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Legally Brunette: The Menendez Brothers & Jillian Michaels · Two Ts In A Pod with Teddi Mellencamp and Tamra Judge

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Speaker 1: Hi guys, welcome to another episode of Legally Brunette. I'll
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Speaker 1: be your host Emily Simpson and oh oh you need
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Speaker 1: to set up and Shane and Shane. First of all,
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Speaker 1: we are going to go into the Menindez Brothers because
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Speaker 1: obviously they've had a big week this week. They were
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Speaker 1: both went up before the Pearl Boards, and I think
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Speaker 1: maybe we should just do a little little background just
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Speaker 1: to see, you know, just to cover how we got
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Speaker 1: to this point. We've covered Meninda's many many times. Are
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Speaker 1: actually our very first episode for Legally Brunette was on
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Speaker 1: the Menindez Brothers, and so if you haven't listened to it,
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Speaker 1: go back and find it. I think it was a
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Speaker 1: really good episode because I had done so much research
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Speaker 1: and read the book written by Robert Rand and studied
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Speaker 1: as much as possible, so.
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Speaker 2: Every video, watched, every possible house.
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Speaker 1: I went to their house, I stalked them. I've done
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Speaker 1: everything possible that I could to know as much as
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Speaker 1: I could. Anyway, so they are on they went before
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Speaker 1: the parole board this week, and that the parole board
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Speaker 1: came about because they were on a two track system.
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Speaker 1: If you guys remember we've talked about this before. They
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Speaker 1: had a habeas petition that was basically based on new
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Speaker 1: evidence that came out later, which was a letter from
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Speaker 1: a cousin of Eric's corroborating that there was sexual abuse
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Speaker 1: in the relationship with Jose. And then there was also
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Speaker 1: the boy, the guy from the Menudo band, that came
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Speaker 1: forward that said that he had been sexually abused by
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Speaker 1: Jose as well. So those two pieces of new evidence
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Speaker 1: put them on track for a possible new hearing, new trial,
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Speaker 1: and that was the habeas route that is still ongoing.
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Speaker 1: This other route that led to them being in front
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Speaker 1: of the parole board was the resentencing, and that was
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Speaker 1: in front of Judge Ryan, and I don't remember the
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Speaker 1: exact date, but it was I don't know, maybe a
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Speaker 1: month or so ago or a couple of months. I
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Speaker 1: don't have time flies, I can't even keep track. But
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Speaker 1: Judge Ryan re sentenced the Menendez brothers to instead of
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Speaker 1: life without parole, to life with the eligibility for paroles.
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Speaker 1: So that's how they've ended up. From fifty years to life,
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Speaker 1: it was fifty years to life with the eligibility for parole,
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Speaker 1: which has now put them in front of the parole board.
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Speaker 2: So Eric and separately, not together.
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Speaker 1: Not together. They have separate parole hearings. Lyles was yesterday,
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Speaker 1: Eric's was the day before, and I'm sure, as we
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Speaker 1: all know, just based upon the headlines and the news,
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Speaker 1: both of them were denied parole. Let's talk about first
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Speaker 1: of all, which is an interesting thought, is because they
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Speaker 1: had separate parole hearings, one could have been paroled and
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Speaker 1: one could have not, which would have been a really
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Speaker 1: probably i mean devastating scenario for them, as well as
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Speaker 1: an interesting scenario that one could have been paroled and
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Speaker 1: one could have stayed in prison. We know now that
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Speaker 1: didn't happen. They were both denied parole, So let's talk
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Speaker 1: about why they were denied.
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Speaker 2: And they both had different not just different dates, but
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Speaker 2: they had different boards that they were in front of them.
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Speaker 1: They did. They were both in different in front of
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Speaker 1: different parle boards, and each brother had a different commissioner
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Speaker 1: that was that was heading up the parle board. So
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Speaker 1: a lot of the issues with the denial was this
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Speaker 1: contraband that had to do with cell phones. So official
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Speaker 1: stress that such devices posed serious security risks in prisons,
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Speaker 1: often tied to gang's drugs or violence. This is when
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Speaker 1: it had to do with Eric. Eric acknowledged that using
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Speaker 1: a phone to stay connected with his wife and for entertainment,
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Speaker 1: which he likes to watch YouTube, listen to music, et cetera,
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Speaker 1: and apparently also watch pornography. Lyle turned to phones when
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Speaker 1: he realized his communications with his wife and family. Even
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Speaker 1: though Lyle isn't married any longer. I believe he's now divorced.
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Speaker 1: And then there was like a young girlfriend and we
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Speaker 1: got married.
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Speaker 2: I think he's married. Toy did married and divorce in prison?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? I think maybe he was married twice. And then
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Speaker 1: there was like a young girlfriend that came and visited him.
