A ‘Mickey 17’ Review, ‘Menendez Doc’ Influence & the 'Pole Dancing' NYPD Detective

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Twala, the number one movie this week was Mickey seventeen.
And I mentioned you because you went to see it,
and also Mark Ronner reviewed it as part of the
Runner Report on Friday. Mark gave not a glowing review,
but a very positive review of the Barber Pattinson movie.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Mixed to positive. And you sat there and witnessed Twala's
vicious attack on me when I got in today.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
And that's why I'm starting right here. Twala, you came
in and took a sledgehammer to this movie, and I
thought you were going to take that same sledgehammer to
Mark Ronner. You were blaming him in part for somehow
misleading you, yep or tricking you out of your money.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
I believe that Mark Ronner was nowhere near harsh enough
on this film. I felt that he was being relatively
fair to the film. And so I went in my
daughter after watching what was the Twilight movie. Now she's
a Robin Pattinson fan.

Speaker 5 (01:02):
She wanted to go.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
See this movie. I said, you know, okay, cool, the
trailer looks good. Mark Ronner's review of it was fair.
Mark Ronner led me to believe that I was gonna
have at least an enjoyable time in the theater, and
for the first twenty minutes I did, and then it
evolved into some type of weird religious cultist political Trump

(01:23):
laden thing.

Speaker 5 (01:24):
I don't know. I was just like, what the hell?
What Trump this?

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Because there was this this Mark Ruffalo played that played
this Trump like leader who talked with the yes, it's
good to be very very big, it's good, and he
had no clue of what he was doing. His wife
was basically you know, Millennia Musk.

Speaker 5 (01:43):
Was it on the like that, Oh, it was on
the air.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
He even wore these veneers that kept his mouth and
its kind of like Trump like, yeah, that that kind
of expression he makes when he's saying something is very free, big,
He's gonna be big, he'sna be huge. He had talk
like that, and like literally he had followers and fans
that had red hats and were and we're yeah, no,
they literally were like dying to get joined this crusade

(02:07):
that he was on. They had these red hats, are like,
I'm the biggest fan ever, I've voted for you, and
he's a failed politician, and it was just and then
it just got into this weird thing and I'm like,
what am I watching?

Speaker 5 (02:19):
Mark? What say to you to that?

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Well?

Speaker 3 (02:21):
I did mention in the review that the performances were
so overly broad that it almost ruined the whole movie.
Was that too subtle for you, Tea? I may have
missed that part, and even.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Still, and even still, what you should have said is
the performances were so trash that all you can see
in this film is your eyes closing as you try
to take a nap through all the snooze fest monologue
speeches about what's right and what's wrong, and we got
to we're gonna build a brand new society on this

(02:55):
white planet, and we want peer people, only the best
people ever can.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Be on this planet. It's like, wait, what what are
we doing right now? The movie was only two hours
and seventeen minutes long. As two hours and seventeen minutes.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
There's no such thing as only seventeen minutes. I can't
felt every moment back, I can get any of that back.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
My life was wasted.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
You should have said, Mark, if you want to waste
precious moments of your life, you go watch this snarling.

Speaker 5 (03:24):
Deuce bag. Wow, duce bagduce bag.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
Because you put it in a bag and you put
it on on porch and you light it and they
come out and stomp it.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
Yes's what this film.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Well that's a bold statement. But just for clarification, are
you telling me you found nothing at all worthwhile about
the movie? The first twenty minutes when I thought it
was gonna be about cloning, and it's.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
Not about cloning. It starts off.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
It starts off that way because I've not seen the movie.
My impression of the trailer is it's about cloning and
the unfortunate realization that the clone realizes that he a clone,
and somehow the clone does have some sort of humanity
which should be saved.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
They know their clones, they know, Yeah, that's that's not
a big secret. It's when the multiples come in, and
that's in the trailers. It's in the spoiler. Yeah, when
they when they win, the multiple comes in, it's like,
oh no. And in the trailer, I thought it was
going to be some big thing about getting rid of
the multiples and that they were going to multiply and
multiply and multiply, and then there's gonna be a whole
bunch of Mickey's fighting.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
H No, none of that happened.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
See, I thought this this movie is going to be
like the movie with you and McGregor, The Island.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
It's closer to that Moon Picture with Sam Rockwell, yeah,
you never saw a movie. Yeah no, I didn't see
that one. It's worth watching, okay. Uh Duncan Jones, David
Bowie's son.

