Alec Baldwin, the foaming bad boy of Hollywood, is now starring in the role of his life: Killer.
New Mexico authorities have charged the petulant thespian with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust in 2021.
Fox 2’s in-house legal analyst Charlie Langton breaks down the ramifications and court room strategies for Baldwin, who faces up to 5 years in prison.
But that’s not all. As you know, the pond of Langton’s intellect runs deep. He offers his expert analysis on the Detroit Police and Fire Pension funds Battle Royal with Vince McMahon, creator of WWE.
That’s still not all- Langton, a lover of fine wine, fine art and a fine woman; unveils the mystery of the stolen Van Gogh masterpiece currently on display at the Detroit Institute of Art.
That’s still still not all- Langton, the noted musicologist, breaks down the Yoko Ono art classic “The Scream”.
Plus ringside, Detroit professional wrestler, El Rojo De Ghetto on why he wears women’s underpants.
And tonight’s rant- the billionaire moochers are back for more. Just say no!
Transcript:
Speaker 1:
You felt anger, you felt sadness? Yeah. Do you feel guilt?
Speaker 2:
No. No. I feel that there is, I feel that someone is responsible for what happened, and I can’t say who that is, but I know it’s not me.
Speaker 3:
We realize that. We believe that there was probable cause to charge Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter. And then they somehow got loaded into a gun, handed off to Alec Baldwin and then he pointed the gun and he pulled the trigger.
Speaker 4:
The
Speaker 5:
Bullshit.
Speaker 6:
Just breaking his Do more bullshit. Do more
Speaker 4:
Bullshit. Hey baby Jay. What’d you say? Like YouTube’s now saying we can’t smoke. They’re going to kick us up there.
Speaker 7:
No swearing. At least within the first 30 seconds. And then from there it gets kind of hazy on their rules.
Speaker 5:
<laugh>.
Speaker 4:
30 seconds.
Speaker 5:
30
Speaker 7:
Seconds. Who rules? We’re at minute 48 now.
Speaker 4:
So I mean, ah, fuck off. YouTube YouTube’s
Speaker 8:
Rules. Karen.
Speaker 4:
Oh, come on. Come on, Cameron. Oh, give, give me the sbo, Karen.
Speaker 9:
Nah, uhuh <laugh> <laugh>.
Speaker 4:
Isn’t Karen, start opening these programs so we don’t get booted off <laugh> because she just doesn’t curse. I mean, I just, second nature, I
Speaker 9:
Curse Charlie. I just not going to curse here. Yeah, I curse. I’ll so you, yes, I do curse. It’s just I’m not going to curse in public and you know, that’s fine. I’ve cursed on the show before.
Speaker 4:
Yep. I’m sorry. I got distracted. Red’s walking around at Red Leotards. He’s, you know, he’s going to play. We’re going to have Charlie Langton, the Fox two legal analyst and all around just hardworking media guy in town. Come on and talk about legal stories of the day. And one of them is the fire and police pension fund is suing World Wrestling.
Speaker 8:
Yeah. WWE
Speaker 4:
E. Yeah. Red just can’t help but where women’s fucking panty hose love this. I don’t know how this is going to go, but
Speaker 8:
Nobody can hear you. You’re
Speaker 4:
Way off. You going to get five? Come on in and show him. Yeah. Real quick. Yeah. Ka on red. Share, share, share. <laugh>. Go ahead, reg. Get up there.
Speaker 8:
He’s not red though, right? He’s
Speaker 4:
Get up here, bro.
Speaker 8:
<laugh>. God. Now you’re going to cut his head off.
Speaker 9:
I have one of those that per muffler.
Speaker 4:
We know it’s, it’s yours,
Speaker 10:
Is
Speaker 4:
It? No. Red came over. Yeah. Greg Kim. He was the guy crawling in your bedroom window last <laugh>.
Speaker 9:
No, he didn’t. That’s not where I keep my furs, but I have a muffler just like I need to go check and make sure I still have it.
Speaker 4:
Yeah, I was going to say, get your junk away from my head. Ready?
Speaker 10:
It’s weird.
Speaker 4:
All right, so we’re waiting for Charlie Langton to pop in here, but I’m going to let you know what’s more serious than death in America. What’s more serious than death fucking money? Oh yeah. Yep. And what they’re do with it. So riddle me this, what do you get when Democrats and Republicans crawl into bed together? You get Detroit. That’s what you get. I want proof. Yes. Take a look at the latest Chrissy IIT development from Midtown. You remember Chrissy promised us a decade ago that he is going to build all kinds of stuff around that new red hockey arena, but only if the people of the poorest big city in America would chip in a couple of hundred million bucks to make the dream come true. Do you remember that? Oh, remember it. Well, hey, Christie and his minions weighed all sorts of the watercolor paintings right under our noses.
We have any of those. Look at that. Ooh, guys, remember that one? Yeah. Where’s that at? The purples and greens. It’s so luscious promising. Look at that. That’s going to be a multi-billion dollar city within a city. And the watercolors worked because we chipped in more than $700 million, including interest. And you’ve always got to include the interest, but somehow the reporters around here, when they’re rewriting the press releases and you’re looking for information, they forget about the interest, but we still got to pay it. So now Christie got the hockey arena, and we got none of the revenue. We didn’t get any piece of the hotdogs, no piece of the t-shirt, none of the parking, nothing. $1 rent for 95 years, not even property taxes. So instead of the city within the city, Chris gave us a bunch of parking lots. Now y’all know the people that listen to this program that I produced the story for the local TV news about how that plan was going to drain the city coffers. And kids’ schools were crumbling and school taxes aren’t going to get paid. And mm-hmm <affirmative> money’s going to be siphon from the library. Woo. I also detailed how the Illich organization was in arrears on its water bills at a time when the city was shutting off access to water for families behind under bills. And I ask you now as I ask you then, how the fuck do you play hockey without ice?
