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Speaker 1: it it bans the safest products, right, So smokeless tobaccos,

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Speaker 1: on the Iheartware. Sheriff being a wave on in fifteen

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Speaker 1: minutes right after Debora's news Yes to talk about how

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Speaker 1: he says, the Attorney General wants his office, the La

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Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Department, to destroy evidence from the Shila Kul raid.

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Speaker 1: We both did this. It's an interesting and strange development,

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Speaker 1: is it not. That's right, it's an intriguing claim. As

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Speaker 1: you know, the AG took over the investigation from the

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Speaker 1: Sheriff's department. Sheriff via Auava had recused himself from it.

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Speaker 1: He has a special office of Investigations that was conducting this.

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Speaker 1: So he says, the Attorney General is going to ask

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Speaker 1: a judge to order via Auayvea's Department to destroy remaining

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Speaker 1: copies of the evidence seized from Kuel. Well, if that's true,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like Banta's given up on I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you're going to destroy the evidence, you have a case anymore.

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Speaker 1: What is it about destroying the evidence? Why the necessity

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Speaker 1: to destroy them? I don't know why sensitive materials that

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Speaker 1: anybody to see. I don't know. What about returning them?

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Speaker 1: I don't How about using the evidence to convict her.

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Speaker 1: Here's the update on the Harvey Weinstein trial. But these

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Speaker 1: are some headlines. Oh good, some testicle talk. We are

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Speaker 1: going to get to that. The first Harvey Weinstein accuser

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Speaker 1: has finished for three days of disturbing cross examination. This

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Speaker 1: is Jane Doe number one, the Italian model. I like

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Speaker 1: this headline. Harvey Weinstein's chair was moved because he's accused

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Speaker 1: of staring down the jury in the case. So I

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Speaker 1: guess they moved him so he couldn't quite have a

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Speaker 1: direct site mind. Is he trying to intimidate him? That's

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Speaker 1: what the implication was, And exactly that's the judge agreed

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Speaker 1: to move the chair. That's what you really was. That's

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Speaker 1: a stupid strategy. I mean, he's one of the most

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Speaker 1: hideous looking men you'll ever see and giving them the stink. Guys,

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Speaker 1: you're supposed to be warm and endearing. Well, one of

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Speaker 1: the key things in the case for these women testifying

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Speaker 1: that Harvey Weinstein assaulted them is to establish that they

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Speaker 1: actually did have an encounter with Harvey Weinstein. There's no

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Speaker 1: rape kits, no physical evidence, not a lot besides the

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Speaker 1: words of these women against Weinstein. So one of the

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Speaker 1: things that's come up repeatedly is covered in a headline

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Speaker 1: from The New York Post back in twenty twenty, Harvey

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Speaker 1: Weinstein's deformed penis explained, I mean that I'll get your

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Speaker 1: attention on't it? You gotta click that? Aren't you gonna click? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I read this the first time. I remember. I think

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Speaker 1: we may have talked about it. Every time I see

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Speaker 1: the words Harvey Weinstein and deformed penis, I'm there automatic click. Well,

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Speaker 1: and that's an issue here because the jane Does that

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Speaker 1: are testifying are being asked details to make sure that

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Speaker 1: they indeed were sexually assaulted, that they are aware of

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Speaker 1: his rather unusual jedital you and here are the reasons

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Speaker 1: he had a life threatening bacterial infection known as Fournier

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Speaker 1: is Gang Green? Do you do you want Gang Green

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Speaker 1: named after you? If you're a researcher. Oh, mister Fournier. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Was that doctor Fournier and had discovered this? Or was

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Speaker 1: it some poor guy named Fournier whose testicles fell off.

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Speaker 1: I can strike middle aged men and diabetics. Weinstein is both.

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Speaker 1: He's now sixty nine and or he's seventy. I think

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Speaker 1: he is. When bacteria enters through a cut or scratch

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Speaker 1: in the gentitals and spreads through the bloodstream, some patients

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Speaker 1: require skin graphs, but in extreme cases, such as Weinstein,

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Speaker 1: there's an operation to remove the testicles. So his testicles

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Speaker 1: were rotting inside his scrotum, and that's why they had

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Speaker 1: to relocate them to his thigh. Apparently that's what happened, Yes,

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Speaker 1: and inside the thigh. John asked the other day if

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Speaker 1: they were attached, Well, all right, no hanging off? His thought.

