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Speaker 1: I'm doing good, but everybody.
Speaker 2: Else seems to be having an existential crisis right now.
Speaker 3: I'm not having an existential crisis. I probably should be
Speaker 3: worse off for the wear. I was out on a
Speaker 3: school night last night. Oh you were like went out
Speaker 3: for real, like an adult going out to the bar
Speaker 3: kind of thing. Yeah, well, you know, I just went
Speaker 3: out to see a show and then I did some
Speaker 3: after show stuff.
Speaker 2: You guys are doing a lot of abandoning Jackson these days.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not.
Speaker 2: I am not trying to judge you. I'm just saying
Speaker 2: little Jackson is sitting. He's like a little cage at
Speaker 2: the house or something.
Speaker 1: It was not abandoned. He his mother was at home.
Speaker 1: This was this was you abandoned his mother.
Speaker 2: I did, that's for sure. Yeah, oh my god, did
Speaker 2: you go see last night?
Speaker 3: I went and saw Ben Folds to the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra. Huh,
Speaker 3: I said that a little weird Philharmonic. They It was
Speaker 3: a fantastic show, just really good, really well done. It
Speaker 3: was a ben Folds on piano with an entire orchestra,
Speaker 3: you know, probably twenty thirty people. I don't know. I
Speaker 3: didn't count, but it was just it was real, really
Speaker 3: big sound. One of my friends was like, it sounds
Speaker 3: like I'm hearing a movie score live at certain points,
Speaker 3: did he do brick.
Speaker 1: With all of those? Hear the abortion song?
Speaker 2: Do the.
Speaker 3: We don't get a whole lot of radio hits at
Speaker 3: shows like that because the more upbeat numbers don't always
Speaker 3: have the instrumentation for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I just spent an email from Ben Folds.
Speaker 1: It was like, shut up, man, hey, shut up, I
Speaker 1: do what I like.
Speaker 2: All Right, here we go. Let's put our ears of
Speaker 2: the grounder figures with the pulls. Let's see what's happened
Speaker 2: in this great, big, wide world of ours. And I'm
Speaker 2: telling you people are indeed having an existential crisis today.
Speaker 2: I don't know why, but I'm gonna try to get
Speaker 2: into that and see what's going on in your minds.
Speaker 2: We'll start with a guy who had a I guess,
Speaker 2: a sweet little job. He streams on Twitch and what
Speaker 2: he does is, because you can't stream baseball games and stuff,
Speaker 2: he'll stream like where the people are on the bases
Speaker 2: and the score and the outs, and you know, they'll
Speaker 2: do like a play by play without showing the copyrighted
Speaker 2: baseball game.
Speaker 1: I don't know. He might still be in violation of
Speaker 1: the rules.
Speaker 2: There, What are you doing, buddy, He's already already having
Speaker 2: an existential crisis. So let's see what happened to him.
Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 4: Let's listen in oh one is the count here? Pitch
Speaker 4: for Fitcher Fisher. My apologies, this is hit right out
Speaker 4: the short stop those a second and.
Speaker 2: It's a double play. It's a double play, boys, all right.
Speaker 2: I already wonder when I see something like this, I'm like,
Speaker 2: who watches this? Yeah, there's people in his chat. There
Speaker 2: are people. I don't know how many people are watching,
Speaker 2: but there are people watching a man with a with
Speaker 2: a camera on his face, and then he just kind
Speaker 2: of says to you, what's going on in the in
Speaker 2: the game. Maybe if you're driving in the car, as
Speaker 2: opposed to listen to the radio broadcast, you listen to
Speaker 2: this guy and.
Speaker 1: Rules. Maybe possibly, but he's really into it. I like that.
Speaker 4: I mean, oh, one is the count here? Pitch for
Speaker 4: ficher fer my apologies up again right.
Speaker 2: At the short stop thst a second and it's a
Speaker 2: double play. It's a double play.
Speaker 5: Boys, whoa Red Sox baseball?
Speaker 1: I Q existential crisis.
Speaker 5: Red Sox faithball. I load this seam. I load watching them.
Speaker 5: I can't stand watching the scene.
Speaker 6: Dude, always do they sup?
Speaker 1: But it's more game to go. It's only the sithic.
Speaker 2: You doing here.
Speaker 1: Let's the guy for he needs a stretch, and he does.
Speaker 2: He needs a break and it needs to be a
Speaker 2: little break in the broadcast and known.
Speaker 3: Badger, go f yourself. That is no feeling without a beard.
Speaker 1: Hey, go does it? You know you he'll eat.
Speaker 2: The whole bag. You certainly don't yell like him. He
Speaker 2: was trying to keep it together and be professional and
Speaker 2: he just melted down.
Speaker 5: Faithful load this seed load. Watching them, I can't stand
Speaker 5: watching the scene.
Speaker 1: Dude, always do they suck?
Speaker 2: Like this is a commercial in the background. Quarter pound
Speaker 2: of flame grilled beef. Just make sure you all right, buddy,
Speaker 2: Calm down, relax everybody. We need to get through this.
Speaker 2: We need to push through the existential crises that are
Speaker 2: happening out there. Okay, and I ask you, are you
Speaker 2: having an existential crisis? And we should start with what
Speaker 2: the hell does that actually mean? For sixty to seventy
Speaker 2: percent of the audience here, so uh, I think when
Speaker 2: you see it, is it old on X? It's a
Speaker 2: hard existential crisis? What does that actually mean? Is this
Speaker 2: a meltdown? Is that an existential crisis? A period of
Speaker 2: intense questioning regarding life's purpose, meaning, and value, often triggered
Speaker 2: by life changes, mortality awareness, or isolation.
Speaker 1: Oh I do it with mortality awareness. I do it
Speaker 1: with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like I have the the meltdown where you
Speaker 2: don't know what you're doing and you just freak out
Speaker 2: and it says they're a company by anxiety and stress,
Speaker 2: and they're disturbing one's normal functioning in everyday life. So
Speaker 2: you don't want this, But about a third of Americans
Speaker 2: say they're having an existential crisis right now?
Speaker 1: Are you?
Speaker 2: Are you melting down? What are you thinking about this
Speaker 2: year so far? How are you hanging in there? Let
Speaker 2: us know what's going on and send us your dispatches
Speaker 2: of course over at the newsjunkie dot com.
Speaker 3: Now, the reason I say that I think what he's
Speaker 3: doing still could be actionable by Major League Baseball is
Speaker 3: because he's still trying to get the little fat guy fired.
Speaker 2: Yeah God, Okay, he's not showing any of the baseball broadcasts,
Speaker 2: but he's still giving an account of it. So you're saying,
Speaker 2: if I was watching a football game and describing it
Speaker 2: to somebody else on a stream.
Speaker 3: You were doing a play by play on your stream.
Speaker 3: It's an unlicensed, unauthorized to play by play?
Speaker 1: What they How can I have control of a play
Speaker 1: by play?
Speaker 2: There's not has nothing to do with their cameras or
Speaker 2: their their contenting. It's a sports copyright.
Speaker 3: Disclaimers state that telecast pictures and accounts of games which
Speaker 3: is what he's giving.
Speaker 1: He's giving aunt of the game.
Speaker 3: Are protected prohibiting unauthorized reproduction, retransmission, or broadcasting.
Speaker 6: Boo.
Speaker 3: It says that's now. It says the broadcast is copyrighted.
Speaker 3: The underlying game generally may not be fair use such
Speaker 3: as commentary and news part of me to apply, but
Speaker 3: unauthorized highlights often violated copyright.
Speaker 7: Boo.
Speaker 2: All of this is ridiculous, A big sport coming in
Speaker 2: and trying to tell you what to do. Laurie on
Speaker 2: YouTube says, I am melting down. Why are we taxed
Speaker 2: on things we already paid tax on? God bless Laurie.
Speaker 2: But from your mouth or your keyboard to God's ears,
Speaker 2: God bless yet, that is a problem worth having a
Speaker 2: crisis over.
Speaker 1: For sure.
Speaker 2: Other people are worried about, just like the status of
Speaker 2: the country or wars or I don't know. People are
Speaker 2: just upset about things. They're not having a good time.
Speaker 2: I think the most commonly used word for twenty twenty
Speaker 2: six so far is stressful.
Speaker 1: It's stressful.
Speaker 2: People are having an existential crisis about this stuff.
Speaker 1: They're melting down. And I try to show up.
Speaker 2: Every day here and make sure we can pull you
Speaker 2: through the latest level of that crisis.
Speaker 1: That's what we're doing, all right, That's what we're doing
Speaker 1: here on the show.
Speaker 2: So I'll bring you something else here to kind of
Speaker 2: stem the tide just a little bit.
Speaker 1: If you don't mind, we go over to the White House.
Speaker 2: Usually that's going to get your blood boiling, but nothing does.
Speaker 2: There are a couple of things that it's still perfectly
Speaker 2: okay to make fun of people four in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: One is short guys doesn't matter, short kings. They could
Speaker 2: say whatever they want about you. They can openly mock
Speaker 2: you on television. They could do anything out there that
Speaker 2: they want to. Short people are fine to make fun of.
Speaker 2: For God's sake. What's the song about short people?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 1: What's his name?
Speaker 2: Does the you got a friend in me?
Speaker 1: That guy?
Speaker 2: Oh? Randy Newman?
Speaker 1: Randy Newman.
Speaker 2: I always say this when it comes to short people.
Speaker 2: Randy Newman's song about short people just played on the
Speaker 2: radio widely accept it is just an okay thing. And
Speaker 2: what is the what's the song again? You know what
Speaker 2: I'm talking about? A short people?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 9: Whatsation is to change the course of Western music?
Speaker 1: Good for the song, Randy, It's got a long intro
Speaker 1: on this yeah, this one. Yeah, yeah, right right.
Speaker 2: Come on, we're running out of time. Got into this video.
Speaker 8: So people got no reason for so, people.
Speaker 6: Got no reason, no reason for what.
Speaker 1: So people got no reason to me?
Speaker 10: Yeah there you go.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, that's it right there. Sure people got no
Speaker 2: reason to live. Sure people are okay to make fun
Speaker 2: of redheads, Okay to make fun of in twenty twenty six,
Speaker 2: it's unbelievable the absolute abuse that your immutable characteristic of
Speaker 2: having red hair.
Speaker 1: Will lead to.
Speaker 2: It. I love you, I love you redheads. Also, here's
Speaker 2: another one here, This is another one that you're allowed
Speaker 2: to make fun of. Apparently, let's go to the White House.
Speaker 11: You considering relocating NASA's headquarters out of DC once the
Speaker 11: leases up.
Speaker 2: States like Texas questioned a Trump about massive Tell you.
Speaker 1: That is mentioning over here.
Speaker 12: You heard that question With those beautiful ears of yours.
Speaker 12: He's got great hearing in us much.
Speaker 1: He's got superhero, he's got superhering. He's got big ears.
Speaker 2: This guy at the White House perfectly okay to make
Speaker 2: fun of people with big ears.
Speaker 1: He's like, that's a question for him.
Speaker 2: He's got he's got great hearing over there, great hearing,
Speaker 2: he said, DC wants.
Speaker 11: The leases up states like Texas, Ohio.
Speaker 12: Well, the best man to tell you that is the
Speaker 12: mentioning right over here. You heard that question with those
Speaker 12: beautiful ears of yours. He's got great hearing. You know,
Speaker 12: super he's got superhero.
Speaker 2: He's got Superhero, big old, big handles on the side
Speaker 2: of your head.
Speaker 3: It doesn't look like he's dying inside just a little bit. Well,
Speaker 3: I just gotta take it old white Obama here is
Speaker 3: h Yeah.
Speaker 2: It does look like a white Obama one hundred. Okay,
Speaker 2: we have so much to get into today, very busy day.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be talking with the folks who are now
Speaker 2: taking care of those sloughs and rescuing them after the
Speaker 2: whole sloth world controversy we under earthed here. It's gonna
Speaker 2: be an interesting interview coming up in about fifteen or
Speaker 2: twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: So let's get to the break early enough.
Speaker 2: We got your feedback coming in of a big celebrity
Speaker 2: died just moments ago. You've got a problem on an airplane. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll hear the song probably. It's all coming up next
Speaker 2: on the News Junkie. The World of music is an
Speaker 2: area we don't often explore over here, although I do
Speaker 2: think my mine can explore well on the show. I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean to say ce Lane on the show, Seelane,
Speaker 2: we don't get into the world of music all that
Speaker 2: that often I do.
Speaker 1: My current take does mirror.
Speaker 2: This, though I do believe in this right now, and
Speaker 2: I think, honestly the evidence does show that even young
Speaker 2: people agree with me on this. This take is in
Speaker 2: line with my thinking at the exact moment in time that.
Speaker 1: We do this show.
Speaker 2: And somebody posts this is the worst era for mainstream
Speaker 2: music in my entire lifetime. That's across all genres, and
Speaker 2: it's not close either. And one of the top responses,
Speaker 2: which I think is the case for a lot of Zoomers,
Speaker 2: a lot of younger people, even younger than Generation Z,
Speaker 2: the person says, my daily music consists ninety five percent
Speaker 2: of music from the nineties and two thousands. I mean,
Speaker 2: for real, right now is has it ever been anywhorse
Speaker 2: than it is right now? The state of common music
Speaker 2: right now. It's probably why you're here hanging out with us,
Speaker 2: spending some time with us on the show. I want
Speaker 2: you to grade current music right now a to F.
Speaker 2: All right, chat, I want you to tell me the
Speaker 2: folks watching live on YouTube and twitch A to F,
Speaker 2: what do you say that the current lot of songs
Speaker 2: and musicians and everybody on the charts right now. I
Speaker 2: would say most people are thinking D see it best
Speaker 2: right now. It's the reason why the person's right. Everybody
Speaker 2: listens to old stuff. Creed is popular again, mm hmm,
Speaker 2: even with the young people. Go to any place with
Speaker 2: a jukebox, a touch tunes or whatever, and when you
Speaker 2: go in there, you will one hundred percent c that
Speaker 2: the majority of the songs played across all generations of
Speaker 2: people that are at these places.
Speaker 1: Are old songs. They're playing old songs.
Speaker 2: The current state of mainstream music is absolute dumpster fire,
Speaker 2: which is you know, I'm seeing it right now. People
Speaker 2: are saying it F a D A D an F
Speaker 2: an F a D minus a D minus like nobody.
Speaker 1: Like we're talking about your high school all over against.
Speaker 2: It does feel that way, Palm Beach legs, and the
Speaker 2: current state of music right now is a D or
Speaker 2: an F absolutely an F and just this is across
Speaker 2: the spectrum.
Speaker 1: I don't know why that is.
Speaker 2: I'll take your thoughts on on why you think that
Speaker 2: is here? I don't know.
Speaker 3: I feel like the place to be right now in
Speaker 3: music really is the country star. Like those guys are
Speaker 3: killing it. They're they're doing these huge ass tours. You know,
Speaker 3: they're they're printing money. Morgan Wallen, look at this guy.
Speaker 2: Ted says D country music fan, and it's a D
Speaker 2: to an F. So he's saying country music is still
Speaker 2: down there.
Speaker 1: He does.
Speaker 3: Depends on what kind of country you like. There's a
Speaker 3: spectrum in country music. There's the the half rap country.
Speaker 2: Music, then the outlaw country music. There's the girl band
Speaker 2: country music. There's so many different types of it. What's
Speaker 2: funny is half rap country music. Sea Lanes seems to
Speaker 2: be also half Nelly. It's the Nelly does like a
Speaker 2: good portion yeah country. He started with country grammar and
Speaker 2: then he ended up going into that.
Speaker 3: I will say that to fuel your argument here. On
Speaker 3: the way into work today, I was kind of bumping
Speaker 3: an album from two thousand.
Speaker 1: Everybody is, I'm telling you right.
Speaker 3: Now, I decide, well, I got a wild hair and
Speaker 3: I was like, I'm I want to hear some Marshall
Speaker 3: Mathers LP.
Speaker 2: There you go, that's what people will be into much
Speaker 2: more than they would of old stuff.
Speaker 1: And this isn't something you know.
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 2: The guys post says old head energy. I get it,
Speaker 2: I get it. The guy who posted this on Twitter
Speaker 2: says old head energy on his post. But the fact is,
Speaker 2: this is how a lot of people across generations feel
Speaker 2: about music right now. And I see stories popping up,
Speaker 2: like one of the stories this week was about the
Speaker 2: death of a country singer, and I thought, do younger
Speaker 2: people know this guy too? And then I thought, let
Speaker 2: me bring the story up from this is from AP
Speaker 2: News and they posted David allan Coe, who wrote Take
Speaker 2: this Job and Shove It and other country hits, dies
Speaker 2: at eighty six years old. Right now. The first thing
Speaker 2: I thought of when I saw that headline from the
Speaker 2: biggest news outlet on the planet, the Associated Press, I thought, wow,
Speaker 2: I remember some of the headlines after Charlie Kirk was shot,
Speaker 2: and I thought David allen Coe would get a more
Speaker 2: brutal send off in headlines on account of and some
Speaker 2: of you may not know this, David allen Coe has
Speaker 2: a particular part of his catalog that's not exactly on.
Speaker 1: The radio r right.
Speaker 3: In fact, I think the particular album that was the
Speaker 3: most egregious was like self released and he only sold
Speaker 3: it via mail order and like advertised it in Trucker magazines.
Speaker 2: That's the only place you could do it because it
Speaker 2: was inarguably absolutely super racist.
Speaker 3: Okay, now, let's be fair about this. David allen Coe
Speaker 3: says that those songs were satirical.
Speaker 2: Okay, the satirical song with the N word that isn't
Speaker 2: a rap song done by a black guy. Is still
Speaker 2: a satirical song with the N word.
Speaker 3: It was, okay, And maybe he was the first person
Speaker 3: to use this classic token excuse, but he said, listen, guys,
Speaker 3: my drummer is black.
Speaker 2: Oh sure, and I'm sure he wasn't like gritting through
Speaker 2: his teeth hitting the snare every single time David allen
Speaker 2: Coe was playing Mudfest and doing those songs, you know,
Speaker 2: those those other songs. In fact, I think most people,
Speaker 2: even younger people, probably know David allen Coe, who was
Speaker 2: behind take this job and shove it best for him
Speaker 2: being in name featured in another song, which one, Oh God,
Speaker 2: the one about Mama and the train and.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about. That's his song.
Speaker 2: No, never, that's not David allen Coe. No, he's singing's
Speaker 2: David allen Coe in that. That's somebody else singing that song,
Speaker 2: is it not?
Speaker 1: You never even called me by my name?
Speaker 2: Is it, David? No? Because that would be way bigger
Speaker 2: than take this job and shove it, wouldn't it. I
Speaker 2: would have thought you might be right. Oh, you are right,
Speaker 2: You're one hundred percent right.
Speaker 9: You.
Speaker 1: I apologize, I take it back. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2: David allen Coe, the country singer songwriter who wrote the
Speaker 2: working class anthem, take this job and Shove it? And
Speaker 2: had you never even called me by my name, which
Speaker 2: is indeed a great song, great jukebox song.
Speaker 1: And the name.
Speaker 2: Song?
Speaker 1: Hey did?
Speaker 2: He sure did, but he said it wasn't the perfect
Speaker 2: country music song. You know what else? Steve Goodman wrote
Speaker 2: what I Believe, Go Cubs, Go the Cubs anthem? No
Speaker 2: way did he really but that that is a great song.
Speaker 2: He did have a lot of very very offensive old songs.
Speaker 2: But even the Associated Press writes him off better than
Speaker 2: they did a lot of political people that they seem
Speaker 2: to not like more than David allen Coe. Whether he
Speaker 2: was labeled outlaw or underground, David allen Coe was clearly
Speaker 2: an outsider and Nashville's music establishment. This says even throughout
Speaker 2: his success as an in demand songwriter and singer, eventually
Speaker 2: developing a core following route his raw, often obscene lyrics
Speaker 2: and a checkered, somewhat mysterious past. I don't even know
Speaker 2: if they mentioned racism in this whole, like fifteen paragraph thing,
Speaker 2: which is kind of wild.
Speaker 1: They said, checkered.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll do it for now. But what do you
Speaker 2: think the current state of music? Let us know your thoughts.