Speaker 10:
<laugh>? Yeah, you need water
Speaker 4:
Now. Chris blew a gasket about dad’s story and the TV executives pulled the story. And I didn’t get mad. That’s business, big business. But then three years later, H B O blew into town and exposed the duplicity. And then I got mad. God damned this. Didn’t have to be. But now Chrissy’s back, he’s waving around the latest fantastical watercolors again. And local business leaders are barking with approval like seals to the sardine. And clearly this group of downtown Republican business people and the democratic politicians are all suffering from mathematical, dyslexia and collective amnesia. Because here’s the latest proposal for another measly $800 million. That’s not even including the interest. And don’t forget the other a hundred million dollars that GREs gave him last month. All this public cash and prizes, illit promises to finish that gleaming city within the city complete with low income housing. It’s great.
Why don’t we just build ’em their own houses? We get shops, we get restaurants and wait for this one new office space, <laugh> that nobody in America wants anymore. You guys remember Covid? Remember Zoom? Yeah. There’s so much office. There’s a lack of office space downtown there that that’s a loser. That’s what it’s skyscraper we paid for. Now getting built, that’s a joke. So nevermind that much of the subsidies will be paid for by i’s neighbors and competitors in the form of higher property taxes for them. That’s how they get this. Your competitor who’s already paying her taxes, gets her taxes raised to pay yours and may Mike insists you believe that this dream city will actually come to life this time around because billionaire developer Steven Ross is throwing his considerable weight behind it. If you don’t know Ross well, he’s the guy that was instructing his coach and the Miami Dolphins lose games. <laugh>,
He got caught cheating on his taxes and he became the second wealthiest real estate mogul in the United States during the great Recession between 2008 and 2018. And that’s according to ProPublica, which got a hold of his tax records. Now, even though Ross added 3 billion to his net worth during that period, he never paid a nickel in federal taxes and claims. He actually lost one and a half billion dollars. How? By developing office buildings, empty ones, and then claiming that those buildings are losing because they’re depreciating. Even if the value of them go up. I build a billion dollar skyscraper, it’s worth $2 billion. But the tax law allows me to say it’s only worth $900 million and I get to erase a hundred million dollars off my taxes. And if I don’t use it this year, I can save it for next year. And that’s how these motherfuckers do it.
That’s why they do it. And it’s all perfectly legal. And it’s a clear demonstration how the tax code is warped, paid and bought for by the ult ultra wealthy and done by the politically connected that they put in the office. Now the latest in Detroit development is a can’t lose proposition for the fat cat money set, but not so much for you. The working tax paying person. Remember, money’s more serious than death. You think more about money than you do death. So quick, name me a project of any consequence in Detroit in the past decade that hasn’t received a public handout. Oh God, name me one.
Speaker 11:
I can’t. I
Speaker 4:
Can’t. No. Karen’s shaking her head no too. The citizens of Michigan are now on the hook for the insolvent cue line. Remember I told you all about that. Now everybody in Michigan’s to pay for it. Thank you. And when you come on down, I’m going to give you a tour because it’s a three mile loop. <laugh>, you won’t get lost. Don’t worry about it. It’s very spacious in those cars too. And we have very friendly homeless people. <laugh>. They’re like three homeless people in one. They’re so nice. They carrying on a conversation and one body. We are the Green Society, the Hudson Skyscraper that looks more like a liquor store than the tallest building in Michigan. This the Lantis assembly plant. Remember that one? Oh yeah. Hasn’t delivered a job. We told you about dad. That’s when we had Karen’s old boss, Dave Bing on the old auto supplier.
He laughed. He said It’s not going to create a single fucking job. And he was right. Now, Gretchen wants to give hundreds of millions more to another Chinese company this time a subsidiary of Ford who makes batteries. Now that deals so bad that even the Republican governor of Virginia and Republicans love giving away our money. They told the Chinese to go take a hike. Not us. Everybody in Washington saying we got to get rid of the Chinese. They’re a threat as we speak. You can Google it. The factories are leaving China and going to Mexico. Not us. Let’s give them some money. Are you kidding me? If these developers pay no taxes, then who funds the police to protect their pet projects or the firefighters to climb the empty stairs of their tall, empty office tower? Or the paramedics? They got to pull you out.
Rich fact hat guy who’s choking onto the gravy, he’s drinking for lunch. <laugh>, the city continues to spin into chaos and we’re all staring into watercolors. How much are we giving away? How much goodness. There’s no comprehensive list taxpayer that treat you like a fool. There’s no list for the local or state level outlining the magnitude of these public-private deals. Y’all remember James Holman? Oh yeah. Of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Yeah, he’s a blast. Very smart, speckled White man spends his time counting money, reading documents when nobody else will. That’s what the dude does. And that’s why we have the dude on the show. You see how we putting it together for you? Cause the most dangerous kind of broke person is the one who could read and write. That’s why we do the schools. And now they start to take it from the schools.
Cause they don’t want us to read and write. But James knows how to read and write. And you know what James says? Nobody gives away more cash than Michigan. Period. Full stop right there. I didn’t know we were rich. I didn’t know. This was 1965 when we were rich. This went from the richest city to the poorest city in my lifetime. You understand my anger about this? Why don’t we try capitalism? Remember the free market principle? That’s when a develop. Now this, I learned this in school. A developer puts his own money up, he assumes the risk, and he’s rewarded with the prophet. Should the risk prove successful? How old fashioned is that? Because riddle me this, what do you get when you get a Democrat and a Republican in bed? You get Detroit, you get Michigan, you get modern United States. And the riddle has become the joke.
Speaker 8:
No one’s laughing
Speaker 9:
About, I needed applause button after that. Charlie,
Speaker 4:
I know, I know. Again, I’ll say it, Karen, like, I know how hard you fought this stuff. I know, I know the graze that you suffered, that you committed. This isn’t liberal or this isn’t, Hey, this is just bad money.
Speaker 9:
It doesn’t make sense, Charlie. I mean, but this is a thing. This is how rich people roll. I mean, they have these shelters, the opportunities to do things that keep them rich and keep them wealthy on the backs of those who aren’t rich or wealthy.
Speaker 4:
And I know really smart people. Like the other argument is, Hey man, I’ll take the jobs. If these guys don’t pay taxes, the guy working will pay taxes. I get it. I understand the conundrum, but we’ve gone way beyond. There’s nothing here to, this town doesn’t work on the market principle.
