1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,560 Speaker 1: All right, Well, the big story from last week is 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:05,160 Speaker 1: still hanging around with some updates to give you. And this, 3 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: of course was the search warrants that were served on 4 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: the home of La County Supervisor Sheilla cull and a 5 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: woman of Patty Giggins, a close friend and ally of 6 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: Sheilla cules who runs a nonprofit that had a contract 7 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:22,919 Speaker 1: with Metro the buses and subways of La County to 8 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: run a sex harassment hotline which got like no calls 9 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 1: over a period of years. But the profit is called 10 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 1: Peace Silver Violence, and Giggins's nonprofit made eight hundred thousand dollars. 11 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 1: It was a series of no bid contracts which were 12 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 1: structured so that Kiel and the rest of the county 13 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 1: supervisors never had to vote on it publicly. And Jennifer 14 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 1: Lowe used to work with Metro, and she reported what 15 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 1: she thought was suspicious activity, corrupt activity, because she was 16 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 1: supposed to pay one of the bills that Piece Over 17 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 1: Violence submitted for seventy five thousand dollars, and there was 18 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 1: there was no contract attack attached to it, there was 19 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: no particular work invoice attached to it. It was just 20 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 1: a bill for seventy five grand, and she took it 21 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,319 Speaker 1: over to the Metro CEO Phil Washington saying what's this 22 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 1: and he said, well, pay it. I might need a 23 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: favor from Sheila kuel some day. And he also didn't 24 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 1: want to get Sheilla Cuele upset. And this is the 25 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: center point of the investigation, which led to a search warrant, 26 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: and then Kuele's house gets rated last week. They, of course, 27 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,400 Speaker 1: because this is the game that's played, changes the subject 28 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 1: and they cast dispersions on sheriff being a wave, basically 29 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: saying he made the whole thing up. No, Jennifer Lowe 30 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: is a real person who lodged a real complaint. We're 31 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 1: going to talk now to Adam Lowe, her husband, who 32 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: says he personally approached the sheriff with these allegations. Let's 33 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: get Adam low On. Hey, guys, how are you doing 34 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: to that? Fine? Are you? We're fine. I'm doing well. 35 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:08,839 Speaker 1: I'm doing well. So yeah, you know, we didn't. We've 36 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: actually never spoken with Alex the Aennueva about this in 37 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: particular issue. Alex is a really strong supporter of children 38 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: and children's achievement. And my daughter's a philanthropist and a skateboarder, 39 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 1: and so Alex has always been very supportive of the work, 40 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 1: her work, as you know, as well as other other 41 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 1: kids work. And you know, we she has big events 42 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,799 Speaker 1: and you know, we had Holly Mitchell team there two 43 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:39,079 Speaker 1: weeks ago for our nine to eleven event. So it's 44 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 1: not just Alex the Aennueva who supports supports my daughter, 45 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: but you know a lot of the supervisors. But yeah, 46 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:49,639 Speaker 1: about five years ago, my wife started blowing the whistle 47 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: on public corruption at La Metro. And through the course 48 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: of that, we have spoken to Homeland Security, we have 49 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:02,959 Speaker 1: spoke into the FBI. We've spoken to the DA's office, 50 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 1: both with Lacy's office and with Cascon's office, and we 51 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 1: have spoken with LAPD and the La County Sheriffs and 52 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 1: you know, we filed complaints with each one of those organizations. 53 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: And as things began to become consolidated and you know, 54 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: the DA started looking at things and I became a 55 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:27,080 Speaker 1: county issue, everybody you know, basically said this is really 56 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 1: something that the sheriffs could do. And you know, I 57 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: was actually very surprised that the Schriff's department took over 58 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 1: this case. Obviously it was you know, a primer for 59 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: the dispute between Patty Higgins and Shila Kuell and and 60 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: it's this sort of narrative that the La Times has 61 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 1: been writing about. But you know, the other, the other 62 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 1: piece of the puzzle, and what we're going to be 63 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: hearing here in the coming weeks and months is that 64 00:03:54,600 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: the sole source contracts with Patty Higgins are really just 65 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: the tip of the iceberg. We have contracts with there's 66 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: with nine or ten different agencies just in the security 67 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 1: area of Metro and throughout Metro itself there's hundreds of them. 68 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 1: And then on the flip side, there are a ton 69 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:23,280 Speaker 1: of contracts with piece of our violence, with the city, 70 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:29,039 Speaker 1: the County, the ba's office, LAPD. So you know, we're 71 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: going to be hearing quite a bit about about the 72 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 1: soul source contracts. And then the other piece of the 73 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: puzzle is that they're the Westlake MacArthur Park vendor project, 74 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: which is a very very hippo file project ran up 75 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 1: one point two million dollars in bills and I don't 76 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: believe they've still been paid, and that was in twenty seventeen. 