WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:07.400 This is the other side of midnight. They're running a 2 00:00:07.400 --> 00:00:10.160 strange program. You'll with Walter Sterling. 3 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:24.199 Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Doo Sterling, Sterling, Sterling, 4 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:32.880 He's more interesting than curling. He's on your radio every night. 5 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:39.119 Walter Sterling, Sterling, Sterling. Walter Sterling is live on the 6 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:46.840 other side of midnight. For all you midnight misfits, Sterling Sterling, Sterling. 7 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:48.640 Your dial. 8 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:54.320 You won't be twirling when Walter Sterling's on your radio. 9 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:59.320 It's the other side of midnight with Eddie Dragon. 10 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:02.880 Eddie Dragon, who's in New Mexico. And it's a privileged 11 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:05.879 to have Edian because he's independently wealthy. He doesn't need 12 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:08.680 to do this. He owns his own radio station. He 13 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:10.760 doesn't need this to get any more attention. He has 14 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:14.040 plenty of attention. And yet he travels to places like Utah, 15 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:17.239 there's nothing there, and he goes to places like he 16 00:01:17.319 --> 00:01:22.799 lives in New Mexico. Moments moments from Jeffrey Epstein's Zoro 17 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:28.079 Ranch oddly uninvestigated by our government. Eddie, how are you 18 00:01:28.120 --> 00:01:30.159 doing tonight, Walter. 19 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:34.359 I'm fine and I'm enjoying the program. I just returned 20 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:38.120 from Utah. There is a lot there. There is actually 21 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:40.400 quite a bit going on in Solid Lake City. 22 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:41.799 What's going on? What's going on? 23 00:01:41.879 --> 00:01:42.120 Did he? 24 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:45.000 You know? I didn't think it was that big, but 25 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:48.439 it's about sixty miles and I went from Hill Air 26 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:53.799 Force Base where the Minuteman missiles are manufactured for our 27 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:54.920 nation's defense. 28 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:55.359 There. 29 00:01:55.480 --> 00:01:58.439 I have a friend who's a colonel there, top secret 30 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:02.000 by the way, and it's just a fascinating place. The 31 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:06.760 industry that they have, their defense industry. You know, obviously 32 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:09.360 you know the LDS is there. That is the Latter 33 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:13.120 day Saints. Do you know, Walter, that is also going 34 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:17.400 to be a trillion dollar religious organization within the next 35 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:20.520 five years. I thought that was just, you know, unfathomable. 36 00:02:20.599 --> 00:02:23.240 And well, they have tithing, you see that. That's where 37 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:26.919 they're smart. Unlike the Catholics of the Episcopalians. They have tithing. 38 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:28.960 You want to be a member of the Church of 39 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:31.199 Ladder day States, you're going to give up twenty percent 40 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:31.919 of your income? 41 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:34.479 Is it twenty percent? 42 00:02:34.680 --> 00:02:34.840 Yes? 43 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:37.400 Is it double double? I didn't realize that. 44 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:40.400 You know, the Mormons, and you have to have a 45 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:43.039 haircut like an Osmond. Your hair looks has to look 46 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:44.039 like Donnie Osmond's. 47 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:49.360 Interestingly enough, I saw the Donny and Marie Osmond's old 48 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:52.960 stomping grounds in orem Utah and their old studio. Actually 49 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:56.639 walked inside their old studio. Unbelievable. You know, they are 50 00:02:56.960 --> 00:03:00.159 sort of a force of entertainment nature from thee in 51 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:01.400 these in the early eighties. 52 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:05.599 But well, Donna Donnie was very successful and smart, and 53 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:10.039 they were actually one of the few entertainment groups that 54 00:03:10.199 --> 00:03:13.080 raised their own stock that went public. You could buy 55 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:14.319 stock in their company. 56 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:18.520 I did not know that. That's that's also fascinating, And that's. 57 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:20.520 How they bought That's how they built that studio. They 58 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:22.719 were able to raise money through the markets. 