Speaker 8:
Well, I’m just sick of people promising things and then not
Speaker 4:
Delivering ’em. Then there’s that
Speaker 8:
Part. Yeah. I mean that’s what infuriates me more than anything. It’s like you may have a contract, do what you said you’re going to do, or else we’re clawing back some of this money. Yeah
Speaker 4:
It’s going to create jobs. What jobs? Remember this? I got to tell you that Chrysler plant on the east side, 10,000 jobs. You guys remember that? Yeah. Oh yeah. Google it. They got less than 5,000 jobs, which is exactly the same amount of jobs before we gave them a half a billion dollars. And then Chrysler decided two months later, oh, we’re going to actually merge with some French company and it’s going to be called the land. You never put dad in the contract, did you?
Speaker 8:
It’s really funny how the,
Speaker 9:
I’m sorry, go ahead Mark.
Speaker 8:
I was just going to say, it’s really funny how the state will claw back money if you collected unemployment improperly or their system failed to. Mm-hmm. They’ll claw that back from you, but never from a major development deal.
Speaker 4:
It’s
Speaker 9:
Always the small person. You’re absolutely right. I remember I won the lottery once for $5,000 and when I went to pick it up, they said, do you owe the state any money? And I said, no, actually the state owes me money. Can you give that to me as well? I mean, it’s like, what are you talking about? That’s incredible. The whole thing is a shakedown against the average person. I mean, it just is and it’s unfortunate and it really shouldn’t be this way,
Speaker 8:
But one time making a bad deal one time that they don’t deliver on. Okay, that sucks. Two times, three times. Well, as Charlie pointed out in the rant, it’s just not, they just keep coming back for more and the city keeps giving it to them. I don’t understand that.
Speaker 4:
Oh, we are, but the
Speaker 9:
Reason is why none of it makes sense. Everybody
Speaker 4:
Gets, everybody eats but us. I’ll tell you, how about you give me a property tax break on my home because I got a going concern there. I got a couple successful people I’m raising smart kid. Right? We could use a 10 year tax abatement and create more economic energy than this monster that they’re coming up with. You promised us, Chris, you were going to build it for that first handout. Yep. I didn’t forget.
Speaker 8:
Yeah. Do what you say you’re going to
Speaker 4:
Say, nobody trusts you, nobody likes this. Except for the set that they bring together. All the ones that go up to Mackinac party together. You know what I mean? Your whores. Yeah,
Speaker 9:
They are. But think about this too. When they talk about these development agreements and commitments to the community and okay, there’s always that factor of a penalty rolled into the project if in fact certain benchmarks aren’t met. So they know that that’s not going to happen anyway. And they just included in the development cost and going about their business. For me, I still think about when Mike Duggan stood up and said, we’ll do anything to keep this Chrysler plant plant over here on the east side. We’ll even close off St. Gene. And without asking anybody saying anything, you look up and St. Gene was closed off.
Speaker 4:
It’s all’s all gone.
Speaker 9:
Yep, it’s
Speaker 4:
Done. You’re just lying, man. I’m not, I’m not doing, I’m going to battle. I’m going to battle. Cause I’m thinking of all this shit I’m, I’m battling with. And for you, they’re, it’s true. It all comes to do we able to get Langton or is like,
Speaker 8:
I’m going to send ’em a new link.
Speaker 4:
Okay, you sent ’em a new link. Why don’t you What? Well let, let’s hear from a word from our underwriters, our good friend at American Coney Island to begin with.
Speaker 5:
Yep.
Speaker 4:
There he is. Al Roker
Speaker 12:
American, Coney Island. So good. Even Al Roker from the Today Show Eats here. Not like that other guy. Al Joker who eats a Lafayette. So make sure you a Roker and not a Joker. American Coney Island.
Speaker 4:
Hello. That’s right. Chris Cuomo got his dogs. He got his, his Coney kit. He did. He went crazy. <laugh>. They loved it. Good. He’s bitching him. It was a fucking what? I know. I want a fucking hotdog, fucking Coney dog. I go, it’s not, it’s not Coney. It’s not Coney Island. Chris, it’s, there’s a story behind it. I don’t fucking feed the fucking hotdog. He ate the dogs. Somebody gave Chris a present. Nobody’s calling Chris anymore. Everybody used to call Chris. Everybody used to send Chris presents. Now nobody wants to know. I actually like him this new Chris.
Speaker 8:
Yeah, he is a different guy now.
Speaker 9:
I was going to say, if he talked about the gifts, the way he’s complained about this one and I see why he wouldn’t send him one either.
Speaker 4:
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Speaker 8:
Insurance in? Oh boy. No idea
Speaker 4:
How they’re actually getting you insurance for less
Speaker 8:
<laugh>. That is
Speaker 4:
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Speaker 8:
Think it’s going to be higher. Higher? Yeah. Than 25.
Speaker 4:
That’s fucking insane. Okay. The solution could be in your home. And by the way, if you are looking for a home, you need a mortgage. That’s why they got thousands of five star reviews. You can go to eight sixty six Call Hall personal, right? Might you got your Yes, I did. You got your shit through them is personal, wasn’t it? You loved it. Or get started by go. Going to call hall first.com. That’s eight sixty six. Call Hall. We got Langton.
Speaker 8:
I dunno, he’s he’s having an issue connecting. So I sent him a new link.
Speaker 4:
Just call him on the phone, man. Come on. Can we, we problem solve instead of leav me looking stupid in front of millions of podcast watchers. I
Speaker 8:
Think you look
Speaker 4:
Great. Millions and millions.
Speaker 9:
<laugh> some. Somebody said, you look pretty spiffy today, Charlie. So you don’t look stupid at all.
Speaker 4:
Well, thank you. I mean here, you know, here’s how we avoid this embarrassment. Hey, YouTube. Fuck off. Bam. <laugh> gone. I hope Langton’s up on the news. I need to know what’s going on with Alec Baldwin here.
Speaker 9:
You hope he’s up on the news? I hope he is too. I mean, he’s a reporter to anchor
Speaker 4:
And a lawyer and everything. And
Speaker 9:
A lawyer he should know. Charlie should know everything.
Speaker 4:
What’s going on guys? But we see,
Speaker 8:
Call him right
Speaker 4:
Now. I don’t see the fucking buttons being, I press he is This whole thing’s out of order. I told you I knew it. We shouldn’t start. <laugh> shouldn’t start till I see him. There
Speaker 8:
He is. Whoa. He’s on the phone now.
