Speaker 1: The News Chunkie starts now.
Speaker 2: It is Friday, May twenty ninth to twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: Wats to get to today? From the Blue Origin explosion
Speaker 2: drama to the Trump Freedom two point fifty concert is
Speaker 2: falling apart and all hell breaks loose? Said the National
Speaker 2: Spelling Bee. Plus your calls, dispatches, emails, text Sam Moor,
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Speaker 1: Friends, Oh god, what happened? We got a last minute message.
Speaker 2: Josh right before the show. Yeah, and it wasn't from
Speaker 2: Alejandro either. Are you sure I heard different? Who did
Speaker 2: text me right before the show? And he goes, we
Speaker 2: still doing the show today? And I go, yeah, what
Speaker 2: did you hear? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I'm like, well, what's going on? He's in the building.
Speaker 3: Is like management pulled him aside on the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Eric, Alejandra, you still showed up despite all this
Speaker 2: stuff happening around here. I go tell me what we
Speaker 2: got now. Wasn't Alejandro. It was that fat kid that
Speaker 2: wanted some barbecue from his neighbor. Let's see what he said.
Speaker 2: Great Friday, we did it, everybody. We've made it through
Speaker 2: a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday has arrived. Patch
Speaker 2: yourself on the back. Let's ensure our right up into
Speaker 2: the weekend. How's everybody doing on a Friday? Yeah you
Speaker 2: seem I'm sure, Josh.
Speaker 3: It's been a while since I've done Sea Lane's whole job,
Speaker 3: so I'm trying to make sure I got all my
Speaker 3: spinning plates going.
Speaker 2: You got buttons over there, you got all the all
Speaker 2: the things all right. I think we're good. I think
Speaker 2: we'll be good. And if we're not, we'll just send
Speaker 2: us a whole boatload of dispatches to float us through
Speaker 2: the day today. I think you could do that over
Speaker 2: at the neewsjunkie dot com. While we do this, let's
Speaker 2: put our ears to the ground, our fingers on the pulse.
Speaker 2: Let's see what's happening to this great, big, wide world
Speaker 2: of ours. And we go to a courtroom where a
Speaker 2: gentleman grabs the attention of the judge well and just
Speaker 2: about everybody else who's paying attention in the courtroom with
Speaker 2: his uh, with his hoodie that he's wearing in the moment. Now,
Speaker 2: let's show the people real quick who are watching on
Speaker 2: YouTube and Twitch. He's wearing a very particular hoodie here.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you can see this all handro
Speaker 2: can you see everything?
Speaker 1: I owned a hoodie? You do have this strip club veteran? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So the judge notices this.
Speaker 2: Here's what happens, ny, sir, you're a strip club veteran.
Speaker 2: I just judge. I want to thank him for his
Speaker 2: service action. Everybody's in on it. The opposing council's in
Speaker 2: on all the everybody wants to talk about this guy.
Speaker 2: You're a strip club veteran, sir. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: How there tours of duty did you do?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 2: Prstal bomb? Mister Redmond? Did you get a proper heart?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 5: If you date May twenty nine in fun of Judge Robins,
Speaker 5: step beside.
Speaker 2: Sir, Step beside, sir. Today's his day. He is in
Speaker 2: court doing his thing. Strip club veteran and uh, god speed, sir.
Speaker 2: You know I wish you the best.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: They would have been hilarious like, I can imagine the
Speaker 2: judge being like, oh, that's such a funny shirt. How
Speaker 2: many tours of duty did you do as a strip
Speaker 2: club veteran? And then the guy's joking around with him
Speaker 2: like he's gonna get off and everything's gonna be fine.
Speaker 2: Next thing, you know, the judge is like, Okay, forty
Speaker 2: five years in prison, murder one. Yeah, your dad, you
Speaker 2: are guilty as sin, sir. It's not It's absolutely not
Speaker 2: gonna be a good day for you. I hope it is, though,
Speaker 2: depending on what he did. And I really don't know,
Speaker 2: but I do know everybody was talking late last night.
Speaker 2: Did both of you see the rocket explosion that happened? Yeah,
Speaker 2: my god, man, unbelievable. This was a huge rocket explosion
Speaker 2: from the Blue Origin folks, which, if you're not initiated,
Speaker 2: that's the that's the Amazon thing, it's the Jeff Bezos deal.
Speaker 2: And the Blue Origin rocket was out there on the
Speaker 2: launch pad, and I think it was just it was
Speaker 2: a test, you know, there wasn't anything crazy supposed to happen,
Speaker 2: and yet it blew up and it was excuse me, apologies,
Speaker 2: my allergies are creeping up here. I'll get some more
Speaker 2: spray during the break. Oh thank god, thank god, I'll
Speaker 2: get some more nasal spray. I'm almost out, for God's sake.
Speaker 2: But this was just supposed to be a simple test
Speaker 2: and what it ended up being allegedly. Allegedly, it ended
Speaker 2: up being the biggest non nuclear explosion in the history
Speaker 2: of the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, we had a mushroom cloud on everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like it rocked.
Speaker 2: The neighbors started filming it near crazy where the cap was.
Speaker 2: It was the craziest explosion it was supposed to be,
Speaker 2: according to CFL. Can't on twitch a static fire test. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was just a regular run of the mill test
Speaker 2: they were doing. It was in preparation of their upcoming
Speaker 2: launch of the new Glen rocket, which was going to
Speaker 2: send forty eight Amazon satellites into low or Earth orbit.
Speaker 2: But no, that's not what happened. Instead, the whole thing
Speaker 2: exploded in a massive fireball, just like.
Speaker 6: This launch pad explosion of a Blue Origin rocket during
Speaker 6: a test at Cape Canaveral, The fireball turning the nice
Speaker 6: sky into an orange glow and the shockwave shaking houses.
Speaker 6: I mean, look at that scene unfolding during an edge
Speaker 6: test of a bit. It is Origin rocket, the company
Speaker 6: describing what happened as an anomaly. Support of Michelle Fisher
Speaker 6: with the details to not on the explosion and what
Speaker 6: it means for NASA.
Speaker 2: Michelle, I mean, what a catastrophe this was. I heard
Speaker 2: it cost like a hun undred million dollars.
Speaker 1: That's a drop in the bucket for them.
Speaker 2: Bezos is like out one hundred mil. This thing completely
Speaker 2: and totally explodes, and I guess the mission is just
Speaker 2: completely canned. Here too, let me see what she says here,
Speaker 2: Hold on, Michelle Fisher, So Mark, this is.
Speaker 7: A significant setback for Blue Origin. This rocket was set
Speaker 7: to play a key role in future Moon missions. Tonight
Speaker 7: we are hearing from NASA and Blue Origin owner Jeff
Speaker 7: Bezos dramatic images tonight of the moment a Blue Origin
Speaker 7: rocket explodes on the launch pad during an engine firing
Speaker 7: test Thursday in Cape Canaverra, Florida.
Speaker 2: Quick question for you big space fans and everybody who's
Speaker 2: super tuned into this stuff.
Speaker 1: Why is there no audio?
Speaker 2: I've seen like so many videos from up close and
Speaker 2: there's no audio of the explosion. Were they like, were
Speaker 2: they so uninterested in this test that they weren't even
Speaker 2: rolling a camera that was recording audio or did the
Speaker 2: audio get blown out? Everything blow out? In the minds,
Speaker 2: I could have like that, that's how massive. Literally I'll
Speaker 2: show you in a moment. But I believe this is
Speaker 2: one of the biggest explosions that wasn't a nuclear bomb
Speaker 2: in history.
Speaker 8: It's a cash fireball illuminating the night sky nearby homes
Speaker 8: in central Florida, rattled Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos, posting
Speaker 8: on x It's too early to know the root cause,
Speaker 8: but we're already working to find it. Very rough day,
Speaker 8: but we'll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying.
Speaker 2: It's worth it.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 2: Imagine losing one hundred mil and you're like a tough day,
Speaker 2: a little bit of a tough day.
Speaker 3: It's like if I had a twenty dollars bill that
Speaker 3: I was going to use to buy lunch and then
Speaker 3: I lost it, I'd be like, Yeah.
Speaker 6: Don't worry.
Speaker 1: On Monday, Sean will be on Awesome that I'm a
Speaker 1: Soul membership is going up.
Speaker 2: You need to good God. Yeah. Blue Origin rocket explodes
Speaker 2: during tests is the big headline that we take away
Speaker 2: from this. But it really was absolutely dramatic and it
Speaker 2: was filmed in all these different neighborhoods.
Speaker 1: I'll give you a little bit of this.
Speaker 2: Somebody made a super cut of all these people near
Speaker 2: Cape Canaveral Risk responding and of course you got to
Speaker 2: soup it up a little bit, so you know, that's
Speaker 2: what they did. As people's houses were rocked by the
Speaker 2: massive explosion. Watch this guy run out here in his
Speaker 2: front yard and his underwear.
Speaker 3: Oh, we probably just woke up and thought we were
Speaker 3: being invaded by Iran or something.
Speaker 2: This guy goes, they did it.
Speaker 3: The drones are here, Lorange missiles.
Speaker 1: VW. Shane says.
Speaker 2: All the videos you're seeing are likely from the NASA
Speaker 2: Spaceflight YouTube channel, which is independent.
Speaker 1: They were just recording it.
Speaker 2: They didn't anticipate it being what it was, and therefore
Speaker 2: there's not really a lot of audio. Yeah. I was
Speaker 2: just blown away all of the clips that I saw.
Speaker 2: Everything that I saw was no audio. It was just like,
Speaker 2: here's another view of this, and I would just explain
Speaker 2: it for everybody listening. You just see the rocket on
Speaker 2: the pad. You see it start to ignite a little
Speaker 2: bit and then capau.
Speaker 1: You know, there it goes.
Speaker 2: You would have heard a massive earth shattering explosion.
Speaker 1: Were there any audio being recorded.
Speaker 2: Is this happened late on Thursday night, but you could
Speaker 2: see it from as away. It rumbled all of the
Speaker 2: different buildings around this area. Freaked out a lot of neighbors.
Speaker 2: I know there was some people at a bar. I think,
Speaker 2: hold on, I have some of this here. These people
Speaker 2: were at a bar and they filmed it nearby, and
Speaker 2: they're like, what are we watching him? Huge explosion?
Speaker 1: Oh say?
Speaker 2: She says, No, I don't think that's the rocket launched. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it tried.
Speaker 3: If you didn't know that there was a space center
Speaker 3: right there where they regularly did rocket testing, that would
Speaker 3: be a very concerning site.
Speaker 1: I think so too.
Speaker 2: I would have legitimately believed that there was some sort
Speaker 2: of massive war going on. Is this somebody's doorbell camera
Speaker 2: as a delivery guy was here? Oh, Alejandro, stay by
Speaker 2: the dump button because this guy is likely like if
Speaker 2: I heard this thing explode one of the biggest explosions
Speaker 2: non nuclear in the history of the world, and I'm
Speaker 2: just dropping off some door dash or something, I'm probably
Speaker 2: gonna drop a few f bombs. So yeah, stand by.
Speaker 2: We might need to hit the dump button, all right,
Speaker 2: rings the doorbell walks away? Is it just that light
Speaker 2: in the sky. I mean it turned the night into day.
Speaker 2: But I didn't hear I didn't even actually explodure it. Wow.
Speaker 2: And then it just fades right back intonight. Holy cow,
Speaker 2: like like a movie trick or something like. It literally
Speaker 2: lit the night up like it was daytime, and then
Speaker 2: when it's over, you see it just fade back tonight.
Speaker 2: Just crazy that this happened. Hundred million dollars lost. That
Speaker 2: says this was bigger than the Halifax explosion, the Port
Speaker 2: Chicago disaster of nineteen forty four, or the Opaw explosion
Speaker 2: in Germany. It's the largest accidental artificial, non nuclear explosion
Speaker 2: in history. And you can say you were there, you
Speaker 2: were alive.
Speaker 3: When this happen. Unbelievable. Yeah, I was in the same state, Buddy, Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah I was. I was close enough that I.
Speaker 2: Didn't hear anything.
Speaker 1: I remember the war.
Speaker 2: They said there's three options here, rebuild from scratch, borrow,
Speaker 2: or by launch capacity from a competitor like SpaceX. Does
Speaker 2: Bezos get along with Elon Musk? Do they do? They?
Speaker 3: I feel like in the billionaire lunch room they do
Speaker 3: not sit at the same table.
Speaker 2: I like, I would think one of them would feel
Speaker 2: like a loser for asking for the other one, you know,
Speaker 2: like the like I would need a rocket man and
Speaker 2: my rocket blew up, like they wouldn't want to do it.
Speaker 2: And then they said the other option is they can
Speaker 2: absorb the delay and then just keep investing.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: Those are the only things they can do now that
Speaker 2: this thing completely and totally exploded. And yeah, Jeff Bezos said,
Speaker 2: all personnel are accounted for and safe. It's too early
Speaker 2: to know the root cause, but we're already working to
Speaker 2: find it. Very rough day, but we'll rebuild whatever needs
Speaker 2: rebuilding and get back to flying. It's worth it, says
Speaker 2: Bezos of Amazon on the Blue Origin rocket explosion. A
Speaker 2: couple of emails to get us started here today. Tyler
Speaker 2: emails the show tips at thenewsjunkie dot com.
Speaker 1: Hey news Junkie.
Speaker 2: I've been listening for ten years and you guys are
Speaker 2: the best. I listened every single day. I'm pumped about
Speaker 2: the new app you released. I'm in an account on
Speaker 2: your website, but due to too much whiskey, I forgot
Speaker 2: the password. I mean, whose fault is that, sir? H
Speaker 2: the whiskey's fault. Help me recover it? Personally, I blame
Speaker 2: Seela and Sean. You do nothing wrong, Sea Lane, brother,
Speaker 2: get it together, serious, he says Tyler. Tyler, I think
Speaker 2: there's a password recovery on there on the on the
Speaker 2: website when you go to log in. But if you
Speaker 2: can't find it, email me again, Matt. Matt says, I
Speaker 2: can't handle it now, obviously, Matt says on alpha gal syndrome, alhandra,
Speaker 2: you know what alpha gal syndrome is? No, just guess
Speaker 2: just from from the name of it. What do you
Speaker 2: think alpha gal syndrome? Yeah, alpha gal Alpha alpha gal
Speaker 2: gl is the second word.
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know, somebody a beta that wants to
Speaker 1: be in alpha. Okay. Alpha gal syndrome is a real thing,
Speaker 1: and if you.
Speaker 2: Get bit by these particular ticks, it makes it so
Speaker 2: you're allergic to meat, red meat.
Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, I didn't know the name, but I know
Speaker 1: what it is though. Yeah, alpha gal syndrome.
Speaker 2: We were talking about this, We were saying, there's areas
Speaker 2: I think was it Martha's Vineyard or something like that.
Speaker 2: I think, ye, northeast, right, yeah, yeah, Like there's such
Speaker 2: a high amount of people that have this alpha gal
Speaker 2: syndrome that all the restaurants are having to revamp their
Speaker 2: menus because such a high percentage of people are now
Speaker 2: allergic to red meat, and it makes you vomit like crazy.
Speaker 2: It's a whole thing, right, and Matt says, I'm a
Speaker 2: week behind the podcast, but my wife was literally just
Speaker 2: diagnosed with alpha girl syndrome. She picked it up on
Speaker 2: a camping trip where she received several tick bites. She's
Speaker 2: the third person I know that has it, and it's
Speaker 2: pretty miserable. We have to think about where we go
Speaker 2: out to eat and even how we cook at home.
Speaker 2: I made her some chicken and impossible burgers excuse me burgers,
Speaker 2: and the rest of us eight regular beef hamburgers. She
Speaker 2: mistakenly put a fork that was in one of the
Speaker 2: normal burgers in her mouth and she was violently sick
Speaker 2: two hours later.
Speaker 1: He says there are varying.
Speaker 2: Levels of sensitivity, with people being having a reaction from
Speaker 2: smelling bacon or taking a gel cap tablet like tail
Speaker 2: and all. The anticipation is the hardest part, especially with
Speaker 2: she thinks she might get sick but isn't sure. She
Speaker 2: picked up her EpiPens yesterday so she's prepared if she
Speaker 2: has an anaphylactic reaction.
Speaker 1: We're just figuring out how to deal with this.
Speaker 2: But I really don't wish it on anyone, says Matt.
Speaker 2: Matt doesn't. But we talked about some of these these
Speaker 2: folks who did this research study where they were like, actually,
Speaker 2: eating meat is bad and bad for the environment and
Speaker 2: mostly morally wrong. With their point like eating meat is
Speaker 2: morally wrong, which I obviously disagree with, but they said
Speaker 2: that we should spread this disease around because then the
Speaker 2: moral right that would come from it, you know, just
Speaker 2: by infecting people with this alpha gal syndrome would be
Speaker 2: that we would eat less meat and we would be better.
Speaker 1: Humanity would be better for it.
Speaker 2: And you hear now people who have it saying hell, no, man,
Speaker 2: this is miserable. And last one for now, Dina says,
Speaker 2: se Lane is right now, I want to run this
Speaker 2: by Allahundra. He wasn't here when this all happened. All Hudre,
Speaker 2: you tell me if you think this statement from see
Speaker 2: Lane is is correct or not. See Lane suggested that
Speaker 2: toothpaste doesn't do anything right, he said. He said, basically,
Speaker 2: you could brush your teeth with anything, and toothpaste is
Speaker 2: all just a bunch of stuff that doesn't really do
Speaker 2: anything for your teeth.
Speaker 1: Right, that was his claim, that just breath.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like just for like freshening your breath, and
Speaker 2: the rest of it's like nonsense in marketing. And Deanna says,
Speaker 2: nobody seemed to respond to see Laane's toothpaste statement. I
Speaker 2: could say everything he said on Wednesday is correct. Toothpaste
Speaker 2: is not necessary and doesn't do much except make your
Speaker 2: breast smell better. The actual act of cleaning your teeth
Speaker 2: is a mechanical action of your toothbrushes, bristles. I was
Speaker 2: a dental assistant for almost fifteen years. Keep up the
Speaker 2: good work, guy, says Deanna. I'm gonna stick with the toothpaste. Deanna,
Speaker 2: all right, I mean I like when I hear somebody saying, like,
Speaker 2: you don't need toothpaste, I think I want to be
Speaker 2: as far away from this person as I possibly can.
Speaker 1: All Right, that's like saying you don't need yes, correct.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. The person who's against all of those things,
Speaker 2: that person is the person you want to keep a
Speaker 2: fair bit of distance from. We got a lot to
Speaker 2: get to today, so stick with us. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we'll talk about what went down the drama behind the
Speaker 2: scenes of the National Spelling Bee. This Trump two fifty
Speaker 2: concert seems to be falling apart. We got your dispatches
Speaker 2: more John Travolta. Lots of stuff to talk about on
Speaker 2: a busy Friday, and it's coming up next in the news, Chunkie.
Speaker 2: These two are the best spellers in all of iHeartRadio line.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, the best of the best. Doesn't get
Speaker 2: any better. Unbelievable level of talent kind of thing, and
Speaker 2: they are really truly they would have been the winners
Speaker 2: of the National Spelling Bee if that was a possibility.
Speaker 2: But they're not Indian and they're not the teenagers, so
Speaker 2: come on, yeah, they get cut out. My god, I
Speaker 2: don't know what it is about the Indian parents. The
Speaker 2: Indian culture is something. They are whipping these kids in shape.
Speaker 2: Every kid who's in the top ten, there's like a
Speaker 2: ninety percent chance that he's Indian, And my god, are
Speaker 2: the impressive at spelling these words?
Speaker 1: I won I don't know if you guys know this.
Speaker 2: I don't know if this is there might be something
Speaker 2: in the studio up on the wall or like a
Speaker 2: plaque or something, but I won the Spelling Bee in
Speaker 2: fifth grade at HL Johnson Elementary School.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Wow, I know I've heard that about it. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: can applaud if you want.
