Speaker 1: Good News Junkie starts now.
Speaker 2: It is Friday, July seventeen, twenty twenty six. Lots to
Speaker 2: get to today, from the truth about the smoke to
Speaker 2: a bizarre test explosion causes chaos, and a Today's Show
Speaker 2: anchor gets blindsided.
Speaker 1: By a madman.
Speaker 2: Plus your calls, dispatches, emails, texts. Sam more Selin is here,
Speaker 2: helloshes with us, and.
Speaker 1: So are you.
Speaker 2: You can send us a dispatch over at thenewsjunkie dot
Speaker 2: com right now.
Speaker 1: You can also watch the show on YouTube.
Speaker 2: And twitch dot tv. Slash the News Junkie. Your message
Speaker 2: is rolling the right of the studio in real time.
Speaker 2: And this never ever ever happens. Friends, what happened? I
Speaker 2: can't believe it. We have a last minute message. Let
Speaker 2: me just dust this off in check. It's from that
Speaker 2: porta potty Karen lady. Let's see what she said.
Speaker 1: Wait, Friday. We did it.
Speaker 2: Ere We made a way through a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Speaker 2: and Friday has arrived. So patch yourself on the back. Congratulations.
Speaker 2: They said you couldn't do it, but I knew you
Speaker 2: could all along. I believed in you, and we've arrived
Speaker 2: at Friday. We're gonna have some fun today. How is
Speaker 2: everybody doing on a Friday?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Good, Yeah, I'm good. You're not doing good, are you?
Speaker 1: I can read right through this. No, I'm real good.
Speaker 4: Are you?
Speaker 1: Only because you've already had he's had shots already. That
Speaker 1: could be the reason, Orange Jaeger, you're an alcoholic ceiling. Okay,
Speaker 1: we will take a seat. Take a seat. We need
Speaker 1: to discuss this all right. On Monday week, he says,
Speaker 1: one day week wide, one day we drinking in the morning. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I work to say you can when somebody calls you
Speaker 1: an alcohol you can't just say one day week and
Speaker 1: and think that that pertains to all of it. Works.
Speaker 2: I didn't say it pertains to all of it. I
Speaker 2: just said one day a week.
Speaker 1: So they sit you down and then you just go
Speaker 1: one day a week, one day a week. All right, Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. Got a good show in store
Speaker 1: for you today, some interesting conversations on the way. But
Speaker 1: right now, let's start off as we always do. Let's
Speaker 1: put our ears of the ground, our fingers on the pulse, lit,
Speaker 1: see what's happening in this great, big, wide world of ours.
Speaker 1: And I introduce you to Jimothy, the great new viral sensation.
Speaker 1: Everybody in Seattle, Washington in particular, is following the trials
Speaker 1: and tribulations of Jimothy the raccoon. All right, Jimothy is
Speaker 1: a very strange raccoon. There's something wrong with him, if
Speaker 1: I'm honest with you. And they keep photographing and recording
Speaker 1: short videos of this viral raccoon all across Seattle. I
Speaker 1: put him up on see it now so you could
Speaker 1: take a look. But here's a little peek into the
Speaker 1: world of Jimithy that I'll explain. What am I looking at?
Speaker 1: What the hell is that? Fake? He's not fake.
Speaker 2: He's a real, bona fide raccoon. Everybody.
Speaker 1: He just happened to be shorter than all the other
Speaker 1: raccoons and a little stubbier than the other It looks
Speaker 1: like a chicken, he does, Josh, he does look like
Speaker 1: a rotissary chicken. You're right. I also think he kind
Speaker 1: of looks like that guy from uh yeah, Big Ed
Speaker 1: from I can say, yeah, it looks like a like that,
Speaker 1: but a raccoon a little bit there. There's a lot
Speaker 1: going on in the world of Jimothy, and people are
Speaker 1: now chronicling this little guy, this stubby little raccoon, as
Speaker 1: he runs all around the Seattle area. And I saw
Speaker 1: a post about him and it says, uh, the main
Speaker 1: star of American social media has become a round raccoon
Speaker 1: named Jimothy, who suffers from let's look this up, guys,
Speaker 1: short limb syndrome, short limb thin which I know somebody
Speaker 1: who actually has this. A human. His name is Chaos.
Speaker 2: He's a fan of the show and he has that
Speaker 2: short limb syndrome or SLS.
Speaker 1: It told me about it before. It's brutal, but I
Speaker 1: guess they can get it when they're raccoons too. After
Speaker 1: the first videos, many people thought that a chupa cabra
Speaker 1: was running around Seattle, but zoologists explain that the raccoon
Speaker 1: has a rare congenital disease. What do we know about
Speaker 1: this short limb syndrome, guys, it's the most common form
Speaker 1: of short limbed dwarfism. Oh, it's a dwarfism.
Speaker 2: I mean this is that I just googled short limb syndrome,
Speaker 2: and I think it's assuming that I'm asking about humans
Speaker 2: and not necessarily raccoons characterized by average sized trunk, disproportionately
Speaker 2: shortened upper arms and thighs, larger head with a prominent
Speaker 2: forehead to Yeah, this is all tell you short lim
Speaker 2: syndrome raccoons.
Speaker 1: That's fine. Let me see, I'll get I'll get this
Speaker 1: story up from K I R. Seven and see what
Speaker 1: they say about this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're talking about a very odd looking raccoon.
Speaker 6: People are now calling Jimmy, Jimmy, Yeah, Jack, will you
Speaker 6: went looking.
Speaker 1: For that creature?
Speaker 5: He joins his life in Ballad right now.
Speaker 1: Bro, don't talk about him like this. Listen, this is
Speaker 1: like a very bizarre looking they're looking for the creature
Speaker 1: out there. This is Jimmy's him. Jack.
Speaker 7: Oh, we looked hard, but he did not turn up.
Speaker 7: Probably sleeping right now because raccoon Bro.
Speaker 2: They sent Jack out on the street to look for
Speaker 2: one raccoon.
Speaker 1: The whole of Seattle. I went to journalism school.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 9: He's muttering all sorts of expletives before they cut.
Speaker 1: To this particular guys like that. Look, I'm out here
Speaker 1: hitting the streets and I got to find one short
Speaker 1: little raccoon.
Speaker 7: They're all nocturnal, but just because we didn't see him
Speaker 7: in the day, he's not out there because he is
Speaker 7: all over social media. Take a look. An Instagram post
Speaker 7: launched the animal into fame. It's it's more than three
Speaker 7: hundred thousand likes. Since then, other people have taken to
Speaker 7: the web to post their sightings of this animal they
Speaker 7: called Jimothy.
Speaker 1: Like this clip of the ractor, you have a tail.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have a tail at all. He's just squashed.
Speaker 2: Now, this is a visual, so go look at it
Speaker 2: on and see it now over on the news junkie
Speaker 2: dot com or in the app and you'll see it
Speaker 2: over there. Somebody says short spine syndrome. Is that another
Speaker 2: way to say this short limb syndrome? It might be
Speaker 2: because Google has never heard of a raccoon having a
Speaker 2: medical condition called short limb syndrome.
Speaker 1: Get with it, Google, we got some happening right now.
Speaker 1: Maybe the article got the syndrome wrong.
Speaker 7: I spoke to neighbors who are eager to soon have
Speaker 7: a sighting of their own.
Speaker 1: They want to see the racket has some sort of
Speaker 1: physical abnormality.
Speaker 8: Kind of looks a little bit like a cryptidute.
Speaker 1: Hearing that word about this cryptid what does that mean
Speaker 1: to you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, kind of almost a little supernatural.
Speaker 1: This is what you thought you were going to be
Speaker 1: doing in journalism school. This is your had in mind
Speaker 1: high as hell. She woked up, hit the bong and
Speaker 1: there's a microphone in her face from k I r
Speaker 1: O News and they're like, what do you think about
Speaker 1: the tiny little raccoon guy? He just he's the sweetest
Speaker 1: little thing. So they love him. Over there. You'll see
Speaker 1: him out there. They're talking about it being a Jimothy summer.
Speaker 1: Hot Jimothy Summer is underway, lots of different merch popping
Speaker 1: up already. You may see this out there in the
Speaker 1: next couple of days. So remember Jimothy. Good luck out there.
Speaker 1: It's tough being a raccoon to begin with, especially when
Speaker 1: you're a little tiny, short one. Did you find the
Speaker 1: new diseas er?
Speaker 10: Now?
Speaker 2: Sorry, there's a thing called micromelia, which means abnormally small limbs.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's what Jimithy has. You don't have that yo,
Speaker 2: regular sized limbs, right mac. It would be hilarious if
Speaker 2: you did, though.
Speaker 1: If if you were the same sea lane through and through,
Speaker 1: but your are and legs were like one fourth of
Speaker 1: the size, Oh my god, I mean, if it was
Speaker 1: just the arms that'd be like a t Rex. I know.
Speaker 1: That's why it would be awesome watching you do your
Speaker 1: segment later, trying to hold the stories with your little
Speaker 1: t Rex arms and see o man, Yeah, like see
Speaker 1: this would be the stream would be exploding, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be great. There's a lot of people waking
Speaker 1: up to a very smoky sky, people recording the guys
Speaker 1: and wondering what's going on here, what's happening? Blame Canada,
Speaker 1: as the song goes, blame Canada, because the Canada wildfires,
Speaker 1: the Canadian wildfires, they are what's causing all of this
Speaker 1: smoke in the Northeast and the Midwest. This is I
Speaker 1: think Cleveland, Ohio. It's wild looking.
Speaker 11: Man.
Speaker 1: I was talking about the apocalypse yesterday.
Speaker 2: Like it's wild, dick, Dick. It is the worst day
Speaker 2: of air quality in the history of.
Speaker 1: The city of Chicago today because of this. It is
Speaker 1: the worst day in the history of the city of
Speaker 1: Chicago for air quality because these fires prompted all this smoke.
Speaker 1: It's very weird because we kind of started the week
Speaker 1: off with the Canadian train conductor dudes who were cruising
Speaker 1: through the fire, and now America is dealing with that
Speaker 1: on our side. Once again because of Canada. Dammit, are
Speaker 1: they still training through that fire or did they halt
Speaker 1: that now? I sure hope they made it through Sea Lane.
Speaker 1: They are shutting down a lot of other places. Cedar Point,
Speaker 1: I don't even know where this theme park is.
Speaker 2: It's Ohio? Is it y Cedar Point in Ohio? Is
Speaker 2: Air Point is a legendary feed park.
Speaker 1: For roller coasters. Why is it open? I mean it's thick, buddy,
Speaker 1: there's still roller coasters going. This looks like they turned
Speaker 1: on old roller coasters in the Last of Us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like that does. Like in the new season of the
Speaker 1: Last of Us they learn how to power on an
Speaker 1: old theme park where everything comes to life and then
Speaker 1: you're going around riding these things. That's literally what it
Speaker 1: looks like. It's smoky and very much the end of
Speaker 1: the world looking. And then I had one more. There
Speaker 1: was a bunch even in New York, New York City,
Speaker 1: the Statue of Liberty covered in this smoke, all because
Speaker 1: the Canadians, they've got so much land and they don't
Speaker 1: do a good job of thinning things out, And the
Speaker 1: smoke constantly comes from at least well not constantly, but
Speaker 1: at least like once or twice a year. It comes
Speaker 1: down from Canada over the United States, and I think
Speaker 1: a lot of the East Coast will end up seeing
Speaker 1: it at some point this weekend. So there you go.
Speaker 1: They're intensifying as the flame spread. Is this ABC? ABC
Speaker 1: just showing some more visuals in a very dramatic way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the fires are still burning, like the fires at the
Speaker 1: source of all of this over by Lake Tamarack and Canada.
Speaker 1: That's where this is all coming from. So we'll keep
Speaker 1: an eye on that. Stories about where this is all
Speaker 1: coming from we'll be coming up shortly on the show today.
Speaker 1: Gripping images though all over the place as a result
Speaker 1: of that. Now, let's go to a couple of emails
Speaker 1: to kick us off here on a Friday, Tips at
Speaker 1: the Newsjunki dot com and Steve emails about the stomach
Speaker 1: bug cyclospora making the rounds and it's a literal stomach
Speaker 1: bug like it's a tiny, little, microscopic little creature that
Speaker 1: ends up usually on your produce and goes into your stomach.
Speaker 1: And Steve says, yes, you should watch your produce, but
Speaker 1: this one you have to cook it to kill the parasite.
Speaker 1: Soap and water won't even do it. Wiggle wiggle pop pop,
Speaker 1: he says. Then he says, first time reaching out to
Speaker 1: you guys. So I don't know if that was the
Speaker 1: right time to use the wiggle pop thing, but uh yeah,
Speaker 1: you know nailed it. You did it right. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: There is no right way to do it. It's just
Speaker 1: a weird thing that our listeners started doing years ago
Speaker 1: and they continue to do to this very day. Steve.
Speaker 1: Not only are you right about that, here's the weird
Speaker 1: thing that the media outlets don't want to tell you about, cyclospora.
Speaker 1: They're going to try to hype you, fear you, get
Speaker 1: you scared. They're going to say, you know, all these
Speaker 1: things are responsible, like possibly Taco Bell because Taco Bell
Speaker 1: is really in the targets today and some new information
Speaker 1: that's come out. But here's the deal. I looked into
Speaker 1: this a little bit more. Cyclospora. I'm not Alex Jones here.
Speaker 1: This is true. This is real. You can verify everything
Speaker 1: I'm saying and look it up. All right, it makes
Speaker 1: frogs gay. It doesn't make frogs gay as far as
Speaker 1: I know. I haven't tried it yet. Days not over.
Speaker 1: But cyclospora the thing that's making people sick with this
Speaker 1: explosive diarrhea. Sorry, that's just what the news reports say.
Speaker 1: Is not like so many other of these things that
Speaker 1: can make you sick from your produce, which generally are
Speaker 1: issues that affect livestock like cattle. And the cattle will
Speaker 1: usually be a upstream from where they're growing a lot
Speaker 1: of the produce on these farms, and it could be
Speaker 1: in like California or in you know, like all all
Speaker 1: different states have these these big produce farms, and the
Speaker 1: livestock will be upstream, and then the cows will get
Speaker 1: these sicknesses, and the cows will actually go to the back,
Speaker 1: they'll poop, the cows will crap into a water source,
Speaker 1: which will then wash over to where the produce is.
Speaker 1: It'll go into the produce, and if you don't wash it,
Speaker 1: you can get sick. That's not what's happening here, all right,
Speaker 1: And I'll wrap this up in just a moment, but
Speaker 1: brace yourself, that's not what's happening here, because it turns
Speaker 1: out that cyclospora is not something that livestock gets. Cows
Speaker 1: don't get cyclospora, you know, gets cyclospora humans. So that's
Speaker 1: where it's coming from these migrant workers on these fields.
Speaker 1: Many of them are shown going to the bathroom in
Speaker 1: the fields, and is the human feces from the fields
Speaker 1: because they don't have bathrooms or porta potties.
Speaker 2: Porta potties can literally fix this. They don't have porta
Speaker 2: potties for the migrant workers. And some of these farms
Speaker 2: in California and even in Mexico as well, they don't
Speaker 2: have porta potties for them, so they sneak go into
Speaker 2: the bathroom in the middle of these farms and it ends.
Speaker 1: Up on the produce. That's how these things end up
Speaker 1: in there. That's what's making people sick. All right, that's
Speaker 1: the story. I'm sorry if it was weird. I just
Speaker 1: had to tell you the truth. Thank you, Steve Okay
Speaker 1: for the email.
Speaker 9: That's that's true. Look, I'm sure they're all living in
Speaker 9: FEMA camps too.
Speaker 1: Look it up, all right. I know it's research. I
Speaker 1: already did my research. That's what I'm telling you, and
Speaker 1: I've arrived at this and we'll see if anybody has
Speaker 1: anything to say about it.
Speaker 2: I got inside the mind of a migrant worker and
Speaker 2: I pooped in a field. That's what they're doing that's
Speaker 2: what causes this. So it's a large factory farm issue,
Speaker 2: says known Badger. Yeah, I mean yeah, you could say
Speaker 2: that it's really just about not providing facilities for some
Speaker 2: of these farm workers. They pay them low wages, they
Speaker 2: put them out of the fields all day, and then
Speaker 2: they don't have a place.
Speaker 1: For them to go to the bathroom. So like the
Speaker 1: streets of San Francisco, the fields are covered in poop,
Speaker 1: and the poop from humans is what makes you sick
Speaker 1: when you go to Taco bell. And it sounds crazy,
Speaker 1: but it's true. All right, we're going to take a
Speaker 1: quick break when we come back. We got some more
Speaker 1: of your emails coming in. Obviously, we'll get to those.
Speaker 1: We have somebody who a celebrity who passed away that
Speaker 1: I want to talk about at some point today. Updates
Speaker 1: on the data center stuff. But most importantly, there was
Speaker 1: this crazy attack on somebody over at the Today Show.
Speaker 1: This is just starting to get attention now, and the
Speaker 1: backstory on the guy who attacked the host of the
Speaker 1: Today Show is one of the most unbelievable things I've
Speaker 1: heard all week long. So we'll talk about that. That's
Speaker 1: on the way, and so much more.
Speaker 4: And it's coming up next on the News Junkie.
Speaker 1: Big celebrity at least in my life has passed away,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to tell you who is Rip Unfortunately
Speaker 1: in just a moment here. But there was some drama
Speaker 1: this week on the Today Show, and uh, the first
Speaker 1: thing that I realized was, I don't really know who
Speaker 1: the hell is the host of the Today Show because
Speaker 1: when they said the guy's name who was attacked, they
Speaker 1: said the host of the Today Show was attacked? Can
Speaker 1: you believe they got Craig Melvin? Who? And I was like,
Speaker 1: who is Craig Melvin? Melvin? And then I realized that
Speaker 1: the story is the attacker was actually looking for Al Roker,
Speaker 1: like this craz oh man, the craze lunatic dude was
Speaker 1: looking for Al Roker. Wait till I tell you about
Speaker 1: the guy who did this in what happened? But here's
Speaker 1: some of them addressing this on the Today Show. I
Speaker 1: just you might be familiar with him. I don't know
Speaker 1: who the hell that guy is Craig Melvin, but here
Speaker 1: he is. I want to take her just.
Speaker 10: A quick moment to address an incident that happened yesterday.
Speaker 10: You may I've heard that. Unfortunately, an intruder made his
Speaker 10: way into an unauthorized area here in Studio one A.
Speaker 10: Thankfully he was apprehended quickly. He was placed under arrest.
Speaker 10: We are cooperating fully with the NYPD as the investigate
Speaker 10: the matter, and we are just very happy that everyone
Speaker 10: is safe.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, yes, of course, I want to make sure that
Speaker 1: you're safe, safe and sound, safe and sound, safe and sound.
Speaker 1: Everything fine, I'm safe and sound, he says. I wonder
Speaker 1: if Al Roker feels like it's a little like, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: the guy was coming from me, buddy, all right, mister
Speaker 1: Craig Melvin was he was targeting me. He wanted to
Speaker 1: go after the weather man, Al Roker, but he ended
Speaker 1: up finding this Melvin guy, Craig Melvin. He of course
Speaker 1: shouted the N word at him at the top of
Speaker 1: his lungs, according to the people who were around there
Speaker 1: at the time, and he was trying to get a
Speaker 1: hold Al Roker. When he couldn't find Al Roker, he
Speaker 1: confronted Melvin, lunging at him while yelling the N word.
Speaker 1: He was arrested and nobody was physically injured. Now you'll
Speaker 1: notice I'm not going to say his name here. I
Speaker 1: don't want to say this guy's name because that's exactly
Speaker 1: what he wants. When this story started to get out there,
Speaker 1: I go, oh, great, oh, I see what's happening here.
Speaker 1: The guy. I saw a video of him after he
Speaker 1: got arrested, and he was on the side of the
Speaker 1: street and he thought he saw a journalist across the street.
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, who are you with and the person's
Speaker 1: like the Washington Post, and they oh, yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be in the Washington Post. He was all excited about it.
Speaker 1: So I don't want to feed into that at all.
Speaker 1: I do want to tell you it would be so great,
Speaker 1: that would make my career. This guy doesn't say his name,
Speaker 1: then the equivalent of world Star over here is just
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be on the news junkie if it happens.
