1 00:00:15,086 --> 00:00:15,486 Speaker 1: Pushkin. 2 00:00:18,956 --> 00:00:22,016 Speaker 2: Hey everyone, it's Dana Goodyear, coming into your feed with 3 00:00:22,056 --> 00:00:25,376 Speaker 2: some exciting updates to share with you. Here's the first update. 4 00:00:25,796 --> 00:00:29,036 Speaker 2: It's a big one. Lost Hills is coming back this 5 00:00:29,076 --> 00:00:32,296 Speaker 2: summer with a brand new season. It's a story that's 6 00:00:32,356 --> 00:00:35,406 Speaker 2: taking us deep into the dark heart of Malibu in 7 00:00:35,426 --> 00:00:38,046 Speaker 2: a totally different way than previous seasons. I have a 8 00:00:38,066 --> 00:00:40,386 Speaker 2: short teaser for you in a few minutes. Stick around. 9 00:00:41,726 --> 00:00:45,116 Speaker 2: Update number two. This is about Lost Hills season one. 10 00:00:45,856 --> 00:00:49,116 Speaker 2: Anthony Rauta, the alleged Canyon shooter who's charged with murdering 11 00:00:49,136 --> 00:00:52,846 Speaker 2: Tristan Beaudet, is finally, after more than four years, going 12 00:00:52,886 --> 00:00:56,206 Speaker 2: to trial. In case you don't remember, Tristan Beaudet was 13 00:00:56,226 --> 00:00:58,386 Speaker 2: the father who was shot in the head while camping 14 00:00:58,426 --> 00:01:02,786 Speaker 2: with his young daughters in Malibu Creek State Park in 2018. 15 00:01:02,786 --> 00:01:05,846 Speaker 2: Rauta's accused of killing him, along with 10 more counts 16 00:01:05,886 --> 00:01:09,636 Speaker 2: of attempted murder and a handful of lesser crimes. Rada 17 00:01:09,656 --> 00:01:13,516 Speaker 2: was charged in January 2019, and now his trial is 18 00:01:13,536 --> 00:01:15,756 Speaker 2: scheduled to begin this spring. We're going to bring you 19 00:01:15,796 --> 00:01:19,506 Speaker 2: more updates as the trial gets underway. And here's one 20 00:01:19,546 --> 00:01:22,906 Speaker 2: more thing, a recommendation for a very good new podcast. 21 00:01:23,266 --> 00:01:26,946 Speaker 2: It's called Alphabet Boys. Alphabet Boys is a riveting new 22 00:01:27,006 --> 00:01:34,046 Speaker 2: show that takes you deep undercover with the alphabet agencies, CIA, FBI, ATF, DEA, etc. 23 00:01:35,216 --> 00:01:38,556 Speaker 2: You essentially ride along with agents and informants via secret 24 00:01:38,596 --> 00:01:41,756 Speaker 2: recordings and leaked documents. And what you find is that 25 00:01:41,796 --> 00:01:45,196 Speaker 2: for every James Bond slash Jason Bourne, there is a 26 00:01:45,236 --> 00:01:49,046 Speaker 2: very heavy dose of Reno 911. It's a great show. 27 00:01:49,726 --> 00:01:53,206 Speaker 2: Season one of Alphabet Boys is called Trojan Hearse. You'll 28 00:01:53,246 --> 00:01:55,926 Speaker 2: hear why in the first episode. It tells the story 29 00:01:55,966 --> 00:01:58,786 Speaker 2: of a man named Mickey Windecker, who the FBI hired 30 00:01:58,826 --> 00:02:01,426 Speaker 2: to infiltrate the Black Lives Matter movement during the summer 31 00:02:01,506 --> 00:02:05,086 Speaker 2: of 2020. It's a wild story. You're going to love it. 32 00:02:05,686 --> 00:02:08,636 Speaker 2: Here's a short excerpt from Alphabet Boys, and then stick 33 00:02:08,656 --> 00:02:11,356 Speaker 2: around afterwards for that teaser for Lost Hills Season 3. 