Speaker 2: Send us a dispatch over at thenewsjunkie dot com or
Speaker 2: email the show always if you want to be anonymous,
Speaker 2: put that on top tips at the Newsjunkie dot Com.
Speaker 2: Yucker said Sean would only listen to these songs when
Speaker 2: he wasn't around his friend Shay. I didn't listen to
Speaker 2: David allen Coe all right, only only you never even
Speaker 2: called me by my name, and I didn't even know
Speaker 2: it was him. I thought it was somebody else singing
Speaker 2: about him at some point during that song.
Speaker 1: But here we are.
Speaker 2: Let us know your thoughts on this quick break when
Speaker 2: we come back and interview with the folks taking care
Speaker 2: of the sloss right now, now, that's coming up next
Speaker 2: in the news chunk Ye. The Slaw World story has
Speaker 2: gone national, international, and it tells me one thing which
Speaker 2: does renew my faith in just people in general. One
Speaker 2: thing it tells me the rise of a story like
Speaker 2: this and the focus on these laws at the center
Speaker 2: of the Sloth World controversy is that a lot of
Speaker 2: people out there still care about animals. They still care
Speaker 2: about how animals are treated. They still demand that humans
Speaker 2: who want to be interacting with these kind of animals
Speaker 2: treat them in a way that is humane and that
Speaker 2: we can all agree is the right way to treat
Speaker 2: them as best they can. And this is one of
Speaker 2: those situations where everybody reacted in a really intense way
Speaker 2: and well, thankfully there are good people at a great
Speaker 2: facility who are stepping up to try to help this
Speaker 2: laws who have sort of been caught.
Speaker 1: In the middle of all of this.
Speaker 2: Let's learn more in an interview with the CEO of
Speaker 2: the Central Florida Zoo, Richard Glover.
Speaker 1: Richard, are you with us? I am there he is.
Speaker 2: Richard. First of all, thank you for joining us. We
Speaker 2: appreciate that. Second of all, let us know what's the deal,
Speaker 2: what's going on with these laws. Let's start with how
Speaker 2: did you end up getting a hold of this loss?
Speaker 2: How did you take possession of them from these Sloth
Speaker 2: World people.
Speaker 13: So it was a very strange week last week. Last Monday,
Speaker 13: we got a call to the zoo that got directed
Speaker 13: to our general curator that runs our animal operations. It
Speaker 13: was one of the owners of Soft World asking if
Speaker 13: we would be willing to accept a donation of slaws.
Speaker 13: And so we looked at our quarantine area and what
Speaker 13: we could do and how many we could accept, and
Speaker 13: we would and said yes, we could accept those lows
Speaker 13: and we'd be happy to And on Friday, my team
Speaker 13: went and picked up thirteen slaws from them and.
Speaker 14: Brought them back to the zoo.
Speaker 13: And so we have been spending the last seven days
Speaker 13: trying to nurse them back to full health and do
Speaker 13: everything we can for them. They came in in a
Speaker 13: lot of them varying conditions, but none of them were
Speaker 13: fully healthy. So we're doing everything we can to try
Speaker 13: to ensure the survival of as many of them as
Speaker 13: we can. We unfortunately had our first loss yesterday, the
Speaker 13: one that came in the most critical. His name was Bannit.
Speaker 13: We just reached a point where he was unresponsive, and
Speaker 13: we tried everything we could, and there was no chance
Speaker 13: he was going to rally, So we didn't want to
Speaker 13: prolong it. But we're hoping that that's the only loss.
Speaker 13: But we also know, you know, when we accepted them,
Speaker 13: we realized that we had no idea what shape they'd
Speaker 13: be in, and we knew that this would be an
Speaker 13: uphill battle, and so we're going to continue to fight
Speaker 13: and do everything we can to keep the other twelve.
Speaker 2: Alive, Richard, Were they in pretty bad shape? Would you say? Overall,
Speaker 2: when you get a hold of these laws.
Speaker 13: It varied and visibly from the outside, most of them
Speaker 13: didn't necessarily look like they were, but they all came
Speaker 13: in a little dehydrated, a little underweight, and a lot
Speaker 13: of them had pretty serious diarrhea issues or also bloating issues.
Speaker 14: They have.
Speaker 13: They're very sensitive animals, and they have very sensitive GI tracks,
Speaker 13: and so if they weren't getting exactly the right diet,
Speaker 13: weren't getting enough fluid, the GI track gets off and
Speaker 13: a lot of bad things can happen. And because they're
Speaker 13: a justice system is incredibly slow. It takes a long
Speaker 13: time to get something like that turned around. And where
Speaker 13: it needs to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's it's kind of amazing what you
Speaker 2: guys have done. You got the whole crew on board
Speaker 2: there at the Central Florida Zoo. I know that they're
Speaker 2: giving these animals attention that I think they probably needed
Speaker 2: for a pretty long time here, and we.
Speaker 1: Got from day one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we could see at least some of
Speaker 2: that by the shape that it appears that they were in.
Speaker 3: I like how they called it a donation of sloths,
Speaker 3: Like you think of a donation as a nice, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, gratuitous thing, like I want to donate some
Speaker 3: money to you, something that's going to help you out,
Speaker 3: when really the sloth world guys had become public enemy
Speaker 3: number one in some circles and they needed you to
Speaker 3: bail them out. You know, it was less of a
Speaker 3: donation in my eyes and more of like, hey, we
Speaker 3: need to not totally screw up what we have left here,
Speaker 3: and that's why we need somebody who knows what they're doing,
Speaker 3: and that's the Central Florida Zoo, correct.
Speaker 13: I mean, and you know, I don't want to really
Speaker 13: want to comment on what they did before they got
Speaker 13: here because I wasn't there, and I don't know what
Speaker 13: they did right and what they did wrong, sure, but
Speaker 13: I all I know is you know, when we got them,
Speaker 13: they weren't quite where they need to be, So our
Speaker 13: focus is totally on what happens from here and.
Speaker 14: Whether we can save them.
Speaker 13: It's I think, you know, I will say yes, donating
Speaker 13: to us may have been a way out of a
Speaker 13: situation to some degree, But I do think they were
Speaker 13: donating to us because they wanted them to be able
Speaker 13: to have a chance of surviving, get healthy, because they
Speaker 13: could have sold them right. I mean, I think stopping
Speaker 13: them from it in this state, they could sell them
Speaker 13: easily well.
Speaker 2: I mean, they already had a lot of public pressure
Speaker 2: against them that probably I just think would have made
Speaker 2: things even worse. I was asking people in the chat
Speaker 2: who are watching this dream, how many people think this
Speaker 2: is enough that they've given up these animals. How many
Speaker 2: people think that there should be actual charges against these people?
Speaker 1: You'd be stunned.
Speaker 2: I mean, most people want more here because they've been
Speaker 2: very upset by this. But on the positive side, I
Speaker 2: think so many people are getting to see what you
Speaker 2: guys are doing over there at the.
Speaker 1: Central Florida Zoo.
Speaker 2: Is there something that people don't quite understand here when
Speaker 2: they say, oh, well, we want to start a facility
Speaker 2: and we want to have these swaths on display. What's
Speaker 2: the process that that that goes on in taking care
Speaker 2: of a sloth like this? You guys are doing this
Speaker 2: currently a central forward to zoo. Is it much more
Speaker 2: difficult to take care of animals like these than people
Speaker 2: might imagine?
Speaker 14: Absolutely?
Speaker 13: I mean, there's there's a reason certain animals should not
Speaker 13: be pets, and unfortunately in this state there are a
Speaker 13: lot of animals that still are allowed to be pets
Speaker 13: that shouldn't. But you know, these animals require very very
Speaker 13: specific diets. They require heat and humidity on a consistent basis.
Speaker 14: They require sunlight.
Speaker 13: There's there's a number of things that they need because
Speaker 13: they have such a delicate digestive system. You know, you
Speaker 13: have to be very careful with them and understanding their needs.
Speaker 13: And what accredited zos and aquariums do is we're up
Speaker 13: on all that science, and we've got the resources of
Speaker 13: other places that are cared for them. You know, are
Speaker 13: to itself. We've cared for slaws for decades. Yeah, so
Speaker 13: you know, this is nothing new to our team in
Speaker 13: terms of caring for these animals. But if you don't
Speaker 13: care for these kind of animals on a regular basis,
Speaker 13: I mean even a good veterinarian that isn't used to
Speaker 13: caring for exotic animals is gonna, you know, not know
Speaker 13: every last little thing they need to know to do
Speaker 13: it correctly. You have to have that network of people
Speaker 13: you can reach out to that have done it and
Speaker 13: use them and so right, Yeah, at least we know
Speaker 13: here that if we don't know the answer, all we've
Speaker 13: got to do is call other azy a credited facilities
Speaker 13: and see who else does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got the resources at the very least to
Speaker 2: make that work. A lot of people that are commenting
Speaker 2: right now in Chat Richard and Richard's the CEO of
Speaker 2: Central Floridas who taken care of these these slows from
Speaker 2: Sloth World that are now over at their facility. Richard.
Speaker 2: A lot of people with Chat are asking is there
Speaker 2: any shot that they'll be able to release these laws
Speaker 2: back to the wild.
Speaker 13: So there's not, and there's a number of and so First,
Speaker 13: in general, with animals that have been in human care
Speaker 13: for an extended period of time like these have, it's
Speaker 13: very difficult because they become dependent on. They're being fed
Speaker 13: all the time, so they're not going to go hunt
Speaker 13: for food and they're not going to understand what that
Speaker 13: People aren't their friends out.
Speaker 14: In the wild.
Speaker 13: So just in general with animals, that's a problem putting
Speaker 13: them back. With these specifically, these were imported from other
Speaker 13: countries and nobody knows exactly where are those countries they
Speaker 13: were imported from, and there were a lot of them
Speaker 13: that died and over the course of the last several months.
Speaker 13: You know, once they got here, we don't know if
Speaker 13: there's disease that they have that they might be able
Speaker 13: to bring back to a wild population that could decimate
Speaker 13: that wild population. So the risk is actually bigger to
Speaker 13: the wild population if we put them back than if
Speaker 13: we don't.
Speaker 1: Oh got you, okay, all right?
Speaker 2: So the real interesting thing here to me is you
Speaker 2: don't know where these things come from. You're like, you
Speaker 2: don't know how they go got these Did they grab
Speaker 2: them off a tree in the wild and just shove
Speaker 2: them in a box and mail them off.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows where these things actually came from.
Speaker 15: No.
Speaker 13: But it speaks to a larger problem, which is the
Speaker 13: illegal pet trade, and people really aren't aware of what
Speaker 13: a giant problem. That is, every port in the country
Speaker 13: has animals being snuck in on a daily basis.
Speaker 14: And what happens is generally.
Speaker 13: A baby, an infant is taken from a family, usually
Speaker 13: the entire family is killed to get them, and then
Speaker 13: brought in for the pet trade and sold to people
Speaker 13: here that don't know how to take care of them.
Speaker 13: That eventually either you know, they die because they aren't
Speaker 13: taking care of correctly, the people just let them go
Speaker 13: and then they're out, oh god, and putting diseases and
Speaker 13: other things into the environment. There's a lot of bad
Speaker 13: things that happen that way. But generally what happens is
Speaker 13: if you look at the countries these animals come from
Speaker 13: that you've got probably impoverished people that are being incentivized
Speaker 13: by money.
Speaker 14: Hey, if you'll get us some sauce, we'll.
Speaker 13: Pay you this, and so they do, and you know,
Speaker 13: it's it's just a bad system overall, right. You know,
Speaker 13: if we could do something to tamp down the illegal
Speaker 13: pet trade and people would quit trying to buy these
Speaker 13: kinds of animals, it would solve a lot of the problem.
Speaker 14: It is a gigantic problem across this country.
Speaker 1: It's a money thing.
Speaker 2: It sounds like, is a sloth worth a lot of
Speaker 2: money if somebody's purchasing them? Like they said, fifty of
Speaker 2: these things died at this lath World facility, which is
Speaker 2: mind blowing and it kind of makes your blood boil.
Speaker 2: But is one sloth? Is it pretty expensive to buy
Speaker 2: one of those?
Speaker 14: So here's the honest ruth. I don't know.
Speaker 13: I would assume it it is pretty expensive. I would
Speaker 13: assume it's it's you know, certainly somewhere into the five figures.
Speaker 13: But zeus and aquams or credit and aquariums, that's not
Speaker 13: how we normally get our animals. Yeah, we we have
Speaker 13: breeding programs to keep the different species alive. We trade
Speaker 13: back and forth, or we breed some of our own,
Speaker 13: so we don't go out of the market and buy
Speaker 13: animals like this or import animals like this traditionally. And
Speaker 13: so I don't know what the market is exactly for sauce,
Speaker 13: but I would imagine it is. It is pretty significant.
Speaker 13: And this is a state where they're allowed to be pets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I know you don't want to necessarily weigh
Speaker 2: in on some of this stuff, and you know, feel
Speaker 2: free to stay pass if you'd like, But I just
Speaker 2: want to get your gut take on it. Do you think,
Speaker 2: because I absolutely agree with what you just said, Richard.
Speaker 2: I think it's important to stop the sale of these
Speaker 2: animals and cut it off right there, cut it off
Speaker 2: where these animals are coming into this country in other countries,
Speaker 2: so that we don't see animals in these circumstances like this.
Speaker 2: Is it your take that maybe the best way to
Speaker 2: stop that would be to punish some people and hold
Speaker 2: some people responsible when something like this goes wrong.
Speaker 13: Is that your take on this or I mean, certainly
Speaker 13: I'm not opposed to the people being held responsible when
Speaker 13: any animals are mistreated or you know, don't have the
Speaker 13: life they should have. But I think the root problem
Speaker 13: is changing the system so that people just.
Speaker 14: Can't have them as pens. Yeah, I agree, bring them forth.
Speaker 13: So you know, as a zoo, we do have the
Speaker 13: ability to do some things that other organizations don't have,
Speaker 13: but we're also held to much higher standards. So we've
Speaker 13: been accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums continuously
Speaker 13: since nineteen eighty six. There are over three thousand places
Speaker 13: in this country that have licenses from various government agencies
Speaker 13: to hold of display animals.
Speaker 14: There's only about two hundred and fifty that have AZA accreditation,
Speaker 14: and I.
Speaker 13: Think allowing places that have that kind of standard that
Speaker 13: every few years they go through an intensive accreditation process
Speaker 13: that looks at everything about their business, most especially about
Speaker 13: are their facilities sufficient for the animals? Are they giving
Speaker 13: the right kind of animal care? Are they And there's
Speaker 13: just so many things they look at. Knowing that those
Speaker 13: facilities do those are probably the only facilities that should
Speaker 13: be allowed to do anything like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, these people were obviously not equipped at
Speaker 2: all to do this, and and the proof of that
Speaker 2: is that fifties loss are dead in the wake of it.
Speaker 2: But to turn that on its head and make it
Speaker 2: do a more positive thing, It's been amazing to see
Speaker 2: the public rally around what's going on. And this is
Speaker 2: this is a big cost and resource intensive thing that's
Speaker 2: been thrust upon the Central Florida Zoo. Like you guys
Speaker 2: now have to step up and put people on this,
Speaker 2: and you know, have have a budget for this.
Speaker 1: What are you doing it?
Speaker 2: Can people help out in any way if they've been listening.
Speaker 2: I know there's a lot of donate links going on there,
Speaker 2: they're spamming the donate link and chat, which I encourage
Speaker 2: you to keep doing. But what's the way that people
Speaker 2: can help, Yeah, and that you.
Speaker 13: Know, there's a couple of ways, and one of them
Speaker 13: is to donate. You can go to our website right
Speaker 13: on the homepage a link and you can learn more
Speaker 13: about what's going on and you can donate, and that's
Speaker 13: absolutely so appreciated and needed. But there are a couple
Speaker 13: other things. We have a lot of people that are
Speaker 13: reaching out to us and saying, hey, like our boy
Speaker 13: Scout Troup is doing some kind of fundraiser and we're
Speaker 13: going to give you the money towards this loss.
Speaker 14: So we've got a lot of people just kind of on.
Speaker 13: Their own doing some donations different ways and raise money
Speaker 13: different ways, and that's helpful too, But even just getting
Speaker 13: on our social media and encouraging the team and you know,
Speaker 13: helping them feel good about what they're doing, because this
Speaker 13: is hard work, and especially a day like yesterday when
Speaker 13: we lost one of them, that's devastating to the team,
Speaker 13: but we can't take a breath and warn them.
Speaker 14: We have to keep going for all the others.
Speaker 13: So seeing that support, hearing you know when they're done
Speaker 13: at the end of the day and they're exhausted and
Speaker 13: they look online and people are saying, thank you so
Speaker 13: much and what you're doing so important. That means the
Speaker 13: world to my team, and you know that is really
Speaker 13: valuable to us. I think a lot more than people
Speaker 13: would realize.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you so much for joining us today,
Speaker 2: Richard Glover, the CEO of the Central Florida Zoo. Yeah,
Speaker 2: appreciate you, appreciate your time. Good luck on everything with
Speaker 2: this loss. We hope people and I you know what,
Speaker 2: I know people listening right now will go throw some
Speaker 2: support over there. And uh and I really think you're
Speaker 2: doing a great thing. So thanks for spending some time
Speaker 2: with us today.
Speaker 14: Thank you and thank you for having me on there.
Speaker 2: He goes Richard Glover, CEO of the Central Florida Zoo.
Speaker 2: The people doing the good thing on the bad side
Speaker 2: of this, you know this, this facility shows up people
Speaker 2: to me pretty clearly didn't know what the hell they
Speaker 2: were doing. And now finally these animals have somebody looking
Speaker 2: after them, a team of people looking after them that
Speaker 2: can hopefully get them to a really stable spot and
Speaker 2: end this story in a better way. And I think the.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems like their dance card is pretty full
Speaker 3: right now. You know, they got their work cut out on.
Speaker 3: I think like the worst call that Richard could get
Speaker 3: tomorrow would be like, hey, we just found fifty ringtailed
Speaker 3: lemurs in rough shape.
Speaker 1: You know, I got enough things going on right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go over there. They're posting the They're posting the link
Speaker 2: over in chat. Go check it out over ont thenewsjunkie
Speaker 2: dot com. I'll put that up for other folks as well.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: They're doing some good things. And I think it's been
Speaker 2: crazy to see the push from folks who have been
Speaker 2: watching this saying I want charges. I don't think it's enough.
Speaker 2: I know they don't want to say this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: They don't want to get into this at these facilities
Speaker 2: because they are they're above the fray and they're they're
Speaker 2: doing the right thing.
Speaker 1: They're focused on animals.
Speaker 2: But I can be focused on some things like this,
Speaker 2: and I can see what you're focused on, and it
Speaker 2: seems like a lot of you are like, no, we
Speaker 2: want more. We want a little bit of a punishment
Speaker 2: at the very least for the people who are responsible
Speaker 2: for this, because at the end of the day, you
Speaker 2: got fifty animals that died, and it looks like those
Speaker 2: fifty animals died because these people didn't know what the
Speaker 2: hell they were doing. Right. That that's the thing, man,
Speaker 2: that's the thing for me. So let us know what
Speaker 2: you think. Send your dispatches, emails, all that good stuff.
Speaker 2: Quick break back in just a moment. We have so
Speaker 2: much on the way, including a person freaking out on
Speaker 2: a flight. Wait till you hear what this guy said.
Speaker 2: It's coming up next on the news Junkie. This is
Speaker 2: another existential crisis.
Speaker 1: Sea line. This is another.
Speaker 2: Existential crisis, but on a ar TV. This time it's
Speaker 2: it's actually this happened on.
Speaker 1: An ar t V.
Speaker 2: Believe it or not. A ART what's an ar TV?
Speaker 2: You you don't know what that is. You haven't heard
Speaker 2: people talking about this before.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And ar t V is in aviation related transportation vehicle. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's where this occurred. This is this occurred on weird
Speaker 2: the aviation related transportation vehicle and an art an ar
Speaker 2: TV is where this occurred and where when this ar
Speaker 2: TV located?
