1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:09,399 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 2: So Michael Vari show is on the air. 3 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: What we've got here is failure, Milky. 4 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 3: Most of the people covering that campaign were not particularly 5 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 3: knowledgeable about the past, and didn't you know, may may 6 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 3: not have even known that. You know, America firsters pac 7 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:36,160 Speaker 3: Madison Square Garden in nineteen thirty nine and a pro 8 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 3: Nazi Germany rally. 9 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 4: You said over the weekend referring to it, there's a 10 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 4: direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the 11 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:45,880 Speaker 4: mid nineteen thirties, that Medison Square Garden. 12 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 2: So I know what I saw, and I'll just leave 13 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 2: it at that. 14 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:50,240 Speaker 1: Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist? 15 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 4: Yes? 16 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: I do, Yes, I do. 17 00:00:53,280 --> 00:01:00,120 Speaker 3: The races, sex, is homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, you name it. 18 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 5: The only garbage I see floating down there is his supporters, 19 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 5: his his his demonizational scene is unconscionable, and it's on American. 20 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 3: You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I 21 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 3: call the basket of deplorable. 22 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 5: Look at the thing with leading, look at the fear 23 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:24,040 Speaker 5: with look at the lives when leading the way we 24 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:26,320 Speaker 5: bow is done with ball. 25 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:30,119 Speaker 4: You know that's a little bit old. 26 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 2: That chart that charts a couple of months. 27 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 5: Old, and if you want to really see something that said, 28 00:01:35,600 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 5: take a look at what happened. We bleed the same blood, 29 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 5: we share the same home, and we salute the same 30 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 5: great American flag. 31 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:27,639 Speaker 4: We are one people, one family, and one. 32 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:29,920 Speaker 2: Glorious nation under God. 33 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:35,080 Speaker 5: So Jews and Muslims and Catholics and Evangelicals and Mormons, 34 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 5: and they're all joining our cores and large numbers, larger 35 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:44,079 Speaker 5: than anyone has ever seen in this country before, larger 36 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 5: than they've ever seen in any country. And the Republican 37 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 5: Party has really become the party of inclusion. And that's 38 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 5: something very nice about that. 39 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 4: Jimmy Kimmel's show has been yanked or an indefinite suspension. 40 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 4: The term fired was not used or ended as I 41 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,639 Speaker 4: understand it, but it seems to be widely understood that 42 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 4: that is in fact what's happening. I've seen situations like this, 43 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 4: Brian Williams, for instance, who had lied about a number 44 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 4: of things, and they took him off the air and 45 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 4: kept him off the air till the situation blew over 46 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 4: and brought him back and then he had more mistakes, 47 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 4: so they eventually took him off. 48 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 2: The air for good either way. 49 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 4: No tears for Jimmy Kimmel. He did and said some 50 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 4: awful things. This was one of those things. Clip number 51 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 4: twenty three, Romont. 52 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 6: He hit some new lows over the weekend with the 53 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 6: Maga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered 54 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 6: Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and 55 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 6: do everything they can to score political points from and 56 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 6: in between the finger pointing. 57 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 2: Wow. 58 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:31,039 Speaker 4: Thursday, September eleventh, the day after Charlie Kirk is assassinated. 59 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 4: In his monologue, he said, with all these terrible things happening, 60 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 4: you would think that our president would at least make 61 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:39,839 Speaker 4: an attempt to bring us together. 