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Speaker 2: We got a big, big week ahead of us. Here,
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Speaker 2: leaking out and we got some exciting stuff.
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Speaker 2: And I've saved this this day's opening clip for.
Speaker 3: The entirety of the weekend. So you're not opening the
Speaker 3: show with this, are you?
Speaker 1: I am? I am sent to me.
Speaker 2: More people sent this to tips at the news Junkie
Speaker 2: dot com or opening clip today than anything in the
Speaker 2: past couple of months.
Speaker 1: You sent it to me and I said it. My
Speaker 1: feed was inundated with it.
Speaker 3: But I think that's because as soon as I watched it,
Speaker 3: I started interacting with people about it, and for some reason,
Speaker 3: Twitter's like this guy wants to see.
Speaker 1: This link over and over and over again. Here's more.
Speaker 2: Here you go, before we get into this opening clip
Speaker 2: that's going super viral.
Speaker 3: Right now, before I tell you why, I think it's
Speaker 3: a terrible idea to open the show with this.
Speaker 2: We'll see, we'll see what happens here just a moment.
Speaker 2: I do want to say thanks to everybody who participated
Speaker 2: in our rate my blank for last week. Last week
Speaker 2: it was rate my Mess. Let's see I can go
Speaker 2: through very quickly and crown a winner. We had a
Speaker 2: lot of good entries, as per usual. Was there anything
Speaker 2: that stuck out to you? I meant to check it.
Speaker 3: On Friday and I just kind of got sidetracked in
Speaker 3: a bunch of ways.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of partial to this one. Somebody's bathtub so
Speaker 2: overfilled with crap that get in there at all. I
Speaker 2: think that's not bad. You can see all the submission
Speaker 2: see this one from high high led Mark.
Speaker 1: I think is how you say his name?
Speaker 3: I have I have a kind of a special place
Speaker 3: in my heart for that picture, because not only is
Speaker 3: the mess bad, but you're also using something that's not storage, yeah,
Speaker 3: for storage storage, And now you've got an entire piece
Speaker 3: of your house that you can't use, in this case
Speaker 3: a bathtub. Yeah, you're like your three bedroom, two bathroom
Speaker 3: just got knocked down a peg, right, Like, yeah, he's
Speaker 3: so crazy. I don't have it as bad as losing
Speaker 3: a bathroom, although I've known people who have like taken
Speaker 3: a shower that they don't use and kind of piled
Speaker 3: some stuff in there for a while. But my utility
Speaker 3: sink is just full of clean dishes that just needed
Speaker 3: somewhere to go, and now it's like, no sink.
Speaker 2: Get with it, my god, unbelievable. Congratulations to high led Mark.
Speaker 2: You are our winner for rate my blank last week.
Speaker 2: Rate my Mess, That's what it was. And rate my blank,
Speaker 2: if you don't know, is our distraction for the week.
Speaker 2: I've got a million things going on, we got drama,
Speaker 2: we got all sorts of stuff. There'll be fights, they'll
Speaker 2: be all kinds of things. But the rate my blank
Speaker 2: is a consistent distraction to keep us kind of isolated
Speaker 2: from all of this. Stuff and then having a little
Speaker 2: bit of fun along the way. So the Rate my
Speaker 2: Blank entering for this week, Cela, and this one is
Speaker 2: going to require us to have a lot of focus,
Speaker 2: to be absolutely cool under pressure, and to not laugh
Speaker 2: as much as possible, because we're going to do rate
Speaker 2: my Dad joke this week, and you send your audio
Speaker 2: dispatch of your of your absolutely knock them dead cheesiest
Speaker 2: Dad popsicle stick type jokes and if you make us laugh,
Speaker 2: you are in the running for the prize this week.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing. If we are rating dad jokes, is
Speaker 3: there a point at which a dad joke fails to
Speaker 3: be dad and just is a joke, and that we
Speaker 3: have to disqualify you?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: I think yeah, I think you're right. I think it
Speaker 2: can't be like too great of a joke. There has
Speaker 2: to be a cheeseball factor to.
Speaker 1: It, right. And also I don't think it can't be
Speaker 1: too long. No, it has to be short.
Speaker 2: It's got to be fast, short, funny, and it has
Speaker 2: to make us laugh or you're not in consideration. That's
Speaker 2: our rate my Blank for this week. Rate my Dad joke.
Speaker 2: Good luck, everybody. Send your submissions in over at the
Speaker 2: News junkie dot Com or the news Junkie app. Let's
Speaker 2: get started. Now, let's put our ears of the ground,
Speaker 2: our fingers on the pulse liste. What's happening to this great, big,
Speaker 2: wide world of ours? Why is this a bad idea?
Speaker 3: I just I mean, it's a it's like a bad
Speaker 3: OMEN to start things off for the week.
Speaker 2: Oh God, I'm just gonna spider curse. Now you have
Speaker 2: not watched this, right, No, I've still not seen it.
Speaker 2: I don't know how I ignored it.
Speaker 3: So the backstory on this is there's a brand new
Speaker 3: women's pro baseball league.
Speaker 1: Awesome.
Speaker 3: And now there used to be a women's pro league
Speaker 3: back in like the forties or fifties.
Speaker 1: A league of their own right, maybe that one Hanks
Speaker 1: was a coach in that league recollection.
Speaker 3: Correct, But it stopped and they're bringing back women's professional baseball.
Speaker 3: And this was the very first game, and before the
Speaker 3: very first game, this is how it started. This is
Speaker 3: how the Women's professional Baseball League started. And I want
Speaker 3: you to watch this and see if you think it
Speaker 3: is a good or negative OMEN for their organization and
Speaker 3: for their bad.
Speaker 1: Could it be?
Speaker 2: Let's see how it goes? You see, I underestimated, was
Speaker 2: so froun. Why did no one? Did no one tell
Speaker 2: these people that they are not good at singing?
Speaker 1: Did no one?
Speaker 3: Here's the thing, I think, separately they are decent at singing.
Speaker 3: Although Martha Reeves, who is the black woman on who
Speaker 3: is three women, three women singing, and then Martha Reeves
Speaker 3: is by herself, and then these other two women are
Speaker 3: kind of together, but they're weirdly separated on the field
Speaker 3: by a matter of a handful of feet, right, uh huh.
Speaker 3: Martha Reeves was like, I don't know if you would
Speaker 3: call her a motown singer. She was an old school singer,
Speaker 3: best known for hits like heat Wave and Dancing in
Speaker 3: the Streets Are Good. Martha and the Vandellas were inducted
Speaker 3: into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety five. She is a name in the music industry.
Speaker 3: Martha's also quite a bit older than she was when
Speaker 3: she was doing all this.
Speaker 5: I mean, she's not old enough to trust sound like that,
Speaker 5: all the wrack in other people's faces.
Speaker 1: Why we're so good?
Speaker 2: My patriotism is plumbing and the rock?
Speaker 1: Oh god, I can't is this real?
Speaker 2: Did they maybe stunt this up because they were like,
Speaker 2: nobody's gonna be talking about women's baseball.
Speaker 3: There are a handful of comments, and I listed my
Speaker 3: favorite ones, but there were there were a bunch of
Speaker 3: people who thought, could this possibly be a way to
Speaker 3: have made the inaugural game of women's pro baseball go viral?
Speaker 3: If this was on pro and if listen, that's the
Speaker 3: that's the conspiracy theory that I have not even for
Speaker 3: a second entertainment only because if you if it came
Speaker 3: out that you were trying of a stunt, a viral
Speaker 3: stunt to get attention for your league, and that stunt
Speaker 3: was to desecrate the national anthem, that is not a
Speaker 3: good look on you.
Speaker 2: CFL can't on Twitch says she would have sounded better
Speaker 2: if she sang alone.
Speaker 1: I disagree.
Speaker 2: Was first she is singing alone anymore? Who asked for this?
Speaker 2: Sty A lot of attention paid to that one player?
Speaker 1: Oh god, shut it down, the land on the and
Speaker 1: the whole. Yeah. I think I think they stunted this.
Speaker 2: There's no way, why, no, why would you do that?
Speaker 2: Because they have ears right like you just did such
Speaker 2: an injustice to these women that are playing professional baseball.
Speaker 2: For some reason, I have no idea why they launched
Speaker 2: this league or if there was really a desire for this.
Speaker 2: It looks like there's at least a handful of people
Speaker 2: in the stands, but you may have just driven them away,
Speaker 2: or just driven American citizens away as people saying please stop,
Speaker 2: please stop. Good guy, what are you guys doing insecure? Walriss,
Speaker 2: who knows about audio, goes it's just missing some lush reverb.
Speaker 2: I could have made it sound good, my friend. I'm
Speaker 2: sure you are very talented. You could not have made
Speaker 2: that sound good.
Speaker 1: Missing.
Speaker 3: That's definitely missing auto tune because it seemed to me
Speaker 3: that Martha Reeves and her two backup singers were in
Speaker 3: different keys for much of the.
Speaker 1: Different keys. My god, there was Oh that was bad.
Speaker 2: I'm glad that I didn't listen over the weekend so
Speaker 2: so I could have just kept it fresh.
Speaker 3: Now I kind of listed my favorites because there was
Speaker 3: there was a lot of good content in the comment.
Speaker 3: What they say over there reminds me of the Cowardly
Speaker 3: Lion and the Wizard of Oz, especially at the end
Speaker 3: because of the vibrato. I admire her ability to pick
Speaker 3: a key and just ignore it. There is no law
Speaker 3: that says you have to applaud after the national anthem?
Speaker 1: True somebody called it?
Speaker 3: And I was like, how have we made it through
Speaker 3: so many bad national anthems and not heard the star
Speaker 3: mangled banner?
Speaker 1: Oh nice? Everyone else?
Speaker 3: Roseanne and an apology after this, saw the same thing
Speaker 3: about Fergie. Even the flag was cringing, and I know
Speaker 3: she's trying her best, but can she try someone else's best?
Speaker 1: That was rough.
Speaker 2: Any ladies out there who picked up big on the
Speaker 2: new Women's Baseball League, let us know if there's actually
Speaker 2: some sort of interest in this or if this.
Speaker 3: Turned you off to And then I was a little
Speaker 3: bored yesterday and it was just like kind of hanging
Speaker 3: around the house, was just me and the and I
Speaker 3: watched this and then I was like, I'm reading through
Speaker 3: the comments, and there was one guy that was like,
Speaker 3: come on, guys, we've all seen worse. We're like from whom, Yeah,
Speaker 3: well you did worse if you're telling me that Fergie
Speaker 3: was worse than that. I went back and watched Fergi's
Speaker 3: yesterday and I was like, I don't I don't know
Speaker 3: what I would have said the first time, or maybe
Speaker 3: if I have heard Fergie's before and made derogatory comments.
Speaker 3: But I watched Fergus I was like, that wasn't bad
Speaker 3: at all. That wasn't that better than Bongo guys. Remember
Speaker 3: Bongo guys national anthem. Somebody mentioned that in one of
Speaker 3: the emails they sent you those guys. You mean, look
Speaker 3: look up Bongo national Anthem real quick to refresh your
Speaker 3: memory and and you'll you'll.
Speaker 2: See what I'm talking about. But that that was uh,
Speaker 2: I remember what you're talking about. Mama Greaser says, I
Speaker 2: loved it. I'm so excited for this league. That makes
Speaker 2: one of you, all right, that puts one on the
Speaker 2: board we already have.
Speaker 3: She saying she loved the national anthem, or she loved
Speaker 3: the game because the game I'm sure was excited. You know,
Speaker 3: there was a there was a home run that was scored.
Speaker 3: I saw Fritz reposted the video of the very first
Speaker 3: ever home run in the Women's Professional Baseball League at
Speaker 3: this game, and the comment section was like, could this
Speaker 3: female person that was, you know, like a not announcer.
Speaker 3: I guess the radio announcer whoever's making the call on
Speaker 3: ESPN sound any less excited.
Speaker 1: About this home run. We're gonna need you to pep
Speaker 1: it up a little bit. What happened?
Speaker 2: Did nobody bring their a game to the women's professional
Speaker 2: Baseball League?
Speaker 1: Hit the home run?
Speaker 6: Did?
Speaker 1: Yeah? The one lady, the one player that was.
Speaker 3: They were zooming in on her during the national anthem
Speaker 3: and there was a particularly big f up in it,
Speaker 3: and she just kind of sucked her face in to
Speaker 3: like be void of any sort of of emotion.
Speaker 1: She held it in.
Speaker 2: Good Mama, Greaser says, I love the game, not the anthem.
Speaker 2: She was not a fan of the anthem, but the game. Yes,
Speaker 2: she did. Well, we'll see if it works out for HI.
Speaker 2: Might be a smart business move. Maybe nobody watches it all.
Speaker 2: We shall see.
Speaker 1: Let's sake, go to the box office this weekend. Mine,
Speaker 1: was it a big one? Spider Man web slung his way.
Speaker 2: Into your hearts, as they say, with an absolutely massive
Speaker 2: box office win.
Speaker 3: He made a short wealth, oh that's true. Yeah, caught
Speaker 3: a lot of cash in his web, just stop.
Speaker 2: Just short of the all time record at the box
Speaker 2: office set by Avengers Endgame spider Man Brand New Day
Speaker 2: brought in three hundred and fifty five million dollars, right,
Speaker 2: which is pretty insane to even consider.
Speaker 1: It was absolutely massive.
Speaker 2: It was because of that the biggest collective box office
Speaker 2: weekend in history.
Speaker 1: Why because Spider Man.
Speaker 2: Brand New Day was out of the world and the
Speaker 2: Odyssey was still bringing in a lot of money. So
Speaker 2: the box office brought in four hundred and thirty million
Speaker 2: dollars in ticket sales this weekend, thus making it the
Speaker 2: most Well, I mean, I'd like this to go back,
Speaker 2: by the way, I'd like this to go back to
Speaker 2: all of you people out there that were like, the
Speaker 2: movie theaters are dead, No one's ever going to go
Speaker 2: back to movie theaters.
Speaker 1: COVID changed everything.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 1: I said that. No I didn't. I said.
Speaker 2: I said, there's always going to be an appetite. I
Speaker 2: love going to the movies. I love going to the movies.
Speaker 2: There's always going to be an appetite for people who
Speaker 2: want to go and sit in the theaters. And it's
Speaker 2: a social experience, sometimes good, sometimes bad, but it's a
Speaker 2: social experience. This bigger and better than your screen on
Speaker 2: your television, and people love it. People enjoy this. Still
Speaker 2: as long as there's good movies. The problem is Hollywood
Speaker 2: has pumped out so much absolute garbage that nobody wanted
Speaker 2: to see it.
Speaker 1: And then they were like nobody wants to go to
Speaker 1: the movies anymore. Check the tape. Sean said it.
Speaker 2: Go go ahead, pull me, pull me, saying that somewhere,
Speaker 2: and I'll say, you are right.
Speaker 1: But I love the movies. I go to movies.
Speaker 2: I'm you know, the one speech dispatch. Possibly, but I
Speaker 2: think that this is proof that people still will pay
Speaker 2: for tickets to go see some of these movies if
Speaker 2: they're if they think that what's been happening with the
Speaker 2: ideas behind the movie and the production of the movie
Speaker 2: is something worthy of their money. And Spider Man brand
Speaker 2: new Dad three hundred and sixty million dollars officially, very
Speaker 2: very big. Tom Holland, just quit, buddy, just quit.
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? I mean, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like The Odyssey is number two, Your Spider Man movie
Speaker 2: is number one? What what is Zenda in both of
Speaker 2: them too? Or is it just Tom Holland?
Speaker 1: I think Zandias in both.
Speaker 2: And the Punisher guy the Punisher guys. And are we
Speaker 2: sayd that wrong?
Speaker 3: I think that somebody was coming after us last week
Speaker 3: when it was in DAYA. Maybe, Oh God, who cares
Speaker 3: say name? Perfect pronunciation of Zandia's name? Or is Endio
Speaker 3: or whatever. I think I said it the same way
Speaker 3: to let you get one Zendia, Thank you Zendia.
Speaker 2: But number one and number two at the box office
Speaker 2: with spider Man, Brand New Day and The Odyssey Toy
Speaker 2: Story five and at number three Minions and Monsters Mowana
Speaker 2: around and got the top five. Obsession finally knocked out
Speaker 2: of the top ten. Finally after twelve weeks, the Little
Speaker 2: Movie that Could gets knocked out. Now I've talked a
Speaker 2: bit about how ridiculous some of the things that the
Speaker 2: theater have gotten. Now I have complained about this, complain
Speaker 2: about price saying at the theater and all this stuff.
Speaker 2: With a Spider Man movie blowing up this weekend. When
Speaker 2: we come back, not only will we get into some
Speaker 2: of your spicy emails to kick things off, not only
Speaker 2: will we get all set up for our friend Amy Kaufelt.
Speaker 2: We got another interview about an hour after that to
Speaker 2: talk about something very frightening. But when we come back,
Speaker 2: I've never seen anything like this as far as movie
Speaker 2: deals go. You've got to hear you're not gonna believe
Speaker 2: what this is about. But I'll explain it to you
Speaker 2: because that is coming up next on the News Junkie.
Speaker 2: You can email the show tips at the news Junkie
Speaker 2: dot com. Tips at the Newsjunkie dot com. We were
Speaker 2: talking about Spider Man being number one with a bullet
Speaker 2: at the box office, almost the biggest opening of all time. Honestly, beforehand,
Speaker 2: I didn't hear a ton of people talking about it,
Speaker 2: but people just I think they were ready. It's been
Speaker 2: long enough. And the movie, by the way, was good.
Speaker 2: It was good. Okay, if you didn't see Spider Man
Speaker 2: Branded it, we did go see it. We went and
Speaker 2: saw Spider Man Brand new day. I didn't know what
Speaker 2: to expect at all. It was grittier than I expected.
Speaker 2: The story was pretty decently written, and it was It
Speaker 2: was a good time. It was a fun, fun time
Speaker 2: to watch it, and I think that's what people were
Speaker 2: looking for. They're looking for these experiences at the box office.
Speaker 2: But I gotta tell you there was a couple of
Speaker 2: things I wanted to share with you on this.
Speaker 1: Here's one of them.
Speaker 2: They're starting to offer all of these different like movie
Speaker 2: theater experiences, and they just sound so crazy to me.
Speaker 2: Maybe this strikes you as a good deal or something,
Speaker 2: But here's an example. This says the Odyssey fifteen slash
Speaker 2: seventy milimeter. Does that mean it's like one of the
Speaker 2: choice IMAX screenings. There's not too many of them in
Speaker 2: the country. If that's what it is.
Speaker 3: Oh well, the seventy milimeter I think is different than IMAX.
Speaker 1: But I don't know what the fifteen part is.
Speaker 2: It says Odyssey fifteen, the Odyssey fifteen slash seventy milimeter
Speaker 2: runtime three hours.
Speaker 1: Okay, here's the deal they have. This is crazy to me.
Speaker 2: They offered the VIP priority Imax experience. All right, this
Speaker 2: is the movie theater the deal for you in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six see the Odyssey like a true VIP. You
Speaker 2: can bring up to ten guests, all right, up to
Speaker 2: ten guests total for one thousand, five hundred dollars at
Speaker 2: these movie theaters where they are doing the Imax experience.
Speaker 1: Here's what you got.
Speaker 2: Tell me if you think this is a good deal,
Speaker 2: remember one thousand, five hundred dollars for you and nine
Speaker 2: of your best friends.
Speaker 1: And boy, they better be best friends.
Speaker 2: You get up to ten VIP tickets to the Odyssey.
Speaker 2: You get priority theater entry for the best available seating options.
Speaker 2: Oh I'm sorry, did you think you were getting the
Speaker 2: whole theater to yourself for fifteen hundred dollars. No, it's
Speaker 2: just like a Southwest Airlines flight. You get the board
Speaker 2: a little earlier and pick your choice spots in the
Speaker 2: movie theater.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something.
