Fantastic actress. She wanted to be in the movies a cosplay model charged with her fiance's murder. I didn't do what they're saying I did now. Will the jury believe she's not acting, couldn't believe called matthew, tresor, Melissa, turner, follow and listen to the thirty eight hours podcast on apple podcasts, amazon, music. Did you get your podcasts Was this, like a community of people, doing this more? Like a name of people doing this he's talking the scam so simple. You think it would never wore, but for years now, people like Corey Williams, had been filing bogus tax returns in order to collect billions of dollars in fraudulent rethought by the year. Two thousand and sixteen iris will be emerging and losing twenty one billion dollars due to this type of fraud,

it's only two thousand and fourteen. Don't you think something can be done in the next two years to fix the law? That is my hope, department of veterans affairs is at the helm of the second largest agency in the entire government and a man, because the largest healthcare system it suffered, the guess scandal in its history. Can one of america's topsy yos fix it? How long is that well, it's gonna take time The news media is not helping me right because every adversely outcome that gets amplified by the media doesn't help me. I was on. I've got a bad reputation. I do but we're changing it

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there have been lots of stories over the past few months on identity theft and how information can be used against you, you may have something about stolen identity, tax fraud. You may and have been a victim of it. It's the biggest acts scam around right now, as we first reported in september. This is how it works. So steals your identity files of bogus tax return in your name before you do in collects array, from the irs itself. simple, you would think he would never work, but it does, it's been around since two thousand and eight you think the irs would have come but the way to stop it. It has it. Instead, scams. Bonfire tripling in them three years ago, it says its affecting millions of americans and costing taxpayers he is of dollars. Every year proven once again what every good com an already knows, there is no under estimating the general dysfunction and incompetence of government bureaucracy

It's a tsunami of fraud that we have been encountered, the vast number of of fraudulent tax returns with something that I don't think the irs ever really was ready for this, as well? fredo for rare, as the united states attorney for southern florida in George Piero, the agent in charge of the miami field office of the fbi to there they run a federal taskforce operating at the epicenter of the law Tax game and the country Florida has been thirty year in a row on the top number one in terms of id theft, complaints and Amy is also number one in terms of metropolitan areas, suffer from identity, frog, don't take this the wrong way. Is there any scheme that I am not a number one that we have very This and good criminals steve who who know how to had a bit of defeat the system

at the age. Now south florida has been the silicon valley for scam artists, drawn here by the weather, the beaches and the opportunity to make lots of money without actually doing much work. There is medicare for mortgage fraud. Securities fraud, and now with the justice department, Paul, stolen identity, tax rates on fraud, attacks preparation. Scheme a pyramid Why and overabundance of questionable looking establishments that have sprung up here over the past few years, scam is so easy. You don't even need an office for this fraud. All you need is a laptop someone's social security number date of birth, not even their name. They can do it their kitchen table. They could do it at a fast food jane restaurants, or they can do on the beach as long as they have wifi access action. The inquiry. William says you don't even need a laptop. You can file phony returns on your cell phone. If you have the right out

to be a legitimate tax prepare until his boss turn demanded the scan. For. He was arrested and sentenced to forty months in prison. He made millions and millions of dollars. Anybody who knew about it, you ll, be a fool tonight. Try to get involved with making some money. I could wake up in the comfort of my own home and just get on our top dog, Fifteen returns a day of fifteen three thousand dollars a return as forty five thousand dollars a day, so you at home office workin Our work on my boxes and the teacher, it's easy is one to three williams gave us a demonstration one. You can thereby a list of stolen identities that are readily available in miami. If you know the right people too,

