Christa Pike Makes Major Recovery Progress After Failed Execution | The TMZ Podcast

Welcome to the TMZ Podcast. Devin here with Courtney. Hello. What's going on? Thursday. Yeah. I know. Thank you for letting us know what day it is. Yeah, it stopped raining. Hopefully it's done raining. I kind of am cool with the rain right now. I don't have AC. It's been so hot here. I usually am not a rain guy, but I'm pretty cool with the rain. But it's a far walk to the cars. It's 100 yards. I don't care when there's no coverage. I hate being wet and driving. Yeah, I can see that. But it was nice and relaxing. I will refuse to use an umbrella. You'll never see me with an umbrella. Why? Does it not feel manly enough to you? There's something about it. I used to not really like it growing up either. Really? My mom would give me my umbrella and I'd always end up losing it. It was a whole issue. I love it. Not a fan of them. All right. Yeah, that was a great start. That was. So we spoke to Krista Pike's attorney last night. Yeah. Alexa did here, one of our great reporters. So we have an update on her condition, what's going on with Krista Pike. obviously she was the one who uh had the botched execution yeah to see crazy story so we'll give you an update on her um Ilhan right yeah on Omar um is addressing on allegations that I was unaware of until about 10 minutes ago oh my god I heard Babcock and Harvey fighting about it yesterday pretty ridiculous accusations uh she's addressing them we'll tell you what that is and And then everyone's favorite former NBA player, Nick Canton. Such a troll. Nick Canton Freedom, actually. Yeah. Is how he goes by now. Oh, boy. Showed up at the WNBA finals last night and got kicked out. Yeah. And there was a dispute on what happened. We will break that all down. I feel like he wants to be 50 Cent, but he'll never be 50 Cent when it comes to trolling. Nick Canton was a very average NBA player. Yeah. And usually with very average NBA players, you just never hear from them again. And I think he is doing the, like, he's not a streamer, but he's, like, in doing that. Yeah. Like, just doing shock things for attention. But anyways, we will get into what happened down in Atlanta with Nick. Krista Pike. Krista Pike. So, everyone knows this story by now. I don't think we need to get into too much of the backstory. Botched execution. But we spoke to her attorney last night who says she is now walking independently. um i guess her speech has improved a lot she's able to speak in full sentences which is obviously a huge um breakthrough from what she was originally like and it's a little uh less than a month correct from yeah i think it happened about a month ago like end of september um obviously um doctors are still evaluating uh whether or not she will have long-term uh cognitive damage yeah psychological issues which yeah i can imagine would arise from uh a botched execution yeah um but yeah i mean it's obviously she's making strides she's been transferred back to the jail so that's where she is um you know getting all her medical a while ago right yeah so she's seeking all her medical um help is being had in prison um obviously her attorney wants her sentence commuted wants her just to spend the rest of her life in prison doesn't think she should uh be executed uh again i guess you could say again yeah they attempted it um uh we we talked about how the governor of tennessee stopped all the executions for the rest of the year so it's definitely not going to happen this year um i think it'd be so messed up to the victim's family not to do the execution again you can't you can also say it's messed up to her that they that they screwed it up and now they're gonna make her go through it again yes i know it's a hard one they really did mess us up on so many levels because like what one do you play like do you pick her feelings do you pick the victim's families maybe the victim's family doesn't even want her executed and they are fine with having her just spend like the rest of their life in jail i do feel like you need to weigh in like what they feel because they are the victims in this scenario and now she is also a victim but i feel like she's a victim of her own she's also yeah I was also a criminal. The murder. I cannot get over the murder every time I think about the details. Yeah. And again, I always go back to do we really want to pay our tax dollars to keep someone that committed a horrific crime alive for the rest of their life? I don't think it's a very good justification of where our money's going. But a lot of people also just don't believe in in execution. Yeah. Lethal injection and all that stuff. Well, I would also like to give a shout out to the medical care because everyone's always saying how bad it is like in prison and this girl is now walking and speaking in less than a month after this and they people didn't know she was going to shout out to the medical care yes literally shout out because it's awesome everyone's always like they like suck like in prisons like no one's ever watching out for them and maybe they're paying a little bit more attention to her just because like the severity and like all like the spotlight on it shout out to all our nurses out there yes they deserve it you want to um okay Ilian Ilian Omar yes um this i watched this interview this will be my first time really i okay i want you to hear how she answers it and what he says so the background is i guess there's been this long-standing allegation that she married her brother which was her ex-husband now yes and they commit