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Speaker 1: All right, let's start off as we always do here.
Speaker 1: Let's put our ears at the ground, our fingers in
Speaker 1: the pulse, Let's see what's happening to this great, big,
Speaker 1: wide world of ours. And we go to Charles Johnson.
Speaker 1: Everybody who's is that? You don't even know who Charles
Speaker 1: Johnson is?
Speaker 3: You don't even know who Charles. You barely know who
Speaker 3: Charles Johnson is. My goodness, Oh, chuck Jay, that's embarrassing.
Speaker 3: He's one hundred and four years old. I think this
Speaker 3: guy's amazing.
Speaker 1: He is just getting into a brand new sport at
Speaker 1: one hundred and four, which is a brave move, really
Speaker 1: brave move. And what he's doing is he's an archer.
Speaker 1: He's an archer. Okay, one hundred and four years old.
Speaker 1: Good luck trying to beat this guy.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm My name is Charles Johnson, and I'm one
Speaker 4: hundred and four years old.
Speaker 1: He sounds good, he does, doesn't one hundred and four
Speaker 1: and I can understand what he's saying. His voice is
Speaker 1: still relatively strong, pretty impressively from Plucksburg, West Virginia.
Speaker 4: The Phoenix now and this is I think this is
Speaker 4: my fourth time here.
Speaker 1: I like that He's like, I think this is my
Speaker 1: fourth time here. Who's to know I'm one hundred and
Speaker 1: four years old.
Speaker 3: I am so far deep into the bow and too
Speaker 3: the arrow that I have lost count of how many
Speaker 3: times I have I have done it.
Speaker 1: For those of you who are unimpressed right now, let
Speaker 1: me explain something to you. If you've never done ar
Speaker 1: tree in your life, you have no idea how hard
Speaker 1: it actually is with a compound bow to pull the
Speaker 1: bow back or whatever it is and then let go
Speaker 1: to fire off the arrow. I'll stay using all the
Speaker 1: wrong lingo here, I'll say this.
Speaker 3: I don't I still I don't think I have done
Speaker 3: enough of archery because I think the last time I
Speaker 3: did a bow and arrow was like in boy Scouts
Speaker 3: or cub Scouts even, and those aren't the same like
Speaker 3: equipment that's not the same device.
Speaker 1: It's hard. You folks who are into archery will know this.
Speaker 1: This guy's alle hundred and four and he can do it.
Speaker 4: I don't know about mak it fie, but I'll try.
Speaker 4: You know, this is one of the joints in my life,
Speaker 4: being this. You know it used to be golf.
Speaker 1: This took the.
Speaker 4: Place of golf, and I've met so many good friends
Speaker 4: here I'd love to tell people that I'm an archer. Yeah,
Speaker 4: to tell people I'm going to Vegas means a lot.
Speaker 1: You know. The craziest thing about this is this guy's
Speaker 1: not using anything to stand up right. He's not using
Speaker 1: a wheelchair. He doesn't have and like he doesn't have
Speaker 1: a cane.
Speaker 2: For God's sake, He's one hundred.
Speaker 1: And four and still kicking it in the archery world
Speaker 1: and bragging to his friends about him going over to Vegas.
Speaker 1: I like a time man.
Speaker 3: He still does that old thing that my grandmother did
Speaker 3: every time I saw her for the last I don't
Speaker 3: know so many years of her life, was like, I
Speaker 3: don't know if I'm making twe hundred and five, they
Speaker 3: always do that. See her in Christmas, Grandma?
Speaker 1: If I make it that long, yeah, Tony says, no,
Speaker 1: f and way, he's one hundred and four.
Speaker 2: He is, He looks great, sounds great. CJ.
Speaker 1: Ford says, modern compound bows aren't that difficult to pull.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's true.
Speaker 1: Even knowing as little as I know, I'm sure things
Speaker 1: have gotten better. But I bet I bet still most
Speaker 1: people who are over a certain age cannot get anywhere
Speaker 1: near pulling back even a modern compound bow. But now
Speaker 1: I need you because he's challenged me over here archery people.
Speaker 1: Is that impressive that one hundred and four year old
Speaker 1: man can pull back on a compound bow in competition?
Speaker 3: Did we actually see him you know, shoot? No, he
Speaker 3: probably sucks.
Speaker 1: Did we see if he's hits the target? No, no
Speaker 1: we didn't. We didn't see him actually shoot food or anything.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's any good. I just know
Speaker 1: he's one hundred and four, he's alive, and he's kicking it. Folks.
Speaker 1: So you got a long road ahead of you today.
Speaker 1: That's my message to start things off here on the show.
Speaker 1: New stuff to look forward to, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you well, you know what I'm not looking
Speaker 1: forward to right now. I was telling you before the show.
Speaker 1: I was telling Celi before the show two things. First,
Speaker 1: I told him, damn it, I forgot we had a
Speaker 1: meeting today, and because we had the meeting, I wasn't
Speaker 1: able to shave last minute before the show. And then
Speaker 1: Celia told me the people think that I'm I'm growing
Speaker 1: like the equivalent of a hockey beard.
Speaker 3: For the show Doomsday, somebody compared your beard to the
Speaker 3: doomsday clock in a way that like.
Speaker 1: Five o'clock shadow is five o'clock on the Doom Show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, okay, the doomsday beard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the doomsday beard is probably what I have going
Speaker 1: on right now.
Speaker 3: And this, you know, I don't know what they were
Speaker 3: specifically alluding to, because I'm not inside their heads, but
Speaker 3: it could be some sort of relation to this, you know,
Speaker 3: contract thing you've got going on. And it's like if
Speaker 3: Sean is not even shaving, you're just getting the getting
Speaker 3: the beard, like he's gonna be Lettermanning all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just like, well I'm out of here, why shave?
Speaker 1: It's not it's not far off from the target, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's probably as close as that one hundred and
Speaker 1: four year old guy would get. It is fairly accurate,
Speaker 1: I would have to say. So that was one thing
Speaker 1: I mentioned to see La in this morning. I said
Speaker 1: I didn't get the shave. So folks in the stream
Speaker 1: bear with me here today on YouTube and twitch.
Speaker 3: Sure some people like the beard, the stubble. The other
Speaker 3: thing is this and this is just brutal to me.
Speaker 1: It's like, so Sean Luck, I talked to Courtney all
Speaker 1: the time about Shawn Luck. I have things that happened
Speaker 1: to me and they're so annoying, and they're like, it's
Speaker 1: not just some annoying thing that you could fix quickly.
Speaker 1: For instance, on my Genesis, there's a little panel on
Speaker 1: the side and the panel got really hot. It's like
Speaker 1: this thin little panel by the side of my door,
Speaker 1: and panel got really hot in the sun and it
Speaker 1: popped off of my car because it got hot and warped.
Speaker 1: I have bought two of those panels, replaced them myself,
Speaker 1: double sided tape them in there, hired a professional who
Speaker 1: does bodywork to do the same thing, and every single
Speaker 1: time I put another one on, it pops right off
Speaker 1: the side of the car. I have no idea what's
Speaker 1: going on, but it's certainly a Sean problem. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of these weird Sean problems that pop up. You
Speaker 1: think geographically your car is just not in a great spot,
Speaker 1: like there's something about the way the sun hits your driveway.
Speaker 3: It's just that panel. The whole car is getting hot,
Speaker 3: but it's just that panel that's doing it. Looked to
Speaker 3: see if Genesis has some sort of you know, common
Speaker 3: problem with that panel on that door. I like to
Speaker 3: think the world is maybe against me, and that's what's
Speaker 3: coming up here.
Speaker 2: Because I also told you.
Speaker 1: Which spots with Cordey and see if her panel. I've
Speaker 1: got camera. I don't want two cars to get screwed
Speaker 1: up by whatever this phenomenon is. But I was telling
Speaker 1: you I've got one of the new PTZ cameras. These
Speaker 1: are like the really high end four K cameras that's
Speaker 1: coming into the studio today, will be delivered today, and
Speaker 1: taking the other one that's in the studio now and
Speaker 1: another camera that we currently use, and I put it
Speaker 1: up on eBay. So of course let's introduce the Sean problem,
Speaker 1: right The eBay Sean problem is, for the last forty
Speaker 1: eight hours, starting almost the moment I placed this very nice,
Speaker 1: very valuable camera up on eBay for an auction, eBay
Speaker 1: has been knocked down by hackers oo and eBay auctions
Speaker 1: have been settling for record low prices because no one
Speaker 1: can get to the auctions. But the auctions, much like
Speaker 1: mine with this expensive camera, are locked in place, so
Speaker 1: eBay doesn't.
Speaker 3: Have some sort of plan in place to be like, hey, guys,
Speaker 3: while we have this hat going on, while we have
Speaker 3: this connection issue, can they not just pause the auctions
Speaker 3: or set them all not to end.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they can, or they just aren't
Speaker 1: and there, or they're not willing to, but they're not
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: That's what's happening right now.
Speaker 1: eBay auctions are are ending for like record good deals
Speaker 1: for people because no one about it. Camera.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna VPN out of the country to somewhere that
Speaker 3: gets eBay. I'll save on shipping good. Yeah, I'll just
Speaker 3: I'll hand it over to you. Don't just do like
Speaker 3: a buy it now price.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, you put it up as an auction
Speaker 1: and now here's one are the stories. eBay has been
Speaker 1: struggling with widespread outages, disrupting transactions and API access.
Speaker 2: They began late Sunday.
Speaker 1: This is literally right after I posted the camera over
Speaker 1: on eBay. The eBay outage, which is crippled essential features
Speaker 1: of the site, has left many buyers and sellers frustrated,
Speaker 1: struggling to access critical functions including search features, listings, and
Speaker 1: checkout processes. Many of the au that we're up, we're
Speaker 1: settling for incredibly low numbers because nobody could get in
Speaker 1: there to have the competition to bid up the things
Speaker 1: that everybody was selling. It's all God on and on
Speaker 1: we go. It's just it's just how it rolls today.
Speaker 1: So for that reason, we need you, We absolutely positively
Speaker 1: need you join us today on the show with your feedback,
Speaker 1: your dispatches, and your email. Speaking of that, let's work
Speaker 1: a couple in here before we get to the Jimmy
Speaker 1: Kimmel drama, and I can save her a moment and
Speaker 1: a bunch of other stuff. Skylark emails the show tips
Speaker 1: at the news junkie dot Com. Skylark says, I've been
Speaker 1: wanting to write you for some time. Oh boy, this
Speaker 1: is starting out like a Casey Kasem message here, but
Speaker 1: email side, I guess.
Speaker 2: Skylark rides in and it goes Dear Sean, I've.
Speaker 1: Been wanting to write you for some time, and I
Speaker 1: finally have a chance, says Skylark. It was a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago, maybe a little bit longer. You mentioned the
Speaker 1: things that were talked about on the show would eventually
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks become national news.
Speaker 2: Well, you were right.
Speaker 1: You were talking about a parrot and a little underwater submarine.
Speaker 1: I saw that on a local news channel, Channel seven
Speaker 1: in Miami, four Lauderdale, and a few days ago I
Speaker 1: saw the rescue sloss from Sloth World. They were being
Speaker 1: rescued by the Central Florida Zoo. Thank you very much
Speaker 1: for bringing that to the attention to those that needed
Speaker 1: to hear it, and glad that because of some part
Speaker 1: in some part of your show that they've been rescued
Speaker 1: and being are being taken care of. I love your show,
Speaker 1: she says. I love your show, says Cindy. I'll stop
Speaker 1: you there because the next sentence is I hate seeing
Speaker 1: that it's going to be ending, Cindy.
Speaker 3: The Sloth World thing, I think has got got to
Speaker 3: international news because it's something about the cuteness of a sloth.
Speaker 3: The sloth has become so beloved that it was just
Speaker 3: and the fact that like, there was this it had
Speaker 3: a lot of sexy things. There was this tourist and
Speaker 3: a destination that was going to be, you know, so
Speaker 3: great for the sloths and no just kidding, we're keeping
Speaker 3: them in warehouses with space eaters.
Speaker 1: And people really were excited about it for a hot
Speaker 1: second when the social media advertising started.
Speaker 2: But then it just totally flipped.
Speaker 1: I mean it just a one hundred percent flipped that fast.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I there was some things about Sloth World that were
Speaker 3: red flags to me from the start. I didn't now don't.
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to say that like, Oh, I was
Speaker 3: reading the tea leaves and I knew they were gonna
Speaker 3: not take care of the sloths very well. Thirty one
Speaker 3: of them to be dead. I had no idea about that.
Speaker 3: But the amount of AI that they used for their
Speaker 3: graphics was a little bit of a I don't know, Like,
Speaker 3: if you're not if you're too cheap to pay for
Speaker 3: somebody to give you a good graphics package, how much
Speaker 3: are you of spending on the sloths.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that causes a bit of a problem for some people.
Speaker 1: And here we are.
Speaker 2: I got news on that as well.
Speaker 1: Today. We're loaded up to share this show Tuesday. So
Speaker 1: let's kick it open. When we come back, a dinner
Speaker 1: gone wrong in a story that you are not going
Speaker 1: to believe waiting to hear these clips. We'll also get
Speaker 1: into the attack on scientology is continuing, and it's crazy
Speaker 1: some of the twists this is taking. Both of those
Speaker 1: are coming up next. Something to use Junkie. We always
Speaker 1: have these stories. I bring them up and I know,
Speaker 1: without a doubt there's going to be people, some of
Speaker 1: you weirdos in Chat in particular, who are going to say, like,
Speaker 1: I could save her, I could save this person. I
Speaker 1: don't know why there's such a desire for both men
Speaker 1: and women out there. This is like a there's problems
Speaker 1: that can be spread around to both men and women,
Speaker 1: for sure, but there's propensity for us to find the worst,
Speaker 1: weirdest people around us and go, you know what, I think.
Speaker 1: I think I could fix that person. And they did
Speaker 1: this with Casey Anthony. They did it with who's the
Speaker 1: guy who killed Lacy Peterson? Well, there was the one
Speaker 1: trick that was in love with Brian Coberger. Yeah too,
Speaker 1: but not Yeah, that's true. So but Lacy Peterson was
Speaker 1: killed by her husband, Scott Peters. Hell's his name, Peter
Speaker 1: Scott Peterson. Yeah, Scott Peterson.
Speaker 2: That makes sense.
Speaker 1: It just adds up now that I think about it.
Speaker 1: Scott Peterson is another example of when people women would
Speaker 1: see him and they'd be like, oh my god, he's
Speaker 1: so hot, Like I like this guy.
Speaker 2: They'd send him money and stuff in jail.
Speaker 1: This lady is making headlines today because she stabbed her
Speaker 1: boyfriend at their apartment and the reason for it, and
Speaker 1: all the stories and details behind it. So insane, so bizarre.
Speaker 1: But I know some of you, and you're not even
Speaker 1: really that attractive.
Speaker 3: But I'm seeing the thumbnail here and I'm not seeing
Speaker 3: that I can fix herness of it.
Speaker 1: There will be I'm watching, well, I'm watching you chat.
Speaker 1: There will be at least one show her here on
Speaker 1: the stream for YouTubers and twitch people. Okay, I there
Speaker 1: will be at least one of you and says I
Speaker 1: could fix her. I can fix her. Here's what she
Speaker 1: her eyebrows first, she's got She's got a lot of
Speaker 1: problems that are beyond her eyebrows. Right now, already they're
Speaker 1: saying I can fix her. See because you go to
Speaker 1: them into it. I think if I said nothing, they
Speaker 1: would still be saying this. But let's see. Here we go.
Speaker 2: Here's her story, and you tell me what you think.
Speaker 5: When investigators arrived, they found a man flat on his back.
Speaker 1: They asked Cloth why she did it.
Speaker 5: Clothes said she did it because she wanted to go
Speaker 5: out to eat that night, and her boyfriend had come
Speaker 5: over to her apartment to cook chicken drumsticks instead.
Speaker 1: How could he do that? So specifically, how could he
Speaker 1: do that? She wanted to go out to eat in
Speaker 1: this miser boyfriend was going to instead cook chicken drumsticks
Speaker 1: at the house.
Speaker 2: I can't believe it. Chicken though, I got to put
Speaker 2: that in there.
Speaker 1: You didn't need any of those details, but they still
Speaker 1: put those in the mark.
Speaker 3: We had to run a correction an earlier version of
Speaker 3: the story and implicated that the plan was to cook
Speaker 3: chicken drumsticks when indeed the boyfriend bought chicken thighs.
Speaker 2: Yeah. This was Mikayla.
Speaker 1: Cloth is her name, Mikayla clothed Koot, twenty seven years old.
Speaker 1: She attacked the dude and stabbed him because she wanted
Speaker 1: to go out to dinner and he wanted to instead
Speaker 1: make chicken drumsticks at home.
Speaker 5: When asked if there was a struggle, Cloth told police quote, no,
Speaker 5: I did stab him.
Speaker 1: End quote. Clothes says her.
Speaker 5: Mother grabbed a knife on the plate side, and she
Speaker 5: got angry and she pushed the knife into his chest.
Speaker 1: The victim's father spoke in court Monday, when people say
Speaker 1: stuff like that, they're like, you know, he got angry
Speaker 1: and I pushed the knife into his chest. Because this
Speaker 1: was I was like, what you're describing is just stabbing.
Speaker 1: Just say I stabbed him. Well, I didn't stab him.
Speaker 1: I just pushed the knife into his chest. That's that
Speaker 1: is a stabbing. That does make a stabbing. I think
Speaker 1: that's what she did. Does we not name him or
Speaker 1: his twenty five year old son.
Speaker 2: Here's the dad.
Speaker 6: Please never let that monster walk the streets ever again.
Speaker 1: She admits.
Speaker 7: Saying I stabbed him, if you have to take me
Speaker 7: to jail, Okay, she didn't hesitate with the discussion with
Speaker 7: the officers.
Speaker 1: Yeah she didn't. She is a pretty deranged lunatic. And
Speaker 1: there she is in Wisconsin, Mikayla Cloth, this woman charged
Speaker 1: with first degree intentional homicide. And I guess they said,
Speaker 1: like there wasn't any remorse, no nothing, no, just remember this.
Speaker 1: When you think you have problems in your relationship, you
Speaker 1: probably do. But I bet they're not this bad. I
Speaker 1: bet they're not this level of bad. And if you
Speaker 1: think they're this level, you know, spring on the whole chicken,
Speaker 1: not just the drumsticks. I mean, it could have all
Speaker 1: been fixed, I guess by taking her out to dinner.
Speaker 1: But yes, you know, what are we gonna do?
Speaker 3: TMJ four The article that I'm reading. Prosecutor said Cloth,
Speaker 3: who was in the apartment and told them she wanted
Speaker 3: to go out to eat that night, but the victim
Speaker 3: came to the apartment with quote chicken drumsticks, comma seasoning
Speaker 3: end quote that's it, that's it, and plan to use
Speaker 3: the air fryer for dinner.
Speaker 1: You guys, people are crazy out there, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: like most people are normal. You and I are normal,
Speaker 1: our neighbors are normal. People are out us are all normal.
Speaker 1: But there are some crazy people out there.
Speaker 2: I see this all the time.
Speaker 1: It just rocks my world that there's so many people
Speaker 1: who are so close to killing an other person. They're
Speaker 1: so close, like you're you're if I if I came
Speaker 1: home ac Cordy and I had talked about going out
Speaker 1: to dinner somewhere, we made plans, even if I was excited,
Speaker 1: and then if I came home and she goes, nah, instead,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make it dinner, I'd be like, Wow, that's
Speaker 1: really nice. I'm excited for this dinner that you're making.
