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Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to another show of this. You know what

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Speaker 1: we do on this show is sometimes connect dots. We're

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Speaker 1: very good, actually, don't. We actually have our own committee,

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Speaker 1: the Dot Connecting Committee, which kind of puts together things

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Speaker 1: to lead people to reasons why things are the way

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Speaker 1: they are. And the one thing we're looking at here

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Speaker 1: in California is rising crime.

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Speaker 2: We know that, and a lot.

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Speaker 1: Of attention is paid to people like the La County

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Speaker 1: District Attorney George Gascon, which is fine. He deserves the attention.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, we have a story on him

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Speaker 1: coming up later on the show that'll really burn you.

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Speaker 1: He broke new ground with this one. He did break

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Speaker 1: the ground with this one. But there were other reasons

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Speaker 1: why there's rising crime. And we go back to the

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Speaker 1: year twenty eleven. They had a bill on the table

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Speaker 1: as simply Bill one nine. I remember talking to Chuck Devoor,

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Speaker 1: the former state politician who now lives in Texas. He

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Speaker 1: left us for a different life. He didn't die, but

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Speaker 1: he well, I said, left us for Texas. I didn't

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Speaker 1: say he died, So, oh, you.

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Speaker 2: Paused, but thanks for clarifying. Well you paused.

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Speaker 1: You said he left us, and there was his pause.

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Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, I said, he left us

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Speaker 1: for Texas. Go back and play the tape. That's exactly

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Speaker 1: what I said. In one Well I did, okay, you

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Speaker 1: just wanted to have your joke about him.

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Speaker 2: Not yes, I wanted to have my joke. Somebody showed

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Speaker 2: up with that, and I knew you were going to

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Speaker 2: do that, so I purposely phrased it.

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Speaker 1: He left us for Texas in one sentence, So I

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Speaker 1: had to cut you off. Sometimes you're a diversion, Yes

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Speaker 1: I am. You're taking us down at exit.

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Speaker 2: You succeeded, though. Anyway, he pointed this out.

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Speaker 1: He came on our show back then and he talked

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Speaker 1: about AD one O nine and the prison population had

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Speaker 1: The activists, the anti prison people were filing lawsuits left

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Speaker 1: and right that the conditions in prison were abysmal, a

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Speaker 1: mental health, treatment, health services, on and on and on

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Speaker 2: A sympathetic judge.

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Speaker 1: So he entered the picture and made a mess of things.

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Speaker 1: Jerry Brown was the governor and.

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Speaker 2: What the result of this was, let's.

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Speaker 1: Find a way to empty the prisons. And that's what

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Speaker 1: they've done for the last ten years. In fact, Assembly

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Speaker 1: Bill one oh nine turned out to be the one

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Speaker 1: that was called the prisoner Dumping Bill.

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Speaker 2: This was the first's.

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Speaker 1: Eleven years of this now of where they started to

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Speaker 1: cut back the prison population and they found new ways

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Speaker 1: trick with AB one oh nine.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't about releasing prisoners.

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Speaker 1: It was about, well, if they do get released and

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Speaker 1: they're on parole, find a way to keep them locally.

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Speaker 1: Put them in your county jail. If you have to

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Speaker 1: do anything, don't send them back to us. In fact, famously,

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Speaker 1: Jerry Brown complained to the district attorney out in San

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Speaker 2: I don't like this. What are you doing with the courts?

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Speaker 1: So from there we moved into things like Proposition forty

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Speaker 1: nauseam here on the show, which brings us to today's

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Speaker 1: story and another dot. State officials announced they'll begin closing

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Speaker 1: another prison, Chuckwalla Valley State Prison and Riverside County. They're

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Speaker 1: planning cutbacks at six more prisons, including a women's prison,

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Speaker 1: in Sacramento County. But when you scroll down in the story,

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Speaker 1: to why we are having such a problem with crime,

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Speaker 1: and that's because they have reduced the prison population so low.

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Speaker 1: These people are out there amongst us committing crimes because

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Speaker 1: that's what they do, and we had a system that

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Speaker 2: Strikes and other laws.