Speaker 1: It was in Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia. Sucker.
Speaker 6: It's a tough story.
Speaker 2: Doesn't. Why doesn't come because it's an ar TV. It's
Speaker 2: not a plane. It's completely and totally different. Where in
Speaker 2: Atlanta was it was that the world of Coca Cola.
Speaker 2: The Atlanta airport was a surprise.
Speaker 6: It's a tough story as long as it flies insane
Speaker 6: and as you, I guess.
Speaker 1: Where back of a artvuh.
Speaker 2: The aar TV story continues, plane plane bits and jingles
Speaker 2: and jangles aside. A passenger opened the emergency exit door
Speaker 2: on a delayed Delta flight in Atlanta amid severe Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was trying to tell me it was this
Speaker 3: aar TV thing the whole time.
Speaker 2: A related transportation vehicle.
Speaker 1: As I said from the jump, some of you you
Speaker 1: really weird.
Speaker 2: People might call it something else, but that's well the
Speaker 2: normal folks call ingm ARTVS A video shared online would
Speaker 2: played for you just a second showed an enraged passenger.
Speaker 3: I didn't know the shouting red crew that you were
Speaker 3: trying to take with this. I thought this guy has
Speaker 3: an augmented reality television. I don't even know how that works.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't be it worked.
Speaker 2: It worked. I almost got away with it. If it
Speaker 2: wasn't for these meddling chatters I would have gotten away there.
Speaker 2: Everybody back on a plane, back on a plane, back
Speaker 2: on a plane, every single every time I do. This
Speaker 2: video shared online showed an enraged passenger shouting at crew
Speaker 2: members about the extended delay before grabbing and opening an
Speaker 2: emergency exit door with the plane was on the ground.
Speaker 2: The aircraft, caring one hundred and sixty eight passengers, was
Speaker 2: eventually returned to the gate at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport,
Speaker 2: where the man was removed by security. The flight had
Speaker 2: been held due to a groundstop at Chicago's O'Hare International
Speaker 2: Airport and later departed hours behind schedule, finally reaching Chicago
Speaker 2: early the next morning. So basically, these people were loaded
Speaker 2: up on the plane and they thought that they were
Speaker 2: going to be able to take off, but they weren't
Speaker 2: able to take off because there were storms where they
Speaker 2: were headed at another airport, so they got stuck on
Speaker 2: the tarmac. It happens sometimes, and longer and longer and
Speaker 2: longer goes by, and this one guy just totally melts down.
Speaker 2: Let's listen to the meltdown. He got out of his seat,
Speaker 2: ran up and grabbed the phone that the flight attendants
Speaker 2: used to communicate with the flight. He grabbed that phone,
Speaker 2: like that special phone that they talk into sometimes maybe
Speaker 2: the pilot.
Speaker 1: What does that phone go to? Is it the pilot?
Speaker 3: I thought you were doing the talking about the one
Speaker 3: that's like the intercom for the whole plane, you know,
Speaker 3: the announcements.
Speaker 2: Why here he is ready?
Speaker 1: How long has it been?
Speaker 2: Already? Three four hours to night?
Speaker 1: We're talking another getting to the gate. I want off
Speaker 1: or I'll take my cellph off. Okay, he opened the door.
Speaker 2: Oh my talk?
Speaker 1: Who are you?
Speaker 2: Doesn't matter? Exactly?
Speaker 16: Matters?
Speaker 1: Who are you? Doesn't matter? Doesn't matter exactly? Do what
Speaker 1: matter to me?
Speaker 2: I'm the plane guy?
Speaker 3: This is the art art V guy main character syndrome personified.
Speaker 1: You know who matters me?
Speaker 8: Me?
Speaker 1: I'm the guy that matters.
Speaker 2: I'm having a meltdown in existential crisis on an.
Speaker 1: Ar TV is what's happening a pane?
Speaker 2: He the guy got up, starts freaking out. He opens
Speaker 2: the door that you heard at that one point. He
Speaker 2: opened the actual door to the plane and then he
Speaker 2: goes who are you? And the guy goes, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: He's like, you're right, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 16: You go, oh my talk?
Speaker 1: Who are you?
Speaker 2: Doesn't me.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I told you idiots.
Speaker 2: Oh, we got the captain coming through. The captain is
Speaker 2: now coming through on the speakers. I would be thinking,
Speaker 2: right now, is this my opportunity to get up and
Speaker 2: get this guy in like some sort of choke hold
Speaker 2: from behind? And can I Daniel Penny, this guy in
Speaker 2: the aisle of this plane right now.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's causing a disruption on my flight.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 3: I don't think you can, because he's currently not. He
Speaker 3: is causing a disruption, but he's not threatening the lives
Speaker 3: of anybody. He's not doing anything to put anybody in
Speaker 3: harm's way. If he were opening the door when you
Speaker 3: were thirty thousand feet in the air, I would say,
Speaker 3: tackle the s out of this dude. Let's let's end this.
Speaker 2: But that's a crime though, right opening that door, even
Speaker 2: if they're on the tarmac, has to be a crime, right,
Speaker 2: I would get.
Speaker 3: I mean, just not following the commands of the flight
Speaker 3: crew I think can be some sort of crime.
Speaker 1: Now he's fighting with the pilot himself.
Speaker 17: Oh, don't pay good, Sure this is a gap that
Speaker 17: speaking we are going to go back to the game.
Speaker 2: He's a good idea, Yeah, a good idea, good idea
Speaker 2: he did.
Speaker 3: This is the unfortunate thing because you're giving this guy
Speaker 3: what he wants.
Speaker 1: That's what he wants you, That's what I was looking for.
Speaker 2: It does show me, Yeah, it does show you without
Speaker 2: a shadow of a doubt. People don't really realize this,
Speaker 2: I don't think. But the whole main character syndrome thing
Speaker 2: is not just a bunch of zoomers.
Speaker 1: This guy's a boomer ass boomer. He's an old dude,
Speaker 1: and he's got the same thing.
Speaker 2: He's like, well, I matter more than everybody else on
Speaker 2: this plane. I've been held on this plane for too long.
Speaker 2: I want off the plane, and I'm gonna freak out.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna freak out and lose my mind right now.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's probably not the only one that's super
Speaker 3: pissed about the situation. I would guess that if the pilot,
Speaker 3: as he says, doesn't want to call the guy captain,
Speaker 3: But if the captain of the plane is like, hey,
Speaker 3: we're headed back to the gate, there's probably a couple
Speaker 3: of people on this plane that says, thank God, get me.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, if I have to be stuck in this tube,
Speaker 3: at least get get me. Somewhere, get me where I'm going?
Speaker 3: Just sitting down the tarmat sucks. What is our punishment
Speaker 3: for this guy?
Speaker 1: Chat?
Speaker 2: What do we think this guy deserves? CBH says lifetime ban.
Speaker 2: Mill Over on TJ chat says how fun driving a
Speaker 2: rental home?
Speaker 1: A rental car home is what he's saying.
Speaker 2: I think they're going back because the police are back
Speaker 2: at the gate, probably, But what's what's the punishment this
Speaker 2: guy deserves?
Speaker 1: Because he was like, thank god.
Speaker 17: Oh here, don't pay good Sure, this is the captain speaking,
Speaker 17: We are going to go back to the game.
Speaker 2: A good idea, good idea, Yeah, good idea?
Speaker 1: What I want to do?
Speaker 2: That guy says, I wanted the r TV to go
Speaker 2: back to the game plane's plane lane just out of curiosity.
Speaker 2: With the texting service or elsewhere is ar TV catching on?
Speaker 2: Are people believing that this is a different thing than no, no, no, All.
Speaker 1: Right, Well I had to try.
Speaker 2: I had to try as a swerve around to get
Speaker 2: to this story to work this in today.
Speaker 1: What do we think the punishment should be? Let us
Speaker 1: know your thoughts.
Speaker 2: Go over to the newsjunki dot com and send a
Speaker 2: dispatch where you could send an email over on the
Speaker 2: website or an email to tips Tips at the Newsjunkie
Speaker 2: dot com. All right, uh, should I get this out
Speaker 2: of the way while I'm here? Or should I get
Speaker 2: the other airline story out of the way? Might as well, right,
Speaker 2: it would behoove you to do that. Let's just want
Speaker 2: to hear the song again. No, let's just burn it.
Speaker 2: Let's just burn it. There's another airline that got hit
Speaker 2: by a drone off the coast of California. The United
Speaker 2: flight got hit by a drone that was up in
Speaker 2: the here, you know as well as I do. Hilariously enough,
Speaker 2: I said to the people on chat, I said, what
Speaker 2: other things do I bring up? A lot like I
Speaker 2: bring up airplanes? And they said drones and the airplane drones.
Speaker 2: You know that you're not supposed to be flying drones
Speaker 2: anywhere near these airports or the flight pass. And Seilane
Speaker 2: does his due diligence when he's going to take his
Speaker 2: drone out. He makes sure that he's out there and
Speaker 2: in places that he's allowed to be. Here's what happened
Speaker 2: in this case. Here's the ATC Audio.
Speaker 18: Nineteen getting off of Rubby two seven at Rubby probably
Speaker 18: an idea Rochester had the spot one and when they're
Speaker 18: contact ramped, all right, spot one and then contact ramp,
Speaker 18: and we had drone at around the probably probably at
Speaker 18: around three thousand seat.
Speaker 2: Right, Wow, yeah, Ill, is that high or low for
Speaker 2: a drone? Three thousand feet? He's incredibly high. Okay, that's
Speaker 2: way up there. And in a flight pass, is that
Speaker 2: a double whammie that you would get in trouble for?
Speaker 3: So you generally cannot fly a drone higher than four
Speaker 3: hundred feet.
Speaker 1: Oh god, he's three thousand feet in the air.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And the only time, the only time you can fly
Speaker 3: a drone higher than four hundred feet is if you
Speaker 3: are flying near a structure that is over four hundred
Speaker 3: feet tall, and then you can add your allotted four
Speaker 3: hundred feet to the to the height of that structure.
Speaker 2: So you're tallest you can get highest, you can get
Speaker 2: the most awtune get is four hundred feet above a
Speaker 2: tall structure, three thousand feet.
Speaker 1: There's no excuse why you're up this time.
Speaker 2: No, you should definitely now be flying at three thousand feet.
Speaker 2: The United plane hit the drone, blasted it to pieces.
Speaker 19: Yeah, around on our bait leg between the again red
Speaker 19: drone a red.
Speaker 18: D document size or how many engines or a sal
Speaker 18: or anything like that. It was so sall I couldn't
Speaker 18: tell it was red.
Speaker 2: It was a red shiny drone. Be on the lookout
Speaker 2: BOLO for the red shiny drone, or.
Speaker 3: Be on the lookout for multiple pieces of a red
Speaker 3: shiny drone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that thing got blasted.
Speaker 2: If they found it, though, and they did, could they
Speaker 2: trace the drone drune back to the HUM if they
Speaker 2: found the pieces.
Speaker 3: That's hard because if they're flying illegally like that, they
Speaker 3: may not or you may purposely not want to have
Speaker 3: anything on the drone that identifies you. If you know,
Speaker 3: typical like lawful flying of a drone, you have to
Speaker 3: have something called remote I d and, which is something
Speaker 3: that's kind of tied to your account at the FAA,
Speaker 3: and it's supposed to it's supposed to be able to
Speaker 3: tell people nearby where your drone is and where the
Speaker 3: operator is.
Speaker 2: Gotcha, Well, let us know what you think the punishment
Speaker 2: should be in this case too.
Speaker 1: We'll take all your punishment.
Speaker 2: Send dispatches at the newsjunkie dot com or emails to
Speaker 2: tips T I P s at the newsjunkie dot com.
Speaker 3: I don't know what the highest I've ever flown my
Speaker 3: drone is. I don't know what what altitude.
Speaker 2: Man's house was pretty high.
Speaker 3: No, that wasn't that high. But I flew to New
Speaker 3: York ones. I think that might have been against New
Speaker 3: York law. But as far as as far as the
Speaker 3: FAA is concerned, I was buy some buildings and I
Speaker 3: was able to go a little bit above four hundred feet.
Speaker 3: I think I got a lot of thounds.
Speaker 2: I'm sing three thousand though, and it just blasted this plane.
Speaker 2: That is a that is a real that could have
Speaker 2: been a bad thing if it went into the motor
Speaker 2: or something.
Speaker 3: There's plenty of nobody likes to, uh, you know, be
Speaker 3: actually guy stickler for the rules more than drone people
Speaker 3: talking to other drone people. So they'll be like videos
Speaker 3: of some guy on YouTube there was like I flew
Speaker 3: my drone four thousand feet in the air, and the
Speaker 3: comment section is like, you're the reason we have all
Speaker 3: these stupid rules and we had to cut through all
Speaker 3: this red tape.
Speaker 2: And I think, like anything else, they think it gives
Speaker 2: a bad rep to other people who like to fly
Speaker 2: drumses too. It does. It does absolutely all right, We'll
Speaker 2: take your thoughts on this again, emails, dispatches, all the
Speaker 2: rest when we come back. Feedback for the first time
Speaker 2: works its way onto the show. We'll see if you're
Speaker 2: freaking out out there, but also have a story that
Speaker 2: happened out of a Walmart and more importantly, the most
Speaker 2: unkinged blind item.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it right now. I'm gonna read this
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 2: It's a blind item, which is usually done where they say, like, hey,
Speaker 2: a celebrity known for their hair and makeup line got
Speaker 2: caught doing X, Y and Z and you have to
Speaker 2: kind of guess who it is.
Speaker 1: Then they revealed the blind items.
Speaker 2: Sometimes, this website is very accurate when it comes to
Speaker 2: this stuff. This is the same blind item website that
Speaker 2: told everybody Charlie Sheen had HIV before Charlie Sheen told
Speaker 2: anybody he had HIV. Right, This website is usually accurate,
Speaker 2: but this blind item that they have.
Speaker 1: Revealed is unbelievable.
Speaker 2: If it's true, it's going to cause tremors, chaos, and more,
Speaker 2: and that is coming up next on the News Junkie.
Speaker 2: There is no shot that this is true. This is
Speaker 2: no there's no way that this is true here, But
Speaker 2: they're saying that it is this is a blind item
Speaker 2: from one of these websites where they tease things that
Speaker 2: are about to happen in the news, and this particular
Speaker 2: killer one is called Crazy Days and Nights. This guy
Speaker 2: has been sued and won countless times. Right, countless times.
Speaker 2: This guy has been sued and has won, and countless
Speaker 2: times he's been right about the blind items that he
Speaker 2: has tease, and this one, if it's real, will cause
Speaker 2: some big drama. All right here it is this is
Speaker 2: a blind item that they just revealed on this website.
Speaker 2: It says it will happen late at night on a Friday.
Speaker 2: Now I'll stop there, because late at night on a
Speaker 2: Friday is one of these things where that's where they
Speaker 2: dump news.
Speaker 1: Sea Lane, you know as well as I do.
Speaker 2: This is where they put news that they want, like
Speaker 2: everybody to nobody attention.
Speaker 3: There's a less investigative journalism done on a Saturday or Sunday.
Speaker 2: Bingo, you're not paying any attention at all. It's late
Speaker 2: Friday night, people. Celebrities can die late Friday night and
Speaker 2: you won't remember by Monday. It won't happen. It will
Speaker 2: happen late at night on a f this says the
Speaker 2: word is it will be Memorial Day weekend, So it's
Speaker 2: even more of an area where you would stuff news
Speaker 2: that you don't want to see. Late at night on
Speaker 2: a Friday, Memorial Day weekend, the madam slash procureur will
Speaker 2: be pardoned and released from jail.
Speaker 14: WHOA.
Speaker 2: The deal is that she will leave the country and
Speaker 2: go into hiding. Now again, this is the website that
Speaker 2: has been right about an unbelievable amount of very shocking
Speaker 2: things that they have dropped over the years.
Speaker 1: Shocking things like the fact that.
Speaker 2: Charlie Sheen had HIV just to start, but there's so
Speaker 2: many more of these stories. I've followed this blind item
Speaker 2: website and seen it to be accurate many many, many,
Speaker 2: many many times over the years. Crazy Days and Nights
Speaker 2: is the name of the website. It's run by an attorney. Okay,
Speaker 2: so the person knows what they can say what they
Speaker 2: can't say on that kind of stuff. But when they
Speaker 2: say the word is it's going to be Friday, late
Speaker 2: at night, Memorial Day weekend, that madam slash procureur will
Speaker 2: be pardoned and released from jail, the deal is she
Speaker 2: will leave the country and go into hiding, and the
Speaker 2: revelation on the site is that this is going to
Speaker 2: be Gallaine Maxwell.
Speaker 1: And did we think it was any other madam?
Speaker 2: No, of course, but there there is like there is
Speaker 2: no shot that we would see a Gallaine Maxwell pardon
Speaker 2: and then just that person just shuffles off in the
Speaker 2: hiding and goes off to some other country. That would
Speaker 2: be I think I think that would get some people
Speaker 2: fired up. I really think there would be some people
Speaker 2: who would be fired up about this. Ted says, it
Speaker 2: wouldn't surprise me at all. Abraham says, is anyone really shocked? Yeh,
Speaker 2: I legitimately will be shocked if this happens. I will
Speaker 2: be shocked if this happens, because I don't think the
Speaker 2: public wants this to happen. Hell, I don't know if
Speaker 2: there's public polling about what people think about Gallaine Maxwell,
Speaker 2: Jeffrey Epstein's pal, but I would guess that her approval
Speaker 2: rating is probably in the gut or even more so
Speaker 2: than Congress. I would say that people probably dislike this
Speaker 2: woman and what she did, what she was convicted of.
Speaker 2: The only person who's been held accountable in all of this,
Speaker 2: Jeffrey Epstein nonsense, Well, yeah, Jeffrey was being held accountable
Speaker 2: until yeah, until question mark, right. I mean, we haven't
Speaker 2: really sorted that one out. I don't think you had.
Speaker 2: It never seems to end, but I'm telling you they're
Speaker 2: very accurate, and this is what it says. I'll read
Speaker 2: it for you one last time. It will happen late
Speaker 2: at night on a Friday. The word is it will
Speaker 2: be Memorial Day weekend that the Madam Slash Procure will
Speaker 2: be parted and released from jail. The deal is she
Speaker 2: will leave the country and go into hiding. Gallaine Maxwell
Speaker 2: is the reveal. But who on earth does that benefit?
Speaker 2: I don't think that that benefits anybody. Arno says, maybe
Speaker 2: she makes some deal in names names, but she did.
Speaker 2: They already did a long interview with her when they
Speaker 2: were releasing all of the Epstein stuff, and the interview
Speaker 2: ended up being released and.
Speaker 1: She didn't name any names there.
Speaker 2: There was no big jaw dropping shocking moments that happen there.
Speaker 1: I don't think this is going to happen.
Speaker 2: This is the place that usually is right about this,
Speaker 2: but I I think they might have this one totally wrong.
Speaker 2: We'll we'll see what happens. But what would your reaction
Speaker 2: be no matter where you're at on the political spectrum,
Speaker 2: would you be against that? Would you before that? You know,
Speaker 2: what would you think if this happened? Let us know
Speaker 2: tips at the news Junkie dot com. Tips at the
Speaker 2: Newsjunkie dot com.
Speaker 3: I mean, if this does happen, you know, does that
Speaker 3: make the powers that be that allowed it to happen
Speaker 3: look more guilty?
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't look good.
Speaker 2: It doesn't look good you release Ghleigh Maxwell, and I
Speaker 2: think almost everybody is going to be against that. I
Speaker 2: don't I can't picture a person who's gonna be like absolutely.
Speaker 1: Finally, it's about time.
Speaker 2: That one guy that hit on her.
Speaker 3: Lose his whole business because he was in the files
Speaker 3: and he was in the emails, just hitting on her,
Speaker 3: not having any knowledge of anything that went on, you
Speaker 3: know from what I saw, uh huh. But you know,
Speaker 3: it's a toxic thing to be involved with either of
Speaker 3: those names, big time. And like the top comment under
Speaker 3: this says that if Trump were to be on board
Speaker 3: with pardoning Gallayne Maxwell, it would be because.