59 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:26.199 You know, I had a Mormon as a business partner 60 00:03:26.199 --> 00:03:29.240 when I did commercial real estate, and I found out, 61 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:33.120 you know, they are fantastic business people. They really just know, 62 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:36.479 very trustworthy, very but once you stop working with them 63 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:40.000 the Mormon way of doing business, you find yourself on 64 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:44.319 the outside. Also, it is also very unique about the 65 00:03:44.439 --> 00:03:49.199 Mormon religion. They also have a abnormally large share of 66 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:53.199 employment within the Three Letter agencies, namely the CIA and 67 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:56.919 the FBI in the United States. Mormons gravitate towards those 68 00:03:56.960 --> 00:03:58.240 types of jobs, believe. 69 00:03:58.000 --> 00:03:58.319 It or not. 70 00:03:58.439 --> 00:03:58.879 So well. 71 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:00.159 They know how to dress. 72 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:04.400 Or not dress. You won't find any of them having 73 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:09.800 fancy watches or fancy shoes. They really pride themselves on 74 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:13.560 having the six month food stuff basement, and they oftentimes 75 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:16.759 brag about that, and they also brag about how much 76 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:20.319 hew thrifty they are and how often they double coupon 77 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:24.319 and grocery store coupon. They literally have contests about it. 78 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:26.920 It's a fascinating place. In fact, the twenty thirty four 79 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:29.279 Winter Olympics are going to be there. Walter and they 80 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:32.720 happen to go to the number one ski resort on 81 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:35.040 the other side. Took a gondolus at the top. Checked 82 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:40.600 it out. Very fascinating in that everyone is just in 83 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:44.600 love with, you know, nature. Everyone's hiking, everyone's biking. There's 84 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:46.839 a little town just outside on the backside of the 85 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:50.240 mountain called Huntsville and it's the quenest, cutest little town 86 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:53.199 you ever did see. And yeah, there's a lot going 87 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:55.879 on in the old Salt Lake City in that area. 88 00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:58.800 It is a truly breasttaking I want to say, it's 89 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:01.199 one of the more beautif cities that I've seen Walter. 90 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:03.000 So if you haven't been to Utah, it's not that 91 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:04.959 there isn't anything there, it's just that you have not 92 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:05.360 been there. 93 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:07.399 Well, I've seen. I've been to Salt Lake City, and 94 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:10.720 it's a spooky place. And it's partly I realize just 95 00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:13.639 now because of what you said, which is that they 96 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:17.800 had no geographic challenges in building out the city. They 97 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:20.680 didn't have to build a downtown and up. They could 98 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:24.399 just keep spreading out and as a results, it's a 99 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:26.879 sixteenth it's a sixty mile suburb. 100 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:30.199 M Yeah, no, I think you've nailed it. I think 101 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:32.160 that's exactly what I saw. I was there. It just 102 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:35.759 keeps going and going and going, much like Phoenix, Arizona, 103 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:39.759 where exactly also has a huge presence. It's just like, hey, 104 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:42.439 we're just going to keep building it. Mexico City, by 105 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:45.199 the way, internationally is a lot like that. However, they 106 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:47.639 don't roll out the infrastructure before they do it. After 107 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:50.439 last thing I'll say about Salt Lake City, I stayed 108 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:54.319 in a hotel that was there, as you do, and 109 00:05:54.839 --> 00:06:00.279 there's abnormally large Mexican population in those hotels because so 110 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:04.480 much construction. There's so much construction, they're all there, and 111 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:08.360 they're building out what continues to be Salt Lake City. 112 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:10.720 It's a very by the way, one of the top 113 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:13.000 three states in terms of quality of life, and I 114 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:17.439 think Salt Lake is at the very top of cities 115 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:20.079 over you know, one million about one point one point 116 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:23.639 nine million in the miny the metropolitan statistical er. 117 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:26.079 Thank you for