Speaker 1: Beaking up in old casts.
Speaker 2: For those that done the red cast, it's.
Speaker 3: The John Phillip Show.
Speaker 4: And we continue at two oh five in the afternoon
Speaker 4: on The John Phillip Show. Mister Randy Weggs in Culver City.
Speaker 5: Only you would send me ideas of stuff you need
Speaker 5: me to do thirty seconds before we go on the air.
Speaker 5: Now I have to figure out while you do your interview,
Speaker 5: how to get a picture of Rosy O'Donnell on the screen.
Speaker 4: I'll do my best, Okay, she was dressed in such
Speaker 4: an outrageous way you almost have to see it to
Speaker 4: really fully understand it.
Speaker 2: Am I right, it's pretty great.
Speaker 5: And by the way, I've mentioned this to you a
Speaker 5: thousand times, but I'll mention it in one thousand or
Speaker 5: one times. It's easier when you send me an email,
Speaker 5: because when you text it to me, then I have
Speaker 5: to email it to myself so then I can get
Speaker 5: it on the computer, so then I can put it
Speaker 5: on the screen.
Speaker 4: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is
Speaker 4: jellphone number one. Eight hundred two two two five two
Speaker 4: two two.
Speaker 5: There's a big work differential in this relationship. I just
Speaker 5: want everyone to know this.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm gonna.
Speaker 4: Borrow a line from the California Energy Commission. You watch
Speaker 4: your tone. Here, here's the picture that Johnny wanted to
Speaker 4: show everybody.
Speaker 2: Now, what do you make of that fashion choice?
Speaker 5: Well, isn't she doing like a whole throwback to her
Speaker 5: old talk show from the nineties. She says she's got
Speaker 5: all the little cushi's, the little dolls on the desk.
Speaker 4: I don't know. She kind of looks like a lesbian.
Speaker 4: Hank Williams to me, Hey, whatever works for you. I'm
Speaker 4: sure there's a market for that. All right, it is
Speaker 4: our pleasure. Welcome our next guest to the broker.
Speaker 6: Can you guys hear me? You know I'm a lute eye.
Speaker 6: John Did I get the mic right?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: No, I can hear you. Just fine. It's Bill Schultz.
Speaker 4: Everyone you can follow out exit Bill Schulz. Bill, Hello, thanks.
Speaker 1: For having me, buddy.
Speaker 6: You know, we have known each other for way too long,
Speaker 6: and I was listening today and it was a great show.
Speaker 6: But I have to tell you, and if memory serves,
Speaker 6: you're like third fourth.
Speaker 1: Generation Los Angelean.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I have never heard you hate your city
Speaker 6: more than you currently do, well, which.
Speaker 1: I get again. I was there recently, and it's weird.
Speaker 6: It's like, it's like it's like the future, because you know,
Speaker 6: New York doesn't have like way Mos or driverless cars.
Speaker 6: So I was with my buddy Drew, who's a big
Speaker 6: fan of yours, by the way, you met them way
Speaker 6: back in the day, and I'm taking pictures of these
Speaker 6: little delivery robots and driverless cars because we're not any
Speaker 6: of that in New York.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I'm in the Jetsons.
Speaker 6: But then the next block over there's a guy defecating
Speaker 6: on himself and then trying to throw it at me.
Speaker 1: So it's a yate and a yen.
Speaker 2: Was it a shock to your system?
Speaker 4: Because not that long ago it used to be a
Speaker 4: really fun place to live, a fun place to visit.
Speaker 4: And I feel like whenever I talk to someone who
Speaker 4: hasn't been here in a while and they show up
Speaker 4: and they see the condition of the city, they're like,
Speaker 4: what the hell happened to you?
Speaker 1: It is so true.
Speaker 6: Drew Lerner lives and has always lived in downtown LA.
Speaker 6: People actually do live there locals, and it was, as
Speaker 6: you know better than anyone, it was having a bit
Speaker 6: of a renaissance. I don't know, I want to say,
Speaker 6: like a decade ago or something like new things were
Speaker 6: happening and Disney plays all that stuff. And now when
Speaker 6: I visit him and I, of course, because Billy's on
Speaker 6: a budget, I crashed his couch and I'm there and uh,
Speaker 6: it's it's the scene in the movie in the in
Speaker 6: the video music video.
Speaker 1: Thriller at about eight at night, and that has changed
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 4: But well, thank you so much for stopping by. It's
Speaker 4: been too long, and uh, yeah, we're so so happy
Speaker 4: to have you. So you have a new project that
Speaker 4: you're working on. I want to talk about that and
Speaker 4: it it it. I think it's a great thing in
Speaker 4: the sense that it teaches people when one door closes,
Speaker 4: another door opens up, and that's kind of what you experienced.