Speaker 1: Oh man, Well, I be excited and freaked out at
Speaker 1: the same time. But the story about this guy, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: Crazy again. I don't care about saying his name, but
Speaker 1: I was. I said, is this guy been arrested for before?
Speaker 1: What's his history? So I started looking him up, start
Speaker 1: searching through the various news sources. This guy got arrested
Speaker 1: one time for stealing the Sandy Hook memorial plaques off
Speaker 1: of a playground. Okay, that's who this guy is. This guy,
Speaker 1: he was such a crazy nutjob attention hound that he
Speaker 1: heard there was a playground that featured little beautiful memorial
Speaker 1: plaques for all the kids who were killed at Sandy
Speaker 1: Hook and he went there and he stole them all.
Speaker 1: And I'll go, okay, yeah, I don't want to feed
Speaker 1: into this guy getting any more attention. I know what
Speaker 1: he was doing here. This guy is not some person
Speaker 1: who in many ways I think he does know. I
Speaker 1: think he does know what he's doing. I think he's
Speaker 1: in a search for fame and then you know, he
Speaker 1: ends up getting it just by being crazy enough to
Speaker 1: get arrested here. So that's what happened on the Today Show.
Speaker 1: And now I know who Craig Melvin is, at least
Speaker 1: for right now. That's not the guy though, that's not
Speaker 1: the person who did this, and it's not the person
Speaker 1: who was responsible for that. It's the person who was targeted.
Speaker 1: I guess. See, Lane, before we get to this celebrity situation,
Speaker 1: we had a follow up, and this is this is
Speaker 1: kind of good news for you. I think, all right,
Speaker 1: A long time listening on the Sheriff says they were
Speaker 1: told that they can have one celebrity invite to their wedding,
Speaker 1: and they have decided to invite us. They did not
Speaker 1: mention Josh though he's not invited. I guess yeah. Just
Speaker 1: they said, hello, Sean and Seelane. My fiance and I
Speaker 1: are longtime listeners and used to sit and do my
Speaker 1: homework to your radio show. We want to invite you
Speaker 1: to our wedding as special guest. We know this is
Speaker 1: a long shot, but you are our celebrity invite, said Celix. Right,
Speaker 1: we talked about that, yeah, and then see Lane said
Speaker 1: I'll do it, and you know I'm ready to do
Speaker 1: I know when it is. What's going on? They responded
Speaker 1: and said, hello, thank you for talking about the wedding invite.
Speaker 1: It will be December fifth, twenty two, twenty seven. Lots
Speaker 1: of time, uh huh, right, a lot of time to
Speaker 1: prepare at the Hilton Hotel in Melbourne. And we're having
Speaker 1: an aquarium themed wedding. Oh, what's wrong with that? You
Speaker 1: don't like the aquarium not? No, I like the aquarium
Speaker 1: theme running. I was like that might be Rope and
Speaker 1: Shawn in now Oh, No, I'm not.
Speaker 4: Going to an aquarium wedding, that is no. No.
Speaker 1: Thank you for considering us. Thought your commentary was hilarious
Speaker 1: as always you guys rock wiggle wiggle, pop pomp. So
Speaker 1: I just see, Lane, I want to keep throwing this
Speaker 1: out to you. They're very interested in having you there.
Speaker 1: You have a lot of skills that would make you useful.
Speaker 1: You can actually marry them. I can't do that. So
Speaker 1: what good am I? Honestly? And are you going to
Speaker 1: lock in or no? I'm not locking it in right
Speaker 1: here on site, but it's on the table for sure. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: all right. I just wanted to put that out there.
Speaker 1: I have not yet been convinced, all right to the
Speaker 1: lovely couple. I'm on the fence, but maybe who knows.
Speaker 1: I do have this celebrity death, and I got to
Speaker 1: tell you it was a brutal one. It was a
Speaker 1: brutal one for me to see. And when I say
Speaker 1: the name, you're not going to know who the hell
Speaker 1: it is. A Sealion probably will because he might have
Speaker 1: pulled this story or something for a segment later.
Speaker 2: Is it a person who was in a movie with
Speaker 2: the President of the United States?
Speaker 1: Yes, it is Josh Brenda Fricker has died? What the
Speaker 1: frick do you have any clue who that is? Brenda Fricker?
Speaker 9: Uh no, but based on based on the clue I
Speaker 9: just gave, I'm thinking Home Alone two Lost in New York.
Speaker 1: Okay, very good, very good?
Speaker 12: Right now?
Speaker 1: No, yeah, I know, right yeah. Kevin the pigeon Lady
Speaker 1: from Home Alone two passed away this week, which is
Speaker 1: so sad to hear. She was pretty amazing in that
Speaker 1: she was the first Irish actress to win an Oscar.
Speaker 1: I did not know that the very first Irish actress
Speaker 1: to win an Oscar.
Speaker 9: Two.
Speaker 1: Home Alone two Lost in New York was what she
Speaker 1: won for, and she won Best Actor I guess for well,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, No, never mind, I get that wrong.
Speaker 1: She's the first Irish actress to win an Oscar. She
Speaker 1: was Christy Brown and it was a different movie. Oh
Speaker 1: she was. She was in My Left Foot. I never
Speaker 1: heard of that before. Have you guys heard of My
Speaker 1: Left Foot? I've heard her name. Yeah, she was in
Speaker 1: My Left Foot. Her role as mother of Irish writer
Speaker 1: and painter Christy Brown, played by Daniel day Lewis, for
Speaker 1: which he also won Best Actor So there you go.
Speaker 1: Brenda Fricker, the Pigeon Lady and home alone. Two rip
Speaker 1: to her and we'll see what else we could tick up.
Speaker 1: There's a lot going on into the world today. Hit
Speaker 1: us up with your thoughts, tips, T I P. S
Speaker 1: at thenewsshunkey dot com real quick. A couple of emails
Speaker 1: coming in. This one is from Katie. Katie emails the show.
Speaker 1: It says, Hi, guys, as a person in the water business,
Speaker 1: we are drinking flushing, watering, cooling with the same water
Speaker 1: that the dinosaurs drank. Katie says, it's still the same earth.
Speaker 1: Things have moved over thousands of years, but the same water,
Speaker 1: the same air, maybe a little bit dirtier when the
Speaker 1: earth is to microplastics in it there sea, She says,
Speaker 1: love you to all, love you all to pieces. So
Speaker 1: that's what it is PCs. I didn't know what that was,
Speaker 1: says Katie. Thank you for the email. Scott emails the
Speaker 1: show about the I didn't even think this should be controversial.
Speaker 1: But the thing yesterday that I was talking about data centers.
Speaker 1: I had just gone on a lengthy tirade the day
Speaker 1: before about how if you don't want a data center
Speaker 1: in your neighborhood. You have every right to be against that.
Speaker 1: You should chain up with all of your neighbors. You
Speaker 1: should do what a lot of these people are doing
Speaker 1: and tell them either rightfully compensate all of us in
Speaker 1: a way that we enjoy and we are made whole
Speaker 1: by or get the hell out of here with your
Speaker 1: stupid data center. I think that people should do that.
Speaker 1: I've laid out the case, and if you missed it,
Speaker 1: go back to to Wednesday's podcast. I laid out the
Speaker 1: case against these data centers being built in these neighborhoods.
Speaker 1: I laid out the reasons why the data centers were bad,
Speaker 1: and then afterwards I said, oh yeah, by the way,
Speaker 1: I said, a lot of the stuff that you see
Speaker 1: on social media is greatly overhyped. A lot of people
Speaker 1: were convinced by a bunch of TikTok videos, Instagram reels,
Speaker 1: all these sorts of things that the real problem is
Speaker 1: wasteful water use for AI data centers. And I said,
Speaker 1: this is a failure to understand how modern AI data
Speaker 1: centers actually work. They recycle the water, so once the
Speaker 1: water is in the rotation at these data centers, they
Speaker 1: use the same water over and over to cool the equipment.
Speaker 1: They don't have to use that water every single day
Speaker 1: like a lot of people think. And I said, just
Speaker 1: don't use that as the argument. Use all the other ones. Right.
Speaker 1: Triggered a bunch of people, and I got a lot
Speaker 1: of emails, but some of them were good, like this one.
Speaker 1: Here's Scott. Scott says to Tips of the New Junkie
Speaker 1: dot Com regular podcast listener, and I love the show.
Speaker 1: You are absolutely right about how data centers use water
Speaker 1: for cooling. As a certified pipe welder and mechanical service
Speaker 1: technician COOL, I work with massive chilled water cooling systems
Speaker 1: across facilities like resorts, manufacturing plants, power stations, and data centers.
Speaker 1: He sent a bunch of pictures of a system he
Speaker 1: was currently overhauling. He says, data centers, like many large buildings,
Speaker 1: rely on closed loop chilled water systems to cool the
Speaker 1: air circulated by large HVAC units. While these systems contain
Speaker 1: tens of thousands of gallons of water, it is continuously
Speaker 1: recirculated and recooled. The actual water loss comes from evaporation
Speaker 1: at the cooling towers, which requires a few hundred gallons
Speaker 1: of municipal water daily to replenish. The primary issue is
Speaker 1: infrastructure locations. Many of these facilities are being built at
Speaker 1: areas where the existing power grid and water systems are
Speaker 1: lacking or poorly maintained, placing a drastic strain on small towns.
Speaker 1: This is ultimately the narrative around data centers, often ships
Speaker 1: the blame away from the foundational utility failures to meet
Speaker 1: growing demands. Best regards, Scott, Thank you, Scott, appreciate you
Speaker 1: appreciate people in the know backing up what I was saying.
Speaker 1: Thank you for that, and you could send your email agreed, disagree,
Speaker 1: or somewhere in between. Tips tips at the news chunky
Speaker 1: dot com. Last thing on that front, real quick, I
Speaker 1: guess we were talking about the Project Tango thing and
Speaker 1: they voted it down. We said yesterday, but then I
Speaker 1: saw this this morning. I so hold on. This is
Speaker 1: not completely done here yet, because even though they denied
Speaker 1: the Project Tango, a data centered down in Florida, they
Speaker 1: have still got construction going on. And here's what the
Speaker 1: WPTV story says. Palmmea County device Project Tango expansion, but
Speaker 1: construction on locks Ache site continues. The commissioners actually rejected
Speaker 1: a large scale expansion application, but the original twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: approved plans for a smaller warehouse data center can still
Speaker 1: move forward. So so like they were previously approved for
Speaker 1: like a smaller data center, they wanted to make the
Speaker 1: data center a lot bigger because twenty sixteen to twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six oh, a lot of stuff has changed since then,
Speaker 1: and so they wanted to make it way bigger. That's
Speaker 1: what got denied.
Speaker 2: What's crazy is that in twenty sixteen, we weren't even
Speaker 2: really talking a lot about AI. So it was just
Speaker 2: a regular old data center, just a regular old building
Speaker 2: with servers and stuff that wasn't going to be that
Speaker 2: big of a deal. And I think I think some
Speaker 2: of the some of the AI stuff has like been
Speaker 2: unfairly roped in with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think people use the term data
Speaker 1: center and sometimes it's like it's it's a lot of
Speaker 1: things that you're not necessarily thinking of right now. People
Speaker 1: are thinking of AI mostly right and that's what's what's
Speaker 1: happening there. So they're still building some stuff. Vicky says,
Speaker 1: I don't think this argument is ever going ten it
Speaker 1: is Vicky right now. Ish, we'll see maybe depending on
Speaker 1: what the feed is when we come back. We've got
Speaker 1: some viral clips to get into. One that I've wanted
Speaker 1: to go over for a while. I got to pick
Speaker 1: a side queued up for you today on a Friday,
Speaker 1: we got an interview on the way. Here's the deal.
Speaker 1: You know what's happening right now. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys are celebrating or not, but the annual Python
Speaker 1: Hunt is happening in the state of Florida, all right,
Speaker 1: and we got one of the winners who's going to
Speaker 1: be joining us to talk about all the stuff that
Speaker 1: happens in the world of the Python Hunt each year.
Speaker 1: I watched the documentary about it this weekend, which was
Speaker 1: really interesting, and I've got a ton of great questions
Speaker 1: for us. So we're going to talk about that in
Speaker 1: the next hour. Stay put. That's coming up next on
Speaker 1: the News Junkie. We're at a weird part in the
Speaker 1: Daylight Saving Time Bill. If you don't know what's happening
Speaker 1: the House of Representatives. The old folks in Washington, d c.
Speaker 1: Half of them, well more than half of them because of
Speaker 1: the numbers game, but one part of Congress, the House
Speaker 1: of Representatives, has voted to make daylight saving time permanent,
Speaker 1: and then if that goes to the Senate, which it will,
Speaker 1: then the Senate votes for this and passes this, then
Speaker 1: it would go to the President's desk, who almost certainly
Speaker 1: would go, yep, here we go sign the bill, and
Speaker 1: then daylight saving time would be permanent in the United
Speaker 1: States of America. And this has kind of fired people
Speaker 1: up for different reasons. But now some of the sort
Speaker 1: of fear mongering stuff has come out. And what are
Speaker 1: the stories I saw today? I go, wait, hold on,
Speaker 1: is this actually true? This story from Newsweek said permanent
Speaker 1: daylight saving could put some pets at risk, Ve warns.
Speaker 1: So I was like, the time change could hurt our pets.
Speaker 1: I thought that pets didn't like the time change.
Speaker 2: Isn't that like one of the things about the time
Speaker 2: change when you have a dog that eats at the
Speaker 2: same time every day and then you screw up the
Speaker 2: clocks and the dog wants dinner too early.
Speaker 1: Or your dog has no idea. Yeah they don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah they're confused by this. So I could see that,
Speaker 1: But how would it be bad? This is an actual
Speaker 1: article for Newsweek.
Speaker 2: It says a proposal to make daylight saving time permanent,
Speaker 2: awaits a Senate vote after passing the House of Representatives.
Speaker 2: But the final clock change could affect more than just
Speaker 2: people's schedules. It could disrupt pets routines.
Speaker 1: They say, and how is the question that happened?
Speaker 2: But this is pro time changers trying to tug at
Speaker 2: the heartstrings of anybody that they can, you know, pull
Speaker 2: over to their side.
Speaker 1: They do this sometimes when they're trying to influence people.
Speaker 1: They did this actually, believe it or not, during COVID.
Speaker 1: There was one time during COVID where they go. It
Speaker 1: is not known if COVID can pass between our pets,
Speaker 1: So you should avoid taking your dog out and letting
Speaker 1: your dogs socialize with other animals. Like there's crazy stuff
Speaker 1: that happened during that time. But they try to use
Speaker 1: that sometimes, these media outlets to get you more angry
Speaker 1: about the thing. But is it real? Let's see. While
Speaker 1: many people may welcome the idea of no longer changing
Speaker 1: their clocks twice a year, dogs and cats could need
Speaker 1: a few days to adjust to the new rhythm of
Speaker 1: their owners' lives. Most dogs and cats don't know what
Speaker 1: time it is. They know when things are supposed to happen.
Speaker 1: I know that's true, and I know my pets know
Speaker 1: that for sure, says Karen Halligan. Pets thrive on routine,
Speaker 1: so any sudden change in feeding walks, medication schedules or
Speaker 1: bedtime can throw them off. But what's the idea here?
Speaker 1: The idea is that if we go to permanent daylight
Speaker 1: saving time, it would be bad for pets because they'll
Speaker 1: be confused. Well, isn't that less confusing if we do
Speaker 1: it once and then stay on that same schedule forever.
Speaker 2: Then it sounds like the more logical thing is that
Speaker 2: it would be less confusing for pets. So therefore, would
Speaker 2: the article be that this actually is going to be
Speaker 2: much more stable for your pets over a long period
Speaker 2: of time because pets, you know, like my dog Lexi,
Speaker 2: she stands in a certain place right around six thirty
Speaker 2: ish or follows me around the kitchen because she thinks
Speaker 2: it's dinner time. Now, she doesn't right around Halloween time
Speaker 2: follow me around and go.
Speaker 1: Trains of Cloaks. Right, yeah, I think, like I'm concused.
Speaker 1: The whole pis doesn't make sense though, because you would
Speaker 1: just go, hey, oh, you're saying time change affects the animals,
Speaker 1: and if we go to permanent daylight saving time, that
Speaker 1: will affect the pets. And that's a bad thing because
Speaker 1: the pets will be thrown off by this. Okay, but
Speaker 1: if we don't do that thing, then we do it
Speaker 1: twice a year, and then the animals is going to
Speaker 1: be affected twice as much every single year. Right, it
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense to me. It says what pets
Speaker 1: could be most affected. Senior dogs and cats, puppies and kittens,
Speaker 1: pets with anxiety disorders, dude, okay, animals with cognitive dysfunction.
Speaker 1: They might as well just put that raccoon in Seattle
Speaker 1: on here, oh.
Speaker 2: Jimmy hard Yeah, yeah, Jimmothy, put them on here. Pets
Speaker 2: taking medications at specific times, and diabetics.
Speaker 1: This is literally no change for the pet. Your vote
Speaker 1: for daylight saving time permanently is a vote to murder
Speaker 1: all your pets. That's what this is. That's what's happening here.
Speaker 1: So if you want to murder Fido, you encourage your
Speaker 1: senators to vote for permanent daylight saving time. As for us, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess it's like terrible for us too,
Speaker 1: because now everybody's making these infographics on how this is
Speaker 1: going to make you die? Somebody actually still name their
Speaker 1: pet Fido anymore? Got everyone? It seems like such a trope.
Speaker 1: Here's what they're saying happens to humans because the fear
Speaker 1: machine is just ratcheted up. The problem with permanent daylight
Speaker 1: saving time increased risk of heart attack, heart attacks increased
Speaker 1: by twenty four percent on the Monday after the spring
Speaker 1: daylight saving time shift. There is no way that's true.
Speaker 1: There's no way that like that. People will be like
Speaker 1: the time is whoa that there's an increased risk of
Speaker 1: a heart attack? What because you didn't change your clocks?
Speaker 1: What is causing heart attacks to I.
Speaker 2: Don't think these arguments are are making sense for what
Speaker 2: this person is is fighting for.
Speaker 1: Go to the top real quick. Okay, So this person.
Speaker 2: Is fighting for keeping standard time and not doing daylight
Speaker 2: saving time, which y which right now, if this bill passes,
Speaker 2: we stay on daylight saving time, and what we get
Speaker 2: more daylight later in the day.
Speaker 1: Correct, See what I'm saying that yes, because it says
Speaker 1: the thing at the top says daylight saving time bad
Speaker 1: for your health. Standard time much better, all right, okay?
Speaker 1: And it says the problem with daylight saving time. Is
Speaker 1: heart attacks increase on the Monday after the shift. Well,
Speaker 1: if there's no shift, there's no increase in heart attacks.
Speaker 1: It's not like if we keep daylight.
Speaker 2: Saving time, we're just going to be all of this
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, twenty four hours a day, seven
Speaker 2: days a week, twenty four percent more likely to have
Speaker 2: a heart attack because it's only after the time shift.
Speaker 1: So this argument makes no sense. Sographic all right. The
Speaker 1: other one says more strokes. Stroke risk increased by eight
Speaker 1: percent in the days following the spring shift.
Speaker 2: Every one of the things in this column is about
Speaker 2: the shift.
Speaker 1: Shift shift. If we don't shift, there's no there's no problem.
Speaker 1: You lose sleep or a sleep quality, higher risk of
Speaker 1: diabetes and obesity. That's why people are fat in America.
Speaker 1: People are fat because of daylight saving times. True, higher
Speaker 1: cancer rates in western time zones. See, you have more
Speaker 1: time to smoke. I am not a professional doctor and
Speaker 1: not what you would call a medical doctor, but this
Speaker 1: doesn't seem right to me. I mean, this guy says
Speaker 1: he is a doctor. This guy says MD.
Speaker 2: He says MD after his name, And I get that
Speaker 2: when you when you go down, you go down to
Speaker 2: the bottom, like it says, like, all right, here are
Speaker 2: the downsides of daylight saving time right later later sunrises
Speaker 2: when you need light most That is a valid point.
Speaker 2: Disrupt sleep is maybe a link to more heart attacks
Speaker 2: all of the.