Speaker 5 (04:44):
Yeah, it's it's a pooh pooh.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
It brought in forty three million dollars worldwide, number one
domestically with nineteen million. It was a very Again, there's
another sideline issued to this that it was another very
soft week for movies. And you talk about how movie
theaters are struggling to stay in business. They need movies
that will carry the theaters through these winter months. That's

(05:10):
why it's really important for the Disney and the big
tent pole movies to do well, because not only would
they stay in theaters longer, the hope is that people
will see it multiple times or see it during the week.
I don't know how many people are going to take
a Tuesday off to go see Mickey.

Speaker 5 (05:26):
For example, Mickey seventeen.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
Even as a film enthusiastic. I can't imagine ever sitting
through that again. I mean, I'll give Bungs and Hoe,
you know, the one one viewing benefit of the doubt
viewing tula. I'm surprised you weren't more offended at Robert
Pattinson's annoying vocal that thing I don't know, like a
whiny jersey thing, I don't know what. And then when

(05:49):
you had the Mickey eighteen and then he was a tougher,
more a little more aggressive, more aggressive, Yeah, and he
hated the Week. And then it's like one of those
like wait, what what are we doing? What are we doing?

Speaker 5 (06:05):
Why do you have him? Dude? I'm the tough Mickey,
I'm this new dude snarly week coments like seven Wars.
It's like the netty Professor.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, does Robert Pattinson not have enough range to pull
it off?

Speaker 3 (06:19):
I just think they we're going for something too cartoonish
to work in a movie with Pattinson and with Ruffalo
and Tony Collette as the first lady.

Speaker 5 (06:26):
All right, I'll skip it, thank you very much. Yeah,
you know you could skip it.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
I mean, unless you feel really compelled to watch this
guy's work.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
Yeah, skip it.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Captain America. Braveney World came in second with eight point
three million. It is now up to three hundred and
seventy one million worldwide. Don't know if it's going to
hit four hundred million, but it's not a critical failure financially.
Last Breath brought in four million this week. Very soft,
doesn't matter. Only four million in the second week total

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of fourteen million. The Monkey came in a number four
week mark. Ronner reported on that it ally has forty
five million.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
I haven't made all of his money back.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, but it's not doing anything for movie theaters, you know.
Paddington in Peru fourth week three point seven million this
week for a gross of one hundred and seventy five
million worldwide. Probably got its money back, but it's not
doing gangbusters. But this is where movies come to die. Honestly,

(07:27):
there are not a lot of big movies which come
out in the winter months.

Speaker 5 (07:31):
What is Paddington doing in Peru? Has he?

Speaker 4 (07:34):
I haven't seen anything? Padding is certain, No, no, no, no.
Paddington is on the search for the first person that
ever found him. I think gave him a hat and
a jacket, and that person.

Speaker 5 (07:45):
Is it doesn't sound like a movie.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
No, but he has to search for the first human.
I guess that was nice to him, and I sent
him on his way into the world to become a
Paddington Bear, a talking bear. Oh, and so he has
to go to Peru to find it. And then Andtonio
Banderis is the bad guy. So he's hunting for Paddyton
because Paddyton, I guess offended him and he doesn't like

(08:07):
talking pairs.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
Weird, Okay, I won't be seeing that.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
And of course there's another the Oscar's Best Picture winner
that basically no one has seen and no one cares about.
Honora has a worldwide gross of forty six million.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
Now he was number seven. This week they got a
bit that one, a best of with only forty three million. Look, no, No,
four weeks in what is this? Four weeks?

Speaker 2 (08:30):
It was twenty one weeks in Oh my God, And
they added eleven hundred theaters because of the Oscar buzz
and win. It brought in one point eight million this
week after bumped up to a total of nineteen hundred theaters.

Speaker 5 (08:46):
That's shamed.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, if they actually alter the title to Annoya, it'll
be closer to truth.

Speaker 5 (08:50):
In advertising.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
I think when normal people who aren't you know, film snobs,
see this, they're gonna wonder what what the big deal was?

Speaker 2 (08:57):
I always wonder when they name movies something completely uninviting, uninspiring.
I don't care where the movie title comes from. At
least give me a reason to want to see it. Like,
for example, I have no desire and will never have
any desire to see the movie The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
What the frick does that mean?