77 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 1: And basically Philip Washington's position on all of this was, 78 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:01,159 Speaker 1: you know, the same thing is, hey, you know we 79 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 1: need the political favors and that's it. And so you know, 80 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:09,359 Speaker 1: there's this this culture of corruption at Metro, and you know, 81 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 1: it's sad because the people who work at Metro, the 82 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: bus operators, the train operators, the administrative staff, they're they're 83 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: fantastic people, but they have this leadership structure that is 84 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 1: got some real challenges. And you have Stephanie Wiggins who 85 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 1: is at Metrolink. You know she was a Metro and 86 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 1: that she was a Metrolink and she's back at Metro. 87 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: And of course her chief of staff is Nicole England, 88 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: who was one of Sheila Kill's top deputies. So what 89 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 1: you're hearing right now is, you know, the tip of 90 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:45,600 Speaker 1: the iceberg and you know, I think it's going to 91 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:48,599 Speaker 1: be just like the Titanic as we you know, they're 92 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: gonna be Sheila and Patty and Gil Sidio and Hilda's 93 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 1: Elisa are going to hit that iceberg and all the 94 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 1: stuff that's underneath the water is going to be brought up, 95 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:02,160 Speaker 1: you know. So it's it's it's an interesting situation. And 96 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: then you know the other piece of the puzzle is 97 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: that you have Eric Garcetti, who is being nominated for 98 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: the India ambassadorship, and then you have Philip Washington, who's 99 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:16,840 Speaker 1: going to be the FAA director or excuse me, administrator. 100 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: So you know, this goes all the way up to 101 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:23,479 Speaker 1: the Biden administration. And I understand that shortly after the 102 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: warrants were served as Shila Huell, the Secret Service brought 103 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 1: them to the President and the President was very concerned 104 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 1: about why the FBI was was not involved in these raids. 105 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 1: And you know, and it's telling because you know that 106 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 1: they were able to get jose weez Are a you know, 107 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:48,359 Speaker 1: a brown individual. They were able to get Marker Lee Thomas, 108 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 1: a black individual, but the two rich white women seem 109 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 1: to you know, be able to float all away because 110 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: they're you know, it's interesting, it's an interesting idea of 111 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,440 Speaker 1: what's going now. There were reports that there were federal 112 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 1: agents that attended the raid. I don't know what role 113 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:08,719 Speaker 1: they played, but that they were there. Do you know 114 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: anything about that, what agency they represented, and what their 115 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 1: interest would be because Theena Wave is going to have 116 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 1: to turn the case over to the FEDS for prosecution 117 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: because George Gascone is a friend of Kuel's and he's 118 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: not interested. Yeah, so so I don't know if the 119 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: FBI was there. I know that in the prior weeks 120 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 1: the FBI had asked me for a fresh statement and 121 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 1: I sent them a twenty three page off a david 122 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: of everything that had taken place about a week and 123 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 1: a half prior to the raid. The DA's office, who 124 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: is not investigating this, asked me for a whole bunch 125 00:07:55,600 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 1: of information related to witnesses out in Denver and out 126 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: in New Orleans. They wanted information on so Washington. They 127 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 1: wanted information on a woman named Stephanie Burke, and then 128 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: they wanted in New Orleans on Alex Wiggins, who's their CEO, 129 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 1: and of course a woman named Helen Villan's way lest 130 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: So everybody's saying we're not involved, We're not involved. They're involved, 131 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 1: And I know that because they keep asking me for information. 132 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 1: So yeah, my understanding is that the FEDS are well. 133 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:40,959 Speaker 1: If I could just interject, Steve Gregory or Cafe Newsman 134 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 1: would give us a report last last Friday, and he 135 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 1: indicated there's a potentially a much wider range of investigating 136 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: going on involving a number of politicians like this. Yeah, 137 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 1: like you said, this is only the beginning. Yeah, So 138 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 1: we know that Hilde s Elise and Gil Sadillo ran 139 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 1: up a one point two million dollar bill with LAPD 140 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:07,079 Speaker 1: and when what did that mean? They ran up a 141 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,720 Speaker 1: one point two million dollars bill. So basically what happened 142 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: was they had this vendor market and they were supposed 143 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:18,200 Speaker 1: to pay three thousand dollars for a permit on La 144 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 1: Metro property. And it was a pilot project between Hella 145 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: Salis and Gil Sadio. And at first Gil Sadio didn't 146 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 1: even pay the three thousand bucks, but then when he 147 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:34,679 Speaker 1: wanted to renew his permit, he ended up having to 148 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 1: do that, and he was collecting money from these vendors right. 