Speaker 1: Other disrupt sleep though, because the sun comes up at
Speaker 1: different times and stuff. Yeah right, I get that, but
Speaker 1: you'll get used to it.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 2: There are people that live in places where the sun
Speaker 2: just never goes down. Yeah, and and they're fine, most
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 11: I don't know a.
Speaker 1: Lot of drink into those places. But there's just no way,
Speaker 1: Like I mean, I'm for standard time or daylight saving time.
Speaker 1: I just think the switching back and forth thing is
Speaker 1: kind of silly. We could probably stop doing that. But
Speaker 1: is there any way that it's causing strokes and heart
Speaker 1: attacks and cancers and fat people and and by the way,
Speaker 1: if we switch to standard time instead of daylight saving time,
Speaker 1: we won't have obese the issues like we do it
Speaker 1: or not as much. In some way.
Speaker 2: It's just you're infographic and the facts or whatever the
Speaker 2: facts I'll put in quotes that you're spewing out on
Speaker 2: this thing don't support what you're fighting for. You're fighting
Speaker 2: for keeping standard time and not having daylight saving time.
Speaker 2: But everything that you've brought to back up your your
Speaker 2: argument is all about changing the times, which is the
Speaker 2: thing that we're getting rid of.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't get it, but there's a push against
Speaker 1: this stuff, and I want to see where people are
Speaker 1: at on this. Maybe you believe this. This is a
Speaker 1: doctor saying And sometimes I'll say something that people are like, well,
Speaker 1: it's doctor Sean. You know more than the doctor. Yes,
Speaker 1: I know more than Roger Sehult, MD about the time
Speaker 1: change and the actual medical impact of it. It would
Speaker 1: seem that that's the case. It would seem that you
Speaker 1: can call me Sean, MD if you'd like, Much like
Speaker 1: Doogie Howser.
Speaker 2: I will say he may know more than me about it,
Speaker 2: but his choice in argument for for like backing up
Speaker 2: his side with some infographic is super poor.
Speaker 1: I like the sourcing on this too, because it says
Speaker 1: higher risks of diabetes and obesity because of daylight saving time,
Speaker 1: and then it says source Obesity twenty sixteen. We have
Speaker 1: all obesity crack on the pages of Obesity twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: and you'll see that this is indeed correct. The next
Speaker 1: one down talks about cancer and the sources.
Speaker 2: Jay Cancer, Jay Cancer twenty eighteen, my last name JNS.
Speaker 1: I don't know what in means? Who knows? The Fear
Speaker 1: Campaign International Journal against the Time change issues that have
Speaker 1: been taken up by the United States of America is real.
Speaker 1: They're really really trying to freak us out over here.
Speaker 1: Let us know what you think. Send a dispatch over
Speaker 1: at thenewsjunkie dot com right now. All right, let's see
Speaker 1: here we can work maybe a dispatch in or so
Speaker 1: we'll get to one of yours here in just a moment.
Speaker 1: In fact, here's somebody talking about the daylight saving time things,
Speaker 1: So let's work that in here we go. Hey, happy Friday, guys.
Speaker 11: Hey Sean, I could completely appreciate that twenty percent of
Speaker 11: a heart attack. Fact, why time changes, Patriot? You wake
Speaker 11: up for work?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 11: Getting ready? Uh huh uh oh the time change? You
Speaker 11: forgot to change your club. It's not seven am, it's
Speaker 11: eight am to for work.
Speaker 1: Do you have a heart attack?
Speaker 11: I'm sure if so, it would give me a heart attack.
Speaker 1: Wiggle wiggle, Why what do you, Barney Rubble? What what
Speaker 1: clock are you changing? In twenty twenty six for the
Speaker 1: daylight saving time? Is year you're microwaving oven? Is that
Speaker 1: where you're saving your car? Is that where you say
Speaker 1: you're a lot? I know some of you are unhinged, weird,
Speaker 1: weird people. Can I tell you know what I saw
Speaker 1: said yesterday? I'll go if I ever knew anybody, if
Speaker 1: any of you, if you listening right now, if you
Speaker 1: do this, I disown you. Okay, I'm I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: disowned you. I heard somebody the other day says, you
Speaker 1: guys actually go to your microwave and type in the
Speaker 1: time and then hit start like everybody I know goes
Speaker 1: to their microwave and you put it on ninety nine
Speaker 1: minutes and ninety nine seconds, and then each time you
Speaker 1: just hit start again and you just let it, you know, drill,
Speaker 1: like whittle down to nothing, and that hell the hell,
Speaker 1: you're lunatic? Who does that? Where do you see this?
Speaker 1: If you need?
Speaker 2: This? Is somebody saying this is how they use the microwave,
Speaker 2: and they said, everybody else does it.
Speaker 1: The same way. That take away this person's microwave. They
Speaker 1: take it. I put ninety nine minutes and ninety nine
Speaker 1: seconds on the microwave, and then if I have to
Speaker 1: warm something up for two minutes. I bring it down
Speaker 1: to ninety seven minutes and ninety nine seconds, and I
Speaker 1: know that the time has passed, and then I don't
Speaker 1: have to put time in the stupidest thing I ever heard.
Speaker 1: I agree, Okay, I agree. I said, if you do that,
Speaker 1: I'm disowning you. I can't. I can't deal with it.
Speaker 1: I can't. All right, quick break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll hear from you and see what you have to
Speaker 1: say about this.
Speaker 4: It's coming up next in the News Junkie.
Speaker 1: One of the most viral stories of the week, and
Speaker 1: I mean that in all possible ways. It was maybe
Speaker 1: the most disturbing thing that I've seen in a very
Speaker 1: long time. And I Am not going to force you
Speaker 1: to watch that if you're with us over on YouTube
Speaker 1: dot com Slash the News Junkie. But there was a gentleman,
Speaker 1: and I use that word very loosely, who spent this
Speaker 1: week stuck in a porta potty. I kid you not legitimately.
Speaker 1: There's a video and I'm just scrubbing through it here
Speaker 1: so you can see that I'm not making this up
Speaker 1: for those of you watching, but you could see the
Speaker 1: fire department has arrived and they're trying to rescue this
Speaker 1: guy out of the porta potty. He's in the bottom
Speaker 1: of the porta potty right and kicks up his foot
Speaker 1: or his hand, that's his hand, and they're like, get
Speaker 1: out of the man, I can't im stuck and this
Speaker 1: guy is stuck down in the bottom of a porta potty.
Speaker 1: And afterwards they came out with the information as to
Speaker 1: why he said he was down there. I kid you not,
Speaker 1: this man said he dropped his mountain dew. He said
Speaker 1: the reason he was at the bottom of the porta
Speaker 1: potty was because he dropped his mountain dew. So the
Speaker 1: first question I have for you, see, Lena Josh, is
Speaker 1: there anything in this entire universe that you own that
Speaker 1: if you dropped it into a porta potty, you would
Speaker 1: attempt to retrieve that item? My dog, your dog, if
Speaker 1: scrape fell into a porta potty, you go down there
Speaker 1: and get them. I'd have to Oh, that's very sweet
Speaker 1: of you. I think I would get lady my dog
Speaker 1: as well if she fell into a porta potty, But
Speaker 1: I would think long and hard about it. I would
Speaker 1: spend some time going is it worth it? There's not
Speaker 1: one item I own that I would go down there
Speaker 1: for the same Like even if somebody said, what about
Speaker 1: your bank cards? Who cares? Yeah? Or a new bank card?
Speaker 1: What if you what if your birth certificate was down there?
Speaker 1: Who cares? I don't. I have no interest in going
Speaker 1: to get it. I don't have an identity. Now it's
Speaker 1: too bad. I have no name.
Speaker 2: Now I don't know if I'm gonna, you know, make
Speaker 2: it in this country much.
Speaker 1: Longer I can prove that I was born.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, are you serious? You drop a mountain dew?
Speaker 2: Imagine that you're sitting there at a porta potty. Now
Speaker 2: it's mountain do do gross enough already? And then you
Speaker 2: drop something into the porta potty and you, oh, my
Speaker 2: mountain dew fell down there?
Speaker 1: What are you going to continue drinking it?
Speaker 2: That's a very good question. MFQ says, my cell phone?
Speaker 2: Are you crazy?
Speaker 1: Cell phone? Would be? I would?
Speaker 2: I would, I would, I would maybe, well, I couldn't
Speaker 2: have a light because my cell phone's down there, but
Speaker 2: I would be curious, like how much how much do
Speaker 2: do is down there there?
Speaker 1: I'm getting it? Oh yeah, I don't care if it's
Speaker 1: brand new. If my phone drops in there? See you
Speaker 1: later phone. Honest to god, if you tell me that
Speaker 1: your phone fell into a porta potty and you went
Speaker 1: you dove in like this guy did to get your
Speaker 1: phone out of the porta potty, I am questioning what
Speaker 1: is on your cell phone? I'm immediately gone, what what
Speaker 1: is on your phone? My entire life? Yeah, but you
Speaker 1: got back, man, I need those pictures. You got to
Speaker 1: back up somewhere. You're gonna be just fine.
Speaker 10: I know.
Speaker 1: There was some guy who said he spent about eight
Speaker 1: hours in this the crew that recovered him. So this
Speaker 1: is this is like the dude who went out to
Speaker 1: the scene.
Speaker 9: God, how deep is that if he's stuck like hunched
Speaker 9: up in there with his mountain dew.
Speaker 1: Yes, he's in there. He's got his mountain dew in
Speaker 1: his hands. Somebody says, what flavor of mountain dew? Come on, man,
Speaker 1: what is you think that? Taco bell one? You know
Speaker 1: the game fuel is kind of hard to come by
Speaker 1: these days. I guess, Oh my god. So they said
Speaker 1: he was down there for eight hours or something because
Speaker 1: he dropped his mountain doing there. And I ask you
Speaker 1: the simple question. I won't give you any more of
Speaker 1: the details that are just absolutely disgusting. But I asked
Speaker 1: you the simple question, is there anything that you would
Speaker 1: go down into the porta potty for to recover? It's
Speaker 1: that important to you? Let us know. Dan the Plumber says,
Speaker 1: I work in construction constantly. I have this fear, and
Speaker 1: hell no, it would be sacrifice. I've seen the carnage
Speaker 1: in those hot boxes out there. Uh yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: there's nothing for me, not like literally, Josh says Lady
Speaker 1: the Dog. Yeah, but I mean my dog is not
Speaker 1: going to fall into a porta potty. It's not going
Speaker 1: to happen. I'm a one hundred percent sure that it's
Speaker 1: not going to occur. Oh God, please don't wish that
Speaker 1: on me or anybody else. I will see what you think.
Speaker 1: Set us a dispatch over at thenewsjunkie dot com. Strangely enough,
Speaker 1: people are responding to my claim about microwave folks. I
Speaker 1: am not, just to be clear, saying that I do this.
Speaker 1: I am saying that there was a discussion that I saw,
Speaker 1: and the discussion was about how people use their microwaves,
Speaker 1: and somebody said, you guys actually put the amount of
Speaker 1: time in and then hit start on the microwave, and
Speaker 1: there was a bunch of people who were flabbergasted at
Speaker 1: this idea. They said, no, we don't put the time in.
Speaker 1: You just start at ninety nine minutes in ninety nine seconds,
Speaker 1: and then you just start subtracting from there for each
Speaker 1: food out of you make, and then every once in
Speaker 1: a while you add it back up to ninety nine
Speaker 1: minutes in ninety nine seconds, which is absolutely unhinged, but
Speaker 1: ad emails the show. I finally agree with Seilane Today's
Speaker 1: Today congrats, I finally agree with Sea Lane. Whoever was
Speaker 1: bound to happen sooner or later, Ed, and who knew
Speaker 1: it was going to be this issue, whoever it was
Speaker 1: to put their microwave on ninetynine minutes to ninety nine seconds.
Speaker 1: The police need to go over there and take his
Speaker 1: microwave away from him, then put a restraining order on
Speaker 1: him so he'll never buy another one. All the normal
Speaker 1: people I know who know their stuff is finished because
Speaker 1: of the ding, they do it this way. Maybe I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: I don't know, says Ed.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the email. Appreciate that. Before today. If
Speaker 2: you were to ask me the most ridiculous thing I'd
Speaker 2: ever heard about microwaves, I would tell you a story
Speaker 2: of a coworker that we used to have that lived
Speaker 2: in an apartment and did not know he had a
Speaker 2: microwave for many years until they came and replaced it.
Speaker 1: Today. This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard
Speaker 1: about a microcprah. That's that? Yeah? Thank god? Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I hope that there's none of you out there that
Speaker 1: do this. But if there is, if you're out there
Speaker 1: and you do the ninety nine minutes ninety nine seconds thing,
Speaker 1: just know we are judging you very very hard. Today,
Speaker 1: let's go to a couple of people with some feedback. Here,
Speaker 1: here's Handy John with a dispatch. Let's see what he says.
Speaker 1: What's up, guys.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I gotta say, hit in ninety nine minutes and
Speaker 13: ninety nine seconds on a microwave is psychotic and diabolical. However,
Speaker 13: what I will do is, if something takes you know,
Speaker 13: a minute to thirty seconds, I will hit the plus
Speaker 13: thirty second button three times and time.
Speaker 11: All.
Speaker 1: Well, that's what I just wondered. How many other people
Speaker 1: do that?
Speaker 13: And side note, yesterday my wife and I closed on
Speaker 13: our new home and we use that mortgage guy don Yeah,
Speaker 13: so thanks for you guys having great spots. No, yeah, advertisers. Yeah,
Speaker 13: really worked out on the new house. I saw the graduation.
Speaker 1: Yes in the address. If there's a microwave in that house.
Speaker 1: Don't ever do the ninety nine minutes in ninety nine sex.
Speaker 1: He's not, he said, it's diabolical. It isscho. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I do what he's saying. Where you go ninety seconds.
Speaker 1: I don't actually type in ninety seconds. I do hit
Speaker 1: thirty three times. But I'll tell you. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you guys do this or not. I have never
Speaker 1: once in my life. I'm a grown man. I'm an adult.
Speaker 1: I'm a functioning adult. Congrats alright, I thank you, Josh.
Speaker 2: I have never, once in all of my years, ever
Speaker 2: used one of the buttons that they have.
Speaker 1: On the preset popcorn or potato button, pizza slice whatever
Speaker 1: they have on there, like the little like emojis or whatever.
Speaker 2: I've tried them. I don't feel like they do much
Speaker 2: like the Melk butter button. I've never done it even
Speaker 2: once in my life. I've always just hit the numbers.
Speaker 2: But at least that's not the ninety nine second thing.
Speaker 2: Here is a flip with a dispatch for.
Speaker 5: Us What a sucker, What a surprise.
Speaker 14: We're back in the portage with the guys. So I
Speaker 14: think maybe one of your gold bars, if you, you know,
Speaker 14: happen to take it out of your safe and wander
Speaker 14: over to a portagehn and drop one in there.
Speaker 1: I think you would probably jump in for that. No,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't.
Speaker 14: But no, seriously, no, no material thing that I own,
Speaker 14: would I ever go into a portage on and retreat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I'm going to go out on a limb,
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna say I don't believe this guy. I
Speaker 2: don't think the guy went into the porta potty because
Speaker 2: he dropped his mountain dew. That's why my point is
Speaker 2: that I literally don't think there's anything that almost anybody
Speaker 2: will jump into a porta potty for. I think this
Speaker 2: guy jumped into a porta potty because he wanted to
Speaker 2: jump into a porta potty.
Speaker 1: That's what I think was going on here. I think
Speaker 1: this guy he's into whatever that is, whatever you search
Speaker 1: for on the adult sites to land on on that.
Speaker 1: But I don't think it was just this is not real.
Speaker 1: Whoever set this photo dispatch, this is not the guy
Speaker 1: the moment he got his mountain dew. That mountain is
Speaker 1: way too clean. I know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the guy that he must have a fetish. There
Speaker 2: must be some weird sun belt Reynolds are catching.
Speaker 9: He dropped drugs and didn't want to admit it to
Speaker 9: the first responders.
Speaker 1: Oh you think like you would have to drop a
Speaker 1: lot of drugs though, job, or just the ones you
Speaker 1: really really like. I guess so if you're that's a
Speaker 1: level of addiction that I would be very uncomfortable with.
Speaker 1: But you know, send us your dispatches to join us
Speaker 1: on the show over at thenewsjunkie dot com. An update
Speaker 1: very quickly on a story we talked about yesterday on
Speaker 1: the show. We have that low altitude Florida beach flyover
Speaker 1: with the Blue Angels. The pilot has been investigated for
Speaker 1: that really low altitude flyover and will not be fired. Right,
Speaker 1: They announced that the pilot will not lose their job
Speaker 1: because they were a little bit too low. They said
Speaker 1: they were at forty feet, which is well below the
Speaker 1: typical minimum safe altitude of one thousand feet expected for aircraft,
Speaker 1: military or civilian planes. The Blue Angels were doing stunts
Speaker 1: over the beach. It was so close it blew a
Speaker 1: bunch of the umbrellas and stuff around. But they have
Speaker 1: backed the pilot who did this and said that they're
Speaker 1: not going to fire them. And I do stand by
Speaker 1: some of the things we heard yesterday and some of
Speaker 1: the things I learned throughout the show yesterday. I feel
Speaker 1: like after yesterday's discussion about this in the low file
Speaker 1: over from the Blue Angels pilot, I think that if
Speaker 1: you ask most of the people on the beach, was
Speaker 1: that cool or was that bad? The majority of them,
Speaker 1: the vast majority'd be like that was awesome. I think
Speaker 1: that they would have had a blast. That's what they're
Speaker 1: there for. I guess that's one of the things that
Speaker 1: they get excited for. But that's the ending of that
Speaker 1: story as far as we know it right now. Let
Speaker 1: us know what you think about all this, what we're
Speaker 1: talking about, what we're not talking about. Of course, send
Speaker 1: your dispatches over at thenewsjunkie dot.
Speaker 2: Com, or you can email the show if you want
Speaker 2: to be anonymous. Put that right on top of the
Speaker 2: emails so I don't miss it, and I read that
Speaker 2: part first. Send those emails to tips tips at thenewschunky
Speaker 2: dot com. The most shocking piece of audio from the
Speaker 2: last twenty four hours. Could not believe this when I
Speaker 2: heard it. You're not going to believe it either. But
Speaker 2: guess what.
Speaker 4: It's coming up next on the news, Chunky.
Speaker 1: Oh God.
Speaker 2: One thing I got to escape this weekend is the
Speaker 2: people who fight about saying Imax is the only way
Speaker 2: to see this new Odyssey movie. And they're like, why
Speaker 2: would you even go and see it if you couldn't
Speaker 2: see the movie without watching it in imax?
Speaker 1: Imax is the way. I'm like, oh my god. And
Speaker 1: then they'll go, look, look how much is cut off.
Speaker 1: Here's Christopher Nolan, and here's how much you see in
Speaker 1: the regular theater. Here's how much you see an imax.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, but there's nothing really interesting going on
Speaker 1: in the areas above or below the shot that you're showing,
Speaker 1: but people swear by it. I don't think I've ever
Speaker 1: seen a movie in imax. I don't know that i've
Speaker 1: I don't if I have. I think I've been to
Speaker 1: like an IMAX theater. Maybe the technology was new and
Speaker 1: so they had it at like a museum or like
Speaker 1: a science center kind of place where they would show IMAX.
Speaker 1: But it's like here's the wonders of the deep blue sea.
Speaker 2: Some nature thing, and there was no ll cool J,
Speaker 2: not a single ll cool J to be found.
Speaker 1: Different. Yeah, there was a clip that went absolutely viral
Speaker 1: this week, and for boy a lot of reasons. There
Speaker 1: was a woman I haven't seen anything quite like this
Speaker 1: in a while, who was who was testifying before Congress.
Speaker 1: And her name is Elizabeth Oyer. I believe my god,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've seen anybody get this sort
Speaker 1: of drubbing, this sort of dressing down, this sort of
Speaker 1: verbal beat down in a very very long time. Apparently
Speaker 1: this woman was trying to get a pardon for Dylan Roof.
Speaker 1: If you don't know who Dylan Roof is, Dylan Roof
Speaker 1: is like a terrible monster of a human being shot
Speaker 1: up a church, right shut a church and killed a
Speaker 1: bunch of people. And and this woman was trying to
Speaker 1: get a pardon for like the worst among us. This
Speaker 1: is a mass shooter. Guy.
