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three being charged with murder and the police are hoping that one of them will turn on the others and talk now under
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questioning Captain Bryce rhods denied any knowledge of what had happened to Larry Maurice he did tell cops after
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talking to them for several hours quote I need a lawyer man if you're going to keep all in my face now Taylor the other
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individual in custody also initially refused to talk and tell detectives what he knew so police are going to turn to
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this Anan Carter the youngest of the three and he decides to help out do the right thing and he tells police exactly
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what happened to Maurice and Larry now Anan said that on the night of May 21st leading into the 22nd he and Bryce rhods
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and the two brothers and jakori Taylor were all hanging out at Bryce's Road's place now remember Captain I said that
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it was important that Bryce rh's mom said she was out of town when whatever went down went down right Bryce as
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successful and famous rapper guy that he claims to be in the neighborhood lives at home with Mommy of course well that's
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because he's spending too much money at the Jo that's right so Taylor and Maurice get
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into a fight at Bryce's place this is what's being told to police that Maurice pulled
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it out a knife Bryce rhods hit Maurice and took the knife away then an Juan also maintained that Larry and Maurice
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had stolen some money from Bryce rhs this all these actions leading up to their murder now I want to be perfectly
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clear here Captain because it's not clear to me how much of this is true right that there was an
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altercation that these two boys stole from Bryce roads also there's a good chance that none of that's true but also
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makes it seem like they pulled a knife and then Bryce took the knife away therefore it being some kind of Act of
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self-defense right right because the rest of what Anan would tell the police is basically what you mentioned on
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yesterday's show that Bryce Rose afraid that he's going to be implicated for Murder by these two Young Bucks that
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he decides the best way to get them not to talk is to shut them up permanently and kill them yeah and he ties them up
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and puts a stocking cap over their face and and stabs them to death yeah and Anan went on to tell police that he was
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in the passenger seat and again this is all because the the two boys were witnesses to this
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Christopher Jones murder where Anan says I was in the passenger seat Maurice one
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of the young boys was driving and Bryce rhs and Larry the other murder victim were in the back seat of this car when
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this shooting went down Bryce rhods the one doing the shooting so I do I did find a summary of what an Juan told the
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police this was in The Courier Journal and it reads after a brief scuffle at his home on May 22nd Bryce rhs tied up
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teenage brothers Larry Ordway and Maurice Gordon put Ordway in a bathroom and then made Gordon get on his knees
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and beg for forgiveness Maurice was crying and stuff and he was asking everybody to spare him Bryce rhods then
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according to Carter put a stocking over Gordon's head gagged him and stabbed him
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in the chest several times then Carter said he Bryce rhods and jaor Taylor moved Maurice's body aside and
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brought orway back into the living room and Bryce started stabbing him then at that time after being threatened by
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Bryce rhods Carter said that he also stabbed Gordon once and Taylor stabbed Larry Ordway so we've seen this in other
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cases Captain right where you have one guy that's a a particular particularly evil monster
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Bryce rhs comes up with this idea this plan to kill these two kids that witnessed the murder and not only is he
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going to force these other kids to help him kill these two he's going to make them actively be a part of the murders
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here's the knife it's your turn to stab them yeah and this is a tough situation cuz even if Bryce leaves the room after
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this stab the first stabbing takes place what are you going to do you're going to
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run away going to run away and uh I mean that's what makes the most sense you'd think run away tell the police right
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right but in that moment you know you you could freeze and and you might not be able
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to think logically about the steps that you would need to take to to have the cops get this evil bastard before he
