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Now this weekend Saturday, they are 21 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:20.959 going to be protests across the country, in all the 22 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:24.920 major cities in all of the states, and it's called 23 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:30.840 the No King's Day of Defiance, and it's in protests 24 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:35.040 to well because of the large military parade taking place 25 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:38.920 on Saturday celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth Anniversity of 26 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:44.079 the United States, and interestingly enough, coincidentally, it's Donald Trump's 27 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:47.680 seventy ninth birthday. Paray is going to cost around forty 28 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:50.799 five million dollars, which is kind of interesting when you're 29 00:01:50.840 --> 00:01:53.920 talking about cutting just as much money as you can 30 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:56.959 from the budget, and so it's forty five million dollars, 31 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:00.560 not including the damage to the streets all of these 32 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:04.439 tanks are going to be causing. So there is the 33 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:08.919 president up on the stand, the viewing stand, and passing 34 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:14.080 in front of him are thousands of army troops, tanks, 35 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:24.120 armored personnel, carrier missiles. Does that remind you of something? 36 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:27.199 Is interesting? Visual, isn't it? And the President is going 37 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:30.560 to make a speech almost you think he almost make 38 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:33.800 a speech in Korean, wouldn't you? I mean it is 39 00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:36.680 I mean that visual is it bothers a lot of 40 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:39.560 people Although a lot of people are gonna be thrilled 41 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:44.199 with that. I mean, this is trump Ism at its best, 42 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:48.120 and this is the way no matter what you say, 43 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:50.840 no matter what part of the political coin you are on, 44 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:54.080 you tell me refute the fact that this is a 45 00:02:54.120 --> 00:03:01.840 self aggrandizing guy who likes the attention, likes pointing fingers 46 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:06.520 at himself. Me me, me, me, me, loves the panoply, 47 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:11.439 just loves to be the center of attention, and just 48 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:17.319 loves being deified. And here, as leader of the free world, 49 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:21.759 all of this massive military might goes past him as 50 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:25.159 he salutes, and I'm assuming it'll go on for at 51 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:29.280 least an hour, and they keep on adding military gear 52 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:33.520 to it. There they've now added missiles, and they've added 53 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:40.159 anti missile launchers service to air missiles, and these what vehicles, 54 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:43.599 and it just goes on and on, and you know, 55 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:47.120 a lot of protests and No Kings, of course, is 56 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:51.759 specifically describing that the president as king and we don't 57 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:55.439 want him as a king. It's not a specific group either, 58 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:59.680 it's sort of a ground you know, grassroots group of people. 59 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.400 One hundred and eighty progressive groups are listed on the 60 00:04:02.439 --> 00:04:08.599 website as partners. Now. The No Kings protests were announced 61 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:12.439 in early May because we knew this was going to happen. 62 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:18.319 But as the event itself has grown larger and larger, 63 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:24.959 the number of protests have grown larger and larger. And 64 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:29.279 I you know, I have visions of the troops training 65 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:36.000 to goofstep and salute as they pass the president of 66 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:40.279 the viewing stand. So did you see pictures of the 67 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:43.560 viewing stand and the kind of security that's going on. 68 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:47.480 I mean, it is insane. All over the country. There's 69 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:50.959 one place where there will be no protests, Washington, d C. 70 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:57.000 Why well, because no one can get anywhere near what 71 00:04:57.240 --> 