Speaker 2: I can't believe that there's anybody that would even advocate
Speaker 2: on behalf of these folks.
Speaker 1: But this lady, like you could see if you're watching
Speaker 1: on YouTube dot com slash the news junkie her face
Speaker 1: even at the beginning of the clip is like, oh boy,
Speaker 1: really gonna have one of those days? And I thought,
Speaker 1: is this lady really doing this? Josh Howley, the representative,
Speaker 1: was up there, of course, Josh, and this Josh was
Speaker 1: letting her have it right here, he goes. If you
Speaker 1: missed this, God Almighty. I know there needs to be
Speaker 1: a job for everything I need. Somebody needs to do
Speaker 1: legal work, even for the bad guys. But being out
Speaker 1: there advocating for this kind of person is a whole
Speaker 1: level of low. Here's what happened, Just in case you
Speaker 1: missed it.
Speaker 15: We're President Biden's attorney.
Speaker 1: Is that correct?
Speaker 16: I was the Justice Department's pardoner.
Speaker 15: Do you recommended you make clemency recommendations to the White
Speaker 15: House whether or not to pardon inmates? SA?
Speaker 1: That correct.
Speaker 16: My job was to make clemency recommendations, and that.
Speaker 15: In that capacity, you recommended that the President of the
Speaker 15: United States, Joe Biden, grant clemency to all forty federal
Speaker 15: death row inmates, all of them, clear them out.
Speaker 1: Correct. Clemency means, just to be clear, that does mean
Speaker 1: that the people will be released, right, clemency you're on
Speaker 1: death row. If you get clemency on death row. That
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you were commuted, which would be like you
Speaker 1: serve out a life sentence. That clemency I think would
Speaker 1: mean that you get released, doesn't it. Okay.
Speaker 2: Clemency is the act of showing mercy, leniency, or forgiveness
Speaker 2: by an authority figure such as a judge, president, or governor,
Speaker 2: towards someone who has committed a defense. It's often used
Speaker 2: to reduce a harsh prison sentence, grant a pardon, or
Speaker 2: provide a second chance to a convicted individual.
Speaker 1: I mean, but she's doing this for everybody on federal
Speaker 1: death row.
Speaker 9: It sounds like she's just trying to get rid of
Speaker 9: like federal death penalty.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, let's see what else she said.
Speaker 16: Sir as I told Chairman grossly, I'm not free to
Speaker 16: discuss the recommending.
Speaker 15: Well, that's what your memo says.
Speaker 1: I mean, we have your memo.
Speaker 15: Your memo of November fourth, twenty twenty four says, and
Speaker 15: I quote disparity and undue severity of sentence, which are
Speaker 15: present in many, if not all, of these cases, have
Speaker 15: been recognized as grounds for clemency. And you went on
Speaker 15: to recommend in that memo and a series of other
Speaker 15: memos that are now recorded in public record that the
Speaker 15: President of the United States grant clemency to murderers, rapists,
Speaker 15: and the most horrible offenders, all of them clear death
Speaker 15: row completely out. I'm amazed you've been called here today.
Speaker 15: I'm absolutely amazed by it. But let's just talk about
Speaker 15: the people who.
Speaker 1: You talk She's like, this isn't getting any better. Why
Speaker 1: did I wake up today and do this? This lady's
Speaker 1: just like I'm about to get tongue lash victims.
Speaker 15: The people who you recommended get clemency and live at
Speaker 15: the sufferance of taxpayers.
Speaker 1: For the rest of their lives. Okay, so let's start
Speaker 1: with them, Okay, like you made.
Speaker 2: It out of the beginning, like they were just gonna
Speaker 2: let these people free into society, which I'm sure somebody
Speaker 2: wants out there, but that's another level of crazy town.
Speaker 2: But she was advocating on behalf of Dylan Roof, I guess,
Speaker 2: and they go into this.
Speaker 15: Dylan was a neo Nazi who murdered nine African American
Speaker 15: worshipers at a Bible study in Charleston, South Carolina, twenty fifteen.
Speaker 15: Do you remember this case?
Speaker 16: I do remember.
Speaker 15: I would hope you did. Here's his victims. You want
Speaker 15: to look at him? Oh, there they are, nine of
Speaker 15: them at a Bible study in a church, killed in
Speaker 15: cold blood. The DOJ knew from day one that he
Speaker 15: had decided. I'm going to quote from the prosecutors to.
Speaker 2: Oh, god, he's actually got the photographs of He's got
Speaker 2: the photos of the victims at some sort of I
Speaker 2: don't know if this is a funeral or some sort
Speaker 2: of a vigil or something.
Speaker 1: And he's got this up behind him. So now she
Speaker 1: has to look at that to.
Speaker 15: Attack African Americans because of their race. He further decided
Speaker 15: to attack African American worshipers in a black church in
Speaker 15: order to make his attack more notorious, more notorious. And
Speaker 15: yet you recommended that he begranted clemency live at the
Speaker 15: expense attaxpayers for the rest of his life, substitute your
Speaker 15: judgment for that of the American judicial system. Do you
Speaker 15: stand by that recommendation today.
Speaker 16: Sir, I'm not going to comment on the recommendations that
Speaker 16: I made, but I can tell you that mister Rufe
Speaker 16: is going to die in prison.
Speaker 15: As Oh, He's going to live in prison for a
Speaker 15: very long time because of you, Because of your recommendations.
Speaker 15: And here's what you said. In your number of October thirtieth,
Speaker 15: twenty twenty four. You said that actually Rufe is not
Speaker 15: a compelling candidate for clemency, but you recommended it anyway.
Speaker 15: Why because he suffered from anxiety? You said, right, he
Speaker 15: suffered from anxiety. Did it ever occur to you that
Speaker 15: maybe the family of his victims might suffer as laid
Speaker 15: out because he marched into their church and murdered them
Speaker 15: in cold blood because he was an incredible racist and
Speaker 15: he wanted to get on TV, sir, you regret it.
Speaker 1: That's next. I heard those words together. This guy is an.
Speaker 2: Incredible racist, if I'm honest, If anybody was going to
Speaker 2: get the title incredible along with it, it would be
Speaker 2: the guy that did that thing. This might be one
Speaker 2: of those things where you go, hey, actually I'm against
Speaker 2: the death penalty and so but the moment you find
Speaker 2: yourself explaining why you think Dylan Rufe, a mass murderer,
Speaker 2: has anxiety, so he should get some special treatment and
Speaker 2: should not be put to death or whatever, is the
Speaker 2: moment you're losing with normal people, right, Because normal people?
Speaker 1: Oh, did Dylan Rufe have anxiety? Oh? No, oh, I
Speaker 1: feel so terrible for him. How could this happen to
Speaker 1: such a sweet, sweet boy, such an incredible racist. I
Speaker 1: don't know how this could ever happen. And well, that's
Speaker 1: a tough day in front of Congress right there. Let
Speaker 1: us know what you think. Send a dispatch over at
Speaker 1: thenewsjunkie dot com right now. I don't know that she
Speaker 1: would have gotten an easy go at it from any
Speaker 1: of the people who had a right there. I honestly
Speaker 1: would not have blamed her if she just backed up Seal.
Speaker 1: I'll come back in five years, I'll make some changes,
Speaker 1: we'll do some things, and we'll see what we can do.
Speaker 1: We're gonna switch it up and kill everyone now I means, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's change things. So let us know what you think.
Speaker 1: Send a dispatch over at thenewsjunkie dot com. On the
Speaker 1: Blue Angels a topic, Gregory emails, he says that was cool.
Speaker 1: It was really cool when they flew low over that beach.
Speaker 1: Nobody got hurt and nobody got in trouble. However, they
Speaker 1: did break an FAA regulation for air shows, and he
Speaker 1: links to the special Provisions rules. He said, all things
Speaker 1: can be true, and even the best pilots make mistakes
Speaker 1: and crash. True. Yeah, I mean there's been as far
Speaker 1: as I'm know, and I don't even know a lot
Speaker 1: about this, this topic in particular, but there's been air crashes,
Speaker 1: our air show crashes previously. Now I don't know if
Speaker 1: there's been air show crashes where people who have been
Speaker 1: gathered watching have died, but I would I would not
Speaker 1: be shocked if that was the case. I would think
Speaker 1: that there was, you know, probably some occurrences of that happen,
Speaker 1: and given the danger of it all. Alicia says, Happy Friday.
Speaker 1: Not sure if you discussed this, but I thought i'd
Speaker 1: send it over. Pick a side and she sends a
Speaker 1: story and says, man accused of hitting a child on
Speaker 1: an e bike and then slapping him. Well, what did
Speaker 1: the kid on the e bike do? Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2: Maybe he was doing something else, Maybe he was driving
Speaker 2: a little too fast, or maybe had anxiety. You never know,
Speaker 2: you never know what's going on, So we'll get into
Speaker 2: that story. Also, we have the hot sheet that's coming
Speaker 2: up next on the News Chunkie. Thank you for being
Speaker 2: with us.
Speaker 1: Email or send your dispatches in to be featured on
Speaker 1: the show. We have so much more to get into
Speaker 1: in the second half of things. Big thank you by
Speaker 1: the way to Craig K with.
Speaker 2: The eleven gifted subscriptions over at the news junkie dot com.
Speaker 1: Thank you just coming in water Boys with twenty six
Speaker 1: gifted sun God. The support is just massive. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much. That's how to support the show. Take a
Speaker 1: shot of the suits by showing your support through some
Speaker 1: subscriptions of your own, or just give them to other
Speaker 1: people who are fans of the show. Big giant thanks
Speaker 1: to you, water Boys and Craig K for supporting the show.
Speaker 1: Hey go claim those yourself to unlock all the premium
Speaker 1: access that you get with a subscription over at the
Speaker 1: newsjunkie dot com. Right now, let's do the hot sheets.
Speaker 15: Sheets in news, but not like real important news.
Speaker 1: That's again imparting on the planet.
Speaker 17: The top stories from the people on your screens and
Speaker 17: speakers are on the hotsheets with Sea Lane.
Speaker 2: That's right, the hot sheet brought to you by that
Speaker 2: mortgage guy down at the top five stories in the
Speaker 2: nonsense news. And we've been seeing for the past, oh gosh,
Speaker 2: a decade or so, maybe even longer, the revival of vinyl.
Speaker 2: You know that the people have been into having records.
Speaker 2: I have a record player at my house. They have
Speaker 2: a little collection of vinyl same and uh, it's fun
Speaker 2: to listen to I think my I think mine needs
Speaker 2: a little adjustment. I think mine plays a little too fast.
Speaker 2: But other than that, it's nice to have around. And uh,
Speaker 2: but that's not the only thing like move over vinyl,
Speaker 2: because a report shows that during the first half of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, CD sales has surged. Really, people are
Speaker 2: going back to compact discs. CD sales surge sixteen percent
Speaker 2: to sixteen point three million units, soundly outpacing vinyls comparatively
Speaker 2: modest two point four percent growth. And now, sixteen point
Speaker 2: three million units may sound like a lot, but that's
Speaker 2: nothing compared to the height of CDs in the US.
Speaker 2: CD sales hit their highest point in two thousand. In
Speaker 2: that single year. How many CDs do you think we're
Speaker 2: sold in the year two thousand, right before the digital
Speaker 2: stream era took over?
Speaker 1: Was this like boy bands popping off of that time?
Speaker 1: Two thousand? Yeah, oh man, that was a big year.
Speaker 1: Five billion. Oh wait, hold on a we saying dollars
Speaker 1: are how many actual CDs? Number of CDs sold. Oh,
Speaker 1: I think he's way too high. I think one hundred million.
Speaker 2: You are technically closer. But it was nine hundred and
Speaker 2: forty three million CDs the music and brought in. That's
Speaker 2: in the US music industry brought in twenty seven billion dollars.
Speaker 2: That's adjusted for today's money. And apparently CDs aren't the
Speaker 2: only form enjoying a second act. And I think Fritz's
Speaker 2: has been on this trend too, because I think he
Speaker 2: said one of his more recent albums he had produced
Speaker 2: in cassette tape form.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he did. I got one around in the studio.
Speaker 2: Earlier this year, Maxell introduced a bluetooth cassette player, which
Speaker 2: is two things.
Speaker 1: I didn't think we're going to go.
Speaker 2: Together ever, but a cassette player with Bluetooth capability has
Speaker 2: underscored how nostalgia fueled physical media continues to resonate with
Speaker 2: music fans. Other fans that are not going to be
Speaker 2: so happy of this show, Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 1: That's correct, sir, even tho. If I know anybody currently
Speaker 1: on Saturday Night Live, well.
Speaker 2: The person that just announced their quitting SNL is somebody
Speaker 2: we've talked about recently. Chloe Feinman, who was after seven
Speaker 2: wonderful seasons oft SNL, I've decided this time for my
Speaker 2: next chapter, she wrote in a lengthy Instagram post announcing
Speaker 2: her departure, saying it's really hard to leave SNL, but
Speaker 2: it feels like the right time. I'm gonna miss it
Speaker 2: a lot the people who work there in my family.
Speaker 2: Chloe Fyneman was the one that was giving that weird
Speaker 2: interview where she said she pants a kid when she
Speaker 2: worked at as a Oh yeah, as a camp counselor.
Speaker 2: I forgot about that. There was something it was like.
Speaker 2: The kid wasn't wearing underwear though, so she just pants
Speaker 2: the kid and his kid. Wiener was exposed to a
Speaker 2: bunch of people. Thank kid Wiener, Please wasn't a regular one.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to all right. Fineman, Oh my god,
Speaker 2: he's got an adult one joined The Rings the Studio
Speaker 2: eight age in twenty nineteen. She was announced as a
Speaker 2: season forty five newcomer alongside Bowen Yang and Shane Gillis.
Speaker 2: Two out of three ain't bad made it on the
Speaker 2: show there, but she's known for her range of impressions,
Speaker 2: which included Jennifer Coolidge, Timothy Shallomy, Drew Barry Moore, Britney Spears,
Speaker 2: and Jojo Siwa. Also, she's hot. I think if you're like,
Speaker 2: if you're looking at the SNL, there's a couple hot members.
Speaker 1: She was one of them. Yeah, Keenan, I'm glad you
Speaker 1: said that. Josh blessed Keenan because he is still on
Speaker 1: SNL and I do like him and I do know him,
Speaker 1: but I think he might be the only one that
Speaker 1: I know right now. You don't know like Marcelo Hernandez.
Speaker 1: He's been he just hosted the SPS. He may have, so, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I know him. I saw some clips of that,
Speaker 1: so he's starting to do pretty well. I think. Did
Speaker 1: not love his stand up. I love I love his
Speaker 1: characters on SNL.
Speaker 2: I think he does a really good job, but I
Speaker 2: thought the stand up was just kind of like, hi,
Speaker 2: miss Beane.
Speaker 1: He when he hosted the SPS, though, he had a
Speaker 1: pretty good joke about Shane Gillis. You just talk about
Speaker 1: Shane Gillis and he Shane Gillis had hosted the SP's
Speaker 1: the year before, and this hispanic guy from SNL right
Speaker 1: now goes Shane Gillis hosted last year and in true
Speaker 1: white guy fashion. He's watching from his couch at home,
Speaker 1: drinking a beer while a Mexican does his job this year,
Speaker 1: and I was.
Speaker 2: Like, okay, all right, back, let's see if you were
Speaker 2: a big fan of La La Land, the one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty eight minute masterpiece they call it from Ryan Gosling.
Speaker 2: The tenth anniversary theatrical celebration is coming soon. Tickets are
Speaker 2: already on sale for the ten year return to La
Speaker 2: La Land. Doesn't seem like it's been that long. But
Speaker 2: speaking of Ryan Gosling, one of the shows that broke
Speaker 2: him as an actor or just as an entertainer in general,
Speaker 2: is getting itself a reboot.
Speaker 1: House.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know who's on this, not the Clubhouse,
Speaker 2: but just the Mickey mouse Club. The new group of
Speaker 2: Mouseketeers is on the horizon, as The Mickey Mouse Club
Speaker 2: eyes a revival, as Disney Plus is ordered a pilot
Speaker 2: for a reboot of the classic kids program the original
Speaker 2: lost young talents such as Britney Spears, Ryan Gosling, justin Timberlake,
Speaker 2: and Christina Aguilera.
Speaker 1: Is name in it.
Speaker 2: That's my only question. Rocky like from the Projectail Mary, Yeah, unavailable.
Speaker 2: I think he's still floating around in space, all right.
Speaker 2: The original Mickey Mouse Club was created by Walt Disney himself,
Speaker 2: and originally it was a traveling live theater show, but
Speaker 2: it first aired on ABC in what year, Oh my god,
Speaker 2: sixty nine seventy two, nineteen fifty five, and after a
Speaker 2: brief run, became a syndication show in the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 9: See, I was thinking the syndication date. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 9: I thought about. You, Josh always goes straight to syndication.
Speaker 1: All I can think about is I was just telling
Speaker 1: the people on skull mic that a story came out
Speaker 1: that a guy died at Disney World, and then they
Speaker 1: say he died while on the ride, on one of
Speaker 1: the rides there, and then when I looked it up,
Speaker 1: he died on It's a small world. Oh my, I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: of all the as that could take you out that,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not a very aggressive ride. Well, it
Speaker 1: was the cancer that was aggressive. It was a heart attack.
Speaker 9: A foreign war and you round that corner and see
Speaker 9: the little Vietnamese children.
Speaker 1: PTSD. Okay, if if it's.
Speaker 2: Like the TV show Ghosts, where you in the afterlife,
Speaker 2: you're kind of confined to the building you died in.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's a terrible, terrible god the music over and
Speaker 1: over the Japanese version.
Speaker 2: Okay, now you're singing Kyle's mind bit. But I like it.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. And last but not least, in the
Speaker 2: hot sheet today, you know, this one I thought was
Speaker 2: so stupid. I've seen a bunch of uh this story
Speaker 2: being posted all right, But Fish, the jam band, Fish
Speaker 2: with a PHU. They just had a what was it
Speaker 2: three night to the triple header at Ruoff Music Center
Speaker 2: in Noblesville last weekend. And the fans love the Fish fans,
Speaker 2: They ate it up. They had a great time. The prosecutor,
Speaker 2: the Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney's Office not so much. And
Speaker 2: it's like, duh, are you kidding me? They posted a
Speaker 2: Facebook post condemning the quote significant quantities of suspected psilocybin, mushrooms, meth,
Speaker 2: N fhetamine, LSD, heroin, fentanyl, MDMA, marijuana and nitrous oxide
Speaker 2: end quote.
Speaker 1: Eshly at one Sublime song where he just starts rattling,
Speaker 1: you know, nitrous heroin and PCP and all all the
Speaker 1: different types of this stuff. That's what they were. Of course,
Speaker 1: that's at a fish concert. Isn't that just expected? It's
Speaker 1: a fish show.
Speaker 2: Fish is July tenth to twelfth stint Law enforcement of
Speaker 2: Hamilton County arrested five fans. I mean, if you named
Speaker 2: more drugs than people you arrested for drug dealing in
Speaker 2: possession during the band's three show run. Says frankly, we
Speaker 2: are disappointed in the number of people who showed up
Speaker 2: to engage in illicit behavior.
Speaker 1: Nerd.
Speaker 2: The expected eye rolling from Facebook commenters followed the county
Speaker 2: prosecutor statement, well.
Speaker 1: Duh, We're not as one of us disappointed in New druggies.
Speaker 2: Even the Rolling Stone took a stab at shooting fish
Speaker 2: in a barrel but decided the joke was too obvious.
Speaker 2: Drugs at a fish concert is a real fork found
Speaker 2: in a kitchen sort of thing. Users noted, expecting that
Speaker 2: this crowd is not going to be partaking in recreational
Speaker 2: drug use is just kind of tone deaf, excellent use
Speaker 2: of police resources. A couple said, next up finding birds
Speaker 2: in the sky. Sorry that the guys are.