You go to one of dozens of packs, preparation, sides online and using the stolen social security numbers and date of birth. You fill out a complete lee bogus w to form claiming a modest refund of a few thousand dollars. It has given us a refund four thousand eight hundred and thirty four hours, three the irs. If you want the reef on male, be your house wired to your bank, account are loaded onto a prepaid debit card idea, amateurs, harmony but in turn should feel that ass to be likened, thousands did the ira. pay, all of them percentage ranges say they will pay out forty percent of its actual times when at the send button, I want to take you to get a czech ceremonies, so it s so you'd send in these returns. In seven days later you gotta check yes, forty four the time. Forty percent of the time where we jam send the check

Are you just send the checks to address any address? I think This is where twenty five came to one address and the male men delivered it. it sounded so outrageous. We wanted to run it by the federal task force. So you just put down a name and a social security number and make you could make up an employer or the amount of money that was earned and withheld and sent it off the irs. Then I'll. Send you a check. Back for the river. They will pay so the time unless they catch that are some fraudulent, knew no information, and that is our job to chase. I'm still amazed that you don't need to provide any documentation when you follow your tax return. There are no ship supporting documents when you're following chronically and that's the ease or the convenience that was created for the benefit of the innocent taxpayer. She is now being exploited by criminals. You would The irish computers would notice that they were sending. Thousands of czechs do a handful of addresses, but they did, and you might have

back to the irs, with match taxpayer returns with legitimate. You two forms file by employers. Do that either because the law, requires refund checks to be sent out within six weeks in imports. you're w two's are often not available until months later so of a boat return, is received before legitimate one. The check will go out of the groups. the way that you learn that you become a victim of this when you go in and try to follow your return in the ira's tells you how you ve already filed like no, I haven't you have? Well it wasn't you. It was the fraudster who you Your identity to file the return, and it's not an easy problem to get fixed. Many of the people in this line outside the irs office. Implantation florida are victims of the fraud, leading to prove their identity laying their rightful reefer they will eventually be reimbursed, but it can involve massive amounts of paperwork, multiple vis the office in months and

wait did you know just before. We got this job. I had no idea about this before I started. Getting brief. Last fall John, asking and, as the commissioner of the irs its forthcoming in just two years of its become high turn over position in part, because the can see, has been beset by a number of embarrassing problems, including stolen identity, tax fraud that have lead people to quit. In its competency. Maybe to me, like the irs got really outsmarted by Some people, who were not all that bright or not all that ingenious what happened was a lot We discovered that a social security numbers are either easy to steal or fine or by and then be you can file a false return. Why didn't anybody anticipate that? Well, I think it goes back to that people didn't anticipate social security numbers, we're gonna be so readily available. The assumption was until very recently that is

security number was a part of your identity that you protected and took great care, so that No one sure ever expected that those would be easily get hold of generating, but there were plenty of warnings. The sooner Finance committee held hearings on stolen identity, reefer fraud way back in two thousand and nine. When then irish, commissioner douglas showman testified cs the issue of identity theft with the senior leaders at the irs my first day, On the job, There were more hearings in two thousand and eleven and another in two thousand and twelve with deputy irish commissioner Steve Miller. We cannot stop identity theft. However, we are better than we were and we better. Still, in those in suing years, the number of cases of stolen identity reef on fraud have risen from fifty. one thousand to nearly three million in the eu. two thousand twelve that department of treasuries spectrum general predicted that by the year

Two thousand and sixteen iris will be here. Judging and losing twenty one billion dollars due to this type of fraud. it's only two thousand and fourteen: don't you think something can be done in the next two years to fix the law? That is my hope boom. Be easy: the entire Irish system uses social security numbers as its primary means of identifying taxpayers even though there now ubiquitous in public private in corporate files wait to be stolen by thieves. Key to this is: if somebody in the inside or someone who has access to our security numbers to our data and a lot of these individuals are insiders and big institutions in banks. Hospitals, schools clinics we would approach anyone who worked like a dental office, anybody who worked in a medical fill you. If you would just approach him, you tell them. If they get you a hundred names, you a thousand dollars these people

