Speaker 1: It is Friday, February twenty seventh, and twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Lots to get to today from this is bad news
Speaker 1: to a mystery photo has people in DC freaking out
Speaker 1: and his Cuba lying about the Florida boat attack story,
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Speaker 1: And this never ever ever happens.
Speaker 2: Wait what happened? Let me just check here, let me.
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Speaker 1: It is indeed a last minute message coming in before
Speaker 1: the show. It appears to be from the inventor of Jeffing.
Speaker 1: Let's see what it says.
Speaker 2: A great Friday.
Speaker 1: We get it.
Speaker 3: Everybody in.
Speaker 1: Patch yourself on the back. We made it through a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
Speaker 2: Friday has arrived.
Speaker 1: Look at us go a big weekend ahead of us.
Speaker 2: How's everybody doing on a Friday? Good?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 2: Too? Are you all right? All right? Good? Yeah? I
Speaker 2: think I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm a little unsure this morning, but I think everything
Speaker 1: feels right good. I am having one of those moments
Speaker 1: where I'm like, what did I forget?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: I tell you that those are the moments when you
Speaker 1: don't actually have something that you forgot and.
Speaker 5: Got everything under control and everything everything has been taken
Speaker 5: care of. That's when last minute I go, oh, son
Speaker 5: of a bitch, I didn't get that there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like when I walk into the studio
Speaker 1: in the morning. If I do it like I normally,
Speaker 1: which is basically Charlie Brown with my head down. All right,
Speaker 1: let's see if we can fight through this and get
Speaker 1: it done another day here, then everything goes fine on
Speaker 1: the show. Fine ish. If I walk into the studio
Speaker 1: with swagger, I'll do what I did a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago.
Speaker 2: For me and we got the show coming up.
Speaker 1: I forgot there was a step and then I just
Speaker 1: fell into the studio and you just fell forward in
Speaker 1: a megadek.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have that video archiver installed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you know it works, not not very good.
Speaker 1: But here we go on a Friday. Let's put our
Speaker 1: ears at the ground, our fingers on the pulse, let's
Speaker 1: see what's happening to this great, big, wide world of ours.
Speaker 1: And we go to a guitar center. Everybody, sorry, that's right,
Speaker 1: you are me. We go to a guitar center. That's
Speaker 1: where we're going. And I'll tell you what. I used
Speaker 1: to love the music stores, like like guitar center.
Speaker 2: I used to think it was cool same you go.
Speaker 1: In there, all this stuff would be there, you could
Speaker 1: play around with it. It was like having the coolest
Speaker 1: music room ever, just going to the store and trying
Speaker 1: out the bongos and the guitars and the keyboards. And
Speaker 1: then at some point it got a little weird because
Speaker 1: now when I go to one of these music stores,
Speaker 1: it's usually like a ghost town. There's like one person
Speaker 1: who works there, and they're very disinterested in helping you.
Speaker 1: But I guess there's at least a few of these
Speaker 1: places open still. So when Selane breaks his guitar strings
Speaker 1: at the last minute, he has someplace to purchase done yep.
Speaker 1: So at this guitar Cinemazon, some man, some bald headed man,
Speaker 1: that's about all I know about him. Tried to steal
Speaker 1: an acoustic guitar. See how this went. Let's all listen
Speaker 1: in now, just for the record here. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he decided, because the guy's on the way out.
Speaker 1: He's about to make it through the metal detector things
Speaker 1: like the security gates and go out the front door
Speaker 1: of the guitar center with the acoustic guitar, and they
Speaker 1: grab him, and it's almost like he thinks, well, if
Speaker 1: I can't have this guitar, nobody he can.
Speaker 2: So he starts like trying to smack it against the
Speaker 2: real real quick distraction.
Speaker 5: Is this guitar center selling gift cards to everywhere?
Speaker 2: Yes, there's a Panera. Yeah, this is the.
Speaker 3: Talks.
Speaker 2: Maybe they're trying to.
Speaker 1: Diversify because not many people are coming in to buy
Speaker 1: these acoustic guitars anymore, more and more steelers than buyers
Speaker 1: these days. So the guy, the guy, when he realizes
Speaker 1: he's not gonna get it himself, tries to bang up.
Speaker 2: The guitar down. The gray goes you understand, you.
Speaker 6: Understand, you are leaving the store right now, right, You're gonna.
Speaker 1: He's got the guy in a in a chokehold, and
Speaker 1: the guy is tapping, hoping that the man he just
Speaker 1: tried to steal from his store is going to abide
Speaker 1: by the rules of anima.
Speaker 7: You can answer the questions because.
Speaker 1: He's I don't know that the guy's actually requesting answers.
Speaker 1: I think I think the guys saying like, here's what
Speaker 1: you're gonna do. I'm gonna let you go. You're gonna
Speaker 1: go out of here peacefully. So he's choking him for
Speaker 1: stealing this acoustic guitar from Guitar Center, and the guy's
Speaker 1: kind of trying to tap out. Now now he won't
Speaker 1: get up.
Speaker 2: He drags them out of there by the bell. Bouncer.
Speaker 2: Yeah he was.
Speaker 1: He was at least a facto security guard that day
Speaker 1: throwing this guy out of the store.
Speaker 8: But everyone else is like, let me at him.
Speaker 2: To me, this is this is what you get.
Speaker 1: You want to try to steal a guitar from the
Speaker 1: guitar center, there gonna pick you up by the bell.
Speaker 1: They're gonna this is what this used to be, Like
Speaker 1: the television trope of getting kicked out of somewhere.
Speaker 2: It literally is like cartoonish.
Speaker 1: You were in the club and you weren't supposed to
Speaker 1: be in the club, and then some big bouncer would
Speaker 1: grab your ass and then he would fling you out
Speaker 1: of the club and you would land onto the sidewalk outside.
Speaker 2: And that's literally what they do.
Speaker 1: They grab them and toss them out.
Speaker 2: My question to you in a moment right on the sidewalk.
Speaker 9: Now the guy starts crying. He's just screaming random stuff
Speaker 9: on the sidewalk.
Speaker 1: I ask you this question too far or well deserved.
Speaker 2: That's what I have for you today.
Speaker 1: It's like reading the tea leaves on a situation like this,
Speaker 1: because this guy tries to steal from a store. Then
Speaker 1: when they try to get him to leave the store,
Speaker 1: he lays prone and plays dead, so they have to
Speaker 1: deadlift him out of there. And then afterwards people will
Speaker 1: be like, well, look they were so mean to the guy, and.
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: This is what I would expect the outcome to be
Speaker 1: if I was going into a store to steal something,
Speaker 1: which I would never do. Six I've admitted on the
Speaker 1: air the two times that I have stolen things. One
Speaker 1: was when I was a young boy and I wanted
Speaker 1: a lighter, really bad a bit lighter, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: like twenty five cents at the time or something, and
Speaker 1: I took it from the wind Dixie and then my
Speaker 1: brother held it over me forever, and they tried to
Speaker 1: get me to do stuff or like, I want to
Speaker 1: tell mom, you stole the lighter.
Speaker 2: I don't even know why I wanted a lighter. I
Speaker 2: was just a kid.
Speaker 5: As a little kid, a lighter seems like a very
Speaker 5: common thing to steal.
Speaker 1: It might be it was right by the checkout and
Speaker 1: I was like, I could get a lighter, and I
Speaker 1: grabbed that. And the other one was when I was
Speaker 1: dirt poor, I tried to steal. When I was nineteen,
Speaker 1: I tried to steal it. They caught me a sub
Speaker 1: from publics because I had nothing to eat. I literally
Speaker 1: didn't have anything to eat. I would try to steal
Speaker 1: a sub. Would never ever steal anything else in my life.
Speaker 1: Would not do that, would not and if I did,
Speaker 1: I would expect this to be the outcome. But I
Speaker 1: asked you chat and everybody else also stole a card
Speaker 1: against humanity from that.
Speaker 2: I wasn't stealing. I'm a really nice guy that wasn't stealing.
Speaker 1: You were having a card against humanity game and you also.
Speaker 2: Were offering up marijuana at the same time. That was
Speaker 2: so oh, that was yeah. You you were the Sabrina
Speaker 2: was the one offering.
Speaker 8: Everyone else that had some of that marijuana did not steal.
Speaker 7: You were the only one.
Speaker 2: I don't want.
Speaker 1: I did, I didn't steal. I had the cards, hocket.
Speaker 1: That's what pot leads to. No, it's not time. No see,
Speaker 1: I think this was well. Some people in chat saying,
Speaker 1: FAFO in motion, this is what happens. Kevin says, what
Speaker 1: would Sean do if somebody broke into the studio and
Speaker 1: tried to take Samuel L. Jackson, that's the little guy
Speaker 1: running the camera here in the studio.
Speaker 2: I would unceremoniously.
Speaker 1: Toss them out exactly the same way if I could
Speaker 1: physically pick them up like that, because this.
Speaker 2: Was a larger guy.
Speaker 1: But there is like there's there's this effort by some
Speaker 1: people to be like, oh my god, geez, they're just
Speaker 1: manhandling them. It's like, dude, you tried to steal from
Speaker 1: the place. You know why people do this because for
Speaker 1: too long nobody did this right.
Speaker 2: For too long, nobody did this. So you went into
Speaker 2: the guitar Center.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, I could just grab whatever I want
Speaker 1: and walk out of here. That doesn't work for everybody.
Speaker 1: I don't think the guy did anything wrong, but let
Speaker 1: us know what you think. Send a dispatch over at
Speaker 1: thenewsjunkie dot com. First time seeing guitar Center in a
Speaker 1: story in a very long time. Meanwhile, over to our
Speaker 1: Parents of the Day, Parents of the Day and not
Speaker 1: not Christopher Dolores Lane. Unfortunately for him, I'm sorry you
Speaker 1: didn't make it unless unless you pack. Did you pack
Speaker 1: anything up for Jackson to day before?
Speaker 2: I did not know.
Speaker 1: No, he doesn't have like a little kit. He didn't
Speaker 1: have like a Jackson kit, like here's here's the stuff.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 1: Really if he did, I wish that this happened. No, no,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't actually because there there's a there's
Speaker 1: a twist, so.
Speaker 5: Parity can see what's going on here, So why would
Speaker 5: you wish this upon me?
Speaker 2: All right? This does this happened in Georgia?
Speaker 1: Parents of the Day, and I want some parent confessions
Speaker 1: today on the show too, before we split things wide
Speaker 1: open because it's a Friday, a little fun. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: could be anonymous with that. Some parent confessions things you've
Speaker 1: done wrong. Because in Georgia going absolutely mega viral is
Speaker 1: the parents that did this thing.
Speaker 4: Some would argue this would have made.
Speaker 2: This morning.
Speaker 4: Boys in Georgia. I have a message to parents across
Speaker 4: the country. Double check child's lunch before the cafeteria turns
Speaker 4: into happy hour. The police apartment is sharing this photo
Speaker 4: on social media, showing a bag of chips, some snacks
Speaker 4: in there, and a can of lemon drunk Martini. The
Speaker 4: drink is eleven percent alcohol. It's that water beverage there.
Speaker 4: In the post, the police apartment wrote quote, this is
Speaker 4: not Capri's son, This is not apple juice. That is
Speaker 4: a whole parent had a long night start a pack.
Speaker 4: Police are asking you to check lunch boxes before resource.
Speaker 5: Officare you know, do you really need to check the
Speaker 5: lunch boxes?
Speaker 2: Check them?
Speaker 1: Man, If you find when you get to drink it,
Speaker 1: that's that's the reward goods.
Speaker 8: Kid tattletailed on his parents. Kid in the recess yard.
Speaker 2: This little kid goes to school.
Speaker 1: I can't see what Grady was in, but he goes
Speaker 1: to school with his lunch, which is a solid lunch.
Speaker 1: It's a bag of nacho cheese doritos. Check I think
Speaker 1: there's I think there's lunchables or something like a lunchables
Speaker 1: underneath it. It looks there's some healthy options over here.
Speaker 1: I don't I can't tell what's up there. Something in
Speaker 1: these backs. You got pickles or something. I thought it
Speaker 1: was broccoli or something, but I don't know. It's it's
Speaker 1: a bag of green there's some other options up here.
Speaker 1: And then a full ass lemon drop martini in this
Speaker 1: kid lunch. So, parents, we want some confessions today. What
Speaker 1: is something you've done like this? Have you made a mistake?
Speaker 1: I wish I knew if the kid drank.
Speaker 2: It ventri at recess.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I just picture this poor busy mom that just spread,
Speaker 10: you know, a drink out of the fridge and threw
Speaker 10: it in the blunchbox.
Speaker 4: And now they're mortified, or maybe even like the kid,
Speaker 4: they were like, hey, just you know, just grab a
Speaker 4: drink or something, and they may have just it looked good.
Speaker 1: There you go, small talking their way out of Thank you,
Speaker 1: Tampa ten.
Speaker 2: There they go. Parents make mistakes.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it happens to the best and worst of all
Speaker 1: of us. So good to be with you on a
Speaker 1: Friday here in the show. Email tips at the Newsjunkie
Speaker 1: dot Com dispatches as per usual over at thenewsjunkie dot com.
Speaker 1: Some bad news rolling in and I think this is
Speaker 1: just the tip of the iceberg really that we're seeing here.
Speaker 1: One of the companies out there, Big IT company owned
Speaker 1: by Jack Dorsey, who is the former owner of Twitter
Speaker 1: now x blocks is the name of the company that
Speaker 1: he owns. And they announced that they were firing half
Speaker 1: of the staff basically, okay, half of the staff.
Speaker 2: And this is just the beginning. This is just the beginning.
Speaker 1: And this is not friends, This is not some kind
Speaker 1: of thing where it's like, hey, we're not financially sound,
Speaker 1: the business is upside down, we need to fire people
Speaker 1: or whatever. Excuse iHeartRadio whoever gives every time they do
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. No, this is literally a company
Speaker 1: that is successful, financially stable, secure, but has realized blowed
Speaker 1: that through technological innovations. Yes, land they are bloated, and
Speaker 1: they have a whole bunch of employees that they don't
Speaker 1: want and don't need, don't want and don't need. And
Speaker 1: they're not the only ones. There are a lot of
Speaker 1: these coming people wiped out by technological innovations.
Speaker 2: No one will be immune to this.
Speaker 1: Then Jack Dorsey says this, This is his actual post
Speaker 1: about firing half of his employees, and it's a lot
Speaker 1: of them. Today, we're making one of the hardest decisions
Speaker 1: in the history of our company. We're reducing our organization
Speaker 1: by nearly half, from over ten thousand people to under
Speaker 1: six thousand. That means four thousand of you are about
Speaker 1: to be asked to leave or enter into consultation. I'll
Speaker 1: be straight about what's happening, why and what it means
Speaker 1: for everyone. And he says, first of all, if you're
Speaker 1: one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for
Speaker 1: twenty weeks plus one week per year of tenure equity
Speaker 1: vested through the end of May, six months of healthcare,
Speaker 1: your corporate devices, and five thousand dollars to put towards
Speaker 1: whatever you need to help in your transition, which is
Speaker 1: pretty generous. Actually, I want you to know that before
Speaker 1: anything else. That's what one will be whether they're successful. Yeah, yeah, you'll.
Speaker 2: Keep your laptops.
Speaker 1: Here's five grand to help you out. Here's all the
Speaker 1: things I want you to know before anything else. Everyone
Speaker 1: will be notified today whether you're being asked to leave,
Speaker 1: entering consultation or asked to stay. Here's the key part.
Speaker 1: Here is the key part. We're not making this decision
Speaker 1: because we're in trouble. Our business is strong, he says
Speaker 1: the man who just fired half of his staff. Our
Speaker 1: business is strong, gross profit continues to grow. We continue
Speaker 1: to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving.
Speaker 1: But something has changed. We're already seeing that the intelligence
Speaker 1: tools we're creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams,
Speaker 1: are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes
Speaker 1: what it means to build and run a company. And
Speaker 1: that's accelerating rapidly. So Jack says, I had two options.
Speaker 1: I could cut over months and years as this shift
Speaker 1: plays out out, or just do it all at once
Speaker 1: and acts half of the staff at my company.
Speaker 5: Old Jack Dorsey here have a thing with uh just
Speaker 5: not liking capital letters, not.
Speaker 1: A single one in the beginning of the sentences here.
Speaker 2: But this, I'm telling.
Speaker 1: You, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Every vertical,
Speaker 1: every company, they have a lot of employees that one
Speaker 1: are pain in the ass, activist employees they want to offload.
Speaker 1: For the last five years, trust me on that they
Speaker 1: want this to happen. But number two, and this is
Speaker 1: much much more important and much bigger. There are so
Speaker 1: many technological innovations that have rendered half of these employees useless.
Speaker 1: So ask yourself again, do you are you bulletproof on
Speaker 1: this front?
Speaker 2: Are you absolutely bulletproof?
Speaker 1: Because I bet half of the people at this company
Speaker 1: who are I don't know what the average person at
Speaker 1: Blocks makes, but I bet it's.
Speaker 2: A good job. I bet it's a good one.
Speaker 1: I think that they probably thought, oh steady, I'm good
Speaker 1: to go. This is such a title wave that is
Speaker 1: headed for so many different jobs out there. And I
Speaker 1: saw today there were some other companies that, you know,
Speaker 1: we're acting people along with this Blocks company. But man,
Speaker 1: it's just the beginning. It is just the beginning. They're
Speaker 1: a payment company. I believe they owned square cash app,
Speaker 1: got it? Oh, they owned Title now I don't having
Speaker 1: a title Title Spiral which something to do with bitcoin,
Speaker 1: bit key and proto mining. So it's a bunch of
Speaker 1: like financial technological things. And ten thousand people is not small.
Speaker 1: What's iHeart have? What's iHeart have? Total employees? iHeartMedia the biggest,
Speaker 1: by the way, the biggest brought radio broadcasting company in
Speaker 1: the United States of America, probably the world, probably the world,
Speaker 1: and I mean probably, I don't know if we.
Speaker 2: Have looks ten thousand, eight hundred.
Speaker 1: So this is a similar sized company, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: That seems high, though other sources have indicated a slightly
Speaker 5: smaller workforce of forty six to eight thousand.
Speaker 1: We have done a lot of cuts over the years,
Speaker 1: as all of us very very well know, but this
Speaker 1: is part of what's coming now. Some of you are like,
Speaker 1: my job is bulletproof, and you're probably right. Some of
Speaker 1: you out there you're not replaceable just yet, you're not.