Speaker 1: Bad, they're super bad for you and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: but the people who would go to a fish concert
Speaker 1: are kind of experts, So I don't even worry about
Speaker 1: them as much. I think they know what they're doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the venue claims to have a zero tolerance drug policy,
Speaker 2: says a spokesperson from Live Nation, the entertainment giant that
Speaker 2: owns an op rates the venue and referred to Indie
Speaker 2: Star to the Hamilton Kuty Sheriff's office, when asked for
Speaker 2: comment on the arrests or whether the venue will strengthen
Speaker 2: its existing guidelines. I think Fish will be back and
Speaker 2: everybody will be just fine. It's Friday. Let's see what's
Speaker 2: streaming this weekend. What you can watch on your various
Speaker 2: streaming platforms. Netflix has season four of The Ultimatum Merrier
Speaker 2: Move On, which is one of those Nicholas sche Vanessa
Speaker 2: Leche shows where they take people who are already coupled
Speaker 2: up and try to ruin their lives. The Real Wolf
Speaker 2: of Wall Street is on Paramount Plus, sort of a
Speaker 2: you've seen the movie, Now Hear the Real Story kind
Speaker 2: of documentary. Scott Peterson The New Evidence for people who
Speaker 2: still people who still are into that.
Speaker 1: That's going on.
Speaker 2: A and E Ryder Die is on Prime Video and
Speaker 2: action comedy where Octavia Spencer is shocked to learn her
Speaker 2: longtime best friend, Hannah Watingham is an international assassin. Will Ferrell,
Speaker 2: Molly Shannon, Chris Parnell, and Luke Wilson are in The Hawk,
Speaker 2: which is a comedy.
Speaker 1: I think it's a series Golf one, right, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: About a washed up golfer trying to regain his former glory,
Speaker 2: which is a little bit kind of like Apple TV's
Speaker 2: Stick with Owen Wilson, which we started watching and didn't
Speaker 2: really get very far into. Anya Taylor Joys stars with
Speaker 2: Annete Benning and Timmy Timothy Oliphant Elephant yea close enough
Speaker 2: in Lucky, a bank heist gone Wrong series on Apple TV.
Speaker 2: And last but not least, if you haven't seen Obsession yet,
Speaker 2: the paywall is down. It is streaming exclusively on Peacock
Speaker 2: starting today. And that's your hot sheet, brought to you
Speaker 2: by that mortgage guy Don Hey. If you have a
Speaker 2: mortgage quote, the number one mistake people make when they
Speaker 2: get that quote is just accepting it, signing the papers
Speaker 2: and saying this is my quote. You need to shop around.
Speaker 2: There's so many other things you would shop around for.
Speaker 2: A mortgage quote has to be one of the most
Speaker 2: important ones. And that mortgage guy Don wants to save
Speaker 2: you money.
Speaker 1: Find him on online at that mortgage guy don dot com.
Speaker 1: Quick Break Friends, don't worry. The Python conversation that I
Speaker 1: talked about, we are going to be talking to them
Speaker 1: in the Power Hour of the show. They had some
Speaker 1: issues with some animals, like I said, they have like
Speaker 1: a little animal reserve or like she said, sanctuary sanctuary. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this is the woman who was the winner last year.
Speaker 1: We got to find out what's going on, like what's
Speaker 1: the nitty gritty on the Python Hunt. We're going to
Speaker 1: get into that in the Power Hour today. We got
Speaker 1: to pick a side. Before that, we got a bunch
Speaker 1: of other stuff and this Week in Florida is coming
Speaker 1: up next on the News Junkie Real Quick. Before this
Speaker 1: Week in Florida, I did see that they just released
Speaker 1: this audio and know why they released this, but god,
Speaker 1: I can imagine how cool this would be. Imagine you're
Speaker 1: a young kid and you're playing basketball in some public
Speaker 1: court and then somebody shows up to play basketball with you,
Speaker 1: and it's a celebrity. You're like, WHOA Like, just random
Speaker 1: celebrity shows up and wants to play a game of
Speaker 1: pickup basketball. I guess Adam Sandler does this all the time,
Speaker 1: and so he goes to play this Sandman and the
Speaker 1: Sandman goes out there and just looks for a place
Speaker 1: to play basketball. And they released this call. Here is
Speaker 1: July five, two thousand twenty six, a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: thirty six fifty two nantuck A Public Safety. This line
Speaker 1: is recorded. Hi, I'm visiting your island right now, and
Speaker 1: I was wondering if you could answer a question. I
Speaker 1: like to play basketball. Is there any outdoor courts where
Speaker 1: people play? This guy has no idea. He's talking to
Speaker 1: Adam Sandler. Right He's gonna get home and his wife's
Speaker 1: gonna go, Hey, anything exciting happened at work today? A
Speaker 1: couple people call it call asking where basketball?
Speaker 11: One?
Speaker 1: Yeah, basketball courts, I don't know. Just go fine, a
Speaker 1: couple of kids playing basketball and join them. But this
Speaker 1: guy has no idea. He's talking to Adam Sandler. Off
Speaker 1: the top of my head, there's only one I can
Speaker 1: think of that's outside, and.
Speaker 4: I'm not even sure if it's available to the ball
Speaker 4: right now, but it's behind the meuse on back his lane.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, I'll check it out all right. You
Speaker 2: know what you gotta love he didn't lean in and
Speaker 2: go hey, Adam Sandler, the Sandman here, and he didn't
Speaker 2: like try to throw his name around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he started doing a bunch of impressions. Good for him.
Speaker 1: I imagine playing a game though, and he shows up.
Speaker 1: Jesus all right, ready, sand Man just got done. Marion
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift. I want to play some b ball. Guy's
Speaker 1: mega famous. Let's do this thing. You're ready for this
Speaker 1: Week in Florida. Let's go here we go.
Speaker 4: He's giving you a recap of the most grown worthy
Speaker 4: stories in the state.
Speaker 1: It's this Week in Florida. Yeah, it is. The weekend
Speaker 1: is here.
Speaker 2: It means it's time to take a trip around the
Speaker 2: Sunshine State see some of the craziness that has gone
Speaker 2: on in the past seven days or so. And I
Speaker 2: believe this is an update because I think we talked
Speaker 2: about this guy already. I think you may have even
Speaker 2: stolen this story from the throes of This Week in
Speaker 2: Florida because it was a juicy one. But a man
Speaker 2: has been found guilty this week of having sex with
Speaker 2: a it's an object. Oh it's not so, it's not
Speaker 2: a woman having said, Wow, what a feminist.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Household object, A household object, A thinking
Speaker 1: around the studio, thinking of all the things that I
Speaker 1: could do this. Yours would be a vacuum, a vacuum cleaner.
Speaker 1: That's it, right?
Speaker 2: You remember this the guy the story of this dude, No,
Speaker 2: Kevin Westerhold. I don't know what he looks like, but
Speaker 2: apparently he was a former powerlifting champion and still competes
Speaker 2: in masters events.
Speaker 1: He's fifty one years old.
Speaker 2: He entered a no contest plead to indecent exposure in
Speaker 2: connection with the incident earlier this year at Windsor Hills
Speaker 2: Resort near Disney World and Kassimi. Following POLA negotiations with prosecutors,
Speaker 2: Westerhold was sentenced this morning to twelve months probation, find
Speaker 2: two hundred and seventy one dollars weird amount, and ordered
Speaker 2: to undergo a psycho sexual evaluation within the next month.
Speaker 1: Well that's a little judgie, isn't it. This guy's got
Speaker 1: something wrong with them. Yeah, he looks like a relatively
Speaker 1: normal gentleman. Oh he's not.
Speaker 2: He's anything, but it sounds like he was originally charged
Speaker 2: with a felony, but that count was subsequently reduced when
Speaker 2: he was named in a misdemeanor criminal named in a
Speaker 2: misdemeanor criminal information that makes sense. He recently completed impatient treatment,
Speaker 2: though that care was not further described. According to police reports,
Speaker 2: a witness provided investigators with photos and videos showing Westerhold
Speaker 2: quote pleasuring himself with a vacuum in broad daylight end quote.
Speaker 2: Another witness spotted him naked from the waist down, consorting
Speaker 2: with the appliance outside a four bedroom property owned by
Speaker 2: a female relative. A detective provided this play by play,
Speaker 2: and I think I'm probably going to have to paraphrase
Speaker 2: a little bit. He continued to enter the handheld section
Speaker 2: of the vacuum before using it to suction the berries
Speaker 2: for further gratification.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: Two witnesses advised that the suspect was obviously committing these
Speaker 2: acts for his sexual pleasure, as he visibly reacted to
Speaker 2: the stimulus as if he were becoming more engaged in
Speaker 2: the acts. In addition to the vacuum episode, cops say
Speaker 2: Westerhold engaged in other illicit acts at a second vacation property.
Speaker 2: This guy should never go on vacation. Don't let this
Speaker 2: guy vacation ever, he'd be walking around the property either
Speaker 2: entirely nude or wearing only socks, wearing just a tank top.
Speaker 2: Witnesses gave cops doorbell video footage that recorded him naked
Speaker 2: in a shared hallway and masturbating. So wow, this guy,
Speaker 2: I mean months probation in two hundred and seventy one
Speaker 2: bucks and the psychosexual evaluation seems like it kind of
Speaker 2: got off easy. Maybe he does need an evaluation on
Speaker 2: second though, Yeah, I would think. So, Hey, there is
Speaker 2: a kid who has broken a record, and I find
Speaker 2: this to be a little suspect but also very very
Speaker 2: uh impressive. High school students aiming for the top of
Speaker 2: their class know that a perfect four point zero unweighted
Speaker 2: GPA is no longer enough to secure the valedictorian spot.
Speaker 2: You gotta aim higher. That's brutal, and a graduate from
Speaker 2: the Tampa area has taken the state's weighted grading system
Speaker 2: to a mathematical extreme. Now, the thing I take issue
Speaker 2: with is they have these loopholes in some areas where
Speaker 2: you can just add points to your GPA class.
Speaker 1: I don't even know you could go higher than a
Speaker 1: four point Oh you can go higher.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I think that like some of your honors
Speaker 2: classes and stuff get weighted higher. You get like a
Speaker 2: five point Yeah, but in this area in Tampa, like
Speaker 2: GPA means great point average, right, yeah, but they just
Speaker 2: let you add numbers to it. Hillsborough's old GPA system
Speaker 2: had no ceiling. Per the Tampa Bay Times, honors classes
Speaker 2: added zero point zero four points ap duel in Roma
Speaker 2: ib or in some of these others added zero point
Speaker 2: zero eight points, and those points kept stacking no matter
Speaker 2: how many advanced courses of student piled on. So Veba
Speaker 2: Buscar seventeen years old, graduated the spring from Steinberner High
Speaker 2: School near Tampa with an eleven point nine to nine
Speaker 2: rated GPA's talk about over a chi rok wait.
Speaker 1: Hold on, if a college turns you down, Vebev or
Speaker 1: whatever your name is, they really don't like you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you have a GPA of an eleven.
Speaker 2: For context, most high achieving graduation Palm Beach County land
Speaker 2: in the five to five point five range under local
Speaker 2: waiting systems, because Palm Beach County doesn't let you just
Speaker 2: tack on point after point after point. But this eleven
Speaker 2: point is believed to be the highest in Hillsborough County,
Speaker 2: likely a state record, and now they're trying to fix
Speaker 2: this to where you can never do it again. So
Speaker 2: this person has the record GPA, and there may never
Speaker 2: be a record GPA like that again because they're just
Speaker 2: changing the rules now. But I think like it's an average,
Speaker 2: it should be. It's kind of impossible to get.
Speaker 1: Pretty cool for him though that he's got that, he
Speaker 1: could just go out on top.
Speaker 2: You know what, I wouldn't hate it, but it says
Speaker 2: the Palm Beach County uses an honors point average system
Speaker 2: instead of stacking bonus points endlessly, regular as worth four
Speaker 2: point zero and honors level courses bumped out to four
Speaker 2: point five. This person, this Boss car has six AP
Speaker 2: classes in the sophomore year eight junior year due enrollment
Speaker 2: through UF and Hillsboro College online classes through Florida Virtual School.
Speaker 1: Every summer.
Speaker 2: He gave up lunch for an extra AP period and
Speaker 2: left campus during fourth period to squeeze in more coursework.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? The kid ditched lunch. He gave
Speaker 1: up his own lunch so he can get more credits.
Speaker 2: By the time he received his high school diploma, Boss
Speaker 2: Karr had already earned enough college credits to secure an
Speaker 2: associate's degree. He's headed to Duke University to study finance
Speaker 2: and economized.
Speaker 1: Woh, here you go for boscar. Congratulations, So good job.
Speaker 2: Florida has put to death one of its oldest prisoners
Speaker 2: in history and has another older one coming on Tuesday,
Speaker 2: a seventy four year old convicted murderer who is one
Speaker 2: of three older inmates scheduled for execution within the span
Speaker 2: of a month in the nation's busiest death penalty state.
Speaker 2: You got to have some sort of badge, I guess
Speaker 2: for us. Dennis Sokoor was pronounced dead at six sixteen
Speaker 2: pm following the three drug injects and at Florida Injection
Speaker 2: excuse me at Florida State Prison near Stark. He apologized
Speaker 2: several times to the victim's family, saying he was deeply sorry,
Speaker 2: and also thanked his own loved ones for their support
Speaker 2: over the years. He was a week older than the
Speaker 2: last seventy four year old inmate that they put to death.
Speaker 2: That was last month, and later this month they have
Speaker 2: an eighty year old, the state's first to jenarian facing
Speaker 2: a lethal injection.
Speaker 1: Is a little easier when they're that old. Is it
Speaker 1: like drugs?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Like I've just been an honest question. He has already
Speaker 1: one foot out of the door. You're you're eighty years old.
Speaker 1: I feel like it should take half the stuff, right,
Speaker 1: you would think so, But I think it just really
Speaker 1: kind of speaks to how long it takes to put
Speaker 1: somebody to death, because these crimes were committed I think
Speaker 1: before I was born. Yeah, he was convicted of killing
Speaker 1: Patricia Gifford on January first, nineteen eighty two, just hours
Speaker 1: after meeting the eighteen year old woman at a New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve party. It's crazy because whenever I hear these
Speaker 1: stories on go oh man, this is an old person.
Speaker 1: Should we really be doing this death row? And then
Speaker 1: whenever I hear the details of the crime that they
Speaker 1: were convicted of them, okay, all right, never mind.
Speaker 2: He could have used the assistance of that lady and
Speaker 2: that was getting her ass handed to her at the anxiety.
Speaker 2: Anxiety Golf clapped a smoking gun for this headline because somebody,
Speaker 2: uh somebody named Landon Spearman was arrested for indecent exposure,
Speaker 2: thus prompting the headline. Spearman posted busted for exposing his
Speaker 2: spear Man after repeatedly this says hectoring a woman is
Speaker 2: hectoring a thing?
Speaker 1: Or did they still bothering?
Speaker 10: Right?
Speaker 1: Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 2: After repeatedly hectoring a woman for photos of her feet,
Speaker 2: a man allegedly exposed himself and then following yeah, followed
Speaker 2: the victim around a Low's store before fleeing, Sorry, I
Speaker 2: mean to scare you, I thought. Strangely enough, hectory means.
Speaker 1: Talking to somebody in a loud, unpleasant, forceful voice. Photo.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know why I've done this to you
Speaker 2: so many times. And I was still like paused because
Speaker 2: I was expecting the definition to come next. A detailed
Speaker 2: arrest report says the victim told cops she was completing
Speaker 2: an Instacart delivery at Low's when an unknown man approached
Speaker 2: her and repeatedly requested photos of her feet. After declining
Speaker 2: the request, she accepted his phone numb in an effort
Speaker 2: to end the encounter and continue working. That was a mistake,
Speaker 2: I think. As she walked away, the man later identified
Speaker 2: as Spearman called out to her. When the victim turned around,
Speaker 2: Spearman intentionally exposed his flacid penis and declared, call me
Speaker 2: for some d bold he's scheduled for his quarterpeerment? Does
Speaker 2: that work?
Speaker 1: Like, has there been a history of this working in
Speaker 1: your life? It didn't work. I mean if it worked before,
Speaker 1: it didn't work this time. He had some of these
Speaker 1: guys do this stuff, and I go, was there ever
Speaker 1: a success with this? Did you ever go there check
Speaker 1: this out?
Speaker 2: At some point you think there would have to be
Speaker 2: or or else you know, what, what are you doing
Speaker 2: it for? Spearman is scheduled for a court appearance in
Speaker 2: August nineteenth for the misdemeanor case. Let's see, SAO has
Speaker 2: dropped these charges against these kids in Saint John's County,
Speaker 2: and I don't know why. It doesn't say they've reached
Speaker 2: out to learn why the charge was dropped. This car
Speaker 2: was going down I ninety f and shooting fireworks at
Speaker 2: other cars. Oh I saw that. Did you see how
Speaker 2: they they busted him? That this appoint of the story
Speaker 2: problem a helicopter. Yeah, they followed him for ten miles.
Speaker 2: I've never heard of this before.
Speaker 1: They were overhead in a helicopter and they saw that
Speaker 1: they were blasting stuff out of their car.
Speaker 2: See if you can look it up the video, because
Speaker 2: I saw a still from it and you could see
Speaker 2: like they got the still picture from exactly when the
Speaker 2: mortar kind of exploded, so you could see the pieces
Speaker 2: of firework going everywhere. But it says a passenger was
Speaker 2: caught on camera by a Sheriff's Office helicopter launching fireworks
Speaker 2: at passing cars in Saint John's County on July fourth.
Speaker 2: Fireworks can be seen flying from the vehicle and landing
Speaker 2: in the median and in oncoming lanes of the highway.
Speaker 2: They pulled the vehicle over and the men inside denied
Speaker 2: shooting fireworks from the car. The deputy said the vehicle
Speaker 2: was seen launching fireworks. The driver said, no, not us.
Speaker 2: He goes unfortunately, was captured by our air unit. The
Speaker 2: driver once again says, no, not us.
Speaker 1: Is this it? Hold on yeah to see this is
Speaker 1: the actual interaction, you know, shriffs reports.
Speaker 13: Driver is, ah, this vehicle was seen launch some fireworks
Speaker 13: out of the past.
Speaker 9: Not us.
Speaker 1: With a vehicle pull out found ninety they appear to
Speaker 1: be shuting the.
Speaker 2: Fireworks out of the window with cars on the interstate.
Speaker 1: The guys, damn lot. They told him it was captured. No, no,
Speaker 1: not us, not us. Yeah.
Speaker 2: They The deputy at some point says, you see that
Speaker 2: little flashy dot up there and the driver said, it's
Speaker 2: a drone. He goes, no, that's a helicopter who's been
Speaker 2: following you for the past ten miles shooting stuff out
Speaker 2: of your car. Damn uh, he goes, Are you going
Speaker 2: to stick with the story, because let's be real, it's
Speaker 2: on a recording. Uh. An Orlando man accused of snatching
Speaker 2: a child near a hotel pool did push ups while
Speaker 2: fleeing the police. I don't know, I don't know what
Speaker 2: kind of flex that is. They restrained. Uh Rodney Bowie Junior,
Speaker 2: thirty two years old, who they said was not a
Speaker 2: guest at the hotel approach the gated pool area, picked
Speaker 2: up a girl turning away from the pool, and then
Speaker 2: he said, upon my arrival, I immediately began assisting with
Speaker 2: the apprehension of Bowie Junior. When he fled, another man
Speaker 2: told him stop running, and Bowie or Bowie soon began
Speaker 2: doing push ups in front of a nearby car wash,
Speaker 2: making it a lot easier for him to catch. I
Speaker 2: would think, and last but not leasting this week in Florida, man,
Speaker 2: how how time does pass? I felt like we were
Speaker 2: just talking about this and now the sixty day temporary
Speaker 2: ban on importing sloths into Florida has expired. Oh no, no,
Speaker 2: that's like they just did that littilla. That can't do
Speaker 2: like a permanent one. They can only do a temporary
Speaker 2: one because a permanent one would be more like legalese
Speaker 2: and more legislation. So they did the sixty day temporary ban.
Speaker 2: It has expired, even as eight rescued sloths continue their
Speaker 2: rehabilitation at a Florida Zoo. The FWC issued the emergency
Speaker 2: ban in May following the investigation in a Sloth World,
Speaker 2: and then the temporary band was intended to prevent additional
Speaker 2: sloths from being brought in. But it's over now, so
Speaker 2: you can bring in your sloths maybe just you know,
Speaker 2: try to do better than the last guy did. And
Speaker 2: that's it for this week in Florida. All right, quick break.
