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selection varies by location Hello and welcome to Rewind with Karen and Georgia.
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And if you celebrate, Merry freaking Christmas. Oh, hi. Merry Christmas. What'd you get?
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This is our new Wednesday episode where we recap our old episodes. We give you case updates.
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We talk about what we'd wish we talked about the first time around, the whole shebang.
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And today we're recapping episode 25, which came out on Thursday, July 14th, 2016, which we named 20 Knives.
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It's just a nice rhyme. So 25, 20 Knives? 20 Knives, yeah. That doesn't make any sense.
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It's just a rhyme, like it's a mosh to Nipsey Russell. 20 Knives. Okay. I mean, okay, look, listen. Okay, let's listen to how we started that episode. Here we go.
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Did it start? Hi, Karen. Georgia, hi. How are you? Pretty good. How are you? And yourself? Thank you. Good.
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Now, we've never met before. Is that correct? Not in person. This whole podcast has been over the
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phone. Right. Yep. But now you and I are legally married so you can enter the country. I'm so
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excited to not have to be Canadian anymore. It's such a disgusting place. Kidding. But we have to
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like we have to fake our mayor, our green card marriage to the authorities, too. That's right.
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So you have to know a lot about me. Who's my third grade teacher? You like, wouldn't you say? Who's my third grade teacher? Oh, Mrs. Bacon.
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sorry go on uh no i let's do more green card testing i like it that's a really funny thing
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it's like if you you're not a true friend unless you memorize someone else's green card information
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so that you can pass a green card test would you green card marry someone uh depends on the
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situation yeah if you're like you're cool i i feel like that's i did that already
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and you didn't even get anything out of it. You got some nice china. I really think that china has gone untouched
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and can be negotiated for. Comes in a hutch, full set of gorgeous, totally untouched, yet probably slightly cursed wedding china.
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I think this time around, I'm going to go for actually someone that I like and who likes me back.
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Yeah. I think it'll be better. I don't even think love needs to factor into it. I think I could go for just high school crush style enjoyment of another person yeah just
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I feel like the like this is the mantra stoked to be around like you don't have to love them you
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should be stoked to be around them I mean what's the difference that's a good point valid I mean
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it's that all works out in the end right you just kind of end up with somebody yeah that's how yeah
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And try to remain stoked. Yeah. And try to be your best stokeable person for them.
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Make sure you increase your stokeability. Yeah. So you're not like resisting it.
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Don't even increase it. Just like make sure your stokeability is like on an even plane at all times.
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Like not at all times because today I fucking lost my shit and cried and was like probably not the stokeiest person in the world.
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Yeah. Who would want that all the time? To be around? Yeah. Plus I look so cute when I cry.
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You really looked great when you answered the door. All mad. My eyes get bright green.
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Yeah. So do mine. Yeah. I look like that one alien lady from Star Trek when I cry.
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Oh. Where it like it legitimately scares people because my eyes turn red in one instant Yeah And it I kind of look like Firestarter a little bit Also you light fires because you just get so angry
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Can I tell you who I'm stoked on right now? Please. This is going to go into, I'm not sure if this is Celebrity Center or our new segment called Recommendations.
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Wait, did we call that anything before? When we talked about TV shows we like? No, let's just call it Check This Shit.
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Check This Shit. the new HBO series The Night Of is so good and I am so intensely in love with Riz Ahmed
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who's the lead guy how is he so cute? it's because his eyes are unnaturally large
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and he uses them against you like he is a trickster he looks so innocent in this
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and sweet and like What was he in before this? Sad. He was in Nightcrawler. He was the assistant in Nightcrawler.
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And he's been in a bunch of stuff. He was like in the Centurion movie with Michael Fassbender.
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Like shit, you're just like, oh yeah, that guy was in that. That one guy. Yes. Well, he often plays a Middle Eastern person.
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So it's that because he's Pakistani. Right. And so like he was in the Reluctant Fundamentalist, I believe it was called, with Ray Donovan.
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Um, you know, it's any British. That's the most amazing. Is he British? Stop it.
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So it's one episode and that was like, and it was like a pre-showing of it. Yeah, it was a sneak preview.
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We don't even get the second episode. And what's this? Is it tonight? Someone told me it was tonight.
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Someone told me that they're showing the actual first episode tonight. So re-showing the one we've already seen.
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Yeah, which is stupid. So maybe not. I'll watch it. Fuck, it's so good. It's like a play.
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It's like a play. It's about a dude who basically finds, let's say he finds a body.
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Let's just say. Why explain it? And go watch it. Yeah. Because once you get into it, see, like when I saw the previews, I thought I knew what it was.
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Right. And then once I watched it, I was like, oh, this reminds me of the way The Wire felt.
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It's a whodunit. Yeah. It's like a whodunit with John Turturro. What more do you fucking need in your life?
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But also all those actors, like that guy that played the one cop with the mustache at the station is from Angels in America.
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Like there's all these Broadway and like very high level, but not like super commercially known actors in there.
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So it all feels really real. I like that. So the main cop, really, it's the procedural shit is interesting because the way they talk him into getting a DNA sample from him and then casually say, we also need to swab your dick, bro.
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Yeah. It was like, it seemed so realistic. It's horrifying. It's just horrifying.
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Yeah. And they're like, why do you need a lawyer? Casualty of it all. Let's not give too much away.
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All right. Get into it. You'll thank us. Get into it. Come back to us. Let us know what you think.
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Also, keep your eye peeled for Riz Ahmed, who will be one of the stars of the next Star Wars movie.
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He's just an up and comer. He's a fresh young face. that will be mine. Says Karen Kilgariff.
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Man, that's Karen Kilgariff's take. That's like, that's like the, like, the movie review
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on, like, Entertainment Tonight. And that's Karen Kilgariff's take. Da-da-da. Yeah.
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Da-da-doo. That part's over. Wait, didn't you have a recommendation? I think that was it.
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Wait, we have the same one? No, yes, but we were also talking about Bloodline and how you said it.
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What were you saying about Florida? I couldn't watch it. I tried to binge watch it,
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but I started getting high on Florida where I was feeling dizzy. It was all those beautiful,
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slightly out of focus shots of the beach and when all the Christmas lights go, it looks like the beginning of the focus features
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title card. That's what that whole TV show is like. It's also like... It's like 102
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plus all the humidity. Yes. And then what's her name? The sister. Linda Cardellini.
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Thank you. Like, I knew you'd know that. Yeah, I'm a fan. Like her outfits for a lawyer are
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fuck. Are you fucking kidding me? Like you mean like her very skimpy sundress in all.
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She wears these skimpy as fuck shorts and these like platform like Payless. And I'm not talking
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shit on Payless because I fucking wear the shit out of Payless shoes. But you can't go into a
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court of law dressed like that. You'd be held in contempt. Girl, that's Florida.
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yeah it's a lot it's and her hair is always so perfect i know i'm lady shaming right now
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well it's a tv show and kevin is just the most realistic character in all in the whole show
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is that the fuck up brother that's the fuck up brother yeah all right yeah we had one of those
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in my family like no matter what happened when they were coming back into town it was like oh
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everybody get ready that's why i'm scared to have kids like what if you have the fuck up kid
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yeah oh speaking of which uh it's not one in four every four people's and sociopaths let's do this
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is corrections corner corrections corner because i was about to say you had a one in four chance
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i was about to repeat my same incorrect information that's what i'm all right you guys correct me
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and someone i believe off of memory was named clint page on the facebook page who said i don't
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I want to be a correct person, but it is not one in four. And then all these other people were like, it is, I think they were saying it's 25%.