62 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 2: But he didn't. 63 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:44,720 Speaker 4: Now that's the Jimmy Kimmel who has never had anything 64 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 4: nice to say about Donald Trump, as if there was 65 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 4: going to be anything positive he would say about Donald 66 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 4: Trump no matter what happened. September the fifteenth, this past Monday, 67 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 4: in his monologue, the Maga Gang desperately trying to characterize 68 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:05,600 Speaker 4: this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than 69 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 4: one of them, and doing everything they can to score 70 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 4: political points from it. Tuesday, September sixteenth. Many in Magaland 71 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 4: are working very hard to capitalize on the murder of 72 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 4: Charlie Kirk. Wednesday September seventeenth, FCC chair warrens ABC and Disney, 73 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 4: suggesting he would take action over Kimmel's comments, and then 74 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 4: the same day, Wednesday, Disney's ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live 75 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 4: off the air indefinitely. Now what happened under the radar 76 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 4: in this situation is actually the free market forces. Two 77 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 4: different companies, Next Star and Sinclair were pressuring ABC they 78 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 4: didn't want this show anymore. They weren't going to air 79 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 4: it on their local affiliates. ABC doesn't own all of 80 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 4: their affiliates. You know, when these businesses are put together, 81 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:20,280 Speaker 4: what may later look like a robust, internal, top down 82 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 4: organization ends up being a patchwork of companies who are 83 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 4: airing the program that programming that ABC is putting out. 84 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:33,359 Speaker 4: In a statement, Nextstar said they will quote preempt Jimmy 85 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 4: Kimmel Live for the foreseeable future, beginning with tonight's show. 86 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 2: That was yesterday. 87 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:46,839 Speaker 4: Next Star was strongly objecting to the comments from Jimmy 88 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 4: Kimmel about the killing of Charlie Kirk. And they said 89 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:53,480 Speaker 4: they would replace the show with other programming in their 90 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 4: ABC affiliated markets. A separate company, Sinclair Broadcast Group, the 91 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 4: largest of ABC's affiliate groups, said that it also objected 92 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 4: to Kimmel's comments and said that it would quote not 93 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 4: lift the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live on our stations 94 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 4: until formal discussions are held with ABC regarding the network's 95 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 4: commitment to professionalism and accountability. They also called on Kimmel 96 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 4: to make a direct apology to the Kirk family and 97 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 4: for the network to make a meaningful donation to the 98 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 4: family and to Turning Point USA. They said in statement, quote, 99 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 4: regardless of ABC's plans for the future of the program, 100 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 4: Sinclair intends not to return Jimmy Kimmellive to our air 101 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 4: until we are confident that appropriate steps have been taken 102 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 4: to uphold the standards expected of a national broadcast platform. 103 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 2: The company also said that a tribute to. 104 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 4: Charlie Kirk will air on ABC stations in Kimmel's timeslot 105 00:07:51,560 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 4: on Friday. Jimmy Kimmel's worst crime, which started long before 106 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 4: all of this, is He's not funny. Media figures, comedians, singers, 107 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 4: late night hosts cannot violate that one rule. You can 108 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 4: get away with a lot if you are funny, if 109 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 4: you are compelling. 110 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 2: Just wasn't. He just wasn't, And that's part of why 111 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 2: he made stupid mistakes. My min How the Worm Turns. 112 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 4: February twentieth, twenty twenty three, Rolling Stone editorial headline, why 113 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 4: cancel culture is good for democracy? Okay, fast forward about 114 00:08:55,679 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 4: eighteen months September twelfth five, actually twenty four months. People 115 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 4: are losing their jobs for criticizing slain free speech end 116 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 4: quotes advocate Charlie Kirk. So we went from people losing 117 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 4: their jobs is really good for democracy to oh my god, 118 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:30,679 Speaker 4: people can't lose their jobs. It's all performative art. The 119 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:36,079 Speaker 4: sooner you learn that, the happier you'll be, the more 120 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:39,559 Speaker 4: you'll be able to tolerate the daily news. There is 121 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 4: there is no principle, There is no overarching moral compass. 