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Boeing Whistleblower John Barnett Mystery · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  All right, so world is crazy people. Boeing whistleblower predicted his own death,
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  told friend, if anything happens, it's not suicide. Huh. I
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  think we've heard a few things stories like this, haven't we. He wasn't
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  concerned about his own safety because I asked him. Jennifer said, I said,
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  aren't you scared? And he said, no, I ain't scared.
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  But if anything happens to me, it's not suicide. All right. Boeing
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  whistleblower John Barnett, who was found dead on March ninth from what authorities initially
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  called a self inflicted gunshot wound, reportedly told a family friend after he started
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  speaking out about safety concerns with the airplane maker, if anything happens, it's
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  not suicide. A family friend identified only as Jennifer, told ABC four,
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  I know that he did not commit suicide. There's no way. She said
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  that Barnett had talked about this exact scenario playing out after he began speaking up
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  publicly about Boeing related safety concerns. Following his twenty seventeen retirement from the company.
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  He worked for over thirty years as a quality manager for Boeing and Freedick
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  says that poor guy was Nicki Haley's first kill. Uh. Oh, I
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  didn't say that. I'm just reading that. This conversation, Jennifer said,
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  included Barnett talking about his upcoming deposition in Charleston. Quote. I know that
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  he did not self delete. There's no way. He loved life too much.
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  He loved his family too much, He loved his brothers too much to
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  put them through what they're going through right now. Jennifer said, See what's
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  this. Jennifer, who last saw Barnett at her father's funeral in late February,
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  where Barnett was one of the pallbearers, said she believed someone didn't like
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  what he had to say and wanted to shut him up. That's why they
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  made it looked like suicide. Jennifer said, hmm. The friend's comments come
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  as the lawyer for Barnett, Brian Knowles, cast out on Barnett's death being
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  a suicide. Quote. They found him in his truck from an alleged self
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  inflicted gunshot. We drove to the hotel and spoke with the police and the
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  coroner. According to The New York Post, Noles and fellow attorney Robert Turkowitz,
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  said quote, he was in very good spirits and really looking forward to
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  putting this phase of his life behind him and moving on. We didn't see
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  any indication he would take his own life. No one can believe it.
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  Hmm. Okay, well, let's see Boeing whistle blower John Barnett made powerful
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  enemies before his death, as workers skeptical that he killed himself. Okay,
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  let's see Boeing workers warn that whistleblower John Barnett made powerful enemies before his alleged
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  suicide, as a puzzling discrepancy on his police report emerged. The whistleblower was
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  found dead in his pickup truck at a Charleston, South Carolina hotel parking lot
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  on March ninth, the same morning he was due to conclude private testimony and
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  a lawsuit against the jet company where he had worked for most of his career.
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  According to a report by Charleston police, he had extended his stay at
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  the Holiday Inn until March eighth, and was caught on video surveillance leaving the
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  hotel that morning. Hmm. However, Steph at the Holiday Inn told the
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  Post he ate dinner in the hotel's restaurant that night. The police also noted
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  Barnett's driver's license was still in his room when he was found with a gunshot
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  wound to the head and a pistol in his hand. The following morning quote,
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  here's one of the workers that he worked with. It actually gives me
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  a pit in my stomach because of what he's been saying. And he's dead
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  now. Maybe he killed himself. The source said, I don't know what
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  to believe. We don't really talk about it on the assembly line. We're
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  on camera from the minute we get on property. They can hear us,
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  they can hear us. So no one wants to talk about it at work.
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  Man. That's creepy. That is super creepy, is it not.
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  A lot of people are skeptical because he made some pretty powerful enemies. Another
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  Boeing employee who spoke to the Post said, nothing surprises me when it comes
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  to Boeing. It's a good job, but you've got to stay in line.