Speaker 6: Well, my autobiography should be all closed doors, so you know,
Speaker 6: you got to make your own door. Yeah, the I
Speaker 6: was I saw the future at Emerson College and I
Speaker 6: realized it's pret journalism. And I've been as that smart
Speaker 6: ever but as the U and you know, I've had
Speaker 6: some experience in broadcasts as well. But as the gigs
Speaker 6: have slowly I can't believe I said slowly, as the
Speaker 6: gigs have quickly dried up. You know, you've got to
Speaker 6: supplement the income. And I have no discernible skills, but
Speaker 6: I'm an okay researcher and I do like some New
Speaker 6: York history. And so about two years ago I got
Speaker 6: my New York Tour Guides license because it's New York.
Speaker 1: They need a license for goddamn everything.
Speaker 6: And so I was doing it walking tours with these
Speaker 6: great you might have heard of them because they're starting
Speaker 6: to get popular in LA too, but they're called the
Speaker 6: Bowery Boys, and they do this great podcast starting in
Speaker 6: two thousand and seven before people even knew podcast or
Speaker 6: about all things in New York history. And they don't
Speaker 6: do the Wikipedia, and they certainly don't do the AI.
Speaker 6: They do really great, hardcore research on all these fun
Speaker 6: little things about New York you never thought you never
Speaker 6: knew and never thought you'd want to know. And they
Speaker 6: got really big, and they got they started doing sellout
Speaker 6: shows throughout the city, and so from them, the next
Speaker 6: logical step after some successful books was to do walking tours.
Speaker 6: And I used to use them as sources because I
Speaker 6: was just a fan in my stories, and I used
Speaker 6: to do a really successful with the teen's column for
Speaker 6: The New York Times about New York museums. The meeting
Speaker 6: reader age for my columns was about sixty five to dead.
Speaker 6: But I would use them as sources all the time,
Speaker 6: and to the point where my editor said, you got
Speaker 6: to stop using the Bowery Boys as your source.
Speaker 1: But I think that helps.
Speaker 6: But I finally just pitched them my neighborhood, which is
Speaker 6: East Midtown or is The locals call it Turtle Bid
Speaker 6: and nobody does tours here and it's a very cool
Speaker 6: looks boring, but it's certainly not area of Manhattan. And
Speaker 6: I was doing it with them for two years, but
Speaker 6: it wasn't enough. It was there was not enough gigs
Speaker 6: I get, they would get. They would give me what
Speaker 6: they could, but it would be like maybe three four
Speaker 6: times a month. Freelance wasn't helping. And so I have
Speaker 6: And by the way, thank you for this unsolicited plug.
Speaker 6: I certainly didn't email this. I love you.
Speaker 1: But so I just started with this asshole of a boss.
Speaker 2: We'll use that.
Speaker 6: Oh sorry, I can't wear this a hole of a boss.
Speaker 6: That's my fault. But my dad, George Schultz, and so
Speaker 6: we're doing this. It's called flying Dutchman Tours dot com.
Speaker 6: Uh and uh So now I'm available six days a week.
Speaker 6: It starts at eleven and then there's another tour at three.
Speaker 6: But I'm available for private tours and we'll dress up
Speaker 6: in costumes depending on the price.
Speaker 4: Well, it's interesting that you say that, because you talk
Speaker 4: about experiencing the history of an area through bars and
Speaker 4: food and those sorts of things, and that's really how
Speaker 4: we experience a community. That's really when you think about
Speaker 4: an area that you like, whether it's the area that
Speaker 4: you live in or an area that you visit, so
Speaker 4: much of that is done through food and drink.
Speaker 2: That when a neighborhood. And this is why.
Speaker 4: Part of the reason why I think that the COVID
Speaker 4: lockdowns were so awful, Oh yeah, is it caused so
Speaker 4: many restaurants and bars to go under and so many
Speaker 4: places in Los Angeles and San Francisco in particular that
Speaker 4: I loved for years and years and years and then
Speaker 4: we just shut them down and they go away, and
Speaker 4: you go, well, it's not just losing a restaurant, it's
Speaker 4: not just losing a bar. You're losing your history. You're
Speaker 4: losing fun parts of the city that people remember and enjoy.
Speaker 6: Oh, a good example of that, which is kind of
Speaker 6: in the neighborhood, not on the tour, but it's a
Speaker 6: little further away from Turtle Bay.
Speaker 1: But have you ever been to the twenty one Club
Speaker 1: in New York?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I have. I went with Tammy Bruce.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I love her. She used to be on
Speaker 1: Red Eye too.