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Speaker 1: State prisons last week held about ninety four thousand people,

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Speaker 2: There's sixty six thousand criminals on the streets that wouldn't

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Speaker 1: It shows you how the media covers things. The only

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Speaker 1: local economies. The city of Susanville sued to block Newsom's

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Speaker 1: plan to close the Lasson County Prison. There's nothing about

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's just not covered at all. That's about the

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Speaker 2: only employer in Susanville, like a small place like the

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Speaker 1: I'm not for quote, as it says in the story,

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Speaker 1: protecting jobs in the community, but it's.

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Speaker 2: More about California safety.

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Speaker 1: That's why I called this a dot, and this is

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Speaker 1: the big dot because it explains a lot. When you

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Speaker 1: can't say that hasn't contributed to higher crime rates because

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Speaker 1: they don't want these folks returned to prison after they

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Speaker 1: commit crimes. And that's all they do in Sacramento. They

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Speaker 1: reject bill after bill that.

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Speaker 2: Could result in people being in prison. So tell me this.

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Speaker 2: This is almost like some weird Darwinism here. Why are

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Speaker 2: people voting for politicians who make it more likely that

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Speaker 2: elect politicians who care more and are more sympathetic to

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Speaker 2: prisoners than you, because that's what everybody's done. There's a

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Speaker 2: critical mass. There's two thirds majorities in the Assembly and

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Speaker 2: the state Senate, and you have democratic governors for many

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Speaker 2: years now, and they've been pushing these policies for over

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Speaker 2: a decade. Why do you vote for them? Now we're

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Speaker 2: down sixty six thousand prisoners. Anybody think that's a good thing.

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Speaker 2: Does anybody think if we ten years ago we said, hey,

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Speaker 2: would you like a world with sixty six thousand prisoners

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Speaker 2: out early? Who raises their head and said, yeah.

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Speaker 1: It's not like our state's population plummeted. So I always said,

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Speaker 1: and I'll say it again. This crowd that thinks that

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Speaker 1: too many prisoners per population. There's no such things that

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Speaker 1: you don't know. If you can control crime, then you

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Speaker 1: don't have as many prisoners. But if you don't control crime,

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Speaker 1: you're going to have more prisoners. But now we're in

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Speaker 1: that bizarre world is we're not controlling crime and we

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Speaker 2: That's the worst of all possible. The overcrowded prison issue

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Speaker 2: is a fake issue, because I remember Chuck Devoor coming

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Speaker 2: on our show ten years ago and he said they

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Speaker 2: had a bill to spend billions of dollars to build

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Speaker 2: new prisons or that was maybe one or nine, which.

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Speaker 1: They gutted and they made they turned it into the

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Speaker 2: So you know, if the first thing you would do

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Speaker 2: there's plenty of room that that's not an issue, that's

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Speaker 2: a fake issue. But all the progressives in the media

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Speaker 2: never ever raised that end. It was all about overcrowding,

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Speaker 2: civil rights being violated, blah blah blah. And I swear

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Speaker 2: I think the whole thing was coordinated because because you

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Speaker 2: had these activists, they shopped around for the right judge.

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Speaker 2: The legislature needed a judge's decision to justify what they

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Speaker 2: this decision, and here's what we can do as a legislator,

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Speaker 2: as a legislative body. And it's all preordained. These aren't

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Speaker 2: this isn't happenstance. It's like, oh my god, look what

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Speaker 2: happened next. No, this was the plan and it worked.

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Speaker 2: They know what they're doing. Look at the timeline of this.

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Speaker 1: It was a horrible time in the eighties and nineties

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Speaker 1: with crime in California.

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Speaker 2: Gangs are out of control.

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Speaker 1: Three strikes passed in nineteen ninety three and from there

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Speaker 1: for the next almost ten years, it's a pretty good run.

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Speaker 1: Politicians would come out and talk about the lower crime rates.

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Speaker 1: But beginning in twenty eleven, they started to dismantle this

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Speaker 1: there were too many prisoners in the prisons, And now

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Speaker 1: we're ten years forward from that and you were starting

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Speaker 1: to see the effects. Everything takes time. I mean, it

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Speaker 1: took a while for us to reduce the crime with

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: It's weird. Life was better ten years ago. It was.