Speaker 1: But other folks know about this because this is this
Speaker 1: is a big thing, and this is what happened at
Speaker 1: this tech company Blocks formerly the Twitter guy Jack Dorsey,
Speaker 1: the guy who owns this whole thing. Their stocks, by
Speaker 1: the way, soaring up like twenty five percent after announcing
Speaker 1: they were getting rid of half of the employees of
Speaker 1: the company. Okay, we want to see what you have
Speaker 1: on your mind. A lot of people with emails just
Speaker 1: like this tips at the neews junkie dot com. Crystal says,
Speaker 1: o la amigos. I wanted to chime in on those
Speaker 1: food delivery robots you talked about yesterday was one that.
Speaker 2: Ruined that lady's garden.
Speaker 1: My sister lives in LA and while visiting Saturday, we
Speaker 1: decided to go check out the woods Side Note. It's
Speaker 1: a beautiful weed shop cafe that I highly recommend that's
Speaker 1: owned by Woody Harrelson. Oh cool, that's cool. That's why
Speaker 1: it's called the Woodies or woods Woods. Yeah, there you go, Sabby,
Speaker 1: book a commanda with your sister and friends.
Speaker 2: You'll love it. CA back to Coco.
Speaker 1: While getting my ID checked half in the doorway, one
Speaker 1: of those sons of bitches the robots zoomed right past
Speaker 1: my ankle and then jolted to a stop a few
Speaker 1: inches past for a pedestrian who kicked it. I immediately
Speaker 1: reacted by going, oh my god, that thing is efing stupid,
Speaker 1: and without pause the security response they are efing stupid.
Speaker 1: F and Coco the other person agreed with them. Thank you, Crystal,
Speaker 1: she says, but they've been bothered by these robots in
Speaker 1: her neighborhood as well.
Speaker 2: All right, join us with whatever's on your mind.
Speaker 1: Lots to get to today on a busy Friday show,
Speaker 1: So do hang out all of that coming up next
Speaker 1: in the News Chunkie. We're gonna get into your emails.
Speaker 1: You can email the show tips at the news junky
Speaker 1: dot com dispatches all of that good stuff. In fact,
Speaker 1: some people responding already. I talked about this story. We're
Speaker 1: a big tech company, and I mean I think ten
Speaker 1: thousand employees is a big company.
Speaker 2: That's why I bring this up.
Speaker 1: A big tech company just fired almost half of their staff.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't because they're not doing well financially, they're
Speaker 1: doing great. It wasn't because profits aren't up they're killing it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't because these people are like nasty people or anything.
Speaker 1: It was because through technological advances, they realize that over
Speaker 1: time they were gonna fire half of.
Speaker 2: These people, so why not just do it now?
Speaker 1: And so they just ax them half of the staff
Speaker 1: at this ten thousand employee plays and people are experiencing
Speaker 1: the same Kyle says, Hey News Junkie.
Speaker 2: I was told at the beginning of the week.
Speaker 1: That my job is no longer needed and ends today.
Speaker 1: For context, I'm a cybersecurity specialist and the government contract
Speaker 1: that was on went in another direction and my position
Speaker 1: wasn't needed geez, I feel like we need the cybersecurity
Speaker 1: stuff more than ever.
Speaker 8: I'm curious if he means that they went with a
Speaker 8: technology AI base that is now cybersecurity, or it could
Speaker 8: be because I don't know.
Speaker 7: That seems like I could turn on you at any moment.
Speaker 7: Are you sure about this?
Speaker 1: Well, this person says, needless to say, the whole IT
Speaker 1: layoffs thing is hitting home. I switched to the IT
Speaker 1: field during COVID thinking this will be a secure career option.
Speaker 1: Oh no, well now I'm not sure what to do. Anyways,
Speaker 1: Love you guys, and you get me through my day.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Kyle. Appreciate the email. A lot of people
Speaker 1: in that crunch that tough spot right now, and if
Speaker 1: it's hitting you too.
Speaker 2: Let us know.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's kind of inevitable. That's that's
Speaker 1: the big breakthrough. As much as we might laugh at
Speaker 1: AI and some of the silly stuff that people generate
Speaker 1: in the slop content, the reality in a lot of
Speaker 1: the tech fields, at least, is this is that you
Speaker 1: know there's going to be a lot of change on
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll get into more of you and your
Speaker 2: responses all of that stuff on the show. Today, But
Speaker 2: I want.
Speaker 1: To talk about this guy who was arrested in Missouri.
Speaker 1: And this is like, I don't know what number story
Speaker 1: this is, but it's yet another story of somebody behind
Speaker 1: the wheel of a semi who barely speaks any English,
Speaker 1: doesn't know what any of the road signs mean, and
Speaker 1: somehow has a CDL I guess or whatever it takes,
Speaker 1: and is driving a semi truck on the road. And
Speaker 1: this guy was driving the wrong way on a road
Speaker 1: in Missouri and was driving for like fifteen minutes in
Speaker 1: the wrong directions.
Speaker 2: Seldom use road.
Speaker 1: It was a road where there were cars because I
Speaker 1: could see the cars going around him, and they eventually
Speaker 1: the people call police. They're like, hey, there's a semi
Speaker 1: going the wrong way on the road. And they ended
Speaker 1: up finally grabbing this guy and the cops charged him
Speaker 1: and whatnot. But some of the details right here, going
Speaker 1: in the wrong direction, I'll turn it up and.
Speaker 6: Instead of pulling over once they saw cars flying right
Speaker 6: at them, the witness says, the semi sped up and
Speaker 6: was hitting fifty miles per hour going the wrong way
Speaker 6: correctly three miles. Miraculously, they didn't hit anyone in Missouri,
Speaker 6: Highway Patrol eventually pulled over that driver, who had a
Speaker 6: legal commercial driver's license, a commercial driver's license from Minnesota,
Speaker 6: but Highway Patrol says, during that stop, our commercial vehicle
Speaker 6: enforcement troopers conducted a driver inspection and determined the driver
Speaker 6: could not properly identify.
Speaker 2: Road signs Jesus Man.
Speaker 6: Mandated by Federal motor carrier regulations. Per Federal Motor Carrier guidelines,
Speaker 6: he was placed out of service and not allowed to
Speaker 6: continue driving.
Speaker 1: What I don't understand is how this kind of thing
Speaker 1: keeps happening. When I had to get my license, I'll
Speaker 1: never forget. I've told this story before a long time
Speaker 1: ago on the show. But I waited because I'm an idiot,
Speaker 1: until I was eighteen. The reason why whatever, But when
Speaker 1: you're sixteen, you can, when you're fifteen, get your learner's permit,
Speaker 1: sixteen and get your driver's license. I never got my
Speaker 1: learner's permit, And then I turned sixteen and more time
Speaker 1: was going by, and so eventually it was like, I'll
Speaker 1: just get them both when I turn eighteen. And I
Speaker 1: went to do both of the tests in one day,
Speaker 1: and I failed the test the first time, and I
Speaker 1: was so mad because I've had plans. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go on a date. I'm gonna drive this car,
Speaker 1: go do this. I'm gonna be fine that. So the girl,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to drive real letdown, real, yeah, real
Speaker 1: letdown the whole time. I mean I was used to
Speaker 1: other people driving, but I failed to test because you
Speaker 1: needed to know all of the signs to know all
Speaker 1: of the rules you need, and there was a little
Speaker 1: computer kiosk, and you took the test and if you
Speaker 1: failed it, you didn't get your license. But they just
Speaker 1: hand them out like candy to these people who can't
Speaker 1: read any of the signs, don't know which lane to
Speaker 1: drive down, and that escalates all the way to somebody
Speaker 1: getting behind the wheel of a semi truck or.
Speaker 8: If this person is from are their signs really that different.
Speaker 7: That's so kind of obvious.
Speaker 8: What wrong way or X, or maybe just other traffic
Speaker 8: coming at you would indicate you're on the wrong side
Speaker 8: of the road.
Speaker 2: That should do it.
Speaker 1: But this is a Somali truck driver from Minnesota, they said,
Speaker 1: I believe, So this dude was Somali and didn't know
Speaker 1: enough English and didn't know any of the signs. And
Speaker 1: was driving south on a northbound road until he got
Speaker 1: to a crossover to.
Speaker 2: Go into the correct direction.
Speaker 1: A police officer waited and then grabbed this guy, and
Speaker 1: then eventually they ended up charging him. And this is
Speaker 1: not the only one, Like, I've seen a bunch of these.
Speaker 1: I'm going like, what do we do? This seems pretty obvious.
Speaker 1: Don't give anybody a license who cannot speak English and
Speaker 1: understand the street signs in their area. That seems like
Speaker 1: the most obvious thing in the world to me. But
Speaker 1: apparently it's not obvious enough because we've had we had
Speaker 1: the tragic accident on the turnpike with a driver who
Speaker 1: didn't even you know, just turned around completely in the
Speaker 1: middle of traffic, twisted his semi across all the lanes,
Speaker 1: caused a fatal accident, killing some people, and had no
Speaker 1: idea how to speak English or what any of the
Speaker 1: road signs were, at least not enough to be out
Speaker 1: on the roads. And you would think that would be
Speaker 1: like a one off thing, but it's not.
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of these people out there and it's
Speaker 1: really stupid. It's just absolutely dumb that this is happening.
Speaker 6: There's more we know about this particular trucking business. Cargo
Speaker 6: Transportation LLC, is run out of an apartment in Hopkins, Minnesota,
Speaker 6: just outside Minneapolis. It was registered in twenty twenty three
Speaker 6: to it ABD Wally Akma and only has two drivers
Speaker 6: literal presumably can't read road signs, but still last year
Speaker 6: the company drove more than eighty one thousand miles.
Speaker 2: We reached out real quick to.
Speaker 1: The semi truck drivers who listened to the show, of
Speaker 1: which there are many, and I love you, and I
Speaker 1: appreciate you, I salute you and all that. When I
Speaker 1: hear that this company they have their own little company
Speaker 1: for their semi I imagine it's like maybe these two
Speaker 1: people switching back and forth in the semi truck. When
Speaker 1: I hear that they drove eighty one thousand, five hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty two mile miles. Excuse me in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Is that a lot for a semi truck driver or
Speaker 1: is that just like that's an average amount. It just
Speaker 1: seems like a lot to enormy like me, because this truck,
Speaker 1: with these guys who are involved in this, drove eighty
Speaker 1: one thousand, five hundred and fifty two miles in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, according to this report, and the guy like
Speaker 1: didn't know what the hell was going on the streets
Speaker 1: out there.
Speaker 5: Long haul drivers typically average one hundred two one hundred
Speaker 5: and twenty five thousand miles a year. Regional will cover
Speaker 5: less like fifty to one hundred thousand miles.
Speaker 2: Local drivers maybe just twenty to fifty one.
Speaker 1: Hundred thousand miles a year. Jesus, I mean I might
Speaker 1: have put ten on my car this year. I haven't
Speaker 1: got anywhere close to that. But all right, let us
Speaker 1: know what you think. Truck drivers jump in and does
Speaker 1: it make you a little more frightened next time this
Speaker 1: semi pulls up next to you on the road.
Speaker 2: Let us know your thoughts.
Speaker 1: Go to thenewsjunkie dot com right now, Buzz says, if
Speaker 1: you can't read, they just assume you went to school
Speaker 1: in America.
Speaker 2: True, true, ish right now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And to be clear, Somalian, you know, illegal not
Speaker 1: illegal American citizen from birth. I don't care if you
Speaker 1: cannot read and understand the street signs. There should be
Speaker 1: no consolation prize. Driver's licenses should not be a thing.
Speaker 1: It is dangerous enough that you're driving a vehicle at
Speaker 1: a high rate of speed.
Speaker 2: Down a road.
Speaker 1: It's even more dangerous when that vehicle is an eighty
Speaker 1: thousand pounds semi cruising at a high rate of speed
Speaker 1: and in this case, in the wrong lane.
Speaker 2: That's just inexcusable to me.
Speaker 1: And I think whoever they should trace this back to
Speaker 1: whatever jurisdiction gave these people the licenses.
Speaker 2: That's what I'd absolutely love to see.
Speaker 1: All right, let us know what you think, send a
Speaker 1: dispatch and email all of that good stuff over on
Speaker 1: the website quickly.
Speaker 2: Actually know what.
Speaker 1: We'll take quick break. We'll take a quick break. We'll
Speaker 1: take a quick break. When we come back. I have
Speaker 1: a big update, and it's an interesting twist in the
Speaker 1: story of those people who are on the boat from
Speaker 1: Florida that ended up trying to start a war, allegedly
Speaker 1: trying to start a war with Cuba. Ten people were
Speaker 1: trying to take over Cuba. And there's a new twist
Speaker 1: in this story which I think changes a lot. But
Speaker 1: we'll see what you think about this that's coming up
Speaker 1: next in the news Junkie. I don't know what to
Speaker 1: make of some of the weird details around one of
Speaker 1: the big stories this week where they found these people
Speaker 1: on what they called the speedboat, and the speedboat went
Speaker 1: from Florida to Cuba, which is what ninety miles or
Speaker 1: something that's not left. Yeah, and they went from Florida
Speaker 1: to Cuba. So crazy to think about how close that is. Actually,
Speaker 1: they went from Florida to Cuba on this speedboat and then, allegedly,
Speaker 1: according to the Cubans, when they got close to the
Speaker 1: Cuban coast Guard noticed them and they started firing. They
Speaker 1: according to the Cubans, they fired first on the Cuban
Speaker 1: Coast Guard, and the Cuban coast Guard says they returned fire,
Speaker 1: which killed four people on this boat.
Speaker 2: Six people were arrested.
Speaker 1: And the information coming in from family members. I think
Speaker 1: the brother or somebody had spoken out and said that
Speaker 1: this guy wanted to take over Cuba. He was sort
Speaker 1: of radicalized on freeing the Cuban people, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1: And then I guess got this hair brained idea that
Speaker 1: he could do it in a boat with ten people
Speaker 1: and convinced, yeah, convinced other people to go with him.
Speaker 1: And then the crazy thing is, I guess Miami media
Speaker 1: has been all over this. Then they announced the names
Speaker 1: of the Cuban government said, here's the ten people that
Speaker 1: were on this boat. But some of the names don't
Speaker 1: add up, Like one of the names is a guy
Speaker 1: who is not in Cube at all. He's here, he's
Speaker 1: got like the wrong name.
Speaker 2: On one of these people.
Speaker 1: And I saw some stories where I was like, this
Speaker 1: is getting more curious by the moment. Here's what made
Speaker 1: me think a little differently about this. This is a
Speaker 1: Channel seven in Miami.
Speaker 11: Man Is Ascora and he's in Miami speaking with seven
Speaker 11: News at Versailles, is in little Havana, shocked his name
Speaker 11: was on that list. It scares me because my dad, grandparents,
Speaker 11: aunts and uncles are there.
Speaker 7: He tells us.
Speaker 11: Gonsuegra, who has been in the US since twenty sixteen
Speaker 11: under asylum, doesn't know why his name was published. He
Speaker 11: says he didn't plan to be part of that voyage.
Speaker 1: So he was not on the boat. He's here, still
Speaker 1: in America. He's saying he has no idea why his
Speaker 1: name was on this list, but the Cuban government was
Speaker 1: like he was one of the guys.
Speaker 2: Is it just me or did she say that weird?
Speaker 5: Like he didn't plan to be part of that voyage
Speaker 5: sounds like, was there another voyage?
Speaker 2: Was he?
Speaker 1: Was it an option? Was Why did you put the
Speaker 1: emphasis on? Did she put it on that he didn't
Speaker 1: plan to be part of that sequel?
Speaker 8: I suppose Is it crazy that maybe there's another guy
Speaker 8: with the same name or he was named in like
Speaker 8: a picture attached to us.
Speaker 1: He's he's attached to the family in some way, I
Speaker 1: guess so they were. I think they were specifically talking
Speaker 1: about him, and they might have had the age too.
Speaker 2: But let's see what else they said.
Speaker 11: But says he is known to the Cuban government. He says,
Speaker 11: I have a record of activism against the dictatorship for
Speaker 11: my days in Cuba as well as.
Speaker 2: Here in the United States.
Speaker 11: I think they've confused all that history or they're hiding something.
Speaker 2: I can't be sure.
Speaker 11: Oh that being said, he tells us he does know
Speaker 11: many of those involved in the deadly incident, all.
Speaker 1: Right, So he knows people, he's connected to people who
Speaker 1: were involved in this went on the boat, went over there,
Speaker 1: did this stuff in Cuba and ended up either dead
Speaker 1: or arrested. But he wasn't one of the guys. Even
Speaker 1: though the Cuban government is like he's one of the people,
Speaker 1: and that seems weird. Yeah, maybe one of the guys
Speaker 1: gave his name for some reason. I don't know what
Speaker 1: advantage that would give you. The six people that were arrested,
Speaker 1: but they got the person wrong. And now I'm starting
Speaker 1: to wonder what's what in this story. And we do
Speaker 1: have confirmed. I mean, the family member did say this.
Speaker 1: One of the people who is like the leader if
Speaker 1: you will, definitely was radicalized and wanted to go to
Speaker 1: Cuba to like free the Cubans, and maybe thought he
Speaker 1: was going to do it by himself in a boat,
Speaker 1: which is nuts. But we at least know that part
Speaker 1: is true. Let's see what else is here.
Speaker 2: He is with two of the men.
Speaker 7: I have mixed emotions.
Speaker 2: He says.
Speaker 11: They're friends of mine and I admire what they did.
Speaker 11: Though the Cuban regime claims those on the boat were
Speaker 11: armed Cubans living in the States with intentions to infiltrate
Speaker 11: the island and commit acts of terrorism, people at Busy
Speaker 11: Versailla's cafe Thursday night believe them to be heroes who
Speaker 11: went with hopes of forming an uprising against the Dictatorshow.
Speaker 1: Oh, they're out there, they got their signs they're fully
Speaker 1: in support of these dudes who are on the boat.
Speaker 1: Some of these folks, it says assassins and terrorists. And
Speaker 1: it's got Raoul Castro, brother of course of Fidel Castro,
Speaker 1: and Miguel Diez Canell, who I think is double check
Speaker 1: this delan in fact check. Miguel ds Canal is the
Speaker 1: president of is what are the leaders of Cuba.
Speaker 2: At the moment.
Speaker 1: I don't know what his official title is. President, he's
Speaker 1: the president of Cuba. And then of course Roul Castro,
Speaker 1: brother of Fidel Castro. It says assassins and terrorists. They're
Speaker 1: not fans down in South Florida, not fans of communism,
Speaker 1: not fans of Cuba. Out of these folks, many of
Speaker 1: them fled Cuba, and they some of at least support
Speaker 1: these guys. But it's still a big question mark as
Speaker 1: to what the hell was going on here, what these
Speaker 1: guys were actually up to.
Speaker 2: We'll take your thoughts on it.