Speaker 1: She had something on him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Johnny on TJ Chad says political suicide.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 2: I think this would be just shooting yourself in the foot.
Speaker 2: I I don't think there's any shot, but it would
Speaker 2: be mega interesting if that did happen. I think it
Speaker 2: would blow things up big. It would have to be him, right,
Speaker 2: He would have to be the one that signs the.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, big, big time.
Speaker 2: It would have to be Trump, it would do it,
Speaker 2: And I just don't I don't see that happening in
Speaker 2: the slightest. I think if anything, he wants he's done
Speaker 2: with all that stuff.
Speaker 1: He wants to move past all that.
Speaker 2: He doesn't think he can end the conversation and debate
Speaker 2: around any of these Epstein things, so he wants to
Speaker 2: move on to a Rahan or you know whatever other thing.
Speaker 2: And I don't think Trump would benefit. I don't think
Speaker 2: Republicans would benefit. I don't think anybody would benefit by
Speaker 2: doing this.
Speaker 3: What do you think? I what do you think is more?
Speaker 3: Would be? Would shock you more? If you woke up
Speaker 3: a Memorial Day weekend and read that Gallainne Maxwell had
Speaker 3: been pardoned and released from prison, or she had been
Speaker 3: found hanging in her cell.
Speaker 1: Both would be wild.
Speaker 2: Both of those would be But if she was pardon
Speaker 2: I would be absolutely My jaw would be on the
Speaker 2: floor if she was pardoned, if that actually happened.
Speaker 1: But we even have a date. They're saying Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 3: This is one of the most specific, thick blind items
Speaker 3: I think I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: Friday night, in the middle of the night, Memorial Day weekend,
Speaker 2: Gahleainne Maxwell released with the deal that she's going to
Speaker 2: another country disappearing. The thought that that would somehow end
Speaker 2: all the Epstein talk is the most dumb idea I
Speaker 2: can think of. It would not end anything. It would
Speaker 2: be way worse. But we'll take your thoughts on that.
Speaker 2: Record your dispatch with your thoughts on this or anything
Speaker 2: else we talk about of the show. Over at thenewschunkie
Speaker 2: dot com Right now, a couple of emails coming in.
Speaker 1: This is a jr. Who says the tips of the
Speaker 1: news junkie dot com about.
Speaker 2: The red button blue button. Oh god, this is like
Speaker 2: the doomsday clock for me. Trying to describe what this
Speaker 2: whole phenomenon has been about. The phenomenon is what button
Speaker 2: do you push? There is a private vote everybody has
Speaker 2: to vote around the world. If you push the blue
Speaker 2: button and fifty plus percentage of people join you to
Speaker 2: push the blue button. Nobody dies if you push the
Speaker 2: If less than fifty percent of people push the blue button,
Speaker 2: then people who push the blue button die, right, I
Speaker 2: get it right. That time you push the red button,
Speaker 2: you live.
Speaker 3: Anybody who pushes the red button lives.
Speaker 2: They live no matter what, which is why the red
Speaker 2: button was such an obvious choice for me. The idea
Speaker 2: of the blue button is having faith in other people,
Speaker 2: which stop it. Stop having faith and other people. It
Speaker 2: just is not going to work out for you in
Speaker 2: the long run. Trust yourself, trust your family members, your
Speaker 2: loved ones, trust blood over water, trust your friends over
Speaker 2: people who you don't know, over strangers. Never put your
Speaker 2: trust justin randos. That's such a weird idea to do
Speaker 2: that with the empathy thing in mind, Like you know,
Speaker 2: these people are all good out there somehow. But anyhow, Jr.
Speaker 2: Says the tips of the news junker dot Com. I'm
Speaker 2: a podcast listener, so sorry, this isn't timely. The problem
Speaker 2: you presented and the way you played it out is
Speaker 2: just a way to cold dumb people who think before
Speaker 2: they act. The red button is the only reasonable choice
Speaker 2: to fix this. The following change to the experiment is needed.
Speaker 2: The participant is brought into a room with a red
Speaker 2: and blue button. You are not told who votes or
Speaker 2: how many people will be given the opportunity. If fifty
Speaker 2: percent or more people press the blue button, everyone lives.
Speaker 2: If less than fifty percent pressed the blue button, everyone
Speaker 2: in the world dies, except those who press the red button,
Speaker 2: including those who did not vote.
Speaker 1: Hope.
Speaker 2: This sparks some more in depth conversation that doesn't change
Speaker 2: it much. Not really my favorite take on this, and
Speaker 2: there was a lot of these coming in. My favorite
Speaker 2: take on this was that the biggest brain take is
Speaker 2: that everybody who's smart will hit the red button, and
Speaker 2: the people who hit the blue button are fair to
Speaker 2: wipe out anyways. And this is like, this is like
Speaker 2: when they called COVID a boomer eraser, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. This is like that is the version of that,
Speaker 2: But we're getting rid of the dumbest people who just
Speaker 2: want to press the blue button because they trust everybody
Speaker 2: else around them will do the same press the red button.
Speaker 2: Speaking of red, Diana emails the show. Diana says, I'm
Speaker 2: watching the YouTube replay because I lose access to my
Speaker 2: work computer for three hours a day, three days a week. Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Red is definitely your color. You look great, says Diana.
Speaker 2: And I like how your face lights up when you
Speaker 2: talk to Courtney, so sweet, says Diana. Well, thank you, Diana.
Speaker 2: Number one, My face did not just light up when
Speaker 2: Courtney walked into the studio, Bob, it's ago because we've
Speaker 2: been a victim of a crime. They have been a
Speaker 2: victim of a crime at this house. And I don't
Speaker 2: know exactly who is responsible, but somebody is. And she said,
Speaker 2: look what's going on here. Somebody threw a Chick fil
Speaker 2: A sauce packet on top of our house. And I said,
Speaker 2: could could have been Christopher Dolores Lane, could have been Seelane,
Speaker 2: I don't know, could have been Josh fall Well, I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know who.
Speaker 2: Did this, but it's on top of the roof of
Speaker 2: the house right now. You might call it a hate crime.
Speaker 2: I think I could call it a hate crime. And
Speaker 2: now I have to get up on top of the
Speaker 2: big ladder to get up there. And last time I
Speaker 2: did that, I legitimately, legitimately thought the end was nine.
Speaker 2: I thought I was done for. But otherwise, of love,
Speaker 2: seeing Courtney at the door for sure. Dortney, as they
Speaker 2: call her on the stream. Anonymous emails to show and says,
Speaker 2: good afternoon, Sean. I know you and CIL like the
Speaker 2: THCHC drinks and I did hear you mentioned something about
Speaker 2: it recently. Yeah, they're good to end your night on.
Speaker 2: It's a little bit here and there. So I wanted
Speaker 2: to tell you my husband and I tried these two
Speaker 2: last night.
Speaker 1: Anonymous, you and your husband.
Speaker 2: Are crazy, wow, absolutely crazy. She shares a photo of
Speaker 2: the ones that they tried out. She said, I had
Speaker 2: the fifty milligram berry flavored one and it was delicious.
Speaker 2: I wasn't a fan of my husband's sixty milligram cherry lime,
Speaker 2: but he loved it.
Speaker 1: We got it from a liquor store nearby.
Speaker 2: I love the show Wiggle Wiggle, Pop Pop fifty.
Speaker 1: I think I take five. But was this the one
Speaker 1: that looks like a liquor bottle where you just do
Speaker 1: shots of it?
Speaker 2: Though? No, it says high potency, low calorie on the can.
Speaker 1: It's like a like a sport.
Speaker 2: It's like a energy drink can and it's sixty milligrams
Speaker 2: some of them.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: That would have me spinning around and finally real quick
Speaker 2: Steve emails the show.
Speaker 1: Steve says Sean.
Speaker 2: Last night, I finally watched my first episode of Secret
Speaker 2: Shows thanks to snagging one of the gifted subs that
Speaker 2: somebody gave.
Speaker 1: It was the latest episode I Can Fix Her.
Speaker 2: And now I'm hooked into the adventures of Palette Man
Speaker 2: that have been featured.
Speaker 1: It's wild Secret Shows. It's a good time.
Speaker 2: I nearly lost it when Ceilane pressed the wrong button
Speaker 2: and nobody but Josh noted and you almost did a
Speaker 2: spig take. Look forward to the next one, and we'll
Speaker 2: be watching some of the other episodes this weekend as well.
Speaker 1: Thanks Steve, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 2: Get In on the Secret Shows side of things, subscribe
Speaker 2: because there's a Secret Show tonight live at eight pm.
Speaker 2: You can watch on thenewsjunkie dot com if you're a subscriber,
Speaker 2: or you can gift subs over on the website click
Speaker 2: that gift icon. When we come back, a big change
Speaker 2: at a store that we all go to, Well, what
Speaker 2: is happening?
Speaker 1: Wait till you hear this that's coming up next on the.
Speaker 2: News, Chunky, this is not good for the youth out there.
Speaker 2: I'll give you a pretty stunning factoid here in just
Speaker 2: a moment, and then we'll get into more of your reactions,
Speaker 2: your dispatches, all of that good stuff. But I know
Speaker 2: that Celan has said, I think that Jackson does watch
Speaker 2: some YouTube, but he's on like kiddie YouTube. He's on there.
Speaker 3: We had to delete regular YouTube for him because of
Speaker 3: some of the stuff that was just coming up naturally
Speaker 3: in the whatever algorithm is driving some of the things.
Speaker 1: So it's so weird, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Isn't it weird that those things even exist that you
Speaker 2: have to like make sure people don't make weird videos
Speaker 2: that your kid ends up seeing. Well, he was.
Speaker 3: It would start with regular like kid stuff where he
Speaker 3: was trying to get videos of Paw Patrol or the
Speaker 3: super Kitties or whatever he likes to watch on there,
Speaker 3: and then the next recommended thing and the next recommended thing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they just they get weirder and weirder. They do these videos.
Speaker 3: Well they'll take the same sound effect and do it
Speaker 3: high pitched, and do it low pitched, and do high
Speaker 3: pitched low pitch, and it's it's the most annoying thing.
Speaker 1: But the kids, I love it, Yeah, they do.
Speaker 3: And then there was one video where it looked like
Speaker 3: a first person shooter and h all kinds of weird
Speaker 3: sound effects in that, and then randomly some guy going, oh, hell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is what your kid was watching, Like what
Speaker 2: is going on? Let me read to you a little
Speaker 2: bit of this report because this is just crazy to consider,
Speaker 2: and a lot of you will have no idea that
Speaker 2: this is happening right now. This is storted from Gizmoto,
Speaker 2: the technology website, and they say, if you were a
Speaker 2: preschooler watching YouTube in twenty seventeen, perhaps you were having
Speaker 2: holes drilled and you're still developing brain by those elsa
Speaker 2: Gate era videos where shocking things happen to knockoff versions
Speaker 2: of Disney characters, kind of like what Celan was talking
Speaker 2: about there a bit. Almost a decade has passed now
Speaker 2: and YouTube has become an even more unsettling place on
Speaker 2: the whole. But from the sound of it, those same
Speaker 2: kids now today's tweens and teens have only upped their
Speaker 2: dosage of content thanks to devices and policies that enable
Speaker 2: content consumption at school. Here we go a Wall Street
Speaker 2: Journal report from Wednesday of this week about YouTube consumption
Speaker 2: on what are supposed to be educational devices included a
Speaker 2: jaw dropping fact. A seventh grader by the name of
Speaker 2: Ben Warren in Wichita, Kansas. Little Ben Warren, who is
Speaker 2: in seventh grade, reportedly managed to log thirteen thousand YouTube
Speaker 2: video views in three months from his school Google account
Speaker 2: during school. This kid is watching so much videto, I
Speaker 2: hope not the same one over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: Do shorts count as this?
Speaker 3: Because that was another reason I kind of wanted to
Speaker 3: get rid of the main YouTube app for the baby
Speaker 3: was that he would just like sit on a short
Speaker 3: for a while and it's like fifteen to thirty seconds,
Speaker 3: and it repeats over and over again. I'm like, dude,
Speaker 3: you gotta scroll. You need to scroll, or I'm going
Speaker 3: to lose my effing mind. Good question. I don't know
Speaker 3: if they say whether there's shorts or regular videos. One
Speaker 3: anonymous tenth grader in Oregon, according to the Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 3: logged two hundred video views in one school morning last month.
Speaker 3: By my math, Warren was averaging one hundred and forty
Speaker 3: four shorts per day across his entire heavy viewing period.
Speaker 3: Another student in Oregon watched two hundred and forty minutes.
Speaker 3: It's four hours of YouTube in one day. The kids
Speaker 3: are just glued to YouTube, I guess. And that one
Speaker 3: student had been placed in an addiction treatment program. Okay,
Speaker 3: Boston Children's Hospital because of his YouTube addiction, which I mean, what, parents,
Speaker 3: what do we think about that the kid is on
Speaker 3: YouTube for four hours in a day.
Speaker 2: Do you put them in an addiction treatment program? Or
Speaker 2: am I crazy here?
Speaker 1: Do you just tell them no more YouTube? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: as this where we're at now.
Speaker 2: It was very easy to delete. You know, you can
Speaker 2: just delete it, delete the app. Have some control over
Speaker 2: your kids. You're gonna go in an in person addiction
Speaker 2: treatment program at Boston Children's Hospital for this kid who
Speaker 2: was a tenth grader. A tenth grader, no, no, yeah,
Speaker 2: a tenth grader I think was the one responsible for
Speaker 2: this who watched four hours of YouTube in a day
Speaker 2: and they brought him to an addiction treatment program.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, what.
Speaker 2: Do we not parent anymore? We just say now it's
Speaker 2: an addiction treatment program. That's what we're doing. For the record,
Speaker 2: Warren probably hasn't been attentively sitting through long form videos
Speaker 2: like mister Beast, if that's what you're imagining. According to
Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal, he had been using a school
Speaker 2: iPad to endlessly swipe TikTok Scott style on YouTube shorts. Yeah,
Speaker 2: frequently ingesting headshot, gloring, glorifying content about Fortnite, a game
Speaker 2: he wasn't even allowed to play. So they go on
Speaker 2: and on and on. This is after mind you. We
Speaker 2: had that whole lawsuit. We're Google and YouTube and I
Speaker 2: think Facebook lost. They lost in this lawsuit against this
Speaker 2: young woman who said that she was addicted to the
Speaker 2: harmful products that they put out, and a jury awarded
Speaker 2: her three million dollars. But now we have kids that
Speaker 2: are on these There are school issued iPads, which I
Speaker 2: don't even know why they can access YouTube on the
Speaker 2: school issued iPad.
Speaker 1: They should be locked down. They should have.
Speaker 3: Apple Device Management or whatever to keep them from downloading
Speaker 3: that unless there's some reason why the school wants YouTube
Speaker 3: to be on there, if there's an educational purpose. But
Speaker 3: it seems like that's kind of a big loophole for them.
Speaker 3: If they're logging thirteen thousand views in three months.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like it would be easy just to say, okay,
Speaker 2: nothing from the domain YouTube, none of the YouTube app stuff, boom,
Speaker 2: easy thing, and then any of the kids out there
Speaker 2: just have the parents. I would imagine that their parents
Speaker 2: would be watched what they're doing. At least that's what
Speaker 2: I would hope it was happening there. Ex Swimmer says
Speaker 2: four hours. Isn't this show four hours a day? Loll
Speaker 2: Do I need detox? I wouldn't think so. Although it
Speaker 2: is called the news junkie. On that account, maybe you
Speaker 2: would consider it for a second. But it's just crazy
Speaker 2: to me how how all this is shaping up with
Speaker 2: kids and so much of it now is like the
Speaker 2: schools need to do this, or the state needs to
Speaker 2: jump in, or the companies need to pay millions of
Speaker 2: dollars to the kids. All of this from parents seems
Speaker 2: to be completely outsourced. It seems to be completely outsourced.
Speaker 2: Just crazy, crazy to see. Let us know what you
Speaker 2: think about that Senate dispatch over at thenewsjunkie dot com.
Speaker 2: All right, here is a couple of dispatches here about
Speaker 2: the airplane guy, the guy who had the meltdown of
Speaker 2: the airplane.
Speaker 1: Here's tree climber. All right, I.
Speaker 8: Though think that the airplane man should be punished. No,
Speaker 8: I did a good thing opening that door. I don't
Speaker 8: know if I would open the door.
Speaker 2: But I would want somebody to do it, not kick
Speaker 2: it down and be all aggressive, but just open it
Speaker 2: and then get that slide and we're gonna all slide
Speaker 2: down and get.
Speaker 8: Off that page, all right.
Speaker 20: I'd like if we go to slide down instead of
Speaker 20: go back to the terminal.
Speaker 8: That's my opinion. This is Kate, this is louder.
Speaker 2: Hopefully you can hear me.
Speaker 1: A little bit.
Speaker 2: You're still whispery, but I could hear you a little
Speaker 2: bit louder there, Kate.
Speaker 1: Thank you for that, she says.
Speaker 2: The guy who had the freak out on the airplane
Speaker 2: was definitely going to get in trouble. Shouldn't get in
Speaker 2: trouble at all. And here's one more. This is let's
Speaker 2: see here. Here is a Joseph for the dispatch for US.
Speaker 21: I say, for all the people are in jail for
Speaker 21: capital punishment, and I'm blaiting for the death bound ingata
Speaker 21: out to put him on an airplane, handcuff him and
Speaker 21: send him to Iran. Fight for our country. If you
Speaker 21: make it, you make it. If you're not, you're not
Speaker 21: good buying.
Speaker 2: Good luck, all right, thank you, thank you for that
Speaker 2: strange IDEA Joseph appreciate that. Well. We got more of
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Speaker 1: We're back in just a moment. Fritz on the Street.
Speaker 2: If you want us to play for you, now's the
Speaker 2: time to get our attention, not by throwing a Chick
Speaker 2: fil A sauce packet on top of the roof of
Speaker 2: my house, but hopefully from just sitting in chat and
Speaker 2: trying to get us to fight for you and Fritz
Speaker 2: on the Street. And we'll do that. Fritz on the
Speaker 2: Street is coming up next in the news.
Speaker 1: Chunk kie.
Speaker 2: Everybody's locked in and set up. We're ready to do
Speaker 2: Fritz on the Street. I see that more good guy
Speaker 2: Don over there, Don, how are you hello?
Speaker 1: I just couldn't be any better. I got to tell
Speaker 1: you something. He showed up nice and early for intimidation factor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he doesn't need to do that, because already people
Speaker 2: were saying, why even try. We all know that Don
Speaker 2: is going to win the game today. I was like, well,
Speaker 2: you know, give us a shot at least, let's see.
Speaker 1: You know, even a blind hog roots up a tator
Speaker 1: from time to time.
Speaker 2: I did good last week. Yeah I say that all
Speaker 2: the time. Yeah, I do that too.
Speaker 1: Our friend Fritz is joining us here in this studio.
Speaker 2: And you can be part of this when it actually
Speaker 2: goes down every single week when Fritz does Fritz's Funhouse Trivia. Well,
Speaker 2: right now it's time to do it on the radio.
Speaker 2: I guess we announced who we picked first of all,
Speaker 2: we usually do that all started. I picked Dispatch Dan
Speaker 2: over in TNJ Chat. Dispatch Dan. I will be representing him.
Speaker 2: Whether he likes it or not. It's probably not for
Speaker 2: the best for him in this game, but I'll be
Speaker 2: representing Dispatch Dan. What about uc LEG?
Speaker 1: I picked Paul Meadow on the texting service?
Speaker 2: All right, Paula, don have you selected anybody to represent?
Speaker 9: I have not. You want to choose for me? And
Speaker 9: then the next next week, I'll make sure I've got somebody. Well,
Speaker 9: let me tell you something.
Speaker 2: If you want to look at chat or anything during
Speaker 2: the break, they're all going to be asking you to
Speaker 2: represent themsel I'll just I'll just give you one of them.
Speaker 2: How about now a lot of people here? How about
Speaker 2: ghost Bird? All right? All right, ghosts ghost Bird will
Speaker 2: be with Don and Fritz on the street today. And
Speaker 2: that gets us all set and ready to go. I
Speaker 2: think Fritz, you ready to do this, I.