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Speaker 2: Everyone will say that life was certainly I have a

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Speaker 2: homeless and crime front. Well, ye, when you weren't it,

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Speaker 2: when you weren't constantly looking over your shoulder, you could

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Speaker 2: what kind of car they take. I know people who

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Speaker 2: don't take their nice car out, and they don't wear jewelry,

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Speaker 2: on the next door app sharing crime stories. Burglaries here,

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Speaker 2: breakings over there. We've got ring video, we've got dash

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Speaker 2: And this didn't exist ten years ago, So every it

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Speaker 2: makes everybody even more unhappy, more paranoid, rightfully paranoid and unhappy.

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Speaker 2: These crimes are really happening. And you created this situation

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Speaker 2: because you elected people who closed down the prisons and

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Speaker 2: got rid of a lot of the charges, a lot

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Speaker 2: of the criminal charges. Just don't people let out.

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Speaker 1: They're reduced or they're kicked, and you got a DA

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Speaker 1: now that doesn't like any enhancements.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's no jail time for misdemeanors. Felonies became misdemeanors.

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Speaker 2: All the shoplifting isn't even isn't even prosecuted anymore. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Walmart said the other day it's going to be closing

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Speaker 2: the stories around the country in the cities where the

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Speaker 2: crime is out of control and the shoplifting is costing them.

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Speaker 2: I heard today retail theft costs companies one hundred billion

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Speaker 2: dollars in twenty twenty one. One hundred billion. That is

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Speaker 2: staggering amount of money being stolen. And so the companies

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Speaker 2: the same time, we're just going to close up. Go

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Speaker 2: on Amazon, we're out of here.

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Speaker 1: Also when this story Newsom wants to shut down the

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Speaker 1: use of any private prisons. That's what they did back

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Speaker 1: then when they ran out of prison space and refused

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Speaker 1: to build more prisons, they actually contracted out with private prisons.

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Speaker 1: He wants to get rid of all those two So

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Speaker 1: that figure I gave you, which is a low number

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Speaker 1: of prisoners today, would would be even higher if we

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Speaker 1: actually had private prisons. But he's not using them anymore.

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Speaker 1: That's another thing that's gone. So and one more note

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Speaker 1: talked about these groups that were responsible for going to

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Speaker 1: judges and trying to get to the prisoners released or

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Speaker 1: not having anybody sent to prison. Here's one with a

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Speaker 1: name that is wonderful, Californias United for a Responsible Budget.

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Speaker 1: It's described in the Sacramento be as a prison closure

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Speaker 1: to help students make up with some of the learning loss.

437
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Speaker 1: Two days during winter break they would go into school

438
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Speaker 1: and sit in a classroom and perhaps learn something. This

439
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:27,359
Speaker 1: is their big plan two days hi. And the funny

440
00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:30,640
Speaker 1: part is only one in nine students have signed up,

441
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:33,879
Speaker 1: so it's a failure on both ends. It was a

442
00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,320
Speaker 1: dumb plan to begin with, and now it has no participation.

443
00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,000
Speaker 2: Because it comes at the end of the semester when

444
00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:44,359
Speaker 2: everyone's looking forward to the winter break and you have

445
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Speaker 2: to go to school for two more days, and you're

446
00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:48,600
Speaker 2: being told this is going to make up for sixteen

447
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:49,200
Speaker 2: months that.

448
00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,840
Speaker 1: You missed two days, and you wouldn't have your own teacher. See,

449
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 1: not all the teachers are going to participate. You might

450
00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,000
Speaker 1: have to go to a different school to get That's

451
00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,960
Speaker 1: why some parents subjected. They didn't know what this was about,

452
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:01,960
Speaker 1: whether or not this would be worth anything, so they

453
00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 1: didn't respond with a yes, we'll do it.

454
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Speaker 2: Administrators for the LAUSD, it's a special kind of moron.