defined in miami very easy. If you would think you went started, knocking doors and asking people to work in hospitals and doctors, offices and dentist's office with somebody would call the cops now they they needed the money more than they were I have to call the cops Everybody was with it Everybody was with the scam. Was this community of people doing this more like us a nation of people doing this, it's from hundreds of people filing of hundreds of fraudulent returns to thousands of people filing millions of fraudulent returns, and it's become more organised: u s for rare, says some people or even setting up franchises We have had defendants masterminds of these schemes. engage and filing parties and what they do, is they invite

friends to a hotel room or to an apartment, and then they tell them how to do it. In return for a cut of these taxes, You make it sound like em way or tupperware. That's what we ve seen even careers, old boss. U s attorney general Eric holder had had his identity stolen in an irish refunds, scam and and we members of the task force, have also been victimize, including my miami beach police officer, rocky festa, who says local police departments, have been hit hard. more than seventy zero had nearly the entire department, which is Fifty somewhat officers got hit David fire and davy police was in the hundreds, they're all victims or tax return fraud faster, partner, craig Caitlin, now work exclusively on tax, we fund cases and were among the first to discover the breadth of the scam five years ago when they began finding tax documents and stacks of pre paid debit cards. When pull over suspicious vehicles

he's a wire plastic card. You can get one of these pre paid debit cards almost anywhere, usually without providing identification. You then depend sid and withdraw money from it is needed. It's like a bank account people who don't have one that are based on real basic art, that euro visa card- and you know you can go into convenience store in via visa card, run off the shelf. If you The irs will electronically deposit tax refunds directly onto these cards. No question asked eliminating the need for crooks to ever actually set foot inside a bank or to try and cash to refund check They can spend the money in stores or withdrawn, do you see this is kind of like a go away. Thank you, sir Then, what's the money goes on the card you empty the money, often atm geneva, the cardinal garbage pretty good.

the prepaid cards are now used by millions of americans to collect a hundred and forty two billion dollars in government entitlements like so secure in medicare payments. Iris commission hoskin and thinks it's an image, nation to commit fraud, a prepaid card which are the currency of criminals. Problem, is you can't distinguish? The number of our a prepaid card from legitimate bank account almost empty? The bullet traits right. It is almost too possible retrace. Why does it We put an end to that. There are significant percentage of the population on bank. Does it we're call if you don't allow them to use a prepaid card? They're gonna have you get a check and, the pay somebody a lot of money to cash that check so europe. Disadvantaging a significant part of the population and empowering a criminal network your empowering criminal network. five years into the scam, the ira,

can still not always tell if the person filing return in claiming the refund is actually the real taxpayer. By comparison, the credit card companies are much. Better at flagging, suspicious charges before their paid out credit card companies? Don't have that much of a problem with why can't the irs So that's the direction in which we are going It's a significant move into that. What I call the twenty first century, we're still kind of in the late nineteen nineteen hundred, but this is still a big problem that we are. Why we're making great progress, we ve got a lot of work to do and are having how keeping up with the con artists last The irs announced that hackers it busted into its computer system. Stolen another one hundred and four thousand taxpayer identities which so far have been used collect nearly fifty million dollars and bogus refunds as for corey whims he's now in jail serving his forty month sentence,

well, then the player I knew pie, gas network featuring radio and tv personalities, talking business, sports, tack, entertainment and more play it played out in the report veterans. Affairs is in the midst of the biggest reorganization in its history. It comes up the agency's biggest fiasco It's just a year ago that we learned that tens of thousands of that's were waiting months for medical care, while a cooked the books to hide the delays, the farmers, four was forced out as we ve reported last fall. The new man in charge has no government or medical experience, but sick. The two year old bob mcdonald does no management. He was cheating jackie officer of procter and gamble the largest consumer products company in the world. We to know how a soap salesman we'll go up cleaning up. The v

