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Speaker 2: let's start out by putting our ears to the ground,
Speaker 2: our fingers on the pulse, and see what's happening in
Speaker 2: this great, big, wide world of ours. And we've heard
Speaker 2: a lot about you guys trying to save money out there.
Speaker 2: You're always looking for a way to save I didn't
Speaker 2: know this was an option, but I guess it is.
Speaker 2: Any idea, What this gentleman here and the thumbnail you
Speaker 2: guys see is is saving a little bit of money
Speaker 2: on gasoline. Gasoline's a good gas. Yeah it's at a
Speaker 2: gas station. Yeah, that is indeed? Where this is? What
Speaker 2: the hell is going on? How was this? How is
Speaker 2: this not on my radar? I didn't even know this
Speaker 2: was a thing. I want reports back from you, all right,
Speaker 2: listening to the show today, watching the show today, whatever
Speaker 2: it may be, Have you seen one of these gas stations?
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 1: I saved money. I had to go back and they
Speaker 1: get my change.
Speaker 3: I thought gas was more expensive, but it's not so
Speaker 3: thanks Trump, saving me some money.
Speaker 4: We're here at the first Freedom Fuel Network gas station
Speaker 4: right here in Philadelphia, leading the charge to lower gas
Speaker 4: prices three dollars and forty seven cents. That's for our
Speaker 4: forty seventh president, Resident Donald Day Trump.
Speaker 1: Okay, what just make it forty seven cents?
Speaker 2: We have freedom fuel gas stations all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: Where where are these?
Speaker 1: Why are these?
Speaker 2: But could I know that nobody's going to just start
Speaker 2: a gas station in order not to make money? Right?
Speaker 1: So, and I don't think.
Speaker 2: We were like I thought, we weren't going to the
Speaker 2: socialism stuff. So I don't think we've taken over the
Speaker 2: gas stations just yet, right, I don't think we've the
Speaker 2: means of production or anything like that.
Speaker 3: They have a website shown and the U R L.
Speaker 3: I'm like that, you know, it doesn't instill confidence?
Speaker 1: Oh no, what is it? Is it?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: It's not a dot com? Not a dot com?
Speaker 2: No, it's not a dot com? Well can we go?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 3: Is it a dot net? It's not a dot gov?
Speaker 3: What you would think if it was Trump related? It
Speaker 3: could be a Freedom Fuel Network dot gov. It's not
Speaker 3: a dot net. Definitely, not a dot org. You know,
Speaker 3: where is it is it? Is it a dot TV?
Speaker 3: For God's sake, that's even worse, buddy, it's Freedom Fuel
Speaker 3: Network dot L O L.
Speaker 2: Wait, that seems like a joke because.
Speaker 1: The laughing out loud.
Speaker 2: Harris, You're saying, there are gas stations right now in
Speaker 2: the United States America I get.
Speaker 1: My movies from.
Speaker 2: It's like you're stealing movies. Dot L welcome to pirratingmovies
Speaker 2: dot L o L freedom. Has anybody seen a Freedom Fuel?
Speaker 1: I have not.
Speaker 2: I have not either, and I had no idea that
Speaker 2: this was a thing out there. They're saying that gas
Speaker 2: is way cheaper. This is my first word of this.
Speaker 2: I am a little weirded out that they have a
Speaker 2: dot LOL web domain, But I'm wondering if somebody made
Speaker 2: this web domain after this video went viral or after
Speaker 2: because it says establish moments before a truth social post. Okay,
Speaker 2: America's most trusted gas station chain and then chain has
Speaker 2: crossed out and it says concept and proudly serving Greater
Speaker 2: Philadelphia pending existence. Can I tell you it's a troll?
Speaker 2: This is a trope. Pan in twenty twenty six, I
Speaker 2: don't know what's real and what's fake. That could legitimately
Speaker 2: be a real thing, because this is real. Freedom fuel
Speaker 2: is real, and find out Selan, how many of these
Speaker 2: does are?
Speaker 3: This is one trol website now it's like follow the money.
Speaker 3: The same week he promised you cheap gas from a
Speaker 3: company does not really files early money report. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: All right, that's somebody trolling. But I want to be clear.
Speaker 3: Freedom fuel in the gas stations are real. This is
Speaker 3: this is a real thing. So let's see how many
Speaker 3: there are. Hold on, here we go.
Speaker 4: The price of gas year is fifty cent slower than
Speaker 4: the Pennsylvania average gas prices.
Speaker 5: Apparts of July.
Speaker 1: The gas prices are coming down, which is great.
Speaker 6: Tell you, I'm very happy about the cheap gas prices.
Speaker 7: Hopefully everyone has a great holiday, super punk the gas
Speaker 7: prices are lower.
Speaker 6: I'm just great.
Speaker 8: Right now.
Speaker 9: We're in a difficult time in this world, but it's
Speaker 9: nice to see some stability that we can enjoy.
Speaker 2: Bro, what stability is this? It's a gas station I've
Speaker 2: never heard of.
Speaker 1: Also, three seven is still not cheap.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, what what is gas? What's the average right now?
Speaker 2: I think it's around like three eighty ish. Okay, so
Speaker 2: it's like a little bit of a discount or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So, but if this is real, it's a real place.
Speaker 2: There's really these gas stations popping up. They're trying to say,
Speaker 2: like it's freedom gas, it's way cheaper than everywhere else.
Speaker 2: I just don't have a lot of questions. Let's finish
Speaker 2: this up here.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the lower gas and I saw it.
Speaker 4: I thought it was a fake news, but glad it's true.
Speaker 1: I definitely couldn't leave my eyes because I just got past.
Speaker 2: I'm actually taking a trip down the shore, so I
Speaker 2: wasn't even gonna come and get the gag.
Speaker 1: I'm glad I did. And now they just save me
Speaker 1: a lot of money.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot cheap.
Speaker 1: Let's keep doing what you're doing doing as the job.
Speaker 6: Thank you for much.
Speaker 10: Thank you for helping our country.
Speaker 1: It's President Donald J.
Speaker 4: Trump leading the charge the lower gas prices right here,
Speaker 4: the Freedom Fuel Network.
Speaker 3: What the hell is a Freedom fuel gas station? That's it,
Speaker 3: thank you, it's part of the Freedom Fuel Network. Shown well,
Speaker 3: what the what is the Freedom Fuel Network?
Speaker 2: It is exactly what they say it is. Here's the deal.
Speaker 2: I want people to save money, so maybe this is
Speaker 2: real and like people can save a little bit of
Speaker 2: money on gas, and these you know, these damn oil
Speaker 2: companies can can take a note from this and say
Speaker 2: we should lower prices a little bit.
Speaker 1: But I am a little bit skeptical.
Speaker 2: I've just never heard of this before and it just
Speaker 2: pops up out of nowhere. Vicky says on YouTube. My
Speaker 2: two daughters live in Philadelphia. I'll have to call them
Speaker 2: and ask them about this. Yeah, I mean I think
Speaker 2: it's beyond Philadelphia. Just to be clear, I think I
Speaker 2: think there's a bunch of that.
Speaker 3: NJ dot Com says that there's at least one opening
Speaker 3: New Jersey right now too.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we got Jersey, Philly, We do we have
Speaker 2: anything out of the northeast. Can we get somebody to
Speaker 2: visit one today?
Speaker 6: Is it?
Speaker 2: Is it a real place or is it a dot Lol?
Speaker 2: That's that's what we're looking for. Here was something I
Speaker 2: fel for. But no, it's I mean funny, this is
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. It's such a strange thing that this
Speaker 2: has popped up overnight, and nobody was talking about this
Speaker 2: ahead of time as far as I'm aware, so that
Speaker 2: it very well could have been that that was a
Speaker 2: real gas station, that's the big question. But I did
Speaker 2: see this posted by the White House, so they're you know,
Speaker 2: freedom fuel. There must be some news stories.
Speaker 1: Twenty five of them. They're all in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Why because the Philadelphia is where the Congress was.
Speaker 2: Which one of those states voted for Trump? Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Pennsylvania possibly. But I mean I feel like you would
Speaker 2: have put that somewhere in like a really big well,
Speaker 2: maybe you don't want to put in a stronghold because
Speaker 2: you already got those votes. Maybe maybe you want to
Speaker 2: put that so like these people hate me, I'll make
Speaker 2: the gas cheaper. Put this over in Los Angeles. Man,
Speaker 2: You're never gonna win there. It's not gonna happen. I'm
Speaker 2: very confused as to what's going on here, but I
Speaker 2: do like saving money, and I know you do too. Oh,
Speaker 2: here we go. This says Freedom Fuel Network gas stations
Speaker 2: have arrived. All right, that's the same video from the
Speaker 2: White House. White House is promoting Freedom Fuel gas stations
Speaker 2: near Philadelphia with opaque ownership. Opaque, for those of you
Speaker 2: who are new to the word game means not see through,
Speaker 2: not clear. You know, you can't tell who's owning these places.
Speaker 2: The gas station sell gas at three forty seven a gallon,
Speaker 2: but the White House says it's a private company and
Speaker 2: has provided no funding. Okay, but why on earth would
Speaker 2: a private company ever go will take a haircut on
Speaker 2: the gas unless there was something in it for them,
Speaker 2: right Like, there's got to be there's always something in
Speaker 2: it for them, for whoever's doing this stuff. It's a
Speaker 2: network of twenty five gas locations selling regular gas at
Speaker 2: three forty seven a gallon.
Speaker 3: The single served Doritos there are eight bucks. They're not
Speaker 3: taking the haircut, they're just moving the money.
Speaker 2: Bottle of water sixteen dollars. According to the Philadelphia acquire
Speaker 2: the debut location was a converted Sonoko. They still got those. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was pressure. I was wondering, if there's only so many.
Speaker 3: Locations across like Philadelphia or Pennsylvania and nearby New Jersey,
Speaker 3: is it not just a person who owned a bunch
Speaker 3: of gas stations and agreed to, you know, put some
Speaker 3: new signage.
Speaker 2: That's it looks like, yeah, it said one of these,
Speaker 2: he says one of these, pick says there's six dollars
Speaker 2: and twenty nine cents. Three dollars and forty seven cents
Speaker 2: is what they're saying. That's framed as a tribute to
Speaker 2: the president. On Tuesday, the national average for a gallon
Speaker 2: of regular gasoline was three seventy nine and the Philadelphia
Speaker 2: average was three ninety five, So that is cheaper. But
Speaker 2: isn't there going to be another issue?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: All right, not for nothing. But I've worked in radio
Speaker 2: for quite some time, and prior to this, prior to
Speaker 2: this very moment, in radio, there used to be a
Speaker 2: very traditional radio stunt and all the radio stations would
Speaker 2: do it, and you would buy out a gas station
Speaker 2: for some amount of time. Hell didn't MO do that
Speaker 2: one time? Maybe I'm making that up. I thought you did?
Speaker 2: You buy a gas station? You go like, we're let's
Speaker 2: say it's cool ninety seven, and you say it cool
Speaker 2: ninety seven. We bought nine seven hundred dollars worth of
Speaker 2: gasoline free for you. Just come to the cool gas
Speaker 2: station and fill up your cool tank and then everybody goes,
Speaker 2: I want some of this free cool gas. And there's
Speaker 2: a mile as long as you could imagine coming out
Speaker 2: of that, so you can't even get to the plan.
Speaker 3: I mean, all miles are pretty much the same length. Well,
Speaker 3: shut up, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a line eighteen miles long and you
Speaker 2: can't get to the actual gas.
Speaker 1: So the only way to do.
Speaker 2: This would be if all of the gas stations in
Speaker 2: the country all of a sudden did it somehow, that
Speaker 2: it'd be you know, every station you go to.
Speaker 3: So nice of them to put it at three forty
Speaker 3: seven as a tribute to the president. You know, he
Speaker 3: was also the forty fifth president. We could shave that
Speaker 3: that that price down even more, you know, more savings.
Speaker 2: Well they didn't want to do that. I guess they didn't.
Speaker 2: A White House spokesperson characterized Freedom Fuel Network as a
Speaker 2: privately held business and denied that it operates as a
Speaker 2: government initiative. I mean, the White House is straight up
Speaker 2: posting videos of this. It receives public funding or benefits
Speaker 2: from discount and fuel for procurement, they've denied all of that.
Speaker 2: The company behind Freedom Fuel Network did not respond to
Speaker 2: a request for comment. Gas Buddies head of petroleum analysis
Speaker 2: Patrick Dehan ran the numbers and said this was financially
Speaker 2: untenable stations selling at this price. It's not sustainable, says
Speaker 2: the gas wizard, like the guy who knows about all
Speaker 2: of this. He says, generally, when losses happened, somebody's got
Speaker 2: to pay for it. Though unable to identify the station's
Speaker 2: owners or explain what agreements might underpin their fuel costs.
Speaker 2: To Han noted that numerous locations already appear in gas
Speaker 2: Buddies database under names that are vastly different. So this
Speaker 2: is like a huge mystery to even the people who
Speaker 2: are like obsessed with gas and gas prices and all
Speaker 2: of that stuff. So you let us know if you're
Speaker 2: over there and you're wandering around and you're seeing one
Speaker 2: of these Freedom Fuel gas stations today. And I also
Speaker 2: want to know from you people, because some of you
Speaker 2: are crazy. Some of you are like I hate Trump
Speaker 2: so much I want him in jail. Do you care
Speaker 2: about a deal on gas enough that you would go
Speaker 2: to the Freedom Fuel gas station even if you don't
Speaker 2: like Trump, like you would you grin and bear it
Speaker 2: and go o'right, we'll fill up the car, and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do it anyways, even though, like just for the deal,
Speaker 2: let us know, give us your dispatches, emails and all
Speaker 2: the rest over at the News Junkie Dotcast.
Speaker 3: That sounds like the beginning of a Nathan for you, Like,
Speaker 3: all right, you want fifty cent gas, come to Hitler Gas.
Speaker 2: Okay, would you guys go to Hitler Gas to fill up.
Speaker 2: Not that I'm comparing the two, but it would. Let's
Speaker 2: just just to give an extreme example. Would you go
Speaker 2: to Hitler Gas if they had the best gas prices
Speaker 2: in town?
Speaker 1: I would? What What do I care? The money's not.
Speaker 2: Going to Hitler? Oh God, am I this is long gone, Josh, Okay.
Speaker 1: There's Mecca Hitler. No, he's ripped.
Speaker 2: All right? This would you go some of you saying hell, no,
Speaker 2: you guys are crazy. You guys are crazy. If there
Speaker 2: was like your worst enemy, like even if you took
Speaker 2: who do Republicans hate the most? So we could be
Speaker 2: fair abomba all right? If they happy Joe, Like if
Speaker 2: if they had Obama gas and Obama phones at a
Speaker 2: gas station that were fifty cents a gallon and you
Speaker 2: get a free Obama phone. I think the guy, even
Speaker 2: the guy with all the MAGA hats, is taking the
Speaker 2: hat off and going, well, today I'm gonna get them
Speaker 2: some caras. So I'm gonna I'm gonna go do this
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 3: Obama phone sounds like it's a burner anyway, So those
Speaker 3: things will fly off the shelf with the the miscreants
Speaker 3: of the world. So he says pj's at Costco's. Are
Speaker 3: Costco is still cheaper?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Costco usually has a great deal. But that's why they're
Speaker 2: they're doing so well over there. But all right, let
Speaker 2: us know if you see that out there. Look, we
Speaker 2: have so many things to sort through today. We have
Speaker 2: big World Cup drama. We got this this gram Platner stuff.
Speaker 2: Have you been following? That is Mitch McConnell alive a
Speaker 2: very awkward update. I'll give you that as well all
Speaker 2: of this on the way. In fact, when we come back,
Speaker 2: something very strange happening in the sports world, we'll give
Speaker 2: this to you and a blooper to go along with
Speaker 2: it that is coming up next in the news.
Speaker 11: Junkie, are you guys still watching the.
Speaker 2: World Cup or have you checked out? Since Team USA
Speaker 2: lost and they are no more? I'm still in it,
Speaker 2: still exciting. Who you rooting for now? Josh is like
Speaker 2: somebody else.
Speaker 1: No one specific, but I'm pumped for this England Norway
Speaker 1: game on Saturday.
Speaker 2: See, I'm looking at them sometimes and I think of
Speaker 2: it about like the global situation that we faced, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, team should I pick? Last night it was
Speaker 2: Switzerland and somebody I'm like, I don't really care about Switzerland. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I go to Colombia is kind of cool sometime.
Speaker 2: Who do I pick here? And then I just sort
Speaker 2: of randomly picked one of the teams to follow, and
Speaker 2: it's been fun. It's a good time. You can bet
Speaker 2: on it and tmjchat do all those good things if
Speaker 2: you will. But the World Cup, whether you hate it,
Speaker 2: love it, or whatever, has brought in a ton of viewers.
Speaker 2: For example, the US men's national team. Here's the story
Speaker 2: the US men's national team and their final loss to
Speaker 2: Belgium where they went down four to one. It was embarrassing, Josh.
Speaker 2: It was not a good game at all, and they
Speaker 2: were being watched by a lot of people. It was
Speaker 2: an average of thirty million viewers on Fox, which is
Speaker 2: the most watched soccer telecast in US history, folks. According
Speaker 2: to The New York Times, Telemoondo reported twelve million viewers
Speaker 2: on its network to Telemundo for a weird thing at
Speaker 2: a second, making it the most watched US men's national
Speaker 2: team game in the US Spanish language TV history as well.
Speaker 2: The combined forty million viewers will likely eclipse any single
Speaker 2: game this decade other than the Juggernaut that is the NFL.
Speaker 2: So about forty million viewers watched the US men's national team.
Speaker 2: That's in the United States alone. Of course you got
Speaker 2: people all over the world watching this stuff. But now
Speaker 2: there's a weird tension going on and Seeland. You know,
Speaker 2: there's a world where they make a lot of money
Speaker 2: when it comes to the World Cup. I'm sure you've
Speaker 2: seen some of this. Yeah. One thing that I saw much.
Speaker 3: So that FIFA is insane about their sponsorship agreements and
Speaker 3: then making them cover up the Levis side.
Speaker 1: So great they did it.
Speaker 2: They did this at the Seattle Stadium too, but it
Speaker 2: looks like the Seattle Stadium is whatever stadium, and it
Speaker 2: looks like someone has gone over and just put a
Speaker 2: big black strip of tape over the whatever The sponsor.
Speaker 1: Uhman Field is there.
Speaker 2: Luman just blacked out over there because they've been doing
Speaker 2: that because they want to make money. And then the
Speaker 2: thing that I saw that maybe think of Selane, believe
Speaker 2: it or not, was did you see seland the technology
Speaker 2: that they use for the advertisements on the side of
Speaker 2: the field.
Speaker 1: What about it?
Speaker 3: I mean, they've they've done a lot of this before.
Speaker 3: There are you talking about? In some cases I think
Speaker 3: they green screen it out and you only see the
Speaker 3: ads on TV.
Speaker 1: You don't see them in person.
Speaker 2: This is right down your alley, Okay. Seelan loves this
Speaker 2: kind of tech stuff. I saw a story that said,
Speaker 2: these digital screens on the side of the World Cup games,
Speaker 2: the ones like around the edge of the field. They
Speaker 2: broadcast in such a way that different cameras tuned to
Speaker 2: different frames per second in different regions are showing different
Speaker 2: ads at the same time. Does that make any sense
Speaker 2: to you?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: And it's a little crazy. So you have like a
Speaker 2: camera tuned in and you're watching in America and it's
Speaker 2: an Adidas ad on the side of the pitch where
Speaker 2: they're playing soccer. But somebody else watching the very same
Speaker 2: game in England is seeing a completely different ad because
Speaker 2: their camera is tuned to a different frames per second.
Speaker 1: What does it look like to the naked eye? Then?
Speaker 2: I have no idea. I have no idea what that
Speaker 2: up look look World Cup for ads, sideline screen something
Speaker 2: like that. You'll see what I'm talking about. I don't know, Josh,
Speaker 2: what you like. If you were just sitting there, I
Speaker 2: don't know what you see. But it's a way for
Speaker 2: them to ad max everything revenue potential wise that they could,
Speaker 2: and they take one broadcast, You're seeing one stretch of
Speaker 2: ads for tire Kingdom or Visa or whatever, and then
Speaker 2: a totally different person watching somewhere else is seeing totally
Speaker 2: different ads. It's crazy. I don't even know how it works.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I read something about how that worked, and
Speaker 2: then uh, didn't see it. Afterwards, somebody says green screen. No,
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think it was green screen technology
Speaker 2: that they were using. We'll find it here in a bit.
