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Originally Posted by L.J.Steele
If you have some commuting or treadmill time, pull the CrimeTown podcast on Providence, Rhode Island. There are interviews with various mob guys, cops, victims, etc., which will give you a range of motives or justifications at least for being a mob guy. It also paints a picture of the rise and fall of Providence's most colorful mayor.
The true crime genre is your friend here, particularly books by former bad guys. Take, as always, with a huge grain of salt, but even the lies one tells oneself are useful to the writer, or GM.
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Oh how I WISH I could enjoy podcasts. :(
I was born hard of hearing due to being the tail end of the American generation that yet to discover the joys of RH + and RH - blood genetic factors. That I survived childbirth is a minor miracle in an age where the shots were not available. First and second born children get by without having to deal with the built up antigens from the mixing of the mother's and child's blood during childbirth. By the third child, the antibodies are present in force, by the fourth, it is a hit or miss kind of thing. By the fifth child (that's me!)... well, total blood transfusion saved my life at the time. I also had nerve damage to my auditory nerves (why, has always been a mystery to me!). Long and short of it is - I generally tend to miss words spoken on computer speakers, etc, and often have to fight just to carry on a phone conversation.
So - unless those podcasts include transcripts, which I will be more than happy to read, I'm going to have to pass.
As for true crime stuff, that's one area of my appetite for books that I've largely not gotten into. Perhaps I should start cultivating books outside of Medieval History, Age of Nelson period of sail, Science Fiction, World War II history, Vietnam History, etc.
While I do enjoy movies to a degree and can lip read I still don't get 100% the benefit of movie dialog.
Oddly enough? The only time I was ever close to serving on a jury, having made it through three waves of dismissals, I explained to the judge that although I was hard of hearing, I could read lips and that I expected that I would still make for being able to do my duty. It was immediately after that - that I was dismissed from the Jury. Most people want OUT of jury duty, me? I wanted to at least experience what goes on in a Jury and felt a certain civic obligation. But even then, I couldn't serve not because of my hearing, but because of lip reading! ;)
Ah well. Time for me to start looking for "True Crime" material. With the advice I'm getting here, and a desire to take a look through Netflix at some of the movies (at least they have close captioning) - maybe I'll get some more inspiration.