how many employees do you think, should be fired based. What you need other report, we ve passed to the to the list. And it can mean house committee- does about thirty five names on it. I've got another report that has over a thousand if a thousand people need to go: give a sense of the things that they did well, we were simplistically type about people who violated arise. and those values or what synthetic integrity its advocacy, its respect, its excellence, These are the things that we try to do for a veterans but Bob mcdonald aunt punisher, fire, a thousand people right now he's discovering. How differ the capital is from capitalism to fire and govern manager he has to put together a case and prove it to you. Ministries of judge The reason this is this reason this is ok in some respects. Is that a lot of people think-

it's, not ok. If people lied and Veteran was set out in this effort. There said earlier for first, they should be cleared out absolutely absolutely, but we're gonna make it stick. How do you mean so we propose the action, the judge rule. and the individual has a time to appeal. That's why we have a lot of people on administrative leave. We ve moved them out. We don't want any harm to our veterans like you to meet my district. I bought my found when we met mcdonald he'd been on the job for months and was getting an education again. He had inspected forty one vs facilities. Yes, we can with him in does an where we just I've heard that he refuses to be called MR secretary The region is bob, we compete with multiple do is washington staff can get their heads around calling the boss by his first name, so they ve taken to calling him really separated bob you know we are affected

It you'll need that sense of humour, because mcdonald is battling of the hammer cobbled together. over decades. The v is this: Second largest agency in the entire federal government, behind only the department of defense we have hope of taking care veterans if we don't take care of each other, he has three hundred and forty thousand employees who handle services ranging from home mortgages to college loans to heart transplants. Well, you got people really care about veterans here, exactly With nine million patients, the visa is america's largest healthcare system, but it had slipped into critical condition. Last year doctor in phoenix expose those phony weightless. It has dishonourable. It is disgraceful, and I will not tolerate it period.

Investigators found that the official record showed that that's in phoenix we're getting appointments and fourteen days, but this one, The true wait list those are numbers of days in the right hand, column more than four hundred days. In most cases, the investigation, that the weight may have contributed to six deaths. It was all because phoenix was overwhelmed. The job a condition of the emergency room at that time, you would describe as what chaos absolute chaos doktor catherine mitchell. Was co director of the emergency room. How well known was it inside the veto in Phoenix? that veterans we're going months without getting an appointment. Everyone needs everyone that worked at the phoenix ba for any length of time and when she reported the problems she was reassigned to an empty clinic in today, and thirteen I submitted a confidential elijah's complaint regarding them

threatening issues within the phoenix ba system doctor mitchell was among the first to blow the whistle I had veterans, who had survived well more to her survive. Porch uphill hood, sir. I. The battle felicia. Who who had gone So many situations of combat where its life into situation, and yet I cannot guarantee their safety in the middle of metropolitan phoenix in my ear, because we didn't have adequate staffing retraining a nation wide investigation, confirmed the phoney weightless in phoenix and ninety two other vs centres. When you read that in the inspector generals report, you thought what I wasn't sensed, I wasn't sensed our veterans have earned these benefits they in them with their lives in danger, it strikes me that you are coming into a system which was broken because

people in the regions were lying to headquarters. This is one of the reasons I have travelled. I've gotta get to the bottom of it. I've gotta meet the people, so the address Information gets from the bottom to the top as quick as possible. People get reward for being adverse information forward. That has never been the case before its scope. we the case? Now? I have a piece. Paper re here from a veteran The day we were with him of that had driven twelve hundred miles to get care at the boston vs hospital. She slipped mcdonald. This note here it, says I'm from alabama, and I They come here to Boston, to get care that breaks. My heart other failures, plugging the mind in pittsburgh, six that died of legionnaire's disease. The a hospital that had no its water system was contaminated in brockden, massachusetts of vietnam. Vet

hospitalized for eight years with a psychiatric disorder. No one ever scheduled an appointment for him with a psychiatrist you got the call suggesting this job. I would imagine you would have thought. Oh boy, not sure I need that headache at this point. In my life. My reaction was, I want to do it. I feel like my whole life has been designed, to lead to this. Design of bob mcdonald's life in many ways started: at the. U s military academy graduated in seventy five and served five years as a paratrooper, he bought his first home with a visa loan and that the aid aid for his masters degree in