Speaker 2: When we come back, I've got a bunch of stuff
Speaker 2: to try to work in. Before we get to the
Speaker 2: Power Hour, we should have this interview about the python
Speaker 2: hunt with a woman who won it about a year ago,
Speaker 2: and that's going to be an interesting tale there. I
Speaker 2: got a lot of questions asked because there's some stuff
Speaker 2: that people don't know about this that was in this documentary.
Speaker 1: You're going to find it interesting. I'm sure that we
Speaker 1: got dispatches, video dispatches, all sorts of stuff on the way.
Speaker 1: Don't move, it's all coming up next on the news Junkie.
Speaker 1: I've seen so many stories about the Sheriff's department as
Speaker 1: in states like Florida, they start to push this property
Speaker 1: tax amendment vote forward, and I'm somebody who supports this.
Speaker 1: I think that there are ways to do this that
Speaker 1: will make it so people, especially people who own their homes,
Speaker 1: people who are older in many cases, don't have to
Speaker 1: perpetually pay these property taxes. But you know, you're always
Speaker 1: going to have people who get upset. Most of these
Speaker 1: are people who take the free money. They got their
Speaker 1: hands out taking the taxpayer dollars. And one of the
Speaker 1: groups that keeps complaining about this tax amendment vote that
Speaker 1: will get rid of property taxes for poor people, people
Speaker 1: with homes lower than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: I think there's like an entry level where they're going
Speaker 1: to kick away the property taxes for those homes, and
Speaker 1: then another level above that that they hope to get
Speaker 1: to at some point in time. But they're not mansions, right,
Speaker 1: These are for people who have lower value homes and
Speaker 1: they hope to make it so they don't have to
Speaker 1: pay property taxes forever. And the sheriff's office is like, WHOA,
Speaker 1: We're not going to be able to do our jobs.
Speaker 1: We're not going to have this. And I looked into
Speaker 1: one of these in particular, Michael Scott is the district's
Speaker 1: sixth commissioner, which is kind of filly in and of itself,
Speaker 1: and they're talking about shortfalls if they push this thing
Speaker 1: that will get rid of property taxes for some people
Speaker 1: in Florida, and they said Orange County, Florida in particular,
Speaker 1: could lose hundreds of millions of dollars if voters decided
Speaker 1: to get rid of property taxes in November. According to
Speaker 1: the Orange County Commissioner, Michael Scott says, when you talk
Speaker 1: about one hundred billion lesson funds to be able to
Speaker 1: run any business for profit, nonprofit, that's going to be
Speaker 1: some very tough conversations. In particular coming forward is the
Speaker 1: Orange County Sheriff's office, and they go, how are we
Speaker 1: supposed to function like this? And I want to tell
Speaker 1: you a little bit about this so you know what's
Speaker 1: going on. First things first, the Orange County Sheriff's office
Speaker 1: asked for the next budget for half a billion dollars.
Speaker 1: In one county in the state of Florida, the sheriff's
Speaker 1: office asked for half a billion dollars. Over five hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars, right, that's how much money they asked for.
Speaker 1: And they're like, we're not going to be able to
Speaker 1: do it if we don't get this.
Speaker 2: And then I wanted to just see over time, how
Speaker 2: much money have they been paying the sheriff's office over
Speaker 2: there in Orange County. And in nineteen ninety three, the
Speaker 2: budget for Orange County sheriff was sixty eight million dollars.
Speaker 1: That was working out fine. So they did the thing
Speaker 1: you always do, you ask for a little bit more.
Speaker 1: In two thousand and four it went from sixty eight
Speaker 1: million to one hundred and forty seven million dollars. And
Speaker 1: the sheriff was like, all right, now we got the money.
Speaker 1: Now we're funded. Now things are good. Now we're doing
Speaker 1: all right. Next time the budget came around, they said,
Speaker 1: we need a little more, though it's not going down.
Speaker 1: Maybybe it'll go down someday. But the sheriff's budget now
Speaker 1: has gone from one hundred and forty seven to a
Speaker 1: high undred and eighty eight million. Then it went to
Speaker 1: two hundred and eight million. Then it went to two
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four million in twenty fifteen, then up
Speaker 1: to a quarter billion dollars in twenty seventeen, then up
Speaker 1: to two hundred and sixty six million dollars in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, it went to three hundred and sixteen million,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two three hundred and thirty one million, So
Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty one million was just four years ago.
Speaker 1: Right now they want half a billion dollars. I ask you,
Speaker 1: when you see this, you see it go to twenty
Speaker 1: twenty fours, three hundred and seventy three million, and now
Speaker 1: up to the proposed budget of four hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: million because they had to back down on the half
Speaker 1: a billion dollars they were requesting for. Doesn't it start
Speaker 1: to seem to you like these giant, these giant places
Speaker 1: that want so much of our funding from tax dollars
Speaker 1: just keep putting their hands out and keep telling you
Speaker 1: every single time it's just more expensive to do this,
Speaker 1: because that's what happens. They tell you, we can't do
Speaker 1: it for any cheaper. If you took this money away
Speaker 1: from us, all bedlam and break out, all hell would blit,
Speaker 1: break loose. The sheriff's department from from nineteen ninety three
Speaker 1: went from sixty eight million dollars to fund the whole
Speaker 1: thing to now half a billion dollars. That's crazy, that's
Speaker 1: absolutely crazy to me. And you might say, well, Sean,
Speaker 1: so did the population it grew. The population grew. That
Speaker 1: is not locked in with the population at all. That
Speaker 1: is gross overspending, and then each time going well, this
Speaker 1: is how much it cost us, This is how much
Speaker 1: a cost us.
Speaker 2: This is how much of costes. Alien says because of
Speaker 2: the inflated executive salaries. Some of that is just overall
Speaker 2: everything is inflated.
Speaker 1: You know, some of these sheriff's office and police departments,
Speaker 1: they spend money on all sorts of stuff. I saw
Speaker 1: a story. This wasn't in Orange County, Florida, but I'll
Speaker 1: tell you just real quick. This was a story from
Speaker 1: the drive dot com and it says how Texas police
Speaker 1: spent four point five million dollars on for Chevy Tahoes,
Speaker 1: and they said, it's it's hard to make a twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six Chevy Tahoe cost more than a million dollars
Speaker 1: until you start packing it with military grade public surveillance technology.
Speaker 1: And they bought these vehicles, these SUVs from an Israeli
Speaker 1: surveillance tech company, Foulco Net, brought to you by a
Speaker 1: company called Cognite, Israeli's polunteer rival volunteer volunteer. I always
Speaker 1: say that wrong pollunteer secretly tracks people by intercepting the
Speaker 1: connection between your phone and the nearest cell tower. The
Speaker 1: idea is that you can strap this bad boy to
Speaker 1: a helicopter, backpacker Chevy Tahoe and gobble up everybody's dad.
Speaker 2: Why Chevy Taho Why is Chevy Tahoe getting all the
Speaker 2: mentioned here? That's what they wanted mus to a four
Speaker 2: f one fifty two. They said, this is already in
Speaker 2: use in Florida. This year, Texas State Police bought a
Speaker 2: little fleet of these SUVs for four point five million
Speaker 2: dollars and it was a total of four of them.
Speaker 2: So they spent four point five million dollars on four
Speaker 2: sh Chevy tahoes so they can intercept our communications on
Speaker 2: our cell phones while they drive around.
Speaker 1: Boo Like, these are the kind of things that they
Speaker 1: spend money on. And then when they go to you
Speaker 1: and you go, we need to cut back a little bit.
Speaker 1: This is getting too expensive. You need to trim your budget.
Speaker 1: We have to trim our budgets as taxpayers. Right, I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's something that you've had to cut off of
Speaker 1: your budget. You've had to cut things back a little
Speaker 1: bit with the economy tightening up.
Speaker 2: When I hear that they spent four and a half
Speaker 2: million dollars on for Chevy tahoes, I'm convinced that somewhere,
Speaker 2: like if they go to the Chevy dealership and the
Speaker 2: website's like, hey, if you put in your email address,
Speaker 2: we'll knock two thousand dollars off the prince of the car.
Speaker 1: And they're like, nope, not no, we want to pay
Speaker 1: full boat for these things. So this is what they
Speaker 1: do a lot of times.
Speaker 2: The budget is what it is, and you go, it's
Speaker 2: just this expensive to run a sheriff's department for a
Speaker 2: county like this. And when you start needling into the data,
Speaker 2: they get real angry because you discover that there's all
Speaker 2: these nice toys and stuff that they've bought. It's like
Speaker 2: you being a little kid buying every single toy in
Speaker 2: the world and insisting to your parents that's the budget
Speaker 2: you actually need to survive and get everything done.
Speaker 1: This is what's happened with a lot of these police
Speaker 1: departments across our country. And so when they start crying
Speaker 1: poor mouth, you go, hey, a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: you literally had two hundred million dollars less than your budget,
Speaker 1: and there wasn't that much of a difference in the population,
Speaker 1: there wasn't that much of a difference in the service provided.
Speaker 1: But now you need hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of
Speaker 1: millions of dollars more. And they say, well, if you
Speaker 1: get rid of this property tax, we want an additional
Speaker 1: tax on the people. So they just want the money
Speaker 1: no matter what. They have no world in which.
Speaker 2: They can consider cutting back like you have to, like
Speaker 2: I have to, like your neighbors have to. They're a
Speaker 2: big giant organization, so they don't ever have to do it.
Speaker 2: And then they could tell you, you know, almost like
Speaker 2: that that fear mongering list about daylight saving time earlier,
Speaker 2: where it tells you all the bad things that'll happen,
Speaker 2: they'll be like, oh, I free to that kind does
Speaker 2: I wonder if you're responded, if if you know fund us.
Speaker 1: Here's what's gonna happen. Right, There'll be bank robberies every day,
Speaker 1: and people will be killed and murdered and just absolute
Speaker 1: nonstyle and you'll get fed. I'm saying you could slice
Speaker 1: a couple hundred mill We're gonna get anxiety. We need
Speaker 1: our surveillance state tahoes.
Speaker 2: I guess so, right, four point five million dollars on
Speaker 2: four Chevy Tahoes.
Speaker 1: What's a Chevy Tahoe cost? At the center of it? Like, ah,
Speaker 1: that much? Forty grand for Chevy Ta that's too low.
Speaker 1: Fifty grand. They spent four point four eighty seven million
Speaker 1: dollars vehicles.
Speaker 2: It's an MSRP starts at sixty seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: The antenna for it costs twenty seven thousand dollars. Get
Speaker 1: out of here looking at the actual receipt for this
Speaker 1: will take quick break when we come back. Jury duty
Speaker 1: is coming up in just a moment. Here. Also in
Speaker 1: the Power Hour, we've got the interview about this Python
Speaker 1: hunt going on once more in the State of Florida,
Speaker 1: all them around it, all the things you wish you knew,
Speaker 1: you're gonna know because it's coming up next on the
Speaker 1: news Junkie Jury Duty on the way. In fact, let's
Speaker 1: just get into this because there's a story somebody sent
Speaker 1: over early that I want to explore. So let's do
Speaker 1: jury duty. Court is now in session, so put your
Speaker 1: phone down and pay attention before we call bail it
Speaker 1: over to whip your ass. You're knowing jury duty with
Speaker 1: the Noos Junkie Jury Duty brought to you by the
Speaker 1: one the only mode of the do it law firm.
Speaker 1: Injured on the go, just call Mo eight hundred Calmo
Speaker 1: eight hundred Calmo, or go to just Callmo dot com.
Speaker 1: After an accident, there's lots of places that you can
Speaker 1: lean on that will help you battle those insurance companies.
Speaker 1: Those greedy insurance companies do not deserve your money. I
Speaker 1: want you to keep as much of that as possible,
Speaker 1: and I want you to get more. If you're hurting
Speaker 1: an accent, that's what you're looking for, that kind of
Speaker 1: justice eight hundred Calmo eight hundred Camo or go to
Speaker 1: Justcalmo dot com. Here's the story. Several people sent over actually,
Speaker 1: and it says a man went wild and was accused
Speaker 1: of hitting a child on an e bike and he
Speaker 1: slapped him. He slapped the kid in the face. Apparently,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the details are there, So let's
Speaker 1: go into this with WESH telling us what's happening here.
Speaker 1: Maybe the kid deserved it, he could have had in jail.
Speaker 2: Accused of hitting an eleven year old riding an e
Speaker 2: bike with US car.
Speaker 9: This happened Wednesday, yesterday, And you're windowmere, but the attorney
Speaker 9: representing Gregory Hoole is pushing back on the charges.
Speaker 1: Lush was Avery everea. It breaks down the case. What's
Speaker 1: the truth here? Very very cool.
Speaker 6: A man accused of intentionally driving his car toward an
Speaker 6: eleven year old riding an e bike appeared before a
Speaker 6: judge for the first time on Thursday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's so many boomers who get heated about these
Speaker 1: the East scooters and stuff that I'm surprised this isn't
Speaker 1: happening even more than it is right now. But that's
Speaker 1: the tension at the center of all the Thirty four.
Speaker 6: Year old Gregory Hule faces charges of aggravated assault with
Speaker 6: a motor vehicle child abuse and criminal mischief, but the
Speaker 6: attorney representing him says there's more to these allegations.
Speaker 1: Nowhere in there does it say he was ever in fear.
Speaker 6: In the arrest affidavit from the Orange County Sheriff's Office,
Speaker 6: investigators say this all happened around four pm on Wednesday.
Speaker 5: The eleven year old child was riding their e bike.
Speaker 6: With two friends when they say Hull ran past a
Speaker 6: stop sign, making a right turn and going in the
Speaker 6: opposite direction traffic lane where the child was with his
Speaker 6: e bike. The child advised investigators that Who'll hit the
Speaker 6: e bike with his vehicle and they were able to
Speaker 6: jump into the grass. The child advised the vehicle hit
Speaker 6: his leg and the e bike.
Speaker 1: Oh, this is not looking good for the guy. This
Speaker 1: sounds like he just plowed into somebody who was on
Speaker 1: one of these e bikes and was hauling ass in
Speaker 1: this area.
Speaker 6: The child says they began recording on his cell phone,
Speaker 6: but Hoo'll smacked his arm, then grabbed the cell phone
Speaker 6: and smashed it into the ground. The child's parents told
Speaker 6: investigators they wanted to press charge as a deputy was
Speaker 6: speaking to that family.
Speaker 5: The affidavit says We'll made his own nine one one call.
Speaker 6: Whull told investigators he was not home around three forty
Speaker 6: five when someone banged three times on the front door
Speaker 6: of his residence. When they opened the door, no one
Speaker 6: was there. Who'll advise they scared everyone inside his home.
Speaker 1: So he thinks this was like a ding dong ditch
Speaker 1: on an e bike. That's what it sounds like here.
Speaker 2: They interviewed the kid or some kid on the news
Speaker 2: this morning, and I was like, oh, did they he
Speaker 2: accuse me of ding dong ditchenam and I didn't ding
Speaker 2: dong ditchum.
Speaker 1: So he's saying that the kid must have done that,
Speaker 1: the kid saying it wasn't me. I didn't do this,
Speaker 1: and then he just attacked this kid who maybe was unrelated.
Speaker 2: We have more.
Speaker 6: Pm Hole says the camera captured someone in a helmet
Speaker 6: and a reflective vest running back to an e bike.
Speaker 5: He'll return to the neighborhood.
Speaker 6: Justin le' see the footage, and he says he saw
Speaker 6: a child matching that description. Who'll pulled over to the
Speaker 6: left and said the juvenile and the bike laid down
Speaker 6: his bike in the road and jumped onto the sidewalk.
Speaker 6: Houl got out of his vehicle and asked them why
Speaker 6: they were harassing his family. Hull told investigators he snatched
Speaker 6: the child's cell phone without touching them and smashed it
Speaker 6: into their street.
Speaker 1: All I know, I think you can't even do that, right, No,
Speaker 1: you kid just grab somebody's cell phone and smash it.
Speaker 1: So I think that alone is bad.
Speaker 2: We actually had this discussion on another E Byte case
Speaker 2: where the guy grabbed the cell phone out of the
Speaker 2: kid's hand, and I think got charged with felony robbery
Speaker 2: because you were you were robbing the person to their
Speaker 2: face and and a phone is like one thousand dollars now,
Speaker 2: so the value goes up too. Or is it a
Speaker 2: felony robbery just because you're robbing a person with them present, Yeah,
Speaker 2: with with like like, you're not stealing from them while
Speaker 2: they're gone, you're stealing from them from their person and
Speaker 2: grabbed it out of his hand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So there he goes. Maybe there's something else in here.
Speaker 6: All though the Whole says he went home after Hole's
Speaker 6: initial appearance, I was able to get his attorney on
Speaker 6: the phone. He says these charges are a misleading characterization.
Speaker 1: There is no damage to mister Whole. Vehicle or the
Speaker 1: e bike that's even listed here in the police report.
Speaker 1: If you hit an e bike with a car, there's
Speaker 1: going to be damage there.
Speaker 6: I judged that whole's total bond at six hundred.
Speaker 1: That's not much, but his bonds only at seven thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Did he not bond out on seven thousand dollars? He
Speaker 1: is a man of principle, clearly, what Josh, wouldn't that
Speaker 1: mean you have to put seven hundred dollars?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: That yeah, I mean you would think they could be
Speaker 1: able to put that up. But maybe he did eventually,
Speaker 1: says man accused of hitting child on e bike and
Speaker 1: slapping him in Windomere. And we'll see if there's anything
Speaker 1: else with the case. It's just to me, it's an
Speaker 1: example of what I see happening over and over and
Speaker 1: over again. Old people hate these little e bikes and
Speaker 1: these scooters. And they're not just the ones from Lime
Speaker 1: and these other companies that have them around your neighborhood
Speaker 1: and you see them all in the grass and stuff.
Speaker 1: A lot of the young kids are buying them. They're
Speaker 1: buying them on Amazon, and then they're flying around and
Speaker 1: going down the sidewalks and it's like this kind of
Speaker 1: stuff sets off a lot of old people for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see what we have for you send
Speaker 1: us your dispatches. To join the show, all you have
Speaker 1: to do is go over to the newsjunkie dot com
Speaker 1: hit record on your first dispatch right now, here's not
Speaker 1: Bob Sakramano.
Speaker 17: Hello, we're literally living in nineteen eighty four right now.
Speaker 1: In the book we are.
Speaker 17: Nobody's paid attention to any kind of warring that they
Speaker 17: were received. Techies and years ago warned us about this
Speaker 17: about computers and the government just taking over and surveiling everything.
Speaker 17: And it goes back to the principle of the frog
Speaker 17: being dropped into.
Speaker 1: A boiling pot of water. It's just gonna drop jump out.
Speaker 1: I've heard of it.
Speaker 17: Whereas now, if you just put them in there to lukewarming,
Speaker 17: just keep turning the water up a little bit more
Speaker 17: and more, it gets used to it and we're not
Speaker 17: going to do anything.
Speaker 1: So I said, just.
Speaker 17: Slash the budgets, throw their tea in the harbor, and
Speaker 17: let's move on.
Speaker 1: Uh okay, thank you for the dispatch. Not Bob Sacamano
Speaker 1: for me. I just think this is a simple thing
Speaker 1: and it reminds me of an episode of the Office.
Speaker 1: So many things remind me of an episode of the Office,
Speaker 1: but there was an episode of the Office where Michael Scott,
Speaker 1: the manager of the office, had to be informed with
Speaker 1: property tax without no, no, no, not the property tax guy,
Speaker 1: Michael Scott. Michael Scott, the leader of dunder Mifflin, had
Speaker 1: to be told by his accountant what a surplus was.
Speaker 1: He did not know what that was.
Speaker 2: And in it is a very valuable lesson because if
Speaker 2: your company asks you how much it costs to run
Speaker 2: your branch for the year, you give them an amount
Speaker 2: of money. If you don't spend that amount of money
Speaker 2: by the end of the year, your company's going to be.
Speaker 1: Like, whoa, you had a surplus. That means it's going
Speaker 1: to cost less money next year to fund you and
Speaker 1: to get all the same stuff done. So guess who
Speaker 1: never has any surpluses. Any of these.
Speaker 2: Organizations like sheriff's offices and local police and a million
Speaker 2: other different departments that take taxpayer dollars, they never have
Speaker 2: a surplus because they just spend it all every year
Speaker 2: and they go this is how.