Speaker 1: Imagine being so close to homicide that that is what
Speaker 1: tips you over the edge.
Speaker 3: Just kills the guy because he didn't want to eat out. Yes,
Speaker 3: I mean, in this case, maybe more than what.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't understand. We're talking about restaurants here. We
Speaker 1: got you and your dispatches and emails are they're coming
Speaker 1: in live to the show right now. We'll get some
Speaker 1: more of those. In fact, let me work in a
Speaker 1: couple real quick. Somebody talking about the red and blue
Speaker 1: button thing, and that is not a political thing, but
Speaker 1: it's kind of turned into one in some bizarre way.
Speaker 1: Let me see if I can you think if they
Speaker 1: picked different colors, we wouldn't call this political. Yes, I
Speaker 1: think they should have. Honestly, I think they should have.
Speaker 1: I don't want to screw this up. But it went
Speaker 1: something like this. This This was the thing that was
Speaker 1: going viral where they said, if you were given the opportunity,
Speaker 1: everybody has to place a vote. It's a private vote,
Speaker 1: and if everybody hits the blue button, nobody gets killed
Speaker 1: and everybody survives. But if at least one person hits
Speaker 1: the red button, no, you're getting it wrong.
Speaker 3: Okay, See, I know everybody gets two buttons, one is
Speaker 3: red and one is blue, and you are told ahead
Speaker 3: of time. Here's how this particular exercise works. It's very
Speaker 3: joker from the dark night when they're on the boats
Speaker 3: and all that. Okay, If every you know, everybody votes,
Speaker 3: you have to vote. You have to push one button.
Speaker 3: If more than fifty percent of the population pushes the
Speaker 3: blue button, everybody lives.
Speaker 1: All right. So if more than fifty percent of everybody
Speaker 1: hits the blue button, everybody survives, everybody's surviving. We're all good.
Speaker 3: If forty nine nine percent or less push the blue button,
Speaker 3: only the people who push the red button.
Speaker 2: Live, okay? Is the answer to this?
Speaker 1: Not all right? And I want to throw this out
Speaker 1: there one more time. Everyone in the world has to
Speaker 1: take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button.
Speaker 1: If more than fifty percent of people press the blue button,
Speaker 1: everyone survives. If less than fifty percent of the people
Speaker 1: press the blue button, only people who press the red
Speaker 1: button survived. Which button would you press? Is the correct answer?
Speaker 1: Not red? Because if every person hit the red button,
Speaker 1: everyone would survive. Yes, right, And there's no stipulation on
Speaker 1: that one. Just if you look at this and you say, well,
Speaker 1: then all we have to do is every single person
Speaker 1: hits the red button, and that completely dismantles the problem
Speaker 1: that we have in front of you. Because I'm missing something.
Speaker 3: If one hundred percent of people push the red button,
Speaker 3: then clearly that's less than fifty percent who have pushed
Speaker 3: the blue button.
Speaker 2: Yes, you know.
Speaker 3: So this is faith in humanity versus a like a
Speaker 3: not even a necessary an unnecessary test of your faith
Speaker 3: in humanity versus a guarantee that you will live.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the red button is the answer because
Speaker 1: it's guaranteed. Every person hits the red button and you're good,
Speaker 1: you're hitting the blue button. It's like this utopian button
Speaker 1: where you think more than fifty percent of the people
Speaker 1: will do this because you think it's the right thing,
Speaker 1: and you think everybody has like the same level of
Speaker 1: empathy as you do. I don't trust enough people like that,
Speaker 1: and you shouldn't either, probably, So I think if we
Speaker 1: all hit the red button, we're all going our individual route,
Speaker 1: but we're all protecting ourselves and everybody survived no matter what.
Speaker 3: There is no risk in hitting the red button, zero
Speaker 3: risk if you hit the red button. If you are
Speaker 3: the only person who hits the red button. If there
Speaker 3: are ten thousand people in this exercise and ninety nine
Speaker 3: of them hit the blue button and you hit the red, yeah,
Speaker 3: you still survive.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, wait wait wait, wait, hold on, but if
Speaker 1: everybody presses the blue button, it's the same thing, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: but but you're yeah yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 2: Then only oh god, it's so complished.
Speaker 1: However, hold on, but if you flip it, if you
Speaker 1: flip it, hold on, flip it. Right.
Speaker 3: If there are ten thousand people yes, and nine thousand,
Speaker 3: nine ninety nine hit the red button and one person
Speaker 3: hits the blue button, well, now less than that person's dead.
Speaker 1: You're a gunner. Yeah, but it's that person's because all
Speaker 1: they had to do is hit the red button. That
Speaker 1: was the only yes. So if you hit the blue button,
Speaker 1: you are relying on everybody else hitting the blue button.
Speaker 2: If you hit the red button, you're protecting yourself.
Speaker 1: And if everybody protects thee there sound, we're all protected together.
Speaker 2: That's the answer I say.
Speaker 3: For the record, I've compared this to The Dark Knight,
Speaker 3: but that's not It wasn't the exact same situation. And
Speaker 3: there was two boats and then you turn a key
Speaker 3: and that boat blows up, or they turn a key
Speaker 3: and you blow up, and it's that was a whole
Speaker 3: different thing, where there were consequences that were much more
Speaker 3: severe than Hey, listen, no matter what, if you hit
Speaker 3: this button, you will survive.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, right, I think that's the answer. But I mean,
Speaker 1: everybody has their own vibes on this. Anonymous emails tips
Speaker 1: to the news yunker dot com and says, I'm going
Speaker 1: blue because the red might wipe out everyone I love
Speaker 1: and they're more important to me than I am to myself.
Speaker 1: What it's just anonymous person, Yeah, that's it. This is
Speaker 1: an argument about empathy, okay, because if you want to
Speaker 1: say I'm gonna push blue to protect the other people
Speaker 1: around me, you're you're putting your empathy out like a
Speaker 1: like a net that you're reliant on right at your
Speaker 1: own peril. Okay, now here's here's what I'm saying. If
Speaker 1: you instead said, let me gather all the people that
Speaker 1: I love, and I'm gonna tell all the people that
Speaker 1: I love. Hey, guys, we obviously got to hit red.
Speaker 1: We're all gonna be saved if we hit red and
Speaker 1: they tell everybody else they red. Everybody just hits red.
Speaker 1: Everybody protects everybody they love, and then we went nobody dies.
Speaker 1: The problem is that you're starting to think like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be part of some big movement instead of everybody
Speaker 1: protecting themselves in their own little like groups that are
Speaker 1: close to them. That's what I think. That's what makes
Speaker 1: this an interesting conversation, and that's why that works that way. Also,
Speaker 1: Celan was talking yesterday about getting into secured private spaces
Speaker 1: and where's the place that you've been which is the
Speaker 1: most cool? And you felt like, oh man, I'm not
Speaker 1: supposed to be here right now right Michelle emails Tips
Speaker 1: of the News Chunky dot com. Michelle says, my dad
Speaker 1: was a US Customs sac or a special Agent in
Speaker 1: charge for the US Customs. For a while, he worked
Speaker 1: in the counterfeit department. In approximately nineteen ninety, my brother
Speaker 1: and I were in high school. He showed me the
Speaker 1: closet that had all the counterfeit stuff, Gucci bags, mink
Speaker 1: fur codes, stacks of money.
Speaker 3: Not just counterfeit money, but counterfeit every everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So this huge office that Customs had where they
Speaker 1: pulled in all the counterfeit goods and it was all
Speaker 1: locked in there, and Michelle's dad brought her in there
Speaker 1: to go check it out, which would be very very cool.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the email, And one more real quick
Speaker 1: Alisha in Jensen Beach says tips at thenews junkie dot com.
Speaker 1: Hello from Jensen Beach, Florida to all of you. This
Speaker 1: is my first time contacting the show. I've been listening
Speaker 1: for the last five or so years on the podcast.
Speaker 1: I never get into the car without listening to you guys.
Speaker 1: But I can't remember ever laughing as hard as I
Speaker 1: did with you two talking about hitting the deck. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: I was on US one and had to pull over
Speaker 1: because tears were blurring my eyes from laughing so hard.
Speaker 1: Best story in a long time about the drive by
Speaker 1: dogging and the car backfiring, because I know I would
Speaker 1: have reacted to both exactly the same way. Thank you
Speaker 1: for a laugh on a day when I needed this,
Speaker 1: says Alisha.
Speaker 3: Boy, that was an easy laugh for you, I know
Speaker 3: right this Also she left out Josh.
Speaker 1: What a shame for Josh. What poor Josh. He was there,
Speaker 1: he had a buttoner two is this thing? It's a
Speaker 1: great guy. All right, We're gonna quick break when we
Speaker 1: come back. We got to get into the Jimmy Kimmel
Speaker 1: controversy that is really dominating a lot of the discussion today.
Speaker 1: What's it all about? I got the joke that started.
Speaker 1: I got all the reactions, I got all that. We'll
Speaker 1: have to get to that after the Scientology thing that
Speaker 1: are teased though, because the attack on scientology continues. What's
Speaker 1: the latest that's happened here? It's crazy. So while Rod
Speaker 1: and I want you to go on it with us.
Speaker 1: That's coming up next on the news, Chunkie, I ask
Speaker 1: you a question and be honest with me, all right,
Speaker 1: be honest. You can vote over on TNJ chat or
Speaker 1: you could vote on twitch right now by putting yes
Speaker 1: or no to this question. Is buying lottery tickets wasting
Speaker 1: your money? Is buying lottery tickets? Wasting your money? Is
Speaker 1: the question? Just put yes or no, and the folks
Speaker 1: over on TNJ chat just vote in the actual poll.
Speaker 1: You'll see it there on the screen. That's how you
Speaker 1: vote on TMJ chat. But the piece of information that
Speaker 1: led me to this is Americans spent get this, overall,
Speaker 1: one hundred and nine billion dollars on lottery tickets last year,
Speaker 1: which is more money than Americans spent on movies, books, concerts,
Speaker 1: and sports tickets combined. RYE Americans like that, We like that,
Speaker 1: hope you know that's what it is that is. That's
Speaker 1: what it is. It's hanging on to a thread of hope. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: just a thread of hope. Americans spending one hundred and
Speaker 1: nine billion dollars on lottery tickets, which is more than
Speaker 1: they spent on movies, books, concerts, and sports tickets all
Speaker 1: combined together, and a lot of people are saying things
Speaker 1: like the lottery is just a voluntary tax. I bought
Speaker 1: three lottery tickets last week and forgot to ever scratch them,
Speaker 1: and I have no idea where they went. Well, that's
Speaker 1: just dumb. Yeah, now that's definitely a waste of money.
Speaker 1: But generally speaking, is it a waste of money? Is
Speaker 1: buying lottery tickets wasting your money? I want to see
Speaker 1: what people think about that. Let us know with your
Speaker 1: your votes or emails to tips at the news Junkie
Speaker 1: dot com. You can, I'll send a dispatch over on
Speaker 1: the website, the news Junkie dot com. It's an incredible
Speaker 1: number to think about, though, Absolutely, one hundred and nine billion,
Speaker 1: one hundred and nine billion dollars. That's so much bigger
Speaker 1: than re industry and sports batting. Let's go into education.
Speaker 1: So yes, allgedly allegedly it's going to some sort of education.
Speaker 2: That's true. We've heard that.
Speaker 3: I think I was waiting in line at the gas
Speaker 3: station the other day and you said it was one
Speaker 3: hundred and nine billion last year or in the past year.
Speaker 2: In the past year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And there was something there was some figure
Speaker 3: that they had at the lottery stand that said the
Speaker 3: number that they've donated to education over the years, and
Speaker 3: I think it was like fifty billion.
Speaker 2: But I'm like, that's a lot of years.
Speaker 1: When you divide, you know, it's a long time, especially
Speaker 1: when this is how much people are spending every single year.
Speaker 2: And somebody is saying it might have been lower. It
Speaker 2: might have been lower.
Speaker 3: But I'm just being conservative here with that number because
Speaker 3: I remember thinking, I go, yeah, that seems like a
Speaker 3: good amount, But how many years is that divided over?
Speaker 3: Because now it starts thinking like, oh no, actually, you're
Speaker 3: you're taking in a lot of money and only really
Speaker 3: donating some of it.
Speaker 1: Somebody said earlier They're like, yeah, yeah, Sean, but think
Speaker 1: about how much money I could win. Well yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the point. I mean, that's what gets you to want
Speaker 1: to do this. And the only way you can justify this,
Speaker 1: like if you answer is buying lottery tickets wasting money
Speaker 1: with no which is losing right now? What many more
Speaker 1: people are saying it is wasting money judging by the
Speaker 1: story I just told you there. But if you say that, no,
Speaker 1: it's not wasting money. I think the solid logic there
Speaker 1: would be, Hey, if you have a budget for it
Speaker 1: and you get a level of enjoyment out of it,
Speaker 1: like you have fun.
Speaker 2: You know, you go.
Speaker 1: Home at the end of your hard working day and
Speaker 1: some people drink beer or smoke cigarettes or roll up
Speaker 1: a join or whatever, and you sit there and scratch
Speaker 1: off a couple of scratchers, and that's your vice. I
Speaker 1: think that's totally fair. Like I think that's absolutely fair.
Speaker 1: If you say I have my thing, you have your thing.
Speaker 1: Don't be judging me. I want to dream a little
Speaker 1: bit and it gives me a high shane and I
Speaker 1: get excited. So no, buying lottery tickets is not wasting
Speaker 1: money to me, I can make sense of that. I can't.
Speaker 1: I hung out with a guy.
Speaker 3: Over the weekend that he said I have n't drank
Speaker 3: in like eight or some eight years or so, and
Speaker 3: then we start talking about upcoming sports games, and he's.
Speaker 1: Like, all right, let me get out of the app
Speaker 1: let's go here we go. Oh yeah, everybody's got their
Speaker 1: own thing. I get that. That's fine. I think if
Speaker 1: you are solely buying lottery tickets and spending your money
Speaker 1: on lottery tickets, spending is part of that one hundred
Speaker 1: and nine billion dollars that so many people toss into
Speaker 1: that pot. If you're doing it because you think, hey, financially,
Speaker 1: this is going to pay off for me, this is
Speaker 1: not the right reason. That's not the right reason to
Speaker 1: do it. If you're doing it because you're having fun,
Speaker 1: go for it. Be reasonable, put a little budget toward it,
Speaker 1: just like if you go to the casino.
Speaker 2: Or you bet on sports.
Speaker 1: And if things are reasonable and you have fun and
Speaker 1: it's your way of enjoying yourself, go for it. But
Speaker 1: if you're doing it kind of like my dad, my dad,
Speaker 1: I've told stories about my dad.
Speaker 2: He used to go to this church.
Speaker 1: It was the church Mareen Christian in West Pont Beach, Florida,
Speaker 1: and it was the school that I went to.
Speaker 2: I got kicked out of.
Speaker 1: And they'll never be the most famous person at the
Speaker 1: school because Larry the Cable Guy also attended. You know,
Speaker 1: it's this brutal truth of my life. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to beat him. I don't think you just need a
Speaker 1: three word phrase. Get her done. Worked out real well
Speaker 1: for that guy. They had a lot of money. But
Speaker 1: if you take my dad's strategy was my dad, I
Speaker 1: would go, you're like really given a lot to the
Speaker 1: church these days. And he goes, yeah, Sean, I have
Speaker 1: found the more that I give to church, the more
Speaker 1: I'll get back in other things.
Speaker 2: He's like, it's fantastic.
Speaker 1: So I've donated ten percent of my earnings that week
Speaker 1: to church. And they said afterwards, I got this, this,
Speaker 1: and this out of it, and it was really awesome.
Speaker 1: And he's like, wow, this was a great investment. I go,
Speaker 1: how do you know you wouldn't have gotten those things
Speaker 1: if you didn't give the money to church. Once we're
Speaker 1: giving both of the lines of income. Oh, it was
Speaker 1: like his stocks went up right, or you know, whatever
Speaker 1: investments he had, or he found twenty dollars in the
Speaker 1: public's parking lot and at the grocery store, whatever it was.
Speaker 1: It was like, my dad was motivated to give to
Speaker 1: the church because he said I would he would get
Speaker 1: things out of it. I would get things back and
Speaker 1: that was the motivation for him. If you're motivated to
Speaker 1: spend your money on lottery tickets because you literally are
Speaker 1: hedging on the fact that you're going to win, don't
Speaker 1: do it. Do not do it because you're not gonna win.
Speaker 1: Odds are you're not going It's not gonna happen that way.
Speaker 1: All right, over to our update on the world of Scientology.
Speaker 1: I've been keeping you up on this. It's not getting
Speaker 1: a lot of national attention yet, but I think it's
Speaker 1: going too soon. And here's why. People have begun to
Speaker 1: on a very sophisticated and mildly hilarious level, troll the
Speaker 1: Church of Scientology.
Speaker 2: Now this is amazing for this reason.
Speaker 1: For I don't know how many years I have seen people,
Speaker 1: even powerful people, even powerful journalists, attempt to take down
Speaker 1: the Church of Scientology. They've attempted to take them down
Speaker 1: with documentaries, with in depth reporting about nefarious things happening
Speaker 1: at the Church of Scientology. They've attempted to name all
Speaker 1: of the people, David Miscavision, all these people in the
Speaker 1: leadership at Scientology, and all the celebrities like John Travolta.
Speaker 1: They've attempted to talk about how the money is wasted,
Speaker 1: and how they're bullies, and how they threaten people at Scientology.
Speaker 1: They've done all of these things, none of it, precisely,
Speaker 1: none of it has been as successful as the trolling
Speaker 1: of Scientology in the last two weeks. And even that
Speaker 1: is lea remedy kind of thing.
Speaker 2: She has done so much.
Speaker 1: She hates the Scientology, she was one of them, She's
Speaker 1: done docuseries about it, she's tried to expose them. But
Speaker 1: way more people have interacted with the content online that's
Speaker 1: going viral, where people show up to the Church of Scientology,
Speaker 1: they open the door and they run in and they
Speaker 1: see how far they can run. See. I don't know.
Speaker 3: When I look at those videos, I think of people
Speaker 3: just being annoying and like, do you think their point
Speaker 3: in life by making these videos is to expose the
Speaker 3: Church of Scientology or just to do a thing where
Speaker 3: we're like, hey, we're seeing how far we can run
Speaker 3: into this ridiculous place before we get escorted out.
Speaker 1: Probably more of that one, but I think that it's
Speaker 1: having more of an impact on Scientology than anybody could guess.
Speaker 1: Now here's one of the latest videos. I'm rolling this here.
Speaker 1: I can't play the audio because they curse. The Church
Speaker 1: of Scientology has an officer outside and they have removed
Speaker 1: the door handles from the door of this particular entrance here.
Speaker 1: They have removed the handles off of the door because
Speaker 1: people were opening the door and running into the Church
Speaker 1: of Scientology's building and go it. They try to see
Speaker 1: how far they could run through all the hallways, and
Speaker 1: what they could discover is they go there and it's
Speaker 1: become so annoying to the people at the Church of Scientology.
Speaker 1: They've had to put security up. They have a giant
Speaker 1: thing locking the door from the inside, and they have
Speaker 1: removed the handles to the Church of Scientology to stop
Speaker 1: this grand incursion. Buddy Jesus can't run through there with
Speaker 1: his friends. Jeah, it was yesterday Jesus hauled ass and
Speaker 1: pop through the Scientology plays with a couple of his friends.