149 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 1: And you know, obviously when you have a vendor market 150 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: with no law enforcement, there was you know, there were 151 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 1: some issues and so a Metro required them to put 152 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: law enforcement into after vendor market, and of course law 153 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 1: enforcement charges you money. And rather than making Gil Sadio 154 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 1: go to the of the Council and get funding for this, 155 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 1: Philip Washington said, hey, no problem, we will We'll flip 156 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 1: the bill and you can pay us later. Well, that happened, 157 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: and with the contract and the permits and the cost 158 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 1: of having LAPD there it. The total amount that they 159 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:24,520 Speaker 1: owed was one point two million dollars and Gil Sada 160 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 1: didn't have the money, and so rather than giving a 161 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 1: new contract, which was which required the payment, they just 162 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:35,440 Speaker 1: sort of extended and extended which was a violet, which 163 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 1: was a breach of the contract. So there's a lot 164 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 1: of technically, yeah, okay, boy, I imagine there's a tremendous 165 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 1: amount of corruption that doesn't get reported on it. It's 166 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Times interested in hearing your story or 167 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:49,719 Speaker 1: Jennifer's story at all, because all they do is they 168 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 1: waved their arms in the air saying Nave is a 169 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:55,959 Speaker 1: bad guy and he's making everything up. So it seems 170 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 1: like if you've got twenty if you had twenty three 171 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 1: pages in the AFFI, David, boy, that's a whole lot 172 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 1: of story that you guys are making up. Yeah, and 173 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 1: you know, and a whole lot of story that some 174 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: pretty sophisticated police officers or law enforcement officers looked into, 175 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 1: pretty sophisticated information that six judges approved. Yeah, so let's 176 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 1: talk about the LA Times. You know, Can you hang 177 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 1: on a second? Can you hang on a second, because 178 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 1: we got to take a break here. We're talking with 179 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 1: Adam Lowe. He's the husband of Jennifer Lowe. She was 180 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 1: the whistleblower in the case which led to Sheila Keel's 181 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:35,319 Speaker 1: home getting rated over that contract that Shila Cuele's best 182 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 1: friend in the world, Patricia Giggins guy to run that 183 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 1: sexual harassment hotline that nobody called. Johnny Kenchow cafive. You've 184 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 1: been reading the propaganda in the La Times. You may 185 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:49,319 Speaker 1: think that Sheriff Alex van A wave A made up 186 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: the scam when they did the raid on supervisor Sheila 187 00:11:55,520 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 1: Cuele's home last week, claiming that Kuele and her best 188 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 1: friend Patty Higgins Higgins got an eight hundred thousand dollars 189 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:09,680 Speaker 1: contract from the city for sex harassment hotline that hardly 190 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:12,320 Speaker 1: generated in calls. You I think it's like, wow, he 191 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 1: must be crazy, just made this up. Well, he didn't 192 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 1: make it up. Came from whistleblower who who filed this 193 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 1: complaint years ago. Jennifer Lowe and Adam lower husband is 194 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 1: on with us and he's giving us the details of 195 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 1: the allegations that she has sworn to in an affidavit. 196 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,080 Speaker 1: Let's get get Adam back on here. Adam, you were 197 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: going to comment on the peculiar LA Times coverage. It 198 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 1: seems to be very one sided and seems to deny 199 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: the possibility that this actual actually could be a crime. Yeah. So, 200 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 1: I know most of the LA Times reporters who are 201 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: covering this story, and they've cover the sheriff. I don't 202 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 1: have a huge you know, I don't always agree with them, 203 00:12:57,080 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 1: but you know, their their journalists just like I am. 204 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 1: But you know, here's the here's the challenge they have 205 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: as it relates to this case. Um I spoke with 206 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:12,439 Speaker 1: on Thursday after the warrants were served, Robin and I 207 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 1: can't think of her last name, but she's one of 208 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 1: the opinion writers for the l Times and she yeah, Carrion. 209 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 1: Yeah so, um I told her probably somewhere around thirty 210 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:28,959 Speaker 1: five times that uh Sheriffianueva was not involved in this. 211 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 1: And you have to remember that about eighty percent of 212 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: the documents that drove the warrants came from for me, 213 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: came from and so you know, I'm in the know 214 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,679 Speaker 1: because I'm the one who's explaining the documents. I'm you 215 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 1: know there, it's complicated stuff. Some of this is, you know, 216 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:53,719 Speaker 1: all these spreadsheets. I so if Alexianueva was running the 217 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 1: show there, I wouldn't know, and I would be probably 218 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:01,679 Speaker 1: have spoken with him. He's not he's not involved. I 219 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:04,959 Speaker 1: don't even know he knew the details of the raid. Uh. 220 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: And so you know with the only time, well, let 221 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:10,440 Speaker 1: me just try to let me just try to interject 222 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 1: here at him, because I guess people wonder why George 223 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: Gascon in the DA's office isn't doing the investigating. Why 224 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 1: is it coming from being a way of his office. 