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gets you well and that's what you do I mean Bryce rhods that's what exactly what he did he's like you know what I'm
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going to make them not only were they involved in the homicides but in this situation I'm going to make them
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actively stab one of the victims so now I don't have to worry about them going out and telling other people because
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they were actively part of the murders they're not going to go and seek out police and tell them about me because
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they know that they're just as guilty as I am because they took the action with the knife to stab these victims yeah so
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now not only they afraid of you but they're afraid of the consequences even if they go to the police so not only did
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detectives learn about the murders of these two boys from Anan Carter and some of the information about the Christopher
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Jones murder but they learned something that's really interesting in the Christopher Jones murder and this is one
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of the I mean there's a lot of bad parts to this story but this is one of the worst Parts anwan tells the cops that
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the whole Christopher Jones murder was a mistake that Bryce rhods the genius that
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he is and please hear the sarcasm in my voice people Bryce rhods [ __ ] mistook Christopher Jones for a man that was
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wanted to be killed who had a price on his head right so in all of this Christopher Jones is just some innocent
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dude who happens to look like somebody that Bryce rhods thought he was going to get paid to kill yeah and don't want
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anybody get to to get confused here and think that oh Bryce rhods is some kind of Hitman that that some gang or
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whomever desired to hire to pay to kill somebody it's not even that level of sophistication from my understanding
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it's simply a gang put a price on some dude's head and anybody that wanted to kill that guy could collect well Bryce
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rhods decides he's going to be that guy but he's too damn dumb to do it and accidentally kills the wrong
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dude in the process probably still try to collect the money hey well I I still kill I I killed a dude that looked like
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the dude close enough shouldn't I get paid something so the other thing too and this is an interesting part to the
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story I don't know how much of this I believe here Captain but anwan also told police that Bryce rhs had told him that
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he had killed multiple other people not just the three victims we've already discussed oh I believe it he says that
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roads talked about killing about five people but I couldn't find anywhere where names were given to these other
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potential victims it could be a situation where an Juan does not know any names that it was it could be real
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or it could be what I suspect is just another thing that Bryce rhods probably lied about to the people that he knew
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best to to create an image of himself that is just not not true right or a scare tactic like man I've killed more
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people than this you think I'm afraid to kill you and then through all of this police ended up rounding up another
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individual this is a 19-year-old Tyron Coleman who was charged with two counts of murder two counts of abuse of a
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corpse and one count of tampering with physical evidence in relation to the three murders that we've already
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discussed so obviously it didn't take investigators long to bring formal charges against Bryce rhods after he was
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named by the victim's mother and then the confession by Anan Carter when he told police exactly what happened they
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ended up searching the apartment that Bryce rhs shared with his mother detectives noted immediately that the
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apartment had been thoroughly cleaned with bleach but they were still able to detect blood evidence inside the
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apartment they also impounded and searched his vehicle which revealed plenty of evidence as well Bryce rhs was
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charged with two counts of murder and evidence tampering this case would be a lot more difficult if it was just he
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said he said right right but it's not I mean we have one we have a bunch of eyewitnesses so we have multiple people
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pointing the finger at Bryce but on top of that we actually have evidence mhm we
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have evidence that backs up these eyewitnesses stories and especially the younger ones that you you would think
