Speaker 1: It is Monday, February second, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: Wats to get to today? From groundhog k chaos.
Speaker 1: To a Today's show's anchored her mother goes missing, and
Speaker 1: Florida attempts to unfreeze itself after a frosty weekend. Plus
Speaker 1: your calls, dispatches, emails, text san more, Hey there Sabrina.
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Speaker 1: studio in real time. How's everybody doing on a MONDAYT
Speaker 1: goody good?
Speaker 3: How about you? Fella?
Speaker 2: All frosty weekend?
Speaker 1: Man? Wow, we were in the weirdest battle in my house.
Speaker 1: I don't know what was going on. We were in
Speaker 1: the weirdest battle ever where. For some reason, Courtney was
Speaker 1: just like refusing to want to turn on the heater.
Speaker 1: And she she was just anti heater. She just didn't
Speaker 1: want to do it.
Speaker 3: It felt like ten at one point, it was it
Speaker 3: was down that low. She just didn't want to do it.
Speaker 1: And then it got I looked at the ac the
Speaker 1: nest thing, and it said inside the house it was
Speaker 1: like fifty nine or sixty and my house is so
Speaker 1: well insulated that never happens. And so she goes, let's
Speaker 1: just try it and we put on the heat for
Speaker 1: a little while, despite the fact that they're texting everybody.
Speaker 3: Everybody. Yeah, they called me too.
Speaker 1: I'm like, come on, They're like, please don't turn it
Speaker 1: over sixty eight degrees in your house and I'm.
Speaker 3: Thinking, your help stop using power for the next two hours.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they were.
Speaker 1: Our local power company was blasting off emails about over
Speaker 1: consumption of power. And then I see our friend will
Speaker 1: talk to her. Amy Kaufelt was like her power went out, No,
Speaker 1: because too many people were juicing up because you know,
Speaker 1: they needed the heat in the house.
Speaker 3: All man, it's not something they're prepared for.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: Oh, we want to make this a hub for AI. No.
Speaker 1: I get look, look, I guess here's what happens. And
Speaker 1: I didn't know that this was such a big deal.
Speaker 1: But maybe maybe electric company Jesus is out there somewhere
Speaker 1: to correct me on this.
Speaker 2: If I get it wrong. I believe this is right.
Speaker 1: So everybody wakes up it's mega cold in a place
Speaker 1: where it's not usually cold Florida in this instance, right,
Speaker 1: And then everybody goes too cold to my house, gonna
Speaker 1: turn on the heater a rarity.
Speaker 2: You don't usually do this.
Speaker 1: Your h vacuumit your ac at your house, even when
Speaker 1: it's a heater, is the largest consumer of power. It's
Speaker 1: like the biggest reason for your power bill to be
Speaker 1: as expensive as it is.
Speaker 2: Right, That's where it all comes from.
Speaker 1: Then you wake up and you want to take a
Speaker 1: warm shower because so cold outside, you have to take
Speaker 1: a warm shower. So your water heater is kicking in.
Speaker 1: And then what do you want to do? You want
Speaker 1: to have a nice, piping hot cup of coffee. Right,
Speaker 1: The coffee machine takes up a whole lot of power
Speaker 1: when you use is it the toaster? You're using all
Speaker 1: of these things when it's cold that our.
Speaker 3: High energy sucks.
Speaker 1: And I guess everybody doing that at the same time
Speaker 1: made Amy kaufelt stuck in the cold.
Speaker 3: Oh Amy, what you did? Everybody?
Speaker 2: You did this, It's on you, okay, but.
Speaker 3: End up turning up your heat.
Speaker 2: Yes, we got we turned it up.
Speaker 1: It's actually a little cold in the studio today, but
Speaker 1: we turned it up and we got it in a nice, nice,
Speaker 1: uh solid sixty eight degrees. Because I didn't I didn't
Speaker 1: want to go against the wishes of the power company.
Speaker 2: Oh no, that's not what happened in my house.
Speaker 3: No, you went.
Speaker 2: He went right past that sixty eight.
Speaker 3: At see you letter. I turned it.
Speaker 4: Down to sixty five before I left for work, and
Speaker 4: I go here. You can have your you can have
Speaker 4: your energy, you know, give it back to you. Some
Speaker 4: guy on on a reddit, you know, wrote some open
Speaker 4: letter to OUC and was like, stop, dude, it's it's
Speaker 4: it's kind of funny.