Speaker 6: You know, it's been closed down since COVID and they
Speaker 6: keep saying that somehow it's going to come back.
Speaker 1: It's not.
Speaker 6: And that was a staple, a historical staple, not only
Speaker 6: New York nightlife, but the stories, the history of that
Speaker 6: place is unparalleled.
Speaker 1: And it's collecting mothballs as.
Speaker 6: We speak, and that is one of many to your
Speaker 6: point in this neck of the woods that is dealing
Speaker 6: with the exact same thing. And and also too, But
Speaker 6: like I wonder about this how it is with you guys,
Speaker 6: because you know, we actually have seasons here and when
Speaker 6: COVID was at it's worst, but as crappy as the
Speaker 6: local government is, they were relatively good about.
Speaker 1: Opening places just so they could make some money.
Speaker 6: But of course it was all outside and so all
Speaker 6: like public drinking. Well, we kind of became New Orleans
Speaker 6: for a little bit. Public public drinking, open beverage right
Speaker 6: was no longer illegal. Every single bar did take takeout
Speaker 6: drinks in plastic cups, and everyone just lived outside, and
Speaker 6: they also allowed because of all the bureaucracy in New York,
Speaker 6: it was very hard to get outdoor seating at a bar. Uh.
Speaker 6: And they got rid of all of that, just for
Speaker 6: the breathing or whatever it was, and a lot of
Speaker 6: that has still kind of remained. I will say that
Speaker 6: they got rid of the open alcohol stuff, but so
Speaker 6: many bars are like, especially if they have cops as customers,
Speaker 6: they are like, now we're still doing it. And so
Speaker 6: as a good example, I this is the margarita I
Speaker 6: just brought home right before the show. But yeah, no
Speaker 6: one cares. But so they made allowances for that, but
Speaker 6: we still lost and continue to have just mothballs and
Speaker 6: places that you wouldn't think would have mouth mothballs. So
Speaker 6: many businesses, and I'm sure LA got destroyed, probably even
Speaker 6: more it did.
Speaker 4: And it also I think besides losing your history and
Speaker 4: losing what makes a neighborhood special, I think it also
Speaker 4: hits another nerve that drives people crazy, which is if
Speaker 4: you're a bar or you're a restaurant and you've been
Speaker 4: around a long time, you probably have rent that's something like,
Speaker 4: you know, four nickels and a button, and so you
Speaker 4: can charge much less for a drink or for a
Speaker 4: plate of food or whatever than many of your competitors
Speaker 4: because you just don't have that high rent. When those
Speaker 4: places go under, they're not replaced by other bars that
Speaker 4: will sell you a seven dollars drink or will sell
Speaker 4: you a twelve dollars hamburger. They're replaced by places that
Speaker 4: charge whatever it is that's the going rate for a drink.
Speaker 4: You pay twenty dollars instead of eight, or you pay
Speaker 4: you know, fifty dollars for an entree instead of seventeen.
Speaker 4: And it just causes the cost of living to go
Speaker 4: through the roof because those old amy places that could
Speaker 4: get away with reasonable prices are now wiped out by
Speaker 4: the wave.
Speaker 6: Choir preaching, and like so many family owned areas around
Speaker 6: here have just been replaced by chipolti chipolti my pronounce
Speaker 6: that correctly, I refuse to go or something of that equivalent.
Speaker 6: And it's heartbreaking and and again, like the other and
Speaker 6: I know you cover this a lot, but like you know,
Speaker 6: The other result of COVID was just it escalated something
Speaker 6: that was already happening, which is just working at home.
Speaker 6: And as a result, and I kind of felt it
Speaker 6: in La although I was surprised that it was as
Speaker 6: crowded as it was. But if you haven't been in
Speaker 6: New York in a while and you come now, you
Speaker 6: can see it, Like you know, it's there's less people,
Speaker 6: and so you're working from home, you're getting Amazon deliveries,
Speaker 6: and that home is either in New Jersey or.
Speaker 1: Connecticut, maybe Queensborough, Lynn.
Speaker 6: It's hard to afford, and you're certainly not coming to
Speaker 6: the city center to work anymore. And we've got it's
Speaker 6: almost like I'm worried that we're going to end up
Speaker 6: being like an expensive ghost town equivalent of Detroit, where it's.
Speaker 1: Just going to be all of these.
Speaker 6: Former places of business, gigantic edifices that are completely empty,
Speaker 6: and yeah, you notice it, and like, I hate people,
Speaker 6: so part of me likes that, But for the future
Speaker 6: of the city, which I'm invested in, it's not good.