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and I'm glad that they came forward and did the right thing because I don't think they were put in the best
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situation I don't think they put themselves in the best situation but they still have a a possibility of
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turning things around and making something right with their life after this horrible incident I agree but to
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say they came forward gives them far too much credit this is they they were tracked down and forced into agree
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backed into a corner and then started singing now what's interesting here though Captain is we are currently
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sitting in a situation look we're we're recording this in May probably won't come out till June we're actually
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recording this almost 5 years to the day that these two young men were murdered and a trial has been set for Bryce rhods
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for the month of May of this year 20121 and you go holy crap that's 5 years later and this is a pretty quick invest
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a to lead to an arrest yeah well Bryce rhods has made all kinds of problems of the Court proceedings and trying to
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convict him of three murders now in the years that since then since the arrest there's been plenty of court dates and
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Court hearings so we have a great idea as we sit here today and discuss the case captain of what police believe
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happened and the evidence that they have to back it up because this things been in trial for quite some time now they
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did take off about a year during the whole covid thing but it shouldn't be long for this guy to
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to get a conviction I hope and let let's go through some of the stuff that we learned throughout the court proceeding
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so this is all based off of testimony that came from the Louisville Metro Police Department their testimony during
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the court proceedings with the four individuals that they're going to charge because we have Bryce rhods and we have
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his three accompli so they state that Bryce rhods Carter and Taylor were the last three to
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see Maurice and Larry alive the mother was able to tell the cops that her boys left with those three on that night on
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the night that they were killed somehow Maurice and Larry were lured out of their homes and according to the
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witnesses Bryce rhods had already at this point decided that he was going to kill the two boys to cover up killing
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Christopher Jones mhm RADS took the boys to his apartment that he shared with his
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mother he and the accomplice stabbed the brothers to death before putting their bodies into a vehicle and driving them
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to an abandoned house in the West End the boys were dumped in a backyard and whomever tried to set the bodies on fire
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to you know to further hide the bodies or at least maybe hide the evidence hide the evidence and make sure that they
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couldn't be identified possibly a witness saw someone trying to start a fire so we have an additional witness
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here but it was too dark for the witness to be able to ID the person who was trying to start the fire investigators
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found blood and physical evidence inside of Bryce Road's apartment and vehicle and iwitness saw someone resembling
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Bryce rhods he's look him up he's on YouTube he's all over the Internet and he's one ugly dude uh shitty looking
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yeah you you would he he's you could pick him out of a lineup he doesn't look you know he's he's an unique ugly guy
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let's say so this eyewitness saw someone resembling Bryce rhods according to their testimony standing at a dumpster
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engulfed in flames on May 22nd a witness reported a license plate that matched Bryce Road's vehicle near the dumpster
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inside this dumpster were the burned remains of blood and trace evidence shoes and clothing these items had been
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submitted for testing but were believed to be clothing and other items that belong to Maurice and Larry are victims
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one of the things found was a piece of a blanket this is a very big piece of evidence because we can say with this
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eyewitness's testimony and another witness giving the license plate of Bryce rhs okay rhs if you weren't
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connected to this murder what were you doing at that dumpster where we found all this evidence the key thing here is
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this piece of blanket because this piece of blanket matched the same blanket that
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was found with the boy bodies whoever put them in that blanket tried to burn them at that abandoned uh lot m a piece