Speaker 1: And then I've seen other ones here. Okay, this is
Speaker 1: hang on. I also don't want to play the audio
Speaker 1: on all this because mostly young people showing up and
Speaker 1: this is them trying to again. They try to open
Speaker 1: the door, they try to go up in there. There's
Speaker 1: a bunch of people like locking arms in the Opsit
Speaker 1: that can't be real.
Speaker 2: This is people showing.
Speaker 1: Up outside the church's Scientology and showing people gathering by
Speaker 1: the door. But that when they show the person poking
Speaker 1: their head through the window, it just that's fake. That's
Speaker 1: that's a dummy. That's that's gonna be a dummy right there.
Speaker 1: But some of these are legit. And here's another one.
Speaker 1: Now there's somebody who's dressed up as I don't even
Speaker 1: know what they are, like some sort of evil creature,
Speaker 1: and they're playing freaking music on top of the HQ
Speaker 1: for Scientology and Clearwater, Florida.
Speaker 3: All right, the music is terrible, This is very very bad.
Speaker 3: I don't know that person actually knows how to play
Speaker 3: the cello.
Speaker 1: I don't know what what noise is coming out of
Speaker 1: the instrument that they're playing. But they are trolling Scientology
Speaker 1: as well by jumping on top of the HQ for
Speaker 1: Scientology in Clearwater, Florida and playing their instruments in this
Speaker 1: weird way in some sort of form of protest or whatever.
Speaker 1: Summit Girls says more stupidity. The dumbing down of America
Speaker 1: is still in the making, maybe, but I think this
Speaker 1: really has caused more of a real world impact.
Speaker 2: Than almost anything else.
Speaker 1: Like, imagine for a second, do you think the people
Speaker 1: at the Church of Scientology are annoyed and put off
Speaker 1: by this?
Speaker 3: Because I do, Well, yeah, I think any business that
Speaker 3: this is happening too would be annoyed and put put off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: I think, like you have to think, is this is
Speaker 2: this as annoying as it is?
Speaker 1: Is this ave in some way actually bothering Scientology?
Speaker 2: Are there closed door meetings going on? I think so,
Speaker 2: I really do.
Speaker 1: Johnny says it's a demonic noid that's playing the instrument
Speaker 1: whatever character this is.
Speaker 2: The noise is just so bad. I can't even take
Speaker 2: the noise.
Speaker 1: But that's what has been happening to the Church of Scientology.
Speaker 1: Effective or not effective. Let us know what you think
Speaker 1: about these protests that continue over there and they're running.
Speaker 2: In through the doors.
Speaker 1: They're doing all sorts of stuff to go after the
Speaker 1: Church of Scientology. Give us your thoughts on that real quick.
Speaker 1: Before the break, I wanted to share this with you
Speaker 1: because this is an unbelievable story. I will put this
Speaker 1: up on see it now, I promise. But everybody is
Speaker 1: getting a warning right now. A man in India was
Speaker 1: trying to withdraw some money from a bank account. All right.
Speaker 1: He went to the bank, this guy in India, and
Speaker 1: he said, I'd like to withdraw two hundred and eleven
Speaker 1: dollars or the equivalent from my sister's bank account. And
Speaker 1: the bank goes, we can't do anything about this, all right,
Speaker 1: We're not able to do anything about this. And the
Speaker 1: guy goes, this is please, my sister has passed away.
Speaker 1: I need you to give me the money that's left
Speaker 1: in her account's two hundred and eleven dollars and I
Speaker 1: need this money. He kept visiting the bank. The bank
Speaker 1: said we with nothing we could do about this. He said,
Speaker 1: my sister died in January at twenty twenty six, and
Speaker 1: they go, no, we're not giving you the money.
Speaker 2: He brought his dead sister to the bank. I kid
Speaker 2: you not.
Speaker 1: He legitimately, this man brought his dead sister to the bank.
Speaker 3: I mean, get my screenshot right now. Who's been dead
Speaker 3: for three months plus, has been dead for three months? Yes,
Speaker 3: celend she's been dead for three months. He brought her
Speaker 3: too at the bank. I just got a screenshot for
Speaker 3: see it now. And he just carries her in. I
Speaker 3: don't even know what to make of this? But what
Speaker 3: does the bank make of it? I just give the
Speaker 3: man the money. For God's sake. He brings the sister,
Speaker 3: the deceased sister to the bank.
Speaker 2: G two. Munda is the guy's name, just in case
Speaker 2: you're wondering.
Speaker 1: J E E t U Munda m o U m
Speaker 1: u n da fifty years old.
Speaker 2: He said.
Speaker 1: He took this step out of frustration, out of repeated
Speaker 1: visits to the bank where they told him we cannot
Speaker 1: do anything. We can't give you this money. We need
Speaker 1: proof that she's dead. And he said, prove that she's dead.
Speaker 1: She died in January and the said, no, Sarah, we
Speaker 1: need proof, and he brought her body in.
Speaker 3: Been a real son of a bitch if he walked
Speaker 3: that skeleton up there after three months and they went, well,
Speaker 3: we can't prove that that's her, so we're going to keep.
Speaker 1: That two hundred and eleven American dollars. What this far?
Speaker 1: For God's sake, he says, I'm putting this up right now.
Speaker 1: I want you to go take a look when you
Speaker 1: get an opportunity over on see it now in the
Speaker 1: news junkie app take a peek at that this man
Speaker 1: brought his dead sister to the bank because I kept
Speaker 1: refusing him the money. It's over on the website and
Speaker 1: to see it now section quick break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll get it all this Jimmy Kimmel drama. What's going on?
Speaker 1: Is Jimmy Kimmel about to get fired again? What's happening
Speaker 1: with that? More of your feedback and emails on the
Speaker 1: way updates in the White House correspondence situation, and so
Speaker 1: much more so.
Speaker 2: I'll come it up next in the news junky.
Speaker 1: I like to think we have a pretty wide spread
Speaker 1: of types.
Speaker 2: Of people who listen to the news Junkie, Like there are.
Speaker 1: People different different backgrounds from political leanings, you know. I
Speaker 1: get all sorts of emails, people who agree, who disagree.
Speaker 2: People are young people who are old.
Speaker 1: There's people who are, you know, eighty years old, nine
Speaker 1: years old who listened to this show, and then there
Speaker 1: are young people who listen to this show who emailed
Speaker 1: me all the time. I very rarely ever see everybody
Speaker 1: kind of coming together on one thing. But I can
Speaker 1: tell you Celine, without a shadow of a doubt, no
Speaker 1: one cares about the King of England. No one cares
Speaker 1: the King of England has arrived in the United States
Speaker 1: of America to talk to the American people, and I
Speaker 1: asked everybody in Chat during the break, and literally nobody cares.
Speaker 1: They've tried to like foist the British royal family on
Speaker 1: Americans for so long after Princess Diana's death. People cared
Speaker 1: about Princess Diane, I think to a certain extent, and
Speaker 1: liked her. They were in the Princess Diana. They were
Speaker 1: interested in what was going on in their life. But
Speaker 1: after that, I think Americans just generally don't care about
Speaker 1: the Royal fan They try to make the Megan Markle
Speaker 1: thing and headlines all the time.
Speaker 2: They try to tell us what's.
Speaker 1: Going on with Harry and William and all of the people,
Speaker 1: and I every single time.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't think anybody cares.
Speaker 1: I don't. I never talk about it on the show
Speaker 1: for this exact reason. I just don't think people care.
Speaker 1: I think is in America to speak to us, and
Speaker 1: nobody cares. The people that care are like people that
Speaker 1: came here from England, you know, like people that lived
Speaker 1: there at some point, grew up on that and then
Speaker 1: maybe moved over here for work or family stuff. Or whatever.
Speaker 3: I've had British friends that you know, give a little
Speaker 3: bit more you know, time and energy to what goes
Speaker 3: on with the Royal family than the rest of us.
Speaker 1: I mean, I wonder if that is still true to
Speaker 1: this day. Like I feel like so many people and
Speaker 1: somebody says hate brings people together kind of in a way,
Speaker 1: but I think much more. No, here's the thing. I
Speaker 1: don't think they care enough. Those people care enough to
Speaker 1: hate the Royal Family. Probably there just don't care. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think they're just completely disconnected. Like if somebody said, Sean,
Speaker 1: the King is coming, the King of England. He's coming,
Speaker 1: the King of the British Empire, and he's going to
Speaker 1: be in your neighborhood. I would go, No, I'm good.
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to watch something on Netflix instead.
Speaker 1: I don't have.
Speaker 2: Any interest at all, And who care.
Speaker 3: I would go if it did not inconvenience me terribly,
Speaker 3: you know, I would go.
Speaker 1: Just to see just for the pope and circumstance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, parts of it are kind of interesting, but only
Speaker 3: to a point, Like you know, what would.
Speaker 2: You rather see? I'll throw this out to everybody.
Speaker 1: Would you be more interested in going to see the
Speaker 1: Pope or the king Pope. I'd see the Pope too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you this for a dumb reason. I'd
Speaker 1: just rather see the popemobile. I'd rather see the pope
Speaker 1: moving around in the popemobile and the what's going on
Speaker 1: with the Pope? And I think I could be interested
Speaker 1: in that more so than I would the big fat
Speaker 1: supper after you know.
Speaker 3: The king came at a really weird time for us,
Speaker 3: being as there was just a recent shooting attempt and
Speaker 3: I read an article last night where they're like, Hey,
Speaker 3: this this a deaf person or this person who like
Speaker 3: does the reading of the lips. Tried to tell everybody
Speaker 3: what the President of the United States, President Trump and
Speaker 3: the King of England were like whispering to each other
Speaker 3: when he got there.
Speaker 2: Oh, really do they What did they find out?
Speaker 1: What he was?
Speaker 2: What they were saying?
Speaker 3: What was Let me look up the thing, because I
Speaker 3: think one of the first things I mentioned was like,
Speaker 3: so I heard you're almost got a show yesterday?
Speaker 1: How was that?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You're doing okay. King Charles is expected to say timing again,
Speaker 1: our two countries have always found ways to come together.
Speaker 2: During his address to the US, Congress later on, which.
Speaker 3: Is wildly ironic, wildly ironic, because isn't he here to
Speaker 3: commemorate the fiftieth birthday of America?
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think so. It is strangely enough, literally
Speaker 1: because of the separation between the two. Yeah, it's literally
Speaker 1: because of the you know, the diametrically opposed vibes between
Speaker 1: people who went over to America and the royal family
Speaker 1: in England. So many years ago people rejected it. Then
Speaker 1: Americans have kept that hate for two hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 1: We move our hate all around, the target moves all
Speaker 1: over the place, but apparently we have kept our focus
Speaker 1: on the fat fingered King.
Speaker 2: Now, if there's.
Speaker 1: Anybody out there that's like, no, I'm actually interested, Sean,
Speaker 1: I would like to hear what the King has to say,
Speaker 1: and if if he was in my neighborhood, it we go.
Speaker 1: I'm going to open up the email to you tips
Speaker 1: of the news Junkie dot com or the dispatches. If
Speaker 1: you have something to say, let us know, bring us
Speaker 1: in on the action. Send a dispatch over at the
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Speaker 3: Now this is on the New York Post and it
Speaker 3: says this lip reader they had the name Nikola, somebody
Speaker 3: says President Trump brought up both Saturday night shoot at
Speaker 3: the White House correspondence dinner and Russian President Vladimir Putin
Speaker 3: within minutes of King Charles the Third and Queen Camilla
Speaker 3: arriving at the White House Monday to kick off their
Speaker 3: historic state visit. And I don't have a video of this,
Speaker 3: so I can't tell if they're being serious or they're
Speaker 3: just being like a little cheeky. But Trump said this shooting,
Speaker 3: he appeared to tell the British King after exchanging greetings,
Speaker 3: and Charles supposedly quipped in response, I'd rather not stand
Speaker 3: about here too long. I feel like I shouldn't be here.
Speaker 3: President Trump then asked if Charles was okay, before saying
Speaker 3: it's not a good thing according to this forensic lip
Speaker 3: reading expert and analyst at lip Reader.
Speaker 1: I like how we have forensic lip reading analysts on
Speaker 1: the news in twenty twenty six. That's something question, though,
Speaker 1: because I don't know if you're looking at this or
Speaker 1: you're seeing photos of them. When the King comes to Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. In the United States of America, does he
Speaker 1: have his crown or he does not know he's wearing
Speaker 1: a suit. Okay, so he doesn't wear like the crown
Speaker 1: and you know, like the scepter or whatever. He doesn't
Speaker 1: bring all that that stuff along with him, which makes
Speaker 1: it less cool. Honestly, if he would do that, I'd
Speaker 1: have more respect for him. But I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: if you think it.
Speaker 3: Is that stuff super expensive, like maybe you don't want
Speaker 3: to travel with it because of the the potential damage
Speaker 3: or whatever could come to these very very old British
Speaker 3: relics that they that they wear around, because you'd think
Speaker 3: that it would be a welcome addition to the very
Speaker 3: gold oval office we've got going on right now.
Speaker 1: Bo. Yeah, we got some fancy stuff in there, for sure.
Speaker 1: A lot of you chemming in on this. Somebody says,
Speaker 1: are there any no Kings protests today? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I don't, which is strange, But yeah, I don't know that.
Speaker 1: There is a couple of dispatches rolling in. We're going
Speaker 1: to get to these here just a moment away from
Speaker 1: now on the show. But I wanted to tell you
Speaker 1: sometimes they asked the questions that I didn't even think of.
Speaker 1: But there was this shooting during the White House Correspondence
Speaker 1: or on Saturday night and we now know what happened
Speaker 1: to the meals that had been prepared, because nobody ate
Speaker 1: their meal except for the guy who ate his salad.
Speaker 1: The guy who ate his salad was there went viral
Speaker 1: which wolf Blitzer was raving about that salad.
Speaker 3: Said it was that good. I mean it was the
Speaker 3: wolf Blitzer. I guess there was a I watched John
Speaker 3: Stewart last night and they were talking about how wolf
Speaker 3: Blitzer just got on the phone and started reporting from
Speaker 3: the correspondence dinner, and there was no account of the
Speaker 3: night's events from wolf Blitzer that did not mention the
Speaker 3: delicious salad they were having.
Speaker 1: We're having a salad.
Speaker 3: It was really good. A delicious appetizer of a salad.
Speaker 3: Is on and on about that.
Speaker 2: Here's what they said.
Speaker 1: And you're going to hear a number in this that
Speaker 1: is going to make your jaw drop at least a
Speaker 1: little bit. Ready. Gunfire abruptly halted the White House correspondent
Speaker 1: sinner on Saturday night during the salad course, but he
Speaker 1: actually ate their meal, which left the Washington Hillton with
Speaker 1: roughly two thousand, six hundred untouched steak and lobster dinners
Speaker 1: on its hand. Dam two thousand six hundred. That's insane
Speaker 1: to me. Two thousand, six hundred dinners, that's a whole
Speaker 1: lot of lobster. There isn't two thousand, six hundred people
Speaker 1: there is there. I mean, I wouldn't think they would
Speaker 1: have enough room for this in the space that they
Speaker 1: were in. They said roughly two thousand, six hundred untouched
Speaker 1: steak and lobster dinners that they had on their hands.
Speaker 1: The White House Correspondents Association president and CBS News reporter
Speaker 1: we Ja Jiang says staffers didn't let the food go
Speaker 1: to waste. The Hilton donated the two thousand, six hundred
Speaker 1: dinners that went unserved at the White House Correspondence dinner.
Speaker 1: They freeze drive the steak and lobster for longer shelf
Speaker 1: life before giving them to shelters for abused women and children.
Speaker 1: Huge thank you to the staff that worked through the
Speaker 1: night under terrible circumstances. The White House Correspondence Board will
Speaker 1: be meeting to assess what happened and determine how to proceed.
Speaker 2: They said they've freeze dried it or they FROs them.
Speaker 1: It says they freeze dried the steak and lobster for
Speaker 1: longer shelf life and gave them to two shelters for
Speaker 1: abused women.
Speaker 3: And sure, the shelters can just add hot water to
Speaker 3: these and they'll reconstitute as a meal.
Speaker 1: Like has freeze dried what they do with astronaut ice cream?
Speaker 3: Yeah, except I don't think they actually do that for astronauts.
Speaker 3: But that's what the that's what they do when they
Speaker 3: sell astronaut ice cream. And I've seen I'm froze right.
Speaker 3: Maybe I don't know a hotel like that. I don't
Speaker 3: know that would have a need to have a freeze dryer.
Speaker 3: And even if it did have a freeze dryer, which
Speaker 3: are very expensive, it would take a lot. I don't
Speaker 3: think that's an overnight ordeal. It would take a long
Speaker 3: time to freeze dry twenty six hundred meals. It does
Speaker 3: say you're crazy that the White House Correspondents dinner was
Speaker 3: attended by approximately twenty six hundred people, So really there
Speaker 3: was that amount of people there according to what I'm reading, I.
Speaker 1: Did not think the room was that big, but that
Speaker 1: that's yeah, I guess that's that checks out.
Speaker 3: But like think of you probably don't watch as much
Speaker 3: food content as I do, or at least as I
Speaker 3: used to but I've seen a couple food people on YouTube,
Speaker 3: including Babbish one time, use a borrowed freeze dryer. These
Speaker 3: are people that get a lot of stuff for free
Speaker 3: because they make deals with manufacturers. Babish has his own
Speaker 3: line of knives and pans and all kinds of cookwaar
Speaker 3: and tiny whisks and stuff. But a freeze dryer is
Speaker 3: something that was lent to him for one video that
Speaker 3: he did and then he had to give it back.
Speaker 3: Because those things that preppers buy, those things, yeah, that
Speaker 3: probably they must have meant something else, otherwise they probably
Speaker 3: ruined the food.
Speaker 1: The other question is they're saying Trump has urged that
Speaker 1: the White House Correspondence dinner be rescheduled within thirty days.
Speaker 2: Is anybody gonna go back?
Speaker 1: You're at this event, some lunatic all hopped up on
Speaker 1: very political fuel, busts in and tries to kill people there,
Speaker 1: it tries to shoot up the place, becomes the eleventeenth
Speaker 1: person to try to kill President Trump unsuccessfully, and now
Speaker 1: they go, we want to reschedule this for within thirty days.
Speaker 2: Honest question, everybody, do you go back? Yes or no?
Speaker 1: Would you go back if you were there? You were
Speaker 1: part of this event. There was almost this terrible thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was pretty terrible.
Speaker 3: Anyways, you would have to think that this might be
Speaker 3: the securest Correspondence dinner. Ever, it's like the plane that
Speaker 3: after the crash, that airline is going to be so
Speaker 3: safe you want to believe it.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's weird to me that up until this year,
Speaker 3: I believe Trump has not attended any correspondence dinner. He's
Speaker 3: like declined to be a part of it. And now
Speaker 3: that he finally went to one and then it got
Speaker 3: cut short, he's like, nope.
Speaker 1: We gotta have it again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, was it within thirty days?
Speaker 1: We need to do over. So would you go would
Speaker 1: you go back if you were at an event like
Speaker 1: that there was an attack and they rescheduled it, would
Speaker 1: you say, hey, we need to send a message to
Speaker 1: people like this, like Snoop Frog says, we can't let
Speaker 1: these crazy guys run the show. Do you think that
Speaker 1: legitimately you would go back to an event like that.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I would. I'm not sure that
Speaker 1: I would. But we'll see what you think about all
Speaker 1: of this. Couple of emails coming.