Speaker 2: And it's something that's happening here.
Speaker 4: It's happening in Los Angeles, it's happening in San Francisco,
Speaker 4: where you have these downtown centers where people used to work,
Speaker 4: and they used to show up every day, and they
Speaker 4: used to go to lunch, and they used to get
Speaker 4: their coffee, and they used to stick around after work
Speaker 4: for a drink and all of those things. You work
Speaker 4: at home and your pajamas, you no longer have to
Speaker 4: do that. There's a fight going on right now in
Speaker 4: Sacramento between Galvin Newsom and the state workers because many
Speaker 4: of the state workers are now on work from home
Speaker 4: status and all the sandwich shops and Sacramento are going under,
Speaker 4: and the bars are going under, and the coffee places
Speaker 4: are going under. And he doesn't want the visual as
Speaker 4: he's getting ready to run for president of the city
Speaker 4: that he works in being a ghost town with tumbleweeds
Speaker 4: going down the street in the middle at five of
Speaker 4: a one pm on a Tuesday and all of the
Speaker 4: business is boarded up. He doesn't want that visual. So
Speaker 4: now he's trying to force them to back come back
Speaker 4: into the office.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, yeah, it's uh.
Speaker 6: I don't I like, I don't want to say bounce back,
Speaker 6: particularly even this is a pretty high priced neighborhood that
Speaker 6: I live in in Turtle Bay, I may be here
Speaker 6: illegally edit that out, but but I mean, you know.
Speaker 1: There's still boarded up places, not.
Speaker 6: As much nearly as when COVID I guess pseudo ended,
Speaker 6: but also like our new development. It used to be
Speaker 6: just this area was all diplomats and old people. Our
Speaker 6: new development is a bunch of graffiti. Never had that
Speaker 6: the entire time I've lived here. I've lived in New
Speaker 6: York since ninety eight, here since two thousand and six.
Speaker 6: You never saw graffiti. It's an immaculate old people neighborhood,
Speaker 6: you know, with tiny dogs and tinier tipping diplomats.
Speaker 1: But now there's just graffiti everywhere.
Speaker 6: And again it's not at all remotely like you know, gosh,
Speaker 6: what's that famous area in downtown LA with skid Row.
Speaker 6: It's not like that, but it is so noticeably worse
Speaker 6: than I mean, I know you're coming in February.
Speaker 1: I don't know how often you come here, but you'll
Speaker 1: see a difference.
Speaker 2: Last thing before we go.
Speaker 4: You are a fixture in late night TV for years
Speaker 4: and years and years, and we've had so many conversations.
Speaker 2: About that world.
Speaker 4: Kimmel recently took some time off this week and had
Speaker 4: none other than Rosie O'Donnell, who self deported back to
Speaker 4: Ireland after President Trump was elected for the second time
Speaker 4: because she said she was in fear of her safety
Speaker 4: and in fear of the safety of her daughter. I
Speaker 4: guess she thought that Trump was going to throw on
Speaker 4: a goulug or something, and she came back and hosted
Speaker 4: Kimmel and went after Trump the whole time that she
Speaker 4: was she was hosting.
Speaker 2: Did you see that? What'd you think of it?
Speaker 6: I was just made aware of it right before this,
Speaker 6: and I just naturally assumed that you chose this because
Speaker 6: I have often been described as a skinnier version of
Speaker 6: Rosie o'donald, and I take.
Speaker 1: Offense to all of this.
Speaker 6: I either get skinnier version of Rosi o'donald or late
Speaker 6: in life, Billy Jean King. That is what my comparisons
Speaker 6: usually are physically.
Speaker 1: But I hadn't. I did not see the show. I
Speaker 1: every once in a while, I don't you.
Speaker 6: Might be like me where I'm still like I'm still
Speaker 6: like one of those old funny duddies that has cable.
Speaker 6: And the only way I'll ever even look at the
Speaker 6: antiquated thing that his talk shows anymore is if they
Speaker 6: have good guests. So just goet my little clicker and
Speaker 6: I'll go right past a Kimmel or a Fallon monologue,
Speaker 6: and if they've got a good guess, I'll watch that.
Speaker 6: And every once in a while Kimmel will have an
Speaker 6: interesting guest host and I'm like, oh, I want to
Speaker 6: see that.
Speaker 1: This is one that I would skip.
Speaker 6: But I will say this though, it just Katie highlights.
Speaker 6: I mean maybe low lights, but like, what was the
Speaker 6: story with the show?
Speaker 2: But she just attacked Trump the whole time, which of
Speaker 2: course is what you.