Speaker 1: I don't want to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: I didn't know you were such a smart guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, well you you should have picked that
Speaker 2: up a long time ago.
Speaker 1: All right, you should have really picked this up.
Speaker 2: But these kids now they go out on the stage
Speaker 2: and sometimes it feels like an SNL prank.
Speaker 9: Like there.
Speaker 2: They'll come out and they'll go up to the microphone
Speaker 2: and they'll go, okay, she read perique, and yes, okay,
Speaker 2: I'll come here and they'll go, we need you to
Speaker 2: spell this word. And the word that they throw at
Speaker 2: them will be like don' nup on top of teyria, right,
Speaker 2: And you'll be like, wait, what easy? Yeah, can you
Speaker 2: tell me that I'm alandro? I'm asking every question that
Speaker 2: we can you know what I mean, Like, I'm asking,
Speaker 2: can you use it as a sentence? What is the origin language?
Speaker 2: What can you tell me about any of this?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Here's an example of some of the words that che
Speaker 2: Parque ended up rattling off at the National Spelling Bee contest.
Speaker 2: Unbelievable performance. Here you go, could you spell any of these?
Speaker 2: Ask yourself?
Speaker 10: Anthemy?
Speaker 2: I don't even know what these words? You don't know
Speaker 2: do boom boom boom, you know, like one after another
Speaker 2: after another. I don't even know what the words are.
Speaker 2: Fado do?
Speaker 1: I gotta look that one up.
Speaker 2: I've been in broadcasting for uh forever.
Speaker 1: It seems I used that all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've never heard of this.
Speaker 3: It's a classic French lullaby used to help babies fall asleep.
Speaker 1: You see. Yeah, who doesn't know that?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 2: He just it's not even that he knows how to
Speaker 2: spell the words perfectly, it's that the script's National spelling
Speaker 2: Bee kids spell it like they're bored, right.
Speaker 1: Like bothering him with fat Oh my god on fat.
Speaker 2: O'Dell f ai s d o deal like he's rattling
Speaker 2: it off so fast. See the y w y d
Speaker 2: d A you bro, that's I'm challenging.
Speaker 1: It doesn't even look like a real word.
Speaker 2: Coed See why w y d d au. If I'm
Speaker 2: in a conversation with somebody and they're like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: that guy yesterday was so coedw Like did you hear
Speaker 2: Selan's take on toothpaste. The guy couldn't be anymore coed
Speaker 2: dow if he tried.
Speaker 3: It's a it's a Welsh word. That's why it's spelled
Speaker 3: so weird.
Speaker 2: What does it mean?
Speaker 3: Uh, prominent metrical form and traditional Welsh poetry?
Speaker 2: Yeah right, I mean what was that pronounced? I see, I'll.
Speaker 3: Go back because I can't even I didn't said it
Speaker 3: so fast, and he just rattled it off like it
Speaker 3: was absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2: I see y w y d d a.
Speaker 1: You coed.
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 12: Sure?
Speaker 1: And Howard are you too sunt?
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, literally, at what point do you
Speaker 2: just go kiss my ass? That's not a word, my wife?
Speaker 2: After this, I would just somebody says, spell yabadabado. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean might as well, right.
Speaker 4: Like.
Speaker 2: Nana not.
Speaker 10: A moot, nano fossil and ann fo socyle tom kang.
Speaker 2: If I was a little kid and I walked into
Speaker 2: this room and my mom's like, well, we got to
Speaker 2: get you into the spelling big competition, and I saw
Speaker 2: this kid trey winging these words out there, I'd go, Mom,
Speaker 2: let's just pack it up. I'm there. I can't. This
Speaker 2: is the equivalent of I'll give you, I'll give you
Speaker 2: the equivalent all right, and give me give me a
Speaker 2: moment here, I'll give you the equivalent. But I saw
Speaker 2: a video today and it perfectly I think encapsulates what
Speaker 2: I would feel like in that moment. You guys know me,
Speaker 2: You've you've seen me, and you've seen you know my physique,
Speaker 2: you know what kind of shape I'm in.
Speaker 1: You put is a word I've heard thrown around.
Speaker 2: Sure, it's up there right next to the plaque for
Speaker 2: me fifth grade H. L. Johnson Spelling be Winner. This
Speaker 2: is I would feel the same walking into a venue
Speaker 2: where this kid is spelling for the National Spelling Bee
Speaker 2: as I would if they said, Sean, we got there's
Speaker 2: a muscle building a bodybuilding competition and we want you
Speaker 2: to be in it. And I go, you serious, okay,
Speaker 2: all right, I'm going to be in the bodybuilding competition.
Speaker 2: And they go, all right, here's the first competitor. I go, bro,
Speaker 2: I don't even know if this this guy is real.
Speaker 2: I don't even.
Speaker 1: That's a good cycle of steroids right there?
Speaker 2: What in the ai like? This is what I would
Speaker 2: feel like. I would feel like I was looking at
Speaker 2: that like this.
Speaker 1: Guy side, do you guys look alike? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I got to get a screenshot of this, because this
Speaker 2: has to go up for to see it now people.
Speaker 2: This guy is so comically like an AI. I can't
Speaker 2: get a screenshot of that. Well, I do it?
Speaker 1: Do that one?
Speaker 2: Do that one? He does look fanted out. That's what
Speaker 2: I would feel like if I was a little kid
Speaker 2: coming into the competition.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm let me get this up for the
Speaker 2: see it now folks, just because it is I mean,
Speaker 2: it's unbelievable. I'm impressed with the level of physique that
Speaker 2: this guy's attained. But I think Josh may be onto something. Uh,
Speaker 2: there is no way that this guy isn't steroid it
Speaker 2: out like there there.
Speaker 3: Is zero that's like basically accepted for those guys.
Speaker 2: I think. So, yeah, muscle man looks like AI. There
Speaker 2: we go. All right, I got it for you. It's
Speaker 2: over on see it now, take a look. This is
Speaker 2: the level of competition I think that I would see
Speaker 2: all right, But back to it. Let me go back
Speaker 2: to the the kid pronouncing and spelling completely made up words.
Speaker 2: Let's all just be real. Macintosh and A T C
Speaker 2: H R T O C H s H S. Russell
Speaker 2: are U S E.
Speaker 6: L O S.
Speaker 1: A w d R Okay, that's the one that tripped it.
Speaker 2: I would be sitting there and they'd go solder and
Speaker 2: I'd be like, son of a bitch A word I know,
Speaker 2: and then I'd try to spell it and they go, oh,
Speaker 2: you buffoon, that's a that's a different solder about d Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're you're talking about welding. This is s A w
Speaker 2: d e R.
Speaker 10: Campernow c N p R and Lily Nicole.
Speaker 2: N s l M And I asked.
Speaker 1: J p r k R t l A c h
Speaker 1: t l I.
Speaker 2: Do you think they jeopardy these kids, like the judge
Speaker 2: who's asking these questions if they can't spell? To watch
Speaker 2: t Lily, do you think that the judge is like
Speaker 2: what the lo?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: How embarrassing is that?
Speaker 8: Or not?
Speaker 2: Says I bet he can't. I bet he can spell virginity.
Speaker 2: Come on, he's a child.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's the first time I see a speed round though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: before they highlights on station stuff, but not like this.
Speaker 2: I think this is how they weed out the lesser.
Speaker 10: Than as r T I A R r U S
Speaker 10: belinta walk the l I N t A w A
Speaker 10: K yes or a conter T s A.
Speaker 13: T r ok P s A P s I A
Speaker 13: rap a r A p a K. Have you you
Speaker 13: get the point right? I mean, this is absolutely one
Speaker 13: hundred percent real. I think I have the moment that
Speaker 13: the kid won Faisan Zaki of North Texas who won
Speaker 13: the National Spelling be Championship.
Speaker 1: This is the moment.
Speaker 2: It comes up to the microphone. They got to be
Speaker 2: great a scrabble, right, yeah, next level.
Speaker 10: So if you tell this next word correctly, we will
Speaker 10: declare you the champion of the historic one hundredth year
Speaker 10: of the Script's National Spelling Bee.
Speaker 2: All right, no pressure, buddy, Yeah you got it. They're like,
Speaker 2: here you go.
Speaker 10: Now, let's all of us take a deep breath.
Speaker 1: This guy's hilarious.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all of us together. I did not help it all.
Speaker 1: Thirteen years old.
Speaker 2: This kid from Dallas, Texas, he's a middle school student, and.
Speaker 1: I'd like, I'm not even on the same planet.
Speaker 10: Is well, a certain pacing would help to follow?
Speaker 2: Give him the word? I mean, your word is a
Speaker 2: claire C small. Okay, all right, go for a claire
Speaker 2: c small is the final word.
Speaker 1: That sounds like multiple words.
Speaker 2: A C L A R E see s M A
Speaker 2: L L.
Speaker 1: All right, that's the best I could do.
Speaker 2: That's the best E C L A first letter R.
Speaker 4: C I S S E M E N T.
Speaker 2: Because that is correct. They did it, everybody.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize they used words from foreign languages in
Speaker 3: this spelling.
Speaker 2: It's so ridiculous. It literally is one of the more
Speaker 2: ridiculous things I've ever seen in my life. I mean,
Speaker 2: I shout them out. It's very impressed. Yeah, what's that
Speaker 2: would mean?
Speaker 3: Just for the record, it underneath it was like the
Speaker 3: cleaning up of something of enlightenment.
Speaker 1: I think it.
Speaker 2: Says, all right, the clearing up of something of enlightenment.
Speaker 2: Clariss smon like what you could tell me that word
Speaker 2: and I just go for what I'm not. I will
Speaker 2: never use this. I will not like I will not.
Speaker 2: I won't be sitting there speaking to somebody and go
Speaker 2: I need the word for this. What a CLARISSMNT.
Speaker 1: Yeah, cut to the chase, buddy, give me the clariss essment.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to utilize that.
Speaker 2: But God bless you, Faison Zaki.
Speaker 1: What does he win? Does anybody know spelling? Your money?
Speaker 1: Is it just a title?
Speaker 2: You should get a million dollars he gets street cred.
Speaker 2: These are no street cred. That's the problem. You see them.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Like, if if the world were fair,
Speaker 2: people on Survivor would get fifty thousand dollars and the
Speaker 2: spelling Bee champion pison Zaki would get a million. But
Speaker 2: it's not.
Speaker 1: It's first they get fifty for the spelling Bee.
Speaker 2: Is it really? Oh my god?
Speaker 3: They have fifty thousand dollars also twenty five hundred dollars
Speaker 3: extra from Merriam Webster.
Speaker 1: What a treat.
Speaker 2: And by the way, you can't treat them like they're kids,
Speaker 2: Like where you go, Yeah, you know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: give you this really nice twenty dollars bill. Congratulations. They're smart.
Speaker 2: They understand that it's only fifty thousand dollars. You give
Speaker 2: old faizan Zak fifty thousand dollars and he goes, that's
Speaker 2: not even gonna be one semester for me at Harvard.
Speaker 2: He knows what the money is gonna do. It's just unbelievable.
Speaker 2: There they are.
Speaker 1: Are you impressed? Let us know.
Speaker 2: Send a dispatch over at the news Junkie dot com
Speaker 2: thenewsjunkie dot com. All right, quick break, when we come back,
Speaker 2: we've got a lot to get into we want to
Speaker 2: talk with you. We want your dispatches, emails and all
Speaker 2: the rest, all of that on the way, and it's
Speaker 2: coming up next in the News Junkie. Somebody's like, Harvard
Speaker 2: wouldn't give that that spelling be a kid a scholarship?
Speaker 1: And why why?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Why would why would Harvard not give whoever wins
Speaker 2: this spelling bee some sort of scholarship? I mean, usually
Speaker 2: I think it's indicative of some sort of intellect that
Speaker 2: you could spell stuff like that. I think these kids
Speaker 2: are smart. I mean, it could be that they are
Speaker 2: able to spell things, but dumb and everything else.
Speaker 1: I doubt though.
Speaker 2: I just I feel like that's probably not the case.
Speaker 2: I could be wrong. We'll see what you think about
Speaker 2: all of this. Send us a dispatch over at thenewsjunkie
Speaker 2: dot com. We'll crack into those in just a bit
Speaker 2: here on the show. A quick update on the lady who.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw this or not, Alejandro,
Speaker 2: but there was this woman who was pulled over by
Speaker 2: a police officer. The video's gone megaviral. We talked about
Speaker 2: her yesterday. Kathleen Thomas is her name from Palm Beach
Speaker 2: and the pomage County Sheriff's deputy pulled there over.
Speaker 1: It is this the lady it was high fiving people
Speaker 1: in a way.
Speaker 2: The sheriff's deputy said, I pulled you over. You know
Speaker 2: why because you had your phone in your right hand.
Speaker 2: And then the woman just pops up her stump. She's like,
Speaker 2: all right, I don't have a right hand. See you later.
Speaker 2: She's so funny and clever without even saying too many words,
Speaker 2: and she's like, so we're done here. We wrapping this
Speaker 2: up because you came over to my car suggested I
Speaker 2: had my cell phone in my right hand. I'm showing
Speaker 2: you that's not possible on account of I don't have
Speaker 2: a right hand. And the guy still gave her a ticket. Now,
Speaker 2: I have a couple of points on this and a
Speaker 2: little bit of an update, but I'll bring you back
Speaker 2: if you guys missed this viral moment.
Speaker 1: Here's what happened.
Speaker 2: All right, cop goes up to the car hang on
Speaker 2: pull over in the city.
Speaker 1: Of Lakewart today we're doing an operation for the stricted driver.
Speaker 12: And you drove past me and holding the phone with
Speaker 12: your right hand, and he laid in that phone.
Speaker 9: I mean, I saw you call this a day.
Speaker 2: She gave him the best opportunity in the world right there.
Speaker 12: Hey, you had a hand up hand. Well, I thought
Speaker 12: I saw with the right hand, perhaps not right you
Speaker 12: didn't I know what, I know what I said. I'm
Speaker 12: asking you not did you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And there's there's a couple of problems that I
Speaker 2: have with this still, and one is that she was like, hey,
Speaker 2: let's have a fun little moment here. You said you
Speaker 2: saw it in my right hand. I don't even have
Speaker 2: a right hand right and the cop in that moment,
Speaker 2: he's so defensive because I think she made him feel dumb.
Speaker 2: I mean, he kind of he is dumb, right, he's
Speaker 2: so wrong. He's he's no sense of humor either, none. No,
Speaker 2: Like she's laughing, she's enjoying this, Like she gave him
Speaker 2: the exit route right there. Like you could laugh it off,
Speaker 2: I could laugh it off. We could both tell this
Speaker 2: story later and it'll be so funny. And he didn't
Speaker 2: take it, like he instead went back to the car.
Speaker 2: He instead wrote her a ticket for having a phone
Speaker 2: in her right hand, which obviously she didn't have. And
Speaker 2: then somebody pointed out this and I said, you know,
Speaker 2: this is this is an interesting take somebody said, why
Speaker 2: is it in fact, ben Ben is his name. While
Speaker 2: we're here, let's talk about how insane and backwards it
Speaker 2: is that the woman who has pulled over now has
Speaker 2: her full name in this headline, but the officer in
Speaker 2: the wrong isn't named, just the officer. And I think
Speaker 2: that's a good take. I think that's a good point.
Speaker 2: There's so many situations like this where they're like, this
Speaker 2: is Kathleen Thomas. She's thirty six years old, she's from
Speaker 2: Lake Worth, Florida. She's an aspiring stand up comedian, and
Speaker 2: she does this and that. You can find her on
Speaker 2: you know, Wednesdays at the karaoke bar near nearby. And
Speaker 2: then they go and by the way, the officer was
Speaker 2: a Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy. Bro tell us the
Speaker 2: name of all you know what I mean, Like, you
Speaker 2: got her name on blast out there. She's not the
Speaker 2: one who even did anything wrong.
Speaker 1: What are you doing hiding his name?
Speaker 2: And I don't know if this is like a like
Speaker 2: a journalistic thing and CBS News wouldn't want to say
Speaker 2: who the name of the officer is, but let's start
Speaker 2: blasting that out there. I think you might get a
Speaker 2: little bit better behavior out of some of these cops
Speaker 2: if they're worried that their name is going to go
Speaker 2: out there for being caught in a dumb story like this.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, if it's just a bodycam footage
Speaker 2: and all you hear is the officer's voice, they're not
Speaker 2: really risking much. There's no social risk to going and
Speaker 2: pulling this person over, not getting any of their jokes,
Speaker 2: being rude, continuing to give them a ticket, being totally wrong,
Speaker 2: having the case dismissed, and had suffering no punishment at
Speaker 2: all for it. Like, at the least we could ridicule
Speaker 2: you in public. Why are we saying all hundred the
Speaker 2: videog public? Do they have to release the body Yeah
Speaker 2: she FOI or whatever. Yeah she requested the footage. And
Speaker 2: in Florida, it's pretty easy to get stuff. It's easy
Speaker 2: to get your hands on on the footage. Put your
Speaker 2: hand on you. It's easy for heard obtain the footage.
Speaker 2: I should say you gotta watch the traps on this one,
Speaker 2: but I was like, that is such a fair point,
Speaker 2: Like you are putting this woman's name information everything out there. Granted,
Speaker 2: most of the feedback for her is going to be positive.
Speaker 2: But I want when when people do things like this,
Speaker 2: I want that name out there too, Sheriff who, deputy
Speaker 2: who who? Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy whom? Who was
Speaker 2: the person behind this? Because then that person's name will
Speaker 2: get around a little bit and maybe next time they
Speaker 2: pull somebody over, they'll go, all right, I got a
Speaker 2: little skin in the game. I want to rebuild my
Speaker 2: reputation here. I want to be nice and that, by
Speaker 2: the way, that goes for all of these cases when
Speaker 2: an officer does something right too.
Speaker 1: Since on YouTube says we get.
Speaker 2: It shown your anti cop, get off your soap box,
Speaker 2: I mean if I could get one pass to say
Speaker 2: the F word, now, would be the time that I
Speaker 2: deployed the F word, which you go blank yourself, would
Speaker 2: be the word that I would use. You explain to
Speaker 2: me where you're coming from here? Do you watch this
Speaker 2: and go we get it? Shawn? Your anti cop? Am
Speaker 2: I anti cop? Because I'm defending a woman who's been
Speaker 2: outed and named in this story and and the cop
Speaker 2: was completely wrong, and I'm calling the cop out on
Speaker 2: being wrong. Does it make me anti cop to point
Speaker 2: out a cop doing something wrong?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: When they're doing something wrong. How dumb are you? How
Speaker 2: absolutely mind broken are you that this is how you
Speaker 2: interact with things? Oh my god, you're somebody says anti
Speaker 2: that cop? Hell yeah, brother, Yeah, Like I'm anti dumb cops.
Speaker 2: I'm pro great cops. Where are you at when I
Speaker 2: showed the videos like I did, I think last week
Speaker 2: or the week before where I showed the video the
Speaker 2: cop kicking open the door where the woman's house was
Speaker 2: on fire, and I talked about how they were rescuing
Speaker 2: them and how it was an amazing heroic moment, and
Speaker 2: not enough that these videos are supported. Where are you at?
Speaker 2: Because I'm consistent and not hypocritical on these issues. Where
Speaker 2: are you at when I'm on that side of thing?
Speaker 1: Where were you?
Speaker 2: Where were you when the towers were hit? My god?
Speaker 2: Bully that guy? All right, jesus, Yeah, but my god,
Speaker 2: it's so stupid. What like again, just like this guy's
Speaker 2: name should be out there and people would go, well,
Speaker 2: that was really rude what you did. Your interaction with
Speaker 2: this woman was not called for, and you were wrong
Speaker 2: and you felt dumb, and so you took it out
Speaker 2: on her. And that's kind of lame, man, That's kind
Speaker 2: of lame. Other cops don't like this either, Right, that
Speaker 2: kind of thing should be something that there's a little
Speaker 2: bit of a kickback for. That's not anti cop, that's
Speaker 2: anti dumb ass. I'm anti dumbass as well, mister chatter, who,
Speaker 2: of course will by by the way, all one hundred.
