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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Paul DeMarco in the studio with us. Now, Paul, good
to see.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It, Good morning, glad to be with you on this Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Are you feeling all right? I want to, you know,
get all weirded out on me because I had COVID.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And you know, taphoid. Mary over there, void and Mary.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Look it's not I don't have the plague, okay, so
just calm down. I'm way pasted any symptoms. You know.
I took three days off because you know, I didn't
want to disrespect people I work with and potentially spread this,
you know, to them. So I took the packs loavid
and did all that. And by the way, this round
of COVID, it's like a sign of infection. Had somebody
(00:38):
not said to me, I'm not going to say any
names in the studio, but had not said to me,
you probably ought to get checked for COVID. So now
I'm in my own head about COVID.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
What So I.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Immediately went and got checked for COVID, and sure enough,
she goes, I'm gonna swab you can you have a
soort threat? I said a little bit, all right, I'm
going to check you for strap. I'm gonna check you
for flu. I'll check you for COVID. I said, all right, fine, whatever, Hey,
good news you're you're not you don't have flu or
strup and COVID. You do have COVID. I'm like, oh, okay.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
So my one I'm over it. My one COVID story
from three years ago. The one time I had it.
It was a Friday. I had a little bit of
a cough and my wife's like, go, get to checked out.
I'm like, no, no, no, I got a big week. I
was introducing k Ivey at a big breakfast. The next morning,
Paul DeMarco kills k I sure enough, I had COVID.
It says you cannot be the one that gives the
governor COVID. So I did not get to go. I mean,
(01:33):
I was like, I can't. It's just you're not going on.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I said, hey, high five to your wife. I mean, yeah, look,
I mean that that would have been bad.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, so give her credit for where credit is to.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah. And there was there was some concern around my
mother in law lives with us, and she's in her eighties,
mid eighties, and you know, Judy said, please, you know,
don't get close to mom. I said, that's fine. So
we've been in the same house, but I've stayed as
you know, far away as I can without sleeping in
the front yard.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
You're not coughing on bok. Now, if you know, you'd
have some bug, I wouldn't be here.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
No, no, So I think you're fine. So we were
talking about cracker barrel situation.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Oh my gosh, do these people not learn? I mean,
how many butt light targets, s uestions do we have
to have?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Look, I don't know that if this is that, because well,
go ahead tell me what why? Why do you think?
Tell me?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I was reading for what it's worth, all the good
information on that's relied on Twitter. I mean that there's
is it true there's stock? Can somebody tell us?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Oh no, no, no, you're right, there's stock plummeted? They
lost like two hundred million dollars yet.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, two hundrellion dollars. It was down twelve percent, yes, year, right,
forty five percent since this CEO is taken over. So
I mean something's going on.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Right, I don't. I never. I didn't see anything about
DEI I didn't see anything about this rings back racism
from the old days. I didn't see anything about LGBTQ.
Somebody said that she did mention I want to diversify
in all this. But she changed the logo and change
got rid of the as Evan Brown said, got rid
of the crack and the barrel. So I said, what
(03:02):
the white guy and you know Uncle Healy or whatever
his name is, that sits in the chair next to
the crowd, And I would think, Paul, that if you're
going to do this as the CEO, and a lot
of companies, you know, want to freshen things up when
there's new leadership, right, So you Okay, here's what we're
going to do. We're going to change the logo to
look like this. Here's what the interior of the building's
(03:23):
going to start looking like like this, and maybe do
a focus group with cracker barrel customers and say what
do y'all think. I don't know if they did that,
because clearly when she did this, the stock went to
the toilet. And I bet she's in somebody's board meeting
this morning discussing that.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
But I think everybody's become so cynical based on what
corporate decisions Corporate America has made based on woke politics.
I mean, is that.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, there's been made here, and I saw the reference
to the bud light thing. But I don't think this
is the woke policy that we prove that.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I mean that this marketing firm that didn't come into play.
I mean, I mean there's been example, was it Anchem?