Speaker 2: If I pay fifteen hundred dollars, go watch The Odyssey
Speaker 2: and Imax and somebody starts talking on their phone in
Speaker 2: the middle the movie, I'm going to shoot them. There
Speaker 2: will be a shooting in the middle of this grade
Speaker 2: of this movie. For fifteen hundred dollars. Uh. Yes, Priority
Speaker 2: theater Intry for the best available seating options, five reserved
Speaker 2: parking spaces, so you can get a great parking space,
Speaker 2: up to ten large popcorns with unlimited refills, up to
Speaker 2: ten large fountain drinks with unlimited refills, and up to
Speaker 2: ten custom Odyssey themed desserts crafted by a local culinary partner.
Speaker 2: That's what you get for one thousand, five hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: First of all, for fifteen hundred dollars, I better not
Speaker 3: get up to ten. I'm getting ten. I'm getting even
Speaker 3: if I bring eight people, we're getting two extra desserts,
Speaker 3: two extra popcorns.
Speaker 1: That miss me with taking it with ten things.
Speaker 7: Uh huh.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Second, I googled it and the fifteen slash seventy milimeters
Speaker 3: that is used for true IMAX presentations. I thought there
Speaker 3: was a seventy millimeter that is not IMAX. But I
Speaker 3: might be wrong on that because I do not dive
Speaker 3: into this like nerd land where I go out of
Speaker 3: my way to see movies presented in a certain way.
Speaker 3: The fifteen is because it's fifteen sprocket holes wide in
Speaker 3: the film. Yeah, okay, you know, because the time is bigger,
Speaker 3: right right, But you know how it has holes on
Speaker 3: the end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's fifteen of them to get the
Speaker 1: one frame.
Speaker 2: Well, the little holes on the edge of like film
Speaker 2: if you see old like negatives or whatever.
Speaker 1: So there's fifteen in there. Oh that's what that means.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, you get you get ten VIP tickets, which
Speaker 2: just means you get to pick your seats before everybody else.
Speaker 2: You get five parking spaces, you get ten popcorns, ten
Speaker 2: fountain drinks, and ten desserts. So as fifteen hundred dollars,
Speaker 2: it's one hundred and fifty dollars a person to go
Speaker 2: to see a movie.
Speaker 3: As one person, you get to go one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty dollars for a dream ticket to the movie early
Speaker 3: access off a parking spot. Yes, popcorn, soda, and a
Speaker 3: dessert for one hundred and fifty bucks. Isn't that that's
Speaker 3: crazy to me? Like that is crazy to me to
Speaker 3: be that expensive. But I guess just a regular IMAX
Speaker 3: true IMAX.
Speaker 2: Ticket is pretty expensive. You guys can tell me how
Speaker 2: much it is. I've never actually been to one of
Speaker 2: the true IMAX theaters where there's only so many of them,
Speaker 2: but would.
Speaker 1: You do that?
Speaker 2: They're in a movie on the planet that I would
Speaker 2: pay fifteen hundred dollars. For fifteen hundred dollars, you can
Speaker 2: literally start to build your own home theater for that
Speaker 2: much money.
Speaker 1: Maybe not the one you dream of, but like.
Speaker 2: You could get a seventy eighty inch flat screen at Costco.
Speaker 2: You could get a surround sound system with some cube
Speaker 2: speakers and a center speaker at a sub well for
Speaker 2: you could probably get that together for fifteen hundred bucks
Speaker 2: instead of watching The Odyssey one time and getting some
Speaker 2: popcorn in a dessert or something. But maybe it's this good.
Speaker 2: Let us know, would you do that or do you
Speaker 2: think that's a ripoff. Send your dispatches over at thenewsjunkie
Speaker 2: dot com. Absolutely crazy. It leaked again, just like the
Speaker 2: Odyssey leaked. Spider Man Brand New Day leaked out. Somebody
Speaker 2: posted it on x dot com and I was out
Speaker 2: for a couple of hours, reaching millions of accounts before
Speaker 2: somebody took that down. Then I heard a little tidbit
Speaker 2: about Spider Man worth working in.
Speaker 1: I did not know this. It's kind of interesting.
Speaker 2: Spider Man Brand New Day will open in Imax theaters
Speaker 2: on August sixth, so you're asking yourself, hold on, Spider
Speaker 2: Man's not in the Imax theaters yet. The record breaking
Speaker 2: superhero movie did not open in Imax originally because of
Speaker 2: The Odyssey's exclusive three week run in Imax theaters in
Speaker 2: crowd those three weeks are over, Imax is able to
Speaker 2: schedule Spider Man Brand New Day showtimes. The Odyssey will
Speaker 2: retain most of the Imax screens, with Spider Man Brand
Speaker 2: New Day sharing the Imax Global network across select digital locations,
Speaker 2: so the film ones are going to stay with the
Speaker 2: Odyssey and all forty one of the company's seventy millimeter
Speaker 2: film locations around the world.
Speaker 1: Only in the whole world.
Speaker 2: There's only forty one of them. There's only forty one
Speaker 2: of these projectors. I guess seventy millimeter film locations in
Speaker 2: the world. They'll still have the Odyssey, but the digital
Speaker 2: ones will start to show Spider Man and Imax. And
Speaker 2: that's the crazy deal that the Odyssey got, Like they
Speaker 2: made that much money. Spider Man probably would have broken
Speaker 2: the all time record over Avengers Endgame if it was
Speaker 2: available in Imax. I think there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 2: But it wasn't and they had a deal with the Odyssey. Folks,
Speaker 2: I guess to knock this out. Let us know what
Speaker 2: you think about this. Set us a dispatch over at
Speaker 2: the Newsjunkie dot com or email the show tips at
Speaker 2: the Newsjunkie dot com.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see what we got here.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get to you your your contributions to the show.
Speaker 1: You're asking about what the Imax costs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, for one ticket, just like a not the
Speaker 2: digital one, the legit Imax.
Speaker 3: Oh, I think this is a legit one. But Pisenberg
Speaker 3: said they saw Odyssey's Saturday Night seventy millimeters Imax, having
Speaker 3: never really seen that. I'm at seventy millimeters. Sounds like
Speaker 3: it's not digital. Yeah, I think that's the real one,
Speaker 3: but I don't know what was different about it, aside
Speaker 3: the screen from the screen being ginormous. Wasn't worth seventy
Speaker 3: five dollars for both of our tickets?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 1: Okay for two for two?
Speaker 2: Seventy five for two, Okay, seventy five for two is
Speaker 2: still pretty pricey. Yeah, people are saying about thirty five
Speaker 2: dollars or so, but there are people who pay it.
Speaker 2: The majority of the first couple of days in money
Speaker 2: for the Odyssey was actually from Imax theaters, the digital
Speaker 2: ones included obviously until I.
Speaker 3: Got that record. Uh yeah, you set in these records.
Speaker 3: So we'll see.
Speaker 2: We'll see if that continues, and we'll see what changes
Speaker 2: with the theater switching things up here. I do have
Speaker 2: a lot of people already joining in on the rate
Speaker 2: my blank, but I truly wonder if this is a
Speaker 2: good idea. I'm not sure I see a high led
Speaker 2: mark or rate my blank winner from last week email
Speaker 2: or he sending a dispatch high lead mark.
Speaker 1: Make sure you email tips.
Speaker 2: At the news Junkie dot com and I'll give you
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Speaker 2: what it's going to be like all week. Folks, seelane,
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Speaker 2: That means these are in contention for the big prize.
Speaker 2: Here's eleven, Charlie.
Speaker 9: Do you know what happens when somebody slaps you at
Speaker 9: high frequency?
Speaker 1: It mega hurts.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna go to the next one. Here is
Speaker 2: got Krypto.
Speaker 7: So I recently learned a tough lesson never buy shoes
Speaker 7: from a drug dealer.
Speaker 1: I don't know what was relased with, but man, I
Speaker 1: was tripping. Okay, all right, one more pile of mind.
Speaker 10: So my friend Sarah left her pepsi about sixty miles
Speaker 10: south of Tampa.
Speaker 1: That's where Sarah Soda is.
Speaker 2: God, that was so bad that you only know it
Speaker 2: if you're in the state of Florida. Know that it's
Speaker 2: a Sarah Soda joke. Okay, folks, you guys, you.
Speaker 1: Guys, you guys are going to weigh in on this too.
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Speaker 2: Keep yours coming in over on the websites at the
Speaker 2: Newsjunkie dot com. Yeah, a couple of emails real quick.
Speaker 2: Melanie emails the show. She says, she's commiserating with you
Speaker 2: see Lane.
Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, how are the knees?
Speaker 2: How are you feeling today after Friday's miss at you know,
Speaker 2: it's just a.
Speaker 3: Little scraped up it still doing okay though?
Speaker 2: All okay, right, okay? Can we do our dad jokes
Speaker 2: in tts Seawan voice? You can if you like, you can,
Speaker 2: if you want to. Melody emails commiserating with Sea Lane.
Speaker 2: She says, good day, guys. I'm listening to Friday's podcast
Speaker 2: this morning, and I could completely commiserate with Sea Lane and.
Speaker 1: His bruise ego from his bruce knees. He fell on Thursday.
Speaker 2: For the record, for those who don't know, a year ago,
Speaker 2: is taking my trash out to the curb, pushing it
Speaker 2: in front of me. I somehow stumbled, causing the trash
Speaker 2: can to roll out and fall and the lid was
Speaker 2: already open and it was laid on the ground and
Speaker 2: I stepped on it. Stepping on the lid while it
Speaker 2: was still rolling made me fall and I dislocated my shoulders.
Speaker 1: She oh no, it popped, and.
Speaker 2: Immediately the pain was so severe like I had seen
Speaker 2: in the movies, I knew I had to go to
Speaker 2: the er. My boyfriend took me there, and having repeat
Speaker 2: the story over and over you again was humiliating. The
Speaker 2: worst part was that they kept looking at him like
Speaker 2: he did it and I was making up this elaborate
Speaker 2: story to cover.
Speaker 1: Up his abuse.
Speaker 2: Oh no, They thought she had been beaten by her
Speaker 2: partner and that she was saying like, oh no, I
Speaker 2: slipped on the trash can lid, but she really did. Nope,
Speaker 2: I'm just a klutz and I tripped over my trash
Speaker 2: can and dislocated my shoulders. So see that it could
Speaker 2: have been worse. Wiggle wiggle literally pop pop, says Melanie.
Speaker 1: Yeah over.
Speaker 3: I was like kind of relieved that at least I
Speaker 3: had already taken out the recycling and like didn't go
Speaker 3: down with the bin. And then I'm having to like
Speaker 3: scurry around in the dark and try to pick up
Speaker 3: all the trash and it was like spilling out.
Speaker 1: That would have been notts of fun.
Speaker 2: None of that was as bad as what I saw
Speaker 2: over the weekend where a woman, like a damn Looney
Speaker 2: Tunes character stepped on a rake.
Speaker 1: Did you see that, lady?
Speaker 2: No, Oh my god, I don't know if I don't
Speaker 2: even know if I can show it. But there was
Speaker 2: a woman who, just like a a character in a cartoon,
Speaker 2: she stepped on a rake and had to go to
Speaker 2: the hospital because the rake straight up like went through
Speaker 2: her foot. I'm not sure why this comes up when
Speaker 2: that's the woman, but this is.
Speaker 1: Not the woman who stepped on the I can tell.
Speaker 2: And you know what, I'm gonna stop scrolling right there
Speaker 2: because I don't know what other things are gonna pop
Speaker 2: up when I'm looking for rake, lady. But just trust
Speaker 2: me that happened this weekend.
Speaker 1: Search. I didn't search anything to give me that.
Speaker 2: For God's sake, when we come back say goodbye to radio,
Speaker 2: I'll explain just an absolutely unbelievable story you gotta hear.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that.
Speaker 2: We'll get to more of your feedback, more your rate,
Speaker 2: my blank dad joke addition, and a whole lot more
Speaker 2: coming up next on the news junk. Ye, we got
Speaker 2: Amy Kaufel coming up in the top of the hour.
Speaker 2: It's less than fifteen minutes away. After that, in the
Speaker 2: top of the next hour, we've got an expert, Like
Speaker 2: I mean, this woman is probably too smart to be
Speaker 2: on this show, but she's an expert at this thing.
Speaker 2: Because a lot of stories are suggesting that iron is
Speaker 2: hacking our water supply in the United States of America,
Speaker 2: and we're just a bunch of dummies over here.
Speaker 1: I want to know what does that mean? How is
Speaker 1: this done?
Speaker 2: Is it actually sophisticated? Is there any danger for everybody?
Speaker 2: What other things could hackers hack? Like that would affect
Speaker 2: you in your real life, not on the internet. So
Speaker 2: that will be at the top of the next hour.
Speaker 2: But this weekend there was a couple of stories that
Speaker 2: caught my attention about this industry. Many of you who
Speaker 2: listen to the show listen because you love radio and
Speaker 2: you love the format. You love broadcasting. And when I
Speaker 2: say that, I generally mean this kind of radio talk radio.
Speaker 2: Not many people like music radio in the same way
Speaker 2: you put up with music radio. You sit in your car,
Speaker 2: like I like the songs on this channel, but you
Speaker 2: barely have any allegiance to music radio. You don't care
Speaker 2: if you're getting your music from a radio station or
Speaker 2: for some app that has the best, you know, playlist
Speaker 2: that's perfectly created for you. You know, people don't care about that.
Speaker 2: These aren't those days any longer. But I ask you, really,
Speaker 2: do you think radio is going to die within the
Speaker 2: next ten years, because I think we're gonna see a
Speaker 2: lot more stories like this one.
Speaker 1: Let me bring this up here.
Speaker 2: A legendary station out in California was shut down over
Speaker 2: the weekend. And when I say shut down, I mean
Speaker 2: it wasn't shut down in the sense that they're not
Speaker 2: broadcasting anymore. It was shut down for all the employees.
Speaker 2: And here's one of the stories of this. It says,
Speaker 2: or about this, I should say, legendary California radio station
Speaker 2: KCAL ninety six point seven. For those of you don't know,
Speaker 2: radio stations start with the W east of the Mississippi
Speaker 2: and west of the Mississippi. You get a K in
Speaker 2: front of that station calls on.
Speaker 1: Really, it would have made more sense to put the
Speaker 1: W to the west. But you know who am I?
Speaker 2: I agree it would have been easier to remember, but
Speaker 2: you know how it goes. It's too late now. But
Speaker 2: this radio station in California, ninety six point seven rock station.
Speaker 2: It had been around for so long. This was a
Speaker 2: station that people grew up with their favorite bands. They
Speaker 2: learned about them on this station. And then after one
Speaker 2: of the shows on Friday or something, they said, we're
Speaker 2: firing every single one of the DJs on this station.
Speaker 2: And I said, well, get ready, because this is just
Speaker 2: the beginning of the grim Reaper coming through music radio.
Speaker 2: Music radio is going to be decimated. It will be first,
Speaker 2: and it is an easy call for these radio stations.
Speaker 2: I say this not to be rude to our brethren
Speaker 2: in music radio. I appreciate you. I know some of
Speaker 2: you are talented at what you do, but you are
Speaker 2: incredibly expendable. I just hate to say that, but is
Speaker 2: just the truth. It is the truth. When you look
Speaker 2: at these radio stations, they find you to be expendable.
Speaker 2: So this classic rock station fired everybody, morning show, middays, afternoons, nights, overnights,
Speaker 2: all of that stuff. When I first got into radio,
Speaker 2: I don't know if this was true for you. I
Speaker 2: think this might have been true for you.
Speaker 1: Toucy Lane. Possibly.
Speaker 2: When I first got into radio, there was somebody literally
Speaker 2: at the radio station twenty four to seven, not for me, No, no,
Speaker 2: there wasn't anybody like overnights.
Speaker 1: There wasn't anybody running the board at that time.
Speaker 2: M no, okay, So we would always have somebody because
Speaker 2: he had cart machines, and the cart machines weren't automated,
Speaker 2: and for commercials and stuff in the playing the CDEs
Speaker 2: and stuff, you would have to get your list for
Speaker 2: your shift. You would get all of the music that
Speaker 2: you were supposed to play, you would get all of
Speaker 2: the carts ready, you would stack them up, and you
Speaker 2: would start playing your music for your shift. And there
Speaker 2: was somebody in the morning's live all day long. There
Speaker 2: was somebody live behind the board, babysitting the board, making
Speaker 2: sure the music was going out to the people.
Speaker 1: Right. Not anymore.
Speaker 2: And shortly after I started in radio, they started by
Speaker 2: automating overnights, and then they just went on and on
Speaker 2: from there. And then they said at every part of
Speaker 2: the industry has done this. They said, we're going to
Speaker 2: take our best people and put them on many stations.
Speaker 2: We're gonna you know, you're going to be the rock
Speaker 2: guy for the Southeastern and all of these stations around here,
Speaker 2: and we're going to fire the other forty people that
Speaker 2: did this work. And now this is just a matter
Speaker 2: of time because for them it's cheaper. They've found in
Speaker 2: a lot of studies that they've done, believe it or not,
Speaker 2: that whether they have the DJs on introducing the music
Speaker 2: or if they have nothing and they're just playing music,
Speaker 2: it literally does not affect the ratings that much.
Speaker 1: They're not that many people.
Speaker 2: Were like, I only listen for Cobra Kai Joe in
Speaker 2: the afternoon. Right. So this station, legendary station in California,
Speaker 2: the first of many to do this, has pulled the
Speaker 2: plug on all of their DJs. Every single one of
Speaker 2: them has been laid off and they're just going DJ
Speaker 2: free from here on out. They said, k CAW has
Speaker 2: a long standing history in the Inland Empire. This next
Speaker 2: chapter builds on the station strong rock heritage. They've fired
Speaker 2: all the people that actually work there. I'm looking at
Speaker 2: some of the DJs that work there, and then when
Speaker 2: you're fired and you go, okay, well, I got to
Speaker 2: try and get a gig somewhere else, and there's less
Speaker 2: and less and less and less places to do this.
Speaker 2: Radio is in dire straits. Music radio is in very
Speaker 2: much dire straits. What we do around here isn't quite
Speaker 2: as replaceable just yet. And the content, the words coming
Speaker 2: out of our mouths, that is the stuff that the
Speaker 2: radio station can't just have music take care of. We
Speaker 2: are the content here, at least for now. But this
Speaker 2: is going to be happening so much more. If you
Speaker 2: have a station like that that you still like, it'll
Speaker 2: impact you. And I'll ask you that if you were
Speaker 2: listening to a music station and they said we're firing
Speaker 2: all of our radio DJs, no humans will be introducing
Speaker 2: the songs, does that change anything for you? Would you
Speaker 2: stop listening? Or do you really only care about the
Speaker 2: music to begin with? I used to think they cared
Speaker 2: about me when I was Sean Jay on WLDI Wild
Speaker 2: ninety five five.
Speaker 1: That's cute? Who you thought that?
Speaker 2: I thought people cared about me see Lane and my
Speaker 2: intro to the latest Britney Spears song.
Speaker 1: But they did not. Off last, they did not, not
Speaker 1: even the.
Speaker 2: People who ran the station cared about my voice being
Speaker 2: on that station so much.
Speaker 1: But this is the beginning of it.
Speaker 2: We had one of our local morning shows rips as
Speaker 2: of today, like was in the industry trades, I said,
Speaker 2: gone done over with. This is why I'm telling you guys,
Speaker 2: this is like, this is the beginning of the next
Speaker 2: the next layer of what broadcasting looks like. And that's
Speaker 2: what we're trying to be on the crest of the
Speaker 2: wave for. And it involves you. And if you like
Speaker 2: this stuff, now is the time to jump on board
Speaker 2: and support. Now's the time to show the suits that
Speaker 2: you do care about this kind of stuff, because it's
Speaker 2: gonna be a blood bath and radio might be Now
Speaker 2: your job is probably not too far down the line.
Speaker 1: Maybe ours too. We'll see about all of that. I've
Speaker 1: never this.
