Chris Hansen Says We Need the Death Penalty

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Four rounds, multiple games, one winner, plus a halftime performance by multi-platinum artist Travi McCoy. Watch all the action and see who wins in advances to the championship match against Neo. Right now at globalgamingleague.com. That's globalgamingleague.com. Everybody games. Get it on Chris Hanson, one of our favorites back in studio. Let's see. You've got a doc, got a TV show, all the stuff, the true crime TV network, True Blue, and also the documentary, Dangerous Games. We can find that on True Blue. Watch trueblue.com. Yeah, we worked on that for six or seven months, and I tell you, it's shocking, Adam, the level at which predators have infiltrated this gaming platform, Roblox. Yes. Which is one of the most popular, if not the most popular, in the world. I am so saddened by just, you know, like, you know, Epstein and, and just all the idea that pedophile is back with a vengeance, it's like, like, like bell bottoms coming back or something, some fashion that you thought was gone. I guess it's job security for a guy like me. Yes, it is. You know, we've got Epstein survivors on, you know, frequently on my podcast, Have a See with Chris Hanson. And the fact that we're still digging in this thing and, and the files, I mean, you can sit there and I do this sometimes on a Saturday, and I've got this whole thing indexed so I can look at whose ever name I want. You can go down a rabbit hole for hours and hours at a time. And it's not even my primary beat this thing. You know, there are other reporters whose only job it is to look at the Epstein case. It's just, it's sad in the world, I guess, globally, cosmically, it just saddens me that there's so many people. I mean, I feel the same way about terrorists, you know, like, why are there so many? Why do they have to do it? It's like the cockroach. The cockroach only has one job every day. It's to be the cockroach. Well, that's what predators and terrorists are too. I get it. But in a world where there's a kind of a base, like everyone wants to live. Right. No one wants to give up their freedom. Right. Nobody wants to get a pager from Israel that blows their nutsack off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. Nobody wants to be droned or hit with a hellfire missile. Everyone wants a family, a cocktail, a show they enjoy, a sports car. Like, I feel these things are so universal. And yet these pursuits, whether it's pedophilia or whether it's joining a terrorist organization are so antithetical to that. Like, you're... Well, they are to the vast majority of us. But to your point, I am shocked as well. Right? We've been doing the Predator series, either to catch a predator, Hanson versus Predator, or takedown, which is what we call it today, for 22 years now. Right? Now, if you had asked me in March of 2004, when we went to Long Island, rented a house, no law enforcement involved, and said, what's going to happen if we have perverted justice, the online watchdog group put their decoys in chat rooms and poses kids. And back then we had chat rooms in AOL and Yahoo, and maybe that antiquated platform you may recall called MySpace. That was it. What's going to happen? Part of me thought nothing was going to happen. Right. That I had just blown $50,000 of NBC's money. Right. But 17 guys showed up in two and a half days, and it's not stopped. We were in Louisiana last week. We uncovered a human trafficking plot by two illegal immigrants from Honduras, and guys who were in the military, their colleagues are fighting for freedom in Iran, and this guy is trying to hook up with a 15-year-old girl, mechanic at the Air Force Base in New Orleans. I mean, it's shocking. Guy walked in, stripped down to his underwear. All of this in one sting over three days, Adam. I'm amazed. I'm also amazed at people who wrestle with cops. The cops are guns are drawn. What are you thinking? I don't know. I guess all of it falls under the heading of what are you thinking, and if you don't want to get shot and you don't want to go to prison and you do want the sports car and the cocktail and the big screen TV set, this is not the direction to go, but yet so many. Although I notice it even in a kind of white-collar version of it, like a non-criminal version of it. Everybody that I've crossed paths with who didn't work out, who the business didn't work, or whatever the relationship, it didn't work. It's all stuff they kind of brought on themselves. It was all avoidable. Forget about me. You take a guy like Jimmy Kimmel. Jimmy is very loyal in that if you work for Jimmy, you work for Jimmy forever, and he feels obligated to take care of you for the rest of his life, unless you go into his office and call him a douchebag, in which case you're gone, and then many people never find their way back to anything. I'm like, why did you do that? Well, you're the author of your own demise. That's right. And you see a pattern here, whether it's the predator or the terrorist, these guys are looking for a set of people who will accept them. They're looking for belonging. Tim McVeigh lost at everything he did in life until he met Terry Nichols and they decided we're going to do something bigger than America. We're going to blow up the Oklahoma City Federal Building. The hijackers on 9-11, well, we're disenfranchised, we're alienated, we're going to create an enemy, and that's the United States, and we're going to hit them where it counts. And then we're going to go off to meet Allah and our 70 Almanide virgins. Yeah. I mean, McVeigh, I've been to the, where the building was in Oklahoma City. I covered that. I was there that night. There was some, first off, give the devil his due. Boy, that guy knew how to make a bomb. The guys who chucked the bombs into the crowd in front of Mendami's place were not good at that. They did know how to make a bomb. No. Then there was another guy I was trying to take down the World Trade Center. He blew up a van in 1993. Which didn't take down the Trade Center, but holy shit, McVeigh and that writer, Rangel Truck, holy crap, was that thing. I mean, it literally. Well, it took the face off a federal building. Right. It did something. There's some statistic. 169 people killed. Insane. There's some statistic that, like, the axle from the truck was found, like, five miles away or something. It wasn't five miles away. It was such a crazy explosion. But that's how they cracked the case initially. Right. They were able to get the VIN number, the number off the axle, trace it back to the rental car agency, figure out that McVeigh and Nichols rented the thing, and then they were at an APB out, and he's driving his yellow Mercury marquee on the highway. They pull him over. He's got a loaded, you know, clock in the car, but he doesn't pull it on the cops, and they arrest him. They didn't know who they had for the first few hours. By the way, for those who fight me on the death penalty, first things first, every poor black guy who gets fingered by some old woman who says he robbed the liquor store and the guy said, I don't need that guy put to death. No. If there's gray area. No. If you take out 160 something, and including a preschool, right, well, then I need you put down. Yeah. Number one. No problem with that. Number two, I don't need you in the system for 45 years painting clowns and painting biographies, autobiographies, and being interviewed by Harald, though. I just want you put down. Right. And McVeigh, they just put him down. And there is no, right now, McVeigh, who was, you wouldn't know, probably his late 20s, early 30s when he did this. Yeah, I think he was late 20s, I believe. McVeigh would be younger than us. He'd have, he'd be suing the penal system for some sort of, he'd be transitioning, he'd be undergoing a sex, he'd be suing the state for not paying for transition. Whatever he could do to pass the time of his life sentence, he'd be in the wheel in Colorado next to whomever. He'd be, he'd be zoomed in to Rogan's show this weekend. He'd be selling paintings. God knows he'd be sending out demonic things during his conspiracy. Conspiracy. We'd have to deal with, plus we'd have to pay. Right. Or we'll just take him out and he's done. He deserved the death penalty. And he got it and we don't even talk about him anymore. People don't remember him anymore. One of the most emotional interviews of my career was having all 12 jurors in that case, all lined up for one interview. Really? Got the call from the producer on our Friday night, we've got two. I said, we got two, we got a story. By the time I get there, we had eight, then 10. We had 11. And right before we were to roll tape, the 12th guy walked in. Sorry, what year was this? 95 was the bombing. Oh, really? That far back? It was 97 by the time it went to trial. And the jury had to vote on the death penalty in that case, which they did. And they had to be unanimous, which they were. But that was a, that case, I'd just been at the network for two years at the time. So it was one of my first big stories that transcended beyond dateline into nightly news and standing next to Tom Brokaw. And really being involved in the day to day coverage of what then was the, arguably, one of the biggest tragedies in our history. I mean, Pearl Harbor than that until 9 11. Yeah. I mean, look, there are things that are, you know, ghoulish and they, they stick in your memory, sort of mants and stuff, right? And with blood, pregnant women and stuff. But at the end of the day, when you end up sharing Tate and Folger and Lobby, Anka and stuff, you still end up with seven people or eight people or whatever it is that the count is the count of a bad RV accident or something like that. Medium sized plane crash. Horrible. Tragic. A smaller plane crash. Right. But when you get into 168 people. And children. Right. I mean, I can remember to this day, the image of a firefighter carrying the limp body of a child. Trying to rescue. Yeah. Like the day care center was on like the third. It's too bad. Yeah. On the first floor of that federal building. It's too bad. It wasn't a day care center that was run by Somalians. There would have been no kids in there. Exactly. Just a couple Somalian guys smoking. A big box of money. Trying to lease a Mercedes. Who could pipe or something. By the way, on my screen is written, he was executed June 11, 2021, which cannot be possible. So. No, it was before that. Yeah. It was long before that. But well, maybe there was a type of, oh, 2001. Now that makes sense. Because they still had the appeals. Right. And he was still held in