122 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:51,839 Speaker 4: There is them versus us, and when you understand it, 123 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 4: that's all they care about. You can't plead with them, 124 00:09:55,640 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 4: you can't reason with them, you can't teach them. They're 125 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 4: who they are. You crush them, and that's all there 126 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 4: is to it. You don't try to. I'm amazed how 127 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 4: many people to this day, I'm amazed how many people. 128 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:18,079 Speaker 2: Hoado, Well, that's why I said. That's what they said. 129 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:18,439 Speaker 6: Hoado. 130 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what they's what they do. That's what they do. Okay, 131 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 2: how can they say this? 132 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 4: They say this because this is who they are, and 133 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 4: you've clearly still still not grasped that that's who they are. 134 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 2: Once you understand that that's who they are, then you 135 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 2: don't have to worry about it anymore. 136 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:47,199 Speaker 4: So Jimmy Kimmel off the air. I gotta tell you, 137 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 4: everybody's saying he was fired. The pressure here did not 138 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 4: come from the audience directly. This came from the two 139 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:01,200 Speaker 4: biggest affiliates, Next Star and Saint Clair, Sinclair being. 140 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:05,199 Speaker 2: The largest of ABC shows. And I know you know this, 141 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 2: but just so we're all on the same page. 142 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 4: ABC is the network. They are creating the content and 143 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 4: pushing the content out. 144 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 2: Now. 145 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 4: I don't know what the split is of ABC corporate 146 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 4: owned affiliates. So they would own let's say it's Houston, 147 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:32,320 Speaker 4: New Orleans, Baltimore, Seattle, they would own the local affiliate 148 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:38,560 Speaker 4: that would carry the content from the network. I don't 149 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 4: know if they own half a third ten percent, ninety percent, 150 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 4: but they own some number. And then you've got other 151 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:54,040 Speaker 4: companies that have stations that they own. And if you're wondering, well, 152 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 4: how is it that ABC doesn't own the local station. 153 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 4: The local station carries the syndication of the ABC Network 154 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:11,440 Speaker 4: content in their local market, but that's not all ABC content. 155 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:14,640 Speaker 4: They can choose local content. They can choose a local 156 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 4: community affairs show, and on their local news, the local 157 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 4: affiliate is going to choose their news team, and local 158 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:26,440 Speaker 4: news is a big cash cow for. 159 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:29,079 Speaker 2: Stations. 160 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:32,839 Speaker 4: So a good example would be Fox twenty six here. 161 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,199 Speaker 4: Fox twenty six is part of the Fox family. There 162 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 4: is a Fox Network which is separate from Fox News. 163 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 4: But I think many people in Houston are surprised that 164 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 4: Fox twenty six does not look more like Fox News channel, 165 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:52,959 Speaker 4: which you might watch in the evening and then you 166 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:58,319 Speaker 4: tune in to Fox twenty six here locally, which does 167 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 4: not in any way reflect that same overall thematic approach 168 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:10,319 Speaker 4: to the news and who is trusted and who isn't 169 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 4: in those sorts of things. 170 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 2: So next Star and. 171 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 4: Sinclair by choosing not to air Jimmy Kimmel, that would 172 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,439 Speaker 4: be a knife in the heart of his show financially 173 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 4: because ABC has sold that show on a national basis 174 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:37,199 Speaker 4: and the advertisers are going to get a proof of performance. 175 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:43,679 Speaker 4: So you're supposed to have so many thousand eyeballs watching 176 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:49,199 Speaker 4: the program. When the two largest affiliate groups, well the 177 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 4: largest affiliate group and another large affiliate group say we're 178 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 4: not going to air the show, the presumption is going 179 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 4: to be if the show is not on, no matter 180 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:04,319 Speaker 4: how small the audience, that audience is there for Jimmy Kimmel, 181 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 4: which means that the value of the ads is reduced dramatically. 