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Taking you out special or you're paying? I 26 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: don't know. We'll have to see. My husband usually goes, 27 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: but he's he's going to take his mom out, So 28 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: I'm gonna hang out with my kids. I'm sure my 29 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 1: kids will pay. They're pretty generous. So you're starting out 30 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: in a pretty good mood because we're getting right into 31 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,199 Speaker 1: it here for you. Well, actually I didn't have coffee. 32 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 1: I forgot to have coffee, So I'm I'm kind of tired. 33 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 1: Are we talking about dead animals? Well, we've been talking 34 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: about this on and off for weeks. Remember the women 35 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: that protested at the NBA playoff games. At least the 36 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: Timberwolves have been eliminated, so that won't be happening anymore. 37 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: They were protesting the owner of the Minnesota timberwolve. Yes, 38 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 1: included her hands. Another one chained herself to the backboard post. 39 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: We have details on what's really going on behind all 40 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: of this debmark and it's not nice. Thirty seven million 41 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: chickens and turkeys have lost their lives, Oh my god, 42 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 1: across the country. Thirty seven million. That is the number 43 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: we're getting from Bloomberg News. That's what the virus that is. 44 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:23,679 Speaker 1: I think it's accommodation John of the virus and the 45 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: culling by that's what I got for the Under guidance 46 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: of the federal government, farms must destroy entire commercial flocks 47 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: if just one bird test positive for the virus to 48 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: stop the spread. So that's what we're looking at. Wow, 49 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: imagine if many of the chickens and turkeys did not 50 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 1: have bird flu. You know, next time around they're going 51 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:50,679 Speaker 1: to adopt that policy for COVID and people, Well they will. 52 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,679 Speaker 1: That's you don't think Newson would do that. Let's go 53 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: back to these poor innocent animals, shall all right? Yeah? 54 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:00,360 Speaker 1: I mean she had a lot of questions. We did 55 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:02,960 Speaker 1: those stories of them and protesting at the games about 56 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 1: the bird flu and why they have to kill all 57 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: the chickens turkeys, And that's the reason. The facts are saying, 58 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 1: if you find one bird with the flu, and I 59 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:12,399 Speaker 1: don't know what they put stick up the bird's beak, 60 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 1: or how they test them for the bird flu. You 61 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 1: have to kill them all you do, because you have 62 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: to make sure the virus doesn't spreads very rapidly. That 63 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: has led to distressing scenes across rural America. In Iowa, 64 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:29,920 Speaker 1: millions of animals and vast barns are Oh, I can't 65 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 1: let me tell her, Let me tell Come on, of course, 66 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: someone steps up, I step away from the mic. Millions 67 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: of animals in vast barns are suffocated in high temperatures 68 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: or with poisonous foam. Yeah, and you know, some if 69 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: you're going to have to do something like this, you 70 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 1: can't come up with a more humane way to euthanize 71 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 1: these these innocents, because I'm sure they're all innocent animals, 72 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 1: or most of them, even if they have to I mean, 73 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: they're still innocent. How you gonna that's what she means 74 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: when she was yelling about roasting alive that's suffocating in 75 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: high temperature. How do you efficiently kill thirty seven million birds? Well, 76 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: I don't know exactly. Walk around with little syringes and 77 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: give it. But this is not the way to do it. 78 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is you can't inject them 79 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:18,840 Speaker 1: thirty seven million times separately. I don't know. Well, that's 80 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 1: not my problem, is it? Well? What about? Well? I 81 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: mean because when people get the carbon monoxide poising, isn't 82 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: it kind of like you know in the garage, you 83 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 1: just fall asleep? Right? Yeah, it's in his foam. Is 84 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: a little weird. And doesn't that sounds a little nasty, 85 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 1: doesn't it. They're probably thrashing around here? You want another one? 86 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:42,720 Speaker 1: Plea and Wisconsin lines of dump trucks have taken days 87 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 1: to collect masses of bird carcasses and pile them in 88 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:50,720 Speaker 1: unused fields. Neighbors live with the stench of the decaying birds. 89 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 1: I was gonna say, when it starts warming up, Yeah, 90 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: that's uh, that's gonna be rough. Here's how it works, 91 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 1: I guess um. Migrating wild birds sometimes swarm above farms 92 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 1: and they leave their poop poo, and it gets tracked 93 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: into the poultry houses. That's how the bird flu spreads 94 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: to the chickens on the farms. That's how the virus 95 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 1: probably contaminated egg operations in Iowa, which produce liquid and 96 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: powdered eggs that go into restaurant omelets or boxed cake mixes. Yeah, 97 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 1: you cant have a bird virus omelet like oh you 98 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:28,280 Speaker 1: just yeah, Well, don't eat eggs. That's why she doesn't 99 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:29,840 Speaker 1: eat eggs. I on eat egg whites? Is it in 100 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:32,480 Speaker 1: the yolka the next time? Is there bird virus in 101 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: the yolkert or the whites are? Yeah? Asked for virus free? 102 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: White free? Further north onto the same migration paths lie 103 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: Minnesota's turkey farms, and here's where we get the Timberwolves, 104 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: which supply everything from Delhi meets to submarine sandwiches to 105 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 1: wold birds for the holidays. Prices are soaring to records 106 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 1: into the fastest pace of yos inflation, and so this 107 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: is going to be an expensive Thanksgiving. I guess, huh 108 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:01,840 Speaker 1: it could be. You're right, because I didn't know. The 109 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 1: turkeys have gone down too, right, Yeah, that's true. Wholesale 110 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 1: egg prices touched a record two ninety a dozen in April. 