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of that blanket made its way to the dumpster where other evidence was burned and and discarded of Road's car was
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found to be missing its back seat a similar back seat that one would expect to find in his vehicle was found at the
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site of the dumpster fire so obviously there's blood evidence on this back seat he wants to get rid of it rips it out
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sets it on fire puts it in the dumpster look this guy can't do anything right I mean he can't no he's not a
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sophisticated criminal I mean no he can't he kills the wrong guy when he's trying to do a hit job then he kills
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these two brothers and he then he tries to discard of them and any evidence and he can't do that correctly either I mean
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he can't rap correctly I mean I I don't his tattoos look like [ __ ] I mean it looks like
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literally his tattoos like especially when his shirt's off it looks like he had uh children just draw all over him
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it's really bad tattoos throughout this we're going to go into some more of Bryce's actions since he's been arrested
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and and brought to trial but and we'll play some clips throughout this but here's what Bryce
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rhs has been up to and I think pay attention residents of the great state of Kentucky because this has been at
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your expense that's right this all on the taxpayers in Kentucky on your dime in June of 2016 Bryce rh's courta
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appointed attorney Brandon McLoud told rhs he would have to withdraw from representing him as he was friends with
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the victim's grandfather and it would present a conflict of interest okay this is normal stuff this is stuff that we
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have seen before so the attorney tells the judge that when he tells this to Bryce
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rhods Bryce rhods decides to spit on him they put him in like a Hannibal Lector mask which that became very popular I I
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know that I've seen that picture of Bryce in the Hannibal leor mask many times and and didn't know much about the
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case yeah so Bryce rhods is spitting on his own attorney who saying hey I have to withdraw because there's a conflict
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of interest and good for the attorney because if let's say this is this again Bryce is too dumb to realize this let's
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say that this attorney would have got you know presented a case to where Bryce was found
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innocent well then later they would be able to go wait a second there was a problem with the
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trial right we could charge this dude with something else or charge him with the same charges and try him again
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because of the the issue with the trial listen to this not only does he spit on this guy when he says hey I'm going to
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have to back out but he says to the attorney you're a coward and I will see you when I get
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out yeah now the attorney could sounds like per Kentucky law file assault charges against Bryce
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rhods but he being the bigger man being the bigger person decided that he did not want to do that but no offense I
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think the bigger person should file charges because you just keep stacking charges against this pile of [ __ ]
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because you never want to see this guy see the light of day then in August 31st of the same year Bryce rhs attacked the
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fellow inmate threatening to kill him and the words that were heard by all was Bryce Road saying kill him like he did
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the others right then in September of the same year RADS spit on another inmate so he's not even making friends
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inside the uh the jail there and then you pointed out of course he was supposed to wear or made to wear the
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spit mask and was brought into court at one of the proceedings in a restraint chair yeah now doesn't he have a another
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charge against him for threatening a a judge yes okay so he threatened a a judge and this is I have his exact words
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here he says to the judge what you don't think that we can't find out where you live at I don't give a bleep you got
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family I'll be out so threatening the judge and threatening the judge's family yeah
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and I just have to bring it up because his his beard drives me insane it's almost like he shaved off all his pubic
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hair and glued it to his face I mean it's one of the I mean the guy came even grow a beard correctly I mean he's he's
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pathetic and the the judge he was threatening was a female judge and if you get a chance to watch that clip it's
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pretty hilarious cuz she just basically steamrolls him and goes get out of my Court gives him the what four and