Speaker 1: Send a dispatch over on the website that's thenewsjunkie dot com.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: I also we're talking a little bit a bit about
Speaker 1: the snowballs in New York City, the cops getting hit
Speaker 1: with the snowballs, and I saw yesterday that they had
Speaker 1: a file that filed some charges against some dude, one
Speaker 1: of the guys who I guess threw snowballs at the cops,
Speaker 1: some guy twenty seven year old West African Gusman Kulabali.
Speaker 1: I mentioned his name on the show previously. This story
Speaker 1: says he threw ice balls at the NYPD officers. I'm
Speaker 1: assuming he would say there were snowballs and it was
Speaker 1: a snowball fight, you know, each of their own ice
Speaker 1: ball fight's.
Speaker 2: A little more hardcore ice ball.
Speaker 1: Fight sounds bad, And I think the police have said
Speaker 1: that there were people who were putting rocks inside of
Speaker 1: some of the snowballs.
Speaker 2: No idea if.
Speaker 1: If that's true or accurate, but that's at least what
Speaker 1: they were saying, and it pushed charges against one of
Speaker 1: the guys who threw snowballs.
Speaker 2: At the cops.
Speaker 1: And now the district attorney has dropped the charges against
Speaker 1: this person already, and they did a whole like purp walk.
Speaker 1: Here he's walking out. Apparently this is diaper Man. Diaper
Speaker 1: Man is his name. He does a YouTube prank channel
Speaker 1: as well under the name diaper Man, and also in
Speaker 1: his free time throws snowballs at the cops, but he's.
Speaker 2: Got a attorney. It's free diaperman, free diaperman.
Speaker 7: It might be going away, and.
Speaker 2: They let him go. This is an attorney. I'm guessing
Speaker 2: they talked about the rocks.
Speaker 5: This I'm hearing the boxes.
Speaker 1: So the attorneys like, this is the first I'm hearing
Speaker 1: of rocks in the snow. This was just, you know,
Speaker 1: an innocent snowball fight, et cetera.
Speaker 2: Et cetera.
Speaker 7: Was the one person that they arrested everywhere.
Speaker 2: They're trying to find. I believe three more.
Speaker 1: There were three more people that they had targeted that
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, those people were on their radar that
Speaker 1: they wanted to arrest them for the snowball fight. But
Speaker 1: I don't think they've found them yet. I'll go back
Speaker 1: to this was a lost opportunity, and it almost makes
Speaker 1: me think this is just like a better time. There
Speaker 1: was a story a couple of years back on the
Speaker 1: show about Washington State and something it went down where
Speaker 1: kids were having a snowball fight and the cops showed up.
Speaker 1: I mean, like a whole video out of that. The
Speaker 1: cops show up to the snowball fight and they've got
Speaker 1: all their cop gear.
Speaker 2: And they go in like.
Speaker 1: It's like a swat raid, no mercy, and they start
Speaker 1: a snowball fight with the kids to celebrate you know,
Speaker 1: the snow day, right, And I'm like this, like this
Speaker 1: was such a better story.
Speaker 2: They're throwing the snowballs at.
Speaker 1: Each other and the cops are The cops are playing around,
Speaker 1: like hitting the deck with the kids in them with
Speaker 1: the snowballs, Like maybe this just comes from a sweeter
Speaker 1: time and this doesn't exist anymore. We can't do this,
Speaker 1: but this is such a better outcome for everybody involved,
Speaker 1: Like the cops look so much better in this. This
Speaker 1: is better for the community. This is like, this is
Speaker 1: better for everything than the situation in New York. I
Speaker 1: think there was a missed opportunity, and the cops are
Speaker 1: still trying to press after some of these folks.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying they're good people.
Speaker 1: You know, this guy probably a scumbag or whatever, but
Speaker 1: in this case, it seems like you could just score
Speaker 1: more points by by doing something a little.
Speaker 2: Bit more like that. I think the New York Post
Speaker 2: called him a punk with a rap sheet. A punk?
Speaker 2: What's rap sheet? What does he say? Let me see?
Speaker 2: Let me know, I don't know what this guy's.
Speaker 1: Up to, all right, let me know what he did.
Speaker 1: That's that's the I don't know why. That's another good question. Actually,
Speaker 1: why do they call him diaper Man?
Speaker 5: It says one of the hooligans who allegedly pelted NYPD cops.
Speaker 5: The New York Post does not like this guy for
Speaker 5: some reasons, who allegedly pelted NYPD cops with snowballs and
Speaker 5: a rowdy free for all at Washington Square, has been
Speaker 5: unmasked as a twenty seven year old wanna be YouTube
Speaker 5: star who was busted during a subway prank just weeks ago.
Speaker 5: Gus Main goose Main Gulabally was cuffed connection with the
Speaker 5: Monday afternoon mayhem that sent two uniform cops to the hospital.
Speaker 2: They went to the hospital for that after the snowball thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe some of them fell or something. I
Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know why they would go to
Speaker 2: the hospital.
Speaker 5: He reportedly fancies himself a social media personality and posts
Speaker 5: under the name Diaperman. Charged with obstruction of governmental administration
Speaker 5: and harassment and was awaiting arranged min Thursday evening. It
Speaker 5: wasn't his first run in with the law.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at his YouTube account, forty seven thousand subscribers.
Speaker 2: Not bad. Maybe that's why they're calling him a wannabee.
Speaker 1: He's got a lot of videos here, nothing in the
Speaker 1: last six months, so maybe he's doing is he's doing
Speaker 1: shorts and he does live He says, I stream and
Speaker 1: I dropped some crazy videos.
Speaker 2: Subscriber.
Speaker 1: He's in a diaper in the picture with what looks
Speaker 1: to be like some joints in his mouth. But I
Speaker 1: don't know exactly where this came from. He's out there
Speaker 1: on the streets though, because they let him go. They
Speaker 1: let the hardened crim or, a hooligan.
Speaker 2: What do they call him? The hooligan?
Speaker 5: A punk with a rap sheet and want to be
Speaker 5: social media personality.
Speaker 1: He does look like a scumbag from the the prank
Speaker 1: in air quotes that he was trying to do where
Speaker 1: he pretended to pop rob people and videotaped it. He said,
Speaker 1: so you're going to pay up to the stranger? Pay
Speaker 1: up what the other man said? My bread n word?
Speaker 1: How much you got, whatever you're going to give? And
Speaker 1: it goes on and the like he faked robbing this guy.
Speaker 1: I guess his YouTube video, so that's pretty scummy. That's
Speaker 1: not a great thing in his favor. But I just
Speaker 1: really feel like some of these things for cops. You know,
Speaker 1: cops need to make sure they make big inroads with
Speaker 1: the communities that they serve. So sometimes you got to
Speaker 1: be the bigger man, and you got to you gotta
Speaker 1: try to go Okay, let's make the most of this.
Speaker 1: Let's make this into a fun thing, even if people
Speaker 1: were being obnoxious, and then let's try to move on
Speaker 1: from here. Otherwise that the media is going to be
Speaker 1: biased about it and give you headlines and be like
Speaker 1: Snowball facing years in prison because of the NYPD, like
Speaker 1: that stuff doesn't help anything at the end of the game.
Speaker 2: Let me know what you think.
Speaker 1: Send a dispatch over on the website, go over to
Speaker 1: the neewsjunkie dot com, on your phone, your laptop, anything
Speaker 1: with the microphone, and hit record on your first dispatch
Speaker 1: right now, quick break. When we come back, we'll get
Speaker 1: it to I think the whole gu three thing is
Speaker 1: kind of blown out at the moment, but there is
Speaker 1: a weird, weird update on that front, so we'll do that.
Speaker 1: But the other thing is, I want to talk about
Speaker 1: worst roommates for just a moment when we come back.
Speaker 1: Whatever roommates story you got has nothing on what this
Speaker 1: roommate did to a couple they were living with.
Speaker 2: And I'll play the story for you.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna believe it, but it's coming up next
Speaker 1: in the news Junkie. Who would be the worst roommate
Speaker 1: out of the three of us if we all lived together?
Speaker 1: Who would be the worst roommate out of the three
Speaker 1: of us?
Speaker 2: And one two, three? Sabrinane. At least you went for
Speaker 2: each other, at least. I'm trying to think.
Speaker 8: I'm a very person and my roommates in the past
Speaker 8: can attest to me being a fun roommate to be around.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think i've known you at a time where
Speaker 1: you had a roommate. No, I'm trying to think because
Speaker 1: when I first met you, you had a little, tiny
Speaker 1: apartment by yourself, and then after that you've just been
Speaker 1: like with people you were.
Speaker 2: Dating and stuff.
Speaker 1: But before that, I'm imagining you've had situations where you've
Speaker 1: lived with at least one, if not more, roommates.
Speaker 2: Sabrina.
Speaker 8: Yeah, before I moved into the tiny closet downtown, was
Speaker 8: I looked with the two people and wonderful gals.
Speaker 7: We went to college together.
Speaker 8: And besides one Linguini incident, I think, what happened here
Speaker 8: lin cuisine linguini frozen and the freezer ready for me
Speaker 8: to consume his dinner.
Speaker 2: That's so I stole it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, sam ate it zam ate on the mad laninguini
Speaker 8: and I said, that wasn't my favorite.
Speaker 1: That's that's off limits. I was just talking to somebody
Speaker 1: in Chat. I said to Chat, I said, if you
Speaker 1: guys ever had a terrible roommate, and I'll give you
Speaker 1: the story of one that blows them all out of
Speaker 1: the water in a moment in the news. But somebody
Speaker 1: on Chat said I had a terrible dorm may and
Speaker 1: I forgot who was in Chat, someone inconsequential person, and
Speaker 1: they said I had a dorm mat that was bad.
Speaker 1: And I said, well, what happened? What was the thing
Speaker 1: that crossed the line? And they said they had sex
Speaker 1: on my bed? Oh they And I said, did they
Speaker 1: have their own bed in this person this random mysterious
Speaker 1: person said, uh, they had their own bed, but for
Speaker 1: some reason they had sex on mine. And I thought that,
Speaker 1: well that's quite honestly, Yeah, that's over the line. That's
Speaker 1: very weird. And I also would say that that person
Speaker 1: was a bad.
Speaker 2: Roommate bunk mates to their permission. What do you mean.
Speaker 1: You have your own bed, have sex in your bed?
Speaker 1: Why on earth would you need to do anything in
Speaker 1: my bed? This this is weird, if anything.
Speaker 8: But at least dorm well it was happening, like in
Speaker 8: the bed alongside the roommate that was banging on their beds.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know if they were. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Random person, let me know, give me an update, she says,
Speaker 1: I hate him. This is bootsy. This is coming from
Speaker 1: Bootsy moonshine over on Twitch, and I really appreciate your story.
Speaker 1: That is overkill and bad roommate behavior. The story in
Speaker 1: the news that I'm gonna plant a second is worse
Speaker 1: than that, believe it or not. I gotta tell you though,
Speaker 1: other than one thing, I had a roommate. Okay, I
Speaker 1: did have a roommate where there was a bit of
Speaker 1: an issue, but it wasn't what you would think would
Speaker 1: be the most common cases that you would see in
Speaker 1: news stories.
Speaker 2: Roommates probably fight over something.
Speaker 1: Sabrina already mentioned cleanliness, that like if somebody's a slab
Speaker 1: that you're living with and you want to keep things clean.
Speaker 1: That's probably one of the biggest fights. Somebody in chat
Speaker 1: said their roommate paid them an all change to pay
Speaker 1: the power bill or cable bill one time. That too,
Speaker 1: would be incredibly annoying. The issue I had was I
Speaker 1: was twenty years old at this point in time, fifty four,
Speaker 1: and I said to this person. I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: do you want to get a place together? And they're like, hell, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's do it. And I find this townhouse and we
Speaker 1: get this townhouse together. And at the time, we were
Speaker 1: both just single guys, just doing our thing, hanging out,
Speaker 1: and I said, this will be fun, man, We'll go
Speaker 1: to the bar, well, we work near each other.
Speaker 2: Everything would be cool.
Speaker 1: And then three months into him being my roommate, he
Speaker 1: started sleeping with Dylan's.
Speaker 2: Mother and.
Speaker 1: I said, of all of all the places, of all
Speaker 1: I probably didn't say of all the places, I probably
Speaker 1: had some choice things said, but I was like, of
Speaker 1: all of the gin joints in town and he's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I did, and he of all the bill was already alive.
Speaker 2: Dylan was alive.
Speaker 7: Yes, he calling your roommate uncle, at the time.
Speaker 2: He was way too young. He was just a teeny
Speaker 2: little thing at that point in time, and.
Speaker 1: I go, well, dude, there's so many people, there's women everywhere,
Speaker 1: and that's what he went for. And that was sort
Speaker 1: of the beginning of the end. And then I had
Speaker 1: a roommate switch.
Speaker 2: Up after that.
Speaker 1: But this is this is pretty bad you've had. You've
Speaker 1: had roommates, many had a handful of roommates. From the
Speaker 1: stories you tell, it seems like you might be on
Speaker 1: the bad roommates side of things.
Speaker 2: Why would I be on the bad roommate side of Wait?
Speaker 1: Was it you that threw fireworks into your roommate's room?
Speaker 1: That one?
Speaker 5: I forgot We did that. Yeah, he was trying to
Speaker 5: have sex.
Speaker 2: I forgot got him a bit, and we tell.
Speaker 1: Me it was Dylan's mom to take the story.
Speaker 2: No, he was.
Speaker 5: He was trying to uh get lucky, and we decided
Speaker 5: that we would screw with him trying to screw by No,
Speaker 5: it wasn't him.
Speaker 2: By lighting bottle rockets and.
Speaker 5: Shooting them under that gap between your door and the floor,
Speaker 5: that's a bad roommate's funny. He was also kind of
Speaker 5: a terrorist of a person, so like you know he
Speaker 5: would he would do it to you.
Speaker 1: The only way this makes sense is if you guys
Speaker 1: were doing this tit for tat like was and not tattoo,
Speaker 1: but like back and forth? Did did he did he
Speaker 1: do something like this to you? And you guys would
Speaker 1: normally prank each other back and forth. That's the only
Speaker 1: way out of being a bad roommate. I think he
Speaker 1: had other things that he would do. And you know,
Speaker 1: just we were we were young dudes, just having having
Speaker 1: young dude time a lot good you young dude time.
Speaker 1: That's what they call it. What everybody says a lot
Speaker 1: of I'm seeing a lot of people in Chad who
Speaker 1: have similar experiences. Let me bring you the story really quickly,
Speaker 1: so you guys get to two is going on?
Speaker 5: Somebody says, Doug, do you still want to live with
Speaker 5: Sealan Millionaires said Sea Lane would be an awesome roommate.
Speaker 5: Earlier might have changed his mind.
Speaker 1: Well, this is from ABC News and a California couple.
Speaker 2: They had a roommate.
Speaker 1: I could see a couple of things in the in
Speaker 1: the kitchen here, like there's like a to do list
Speaker 1: and stuff. But the most notable thing in the kitchen
Speaker 1: is that the roommate is wearing a gas mask and
Speaker 1: appears to have some sort of can in his hand.
Speaker 1: So let me sure you just how bad it gets
Speaker 1: in some of these circumstances. And here's what this roommate did.
Speaker 1: He's spraying this morning she bugs spread.
Speaker 12: Inside a California home. A couple says, this is their
Speaker 12: roommate in a gas mask, covering their foods, kicken and
Speaker 12: pantry with insect poison.
Speaker 7: This has been a nightmare, total nightmare.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's a strange couple right there. I just have
Speaker 1: to mention this is the couple.
Speaker 7: She looked together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's mother.
Speaker 1: She looks markedly younger than him, I mean older, rather older.
Speaker 1: She looks like she might be sixty five, and he
Speaker 1: looks like he might be twenty five.
Speaker 2: But I'm not sure. Maybe there's something I'm missing here.
Speaker 1: This is the couple and their roommate was taking bug
Speaker 1: spray and spraying on their dishes, their food, everything in
Speaker 1: the kitchen, which could probably I don't know if it
Speaker 1: can kill you.
Speaker 2: I might be exaggerating with that.
Speaker 7: Certainly you very sick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it ain't good to say the least would be
Speaker 1: really bad.
Speaker 12: Nightmare Billy Hopper and her husband David say they've had
Speaker 12: repeated problems with their roommate, forty two year old Timothy Bradbury.
Speaker 12: They installed security cameras inside their Santa Clarita house after
Speaker 12: they say their clothes were cut up, their property destroyed,
Speaker 12: and their food was thrown away like a.
Speaker 2: Careful Yeah, this guy's great. This guy's crazy.
Speaker 1: And they shows him walking around their house and he's
Speaker 1: wearing when he's not wearing the gas mask, he was
Speaker 1: wearing like an N ninety five mask inside their house, and.
Speaker 7: A body camp was that he.
Speaker 1: Had a police body cam strapped to his chest, which
Speaker 1: inside your house? Like, what what kind of war is
Speaker 1: going on between these roommates?
Speaker 2: This has got to end, man, this is not We're
Speaker 2: not good.
Speaker 12: Started having serious health issues.
Speaker 7: I've been so sick this past year that I haven't
Speaker 7: made hard.
Speaker 2: To do anything because of this guy.
Speaker 7: Jesus, my husband's been sick.
Speaker 2: We were both in the er within the last two weeks.
Speaker 12: They say their doctors seedy, they might have been poisoned.
Speaker 12: They checked out the footage from the cameras and this
Speaker 12: is what they saw.
Speaker 1: Okay, he's like straight up spraying it directly on apples
Speaker 1: and bananas and okay.
Speaker 2: All the fruit.
Speaker 5: If he has been doing this, how does the place
Speaker 5: not just consistently smell like bug spray?
Speaker 2: Would that go away if you did this after a.
Speaker 5: Little while the smell maybe, but you'd think if he was,
Speaker 5: that's a lot of bugs spray.
Speaker 1: He's hitting it. Yeah, he is not letting up on
Speaker 1: that nozzle. He's letting the cant go.
Speaker 12: Everything from their groceries to the coffee pot they used
Speaker 12: daily is infuriating.
Speaker 13: It.
Speaker 1: It's really heartbreaking too to see somebody who says mental
Speaker 1: health problems doing something like that.
Speaker 12: They called the authorities and the Santa Clarita Sheriff's office
Speaker 12: is when they made contact with Bradberry, he barricaded himself inside.
Speaker 12: It took two hours before he eventually surrendered. Investigators say
Speaker 12: family members told them Bradberry has a mental disability DOI.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how does it for attempted poisoning? But he's already
Speaker 2: been released, all right.