Speaker 3: Area where they broadcast the Inland Empire. There's a there
Speaker 3: small portion of California riverside San Bernardino, Ontario Metropolitania that
Speaker 3: they refer to as the Inland Empire. It makes it
Speaker 3: sound a lot cooler than it is. I think it's empire.
Speaker 3: It's not the beach.
Speaker 2: So instead of calling it just not the beach, they're like,
Speaker 2: it's the Inland Empire.
Speaker 1: Uh huh, josh, oh, is it really the U two place? Okay? Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 2: I have lots more entries for our rate, my blank,
Speaker 2: I mean, and a ton of them. I don't know
Speaker 2: if any of these are good or worth worth playing.
Speaker 2: I do like that people are using TTS for some
Speaker 2: of them. Here's another entry.
Speaker 3: I do Norwegian ships have barcodes so they can scan
Speaker 3: d navy in?
Speaker 1: Putting two crowd cheers does not count? All right?
Speaker 2: No? Why do Norwegian ships have bar codes so they
Speaker 2: can scan the navy in?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I get it, I get it. That's one that
Speaker 1: that the TTS probably did a disservice to.
Speaker 2: The pacing was off. Yeah, this won't even have a
Speaker 2: punch longs.
Speaker 11: What do you call a cow with no legs?
Speaker 1: Ground beef? All right, that's one of the oldest jokes
Speaker 1: in the book. I know laughing at that. I didn't
Speaker 1: mean to.
Speaker 2: I was generally trying not to. This is why our
Speaker 2: industry is crumbling over here.
Speaker 1: Okay, one more, one more. Here's let's go over to
Speaker 1: this one. Here's Charlie. Hey, guys, why does Snoop Dogg
Speaker 1: carry an umbrella? Oh?
Speaker 2: Drizzle for drizzle A new rule, new rule for the rate,
Speaker 2: my blank rate? My dad jokes for this week. If
Speaker 2: selang can finish your joke before you get to the punchline.
Speaker 2: If he can guess what the punchline is. Auto disqualified.
Speaker 3: Uh, he was already disqualified for stealing a joke that
Speaker 3: runs as a promo on our station for the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, double double disqualified. If that's the case, we cannot
Speaker 2: have that. One more, sure, one more? All right, here
Speaker 2: we go, here's yuckers.
Speaker 3: I went in for a colonoscopy the other day. The
Speaker 3: doctor accidentally punctured my colon, and I came out with
Speaker 3: a semi colon.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know that we could call effects. Is the
Speaker 3: thing that's coming closest to breaking me.
Speaker 2: They've got some options over there. You could join in
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Speaker 1: What did the snail say while he was riding on
Speaker 1: the turtle? We see that it's folks, so far wide open.
Speaker 2: There's a path for you to victory that is not
Speaker 2: impeded by any good submission so far.
Speaker 3: I would say, is that because a turtle would be
Speaker 3: moving faster than the snail?
Speaker 1: I think so.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's a thinker. It is a thinker. It is a thinker.
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Speaker 2: and we are back with our friend Amy Kaufelt. We'll
Speaker 2: see what's happening with her. We'll catch up on I
Speaker 2: know they were talking about this in and out shooting
Speaker 2: that happen over the weekend. They've named the guy who
Speaker 2: is responsible, some crazy details around that, So we'll see
Speaker 2: what's going on with that and everything else happening in
Speaker 2: the headlines with Amy Cawfel coming up next on the
Speaker 2: News Junkie. Right now, it's time, I know, calm down, everybody,
Speaker 2: calm down. I know everybody gets excited for this moment,
Speaker 2: but try to stay calm.
Speaker 1: Let's welcome our friend Amy Kufel from Fox thirty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, guys, there she is, Amy Cawfel. I saw you
Speaker 2: were in Washington, DC over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Amy.
Speaker 11: It was fun. We went and picked up Kate.
Speaker 9: So she did a summer internship up there on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 9: She was kind of nervous about it going into it,
Speaker 9: and then she had a total blast and learned a
Speaker 9: lot and it was actually super cool. So have you
Speaker 9: guys been inside of the US Capitol building?
Speaker 1: Yes? I think okay.
Speaker 3: Once Sean was there, it was in January, a couple
Speaker 3: of years ago, and he said, George.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they just waved me right through. I got Nancy
Speaker 1: Pelosi's podium out of the whole thing. I don't think
Speaker 1: the guy could lift a podium like that, but he did.
Speaker 2: A Nightstands when I was a kid. I I think
Speaker 2: I went into uh went there. I went there not
Speaker 2: too long ago, but we didn't go back inside, but did.
Speaker 2: She gave me like a VIP tour, right And it.
Speaker 9: Was actually so cool to have your kid give you
Speaker 9: a tour because it was for me.
Speaker 11: It was like, wow, she's she was only.
Speaker 9: There ten weeks, but like all the things that she
Speaker 9: learned and it was fascinating.
Speaker 11: And so she was showing us things.
Speaker 9: Like the burnmarks on the on the like columns that
Speaker 9: were from when the British tried to burn the Capitol
Speaker 9: down in eighteen fourteen. And then we got to go
Speaker 9: under the Capitol rotunda and that's where the empty casket
Speaker 9: is for George Washington. Because they just basically made this
Speaker 9: little room for George Washington to be buried, to be
Speaker 9: interred inside the US capital. But then when he died,
Speaker 9: he was up. Now, I go no, I'd want to
Speaker 9: be buried at Mount Vernon. So they just left this
Speaker 9: empty casket there and it's been there, you know, for yeah,
Speaker 9: three years years.
Speaker 2: There's so much history that that people, especially a lot
Speaker 2: of like younger Americans, don't know. I think most people
Speaker 2: don't even know that the White House was burned down
Speaker 2: by the British at one point in time. But that's
Speaker 2: the true story. The you know, the British didn't just
Speaker 2: go away, Uh, they were they were treated into their
Speaker 2: territory in Canada at the time. And then the US
Speaker 2: was having skirmishes with the Brits, and the Brits were
Speaker 2: trying to arm and work with the Native American resistance,
Speaker 2: and there was a lot of stuff going on. And
Speaker 2: then at one point the Brits made their way to
Speaker 2: the White House and they burnt the son of a
Speaker 2: bitch to the ground. And there's still like it's the
Speaker 2: columns in some other areas where like.
Speaker 9: Inside the Capitol building. Yet you can see that the
Speaker 9: burn marks, you can see. It's funny there's on the steps,
Speaker 9: Like there's lots of spiral staircases throughout the US Capitol
Speaker 9: building that are marble, and you can see there's areas
Speaker 9: or chunks that were missing that they had to replace.
Speaker 9: And Kate was telling us there's one of two things there,
Speaker 9: not one hundred percent sure. Either cannons were dragged up
Speaker 9: the stairs and the cannons chipped the marble, or she
Speaker 9: said horses were inside the US Capitol and the horses
Speaker 9: would go up the stairwells and they would chip the marble.
Speaker 9: But just so many little things, a little intricate things
Speaker 9: that you wouldn't notice unless you have someone kind of
Speaker 9: walking you through it.
Speaker 11: So it was really it was fun.
Speaker 1: That's front of her.
Speaker 2: So she learned a lot. I'm sure had a good time.
Speaker 2: You rescued her from Washington, d C. She's back into
Speaker 2: the real world now. Yeah, there was there was so
Speaker 2: much going on this weekend. How close did I know
Speaker 2: you guys were covering it this morning? How close were
Speaker 2: we watching that. I'm still not exactly sure what was
Speaker 2: going on with that shooting at an in and out
Speaker 2: location of all places.
Speaker 9: Don Yeah, twenty four year old kid. I say kid
Speaker 9: because twenty four to me is still young. But yeah,
Speaker 9: So apparently this in and out in Idaho, Southern Idaho
Speaker 9: had Twin Falls, had only been open for a week.
Speaker 9: This kid walks up into the restaurant and start shooting indiscriminately,
Speaker 9: killed three people, seven others injured. But it was actually
Speaker 9: a hero off duty officer and someone else who was
Speaker 9: inside of the restaurant who was carrying a concealed weapons.
Speaker 1: The guy with a cowboy hat, right yeah.
Speaker 9: And they both pulled out their weapons and started shooting
Speaker 9: at the kid, and it kind of freaked the kid out.
Speaker 9: I guess he wasn't anticipating that someone was going to
Speaker 9: be shooting back at him.
Speaker 11: And he never do yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they never do. Yeh.
Speaker 2: So I still haven't figured out why there's something weird
Speaker 2: that happens. Sometimes they released the person's name and they go,
Speaker 2: here's this younger man who was the shooter at this
Speaker 2: in and out burger in Twin Falls, Idaho over the weekend.
Speaker 2: And we'll get into more of the details of this later.
Speaker 2: And I got some of the press conference stuff. But
Speaker 2: when they said his name and you started, people started,
Speaker 2: of course quickly furiously searching for him. All over the
Speaker 2: social media platform, and there wasn't really a lot to
Speaker 2: go by as far as I saw. It wasn't like,
Speaker 2: oh he did this because he hated blank. You know,
Speaker 2: like that doesn't seem clear as to what was going on.
Speaker 11: There was Can you remember the Butler Pennsylvania shooter.
Speaker 9: It was the same thing, exactly very little information about
Speaker 9: that guy. I mean, they could hardly find any kind
Speaker 9: of you know, information like that showed like he was,
Speaker 9: you know, it wasn't like a Luigi man Gioni thing
Speaker 9: where it's like there's a whole you know, manifested.
Speaker 1: He wrote it right on the bullets. Yeah. Well no,
Speaker 1: but there's different things.
Speaker 2: What I'm talking about mostly is usually, well, for a
Speaker 2: long period of time when there was somebody who was
Speaker 2: carrying out an attack like this, there were a lot
Speaker 2: of social media postings in history. And then there's been
Speaker 2: some of these people like also the Charlie kirk assass
Speaker 2: and that guy had a pretty sparse Internet history himself,
Speaker 2: and so you just think, well, young person, once we
Speaker 2: get their name or to see what they were posting about.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen anything that tells me the motivation of
Speaker 2: the shooter at this in and out.
Speaker 9: Yet No, not yet and all I mean his name
Speaker 9: is Williams. I didn't even put that on my post
Speaker 9: today because it's such a common name, you know what
Speaker 9: I mean, I feel like it it'd be hard to
Speaker 9: track down this particular guy unless you're a pretty good
Speaker 9: internet slouth, which make sure there will be plenty of
Speaker 9: people that we'll find out more. For sure, this happened
Speaker 9: on Saturday afternoon, so we'll find out more.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It is one of those cases though, where he did
Speaker 2: this in a place where there was at least a
Speaker 2: couple of people with guns and they started firing back
Speaker 2: at this guy and then I think it took his
Speaker 2: own life at the end of it. But we'll see
Speaker 2: if there's any anything else coming out of that. What
Speaker 2: else was grabbing your attention this weekend?
Speaker 9: So you guys, we are learning more about this double
Speaker 9: homicide that happened in DeLand. For those of your listeners
Speaker 9: who are outside of the central Florida area, this is
Speaker 9: a sleepy town, a sweet town. It is a university
Speaker 9: town home to Stetson University, and this double homicide happened
Speaker 9: very close to what is called the Historic Athens Theater,
Speaker 9: which is a popular community theater where performances are happening
Speaker 9: all the time. Bodies were found on Wednesday, July twenty ninth.
Speaker 11: These two young men.
Speaker 9: One of them is a student at the Citadel. If
Speaker 9: anybody knows anything about prestigious military academies, this is.
Speaker 11: One of them.
Speaker 9: And these two young men nineteen and eighteen years old,
Speaker 9: childhood friends.
Speaker 11: One of them lives in Chicago.
Speaker 9: That's the second young man, and the other one, Dustin,
Speaker 9: is the one who was at the Citadel. They were
Speaker 9: home on some kind of break and very mysterious. We
Speaker 9: really don't know a whole lot about the circumstances other
Speaker 9: than they were shot multiple times.
Speaker 2: So two guys shot and killed and they found their
Speaker 2: bodies together, and they don't know.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 11: So here's what we do know, And there has not
Speaker 11: been a lot of information.
Speaker 9: The FBI is now working with DeLand Police and Blish
Speaker 9: County authorities on this one. But we do know that
Speaker 9: they did execute a search warrant over the weekend and
Speaker 9: they went to a house on They're not even giving
Speaker 9: us an exact address.
Speaker 11: The house is on Lofton Street in DeLand.
Speaker 9: We don't know if any arrests were made, if they
Speaker 9: were able to maybe get some evidence from there.
Speaker 11: We just we don't know. I mean, it's very mysterious.
Speaker 9: We actually had a lady on this morning who's a
Speaker 9: retired FBI agent, and she said the same thing. She said,
Speaker 9: she's glad the FBI is working on this because they
Speaker 9: obviously have the resources. As you guys know from like
Speaker 9: the Nancy Guthrie case. If you don't get the FBI
Speaker 9: in there early, you know, it can be really damaging
Speaker 9: because sometimes you know, in the in these cases of
Speaker 9: especially something that is sort of as mysterious is this
Speaker 9: particular one, you know, you need all eyes on it,
Speaker 9: and you need it all on there as quickly as possible.
Speaker 9: We called that the first forty eight right, yeah, right, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you end up with that sheriff down there. And
Speaker 1: the Nancy Guthrie thing didn't very well.
Speaker 2: You there was a whole write up about him and
Speaker 2: how he bungled that operation in the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 2: this weekend. Oh my god, man, like just talk about
Speaker 2: incompetence in law enforce and like, I was so bad.
Speaker 1: But that is a very strange case.
Speaker 9: So I'll be interested to see you disturbing. So yes,
Speaker 9: we're still waiting more information on this. There were some
Speaker 9: rumors going around that there had been other crimes happening
Speaker 9: in DeLand that people were wondering if this was connected
Speaker 9: to it. I think, to me, what's just most interesting
Speaker 9: is that these two was Were these guys just in
Speaker 9: the wrong place at the wrong time.
Speaker 11: We don't know, we don't know.
Speaker 2: Interesting. We'll have to We'll have to keep an eye
Speaker 2: on that story, for sure. I want to tsk something
Speaker 2: at you here because I saw a lot of people
Speaker 2: talking about this this weekend. There are varied takes on
Speaker 2: this and opinions I want to get. I want to
Speaker 2: get Amy Coffelt's and yours too, Sea Line, but only
Speaker 2: yours a little bit because Amy Coffelt, well, just have
Speaker 2: a better take on this.
Speaker 1: You know, Mario Lopez is you guys? You guys know
Speaker 1: who that? Yeah? Right, ac Ac Slater, That's right, Mario Lopez.
Speaker 2: He posted a video this weekend six point four million views,
Speaker 2: and he said I can't take my niece anywhere, and
Speaker 2: he aied a photo of himself and his niece allegedly
Speaker 2: and the photo is weird and are they turned it
Speaker 2: into a video, and so it's him and his knees
Speaker 2: at the doctor.
Speaker 1: You can't take her anywhere. Oh my god, look at
Speaker 1: you so good. You're a mess the mustard and they're like,
Speaker 1: this is your knee, dude, what.
Speaker 11: Is it really?
Speaker 2: I guess you went to the game with his niece
Speaker 2: and then aied her and him, and it like there
Speaker 2: she's oddly eating these hot dogs and rubbing mustard all
Speaker 2: over her face, and just that is legit.
Speaker 11: His niece.
Speaker 9: I think I got it, like this video. He just
Speaker 9: made this because he thought it was funny.
Speaker 1: I think it's very very weird.
Speaker 2: Somebody was posting the prompt that was used for this,
Speaker 2: or I mean it's it's Ai but he took a
Speaker 2: photo I think to start this, or it's just very weird.
Speaker 1: I'll put this up on see it now. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think so.
Speaker 2: He said this is a weird time to start watching
Speaker 2: the show. Hey, I'm not the one who posted it.
Speaker 2: What does his brother or sister think about this?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It it's if I was going to just uncle Mario
Speaker 3: being crazy.
Speaker 2: If I was going to go out with my niece
Speaker 2: or nephew somewhere and take a picture of them and
Speaker 2: I did this with it, I would probably never be
Speaker 2: able to see them again.
Speaker 1: I think somebody would be like, what the.
Speaker 2: Hell is that? Very very bizarre. Yeah, that's that's the
Speaker 2: end of the rainbow. But we'll see what's happens. I'll
Speaker 2: put that up on see.
Speaker 11: It now, see that? Yeah, thanks for disturbing my afternoon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: I figured you guys could maybe leave top story. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I figure you could open the Fox broadcast with that tomorrow.
Speaker 1: And get that out there.
Speaker 9: Bring me to the fact that I used to only
Speaker 9: like ketch up on my hot dog, but now I'm.
Speaker 11: A mustard girl.
Speaker 2: But no relish really yeah, I relish is not that
Speaker 2: bad hot dog.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean look, wait, wait, wait, what do you
Speaker 1: want your relish on? Then?
Speaker 9: I don't know, Like I like it with like tune
Speaker 9: to salad, you know, like some people will mix like
Speaker 9: relish with her tuna sound.
Speaker 1: I don't mind.
Speaker 11: I don't mind that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But here's the thing.
Speaker 2: Everything is acceptable until you start putting mayonnaise on a
Speaker 2: hot talk. That's the territory where you've Yeah, you've gone
Speaker 2: too far. Hey did you see that the ladies singing
Speaker 2: the national anthem at the.
Speaker 11: I don't know what that was about either.
Speaker 9: Speaking of things that were disturbing, so the goal.
Speaker 11: So that was it.
Speaker 9: Martha Reeves, Yes, apparently at one point she was like
Speaker 9: a very successful I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 2: She was in Martha successful performer, right, Martha and thee.
Speaker 11: Martha and the Vandela's.
Speaker 1: Vendela that almost have vendettas And I knew that didn't
Speaker 1: sound right.
Speaker 11: It was really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she sang the song heat Wave, I think Celan said,
Speaker 2: and a bunch of other really popular songs. But my god,
Speaker 2: was that absolutely bad. That was mega viral. We'll played
Speaker 2: at the beginning of the show if you.
Speaker 9: Missed it, do you guys think it was worse than
Speaker 9: like fergiear Roseanne or like you rank it?
Speaker 11: It was worse.
Speaker 3: I watched a couple of the all time contenders. I
Speaker 3: didn't watch Roseanne over the weekend, but once I saw
Speaker 3: this Martha Reeves thing, I watched Fergie, I watched Shaka
Speaker 3: Khan that was one that some people said was bad.
Speaker 3: And then Christina Aguilera, who does the singing incursive thing,
Speaker 3: who which a lot.
Speaker 1: Of people hate.
Speaker 3: You know, they wanted to be a more traditional by
Speaker 3: the book anthem, and but Christina actually messed up some
Speaker 3: of the words at the Super Bowl, which was a
Speaker 3: little embarrassing, but I think all of that stuff can
Speaker 3: be forgiven once I watch this Martha Reeves and the
Speaker 3: two other random women singing the same song at two
Speaker 3: different tempos and in two different keys, but at the
Speaker 3: same time, because why not.
Speaker 1: It was Yeah, I feel like I think they were
Speaker 1: just there to help.
Speaker 2: I'll bring it up just in case you're just joining
Speaker 2: us if you haven't heard this yet.
Speaker 1: It is quite bad. It doesn't take a long time
Speaker 1: to get the point. You see.
Speaker 13: Was so Foundrive s r.
Speaker 2: She's borderline like a ghost. She's like, oh, yeah, the
Speaker 2: vibrato was very, very overdone. I think, yeah it was.
Speaker 2: It was a thing. So yeah, there's that. Well, what
Speaker 2: else grabbed your attention this morning? Guys?
Speaker 9: This is a wild story. So this was a couple
Speaker 9: of days ago, but people are still talking about it.
Speaker 9: We're hoping to have the sheriff on tomorrow. Sheriff for Staley,
Speaker 9: who is the Flagler County sheriff, was going out to
Speaker 9: dinner with his wife, okay, and he uh he says
Speaker 9: he spotted a white dodged Challenger with black racing stripes
Speaker 9: flying past him. So he turns on his radar and
Speaker 9: the guy is going one hundred and twenty five miles
Speaker 9: an hour. What you guys know that these super speeder laws.