Speaker 8: Think so I said I was ready last week and
Speaker 8: then we had that kerfuffle, So no.
Speaker 1: You got it. You got it today. Let's do Fritz
Speaker 1: on the Street now, time for.
Speaker 8: It's like the parachute has Agen Hi Sean Hi, Don, Hi,
Speaker 8: Christopher Lane, Hello Fritz. Fritz on the Street sponsored by
Speaker 8: that mortgage guy Don. He's to the left of me
Speaker 8: and he's always on your right side of life. If
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Speaker 8: you name it. And you can also listen to the
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Speaker 8: on Real Radio one oh four point one. We talk
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Speaker 8: miss the boat go to home Loans Radio dot com
Speaker 8: and or that mortgage guy Don dot com tells the
Speaker 8: dot com I love it. In first place on Fritz
Speaker 8: on the Street with one hundred and seven points mister
Speaker 8: Christopher Lane, in second place with ninety five points mister Don.
Speaker 8: And in third places I don't know your last name,
Speaker 8: and in third place with seventy seven points mister Shawn Watson.
Speaker 8: So one oh seven ninety five seventy seven. I ask
Speaker 8: eight questions for current event questions and four general knowledge
Speaker 8: trivia questions to patrons of the bar Covos Bar and
Speaker 8: Kitchen each Tuesday night after Fritz's Funhouse Trivia in Thornton Park.
Speaker 8: That's downtown Orlando, Florida. And I got nine participants. They
Speaker 8: have all answered to the best of their ability. Everything
Speaker 8: has been edited. You have to chime in for that
Speaker 8: bonus point and guess how many out of eight got
Speaker 8: it right.
Speaker 1: Sounds good. I think we're all set. I'm ready.
Speaker 8: Question number one, without further ad you, last week, which
Speaker 8: Major League Baseball organization fired most of its coaching staff?
Speaker 2: Ooh, Sean sewn.
Speaker 1: New York Yankees.
Speaker 8: New York Yankees is incorrect. Houston Astros that is also incorrect.
Speaker 1: I have no clue. Let's say Atlanta.
Speaker 8: That would be the Boston Red Size.
Speaker 1: Ah shut it down.
Speaker 8: Seelan are in first place. Let's start with you. Out
Speaker 8: of eight answers, how many do you think said Boston.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go three three mm all go h two
Speaker 2: two for Sean.
Speaker 1: I'll take the over, four and four for Dawn.
Speaker 8: Question number one with answers of two.
Speaker 7: Three and four ding ding ding ding ding ding.
Speaker 8: Someone's picking up their two points. You know it was
Speaker 8: based last week. Which Major League Baseball organization fired most
Speaker 8: of its coaching staff.
Speaker 6: I should know this.
Speaker 1: The Red Sox. I hope it's because the White Sox.
Speaker 16: The Red Sox, Guardians, Red Sox, the Orioles.
Speaker 8: That would be three, so Sea Lean is picking up
Speaker 8: two points on that one. Sean and Don with your
Speaker 8: guess up two and four, picking up one point each.
Speaker 2: I'll take it. I'll take it.
Speaker 8: Question two, now, what American group released the landmark nineteen
Speaker 8: sixty six album Pet Sounds The Beach Boys? The Beach
Speaker 8: Boys is correct? Out of eight answers, how many do
Speaker 8: you think said the Beach Boys?
Speaker 2: I will go six six Mmm, I'll take seven, seven.
Speaker 1: For Sean Royal. I'll go five and five for down.
Speaker 8: You know you can also pick the same number, just
Speaker 8: just to clarify question two. I didn't know if he didn't,
Speaker 8: I wasn't sure. Question question two, with answers of five, six.
Speaker 6: And seven, ding ding ding ding ding ding.
Speaker 8: Somebody knows they're classic hits. What American group released the
Speaker 8: landmark nineteen sixty six album, pet Sounds.
Speaker 10: The beach Boys, the beach Boys, beach twice, the beach Boys.
Speaker 2: Let's go, Tom Petty beach Boys, beach Boys, beach Boys.
Speaker 8: That would be seven, Seawan is picking up two points. Yeah,
Speaker 8: and Sea Land with a guess of six, picking up
Speaker 8: one point. Question three now, with six questions remaining on Tuesday,
Speaker 8: which member of the royal family addressed both King Charles
Speaker 8: Charles is correct? Full question? Which member of the royal
Speaker 8: family addressed both Chambers of Congress Celion? Out of eight answers,
Speaker 8: how many do you think, said King Charles, eight, eight, six,
Speaker 8: six for sewn seven and seven for dawn. Question three
Speaker 8: with answers of six, seven and eight, Let's see who knows.
Speaker 8: On Tuesday, which member of the royal family with the
Speaker 8: Chambers of Congress.
Speaker 1: Prince William, Prince Andrew.
Speaker 8: King, Charles, Oh, King Charles.
Speaker 2: Prince Andrew King, Charles, King, Charles, King Charles.
Speaker 8: That would be five, So Sean with the guest of
Speaker 8: six picking up one point. Question four is up next.
Speaker 1: That's the Andrew.
Speaker 2: Come on, guys, several said, hasn't even banished from like
Speaker 2: you know all of Yeah, No, nobody likes that guy.
Speaker 8: He's not allowed to breathe anymore. Question four is a
Speaker 8: halfway point after question four. I will tell you who
Speaker 8: is leading so far on the day. Question four goes
Speaker 8: like the which president ended US participation in the Vietnam War?
Speaker 1: Don?
Speaker 2: Don Nixon?
Speaker 8: Nixon is correct?
Speaker 2: Don?
Speaker 8: Out of eight answers, how many do you think, said
Speaker 8: Richard Nixon?
Speaker 2: Five?
Speaker 8: Five for four for Sea Lane?
Speaker 1: A couple of people probably, said Prince Andrew.
Speaker 8: Did for Sean. Question four with answers of three, four and.
Speaker 6: Five, Ding ding ding ding ding ding.
Speaker 8: Someone knows their tricky, Dicky? Who is it?
Speaker 1: Uh? Oh?
Speaker 2: Is it plain? Not yet?
Speaker 8: Maybe it's over here, Maybe it's over here. Which president
Speaker 8: ended US participation in the Vietnam War?
Speaker 6: Nixon?
Speaker 1: Nixon?
Speaker 8: I got Kennedy.
Speaker 1: Johnson, Jimmy Carter Nixon.
Speaker 8: That would be three. So Sean is picking up two
Speaker 8: points on that one, and but I guess of four
Speaker 8: picking up one point. That means, with four down and
Speaker 8: four remaining in first place, we have a tie six
Speaker 8: points each. Sea Lane slash Paul Meadow and Sean slash
Speaker 8: Dispatch Dan in third place with two points, Don slash
Speaker 8: Ghost Bird. Moving on now the question five, with four
Speaker 8: remaining recently, which oil producing nation announced plans to leave Opek?
Speaker 1: Don?
Speaker 2: Don?
Speaker 8: That is correct, United Arab Emirates.
Speaker 12: Don.
Speaker 8: Out of eight answers, how many do you think said
Speaker 8: the United Arab Emirates or u AE?
Speaker 2: Three?
Speaker 8: Three, two, two for Sea Lane three and three for sean.
Speaker 8: Question five, with answers of two and three, everything I write, yeah, got.
Speaker 2: Here we go?
Speaker 8: Recently? Which oil producing nation announced planes to leave Opek?
Speaker 21: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iran, Iran, can I pass?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm not good with these questions?
Speaker 6: Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 8: Wow, it would be zero goose egg the Apon ray
Speaker 8: or goose egg? No points awarded. Three questions now remain.
Speaker 8: Question six, which apes name means quote man of the forest?
Speaker 8: Unquote shun chunk.
Speaker 1: Chimpanze is incorrect?
Speaker 8: Which means man of the forest.
Speaker 1: I can't even really name that many apes? And gorilla
Speaker 1: that is incorrect? Donn Orangutan that is correct?
Speaker 9: Wow, thanks for reading out the wrong answers, guys, I
Speaker 9: appreciate it.
Speaker 2: The first half was so loaded with like soft questions,
Speaker 2: and then the second.
Speaker 1: Half is UAE and orangutan, damn don.
Speaker 8: Out of eight answers, how many do you think said
Speaker 8: a rangutan man.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go.
Speaker 8: One, one, three, three for Sean two and two for
Speaker 8: sea lane. Question six with answers of one, two and three,
Speaker 8: who knows the monkeys? Which ape's name means? Quote man
Speaker 8: of the forest.
Speaker 16: Unquote, tarzan, orangutan, sasquatch, god zilla, rangutan, orangutan.
Speaker 8: That would be five, So no points aworded on that one.
Speaker 1: That was depressing. Yeah, I feel it too.
Speaker 8: Two questions remaining. Question seven. Over the weekend, a gunman
Speaker 8: allegedly opened fire, during which annual Washington DCONN the Correspondence
Speaker 8: Dinner correspondence is correct.
Speaker 2: Come on, he's doing it so stupid. It's like it's
Speaker 2: like the runner that like strapped a bunch of weights
Speaker 2: to himself just to see if he could try to
Speaker 2: his medal a little more.
Speaker 8: Andy has a parachute behind him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, second time, let me give him a little bit
Speaker 2: of a head start, and then second half all start sprinting.
Speaker 8: Okay, during which annual Washington DC event rounds out that
Speaker 8: question don Out of eight answers, how many do you
Speaker 8: think said the White House Correspondence Dinner w HCD Sevesta Radio,
Speaker 8: Let's go six seven, eight, and eight for Shawn. Question
Speaker 8: seven with answers of six, seven.
Speaker 6: And eight sting Ding Ding Ding ding Ding.
Speaker 8: Someone knows it?
Speaker 1: Who could have?
Speaker 8: Over the weekend a gunman allegedly opened fire during which
Speaker 8: annual Washington DC event Correspondence Dinner.
Speaker 2: Press Correspondence, Dinner, the White House Correspondence Dinner.
Speaker 13: Correspondence, Dinner Correspondence, White House Press Correspondence Center, Corresponds Center.
Speaker 8: White House Correspondent Center, the White House Correspondence. That would
Speaker 8: be eight. So Sean is picking up two points, and
Speaker 8: Sea Lane with a guess of seven, picking up one point.
Speaker 8: One question remaining now, but before we do, let's take
Speaker 8: a look at the leaderboard. In first place with eight
Speaker 8: points Sean slash Dispatch Dan, in second place with seven points,
Speaker 8: Sea Lane slash Paul Meadow, and in third place with
Speaker 8: five points Don slash Ghost Bird. So eight, seven and five.
Speaker 8: Question eight goes like this, what is the capital of Indonesia?
Speaker 1: Celan Selan Jakarta? That is correct.
Speaker 6: Selane.
Speaker 8: Out of eight answers, how many do you think said
Speaker 8: Jakartar five?
Speaker 2: Five that's two high.
Speaker 8: Four four for Sean, three and three four Dawn. Question eight,
Speaker 8: This one's for all the marbles. Question eight with answers
Speaker 8: of three, four and five. And what is the capital
Speaker 8: of Indonesia? Pass?
Speaker 16: Kuala Lumport, Jakarta, Nice, Jakarta, Cambodia.
Speaker 1: I'm out of capitals.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, yeah, pass that would be two. So Don
Speaker 8: with I guess of three, picking up one point, and
Speaker 8: we end the day VUSI with eight points each.
Speaker 1: We have a tie.
Speaker 8: Hurrah, Sea Lane slash Paul Meadow and Sean slash Dispatch Dan.
Speaker 8: Congratulations to those two. And in third place, just two
Speaker 8: points behind, but six points Don slash Ghost Bird. That
Speaker 8: means the new total car in first place and still
Speaker 8: leading on Fritz on the Street with one hundred and
Speaker 8: fifteen points, Christopher Lane in second place with one hundred
Speaker 8: and one points. You broke one hundred Don that mortgage, guy, Don.
Speaker 8: And in third place with Wilson and that is Frits
Speaker 8: on the Street.
Speaker 2: Goes Lo. He came, he saw he conquered Fritz with
Speaker 2: Fritz on the Street once more.
Speaker 8: In something for Jack Bradshaw.
Speaker 2: So look at this man. It's the man of many
Speaker 2: talents around here. But we want to say to Dispatch
Speaker 2: Dan who I was playing for? And Paul Meadow, I
Speaker 2: think who Sealane was playing for your our winners today,
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Speaker 2: and I'll hook you up with a great prize. Easy
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Speaker 2: with dispatches, emails and all the rest. And more importantly,
Speaker 2: you can join Fritz every single week when he's out
Speaker 2: there doing Fritz's Funhouse Trivia.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 1: I was telling Fritz.
Speaker 2: I was talking to one of the guys over there
Speaker 2: at Cavos where he does this Fritz his Funhouse Trivia
Speaker 2: a lot of time, and they just they didn't have
Speaker 2: any They couldn't say enough good things about Fritz's Trivia night,
Speaker 2: the amount of people that it brings in, the people
Speaker 2: who are just so dedicated to showing up for this.
Speaker 2: And I think you should be too, So make sure
Speaker 2: you're following along with Fritz on all social media.
Speaker 1: I catch a Ryan Holmes in that dance there.
Speaker 8: I think Ryan Holmes and uh, let's see, we had
Speaker 8: twelve teams on Tuesday, which.
Speaker 1: Is without his wife again, because I hear that's like
Speaker 1: his new.
Speaker 8: Thing is he was he went to do comedy across
Speaker 8: the street and then when.
Speaker 2: He failed and then went over, Yeah, when.
Speaker 8: He's done, basically he just walks across the street and
Speaker 8: hangs out for a little bit, has a little bit
Speaker 8: of the you know, like I don't know a drink,
Speaker 8: and then he's like, all right, I gotta wake up
Speaker 8: in four hours.
Speaker 3: Then I was gonna say, does does Ryan let loose
Speaker 3: on a on a Tuesday? And he's not getting you know,
Speaker 3: read his contract to the adoring public drunk?
Speaker 6: Is he No?
Speaker 8: He's like, you know, he's a professional comedian. So he
Speaker 8: shows up and he just paces in the parking lot
Speaker 8: and then he kicks the door in and then then
Speaker 8: he's out.
Speaker 3: He's working on a bunch of new material. He told me,
Speaker 3: is Zam all right, Well, I never trust him. I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't don't trust that guy as far as I
Speaker 2: could throw him. But he is a nice dude. He
Speaker 2: is very funny and I think one thousand percent. Oh,
Speaker 2: by the way, I second this from Rachel on YouTube.
Speaker 2: Let's just throw this out there into the ether. Rachel says,
Speaker 2: man Fritz, in my humble opinion, could be huge in
Speaker 2: the voiceover world. He could have the perfect cartoon voice. Well,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you he does a lot of acting and
Speaker 2: theme stuff. And if you don't know what Fort Fritz is,
Speaker 2: and you know what all that very very creative outlet
Speaker 2: stuff is that Fritz has done over the years, I
Speaker 2: would encourage you to go check it out.
Speaker 1: Is there more Fort Fritz episodes in the works?
Speaker 8: We are thinking about it. We have like a hundred
Speaker 8: stories pretty much in the can. So we're just kind
Speaker 8: of biting our time to get the next season done.
Speaker 8: We just don't know when it's going to be. It
Speaker 8: might be next year. I would imagine next year.
Speaker 2: Perfect amount to take that and then somebody like option it,
Speaker 2: turn it into something, turn it into like a series,
Speaker 2: or there's a lot of stuff that can happen with that.
Speaker 2: All right, we love you, Fritz. We appreciate you. There
Speaker 2: we go, Frit's on the street. Don you want to
Speaker 2: hang out with us for a bit here? Sure if
Speaker 2: you want me to. I've got a little time. All right,
Speaker 2: we'll see, We'll see what's going on with Donn in
Speaker 2: just a moment. We got a lot more stories to
Speaker 2: get into. I got the story about this store that
Speaker 2: we all go to that is changing everything. What's happening
Speaker 2: that's coming up next. I'm gonna use junkie. I know
Speaker 2: the listeners, I know them and I know what they want.
Speaker 2: But this is one where I say, hey, I think
Speaker 2: I'm actually outside of the norm on this our friend
Speaker 2: that mortgage guy, Don hanging out with us here on
Speaker 2: the show as we roll on it, just to get
Speaker 2: to know a little something about you in a tiny way. Don.
Speaker 2: If you are at the store, you're ready to check out,
Speaker 2: and you have the opportunity to interact with a real
Speaker 2: live human with a pulse and everything, or to go
Speaker 2: self checkout, Which one of those things are you choosing?
Speaker 9: And well, I would say it depends on the number
Speaker 9: of items that I have. Like, if I have one
Speaker 9: or two things, I'm going to just try and do
Speaker 9: the automatic checkout and be out of there. But if
Speaker 9: I've got to juggle seven things and balance them on
Speaker 9: the thing and all that, I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 9: So it's not about the interaction, it's about what's easy
Speaker 9: for me. Practically, I use the self checkout sometimes as
Speaker 9: a glorified express lane. That's sometimes even a little bit
Speaker 9: more express. But also if I have the baby with me,
Speaker 9: it's usually the person I'm not trying to That.
Speaker 1: Makes sense, I get it.
Speaker 2: You're distracted by the baby and all that stuff. For me,
Speaker 2: I absolutely agree. I think it was Bootsy who said
Speaker 2: over on chat, everywhere outside of Costco, give me the
Speaker 2: self checkout. Costco self checkout is a nightmare, is a healthscape.
Speaker 1: It's back.
Speaker 3: We used to use Costco self checkout because that was
Speaker 3: the way that you got away with using somebody else's
Speaker 3: Costco card. So we would bring you know, because they
Speaker 3: didn't for a while there, until they started cracking down
Speaker 3: on this, they didn't really check your picture that hard.
Speaker 3: They would just like kind of glance at it, or
Speaker 3: you would just wave your thing at them as you
Speaker 3: walked in the door, and they're like, cool, you're good
Speaker 3: to go. And then when you check out, they scan it.
Speaker 3: So they might look a little harder at what your
Speaker 3: picture is, but not if you scan it itself checkout.
Speaker 2: I mean maybe again, I think I'm in the minority
Speaker 2: on this. But when I look at this and I
Speaker 2: think about those decisions, I'll get into the story about this.
Speaker 2: In a moment, all I think about is I love
Speaker 2: so much more just putting my stuff up there. Nobody's
Speaker 2: judging what I'm buying. There's no small talk going on.
Speaker 2: With some employee that doesn't really want to talk to
Speaker 2: me to begin with, and I don't really care about
Speaker 2: talking to them. So much better and easier, and I
Speaker 2: like it in so many ways. Actually I prefer that,
Speaker 2: but I know most people don't seem to. But when
Speaker 2: I see the story that says Walmart is getting rid
Speaker 2: of self checkouts and switching back to traditional lanes they
Speaker 2: were mostly self checkout, I thought, yeah, I don't believe it.
Speaker 2: I don't believe anybody's going back on this. I don't
Speaker 2: believe they're putting that genie back into the lamp. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2: Once these companies realize that they can get rid of
Speaker 2: the employees that they have to pay, the labor becomes
Speaker 2: so much cheaper, and they can keep an eye on
Speaker 2: things in a different way. Maybe one employee is watching
Speaker 2: four or five or six maybe even more self checkouts.
Speaker 2: There's no way they're going back to hiring actual humans
Speaker 2: at the checkout lanes.
Speaker 1: It's just not happening.
Speaker 3: What Walmart needs to do is finally admit that their situation,
Speaker 3: their process is annoying, and enable tap to pay, Because
Speaker 3: right now it's like you can scan your candor. I
Speaker 3: don't think so. I think they have it turned off
Speaker 3: because they want you to use the Walmart app, because
Speaker 3: you can pay for your stuff in the Walmart app,
Speaker 3: or you could use like a card swipe of stuff,
Speaker 3: but you can't use like your your Apple pay or
Speaker 3: any of that stuff at Walmart.
Speaker 2: Right. Ted says, I'll do self check out when I
Speaker 2: get ten percent off for doing their job. Good luck.
Speaker 2: Ted Keith says, Sean just doesn't want to talk to
Speaker 2: the peasants.