the three years had procter and gamble he put tied pampers enjoy into most of the cupboards on earth, though he left west point long ago. West point never left him. First time you saw this view of the hudson river. You were eight ten years old here at west point getting sworn at this very spot, and I wonder what that experience has done to inform your life. I think it's, the the west point motto duty, honour cunt. he's sentimental that way uncompromising. So it's no wonder his new number two with a visa is his west point classmates sloan gibson, who used to run the? U s o as cadet. They sat across the table from each other in the mess hall that the first place I visited was phoenix ground zero. While I was in phoenix, I met with the large group of employees they wanted to the right thing they worked really hard, but system and the organization was just not supporting them,

what I saw their leadership failure mismanagement and chronic under investment in the system Gibson has suspended, bonuses, suspended all the executives and he fired the director of director alabama hospital now off at thank very much bob. donald reorganization of the vizier design. So veterans won't have to go to war to get their benefits, right now, the they face nine differ. Organization structures across the country, so I don't know where to go and if they do find some way to go to that person maybe an expert and benefits, but not an expert in healthcare, and we want create a customer service representative that that person go to. Secondly, They face multiple websites that require multiple usernames and multiple passwords and that's not acceptable. We ve gotta get one website, one entry point and then fan People out from their he's enough for me something he's already done? Is given doctors or raise the

physicians were making less than most private doctors. It was hard to fill the open jobs and that led to those intolerable weightless. How many doctors and nurses and medical professionals do you need to hire right now? If we could do it today, Entire we probably need about. Twenty thousand is what we said in our in our committee. Testimony I'm sorry Twenty eight, yes thousand yes, but wait How long is that going to jail? It's gonna take time because every adversely outcome they get sample. by the media doesn't help me. I was I've, got a bad reputation. I do but we're changing, it is large. integrated health network in the united states. We destroy the change that reputation himself, which mcdonald as per finally recruiting doctors and nurses. This was such use its general hospital. If you want do research clinical work and teach at the same time. This is a great place to work.

Later. We caught him calling a young doktor that he'd met the day. Before I heard what a wonderful cardiologist you are. So we got some state of the art stuff ordinary here we'd love to get on board. And if you get to washington, I love to see you and if you know number of a good psychiatrist. Mcdonald me the higher twenty five hundred mental health professionals, since two thousand six for him. Thousand, that's many from Iraq and Afghanistan have applied for health services? we have an instance where we ve spoken to the family in the family has told us that the individual came to the viewer and they You got have their car and they. Their own life and our parking lot, because they knew that we could then deal with it and they didn't want to do it at home with their family deal with their body. That will deal with the tragedy. What we try, there are many tragic senseless failures around the v. A We noticed something else too great

bonuses to begin, and I were everywhere. Mcdonald went there were plenty of that's eager to praise their care from rehab. and there was a lot of guys and, ladies that you know- was homeless like I had became and we stay like a family do a boston, homeless, shelter funded by the air for cancer, It was my pleasure that you were here. While his staff gets used to secretary Bob there's another term they're learning. He calls vets customers which procter and gamble mind is both a compliment and a bond migdol. Says by next year. There will be one website, not twelve new page We will see a doctor without thirty days and no one we'll wait for their benefits What do you? Oh these veterans, not the vizier, but Bob mcdonald. What do you? Oh these veterans, with this

The surrey, personal. Because I served with why these guys and we are in very dangerous situations and. Anytime. You jump out an airplane, the parachute you're, putting your life and danger. And as a job master, your checking that person's equipment. and their life is reliant on yours. The kind of relationship should create the relationships and drive me to do this. A few footnotes to our story, last fall mcdonald, apologized for telling a homeless veteran that he had served in special operations when he had only gone through the training. As for the visa, The average wait for a doctor is now just four days and mcdonald fired the executive director of the Phoenix hospital at the centre of the scandal