Speaker 2: But the other controversy was, and this is so funny
Speaker 2: to see in a way, that they sell out the
Speaker 2: rights for the broadcast. So in the United States, for example,
Speaker 2: you have Fox who owns a bunch of the broadcast
Speaker 2: rights for the World Cup, but then they also sell
Speaker 2: out the broadcast rights in other languages. So Telemundo owns
Speaker 2: the Spanish language broadcast rights in the United States of America,
Speaker 2: and Telemundo found out something very strange. Not that strange
Speaker 2: to me, because if you watch anything on Telemundo, it
Speaker 2: just sounds way more exciting, right, says right, So doesn't
Speaker 2: surprise me that last guy. Doesn't surprise me at all
Speaker 2: that there's a ton of people who don't even speak
Speaker 2: Spanish watching the games on Telemundo. So Telemundo is like,
Speaker 2: how do we handle this? And here's a story, this says,
Speaker 2: this is a report. There is reportedly tension between Fox
Speaker 2: and NBC as Telemundo courts English speakers for the World Cup.
Speaker 2: A report indicated twenty percent of Telemundo's World Cup viewers
Speaker 2: speak English as their primary language. Telemundo's effort to bring
Speaker 2: in English speakers to the network for its World Cup
Speaker 2: coverage is reportedly causing tension between Fox, the English language
Speaker 2: rights holder, and NBC Universal, which owns Telemundo. And a
Speaker 2: report outlining media companies interested in securing the rights for
Speaker 2: the twenty thirty and twenty thirty four World Cups, CNBC
Speaker 2: reporter Alex Sherman noted that FIFA may choose to package
Speaker 2: English language and Spanish language rights together for one media partner.
Speaker 2: Why because there's some tension. The report goes on to
Speaker 2: explain Telemundo has claimed some unknown population of English speak
Speaker 2: speakers who are watching the games via peacock has dampened
Speaker 2: their reach and and they've been intentional about dealing with this.
Speaker 2: The network tapped actor Owen Wilson, who is not Latino
Speaker 2: or known to speak Spanish, for an ad campaign a
Speaker 2: it is. And then they said, at one point during
Speaker 2: one of the games, the Telemundo people stop speaking Spanish
Speaker 2: and welcome to their English speaking viewers in English. And
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, okay, I see what they're doing now,
Speaker 2: you know. And of course FIFA gets mad because they're like, oh,
Speaker 2: we should be making even more money. We want to
Speaker 2: make even more money. Classic FIFA action here. But there's
Speaker 2: a fight over there, which is funny because some of
Speaker 2: the audience for Telemundo is like, what is this crap?
Speaker 2: They're talking in English on our Spanish Broadcastle's Espanol idiot.
Speaker 2: And I say to you, Telemundo fans, welcome to our world.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: We've had Spanish on this radio station on it as
Speaker 2: we've had you know, we get it. We get it
Speaker 2: introduced into our world all the time in English speakers
Speaker 2: see ads or hear ads that are in an Espanol
Speaker 2: on YouTube and all sorts of places. Now you're having
Speaker 2: to deal with it, so enjoy for a little while. Okay,
Speaker 2: the Telemoondo people getting a little bit of English injected
Speaker 2: into their world. As well. Did you find out what
Speaker 2: I was talking about with those those ads?
Speaker 1: Saying er, I texted a video?
Speaker 3: Oh cool, okay, all right, hang on so far, I'm
Speaker 3: just seeing like the regular traditional virtual board replacement where
Speaker 3: they paint.
Speaker 2: The ads on to the.
Speaker 3: The screen, much like they would do the lines in
Speaker 3: a football game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here, Josh found it because he's much more.
Speaker 1: Did you know that a.
Speaker 11: Cool?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's found this here. Thank you, Josh, appreciate this.
Speaker 2: This is some Instagram guys.
Speaker 5: Screen can show four different ads at once, depending on
Speaker 5: which country you're in. No, it's not an edit, it's
Speaker 5: not green screen, it's not AI. It's pure physics. Same
Speaker 5: board can now make four pounds of the month. So
Speaker 5: how do they actually do it? The board is run
Speaker 5: at two hundred and forty frames per second, and instead
Speaker 5: of showing one ad, it's showing all four. Each country's
Speaker 5: camera runs at sixty frames per second. It is only
Speaker 5: grabbing every fourth frame. One board is split into four
Speaker 5: sixty frames per second streams.
Speaker 1: And here's the best part.
Speaker 5: The only people not getting it clear at are the
Speaker 5: people who take to be.
Speaker 1: There that will only see a blow.
Speaker 2: Oh, the people in the stadium don't see anything because
Speaker 2: the ads.
Speaker 3: Are slipping myself reel in, cite your sources, TikTok guy,
Speaker 3: I have heard this is real.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have heard that this is real. This this
Speaker 2: TikTok guy. And plus I trust Josh's sources explicitly. And
Speaker 2: they show the video of the soccer game going on,
Speaker 2: and behind one player you see four different things, four
Speaker 2: different ads, all being broadcast at the same time. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: It's kind of really interesting that they're able to do
Speaker 2: it that way, although it does seem like one of
Speaker 2: those things where subconsciously that could give everybody a migraine
Speaker 2: in the in the stadium, because like, you don't know
Speaker 2: that you're seeing this thing, but or it should look
Speaker 2: like if you were to take four traditional film camera
Speaker 2: pictures and then like take the film, take the negative
Speaker 2: and layer it one on top of the other and
Speaker 2: look through it, you should be seeing like this weird
Speaker 2: conflagration blur of four different ads at the same time. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's so strange, but yeah, they want to make as
Speaker 2: much money as possible. N Espanol in English in whatever.
Speaker 2: Thank you to Tom Tom by the way, the Latest
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Speaker 2: over at the Newsjunkie dot com. Right now, a couple
Speaker 2: of emails coming in. Anonymous emails tips at the Newsjunkie
Speaker 2: dot com, and he says, I want to talk about
Speaker 2: Publics all right, okay, Anonymous, let's talk about the grocery
Speaker 2: store of Publics. Please give me Anonymous. I want people
Speaker 2: to know that Publics only gives out race is once
Speaker 2: each year. This year, the raise is only twenty cents
Speaker 2: for employees who are already topped out at their payscale.
Speaker 2: Oh if you're topped out of your payscale and you're
Speaker 2: still getting a raise, that seems all right, Okay this
Speaker 2: year before the year before that it was twenty five cents,
Speaker 2: and the year before that it was also twenty five
Speaker 2: cents that people would get in a raise. Publics is
Speaker 2: having a hard time keeping managers in full time employees.
Speaker 2: Then I think the solution is pretty simple. If you
Speaker 2: pay them well, they will stay. I'm going to stop
Speaker 2: you here, Anonymous, for just a second. I used to
Speaker 2: agree with you. I used to agree with you. I
Speaker 2: do not anymore. Let me tell you from experience and
Speaker 2: from talking to a lot of people who run their
Speaker 2: own businesses. You think at the beginning, you think, hey,
Speaker 2: if I pay somebody more, they will work harder. Their
Speaker 2: workload will increase because somebody is getting paid better, their
Speaker 2: output will be better, and it'll be better for the
Speaker 2: company as ale. That is not true from my experience,
Speaker 2: from the experience of a lot of people that I
Speaker 2: know who own companies and pay people more, you don't
Speaker 2: see a difference in output after somebody gets a big raise.
Speaker 2: You just see somebody who's happy for a moment or two,
Speaker 2: and then they adjust to this new amount of money
Speaker 2: that they're making and then they move on. But they
Speaker 2: don't do crazy extra amounts of work. And you know what,
Speaker 2: that's fine. Maybe they weren't paid well enough to begin with,
Speaker 2: and they deserve the raise no matter what. But there
Speaker 2: is this idea that it's like, well, if all the
Speaker 2: employees made this much money, then everything would be absolutely perfect.
Speaker 2: It just doesn't work that way. I know people who've
Speaker 2: gotten huge raises, double their salary, triple their salary, and
Speaker 2: then you go, Okay, well they're gonna go nuts here.
Speaker 2: They're gonna be doing a lot of No. No, I
Speaker 2: haven't seen that at all in my life. He says,
Speaker 2: if you pay them, well, they'll stay. But you guys
Speaker 2: can agree or disagree tips at the Neewsjunkie dot com.
Speaker 2: How would you feel after a whole year of hard
Speaker 2: work you only received an extra twenty cents, Well, it's
Speaker 2: an extra twenty cents an hour, to be fair. I
Speaker 2: want Publics fans to know what's happening so they could
Speaker 2: do something about it, because I'm too scared to speak
Speaker 2: up for myself, says Anonymous. Well, I don't know. I
Speaker 2: thought the Publics did a pretty good job paying their employees.
Speaker 2: I think Publics does a lot of nice things. I
Speaker 2: think Public's is a good company. It's one of the
Speaker 2: biggest employee owned companies socialism. One of the biggest employee
Speaker 2: owned companies in the United States of America is Publics.
Speaker 2: And they also hire a lot of disabled people, which
Speaker 2: seems to annoy some of their fellow employees. But it's
Speaker 2: you know, it's nice to pass through as you're checking
Speaker 2: out at the grocery store, to be like, ah, look
Speaker 2: at that. That's sweet. Todd emails the show. Give us
Speaker 2: your thoughts, just like Todd and Anonymous Todd says, I
Speaker 2: hope your fourth of July went well, I have two
Speaker 2: suggestions for you. Can we add something to the app?
Speaker 2: Can we put check marks next to listen to episodes?
Speaker 2: I listened to one of the previous episodes and it
Speaker 2: took me fifteen minutes to figure out i'd heard that
Speaker 2: one before. Also, a fast forward to marine option will
Speaker 2: be awesome. Last thing, it takes a minute to load.
Speaker 2: Sometimes people like to see a spinning circle or something
Speaker 2: flashing by. I've closed it before.
Speaker 3: Circle. What kind of code a reno? Do you have
Speaker 3: some sort of you know, buffering signal? Or that was
Speaker 3: all about me?
Speaker 1: He says.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you, says Todd. All right, Todd, I'll put
Speaker 2: this to the side. I'll see if we can make
Speaker 2: that happen for you.
Speaker 3: Instead of a spinning circle, though, I'd like it to
Speaker 3: be the fickle beast like tapping his watch, like Ah
Speaker 3: or the hedgehog or Mario would just go to sleep?
Speaker 2: You just start pewing or is that the sleep thing?
Speaker 2: What's the noise you make when you're sleeping. That's what
Speaker 2: I was looking for. Shoes honk shoe, sho honk shoe.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that'll read there you go? How
Speaker 2: do I put that you just did. How do I
Speaker 2: put that into words? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Say it to your voice text and see how it goes.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, nothing. I just kind of did it on
Speaker 2: accident there. All right, Thank you folks for hanging out
Speaker 2: with us today. Join us with your emails or record
Speaker 2: your voice or even your face with a video or
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Speaker 2: the app right now quick break and when we come back,
Speaker 2: I'll get to the blooper that I was talking about
Speaker 2: very awkward, awkward moments for CNN is they were talking
Speaker 2: about what's happening with Mitch McConnell.
Speaker 1: Where is he?
Speaker 2: Is he dead? Is he alive? Is he whatever? A
Speaker 2: great moment, really really great moment that I want to
Speaker 2: play for you, and that is coming up next in
Speaker 2: the News Junkie. Now. I'm wondering if we're going to
Speaker 2: figure out this week on the show what the hell
Speaker 2: is happening with Mitch McConnell. And if you don't know
Speaker 2: who that name is, he's that politician guy who's zonked
Speaker 2: out a couple of times. He's the politician guy who'll
Speaker 2: be in the middle of a sentence and then just
Speaker 2: stop talking who like a bunch of these other politicians
Speaker 2: are just like way too old and maybe not properly
Speaker 2: representing people in Washington, DC. Push me back to my
Speaker 2: two term limit idea and my mandatory retirement at seventy
Speaker 2: five idea for everybody who's an elected official in the
Speaker 2: United States of America. Yes, I do think that would
Speaker 2: be a great idea, But right now we don't even
Speaker 2: know if Mitch McConnell is alive or not. Now here's
Speaker 2: my experience. Okay, there are three possible things that could
Speaker 2: be happening in this situation. And I know this from
Speaker 2: covering news stories for decades and decades. Here are the
Speaker 2: three possible scenarios when somebody is possibly dead and not
Speaker 2: saying anything.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Number one is that person is actually dead, all right,
Speaker 2: That's number one. The person's actually dead, and so they're
Speaker 2: not coming out to the media and saying, hey, guys,
Speaker 2: I know everybody's opining endlessly, talking endlessly about whether or
Speaker 2: not I'm alive or dead. So I just wanted to say, hello,
Speaker 2: I'm alive. Here, here, here's the newspaper from today. Here's
Speaker 2: my proof of life. You know, you do that kind
Speaker 2: of thing, and then you would prove that you are
Speaker 2: indeed alive, but you would want to do something because
Speaker 2: the whole world's talking about whether or not you're alive
Speaker 2: or dead. That's one option that you would be actually dead.
Speaker 2: A lot of people have been talking about whether he's
Speaker 2: alive or dead for months now, well more so now
Speaker 2: than ever before. Selan, we've reached fever pitch here, okay,
Speaker 2: and it's really really ratcheted up. So the first option
Speaker 2: out of three would be that the person's actually dead.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's true or not. People have
Speaker 2: said they talked to this guy, so that doesn't seem likely.
Speaker 2: But he's not getting on the phone with any of
Speaker 2: the news outlets and saying, hey, everybody, chill out, I'm alive.
Speaker 2: I'll be back to work in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: I'll be back quicker than that the press guy was
Speaker 2: gone for who just disappeared for four months or so. Yeah, like,
Speaker 2: I'll be back. The second option is that you are alive,
Speaker 2: but you don't want to talk to anybody. Allah Richard Simmons.
Speaker 2: You guys might remember that escapade when there was a
Speaker 2: podcast harassing Richard Simmons, the fitness guru and all around
Speaker 2: nice guy because they thought that Richard Simmons was mysteriously
Speaker 2: not out in public, and they said, is Richard Simmons trans?
Speaker 1: Is he now?
Speaker 2: Is he gay publicly? And he's there was all these
Speaker 2: weird theories about it, except maybe he just doesn't want
Speaker 2: to be on television. Maybe he just doesn't want to
Speaker 2: be public and out there talking about these things. It
Speaker 2: got so annoying that at some point even Richard Simmons,
Speaker 2: I think, had to call CNN and it was like, guys,
Speaker 2: I'm fine, leave me alone, Please all right, leave me
Speaker 2: alone if you don't mind. So that's the second option,
Speaker 2: that the person's out there but they just don't want
Speaker 2: to talk to anyone. First option is that they're dead.
Speaker 2: And the third option is that they're maybe not dead
Speaker 2: but incapacitated and can't say anything.
Speaker 1: Allah, oh what's her name?
Speaker 2: Who was staring at the balloons in the hospital and
Speaker 2: they wanted there was Terry Terry Shaivo, thank you, Josh, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: Terry Schivo. The third option is the Terry Schivo option.
Speaker 2: The person's technically still alive, but they don't have the
Speaker 2: ability to say like Terry Schivo would have, please don't
Speaker 2: put my face all over the media. Don't show pictures
Speaker 2: of me oddly staring at balloons with one eye going
Speaker 2: in one direction, one eye going in the other direction,
Speaker 2: to millions and millions of Americans. Those are the three options.
Speaker 2: Now you have Mitch McConnell, this leader, he is a senator,
Speaker 2: is clearly not representing his people right now because we
Speaker 2: don't know if he's dead or alive. His wife hauled
Speaker 2: asked to China, which is crazy. Just think about your
Speaker 2: loved one at the very least is in the hospital,
Speaker 2: just had CPR and was on desks door, but he's
Speaker 2: still alive, and you go, okay, cool, chill out at
Speaker 2: the hospital. I'm a fly to China real quick. That's
Speaker 2: a little crazy in and of itself. But then Scott
Speaker 2: jennings Over on CNN said, yesterday, Hey, Mitch McConnell's fine.
Speaker 2: He said, he talked to him about Iran. He talked
Speaker 2: to him about all this stuff. He talked to him
Speaker 2: about all the things happening in the world Maine. He said,
Speaker 2: I think which was the Prattner stuff or whatever, or Platiner,
Speaker 2: the Grand Platner stuff, whatever. He said, he talked to
Speaker 2: Mitch McConnell for a little while, and it was always
Speaker 2: totally with it, which gives me flashbacks of when they
Speaker 2: were saying Joe Biden was totally with it, like, oh,
Speaker 2: I talked to him, he's in better shape than anybody
Speaker 2: in the White House. Those are the vibes I'm getting.
Speaker 2: So now he's on CNN, and here's how this goes down.
Speaker 7: Do you think he'd be willing to call into the show?
Speaker 7: Could we get him on the phone now?
Speaker 12: You know, I wasn't really expecting him to call this morning,
Speaker 12: to be honest. So when the phone right and I
Speaker 12: was able to talk to him, I was I was
Speaker 12: frankly pretty grateful. I mean, as I as I said,
Speaker 12: I've known him since I was a teenager. If it
Speaker 12: hadn't been for Mitch McConnell and the McConnell's Center at
Speaker 12: the University of Louisville, you know, I would never have
Speaker 12: been able to go to college. He's been my mentor
Speaker 12: and he changed the trajectory.
Speaker 2: I'm really dodging that question there. Yeah, right, can I
Speaker 2: say right now he has not answered the question? Can
Speaker 2: we just call.
Speaker 11: Him right now?
Speaker 12: Things happened to him and happen to people in your
Speaker 12: life that you really care about, you know, you just
Speaker 12: sort of naturally feel extremely worried. So when I heard
Speaker 12: his voice today and he was clearly keeping up with stuff,
Speaker 12: that that made me happy to hear from him, because,
Speaker 12: like everybody else, I've been, you know, somewhat in the
Speaker 12: dark about it. But to hear him talking, and to
Speaker 12: know that he's also talking to the Senate leadership, it
Speaker 12: made me pretty happy.
Speaker 7: I'm the mega media ecosphere, shall we say, has been
Speaker 7: driving a lot of the questions about where Mitch McConnell
Speaker 7: has been.
Speaker 1: Well, they always got to do this stuff.
Speaker 2: It's like the right or the left is you know
Speaker 2: who's saying this? Anybody who is represented by this guy,
Speaker 2: They're like, where's our dude? Where is he? Why do
Speaker 2: we have to search to see if our representative is
Speaker 2: alive or not? The very least people can expect from
Speaker 2: their elected officials is that we know that they're alive
Speaker 2: and working for us. That's like the very very least
Speaker 2: that we could expect. But he didn't even address at all.
Speaker 2: She's like, can we call him right now? I don't
Speaker 2: know if she mentioned it again.
Speaker 7: Happened to him? You, of course are in tune with
Speaker 7: that in the role you have on your on your
Speaker 7: radio show. Do you think they should put out a
Speaker 7: picture of Mitch Mccalliugh's you should release more of the
Speaker 7: public to quiet this noise.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 12: I think Al had a good point about McConnell's general
Speaker 12: disposition towards privacy. I sometimes wonder, like, if I were
Speaker 12: laying in a hospital bed, what I want a bunch
Speaker 12: of people around photographing me.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing, why do we have to do this?
Speaker 2: It's so stupid. We don't need anybody to photograph you.
Speaker 2: We don't need the Terry Schivo balloon photograph to know
Speaker 2: that you're alive. Just call up CNN and go, hey,
Speaker 2: Mitch McConnell. Here, I'm in the hospit right now. But
Speaker 2: I tell you what I'm feeling powerful. I'm feeling better.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be out this bed and back in Congress
Speaker 2: in no time. So to the people who I represent,
Speaker 2: my constituents of rest easy, knowing that this was a
Speaker 2: bit of a slip up for me health wise, but
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make it to the end of this term,
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna be back voting for you and getting
Speaker 2: done what you want to be. I want to be
Speaker 2: done in Congress in just moments as I get back
Speaker 2: to work in Congress here blah blah blah whatever. And
Speaker 2: then people would go, Okay, Mitch mcconnald's alive.