Speaker 9: Now anything that is okay. So the law is you
Speaker 9: can't be going over one hundred right then if anything
Speaker 9: over one hundred over is considered super speeder.
Speaker 11: Or forty miles an hour over, the post is speed limits.
Speaker 9: So say it's a twenty five mile an hour zone
Speaker 9: and you're going seventy, yeah, that would also be considered
Speaker 9: it super speeder.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So sheriff's day with his wife in the car, pulls
Speaker 9: this guy over.
Speaker 11: Okay, he ends up getting him pulled over.
Speaker 9: The guy his name is a Rule Nayak of Palm Coast,
Speaker 9: he's twenty two years old.
Speaker 11: He had three other people in the vehicle with him, okay,
Speaker 11: and he ends up pulling him over, and.
Speaker 9: He the guy says he knows he's getting arrested.
Speaker 11: Okay.
Speaker 9: So as as this is happening, people are honking. Their
Speaker 9: appreciation is they're driving by because the guy was not
Speaker 9: only going super fast, but he was weaving in and
Speaker 9: out of traffic, which you guys know is a little s.
Speaker 2: So driving one hundred and something miles an hour and driving,
Speaker 2: you know, like weaving in.
Speaker 1: And out of the Yeah.
Speaker 9: So he tells the sheriff that guy had no no
Speaker 9: criminal history, had never been in trouble before. But he
Speaker 9: did tell Sheriff Daley, Hey, I'm taking my pilot's license
Speaker 9: exam on Saturday, so I just need to be out
Speaker 9: of jail before then.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll just fast track this whole thing.
Speaker 3: I don't think they like it when you tell them
Speaker 3: you've got something to do, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it didn't seem very worried about that arrest. For
Speaker 2: God's sake, Holy cow. Yeah, that's something.
Speaker 11: I don't understand why people keep doing this.
Speaker 9: I mean, they know it's against the law, Like they
Speaker 9: know that they're going to get in big trouble.
Speaker 1: You know you're in jail.
Speaker 2: Yeah why Yeah, Well for now, until more of the
Speaker 2: stories get out there about the people actually going to jail,
Speaker 2: I think that will eventually curb some of this behavior
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 1: You see the real quick though.
Speaker 2: Did you see the other story Amy about the Lusha
Speaker 2: County sheriff who said they Valusia County passed a new
Speaker 2: law or new rule about kids on e bikes and
Speaker 2: they're like, kids cannot ride e bikes in our county.
Speaker 2: You're not allowed to hear all the rules for e
Speaker 2: bike riding in our county. And the sheriff was like,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to enforce it. Yeah, the sheriff was.
Speaker 9: About rescinding it, like basically saying that we're we're not
Speaker 9: going to do this anymore because if we can't get
Speaker 9: the sheriff to enforce it. Although it was in DeLand,
Speaker 9: you would think like, okay, well maybe DeLand police can
Speaker 9: enforce it, but my guess is they don't want to
Speaker 9: right now.
Speaker 11: No, but how do we do this? This is going
Speaker 11: to take up all of our time.
Speaker 2: This is going to happen in every city across the country,
Speaker 2: So no matter where you're listening to this, this will
Speaker 2: be something that happens to you. Two, they made a
Speaker 2: local law about kids and underage kids riding on scooters
Speaker 2: and e bikes and stuff. But Selan, the sheriff, is like,
Speaker 2: what am I supposed to pull these kids over and
Speaker 2: start demanding ID and check to see who's what age
Speaker 2: on the e bikes that are cruising around.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm not going to do anything about that.
Speaker 9: Interesting to me, it's kind of like do you guys,
Speaker 9: remember when they first made it against the law to
Speaker 9: be on your cell phone while you're driving. Uh huh
Speaker 9: the last time somebody got pulled over for being on
Speaker 9: their cell phone while driving?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 11: It's like there's just certain things.
Speaker 9: It's like, Okay, you can pass the law, but who's
Speaker 9: who's actually going to enforce this?
Speaker 2: Somebody says, see, which says the sheriff doesn't have the
Speaker 2: authority to pick and choose what laws he enforces.
Speaker 1: Well does he?
Speaker 2: He's a flat out saying he's not going to be
Speaker 2: saying there's state law that I think he says supersedes
Speaker 2: the county and so like, even though there's a problem
Speaker 2: with kids on e bikes, this ain't gonna cut it.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to have a bigger law somewhere.
Speaker 9: So yeah, part of the problem too, and this is
Speaker 9: happening all over the country, this is not just a
Speaker 9: Florida issue, is that, you know, everybody is trying to
Speaker 9: come up with their own set of laws.
Speaker 11: So I feel like.
Speaker 9: This, to me, the state needs to say this is
Speaker 9: what we're doing and then just make it blanket for everybody.
Speaker 9: Because having every municipality doing their own thing is way
Speaker 9: too complished.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that gets that turns into a mess. It's like
Speaker 2: a patchwork of laws everywhere. You know her, you love her.
Speaker 2: She's freshly back from the nation's capital, and though they
Speaker 2: tried to make her president while she was there, she
Speaker 2: refused because she wants to bring you the news every
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Speaker 2: On Fox thirty five, Amy.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 11: Think you guys are gonna go have double hot dogs?
Speaker 2: Pretty careful? That's the weirdest thing, man, Slater, What are
Speaker 2: you doing?
Speaker 1: Slater?
Speaker 2: Mario Lopez, what do you? I don't even know. We're
Speaker 2: gonna take quick break. When we come back. We'll get
Speaker 2: into a couple of your emails. We got a detail
Speaker 2: that just came out about the in and out things
Speaker 2: we have to work, and we have a pick aside
Speaker 2: on the way. We're loaded up and ready to go
Speaker 2: on the show, and we're going to continue along with
Speaker 2: that because it's coming up next on the news Junkie,
Speaker 2: you know, And I can't see him my monitor. I
Speaker 2: need to see your beautiful face otherwise, you know, I
Speaker 2: just just it's.
Speaker 1: Not the same. They're all look at him.
Speaker 2: What a cutie? Hey there there he is there you.
Speaker 2: I just you look fantastic in there. Your knees are
Speaker 2: embarrassing and all bruised and banded, but you know, your
Speaker 2: face is still adorable, still like a like a like
Speaker 2: a teddy bear, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: My kids kept trying to kiss him. The kiss you.
Speaker 1: That's adorable, That is adorable. He feels bad for you.
Speaker 1: He's embarrassing. Probably is.
Speaker 2: They're now saying in chat that they don't have any
Speaker 2: sea landing their monitor either.
Speaker 1: This is you know.
Speaker 2: There you go now now if you're watching over on
Speaker 2: YouTube or twitch dot tv slash the news joke, you
Speaker 2: could see. So we watched this Spider Man brand new
Speaker 2: day over the weekend, along with eight billion other people
Speaker 2: and a lot of stuff came up around this, But
Speaker 2: one thing I came up was in the movie. I'm
Speaker 2: not going to spoil anything here for you at all,
Speaker 2: but in spider Man Brand New Day, one of the
Speaker 2: main characters is Punisher, and it was interesting watching Courtney's
Speaker 2: take on Punisher, and I think she's exactly right about
Speaker 2: this all right. When I was young, Punisher was kind
Speaker 2: of the cool character in comic books. If you were
Speaker 2: a guy and you wanted to be cool, you didn't
Speaker 2: really care about Batman. Batman was kind of nerdy at
Speaker 2: the time, still kind of is a little bit, save
Speaker 2: for some portrayals.
Speaker 1: I see you Nolan in the Batman world. Spider Man
Speaker 1: was like whatever.
Speaker 2: But if you wanted to be kind of edgy or cool,
Speaker 2: you liked like Punisher, ghost Rider or Deadpool. Right, those
Speaker 2: are the ones that you like because those are the
Speaker 2: edgier characters. And I liked that they had a little
Speaker 2: more edginess in this New Spider Man movie that was
Speaker 2: almost the biggest movie ever this weekend, just just under
Speaker 2: Avengers Endgame for its opening weekend without any Imax screens
Speaker 2: as well. And the Punisher is in this and Courty
Speaker 2: goes Oh, just the Punisher is that that skull logo?
Speaker 2: And she said, that's a red flag for me. And
Speaker 2: it's just under like a guy who's obsessed with the Joker.
Speaker 2: And I said, there's a lot of truth to that.
Speaker 2: If there's a guy. Ladies know this. If there's a
Speaker 2: guy with too much Joker stuff on his car or
Speaker 2: like somehow in his life somewhere, you know, if he's
Speaker 2: got a Joker rap on his vehicle.
Speaker 1: I hate to say this, if you're talking about somebody specific.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about Joker gangang or old friend. I
Speaker 1: don't know the person.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but like like a regular at a bar that
Speaker 3: would stand out to you. There is a vehicle that
Speaker 3: drives around my area that is completely wrapped in Joker.
Speaker 2: That's a red flag. And it says like, why so serious? Yes, look,
Speaker 2: you're a grown ass adult. It's a grown man, right,
Speaker 2: Look there's a grown man driving a car with Joker
Speaker 2: all over the place. Why so serious? And you're like, okay,
Speaker 2: your obsession with this character is indicative of probably some
Speaker 2: personality traits.
Speaker 1: That some people are not gonna like.
Speaker 2: And Corny goes Punisher is number two right behind the Joker.
Speaker 2: Like if a guy skeletons and stuff. I'm not as
Speaker 2: familiar with the Punisher as a character, just because I
Speaker 2: haven't seen. First of all, I never read much despite
Speaker 2: working at a comic book store, never read much comics
Speaker 2: at all in my life. M hm, So I haven't
Speaker 2: really seen a lot of movies with Punisher in them. However,
Speaker 2: I know that that skull logo, I think it's a
Speaker 2: pretty common tattoo. Yeah, and like the bigger the Punisher tattoo,
Speaker 2: you go, all right, we wanted that pretty good. I
Speaker 2: know some military people have co opted it, and that's fine,
Speaker 2: Like if you want, Like, you know, I'm a military guy,
Speaker 2: and here's the symbol i'm gonna put. People put salt
Speaker 2: life if they're into fishing, and I'm gonna put that
Speaker 2: because I'm a military person. I mean, somebody who just
Speaker 2: like starts covering their stuff and punish your things.
Speaker 1: And the more of.
Speaker 2: It that there is, the more you're like, whoo, I
Speaker 2: don't know, Joker is worse. And I'm sure you guys
Speaker 2: have other things like that. If somebody's obsessed with it,
Speaker 2: you go oof.
Speaker 1: Immediately.
Speaker 2: It's a tell about their personality. Like if a person's
Speaker 2: obsessed with this thing one thing, and this is a
Speaker 2: this is a sneaky one. A lot of you guys
Speaker 2: aren't gonna know what to make of this, But if
Speaker 2: you know somebody that is very obsessed, like will not
Speaker 2: stop talking about it, very obsessed with the movie Old Boy,
Speaker 2: run okay, run in the other direction as fast as
Speaker 2: you possibly can. That is one of the indicators that
Speaker 2: this person.
Speaker 1: Is a little bit weird. Is not a green flag
Speaker 1: for me that I don't even know what Old Boy is.
Speaker 1: I think it is, Yeah, I think that's in twenty
Speaker 1: and three or twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2: I don't know which ones which, but it's it's a
Speaker 2: movie that the people who are obsessed with it usually
Speaker 2: end up falling into this category where it says more
Speaker 2: about their personality. It's one of those movies where if
Speaker 2: somebody obsesses over it, it's it's like, ah, there's a
Speaker 2: lot of people that have these kind of things that
Speaker 2: they're giving off. Somebody says American Psycho is like that. Meep,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I mean that uh okay movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I've I've I've not like found people to
Speaker 3: be I haven't seen that as a red flag, like, oh,
Speaker 3: this person really likes American Psycho. I don't see it
Speaker 3: a lot. However, there have been people that I have
Speaker 3: found to be obnoxious online and have gotten into fights
Speaker 3: with that are obsessed with American Psycho, and so it's
Speaker 3: like doing like a reverse kind of stigma on me.
Speaker 2: Maybe they're right. Maybe I haven't picked up on that.
Speaker 2: Somebody says, wf his Old Boy. If you don't know
Speaker 2: what it is, you're better off just to stay away.
Speaker 2: Some people really like the movie and I'm not coming
Speaker 2: down in the movie. I'm coming down Spike Uh no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: not not Spike Lee, the Korean one, the Korean one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the Korean movie Old Boy. If you find some like
Speaker 2: Western Web obsessed with this two three, I know that's
Speaker 2: not a weed, but you know, be easy on me.
Speaker 2: That movie is one of them where it's like, and
Speaker 2: you guys are probably gonna have other ones you could
Speaker 2: toss in like this, But there are things. Punisher I
Speaker 2: think is definitely one of them. And I saw the
Speaker 2: Punisher guy this weekend. It was it was a USA
Speaker 2: Today article John burnhal Is he's on top of his
Speaker 2: game right now. He was in Walking Dead, He's in
Speaker 2: the Odyssey, and he's in Spider Man, Brand New Dead,
Speaker 2: like you won this year, you got you and Tom
Speaker 2: Holland and Zendaya better Zendeia. You guys win twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: Already congratulations, super talented people, but you end up walking
Speaker 2: into a bunch of dumb stuff when you start talking
Speaker 2: too much.
Speaker 1: I guess he was.
Speaker 3: Also we talked about John Bernhal last week or the
Speaker 3: week before, and Pisenberg had reminded me of this. He
Speaker 3: was in The Bear, but only like seven episodes, and
Speaker 3: they're all flashbacks because he was the brother that took
Speaker 3: his life, that started that started the story of the Bear.
Speaker 3: Likely he kind of like got the ball rolling for
Speaker 3: everything as far as the storyline goes. So while while
Speaker 3: his character is very important to the story of The Bear,
Speaker 3: the fact that he's not in it is kind of
Speaker 3: the main thing. And so he was only in seven
Speaker 3: episodes of the what five season run.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he seems nice. I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 2: Don't don't come at me on this one. I don't
Speaker 2: know too much about him. He seems kind of dopey,
Speaker 2: which is okay. He's just an actor. Like you know,
Speaker 2: actors are allowed. They don't have to be the smartest
Speaker 2: people on the planet. They're very skilled to what they do.
Speaker 2: He was as great as the Punisher, was great in
Speaker 2: these other roles that we're talking about. But John Berthal
Speaker 2: doesn't strike me as the smartest guy, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. Don't really care about his thoughts on like
Speaker 2: deep world issues and stuff. He doesn't strike me as
Speaker 2: an incredibly right guy. He strikes me as a fun guy,
Speaker 2: which is great. Don't get me wrong, it's great. It's fine,
Speaker 2: it's great.
Speaker 3: But you're not going to sit down at the bar
Speaker 3: with him and go like, hey, John Bernenthal, tell me
Speaker 3: what you think about Guzza.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not gonna do that. And maybe he knows
Speaker 2: a lot about this. He doesn't strike me as that guy. However,
Speaker 2: he was talking about pit bulls and the USA Today said,
Speaker 2: if you John Bernhal, the guy who's Punisher in The
Speaker 2: New Spider Man and in The Odyssey, said if you're
Speaker 2: scared of pit bulls, it's just racism. It's just dog racism.
Speaker 2: He said, it's just dog racism. He says, to be
Speaker 2: a afraid of a breed of dog is completely ridiculous.
Speaker 2: It's like being afraid of somebody for the race or
Speaker 2: their sexual orientation.
Speaker 1: It's completely ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Look, if a pit bull bites you, it's gonna suck.
Speaker 2: But they're no more likely to bite you than a
Speaker 2: chihuahua or another breed. I don't want to get into
Speaker 2: pit bull talk, but that's the kind of dumb stuf
Speaker 2: where it's like, hey, if you're scared of pit bulls,
Speaker 2: you're being dog racist. It's so weird. Take I don't
Speaker 2: know what to make of that. I will only tell
Speaker 2: you if there was somebody who told me like, I'm
Speaker 2: careful around pipples or I'm careful with my child around pipples,
Speaker 2: I'd be like, Okay, I've met a lot of great pipples,
Speaker 2: a lot of great pit bull owners. But if you
Speaker 2: are a little more hesitant around that because of anecdotal
Speaker 2: situations where pipples were more aggressive and you don't have
Speaker 2: good experiences with them, you're not the dog racist.
Speaker 1: You're just being smart.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, your past is prologue, right, so your situation is
Speaker 2: something you should learn from. And if you want to
Speaker 2: think that pit bulls another breeder ones that you like
Speaker 2: to stay away from, that's totally fine. It's pretty doping
Speaker 2: to say something's dog racist.
Speaker 3: So John burnhal is trying to say that, like, uh,
Speaker 3: you could just take what people say about pit bulls
Speaker 3: and just plug in another race because they're basically saying
Speaker 3: racist things.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you are against pit bulls, or you're you're
Speaker 2: fearful even fearful of pit bulls, you are a dog racist.
Speaker 2: You are a dog racist. I'm sure there's somebody out
Speaker 2: there that doesn't like Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. I think
Speaker 2: you're crazy. My experience with him is great.
Speaker 1: But if you had I walked to the other side
Speaker 1: of the street when I see this and.
Speaker 2: We see lady over there, Hey, if I if I
Speaker 2: saw somebody was like, I knew somebody who had one
Speaker 2: of these, and it bit me three times and it's
Speaker 2: made me wary of them.
Speaker 1: Fine, to make you dog racist, it's weird as hell.
Speaker 2: But I guess he was saying that to the USA today, right,
Speaker 2: or that was in an article in the USA today.
Speaker 2: At least we'll see what you think about that. We're
Speaker 2: gonna take a quick break when we come back. We've
Speaker 2: got the hot sheet on the way. We're gonna interview
Speaker 2: at the top of the hour, so let's try to
Speaker 2: stay on time. For all of that much more on
Speaker 2: the way. It's all coming up next on the news Junkie.
Speaker 2: Welcome in on a Monday. The hot sheet is just
Speaker 2: moments away. I don't know if Celan's gonna be covering
Speaker 2: a lot of palooza at all. Did you see any
Speaker 2: of that this weekend?
Speaker 1: Barely?
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 3: I wanted to tune in for some Smashing Pumpkins, But
Speaker 3: when I got to the live stream and realized they
Speaker 3: were on, I checked setliss dot FM and they had
Speaker 3: already played all the songs that I like by them,
Speaker 3: like every Smashing Pumpkins song I know, save for maybe one.
Speaker 2: Did you see the crowd though? How many people?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 1: Wait, if it was your favorite band, would you be
Speaker 1: in this crowd?
Speaker 2: Look real quick before the hot sheet. Look, there's just
Speaker 2: a scan from from the Lallapalooza.
Speaker 1: People.
Speaker 2: It's like this sea of human beings, Like, can just
Speaker 2: imagine any random point in the middle of here. Just
Speaker 2: being a person in there does not seem like a
Speaker 2: great experience.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I have the desire to do
Speaker 1: that kind of crowd anymore. People. How many of them
Speaker 1: are pooping right now?
Speaker 2: Either? There's so many people we know what they do
Speaker 2: in concerts these days. That was in Chicago for Lollapalooza
Speaker 2: Dream this weekend. Looked like they were having fun. But
Speaker 2: I don't know if you could get me in the
Speaker 2: middle of that crowd. Let us know what you think.
Speaker 2: Right now, let's do the hot sheets.
Speaker 1: News, but not like important news.
Speaker 3: That's best to get a reporting on the planet top
Speaker 3: stories from the people on your screen, then speakers are
Speaker 3: on the hot sheet with Sea Leab. That's right, the
Speaker 3: top five stories of the nonsense news brought to you
Speaker 3: by that mortgage guy, Dawn.
Speaker 1: And guys.