Speaker 3: In, there'll be a handful of people that are gonna
Speaker 3: say no, and then another big, big, big group of
Speaker 3: people who will say, Well, President Trump says we should
Speaker 3: do it. We need to show a united front, just
Speaker 3: like Snoop Frog said. We can't let the crazies win.
Speaker 3: You know, we have to have a correspondence dinner.
Speaker 1: Now I know who will Well, Britt Blitzer will come
Speaker 1: back for the salad, and so with that other guy.
Speaker 1: They'll come back for it for sure, all right. A
Speaker 1: couple of emails Real Quick Tips of the Newsjunkie dot Com.
Speaker 1: Mike emails the show. He's talking about rating people who
Speaker 1: go to movies. That was discussed on the show yesterday.
Speaker 2: He said, I.
Speaker 1: Would say, if you take people who are mess and
Speaker 1: make a giant mess at the movie theater and bill
Speaker 1: them more money, I would say this is more of
Speaker 1: an Airbnb situation.
Speaker 2: You could set up the rules at the front door
Speaker 2: of the theater.
Speaker 1: Every time you break one, they find you on your
Speaker 1: credit card. That crap behavior will stop quick. Maybe I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe some of these people don't have the
Speaker 1: money to take from them. That's one of the issues.
Speaker 1: Somebody says to tips to Thethewsjukie dot Com. What has
Speaker 1: happened to our movie attendance account. It is how many
Speaker 1: people attended a movie, not how much money the makers
Speaker 1: brought in. People are not dollars. Attendees only get a
Speaker 1: seat in a memory. They talk about how we don't
Speaker 1: talk about movies in terms of how many people bought
Speaker 1: the seats. We talk about how many people, how much
Speaker 1: money total came in. And to that person, I'll just
Speaker 1: tell you, I think that's how it's always been. I
Speaker 1: think it's I can't remember a time where they said,
Speaker 1: sold this many tickets this weekend. Well, it's always been
Speaker 1: the box office take, which is money.
Speaker 3: The number of tickets would be a more inflation proof
Speaker 3: metro to, you know, to measure that because the tickets
Speaker 3: are getting more expensive, and how much of that is
Speaker 3: going towards the movie's bottom line.
Speaker 1: I agree with that, but I don't think we've ever
Speaker 1: done that before. I don't think that's ever been something
Speaker 1: that we've done a lot. We've ever counted it.
Speaker 3: Now, real quick about the correspondents dinner. Did you see
Speaker 3: the video of RFK Junior being hauled off there?
Speaker 2: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 3: Oh, they a couple of the agents, you know, surrounded
Speaker 3: RFK Junior and is helping him off this stage or
Speaker 3: off to the side or whatever, and just left Cheryl
Speaker 3: Hines in, you know, just behind. She's like like like
Speaker 3: chasing after them. Nobody's helping her out. And I saw
Speaker 3: a bunch of people guys he has he has done
Speaker 3: a lot of things that a lot of women would
Speaker 3: not be happy with, but she is staying with him
Speaker 3: somehow even after this, it would seem and the version
Speaker 3: of the video I saw was like, you know, one
Speaker 3: hundred percent on point. They they put the curby your
Speaker 3: Enthusiasm music right at the end there is she was
Speaker 3: awkwardly following him. Well, he was getting all the help
Speaker 3: and then she was just left out to fend for herself.
Speaker 1: I still stand by the weirdest thing ever to me
Speaker 1: is that Dana White of the UFC, his reaction that
Speaker 1: he was like, it was so exciting, it was so thrilling.
Speaker 1: I was trying to soak in every second of it.
Speaker 1: I stand just amazed that there are people who are
Speaker 1: like that. Like there was an attack, a person tried
Speaker 1: to kill people, they tried to assassinate the president. I
Speaker 1: stand amazed that there's anybody out there with a heartbeat
Speaker 1: that goes, oh my god, it was so excited. I'm
Speaker 1: not amazed by that.
Speaker 3: I'm not amazed. No, I'm not amazed by that. In
Speaker 3: the slightest, I think Dana White should have shut his mouth.
Speaker 3: But I think that in a situation where, yes, something
Speaker 3: very scary did happen, but he got to watch the
Speaker 3: Secret Service like jump to it and do the things
Speaker 3: they're trained for and take control of the situation.
Speaker 2: There is something a little thrilling about that, Isn't there something.
Speaker 1: A little psychopathic about that?
Speaker 5: Though?
Speaker 1: Like the idea, like imagine, imagine it's anything else, anything else,
Speaker 1: all right, imagine we I actually, I let me make
Speaker 1: this totally fictitious. Imagine there's some person who's about to
Speaker 1: go see a movie at the theater and there's a
Speaker 1: shooting at the theater. Guy comes in, tries to shoot
Speaker 1: the place up, got a couple of weapons and stuff.
Speaker 1: Security comes in and busts him. And one person's reaction
Speaker 1: when they're on the news. One person, I was so scared.
Speaker 1: One person goes, God, it's so disheartening. It's really unbelievable
Speaker 1: that people want to engage in violence like this, et cetera.
Speaker 2: Et cetera, et cetera. And then one person goes.
Speaker 1: Man, that was so exciting, that was amazing.
Speaker 2: I was I was trying to take it all in.
Speaker 1: I was really trying to just that seems crazy to me. Sure,
Speaker 1: that's why I said he should have shut his mouth.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 3: But I mean you're saying, would you have felt the
Speaker 3: same way? I mean, I probably would have been scared.
Speaker 3: It's point, but just like there might have been part
Speaker 3: of me if I were in the right corner of
Speaker 3: that building. And uh, you know, people like they compute
Speaker 3: things different ways. And Dana White, for some reason he
Speaker 3: had that was a thrill ride for him. But couldn't
Speaker 3: you have said it this way? See, here's here's my
Speaker 3: point that couldn't you have said to watch, uh, the
Speaker 3: Secret Service protect the president was an unbelievable thing to
Speaker 3: see with my eyes. Yeah, you never see it.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's how exactly how he should have put it.
Speaker 1: Couldn't you say, while it was exciting, it's really kind
Speaker 1: of unbelievable that people are willing to harm each other
Speaker 1: for political differences, Like, okay, there was anything, but he
Speaker 1: acted like he acted like he just got off a
Speaker 1: ride at epic universe, right, and and that was his
Speaker 1: response afterwards.
Speaker 3: Remember the movie Independence Day, huh? I Remember when they
Speaker 3: finally go down into Area fifty one and the long
Speaker 3: haired crazemo sign entist who's just been like locked down
Speaker 3: there with the alien bodies for twenty years, is like
Speaker 3: everything has been so exciting, and the Bill Pullman who
Speaker 3: plays the President, like lashes out of him like exciting
Speaker 3: people are dying. Blah blah blah. That's what it is,
Speaker 3: you know, you just poor choice of words, buddy. All right,
Speaker 3: assume people think is it exciting? Is that a fair?
Speaker 3: Is that a fair way to say this? Or is
Speaker 3: that a strong a stupid way to say it? All right,
Speaker 3: we'll see what you think about this.
Speaker 1: Let us know, send a dispatch over at thenewsjunkie dot com.
Speaker 2: So gotta get into the Jimmy Kimmel stuff.
Speaker 1: Fair with me. We will work it into the show today.
Speaker 1: We have sloth World updates on the way as well,
Speaker 1: Jury Duty coming up before too Long, and so much
Speaker 1: more on to share the show Tuesday that's coming up next,
Speaker 1: and the News junk Ye late, I think you'll agree
Speaker 1: that this is stupid. See just for the record, all right,
Speaker 1: but let me bring.
Speaker 2: This up, I could be pretty surprising.
Speaker 1: Well, guess what, buddy, there is a new campaign underway
Speaker 1: for McDonald's that I've been assured is legitimate. It is
Speaker 1: actually real, and they have launched the mcmullet. Okay, and
Speaker 1: the mcmullet is a it's a it's a burger that
Speaker 1: they have and the cheese hangs off the burger like
Speaker 1: a mullet hangs off the back of your hair, which
Speaker 1: is literally the dumbest idea I've ever.
Speaker 3: Stupid, but really is when you look at any example
Speaker 3: of expectation versus reality next to next to no McDonald's burgers, mcmullets,
Speaker 3: whatever you want to call them, are going to look
Speaker 3: like that. And it's I'm not gonna look like that.
Speaker 3: That That cheese in the picture not even cooked.
Speaker 1: No, it's like a cheese cape and the yeah, somebody says,
Speaker 1: Bootsy just said at the same time, it's more of
Speaker 1: a cape. It's like a cheese cape hanging off the burger.
Speaker 1: And Sea Leng's totally right. It's never gonna be just
Speaker 1: nicely dangling off this.
Speaker 3: Have they crafted a rectangular like extra long box.
Speaker 1: To put it in so that it continues to hang out.
Speaker 3: Or are they gonna wrap it in the same cheeseburger
Speaker 3: wrapper and then smash that cheese all over the hot
Speaker 3: burger and have it just melt into itself.
Speaker 1: I never thought i'd say this, but I think McDonald's
Speaker 1: is just losing the plot. I think McDonald's is losing
Speaker 1: the plot and Burger King's opportunity to seize the moment
Speaker 1: has arrived. Because I'll tell you why in a second.
Speaker 1: But this says McDonald's. New Zealand rolled out a campaign
Speaker 1: with the idea of having cheeseburgers with mullets, and they
Speaker 1: said this cheese just hanging out of the back of
Speaker 1: this is this there? This is their post about this.
Speaker 1: Hang on, mis say, can I get this going? This
Speaker 1: is McDonald's posting this in New Zealand and it's legitimate.
Speaker 1: This is like an actual thing that they're saying. Behold
Speaker 1: it says we're making it. Jesus Christ, the mullet lives.
Speaker 1: Why does does New Zealand have a different April fools?
Speaker 1: Do they do mayfools? It seems like there would be
Speaker 1: But no, no, this is legitimate, and I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2: I think this is a moment.
Speaker 1: Here. Hold on, let me go over to this subreddit
Speaker 1: really quickly. Our slash Burger King has been convinced that
Speaker 1: there must be some sort of marketing campaign going on
Speaker 1: with Burger King because all of a sudden, their burgers
Speaker 1: look like they do on television. And they said, I
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on here. I don't know how
Speaker 1: they're doing it. But you go get a whopper and
Speaker 1: they're like the most photogenic whoppers all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, the burger looks like commercial and
Speaker 1: people go, I don't believe it. I Burger King burgers
Speaker 1: never looked like this. And then they go themselves over
Speaker 1: to Burger King and they order one and they're like,
Speaker 1: son of a bitch, All of a sudden, they have
Speaker 1: turned things around at Burger King. They have revamped. Look
Speaker 1: at this, These burgers literally look like the commercials.
Speaker 3: That's because that's what I texted the CEO, you know,
Speaker 3: when he was asking for suggestions, he was he.
Speaker 1: Was asking for the text messages to UH to change
Speaker 1: the company. That's that is the black Whopper Star Wars
Speaker 1: Galaxy Burgery Berger. My ass, that's a black whopper.
Speaker 2: Some of these are some of these suck really impressive. Like,
Speaker 2: look at that.
Speaker 1: It says obligatory Whopper Wednesday. They have a whopper Wednesday
Speaker 1: when they post all these things, all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: At Burger King they have said they've lost the plot.
Speaker 1: At McDonald's they're putting cheese mullets on their burgers. All
Speaker 1: we have to do is make them look good again,
Speaker 1: just all of a sudden, make them look good.
Speaker 2: Put some press into it.
Speaker 1: And there are gorgeous looking burgers coming off the shelves
Speaker 1: over at Burger King all of a sudden. I think
Speaker 1: the game has changed. I think it has. Literally all
Speaker 1: of these there's like they're gorgeous looking burgers that look
Speaker 1: like the commercial, that aren't smashed into the bag, that
Speaker 1: aren't all screwed up, that aren't like maybe the turnaround
Speaker 1: is real. If you've been, or if you go today,
Speaker 1: send us a photo dispatch.
Speaker 2: All right, I want to see what your your whopper
Speaker 2: looks like?
Speaker 1: Does it?
Speaker 2: This photo genis.
Speaker 1: Maybe almost just to see.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: They have said that before you would get a whopper,
Speaker 1: it would be all thrown together, it would look like
Speaker 1: a catastrophe, but you just eat it because it was good.
Speaker 1: And now it's as if they whipped them all into shape.
Speaker 1: And they have said, focus on presentation. We're bringing back
Speaker 1: burger king baby, it's happening right now. So let me know,
Speaker 1: give us your experience, and if you go there today,
Speaker 1: send us a photo. And I have been come on McDonald's.
Speaker 1: This is your this is your contribution. This is it.
Speaker 1: This is what you guys got going on. A mullet
Speaker 1: of cheese that's gonna be all crispy and gross. And
Speaker 1: what a time, man, what a time to be alive.
Speaker 1: Send us your dispatches over at thenewschunky dot com.
Speaker 3: Somebody submitted a post in the McDonald's side of Reddit,
Speaker 3: which I didn't. I guess I'm not surprised that these
Speaker 3: restaurants have their own subreddits, but I just I guess
Speaker 3: I just didn't ever think of that as being a
Speaker 3: place to explore. One month ago, somebody who has a
Speaker 3: fake sounding name says, I invented a new burger, the mcmullet,
Speaker 3: And I guess it's just like a short video where
Speaker 3: he shows that he hung some cheese out the back
Speaker 3: of his burger and he has a mullet. And I
Speaker 3: don't know if that was the impetus for this, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a dumb idea.
Speaker 1: I don't get aggravate on YouTube, says Sean must have
Speaker 1: been passed over on a McDonald's endorsement, sir or ma'am. Probably, sir,
Speaker 1: I had a McDonald's endorsement at one time, and I
Speaker 1: have no problem with McDonald's. I think some of their
Speaker 1: products are what you call perfection. The chicken McNuggets are perfection.
Speaker 1: The quarter pounder is a gorgeous, gorgeous concoction that they've
Speaker 1: come up with and perfected over the years. They make
Speaker 1: some good stuff at McDonald's. But I will never forget
Speaker 1: when they made me interview Ronald McDonald. That will be
Speaker 1: something that sticks with me for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: Burger King never forced me to interview the King. But
Speaker 1: when I was new on this station in particular they're
Speaker 1: listening to now, when I was new on this station,
Speaker 1: they came in, They're like, oh, we made a deal.
Speaker 1: We didn't tell you anything about it. We promised McDonald's
Speaker 1: that we would do this thing. And I go, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't do that, and they go, look, you don't understand.
Speaker 1: You have to do this. We made a deal. We
Speaker 1: told them we would do it. Ronald McDonald is here
Speaker 1: in the house now. I remember Selane watching me through
Speaker 1: the window of his studio like he was so happy
Speaker 1: to see me squirm, squirming and pretending like I was
Speaker 1: interviewing Ronald McDonald on the radio.
Speaker 3: In full outfit, full full makeup. Yeah yeah, And then
Speaker 3: I couldn't do anything. I couldn't twist and turn like
Speaker 3: I always do. Like I couldn't call the person out
Speaker 3: and ask them questions out of character.
Speaker 2: Nope, couldn't do it.
Speaker 3: There like busy, you know, housing the families of cancer kids, damn.
Speaker 1: It, they do so all right, I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: this McDonald's. That's a great charity, all right, that's a
Speaker 1: great charity. My family has benefited from that charity personally.
Speaker 1: We stayed at Ronald McDonald's house when my sister was very,
Speaker 1: very sick, years and years and years ago. I salute
Speaker 1: you McDonald's, like I said, you have really good stuff,
Speaker 1: but Burger King was so far behind, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden they're popping off.
Speaker 2: So I do want to see it today. If you
Speaker 2: go get a.
Speaker 1: Whopper, No, no, don't do any work to it, just
Speaker 1: open it up and present it to us with a
Speaker 1: photo dispatch, and I want to see if they really
Speaker 1: are upping their game on these things. They really put
Speaker 1: some extra effort into this and sort of looks Max
Speaker 1: the Whopper a bit. So do that for us today.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get at least one of these. Somebody go
Speaker 1: through the drive through, get one and show us a
Speaker 1: photo of what it looks like and if it is
Speaker 1: that photogenic, because the ones they're posting online this night
Speaker 1: and day from what they used to look like they're
Speaker 1: making a comeback. Baby.
Speaker 3: I mean, then part of me is tempted to just
Speaker 3: hop on door dash or uber eats and have a
Speaker 3: whopp percent here, but I just always would rather have McDonald's.
Speaker 1: I walk.
Speaker 2: It's fair, I understand, I understand it, but I.
Speaker 1: Don't want them to mullet. Yeah. I want to know
Speaker 1: at least if there's a comeback in the works here,
Speaker 1: So let us know what you think. If you see that,
Speaker 1: go to the news Junkie dot com and set it's
Speaker 1: a dispatch right now. When we come back, I'll finally
Speaker 1: get into the Jimmy Kimmel story. I'll play the audio
Speaker 1: that sparked this controversy. We got sloth World updates after that,
Speaker 1: we got conspiracy theories galore.
Speaker 2: We've got a lot to.
Speaker 1: Get to on a busy share the show Tuesday, and
Speaker 1: that's coming up now.
Speaker 2: Somebody use chunk key.
Speaker 1: I said, I saw somebody complaining the other day and
Speaker 1: they I don't know if I wrote down their exact
Speaker 1: way of phrasing this. Let me see if I can
Speaker 1: find this here. But I saw somebody complaining about getting
Speaker 1: a new apartment and the person said, how in the
Speaker 1: hell do apartments charge pet fees but not children fees?
Speaker 1: And I thought to myself on my quells, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a good point. If you're gonna have
Speaker 1: a dog or a cat inside your apartment when you're
Speaker 1: getting a new place, you got to go through this
Speaker 1: whole process and like clear them. Sometimes you have to
Speaker 1: put dog poop on file, so if your dog poops
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood, they can track you down. Yeah, insane
Speaker 1: ya DNA. You have to pay, like sometimes you have
Speaker 1: to pay extra monthly to pay security deposits. You got
Speaker 1: to pay all this extra stuff. You have to pay
Speaker 1: more if you want to have a cat or a
Speaker 1: dog with you in your apartment and you can have
Speaker 1: a kid and there's no extra fees at the apartment.
Speaker 3: Do you think the places or how often do you
Speaker 3: think the places that require you to put a fecal
Speaker 3: sample on you know, you know, on file there to
Speaker 3: check in case the dogs are pooping in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Not often do you think they actually go through with that.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of times it's probably a threat,
Speaker 1: would be my guest. But I think some places do it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I haven't confirmed that. I think some
Speaker 1: places do it. I think it's more difficult to have
Speaker 1: a pet in an apartment that it is. You're like,
Speaker 1: they're like, you got three kids, all right.
Speaker 3: I was in I was in a high rise downtown
Speaker 3: years and years ago, not the one that you lived in,
Speaker 3: a different one. And it was a guy that had
Speaker 3: an apartment there, he had a condo there, and he,
Speaker 3: you know, we had all been out at the bar
Speaker 3: and so he invited a bunch of us over afterwards,
Speaker 3: and there were a couple people on the balcony smoking
Speaker 3: cigarettes and he told them like, hey, just you know,
Speaker 3: put it in a beer bottle or put it in
Speaker 3: And he didn't have an ash tray, maybe because he
Speaker 3: I don't think he smoked, but make sure you dispose
Speaker 3: of it. Don't flick it off the balcony, because they
Speaker 3: have cameras that will identify which unit flicked the cigarettes
Speaker 3: off the balcony. And I go, are they watching that closely?