I mean, can we go example after example after example
that that has been in playing.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Well, mackenzie, let's play the cut, all right, this is
the Cracker Barrel CEO Julie fels Messino explaining the upcoming changes. Listen.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I think what's important is that we are listening to
our guests. We're doing this all for them. What they've
said is they love the new seating. Were adding in boosts,
making the chairs more comfortable, putting in new lighting, brightening
up the pin color. But what's important is things that
people love about Crocker Barrel. The soul of Cracker Barrel's
not changing. The rocking chairs are still there, the fireplace
is there at the peg game. All the things that
(04:41):
make Cracker Barrel Cracker Barrel, the vintage decor, it's still
there and it's working. The results a firm that we're
headed in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
The stock market says differently though.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I mean again, I think everybody's just so cynical because
of what they've seen over and over and over come
from these companies, from Walsh and these marketing firms from
the Northeast to her making these decisions with Ckenzie.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I mean, you know, do you think this was a
good move, bad move? D I d I thing or
I mean you think social media.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
That it's just the logo and it seems like she's
trying to modernize Cocker Berell, which I mean, you know
a lot of people are not going to love because
Cracker Barell is known for, you know, that old timmy feel.
And I think that this is probably a result of
the business not doing well. I mean personally, when I
go to Cracker Barrel, you have to wait for forever
because they're understaffed, and you know, with that in consideration,
I do think that this is just them trying to
move forward in that direction to modernize, and that's a
(05:31):
good getting better business.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
That's a good point you make, because the business itself
was not doing all that gangbusters recently.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
But but she think, doesn't you go back to the basics.
You would go back to the basics when you were successful,
which was as opposed to modern Have you seen the
inside of it now? Have you seen the difference between
what it looks like. It looks like that. No, I
mean it looks like just anything else out there. It
does not look like I mean, I'll show you a
photo and you tell me again. I'm just telling you.
(05:59):
I think we're all becomes so cynical about the decisions
made on by these New York marketing firms. And you
can't say that, oh, what, politics has not played a role?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, maybe it has.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It's been over and over and over. So it's hard
to believe when they say, oh, don't worry that that
had nothing Removing the old man next to it had
nothing to do with it. I mean, do you have
any trust belief anymore?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You know what this is? This is like the any
grip of the show going from black and white TV
to when they put it in color and got different actors.
I'm like, I'm done with it. This is not the
old what we came to know and love.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
So you know, well, like I said, I might as
well just go down.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I hobbed in. Probably looks just like the Henry.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
We'll see if they can go the same direction as
some of these other companies.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
The Menendez Brothers making news this morning as the first
one was denied. What you got, Oh, I can't see that.
Just talk to me.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
We've got Craig and Gardendale on the line about change subjects.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Okay, let's go Craig. Good morning. Sorry, buddy, I forgot
you were hanging on here. I appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Oh, not a brawlm I was just calling about the
cracker barrel thing. For about fifteen years I dealt with
the food industry from a vendor side. And you will
know the difference between a corporate and a locally owned business,
and she said it a minute ago. It's the employees
in there. And the thing with the difference is and
(07:20):
local owned, you're going to see the owner in the store,
so he knows what's going on a day day basis.
Corporate never goes to these places. They just look at
numbers and say we're sales and down. Well, if they
were to go spend time in that store, they would
see why their sales are down, and they would see
what kind of employees they have. But they're not going
to do that because then they may have to pay
(07:41):
them extra, or they may actually have to address a problem.
It's easier just to change something with money than it
is to go in and get your hands dirty and
work in there and see what's going on. Why were
losing business, Why it's people quitting. I don't want to
answer those questions.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I didn't even realize, Thattvate. I didn't realize that some
of the Cracker Barrel stores were privately owned and locally owned.
I thought they were all corporate stores. That's not the case.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Huh No, I'm talking about different like Burger Kings corporate,
and then you have somebody like a Hamburger Heaven. They're
the fifth So I got you, I got you lay.
But that's called the owners are in there and they
have daily interaction with their employees. They see who's running
their store.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, yeah, I got you. All right, buddy, Hey, listen,
I appreciate your calling. I got to tell you, I
wish they would have spent more time on figuring out
how to hire more staff instead of even twenty tables
empty and saying, oh, you'll be a forty five minute wait.
