00:00Today I'm going to tell you about a new kind of notorious criminal that you've seen in the news.
00:04He is California Man. Now, you're probably already familiar with Florida Man. Florida Man
00:09appears in the headlines of articles about crimes that are truly bizarre. For example,
00:14just a few hours ago before I taped this, there was a story about a Florida man who was found
00:19with 34 open cans of alcohol on the passenger seat next to him. That's a very typical Florida
00:24Man story. California Man tends to be more serious, more political. A California man, for example,
00:30crossed the country a few years ago in an attempt to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
00:35And just this week, two California men were arrested in connection with a bizarre terror plot against
00:41the UFC fight night that was held on the White House lawn on June 14th, Flag Day, President Donald
00:46Trump's birthday. There was another California man who took a train across the country allegedly in
00:51an attempt to assassinate President Trump and members of his cabinet at the White House
00:54Correspondents' Dinner back in April. And so California Man is building up quite a rap sheet.
01:00Why does this happen? Well, I think it has to do with the state's politics, which tend toward the
01:05radical extremes. On the left, certainly, but also on the right. On the left, there is a subculture that
01:11tends to endorse political violence as a means of persuasion, and some people fall into that and seem to
01:18follow it to its conclusion. On the right, there are also people who are very violent because they
01:22feel alienated, both politically and culturally, from the liberal California society around them.
01:28Now, those aren't the only factors driving some of these bizarre crimes, but hopefully those in
01:33charge can get to grips with this California man phenomenon before California man does any more damage.
01:38You