Speaker 4:
What’s up Langton?
Speaker 13:
Hey, I’m there. I got, got it.
Speaker 10:
What?
Speaker 13:
This thing is not working. Lemme try. I should try it again.
Speaker 8:
Just go with the
Speaker 4:
Phone. No, we just go with the phone, baby. All right.
Speaker 13:
Everything is
Speaker 4:
Good. Yeah man. Everything is good. What are you doing right now?
Speaker 13:
Yeah, well I’m sitting at Fox two television. They’re tracking down a bad path, but <laugh> a bad firefighter.
Speaker 4:
Hey man you, your phone sucks. Why is it every time we have you on it up?
Speaker 13:
I don’t know. Lemme try this. Hold on. I think this work
Speaker 4:
That zany Fox two group. Feel like I’m on the morning show here.
Speaker 13:
I see you hang up the phone.
Speaker 8:
You sees us
Speaker 4:
Hang up the phone. All right, let’s see. All
Speaker 8:
Right, here we go. I’m going to ga. This is a guest. I’m going to bet you he’s
Speaker 4:
Not there. I’m going to bet he didn’t press microphone.
Speaker 9:
Oh boy. Yeah,
Speaker 8:
I don’t see it. Oh, he’s like flashing on and off.
Speaker 4:
Oh, of course. What I tell you, he, he didn’t press microphone, did he? I told you he works at a TV station. He drives around in a satellite truck and we’re getting this
Speaker 10:
<laugh>. He’s
Speaker 4:
Gone. I
Speaker 8:
Love watching him. Trying to connect though. It’s hilarious. Oh,
Speaker 4:
<laugh>. Unless you’re listening, of course.
Speaker 8:
No, no. Yeah. We’ll fix it in
Speaker 4:
Post. Yeah, we’ll fix it in post.
Speaker 14:
You hear me?
Speaker 8:
Yes, we do. We do. We do. We should reply to that. Yes, we do. Hear you. There he is. Look at him. There.
Speaker 10:
There. Its, oh my God.
Speaker 4:
You the best man. Oh, he just blanked out again.
Speaker 14:
I’m
Speaker 4:
Here. Who is this?
Speaker 14:
You what I’ve got. I’ve got this on my desk. I may need it.
Speaker 4:
Look at that little bit of bourbon.
Speaker 8:
I may need it.
Speaker 4:
Yeah. All right.
Speaker 14:
Alright. How you guys
Speaker 4:
Doing? Real good, man. Thanks for being on. I love you, dude.
Speaker 14:
Love to be on, on
Speaker 4:
<laugh>. I’d like Langton going to be on tonight. It’s going to be an easy day for me, man. You just this guy. What time you get up, Charlie?
Speaker 14:
It’s three 30 in the morning. Oof.
Speaker 4:
And what time do you go to bed?
Speaker 14:
Well, nine o’clock. Except today. On Thursday. Because we’ve got a tape. Let it rip tonight. So well, we’ll, it’ll be a late one tonight, but it’ll be all right. It’s all good.
Speaker 4:
How old are you man? You about, you’re about 60 right in there, right? A little less, a little more.
Speaker 14:
Be 62. Next week, January 25th, my birthday. Happy
Speaker 4:
Birthday. There we go. Happy birthday. You think don’t at 62, you might want to slow down a little bit and maybe not chase every water main break at four in the morning.
Speaker 14:
<laugh>. Not every, I like it. It’s still fun. I was tracking on this firefighter today. I mean, that’s kind of fun. I was talking about this D i a, the Van Gogh, 5 million bucks. That’s kind of fun. The coach U of M Weiss. It’s kind of fun. There’s this, there’s so many things going on. It’s all
Speaker 4:
Good. Alright. Right. Let’s start with Van Gogh. What’s going on? What’s going on with the Van Gogh? Set that up for the listener. This is legally Speaking with Charlie Langton. Where’s the theme? Music? <laugh>. Where’s the theme music? Here it comes. Hold on, Charlie. Oh. Oh, well give me some time. We got you some theme music. Here it comes. And Anton Anton and Yes. No. Anyway, so the Van Gogh. Yeah, you’re going to need it.
Speaker 14:
There’s a van. All right, so there’s a exhibit going on at the Dia and there’s a painting there. It’s of a woman reading a book of a novel reader, I think they call it something along those lines. Anyway the owner, that’s good owner from Brazil says, it’s my painting and I want it back. So the owner filed a lawsuit asking a judge to send it back to Brazil. The judge is not doing it because the D I A says that under some kind of weird federal law, when artwork is being exhibited from another country in the United States, courts have no jurisdiction. It’s a cultural thing. It’s got to stay here in the United States for now. Unless
Speaker 4:
It’s Congress stolen. There’s no law that says, Hey man, you get, see, my question is, brother, I call the lawyers and I want to get the owner on Mr. What’s his name? Sutor down Brazil. Yeah, yeah. In Brazil. Yeah. Some guy in Brazil. And how would the Dia get ahold of this painting, and why wouldn’t they check the providence of like, Hey man, this might be listed on the International Stolen Art Exchange. Did you find that out?
Speaker 14:
We don’t know. Well, what we do know is that twenties, according to the complaint, the Dia applied for the, it’s called the, I forget what it’s called, the international, they can register the art. Yeah. They enter registered about 20 paintings, this being one of them. And they got a free clean bill of health that this painting was okay, according to the dia. So I don’t know, this guy in Brazil may say, Hey listen, I may have paid three, 3.7 million for this thing. But did he report it stolen? Did he put it on the stolen art list? I don’t think he did. And I think the real issue for the court is who is the rightful owner? And that has not been decided yet. It’s been, it’ll be adjourn, but that’s probably the real issue of this case.
Speaker 4:
That’s a trip, man. So this could be the greatest artistic fraud since Yoko Ono <laugh>.
Speaker 8:
Oh, when she did the
Speaker 4:
Yeah. Let’s do a little bit of Yoko. Oh, here, go ahead. It’s called Just go ahead. Go for it. It’s this.