Speaker 3: That's a lot. Yeah, I knew it was a high
Speaker 3: tech place. There's a place downtown is a place where
Speaker 3: the movie theater was that same like a group of
Speaker 3: buildings right there, and I knew it was a little
Speaker 3: more high tech than some of the others. They had
Speaker 3: like your your thumb print got you in the door,
Speaker 3: and if your if they did your thumb print once
Speaker 3: you hit it, once you headed to the elevator, it
Speaker 3: had like your favorite TV station would pop up on it.
Speaker 3: Like too much, man, it's a little bit of an
Speaker 3: unneeded luxury. But they wanted to make you feel fancy
Speaker 3: for all the money that you're spilled on this place.
Speaker 1: And so it was like that's.
Speaker 3: One of the things, you know, we got the cameras
Speaker 3: watching your balconies suns stage.
Speaker 1: John says, Oh my god, apartments charge more per person.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think that's true, is it? And
Speaker 1: if you go to an apartment, you pay the fee
Speaker 1: for the apartment in the square footage that it is.
Speaker 1: So one bedroom costs as much two bedroom whatever, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't cost more per person that's living in there
Speaker 1: with you. As far as I know, I could be
Speaker 1: wrong about that. I haven't gotten an apartment in quite
Speaker 1: some time. You know, we've been living at the house
Speaker 1: for a while. But when I got my place, you
Speaker 1: would have to pay at a lot of places, you
Speaker 1: would have to pay a pet fee for sure, you'd
Speaker 1: have to check your pet, and you have to give
Speaker 1: them all the information.
Speaker 2: But kids is just like, all right, bring them along,
Speaker 2: nothing extra.
Speaker 3: I always wonder because whenever I get a hotel room,
Speaker 3: I like, I specify how many people are going to
Speaker 3: be in the room with me. But I don't think
Speaker 3: that affects the price, right, I.
Speaker 2: Don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think it's just you have one price for the
Speaker 1: actual room itself. B m X contests comparing ownership to
Speaker 1: being a parent is asinine.
Speaker 2: I think you're missing the.
Speaker 1: Point entirely, and somebody else says a big one says
Speaker 1: children are human.
Speaker 2: You're making the point entirely.
Speaker 1: Which one do you think is more likely to do
Speaker 1: damage to an apartment that you're gonna rent out a
Speaker 1: person with a dog or a cat or a person
Speaker 1: with a kid. Which one of those do you think
Speaker 1: is going to do more damage to the apartment that
Speaker 1: you're renting out to these people for let's say a
Speaker 1: year or two years or three years or whatever. Which
Speaker 1: one of those things do you think is gonna do
Speaker 1: more damage? I mean, maybe it depends on how young
Speaker 1: the child is. Because it's a little kid, it's gonna
Speaker 1: do more damage probably than like a cat or like
Speaker 1: a little dog is I would guess.
Speaker 3: Because you're thinking for cats and dogs of the like
Speaker 3: accidents happening right you're thinking of is it going to
Speaker 3: go to the bathroom on the floor the one's these antoosies,
Speaker 3: whereas a kid is just gonna be spilling a bunch
Speaker 3: of stuff. It's it's similar cleanup for at least the
Speaker 3: one thing. But I can see where at least a
Speaker 3: small child the the the potential damage is similar.
Speaker 1: Jackson must be a really good little kid. He must
Speaker 1: be like the sweetest little guy. Sometimes kids, like SSM says,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent, kids are more destructive. Kids like grab
Speaker 1: on everything, knock things down right on the walls, move
Speaker 1: all over the place like kids are crazy. I love them.
Speaker 1: I love them, but they're crazy little destructive forces. If
Speaker 1: you were going to talk about which one would potentially
Speaker 1: do more damage to an apartment if you were renting
Speaker 1: out the apartment to somebody, I would think that the
Speaker 1: kid would do more damage on average than the little
Speaker 1: dog or cat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think that it's super hard to say.
Speaker 3: I know right now that, uh, there's there's one part
Speaker 3: of my house that my dog does a lot of
Speaker 3: damage too, because when she wants to go out, she
Speaker 3: scratches at the door, and so there's like always like
Speaker 3: scratches down that one little part of dry wall up
Speaker 3: that we try to you know, clean up every now
Speaker 3: and then when when company comes over.
Speaker 2: But it's hard. That's pretty common.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 3: Also Jackson, my two year old, he's got a toy
Speaker 3: excavator and he's learning to say excavator, which is adorable.
Speaker 3: But also when he plays with it, he just like
Speaker 3: runs it up and down the wall, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: it's just excavating the agreeable gray right off that right
Speaker 3: off that wall. I mean, he hasn't caused like a
Speaker 3: whole bunch of damage that would be expensive. But then
Speaker 3: the others a Lexi, but.
Speaker 1: Patrick says, obviously depends on the dog. I'm generally speaking,
Speaker 1: all right, we were talking about this. We're saying, generally speaking,
Speaker 1: what's the bigger outcome here? Is it gonna be worse
Speaker 1: for a kid or an animal or a pet that you have.
Speaker 1: Dennis on YouTube comes at this from some experience and says,
Speaker 1: hold on, this chat is movie too fast? Now?
Speaker 3: Dennis said, it's kids. Hold on, where did it go?
Speaker 3: I work in an apartment complex. It's definitely kids eighty
Speaker 3: percent of the time. Yeah, I work on an apartment complex.
Speaker 3: It's definitely kids eighty percent of the time.
Speaker 1: If you have children and they're of that particular age,
Speaker 1: they're running wild, man, They're like and not even Jackson's
Speaker 1: age yet. I would say, if you have kids in there,
Speaker 1: six seven, eight, not right in there. That's why I
Speaker 1: threw the question at them and Seela and answered this
Speaker 1: for me, all right, And I think I know where
Speaker 1: you would go on this. If you had to live
Speaker 1: in a neighborhood were every one of your neighbors, or
Speaker 1: maybe even more specifically an apartment complex. But if you
Speaker 1: had to live in a neighborhood where every one of
Speaker 1: your neighbors had a dog or everyone in your neighbors
Speaker 1: had a kid of that age. Would you choose the
Speaker 1: dog neighborhood or would you choose the kid neighborhood? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I feel like I live in like a
Speaker 1: mixture of both. Given that if you had, like every
Speaker 1: single neighbor I either had a dog or a kid,
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to take the dog neighborhood again.
Speaker 1: All of this sounds like an anti kid screen. I
Speaker 1: love kids, I love families. I think it's all great kids.
Speaker 1: I do think it's fair to point out, like when
Speaker 1: you go into are you.
Speaker 3: Not going to come to Jackson's third birthday? Because I
Speaker 3: think we've landed on a theme for this year.
Speaker 1: I'm ready.
Speaker 2: I'm ready to go.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 3: I had a good time at the last one, a
Speaker 3: good time at Octoberfest. I did for nothing but a
Speaker 3: three thing?
Speaker 1: Oh I like it? So is that you?
Speaker 3: Was that you or your wife? There is both of us.
Speaker 3: It was kind of a combined deal. That's good work.
Speaker 3: I think she might have landed on it first.
Speaker 1: I mean, I will be at nothing but a three thing.
Speaker 1: I will and I don't have any problems with kids.
Speaker 1: I love them. I'm just saying it's a fair point
Speaker 1: to say you have to pay a security deposit for
Speaker 1: a dog or a cat, but people can bring like
Speaker 1: three eight year olds into the neighborhood and there's nothing.
Speaker 1: It's just like, all right, fine, I feel like that
Speaker 1: does more damage to the place that's being rented out.
Speaker 1: Let me know if you think I'm wrong, send a
Speaker 1: dispatch over the news junkie dot com or email tips
Speaker 1: t ips at thenewsjunkie dot com. You're gonna kill me today,
Speaker 1: you folks. I know I've been talking about the Kimmel
Speaker 1: thing and haven't gotten into it. Don't worry. It's next.
Speaker 1: I promise you if it's not next. If it's not next,
Speaker 1: I will eat my hat live on the stream. All right,
Speaker 1: it's gonna get the fallon before he gets the Kimmel.
Speaker 1: If it's not next, I will eat my hat live
Speaker 1: on the stream. I promise you. It's coming up next.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use junkie. And there's distractions everywhere sea land
Speaker 1: right now. What are the distractions is they just keep
Speaker 1: throwing random questions at me and try to see if
Speaker 1: they could distract me. The question like somebody said, did
Speaker 1: you just see the clip that's going viral of the
Speaker 1: politician ilhan Omar. She didn't know what world War two is.
Speaker 1: She said world War eleven, and I said, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I might be old or something, but I think
Speaker 1: I've seen that before.
Speaker 2: And the question pull it up.
Speaker 1: The question was which one is more valuable to learn
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six, cursive or Roman numerals, And I said,
Speaker 1: that's not even close, Like it's obvious. Still, cursive is
Speaker 1: the important thing to know. Even though her not knowing
Speaker 1: Roman numerals made her think, here's the clip that World
Speaker 1: War eleven. I guess was a thing the politician ilhan Omar.
Speaker 8: The last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked, it
Speaker 8: was used to detain and deport German Japanese Italian immigrants
Speaker 8: doing World War eleven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not the right one, man, We're not there yet.
Speaker 3: Eleven would be a dystopian thought. At some point, you
Speaker 3: don't want to count any war. I do have a
Speaker 3: lot of answers on the texting service about this kids
Speaker 3: versus dogs thing.
Speaker 1: All right, hang on real quick, but I said emphatically,
Speaker 1: you only need to know Roman numerals and Roman numerals
Speaker 1: versus cursive, Cursive for World Wars, so you don't make
Speaker 1: that dumb mistake. World Wars, Olympics, super Bowls, and I.
Speaker 2: Think that's it.
Speaker 1: Maybe wrestle Mania or something, but cursive just quite obviously
Speaker 1: seems more important, so I can bat that issue out
Speaker 1: of the way quickly.
Speaker 2: That's not going to distract me enough.
Speaker 1: I don't think either of them are that important. Well, cursive, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean people are getting around fine without cursive in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, that's for sure, But I think it
Speaker 1: would be more useful to know that. Well, what are
Speaker 1: they saying on the taxi service about the the other.
Speaker 3: Question animals versus dogs? Animals versus dogs, the animals versus
Speaker 3: kids question?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, because I was talking about how this person
Speaker 1: was complaining, they said, if I want to get a
Speaker 1: new apartment, I have to file all sorts of paperwork
Speaker 1: and I have to pay a whole bunch of extra
Speaker 1: fees to have my little cat or dog in my apartment.
Speaker 1: But then my neighbor could just move in with four
Speaker 1: kids and there's nothing. And I said, well that is
Speaker 1: kind of screwed. Yeah, it was weird.
Speaker 3: I'm hearing from a lot of landlords and what do
Speaker 3: you think they say is worse?
Speaker 1: Okay, I said to me, it seems like a young
Speaker 1: child of the right destructive age than eight, nine years old,
Speaker 1: ten years old would be way more destructive to an
Speaker 1: apartment you're renting out. A young child will be more
Speaker 1: destructive on average than a dog would be on that
Speaker 1: same apartment that you were renting out. Somebody, But what
Speaker 1: did the actual landlord say? What did they say there?
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a reason why there isn't a fee
Speaker 3: for kids and there is one for animals. They're saying
Speaker 3: dogs or cats all day. Really, I'm saying, like, what
Speaker 3: did this one person say? Well, first of all, somebody
Speaker 3: said people are much more willing to treat their animals
Speaker 3: badly than their kids. Yes, I've had to clean out
Speaker 3: some apartments that had pets after the renter moved out
Speaker 3: and have seen the most vile conditions. Sure, kids can
Speaker 3: be a menace, but I've never cleaned a house with
Speaker 3: kids and found a closet full of.
Speaker 1: S Yeah, that's true. I agree that's true. But is
Speaker 1: that is that your average experience? Because let's say on
Speaker 1: one side of this decision, you have one hundred apartments,
Speaker 1: all of them have the same little dog in it,
Speaker 1: and how many of those outcomes is a closet full
Speaker 1: of poop? Not that many? Right, Most people are decent,
Speaker 1: Most people take care of their pads, most people keep
Speaker 1: up after And.
Speaker 3: I think if you've been a landlord for any number
Speaker 3: of properties, you will find that there are some renters
Speaker 3: that just suck, unless you're renting out a very expensive,
Speaker 3: very nice property. It's it's sort of like your cruise argument,
Speaker 3: where you know, discount cruises bring discount people.
Speaker 1: I agree, I agree with past Sean. I think that's
Speaker 1: an accurate claim. We're getting out of the bottom of
Speaker 1: these things today here on the show. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I want to hear from more of you who
Speaker 1: actually do work in leasing or landlords and stuff to
Speaker 1: say if you think that I'm right that it would
Speaker 1: be more destructive if you were, like if you're renting
Speaker 1: out your apartments, say you have a place. Here's the
Speaker 1: best way to visualize this. You have a place with
Speaker 1: one hundred apartments, one hundred apartments that you can rent out,
Speaker 1: and you can either rent them out to one hundred
Speaker 1: people with little dogs and cats or one hundred people
Speaker 1: with young kids, and then afterwards You're going to look
Speaker 1: at these one hundred apartments after the year lease, and
Speaker 1: which one is going to be more damaged, the one
Speaker 1: hundred that you rented out to people with little dogs
Speaker 1: and cats or the one hundred that you rented out
Speaker 1: with people with little kids. And I want to know
Speaker 1: what the actual landlords are thinking about them. But I
Speaker 1: did not forget about the topic du jour. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm not eating my hat. It ain't gonna work on
Speaker 1: me today, folks, because Jimmy Kimmel is in the sites
Speaker 1: once more. He made a joke and the joke was
Speaker 1: about Malania Trump. And now after the White House Correspondence
Speaker 1: dinner shooting where somebody tried to kill Trump, it looks like, now.
Speaker 3: This joke aired the Thursday before the correspondence dinner. Correct, Yes,
Speaker 3: this was before the event.
Speaker 1: And this was Jimmy Kimmel kind of pretending to do
Speaker 1: his own thing because it says all American White House
Speaker 1: Correspondents dinner anything like his podium set up.
Speaker 3: I didn't see the whole thing, but I think the
Speaker 3: bit was hey, for this Correspondence dinner, they've hired a
Speaker 3: mentalist instead of a comedian to roast everybody so I
Speaker 3: am going to with my experience in comedy, and when
Speaker 3: I experience, I think he's done a correspondence dinner before.
Speaker 3: I am going to offer my services right now and
Speaker 3: roast everybody a couple days before this event actually happens.
Speaker 2: All right, here's the joking question.
Speaker 1: Let's see what we think about this and start judging.
Speaker 1: And now they're after Jimmy Kimmel for his job. I'll
Speaker 1: give you the background on that too, But here's the joke. Okay,
Speaker 1: far you've come thirty years ago.
Speaker 7: You're just some rich guy on Jeffrey Epstein's private jet
Speaker 7: out of Teeterborough. But you worked hard, you stayed friends,
Speaker 7: you shared some wonderful secrets, and because of that, you're
Speaker 7: able to fly on that plane seven more times. Dreams
Speaker 7: really do come true.
Speaker 1: All right, they like cut away, that's pretty funny, and
Speaker 1: they show a reaction of like Trump and the audience.
Speaker 1: Of course they're like this is all fake. They're setting
Speaker 1: this up, like he's doing a pretend thing. I like
Speaker 1: dog the bouty hunter.
Speaker 2: Fake reactions.
Speaker 7: And of course our first lady Malania is here. Look
Speaker 7: at well, it's so beautiful, missus Trump. You have a
Speaker 7: glow like an expectant widow.
Speaker 1: All right, you have a glow like an expectant widow
Speaker 1: was the line. And then I guess afterwards, saying you
Speaker 1: have a glow like an expectant widow is implying that,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess he wanted to Trump to be
Speaker 1: assassinated or something. He obviously did not know this was
Speaker 1: going to happen, and it's ridiculous to think that he
Speaker 1: would have known.
Speaker 2: This ahead of time.
Speaker 1: But he said, you have a glow like an expectant widow.
Speaker 1: That's what started this. Then the first Lady Malania Trump,
Speaker 1: she posted this. Kimmel's hateful and violent rhetoric is intended
Speaker 1: to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn't comedy.
Speaker 1: His words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.
Speaker 1: People like Kimmel shouldn't have the opportunity to enter our
Speaker 1: homes each evening to spread Hey, remember Kimmel's on broadcast.
Speaker 1: He's on ABC, so that is governed by the FCC.
Speaker 1: This is the first Lady Malania Trump saying this a coward.
Speaker 1: Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will
Speaker 1: keep running cover to protect him. Enough is enough. It
Speaker 1: is time for ABC to take a stand. How many
Speaker 1: times will ABC's leadership enable Kimmel's atrocious behavior at the
Speaker 1: expense of our community. So that was what the First
Speaker 1: Lady said after Kimmel called her, he said, she looked
Speaker 1: like an expectant widow. I think that was the actual joke.
Speaker 1: Had the glow of an expectant widow? Yeah, had the
Speaker 1: glow of an expectant widow. Then the White House responded,
Speaker 1: this was the next level of this. Let's see what
Speaker 1: the White House said. Here we go.
Speaker 9: Much of the manifesto of the would be assassin is
Speaker 9: indistinguishable from the words that we hear daily from so
Speaker 9: many For example, as the First Lady of the United
Speaker 9: States pointed out this morning, just two days prior to
Speaker 9: the shooting, ABC's late night host Jimmy Kimmel disgustingly called
Speaker 9: First Lady Malania Trump an expectant widow who, in their
Speaker 9: right minds, as a wife, would be glowing over the
Speaker 9: potential murder of her beloved husband. And having experienced what
Speaker 9: I did with the First Lady on Saturday night, I
Speaker 9: can tell you that she was anything but that. This
Speaker 9: kind of rhetoric about the President, the First Lady and
Speaker 9: his supporters is completely deranged and it's undebelievable that the
Speaker 9: American people are.
Speaker 1: Consuming it night after night after night.
Speaker 9: As President Trump said on Saturday night at this podium,
Speaker 9: we as Americans must recommit ourselves to resolving our differences peacefully,
Speaker 9: in uniting around the shared values that make our country great.
Speaker 9: The deranged lies and smears against the President, his family,
Speaker 9: his supporters have led crazy people to believe crazy things,
Speaker 9: and they are inspired to commit violence because of those words.
Speaker 2: So in a way I agree with some of this.
Speaker 1: It's like I agree that people are right now, the
Speaker 1: very political people are way to radicalize. I believe we
Speaker 1: legitimately have people who want to see the people that
Speaker 1: they disagree with dead and so bad.
Speaker 2: Like to me, that's just so bad.
Speaker 3: But do you think they're radicalized by the Tonight Show
Speaker 3: or by the whatever Jimmy Kimmel show is late night,
Speaker 3: or whether.
Speaker 1: They're radicalized by one of like many many voices in
Speaker 1: this se of voices, or or maybe a combination of
Speaker 1: like all of the voices together. I think they are
Speaker 1: radicalized by by the information warfare, as Alex Jones might
Speaker 1: put it, that is underway. I think they are. I
Speaker 1: think people are radicalized by that. But I don't think
Speaker 1: that anybody that I've seen, I don't care left, right
Speaker 1: or wherever. I don't think anybody is turning down the temperature.