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straightens him out real quick no she just he started talking and threatening and she's like okay you're you're done
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here we're not going to give you any more of any more time to just sit there and
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and and talk nonsense and and what sucks about this whole case is because this guy is so arrogant this guy is so
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ignorant that it's five years I mean you have a right to a speedy trial well what
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about the victim's families they have a right to a speedy trial as well right and this son of a [ __ ] just keeps
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delaying then he's delaying the the inevitable mhm and as much as he's going to say well I'm going to get out I'm
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going to get out you just watch it's like you ain't going nowhere and he's and I think he got beat
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up one time in prison so I hope he just I'm surprised he hasn't got beat up more
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because he's threatening other inmates spitting on other inmates I also have a situation here where Bryce rhs got in
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trouble for throwing urine on a corrections officer and then in January of 20 17 Bryce rhs tried to escape from
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the county jail by digging his way out but the Corrections Officers noticed a fresh hole under some cinder blocks in
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his cell he's also been going to well and his his fat ass is going to have to dig
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a pretty big hole well and at some point too Captain he's also threatening the people that may testify against him okay
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he was caught sending notes to Cory Taylor in 2017 while they're both at Metro Corrections and on there he's saying
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rats get exposed show me that you're my blank and you're not a rat it will then so he he's
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threatening this guy yeah do the right thing buddy and don't R me out and you won't get hurt you won't get killed rats
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get exposed so what we're seeing here Captain is this dude is a problem even Behind Bars he's a freaking problem yeah
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and a again I'll repeat a problem for the victim's families in March of 2019 there were more charges thrown at Bryce
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rhs for terroristic threatening and wanting endangerment this is because Bryce rhs told a corrections officer
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that he was going to shank him in the face and that he and his family would die and it goes on and on and on and we
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again we do have some clips that we can play so you can hear it for yourself but
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the if you want to really get this down to its core and what the big problem has
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been is we got Bryce rhods who's trying to manipulate the system he's trying to play the system and he's saying things
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like well we we need a change of venue and then he's firing attorney after firing attorney he spit on one of his
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own attorneys he's threatening judges during the court proceedings he's blowing kisses at the victim's family in
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the courtroom he's doing everything he can to delay the actual murder trial against him why well he's an [ __ ]
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number one but two I believe it's largely in part because they are charging him they want to give this guy
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the death penalty and in Kentucky they don't take too long to kill those who get sentenced to
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death there was a they're just taking a long time they just can't get through the trial they can't get to the actual
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trial because he keeps manipulating the system he's playing the system yeah well
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right before this beer break let's let's take a listen to one of these clips from
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Bryce rhs acting out and in the courtroom your job is to do your job not to worry about me that's what I'm saying
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I worry about me you worry about yourself that's Bryce rhods talking to judge Charles Cunningham rhs is accused
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of shooting Christopher Jones then stabbing to death two witnesses 14-year-old Larry Ordway and 16-year-old
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Maurice Gordon rhs has already been through two attorneys and is now asking for his third one to be removed I'll
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just ask you why do you keep refusing to get this man off my case when we keep having problems do you have something
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personal against me do you don't want to move him no sir I have something personal against not providing you
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effective assistance of counsel judge Cunningham says he has already called the state public defender office they
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have struggled to find some someone who could represent you and that basically Mr Griffith is what they've got rhs once