Speaker 2: Now the person will disappear for like sixty five years,
Speaker 2: and they'll fight in a corner. They'll they is not
Speaker 2: what always happens every single time.
Speaker 1: I think the coup got really nervous because he continued
Speaker 1: digging the whole like hand to God, like he could
Speaker 1: hand to God. And she's like, and he goes through
Speaker 1: your other hand.
Speaker 2: Like, bro, have a sense of humor under she's she's
Speaker 2: giving you everything. She was like sweet about it and
Speaker 2: funny and making it into a joke. And but you
Speaker 2: took yourself so seriously. And there's a there's a lot
Speaker 2: of dudes out there, women too, But this, this is
Speaker 2: a thing that I think is more common in guys.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of guys that if you make them
Speaker 2: feel dumb, they react like this. They react with anger.
Speaker 2: Right now, you're not intentionally making them feel dumb, but
Speaker 2: what they need is when they make a mistake or
Speaker 2: they say something that's kind of dopey. They need you
Speaker 2: to coddle them and be like a hug box for
Speaker 2: them and support them. And she's just making fun of
Speaker 2: it and it's funny and that guy could kiss mayas Okay,
Speaker 2: that's just the way it's gonna be today, Kathleen Thomas
Speaker 2: shouts out. She says though she felt very uncomfortable, she
Speaker 2: said she thought it was just an understanding.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 2: Another new article about this today, and her name all
Speaker 2: over the place, her place where she lives is named
Speaker 2: in here. All the stuff about her, not a damn
Speaker 2: thing about the cop who I think clearly made a
Speaker 2: pretty big social mistake there. Big thanks to a Zapiko
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Speaker 2: break right now. When we come back, we'll get into
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Speaker 2: air traffic control with a jaw dropping confession. What's happening.
Speaker 2: It's all coming up next on the news, Chunkie. All right,
Speaker 2: A lot to sort through here on a Friday, and
Speaker 2: many many things that I want to touch on here
Speaker 2: during the show. I did see this, and I don't
Speaker 2: want to, like, I don't think we necessarily need to
Speaker 2: use this just for me to do an old man
Speaker 2: yelling at the clouds type rant here, But I am
Speaker 2: trying to be realistic about something.
Speaker 1: Okay, have you Grandpa.
Speaker 2: Alhandra, have you gone to your kids graduation? Have you
Speaker 2: gone to their graduation events?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay, what like what graduation was the most recent one?
Speaker 2: What do you have?
Speaker 1: The most recent was Flodia State University two weeks ago? Wow,
Speaker 1: my god.
Speaker 2: And that's a huge one, right, that's that must be
Speaker 2: a massive event. And you go there that and that's
Speaker 2: like if a kid goes through all of their life,
Speaker 2: graduates high school the first real goal, right, and then
Speaker 2: goes off to college and achieves graduation at a especially
Speaker 2: a college like FS. You must be super proud, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously that's it. It's a pretty great then
Speaker 2: super proud. It's super broke. It's expensive, it's very, very,
Speaker 2: very expensive. But I look at that and I go, hell, yeah,
Speaker 2: let's celebrate, Let's throw the caps in the air, let's
Speaker 2: let them do all their things. But I felt like
Speaker 2: I noticed this time around, when all these graduations have
Speaker 2: been going on over the last three four weeks and
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit more, I felt like, now there's
Speaker 2: more graduations than ever before. Like I see kids in
Speaker 2: some of the photos people are posting online and they're like,
Speaker 2: my little Mackenzie just had her graduation from second grade
Speaker 2: to third grade.
Speaker 1: Yes, and every year.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, every year you get a graduation.
Speaker 1: Now they're making money.
Speaker 2: Going from second grade to third grade is not an accomplishment.
Speaker 2: It's something that you're supposed to do. It's literally like
Speaker 2: you do that or you're get in trouble. But now
Speaker 2: I saw. The other one I saw was like my
Speaker 2: daughter just graduated pre K.
Speaker 1: Yes, my little nephew had one in Miami pre K
Speaker 1: graduation and it was a big deal in a bunquet hall.
Speaker 1: They had to wait money for this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what are they like?
Speaker 1: The kid doesn't know what's going on.
Speaker 2: Pree k. He didn't even accomplish anything. Congratulations for sitting
Speaker 2: there for four hours a day and having some lady
Speaker 2: pretend to teach you some you know, some lessons right, Like,
Speaker 2: you're not doing anything. I don't know why we have
Speaker 2: so many of these. I feel like you should get like,
Speaker 2: and this is probably I'm being soft here. I think
Speaker 2: I think this is softer than a lot of people
Speaker 2: would be. I feel like you should get a graduation
Speaker 2: at the end of elementary school because it's kind of
Speaker 2: like your first thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you did sixth grade.
Speaker 2: Not a big deal though, just a small thing, like, hey, congraduations,
Speaker 2: you graduated elementary school. You did it middle school. Nothing
Speaker 2: when you get through high school. I feel like, yes,
Speaker 2: you should get there should be a graduation because you
Speaker 2: made it through all the grades and you graduated high school.
Speaker 2: Should be sort of the minimum for a lot of people.
Speaker 2: But you did it, So there you go. For mine
Speaker 2: for my graduation when I graduated high school, my dad goes,
Speaker 2: I got something for you, and I was like, I've
Speaker 2: heard about this, a lot of kids getting cars. Here
Speaker 2: we go. I'm like, I'm rubbing my hands together.
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is happening.
Speaker 2: I heard of another friend who for their graduation present,
Speaker 2: they got one thousand dollars. My dad goes, I got
Speaker 2: something for you, and I go, oh, here we go.
Speaker 2: He's gonna get the key to that new car, new
Speaker 2: Cadillac or something maybe, or I'm gonna get a thousand bucks.
Speaker 2: Right now. I'm a party all weekend long. And my
Speaker 2: dad pops the back of his jeep Cherokee, and I go,
Speaker 2: it's weird to put the keys of the car in
Speaker 2: the back of the jeep the trunk. Yeah, maybe they've
Speaker 2: got a big bow on him or something. And he
Speaker 2: rounds the side of the jeep Cherokee and I see
Speaker 2: that my father has purchased for me a twelve pack
Speaker 2: of natural ice.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I said, oh, well, thank you, sir.
Speaker 2: I'll take it nonetheless. I mean, I might be eighteen
Speaker 2: years old, not old enough to drink. It's not one
Speaker 2: thousand dollars, it's not a new Cadillac, but I that's
Speaker 2: what I got.
Speaker 3: Did you say, natty ice, Yeah, that's Natty ice a
Speaker 3: stronger one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, which just say, you guys know,
Speaker 3: at the time, I think a twelve pack of Natty
Speaker 3: Ice cost.
Speaker 2: Eight dollars or something on it. No, but I was
Speaker 2: still like, Okay, I got something. I was excited about
Speaker 2: graduating and it was kind of like a thing I
Speaker 2: wasn't supposed to have. My dad didn't do that stuff.
Speaker 2: But that's a that's a graduation. When you get through
Speaker 2: high school, that's great. When you get through college, that's great.
Speaker 2: But when you go from third grade to fourth grade,
Speaker 2: why should you have a party for that?
Speaker 1: Right, You're not a gradu Nobody says I'm a middle
Speaker 1: school graduate.
Speaker 2: Right, No, nobody says I'm a third grade graduate. Well
Speaker 2: what grade you went? Well, we just had his graduation,
Speaker 2: made it from second to third congratulations, I guess. But
Speaker 2: the problem is if you're a little kid and you
Speaker 2: just start getting parties for everything, they expect parties for everything,
Speaker 2: and I think, like down the road, it waters down
Speaker 2: what those events mean.
Speaker 1: And also it's a lot of it in my estimation.
Speaker 2: Is for the parents. I think the parents want to
Speaker 2: do this stuff. I think the parents want to flash
Speaker 2: on social media. Hey, look, my child is doing great,
Speaker 2: and then they want to celebrate that, and they wanted
Speaker 2: their friends to see, how look at my adorable kid.
Speaker 2: That's great. But I think there's too much of that
Speaker 2: going on. So let us know, hit us up with
Speaker 2: some of the graduations that you've been to where you
Speaker 2: were like, there's a party for this, we do a
Speaker 2: party for this. Person doesn't even know what's going on
Speaker 2: right now that happens. I went to a two year
Speaker 2: old's birthday party. All right, some weird ass dude invited
Speaker 2: me to a two year old's birthday party. Had a
Speaker 2: whole theme and everything october Fest. Right, there's a keg
Speaker 2: of october Fest beer. It was a whole thing. This
Speaker 2: guy was generous. There was beer and pretzels and and
Speaker 2: all kinds of fun stuff there. But I don't think
Speaker 2: a two year old even needs a birthday party. Your
Speaker 2: first birthday party should be five.
Speaker 3: That birthday party was for the father, exactly, it was.
Speaker 3: You bet your ass it was.
Speaker 1: Now. Even the bounce house was for the father.
Speaker 2: See, I was trying to get his ass in there.
Speaker 1: Oh that's what you're talking about?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh shoot, did I say then? I think with
Speaker 1: the birthdays and the graduations and the parties. You have
Speaker 1: to continue to outdo yourself, right, you do, so next
Speaker 1: year has to be better than that's one. The same
Speaker 1: thing with the going through the next grade. And yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess it.
Speaker 2: Like when I was little, I remember, if I was
Speaker 2: a sixth seven year old kid, I would get the
Speaker 2: birthday cake from the grocery store. Don't do that, Josh,
Speaker 2: you said it. I didn't do the six seventh thing.
Speaker 2: Thank God the Pope has done it. It's over, so
Speaker 2: we can retire. I when I was a little kid,
Speaker 2: I would get the grocery store birthday cake with like
Speaker 2: he Man and Masters of the Universe or whatever on
Speaker 2: it's some some some they didn't have the ability to
Speaker 2: like just put it in a machine and three D
Speaker 2: painted or whatever they do now. I don't know how
Speaker 2: they do it, but now anybody can hit a button.
Speaker 2: You got you got a minion's cake. Back then they
Speaker 2: had to take the little like gel things and try
Speaker 2: to create some design and it would be god awful
Speaker 2: that just really really really really bad. Put their heart
Speaker 2: in it. They put their heart into it, and it
Speaker 2: was enough for me. It was enough for me as
Speaker 2: a kid. And then the next year that wasn't hard
Speaker 2: to beat. But now the kids too, He's got a
Speaker 2: bounce house. I'm really focusing this criticism on Sea Lane now,
Speaker 2: not but the graduations, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 2: there and there's so many different things.
Speaker 1: I saw.
Speaker 2: A thing the other day where somebody that I know
Speaker 2: their daughter just graduated high school. And the daughter graduates
Speaker 2: high school and her friends come over and they do
Speaker 2: this thing where they like wrap her car and color
Speaker 2: around it and chalk on the driveway, and then they go, oh.
Speaker 1: No, this is a thing that we do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like this is a like something that happens when
Speaker 2: when people graduate, And I go, dude, I've never heard
Speaker 2: of this in my life, Like this wasn't a thing.
Speaker 2: What you didn't your friends didn't wrap your car and
Speaker 2: a bunch of bows and stuff, and it's all.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I feel like this has all come out of almost nowhere.
Speaker 2: So let me know what you think about that. I've
Speaker 2: just seen too many people like we can do it
Speaker 2: for high school, we can do it for college, but
Speaker 2: we don't need to do it for every little thing
Speaker 2: out week.
Speaker 1: We get it your anti graduation just saying.
Speaker 2: Go on, now, I'm not anti graduation. I'm anti that
Speaker 2: many graduations, though, I am. You know, at some point
Speaker 2: I think you gotta, you got give your kid credit
Speaker 2: for the stuff they did. All the hundreds kid graduated
Speaker 2: from FSU. That's amazing, that is fantastic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm guilty that every year she had a
Speaker 1: big party every year she finished the grade.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: You did the same. But she was a big party
Speaker 1: in my house. And the birthday still my wife. Every
Speaker 1: year she had a big birth like theme like Hello
Speaker 1: Katie or spongeble or whatever it is.
Speaker 2: It's very expensive, a right, So somebody sends me, somebody
Speaker 2: sends me the clip of graduating the third grade from
Speaker 2: It was a Billy Madison. The party, Adam Saydlor goes back,
Speaker 2: it goes back through school and every week, every two weeks,
Speaker 2: this guy he's got a bounce house, he's got like
Speaker 2: a classic cars pulled up, he's you know, he's got everything.
Speaker 2: So I think that has kind of infested its way
Speaker 2: into society for some reason.
Speaker 1: Let us know what your thoughts are.
Speaker 2: Set of dispatch over at thenewsjunkie dot com.
Speaker 1: Speaking of that, let's see what we got here.
Speaker 2: Here is a couple of dispatches that are sent in
Speaker 2: from the app on the website. Let's start with this one.
Speaker 2: Here's the Brown Pony Hello.
Speaker 4: And we also talk about how cops will make stuff
Speaker 4: up out of thin air just to meet a quota
Speaker 4: or write a ticket. I remember a while back, there's
Speaker 4: a clerical error from a d U I that I
Speaker 4: got like eight years before.
Speaker 11: That's what.
Speaker 4: Yeah, your license is suspended for something that happened eight
Speaker 4: years ago. That's odd. Here's a court date. And then
Speaker 4: I got to thinking, wait, he ran my tag. Never
Speaker 4: told me why he pulled me over. He can't just
Speaker 4: legally run my tag for no reason. And then I
Speaker 4: look at the thing and it says looking at cell
Speaker 4: phone or a cell phone in hand or using cell
Speaker 4: phone while driving.
Speaker 2: I'm like, you son of a bee, or I can
Speaker 2: say bitch or mine.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they just make stuff up sometimes.
Speaker 4: It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it did happen. I think that's a different thing, though.
Speaker 2: I really think what was happening here was the police
Speaker 2: officer who pulled over the woman claiming that she had
Speaker 2: her phone in her right hand, which she didn't have
Speaker 2: a right hand. I really think that police officer was embarrassed.
Speaker 2: I think that he felt dumb for sure, and his
Speaker 2: reaction to feeling dumb and being embarrassed, instead of kind
Speaker 2: of laughing it off, was he took himself very seriously
Speaker 2: and tried to continue to exert dominance over the moment.
Speaker 2: And instead of adding a little bit of levity and
Speaker 2: being like, all right, well, yes, you didn't have your
Speaker 2: phone in your right hand, how an I stay, ma'am,
Speaker 2: still went and wrote the ticket like I'm going to win.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna win this battle back and forth between us,
Speaker 2: and to me, that's kind of dumb. Here is Daddy
Speaker 2: two times with the dispatch. Let's see what Daddy two
Speaker 2: times says. So I definitely wanted to laugh at the
Speaker 2: spelling be compared to other challenges in life.
Speaker 1: But bro, that is hard to do.
Speaker 2: Man, that's hard stuff. Clall forget the Holy Claire assessed
Speaker 2: Mont french bag gets and what naughts. You could have
Speaker 2: stopped Eddie Claire for me and been good.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: My daughter can hit the ball over the fence, double
Speaker 2: triple off a lefty or righty. She can lay a bunch,
Speaker 2: steal a base, do whatever it may be. I don't
Speaker 2: know if she could spell it, Claire. Guess what, there's
Speaker 2: more money in hitting balls then there isn't spelling a
Speaker 2: Claire so true. Put that on a bumper sticker. Sean Watson,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. There's more money in hitting balls than
Speaker 2: there isn't spelling of Claire's. A kid got fifty thousand
Speaker 2: dollars for being literally the best in the world at
Speaker 2: a thing. There should be nothing out there that if
Speaker 2: you are the best in the world at it, your
Speaker 2: prize is fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: That's embarrassing.
Speaker 2: I think even that Jimmy Dean cornhole competitions have bigger
Speaker 2: prizes than that.
Speaker 1: Well, he's that what we're doing. It's only thirteen. That's
Speaker 1: a lott of money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but still he's thirteen.
Speaker 1: But he's peaking, you know what he's doing with a
Speaker 1: fifty thousand little shit's opening up at seven to eleven.
Speaker 1: Probably that's how it happens that.
Speaker 2: The yeah, next thing, you know, everybody looks around and
Speaker 2: they're like they own all the seven elevens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they get there.
Speaker 2: The spelling beat a seven eleven pipeline. Those kids are
Speaker 2: working their asses off, all right. We have a lot
Speaker 2: more coming in. We'll get to more of your dispatches
Speaker 2: as we move along here. On a Tuesday, somebody emails
Speaker 2: about the rocket explosion, saying, the flying penis blew up, uh,
Speaker 2: and you don't feel bad about it at all. I
Speaker 2: think it's just insane that we have things like this
Speaker 2: that happen and then people just go, well, million dollars,
Speaker 2: you know, shrug your shoulder, move on to the next one.
Speaker 2: Somebody says, I was waiting for you to say what
Speaker 2: Elon Musk said about the rocket explosion.
Speaker 1: It was funny.
Speaker 2: Musk responded on x to a video of the Blue
Speaker 2: Origin explosion, saying, most unfortunate rockets are hard. Have a
Speaker 2: great day, says Lisa. Thank you, Lisa, appreciate it. Alicia
Speaker 2: says Sean, you love New Orleans. That have been several
Speaker 2: times I have. I've been in New Orleans probably ten times.
Speaker 2: I think I'm shocked you aren't familiar with the term
Speaker 2: fies do doo. It's a common fun from That's how
Speaker 2: they say it. The locals said, files do do uh.
Speaker 2: It's a common Cajun term for a dance party, kind
Speaker 2: of like a Cajun hoedown. If you will lots of food, dancing,
Speaker 2: and drinking for the community. If ies do do or
Speaker 2: faye to do? What is it again?
Speaker 1: Faydo do?
Speaker 2: Happy Friday and enjoy your weekend, says Alisha. Thank you, Alicia,
Speaker 2: much appreciated. We come back. We'll get to this update
Speaker 2: from Southwest Airlines. Last thing we heard they were banning robots.
Speaker 2: Now they got something else they're up to. We'll talk
Speaker 2: about what that was and this weekend roller coasters. All
Speaker 2: that means is I have two roller coaster related stories
Speaker 2: in a row, and one of them makes me shake
Speaker 2: to my core. What happened? Wait till you hear this.
Speaker 2: It's coming up next on the news Junkie. The bands
Speaker 2: are dropping out of that Trump Freedom concert like crazy.
Speaker 1: I guess, dropping like floods.
Speaker 3: It's crazy to me that they all signed a contract
Speaker 3: and didn't know what it was going to be.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, what are they saying that they're dropping
Speaker 2: out for. Are they dropping out because it's supposed to
Speaker 2: be controversial. It shouldn't be controversial, at least not to me.
Speaker 2: If there's a just because Trump is involved, who cares?
Speaker 2: If it's America's two hundred and fiftieth celebration and it's
Speaker 2: like the official government celebration for America. And then I
Speaker 2: hope people aren't giving them a hard time for performing
Speaker 2: at that.
Speaker 3: I think it was that they thought it was a
Speaker 3: completely nonpartisan event and it's become more partisan than they're
Speaker 3: they're doing.
Speaker 2: Like so there is going to be like a political rally,
Speaker 2: because that would be a shame too. Like I just
Speaker 2: wanted to be a raw, raw thing for America, Like, hey,
Speaker 2: let's this is two hundred and fifty years greatest country
Speaker 2: in the world. I believe you know. I'm still proud
Speaker 2: of the United States of America. I think not only
Speaker 2: are we the greatest country, but we are harder on
Speaker 2: ourselves than any other country on the planet. There's no
Speaker 2: doubt about that. I've never seen a country as introspective
Speaker 2: and difficult on itself as the people of the United
Speaker 2: States of America. Maybe that's one of the things that
Speaker 2: makes it a fantastic place. But I mean, for me,
Speaker 2: if if it's political, that sucks, I don't want them
Speaker 2: to do a bunch of political stuff.