Speaker 1: Maybe the answer to these kind of stories is what
Speaker 1: what is the like questionnaire you're tossing out there for
Speaker 1: roommates that you're taking in this room? Picking a roommate
Speaker 1: like I was always blown away at roommates, dot com
Speaker 1: and stuff. Picking a roommate should not be a willy
Speaker 1: nilly process. Picking a roommate should be every bit as strict,
Speaker 1: if not more strict, than picking a partner, Like picking
Speaker 1: somebody you're gonna date, somebody you're gonna be a boyfriend
Speaker 1: or girlfriends.
Speaker 2: That's not a good idea.
Speaker 1: As you know, this is a bad idea. You should
Speaker 1: have such a strict, long process. Here are the things
Speaker 1: in life. If you are an employer so you're hiring people,
Speaker 1: If you're an employer, if you're somebody who is dating people,
Speaker 1: or if you're somebody looking for a roommate. This none
Speaker 1: of these at all should be simple, simple things to make.
Speaker 2: As a decision.
Speaker 1: You should sit down, talk to people, Spend some time
Speaker 1: around them. See if your personalities work well with each other.
Speaker 1: See if they're crazy, See if they wear body cams
Speaker 1: and spray raid on your your bananas. Take some time
Speaker 1: figure that out. Spend some time with these people. Why
Speaker 1: on earth would you like they got into it. They're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this guy is really he's mentally ill. He needs some help. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but how did you get to the point where he
Speaker 1: was your roommate? That would be the problem that I
Speaker 1: had with all of this, and I think maybe you
Speaker 1: would agree. Let us know, send a dispatch over at
Speaker 1: thenewsjunkie dot com.
Speaker 2: Let us know what you think.
Speaker 1: There's so many people who have had these sorts of situations.
Speaker 1: I don't know that they've had it quite this bad,
Speaker 1: Tommy says. Who hasn't barricaded themselves in an apartment to
Speaker 1: evade police custody?
Speaker 2: Happens all the time? Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, Well, you
Speaker 2: know what we learned.
Speaker 5: We learned from Antonio Brown that that works, you know, true,
Speaker 5: he did.
Speaker 8: Just wait about and Chris Brown, I believe he said
Speaker 8: sucker fart to the concept for three days.
Speaker 1: You wait them out long enough, I can't win, but
Speaker 1: this guy gave up eventually.
Speaker 2: Here let us know if you have any.
Speaker 1: Stories like this and send your dispatches, recorded dispatches, record
Speaker 1: an audio or video message to be on the show.
Speaker 2: At the news junkie dot com.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see here, we're gonna take quick break,
Speaker 1: we come back. We've got I've got to get into that.
Speaker 1: We're full clown show material on the Nancy Guthrie missing
Speaker 1: person case because of something gonna happened last night, so
Speaker 1: I'll have to work that update in at some point.
Speaker 1: We've we've got the next episode on the Way. We
Speaker 1: got this week in Florida. On the Way, it's a Friday,
Speaker 1: Let's have some fun together. That is coming up next
Speaker 1: on the news junk Keye. The Nancy Guthrie case. We're
Speaker 1: sort of a a part where a lot of people
Speaker 1: are over it, which sucks because, I mean, there's a
Speaker 1: missing elderly woman at the center of all this, like
Speaker 1: the legitimately a victim at the center of all this,
Speaker 1: and it's gotten to total clown show material moment. You've
Speaker 1: got tip lines flooded with useless tips, crazy people who
Speaker 1: hear that there's a million dollars online from the family
Speaker 1: and if they give the tip that that leads to
Speaker 1: the person who's got Nancy Guthrie, they'll be a millionaire.
Speaker 7: And so just make stuff up. Did you see the number?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: How many seifty moments after she announced the one million
Speaker 8: dollar reward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there's a lot the phones are ringing NonStop,
Speaker 1: and the one person said, I have a tip for you.
Speaker 1: There are underground tunnels and she was knuck out through
Speaker 1: the tunnels and this should be a comment on a
Speaker 1: YouTube video somewhere. This shouldn't be a tip that's coming
Speaker 1: into the police. That's what's happening in this case. It's
Speaker 1: a clown territory now because the cops don't appear to
Speaker 1: be making any actual progress. They don't appear to be
Speaker 1: making any progress. And I know a lot of people
Speaker 1: are bringing up the Elizabeth Smart case and going, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: she was missing for six months, Sean, she was missing
Speaker 1: for six months, and then the cops years old with
Speaker 1: u heart issues. That's absolutely true, se Lane. She was
Speaker 1: a young girl at the time. Elizabeth Smart was number
Speaker 1: one and number two. If people back then, when Elizabeth
Speaker 1: Smart was missing and months were going by, were shouting, hey,
Speaker 1: the cops aren't doing a great job. In retrospect, they
Speaker 1: would have been right because in the Elizabeth Smart case,
Speaker 1: right around that time, her sister goes, I remember, I
Speaker 1: remember who was in the room, and the cops go
Speaker 1: what oh, yoh. She says she remembers because she was
Speaker 1: the only witness to this. She's just a little kid.
Speaker 2: Let's listen. Everybody gather around.
Speaker 1: Listen, and the cops gathered round, and Elizabeth Smart's sister
Speaker 1: said it was this guy and the cops are cad,
Speaker 1: you're being ridiculous. Come shut up, kid, go play Nintendo
Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, And they waited months more before they
Speaker 1: actually released or found Elizabeth Smart up in the mountains where.
Speaker 2: The guy is named like Muhammad or something.
Speaker 1: He was a lunatic, self described prophet type dude, and
Speaker 1: he had her up in those mountains right above where
Speaker 1: the house was for six months. But those cops weren't
Speaker 1: doing a bang up job. They made a lot of mistakes, unfortunately.
Speaker 1: And this case, if you want to compare it to that,
Speaker 1: well maybe it is a good comparison because it doesn't
Speaker 1: look like the cops have a whole hell of a
Speaker 1: lot of leads. Considering a man dressed in a ski
Speaker 1: mask went to an elderly woman's house in the middle
Speaker 1: of the night and just took her. And that to
Speaker 1: me is you know, frightening enough on a tell. But
Speaker 1: we've gone into clown territory. There was some guy who
Speaker 1: was arrested and I hear you know, you see like
Speaker 1: the fake news headlines coming in arrest made in Nancy
Speaker 1: Guthrie case, somewhat arrested at Nancy Guthrie's house and even wait,
Speaker 1: what's going on with what's happening here? Turns out the media,
Speaker 1: who's whoever's left?
Speaker 2: Some of them have left ABC News, streamer are still
Speaker 2: out there.
Speaker 1: Some of the streamers are still out there. That's still
Speaker 1: smaller group because they have less hope that this lady's
Speaker 1: still alive.
Speaker 2: Some guy pulls up.
Speaker 1: And he cruises down the road at the absolute minimum speed.
Speaker 1: His car will go in Nancy Guthrie's neighborhood, and then
Speaker 1: he turns around, and then he cruises back by Nancy
Speaker 1: Guthrie's house. And then he turns around and he goes
Speaker 1: back and he went back and forth about a hundred times.
Speaker 1: And then the media outlets who are there go, what
Speaker 1: is with this weird guy who's slowly driving past Nancy
Speaker 1: Guthrie's house looking at her. They go over to the
Speaker 1: window and this guy is driving while he's on his phone,
Speaker 1: looking staring, staring at a photo of Nancy Guthrie. He's
Speaker 1: going like a mile an hour, staring at a photo
Speaker 1: of Nancy Guthrie on his phone, and he just keeps
Speaker 1: going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth
Speaker 1: by by your house. And finally the media let's go
Speaker 1: that guy something's wrong here, and the cops pull him over,
Speaker 1: and the dude was just drunk out of his mind,
Speaker 1: just completely hammered, so drunk that he showed up at
Speaker 1: this house and was going back and forth.
Speaker 5: Man, there's a lot of things I care to do
Speaker 5: when I'm drunk, And first of all, drive a car
Speaker 5: at all is far from it. But drive a car
Speaker 5: super slowly back and forth, over and over and over,
Speaker 5: and like staring at times.
Speaker 7: Yeah, imagine being that drunk brains. I want to find that.
Speaker 7: I'll find the old lady.
Speaker 2: I got it.
Speaker 8: I have to drive by and put the oos together
Speaker 8: in my head.
Speaker 1: I just gotta get a little closer. And either's driving
Speaker 1: by and the guy was drunk. It's a clown show.
Speaker 1: Outside of this thing, all you want is for this
Speaker 1: woman to be found and for the family to be
Speaker 1: made whole again and to.
Speaker 2: Be able to put this past them. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Those aren't the stories that I'm seeing. I'm sorry, that's
Speaker 1: that's not what I see out there. All right, We
Speaker 1: got to get to you. Your dispatches are coming in.
Speaker 1: We'll hear from you just moments from now. On the show,
Speaker 1: people also responding to the worst roommate in the world.
Speaker 2: Who was in that story.
Speaker 1: And I said, if you're gonna have a roommate, a
Speaker 1: roommate is somebody you're gonna cohabitate with. That's even if
Speaker 1: this is like somebody you want to date and live with,
Speaker 1: or like if you're gonna have anybody who's gonna live
Speaker 1: under the same roof as you.
Speaker 2: And therefore, in many.
Speaker 1: States, gain a bunch of rights because you have allowed
Speaker 1: them to live under your roof. You can't just boot
Speaker 1: them out. You can't just say you see you later,
Speaker 1: I don't like you anymore. Yeah, you better make sure
Speaker 1: you are vetting those people better than the people in
Speaker 1: the news story where their roommate was captured on video
Speaker 1: spraying bug spray all over all of the food in
Speaker 1: the house and sport emails on this front says what's
Speaker 1: up junkies? Hello and the bug spray roommate guy. If
Speaker 1: one of his roommates would have died, he would have
Speaker 1: been charged with murder, right, so the fact that they
Speaker 1: didn't die, how is he not charged with attempted murder?
Speaker 1: How does that work? Have a great weekend and keep
Speaker 1: up the great work you heroes, says this person I'll
Speaker 1: take you.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate the email. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that that does seem like something
Speaker 1: that should bring some serious charges with it. You have
Speaker 1: to know when you're spraying poison on food, that you're
Speaker 1: possibly going to be doing a lot of harm, maybe
Speaker 1: even death to the person that will be eating that food,
Speaker 1: and that they wouldn't be aware that you were doing this,
Speaker 1: And in fact, that the very least should be treated
Speaker 1: just like somebody putting something in your coffee, putting something
Speaker 1: gross in your coffee, any of that stuff should be
Speaker 1: treated in a very very similar way. But I stand
Speaker 1: by this. If you're going to have anybody in your
Speaker 1: house like that, you need to vet these people, and
Speaker 1: you need to vet them really, really good.
Speaker 2: Let us know what you think.
Speaker 1: Send us a dispatch to join the show audio or
Speaker 1: video dispatch. Record yours now over on the website at
Speaker 1: the news junkie dot com, or send an email if
Speaker 1: you want to be anonymous. When you get on the
Speaker 1: show with your email, put it on top of tips
Speaker 1: at thenewsjunkie dot com. Tony says I visited Saint Louis,
Speaker 1: Missouri one time. He's talking about the person the semi
Speaker 1: truck driver driving the wrong direction. My friend and I
Speaker 1: were driving downtown at around three am. We approached an
Speaker 1: intersection and it just seemed wrong. It took several seconds
Speaker 1: until we realized we were looking at the back of
Speaker 1: the traffic lights. We were going the wrong way on
Speaker 1: a one way street. We were very lucky there were
Speaker 1: no other cars or police in that area. Very scary. Well,
Speaker 1: it's not uncommon for you to get turned around in
Speaker 1: like a downtown area and you go on to a
Speaker 1: one way street.
Speaker 8: And you go, oh my god, this is like Savannah,
Speaker 8: or it's like I'm going against traffic and a turn left.
Speaker 7: Then I'm also going the wrong way.
Speaker 1: Scary and it can, but I think that could happen
Speaker 1: to anybody. I don't think semi truck drivers end up
Speaker 1: driving the wrong way down a road. When they know English,
Speaker 1: when they understand the road signs in the United States
Speaker 1: of America, when they understand our traffic laws, when they
Speaker 1: understand what should be the absolute bare minimum for somebody
Speaker 1: to get behind a giant, deadly missile of a vehicle
Speaker 1: at over eighty thousand pounds and be able to steer
Speaker 1: the thing.
Speaker 5: There's pretty much little to no situation in which you
Speaker 5: drive a semi truck and do not have some sort
Speaker 5: of GPS assistance?
Speaker 2: Am I wrong there? I would think so you would
Speaker 2: think I'm wrong?
Speaker 1: No, No, no, I would I would think that you're
Speaker 1: You're right that most people well, although then again, whenever
Speaker 1: somebody asks for directions or something, I'm like, doesn't literally
Speaker 1: everyone have GPS?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: So yeah, but I'm talking semi truck driver. Yeah, that
Speaker 2: must most. There's no way most of them, don't it.
Speaker 8: I did eighty one thousand miles prior to that with
Speaker 8: no incident, at least that was caught.
Speaker 1: The company did the company that I guess the truck
Speaker 1: was part of, did that much. He had another person
Speaker 1: in the car who when the cops pulled him over,
Speaker 1: they let the person who was like sleeping in the
Speaker 1: cab take over, but the Somalian dude who is behind
Speaker 1: the wheel, they end up giving him a charge for
Speaker 1: driving the wrong way for I think it was like
Speaker 1: ten minutes, fifteen minutes, twelve minutes, something like that. The
Speaker 1: distance that this guy drove the wrong way on the
Speaker 1: highway and driving it a good rate of speed, people
Speaker 1: flying around him. People could have died just crazy somebody
Speaker 1: with a stupid parent moment here on the show, because
Speaker 1: there was a story about that earlier, swinging all over
Speaker 1: the place here today. This story about that was this
Speaker 1: kid went to school and I think it was.
Speaker 2: In Tampa or where was he?
Speaker 5: Tampa was the news station that covered it, so we're
Speaker 5: assuming that it was close by.
Speaker 2: He'll keep he was.
Speaker 1: Some kid who went to school and accidentally his parents
Speaker 1: send him along with an alcoholic beverage that they thought
Speaker 1: was just like some kind of fruit drink and the refrigerator.
Speaker 1: And that opens things up to other parents who have
Speaker 1: made mistakes. Rock Sand says, I went to pick up
Speaker 1: my eight year old from karate class after work on Halloween.
Speaker 1: I was dressed in a scream mask in a black robe.
Speaker 1: I peeked my face in the window before I went in.
Speaker 1: I heard all the younger kids screaming and crying.
Speaker 2: Not such a good idea.
Speaker 7: Oh that's great.
Speaker 1: The teacher was not happy with me, needless to say, oops,
Speaker 1: it says Rock Sand, thank you for the story. I
Speaker 1: appreciate that. I want to come back the next episode
Speaker 1: with Sabrina. What's coming up on the next episode, What's.
Speaker 8: Coming on the next Deft e Oude an update on
Speaker 8: Chila buff and his New Orleans Shenanigans. He's trading in
Speaker 8: his beads for twelve court ordered steps. It's been so
Speaker 8: long that the crazies have bestowed a gift to twenty
Speaker 8: twenty six in the world. A new celebrity clone conspiracy
Speaker 8: plus this week in Hollywood TMI and involves turns and
Speaker 8: prosthetic stars of the Brown Con. I'll find so much
Speaker 8: more coming up on the next episode.
Speaker 2: And that is coming up next on the News.
Speaker 1: Chunkie the thing getting the most bites on the show
Speaker 1: so far, which I love.
Speaker 2: I want more of this. I want more of this.
Speaker 1: We were talking about the story out of It happened
Speaker 1: to be out of Georgia, and it was a little
Speaker 1: kid who went to school and the cops shared the
Speaker 1: photograph of his lunchbox with Dorito's Nacho cheese and all
Speaker 1: sorts of other things like what looked like a lunchible,
Speaker 1: and then there was a hop water something con in
Speaker 1: there cut water. It was a can of alcohol, which
Speaker 1: whoever put this together had thought was just a drink
Speaker 1: that the kid.
Speaker 2: Can have canned Lemon drop martini, Oh martini.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I said it like it was bigger than the
Speaker 8: word cutwater, which may be worth something. Got confused, but
Speaker 8: Martini was giant on the can.
Speaker 5: Yeah, alcohol and not even something. The first time, I
Speaker 5: didn't know white claw was alcohol.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say not even the first time
Speaker 1: we talked about a mix up like this happening because
Speaker 1: we've had a bus driver who said she grabbed a
Speaker 1: drink out of her shared refrigerator and she was driving
Speaker 1: around with the kids, and they said, what the heck's
Speaker 1: going on here? She's openly drinking a white claw. She
Speaker 1: didn't know it was alcoholic, And so we were talking
Speaker 1: about parenting mistakes that came as a result of this story.
Speaker 1: Cliff emails the show tips the New Junky dot Com.
Speaker 2: Listening to the.
Speaker 1: Show about the alcoholic beverage in the kids lunchbox made
Speaker 1: me think of a funny story for you guys. I
Speaker 1: was driving my kids to school and were running a
Speaker 1: little bit late. I cracked the refrigerator and grabbed a Celsius,
Speaker 1: packed the kids, we took off, and I was sitting
Speaker 1: in the bus loop. I'm pretty friendly with the cops
Speaker 1: and the staff and everybody. They're relatively nice. So I
Speaker 1: had my windows down, and I was chit chatting. I
Speaker 1: reached over and cracked open my celsius. Thank goodness, I
Speaker 1: didn't take a drink. Turns out I had grabbed a
Speaker 1: white claw myself. Oh it was seven in the morning,
Speaker 1: he says. Oh, so at being in the bus loop,
Speaker 1: you know, with all the other parents, and you look
Speaker 1: over and you go, huh. The people I'm talking to,
Speaker 1: including cops, are noticing that I am cracking open a
Speaker 1: white claw right now. Made a parenting mistake. Give us
Speaker 1: more of those tips at the news Junkie dot com.
Speaker 1: Tips at the Newsjunkie dot com. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: into it. Let's do the next stepisode.
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Speaker 2: I have to at least admit guilt to something. It's
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Speaker 2: I did.
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Speaker 7: Who is the.
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Oh that's right. Time to be flying.
Speaker 1: You brought up because I think she might be in
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame or up for the Hall of.
Speaker 8: Fame nominee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Speaker 8: And she was rocking and rolling rolling twenty nine years
Speaker 8: ago when she was arrested in Jamaica for disobeying a
Speaker 8: police officer. A warrant was issued for arrest, and after
Speaker 8: she failed to appear for the hearings of disobeying a
Speaker 8: police signal disorderly conduct after an alleged high speed chase,
Speaker 8: and Shadday lived to tell the tailor we'll maybe never
Speaker 8: talk about it again either way. Congratulations on your Jamaica
Speaker 8: arrest anniversary. Now let's go to more modern time.