111 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 1: Whole turkeys touched an all time high of a dollar 112 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:14,840 Speaker 1: forty seven a pound. So there must have been an 113 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 1: outbreak among the migrating birds because they migrate every year 114 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,279 Speaker 1: and we don't have bird flu app I mean they're 115 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:25,600 Speaker 1: pooping every year. Yes, yes, so all it takes is 116 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: one poop to drop on a farm and then a 117 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:29,480 Speaker 1: couple of chickens track through it and bring it into 118 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 1: the poultry hat and egg goes the virus everywhere. So 119 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:37,039 Speaker 1: you know, we had this in twenty fifteen and sorry devor, 120 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 1: they killed fifty million birds by the end of the season. 121 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,840 Speaker 1: Fifty millions. See, if you guys didn't eat meat, then 122 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: we wouldn't have this problem. Yeah, we wouldn't have to 123 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 1: murdering the chicken and turkeys would never exist to begin with. 124 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: Oh maybe they would people have them this where do 125 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 1: we get not thirty seven million of them? No, not likely. 126 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:58,919 Speaker 1: But they breathed them John on purpose, so they write exactly. 127 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 1: And these lives wouldn't exist if it wasn't for us 128 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 1: to eat. I'm sure that these animals would burn out 129 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 1: to be born, then to be killed this way. So 130 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: they're trying to boy, this is weird. They've beefed up 131 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: security around the poultry houses, installing sound cannons to repel 132 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 1: those wild birds who are dropping in their poop, or 133 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 1: even car washes so that farm trucks will bring in 134 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: contamination from one farm to another. Yeah, they're trying. I 135 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: don't think you could stop wearing a mask and socially exactly. 136 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: This must must have come from the CDC. Hey, we 137 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 1: have a list of ineffective methods to stop disease. Some 138 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 1: farmers completely changed their clothing and shoes before entering bombs. 139 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 1: All supplies and tools are clean. They're doing it. But 140 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 1: you're right, whether in migration patterns or make it easier 141 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: for the virus to win. This year, rare spring snowstorms 142 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: are originating the Midwest and traveling up to the East coast, 143 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: and the cold, wet weather keeps the virus alive for 144 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: longering it's spread, and the flu this year is more 145 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: leafable than the past. Maybe they should put little tiny 146 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: masks and all the chicken and turkeys. I thought about that, 147 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: but then how are they going to eat? Then they'd 148 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: starved to death. So what percentage is this of the 149 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: total US egg laying hens? About ten percent. There's three 150 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 1: hundred million birds. That's about as many people, right, Yeah, Yeah, 151 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 1: there's a chicken in every pot. The chickens raised from 152 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 1: meat so far have been affected. These are the egg 153 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 1: laying chickens that have been affected by this so the 154 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 1: priced eggs will probably go away up too. I think 155 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: just one thing after another. Yeah, I always been hit 156 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,680 Speaker 1: the worst. One farm destroyed its giant flock of five 157 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 1: point three million hens starting in late March. This is 158 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:39,320 Speaker 1: why you can't have people pooping all over the city. 159 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: The technique they use was the ventilation shutdown. Yeah, involves 160 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: closing up barns so the temperatures rise and the animals 161 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: suffocate over hours. See that's over hours. That's so cool. 162 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 1: Turkeys are killed by spraying a firefighting foam that suffocates them, 163 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,319 Speaker 1: like the foam you see probably at airports, you know, 164 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:03,199 Speaker 1: and a plane lands and there run out there to 165 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:05,719 Speaker 1: right right, they foambed down the runway. They foam it 166 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 1: down in case there's a spark, so they're foamed to death. 167 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 1: As we mentioned last week, one person involved in culling 168 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 1: infected birds in Colorado did contract the avian flu. Oh, 169 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:19,319 Speaker 1: but the risk remains low spreading it to other year 170 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: they did. They tell us that about COVID in Wuhan. 171 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: Did they have to foam that guy? They don't think 172 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:29,439 Speaker 1: they's what they want to start doing. Louis had spread 173 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 1: from animals to humans. Are a concern because in rare instances, 174 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:35,839 Speaker 1: you can get a pandemic, which is possibly how we 175 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: got to Oh, we can get it. We can get 176 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 1: a bird flu pandemic in people. Yes, I guess I could, 177 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:44,439 Speaker 1: but I don't think it's as maybe we got we 178 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:46,199 Speaker 1: have to foam that guy. Wasn't there some sort of 179 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 1: avian flu in Asia years ago? Remember that it didn't 180 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: really affect us? Yeah, yeah, there probably was. I don't know. 181 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:54,320 Speaker 1: This is so many. For about a month, there's been 182 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: so many scare stories that I just kind of lost track. Yeah, 183 00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: it's going to take them a year to recover from 184 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 1: this U setback of thirty seven million chickens and turkeys. Wow, 185 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 1: so now we know the vegan doesn't touch any dairy 186 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:11,439 Speaker 1: foods here I do not. But she's sad. Sad day. 187 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 1: It is a sad day. It'll all be uphill from you, 188 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 1: I mean downhill from him. We'll make sure the stories. 