Speaker 1: Pushkin. Hey everyone, it's Dana Goodyear, coming into your feed
Speaker 1: with some exciting updates to share with you. Here's the
Speaker 1: first update. It's a big one. Lost Hills is coming
Speaker 1: back this summer with a brand new season. It's a
Speaker 1: story that's taking us deep into the dark heart of
Speaker 1: Malibu in a totally different way than previous seasons. I
Speaker 1: have a short teaser for you in a few minutes.
Speaker 1: Stick around Update number two. This is about Lost Hills
Speaker 1: season one. Anthony Rowta, the alleged canyon shooter who's charged
Speaker 1: with murdering Tristan Boudet, is finally, after more than four years,
Speaker 1: going to trial. In case you don't remember, Tristan Boudett
Speaker 1: was the father who was shot in the head while
Speaker 1: camping with his young daughters in Malibu Creek State Park
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. Route is accused of killing him, along
Speaker 1: with ten more counts of attempted murder and a handful
Speaker 1: of lesser crimes. Rata was charged in January twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: and now his trial is scheduled to begin this spring.
Speaker 1: We're going to bring you more updates as the trial
Speaker 1: gets underway. And here's one more thing. A recommendation for
Speaker 1: a very good new podcast. It's called Alphabet Boys. Alphabet
Speaker 1: Boys is a riveting new show that takes you deep
Speaker 1: undercover with the alphabet agencies CIA, FBI, at f d, EA,
Speaker 1: et cetera. You essentially ride along with agents and informants
Speaker 1: via secret recordings and leaked documents. And what you find
Speaker 1: is that for every James Bond slash Jason Bourne, there's
Speaker 1: a very heavy dose of Reno nine one one. It's
Speaker 1: a great show. Season one of Alphabet Boys is called Trojan.
Speaker 1: Hearse You'll hear why. In the first episode, it tells
Speaker 1: the story of a man named Mickey Windecker, who the
Speaker 1: FBI hired to infiltrate the Black Lives Matter movement during
Speaker 1: the summer of twenty twenty. It's a wild story. You're
Speaker 1: gonna love it. Here's a short excerpt from Alphabet Boys,
Speaker 1: and then stick around after words for that teaser for
Speaker 1: Lost Hill season three. All right, okay, It is August
Speaker 1: August twenty eight, twenty twenty Apart from only four o
Speaker 1: two pm. A Special Agent Scott Dlphroom with a Special
Speaker 1: Agent Byron Mitchell chs for Meat with Zebidias Hall. Thank you.
Speaker 1: You can hear this shot I put in my front pocket, right, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I got it. It's late afternoon on a warm day
Speaker 1: in Denver, Colorado. It's drizzling outside, and Michael Adam Windecker
Speaker 1: the Second, or Mickey as he prefers, is sitting in
Speaker 1: the backseat of an FBI car. Two federal agents are
Speaker 1: with him, and one of them, FBI Special Agent Scott Dolshroom,
Speaker 1: has just handed Mickey a small hidden camera. Mickey turns
Speaker 1: the camera to his face, shooting from an unflattering angle
Speaker 1: below his chin. You can see Mickey's thin red mustache
Speaker 1: and scraggly goatee that's turning gray. He's propped his large
Speaker 1: sunglasses on his forehead, and he's looking straight down into
Speaker 1: the tiny camera lens. Mickey is not ready for us
Speaker 1: close up video. Look good, ye all right. The FBI
Speaker 1: agents tell him to remember his instructions, which were given
Speaker 1: to him before the camera started recording. Yep, I got it,
Speaker 1: Thanks Mom, Thanks Dad. Mickey then walks to his car,
Speaker 1: the Silver Hearse, and places the FBI's camera on the
Speaker 1: pass in your seat. Mickey looks down toward the camera
Speaker 1: and addresses the FBI agents who are watching the live
Speaker 1: feed remotely. I got a song for you, guys. Mickey
Speaker 1: has good reason to feel patriotic in this moment. The
Speaker 1: FBI has signed him up as an informant, or in
Speaker 1: the FBI's term of art, a confidential human source, and
Speaker 1: Mickey's getting paid thousands of dollars every few weeks cash
Speaker 1: and Mickey, he's got a very specific assignment from his
Speaker 1: employers at the FBI, go after his new friend, the
Speaker 1: young black activist zeb Hal, and find a way to
Speaker 1: bring federal charges against him. As the song ends, Mickey
Speaker 1: again looks down toward the FBI camera America. I'm Trevor Aaronson.
Speaker 1: This is alphabet voice. So to come right out and
Speaker 1: say it, Mickey Windecker wasn't a badass ANTIFA warrior after all,
Speaker 1: as activists like zeb Hall had thought. He was an informant,
Speaker 1: a snitch working for the FBI, which seems to go
Speaker 1: against everything Mickey claims to be right. Remember his little
Speaker 1: life rule. I have an old biker saying which is
Speaker 1: called fuck the three piece, the politicians, the press, and
Speaker 1: the police. It's just the way it is. Fuck the
Speaker 1: three peas. Yeah, turns out that's bullshit. Fuck the two peas.
Speaker 1: Maybe because this Mickey guy, he's in bed with the police,
Speaker 1: and the cops are not only helping him, they're paying him. Today,
Speaker 1: the FBI has more than fifteen thousand registered informants, and
Speaker 1: in the summer of twenty twenty, Mickey is one of them.