Speaker 1: Don't make it like a rally.
Speaker 2: I think that they should make it like a great
Speaker 2: thing where we celebrate America and we should make that
Speaker 2: as bipartisan as anything in the world can be. All
Speaker 2: right to me in the United States of America, Republican
Speaker 2: or Democrat, we should all love the country and want
Speaker 2: the best for it, right, we should want the best
Speaker 2: for the United States of America. The moment you don't,
Speaker 2: the moment I determine you're working against the United States
Speaker 2: of America, the moment you want like the system to
Speaker 2: burn down to the ground, Kiss my ass. I don't
Speaker 2: care about anything you say.
Speaker 1: I want you.
Speaker 2: I wish the worst for you because you wish the
Speaker 2: worst for this country. I think this should be the
Speaker 2: most bipartisan thing in the world. That we can all
Speaker 2: have an American flag and celebrate the Fourth of July
Speaker 2: and do all of that stuff. I think that's really
Speaker 2: really good. However, it doesn't seem like it's going that way.
Speaker 2: It seems like there's bands dropping out every five seconds
Speaker 2: of this thing. And I think some of the country
Speaker 2: acts who were the bands that were supposed to perform
Speaker 2: their down to like three or something.
Speaker 1: Brett Michaels was the most recent to drop out.
Speaker 2: I think, Okay, this says, this story says, and then
Speaker 2: there were three musical apps keep bailing on Trump's Freedom
Speaker 2: two fifty concert series. Martina McBride, Young mc CNC, Music Factory,
Speaker 2: Vanilla Ice, Millie Vanilli, the Commodores, Morris Day in the Time,
Speaker 2: Flow Rider, and Brett Michaels where the original nine.
Speaker 1: On the lineup. This is the weirdest.
Speaker 2: This is like the music festival where you go, what
Speaker 2: what's happening here? And sometimes I see a music festival
Speaker 2: and I'm like, damn, there was there was one they
Speaker 2: just announced and I was looking at the lineup for
Speaker 2: this music festival and I knew almost every name and
Speaker 2: wanted to see all of them performing. Like Alanis Morissett
Speaker 2: was lining along with Oh god, who who figure out that?
Speaker 1: That show?
Speaker 2: Josh, if you can real quick, it's the it's a
Speaker 2: festival coming up and Alana Morisset is one of the headliners.
Speaker 11: Oh.
Speaker 2: I looked at everybody. I was like, damn, this is
Speaker 2: a really really good show. This Freedom two fifty thing
Speaker 2: is eclectic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that lineup is crazy like one hit Wonders. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of one hit wonders.
Speaker 3: Uh, you're talking about riot Fest in Chicago, that's it? Yeah,
Speaker 3: Her Morrissey other.
Speaker 2: Hold on riot Fest Chicago. Here's the lineup. Let me
Speaker 2: just let me hit you with this, all right, tool
Speaker 2: twenty one pilots, Alanis Morisset, Bad Religion, Nas, the All
Speaker 2: American Rejects, taking Back Sunday, Bright Eyes, morrisy Iggy Popes,
Speaker 2: three oh three, Motion City Soundtrack, Less Than Jake Gore,
Speaker 2: the Suicide Machines. Like, I don't know if this is
Speaker 2: just me, but I know every single one of those
Speaker 2: Performer three is still around. Yeah, they're making a comeback, baby,
Speaker 2: sure they're they're bringing it back for that.
Speaker 1: I even do some of like the little.
Speaker 2: Names on this list and the insane clown posse people
Speaker 2: are going to be there for God's.
Speaker 1: Sake, Violent Jay and Shaggy two Dope, You bet your ass, Josh,
Speaker 1: they're going to be there.
Speaker 2: But then I looked at this one and I said,
Speaker 2: Martina McBride, Young MC and CNC Music Factory, who booked it.
Speaker 2: It's America, Don't we have a big budget. Don't like
Speaker 2: Ryan Fest does not have the budget that the United
Speaker 2: States of America has. All Right, I don't know what
Speaker 2: happened here, but we ended up with the Commodore's Millie
Speaker 2: Vanilli Vanilla Ice Morris Day in the Time. I mean,
Speaker 2: what what what young kid isn't going to get fired
Speaker 2: up for Morris Day in the Time? The kids love Jungle?
Speaker 2: Is that the biggest song the time? Good God Flow
Speaker 2: Ride of Brett Michaels. You know, all of all of
Speaker 2: the bands that were playing there, so it says, and
Speaker 2: then there were three, maybe even only two after a
Speaker 2: late breaking up date. The musical lineup for the Freedom
Speaker 2: two fifty concert series, marketed is the Great American State Fair,
Speaker 2: has been remarkedly hard to keep up to date. Just
Speaker 2: one day after it was announced, two thirds of the
Speaker 2: musical acts have dropped out, some even saying they had
Speaker 2: no idea they were performing at the event or misled
Speaker 2: about being it being political. The announcement itself raised eyebrows immediately,
Speaker 2: with a full list of bands, rappers, and singers who
Speaker 2: mostly peaked before gen Xers were copying Jennifer Aniston's Rachel
Speaker 2: haircut from Friends. God that's bad writing. God, that's bad writing.
Speaker 2: I'm stopping there. So I guess they've reworked this because
Speaker 2: all of these people have dropped out of the of
Speaker 2: the lineup on this thing, And why don't we have
Speaker 2: a better lineup. It's America?
Speaker 13: Is it?
Speaker 2: Because it's a political thing? What is happening here that
Speaker 2: we can't get a better lineup? So he says, I
Speaker 2: think Gore is at Spooky Empire, you know. I mean
Speaker 2: that's great, but like we should be able to get
Speaker 2: a huge, like the craziest lineup ever. I don't know
Speaker 2: who the biggest stars are right now, but they should
Speaker 2: be performing at the Americans, you know, America two hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty event, the Freedom tow to fifty event. It
Speaker 2: doesn't seem like that's the case. Unfortunately, didn't even originally
Speaker 2: sing like, yeah, they didn't even make the songs for
Speaker 2: God's say, hold on, this says worry about this and
Speaker 2: not who I'm performing for Freedom Williams, I don't even
Speaker 2: know that.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know who all the people are who
Speaker 2: are dropping out, but I guess a lot of them have.
Speaker 2: And more and more people are are saying that's it.
Speaker 2: We're not performing at this However, CNC Music Factory is
Speaker 2: doubling down, firing back at the critics. They're still performing
Speaker 2: despite all of the heat that they're getting for this.
Speaker 2: I just think it's kind of silly, But let us
Speaker 2: know what you think. Give us your dispatches over at
Speaker 2: the newschunkie dot com right now, and of course your
Speaker 2: emails tips at thenews junkie dot com. A big change
Speaker 2: for Southwest Airlines is up next now. They just announced
Speaker 2: not long ago that Southwest Airlines was banning the travel
Speaker 2: of robot companions, which is kind of strange. It wasn't
Speaker 2: a huge issue for them before this, but they're banning
Speaker 2: robots on Southwest Airlines flights. However, they've rolled back something else.
Speaker 2: Let me bring this story up here because Southwest is
Speaker 2: announcing that they are updating their extra seat policy for
Speaker 2: people who are fat, people who take up.
Speaker 1: A little bit more room on the plane.
Speaker 2: Southwest Airlines set it updated's policy for plus sized passengers.
Speaker 2: They are no longer required to purchase an extra seat
Speaker 2: in advance, and they said airport agents can offer an
Speaker 2: additional seat at no extra cost when space is available.
Speaker 2: On flights where adjacent seats are available, our agents at
Speaker 2: the airport are empowered to provide an additional seat at
Speaker 2: no extra costs to customers who require one. They said,
Speaker 2: if another seat is not available, we will work to
Speaker 2: accommodate the customer On a later flight, so they're like, look,
Speaker 2: if you need two seats, we're not charging you. At
Speaker 2: Southwest Airlines, robots, the clankers are banned. The fatties are in,
Speaker 2: and you get extra space for free. You're good to go,
Speaker 2: as long as it's a fan. I pay for my
Speaker 2: check bags. You got to pay for your check bags. Yes,
Speaker 2: I'm real. But they don't want to discriminate against the
Speaker 2: larger passengers. I guess is that under the new policy,
Speaker 2: passengers who do not book an extra seat in event
Speaker 2: still risk being not able to board their original flight
Speaker 2: if no additional seats are available. So they put a
Speaker 2: little stress on the fat people, so that if you're
Speaker 2: sitting there, you're like, oh, boy, hope this flight isn't
Speaker 2: sold out. And if the flight is sold out, they
Speaker 2: come over to you and they're like, excuse me, mister fatty,
Speaker 2: I have to inform you, doctor fatty. I'm sorry, doctor fatty,
Speaker 2: I have to inform you that the flight is full
Speaker 2: and you're going to need an extra seat, so we're
Speaker 2: going to put you on a later flight. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: it's just the way it is. Who my father is.
Speaker 2: They don't care. They are not worried about it in
Speaker 2: the slightest. Let us know what you think. Send a
Speaker 2: dispatch over at the news Junkie dot com. Here goes
Speaker 2: Mark with an email to tips at the news Junkie
Speaker 2: dot com. What's up, Sean, Josh and Alejandro? The words
Speaker 2: that the Spelling Bee kids see during the competition shouldn't
Speaker 2: be hard to them. They get enough practice learning how
Speaker 2: to spell each other's names, says Big Mark JKA Happy Friday,
Speaker 2: Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 1: All Big Mark, you know what, like, if you want.
Speaker 2: To take a shot at the kids for being Indian
Speaker 2: a lot of the kids who win the Spelling Bee,
Speaker 2: I think that's a misfire, bro, because isn't it even
Speaker 2: more impressive that the Indian families are winning at the
Speaker 2: English language. It's not even their like their parents didn't
Speaker 2: even natively speak this language. In some cases.
Speaker 3: English plus French plus els plus whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, that was in English.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah right? It was just like it's like every
Speaker 2: language you could think of and every word you can
Speaker 2: think of. I don't think that's the own you might
Speaker 2: think it is, Mark. I think it just makes it
Speaker 2: more impressive to me. Actually, all right, a couple of
Speaker 2: things here before we go to break. I said that
Speaker 2: I'd have this weekend roller coasters for you, and of
Speaker 2: course I do. Because there's a believe or not a
Speaker 2: couple of roller coaster stories. One is out of Galveston
Speaker 2: where a whole bunch of students, eight of them, in fact,
Speaker 2: we're stuck on this roller coaster for quite a long time,
Speaker 2: actually for hours and hours and hours.
Speaker 1: Nightmare.
Speaker 2: They here they are dangling in the air.
Speaker 5: Students was stuck for hours like that sucks mans way
Speaker 5: through one hundred foot vot lift.
Speaker 2: God, it's literally the worst night marriage position.
Speaker 1: You know, at least they weren't facing down right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess, yeah, So it is the the roller
Speaker 2: coaster is stuck. Just so everybody knows. Imagine you're going up,
Speaker 2: You're going straight up on the roller coaster, and at
Speaker 2: the top you're gonna turn and go immediately straight down,
Speaker 2: sort of like a hairpin turn. Well, when the roller
Speaker 2: coaster is going up at its tallest incline, you're looking
Speaker 2: straight up in the air, and it gets stuck right
Speaker 2: before it was going to go on the decline. So
Speaker 2: you're just staring at the clouds. And apparently for hours
Speaker 2: and hours they were stuck one hundred foot up on
Speaker 2: this vertical lift on something called the Iron Shark, a
Speaker 2: ride in Galveston, Texas. The high school students were on
Speaker 2: a field trip. They've all been rescued in confirmed safe,
Speaker 2: but I imagine this would freak you out.
Speaker 5: The Iron Shock riding Goveston suffered a malfunction and even
Speaker 5: the eighth passenger stranded until Firefight Says could rescue them.
Speaker 5: The high school students were on a field trip and
Speaker 5: have all been rescuing for firm safe. Jesus my OUs
Speaker 5: that a thorough inspection will take place before it's placed back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2: It's almost more scary because they had to bring up
Speaker 2: this fire ladder, and then the fire ladder was like
Speaker 2: below where the roller coaster got stuck, and then they'd
Speaker 2: have to pull them out of the roller coaster, and
Speaker 2: then they have to climb all the way down the
Speaker 2: gigantic fire ladder after being stuck up there one hundred
Speaker 2: feet in the air for hours and hours on end,
Speaker 2: which is just a total nightmare.
Speaker 1: I'm good.
Speaker 2: The other story on this I'm gonna save because I
Speaker 2: want to do it after we do the hot sheet,
Speaker 2: because it's pretty crazy and there's some good audio that
Speaker 2: goes along with we got our friend Moses Dewitch sweeping
Speaker 2: by the studio to hang out with us. In just
Speaker 2: a bit, we continue, We got our friend a Lejandro
Speaker 2: on board and a bunch more to get to on
Speaker 2: a busy Friday on the show, and that is coming
Speaker 2: up next. I'm going to use Chunkie. You'll learn more
Speaker 2: about the show over on thenewsjunkie dot com Before we.
Speaker 1: Get into the hot sheet.
Speaker 2: One thing I saw was, uh, the story about Costco,
Speaker 2: which was pretty I don't know, maybe like a sign
Speaker 2: of the times and how some of you think times
Speaker 2: are tough right now, things are really expensive. Mostly you
Speaker 2: think that because it's true, right everything's expensive. Gas is
Speaker 2: expensive because we're fighting sand wars across the globe right now.
Speaker 2: I don't know why we're doing it. From I saw
Speaker 2: this story about Costco, Josh, are you a Are you
Speaker 2: a Costco member?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, I'm a member, Buddy.
Speaker 2: I forgot, yeah, I forgot, all right, what about you, Alejandro?
Speaker 2: You a Costco member?
Speaker 1: No Costco? BJS? Oh he's a BJS guy, So you
Speaker 1: ain love that one.
Speaker 2: You don't run into the BJS supporters as often.
Speaker 1: I wish run into them more of.
Speaker 2: You don't run into the people who enjoy shopping at BJ.
Speaker 1: Yeah that more often.
Speaker 2: Costco announced that they were like, the company is cranking
Speaker 2: right now. Third quarter sales of sixty nine billion dollars.
Speaker 2: Damn son, take that, DJs. Sixty nine billion dollars is
Speaker 2: the third quarternet sales for Costco up eleven point six
Speaker 2: year over year, and the company is just soaring. And
Speaker 2: when it came down to why, it's not just membership fees,
Speaker 2: it's not just all of the stuff that they are
Speaker 2: selling like crazy over at Costco. One of the biggest
Speaker 2: things the record sales that's going on is gas. And
Speaker 2: that's when you know gas is expensive when people start
Speaker 2: flexing on that that membership perk where Costco gives you
Speaker 2: a pretty damn good deal on gasoline. And they said
Speaker 2: they have ever seen as many people hauling ass to
Speaker 2: the pumps over at Costco. They said there are people
Speaker 2: who had never used them before, not once. They've been
Speaker 2: Costco members for decades, never once have they used the feature,
Speaker 2: the membership perk of being able to go get gas
Speaker 2: at the Costco gas stations for a discount. But now
Speaker 2: gas is so expensive that they're utilizing the Costco deal,
Speaker 2: and so it's just made a huge gain for the company.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure a lot of you have taken a
Speaker 1: doing this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like at least twenty cents cheaper at Costco.
Speaker 2: That's a good deal. Yeah, I mean like you're filling
Speaker 2: up your whole ass tank because that's a pretty good
Speaker 2: deal that you're snagging there. However, I will tell you
Speaker 2: if you just use my advice that I gave you
Speaker 2: this week on the show, you'll do even better. Like
Speaker 2: don't listen to the man, the man that tells you
Speaker 2: you must put gasoline in your car. You put a
Speaker 2: little gas in, a little bit of this and a
Speaker 2: little bit to that. Yeah, totally probably still function. What
Speaker 2: kind of car are you driving these days? A Lejandro
Speaker 2: Genie drive? Oh that's right, you got the Jeep. Did
Speaker 2: you have a Tesla for a little while, Yeah, sometime,
Speaker 2: which is great. No, guess does she drive an icer
Speaker 2: car than you? Is that the case?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Always?
Speaker 2: Why is it that? Why is that always the case?
Speaker 2: And it's the same same thing at my place, just.
Speaker 1: The way it goes. Does your wife drive an icer
Speaker 1: car than you?
Speaker 2: Josh?
Speaker 1: No, I have the newer, nicer.
Speaker 2: Nah, we got one victory.
Speaker 1: I'm in charge one victory. Okay, let's get into it.
Speaker 2: Here we go, Let's do the hot sheet.
Speaker 1: New but not like that's again to be parting on
Speaker 1: the planet.
Speaker 15: Top stories from the people on your screens and speakers
Speaker 15: are on the hot sheet.
Speaker 1: With Sea Lane, not with Sea Lane.
Speaker 3: I'm Josh, by the way, Oh okay, and I have
Speaker 3: the hot and it is the five greatest stories in
Speaker 3: this celestial plane in which we exist. And you will
Speaker 3: never hear anything better than what I'm about to tell you,
Speaker 3: So strap in, buddy.
Speaker 2: I almost feel like this is because I told Sela yesterday.
Speaker 2: I was like, why do you start the hot sheet
Speaker 2: and run down what you're doing? Sights like this is
Speaker 2: a nonsense news, no one cares.
Speaker 1: I hate doing this.
Speaker 2: I was like, you gotta ramp it up, man. Tell
Speaker 2: him it's the most important stuff in the world, Josh says,
Speaker 2: is the celestial masterpiece.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 3: And we start with that judge that we talked about
Speaker 3: earlier this week that is in trouble for having very
Speaker 3: loud sex in their chambers, just with an earshot of
Speaker 3: their associates as it were. The judge has been revealed
Speaker 3: as Judge Eleanor Ross of the Northern District of Georgia.
Speaker 3: And if she sounds familiar to you because you follow
Speaker 3: judges for some reason, it's because she was appointed by
Speaker 3: Barack Obama during his second term. And in November of
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two, she was the judge who sentenced Todd
Speaker 3: Chris Lee to twelve years in federal customers as part
Speaker 3: of this fraud in tax evasion case.
Speaker 2: Really, I didn't even think it was going to be
Speaker 2: a woman, because at first they didn't name the judge,
Speaker 2: But now they are, and and the judge is having
Speaker 2: sex with like this prominent police officer in her judge's chambers, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she was having an affair with Atlanta Police Department
Speaker 3: Deputy Chief Kelly Collier Collier something like that in her chambers.
Speaker 1: There she is her glory.
Speaker 3: Chris Lee served more than three years of his sentence
Speaker 3: before President Trump parted him last year, and he is
Speaker 3: already ripping the judge on social media, shocker, blasting her
Speaker 3: as a quote corrupt judge who couldn't focus on our
Speaker 3: case because she was too busy clapping dim cheeks in
Speaker 3: her chambers. Okay, that's from Todd Chrisley himself.
Speaker 1: Uh, he's a little vested.
Speaker 3: I will yeah, he's I guess revenge is the best dish,
Speaker 3: best serve cold or whatever.
Speaker 2: But it did say that they could hear it said
Speaker 2: she's fifty eight years old. By the way, they had
Speaker 2: sex in the judges chambers during business hours. That was
Speaker 2: loud enough that court staff could hear moans and kissing sounds.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if the walls are a little
Speaker 2: thin in the judges chambers or if these are fifty
Speaker 2: eight almost sixty year old people that are just getting
Speaker 2: loud and doing it proud. Eh.
Speaker 1: You know you gotta have a hobby. I guess you
Speaker 1: compress as a judge.