that, I believe in that underground prison in Colorado is where they kept him. Right. Tim McVeigh infamously said when he received the death penalty, that would make it, that would make the score 168 to one. Meaning he's won, but he got 168 souls, which makes him evil. But I guess we knew that on the way in. It's like, you know, the death penalty for people who commit crimes against children, you know, and I think in certain extreme circumstances, there should be the death penalty. I was, you know, I think I come around to this. I've just seen too much damage from predators to children. And, you know, I, we work with Grady Judd in Florida, the sheriff of Polk County, and as well as, you know, sheriffs and a dozen other counties around the country and more come online every, every month. But he is of the opinion that the death penalty is the only way to deal with a hardcore child predator. And the longer I do this work, the more I agree with him that certain people and the vast majority of them will reoffend. And you see these guys in the prison setting, I mean, they get their own GL yard justice. Yeah. Right. I was talking to a guy the other day who told me a great story. So he was doing federal time for drug dealing. And they would figure out pretty quickly when a predator, a chomo as they nicknamed them came in. And they used to run the reruns on MSNBC of the original predator series in the TV room, a big prison population, very popular prisons. And so knowing that they had a chomo in the group, they would put it on the, the predator series and the marathon. And they would then hide the remote so it couldn't be changed. So this guy was getting pilloried by the other prisoners. I bet they use that word. One of the clips of the blood said, let's pillory this fella. Yeah. Well, okay. I agree. You have to really think about it this way. And I do. And I, for some reason, the thought ran through my mind the other day. If you are somebody and your sexual proclivities are you like big titties, or you're an ass man, or you like blondes, and then someone locks you up somewhere for 20 years, when you get out, guess who wants some titties or a blonde? Like you just want what you wanted. Exactly. And that's the problem with a hard, right? Well, why, why, but let's, let's move it out of the realm of the criminal for a second. You just go, this guy's a vegan. Okay. He's a vegan. You lock him up for 10 years. He gets out. He eats some Tofurky. I like steak and a martini. Yeah. And if you locked me away for 10 years, when I got out, first place I'd go is the Morton's to get myself a steak and a martini because you didn't, I didn't stop wanting it. I just was deprived of it. I couldn't have it, but I'm, that's my thing. And I always argued that if you're into young boys or young, whatever it is you're into, you're into it more than a guy who's into big titties because there's many more consequences for you. You have to really want it. Right. So how are we going to cure you of this? Right. So, and also in a weird way, you're almost doing them a bit of a favor by putting them down because their life has to just be a tormented mess. Look, I understand and I'm not a shrink and all that, but I've come face to face with hundreds and hundreds of these guys. Now, there are some younger guys who are opportunists who may not be stone cold pedophiles. Right. Who surface in our investigations. Right. They're going to take advantage of a 14 or 15 year old girl and they'll have all kinds of reasons why, you know, they will never do it again. Now, I hear this a lot. I think, sure, 80% of the time it's bullshit. But there are guys who have been caught, done their time and they've never reoffended. But the vast majority, I mean, if you've got somebody who actually physically abuses a child, whether it's their own child, somebody they know or a stranger, you have to deal with that at a whole different level because the risk of reoffending and what does that do to a child's life? I walk through airports every day. I'm out in public almost every day and without exception, somebody comes up and tells me their story about how they were sexually abused as a child and how every time they see me jack one of these guys up, they feel a sense of justice. Well, okay. And so, you know, these stories are not just obviously they're powerful, they're interesting. People like the dark humor of it. It's entertaining, right? These stories, as I said, are as old as the Bible, good versus evil. And on the streaming network, I get to lean into that more aggressively. But we do it. So it doesn't happen anymore. Well, or so these guys get locked up. I'll put a finer even finer point on it, which is there are crimes like theft when they steal your laptop and you don't like it, but you get a new laptop or somebody stole your catalytic converter or even punched you. The insurance covers that. There's no insurance for a child's sexual assault. Even minus that, it's just shit happens, whatever. When someone is sexually assaulted as a minor, especially that affects the rest of their life for their entire life. They can't get that back. Yeah. And it's also, I mean, if you're saying, what did this guy do? Well, this guy got drunk and he punched you and it's like, all right, but you're, you healed up and you're fine. And that guy can still go out to the bar, not look over his shoulder, not worried about it. But if you are sexually abused as a minor, especially it is the gift that keeps giving, it never leaves you. It affects your relationships. It affects you may go on to violate somebody because of this. It's a possibility. And there's so much that goes along with it that it's essentially how they have certain statutes for hate crimes. This is a hate crime. You're doing this to a five year old and that five year old is not going to be right. Long after whatever the wounds heal, the person will never be right. And they will tack stuff on. Well, they'll go like, well, you punched this Asian guy, that's assault, but also you yelled this is for World War II or whatever. Now it's a hate crime. Now we know there was an enhancement. Right. So I feel the same way about all this stuff. And also we get a little nutty with the death penalty. My thing is like, let's just go case by case. Tim McVeigh, you're gone. Easy go. Young black guy got sucked into drugs and a gang and made a mistake with the liquor store and the gun went off. You're not. Right. That's easy. Do your time. Right. Get out. So I have a couple of thoughts that don't involve this, but I have a clip that made me laugh, which was our Mayor Karen Bass was talking about how hot it was. I always laugh. It's unseasonably hot in LA. And they have to give these. They have to give these PSAs about what to do when it's hot. The cooling centers. You've got to drink water. Right. You know, do not wrap yourself in foil and lay on the roof of your building. You know what I mean? Do not rub Vaseline all of your body and then wrap yourself in foil and then go up to the roof. Like they always do it, which is weird. By the way, I, these cooling centers at the park, I really have no idea how this works. Send them to the upper peninsula of Michigan. They'll get cold. It's about nine feet of snow up there right now. I would like to show up to the cooling center at the park and find out what went wrong with everyone's life. I feel the same way about the 73 year old guy who works at Home Depot. I just want to go, what happened? Yeah. Something happened. But this is that Karen Bass, by the way, she doesn't have pressers to talk about permitting in the Palisades. She has pressers for being warm. Here it is. Triple digits across a huge part of LA. It can lead to heat stroke. Plan on having plenty of water to drink. He, he, he, plenty of apartments and housing that have no air conditioning because frankly, we didn't need it. He, he, he, until the last few years as global warming has impacted our city. All right. You can stop it right there. First off, bitch. I grew up in the San Fernando Valley. We did not have air conditioning and I fried in, in, I, I, I grew up like cool hand Luke in a sweat box, just eating hard boiled eggs and sweating with George Kennedy above me. He had one air conditioning in our entire house. And when it got that hot, and again, this is Michigan, so it's different, but we would all go into my parents' bedroom, the dog, everybody, everybody, and watch the little Magnavox television. Yes. Yeah. It was cool. It was funny. It was funny. It was actually, we had, we had one, it was in the den where the TV was, but there wasn't enough room to sleep in there, but you could, and it was my stepdad's room. Don't even ask. Right. Don't even ask why my stepdad and my mom had two separate rooms. I don't want to know, but John had the air conditioner in his room, which was also the den. So, and we would also sit on his bed to watch TV, which is, most people would be uncomfortable. Right. But okay. Things were different. It's the way it was. The way it was. My grandparents had one, you'd have one window mount, you'd have to put it in your bedroom because that's where you slept and then tough luck for anyone else who had to sleep somewhere. Dr. Drew used to tell me that when he was in Massachusetts at Amherst, they had one with like the three guys living in the school housing or whatever, and they would build like trough flume tents to like channel it over this. Yeah. Hang a sheet and put some cardboard and just try to get it moving toward the bedroom. We didn't have air conditioning in college. Well, Drew had one, but the whole point is Karen Bass is chalking this up to climate change, but here's the deal. Like I said, I grew up in the San Fernando Valley. I grew up in the 70s. It was brutal, especially in the summer, but it was hot all the time. It wasn't a climate change thing. They didn't build houses with air condition because they didn't have the technology for central air. They didn't have the money for it and so on and so forth. But also, I never get with her in climate change. Is it just Los Angeles that experiences climate change? Or is it just California? Or does China have this? Like why are we always the recipient of climate change in LA, but no other places? Nevada and Arizona don't seem to be affected by it, or they are, but we don't care. Or how does this work? Like we act like we can dictate to the globe what the climate is from Santa Monica, California if we just stop using plastic straws. It's politics. It's an agenda. It's what she and so many other members of that party are pushing. And I'm shocked, right? And I spend a