Speaker 3: There's so importance of redditors.
Speaker 4: Never season see stop sending me these requests to use
Speaker 4: less electricity without any financial incentive.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: Honestly, that's what they should have done.
Speaker 2: Cowboy.
Speaker 1: Your incentive is you don't You're not sitting in the dark,
Speaker 1: all right, that's your incentive. That's your incentive is you're
Speaker 1: not sitting in the dark because we haven't built enough
Speaker 1: extra facilities to create a safe power.
Speaker 4: Are we totally ignoring the fact that there is financial
Speaker 4: incentive in using less electricity.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm literally paying less.
Speaker 2: If you don't use the electricity. This is the gap.
Speaker 1: This is another gap, another gap that we have in
Speaker 1: society where a lot of younger people, uh, millennials and
Speaker 1: gen Z in particular millennials.
Speaker 2: My people and the gen.
Speaker 1: Z people have this thing where if a company screws
Speaker 1: anything up.
Speaker 2: Or if there's any problem with the company, you.
Speaker 1: Deserve everything, like you deserve the world. All right, You're
Speaker 1: like so angry. People were mad about that cell phone
Speaker 1: adage and they wanted hundreds of dollars and stuff because
Speaker 1: their cell phones were down for like ten hours out
Speaker 1: of a day. This is the same thing. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: UC wants me to use less power. Haha. Well, I mean, jeez,
Speaker 1: it could be maybe maybe this appeals to you. It's
Speaker 1: better for the environment for you to use less power.
Speaker 1: It saves you money on your power bill, and you
Speaker 1: won't be in the dark. But this is I don't know,
Speaker 1: this is sort of what all came crashing together. We
Speaker 1: have a lot on what this weekend looked like. We
Speaker 1: have to go over the Iguana Lady thing because I'm
Speaker 1: enthralled by it. I can't get enough of the iguana
Speaker 1: lady thing. But let's start off as we always do.
Speaker 1: Let's put our ears of the ground, our fingers on
Speaker 1: the pulse, let's see what's happening in this great, big,
Speaker 1: wide world of ours. And you know where we're going.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: We're headed to Gobbler's Knob for the Groundhog Day situation
Speaker 1: at the Punk Satani Groundhog Club. The nerds put their
Speaker 1: hats on again. Yep, got dressed up.
Speaker 2: In their duds, did they.
Speaker 3: So stupid groundhog came out to try to see if
Speaker 3: he would.
Speaker 2: See his shadow again.
Speaker 3: Big crowd.
Speaker 2: There's always people.
Speaker 3: There's always people people there.
Speaker 1: I don't get it, but there's always people out there
Speaker 1: and they're having fun. So you know, do your thing.
Speaker 1: You're not hurting anybody. But here's here's what it was like.
Speaker 1: Let's see what went.
Speaker 3: Down here, ye here, ye hear ye. Now.
Speaker 5: On this February second, Punks to Tony. Phil, the Seer
Speaker 5: of sears Ner, prognosticator of all prognosticators, was awakened from
Speaker 5: his wintry nap.
Speaker 2: At dawn on Gobbler's Knob.
Speaker 5: Phil looked to the skies and then, speaking in ground hoggies,
Speaker 5: directed President Duncle to the proper scroll which residents duncle.
Speaker 5: It's my great honor to answer your annual call, nerds.
Speaker 5: So I rise again this morning to greet you all.
Speaker 5: But today I wait thinking of numbers and time. America
Speaker 5: turns two hundred and fifty and I'm at least one
Speaker 5: hundred and thirty nine.
Speaker 2: That was a stretch. That sentence was a stretch.
Speaker 3: And he's not there. You actually murder them and place
Speaker 3: in the next day.
Speaker 1: I wonder if they're working in AI on old pucksatani
Speaker 1: Phil's poems now that he's got he's got a scroll
Speaker 1: in front of him. So to use AI to put
Speaker 1: it on the scroll seems a little weird, but it's
Speaker 1: not unthinkable that, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like to write, write it with AI and then go
Speaker 1: old fashion by putting it on.
Speaker 3: The old all these years. No way, that's one guy's job.