455
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,719
Speaker 2: I know they've all got titles coming out of their

456
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,679
Speaker 2: rear ends, and they've got degrees coming out of their

457
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,719
Speaker 2: rear ends, but they when they actually put some idea

458
00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:22,520
Speaker 2: into practice, it is comically bad. It's like, Okay, we're

459
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 2: gonna make up for sixteen months of no school because

460
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 2: the teachers refused to work and everybody was panicking, and

461
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:32,440
Speaker 2: we're gonna give you two days the week before Christmas.

462
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Speaker 2: Who wants to come? Well, oh, nobody wants to come.

463
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:37,840
Speaker 2: Almost literally, nobody wants to come.

464
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Speaker 1: Guess who was behind that stupidity, not just the superintendent

465
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Speaker 1: and the rest of the administrators.

466
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Speaker 2: The union did this.

467
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Speaker 1: They had a plan originally to put the extra learning

468
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Speaker 1: days on Wednesdays, but the school year would have been

469
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 1: four days longer. The Teachers' Union threatened to go to court, saying,

470
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Speaker 1: this is a change in working conditions. We want to

471
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Speaker 1: sit down and negotiate what you're doing a freaking four

472
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Speaker 1: extra days so maybe help a student or two with

473
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Speaker 1: learning loss, and United Teachers Los Angeles said no, we

474
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Speaker 1: got to go to the bargaining.

475
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Speaker 2: Table over this.

476
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Speaker 1: This is too much of a change in working conditions.

477
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Speaker 1: You see what we're dealing with.

478
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 2: They're they're they're cruel, selfish fanatics. There are sports to

479
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,320
Speaker 2: our idiots. Oh they are they are this this teacher's

480
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:25,240
Speaker 2: union is absolutely horrible. They're horrible people. They don't care

481
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 2: about your kid, honestly, And I know it's so hard

482
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,320
Speaker 2: for poor families because you don't have another option. You

483
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,640
Speaker 2: don't have nowhere to go, you have no money to take,

484
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,200
Speaker 2: no money I have go anywhere. It's just it's starting

485
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,080
Speaker 2: to high a tutor. You have no money. It is

486
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 2: the most and it's almost all minority kids. It is

487
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 2: the most racist, pob What is more racist than than

488
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:48,920
Speaker 2: forcing all these minority children into this terrible substandard education

489
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:53,600
Speaker 2: that that that everybody else, the middle class, white students,

490
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 2: Asian students don't have to deal with. I mean you,

491
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Speaker 2: this is just it's just's torturous what they're doing to

492
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Speaker 2: these kids.

493
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Speaker 1: They forced this administrators to negotiate with the union. They

494
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,639
Speaker 1: came up with this stupid two day plan during the

495
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 1: Christmas pres Oh and then they're.

496
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,359
Speaker 2: Gonna act like martyrs, right, Oh, we're getting up two

497
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,919
Speaker 2: days of our Christmas vacation for you because.

498
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Speaker 1: Well the teachers are participating, which is the other problem

499
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Speaker 1: that they can only get a certain percentage of.

500
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Speaker 2: Them to come and do that because they don't have to.

501
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,239
Speaker 1: But now the enrollment is so low, barely anybody has

502
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,439
Speaker 1: to do this because most of the parents opted not

503
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Speaker 1: to send their kids for these extra two days. It's

504
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 1: it's all a complete mess, and it shows you.

505
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 2: It's another dot.

506
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Speaker 1: As I said, why the schools and the education in

507
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,320
Speaker 1: so Cal, particularly La Unified, is abysmal.

508
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 2: Right, and so now we've been talking about this for

509
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 2: a long time. You know how many how many adults

510
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:47,400
Speaker 2: are wandering around who are completely uneducated, forget to forget college.

511
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:51,640
Speaker 2: They they they have no math skills and no reading skills.

512
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 2: They're basically illiterate when it comes to reading, and they're

513
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 2: math illiterate. They can't even count. I know they can't count.

514
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:04,160
Speaker 2: Why the counting out change at the stores. It's shocking

515
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 2: how many people can't count and can't read.

516
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Speaker 1: All Right, we got more coming up, John and Ken

517
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty Live everywhere the iHeartRadio acc Coming

518
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 1: up after three o'clock. We'll be talking to Blake Trolley

519
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,400
Speaker 1: from KFI News about this story involving a middle school

520
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,719
Speaker 1: in the Korea Town neighborhood of la which is plagued

521
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:21,920
Speaker 1: by a homeless encampment.