this travelogue. Now what do you have 118 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:28.439 to report? What? What updates do you have for us? 119 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:33.000 Well, I happen to be catching Netflix and the Idaho murders, 120 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:36.560 and you have been getting me to watch more Netflix, 121 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:38.720 and it's something that we do. You know, you you've 122 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:42.560 you've passed us the Midnight Misfits with going out and 123 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:46.639 entertaining ourselves with your recommendations. But I couldn't help but 124 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:51.959 get away to the Idaho murders. That's recent. It's fascinating, 125 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:58.160 and you know, Brian Koberger basically was taken out because 126 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:01.720 of a q kip that the FBI went rummaging through 127 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:04.879 once they made the determination off of a small, slight 128 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:08.319 thing off of that night sheet. And I got to 129 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:12.000 thinking about the unsolved mysteries and the unsolved murderers here 130 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:15.480 in New Mexico. But more than that there's a big 131 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:20.839 one in New York. That's right Rochester. Ten years ago, Walter, 132 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:27.680 four people murdered a house deliberately set on fire, and 133 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:32.279 a decade later, the families of Michael Royal, Jennifer Leisure, 134 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:36.360 Lechelle Powell, and Michael Adams are still asking the same question, 135 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:39.639 who did it and why? So this is in Rochester's 136 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:44.199 New York. Okay, it's the most horrifying unsolved homicide case 137 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:49.680 in New York, the Leyton Avenue quadruple murder. And it 138 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:52.560 was not simply a fire. It was a crime scene 139 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:57.399 that investigators say was deliberately burned after four human beings 140 00:07:57.399 --> 00:08:02.000 were bound and killed in And even now with this 141 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:05.399 now renewed investigative activity that they have, there have been 142 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:10.160 no arrests, no public naming of suspects, no resolution for 143 00:08:10.199 --> 00:08:14.079 the people left behind. Back in twenty sixteen, in January, 144 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:17.199 firefighters responded to a burning home on Leyton Avenue. What 145 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:21.959 they discovered in the attic transformed a fire call into 146 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:27.120 a major crimes nightmare for Rochester police. Four victims found dead. 147 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:31.480 Michael Royal twenty eight years old, Jennifer Leisure twenty nine, 148 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:34.879 Lachelle Powell, twenty two, forty five year old Michael Adams 149 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:40.000 now Rochester. Investigators said the victim's wrists and ankles were bound. 150 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:44.200 All four had been shot in the head. The house 151 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:48.679 set ablaze, so reporting through the years has provided a 152 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:51.840 very groom picture about this. No leads nothing. The victims 153 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:55.679 had been bound with duct tape. News ten, NBC and 154 00:08:55.879 --> 00:08:58.879 Rochester reported that their mouths had been covered as well. 155 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:03.919 Mary Royal's mother returned to the home, discovered the fire, 156 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:07.200 then called nine to one one. Then firefighters found all 157 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:11.480 four victims. Guess where in the attic they had time 158 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:16.200 the family dog, Jack's dad as well. The victims were 159 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:20.120 not abstractions in a police file. Royle was Mary Royal 160 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:24.240 Stun who was reportedly working for was becoming a dental hygienist. 161 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:28.240 Jennifer Leger was his fiance. Powell was remembered, you know, 162 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:31.240 by her mother Glover as someone who would give you 163 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:33.679 the shirt, offer back good people, right. And then Michael 164 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:36.000 Adams is a forty five year old Rochester residence whose 165 00:09:36.039 --> 00:09:39.480 life ended alongside the other three. Now a vehicle was 166 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:42.840 held shortly right after those killings, and Rochester has been 167 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:44.919 mourning those lives for the last ten years and the 168 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:49.039 largest single act of unsolved violence in New York currently. 169 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:53.200 Give me a question, is obvious? Was this a targeted attack? 