Ep 11: Margaret Cho, Hospital patient shot by cops, solitary confinement restricted & cilantro

The Katie Halper Show

Katie Halper

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🗓️ 8 September 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Katie Halper Show we talk to Christian Pean, whose brother Alan Pean was shot in the chest while admitted as a patient by off duty cops in Houston, Texas. The case brings up crucial questions about the place of guns in hospitals as well as the insufficient healthcare provided by so many hospitals. Then we talk to Alexis Agathocleous, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights, about their major victory in limiting the use of solitary confinement in California. And, finally, we talk to Margaret Cho about Robin Williams, the clause he had in his contract regarding homeless people, her psycho tour and Showtime special, gay marriage and abortion.

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0:00.0	Hello. Hello and welcome to the Katie Halper show. I'm your host Katie Helper
0:19.5	here at the WBI Station and of course I'm with gay Pacheco comedian and
0:26.4	Reggie Johnson the engineer and chief.
0:30.3	How are you guys doing?
0:32.3	I'm feeling pretty good I I'm feeling great. Yeah, it's good. And guys everyone listening to us you probably know this but you can check us out every Wednesday on WBAI 99.5 fm or WBABA.org and we have a great show for you guys today. First we have
0:48.7	calling in from Texas Christian P, who will be telling us about his brother Alan, who is in stable
0:58.0	condition after he was shot in the chest by off-duty officers at a Houston hospital last week while he was a
1:04.4	hospital patient and the shooting has many people concerned with the treatment of
1:08.5	Allen and the presence of guns in hospitals. and hospitals?
1:13.0	Yeah, well, we're going to get to that because that's a big, that should be, you
1:16.0	should be shocked and disturbed by that.
1:18.0	Yes, you should be.
1:19.0	And then we'll be joined by Alexis Agathocles. How's that from a Greek accent? Yasu. And he's a deputy legal
1:28.3	director and attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. They won a major victory victory which will greatly reduce the use of
1:34.1	solitary confinement in the state of California and then we'll be talking to
1:39.2	NBD, hashbag NBD, no big deal, comedian deal comedian extraordinary Margaret Cho. Oh that's a get.
1:46.1	That is a get is that not is that a get from the getist of the getis cool and
1:50.8	she'll be talking to us about her Showtime special and tour the psycho tour
1:57.6	with the CHNO capitalized exactly the site show in fact I don't know if it should be psycho or site show capitalize. Exactly. The Saicho.
2:03.0	In fact, I don't know if it should be psycho or Saicho.
2:04.7	But first let's just check in about some recent news and also talk about how our weeks have
2:09.2	been and what we're up to.
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