Speaker 3: Gypsy Rose Blanchard, remember her, says, remorse will hit hard
Speaker 3: for McKenzie Sherrilla, the subject of the documentary The Crash,
Speaker 3: who killed both her boyfriend and their friend in a
Speaker 3: high speed crash into a wall on purpose.
Speaker 1: The judge determined. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Gypsy sat down with Charlie niff on the t Z
Speaker 3: and was very outspoken about Mackenzie's situation. Based on what
Speaker 3: she saw on the Netflix doc Gypsy thinks Mackenzie is
Speaker 3: not remorseful in the slightest duh. And it's going to
Speaker 3: take a lot of reflection, hard work and growing up.
Speaker 3: And Gypsy says remorse will actually be the key to
Speaker 3: Mackenzie's potential freedom and she will have to get to
Speaker 3: that point if she ever wants to get out on parole.
Speaker 2: So see this, said all Alejandro. The documentary about this girl.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just watched it last weekend. What'd you think?
Speaker 1: It's scary? Man, having tenish kids held here in still
Speaker 1: it was a scary.
Speaker 2: But she was a parlandro as a parent, didn't you
Speaker 2: look at how her parents were acting in that like
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: It was driving me crazy. Y Yeah, the whole history
Speaker 1: is I said, They just say, no, she's fine, she's
Speaker 1: just a cud.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everything, Like there's so many things where as a
Speaker 2: parent you would go, this is bad. This is a
Speaker 2: bad sign, this is a bad sign. You got to
Speaker 2: be tough on your kids every once in a while.
Speaker 2: But they excused her behavior at every turn. And she's
Speaker 2: still responsible for herself and she's the one who drove
Speaker 2: this thing into a brick wall or whatever to get
Speaker 2: back at her at her boyfriend. It would seem but
Speaker 2: those parents like they absolutely.
Speaker 1: Were part of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they suck. That's bad, bad parenting. Puka Nikuwa you
Speaker 3: may know him, yes, exactly, p u k A n
Speaker 3: u k A. You got the first name right. The
Speaker 3: last name is Nacua. He is a superstar RAMS receiver
Speaker 3: who got in a little bit of trouble at a
Speaker 3: New Year's party for biting a girl on the back
Speaker 3: and the really stupid how does this even happen? They
Speaker 3: were partying and he bit her and then she filed
Speaker 3: charges against him. Anyway, he ended up, this twenty five
Speaker 3: year old guy ended up going to rehab, and he
Speaker 3: took the podium after practice on Thursday and emphasized how
Speaker 3: he's doing better mentally after seeking treatment at a.
Speaker 1: Facility in Malibu, and I hoped it was passages in Malibu.
Speaker 2: He says.
Speaker 3: Some of the things I feel like I've learned is
Speaker 3: it's okay to ask for support and to recognize the
Speaker 3: platform that I have being a professional football player and
Speaker 3: trying to use that for the betterment of myself and
Speaker 3: blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: He'd been a.
Speaker 3: Girl Andy's Andy said something anti semitic apparently, so double
Speaker 3: whammy on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll do it too.
Speaker 3: It will Angelina and Jolie. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's son,
Speaker 3: Maddix is dropping Pitt from.
Speaker 1: His last name. Oh my, okay, no, it's very upsetting.
Speaker 3: Maddix Jolie Pitt will now just be Maddix Jolie because
Speaker 3: daddy issues or something.
Speaker 2: She's got the she's got the kids hating Brad Poh
Speaker 2: yeah again. I think there there was a documentary speaking
Speaker 2: of that that I watched over the last weekend, something
Speaker 2: like What Happened Upstairs or something like that. This new
Speaker 2: docu series about this woman and a man that had
Speaker 2: a child or a couple of kids together, and their
Speaker 2: kids started to get a little older, and they had
Speaker 2: a very content divorce, and it was clear that she
Speaker 2: was kind of trying to get the kids to be
Speaker 2: on her side, and then it escalated to the point
Speaker 2: where all of a sudden, the kids were out of
Speaker 2: nowhere saying that the dad was sexually abusing them, and
Speaker 2: the dad would have to wear like a go pro
Speaker 2: when he was meeting with the kids to record everything
Speaker 2: to make sure like he could prove that he didn't
Speaker 2: do anything wrong, because the kids would go back and
Speaker 2: then they'd say, like, you know, this is what happened.
Speaker 2: We were God, those those kind of custody situations can
Speaker 2: get so nasty.
Speaker 3: It's just wild touck sick. And I'll leave you with
Speaker 3: this cosmically incredible story. This lady, how did you know
Speaker 3: Jennifer Lopez attended her daughter's high school graduation?
Speaker 2: Oh wow, yeah, I know, big, big news, big news.
Speaker 2: Oh hadro He really kind of shoehorns the j Loo stories.
Speaker 2: And if you haven't noticed, what.
Speaker 1: Are you talking about? That's a big story. It's her
Speaker 1: daughter Emmy, who has a twin name Max, but he
Speaker 1: went to a different school so they had separate graduations.
Speaker 1: Oh so sorry.
Speaker 3: And then if you want to watch some TV this weekend, uh,
Speaker 3: you know you got some NBA's, some hockeys, and all
Speaker 3: the late shows are on repeats, some baseball, lots of
Speaker 3: sports going on, and uh, a show called Deli Boys
Speaker 3: is on Hulu now apparently, and I don't know if
Speaker 3: it's about sandwiches or India.
Speaker 1: So there you go. And that's your hot sheet. Does
Speaker 1: you have an outro?
Speaker 7: Is?
Speaker 1: Doesn't it shows how much I pay attention?
Speaker 12: You know?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I'll let them know that you said that.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: When we come back, we're get geared up from our
Speaker 2: friend Mose to Wit Moses de Witt, excuse me, most
Speaker 2: Wi will be joining us on the show. We're not
Speaker 2: calling him Moss. Moses DeWitt will be joining us on
Speaker 2: the show very very soon. Here we'll see what's going
Speaker 2: on in his world. Run some questions by him. In fact,
Speaker 2: somebody just said an anonymous question that I please ask
Speaker 2: mo this. It's incredibly important. I've got it ready and
Speaker 2: we'll ask that's come in just a bit. I have
Speaker 2: that other roller coaster story, which is something a mandated
Speaker 2: at six Flags that got him banned for life forever.
Speaker 1: This guy is banned.
Speaker 2: I want to tell you what he did, and you
Speaker 2: tell me if he deserved a lifetime band, because that
Speaker 2: is coming up next in the news. Junkie whoever asked
Speaker 2: if I got a response from the suits about the email,
Speaker 2: I have not sent it just yet. I will probably
Speaker 2: after I post secret shows later on today, and then
Speaker 2: that'll head us into the month of June, which my
Speaker 2: contract with the company ends on June thirtieth, and I've
Speaker 2: decided I'm not going to do any kind of extension.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to do any of that. What is
Speaker 2: going to happen is I'm going to respond to this
Speaker 2: email well that was sent over by the suits, and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, look, here, here's what I want. And
Speaker 2: if you give this to me or you don't, and
Speaker 2: and if you don't trust me, the uh the other
Speaker 2: folks will every other major broadcasting company will give me
Speaker 2: what I'm looking for.
Speaker 1: And I think iHeart probably will too, but I have
Speaker 1: not sent that just yet. I will send that, I think.
Speaker 2: Probably, you know, six seven o'clock this afternoon, and then
Speaker 2: we'll see, we'll see what happened.
Speaker 1: I mean, I gotta get a La Hondro to uh
Speaker 1: to write it for me.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna really need him to push it through because
Speaker 2: he's got the best rep with the suits here at iHeart,
Speaker 2: I think, right, you.
Speaker 1: Know, I tried that he know what before, Remember how
Speaker 1: that ended up?
Speaker 2: It didn't work out for it, No, but it worked
Speaker 2: out well because they brought you back.
Speaker 3: For god right, You're like, you know, you made a
Speaker 3: compelling argument, Come on throw a few moments.
Speaker 1: I was like, forget that, you just give me whatever
Speaker 1: you would.
Speaker 2: I think there's nothing more flattering in the world. Than
Speaker 2: the company firing you and then asking if you come back,
Speaker 2: because they're like, you know what, We've made a huge
Speaker 2: mistake here. We can't get her. Rumba's falling apart. Man,
Speaker 2: we don't know how any of this stuff works over here.
Speaker 2: That's why I gotta keep your hands in as many
Speaker 2: different to keep give as many irons in the fire
Speaker 2: as as you possibly can. And they say round here,
Speaker 2: you got to make yourself involved in so many things.
Speaker 2: Sea Lane has just got He's got his hands in everything.
Speaker 2: For God's sake, he's even a TNJ chat right now.
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's doing over there?
Speaker 5: Is he is?
Speaker 2: He? I don't see why. What are you doing a
Speaker 2: great job over there, Joey.
Speaker 3: I learned during the break that he was changing the
Speaker 3: screen behind me the whole time, more like the not sheet.
Speaker 2: So he's utilizing the screen behind you, just out of
Speaker 2: your your view to take veiled shots at you during
Speaker 2: the show when he's off on vacation on a train
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, this is the kind of stuff that he
Speaker 1: gets up to.
Speaker 2: This is this is the habit of of his I think, uh,
Speaker 2: he'll be back on on Monday, And we have a
Speaker 2: lot coming up in the month of June, not just
Speaker 2: this contract battle, but but a lot of other things
Speaker 2: that are happening. And I think we might have some
Speaker 2: pretty cool announcements about the future of the show within
Speaker 2: the next month or so. We're definitely gonna have some
Speaker 2: some announcements about the future of the show in the
Speaker 2: month of June. I'll tell you that there's.
Speaker 1: Gonna think there's gonna be a big one.
Speaker 2: I have a massive plan and it involves what I
Speaker 2: view as the future of this show. And and if
Speaker 2: I Heart's on board, then they'll make the deal that
Speaker 2: I want. If they're not on board, then I'll make
Speaker 2: the deal with ihearts competitors. That's just how it goes.
Speaker 2: And somebody said, should I cash out my stock? No,
Speaker 2: man stay involved in the I heard stock for now.
Speaker 2: What's iHeart stock at GOA lately? Has it okay? Because
Speaker 2: when I told you to buy this, I heard stock
Speaker 2: had dipped below a dollar. It's still at four dollars
Speaker 2: and twenty eight cents. All right, we did well, we
Speaker 2: wrote it. I don't think it's time to get off
Speaker 2: just yet. I think there's a little bit more in
Speaker 2: there for you know, a little bit more squeezing the juice.
Speaker 2: How do they say it, juice and the squeeze.
Speaker 1: You're getting more juice for the squeeze.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But I'm saying is the juice ain't worth the
Speaker 3: squeeze and you're trying to retrofit it.
Speaker 2: I want to yeah, because I want to say it's
Speaker 2: we're not done here. There's a little bit more left.
Speaker 2: Four dollars and twenty eight cents. I think we can
Speaker 2: get a little bit more out of the iHeartMedia stock.
Speaker 2: But at some point maybe that's time to attempted, time
Speaker 2: to dump that as well.
Speaker 1: All right, here's the story that I was holding over.
Speaker 2: I wanted to tell you guys about this because you
Speaker 2: can tell me if you think that this guy deserved
Speaker 2: a lifetime ban. He did get banned, not only from
Speaker 2: the place he was at, which is a place called
Speaker 2: Cedar Point. I've never been to it, but he got
Speaker 2: banned from every single six Flags in the country, oh,
Speaker 2: all of the six Flags properties, which I hate to say,
Speaker 2: nothing against you six Flags, but if you banned me
Speaker 2: for all of the six Flags locations in the country,
Speaker 2: it would impact my life, not at all. I would
Speaker 2: not be impacted. I don't miss out possibly the fun.
Speaker 2: But we don't need to hear. I mean, we have
Speaker 2: too many better options, at least in central Florida, for
Speaker 2: God's sake. But a guest at Ohio's Cedar Point Amusement
Speaker 2: Park has earned a lifetime ban from all Six Flags properties.
Speaker 2: Stupid question. Do they have six and that's why it's
Speaker 2: called six flags or how many? How many total six
Speaker 2: flags are there? Uh? Look, yes, the six flags is
Speaker 2: like different flags that they display, like the Texas one
Speaker 2: and all.
Speaker 1: Of that flags over Texas and whatnot.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Alan Farrell, a content creator with millions of followers
Speaker 2: across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, appeared to do something that
Speaker 2: got him booted out of the property and a lifetime
Speaker 2: banned from all six Flags six Flags, all six Flags properties.
Speaker 2: And I have the video. Let's see if we can
Speaker 2: play this here? Okay, here he is. It's like a
Speaker 2: YouTube short. So he goes on the roller coaster at
Speaker 2: six Flags and he's snuck in nuggets and he tried
Speaker 2: to eat the nuggets as he was riding the roller coaster.
Speaker 2: This is what got him a lifetime eat a ten
Speaker 2: piece nugget while.
Speaker 1: On a roller coaster? What is wrong with you with Phil?
Speaker 2: All right, sneak some of his pants, asks, I do
Speaker 2: not have chicken nuggets on my underwear? All right, all right?
Speaker 2: He gets on the roller coaster. No there, he goes, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: I imagine for a YouTube shows like he's not gonna curse.
Speaker 2: However he does and he starts to pound the nuggets.
Speaker 2: I'm watching now you can go back to this show.
Speaker 2: He's going on the roller coaster at six Flags and
Speaker 2: he's trying to eat the ten nugs as he's doing
Speaker 2: he's even trying to dunk.
Speaker 1: So stupid, it's so dumb.
Speaker 2: They should have They absolutely should have banned this guy,
Speaker 2: which is what they did. And he screamed as he
Speaker 2: goes around trying to eat all ten nuggets on the ride.
Speaker 2: Did we find out how many places he's now banned from?
Speaker 1: Uh, there's a lot. Let me count real quick.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I didn't think there were that many.
Speaker 2: So somebody says there's one in New Jersey. It's even
Speaker 2: got a Safari zoo. That sounds nice.
Speaker 1: So he's banned from every single property that they own, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: all of them.
Speaker 2: Every six Flags park, he's banned for lifetime ban, which
Speaker 2: is brutal. It says safety is a cornerstone of our business.
Speaker 2: We have zero tolerance for inappropriate and unsafe behavior. Our
Speaker 2: ride safety policy strictly prohibits all loose articles on rides,
Speaker 2: including food which could become a choking hazard, which is yeah,
Speaker 2: that's true. You want somebody to choke to death on
Speaker 2: a chicken nugget?
Speaker 3: This is how it happened. Na's banned from thirty nine properties.
Speaker 3: No way, they have one in Saudi Arabia there, Oh,
Speaker 3: definitely not. Okay, that's the most fun.
Speaker 2: Six Flags has how many thirty nine?
Speaker 1: They got one to Mexico too.
Speaker 2: He's banned from every single one of them. This guy
Speaker 2: all for the glory of a couple of views over
Speaker 2: on YouTube. Let us know what you think. Send a
Speaker 2: dispatch over at thenewsjunkie dot com. All right, let's see
Speaker 2: what we have here. A couple of people are weighing in.
Speaker 2: Let's start with some emails. This is from Carol to
Speaker 2: Tips at the Neewsjunkie dot com. Carol says, hi, friends,
Speaker 2: I'm listening to the podcast and you were discussing the
Speaker 2: excitement of the Queen of Taco Bell.
Speaker 1: I remember that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this was the lady who they built a Taco
Speaker 2: bell in her city, and she was as excited as
Speaker 2: a human being could be. She was completely thrilled, and
Speaker 2: she called herself the Queen of Taco Bell. She situated
Speaker 2: her whole life. She says, you had terminal cancer and
Speaker 2: this is the highlight of her life that they open
Speaker 2: this taco bell. So Carol says, I currently live in
Speaker 2: upstate New York, and the closest Taco bell is almost
Speaker 2: forty miles away. Jesus, for the sake of guy, we
Speaker 2: have a McDonald's and Arby's and what may be the
Speaker 2: most poorly run subway in the United States of America.
Speaker 2: If we got a Taco Bell, I'd run for queen,
Speaker 2: and I would ride on a float through town and
Speaker 2: the parade for our annual cream Cheese festival. I miss
Speaker 2: the conveniences of bigger towns. Wiggle wiggle, pop pop, says Carol.
Speaker 2: I mean that's that small town thing. It's so crazy,
Speaker 2: like you don't realize all the things that you have
Speaker 2: and the things you take advantage of or take for
Speaker 2: granted until you go to a smaller town like I
Speaker 2: live in a great spot, like literally where my house is.
Speaker 2: There is nothing that is not within almost walking distance
Speaker 2: of where I'm at, from the grocery stores to big
Speaker 2: box stores to I'm giving away too much personal information
Speaker 2: about my location here, to home improvement stores. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 2: everything you could think of is within a very short
Speaker 2: walking distance of where I am. And I take that
Speaker 2: for granted because I live, you know, very close to
Speaker 2: a decent sized city. But in some of these smaller
Speaker 2: towns they are still thrilled about that stuff. Brenda emails
Speaker 2: Tips at the news Junkie dot com. Happy belated birthday, Sean.
Speaker 2: She says, let's talk about that Anna Kepner case for
Speaker 2: a second. This is the cruise ship stepsister murder. That
Speaker 2: boy needs to be in jail now, Brenda says, I
Speaker 2: agree with you. It's an open and shutcase. Having him
Speaker 2: on any sort of house arrest is a joke, and
Speaker 2: the judge is looking stupid for his ruling yesterday.
Speaker 1: You also talked about caves. I'm with you on that
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: No cave diving in my life, and no walking in
Speaker 2: underground caves like it's a cool thing to do. It's not,
Speaker 2: says Rand. Very much anti cave in her world, I
Speaker 2: guess and of very quickly. I wanted to mention something
Speaker 2: here from our friend DJ Rage. He says, Hi, Sean
Speaker 2: to tips at the news Junkie dot Com. I don't
Speaker 2: know if you'll get to this during secret shows spoiler alert,
Speaker 2: I did not. Oh if you could give Stacy's mom
Speaker 2: a shout out, she has been a teacher for thirty
Speaker 2: five years and her last day was yesterday she retired,
Speaker 2: Thank you, says DJ Rage. Well, congratulations to Stacy's mom.
Speaker 2: There somewhere thirty five years anything is incredibly impressive. I'm
Speaker 2: working at a place for that long, is you know,
Speaker 2: that's a lot of your life for God, especially with.
Speaker 1: Youths Oh my god.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you. That's why people always say, Sean, you
Speaker 2: think teachers make enough money? They get the summers off.
Speaker 2: Do you think they make too much money? I said,
Speaker 2: I always look at it. Do I want to do
Speaker 2: that job? And teacher is one of those things that
Speaker 2: will be at the bottom of my list. I have
Speaker 2: no interest in dealing with kids, especially younger kids. So
Speaker 2: anybody that wants to be a teacher, hell yeah, man,
Speaker 2: throw money at those people because it's an important job.
Speaker 2: And maybe you can help turn around these kids. So
Speaker 2: many of them have parents who aren't doing a damn
Speaker 2: thing about it. So I salute you, and I salute
Speaker 2: all the teachers out there. Thank you to Stacy's mom
Speaker 2: for thirty five years at her gig. A couple of
Speaker 2: dispatches very quickly, here's somebody saying they saw a stuck
Speaker 2: roller coaster just like this.
Speaker 1: When we talked about let's see.
Speaker 15: Howdy folks, Kurt here sean about that stuck roller coaster.
Speaker 15: I got to see a story like that once in person.