Speaker 4: Expect those where bread is buttered. But let's just take
Speaker 4: her out of the equation. One of the things that
Speaker 4: I wish the late night shows would do now that
Speaker 4: they used to do, especially when Carson was there and others,
Speaker 4: is whenever he was gone, there would be a guest host.
Speaker 4: It wasn't just a rerun. It was Joan Rivers or
Speaker 4: Jay Leno or Home and before that.
Speaker 6: David Letterman, David it was like his most regular guest
Speaker 6: host until he did Late Night.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, I missed those days.
Speaker 1: Oh me too. And it was always so fun.
Speaker 6: It was like sort of like it was still the
Speaker 6: same old comfy blanket that you have. But there was
Speaker 6: like a little like kick in it. You know, there
Speaker 6: was a little there was a little kick in the
Speaker 6: old drink. But yeah, and it was all all those regulars.
Speaker 6: And then you know, famously Joan Rivers might have been
Speaker 6: at some point more on than Jay Leno. But then
Speaker 6: they never spoke again because Joan Rivers and I think
Speaker 6: that thing lasted for about three months. She got her
Speaker 6: own talk show on this upcoming network called Fox and
Speaker 6: Johnny Carson And when you burned at Johnny carson Bridge,
Speaker 6: it is burned. You never talked to her again.
Speaker 2: All right, We're gonna have to leave it there. Bill.
Speaker 4: If people want more information about your new project, how
Speaker 4: can they find it?
Speaker 6: You are the best buddy, and you have a family
Speaker 6: and friends discount read you could do it for free
Speaker 6: for the tour, even though we'll be in February and
Speaker 6: your delicate la but we'll not be able to handle
Speaker 6: the weather.
Speaker 1: But it is.
Speaker 6: At the Flying Dutchman m e N tours dot com.
Speaker 6: And if you just do Flying Dutchmen, you're gonna get
Speaker 6: a cannabis site in Netherlands. And we did not do
Speaker 6: our research John on that one. So I have to
Speaker 6: be very careful that tours is in there as well.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I'm always available. We officially launch on when
Speaker 6: next Wednesday, and I'm certainly available for private tours. Nothing sallacious,
Speaker 6: nothing kinky, guys, come on, but yeah, thank you so much, buddy.
Speaker 4: All right, Bill Sheltz, everyone, thanks so much for stopping by.
Speaker 2: I miss you, miss you too.
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Speaker 4: And coming up after we finish today at three o'clock, Randy,
Speaker 4: we're going to debut the newest edition of The Accountability Podcast.
Speaker 5: The Accountability Podcast with John Phillips and Randy Wang are
Speaker 5: weekly celebration of the most useless word in the English.
Speaker 1: Language accountability, accountability, accountability.
Speaker 5: And this one focuses on the big corruption trial that
Speaker 5: is starting in Oakland in October, surrounding Shang.
Speaker 6: E Tow absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 5: And the Dong family and I don't know, maybe they're
Speaker 5: connections to one Babathy Bontata. We bring in Seneca Scott
Speaker 5: and Seneca Scott uncensored on a podcast is a site
Speaker 5: to behold.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 5: We have a clip of the show, but it's the
Speaker 5: only clip that we can air because it's the only
Speaker 5: clip that didn't have Seneca dropping an f bomb about
Speaker 5: the situation that's going on in Oakland. The show premiere
Speaker 5: is at three o'clock, right after we sign off here
Speaker 5: at Johnny don't like dot com, But Johnny, we've got
Speaker 5: a little amuz boosh for everybody.
Speaker 2: Shall we give them a taste.
Speaker 4: Let's take a look, and oh boy, is there a
Speaker 4: story unfolding in Oakland when it comes to the former
Speaker 4: mayor who you helped kick out office, Shank Taue and
Speaker 4: the dominoes that are falling right and left thanks to
Speaker 4: her indictment and her trial upcoming trial that the federal
Speaker 4: government is putting her up on. So let's go ahead
Speaker 4: and start with the trial and Shang Tau. Because shank Tau,
Speaker 4: as I mentioned, is the disgraced former mayor of Oakland.
Speaker 4: She's now looking at essentially the rest of her life
Speaker 4: in prison due to a corruption scandal that you helped uncover.
Speaker 4: She is now trying to get evidence in that case
Speaker 4: thrown out that she says is prejudicial to the defense.
Speaker 4: And a lot of that evidence that she's trying to
Speaker 4: get thrown out is, you know, regarded as as essentially
Speaker 4: salacious because we're talking about pictures and videos or politicians
Speaker 4: that may be engaged in activity that they wish they
Speaker 4: hadn't engaged in. So let's go ahead and start from
Speaker 4: the beginning. Shank Tau now standing trial and the dominoes
Speaker 4: are falling. What should we know about this trial and
Speaker 4: what should we know about what she's trying to do
Speaker 4: right now?