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (09:16):
That's good, and the book is good as well. You've
lost your mind.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
But the whole point is when you name movie stuff
that is really bad, you're not ever going to get
Some people.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
I'll tell you this, You'll like The Unbearable Lightness of
Being because it's by the director of one of your
favorite movies, Philip Kaufman, who did the Invasion of the.

Speaker 5 (09:34):
Body Snatcher's remake.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
I'm still not gonna watch it, just out of sheer
stubborness and petulance.

Speaker 5 (09:41):
Okay, I'm good with that.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
I will die stubborn, petulant, insolent, indolent, petty, ignorant.

Speaker 4 (09:48):
All that doesn't matter. Are any of you watching Invincible? Yes,
I'm halfway through the last season, dropped it after the
first season. Is it worth sticking with you? Yes, you're wrong, Yeah,
you're the wrong one here. Yeah, I'm all, Oh you
got you gotta talk about that.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Someone saying you're the person who's into violence, right, Well,
when you say it like that, it's oh no, no, no,
like I need an intervention. It is like John Wick
cartoonish violence and some okay, and it's it developed very
it's animated, but it's only meant for partly psychopathic adults.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
I felt like I got everything I needed out of
it in one season.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
The one season they had, they didn't even build up
Invincible enough for you to understand his character arc you
need to start you have it really doesn't start.

Speaker 5 (10:30):
So season two I can say that. All right. A
good cast too, Oh, I have a great cast, very good. JK.
Simmons is great. Yeah. K IF I AM six forty
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Speaker 1 (10:40):
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Speaker 2 (10:46):
And I've been around long enough to remember the Menindez
Brothers actual trial, because like nineteen eighty nine, I remember
how that was such a big deal. Even though it
preceded O. J. Simpson. It it enthralled the city, not
only because the violent nature of it, but it was

(11:06):
very personal. You had two brothers who maimed and killed
their parents. Father was shotgun blasted to the back of
the head, mother was shot gun blasted to the face.
They tried to cover up the crime or make it
look like a mob hit by shooting them in the knees.

(11:30):
They tried to create an alibi of going to the movies.

Speaker 5 (11:34):
And this is just what I remember off the top
of my head. So people were.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Enthralled at the heinous aspect of this crime and how
kids could do it because they were teenagers, if I'm
not mistaken at the time, could do it to their parents.
Netflix has recently made a documentary about it. Especially if
you're under the age of fifty, you probably don't remember
too much of this, but it's been widely viewed. And

(12:00):
I always wonder in this true crime era, whether it
inspires people to do certain things, and there's more evidence
to suggest. We talk about music, we talk about video games,
but we also have to talk about documentaries.

Speaker 5 (12:15):
Now.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
A fifteen year old was arrested after he allegedly stabbed
his mother to death after being quote unquote inspired by
the Menindez Brothers documentary on Netflix. According to the criminal complaint,
officers arrived at the teen's residence around ten thirty pm
on March fourth after someone called nine to one to
one to report that they had seen they had been

(12:39):
sent pictures on Snapchat that showed a woman unresponsive on
the floor and pools of blood. The center also reportedly
told the caller that he had stabbed his mother to
death and needed help. Police identified the teenager in the complaint.
The document said that when officers arrived at the residents
in question, the teenager walked outside and dropped the kitchen

(13:01):
knife on the front porch. He reportedly asked the police
to kill him and said, she is dead. She is
dead from what I did. Then, the teenager allegedly made
an excited utterance that he hit his mother over the
head with a dumb bell so it would be easier
to stab her. During later questioning, the teenager told police

(13:21):
that he came home from school on the day of
the killing and quote felt depression and an urge to
kill his parents, and said that he was taking his
brother's anxiety medication for about a month, and on that
night he took approximately nine pills and that it does
not help his anxiety, but it makes him high and
he enjoys that. Then, a teenager reportedly said he initially

(13:44):
searched the house for a hammer to kill his father with,
but could not find one big enough. After he ate dinner,
he turned on the Menendez brother's documentary on Netflix, which
inspired him to develop a plan to kill his parents.
He said it came to him while he watched the
shotgun scene. Shotgun obviously what I was talking about, how

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the Menendez brothers killed their parents. The teenager told police
that he hid his sleeping medication after his mother went
upstairs at around nine fifty pm. Then hit a knife
and dumbbell in his shirt and told his mother he
did not know where his medication was. She went downstairs
to search for his medicine, and he hit her over
the head twice with the dumb bell when her back

(14:27):
was turned. It goes on and on and gets worse
and worse. My question is in the Menendez story, they're
allegedly allegedly and to me it was just a fabrication.
There allegedly was some sort of abuse by both the
mother and father that the Menindaz brothers alleged that was

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at least their defense in court.