00:05:01.920 is going on. And Trump has said that any demonstration 72 00:05:02.199 --> 00:05:06.720 will be met with a lot of force. I don't 73 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:13.079 believe that in the world of that world, demonstrations are 74 00:05:13.399 --> 00:05:16.240 considered a part and parcel of the way America should be. 75 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:23.040 I think that world is you do not argue. That's 76 00:05:23.079 --> 00:05:26.160 the other part that I find really troubling. You do 77 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:29.920 not argue with this administration. If you do, you're on 78 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:32.439 the wrong end. If you were a judge and rules 79 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:35.439 a rule against the Trump administration, you are an enemy 80 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:39.199 and you are a target. If you are on the 81 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:43.600 enemy's list. There is an enemy's list out there. Richard 82 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:48.519 Nixon got nailed for that one here not so much. 83 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:52.240 I'm sure as hell going to watch this parade. This 84 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:55.720 one I'm not going to miss. Can't wait to see 85 00:05:55.720 --> 00:06:02.079 what happens, So be prepared for the no Kings. And 86 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:04.160 I think LA is going to be one of the 87 00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:06.920 big big ones. As a matter of fact, I want 88 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:10.720 to move to LA because the protesting in general, the 89 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:14.600 anti ice protesting that's going on all over the country, 90 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:19.399 LA is sort of ground zero for that. We've had 91 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:24.759 the big million people marches, the Latinos marching and saying 92 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:29.439 we are people, We're not illegal. I mean we're talking 93 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:32.639 about by the hundreds of thousands. And why is that 94 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:38.319 Mexican flag flying? Because I've always said that makes absolutely 95 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:43.800 no sense. They are not helping themselves with these Mexican 96 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:47.160 flags at all. And I'll tell you why. And people 97 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:51.360 somehow are defending that, and I'll explain the defense, and 98 00:06:51.439 --> 00:06:55.600 it makes absolutely no sense to me because I think 99 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:58.439 it's counterintuitive to what they want. I'll explain. 100 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:01.600 Good morning, it's Bill Handles with the Morning crew. Neil 101 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:07.759 savdri here. Bill Handle is. I don't know, I have 102 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:12.279 no idea where Bill handle is, but he should be 103 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:17.199 back momentarily, all right, a lot going on here in 104 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:21.879 Los Angeles, including the protesters and the writing going on. 105 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:24.639 I like to separate the two because I have seen 106 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:27.480 a distinct difference between the two. But one of the 107 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:32.199 things that we have seen is the demonstrators continuing with 108 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:35.120 a long tradition that we've seen here in Los Angeles 109 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:40.040 of the flying of the red, white, and green flag 110 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:44.959 during these anti immigration sentiments. Now I have seen also, 111 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:48.199 I don't know if you guys have, but the split 112 00:07:48.279 --> 00:07:53.519 flag that is split in diagonal and half of it 113 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:57.480 is the American flag and the other half is the 114 00:07:57.519 --> 00:08:01.120 Mexican flag on the flag of Mexico. I've seen those 115 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:03.360 as well. But if you see the images of Los 116 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:08.639 Angeles and these immigration protests, they oh. 117 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:09.560 Go ahead, no, no, no, go ahead. I did this on 118 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:13.959 purpose because I wanted your opinion on this. Oh sure, 119 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:16.800 That's why i'm That's why i'm late. Hey have you with, 120 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:21.000 you know, making coffee, having a little conversation, petting the dogs, peeing? 