Speaker 3: Very exciting.
Speaker 2: Here's pucksatani Phil.
Speaker 1: For those of you watch and you watch the show
Speaker 1: on YouTube YouTube dot com, slash the news junk. You
Speaker 1: peek into the studio, big fat ass groundhog is right there.
Speaker 5: Let's celebrate all young old babies or millennial and kick
Speaker 5: off America's semi quincentennial. We looked to having a good
Speaker 5: time just the past. So I suppose this party could
Speaker 5: use a forecast.
Speaker 2: It is my job.
Speaker 1: Oh hell oh, I mean we're five seconds away from
Speaker 1: people just trying to mob justice the groundhog. Go get him,
Speaker 1: Go after him. Get the groundhog now February two, to
Speaker 1: look to the skies and report back to you.
Speaker 3: There is a shadow here on my ground.
Speaker 2: Six more weeks of winter abound.
Speaker 3: Listener sign upside down.
Speaker 1: He has his groundhog celebration sign he put up upside down?
Speaker 3: Does the damn groundhog?
Speaker 5: Ever?
Speaker 3: Nazi his shadow?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I remember more winter?
Speaker 1: You know got I've got a I knew you were
Speaker 1: going to ask for it, so as as anticipated, I
Speaker 1: got a flip Chat.
Speaker 4: Said that the official end of winter is six weeks
Speaker 4: from February second, So the groundhog can never really be wrong.
Speaker 1: Yes, true, set the sets himself up for victory. Pucks
Speaker 1: Atoni Phil sees his shadow six more weeks of winter predicted.
Speaker 1: This says he does it every February second, stupid Groundhog
Speaker 1: Day gathering with all the nerds out there.
Speaker 2: He predicts six more weeks of winter.
Speaker 1: Forty thousand people were there. My god, forty thousand people
Speaker 1: were there. It's the one hundred and ninth time he's
Speaker 1: seen his his shadow since the tradition began in eighteen
Speaker 1: eighty seven. So he sees his shadow a lot. If
Speaker 1: that's the case, right, forty.
Speaker 4: Thousand people are there, what's the view like from the
Speaker 4: very back of that. You know, we've been to concerts,
Speaker 4: We've been to the sporting events where there's you know,
Speaker 4: fifty sixty thousand people.
Speaker 3: They have big screen and that that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Like the big concert setup, you would have some big
Speaker 4: JumboTron setup screens.
Speaker 2: I don't think they have.
Speaker 3: Any of that.
Speaker 2: I think it's just this little you know.
Speaker 1: It's just nerds on a stage with top hats and
Speaker 1: they're out there like that. Toni fel see's the shadow
Speaker 1: and now now that's the norm. That's the norm. Sabrina asks,
Speaker 1: how accurate is this little bastard? How accurate is Pucksatani film?
Speaker 1: Here's what the data shows. I see the story in
Speaker 1: front of me. Noah, that's you know, the official folks
Speaker 1: grades punk Satani Phil's predictions. He's seen his shadow one
Speaker 1: hundred and nine times. It's eighty four percent of the
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty times he's predicted the weather. From
Speaker 1: nineteen oh three to nineteen thirty three, he observed his
Speaker 1: shadow every year, making a thirty two year run of
Speaker 1: seeing its shadow every year, and is more than one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five years of experience.
Speaker 2: Lies.
Speaker 1: It's been like eighteen groundhogs in that time and is
Speaker 1: more than one hundred and thirty five years of experience.
Speaker 1: His overall accuracy rating is thirty five percent.
Speaker 3: Okay, that is not great for how he's had.
Speaker 1: No And then what do we make of this Woodstock
Speaker 1: WILLI predicts the opposite?
Speaker 2: All right, Woodstock Willie.
Speaker 1: Goes out and they say he got no shadow.
Speaker 3: Shadow.
Speaker 2: It's another one.
Speaker 1: It's another groundhog that they have. But in Woodstock, Willy
Speaker 1: does the opp no shadow.
Speaker 4: But does the groundhog predict just for punk Satani or
Speaker 4: the whole country.
Speaker 3: I really is.
Speaker 4: Saying like, hey, here you know in the woods, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2: It could be.