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Speaker 1: That was like from the UK. Anyway, that's a whole
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Speaker 1: nother podcast to the parole hearings. But he realized that
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Speaker 1: his communications with his wife and family were being monitored
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Speaker 1: and sold to tabloids. So he saw cell phones as
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Speaker 1: a privacy major in a way to stay in touch
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Speaker 1: with his wife during a stressful time in their marriage.
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Speaker 1: So that was the reasoning that both of them gave
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Speaker 1: for using cell phones in prison. First of all, my
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Speaker 1: question is who how do they get the cell phone?
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Speaker 1: And who pays the bill?
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Speaker 2: Well, someone on the outside pays the bill. I imagine, well,
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Speaker 2: why not his wife? Yeah, so you think or maybe
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Speaker 2: maybe in the divorce proceedings he gets some type of
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Speaker 2: alimony and he uses it to pay the phone.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but he can't be paying his cell phone bill
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Speaker 1: from was he log on and pay a cell phone bill?
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Speaker 2: Sure he has a cell phone, is a smartphone. He
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Speaker 2: probably has email and everything.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you can Venmo and Jaelic probably Vene won
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Speaker 2: each other. You know.
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Speaker 1: It just seems odd to me. But I mean, obviously
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Speaker 1: I've never been in prison, but it seems odd to me.
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Speaker 1: I guess there's just I picture like someone's in prison
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Speaker 1: and that they're just being watched twenty four to seven.
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Speaker 1: But I guess there are a lot of opportunities where
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Speaker 1: you can pull off a cell phone. Here's a cell
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Speaker 1: phone and do it on the download and people don't
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Speaker 1: know and all right. Also another reason that they were
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Speaker 1: denied bail was that there were many moments where they
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Speaker 1: were not considered model prisoners. Eric faced questions about associating
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Speaker 1: himself with a prison gang called the quote two fivers.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what that means, but the number two
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Speaker 2: and the number five.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the two fivers and helping them with a tax scheme.
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Speaker 1: In twenty thirteen, he claimed that he only did so
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Speaker 1: to survive the violent gang. He also used drugs and
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Speaker 1: alcohol in his very early years in prison, but noted
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Speaker 1: that he had been sober for more than a decade.
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Speaker 1: I did read this in an article after his parole
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Speaker 1: was denied, because Eric was first, and I thought, how, now,
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Speaker 1: how do you get involved in a tax fraud? Do
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Speaker 1: you pay taxes when you're in prison?
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Speaker 2: Well, if you're married, I guess file married, but living separately, I.
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Speaker 1: Don't know.
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Speaker 2: Separately. Yeah, so I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I guess Eric was involved in some type of tax scheme.
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Speaker 1: But again, I need a prison insider to come on
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Speaker 1: the podcast and answer these questions because I want to
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Speaker 1: know what it's like like for real, not just from
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Speaker 1: the outside reading articles, but I want to know. I
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Speaker 1: want to know the cell phone usage. I want to
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Speaker 1: know how a tax fraud scheme goes on in prison.
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Speaker 1: I want to know if he's filing taxes. I want
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Speaker 1: to know all the things that does he have income.
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Speaker 1: I did think it was good though that I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's been sober for ten years. That's commendable.
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Speaker 2: Well, shouldn't he have been sober for thirty five years
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Speaker 2: or however long he's been.
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Speaker 1: No He claims that he did use drugs and alcohol
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Speaker 1: in his early years in prison, but that he's been
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Speaker 1: sober for the past ten. Lyle's record was less severe,
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Speaker 1: but still drew criticism from the commissioners, who said he
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Speaker 1: demonstrated quote anti social personality traits like deception, minimization, and
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Speaker 1: rule breaking that lie beneath that positive surface. You know,
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Speaker 1: here's another question I have, and this is what I
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Speaker 1: thought when I read this, when they say he has
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Speaker 1: anti social personality. Whatever, he's been in prison for thirty
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Speaker 1: five years. He went into prison when he was like,
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Speaker 1: you know, twenty one or something. I mean, wouldn't you
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Speaker 1: expect that someone that spent the last thirty five years
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Speaker 1: in their life maybe does suffer some type of anti.
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Speaker 2: So he's very grumpy. He's grumpy, and he doesn't appreciate what.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't show a lot of gratitude. I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: like I sometimes when I read these decisions and what
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Speaker 1: they're saying, you know, as far as his personality, I think, well,
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Speaker 1: what kind of personality do you expect someone to have
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Speaker 1: after thirty five years of being locked up in prison.