Speaker 1: That conversation you heard in the last episode when Mickey
Speaker 1: and Zeb we're talking about training at Zeb's apartment, Mickey,
Speaker 1: on his own initiative, had secretly recorded the whole thing
Speaker 1: and delivered it to the FBI, apparently in the hopes
Speaker 1: of getting hired on as an informant. I need your
Speaker 1: help in doing this, but also need alone find Well,
Speaker 1: here's the day do you have and that's where from
Speaker 1: a route to is you have to decide where what
Speaker 1: you're going to do? You know, I can't see her
Speaker 1: tell you, Oh yeah, you should totally like blow up
Speaker 1: rich neighborhoods to shoot the white people and burn the
Speaker 1: federal courthouse. This recording ended up being Mickey's audition tape
Speaker 1: for the FBI. The official explanation for how Mickey Windecker
Speaker 1: became an informant can be found in FBI reports. Internal
Speaker 1: investigation reports focused on racial justice demonstrators in Denver. These
Speaker 1: reports aren't public, and the FBI didn't intend to have
Speaker 1: them out there. Maybe not. Ever, they were provided to me,
Speaker 1: along with Mickey's undercover recordings, by someone who was deeply
Speaker 1: concerned about the FBI surveillance an infiltration of black activist groups.
Speaker 1: According to the FBI's reports, Mickey had returned to Denver
Speaker 1: after being a volunteer fighter with the Peshmerga, the Kurdish
Speaker 1: military force in Iraq that was fighting the Islamic State
Speaker 1: or ISIS. Mickey told the FBI, and I'm quoting here
Speaker 1: from the report, that he found a sense of purpose
Speaker 1: and honor there and made an oath to always fight
Speaker 1: against threats, both foreign and domestic. War with ISIS Kurdish
Speaker 1: troops in a frontline battle with an enemy that took
Speaker 1: their land. Mickey was among dozens of Americans who volunteered
Speaker 1: to fight for the Peshmurga. With them, dozen Americans veterans
Speaker 1: of the war in Iraq, back his volunteers. Once back
Speaker 1: in Denver, Mickey started participating in the protests following George
Speaker 1: Floyd's death, and he saw what was, in his view,
Speaker 1: a new domestic threat. Mickey said he witnessed protesters damaging
Speaker 1: property and threatening violence. So Mickey started providing information to
Speaker 1: police in the Denver area. Local police there then introduced
Speaker 1: him to the FBI as part of something known as
Speaker 1: the Joint Terrorism Task Force, which is a partnership between
Speaker 1: local cops and the FBI. Every major metropolitan region of
Speaker 1: the United States has a Joint Terrorism Task Force or JTTF.
Speaker 1: Mickey's motivation for being an informant was and again I'm
Speaker 1: quoting from an internal FBI report, to fight terrorists, and
Speaker 1: Mickey believed that quote people who participate in violent civil
Speaker 1: unrest are terrorists. So Mickey, the Big Bad isis Hunter
Speaker 1: just back from Iraq, now has a new target, racial
Speaker 1: justice protesters, whom he considers terrorists. But for him, there
Speaker 1: appears to be an even deeper psychological impulse. Mickey saw
Speaker 1: himself as an anti hero, someone who operates in the
Speaker 1: gray areas of the law, delivering his own brand of justice.
Speaker 1: Mickey wore a chain around his neck, and hanging from
Speaker 1: that chain was a medallion of the logo for the Punisher,
Speaker 1: a vigilante from the Marvel Comics universe who fights crime
Speaker 1: with an obscene level of violence. He literally thought he
Speaker 1: was the punisher. Anything you see, the Punisher was on it.
Speaker 1: And he would always wear the punisher necklace even when
Speaker 1: he took a shower or a bath. Never came off,
Speaker 1: just like a big kid in the worsh way, in
Speaker 1: the worst way awful. This is Trojan Hearse Season one
Speaker 1: of Alphabet Boys. Alphabet Boys is a fantastic news show
Speaker 1: for my production partner, Western Sound. It really is one
Speaker 1: of the funniest, wildest, also scariest shows you'll ever hear
Speaker 1: again It's Alphabet Boys. Just search up Alphabet Boys click
Speaker 1: on the red cover art with the gray FBI Hearse Okay,
Speaker 1: and now Lost Hills season three. Malibu is the birthplace
Speaker 1: of California's surf culture and there's one man who ruled
Speaker 1: the beach, one man who struck fear into the other
Speaker 1: surfers and wanted to fuck the world in the way
Speaker 1: only he knew how. We're laying on the beach and
Speaker 1: everybody was attention was to the water and there seemed
Speaker 1: to be somebody performing out there. He was pushing all
Speaker 1: the boys off their boards, jumping on their board and riding.
Speaker 1: In the end, he was king of Malibu at the time.
Speaker 1: I wasn't really a surfing but he was amazing. He
Speaker 1: was a god in the water, there was no doubt
Speaker 1: about it, and he had the attention of absolutely everybody
Speaker 1: on the beach. You know, his big thing to put
Speaker 1: on his board was FTW. In those days, FGW mant
Speaker 1: fucked the world, question authority. Those are the lessons he
Speaker 1: kept trying to teach me. You know, trust No. One.
Speaker 1: Season three of Lostells, The Dark Prince, It's coming this summer.