Speaker 8:
That’s our,
Speaker 4:
Don’t we stick her in a box and Senator to Brazil.
Speaker 9:
Well, what is that?
Speaker 8:
That’s art. That’s art. Karen,
Speaker 4:
That’s Yoko Oho at the Metropolitan Museum of Art performing her. Hit the scream. The lyrics starts go something like, ha ha, ho wa. Wow, wa wow, wow. Whoa. Thank you all. Oh god.
Speaker 14:
That’s beautiful.
Speaker 9:
That’s another thing, rich. That’s another thing rich people can get away with. What is that?
Speaker 8:
Oh, just crap. And say it’s art. Yeah.
Speaker 14:
You think she rehearsed that?
Speaker 15:
She
Speaker 14:
A
Speaker 4:
Great fucking question.
Speaker 14:
One more time.
Speaker 4:
One more time. Let’s see. Wait, you want to hear it again? Yeah, he, he’s into it. Yeah. Oh my. He’s a big art collector. Well, just by the phrasing, Charlie, I don’t see how she couldn’t have rehearsed, which is neat transitions.
Speaker 9:
That’s like the Rick Rubin thing. He’s sitting there and looking off into the sky and he has no idea how to run a board. And I mean, come on. Come on.
Speaker 4:
Lets Karen do a little hip hop there. Charlie, just to let you know, Rick Ruben, sir,
Speaker 9:
He’s an old fat white guy who claims to be one of the best producers.
Speaker 4:
Charlie’s actually quite thin. <laugh>,
Speaker 9:
Not Charlie. Oh,
Speaker 8:
I feel Karen, like you watched the 60 Minutes piece on him, because I had the same feeling. I’m like, what does this guy do? He doesn’t play an instrument. He doesn’t run a board. And I think his genius is that he’ll tell an artist if something stop.
Speaker 9:
He doesn’t have any genius. Kirby had to give me the backstory on him. He doesn’t have any genius. But go ahead. Let’s talk to Langton.
Speaker 4:
Okay. Langton are you there? Did we lose you? He’s drinking Alec Baldwin. He’d been charged with manslaughter.
Speaker 14:
Yeah, I think that’s a terrible charge. I mean they’ve got to have some, he’s so negligent, according to the prosecutor’s going to have to show that he should have known the gun was loaded. I don’t know. Alex Baldwin, his defense is going to be, I’m an actor and I’m not that bright anyway. And I don’t think he’s going to ever, how is anyone going to say that he had any intention whatsoever, or a gross negligence that he knew this gun was loaded? And if he did, you think he’s going to point it at someone that he knew? I I, I don’t understand the reality behind the charge. Most of the motivation, obviously the family is hurt. It’s a death. I get it sad. But as far as criminal activity on this one, Alec Baldwin, when he was given a prop that he should have known, I don’t know how many guns prop guns Alex Baldwin a shot in his life. But I think that’s a very defensible case. I think whoever the defense is, it’s going to have a, he or she’s have a great day.
Speaker 8:
It seems like it’s so high profile, they had to charge him with something. But how much not just being the actor that pulled the trigger. How about being the producer of the film that had multiple issues? Is that enough for negligence being a producer and then someone dying on the film?
Speaker 14:
So the problem here is we don’t want to confuse negligence in criminal activity. On the civil case, yes, it’s a great civil case. Somebody was very negligent for loading that gun and giving Aal Baldwin. That’s almost negligence per se. But nevertheless, per on the civil side, the great tapes. However, on the criminal side, you’ve got to have some element of criminal activity, meaning something’s got to be bad. You going to have an evil intent, or you were so grossly negligent that it rises to the level of criminal activity. And on this side, I just don’t have all the facts. So of course. Well,
Speaker 9:
Charlie, what about the weapons? What about the weapons handler on the set? I mean, she’s now being brought into the conversation because she was responsible for maintaining and loading the weapons and she admitted that she loaded the weapon that she gave to Alex Baldwin. So what’s going to be the implications of, for her?
Speaker 14:
I would say if I’m a defense attorney, I’m going to want to separate these cases. I want to try them separately. I want Alex Baldwin to go on one case and I want this other weapons handler or whatever her job is to be a separate case. Cause I don’t want to link the two of them together. I really don’t. That’s a strategy move that the defense attorney’s going to have to figure out. But again, the principle of any criminal case is that you’ve got to have some criminal intent, something bad, or it’s got to rise to the level that you were going. So I take my gun and just shoot it out the window. I didn’t intend to kill anybody. But that’s so grossly negligent that that can rise to the level of criminal activity. A drunk driving, if I drink this entire bottle and I go, you keep playing with that. But I’m so grossly negligent. That does rise to the level of criminal activity. But in this Baldwin case, as I understand the facts, he think someone gave baldman a gun and he shot it. I don’t see where that in a play or a movie setting rises to the level of criminal activity. But the prosecutor must have something more than I do. The person that loaded it on the other hand might be different. Maybe you should know that if I put real bullets in a gun, that’s a cute, maybe
Speaker 4:
What a great legal mind that does run
Speaker 14:
To the level.
Speaker 4:
That’s a great legal mind ask.
Speaker 14:
There you
Speaker 4:
Go. You’re right. I mean, can
Speaker 9:
I ask one, can I ask, lemme ask Charlie one more question, if I may. So think about the person who was shot. I mean, she wasn’t part of the scene. So does that play a role in this? Why would he even be pointing a weapon at her in the first place?
Speaker 14:
No, it shouldn’t. I mean, I don’t know where, if that’s what they say. I think she was an innocent bystander, if I remember correctly. But where she was in the line of fire, if Baldwin just pulled the trigger haphazardly, but again, he’s going to go to the fact that I should have been able to, cause I didn’t think there was a real gun and I would’ve no indication that it was a real gun. But doesn’t play a role. It could play a small role. I don’t think it is. I think the issue’s going to be that Alec Baldwin himself must have known that by pulling this trigger, that there must have had a live bullet in there and it could kill someone. Yeah, I don’t
Speaker 4:
Think it, like you said, who knows what they got. Maybe he was ranting and raven on the set and threatened. So who knows? But it seems on the face of it, Charlie, we complain a lot about the rich and the well connected and the famous and the special breaks they get. But this is the reciprocal of that. It seems to me like we’re going to punish you because you’re known we have to do something. So let the prosecutor posture and let the judge dismiss the charge. I can’t see with a semi competent lawyer that you would actually have to stand trial for such a charge.