225 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 1: He's claiming that the DA was refusing too, because this 226 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: is politically connected. Well, the DA is investigating is in 227 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 1: fact is a matter of fact, they interviewed my wife. 228 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 1: So that's not true. And if you believe everything that 229 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 1: George Gaston has to say, well okay, um, but you know, 230 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: I believe that you know, there's some laws out there 231 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 1: that prevent the DA from saying, um, he's investigating something 232 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 1: if he believes it will hinder the investigation. But the question, 233 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: that's a great question, why is Alex being a wave 234 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 1: of doing it? Because, as I said earlier, as the 235 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:57,160 Speaker 1: as sort of the allegations and again the Shila Kuel 236 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 1: and the Patty Gaigins is just one one small part. 237 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 1: You know, I say, it's a square of the hershey 238 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 1: bar um. You know there's a whole bunch of other 239 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 1: stuff going on. Well, you you've told us that this 240 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 1: is going to get bigger. It's a tip of the iceberg. Yeah, 241 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 1: let I ask you this. Here's a big question for you. Yeah. 242 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 1: Sheilla Kiel is saying she knew nothing about this. Metro. 243 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 1: Giggins said Metro approached her independently of Sheila Kiel. Sheila 244 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 1: Kiel says, I didn't even know about this contract. Is that? 245 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 1: Is that a lie? Not only is it all not 246 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 1: only is it in my opinion, a lie. But we 247 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 1: have the documentation and it wasn't just Sheila Kiel who 248 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 1: knew about it, who was involved in it. It was 249 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 1: actually two individuals, Dan Rodman from Eric gar Studies office 250 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: and it was Sheilla Cul's deputy, Madeline More. And basically 251 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 1: what happened was so we had two we have two 252 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: different things doing on. Number one, the seventy five thousand 253 00:15:53,800 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: dollars issue was a promotion campaign for anti anti actual 254 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 1: harassment promotion campaign. Then after that there was the hot line, 255 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: and so the promotion campaign never suggested there would be 256 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 1: a hot line. Madeline Moore sent an email to La 257 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: Metro and said, and I'm paraphrasing, but you know the 258 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: email is out there, and I think Kay if I 259 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 1: has a has a copy of it, basically said piece 260 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: of her violence as a hot line, and we want 261 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 1: to we want Metro to have a hot line. And 262 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: so maybe Madeline Moore is not consulting with Sheila kill 263 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 1: before she makes decisions for Sheila's best friends. But I 264 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 1: have a hard time believing that that Sheila didn't know 265 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:47,920 Speaker 1: what was going on. Yeah. Moreover, Dan Rodman, who is 266 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: Eric Garcetti's head of transportation, also is there. So this 267 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:58,520 Speaker 1: was not just Sheila, this was also Eric Garcetti. And 268 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 1: then when that five with the seventy five thousand, my 269 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:06,960 Speaker 1: understanding is that Sheila excuse you, that Patty Ghiggins only 270 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: bid thirty thousand dollars for the work, and they did 271 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:14,119 Speaker 1: more than the scope of what they were going to do. 272 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:18,119 Speaker 1: So they went back to Metro and said, hey, we 273 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:20,200 Speaker 1: did more than we're supposed to do. We need seventy 274 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: five opposed to thirty, and Metro said no, And we 275 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 1: have the emails between Patty Ghiggins and Ellie Mayor, Eric 276 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:33,440 Speaker 1: ar Sadi's office and Sheila Hills's office saying we'll take 277 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 1: care of it. And then all of a sudden, Patty 278 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 1: gets a call from Metro saying, oh yeah, we're going 279 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:43,479 Speaker 1: to pay you the seventy five thousand dollars, and Patty 280 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 1: writes her staff in response to that email, she writes 281 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,160 Speaker 1: her staff she says, Okay, now we need to bid 282 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 1: for the hotline and we can be very generous. They're 283 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 1: going to pay us. So you know, this was of 284 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:59,359 Speaker 1: course Sheila knew it. You know, of course she Lan 285 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 1: knew it, like Sheila knew that Sebastian Ridley Thomas, who's 286 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:07,920 Speaker 1: the subject of the Mark Ridley Thomas a bribery case, 287 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 1: that was, you know, Flynn just admit a cop to 288 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:17,239 Speaker 1: it was on the piece of her violence board. And 289 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:20,199 Speaker 1: what was great about it and he got bounced out 290 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:24,920 Speaker 1: of the legislature for two sexual harassment cases. And that 291 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,679 Speaker 1: was what I was gonna tell you is that you 292 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 1: had um You had Sebastian Ridley Thomas in twenty seventeen 293 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:36,160 Speaker 1: sitting on the advisory board a piece of her violence 294 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:42,120 Speaker 1: with Sheila Keuell while being charged with um, yeah, being 295 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:46,679 Speaker 1: a sexual predator so that's great. Maybe he was maybe 296 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 1: Sebastian Ridley Thomas was teaching them how to do sexual assault. 297 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 1: I don't know, providing expertise. Adam, we gotta go great stop. 298 00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, we appreciate you talking to us, so 299 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 1: we'll have you back on soon. Okay, have a great day, guys. 300 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 1: All right, that's Adam Lowe. He's the husband of a 301 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:07,120 Speaker 1: woman the name of Jennifer Lowe. He used to work 302 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:10,399 Speaker 1: for Metro and she's kind of at the center of 303 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:13,320 Speaker 1: this allegation that she'll accue steered money to her good 304 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 1: friend Patty Higgins, who runs run a nonprofit called Peace 305 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 1: Over Violence that operated a Metro hot line that got well, 306 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:22,639 Speaker 1: it was eight thousand dollars a call, is what it 307 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:24,920 Speaker 1: turned out to be. The math nobody called the hot line. 308 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,440 Speaker 1: We got more coming up, John and can Cafie. Well, 309 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:30,200 Speaker 1: we don't officially have a news of the obvious desk, 310 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:33,119 Speaker 1: but if we did, we'd roll it out right now. 311 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,359 Speaker 1: You have heard of the rap w r AP? Is 312 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:38,679 Speaker 1: that like? Isn't that like a Hollywood movie kind of? 313 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 1: That's the Hollywood industry website news. They haven't exclusive this afternoon. 