Speaker 1: Next story, please, next story on it. That's it.
Speaker 2: They always make it like it's some sort of privacy thing,
Speaker 2: or like, hey, for Mitch McConnell to prove to everybody
Speaker 2: that he's still alive, he will need to show a
Speaker 2: dong photo and he's not comfortable with popping the turtle
Speaker 2: out and sending that over to Fox News and CNN.
Speaker 2: It's like, no, he doesn't have to do all of that.
Speaker 2: We don't need to see him in a hospital bed.
Speaker 2: We don't need to see him with like a little
Speaker 2: thing on his bracelet or a bracelet on his wrist
Speaker 2: or whatever. I just need to see that the here
Speaker 2: that the guy's alive. If you would have called them
Speaker 2: right then game over, that's it. Yeah, it would have
Speaker 2: been all the speculation would have been like, Okay, let's
Speaker 2: shut up about this, let's go on to the next
Speaker 2: thing right now. That's what would have happened. But the
Speaker 2: more they don't do that, the more. Even people like
Speaker 2: me are like, why did we not? What? Why do
Speaker 2: we not just call up real quick, it'll lie. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Like maybe maybe that's the case. Here's how weird this
Speaker 2: has gotten. Some woman is going around to Mitch McConnell's
Speaker 2: neighbors and knocking on their door everything.
Speaker 1: It's her.
Speaker 13: I didn't see him come out, but oh, you saw
Speaker 13: the paramedics here. Okay, have you seen any family? Has
Speaker 13: has any No family?
Speaker 14: I haven't seen anyone going from there.
Speaker 13: Yeah, because I know it's Capitol Police detail. They're they're
Speaker 13: over at the hospital.
Speaker 2: So I just thought so.
Speaker 13: His wife, Elaine Chow, was found in China three days
Speaker 13: after the cardiac arrest, so we're trying to figure out
Speaker 13: where she is. It doesn't look like she has come
Speaker 13: back to the house. It was wondering, have you have
Speaker 13: you seen.
Speaker 12: Her at all?
Speaker 15: I haven't seen anyone.
Speaker 2: This is this lady's just a neighbor. She just lives there.
Speaker 2: Your neighbors are getting harassed by randos on the street.
Speaker 2: All of these different things are happening. You could stop
Speaker 2: it all with one phone call. I'm alive. Everything's well.
Speaker 2: If I didn't show up on this show for like
Speaker 2: three weeks and everybody's speculating whether I was dead or alive.
Speaker 2: If I don't just call and say, hey, guys, just
Speaker 2: want you to know. I got some stuff going on,
Speaker 2: but I am alive and well. If I don't do that,
Speaker 2: it's because I don't want you to know, or because
Speaker 2: I can't call, or because something else is going on. Otherwise,
Speaker 2: it's just the easiest thing to stop, is it not.
Speaker 2: Can you explain what?
Speaker 5: How?
Speaker 16: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Sorry, sorry, have a great day.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your home. Yeah, there you go. Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 2: Thank you, appreciate you. Let us know what you think.
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going to happen next year. I
Speaker 2: did see the governor. This is the governor of what
Speaker 2: is it, Kentucky? Yeah, Kentucky. On Wednesday, Governor Andy Basheer
Speaker 2: sent a letter to the office of US Senator Mitch
Speaker 2: McConnell requesting an update on his health and well being.
Speaker 2: A big growing concerns around the senator's ability to serve.
Speaker 2: I don't know that they've heard back about that. I
Speaker 2: think we're still in the same position. So it seems
Speaker 2: like this is an easy one to fix. We just
Speaker 2: have not done that just yet. Let us know what
Speaker 2: you think, send a dispatch or an email over on
Speaker 2: thenewsjunkie dot com. Easy enough to do. Here we go
Speaker 2: quick break, and then we were popping back with what's
Speaker 2: happening in Miami. There's a controversy. It involves bikinis and
Speaker 2: a television news station down in South Florid in the
Speaker 2: Miami area. I'll tell you what's going on with that.
Speaker 2: We'll get into this missing flight. A plane went missing
Speaker 2: and they don't know exactly what happened here another plane.
Speaker 2: This is bringing back memories of an older story where
Speaker 2: we had a plane just disappeared just like that. So
Speaker 2: what are the details on this one. I have the
Speaker 2: pilot's final words that they heard on the air traffic
Speaker 2: control audio. I've got that and some other things. We'll
Speaker 2: look into this. It's all coming up next on the
Speaker 2: news Chunky quick question. I just want to gauge the
Speaker 2: temp on this. I want to know how people actually
Speaker 2: feel about this before we get into this TV news controversy.
Speaker 2: They just finalize a rule in the EU that's the
Speaker 2: European Union, so it's like, you know, all European countries
Speaker 2: and they just finalize a rule that requires there to
Speaker 2: be on a camera. A camera in every new vehicle
Speaker 2: on the driver at all times. So in your car,
Speaker 2: it requires a camera pointed at the driver twenty four
Speaker 2: to seven or whenever you're driving. Obviously you would have
Speaker 2: to have this camera pointed at you to gather information
Speaker 2: for god knows what, for god knows what. And I
Speaker 2: ask you, would you be cool with that in the
Speaker 2: United States? Because that is coming? Just so you know,
Speaker 2: like that's absolutely positively coming in the wave of technological
Speaker 2: advances in cars. It's happening. You're going to have a
Speaker 2: camera in your car on you every time you're driving it,
Speaker 2: every single moment. How do you feel about that? Would
Speaker 2: you be less likely to buy a car that actually
Speaker 2: had that?
Speaker 11: Right now?
Speaker 3: When you say it's coming, are you saying that the
Speaker 3: law is coming to require this or are you saying
Speaker 3: that the technology is coming, because that's already here. The
Speaker 3: technology is already here.
Speaker 2: And I believe celane in a lot of teslas, in
Speaker 2: a lot of like a lot of the electronic battery
Speaker 2: powered vehicles that.
Speaker 3: They use the camera for the vehicles that are are
Speaker 3: you know, uh, semi autonomous to make sure because they're
Speaker 3: not fully autonomous, you still have to have your eyes
Speaker 3: on the road. You still have to be paying attention
Speaker 3: to what you're doing so you can take over if
Speaker 3: need be. However, I think that those cameras are among
Speaker 3: the ones in the tesla that are accessible if there
Speaker 3: were to be some sort of wreck or some sort
Speaker 3: of incident, much like the ones for the outside of
Speaker 3: the tesla, where if somebody were to like din your
Speaker 3: car or key your car, it would save footage of it.
Speaker 2: Yes, there are ways around this, and I'm sure you've
Speaker 2: seen them, Selan. Here's one that has two million views.
Speaker 2: This is somebody in a tesla and they show how
Speaker 2: they're on the camera here in their tesla. The camera
Speaker 2: shows them with their head facing them, and then they
Speaker 2: pull it off and it's a little three D printed
Speaker 2: version of their head that they stuck right above the
Speaker 2: camera that makes it look like their eyes are on
Speaker 2: the Red's hilarious, even if they're not. I've seen a
Speaker 2: bunch of people sort of hacking there that works. I've
Speaker 2: heard it does. I don't know if it really does,
Speaker 2: but anecdotally I have heard that it does.
Speaker 3: I think it like it would have to. I believe
Speaker 3: that those eyes were real and that they're just never
Speaker 3: moving and constantly on the road.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but is it smart enough to know that would
Speaker 2: be strange? Is a technology smart enough to say, hey,
Speaker 2: this isn't right, This must be fake. Someone must be
Speaker 2: screwing with the cameras here. I'm not sure. Here's somebody
Speaker 2: a Shanaka Perreira, who is an independent analyst, talking about
Speaker 2: this and says, as of this morning, every brand new
Speaker 2: car sold in Europe is mandated by law to watch
Speaker 2: its driver. And the reason to worry is the opposite
Speaker 2: of what everybody's screaming about. The camera is not filming
Speaker 2: your face. The law explicitly bans that. It rather tracks
Speaker 2: your eyes. The danger is not what it does today,
Speaker 2: it's what it's physically possession tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Does not make sense. The camera is not filming your face,
Speaker 3: it rather tracks your eyes. Well, the camera is looking
Speaker 3: at your face. Maybe it's not saving video of your face. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I mean like to say that the camera is
Speaker 3: not you know, THO just seems a contradictory. Here, here's
Speaker 3: how stupid this is. You know, this is why people
Speaker 3: should have this on their radar.
Speaker 2: What they mean is that while it's not recording an
Speaker 2: image of your face, it's mapping your entire face and
Speaker 2: can provide a map of your face afterwards to show
Speaker 2: where you were looking, what you were doing. So while
Speaker 2: it might not have the skin on your face, and
Speaker 2: it might not have your your color eyes, it's still
Speaker 2: your face.
Speaker 3: This is like, this is the opposite of what they
Speaker 3: do when they say, hey, the the Hubble Space telescope
Speaker 3: has taken a picture of the furthest star we've ever seen.
Speaker 3: It's got a picture. Here's the picture. And it's like, no,
Speaker 3: it's not a not a picture. It's not a like
Speaker 3: a visual picture like you and I would look at.
Speaker 3: It's a positive. It's taken readings of the star. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then somebody has taken that data and created a
Speaker 3: picture out of it.
Speaker 2: Some galaxy brain has taken this and brought it to
Speaker 2: the next level. He says, the cameras film your face
Speaker 2: with long explicit bands that it rather tracks your eyes.
Speaker 2: The danger is not what it does today, it's what
Speaker 2: it's physically positioned to do tomorrow. I want to ask
Speaker 2: you think about this for a second, like, would you
Speaker 2: be wary, Josh? Would you be fine driving a car?
Speaker 2: I don't think your car does this, right? No, I
Speaker 2: don't believe it does. If your car had a camera
Speaker 2: that was pointed on your face all the time and
Speaker 2: sort of monitoring you, would you be okay with that
Speaker 2: or would you have concerns?
Speaker 1: I'd buy an older car. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people might also. What if you're wearing sunglasses, I still
Speaker 1: track your eyes somehow.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was tinted sunglasses, probably not right. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know if we'd be able to see that.
Speaker 2: It says every new car and van, roughly eighteen million
Speaker 2: of them a year, must now carry an infrared camera,
Speaker 2: usually on the steering column, that follows the driver's eyes
Speaker 2: look away too long six seconds under fifty kilometers an hour,
Speaker 2: three and a half above it, and the car warns
Speaker 2: you with a sound of light or a buzz in
Speaker 2: your seat. We're now like in some big experiment done
Speaker 2: by the car manufacturers, where if we don't perfectly sit
Speaker 2: in our car, if we slump a little bit, if we,
Speaker 2: for eyes, go off in the distance, they shock, they vibrate,
Speaker 2: They light up a thing on the dashboard that tells
Speaker 2: you to go get some coffee at the next stop.
Speaker 2: That's where all of this is going. So for the Tesla.
Speaker 3: It says you can absolutely wear sunglasses while driving the Tesla. However,
Speaker 3: if you use the full self driving system, darker or
Speaker 3: polarized sunglasses can prevent the in cabin camera from tracking
Speaker 3: your pupils. This disables hands free driving require you to
Speaker 3: periodically tug the steering wheel to prove your alert.
Speaker 2: So you've got to, like, you've got to pull on
Speaker 2: the steering wheel if we were watching us everywhere, and
Speaker 2: now you're gonna be behind the wheel of your own
Speaker 2: car that you paid for, and they're going to be
Speaker 2: monitoring how you're doing. So if you get into an
Speaker 2: accident and they say, oh, I'm sorry, the technology has
Speaker 2: determined I'm seeing the face mapping right here. Well, this
Speaker 2: is this is grock.
Speaker 1: All right, let's find.
Speaker 17: Some music, good idea, good idea.
Speaker 2: Human husband, you haven't perfected the dialogue yet, Grok like,
Speaker 2: oh we're all doing this.
Speaker 1: Everyone comfy back there?
Speaker 13: Yes, all good, here with the dog.
Speaker 1: All right, let's find.
Speaker 7: Some music, good idea.
Speaker 2: Okay. Also, what was she doing there? She puts her
Speaker 2: hand behind his seat and then.
Speaker 1: I feel like she was meant to caress him, and
Speaker 1: read she did. She was very off.
Speaker 2: This is strange, but this is what is happening now
Speaker 2: in Europe and probably gonna happen to your car within
Speaker 2: the next five years or so. Are you okay with that?
Speaker 2: Let us know what you think. Said a dispatch over
Speaker 2: at the news Junkie dot com Right now. Lots of
Speaker 2: people emailing the show. We always want to hear what
Speaker 2: you have to say. Uh, here's somebody who wants to
Speaker 2: be anonymous. Good new, Good morning news Junkie. I hope
Speaker 2: you heard about the tragic accident in Castleberry recently. It
Speaker 2: took two innocent loaves. They just released their name, so
Speaker 2: I thought I would share. I did not hear about
Speaker 2: this anonymous an accident where and the link doesn't work
Speaker 2: that you sent, So see if you can find something
Speaker 2: else for me. Tips at the news Junkie dot com.
Speaker 2: I'd love to see what you're talking about. Here's Ken
Speaker 2: talking about Mitch McConnell. It says when Eminem was supposed
Speaker 2: to be well getting around and staring into space while
Speaker 2: trying to speak in public. I think he's talking about
Speaker 2: Mitch McConnell. Eminem. You can't just call him Eminem and
Speaker 2: think that I'm going to know what that is is
Speaker 2: that a nickname that.
Speaker 3: People used I've never heard, you know, because on account
Speaker 3: of the other eminem.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm all, I'm thinking of slim shady here. But
Speaker 2: when Mitch McConnell was supposed to be well and getting
Speaker 2: around and staring into space while trying to speak in public,
Speaker 2: I would guess now he's still probably staring into space
Speaker 2: now that he is sick from Ken Ken. Do me
Speaker 2: a favor proofread a little bit some of you folks.
Speaker 2: There's a little extra eyeball on the email, and that
Speaker 2: would be I think quite helpful. All right, that would
Speaker 2: be I'd be able to understand what the hell you're
Speaker 2: talking about at least a little bit more. Let me
Speaker 2: get some of these refreshed. Somebody says, you guys started
Speaker 2: off talking about that Trump gas station. Here's an Obama
Speaker 2: gas station in Columbia, South Carolina. Is this our future
Speaker 2: political gas stations?
Speaker 1: You know they have a Barack Obama rest stop in Ireland?
Speaker 1: Do they realized, Swear to God? Do they just particularly
Speaker 1: like Obama? He's their second favorite Irish president.
Speaker 2: Oh after JFK.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe number one.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Here is big Bird talking about the cameras in
Speaker 2: these vehicles.
Speaker 9: Tesla cameras do follow your eyes. They can see through
Speaker 9: your sunglasses if they're like Walding glasses. Of course they
Speaker 9: couldn't see through that, but then again, neither could you.
Speaker 1: So true.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 9: The other thing is I'll put it wouldn't work as
Speaker 9: it does track your eyes the truck's track side movement.
Speaker 9: It gives a sampling over a period of time. And
Speaker 9: if you don't respond like a normal person, sober person would,
Speaker 9: the car is going to stop to pull over. They're
Speaker 9: not gonna call nine to one one or nothing like that.
Speaker 9: They just pull over, no matter where you're at.
Speaker 1: Is that even possible?
Speaker 2: Like your Tesla, your car, whatever car you have, it
Speaker 2: sees that your eyes aren't on the road. Can your
Speaker 2: car legit pull over? I don't think that's a feature
Speaker 2: anywhere right now? Is it?
Speaker 1: It's definitely really capable of doing so.
Speaker 2: I know it can, but he's suggesting that it does,
Speaker 2: and I don't believe that is a situation that's happening now.
Speaker 2: I think your car will vibrate, like Sea Lane said,
Speaker 2: it'll make you like tug the wheel, It'll it'll do
Speaker 2: all sorts of things. But I do not believe that
Speaker 2: your car if it's thinking you're doing something unsafe, will
Speaker 2: pull over. However, did I save this? Let me see
Speaker 2: if I save this.
Speaker 3: It says yes, a Tesla will automatically pull over and
Speaker 3: come to a safe stop if you fail to respond
Speaker 3: to its driver monitoring system.
Speaker 1: Seriously.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how the cover behaves depends on whether you have
Speaker 3: full self driving engage or if you're using standard autopilot.
Speaker 3: But if the cabin camera, steering wheel sensors detect you
Speaker 3: were unresponsive for looking away, it'll issue an escalating series
Speaker 3: of loud beeps and flash a bright blue red warning
Speaker 3: on the screen. I wonder if they chose blue red
Speaker 3: because it looks like a cup. Well, I was totally
Speaker 3: I had no idea.
Speaker 2: I had no idea that they would actually pull over
Speaker 2: like that, that that could happen. Thank you for the information.
Speaker 2: And the other thing that's of concern. Did I say this?
Speaker 2: I thought he'd hear it is. Yeah, So this is
Speaker 2: sort of along the same line of this. There were
Speaker 2: two young teenagers who were inside one of those waymos
Speaker 2: Sea Lane when you went to California. We're in one
Speaker 2: of those waynos, and the teenagers weirdly enough written it.
Speaker 2: Since it's been here in town, ya, But that's just
Speaker 2: because it's not going anywhere that I would be going.
Speaker 2: The teenagers hailed a driverless car way Mo, and when
Speaker 2: they get in the car, they're driving around and they're
Speaker 2: shooting those Josh, what are those little beads called that
Speaker 2: you can orbis orbi's. They're shooting these Orbi's guns, which
Speaker 2: is kind of like a BB gun, but it's not
Speaker 2: as hard as a BB Obviously, they're driving around in
Speaker 2: the driverless vehicle and they're shooting people that they go by.
Speaker 2: The car apparently called nine to one one on its
Speaker 2: passengers nitch, and the car snitched them out. So just
Speaker 2: look into the future that I'm showing you here, and
Speaker 2: I'm going to get to this story about Miami and
Speaker 2: the news anchor and the drama going on there.
Speaker 3: You're saying that it's a bad thing that the way
Speaker 3: Moo car snitched out the kids that were orbit shooting people.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm not.
Speaker 2: Saying necessarily that that is a bad outcome, because it's
Speaker 2: good for all the people that were shot by Orbi's. Yes,
Speaker 2: we're impacted by this, but I'm saying it's a reality
Speaker 2: we need to consider moving forward, that our vehicles are
Speaker 2: going to rat us out. And you might say, Sean,
Speaker 2: they already do that, and you're partially right because in
Speaker 2: the last couple of decades there's been technology under the
Speaker 2: hood of your car that after an accident, they could
Speaker 2: pull the data and it could see whether you hit
Speaker 2: the brakes, whether you were speeding.
Speaker 3: Famously is you know, it's been on our radar recently
Speaker 3: because of the whole documentary on Netflix about the Shirilla
Speaker 3: Sharilla Mackenzie Sherilla. They took her the equivalent of the
Speaker 3: car's black box and like analyzed all of the readings
Speaker 3: before the crash and said that she didn't try to stop.
Speaker 3: In fact, she may have even hit the gas harder
Speaker 3: and just crashtraighted this wall.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and now they know that stuff. But now this
Speaker 2: is going further. Your car is going to call nine
Speaker 2: to one one on you see, which says, I really
Speaker 2: like my two thousand and six Scion XPE. Nothing fancies
Speaker 2: starts every time, no cameras keep it. Let's see what
Speaker 2: this has. Is there an audio on this? Oh, this
Speaker 2: is the cops are pulling over the weaymo. Yeah, this
Speaker 2: is the cops pulling over the Waymo after the waimo
Speaker 2: called nine to one one on these teenagers who were
Speaker 2: inside the vehicle.
Speaker 1: Oh, they got the dog, They got the dog.