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Speaker 2: I would love to see, like a result of someone
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Speaker 2: that did get off after thirty years, and what was
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Speaker 2: it that they did, you mean.
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Speaker 1: What was their personality like after they spent the day perfect?
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Speaker 2: They have a flawless record.
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Speaker 1: I can't imagine. That was an good question and a
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Speaker 1: point I would like to make is anyone spending thirty
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Speaker 1: five years in prison, I can't imagine anyone would have
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Speaker 1: a flawless record and a pristine personality analysis the amount
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Speaker 1: of violence that you're dealing with, you probably have to
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Speaker 1: make a lot of decisions to stay alive. Possibly maybe
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Speaker 1: you have to make decisions or do things that you
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Speaker 1: wouldn't necessarily do, but you have to survive. I think
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Speaker 1: you wake up and think, how am I gonna You might.
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Speaker 2: Get a fight, but you started it. But you started
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Speaker 2: as a proactive measure because they were going they're going
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Speaker 2: to attack you or something, or I got to set
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Speaker 2: the stand.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I can't imagine that you can go through
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Speaker 1: thirty five years of prison without some type of mark
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Speaker 1: on your record, because I'm sure that you are put
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Speaker 1: into situations where you are forced to make decisions and
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Speaker 1: to act in ways where you're just surviving as opposed
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Speaker 1: to following rules. So I don't know how you know
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Speaker 1: feasible that is that someone just has a clean record
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Speaker 1: after all that time.
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Speaker 2: Even on the outside, one has a clean record.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you have antisocial personality too. Jan's like everybody,
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Speaker 1: everybody's out of the house by nine pm.
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Speaker 2: I'd probably be happier. The JEL set no responsibilities right.
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Speaker 1: There were also concerns about the death of Kitty Menindaz
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Speaker 1: and this was something else I thought about before the
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Speaker 1: decisions came out. When we were when they had separate
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Speaker 1: parole hearings. I remember thinking, when it comes to separate
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Speaker 1: parole hearings, Lyle definitely acted differently the night of the
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Speaker 1: murders as opposed to Eric, because Lyle was the one
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Speaker 1: who well, they both went into the den and they
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Speaker 1: shot both of them. They both had shotguns. Lyle was
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Speaker 1: the one that left and went and reloaded and went
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Speaker 1: back and then shot his mom. So really, if you
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Speaker 1: want to look at the facts of the case and
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Speaker 1: maybe who was more culpable, you could have put that
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Speaker 1: on Lyle and then that would have maybe made a
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Speaker 1: difference in whether he was paroled or not, or whether
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Speaker 1: Eric was or not. But anyway, it ended up being
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Speaker 1: that the panel pointed out that the way their mother,
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Speaker 1: Kitty Menendez, was killed, and how the brothers attempted to
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Speaker 1: cover up the murders afterward, describing those actions as callous
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Speaker 1: and troubling, and if you do know the case, and
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Speaker 1: also I said, we did a very in depth episode
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Speaker 1: on this, which was our first episode. You know, they
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Speaker 1: did immediately afterwards pretend like, you know, it's not like
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Speaker 1: they can't clean They did say it with someone else.
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Speaker 1: They did try to point police in the direction of
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Speaker 1: a gang related or no, a mob related hit, you know,
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Speaker 1: saying their dad was involved in like shady business practices.
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Speaker 1: They did spend a lot of money, their parents' money afterwards.
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Speaker 1: So but again, it was thirty five years ago, and
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Speaker 1: at some point, when do you not focus so much
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Speaker 1: on the actual crime that was committed, because we all
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Speaker 1: know it was heinous, and do you focus on the
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Speaker 1: rehabilitation and where they're at now and that they've spent
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Speaker 1: thirty five years in prison. So it says it says
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Speaker 1: basically that they have to wait three years. However, I
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Speaker 1: believe that there's a way that they can apply earlier
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Speaker 1: for parole.
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Speaker 2: Well, what I have here is written Eric and Lowle
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Speaker 2: must wait at least three years before the next eligible
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Speaker 2: parole hearing. Some indications suggest they may reapply via an
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Speaker 2: administrative review for after one year and get scheduled for
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Speaker 2: hearing in eighteen months. So I guess, you know they might.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what administrative review means. Maybe that just
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Speaker 2: means they can apply. And if there's they're on track
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Speaker 2: to do whatever they're set out to do as far
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Speaker 2: as good behavior and getting rid of their cell phones
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Speaker 2: and I don't know, paying as taxes or whatever, then
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Speaker 2: you might pay it early as eighteen months.
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Speaker 1: Right, And you know they can't appeal this decision, and
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Speaker 1: so I'm sure their attorneys are working on the appeal.