170 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:57.960 Investigators have never identified the intended target if there was 171 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:03.559 only one. Se nineteen police investigator John Brennan said detectives 172 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:06.240 did not know the motive and did not know for 173 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:09.799 certain which victim if anyone individual was the target. They 174 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:13.360 can't find any background on what would have driven. So 175 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:17.559 by that point the investigators have pursued already hundreds of 176 00:10:17.639 --> 00:10:21.559 leads without finding a single connection that produced an arrestable suspect. 177 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:25.159 And that detail is really important because as I was 178 00:10:25.159 --> 00:10:27.720 looking at the coburger that got solved, but this isn't 179 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:31.480 solved ten years later. The responsible standard in all of 180 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:36.120 this is to separate how the law enforcement has stated 181 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:39.559 versus what people are speculating about, and people don't have 182 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:43.320 anything to speculate on. The public facts are very evident. 183 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:47.279 Four people killed inside that residence, bound shot back of 184 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:50.320 the head, and a fire used to kind of create 185 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:54.320 a cover. No motive, so that winter weather in January 186 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:58.519 also worked against the investigators. At the time, the local 187 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:02.399 Democrat Chronicle reported that the conditions meant few people were 188 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:05.200 outside to even notice any of the activity. There's no 189 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:11.440 third party witnesses, unfamiliar vehicles, not noted people coming and going, 190 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:14.279 they said. It is said that, based on the fact 191 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:15.759 that they were in the attict, they had to be 192 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:19.360 in there doing this murder for at least a couple 193 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:22.279 of hours. The Texas believe that the perpetrators had spent 194 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:26.120 several hours in fact inside that house. They suggested the planning, 195 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:29.600 control of the scene, and their level of confidence. Raising 196 00:11:29.679 --> 00:11:32.600 confidence made the lack of public break through all the 197 00:11:32.679 --> 00:11:35.480 more unsettling. So there's a reward in all of this. 198 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:39.399 The only fifteen thousand dollars at app has come forward. 199 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:43.519 But it's worth remembering what time does to these cold cases. 200 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:46.960 The relationships have changed, the loyalties have change, And ten 201 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:51.759 years later New York's biggest unsolved mass murder, that is 202 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:54.519 the Latent Avenue murders. And if you know anything about, 203 00:11:55.159 --> 00:11:58.159 have any information, have any ideas, you could report it 204 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:03.240 to the ratchet or police five five seventy one fifty seven. 205 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:06.320 I'm just getting into this, Walter. I didn't know this 206 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:10.240 even existed, but I'm looking at unsolved murders in different places. 207 00:12:10.519 --> 00:12:13.480 We have one I'll cover that tomorrow from here in 208 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:14.039 New Mexico. 209 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:16.279 I think that's a video murder. I think that's an 210 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:20.759 excellent course for you to pursue our unsolved murders. Those 211 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:24.080 are the most dramatic and terrifying mysteries of our time. 212 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:27.960 Eddie Dragon, thank you very much for being on the 213 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:32.399 other side of midnight with Walter Sterling. It's eighteen past 214 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:34.559 the hour, eighteen past the hour, the. 215 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:37.799 Other side of midnight with Walter Sterling. 216 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:58.159 It's the other side of midnight, and with Walter Sterling 217 00:12:56.919 --> 00:13:00.679 on the other side. 218 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:04.080 When you go to a gentleman's club, the girls have 219 00:13:04.279 --> 00:13:09.480 one job. It's basically to make you feel infatuated, lustful 220 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:15.879 after them, if not love and desiree Nicole Hood, She's 221 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:18.159 picked it up pretty quick. She's twenty years old, understands 222 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:20.679 how to do that. She left with one of the 223 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:25.120 patrons to go to a hotel in beautiful Virginia Gardens 224 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:30.279 and she served him a drink at the hotel. You know, again, 225 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:34.720 just showing some lady stuff there, charming the pants literally 226 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:37.679 off of this feller. After drinking, the man said he 227 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:42.360 felt disoriented, dizzy, and unable to fully recall the subsequent events. 