I said, what are you talking about? There's twenty tables, Well,
we only have two waiters. Two there's four hundred people
in here to see you. All right, Thank you, buddy,
thank you for listening to It's a twenty six now
(08:46):
Alabama's Morning News. All right, Menandez brothers, Paul, we were
talking about this is the older one, now, uh was
it the younger one that was denied? It was the
older one, the younger one, Okay, So and the next
one is coming up denied parole, thirty six years in prison.
Your thoughts on that.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I believe in the death penalty. If you murder someone,
I'm good with death penalty. So I mean, it's not
to me. It's if you were convicted of capital murder,
you should get the death penalty. Yeah, they and you
should but and you and and I know there's life
without parole, but I mean, you should not be up
for parole.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
So I mean, to me, they killed their parents with shotguns.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And they said they about the issue with the dad,
But then what about the mom.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Backing up dad? All right? So are we just going
to we're going to ignore the fact that the dad
was just you know, sexually abusing them as young boy.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
There's a bill in Alabama legislaus you should get the
death penalty for raping children. I think that law should
be passing. The governor's just signing in the law.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
But what what about this dad though, that you know,
is physically sexually abusing is minor boys.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I agreed about him, and then I guess he got
the death penalty. Yeah, and I wasn't at the trials.
I don't understand or know all the facts of all
of it.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I know, and some people have said, well, they were
doing for the money. Well, if they're already in the will,
they're getting money. They had money, gobs of money living there.
But they were tired of the abuse and they snapped.
You know, I got to, you know, in this case,
and I think every case is you know, you got.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
To look at it on a case by case base.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Right, Okay, And I agree with you. If this was
all about the money, and they proved that, and there's
zero proof that there was any sexual abuse going on,
wasn't it one of the Menudo brothers also brought into
this because he.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Was being abused by this I will say they also
tried to run away and they were brought back home,
So that was something else that contributed to them saying,
you know, like, oh what before you order your parents
wanted and you run away. Well they did, and you
know they were a high status in Beverly Hills, so
that the kids were brought back home.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Oh look, I mean I'm trying to sort out what's
fact and what's fiction about the sexual abuse. But I mean,
there's no question we're seeing it right here now. What
has happened here in bib County. The horribles. Oh, there
should be the death penalty for the rape of a child.
I don't know what was going on with that their
case out in California, but.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Well I did as a lawyer. Does this ruin their
chances or they get to come back before the parole
board again in five years or whatever?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, every state is different. In Alabama it used to
be five years, but our current parole board is starting
to bring them back sooner as they have led two
killers and letting them out. Have they released two killers
in the past month since League Walthney was removed was
not reappointed as the pro board. So we got our
own problems in Alabama.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And this Blood County thing seems to be a bit
deeper in we thought. They're still looking for people, still
going deeper to find others that were involved.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
And every one of them should never see another the daylight.
The sheriff is said, this is the worst he has
ever seen in his entire career, that they should never
see the light of day again.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Well, there's a guy in Hoover that's out, you know,
he's eighty five years old. He was convicted felling the
assault against the miners and he got a suspended ten
year cents from what I understand, and zero I guess,
unsupervised probation for five years, and he's he's home. I'm like, well,
what how does this happen? And then somebody explained to me, well,
(12:18):
there might have been a deal struck. Danny Carr's a
disc attorney Jefferson County. I'm not sure who the judge
in all this was, but you know, if there's a
plea bargain, it's true, the judge does not have to
accept that plea bargain. Correct, that's right. Okay, So apparently
it was all worked out. And the main reason, from
what I understand and I've heard, they didn't want the
kids to have to testify in court, you know, but
(12:39):
can't that be done separately and doesn't have to face
the guy in the court room.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Well, I mean, if there's a trial, you have to
have a trial before a dreury.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
And yeah, but can't you videotape the kids in testimy
instead of bringing them into the court room dragging them through.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
But I mean, and somebody who's accused has the right.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
But the bottom line is convicted.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Did Yeah, I mean that's why you have to watch
the criminal justice system. You have to watch judges, you
have to watch what's going on at the courthouse because
it's important for your public safety, of your family, for everyone,
all Right,
Paul DeMarco in the studio with us. Now, Paul, good
to see.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It, Good morning, glad to be with you on this Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Are you feeling all right? I want to, you know,
get all weirded out on me because I had COVID.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And you know, taphoid. Mary over there, void and Mary.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Look it's not I don't have the plague, okay, so
just calm down. I'm way pasted any symptoms. You know.