189 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: Can we find a sadder story? She asked all these questions, 190 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 1: and I saw the story and I thought of her. 191 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:28,560 Speaker 1: So thank you for that lovely update that should brighten 192 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 1: your day. Yeah, they didn't know as if there's one 193 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: case that's supposed to call the entire flock. It's terrible, 194 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: but that's the way it is. All right, We're coming 195 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 1: out John, and we of course have the moistline in 196 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: three hours. During the five o'clock hour, we have a 197 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:46,959 Speaker 1: hack to put into the dumpster. It's another long overdue 198 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:50,439 Speaker 1: person and there's several reasons why the committee voted to 199 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 1: put this hack in a dumpster. So it's all coming up. 200 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a chance after three o'clock to talk 201 00:10:56,679 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: to a comedian who was at the Dave Chappelle show, 202 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,800 Speaker 1: and he has a story to tell about the security 203 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 1: there at the Hollywood Bowl, especially concerning this aspiring rapper 204 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:11,439 Speaker 1: who attacked Dave Chappelle, the rapper that's being charged with 205 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 1: a few misdemeanors. Did you hear that? Wiener Mike Furis 206 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 1: said there has to be some type of punishment. I 207 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 1: might spank of myself trying to use this opportunity to 208 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: get some limelight because he's running from Mayor Johnny Tom 209 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 1: reporters are paying any attention to him because he's evolved 210 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: in the prosecution. Now, since guess going passed on it 211 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 1: as a felony, it goes to the city attorney. It's 212 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 1: absolutely a felony. Gas Going Is that really on a 213 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 1: suicide mission? Now we have more on gas Going coming 214 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 1: up after two thirty two, more big stories that you 215 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,599 Speaker 1: have to hear. John's contribution to the show today is 216 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,839 Speaker 1: a column by John Tierney. Now we're just talking about 217 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 1: the bird flu, so we can swing over to COVID. 218 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 1: Although there's two things I can't well, I try to avoid. One, 219 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:03,319 Speaker 1: of course, is nonsense about the subvariants and the transmission 220 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 1: it's going on and yeah, but the one I also 221 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,319 Speaker 1: when I saw is and these stories are starting to grow, 222 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 1: They're popping up day by day in a few more 223 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:15,319 Speaker 1: media articles. It's people who are immunocompromised, lamenting now that 224 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 1: with all everybody else not wearing masks, they're at risk. 225 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 1: Oh yes, why can't we Why don't we care about them? No, 226 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:25,319 Speaker 1: you wear the mask. Yeah, but if it's only one way, 227 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 1: it's called one way masking, right, that it might not work? 228 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 1: Well then you know, and maybe you can't you can't 229 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: leave it hasn't it's always been a problem. Boh, isn't 230 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: it always a problem? Every flu season? I mean, colds 231 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:40,199 Speaker 1: are constantly in the air. I don't I don't understand this. 232 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: See that's that's the whole victimhood mentality that's taken root 233 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,719 Speaker 1: in everybody's mind. Is like you've got some issue in 234 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:51,480 Speaker 1: your life and everybody else is now responsible. It's like, no, 235 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 1: let's go back. You could kill them. But it's always 236 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: been that way, and you have to tell you have 237 00:12:57,320 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 1: to take your own protections. I think we have to argue, 238 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 1: particularly like with the delta variant, that it was taken 239 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: out more i know, compromise people than your annual flu. 240 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 1: I have to say that's that's probably right, but still 241 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: you have to take care of yourself. Uh. This column 242 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 1: basically is about how we should learn the right lessons 243 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:21,319 Speaker 1: from our response to COVID and as you might expect, 244 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 1: not big on the mask mandates, the school closures, even 245 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 1: the social distancing. All of this may have been just 246 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:32,839 Speaker 1: completely far over the top than we needed and it 247 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 1: had no effect. It just didn't work. They're they're comparing 248 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 1: the states, and they're comparing the countries and looser states 249 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 1: and looser countries had about the same incidences in terms 250 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: of cases and deaths as ones with severe lockdowns. Yeah, 251 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 1: so you know, we've had our test. We had the 252 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: laboratory test. And it turns out that all that facial 253 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 1: masking really was just theater. He said. It was CDC 254 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:03,599 Speaker 1: leaders terrified the public with worst case scenarios based on 255 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 1: computer models. And remember we cover all that in twenty twenty, 256 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:11,200 Speaker 1: and then use those blatantly unrealistic projections to claim unprecedented 257 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 1: power as an experiment with untested strategy. I remember this, 258 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: and we were talking about this as it was happening. 