Speaker 15: Back in ninety nine Bush Gardens Williams for a brand
Speaker 15: new coaster and open called alpin Geist, and it's actually
Speaker 15: the opening help for the roller coaster, and that's part
Speaker 15: of the reason I had gone there, and I got
Speaker 15: to see it get stuck about I don't know, third
Speaker 15: of the way up the loop. Cars up front were
Speaker 15: kind of slightly inverted, and the people in the bottom,
Speaker 15: oh no, that is until someone cud of the vehicles
Speaker 15: and it fell down and totally landed on someone and
Speaker 15: that was not a pretty sight.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I try to keep my distance with away from some
Speaker 2: of this stuff, just just on a personal level. I
Speaker 2: think that roller coasters are fun, but I don't ever
Speaker 2: want to be in the situation that got Crypto just
Speaker 2: described right there. That's a pass for me.
Speaker 1: Kind of funny to see from the distance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, people, it's so disgusting when you end up in
Speaker 2: a situation like that and then you're stuck. So someone
Speaker 2: now has puked on you from above, there might be
Speaker 2: more coming and there's absolutely nothing that you can do
Speaker 2: that That is a real moment for you. Here's somebody
Speaker 2: on America's two hundred and fiftieth celebration. Ted Hi. It's
Speaker 2: Ted from Leasbarke, Florida.
Speaker 9: Told you if they want to really celebrate two and
Speaker 9: fifty years of great America, they should put some great
Speaker 9: bands on like the Beach Boys, Jane and Americans, the
Speaker 9: Four Seasons.
Speaker 2: You say, Jay and the Americans. I think, so, what's that?
Speaker 2: I never even heard of it. He said they should
Speaker 2: put on some great bands like the Beach Boys, Jay
Speaker 2: and e Americans. Those types of bands were real American bands.
Speaker 2: Those are.
Speaker 1: Just like the Jay and the Americans.
Speaker 2: I never heard of j In.
Speaker 3: The classic vocal group that emerged from the nineteen sixties
Speaker 3: pop rock scene, Uh Top Song come a little bit
Speaker 3: closer a little bit.
Speaker 2: Do we know that?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't even think I've I've heard of that song before.
Speaker 1: Thank you?
Speaker 12: You know?
Speaker 1: Uh this is actually a cover from them, this magic moment.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I do know that man moment. I mean, sir, no,
Speaker 2: no disrespect meant at all. All right, absolutely no disrespect
Speaker 2: to you. But do you think Jay and the Americans
Speaker 2: is going to fire up a crowd of people?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: I like the Beach Boys, and I went to see
Speaker 2: the Beach Boys and it was, I mean, these beautiful music,
Speaker 2: some great songs, but it was kind of a yawn.
Speaker 1: Fit, isn't it kind of just John Stamos with a
Speaker 1: backing band?
Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, there's like one of the Beach Boys that's
Speaker 2: still with the band, and John Stamos is kind of
Speaker 2: the big star now, And I like, I don't know
Speaker 2: what am I crazy here? I would have thought that
Speaker 2: they would have like Drake or I don't know who's
Speaker 2: the most who are the like, who are the most popular?
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift, maybe Post Malone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some jelly roll, Like get out some big names
Speaker 2: and get some people who are like, wow, these are
Speaker 2: really impressive big performers.
Speaker 1: Pearl Jam Maah Pearl jam, I guess, I mean they're great.
Speaker 2: I don't know what they've done in a while. Get
Speaker 2: a lot us more set from that other, that other
Speaker 2: concert that she's doing. It's America. I feel like we
Speaker 2: should have the best performers ever. But maybe everything's just
Speaker 2: stupid political now. It's America. But you named like three Canadians.
Speaker 1: Drake, and.
Speaker 2: You're right, I need to lay off the Canadian musicians.
Speaker 2: I need only Americans. Who's the most famous Lady Gaga.
Speaker 3: American musician, pop star? Yeah, Taylor Swift is a huge star.
Speaker 1: Still we.
Speaker 2: Could we're America. We've got like we have a seemingly
Speaker 2: unending budget to spend on everything else. We can't get
Speaker 2: like really impressive performers for the two hundred and fiftieth celebration.
Speaker 2: I really feel like we should be able to Okay,
Speaker 2: quick break when we come back, we'll see what's going
Speaker 2: on in your world. As these dispatches roll in, we
Speaker 2: got mo to Wit. That's right, he's joining us. We
Speaker 2: have a moment that has led to a huge investigation.
Speaker 2: We have jury duty, We have all of this and
Speaker 2: so much more, and it's all coming up next on
Speaker 2: the news Chunkie. You're gonna have fights every once in
Speaker 2: a while, right, Couples fight, It's just a fact of life.
Speaker 1: Even a Lejandro and his wife fight every now and then.
Speaker 2: A right, more often than not, we have these fights
Speaker 2: with explosive fights, and then then you make up and
Speaker 2: you know, all is well after that. I'm sure even
Speaker 2: Josh Josh and his lovely wife just this scrap every
Speaker 2: once in a while. But sometimes I see these fights
Speaker 2: and I go, oh God, it's a whole different game
Speaker 2: going on for that couple.
Speaker 1: And this is one of those.
Speaker 2: This is in Butler County, Pennsylvania, and I just had
Speaker 2: to share this story with you. A fight between a
Speaker 2: husband and a wife ended with a large chunk of
Speaker 2: their house missing.
Speaker 1: All right, this is the level of fight they were
Speaker 1: up to.
Speaker 2: The damage to the house is so severe that investigators
Speaker 2: are concerned about the house's structural integrity. That's crazy to me,
Speaker 2: because they're concerned about the structural integrity of this house.
Speaker 2: And then yet, we had this house in Florida that
Speaker 2: went viral this week, which looked like it was on
Speaker 2: pallets like forty feet.
Speaker 1: High or something in the front yard.
Speaker 2: I don't know exactly how high it was, but like
Speaker 2: it was, it's a house that they like basically jacked
Speaker 2: up into the air four feet twenty four feet.
Speaker 1: They put twenty four feet of pallettes underneath it.
Speaker 2: And then this person's house is I guess, maybe even
Speaker 2: worse off than that one.
Speaker 1: This one in Pennsylvania. Here's the story behind this one.
Speaker 2: According to local reports, forty eight year old Eric pir
Speaker 2: Wuza used a Kubota excavator. I'm not a construction guy.
Speaker 2: Is excavator to rip a part the home during a
Speaker 2: fight with his wife. I'd like to know what she
Speaker 2: said to him, because I'll make sure I don't say it.
Speaker 2: The forty two years i've been married, I've never threatened
Speaker 2: to tear the house down, one of their neighbors said.
Speaker 2: The fight reportedly started after the guy return home after
Speaker 2: a night out drinking. His wife told him that their
Speaker 2: marriage was over, and he said, if it's over, I'll
Speaker 2: tear the house down. She said it's over. He proceeded
Speaker 2: to tear the house down with an excavator. He followed
Speaker 2: through on his promise and was later arrested. I think
Speaker 2: this is CBS news.
Speaker 14: Video shows the massive damage. My police say an argument
Speaker 14: between a husband and wife spiraled out of control too.
Speaker 2: Oh, he just straight up started ripping away at the
Speaker 2: front of the house with this excavator, just demolishing a
Speaker 2: good portion of the house here.
Speaker 1: This this is a Pittsburgh TVs.
Speaker 2: Theay Morning.
Speaker 14: Investigators say forty eight year old Eric Piersa used a
Speaker 14: Koboda excavator to rip apart the rear of the family's home.
Speaker 2: Jeez, I know what she said to him, because I'll
Speaker 2: make sure I'll say okat.
Speaker 14: Piers's wife told police her husband arrived at the family's
Speaker 14: home after drinking all night and began arguing with her
Speaker 14: when she told him the marriage was over. Investigators say
Speaker 14: he responded with a chilling threat. If it's over, I'll tear.
Speaker 2: The house down.
Speaker 1: I like the quote they put up. If it's over,
Speaker 1: I'll tear the house down. If this is over, I'll
Speaker 1: share the house down.
Speaker 2: Then he did sport Johnson said, it's got a nice
Speaker 2: open floorplan. Now, yeah, it does, it does? Did he
Speaker 2: win the argument? I mean when I look at this,
Speaker 2: I go this is another level. Okay, this is a
Speaker 2: whole another level of fighting that we're watching on display here.
Speaker 2: Down forty two years, I've been married.
Speaker 14: We yell each other all the time, but I've never
Speaker 14: threatened to tear the house down, police say. Moments later,
Speaker 14: Piersa climbed into the excav and began tearing into the
Speaker 14: house while his wife and two daughters were still inside.
Speaker 14: My God criminal complaint says dispatchers could hear yelling and
Speaker 14: the sound of the excavator during the nine to one
Speaker 14: one call. Investigators say after the destruction stopped, Pierza went
Speaker 14: back inside, grabbed a gin bag, and took off toward
Speaker 14: Fawn Township before eventually being taken into custody.
Speaker 2: What did he get arrested because he was drunk, wasn't he?
Speaker 1: That's what they said. This started this.
Speaker 2: He came all home after a night all out, all
Speaker 2: night drinking, and Abraham Dragonfrid says, can't believe she's divorcing him.
Speaker 1: That sounds nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, who could have seen this coming at all?
Speaker 2: Who would have ever thought that maybe this would be
Speaker 2: a problem here? This guy is absolutely not I think
Speaker 2: it's gonna happen out here.
Speaker 14: Neighbors we spoke with off camera say they're still struggling
Speaker 14: to understand what happened. One man who says he knows
Speaker 14: piersa personally.
Speaker 2: What's going on. There's like an entire convoy of cars
Speaker 2: at this house, which I don't know if they own
Speaker 2: all these cars one, two, three, four, five, six vehicles
Speaker 2: outside the house. Like it's a nice looking house, right,
Speaker 2: that actually has some money, or was before he took
Speaker 2: the excavator to the front of it and started destroying
Speaker 2: his own place.
Speaker 14: It has hunted with him before, described him as a
Speaker 14: big outdoorsman and said he was shocked by the allegations.
Speaker 14: Piers is now facing charges including causing a catastrophe, reckless
Speaker 14: disorderly conduct.
Speaker 2: Does the hell of a thing to get sharged? We
Speaker 2: heard that before? What are you in for causing a catastrophe? Sure, buddy,
Speaker 2: what what level? I guess this level of destruction is
Speaker 2: what you have to get to.
Speaker 1: So you have an excavator so you can make threats
Speaker 1: like that, right, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. Right, hold on causing a catastrophy? That
Speaker 2: that is a crime I've not heard of. But let's
Speaker 2: see what that like. Is there a certain level of
Speaker 2: damage that you have to get to? Here? It is
Speaker 2: section three three to two zero causing or risking a catastrophe.
Speaker 2: A person who causes a catastrophe by explosion, fire, flood, avalanche,
Speaker 2: collapse of a building, release of poison, gas, radioactive material,
Speaker 2: or any other harmful or destructive force or substance, or
Speaker 2: by any other means, is in violation of this law
Speaker 2: and commits a felony of the first degree risking catastrophe.
Speaker 2: A person is guilty of felony of the third degree
Speaker 2: IV he recklessly creates a risk of catastrophe in the
Speaker 2: employment of fire, explosives, or other dangerous means. So it's
Speaker 2: a really strange sort of law that they probably have
Speaker 2: to use.
Speaker 1: That avalanche is in there's yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, and I feel so bad as kids
Speaker 2: were inside the house. I couldn't even imagine, like you're
Speaker 2: watching your dad. He's drunk outside, ripping the house to shreds.
Speaker 2: Is your inside? That's one from Oh Yeah, I'll ask
Speaker 2: them about this because I had not heard of that previously.
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Speaker 2: John and these thirteen gifted subs. I saw this, I
Speaker 2: asked this on chat. I did see some people who
Speaker 2: are against that. I don't understand being against this. I
Speaker 2: really don't. I know, even if you're one of these
Speaker 2: very political weirdos, I still don't understand being against this
Speaker 2: because I'm seeing that there's now been a big step
Speaker 2: toward or this move to eliminate property taxes in the
Speaker 2: state of Florida. And even if you hate Ron DeSantis,
Speaker 2: the governor of Florida, like why wouldn't you be down
Speaker 2: for this? We the push is to change this. Here's
Speaker 2: how it would work. According to Seeking Alpha, the proposal
Speaker 2: scales up the homestead exemption for a primary residence, raising
Speaker 2: it from fifty thousand dollars to two hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: thousand dollars. According to the Governor's office, this change would
Speaker 2: wipe out property taxes for around sixty percent of Florida homeowners. Yes,
Speaker 2: the long term plan would target a five hundred thousand
Speaker 2: dollars exemption. It would effectively eliminate the property taxes for
Speaker 2: ninety two percent of residents across the state of Florida.
Speaker 2: Florida legislators will be called to Tallahassee for a special
Speaker 2: legislative session to debate the proposal and its financial implications.
Speaker 2: To be passed, it, we need a sixty percent super
Speaker 2: majority approval in both the House and the Senate, followed
Speaker 2: by at least sixty percent vote approval in the future
Speaker 2: statewide election. Why like, why would you be against this
Speaker 2: if they tell you, like, let's just say you got
Speaker 2: to take a couple things for granted here, Let's say
Speaker 2: they tell you that you don't have to worry. They're
Speaker 2: going to find ways to balance out the budget. Here,
Speaker 2: don't worry the funding is replaced because they said they've
Speaker 2: got a couple of things that they're gonna do. They're
Speaker 2: gonna they're gonna invest some of the money coming in.
Speaker 2: There might be higher property taxes for the highest end
Speaker 2: property owners.
Speaker 1: In the state of float.
Speaker 2: The people who have the most will foot a little
Speaker 2: bit more of the bill, which is an idea that
Speaker 2: lots of people have been floating around, even Bezos. Bezos
Speaker 2: is like, you know, people who make under I forgot
Speaker 2: what amount, he said, like one hundred thousand or something
Speaker 2: something like that, ye shouldn't pay any property taxes. So
Speaker 2: this is like a thing that they're floating around for people.
Speaker 2: And if you if you look at this and you
Speaker 2: say the budget will stay the same, will bring in
Speaker 2: enough revenues, it'll be fine. They'll get the tourists, they'll
Speaker 2: get the rich people or whatever. But they're going to
Speaker 2: eliminate property taxes for ninety two percent of people in
Speaker 2: the state of Florida. I don't get being against that.
Speaker 2: Man like that sounds great, especially the first piece of this.
Speaker 2: People with houses two hundred fifty thousand dollars in below
Speaker 2: those are the exact people that need this sort of relief.
Speaker 2: You pay off a house that costs two hundred fifty
Speaker 2: thousand dollars and then you don't have to pay the
Speaker 2: property taxes for the rest of your life. And to me, like,
Speaker 2: there's not a lot of other things like that where
Speaker 2: you end up you buy a house, all right, biggest
Speaker 2: investment in your life, no doubt about it. You buy
Speaker 2: a house and the government goes, thank you for buying
Speaker 2: this house. Now we're going to hit you with a
Speaker 2: bunch of taxes. They hit you with a bunch of taxes,
Speaker 2: and then the government goes, oh, by the way, even
Speaker 2: if you pay that off and you don't have your
Speaker 2: mortgage of let's say two thousand dollars a month, you
Speaker 2: finally pay off your loan and you don't have to
Speaker 2: have the mortgage of two thousand dollars a month. But
Speaker 2: guess what, you got to keep paying property taxes and
Speaker 2: those will just keep going up up up until that's
Speaker 2: two thousand dollars a month. So you pay off your
Speaker 2: loan and now you just pay the state every single
Speaker 2: month as much as you were paying before.
Speaker 1: And to me, that just feels like severy At some.
Speaker 3: Point in time, I think people's main concern is just like,
Speaker 3: where's the money for uh, you know, fire department, police,
Speaker 3: trash pickup.
Speaker 1: Where's that going to come from if they're not paying
Speaker 1: property tax It.
Speaker 2: Says they're going to establish a mega state trust fund
Speaker 2: to offset any losses and bankroll counties that aren't able
Speaker 2: to close the gap. The problem there is people think
Speaker 2: it'll take some power away from local communities who will
Speaker 2: be reliant on the state funds, and then the state
Speaker 2: can make them bend to their will, and the local
Speaker 2: communities will have to do it because they need the
Speaker 2: funds that come in.
Speaker 1: I don't even really care about that that much.
Speaker 2: I think it's I think this is just a net
Speaker 2: positive for a lot of people who are sitting in
Speaker 2: homes that are two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in
Speaker 2: below there's certainly fifty thousand dollars home. Somebody's in a
Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars home, and you're gonna make them pay
Speaker 2: property taxes for the rest of eternity pointless.
Speaker 1: That's that's crazy. That's nuts.
Speaker 2: Like there obviously should be a point where people don't
Speaker 2: have to pay taxes you earn below a certain level,
Speaker 2: if your house is worth below a certain level, it
Speaker 2: makes more sense for the people who have more, have
Speaker 2: more income, have more properties that are worth more to
Speaker 2: put the bill for this for the other folks. And
Speaker 2: I think most people are okay with that. To me,
Speaker 2: this sounds like a win, but some people seem to
Speaker 2: be against it. Make the argument against this.
Speaker 1: For me, I think that I'm not in it. The
Speaker 1: argnment is just a political thing. Even if it's a
Speaker 1: good thing. You don't want to see the opposite party
Speaker 1: come up with a good idea, do something great, because
Speaker 1: then they're going to continue to win, continue to run
Speaker 1: the state. Everything nowadays is that even if it's a
Speaker 1: great idea, it's like no, no, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: vote for that one. I'm gonna wait too. My parties
Speaker 1: in charge and they make it exact about it.
Speaker 2: I see that a one hundre Like even if it's
Speaker 2: like especially with Trump stuff, So if Trump comes out
Speaker 2: and goes going to let's say, if he said tomorrow
Speaker 2: we're gonna decriminalize marijuana completely, right, he's already made moves
Speaker 2: to reschedule marijuana. If Trump did something that even a
Speaker 2: lot of these people like, there's so many people that
Speaker 2: would be like, nah, I still hate it. It's like
Speaker 2: why it's either a good thing or a bad thing.
Speaker 2: It's like sometimes people like even if you hate somebody,
Speaker 2: you should be able to be like damn like that though,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like I right, Like imagine
Speaker 2: imagine voting against something that would help you out so
Speaker 2: much financially because of politics. That's nuts to me. Man,
Speaker 2: nuts to me, that's crazy. But you let me know
Speaker 2: what you think about this. Send a dispatch over the
Speaker 2: neewsyunky dot com or email tips at the Newsjunkie dot com.
Speaker 1: When we come back, our friend Moe to It at
Speaker 1: the law firm will be here.
Speaker 2: I've got this anonymous email that I'll ask Moses about.
Speaker 2: Somebody said you got to get me help. I've got
Speaker 2: a dire situation. We'll see what's happening and we'll talk
Speaker 2: with our friend Mo. That is coming up next. Whos junkie.
Speaker 2: I don't know her name, McKenzie. McKenzie's Sharrilla. I've got
Speaker 2: a jailhouse phone call from her, the girl who crashed
Speaker 2: her car into a wall seemingly on purpose, killing some
Speaker 2: of her friends, and she somehow survived this, and they
Speaker 2: made a victim out of her. Her and her family
Speaker 2: did blamed it on everybody else except for her, when
Speaker 2: she seems like just a horrible human being. I'll get
Speaker 2: into that in jury duty and this anonymous email as well.
Speaker 2: I was talking a little bit during the break though
Speaker 2: with the folks in chat and talking about the government
Speaker 2: taking your money and what it does with it and
Speaker 2: all that stuff. I said, people would be amazed how
Speaker 2: inefficient government is in so many cases. And I brought
Speaker 2: up the story about the Nashville explosion.
Speaker 1: You guys might remember, I don't know if you remember.