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had to wear a face mask because he spit on an attorney I write the bar and the ACLU you know I write them you know I
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see what's going on you know fair enough let's get us a date to come back no we going to find out though we going to
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find out real quick promise that the exchange angered the grandmother of Ordway and Gordon who
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are brother this is going on for 4 years and and and nothing's been done she later apologized
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the judge is he's he he like he said he want everything dotted he wants to do it
00:28:40
the right everything's done the right way regardless of what Mr Bryce Rose is saying in there but she remains
00:28:47
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00:31:19
sexual relationship going on or what I got going on but I'm definitely going to speak my man detective and I have no
00:31:25
sexual relationship I'm talking about you a prosecute over sir you denied all my motions every motion i f you didn't
00:31:31
deny it I'm pretty sure I've denied the best every motion I are you some type of racist are you
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are you got some type of sexual relationship going on which one is it or are you just wrong in everything that
00:31:44
you made a motion for are you a secret clux Clan member no sir I'm not is that what you really are no okay I'm not but
00:31:52
like I said the higher courts they'll deal with it Bryce roads might be one of the most annoying
00:31:58
criminals that we've ever had murderers that we've ever had on this show oh you guys have some kind of sexual relation H
00:32:07
like his little huh and his little laugh after everything he says are you a secret clu CLS Clan
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member it's ridiculous well and people out there in listener land if you get some time if you're pretending to work
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and the boss isn't looking look up some pictures of the courtroom proceedings regarding Bryce rhods and
00:32:30
just look at the look on the face of the man and the other public defenders who have been forced to work with this guy
00:32:39
over the years the the look on their face is always like you're kidding me I got assigned to defend this guy right
00:32:48
this is my life this is this is the job that they gave me yeah there well in the
00:32:53
One Clip when he blows kisses to the victim's mother or family member she calls out Court obviously says ma'am you
00:33:02
can't do that well you see his attorney lean over and say something to him and then he starts brushing his shoulder
00:33:09
like whatever you're going to say to me doesn't matter to me again at some point we need to come
00:33:17
up with some new laws if this guy is going to be such erratic idiot you don't have the right to a lawyer as a with
00:33:27
what they should say he wants to fire all his lawyers okay good luck with that and every time there's an outburst in
00:33:35
court and every time that he's delaying it there should be a charge another charge my
00:33:41
issue with Kentucky going after the death penalty we obviously can tell from The Last 5
00:33:50
Years that this idiot cannot even stand a regular trial and if you go after the death
00:34:00
penalty you are going to give this guy so many more opportunities to present his case and
00:34:07
appeals and he's going to waste so much of the system's time effort money I don't know
00:34:15
if I would go after the death penalty here because I wouldn't want to give this guy more opportunities to waste
00:34:24
more money and more time when we know if we get him on three murder charges he's spending the rest of his life in
00:34:32
jail I wouldn't be surprised in the next 10 years if we go that guy was beat to death in prison yeah I can certainly see
00:34:40
with what you're saying and and agree with most of it I just don't want to find ourselves in a situation where
00:34:46
we're going okay the consequences are less severe because the guy's a jerk we we already know that the guy's a jerk
00:34:52
that's he's on trial for for multiple uh murders here and I'm sure anyone can understand this
00:35:01
next piece that we have here because giving into the impulses and hearing about this POS Bryce rhods and his
00:35:10
courtroom Behavior at the pre-trial hearing Marie Ren now I do want to point out that in different articles the boy's
00:35:18
mother has a different name from time to time sometimes it's Elizabeth sometimes
00:35:23
it's Marie I had to pick one that's what I went with but the mother of the two murder victims she lost it she finally
00:35:30
lost it she lunged at Bryce roads and she had to be forcibly dragged from the courtroom and she's yelling lock me up
00:35:38
lock me up why don't you let me add him he's sick and afterwards you know she once she had a chance to calm down she
00:35:46
told the news reporter she said I I flipped out I'm sorry I I couldn't take it anymore he's a demon this guy kills
00:35:53
kids and she says you know you go to church and you try to pray and you try to forgive but the anger builds up and
00:36:00
then this guy's in there behaving like a jerk and this guy doesn't deserve any forgiveness and on top of that what
00:36:07
we've seen in 5 years is he can't handle himself at the trial and and yes you're
00:36:11
saying well the consequence would be a little less I don't think so because I think being Beat to Death in jail would
00:36:19
be way worse than being put to death by the state that's why I would bet so much
00:36:24
money on this because what is he doing he's spitting on guards he's throwing urine on guards they're partly there to
00:36:35
make sure you don't get out to harm Society that's part of the reason they're there the other reason they're
00:36:42
there is to protect you against the other in inmates so look if I'm a prison guard and you're throwing uring at me
00:36:51