Speaker 1: So it's not that this is only coming from one side.
Speaker 1: This absolutely there's these ferocious politicians whipping people up and
Speaker 1: saying disgusting things and aggressive things and using language it's
Speaker 1: like got violence.
Speaker 2: Packed into it. But nobody is.
Speaker 1: Backing off of this. It's like there's not just a
Speaker 1: one way street here. It's certainly bigger than that. Andjimmy
Speaker 1: Kimmel's line was, I mean, I don't look, do you
Speaker 1: think it was about assassinations?
Speaker 3: I don't think it was about what he said, because
Speaker 3: it was about based on the fact that Trump's eighty No,
Speaker 3: I don't, I don't know them. Let me hear him
Speaker 3: explain it. I want to give him the benefit of doubt.
Speaker 3: Let me hear what he said. Here's Jimmy Kimmel trying
Speaker 3: to explain his joke.
Speaker 7: Good morning, and the first lady puts out the statement
Speaker 7: demanding you be fired from your job.
Speaker 1: We've all been there, right, You've been there, right, Girmo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what did that?
Speaker 1: Germo guy, he's a wild one. Yeah, Girol, the clock
Speaker 1: is Yeah, you gotta know.
Speaker 2: What's going on around there.
Speaker 1: Look, if there's somebody expendable around the uh, what's the
Speaker 1: name is it?
Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel liive is the name of the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if there's somebody expendable, Girmo, it could be.
Speaker 7: They had to cancel the White House Correspondence dinner at
Speaker 7: Washington on Saturday night after a man with multiple and
Speaker 7: knives crashed the party and may have shot a Secret
Speaker 7: service offerer. Fortunently, the guy who's wearing a bulletproof vest
Speaker 7: and is okay. They're not sure exactly what happened, but
Speaker 7: they got the guy who was charged.
Speaker 1: Today. No one was hurt, thank goodness.
Speaker 7: A lot of people were shaken up on a night
Speaker 7: that is supposed to be lighthearted. The White House Correspondent sneer,
Speaker 7: if you don't.
Speaker 2: Know, it used to be mysel.
Speaker 1: I mean, all of this is him talking about, Hey,
Speaker 1: this is bad, it shouldn't happen. Don't see him kind
Speaker 1: of ruining it on there. But I want to see
Speaker 1: him explaining the joke a little.
Speaker 7: So on Thursday, three days before the event. In order
Speaker 7: to keep that Cherish tradition alive, I did my own
Speaker 7: version of the correspondence dinner on my show. I put
Speaker 7: on a tuxedo. We pretended we had an audience of luminaries.
Speaker 7: We used old footage of the trumps of Pete Hegseth Kadie,
Speaker 7: Van's kid Rock Vanilla Eyes. All the members of his
Speaker 7: cabinet talked about it, and we made it seem like
Speaker 7: they were all together in a room.
Speaker 1: We had a little roast again this is okay, all right, Yeah, Thursday,
Speaker 1: and there was.
Speaker 7: No big reaction to it until this morning, when I
Speaker 7: agreeted the day facing yet another Twitter vomit storm and
Speaker 7: a call to fire me from our first Lady, Malania Trump,
Speaker 7: saying I should be fired because of a joke I
Speaker 7: made again five nights ago. It was a pretend roast.
Speaker 7: I said, our first Lady Malania is here. Look at
Speaker 7: her so beautiful, missus Trump, you'll have a glow like
Speaker 7: an expectant widow, which obviously was a joke about their
Speaker 7: age difference and the look of joy we see on
Speaker 7: her face every time they're together.
Speaker 1: It was a very light roast joke about.
Speaker 7: The fact that he's almost eighty and she's younger than
Speaker 7: I am.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's really where he was going.
Speaker 1: To begin with. I don't know. I mean, it's impossible,
Speaker 1: like you can't get into somebody's sad to know if
Speaker 1: that was the motivation for the joke he was making.
Speaker 3: If somebody made that joke about Joe Biden, would you
Speaker 3: assume that it was an age related thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's different with Trump, just because
Speaker 1: so many people have tried to kill him, you know.
Speaker 1: I think that just because so many people have done
Speaker 1: the attempt at assassination thing and failed, and we now
Speaker 1: have this latest one. Now, the thing that's unfair is
Speaker 1: like we're talking about this with the Monday morning quarterback
Speaker 1: side of this in effect, because we know that there
Speaker 1: was a shooting, but he didn't know that there was
Speaker 1: going to be a shooting. So it clouds the way
Speaker 1: that you look at the joke itself.
Speaker 3: Oh that's another thing. This aired on Thursday. We had well,
Speaker 3: the correspondents dinner was what Sunday night, Saturday night, Saturday
Speaker 3: Saturday night, all right, So we had all a Friday
Speaker 3: and Saturday, you know, most of Saturday to be outraged
Speaker 3: without there being a shooting attempt, then there was nothing,
Speaker 3: and there was you know, zilch no.
Speaker 1: No, And just like there would have been no reaction
Speaker 1: to the White House Press secretary saying shots will be
Speaker 1: fired exactly yeah, and then until afterwards, shots happened to
Speaker 1: be fired tonight. So the way I think about all
Speaker 1: of this is, and I'm different than maybe many of
Speaker 1: you are. Have I give a lot of leeway to jokes.
Speaker 1: I really don't care. I think the moment you start
Speaker 1: getting upset by jokes is the moment you kind of
Speaker 1: lost the plot a little bit and you could say, well,
Speaker 1: Kimble's not telling jokes anymore, he's political now. It's like
Speaker 1: that's true to a certain extent, but is that the
Speaker 1: war that you want to engage in? And sort of
Speaker 1: to sea Lan's point too, like if we went down
Speaker 1: the list of people who radicalize this guy or the
Speaker 1: people who he was influenced by, do we really think
Speaker 1: that Jimmy Kimmel was in the mix there? I don't
Speaker 1: see that as being the case. Maybe I'm crazy.
Speaker 3: I don't see the people the handful of people that
Speaker 3: have you know, showed up somewhere where they knew President
Speaker 3: Trump was going to be and tried to attack him physically,
Speaker 3: you know, tried to assassinate him. I don't see them
Speaker 3: citing their sources as strictly Jimmy Kimmel. Well, you know
Speaker 3: a lot of these people end up in like crazy
Speaker 3: discords and stuff like that, some streamer, some darker corner
Speaker 3: of the internet where there's not a studio audience that's laughing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, yeah. I mean I think, to me,
Speaker 1: it's it's like, it's not that big of a deal.
Speaker 1: I also don't think that the first lady wrote that
Speaker 1: all on her own. But and here's where I diverge
Speaker 1: a little bit, like I do think that comedians should
Speaker 1: be allowed to be offensive and edgy and and even say.
Speaker 2: Stuff that is messed up because I think it's hilarious.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. I mean, I can't pretend I can't
Speaker 1: like clutch curls. I like, I like jokes like that.
Speaker 3: I really love Anthony Jesselnick because my gosh, does he
Speaker 3: you know, cross the line habitually and just say a
Speaker 3: lot of dark stuff. I can separate reality from that stuff.
Speaker 1: But for all the people who are Trump supporters are
Speaker 1: on the right, Like, isn't and this is one of
Speaker 1: the things you were kind of going against the policing
Speaker 1: of comedy and people coming in and saying, you know,
Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle can make this joke, but he can't make
Speaker 1: this joke, and people attacking Dave Chappelle for some of
Speaker 1: the comedy that he put forth, And like, I tried
Speaker 1: not to be hypocritical. I try to be consistent about things.
Speaker 1: Over over, like a wide variety of different reactions that
Speaker 1: you're judging, And for me, I'm like, why will we
Speaker 1: care about this at all? Like I want comedians to
Speaker 1: push buttons. I want comedians to be I want them
Speaker 1: to be offensive. I want them I don't want the
Speaker 1: policing of all of this stuff. And I think that's
Speaker 1: what this seems like like overall. Isn't maybe I'm insane.
Speaker 1: Isn't the problem the guy who tried to shoot the president,
Speaker 1: not the the late night joke? Right? Isn't the problem
Speaker 1: that we have an appetite for people getting murdered or
Speaker 1: or harmed that we disagree with, and that people are
Speaker 1: so radicalized instead of the jokes. I think that's such
Speaker 1: a side show. It doesn't really matter to me. But
Speaker 1: it is absolutely hilarious to me that the guy who
Speaker 1: was the shooter on Saturday for the White House Correspondence Winner,
Speaker 1: they unearthed a bunch of his posts from social media,
Speaker 1: and one of his posts in particular sticks out to me.
Speaker 1: His name was Cold Force on social media, and one
Speaker 1: of the guys posts is the person who attempted to
Speaker 1: kill the president at the White House Correspondence Center was
Speaker 1: a post where he showed Trump's ear and it says,
Speaker 1: how do you get shot with no scar? The idea
Speaker 1: that a person that was an assassination attempt denier became
Speaker 1: a person who tried to assassinate the president is just
Speaker 1: something to take in. This guy was a conspiracy theorist
Speaker 1: about other assassination attempts on President Trump, and now he's
Speaker 1: the one who went and was pulling the trigger and
Speaker 1: tried to do it. That to me, I don't know
Speaker 1: that seems more concern. But tell me where you're at
Speaker 1: on this. I think when we get into joke policing,
Speaker 1: we've kind of lost the plot a little bit. I
Speaker 1: don't think I care about that, and I don't think
Speaker 1: most people do. I think you should probably just ignore
Speaker 1: those people moving forward. But give me her thoughts on
Speaker 1: this It tips at the News Joki Dot Commerce Center Dispatch.
Speaker 3: What do you think was worse that joke or the
Speaker 3: one that actually got him pulled by Sinclair. I think
Speaker 3: the one with that got him pulled by Sinclair.
Speaker 1: I think he was being more dishonest about what was
Speaker 1: happening there. I think this joke, I can understand the joke,
Speaker 1: and I understand whether he's telling the truth or not,
Speaker 1: it's a different thing. But if he's saying it's about
Speaker 1: the age or whatever, which makes more sense that he
Speaker 1: didn't know there was going to be a shooting going on,
Speaker 1: that's that's really not that bad at all, even if
Speaker 1: it was about assassination attempts, Like I have to think
Speaker 1: about it. If there was a comedian on stage Sea Lane,
Speaker 1: and the comedian when Biden was in office was making
Speaker 1: fun of that, I'll take Shane Gillis, who I think
Speaker 1: is quite funny. Shane Gillis had a joke about how
Speaker 1: Biden was the first president that you could assassinate with
Speaker 1: a punch, and it was a funny joke, and it
Speaker 1: was a part of a funny bit that Shane Gillis had,
Speaker 1: And I bet people who would be upset by these words,
Speaker 1: and these jokes probably wouldn't be upset by that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I somebody points out being the joke police.
Speaker 1: I don't think being in the joke police is a
Speaker 1: position of winning. I think that's kind of a stupid thing.
Speaker 1: I think you should just ignore that. But let us
Speaker 1: know what you feel. Send us a dispatcher an email.
Speaker 1: We'll get to those in just a moment when we
Speaker 1: come back. I don't have to eat my hat now
Speaker 1: I don't have for you. Thank god. Jury duty is
Speaker 1: on the way. Your slow world update is in jury Duty.
Speaker 1: I've got more updates on this and the indictment against
Speaker 1: the White House correspondent shooter at some point.
Speaker 2: Oh good god. All right, quick break, We're back with more.
Speaker 1: It's coming up next in the news junkie. All right,
Speaker 1: I want some of your feedback to work into this segment.
Speaker 1: There's also a couple other things I wanted to work
Speaker 1: in before we get to jury duty. So let's see
Speaker 1: what we can make some time for right now. One
Speaker 1: thing that I thought was pretty great, we'll do a
Speaker 1: good and a bad here was that in Texas they
Speaker 1: recently found out, especially in Dallas, that they put through
Speaker 1: the state's first cell phone band for public schools in
Speaker 1: Texas and as a result of the Texas State Cell
Speaker 1: Phone Band for public schools, they have seen as so
Speaker 1: many other places, have really good responses. They have seen
Speaker 1: attention for kids soaring in class. They've seen other things
Speaker 1: like library book checkouts. Library book checkouts are exploding because
Speaker 1: as the kids put away their phones in class and
Speaker 1: in school, they're looking for something anything else to do
Speaker 1: without their cell phones. And they said there's been a
Speaker 1: significant increase in Dallas, Texas in particular, and library book checkouts.
Speaker 1: They started hearing from the students, Oh, I'm so bored,
Speaker 1: I can't get my phone after I do my worker
Speaker 1: during lunchtime. Once they lock into these stories, they don't
Speaker 1: seem to care about their phones at all. Kids are
Speaker 1: reading books more. From the first day of school to
Speaker 1: March thirty first of this year, the district reported an
Speaker 1: increase of more than two hundred thousand additional books checked
Speaker 1: out compared to the previous year. Wow, I didn't know
Speaker 1: the ban was as strict as it was. It's different
Speaker 1: in different states, I guess, well.
Speaker 3: For the Dallas One, Dallas ISD and all Texas Public
Speaker 3: schools implemented this strict cell phone ban, requiring devices to
Speaker 3: be turned off and stored away. First of all, that's
Speaker 3: what my cell phones in high school were required to be.
Speaker 1: Uh huh.
Speaker 3: You're supposed to be turned off the whole time. You
Speaker 3: were only supposed to have them out or on you
Speaker 3: or on after school hours. You know, we're supposed to
Speaker 3: be you know, if you participate in extracurricular activities, if
Speaker 3: you have a drama, marching band, if any of that stuff,
Speaker 3: you need to be able to get a hold of
Speaker 3: your parents stuff.
Speaker 2: Like that, for a ride and whatnot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but this one says often in locking yonder pouches,
Speaker 3: so like the same things that they do for some
Speaker 3: of the comedy shows. Yeah, you have to lock your
Speaker 3: cell phone up in one of those pouches that when
Speaker 3: you go to school.
Speaker 1: That's what it is. But they say the outcomes are great.
Speaker 1: The outcomes are they're more focused in class, their grades
Speaker 1: are coming up. Teachers are reporting that the kids are
Speaker 1: paying attention for the first time in forever. It's an
Speaker 1: obvious thing. Let me ask everybody this question. I am
Speaker 1: so guilty of this, I am so unbelievably guilty of this. Conversely,
Speaker 1: so is Courtney all right. We do this to each
Speaker 1: other all the time. If your partner is talking to
Speaker 1: you and you are listening, but you're actively typing a
Speaker 1: text message or looking at something or reading an article
Speaker 1: on your phone.
Speaker 2: You know as well as I do.
Speaker 1: You've done that before, and in the middle of them speaking,
Speaker 1: you go, oh my god, I don't know what she's
Speaker 1: talking about. I have been I've been sitting there and
Speaker 1: Courdy's been talking. I've been like, yeah, yeah, totally, totally.
Speaker 5: That is.
Speaker 3: You know, sometimes for the shows that I really like,
Speaker 3: I try to put my phone or off in my
Speaker 3: laptop because I'm often, you know, at night when we're
Speaker 3: watching TV, trying to get little work done. I was
Speaker 3: doing it last night to typing, you know, texting with
Speaker 3: you and stuff, and I try to put that away
Speaker 3: if it's something that I'm really into so I don't
Speaker 3: miss out on it. Because I think my wife claims
Speaker 3: that she catches everything, even though she's doing crosswords the
Speaker 3: whole time. I think she's still she's still missing stuff
Speaker 3: and I'll be like, did you see that? We need
Speaker 3: to rewind so you can see that part. But like
Speaker 3: last night, we were watching Rooster and U the episode
Speaker 3: got over by the way Steve Carell stole loft, we
Speaker 3: were watching Rooster and by the time the episode got done,
Speaker 3: I was like, hey, did nothing happen or was I
Speaker 3: just not paying attention? And She's like, I don't think
Speaker 3: it much happened in that episode. I don't think I
Speaker 3: don't think we got a lot out of that. But
Speaker 3: other stuff other times where I'm like.
Speaker 1: Wait, wait, were you both distracted and you you know,
Speaker 1: or why I was counting on her who claims to
Speaker 1: have the better retention. Maybe Steve Carrell did die, but
Speaker 1: you guys.
Speaker 2: Were both alive.
Speaker 1: Still still fine.
Speaker 3: I just think it was a particularly unexciting episode.
Speaker 2: I'll watch it again to make sure. It's just undeniable
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 1: You could say whatever you want, but it's undeniable to
Speaker 1: me that when you are locked in like a tractor
Speaker 1: beam to your cell phone, you are not paying much
Speaker 1: attention to anything else happening around you. Yeah, you just aren't.
Speaker 1: It's just so clear. So when the students get those
Speaker 1: cell phones taken away from them and they're focused on
Speaker 1: things in class, that is a absolute win, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: They have to lock up or otherwise stowaway cell phones,
Speaker 3: smart watches, tablets, and earbuds, no AirPods at the schools.
Speaker 1: Really see they want to make sure they don't have
Speaker 1: any of this stuff. The counter argument is, I want
Speaker 1: to make sure my kids are safe. What if there's
Speaker 1: a school shooting. Once you push past that and get
Speaker 1: past the emotional side of the argument, it's undeniable that
Speaker 1: this has improved so many places.
Speaker 2: So that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: The bad thing is apparently hot air balloons just keep
Speaker 1: falling out of the sky, and that's not good. We
Speaker 1: had the one that landed in somebody's backyard the other day.
Speaker 1: This is a balloon pilot had a lucky escape after
Speaker 1: strong winds sent it crashing into the side of a casino.
Speaker 1: It was there as part of celebrations for a new
Speaker 1: hotel opening in Sacramento. The winds created an unplanned launch,
Speaker 1: is what they called it. And here I have the footage.
Speaker 10: Looking escape after strong wind sent it crashing into the
Speaker 10: side of a casino in northern California. It was there
Speaker 10: as part of celebrations for the opening of it.
Speaker 2: He crashed right into the building.
Speaker 10: Local police said the winds created an unplanned launch and
Speaker 10: The pilot was eventually able to get enough height to
Speaker 10: clear buildings and land safely, but only after hitting a
Speaker 10: power line.
Speaker 2: Oh god, even hit a power line in the thing.
Speaker 3: That basket looks a lot, a lot bigger than the
Speaker 3: last weird hot air balloon situation we saw ourselves being
Speaker 3: a part of.
Speaker 1: I think you're right. Yeah, this one looks like it
Speaker 1: has more room in it. But the guy was by himself.
Speaker 1: He got it down there as part of some promotional thing,
Speaker 1: and it went spinning out of control. He crashed into
Speaker 1: the building, he hit a power line, and then he
Speaker 1: was able to get the hot air balloon down safely,
Speaker 1: thank god. After that, so there's that, all right, quick
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Speaker 1: the website today. All right, I want some of your
Speaker 1: feedback meeting over there, which.
Speaker 2: I may or may not do.
Speaker 1: I don't know may or may not do in may
Speaker 1: I have no idea as of right now. I'm not
Speaker 1: really positive on it. If you can't tell, I'm willing
Speaker 1: to hear out what the what the suits say and
Speaker 1: what they have to offer. But and also it's a
Speaker 1: giant pain in the ass. Like one of my things
Speaker 1: is that you know, I could do the show from
Speaker 1: whatever I want and I don't need you guys bothering me.