182 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 4: And when that happens, then it starts costing you a 183 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 4: lot of money. Colbert was let go from CBS. Of course, 184 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 4: Netflix in sort of a you know, sad gesture gave 185 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 4: him a show immediately. I don't know what happens to 186 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 4: Jimmy kimmelre I don't just because I don't like someone 187 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 4: doesn't mean I think they're not talented. He's not talented, 188 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 4: he's not good, he doesn't have the chops. I mean, 189 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 4: I can just imagine what this is going to look 190 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 4: like in ten years. 191 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a very special night here 192 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 1: at the Lions Club. Bingo of ball Road. We have 193 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: somewhat of a celebrity bingo call it this evening. You 194 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 1: may remember him for his late I showed before it 195 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 1: got canceled into his pure stupidity. Ladies and gentlemen, please 196 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 1: put your hands together. Mister Jimmy Kimmel. 197 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 6: Be nineteen. 198 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 2: How about that Donald Trump? More like Donald Dump? 199 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 6: Am I right? 200 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 4: This guy's still going with the Trump jokes. It's like 201 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 4: it's his own le shtick. 202 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 6: What does Donald Trump say when he can't find his biactar? 203 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:25,480 Speaker 6: The erection is written Carrol sixty two. 204 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 2: Hey, where's he go? It looks like he's leaving. 205 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: This is whoopee Now, Jimmy, for the last time, I 206 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 1: told you the view doesn't do men, now stop calling me. 207 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 4: The information that I get from the show that I 208 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 4: don't seem to get from other places, the Michael Barry Show. Well, 209 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 4: it had been a while since there had been a 210 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 4: Houston Police Department line of duty death, but that changed overnight. 211 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 4: Senior police Officer Alex ros while assigned to the Traffic 212 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 4: Enforcement Division Solo Motorcycle Detail, died in the line of 213 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 4: duty last night. He was only eighty Sorry, he was 214 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 4: only forty five years old, survived by his wife, Miss 215 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 4: Angie Roberts. He joined Houston Police Department in twenty ten. 216 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:22,560 Speaker 4: It was a fifteen year veteran in the HPD Academy 217 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 4: Class two nine. He had previously been assigned to the 218 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 4: Midwest and the Special Operations Division. I am trying to 219 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 4: get better local response from what happened. He was working 220 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 4: at traffic detail. But as I understand it, and this 221 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 4: is very preliminary, two young ladies in the car plowed 222 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 4: into him. They were coming from an event. If I 223 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:56,160 Speaker 4: were to guess, and I don't know, I am just guessing, 224 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 4: but if I were to guess, we're going to find 225 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 4: out that they were texting, which is unfortunate. I see 226 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 4: people driving along in their car will sort of drift 227 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 4: into the lane beside them, and one will hog oh, 228 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:18,359 Speaker 4: and they go back to. 229 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 2: There because they've got to write. 230 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:28,159 Speaker 4: F rof MLA or lol or whatever it is that 231 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:31,600 Speaker 4: they are so determined that they need to communicate while 232 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 4: operating a massive piece of steel. 233 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 2: At high rates of speed. 234 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 4: Boy, you talk about the inability to assess risk, and 235 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 4: oftentimes these are not teenagers, they're adults, and you know 236 00:17:55,200 --> 00:18:00,880 Speaker 4: that is such a risky behavior. But if they were 237 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:07,680 Speaker 4: to crash and harm themselves, I would simply say, well, 238 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:11,479 Speaker 4: I'm not happy anybody was harmed, but you're an idiot. 239 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 4: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. There's no way you 240 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 4: did not understand if you stopped and thought about it 241 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 4: for just a moment, In no way you did not 242 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 4: understand that what you were doing was inherently, insanely difficult. 