259 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: University of Washington, that place should be just should be shuttered. Yeah, yeah, 260 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 1: and and and and turned into uh, I don't know, 261 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 1: clown school. It's those those scientists, those experts in the 262 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: University of Washington really are a bunch of bosos. They 263 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 1: really are. All the stuff they released was wrong. It 264 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 1: was wrong and wrong and wrong again, because I tracked them. 265 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: I tracked them for months. Every time they issued more guidance, 266 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 1: more expectations, more computer modeling. I am telling you, I 267 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 1: swear to God, they were wrong, and they were wrong 268 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 1: by a lot. And if you remember, very early on, 269 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:00,200 Speaker 1: to justify the lockdown, Newsom said, we are going to 270 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 1: have twenty four million cases in the next eight weeks. 271 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 1: Remember that, And that was justifying the lockdowns. That was 272 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 1: justifying his emergency order. Okay, that was wrong by about 273 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: a billion miles. And these people have to be held 274 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 1: accountable and they should be forced from their jobs because 275 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 1: a lot of damage to people's lives. They're not experts, 276 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 1: their methods are stupid, their models don't work. It's hocus 277 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 1: pocused witchcraft. Randomized clinical trials conducted before the pandemic repeatedly 278 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: had shown that masks did little or no good at 279 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 1: preventing viral spread, which I found odd only because when 280 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 1: we were talking about this two years ago, this was 281 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 1: the Asian model, because they had dealt with these kinds 282 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: of flu outbreaks and they were all masking, and I 283 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 1: thought the conclusion was that was helpful. I didn't say 284 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 1: it stopped the virus completely, but I had read I 285 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 1: didn't read studies, but I had read reports that it 286 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 1: seemed to be effective. That the federal officials stubbornly ignored 287 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 1: the hundreds of studies around the world showing that and 288 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:10,640 Speaker 1: accept in a few isolated places lockdowns did not reduce 289 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 1: COVID mortality. Mask mandates were generally ineffective and senselessly harmful 290 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 1: in classrooms, and instead of heating all evidence of their mistakes. 291 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 1: Officials did their breasts, did their best to suppress it 292 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:26,920 Speaker 1: and silence dissenters. And that's what was going on. Is 293 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 1: Remember you couldn't publicly question it. If you you went 294 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 1: on television, you would be you would be hounded and scolded. 295 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 1: The social media companies blocked you. They they threw you 296 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 1: off the platforms. I remember what we all did because 297 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 1: it's about the only thing we could look at back 298 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 1: when this started in twenty twenty was to look at 299 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 1: the Spanish flu, remember from one hundred years earlier, and 300 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: I remember seeing these charts and yeah, it was the 301 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 1: El segundo times that people did not socially distanced at 302 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 1: the beginning of why it's spread so much and there 303 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 1: was so much death at the beginnings of the Spanish flu. 304 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:06,680 Speaker 1: Now things were different then because that was killing younger 305 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 1: people because it there are immune systems overreacted. Remember that 306 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:12,880 Speaker 1: that was kind of what happened with that particular flu 307 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:15,640 Speaker 1: trans Whereas here it was the elderly and the people 308 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: with all sorts of underlying traditions that were killed which 309 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:23,399 Speaker 1: they knew right away, and irrational society. You'd protect the 310 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 1: elderly and protect the people who are physically compromised in 311 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 1: some way, and then you let everybody else live. That's 312 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:34,639 Speaker 1: what you would do in irrational society. Instead by shutting 313 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 1: everything down, they threw tens of thousands of businesses out 314 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: of business. I mean, look at the supply chain is 315 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 1: still backed up and broken. Our economy is messed up 316 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 1: with crazy inflation. It was unnecessary. The repercussions are going 317 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:53,399 Speaker 1: to last for years. God what they did to the kids. 318 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 1: And the kids had the least chance of being harmed 319 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:02,359 Speaker 1: by this virus by far, are there was very There's 320 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 1: been very very few deaths and very very few cases statistically, 321 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 1: and you took away a year and a half. I mean, 322 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 1: they could not have botched this more badly. And people 323 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 1: will realize this as time goes on. Over you know 324 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:20,920 Speaker 1: something and it was a John Tierney writes about this. 325 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 1: It's like when people invest in in something. I guess 326 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:32,280 Speaker 1: the whole we as a group don't want to admit 327 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:36,160 Speaker 1: we're wrong. And he says, you see this phenomenon when 328 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 1: college students are involved in painful initiation rituals to get 329 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:46,400 Speaker 1: into a fraternity, for example, after they survive it, they think, well, 330 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:48,680 Speaker 1: I guess that was worth it. You know, it made 331 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:51,920 Speaker 1: me tougher, it made me