228 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:45.080 At least that's what he's saying to his wife. And 229 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:50.320 while this guy was allegedly incapacitated in the Bill Cosby 230 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:53.840 sort of way, he woke up and his fourteen thousand 231 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:58.440 dollars Rolex Oyster perpetual watch gone. And they found it 232 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:02.360 with Desiree Nicole Hood. Now how they find it with her? 233 00:14:02.360 --> 00:14:06.080 How they even find out who she was? She posted 234 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:09.720 on social media. That's what they do. And yeah, so 235 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:14.360 she's been arrested and likely going to be going to 236 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:19.200 jail for some time. And yeah, lab tests showed the 237 00:14:19.320 --> 00:14:27.519 victim tested positive with benzo diazepines, which are depressants also 238 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:31.440 known as Benzo's. They knock you out, those benzos do. Yeah, 239 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:33.320 if you're tired of night you just can't get sleep, 240 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:35.759 and you're just like you're a raccoon at three am, 241 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:38.440 take a Benzone. They'll knock you out. Knock you out 242 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:43.159 real good. Okay, I get it. Here's a guy, maybe 243 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:46.120 a little lonely away from the ball and chain the 244 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:49.639 battle axe at home, and he thought that maybe a 245 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:54.200 rendezvous with an exotic dancer would be a wonderful way 246 00:14:54.320 --> 00:15:01.200 to celebrate his freedom away from his home situation. Well, 247 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:05.279 now the wife knows, because you know, it's a crime. 248 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:09.039 He lost a fourteen thousand dollars watch, which probably was 249 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:12.600 a gift to him from her using his American Express. 250 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:15.559 If you go to a gentleman's club, do not wear 251 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:19.840 high end jewelry. Look like a regular guy. You can 252 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:24.000 wear a sports coach something like that, but yeah, look regular. 253 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:28.639 If you're gonna spend time alone with an exotic dancer, 254 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:32.360 don't take a drink from her. If the dancer hands 255 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:34.879 you up, fill the tag or something like that. No, 256 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:37.799 you don't do that. You don't do that at all. 257 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:41.799 Learn from this nameless, phaseless soon to be divorced man. 258 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:43.120 Don't do it. 259 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:44.240 It's a bad idea. 260 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:49.919 From the champagne room. Not on a Benzo. I'm Villa 261 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:54.200 Wols Strivers on the loose, Walter Sterling, the other side 262 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:59.159 of midnight. Red Apple Audio Network come to the media call. 263 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:02.240 Eight hundred eight four, eight ninety June. 264 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:06.279 Now look how lucky you are here? We are It's 265 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:10.240 just us. I'm a few inchest from the microphone, you're 266 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:13.120 a few inches from that speaker. It's it's just us. 267 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:16.440 The beauty of being awake at this time is we 268 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:20.320 get to celebrate being introverts. We get to celebrate being 269 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:24.480 alone because most people around us are alone. We don't 270 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:28.360 have to appear to fit in. There's nothing worse than 271 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:33.639 having to fit in. My friend, Susan Anderson, Mark Zaza, 272 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:37.480 Drew Simmles, Michael Leon, Michael, I'm so proud of you 273 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:44.559 you graduated. Roger Sabo, Joel Rios, Roberta de Conte, Martin Dyer's, 274 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:49.679 Martin Dice, Martin Dice Hi and John Tweeworgi. You are 275 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:52.200 some of the midnight misfits we get to spend time 276 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:55.600 with tonight. Thank you for being here. Barry Glick, Barry, 277 00:16:55.639 --> 00:16:58.200 you send me the best stuff, the best photographs. Barry Glick, 278 00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:03.440 Solid Midnight Misfit. Congratulate relations, Bill Buchanan, Charles Dempsey. If 279 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:07.000 you want to become a midnight Misfit, it's easy either. 280 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:11.759 Go to the website Walter sterlingshow dot com click Midnight Misfit. 