Speaker 7: Well that's a pretty expensive question, but let me key in, JOHNA.
Speaker 7: What you just said, they actually were successful the defense
Speaker 7: and getting tossed out, and what it looks like is
Speaker 7: that they came in with I don't know how much
Speaker 7: a treasure trove of evidence, let's say, seventeen hundred files
Speaker 7: or exhibits, and the judge knocked it down to five
Speaker 7: hundred exhibits and the majority of what the judge tossed
Speaker 7: out was ever, was videos and clips and footage from
Speaker 7: the Vietnam trip and the regions.
Speaker 2: You tossed that is.
Speaker 7: Because it could put other people who are not indicted
Speaker 7: or facing any prosecution, it could jeopardize among their careers,
Speaker 7: and it had no fundamental bearing on the corruption charger.
Speaker 7: This is according to the judge, right. And so what
Speaker 7: it looks like is they were trying to get the
Speaker 7: exhibits down to be able to have a file quickly,
Speaker 7: because the more exhibits that you have, the longer the
Speaker 7: trial goes, because once they are admitted into evidence, then
Speaker 7: they have to be you know, witnesses on both sides
Speaker 7: and then experts, etc. Et c. And so I think
Speaker 7: what's happening in what most people who are knowledgeable about law,
Speaker 7: is that the judge is cutting it down to what
Speaker 7: exactly needed to make your case, and we don't need
Speaker 7: all of this extra stuff just to show that Andrea
Speaker 7: was probably being hard or things like that. So it
Speaker 7: looked like all that in there is the Vietnam stuff.
Speaker 7: And remember this is about evolutionary homes. This is about
Speaker 7: pay for play, and Vietnam doesn't have much to do
Speaker 7: with that. According to the court.
Speaker 5: One of the things that Shang wanted to get thrown
Speaker 5: out was the situation where years ago she lied about
Speaker 5: Andre having a job with her sister's cannabis consulting company
Speaker 5: so they could get a lease for a house, and
Speaker 5: prosecutors wanted that because it shows a pattern of behavior.
Speaker 5: One of the things with the evolutionary home scam that
Speaker 5: was being run on the city of Oakland was her
Speaker 5: boyfriend Andre Jones was going to get a three hundred
Speaker 5: thousand dollars no show job, and they that was the
Speaker 5: way they would launder the money for all of the
Speaker 5: proceeds from these shipping containers. But they didn't want that
Speaker 5: to be shown. They thought they would be presidential towards her.
Speaker 5: But it seems like they got plenty of stuff to
Speaker 5: get her dead to rights anyway on this scam.
Speaker 7: Yes, that is correct. I also remember Andrea used to
Speaker 7: park himself at Shenthile's office. How do I know that
Speaker 7: he posted a picture of me? I thought I was
Speaker 7: burrating a local sautee journalist. I wanted to call him
Speaker 7: a journalist, a local sawty Hack and then he took
Speaker 7: a picture and said, here's Seneca yelling at this guy
Speaker 7: from Shinn's office, which is evidence that was he was
Speaker 7: there and surveilling someone on city time and city property.
Speaker 7: But here's something I thought of the other day. Guys,
Speaker 7: here's something I thought of the other day. Where is
Speaker 7: our public ethics department in Oakland whose number one priority
Speaker 7: is government corruption? How come they found nothing about.
Speaker 2: Any of this.
Speaker 7: If the source of the information came from FBI, raised
Speaker 7: on city hall and elected officials. Remember Simon Russell where
Speaker 7: you may not know this, but Simon and Russell, the
Speaker 7: head of Open's Public Ethics Commissioner Department for several years,
Speaker 7: left abruptly right before shouldn't got what you called or
Speaker 7: right after. My memory is a little fuzzy on that one,
Speaker 7: but right around that time of the we call citing
Speaker 7: corruption as one of the reasons. But Simon Russell is
Speaker 7: the corrupt one. I can tell you because I have
Speaker 7: personally been persecuted and faced numerous charges, including an open
Speaker 7: public ethics investigation into the recall from two years ago
Speaker 7: that we were raising money illegally and it's still open.
Speaker 7: It never closed it, even though judges have called it unconstitutional.
Speaker 7: The amount of harassment we faced for our own public
Speaker 7: ethics commission. So where's any of these charges? Some of
Speaker 7: these people still work for the City of Oakland. I
Speaker 7: give you another one. Remember any evidence when they said
Speaker 7: that Andy Douon was on the phone with an open
Speaker 7: city council member and said, don't worry about the week call,
Speaker 7: will handle that.