Speaker 2: A lot happened on the February twenty seven an say.
Speaker 8: That not a lot at all. Next year, I'll bring
Speaker 8: this up the one year anniversary. The man has been
Speaker 8: ordered to attend to rehab and undergo drug testing program following.
Speaker 7: The arrest in New Orleans this week.
Speaker 8: Last week a month ago, actor was arrested in charge
Speaker 8: with battery in mid February after allegedly assaulting two men
Speaker 8: at a business, and then a New Orleans Criminal District
Speaker 8: Court judge, Simone Levigne revoked his jail release on his
Speaker 8: own recognisance, meaning he originally been released without posting bail.
Speaker 8: Then he got a bond of one hundred thousand dollars,
Speaker 8: So that's some from no bail to one hundred grand.
Speaker 7: It is quite a jump.
Speaker 8: He appeared in the courtroom alongside his attorney, bonded out immediately,
Speaker 8: and the judges now imposed the conditions of going to
Speaker 8: rehab and getting drug tested, so we'll see it wasn't
Speaker 8: he filming a movie there? So did it work out
Speaker 8: timing wise?
Speaker 1: He was filming a movie elsewhere that we had a
Speaker 1: dispatcher they said he was filming a movie elsewhere in Louisiana.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now I had just heard, like just it's just drama
Speaker 1: all over his life.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but I'm sure it's going to lead to a
Speaker 8: very impressive acting role in the near future. And it
Speaker 8: probably won't be on Netflix because they have pulled out
Speaker 8: out of the Warner Brothers race after superior Paramount bid.
Speaker 8: That was the big story where they never released the
Speaker 8: actual number, but it was supposed to be in the
Speaker 8: billions right as far as that.
Speaker 2: Buy, it was a massive deal. Yeah.
Speaker 8: And now the streaming platforms co CEOs, Ted Surroundos and
Speaker 8: Greg Peters have released the statement saying that they are
Speaker 8: out and now who is going to be the big
Speaker 8: buyer of Paramount the latest offer?
Speaker 7: The deal is no longer financially.
Speaker 8: Attractive, they say, so we are to finding to match
Speaker 8: the Paramount sky Dance.
Speaker 2: Bitch, I've been told that before.
Speaker 7: And how did that work out?
Speaker 1: Is that radio negotiations? The deal is no longer attractive
Speaker 1: to us.
Speaker 7: I'll say they described Warner Bros.
Speaker 8: As a world class organization and thank the conglomerates bosses.
Speaker 8: We believe it would have been a strong steward of
Speaker 8: Warner Bros. Iconic brands. But we ouch now. I don't
Speaker 8: know how to segue into this. I also don't know
Speaker 8: why this is the headline, but Hollywood sets can get
Speaker 8: very weird. In the past, the three of us have
Speaker 8: had our prank moments. I mean, prank Monkey was Shawn's
Speaker 8: nickname for a while there, just making it rain cash
Speaker 8: for ceiling and I to do different pranks. This is
Speaker 8: beyond anything that I don't know if we would have
Speaker 8: accepted money for. But I bring you to the set
Speaker 8: of Interstellar. Matthewconaughey and Timothy Shalomey. They're both in that
Speaker 8: that's what they became buddies. And according to Shall May,
Speaker 8: he recently took part in a University of Texas event
Speaker 8: talking about Marty Supreme or what it is to be
Speaker 8: an actor, and for some reason he shared this story.
Speaker 8: I got to say my last down Interstellar. I was
Speaker 8: sad to be leaving. I was in my trailer. I
Speaker 8: went to the bathroom and there was a huge turn.
Speaker 7: In my toilet.
Speaker 8: Okay, I felt so disrespected. I know I'm not the
Speaker 8: star of this movie, but who's coming in here? Turns
Speaker 8: out the matt pooper none other than Matthew McConaughey as
Speaker 8: a prime all Right, you couldn't tell why'd you do that?
Speaker 2: Got all ride in Texas?
Speaker 8: It's a coming of age baby, and you came two
Speaker 8: eighty ray Texas and the rest of this is very boring.
Speaker 8: I don't know how you follow up at the University
Speaker 8: of Texas with that story.
Speaker 7: And you guys, tell me about your meta.
Speaker 1: Anybody watched Marty Supremia, No tining for it to be
Speaker 1: It's good? Yeah, yeah, I mean Timothy Challame, I really
Speaker 1: think is like the Leonardo DiCaprio of now. He picks
Speaker 1: a lot of weird things and then puts a lot
Speaker 1: of work into it, like he did the Bob Dylan movie,
Speaker 1: where he really put a lot, Like he learned how
Speaker 1: to play the guitar so he wouldn't look like an
Speaker 1: idiot fake playing the guitar in this And we learned
Speaker 1: a lot about ping pong. I didn't know much about
Speaker 1: the story, and I was worried about a ping pong
Speaker 1: movie same. But Chalame is good man. I think he's
Speaker 1: really good. I like what he's doing right now.
Speaker 7: That's on Amanda se Fried.
Speaker 2: I like her a lot.
Speaker 7: Yeah, have you seen The Housemaid yet?
Speaker 1: I did see The Housemaid was pretty good. Like if
Speaker 1: you like a twisty turney movie, my god.
Speaker 2: That one serves it up for you. That's that's exactly
Speaker 2: what it was meant to do.
Speaker 8: I haven't seen it yet, but I am a twisty
Speaker 8: antorney at the piece of news that has been shared,
Speaker 8: and I guess a little bit of.
Speaker 7: A spoiler alert that you will be seeing prosthetic one.
Speaker 8: To be exact, that is what she's sharing in a
Speaker 8: recent movie. It wasn't a Housemaid, the Testament of Anne Lee,
Speaker 8: an eighteenth century religious figure that she played, and in
Speaker 8: this movie it needed to be graphic. At the end
Speaker 8: of the movie, I'm standing in front of a burning
Speaker 8: building with just the murkin.
Speaker 7: I felt so free. And you can't see her brown
Speaker 7: star in the scene because they made it a prosthetic.
Speaker 2: Is the coming out on, by the way, it's the hair,
Speaker 2: pubic hair, right.
Speaker 7: Yeah, she's wearing that. And then I guess they make prosthetics.
Speaker 2: Now like a p wig. What Yeah, yeah, for sure,
Speaker 2: something else.
Speaker 8: But I didn't know that they made prosthetic backsites, or
Speaker 8: that they would expose it so much in a religious
Speaker 8: movie that's coming out on Christmas Day.
Speaker 2: But I neither.
Speaker 1: I do know that Amanda say Freed Courtney follows her
Speaker 1: on Instagram and she seems like a real sweet character.
Speaker 1: She has her own font, and she lives on this
Speaker 1: big farm and takes pictures of her goats and stuff
Speaker 1: and your dream, right, she seems nice.
Speaker 13: You still want a.
Speaker 2: Farm, Shawn.
Speaker 1: And the more and more I look at it, the
Speaker 1: more and more work. It looks like they put a
Speaker 1: lot of work into this stuff. Maybe when I retire,
Speaker 1: I might have some time like that, but not now.
Speaker 8: Behold, if you have the money right now, you could
Speaker 8: be the proud owner of see three pos disembodied.
Speaker 2: He that's probably a lot of money.
Speaker 8: I sent you the article that shows it, but also
Speaker 8: the entertainment Memorabilia live auction that is happening now on
Speaker 8: propstore auction dot com. And they have the light uphead
Speaker 8: from the Empire strikes Back and extremely rare fine nobody involved,
Speaker 8: and it is estimated to fetch how much money in
Speaker 8: the upcoming entertainment memorabilia.
Speaker 2: Did you want to take a six million dollars? That
Speaker 2: is way too long?
Speaker 7: All right, Sean? Do you want to take a guess?
Speaker 1: I want to guess between three hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 1: and seven hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Say it goes for a million? Corecked I probably it
Speaker 2: absolutely nailed it.
Speaker 8: According to the auction house, it's the only known example
Speaker 8: of three Po's head from the second film to appear
Speaker 8: on the collector market. So if you snag this one,
Speaker 8: it's definitely going to go for over a million dollars,
Speaker 8: then you're going to be the proud owner of that thing.
Speaker 8: They also have Luke's Hero lightsaber hitting the auction block
Speaker 8: and Ray Luke's lightsaber.
Speaker 2: Hilt of the No, it's a hilt. You got the
Speaker 2: lightsaber hilt is then your hilton?
Speaker 13: Is that?
Speaker 2: Is it a holder lightsaber hilt hilt?
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's estimated to go for fifty handle to one
Speaker 8: hundred thousand, So just the hilt, not the lightsaber, yeah.
Speaker 1: Because lights real hilt. Wow, not the light part is
Speaker 1: you know, not not the thing. It's just it's like
Speaker 1: a that's what they call him.
Speaker 2: I guess and I guess for.
Speaker 7: One hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 8: It's a downright bargain because it was just last year
Speaker 8: that Darth Vader's saber or the hilt.
Speaker 7: Went for almost four million dollars.
Speaker 5: I don't think the raised I don't think any of
Speaker 5: the stuff from the sequel trilogy will fetch nearly as
Speaker 5: much as the original trilogy.
Speaker 2: Is this real?
Speaker 13: Is it?
Speaker 14: Like?
Speaker 1: These are props from Jaws, a fishing pole and they
Speaker 1: got cool stuff at this auction.
Speaker 8: That's awesome, happy bidding everybody, and breaking news. This is
Speaker 8: certainly news to me. But we've got another celebrity clone
Speaker 8: on our hands, and he's been in front of our
Speaker 8: faces for decades. Really, thank god, the crazes have done
Speaker 8: their work. The alarm bells are sounding off and they
Speaker 8: say that Jim Carrey is a clone.
Speaker 3: Fool.
Speaker 2: I knew it that are a body.
Speaker 8: Double playing Jim Carrey because the real Jim Carrey passed
Speaker 8: away and disappeared.
Speaker 7: A long time ago.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here looking at the auction, and as you
Speaker 1: mentioned Jim Carrey, the one of the props in the
Speaker 1: auction you were talking about is the Rhino where he
Speaker 1: sailed out of its proba disappeared to Yeah, it's the
Speaker 1: actual rhino where Jim Carrey crawled out of its button.
Speaker 2: They're knowing it the butt birth weren't rhino.
Speaker 7: How much is it going for?
Speaker 2: Estimated between four and eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: But remember, Sabrina, if you're gonna put this in your
Speaker 1: house is your Your house is going to have a big,
Speaker 1: giant rhino and the first time people come over, you
Speaker 1: can pop out of the rhinos butt and go like
Speaker 1: A's ventura.
Speaker 2: And after that it's tough.
Speaker 7: So the conspiracy theory is a fun read.
Speaker 8: Fans are convinced that he died a long time ago
Speaker 8: and now we are amongst a clone on the boom dooob.
Speaker 7: Just have a great weekend, be safe, enjoy yourself.
Speaker 8: Watch the fifty seventh NAACP Image Awards if you'd like
Speaker 8: Saturday You're Alive, the thirty second SAG After Actors Awards,
Speaker 8: and the series premiere of yet another Yellowstone spin off.
Speaker 8: Fill their dreams of me on Instagram at Sabrina Ambra,
Speaker 8: but most importantly, stay with me America smopy every day.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Sabrina.
Speaker 1: They have the One of the props is the back
Speaker 1: to the Future newspaper, which I do collect newspapers, but
Speaker 1: the starting bid is one thousand, five hundred dollars for
Speaker 1: the clock tower struck by lightning newspapers.
Speaker 2: I think they've got a lot of those, though, I
Speaker 2: thought so too.
Speaker 7: This was the one that he held up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I thought, to Selian's point that they
Speaker 1: they made a bunch of these, and they've had a
Speaker 1: bunch of these out there. And while it's cool a
Speaker 1: back to the Future fake newspaper, there's one thousand, five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, is like, that's that seems.
Speaker 7: Like right, like copy image sent it to me. I'll
Speaker 7: have it printed for you.
Speaker 2: But it's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you wouldn't even really know the difference, you know.
Speaker 1: I put a lot of time and effort collecting newspapers
Speaker 1: and getting them installed in a museum glass and then.
Speaker 2: Nobody cares. And you know, most of that glass survived.
Speaker 1: That wasn't a newspaper. That was a news junkie show design.
Speaker 1: All right, quick break, let me come back. It's This
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Speaker 2: Here goes nothing. Let's do this week in Florida.
Speaker 1: He's giving you a recap of the most grown worthy
Speaker 1: stories in the States.
Speaker 2: It's this weekend, Florida. That's right. The weekend is here.
Speaker 5: That means it's time to take a trip around the
Speaker 5: Sunshine State and see some of the craziness that has
Speaker 5: gone on in the past seven days or so.
Speaker 2: And it's here, friends, the moment I have been waiting
Speaker 2: for for quite.
Speaker 5: Some time it's happened, it's been undo.
Speaker 1: You don't know.
Speaker 5: Keep talking over it, keep talking over it. Ready, we'll
Speaker 5: do this again. Nothing nothing, wipe out. WEIMO is in Orlando.
Speaker 7: You can't hear what it's saying.
Speaker 1: Go back again. There's no way that guy saying way moo.
Speaker 7: And now I hear are you like? I thought it
Speaker 7: was the band's warped tour.
Speaker 2: That's what I did too.
Speaker 1: I thought it was like a punk band singing a
Speaker 1: song called wipe Out about a friend who maybe went
Speaker 1: surfing and died because one of the waves.
Speaker 5: Was finally starting to be long awaited robo taxi service
Speaker 5: in central Florida after months of test runs, and its
Speaker 5: first official rider was Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer. He took
Speaker 5: an eight minute driverless trip on the streets of downtown
Speaker 5: Orlando Tuesday morning, ushering in a new air of autonomous
Speaker 5: vehicle rides.
Speaker 7: That's downtown, for sure, Well.
Speaker 1: It's downtown, crumbles as the man rides alone in an
Speaker 1: autonomous vehicle.
Speaker 5: It's kind of well, is not that part of downtown.
Speaker 5: It's not there yet. It's a of course, it's not.
Speaker 5: It's a little west of downtown. Actually, so far Weimo
Speaker 5: is running just a few dozen vehicles at first, so
Speaker 5: that's why not a lot of people have gotten the
Speaker 5: invitation to use the service. Yet they say they don't
Speaker 5: want ten thousand people fighting for just a couple dozen vehicles.
Speaker 2: I used it in San Francisco.
Speaker 7: Cheaper or around the same price as Uber.
Speaker 2: Around the same price. You don't got to tip them.
Speaker 2: It should be cheaper. I think it should be cheaper too. Yeah,
Speaker 2: me too.
Speaker 5: Initially, the vehicles will not drive on any expressways or
Speaker 5: interstate highways and will only service this sixty mile area
Speaker 5: that extends from west of downtown southward along the I
Speaker 5: for Corridor, but the Google subsidiary plans to expand the service.
Speaker 2: Later this year.
Speaker 5: Also, Tesla ro robotaxis have been announced to be here
Speaker 5: by I think they said June. I'm not even gonna
Speaker 5: try a song for that one, because you.
Speaker 2: Guys can't hear.
Speaker 5: Waymo's white Jaguar SUVs are affixed with twenty nine camera
Speaker 5: six radars, five light hour laser scanners, and four audio
Speaker 5: receptors to map the streets around them and get writers
Speaker 5: to their chosen location within the zone of course that
Speaker 5: they operate. So exciting stuff for people who are in
Speaker 5: that little area. Yeah, they'll start using the waymos and
Speaker 5: then they'll probably, you know, hopefully widen the area and
Speaker 5: go places I want to go.
Speaker 2: Maybe even pick me up at my house. That would
Speaker 2: be pretty sweet. Waymo.
Speaker 5: That would be just you know, come to me for
Speaker 5: advice on where you should operate, and I'll just make
Speaker 5: it the service best for me.
Speaker 1: Hey, how far do you want to go with this
Speaker 1: automated life that you're trying to live? Like, would you
Speaker 1: get into the Weaimo and then talk to a robot
Speaker 1: while you were going on your journey? What do you
Speaker 1: mean talk to a robot? Like you got a robot
Speaker 1: driving you? What if they were Like, would you like
Speaker 1: to have a conversation with the Waimo.
Speaker 2: Well, no, that's the reason you're in a Weimo, so
Speaker 2: you don't have to talk to anybody. You just want
Speaker 2: to be like loudly on your phone or something. Huh,
Speaker 2: let me be on my phone like you know, tooth
Speaker 2: in it. Sure, I don't know if you can bluetooth
Speaker 2: in the Waimo.
Speaker 5: You have, so the Waimo app does some of the
Speaker 5: controls of the car, Like you can use the app
Speaker 5: to turn the AC up and down and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: But they also have the controls when you sit in
Speaker 5: the back seat.
Speaker 2: I think that you can.
Speaker 5: You could sit in the front seat and do this too,
Speaker 5: but they have an extra touchscreen in the back that
Speaker 5: has climate controls and it has iHeartRadio loaded in so
Speaker 5: you can listen to your favorite iHeart Radio stations.
Speaker 2: I was gonna do it too, but it hurts me
Speaker 2: in the back of so uh yeah.
Speaker 5: Actually I put on our home station when we were
Speaker 5: in San Francisco just to just to.
Speaker 2: Check it out, just to say, hey, we did this
Speaker 2: company again. So that's fun news for Florida.
Speaker 5: Now not so fun news because there's a bill headed
Speaker 5: to the Senate floor and I just I just bet
Speaker 5: we're going to pass this one because we can't have
Speaker 5: nice things. But Florida could soon join the small list
Speaker 5: of states. Actually it would be the fifth state if
Speaker 5: this passes, to ban the sale of nitrous oxide at
Speaker 5: vape shops.
Speaker 2: And convenience stares. So fun.
Speaker 5: Wow, the Senate Fiscal Policy Committee, this seems like something
Speaker 5: that's not fiscal. This doesn't seem doesn't seem very fiscal,
Speaker 5: and it's not a good way to celebrate the fiscal
Speaker 5: new year. I'll tell you that the Fiscal Committee on
Speaker 5: Tuesday unanimously passed SB four three two, which would prohibit
Speaker 5: the possession, sale, furnishing of nitrous oxide, making it a
Speaker 5: third degree felony measure now headed to the Senate floor.
Speaker 5: If it passes, we would be the fifth state to
Speaker 5: ban nitrous also known as laughing guess, often sold in
Speaker 5: canisters of the dissociative anesthetic drug, traditionally used at the
Speaker 5: dentist office, but also sold at GA stations and smoke shops.
Speaker 5: I've never seen nitress at a gas station. Oh I'm
Speaker 5: not looking at the right place.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm like twenty feet from all the ingredients
Speaker 1: that I need, right.