Speaker 1: I just have said it a million times in the show.
Speaker 2: I don't care about the small talk stuff at a
Speaker 2: grocery store with the grocery store employee. And it's always
Speaker 2: the case that you sit there and they go, huh,
Speaker 2: looks like you're making a pasta tonight, you know, the
Speaker 2: pasta sauce and the pepperona Okay, whatever. I don't need
Speaker 2: you examining what I'm buying. Just let me go here,
Speaker 2: I don't buy and then taking a look at what
Speaker 2: I'm buying. Sometimes why, one time it helped me out.
Speaker 2: And I'll say that because one time I didn't have
Speaker 2: my ID on me and they asked for it, and
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I don't have any idea on me,
Speaker 2: and they kind of looked and then then she looks
Speaker 2: at the manager, and the manager looks at the at
Speaker 2: the conveyor belt and I have red wine and tampons
Speaker 2: on the conveyor belt. And the manager was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: he needs this. I think I think we need we.
Speaker 3: Need to to let him through with this.
Speaker 1: Well, we trust him.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 9: It's even you know, it's even better than the than
Speaker 9: the self checkout at Walmart. Is uh, I do Walmart delivery,
Speaker 9: then you don't even have to go there, just shows
Speaker 9: up at your house.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but do they jack up the cost of whatever
Speaker 2: you bought by like a bunch of different delivery fees
Speaker 2: and stuff.
Speaker 9: I figured out it costs me maybe five or ten
Speaker 9: bucks more, and it means I don't go to Walmart.
Speaker 2: It's not bad.
Speaker 6: That's not bad.
Speaker 3: Actually that's kind of a yeah, it's kind of worth
Speaker 3: It's a convenience tax, right, Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2: That's not bad. If you can make that make sense,
Speaker 2: it makes it like then you don't have to go
Speaker 2: into the crowds of people.
Speaker 1: Let's be honest.
Speaker 2: Walmart is Although it's good people watching, it is great
Speaker 2: people watching, it's not like, somebody's it going there.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh please, I need to.
Speaker 2: Get done with this as fast as I possibly can.
Speaker 3: Have some good, some good cheap T shirts there at Walmart,
Speaker 3: and I'll tell you that is.
Speaker 2: That a Walmart T shirt? This is not No, I
Speaker 2: got this for Christmas. But there's a couple others that
Speaker 2: what is this missing kids T shirt? Oh it's a
Speaker 2: cassette tape? Man? Oh have you seen me a cassette tape?
Speaker 2: Is this about the state of affairs in the music industry? Sure, yes,
Speaker 2: that's It's exactly I knew. I knew what you were
Speaker 2: going to talk about going into this.
Speaker 1: What you knew?
Speaker 3: What what was I going to talk about? Your your
Speaker 3: music thing? Your your music sucks?
Speaker 2: Now takee I that's not my take, really, I'm just
Speaker 2: saying that, what kind of is my take?
Speaker 18: Right?
Speaker 1: Broke him?
Speaker 2: The current onslaught of artists that we have seems to
Speaker 2: be kind of soft right now. I don't I don't
Speaker 2: know that we have like the best, the best of
Speaker 2: the bunch musicians popping out right now. And this is
Speaker 2: seems like one of those back in my day type things,
Speaker 2: probably because it is. But I saw not that long
Speaker 2: ago somebody was somebody's rattling off a year. They said,
Speaker 2: this year was a great year for music, and they said,
Speaker 2: Prince put this out and this was out, and this
Speaker 2: album was out and this went down.
Speaker 1: And this one out, and I go, what do we
Speaker 1: got right now? And every generation, all people who look
Speaker 1: at it right now are like, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is the best that we
Speaker 1: have for everybody.
Speaker 2: I think it does seem a little soft. Are you
Speaker 2: into anybody in particular? Is there new music that you're
Speaker 2: into right now? Don I can't. I can't think of anybody. No,
Speaker 2: not really. See you listen to all older stuff, like
Speaker 2: stuff that is from like the nineties, two thousands, whatever.
Speaker 9: I mean, I listen to new stuff. There's a cool
Speaker 9: thing on Spotify I like, which is like every Friday,
Speaker 9: It's like New Artists Friday, and you can you can
Speaker 9: just put it on and listen to it in the
Speaker 9: background and you hear some cool stuff.
Speaker 2: But I don't.
Speaker 9: I'm not really like, you know, on top of any
Speaker 9: anybody new as a big feature artist.
Speaker 2: So many of them that will pop out right now
Speaker 2: will be famous for like three weeks and then recycled
Speaker 2: right through to the next person unbelievably fast. It feels
Speaker 2: so like the process of somebody being famous and then
Speaker 2: disappearing has never been I don't think as quick as
Speaker 2: it is now. Anyhow, we'll take your feedback and all
Speaker 2: the rest of that stuff. Our friend Don is going
Speaker 2: to help you out when it's time for you to
Speaker 2: get at a new home and you want to make
Speaker 2: sure you get a great deal on your mortgage. It's
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Speaker 2: gods sake, this is the guy. Is now a good
Speaker 2: time to buy a house?
Speaker 21: Don?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? Yeah.
Speaker 9: The rates are at near three year lows. It's a
Speaker 9: great time. There's a lot of inventory, a lot of
Speaker 9: houses on the market, so it's a fantastic time. And
Speaker 9: I can tell because we're super duper busy.
Speaker 1: Nice good. Yeah, that's I mean.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people right now are unsure
Speaker 2: of like doing some of these things, and they go,
Speaker 2: I should do maybe I should try this on my own.
Speaker 2: I can tell you from experience, don't You'll you'll absolutely
Speaker 2: make a decision where afterwards somebody like Don will tell you, well,
Speaker 2: if you would have called me, you could have saved money,
Speaker 2: you could have got more opportunities, you could have got
Speaker 2: better rates. That's the deal. That's why there's so many
Speaker 2: people right now in chat saying like Jill Don is
Speaker 2: amazing with mortgages. This is how he's going to help
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Speaker 9: Well, I'll tell you on my you can follow me
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Speaker 9: up there three hundred and you know, on my on
Speaker 9: my web page at that Mortgage Guy Don, over three
Speaker 9: hundred and forty episodes of the radio show where I
Speaker 9: do questions and answers about mortgages. I mean, it might
Speaker 9: not sound like a lot, but when you only do
Speaker 9: one every Saturday, three hundred and forty is a is
Speaker 9: a long stretch, it is, Yeah, And so a lot
Speaker 9: of people go on there. I have people that first
Speaker 9: time homebuyers that teld me they listened to the podcast
Speaker 9: for a year before they you know, before they called
Speaker 9: and started to look into getting their first research home yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So if you're probably it's the biggest purchase of
Speaker 2: their lives, right, sure. Yeah, that's why number one you
Speaker 2: want to do some research. You want to listen to
Speaker 2: that mortgage guide Don. And then number two because it's
Speaker 2: the biggest purchase of your life for most people. You
Speaker 2: want to make sure you're you've probably never done this before.
Speaker 2: I never had done it before I got a house.
Speaker 2: You want to make sure somebody who has done it
Speaker 2: a lot of times, like Don, is along for the ride.
Speaker 2: So I have a mortgage guy Don dot com. Make
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Speaker 3: I have a quick question, just pure curiosity about the
Speaker 3: radio show.
Speaker 1: All right, has Fritz ever had to hit the dump
Speaker 1: button on you? Fritz has never had to hit the
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Speaker 9: Yes, how many times I don't want to get in
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Speaker 1: I meant to say fun sucker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes you you know, it happens, It happens every
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Speaker 3: Even sweet professional miss Amy Kaufeld had to had to
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Speaker 1: Of course, Man, thanks for having me on. I appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: coming up in a bit, I've got a fantastic story
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Speaker 2: absolutely have to see. But before we get to that,
Speaker 2: this is something I'd never heard of before. I didn't
Speaker 2: know that this was a big deal in any way,
Speaker 2: but I guess ann Arbor Michigan decided to make a move.
Speaker 2: Let me bring this up an arbor. Uh Okay, So
Speaker 2: ann Arbor, Michigan decided to make a move to Ruin
Speaker 2: to remove all of their neighborhood watch signs that were
Speaker 2: throughout the area. And they said that the neighborhood watch
Speaker 2: signs sent the wrong message.
Speaker 1: As in, like this is a dangerous neighborhood that.
Speaker 2: I've never I literally never met anybody in my life
Speaker 2: that's been against neighborhood crime watch signs. They usually just
Speaker 2: mean like, hey, in this area, there's people who are
Speaker 2: keeping their eyes out there. And then but the story
Speaker 2: says more than seriously, I'm like, do we Who is
Speaker 2: the only I couldn't. I could only name one person
Speaker 2: that has been a neighborhood watch George George Zimmerman. He
Speaker 2: didn't give a good name of the neighborhood watch people
Speaker 2: off to a bad start. I get it. I understand
Speaker 2: that's the thing, But I have never heard of anybody
Speaker 2: being against neighborhood crime watch signs, like this is about
Speaker 2: a neighborhood that cares about what's going on enough to
Speaker 2: keep an eye on things happening out there.
Speaker 1: This is this a snitch thing?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What's the resistance? I think?
Speaker 2: For me?
Speaker 3: I mean I don't care. Personally, I don't think I
Speaker 3: have them in my neighborhood. But I could see where
Speaker 3: somebody would go, Well, my neighborhood, you know, we don't
Speaker 3: have the signs because it makes makes people think that
Speaker 3: the neighborhood needs watch.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 2: I don't view it that way. When I see neighborhood
Speaker 2: watch signs, I actually think it's a better neighborhood. I
Speaker 2: think my head, I go, all right, they're focused around here.
Speaker 2: They've cared enough to put up the sign. At least
Speaker 2: when I see broken windows, I think that's some bad
Speaker 2: going on.
Speaker 3: I prefer to just look around at the neighborhood and
Speaker 3: be like, is this place an s whole?
Speaker 2: Yes or no.
Speaker 3: I don't gauge it by their number of neighborhood watch signs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is weird.
Speaker 2: More than six hundred neighborhood crime watch signs have been
Speaker 2: removed across ann Arbor Michigan, marking the end of a
Speaker 2: program officials say has been inactive for decades. Inactive, isn't
Speaker 2: it just like a kind of unofficial thing that happens
Speaker 2: around your neighborhood more so than anything. Yes. City leaders
Speaker 2: say the signs no longer reflect how public safety is
Speaker 2: handled today. They point to research showing the signage does
Speaker 2: not reduce crime and can sent an unwelcoming message in neighborhoods. Bro,
Speaker 2: if you walk into a neighborhood and you see a
Speaker 2: crime watch sign and it makes you feel unwelcome, I
Speaker 2: want you to be unwelcome.
Speaker 1: M Okay.
Speaker 2: If you go into a neighborhood and you see a
Speaker 2: neighborhood crime watch on, you're like, well this actually this
Speaker 2: makes me feel good. Why would you ever feel unwelcome
Speaker 2: by the crime watch sign unless you were trying to
Speaker 2: commit a crime? WHOA, Well, they don't allow crimes here.
Speaker 2: This is ridiculous. What's happening? Crews took down the signs
Speaker 2: over several weeks. They spent tens of thousands of dollars
Speaker 2: to remove these signs.
Speaker 1: Wait what wait?
Speaker 3: Why they why does it cost tens of thousands of dollars?
Speaker 3: To take signs down.
Speaker 2: It took them several weeks to go around and get
Speaker 2: all six hundred of them and to remove them and
Speaker 2: cover up where they were and stuff.
Speaker 3: Why don't they just have the people who are actually
Speaker 3: part of the neighborhood watch as their final duty to
Speaker 3: just get out there with a with a drill and.
Speaker 2: Goodbye taps is playing in the background, and come out
Speaker 2: and take the neighborhood crime Watch sign, fold the flag
Speaker 2: or something. It says. Cruise took down the sides over
Speaker 2: several weeks, with the final one removed on Princeton Avenue.
Speaker 2: The city says all signs will be recycled. Oh great,
Speaker 2: that's like we care about recycling good crime watch bad?
Speaker 1: Like what even is this?
Speaker 2: Neighborhood watch signs are expressions of exclusion, exclusion of what criminals,
Speaker 2: and they're inconsistent with our values. Ann Arbor is a
Speaker 2: welcoming community. We don't want to push people away. We
Speaker 2: want to welcome folks in, says the mayor, Christopher Taylor.
Speaker 1: What what is going on? What what is going on?
Speaker 2: Neighborhood watch signs are expressions of exclusion. Yeah, for people
Speaker 2: who want to rob the houses in the neighborhood again
Speaker 2: you want, I don't want to go on another thing.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know if I need to. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I need to. But again, I think
Speaker 1: these are the policies of a few weirdos harming almost
Speaker 1: always poor neighborhoods because they say to the poor neighbor
Speaker 1: as well, neighborhood watch, we don't need to do that's
Speaker 1: an exclusive thing.
Speaker 2: It's exclusion. They're expressions of exclusion. And then these people
Speaker 2: will undoubtedly retire for the day or the week or
Speaker 2: the weekend into their their gated neighborhoods and subdivisions where
Speaker 2: they're free of any kind of any kind of a
Speaker 2: prosecution from the decisions that they foresaw on everybody else.
Speaker 1: That's what happens.
Speaker 2: The neighborhood watch signs are expressions of exclusion and are
Speaker 2: inconsistent with our values.
Speaker 1: Buddy, When you're.
Speaker 2: Against neighborhood watch, or like people being against crimes and stuff,
Speaker 2: what's next? Somebody says, bring back McGruff, Like McGruff would
Speaker 2: be a sign against exclusion. Now, smoke you the bear.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, smokey the bear out of here.
Speaker 3: Like if you had a police officer move in next
Speaker 3: door and you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, this is not
Speaker 3: the place for you.
Speaker 1: This is like even less than a cop.
Speaker 2: If you were a copy could go well, police serve,
Speaker 2: and you can make some argument against this. But I
Speaker 2: think most people like, is there an idea here? Is
Speaker 2: there an unhinged idea? Unhinged idea probably from some like,
Speaker 2: you know, college educated white person would be my guest,
Speaker 2: just a guest, don't know, just a guess, just a guess,
Speaker 2: don't know. But is there some unhinged idea here that
Speaker 2: having a neighborhood watch is like an exclusively white thing
Speaker 2: to do, or it's racist against black people, because.
Speaker 1: That's kind of racist.
Speaker 2: Honestly, that's kind of a racist. Like neighborhood watch is
Speaker 2: fine everybody, It's totally fine.
Speaker 3: Somebody says on the Texan Service ann arbor is nice,
Speaker 3: but super liberal? Is this a a political sides thing?
Speaker 3: Is Would we think it's a liberal thing to get
Speaker 3: rid of neighborhood watch signs and call them exclusive or
Speaker 3: signs of exclusion?
Speaker 2: I don't even know that those words mean anything anymore.
Speaker 2: But if you say, like political left or political right,
Speaker 2: if either one of those wants to attach them to
Speaker 2: selves to being like against neighborhood watch or specifically against
Speaker 2: neighborhood watch signs. I don't think normal people give a
Speaker 2: damn about this stuff. I don't think people care about this.
Speaker 2: You know what they care about. It's like four dollars
Speaker 2: a gallon at the gas pump. Stuff is expensive, more
Speaker 2: expensive than it's ever been. Movie tickets they're bragging that
Speaker 2: some of them are fifty dollars apiece. Everything is getting
Speaker 2: more expensive, all right. Jobs are being replaced by AI
Speaker 2: and droves. There are so many legitimate things that people
Speaker 2: are mad about.
Speaker 1: To get a new home. We just talked to that
Speaker 1: mortgage guy down.
Speaker 2: Another reason why you want to utilize him, because to
Speaker 2: get a new home is more expensive than it's ever
Speaker 2: been before. These are legitimate, real problems that people, especially
Speaker 2: young people, especially poor people, have to face all the time.
Speaker 2: I love the performative nonsense that some of these people
Speaker 2: are willing to engage in. That they took down six
Speaker 2: hundred neighborhood crime watch signs because that's a sign of exclusion.
Speaker 1: Yikes. All right, we'll see what you think about this.
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Speaker 1: Uh, this is going to be a long segment.
Speaker 2: I just saw that. The segment time says I gotta talk.
Speaker 1: For an hour. What so, come on, can't do do it?
Speaker 2: I can't do this in the Power Hour coming up
Speaker 2: in a bit, I've got a fantastic story for you
Speaker 2: and a and a clip that you just absolutely have
Speaker 2: to see. But before we get to that, this is
Speaker 2: something I'd never heard of before. I didn't know that
Speaker 2: this was a big deal in any way, but I
Speaker 2: guess ann Arbor, Michigan decided to make a move.
Speaker 1: Let me bring this up ann Arbor.
Speaker 2: Uh okay, So ann Arbor, Michigan decided to make a
Speaker 2: move to Ruin to remove all of their neighborhood watch
Speaker 2: signs that were throughout the area. And they said that
Speaker 2: the neighborhood watch signs sent the wrong message.
Speaker 1: As in, like this is a dangerous neighborhood.
Speaker 2: Like I've never I literally never met anybody in my
Speaker 2: life that's been against neighborhood crime watch signs. They usually
Speaker 2: just mean like, hey, in this area, there's people who
Speaker 2: are keeping their eyes out there. And then but the
Speaker 2: story says more than some Seriously, I'm like, do we
Speaker 2: Who is the only I couldn't. I could only name
Speaker 2: one person that has been would watch George George Zimmerman.
Speaker 2: He didn't give a good name to the neighborhood watch
Speaker 2: people off to a bad start. I get it.
Speaker 1: I understand that's the thing.
Speaker 2: But I have never heard of anybody being against neighborhood
Speaker 2: crime watch signs like this is about a neighborhood that
Speaker 2: cares about what's going on enough to keep an eye
Speaker 2: on things happening out there?
Speaker 1: Is this a snitch thing? Like what's the resistance?
Speaker 3: I think for me, I mean I don't care personally,
Speaker 3: I don't think I have them in my neighborhood, but
Speaker 3: I could see where somebody would go, Well, my neighborhood,
Speaker 3: you know, we don't have the signs because it makes
Speaker 3: people think that the neighborhood needs watching. See, I don't
Speaker 3: view it that way.
Speaker 2: When I see neighborhood watch signs, I actually think it's
Speaker 2: a better neighborhood. I think in my head. I go,
Speaker 2: all right, they're focused around here. They've cared enough to
Speaker 2: put up the sign. At least when I see broken windows,
Speaker 2: I think that's some bad going on.
Speaker 3: I prefer to just look around at the neighborhood and
Speaker 3: be like, is this place an shole?
Speaker 2: Yes? Or no?
Speaker 3: I don't gauge it by their number of neighborhood watch signs. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this is weird.
Speaker 2: More than six hundred neighborhood crime watch signs have been
Speaker 2: removed across ann Arbor, Michigan, marking the end of a
Speaker 2: program officials say has been inactive for decades. Inactive, isn't
Speaker 2: it just like a kind of unofficial thing that happens
Speaker 2: around your neighborhood more so than anything. Yes. City leaders
Speaker 2: say the signs no longer reflect how public safety is
Speaker 2: handled today. They point to research showing the signage does
Speaker 2: not reduce crime and can sent an unwelcoming message in neighborhoods. Bro,
Speaker 2: if you walk into a neighborhood and you see a
Speaker 2: crime watch sign and it makes you feel unwelcome, I.
Speaker 1: Want you to be unwelcome. M h Okay.
Speaker 2: If you go into a neighborhood and you see a
Speaker 2: neighborhood crime Watch sign. You're like, well, this actually this
Speaker 2: makes me feel it good. Why would you ever feel
Speaker 2: unwelcome by the crime watch sign unless you were trying
Speaker 2: to commit a crime? WHOA, Well, they don't allow crimes here.
Speaker 2: This is ridiculous. What's happening? Cruse took down the signs
Speaker 2: over several weeks. They spent tens of thousands of dollars
Speaker 2: to remove these signs.
Speaker 1: Wait what?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 3: Why they Why does it cost tens of thousands of
Speaker 3: dollars to take signs down?