121 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:22.120 What can I tell you? 122 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:26.240 But it's hard not to, at least at the bare minimum, 123 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:29.879 have a comparison in your head as what would happen 124 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:34.600 if Americans in any other country flew American flags and 125 00:08:34.679 --> 00:08:39.840 protests to make the statement that they should have the 126 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:45.879 rights that you know Americans have who are either naturalized 127 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:49.039 or you know, have green cards or are I. 128 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:50.480 Want to get I want to get into that now. 129 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:54.519 I'll explain. And I got an echo coming in when 130 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:58.320 you talk, and he also, I think you didn't mute there. 131 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:01.320 All right, So what's going on? Whenever you see these protests, 132 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.360 big time protests, what do you see? You see the 133 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:08.080 Mexican flag. The first major protests, I don't know how 134 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:11.639 many years ago, the million person protests, not the million 135 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:15.080 man march, as far the African Americans were concerned, the 136 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:19.080 first Latino March, which has maybe half a million people there, 137 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:24.440 I didn't see an American flag. They flew the Mexican flag. Now, 138 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:31.879 the demand was to remain in this country, a path citizenship, 139 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:35.600 not to be deported. Well, in those days, the deportation 140 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:39.080 level with nothing like it is now. I mean nothing. 141 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:42.919 I mean it is real fear. There is real deporting 142 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:47.519 god going on. I am seeing as I drive along 143 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:52.960 from the cars Mexican flags. I don't see American flags 144 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:58.279 at all. I see Mexican flags, and you wonder, how 145 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:04.000 can anybody be dumb enough to to ask to live 146 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:08.639 in this country, to be part of this country, to 147 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:13.039 not be deported, and fly the Mexican flag. Why would 148 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:18.360 you do that? Well, Politico did a bunch of interviews 149 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:21.919 and asked people, I mean, you know, people that are 150 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:25.000 in the no experts, people have been here a long time, 151 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:27.559 people that talk about this sort of thing, teach this 152 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:32.799 sort of thing, and it's just crazy. Here's some of 153 00:10:32.840 --> 00:10:37.600 the answers. It's really about saying we're American, We're Mexican American, 154 00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:45.440 and we're not ashamed of being Mexican. Huh. Really, it's 155 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:48.519 really about being American. Here's another one that kind of 156 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:53.039 floored me. You guys like American food, or excuse me, 157 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:57.960 you like Mexican food, you like Mexican dancing in the 158 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:02.919 Mexican culture. You just don't like Mexicans. So therefore, we 159 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:07.360 want to show you how proud we are of being Mexicans. Okay, 160 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:12.480 if that's the point, then don't talk about immigration. If 161 00:11:12.480 --> 00:11:17.159 you just want the people of the United States to say, 162 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:22.519 Mexicans are great, we love them, all right, no problem. 163 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:26.080 We love to visit, we love Mexican food, we love 164 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:29.960 Mexican music. We just don't want Mexicans here, Well, we're 165 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:33.320 going to argue how important it is for you to 166 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:36.240 accept our culture and our food. That's not what this 167 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:39.679 is about. See. I think what these people are somehow 168 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:42.799 spinning this and trying to come up with some crap 169 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:47.279 ol a reason and not hitting it directly because because 170 00:11:47.320 --> 00:11:49.759 we're proud to be Mexican, give me a break. I 171 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:51.840 mean you probably are. I mean, I don't have a 172 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:54.519 problem with you being proud to be Mexican. I'm proud 173 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:58.919 to be American completely, but I am if I want 174 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:03.039 to go to Italy, for example, which I do when 175 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:05.120 I retire, I want to live part time in Italy. 