Speaker 3: You know, I know some of your people out there
Speaker 3: think America is not that great anymore. You know, loser.
Speaker 3: You could have it so much worse. You could be
Speaker 3: in Soviet Russia, where they're cracking down on porn sean
Speaker 3: huge crackdown. It's they're calling it Putin's porn crackdown. And
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's because whoever wrote this likes alliteration,
Speaker 3: or they were referring to the fact that Putin himself
Speaker 3: is spearheading this operation. But a Russian onlyfan star has
Speaker 3: dodged prison but been fine. Forty five thousand. Is that
Speaker 3: euros or pounds. I think it's euros forty five thousand.
Speaker 3: How many is that in.
Speaker 2: The USD forty five thousand euros is probably like fifty
Speaker 2: thousand bucks or something.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, handed a three year ban from the internet completely.
Speaker 3: Sofia Vershinina, twenty one years old, convicted of producing and
Speaker 3: distributing one Yeah she was an onlyfan star. Oh okay,
Speaker 3: so just because she was putting herself out there on
Speaker 3: the internet. A Moscow court convicted her of producing and
Speaker 3: distributing explicit online videos. She's been ordered to pay the
Speaker 3: forty five large she's all. It's been barred from appearing online,
Speaker 3: using the Internet, or from running her digital business for
Speaker 3: three years, in a massive blow to her income. Russian
Speaker 3: prosecutors say she was earning six figures plus from selling
Speaker 3: X rated videos and sold intimate content on Telegram, Messenger
Speaker 3: and living in an elite Moscow skyscraper business. They could
Speaker 3: be going after your porn if you wanted to, you know,
Speaker 3: move overseas because it's so much better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, got them mighty.
Speaker 2: They at least give the guys the adult content, for
Speaker 2: God's sake. They're shoving them over to war NonStop and
Speaker 2: they're dying off. I mean, what are they going to
Speaker 2: do for fun over there before they go to war?
Speaker 1: Got al mighty.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, in the States, if you were holding your breath
Speaker 3: for the sequel to the hugely successful Barbie movie, well
Speaker 3: it's stalling a bit. You know, when a movie makes
Speaker 3: more than one point four billion at the box office
Speaker 3: and earns eight Academy Award nominations, the studio is going
Speaker 3: to want to make a sequel, such is the case
Speaker 3: with Barbie. But time is running out for the studio
Speaker 3: to put Margo Robbie back in pink. A new report
Speaker 3: from The New York Times reveals that Warner Brothers Discovery
Speaker 3: CEO David Zaslav is stalling because he doesn't want to
Speaker 3: approve bigger salaries for Ryan Gosling and Margo Robbie.
Speaker 2: Oh I think you might. If you're gonna do a
Speaker 2: second one, you have to have them, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he got to pay. What do you want? What
Speaker 1: are you gonna do?
Speaker 3: He bulked at giving the actors rich deals with profit
Speaker 3: participation for a second film. Gosling was nominated for Best
Speaker 3: Supporting Actor for his role as ken Is, angling to
Speaker 3: raise his pay to twenty million dollars. A Warner brother
Speaker 3: spokesman notes that there was never an agreed upon framework
Speaker 3: that was approved and pulled back. In a rare move,
Speaker 3: Warner Brothers didn't require the stars to commit to sequels,
Speaker 3: as they only signed a one movie deal to land
Speaker 3: Greta Gerwig as the film's director. Barb Barbie had like
Speaker 3: a bunch of false starts over the years and trying
Speaker 3: to get that movie made, but now he doesn't want
Speaker 3: to He doesn't want to approve the bigger salaries.
Speaker 1: And I think the problem.
Speaker 3: That they have on the horizon is that the rights
Speaker 3: to Barbie are going to expire at some point, so
Speaker 3: they need to make the sequel while they still have
Speaker 3: the rights to it, or else they're not gonna be
Speaker 3: able to do it at all.
Speaker 1: So, you know, if you want to see that dark, you're.
Speaker 2: Surprised that those the main people in that movie are
Speaker 2: going to want a lot more money because they know
Speaker 2: what you're going to get out of it.
Speaker 1: Well, of course it was. I mean it was a huge,
Speaker 1: huge hit. Wait, what did I say? One point four billion?
Speaker 3: Just all right, there's a little bit of problems on
Speaker 3: tour for this man.
Speaker 1: All right, chair, Oh, I know this.
Speaker 2: Oh well, we all flowed on modest mouse, modest mouse.
Speaker 3: They have booted guitarist Simon O'Connor from the upcoming of
Speaker 3: North American tour because he was accused of sending inappropriate
Speaker 3: messages to a teenage fan. The indie rock band announced
Speaker 3: Friday that O'Connor, who's in his forties, will not join
Speaker 3: them on the road beginning Tuesday in California. The good
Speaker 3: news is that they got somebody already jumping in to
Speaker 3: play guitar. But on July twenty sixth, though connor was
Speaker 3: accused by a Reddit user who identified themselves as a
Speaker 3: seventeen year old fan, of sending them an erotic image
Speaker 3: and commenting on their bikini pics on Instagram via direct message.
Speaker 2: I just saw the pick that he sent the person
Speaker 2: apparently it's this one. Oh, it's a very large, muscular
Speaker 2: we know that guy.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, that guy did die.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the erotic image.
Speaker 1: This was it. He sent the photo of this guy.
Speaker 2: It's a famous like shock photo of a naked, muscular
Speaker 2: black man. And then the person said, Oh, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: assume that you've been hacked.
Speaker 1: Lol, have a good one. I love your music. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he won't be on tour with them anymore. The
Speaker 1: user posted a series of screenshots of their alleged conversations
Speaker 1: on the social platform. Said there were sixteen at the
Speaker 1: time of the interaction, and had their date of birth
Speaker 1: listed on their Instagram profile. The user was by suggesting
Speaker 1: O'Connor's account had been hacked. Wish I had was hacked.
Speaker 3: Just at a party last night and looking at everything
Speaker 3: with one eye, you know, O'Connor allegedly replied. Even gave
Speaker 3: him an out and he didn't take it. Scientists have
Speaker 3: done the good work here. They've revealed the most scientifically
Speaker 3: accurate volcano movies ever made. What do you think was
Speaker 3: at the top of the list of all the volcano
Speaker 3: movies the most scientifically accurate?
Speaker 2: Oh man, I don't even know that many volcano movies.
Speaker 2: Does Joe Versus the Volcano have an actual volcano in it?
Speaker 1: Joe Versus the Volcano came in second for least accurate.
Speaker 1: Oh damn, I don't know what's the most accurate. So
Speaker 1: it's so funny.
Speaker 3: The most accurate and the least accurate were like same year,
Speaker 3: like within weeks or months of each other.
Speaker 1: They said.
Speaker 3: The most accurate was Dante's Peak with Sarah Connor the
Speaker 3: Linda Hamilton, the actress that played Sarah Connor and I
Speaker 3: Believe James Bond, one of the James Bonds. And then
Speaker 3: the least accurate, which was at about the same year
Speaker 3: they were they were released almost together, was Volcano with
Speaker 3: Tommy Lee Jones uh Krakatoa of the Final Days in
Speaker 3: Pompeii The Last Day were also among the most accurate
Speaker 3: Volcano movies, according to the scientists. Good Guy Kendrick Lamar
Speaker 3: surprised a seven year old dog attack victim with a
Speaker 3: birthday call over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Was that the call it might have been I don't know.
Speaker 1: That wasn't me. Was that you? It was one of
Speaker 1: my other.
Speaker 2: You were bringing up You were bringing up dogs again,
Speaker 2: and we might head back to the.
Speaker 3: Well this this is going to start some more dog racism,
Speaker 3: but you know, just buckle up. Uh It says a
Speaker 3: boy lost both his arms and a dog attack earlier
Speaker 3: this year. Uh he, Kendrick Lamar surprised the boy with
Speaker 3: a he no try to get Kendrick Lamar to attend
Speaker 3: his birthday party, but instead he got a phone call
Speaker 3: and got to speak with him directly over video. Kendrick asked,
Speaker 3: what's up man, how you feeling, and the kid said,
Speaker 3: how the hell do you think I'm feeling? I don't
Speaker 3: have any arms.
Speaker 2: That's the greatest clone of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: I think already I just made that up.
Speaker 3: I mean, that would have been great as a seven
Speaker 3: year old kid, but it would have been very clever.
Speaker 3: It's new music Monday, Arion a Grande and opus Kin
Speaker 3: Cab new album. Also Lucia and the Best Boys. Little
Speaker 3: Uzi Vert has a new single with Maverick almost Forever
Speaker 3: EP that's not just a single, that's a holy p
Speaker 3: and then Robin the pop star Robin who kind of
Speaker 3: like goes in hiding for many many years at a time,
Speaker 3: and she's got talk to Me the remix plus Shaboozi
Speaker 3: and Kaylannie with Bullets and Blades. Hey, if you are
Speaker 3: in a renting situation, thrown away your money, it's time
Speaker 3: to get in the house. The mortgage guy down wants
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Speaker 3: that mortgage got don dot com.
Speaker 2: One of the craziest stories over the weekend is is
Speaker 2: iron hacking our water plants? Our water systems in the
Speaker 2: United States. It's crazy, but there might be something to this.
Speaker 2: We'll figure out exactly what's happening with an expert that's
Speaker 2: coming up next on the news Junkie Sea Line. You
Speaker 2: know as well as I do. The very smart people
Speaker 2: tend to avoid this show, right, the folks who like
Speaker 2: can actually help us out to figure out what's going
Speaker 2: on there.
Speaker 1: They're smart. Yeah, they're like the news junkie.
Speaker 2: So I see this story. It's all over the place
Speaker 2: this weekend. The New York Times. Here's one example of
Speaker 2: it that I'm looking at. It says the United States
Speaker 2: sees Iran as likely behind a cyber attack on Minnesota
Speaker 2: water systems. And there was a lot of buzz out
Speaker 2: there about different cities that thought that their water supply
Speaker 2: was being hacked, and possibly that that water supply was
Speaker 2: being hacked by maybe Iranians. Obviously we're at war with Iran.
Speaker 2: There's a lot going on in that world, but we
Speaker 2: don't know how to work our way through a story
Speaker 2: like this. I don't know who's telling the truth and
Speaker 2: who's not. So let's welcome an expert on the topic,
Speaker 2: Annie Fixler.
Speaker 1: Annie, are you with us? Hi? Good to be with you.
Speaker 1: There she is. Annie.
Speaker 2: First of all, tell people a little bit about who
Speaker 2: you are, what you do, how you know about this
Speaker 2: kind of stuff, if you don't mind, sure.
Speaker 8: So I work at a think tank in Washington, d C.
Speaker 8: We do national security and foreign policy research, and we
Speaker 8: have a team that looks at cybersecurity issues, cyber policy issues,
Speaker 8: critical infrastructure resilience, and so we've been closely watching threats
Speaker 8: to critical infrastructure. And as you noted, they're on were
Speaker 8: with Iran and they pose cyber threats and so this
Speaker 8: is an evolving and concerning story.
Speaker 2: So the thing that we're looking at here is there
Speaker 2: are people hackers somewhere on possibly on behalf of Iran,
Speaker 2: who are hacking actual places in our in our real life,
Speaker 2: and what are the big fears there? Obviously this is
Speaker 2: we're talking about water systems here. Could they could they
Speaker 2: hack a water system and do something so that it
Speaker 2: would actually affect the quality of the water.
Speaker 8: That's certainly the concern. The way they have been attacking
Speaker 8: these systems is deep in what's called operational technology. It
Speaker 8: is the computer systems that control physical processes. So right
Speaker 8: now we've seen them in places that are monitoring water
Speaker 8: quality and some limited operations.
Speaker 1: We haven't yet seen.
Speaker 8: Them touch systems that would affect quality, so we're not
Speaker 8: seeing We're careful to caution people, this is not about
Speaker 8: hackers poisoning your water system, but the threat is real
Speaker 8: and there's a real concern that could be a future problem.
Speaker 8: So securing these systems so that that can't happen is
Speaker 8: of critical importance.
Speaker 2: I heard a couple of people talking about this. Tell
Speaker 2: me if this is true or not. I heard somebody
Speaker 2: saying and stories like this. What you find often is
Speaker 2: this is Minnesota, and it's about the water systems possibly
Speaker 2: being hacked by the Iranian hackers and stuff. But sometimes
Speaker 2: I have heard that there will be They got like
Speaker 2: some monitoring software that's set up so they don't have
Speaker 2: to drive all the way out to a water facility
Speaker 2: and check levels and see stuff. And the monitoring software
Speaker 2: that they have set up maybe is not very secure
Speaker 2: and has like the default password, and when they gain
Speaker 2: access to it. It doesn't take brilliant level hacker, you know,
Speaker 2: hackerman knowledge, it's kind of basic. But they're just looking
Speaker 2: in the right places and then they can't really necessarily
Speaker 2: impact the quality of the water that you're drinking, but
Speaker 2: they can inconvenience the people who are operating those Is
Speaker 2: that what is happening here or is it more or
Speaker 2: is it worse than that?
Speaker 8: That's what's happening right now, and so yes, it's one
Speaker 8: hundred percent an accurate description of what's going on. They
Speaker 8: are getting into systems that are remotely monitored.
Speaker 1: So you don't have a.
Speaker 8: Human in the in you know, walking your waterlines anymore.
Speaker 8: You have remote monitoring, so you have one person who's
Speaker 8: miles and miles away keeping track of what's going on.
Speaker 8: So the hackers are getting into those systems because as
Speaker 8: you said, they've got to fault passwords or some of
Speaker 8: them don't have passwords at all. Yesd Yeah, it's bad.
Speaker 8: And so you know, you can do a search and
Speaker 8: figure out what's connected to the Internet, and so that's
Speaker 8: what they're doing. There's a similar to a Google search,
Speaker 8: it's called a showdown search, and you can identify pieces
Speaker 8: of equipment that are connected to the Internet, and if
Speaker 8: you identify piece of equipment and you know what it's
Speaker 8: default password is. Because there are manuals out there so
Speaker 8: that people can configure their systems, they're supposed to then
Speaker 8: change the default but if they don't, then a hacker
Speaker 8: can use that password and get in. So they are
Speaker 8: affecting the monitoring of the system. They are not affecting
Speaker 8: chemical composition at this stage. Okay, again, I want to
Speaker 8: caution that could happen. That's not what's going on right now.
Speaker 3: When I said chemical composition though, like is does that
Speaker 3: mean one of the concerns that you know, Sean talked
Speaker 3: about facilities that are monitoring water, but there are also
Speaker 3: facilities that treat the water, and like so is one
Speaker 3: of the concerns that like, hey, we put in a
Speaker 3: trace amount of this chemical to make sure the water
Speaker 3: is clean. However, if you were to, you know, type
Speaker 3: in the default password and say we want you know,
Speaker 3: fifty times the amount of that chemical, is that kind
Speaker 3: of the down the road concerns that they could overtreat
Speaker 3: the water or even I mean undertreat it would be
Speaker 3: a problem too. But I would think that overtreating would
Speaker 3: be a big concern as well.
Speaker 8: Right, that's the kind of thing we're concerned about, is
Speaker 8: if you were to affect the chlorine levels, right, you
Speaker 8: want a little bit of chlorine to kill bacteria. You
Speaker 8: don't want a lot of chlorine. So it's that sort
Speaker 8: of yeah, and so there were there was an incident
Speaker 8: about five years ago at this point in Oldsmar, Florida.
Speaker 11: Some of your listeners may remember.
Speaker 8: I think it's still debated whether that was actually an
Speaker 8: outside job or an inside job. It's it's messy when
Speaker 8: it comes to cybersecurity incidents.
Speaker 12: But the concern at.
Speaker 8: The time was that the hackers sort of went into
Speaker 8: the system and said, instead of ten parts per million,
Speaker 8: I would like ten thousand parts per million, Right, So
Speaker 8: that could dramatically, you know, affect and really poison water supply.
Speaker 1: I remember this.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so it's that kind of thing. Again, that's not
Speaker 8: what's precisely happening here.
Speaker 3: No, they've got people down on Oldsmar. They wear shirts
Speaker 3: said Oldsmar was an inside job all the time.
Speaker 2: It was a great conspiracy. Okay, here's let's let's get
Speaker 2: into you. I like how you're being even handed and
Speaker 2: how you're handling all of this well, let's get into
Speaker 2: sort of worst case scenario here. A lot of times
Speaker 2: when people think about hackers, hackers from Russia, hackers from Iran,
Speaker 2: hackers from China, wherever, you know, some some adversary to
Speaker 2: the United States of America, they think about them hacking
Speaker 2: websites or you know, maybe bank accounts or some things
Speaker 2: like that. But in this case, we're talking about infrastructure.
Speaker 2: What would be annie the nightmare situation? Are we talking
Speaker 2: nuclear power plants?
Speaker 1: Are Like?
Speaker 2: What what would be the nightmare situation that they could
Speaker 2: hack into?
Speaker 11: If you want to stick on water, it's wastewater.
Speaker 8: If you have a if you dismantle, disable, corrupt the
Speaker 8: pretty wastewater systems, you can make a city uninhabitable in
Speaker 8: a matter of hours, right, like you have. This is
Speaker 8: really serious stuff. Yeah, So like that's my that's my
Speaker 8: real big scary.
Speaker 1: Give me, give me an example of what could happen there?
Speaker 8: Right, you talk about cholera, like it's that level of
Speaker 8: that kind of public health crisis. You've got to get
Speaker 8: people out of a system where you can't pull sewage
Speaker 8: water out of a.
Speaker 2: System like they would somehow hack in and re route
Speaker 2: sewage water to places where it was with having that
Speaker 2: big of.
Speaker 8: An impact or just you know, slow pumps or things
Speaker 8: like that, so you weren't pumping dirty water out of
Speaker 8: a system. Yeah, precisely how it would work. Like, I'm
Speaker 8: not a wastewater expert. I'm not sure precisely how you
Speaker 8: would go in there.
Speaker 1: And do it. I also don't want you to waste
Speaker 1: water expert.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we needed to give the advice
Speaker 2: to the bad people who want to pull this off, right,
Speaker 2: that might be let's.
Speaker 1: Not give them any ideas.
Speaker 2: So a lot of people are saying, why are these
Speaker 2: things connected to the Internet at all? If they just
Speaker 2: turned off the Internet connectivity, then that nobody would be
Speaker 2: able to hack into these things and we wouldn't have
Speaker 2: the worry. Is there a reason for that to be
Speaker 2: the case?
Speaker 8: Yes, we have connected all these devices to the Internet
Speaker 8: because it's a lot more efficient if you have one
Speaker 8: person monitoring seventy sites as opposed to I don't know
Speaker 8: ten people each with seven. Right, the more you could
Speaker 8: do remote monitoring, the fewer people you need to run
Speaker 8: a system. And so over the nine these in early
Speaker 8: two thousands, we digitized everything. We just also didn't install
Speaker 8: the security procedures and security controls that we should have
Speaker 8: installed at that time, and now we're seeing the result
Speaker 8: of that. So there's a way to do remote monitoring securely.
Speaker 8: It's just you need strong passwords, you need firewalls, you
Speaker 8: know multi factor authentication, right, you want an operator to
Speaker 8: have to sort of jump through multiple hoops to make
Speaker 8: sure they're connected correctly. That not just any schmow with
Speaker 8: a computer can get there. You want the operator to
Speaker 8: have access and no one else. And the problem is
Speaker 8: we haven't installed those protections along the way.
Speaker 2: What about things Annie, like you know, your your power
Speaker 2: grid or your things as simple as like hacking into
Speaker 2: the street lights and these sorts of things. Has there
Speaker 2: been any thing like that that historically has happened that
Speaker 2: we should be worried that that could be something that
Speaker 2: these nefarious hackers could do.
Speaker 8: Sure, so the I don't know if we specific in
Speaker 8: street lights. I got to sort of wrap my brain
Speaker 8: on that one. But we are seeing a lot of
Speaker 8: attempts to compromise the electric grid. Two particular incidents come
Speaker 8: to mind.