stronger. No, it didn't. But 332 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 1: you have to justify the stupid thing you allowed these 333 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:58,440 Speaker 1: other people to do. It's called social such college is 334 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:02,680 Speaker 1: called effort justification. Once people endure the pain, they convinced 335 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 1: themselves it must have been worthwhile, even though their reward 336 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:11,120 Speaker 1: is actually worthless. And that is a psychological phenomena. It's 337 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:14,640 Speaker 1: some kind of coping mechanism. I guess all right, when 338 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: we come back, it's not a day goes by. We 339 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 1: have ever the George Guest Gold story to tell you 340 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,200 Speaker 1: about an outrage in the criminal justice system. Coming up next, 341 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 1: John and Kenshaw. Coming up after three o'clock, we're going 342 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 1: to have a man who said that he tried to 343 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:32,400 Speaker 1: alert security that Dave Chappelle's alleged attacker had snuck into 344 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 1: the VIP area, but the security guards said, eh dismissed him. 345 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 1: Coming up after three o'clock. His name is Tehran von Gosrey. 346 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 1: He'll be joining us. He talked to TMZ and he's 347 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: going to come on our show and give you his 348 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 1: firsthand account what was going on behind the scenes when 349 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:56,360 Speaker 1: that crazy aspiring rapper ran on stage and tackle Dave Chappelle, 350 00:19:57,240 --> 00:19:59,120 Speaker 1: the rapper that will not be charged with any felt 351 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 1: the aspiring and now people there was hoping, Okay, yeah, um, 352 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 1: I tell you one thing. I keep seeing these stories 353 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 1: pop up. Dave Chappelle is just he throws the N 354 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:16,400 Speaker 1: word around pretty loosely. It doesn't now, I'll just put 355 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: it that way. That's all. He didn't care about anything. 356 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 1: I guess he does and says whatever you want anyway. 357 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 1: And it's funny because I a couple of people that 358 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 1: went to a show and really like him. You who's there? 359 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 1: The New York City mayor went, did you know that 360 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,880 Speaker 1: I'd heard that? Yeah? Right, Because he doesn't spend much 361 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 1: time working. He goes out all the time at night, 362 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:38,959 Speaker 1: is that right? Yeah, he goes Oh they're already down 363 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:42,640 Speaker 1: on Adams. Yeah, the restaurants, bars, clubs. He's a social guy. 364 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 1: He apparently got his flight delayed coming back to New York, 365 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 1: and the New York media made a big deal of that, 366 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 1: and then I guess they dug deeper and found out 367 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 1: he had come out here, among other things, for the 368 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle's show. Yeah. No, they're they're having savage murders 369 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: left and right in New York City. And he said 370 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:58,400 Speaker 1: he was going to stop it. And obviously you can't 371 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:02,600 Speaker 1: stop it quickly, not with all the wacky laws and procedures, 372 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 1: no bail they have in New York City. But you know, 373 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 1: it's not a it's not a good look that you're 374 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:09,919 Speaker 1: yucking it up at a Dave Chappelle concert. People are 375 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 1: getting murdered in the murdered in the streets. They were 376 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:14,480 Speaker 1: allowed to have some off time. You can't make a 377 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:17,879 Speaker 1: big deal about that. All the time there was always golfing. No, 378 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 1: they're not allowed to have off time. When the world 379 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:23,120 Speaker 1: just got complaining with Trump was golfing all the time 380 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 1: during COVID and everything. It was, it was it was 381 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 1: better if he was at a golf course. A good 382 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:31,120 Speaker 1: way to look at it. Some guys it's better off 383 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:34,720 Speaker 1: on reb The George Gascone story and and actually we 384 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:37,399 Speaker 1: weren't aware of this one, although it goes back to 385 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 1: when Gascon first took office as the Los Angeles County DA. 386 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:44,399 Speaker 1: We tried to get John and Tommy on but it 387 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,120 Speaker 1: wasn't available. Today. He was the prosecutor on a case 388 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 1: of a woman who murdered her four year old daughter. 389 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 1: This happened in August of twenty twenty. Tortured and murdered 390 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:57,240 Speaker 1: another one of these stories. Her name is a Kira 391 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 1: Keishall Smith, a thirty six year old charged with murder, 392 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: assault on a child, and torture in the death of 393 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: her daughter Eternity Smith. That was the child's name. Here's 394 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: where the story went foul for John Ha Tommy and 395 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 1: this tells you all you need to know about gascone. 396 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,960 Speaker 1: This woman had two previous felony strikes. She was conflicted 397 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 1: of convicted of inflicting corporal injury to a spouse in 398 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, and then assault with a deadly weapon in 399 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:28,680 Speaker 1: another case in September twenty sixteen. Now, under our three 400 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 1: strikes laws, these went down as two strikes. That means 401 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 1: you can get a bigger sentence out of this. Right 402 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:38,360 Speaker 1: and these are these are violent acts, right on questions, 403 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:42,400 Speaker 1: These are felonies. These are violence. I guess she beat 404 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:44,920 Speaker 1: up her husband. Yeah, we don't have details on you know. 405 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:46,200 Speaker 1: And I hate it when you have to use the 406 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 1: legal terminology conflicted corfcted of inflicting corporal injury right, well, 407 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:55,200 Speaker 1: corporal