Speaker 2: It took them several weeks to go around and get
Speaker 2: all six hundred of them and to remove them, cover
Speaker 2: up where they were and stuff.
Speaker 3: Why don't they just have the people who are actually
Speaker 3: part of the neighborhood Watch as their final duty to
Speaker 3: just get out there with a with a drill and.
Speaker 2: Goodbye taps is playing in the background and come out
Speaker 2: and take the neighborhood crime Watch sign, fold the flag
Speaker 2: or something. It says. Cruise took down the sides over
Speaker 2: several weeks, with the final one removed on Princeton Avenue.
Speaker 2: The city says all signs will be recycled. Oh great,
Speaker 2: that's like we care about recycling good crime watch bad, Like,
Speaker 2: what even is this? Neighborhood watch signs are expressions of exclusion,
Speaker 2: exclusion of what criminals, and they're inconsistent with our values.
Speaker 2: Ann arbor is a welcoming community. We don't want to
Speaker 2: push people away. We want to welcome folks in, says
Speaker 2: the mayor, Christopher Taylor.
Speaker 1: What what is going on?
Speaker 14: What?
Speaker 1: What is going on?
Speaker 2: Neighborhood watch signs are expressions of exclusion. Yeah, for people
Speaker 2: who want to rob the houses in the neighborhood. Again
Speaker 2: you want I don't want to go on another thing.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I need to. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I need to.
Speaker 2: But again, I think these are these are the policies
Speaker 2: of a few weirdos harming almost always poor neighborhoods, because
Speaker 2: they say to the poor neighbor as well, neighborhood watch,
Speaker 2: we don't need to do that's an exclusive thing. It's exclusion.
Speaker 2: They're expressions of exclusion. And then these people will undoubtedly
Speaker 2: retire for the day or the week or the weekend
Speaker 2: into their their gated neighborhoods and subdivisions where they're free
Speaker 2: of any kind of any kind of a prosecution from
Speaker 2: the decisions that they foresaw on everybody else.
Speaker 1: That's what happens.
Speaker 2: The neighborhood watch signs are expressions of exclusion and are
Speaker 2: inconsistent with our values.
Speaker 1: Buddy, When you're against.
Speaker 2: Neighborhood watch or like people being against crimes and stuff,
Speaker 2: what's next. Somebody says, bring back McGruff, Like McGruff would
Speaker 2: be a sign against exclusion.
Speaker 1: Now, smoke you the bear. Oh no, no, smoke you
Speaker 1: the bear. Get out of here.
Speaker 3: Like if you had a police officer move in next
Speaker 3: door and you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, this is not
Speaker 3: the place for you.
Speaker 1: This is like even less than a cop.
Speaker 2: If you were a copy could go, well, police serve,
Speaker 2: and you can make some art against this. But I
Speaker 2: think most people like, is there an idea here? Is
Speaker 2: there an unhinged idea? Unhinged idea probably from some like,
Speaker 2: you know, college educated white person would be my guest,
Speaker 2: just a guest, don't know, just a guess, just a guess,
Speaker 2: don't know. But is there some unhinged idea here that
Speaker 2: having a neighborhood watch is like an exclusively white thing
Speaker 2: to do, or it's racist against black people, because that's
Speaker 2: kind of racist, honestly, that's kind of a racist thing.
Speaker 2: Like neighborhood Watch is fine, everybody, It's totally fine.
Speaker 3: Somebody says on the Texan Service ann arbor is nice,
Speaker 3: but super liberal. Is this a political sides thing?
Speaker 9: Is there?
Speaker 3: Would we think it's a liberal thing to get rid
Speaker 3: of neighborhood watch signs and call them exclusive or signs
Speaker 3: of exclusion.
Speaker 2: I don't even know that those words mean anything anymore.
Speaker 2: But if you say, like political left or political right,
Speaker 2: if either one of those wants to attach them to
Speaker 2: selves to being like against neighborhood watch or specifically against
Speaker 2: neighborhood Watch signs, I don't think normal people give a
Speaker 2: damn about this stuff. I don't think people care about this.
Speaker 2: You know what they care about. It's like four dollars
Speaker 2: a gallon at the gas pump. Stuff is expensive, more
Speaker 2: expensive than it's ever been. Movie tickets they're bragging that
Speaker 2: some of them are fifty dollars apiece. Everything is getting
Speaker 2: more expensive, all right. Jobs are being replaced by AI
Speaker 2: and droves. There are so many legitimate things that people
Speaker 2: are mad about. To get a new home. We just
Speaker 2: talked to that mortgage guy down Another reason why you
Speaker 2: want to utilize him because to get a new home
Speaker 2: is more expensive than it's ever been before. These are legitimate,
Speaker 2: real problems that people, especially young people, especially poor people,
Speaker 2: have to face all the time. I love the performative
Speaker 2: nonsense that some of these people are willing to engage in.
Speaker 2: That they took down six hundred neighborhood crime watch signs
Speaker 2: because that's a sign of exclusion.
Speaker 1: Yikes.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll see what you think about this. To
Speaker 2: send us your dispatch over at thenewschunki dot com. I've
Speaker 2: got this clip going megaviral. I'm gonna play it for
Speaker 2: you next. It's a it's an interesting moment, also a
Speaker 2: brand new feature on two different platforms that I think
Speaker 2: is both really dumb, no one's gonna use it, and
Speaker 2: also super interesting. I'll play that for you as well.
Speaker 2: Both of those coming up next. I'm gonna use Chunky.
Speaker 21: Very hard.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 2: Then to the final hour of the show.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that in just a second.
Speaker 2: I've got two unbelievably crazy ideas from huge tech companies
Speaker 2: that you'll probably give your money in just a moment.
Speaker 2: We got a lot to get too as we round
Speaker 2: out the show, and I've got a couple of clips
Speaker 2: to play for you that are going to absolutely get
Speaker 2: a reaction out of you. I'm sure of that much. Well,
Speaker 2: right now, we had to have an excuse for Ceili
Speaker 2: to be able to drop in the clips that he likes.
Speaker 1: To a mass around here.
Speaker 2: This was your excuse to stop it. But this is
Speaker 2: gonna this is gonna be bad for me the long er.
Speaker 2: But I'm like, Seelie doesn't get to put any clips
Speaker 2: then anymore. Gota we gotta do something about this.
Speaker 6: So the Power Hour is on.
Speaker 2: They said it couldn't be done.
Speaker 1: Then they said, come on into my smoking room on.
Speaker 2: It's time for the Power Hour on the news.
Speaker 1: Chunky so intense.
Speaker 2: It's much more intense than your thing was. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: they said it couldn't be done. Then they said, uh,
Speaker 2: then you know, just usually me just saying something foolish.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the other option, the pressure against me because
Speaker 2: the Epstein files is so much, I have to at
Speaker 2: least admit guilt to something that, out of context, does
Speaker 2: sound bad for me generally speaking. But welcome into the
Speaker 2: Power Hour, everybody. Let me get to the things I
Speaker 2: was just teasing. There some really weird ideas from some
Speaker 2: of the biggest tech companies that they're floating out there
Speaker 2: right now. The feature you just wanted, I'm sure so badly,
Speaker 2: here's the one we start off with Amazon. For those
Speaker 2: of you on Amazon who those well change every day, yes,
Speaker 2: one hundred percent, yes, yes, Celine puts those in. Anyways,
Speaker 2: when when you think about Amazon, so many of you
Speaker 2: use Amazon, so many you use Prime, all of that
Speaker 2: good stuff. Amazon launches features sometimes and people don't really
Speaker 2: know about them. But one of the things that they
Speaker 2: just launched is Amazon now creates an AI podcast. They're
Speaker 2: coming for our job than buddy. This is literally what
Speaker 2: we try to do around here. Amazon now creates an
Speaker 2: AI podcast around here, we're guaranteed human about their products,
Speaker 2: where two AI hosts discuss the product and take your
Speaker 2: questions as if it's a call in show.
Speaker 1: I kid you not.
Speaker 2: I know you wouldn't believe me if I didn't play
Speaker 2: it for you. But here's an example of rapid relief
Speaker 2: rash cream. All right, and like they have a fake
Speaker 2: little AI podcast that goes along with all these products,
Speaker 2: here's the one for rapid Relief rash cream. To give
Speaker 2: you an example of what's happening on Amazon with this
Speaker 2: new feature here it is.
Speaker 20: Today our AI generated shopping show is exploring the Wellmadix
Speaker 20: Rapid Relief diaper rash cream. Emma, what makes this hospital
Speaker 20: grade cream different from standard diaper rash products?
Speaker 22: Wow, it's really interesting.
Speaker 1: This is terrible.
Speaker 2: Freeze is terrible.
Speaker 8: It's gonna go.
Speaker 2: I'm really on the fence about this, but I need
Speaker 2: Welma Dix rapid Relief rash cream. I'm sorry and I
Speaker 2: but it's what Wellma Dix. Yeah, that's the name of
Speaker 2: the product. Wellma dis well Medics. No you, Alader said
Speaker 2: at the beginning, didn't you?
Speaker 20: Today, our AI generated shopping show is exploring the Wellmadics
Speaker 20: rapid relief type of rash cream. Okay, Emma, what makes
Speaker 20: this hospital grade cream different from standard diaper rash products?
Speaker 22: Well, it's really interesting, is it? This cream uses a
Speaker 22: dual action approach instead.
Speaker 11: Of just.
Speaker 1: No no, don't miss it, she said.
Speaker 2: Duo duod the Fresh Rock says it's reading people's reviews.
Speaker 1: Somebody said I just encountered this yesterday. This is for real.
Speaker 1: They literally do this now.
Speaker 2: They have podcasts to try to sell you the Amazon products,
Speaker 2: and I guess they take calls.
Speaker 22: White petrolatum to create two protective barriers. This helps both
Speaker 22: treat existing irritation and prevent new issues from developing.
Speaker 2: All right, so in the middle of this little AI podcast,
Speaker 2: the person said, help my butt hurts. They submitted their
Speaker 2: question and I guess this is going to be integrated
Speaker 2: into the fake podcast.
Speaker 20: It's fascinating. So it's not just about treating the problem
Speaker 20: but stopping it from coming back.
Speaker 1: This is your questions next exactly.
Speaker 22: And they've added some really thoughtful ingredients like colendular and
Speaker 22: white birch maw.
Speaker 2: This is the beginning of the end of podcast. In
Speaker 2: talk radio shows, if people like this, If people like this,
Speaker 2: Johnny says, I'd rather listen to stack.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? You're not sold. Let's see
Speaker 1: if the does my help my butt for mitching or whatever?
Speaker 22: If that question works in extract, these botanical ingredients help
Speaker 22: soothe sensitive skin, well, the jewel barrier does the heavy
Speaker 22: little jewel barrier.
Speaker 8: All right, Katie, we've got you.
Speaker 20: You're dealing with discomfort and this cream is designed for
Speaker 20: exactly that kind of irritation.
Speaker 2: Emma, what can you tell them?
Speaker 22: This is actually formulated for adults dealing with skin irritation
Speaker 22: from incontinentcy.
Speaker 2: This is so weird, isn't it. So it's a little
Speaker 2: dystopia and kind of unnecessary to unnecessary, absolutely unnecessary.
Speaker 1: Is this another one? This is another one for do
Speaker 1: they have different sizes of this?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 2: Can I get a Welma Dix large bottle? I think
Speaker 2: you can? Yeah, I don't know if they were asked
Speaker 2: about that at some point. This is another thing. What
Speaker 2: do they call theselin like food?
Speaker 3: Like a vacuum sealer, Saver, food Saver, vacuum seiler, that's
Speaker 3: not the food Saver brand, but it is a vacuum sealer.
Speaker 1: And and they're they have the same kind of thing
Speaker 1: for this, like a fake podcast.
Speaker 20: Heard vacuum steezers can be complicated to use. How does
Speaker 20: this one measure up?
Speaker 8: Actually?
Speaker 2: Customers report this one's quite straightforward with one touch operation. Wait,
Speaker 2: I get wanting reviews, I get wanting photographs, I get
Speaker 2: wanting three sixty views, I get wanting. Even the feature
Speaker 2: I've used it before where it says show me in
Speaker 2: my room, right, yeah, I get. I get all of
Speaker 2: those features, and all of those features may make me
Speaker 2: make a decision one way or another.
Speaker 3: I still think that the show me in my room
Speaker 3: is availab for things that you don't need it for,
Speaker 3: Like I don't need to see what a ballpoint pen
Speaker 3: looks like in my room.
Speaker 1: I want to.
Speaker 2: I want to.
Speaker 1: Isn't this so bizarre? This is real?
Speaker 2: They have these now an AI feature where Amazon has
Speaker 2: like a fake podcast with callers and all the rest
Speaker 2: that is going to replace us eventually here on the show.
Speaker 2: That's what I think is going to be happening before
Speaker 2: you know it. Let us know what you think. Send
Speaker 2: a dispatch over on the neewsjunkie dot com. Are we doomed?
Speaker 1: Let us know?
Speaker 2: Okay, Jackie says, Sean, you're wrong about something, but the self.
Speaker 1: Checkout front, I think she's talking about here she is,
Speaker 1: He's Jackie.
Speaker 8: Sean, this is one time you're actually wrong.
Speaker 23: The couple Walmarts said, I frequent, They're not in the
Speaker 23: best areas while I'm working, and they have already turned
Speaker 23: off all their self checkouts and have employed a lot
Speaker 23: more people back to the regular checkout. Really, maybe their
Speaker 23: losses are just two great versus everybody stealing versus just
Speaker 23: employing a few more people. But certain areas, Yeah, they
Speaker 23: haven't eliminated self checkout but in the sketchy areas they
Speaker 23: definitely are. People are probably stealing a whole bunch. And
Speaker 23: Walmart has never had tap to pay on. It's always
Speaker 23: insert your card.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 23: They've never implemented where it's just wireless or tap to pay.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's address that first. That is a weird thing.
Speaker 2: Tap to pay is just like kind of all over
Speaker 2: the place. And it's not that they don't have the
Speaker 2: device for it. It's not that they don't have, it's
Speaker 2: just turned off. I know this because there is a
Speaker 2: particular brand of POS device that you tap to pay
Speaker 2: on that always kind of sticks out to me. They
Speaker 2: have that brand, it's the Lane seven thousand. I don't
Speaker 2: see a dime from any of these Lane seven thousands,
Speaker 2: but I know that the Lane seven thousand and seven
Speaker 2: eleven works with my iPhone and tap to pay, and
Speaker 2: the one that Walmart does not. All right, so that
Speaker 2: is weird. They should fix that. On your other point,
Speaker 2: I will admit I'm wrong if that's the case. And honestly,
Speaker 2: I hate to say this, but that's kind of like
Speaker 2: the only positive outcome of people stealing stuff that I've
Speaker 2: heard in a while. That they will hire people and
Speaker 2: bring back humans in these poor neighborhoods. That for those
Speaker 2: particular locations will be good. It's not just poor neighborhoods.
Speaker 2: Because somebody chimed in and said they're Walmart, and Lake
Speaker 2: Nona has already ripped out all their self checkouts. Really, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a nicer place there. So if they're doing that
Speaker 2: and they are hiring people back, that is good. I
Speaker 2: hope that I'm wrong. I hope you're absolutely right about that.
Speaker 2: I think that's good. I don't necessarily want to go
Speaker 2: through the checkout with a person over self checkout myself,
Speaker 2: But in the long run, especially in lower income, poverty,
Speaker 2: stricten neighborhoods, I want those jobs to stay because they're
Speaker 2: not the worst jobs. I want those jobs, to say,
Speaker 2: and I want the access to the most affordable stuff
Speaker 2: that they could possibly get on the marketplace to stay.
Speaker 2: And the way those stay is by those stores staying open.
Speaker 2: Your Targets, your Walmarts, all these places. You need them
Speaker 2: to stay open. Yucker says Target had the same problem,
Speaker 2: and I had to close their self check out at
Speaker 2: certain times due to loss prevention. Again, I hate to
Speaker 2: say it, I hate to give any credit to people
Speaker 2: stealing stuff, but that would be a good outcome of
Speaker 2: that type of thing. All right, let's see maybe one
Speaker 2: more here here is let's go over to Daddy two
Speaker 2: times talking about kids watching YouTube.
Speaker 10: Man, I definitely remember what y'all are talking about, and
Speaker 10: probably dispatched in about it ten years ago because daughter
Speaker 10: of two times was five years old watching those kid
Speaker 10: video content on YouTube and people were splicing nasty content
Speaker 10: into it. You know, she's watching some cute, glittery anime
Speaker 10: girl related video and suddenly the little girls are calling
Speaker 10: each other whores and sluts.
Speaker 2: And f that b and Jesus like, whoa, my man?
Speaker 2: What happened?
Speaker 10: That took a hard right turn, and I had to
Speaker 10: step up my regulating of what she was watching as
Speaker 10: a result, because I couldn't just trust that whatever she
Speaker 10: was viewing was safe because some sick people were going
Speaker 10: out there and just blicing nasty stuff into it to
Speaker 10: get those content clicks on what people thought was innocent.
Speaker 1: So I remember it so weird.
Speaker 3: I remember a long time ago we had even on
Speaker 3: the YouTube kids, like, even on the stuff that's supposed
Speaker 3: to be good, there were people that were able to
Speaker 3: like sneak in random things. It was like like, oh,
Speaker 3: there's like a little baby dancing or little kittens rolling
Speaker 3: around in the grass, and then it's like killing yourself
Speaker 3: and yeah, kittens. That's so weird and bizarre that people
Speaker 3: do that.
Speaker 2: But thanks to people like you actually parenting the right way,
Speaker 2: you can combat that. I like to see people saying like, oh,
Speaker 2: I noticed that something was going wrong and I adjusted
Speaker 2: my parenting. God forbid people did that. I mean, that's
Speaker 2: really what I think most people actually need to do.
Speaker 1: And can I prove on the.
Speaker 2: Other thing from a company that I know you give
Speaker 2: your digital money to that I don't think you're going
Speaker 2: to like Just like the Amazon podcasts for products, Netflix
Speaker 2: is now asking you to enjoy content in another way entirely.
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna say no, but you tell me,
Speaker 1: all right, I don't want to speak for you.
Speaker 2: You tell me.
Speaker 1: Are you a yes or no?
Speaker 2: On this Netflix wants you to watch clips. It's TikTok
Speaker 2: like vertical video, says tech Crunch. They said, you've heard
Speaker 2: of Instagram reels, Now get ready for Netflix Clips. Netflix
Speaker 2: is redesigning its mobile app and introducing Clips, a vertical
Speaker 2: video feed intended to help users discover new content by
Speaker 2: sharing highlights from original programming. Think of clips as a
Speaker 2: personalized highlight reel that helps you decide what to watch
Speaker 2: or play next, without endless scrolling. You'll see short clips
Speaker 2: from series, films, and specials tailored to your taste, with
Speaker 2: an easy way to go deeper than when somebody else
Speaker 2: grabs your attention. The idea is, if you're on the go,
Speaker 2: you likely aren't going to pull out your phone to
Speaker 2: watch the next three minutes of Love Is Blonde, but
Speaker 2: you might watch a short curated clip of another Netflix
Speaker 2: show for a fast laugh. They say, I don't think
Speaker 2: people want another feed of vertical videos and shorts.
Speaker 1: I think people, if anything, have enough of this.
Speaker 2: I think people are like, this is like when when
Speaker 2: dunder Mifflin's website wanted to be also a social network
Speaker 2: and social media platform.
Speaker 1: In filtrated by pedophiles.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course it was. This is like when they
Speaker 2: were trying to do this. You don't need to be
Speaker 2: everything to everyone. Somebody says Disney Plus is the same thing.
Speaker 2: It's it's so dumb. It's like, know you're laying go
Speaker 2: on to TikTok and all those things with the short
Speaker 2: promotions for your your platform. But don't think that people
Speaker 2: are just gonna sit there on Netflix scrolling another feed
Speaker 2: and who. No, these are bad ideas, bad ideas kind
Speaker 2: of like TNJ chat. Not at all like TNJ chat.
Speaker 2: Do you mean the greatest chat room and all of
Speaker 2: the land, you try to add a social media feature
Speaker 2: to it. No, this is completely different. And Wolf was
Speaker 2: not a good idea. Wolf was a terrible idea. See.