Speaker 5 (14:52):
According to this.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
This teenager didn't allege that there was any type of
abuse from his parents. He just seemed like he felt
like he wanted to kill his parents, and the Menindez
documentary was an entry point.

Speaker 5 (15:06):
Now, I'm not going to blame the documentary.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Obviously, if you're taking someone else's medication that you're not
supposed to be taking and you are already inclined to
do this, the documentary probably had no real impact, no
real influence. But I do think it's something that we
should think about as far as the predisposition to violence.

(15:29):
I mean, mark, you and I we can see something
on TV or a documentary, and since I would like
to believe that we're saying enough to be able to
separate what is fantasy and what is reality. Oh yeah,
anytime you hear somebody tried to blame real world violence
on a video game, a movie, documentary, TV show, music,

(15:52):
that's pretty much the last refuge of a liar. What
do you think it's the last refuge because.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
It means means that we have no free will and
nothing matters if you can't take responsibility for your own
actions and you've got to blame it on a piece
of pop culture or entertainment.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
I still wonder, though, I still wonder whether we are
contributing in some way to them going further down that road.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
I think you have to look at all the people
who see that stuff and don't do anything. They just
process it like entertainment and turn the channel or whatever.
It's extremely rare for anybody to do anything like that
to begin with, and then to do something like that
and then blame it on an entertainment thing, extraordinarily rare.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, I do remember a time in which I probably
was not emotionally mature enough to deal with our rated material.
I do think I would be a different person today
if I were exposed to certain media, violence, imagery, even
pornography in the way that it's so readily available today.

(16:58):
It would have changed me if I were exposed at
a very young age.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Sure, and that's where your parents come in, but also
nothing that you see as entertainment makes you do anything.
I mean, my mom took me to see Don of
the Dead when I was what, I don't know, a
thirteen years old. It made a hell of an impression
on me. But I didn't go out and try to
eat a living person.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
No, No, And my father took me to see the
original Gone in sixty seconds when they're stealing cars. I
never had a desire to go out and steal a car.
But yes, there is a level of responsibility that parents
have to make sure that there is a very firm
foundation as far as right and wrong goes.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
I've actually, I've written a lot about the video game aspect,
and people should know there is absolutely no correlation with
video games in particular and real world violence, and I
think it holds true across all entertainment.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Do you think that that person is a psychopath regardless
and the video game is a way to placate that psychopathy.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
I think that you could blame anything as a trigger
if you're unwilling to accept responsibility for your own actions.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Okay, all right, then I expect you to start taking
more responsibility for your shortcomings place.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
I take full responsibility for everything I say to you.
Moe Kelly, No, that's not a rim shot step. Come on, man,
He's not living a joke just because someone's laughing. He's
trying to be funny.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
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Speaker 2 (18:29):
Detective Melissa Mercado. She's an NYPD detective and she's a
part of the Special Victims Unit, kind of like Olivia
Benson on Law and Order SVU, except not like Olivia
Benson on Law and Order SVU. She has come into
prominence not for her day job, but what she's been

(18:51):
doing in her personal life. She makes about one hundred
and forty four thousand dollars a year as a detective
Grade three, which is middle level. From what I She's
been on the forest for seven years on the job.
As they say, here's the issue. She has come under
scrutiny because there is a music video that she appears

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in which has since gone viral, And all I can
say is google Detective Melissa Mercado. She will fill up
your screen. Let me put it that way. There is
a lot to view and I mean that a good way.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
She is come under scrutiny because she performed in this
very suggestive video pole dancing, and she is still an
active detective with New York Police Department.

Speaker 5 (19:42):
And there's been a comparison which been made by some people.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
We talked about remember the flight attendant who did the
turking on the plane while on the job. She was
fired and we talked about how she was. She felt
she was being treated unfairly. She didn't mean any harm.
She didn't think it was a big deal. She didn't
think that her dancy was all that sexual. I said, well,
turking is talking. You did it on the job, you

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did it at your place of employment.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
It's different.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Here we have Melissa Mercado who was doing something not
necessarily representing the NYPD, but people know that she's with
the NYPD.