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Speaker 1: That's what I thought. Honestly, I thought they were connected

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Speaker 1: to the skin surface of the thigh. I didn't realize

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Speaker 1: they were embedded in the sore. They because when they're

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Speaker 1: embedded in the thigh, are they still connected? So they

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Speaker 1: worked to produced because in the news story that neither

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Speaker 1: one of us could read out loud describing what one

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Speaker 1: of the women had to do with Weinstein. To me,

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Speaker 1: it made it seem like they were attached outside. I see, okay,

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Speaker 1: I had the exact different visual that. Of course they

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Speaker 1: put him inside. Then how do you get at them?

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Speaker 1: Why would you want to get at them? That was

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Speaker 1: the crime? Yes, you're right, because he was. He's supposedly

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Speaker 1: forcing them. And I think this is Jane Doe number one,

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Speaker 1: who claims that he asked her to Yes, s I mean,

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Speaker 1: I got pleasure them somehow. I well, yeah, they're hiding inside.

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Speaker 1: But that was the defense lawyer's point. If she originally

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Speaker 1: said that, and he said that can't have been the case.

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Speaker 1: He had this procedure done in nineteen ninety nine. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so they are inside, Yes, that's what he's saying. That

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Speaker 1: was That was Weinstein's alibi, That was his way of

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Speaker 1: ripping into her story. But apparently when she went before

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Speaker 1: a grand jury some years later, she did not include

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Speaker 1: that element of the case that he wanted her to

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Speaker 1: pleasure his sub Yeah. Yeah, so that's what he's trying

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Speaker 1: to catch her in like a live or a change

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Speaker 1: of story. I mean, I looked up the Cleveland clinic

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Speaker 1: who does Fournier's gang Green effect, and it has all

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Speaker 1: the all the all the risk factors. And you read

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Speaker 1: these risk factors and you'll quit everything. You'll you'll end

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Speaker 1: all your bad habits. Wouldn't you read I'll have a

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Speaker 1: gang green works. What are the consequences gang? Because it's diabetes.

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Speaker 1: So you just stop desserts now, alcohol abuse? I mean

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Speaker 1: up to about hamburgers. I knew you're going to ask

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Speaker 1: that hamburgers are not listed. Yeah, too much red meat,

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Speaker 1: too much bluze. Up to fifty percent of people with

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Speaker 1: Fournier's gang Green alcohol use disorder, or they have cirrhosis,

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Speaker 1: or they have kidney failure which comes from alcohol overuse.

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Speaker 1: You smoke your obese. But it says it enters through

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Speaker 1: a cut or scratch in the genitals. So how does

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Speaker 1: that have anything to do with drinking or and how

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Speaker 1: do you come in contact with this particular Just maybe

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Speaker 1: it's more any kind of bacteria which could Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: guess maybe it's your immune system is terribly compromised. This

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Speaker 1: deformity was first revealed in court when an actress named

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Speaker 1: Jessica Mann, one of the accusers, said she felt compassion

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Speaker 1: after seeing his deformed genitalia looking as if it had

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Speaker 1: burns in his nether region, So she kind of felt

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Speaker 1: sorry for him. One of the women that he was

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Speaker 1: involved with. No one of the accusers, Jessica Man was

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Speaker 1: an accuser. Remember they already had this trial, right right,

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Speaker 1: That's what I meant, So she felt bad towards him.

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Speaker 1: You know, I heard the same thing. I swear with

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Speaker 1: the Jeffrey Epstein that somebody said the same thing. They

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Speaker 1: thought he was deformed, and they kind of felt some

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Speaker 1: compassion at first. Yeah, these two are very similar. What

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Speaker 1: so I mean is that is that how these guys

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Speaker 1: tried to get women attracted to them. Look look how

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Speaker 1: look at look at my deformed genitals and and the

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Speaker 1: women go oh, Coming up, Dex will be talking again

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Speaker 1: to the La County Sheriff, Alex Vienneueva for an interesting

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Speaker 1: development in the story of Sheila Kiel, the Ela County supervisor,

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Speaker 1: and possible corruption. The sheriff is claiming that the Attorney

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Speaker 1: General's office wants his office to destroy the evidence that

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Speaker 1: they obtained from Sheila Kuell's home. Johnny Ken, you can

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Speaker 1: get that gang green from e coli. All, and that's

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Speaker 1: in Hamburgers. Yeah, more often in sal leafy, leafy vegetable.

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