injury is bodily injury. Yeah, and a spouse is 408 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 1: a spouse. And then assault with a deadly weapon. All right, 409 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 1: that's uh, that's a self explanatory So so um John 410 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:07,160 Speaker 1: Gascone said, basically, and the directive was to Tommy, you're 411 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 1: not going to charge her with those two strikes. You're 412 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 1: not going to use them in this prosecution for the 413 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 1: murder because Gascone did not want a Kias Smith m 414 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:23,640 Speaker 1: a twenty five year minimum sentence. Remember remember, fifteen years 415 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,000 Speaker 1: is allegedly all he thinks anybody should get, even if 416 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 1: you've tortured and murdered. You're a little daughter and it's 417 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 1: your third strike, that's who we're talking about. Gascone doesn't 418 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,920 Speaker 1: think you should get twenty five twenty five years. So 419 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 1: he was directed Tommy was directed to try to remove 420 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 1: her two previous strikes. He didn't want to do that, 421 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,600 Speaker 1: all right. So three days later Gascone called to Tommy, 422 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:50,680 Speaker 1: unfit and delusional, said I'm going to discipline you. The 423 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 1: reasons is coming out now is that Tommy's able to 424 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:56,159 Speaker 1: release the documents associated with the case. Because eventually we 425 00:23:56,280 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 1: had a little sanity in a judge overruled Gascon and said, 426 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,399 Speaker 1: we're gonna go with the strikes. Here's the evidence. They 427 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:10,640 Speaker 1: had eternity the girl who was killed. The oldest brother 428 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 1: and the family said his mother was kicking and slapping 429 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,239 Speaker 1: his sister throughout the day, as well as choking her 430 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:20,200 Speaker 1: and kicking her while she was on the floor. The 431 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 1: old four year old girl. Four year old girl. My 432 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,600 Speaker 1: mom told me to get her some food. She didn't 433 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:30,720 Speaker 1: want any of it. Yeah, that basically she'd rather just 434 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 1: starve herself to death than continue to live with this crazy, 435 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: cruel woman. So about two months after her, Tommy said 436 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,640 Speaker 1: Gascone tried to get Smith's prior strikes removed and Ela 437 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 1: County Superior Court Judge James Soufant ordered Gascon to comply 438 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:47,440 Speaker 1: with the three strikes law. So at least in this 439 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 1: case we had somebody that overruled Gascone. But and this 440 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 1: case is still going through the so we don't know 441 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 1: how many years she's going to get yet. Well, because 442 00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:00,840 Speaker 1: what he's doing is illegal, and you have a judge 443 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:04,920 Speaker 1: stepping in on a district attorney who wants to give 444 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,879 Speaker 1: a light sentence to a child killer, to somebody who 445 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 1: killed her own child, and this is one of Gascon's 446 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 1: first directives. Yeah, I mean he had just taken over 447 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 1: in December twenty twenty, because he just got elected in 448 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 1: November twenty the first day he took off as he 449 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:27,200 Speaker 1: put out the directives. Right, So this is why he 450 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 1: hates the three strikes law. He tries to assault that 451 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: whatever way he can. But the little girl against a 452 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 1: woman who's already beaten up. I guess other family matters 453 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,720 Speaker 1: to Gascone, but he's said dead and gone. He wants 454 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 1: to just do something with the criminals, which he considers 455 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 1: them to come from victimized backgrounds. This is literally his approach. 456 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:51,920 Speaker 1: But it's sick, it's really sick. He's mentally ill, he's 457 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:56,200 Speaker 1: mentally unfit. He calls Tommy mentally unfit. No, this guy, 458 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:00,280 Speaker 1: this guy, Gascone has got a serious I don't know 459 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:04,200 Speaker 1: if he's suffered a brain injury or what. He's decided 460 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 1: that nobody should serve long sentences. Well, that's not the law. Remember, 461 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,159 Speaker 1: he wants to go back and resentence people to get 462 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,159 Speaker 1: them out of That's not the law. The law is 463 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:18,200 Speaker 1: what the legislature stipulated the sentences would be. That that's 464 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 1: what he could think and feel all he want. He 465 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,920 Speaker 1: could be mister whacko activist in the street and wave 466 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 1: signs and chant rhymes and all that garbage. Go ahead, 467 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:31,760 Speaker 1: But when you're a district attorney, you're elected to enforce 468 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:36,400 Speaker 1: the law. Period. He represents the people of the state 469 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 1: of California. You know how whereen you hear cases, it's like, 470 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,960 Speaker 1: you know, shampoo versus the state of California. Right, he 471 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,680 Speaker 1: is the state of California, meaning representing all the people, 472 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 1: the people voted for, the representatives who mandated what the 473 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 1: sentences are. It doesn't say except when George Gascon thinks 474 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 1: he can override the sentence. No, that's not in the law. 475 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 1: That's not in the three strikes law. It's just crazy. Yeah. 476 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 1: Apparently the judge said that the DA's disregard of the 477 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 1: three strikes plead improved requirement is unlawful, as is requiring 478 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: Deputy das to seek dismissal of pending sentencing enhancements without 479 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 1: lawful basis. And that's what he put in the adjunction 480 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,879 Speaker 1: to make sure that the strikes still got attached to 481 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 1: this