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She Hired A Hit Man To Kill Her Husband

From: Robert Karl Skoglund
Length: 01:24

Most of the men who run ads for hit man services are really undercover policemen. The woman we’re talking about here must have been incredibly stupid not to know that. Read the full description.

Humbleoats_small Back in the good old days Americans united in an honest Christian marriage would fight and cheat on each other and then mess up their children’s minds by getting a divorce.

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Piece Description

Back in the good old days Americans united in an honest Christian marriage would fight and cheat on each other and then mess up their children’s minds by getting a divorce.

Transcript

I don’t like the way things are going in this country, but it’s probably because I’m old. If you’re old, you probably don’t like the way things are going in this country, either. You might have recently seen an example of what we’re talking about here on the news --- the woman who hired a hit man to kill her husband. Of course the hit man was really a police man, and if you watch television you know that most of the men who run ads for hit man services are really undercover policemen. The woman we’re talking about here must have been incredibly stupid not to know that. When the police got enough incriminating evidence on tape, they grabbed her for trying to hire a hit man to kill her husband and who knows what will happen to her now --- perhaps she have her own talk show on AM radio. Back in the good old days Americans united in an honest Christian marriage would fight and cheat on each...
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Intro and Outro

INTRO:

I don’t like the way things are going in this country, but it’s probably because I’m old. If you’re old, you probably don’t like the way things are going in this country, either.

OUTRO:

Back in the good old days Americans united in an honest Christian marriage would fight and cheat on each other and then mess up their children’s minds by getting a divorce. No, I don’t like the way things are going in this country today. But it’s probably just because I’m old.