281 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:15.559 You will get a membership card. It'll explain to you 282 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:18.119 what it means to be a misfit, what you have 283 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:21.000 to do, what your obligations are. You have to eat 284 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:26.279 corn beef, you have to hate team spirit. You don't 285 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:29.240 want anybody to say I believe in team players. I 286 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:31.279 never want to hear that phrase, just like I never 287 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:36.319 want to hear the phrase going forward anytime in my career. 288 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:39.000 If somebody has said to me, well, now going forward, 289 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:44.680 nothing good comes after that. Right, there are certain sign 290 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:49.079 posts that are trouble and now going forward we're going 291 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:51.599 to do. Oh no, no, no, no no. You might 292 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:54.000 as well not listen after that, because your career is over. 293 00:17:54.039 --> 00:17:58.640 If they're saying going forward to you, oh God, or 294 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:03.720 it didn't work out, or we're going to make some changes. Really, 295 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:05.559 you're going to put up new drapes. You're going to 296 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:10.759 paint the walls of better color. That's what you're talking about, idiots. 297 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:18.519 Now it's the best thing to be working now. Firehouse, auditorium, 298 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:22.519 the train station, the airport. This is when these facilities 299 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:25.960 are packed. This is our busiest time of day. Walmarts, 300 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:29.000 the walmarts, the cost goes. This is the busiest time 301 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:33.720 of day. This is when the shelves get stocked, when 302 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:39.079 the storerooms get emptied. The stores look better. The two 303 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:41.359 seconds before they open is when they look the best, 304 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:45.119 isn't it. I learned a lot about Dollar Tree. We 305 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:47.279 had a person who worked on the show who for 306 00:18:47.319 --> 00:18:49.720 the holidays decided to get a job at Dollar Tree 307 00:18:50.359 --> 00:18:52.880 so they could report back to us and tell us 308 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:55.880 what's really going on at Dollar Tree. And what I 309 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:59.720 learned was that Dollar Tree is totally dependent on when 310 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:03.480 the tree truck comes in my trucker. Friends, you're you're 311 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:07.160 the reason a dollar tree is good or not. They're 312 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:10.720 really good dollar trees and they're horrible, terrifying dollar trees. 313 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:16.279 There's no consistency. They're right. There's a Nirvana dollar Tree 314 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:18.319 I've been to. I'm not going to tell you where 315 00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:22.559 it is because you'd be jealous. And then they're the 316 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:26.400 ghetto dollar trees, and the ghetto dollar trees. You walk 317 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:30.599 in and everything's random. The displays move since the last 318 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:32.039 time you were there, and the last time you were 319 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:35.759 there was yesterday. There's no pattern to what they have 320 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:40.640 and what they don't. And the food selection is particularly interesting. 321 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:45.599 The food section often looks like a kitchen in Mexico. 322 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:49.519 Looks like a hospital kitchen in Mexico. This is really 323 00:19:49.559 --> 00:19:53.599 I don't need I don't need this much, this many chickpeas, 324 00:19:53.720 --> 00:19:57.400 I don't need this much coconut oil. The big thing 325 00:19:57.440 --> 00:20:00.079 that surprises me about Dollar Tree, how about you. The 326 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:03.759 big thing that surprises me about Dolatry is I have 327 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:08.400 to remember to go there first because it's going to 328 00:20:08.440 --> 00:20:10.720 be cheaper than anyplace else, but also because there are 329 00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:13.640 things that Dolatry I never expected them to have, like 330 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:16.319 coconut oil. I never expected them coconut oil, but there 331 00:20:16.359 --> 00:20:19.000 they have a robust selection of coconut oil. And then 332 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:21.599 there are things that they don't have that are shocking. 333 00:20:21.640 --> 00:20:25.759 They don't have coffee, ground coffee very rare. They have 334 00:20:25.799 --> 00:20:30.960 it in weird little cafeteria airplane style bags. They have 335 00:20:31.039 --> 00:20:35.400 no milk. That is, of course the biggest drawback, and 336 00:20:35.480 --> 00:20:38.559 the dairy associations must have some weird rules about who 337 00:20:38.599 --> 00:20:42.079 can sell milk or not. Maybe it's a refrigeration problem. 