Speaker 14:
But you also wrecked a life of Alec Baldwin perhaps too. I mean, once you, it’s very hard to recover from any murder case. It’s just OJ didn’t, I mean, don’t trying to think of someone off the top of my head. He did time afterwards. It’s very difficult. Would you cast Alec Baldwin now in any role? I mean, he’s done I think. I don’t know. Interesting. But my thought is, is that it’s got to be fair. You got to know the facts. We don’t know all the facts at this point, but I’ve got a lot of questions on this one.
Speaker 4:
Well, here, Alec Baldwin did call and leave a message. You got as good this
Speaker 16:
Issue. I’m going to let you know just how disappointed in you I am and how angry I am with you. But you’ve done this to me again. You’ve made me feel like [inaudible] and you’ve made me feel like a fool over and over and over again. And as crap, you pull on me with this goddamn phone situation that you would never dream of doing to your mother. And you do it to me constantly and over and over again. I am going to get on a plane and I’m going to come out there for the day and I’m going to straighten your ass out when I see you. Do you understand me? I’m going to really make sure you get it that I’m going to get on a plane, I’m going to turn around and I’m going to come home. So you better be ready Friday the 20th to meet with me. So I’m going to let you know just how I feel about what a rude little pig you really are. You are a rude saltless little pig. Okay,
Speaker 4:
So is that admissible in court?
Speaker 14:
What does Shakespeare say? Thou protest too much. I
Speaker 4:
Dunno, man. Hey bro, bro, we were listening to that before the show and I’m like, wow, man he’s really reaming out his ex-wife and it’s his kid. And he’s like, I don’t care if you are 11. I don’t know why. Over whatever you’re, I’m like 11.
Speaker 8:
He’s definitely guilty of anger issues. I’ll tell you that much Holy
Speaker 14:
Anger management. Or maybe that’s a sentence. Maybe he’ll just take some kind of plea and just send some anger management. Maybe everyone will
Speaker 8:
Be happy. You know what Charlie, not the first time that’s happened to him too, where he took a plea and had to take anger management courses either, which
Speaker 4:
Still makes him angry.
Speaker 8:
And he laughed it off too. He’s done interviews where he just laughed it off.
Speaker 4:
Okay, now let’s move to the next one here. You did a good story this week about how the Detroit Fire and Police Pension Fund is suing Vince McMahon, the creator and majority owner of W W E, big time wrestling. What’s up with that one, Charlie?
Speaker 14:
This is a great story here. So every police and fire, they have a pension and they have a, it’s a board that coordinates a pension. They’ve got 2.8 billion in that pension. I don’t know what level they’re funded, but nevertheless, that’s what they’ve got. Now anybody that’s got money, you have to invest it somewhere. And the board of the Detroit Fire Police and Fire Pension Board de decided a good investment would be the W W E <laugh>. Big time Russ. Now they only put a hundred thousand dollars, which compared to two point million is not a lot. But it is something, what it does though is it gives them shareholder rights. And apparently somebody at the Detroit Pension Board didn’t like what was going on at the WWE E. What was going on. Mince McMahon, the longtime founder, he had some sexual abuse problems and he paid our 12 million to various women to settle their claims, buy them off, whatever.
And part of that was he would resign as head of the w e. That was only six months ago. He got bored for whatever reason. And then he used his manipulation powers because he’s got 80% of the shares of the company and he fired a couple of board members. They changed the bylaws. And now who’s in charge? Vince McMahon. So someone in Detroit didn’t like that. They filed a lawsuit in Delaware and they are asking the judge essentially get rid of Vince McMahon because there’s a rumor out there that Vince McMahon wants to sell the WWE E to Saudi Arabia investor or some others as well.
Speaker 4:
Well, that’d be good for investors that would turn that a hundred thousand dollars into $110,000. That’s a good fucking move pension guys. It is.
Speaker 14:
Listen, I looked at the earnings. The earnings are pretty good. The stock is selling for better than quite a bit. I mean it’s actually done very well. So I don’t know. My first question when I saw this is why would the Detroit Pension Board invest in big time wrestling? But apparently according to Coleman Young, and then I looked at the numbers and he is right, they actually made a profit. It’s actually a pretty good investment for the pension board. But they listen as a shareholder, you’ve got rights. Don’t like the way the company is running. You can file a lawsuit. The issue is when you go public, you as a shareholder don’t control the company anymore. A board of directors controls it. And when you as a shareholder manipulate the board, arguably, which is what’s going on here, that could be illegal or it could be at least a civil action for which a judge can say what Vince? Man, you’re out. And
Speaker 4:
We go, why does your camera keep bouncing around? What’s going on with it? He’s making me
Speaker 14:
Seasick. I’m trying to hold onto it. Hold on here.
Speaker 4:
All right. Yeah. Jesus’ TV station. He’s fucking local TV
Speaker 9:
Guys. So how much of this is for show, do you think? And how much of this really has any legitimate substance? The
Speaker 4:
Pushback? So what’s the point?
Speaker 9:
Yeah, I mean for such an insignificant amount of money that they are making money on, what is this? Is it known
Speaker 4:
Langton is to follow Karen’s question, is it because they want a nice story from Charlie Langton and they know Langton going to get on this and do what Langton do, but we know there’s a pension balloon coming and them motherfuckers might be become solvent because the city can’t pay for it. Is this a misdirection, Mr. Langton? Legally speaking,
Speaker 14:
<laugh> can just the way it is, I’m going to do it. But I pervert has been their company that they invest in good self. But they think that there’s activity going on here.
Speaker 4:
Let me let your phone catch up to itself. If we have an expert here about Detroit, the pension fund, the a hundred thousand dollars big time wrestling, E is a professional wrestler himself. It is El Roho Deto. And I believe he’s ringside.
Speaker 14:
Yeah. Nice.