Speaker 1: Much it costs. They never want to go downwards.
Speaker 2: They want to go up up, and then you realize, hey,
Speaker 2: all of us are paying a really significant price for this,
Speaker 2: when there's just got to be a way we can
Speaker 2: get the same exact services, the same quality of services,
Speaker 2: and everything else for just much less money. They don't
Speaker 2: want the budget cuts though, and then the budget cuts
Speaker 2: come with a fear mongering that I was telling you about.
Speaker 2: We have a tts from the New York Mobster Voice.
Speaker 2: There has been some some claims that the mobster voice
Speaker 2: doesn't actually sound like a mobster voice. I think it
Speaker 2: really does, but maybe this changes your mind if you
Speaker 2: don't think it does. Here's the New York mobster voice.
Speaker 2: Hi Fellas, Happy Friday.
Speaker 18: Hey Sean, I just wanted to compliment your pigeon shirt
Speaker 18: and wearing it in memoriam for the pigeon lady from
Speaker 18: home alone too dying.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you, talk about the true fan. I
Speaker 1: appreciate it.
Speaker 9: I'll laugh too. It doesn't sound sounds like a Turkish man.
Speaker 2: It sounds like an Italian mobster war from not the
Speaker 2: only person to say Turkish.
Speaker 9: Why Turkish? She just sounds Turkish? No, No, I very
Speaker 9: much like pigeon shirt.
Speaker 1: Here's another one. Maybe maybe this will make more sense
Speaker 1: to you. Here's another one.
Speaker 18: If I were those kids, I would just keep buying
Speaker 18: basketballs and having them go in his yard.
Speaker 1: But don't put your name on it. Yeah, that sounds
Speaker 1: like an Italian mobster, right, sure, by a Turkish guy,
Speaker 1: not played by a Turkish guy, just from the streets
Speaker 1: of New York, from Little Italy.
Speaker 2: An Italian mobster. It sounds like you know, any generic
Speaker 2: Italian mobster voice.
Speaker 1: Sure, all right, Well maybe I'm coping bugle doesn't sound
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: At least they're not setting into sexy lady tt yes
Speaker 2: anymore because that one, that one got.
Speaker 1: A little hot under the house. Not flirty girl anymore. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: all right, quick break when we come back where we've
Speaker 1: got an interview, I believe all locked in for you.
Speaker 1: And right now they're doing the Florida Python Hunt, the
Speaker 1: yearly python hunt that they do with these people go
Speaker 1: out and they make a challenge of trying to capture
Speaker 1: as many pythons, which is an invasive species as they can.
Speaker 1: Courtney said, you got to see this documentary, this documentary
Speaker 1: that just made about it, and we watched it, and
Speaker 1: the people are absolute characters who engage in this and
Speaker 1: some of the stuff that happens behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: You got to hear about this. I've got a lot
Speaker 2: of questions and I'm sure you will as well. So
Speaker 2: a previous winner of the competition to gather all these
Speaker 2: pythons as we're in the middle of it, it's going
Speaker 2: to be joining us in just a moment here, and
Speaker 2: that is coming up next on the news, Junkie, See.
Speaker 1: Why wait any longer. Let's just do it. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: do the Power Hour. They said it couldn't keep done.
Speaker 1: Then they said, you mother Lea, it's time for the
Speaker 1: Power Hour on the news. Chunky, thanks for not making
Speaker 1: the clip. We're embarrassing since.
Speaker 2: Had I had some doozies that would have been very
Speaker 2: uncomfortable for our guests here today, would have made the
Speaker 2: transition more awkward. We've got a friend joined us here,
Speaker 2: Taylor stan Berry.
Speaker 1: Are you with us? I'm here there she is, Okay,
Speaker 1: Taylor's with us? And Taylor is you're taking part this
Speaker 1: year in the Python hunt as well? You won last year, right.
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, and I'm trying this year. But it's been
Speaker 8: a slower.
Speaker 5: Year for me, all right?
Speaker 1: Why slower this year? Do you think because you guys
Speaker 1: have done so good in getting the pythons out of there,
Speaker 1: there's less of them to catch, or is there another
Speaker 1: reason I want to say.
Speaker 8: That, you know what I mean, less python's means hey,
Speaker 8: we're doing our job right. But also the weather during
Speaker 8: this challenge hasn't been the greatest. Been a lot of
Speaker 8: rain and colder nights, which doesn't make move. So we'll see.
Speaker 8: I don't know why I'm getting lower numbers, but we'll see.
Speaker 1: One of the things I hear about this python hunt,
Speaker 1: Taylor and I learned a lot of this from watching
Speaker 1: the documentary that's out there on Amazon Prime called The
Speaker 1: Python Hunt, which was super interesting and kind of highlighting
Speaker 1: some of the characters in the python hunting world. When
Speaker 1: you guys go out and do this, a lot of
Speaker 1: it is not quite as exciting as you might think.
Speaker 1: You have to do a lot of like waiting and
Speaker 1: just looking and like just trying to find the next
Speaker 1: python to get.
Speaker 8: Yeah, people all the time are like, take me out.
Speaker 8: It looks like the most exciting night, and it will
Speaker 8: be twelve hours. I'm driving around, half asleep and I'm
Speaker 8: finding not even a native snake, Like I'm so bored.
Speaker 8: You got to bring snacks. So it's really not as
Speaker 8: glamorous as people think a lot of times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you get out there, what do you mean, what's
Speaker 1: the tools of the trade. What is it that you
Speaker 1: have to have to try to get one of these
Speaker 1: big giant snakes that get absolutely massive? What do you
Speaker 1: bring along with you?
Speaker 8: So I always say, like, python hunting is fifty for
Speaker 8: percent of knowing weather conditions, where to go, you know,
Speaker 8: get on a boat, get in the cargo, hiking, know
Speaker 8: what you're doing. It's also fifty percent luck in good timing.
Speaker 8: To be honest, I don't bring anything too crazy besides myself.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, I was watching this documentary. Have you seen
Speaker 2: the documentary, by the way, the Python Hunt documentary?
Speaker 8: I have not, I'll be honest, I have not yet.
Speaker 1: Okay, watching it. It's interesting because they showed a couple
Speaker 1: of sides of this, and I want to know if
Speaker 1: they're real or not, because Josh and Celia and you
Speaker 1: guys got to know this. There's some people who don't
Speaker 1: exactly support the python Hunt, and they were out there
Speaker 1: in this documentary putting fake pythons out into the woods
Speaker 1: to try to like make people think, and they were.
Speaker 1: They were making them out of like those pool noodles, you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they wrap them in like snake skin. And
Speaker 2: so have you ever encountered the people who try to
Speaker 2: put fake snakes out there to trip you up?
Speaker 8: So not fake snakes, but I've seen people I haven't
Speaker 8: seen people by I've seen or heard about people putting
Speaker 8: like dead snakes. So pythons are very caught or pythons
Speaker 8: hit by cars and they'll put them in the road,
Speaker 8: you know, so people get piped up, Like, look at
Speaker 8: all these pythons in the road. It's already dead. So
Speaker 8: no pool noodle snakes for me.
Speaker 1: Yet. Another thing that they pointed out in this is
Speaker 1: the python hunt brings in people like you, like you're
Speaker 1: a professional, you do this, you have big social media following,
Speaker 1: and you show people how you you know, you rescue animals,
Speaker 1: you do all sorts of stuff, right, But then there's
Speaker 1: some people who just come in and all they want
Speaker 1: is like the tourism side of it, and they have
Speaker 1: no idea what they're doing, but they want to participate
Speaker 1: in this thing. How bad of a problem is that?
Speaker 1: What kind of stuff have you seen out there?
Speaker 8: That's why we suggest when people that have never gone
Speaker 8: python hunting or like snake catching in general, I always
Speaker 8: suggest going with professional first, because I mean, like me,
Speaker 8: if I start a new job, I don't know what
Speaker 8: the hell I'm doing. I need someone to train me.
Speaker 8: So I always say, I mean the pythons, people just
Speaker 8: think they're going to be eighteen feet crossing the road
Speaker 8: all the time, they'll be this small. Or I've seen
Speaker 8: a lot of people run over made of snakes because
Speaker 8: they're they don't see them. So I always suggest going
Speaker 8: out of a professional first, just to kind of get
Speaker 8: the grasp of it, just because we don't need people
Speaker 8: killing the wrong snake or just not knowing what they're doing.
Speaker 1: Really, now, when you go out, are you buy yourself?
Speaker 1: Because I've got to be honest with you, Like, some
Speaker 1: of the snakes that I see people bring in with
Speaker 1: this python hunt are huge. You don't look like you're
Speaker 1: that gigantic to be taking down one of these big snakes.
Speaker 1: Do you do you bring people with you? Do you do?
Speaker 1: You just know how to do it. You're tougher than
Speaker 1: I'm imagining or what So I do.
Speaker 8: That with my husband most of the time, just because
Speaker 8: this is kind of like our date night.
Speaker 1: Uh huh, that's your date night.
Speaker 8: Particularly you know he's not there to like save me.
Speaker 8: I'm not distressed, okay, really boring, So I need someone
Speaker 8: to hang out with. I'm pretty antisocial otherwise. I don't
Speaker 8: bring a bunch of randoms with me, right, But I
Speaker 8: mean I've gone out plenty of nights by myself. Caught
Speaker 8: a python. I catch them on my way home from
Speaker 8: work by myself, So I can do it myself, but
Speaker 8: I prefer to be with him.
Speaker 2: What was your husband into this kind of stuff when
Speaker 2: you guys met or was it something that you sort
Speaker 2: of roped him into?
Speaker 8: Yeah, so we actually met on a Facebook reptile page.
Speaker 8: I thought he was real cute. I posted a couple
Speaker 8: of snakes. He thought I was cute. So that's how
Speaker 8: it got started.
Speaker 1: Did you did you?
Speaker 2: Do you have your pick of the letter with stuff
Speaker 2: like this, Because there's not a lot of attractive people
Speaker 2: I would imagine catching pythons out there.
Speaker 8: I will say, there's back You know, I started in
Speaker 8: the reptile world thirteen years ago. There weren't nearly as
Speaker 8: many girls back then, so I mean I was you know,
Speaker 8: I was pretty, I was good. Everyone wanted me. Not really,
Speaker 8: no girl, So I think I was like one of
Speaker 8: five girls on that group.
Speaker 2: When I googled when when Sean told me we were
Speaker 2: having you on today and I googled your name and
Speaker 2: they have do you have?
Speaker 4: You?
Speaker 19: Do?
Speaker 2: You google yourself? Often just to see like what what?
Speaker 2: What shows up when people look up your name?
Speaker 8: I have because I'm a nonprofit now and I was like,
Speaker 8: I want to see how legit I look on Google.
Speaker 8: So I'm like, oh, I look good on there. Okay,
Speaker 8: we got everything looks good.
Speaker 2: The first thing that people ask. The people also ask
Speaker 2: is is Taylor Stanbury married?
Speaker 1: Is that flattering? Or is that like kind of annoying?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 8: I love it, like I said, I am, especially not nowadays.
Speaker 8: I'm not the only girl in the reptile field. There's
Speaker 8: tons of hotties, you know, So it's you know, I
Speaker 8: can't take all the credit or anything. But yeah, a
Speaker 8: lot of guys message me, I'll be honest, A lot
Speaker 8: of them are nice. They just want to take me
Speaker 8: out to dinner. Supposedly, yeah, you know, too creepy. The
Speaker 8: commenters are rude, but the people messaging me are nice.
Speaker 1: So you won? Was it last year? You won You
Speaker 1: won the Python Hut. Okay, you won the Python Hut
Speaker 1: last year grand prize. What what do you get? What
Speaker 1: do you take home for winning that?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 8: So I got ultimate overall like most pythons, I got ten.
Speaker 1: Ten thousand, though it was taxed, so they take the
Speaker 1: taxes out. What did you end up getting? So do
Speaker 1: you you get like half that?
Speaker 8: I don't remember exactly. I think it was like fifteen
Speaker 8: or twenty percent tax Okay, don't take.
Speaker 1: My word for it, right, So.
Speaker 8: I still I still got money. I was just you know,
Speaker 8: I got to put that out there.
Speaker 2: So you go out there and you're spending all these
Speaker 2: hours to do it, so it's kind of like it's
Speaker 2: kind of rough, but you do it more for the
Speaker 2: content that you're making. You do it because you love it.
Speaker 2: Like what's the driving force for you?
Speaker 8: Yes, Like I say, it's really about conservation. I'm not
Speaker 8: doing this because I like to euphonize snakes. I mean,
Speaker 8: of course you got to make some social media content
Speaker 8: with it. I love showing the wildlife and all that,
Speaker 8: but really just a conservation. I love native wildlife. I
Speaker 8: love some native snakes, the alligators, the birds, all that.
Speaker 8: So when I'm out there removing these pythons. It's really
Speaker 8: just to help them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I know a lot of people will see
Speaker 1: it and they go, they're just going out there and
Speaker 1: they're killing all of these snakes. From what I heard,
Speaker 1: tell me if this is true, or tell me if
Speaker 1: I'm absolutely wrong on this, and it's fine, You're not
Speaker 1: gonna hurt my feelings. I heard that they believe the
Speaker 1: pythons may be so prominent in South Florida because there
Speaker 1: was this big area that had a bunch of pythons
Speaker 1: and that was hit during Hurricane Andrew, and those pythons,
Speaker 1: because of the hurricane destroying this facility, kind of worked
Speaker 1: their way into the wild and that may have been
Speaker 1: like the seed for so many of these python problems
Speaker 1: that we face now. Is that true or is that
Speaker 1: a bunch of nonsense.
Speaker 8: So there's many different variations of how it got started.
Speaker 8: I don't know one hundred percent how it got started.
Speaker 8: There's been talked. So there's two different populations, one in Miami,
Speaker 8: one in Naples, so then intertwined. So obviously you know
Speaker 8: it wasn't just the one facility that escaped us. There's
Speaker 8: many different opinions of people of what they think happened
Speaker 8: or how it got started.
Speaker 1: And then when they're out there that nothing kills them, right,
Speaker 1: they're just too big.
Speaker 8: So as babies, like all those hatchlings that come out,
Speaker 8: a lot of them actually get eaten.
Speaker 11: Eaten.
Speaker 8: Possums love them, alligators love them. Other snakes love them,
Speaker 8: birds love them. So a lot of the babies actually
Speaker 8: do get eaten. But once they hit you know, seven
Speaker 8: ten feet, there's not much to eat them except alligators
Speaker 8: or us those humans.
Speaker 1: All right, A lot of people have questions in chat
Speaker 1: about this. Somebody is saying, can you shoot them? Or
Speaker 1: how do you like kill the pythons when you get them?
Speaker 1: For this Python challenge? What do you do? So there's
Speaker 1: so for.
Speaker 8: The pythonchallenge specifically, if you're novice, you have to euthanize
Speaker 8: on site. You want a lot of these firearms during
Speaker 8: the challenge, so you have to use like bolt guns
Speaker 8: or air guns, and then you have to pit the
Speaker 8: brain afterwards. I'm in the professional league, so I don't
Speaker 8: have to euthanize on site, but during the challenge, I
Speaker 8: still can't use a firearm, but I can at least
Speaker 8: take home and euthanize. But as a contractor for overall,
Speaker 8: I can use a firearm, but it's not good to
Speaker 8: just shoot them when you see them because a lot
Speaker 8: of times you only see a little glimmer of the
Speaker 8: body and if you just like shoot the sides one,
Speaker 8: that's not humane, that's really mean, and too they'll probably
Speaker 8: get away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Gosha, what was the word that you said that
Speaker 1: you have to do to the brain?
Speaker 8: You have to pit it. So you know, with any animal,
Speaker 8: you want to make sure they are euthanized right away.
Speaker 8: You don't want them half euthanized or anything. So you
Speaker 8: have to bolt them or air gun them in the head,
Speaker 8: and then you have to pit the brain afterwards, like
Speaker 8: with a screw driver or something to make sure it
Speaker 8: is fully euthanized. That's why, like, I don't I don't
Speaker 8: love that part. You know, people come out here doing
Speaker 8: the challenge and they're excited for that.
Speaker 1: You don't want to do that part.
Speaker 8: I love that part. I don't post about that part.
Speaker 8: I don't talk about it much.
Speaker 2: So when you're out there doing that, Like, is it
Speaker 2: common to run into other people who are participating in
Speaker 2: the Python challenge or is it is the the amount
Speaker 2: of land that they do this in so vast that
Speaker 2: you don't really see them that often.
Speaker 8: Oh so during the challenge, it's so I've only ever
Speaker 8: done the challenge last year in this year because it's
Speaker 8: a madhouse. It's a circus. There are you know, another
Speaker 8: six nine hundred people doing it, and we're only allowed
Speaker 8: to hunt certain roads and so it's just kind of
Speaker 8: like align and conveyor belt of cars and it's like,
Speaker 8: oh my gosh, maybe I'll be the lucky one to
Speaker 8: find the python.
Speaker 1: Are people running after the same snake because there's so
Speaker 1: many people.
Speaker 8: Sometimes I've seen I mean like I haven't gotten into
Speaker 8: the fights or anything, but I've seen people kind of
Speaker 8: argue like I saw first, I sawt first, He'll be
Speaker 8: a cargo in this way, cargo in that way. So
Speaker 8: you know, it's kind of they work it out themselves.
Speaker 8: It's kind of a that house out there.
Speaker 1: People are asking about the tank behind you as well
Speaker 1: in this in this shot that we're seeing, are there
Speaker 1: snakes in that? Or what are we having there? What
Speaker 1: do you do? Now?
Speaker 8: Those are turtles. I got albino reddyard sliders, some rescues,
Speaker 8: and I got one diamondback terrapin turtle.
Speaker 1: Really, yeah, I see, Like I said earlier, is that
Speaker 1: she's got to take care of all her animals. At
Speaker 1: some rescue places, what kind of animals do you actually
Speaker 1: take care of?
Speaker 8: So my rescue, a nonprofit, officially focuses mostly on primates,
Speaker 8: so you know, people get primates as pets. I did
Speaker 8: two when I was young. I still have them. I
Speaker 8: realized are not the best pet. So now I take
Speaker 8: in ones that kind of you know, attack their owners.
Speaker 8: And now that's what I have. Or I also have
Speaker 8: tortoises and snakes and hualas.
Speaker 1: Okay, I feel you have to be careful with the chuas, right.
Speaker 8: They're a little crazy, especially too. I caught on a
Speaker 8: snake call because I do venomous snake relocations for people's
Speaker 8: and there's two raggedy little chiuahuas humping each other in
Speaker 8: someone's yard. They're like, I don't know, these chuhas just
Speaker 8: came over here, and I did a lot of work
Speaker 8: on them. But they look good now, but they're a
Speaker 8: little nasty.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, all right, well, I see. You know
Speaker 1: It's funny is when I saw your Instagram page, I
Speaker 1: saw that there's some people who have been longtime listeners
Speaker 1: to the show.
Speaker 4: I E.
Speaker 1: Pisenberg, who already followed you that you were on their radar.
Speaker 2: Well, that's because I talked about her last year when
Speaker 2: she won it, and during this week in Florida, Oh
Speaker 2: is it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we brought this up. Yeah, because I'm seeing all
Speaker 1: her Her Instagram content is pretty popular on what is
Speaker 1: it tailor too Short on Instagram? Yeah, okay, Taylor too
Speaker 1: Short where you can find Taylor Stanbury over on Instagram
Speaker 1: and you can see what's happening with the Wild Stanbury Sanctuary
Speaker 1: and everything else that she's out there doing. So you
Speaker 1: said it's not going that well this year though, for
Speaker 1: the for the Hunt, you don't think you're gonna be
Speaker 1: a victor again.
Speaker 8: I can't talk numbers. That's one thing you get disqualified
Speaker 8: for if you're like, hey, I got this many or whatever.
Speaker 8: But you know, I got to like play it cool,
Speaker 8: like I can't be like, oh my god, I have
Speaker 8: so many right now?
Speaker 1: Have you seen anybody else out there in the competition
Speaker 1: this year that had caught like a massive one already?
Speaker 8: So everyone's very hush hush, So it's secretive. I've heard
Speaker 8: talk to some people getting big ones, but you don't
Speaker 8: know if they're not as professional, how big or anything.