I took three days off because you know, I didn't
want to disrespect people I work with and potentially spread this,
you know, to them. So I took the packs loavid
and did all that. And by the way, this round
of COVID, it's like a sign of infection. Had somebody
(00:38):
not said to me, I'm not going to say any
names in the studio, but had not said to me,
you probably ought to get checked for COVID. So now
I'm in my own head about COVID.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
What So I.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Immediately went and got checked for COVID, and sure enough,
she goes, I'm gonna swab you can you have a
soort threat? I said a little bit, all right, I'm
going to check you for strap. I'm gonna check you
for flu. I'll check you for COVID. I said, all right, fine, whatever, Hey,
good news you're you're not you don't have flu or
strup and COVID. You do have COVID. I'm like, oh, okay.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
So my one I'm over it. My one COVID story
from three years ago. The one time I had it.
It was a Friday. I had a little bit of
a cough and my wife's like, go, get to checked out.
I'm like, no, no, no, I got a big week. I
was introducing k Ivey at a big breakfast. The next morning,
Paul DeMarco kills k I sure enough, I had COVID.
It says you cannot be the one that gives the
governor COVID. So I did not get to go. I mean,
(01:33):
I was like, I can't. It's just you're not going on.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I said, hey, high five to your wife. I mean, yeah, look,
I mean that that would have been bad.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, so give her credit for where credit is to.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah. And there was there was some concern around my
mother in law lives with us, and she's in her eighties,
mid eighties, and you know, Judy said, please, you know,
don't get close to mom. I said, that's fine. So
we've been in the same house, but I've stayed as
you know, far away as I can without sleeping in
the front yard.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
You're not coughing on bok. Now, if you know, you'd
have some bug, I wouldn't be here.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
No, no, So I think you're fine. So we were
talking about cracker barrel situation.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Oh my gosh, do these people not learn? I mean,
how many butt light targets, s uestions do we have
to have?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Look, I don't know that if this is that, because well,
go ahead tell me what why? Why do you think?
Tell me?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I was reading for what it's worth, all the good
information on that's relied on Twitter. I mean that there's
is it true there's stock? Can somebody tell us?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Oh no, no, no, you're right, there's stock plummeted? They
lost like two hundred million dollars yet.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, two hundrellion dollars. It was down twelve percent, yes, year, right,
forty five percent since this CEO is taken over. So
I mean something's going on.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Right, I don't. I never. I didn't see anything about
DEI I didn't see anything about this rings back racism
from the old days. I didn't see anything about LGBTQ.
Somebody said that she did mention I want to diversify
in all this. But she changed the logo and change
got rid of the as Evan Brown said, got rid
of the crack and the barrel. So I said, what
(03:02):
the white guy and you know Uncle Healy or whatever
his name is, that sits in the chair next to
the crowd, And I would think, Paul, that if you're
going to do this as the CEO, and a lot
of companies, you know, want to freshen things up when
there's new leadership, right, So you Okay, here's what we're
going to do. We're going to change the logo to
look like this. Here's what the interior of the building's
(03:23):
going to start looking like like this, and maybe do
a focus group with cracker barrel customers and say what
do y'all think. I don't know if they did that,
because clearly when she did this, the stock went to
the toilet. And I bet she's in somebody's board meeting
this morning discussing that.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
But I think everybody's become so cynical based on what
corporate decisions Corporate America has made based on woke politics.
I mean, is that.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, there's been made here, and I saw the reference
to the bud light thing. But I don't think this
is the woke policy that we prove that.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I mean that this marketing firm that didn't come into play.
I mean, I mean there's been example, was it Anchem?