314 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:49,439 Speaker 1: What's that an exclusive, The California governor is undeniably, unequivocally 315 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:51,679 Speaker 1: planning to enter the race for the White House if 316 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:55,159 Speaker 1: Joe Biden doesn't run. Two individuals with knowledge of his 317 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 1: plans told the Rap do you want to hear the quotes? Yeah? 318 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 1: Oh wait, I thought he had sub zero interest in 319 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 1: running for president. That was just a couple of months ago, 320 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:10,440 Speaker 1: was correct? Was he lying? Well? Yeah, he was. That happens. 321 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:14,800 Speaker 1: Doesome lie? He was? I'm making a big allegation there, 322 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 1: He's got a character. I think he was lying. Here's 323 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: the quote. After this midterm election is over, he's absolutely 324 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 1: going to announce that he's running for the presidency once 325 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 1: Biden announced that he is not running. This is from 326 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 1: a California fundraiser with ties to the Newsom family. No name, though, 327 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 1: nos ans or butts he will run a Biden does not. 328 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 1: They added, And then we have a Los Angeles based 329 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:44,320 Speaker 1: philanthropist connected to the Democrat party who said the same thing. 330 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: He confirmed the intentions of Newsom to run if Biden 331 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:51,879 Speaker 1: does not, And we'll play the audio layer made news 332 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 1: Biden to a sixty minutes interview with that stiff robot, 333 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 1: Scott Pelley, who mister Perte drew. I can't stand listening 334 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 1: to his voice, my deep voice, Like, do you like 335 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,399 Speaker 1: all the testosterone I almost have in my testicles to 336 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 1: create this voice. I'm one of those people that you 337 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 1: think I'm saying something important, but you actually listen to 338 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 1: my words, it's complete jibbish. No, he's a classic media 339 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: pomp poon. It's a pompoon. Anyway. Biden said, we'll see, 340 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,959 Speaker 1: and we'll play that clip. I think next hour we'll 341 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,199 Speaker 1: go to we'll go to Bidenville and then like somebody 342 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 1: dropped and he began snoring because he did something else 343 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 1: they got people worked up. Biden said, oh, hold on, 344 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:36,679 Speaker 1: everybody to whatever you have nearby. The pandemic's over. This 345 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:40,320 Speaker 1: really woke up the progressive far left. How dare he 346 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,440 Speaker 1: say that people are still dying. He cannot say that 347 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 1: he woke up the wokes. I actually said, look around, 348 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:53,120 Speaker 1: No one's really were a mask to anymore. Yeah. Yeah, 349 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 1: because you told him they didn't have to. It's your fault. 350 00:21:56,320 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 1: You're killing people. So these clips as a contage. But 351 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,439 Speaker 1: one we got a lot of weird cults. That's one 352 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:07,440 Speaker 1: of the weirdest, the COVID mask wearing cult and they 353 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:09,920 Speaker 1: walk around angry and enraged all day that people. Did 354 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,200 Speaker 1: you see the Times headline this morning or yesterday? Wasn't 355 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 1: hundreds were still dying every day? How come this is 356 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,679 Speaker 1: not a crisis? Okay? I saw that almost that almost 357 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 1: exact same story in Atlantic magazine yesterday that I swear 358 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:25,960 Speaker 1: to God, I see these stories on a slow newsday, 359 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 1: and they all pop They all pop up in multiple 360 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 1: woke publications. They must they must be on a message 361 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 1: system with each other where they coordinate their the release 362 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: of the talking point of the day, the story of 363 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:43,160 Speaker 1: the day, and it was it was exactly the same, 364 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,199 Speaker 1: almost word for word. It's like hundreds are still dying. 365 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 1: People don't seem to care anymore. And then I notice 366 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,720 Speaker 1: in the story is like most of the people are 367 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 1: over eighty. Well, yeah, people over eighty are dying of 368 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,440 Speaker 1: all sorts of things every day. I was talking about 369 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 1: this with someone today and I said, I remember, long 370 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 1: before COVID, occasionally you'd hear about an elderly person who 371 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,640 Speaker 1: caught pneumonia and died, and I thought, how horrible, because 372 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:10,239 Speaker 1: a lot of people recover from a pneumonia. But then 373 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,199 Speaker 1: I realized, when you're really old and you have a 374 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:15,880 Speaker 1: lot of complicated underlying conditions. Something like pneumonia can take 375 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 1: your life. I mean, I hate to say it, but 376 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 1: COVID's kind of in the same category, and we live 377 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 1: with pneumonia. We're not shutting down the world because of pneumonia, 378 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,919 Speaker 1: are we? No? I mean, it's anither shots you can 379 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:28,919 Speaker 1: get like a vaccine to if you have it against 380 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 1: a form of pneumonia. When in your eighties, you can 381 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 1: have a week ind immune