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Speaker 1: And I thought this was interesting. The appeal for this
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Speaker 1: parole decision. We'll go before Judge Ryan, who is the
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Speaker 1: judge that resentence them.
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Speaker 2: Oh, oh, it's the same judge that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be Judge Ryan that they would be
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Speaker 1: in front of in regards to an appeal to the
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Speaker 1: par board hearing, which I don't know. Maybe that is
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Speaker 1: just a glimmer of hope because obviously he did resentence them,
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Speaker 1: so maybe he's more amenable to that that's.
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Speaker 2: More familiar with them, so maybe he's come across things
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Speaker 2: that will work in their favor.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll keep following that. Also, here's just some
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Speaker 1: other things that came out of Lyle's hearing yesterday. First
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Speaker 1: of all, I do know that there was some audio
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Speaker 1: from Eric's hearing that was leaked while Lyle was having
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Speaker 1: his hearing.
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Speaker 2: Oh wow.
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Speaker 1: And when the audio was leaked and a news station
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Speaker 1: started running it, Lyle became upset and actually left the hearing.
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Speaker 1: And I think he was upset that, Like, I think
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Speaker 1: he felt like that was supposed to stay private, but
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Speaker 1: it was leaked and then everybody was commenting on Eric. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: Lyle comes back in his commissioner. The commissioner for Lyle
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Speaker 1: was named Commissioner Garland, and she goes into some details
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Speaker 1: about why he was denied parole, and she says that
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Speaker 1: the crime lacks self control, was impulsive and made very
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Speaker 1: poor and that Lyle made poor decisions during the commission
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Speaker 1: of the crime. She says he has poor threat perception
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Speaker 1: with regard to the risk Jose pose and she specifically
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Speaker 1: cited shooting Kitty one final time as extremely callous, which
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Speaker 1: you know we've spoken about before. The commissioner also highlighted
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Speaker 1: Lyle's role in the cover up, which was lying to
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Speaker 1: police and working to avoid prosecution. Commissioner Garland also says
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Speaker 1: Lyle has a strong support network and good plans for
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Speaker 1: his post release life and is set up for success
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Speaker 1: when he walks out the door, which is all positive.
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Speaker 1: She also commends Lyle's lack of violence and his prison record,
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Speaker 1: his work on programs inside, and his positive relationships with
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Speaker 1: other inmates and staff. This is a quote from the commissioner.
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Speaker 1: We find your remorse is genuine. In many ways, you
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Speaker 1: look like you've been a model and mate. You have
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Speaker 1: been a model inmate in many ways who has demonstrated
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Speaker 1: the potential for change. But despite all those outward positives,
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Speaker 1: we see you still struggle with antisocial personality traits like deception, minimization,
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Speaker 1: and rule breaking that lie beneath that positive surface. She
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Speaker 1: also goes on to say incarcerated people who break rules
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Speaker 1: are more likely to break rules in society, and that
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Speaker 1: we do understand that you had very little hope of
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Speaker 1: ever being released for many, many years. Citizens are expected
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Speaker 1: to follow the rules, whether or not there is some
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Speaker 1: incentive to do so. I don't know what. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if I necessarily agree. Obviously, they have the statistics
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Speaker 1: and you know, all that to back up what she's saying.
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Speaker 1: But to me, when you're in.
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Speaker 2: It's like they just described a politician. Yeah right, you
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Speaker 2: don't follow your rules, you lie, you're deceptive.
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Speaker 1: Right real? Yeah. I just don't know if I believe
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Speaker 1: that you would make the same choices or you the
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Speaker 1: same level of deception in prison as you would outside
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Speaker 1: of prison. I feel like when you're in prison again,
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Speaker 1: you're put into a situation where it's a survival type
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Speaker 1: of situation. I don't And also another thing they look at,
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Speaker 1: obviously is what the risk is that these two would
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Speaker 1: commit a crime again. And we talked about this earlier.
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Speaker 1: To me, I don't think there are risks to society
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Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form. I think what happened
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Speaker 1: was thirty five years ago. It was an isolated event.
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Speaker 1: It had to do with traumatic circumstances that they were
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Speaker 1: dealing with within their home at a very young age.
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Speaker 1: They made a poor decision. It was a heinous crime.
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Speaker 1: I think they've felt remorse for thirty five years. I
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Speaker 1: feel like they've done their time, and I don't think
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Speaker 1: that they're a threat to society.
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Speaker 2: No, do you agree?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 2: Based on what I've seen, though, I don't think so.
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Speaker 2: I mean, if you wanted to say they should be
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Speaker 2: in there longer because of the crime itself, like deserves
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Speaker 2: a longer sentence, that's that's a different story. But if
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Speaker 2: you're saying that they're a threat to society, therefore they
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Speaker 2: should be in prison, I agree with that.