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Right. It like one it like hey oh so next week look for next week correction corner where we correct what we saying right now There some there also so there so one there one in four people are not psychopaths It like one in it not a percent I don know
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It's not one in four. It is not one in four. That's way too high. That's way too low.
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That's way too many. Also, we got a really beautiful email just letting us know.
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So last week I did Kitty Genovese as my favorite murder. Did you say kidney Genovese?
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Kidney Genovese? No, because that was sad because I think she got stabbed in the kidney.
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So Karen, that's really insensitive. I miss her. It's probable that she was a lesbian.
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Yeah, they talk about that in the Crime to Remember episode. Right. And it's not, you know,
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this girl wrote a really beautiful email to us about how it's like, she's not trying to correct us and it, you know, it's not,
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it's just a part of it that's like not fair that she didn't get to be represented
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as how she was and this girl who had to pretend to be her roommate, you know, actually had a huge loss of her partner.
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Yeah. And how sad that was. And, you know, now we're in a time when we can say that she was a lesbian and not it
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not be like somehow taint the tragedy of what happened. Well, in that episode of Crime to Remember, they talk about their gay relationship as being
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also why people weren't calling the cops because they said there were other gay people in that
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building that knew like you don't involve the cops no matter what. That was part of the element.
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But when you were talking about it, because it was from the brother's perspective,
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I wasn't going to be like, well, and also this, because it's like, if it wasn't in the movie or if he didn't
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talk about it, maybe they didn't. Well, here's the thing. I didn't finish it because my fucking computer
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wouldn't upload it. So that could be the whole second part of the goddamn show. That's, yeah.
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Well, if everybody gets it, I mean, that's awesome that somebody wrote in. If you get a chance,
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the A Crime to Remember episode about it is really good too. We always close what?
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They were the ones that thought that that guy did not do it, that got caught. Right. There was a neighbor.
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Yeah. We always close Correction Corner, which we've never done before, with saying,
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if you're getting your facts from here, look somewhere else, bro. Right? We like to discuss concepts more than facts.
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Yes. And fantasies also. Yes. More than facts. There's a reason that this podcast is
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categorized as comedy. Yeah, a pretty good reason. Yeah. It's not drama. We're fucking hilarious.
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It's not fact-based. We do our best, but there's so much talking that it's very easy to do.
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Oh, hey, guess what I did? What? Guess what I did in a fit of fucking manic episode last night.
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What? I started an Instagram account. Oh, nice. I saw you tweet that, right? Yeah.
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My favorite murder Instagram account. And what are you putting on there? All our arts?
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I think, yeah, all the arts and crafts and all the like, I just love all the like the inspirational quotes of every episode that are made by Shez Amanda.
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She does an incredible job of just like finding the stupidest quotes we put in like making them into like these like great posters.
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Inspirational looking posters. But it's things like I hope we don't get stabbed.
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Right. Don't be a fucking lunatic. It's very good. So there's a lot of art that people are making that I'm posting.
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Wait, are you talking about the memes or are you talking about that girl that does like hand lettering?
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Both. Oh, okay. I put them both up. Got it. So I'm just going to post things and stuff related to the podcast.
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That's good. We can also do pictures. Like remember that time that I did that there was that terrible man.
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Oh, he was one of the, he was in the story about the babysitter killer. Oh, yeah.
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And he had the craziest, scariest looking mugshot of all time. Go to Instagram to see his photo.
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Yeah. Okay, we're back. This is where we started with a lot of beautiful things.
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Our obsession with Riz Ahmed, our fucking Instagram account. I mean, things that really made us, built us as people and podcasters.
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Truly. Yeah. Truly. If you have not seen the HBO series The Night Of. Of, so good.
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It is one of the most incredible false imprisonment stories. Incredible. And he's such a good actor, as we all know.
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He is. This says he's going to be Hamlet in an upcoming modern adaptation of Hamlet.
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Yeah. Well, he's going to be in it. Is he going to be Hamlet? This says he's going to be Hamlet.
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He's going to be Hamlet. Congratulations. What a role. Do you know that somebody, and I wish I had your name right now.
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I'm so sorry. But it is in my drawer in my bedside table. Somebody embroidered that little bag.
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Do you remember that? They gave it to me at a live show. And it said, it's embroidered Riz Ahmed's face and my face.
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And then it's the quote I have that it's like some insane quote I said where it's like, it's something crazy.
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You have to take a photo of it and send it. We'll post it on our Instagram account, which is at my favorite murder, which is still going strong.
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Yeah, that's right. You know what? I'm going to take it out of that drawer. Do it.
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I'm going to bring it up. I'm going to put it on the shelf behind me. Yes, Alejandra, make her do it.
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Can you help me do that? And give her credit. It says something like, I love him, like, you know, with the power of a thousand sons.
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Yeah, that sounds right. Something real crazy that when someone embroiders it, you start to realize how insane you sound and you try to stop saying stuff like that.
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But you don't. And eight and a half years later, here you are. Try as you might. So this episode is it starts heavy and then it gets really bad.
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Yeah. You'd think we would have learned at some point, not just in the most recent past, to do a hard one and a soft one.
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but no, nope. This is the way we do it. And apparently this is the way the listeners like it.
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So this is Georgia. She went first on this episode. It's the case of murderer, Christopher Dorner.
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I'm so comfortable just now. I waited till you adjusted that pillow. All right. So I didn't know that I have a hometown murder,
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but it took place 15 years after I moved away from my hometown. So is it technically my hometown?
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Yeah. if that's where you're from. So we got this really great email from this dude
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who was like, I've heard you mention you're from Irvine and that you worked in the Woodbridge Village Center
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at this place where I could have been killed. And we're like, I just want you to know where we're redoing it.
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And if you come and like visit it, I'll take you to the parking garage where Christopher Dorner's killing spree started.
00:20:46
Whoa. And he's like, which I'm sure you know about. And I was like, wait, what? Do you know about this?
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I know about Christopher Dorner. So I do too. And this happened in 2013, which is like not that long ago, which seems like it seems like so much longer ago.
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And I didn't realize it started in Irvine. I didn't either. Yeah. So in February 2013, Christopher Dorner, who was 33, started his killing spree that lasted, I think, two days.
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A couple days. A few days, like a week. What is life? So he grew up in Southern California. He was a former United States Navy Reserve
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officer. He was deployed to Baharan. He was discharged from the Navy in 2013. I think it's
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Bahrain. Bahrain. Fuck. I just, that's a guess though. I could also be wrong. As I was saying
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it, I was like, I'm not going to be like a Fox News correspondent who says everything wrong.
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And so I like said it wrong. Sorry. No, don't sorry. Me sorry. Okay. So after his tour in Iraq, it's Iraq, right?
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Or is it Iraq? I pulled that A out way longer. Iraq. Iraq. Iraq. He goes to Los Angeles.
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He goes back to the police department in 2007. and seven he's paired with a training officer named theresa evans to complete his probationary
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training in 2008 he files a report against her oh um that she used excessive force in her treatment
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of a suspect who was a schizophrenic with severe dementia and he says that evans uh twice kicked
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this suspect in the face while he was handcuffed and lying on the ground. Oh, no.
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So after he files this report, Dorner gets fired from the LAPD in 2008 for making false statements.
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Uh-oh. They were like, you're fucking lying, basically. And his attorney at the hearing is Randall Kwan, Q-U-A-N.
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And he's like defending Dorner, saying that he was treated unfairly and he's being made a scapegoat.
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Basically, you know, saying the police department didn't want to admit that she used excessive force.
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So they fired him instead. Wow. Because you're not basically you're not allowed to rat out your fellow officer.
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That's what it seems like Dorner assumed. So he tries to get his job back with the LAPD's Board of Rights, rejected his appeal.
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He took his case to court with Randall Kwan as his attorney and a judge ruled against it in October 2011.
