence. (Hint: It was the media.)

Along the way we learn why Dave was such a fat little boy! (Little Debbies ARE delicious!) Then we explain the history of the Twinkie, which has absolutely NOTHING to do with the court case we eventually get around to talking about! (This is a very circuitous episode.) Finally we get into the court case in which case the aforementioned Twinkie is tangentially relevant. (We have a formula, folks.) We talk about the San Francisco murders of Harvey Milk and George Moscone. But mostly we talk about the defense their murderer Dan White used in court. (Ergo, the Twinkie Defense.)

Our Sponsor this week is Low Rent Legal, because even bad lawyers are still technically lawyers. We open the show with an explanation of the Twinkie and close with Larry Groce, who has a problem.

Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense

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Citations Needed:

LGBT culture in San Francisco

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_culture_in_San_Francisco#:~:text=San%20Francisco%27s%20LGBT%20culture%20has,a%20town%20where%20anything%20goes%22.

SUSPECT SOUGHT JOB

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/28/archives/suspect-sought-job-moscone-had-been-asked-to-reappoint-him-as-a.html

The Trial of Dan White: An Account

https://www.famous-trials.com/danwhite/599-home

Myth of the 'Twinkie defense' / The verdict in the Dan White case wasn't based on his ingestion of junk food

https://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Myth-of-the-Twinkie-defense-The-verdict-in-2511152.php

Dan White's Motive More About Betrayal Than Homophobia

https://web.archive.org/web/20120805184657/http://www.sfweekly.com/2008-01-30/news/white-in-milk/1/

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