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Speaker 1: Also, Commissioner Garland said that I think she was taken
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Speaker 1: aback by this question that she asked Lyle, which was
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Speaker 1: are you a good liar? And he said no. Ultimately,
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Speaker 1: she said Lyle needs to be the person that he shows,
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Speaker 1: who is the person who is running programs for other inmates.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if someone asked you on a parole
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Speaker 1: board hearing are you a good liar?
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Speaker 2: I mean that's a what. Yeah, that's not How are
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Speaker 2: you going to answer that? You can't It's a load
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Speaker 2: of question. You can't answer it the right right, there's
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Speaker 2: no good answer.
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Speaker 1: Right, are you a good liar? Well? If I say yes, yeah.
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Speaker 2: It's like when we're kids, you'd run I remember, we'd say,
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Speaker 2: like does your mom know you're ugly? Like no, it's like, well, oh,
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Speaker 2: your mom doesn't know, you know, but it's like, you
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Speaker 2: can't answer that correctly. No, that's your favor.
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Speaker 1: That's a lose lose. So I didn't. I felt like
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Speaker 1: that was a I don't know what you called a
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Speaker 1: trick question, a loaded question, whatever, But it's a question
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Speaker 1: where there's no good answer, there's no exactly. It puts
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Speaker 1: him in a position where you're right, there's no good choice.
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Speaker 1: If he says yes, I'm a good liar, then it's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: you're being honest, but now nothing we you know, nothing
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Speaker 1: you have said has any weight because you just admitted
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Speaker 1: that you're a good liar. And if you say no,
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Speaker 1: you're not a good liar, then it's like, oh, you're lying.
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Speaker 2: Unless they're trying to say like, not a good liar
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Speaker 2: means you don't do it. You get called out if
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Speaker 2: you do lie, like people know, you don't get away
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Speaker 2: with things. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Well, then at the end of this hearing with Lyle,
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Speaker 1: I think she goes on to give him a little
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Speaker 1: bit of hope, But don't ever not have hope. This
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Speaker 1: denial is not the end. It's a way for you
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Speaker 1: to spend some time to demonstrate to practice what you
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Speaker 1: preach about, who you are, who you want to be,
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Speaker 1: don't be somebody different behind closed doors. So she says
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Speaker 1: he'll be considered for an administrative review within one year,
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Speaker 1: and Lyle could be moved up to a hearing as
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Speaker 1: soon as eighteen months. And then the hearing adjourned.
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Speaker 2: Here's we see they have sorry, they have thirty five
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Speaker 2: years or however long, and then in one year, magically
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Speaker 2: it's like, oh, okay, you know, thirty five years, you
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Speaker 2: weren't eligible, you weren't very good, you're not a rule faller, accepted,
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Speaker 2: but you know, in the last twelve months, but if
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Speaker 2: you get your app together in the next year, we
18:01
Speaker 2: might let you out.
18:03
Speaker 1: I mean, I bet. Basically, yeah, that's that's a really
18:05
Speaker 1: good point to make that they've been in prison for
18:07
Speaker 1: thirty five years. But they're saying, don't lose hope. If
18:09
Speaker 1: you can just you know, get your act together in
18:12
Speaker 1: the next year, we might, you know, free you. But
18:16
Speaker 1: is there Here's what I was thinking. Are there consultants
18:20
Speaker 1: that help you? Do you know what I mean?
18:21
Speaker 2: Like everything has consultants, Yes, like that probably.
18:25
Speaker 1: I mean, if you if you go into pageant there's
18:28
Speaker 1: pageant consultants.
18:29
Speaker 2: That teach you, like if child custody, there's child custody
18:33
Speaker 2: hearing consultants. So you go teach you how to you know,
18:36
Speaker 2: how to deliver, not not to change the truth, but
18:39
Speaker 2: how to deliver, to express, what to kind of refrain from,
18:42
Speaker 2: you know what, what looks? What's bad? A bad look?
18:45
Speaker 2: You know?
18:46
Speaker 1: Right? And I know maybe to you listening, maybe that
18:48
Speaker 1: sounded like a dumb question, but it's really not a
18:51
Speaker 1: dumb question. It really is like are there attorneys?
18:55
Speaker 2: That's why you needed a cell phone? He had a
18:56
Speaker 2: close pro board consultant.