Speaker 13: Do it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I got I got half. I got half of
Speaker 2: what I need over there. I don't have a balloon.
Speaker 8: I don't think I thought they make them. Now that
Speaker 8: you just put your mouth directly on.
Speaker 1: It, they should make it harder, not easier.
Speaker 2: They really should.
Speaker 5: If you had to guess where in Florida, this report
Speaker 5: by Moving Place says gen Z.
Speaker 2: Is flocking to Where do you think they're flocking to
Speaker 2: in Florida? I know this in Miami. It's Miami. That's
Speaker 2: where all the kids want to go.
Speaker 7: The land.
Speaker 2: This is places that they're moving to. They're moving.
Speaker 1: They're not moving to Miami. No, Miami is not on
Speaker 1: the list.
Speaker 5: A new report this week by Moving Place is revealed
Speaker 5: where gen Z is moving and one unlikely neighborhood in
Speaker 5: Florida is near the top of the list, number two
Speaker 5: on the on the top ten zip codes that gen.
Speaker 2: Z is moving to. Okay, unlikely gen Z moving there?
Speaker 7: Okay, can you maybe give a clue of those are
Speaker 7: the central and.
Speaker 2: Gen Z are the clue?
Speaker 1: Okay, most unlikely place for gen Z to be moving
Speaker 1: fellsmere I don't think this is felsmir No. The villages,
Speaker 1: they say the villages is number two behind behind Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Speaker 1: The Villages is on the list.
Speaker 2: How the Villages is old people, it's it is.
Speaker 5: Some of the villages is technically age restricted, but the
Speaker 5: retirement community may not seem like a fit for younger generations.
Speaker 5: The village's website states that people under fifty five are
Speaker 5: allowed to live there so long as they're at least
Speaker 5: nineteen years old and share a household with somebody over
Speaker 5: fifty five. Florida law allows up Florida law allows up
Speaker 5: to twenty percent of our retirement community's residents to be
Speaker 5: between the ages of eighteen and fifty five. They're saying
Speaker 5: Minneapolis took the top spot. The second zip code in
Speaker 5: the ranking was taking people by surprise. That is three
Speaker 5: four seven six two the Villages, Florida, followed by New
Speaker 5: York South Boston, Brooklyn, another New York, Nashville, and another
Speaker 5: city that used to that I mean, I think got
Speaker 5: the closest to getting its own segment on this show
Speaker 5: because we used to have a lot of weird stories
Speaker 5: from Beaverton, Oregon.
Speaker 2: That is true. Yeah, in eighth place, and then.
Speaker 5: A couple places in Wisconsin rounding out the top ten
Speaker 5: list for places where gen Z is moving. A sheriff
Speaker 5: in Palatka, the Putnam County Sheriff. He has a little
Speaker 5: bit of advice for a woman. He says, Listen, this
Speaker 5: could have been handled differently. You could have done things
Speaker 5: a little differently. So the woman accused of holding two
Speaker 5: children at gunpoint and forcing them into her car should
Speaker 5: have handled the situation better. And that seems obvious, right, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I would say, so, why did you have a gun out?
Speaker 5: According to the this is a story that we have
Speaker 5: heard before, for sure. According to the Putnam County Sheriff's Office,
Speaker 5: sixty eight year old Baby Hamilton is her name, has
Speaker 5: been charged with two counts of aggravated assault with the
Speaker 5: weapon and two counts of kidnapping of a miner in
Speaker 5: connection with the incident involving an eleven and twelve year
Speaker 5: old child. The arrest came after a deputy responded to
Speaker 5: a home in reference to a possible kidnapping complaint and
Speaker 5: interviewed all involved. According to the report, he spoke to
Speaker 5: the woman who said her son was fishing at the
Speaker 5: pond behind their apartment complex, and then she got a
Speaker 5: call from her son and could hear a woman shouting
Speaker 5: about trespassing and fishing on private property. She said, fishing
Speaker 5: on my property. Here's what I'm gonna do. Hold you
Speaker 5: at gunpoint and put you in my car. She tried
Speaker 5: talking to her son, but the call hung up. Ten
Speaker 5: minutes later, her son, cousin, and Hamilton showed up at
Speaker 5: the apartment. According to the mother, Hamilton told her the
Speaker 5: kids were trespassing her property without permission and she was
Speaker 5: going to speak to the manager.
Speaker 2: Of the property. She also said, oh, sorry, this was
Speaker 2: the sheriff say.
Speaker 1: She literally said she wanted to speak to the manager.
Speaker 1: Just full Karen Lingo at.
Speaker 5: One percent Karen, except that her name is baby, so
Speaker 5: I think she probably has had a hard time growing up.
Speaker 5: Debut conducted the search warrant at her home, found the
Speaker 5: gray Walther P twenty two point twenty two caliber handgun
Speaker 5: and a magazine loaded with eight bullets. She was arrested
Speaker 5: and held without bond. The sheriff said she could have
Speaker 5: approached this much differently, and rather than pull a handgun
Speaker 5: on them, perhaps offer them a little Debbie's cake.
Speaker 2: Treat or a soda and say we have to talk
Speaker 2: about this. Let's go see your parents.
Speaker 5: She could have taken a step further and said this
Speaker 5: is private property and I appreciate you on a fish.
Speaker 5: I'm glad you're not tearing the property up. How about
Speaker 5: you help me clean and you're welcome to come over
Speaker 5: here and fish anytime you want.
Speaker 2: Office. What's wrong with that about offering little Debbie cakes?
Speaker 7: Take the kids?
Speaker 2: This sounds like this advice came from the kids.
Speaker 7: What kind of negotia should help me clean?
Speaker 2: You should have offered us food, like if you ask
Speaker 2: the kids.
Speaker 1: How she should approach us, Well, she should have come over,
Speaker 1: she should have offered us all one hundred dollars bill
Speaker 1: and a couple of little debies and then you know
Speaker 1: this would have been better.
Speaker 7: Then come clean my house instead of fish.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, that's just the sheriff's idea. I don't
Speaker 5: know if the sheriff has kids, you know, I don't
Speaker 5: know if the sheriff should be encouraging people to offer
Speaker 5: kids food. But you know, there's other ways to do
Speaker 5: this besides hold them a gunpoint and put them in
Speaker 5: your cock or to clear water. And we've had a
Speaker 5: lot of reports about this since Florida's super speeder law
Speaker 5: was put into effect, and this one's no different.
Speaker 2: A man was arrested after police said he drove one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty nine miles an hour. But he has
Speaker 2: a reason.
Speaker 5: He has a reason, and either you got to stop
Speaker 5: talking when you get arrested for stuff like this, because
Speaker 5: you're just going to end up in the news when
Speaker 5: you have excuses like this or reasons unless you want
Speaker 5: to be in the news. And if you want to
Speaker 5: be in this week in Florida, that's what you do.
Speaker 5: You say stuff like this the clear Water. Officer conducting
Speaker 5: speed enforcement on Highway nineteen reported seeing a vehicle operated
Speaker 5: by nineteen year old Christopher Garcia Caminos going one hundred
Speaker 5: and twenty nine miles an hour despite the fifty five
Speaker 5: mile an hour speed limit. Garcia Cominos told police McDonald's
Speaker 5: took too long to make his food and he was
Speaker 5: rushing back to work because he only had a few
Speaker 5: minutes left on his break. I think he made it
Speaker 5: back in time. The teen told police he believed he
Speaker 5: was driving around one hundred miles an hour. No injuries
Speaker 5: were reported. Garcia Caminos went to Panela's County jail.
Speaker 1: Bad. You were planning things when you were young, your
Speaker 1: schedule would get like that haywire and you go back
Speaker 1: to your boss, and you boss to be like, why
Speaker 1: are you late. You'd be like, I was trying to
Speaker 1: get McDonald's and that you know I did.
Speaker 2: They took too long to make my food. Uh huh,
Speaker 2: that's their fault, not mine.
Speaker 5: Despite the McDonald's excuse, he still found himself in jail.
Speaker 5: In Miami Beach, a man was stabbed after denying sex
Speaker 5: to an adult content creator because she was not Jewish,
Speaker 5: so right he's a.
Speaker 2: Very so he has the opportunity. He's very much a Semite.
Speaker 5: An online adult content creator from Atlanta stabbed a man
Speaker 5: in a shower in Miami Beach Thursday after he denied
Speaker 5: her sex quote because she was not Jewish end quote.
Speaker 2: Police are kissing the wall, police said, he told officers.
Speaker 5: Authorities arrested Laro's Saint, a thirty year old transgender woman
Speaker 5: who advertises explicit profiles on the Fansley and ex platforms,
Speaker 5: on a felony aggravated battery charge in three misdemeanors.
Speaker 2: Uh they say, the victims said, is this story real?
Speaker 8: I have so many questions? So there shower together, and
Speaker 8: is that how he discovered that?
Speaker 2: Wasn't No, that's not the Jewish.
Speaker 1: It's it's that it's it's that it's circumcised.
Speaker 7: I can't yeah wow on the shower, so many things.
Speaker 5: According to the arrest report of the victim told officers
Speaker 5: he met Saint, whose full name is listed as Roe's
Speaker 5: Angel Saint, three weeks ago invited her to his apartment.
Speaker 5: The victim explained. After Saint arrived, he informed her they
Speaker 5: would not engage in sexual intercourse because she was not Jewish.
Speaker 5: She then became upset and requested his car, keys and money,
Speaker 5: and then things got a little stabby. She grabbed a
Speaker 5: knife from a drawer and told the victim, I'm about
Speaker 5: to crash out.
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Speaker 1: All Right, I said that a family mistakenly got caught
Speaker 1: up in a human trafficking investigation.
Speaker 7: That's a big question.
Speaker 2: Oh and wait, did you say mistakenly before the break? Well?
Speaker 1: They I don't know if I worded it exactly that
Speaker 1: way before we went to the break, but I said
Speaker 1: that they were remarkably cool about it considering the circumstances.
Speaker 2: Right, and what happened.
Speaker 5: I thought you were saying they were weirdly cool about
Speaker 5: being in the investigation, not mistakenly, and that's why I
Speaker 5: was like, Wow, that's that is an odd tease.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll preface this with a couple of things. One,
Speaker 1: they were remarkably cool about this, and you'll agree what
Speaker 1: you hear the circumstances here, And two, this is evidence
Speaker 1: that there's some people out there that are there on
Speaker 1: as high alert as you could possibly be for human
Speaker 1: trafficking type stuff. I've only encountered something like this once
Speaker 1: in my entire life, where I was in Wellington and
Speaker 1: I was at a radio station event at the time
Speaker 1: for a top forty rady station I was working for,
Speaker 1: and it was a Halloween broadcast and there was a
Speaker 1: guy who showed up and he was wearing armor and
Speaker 1: a sword and all all this stuff, and he had
Speaker 1: this little girl with him who was dressed up in
Speaker 1: a matching costume, and it was a bar and it
Speaker 1: just something felt weird. It felt like, this is not
Speaker 1: this guy's daughter. Why is this guy wandering around with
Speaker 1: a twelve or thirteen year old girl? And I just
Speaker 1: like set my alarm bells off. But mostly I don't
Speaker 1: go through life thinking that a man with a young
Speaker 1: girl isn't the father of that young girl. However, that's
Speaker 1: what happened here. Somebody saw this father and daughter and
Speaker 1: instead of thinking that's a father just spending time with
Speaker 1: his daughter, they thought this is sex trafficking. This is
Speaker 1: human trafficking that's happening here, and they called the cops
Speaker 1: on this guy. Let's get some of the story. This
Speaker 1: is from CTV up in Canada again with.
Speaker 10: A trip to a Gwelf coffee shop, a wealth dramatic
Speaker 10: turn for a father never heard of. Two other customers
Speaker 10: had concerns about their relationship and contacted police, and then
Speaker 10: before they knew it, the father and daughter had their
Speaker 10: pictures popping up on social media and investigators were on
Speaker 10: the hunt c TV Spencer Turcott spoke with everybody involved
Speaker 10: in this situation and joins US Lives Person.
Speaker 1: So this kind of came out of the I got
Speaker 1: to tell you, I if I'm just sitting there and
Speaker 1: I'm spending some time with my daughter and I and
Speaker 1: people are like bothering me, if you think there's some
Speaker 1: sort of issue you want to come up and ask
Speaker 1: a question, that would be sensible.
Speaker 2: But if, like if the cops are coming, if now
Speaker 2: there's a full.
Speaker 1: On investigation, just because I'm sitting here with my daughter,
Speaker 1: I don't think I would take it this cool. I
Speaker 1: think I would be pretty upset. But you'll hear from
Speaker 1: the father and daughter.
Speaker 10: Do last Wednesday evening for the father and the daughter, Well, Tony,
Speaker 10: it's not often you're in line for a coffee one
Speaker 10: minute and then the next please are questioning you for
Speaker 10: possible human trafficking.
Speaker 2: I hope not.
Speaker 14: A father and daughter stopping by a GWELFH coffee shop
Speaker 14: quite normal. For Jonathan Puddle and his daughter Emmy.
Speaker 15: We said, hey, do you want to go grab a coffee?
Speaker 15: So we came here and stood there and perused the menu.
Speaker 14: Little did they know tens of thousands of people would
Speaker 14: suit see their face, all right.
Speaker 1: So here he is with his daughter. He's a younger guy.
Speaker 1: He doesn't look too old to me. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they said his name, but he's like a bearded
Speaker 1: gud I mean, might be in his thirties or something.
Speaker 1: And his daughter, you know, she just looks like a
Speaker 1: teenage girls who's with him. I don't see anything weird
Speaker 1: about this. I don't think anything that would set off.
Speaker 2: An alarm bell for me.
Speaker 1: And I mean save for like if they were making
Speaker 1: out with each other, and then I'd go, okay, well,
Speaker 1: this is obviously weird what's going on here?
Speaker 2: This would not have caused an issue for me.
Speaker 14: A security camera photo of the two we are widely
Speaker 14: by twelfth Police asking for the public's help to locate ends.
Speaker 2: Oh god.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's a photo of a father and his daughter
Speaker 1: online and it says the Police Service would like to
Speaker 1: speak with the people in this as a response to.
Speaker 2: An ongoing investigation.
Speaker 1: Here's a phone number, and here's an email address, and
Speaker 1: then it's got him and his daughter. And they were like,
Speaker 1: were they look like criminals?
Speaker 15: So we sat down just over there and ate our
Speaker 15: snacks and chatted about nonsense, and then we went out
Speaker 15: and got.
Speaker 2: In the van. Okay, the questions.
Speaker 7: Exactly it.
Speaker 2: The van is the problem, isn't it.
Speaker 1: It's like the woman whoever was seeing this and going,
Speaker 1: this is human trafficking, this is sex trafficking. They're like, no,
Speaker 1: it's not. Just calm down, just show us a picture.
Speaker 2: Of the van. Wait, they're leaving. They're leaving, they're leaving.
Speaker 1: They're getting in a white van. I this guy is
Speaker 1: so chill considering this. If somebody did this to me,
Speaker 1: I'd be so mad.
Speaker 2: But let's see this van. Nothing of it.
Speaker 14: As they pulled out, there was a knock on the
Speaker 14: van window. It was a young man and his girlfriend,
Speaker 14: who Jonathan recognized from inside the coffee shop.
Speaker 15: Said, can you explain how you're related to her?
Speaker 2: And so I said, yeah, this is my daughter.
Speaker 14: I was kind of like looking at her to see
Speaker 14: if she would give me anything.
Speaker 15: She didn't really help much because she just kind of
Speaker 15: clammed up and didn't really say anything.
Speaker 2: Oh no, oh no. So the guy goes over and goes,
Speaker 2: how do you know her? What's going on here?
Speaker 1: And he's starting to investigate this, this sex trafficking, and
Speaker 1: the girl gets super nervous in the moment and doesn't
Speaker 1: speak out.
Speaker 2: Who does that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's thrown off by it, but the dad's like,
Speaker 1: she clams up and she doesn't go, I'm his daughter.
Speaker 1: Nothing's weird happening here. Everything's fine. And then that makes
Speaker 1: it look even more stray.
Speaker 7: Idea what they were talking about singing.
Speaker 14: Jonathan soon realized the young man was just showing concern
Speaker 14: for his daughter's well being.
Speaker 2: Damn, I really respect that this is my daughter.
Speaker 14: Where okay, Logan says, what he overheard between the two
Speaker 14: inside sounded as though they were unfamiliar to each other.
Speaker 14: He was worried it could be a case of human trafficking.
Speaker 15: I was still iffy on it, and then that was
Speaker 15: when I decided to call the white vans.
Speaker 7: Have to be safe than sorry, because I know it's
Speaker 7: a serious issue. Music I don't know, like human trafficking
Speaker 7: and smooth jazz.
Speaker 1: There must be a place where there's hobos outside and
Speaker 1: they have to blast the classical music to get them
Speaker 1: out of there.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: Do you fault this couple for going up and knocking
Speaker 1: on the window of the van and going hold on.
Speaker 2: We need to investigate here.
Speaker 1: This is a tough one because sometimes every once in
Speaker 1: a while it will be a heroic thing.
Speaker 7: Sometimes you went to the Halloween party.
Speaker 1: I didn't do anything. I assumed it would so above board.
Speaker 1: I didn't know there was one hundred and twenty people.
Speaker 1: There is something. There was a lot of people there,
Speaker 1: So I wasn't thinking that like I was the only one.
Speaker 7: Trafficking.
Speaker 2: I'm I hope that that was just an innocent thing,
Speaker 2: as was this. But that's the big question I have.
Speaker 2: Should you do better safe than sorry?
Speaker 1: Should you just like, should we all be investigating things
Speaker 1: when we something seems a little bit off?
Speaker 7: It just not worked out in my favor.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that, should you do this at risk
Speaker 2: of alleging that trafficking someone of.
Speaker 7: Pleasuring themselves in a Walgreens parking lot.
Speaker 8: And when the old man put down the window of
Speaker 8: his car, it also the flesh colored leaf reflection also
Speaker 8: went away.
Speaker 7: And it turns out he was just sitting in his car,
Speaker 7: did not have his drunk in his hands.
Speaker 2: He probably thought you were a crazy I said, you're disgusting.
Speaker 2: Oh no, disgusting. Did you apologize to him?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 7: No, I had it out.
Speaker 2: You called it so if you think you see a
Speaker 2: person masturbating in their car, you want to confront them.
Speaker 7: I don't know what came over me.
Speaker 8: If I was see something say something, and I guess
Speaker 8: I just thought I saw something and said something, and
Speaker 8: I learned my lesson.
Speaker 7: I'm not doing that crap no more. I had to
Speaker 7: get home.