system. If you do, any 382 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:41,200 Speaker 1: invasion of a virus bacteria can kill you. That's that's 383 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:44,320 Speaker 1: the cycle of life here. You're very vulnerable when you're 384 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 1: old too, infections. That's that's you notice people generally don't 385 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 1: live much past one hundred years old. There's a reason 386 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: for that, because you have system failure. After a while, 387 00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:00,040 Speaker 1: everything goes dead inside. Yeah, the organs, the art in 388 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 1: the immune system, and you get some outside invader, well, 389 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 1: you know you're gonna have a tough time with it, 390 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 1: all right. We'll play the Biden clips after the news 391 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:13,480 Speaker 1: at four o'clock. Another story that wrapped up today is 392 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,439 Speaker 1: the story of good old Sherry Peppini with the greatest 393 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:20,520 Speaker 1: name ever. Hey Peppini, what are you doing. That's a 394 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:24,399 Speaker 1: woman from northern California faked her own kidnapping, right, that 395 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:28,920 Speaker 1: happens so long ago? Was it twenty sixteen? Yeah, she's 396 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:32,720 Speaker 1: like at least five years ago. Yeah. She was reported 397 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: missing November twenty sixteen, right near Thanksgiving. She was arrested though, 398 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 1: five years later for the hoax. Well, she reappeared three 399 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 1: weeks after Thanksgiving in twenty sixteen, about one hundred and 400 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:47,359 Speaker 1: forty five miles south of where she vanished. With the 401 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 1: injuries they do now believe, they say we're self inflicted. 402 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,639 Speaker 1: She told this story about two Latino women kidnapping her, 403 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,919 Speaker 1: right and eventually branding her Yeah, right, right, It was 404 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:03,440 Speaker 1: like preposterous. There's no recorded case of two women Latino 405 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:07,200 Speaker 1: or otherwise kidnapping another woman and branding her that he's 406 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 1: never got jogging, And apparently that's the story she told. Yeah, 407 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,399 Speaker 1: she's she's she's a mental patient. Well, she got eighteen 408 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: months in prison today. If you don't remember the rest 409 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 1: of the story. What she actually did was she fled 410 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:24,480 Speaker 1: to southern California and ended up with a former boyfriend 411 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 1: I think he lived in Orange County, Yeah, who eventually 412 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 1: admitted to helping her sort of injure herself. He was 413 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: shooting hockey pucks at her. Yes, and also he gave 414 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 1: her a hockey stick which she hit herself with. He said, 415 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,439 Speaker 1: I will not hit you or harm you, but he 416 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 1: did shoot the pucks at her. Boy, what a guy 417 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:52,440 Speaker 1: will do for an old girlfriend. He eventually dropped her 418 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,680 Speaker 1: off along the I five, about one hundred and fifty 419 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 1: miles from her home, after she just said, I want 420 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:01,040 Speaker 1: to go home. Remember me. I know she shows up 421 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,520 Speaker 1: at her She was considered like this model mother. I 422 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 1: think she just just she just freaked out over the 423 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: whole life she had and wanted some kind of escape. 424 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 1: That's what I think happened. Maybe she'll write a book someday, 425 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,439 Speaker 1: or maybe she'll do an interview with the you know, 426 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 1: one of the talk show people. I don't know, yeah, 427 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: I I don't know. I remember I remember reading some 428 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:26,719 Speaker 1: of her former friends said that she was always making 429 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,359 Speaker 1: things up, she always had these They called her the 430 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:33,399 Speaker 1: perfect mom, and I think that just fractured her because 431 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: everyone had wonderful things to say about her, that she 432 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:37,879 Speaker 1: was so caring and loving and took well kind of 433 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:40,199 Speaker 1: care of her kids. I wonder if that just broke her. 434 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,200 Speaker 1: I'm sure. I'm sure she was totally normal behind closed 435 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 1: doors with the hush. Well, that's the other thing, right, 436 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,680 Speaker 1: I'd love to hear his stories. Yeah. Well, it wasn't 437 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,840 Speaker 1: a husband on her side though mostly I don't know publicly, 438 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,440 Speaker 1: I think he left her though. Yeah. All the other 439 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:59,200 Speaker 1: their marriages over So she got eighteen months. She also 440 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 1: has to pay some restitution moneies. Imagine your your wife 441 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,359 Speaker 1: friend's off leafy with the kids, and she goes to 442 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 1: her old boyfriend to get hit with hockey pucks. Eventually, 443 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,679 Speaker 1: when she decided to go home, she had to come 444 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 1: up with something to make it look like she was 445 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 1: kidnapped that I don't know. This is a different, different 446 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 1: kind of case of the missing white woman, wasn't it. Yeah? 447 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 1: It was. We never really had one exactly like this, really, No, 448 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,920 Speaker 1: this one was worth covering. Yeah, because a lot of 449 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,679 Speaker 1: them only because they're they're they're pretty blonde. But this 450 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 1: one actually had some good stuff in it, good material. Yeah, 451 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,160 Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, I don't think we talked about 452 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,360 Speaker 1: it much when it happened, I don't remember. And then 453 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,080 Speaker 1: I think a couple of months later, while she was 454 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 1: still missing, we did and then suddenly she turns up, 455 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,160 Speaker 1: and I do remember within a day we were like, yeah, 456 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 1: something doesn't seem right here. Two Latino women. Yeah, yeah, right, sure, 457 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 1: they don't kidnap women, don't kidnap other women. This doesn't happen. 