Speaker 1: That's the town where Groundhog Day was filmed. So they're
Speaker 1: kind of trying to lay some claim to this whole thing,
Speaker 1: but not very accurate. Thirty five percent on the old groundhog,
Speaker 1: and nobody trust them anymore, I don't think.
Speaker 3: But we are in the middle of, well not the
Speaker 3: middle of We.
Speaker 1: Find ourselves in a new month. We find ourselves in February.
Speaker 3: February.
Speaker 1: They call it perfect February. This is a perfect February,
Speaker 1: so welcome to it, number one. And if you don't
Speaker 1: know what that means, that means the first starts on
Speaker 1: a Sunday, and then stretch it. It's a perfect February.
Speaker 1: Like you get the same amount of Sundays, Mondays, Tuesday, Wednesdays, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Speaker 1: I like that and perfectly lined up on the calendar
Speaker 1: because the first starts on a Sunday and then the
Speaker 1: end of the the twenty eighth is on a Saturday.
Speaker 1: So just it fills in for your first perfect February
Speaker 1: in a long time.
Speaker 2: I guess how toughen does that happen.
Speaker 1: It won't happen again until twenty thirty seven, Sea Lane,
Speaker 1: it will not happen again.
Speaker 2: Until twenty thirty seven.
Speaker 1: That's a while down the line, so we'll have to
Speaker 1: see exactly if we're all together on that point in time.
Speaker 2: Probably not, but.
Speaker 1: Perfect February is upon us, so everybody and enjoy. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about what the hell happened with this freeze hitting
Speaker 1: us this weekend where everybody's out there was chaos all
Speaker 1: over the place. We got the iguana Lady. We got
Speaker 1: a whole bunch for you. We'll make you laugh, cry,
Speaker 1: and probably pull some hair out today. That's the way
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Speaker 1: cold did it get? Three insane stories at the box
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Speaker 1: than the News Junkie. Absolutely cold as hell. There's icicles
Speaker 1: on everything you could think of.
Speaker 3: Man, it was what else happened?
Speaker 1: It was wild? I mean a million things happened. What
Speaker 1: are you referring?
Speaker 3: Who's getting the big bucks? Because there were flurries, babies.
Speaker 1: There were there were there were some I saw in Well,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll have to ask Amy about like the official
Speaker 1: you know, we saw snow here and there there was
Speaker 1: snow in.
Speaker 3: Jacksonville, Tallahassee, I believe. And then I was passing by
Speaker 3: the TV. I could have sworn they said Tampa Bay
Speaker 3: had some flurries.
Speaker 2: I think they did, and Sarasota also had some.
Speaker 1: So like southwestern Florida, like the state of Florida getting
Speaker 1: snowed on, as the rest of us are just going,
Speaker 1: oh my god, what is happening right now with this weather?
Speaker 1: And when does this end? And it's it's pretty much
Speaker 1: gonna blast by us here. But I mean, I was
Speaker 1: watching it, and then I got disappointed because I went
Speaker 1: outside and I.
Speaker 2: Couldn't even see my breath.
Speaker 1: And then I was, oh, nothing happening for me because
Speaker 1: there's not enough humidity.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, I was outside, for sure.
Speaker 2: I was outside all through it.
Speaker 1: I was outside a whole bunch of times, just because
Speaker 1: I was kind of interested, especially when they they do
Speaker 1: the feels like temperature, which is mostly just a made
Speaker 1: up thing. They do the feels like temperature and they
Speaker 1: tell you it's like feels like ten right.
Speaker 2: Now, and I go, all right, let's see, let's go
Speaker 2: out here.
Speaker 1: And it was an absolutely insane experience for a lot
Speaker 1: of people that's why they were all filming themselves going,
Speaker 1: oh my god.
Speaker 4: We decided Saturday night to walk over to the neighbors
Speaker 4: for a little bit, and the way we were dressed,
Speaker 4: you would have thought we had just come from a
Speaker 4: ski resort.
Speaker 2: Like it was just like I had a scarf.
Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, I actually had something that I think she
Speaker 4: hasn't touched since she lived in New York.
Speaker 2: It was ridiculous. Yeah, I got I had.
Speaker 1: I went around for a while because I was like,
Speaker 1: I still want to get some steps in, and I
Speaker 1: put pajama pants underneath my pants so that the wind
Speaker 1: doesn't blow right through them and just freeze your legs out.