34 00:02:11,336 --> 00:02:27,046 Speaker 3: Okay, it is August 28, 2020 at approximately 4.02 p.m. 35 00:02:28,266 --> 00:02:33,556 Speaker 3: Special Agent Scott Dahlstrom with Special Agent Byron Mitchell. CHS 36 00:02:33,756 --> 00:02:36,176 Speaker 3: for meet with Zebedias Hall. 37 00:02:37,896 --> 00:02:38,196 Speaker 1: Thank you. 38 00:02:39,516 --> 00:02:40,436 Speaker 3: You can hear this, so I put it in my 39 00:02:40,456 --> 00:02:41,196 Speaker 3: front pocket, right? 40 00:02:41,236 --> 00:02:41,956 Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, got it. 41 00:02:44,336 --> 00:02:46,826 Speaker 4: It's late afternoon on a warm day in Denver, Colorado. 42 00:02:47,426 --> 00:02:51,786 Speaker 4: It's drizzling outside, and Michael Adam Windecker II, or Mickey, 43 00:02:52,246 --> 00:02:54,946 Speaker 4: as he prefers, is sitting in the back seat of 44 00:02:54,986 --> 00:02:59,106 Speaker 4: an FBI car. Two federal agents are with him, and 45 00:02:59,186 --> 00:03:02,926 Speaker 4: one of them, FBI Special Agent Scott Dahlstrom, has just 46 00:03:02,946 --> 00:03:06,926 Speaker 4: handed Mickey a small hidden camera. Mickey turns the camera 47 00:03:06,966 --> 00:03:10,286 Speaker 4: to his face, shooting from an unflattering angle below his chin. 48 00:03:11,186 --> 00:03:13,746 Speaker 4: You can see Mickey's thin red mustache and scraggly goatee 49 00:03:13,766 --> 00:03:17,236 Speaker 4: that's turning gray. He's propped his large sunglasses on his forehead, 50 00:03:17,736 --> 00:03:19,876 Speaker 4: and he's looking straight down into the tiny camera lens. 51 00:03:20,976 --> 00:03:23,376 Speaker 4: Mickey is not ready for his close-up. 52 00:03:24,296 --> 00:03:24,856 Speaker 3: Video look good? 53 00:03:25,216 --> 00:03:25,336 Speaker 5: Yep. 54 00:03:26,876 --> 00:03:30,276 Speaker 4: All right, see you guys shortly. The FBI agents tell 55 00:03:30,296 --> 00:03:32,776 Speaker 4: him to remember his instructions. which were given to him 56 00:03:32,856 --> 00:03:34,176 Speaker 4: before the camera started recording. 57 00:03:35,376 --> 00:03:36,116 Speaker 2: Yep, I got it. 58 00:03:36,796 --> 00:03:37,296 Speaker 1: Thanks, Mom. 59 00:03:37,336 --> 00:03:44,336 Speaker 4: Thanks, Dad. Mickey then walks to his car, the Silver Hearse, 60 00:03:45,036 --> 00:03:57,796 Speaker 4: and places the FBI's camera on the passenger seat. Mickey 61 00:03:57,816 --> 00:04:00,486 Speaker 4: looks down toward the camera and addresses the FBI agents. 62 00:04:01,076 --> 00:04:02,376 Speaker 4: who are watching the live feed remotely. 63 00:04:05,586 --> 00:04:13,066 Speaker 3: I got a song for you guys. 64 00:04:23,196 --> 00:04:25,476 Speaker 4: Mickey has good reason to feel patriotic in this moment. 65 00:04:26,116 --> 00:04:28,556 Speaker 4: The FBI has signed him up as an informant, or, 66 00:04:29,096 --> 00:04:32,176 Speaker 4: in the FBI's term of art, a confidential human source. 67 00:04:32,996 --> 00:04:36,656 Speaker 4: And Mickey's getting paid thousands of dollars every few weeks. 68 00:04:37,496 --> 00:04:37,876 Speaker 1: Cash. 69 00:04:39,056 --> 00:04:41,686 Speaker 4: And Mickey, he's got a very specific assignment from his 70 00:04:41,726 --> 00:04:45,266 Speaker 4: employers at the FBI. Go after his new friend, the 71 00:04:45,286 --> 00:04:48,306 Speaker 4: young black activist Zeb Hall, and find a way to 72 00:04:48,346 --> 00:04:52,406 Speaker 4: bring federal charges against him. As the song ends, Mickey 73 00:04:52,466 --> 00:04:54,086 Speaker 4: again looks down toward the FBI camera. 