Speaker 2: They got their guns pulled because somebody was reporting that
Speaker 2: they were shooting out of the vehicle, or maybe the
Speaker 2: vehicle reported they were shooting out of the vehicle, and
Speaker 2: they went and arrested these young kids, or they at
Speaker 2: least talk to them about this. Two teen passengers had
Speaker 2: the police called on them by the driverless car. San Mateo,
Speaker 2: California police arrested the fifteen year olds after the driver
Speaker 2: list car company WEIMO contacted them about the teens drinking,
Speaker 2: underage and shooting orby's water pellets out the window. While
Speaker 2: there was some ingenuity to this scheme, toy guns, water
Speaker 2: guns and bibi guns all pose real dangers, especially to
Speaker 2: an untrained eye. Simply handling them can cause fear and
Speaker 2: passers by or those who don't get a good look.
Speaker 2: Shooting projectiles at speed can cause real damage. And let's
Speaker 2: not forget underage drinking. All bad ideas today for these two.
Speaker 2: So they're drinking and driving and powing around town having
Speaker 2: some fun, and the waimo that gets in calls the
Speaker 2: police on them. This is what is happening in the
Speaker 2: future with your cars. I want to know how you
Speaker 2: feel about that. Send us a dispatch at the newsjunkie
Speaker 2: dot com right now.
Speaker 3: I'm curious to the level of autonomy that the car
Speaker 3: calling the police was, Like.
Speaker 1: Was it the car noticed.
Speaker 3: Something out of the ordinary in maybe some some sort
Speaker 3: of AI kind of interpretation of the the in cab
Speaker 3: video and alerted a waymot center who then called the police.
Speaker 3: Or it's not like the car can talk to nine
Speaker 3: one one? Let me say, could I guess? Good questions
Speaker 3: all around selan, let me say wow Channel.
Speaker 14: Seven obviously having an open container in the vehicle. So
Speaker 14: that's been sent up to Hillcrest for review. We're still
Speaker 14: working with WEAIMO to see what they want to do
Speaker 14: about potentially firing outside of you know, a moving vehicle
Speaker 14: and what that actually looks like. But as of right now,
Speaker 14: they weren't placed under arrest. They were released to their
Speaker 14: parents while our investigational continues.
Speaker 18: Two fifteen year olds accused him of a drunken joey
Speaker 18: ride and a driverless taxi, drinking alcohol and shooting a
Speaker 18: pellet gun out of the car on the Peninsula. But
Speaker 18: it was the quick action of the WEIMO operators that
Speaker 18: got policed to the same grit Evan thank you.
Speaker 2: For joining us on band aff So when they say
Speaker 2: Waimo operators, are they applying that like the Waimo alerted
Speaker 2: HQ and then HQ like called nine one one. Now
Speaker 2: I'm understanding, Yeah, Okay, that's I think that's what they're saying.
Speaker 2: Is happening here the car didn't directly call nine one one,
Speaker 2: possibly in this case. Well, anyhow, all of this is
Speaker 2: where we're going. This is where we're going with you
Speaker 2: like it or not. There's going to be everything you
Speaker 2: do is going to be recorded. You're going to get
Speaker 2: tickets for all of it. The local authorities are going
Speaker 2: to bring in tons of money from it. This is
Speaker 2: why you shouldn't be afraid for them to be peeling
Speaker 2: back taxes at this point in time, because they're going
Speaker 2: to be doing a lot of this in the future. Here,
Speaker 2: give us your thoughts. We'll get to those as we
Speaker 2: roll on. When we come back, I'll get to that
Speaker 2: story out of South Florida in a Miami TV station
Speaker 2: where a bikini has caused a huge controversy that may
Speaker 2: lead to a popular TV news anchor being fired. Does
Speaker 2: any of this make sense? All? Make it make sense
Speaker 2: when we come back, But you tell me if it's
Speaker 2: right or wrong, because that is coming up next on
Speaker 2: the news Chunkie. Here's what's happening. There is big drama
Speaker 2: at a Miami television station. We've talked about them from
Speaker 2: time to time over the years. Local ten News is
Speaker 2: an ABC affiliate in Miami. And there's a particular anchor
Speaker 2: who I guess she was also a Miss Miami. This
Speaker 2: woman Janice Fernandez. Here she is. This is her at
Speaker 2: work for Local ten, and she's posing in front of
Speaker 2: the big giant screen in her outfit on the news.
Speaker 2: This is all very very normal stuff. And then I
Speaker 2: see this story and it says a Miami TV news
Speaker 2: executive ripped his staff for acting like social media influencers
Speaker 2: instead of journalists. After it, anchors bikini vacation post prompted
Speaker 2: an internal crackdown on what the executive the suit over
Speaker 2: there at this Miami TV station called cringeworthy online behavior.
Speaker 2: I'll show you the photos if you're watching on YouTube
Speaker 2: dot com. Slash the news junkie in just a moment.
Speaker 2: WPLG Vice President of News Bill Pehovey told staff he
Speaker 2: was that up, he said. He described this as foolish nonsense.
Speaker 2: How old is this guy? This is that's like one
Speaker 2: step away from Poppycock. I think this is a bunch
Speaker 2: of foolish nonsense appearing on social media accounts from employees.
Speaker 2: I have emailed numerous times in the past about this,
Speaker 2: the TV owner executive guy said, but we seem to
Speaker 2: be going in the wrong direction again. The memo is
Speaker 2: circulated after w PLG anchor and reporter Janice Fernandez shared
Speaker 2: a series of vacation posts from Fiji showing her I
Speaker 2: got it okay. Here is the photo that she posted
Speaker 2: on her account, and she's in Fiji apparently give her
Speaker 2: a raise, and she's in a red bikini. I will
Speaker 2: tell you first of all, I put this on see
Speaker 2: it now because I want all of you to look
Speaker 2: at this. Ladies, gentlemen, yes, I want everybody to look
Speaker 2: at this over and see it now, so you could
Speaker 2: tell me if you think that the manager at this
Speaker 2: TV station should be complaining at all. What I see
Speaker 2: is a woman who's in Fiji on sort of like
Speaker 2: a beach vacation. There's nothing weird or salacious about her bikini.
Speaker 1: Not at all.
Speaker 2: No, it's not. It's not like a g string. Not
Speaker 2: that that really should matter that much. It's not.
Speaker 3: There's nothing about its revealing. I mean, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't find it to be anything super crazy. I
Speaker 3: don't know her bikini. That's not her acting like an influencer. No,
Speaker 3: she's just taking a picture.
Speaker 2: This is This sounds like an old executive who doesn't
Speaker 2: understand like young people are going to take photos of themselves.
Speaker 2: That's him, right, there is a this is what did
Speaker 2: he call it? A foolish nonsense? Young people are going
Speaker 2: to take pictures of them when they go on vacation.
Speaker 2: This isn't like an OnlyFans expose. It's just a woman
Speaker 2: in a bikini. She's in a red bikini. And there's
Speaker 2: a couple more. Maybe some of these are worse or something.
Speaker 2: This is another one. There's alcohol in this one. She's
Speaker 2: at a bar and she's in I think the same
Speaker 2: red bikini, or maybe another one. Maybe she just likes
Speaker 2: red bikinis. But she's just sitting there, standing at a bar.
Speaker 2: There's nothing really about this, there's nothing exposed.
Speaker 1: This looks like it was a video. I don't know why.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it might be it's from her Instagram. Is that
Speaker 2: okay Instagram story? Then okay, here's another one with her
Speaker 2: and two of her friends and they're cheers and shot
Speaker 2: glasses together and they're all in their bikinis. Again, none
Speaker 2: of them. When I say bikinis, none of them. There's
Speaker 2: no nipples hanging out. There's nothing exposed that you you
Speaker 2: couldn't expose. Hell, I could see the possibility. You may
Speaker 2: think I'm crazy for saying this. I could see the
Speaker 2: possibility that they could do a news report live on
Speaker 2: their actual news with the reporter in this bikini. There's
Speaker 2: nothing that like they.
Speaker 1: Do in South America.
Speaker 2: Well, not like that, Josh, but I mean like in
Speaker 2: terms of if they said, well, there's a story about
Speaker 2: something that happened at the beach, we want you to
Speaker 2: be in the water when you give this report. Some
Speaker 2: old o's might freak out, but it's not that crazy.
Speaker 2: And some younger women going and cheersing their shotglasses for
Speaker 2: an Instagram reel is also not radical or foolish nonsense
Speaker 2: or you know, they said you should. You're acting like
Speaker 2: social media influencers instead of journalists. Half of these people
Speaker 2: aren't even really journalists if you wanted to get down
Speaker 2: to the definition of it. Here's another one. She's in
Speaker 2: a different bathing suit. Here again very normal. Every woman
Speaker 2: watching this is gonna be like, I probably got a
Speaker 2: bathing suit like that. It's not wedged in her ass,
Speaker 2: it's not something incredibly salacious. It's just a regular bathing suit.
Speaker 2: These are up on sea it now so you can
Speaker 2: see the visual over on the news junki dot com.
Speaker 2: And then the last one is just her kind of
Speaker 2: hanging out, lounging in a chair and a yellow one
Speaker 2: yellow bikini, I should say green. He's a green. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: colored line might be coming the player a lime?
Speaker 1: Is it a lime?
Speaker 8: Green?
Speaker 1: Is that fair?
Speaker 3: I mean, no, one, we're seeing the most of a boob.
Speaker 3: But even then, like not super great much. Yeah, So
Speaker 3: this is what she wears to work at Channel ten.
Speaker 3: She's in a short skirt. It's a very short skirt
Speaker 3: and high heels, and they put this is the outfit
Speaker 3: they want her in which she's on television, and then
Speaker 3: this is the outfit she posts or the bathing suits
Speaker 3: she posts when she's in Fiji on a vacation on
Speaker 3: her Instagram page. I can see the location on the
Speaker 3: Instagram post. It clearly states she's on Cloud nine.
Speaker 2: It does yeah, it says Cloud nine. Jfern TV. See
Speaker 2: how many followers does she have? Let's look her up
Speaker 2: on Instagram a TV like, it's not radically different here.
Speaker 2: I hate to have you do two things at once,
Speaker 2: but this is her again for you watching on YouTube
Speaker 2: dot com, slash and news. This is her in the
Speaker 2: TV station and then this is her in the beginning.
Speaker 1: It's not that bad.
Speaker 2: Twenty thousand followers, twenty eight thousand, So like, is this
Speaker 2: ruining the reputation of your television station?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: What are you even mad about? Here? Is what is
Speaker 2: going on? Tony says, what's the deal with this? This
Speaker 2: has caused a huge furor at this television station in Miami,
Speaker 2: Channel ten, and the boss has been yelling at all
Speaker 2: the employees and saying, you're acting like social media influencers
Speaker 2: and not journalists. And they're trying to add journalists or
Speaker 2: TV news people. Which is what I would say to
Speaker 2: this list of people with jobs where you can't post
Speaker 2: yourself enjoying life on social media. I don't think anybody cares.
Speaker 2: And honestly, the portion of your audience that would react
Speaker 2: to this and be upset and clutch pearls you probably
Speaker 2: want to get rid of anyhow. There's always a portion
Speaker 2: of your audience. It's like a squeaky wheel, annoying, obnoxious
Speaker 2: minority that you probably want to clean out. Every once
Speaker 2: in a while, I do that. Sometimes somebody will email
Speaker 2: and says it like and there'll just be a poisonous personality.
Speaker 2: I'd be like, I would like you to never listen again.
Speaker 2: I want you to never tune into the show again.
Speaker 2: I want you to never watch again. I want you.
Speaker 2: I know you will, I know you'll keep doing it,
Speaker 2: but I want to be rid of you. I want
Speaker 2: to prune you sometimes. And if somebody got mad at this,
Speaker 2: if somebody was a fan of Channel ten News in
Speaker 2: Miami and they got upset at this, this particular uh
Speaker 2: Genice Fernandez from WPLG, you don't want them anyway. They're
Speaker 2: just going to complain about everything on your channel. But
Speaker 2: let us know what you think. Really seems like not
Speaker 2: something to be upset about to me, But I want
Speaker 2: to know what your thoughts are. Megan says on TNJ Chat.
Speaker 2: Is it in their contract that they can't do that.
Speaker 2: I would imagine their contracts are similar to mine in
Speaker 2: some way at least, like just boilerplate speaking. I don't
Speaker 2: have anything in my contract about well, I do have
Speaker 2: there's stipulations about my behavior in my contract which allows
Speaker 2: them to fire me if I get arrested or do
Speaker 2: a bunch of other stuff, but not about this. I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure I could wear a borat bathing suit to
Speaker 2: the beach and be yay nice. You know, I could
Speaker 2: do all that stuff my wife. I could do all
Speaker 2: that and I don't think that I would get in trouble.
Speaker 2: But yeah, go take a peek so you can see
Speaker 2: what's going on here, because I know it's a visual
Speaker 2: I want to show you. Was there news Junkie dot
Speaker 2: Com hit the menu, hit to see it now section.
Speaker 3: Was there any indication of when this memo was sent?
Speaker 3: Because the Fiji she had a Fiji post that wasn't
Speaker 3: in that slew of videos or slew of pictures, and
Speaker 3: in that little carousel you had that's from February of
Speaker 3: this year. So I'm like, did this just happen? I mean,
Speaker 3: she's a young girl. It's not like there're zero bikini
Speaker 3: pictures on this Instagram page.
Speaker 2: No. I mean, look, there would be for anybody. I
Speaker 2: think here's their actual page. On Channel ten, she's a
Speaker 2: six time Emmy Award winning anchor. Bro's like, she's won
Speaker 2: local Emmys six times. That's pretty impressive. She anchors the
Speaker 2: three pm and ten pm news Monday through Friday. She's
Speaker 2: got a decade of experience as a journalist. She's interviewed
Speaker 2: or she was reporting live when the white smoke appeared
Speaker 2: for the first American Pope, Pope Leo. She was the
Speaker 2: only local journalist to cover Hurricane Dorian from marsh Harbor
Speaker 2: and the Bahamas as the eye of the storm went through.
Speaker 2: You like, she's done stuff. This seems fine, but I
Speaker 2: guess the bosses were upset about it down there, and
Speaker 2: they were a bunch of people upset. This says Miami
Speaker 2: TV news anchor Post Bikini picks the social media, despite
Speaker 2: station crackdown on staff acting like influencers. I mean.
Speaker 3: Some of her pictures or influencer esques. She tends to
Speaker 3: vacation in nice spots like Grand Cayman and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: But it's like, buddy, she's been posting these for a while.
Speaker 3: I don't know, you were just okay with it until now, Yeah,
Speaker 3: what's going on here?
Speaker 2: Who cares? Who cares about this? You know what? You
Speaker 2: should get them from for misinformation, over politicization of the
Speaker 2: stories that they're doing, getting something wrong factually. I mean,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't care if I own this TV station if
Speaker 2: they were spreading BH on social media. As long as
Speaker 2: they were winning local emmys, getting ratings and getting the
Speaker 2: news stories right. That's what the goal is. At least
Speaker 2: I thought that's what it was. But let us know
Speaker 2: what you think. We're gonna take quick break when we
Speaker 2: come back. We got the hot sheet for you. We'll
Speaker 2: roll into the second half of the show. We are
Speaker 2: just getting started. I got the mystery plane story and
Speaker 2: a whole lot more on the way, and it's coming
Speaker 2: up next in the news junkie. Right now, let's do
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Speaker 3: That's right, it's the top five stories of the nonsense news,
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Speaker 3: guess the big news in the entertainment industry today is
Speaker 3: that they've dropped the nominations for the Emmys, and my gosh,
Speaker 3: what a long list this is. Is the Emmy's the
Speaker 3: one that's starting to do podcasts now? Or was that
Speaker 3: a different one? Was that like a golden globe?
Speaker 2: I forgot? Let me see TV's big morning is here.
Speaker 3: The Television Academy on Wednesday revealed nomination for its seventy
Speaker 3: eighth annual Primetime Emmy Awards.
Speaker 2: No, didn't do it for podcast yet.
Speaker 1: That's Golden globes. Golden globes. Yeah. Overall.
Speaker 3: Last year's drama series Champ The Pit leads all nominees
Speaker 3: this morning with twenty five. Twenty five nominations for The Pit,
Speaker 3: followed by the final season of Hacks, which I stopped
Speaker 3: watching I feel like forever ago.
Speaker 2: Same after the first season.
Speaker 1: I was off of it. It was good.
Speaker 3: I just now there's so much of it. Hacks had
Speaker 3: twenty four. Apple TV's Widows Bay was third with nineteen nominations.
Speaker 3: Nice good for Widows Bay, followed by that line, it
Speaker 3: was good.
Speaker 2: It's just that now there's so much of it. Could
Speaker 2: it just just applies to so many circumstances? Yeah, after
Speaker 2: a while, it just did too much of it. Yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Apple TV's Widows Bay had nineteen, followed by apple first
Speaker 3: year show. So was the Widows Bay pluribus with eighteen
Speaker 3: and Netflix's Beef with sixteen. Also, I thought weird as
Speaker 3: I was going through this list, they had like the
Speaker 3: list of nominations by program and coming in at nine
Speaker 3: nominations the Oscars. The Oscars can win an Emmy? Has
Speaker 3: the Oscars ever won an Emmy? They get they're nominated
Speaker 3: for stuff in like choreography and the event presentation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this seems you're crossing some some lines there. It
Speaker 2: seems can the Oscars get an egot?
Speaker 3: Like if they if they get the other three, can
Speaker 3: they just award themselves an honorary Oscar? And they're like, boom,
Speaker 3: we have an egot and you don't. Uh, we don't
Speaker 3: talk about video games a whole lot in the this
Speaker 3: segment particularly, But there was big news over the weekend
Speaker 3: that a lot of people were there. They were morning,
Speaker 3: they're upset and because the PlayStation Sony announced that the
Speaker 3: PlayStation will no longer actually have physical disc media. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the PlayStation five, I think is going to be the
Speaker 3: last one, and then now you're just buying your your codes.
Speaker 3: You're just buying a lead a box with a little
Speaker 3: code in it for your download. Do you have do
Speaker 3: you still have games with discs?
Speaker 1: Josh? Yeah, for my Xbox.
Speaker 2: Is this something that makes you upset? Is this something
Speaker 2: where you're like, now physical media is not there? Or
Speaker 2: do you not care You'd rather just download it?
Speaker 1: I don't particularly care, but I think getting rid of
Speaker 1: all physical media is not the best idea ever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels like where we're heading, right. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it just further furthers along the idea that
Speaker 3: once you buy something, you can't have it forever because
Speaker 3: once they take it off the server, or once they
Speaker 3: in the case of like the stuff you buy on
Speaker 3: like Apple TV or Amazon, you buy a TV show,
Speaker 3: you buy season of a TV show that you like,
Speaker 3: and they're like, just kidding, our license agreement is done.
Speaker 3: I just I saw a post on read It the
Speaker 3: other day where someone is like I just figured out
Speaker 3: Apple TV doesn't actually let you buy stuff, and the
Speaker 3: comment sections like, yeah, duh, that's the thing that's been
Speaker 3: going on for a while, and people people are just
Speaker 3: you know, they they log into their account and they go,
Speaker 3: I want to watch this thing that I haven't seen
Speaker 3: in a while. As it turns out, I don't actually
Speaker 3: have possession of it. You can't own anything, So I
Speaker 3: think that's what a lot of the gamers are upset about.
Speaker 3: And they said while people are still reeling from Sony's
Speaker 3: announcement earlier this week that it will stop releasing PlayStation
Speaker 3: games on physical discs from the start of twenty twenty eight,
Speaker 3: they're now saying that they've already taken like the factory
Speaker 3: that used to make them and just repurposed it.
Speaker 2: So this happened fast for all the people who are
Speaker 2: in this industry.
Speaker 3: Production at the Austrian plant where they make these discs
Speaker 3: is going to drop around ten percent of its current
Speaker 3: levels by twenty twenty eight. The factory currently makes six
Speaker 3: hundred thousand Blank Blu rays every day, half of which
Speaker 3: are used for PlayStation games, and Sony has made some
Speaker 3: twenty six point four billion discs across its site so far.
Speaker 3: The existing staff of three hundred people still have jobs.
Speaker 1: But something tells me not for long.
Speaker 2: By the way on Twitch says and I think Josh
Speaker 2: will probably echo that a lot of people feel this way.
Speaker 2: I want the physical disc, Colocitia says, just in case
Speaker 2: if I want to play it, and if I don't
Speaker 2: have Wi Fi or something, for sure, I still want.
Speaker 1: To do it.
Speaker 2: You're now intertwining. Wait, actually, I don't know is this correct, Josh?