fair amount of time out here, but I'm also in New York a lot. I'm in the Midwest a lot. Our primary home is in Michigan. I just shocked at the difference in a news conference with a politician like that as opposed to somebody who's more moderate and trying to, now I have a presence in New York too. I see the craziness that goes on there. But it's, let's solve the problem. Well, the other thing too is, right, you blame, okay, so the whole city burnt down because of climate change, because we had a fire. No, it's because they didn't manage the land and they didn't respond to the crisis because you were in Africa at a cocktail party. Right, but wouldn't it be convenient to be able to blame everything on climate change if you were in fact going to have a cocktail party? If you have an audience who's willing to suck that information in and accept it, it makes it easier. I think in other parts of the country, you have more of a skeptical audience that say, well, wait a minute. Right. That's not what happened here. Well, what happened is you didn't deal with it as a leader of this community. Well, I'm going to just put it back on them. By the way, she is the odds on favorite to win the election for mayor again. She let the city burnt down, but we're going with it, which I, it's insane. Who's running against her? Los Angeles is insane. Oh, Nithya Raman who's worse actually. I do, I do think Nithya Raman could be worse. Spencer Pratt, who I think we'll have in here pretty soon. All right. So here, let's just put it to you this way. We have, let's just all, all simplified this way, Chris Hansen. Climate change. Let's go ahead and say we live in a, in a world of climate change in Los Angeles. Fine. We're an earthquake country as well. And I used to do earthquake rehab work and we now build houses with that in mind. And when an earthquake hits, nothing happens. Right. Because we figured out the environment and we mitigated the things. And Rick Caruso sprayed his shopping center down with foam two days before the fires kicked in because he knew something and he prepared. You go to New Orleans, they have seawalls. They're below sea levels, but they build a seawall and then they can have a city. Well, they responded to nature. Yeah. Right. So what I'm saying is, is if there is, you know, Las Vegas couldn't be Las Vegas without air conditioning, but now they got air conditioning and now they got Las Vegas. So if in, there's a situation in its climate change, well then that's a reality and we're living with it. So let's manage the forest based on the climate change and let's get the water into the reservoirs based on the, like, now that we know it, let's go do something about it. Be proactive. Proactive, which is kind of your job as an official. That's her only job. That's her only, that's her only job. Can LA be this stupid that we're going to give her a second run? And I think the answer is yes, which is kind of insane. As you look at the lack of choices and this is what astounds me, right? And I don't always profess to be, you know, the most knowledgeable guy on politics. I cover crime and all the things you know I cover, but I watch it very closely and it's stunning to me the lack of good choices for leadership in major, I mean look at New York. The vote for Zoran was as much for him because he was able to manipulate social media and get young people to say, well there's a friendly face, he's smiling, he's doing funny TikToks and you know, and you got Cuomo, who's the angry man, who's still bitter that he got, you know, boosted from the governor's job. And it was as much of an anti Cuomo referendum, I think, as it was a pro Mamdani. And then who else is out there? Well, you had Adams couldn't cut it because he was in over his head from the first term and you've got, you know, a guy in a red beret. Nice fellow. Seems like it. But it's, you know, where is Bloomberg again? Where is that guy? He's run a major company and can do the job. I concur. I mean, why is there such, is it because people don't want to take a pay cut? Who are, who have big jobs? Or is it we don't want to go through all the BS of people digging around in our garbage? Which is, you know, what we do sometimes. I think it's that. I think, I think here's what I think. I think there are people who think I don't want to put my family through this. Because it's coming and there's going to be rooting through the garbage. And by the way, they're like two, there's three options and they root through the garbage or like why one wouldn't want to expose themselves that screwed me. One is you actually did things like Bill Cosby, you know, like there's real shit. There's real bad stuff out there. Weinstein, whatever it is. Like real stuff. You embezzled from your company. All right, there's that. Then there's everyone else who's basically like, I don't want you to look through my search history on my phone because I may be embarrassed by it. But it's, it's, it's basically. We just don't want to deal with the noise of it. Well, it's like, look, every human being, this is a, it's a wiring. Every human being goes to the toilet once a day, sits down on the toilet, I don't know, three times a week, once a day or whatever. No one does it with the door open. No one wants anyone to walk in. By the way, the person that walks in, who's catching you taking a dump, took a dump an hour earlier. So we just, and then people go, oh my God, so embarrassing. It's so embarrassing if they, so that's how we're wired. So we don't want anyone looking into the part that kind of makes us human. And there's going to be some tweets or some ex-girlfriend or a situation with an estranged whatever. People live lives. You know what interests me about the New York situation is that Trump has maintained a relationship with the mayor of New York. It couldn't be more diametrically opposed in terms of their feelings about finances and the economy and money, credit and banking. But Trump obviously sees something in Zorat that, that he identifies with. He, you know, he has them to the, you know, to the White House. And they have access to each other at a level that is uncharacteristic for a socialist and a capitalist to have. So he obviously understands there's some charismatic element to the mayor of New York that he relates to because he's a charismatic guy. He's a brand of his own. So is Zorat. Yeah, yeah. Now I agree. Zorat's charismatic. But I think that dynamic is interesting to me. Well, I don't, I mean, I don't want to shoot holes in the theory, but there's a couple things. You know, Trump has so much real estate in New York that to, to really declare a fatwa on the mayor of New York when you own that much real estate is kind of, kind of be nuts. I also think Trump is, is, as much as people think he's a bull in a China shop is not, he is, he's, there's more finesse to him. I'm not criticizing him. I'm getting credit for understanding a complicated dynamic. I agree. He, he, he does a thing where he's like, he doesn't intentionally alienate people he might need or use. He can say whatever he wants about AOC cause fine, who cares? Even when he's talking about Kierstam of England, he'll do a thing where he'll go, I don't like all the windmills. I don't like the green energy. He's got to get back on the fuel and the fossil fuel and his immigration policies are horrible and he's destroying Europe with his policies. But he's a good dude. He's a good dude. But other than that, he'll have an estate dinner. Yeah. He's like family. I like it. I think I hear he's a good, seems nice. You know, he tries to keep some sort of thread, some connective tissue to the person where he can go bad policy, but a good dude. Right. And I can work with him. It'll get him to pick up the phone kind of thing where if you just go full Fatma then you can't. Yeah. Well, I'm putting in Zoran. No, but it's a good way to put it. That's exactly what it would be. And I think- And that's what he does if it's somebody who, you know, he really dislikes. Well, there is a part of life where like, if you're an employee and you're kind of marginal, but the boss likes you, you're going to hang around for a while. If you're marginal in a douche, they can't wait to get rid of you. You know what I mean? And people, it won't get you into the corner office, but it'll buy you a year of employment while the boss wrestles with, God, he's such a fuck up, but he's a dice. He brought me a doughnut the other day. Literally just a couple of doughnuts. The other thing, speaking of this that I thought was funny, was Newsom was attacking Nick Shirley, who's now- So, Nick Shirley has now set his sights on LA, and he's going after all the day care and all the hospice care and all that stuff. And, you know, the stats are a little hard to argue with, you know, that one building in Pacoima has 43 hospices in it, but the building's single story, you know, like weird, you know, some insane thing like, you know, LA or California is, you know, 50% of the country of, you know, Medicaid is spent here on whatever. Autism treatment. Right, right. So, okay. No, I'm working on a similar. You are. Oh, yeah. No, we're, I'll, next time I come on. Yeah, I mean, it's- Give us a little preview. It's to catch a fraudster. Right. All right. So, the point is, is California and LA may have more of this than the rest of the country combined. But it's in a lot of places. Oh, it's everywhere. Well, here's what it is. And I want to just make sure everyone knows this. Every airport you go to has dogs in the airport because it is a system, and people exploit it, and they want to travel with their dogs for free, and you put it out there, and you invented something called a spectrum. Right. You know what I mean? And I got two kids, and everyone knows they're kids' foibles. And if somebody says to me, listen, are your kids on the spectrum of autism? And I'd go, nah, I don't, you know, sun closes his eyes when he talks sometimes, but I don't know. Whatever. No, I don't think so. And they went, you sure? Because I could get you 1500 bucks a month if I go, now they're on the spectrum. Well, have you heard about this at colleges now? Oh, yeah. Because they give these kids these kids claim that they got, you know, a problem with, you know, processing information or taking tests, and I need 45 extra minutes, and I need a calculator or this help or a guide human to help me through the test. I mean, when did, where does it end? Well, I assure that I had some sort of, you know, dopey chubby Chris Hansen, you know, didn't pick up math right away. Well, what do you do categorize that as a learning problem? Or do