522
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 2: Right next door. You should see the photo of man.

523
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 2: Just an endless line of tents blocking the sidewalk. The

524
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:33,119
Speaker 2: kids can't even walk to school. How come the children

525
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,120
Speaker 2: don't have any allies in this city? They aren't the teachers'

526
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,440
Speaker 2: union beside them. They don't have the police, they don't

527
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,879
Speaker 2: have the politicians, They don't have anybody on their side.

528
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 2: This is extremely dangerous. Everybody's on the side of the

529
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Speaker 2: homeless and the criminals. Can you imagine the kree times

530
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 2: they're both inside these tents and what they're doing. You

531
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 2: imagine all the DV and acts going on in these tents.

532
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,200
Speaker 2: I would rather not thank you for bringing that up.

533
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 2: Are the kids walking out in traffic? How do you

534
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 2: get to school? I mean it is a solid line

535
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 2: of tents from from the right to the left the

536
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 2: entire block you how do you walk to school?

537
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,119
Speaker 1: City passed an ordnance last summer, but you can't be

538
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:13,199
Speaker 1: that close to a school.

539
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 2: So how come nothing's happened? Well, you know what, Mitchell Farrell,

540
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 2: who is the councilman in this district, is getting replaced

541
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 2: by one of these new age socialists or what do

542
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,879
Speaker 2: you think is going to happen? Nothing?

543
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:30,160
Speaker 1: Yes, that's you go. Soto Martinez is taking over that seat,

544
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,159
Speaker 1: and gil Sidillo leaves, then his seat's taken over by

545
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 1: another one. Unice Heernendez is another one of these socialists.

546
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 1: So all sympathy there for criminals and homeless people from

547
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 1: those that's right.

548
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,719
Speaker 2: And screw the kids. No school for you, and you

549
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,400
Speaker 2: can't even walk to school. There's there's no entrance anymore.

550
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 2: Crawl through the methadics tent. Hope he's wearing clothes there.

551
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:55,919
Speaker 2: Hope he doesn't grab you on your way into school.

552
00:27:56,119 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 2: They're agendably all about free rent, right rent, free metro.

553
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 2: That works all right. From time to time you hear.

554
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 1: A story like this and when you read it, you're like,

555
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 1: could this really be? There are still men in the

556
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 1: United States who like to have many wives.

557
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,160
Speaker 2: These are offshoots.

558
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Speaker 1: From the Mormon Church, something called the Fundamentalist Church of

559
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. Any modern day Mormon

560
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,919
Speaker 1: will tell you that went out long ago. But just

561
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: like there are offshoots, there's very conservative branches of like

562
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 1: the Catholic Church.

563
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 2: They still want to do.

564
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Speaker 1: The Mass in Latin. It's not as bad as this,

565
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: but in other words, They believe in keeping too long,

566
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Speaker 1: long held traditions and ignoring any alterations for the modern world.

567
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Speaker 1: So we now learned about Samuel Rapple Rapi Lye, Samuel

568
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Speaker 1: Rapi Lye Bateman. And this is Colorado City, Arizona, not Utah.

569
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Speaker 1: And well he had more than twenty wives. That's a

570
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: lot to deal with.

571
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 2: That would be so exhausting.

572
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: A lot of them are under age too, that's the

573
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: scary part, and that's why he got in big trouble.

574
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 2: What was that TV show that was on a few years,

575
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 2: Big Love, Big lovebo Right, Yes, watch that guy's life.

576
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 2: I don't know it's fictional, but it was probably based

577
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 2: on somebody had knowledge of how that works. Nobody's memoirs.

578
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's just really a three you know.

579
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Speaker 1: I did watch that show. I watched all whatever seasons

580
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Speaker 1: of it.

581
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I watched quite a few episodes. But it

582
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 2: really is one thing after another, you know, times tests

583
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 2: he was often right. There was so many complications because.

584
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Speaker 1: Of the.

585
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 2: Always job and with wives getting along and all this.