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  If you don't, you won't work there anymore. So they're afraid of
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  talking about it because they're being listened to all the time. Apparently, hmm,
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  that's interesting. Boeing did not directly address the claims what told the Post
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  in the statement, we are saddened by mister Barnett's passing, and our thoughts
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  are with his family and friends. I wonder if they're really sad. I'm
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  not saying that they did anything. I'm just I mean, it's convenient for
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  them, right, says here. Meanwhile, an employee who works at the
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  Holiday Inn where Barnett Barnett was fou in the parking lot told the Post that
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  Barnett ate a k sidea drank a coke, scrolled on his phone and seemed
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  fine on the evening of March eighth. Quote. I didn't think of him
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  at all until I heard the news the next day. He didn't seem upset
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  at all, the employee said. So, that's said the plane where the
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  door flew off. The Boeing plane where the door flew off mid flight.
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  So that wasn't good. There's the door there now. Barnett was a quality
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  control engineer who worked for Boeing for more than three decades before he retired in
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  twenty seventeen. But two years later he told the BBC that Boeing cut corners
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  by rushing to get it seven eighty seven Dreamliner Dreamliner jets off the production line
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  and into service. He gave numerous interviews describing how he had complained internally to
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  the company about what he claimed were serious safety flaws he had detected. Now,
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  that would be twenty nineteen, and there's been a lot that's gone on
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  with Boeing since then. There's a lot of scrutiny on them since then.
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  And you have this guy who was a safety inspector who worked for safety for
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  Boeing, who was about to testify against them, and he said, if
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  anything happens to me, I didn't kill myself. And something happened to him,
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  and they're saying that he committed suicide. Okay, there's a lot that's
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  been going on. Boeing has recently been plagued by safety concerns that began January
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  fifth, after a door panel flew off a Boeing seven thirty seven Max nine
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  jet during a flight from Oregon to California. The plane appeared to be missing
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  for key bolts. That seems like a safety issue to me. Let's see
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  Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines, threatened to shun Bowing after the carrier's
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  fleet of Max nine aircraft was grounded in the wake of the near disastrous Alaska
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  Airlines door blowout, Jennifer Hamendi, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board,
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  warned that another midair door blowout like the seven thirty seven Max nine fiasco can
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  happen again, adding there was a problem with the process of production. So
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  the last thing Boeing needs right now is another is a whistleblower testifying right.
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  I can't imagine they'd like that Boeing plane forced to make an emergency landing in
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  Japan due to a crack in the cockpit window. Seems like quality control problems
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  to me. A Boeing seven fifty seven lost its front tire as the aircraft
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  was preparing to depart for an international flight in late January. That seems pretty
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  bad too. Let's see A UK passenger was alarmed after noticing pieces of tape,
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  but pieces of tape on the exterior of a Boeing seven eighty seven during
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  a flight to India, so tape fixing it with tape. A United Airlines
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  Boeing seven seven seven suffered a mid air fuel leak and was forced to make
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  an emergency landing Monday March eleventh, marking the fifth incident the airline reported in
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  a little over a week Jesus wils Blower. John Barnett raised safety concerns at
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  the airline's factories and provided his first testimony at a bombshell lawsuit against Boeing.
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  He was found dead in his truck after he failed to show up for the
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  second part of his testimony on Monday. Huh boy, oh boy. Barnett
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  said the company had not taken action, spurring him to go public out of
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  concern for the public's safety. His lawyers are challenging the notion that he committed
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  suicide on our calling for a thorough investigation. Quote, we need more information
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  about what happened to John. The Charleston Police intent to investigate this fully,
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  inaccurate, accurately until the public quote, we didn't see any indication he would
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  take his own life. No one can believe it. No detail can be
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  left unturned. Now, this is interesting. Steve Chancellor, who has written
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  two books on stage crime scenes and runs Second Look training and forends a consulting,
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  said that when somebody said that when someone dies by suicide, the gun
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  only remains in the person's hand twenty five percent of the time, the mere
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  fact that the gun was in the hand. I would pay attention to that
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  because many times when someone is trying to make it look like a suicide,
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  they make that mistake and they put the gun in the hand and that's not
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  conclusive. But the whole thing just seems it seems suspicious. I mean,
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  look, it's speculation, right, but it really it feels like a movie.