Speaker 2: Who was that council member?
Speaker 7: I tell you who it was. It was Carol Fife.
Speaker 2: I had a feeling, Yeah, kel Fife.
Speaker 7: If I'm lying, sue me. It was cal Fife and
Speaker 7: you heard it. I'll say it three times. It was
Speaker 7: Carol Fife, who has gone around the city. But it
Speaker 7: lies in GOSIP about the week call. Who his name
Speaker 7: is mentioned twice in that leak memo calling black people
Speaker 7: token giving her instruction on what to do in order
Speaker 7: to facilitate that mission. Where's our public ethics department? If
Speaker 7: you have knowledge that a city contractor who still had
Speaker 7: the contract full waste solution, it's saying that they're going
Speaker 7: to do something to infringe on someone. First Amendment, right,
Speaker 7: you're post to go report that the public essays that
Speaker 7: a city vendors doing that probably CaCO and laughed and said, yeah, good.
Speaker 7: But guess what, it didn't work. They didn't stop that
Speaker 7: we called. No one ever approached me ever with any
Speaker 7: blobes or any office or any attempt to negotiate that
Speaker 7: we call because they knew.
Speaker 1: I'm not co OpEd.
Speaker 7: You can't buy me off. They didn't even t five
Speaker 7: because I would have put a cameo on I'm and
Speaker 7: said say that again, remember like us singing in woof
Speaker 7: of Watch Street. Well he was like that again, will slowly.
Speaker 2: For me, So there you go.
Speaker 4: Seneca Scott was on fire throughout that entire podcast that
Speaker 4: Randy was one of the more sedate sections, one of
Speaker 4: the more sedate portions of that interview because he was
Speaker 4: letting everyone have it. It was like a festivus reunion
Speaker 4: in that podcast.
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Speaker 4: All right, It's now time to open up the California
Speaker 4: crime blodder.
Speaker 8: It's happened yet again.
Speaker 2: Nice see. Time for the California Crime Blodder and Randy.
Speaker 4: This edition takes us to Berkeley where a crazy squatter
Speaker 4: with a pipe tried to attack some contractors.
Speaker 2: That doesn't sound like fun. For more here is KTVU
Speaker 2: Fox two in the Bay.
Speaker 9: Three contractors working at a church across from the UC
Speaker 9: Berkeley campus were attacked by a man armed with a
Speaker 9: metal pipe.
Speaker 2: Just wait, there's video.
Speaker 9: That man is now under arrest and facing some serious charges.
Speaker 9: Ktvu's crime reporter Henry Lee is joining us down line
Speaker 9: from our newsroom with the detail on this case.
Speaker 5: Henry Henry Lee has the most job security of anybody
Speaker 5: in broadcast journalism as the crime reporter for the East Bay.
Speaker 8: Well Alex said, happened during a busy weekend as cow
Speaker 8: students were moving in Now. One of the victims took
Speaker 8: video of the man with the pipe as police were
Speaker 8: responding to the call. Caught on video a frightening encounter
Speaker 8: with an agitated man at a church near UC Berkeley.
Speaker 10: Exactly, gas, keep mine, keep mine, closing door, close the door.
Speaker 2: Holy cow. Yeah, I'd close that door and then I'd.
Speaker 8: Walk it all contractors who had just found him sleeping
Speaker 8: in the shuttered church. He also allegedly vandalized. One man's
Speaker 8: on the phone with nine one one.
Speaker 2: I was asleep. You were asleep in a place that
Speaker 2: you don't own, jackass. WHOA.
Speaker 4: I wonder how many iPhones he went through. Every time
Speaker 4: the alarm would go up in the morning, he just
Speaker 4: hit it with his fists, break the phone.
Speaker 8: He's up rushing at the video stops and that's when
Speaker 8: Berkeley police say the man used the five foot metal
Speaker 8: pipe he was carrying to attack the contractors, so they
Speaker 8: asked them.
Speaker 2: They didn't get that part on camera. I think he
Speaker 2: went Barry Bonds on him too.
Speaker 3: Person to leave and the person refused, after which they
Speaker 3: call the police, and that's when the suspect attack vote.
Speaker 8: Okay, it happened at Trinity.
Speaker 4: Could you roll the tape back for one second. Yes,
Speaker 4: this guy could be a character in any Amy Siddaris
Speaker 4: television show. He's a black police officer and his name
Speaker 4: is b Period White.
Speaker 3: Which they call the police and that's when the suspect
Speaker 3: attack vote.