Speaker 2: Are you intertwining internet access with the games? Because or
Speaker 2: would you be able to play still if you download?
Speaker 1: I would think with their push to go all digital,
Speaker 1: they're going to allow you to download it and play offline.
Speaker 1: I would hope. It would be stupid as hell if
Speaker 1: you couldn't play a single player game offline. But you
Speaker 1: can only store so much yeah, yeah, and these game
Speaker 1: files are huge.
Speaker 3: Massive, And the thing is like, if I wanted to
Speaker 3: plug in my old Xbox three sixty and play Grand
Speaker 3: Theft out of five years and years and years and
Speaker 3: years after I bought it, I can. If I want
Speaker 3: to do it years and years and years from now,
Speaker 3: I can. True, even though you may not even be
Speaker 3: able to buy GTA five at that time, I don't
Speaker 3: see why you wouldn't. But you know, things have happened,
Speaker 3: and or if yeah, what if something happened in the
Speaker 3: entire Rockstar company gets canceled because something in GTA six
Speaker 3: is just way too salacious, right, you know, I paid
Speaker 3: the money for that. I'd like to be able to
Speaker 3: experience it whenever I want. But that's the direction they're
Speaker 3: heading in, and they're saying, instead of discs, the plants
Speaker 3: assembly lines will be producing optical micro lenses instead for
Speaker 3: all kinds of des Who knows what that's for, but
Speaker 3: at least they still have their jobs. There is another
Speaker 3: band that's now pissing off people. There's a bunch of
Speaker 3: reviews coming in because they say, oh, how great, how
Speaker 3: the once great have fallen? Motley Crue is lip syncing
Speaker 3: at their shows. And so Motley Crue back in the
Speaker 3: eighties out of the World. One of the most successful
Speaker 3: bands of the era. Their music was inescapable. The album
Speaker 3: Doctor Feel Good reached number one on the Billboard Hot
Speaker 3: one hundred, but recently fans have been calling the band
Speaker 3: out for what they appears to be lip syncing from
Speaker 3: lead singer Vince Neil. The caption claimed that Neil had
Speaker 3: always denied accusations of lip syncing. Although the band has
Speaker 3: us backing tracks before to boost their sound, they're not
Speaker 3: seeing it that way. They took to the comments to
Speaker 3: angrily accuse the singer of phoning it in and not
Speaker 3: singing anymore, with comments like his voice doesn't sound like
Speaker 3: that sounds like the studio version.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because it is.
Speaker 3: Early reviews are coming in on The Odyssey Christopher Nolan's
Speaker 3: retelling of the Homer epic poem mm hm, and it
Speaker 3: sounded like this could be pretty good. It sounded like
Speaker 3: a lot of people that have seen this are giving
Speaker 3: it rave reviews. Following the film's premiere, critics are calling
Speaker 3: the historical epic a Best Picture Oscar contender. Indie Wire
Speaker 3: editor at Large Ant Thompson called the film the best
Speaker 3: Picture contender to beat. Out of that Matt Damon could
Speaker 3: win Best Actor. Has Matt Damon went? Has he had
Speaker 3: anything Best Actor before?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: This is a big one for him because he hasn't
Speaker 2: really been in that much recently that I can recall.
Speaker 3: I feel like the stuff that he's been in has
Speaker 3: been a little on the smaller scale, or maybe there's
Speaker 3: been some comedies which are historically just not Oscar contenders.
Speaker 1: He got nominated for Goodwill, Hunting and The Martian, but
Speaker 1: he's never won this. Marshly.
Speaker 2: The other side of the corn Sea line, somebody says
Speaker 2: the other side of the coin, not the corn. Somebody,
Speaker 2: says Christopher Nolans, The Odyssey is now the most disliked
Speaker 2: Hollywood trailer since Snow White, but they don't have dislikes
Speaker 2: anymore on YouTube, so they must be using some sort
Speaker 2: of as a plug in I think that they use
Speaker 2: for this, So it's probably, I would guess, probably not accurate.
Speaker 3: I don't know where they would get those numbers from
Speaker 3: unless there was a trailer app, but those that seems
Speaker 3: to be a lot of people for an app that
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have heard of before.
Speaker 2: One of the things is Ellen Page now going as
Speaker 2: Elliott Page is in The Odyssey as like a man,
Speaker 2: but she's transgender. And they posted that, they posted like
Speaker 2: the Red Carpet, and they turned off the replies to it,
Speaker 2: So I think that's triggered some people. Maybe I don't
Speaker 2: know what's going on.
Speaker 1: But there's people trolling because of that, and because they
Speaker 1: made Helen of Troy or they cast a black actress
Speaker 1: for Helen of Troy.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, and possibly not enough Greeks is what I've
Speaker 3: heard too, Hey Bubby Boo. Multiple punits described the film
Speaker 3: as flawless and breathtaking. My high expectations were met, calling
Speaker 3: the film stunningly mounted. With an estimated budget of two
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty million dollars and a considerable worldwide tour
Speaker 3: de fund, the film will need to bring in at
Speaker 3: least five hundred million to break even.
Speaker 1: Oh this is good.
Speaker 2: Actually, Sea Lane The Odyssey has sold one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty thousand tickets in their initial pre sales for opening weekend.
Speaker 2: Domestic Oppenheimer had sold sixty five thousand.
Speaker 3: I think those are the one that people are excited about.
Speaker 3: People want to see The Odyssey, the Christopher Nolan thing,
Speaker 3: And last but not least, in the hotsheet today, this
Speaker 3: is the first headline I've seen with the name Taylor
Speaker 3: Swift in it that has nothing to do with the wedding.
Speaker 3: But I think we talked about the girl that was
Speaker 3: filing this lawsuit against her, a case has been ongoing
Speaker 3: since twenty twenty four and claimed the pop star stole
Speaker 3: lines from poems to write lyrics to songs on Midnight's
Speaker 3: Lover and the Tortured Poets Department. Taylor Swift has finally
Speaker 3: won the copyright lawsuit over the song lyrics, which her
Speaker 3: legal team described as absurd. The infringement case was brought
Speaker 3: forward by Kimberly Morosco, a self published poet from Florida.
Speaker 3: I think this was the one that we had her
Speaker 3: TikTok video where she was like, Taylor stole all this
Speaker 3: stuff from me, but I'm still a big Taylor fan.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: In court this week, federal Judge Eileen Cannon dismissed the case,
Speaker 3: saying that only common ground between the poems and the
Speaker 3: lyrics were vague references to gaslighting, as well as ubiquitous
Speaker 3: metaphors and common observations. These are quintessential themes, concepts, and
Speaker 3: isolated words, the kind of material copyright law does not
Speaker 3: protect and cannot be infringed. So the absurd lawsuit is over.
Speaker 3: A big win for Taylor now that she probably cares
Speaker 3: because she's had a whole lot of other stuff going on. Hey,
Speaker 3: if you want to move into a new place, maybe
Speaker 3: you were a renting and just tossing away all that
Speaker 3: rent money, just giving it to your landlord, letting him
Speaker 3: have it. And then you want to go into your
Speaker 3: first home. Maybe you got a dream home on your radar.
Speaker 3: That mortgage guy down wants to help you get a
Speaker 3: good rate on your mortgage. If you just take the
Speaker 3: first rate that's given to you, you don't shop it around,
Speaker 3: you could be leaving plenty of money on the table.
Speaker 3: So hit him up today. Go to that mortgage guy
Speaker 3: don dot com.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable work, unbelievable all the way around.
Speaker 2: Quick break. When we come back, we got to get
Speaker 2: into this missing plane. There's a commercial plane that just
Speaker 2: went missing as of yesterday. What happened to it? And first,
Speaker 2: before we get to that, I have a clip for you.
Speaker 2: It's another pick aside somebody who got fired for something
Speaker 2: they said at work. I'm going to play it for
Speaker 2: you and we'll see who you think was wrong, because
Speaker 2: that pick a side is coming up next on the
Speaker 2: News Junkie real quick. I just want to get this
Speaker 2: rant out of the way. I just want to get
Speaker 2: this out there because I see stories like this all
Speaker 2: of the time, and people get more and more angry
Speaker 2: at the United States Postal Service. First things first, shouts
Speaker 2: out to you all of our USPS employees who listen
Speaker 2: to this show every day. All right, Shouts out to
Speaker 2: the United States Postal Service and our postal people who
Speaker 2: are out there, male men, male women, out there doing
Speaker 2: the hard work in the hot sun. It's ninety three
Speaker 2: degrees right now. For God's sake, all right, I shouts
Speaker 2: out to you, and I appreciate you and your hard work.
Speaker 2: But people complain about the US Postal Service, and it's
Speaker 2: one thing that they're always complaining about, and to me,
Speaker 2: it makes absolutely no sense. They complain about the price
Speaker 2: of the Forever Stamp, which is like your basic bitch stamp,
Speaker 2: and it went up again. So right now, as of
Speaker 2: this Sunday, the Forever stamp will go from seventy eight
Speaker 2: cents to seventy or to eighty two cents, so it's
Speaker 2: going to go up four cents. A regular stamp will
Speaker 2: go up from seventy eight cents to eighty two cents,
Speaker 2: the latest in a series of increases aimed at stemming
Speaker 2: the agency's mounting financial losses. The USPS sucks at making money.
Speaker 2: They don't make money. They do not too well financially.
Speaker 2: Usually they're on the in the red. They announced the
Speaker 2: increase in April, but it's happening on Sunda. This has
Speaker 2: been six different times in the last five years that
Speaker 2: the Forever stamp has gone up. It was at fifty
Speaker 2: eight cents in twenty twenty one, and then, as I
Speaker 2: said on Sunday, it's going all the way up to
Speaker 2: eighty two cents. And people will complain specifically about the
Speaker 2: regular average Forever stamp, and they'll go, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: It's now eighty two cents. It used to be fifty
Speaker 2: eight cents. This is silly, and I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2: But the real concern is nothing to do with stamps.
Speaker 2: The concern is Sea Lane knows as well as anybody
Speaker 2: because he calculates shipping when we do merch, and we
Speaker 2: do huge orders, over one thousand shirts and stuff, and
Speaker 2: whenever we do these orders, it gets more and more expensive.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: When we first started shipping out merch, well, first Sea
Speaker 2: Lane screwed everything up and picked media mail to try
Speaker 2: to save us a buck.
Speaker 3: That did save us a buck a couple times before
Speaker 3: we realized we weren't supposed to be doing it.
Speaker 2: Before we got a call from the post office, which
Speaker 2: you don't often get now. They called up the radio
Speaker 2: station and they said, hey, we got about fourteen boxes
Speaker 2: of shirts that you guys are mailing out. You screwed
Speaker 2: them all up. Get over here with some cash and
Speaker 2: you know you got you gotta pay a little bit more.
Speaker 2: The postal issues are more about the overall cost increases,
Speaker 2: not the stupid focus on just that forever stamp going
Speaker 2: up to eighty two cents. Actually, it's kind of amazing
Speaker 2: that the forever stamp is eighty two cents. I want
Speaker 2: you to consider that if I wanted to, I could
Speaker 2: take an envelope, write my name on it, and then
Speaker 2: write see Lane, U sucks donkey. You know, I could
Speaker 2: write something on there about sea Lane and sucking donkey,
Speaker 2: eve things on this piece of paper. I could close
Speaker 2: the envelope. I could put one eighty two cent stamp
Speaker 2: on that envelope, and a series of people would take
Speaker 2: the envelope from me, start to send it to the
Speaker 2: next person, send it to the next person, send it
Speaker 2: to I could send it to Hawaii, for God's sake,
Speaker 2: I think I could send it to Guam. I could
Speaker 2: send this thing all around the world. I could take
Speaker 2: a thing and I could send it all the way
Speaker 2: around the world for eighty two cents. And that is
Speaker 2: unbelievable that that's even a possibility for us. Right that
Speaker 2: the problem is not the forever stamp going up from
Speaker 2: sixty eight, fifty eight whatever to eighty two cents. The
Speaker 2: problem is that overall shipping of all things becomes more expensive.
Speaker 2: Forget about the forever stamp. It's that every little widget,
Speaker 2: every little shirt in our case, every little magnet, every
Speaker 2: little thing she does is magic. Every little thing that
Speaker 2: you can think of you try to send, is now
Speaker 2: more expensive. That is where the concern should be in this.
Speaker 2: It's still, as I said, absolutely amazing that you can
Speaker 2: put a stamp on something about sea lane and donkeys
Speaker 2: and balls and you could send it all the way
Speaker 2: around the world basically for eighty two cents. That's stunning
Speaker 2: to me. Okay, now let's get to this. I told
Speaker 2: a story one time on the show Ceilim about Lookout Mountain.
Speaker 2: Lookout Mountain was a place. You told it more than
Speaker 2: one time. I did. I did because there was key
Speaker 2: to my childhood. So I wanted people to know this
Speaker 2: thing about me, and very very quickly. The cliffs Notes
Speaker 2: version of this story is my family used to drive
Speaker 2: to Vermont every summer because my mom hated flying. Thanks
Speaker 2: a lot, she's passed that, God rest her soul. She's
Speaker 2: passed that on to me. And now I don't like flying,
Speaker 2: whether I like it.
Speaker 1: I thought you were saying she got past her fear
Speaker 1: of flying.
Speaker 2: She did in a way, Josh. Yes, where she's at now,
Speaker 2: flying is not of a concern to have.
Speaker 1: Complain about it.
Speaker 2: In years, she's been rather quiet on the on the
Speaker 2: complaint front for this. But we drove all the way
Speaker 2: up the East Coast every single summer to go to Vermont,
Speaker 2: where my mom was from and where my mom and
Speaker 2: dad met and got married and all that. And we
Speaker 2: would stop because it was a three day ride, because
Speaker 2: my dad and mom wanted to stop every ten hours
Speaker 2: or so. It took forever with the family to get
Speaker 2: up there. We would stop at all these little things.
Speaker 2: We would stop at South of the Border. You guys
Speaker 2: know what South of the Border is. Yeah, this is
Speaker 2: really Mexican theme park. Got it's got more more. I
Speaker 2: think it's got more billboards than things to do, I think, junction.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: We would stop at all the underground cavern I guess
Speaker 2: they're all underground. We'd stop at all these types of places.
Speaker 2: One of the places that we stopped was this place
Speaker 2: in Tennessee called Lookout Mountain. And Lookout Mountain was this
Speaker 2: thing you would get in and what do you call
Speaker 2: a tram fornicular? Josh, what the hell does that even mean?
Speaker 1: The thing that climbs the side of a mountain.
Speaker 2: That thing. You get in that thing and it goes
Speaker 2: up the side of the mountain, right, and my family
Speaker 2: goes up.
Speaker 3: We go to the top of the Here we are
Speaker 3: Shawn and family riding in their clovicular.
Speaker 2: We're not a clovicular, something else, forniculararnicular. I got it
Speaker 2: right that time, I believe. And we go up the mountain.
Speaker 2: They're like here we were fighting wars, Civil War, cannon,
Speaker 2: all this stuff, beautiful view, great nick knacks, Patty Wax.
Speaker 2: And then we go back down. And when we're going
Speaker 2: back down, the side of the clavicular started to slam
Speaker 2: into one of the wires that holds these things up.
Speaker 2: And the wires just I mean the wires as big
Speaker 2: around as like you know a wrestling ring, the you
Speaker 2: know things on the side of the stabilization things on
Speaker 2: the side of a wrestling ring. It's a big around
Speaker 2: as a fire hose. Basically, these big wires, these guide
Speaker 2: wires that guided up the side of the mountain, and
Speaker 2: it starts smashing against our curvicular over and over and
Speaker 2: over again. The windows are smashing out of this thing
Speaker 2: that's taking us down Lookout Mountain. When you look down
Speaker 2: out of the vehicle, it is probably eighty to one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty foot drop down the side of the mountain.
Speaker 2: And everybody's crying. Everybody's panicking, everybody's freaking out. My mother
Speaker 2: is crying, my sister is crying. My dad is just
Speaker 2: holding on. I have no idea what to do or
Speaker 2: what's going on. I'm just kind of freaking out right.
Speaker 2: And then that we survived. I don't remember he's also
Speaker 2: dead too, folks. He hasn't complained about this in a
Speaker 2: while either. But it makes the Finally we pull out
Speaker 2: of this all right, and we make our way down
Speaker 2: to the bottom of Lookout Mountain, and we survived this.
Speaker 2: We thought we were going to die. My family thought
Speaker 2: they were going to die. I really didn't know what
Speaker 2: was going on. It was just kind of like a
Speaker 2: robot reacting to it. And as I get down to
Speaker 2: the bottom of the mountain, I'm excited because everybody's alive.
Speaker 2: And we get back to the car. My dad realizes
Speaker 2: in the hot sun of this summer in Tennessee. I
Speaker 2: left out all of the Crayola crayons and they melted
Speaker 2: to the dash of the rental vehicle that we had,
Speaker 2: and my dad was so mad because he thought he
Speaker 2: was gonna have to pay a huge fine. And my
Speaker 2: dad was screaming at me when we just had a
Speaker 2: near death experience. And afterwards, that was one of the
Speaker 2: two things that he apologized as a father to me.
Speaker 2: As a son. He apologized for that moment because he said,
Speaker 2: we just almost died and there I was yelling at you.
Speaker 2: And he did this a couple of times to me.
Speaker 2: But this place, this Lookout Mountain, is the scene of
Speaker 2: where this pick aside happens. And there's a guy who's
Speaker 2: operating the vehicle that these folks are on. And here's
Speaker 2: the story. A conductor, they call him. A conductor at
Speaker 2: Tennessee's famed Incline Railway was shockingly fired for proudly celebrating
Speaker 2: America in Independence day after thin skin tourists took offense.
Speaker 2: This is what the article says. But I want you
Speaker 2: to tell me how you feel about this. Jack Peterson,
Speaker 2: the now fired operator at the one hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: one year old attraction up to Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga, Tennessee,
Speaker 2: wished his American passengers a happy Independence Day, and then
Speaker 2: came the part that got him fired.
Speaker 1: So here we go.
Speaker 2: Let's listen in.
Speaker 19: Very very few Americans in here, to the rest of you,
Speaker 19: I'll the greatest country on the face and if you disagree,
Speaker 19: you can't.
Speaker 1: Leave, all right.
Speaker 2: So this must have been going on before this twenty
Speaker 2: second clip, because you heard one of the passengers who's filming,
Speaker 2: say shut up. And he said to the very few.
Speaker 2: He must have been talking about how there's not that
Speaker 2: many Americans on the tram, right, So the very few.
Speaker 1: Very very few Americans in here, shut up here.
Speaker 2: And there's a couple of things that come to mind
Speaker 2: here buzzy.
Speaker 3: Thinking maybe there were some world covers in there, like, uh,
Speaker 3: it's hard to tell.
Speaker 2: Why would it be shocking that there would be tourists though?
Speaker 2: Isn't this like a mega tourist destination in Tennessee?
Speaker 3: It is, But I'm just saying, like from the backs
Speaker 3: of everybody's heads, I can't tell that there would be
Speaker 3: a lot of people who aren't American in there.
Speaker 1: No, really, I can't either.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So he said to the rest of you welcome
Speaker 2: to the greatest country on the face of the planet,
Speaker 2: and if you disagree, you can leave. Touchy riders, the
Speaker 2: story says, however, took offense at the patriotic welcome, with
Speaker 2: one man even demanding the conductor shut up as a
Speaker 2: trade descendant onto the one of the world's steepest railways,
Speaker 2: the railways. Passenger Nathan Sheer, who was on vacation with
Speaker 2: his family, posted the clip on social media with the
Speaker 2: hashtags racism and xenophobia, where it's been views over a
Speaker 2: few over five hundred and thirty thousand times. So he
Speaker 2: said this was racist. The guy got fired for him.
Speaker 2: He got fired. I wish I had more. All I
Speaker 2: have is twenty seconds and it's just not that much
Speaker 2: to really see you.
Speaker 19: Very very few Americans in here, greatest country on the
Speaker 19: face If you disagree, all.
Speaker 2: Right that part whatever? You know, fourth of July chest pounding,
Speaker 2: it's kind of cringe when you're in a tourist destination.