you just need to buckle down? Well, here's a, here's a better, I mean, yes, I agree. No, so here's, here's had to buckle down in a thing study. I'm not saying that that applies across the board and kids do have disabilities, but it has gotten so far out of control. Well, here's what it is. Human nature cannot be trusted. It doesn't work. I wish it did. We're no longer are we apply the golden rule or the 10 commandments or whatever religion did, it's gone. So what I'm saying is, is if you said to your average student, look, everyone gets an hour to do the final, but you'll get an hour and a half to do the final. But if you're a Gemini, but we don't check. Right. So what do you are a Gemini nature, then write down what percentage of people would just write down I'm a Gemini. Now, who are they? Are they criminals? Are they liars? Are they, are they whatever? No, they're just humans who would do it. Choice and an opportunity to do better and game the system. And yes, 90% of people are going to take the choice to game the system. I had a college environment. Yeah, I'm reminded of a weird story, but it was funny. Like I remember, I was with my grandmother a million years ago when I was a kid. And my grandmother used to, she worked for the VA and they'd have some weird symposium up north in the Bay Area or something. And a big sir or something once a year, they basically said, go to this place and hang out and it's really, you're not going to get anything done, but it's a meeting. But it's just an excuse to go out of town for two days and go somewhere nice because you got to work at the VA. And, and we would go with her every once in a while. And there was a, there was a restaurant. It was called the Big Sur Inn. Dawson is the Big Sur Inn still there. And my childhood was so deprived of any pleasure that literally going to the Big Sur Inn was circled on my calendar seven months before we went there. Like I literally was like, I'm going to order a pork chop and clam chowder and clam chowder to Big Sur Inn. It was a big deal. You know, and we were driving from the motel we're in to the Big Sur Inn. And my grandmother, who was cheap, but enjoyed drinking some wine with dinner, but would not spend the six dollars for the glass of wine, would bring her own bottle and get a decork that she bought a trader Joe's, you know, and we're driving the Big Sur Inn and my grandmother goes, oh man, I forgot the wine. And she hooks at you turn and she gets pulled over by a cop. And the cop goes, I need your driver's license, which my grandmother evidently left next to the bottle of wine back at the motel. Right. And I'm sitting in the back seat and moments early, my grandmother goes, where's the wine? We don't have the wine. I'm turning around and she hooks at you turn to the cop, pulls on the cop says, I need your, your ID. And my grandmother goes, I don't, I don't have my ID. I just discovered that. So I turned around to go back to get the ID. Right. And I just sat as a nine year old going, I guess this is what people do. This is pretty slick. When you're trying to get out of something and that's human. And my grandmother is not a criminal. No, but she's a human. But if you understand the way it works, I mean, I watched my dad years ago, you know, get pulled over in Chicago and talk a Finsky and the, with his driver's license and really a good day. Oh God, to miss those days. The Big Sur Inn is still, is it still there? Still there. I mean, the Big Sur Inn, we're going on, you know, year 65 of the, the Big Sur Inn. See if they still got that pork chop. It's a nice website on, on that web. So yeah, there was the biggest deal in the world. We get to go out to dinner to a place that has a pork chop and it's got a name. So that's what humans do. But the governor of California is attacking the person that's uncovering the fraud in his state, which is weird because, and it's, it's from the governor's office or from the governor Newsom's press office. And it's a picture of Nick looking demented with cameras strapped all to him saying, can I see your kids? It's the weird, I mean, it's, it's also sad. It's also kind of beneath Newsom. And it's also a little disgusting. Like, why do you not, and the same thing happened with Roblox, right? This documentary people can see on Watch Two Blue. I had multiple phone calls with the chief security officer and the press people. I said, just sit down for an interview. No, we don't want to take part in it. You've got people in there who are critical of us. People will always be critical of multi-billion-dollar corporations. But the smart ones like Boeing say, yeah, come to the factory. We're going to show you how we build the 737. See, it's very complicated. It's all right there. And, and while we don't think the anomaly you're reporting on caused a fatal crash, we understand it's of concern. And this is what we're doing to fix it. And once we give you the big tour of the factory and how we build the plane, we're going to sit down and talk to you about it. And we're going to thank you for bringing your concerns and this information forward. And we're going to incorporate that in our safety strategy. But instead, the arrogance of what you just pointed out, as well as what I've just pointed out, is astounding to me because it's not smart. Nick, thanks for coming by. Even if you didn't mean it, if you were the governor of California, you'd say, you know what, why don't you bring your findings to me and we'll talk about it. What is the harm there as opposed to creating a battle that is unnecessary? Right. Make the reporter your friend. Well, and, and, and, you know, take that back. Don't even make him your friend. But, but be smart. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. You know, we work on this constantly to make it as safe as possible. And Chris, remember this, it's not roblox committing these crimes. It's the predators. Yeah, that's, that's the interview. That's the part that's going to play. If you had done the same thing with Nick, surely that would play so much better, don't you think? I mean, where's the common sense in this? Who's advising this governor? It's, it's a weird thing. The same thing happened with Doge and, and Musk. It's like, look, there's billions of dollars of waste. The first thing we should all agree upon is to get rid of the waste. Nobody says, I want to take food out of hungry kids' mouths. And I want grandma to expire because she can't get health insurance. That's what nobody wants, but we don't want waste. So let's at least agree on that, except for they burnt down Tesla dealerships and won after big balls. And Elon became a pariah. And then, you know, Tim Walls was so busy going after Trump and Nick Shirley and all this, like, look, here's the deal. If someone's running a fraudulent daycare center, then you should be the first person who wants to know about that as the governor. If they're not, then they can carry on. Right. There's no consequence there. Usually it's spelled properly. We're learning. That's right. I mean, that was a, what a classic moment. I remember as a young reporter uncovering a lot of the stuff in the city of Detroit, and it reminded me that moment of so much of the work I did back then. And it was just, I mean, what more could you say? The Leering Center? I mean, oh my God. It says it all. I mean, who could not notice that? What I don't get. Other people besides Nick Shirley had to notice that before Nick Shirley blew the whistle on it. What I never get is, even though I know you hate Nick and you look at him as a Trump supporter and whatever it is, what about the optics? Like you at least as the governor have to go, I am appalled by waste. Thank you for pointing this out, Nick Shirley. That's right. Do you have anything else that we should look at? How about that? Right. But instead we're going to attack. Yeah, you're going to attack a young content creator. By the way, which is insane, but it's also- And he pointed out some shocking things, by the way, and good for him. Also, aren't we at a budget deficit? Don't we want to finish our bullet train? What about the kids in the schools and the underfunding? We never have enough money. So thank the person that frees up the cash. That's my point. It could go toward the children. Good stuff. Instead, we're going to attack him, which again is basically Trump derangement syndrome, which is you can disagree about this, that, and the other, but there's certain things you disagree upon just because it's Trump. And if that's everything, let's go micro. Let's say you have a bad relationship and you and your wife disagree on tons of stuff. So this guy wants to go out. He wants to buy new Harley, fully dressed, at the dealer, $27,000. And you go, that's a death machine. We don't have the money. And I disagree with that. And then at some point he goes, I want to go to Baja and go Marlon fishing for two weeks and quit my job. And you go, I, the wife goes, I disagree. I don't want to do it. But at some point he goes, I'm going to read to the kids at night and I'm going to make them a nutritious breakfast. You can't go fuck that guy. You have to go, well, that I agree with. Right. Because otherwise, it just seems like you're disagreeing with everything. For the sake of disagreeing. That is correct. All right, Hanson, let me give you a plug. Dangerous Games. That's, it's Roblox, which is the most popular online gaming platform in the world. On True Blue. And then also True Crime Network as well. And then we can just go to TrueBlue.com and find everything we need to know. You can go to watch TrueBlue.com, TRU, BLU. That's where the takedown episodes are. We've got more than 200 new takedown episodes, the predator investigations. And, and you know, the Roblox Dangerous Games is the first of many documentaries we have in the pipeline. So it's exciting. Well, when you come back and, well, through the one on fraud as well. Yeah, no, that's, that's, we're getting teet up for that right now. And it's, it's, God, it's going to be something. All right. Well, take a quick break. We'll bring Rudy into the news right after this. Hems. Well, it sucks when your hair starts to get thin. I've watched a lot of dudes go through it. I'm going through it a little bit myself. 