Season 3 Updates + Alphabet Boys

season one. Anthony Rowta, the alleged canyon shooter who's charged with murdering Tristan Boudet, is finally, after more than four years, going to trial. In case you don't remember, Tristan Boudett was the father who was shot in the head while camping with his young daughters in Malibu Creek State Park in twenty eighteen. Route is accused of killing him, along with ten more counts of attempted murder and a handful

of lesser crimes. Rata was charged in January twenty nineteen, and now his trial is scheduled to begin this spring. We're going to bring you more updates as the trial gets underway. And here's one more thing. A recommendation for a very good new podcast. It's called Alphabet Boys. Alphabet Boys is a riveting new show that takes you deep undercover with the alphabet agencies CIA, FBI, at f d, EA, et cetera. You essentially ride along with agents and informants

via secret recordings and leaked documents. And what you find is that for every James Bond slash Jason Bourne, there's a very heavy dose of Reno nine one one. It's a great show. Season one of Alphabet Boys is called Trojan. Hearse You'll hear why. In the first episode, it tells the story of a man named Mickey Windecker, who the FBI hired to infiltrate the Black Lives Matter movement during the summer of twenty twenty. It's a wild story. You're

gonna love it. Here's a short excerpt from Alphabet Boys, and then stick around after words for that teaser for Lost Hill season three. All right, okay, It is August August twenty eight, twenty twenty Apart from only four o two pm. A Special Agent Scott Dlphroom with a Special Agent Byron Mitchell chs for Meat with Zebidias Hall. Thank you. You can hear this shot I put in my front pocket, right, Yeah, okay, I got it. It's late afternoon on a warm day

in Denver, Colorado. It's drizzling outside, and Michael Adam Windecker the Second, or Mickey as he prefers, is sitting in the backseat of an FBI car. Two federal agents are with him, and one of them, FBI Special Agent Scott Dolshroom, has just handed Mickey a small hidden camera. Mickey turns the camera to his face, shooting from an unflattering angle below his chin. You can see Mickey's thin red mustache

and scraggly goatee that's turning gray. He's propped his large sunglasses on his forehead, and he's looking straight down into the tiny camera lens. Mickey is not ready for us close up video. Look good, ye all right. The FBI agents tell him to remember his instructions, which were given to him before the camera started recording. Yep, I got it, Thanks Mom, Thanks Dad. Mickey then walks to his car, the Silver Hearse, and places the FBI's camera on the

pass in your seat. Mickey looks down toward the camera and addresses the FBI agents who are watching the live feed remotely. I got a song for you, guys. Mickey

has good reason to feel patriotic in this moment. The FBI has signed him up as an informant, or in the FBI's term of art, a confidential human source, and Mickey's getting paid thousands of dollars every few weeks cash and Mickey, he's got a very specific assignment from his employers at the FBI, go after his new friend, the young black activist zeb Hal, and find a way to bring federal charges against him. As the song ends, Mickey

again looks down toward the FBI camera America. I'm Trevor Aaronson. This is alphabet voice. So to come right out and say it, Mickey Windecker wasn't a badass ANTIFA warrior after all, as activists like zeb Hall had thought. He was an informant, a snitch working for the FBI, which seems to go against everything Mickey claims to be right. Remember his little life rule. I have an old biker saying which is called fuck the three piece, the politicians, the press, and

the police. It's just the way it is. Fuck the three peas. Yeah, turns out that's bullshit. Fuck the two peas. Maybe because this Mickey guy, he's in bed with the police, and the cops are not only helping him, they're paying him. Today, the FBI has more than fifteen thousand registered informants, and in the summer of twenty twenty, Mickey is one of them.

That conversation you heard in the last episode when Mickey and Zeb we're talking about training at Zeb's apartment, Mickey, on his own initiative, had secretly recorded the whole thing and delivered it to the FBI, apparently in the hopes of getting hired on as an informant. I need your help in doing this, but also need alone find Well, here's the day do you have and that's where from a route to is you have to decide where what

you're going to do? You know, I can't see her tell you, Oh yeah, you should totally like blow up rich neighborhoods to shoot the white people and burn the federal courthouse. This recording ended up being Mickey's audition tape for the FBI. The official explanation for how Mickey Windecker became an informant can be found in FBI reports. Internal investigation reports focused on racial justice demonstrators in Denver. These reports aren't public, and the FBI didn't intend to have

them out there. Maybe not. Ever, they were provided to me, along with Mickey's undercover recordings, by someone who was deeply concerned about the FBI surveillance an infiltration of black activist groups. According to the FBI's reports, Mickey had returned to Denver after being a volunteer fighter with the Peshmerga, the Kurdish military force in Iraq that was fighting the Islamic State

or ISIS. Mickey told the FBI, and I'm quoting here from the report, that he found a sense of purpose and honor there and made an oath to always fight against threats, both foreign and domestic. War with ISIS Kurdish troops in a frontline battle with an enemy that took their land. Mickey was among dozens of Americans who volunteered to fight for the Peshmurga. With them, dozen Americans veterans

of the war in Iraq, back his volunteers. Once back in Denver, Mickey started participating in the protests following George Floyd's death, and he saw what was, in his view, a new domestic threat. Mickey said he witnessed protesters damaging property and threatening violence. So Mickey started providing information to police in the Denver area. Local police there then introduced him to the FBI as part of something known as the Joint Terrorism Task Force, which is a partnership between

local cops and the FBI. Every major metropolitan region of the United States has a Joint Terrorism Task Force or JTTF. Mickey's motivation for being an informant was and again I'm quoting from an internal FBI report, to fight terrorists, and Mickey believed that quote people who participate in violent civil unrest are terrorists. So Mickey, the Big Bad isis Hunter just back from Iraq, now has a new target, racial justice protesters, whom he considers terrorists. But for him, there

appears to be an even deeper psychological impulse. Mickey saw himself as an anti hero, someone who operates in the gray areas of the law, delivering his own brand of justice. Mickey wore a chain around his neck, and hanging from that chain was a medallion of the logo for the Punisher, a vigilante from the Marvel Comics universe who fights crime with an obscene level of violence. He literally thought he was the punisher. Anything you see, the Punisher was on it.

And he would always wear the punisher necklace even when he took a shower or a bath. Never came off, just like a big kid in the worsh way, in the worst way awful. This is Trojan Hearse Season one of Alphabet Boys. Alphabet Boys is a fantastic news show for my production partner, Western Sound. It really is one of the funniest, wildest, also scariest shows you'll ever hear again It's Alphabet Boys. Just search up Alphabet Boys click on the red cover art with the gray FBI Hearse Okay,

and now Lost Hills season three. Malibu is the birthplace of California's surf culture and there's one man who ruled the beach, one man who struck fear into the other surfers and wanted to fuck the world in the way only he knew how. We're laying on the beach and everybody was attention was to the water and there seemed to be somebody performing out there. He was pushing all the boys off their boards, jumping on their board and riding. In the end, he was king of Malibu at the time.

I wasn't really a surfing but he was amazing. He was a god in the water, there was no doubt about it, and he had the attention of absolutely everybody on the beach. You know, his big thing to put on his board was FTW. In those days, FGW mant fucked the world, question authority. Those are the lessons he kept trying to teach me. You know, trust No. One. Season three of Lostells, The Dark Prince, It's coming this summer.