Speaker 2: But should this guy have gotten fired for this is
Speaker 2: the question, because that's literally what happened here, That's what
Speaker 2: happened in this case. Let me see if I can
Speaker 2: bring up some more details. It says Tennessee railway conductor
Speaker 2: fired over his viral Independence Day message of passengers. I
Speaker 2: think he was probably fired for how he was talking
Speaker 2: down to the customers more so than anything, for sure,
Speaker 2: because remember, these people are customers. Is this the original
Speaker 2: TikTok video?
Speaker 1: Very country? If you disagree, that's it.
Speaker 2: That's all they posted, because I want to know what
Speaker 2: happened before this, what other information we would know? Did
Speaker 2: people really take offense? Passenger Nathan scher Cher, who was
Speaker 2: on vacation with his family, posted this online. Treer reported Peterson,
Speaker 2: a part time worker to the Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority,
Speaker 2: the operator of the incline. It really upset me the
Speaker 2: whole time riding down is Oh though they talked to
Speaker 2: the local TV station.
Speaker 10: It just really upset me the whole time driving down,
Speaker 10: totallyading down on the incline, and I kept thinking, the
Speaker 10: company needs to know about this, because he was the
Speaker 10: only one on there representing the company, and I just
Speaker 10: had the feeling that they don't know that he's saying this.
Speaker 10: So I went to the box office and I said
Speaker 10: something to them and they couldn't believe it, but they
Speaker 10: said there was a third party company that runs the incline,
Speaker 10: and they would reach out to them and make sure
Speaker 10: they're aware of that. But then when I went home,
Speaker 10: I still thought, thinking, well, what if they don't do anything.
Speaker 10: So I decided I found an email address for the
Speaker 10: incline and I wrote an email and sent it to them.
Speaker 2: All Right, so this guy complained he's with I think
Speaker 2: a person who might be his son or something. In
Speaker 2: the car was an abolish Ice shirt on, So maybe
Speaker 2: they're very diametrically politically opposed to this guy who was
Speaker 2: giving his speech on the on the train. I don't
Speaker 2: have any problem with him being fired because I think
Speaker 2: it kind of sounded in that short clip, though I'd
Speaker 2: like to hear more of what went down. It sounded
Speaker 2: like he was being rude to the people who were
Speaker 2: paying customers, right, so that you should, like, you shouldn't
Speaker 2: do that in your job. You should make sure you're nice.
Speaker 16: To do well.
Speaker 1: Do you know who's American and who's not?
Speaker 3: And that's true too, the way that you're just like
Speaker 3: sort of obnoxiously assuming that there's only a couple Americans here.
Speaker 3: I'm just constantly surrounded by non Americans, Like, dude, what
Speaker 3: what's going on.
Speaker 1: Here in this nicular full of dumb ass Europeans.
Speaker 2: Vicky says, did this recently happen after all the goodwill
Speaker 2: going on with the World Cup? Yes, this is recent,
Speaker 2: This is just over the last couple of days here,
Speaker 2: and he's telling his story to one of the local
Speaker 2: TV out there.
Speaker 10: I wanted to make sure they knew that we don't
Speaker 10: have any problem with the incline. We like the incline
Speaker 10: or whatever. We just really had a problem that you
Speaker 10: should be aware that he's making comments like that. And
Speaker 10: I had my granddaughter on there, was very embarrassed, and
Speaker 10: from in front of that happening in front of my granddaughter.
Speaker 20: I think people were you know, my whole feeling was
Speaker 20: like it kind of brought a hush across the train.
Speaker 20: So though I just kept thinking like this, this sucks
Speaker 20: for all the people on this train, trying to enjoy
Speaker 20: this time and assuming everyone was fine with being here
Speaker 20: in America.
Speaker 2: So to hear that, yeah, okay, you know what, abolish
Speaker 2: ice guy has a good point. I didn't know that
Speaker 2: I'd be saying that right now, but he kind of
Speaker 2: is a good point. These people are in the United
Speaker 2: States of America. They're traveling our great country and they've
Speaker 2: paid to go see this one hundred and thirty one
Speaker 2: year old tourist attraction. Doesn't that kind of sort for
Speaker 2: people who are are fans of America?
Speaker 1: If you don't love it, leave it, guy that paid
Speaker 1: to be here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't understand why you would be targeting these people.
Speaker 2: It's so weird and much like every other occasion where
Speaker 2: somebody says, well, if you don't lack it, get out,
Speaker 2: I don't see that the party that's receiving that that
Speaker 2: particular command goes, well, all right, let's a little get
Speaker 2: on Expedia and get those flights.
Speaker 1: Point This is it.
Speaker 2: This is one of the incline railroad things that I
Speaker 2: almost died on. Just for the record, this is what
Speaker 2: it looked like. And the wires that bring you around,
Speaker 2: one of them was smashing against the side of the
Speaker 2: vehicle car and the whole thing was going like you know,
Speaker 2: rocking around back and forth from left to right. That's
Speaker 2: where that whole thing happened. So I survived. Yeah, am
Speaker 2: I hero? Some people say yeah, some people have been
Speaker 2: saying that there's been whispers he's a hero.
Speaker 1: What an amazing guy.
Speaker 2: Greatest radio host there was whispers all over, but I'll
Speaker 2: leave that up to you with our dispatches that will
Speaker 2: check out in just a moment. All right, we're running
Speaker 2: a little bit behind quick break. You guys can give
Speaker 2: us your thoughts. Who you pick there? Do you pick
Speaker 2: the side of the operator of the Incline Railroad who
Speaker 2: is being a patriotic person in his mind? Or do
Speaker 2: you pick the side of the people who are complaining
Speaker 2: about this on behalf of the other folks along for
Speaker 2: the ride. Give us your emails tips at the news
Speaker 2: junki dot com, your dispatches through the website or app,
Speaker 2: and we'll be back in just a moment. The Missing
Speaker 2: Pilot is final audio. I'm finally gonna play that. It's
Speaker 2: coming up next on the news junk Kie. I was
Speaker 2: talking about schoo mic a little bit. I found this
Speaker 2: to be so strange. Politics is not only full of
Speaker 2: very very annoying people, but there's stuff that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2: I was listening to something that you guys never would
Speaker 2: have pained yourself with yesterday. But it was the two
Speaker 2: Senate candidates that were in a debate with each other
Speaker 2: to try to win over the voters for the next election.
Speaker 2: And they're going back and forth and they're doing the
Speaker 2: thing like you got sixty minutes, Tell me what you
Speaker 2: think about this and what state was this in that
Speaker 2: they were running? Oh shoot, actually tell me who it
Speaker 2: was if you don't mind, just look up Senate debate
Speaker 2: and you'll see it was yesterday, I believe yesterday or
Speaker 2: within the past week. And I was listening to these
Speaker 2: two go back and forth, and it was interesting because
Speaker 2: you see the divisions between people, right like you see
Speaker 2: this was one person was like a mainstream Democrat and
Speaker 2: they were talking about I'm here to fight, nobody's gonna
Speaker 2: get in my way. I'm going to show up for
Speaker 2: the voters and every single day, I'm gonna fight for you.
Speaker 2: And the other person was a DSA candidate, so they're
Speaker 2: like the socialist candidate. And they were just talking about
Speaker 2: Israel almost the whole time. And this was for a
Speaker 2: Senate seed, so obviously, like you know, this was going
Speaker 2: to be somebody representing their state in the in the Senate.
Speaker 2: Did you find out which one it was or no?
Speaker 3: Democrats clash over Israel and integrity and fiery Michigan Senate debate.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's it. It was Michigan.
Speaker 3: We've been Representative Haley Stephens and former public health official.
Speaker 1: Abdul El sayed, all right, this is this guy they
Speaker 1: call like a fake doctor and stuff.
Speaker 2: I don't know too much about the drama going on there,
Speaker 2: but you had this woman Abigail, Abigail Stevens. You said,
Speaker 2: Haley Stevens, Hailey Stevens. And his name is what.
Speaker 1: Abdul Abdul El sayed.
Speaker 2: L sayed, okay, And you had these two going at
Speaker 2: it back and forth. One is mainstream Democratic politician. I
Speaker 2: just I don't know too much about her policies, but
Speaker 2: from what I could hear, she just sounded like a
Speaker 2: regular her Democrat politician, and she's outlining what she wants
Speaker 2: to do. The socialist guy keeps talking about Israel over
Speaker 2: and over and over again, Apak NonStop. He's talking about
Speaker 2: and they're battling. You see the divisions between the two
Speaker 2: of them. But it came out in the debate that
Speaker 2: this socialist guy, his campaign was being supported, propped up
Speaker 2: and funded as the tune of millions of dollars by
Speaker 2: the Republicans in the state, and the Republicans because they
Speaker 2: thought it would be easier to defeat him in the election,
Speaker 2: were actually supporting this guy and running ads that highlight
Speaker 2: some of the things that he stands for to try
Speaker 2: to like run an ad campaign to get the guy
Speaker 2: to win that's more radical, so that you think you
Speaker 2: can beat him in the general election. Well, wouldn't that
Speaker 2: be Like what I've said before?
Speaker 3: You know, people are people kind of complain sometimes that
Speaker 3: you can only vote in the primary for the party
Speaker 3: that you're registered for, depending on where you live, and
Speaker 3: they're like, well, wouldn't wouldn't it make sense if you were,
Speaker 3: in this case, the Republican Party and you could vote
Speaker 3: in the other party's primary, wouldn't you just want to
Speaker 3: flood the polls and vote for the guy that you
Speaker 3: think is a dumbass.
Speaker 2: Yes, people do that or they try to. And when
Speaker 2: you can in states where you can, because there's a
Speaker 2: couple of states I think where he can, right, I
Speaker 2: think there might be not here open primaries. There's a
Speaker 2: couple of states whe you can. But it seems so weird,
Speaker 2: Like I bet you would you would have like the
Speaker 2: opposite of this would be Democrats propping up some like
Speaker 2: Maga Trump guy candidate, and you would probably talk to
Speaker 2: those people and they go, this person is the biggest
Speaker 2: threat to Michigan. Oh my god, this person should never
Speaker 2: be a charge. But they're also supporting them because they
Speaker 2: think they can beat them in.
Speaker 1: The general election.
Speaker 2: I just that's so crazy to be like, either somebody
Speaker 2: is dangerous and you don't want them to be in office,
Speaker 2: and you should not do anything to support them ever
Speaker 2: because that could lead to the tiny chance that they
Speaker 2: may actually win this election, or they're not right, Like
Speaker 2: so wild to me that they're running ads and the
Speaker 2: ads were supposed to be like hit pieces, but they're
Speaker 2: done in such a way where they talk about things
Speaker 2: that highlight stuff that this socialist candidate was doing that
Speaker 2: might win over some of the voters because they really
Speaker 2: wanted him to win. And I just like, what a
Speaker 2: risk if you really think somebody's so dangerous they're gonna
Speaker 2: screw up the state, screw up the country representing these
Speaker 2: people in the Senate, but you also are willing to
Speaker 2: put millions of dollars behind funding them because you think
Speaker 2: you can beat them. Because cfl cancer, right, it's the
Speaker 2: gamesmanship of it all. To me, Either that person is
Speaker 2: dangerous and you don't want to put any money behind
Speaker 2: them at all or they're not. But that's what was
Speaker 2: going on in Michigan with that debate, Yesterdad, And it
Speaker 2: was very interesting to hear, like all the stuff because
Speaker 2: they were kind of getting dramatic with each other in
Speaker 2: this back and forth debate that was happening. Some of
Speaker 2: you may have seen that, probably just me, but either way,
Speaker 2: let me know, send a dispatch over the news Junkie
Speaker 2: dot com. I have a ton of emails to get into.
Speaker 2: I want to thank really quickly Tom Tom for the
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Speaker 2: so much, mister Tom Tom. Yeah, there he is. Thank you,
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Speaker 2: at the news Junkie dot com. Let's talk about this
Speaker 2: missing pilot thing here real quick. I have a little
Speaker 2: bit on this. This is K two Airways. Anybody ever
Speaker 2: heard of K two Airways? No, this is my first
Speaker 2: experience with them.
Speaker 1: Two.
Speaker 2: The final radio transmission of Captain Mohammed Rizwan Idres, a
Speaker 2: pilot of K two Airways, flight KTA one seven three
Speaker 2: to two has emerged after the tragic crash. This is
Speaker 2: according reports. I don't even know if they found any
Speaker 2: wreckage or anything. They just saw this thing fall off
Speaker 2: the radar. The cargo aircraft reported a navigational system issue
Speaker 2: before losing contact and later crashing in the Arabian Sea.
Speaker 2: And this is supposedly the last audio from this K
Speaker 2: two Airways flight. Let's see what we can learn from this.
Speaker 1: I expect after that number two.
Speaker 2: He is speaking English, but I don't. I don't think
Speaker 2: I picked up anything that at all that was filing
Speaker 2: K two. I'm gonna see if I could find somebody
Speaker 2: else who like transcribed this is this got the audio too, No,
Speaker 2: this is just the flight tracker. Fight tracking shows an
Speaker 2: extremely rapid descent, dropping thirty five thousand feet in less
Speaker 2: than two minutes, my god, before disappearing from radar Entirely,
Speaker 2: they don't know what brought down the plane. It was
Speaker 2: it Boeing seven point thirty seven. I wish they had
Speaker 2: somebody who like transcribed that audio so I could see
Speaker 2: what the hell the guy was saying. But he was
Speaker 2: talking about how there was something wrong with the navigational
Speaker 2: era was that the problem was that similar to the
Speaker 2: problem that they had with the Boeing Max planes. Was
Speaker 2: there some sort of like navigational thing that shut those
Speaker 2: down for a while.
Speaker 3: There was something that was causing them to take dives.
Speaker 3: I thought, yeah, it was autopilot or navigation related or
Speaker 3: they er it was getting interference from other systems and
Speaker 3: it was activating something that wasn't supposed to activate. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's been a little bit of time since I've watched
Speaker 3: that documentary they had on Netflix.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is different though. I keep seeing a lot
Speaker 2: of the clips to the audio, but nobody has a
Speaker 2: transcript of it. And it last registerred at thirty five
Speaker 2: thousand feet And then they said there was a bunch
Speaker 2: of people on board, at least five crew members on
Speaker 2: board the aircraft. The piloting command was that Mohammed Idris
Speaker 2: got You heard his voice, but I couldn't tell what
Speaker 2: the hell he was saying, honestly, And they were flying
Speaker 2: around and K two says they're cooperating with the Pakistan
Speaker 2: Civil Aviation Authority and other government agencies to see what
Speaker 2: happened to this. That's their statement on this. But yeah,
Speaker 2: everything I see has like just the audio, and I
Speaker 2: can't tell what the hell the guy is saying. They're
Speaker 2: they're hitting me with the back on the plane thing.
Speaker 2: Plane crash. The guys did plan on the ground. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it seems inappropriate, folks, all right, chat seems a little
Speaker 2: bit inappropriate if you don't mind, so, yeah, I we'll
Speaker 2: look further into this. Oh here's another one K two
Speaker 2: Airways Boeing seven thirty seven, four hundred freighter registration AP
Speaker 2: Boi Boi disappeared over the arabianc late to his day
Speaker 2: while operating a cargo flight. That's why there was only
Speaker 2: five people on board, because it was a cargo flight
Speaker 2: with just the bare bones stack.
Speaker 1: That's the way.
Speaker 2: It still a little appropriate. The crew reported a navigational
Speaker 2: system issue and it was about one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: five nautical miles of Karachi, Pakistan. Three minutes later, radar
Speaker 2: showed a rapid descent and heading change before contact was
Speaker 2: lost entirely. Flight Radar twenty four data places the aircraft's
Speaker 2: last position at blah blah blah blah. The Pakistan Prime
Speaker 2: Minister is confirmed the aircraft went down at sea, but
Speaker 2: I don't see anything. If they've if they've found like
Speaker 2: the wreckage or anything. But if this thing fell out
Speaker 2: of the sky, those folks are probably not with us
Speaker 2: any longer. This is this is the actual data here
Speaker 2: on flight radar, twenty four thirty five thousand feet at
Speaker 2: this point, and the vertical speed is like hopping all
Speaker 2: over the place. Then it starts going out. Oh that's
Speaker 2: going well. No, it went back up though, and oh
Speaker 2: then really quickly, so I don't know how fast you watch.
Speaker 3: The tiny plane. If you watch the tiny plane on
Speaker 3: flight radar, it looks like it just goes.
Speaker 1: This is spinning around on the.
Speaker 2: Savage so this is thirty five thousand feet and then boom.
Speaker 2: How often do these things update, you know, like the
Speaker 2: flight radar things. Let's see, because it went from thirty
Speaker 2: five thousand feet and then in just a blip, it
Speaker 2: looks like it's one minute later one thousand feet and
Speaker 2: then that's it. That's where it ended up saying at
Speaker 2: one hundred and fourteen knots and this plane just completely disappeared.
Speaker 2: But this is off the coast of Pakistan. Hopefully it
Speaker 2: didn't have anything to do with anything else going on
Speaker 2: in the Middle East, for God's sake, but this was
Speaker 2: a Boeing seven thirty seven. As I said, operated by
Speaker 2: this K two airway.
Speaker 3: ADSB broadcasts and aircraft's precise GPS location, speed and altitude
Speaker 3: once every second.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay, so that must have fallen even faster.
Speaker 2: They said it was a couple of minutes. They said,
Speaker 2: within two minutes it went all the way down. But
Speaker 2: on this actual flate radar twenty fourth thing, it was
Speaker 2: one moment thirty five thousand feet and one moment one
Speaker 2: thousand feet all the way down. We'll see what we
Speaker 2: can find out about this and keep our eye on
Speaker 2: it for sure. And also now let's hear from you.
Speaker 2: Let's get in. Oh, we don't have a time. We
Speaker 2: got it to a quick break. Then we'll hear from you.
Speaker 2: We'll get in your dispatches and emails before we do
Speaker 2: jury duty. That is on the way and it's coming
Speaker 2: up next in the news. Junkie Sea Lane, Josh, you
Speaker 2: guys have seen Shark Tank before at some point in time,
Speaker 2: and that show's been in syndication forever. I feel like
Speaker 2: you would have to actively try to not watch that
Speaker 2: show at some point. But it's coming back, and they
Speaker 2: said they're because everybody else is kind of aging out,
Speaker 2: Mark Cuban, he's kind of retiring from the show. And
Speaker 2: the other folks who are getting a little bit older,
Speaker 2: Barbara Corkoran, she's pretty old. Now you've got Kevin O'Leary,
Speaker 2: that's the mister wonderful guy. And yeah, from the Marty
Speaker 2: Supreme movie. And now they got to bring some young
Speaker 2: blood in. And when I saw the list of people
Speaker 2: that are going to be in the new season of
Speaker 2: Shark Tank, I was like, wow, I did not expect that.
Speaker 2: One of the people is Jimmy Donaldson aka mister Beasts.
Speaker 2: He's going to be on Shark Tank in the new season.
Speaker 2: In interesting, I can see that, right, mister Beast doing
Speaker 2: his mister Beast thing on Shark Tank. The other one
Speaker 2: that I didn't expect, Mindy Kaling from the Office A
Speaker 2: me like that, I guess, so, I guess she does.
Speaker 2: She is going to be on the new season of
Speaker 2: Shark Tank is one of the Sharks. And then Favorite
Speaker 2: Daughter co founders Aaron Foster and Sarah Foster. I don't
Speaker 2: know what that is. Favorite Daughter. Have you guys heard
Speaker 2: of this? No Diary of a CEO host Stephen Bartlett.
Speaker 2: I don't know him either. Kendra Scott I've heard of before.
Speaker 2: She's a lifestyle brand guru. And JJ Watt from the NFL.
Speaker 2: He's going to be in there as well. They're just
Speaker 2: like throwing a bunch of randos at this thing.
Speaker 1: Favorite Daughter is clothing?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 2: Favorite Daughter must be a big successful brand.
Speaker 3: I would guess they've had a lot of like guests
Speaker 3: as sharks on Shark Tank over the years. I mean,
Speaker 3: I think even season one was the only one that
Speaker 3: looks like they didn't have any. Season four didn't seem
Speaker 3: to have any. But they've had a bunch of these people, right,
Speaker 3: But some of them are more celebrity than investor. I think,
Speaker 3: like I think, you know, we didn't really know the names.