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So Dorner's like basically snaps at this point. So the murders start weirdly enough with the murder of this Randall Kwan's daughter and her fiance in Irvine in a parking structure, which I was just looking up and I'm pretty sure it's where my dad's apartment was.
00:24:00
Oh. Yeah. Which is across. Like they lived in the same place? Yeah, I think so. So I think it happened across the street from where I grew up.
00:24:09
Wow. Where my dad lived. Because I don't even know. So February 3rd, 2013, he just fucking
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goes up to them. They're in their car in a parking garage and shoots them. And like,
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remember that coming out in the news and finding out who the father was and being like, oh shit,
00:24:29
This is like you could tell it was a revenge killing immediately. And it's just such a fucking huge bummer that this girl and her 27 year old fiance name, Keith Lawrence, just got shot to death because this guy went crazy.
00:24:47
So immediately you have no sympathy for this dude. So this is his public defender that he basically or maybe not public defender, but this is his lawyer for that case.
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Yeah. Who they lost the case and he didn't get his job back. And so he went and killed that lawyer's daughter and fiance.
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And he had this crazy manifesto basically saying that he didn't fight hard enough.
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He says, your lack of ethics and conspiring to wrong a just individual are over.
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Suppressing the truth will lead to deadly consequences for you and your family. There will be an element of surprise where you work, live, eat, and sleep.
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look look your wives slash husbands and surviving children directly in the face and tell them the
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truth as to why your children are dead because you killed them just i mean and the don't kill
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the judge not the fucking lawyer's family i'm sorry right if someone's gonna we don't have to
00:25:46
pick okay you're right you know what don't kill anyone a yeah i think that's the option all right
00:25:51
right I'm gonna get hate send messages you were just trying to solve the problem
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which would be don't kill the family right so Monica Kwan and Keith Lawrence fucking shot to death
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so he has this crazy manifesto he wants to seek revenge and he just like writes this insane
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I will bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in the LAPD uniform,
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whether on or off duty. Like this motherfucker is like... He's on one. He's targeting a large group of people
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rather than individuals, which is terrifying. He says he was terminated after he reported excess force
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and his attacks are retribution for his termination as well as cultural racism and violence
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that continues within the department. So suddenly this huge man hunt is on for Dorner.
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Police suddenly just start shooting people because they're freaking the fuck out.
00:27:02
So there's a truck that the cops thought was his truck. They shot the shit out of it.
00:27:08
Yeah, those were the two women delivering the newspaper and they just started shooting a truck.
00:27:12
Yeah, and there's photos online of how many fucking shots are in this truck. they also had another pickup truck matching this description of like a dude who was like
00:27:22
on his way to go surfing in fucking orange count or like and they shot it up they shot the shit out
00:27:27
of this truck both everyone lived but they also sued the shit out of yeah yeah they did yeah yeah
00:27:33
but at the same time i'm pissed about that but i'm also like how terrifying i mean which is which
00:27:41
is better well i mean this is the kind of the crux of everything that's happening right now yeah
00:27:46
It is a high pressure job. It is a scary job. And it's the kind of job where you have to be able to handle yourself with a gun.
00:27:56
Right. So if you think that basically you can't start shooting vehicles because you think your suspect is inside.
00:28:05
No, that's not the way you're allowed to apprehend people. And the other thing too is like, as a police officer, there's an amount of danger involved with your job that you sign up for.
00:28:19
So you approaching the vehicle and IDing the suspect and possibly getting killed by doing that is what's supposed to happen, not the possibility of civilians getting killed, right?
00:28:29
Yes. And I mean, and that's why there's procedures so that when you approach that vehicle, you're calling in, you know what I mean?
00:28:35
Like, it's like, did they yell, put your hands outside of the vehicle? And those two women, they didn't get close enough to see it was two women.
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They didn't get close enough to see that they didn't speak English. I don't know what the problem was.
00:28:48
I don't know the details about it, but like, it doesn't make sense that you just.
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It was also a large, Jordan was a large black man and he, they shot up two women and like
00:28:58
a white guy who was a surfer. Yeah. So like, clearly they weren't, yeah, they weren't doing enough.
00:29:05
research into this. So they find his truck abandoned and burning near Big Bear. And I remember this.
00:29:16
At this point, I was like, fuck, thank God he's not in Los Angeles. Like, I totally didn't leave the house.
00:29:20
Yep. And then two of Riverside's officers were shot in an ambush. One died. The other one was taken to the hospital.
00:29:29
And then they believe he just drove up to the vehicle at a stoplight and fired with a rifle
00:29:35
at these two dudes. 34-year-old Michael Crane, who was on the fucking Riverside force
00:29:40
for 11 years, died. They searched at least 400 homes in the area. Terrifying. Do you think they found anything
00:29:47
in certain people's houses that were like, we'll be back for this? Yeah. Your weird sex swing
00:29:51
in the corner. The Smith Lab? We'll be back for this. Oh, yeah. Right now? Today your lucky day Yeah It not that But we be back Tomorrow will be your unlucky day Right right right right So the Manhattan enters its second week So it two weeks
00:30:05
And then Karen and James Reynolds are cleaning out their Big Bear cabin that they owned and rented out
00:30:12
not far from the command center when they were confronted by Dorner who had been living there for a couple days.
00:30:19
Oh, so he broke into their empty Big Bear cabin. Yeah. I also want to talk to Karen and James
00:30:23
about why they're cleaning out their cabin at a time when there's a massive manhunt for like...
00:30:29
Oh, that's not going to affect us. We'll just go up there and grab that wood bare toilet paper dispenser.
00:30:35
You know, my Aunt Susie's coming up for the weekend and you know how she gets about dust bunnies.
00:30:39
Why are they Southern? It's fun. That's how people know we've gone into a scene lit,
00:30:45
which is our newest segment, scene lit. Scene lit. So Karen and James. But they're kind of badasses
00:30:52
because they were tied up and blindfolded. He took the keys to their maroon Nissan Rouge.
00:30:59
Didn't know that was a car. I don't think it is anymore. It probably isn't because of this.
00:31:04
Discontinued. But he kind of was like, he said to them, like, I don't want to kill you fuckers.
00:31:11
Like, he wasn't trying to kill civilians, except for the lawyers. I think he thought...
00:31:16
No, he had his kill list. He wasn't just going berserk. Yeah. He didn't want to kill this dude.
00:31:22
This couple, he just had, you know, he could have shot them and like taken whatever he wanted and lived there.
00:31:28
He could have shot them and stayed there and he did it. Right. Not defending him.
00:31:31
Just saying. Yeah. So they use their teeth and a knife. They knocked off a nearby table to remove the pillowcases from their heads and zip ties from their wrists and called 911.
00:31:43
Oh, shit, dude. Karen. And who? What's her husband's name? Richard? Georgia. we're the heroes karen james reynolds
00:31:55
uh so these i mean who escaped escaped zip ties on the rag it's ryan reynolds parents
00:32:04
that's why they're so awesome right so let's see here okay they spotted him driving sorry this was
00:32:14
in what season is it is is there snow up there oh summertime this is december right what did i say
00:32:20
sorry karen i'm really sorry i'm trying to paint a mental picture of my mind quiz your quizzes
00:32:26
every week you quiz me now what season was it what was he wearing underneath his coat so this
00:32:35
started in february so so there was probably snow mid-ish february yes it's probably cold okay
00:32:40
why? because I love Big Bear it's fun have you ever gone like inner tubing up there?