Speaker 17:
How you doing there brother? Thanks for having me on <laugh>. I told to come here and let you know that I’m going to sue and beat the WWE E in Vince McMahon for that hundred thousand dollars. No matter how much the hell it costs. 300, $400,000. I don’t lose cause I win worthless shit. That is what I’m going to do. And far as the pension funds go, they better be happy they’re even getting the goddamn pension. Cause as a wrestler, I can’t even afford my been gay for being so after a fucking match. Let me tell you something, brother, that a hundred thousand dollars can pay for a lot of extra shit here in Detroit. Like two extra miles of useless bicycle lanes. Do you know what we could do with two more miles of bicycle lanes? A oh god damn lot, brother. Let me tell you, a hundred thousand dollars in Detroit could tear down 38 more houses and put dirt in the holes. That’s what we could do with that. A hundred thousand dollars. So Fi Man and a ww, you better be looking out cause I’m coming to kick your ass brother.
Speaker 4:
We could also bribe let’s see, what’s the going rate 35. That three council members for a hundred thousand dollars and
Speaker 17:
Has some change left over <laugh>.
Speaker 4:
Yeah,
Speaker 18:
<laugh> hell,
Speaker 14:
<laugh>. Perfect.
Speaker 8:
I would almost expect Coleman Young to settle that lawsuit for a couple of tickets for Friday night. It just seems like a kind of frivolous lawsuit.
Speaker 14:
They’re in town. This lawsuit’s not going to affect it. It’s in town and it’ll be sold out too. It’s a good investment.
Speaker 8:
And if you don’t like Vince McMahon, sell your stock.
Speaker 9:
But this is the other thing. How many other creeps are heading cor companies or corporations where there are other investments? I mean, if you really are going to take that approach, you’ve got to do some investigation on every head of every entity that you are invested in. And I think you’ll turn up more than just that one.
Speaker 8:
Amen.
Speaker 14:
Well, he owns 81% of the company, but actually it’s really his company. Why He went public, he must have made it. He cashed out pretty quickly. I don’t know how much he’s worth, but I think Vince McMahon’s worth a lot of money. A lot of money,
Speaker 4:
A shitload. And listen El Roho was brought to you by XG Service Group. They are experts in the internet, voiceover protocol, menu boards, drive through security, just any, this place, they wired this place. So anytime you’re looking for the tech guy to get you modern and get you digitized, you call Matt Savitz at XG Service Group. 7 3 4 2 4 5 4100. Hello Bernie. Good to see you brother. Oh yeah,
Speaker 17:
Brother
Speaker 4:
<laugh>. That’s what he came up with. I’m going to come home and work some material brother. I’ll tell you right now. I’ll ring your pencil neck <laugh>. Put a bulging there. You should have stuck some socks in there man. There’s
Speaker 8:
Still a big crowd to see him though.
Speaker 4:
Yeah, now hey listen also I told you all that Rick Wari white boy Rick and I will be doing the real story on the Ammos showroom in Warren on March 18th. The tickets went on sale yesterday. It’s, it’s
Speaker 8:
Selling really well. It’s
Speaker 4:
A hurry up. It’s almost on the way to sell it out. So you better get in there. Go to an dimo showroom.com. They’re between 25 and a hundred if you want meet and greet. Yep. Good. It’s going to be, it’s going to be good.
Speaker 8:
Yeah, no, I’m excited for it. It’s going to
Speaker 4:
Be fun. Are you coming? Yeah.
Speaker 8:
You mean
Speaker 4:
To ticket show you? Did you buy tickets? Yeah.
Speaker 8:
No, I’m going to win the Cuomo tickets. Oh,
Speaker 4:
I
Speaker 8:
My ineligible the
Speaker 9:
So white Mark. I thought you were supposed to take me. You and I were going together. So how are we going? And nobody has any
Speaker 8:
Tickets. I’m going to be your plus one.
Speaker 4:
That’s better. Get some tickets because I, I’m awarding the Chris Cuomo table four tickets to see White boy Rick. The real story. I want to, now we’re not, go ahead. Give me a drum roll or something. Fucking high tech. He’s beating on the desk.
Speaker 8:
<laugh>
Speaker 4:
The winner of the Chris Cuomo dinner table for white boy Rick. The real story to anymo showroom.com is Mr. Positive. Oh, alright. Yes sir. Mr. Positive. He’s
Speaker 8:
Good dude.
Speaker 4:
He calls us. Sometimes he doesn’t feel so positive and it takes a lot out of a man to be so positive for so long. Is Mr. Positive on the phone?
Speaker 8:
He always is.
Speaker 4:
Are you there Mr. Positive? I coach
Speaker 19:
Rick works. Yeah.
Speaker 4:
Mr. Positive, are you with us? What is wrong with everybody today?
Speaker 8:
Turn your internet down. Yes,
Speaker 9:
Turn
Speaker 4:
It down. Turn on. Turn on your radio Mr. Positive.
Speaker 19:
I’m here. Mr. Positive’s in the house.
Speaker 4:
Listen man, I want to give you the Chris Cuomo table four tickets to see Rick Wari, the real story. That’s from me to you, man.
Speaker 19:
Oh my God. Oh my God. Thank you very much, Charlie. Oh my God, that’s going to be an awesome event. Wow.
Speaker 4:
It’ll be more. Thank you. Very be awesome
Speaker 19:
There with your appreciate my night, my
Speaker 4:
Friend with your positive presence. It’ll just be more awesome man. I know we, you know. Hey Joanne, if you’re, listen, I know. Look, we all butt heads. We kid each other. But I got a lot of respect for you as a human being. I mean, you’re accredit to this community and I’m happy to
Speaker 19:
Give ’em to you. Thank you very much, Charlie. You’re going to make me cry. But thank you. Love you and I’ll talk to you
Speaker 4:
Later. And I told Chris I was going to give him to you, Chris Cuman. He said, I don’t give a fuck.
Speaker 19:
So it’s all good. You’re fantastic on his show. I might try to get on with him tonight. Me and the producers go back and forth. They like the questions that I ask and if it’s
Speaker 4:
Oh, you’re a Cuomo regular you, you got to get on Cuomo tonight.