woman's case. All right, we got more coming out, 482 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,440 Speaker 1: Johnny ken Cafe, I, all right, we'll be talking to 483 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 1: a comedian who was there at the Dave Chappelle show 484 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:30,640 Speaker 1: the other night at the Hollywood Bowl. Is a story 485 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,439 Speaker 1: to tell about security and the man that has been 486 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 1: charged with attacking Dave Chappelle, and what this comedian saw 487 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,600 Speaker 1: happening backstage gives us a little more of a clue. 488 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,879 Speaker 1: The El Segundo Times actually provided more depth that they 489 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: got from her report on the assault to tell us 490 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 1: a bit more about that weapon, where it was and 491 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 1: everything else. So we'll get to that right after the 492 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 1: news at three o'clock. Well, if you have sixty three 493 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:01,440 Speaker 1: and a half million dollars, is quite a piece of 494 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 1: property that you might be able to buy on the 495 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: West side. This is in the Honeby Hills area of 496 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. It is a French chateau style mansion, complete 497 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 1: with eleven bedrooms twenty seven bathrooms. Why would you need 498 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: If you have eleven bedrooms, why would you need twenty 499 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:22,640 Speaker 1: It's more than two per bedroom. I um, I think 500 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 1: I guess a lot of parties just now these are 501 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 1: these are ego bags just so they could tell people 502 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 1: they've got the twenty seven bathrooms. I wouldn't want twenty 503 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,639 Speaker 1: seven bathrooms because they it's just a lot of cleaning, 504 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,960 Speaker 1: and you don't you don't need the eleven bedrooms either. 505 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,080 Speaker 1: It's just to show off. That's kind of cool though 506 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 1: if you could invite like ten friends over and yeah, 507 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 1: they probably don't though, no, you know it it's it's 508 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,400 Speaker 1: it's sometimes people this wealthy don't even stay at the home. 509 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 1: They just buy it and they might go there once 510 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 1: or twice a year. It fulfills their ego, it makes 511 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: their penis feel a little larger. Oh yeah, by that's 512 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,480 Speaker 1: not in the ad for the house, but sure. Yeah, 513 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 1: but the guy who buys it, well, let's talk about 514 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 1: the guy who has this house or did have this house. 515 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:11,560 Speaker 1: It's thirty three thousand, six hundred and fifty two square feet, 516 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 1: among the largest homes on the market in southern California, 517 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 1: but federal prosecutors announced this week that they want to 518 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 1: seize the property. They believe it has come from the 519 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:26,920 Speaker 1: corruption of a powerful Armenian politician and his children, and 520 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,920 Speaker 1: it's by his children. These were his adult sons. It's 521 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,720 Speaker 1: quite a story. I'm not surprised it's a foreigner because 522 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 1: a lot of these gigantic oversized and they kind of Garish. Yeah, yeah, 523 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 1: a lot of times this. You look at the photos 524 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 1: of this place, it does look like I wouldn't say 525 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,200 Speaker 1: the White House, but it's something weird, like a The 526 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 1: construction of it is really over the top. Good windows though, 527 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:52,760 Speaker 1: I like all the windows anyway. Yeah, so that's what 528 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 1: we're talking about here. It was purchased in the year 529 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 1: twenty eleven for fourteen point four million, and I'm like 530 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: sixty three million, but we'll get to it. Apparently he 531 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 1: tore down the old property and built this even sure 532 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 1: the old property was a dump, it's probably like a barn. No, 533 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,720 Speaker 1: it was not. Actually, we'll get to that in a moment. 534 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 1: So apparently the man we're talking about used to be 535 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:25,280 Speaker 1: Armenia's Minister of finance. His name is Gagik, Minister of 536 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 1: fin Where where do he get his money from them? 537 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:32,560 Speaker 1: M A little corruptional bribery, you know when you're the 538 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 1: minister of finance, When you're minister of finance, that those 539 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 1: kind of bureaucratic jobs don't pay that contracts, there's what 540 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:42,360 Speaker 1: else taxes? Boy? Any any he goes to uh to 541 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:47,200 Speaker 1: Los Angeles to spend the money that it's a bit 542 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,680 Speaker 1: of money laundering, I would assume getting out of the country. 543 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:55,160 Speaker 1: He had his two sons and they're facing criminal charges 544 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 1: in Armenia, accused of providing more than twenty million dollars 545 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,960 Speaker 1: in vibes. The Homely Hills property went on the market 546 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,520 Speaker 1: April seventh with a real estate agency that says it's 547 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:12,120 Speaker 1: got immaculate architecture, manicured landscaping, and your chance to completely 548 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 1: customize the interiors. That's the part I didn't mention. The 549 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 1: interiors have not yet been finished. What he did was 550 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,640 Speaker 1: just building the home on the grounds. How much do 551 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 1: they think he looted Armenia for. I mean that that's 552 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:30,760 Speaker 1: a lot of money, even for you know, some bureaucrat embezzling. 553 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:38,720 Speaker 1: I know, so some businessmen in Armenia wanted favorable tax treatment. 