We kicked around with the world's greatest shorter player. Barcelona, lionel messy close to their colleagues. New owner, see appended and rigorous future were compelled to people. We want to wear sixty minutes or it's Wednesday July. First, only on showtime, showtime anytime, welcomes the player. A new pike, ass network, featuring radio and tv personalities, talking business, sports, tack, entertainment and more planned play died in when David letterman retired in may. He could have chosen just about any one in the world to be his final musical guessed. The honor went to fires, in the last great american rock bans that consistently cells, millions of albums and fill stadiums around the world, were created twenty years ago by lead singer and guitars Dave, grow but it was his latest project that really gunnar attention. The ban- has made a multiparty documentary and record

with an album called sonic highways, it's a mix, of music history, journalists, song writing an old fashion. Rock and roll, as we first reported last fall its unlike. anything, any rock band has ever attempted and reflection. Of everything Dave grow loves about making music who fighter soon is wool real rock and roll no tricks. Given this was one of two sold out shows a plea to a hundred and sixty five thousand fans, London's wembley stadium in two thousand and eight they brought in says. Money has never been his motivation, the reward of

Music should be playing music. But isn't that is to say for someone who's. Incredibly successful. It's really easy for me to say, but that's the way I felt before any of this happened. I was Do I wasn't doing it so that this would happen. I was due because I loved and you still love deploy dude, What that globe we will grow group believes should always be afforded music. Don't worry about what everyone else thinks, don't let someone say like sorry didn't when the song contest gone, but on american idol. The judges would say. Well, look, are you doing somebody favor telling them you going at something there not get a who's to say what whose good or not Bob Dylan standing there and second blood in the wine in front of those judges.

it's a little nasally and a flat. Next I would only one american idol, I would never make it ever in a heartbeat we'll need to appreciate their voice I don't want to sing like someone else was going to me. The girl was singing his florida when we met up with foo fighters last year in new orleans they'd taken over. preservation hall, a legendary jazz performance space in the french quarter on a saturday night, the windows were opened up for the first time in more than fifty years, the band could play a surprise show for hundreds of stunned passers by the concert was being shot for an eight part, h b, o documentary about the history of modern american music Dave Grohl, is directing

episode focuses on the unique musical heritage of one city help him learn that history grow interviewed local musicians everywhere. The ban went among troy Andrews that are known as trombone shorty braver. some new knowledge to remain, even when I interviewed these people, and I get them to explain not only the history, the city, but the influence that that that on the music that comes from here, there's a reason why chicago blue, sounds I chicago blues, there's a reason why jazz music is here in new orleans and the reason is: is the history of how that music? We can be anything in seattle. It rains time? So people stand there. Basements and rights arms rule approached project is both a musician and a historian and says he was often surprised about what he learned. Everybody knows national as the country, music capital of the world, then I start to realize wait a minute all of these,

The foundation of a lot of these musicians is in the church. Its dolly partnered carry underwater that like this, in the church. I never knew that it seems like that the text is the roots of music matter and on port for people to know. I feel like have the opportunity and a resource to give this to everyone, I can do it. So why wouldn't I do it Trombone shorty down here and we've made the project. So ambitious is that Grohl wasn't just shooting a documentary. He was also using the interviews to come up with material for a new song he'd write in each of the eight cities. Foo fighters spent a weekend the way. You're writing songs for this album is completely different than anything you've ever done it as far as I know, different than anyone has ever really done. These are all things that people have talked about, and ones is a crossroad, the spirits

square Cyril never used to watch his family pit play music through the cracks in the door. Press the face against the screen and he'd go home with the imprint of a screen on his hands or phrases that you got out of interviewing various artists, words and phrases. The crew had just written the song an hour earlier, wouldn't be released for six months, but he invited us to watch him. Recording the it's cold in the clear and references, the lingering effects of hurricane katrina and the history of jazz. None of the fire fighters knew much about jazz before coming to new orleans, but that was the whole reason to make the trip on there. Last night, in town role in the band joined a large crowd on saint charles avenue to take part in local sunday, tradition, amusing