Speaker 2: This Alejandra, the guy who took his RV and rigged
Speaker 2: it up with explosives in Nashville. And then it was Christmas,
Speaker 2: I think, and he blew up his RV while they
Speaker 2: were playing that Downtown. You know, the RV was blasting
Speaker 2: the song Downtown in the middle of downtown Nashville. Boom,
Speaker 2: this thing blows up, explodes. That was like six years ago,
Speaker 2: all right, six years ago. Up the road is still
Speaker 2: a disaster that the buildings are still completely smashed and
Speaker 2: blown up. They haven't done anything. Francis Scott Key Bridge,
Speaker 2: remember that one yes, the ship crashed into the Francis
Speaker 2: Scott Key Bridge and it destroyed the bridge. It was
Speaker 2: a whole catastrophe. That wasn't nearly as long ago, I
Speaker 2: don't believe. But it still hasn't been fixed. And the
Speaker 2: last I heard about that was that it was like
Speaker 2: billions of dollars to get it fixed. The government has
Speaker 2: enough of our money. They are incredibly inefficient. They take
Speaker 2: way too long. You get insurance involved in this, and
Speaker 2: that makes this stuff take forever.
Speaker 1: It's just a nightmare.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 2: That's what the problem is in so many of these cases.
Speaker 2: I'll give you another example. Do you remember, you guys,
Speaker 2: remember when they were building the hard Rock Hotel in
Speaker 2: New Orleans?
Speaker 1: Yes, you remember this.
Speaker 2: They were building this hard rock hotel and it collapsed.
Speaker 2: I don't know exactly why it collapsed, but the building collapsed,
Speaker 2: and there was even some construction workers I believe, who
Speaker 2: ended up dying, and they couldn't go get them, so
Speaker 2: they just covered them with tarps inside the building in
Speaker 2: New Orleans, this hard rock. I think it's still messed up.
Speaker 1: I think the bodies might even gosh, will you look
Speaker 1: check that out.
Speaker 2: I think I think the bodies might even still be
Speaker 2: left in the hard rock in New Orleans after all
Speaker 2: of these years. And I don't know.
Speaker 1: Moses DeWitt joins us. Hello, Moses, good day, so are you.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Is that a lot of times, like
Speaker 2: legal proceedings that hold some of these things up, like
Speaker 2: lawsuits and stuff, can prevent them from rebuilding things. I'm
Speaker 2: sure you might have even seen that place in New Orleans.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean, obviously, lawsuits can can prevent things from
Speaker 16: moving forward. There could be spoliation of evidence issues me
Speaker 16: and they have to preserve certain evidence or the lawsuit.
Speaker 16: There could be concerns about whether it could ever be
Speaker 16: built safe, depending if there was soil issues or whatever
Speaker 16: may be causing it. I'm not saying that's what happened here,
Speaker 16: uh huh, but there's all sorts of issues that can
Speaker 16: hold things up like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I remember, I don't know if you
Speaker 2: and I ever talked about this, but there was also
Speaker 2: speak There was also a situation with I don't think
Speaker 2: it was you that we that I talked to about this,
Speaker 2: but maybe we did speak about this one the Orlando
Speaker 2: Sentinel Building, Yes, which is this big property, massive property
Speaker 2: in the center of downtown Orlando for those of you
Speaker 2: not familiar, dilapidated building. Even when I went there, like
Speaker 2: I went to do some seminars and stuff for the
Speaker 2: Orlando Sentinel staff to do some presentations about digital with
Speaker 2: the Orlando Sentinel staff years and years and years ago,
Speaker 2: maybe fourteen years ago, and at that point in time,
Speaker 2: going into the Orlando Sentinel building.
Speaker 1: I was like, this place is a garbage sheep man.
Speaker 2: It's in bad repair, disrepair, looks like an old school.
Speaker 2: The roof tiles like falling down and stuff is a nightmare.
Speaker 2: And then somebody told me, oh, it's because they printed
Speaker 2: the paper here so long. The ink from the printing
Speaker 2: got into some of the soil and made it so
Speaker 2: they like, they can't sell this area. I think they
Speaker 2: eventually did end up selling. Yeah, but like all these
Speaker 2: things happening, it just becomes such a nightmare. We end
Speaker 2: up with these problems on our hands for so much
Speaker 2: longer than seemingly you should. It's pretty crazy to me, Moses,
Speaker 2: I got an email for you. I wanted to read this.
Speaker 2: Hang on, let me bring this up here and get
Speaker 2: this person's question across.
Speaker 1: O real quick.
Speaker 3: That hard rocked in New Orleans and twenty twenty they
Speaker 3: were finally able to demolish it. And that's when they
Speaker 3: recover the bodies, which was like a year after it collapsed.
Speaker 2: Okay, so the bodies were in there for over a year.
Speaker 2: They did get them out, though I thought they I
Speaker 2: thought they were up for longer than that because I
Speaker 2: remember a hurricane ripping through and the hurricane ripped up
Speaker 2: the tarp and they were like you could.
Speaker 1: See the bodies in there, go oh my god.
Speaker 3: It was like later twenty twenty. That happened in January
Speaker 3: twenty twenty. It was later that year they were able
Speaker 3: to get in and get the bodies. Finally, Is it
Speaker 3: now fixed? Is like completed? I believe they just imploded
Speaker 3: it and that's that.
Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah, So, I mean they've had some issues over
Speaker 2: the years, obviously with some of these places.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go.
Speaker 2: Here's Anonymous with an email from Moses to Wit and
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Speaker 2: go to an attorney that is going to give you
Speaker 2: the time of day, understand your case, and treat you
Speaker 2: like a human being. Anonymous comes in with a question
Speaker 2: for Mode to Tips at the Newsjunkie dot com. I
Speaker 2: have a question about father's rights in Florida. Anonymous says,
Speaker 2: my son and his fiance had a child together. She
Speaker 2: also had a child from a previous relationship. They all
Speaker 2: live together in his house. They aren't married yet, and
Speaker 2: it looks like things are not going well. I'm worried
Speaker 2: that she will keep him from the kids if she leaves.
Speaker 2: Is there something he should do legally or is his
Speaker 2: name on the birth certificate of the kids? Enough?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Anonymous thoughts Moses.
Speaker 16: Yeah, so, if you're not married in the state of Florida,
Speaker 16: basically the father has no rights even if your name
Speaker 16: is on the birth certificate. So you have to file
Speaker 16: a paternity action to legally establish paternity. Now, there is
Speaker 16: an if they're getting along, there is like an acknowledgment
Speaker 16: of paternity form that you can have notarized and file
Speaker 16: which will have her acknowledge the paternity. But otherwise, even
Speaker 16: if you're on the birth certificate, it's a common misconception,
Speaker 16: and you know she could pick up and leave with
Speaker 16: the child and you legally have no rights to stop.
Speaker 2: You can't do it.
Speaker 1: You can't do anything.
Speaker 16: You have to go to court, file the paternity action
Speaker 16: and the court has to adjudicate you as the father
Speaker 16: before they're legally allowed to take any steps. So I
Speaker 16: had a case once before where mom picked up and
Speaker 16: moved across the country with the kid and took the
Speaker 16: dad four years to get the kid back here. My god,
Speaker 16: because you know, even though he was listed on the
Speaker 16: birth certificate, he was never adjudicated as the father. So
Speaker 16: you know, even if it's an uncontested paternity action where
Speaker 16: everybody agrees on everything, you know, actually making it legal
Speaker 16: with the courts is very, very important.
Speaker 2: Is it as simple as there's like a one document
Speaker 2: if you're getting along and like obviously if you're putting
Speaker 2: the person's name on the birth certificate, if you file
Speaker 2: this document, then it protects you from that and maybe
Speaker 2: you should be doing that when the kids are born.
Speaker 16: In simple terms, yes, I mean it's a little bit
Speaker 16: of oversimplification.
Speaker 1: But can they do it on their owner? They need
Speaker 1: an attorney that you can do it on your own.
Speaker 16: You just have to do some research, you know, if
Speaker 16: you google it, I'm sure it's out there, or there
Speaker 16: may be a Florida Supreme Court form that it is
Speaker 16: a form. I just don't know exactly where you find
Speaker 16: it off the top of my head, but yeah, you
Speaker 16: can certainly do it. It has to be notarized. I
Speaker 16: think then you have to file it with the clerk
Speaker 16: of court or something like that. It's been a little
Speaker 16: loss since I've done it, but it's very important to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The craziest thing is four years when you're a parent
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Speaker 2: Your kid doesn't remember you when they were two, and
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Speaker 2: and the like, who is this person next? So that's
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Speaker 2: Hey to Polly, Hey to Mike Yuckers, Ryan, everybody that
Speaker 2: I see hanging out with the sh show right now.
Speaker 2: And hey to our friend Moses Uitt a the Duitt
Speaker 2: Law firm, who's with us. Good day, Moses. You know Alejandro.
Speaker 2: Have you met Alejandro before? No, we don't speak. You
Speaker 2: know what I always wondered, I was like, why Alejandro
Speaker 2: doesn't get he doesn't get invited to the bowling event.
Speaker 1: I'm like, this guy's a star, He's on rule.
Speaker 2: I didn't even know it existed. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: For me, I never needed an attorney, Yes, but if
Speaker 1: I need it, I'll call you, Molly. Even after that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a nice day. What can I say this?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: We got to get Alejandro on board at the bowling event.
Speaker 2: People love Alejandro and I don't know if he's good
Speaker 2: at bowling, but it's a fun event for a great cause.
Speaker 1: Are you any good, Alejandro? I'm good at drinking beer.
Speaker 1: You that's good.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's all. That's at least half of it
Speaker 2: right there. Ghost Bert says, all hundred doesn't get in trouble.
Speaker 2: You don't know this man as well as you think
Speaker 2: you do. He gets in trouble, all right. He's a
Speaker 2: wild man. Like I see Alejandro all the time social
Speaker 2: media posts. I'm like, this guy, you still got party
Speaker 2: in you.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know where it comes from, but I'll look,
Speaker 2: I'll see him. He's like a cigar. He got a
Speaker 2: glass of some sort of adult beverage. He's partying at
Speaker 2: some concert. He somehow worked his way backstage. I don't know, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: his party's got beautiful wife.
Speaker 1: Party on his arm. They're doing their things.
Speaker 2: So thank you to Alejandro for hanging out with us today.
Speaker 2: Of course, Moses, I wanted to run something by a
Speaker 2: couple of things I had. One is one of my
Speaker 2: pet peeves, no pun intended. One of the things that
Speaker 2: drives me crazy is these horrific dog owners who end
Speaker 2: up with their dogs that are always nuisance dogs. There's
Speaker 2: always many, many reports about how dangerous their animals are,
Speaker 2: and then the inevitability happens, their animals attack somebody, and
Speaker 2: in this case, they killed some woman who was in
Speaker 2: her fifties, like fifty one or something. This poor lady
Speaker 2: got attacked by this woman Linda Cutler's dogs, and her dogs,
Speaker 2: Max and Mako got out of her car yard. They
Speaker 2: always get out of the yard. And Jody Cohen was
Speaker 2: walking her own dog and these two dogs attack her,
Speaker 2: and she did get a manslaughter charge against her. If
Speaker 2: these kind of situations happen with somebody and their dogs,
Speaker 2: even if they're noose and animals, is that sort of
Speaker 2: the highest you can go for is manslaughter. You can't
Speaker 2: get like a murder charge against somebody for this.
Speaker 16: Well, probably not a murder charge, but if your dog
Speaker 16: has been declared dangerous and they do attack somebody, even
Speaker 16: if it's a minor attack, it can be a felony
Speaker 16: in the state of Florida. So you know, I mean
Speaker 16: a manslaughter charge. Nothing to sneeze that either. I mean
Speaker 16: that can be a I don't know why I said.
Speaker 16: Nothing to sneeze that. Ah, thank you, I appreciate it,
Speaker 16: But it can't be a serious charge. And you can
Speaker 16: be facing some real prison time.
Speaker 2: There what you can't get, like, you can't get life
Speaker 2: for manslaughter though, right would I think.
Speaker 16: I want to say that Max is twenty five years.
Speaker 16: They'll go off the top of my head something like that.
Speaker 2: Does it make these things worse if there's this his
Speaker 2: history of all these people complaining, and yeah, those are.
Speaker 16: Aggravating circumstances that are going to be considered as part
Speaker 16: of sentencing. Now that's not going to be admissible in
Speaker 16: the trial and culpability, but for sentencing purposes, the judge
Speaker 16: could certainly consider that.
Speaker 2: I would imagine they would. Yeah, speaking of judges, we
Speaker 2: were talking about this judge. Where were they from? Judge
Speaker 2: North Georgia, I believe North Georgia, this judge who just
Speaker 2: got caught. At first they weren't releasing even the gender,
Speaker 2: the sex of the judge. And then they said it's
Speaker 2: this judge and it's a woman, and they said she
Speaker 2: was having sex with a member of law enforcement in
Speaker 2: her judges quarters. Now I have some questions. First things. First,
Speaker 2: have you ever been into a judge's quarters? I have, all, Right,
Speaker 2: what does it look like back there? What are we
Speaker 2: talking about in these spaces? So it depends.
Speaker 16: So you know, I think one of the if I
Speaker 16: if it's a story that I'm thinking of, it was
Speaker 16: actually a federal judge who is based in Georgia. Yeah,
Speaker 16: it's not a Georgia judge, and they covered both Georgia
Speaker 16: and Florida because they're on the federal it's the federal
Speaker 16: pellet betch. Essentially, the federal judges offices are quite nice
Speaker 16: because they got that federal money. So, like you know,
Speaker 16: they usually have like a law library and office and
Speaker 16: sort of like a little reception area.
Speaker 2: So this is like a big space.
Speaker 16: Yeah, it's usually three or four rooms, the ones I've
Speaker 16: been in at least at that level. It's even a
Speaker 16: higher level than sort of your local federal judges. So
Speaker 16: and I've never been in one. I think it's the
Speaker 16: eighteenth Circuit. I've never been in their chambers there, but
Speaker 16: I would imagine it's it's somewhat similar, maybe even nicer.
Speaker 2: It's impressive, very impressive, right, So they've got this space
Speaker 2: they have I guess, you know, like a private office
Speaker 2: where this judge was locking yourself away, but people could
Speaker 2: hear her having sex with this police official or officer
Speaker 2: or whatever, and that's what started the problems for the judge. Now,
Speaker 2: one of the problems that arises from something like this
Speaker 2: is if the police have something in front of her
Speaker 2: in the court, then it looks like they might be
Speaker 2: getting preferential treatment or something because she's in this, you know,
Speaker 2: extramarital affair relationship with somebody in law enforcement, so that
Speaker 2: becomes an issue. But I think that they said there
Speaker 2: weren't any cases that she actually was overseeing as far
Speaker 2: as I know, I think, but there was still reasons
Speaker 2: why the judge would be in trouble. But what could happen?
Speaker 2: That's not a crime, so they can't arrest her, But
Speaker 2: what can they do?
Speaker 16: Well, I mean, I'm sure it's you know, frowned upon
Speaker 16: to have sexual intercourse in your office, they said, federal judge.
Speaker 16: But you know, I think what this person with this
Speaker 16: judge really, you know, is facing or could potentially be
Speaker 16: in trouble for, is that they did some sort of
Speaker 16: internal investigation.
Speaker 2: She blatantly lied. Yeah, and so that's where they'll they'll
Speaker 2: get you.
Speaker 16: It's not necessarily what you did, but then lying about
Speaker 16: what you did and as a judge or expected to
Speaker 16: be held to a certain standard when it comes to
Speaker 16: honesty and truthfulness and being candid with an investigation. Had
Speaker 16: she admitted to it the investigation, I think the punishment
Speaker 16: would be a lot worse. But here, you know, these judges,
Speaker 16: the federal judges are appointed for life, so it's basically
Speaker 16: almost like an impeachment type proceeding to have them removed,
Speaker 16: which lying as part of an investigation would give them
Speaker 16: a basis to do that. Impeached by by whom Though
Speaker 16: I think there's a committee kind of oversee the federal judges.
Speaker 2: I've never been a.
Speaker 1: Part of that.
Speaker 16: It would be like are it very rarely happens, but
Speaker 16: you know they would they could be removed that way
Speaker 16: for misconduct essentially, And a lot of stories similar to
Speaker 16: to that going around. I've heard other stories about like
Speaker 16: in judges quarters, nefarious stuff happening, But she's now outed
Speaker 16: in this case. Another case that's getting a lot of
Speaker 16: attention is this Mackenzie Sharilla. Sharilla, she's the one from
Speaker 16: the documentary the crash I believe is what it's called,
Speaker 16: where she was driving this vehicle.
Speaker 1: You could see the vehicle cruising.
Speaker 2: Down a road. It's like they don't even tap the
Speaker 2: brakes and she just pulled allows into a brick wall.
Speaker 2: She somehow survives. The two young men in the car
Speaker 2: with her end up dead, and she's trying to rehabilitate
Speaker 2: her image from behind bars. And the documentary about her
Speaker 2: involves her parents. You always got to watch with the
Speaker 2: documentary who's involved, because her parents being involved usually means
Speaker 2: they're gonna have some sort of say over things. But
Speaker 2: I guess she is. And now in some new audio
Speaker 2: of her on the phone behind bars, they said she's
Speaker 2: got no shortage of male attention. Last I heard she
Speaker 2: was like hooking up with some of the women behind bars.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but this is I guess now also with guys.
Speaker 2: And she's talking about this in a prison phone call
Speaker 2: that's been released. Hopefully she does a curse here, But Alejandro,
Speaker 2: stay on your toes. I'm sorry to throw this at
Speaker 2: you again.
Speaker 6: Here we go.
Speaker 1: It's lasting.
Speaker 2: I wanted for like them to start figuring out I
Speaker 2: think the message represent me, like hate mail.
Speaker 1: I know, just block it, reply reply.
Speaker 5: I want them to.
Speaker 15: I want I want them to send messages like that,
Speaker 15: like like I know what I did, I.
Speaker 13: Know what I didn't do exactly.
Speaker 2: It was about purpose the only thing that I'm guilty
Speaker 2: of is driving. Okay, She's so, She's so true, man,
Speaker 2: interesting interpretation. You have been found guilty in the court
Speaker 2: of love more than driving. Just want me take her.
Speaker 2: She was just driving into a wall. That's one way
Speaker 2: to tell this story.
Speaker 1: What happened to you?
Speaker 2: I was driving?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2: Any any other details, just just that. So she's talking
Speaker 2: about these gentlemen suitors who I guess are messaging her,
Speaker 2: which we always hear about mo because like, if there's
Speaker 2: anybody who's even moderately attractive behind bars, man, woman whatever,
Speaker 2: the weird as come out and want.
Speaker 1: To, uh make sweet love to them. I can fix her.
Speaker 2: They're like, I can fix her, and and I guess
Speaker 2: they're coming.
Speaker 15: In for her, and the last thing I'll do is
Speaker 15: hurt them.
Speaker 1: So what I know, I think it's their mom. Everybody knows. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody knows.
Speaker 2: I mean her mom. The problem with her mom, though,
Speaker 2: is that her mom just like excuses all this behavior.
Speaker 2: And her MoMA was even trying to say in the documentary,
Speaker 2: She's like, what if one of these guys in the
Speaker 2: car with her grabbed the wheel and you're like, damn,
Speaker 2: your daughter killed these people, and now you're blaming it
Speaker 2: on the dead kids. I mean, I think that's what Jesus.
Speaker 2: Take the wheels out. Sounds like what she was going
Speaker 2: for for her defense here, which I mean, look, try
Speaker 2: whatever you can to get freedom, do whatever you got
Speaker 2: to do. But it's just not a good look. Let's
Speaker 2: see what else she says. Well the way bd x
Speaker 2: Cohn says, she's not in prison for how she drove,
Speaker 2: it's how she stopped that.
Speaker 1: She's in trouble for that'll do that'll do.
Speaker 2: That guy your hotel?
Speaker 15: No, I never replied to Stephen.
Speaker 2: I love him.
Speaker 1: I don't know who that is, but I love him.
Speaker 15: I don't know how old he is. I don't even
Speaker 15: really care that much. I just love him like she's.