176 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:09.039 I'm not going to take the American flag and talk 177 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:11.399 about how desperately I want to be in Italy. What 178 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:15.679 but you think I'm nuts? I just don't get it. 179 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:19.360 I And then the argument is why young people are 180 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:22.720 doing this. It's the show to support for their parents. 181 00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:28.159 So many people are American citizens, second third generation, maybe 182 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:30.440 they were first born in this country, very much US 183 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:33.759 citizens by birth, but they want to know their parents 184 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:38.679 who are illegal, that they're standing with them. So therefore 185 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:47.159 that's why we're flying the Mexican flag. You're not doing 186 00:12:47.159 --> 00:12:52.200 yourselves any favor whatsoever. You fly the Mexican flag at 187 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:58.600 a rally where immigration is even brought up, even a 188 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:01.759 little tiny bit, you're out of your mind. What you're 189 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:05.399 going to do is offend people. What you're doing is 190 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:08.919 guarantee that there is a whole swath of Americans that 191 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:11.679 are saying, you know, you don't like it here, get 192 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:16.360 the hell out. You fly a foreign flag, you fly 193 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:20.360 the Mexican flag, and then argue under the Mexican flag 194 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:24.240 that you should be Americans, but you don't fly the 195 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:31.639 stars and stripes. I mean, that's just dumb. That's just stupid. 196 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:34.840 And as I see cars, you know, with the Mexican 197 00:13:34.919 --> 00:13:38.440 flag flying around, I go, come on, guys, I mean, 198 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:42.080 if you want to make a point, fly the American 199 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:43.879 flag and say this is where I want to go. 200 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:49.679 Don't get it. I don't. And as I said, they're 201 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:54.320 not doing themselves any favor. Now, this is a fun one. 202 00:13:54.960 --> 00:14:00.480 Lame is is I think the best musical ever Trump 203 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:03.360 went to lay Miss I think it was last night. 204 00:14:04.480 --> 00:14:09.120 And what does that mean? What does lames mean to other? 205 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:12.559 Every everybody else? We sort of have an idea what 206 00:14:12.679 --> 00:14:16.360 lame is means to Trump. And you can read anything 207 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:19.639 in the lay miss anything, and I'll explain, because this 208 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:25.399 is a musical for all of us. It's Festivus. It's 209 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:29.639 Festivus for all of us. We'll be back. It is 210 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:34.639 a Thursday morning, June twelfth, a pan to Brian Wilson 211 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:38.240 and the Beach Boys who just died yesterday at the 212 00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:42.720 age of eighty two. Last night it was the President 213 00:14:42.799 --> 00:14:47.039 going to the opening of Lame Is at the Kennedy Center. 214 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:53.120 It's the first performance that is a musical since he 215 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:57.559 certainly that Trump was involved with, since he declared himself 216 00:14:57.720 --> 00:15:02.200 or appointed himself as the chair, fired all the other 217 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:07.679 directors and put in his own people, including Pam Bondi. 218 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:12.200 Also Jake Vance is on the board now. And so 219 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:19.559 last night was lay mis lay Mis means so much 220 00:15:19.720 --> 00:15:23.919 to so many people that you have the pundits looking 221 00:15:23.960 --> 00:15:27.399 at this because on both sides of the political aisle, 222 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:30.559 as a matter of fact, all three sides. Some they 223 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:36.120 see something in the musical that's on their side. And 224 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:39.919 the President said, I love the songs, I love the play, 225 00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:45.519 as he went to it, as he attended. And this 226 00:15:45.559 --> 00:15:48.080 is through July thirteenth, and it is fabulous. By the way, 227 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:52.639 I love it. He organized this is a fundraiser, guest 228 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:56.279 paying up the two million dollars. Now, most of the 229 00:15:56.279 --> 00:16:01.600 main cast boycotted the show. They wouldn't perform in the