Speaker 3: And Mark Cuban maybe a little bit. I think he's
Speaker 3: more famous for Shark Tank than like you would instantly
Speaker 3: just know his background as an investor and how he
Speaker 3: built his business in sports and stuff like that. At
Speaker 3: Kevin O'Leary wouldn't have known Robert Herd you back. Definitely
Speaker 3: not Barbara Corkoran, No, Damon.
Speaker 1: John, Yes, I would know. I only know him.
Speaker 3: From Fubu because of Short Tank, because I like when
Speaker 3: they do the intro they're like Damon John who started Fubu. No.
Speaker 2: I remember Fubu in school because it was weird. I
Speaker 2: remember Fubo too, all the white kids in middle school
Speaker 2: wearing fubu, which was literally not supposed to be for
Speaker 2: the white kids and cross colors at the time, and
Speaker 2: that dude made a bank on that Fubu line.
Speaker 3: While I knew about the Fubu line in middle school,
Speaker 3: I remember making fun of the kid who had a
Speaker 3: knockoff Fubu in the lunch line. He had like if
Speaker 3: you looked really closely those that wasn't n F and
Speaker 3: that wasn't a it would look like poo boo instead
Speaker 3: of fooboo. And so we were like, it's.
Speaker 17: Poo boo guy. But I didn't know the name Damon
Speaker 17: John himself. By the way, guys probably just fine, maybe
Speaker 17: we'll see. But like, so, they had these celebrity guests
Speaker 17: in and I go, well, okay, uh, Jeff Foxworthy, he's rich.
Speaker 1: Are they all? You would hope?
Speaker 3: So if they're supposedly putting up their own money, Jeff
Speaker 3: Foxworthy is one of them.
Speaker 1: Let's see.
Speaker 3: Uh, Richard Branson, that's a good guess because that guy
Speaker 3: has money to invest in stuff. Alex Rodriguez, I'm guessing
Speaker 3: of Yankees fame. Yeah, A Rod was on there.
Speaker 2: He's rich, but he's he oh Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Kutcher. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and all these people invest in all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 2: I did not know Mindy kaling Uh was into that.
Speaker 2: I somebody says she's hugely successful alien on TJ Chack
Speaker 2: of course, and she's been in a bunch of TV shows.
Speaker 2: Office is really where she's gotten most of her success.
Speaker 2: But she's been in a bunch of TV shows. I
Speaker 2: didn't know that she was like a business person and
Speaker 2: would be up on on Shark Tank. But I guess
Speaker 2: they're trying to bring it to the younger generation now,
Speaker 2: so they eject a little to mister peacet in it
Speaker 2: like everything else these days. All right, here we go.
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Speaker 2: This is crazy. One of the more strange stories of
Speaker 2: the day, items left behind at a cracker barrel as
Speaker 2: in the restaurants, have led to an arrest in a
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty five cold case murder. All right, they found
Speaker 2: stuff at a cracker barrel Josh that have led to
Speaker 2: an arrest in this cold case. Here's what the story says.
Speaker 2: From NBC News, items discarded behind a cracker barrel restaurant
Speaker 2: in Georgia played a key role in helping Ohio prosecutors
Speaker 2: secure an arrest in connection with the killing of a
Speaker 2: traveling salesman more than forty years ago. According to authorities,
Speaker 2: a Warren County grand jury issued a two count indictment
Speaker 2: accusing Randy Lane McAllister, a sixty two year old Columbus resident,
Speaker 2: of playing a role in the October seventeenth nineteen eighty
Speaker 2: five strangulation death of John Christopher Warren. Warren, forty four,
Speaker 2: was found dead in his room at a since shuttered
Speaker 2: holiday inn in Middletown, just outside of Cincinnati. But Kalliser's
Speaker 2: charged with killing Warren while committing or attempting to commit
Speaker 2: the offensive aggravated robbery. He was trying to steal a
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty five Oldsmobile at the time. Now let's see
Speaker 2: how cracker Barrel comes into play. At the time of
Speaker 2: his death, he lived in Kent, about two hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty miles from where he was killed. He worked at
Speaker 2: an auto parts company and was in town for meetings.
Speaker 2: Days after the slang, police in Dalton, Georgia, recovered some
Speaker 2: of Warren's property and other relevant items discarded behind a
Speaker 2: Cracker Barrel restaurant about four hundred miles away. His car
Speaker 2: was found in Reading to Beach, Florida, a thousand miles
Speaker 2: away from where he was killed, so they knew somebody
Speaker 2: took the car and drove the hell out of there.
Speaker 2: The slang went unsolved for decades before Warren County Sheriff
Speaker 2: detectives sent items recovered from all three crime scenes, including
Speaker 2: the cracker barrel to be tested for further analysis. A
Speaker 2: few years back, it wasn't clear how investigators initially connected
Speaker 2: the cracker barrel items to Warren Slang or what sparked
Speaker 2: the new interest in the case, but that came back
Speaker 2: with a DNA match and it led detectives to McAllister. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: one of the people who helped him out is now deceased,
Speaker 2: so they will never see any sort of justice themselves.
Speaker 2: But they caught the guy who they said did this murder.
Speaker 2: And if you got away with a murder back in
Speaker 2: the nineteen eighties and it's twenty twenty six, oh man,
Speaker 2: you probably feel like you ain't never getting caught you
Speaker 2: so bad. I know, I made it forty years and
Speaker 2: after all that time, because of the stuff they found
Speaker 2: at a cracker barrel, they have arrested this particular guy
Speaker 2: and now we'll see what happens with him.
Speaker 1: Warren.
Speaker 2: Who's Warren Warren? Warren County Prosecuting Attorney David Forschnao says,
Speaker 2: everything I intend to say is on social media. I
Speaker 2: don't have any further comment. Okay, that's an interesting way
Speaker 2: to say it to the press, is I don't have
Speaker 2: anything else to say, I've already said what I'm saying here,
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Speaker 2: Power Hour. We got to get into the the gram
Speaker 2: platinir drama. I want to talk about a blooper from
Speaker 2: the President that I've been wanting to work in. We'll
Speaker 2: play that and see what that means. Then there's this
Speaker 2: young kid who went missing and a story behind him
Speaker 2: that's getting a bunch more press. All of that is
Speaker 2: coming up next in the News Junkie. We kick off
Speaker 2: the Power Hour, But first I want to can we
Speaker 2: just double check Ceilan that that building in New York
Speaker 2: City has not fallen to the ground yet?
Speaker 17: Yes, so far.
Speaker 1: I think we would know if the building in New
Speaker 1: York City has fallen down.
Speaker 2: It was a little concerning yesterday when we saw that
Speaker 2: the stabilizers and the beams for this building. I think
Speaker 2: the expert compared them to rushed cigarettes.
Speaker 3: The construction guy there was like, uh, they didn't use
Speaker 3: union guys on this, and the beams crushed like cigarettes.
Speaker 2: The greatest union ad ever. The union guys are just
Speaker 2: waiting outside for the cameras.
Speaker 1: We wouldn't have done this.
Speaker 3: We talked about off the air yesterday that there was
Speaker 3: another building in New York City that is kind of
Speaker 3: halted production very much if I Soorece style style and
Speaker 3: just like unfinished because they didn't do all the drilling
Speaker 3: down and the pilings that you would normally do, and
Speaker 3: so like part of the building was sinking into the
Speaker 3: soil and so it's leaning. It's the leaning building there.
Speaker 3: And when you look up the Wikipedia page of that building,
Speaker 3: there's also claims or you know that this building was
Speaker 3: protested by union construction workers because their use of non
Speaker 3: union labor.
Speaker 2: That's so good, that's such a smart strategic move. Yeah,
Speaker 2: other buildings are falling and you go, you're like, hey,
Speaker 2: this is what happens, right, Hey, the buildings fall down
Speaker 2: because the crush like cigarettes.
Speaker 1: A shame if something happened to your nice building.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you say, like, well, what buildings did you do?
Speaker 2: All the ones that ain't falling down, those are all
Speaker 2: the union ones. Well okay, well, we'll keep that in mind.
Speaker 3: I think I saw this morning on the news that
Speaker 3: they were there were some very very brave individuals rushing
Speaker 3: in there to put like temporary support struts up there,
Speaker 3: ones that could hold all the extra building they built
Speaker 3: on top of the building.
Speaker 1: That was there.
Speaker 2: God, I don't know if I mean. I wouldn't be
Speaker 2: going up in that for anything, would you. This building
Speaker 2: looked like it could come down at any moment in time.
Speaker 2: The floors were crumbling. It was thirty story building or something,
Speaker 2: and they got greedy and they tried to build it higher.
Speaker 2: And when they built it higher, the stuff they were
Speaker 2: building on top of the building was too heavy for
Speaker 2: this structure. Well they there was.
Speaker 3: I guess they're supposed to do like reinforcement on the
Speaker 3: exiit beams if they're putting that much stuff up there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they did not. No, they seem to have
Speaker 2: cut some corners, you might say. But we'll keep an
Speaker 2: eye on that. So far, so good. I don't have
Speaker 2: any buildings falling just yet in New York. That's this. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll knock on wood over here too while we do this.
Speaker 2: Let's do the power hour.
Speaker 1: They said it couldn't be done.
Speaker 2: Then they said, don't show my laptop right now, I'm
Speaker 2: searching for BJ's all right, time for the Power Hour
Speaker 2: on the news, chunky Y.
Speaker 3: The way I delivered that was maybe more suspicious than
Speaker 3: it could have been otherwise.
Speaker 1: But here we go in our Power Hour.
Speaker 2: There is a lot of talk about this dude, Graham Platner,
Speaker 2: and a lot of people are gonna be like, who
Speaker 2: who is Graham Platner. Don't worry, I'll bring you up
Speaker 2: to speed. This is a guy running for office as
Speaker 2: a Democrat in Maine. And the first thing that came
Speaker 2: up on my radar about this guy was he's one
Speaker 2: of these like sort of like a lot of times,
Speaker 2: Democrats will try to put forward candidates that are a
Speaker 2: tough guys, military veteran. He's aggressive, and he's sort of
Speaker 2: going to be the antithesis of like a Trump. You know,
Speaker 2: he's loud and bombastic, but he's on the other side.
Speaker 2: And that was working well with a lot of supporters
Speaker 2: in Maine, and it looked like Graham Platner might end
Speaker 2: up being the next what he's gonna be a senator,
Speaker 2: I believe is what he was running for. Yeah, US
Speaker 2: Senate candidate and he might be the next senator from
Speaker 2: the state of Maine, and a lot of people supporting him.
Speaker 2: But there were some problems. There were some cracks beginning
Speaker 2: to form far before this explosive story from Politico that
Speaker 2: I'm looking at, which say is exclusive woman who dated
Speaker 2: Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her. So we'll get
Speaker 2: into those accusations, which have him really on the precipice
Speaker 2: of being pressured out of his campaign and stepping down.
Speaker 2: But Graham Platner had a lot of other things that
Speaker 2: rose up to meious. The first thing was this guy
Speaker 2: who appears to be in decent physical shape and parties
Speaker 2: quite a bit. From what I can tell, was on
Speaker 2: full disability, a full disability payout, full check every single
Speaker 2: month from the United States Military. Right, you can't see
Speaker 2: anything wrong with this guy. I know, you can say,
Speaker 2: have PTSD whatever. This guy seemed to have no issues
Speaker 2: that would cause him to have to be permanently disabled
Speaker 2: and get US taxpayer dollars for the rest of his life. Josh,
Speaker 2: how old is he for? Oh, I see forty one
Speaker 2: years old. Forty one years old. It's forty one years old,
Speaker 2: and he's going to get paid out full disability for
Speaker 2: the rest of his life from US taxpayers because he's
Speaker 2: somehow disabled. More. That to me seems like something we
Speaker 2: should look into a bit more. I know some of
Speaker 2: you will really clutch pearls at what I'm about to say,
Speaker 2: but I happen to believe there's probably a lot of
Speaker 2: fraud in the world of disability for the military. I
Speaker 2: think there are a lot of people on permanent disability
Speaker 2: from the military who are taking advantage of that situation.
Speaker 2: I think that that is important because I think I
Speaker 2: really do care about disabled veterans, and I want actual
Speaker 2: disabled veterans to be treated in such a way that
Speaker 2: we don't look at them and say, well, this is
Speaker 2: just another person faking it. I want them to be
Speaker 2: treated by their government in a respectful way to make
Speaker 2: sure that you know, they get what's coming to them
Speaker 2: after serving this country. But then you have some people
Speaker 2: like this where I'm like, bro, you're forty one, you're
Speaker 2: banging everything in sight that's not your wife, apparently, and
Speaker 2: you are out there in front of the camera every
Speaker 2: five seconds. I really am not seeing it. I'm not
Speaker 2: putting it together. I believe there's a lot of fraud
Speaker 2: in this system, and I think we should look into
Speaker 2: Graham Platner being on full disability as part of that.
Speaker 2: So that was one thing that came up. Then he
Speaker 2: said he was an oyster farmer, which apparently was not
Speaker 2: really true about his background. A lot of lies that
Speaker 2: come up here. Then he said he pulled himself up
Speaker 2: by his bootstraps and got started on his own and
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. Then it turns out he got a
Speaker 2: two hundred thousand dollars loan from his father to buy
Speaker 2: the house that he had, and he was making up
Speaker 2: that story too, So it just piles on and on
Speaker 2: and on. But none of that had him stepping out.
Speaker 2: Because you have stuff like this hailfire, people will be like, hey,
Speaker 2: how is this any different from the fraud that the
Speaker 2: president does? Right, So it's like everybody now is in
Speaker 2: this arena where you go your guys won't step down
Speaker 2: when there's a controversy. When our people are up there,
Speaker 2: we're not going to have them step down either. We're
Speaker 2: just all just going to pretend like none of this
Speaker 2: is happening and nobody should ever step down. That's the
Speaker 2: current environment that we find ourselves in until this report dropped.
Speaker 2: This guy was cruising through. There was still people standing
Speaker 2: up for him, saying he did nothing wrong, supporting him.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. Politico said a woman who dated main
Speaker 2: US Senate candidate Graham Platt says he forced her to
Speaker 2: have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her
Speaker 2: repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies. The woman. Oh, the
Speaker 2: woman is a forty one year old main resident named
Speaker 2: Jenny Resico. Is he forty one two? Yeah, they're both okay,
Speaker 2: So they both are. The woman, forty one year old
Speaker 2: main resident named Jen Resicott, detailed the alleged incident to
Speaker 2: Politico and three interviews over the past two weeks. Politico
Speaker 2: also spoke with a man Rasicott dated and confided in
Speaker 2: years after the alleged incident, and reviewed documents, including emails
Speaker 2: between her and her therapist and messages between her and
Speaker 2: an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved with Platner
Speaker 2: years before he ran for office. She said she had
Speaker 2: an on and off relationship with Platner, who's now the
Speaker 2: Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, for more than two years
Speaker 2: before he entered her rural main home uninvited one night
Speaker 2: in late twenty twenty one. He was so this is
Speaker 2: not even that long ago. Five years ago. Platner goes
Speaker 2: this woman's house twenty twenty one, late at night. He's
Speaker 2: deeply intoxicated, and he forces himself on her while she
Speaker 2: repeatedly told him to stop. She said she cut off
Speaker 2: contact with him after telling him the encounter was not consensual.
Speaker 2: I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful
Speaker 2: on me. I remember this specific moment where I thought
Speaker 2: to myself, this is no longer my choice, he says.
Speaker 2: Platner says the allegations are troubling, serious and false. It's
Speaker 2: categorically untrue. But at the time, and why would she
Speaker 2: have any reason to do this, because nobody knew who
Speaker 2: the hell this guy was. She confided in her friends
Speaker 2: what had happened with this guy. She told people that
Speaker 2: Graham Platner, who wasn't running for office at the time,
Speaker 2: who wasn't a man of power, who wasn't a politician,
Speaker 2: who wasn't any of these things. She told her friends
Speaker 2: what had happened before there was any sort of fame
Speaker 2: involved here, which is, you know, seems like maybe some
Speaker 2: evidence that some of this is true, and she said
Speaker 2: she was upset because there was all these allegations against
Speaker 2: this Graham Platner guy, but he was still staying in
Speaker 2: the race now. To her credit, she also says she
Speaker 2: totally agrees with him and supports him. So she was
Speaker 2: kind of juggling whether or not she should come out
Speaker 2: with these allegations, but she felt like she had to
Speaker 2: because she didn't want this predator having a position of
Speaker 2: power in the US Senate. So like, ideologically, she's not
Speaker 2: some Republican or something. She agrees with Graham Platter. She
Speaker 2: likes him and she wanted to support his campaign. She said.
Speaker 2: In the weeks after the alleged assault, she considered going
Speaker 2: to the police, but struggled with shock and confusion about
Speaker 2: what happened her and did not file a police report
Speaker 2: even as time passed. She said she felt uncomfortable potentially
Speaker 2: telling a police officer about such a personal experience and
Speaker 2: feared retaliation from Platner. At first, she only confided in
Speaker 2: her therapist, who she continues to see. So they go
Speaker 2: on some guy she dated after him. She ended up
Speaker 2: talking about that, and she shared some Facebook posts. I
Speaker 2: guess I saw your post about oysters the other day.
Speaker 2: I feel morally obligated to warn you if you were
Speaker 2: anything more than just friends with Graham Platner. But if
Speaker 2: you're not, then I'll just shut up for now and
Speaker 2: give you this scoop sometime lol. Just friends would love
Speaker 2: the scoop though, And she said, is he still engaged?
Speaker 2: I was working on fixing him up with a friend. Oh,
Speaker 2: I have no idea with who. Oh some girl I
Speaker 2: think her name is, and it's blocked off. This is
Speaker 2: some proof that some messages were going across here. She
Speaker 2: said he was drunk, it wouldn't take no for an answer.
Speaker 2: So that's the basic story that started this, and he
Speaker 2: has still not dropped out. Then a news story pops
Speaker 2: up today that said another one of his ex girlfriends
Speaker 2: claims he would remove condoms during sex without her permission.
Speaker 1: Which is also probably not a good look. You might imagine.
Speaker 3: Aren't there some jurisdictions in which that is under like
Speaker 3: a sexual assault?
Speaker 2: I think celane and I'm not positive, so do fact
Speaker 2: check me and correct me if I'm wrong. I think
Speaker 2: this is exactly what the rape charges were against Julian
Speaker 2: Assange of Wikipedia. I think the claims were that he
Speaker 2: you mean WikiLeaks, wiki leaks. Excuse me, thank you for
Speaker 2: correcting me on that part so far. Let's see if
Speaker 2: I got the rest of it right. But Julian Assange
Speaker 2: was the guy behind this WikiLeaks company which was trying
Speaker 2: to take down all these governments by leaking out top
Speaker 2: secret information. And then when he was in Europe somewhere,
Speaker 2: as I recall, he had sex which was consensual sex
Speaker 2: with some women. One of the women said it was
Speaker 2: consensual sex well, she was having with him, but then
Speaker 2: afterwards she decided to withdraw her consent, which seems crazy.
Speaker 2: The other one was a woman who said that he
Speaker 2: stealthed her, which is like removing the condomer or the
Speaker 2: protection that you're wearing during the sex without the permission
Speaker 2: of the woman. I think that's what it was for him,
Speaker 2: which this sounds similar, Is that right?
Speaker 1: I'm looking for those specific kind of things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why do you do that? If you need to
Speaker 2: dig a little deeper, I'll just read this real quick.
Speaker 2: Graham Platner had this is as of yesterday six days,
Speaker 2: so I guess it's five days now. He has five
Speaker 2: days to decide whether he should drop out. Here's how
Speaker 2: that would work main Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner and
Speaker 2: oyster farmer. They're still using that on the Washington Post
Speaker 2: said money was taking time to reflect on the best
Speaker 2: path forward.
Speaker 3: They're still using oyster farmer on Wikipedia and some other pages.