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All medications require eligibility and prescription. First month is low as $25 with a 12 month plus plan. Does not include the cost of GLP one medications. It's time to check Adam's voicemail. Yo, Adam, this is DeAngelo, Mexican from South Tucson, Arizona. And finally had some chicken paprikash. For now, I am the super copper. Get it on. You can leave us a message at 888-634-1744. Oh man, I've been thinking about chicken paprikash and no cattle for the last few days, threatening to make it. I'm gonna make it this weekend. It's so damn good. Yeah, I've really been leaning in my Croatian side of my heritage as of recent. And I'm telling you, going around to different cities and finding places that you walk in, you can just, you smell, you smell the sausage, you smell the beers, you smell the kraut. I'm telling you, man, it's where it's at. LA is the craziest place and that literally our agreement with LA is we need 2,700 Indian food places, which is weird. And we need like 3,400 falafel places. There's no German food. And it's such a weird thing because it's like, you know, like when I was a kid, the idea of Indian food seemed weird, you know, curry, stuff like that. And then you go to the Mediterranean stuff and it's like shawarma and lamb and yogurt sauce and stuff. Yeah, but it's weird. Like it's weird as an American. Yeah. It's like nobody I knew ate shawarma or Indian food. And for that matter, sushi was weird, like raw fish, like, no. But the German stuff and the Hungarian stuff is just sausage and potatoes and kraut and bread. And it's like, good, like, fine. But there's no place for it in all of Los Angeles. Doesn't exist. Which is so weird because I will say this, let me tell you, everyone listen to me, everyone listen to me. Everybody's got their own shit that they like. Like people say to me all the time, Adam, I like you, but you don't know shit about music. It's like, oh, really? I don't know that UFO is a thousand times better than Steve Miller. I don't know that. Yes, I do know that. I know shitload about music. Ironically, you don't fucking know anything about music because you like Steve Miller. But okay, I know the difference between good and shit. But I'll tell you what the, I will tell you what the marker is. I'll tell you how this goes. Works this way with music, works this way with movies, works this way with food. People have their thing. They go, I love the movie Lady Bugs. I saw it when I was 11, me and my brother, four, he died. I laughed my ass off and I'll forget. And I'll go, I don't think I like Lady Bugs. And then they go, oh, you'll like Lady Bugs. And then we watch Lady Bugs and guess what? It sucks. Yeah. Okay. So that makes Lady Bugs not a good movie, right? And there's a music version and there's a food version of this. But I am telling you every human being I met as an adult have two things in common. They've never eaten Hungarian food and they've never heard of the band, the Jayhawks. And then I force all of them to eat chicken paprikash while we listen to the Jayhawks. And then they go, the Jayhawks are really good and chicken paprikash is really good. Now, if I fed people chicken paprikash and they're like, oh, and if they heard the Jayhawks and they went, not really feeling it, want to get back to Abra Kadabra by Steve Miller, then I would declare myself, well, I would declare you retarded, but I would say my yardstick is off. I'm not measuring people. I've literally given Hungarian food to, A, my kids when they were like nine, Guatemala and nanny, old guy, got her making it. I got a Iraqi girlfriend. They all fucking love it. There's nobody who doesn't love chicken paprikash and that. And every time I jump into August's car, he's playing the Jayhawks channel. And Mike doesn't know anything about me. He's like, he's just been on the road with me enough to force him to listen to the Jayhawks. And now he just drives around listening to the Jayhawks because the Jayhawks are good and because Hungarian food is good. So why the fuck can we not have a Hungarian food restaurant in this Godforsaken city? Also, when you try things as a child, you know, we have this thing at the holidays in Minnesota, we call it bakala. And it's, it is potatoes, it's cod, it's garlic and it's oil. And when I was nine years old, I wanted nothing to do with it. Now that I'm 45, I can't get enough of it. It's one of my favorite dishes of all time. And as adults, why don't you, why aren't people, it's almost like millennials were the last bastion of people that, that we had a sweet tooth when we were kids, but then we grew into adult food, where I look at, you know, people that are in their upper 20s, low 30s now, they, they're not developing that taste for that kind of food. I have explained this going all the way back to my first time on the radio. And I used to talk about all the time on Love Line. I don't talk about it anymore. It's called the yummy phase. And everyone is born into the yummy phase. But as an adult, you're supposed to transition out of the yummy phase. And I knew it because being of Kevin and being and Kevin was this way, but being was really this way. I remember super clearly me and being and Kevin and Jimmy went to eat dinner when we were in Seattle. Back when, you know, going out to dinner meant something. You know, it's like, it was a big deal, especially with me. I was poor. We were going out to dinner in Seattle of all places, Seattle. And me and Jimmy and we all sat down. And, and I was sitting there and I was like, Oh, we're in Seattle. Do you guys have what's like your best micro brew or something local, local beer? What do you got on tap? And I remember kind of going through them with that and Jimmy was doing the same thing. And it got to bean and bean said, do you have grape soda for dinner? Because bean is in the yummy phase and he never got out of the yummy phase. And the thing about the yummy phase is everyone is born into it. But then at some point you appreciate things. And that's like cognac, cigars, pussy, beer. Acquired taste. Right. It all tastes a little bitter first. But eventually you transcend it. Yeah. And you actually like it more than something that physically actually tastes good. And that's like the yummy phase. But as people do not mature into adults now, the yummy phase carries all the way through life. Whereas it was like, it was, you know, what you do, you know, in my crew and my world, when you were 13, you drank a beer and you held your nose because it was bitter, you know, and root beer would have tasted better. But you did and you pretended like you liked it, but you didn't really like it. But then at some point you pushed through. Now you actually like it. Yeah. All you need to know about people is go to one tailgate in Milwaukee for the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park and walk around that parking lot while everybody's grilling brats. And if you see any of those assholes put ketchup on their brats, boot, get out, out. It's mustard and it's kraut and that's what you eat on a goddamn brat at a baseball game. Out of the lot. By the way, I've given that speech a million times and everybody I give that speech to pauses and goes, uh, I like ketchup on my, there's no such thing as me giving that fucking speech and not having some ass white explained they like ketchup on there. Yes. Here's how it works. From zero to nine, ketchup on your hot dog. Once you turn 10, we go mustard, we can go kraut, we can go chopped onion, relish all of it. Chicagoans best. All right. Let me tell you about another guy who needs to go to hell in a hand basket. This happened to me two times yesterday. The self-awareness while driving one time. Oh, God, these people. There's an off ramp that goes to my house and it's got two lanes. That's a two-lane off ramp on a street up in the hills, like Glenda. According to this off ramp, the left lane turns left. The right lane can turn left or turn right and go up the hill. I am getting off the off ramp to turn right. Uh, there's one car in one car only and it's parked in the right lane waiting for the signal that takes an hour to change when it changes. That person turns left. So that person chooses to park in the right lane to turn left even though there's nobody in the left lane and ostensibly people coming up behind them such as me who want to turn right on the red and go up the hill. So there's that person. Later on that day, close to this shop, there's two wide open lanes. You can either go straight or turn right. This one has a left turn lane. So it's just two lanes. You can go straight or turn right. I'm now parked. I now want to turn right and I'm parked behind a person that is going straight but chose to do it from the right lane. Who the f**k are these people? Why is there no situational awareness and why is that even comfortable for you? Like, I'm going to go straight or I'm turning left from the right lane and I'm just going to sit there and people just pile up behind me with their f**king blinkers on and why is there zero attention given to this? Why not a f**king sign that just says turn it or move it over like turn right on red? Like, why have we totally abandoned this thing? It happened two times in the same day. Same car? Same guy. Same guy. Son of a b**ch. Yeah. Two different people who escaped from the same mental hospital. Turning, this guy's turning left from the right lane and this person's going straight from the right lane and there's nobody in the left lane. Who are they? Why are there so many of them and what the f**k is going on? And my argument is somebody could just say to them, hey, hey, hey. A little self-awareness. What are we doing here? Pull over. By the way, and do these people ever ride with people? Like, are there, is there ever a passenger? You know, like the person that's turning left but doesn't pull out to the intersection, does it from behind the crosswalks, so you're not going to make it? Does that person have a passenger ever that goes, hey, man, go out the f**king intersection, you a**hole? Yeah. I don't know about you. I feel the shame when I'm in the right lane and there's a possibility of me going straight and there's nobody behind me and I'm like, great. I don't feel like a dick because I know people want to go right on red. But people who pull up behind me, if they got that blinker on, there are not a lot, but there are times where I go, dude, I'm just going to turn right and I'll make a U-turn. Yeah, I've done it. Because I feel like, yes, I feel so bad about the fact that I'm wasting other people's time. The other thing that drives me nuts, which is now it's turned into a new thing, there should be a sitcom called Malibu Coffee House because there is a coffee place in Malibu that I walk to and the Malibu, there's one thing that people from Malibu can't do. They can't walk in and go, give me a large black coffee, thanks. They cannot do it. They can't do it. And it's much