Speaker 5 (20:23):
She wasn't wearing an NYPD.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Uniform, that much is clear, was not flashing her badge.
There was nothing in what she was doing on her
personal time which would connect her to the NYPD.

Speaker 5 (20:37):
The question is is this the same or not?

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Well, it depends on the expectations of her department, her contract,
and what she told her bosses. Maybe she told her bosses, hey,
by the way, I'm going to be in this video.
Are you okay with it? And if they said okay,
then what have you? It varies from job to job.
Some jobs, hey, everything you do, even on your personal time,
if it reflects back badly on us, then you can

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be fired. Now with law enforcement, and I'm only talking
about this from the standpoint of what law enforcement officers
have told me. There are sometimes strict parameters as far
as what they can do in public. For example, they
just can't talk to the press whatever they want. They
will get them fired, suspended in a heartbeat. Can't do it.

Speaker 5 (21:24):
Now.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
There are some who will talk to you off the record,
on background, as they call it, but they can't say yeah,
some officer Jones at Rampart or you know, the seventy
seventh division.

Speaker 5 (21:35):
No, no, no, you can't do that.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
They would have to get permission to do that, and
they did, and they probably be fired very strict on
public representation of whatever the department they're with.

Speaker 5 (21:46):
This is an interesting conundrum. We don't know.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
Because Melissa Mercado is not speaking publicly, but I'm quite
sure she had to have known she is going to
be recognized in the video, because there are lots of
things which stick out on her hint, which make her
very recognizable, or at least two things do.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
Yes, but it's very clear the rap artists who she's
performing alongside in the video. The director no one on
the set was aware of her affiliation with NYPD. She
did not post this on her social media page. Hey
check me out in this video. This is something that

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she does part time, in her off time and looking
at at least an overview of the rules, it says
while officers are required to file an off duty employment
form if they perform for money, her actions could be
considered personal, which would not fall under department oversight. If

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she did it for free, you're saying, and she knows
the rapper, She does know the individual that she was
performing for. If this is what she does. And again
this is different from uh the airline twerker. She was
not even in a you know, fake officer uniform like
a scantily clad officer uniform she was. You would actually

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have to know her and also know her on the
force because she doesn't show up to work.

Speaker 5 (23:17):
Like she did in that video. Now that the video
came out once.

Speaker 4 (23:22):
The word spread, of course to her entire department, is familiar.
But still, I mean, it's it's it is a great
line because yeah, I know, now that the video is
out there, I'm watching the video right now, the videos
out there busting. She's wide open. She is she's bad

(23:44):
and that's why she did. But you know, I mean,
I'm sure as us talking about it right now, I
promise you people are looking this up and they're saying,
oh no, look, there's no way she should be a
member of law enforcement.

Speaker 5 (23:58):
But they're different.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
A lot of officers who moon like doing other things,
just moon.

Speaker 5 (24:05):
They moan the flight the hord.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
I have to watch the video a couple more times,
just so I'm completely clear on what she did and
did not do.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yeah, be thorough, you want to be thorough. I think
this is some excellent police outreach. I can't imagine why
you'd have a problem with it. I don't have a
problem with it anything.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
It probably puts a better light on the department as
a whole, of all of all the I'll say, the
shut up.

Speaker 5 (24:33):
Mark of all the certainly does that.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Never mind, I'll just I retract, I yield back my tie.
Check out Detective Melissa Mercapo pole dancing. She is very talented.
I'll give her that. She does not when I see
her in her uniform and when I see her in
a thong, it looks like two different people, two different people.