Speaker 1: The first is.
Speaker 8: Late last year Russia compromised a number of uh what
Speaker 8: are called distributed energy resources renewable energy and things like
Speaker 8: that in Poland, and they actually were able to get
Speaker 8: into the system in such a way that they disrupted
Speaker 8: operation of those particular facilities of the generation from those technologies. Luckily,
Speaker 8: you know, it didn't crash Poland's electric grid, but it
Speaker 8: did have some significant impacts on the operation of those facilities,
Speaker 8: so sort of proven that it's possible.
Speaker 1: The other thing we've.
Speaker 8: Seen over the past couple of years is that China
Speaker 8: is at least according to the US intelligence community, pre
Speaker 8: positioning capabilities to disrupt energy generation.
Speaker 1: So what that means is.
Speaker 8: We're basically seeing hackers sitting on the network, but they're
Speaker 8: not sitting on the network in a place that would
Speaker 8: be useful from an intelligence perspective. They're sitting in a
Speaker 8: place in the network where if they wanted to flip
Speaker 8: a switch, they could cause a disruption. And so that
Speaker 8: is really concerning because we know they're there, we just
Speaker 8: don't know exactly everywhere where they are.
Speaker 2: Well, when with a story about the water plants being
Speaker 2: hacked around the United States, specifically in Minnesota, the New
Speaker 2: York Times having all these stories up, where is your
Speaker 2: internal alarm system?
Speaker 1: Are you?
Speaker 2: Are you on edge that there could be something big
Speaker 2: that happens where we go, Oh, we haven't really been
Speaker 2: worried about hackers having such a physical impact on our lives,
Speaker 2: but we are, like, do you think we're really close
Speaker 2: to that nightmare situation?
Speaker 1: I don't know for close.
Speaker 8: I really hope this is the wake up call, right,
Speaker 8: the story about China prepositioning capabilities that was like three
Speaker 8: four years ago. At this point, those of us in
Speaker 8: the cybersecurity world, we're sort of pulling our hair out,
Speaker 8: and it wasn't getting the level of sort of national
Speaker 8: attention that all of us thought needed to happen because
Speaker 8: nothing had gone boom.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 8: What's happening now is that we're actually seeing impacts. So
Speaker 8: I hope that what that means is that we start
Speaker 8: paying attention and we actually start securing these systems. So
Speaker 8: hopefully that this is you know, Canary and the coal
Speaker 8: mine cours source situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that sounds that seems like the obvious
Speaker 2: thing to me. I hope there's people listening to you.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there are. Annie Fixler from the Foundation for
Speaker 2: Defense of Democracies very smart. She knows about all things
Speaker 2: cyber technology and Iran and the cross section of all
Speaker 2: of those things brings us to a story like this.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Annie, I appreciate the time.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for having me there.
Speaker 2: She goes, and this is like, this is one of
Speaker 2: those things that people don't consider. You usually think about
Speaker 2: somebody hacking like the White House dot gov website or
Speaker 2: taking that down. These are like, if somebody hacks our
Speaker 2: sewage systems, our water systems and has an impact on
Speaker 2: an entire city, people will be freaking out. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't even want to consider that.
Speaker 2: But as she's talking about, and I think she's right
Speaker 2: to say it, you can make a place inhabitable in
Speaker 2: just a matter of you know, not not even that
Speaker 2: much time. It was pretty crazy. So there we go.
Speaker 2: She was very nice to talk to. Annie Fixler. Thank
Speaker 2: you for your time. Quick break. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we'll see what you think about all of this. We'll
Speaker 2: get to more details on that in and out situation.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite stories.
Speaker 1: Of the day.
Speaker 2: Going to lead us off. We got to figure out
Speaker 2: what happened, and I need your help to do so.
Speaker 2: That is coming up next on the news Junkie. I
Speaker 2: saw this weekend that that story was out there about
Speaker 2: the water plant. Sound was like, my guess is that
Speaker 2: this is not nearly as complicated.
Speaker 1: I kind of lied to her a little bit. I
Speaker 1: didn't hear a conversation.
Speaker 2: It was just my guess was that this was about
Speaker 2: the interconnected systems where people were trying to monitor water
Speaker 2: levels and such from far away, and then there's just
Speaker 2: people don't change the password, even when it's like a
Speaker 2: water dreaming facility. You're like, just change the password a
Speaker 2: little bit, just like put a dollar signs in your
Speaker 2: s's or something. Just something to make it harder for
Speaker 2: Iranian hackers to hack into our water supply.
Speaker 1: Please.
Speaker 3: She did low key tell me about a website I
Speaker 3: had never heard of before. Though, Well, what I.
Speaker 1: Heard her say, like the way to search things that
Speaker 1: I didn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, some to search for Internet connected devices?
Speaker 1: Are you searching Internet connected gus?
Speaker 11: Is a hack?
Speaker 1: What are you hacking right now?
Speaker 3: I haven't hacked anything yet, but I know the default password.
Speaker 1: You guys heard that, he said? Yet?
Speaker 2: Did you hear we were talking during the break sea line.
Speaker 2: Did you hear about Zach Brown band?
Speaker 1: You know them? Right? Yeah? Okay? Did you did you
Speaker 1: have this in the hot sheet or down? No?
Speaker 2: I did not, Okay Zach Brown Band played their fifteenth
Speaker 2: straight sold out concert at Fenway Park in Boston last night.
Speaker 1: Okay, no, I did he did the Oprah thing right? Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 2: So there's thirty seven thousand fans at Fenway Park and
Speaker 2: Zach Brown band guy comes out and he says, I'm
Speaker 2: buying every single person here a cruise for two people
Speaker 2: on the Margarita vill at Sea cruise ship. Every person
Speaker 2: here a cruise for two people. So thirty seven thousand
Speaker 2: people were there and they all get a plus one.
Speaker 2: So that's seventy four thousand cruise line tickets on Margarita
Speaker 2: vill at Sea. He says, every single person here gets
Speaker 2: a cruise for themselves and a loved one to go
Speaker 2: on the boat. This is the biggest giveaway in history,
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, tonight at Fenway Park. And Zach Brown
Speaker 2: was working with Margarita villet c to do this. It says,
Speaker 2: according to the band, the total cost of the gift
Speaker 2: is more than forty million dollars, all paid for by
Speaker 2: Zach Brown.
Speaker 3: No shot, right, no shot, It's one hundred percent paid
Speaker 3: for it by Zach Brown.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no shot, is Zach Brown? I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 2: he's wealthy, he's done very very well. He's got a
Speaker 2: huge fan base. A little bit chicken fried, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we all know it. Cold beer on a Friday night.
Speaker 2: We know the song. But there's no shot he paid
Speaker 2: forty million dollars for everybody plus one to be able
Speaker 2: to go on Margaritaville at see. They must have cut
Speaker 2: him some craze.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they cut him a crazy deal, or they footed
Speaker 3: part of the bill. I mean, I don't know if
Speaker 3: they said that this was like sponsored by anything, but
Speaker 3: I mean the I guess in execution of this giveaway,
Speaker 3: you would have to think that, all right, if somebody
Speaker 3: is sponsoring it, what's in it for them? Like, you know,
Speaker 3: are they putting, you know, putting their logo on the
Speaker 3: side of the cruise ship. So my only thing that
Speaker 3: I could guess would be that just the Margaritaville people
Speaker 3: cut him some insane half price or so deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah even but if it was half priced, twenty million dollars,
Speaker 2: that's a lot just for to give everybody that went
Speaker 2: to your concert or cruise. That's crazy. So I'd love
Speaker 2: to know what he really paid for them. But Zach
Speaker 2: Brown Band fifteen straight sold down a concary, a family park,
Speaker 2: and they say he paid forty million dollars for everybody
Speaker 2: plus one to go on a cruise for two aboard
Speaker 2: Marguerita Villet.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 3: If you think about it, it essentially makes the price
Speaker 3: of your cruise the half the price of your concert ticket. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so whatever you got your ticket for, as long as
Speaker 3: you got in the door, you have the ticket, you
Speaker 3: have the proof that you were there or whatever. I
Speaker 3: don't know how they're they're how they're doing that, or
Speaker 3: how they're authenticating people, or how you even claim this prize,
Speaker 3: but I do know that the cruise is probably I mean,
Speaker 3: Margaret Ritaville is on the cheaper side, but probably more
Speaker 3: than the cost of most of the tickets to that show.
Speaker 2: Maybe possibly, it depends on how long of a cruise
Speaker 2: it is, and a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: But and there's a minimum cruise man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's like a really bargain basement cruise.
Speaker 3: I'll be lucky to give him the case, you know
Speaker 3: about boat route and just like take the Marguerite at
Speaker 3: see out, you know, out to international waters and then cruise.
Speaker 2: But now just let him gamble a little bit and
Speaker 2: then come back. Yeah, it's just for the just for
Speaker 2: a couple hours. All right, let's go a three hour
Speaker 2: tour if you will. Let's go over to this clip
Speaker 2: eight point nine million views. Trump was talking about Japan
Speaker 2: on Air Force one. I hope we can hear him well,
Speaker 2: because sometimes it gets a little rickety with audio on
Speaker 2: Air Force. On Air Force one, it is I hope
Speaker 2: we can hear him, okay, number one. And he does
Speaker 2: love talking about Japan. He's a big Japan fan. But
Speaker 2: this is going pretty viral because of the way he
Speaker 2: put this here is.
Speaker 4: I'll explain, because we have a good relationship with.
Speaker 2: Japan, all right, She said, why is the US intervening
Speaker 2: to support Japan? The United States apparently is buying a
Speaker 2: bunch of Japanese currency to booy their currency on international
Speaker 2: markets and help them. And so Trump's been asked, why
Speaker 2: are we doing this? Why are we buying Japanese currency
Speaker 2: to support it.
Speaker 4: We're very strong, very very strong financially that they are
Speaker 4: if they have a weekending in and they wanted a
Speaker 4: little bit of help, and we're always there for Japan.
Speaker 4: Japan's been very good to us, with the exception of course,
Speaker 4: of Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 1: They were not good.
Speaker 2: Japan has been very good to us, with the exception
Speaker 2: of course of Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not that part was not good.
Speaker 2: Just to clarify, although I would argue that was that
Speaker 2: was a while ago.
Speaker 1: That was a while ago.
Speaker 2: And I would also say Trump, where you say, like,
Speaker 2: Japan's been very good to the United States with the
Speaker 2: exception of Pearl Harbor, I would argue that they do have.
Speaker 2: They do have a pretty good claim for US not
Speaker 2: being fantastic to them in the direct aftermath of Pearl Harbor. Yes,
Speaker 2: the Japanese could say, hey, we've you know, we've forgiven
Speaker 2: you for the old atomic bombs you dropped on us,
Speaker 2: so you could you can maybe get over the Pearl
Speaker 2: Harbor thing if you don't mind. That's what he's saying
Speaker 2: there on Air Force one. This doesn't count as back
Speaker 2: on a plane, does it? I don't think so. They're
Speaker 2: back on a plane before we do that, though, Is
Speaker 2: this Is that it for that clip? Because I thought
Speaker 2: there was one more thing.
Speaker 1: That that he says.
Speaker 4: Always it for ja Ben spend very good to us,
Speaker 4: with the exception of course at Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 1: Of course they were not good.
Speaker 4: But he was getting out of that financial benefit, financial benefit.
Speaker 1: We also it's also good for the world economy.
Speaker 4: But we make like when we did with Argentina, I
Speaker 4: got criticized, we made twenty five and what.
Speaker 1: Else do you say?
Speaker 3: And one of these clips, he asked the reporter where
Speaker 3: they from, where they're from, and then he they said ABC,
Speaker 3: and he says BBC and she says no ABC. He goes, oh, no,
Speaker 3: that's even worse, like the BBC better or something like that.
Speaker 3: Does he know that?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Right here? Okay, this is this is the clips Land's
Speaker 1: talking about.
Speaker 4: Let's say everybody wants held me from our country.
Speaker 1: The BBC means BBC, BBC, Oh.
Speaker 4: ABC, that's worth I like BBC better than ABCS.
Speaker 1: He doesn't know. He doesn't know what BBC means.
Speaker 2: I don't think somebody talentim Please, good god, mister president.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know what you just said.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna get meaned to do oblivion. Okay, Uh,
Speaker 2: let's see. I want to get to a couple year dispatches,
Speaker 2: but I'm hesitant and ahead of them. I'll very quickly
Speaker 2: tell you a story about a woman who's in trouble.
Speaker 2: And this woman had a wedding that was scheduled, all right,
Speaker 2: And they're trying to figure out why this woman did this.
Speaker 2: But I I have some questions myself. So she was
Speaker 2: at a church, Church of Jesus Christ in Latter day
Speaker 2: Saints in Caysville. So oh Mormon, Yeah, Mormon church. And
Speaker 2: here's here's the headline. This is a true story, right,
Speaker 2: this is real. It's from the Salt Lake Tribune. It
Speaker 2: says she was set to get married. The night before
Speaker 2: her wedding, she used the tampon to set fire to
Speaker 2: the Utah church where she was going to get married.
Speaker 2: Police say, and the story about this lady is crazy.
Speaker 2: A woman was arrested and accused of setting fire to
Speaker 2: a meeting house at the Church of Jesus Christ the
Speaker 2: Latter day Saints in Kaysville.
Speaker 1: The hell of a way to let people know you
Speaker 1: got cold feet, it is, police said.
Speaker 2: The twenty five year old stole a lighter and used
Speaker 2: a tampon to start a fire under a chair inside
Speaker 2: the venue. The night before she was going to be
Speaker 2: married in the church. The woman from Wyoming was decorating
Speaker 2: the church with the groom and other family members.
Speaker 1: That evening.
Speaker 2: The group was getting ready to leave for the night,
Speaker 2: and then the fire alarm went off. The group searched
Speaker 2: for flames and found a fire burning in the Women's
Speaker 2: Relief Society room, where somebody used water from some of
Speaker 2: the wedding decorations to help put it out. Another person
Speaker 2: used a fire extinguisher. During the investigation, they said the
Speaker 2: fire appeared to have been started under a chair that
Speaker 2: was stacked against other chairs along the wall. Under one
Speaker 2: of the chairs, there were some items out of the ordinary,
Speaker 2: including what appeared to be a tampon with the active
Speaker 2: applicator on the floor. The groom told police that he
Speaker 2: and the bride to bee had gone to an Ace
Speaker 2: hardware store earlier that day. They go to the Ace
Speaker 2: Hardware they look at the camera footage and they see
Speaker 2: his wife to be stealing two lighters and hiding them
Speaker 2: in her shoes, and she takes the lighters that she
Speaker 2: stole and she goes to the church and she tries
Speaker 2: to set the church on fire. That she's going to
Speaker 2: be married at the next head. When the bride spoke
Speaker 2: with the cops, the officer wrote that she provided a
Speaker 2: different first and last name than her legal name, in
Speaker 2: a different birthday than the day on her Wyoming issued license.
Speaker 2: In an interview on Monday, she acknowledged stealing from the
Speaker 2: hardware store, but wouldn't say what she took. She was
Speaker 2: asked about the lighter, she said she does not carry
Speaker 2: a lighter, does not smoke, nor would she need one.
Speaker 2: She was arrested today on suspicion of aggravated arson, being
Speaker 2: held without bail in the local jail. The officer who
Speaker 2: documented her arrest noted there were five others in the
Speaker 2: building when the fire took place. He said she was
Speaker 2: deceptive and continually took drastic steps to hide her lies.
Speaker 2: The bride, by the way, had not obtained a marriage
Speaker 2: license for her own wedding that was to occur the
Speaker 2: next day, but she lied to everybody saying that she had.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you'd think that the groom would have known that. Now,
Speaker 3: I don't know if this is the same everywhere, or
Speaker 3: maybe she didn't tell the groom about this. But I
Speaker 3: had to be there to obtain my wedding license, marriage license.
Speaker 3: I think I even had to go back the second
Speaker 3: time because we lost the first one, so we had
Speaker 3: to go back and get it replaced.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so.
Speaker 3: The groom she have known something was off if he
Speaker 3: hadn't also had not taken part in obtaining any marriage license.
Speaker 3: You want to talk about red flags? Run, Okay, run.
Speaker 2: This is the exact type of Casey Anthony type person
Speaker 2: that you need to run from as fast as you can.
Speaker 2: This is BPD on display, borderline personality disorder.
Speaker 1: Run.
Speaker 3: But I mean, is that even a problem. She obviously
Speaker 3: doesn't want to be married to you. She tried to
Speaker 3: burn the church down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she did.
Speaker 2: She try to burn the church down to hide the
Speaker 2: fact that she didn't get the marriage license that she.
Speaker 1: Lied about why. I don't know, it's crazy.
Speaker 3: I just think it's clear she doesn't want to be
Speaker 3: married to you, and she's willing to go through some
Speaker 3: extreme lengths. So I don't see it being a very
Speaker 3: difficult process to go, Hey, we're done here, sayonara, good luck.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That doesn't end the gate engagement, though it sure should.
Speaker 2: Somebody calls it a menstrual molotov. This is true, that's true.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Rate my blank for this week.
Speaker 2: Your distraction, if you'll play along, is to give us
Speaker 2: your best dad joke. We got to try not to
Speaker 2: laugh at all. We have not really laughed very much
Speaker 2: through the ones that we've received, but there are a
Speaker 2: ton of them, so we're going to work them in
Speaker 2: and the rest of the show here. We'll get some
Speaker 2: of those on right before we do Jury Duty, which
Speaker 2: has details of the in and out situation, and update
Speaker 2: on the THC Drinks. An update on that that is
Speaker 2: twofold if you're interested in following that story. I got
Speaker 2: some new bombshell information and an email coming in that's
Speaker 2: coming up next on the News Junkie, we'll get to
Speaker 2: your rate my blank dad joke.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if any of these are going
Speaker 1: to work. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know how this is going to go this week,
Speaker 2: but we're going to see how it goes as we
Speaker 2: roll along here a bit on the show. Maybe one
Speaker 2: of them will work and make us laugh and then
Speaker 2: that one's the winner. I have no clue. I don't know,
Speaker 2: but I know so far they have been duds. And
Speaker 2: if Sea Lane again can guess your punchline before you
Speaker 2: get to it, then you are not going to be
Speaker 2: up for the product. How Chef's Kiss? Was it that
Speaker 2: the promo that I was calling that guy out for
Speaker 2: actually aired later on in Today's I heard that, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think we might get more of those if if
Speaker 2: there's any other promos that they can steal from, they'll
Speaker 2: probably do that.
Speaker 1: And some of these are so bad, so bad, one
Speaker 1: of the junkies. How you doing today? So here's your
Speaker 1: dad joke for you? Why was six mad at seven?
Speaker 4: See?
Speaker 2: Immediately a disqualified sea Lane new at the punchline was
Speaker 2: going to be here?
Speaker 3: This is why six was afraid of seven? Seven, eight nine? Yeah,
Speaker 3: here's muff mouth. Oh what's going down, junkies? So I
Speaker 3: asked my dad if he could explain to me what
Speaker 3: a solar eclipse was, and he said, no, son.
Speaker 1: Okay, here's Finn Fann. What up, news, junkie, you got
Speaker 1: one for you. These two blondes walked into a bar.
Speaker 1: You would have thought they'd seen it. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: we're just taking these in. We're taking these in. Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: What I was?
Speaker 3: I was afraid because you know, two blondes is a
Speaker 3: good start. It's ah, it might be a good one.
Speaker 1: One more. Here's Rusty. Now.
Speaker 7: I don't know if I'm smitting his dad joke right,
Speaker 7: but here it goes first dispatch you ever?
Speaker 2: Also, jesus, Wow, I've told my doctor I broke my
Speaker 2: arm in two places.
Speaker 11: He told me to stop going to those places.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, not new, not particularly great, not gonna
Speaker 2: make it into the finals.
Speaker 3: The dad trope of you know it hurts when I
Speaker 3: do this, well, then don't do that. We gotta get better.