18:58
Speaker 1: Right, I mean, I feel like at this point it's like, okay,
19:01
Speaker 1: well we went through one round of parole hearings, we
19:03
Speaker 1: didn't do well. We have a year. What do we
19:06
Speaker 1: need to do to get ourselves, you know, prepared for
19:10
Speaker 1: this next parole hearing. Anyway, if anyone has an any
19:14
Speaker 1: insight on that as well, I'd like to know. All right,
19:26
Speaker 1: So let's move on to I just wanted to touch
19:29
Speaker 1: briefly on the Gillian Michaels of pop culture because I
19:33
Speaker 1: see her everywhere, and I will tell you I am
19:37
Speaker 1: the biggest fan of Biggest Loser. You know that I
19:40
Speaker 1: watched it all the time and because I realized I'm
19:43
Speaker 1: one of those people that I like shows where there's transformations.
19:46
Speaker 1: That's why you make fun of me all the time.
19:48
Speaker 1: But I love my six hundred pound life because I
19:52
Speaker 1: get to know them. I root for them. I want
19:54
Speaker 1: to see them, you know, get healthy. Oh I love intervention.
20:00
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, the success rate and intervention is like
20:03
Speaker 1: is it It's so low tough. But I become so
20:08
Speaker 1: engrossed in their life and I and I'm rooting for them.
20:11
Speaker 1: And I think that's what the appeal was with Biggest Loser.
20:14
Speaker 1: It was huge. It was you know everyone, you know,
20:18
Speaker 1: there was so I think there were like twenty somethings seasons. Anyway,
20:21
Speaker 1: So the other day when I was I put Netflix
20:23
Speaker 1: on and I saw that there was a documentary on
20:27
Speaker 1: the Biggest Loser. I clicked on it immediately. I was
20:29
Speaker 1: so excited to watch it. So now we have Jillian
20:33
Speaker 1: Michaels's pushing back against the claims made on her and
20:36
Speaker 1: the new Biggest Loser documentary.
20:38
Speaker 2: It's called well, let's be clear on the documentary. Is
20:40
Speaker 2: she does not appear in it? Others do? She does not?
20:43
Speaker 1: Right? And I read that they reached out to her
20:46
Speaker 1: and asked her to appear in the documentary and she declined,
20:49
Speaker 1: which now she's.
20:51
Speaker 2: Probably glad she didn't, or she did well no, because well, yeah,
20:56
Speaker 2: you're right, if she she would be glad she didn't
20:59
Speaker 2: because she's like that. They say a bunch of crap
21:01
Speaker 2: and they edit it in a way where they paint
21:03
Speaker 2: it in a bad light and I don't want to
21:04
Speaker 2: be a part of that, and now I can sue
21:07
Speaker 2: them and hopefully I'll make some money.
21:08
Speaker 1: Or she's regretting saying no because she doesn't get to
21:11
Speaker 1: voice her own opinion and give her own viewpoint of things.
21:15
Speaker 1: It's just everyone else talking.
21:16
Speaker 2: And then so yeah, fair point.
21:20
Speaker 1: Anyway. The documentary is on Netflix. It's called Fit for TV,
21:23
Speaker 1: The Reality of the Biggest Loser. I thought it was great.
21:27
Speaker 1: I watched I think it's like three episodes. I watched
21:30
Speaker 1: all of them in one night. The series goes back
21:33
Speaker 1: and re examines The Biggest Loser, which aired from two
21:35
Speaker 1: thousand and four until twenty sixteen and briefly returned in
21:38
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, through a very critical lens highlighting the extremes
21:43
Speaker 1: the contestants endured for dramatic weight loss, and you know,
21:46
Speaker 1: now watching it as a fifty year old woman as
21:49
Speaker 1: opposed to you know, a twenty something or thirty. How
21:53
Speaker 1: old would I be in two thousand and four. I
21:54
Speaker 1: can't do math thirty. Yeah, so there's a big difference
22:00
Speaker 1: between watching it as a thirty year old watching it
22:01
Speaker 1: as a fifty year old. Because when they were showing
22:04
Speaker 1: some of those flashback scenes of the challenges they made
22:07
Speaker 1: them go through where they had to stack donuts and
22:10
Speaker 1: you know, put donuts in their mouth and run from
22:13
Speaker 1: place to place, and I was like, that's humiliating, it is,
22:16
Speaker 1: that's really that is sad.
22:19
Speaker 2: The ones I didn't like are that when they tempt
22:21
Speaker 2: them with like junk food, yeah, you know, not not
22:24
Speaker 2: reward them with something, you know, like like a lot
22:28
Speaker 2: of these shows do they reward them with prizes or
22:31
Speaker 2: things to inspire them, But they want to tempt them
22:35
Speaker 2: with crap food, right.
22:37
Speaker 1: And then show like you know, chocolate fountains and donuts,
22:42
Speaker 1: and I mean it's just it's just making fun of them.
22:45
Speaker 2: And I don't think I actually the reason I thought
22:47
Speaker 2: that's why you liked watching it.