Speaker 4 (25:01):
Yes, which one would you like to frisk? You is
the question, you know, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (25:13):
That's tough. That's tough. I think in the uniform it
adds more mysteries. I don't know. I'm a black man.
I'm afraid that she would like choke me out like
Eric Garner or someone I don't know. I don't know
may get you in a headlock, that's what they're calling it.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
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Speaker 2 (25:35):
Let me get serious, because I do have a serious
final thought for this evening. And earlier you might have
heard Mark Ronnerd discuss a story or previews story regarding
Mayor Karen Bass and her text messages which are not
available for January seventh and January eighth, which happened to

(25:55):
coincide with her time in Ghana and also the beginning
of the fires here in Los Angeles and also Los
Angeles County. So I wanted to focus in on that,
and for my final thought, it's this. Let me just
start with the obvious. Mayor Karen Bass will probably be
re elected, probably most likely, and that's not an endorsement,

(26:19):
not in the least. That's just a reflection of not
having any real competition, at least not at this moment,
but she surely has done herself no favors in the
recent months. I really hate when politicians and elected officials
try to insult my intelligence. Maybe you don't have any
problem with that, but I sure as hell do. We
can disagree on policy, we can disagree on strategy and messaging.

(26:44):
We can disagree on the path forward as far as
what's best for our city, county, or state. But we
can't agree on you insulting me with wild, unbelievable stories
which defy reasonable explanation. And I'm all of reasonable. After
a public records request for Bass's text messages from January

(27:06):
seventh and January eighth related to the fires by the
La Times, the Time said the city had no responsive records.
No responsive records a mayor's text messages from only a
month ago are nowhere to be found. Bass was in
Ghana when the Palisades and Eating fires broke out on

(27:27):
January seventh. I remember I was covering it. You might
remember as well. I was spending from seven pm to
midnight here talking about it for multiple days. I remember it,
and also Bass spent much of that dex next day,
traveling back from Ghana more than seventy five hundred miles

(27:47):
to Los Angeles, and she said she was in communication
with officials here, so I assume she was on the phone,
she was texting whatever, you know what she was doing
beyond on traveling, coordinating, not just communicating. And if you
communicate with anyone for any length of time, you know

(28:09):
that texting is not only more efficient, but it's more
easily accessible for the person on the other end, as
opposed to leaving a voicemail. I'm sure there are multiple
people trying to get in touch with the mayor simultaneously,
and since she's in air, it stands the reason that
texting is more efficient than calling. But none of those

(28:33):
records are quote unquote available. That to me, and I'm
just talking about me. Maybe you don't care, but that
to me is insulting my intelligence. According to David Michaelson,
an attorney for the city, indicated that the mayor's phone,
and I'm quoting, the mayor's phone is set to not
save text messages. It auto deletes, and I know something

(28:58):
about smartphones just a little bit. Auto delete is a
manual setting. It's a choice. It's not a factory setting.
It doesn't come to you out of a box and
you install a text messaging app and just auto delete
stuff after thirty days and beyond that. I also know
that text messages have both a sender and a receiver.
I know that just deleting a message from a device
doesn't delete it from a server. So the messages themselves

(29:21):
are not lost forever. But that's beside the point. It's
a principle. And as an elected official, there is every
reason to believe that a mayor's text messages during an
emergency have relevance and importance beyond thirty days.

Speaker 5 (29:35):
It's a crisis situation.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
There is every reason to believe that the mayor knows
this as well as I do, as well as you do.
I don't question whether her phone was set to auto delete.
I don't question that at all. I absolutely question any
such motivation, and so would any reasonable person. So let
me end where I began. Mayor Bass is probably going
to be re elected borderline definite. And that is in

(30:01):
part because she likely won't face any serious challengers. And
I've told you about that and how that just really
sticks in my craw. No one is actually going to
step up. And that is why setting auto delete for
your text messages during a crisis in which there have
been numerous investigations and allegations of incompetence will not matter

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one single bit.

Speaker 5 (30:26):
And I get it, I really do.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
When there are no consequences, you can auto delete your
messages even during a crisis.

Speaker 5 (30:31):
How do I know?

Speaker 2 (30:32):
As the Secret Service during the January sixth insurrection, we
never found those text messages either. I try to be consistent,
and I really hate when politicians act like we're stupid.
I know for a fact I'm not. I can't speak
for anyone else, but I know I'm not. I just
would rather they, as in politicians, they as an elected officials,

(30:53):
just own up to it and say, yeah, I deleted
the damn messages. They are probably important, and I know
you can't do anything about it. I'm still going to
be re elected, so deal with it. Close quote that
would be easier to swallow. But politicians and elected officials
do these things and will continue to do them as
long as they know they won't be voted out. You

(31:14):
can't necessarily control what politicians do. You can control whether
they get to hang around and continue to do them
for k IF.

Speaker 5 (31:23):
I AM six forty. I'm O Kelly.

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