Speaker 2: We got to raise the bar here all right, I
Speaker 2: want you to raise the bar in the final hour
Speaker 2: of the show.
Speaker 1: Right now, let's do Jury duty.
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Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 2: One of the things I saw was they ended up
Speaker 2: releasing the guy and dropping the criminal charges against the
Speaker 2: former Olympian David Hearn, who they the federal government and
Speaker 2: the Trump administration accused of deliberately damaging the reflecting pool.
Speaker 2: The Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool after it underwent a renovation.
Speaker 2: They're like, this guy did it, and they arrested him.
Speaker 2: And here's the craziest thing. Let me bring this up
Speaker 2: so those on the stream can conceive. Here's the government's
Speaker 2: motion to dismiss the charges against this guy. This dude
Speaker 2: should sue, should sue. You'll see why.
Speaker 1: In a second.
Speaker 2: The United States of America buy and through its attorney,
Speaker 2: the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, respectfully
Speaker 2: moves to dismiss the indictment in this case. This is
Speaker 2: the person they said destroyed the reflecting pool for the
Speaker 2: reasons set forth here in this case should be dismissed
Speaker 2: without prejudice pursuant to Rule forty eight of the Superior
Speaker 2: Court Rules of Criminal Procedure. The United States submits as follows.
Speaker 2: This is the US government. Based on the initial reports
Speaker 2: provided by the Department of the Interior and the US
Speaker 2: Park Police, The United States Attorney's Office for the District
Speaker 2: of Columbia presented the gretury with evidence that damage to
Speaker 2: the reflecting pool was caused by vandals, including the defendant
Speaker 2: in this case, David Hearn. That's where we were we
Speaker 2: knew that some there's like a dumb drama going on
Speaker 2: about the reflecting pool, and now are they cutting it?
Speaker 1: What's happening? Are we.
Speaker 2: And they're like walked along with a razor and they're
Speaker 2: blaming it on people. And then this is what they
Speaker 2: say in the court case when they asked to drop
Speaker 2: the charges against this Olympian gud. However, it was not
Speaker 2: until after the return of the indictment that the Department
Speaker 2: of Interior provided additional documents indicating that the damage to
Speaker 2: the Lincoln Memorial reflecting Pool in June twenty twenty six
Speaker 2: was the result of flawed installation by the contractor, Atlantic
Speaker 2: Industrial Codings and the rush to complete the project prior
Speaker 2: to the events associated with the America two fifty celebration
Speaker 2: in the week surrounding Independence Day twenty twenty six. It
Speaker 2: was not until after these documents were produced that USAODC
Speaker 2: first became a aware of the information showing the damage
Speaker 2: was a result of a botched installation and not vandalism
Speaker 2: as initially represented by the Department of Interior. So flat
Speaker 2: out they're saying, like we arrested people, We got grand
Speaker 2: jury indictments for people, we were talking about how these
Speaker 2: people had been arrested. And actually the whole time the
Speaker 2: contractor who was doing the reflecting pool was lying to
Speaker 2: us and they botched the installation. Nobody actually cut it up,
Speaker 2: Nobody destroyed it. This guy that they charged with it
Speaker 2: didn't do anything.
Speaker 1: I don't think nobody.
Speaker 3: I don't think we ever thought that he cut it up.
Speaker 3: They said he cut it up. They said, I don't
Speaker 3: think I never thought he cut it up.
Speaker 2: If I was an attorney that could take on a
Speaker 2: case of this size, I would think they had a
Speaker 2: pretty good case here. They just arrested this dude and
Speaker 2: charged him with cutting up the reflecting pool, and then
Speaker 2: they I said, afterwards, whoopsie. Actually it was the people
Speaker 2: who were charging us millions and millions of dollars as
Speaker 2: taxpayers to do this work on the reflecting pool, and
Speaker 2: it wasn't actually the guy we arrested.
Speaker 1: Not a day for Atlantic Industrial Coding or whatever.
Speaker 2: AI see, yeah, a, I see, having a bad day
Speaker 2: on the Nancy Guthrie front. They finally released the two
Speaker 2: ransom notes in this case. Here they are, I'm going
Speaker 2: to read them to you. The first ransom note that
Speaker 2: came in was to kold News. This came in from
Speaker 2: the news tip form on their website. The first message
Speaker 2: from the kidnappers of Nancy Guthrie said, Hello, Savannah, we
Speaker 2: have your mother Nancy. She's safe but scared. She will
Speaker 2: be held for ransom and once payment is received she'll
Speaker 2: be released unharmed. We will be holding her for a
Speaker 2: maximum of seven days. You will need to send bitcoin
Speaker 2: in the amount of four million usd before five pm
Speaker 2: on Thursday the fifth. If payment is not received, the
Speaker 2: ransom will be increased to six million US dollars, which
Speaker 2: will need to be paid by five pm on Monday
Speaker 2: the ninth. Once payment is recive the bitcoin address below,
Speaker 2: she'll be released within twelve hours of deposit to a
Speaker 2: safe drop off location in Tucson, Arizona. If payment is
Speaker 2: not received by the last deadline on Monday the night
Speaker 2: at five pm, she will be killed. Your mother is
Speaker 2: aware of this and her life is in your hands.
Speaker 2: It isn't the best interest of everyone to have this
Speaker 2: completed as soon as possible. You will not be able
Speaker 2: to contact me from here on out. There will be
Speaker 2: no negotiation. Do not play games. Law enforcement will not
Speaker 2: be able to help you. Then they block out some
Speaker 2: of the identification and then the bitcoin address, and they
Speaker 2: said the person left this message she had a white
Speaker 2: smart watch on the floor of the foot of her
Speaker 2: bed and a white floodlight in the backyard was destroyed.
Speaker 2: So that was supposed to be the information that proved Hey,
Speaker 2: these people must have known. That was on February second.
Speaker 3: Is there any way anybody would have known about the
Speaker 3: smart watch on the floor, I don't know, or the
Speaker 3: flood light.
Speaker 1: I don't know, mate.
Speaker 2: Possibly that was on February second. On February sixth, after
Speaker 2: the first deadline, they sent another message and it said,
Speaker 2: Guthrie family, we did not fully grasp the seriousness of
Speaker 2: her physical condition. We they're using we here a lot.
Speaker 2: We never intended to hurt her talking about Nancy Guthrie.
Speaker 2: That was not our intention. She perished shortly after she
Speaker 2: was taken. We believe it was heart related. She is
Speaker 2: buried in nature.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Nothing you could have done could have changed the outcome.
Speaker 2: We want your family to know this and hope you
Speaker 2: can all find peace. We are truly sorry. So that
Speaker 2: was the second message. The rest of them to TMZ
Speaker 2: were all fake nonsense. They knew it the whole time,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I mean the second one's kind of interesting putting.
Speaker 2: We never intended to hurt her, that was not our intention.
Speaker 2: The first message you sent said you would kill her
Speaker 2: if you didn't get the millions of dollars, So there
Speaker 2: was definitely an intent to possibly hurt her at some
Speaker 2: point in time. But they finally released those and the
Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal this weekend, as I mentioned, had an
Speaker 2: article about how bad this dopey ass sheriff completely botched
Speaker 2: this case. Just an absolute dereliction of dirt duty on
Speaker 2: this guy's part.
Speaker 1: This stupid sheriff what's his name? Sheriff? Oh god, what's
Speaker 1: his name?
Speaker 2: Oh let's see say, well find that real quick. I
Speaker 2: know we're late for break, but that sheriff sheriff duty.
Speaker 2: This this guy out there who was involved in this
Speaker 2: whole case with the Savannah Gouverner and anteguthri thing.
Speaker 1: Sheriff Nanos.
Speaker 2: What a catastrophe, What a joke, What a joke this
Speaker 2: guy was, Chris Nanos, absolutely an embarrassment to law enforcement,
Speaker 2: that guy, and the Wall Street Journal lays out all
Speaker 2: of the things that they missed in their little po
Speaker 2: dunk investigation. All right, quick break, when we come back
Speaker 2: we kick off The Power Hour. I'll give you that
Speaker 2: update in the Power Hour about the THHC drink band
Speaker 2: and a whole lot more, including a pick aside before
Speaker 2: we wrap it up today The Power Hour. It's coming
Speaker 2: up next on the News Junkie. Got an interesting piece
Speaker 2: of news for you about the show tomorrow. In the meantime,
Speaker 2: Mike emails Tips at the News Junkie dot com. Mike says,
Speaker 2: I'm down here in West Palm Beach. Hey, Mike, Hey,
Speaker 2: folks down here in West Palm. I can tell you
Speaker 2: over the last few weeks out west, the water has
Speaker 2: so much chlorine in it. You guys were talking about
Speaker 2: the water supply possibly being hacked with the expert lady.
Speaker 2: It smells like pool water here. It's eased up over
Speaker 2: the last week, but it makes me wonder what's in
Speaker 2: the lines that needs that much disinfecting to get the
Speaker 2: call OFFORM numbers at acceptable levels, says Mike.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the email, Mike, appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Somebody else says, have you seen the video of this
Speaker 2: woman who has kicked off a flight for preaching?
Speaker 1: We told you this was happening out there.
Speaker 3: This woman seems obnoxious, though I've seen this video, and yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean we talked about the preaching on the plane
Speaker 3: and whether or not that was going to happen, or
Speaker 3: that being a captive audience even more so than a
Speaker 3: subway car, because subway cars stop a lot more frequently
Speaker 3: than planes. Yeah, but yeah, this They had this woman.
Speaker 3: I think one of one of her videos was in Orlando,
Speaker 3: because I think they might have kicked her out in Orlando.
Speaker 3: And but some of the comments were like, yeah, she's
Speaker 3: preaching it all, but she's also very attention seeking, control
Speaker 3: trolling a lot of her videos. I only saw the
Speaker 3: one that was going viral. Now should I play this? Yeah,
Speaker 3: let me see here. Here's the video he sent over.
Speaker 2: This is one of them from this woman who got
Speaker 2: kicked off the fight for preaching. I told you this
Speaker 2: was a spreading thing and a bunch of people go,
Speaker 2: there's no better place with a captive audience than on
Speaker 2: a plane.
Speaker 1: And people started to stand up and preach.
Speaker 2: Their their word of their God, their gospel, you know
Speaker 2: whatever on these flights. And I said, this is quite obnoxious.
Speaker 2: People don't like that type of stuff. Here's somebody trying
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 1: Here's whitness Boddy Good morning. I know we're all waiting.
Speaker 6: It's kind of frustrating right this weight, but I want
Speaker 6: to tell you that God's timing is perfect and God
Speaker 6: knows everything, and maybe he's sparing us from danger today.
Speaker 1: So I want you to rest and know.
Speaker 6: That Jesus Christ loves you so much that he died
Speaker 6: on the cross for your sins. He rose again in
Speaker 6: three days. He's alive and he's the one true God.
Speaker 6: But the wages of our sin is death, hell forever.
Speaker 6: Apart from Jesus, we won't make it to heaven.
Speaker 1: But when she says hell forever, it's unlike she's pro
Speaker 1: hell just for a second there, like hell forever. This
Speaker 1: is obnoxious.
Speaker 13: Man.
Speaker 2: I don't care what your religion is, and I think
Speaker 2: the same people who might support this on some level,
Speaker 2: if some Islamic dude gets up, some scholar, Islamic scholar
Speaker 2: wants to spread the word of Mohammed and he starts
Speaker 2: preaching to the planet, be whoa captain, terrorists sit down
Speaker 2: over there, that I don't want this, not because it's religion,
Speaker 2: because it's annoying.
Speaker 11: Lord, repent of your sins.
Speaker 1: Told her shut up, coming back very soon.
Speaker 6: I pray protection over this flight in the name of Jesus. Amen, Amen,
Speaker 6: bless you guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the crowd goes wild. Yeah, yeah, Amen, Hello there
Speaker 1: she is. Hello everybody.
Speaker 2: She said you got kicked off of Alaska Air for this.
Speaker 2: There was one more video right here.
Speaker 7: Supply surprise a story as long as it flies.
Speaker 1: Wild insane energy. But I guess we're back on a lame.
Speaker 1: I'm such an idiot that I believe you're still fall
Speaker 1: for this. It's like, oh, cool, he's got the audio
Speaker 1: of the people on the plane list.
Speaker 3: I even thought that do you sounded a little sarcastic, like, oh,
Speaker 3: that goes the song I've meant it.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, here's the second video.
Speaker 11: You can't just tell me to get my stuff and
Speaker 11: then not tell me what's going on.
Speaker 1: Okay, so full of me?
Speaker 12: Stuff is full of me.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're still not telling me, still not telling me.
Speaker 1: They don't feel safe.
Speaker 11: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: I didn't know the message of Jesus Christ was unsafe.
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 5: Do I do I have any Uh?
Speaker 11: Do I have any guns or anything like that?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 11: I don't, So so freedom of speech is not safe.
Speaker 6: So if I said something else, would that be okay?
Speaker 12: I'll tell you what this is.
Speaker 11: It's called spiritual warfare.
Speaker 2: You know why I love this kind of victimization nonsense,
Speaker 2: I absolutely love this stuff. You're like, I thought we
Speaker 2: had freedom of speed, and you go, yeah, does it
Speaker 2: occur to you that freedom of speech doesn't allow you
Speaker 2: to say whatever you want to the captive audience on
Speaker 2: a plane stuck on the tarmac, that maybe those people
Speaker 2: are going to operate under the rules and regulations of
Speaker 2: what the aircraft and airline are suggesting is the right
Speaker 2: thing to do at that time, and that the whole
Speaker 2: world doesn't revolve around you.
Speaker 1: Have you ever considered that freedom of speech?
Speaker 2: Okay, freedom of speech next time you really want to
Speaker 2: exercise your freedom of speech. And I'm the biggest free
Speaker 2: speech person you'll ever meet in your life. But I'm
Speaker 2: actually a free speech person. But freedom and diversity of
Speaker 2: opinions right without punishment in so many cases.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't mean that you could do stuff like this.
Speaker 2: You can't go to somebody's funeral that you don't know
Speaker 2: and walk up to the microphone and be like, I
Speaker 2: don't know this guy, but I bet he sucked. I'm
Speaker 2: just here to drop some bombs on you. At his
Speaker 2: funeral is a total and complete stranger. That's not how
Speaker 2: it works. That's not what freedom of speech is about.
Speaker 2: To begin with spiritual warfare shown, spiritual war warfare.
Speaker 11: With that he because demons don't like the name of Jesus. Yeah,
Speaker 11: but it's not unsafe to talk about the gospel.
Speaker 1: I didn't know.
Speaker 11: Is that a crime? Is it against the law?
Speaker 1: Can you tell me that? Is it?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: God, can you tell us?
Speaker 3: She's also like, she sounds like somebody who's I uh
Speaker 3: like kind of having an interaction with the police, Like
Speaker 3: what am I being charged with?
Speaker 1: It's like, Hey, that's not how this works. Are you
Speaker 1: detaining me? We told you to get off the plane.
Speaker 3: You get off the plane. That's how this works. This
Speaker 3: is not We're not policemen. We are the We are
Speaker 3: the people that are in charge of this aircraft. It's
Speaker 3: time for you to get your ass off. Well, we'll
Speaker 3: let this be a pick aside for you folks as well.
Speaker 3: What do you think the lady on the plane free speech?
Speaker 3: She should be able to say what she wants, including
Speaker 3: talking about her God and spreading the word of her
Speaker 3: God to the other passengers on the plane. Or no,
Speaker 3: I don't have to be subjected to this. I'm stuck
Speaker 3: in this plane right now, and this is an absolute disaster.
Speaker 3: Consider that, while we do the Power Hour.
Speaker 1: They said it couldn't be done. Then they said, Holy
Speaker 1: if I want, I'm so had. My wife's gonna be
Speaker 1: better now the time for the Power Hour on the news.
Speaker 2: Relations I mean, look, at least things are looking up
Speaker 2: this week. Yeah, I thought I thought that things would
Speaker 2: be set for failure when you said we shouldn't open
Speaker 2: with a clip we opened up with today. Oh, but
Speaker 2: you know, at least this is good. This is good
Speaker 2: news in some way. All Right, here we go, let's
Speaker 2: get to this pick aside for you. In fact, I
Speaker 2: even have the intro clip. Let's pick aside.
Speaker 1: This woman is.
Speaker 2: Blaming the public transportation folks for not being accommodating.
Speaker 1: She's in a wheelchair.
Speaker 2: Get ready for the weirdest twist in a pick a
Speaker 2: side video that we've ever had, says, this woman is
Speaker 2: in her wheelchair. She's upset that she can't get onto
Speaker 2: public transportation. Here we go, seeling, let's.
Speaker 13: Lift down rip.
Speaker 12: Here's what happens if you're a wheelchair user and the
Speaker 12: lift breaks of the train station okay.
Speaker 2: So she's arrived in Piccadilly, Manchester. So she's in the
Speaker 2: UK and she's at this area where she's trying to
Speaker 2: get on the underground or whatever the train, and when
Speaker 2: she gets up to the stairs, she's like, how am
Speaker 2: I supposed to get up here in my wheelchair?
Speaker 1: And she thinks that this is not handicap accessible and
Speaker 1: ches to Piccadilly.
Speaker 12: And when I arrived, the lift was broken and I
Speaker 12: had my chair and attachment. I spoke to the staff
Speaker 12: and they brought down a stair lift.
Speaker 5: It works.
Speaker 12: The first option was the built in stairlift, but this
Speaker 12: actually didn't work. They figured out that it was broken.
Speaker 2: So that was two options completely down, all right, So
Speaker 2: the elevator isn't working for the wheelchair lady. Then they
Speaker 2: had some sort of stairlift and that also is not working,
Speaker 2: and there's two flights of stairs in front of her
Speaker 2: and she can't get her wheelchair up there, and she's Matt.
Speaker 3: I don't think I knew they had portable stairlifts that
Speaker 3: you could just kind of walk around with and just
Speaker 3: clamp one on and go here you go.
Speaker 2: I didn't either like the ones in the commercials or
Speaker 2: the old lady goes up the ye the side of
Speaker 2: the stairs, so she wants to get up there.
Speaker 1: She says, I'm in a wheelchair. You should accommodate for this.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna have to choose whether we think the
Speaker 2: woman in the wheelchair is wrong or whether we think
Speaker 2: the people running this train station are wrong.
Speaker 1: Let's keep going.
Speaker 12: The condoption was a small portable stairlift which didn't look
Speaker 12: as sturdy, and I was quite scared of it. Not
Speaker 12: gonna lie when they wrote it down anyway, And when
Speaker 12: we got to the bottom, we realized that my chair
Speaker 12: wouldn't fit onto it. I have quite a long wheelbase
Speaker 12: with my attachments, so we couldn't do it. We'd just
Speaker 12: gotten off a flight, too, so I couldn't even detach
Speaker 12: my attachment because how the stairlifts.
Speaker 2: Were Okay, the stairlift goes up and you're supposed to
Speaker 2: put your wheel chair on it, and it like crawls
Speaker 2: up like a robot.
Speaker 1: Almost looks like one of those pool robots.
Speaker 2: Like a little tank. It's got those like tank wheels.
Speaker 2: But it wasn't big enough for hers, so she couldn't
Speaker 2: get up the elevator. She couldn't get up the portable lift.
Speaker 2: She couldn't get up the stair lift. She's mad at
Speaker 2: this place.
Speaker 1: So what does she do? Well, she says enough's enough,
Speaker 1: and she gets out of her wheelchair and walks up
Speaker 1: the stairs taped together.
Speaker 12: And we didn't have scissors. So in the end, because
Speaker 12: I'm ambulatory and I did have a bit of energy
Speaker 12: on this day, I offered to walk up the stairs
Speaker 12: while they carried up my setup. The staff were really
Speaker 12: helpful in this case, but I'm not sure how it
Speaker 12: would have been fixed if I couldn't walk up the stairs.