586
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's right. They don't get along. They naturally

587
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 2: will compete. So you have like ten wives competing for

588
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 2: your attention. Twenty. This guy just one had more than twenty.

589
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: He said it was the will of God, the heavenly

590
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: Father's will that these whys.

591
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 2: It's not a God I want And as I said,

592
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 2: that tells me to get twenty wives, It's like, no, God,

593
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go find an another one. Well, but doesn't

594
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 2: this how do I put it gently?

595
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 1: A man wants to spread his seed, as you like

596
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: to say, so he can sort of remain a monogamous

597
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 1: maybe a sense that he's got these wives, and he can,

598
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 1: because I think that's what he did on Big Love.

599
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: He'd spend different times, different nights of the week in

600
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Speaker 1: the different houses of the wives.

601
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Speaker 2: And the thing is, you know, all the marriages follow

602
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 2: the same arc, you know, so after a while, there's

603
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 2: nothing going on in any of the ten houses. It's

604
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 2: not like you're one of the ten. Is an informaniac. Twenty.

605
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 2: He keeps seeing ten, there's twenty. I'm sorry, I'm just

606
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,479
Speaker 2: I know my brain will not accept twenty twenty. They

607
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 2: even had the number more than twenty. He said that

608
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 2: it was the will of God to encourage followers, including

609
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 2: the minor children, to engage in sex acts. As the

610
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 2: leader of this branch of the church. Well, that's a

611
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 2: cover just for for a pedophile. Then, oh, of course

612
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 2: it is all You are exactly right. It's religious cover

613
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 2: for a pedophile, and maybe it always was.

614
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: They tracked down eight girls who had been under Bateman's

615
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 1: care but were placed in state custody in Arizona to

616
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: an airbnb in Washington State. They had escaped from their

617
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 1: group homes in Arizona. So that's where they're getting some

618
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: of this information from.

619
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Speaker 2: He's like one of those creepy cult leaders. Now none

620
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 2: of them.

621
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Speaker 1: So far have disclosed actual sexual abuse by Bateman, but

622
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: at least one had been being present and.

623
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 2: Partially nude for sex orgies. So there was that going

624
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 2: on to Oh so that was going Oh, then that's

625
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 2: all it is. It's a sex cult under the guise

626
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 2: of multiple marriages and behind God, do you think he was.

627
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: The only man with like twenty women around him or

628
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: in an orgy. That's a also a big responsibility.

629
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 2: That's exhausting as well, Like the whole thing makes me tired.

630
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: They spotted a vehicle driven by one of Bateman's wives

631
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: in which all any of the missing girls were passengers.

632
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 2: You noticed women aren't into having multiple husbands. So yeah,

633
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 2: ones enough. Can you imagine ten husbands?

634
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: No, I don't think that comes up too often, that

635
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 1: a woman has married more than one man.

636
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 2: It's always guys with these underage arabs. I've never heard

637
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 2: of a woman with like ten you know, teenage boys,

638
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 2: you know, just three years ago, maybe Madonna. He was

639
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 2: married to one.

640
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: Woman and had a daughter who was born in two

641
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 1: thousand and five, so this just exploded. After that woman

642
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 1: left him, he began accumulating wives. According to the court records.

643
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 4: No, he showed her huh yeah, and it looks like

644
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 4: some of the women were helping him recruit the girls.

645
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 2: Ah, we got an extine situation.

646
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that seems like there was part of this.

647
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 1: In December twenty twenty, Bateman drove to a couple's home

648
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: in Colorado City in a large suv packed with women

649
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: and girls. He introduced everyone as his wives. The youngest

650
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: of the girls was born in twenty eleven, so we're

651
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: talking oh oh, a nine year old.

652
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 2: Okay, well that now this makes sense to me. Yeah. See,

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you're gonna tell me it's twenty wives

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Speaker 2: a lot of Now I'd think, Okay, he's into group

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Speaker 2: he's forty six. He would.

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Speaker 1: Once he knew they were onto him, he started to

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Speaker 1: use something called signal and an encrypted messaging application to

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Speaker 1: communicate with.

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Speaker 2: His wives and his followers. And they also broke that too. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's that's what the technology is good for some of this. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: to go under ground, to going to gridia.

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