I mean, can we go example after example after example
that that has been in playing.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Well, mackenzie, let's play the cut, all right, this is
the Cracker Barrel CEO Julie fels Messino explaining the upcoming changes. Listen.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I think what's important is that we are listening to
our guests. We're doing this all for them. What they've
said is they love the new seating. Were adding in boosts,
making the chairs more comfortable, putting in new lighting, brightening
up the pin color. But what's important is things that
people love about Crocker Barrel. The soul of Cracker Barrel's
not changing. The rocking chairs are still there, the fireplace
is there at the peg game. All the things that
(04:41):
make Cracker Barrel Cracker Barrel, the vintage decor, it's still
there and it's working. The results a firm that we're
headed in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
The stock market says differently though.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I mean again, I think everybody's just so cynical because
of what they've seen over and over and over come
from these companies, from Walsh and these marketing firms from
the Northeast to her making these decisions with Ckenzie.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I mean, you know, do you think this was a
good move, bad move? D I d I thing or
I mean you think social media.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
That it's just the logo and it seems like she's
trying to modernize Cocker Berell, which I mean, you know
a lot of people are not going to love because
Cracker Barell is known for, you know, that old timmy feel.
And I think that this is probably a result of
the business not doing well. I mean personally, when I
go to Cracker Barrel, you have to wait for forever
because they're understaffed, and you know, with that in consideration,
I do think that this is just them trying to
move forward in that direction to modernize, and that's a
(05:31):
good getting better business.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
That's a good point you make, because the business itself
was not doing all that gangbusters recently.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
But but she think, doesn't you go back to the basics.
You would go back to the basics when you were successful,
which was as opposed to modern Have you seen the
inside of it now? Have you seen the difference between
what it looks like. It looks like that. No, I
mean it looks like just anything else out there. It
does not look like I mean, I'll show you a
photo and you tell me again. I'm just telling you.
(05:59):
I think we're all becomes so cynical about the decisions
made on by these New York marketing firms. And you
can't say that, oh, what, politics has not played a role?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, maybe it has.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It's been over and over and over. So it's hard
to believe when they say, oh, don't worry that that
had nothing Removing the old man next to it had
nothing to do with it. I mean, do you have
any trust belief anymore?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You know what this is? This is like the any
grip of the show going from black and white TV
to when they put it in color and got different actors.
I'm like, I'm done with it. This is not the
old what we came to know and love.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
So you know, well, like I said, I might as
well just go down.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I hobbed in. Probably looks just like the Henry.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
We'll see if they can go the same direction as
some of these other companies.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
The Menendez Brothers making news this morning as the first
one was denied. What you got, Oh, I can't see that.
Just talk to me.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
We've got Craig and Gardendale on the line about change subjects.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Okay, let's go Craig. Good morning. Sorry, buddy, I forgot
you were hanging on here. I appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Oh, not a brawlm I was just calling about the
cracker barrel thing. For about fifteen years I dealt with
the food industry from a vendor side. And you will
know the difference between a corporate and a locally owned business,
and she said it a minute ago. It's the employees
in there. And the thing with the difference is and
(07:20):
local owned, you're going to see the owner in the store,
so he knows what's going on a day day basis.
Corporate never goes to these places. They just look at
numbers and say we're sales and down. Well, if they
were to go spend time in that store, they would
see why their sales are down, and they would see
what kind of employees they have. But they're not going
to do that because then they may have to pay
(07:41):
them extra, or they may actually have to address a problem.
It's easier just to change something with money than it
is to go in and get your hands dirty and
work in there and see what's going on. Why were
losing business, Why it's people quitting. I don't want to
answer those questions.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I didn't even realize, Thattvate. I didn't realize that some
of the Cracker Barrel stores were privately owned and locally owned.
I thought they were all corporate stores. That's not the case.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Huh No, I'm talking about different like Burger Kings corporate,
and then you have somebody like a Hamburger Heaven. They're
the fifth So I got you, I got you lay.
But that's called the owners are in there and they
have daily interaction with their employees. They see who's running
their store.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, yeah, I got you. All right, buddy, Hey, listen,
I appreciate your calling. I got to tell you, I
wish they would have spent more time on figuring out
how to hire more staff instead of even twenty tables
empty and saying, oh, you'll be a forty five minute wait.