74 00:04:56,616 --> 00:04:57,176 Speaker 3: America. 75 00:04:59,296 --> 00:05:02,076 Speaker 4: I'm Trevor Aronson. This is Alphabet Voice. 76 00:05:02,166 --> 00:05:04,806 Speaker 3: So to come right out and say. 77 00:05:04,706 --> 00:05:32,816 Speaker 4: It, Mickey Windecker wasn't a badass Antifa warrior after all, 78 00:05:33,336 --> 00:05:36,456 Speaker 4: as activists like Zeb Hall had thought. He was an informant, 79 00:05:37,156 --> 00:05:41,396 Speaker 4: a snitch, working for the FBI. Which seems to go 80 00:05:41,436 --> 00:05:45,236 Speaker 4: against everything Mickey claims to be, right? Remember his little 81 00:05:45,276 --> 00:05:48,316 Speaker 4: life rule? I have an old biker saying, which is called, 82 00:05:48,396 --> 00:05:49,436 Speaker 4: fuck the three Ps. 83 00:05:50,096 --> 00:05:53,156 Speaker 3: The politicians, the press, and the police. 84 00:05:53,956 --> 00:05:54,716 Speaker 2: It's just the way it is. 85 00:05:55,496 --> 00:05:56,436 Speaker 4: Fuck the three Ps. 86 00:05:57,136 --> 00:05:57,396 Speaker 1: Yeah. 87 00:05:58,336 --> 00:06:03,556 Speaker 4: Turns out, That's bullshit. Fuck the 2Ps, maybe. Because this 88 00:06:03,596 --> 00:06:06,896 Speaker 4: Mickey guy, he's in bed with the police. And the 89 00:06:06,916 --> 00:06:12,906 Speaker 4: cops are not only helping him, they're paying him. Today, 90 00:06:13,066 --> 00:06:17,326 Speaker 4: the FBI has more than 15,000 registered informants. And in 91 00:06:17,366 --> 00:06:22,106 Speaker 4: the summer of 2020, Mickey is one of them. That 92 00:06:22,166 --> 00:06:24,886 Speaker 4: conversation you heard in the last episode, when Mickey and 93 00:06:24,926 --> 00:06:28,586 Speaker 4: Zeb were talking about training at Zeb's apartment? Mickey on 94 00:06:28,606 --> 00:06:31,866 Speaker 4: his own initiative, had secretly recorded the whole thing and 95 00:06:31,906 --> 00:06:34,406 Speaker 4: delivered it to the FBI, apparently in the hopes of 96 00:06:34,446 --> 00:06:35,786 Speaker 4: getting hired on as an informant. 97 00:06:37,446 --> 00:06:39,486 Speaker 3: I need your help in doing this stuff. Obviously, we're 98 00:06:39,506 --> 00:06:40,946 Speaker 3: going to have a fight. 99 00:06:42,026 --> 00:06:42,926 Speaker 5: Well, here's the thing. 100 00:06:44,926 --> 00:06:46,906 Speaker 3: You have, and that's where I'm coming around to, is 101 00:06:47,546 --> 00:06:49,696 Speaker 3: you have to decide where and what you're going to do. 102 00:06:49,706 --> 00:06:51,646 Speaker 2: You know, I can't sit here and tell you, oh, yeah, 103 00:06:51,666 --> 00:06:52,046 Speaker 2: you should. 104 00:06:51,926 --> 00:06:56,006 Speaker 1: Totally, like, blow up rich neighborhoods and shoot the white 105 00:06:56,066 --> 00:06:57,466 Speaker 1: people and burn the federal courthouse. 106 00:06:58,016 --> 00:07:02,126 Speaker 4: This recording ended up being Mickey's audition tape for the FBI. 107 00:07:03,306 --> 00:07:06,886 Speaker 4: The official explanation for how Mickey Windecker became an informant 108 00:07:07,466 --> 00:07:12,006 Speaker 4: can be found in FBI reports, internal investigation reports focused 109 00:07:12,066 --> 00:07:16,286 Speaker 4: on racial justice demonstrators in Denver. These reports aren't public, 110 00:07:17,166 --> 00:07:19,426 Speaker 4: and the FBI didn't intend to have them out there. 