Speaker 2: Were you you know? I'm sure.
Speaker 7: I don't need it to.
Speaker 2: Turn around on me. It did already, I think.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And what happened to the little girl who never
Speaker 7: saw her again? Apparents?
Speaker 2: Did you? Did you? You didn't apologize the guy if
Speaker 2: you got it wrong?
Speaker 7: I don't remember.
Speaker 2: Were you still?
Speaker 13: Just like what?
Speaker 7: No, it was just just came over me. I had
Speaker 7: gone and the the Walgreens. By the time I came out,
Speaker 7: the man had not moved. And then I like, I double.
Speaker 7: I did not check enough.
Speaker 8: I should have tripped checked and it looked like his
Speaker 8: genitals were in his hands.
Speaker 1: Recording on YouTube says, trust your gut. But she did
Speaker 1: trust her gut and she was wrong and the couple
Speaker 1: was wrong. This guy in gwelf was wrong. Is it
Speaker 1: worth it to be wrong? Because if you are right,
Speaker 1: it's more important. That's That's like the good question that
Speaker 1: hovers over this because trafficking.
Speaker 2: Maybe for whacking it in the Walgreens parking lot. No,
Speaker 2: poor guy.
Speaker 1: He goes home and explains to his wife, like somebody
Speaker 1: he said, I was disgusting.
Speaker 2: He doesn't know what you thought you saw some Now,
Speaker 2: why are you.
Speaker 7: Sitting in the parking lot? He's like what I can't
Speaker 7: hear and he puts down the window, and I'm like,
Speaker 7: you just thought he was so ugly that day that
Speaker 7: it's like, why are the parking lot freak.
Speaker 2: Guy? Jesus all right, very clean windows? So give him
Speaker 2: that quick quick break. We'll be back in just a moment.
Speaker 7: I'm never being vulnerable again on the show.
Speaker 1: I mean, I I think it's an interesting story. I
Speaker 1: think it adds to the conversation and we'll see what
Speaker 1: well people think you should do? What what should you
Speaker 1: do in these circumstances? Again, better safe than sorry or
Speaker 1: mind your own business? Those things are really you know,
Speaker 1: they're clashing here in a story like this, But let
Speaker 1: us know what you think. Send a dispatch over at
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Speaker 1: miss what we were talking about. The story was about
Speaker 1: these Canadians, this guy and his daughter and they went
Speaker 1: to go get lunch and there was a young couple
Speaker 1: and the young couple was kind of watching them and
Speaker 1: thinking that their interactions didn't make sense for some reason.
Speaker 2: And then the guy and his daughter left the.
Speaker 1: Establishment in Canada and went to get into his van
Speaker 1: to leave, and they ran after and they sort of
Speaker 1: like knocked on the van. Are going to do an investigation,
Speaker 1: And I said, this brings up a really interesting topic actually,
Speaker 1: and that is when are you butting in when you
Speaker 1: should be mining your own business? And when should you
Speaker 1: say forget it? I really have to investigate here. How
Speaker 1: do you know where to draw that line of like
Speaker 1: I actually need to do something. I need to do
Speaker 1: something about this. In this case, the daughter was very
Speaker 1: nervous when this couple approached and then they drove away.
Speaker 1: They posted a photograph of them on the police social
Speaker 1: media accounts track them down and found out it was
Speaker 1: just a guy and his daughter. They didn't do anything wrong,
Speaker 1: but there are there are a decent amount of people
Speaker 1: like there are certain corners of TikTok and other social
Speaker 1: media platforms where you'll see this where these people everywhere
Speaker 1: they look, they see they see people being trafficked. They
Speaker 1: think people are being trafficked all over the place. Just
Speaker 1: a quick reality check for you. Most human trafficking is
Speaker 1: people being smuggled across borders. That is what human trafficking
Speaker 1: is mostly, numbers wise, is people being brought over the
Speaker 1: border into the United States of America or any other
Speaker 1: country you could think of in the world.
Speaker 2: That's what most human trafficking actually is.
Speaker 1: Coyotes and these sorts of things happens all the time,
Speaker 1: happens every single day. What people, especially like young college
Speaker 1: educated white couples like we're at the center of all
Speaker 1: of this. What they tend to think human trafficking is
Speaker 1: is creepy men with beards and mustaches who are grabbing
Speaker 1: and stealing and selling on some sort of black market
Speaker 1: little teenageer or prepubescent girls. That's a very movie like
Speaker 1: version of what all of this means. So all of
Speaker 1: these things going to collide in society, and then you go,
Speaker 1: what should I actually be doing in these moments and
Speaker 1: we'll see where you land on all of that.
Speaker 2: Right now, let's jump into it. Let's do jury duty.
Speaker 10: Court is now in session, so put your phone down,
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Speaker 2: You're no injury duty.
Speaker 1: With the news Junkie Brisbee on YouTube says, they want
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Speaker 1: the lead. There are a lot of people who are
Speaker 1: kind of like main character where they look at things.
Speaker 7: And be like, oh, you know, hero time.
Speaker 2: But on the this is why I'm struggling on this.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, if you see enough things, there
Speaker 1: should be a moment where you go, no, I have
Speaker 1: to say something about this. It's just some people's barometer
Speaker 1: for that is way off. They'll just like see a
Speaker 1: guy with a woman and no mother there and go,
Speaker 1: that guy's trafficking that teenage girl and like, okay, probably
Speaker 1: dial it back, mind your own business. But there's a
Speaker 1: point where if your barometer's not set that loosely where
Speaker 1: you should you should go say something and investigate. That's
Speaker 1: the whole thing, all right, Jerry.
Speaker 5: Can you imagine if this ramps up, if you are
Speaker 5: the kind of person who this happens sue multiple times?
Speaker 2: What does that mean about your overall?
Speaker 7: Many lose the beard and ponytail.
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Speaker 1: are there are some new laws dropping out there. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to see where this one is. There is a
Speaker 1: ban on feeding stray cats that had people all fired
Speaker 1: up that could be worked into Jerry duty.
Speaker 2: This is in Kern County.
Speaker 1: Let's see see if you can find more about this
Speaker 1: from I'm looking at KROO, but let's find out Kern County.
Speaker 1: This this cat feeding band that they've pushed through. I've
Speaker 1: heard a lot of other places want to do this.
Speaker 1: All of us can vouch for this, Sabrina, you've seen it.
Speaker 2: I know everybody's seen it.
Speaker 1: There's always bitching on next door, the social media app
Speaker 1: about people who feed these cats in neighborhoods, and it's
Speaker 1: very heated because some people will go, hey, you're rescuing
Speaker 1: these cats.
Speaker 2: Nobody else is going to feed them.
Speaker 1: They could die, and some people are like you feeding
Speaker 1: them is contributing to the problem.
Speaker 2: That's where this.
Speaker 8: My neighborhoods had an issue a couple of years ago
Speaker 8: where the lady very sweet and she loved the neighborhood
Speaker 8: cats and some of them were owned by people, they
Speaker 8: were just outside cats. She was on a wet food kick,
Speaker 8: so everywhere, every like Plassive, was a pile of what
Speaker 8: cat food and everyone's dogs are getting incross and diarrhea
Speaker 8: and it was bad. But eventually they just to come
Speaker 8: to her feeding and here we are.
Speaker 1: It's not too different from the other story actually, Sabrina,
Speaker 1: where it's like the person is meaning well, but what's
Speaker 1: actually happening here is bad. That people do this a lot,
Speaker 1: you know, in my opinion, there's a lot of policies
Speaker 1: where people are like trying to be empathetic and meaning well.
Speaker 1: People do a lot of things where they're trying to
Speaker 1: be empathetic and meaning well and they actually bring about
Speaker 1: the other outcome. But in this case, they completely banned,
Speaker 1: I guess, people from feeding these stray cats. And of
Speaker 1: all the places, this seems to be something that's happening
Speaker 1: in California, where you would think maybe they would have
Speaker 1: more lax laws on this, but they are banning people
Speaker 1: from doing some of this stuff. Did you find the
Speaker 1: story I'm talking about?
Speaker 12: See?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I found. They had like a meeting about it.
Speaker 5: Dozens of passionate animal advocates filled the Kerrent County Board
Speaker 5: of Supervisors chambers to oppose the proposed band on feeding
Speaker 5: wild animals in public parks and county buildings without a permit.
Speaker 5: This doesn't even seem like a huge scope, just public
Speaker 5: parks and county buildings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it means that that bank.
Speaker 5: That's got sixty five cats in the parking lot.
Speaker 1: Is still up for grabs, or your neighborhood, right yeah,
Speaker 1: So like this, this would only apply to like specific
Speaker 1: public places.
Speaker 5: The proposed ordinance would target cats, raccoons, foxes, skunks, and more.
Speaker 5: The ordinance is meant to protect feral cats, claiming feeding
Speaker 5: creates known spots that can fuel pet abandonment.
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Speaker 1: We got a lot to get to here on the show,
Speaker 1: and your dispatches are coming in, so let's work some
Speaker 1: of those in here. There was a big discussion on
Speaker 1: the show about when you should get involved in things
Speaker 1: and when you should mind your own business and confronting people,
Speaker 1: like the story out of Canada where there was a
Speaker 1: man with his daughter who was this young girl, and
Speaker 1: some onlookers just assumed that this guy was like human
Speaker 1: trafficking his daughter, and they blasted his photo out all
Speaker 1: over social media, and finally they tracked him down, and
Speaker 1: the guy was pretty cool about it all things considered.
Speaker 1: But you know, there's there's those moments where you go,
Speaker 1: am I butting in here when I shouldn't.
Speaker 2: Am I going to look a crazy person? Or you
Speaker 2: have done?
Speaker 5: If you were the one who got your your face
Speaker 5: on the on the Facebook and we're looking for this guy.
Speaker 1: If it be sex trafficking, I would have there would
Speaker 1: have been a level of me that would have been angry.
Speaker 1: I would have been angry that somebody would have thought
Speaker 1: that about me. And you know, save from there being
Speaker 1: something that I think they could interpret that way, I
Speaker 1: would say, you saw me sitting here having lunch with
Speaker 1: my daughter, and you just assumed that I was some
Speaker 1: nefarious criminal and not just being like a good dad.
Speaker 2: That would bother me.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know how you can walk away
Speaker 1: from that without that bothering you in some way. The
Speaker 1: big risk though, is that too many people go, I
Speaker 1: don't want to bother them, I don't want to do this,
Speaker 1: and then in the case when it is human trafficking,
Speaker 1: you don't do anything.
Speaker 2: Here's I'm not a hippie with a dispatch for us,
Speaker 2: I'll see what this is.
Speaker 16: I am all too familiar with this guy's situation, me
Speaker 16: being black, my wife and my bonus kids are white
Speaker 16: and Mexican.
Speaker 2: Oh, and you just see the looks that would.
Speaker 16: Get when we travel or when me and the kids
Speaker 16: travel would go somewhere, and then with me, you got
Speaker 16: people looking around trying to figure it out, like I
Speaker 16: think it's funny whatever.
Speaker 2: My wife does say it's funny, but I laugh at it.
Speaker 2: You know, he's my wife doesn't think it's funny, but
Speaker 2: I I laugh at it, he.
Speaker 16: Said, So I don't know, and then not to mention,
Speaker 16: my two brothers are also married to white women, so
Speaker 16: we are all blended family and sometimes paces like it's
Speaker 16: it's funny.
Speaker 2: Whatever to be out. That's an excellent point.
Speaker 1: Actually the point, well not his, but but I'm not
Speaker 1: a hippies dispatch point, which is if you are in
Speaker 1: a like an interracial couple, this definitely definitely will happen more.
Speaker 2: I would.
Speaker 1: I would especially think like if you have a black
Speaker 1: father or white father, and then you know a daughter.
Speaker 2: Of a different race, and because people.
Speaker 1: Are aren't going to visual immediately visually connect and go, well,
Speaker 1: maybe that's just him and his daughter hanging out here,
Speaker 1: they are going to start thinking that stuff. And then
Speaker 1: if they're not coming up to you, I'm hippie, you
Speaker 1: can see what's going on.
Speaker 2: You're not dumb. You're picking up on it.
Speaker 1: You know, they're talking about you, and they're speculating, like.
Speaker 2: Why is that guy with that? Can't be his daughter?
Speaker 1: That is That's like all the weird things that come
Speaker 1: as a result of this. So that's an excellent point.
Speaker 1: Here's uh Jay talking about a bad roommate situation.
Speaker 2: All right, years ago.
Speaker 17: I had a roommate that I came home from work
Speaker 17: one day pulled on the driveway. He comes walking out
Speaker 17: and he's like, don't be alarmed, but we were robbed.
Speaker 17: Go outside and check the damage. Okay, stuff was thrown around,
Speaker 17: the drawers were pulled out, dumped over, ravaged through, some
Speaker 17: things were missing. Called the police. They came into an investigation.
Speaker 17: Uh they were asked who was the first one on
Speaker 17: the scene, and it was my roommate and who their investigation.
Speaker 17: They took me aside for questioning and I they asked me,
Speaker 17: how well do you know this other person? And that
Speaker 17: said why? They said, well, this looks like it was
Speaker 17: an inside job. It was the one that he even
Speaker 17: says the first one on scene.
Speaker 1: Oh, so that he's saying his roommate staged a robbery
Speaker 1: where it was an inside job where he actually did
Speaker 1: it and he was the one who was responsible, which
Speaker 1: further is the point on the on a second story
Speaker 1: that we've been trying to follow here. Sorry if it's
Speaker 1: difficult to follow along, but on his second story where
Speaker 1: somebody had a roommate that was spraying a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of bug spray all over their food and was just
Speaker 1: a nightmare to deal with. They had to call the
Speaker 1: cops on them. This is why you got to be
Speaker 1: incredibly careful in doing this stuff. You got to be
Speaker 1: making sure that anybody who's going to cohabitate with you
Speaker 1: is somebody that you're going to be comfortable with, and
Speaker 1: every once in a while, it just doesn't work out
Speaker 1: that way. Okay, let's see here a lot of emails
Speaker 1: coming in on this to the news Junkie dot com,
Speaker 1: and I'll get to those momentarily. I also saw there
Speaker 1: was a couple of things out there about Clinton and
Speaker 1: his testimony this week. Clinton, both of them, Hillary Clinton
Speaker 1: and Bill Clinton testified under oath behind closed doors.
Speaker 2: Of Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: All the questions that people had for them, politicians had
Speaker 1: for them about their connections to Epstein, and Bill Clinton
Speaker 1: was questioned for a lot longer because there's more photos
Speaker 1: and like history with him and Jeffrey Epstein, and both
Speaker 1: of the Clintons came out afterwards and they're like, we
Speaker 1: didn't know he was doing anything, and we weren't aware
Speaker 1: of any kind of crimes that were happening, and then
Speaker 1: once the crimes were happening, we didn't associate with this
Speaker 1: person any longer, although you still have that like just
Speaker 1: endless guilt by association that people are going to have
Speaker 1: with anything Epstein related.
Speaker 5: It's weird because Hillary hasn't been in any of the
Speaker 5: pictures or anything.
Speaker 2: So, I mean, the only thing I saw on actually
Speaker 2: I don't know if she was in it.
Speaker 1: There's a picture of Chelsea Clinton's wedding and Glaine Maxwell
Speaker 1: is in it.
Speaker 2: She's and you're like, oh, well, I still gain Maxwell.
Speaker 1: Lady Glaine Maxwell was I believe at Chelsea Clinton's wedding.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you might be right.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've seen any photos of Hillary Clinton
Speaker 1: and Epstein or anybody but Bill Clinton.
Speaker 2: Definitely.
Speaker 1: He was with him quite a few times, and there
Speaker 1: are a lot of photographs of them together. And now
Speaker 1: this led to the whole thing where they testified. I've
Speaker 1: heard that the video this is going to come out
Speaker 1: at some point in time. I don't know if it is,
Speaker 1: but it would be interesting to see what was said
Speaker 1: there behind closed doors. I know somebody took a picture.
Speaker 1: I think it was like Lauren Bobert or somebody took
Speaker 1: a picture you weren't supposed to take, and they chased
Speaker 1: after and made her delete the photo that she took
Speaker 1: of Hillary Clinton testifying. But we'll see if we see
Speaker 1: this eventually, if this comes out, it will trust me
Speaker 1: on this, it will satisfy precisely zero people, yep. Because
Speaker 1: everybody in this whole thing, they have their mindset, they
Speaker 1: know exactly what is going on. They wank there, write
Speaker 1: and nobody's minds will be changed on this at all.
Speaker 1: Does not matter where you're coming at, what team you're on,
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2: It's always going to be like that moving forward, I think.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what you have to say about that
Speaker 1: and everything else we've been discussing on the show. Send
Speaker 1: us a dispatch over at thenewsjunkie dot com. All right,
Speaker 1: there was one more I wanted to work in. Here's
Speaker 1: Fatty Maddie talking about people losing their jobs to AI.
Speaker 13: Hey junkies, Hey, happy Friday?
Speaker 2: Is that right Sunday?
Speaker 13: So yeah, I'd like to see AI get rid of
Speaker 13: my job. For context, I'm a p diatrist and so
Speaker 13: there's always a stup full of dirty, fat, disgusting diabetext
Speaker 13: amputations and then just regular book care and all that stuff.
Speaker 13: So I feel like my job is pretty sick.
Speaker 2: Because he might be right, I thought he was gonna
Speaker 2: go feet.
Speaker 13: You can't really just sit there cut toes off.
Speaker 1: So he's saying he feels like his job is safe
Speaker 1: from any kind of AI intrusion.
Speaker 5: Is a significant portion of your job cutting off people's
Speaker 5: feet and toes.
Speaker 2: He made it sound like it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true, but that's that's the
Speaker 1: accusation that he does at least.
Speaker 5: Or maybe he is, you know, further doing the research
Speaker 5: here and saying like, listen, I know that AI either
Speaker 5: is or is close to being at a point where
Speaker 5: you could take a picture of your foot and upload
Speaker 5: it and they'll be like Hey, you got the fungus.
Speaker 5: You know you got you got that athlete's foot. You
Speaker 5: gotta you gotta get some of this, get some of that,
Speaker 5: And so then his job will just be cutting off toes.
Speaker 8: But can you circle back and tell us how many
Speaker 8: toes you cut off in a course today?
Speaker 2: How many today?
Speaker 7: Today?
Speaker 1: I guess he said there's an unending supply of people,
Speaker 1: So it makes it sound like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: that happened.
Speaker 8: Also, are you my grandmother's podia dress? Because years ago
Speaker 8: she said that he listened to the show.
Speaker 2: Oh well, now we have one.