I said, what are you talking about? There's twenty tables, Well,
we only have two waiters. Two there's four hundred people
in here to see you. All right, Thank you, buddy,
thank you for listening to It's a twenty six now
(08:46):
Alabama's Morning News. All right, Menandez brothers, Paul, we were
talking about this is the older one, now, uh was
it the younger one that was denied? It was the
older one, the younger one, Okay, So and the next
one is coming up denied parole, thirty six years in prison.
Your thoughts on that.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I believe in the death penalty. If you murder someone,
I'm good with death penalty. So I mean, it's not
to me. It's if you were convicted of capital murder,
you should get the death penalty. Yeah, they and you
should but and you and and I know there's life
without parole, but I mean, you should not be up
for parole.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
So I mean, to me, they killed their parents with shotguns.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And they said they about the issue with the dad,
But then what about the mom.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Backing up dad? All right? So are we just going
to we're going to ignore the fact that the dad
was just you know, sexually abusing them as young boy.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
There's a bill in Alabama legislaus you should get the
death penalty for raping children. I think that law should
be passing. The governor's just signing in the law.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
But what what about this dad though, that you know,
is physically sexually abusing is minor boys.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I agreed about him, and then I guess he got
the death penalty. Yeah, and I wasn't at the trials.
I don't understand or know all the facts of all
of it.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I know, and some people have said, well, they were
doing for the money. Well, if they're already in the will,
they're getting money. They had money, gobs of money living there.
But they were tired of the abuse and they snapped.
You know, I got to, you know, in this case,
and I think every case is you know, you got.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
To look at it on a case by case base.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Right, Okay, And I agree with you. If this was
all about the money, and they proved that, and there's
zero proof that there was any sexual abuse going on,
wasn't it one of the Menudo brothers also brought into
this because he.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Was being abused by this I will say they also
tried to run away and they were brought back home,
So that was something else that contributed to them saying,
you know, like, oh what before you order your parents
wanted and you run away. Well they did, and you
know they were a high status in Beverly Hills, so
that the kids were brought back home.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Oh look, I mean I'm trying to sort out what's
fact and what's fiction about the sexual abuse. But I mean,
there's no question we're seeing it right here now. What
has happened here in bib County. The horribles. Oh, there
should be the death penalty for the rape of a child.
I don't know what was going on with that their
case out in California, but.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Well I did as a lawyer. Does this ruin their
chances or they get to come back before the parole
board again in five years or whatever?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, every state is different. In Alabama it used to
be five years, but our current parole board is starting
to bring them back sooner as they have led two
killers and letting them out. Have they released two killers
in the past month since League Walthney was removed was
not reappointed as the pro board. So we got our
own problems in Alabama.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And this Blood County thing seems to be a bit
deeper in we thought. They're still looking for people, still
going deeper to find others that were involved.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
And every one of them should never see another the daylight.
The sheriff is said, this is the worst he has
ever seen in his entire career, that they should never
see the light of day again.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Well, there's a guy in Hoover that's out, you know,
he's eighty five years old. He was convicted felling the
assault against the miners and he got a suspended ten
year cents from what I understand, and zero I guess,
unsupervised probation for five years, and he's he's home. I'm like, well,
what how does this happen? And then somebody explained to me, well,
(12:18):
there might have been a deal struck. Danny Carr's a
disc attorney Jefferson County. I'm not sure who the judge
in all this was, but you know, if there's a
plea bargain, it's true, the judge does not have to
accept that plea bargain. Correct, that's right. Okay, So apparently
it was all worked out. And the main reason, from
what I understand and I've heard, they didn't want the
kids to have to testify in court, you know, but
(12:39):
can't that be done separately and doesn't have to face
the guy in the court room.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Well, I mean, if there's a trial, you have to
have a trial before a dreury.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
And yeah, but can't you videotape the kids in testimy
instead of bringing them into the court room dragging them through.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
But I mean, and somebody who's accused has the right.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
But the bottom line is convicted.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Did Yeah, I mean that's why you have to watch
the criminal justice system. You have to watch judges, you
have to watch what's going on at the courthouse because
it's important for your public safety, of your family, for everyone,
all Right,
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