554 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:43,800 Speaker 1: His name is Sedrak Roosta Mayan. I think I'm pretty 555 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,920 Speaker 1: good on that. Rosta Mayan. He entered into two fake 556 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 1: loan agreements with this finance minister's adult sons. The first 557 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,320 Speaker 1: loan in two thousand and nine was for seven million, 558 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 1: and another one in twenty eleven for thirteen and a 559 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,040 Speaker 1: half million. So you're beginning to see the money. John. 560 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,200 Speaker 1: Both loans bore agreements. I find when payment was due 561 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,600 Speaker 1: in terms of interest. But according to court filings, Roosta 562 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 1: Maya never received any interest or principal payments on either 563 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:11,120 Speaker 1: supposed loan. So he loaned the sons the money he 564 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,280 Speaker 1: but he didn't. He just under the guise of a loan. 565 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 1: He gave them twenty million dollars I see, pretending because 566 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 1: he wanted favorable because father, I get it. Yeah, and that, 567 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:24,640 Speaker 1: and then they made it look like a legit loan. 568 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:29,200 Speaker 1: But instead that's how he bribed them. Right. Oh, so 569 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:31,960 Speaker 1: one loan for seven million, another loan for thirteen but 570 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 1: they're not loans, they were just think a lot ad 571 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 1: a big bribe. Twenty million, twenty million, that's a that's 572 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 1: a fat bribe. Who knows how much he would have 573 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,600 Speaker 1: voted in taxes in Armenia that this guy helped him 574 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,160 Speaker 1: get to. I would imagine a lot more than twenty million, right, 575 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 1: otherwise he wouldn't have put it that I know, That's 576 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It basically was a gift of twenty 577 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,680 Speaker 1: million dollars in order to get a break on the taxes. 578 00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:59,479 Speaker 1: So how much of a tax break did he get? 579 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,440 Speaker 1: How much? How much in taxes. Was this guy have 580 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,160 Speaker 1: to pay? How much is he gonna say? You think? Yeah? 581 00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:07,920 Speaker 1: So to make use of the purported loans because they're fake, 582 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,360 Speaker 1: this guy and his sons formed multiple entities to receive, 583 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,640 Speaker 1: disguise and conceal the illegal bride payments, as well as 584 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 1: their purchase of the property, which we said was another 585 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,400 Speaker 1: way to launder the money. More than thirteen million was 586 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,680 Speaker 1: wired by this businessman at Roost Mayan directly to a 587 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 1: bank account, but days before the sales close, he affirmed 588 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,120 Speaker 1: he would not hold title, relinquished any claim to the money. 589 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:33,640 Speaker 1: So you see, kind of left it there for the sons, 590 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:35,360 Speaker 1: I guess to buy this property, because it says soon 591 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,480 Speaker 1: after buying the home, which was previously owned by a 592 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:42,520 Speaker 1: lions Gate Entertainment executive by the name of John Feldheimer, 593 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,840 Speaker 1: they tore down the property and they hired a fancy 594 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,920 Speaker 1: architect who has built big estates for stars like Mark 595 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,320 Speaker 1: Wahlberg and Tom Brady and Wayne Gretzky. Oh, Dad, Humby 596 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,640 Speaker 1: Hills neighborhood is where the Playboy mansion. Yeah down the 597 00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,680 Speaker 1: street apparently, yeah right, And remember Aaron Spelling, the Hollywood producer, 598 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,760 Speaker 1: He like one hundred million dollars house years ago until 599 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:08,239 Speaker 1: he died. All right, So the Armenian businessman's son told 600 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:10,840 Speaker 1: the design team, we want our children to attend school 601 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,680 Speaker 1: in La. We want the home as our family's residence, 602 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:18,400 Speaker 1: elaborate compound, including rooms for the businessman father and the 603 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,520 Speaker 1: two sons and the daughter are all going to be 604 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,920 Speaker 1: living their servants quarters. So construction began in twenty fifteen, 605 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,320 Speaker 1: but they never did the interior. They just did a 606 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:29,880 Speaker 1: lot with the exterior. Along with the gardens, there's a 607 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,560 Speaker 1: pool and a spa. And then in twenty sixteen, well, 608 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:37,200 Speaker 1: the Armenian businessman left office and the bribery scheme came 609 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:40,640 Speaker 1: to light. They discovered millions and millions of dollars and 610 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,160 Speaker 1: unpaid taxes owed by this guy. I told you about 611 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,080 Speaker 1: a stud of my UN's companies, right, the guy who 612 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,120 Speaker 1: paid the bride, The guy who paid the bride. If 613 00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,080 Speaker 1: he's got a bunch of companies, and yeah, his tax 614 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,680 Speaker 1: bill could have been Yeah, so they've all been charged. 615 00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:59,840 Speaker 1: The sons have fled our media though, yeah they'll probably 616 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,920 Speaker 1: they'll probably never never be caught. They've got millions of 617 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:05,719 Speaker 1: dollars they can live off of, and who knows what 618 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:09,680 Speaker 1: the extradition agreements are with Armenia. Now here's the thing 619 00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,600 Speaker 1: you didn't ask, well, because I kind of wondered it says, 620 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,600 Speaker 1: here you can still buy the property. The federal government 621 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,600 Speaker 1: is willing to work out an agreement obviously, Yeah, but 622 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,200 Speaker 1: they want they would get the proceeds because this is 623 00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:24,120 Speaker 1: a they're basically in their paper is saying that this 624 00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:28,520 Speaker 1: house was acquired through but in sixty three million. You said, yeah, 625 00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:30,200 Speaker 1: that's the asking sixty three and a half millions the 626 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:34,319 Speaker 1: asking price. It's all tough. Maybe you can negotiate it down, 627 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:37,680 Speaker 1: all right. 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