111 00:07:20,206 --> 00:07:24,306 Speaker 4: Maybe not ever. They were provided to me along with 112 00:07:24,366 --> 00:07:28,676 Speaker 4: Mickey's undercover recordings, by someone who is deeply concerned about 113 00:07:28,696 --> 00:07:33,886 Speaker 4: the FBI's surveillance and infiltration of Black activist groups. According 114 00:07:33,906 --> 00:07:36,826 Speaker 4: to the FBI's reports, Mickey had returned to Denver after 115 00:07:36,866 --> 00:07:39,846 Speaker 4: being a volunteer fighter with the Peshmerga, the Kurdish military 116 00:07:39,886 --> 00:07:43,126 Speaker 4: force in Iraq that was fighting the Islamic State, or ISIS. 117 00:07:44,186 --> 00:07:47,196 Speaker 4: Mickey told the FBI, and I'm quoting here from the report, 118 00:07:47,956 --> 00:07:50,616 Speaker 4: that he found a sense of purpose and honor there 119 00:07:51,056 --> 00:07:53,196 Speaker 4: and made an oath to always fight against threats both 120 00:07:53,256 --> 00:07:54,016 Speaker 4: foreign and domestic. 121 00:07:57,226 --> 00:08:01,526 Speaker 5: War with ISIS. Kurdish troops in a frontline battle with 122 00:08:01,586 --> 00:08:03,306 Speaker 5: an enemy that took their land. 123 00:08:04,186 --> 00:08:06,686 Speaker 4: Mickey was among dozens of Americans who volunteered to fight 124 00:08:06,706 --> 00:08:07,446 Speaker 4: for the Peshmerga. 125 00:08:08,066 --> 00:08:12,246 Speaker 5: With them, a half-dozen Americans, veterans of the war in Iraq, 126 00:08:12,716 --> 00:08:13,956 Speaker 5: back as volunteers. 127 00:08:15,176 --> 00:08:18,356 Speaker 4: Once back in Denver, Mickey started participating in the protests 128 00:08:18,396 --> 00:08:22,156 Speaker 4: following George Floyd's death. And he saw what was, in 129 00:08:22,196 --> 00:08:28,576 Speaker 4: his view, a new domestic threat. Mickey said he witnessed 130 00:08:28,616 --> 00:08:32,776 Speaker 4: protesters damaging property and threatening violence. So Mickey started providing 131 00:08:32,816 --> 00:08:36,756 Speaker 4: information to police in the Denver area. Local police there 132 00:08:36,896 --> 00:08:39,636 Speaker 4: then introduced him to the FBI as part of something 133 00:08:39,676 --> 00:08:42,526 Speaker 4: known as the Joint Terrorism Task Force, which is a 134 00:08:42,566 --> 00:08:46,686 Speaker 4: partnership between local cops and the FBI. Every major metropolitan 135 00:08:46,706 --> 00:08:49,186 Speaker 4: region in the United States has a Joint Terrorism Task Force, 136 00:08:49,666 --> 00:08:55,136 Speaker 4: or JTTF. Mickey's motivation for being an informant was, and again, 137 00:08:55,256 --> 00:08:58,806 Speaker 4: I'm quoting from an internal FBI report, to fight terrorists, 138 00:08:59,506 --> 00:09:03,446 Speaker 4: and Mickey believed that, quote, people who participate in violent 139 00:09:03,486 --> 00:09:07,946 Speaker 4: civil unrest are terrorists. So Mickey, the big bad ISIS 140 00:09:07,966 --> 00:09:10,866 Speaker 4: hunter just back from Iraq, now has a new target, 141 00:09:11,806 --> 00:09:17,616 Speaker 4: racial justice protesters whom he considers terrorists. But for him, 142 00:09:18,016 --> 00:09:23,016 Speaker 4: there appears to be an even deeper psychological impulse. Mickey 143 00:09:23,076 --> 00:09:27,666 Speaker 4: saw himself as an antihero. someone who operates in the 144 00:09:27,736 --> 00:09:32,636 Speaker 4: gray areas of the law, delivering his own brand of justice. 