Speaker 2: And all these things.
Speaker 1: Are embarrassing for anybody listening in New York right now,
Speaker 1: but just you know, bear with us. We've got our
Speaker 1: own weird.
Speaker 2: Stuff going on.
Speaker 1: Because now I want to tell you I did a
Speaker 1: little bit of a bonus stream over the weekend that
Speaker 1: the streamer is unlocked and hopefully tested out a couple
Speaker 1: of fixes that maybe will make our stream more solid
Speaker 1: and not jittery today A fingers crossed. But the one
Speaker 1: thing that really grabbed my attention, and I don't think
Speaker 1: most people got it I don't think they understood what
Speaker 1: was going on. Was Florida FWC Fish and Wildlife. They
Speaker 1: they had these places where they said you could drop
Speaker 1: by these sites and if you find frozen ass iguanas,
Speaker 1: scoop up the iguanas and bring them to all these sites,
Speaker 1: and we want those cold are they gonna sun greened iguana?
Speaker 1: Green iguanas like they want that particular type of iguana.
Speaker 2: And they've never done this before.
Speaker 1: They opened up one, two, three, four, five five locations
Speaker 1: all right, five locations across the state of Florida where
Speaker 1: if you found these frozen iguanas you could grab them.
Speaker 1: And I don't think people realize number one, what was
Speaker 1: happening here, and number two how bad of an idea
Speaker 1: this could be, because there were people who were grabbing
Speaker 1: these huge you know, sabrinino what to how big these
Speaker 1: things get?
Speaker 3: The like six feet seven feet sometimes they're.
Speaker 1: Huge, right, So people were going out and grabbing these
Speaker 1: like six foot iguanas. They're frozen, you know, they're on
Speaker 1: like by the sidewalk. They've just fallen over on their
Speaker 1: side because they're frozen. But if you leave them alone,
Speaker 1: when the sun gets back to them, they'll warm up
Speaker 1: enough and they'll they'll reanimate and come back to life.
Speaker 2: And people were grabbing them.
Speaker 1: You put them in your car, and a lot of
Speaker 1: people had like their heater on and.
Speaker 6: Stuff, and then they were just so you got six
Speaker 6: foot iguana in the backs of your car and you're
Speaker 6: you're going down the road and you're about to get
Speaker 6: to a stop light and it reanimates in the back seat.
Speaker 1: It's just slailing everywhere, tails spinning at you.
Speaker 2: That's a terrible idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it just people were going, hey, I think
Speaker 1: we should leave this to the experts.
Speaker 2: Gave it that apart.
Speaker 4: I thought, just like, okay, what happens when this iguana
Speaker 4: drop off location has now had like, you know, let's
Speaker 4: say thirty people drop off iguanas, Maybe maybe many more,
Speaker 4: but let's say that they now have thirty frozen iguanas
Speaker 4: and all of them wake up at the same time.
Speaker 4: And I'm pretty sure they're an invasive speech species, right
Speaker 4: they are? Yeah, yeah, you have the thirty iguanas all
Speaker 4: in one place, they all wake up, they kind of
Speaker 4: shake off the cold and start going at it, you know,
Speaker 4: just going to town.
Speaker 3: What did you be morning if you were a popsicle
Speaker 3: just hours prior. Probably. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Here here's somebody from the one of the FWC offices.
Speaker 1: It says, recycled bin full of cold, cold, stunned iguanas
Speaker 1: brought to my FWC office in Tequesta. Uh, that's by Is.
Speaker 2: That by Jupiter?
Speaker 1: Jupiter quest I think office opens again for collection on Monday.
Speaker 1: It's open right now after executive order allows temporary collection
Speaker 1: during a cold snow and somebody went around and captured
Speaker 1: all the frozen iguanas, put them in a big old
Speaker 1: blue recycle bin and brought them to this location and
Speaker 1: just you know, here you go, here's the frozen iguanas.
Speaker 2: I don't know if many people know this.
Speaker 1: I think there's some like cuts out there, little kids
Speaker 1: and stuff going, let's get.
Speaker 2: Them all, let's help them out. That's them.
Speaker 1: It's like an they're bringing them to be exterminated. They're
Speaker 1: killing the iguanas, that's what they are doing with them.