00:32:46
no but I need to the best you mean like when you like hang out in an inner tube and drink beer
00:32:51
and wander around or like when you well that would be on a river okay is what you're thinking of
00:32:56
right? that's summertime but in the winter time in Big Bear they have mountains just
00:33:01
off the side of the road and you can rent inner tubes and then you go up a little
00:33:05
like cloth escalator up the side of the snowy mountain get up on the top. There's like a teen there with a whistle or whatever. And then you just go down
00:33:14
and it is the most fun. If you're following your Instagram account, you will see a photo of me at
00:33:19
five years old, inner tube and big bear. Yes. Going down the snowy hill. Nice. My dad lived in
00:33:26
Lake Arrowhead for a hot minute. Do you have a photo? Let's post our fucking tubing photos.
00:33:30
Let's give the people what they want. Instagram, inner tubing. Murder and tubing. I might just put
00:33:37
up a picture just a picture of an inner tube and just a celebration of inner tubes because they
00:33:42
really summer winter fall what a great vehicle for fun she inner tube tubes tubes tubing
00:33:51
sorry no don't never be oh wait where was i karen and richard have just escaped from the clutches of oh my god then they find a purple
00:34:04
car because how many purple Nissans are there on the roads? Probably not a lot. Purple Nissan
00:34:09
Rouge. I feel like that was his, besides killing people, his biggest mistake. Yeah, don't get into
00:34:14
a purple car. Don't get into a purple car. What are you fucking, Guy Fieri? Get out of that car.
00:34:19
This is not the time to floss. Yeah, this is not the time to be quirky in your car.
00:34:26
Escapism means a beige or white car. That's exactly right. How about a nice gold Corolla
00:34:34
No one will ever look at you. Gold? That's a little flashy. Yeah, well, not like bright gold,
00:34:39
but, you know, like a kind of... Muted. A muted gold. A bronze. Muted tones. A bronze.
00:34:46
But you know what? A light blue. The car I drive, so boring. Yes, that's right. Light blue.
00:34:50
I hate it. It's... I want a car that, like, I walk into a parking garage, such as the one that these poor people got killed in.
00:34:58
Yes. And I'm going to be like, that's my orange car over there. You do want that?
00:35:01
Yes. You do want an orange car? Yes. Okay. I really want an orange car. What can you give me an example of an orange car?
00:35:09
There's a lot of Honda fits that are orange. Oh, yes. Would you say it's a little more copper than like, say, a clown?
00:35:16
It's a burnt orange. Great. And I love it. That's what I'm looking for is not clown orange.
00:35:21
Good. Okay. Can I go on? No. Also, how do you feel about dark blue? Electric blue, I'm cool with. Okay, cool.
00:35:30
Dark blue, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.
00:35:33
cool elvis you cool oh cool okay uh let's see they find they spot his car he's tailing two
00:35:41
school buses for cover so a purple car is tailing two school buses you mean like to hide behind them
00:35:49
yeah like to just be like i inconspicuous oh yeah no don do that gun battle ensues he crashes and he runs and quickly hijacks carjacks a pickup truck Again saying to the dude I don want to kill you Get the fuck out of the car
00:36:05
Like not going to kill innocent civilians. Or like not innocent, but uninvolved.
00:36:11
Involved civilians. Goes to a cab. How do you say not innocent? Are you just worried that maybe the guy,
00:36:17
the truck driver's a douche? I'm just saying that those people are innocent. Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:36:22
They're like not involved. Yeah, but they're not involved. So I don't say they're not innocent.
00:36:26
They're innocent too. This dude Collins shows up at the Big Bear cabin where he's at.
00:36:34
The first there. Want to know where he gets shot? Wait, wait, wait. Who's Collins?
00:36:39
Collins is this cop, this San Bernardino police officer, deputy who gets to the cabin
00:36:43
where Doran has run into after he crashes his pickup truck. Okay, got it. He makes his final stand here.
00:36:50
We're coming to a close. Don't worry, people who aren't into killing sprees, which I understand.
00:36:53
gun drawn he gets from the cabin he shot but he does he lives so don't worry about it yeah
00:37:01
beneath his left nostril oh shattered his teeth and exits slightly below his jaw this is the
00:37:09
collins the new guy or collins dude oh who made a joke later that he looks better now than he did
00:37:15
before like he's a sweet baby angel god bless him i mean and he survived i wouldn't hate getting my
00:37:21
teeth shattered up and brand new ones. I'll just say that. I'm just saying there's always a positive.
00:37:28
No. I'd like him kicked out. Just kidding. So you're going to come with your PO box or what?
00:37:36
That's how we'll do it. All of our dreams are going to come true. I'll keep you from getting
00:37:40
killed by putting my teeth in front of whatever the weapon is. She threw her teeth in front of
00:37:45
the bullet. She gave up those upward slanty Irish teeth as if they were nothing. Your teeth are
00:37:50
fine. Says the girl with Invisalign. Invisalign? That sounds like a Madeline book.
00:37:58
Yes. All right. Shot again. Fucking Collins shot again below his left knee. That's got to hurt.
00:38:04
And in his left arm. In his face and knee and arm. Which this guy, this guy, Dorner,
00:38:09
was a sharpshooter from the Navy. So maybe he didn't. I mean, you get shot in the fucking face.
00:38:15
You're trying to kill someone. You're trying to kill someone. That's a headshot.
00:38:17
That's a headshot. You can't really talk your way out of that. No. Also, you made that list of people you were going to kill.
00:38:22
Yeah. And this guy lives in San Bernardino probably with his sweet kids and wife, whatever.
00:38:29
Ex-wife. I don't know. And now he's okay to the point where he can make jokes about it.
00:38:34
That's what the news says. Great. That's all I need to know. Okay. Yes. So, yes.
00:38:40
Good. So, police toss smoke devices into the cabin. Cabin catches fire and burn for hours.
00:38:48
And he was inside? Yeah. The sheriff, they said they found charred human remains among the ashes. So do we even know if it's his body? And also people said that he had a gun shot in his head, but we don't know that. I don't know if that's...
00:39:03
So he killed himself and then the cabin burned down? No, I think he probably was dying from smoke. And then, I don't know.
00:39:10
And then shot himself? You know, I stopped investigating at this point. Karen, sorry. Sorry.
00:39:16
Well, I just remember the story. Yeah. Yeah. And it was like they have him surrounded. They had him surrounded for a while. Then it was like, we're going in. And it was like, he's dead. It's over.
00:39:25
I was watching this shit probably at a bar. Yes. You know, like this was a big news story here in L.A.
00:39:31
It really was. I think L.A., we hate our car. What are they called? Car chases. Car jackers?
00:39:38
No, we as people who live in L.A. for a long time are sick of the news being like car chases.
00:39:46
they're fucking egregious and stupid and obnoxious i only saw one recently that ended
00:39:51
amazingly where this this woman is like making all these crazy no no this person is making all
00:39:56
these crazy turns i just gave it away yeah and she like finally stops gets out of her car
00:40:01
hands up it's a woman everyone in the public house that i'm in cheer because they're stoked
00:40:06
that it's a chick and she starts walking towards him with her hands up then fucking makes a bolting
00:40:11
beeline to the cop car to steal the cop car and go away. No way. And everyone in the bar is fucking cheering for her and she gets caught.
00:40:21
But it was like the sweetest move. That's amazing. Yeah, it was great. What drugs do you think she was on?
00:40:26
All of them. Okay. At least, what's the one they always told you not to do? Angel dust?
00:40:31
Yeah. That's the one where you lift the cop car over your head. How about our Paris, or what's it called?
00:40:38
Instagram? No, the one you make money off of. on social media? PayPal. No. Anyways.
00:40:47
Patreon. Patreon. Thank you, Stephen. How about Patreon? We do angel dust. Did you see what happens?
00:40:53
It's just a video of us doing angel dust. Yep. Like kids, here's what happens. I'm putting this on the to-do list.