145 00:09:34,316 --> 00:09:36,916 Speaker 4: Mickey wore a chain around his neck, and hanging from 146 00:09:36,956 --> 00:09:41,426 Speaker 4: that chain was a medallion of the logo for the Punisher, 147 00:09:42,746 --> 00:09:46,306 Speaker 4: a vigilante from the Marvel Comics universe who fights crime 148 00:09:47,146 --> 00:09:49,926 Speaker 4: with an obscene level of violence. 149 00:09:51,166 --> 00:09:54,716 Speaker 5: He literally thought he was the Punisher. Anything you see. 150 00:09:55,186 --> 00:09:57,386 Speaker 4: The Punisher logo was on it. And he would always 151 00:09:57,436 --> 00:10:00,276 Speaker 4: wear the Punisher necklace. Even when he took a shower 152 00:10:00,376 --> 00:10:04,006 Speaker 4: or a bath. It never came off. Just like a 153 00:10:04,016 --> 00:10:05,826 Speaker 4: big kid. In the worst way. 154 00:10:06,686 --> 00:10:08,866 Speaker 1: In the worst way. It's awful. 155 00:10:10,716 --> 00:10:13,586 Speaker 4: This is Trojan Hearse. Season 1 of Alphabet Boys. 156 00:10:18,746 --> 00:10:21,836 Speaker 2: Alphabet Boys is a fantastic new show for my production partner, 157 00:10:21,896 --> 00:10:25,416 Speaker 2: Western Sound. It really is one of the funniest, wildest, 158 00:10:25,656 --> 00:10:30,166 Speaker 2: also scariest shows you'll ever hear. Again, it's Alphabet Boys. 159 00:10:30,626 --> 00:10:33,586 Speaker 2: Just search up Alphabet Boys, click on the red cover 160 00:10:33,666 --> 00:10:38,236 Speaker 2: art with the gray FBI hearse. Okay, and now, Lost 161 00:10:38,276 --> 00:10:43,386 Speaker 2: Hills Season 3. Malibu is the birthplace of California surf culture, 162 00:10:43,956 --> 00:10:46,996 Speaker 2: and there's one man who ruled the beach, one man 163 00:10:47,036 --> 00:10:49,676 Speaker 2: who struck fear into the other surfers and wanted to 164 00:10:49,816 --> 00:10:52,396 Speaker 2: fuck the world in the way only he knew how. 165 00:10:54,036 --> 00:10:58,626 Speaker 1: We were laying on the beach, and everybody's attention was 166 00:10:58,746 --> 00:11:01,706 Speaker 1: to the water, and there seemed to be somebody performing 167 00:11:01,866 --> 00:11:05,166 Speaker 1: out there. He was pushing all the boys off their boards, 168 00:11:05,286 --> 00:11:09,756 Speaker 1: jumping on their board and riding it in. He was 169 00:11:09,866 --> 00:11:14,506 Speaker 1: king of Malibu at the time. I wasn't really into surfing, 170 00:11:14,626 --> 00:11:17,586 Speaker 1: but he was amazing. He was a god in the water. 171 00:11:17,606 --> 00:11:20,086 Speaker 1: There was no doubt about it. And he had the 172 00:11:20,146 --> 00:11:25,336 Speaker 1: attention of absolutely everybody on the beach. You know, his 173 00:11:25,366 --> 00:11:29,116 Speaker 1: big thing to put on his board was FTW. In 174 00:11:29,156 --> 00:11:35,276 Speaker 1: those days, FTW meant fuck the world. Question authority. Those 175 00:11:35,296 --> 00:11:38,456 Speaker 1: were the lessons he kept trying to teach me, you know. 176 00:11:39,586 --> 00:11:40,486 Speaker 1: Trust no one. 177 00:11:42,946 --> 00:11:48,406 Speaker 2: Season 3 of Lost Hills, The Dark Prince, is coming 178 00:11:48,486 --> 00:11:48,946 Speaker 2: this summer.