Speaker 1: Everybody was bringing them over thinking that they would take
Speaker 1: the iguanas and like put them in them big free
Speaker 1: habitat and then the sun would hit their iguana and
Speaker 1: they would reanimately be like.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm finally safe.
Speaker 2: How do you know they're killing them.
Speaker 3: They're killing them. See Lane, they are killing them. I
Speaker 3: think they answer your question.
Speaker 1: All right here here, get them out of our environment.
Speaker 1: A guana expert. We're gonna hear from the iguanda lady
Speaker 1: in a second, because she was so hilarious to me.
Speaker 1: A southfold Or iguana expert gathered dozens of motionless reptiles
Speaker 1: Sunday as the cold snaps swept through the region. Cold
Speaker 1: blooded creatures fell from trees with temperatures got too low.
Speaker 1: Jessica Kilgore, that's her name, with Iguana Solutions, she collected
Speaker 1: hundreds of.
Speaker 2: Pounds worth of the.
Speaker 1: Brainer so familiar, she's that we're expected to find many
Speaker 1: more of these iguanas. She explained that iguanas are an
Speaker 1: invasive species and should be humanly disposed of to protect
Speaker 1: the environment. Like we're not allowed to relocate these animals,
Speaker 1: so some people try to heat them up and let
Speaker 1: them go. If you do that on your own property,
Speaker 1: that's your own choice. But we also get them out
Speaker 1: of our environment and save South Florida. She said, they murder,
Speaker 1: they murder the ilanas. So there's like, I bet there's
Speaker 1: little kids going mom, let's help out let's scoop up.
Speaker 2: And then nothing.
Speaker 3: It reminds me of that viral video from years ago
Speaker 3: where they saved a little baby bunny. This family, the
Speaker 3: little girl was so excited about it, and they went
Speaker 3: to just let it free and go find its mom,
Speaker 3: which you could see in the clip. And then a
Speaker 3: hawk just swoops down and nature.
Speaker 1: Nature is just like that. This lady was something man.
Speaker 1: They wanted to interview her forever on the news. I'll
Speaker 1: give you a little bit of the iguana lady here.
Speaker 7: She is iguanas Isabella.
Speaker 8: You have quite the scene, produces to the lady standing
Speaker 8: next to you.
Speaker 9: Yes, this is Jessica. She is the iguana expert. She's
Speaker 9: picked up.
Speaker 1: Jessica's got a big ass iguana.
Speaker 2: Yea for the interview at her hand.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be right there on live TV.
Speaker 1: That iguana is kot. It has no idea what's going on.
Speaker 1: It's been frozen by the weather. It's massive, and I
Speaker 1: mean this thing is six feet long easy probably with
Speaker 1: to the tip of its tail right maybe a little
Speaker 1: maybe five foot something.
Speaker 2: It's massive.
Speaker 1: And this thing is rip like it's no longer with us,
Speaker 1: because that's what they were actually doing. But she was
Speaker 1: the happiest lady in the world. She could not have
Speaker 1: been happier. She was the happiest person to collect all
Speaker 1: of these iguanas.
Speaker 9: She said, hundreds of pounds of iguanas this morning. This
Speaker 9: is crazy. I've honestly never said anything like it.
Speaker 3: Jessica tell us, this is weird. It's a graveyard. There's
Speaker 3: there's morning news.
Speaker 1: This is like a TikTok hall sprawled out of iguanas
Speaker 1: on the ground, and they're all gonna die, all of them,
Speaker 1: every single one of them.
Speaker 2: They've said their invasive species.
Speaker 3: Bring them on in Iguana Land or Iguana World.
Speaker 2: They're not.
Speaker 3: They're not doing that apparently fun and brings up the
Speaker 3: local economy. But this just seems so We're going very
Speaker 3: lighthearted in our voices on the news. But she's having fun,
Speaker 3: gonna put them in a blunder.
Speaker 2: You see the smile on this lady's stage.
Speaker 7: Why are the iguanas frozen?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 10: Of course, Iguanas are a cold blooded animals, so as
Speaker 10: soon as it gets to freezing, we end up.
Speaker 9: Having Okay, And like I said, you've picked up hundreds
Speaker 9: of pounds worth just this morning.
Speaker 7: You told me you started at four what do you
Speaker 7: do with them?