like the right from the right lane kind of thing. I go in and I go, give me a coffee, put a splash of cream in it. No one else, now there could be three people in front of you, but that's still a 20 minute wait. Sure. Because these guys are going to the back, there's Bunsen burners involved, they're going to centrifuge out, they're taking the particles and the atoms inside the coffee bean and they're separating them. Neil deGrasse Tyson is there. I had two dudes, no, sorry, two women in front of me blow up the, blow it up a little bit, Andrew. Two women, I'm standing there going, Jesus, good. I'm going, what the fuck? The guy's got a shaker out like he's making a fucking martini. He's in the back. I hear him shaking up the thing over his shoulder. I'm like, I just want coffee. James Bond here? Yes. It's called a, it's called a cafe shakerado. Shakerado. Someone made that up. Oh yeah. And espresso, milk, dark chocolate, hand shaken and chilled. There's two bitches ordering this in front of me. I'm there for 20 minutes while this fucking mad scientist is making these people a fucking drink. Just get a fucking coffee and get the fuck, sit your fucking fat ass down or have a separate line for sane people that aren't narcissists who just want a fucking cup of coffee because I have to pull in there. And you may not think three people in front of you is a lot of people, but if they're making the shakerado for all three of them, you're going to wait. All right. It's just, it's, I feel the same way that when you go to the event and they got the bar set up, you know, and there's always some, you know, you want a Bud Light and your friend wants a Scotch on the rocks. And then at some point you got the chicken furnished needs the slow gin fizz and the guys got the egg and he's trying to separate it from the white and the yolk. And it's like, you shouldn't know. No, no, with your fucking apple, teeny and your espresso martini or whatever. Just bullshit. Just this is for Scotch you want. We'll dump some Scotch in a cup. We'll give you a Michelob light. We'll pour your glass of red wine. You are not experimenting here. There's a fucking line of people. And by the way, I get it. I like a martini, but I got people behind me wanting to turn right. I'm not holding them up. Just give me a fucking Scotch. This happened to me in Vegas. It's a couple of days ago before I took a flight. It was about quarter to seven in the morning, huge line at the coffee shop. There was a woman, two people in front of me who walked up and ordered, I'll have the vanilla latte with a soy drizzle. And you could tell everybody was like, this woman in front of me, she had to have been 82 years old, turns around and goes, who does this bitch think she is? I go, yeah, she goes, don't worry, I'm ordering black coffee. I said, same, because look at the people behind us. Yes. Okay. Remember the supermarket had the express lane, 10 items or less. Like we had a lane for people who wanted to get the fuck in and out of the supermarket and weren't buying everything in the supermarket. All coffee shops need a just coffee lane. Yes. They would be fast. And by the way, for the coffee shop, it'd be a way to get through more people a lot faster. Yeah. Why can't you just put 10 smalls, 10 mediums, 10 larges, put it under a warmer, and then people can just grab it. You can add out what the sugar, cream, whatever you want, and we can get on with our goddamn lives. Go to this menu one more time. This shake a teeny, shake a rooster. Shake a rotto, how dare you? Shake a rotto. Now we got the cafe Niko, that's espresso, candied orange cinnamon, having it, first things first, if you're ordering that shit, you don't like coffee. Get your ass out of here. This is for people who want coffee. The honey buzz, honey, shaken ice espresso with a honey cold foam top. That's 25 minutes right there. Then the cafe, shakerado, and then the cafe, frizzante, espresso, sparkling water, lightly sweet. That has nothing to do with coffee. It's named after Michael Frizzante. You remember the singer? The honey buzz afterwards, you get it, and then a B comes and stings you in the ass for taking up everybody's time. I want to kick all these fun. And by the way, percentage of people in Malibu that need their own highfalutin drink, much higher than Recedar, Kenoga Park. Number one, number two, these two bitches get the shakerado. They're punching out. It's like, oh, it's $27. These people are spending 30 bucks on two coffee drinks. Yeah, there's a scene in Landman with Billy Bob Thornton, the opening, the first episode where the guys are on their way out to the oil field and they stop to get coffee and one of them orders one of those fruity drinks. And everybody starts laying on the horn behind them like, dude, we're all in it. All you got to do at one time on a construction site is hold people up and you will never make that specialty order ever again, ever. At Marathon gas stations, every stop is the start of fun. Like the awesome fuel savings you're going to get with Marathon rewards. Join Marathon rewards today and start earning rewards on every gallon of gas. You can redeem rewards at any time, saving up to $1 per gallon. Well, that adds up. And don't forget, Marathon stations are packed with all the conveniences you need to stock up on, to live life on the go. Marathon, where the fun runs on full available. At participating Marathon locations, terms and conditions apply. See MarathonRewards.com for detail. All right, let's do a little news, if we will. Actor Jerry O'Connor revealed in a new interview that his wife, actress Rebecca Romain, and their daughters became physical with him after former Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election. The actor joked on Bill Maher's Club Random podcast on Monday. I'm going to tell you about a bit of... Can I say this? Will I stay married? Blow it over here. Sounds like you're going to blow it over here. The night of the election, this third one. Yeah. Third election. Everyone knows what I'm talking about here. I was watching late at night the returns, and I'll be honest with you, I didn't think Trump was going to win. I live in California. I didn't think he was going to win. I didn't either. This is where I live, you know? I said something along the lines of like, there was no planning, this is what they get. There should have been a primary. I said something along those lines, you know? Like I was just spitballing ideas as to... It was a shock, you know? My wife and daughters, without saying anything, became physical with me. They were filled with rage. So if I am being careful with you in how I say things, yes, I live in California. I live with not one, not two, but three people who if I made any kind of joke, they would become very angry with me, you know? Well, I don't want to tell you how to live your life, but I couldn't live that way. I would, whatever household or situation I'm in, I say what I truly think, and if it makes you angry, I'm sorry, we'll have to work that out. But I am not going to tuck my tail between my legs and just shut the fuck up. This is what you were dealing with when you were a child. Just sit there and don't say anything. Sit on your hands. But what happened to Rob Ryder? More of that, Jerry, more of that. Yeah. Yeah. Where's Rob Ryder's ghost when you need him to be telling you more of that? Yeah. Yeah. It's a problem. Man, the night of the election, I don't know where you were, Ace, but I was on the road with my girlfriend. Who you've met, who is great, and she's a fun hang, and she's fun. But that night, I've never had to console somebody more. We were on the 35th floor of a hotel in Vegas, and I was like, we got to make sure the windows are screwed in because she was ready to goddamn jump out of it. Well, women, and they made such an emotional argument about Trump and Kamala. I just want to say to everyone who's on the left, Trump versus who? An incompetent, lying, duplicitous sack of shit who's inert. Like Kamala Harris wasn't going to do anything. The border would just fucking be wide open. The border would remain wide open. Whatever you think of Trump, let's not compare Trump to some sort of unicorn candidate that you built in a political lab. Let's compare Trump to Biden and Kamala Harris. Biden was a brain dead, race hustling, corrupt, serial lying, incompetent guy who was basically a puppet who was falling asleep sitting next to George Floyd's brother on the Juneteenth celebration on the lawn while cooling the gang's song. He didn't know the fucking, the only time that guy woke up was to take money from Ukraine for his fucking son because his family's corrupt. He has 35 shell companies. So what are you comparing Trump to? You know what I mean? And who basically left the border wide open so terrorists and God knows who else could all just spill across and create sleeper cells. Kamala Harris is a dunce who's a word salad shooter who I don't know what her policies are. She's for transing the prisoners. She's against transing the prisoners. She's for fracking. She's against fracking. She's been to the border, but she hasn't been to the border. She's a dope. So what are we comparing Trump to? You can dislike Trump all you want. Kamala Harris is a good candidate. She's smart. She's hands on. She's going to take care of business. The fucking border would be wide open right now, wide open. And you know what would be going on right now? Texas would be talking about setting up containers and putting something out in the Rio Grande, putting bar bar in the Rio Grande so they couldn't get across into Texas. And Kamala Harris and her administration would be suing Texas to get the barbed wire taken down. That's what we'd be doing. And every fucking speech would be about trans. It would be nothing but LGBT community. It'd be white supremacists, the biggest problem this country faces. And something about trans and something about the community and something about a seat at the table and something about treated with dignity. And we'd get our ass handed to us. And by the way, Iran would be this close to nukes. That's what we'd have with Kamala fucking Harris. So I know everyone's sad, but let's talk about what you would offer. Yeah, a lot of the stuff that Trump is doing nowadays, former presidents that are on the side of the left that people like did the same exact shit. They just didn't have the mic skills. And people didn't do it. They didn't do it. They said they were going to do it. They never did it. If Kamala Harris was in charge right now, Iran would have a nuclear, would have a nuclear device and the border be wide