Speaker 3: What I see one article that says is Grand Platner's
Speaker 3: main oyster farm totally fake fact checking attack on senate candidate.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, is there like they figured out that
Speaker 2: oyster farm. From what I heard, he has some sort
Speaker 2: of ownership and an oyster farm, but he was identifying
Speaker 2: himself as an oyster farmer by trade, as if that's
Speaker 2: where his money was coming from. And he gets like
Speaker 2: a pittance, like a tiny fraction of money from this
Speaker 2: oyster farm. So it's not really his job, even though
Speaker 2: he was shaping himself up that way. That's what I
Speaker 2: took from this. Platner can drop out any time before
Speaker 2: the November election, but Democrats under state law would only
Speaker 2: be able to put a replacement candidate on the ballot
Speaker 2: if he does so in the next week. So if
Speaker 2: they can, if they want to replace him with somebody else,
Speaker 2: then he has to drop out in the next week.
Speaker 2: I believe. Oh, here he is this is the guy
Speaker 2: himself talking about these most recent allegations.
Speaker 6: I wanted to directly address the troubling, serious and false
Speaker 6: allegations against me. Any accusation of non consensual behavior is
Speaker 6: categorically false. Over the last ten months, I have been
Speaker 6: deeply humbled by the faith maners have put in me.
Speaker 6: You have welcomed me into your homes and manes of work,
Speaker 6: into your restaurants, in your houses of worship. You have
Speaker 6: shown that a different runt of politics, one that puts
Speaker 6: the interests of people over corporations, is not just possible,
Speaker 6: but is inevitable. This movement, we have built the largest
Speaker 6: volunteer base in the history of main politics, hundreds of
Speaker 6: thousands of grassroots donors and the supporters across the ideological spectrum.
Speaker 1: I get to that accusation and.
Speaker 6: A love of Maine, a belief that our politics must change.
Speaker 2: Bro, this is a two minute video response you put out,
Speaker 2: and all of this so far was like, we are
Speaker 2: doing great, we are kicking ass. And this doesn't sound
Speaker 2: like a guy who's going to drop out, at least
Speaker 2: not yet.
Speaker 6: In a focus on defeating Susan Collins. So regardless of
Speaker 6: the inaccuracy, of the reporting when mindful of political reality,
Speaker 6: it will inflict. We are taking the time to reflect
Speaker 6: on the best path forward for the state that I love,
Speaker 6: the people that I love, the movement I belong to,
Speaker 6: and the goal of defeating Susan Collins. Those were the
Speaker 6: goals we launched this campaign, and they remain my goals today.
Speaker 6: On June ninth, one hundred and fifty four thousand and
Speaker 6: fifty eight Manors, the most in primary history, voted to
Speaker 6: reject a broken politics, beholden to Washington and the Donnor class.
Speaker 6: They voted for hope, for change, to take back our economy,
Speaker 6: to take back our.
Speaker 2: Are you dropping out back our Senate seat?
Speaker 6: Throughout it all, you never turned your back on me,
Speaker 6: and I will not turn my back on you now.
Speaker 6: Every one of you deserves to see that vision come
Speaker 6: to fruit.
Speaker 1: This sounds like you said, Susan.
Speaker 6: Collins defeated, and we will use every tool at our
Speaker 6: disposal to do so. As man goes, so goes the nation.
Speaker 6: As always, thank you.
Speaker 2: No, there he goes, so main goes.
Speaker 1: That is that a main thing?
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know much about me, but that
Speaker 2: didn't sound like a guy who was going to be
Speaker 2: dropping out in an election here, And just to be clear,
Speaker 2: it seems that it's provable that this woman knew Grand
Speaker 2: Platner and had a connection with him. She would have
Speaker 2: had to five years ago, when nobody knew who the
Speaker 2: hell he was, pre planned telling friends and the therapists
Speaker 2: and boyfriends that this happened to her, with the sole
Speaker 2: idea that some days she would need to go back
Speaker 2: and utilize that information to get a guy whom she
Speaker 2: agrees with politically out of an election. That doesn't make
Speaker 2: any sense to me. I think there's probably something to
Speaker 2: what this woman is saying. Let's see, is there anything
Speaker 2: else we need to know about this that he's holding
Speaker 2: on as far as I can tell, And a lot
Speaker 2: of his accusers are kind of coming out and blaming
Speaker 2: the media, there's still people supporting him. Stephen King said,
Speaker 2: tell you what, if you knew the whole truth about
Speaker 2: everybody in the Senate. This is Stephen King, the writer
Speaker 2: of it and all that other stuff. If you knew
Speaker 2: what everybody in the Senate House of Representatives did, the
Speaker 2: whole truth about them, those chambers would be dead empty.
Speaker 2: Jesus said, let him without sin cast the first stone
Speaker 2: that's what he said. Then he had a follow up
Speaker 2: tweet saying that he still supported grand Platner, which I
Speaker 2: think he has deleted now because he's been getting some
Speaker 2: pushback on that. I also saw that yesterday talk about
Speaker 2: timing this company day book, who hires people for political jobs?
Speaker 2: Said Graham Platner for US Senate is immediately hiring a
Speaker 2: research director to develop a comprehensive research and vetting strategy
Speaker 2: and build comprehensive defensive strategies and rapid response toolkits. Salary
Speaker 2: range of seven thousand to eleven thousand dollars per month.
Speaker 2: Not bad, not half bad if you can get it.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty surprised that they're still hiring right now, but
Speaker 2: I guess that's what's happening. And here's a final clip
Speaker 2: on this. This is an update from the Main Democratic
Speaker 2: Party executive director about what's going to happen next.
Speaker 16: Hi, everyone, I wanted to provide you all and update
Speaker 16: on the US Senate race here in Maine. As you know,
Speaker 16: the Main Democratic Party has been working around the clock
Speaker 16: to develop a process to replace our US Senate nominee
Speaker 16: that is open, inclusive, transparent, and fair. The integrity of
Speaker 16: this process is just as important as the outcome, and
Speaker 16: we are committed to ensuring that Democrats across our state
Speaker 16: can have confidence in both. Unfortunately, Graham Plotner's team has
Speaker 16: repeatedly reached out to us in an attempt to put
Speaker 16: their thumb on the scale of what this process looks like.
Speaker 16: We have repeatedly reiterated too grand Plotner's team that they
Speaker 16: have no role in determining our next Democratic nominee for
Speaker 16: the US Senate really, nor in determining what this process
Speaker 16: looks like. We have also reiterated that grand Platner must
Speaker 16: drop out of this race so that Democrats in Maine
Speaker 16: can focus ondefeating Susan Collins this November.
Speaker 2: Right there, you go, that's the drama having around all that.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's going to drop out or not.
Speaker 2: I don't know how, Like when they do the oppo
Speaker 2: research on candidates like this, I don't know how this
Speaker 2: person gets through. I don't know how this person squeezes
Speaker 2: through and becomes their Senate candidate. Like I know that
Speaker 2: they investigate people, I know that they do that kind
Speaker 2: of work, But this guy still made it this far along.
Speaker 2: It seems clear to me at the very least that
Speaker 2: he's an habitual liar, Like that's real obvious to me.
Speaker 2: And there's a lot of other questions too, But we'll
Speaker 2: see what happens next and keep an eye on this.
Speaker 2: Is that one's making some waves out there. Quick break.
Speaker 2: When we come back, we continue the Power Hour with
Speaker 2: your feedback. I'm gonna get to all your dispatches. We'll
Speaker 2: work those incas I've been bad about it. That's going
Speaker 2: to go center stage when we come back. It's coming
Speaker 2: up next in the news junk key. I know this
Speaker 2: is going to hit Joshua Marie Fowler oh very hard,
Speaker 2: very very hard, because we do not talk about this
Speaker 2: a lot on the show because it kind of it's
Speaker 2: a sensitive issue for him. But he is one of
Speaker 2: the biggest Katie Kurk fans that I have ever met.
Speaker 2: It's true in my entire life. Like he's so mad
Speaker 2: at that South Park episod.
Speaker 1: I'm yeah, so pissed it.
Speaker 2: Thought it was rude that they would go after and
Speaker 2: compare sizes of excrement to Katie Kirk, which was rude.
Speaker 2: He was right about that, unreal, But I cannot believe
Speaker 2: this happened to your queen. This story is absolutely crazy.
Speaker 2: He didn't know this could happen. But Katie kirk is
Speaker 2: now revealing that she had a stroke and she had
Speaker 2: temporary amnesia, like she out of nowhere. She's sixty nine
Speaker 2: years old, Nice and she had Nice. No, that was
Speaker 2: somebody else. It wasn't me, it was true. Oh I
Speaker 2: was somebody else. It might have been Josh. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: The sixty nine year old journalist Nice detailed the freaky
Speaker 2: episode in a July sixth post. So Katie Kuric says
Speaker 2: that she had some sort of stroke. Her husband starts
Speaker 2: asking her, hey, are you okay? Is everything fine? You've
Speaker 2: seen out of it? And they took her to a
Speaker 2: hospital and they said as a result of the stroke,
Speaker 2: she had temporary amnesia, and she couldn't remember her the
Speaker 2: name of the president, which if you can't remember the
Speaker 2: name of our current president, something has gone wrong.
Speaker 1: You can't get away.
Speaker 2: From his name. But she couldn't remember the date, She
Speaker 2: couldn't remember any of that. And then they said, no,
Speaker 2: it's not a stroke after all, you have something called
Speaker 2: temporary memory loss. And I have never heard of this before,
Speaker 2: Like you could just get hit with a wave of
Speaker 2: temporary memory loss. You know how useful that is in
Speaker 2: my life now moving forward with all the things that
Speaker 2: I forget or you know, Courdy yells at me for
Speaker 2: God knows what's going man, I'm just dealing with some
Speaker 2: temporary memory loss. Yeah, it's a little tml. I was
Speaker 2: just bam right out of nowhere. That's what happened to her,
Speaker 2: She says, the day I'll never remember. And she said,
Speaker 2: began like any other day. She walked to the farmer's
Speaker 2: market and asked him to pick up an iced coffee.
Speaker 2: I bought some beautiful peaches and nectaryans, and a big
Speaker 2: battle bag of kettle corn and a cute straw hat
Speaker 2: I really didn't need. I headed back and ate a
Speaker 2: bowl of cereal in one of the peaches, and I
Speaker 2: got dressed for an afternoon at the Aspen Ideas Festival,
Speaker 2: as we all do from time to time. She said,
Speaker 2: I decided to wear a white linen suit and navy
Speaker 2: white sleeveless shirt, my new hat, blah blah blah. And
Speaker 2: she said that's the last thing I remember. Then her
Speaker 2: husband says, are you okay? What's going on? She says,
Speaker 2: I have no idea what we talked about or what
Speaker 2: occurred when the panels ended that we were on and
Speaker 2: her husband said, you seem out of it. She didn't
Speaker 2: know what the date was. She thought it was twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four, so she thought they were back in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. She thought Joe Biden was the president and
Speaker 2: they had to informer of all of this stuff. As
Speaker 2: the hospital staff initiated.
Speaker 1: Stop that must have been.
Speaker 2: There was opportunity there to put all sorts of things
Speaker 2: in her head if you wanted to. But she reintroduced
Speaker 2: herself to the nurses every time they came into the room,
Speaker 2: she said, And they ruled out a stroke, but it
Speaker 2: was transient global amnesia. Yeah, I've just never made They
Speaker 2: ruled out a stroke. Yeah, they ruled out a stroke,
Speaker 2: so they thought it was a stroke. That's why she
Speaker 2: goes to the hospital. Then they thought she was losing
Speaker 2: her memory because the doctor said, no, there's no stroke.
Speaker 2: MRI shows no stroke, but you had transient global amnesia.
Speaker 2: Whatever the hell? That is a sudden complete inability to
Speaker 2: retain new information, lasting for several hours in a middle
Speaker 2: aged or older person with preservation of alert and all
Speaker 2: other cognitive function.
Speaker 1: Weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just very bizarre. I've never heard of that before.
Speaker 2: But Katie Kirk thought it was twenty twenty four. She
Speaker 2: thought Biden was still the president. She didn't know what
Speaker 2: the hell was going on. I can't imagine how scary
Speaker 2: that would be, much less for Josh. It was just
Speaker 2: like such a massive fan, just so worried about her. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry that that happened. That's that's a lot for
Speaker 2: you to deal with.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get through it.
Speaker 2: I think a couple people emailing, let's get to you.
Speaker 2: There's Hoover with an email to tips at the news
Speaker 2: Junkie dot com because I promise some of your feedback.
Speaker 2: Most of these countries in the World Cup are only
Speaker 2: relevant for kicking a ball in a net every four years.
Speaker 2: But it's just not true. What country is only famous
Speaker 2: for soccer? Is there even one? Like? What are you
Speaker 2: gonna say, like Switzerland was playing last night? I Switzerland's
Speaker 2: more famous for other things than their soccer team. Those
Speaker 2: army knives, cut clocks. Jeez, they cut cheese. They have
Speaker 2: army knives, sir. I'm building a case against you here.
Speaker 2: All of these things are more famous than their soccer team.
Speaker 2: But there are some teams like that pop out I go.
Speaker 2: I'm not really familiar with that country. There's been a
Speaker 2: couple of those, but mostly I know who they are.
Speaker 2: Here is let's the ed says, those Weimos are snitch cars.
Speaker 2: So what if somebody and their wife decides to go
Speaker 2: for a ride and decide to do something exciting in
Speaker 2: the backseat of a Weimo. Will the Weimo or the
Speaker 2: operators call the cops? That's the million dollar question. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure. I don't know what they would do. We
Speaker 2: have a million dollar question for people who want to
Speaker 2: do that for him apparently, Yeah, Space Coast native email
Speaker 2: tips in the news junki dot com. I have a
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five Civic Sport hybrid and one time I
Speaker 2: was driving down the Interstate with cruise control on and
Speaker 2: I was looking at the passenger seat for a couple
Speaker 2: of seconds, and my car beeped at me. When I
Speaker 2: didn't look up, it applied the brakes and started turning
Speaker 2: my car to the shoulder until I looked straight ahead
Speaker 2: and tugged on the wheel. He said a lot of
Speaker 2: people emailed about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I said a lot of those things about Tesla
Speaker 3: is like, you know, pulling over to the side. If
Speaker 3: you're not doing your responses, or if it thinks you're
Speaker 3: maybe fell asleep or something like that, it will try.
Speaker 3: It will pull over the side, turn the hazard lights on,
Speaker 3: and unlock the doors.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I find that to be also dangerous, but I
Speaker 2: guess it's got enough cameras that it can safely pull over.
Speaker 2: And they have to actually kind.
Speaker 3: Of safe, like if you had a stroke in your
Speaker 3: car or something like that, if you had a medical
Speaker 3: episode the global amnesia, if you had temporary global amnesia
Speaker 3: and you thought Joe Biden was president, it might go, hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 3: first of all, you might need to pull over.
Speaker 1: For this news you.
Speaker 2: First of all, I need to know your political affiliation
Speaker 2: so that way I could tamp down the information. Jane says,
Speaker 2: my vehicle is a dash cam, like you mentioned. I
Speaker 2: have no trouble with sunglasses. But if I scratch my
Speaker 2: nose or maybe raise my arm to stretch on the headrest,
Speaker 2: it nags me to look forward. It can't pull me
Speaker 2: over if it catches me not looking, though I'm not.
Speaker 2: It's not really accurate technology, but it's close, says Jane.
Speaker 2: Thank you for that, and that'll do it for right now,
Speaker 2: and that's how I work in a dispatcher two and
Speaker 2: see what you have on your mind with your dispatches
Speaker 2: sent over at the Newsjunkie dot com. Here is new
Speaker 2: dukeom talking about veterans.
Speaker 15: Hey, hey, I kind of got to disagree with you, Sean.
Speaker 15: Any veteran that has seen combat is disabled, whether they
Speaker 15: want to admit it or not, they are and they
Speaker 15: deserve to be paid. Simple as that.
Speaker 1: Prove me wrong, prove you wrong?
Speaker 2: Well, what is disabled mean to you? Any every veteran
Speaker 2: is disabled? Are we're talking about? Well? I mean I
Speaker 2: disagree with that too. I don't think every combat veteran
Speaker 2: is disabled. I think disabled is a word with a meaning.
Speaker 2: Let's let's start there. Disabled definition. Okay, Now, you might
Speaker 2: say disabled can mean physical or mental. But I've met
Speaker 2: people who are veterans who have no mental disabilities, no PTSD,
Speaker 2: no physical disability. Are they still disabled? Because disable? You
Speaker 2: say so, physical or mental impairment. In medical or personal context,
Speaker 2: disabled means to severely injure, incapacitate, or restrict somebody's ability
Speaker 2: to use their body or senses. So you think that
Speaker 2: fits the definition for every single veteran?
Speaker 3: I mean in this case, we're talking about Graham Platner,
Speaker 3: who is forty one and uh somewhat has some stake
Speaker 3: in an oyster farm, has at least been oyster farming once, yes,
Speaker 3: and it says the business he has doesn't make as
Speaker 3: much money. His mother's restaurant is his biggest customer. He
Speaker 3: supplements his income with benefits he earns as a one
Speaker 3: hundred percent disabled veteran.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know how that works. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to speak on that. I don't know if, like, is
Speaker 2: it common that you're you're just automatically one hundred percent
Speaker 2: disabled according to the military, or do they go, okay,
Speaker 2: you're seventy two percent or fifty percent or I don't
Speaker 2: I don't know how that works. I don't know how
Speaker 2: they how they categorize that, and if you're just one
Speaker 2: hundred or zero or fifty, or if any random number
Speaker 2: is possible. If you know more about that sentence a dispatch,
Speaker 2: for sure, here's concrete. Michael wants to talk about that
Speaker 2: building in New York City. Let's hear that.
Speaker 8: What's going on news junkie cruise concrete Mike, hey man,
Speaker 8: it's hotter in Satan's butthole.
Speaker 1: Out here today.
Speaker 8: Okay, the structural building in New York the failures. You
Speaker 8: can't just add sixteen stories onto a building. The beams
Speaker 8: below weren't designed. The concrete below, all the support, all
Speaker 8: the reinforcement wasn't designed that can handle another sixteen stories.
Speaker 1: Why this is what does happened?
Speaker 8: Either that or they got bad concrete that could happen too.
Speaker 3: Thank you concrete, because they go with them non union jobs.
Speaker 2: You know, it's more about this than I ever will.
Speaker 2: So I'll take his word for it. Thank you for
Speaker 2: that dispatch. Here's what we're going to do. We'll get back.
Speaker 2: I'll play that blooper from the President on the way out.
Speaker 2: We'll do the final dispatches stories that didn't make the
Speaker 2: cut in todaylor to wrap everything up for a Wednesday
Speaker 2: that is coming up next on the news junk Keye.
Speaker 2: So first things first, I teased this blooper a while ago.
Speaker 2: Let's work in that Trump blooper that I was talking about.
Speaker 2: Let me see if I can find it very quickly.
Speaker 2: Here it is right here. This is Trump talking about
Speaker 2: what's happening and Ron.
Speaker 6: Which is one of the most beautiful in the world.
Speaker 6: That's one of the biggest e Ebraham Lincoln. Two months ago,
Speaker 6: we had a hundred I told the story liestenda, we
Speaker 6: had one hundred and eleven missile shot by the Islamic
Speaker 6: Republic of Japan.
Speaker 1: It's just for the record, that's not right.
Speaker 2: There is no Islamic Republic of Japan. Now, quickly, Josh,
Speaker 2: you said there was a dispatch from somebody who was
Speaker 2: at one of those gas stations. Yes, oh, it was
Speaker 2: it video, I believe, so magnets. Why the two languages. Shoot,
Speaker 2: I hope I didn't miss it entirely. The NYC building. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I see. I don't see any video dispatches from that.
Speaker 2: I do see a bunch of video dispatches, but I
Speaker 2: don't see them talking about that particular thing. All right, Shoot,
Speaker 2: we're gonna have to get out of here. If there,
Speaker 2: if I find it, I'll play it tomorrow. But right now,
Speaker 2: let's do today. I learned the.
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Speaker 15: actually increase your.
Speaker 2: IQ, So don't get cocky.
Speaker 4: It's done what we came today.
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Speaker 2: Tailor in this guy right here, the last ride Michael
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Speaker 2: was disappointed when the rapper made fun of him and
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Speaker 2: have never attacked the fellow artists. Great artists don't do that.
Speaker 2: He turned a corner that day with em and m
Speaker 2: thank you so much for hanging with us.
Speaker 1: We do appreciated he doesn't have to cuss in his comedy.
Speaker 2: True, Yeah, thank you so much. Hangon, I was moping
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