Speaker 1: We might need a follow up on that, so send
Speaker 1: that over tips at the News, Junker, dot Commerce and
Speaker 1: a dispatch. We're gonna take a quick break. When we
Speaker 1: come back, we'll continue on. I've got clips galore that
Speaker 1: we need to play before the end of the show.
Speaker 1: Somebody driving and crashing. They crashed their car. They were
Speaker 1: distracted driving. This happens a lot. It's not new, probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't even pop up on the show if there wasn't
Speaker 1: something really weird about it. What was the thing that
Speaker 1: was distracting this driver that made them crash and end
Speaker 1: up getting into a really bad accident?
Speaker 2: The details are coming up next. Send the news junkie.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of things out there where it's
Speaker 1: dangerous to do it whilst driving, and this is maybe
Speaker 1: among the dumbest I've seen like this, But it's a
Speaker 1: true story and I want to tell this to you
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: Play a little audio.
Speaker 1: Of this happening too, so you can hear what went
Speaker 1: down on the scene. But the story goes like this,
Speaker 1: a man was gambling on his phone while driving and
Speaker 1: he crashed into a vehicle. The vehicle had a woman
Speaker 1: who was pregnant by the way inside, causing her to
Speaker 1: give birth prematurely because this idiot was driving along. Thirty
Speaker 1: year old Jack Bentley was arrested and thrown in jail.
Speaker 1: The woman and two children were in the car and
Speaker 1: their pet dog. They were all injured in the crash
Speaker 1: that happened in England. The woman got a fractured pelvis
Speaker 1: and she had an emergency c section. The baby was
Speaker 1: in intensive care for multiple weeks but luckily survived. And
Speaker 1: all because this idiot, this absolute moron, is driving around
Speaker 1: on his phone gambling. That's what he was distracted by.
Speaker 1: And they released the footage here and watching this this
Speaker 1: is from somebody nearby, and the car doesn't even stop.
Speaker 1: Jess plows into the vehicle, doesn't even I don't think
Speaker 1: he hit his brakes.
Speaker 2: This idiot was paying zero attention to what was going
Speaker 2: on because he's like the convertible in the school bus
Speaker 2: all over again. It is, but he's like no hesitation,
Speaker 2: full on.
Speaker 1: This guy so staring at his phone that he plows
Speaker 1: into this mom's car full speed just bam, I mean,
Speaker 1: and thankfully nobody died. But I think this stuff is
Speaker 1: like is a huge, huge, huge problem. I think every
Speaker 1: week or so I see somebody distracted driving nearly crash.
Speaker 1: I see it a lot of time times. And I
Speaker 1: didn't know that gambling was the thing that would distract
Speaker 1: a lot of these people. But there's a lot of
Speaker 1: folks who are really into that and in ending up
Speaker 1: exactly like this guy.
Speaker 2: I don't know how long he's going to get I do.
Speaker 1: Actually, Bentley was sentenced over two years in prison, which
Speaker 1: honestly seems a bit soft to me for what happened
Speaker 1: here and what could have happened. You might have said, like, well,
Speaker 1: he's not drinking, Sean, how is it any different? Outcomes
Speaker 1: the same isn't it. Outcome is exactly the same. No
Speaker 1: matter what it was that was distracting him or that
Speaker 1: made him not be able to drive, the outcome is
Speaker 1: the same that his actions led to a crash that
Speaker 1: caused major, major issues for this woman, for unborn baby,
Speaker 1: for her kids that were in the car, for her
Speaker 1: pets that were with her as well.
Speaker 2: And so to me, it's no different. It really isn't.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: It's something that far more of us are guilty of
Speaker 1: because we have all many of us have done this.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're innocent, but I'm not. I've been distracted. I've
Speaker 1: I've had laptops going, I've had phones going while I'm driving.
Speaker 1: And it's just a really stupid dumb idea made even
Speaker 1: more so dumb when you're gambling as you're you're driving along.
Speaker 2: Focus is let me bring the vehicle back up.
Speaker 1: He may have been while he was focusing zero percent.
Speaker 1: It is a It does look like a Ford focus.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I can't tell one hundred percent, but it's a little
Speaker 1: tiny hatchback thing that he is driving and then he
Speaker 1: completely loses control of it. Just an absolute idiot. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get this for see it now since it's a
Speaker 1: visual So this is how it works on the show.
Speaker 1: If we are looking at something, I want to make
Speaker 1: sure you can see what we're talking about. Not now
Speaker 1: if you don't want to, but whenever you get a chance.
Speaker 1: Distracted uh, distracted by gambling craf Now, I got this
Speaker 1: up for you over on the neewsjunkie dot com.
Speaker 2: It is a Ford focus, is it really?
Speaker 5: Jack Bentley, thirty years old, barrel this Ford Focus down
Speaker 5: a due lane highway in Derby, smashing into the Nissan
Speaker 5: that forced a pregnant victim into an emergency C section.
Speaker 2: That's to save her first child.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And also he could just like you could keep
Speaker 1: gambling while you were driving. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: this guy's like a gambling casino or he's plays in
Speaker 1: sports bets.
Speaker 2: But you know better than doing this, you truly do.
Speaker 13: So.
Speaker 1: I would like to see that stop at some point
Speaker 1: in time, very very soon. It's once it's too many times.
Speaker 1: All right, what else do we have here? I've got
Speaker 1: to move along. We have so many clips. Oh, something
Speaker 1: on the on the AI front that I wanted to
Speaker 1: bring up. Never thought about this being an issue, but
Speaker 1: it is right now. Of all places. Colleges are on
Speaker 1: edge about the use of AI. And you might say
Speaker 1: to me, Sean, well, of course they are. The kids
Speaker 1: are gonna cheat on theirs. They're gonna, you know, write
Speaker 1: their paper with AI. Yeah, but that's not what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. Colleges are on edge right now because football
Speaker 1: recruits have been using AI to fake highlight reels.
Speaker 2: They weren't previously.
Speaker 1: Able to do, and so it would just be like
Speaker 1: take me and make me going for like a Hail Mary,
Speaker 1: amazing past.
Speaker 5: It's not that the AI Like, we've used AI services
Speaker 5: to make videos for us, but it's not faking the
Speaker 5: footage where these guys are faking the footage.
Speaker 1: They're faking the footage, faking highlight plays that they put
Speaker 1: into their reel to get the college's attention, and.
Speaker 7: They're going to do when they show up and you're
Speaker 7: not doing that in real life.
Speaker 1: Try to fake it till you make it. I mean,
Speaker 1: was the best I could say, Sabrina. But most of
Speaker 1: them are just gonna get busted and then the school's
Speaker 1: gonna go what gives you know, but that the football
Speaker 1: recruits are figuring out how to use AI to fabricate
Speaker 1: fake highlight plays, and there's even examples of this online
Speaker 1: where it's like these are all made with AI and
Speaker 1: it looks legitimate, like a high school football game and
Speaker 1: an amazing reception, and the college might be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's get that guy. He's going to be amazing. Let's
Speaker 1: put them on our team. And it looks even like blurry,
Speaker 1: like a crappy quality, like a lower quality footage that
Speaker 1: you might have at one of these games.
Speaker 2: But it's all fake.
Speaker 1: And now they have to be hyper aware of this
Speaker 1: or maybe even make sure that they're seeing this stuff
Speaker 1: in person before they end up investing in any of
Speaker 1: these players, because all the plays you're seeing, if you're
Speaker 1: watching right now on YouTube, all fake, just completely.
Speaker 2: And totally fake.
Speaker 1: I'll put this up on see it now as well
Speaker 1: when we go to break here in just a moment,
Speaker 1: so you can see what's going on there. All right,
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Speaker 1: I want to see if there's any emails worth mentioning
Speaker 1: that I need to get in here, somebody says Brian
Speaker 1: to tips at the newsyunky dot com. Hey, guys, I
Speaker 1: drive a white van for doing drywall. The color hides
Speaker 1: the compound better, so please stop with the white van shaming.
Speaker 7: Thank you man. That's decades long.
Speaker 2: Think good luck. Yes, that's too late.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is not one of those things where you
Speaker 1: could just go, hey guys, we're not going to do
Speaker 1: this anymore, the white van being a danger van.
Speaker 2: Yeah, old, Yeah.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people who believe that you're not
Speaker 1: going to be able to undo that one.
Speaker 2: I don't think and any other emails here. Okay, that'll
Speaker 2: have to do it for right now.
Speaker 1: Let's go over to our final dispatches and get everything
Speaker 1: lined up.
Speaker 2: For the end of the show. Today, here we go
Speaker 2: these on the final dispatches, but Sean will probably only
Speaker 2: play true true. All right, here we go.
Speaker 1: We're going to get to you on the way out.
Speaker 1: And that's especially true if your name is Concrete.
Speaker 2: Mike. Here's Concrete Mike chiming in on the show.
Speaker 18: Happy Day News Show crew. Hey, man, I'm out of
Speaker 18: point with this AI nonsense. I don't believe anything I
Speaker 18: see true. I'm even questioning the own videos that I've
Speaker 18: recorded myself that I've posted, if it's real or not.
Speaker 2: It is getting ridiculous. I don't know if you need
Speaker 2: to question that far, but yeah, I do understand.
Speaker 5: Maybe he was pretty hammered when he recorded the videos
Speaker 5: and he doesn't remember the thing happening anything.
Speaker 2: Maybe AI had something to.
Speaker 13: Do with it.
Speaker 1: You just convince yourself afterwards. It's definitely AI. That's one
Speaker 1: hundred percent AI. Here's Swilly. He says, it's Pokemon Day.
Speaker 2: Is that true?
Speaker 15: Hey?
Speaker 2: Everybody happy today? Hey, today is Pokemon Day. Thank God.
Speaker 19: Thirty years ago a little kid, my parents got me
Speaker 19: the old game Boy with Pokemon Red version, and I've
Speaker 19: been a hardcore nerd ever since.
Speaker 2: My favorite Pokemon is Garrettos.
Speaker 19: He's like a same big, angry sea monster looking guy.
Speaker 2: Anyway, have a great weekend.
Speaker 1: Okay, I wonder what the difference is between pokemon Mania
Speaker 1: when everybody was playing everybody was playing Pokemon Go. You
Speaker 1: guys remember when that just exploded everywhere and now, like,
Speaker 1: what what was the is the difference?
Speaker 8: Like, still amazing many people, but it's definitely a solid group.
Speaker 2: That is millions, right, millions of people are still playing
Speaker 2: like those games.
Speaker 8: I would imagine still playing the game Boy games and
Speaker 8: whenever else was available back in the day in Nintendo
Speaker 8: sixty four that weird like photo one where you just
Speaker 8: do a tour and take pictures of Pokemon to get
Speaker 8: points or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a good time. Yeah. Oh see, I
Speaker 2: never played a Pokemon You never played Pokemon Go? No,
Speaker 2: I don't. I may have downloaded it. I don't even
Speaker 2: know that I did that.
Speaker 1: In July of twenty sixteen, okay, when this thing appssolutely exploded,
Speaker 1: Pokemon Go there were over two hundred million monthly active users,
Speaker 1: and now I think that's down to about twenty eight million,
Speaker 1: So it's like a tenth of the people who used
Speaker 1: to play. Sometimes you know it's even lower than that,
Speaker 1: but that's still that's still unbelievable. I mean, twenty thirty
Speaker 1: million people you might have playing Pokemon Go. Still it
Speaker 1: might be one tenth of what it was at at
Speaker 1: its peak, it's still bigger than almost any other.
Speaker 2: Games out there. It's really significant. I know in that world.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are just waiting right now, and
Speaker 1: the countdown is on for the big Grand Theft Auto release,
Speaker 1: which is allegedly coming up in November.
Speaker 2: Of this year. Yeah, okay, we'll see.
Speaker 1: And that's been changed and canceled so many times it's
Speaker 1: kind of hard to track at this point. But I
Speaker 1: saw something yesterday that somebody had ceiling. You have to
Speaker 1: tell me if this is new or not, but somebody
Speaker 1: was going off, what are the features for the new
Speaker 1: Grand Theft Auto. And when you're in a car, you
Speaker 1: have a radio station, just like people are listening to
Speaker 1: this show, many of them on right now, and you
Speaker 1: could change the radio dial to whatever you want.
Speaker 2: And listen to all sorts of different stuff. Was that
Speaker 2: there before?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 16: Oh?
Speaker 2: Was okay, Well you didn't know this.
Speaker 5: This was like there was a bunch of radio people
Speaker 5: that like got guest spots on Grand Theft Auto, like
Speaker 5: that they just like did fake radio shows or did
Speaker 5: fake DJ shifts and like acted like they were talking
Speaker 5: about things that were going on in Vice City and
Speaker 5: stuff like that.
Speaker 2: And then one of the.
Speaker 5: GTAs that I played a lot, that I got on Xbox.
Speaker 5: It was like the first time that you could load
Speaker 5: your own music onto the Xbox. So like, I just
Speaker 5: like got a couple CDs of stuff that I liked
Speaker 5: and ripped them down on the Xbox and then you
Speaker 5: could listen to that in your car driving around Y City,
Speaker 5: shooting up pokers and stuff.
Speaker 2: This has to cost them so much money, though.
Speaker 1: This is allegedly the list of people whose music will
Speaker 1: be on the new Grand.
Speaker 2: Theft Auto game.
Speaker 1: Oh Yeah, Dua Lipa, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, The Weekend,
Speaker 1: Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Bruno, Mars, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish,
Speaker 1: Harry Styles, Halsey, the Neighborhood. Like these are the biggest
Speaker 1: people going, and there's a whole bunch of these huge
Speaker 1: pop stars that.
Speaker 2: Is got be that's just pop. It must be because
Speaker 2: that the Empire of the Sun, I know them.
Speaker 1: Spears, Madonna, jay Z, Kanye West, like this is rap now,
Speaker 1: nas jay Z and andrere Ice Cube fifty cent eminem
Speaker 1: So it's like everybody who's anybody Latin has Bad Bunny Daddy, Yankee, Shakira,
Speaker 1: every single category. You can think guns and Roses for rock,
Speaker 1: a CDC, Metallica. So they have like reformat all the
Speaker 1: biggest artists and that music is featured in the world
Speaker 1: of Grand Theft Auto. It's pretty astonishing, but it must
Speaker 1: be incredibly expensive. Although what's expensive when you're making as
Speaker 1: much money as they make off of those games? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because they are is released if it comes out in November.
Speaker 1: Sabrina like the amount of money they stack with these things.
Speaker 1: What's a video game cost these days? One hundred bucks?
Speaker 2: No, I think that they're worried.
Speaker 5: There were some gamers that were concerned that this might
Speaker 5: be the first video game that cost one hundred dollars.
Speaker 5: I don't think there has been one yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and how much space is.
Speaker 8: It going to take or people are going to have
Speaker 8: to like clear out their consoles or get new ones
Speaker 8: for this to work.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of people just waiting with baited breath,
Speaker 1: some of them so crazy that they're even going over
Speaker 1: to the headquarters in Europe, I think, and like heckling
Speaker 1: and bothering the people who are making Grand Theft Auto
Speaker 1: done yet quite a thing.
Speaker 5: GTA five for comparison, which was released in twenty thirteen
Speaker 5: video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games.
Speaker 5: What was the There was a number here, four hundred
Speaker 5: and forty one tracks of licensed music. That's a lot
Speaker 5: divided over sixteen fake radio stations as well as two
Speaker 5: talk radio stations. The composers of the score wanted it
Speaker 5: to accompany the license music as opposed to detract from it.
Speaker 1: Now, I don't know if you guys connect with this
Speaker 1: like idea, you probably do. There might be some sort
Speaker 1: of discount given to the copyrights in these situations, because
Speaker 1: I will never forget when Tony Hawk pro Skater came out,
Speaker 1: the songs on that video game became big songs with
Speaker 1: everybody because they were in that video So the.
Speaker 2: Exposure is like very very yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, there was a game that I loved, playing
Speaker 5: an arcade game, Crazy Taxi. I remember that Crazy They
Speaker 5: had it at you know some of the bars that
Speaker 5: would have arcade games and stuff and you could go
Speaker 5: pick up people and tell you had you had to
Speaker 5: drive real crazy to get them to their destination and
Speaker 5: make the most money before your time ran out. But
Speaker 5: Crazy Taxis soundtrack was the offspring, and like you licensed
Speaker 5: that music, but it got exposure because if you're at
Speaker 5: the bar, if you're at the arcade, you'll all of
Speaker 5: a sudden start randomly hearing.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yah. And I was like, oh, the
Speaker 2: offspring Crazy Taxes here, let's go a lot of things
Speaker 2: that are tied to exposure like that. They're maybe they
Speaker 2: give them like a little bit of a deal. I
Speaker 2: don't know if they do.
Speaker 1: Over at the Tampa Airport, people were molding, melting down
Speaker 1: angry because they pretended to ban pajamas.
Speaker 2: I saw the post about this.
Speaker 1: They were joking around and they were saying that they
Speaker 1: were banning pajamas at the Tampa Airport.
Speaker 5: I didn't see it as banning pajamas, but I saw
Speaker 5: some posts that it's supposed to be from the Tampa
Speaker 5: Airports social media, and it was something to the tone
Speaker 5: of like, come on, guys, let's grow up. You know,
Speaker 5: we don't need to wear pajamas in the airport anymore.
Speaker 5: I didn't I didn't see it as like a new
Speaker 5: rule or something.
Speaker 7: Doing stuff like that, like social jokes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they mean they like they post funny
Speaker 1: stuff and then people get caught up.
Speaker 5: And speaking of airports, did you see I sent it
Speaker 5: to tips and your Gmail. But the guy that was
Speaker 5: spotted in the Orlando airport, I did not get to
Speaker 5: this in this week in Florida. But he wore a
Speaker 5: shirt specifically for TSA. It's only hold on a lot
Speaker 5: to scroll through there A gifted subs.
Speaker 1: Quite a few gosh, I know that you said, whether
Speaker 1: it is Chris Lane?
Speaker 2: Okay, and this.
Speaker 5: Guy just dressed specifically to get felt up by TSA says,
Speaker 5: it's not gay.
Speaker 2: If it's TSA. Is this real?
Speaker 1: He actually had this onto the airs. I wonder how
Speaker 1: often TSA gets stuff like this. Can't beat that off.
Speaker 2: I mean a shirt just for TSA. Yeah, this is
Speaker 2: a guy go through the airport.
Speaker 1: The Tampa Airport says, after successfully banning crocs and giving
Speaker 1: everybody the amazing opportunity to experience the world's first CROs
Speaker 1: free airport, it's time to take on an even larger crisis.
Speaker 1: Pajamas at the airport in the middle of the day
Speaker 1: and at least some people fell pray to.
Speaker 2: Them and not being serious about this. So there it is,
Speaker 2: and that's going to have to do it for today.
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