open. And whatever the fuck wanted, whatever terrorist cells want to come across the border with a suitcase bomb could do it because it'd be fucking wide open. So shut the fuck up. Shut up. You don't have to fuck your talking about. You're dumb. We decided women knew everything. Listen, just because you're going to become emotional doesn't mean you can blackmail me with your retarded ideas. You know what I'm saying? Oh, you'll get very upset if I don't wear gloves during COVID at the supermarket. That's you being a dumb bitch that has nothing to do with science. And we let them go. We let them go. We used to check them. We used to check women and go, no, no, I'm in charge or no, no, you don't get to set all the policy. And at some point, guys got pee whipped, left them in fucking charge. And now we're going nuts. And by the way, that's what LA is. It's a fucking city filled with chicks in charge. So many comics do not want to post anything nowadays because they are afraid of the rat they're going to feel from liberal women. It's awful. Taking dumb bows and being scared. Basically, here's basically the, here's the household. Here's the California household. Listen, my wife's nuts. Her ideas suck and they're going to ruin the house. But I don't want to get into a fucking argument. She's going to start crying. I don't want to fucking deal with it. Okay, good. Let the fucking house go to shit. I mean, most guys I know got steamrolled during COVID just because the woman was panicking and making all sorts of fucking declarations. And now we got fucked. By the way, my kids are vaccinated. I didn't want them vaccinated. They're vaccinated. I didn't want that. So that's the way it is. So grow some fucking balls, Jerry. Stand up. Yeah, no shit. Jesus, man. Although I will say, you got to admit, he looks pretty goddamn good, huh? He has that a glow up him and Chris Pratt both. Those guys should get medals for all goddamn. Those kids were like, they were the fattest kids on the set. And now they're god damn leading men. Handsome. Chelsea Handler has blasted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Cheryl Hines, claiming that she has not been able to live in her $5.9 million Brentwood home she bought from the couple five years ago. Five years ago. Yeah. Chelsea Handler's a dope, by the way. And she's not fucking funny either. That's the other I wish she was funny. I've done her show. She's not funny. She's skilled, but she's not a funny person. She's more dope. And by the way, you wouldn't have to fucking show us your tits every 10 seconds if you were funny. But go ahead. Especially the mental state that you're in. I would walk up in fucking have a conversation. A real conversation about Dennis Leary, by the way. Listen, he's been confronted so many times about his ethics and his views and he doesn't give a shit what anyone thinks anyway. So it's not going to make an impact on him. I would just to get my rocks off. I would like to have a go at him. Just some background information. I bought RFK Jr.'s house in Los Angeles five years ago. I still have not lived in this house. That's how fucked up this house was. The idea that this guy is in charge of the health of our country when he didn't even have a proper foundation at his house. And when they opened up the house, they were like, this house is the most toxic environment. You cannot live here for at least two years. I see him all the time. And I'm like, what did you do to Chelsea's house? Like, what have you done? Yeah. All right. She's a dumb bitch. Now, here's the thing. Take it from a guy's remodeled a lot of houses. I don't know what, first off, the foundation. It's not like Kennedy Jr. was in there digging footings or putting pylons in or doing foundation work. Here's the thing about a house. When you sell your house, you get an inspection. You get a home inspection and they inspect the foundation. And if the foundation needs to be repaired, then the homeowner can repair it or they can get a couple of bids and they just deduct that amount from the price of the house. So I don't even know what that means. But also, you can fix a foundation pretty fast. It's not that big a deal. In terms of, I don't know, what she was talking about, mold mitigation or something? I don't know. Yeah. She was talking about some of the, she says, quote, a legal stuff, which when you say illegal stuff in California, it's maybe it's just not up to their code. The two biggest tells from the retards on the left is Kennedy Jr. They're two biggest tells is Kennedy Jr. and Elon Musk. That's how I know you guys are lying and you have Trump's Arrangement Syndrome and we never have to fucking listen to you ever again because, A, both guys, formerly darlings of the left and the Democrats. One's a Kennedy, by the way, who made his bones suing Monsanto and all these other big chemical companies and defense contractors and Union Carbide for polluting the environment. So this guy, I mean, you want to talk about a guy who was built in a Democratic pop-up boner lab. You have a guy with the last name Kennedy, so he already comes from royalty and he makes his life work suing huge corporations that pollute the environment. Okay. So you love this guy. Yeah. The other guy invents an electric car, which you love. So you love Kennedy and you love Elon Musk and nothing bad was ever said about any of these guys. One guy was a genius who was going to save the planet through building electric cars and electric semi-trucks and everything else. And then the other guy was going to save the planet by repairing the planet because the rivers had gone bad and he's going to sue the company and then he was going to rehabilitate the river. These are your two biggest icons amongst the left. Then Trump gets elected and they go about to do more good work. Doge saved the taxpayer money, grift and fraud. This guy's going to get red dye number 17 out of razzles and look into childhood autism. Look into what's causing everyone to be on this, every kid to be on the spectrum of autism and all this kind of stuff. But because he was selected by Trump, you then have to attack both of them. And then both of them, one goes from the smartest guy in the world to a dope who's trying to take food out of children's mouths or something. I don't really even know what you've got to with Elon, but that one seems nuts. So you're going to go burn some Tesla dealerships. And then the other one is a madman who wants everyone to die of hooping cough because they didn't get vaccinated. Both huge lies and you've shown your cards because any sensible normal human being that did not have Trump derangement syndrome would go, I hate Donald Trump and I'm disappointed that my hero, Kennedy Jr. went and Elon Musk, another hero who've done a lot of good for our society, went to work for Trump even though I understand their cause is noble. They would like kids to eat healthier meals and they would like to colonize Mars and save money for the taxpayer via Doge. That's what a normal person would do, but they have to pillory both of them, which means they're fucking liars. And it also makes Chelsea Handler dope, makes her dumb. I want to hear, let's tear her side one more time. I don't know what it means that you can't live in it. You can totally rebuild a house in about a year if you need to. I don't know why she can't live in it. And I don't know what's wrong with Dennis Leary because Dennis Leary, everyone, call dopes out, what do you mean five years you can't live in the house? The mental state that you're in, I would walk up and fucking have a conversation, a real conversation about how you feel about things. Listen, he's been confronted so many times about his ethics and his views and he doesn't give a shit what anyone thinks anyway, so it's not going to make an impact on him. I would just to get my rocks off, I would like to have a go at him. Just some background information. I bought RFK Jr.'s house in Los Angeles five years ago. I still have not lived in this house. That's how fucked up this house was. The idea that this guy is in charge of the health of our country when he didn't even have a proper foundation at his house. And when they opened up the house, they were like, this house is the most toxic environment. You cannot live here for at least two years. I see him all the time and I'm like, what did you do to charge this house? Well, fucking don't buy the fucking house, bitch, but fix the house. The fact that in five years you can't as an adult who has a career cannot find enough contractors or people to be able to fix this house for you. Maybe we shouldn't give you a podcast, Chelsea. Get the fuck out. Get the road. I don't get what's wrong with the foundation. By the way, like I said, she's full of shit. The foundation gets inspected. If there's a problem with it, it can be fixed in two weeks. Yeah. I mean, normally three days, like literally injecting epoxy into the cracks and putting a couple of straps up and maybe pouring a little extra footing or something. It's nothing. I have no fucking idea what she's talking about. She doesn't know what she's talking about. And I'm driving through the palisades on the way home. Some of those houses are stuck-o'd, wrapped with a roof on them now. Like they can build, they can do, most contractors can do a house from the ground up in a year pretty easily. I've talked to them and I'm talking about 6,000 square foot. Like I'm talking about a big house with nice tile and fixtures and everything else. So five years can't- Seems crazy. What? Well, it's not crazy. She's lying. Yeah. It was just I'm saying. She's choosing not to live there. And also she, whatever her neighbor bitches are, someone should pipe up and go, hey, I'm a funny person. Yeah. I don't get it. Do you want to live in that house? Yeah. You want to live, look, if the house has like, let's say mold or something, you can just strip it. You can just strip all the drywall and insulation, reinstall it and re-sheet rock it. Yeah. Also, if you bought this house from George Clooney, would you be on your podcast right now going, that's son of a bitch, George Clooney. You just playing with such a piece of shit when I bought it for $5.9 million. Where have you been living the last five years? Very good point. And not only that, it's the part that makes it really egregious is, I don't know Elon Musk, but I do know Kennedy and he is one of the most personable, likeable, friendly, smartest guys I've ever met who just wants to fix shit. Yeah. Your kids were eating shit, the food pyramid was capsized, and he wants you to eat better. He wants prisoners to eat