Speaker 12: Travel is really unpredictable anyway, but if you add in
Speaker 12: being a wheelchair user, you never quite know what's going
Speaker 12: to happen or how to get to your destination.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, well we'll stop right here. Let's stop and
Speaker 1: consider what just happened.
Speaker 2: We've witnessed a miracle, ladies and gentlemen, after a blot
Speaker 2: twist is correct, feral kitten on twitch, we have witnessed
Speaker 2: a miracle. After demanding every possible way up this flight
Speaker 2: of stairs, she goes, well, enough, sit up, I'll just
Speaker 2: get up and I'll walk up the flight of stairs.
Speaker 2: And she walks up the flight of stairs to the
Speaker 2: top stairs. And you might be saying, well, yes, Sean,
Speaker 2: there are people in wheelchairs that sometimes have to get
Speaker 2: up in emergencies and walk.
Speaker 1: Don't you know about that? May I submit to you
Speaker 1: a video of this woman doing her part time hobby.
Speaker 1: Here she is. She also likes to do gymnastics. I
Speaker 1: guess this is her here.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, boy, she's stretching and bending in ways I
Speaker 2: wouldn't think you could do in a wheelchair.
Speaker 11: To doing.
Speaker 2: She's on what is this called the balance spar beam.
Speaker 2: She's on the balance beam in the gym. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: this woman is now able to get up on the
Speaker 2: balance beam.
Speaker 1: I mean she's fit. There's nothing about her that doesn't work.
Speaker 1: Or the same girl.
Speaker 2: This is the same woman, Okay. The woman claims after
Speaker 2: all of this that she's part of a group called
Speaker 2: ambulatory wheelchair users. And I guess these are people here
Speaker 2: here some other people in this community. Are they all women?
Speaker 2: A lot of them appear to be one. They're all
Speaker 2: in wheelchairs in this video. They're all at the airport,
Speaker 2: I believe, and look look up real quick, see like
Speaker 2: ambulatory wheelchair users. I guess these are people who just
Speaker 2: kind of use them and they can't tell you why.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Inmbulatory wheelchair users, this is some community. It's somebody who
Speaker 2: can walk or stand to some degree, but use a
Speaker 2: wheelchair to manage chronic pain, conserve energy, or stay safe.
Speaker 1: To stay safe, you use a wheelchair. What like you're walking?
Speaker 2: They use wheelchairs even though they can walk. It says
Speaker 2: common misconceptions that they're fake it. You know what, if
Speaker 2: you can do this, if you can get into a
Speaker 2: gym and do acrobatics and get on the balance beam
Speaker 2: and bend over like a reverse crab, I'm going to
Speaker 2: say you're faking it all right. I'm gonna say you're
Speaker 2: stolen valoring your way into a wheelchair. That was twist
Speaker 2: I did not expect in this scenario, but there she is.
Speaker 2: So what side do you pick? The lady in the
Speaker 2: wheelchair who ended up walking up the stairs or the
Speaker 2: train station that didn't have things to get somebody up
Speaker 2: the stairs to begin with.
Speaker 1: It's on you. You pick a side. Let us know
Speaker 1: what you think with your comments on this.
Speaker 3: I kind of side with the poor guys who had
Speaker 3: to double team that wheelchair to get it up the stairs.
Speaker 1: Walk.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine these guys who pick up her wheelchair
Speaker 2: and then they go, Okay, we're gonna carry you up,
Speaker 2: but she goes, no, no, no, I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'll just walk to the top of the stairs. I'll
Speaker 1: just wait what oh yeah.
Speaker 2: All I think about is people who are actually disabled
Speaker 2: in wheelchairs watching this. Friend of mine is in a wheelchair,
Speaker 2: has been since he was twenty years old, nineteen or
Speaker 2: twenty years old. I can imagine him watching this and
Speaker 2: going like, oh god, I don't think you can grasp
Speaker 2: the amount of anger I have for a person who's
Speaker 2: doing stolen valor in a wheelchair, for a person who's
Speaker 2: like mentally bent themselves around so much that they think
Speaker 2: they're like disabled and need to wheel around and want
Speaker 2: the attention or whatever.
Speaker 1: Very very very weird.
Speaker 2: And I imagine people who are actually disabled have particular
Speaker 2: thoughts about this. But let us know what you think.
Speaker 2: There you go, there's your pick aside for today's The
Speaker 2: evidence against her doesn't look great in the moment, but
Speaker 2: we'll see what you have to say. All right, quick
Speaker 2: break when we come back. We have so much to
Speaker 2: work in and not a lot of time. People were
Speaker 2: asking about the RFK clip I've got it. We can
Speaker 2: play that RFK yelling at some people on CNN. There's
Speaker 2: a lot happening in the WNBA world, so we can
Speaker 2: try to work that in. There's this mom who got
Speaker 2: a DUI who's going megaviral, and we'll try to work
Speaker 2: in all of that. I don't know if it's all
Speaker 2: going to fit in, but we'll do our best and
Speaker 2: we'll see how that goes. It's all coming up next.
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Speaker 2: a couple of things we haven't gotten to. Let's see,
Speaker 2: I wanted to work in We did enough of this front.
Speaker 2: I want to work in some stuff about the in
Speaker 2: and Out shooting. There was a lot of coverage of
Speaker 2: this over the weekend. Here's some of the footage. I
Speaker 2: don't know if they curse in this. I'm gonna mute this,
Speaker 2: but I'll explain it to everybody. This is right outside
Speaker 2: the in and out and the shooter was on the move.
Speaker 2: And the person that popped up was just some guy,
Speaker 2: like a cowboy hat wearing guy who's a good guy
Speaker 2: with a gun, who popped up to stop this shooting
Speaker 2: that was underway at a Chick fil a location. He
Speaker 2: got into a gunfight with the guy with a semi
Speaker 2: automatic weapon. He popped out. It looks like this might
Speaker 2: be his vehicle right here, because his trunk is open.
Speaker 2: You see the trunk is open on the vehicle for
Speaker 2: those of you watching a YouTube dot com slash the
Speaker 2: news junk. He pops his trunk open and then he
Speaker 2: gets into a bona fide shootout with the guy trying
Speaker 2: to shoot up the Chick fil A at the moment.
Speaker 2: Then there was an officer as well that got into
Speaker 2: it with this shooter, and they were able to seemingly
Speaker 2: stop this from being even worse than it was. Uh,
Speaker 2: here's here's outside this from inside somebody's vehicle. I think
Speaker 2: this is where you actually see the shooter walking around
Speaker 2: right there outside the in and out. This is in
Speaker 2: Twin Falls, Idaho, where this happened. The person was not
Speaker 2: apprehended alive. They turned their own gun on themselves. Oh
Speaker 2: it's good thing you kept this muted. You can see
Speaker 2: the Yeah. I figured that we're your questions going by,
Speaker 2: so that the video the white car with the trunk
Speaker 2: up might have been the actual original shooters, and the
Speaker 2: person came from around the way to confront them and
Speaker 2: successfully distracted them. There is I think I got the
Speaker 2: police talking about this in a press conference. Here they are.
Speaker 2: He's twenty four years old. The shooter's name is Chad Williams.
Speaker 1: Being reviewed by the Jerome Police Department.
Speaker 7: More information about that incident will be forthcoming in the
Speaker 7: days to follow. At this time, we can confirm that
Speaker 7: the suspect, twenty four year old Chad Williams, is deceased
Speaker 7: on the self inflicted gunshot round investigators are continuing to
Speaker 7: review the incident, timeline, process evidence, and conduct interviews.
Speaker 2: So he was twenty four and there's not a huge
Speaker 2: database of information about him online.
Speaker 1: He didn't have a really big imprint on social media.
Speaker 2: The Twin Falls In and Out looking at where this
Speaker 2: was on the map, here looks like I said, right
Speaker 2: by the mountains, I think wherever they are here in
Speaker 2: Twin Falls, Idaho. And it was just this In and
Speaker 2: Out burger that I think was a relatively new location.
Speaker 2: One of the employees was indeed killed. I think I
Speaker 2: have a statement from In and Out here. It is
Speaker 2: In and Out said a tragic shooting at a newly
Speaker 2: opened In and Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho killed
Speaker 2: three people, including an In and Out associate who was
Speaker 2: serving customers at the time. Seven others were injured. In
Speaker 2: and Out expressed deep sorrow, offering condolences to the victims' families,
Speaker 2: and said the company is mourning the loss of its associate.
Speaker 2: President Lindsay Snyder shared that the associate was helping customers
Speaker 2: during the tragedy and said the entire In and Out
Speaker 2: family is grieving.
Speaker 1: Alongside the victims loved ones.
Speaker 2: So again, the weirdest thing about this is, once more
Speaker 2: we've found the person's name and there's not a big
Speaker 2: social media imprint of this person and a clear reason
Speaker 2: as to why they did it, which we were kind
Speaker 2: of getting used to being the case. Somebody had asked
Speaker 2: about RFK and if you saw, if I saw what
Speaker 2: was happening on CNN, there was a shouting match.
Speaker 1: Not really surprising, sounds hurtful for our f K. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true.
Speaker 2: I don't know how good this is going to be
Speaker 2: to listen to, but we'll give it a peek here
Speaker 2: because this was going viral over the weekend.
Speaker 14: Also trying to find out how it interacts with people's DNA,
Speaker 14: what's predisposed to to have an autistic child?
Speaker 11: Are you doing both?
Speaker 10: But you probably don't understand this because you're not a scientist,
Speaker 10: But you're not either.
Speaker 14: Because I understand Jens vulnerability gene environmental That's what I'm asking.
Speaker 11: Are you studying the.
Speaker 10: Environmental all the different environmental exposures. But your statement you
Speaker 10: have been fooled, Your statement that this has been studied
Speaker 10: is not true. Category it is considered, it is any
Speaker 10: of the stuff.
Speaker 14: It is considered decided by every scientist who has studied.
Speaker 1: This, scientists hundreds.
Speaker 14: So on the one day you are understand why people.
Speaker 1: Aren't getting at ME of Sciences, what do.
Speaker 14: You understand why people are not getting measles vaccines because
Speaker 14: they're hearing you say that it could const change of subjects.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 11: It's very much related.
Speaker 10: Show me one of the studies it's been done on
Speaker 10: the first eight the vaccine or in the first six
Speaker 10: months of life.
Speaker 1: You will not find them the National Academy of Sciences.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's it's tough to get in a shouting
Speaker 2: match when you're RFK because he doesn't physically have the
Speaker 2: ability no to like shout like that. So he seems
Speaker 2: even more exasperated than if you were actually yelling at
Speaker 2: a person like this.
Speaker 3: It just seems like like even regular talking is a
Speaker 3: chore for him. Yeah, it's beginning in this debate you
Speaker 3: just kind of feel bad for the guy, even if
Speaker 3: you disagree with him.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I also saw I wanted to come back and
Speaker 2: scoop this up a little bit. Somebody was responding to
Speaker 2: the Spider Man brand New Day, and I said it
Speaker 2: was the number two all time US box office opening weekend,
Speaker 2: behind Avengers Endgame. I said, and I believe this, that
Speaker 2: it would have been number one if it wasn't for
Speaker 2: Imax being fully locked down by the Odyssey because of
Speaker 2: a deal the Odyssey had with all the Imax theaters
Speaker 2: that could have made even more money. They'll be in
Speaker 2: theaters this weekend with some Imax screens, and people who
Speaker 2: want to see Spider Man that way might boost it
Speaker 2: up really good for a second weekend. But the movie
Speaker 2: made huge money, and it was the biggest US box
Speaker 2: office weekend in the history of the box office. Somebody
Speaker 2: sent over, hey, you got the number one movie. The
Speaker 2: number one highest grossing film, they said, is actually Gone
Speaker 2: with the Wind. And I see people do this a lot,
Speaker 2: like they have a completely different list of the top
Speaker 2: films of all time, and they'll go it's Gone with
Speaker 2: the Win, the Birth of the Nation, Star Wars, the
Speaker 2: Sound of Music, and they go by how many people
Speaker 2: bought tickets, not the actual revenue or the adjusted gross
Speaker 2: of the box office, which is.
Speaker 1: Kind of fair.
Speaker 2: But I think you also when people send this over,
Speaker 2: I think you don't understand some some pretty important things.
Speaker 1: Gone with the Wind.
Speaker 2: They're trying to say, Gone with the Wind was the
Speaker 2: highest grossing film of all time, not Avengers Endgame.
Speaker 3: Call it highest grossing, you know, the biggest opening or
Speaker 3: most successful movie. Grossing literally indicates that you're talking about money. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and the money was just different revenues. Yeah, the money
Speaker 3: was different back then. It costs less.
Speaker 2: But the thing that I don't think people know when
Speaker 2: Gone with the Wind came out in nineteen thirty nine,
Speaker 2: oh see, then, I don't even know how we would
Speaker 2: look this up. I'm pretty sure Gone with the Wind
Speaker 2: was in theaters for years and years and years. Like
Speaker 2: I think Gone with the Wind might have been in
Speaker 2: theaters for four or five years in nineteen thirty nine.
Speaker 2: They weren't cranking out movies every week, and we're so spoiled,
Speaker 2: we don't understand this stuff. But in nineteen thirty nine,
Speaker 2: when something came to the theaters, it was going to
Speaker 2: be there for a really long time. And then word
Speaker 2: of mouth would be like, have you seen Gone with
Speaker 2: the Wind. I've seen it, I've seen it seven times.
Speaker 2: Just a fantastic piece.
Speaker 3: So the original theatrical run of Gone with the Wind
Speaker 3: lasted almost two years, okay, following its December fifteenth, nineteen
Speaker 3: thirty nine, premiere, it played as a high priced road
Speaker 3: show engagement before transitioning to a general release at popular
Speaker 3: prices in early nineteen forty one, anchoring continuous theater screens
Speaker 3: nationwide for well over eighteen straight months.
Speaker 1: Okay, so for years this.
Speaker 2: Thing was sitting in the box office, and I think
Speaker 2: that between all the re releases it because it was
Speaker 2: re released in theaters a lot of times too, and
Speaker 2: that also goes to the number of admissions or whatever
Speaker 2: you would get from this.
Speaker 1: This is just a weird way to do the money.
Speaker 2: I understand adjusting money over time, but back then things
Speaker 2: were so different, and like John says, it's not like
Speaker 2: there was a big selection to choose from. No, when
Speaker 2: you were going to the movies, the only reason you
Speaker 2: might say plural is because there might be one other
Speaker 2: movie rather than Gone with the Wind.
Speaker 1: There was not a lot of stuff at the box office.
Speaker 2: People would go see everything just because they I wanted
Speaker 2: to see something, even if the movie sucked, or they
Speaker 2: would go see whatever movie that they could because it
Speaker 2: was a different movie to watch on the big screen
Speaker 2: at the theater. So those times were different. This weekend
Speaker 2: Spider Man was just a few million short of being
Speaker 2: the biggest opening weekend in US history, very very very
Speaker 2: very successful.
Speaker 3: At the top of the show, when we talked about
Speaker 3: Spider Man having the weekend that it did, a lot
Speaker 3: of people were chiming in like, well, like, yeah, that's
Speaker 3: because the tickets to Spider Man are way more than
Speaker 3: the tickets were to Titanic or you know, any of
Speaker 3: the other movies that had these you know, epic runs
Speaker 3: at the box office. The tickets are so much more
Speaker 3: expensive now to go see them that less people can
Speaker 3: can get This record takes less people to set or
Speaker 3: the records at the box office.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true, it is, But we just go buy money.
Speaker 2: We go buy the actual money that it brings in.
Speaker 2: And if you want to do like the inflated inflation
Speaker 2: included and you know, adjusted for inflation numbers, that's that's fine.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, uh, these are the classic movies
Speaker 2: that so many people saw because they were just out
Speaker 2: in the theaters forever and ever, and every person in
Speaker 2: the country saw it multiple times. You know, I'm exaggerating,
Speaker 2: but only a little bit. I'm not exaggerating that much
Speaker 2: people went to see these over.
Speaker 3: There's been plenty of movies even that I can remember
Speaker 3: in my lifetime where people have seen it multiple times.
Speaker 3: Top Gun Maverick, I knew I had friends that saw
Speaker 3: three four times, was one that especially the female audience
Speaker 3: watched over and over and over.
Speaker 2: Somebody in chat literally said they just went to see
Speaker 2: Odyssey for the second time.
Speaker 1: The Odyssey, so.
Speaker 2: They like, they'll go just see the movie in a
Speaker 2: regular theater, and now I want to see it in Imax,
Speaker 2: and you go to see the movie twice.
Speaker 1: So that still happens with this kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever watched a movie more than
Speaker 3: once in a theater just because I loved it so much.
Speaker 3: I think it was the only times I've done it
Speaker 3: is because yeah, I've seen it. But then we were
Speaker 3: going out with a bunch of friends and they want
Speaker 3: to watch it, and I was like, whatever, I liked
Speaker 3: it the first time. Like I watched Team America more
Speaker 3: than once, at more than one time in theaters.
Speaker 1: Why not.
Speaker 3: It was a funny movie that I really liked, but
Speaker 3: it wasn't anything that I would have gone, I have
Speaker 3: to see this in theaters again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I need the cinematic experience. That's what I need.
Speaker 3: Here.
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Speaker 2: A few pieces of news for you tomorrow, one a
Speaker 2: little bit bigger, one a little bit smaller. So I'll
Speaker 2: miss the show tomorrow. We'll have two things to tell
Speaker 2: you you to talk to you about on the show.
Speaker 2: Their show related. I also am working on trying to
Speaker 2: get the senator who is He's the one who's like
Speaker 2: leading the charge against hold On.
Speaker 1: He's a center. He's a Congressman. James Cormer. James Comer.
Speaker 2: James Comer is the senator who is fighting this THCHC
Speaker 2: drinks ban and he has put together a plan to
Speaker 2: try to keep those THHC drinks in your stores. James Comer,
Speaker 2: if we could talk to him, we might line this up.
Speaker 2: Is talking about the actual thing that resulted in this
Speaker 2: band that's on the way for THHC drinks, And they said, sure,
Speaker 2: it was indeed a lot of the liquor companies. It
Speaker 2: was the liquor companies who were lobbying against these tha
Speaker 2: sea drinks.
Speaker 1: But you know who else it was.
Speaker 2: It was the legal marijuana distributors who didn't want the
Speaker 2: competition from the t interests people.
Speaker 3: So, because if the liquor companies are against this, it's
Speaker 3: quite weird that alcohol retailers are in favor of it.
Speaker 3: There's uh, you know, take this as you will, because
Speaker 3: the sources a publication called Marijuana Moment dot net, but
Speaker 3: it says alcohol retailers celebrate sentence move to keep HEMP
Speaker 3: THHD drinks legal for now.
Speaker 1: Okay, they're trying.
Speaker 2: They haven't done this, but maybe we can put a
Speaker 2: little pressure on this and make this happen to keep
Speaker 2: the THHC industry, the drink industry going. I think it's
Speaker 2: harmless and nothing but good to tax it if you
Speaker 2: want whatever. It's already expensive. But the people behind this,
Speaker 2: you should know if your THC drinks disappear in November.
Speaker 2: The story says opponents of hemp derived THHC, including state
Speaker 2: licensed cannabis operators, So the legit cannabis people who are
Speaker 2: selling weed to everybody, you don't want the competition from
Speaker 2: the THHD drinks people and alcohol distributors and anti drug
Speaker 2: advocacy groups lobby Congress heavily for the band. They got
Speaker 2: the band worked into this thing that is going to
Speaker 2: go through in November. How crazy are these anti drug
Speaker 2: people and the pro drug people work together with the
Speaker 2: alcohol people to ban THHD drink?
Speaker 3: Are these retailers in places where it's recreationally legal, because
Speaker 3: like for us in Florida, it's not really a thing.
Speaker 3: You're not using the THD drink as an alternative to
Speaker 3: real weed because legally, without a medical card, you're not
Speaker 3: supposed to have it.
Speaker 2: I will go a little deeper into this tomorrow and
Speaker 2: we'll see if we can rally some folks behind this
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