Speaker 19:
Me through. I might. I talked to one of the producers and we go back and forth. Okay. Left and it’s just, we did about Bill O’Reilly last night. Why does he think his truth is the truth,
Speaker 4:
Mr. Positive? I don’t want to be negative. Yeah. What I really want to talk about. Yes. Who shows O’Reilly? Who show Always. All right, get off the phone now. Congratulations.
Speaker 8:
Okay,
Speaker 19:
Love you. Thank you Charlie.
Speaker 4:
See you man.
Speaker 8:
<laugh>. He’s a good
Speaker 4:
Dude. No, I’m not going to give him to him. <laugh> is called him a make him cry. Go on back out here. Okay, so Langton, the last thing here is this. I wouldn’t be the first man to be doing a night discussion with Rick where your white boy, Rick, you have actually done that. You did it downtown here. Did you not?
Speaker 14:
I did. I did it downtown. Actually interview. Hey, you know what I love? I actually interviewed him when he was in prison. It was about 10 years or so ago when he prison. So I called him up and somehow we made the connection. And Rick is a he’s a smart guy. He’s got a lot to say about a lot of different things. And when you get him to talk, he’s very bright and he’s got a good insight into things and he’s got a good people skill. He reads people very, very well. He’s a fascinating guy. And he got a story if he wants to talk about it. I think what he is doing now is even more exciting. But the backstory is just great on Rick Reports and it’s going to be a great show.
Speaker 4:
So give me some tips. What do you do? I mean, you know, got the experience
Speaker 14:
Show, find out what he’s, find out what he wants to talk about. He’s got it. If you start, and you know what, if you start going off on a tangent, he doesn’t want to talk about it, he’ll let you know. He either will say nothing or he’ll say, alright, let’s move on and he’ll do it. And that’s the way he wants to. But he does want to talk. And so if you can get him on something where he wants to talk, the guy is fantastic. Now, maybe it’s about his pot, something that his eight mile pot or whatever he is got maybe it’s his, he’s got a place in Florida somewhere. He’s got he’s still connected. He drives fancy cars. I mean there’s a lot of things. This is all today and the old stuff, he’ll talk a little bit about it, about him being bitter or not bitter and all the life in prison. But that stuff’s been reported I think quite a bit. But he’s just a fascinating guy. And then you talk to him about the dia you can talk to about politics. He can talk to him about a lot of things. He’s an interesting guy and he is up to speed on whatever is going on in the
Speaker 4:
World. I got to tell you, when I didn’t know him at all and I met him, we met for lunch and I was like, he’s an exceedingly bright man. The backstory, I mean, drops out of school in eighth grade. He goes to prison by the time he’s 18, he does three decades. I don’t know what I’m expecting, but holy smokes. Yeah, the guy’s up on things. Great. And he’s, he’s whispering. I think El I El Roho was El Roho. Oh, <laugh>. Alright Charlie, thanks so much for being here, man. I know you got to prepare for your show.
Speaker 14:
It’s good stuff. Yeah, you guys are great Karen. Always good talking to you Mark. Very good. Hi, everybody out there. Good Charlie.
Speaker 4:
Hey. Hey Charlie. Tell everybody over there. Yeah, we’re, we’re top 200 in America now.
Speaker 14:
Yeah.
Speaker 4:
Charlie,
Speaker 9:
Is your birthday the, it’s your birthday. The 23rd or the 25th? I had it as the 23rd in my phone.
Speaker 4:
What day? No, mine’s the 29th <laugh>.
Speaker 14:
25th.
Speaker 9:
That. Okay. Charlie, when is
Speaker 4:
Yours? Oh, the famous Charlie <laugh>.
Speaker 14:
Charlie, I want to derail the show over here, but I just got a set a copy here. A book by Perry Johnson.
Speaker 4:
Perry Johnson’s got a new book out. It’s called 2 cents, which is what he’s got left over after that Fucking <laugh> gubernatorial Roman debate signatures.
Speaker 14:
I got to read this book. So maybe we’ll have Perry Johnson. I just got this thing on my desk
Speaker 4:
Here. What’s the subtitle? 2 cents. Those signatures were worth about that much. Oh my God. Did you I wrote up somebody tricked a guy to writing a book. Okay, let the last word is with El Roho.
Speaker 14:
Okay,
Speaker 4:
Go ahead El. What is he doing? He’s fixing his junk.
Speaker 17:
What’s up brother? Appreciate you. Thank you much for having me. Listen here. He want to know how I train. They say there’s no facility for me to train to be a pro wrestler in Detroit. You don’t know I could train with anybody on the streets. Matter of fact, on six mile of John, the transvestites over there are more than happy to wrestle around for 20 bucks. So I spar with them getting ready for all my major matches. It’s a lot of resources here in Detroit. You just got to look around and fight them. Let me tell you this, if you come down to see some wrestling and you want to see some real wrestling, come watch me. Try to wrestle $2 from a bum outside of the Coney Island. That’s a hell of a master C right there. And it won’t cost you a damn dime.
Matter of fact, Earl Ro has decided he’s going to start his own wrestling federation call Bums or US wrestling. That’s right. For all of us that didn’t make it and seem to want to wear they wife’s underwear out to wrestling matches. We’re getting together and starting our own bum federation cause that’s how we do it. So Vince McMahon, WWE E un lose our goddamn a hundred thousand dollars. Cause I swear for God I will drop, kick the shit out of you when my run over shoes. This is how we’re doing it because we don’t play in Detroit and we may invest in stupid shit, but one thing we won’t do is make you let us look stupid. I think
Speaker 4:
That
Speaker 17:
Was weird. On that note, I’m out of here. Eat your weedy. Smoke your weed and drink your liquor. Yeah, brother.
Speaker 9:
Yeah, boy. Is that my muffler?
Speaker 4:
That was weird. That was really weird. Whoa, wonderful. I think he is wearing leotard. I think he is wearing your leotard,
Speaker 9:
Karen. Not my Leo Char. That fur muffler art. I just, I got to go
Speaker 4:
Look. God. Well that’s that. Thanks Charlie. There he goes. Your career. He looks great in that leotard, don’t you think? Oh, <laugh>, I’ll see you at the, no, no, no. Bullshit Lunch hour. Karen. See you. See you Monday with my friend
Speaker 9:
You’ll, I’ll see you Monday.
Speaker 4:
Bye.