458 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:00,159 Speaker 1: I don't think they ever asked for any money, so 459 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:01,840 Speaker 1: what were they doing with it? No, that's another thing. 460 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 1: If you do kidnap somebody, if you're gonna, if you're 461 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:07,359 Speaker 1: gonna kidnap a crazy person, right, you want money, you 462 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,200 Speaker 1: want to return her, You don't want to keep her. 463 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 1: She's gonna make your shoot pucks at her all day. 464 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,880 Speaker 1: We got a more covered up John and can Cafi. 465 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 1: All right. We wouldn't normally play any clips from an 466 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 1: interview from sixty Minutes where the robot Scott Belly interviews Biden, 467 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,920 Speaker 1: but a few a few notables came from it. Number one, 468 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 1: Biden bits the pandemics over. Number two, we'll see if 469 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: I'll run for president again. And number three the student 470 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 1: home loan forgiveness thing, and probably can't do that. I 471 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: think that's good stuff. I want to hear this. That's 472 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: good stuff. Yeah, that that six hundred billion dollars thing. 473 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 1: I saw that probably illegal. Oh mind, you'll hear some 474 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 1: of these clips for yourself after the news at four 475 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 1: o'clock as we go into Bidenville. Well, it's official. Gavin 476 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 1: Newsom before where he left for New York City and 477 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 1: some sort of climate conference. That's where he is most 478 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 1: of this week did sign Assembly Bill three fifty one, 479 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:12,480 Speaker 1: which now allows us here in California when we die 480 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 1: to be composted. I'm looking forward to this. I think 481 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:20,840 Speaker 1: I'd want to be composted it. Why not? Well, I 482 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I'm thinking about it. I don't 483 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 1: know a whole lot about it. I bet de Wood, 484 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 1: Yes Wood, I think we talked about this and we 485 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 1: would help grow her a garden. John and I die first. 486 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,840 Speaker 1: She can take our compost remains and shock it in 487 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,239 Speaker 1: her garden. She can grow some of her tomatoes out 488 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 1: of us. Is that what she grows? I forget what 489 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:40,760 Speaker 1: she grows? Wait a second, I don't want any vegetables 490 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 1: grown out of me. That's right, I do remember back? 491 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: Yes you did, that's Right's right, there's your backtracking. There's 492 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 1: not going to be any vegetables grown out of me. 493 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 1: How about if we put yours in the field for 494 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,960 Speaker 1: the cattle. I don't know, to grow the Yeah, what's 495 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 1: it alfalfa that the cattle. Would that work for you? Um? Yeah, 496 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,960 Speaker 1: that's usually what they were talking about. Falpha cross. If 497 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:05,560 Speaker 1: my if my mulch would be used for feeding cattle, okay, 498 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:09,360 Speaker 1: that would be more you would allow it. Right now, 499 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 1: in the state, you can either be buried in the 500 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,040 Speaker 1: ground or cremated. So now you have a third choice 501 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 1: human composting. And this is how it works. You put. 502 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,479 Speaker 1: By the way, it's legal in Washington, Colorado, and Oregon. 503 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:27,200 Speaker 1: Weren't those estates with the marijuana first just happen to 504 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:31,760 Speaker 1: think of that, Yes, there they were. They're the experimental states. 505 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:36,360 Speaker 1: Well they're using California's first, right. You place the body 506 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:38,920 Speaker 1: in a reusable container. Of course has to be reusable, 507 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,400 Speaker 1: so somebody else's body was in there. What does that mean? Yeah, 508 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,600 Speaker 1: what does that mean? Reusable? You surrounded with wood chips. 509 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 1: Then you you air it out to let microbes and 510 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,960 Speaker 1: bacteria grow. I don't like that either. After about a month, 511 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,240 Speaker 1: the remains will decompose and be fully transformed into soil. 512 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,160 Speaker 1: Companies such as Recompose and Washington offer the service a 513 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 1: natural organic reduction facility. Well, there's a name a natural 514 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,640 Speaker 1: organic reduction facility. In other words, reduction. You're just gonna 515 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,760 Speaker 1: go down into Oh, I'm gonna oh, they're reducing me. 516 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 1: They're reduced, reducing to me, your body will be reduced 517 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,800 Speaker 1: to just a pile of dirt. Well, I guess essentially ashes, right, 518 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 1: and that what happens eventually to the most of the 519 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,800 Speaker 1: bus I don't know, after the possibly which ships mixed 520 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,480 Speaker 1: with the microbes in the bacteria. I mean, I mean 521 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:29,960 Speaker 1: that should make some mean some potting soil. Right, yes, right, 522 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 1: that's the idea if you grow a flower out of me. Maybe, So, 523 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,640 Speaker 1: you know, California, being the climate of where state it is, 524 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 1: realizing cremation. You burn fossil fuels, you have carbon monoxide emissions, 525 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 1: so you know, some were not too thrilled with the 526 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,000 Speaker 1: idea of cremation. I think that's kind of funny that 527 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,160 Speaker 1: I would get converted into a puff of carbon monoxide 528 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 1: if you were cremated. Right, Yes, people start coughing. It's like, 529 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: oh my god, it breathe. That was John. Apparently La 530 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 1: County had regulations on cremation emissions, but they suspended them 531 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:12,360 Speaker 1: during the coronavirus pandemic because too many people died at once. Really, yeah, 532 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 1: they had to. Oh so that was the impetus of 533 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 1: this bill. I guess who it's from, Christina Garcia, remember her, 534 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 1: the Democratic assemblywoman. This was her bill. Yes, she says, 535 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,880 Speaker 1: the threat of climate change motivated her her new law. 536 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:31,360 Speaker 1: It'll provide an additional option. The threat of climate change. Yes, 537 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,240 Speaker 1: with climate change and sea level rise is very threal threats. 