243 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 4: It's when other people get hurt that it bothers me, 244 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:43,119 Speaker 4: because the other person was very likely mindful of what 245 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 4: was going on but unable to do anything about it. 246 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:52,560 Speaker 4: It was in Anderson County where Robertson was working on 247 00:18:53,040 --> 00:19:01,480 Speaker 4: a traffic enforcement project and he was plowed into four 248 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 4: twenty pm in Anderson County. Most unfortunate, Most unfortunate. Rodney 249 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 4: Ellis's blessing for Harris County Judge is now up in 250 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:24,120 Speaker 4: the air. Sheila Jackson Lee's daughter, Erica Lee Carter, put 251 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 4: out a statement saying she will not run for Harris 252 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:32,200 Speaker 4: County Judge. She had previously said that she would run 253 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 4: if Lena didn't seek re election. Everybody in Rodney Ellis. 254 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 2: World knows. 255 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:45,639 Speaker 4: That what that was doing was trying to prevent her 256 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 4: being resented by Lena's folks, because Lena was handed to 257 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:55,520 Speaker 4: you by Rodney, handed to them by Rodney. And Rodney 258 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 4: had withdrawn his support from Lena quietly. 259 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,680 Speaker 2: But you could see it publicly and how it was playing. 260 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:03,760 Speaker 4: Out, and she was having a meltdown and his petulant 261 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 4: child things she was doing, and she's I think she's 262 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:10,639 Speaker 4: offered meds. I think she's offered meds very very badly. 263 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:16,240 Speaker 4: And and it to to consequence that you've you've seen, 264 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 4: and it's. 265 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:18,720 Speaker 2: Quite unpleasant to watch. 266 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 4: And so once that had clearly been conveyed to her 267 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 4: and she hadn't made an announcement, Sheila Jackson Lee's daughter 268 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:36,920 Speaker 4: made the announcement, well, I would run, but only if 269 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:43,639 Speaker 4: Lena doesn't. It was important to add that because they 270 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 4: didn't want whoever might be loyal to Lena to think 271 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:53,760 Speaker 4: that Erica, Sheila Jackson Lee's daughter, had forced Lena out 272 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:57,439 Speaker 4: of the race, but to be clear, she had forced 273 00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 4: Lena out of the race. Lena understood that Rodney would 274 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 4: not let Sheila Jackson Lee's daughter in the race. He 275 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:10,359 Speaker 4: controls all of this. Rodney would not let Sheila's daughter 276 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:15,320 Speaker 4: in the race if he wanted Erica Lee Carter to win. 277 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 4: So the fact that she was saying this publicly meant 278 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 4: that not only had he now withdrawn support from Lena, 279 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 4: but he was staging a candidate to run against her. 280 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:29,920 Speaker 4: So this was no longer her decision to make, and 281 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,920 Speaker 4: to the extent this word could be mentioned in the 282 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:36,399 Speaker 4: sentence with her and I know that's a stretch. There 283 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:38,640 Speaker 4: was no graceful exit. 284 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 2: From this thing at this point. 285 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,240 Speaker 4: It was simply a faded company and she knew it, 286 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 4: and that was embarrassing because she's never been in charge 287 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 4: of her office, her career, or her own life, at 288 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:58,119 Speaker 4: least not since she's been in public life since twenty eighteen. 289 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 4: Before that, she is a mess, but privately so. So 290 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 4: there was a lot of drama over this because now 291 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:12,200 Speaker 4: Lena was humiliated and that was leading to a sort 292 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 4: of a jilted lover edge if you noticed the way 293 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,359 Speaker 4: she's been carrying on. There's a lot going on behind 294 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:24,440 Speaker 4: the scenes with Lena on a number of fronts, but 295 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 4: the biggest of which is she's walking into County Commissioner's 296 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 4: Court and Adrian and Leslie Briona. She doesn't care as 297 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 4: much about Tom Ramsey In fact, I think she in 298 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:38,679 Speaker 4: some odd way has a grudging respect for him because 299 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 4: he's the lone Republican on the Commissioner's Court, and he's 300 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:47,680 Speaker 4: at least an independent voice, and he is doing what 301 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 4: he campaigned to do. But with Adrian and Leslie Brionees, 302 