and you're spitting at me and calling me names and stuff at some point when are one of those guards going to look the
00:36:58
other way one of those guards are going to be told by another inmate hey we want
00:37:02
to get to them and they're going to let them get to him to teach him a lesson well and I
00:37:09
don't know the circumstances of of some of the information that I'm about to throw out here but uh one thing that
00:37:15
that I when I watch this guy when I get built up with anger I have to remind myself that the most recent person
00:37:24
executed by the state of Kentucky Marco Chapman was executed in November of 2008
00:37:30
for murders that he committed in August of 2002 so six years and a couple months
00:37:38
and they killed the guy I again I don't know the circumstances or the everything
00:37:42
that went on with his court proceedings and things like that but it didn't take very long some of these states it's 20
00:37:48
25 30 years meanwhile while this dude is acting up and being a jerk in the courtroom what about the other three
00:37:57
arrested with Bryce rhods and charged with Bryce rhods the co-conspirators right well they all
00:38:04
ended up pleading guilty and took some deals and we'll go through that a little bit here so first we had Anan Carter who
00:38:12
entered a guilty plea in November of 2016 for the murders of Larry Maurice and Christopher Jones and remember he's
00:38:22
underage at the time Captain so he was going to serve time in a juvenile facility until he turned 18 and then he
00:38:31
would be the case would be re-evaluated and what they ended up doing with him we
00:38:35
got an update on him just a few days ago after he turned 18 his defense comes out
00:38:41
and says all right well he served his time as an inmate at the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice
00:38:46
facilities we want to get probation for him well the judge wasn't having any of that and so now he's been moved to an
00:38:54
adult facility to serve out the rest of his time a Tyron Coleman pled guilty to charges of facilitation of murder for
00:39:03
the deaths of mauce and Larry as well as tampering with evidence in two counts of
00:39:07
abuse of a corpse It is believed that this latter charge relates to him Coleman helping move the two boys bodies
00:39:16
to the backyard in that neighborhood where they were found right into into the abandoned lot yeah yeah so he plad
00:39:24
guilty he was not required to testify against any of the other codefendants as part of his plea agreement but he is
00:39:32
getting 10 years in prison and then 15 years of supervised probation afterward jakori Taylor he also pled guilty this
00:39:43
to three counts of facilitation of murder and tampering with evidence he accepted the prosecution's offer for
00:39:50
either 10 years in prison or 20 years of probation with the decision to be left up to the sentencing judge this will be
00:39:57
judge Cunningham at the sentencing hearing in March of 2018 Taylor's defense attorney tried to argue for
00:40:05
leniency for jakori because he was only 17 at the time and pointing out that Bryce rhods knew that you know this
00:40:14
kid's 17 he doesn't have a father and that Bryce rhods prayed upon other teenagers and jory's vulnerabilities
00:40:22
specifically now whether or not this is true this didn't s the judge in any way because he ended up giving jakori Taylor
00:40:30
10 years behind bars but like we said before or like you said um because I kind of
00:40:38
misspoke the deals probably would have been different if they didn't have to come get you if any of these individuals
00:40:46
would have came forward before the cops were rounding them up maybe there would been the outcome would have been a
00:40:54
little different for one of the miners yeah and I think that's the the Court's decision reflects that right the Court's
00:41:01
decision is we are what's been recommended to us to your your consequence your penalty your punishment
00:41:08
what's been recommended to us that's what we're doing because you didn't come forward right you didn't you weren't the
00:41:14
break in the case we had to come and get you we had to investigate we had to find
00:41:18
out who did this and it was only when you once you were backed into a corner that you decided to talk and tell us
00:41:25
some of the information we needed to know and mind you only one of them was the first one to do so it's not like
00:41:31
they all started singing at the same time right it was one of them and then they're like okay well we got this
00:41:36
information now the others start to open up and then plead guilty Marie Ren said
00:41:42
that jakori Taylor had lived with her and her family for a while and so she thinks that he was
00:41:49
probably instrumental in the ruse of picking these boys up and getting them to go out and hang out with Bryce rhods
00:41:56
a man who by that time they were frightened of they were afraid of you also hear in one of the clips of Bryce
00:42:03
rad being interrogated saying that he he dated the boys's mother at one point I don't I don't know if there's actually
00:42:11
any evidence to back up that claim yeah I don't know the only claim of that or any piece that I've seen of that is him
00:42:20
stating that in that one clip he doesn't strike me as the most truth guy in the world so I'm I'm choosing not to believe
00:42:30
Mr Bryce rhs there but you have a 14 and a 16y old let's go back to that one know
00:42:36
where your kids are know who they're hanging out with and these pictures whether or not those guns are real or
00:42:45
fake by taking those pictures and with your kids you're basically giving a stamp of approval that this is okay and
00:42:56
that leads these young kids to hang out with this monster and look maybe I'm maybe I'm crazy but 25-year-old's never
00:43:07
coming to pick up my 14-year-old 25-year-old's never coming to pick up my 16-year-old if I if if
00:43:15
it's not a family member I don't want I wouldn't want my teenagers around that they don't need to
00:43:21
be hanging out with somebody of that that age unless it was some kind of Mentor or some kind of coach or some
00:43:30