jazz parade, known as in line. This is one of the best things about music. This is real right now and it's happening in musical history in this country's deep. You know and there's so much of it that I honestly feel like if music were more a part of our daily lives, this country would be a better place. The a few months later, Grohl was back in los angeles, along with bassist nate mendel drummer, taylor, hawkins and guitarist. at smear increase, shipley in studio six. Oh six reporting facility, they built They showed us some of their new documentary series, hold us how learning about the history of american music, his chin. The way they listen to it. Just such a big soup, american again, it's all connected. It's not like what we do is. Elastically different from one country ban would deal or even maybe it

the oil and gas van. That's all it's pretty similar, that's interesting and that's interconnected. First episode is about the history of punk rock and blues in chicago This is a good example of a moment in an interview that made its way into one of our songs? the interview was with buddy guys, tourist and singer, who took a train north from louisiana in nineteen fifty seven and became a balloon legend. Like this house. When I found a boy, When I came out of his mouth ass, I was sitting there interviewing. I just thought I have to tell

set his story in the song, the dance with the girl who's done, the song he wrote in chicago was called something from nothing. The chicago isn't just important to american music to play. Crucial role in dave rules own history. He grew up in virginia and when he was thirteen on a family trip to chicago a cousin. Come to his first concert. Local punk rock band called If you re gun that night, girls life. My belly was against the stage and the singer was diving on my head and it was so loud. My teeth, itched like there was a spit and sweat and that that night I just thought I can do this girl taught himself to play guitar and drums, and seventeen dropped out of high school to go on tour with a punk banned by twenty one. He was broke in los angeles, with no way to get home that

gonna call about joining a seattle band nirvana your voters. First album withdraw as drummer, not Michael jackson, off the top of the chores change pop music forever. less than three years later, nirvana lead singer and songwriter. Kurt Cobain killed himself after struggle with drug addiction. lose incur was just earth shattering and. I was afraid of music after he died. You can you listen to me, no man, I swear if I, if I heard a song that even touched an emotion in me. I would turn it off. I was sick. fi, because to me that's what music always was. It was a direct connection to my heart It took him several months, but girl did start playing again and went into studio to record some of his own songs. He had no bad

so he sang and played all the instruments himself. I call it for because I didn't want people. I don't want to put my name on it at first people to say: oh, that's the guy from nirvana how'd. You come up the nymphs foo. Do you like and had I imagined that it would last more than a month and a half, I might have named it something else. It's the dumbest band name. Ever foo fighters was a slang term that they used for your foes in world war. Two now forty six grohl is not the drummer of fighters, but here still considered one of the greatest of his generation. Nirvana was recently inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame and its only one day fighters will be as well grow lives, in LOS angeles, with his wife and three young daughters. none of whom seem to care their dad is a rock star, particularly when just want to go. Swimming like to be away from home for more than two weeks at a time but has begun. A new tore has already planning another album

This is all I do. Man like there's other interests you this is it all. I do is shuttle kids around in a minivan come down here and be in the fighters? That's it and I'm not lying. That's true. Who fighters returned to eat the eight cities where they recorded sonic highways, but grow fell in love with one city in particular that week we had a new orleans totally changed. My life has it made me fall head over heels and love music. All over again, one of his favorite memories from that week in new orleans was when food fighters gave the surprise show in the french quarter

playing on their own, they were joined by the legendary preservation hall, jazz band, the trombone shorty showed up late and had to borrow an old horn, but the sound was pure nor the rock drummer taylor hawkins had help from jazz drummer Joe last year. Jr comes from a long line of local musicians and told us. He always dreamed of being a rock star. His wish came true that night roll call, A musical gumbo bureau

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