Speaker 3: After the news? Ladies?
Speaker 1: Holding her own little iguana here again, Rip rip the iguana.
Speaker 1: It's just completely dead. This lady's like, all right, we
Speaker 1: got iguana props everywhere, pick up all these wakes up
Speaker 1: on her, just starts attacking.
Speaker 10: Of course, we contact our Trinidadian friends and that like
Speaker 10: to eat iguanas, so a lot of different cultures on us.
Speaker 3: And they eat the.
Speaker 2: Eggs, and they eat the legs, and they.
Speaker 3: Eat the tail. What is just a pile of snacks.
Speaker 3: She's out there with this mass. I would love to
Speaker 3: try that trick, filace Off.
Speaker 2: I love it. This was so great.
Speaker 3: We're just gonna call all the Trinidadians. That's right, they
Speaker 3: know what to do with it. But fine, I'll take them.
Speaker 1: You got a big giant stash of of iguanas.
Speaker 3: Here this morning, okay.
Speaker 9: And I know that you did tell me that before,
Speaker 9: and I was surprised because I said, is that in humane?
Speaker 9: But tell us about the reasons why that's acceptable.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 10: Fasive species here in South Florida, just like the pythons,
Speaker 10: the parrots and other animals killable and so we are
Speaker 10: not allowed to relocate these animals. Some people try to
Speaker 10: heat them up and let them back go. If you
Speaker 10: do that on your own property, that's your own choice.
Speaker 10: But you see did allow for people to go to
Speaker 10: a place today. If you find frozen iguanas in your yard,
Speaker 10: you can look up on f wc's website.
Speaker 3: Having a damn field Day's a bouquet of massive all up.
Speaker 4: It looks like when I have a pile of laundry
Speaker 4: in my hands that I'm carrying across the house, but
Speaker 4: instead of shirts and underwear, it's just all frozen iguanas.
Speaker 3: Take it off the phone with the trinidadiansdis.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call them on speed dial. I'm gonna get a.
Speaker 3: Screenshot of this and I'll put it up. I'll put the.
Speaker 2: Full video up on see it now because.
Speaker 3: It's so much.
Speaker 1: We eat the legs. Look look at her face. Look
Speaker 1: at a guanda lady's face. It's so great.
Speaker 6: She's just like, yeah, mine, I'm more excited.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm putting this up so everybody can see
Speaker 1: the visual here because it is definitely an interview clip
Speaker 1: that you need to watch before the day is over.
Speaker 3: A guana lady with her haul.
Speaker 2: All right, there we go.
Speaker 1: This is up over on See It Now, hit these
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Speaker 1: you'll be able to see exactly what we're talking about here,
Speaker 1: and you'll be able to decide if you think this
Speaker 1: was a good idea or not. But I'm just not
Speaker 1: sure all the people knew that the iguanas we're going
Speaker 1: to be destroyed at some point in time. This lady
Speaker 1: is a character though. There she is right. It is
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Speaker 1: When we come back. We got to talk a bit
Speaker 1: just how cold it got out there and some of
Speaker 1: the things that grab people's attention.
Speaker 3: Oh, you're gonna see the video.
Speaker 2: I sent you, buddy, I haven't seen you.
Speaker 3: I'm waiting. I'm waiting until we come back, because it took.
Speaker 4: Me a second because I looked up the news report
Speaker 4: about it, and the news people didn't have the good angle.
Speaker 2: So I rad the video that has the drone.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll talk about all of the crazy frozen
Speaker 1: stuff that happened, you know, all over the place this
Speaker 1: weekend and into the box office where there was three
Speaker 1: crazy stories there. Amy Kawfelts joining us at the top
Speaker 1: of the hour. A very busy Monday, obviously, and it's
Speaker 1: coming up next on the news junkie. There were so
Speaker 1: many things that froze over in the weather this weekend,
Speaker 1: from orange trees out in the groves, and then the
Speaker 1: orange trees, you know, the purposely frozen a lot of
Speaker 1: the time. How about you with strawberries the orange trees too,
Speaker 1: they go out there. They did this with a bunch
Speaker 1: of the groves where they freeze them to give them
Speaker 1: like a layer of protection. God knows, I should have
Speaker 1: done that with some of my stuff, because I got
Speaker 1: a couple of plants out back.