Speaker 1: It's like literally one of the deals I have with
Speaker 1: the suits that I've had on previous contracts.
Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, I get to do the.
Speaker 1: Show from wherever I want, and I'll make sure that
Speaker 1: the quality of the show stays where it needs to say.
Speaker 1: I don't need you to go like, hey we need
Speaker 1: this person here, we need this. No one cares. It's
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. No one cares where the people are.
Speaker 1: No one cares where the people are. Who are are
Speaker 1: doing these podcasts or shows or like, I can't imagine
Speaker 1: one person whatever listening to Smartlest the Smartlest podcast go Well,
Speaker 1: these people aren't even in the same location together. No
Speaker 1: one cares. They're not yeah zooming, just zooming to get
Speaker 1: Snoop says serious XM buying iHeart. Well, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I should ask them about that. Wouldn't that be
Speaker 1: a little awkward if I bring that up? If I
Speaker 1: go so it should serious XM have a seat at
Speaker 1: the table?
Speaker 2: What what what should we do with I don't know.
Speaker 1: If that's going to go over too well, not that
Speaker 1: much of it really has been. But yeah, there's there's
Speaker 1: no updates on that for people who have been asking
Speaker 1: only that in May at some point I forgot what
Speaker 1: the date was that they want to meet and talk
Speaker 1: about this, and and we'll see, we'll see if that happens.
Speaker 1: It would require me to maybe miss a show, which
Speaker 1: I know is always you know, and it's always like
Speaker 1: another thing. I don't want to miss a show to
Speaker 1: have a meeting with people. I've never wanted to do that. Hey,
Speaker 1: let's miss a show so people don't get a live show.
Speaker 1: And then what's the thing that's happening. The thing that's
Speaker 1: happening is you're gonna sit down with a bunch of
Speaker 1: suits and they're gonna tell you about the show. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't care all that much. One of my things
Speaker 1: is other than maybe two or three of the people
Speaker 1: who are higher up in this company, I don't really
Speaker 1: care what anybody thinks about content, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I don't need them telling me about content and what
Speaker 1: is good and what is bad. At some point, you
Speaker 1: know whether your gut is right or not, and you
Speaker 1: go with your your gut. That's that's where I've always
Speaker 1: been out on this, Like, I don't need them to
Speaker 1: go well, I think what you should do is head
Speaker 1: in this direction. The suits have never tried to do that.
Speaker 1: There was one person who tried to do that a
Speaker 1: couple of times. They're not necessarily around anymore, and that's all.
Speaker 1: That's all that's been relegated to. I haven't had people
Speaker 1: like trying to direct the content of the show very much.
Speaker 1: Although it's hilarious because so many of your emails will
Speaker 1: be like the reason why Sean doesn't talk about this
Speaker 1: is because they tell him not to. He got the
Speaker 1: talking points from the company. Tom God, if you only knew,
Speaker 1: like a hundred there's no chit chat about what you
Speaker 1: can and can't talk about other than the stuff that
Speaker 1: I tell you on air. I legitimately had one of
Speaker 1: the suits call me and go, hey, love the show,
Speaker 1: very very big fan of the show, watch every day,
Speaker 1: but can you stop saying this word so much? We
Speaker 1: are we are worried about segment.
Speaker 3: I think, if I had to be honest, bit of
Speaker 3: a misrepresentation of how much we said that word.
Speaker 1: I think maybe the day that the person was complaining,
Speaker 1: we had said that particular bad word many many times.
Speaker 3: Well, there was a person that we were talking about
Speaker 3: who was worthy of that many times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the person was being a total asshole, there's no
Speaker 1: doubt about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there was, there was some limits.
Speaker 1: He was the best what did you call himself?
Speaker 3: The best f and charter boat captain in the country.
Speaker 1: Yeah, happened to that guy. He's out there charter boat
Speaker 1: instill just screaming.
Speaker 2: At random water.
Speaker 1: He's probably pretty busy, so, yeah, that's like a pirate.
Speaker 1: They've not talked about those kind of things that much.
Speaker 1: They've not talked about the the the actual content of
Speaker 1: the show. They've been pretty easy going about that. Well,
Speaker 1: and that's only because the show has been successful over
Speaker 1: the years, so they, you know, they've been willing to
Speaker 1: go hands off. If you're not, then they're going to
Speaker 1: dive in and they're gonna get their hands dirty and
Speaker 1: try to fix everything you have, whether it's broken or not.
Speaker 1: Rock Horner horn n that was the guy the charter
Speaker 1: boat cap Yeah. Somebody says was it the N word? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was the N word. I use it a lot
Speaker 1: that day. That was a year ago. Uh, that was it? Really?
Speaker 2: That was a year ago this week. Honestly, it feels
Speaker 2: longer than that.
Speaker 3: Florida charterboat captain faces additional charges from f WC after
Speaker 3: viral video and that was post did April twenty sixth
Speaker 3: of last year.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The only thing that they do try to do
Speaker 1: if you're especially if your radio show, just so you
Speaker 1: guys know, if the suits get a hold of you,
Speaker 1: if your radio show has low ratings, they go to
Speaker 1: some very basic stuff. So what they would do is
Speaker 1: they go, all right, who's on the show and what
Speaker 1: are your roles? And so, you you know, put Sean
Speaker 1: and Sea Lane and then they go, okay, now who
Speaker 1: is Sea lane. Is he like is he the sports
Speaker 1: fan guy? Or is he is he like? Is he
Speaker 1: the chef guy? And I go, we don't have to fight.
Speaker 1: This isn't like uh uh, what's what's the Gordon Ramsey
Speaker 1: home cooking competition? Oh?
Speaker 3: I was just thinking of like they treat as like
Speaker 3: a boy band. They're like, yes, this guy'll be the
Speaker 3: bad boy, that big guy will be the sports guy.
Speaker 1: Yes. Better example, they'll treat you like a boy band
Speaker 1: and they'll say which role do these people play? What which?
Speaker 1: What is your your role with is not like we're
Speaker 1: human beings. We have different elements to our personalities and
Speaker 1: people like them all coming together. So yeah, normally they
Speaker 1: shut up about those things.
Speaker 3: In the satirical I Guess movie Together remember from MTV, Yeah,
Speaker 3: the members were the heart throb, the shy one, the
Speaker 3: cute one, the older brother, and the bad.
Speaker 1: Boy son of a bitch? Am I the older brother? Ah? Wow,
Speaker 1: you're not the cute one. You have to you have
Speaker 1: to be specific about it, but probably. Yeah. All right,
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Speaker 1: Bad news about the sloth world front. Things get even worse.
Speaker 1: The only good news that I'll start out with is
Speaker 1: the loss under the care of the Central Florida Zoo
Speaker 1: and Sandford right now seem to be doing pretty well.
Speaker 1: They have some health issues, but they're pulling through and
Speaker 1: they're getting really good care from the experts at the
Speaker 1: Central Florida Zoo and Sandford. So that is good. That's
Speaker 1: going well. The bad news is they found even more
Speaker 1: sloss that died that they had not reported before, and
Speaker 1: now over fifty sloss in total are reported to have
Speaker 1: died at the sloth World facility before they started to
Speaker 1: get heat, before they started to get a reaction, and
Speaker 1: before they closed up shop and said they're filing for bankruptcy.
Speaker 1: So it was even worse than people anticipate. Over fifty
Speaker 1: sloss connected to sooft World excuse me, are said to
Speaker 1: have died throughout the opening process, and they kept bringing
Speaker 1: more and more of them in even as they were
Speaker 1: dying off and it was clear that things are not
Speaker 1: going with got make up for the ones you lost.
Speaker 1: That's what they're doing right. They were doing this in
Speaker 1: an effort to just open up. They needed to get
Speaker 1: the money coming in. But I don't think they were
Speaker 1: doing a great job at getting those animals acclimated because
Speaker 1: so many of them fifty plus now it seems, died
Speaker 1: according to these reports.
Speaker 3: There's a bunch of people that prepaid for those tickets
Speaker 3: and they want refunds now, and I'm thinking maybe they
Speaker 3: get up.
Speaker 1: I have no clue. It seems pretty bad. Dan saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: we need criminal charges for these losers. It's at least
Speaker 1: something that they should look into. Now they're continuing to say, like,
Speaker 1: it wasn't our fall, it was just some virus, some
Speaker 1: invisible virus that just happens to not come up on
Speaker 1: any kind of testing we do. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: believe that so much. I'll tell us what you think.
Speaker 1: Send a dispatch over at the news junkie dot com.
Speaker 1: In fact, I haven't done any dispatches are coming up
Speaker 1: next in the news Junkie. That's right, The Power Hour
Speaker 1: is on here on the show. We're glad to have
Speaker 1: you with us. You can learn more over at thenewsjunkie
Speaker 1: dot com. It's never been this bad, I don't think
Speaker 1: with conspiracy theories.
Speaker 2: Conspiracies. Conspiracies used to be like.
Speaker 1: Among the most fringe of fringe people, and they'd be like, oh,
Speaker 1: this person's a conspiracy theorist, a tinfoil hat personality, and
Speaker 1: you would be like the thing that you would mock
Speaker 1: somebody for.
Speaker 3: Now it's almost cool now now it's just everywhere. Now,
Speaker 3: it's just everywhere.
Speaker 1: I've talked before about how one of the first things
Speaker 1: that popped up was the nine to eleven conspiracy theorists,
Speaker 1: and I made a mistake of taking these people seriously, because.
Speaker 2: At that age I was like, well, everybody.
Speaker 1: Must be being honest, and I should take them seriously
Speaker 1: and let me figure out the arguments, and then maybe
Speaker 1: I can tell people like, hey, you know you have
Speaker 1: a conspiracy about nine to eleven. Here's why that conspiracy
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. Let me combat all the talking
Speaker 1: points that you have and speak to you reasonably and
Speaker 1: logically and talk you out of this and see if
Speaker 1: I can make you disbelieve in the conspiracy. No, they're
Speaker 1: invested in the conspiracy. They want the conspiracy to be
Speaker 1: a thing. The conspiracy is part of their personality. And
Speaker 1: that only became more and more common as social media
Speaker 1: platforms became bigger and bigger over the years. And now,
Speaker 1: oh my god, it's ever everywhere everywhere. I saw this
Speaker 1: just a moment ago, and it said in our last
Speaker 1: Manhattan Institute survey, this is a poll that was done
Speaker 1: nothing one ago. They found that forty six percent of
Speaker 1: Democrats believe that the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four was orchestrated by his supporters to increase
Speaker 1: sympathy for him. So that's of people who identify themselves
Speaker 1: as Democrats, and they believe that the twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: attack on Trump was orchestrated by his supporters. There's so
Speaker 1: many more than this. This one, I think is a
Speaker 1: little looser, and you can put conspiracy around it, but
Speaker 1: I don't think it's as conspiracy. The COVID nineteen leaked
Speaker 1: from a laboratory in China theory. That's more than fifty
Speaker 1: percent of people who believe in that. I think that
Speaker 1: that one might be more likely to be true too.
Speaker 1: NASA faked the moon landing is about sixteen percent saying
Speaker 1: definitely true that they faked it or probably true that
Speaker 1: they faked it. So sixteen percent of people believing that
Speaker 1: childhood vaccines causing autism, thirteen percent of people believing that consply.
Speaker 1: I thought that would be a lot more.
Speaker 2: I did too.
Speaker 1: Actually, the Holocaust of Jews in Nazi Germany was greatly
Speaker 1: exaggerated or did not happen as historians described. About twelve
Speaker 1: percent of people believe that that conspiracy is probably true
Speaker 1: or definitely true that the Holocaust is exaggerated, and Seiling
Speaker 1: counts himself amongst the people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, please Sean, it's like that old joke.
Speaker 3: They say, six million, really really really old Jews walk
Speaker 3: into a bar and say, hey, we got lost. Hope
Speaker 3: nobody came up with any crazy ideas about where we've been.
Speaker 1: People believe at least one conspiracy. I think nowadays, I can't.
Speaker 3: Believe that the numbers for the Holocaust being fake and
Speaker 3: the numbers for vaccines causing autism are so close they are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, vaccines causing autism as a conspiracy is thirteen percent
Speaker 1: and the Holocaust being fake is twelve percent.
Speaker 3: I feel like I see way more people raging against vaccines,
Speaker 3: and maybe this childhood vaccines causing autism is too specific
Speaker 3: for this, but I see way more people drawing that
Speaker 3: line than I ever see. I hardly ever see anybody
Speaker 3: actually like believing, saying with conviction that the Holocaust is fake.
Speaker 3: I don't even barely hear anybody joke about it.
Speaker 1: But isn't the problem there that most people who might
Speaker 1: believe that aren't going to post it on social media?
Speaker 1: That's one where they go, I'm not going to put
Speaker 1: this here. I think there's a weird bias that comes
Speaker 1: into play here where we go, Man, I see so
Speaker 1: many people doing this, and it's still megafringe, but we
Speaker 1: will see people doing it, but it's just like it's
Speaker 1: a very very fringe thing that people are loud about,
Speaker 1: like barbecue baby, says the loud minority. Already in these cases,
Speaker 1: unless it's not an opinion that you can express loudly,
Speaker 1: like the Holocaust being exaggerated. Yeah, there's a childhood vaccines
Speaker 1: is thirteen percent. NASA faking the Apollo eleven landing is
Speaker 1: sixteen percent. That believed that that conspiracy nine to eleven
Speaker 1: attacks being an inside job is twenty eight percent who
Speaker 1: believe that conspiracy the October seventh attack on Israel was
Speaker 1: an inside job or false flag operation carried out or
Speaker 1: permitted by the Israeli government. You'll see a lot of
Speaker 1: these have Jews in them. That is twenty four percent
Speaker 1: of respondents believed that October seventh was an inside job
Speaker 1: or false flag that Israel did on themselves. Twenty four
Speaker 1: percent of people believe that. And then, like I said,
Speaker 1: thirty seven forty six percent of people believe that the
Speaker 1: assassination attempt against Donald Trump in July twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: was orchestrated by the supporters who increase sympathy for him.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: And then the top one, the most one is Russian
Speaker 1: President Vladimir Putin has compromising information on Donald Trump and
Speaker 1: uses it to sway Trump's policy positions. That's sixty four
Speaker 1: percent of people in this poll, sixty four percent believe
Speaker 1: in that conspiracy.
Speaker 2: So I think it's never been this bad.
Speaker 1: I think the time from when an incident happens to
Speaker 1: the conspiracy about the incident is shorter than it's ever been.
Speaker 1: I saw after the shooting on Saturday, conspiracies that the
Speaker 1: whole thing was fake. I saw it like so fast,
Speaker 1: maybe within twenty four hours. There was people with conspiracies already, right, and.
Speaker 3: Oh there was a lot of good lead ins to
Speaker 3: that being a conspiracy, you know, like Carolyn Levitt saying
Speaker 3: shots would be fired?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, which I mean that, well, that's what that
Speaker 1: short of the nine to eleven was an inside jobs thoff.
Speaker 3: If that was the case, would you say shots will
Speaker 3: be fired? No, of course you wouldn't, And of course
Speaker 3: it's ridiculous. And of course the much more obvious thing
Speaker 3: is there are people being hyped up and fed all
Speaker 3: this information. Of course the outcome is going to be
Speaker 3: that some of those people try to kill the person
Speaker 3: who they get obsessed with. That's just the more obvious
Speaker 3: conclusion there. But people are really these days thirsty, thirsty
Speaker 3: for conspiracies.
Speaker 2: And maybe you're in that group. Let us know.
Speaker 1: Send a dispatch at the newsjunkie dot com. Somebody sent
Speaker 1: a photo dispatch. They went and got a whopper, and
Speaker 1: they sent the photo dispatch in to see if they
Speaker 1: actually were more photogenic these days. It's a pretty good
Speaker 1: looking whopper. I don't know if it's just good some
Speaker 1: of the ones I saw on the on the subreddit, but.
Speaker 3: Now, yeah, that one is on the lesser that we've
Speaker 3: seen today. But it's not a bad looking sandwich.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's not as ugly as so many of
Speaker 1: the ones that you used to see before they try
Speaker 1: to make a turnaround. I think over at Burger King
Speaker 1: have been. That's yeah, it's more impressive than I thought.
Speaker 3: I want to see if if they're actually doing this
Speaker 3: mcmullet thing in New Zealand. I want to see one
Speaker 3: from the restaurant. I don't want to see one in
Speaker 3: the in the ad. I don't want to see one
Speaker 3: that they want to show us. I want to see
Speaker 3: somebody going to do they call it maccas in New
Speaker 3: Zealand or is that just Australia.
Speaker 1: I think that's Australia, but they share a lot in comments.
Speaker 1: It could be both of them.
Speaker 3: And somebody go into one of those things, getting this
Speaker 3: mcmullet thing, if it even exists. There's my conspiracy and
Speaker 3: seeing what it looks like out of the wrapper or
Speaker 3: out of the box, because I don't think it's going
Speaker 3: to look as accurate as it would.
Speaker 1: I think either way it's going to look stupid. It's
Speaker 1: so stupid. The idea of a burger that started all
Speaker 1: this with a mullet of cheese is just is this
Speaker 1: where we're at. Let's go over to a couple of dispatches.
Speaker 1: Here's Eric joining us on the show Good Afternoon News.
Speaker 6: Junkiest guards to your children versus pets, comparison with the
Speaker 6: apartment rentals. You got to include old people too. I
Speaker 6: mean several I did at one point in several houses
Speaker 6: in a retirement community, and I would it was I
Speaker 6: was forced to run out to older people and I
Speaker 6: could tell you that they bump into things, they bang
Speaker 6: things around. They put color coded stickers on the receptacles
Speaker 6: and the wall switches, and they are not the best
Speaker 6: people to.
Speaker 1: Have as well.
Speaker 2: So old people tenants, yeah, you.
Speaker 6: Can include them in the categories.
Speaker 1: Eric, I would have thought that old people were overall
Speaker 1: generally decent tenants because they're not partying. But maybe they're
Speaker 1: still causing the same issues, that's what he says.
Speaker 3: I mean, stickers on the wall receptacles seems a little
Speaker 3: less damaging than some of the things that a pet
Speaker 3: or a kid can do. But they're banging into stuff,
Speaker 3: you know, definitely, Yeah, here's Daddy two times with the dispatch.
Speaker 11: What's happened?
Speaker 1: Friends?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so this kids versus dogs things?
Speaker 1: I get it. It's funny.
Speaker 11: But in general, it's already built into your deposit, right
Speaker 11: because when you're making a deposit as a renter, you're
Speaker 11: taken into account that there may be damages to the
Speaker 11: home caused by you, your friends, your family.
Speaker 1: Your kids.
Speaker 11: The pet thing is something set aside separately for them
Speaker 11: to get an additional amount of money out of you
Speaker 11: for the urination, defecation, tearing up of rugs and what
Speaker 11: have you that dogs may do. Sure the kids can
Speaker 11: do that, but you know what, so do adults, So
Speaker 11: do children, so do teenagers. Set things on fire, put
Speaker 11: holes and walls, all that fun stuff that drunk adults
Speaker 11: also do for that matter. Anyhow, I get the point,
Speaker 11: but kind of is already existing with those security deposits
Speaker 11: and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: That's a fair point, Like you have to pay a
Speaker 1: security deposit, so that may just be for all of
Speaker 1: the humans that occupy the apartment. The original claim being
Speaker 1: that if I'm moving into an apartment, I have to
Speaker 1: pay a security fee for a pet. But people can
Speaker 1: move in with three kids and they don't have to
Speaker 1: pay anything extra for them. He's right. It's just like
Speaker 1: a blanket fee that you pay in so many of
Speaker 1: these situations. All right, a couple of emails very quickly.