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  Maybe Russell Crowe might be like a journalist investigating it or something. I
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  don't know it. It feels like a novel or a movie kind of Freedick
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  says, diversity air you fly, you die. Well, funny you should
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  say that, because I've got this lined up. Boeing prioritizing diversity and inclusion
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  over flyer safety. Elon Musk says after near catastrophic Alaska Airlines mishap, So
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  what did he say? So he tweeted this or xed or posted. I
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  don't know what you say anymore. Do you want to find an airplane where
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  the prioritized DEI hiring over your safety? That is actually happening, And who
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  was talking about this leak? Here they're talking and it's what changes to their
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  program design see twenty twenty one. You've got financial performance, then you've got
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  operational performance, and you've got here public product safety employee safety quality. So
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  there's just that twenty twenty two, you've got product safety, employee safety quality,
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  also climate diversity, equity and inclusion. So they've added that on as
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  an additional thing, which of course takes resources. And when you're talking about
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  equity, what that means is you know, less white men, less straight
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  white men, that's what it means. So what that means is that you're
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  going to shrink your talent pool down, so you are less likely. It's
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  not that you can't possibly get qualified people, it's just that you're less likely
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  to get the most equality. And if you just repeat that ord over again,
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  you won't. You look at the in the aggregate and you will not
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  be having the top talent because it's just a numbers game, that's all it
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  is. Doesn't say anything about any race in particular other than just you know,
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  these are the demographics and it's a numbers game. You're just less likely
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  to get the best people. It's like engineering. If you know there are
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  women engineers, there's really good women engineers, there's just a lot less of
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  them. So if you've got you know, ten engineering jobs up and you're
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  determined to have gender equity. So five women, five men, Well,
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  you're going to be choosing those women from a much smaller from a much smaller
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  talent pool, and there's going to be many more male engineers, and you're
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  more likely to get the most talented ones out of the larger pool, because
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  again it's just a numbers game. So, yeah, this has come out.
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  This was a little bit of a scandal to their DEI bullshit behind the
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  scenes. Probably not really great timing. There's a lot of and there's all
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  of these incidents and you know, very dangerous. I mean a door flying
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  off the plane, blowing off the plane in mid air. Yeah, that's
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  not ideal. So Boeing's under an enormous amount of pressure. And then a
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  whistleblower who was supposed to testify against them the next day ends up committing suicide
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  after he said, if anything happens to me, it's definitely not suicide.
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  I personally, I'm going to say, I don't know, and I don't
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  have any evidence that they did, but I'm going to say they definitely did.
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  No, I don't know, I don't know. The whole things looks
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  weird though, right that's the whole point, all right, Reno video says
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  Epstein, No, boy, that's bold, it's a bold statement. Let's
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  see. Friedich says, yes, Boeen killed this poor man who would eat
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  a Casidia for his last meal. You know, that's an excellent point,
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  actually excellent point. You get a clap for that. Who would get a
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  case idea like a hotel cas adia. Keep in mind, too, this
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  is not like some fancy restaurant casadea. This is a hotel was a holiday
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  inn Casadia. I don't think that's how most people would want to go out.
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  In fact, I think that's an excellent, excellent point. That's like
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  a Sherlock Colmb's point right there. That is excellent sleuthing right there. Cap
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  says, if he just happened to die, I would be suspicious, but
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  hard to say. The fact that he committed suicide in quotes makes me totally
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  certain they did it. Yeah. That's a good point as well, isn't
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  it. I mean, because freak accidents do happen, right, people will
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  just like be we're driving down the wrong side of the road or something.
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  Weird stuff happens. But the fact that it was a quote unquote suicide makes
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  it kind of all the more suspicious, especially considering that he told his friend,
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  if anything happens, it's not suicide.