immigration fraud yes but they've been trying to get her for years i feel like the first time it happened was like 20 something that they were trying to do it absurd allegation it sounds like an allegation that was stemmed from someone who was running against her at some point, I'm sure. I don't know, but I'm sure. Yeah, well, it all falls... Yes, it's about, like, illegal, like, voter rights, illegal, like, immigration, like, laws. She said that HSI showed up at her house at 6 a.m. She was like, I only got two hours of sleep. I feel like she was coming back from a flight. She landed around, like, two, got home at, like, three, so she only had two hours of sleep. And she did... She does give them credit. She was like, they even folded some of my clothes, like, after they left. That weren't even folded. Oh, that's nice. Yeah, she said that they put everything away. This allegation reminds me of, like, when Trump used to say he wanted to see Barack Obama's birth certificate. Yes. Right? It's like the same thing. Yeah. Okay, well, anyway, so she was on, um, what was she on? MSNBC with Chris Hayes. And he asked her straight up about these allegations. There are right-wing people who believe that this man was your brother. Right. You have called it a disgusting lie. Right. Who was this man that was your husband? When did they start saying that he was your brother? Why? It started with the Somali blog that I don't know if it still exists, but somebody put in there that, you know, that he had to have been my brother or something to that effect. And right wing conspiracy theorists in Minneapolis got a hold of it and they just kind of went and like found random people who were like, she introduced us. you know she introduced him to us and said he was her brother um which is you know insane i mean i don't i don't know those people that they talk about he was not you were not related to him at all not that there's not like there's not some weird kernel of truth that through some game not to my knowledge that was the big gotcha right in terms of what you're talking about promising like we're gonna nail her on the marriage yeah that was the source of the immigration fraud that no longer seems to be the issue that they are putatively investigating right they've now moved on to whatever your representations your father made in his naturalization process about you yeah is that your understanding but it's also very convenient because my dad is no longer alive right right so it's a it's another thing they can drag on forever so so i so go ahead well everyone's saying oh my god she's saying not to my knowledge like wouldn't you just deny it yes you would but you can tell she's being very sarcastic in that clip like what a stupid question that i even like have to answer if i married my brother do i think she married her brother no they're saying but i do both brother so they could illegally move here but watching this clip i'm the opposite of a conspiracy theorist yeah if i'm watching this clip and i'm a conspiracy theorist i'm latching on to this yeah not to my knowledge i know like i feel like you should be like this is insane that i even have to say this but no i did not marry my brother yeah let's move on she also did later say that it was insane she did say it was insane but don't say not to my knowledge i know because you know that's gonna get clipped and she kind of is like gets i i think she's just like uncomfortable because it's such an absurd thing to be asked that when she's kind of smiling and laughing i see why this clip got a lot of attention yeah but i had someone text me this morning i'm not gonna say who saying you guys need to find out if she was married to her brother. I know. And I was like, what? Well, also good thing because people are- It's 5.30 in the morning. Yeah, why are you texting me this? Yeah. Well, because everyone's also like, they took DNA from her house. Like, when they were doing it, they like went deep diving when they had the warrant. She says that's not true. She says that you have to get a receipt about all the items that they take. They took 17 items. Most of it was her husband's notebook. They also took an old camera that his uncle gifted him when he was back in the war. He was like, I don't even think he's ever used it. His uncle used it. They took- has the ex-husband addressed this i don't believe so okay i don't i this is so like conspiracy theorist weird stuff that like exactly i didn't even know how it came out and of course it was a somali blog that then right yeah conspiracy theorist latched on well and they said that they took like a whole bunch of her old cell phones do you have your old cell phones i used to and i don't know who keeps her old cell phones now i don't know why i used to but i used to have a drawer of like all my old phones because it's like when you have a phone you think to yourself like oh this is like valuable why would I just throw it away but once you get a new phone why the hell would you why would you ever throw it I did have a drawer like that and I got rid of all my laptops I actually brought it to one of our IT people and I had them scrubbed or what what did you have on those things I just wanted it all gone I didn't want to just throw them away so I had IT I need to get a hold of one of your old phones I have all the hard drives IT gave me the hard drives because I sat there I was like Hamilton I'm watching you take out the hard drives give them to me and then I saw them wipe my phone and then I saw I got I got to talk to Hamilton take it away no I had my favorite