show. 230 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:05.519 As a matter of fact, so many of the performers boycotted, 231 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:09.480 they were able to scramble a local high school production 232 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:15.600 to actually do the performance. And some may hear dissonance 233 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:20.159 between the values of the show and Trumps. Okay, that's 234 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:22.519 sort of on the left. But when you look at 235 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:25.679 this lame is Can does appeal to the minds of 236 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:32.000 just about everybody. Why because the pro Trump people see 237 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:36.639 Jean Valjean or Jean Valjean and Trump, both of them 238 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:41.879 having been wrongly accused, because that's the premise of the musical, 239 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:45.840 wrongly accused, never given the benefit of the doubt, constantly 240 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:52.759 hounded by the French police read democrats. The lyric the 241 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:57.639 blood of the Martyrs will water the meadows of France. Okay, 242 00:16:58.279 --> 00:17:00.639 pretty close to the line about the tree of liberty 243 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:05.960 needing blood. Thomas Jefferson in a nineteen eighty seven quote, 244 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:08.960 the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to 245 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:13.400 time by the blood of patriots and tyrants. That has 246 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:17.720 been a MAGA slogan for a very long time. The 247 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:23.759 Maga movement is about angry people taking back power. Another 248 00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:28.759 main premise making the world more fair for anyone. Then 249 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:32.559 you have the prisoners in the musical singing look down, 250 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:37.400 look down, You're here until you die. All right. Now 251 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:41.359 you're talking about people of the left looking at ice 252 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:46.000 picking up. For example, remember Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was 253 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:50.599 picked up, sent to that prison in Venezuela without due process, 254 00:17:50.839 --> 00:17:55.680 just picking them up, and that's the prisoner singing, look down, 255 00:17:55.759 --> 00:18:00.599 look down, You're here until you die. Wow. And others 256 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:04.559 on the right. We'll talk about defendants in the January 257 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:07.759 sixth attack on the Capitol singing the Star Spangled banner, 258 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:10.119 looked down, look down, You're here until you die. When 259 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:16.000 they were convicted wrongly, and if you remember, they sang 260 00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:20.440 the spangled banner in prison and Trump used it at 261 00:18:20.480 --> 00:18:24.039 a rally when he declared those defendants who were convicted 262 00:18:24.119 --> 00:18:27.599 all patriots, and it was a peaceful demonstration that were 263 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:33.799 just snailed. Then you have Fontine, right, the little lead 264 00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:36.079 that she's forced to give up her child or get sick. 265 00:18:36.599 --> 00:18:40.519 Some people think of Trump's big tax bill, the Congressional 266 00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:44.400 Budget Office estimates are going to shift resources with eight 267 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:49.319 point six million people losing access to healthcare. The anthem 268 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:51.960 that the students sing, Now, this is not about the 269 00:18:51.960 --> 00:18:54.200 French Revolution, which a lot of people think. It's an 270 00:18:54.240 --> 00:18:59.359 anti monarchist, anti king student uprising in Paris in eighteen 271 00:18:59.400 --> 00:19:05.160 thirty two. And anthem do you hear the people sing? Well, 272 00:19:05.240 --> 00:19:09.400 that's been borrowed by protest groups and Belarus, Philippines, Turkey, 273 00:19:09.559 --> 00:19:14.440 South Korea. And I'm going to end with my absolute 274 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:20.480 favorite quote so far of the administration in Donald Trump. Okay, 275 00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:23.680 and for those of you that are Maga followers, please 276 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:27.119 please defend this if you will, Okay, because this one 277 00:19:27.279 --> 00:19:30.720 is now, this is just fun. There are no politics here. 278 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:38.160 This is pure entertainment. Stephen Chung, Whitehouse Communication Director, said, 279 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:42.640 and I quote President Trump is a virtuoso, and his 280 00:19:42.839 --> 00:19:48.119 musical choices represent a brilliant palette of vibrant colors when 281 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:52.400 