00:40:59
We're gonna get dusted. All right. I'm finishing this up. I'm so sorry. But here's the crazy thing is the police,
00:41:07
Los Angeles police announced the department reopened the investigation into his case that led to his termination
00:41:12
after he was dead. What? And Chief Beck said, I do not appease a murderer. I do it to reassure
00:41:19
the public that their police department is transparent and fair in all things we do.
00:41:24
Wow. I know. That happened recently? This happened on Google. Why have I asked you one question? I feel very bad. Should I be embarrassed? No, not at all.
00:41:38
I just meant like, was it a... I know what you mean. Here's my thing. It seems like every day we spend,
00:41:48
every other police department in the world looks terrible. Yeah. And slowly but surely LAPD doesn seem so bad They really don These days These days they don If you watch the simpsons 30 by 30 they don look so good they don and that why i feel like they trying to be like sorry about
00:42:06
that one but i mean something like that where it would be worst case scenario if it was like what
00:42:11
if he was right the whole time yeah that's nightmarish well some people get fired and
00:42:16
don't go fucking no but guess what they don't get talked about on my favorite murder do they
00:42:21
That's right. Well, also the fact that there's probably at least a 50 to 50 chance he had PTSD
00:42:28
from being... Absolutely. From being in Baharan. Where is it? Bahrain. Bahrain. He probably had
00:42:36
PTSD. His neighbors said that he was a member of an admired, well-liked family who usually kept
00:42:44
to themselves. That's always a bad sign. Don't keep to yourselves, you guys. Put it out there
00:42:48
on the porch. He was divorced in 2007, no kids. So he probably lost his mind. And then you lose
00:42:54
this job that you've been working towards since high school when you went into the Navy.
00:42:58
Yeah, that's probably your identity. And it's like what... And he was probably correct in her using excessive force.
00:43:05
And he was probably correct in the internal racism, which we all know is a very real fact
00:43:11
that all police departments aren't allowed to acknowledge. Like this guy would have gotten his day of celebrating if he just had not gone on a killing spree. Like I feel like by now he would have been like.
00:43:23
But you know what? Well, I wonder. That'd be really interesting to know if like if it goes back that if it reverses itself. But the problem is like he was one of those people where he couldn't handle the shame.
00:43:38
Like he was basically publicly shamed And had his identity taken away And then it's like
00:43:45
There are people who If you do that to them They have to retaliate They can't sit with it
00:43:50
He reported this crime in 2008 It happened in 2007 He got a divorce in 2007 So it's just like
00:43:59
He's in a world of pain So I of course went to Reddit Because I'm like What do they have to say?
00:44:05
It's always something good So Doc Gray 187000. As I read that, I'm like, he might be not. 187? He says his manifesto sounded so plausible.
00:44:17
I don't want people killed or otherwise, but it's understood that sometimes humans have to
00:44:23
kill humans, isn't it? Cops carry guns, soldiers carry guns. The only question is justification,
00:44:28
right? So if the government and their guard dogs are thoroughly corrupt, as Donner asserted,
00:44:34
and use unnecessarily deadly force, have callous disregard for human life and are in a mutual protection agreement with prosecutors,
00:44:42
what are good people supposed to do? Yeah. And he says, do you know how Dorner was caught?
00:44:49
He carjacked a dude on a secluded road and told him, I don't want to hurt you and then let him go.
00:44:54
And that dude turned him in. He also commandeered that cabin, but let the residents live.
00:44:59
Contrast with the innocent civilians the LAPD hurt and their quest to get Dorner and his gruesome death,
00:45:05
who am I supposed to root for? Well, it's not a binary thing. You don't root for anybody because here's the thing.
00:45:13
Those cops didn't want to kill anybody, but they were reacting. They are the ones being hunted.
00:45:20
And maybe they weren't trained well enough to know what to do in a situation like that.
00:45:24
It immediately just makes me go, the night that they investigated the John Bonet murder,
00:45:29
they sent the two newest cops over because it was Christmas. Yeah. It's that kind of thing.
00:45:35
Before we get hate mail, I want to assure everyone that I don't hate cops. I think they're fucking,
00:45:42
I think the majority are working their asses off to be good people and have, you know,
00:45:47
the best interest of, and it's a hard job and you're putting your life on the line.
00:45:52
You just only hear about the bad ones. Well, but, and you, but the problem is I heard a DJ talking about this.
00:45:58
I tweeted about it. A DJ. He was just saying there's never any, they just never cop to anything.
00:46:06
And you can't do that when you're shooting people dead in cars. When you have people who are shooting people in the back
00:46:13
or strangling them on video, you can't continually be like, they're innocent. They're innocent.
00:46:18
That's when you're built. If you're never being a standup, you know, and never, you know,
00:46:25
these are obviously. If you're not getting punished by the higher ups and saying that they did this thing wrong.
00:46:30
That means that there's no accounting for the behavior. And it's acceptable. Yeah.
00:46:35
That's a huge fucking problem. And if it's the same people, but getting targeted all the time.
00:46:40
I mean, this snares you right into, the Christopher Dorner story snares you into everything that's happening right now.
00:46:46
I know. In our culture. I know. Yeah. That'd be horrifying if he was completely innocent
00:46:53
and then just basically snapped. Yeah. As opposed to the story that was built in the media
00:46:58
is kind of like, oh, here's this crazy guy that like tried to lie about somebody else. And
00:47:03
you know, they had him like vilified from the beginning. Yeah. Well, I just touched probably a ton of nerves of listeners. So go to my PO box and let
00:47:13
me know what you think. I feel like people listen to this to get nerves touched. I mean,
00:47:17
that's the whole idea. By the way, I also took down my PO box number. Yeah. If you can't live with it, why do it? I can't do it. Yeah. I'd rather not have presents
00:47:25
from listeners. I think it's fine. So, yeah, that's my favorite murder. This Irvine.
00:47:34
Irvine. Kieran. How was that? Was that OK? Yeah. OK, we're back. Do you want to start with some case updates?
00:47:44
Yeah. I mentioned that the LAPD reopened the investigation into Dorner's termination,
00:47:49
and it concluded that Dorner's firing had been factually and legally proper and that his termination was not only appropriate,
00:47:58
it was the only course the Department could have taken based on the facts and evidence, end quote.
00:48:03
And they also found no basis for the allegations of racism that Dorner cited in his manifesto.
00:48:09
So there's just like a blanket, you know, no fault. We didn't do anything. Right. We didn't do anything wrong.
00:48:16
Right. So take that. Take that with 2024 eyes. I mean, yeah, it's been going on for a long time.
00:48:24
In August of 2024, these thieves robbed a man at gunpoint in Beverly Hills. who they targeted for his expensive watch, and they were arrested. And it was discovered that
00:48:34
they had a handgun that was once registered to Dorner in their possession. And as of right now,
00:48:41
it's unclear how they got their hands on this gun. It's possible it was either stolen or sold by
00:48:47
Dorner. But somewhere along the line, they acquired it. Just an interesting little update.
00:48:54
As you heard in that story, you know, we talk a lot about the police department.
00:48:58
and I want to remind people that it was 2016 when this was recorded and we had a very different view.
00:49:04
We still are two white ladies who have a very different experience with the police every single day than many people do.
00:49:11
And there have been changes in recent years, but the LAPD continues to be one of the most corrupt forces in the U.S.
00:49:17
According to Policescorecard.org, between 2013 and 2021, there have been 154 killings by police.
00:49:25
Based on population, a black person was 4.4 times as likely and a Latinx person was 2.3 times as likely to be killed by police as a white person in Los Angeles.
00:49:38
Yeah. And there have been almost 15,000 civilian complaints of police misconduct as well.