22:48
Speaker 1: No, I liked to watch the table well, I mean,
22:51
Speaker 1: I do love a good dessert table, but I know
22:53
Speaker 1: I really love the whole transformation part of it. So
22:56
Speaker 1: Jillian Michaels has been very public. Every time I pull
23:00
Speaker 1: up my new sword source, which we all know is Instagram,
23:03
Speaker 1: there's lots She's been doing lots of interviews, and Michaels
23:07
Speaker 1: has addressed the documentary's claims on social media. I know
23:10
Speaker 1: she was posting a lot of things, and she was
23:11
Speaker 1: posting receipts, she was posting screenshots and things. She disputed
23:17
Speaker 1: accusations that she and other trainers gave contestants caffeine pills
23:21
Speaker 1: without approval, sharing what she said were old emails showing
23:24
Speaker 1: that the show's doctor had cleared their use and that
23:27
Speaker 1: fellow trainer Bob Harper had even suggested certain supplements. I
23:32
Speaker 1: did read an article where she said, I know she's
23:35
Speaker 1: mad because she's being blamed and accused of like for
23:39
Speaker 1: her team to win or whatever, that she was giving
23:41
Speaker 1: them caffeine pills to have an edge. And her dispute
23:44
Speaker 1: is that was It's not like I was doing it
23:47
Speaker 1: on the down load, it was approved. She also rejected
23:50
Speaker 1: Harper's statement in the series that she failed to reach
23:53
Speaker 1: out after his twenty seventeen heart attack, posting what she
23:56
Speaker 1: described as a screenshot of one of her last text
23:58
Speaker 1: messages to him that claims he's the one who never
24:01
Speaker 1: responds back to her. She did post a text message
24:04
Speaker 1: that said something to the effect of, you know, you
24:06
Speaker 1: never respond to any of my texts. You know, I
24:09
Speaker 1: do find that interesting when people ghost you. Like let's say,
24:14
Speaker 1: for example, she shows a text that shows that he's
24:17
Speaker 1: not responding to her. So he allegedly, according to her
24:20
Speaker 1: and her screenshots, ghosted her and wasn't responding. Then he
24:22
Speaker 1: has a heart attack in twenty seventeen, and then he says, oh,
24:26
Speaker 1: she didn't, you know, reach out to me. But it's like,
24:29
Speaker 1: where does the blame lie. If you ghosted her and
24:32
Speaker 1: weren't responding to her and you weren't friends, is she
24:34
Speaker 1: obligated to reach out? I don't know.
24:37
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
24:39
Speaker 1: Michael's further did I claims that she made an inappropriate
24:41
Speaker 1: comment to a contestant contestant saying you're going to make
24:44
Speaker 1: me a millionaire, or that she encouraged unsafe dieting.
24:47
Speaker 2: Why would wait as if Jillian said you're going to
24:51
Speaker 2: make me amazing Yeah.
24:52
Speaker 1: In one of the interviews, I don't remember which contestant was,
24:54
Speaker 1: but he claimed that she was just you know, pushing
24:59
Speaker 1: and pushing, pushing and pushing, and said something like, you know,
25:03
Speaker 1: don't give up, keep pushing because you're gonna make me
25:04
Speaker 1: a millionaire. You know when we watched I don't remember
25:06
Speaker 1: the one woman's name, but it was the very first.
25:09
Speaker 1: It's like they flew them in and they ran on
25:11
Speaker 1: the beach, remember, and this is like this is before.
25:14
Speaker 2: Wasn't it like make it to the finish line and
25:15
Speaker 2: then you'll you'll make the cut or something like that.
25:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, And she nearly died and they had to helicopter
25:20
Speaker 1: her away. And I'm thinking, like literally, like I I
25:23
Speaker 1: work out every day and I wouldn't have been able
25:25
Speaker 1: to run that far and sand and heat on the beach.
25:29
Speaker 1: And then and you're talking about people that.
25:31
Speaker 2: Are stretch and warm up the least, right.
25:35
Speaker 1: I mean, then these are people that clearly are extremely
25:38
Speaker 1: overweight and have a sedentary that's when you don't move
25:42
Speaker 1: like they don't they don't work out, they don't move
25:45
Speaker 1: a lot. You that's whatever that is, Yes, But and
25:49
Speaker 1: then you put them on a beach and you're like,
25:51
Speaker 1: run for as long as you can and as hard
25:54
Speaker 1: as you can.
25:57
Speaker 2: And these are people that never tried to work out,
26:00
Speaker 2: knew they were overweight, we're okay with it for or
26:02
Speaker 2: we're not okay with it, but they let it be
26:04
Speaker 2: for twenty years. And also he expected them to be
26:06
Speaker 2: like superstars and just run right like they could have
26:08
Speaker 2: done that on their own. They knew that they don't
26:10
Speaker 2: want to do it.