others often paint in pale pastels. There is no one 282 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:56.759 more qualified, more uniquely qualified to bring this country and 283 00:19:56.839 --> 00:20:02.119 it's rich history of the arts back to prominence. A 284 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:12.359 virtue virtuoso. Oh, that's just delicious. No politics there, just 285 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:20.319 absolute fun and hilarity. All right. Coming up the organ 286 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:25.799 donors who shouldn't have been organ donors. And I'm going 287 00:20:25.839 --> 00:20:28.079 to share this with you and a personal story, not 288 00:20:28.240 --> 00:20:33.400 my personal story, Neil's personal story being the recipient of 289 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:37.640 an organ from an organ donor. I'll be back the 290 00:20:37.640 --> 00:20:40.480 story you don't want to miss Thursday morning, June twelfth. 291 00:20:40.680 --> 00:20:43.759 Some of the stories we are falling. An Air India 292 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:49.680 passenger plane bound for London crashed right after takeoff in 293 00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:55.400 a northwestern city in India, just a minute after taking off. 294 00:20:55.720 --> 00:20:58.799 No known survivors, I mean exploded in a fireball, and 295 00:20:59.039 --> 00:21:02.960 you wouldn't think there were survivors. Now, there's a story 296 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:05.559 that came out of the New York Times, and I 297 00:21:05.559 --> 00:21:09.079 immediately thought of Neil. Four years ago, there was a 298 00:21:09.160 --> 00:21:14.440 Kentucky man that, as he was about to be removed 299 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:19.000 from life support so his organs could be donated, cried, 300 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:23.160 pulled his legs to his checks, shook his head and 301 00:21:23.240 --> 00:21:27.559 they were still moving forward to remove his organs. Now, 302 00:21:27.599 --> 00:21:32.119 this is Kentucky, and of course federal investigation kicked in immediately. 303 00:21:32.200 --> 00:21:37.519 And this was I mean very rare, but hey, federal 304 00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:42.400 investigation founded officials at a nonprofit in charge of coordinating 305 00:21:42.519 --> 00:21:45.160 organ donations in Kentucky. This is the way it works 306 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:50.599 in all fifty states ignored signs of growing alertness, and 307 00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:53.720 not only in that patient, but in dozens of others. Now, 308 00:21:53.799 --> 00:22:01.240 that is one of the fears that there's a real issue, 309 00:22:01.319 --> 00:22:06.640 because especially in the issue of can organs be paid for? 310 00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:09.400 For example, if someone poor, can they sell their organs? 311 00:22:09.559 --> 00:22:12.279 And the fear that there's gonna be a lot of 312 00:22:12.319 --> 00:22:15.680 pressure to donate organs one be donation to sell organs. 313 00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:19.000 And so in this case, there was a lot of 314 00:22:19.039 --> 00:22:24.000 pressure anyway to move forward with the organ donation and 315 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:28.319 had no business doing it. Three hundred and fifty cases 316 00:22:28.359 --> 00:22:32.160 in Kentucky over the past four years, plans to remove 317 00:22:32.279 --> 00:22:41.960 organs were canceled. Ultimately in seventy three instances, the officials 318 00:22:42.079 --> 00:22:45.720 of this organ donation should have stopped sooner because the 319 00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:51.640 patients actually had improving levels of consciousness. They could prove 320 00:22:51.759 --> 00:22:57.279 the patient was improving. Now, most of those patients were 321 00:22:57.400 --> 00:23:01.599 in real trouble medically anyways, and they died. And this 322 00:23:01.759 --> 00:23:05.000 and the reason that this is happening, it's not because 323 00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:07.880 of brain death. Once your brain debt. Your brain debt, 324 00:23:08.039 --> 00:23:10.359 that's you don't come back from that. But this is 325 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:18.000 donation after circulatory death. Huh. And if family members agree 326 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:24.319 to the donation, employees of this nonprofit call a procurement organization. 327 00:23:24.440 --> 00:23:28.880 They begin testing and then lining up surgeons and recipients. 328 00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:31.759 And it's a very very big deal and every state 329 00:23:31.799 --> 00:23:34.440 has at least one of these. And then the patient 330 00:23:34.519 --> 00:23:37.799 is taken in the operating room. Hospital workers withdraw life 331 00:23:37.839 --> 00:23:41.559 support and just sit there and wait, and if the 332 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:44.359 patient dies within an hour or two, the organs are 333 00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:49.880 considered viable, and if not, they are not. So this 334 00:23:50.079 --> 00:23:56.279 is where people had no business donating organs or were 335 00:23:56.279 --> 00:24:01.119 forced to donate organs. Now comes Neil Neil, recipient of 336 00:24:01.160 --> 00:24:07.319 a kidney where just before the surgery, the young lady 337 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:11.519 before she was put under, started screaming, I've changed my mind. 338 00:24:12.279 --> 00:24:16.839 She had sellers remorse, no, no, don't, I don't want 339 00:24:16.880 --> 00:24:19.240 to do it. I don't want to do it, and 340 00:24:19.319 --> 00:24:22.079 they went forward anyway, Neil. 341 00:24:22.599 --> 00:24:24.440 Locked her on the head with a big stick. 