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 4: they were all in this together. It was those two 303 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:01,639 Speaker 4: who can't. Leslie Brionis was placed there by Rodney's best friend, 304 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:05,440 Speaker 4: Richard Cohen, who's the former publisher of the Houston Chronicle, 305 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 4: and then went to Arnold Venture's and he and Rodney 306 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,720 Speaker 4: Ellis ride bikes every week and they plot and they 307 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 4: run the county. And that's and his wife, you'll remember, 308 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 4: was Lena's lawyer. So this is all a very incestuous, 309 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:28,160 Speaker 4: little inbred, small town uh mafioso ring that Rodney Ellis 310 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 4: is operating the promotion of Sheila's daughter publicly to make 311 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,880 Speaker 4: the press statement but only if Sheila. 312 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 2: Is out was a push pull move. 313 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 4: It was designed to look like, well, I would never 314 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:52,920 Speaker 4: run against Lena, because of course Lina's done such a 315 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 4: great job. 316 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 2: But the push was now people. 317 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 4: That wanted Sheila's daughter were supposed to call on Lena 318 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:03,000 Speaker 4: to step down, and it left her without the opportunity 319 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 4: to make her own decision for her future, and it's 320 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:12,399 Speaker 4: left her humiliated and unhinged. Houston based strip club group 321 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 4: RCI Hospitality Holdings accused in scheme to avoid paying taxes 322 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:26,960 Speaker 4: in New York by bribing tax auditor with lap dances 323 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 4: and trips to various strip clubs. Five executives of RCI 324 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,920 Speaker 4: Hospitality Holdings are accused of sending a New York state 325 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 4: auditor on at. 326 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 2: Least thirteen free trips to Florida. 327 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 4: Lavishing him with lap dances in Miami, in an effort 328 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 4: to avoid paying millions in taxes. Prosecutors say the chief executive, 329 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 4: chief financial officer and three colleagues provided the trips to clubs, hotels, 330 00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:02,119 Speaker 4: and restaurants in Florida and New York to bribe the 331 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,880 Speaker 4: official of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance. 332 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,400 Speaker 4: Their scheme was laid out in text messages and emails. 333 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:10,879 Speaker 2: In exchange for the. 334 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 4: Favors, RCI settled audits for less than it owde in total, 335 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,160 Speaker 4: avoiding eight million dollars in taxes. 336 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,440 Speaker 2: The sixty six page. 337 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:22,119 Speaker 4: Indictment Filden State Supreme Court in Manhattan charged six men, 338 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:27,200 Speaker 4: five executives and the auditor, and three RCI owned strip 339 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:31,000 Speaker 4: clubs in Manhattan with seventy nine crimes between twenty ten 340 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 4: and twenty twenty four. The clubs are Hoops Cabaret and 341 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 4: Sports Bar, Rix Cabaret in New York and Vivid Cabaret 342 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 4: Vivid Core. Doesn't that just sound like the stupid kind 343 00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 4: of name people would come up with for a. 344 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,960 Speaker 2: It sneezes sound elegant? How about Vivid? 345 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:08,159 Speaker 1: What it is? 346 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 2: It is Vivid? Oh, Vivid? 347 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 4: That's yeah, that sounds elegant because it is a gentleman's club. 348 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:20,160 Speaker 2: It's for the gentlemen. 349 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 4: Over the years, the indictment said, the executives falsified business 350 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 4: records to conceal the bribes, recording cash payments to the 351 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:39,159 Speaker 4: auditor as promotional expenses for the clubs. The company is 352 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 4: based in Houston and has a portfolio that includes subsidiaries 353 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 4: that own and operate more than sixty night clubs and 354 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:52,160 Speaker 4: sports bar restaurants. According to its website, the company's shares 355 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 4: have lost about half their value this year, and its 356 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,639 Speaker 4: market capitalization was about two hundred and fifty one million 357 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:01,080 Speaker 4: dollars on Tuesday. You know they are public comp which 358 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 4: is hilarious. The executives arraigned on Tuesday were Eric Langan, 359 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:12,680 Speaker 4: the chief executive, Bradney Shay at c hh Ay the 360 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 