Speaker 2: I guess, if you're behind bars, you've got no shortage
Speaker 2: of time. So yeah, you just you know, you find
Speaker 2: ways to occupy yourself. Well, you should be concerned at
Speaker 2: least a little bit with your image, because I would
Speaker 2: imagine if she does become available for like, you know, release,
Speaker 2: at some point in time, aren't they gonna go back
Speaker 2: and look at all these things to determine whether or
Speaker 2: not she should be released from prison. Or she's saying longer.
Speaker 16: I mean possibly that you know, if she's up for parole,
Speaker 16: they could look at, you know, her behavior as an inmate.
Speaker 16: They could look at, you know, whether she's you know,
Speaker 16: showing remorse and things like that, which you know, if
Speaker 16: they play that phone call which she was just driving, Yeah, really,
Speaker 16: that's not gonna gonna look real good for her.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you ever like, if you have somebody who
Speaker 2: you represent and then they end up serving time behind bars,
Speaker 2: is there a conversation that you have You're like, hey,
Speaker 2: just do your time and then you have the best
Speaker 2: chance of getting out if you good behavior is a
Speaker 2: big thing on your record that you're not involved in,
Speaker 2: Like phone calls that are released like this, you would
Speaker 2: think that that's some sort of conversation.
Speaker 16: Well, I mean, you know, the main thing, whether you've
Speaker 16: been convicted or even obviously prior to a conviction, is
Speaker 16: if you're in jail, every phone call is recorded, and
Speaker 16: you know that they're going to listen to that. People
Speaker 16: have these crazy conversations about what they did, what happened,
Speaker 16: and you know, even though it tells them those recorded,
Speaker 16: they think nobody's going to listen to it. I can't
Speaker 16: tell you how many dui trials I've seen where a
Speaker 16: person calls their mom and says, oh, we just took
Speaker 16: two shots before we got in the call. You know,
Speaker 16: we had eighteen beers that you know, they're just admitting
Speaker 16: to all sorts of stuff and it's all recorded, and
Speaker 16: the prosecutors do check those phone calls.
Speaker 2: So what a disaster. All right, I missed the moment
Speaker 2: to play this, but it's never too late, So let's
Speaker 2: just do it. Are you ready, Josh, I'm ready. Let's
Speaker 2: do the Power Hour.
Speaker 1: They said it couldn't be done.
Speaker 2: Then they said, all right, elon, must let me see
Speaker 2: your penis.
Speaker 1: It's time for the Power Hour on the news.
Speaker 2: Chunky, he's always a penis thing, almost always when you
Speaker 2: say that, Yeah, they just want to see rocket. No,
Speaker 2: you see the video of that thing blowing up, haven't
Speaker 2: Holy cow Jesus, like, what an absolute catastrophe. I'll play
Speaker 2: it just for Moses in the studio, But I mean,
Speaker 2: this was one of those things where what's it called
Speaker 2: blue origin? Yeah, blue origin blowing up isn't a thought.
Speaker 7: It is.
Speaker 1: It was it was Bezos's ship that blew up.
Speaker 2: Here, it is all right, And that one does actually
Speaker 2: look a penis.
Speaker 1: It is, Yeah, very much.
Speaker 2: It's kind of bulbous end on it there, and everything
Speaker 2: looked kind of nope, not anymore. Yeah, and they said
Speaker 2: literally all one hundred million dollars completely annihilated right there. Also,
Speaker 2: I don't know if there was anything on board, probably not,
Speaker 2: but they're gonna send up satellites in this is. It
Speaker 2: was the biggest explosion that wasn't nuclear in the history
Speaker 2: of the world. Okay, that's how massive this accidental explosion was.
Speaker 2: You could see it from miles and miles away. You
Speaker 2: feel it from like forever away. The neighbor freaked out.
Speaker 2: The neighborhood where this like rattled them freaked out. It's
Speaker 2: just absolutely nuts. But Bezos says they're gonna rebuild and
Speaker 2: they're gonna do it all over again. Yeah, the Space Cowboy,
Speaker 2: right yeah, all right, quick break. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we're gonna do the update on the John Travolta situation.
Speaker 2: I gotta grab bad situation for you, and we got
Speaker 2: a lot more to get into as we finalize the week.
Speaker 2: Here the show rolls on, and that's coming up next
Speaker 2: on the News Junkie. If anybody was even close to
Speaker 2: that Blue Origin spacecraft, because I mean if look, if
Speaker 2: anybody was within like a couple hundred yards of that thing,
Speaker 2: I would have thought they would be dead or at
Speaker 2: least like severely injured. But they they said no one
Speaker 2: was injured in the Blue Origin explosion. Just like money
Speaker 2: and property and all that stuff. Who cares about that,
Speaker 2: But it seems so crazy to me that there was
Speaker 2: nobody even close enough to the explosion given the size
Speaker 2: that it was. I guess that is the case, though,
Speaker 2: So we'll keep an eye on what happened there. And
Speaker 2: I know the video is going megaviral all over the place,
Speaker 2: so we'll watch and see if there's any updates. Have
Speaker 2: you watched the transformation? You guys have John Travolta. Have
Speaker 2: you seen this man on the move a little bit?
Speaker 2: That is John Travolta. Alejandro might be able to pull
Speaker 2: off this look too, Can you see it like this?
Speaker 5: This?
Speaker 1: You could?
Speaker 2: You could probably pull it off, the beret and the look.
Speaker 2: And my my favorite part of John Travolta's current track,
Speaker 2: and this is why I bring up the latest year
Speaker 2: because there's a new clip from him, is that Moses.
Speaker 2: He's like very clear about what motivated him. To do this,
Speaker 2: all you have to do is say, like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: I was just trying a different style. But he's like,
Speaker 2: I googled what a director from the thirties looked like,
Speaker 2: and then I said, I have to look like that.
Speaker 2: And he's like very very strategically doing all of this,
Speaker 2: and he keeps talking about it. I think here's another
Speaker 2: interview with him that's literally international headline name.
Speaker 11: Because to me, the brat has been around for eight
Speaker 11: hundred years, being you know, painters and artists and military.
Speaker 1: It's an old school thing.
Speaker 2: But I think it's changing his personality. It does sound different.
Speaker 16: I mean it's it's no different than what you did, though,
Speaker 16: well and you you google you know, was the person
Speaker 16: who's giving up on life and listened to garage?
Speaker 2: No, actually I have, I have google that. But usually
Speaker 2: it's just pull your car in the garage is the
Speaker 2: advice give. But she got rid of your garage door,
Speaker 2: so I'm safe. I'm safe in here. But now that
Speaker 2: was really a safety measure, and yeah, yeah, so much
Speaker 2: for a static. Yeah. John Travolta though, just started wearing
Speaker 2: the baret. He just said like, let's go for it here,
Speaker 2: and I think it's changing the way he's talking. I
Speaker 2: think it's changing everything. He's doing the sensitive artist like
Speaker 2: hand thing. He's like, yeah, even question, Yeah, everything is
Speaker 2: this whole pattern has changed. It's as if like your
Speaker 2: friend went on a vacation somewhere and came back and
Speaker 2: then they have adopted an accent as a result of this.
Speaker 1: That's what John Travolta before.
Speaker 11: I reiterate, but I wanted. I looked at all the
Speaker 11: photographs of me for fifty years. I can't tell you
Speaker 11: the difference other than when I was very Oh that
Speaker 11: was the night oscars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, blah blah blah.
Speaker 11: But I started to not be able to differentiate, and
Speaker 11: I said, well, you're not an actor, really, UNA sure direct,
Speaker 11: why do you address that one?
Speaker 2: So I looked up so weird? Can you imagine?
Speaker 1: Like could you imagine doing this for any other job?
Speaker 2: Like MO was like, well, I'm not really an attorney
Speaker 2: until I google what do attorneys wear? And then I
Speaker 2: have to dress up like what I've get my attorney
Speaker 2: outfit on, dress like an attorney from like the nineteen
Speaker 2: thirty that'd be great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I see.
Speaker 3: I'd like to make a small, low stakes prediction. This
Speaker 3: is his lead up to finally coming out as gay.
Speaker 3: You think so, I think it might be that.
Speaker 2: Would be interesting if, like if John, because we allegedly right,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of rumors about John Travolta his sexuality
Speaker 2: over the years, a lot of rumors that involve cruise ships, all.
Speaker 1: Of that kind of seers.
Speaker 2: And then this is him leaning into the sort of
Speaker 2: artiste part Josh says before fully come out. Yucker says, Mo,
Speaker 2: you should dress like Colonel Sanders in a white suit,
Speaker 2: which would be a move. It would be noticeable. I
Speaker 2: would like to stand out. And then if somebody goes, mo,
Speaker 2: what's what's this new suit that you're wearing, you just
Speaker 2: overly explain everything.
Speaker 1: May just be a simple Southern lawyer.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you exactly why I'm doing this that
Speaker 2: I was correct.
Speaker 11: I looked up all the old school directors and they
Speaker 11: all had breaks and sometimes glasses, and it was the
Speaker 11: glasses too.
Speaker 2: It's a cliche, but in.
Speaker 11: A wonderfully because they're probably reflecting painters right and musicians
Speaker 11: of the touch.
Speaker 2: It's so weird, man, This is like one of the
Speaker 2: more strange trajectories in somebody's style that I've seen in
Speaker 2: my life.
Speaker 1: Well, he's not harming anybody.
Speaker 2: No, no, it's fine, It's totally fine. But now he
Speaker 2: says he owns twelve berets. So he went from zero
Speaker 2: to twe why is that an announcement. He's like an
Speaker 2: autistic kid with a new special interest is He's kind
Speaker 2: of like, it's just about what he has going on here.
Speaker 2: So they're like, hey, like your Brady's like, I have
Speaker 2: twelve of them? Five twelve? Now all right, wow, congratulations, man,
Speaker 2: this is just fantastic news to hear. John Travolta maybe,
Speaker 2: Josh right, yeah, could be. I mean, if you try this, Moses,
Speaker 2: I think people will be receptive to It's to let's
Speaker 2: see what we got here. A couple of dispatches that
Speaker 2: we could work in here. Let's see, uh now this
Speaker 2: is you know, I'm gonna I'll hold these for our
Speaker 2: final dispatches. Actually, I promise I was going to work
Speaker 2: in a couple of things. One is a big surprise,
Speaker 2: even though Mandalorian and Grogu The Star Wars movie is
Speaker 2: out at the box office right now on Wednesday and
Speaker 2: possibly Thursday. The Star Wars movie, which Josh look up
Speaker 2: the budget for that. What was the Star Wars budget.
Speaker 2: That's gotta be a big budget movie, right, Yeah. Mandalorian
Speaker 2: and Grogu was beat on a couple of days this week,
Speaker 2: Wednesday and Thursday by the movie Obsession, which I think
Speaker 2: Obsession only costs like a million dollars.
Speaker 1: I think a little less than that. Mandalorian Grogu was
Speaker 1: one sixty five million, which they say makes it the
Speaker 1: least expensive live action Star Wars produced by Disney.
Speaker 2: Jesus one hundred and sixty plus million dollars and it's
Speaker 2: getting beat out by this seven hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 2: dollars budget movie. And that's only going to be blown
Speaker 2: away by is the Uh, what's the one that's coming
Speaker 2: out this weekend?
Speaker 1: Not Rooms or or Rooms to Go? No, No, most
Speaker 1: rooms movie.
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Oh ba, back Rooms, back rooms background.
Speaker 2: Have you seen this at all?
Speaker 1: Now? Back Rooms is about it's a YouTube movie.
Speaker 2: Some guy made this movie, put it on YouTube for
Speaker 2: a really tiny budget and they said, I think it's
Speaker 2: called back Room and they said, this is good. It's
Speaker 2: built a huge fan base. And now back Rooms is
Speaker 2: releasing in the theaters this weekend. And Josh, look at
Speaker 2: the budget on that one. If you don't mind too
Speaker 2: you got got a budget, guy, crunch numbers. Don't crunch
Speaker 2: the numbers on that back Rooms which is being released.
Speaker 2: I think this weekend is supposed to make eighty million dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's when we came in under ten million.
Speaker 2: It says, all right, so more than the Obsession movie.
Speaker 2: But still these like low budget movies, like the little
Speaker 2: movies that could, are exploding and making so much more.
Speaker 2: I think what's happening here is younger moviegoers are showing
Speaker 2: the movie makers exactly what they're interested in.
Speaker 1: The movies that they're not interested in tend.
Speaker 2: To be these huge budget, overblown done a million times
Speaker 2: sequel or you know, third, fourth, fifth, down the line movie.
Speaker 2: And then the movies that do very well. Half of
Speaker 2: the movies that I've seen that have been successful in
Speaker 2: the last couple of months have been from YouTubers, the
Speaker 2: YouTuber market. Plier had his movie Oh Yeah, that was
Speaker 2: a big hit, small budget. This was the Obsession movie
Speaker 2: was from a YouTuber, small budget, huge hit. That movie's
Speaker 2: gonna make so much money, it's crazy. And back Rooms again,
Speaker 2: small budgeted movie from some young upstart that is now
Speaker 2: going to be a massive, massive box office success. I
Speaker 2: love it. I think that's fantastic. I think we need
Speaker 2: to stop with these big, bloated ass movies. Nobody seems
Speaker 2: to want, well, at least not as many people seem
Speaker 2: interested in watching them. So that's out this week. What
Speaker 2: else do we have here? We're gonna have to quick break. Yeah,
Speaker 2: by the way, that movie's tracking for eighty to eighty
Speaker 2: five million dollars on an eleven million dollar budget. Damn. Oh,
Speaker 2: the last thing I wanted to work in. You guys
Speaker 2: who do ubers who have used Uber recently? Me, I
Speaker 2: can't keep track. What are the options now, Josh uber
Speaker 2: h or let me.
Speaker 1: Look real quick, because I always picked the cheapest one,
Speaker 1: Comforts one right, Uber Comfort.
Speaker 11: X.
Speaker 2: There's either X or a black. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: different options that they have. Oh Andrew, you an Uber guy,
Speaker 2: use this every once in a while. No? No, really, okay,
Speaker 2: well you might you might want to try this. I've
Speaker 2: been a driver, Oh you've been a driver. Okay, we're
Speaker 2: just a regular regular Uber driver, Uber Excel or Uber Fancy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they got Excel wait and save Comfort Comfort Electric XXL,
Speaker 3: which is a new one, pet burrier and car seat.
Speaker 1: The new one is called Uber drift and you drift.
Speaker 2: When you flag an Uber Drift ride, you get a
Speaker 2: drift driver that shows up to your location, and then
Speaker 2: your ride includes drifting lessons and like, if you're not
Speaker 2: just knocking off, it's just whipping your car around. I'm
Speaker 2: on board fun. This is the next level of Uber's
Speaker 2: business model, Moses, all right, and who like, after you've
Speaker 2: had You've had a long week, have you not? Yes? Who,
Speaker 2: after a long week, get the Uber Drift home from
Speaker 2: the studio here and the whole time. I mean, hey,
Speaker 2: that's not legal. It has to be only a track
Speaker 2: or something and a private depends on what kind of
Speaker 2: pool you have. I thought you were able to make
Speaker 2: things like this happen. Man, Maybe Uber does something.
Speaker 14: I know.
Speaker 1: It's going on from June thirtieth to July first.
Speaker 2: And when you order an Uber Uber Drift in Japan, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's short, yeah, juneo June third, June third to July first,
Speaker 2: So the month of June in Japan, if you order
Speaker 2: an Uber you can order an Uber Drift and it's
Speaker 2: one hundred and ninety dollars.
Speaker 1: So they really are Tokyo drifting.
Speaker 2: They are, indeed. Yeah, that's what's happening here. All right,
Speaker 2: quick break. When we come back, we'll wrap it up
Speaker 2: for the week, the final dispatches, these stories that didn't
Speaker 2: make the cut, and today learn to wrap everything up
Speaker 2: for a Friday that is coming up next on the
Speaker 2: news on Key. It's gonna be an interesting June. All right,
Speaker 2: that's all I can tell you. Gonna be an interesting
Speaker 2: June on the show, So stay tuned. We'll let you
Speaker 2: know all of the drama going on behind the scenes
Speaker 2: and you know, changes on the show and lots of
Speaker 2: new stuff that's on the way. I want to thank
Speaker 2: Alejandro for hanging out with us today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: The people love Alejandro, they do, and we love you
Speaker 2: and I would love to make the connection to to
Speaker 2: get you into the next bowling of that.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we can really make that happen,
Speaker 2: but I think that he would be a big draw
Speaker 2: for the Chairy. There's a long list well the system,
Speaker 2: but we have anybody from Roomba on that list. What's
Speaker 2: our No good, God, they're still printing money over at
Speaker 2: that radio. Thinks they've got plenty going on over there.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see here, what do we have on
Speaker 2: the way out. Josh, you know, do that timer thing
Speaker 2: so I can see how long I have to Yeah,
Speaker 2: you can just just tell me when I have.
Speaker 1: A minute left. I just shout it out. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: do it that way.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: Let's see here, let's do our final dispatch. Are the
Speaker 2: final dispatches, but Sean will probably ownly play. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean I need more than a minute. Tell me when
Speaker 2: I have two minutes left.
Speaker 1: You have three minutes? Wait, no, you have two minutes?
Speaker 2: No doing that right now? I do all right, hold on,
Speaker 2: then I quickly have to play the final dispatch. Let's
Speaker 2: see here. Let me refresh for the latest and greatest.
Speaker 2: Here's somebody talking about six Flags because that guy got
Speaker 2: banned from all the six Flags for life.
Speaker 17: Oh yeah, there's a six Flags in Kadia City in
Speaker 17: Saudi Arabia. It's got the biggest, fastest, longest roller coaster
Speaker 17: in the world called Falcon's Flight. It's absolutely insane. Check
Speaker 17: out a video if you can wiggle pop up.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Jason, appreciate the dispatch. I will never check
Speaker 2: that out. I am not going to make my way
Speaker 2: us out of here. Radio go over there. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it was like the longest roller coaster in the world,
Speaker 2: but it's in Saudi Radio. Okay, I'm going to pass.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get the hell out of here. Let's
Speaker 2: do today.
Speaker 1: I learned the.
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Speaker 15: actually increase your IQ, So don't get cocky.
Speaker 2: We today It is sa I learned for a Friday,
Speaker 2: May twenty six, Moses, thanks for being with us here today.
Speaker 2: Pleasures all on this side of the desk. Thanks for
Speaker 2: hanging out here in the studio. You could take that
Speaker 2: shirt that I showed you. I think I'm good you sure, yeah,
Speaker 2: but it could be a good look great shirt. Lander.
Speaker 2: Uh you know you know how people have my address
Speaker 2: and just kind of send things from time to time.
Speaker 2: It's like the most offensive things that you could ever think,
Speaker 2: just delivered to your doorstep. And this is one of
Speaker 2: those exact amples. I can't even read you the shirt
Speaker 2: what it says because of the language on it. Josh,
Speaker 2: how much time do you I have?
Speaker 1: You have forty on toy?
Speaker 2: I learned this group right here.
Speaker 1: CNC Music Factory.
Speaker 2: That's right, Josh, and c Music Factory was originally called
Speaker 2: a different name.
Speaker 1: Does anybody know what they were before CEEC Music Factory.
Speaker 9: No, not that.
Speaker 2: No, they were called two Puerto Ricans, a black Man
Speaker 2: and Dominican. It does sound like the beginning of a joke.
Speaker 2: Two Puerto Ricans, a black Man and a Dominican was
Speaker 2: the original name of the band and now CNC Music Factory,
Speaker 2: but still playing for the two hundred and fiftieth in Washington.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much hanging out with us. We do
Speaker 2: appreciate it. We'll see on Monday, same time, same place,
Speaker 2: Miss Eddy of the show. Get the podcast over on
Speaker 2: the neewsjunkie dot com. We'll see you next time. Everybody
Speaker 2: else