Speaker 1: Here is Katie. Katie says, Hi, Sean and Sea Lane.
Speaker 1: After your show about Burger King McDonald's a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: I went to Burger King because the drive through lane
Speaker 1: was shorter, the burger was okay, the fries were not
Speaker 1: only not hot, but they were cold as hell, and
Speaker 1: it was expensive. Really, I didn't know they were more
Speaker 1: expensive of there, or or expensive in general.
Speaker 2: In my opinion.
Speaker 1: In my hood, I have Burger King McDonald's Wendy's and
Speaker 1: RB's within walking distance. For the money, I'll go back
Speaker 1: to full sit down restaurants with full bars. True, it
Speaker 1: will probably cost me more as I'll order one or
Speaker 1: two adult beverages, but the food quality will be better,
Speaker 1: and if anything sucks, I can have it fix, says Katie.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the email, Katie.
Speaker 2: And Cubby fan emails.
Speaker 1: So, I learned a long time ago that the lottery
Speaker 1: was a waste of money. As a kid, my brother
Speaker 1: and I wanted Nintendo so bad, and my parents kept
Speaker 1: saying how we could not afford one. We begged like crazy,
Speaker 1: but no such luck. So my brother and I took
Speaker 1: it upon ourselves to gather up all the useless lottery
Speaker 1: tickets left laying around the house. We brought them to
Speaker 1: my parents in a stack of over two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty and told them, here's our Nintendo. I may have
Speaker 1: gotten a spanking that day, but I got a Nintendo
Speaker 1: for Christmas that year. Hey, it worked. That's all that counts.
Speaker 1: Last one for now. Tips at the news junkie dot
Speaker 1: com and Ethan says, good afternoon, junkies. I find it
Speaker 1: laughable that the White House seems to be connecting Jimmy
Speaker 1: Kimmel with the assassination plot last Saturday night. The assassin
Speaker 1: left his home in Los Angeles last Tuesday before this aired,
Speaker 1: with the sole purpose of assassinating the president, saying this
Speaker 1: joke had no influence on the would be assassin since
Speaker 1: he was already planning to commit the crime, would be accurate. Also,
Speaker 1: it's hilarious. The White House continuously says that Jimmy Kimmel
Speaker 1: is extremely low ratings, but he somehow is the play
Speaker 1: to influence a nation, which is it? Keep up the
Speaker 1: good work. I looked at his ratings earlier on. Let
Speaker 1: me see if I have them still. Jimmy Kimmel with
Speaker 1: this whole thing going on, He says the joke was misconstrued, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 2: Oh, here we go.
Speaker 1: In September twenty twenty five, his return from his suspension
Speaker 1: drew in six million viewers, his highest rating in over
Speaker 1: a decade. Following that, there was a sharp decrease. Current
Speaker 1: standing as of late March twenty twenty six, Jimmy Kimmel
Speaker 1: is in a tight race for the eleven thirty five
Speaker 1: PM slot, with some reports noting its poise for higher
Speaker 1: ratings when Colbert leaves, he's at two point one seven
Speaker 1: million viewers and in third place, trailing Gutfeld in Colbert.
Speaker 1: So it's gut Feld Colbert, and then it's Jimmy Kimmel
Speaker 1: in the ratings, but that could change at some point
Speaker 1: in time.
Speaker 3: I think his argument was, like, it's weird to go
Speaker 3: on and on about how crappy the ratings are and
Speaker 3: then go, you know, you have a platform that is
Speaker 3: encouraging people to shoot the president. You just said that
Speaker 3: nobody listens to him. How can both be true? I
Speaker 3: don't disagree. I think that that.
Speaker 1: I think pointing fingers at everybody right now is so
Speaker 1: dumb because all of these people who are pointing fingers
Speaker 1: are involved in this. All of these people that are
Speaker 1: involved in politics are involved in the radicalization of the
Speaker 1: language around it and everything else that's bad. All these
Speaker 1: very political people are nasty, terrible influences on society in
Speaker 1: general in the United States of America. And none of
Speaker 1: them are turning down the temperature. None of them a
Speaker 1: right that goes from the White House to Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: To all these losers online. None of them are turning
Speaker 1: the heat down. And that does suck. And is stupid.
Speaker 1: But there was one more question that I had about
Speaker 1: this situation on Saturday that I want to get into
Speaker 1: when we come back.
Speaker 2: We'll hit on that for sure.
Speaker 1: And then maybe more importantly, a grab bag segment coming
Speaker 1: up next. I got clips galore in the extras department.
Speaker 1: We'll see what we have for you that leads things off.
Speaker 1: In fact, one story that I think is going to
Speaker 1: fire you guys up, and that is coming up next
Speaker 1: in the news Junkie.
Speaker 2: I wanted to bring.
Speaker 1: This up because I have like a grab bag segment
Speaker 1: here for everybody. But one of the things I wanted
Speaker 1: to talk about in this is the fact that they
Speaker 1: have announced at one of the theme parks their Halloween season,
Speaker 1: and it's just getting more and more crazy.
Speaker 2: The Mickey is.
Speaker 1: Not So Scary Halloween party, which Jackson will probably be
Speaker 1: attending at some point soon. Possibly he's getting older, he's
Speaker 1: getting close to the age for that that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: It used to be that you would do this obviously
Speaker 1: the week of Halloween. You would do a Halloween event
Speaker 1: the week of Halloween, and then somebody wanted to stretch
Speaker 1: it a bit longer, then you would do like all
Speaker 1: of October and then they started to pull back even further.
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, we're going to do a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks in September. Now they announced this year it's starting
Speaker 1: starting earlier than it ever has before, and the Disney
Speaker 1: Halloween event is starting on August seventh. It is starting
Speaker 1: almost at the beginning of August. Their Halloween festivities have
Speaker 1: now been stretched.
Speaker 2: All the way through three full.
Speaker 1: Months of the year, all right, three full months, and
Speaker 1: then you could bet your ass the moment they wrap
Speaker 1: that up, they're getting into winter slash Christmas mod.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, that's why you can't go past Halloween. Like
Speaker 3: that's one of the problems with trying to milk more
Speaker 3: out of Halloween is because any other thing, like for
Speaker 3: Marti Gras, you can go before and after, you could
Speaker 3: pad in either direction. But afterw Halloween you have only
Speaker 3: I mean it's November first, man, you got to start
Speaker 3: doing Christmas stuff. I mean November first is like the
Speaker 3: day at my house where Ashley just tosses all of
Speaker 3: our Halloween stuff or you know, puts it away if
Speaker 3: it's stuff that's uh, you know would last more you know,
Speaker 3: over the years.
Speaker 1: And she's killing me with that. By the way. But
Speaker 1: he's killing me because the moment she puts stuff up,
Speaker 1: Courtney's like she's putting stuff up, she wants the skeletons.
Speaker 2: Oh, She's like, we a lot to put stuff up
Speaker 2: over here.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, everybody's so early now, but I mean,
Speaker 3: you can't pat it any further later because you have
Speaker 3: to start the Christmas festivities.
Speaker 1: No, and you need you got you got out of that.
Speaker 1: You got like a wall on one side, so they
Speaker 1: can only go the other.
Speaker 3: Way, right, Like, So there are places that take Christmas
Speaker 3: and keep it later just to be I don't know
Speaker 3: if they're making any more money out of it, but
Speaker 3: it's definitely more festive. Like we went to for a
Speaker 3: friend's birthday and Saint Augustine. My friend's birthday is in January,
Speaker 3: and we went up to celebrate her birthday in Saint Augustine, Florida.
Speaker 3: Beautiful place, fun times around there, and they keep their
Speaker 3: Christmas decorations up for the entire month of January. And
Speaker 3: it was like, Oh, this is actually kind of fun
Speaker 3: that they still have that here. I mean, they're not
Speaker 3: selling tickets to it. It's not like your Mickey's not
Speaker 3: so scary Halloween or your Halloween Horonites. But it is
Speaker 3: a little fun. But the problem with Halloween is that
Speaker 3: the only place you can go is earlier.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but are you going to feel like it's Halloween
Speaker 1: on August seventh? No, August seventh, we were still in summer,
Speaker 1: I think technically, and they firing Halloween.
Speaker 3: That's three weeks before Halloween Hornites starts. That's actually yeah,
Speaker 3: Halloween Hornnites begins on August twenty eighth, twenty twenty six,
Speaker 3: and I don't even know if that's the earliest they've
Speaker 3: done or if they've done August twenty eighth for a while.
Speaker 2: You know what, I blame. There's only one person blame.
Speaker 1: There's only one one type of person to blame, the
Speaker 1: people who are buying tickets to this. The only reason
Speaker 1: they keep spreading these holidays out further and further and
Speaker 1: further and further is because you're buying tickets to it.
Speaker 1: They're selling out every night. And here's a little secret.
Speaker 1: When they do this Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party,
Speaker 1: which was like a kid's Halloween event that now goes
Speaker 1: from August seventh to October thirty. First, do they give
Speaker 1: out candy at that. Yes, you gotta do. They have
Speaker 1: like the big candy manufacturers giving out all kinds of
Speaker 1: fun candy, and they it's a great thing for kids.
Speaker 1: Kids love this stuff, and kids aren't going to complain
Speaker 1: that Halloween is stretched out back to August seventh. But
Speaker 1: they also double dip. As far as I know, now,
Speaker 1: that could be wrong about this. I'm not the Disney
Speaker 1: adult many of you think I am, but I think
Speaker 1: when they're doing Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party, Courtney
Speaker 1: would know one hundred percent. I think that they sell
Speaker 1: tickets for the daytime for the theme park, and then
Speaker 1: they boot everybody else out and they bring people in
Speaker 1: for the Halloween party at night.
Speaker 3: So they're basically able to sell same thing that they
Speaker 3: do for Universal.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I mean, and they're double dipping, like they're
Speaker 1: selling two tickets for one day because they're getting people
Speaker 1: to come to this after hours event that they're calling,
Speaker 1: you know, the Halloween Party. So obviously they want to
Speaker 1: ratchet that up and they want to spread that out
Speaker 1: even further than they do here saying yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: separate ticketed event. Boots He says, yeah, I mean that,
Speaker 1: I get I get their motivation for doing it, but
Speaker 1: at some point, like Halloween is three months long now,
Speaker 1: it's ridiculous. It's pretty crazy that they've stretched it out
Speaker 1: that far. I'm sure more people will like the distractions
Speaker 1: and anything else, but tell us what you think, because
Speaker 1: they continue to take our holidays and just drag the
Speaker 1: last two out as far as they can, or they
Speaker 1: drag right past Thanksgiving. Sometimes they tend to forget that one.
Speaker 3: It's only a couple days in August though, like they
Speaker 3: start in the seventh. But there's just a handful as
Speaker 3: compared to doing it. What as a universal does one, two, three, four,
Speaker 3: five nights a week? They just take off Mondays and Tuesdays. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're making so much money on this though. Somebody says, oh,
Speaker 3: sure it's for the kids, money bag money. Oh wait,
Speaker 3: it is for everybody.
Speaker 1: Let's be real, it's for everybody, because everybody wants a
Speaker 1: distraction right now.
Speaker 3: I kind of wonder, like, if their answer is to
Speaker 3: start earlier, why not just do Why are we starting
Speaker 3: earlier when we're not doing every night of the month
Speaker 3: during the month, does that make sense?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, there must be some reason,
Speaker 1: but they're stretching it back every single time, so they'll
Speaker 1: go further than this.
Speaker 3: October has thirty one days. Why are you you know,
Speaker 3: why do you see the need to move further earlier
Speaker 3: into August when you're not using all thirty one days
Speaker 3: of October.
Speaker 1: Because that's the days they've allotted for that event. I
Speaker 1: think there might be some reason why they can't schedule
Speaker 1: it for those other days. I don't know why, but
Speaker 1: there must be some sort of reason for that, if
Speaker 1: you know, let us know. But they've stretched Halloween out
Speaker 1: now for three months, three months? All right. Here's the
Speaker 1: other thing I have in the grab bag segment for
Speaker 1: you here today in the Power hour of the show,
Speaker 1: I was talking yesterday about movie theater tickets now being
Speaker 1: up for the most desired movie in the best theaters,
Speaker 1: in the best seats. It's now upwards from Regal movie theaters.
Speaker 1: It's upwards of fifty dollars per ticket, which is crazy.
Speaker 1: And with that in mind, I've seen some of the
Speaker 1: other stuff going on, and this is at Regal actually,
Speaker 1: and they showed their.
Speaker 2: New four D theater. Have you ever seen what they do?
Speaker 1: And in this thing.
Speaker 3: I've been to, I don't even know if it was
Speaker 3: a Regal I went to forty X or something when
Speaker 3: I saw al Ready Player one, where you know they
Speaker 3: did like they sprayed water at you sometimes or you
Speaker 3: get smells.
Speaker 2: I think our seats moved around a little bit. I
Speaker 2: don't remember.
Speaker 1: Did they do this? Let me show you here and
Speaker 1: we'll describe it for everybody. Here's the forty X theater
Speaker 1: at Regal. Chat tell me if you would want to
Speaker 1: go see a movie in this in this atmosphere, ready
Speaker 1: here it is. The chairs go, yeah, every which way.
Speaker 1: I think that's what they did for us. Is this
Speaker 1: normal for forty X. I believe it is for the
Speaker 1: whole movie is like riding a movie. Yeah, you could
Speaker 1: turn it off, Oh you can, Okay, it brings I've
Speaker 1: never seen this before. The level at which these things
Speaker 1: were moving and jostling was like, it's like you're on
Speaker 1: a plane that's crashing. It's like a terrible turbulence in
Speaker 1: the in the movie theater that you're facing. I was wrong.
Speaker 3: The movie theater that I saw Ready Player one in
Speaker 3: where we went to the forty X, it was a
Speaker 3: Point Orlando and it is a Regal movie theater, so
Speaker 3: it's the same brand. It's the forty X thing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and they moved around like that, and they had all
Speaker 3: the various effects. And but you if you get motion
Speaker 3: sickness or something with this, as you might imagine you
Speaker 3: could in this situation, you can turn off the motion
Speaker 3: part of it. I mean, hell, you would need to
Speaker 3: turn it off just to get up out of your
Speaker 3: seat to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, because they work in clusters, so there's
Speaker 1: like three or four seats attached to each other in
Speaker 1: three or four seats, and they literally move around more
Speaker 1: aggressive than most.
Speaker 3: Swing what annoy the hell out of me. I know
Speaker 3: they're they're coated with plastic or rubber, so they're not
Speaker 3: making noise, but just them being there would kind of
Speaker 3: be distracting for me.
Speaker 1: They have to have safety features because these seats at
Speaker 1: the four d X move around so much. I did
Speaker 1: not know that there was this much movement in the
Speaker 1: seats in these theaters. The president of seat belts, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I am too, actually, because they literally could throw you
Speaker 1: out of them.
Speaker 2: I'll put this up on sea it now.
Speaker 1: Because they were showing off some of their newer technology
Speaker 1: and just how much the theaters can end up moving
Speaker 1: around I would rather just a regular ass movie. If
Speaker 1: I'm honest, I don't need whatever the hell this is.
Speaker 1: That's not for me, But go take a look for yourself.
Speaker 1: It says the world's largest four DX cinema. That's from
Speaker 1: the Regal Times Square in New York City, and it
Speaker 1: moves around like something you ain't never seen before in
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Speaker 1: do this. We'll play the final dispatches. Stories that didn't
Speaker 1: make the cut. And of course today I learned to
Speaker 1: wrap everything up for eight Tuesday that is coming up
Speaker 1: next on the news. Junkie got a big box there. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's that's the new pets that arrived. Yep, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: it's all ready to go. Hopefully it's the right one
Speaker 1: in there. It's gonna improve the studio even more. Oh
Speaker 1: be excited to see that. Excited. But this is a
Speaker 1: story about a passenger on a Delta Airlines flight. Shoehorn
Speaker 1: this in at the end of the show. A passenger
Speaker 1: on Delta so good that we have so much time.
Speaker 1: It's a bad passenger on a Delta to check.
Speaker 2: Your surprise story.
Speaker 1: As long as it didn't you have one of these,
Speaker 1: I guess we're back on a plane. My strategy was
Speaker 1: to weasel it in at the end and then I
Speaker 1: could get around it.
Speaker 2: But I was and it wasn't really thought out.
Speaker 1: A passenger on a Delta Airlines flight from Atlanta gave
Speaker 1: birth to a healthy, five and a half pound girl
Speaker 1: just before this seven point thirty seven plane landed at
Speaker 1: Portland International Airport. Unbelievable. Two paramedics who happened to be
Speaker 1: on the flight assisted. They borrowed blankets from other passengers,
Speaker 1: and they used a shoelace to tie off the umbilical cord.
Speaker 3: Okay, what do they do for the.
Speaker 1: They ate it. They all ate it on the plane.
Speaker 1: Baby Brielle Renee Blair came in about two weeks ahead
Speaker 1: of schedule. The plane came in about twenty minutes ahead
Speaker 1: of schedule. Her mom, Ashley Blair, from Tennessee, was find
Speaker 1: Oregon to be with her own mother for the birth,
Speaker 1: but didn't quite make it. She went into labor about
Speaker 1: a half hour from Portland on the plane.
Speaker 3: I don't think you're supposed to be The baby was
Speaker 3: a two weeks early.
Speaker 2: The baby was two weeks early. You got that.
Speaker 3: I think that's within the time that you're not supposed
Speaker 3: to be flying anymore. Yeah, I think I think this
Speaker 3: is I think you're right about that. The crazy thing is,
Speaker 3: it's a rarity. But the passenger list expanded by one
Speaker 3: person while they were on the floor. Really, the flight
Speaker 3: doesn't actually have to file that information with the FAA.
Speaker 2: I think they do, Yeah, I think they do.
Speaker 1: The passenger list grows by one person when there's a
Speaker 1: berth during the flight, and they have to make note
Speaker 1: of that, I believe on the plane as they were
Speaker 1: coming in.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I type flight manifesto, not manifest.
Speaker 1: That's a whole different thing there. All right, let's get
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Speaker 1: What we call today say. I learned for a Tuesday,
Speaker 1: April twenty eighth, A twenty twenty six Today, learned this
Speaker 1: guy right here, mister Rogers. That's right, mister Rogers. He
Speaker 1: was the one who poured the wax for the one
Speaker 1: hundred billionth Crayola crayon. They wanted to give him the
Speaker 1: opportunity to do it. They celebrated this back in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety six, the one hundred billion, hundred billion crayons that
Speaker 1: they in ninety six. Mine gosh, I don't even know
Speaker 1: how many they have now. And they let mister Rogers
Speaker 1: pour the wax for it. And finally, I Celink convinced
Speaker 1: me of playing this somehow. Today learn this band Together Together,
Speaker 1: the satirical boy band ending the show today. Two people
Speaker 1: real happy about this. The Band Together actually out sold
Speaker 1: in sync for two weeks. On the music charts. They
Speaker 1: were a throwback to the boy band approach and uh
Speaker 1: actually made it bigger than they anticipated. And Chris Farley's
Speaker 1: brother was in it too, right, Yeah, he was the
Speaker 1: big brother, just like here he was. How dear, all right,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for hacking out with us. We
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