better. Really? Yeah. You're angry. Two of the biggest concerns amongst parents when it comes to health are, number one, getting chemicals out of food and number two, getting pharmaceutical ads off of television. That's one of the biggest ones. Well, there's a guy that you could have in office that could take care of that shit, but you guys all want to just pile on him. It's so weird. But that's when it shows, by the way, that's when you realize it's kind of a disease and it attracts. It affects more women than men, but it affects men as well, but not men that are wired like men, only mostly men that are wired like pussies. But I'll give you a kind of an example. Here's what men can do and women can't do. And this is part of what we're dealing with and part of the problem. Now, keep in mind Gavin Newsom, watch how he crosses his legs. He's probably out brooch shopping right now, if I know Gavin. Gavin is like, Gavin, going to the brooch shop to do some brooch shopping. And he's probably like, do you have a seat? I want to try this on. Well, you can stand in front of the mirror. Let's go ahead and pull the seat up in front of the mirror. I want to see how my legs cross deeply look with this brooch on. But here's, let me explain, this is going to ring true to all of you, all of you. And you'll have to admit I'm right. Men have guys they don't like and they think are douchebags and they hate, right? And so those guys will go, fuck Frank, Frank's an asshole. He only thinks of himself. Frank only worries, you know who Frank worries about? Frank, right, doesn't do anything. He fucking, fucking douchebag. And then you go, well, I agree with you, but remember you did have to leave that volleyball tournament where your daughter and Frank's daughter were playing and Frank did offer to drive your daughter home after the game and then stopped off at Keynes and got her some food. And then you go, yeah, okay. I still don't like Frank, but fine. I'm glad he drove her home, right? Okay. Let me tell you what women do. Women go, I hate Francine. See what I do there? Sure. She's a bitch. I don't trust her and I hate her guts. And then you go, what about that time she hung out at the volleyball game and drove your daughter home after you had to leave early. And then women go, I bet she was talking shit about me the whole drive and she only did it so she could talk to our daughter and fucking poison her brain. That's what women do. That's all women do. They can't give it up. They cannot. Once someone is bad, they're bad. So you're a bad guy because you don't want kids to get 85 injections or because Trump likes you. Fine. But at a certain point, bitch, when he wants to get red dye number 17 out of the candy and he wants to get your kids eating more healthy foods and he wants the environment cleaned up, bitch, you got to give it up. You have to give it up and go, don't like the guy, but at least he drove the kid home from volleyball. Right? Guys can do it. Women cannot. You try to get your woman to turn the corner on someone she doesn't like. You just go, all right, all right, all right. You hate this guy. It's good to do. She's a rat. He's whatever he did do. You feeling that blank? They'll go, they'll, you know what they'll do? They'll ascribe some motive to it. He only did that to get into your good crisis so he could fucking hit you up for a job. That's what they do. They cannot give it up. It's how they're, it's part of their wiring. And so the Trump derangement syndrome, it doesn't matter how many wars are ended and how many cultures are liberated and what he did for the historically black college or close what does not matter. It doesn't fucking matter. Yeah. There's nothing that can be done. There's a lot of dude comics that I will go, can't stand that guy, hate being in the green room with him, but goddamn, can they get on stage and bring the heat? Yeah. Right. Give credit where credit is due. Women will go, hate that bitch comic, not funny. Not funny. Never been funny. That's the way they do it. That being said, I mean what I said about Chelsea. Yeah. But you did give her a credit. You said, hey, she's not funny, but she is skilled, which surrounding yourself with other funny people to make your show number one is a skill. Yes. Absolutely. Yes. It's a skill. She's a skilled comic. Donald Trump has brutally ridiculed Gavin Newsom's dyslexia, calling him unthinkably positive. Oh, I love this clip. But there is, I don't know why I always think about Chelsea Handler, but she wrote a book about her in Africa or something. And the title of the book was, Uganda Be Kidding Me. I think it was. And I can't, was it her on an elephant with her top off? I don't know. Top's always coming off. Anyway, sorry, Trump. Yeah. Trump. We'll bring this clip up here in just a second where Trump is making fun of Gavin Newsom and his dyslexia. He said, honestly, I'm all for people with having disabilities, but not for my president. The president should not have a learning disability. Oh, our computer had a little. Oh, did it freeze up there? Had a little hiccup. Yeah. It is. I went through this with Constantine, I think his name is, from the Burbank City Council, the folks who shut down Tin Horn Flats. Me and Mark Garagas were making fun of him. And he's like, I have a disability. I'm on the spectrum. I don't like, hey, if you're retarded, don't run a city. Yeah. How about that? How about, hey, all retards, string beads, eat pudding, watch your daytime TV, count toothpicks after they fall on the ground. Do not run cities because part of you destroyed my friend's business, maybe because you're part of it. Sure. And I think Trump is saying that about Gavin Newsom here. Gavin Newsom has admitted that he is learning disabilities. Honestly, I'm all for people with learning disabilities, but not for my president. I don't want, I think a president should not have learning disabilities. Okay. And I know it's highly controversial to say such a horrible thing. The president of the United States, Gavin Newsom, admitted that he has learning disabilities, dyslexia. Everything about him is dumb. Yeah, you're dumb. And by the way, you sang to me, which is everyone does, they go, I'm on the spectrum. I'm half retarded. And I slept in my car. That just means you're fucking loser. I don't want you running anything. You slept in your fucking car and you're half a tard. Fuck off. What is the guy from Burbank City Council? Constantine something. I think you should run on that platform. If you're sleeping in your car, then you're a tard. If you sleep in your car, yeah. All right. All right. Yeah. So, good. Is this the guy? Constantine Anthony? Yes. Yes. He's a very harrowing story of being retarded and sleeping in his car and then also helping shut down Tin Horn Flats and put a family business of 50 plus years out on the street, putting a gate around a business because you guys were scared of COVID, even though you had no proof that outdoor dining, there's no science on outdoor dining being dangerous. You decided to do this shit on your own. Well, actually, sorry, Newscom, the other guy with the learning disability, decided that outdoor dining was dangerous even though there's no papers that said outdoor dining was dangerous. And then you retard, snapped into action and now Tin Horn Flats is no more. And there's no repercussions. There's no checks cashed and there's no apologies. Yeah. That's good. And then there's the assholes, sorry, like Jerry's daughter and wife who want more of this. You want to live in a world with more Gavin Newsom and more businesses put out and more shutdowns and more overreach. You guys want more of that. That's my argument. Okay. You hate Trump or maybe you hate Steve Hilton who's running for governor of California. But you love Gavin Newsom. You love Tim Waltz. You love Gretchen Whitmer. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan shut down lakes and boating and you couldn't go to home centers and get gardening equipment, but not for her and her husband. They've launched a boat. That's what you want. You want more of that. You want more incompetent, scared people fucking your world up. That's what you want. You want Gavin Newsom took bulldozers and scooped sand into skate parks at the beach. That's what you want. And I'm an insane person for not wanting that guy. Yeah. That fuck you. What the fuck do you know? You don't know anything. Well, that's because Tim Waltz and his cronies are going to bring back the joy. Let's bring back the joy. Well, hopefully some immigrants bring it with them over the border since the borders are going to be wide open too. That, I mean, that clip of what's his name getting into Tim Waltz about asking him about, you know, what percentage Somalis are on welfare and what's the measure? It was fucking overwhelming. It's insane. It's insane. Yeah. Yeah. They're fucking nuts. So, listen, if you guys, whether it's your girlfriend or Jerry O'Connell's wife and kids, if you guys were talking about putting Bill Clinton circa 1996 up versus Trump, well, then you have an argument. But when you have insane people who think men are women and women are men and don't believe in fucking borders and want to hand out welfare to everyone and want to crush school choice and get mobbed up with the teachers unions, if you don't like gas powered automobiles and believe in global warming and want to fuck everything, if that's your person, then fuck off. If it's sensible, normal Bill Clinton circa 1996, well, then you have an argument. Yeah. And then I, and by the way, I could be swayed, but that's not what you have. You have crazed fucking jihadists, essentially, who fucking love you, you love immigrants, you love illegal immigrants, and you fucking hate citizens. Yeah. Fuck off. All right. That's it. Where are we going this Sunday? Santa Ana, California, Jordan family classic cars. The Newman collection got moved there. So we're doing a live pod and also, Jay Morris is going to come out, say hi as well. And then Rudy will be there, Norfolk, Nebraska, District Event Center, couple of shows Friday, couple of shows Saturday, that's 27, 28th, and then off to Lincoln on the way home. Yeah. Comedy Club. You just go to amcraw.com for all the live shows and the merch store is up too. So you can check that out at amcraw.com. Rudy, what do you got? This Friday, I will be in Oakdale, Minnesota for next stop comedy. And then Saturday the 21st, you can catch me in Monroe, Wisconsin. And then on the 27th, they'll be in Lower Town St. Paul at Gambit Brewing for their third year anniversary show. 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