Speaker 3: I thought you were going to go with the worst
Speaker 3: idea that dunder Mifflin Saber had was having that stupid
Speaker 3: triangle tablet.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's a pretty I mean, that's not one
Speaker 2: that I think is going to catch on any point time.
Speaker 2: But I'm always amazed when people do this stuff. It's
Speaker 2: just I'm not going to scroll your Netflix feed, bro,
Speaker 2: it's not happening. I'm too busy in TJ chat, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Now, Netflix did do a thing which you know, they've
Speaker 3: been adding games to Netflix, and I feel like there's
Speaker 3: been mixed response to it. I think a lot of
Speaker 3: them aren't quite taking off. But I saw them add
Speaker 3: a game that I thought, this is more what their
Speaker 3: style should be. Because if you're doing games on your
Speaker 3: television like stuff like this, if you have friends over
Speaker 3: at party, They've added some of the Jackbox games to
Speaker 3: Netflix and you could just play them right there on
Speaker 3: your Netflix app. And I was like, that's genius, because
Speaker 3: those games are super fun. If you're having like you
Speaker 3: got a bunch of people over, everybody can participate on
Speaker 3: their phone. Nobody's left out really depending on what game
Speaker 3: you pick. And I was like, Oh, that's a that's
Speaker 3: a win for them, Except they did not add Trivia
Speaker 3: Murder Party, which is my friends you know, the ones
Speaker 3: that my friends always want to play.
Speaker 2: Well they might though, yeah, and that is fun and
Speaker 2: people do like that stuff, and that is them trying
Speaker 2: to provide more more services to you. But I think
Speaker 2: that service seems to make more sense, right, Like people
Speaker 2: actually like it, they want it, they want to interact that.
Speaker 3: I think people are still getting used to the idea
Speaker 3: of playing games on Netflix. I think it's still kind
Speaker 3: of like a oh wait, we usually just go here
Speaker 3: for this thing. Adding this thing on is kind of
Speaker 3: this seems out of play. Yeah, all right, well tell
Speaker 3: us what you think.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're into this, let us know, send us a
Speaker 2: dispatch over on the website right now. When we return.
Speaker 2: I've got some extras for you, a bit of a
Speaker 2: grab bag segment if you will, that's coming up next,
Speaker 2: and that clip that I promise this clip, I know
Speaker 2: it's something that's going viral right now, but I feel
Speaker 2: like we can swim around in it and discover so
Speaker 2: many things. And I'm gonna play this for you, this
Speaker 2: viral moment that's coming up next.
Speaker 1: Some of the news.
Speaker 2: Chunkie Secret Show streaming live tonight for subscribers at eight pm.
Speaker 2: If you can't catch it live, you'll catch it afterwards.
Speaker 2: Five pm on Fridays is when it drops for your
Speaker 2: on demand viewing of the latest Secret Show.
Speaker 3: That's right, you could watch it live also on the
Speaker 3: Apple TV app. Other other apps incoming. I've been working
Speaker 3: on those a little bit over the weekend. But I
Speaker 3: did also look I don't know if I told you this.
Speaker 3: I was looking at the stats for the number of
Speaker 3: downloads and stuff. Yeah, and it shows me where the
Speaker 3: people are, like what country they're in the downloaded them,
Speaker 3: and of course most of them, most of them are
Speaker 3: the United States of America, as one would expect.
Speaker 2: Most of our listeners and viewers are in that area.
Speaker 2: And then we had one download in Iceland. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: we got an Iceland guy. Yeah yeah, yeah, Oh so
Speaker 2: that guy's not lying. He really is from Iceland.
Speaker 3: There is a guy in Iceland that downloaded the Apple
Speaker 3: the tvOS app Apple.
Speaker 2: The reason I react this way Sea Land is because
Speaker 2: we have a user on TNJ chat who I think
Speaker 2: is called guy from Iceland.
Speaker 6: I believe that's his user.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming it's that guy. If not, we have two Icelanders.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I keep forgetting to mention this, but just so you know,
Speaker 2: when you're a Secret Show subscriber, there is now an
Speaker 2: Apple TV app. There's an Apple TV app. See Lane
Speaker 2: has made it's gorgeous. You can watch the show live
Speaker 2: at eight pm tonight on the Apple TV app. So
Speaker 2: it's right on your TV and nice and easy. If
Speaker 2: you get a subscription, you just go to the Apple
Speaker 2: TV app. Search for Secret Shows in the Apple TV
Speaker 2: app store, search for Secret Shows. You'll see the Secret
Speaker 2: Shows app pop up. Log in with your credentials from
Speaker 2: the news junkie dot com. It'll connect directly to your account.
Speaker 2: You'll see all the thumbnails and the information and the
Speaker 2: live streams and all of that. So, yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 2: Seelane made that and we've got more coming. More of
Speaker 2: the TV apps. Go look in the Apple TV app
Speaker 2: source search for secret shows. Get that ready on your
Speaker 2: TV for tonight. I want to get into, as I said,
Speaker 2: some grab bag stuff. But this clip is going megaviral.
Speaker 2: So let's go to something that people often play over
Speaker 2: on chat dotthanewsjunkie dot.
Speaker 1: Com, and that is family feud. This lady's moment is
Speaker 1: going megaviral. Let's listen to you need one on four?
Speaker 24: Allright, listen, mind everybody Haley's answers Steve Harvey with her twenty.
Speaker 1: Five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 24: Please, we asked one hundred single men, name and occupation
Speaker 24: your girlfriend would have?
Speaker 2: They might impress your dad?
Speaker 6: Secretary.
Speaker 2: Now, I.
Speaker 1: Even stopped on that one.
Speaker 2: I was like, this lady's answers, all of them we
Speaker 2: could explore for like whatever amount of time, but name
Speaker 2: an occupation that would impress somebody.
Speaker 1: And she said your dad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing again, Secretaries, they're great and all, but I
Speaker 2: don't know if that's what I would have answered in
Speaker 2: this question anyhow.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but please, we.
Speaker 24: Asked one hundred single men, name and occupation your girlfriend
Speaker 24: would have?
Speaker 2: They might impress your.
Speaker 24: Dad, secretary name something a cowboy might get off his
Speaker 24: horse to do me a cowgirl filling the blank with
Speaker 24: one word blank?
Speaker 1: Nuts?
Speaker 6: These what time?
Speaker 2: He's trying to get past the fact that she just
Speaker 2: hit him with the d's on the name is something
Speaker 2: that goes before blank?
Speaker 1: Un wish she said ds?
Speaker 2: She said, these these these nuts, they still counts, still counts.
Speaker 2: Got every clip I've seen of this so far did
Speaker 2: not show if that was one of the answers on
Speaker 2: the board.
Speaker 1: So I want to know. But I found all the
Speaker 1: rest of her answers pretty weird too.
Speaker 10: We'll start thinking about lunch ten am, drink fast ukshake.
Speaker 24: That was not that.
Speaker 2: I mean now, the question that I haven't seen answered
Speaker 2: anywhere is d's actually on the board? Is that actually
Speaker 2: on the board for a family few events?
Speaker 3: I think in twenty twenty six, yes, d's nuts would
Speaker 3: be an acceptable answer.
Speaker 2: I think you're right. Hang on, let's see are they
Speaker 2: going over them here? There's the secretary one secretary nobody,
Speaker 2: no mony on secretary.
Speaker 1: Doctor doctor was number one.
Speaker 24: Thing something the cowboy might get off his horse to do.
Speaker 1: You say it? Go meet your cowgiry al right.
Speaker 7: Survey said it.
Speaker 1: She's not doing great. She is not doing great.
Speaker 14: Come on to the saloon was the number one answer.
Speaker 1: Filling the blank with one word blank nuts.
Speaker 2: You said, come on, show me these nuts now if
Speaker 2: they win. Because she did that that this is going
Speaker 2: to be fantastic. It's even better in free.
Speaker 6: These nuts.
Speaker 18: Come on.
Speaker 14: Survey said.
Speaker 1: Three. Not but you'll take at least it's on the board.
Speaker 2: She didn't do spectacular in her uh in her final
Speaker 2: round there she had seven is what she got for
Speaker 2: the ten o'clock. Wow. She she wasn't the best at
Speaker 2: family feud, but you could see some people who are
Speaker 2: a little bit better.
Speaker 1: If you play along over on chat dotthanewsjunkie dot com.
Speaker 1: There you go, just like that.
Speaker 3: We were talking about the Netflix games and a couple
Speaker 3: people chimed in on the texting service saying, U, Pictionary
Speaker 3: is super fun on Netflix Netflix Games.
Speaker 2: I'll give a shot. How do you even play that
Speaker 2: on Netflix? You have to draw, right you probably the
Speaker 2: same way you do Jackbox. Jackbox has some some things
Speaker 2: where you draw. You log in on your phone and
Speaker 2: they'll give you like a little canvas that you kind
Speaker 2: of draw with your finger. I think actually pictionary lends
Speaker 2: itself to phone based, you know, party games very well.
Speaker 1: That's kind of cool that it works that way.
Speaker 2: A bad news in the music world, not just what
Speaker 2: I started off with today, saying that this crop of
Speaker 2: famous musicians across all genres is like really not pulling
Speaker 2: it off right now. It's really a bad time for
Speaker 2: great music. I think personally, maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: You tell you why.
Speaker 2: But Leanne Rhymes has had to reschedule two concert dates
Speaker 2: from her Thirty Years of Blue tour due to her health.
Speaker 2: Her health is not good, she says, Oh, I wonder
Speaker 2: what she's old. I wonder what old old boy. Oh,
Speaker 2: fake ask doctor says about that? She she says she
Speaker 2: hasn't left the bed because of a bad sickness. And
Speaker 2: I say to you, no way, no how. I thought
Speaker 2: fake doctor man had pulled on her tongue hard enough
Speaker 2: that Leanne Rhymes was in perfect shape and her voice
Speaker 2: was doing great. But no, it looks like she has
Speaker 2: a cancel shows. She can't get out of the bed
Speaker 2: like Brian Wilson does. Yeah, she's just she's just hanging
Speaker 2: out in there. Another update on the White House Correspondence
Speaker 2: dinner shooting that I thought was interesting and worth working in.
Speaker 1: Here's that really quick?
Speaker 2: Here you go.
Speaker 11: Ask been a question of who struck a Secret Service
Speaker 11: agent that night. CBS News now reports that officer was
Speaker 11: not hit by friendly fire. Sources telling the Outlet the
Speaker 11: shot that struck the officer likely had a cell phone
Speaker 11: in his bulletproof vest.
Speaker 2: Or A and C. So they said that the officer
Speaker 2: who got hit by the shooter at the White House
Speaker 2: Correspondence dinner was saved in part by their cell phone.
Speaker 2: Their cell phone was in their their their pocket and
Speaker 2: it acted as a secondary shield during the White House
Speaker 2: Correspondence dinner shooting saved by the cell phone. Give us
Speaker 2: your thoughts on all of this with dispatches and emails,
Speaker 2: Email the show, tips t ips at the Neewschunk heat
Speaker 2: dot com. Had you ever thought for a moment about
Speaker 2: giving Jackson a double first name?
Speaker 1: Did you consider that at all? I mean, he has
Speaker 1: a middle name. Why would I need a double first name.
Speaker 2: I didn't I even really know what a double first
Speaker 2: name was until I saw this story today. It sounds
Speaker 2: like more of a girl thing than a guy thing.
Speaker 2: They got all sorts of different examples of it, but
Speaker 2: like John David, they said, John David is a double
Speaker 2: first name that your kid might have, or Anna Claire
Speaker 2: or Ellie May. Ellie May is maybe a more common one,
Speaker 2: Mary Love that I haven't heard of before. And they're saying,
Speaker 2: this is like the double first name thing is much
Speaker 2: more common in the South.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I know anybody who does a
Speaker 1: double first name thing.
Speaker 9: Though.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think Mark Paul Goffler. I think, does
Speaker 1: he goes Mark Paul Mark Paul.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Whenever you use like the one two punch for
Speaker 2: somebody's name, this is a double first name. And this
Speaker 2: There's a woman who's doing some interviews today saying that
Speaker 2: she has a message for parents considering the trend. She's saying,
Speaker 2: don't do it. It makes things difficult. Whenever I introduce myself,
Speaker 2: I have to explain my name, which I don't really
Speaker 2: feel like this would be that big of a problem.
Speaker 2: She says, I have to say, Hi, my name is
Speaker 2: Mary Love. It's a double first name, like Mary Catherine.
Speaker 2: For four years in college, I was consistently called Mary
Speaker 2: by my professors, she said, And she says, you wouldn't
Speaker 2: change her name. She loves having a double first name.
Speaker 2: But she's saying there's some awareness now, and she wouldn't
Speaker 2: recommend it for parents naming their kids. It's bat any
Speaker 2: double first namers on the way out willing to weigh
Speaker 2: in on whether they think people should do it or not.
Speaker 2: Let us know, Bobby Joe, Oh, Billy Bob. Yeah, Billy Bob,
Speaker 2: Ricky Bobby. You're hitting us with him now, ye are.
Speaker 3: Those are those people whose names, like their first name
Speaker 3: on their birth certificate is Billy Bob?
Speaker 1: Or is it like William Robert somebody who just went
Speaker 1: by Billy Bob. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I need to know more about this, Honestly, God, I
Speaker 2: had no idea this was really a thing until this
Speaker 2: moment here. I used to think when people said that
Speaker 2: many names, it was for somebody who they didn't want
Speaker 2: to get the name wrong because they didn't want to
Speaker 2: be sued. Is usually somebody who killed a bunch of people,
Speaker 2: like a person wanted for murder or something.
Speaker 1: But let us know, any of you double first namers
Speaker 1: on the way out. Here's what we're gonna do.
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Speaker 2: All right, for once, Selane has done a great job,
Speaker 2: and I mean for once, and we have plenty of
Speaker 2: time on the way out today. There was a lot
Speaker 2: of previous in the week, you know, a couple of
Speaker 2: days where there was a very short ME and I.
Speaker 2: When I have to blame you yourself about this, I
Speaker 2: have to blame somebody. I can't blame myself, even though
Speaker 2: it is actually my fault. I have to put the
Speaker 2: blame on somebody. So it'll be see.
Speaker 1: Let's see what we have here today.
Speaker 2: Choices, Yeah, it's running out real the amount of options
Speaker 2: is really really shrinking. Here is a new footage I
Speaker 2: guess just resurfaced or just released. Remember the lady who
Speaker 2: sued successfully the cruise line. Yes, because they gave her
Speaker 2: all the tequilas, the three hundred thousand dollars or something. Yeah,
Speaker 2: now they've released the security footage of her at the
Speaker 2: bar drinking some of the tequilas.
Speaker 1: Let's see what goes on here.
Speaker 25: This never before seen surveillance video, you can see Diana
Speaker 25: ordering shots of tequila at one bar after another.
Speaker 7: She goes here here all in just over an eight hour.
Speaker 2: Sery, my nightmare, This is my nightmare. Is a gentleman,
Speaker 2: be all old Christopher Lane having shots at this bar?
Speaker 7: Here?
Speaker 2: It is bar here? Oh here, quick cut quick, that
Speaker 2: would be the greatest. And then they go, folks, we
Speaker 2: had to edit this down in the interest of saving
Speaker 2: time for the broadcast.
Speaker 1: We couldn't show all of the shots that Selane had.
Speaker 1: But but here we go.
Speaker 2: So they show her and they're like, here she is tequila,
Speaker 2: tequila here here, just over an eight hour period.
Speaker 8: Her eyes were glossy.
Speaker 7: You don't have to be a toxicologist. You can tell
Speaker 7: by listening to this lady she's drunk.
Speaker 25: She eventually blacked out and was severely injured after falling
Speaker 25: down the flight of stairs. Carnival claims the fall never happened.
Speaker 1: I found bruises, and sord did I get these bruises?
Speaker 2: And they can't tell me. I never found and I
Speaker 2: never went to anybody's room.
Speaker 25: Nobody camp video shows her being escorted by ship security
Speaker 25: back to her stateroom, where she drunkenly confronted her two shipmates.
Speaker 2: If you were in my brig for thirty years, oh god,
Speaker 2: I know who this person is already, already, the tears,
Speaker 2: the crime. You've been my friend for thirty years. Can
Speaker 2: we interview the friends from her cruise cabin and go,
Speaker 2: do you think she should have gotten a six figure
Speaker 2: payout from the cruise line?
Speaker 1: Because I got a feeling they'd say, no, I got.
Speaker 2: A feeling her friends who were in her own cabin
Speaker 2: with her on this cruise ship would go the idea
Speaker 2: that they gave this woman a payout because they gave
Speaker 2: her all of the different shots of tequila that she
Speaker 2: was ordering at all. She went to multiple different bars
Speaker 2: to get all of them. It's just crazy to me.
Speaker 2: But that's the new footage, is her who ended up
Speaker 2: getting three hundred thousand dollars for getting overserved over an
Speaker 2: eight hour period where she had thirteen or fourteen shots.
Speaker 1: That's her actually drinking the shots. She's here here, here, here, and.
Speaker 7: Here, here, here, here, here, all in just over an
Speaker 7: eight hour period.
Speaker 2: Right here that's that's that is going to end up
Speaker 2: with Sea Lane on it, and I cannot wait for
Speaker 2: it myself, honestly. All right, ago, let's see, let's get
Speaker 2: get rid of all of these. We're getting the hell
Speaker 2: out of here, folks. It's been a blast, it's been
Speaker 2: quite the time. And secret shows.
Speaker 1: Tonight, we'll see you the eight pm eight pm.
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Speaker 1: Here we go, let's get out of here. Let's do today.
Speaker 15: I learned the following information may make you feel smarter,
Speaker 15: but will not actually increase your IQ.
Speaker 1: So don't get cocky.
Speaker 2: What we call today, it is today I learned for
Speaker 2: a Thursday. Does that cut off? Why does that cut
Speaker 2: off at the end?
Speaker 1: Like that is there?
Speaker 2: I think we got a little bit of a drop
Speaker 2: slinger issue here. You have I do no, no, no,
Speaker 2: it's good, it's it's I think it's fine, but it
Speaker 2: just sounded like I got cut cut off. I'll tell
Speaker 2: you why later. Okay, all right, here we go. Let's
Speaker 2: see here today, I learned the person from this cartoon series.
Speaker 1: Under Acre would oh Winnie the Pooh. That's right, Winny
Speaker 1: the Pooh is not popular in Sea Leon's household.
Speaker 2: Clearly, the real life Christopher Robin, whose name was the
Speaker 2: the impetus for the Winnie the Pooh character, eventually made
Speaker 2: peace with his father and loved Pooh.
Speaker 21: In the end.
Speaker 1: They say, everybody loves poo in the end. That's what
Speaker 1: they say.
Speaker 2: Despite the bullying from his younger years, he ended up
Speaker 2: being happy that he was featured as Christopher Robin in
Speaker 2: Winnie the Pooh. By name, say learn Patty Davis, Ronald
Speaker 2: Reagan's daughter host for Playboy in nineteen ninety four. Really
Speaker 2: full frontal pictorial of Ronald Reagan's daughter Patty Davis and
Speaker 2: Playboy in nineteen ninety four, if you're looking it up.
Speaker 1: July nineteen ninety four, and today learn.
Speaker 2: This guy right here, boy David allen Coe.
Speaker 1: That's Sam and David.
Speaker 2: David allen Coe was incarcerated in the Ohio State penitent Jerry.
Speaker 2: He killed another inmate and was sentenced to death, had
Speaker 2: his sentence commuted to life in prison, got released on
Speaker 2: parole by turning himself around with music, and then went
Speaker 2: on become one of the originators of outlaw country. And
Speaker 2: that's his story. Friends, Thank you so much for having
Speaker 2: out with us. We do appreciate it. We're back tomorrow,
Speaker 2: same time, same place. Missed Eddy of the show. Get
Speaker 2: the podcast over on the news junkie dot com.
Speaker 1: We'll see you later. Everybody, you don't
Speaker 6: Call me whling Jenny, and you don't her call me Joe.