00:49:44
I think I recommended this already, but a reporter named Cerise Castle did an amazing 15-part series about, it's called The History of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, and that was for the website Knock LA.
00:49:59
there's been a lot of reporting and deep dives into the corruption and the kind of like in-depth
00:50:07
I don't know how to explain it. Gain mentality in what is supposed to be a public service that has a budget of like two billion dollars here.
00:50:18
So it's definitely the kind of thing that we didn't have to think about or worry about at that time.
00:50:24
And it is, I think, a lot of white people since 2016, especially after 2020 and Ferguson and all that stuff, you know, people's eyes have been really opened in a way that we got the almost like option to not have those eyes open for a long time.
00:50:41
Totally. All right. Let's go to another horrible story. This one is just one that comes up in your head all the time.
00:50:49
You know, it just it sticks with you. This is Karen's telling of the story about the Cheshire murders.
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mintmobile.com. Mine happened in the same year. There's a lot of similarities which is super weird.
00:53:17
Interesting. And this is a murder story that I had two different separate non-people
00:53:24
that don't know each other, friends of mine, ask if I had done the story yet. Ooh.
00:53:28
It's the Cheshire murder. Ooh. And you've probably seen a 2020 or a nightline about it.
00:53:37
It was super famous. It happened around the same time as the Oklahoma bombings, but it was more talked about in the news,
00:53:44
more consistently. because it was that really infamous Connecticut's home invasion story
00:53:52
that's a nightmare. Home invasion? From start to finish It a nightmare It a nightmare And also this is just sinister and creepy because Cheshire Connecticut So there a documentary on HBO called The Cheshire Murders
00:54:06
Highly recommend. I watched that this morning and it will tell you the entire story.
00:54:13
But it's very hard because it's all the relatives. So it's just like everybody right there on camera
00:54:18
talking about how it feels. And it's incredibly rough because this is, This is a, you know, this is a multiple rape murder situation on a family who live in one of those towns where when they show all the shots, it's like all the A-frame houses with the lawns.
00:54:40
There's no fences between any of the yards. And the area these people lived in was pretty upscale.
00:54:46
So basically what happened is On the night of July 22nd At 7.30 at night Jennifer Hockpettit went to the stop and shop
00:54:55
With her 11 year old daughter Mikayla And they're just shopping for groceries And they're spotted by a recent parolee
00:55:07
Named Joshua Komisariewski Is basically how you pronounce the last name they said it in this documentary probably 30 times.
00:55:19
Right. And every time I'd say it along with them or repeat it after I heard it, and I still...
00:55:24
It's Commissar Yevsky. Okay. Or Commissar Jeffsky. I'm not sure. Okay. So this guy's watching them in the grocery store.
00:55:33
I might as well just get to this part now. Very upsetting part in this documentary
00:55:38
is this guy who is in his mid to late 20s. I want to say 27, but I can't see it on my paper.
00:55:45
But he had a girlfriend in the years prior. And the father of that girl that this guy dated talks on camera about how they said that they thought they wanted to get married.
00:56:00
And the father said, I have two problems with that. You're a career criminal and you're a pedophile.
00:56:06
And he's like, and my daughter looks and acts a lot younger than she is. And so this girl who is the same age as him is on camera and she completely, if you, if you said she's 16 or 15, you'd be like, sure. And she was like in her mid twenties.
00:56:21
Holy shit. So it's, there was some part that got confusing where it was like he also tried to date her younger sister and it was a thing.
00:56:30
So this guy, and of course it turns out that later in the documentary, it turns out that he was molested as a child, very young, terribly, and for most of his life.
00:56:42
So he had, he was adopted. This father that they show a couple pictures of is one of the most disturbing looking individuals, like always right behind him, kind of creepy.
00:56:51
Oh my, how did I not see this documentary? It's pretty good. I mean, the thing is, by the time you get to the part where they're talking about what life was like for these two dudes that did this home invasion, you're like, oh, I don't care.
00:57:03
Yeah, I don't care. These are monsters. I don't care. Because that happens to a lot of people.
00:57:06
Not a lot, hopefully, but. And they don't become monsters. Exactly. The only thing, though, is it is interesting because when something like this happens, over and over people go, who could do this?
00:57:17
How do you do something? I don't understand. How could you do this? How could you do this?
00:57:20
And most people just go from that question to kill them, just kill them. Don't, why even give them a trial?
00:57:26
It's that mentality, which we all, cause it's so hard to comprehend. It's just like this compounded abuse.
00:57:33
That's just generations long, probably because the guy who abused them was abused too.
00:57:40
And I mean, it's bad. All right. But it's interesting. No, no, no. because that's that's the thing with pedophiles is that oftentimes that's where it's coming from
00:57:51
is it happened to them um but it's just it puts a very strange light on an already very upsetting
00:57:58
case so uh they go home from this grocery store the mom and daughter go home this guy follows them
00:58:04
home and goes and sees where they live um he had just he was living in a halfway house or he had
00:58:10
just gotten out of a halfway house and he was just paroled and so was his friend steven hayes
00:58:15
who is considerably older and also has a very long, both of them have crazy long criminal records.
00:58:23
Both are like burglars or whatever. This guy, and when they talked about Josh Komisar Yasky,
00:58:33
they actually say he had a photographic memory. He was incredibly intelligent. He was an incredibly talented artist.
00:58:41
And they start showing these illustrations that he did and they look somewhat, they reminded me
00:58:46
immediately of the pictures in Silence of the Lambs when Dr. Lecter has those hand-drawn pictures of like
00:58:53
Italy you know, that he's basically drawn his own pictures so he, from memory it's the exact same thing where this guy
00:59:02
has these illustrations that are like so insanely detailed and beautiful and amazing
00:59:07
so, and he had you know, so he's a he's a smart person, but very cunning and very sociopathic. And so was the other guy,
00:59:16
Stephen Hayes, two of his brothers in this documentary talking about him, how he was a monster from their childhood. It was like burning their hands on stoves,
00:59:25
like nightmare, older brother shit that they had to live with. So of course, in the end of this,
00:59:32
when these two guys get caught, they tell the exact opposite stories of it was this guy's idea.
00:59:37
And so it's very interesting because one guy looks like something out of a movie of a bad guy.
00:59:44
And the other guy looks like a young pot dealer that would live in San Diego. But the truth of it is they think that it's the young guy that was the mastermind behind it.
00:59:53
The artist, the smarter guy? Yeah Sure So anyway those two meet up at a bar and they talk about their plan and how they going to go rob this house And at 3 a they go up to the house and when they walk up they see that
01:00:08
Dr. William Pettit is sleeping on the screened in porch on the front. And so Josh goes and grabs a
01:00:15
baseball bat from the front lawn that they passed on their way in, takes it and starts beating this
01:00:20
guy in the head. How do you go to a house at three in the morning? Like you're just asking for,
01:00:26
go, you know, go in the middle of the day when no one's home. You want to find people there.
01:00:29
No, they wanted, they wanted this. The Josh guy, part of his thing was they said when he would go
01:00:36
and burgle houses, he would go in different rooms. He would, he would pick places like,
01:00:40
it would be like a state trooper's house that he would be burgling. And he would, after he stole
01:00:46
all the things he wanted to steal, he would stand and listen to people breathing.
01:00:50
Holy shit. Uh-huh. And then also the guy that was talking about him, I think it was probably one of his old defense lawyers,
01:00:56
said that he could remember every single thing he stole, where it was, where the item,
01:01:03
if he took a wallet out of a pair of pants, it was hanging on the back of the chair.
01:01:06
Like he had a photographic memory. Weird. Yes. So that part of the joy of it was the fact that he knew that family was home.