phone back in the day because I was like one of the last uh how old are you again why 30 no because 30 seven okay uh just because I was like the last one of my friends to have a cell phone because everyone in middle school had a cell phone and my parents were like you're not getting a cell phone until you're in high school I had one when i was 12 because i had older sisters so i would get their hand-me-downs yeah i never so i was nokia is that like like girls used to have to like call the house and like my mom would answer no and guys and friends no i had girls calling the house in middle school but uh can jimmy come out but i had a blackberry that was my first phone i really oh see i like the sidekick the flip oh i never had that i had a blackberry brick breaker anyways uh let's get on to Dan's cancer uh this guy yeah so everyone knows he's been trying to uh get into the WNBA, he says he's going to get into the draft next year they denied him he said he's going to sue them he then showed up to a game earlier this year where he got kicked out i think he did sue them yeah he sued the arena yes in chicago so anyways he inserted himself yet again at the WNBA final game three where he announced of course that he was going to be attending down in atlanta between the dream and the valkyries yeah and uh apparently what happened was he bought tickets on the sideline I'm assuming he wanted to be courtside yeah that's courtside sidelines is on that NFL field oh yeah uh he wanted to be a courtside at the game bought tickets allegedly what happened here was that the WNBA said this is going to be too much of a scene instead we're gonna have you can come but you're going to be in the suite yeah they set up with a nice luxury suite and he said no i want to go to the seats that i paid for because of course why would he want to be in the suites no he wants to be on the sidelines where now you have me saying sideline courtside where he can then get into it with WNBA players and make a scene which shows that the WNBA and the arena did the right thing because he was there for to make a scene yeah obviously and he said and he did make a scene because yes and unfortunately again we're talking about Enes Kanter I have no clue what happened in the game do you nope I just know yeah exactly not even our producer knows he was giving us notes I have no clue what actually happened in the game but here I am watching him on his phone getting kicked out so he wins again yeah so even when he didn't get to his seats i will say if you're the WNBA guys i get it he's going to be a distraction but like he paid for those seats just let him sit there and it's going to be annoying but like guys if but he can't disrupt the game because they even kick out if you just ignore then it won't be a scene and now he got exactly what he wanted he can control himself yeah if he's going to probably like i don't know talk to but just tell the girls to not respond or i guess but he got exactly what he wanted and here he is again we're talking about Enes Kanter yeah he's a tall man i need to find out what happened in this WNBA game i'm gonna go with atlanta dream won let me see i'll say by a spread of because like this is this is injustice to the WNBA because apparently i was being told before this that go dream it i called it i was being told they had to actually go to State Farm Arena because they needed more seats which that's good for the WNBA that means people are going that is really good oh no he just told us no I know I was just looking when the next game is Saturday oh yeah 97 to 71 so my spread wasn't right but it is I got the team right oh Angel Reese is on the dream yeah I don't know anyone who's on the Golden State team oh and she kind of balled out 21 and 12 that's good that's really good who's on Golden State is Paige no I don't know Paige Beckers is on some other team anyways that's us talking WNBA but and unfortunately got exactly what he wanted yeah comments or no comments sorry guys still scrolling through um yes brandon is commenting on the WNBA and how he liked it oh see someone watched it oh awesome yeah was there a reason why we did is uh branson put on suspension is that why he's sitting over there or okay flippity flippity yeah that's about it everybody's conspiracy theorists yeah i knew it i knew it the conspiracy theorists i love conspiracy theorists are like they legit freak me out they don't they don't live in reality they go hard but sometimes it's like fun to dip your toes i i don't don't you guys have other things to do with your day i don't want to get my toes into any of those you get bored and it's just fun i'm not into the conspiracy or go like be like the Ennis Cantor and like troll them and like keep like egging them on. I love to talk about the Denver Airport. That's probably like my favorite one. Everyone thinks there's a bunker. Look Tony's like I've heard about that one. I've heard about this like there's some like they're doing like alien experiments and all this stuff. Why do they build in the middle of nowhere when you go when you enter it the red eyes on the horse that are standing up. There's so many theories. If you do a deep dive you'll be in it for a whole day. It's certainly a conspiracy theory. The problem with conspiracy theories is that it's usually so obviously disproven yeah and for conspiracy theories to actually be real you know how many people have to not talk yeah i know so it's just it's implied like they're all anyways sorry guys if you're have a good day today yeah friday on a friday yep see you guys tomorrow