342 00:24:25.960 --> 00:24:26.279 Yeah. 343 00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:30.039 Uh, this is a scary as hell because some of 344 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:35.839 these people, yes, they died very soon after, but some 345 00:24:35.920 --> 00:24:37.640 of them actually walked out of the hospital. 346 00:24:38.119 --> 00:24:42.839 I know very few, but even one. And yeah, here's 347 00:24:42.839 --> 00:24:48.519 the story, not the Oregon donor for Neil who she. 348 00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:51.920 Said she was a living donor and still alive. And 349 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:52.599 Julie is. 350 00:24:52.920 --> 00:24:55.960 And still and still has sellers remorse to this day. 351 00:24:56.599 --> 00:24:57.519 She feels great. 352 00:24:57.640 --> 00:25:00.440 And I've met her. 353 00:25:00.519 --> 00:25:01.759 I've met her. She's a delight. 354 00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:04.240 She's a big bill Handle fan for some reason. 355 00:25:04.519 --> 00:25:06.799 Well she's more of a Neil Sevadra fan than she 356 00:25:06.920 --> 00:25:08.440 is a bill Handle fan, clearly. 357 00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:12.319 Oh she's a bigger bill Handle fan. I just happened 358 00:25:12.319 --> 00:25:14.559 to need an organ. Oh yeah, So if she had 359 00:25:14.599 --> 00:25:16.599 a pig valve, I'm sure you would have gotten it. 360 00:25:16.640 --> 00:25:21.200 But yeah, yeah, probably. And here's the story I want 361 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:23.160 to share with you because it has to do with 362 00:25:23.240 --> 00:25:29.359 a pressure from hospitals in these organ donation places when 363 00:25:29.640 --> 00:25:33.680 you have someone who has suffered a traumatic injury, either 364 00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:37.519 in a car accident or being shot or whatever, where 365 00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:43.680 organs are still viable. Lindsey's sister in law, at the 366 00:25:43.720 --> 00:25:47.920 age of forty six, had a seizure. She had some 367 00:25:47.960 --> 00:25:51.799 medical problems and had a seizure where she ended up 368 00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:56.640 being brain dead. It's a horrific story and the family 369 00:25:56.759 --> 00:26:01.920 to their credit immediately at her death or upon the 370 00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:05.680 termination that she was brain dead and was on life support, 371 00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:11.480 said to the hospital authorities that she wanted She was 372 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:15.839 always in favor of organ donation and wanted to donate 373 00:26:15.880 --> 00:26:19.440 her organs, which ended up happening. There were some liver 374 00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:23.160 issues involved those organs weren't going, but the heart and 375 00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:27.240 the lungs and the pancreas and the bones and the 376 00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:32.920 eyeballs which they use. And the family went to said 377 00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:38.720 to the hospital, we want to donate her organs. They said, wow, 378 00:26:39.920 --> 00:26:43.119 very few people just up and are in favor of 379 00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:47.680 this immediately. Usually it takes the hospital has to talk 380 00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:52.720 people family members into it, because there you have a 381 00:26:52.839 --> 00:26:56.279 person who is alive, who's on life support, and it's 382 00:26:56.400 --> 00:26:59.960 kind of hard to accept that this person is actually dead. 383 00:27:01.680 --> 00:27:05.240 And I thought it was really interesting that the hospital 384 00:27:05.400 --> 00:27:10.680 was surprised. Also. We talked to Jim Keeney, and as 385 00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:14.160 you have the patient who is now dead, brain dead, 386 00:27:14.519 --> 00:27:19.440 going into an operating room to donate the organs, there 387 00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:24.839 is as the leurney goes past, everybody in the hospital 388 00:27:24.920 --> 00:27:30.000 lines up and it's basically a walk of honor, even 389 00:27:30.039 --> 00:27:34.559 though they're being rolled where the hospital staff appreciates that 390 00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:39.279 this family, that this person and the family are taking 391 00:27:39.319 --> 00:27:43.279 this horrific incident and are going to save people's lives 392 00:27:43.319 --> 00:27:45.519 with it. I am a huge fan of organ donation 393 00:27:46.119 --> 00:27:51.200 and I have been an organ donor for well four years, 394 00:27:51.279 --> 00:27:54.519 decades and decades, and a lot of people are very 395 00:27:54.599 --> 00:27:57.839 upset that I haven't yet to donate an organ because 396 00:27:57.839 --> 00:27:59.920 they wanted it to happen much much sooner. 397 00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:04.839 Well in proof that you know, people can still have 398 00:28:05.039 --> 00:28:07.599 long jobs after being brain dead, so. 399 00:28:07.599 --> 00:28:09.920 It's absolutely crazy. Thank you very much. Okay, I'll do 400 00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:13.200 the joke about your donor wanting the kidney back. You 401 00:28:13.279 --> 00:28:15.039