01:01:14
At least they know that was his pattern in the past. So they beat the father in the head, tie him up and put him down in the basement and tie his wrists and ankles to a pole in the basement.
01:01:28
His head is split down the front and then there's like three huge gashes in the back of his head.
01:01:34
Oh, honey. So he's down in the basement. They have him shut down there. Then they tie up the mother and both daughters in each of their respective rooms, tie them hands and feet to the bed, put pillowcases over their head and shut the doors of all those rooms.
01:01:53
Then they ransacked the whole house. And by the time they're done looking through everything,
01:01:57
they're not happy with their haul. They didn't get enough. And they find a Bank of America bank book
01:02:03
and they see that the amount in the bank is like over 15 grand or it's a bunch. And so they're like, here's what we're going to do.
01:02:12
When it's 9 a.m. and that bank opens, you're going in there, you're taking out $15,000
01:02:16
and you're bringing it back here to us. And then we will leave you alone. So At 9am
01:02:23
This woman goes into her bank Goes up to the teller Says I'd like to withdraw $15,000
01:02:29
And as they're doing their business She says I'm doing this against my will People broke into our house last night
01:02:37
The guy drove me here He's in the parking lot outside right now He has my family back at the house
01:02:43
Like his partner has the family back at the house She actually Was quoted the teller said that she said,
01:02:51
they're mostly nice. I think they just need this money. And she's like, but you need to tell the police
01:02:58
because, you know, I was told to come in here and not say anything. And so like,
01:03:03
please handle this. And so the teller, there's a woman in this documentary who was in the bank
01:03:08
when all this happened. And she said she saw the bank manager run from the teller's little depot
01:03:15
into her office and shut the door and start making the phone call. So it happened,
01:03:18
like immediately. And then Jennifer Pettit got her money and left the bank. So she didn't wait around or anything
01:03:25
because surely she was probably on like a time limit. So Stephen Hayes is in the car
01:03:30
waiting for her outside. The other guy's back at home. The other guy's back at home.
01:03:35
So they find video footage, gas station video surveillance that Hayes had bought $10 worth of gas
01:03:42
from two gas cans that he'd gotten from the Pettit home before they went to the bank.
01:03:46
so they know it's premeditated murder so when they get back oh my god does she know they have gas
01:03:53
extra gas i don't know no because she's tied up in the room so i think they're doing all that
01:03:58
business themselves so when so this is where the stories split because josh has one story and
01:04:04
steven has the other but steven's story is he gets back from the bank with mrs pettit
01:04:09
and he thinks they're going to take this money he's picking him up and they're leaving
01:04:14
when he walks in josh says i i have left dna in one of the children we have to burn this house
01:04:22
down we have to kill them and burn this house down holy shit and that's when steven's like i was not
01:04:27
in this that in according to him he he was like this is crazy then he looks outside and sees
01:04:33
that from the moment that bank teller got on the phone with 911 like it was minutes later they say
01:04:42
like three to five minutes later, cops were outside of this house. So they look outside.
01:04:50
Steven sees that there's cops outside, which, you know, she had promised him he would not call the cops.
01:04:55
And he goes crazy, starts strangling her, the mom. Oh no, I don't like this. It's bad.
01:05:02
He strangles her, rapes her after he strangles her. Oh my fucking God. Okay, it's like a week away.
01:05:14
It's like a week away from 4th of July. 4th of July passed a week ago. My fucking neighbors are still...
01:05:20
This has been happening all week. They've been letting off fucking fireworks. That was the worst time that could have happened.
01:05:27
That was so loud. And I saw the spark. I did too. And there was like a big flash.
01:05:34
Wow. My heart. Do you want to shut that since now there's... Wow. For fuck's sake.
01:05:41
We're trying. We're trying. We're trying to talk about murder. What the? Oh, my God.
01:05:48
That's hilarious. So, okay. I can't wait to hear that. Yeah. I think so many people have their headphones in right now and got so freaked out when that happened I wonder yeah because that was crazy love And we all freaked out You know what That was like our podcast version of you know
01:06:06
in a movie when suddenly a car gets side fucking T-boned. Or they closed the medicine cabinet
01:06:12
and there's someone standing behind. It was like we put that into our own scary, scary podcast
01:06:18
that was scary enough as it was. Guys, don't be mad at us because we're as upset as you are.
01:06:23
We are. It's not more. now here come the cops did you hear that um okay so okay so stephen hayes has just strangled and
01:06:34
raped the mother um so turns out while they were at the bank uh he josh had gone upstairs
01:06:46
and raped the 11 year old the one who he thought looked like his ex-girlfriend uh yes but she was
01:06:54
11. There was a 17 year old daughter that nobody went into her room ever after. So it's super
01:07:02
crazy and when you hear his confession on tape, it's super disgusting because he
01:07:07
is using so many euphemisms and kind of trying to talk like they chatted and they were talking
01:07:14
about school and I brought her a glass of water. It's all very sweet, but like romantic
01:07:18
in his mind. It's super gross. So then they pour gas over both girls still alive
01:07:29
and then throughout the entire house light the house on fire and then run out the front door
01:07:36
get into the Pettit's car drive one block away get pulled over and arrested so the entire time
01:07:44
now in the aftermath when they made announcements the mayor or the city councilman or whoever
01:07:51
and we'd like to thank Like the police and fire did a great job and all this stuff.
01:07:55
Well, it turned out from when they finally, because they had like kind of redacted all of this information.
01:08:01
They weren't, there was a gag order on the whole story. They like the press couldn't report on it, on any details.
01:08:08
They didn't know any details about it. And then they finally get like the phone reports
01:08:12
and the 911 calls and everything. And they had a perimeter. They were setting up a perimeter five minutes
01:08:19
after the 911 call came in from the bank. and they were all just sitting outside in that perimeter.
01:08:27
No one had called on the phone. No one had knocked on the door. No one had even approached the house in any way.
01:08:34
They heard Mrs. Pettit screaming and nobody went up. The house caught on fire and they still didn't do anything.
01:08:42
So basically in the amount of time between when they went to the bank and came back
01:08:48
is when all of the major crimes happened and the police were just sitting outside not taking action which you know it's this is a town
01:08:57
that was like 25 000 people so again and there were some people that argued the that this is a
01:09:03
small town but this is a small town in terms of police handling major crimes so they had basically
01:09:10
no idea what to do and just set up a perimeter and waited and didn't do anything so that like those
01:09:18
God damn it. That sounded like an actual firework. I just saw Disneyland thing out there.
01:09:28
Yeah, except this is fucking Los Feliz, not fucking Disneyland. And fireworks are
01:09:32
illegal in Nellie County. Also, in addition. It's been happening pretty much every
01:09:36
night since 4th of July. I mean, isn't it like July 10th now? It's like July 10th right now.
01:09:42
It's six days later. Guys, anyway, to wrap it up when Dr. Pettit escaped the basement
01:09:53
he it was basically right around the same time as the house was lit on fire he was like
01:10:02
smelled the smoke and whatever and so he with his I'm I'm looking at fireworks over your shoulder
01:10:09
I'm moving I'm fucking moving so Dr. Pettit runs up the back stairs his feet are still bound
01:10:14
he's like hopping with a bloody face across to his neighbors. And there's like a little forest
01:10:19
in between his house and the neighbor's house. And he sees the cops hiding behind trees
01:10:23
and is screaming, help my family, save my family as he's running over to the neighbor's house.