338 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:45.680 They do have eggs, however, they do have eggs, and 339 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:48.559 you know who else says eggs all of Chicago now 340 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:53.519 down to ninety nine cents at WGN Radio. 341 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:58.599 Midnight Misfits, walchesterling the out of side of. 342 00:20:58.720 --> 00:21:06.240 Midnight Dollar Tree. The mistake I can make is not 343 00:21:06.319 --> 00:21:09.359 going to Dollar Tree first. There are things that I'd 344 00:21:09.400 --> 00:21:13.599 be an idiot to not buy a Dollar Tree. Aluminum foil, 345 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:21.680 plastic bags, baggies, those things, toilet paper, but not paper towels. 346 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:24.519 Do not buy paper towels at Dollar Tree. You'll do 347 00:21:24.599 --> 00:21:29.519 better at Target. You'll do better at Walmart, but really, oddly, 348 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:32.200 Target's the best place to get paper towels. I don't 349 00:21:32.200 --> 00:21:36.519 know why. They have some cat foods but not really 350 00:21:36.519 --> 00:21:38.359 the ones you want. No, that's not true. I've gotten 351 00:21:38.400 --> 00:21:45.920 good cat food at Dollar Tree. Excellent cooking utensils, measuring cups, 352 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:50.680 cleaning products. They have very interesting cleaning. They have a 353 00:21:50.680 --> 00:21:54.279 lot of cleaning products that are the color purple. If 354 00:21:54.279 --> 00:21:57.799 you notice that at Dollar Tree they have a shelf 355 00:21:57.839 --> 00:22:02.160 after shelf of cleaning products to the color purple. Good 356 00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:05.759 prices on sponges. All of that works. Then there are 357 00:22:05.759 --> 00:22:12.319 other things that I just am very nervous about. Any 358 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:16.039 That's what it is. Anything in that refrigerator makes me nervous. 359 00:22:16.039 --> 00:22:20.480 Any frozen food always brands and dishes I've never heard of. 360 00:22:21.160 --> 00:22:24.759 I never knew I wanted. Green beans and lentils never 361 00:22:24.799 --> 00:22:31.640 came up before, or chunks of lamb and tandory sauce 362 00:22:31.720 --> 00:22:34.079 I have really at Dollar Tree. I don't think I'm 363 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:36.640 going to be getting my tandory products at Dollar Tree. 364 00:22:37.039 --> 00:22:40.960 It's the frozen foods case that scares me. It empties fast. 365 00:22:41.839 --> 00:22:45.839 And now they've gotten very robust with candy. But about 366 00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:48.759 two years ago they got a new CEO at Dollar Tree, 367 00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:53.359 which also owns Dollar General, which also owns another family 368 00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:56.079 Dollar They're all owned by the same company. Now they 369 00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:58.640 merged and they have the same CEO. And he did 370 00:22:58.680 --> 00:23:02.079 a stupid thing. And if you'd return my calls, I 371 00:23:02.119 --> 00:23:03.920 would tell him he did a stupid thing, and we 372 00:23:04.039 --> 00:23:06.319 talk about it on the air, and then he could 373 00:23:06.319 --> 00:23:08.480 tell me that it wasn't stupid and explain why. But 374 00:23:08.519 --> 00:23:16.079 he hasn't returned the call. About two years ago, when 375 00:23:16.119 --> 00:23:20.240 he became the CEO, they started changing the price and 376 00:23:20.279 --> 00:23:23.400 it stopped being a dollar, and then it went up 377 00:23:23.400 --> 00:23:27.079 to a minimum of a dollar twenty five. Well that's 378 00:23:27.119 --> 00:23:29.519 a different business. That's a twenty five percent increase in 379 00:23:29.559 --> 00:23:33.160 their revenue right there. Then they added a special section 380 00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:37.720 Dollar Tree Plus something like that. You've seen this. It's 381 00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:39.880 in a different part of the store, away from all 382 00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:43.880 of the normal things. They over there on the left, 383 00:23:43.920 --> 00:23:48.599 way over on the left, these are five dollar items. 384 00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:51.960 They have some items a Dollar Tree that are five dollars. 385 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:55.680 And then that's a different shopping experience because when we 386 00:23:55.799 --> 00:23:57.799 used to go through Dollar Tree and just went through it, 387 00:23:57.839 --> 00:24:01.519 boom boom, boom boom. I could buy twenty things and 388 00:24:01.559 --> 00:24:03.880 it didn't matter because they were all a dollar and 389 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:06.720 if we got something wrong, it didn't matter. But now 390 00:24:06.720 --> 00:24:09.200 if it's five dollars, we have to think about it. Well, 391 00:24:09.240 --> 00:24:11.279 that does a couple of things that they didn't think through. 392 00:24:14.279 --> 00:24:19.079 Number One, it's a slower shopping experience. That means, oh, 393 00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:21.000 I don't have time to go to Dollar Tree. Well 394 00:24:21.039 --> 00:24:24.279 that wasn't an issue before, was it. And then we 395 00:24:24.599 --> 00:24:27.000 get fussier five dollars. I don't know if this is 396 00:24:27.000 --> 00:24:31.079 worth five dollars, and we start to shop the five 397 00:24:31.119 --> 00:24:35.319 dollars items at Walmart, And those are the things I 398 00:24:35.319 --> 00:24:38.279 don't really think they thought through. What do you think? 399 00:24:39.480 --> 00:24:42.000 Eight hundred eight four eight nine two two two eight 400 00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:45.839 hundred eighty four eight nine two two two Joaquin retired 401 00:24:46.359 --> 00:24:52.599