he s a gangster but he s a man in therapy so you think right from the very start of the very first episode you re going to get, you know, therapy speak, tell me about your childhood. but not until seven episodes into it we fine gel ate a glimpse of tony soprano as a little kid. in that scene here s young tony, his dad comes looking for tony s dad. tony dad hops in a car and takes off with the uncle. tony himself, the kid, ends up missing the school bus. and while he s not at school he ends up finding his dad and uncle and seeing what they were up to, basically sneaks up on them. and what he sees is his dad and uncle beating the bejesus out of this guy on a street corner. and this happens episode 7. and it s two more seasons, season 3 of the whole series when you get another flashback of tony as a little kid with his dad. and this time once again young tony is not supposed to be there, he has snuck in. but his dad goes to collect from a local butcher and the dad not only beats
we ll be watching her. on a day where i needed it. thank you, my friend. thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. really happy to have you here. so have you watched the sopranos? if not, hit pause and watch all seasons and then come back in a couple weeks and start this again. the first season of the sopranos is 13 episodes long. the sopranos obviously is one of the greatest achievements ever in american drama, in contention for one of the greatest television shows ever made in any country on any subject. but in season one of the sopranos you have to get through like half the whole season, i think you have to get to the seventh episode or something before you get anything that seems like it is a back story on your lead character. so, i mean, here s a story about a man in therapy, yes, he s a gangster, but he s a man in therapy. you think right from the very start of the very first episode you re going to get, you know, therapy speak, tell me about yo
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cherokee county about 30 miles north of atlanta and opened fire, killing four people and injuring another. police say he then drove south to atlanta and shot and killed three people inside the gold spa. he then crossed the street, according to police to the aroma therapy spa and killed another woman there. investigators say surveillance video shows the suspect and his car at all three crime scenes. he was arrested driving south about 150 miles from atlanta. officials say six of the eight victims appear to be asian. this comes amid an increase in attacks on the asian community since the coronavirus pandemic. the new york police department says it will deploy counterterrorism officers to asian communities in the city out of abundance of the caution. a lot going on with this concern about hate crimes, willie. yeah. let s go down to atlanta where we find blane alexander. good morning. are the police saying yet what the motive may be here? obviously people drawing a lot of concl
motive. we have received a number of calls about is this a hate crime. we are still early in this investigation. we cannot make that determination at this moment. the georgia shootings do follow a wave of unprovoked attacks across the country of people of asian descent. president biden has just been briefed. vice president kamala harris also addressing the terrible shootings. we don t know, we are not yet clear about the motives. i want to say to our asian communities we stand with you and understand how this has frightened and shocked all people. and the shootings condemned. i want to mention what happened just a few hours ago in atlanta in which several women were killed, including, we believe, four women of asian descent. we are horrified. counterterrorism agents were sent to atlanta out of new york city out of an abundance of caution. i am joined with correspondents who have been working on the case. blaine, first to you, what is the latest? we have a lot of