01:10:29
And they're just keeping their positions. Oh my God. So all of that part, they like effectively
01:10:34
swept that part under the rug. And the family kept asking questions and like, it was like,
01:10:39
there's a gag order. We can't tell you anything. And it wasn't until the case happened
01:10:43
that they found out all this horrible shit of all the really hideous details of what happened and then they also um
01:10:51
joshua's diary was uh put into evidence and um basically after they got arrested they both turned
01:11:01
on each other said it was the other person's idea um and it's really hard to to pull apart because
01:11:07
even in this documentary like you can see how josh could be the mastermind but you could also
01:11:12
see how Stephen Hayes could just, I mean, this idea like when his lawyer was trying to tell that story of like, oh, we saw
01:11:20
the cops and that he felt very betrayed and that's why he strangled and raped Mrs.
01:11:24
Pettit. It's like, yeah, I don't think so. No, people don't strangle and rape people when they feel betrayed as a
01:11:30
whole. I mean, they say it's like explosive anger reaction or whatever, but it's like, I don't know. I feel like they probably
01:11:36
were planning on doing that anyway. Yeah. So anyway, they're convicted of the murders and they're sentenced to death, uh, in 2010. Um, uh, well,
01:11:50
that was Stephen, Stephen Hayes was convicted in 2020, 2010. Um, Joshua Komisariewski, uh, was
01:12:00
convicted in 2011 and sentenced to death in 2012. And in August, 2015, the state of Connecticut
01:12:06
abolished the death penalty. So now Hayes and Kamasurowski had both of their death sentences
01:12:13
commuted and now they're serving life sentences. What do you think? Who do you think was the
01:12:18
mastermind? You know, it seems to me that it's the younger guy. It seems to me that it's the
01:12:28
the Joshua Komosarowski guy because the one who raped the 11 year old. Yeah. He's the one that had this kind of plan.
01:12:34
Yeah. And I think he's the one that like the other guy was a burglar and kind of on drugs and
01:12:40
stuff. I think that guy was a career criminal in that, in that way. But I think Joshua had some really,
01:12:48
really deep, serious emotional problems. Well, when you think of like, Hey, when you think of someone saying,
01:12:53
Hey, I found this house that's perfect for us to break into. Like one of them knows,
01:12:58
who's in that house and what's going on. Yes. The other one might not. And so it seems that he had an ulterior motive.
01:13:07
For sure. And the other guy didn't at first. Right. He just wanted to make some easy money
01:13:12
or just thought it was like, they're out of jail. They're out of a halfway house.
01:13:16
They need jobs. You can't get a job as an ex-con very easily. Yeah. They're just trying to get back to it.
01:13:23
And also that guy, Joshua, was kicked out of the army, which is always a bad sign.
01:13:28
Um, they don't, they didn't go into any of the details of that though. Anyway, the Cheshire murders, uh, it's an old HBO documentary. So I found it on HBO now or go or something on my Apple TV. Um, but it's really interesting and really, it just fucked with everyone. It's the considered the worst crime in Connecticut history.
01:13:47
poor little girls and it fucked with everybody because it was home invasion so it was just like
01:13:53
your utopian life can be invaded by two criminals who are you know it's almost like there's on one
01:14:01
hand you have like burglary you have you're not home someone comes in steals your shit but someone
01:14:06
who's bold enough to do a home invasion robbery that scares the shit out of me the person who
01:14:11
would be willing to do that. Yes. Is, has no, has no what? Well, part of the enjoyment,
01:14:20
at least they know for a fact that Joshua had was the fear that he liked the fear he put into people because,
01:14:28
and that he actually wrote a bunch of stuff about it in his diary that was on this thing that was just basically like that he feels that scared and freaked out and wants to scream inside all the time
01:14:39
And so it makes him feel better to see people torture like that. Yeah. When you're the one whose people are fear, then you're not.
01:14:46
Yeah. Holy shit. It's deep. It's dark. And yeah, I'm staying home from now on for the rest of my life.
01:14:52
But then what if there's a home invasion robbery? Well, and also that's where all the fireworks are.
01:14:57
Home is where the fireworks are Oh man Elvis is hiding under the bed right now So we can't end the show until he comes out
01:15:05
My friend Sean who asked me If I was going to do this The one that's from Cheshire
01:15:11
Connecticut So when he watched this documentary He kept talking about how freaked out he was
01:15:16
Because it was his That's my bank I've been to that bank so many times This was his hometown murder
01:15:23
And he was just like He said watching this documentary It was just like, that's his town.
01:15:28
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01:16:11
Another story about police not having enough training. I mean, everything about the story is a disaster and so horrible.
01:16:19
Heartbreaking, awful. And then, meanwhile, fireworks go off as I'm trying to tell it.
01:16:25
And that truly, I can remember when that happened. Like, I remember looking at you when it happened.
01:16:29
It was one of the scariest things. Like, we had just had that whole, you had the Christopher Dorner story.
01:16:36
I'm in the middle of telling this horrifying thing. And then it sounds like someone's shooting at your window.
01:16:41
And I have to explain that my apartment, there was a little driveway next to it.
01:16:46
Like, a 1930s apartment building driveway in L.A., which is, like, impossible to drive through.
01:16:50
So it was a tiny little. And then next to it was a little walkway. And then the other apartment.
01:16:55
Like we could just see right into each other. It's like it was so and that's where they were setting off the fireworks.
01:16:59
It was so close. They were always doing that They were always grilling things and the fucking little driveway and the fire would be I mean So crazy Yeah it was a different time in our lives Yeah no respect for a studio true crime podcast that being recorded upstairs
01:17:16
Although one time the guy did bring me some of the meat that they had been grilling, which was really nice.
01:17:20
Was it good? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay, so I have a couple updates to this story. Well, one is just kind of random, which is one of the perpetrators of this crime, who in the story is identified as Stephen Hayes, has transitioned since there's really can't find a good source confirming what their name is.
01:17:38
Now, this is kind of actually a really lovely kind of silver lining, which is that in the memory of his wife and daughters, William Pettit created the Pettit Family Foundation.
01:17:49
And since he established it, they have raised over $10 million for STEM, chronic illness and violence prevention.
01:17:57
So if you want to find out more about the Pettit Family Foundation, you can go to PettitFamilyFoundation.org and maybe even donate.
01:18:07
Okay. That episode was a lot. You know, little did we know back in January of 2016 exactly what we were signing up for in pretty much every way, shape, and form.
01:18:17
Oh, man. Yeah. It's really kind of crazy to listen to and kind of think about these early episodes again.
01:18:26
Yeah. Just like, wow. Everything's changed and nothing's changed. Yeah. But everything's changed.
01:18:32
So different. So, but there's so many things that are the same. I know. In some ways, we're kind of stuck in a weird time loop.
01:18:40
Yeah. So we better get it right this time. Let's try. Let's just try. All right. So, I mean, I don't think we can get any better than 20 knives.
01:18:50
20 knives was so genius. It was brilliant. But based on what we named the episodes these days, which is, you know, a callback to something silly that was said in the episode, what would we name it now?
01:19:01
Look somewhere else, bro, which was you basically saying, if you're getting your facts from here, look somewhere else, bro, which is very accurate.
01:19:11
And it's great that we've always known that and stood by that. And that our audience loves to remind people who try to come in and be like, hey, guess what?
01:19:17
We know that and they know that. This isn't the place. This isn't even Wikipedia.
01:19:21
We're beginners. We could name it Tubes Tubing, about inner tubes. Or Home is Where the Fireworks Are.
01:19:27
in a scary storytelling show than a scary audio experience, which is just like I don know if I ever been that scared in that moment But I kind of love it It just like that where we started That right You know It was real because it was hot The window was open because it was hot Yeah And there you know it was an apartment
01:19:46
There's nothing you can do about it. That's where we started. Yeah. That's where I lived.
01:19:50
I loved it. Yeah. And sometimes fucking fireworks went off next to your door. It'd be really cool if right now Alejandra opened the door and just threw two fireworks
01:19:58
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