kind of positive influence in their life but not just some random well not only that Bryce rhods is a bad guy and it's
00:43:37
not a situation where all of a sudden the world got clued in that Bryce rhods was a bad guy once he was arrested no
00:43:44
this guy was a bad guy for a long period of time and everybody around him knew he
00:43:49
was a bad guy and Mom knew that her boys were hanging out with this grown man who
00:43:56
is a terrible human being so and if if people want to email and call me names and say that I'm a victim blaming that's
00:44:06
fine you can call it whatever you want to call it I see a situation where these kids were not getting the they were not
00:44:14
being raised properly and they were not getting a support system that they that they should have got it regardless of if
00:44:21
these guns are real or not like you said captain and like I'm about to say now it
00:44:25
just it's it's not it's no good right it's it's it's a bad situation but on top of
00:44:32
that your teenage kids 14-year-old that's that's the main thing your 14-year-old doesn't come home on
00:44:39
Saturday and then you're you're told about what happened to him on Tuesday where's the call to police where's the
00:44:47
call to police to say where where are my kids at and this and this is who they left with and I know they got that
00:44:53
information on Tuesday but they could have got that information Sunday morning or Saturday night again 14-year-old
00:45:01
16-year-old doesn't come home Saturday night I'm putting a call in but again let I make no bones about this hard
00:45:11
raising kids especially if you're a single parent and the blame doesn't just go there the blame has to go on to these
00:45:20
these two kids fathers that obviously weren't in the picture enough to be protecting and helping to raise these
00:45:31
young men well yeah and I I want to be clear I'm not blaming I'm not blaming the outcome on Marie or these negligent
00:45:41
fathers these non you know the no no no the the the blame is Bryce RADS and these these jerks that that helped him
00:45:48
do what they were doing and it's it's a it's an allaround bad situation and I also want to be clear on something to
00:45:55
too if you think that we're piling it on on Marie or Elizabeth whatever name it is that we should be calling her I
00:46:03
apologize but if you go on to other websites and and other social media Outlets this is very tame compared to
00:46:12
what people have come at her with and they've come at her hard with with shots fired and really I I sit here and when
00:46:22
we went into this case Captain I went into this case and I was very angry and upset with her as well in the beginning
00:46:28
and now as I sit in this chair and we report on this case to you I sit here today wanting to seek out this woman and
00:46:37
hug her and and apologize to her for for what has happened to her children and I
00:46:44
just I want to embrace her and I know that this has ruined her life regardless of if I agree with what was going on
00:46:51
before or not she didn't deserve any of this her family didn't deserve any of this and I hope that they they they
00:46:58
bring the hammer when they come after Bryce rhods and give him the the worst possible punishment that they they
00:47:05
possibly can and I know I'm going to use some of her own words here you know she
00:47:11
told one of the judges at one of these plea deals with one of these co-conspirators she says look it's not
00:47:17
fair I'm losing two children at the same time 10 years is not enough for this guy
00:47:23
whether he talked or not you know and she says the justice system needs to be changed not just for my kids but for
00:47:30
everyone and she has been out there and and saying you know I believe that all of them should be getting life without
00:47:38
the possibility of parole these are these are persons that were involved in and not just involved I I think that
00:47:46
that that really is dumbing it down they actively help to kill three people no I
00:47:52
agree but I think part of our show is to highlight a case and some missteps and if you're a parent and your 14 and 16y
00:48:02
old doesn't show up when they went out on a Saturday night call police immediately tell police immediately who
00:48:09
they went with if your kids are pretending to be gangsters or pretending to be a part of negative things in
00:48:21
society don't put your stamp of approval on it tell them that that is wrong if your kids are hanging out with people 10
00:48:28
years older than they are maybe put it into that unless it's like I said a coach or a mentor or somebody that that
00:48:35
you believe is a positive influence if you think this guy's a pile of [ __ ] don't let your kids go hang out with
00:48:41
them and that's all I'm saying is is I think it's okay to point out some missteps here there's really nothing
00:48:48
more not a lot more that can be said about Bryce rhods and the blight that he has put on society and the courts so
00:48:55
I'll let the boy's grandmother speak for me during a hearing the grandmother had
00:49:02
an outburst at the courtroom as Bryce rhods was being led away after yet another one of his delays and she says
00:49:11
this is going on four years she shouted at the judge I'm their grandmother and this is going on for 4 years the judge
00:49:20
this is Judge Cunningham took the time to talk to the grandmother and explain that he is being especially careful to
00:49:28
follow protocols and protect Bryce rh's rights so the case can withstand being thrown out on appeal it is after all a
00:49:38
death penalty case the grandmother apologized after the meeting with the judge the prosecutor and the victim's
00:49:45
Advocate saying the judge like he said he wants everything dotted he wants everything done the right way regardless
00:49:52
of what Mr Bryce rhs is saying in there but their grandmother voed continued frustration at the process and what she
00:50:00
sees as rewarding Road's schemes to delay and cause problems and said quote my grandchildren didn't have a chance
00:50:10
everything he's saying in there thinking he's so smart this has got to stop he's
00:50:15
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