Speaker 8: I've heard some people getting nests, but again I don't
Speaker 8: know if they've gotten five babies or fifty babies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you ever have any protesters like hounding you
Speaker 1: about this stuff?
Speaker 8: I mean, hey, like I said, I've only done the
Speaker 8: Python Challenge two years in a row because it is
Speaker 8: kind of a mad house. A lot of people come down. Yeah,
Speaker 8: what the heck they're doing? So of course people are like,
Speaker 8: how could you enter that? But I'm like, they're gonna
Speaker 8: do it either way. Right, it's all about conservation. If
Speaker 8: I could get the word out there about like the
Speaker 8: good parts of the conservation and when the money they
Speaker 8: got don't find it?
Speaker 1: Gotcha? Got you? All right?
Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much, Taylor, Stan Barry, good luck
Speaker 2: and the rest of the competition this year. And you
Speaker 2: could follow her on Taylor too Short over on Instagram
Speaker 2: and see what's happening with her world. She gets out there,
Speaker 2: she catches all these animals and way more critters. There's
Speaker 2: all sorts of stuff on her social media pages, so
Speaker 2: go check those out. Thank you, Taylor, We appreciate the time.
Speaker 8: First, she had no problem thank you, all right.
Speaker 1: Taylor Stanberry popular on Instagram, not so popular with the pythons.
Speaker 1: Pythons are probably not not as as that of Look, no,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that she's got a wrap around there with
Speaker 1: with them. Okay, we're gonna take quick break. When we
Speaker 1: come back, we'll see what you have to say about
Speaker 1: all of this. We've got so much more to get
Speaker 1: into as the Power Hour rolls on, and that's coming
Speaker 1: up next on the news. Chunk key, Let's see what
Speaker 1: else we had before we wrap things up today. I
Speaker 1: guess uh. We had the clip earlier this week that
Speaker 1: was supposedly Chuck Schumer and he was speaking in Congress,
Speaker 1: and they believe that there was a fart sound and
Speaker 1: we had surmise from this that perhaps Chuck Schumer was
Speaker 1: the person behind the fart sound because he kind of
Speaker 1: like snickered after it. I would say there was a
Speaker 1: bit of a laugh there, he's like, And I'll play
Speaker 1: the original clip before I get to believe it or not.
Speaker 1: There has been updates on.
Speaker 12: This now on IRAN and the NDAA. The American people
Speaker 12: need to know, of course, how and why this chaos
Speaker 12: is spreading through their streets, and we need complete one
Speaker 12: more time, that's independent now on Iran and the NDAA.
Speaker 1: When all he even seemed to rise up a little
Speaker 1: bit like okay, held him Yeah, like it moved his
Speaker 1: body upward and then because this is just how things
Speaker 1: are working these days. I guess they asked him about
Speaker 1: this outside of Congress. There was a reporter who asked him, like, Hey,
Speaker 1: was that you what happened senator lecture certificates of sender of.
Speaker 17: Senator Jacob with TMZ, did you fart yesterday on the
Speaker 17: Senate floor?
Speaker 1: No answer, nothing, He won't answer to the people. Everybody.
Speaker 9: MZ in Washington is one of the greatest gifts we've
Speaker 9: ever seen.
Speaker 1: This is this is a kind of hard hitting journalism
Speaker 1: we've been needing, right, yes, who Finally it arrives with
Speaker 1: TMZ asking the real questions.
Speaker 2: Like how he identified himself just in the same manner
Speaker 2: that serious journalists do.
Speaker 1: Like Washington Post. Just he says TMZ. I guess they
Speaker 1: asked another politician to chuck Shuma kind of post gas.
Speaker 1: It sounded like he passed gas when he was up there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if he I think he'd just been
Speaker 1: to the taco bill. I saw that.
Speaker 7: It's kind of like it's a little sort of embarrassing
Speaker 7: if that's really what happened, but.
Speaker 1: Also like it's so natural and kind of relatable. Is
Speaker 1: it relatable to you?
Speaker 15: No, because I always everybody says, oh, you can eat that,
Speaker 15: it's organic.
Speaker 1: I said, well edgum, Horseman's organic. I don't eat it.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was horsemane is organic?
Speaker 8: Why?
Speaker 1: I don't even know what that means. It's why you
Speaker 1: brought that up at this time. But they're walking around
Speaker 1: asking all the politicians about this, and that's the latest.
Speaker 1: Just in case you were wondering. You probably weren't, but
Speaker 1: just in case you were a couple of people with
Speaker 1: some feedback on what we've talked about today. We've covered
Speaker 1: a lot of ground, as you might imagine. Here's Scooter
Speaker 1: Man with some comments about the budget situation that I
Speaker 1: was talking about.
Speaker 20: Hey, news junkies, Hey, yeah, Sean, you're pretty correct on
Speaker 20: the surplus thing with the government. Navy veteran here and
Speaker 20: we had an office, well I ran an office, and
Speaker 20: our budget was about one hundred and forty thousand for
Speaker 20: the year, you know, buy all new tables, chairs, all
Speaker 20: that stuff. But the next year we didn't need all
Speaker 20: new tables, chairs and computers, but if we didn't spend
Speaker 20: one hundred and forty thousand, it went away. So we
Speaker 20: made sure we spent it every year.
Speaker 1: Have a good day, guys, We'll go we go, Pop pop.
Speaker 1: Thank you appreciate the information scooter, Matt, thank you for that.
Speaker 1: And more New York Mobster TTS dispatches. They're they're so
Speaker 1: good that I think i'll I'll hold on to them.
Speaker 1: But just so, just so you know, some of you
Speaker 1: were sending these over. Stop trying to play into the
Speaker 1: idea that you don't think the mobster voice sounds like
Speaker 1: an actual mobster. Okay, because some of this what's.
Speaker 18: Up, junkies, I want to invite you to my castle
Speaker 18: where I can suck your blood.
Speaker 1: Doesn't sound like a vampire. All right, That's what a
Speaker 1: lot of the pushback is. But I don't I disagree.
Speaker 1: Thank you for sending that over regardless. Here's shark bait.
Speaker 1: Let's see what it says or what this is?
Speaker 5: Hey, junkies, what's going on?
Speaker 2: I decided to see my bestest buddy.
Speaker 8: I guess what, Ham's.
Speaker 5: Got a broken knee?
Speaker 1: All right? This is this is swilly who sends in
Speaker 1: dispatches and is a part of the community. I said earlier,
Speaker 1: and I stand by this. When you are an adult,
Speaker 1: a grown adult, and you're breaking your legs and you're
Speaker 1: breaking your arms, you're breaking limbs, it's usually a red flag.
Speaker 1: It's usually a.
Speaker 2: Sign that you have done some things that maybe you
Speaker 2: should not have been doing. You're drinking, you're riding golf
Speaker 2: carts too fast. I don't know what did him in,
Speaker 2: but Squilly's a grown ass man and he's in a
Speaker 2: cast He's got a full on cast on, has.
Speaker 5: Got a broken knee.
Speaker 1: Damn, we're here hanging out. Love you, guys pace.
Speaker 9: His his injury came from trying to help a drunken
Speaker 9: friend to bed from drunk. So he was he was
Speaker 9: being a good guy. He was trying to help somebody else.
Speaker 9: They were drunk at the time.
Speaker 1: And they fell on his knee. Oh God, breaking your
Speaker 1: knee cast is that's got to be a tough one.
Speaker 1: That doesn't sound good at all, Swilly. We wish you
Speaker 1: the best. I hope you're gonna be okay. Don't ever
Speaker 1: help anybody again, Swilly. Yeah, that's what happens. Yeah, learn
Speaker 1: not to help people. Out please for the sake of God.
Speaker 1: Um okay, a couple more emails coming in here we have,
Speaker 1: Jeremy says the tips to Thenewsjunkie dot com. Jeremy says,
Speaker 1: I'm the same age as you, and I have never
Speaker 1: put a normal time in a microwave. I always guess
Speaker 1: the exact seconds. My tea is two minutes and twenty
Speaker 1: seven twenty four seconds. Every single morning, a reheat might
Speaker 1: be forty three seconds, et cetera. I always just put
Speaker 1: in a random number that I guess. Keep up the work,
Speaker 1: says Jeremy. Very very disturbing. It's right on the heels
Speaker 1: of what we were talking about earlier, where I said there
Speaker 1: are some people who use their microwaves. They don't put
Speaker 1: in the time like the rest of us do, or
Speaker 1: hit that thirty thirty thirty, you know, to get to
Speaker 1: whatever time you're at. But they put ninety nine minutes in,
Speaker 1: ninety nine seconds in so they don't have to put
Speaker 1: times in, and they just keep hitting star and they
Speaker 1: count down from wherever they are. That is straight up
Speaker 1: serial killer behavior. That is very disturbing stuff. Here is
Speaker 1: Samuel with an email. There's a female Nashville police officer
Speaker 1: who was let go because she was romping on the clock,
Speaker 1: having sex multiple times in her police car and in
Speaker 1: the middle school where she was a resource officer. I
Speaker 1: guess a local strip club has offered her a job.
Speaker 1: This says w KRN, former Metro police officer accused of
Speaker 1: sexual activity on duty in a middle school. That part's rough.
Speaker 1: Let's see if we learned anything from this. Hang on,
Speaker 1: let me try to start this video here. It's from Nashville.
Speaker 8: Sure is off the force today after admitting to serious
Speaker 8: departmental violations.
Speaker 5: This is news to it for I'm Tory Gesner and
Speaker 5: Jen Kendall Ashman.
Speaker 6: News To has been investigating this salacious story for months.
Speaker 6: Relationship for Dan joins us now with the story you
Speaker 6: were seeing first on two and.
Speaker 19: A police internal investigation by Metro Police revealed a sex scandal.
Speaker 19: Now it happened on duty, it happened in a Metro
Speaker 19: police car.
Speaker 1: It happened in a middle school with children who were
Speaker 1: close by. Were they were the kids?
Speaker 19: On the surface, Officer Lisa Vidrios seemed to have it all.
Speaker 1: She looked and she does.
Speaker 2: She has like exaggerated face that smile in her picture.
Speaker 1: Uh huh. That's crazy. Smile yeah, to Nashville from the
Speaker 1: Sanego Police Department, serving as a police officer. I served
Speaker 1: in the United States Marine Corps for nine years.
Speaker 19: In twenty twenty two, she graduated from the Metro Police Academy.
Speaker 19: The department even chose her among a handful of promising officers.
Speaker 1: So what are wrong here? She started sleeping with a
Speaker 1: bunch of the other officers, smooching with everybody. She was
Speaker 1: smooting with everybody. There was a complaint lodged against Lisa
Speaker 1: Vidrios and an unnamed eighteen year police veteran. Somebody got
Speaker 1: caught cheating, didn't they. That's what that's what does this?
Speaker 1: The investigative reports that the couple had sex well on duty,
Speaker 1: in a police vehicle and in the middle school where
Speaker 1: Vidrios served as a school resource officer during hours when
Speaker 1: children were inside the building. She started off as a
Speaker 1: promising officer with a solid background, ready to protect and
Speaker 1: serve in the streets in Nashville, and now look at this,
Speaker 1: She's in the middle of a big sex scandal. According
Speaker 1: to an internal report obtained by News Too, the thirty
Speaker 1: seven year old married woman and another m NPD officer
Speaker 1: began having an affair. So yeah, I mean, whenever you
Speaker 1: see these tis about another officer not named and shamed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. I don't know why they didn't name the
Speaker 1: other area. Yeah, just as male officer, and it says
Speaker 1: per the report, Vidrios's phone contained footage of the couple
Speaker 1: having sex on the couch in her office at Madison
Speaker 1: Middle School, where staff can be heard talking outside the door.
Speaker 1: The report indicatese the pair had sexual relationships at sexual
Speaker 1: relations at the school four times, with Vidio saying in
Speaker 1: a written statement that kids were inside the building during
Speaker 1: this time. So what happens a lot is somebody gets
Speaker 1: caught cheating and their significant other is like, I am
Speaker 1: telling your boss, and they're going to one hundred percent
Speaker 1: going to do a report on this in an investigation.
Speaker 1: That's exactly where this is led. Thank you for the email, Sam,
Speaker 1: appreciate that. And let's see one more here. Matthew emails
Speaker 1: the show. Hey, Sean, I just thought i'd give a
Speaker 1: little insight into the person using the porta potty at
Speaker 1: that house that was under construction. This was in the
Speaker 1: pick Aside on Wednesday. I think it's perfectly fine to
Speaker 1: use somebody's porta potty, even if it's at their house
Speaker 1: like this. I used to drive for Amazon and Hello Fresh,
Speaker 1: and specifically with Amazon for quite a while. I know
Speaker 1: you've already heard that they have trouble going to the
Speaker 1: bathroom because they can be in the same neighborhood for
Speaker 1: more than half their shift without going down another main
Speaker 1: street with a business on it. When I would look
Speaker 1: down the street and see a porta potty on the
Speaker 1: curb because of construction, that was like gold to me.
Speaker 1: I would literally cheer and say thank God and use
Speaker 1: the porta partty. They paid the construction company to work
Speaker 1: on their house and they brought a porta potty so
Speaker 1: they don't use the inside bathroom and make it messy.
Speaker 1: That porta party is simply a tool of the construction
Speaker 1: company and doesn't belong to the homeowner. I do understand
Speaker 1: there is a part about going on their property, but
Speaker 1: just know the porta potties are always on the most
Speaker 1: outer edge, right next to the line on the sidewalk.
Speaker 1: As far as trespassing goes, anybody's allowed to walk on
Speaker 1: your front property until they're told to get off.
Speaker 2: I defend the use of a public porta Potty, says Matthew.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your email, Matthew. We're gonna take a
Speaker 2: quick break. We're back with the.
Speaker 1: Final dispatches, stories that didn't make the cut, and of
Speaker 1: course today learned to wrap it up for a Friday
Speaker 1: and the whole week that's coming up next on the
Speaker 1: news chunk Key Secret Show goes live as per usual
Speaker 1: five pm Eastern on Fridays, and it was a good one.
Speaker 1: It was an excellent secret show, worth your time and
Speaker 1: worth your subscription over at the news Junkie dot com.
Speaker 1: You'll see what I was raging about.
Speaker 2: Somebody said something to me that I thought was immensely rude, just.
Speaker 1: Over the top rude, and I had me fired up.
Speaker 1: And what was it actually rude? I think I find
Speaker 1: it to be very offensive. We go into that, We
Speaker 1: went to do a lot of different stories and update
Speaker 1: on the Palette band saga with Josh, a bunch of
Speaker 1: fun stuff. It was a fun journey as always with
Speaker 1: secret shows. So have a laugh and enjoy your weekend
Speaker 1: with a subscription over on the website to support the show.
Speaker 2: I was confused for a second there because I just
Speaker 2: looked up at my laptop and you activated it I activated.
Speaker 2: Will you remember what you said to me right before
Speaker 2: we came out and break mine too? I said, you
Speaker 2: have to pick a side ready? Or I said it's
Speaker 2: something right, you said, Ceilane, you know can you can
Speaker 2: you put up a timer for me?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And I just looked up at my laptop and
Speaker 1: Siri was there and it's like, for how long? So
Speaker 1: is mine? Yeah? Mine was too? All right, I've got
Speaker 1: to pick a side for you. This is a quick one.
Speaker 1: It's a quick pick a side, A quick aside, if
Speaker 1: you will. This happened in a parking garage. You have
Speaker 1: two people who you can choose from. One is this
Speaker 1: young man who's driving an suv. He has a huge
Speaker 1: line of cars behind him in this parking garage, and
Speaker 1: then one woman in front of him blocking his way
Speaker 1: out of the parking garage. She's very upset with him
Speaker 1: and every other car behind him. She wants them all
Speaker 1: to get out of the way. It's time, here we go.
Speaker 2: Let's pick a side.
Speaker 1: Got forgot about the song? It's okay at the end
Speaker 1: of the show. Side, it's the end of the show,
Speaker 1: It's the end of the week. Forgot about the song?
Speaker 1: It's okay? Back to it. Hey, pick a side.
Speaker 2: You pick from this young gentleman who is in the
Speaker 2: suv or the woman who is facing off with in
Speaker 2: a parking garage, Brace yourself, here we go.
Speaker 1: Look behind me. She's saying, go the f around. She's
Speaker 1: saying many choice things to him, including calling him a dumbass.
Speaker 1: Picture this, two cars facing each other. One is going
Speaker 1: the correct way, the other one is going against the
Speaker 1: grain of traffic in a one way parking garage and
Speaker 1: is so sure that she's in the right that's what
Speaker 1: that's the woman who's screaming she's going the wrong way.
Speaker 1: She's dumb, loud and wrong. Barstool for dar baby. It's
Speaker 1: a one way where you're trying to prove a point.
Speaker 1: There's no parking spot. Where are you going to go?
Speaker 1: Where are you? Am I the wrong?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 1: I got two people agree with from over here. This
Speaker 1: happened before. The guy in the middle of the pick
Speaker 1: a side is like, am I in the wrong? Pick
Speaker 1: a side right now? We don't have to wait till
Speaker 1: the end of this video. Pick a side. This is
Speaker 1: next level dumb.
Speaker 2: This woman is going the wrong way in a parking garage,
Speaker 2: but has decided to yell and go nuclear and take
Speaker 2: apart this park. Look don't look like slanted spots, but
Speaker 2: I can't tell from this angle.
Speaker 1: No, I can't tell you this. That's what he said.
Speaker 2: He said it was, And there's a line of cars
Speaker 2: behind him, and this lady is going absolutely nuclear on him,
Speaker 2: sing up a storm, and he's.
Speaker 1: Like, what do you want me to do that? There's
Speaker 1: cars behind me, there's a one way. What what are
Speaker 1: I supposed to do here?
Speaker 2: So I obviously choose the guys, some of the guys.
Speaker 2: Everybody's siding you sided with him to Josh, Okay, this
Speaker 2: was an easy one. This This guy was definitely in
Speaker 2: the right right, Yeah, yeah, yeah they were.
Speaker 1: And also I love that the guy was like, uh,
Speaker 1: trying to to play to the audience of people around
Speaker 1: him and like, anybody side with me on this? Okay,
Speaker 1: good by wrong, let's pick asides going into the real
Speaker 1: world here. That's what we're seeing now, all right, that's
Speaker 1: going to have to do it for today. We love you,
Speaker 1: We appreciate you. Thank you for hanging out with us
Speaker 1: all week. Next week is going to be a wild ride.
Speaker 1: Should have some more news for you at some point
Speaker 1: next week. On the show. And also, uh, here's to
Speaker 1: a big, crazy viral week. Don't miss a moment. And
Speaker 1: right now it's time to get the hell out of here.
Speaker 1: Let's do today.
Speaker 8: I learned the following information made make you feel smarter
Speaker 8: but will not actually increase your IQ, So don't get cocky.
Speaker 1: What we come today?
Speaker 2: It is today learned for a Friday, July seventeen, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six.
Speaker 1: Thank you to Josh Fowler. Excellent job all the way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did it. I did a great job. He's good,
Speaker 1: he's amazing, he's unbelievable. Not an incredible racist, not as
Speaker 1: far as people know, As far as most people listening,
Speaker 1: it's a regular old racists find out you'll find out
Speaker 1: on secret shows five pm. Go check that out over
Speaker 1: on the news junkie dot com. All right, let's just
Speaker 1: skip to it again. Thanks if you gave us a
Speaker 1: segment or the whole damn show or the whole damn
Speaker 1: week even it's a pleasure to be with you as always,
Speaker 1: And here we go today. Learned this band right here,
Speaker 1: Fire Straights. That's right, Dire Straits.
Speaker 2: The iconic guitar tone on Dire Straits money.
Speaker 1: Thank you for nothing. There was a complete accident.
Speaker 2: It was caused by a microphone that was pointed at
Speaker 2: the floor, and audio engineers.
Speaker 1: Still can't perfectly replicate the sound. Are they trying? It
Speaker 1: seems weird if they're still trying.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for hanging out with us. We
Speaker 2: do appreciate it. We're back Monday, same time, same place.
Speaker 1: Missed Eddy of the show.
Speaker 2: Get the podcast at the neewsjunkie dot com.
Speaker 1: We'll see you next time.
Speaker 3: Everybody that ain't working, definitely you do it.
Speaker 1: You've played the guitar on MTV