4: chief financial officer, Ahmed Anukar, Anukar, the director of operations, 361 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 4: Sean Kevlyn, a regional manager for Rick's New York City 362 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,480 Speaker 4: strip clubs and later its assistant director of nightclub operations, 363 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:33,640 Speaker 4: and Timothy Winata rcia's controller and accountant. As of Tuesday, 364 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 4: the auditor had not been arraigned and his name was 365 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:40,720 Speaker 4: not publicly released, and a Securities and Exchange Commission filing 366 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 4: last month, the company disclosed that in May of twenty 367 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,240 Speaker 4: twenty four search warrants were executed at its Houston headquarters, 368 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,159 Speaker 4: in the three Manhattan clubs, and on the phones of 369 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 4: two executives and another employee. According to the Attorney General's Office, 370 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 4: the defendants openly discussed using trips to their clubs to 371 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 4: win over the auditor. How does that first conversation go right? 372 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:10,520 Speaker 4: Because if it goes badly, it can cause you even 373 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:16,480 Speaker 4: more problems. How does that first conversation goes Does somebody 374 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:21,520 Speaker 4: with RIX say no, I understand y'all, y'all, I mean 375 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 4: y'all think we owe nine million dollars. I'd love for 376 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:27,440 Speaker 4: you to go to one of the clubs and see 377 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 4: for yourself how great it is I mean our expense, 378 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 4: and then you wait, or or is it a more 379 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 4: cryptic hint, we work something out. I mean, here you 380 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 4: are busting your ass for the state of New York 381 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 4: and they're just gonna waste the money. I mean, have 382 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:49,080 Speaker 4: you ever been to one of our clubs? 383 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 2: You gotta check it out? Or does the auditor? Does 384 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 2: he broach the subject. 385 00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 4: Because you got to figure when he first, when you first, 386 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 4: Whoever first lays it out there has to do it 387 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 4: in incremental steps such that if the other person says, 388 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 4: what in the hell, they can go what what I'm 389 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:19,960 Speaker 4: not suggesting it, I'm just somebody. One of the two 390 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,800 Speaker 4: of them had to lay that on the table, and 391 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 4: then the other one says, I would absolutely do that, 392 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 4: and the first one says he's serious. Well, yeah, if 393 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,719 Speaker 4: you're serious. I mean I was joking around, but I mean, 394 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,200 Speaker 4: if that's if that's something that you're you're we couldn't 395 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 4: tell anybody. We couldn't tell anybody would. 396 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:44,720 Speaker 2: Have to It would have to be uh Ramon just 397 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:45,240 Speaker 2: brought me. 398 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 4: A note which says I didn't realize it was a 399 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:59,000 Speaker 4: publicly traded company. Upon investigation, I found other strip joints 400 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 4: Moan Depot, Breast Western, and Chick fill Lay. Shee your 401 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 4: way woman, she had a side. 402 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:49,640 Speaker 2: Beside Breast Western. You're proud of that. You wrote that thought. Boy, 403 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:53,440 Speaker 2: that's clever. I'll bring that in there. That's really clever. 404 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 4: That's some of my better word breast Western. 405 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:28,880 Speaker 2: So what's going through this auditor? I'm sorry, we're gonna 406 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 2: pull it together. 407 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 4: What's going through this auditor's mind. 408 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 2: When he's getting dressed to go to the strip club? Yep? 409 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:40,840 Speaker 2: You know a lot of people are like, oh, you're 410 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:45,719 Speaker 2: just a lowly auditor. You're nobody. You're Willy Lowman, You're nothing. 411 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 4: This is like Glen Garry, Glenn Ross and I'm Jack Lemon. 412 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:55,600 Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, who's got the last laugh? Yep? Yeah, 413 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 2: how about this? 414 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 4: Marty Goldstein High school valedictorian said I'd never amount to anybody. Yeah, 415 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:07,000 Speaker 4: you ought to show up to the Breast Western and 416 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,720 Speaker 4: see how the ladies treat me. Oh yeah, yeah, see 417 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:11,880 Speaker 4: how I turned out. 418 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 2: I'm somebody