538 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,680 Speaker 1: This is an alternative method of Oh, the term is 539 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:42,200 Speaker 1: final disposition. That'll that'll, that's what it is. People dying 540 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:47,840 Speaker 1: and getting cremated. That's what's heated up the planet. Now 541 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:51,560 Speaker 1: it gets tricky. Colorado's version of this law dictates that 542 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 1: the soil of multiple people cannot be combined without consent. Well, yeah, 543 00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:01,240 Speaker 1: can you imagine you put a bunch of bodies in 544 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,680 Speaker 1: a big box and a reusable container. I don't just 545 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,480 Speaker 1: I don't want to be mixed with other people. But 546 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,480 Speaker 1: that way you get more soil can you get from 547 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,960 Speaker 1: one body? Well, that's that's not my issue, is like 548 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,640 Speaker 1: I don't want to be mixed with somebody else's soil. Well, 549 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:18,280 Speaker 1: they might have monkey box. Now the California build bands 550 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,800 Speaker 1: that except if you're the same family. You wouldn't mind 551 00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,560 Speaker 1: being mixed with your wife and kids, right, I don't 552 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,560 Speaker 1: know if I really want to be mixed. Well, then 553 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:30,440 Speaker 1: you're connected for eternity and you can be in Debra's 554 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:34,960 Speaker 1: garden together. I'm sorry, you need to be in the 555 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,000 Speaker 1: alfalfa field grow food for cattle. It's right. I want 556 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 1: to be isolated. The process has met some opposition. Do 557 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:48,080 Speaker 1: you have any idea who is a big opponent of this? No, 558 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,640 Speaker 1: they oppose a lot of things. The Catholic Church. Oh well, 559 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:56,880 Speaker 1: it reduces the human body to simply a disposable commodity. Well, 560 00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:00,080 Speaker 1: that's what they've been selling for thousands of years, that 561 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,360 Speaker 1: our body set. They're the one who I remember the 562 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,840 Speaker 1: priest yelling about ashes to ashes, dust to dust, that 563 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:08,920 Speaker 1: they believe that the dust should be treated very specially. 564 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,719 Speaker 1: They're not crazy about cremation either, but I think they 565 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,160 Speaker 1: do allow. My parents were cremated, and my mother told 566 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,319 Speaker 1: me that it is now allowed. The whole thing is 567 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,879 Speaker 1: your soul rises up out of your body and goes 568 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:20,880 Speaker 1: to heaven or wherever the it's supposed to go. And 569 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:23,799 Speaker 1: that's the real deal, that that's what life is. Yeah, 570 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,799 Speaker 1: your body's just a container from wonderful. They would teach 571 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,880 Speaker 1: that that we're just a it's a temporary vessel that 572 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,400 Speaker 1: holds our soul for a short amount of time. We 573 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:36,759 Speaker 1: want to hear how the Catholic person described this. This 574 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:40,200 Speaker 1: essentially is the same process as home gardening composting system. 575 00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,279 Speaker 1: These methods of disposable used to lessen the possibility of 576 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,919 Speaker 1: disease being transmitted by the dead carcass Using these same 577 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,720 Speaker 1: methods for the transformation of you and remains can create 578 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:54,160 Speaker 1: an unfortunate spiritual, emotional, or psychological distancing from the deceased. 579 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:56,800 Speaker 1: So in other words, you're treating it. You're not treating 580 00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:58,800 Speaker 1: it like a special human being. You're treating it. That 581 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,799 Speaker 1: I understand because if you have a grave site and 582 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,880 Speaker 1: you know that your loved one's bones are down below, 583 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,440 Speaker 1: you can go visit and you feel like there's a 584 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,560 Speaker 1: cash today, right, and you know you get and you 585 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,560 Speaker 1: get the ashes in an urn. You can put that 586 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,480 Speaker 1: up on your shelf. Same thing. There's a presence. But 587 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:21,920 Speaker 1: if you're just compost well, then but for me, you 588 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,080 Speaker 1: could go to Debra's garden and just say hello to me. Yeah, 589 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,880 Speaker 1: but what what happened. I mean, they're somewhere helping you 590 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:31,880 Speaker 1: grow ven kind of talk to you. I don't know 591 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,319 Speaker 1: why I thought of that. You don't even say your 592 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,120 Speaker 1: wife decided to do this. You could go talk to 593 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,560 Speaker 1: her and then but yeah, but but dirt washes away 594 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:45,520 Speaker 1: over time, you end up getting dispersed. Yeah, you know 595 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:50,440 Speaker 1: that's it's just I think never existed. All right, We're 596 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,640 Speaker 1: going to Bidenville next, with some good clips from the 597 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,279 Speaker 1: Last Night Sixty Minutes interview. John and Ken show Mark 598 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,360 Speaker 1: Runner has the News caf I Am six forty