26:11
Speaker 1: So he claims that she says, you're going to make
26:13
Speaker 1: me a millionaire, or that she encouraged unsafe dieting. She
26:16
Speaker 1: said that written records, including emails and messages with former
26:19
Speaker 1: participants and producers, supported her account that she promoted a
26:23
Speaker 1: calorie intake of sixteen hundred calories per day. The documentary
26:27
Speaker 1: also alleges that she was forcing contestants to consume less
26:31
Speaker 1: than a thousand calories and addressing Rachel Frederickson's dramatic weight
26:35
Speaker 1: loss during season fifteen, Oh my gosh, that was crazy.
26:38
Speaker 1: Did you see that? That was in the very last
26:42
Speaker 1: episode of this they show this girl named Rachel Frederickson
26:45
Speaker 1: comes out, you know when they show the dramatic weight loss,
26:48
Speaker 1: and you can see everybody's face and they all look
26:52
Speaker 1: shocked because.
26:53
Speaker 2: She is so thin, like not like unhealthy.
26:57
Speaker 1: Thin like unhealthy than not like she hes been working
27:00
Speaker 1: out and she lost the weight and she looks she
27:03
Speaker 1: like gaunt, and you can look at the camera pans
27:07
Speaker 1: to the trainers and they were just like in shock.
27:11
Speaker 1: So in addressing this is her name was Rachel Frederickson's
27:14
Speaker 1: dramatic weight loss during season fifteen. Michael's claim that NBC
27:17
Speaker 1: told her if she did not publicly condone Fredericson's appearance,
27:22
Speaker 1: NBC would pursue legal action against her. Michael's also added,
27:26
Speaker 1: I resigned from the Biggest Losers shortly thereafter. At this time,
27:29
Speaker 1: she's considering suing Netflix for the claims made against her,
27:33
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously without her own input in this documentary,
27:37
Speaker 1: since she chose not to be a part of it.
27:40
Speaker 1: I know she's thinking this is defamatory. They're accusing her
27:43
Speaker 1: of giving, you know, caffeine pills to contestants when they're
27:47
Speaker 1: claiming that you weren't supposed to do that, and she's saying,
27:49
Speaker 1: but we were allowed to do that. She even claims
27:52
Speaker 1: that Bob Harper was saying, why don't we give them
27:54
Speaker 1: some other brand stackers or something, but she said the
27:57
Speaker 1: conversation revolved around her saying, no, let's use the caffeine pills.
28:01
Speaker 1: I like because they're cleaner, and that the ban on
28:04
Speaker 1: caffeine was never a rule. Also, when they interviewed doctor Hazanga,
28:09
Speaker 1: he's the doctor that's on staff.
28:11
Speaker 2: He disapproved of the caffeine pills, right.
28:12
Speaker 1: Well, I think he disapproved of a lot of things.
28:15
Speaker 1: But I think I felt. To me, my takeaway about
28:18
Speaker 1: doctor Hazanga was that I felt like he was genuinely
28:21
Speaker 1: a good guy.
28:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think his health was a concern.
28:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was really looking out for the best interest
28:28
Speaker 1: of the contestants and their health. But the problem is
28:31
Speaker 1: is that you're doing that versus good TV, and you've
28:35
Speaker 1: got production on one side saying, but we have to
28:37
Speaker 1: make good TV. So they got to work out hard,
28:39
Speaker 1: and they got to lose weight. We gotta have transformations.
28:41
Speaker 2: And ye, you know you're right, because if they didn't
28:43
Speaker 2: have any, if people weren't losing weight every week, no
28:46
Speaker 2: one was going to tune in. Yeah you think, Okay,
28:48
Speaker 2: this show is not working right.
28:50
Speaker 1: So in order to make good TV, you have to
28:53
Speaker 1: have a significant transformation and you have to have people
28:58
Speaker 1: dropping weight, and so that's where the line was.
29:01
Speaker 2: Blowing and just breaking down, you know, because they break
29:05
Speaker 2: him down all the time, right, They're crying, they're falling
29:07
Speaker 2: over remind.
29:09
Speaker 1: Tactics, you know, when you go to boot camp and
29:11
Speaker 1: the whole point is to break you down so then
29:14
Speaker 1: they can build you up. We will continue to follow
29:19
Speaker 1: Jillian Michaels. We'll see if she actually does sue Netflix
29:23
Speaker 1: and we will follow that story. But anyway, thank you
29:25
Speaker 1: guys so much for listening today. We appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: Thank you