Speaker 8: It happened at Trinity United Methodist Church near Bancroft Way
Speaker 8: and Dana Street at about ten forty five Saturday.
Speaker 10: More.
Speaker 8: I think the church closed years ago, but the contractors
Speaker 8: were working on the property. They realized someone had broken
Speaker 8: into the building and cost about twenty thousand dollars worth
Speaker 8: of damage.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, well that's why he was so tired.
Speaker 3: It also seemed to have like broken a lot of
Speaker 3: the electric equipment, speakers knocked over like a drum set smashed.
Speaker 8: A UC Berkeley campus police officer happened to be driving
Speaker 8: by and was flagged down by the victims. The suspect,
Speaker 8: twenty eight year old Donald Malone, was arrested after a struggle.
Speaker 8: He's been charged with three felony accounts of assault with
Speaker 8: the deadly weapon and vandalism.
Speaker 5: Of course, they could never get him for the squatting,
Speaker 5: but attacking people with the pipe that is a crime.
Speaker 4: Luckily, I guess they pick and choose which crimes they
Speaker 4: enforced there.
Speaker 8: The incident happened across from UC Berkeley's main gym, the
Speaker 8: Recreational Sports Facility, and on a busy weekend when col
Speaker 8: students were moving in Cyrus andaz is an incoming freshman.
Speaker 10: I feel like there's a fine line between you know,
Speaker 10: someone being homeless, sleeping on the street and being in
Speaker 10: a forged situation versus them actually, you know, doing something
Speaker 10: and posing as a threat and while also swinging at people.
Speaker 8: Now I've learned the defendant has a prior conviction for
Speaker 8: assault with a deadly weapon for attacking a security guard
Speaker 8: near Lake Merritt in Oakland. Because of his latest arrest
Speaker 8: in Berkeley, the Alameda County DA today filed a petition
Speaker 8: to revoke his probation.
Speaker 5: Of course, this guy once again already got busted on something.
Speaker 5: By the way, how much you want to bet that
Speaker 5: that original probation happened under the previous administration?
Speaker 4: White Frankly, Oh, Pammy Price's name is all over it.
Speaker 1: She called me a crime boss.
Speaker 5: Maybe we should get her on the podcast do a
Speaker 5: little collab. Well, she is a podcast host, that's all
Speaker 5: she is.
Speaker 8: For the newsroom, Henry Lee Katvu Box two News.
Speaker 9: All right, Henry, thank you for that.
Speaker 5: So there you go, the wild story of a squatter
Speaker 5: in Berkeley right next to cal attacking can instruction workers
Speaker 5: with a big old metal pipe because they told him
Speaker 5: you gots to go.
Speaker 2: This is not a house.
Speaker 4: What do you do if you're a contractor and you're
Speaker 4: just there to do I don't know whatever contractors do,
Speaker 4: and you have a crazy person with a pipe, who's
Speaker 4: threatening you and then goes off on.
Speaker 2: You, Well you probably run for the hills, that would
Speaker 2: be my guess.
Speaker 4: But you know, contractors have saws, contractors have equipment, they
Speaker 4: have sharp things, they have heavy things. Would you feel
Speaker 4: comfortable working on a house with your back to potentially
Speaker 4: this guy with a pipe.
Speaker 2: I would not.
Speaker 5: But even if you pick up that shovel and use
Speaker 5: it as self defense, you'll probably lose your license.
Speaker 2: I don't know. These people belong in institutions.
Speaker 5: And this guy was already picked up for something, of course,
Speaker 5: because we don't want to put anybody in prison on probation,
Speaker 5: and what do you know, still acting like a complete
Speaker 5: insane person.
Speaker 4: And at some point someone's going to get hurt. And
Speaker 4: by the way, we don't know the condition of the contractors.
Speaker 4: They got hit with a pipe, so maybe they are heard,
Speaker 4: I don't know. But they're playing with fire. They're playing
Speaker 4: with fire, because let me tell you, there are some
Speaker 4: people where if you have a crazy person threatening them
Speaker 4: with a pipe in their hand, they're not going to
Speaker 4: put up with it, and they may handle it in
Speaker 4: a way that you don't like. But what are you
Speaker 4: going to do when you have a crazy person with
Speaker 4: a pipe threatening to go off.
Speaker 5: That's what we've got today for the California Crime Blodder.
Speaker 5: And yes, I am actively looking for a security company
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Speaker 4: Well, you certainly don't need a safe company.
Speaker 2: We would be terrible.
Speaker 5: It would be a terrible, terrible endorsement because we would
Speaker 5: have a safe company advertising the blotter and then thirty
Speaker 5: seconds into the segment, we would say that safes aren't safe.
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