Speaker 3: I got real beat up. Yes, yeah, elephant ears are
Speaker 3: really down and.
Speaker 1: Sad, Like I don't know if some of it's going
Speaker 1: to come back afterwards.
Speaker 2: Sure, if it's.
Speaker 1: Just totally dead for good. But there's some sad looking
Speaker 1: stuff back there.
Speaker 3: And then I see the neighbors that have, like have
Speaker 3: covered their plants, but I'm like, I don't know about
Speaker 3: the elephant ears and that purple plant that's very sad.
Speaker 3: I did end up covering with beach towels other plants,
Speaker 3: but I don't think I did it right.
Speaker 1: We did our best to cover some of the smaller stuff,
Speaker 1: but it's just been a massacre for a whole lot
Speaker 1: of people because you have stuff that's not used to this,
Speaker 1: and everybody was looking around for like the perfect representation
Speaker 1: of what frozen Florida looks like. I saw somebody got
Speaker 1: the Universal globe in a Universal Studios, the spinning globe,
Speaker 1: and there's like frozen ice coming out of the bottom
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 2: I was loving.
Speaker 1: Here's a representation of this. You can see on the map.
Speaker 1: It's still cold. I mean, look West Palm forty seven
Speaker 1: degrees today at Port St.
Speaker 2: Luci's forty six.
Speaker 1: As we're heading from the bottom of the top up
Speaker 1: into Orlando at forty two daytona beacher over a forty
Speaker 1: one degrees is still I mean, it's not, you know,
Speaker 1: story wise cold, but it's still quite cold. This weekend
Speaker 1: it got down into the low twenties.
Speaker 2: And see, like I got you sent this thing over.
Speaker 2: Hang on, let me bring this up.
Speaker 1: And this is like one of those good visual examples
Speaker 1: that that Florida got a little more than they were
Speaker 1: bargaining for.
Speaker 4: This one's not frozen necessarily, although when the news people
Speaker 4: came and they saw down below a lot of the
Speaker 4: water had frozen. But this video friend of mine posted
Speaker 4: on Instagram had reposted it and this was like right
Speaker 4: down the street from where I went to middle school.
Speaker 4: I guess one of the sensors on the water tower
Speaker 4: froze and failed and just opened up this like overflow valve.
Speaker 2: And just spit water.
Speaker 3: Whoa over.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's just blasting out water from the water tower.
Speaker 2: That's a good stream too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean at the bottom it's kind of snowy.
Speaker 4: It's more icy, Like all the fence and all the
Speaker 4: barb wire around the area that keeps the kids out,
Speaker 4: it's all like there's ice all over it.
Speaker 3: Oh, stop using your toilets for two hours. Looks like
Speaker 3: Florida can't handle the cold.
Speaker 1: A local water tower is spilling tons of water because
Speaker 1: the valve frozen broke open, and it's just blasting out
Speaker 1: this huge stream of water down onto everything below cold.
Speaker 1: Somebody says top comment that happened to me once. So
Speaker 1: a lot of there's a lot of images like this
Speaker 1: that kind of show what everything looked like this weekend. Again,
Speaker 1: as everybody kind of laughs at us from abroad, but
Speaker 1: this is just the truth of the matter, and there
Speaker 1: was power grid warnings all over the place again. Her
Speaker 1: friend Amy Kay who joins us in a bit her
Speaker 1: I know her power was out for a little while,
Speaker 1: and they broke records. I see record lows Daytona Beach
Speaker 1: twenty three degrees. The record was twenty four, So twenty
Speaker 1: three degrees breaking a record low. Twenty four was the
Speaker 1: record before in Daytona Beach. Leesburg got down to twenty
Speaker 1: three degrees, which ties a record in Leesburg, Florida. Sandford
Speaker 1: got down to twenty three degrees. The record in Sanford
Speaker 1: was twenty five degrees. And Vero Beach got down to
Speaker 1: twenty six degrees when the record was twenty eight degrees.
Speaker 3: So look at us, there's some.
Speaker 1: Record lows being We're putting out big numbers out there
Speaker 1: with this particular winter weather that's sliding into everybody right now.
Speaker 1: Not to Orlando, because Orlando's record was nineteen degrees back
Speaker 1: in eighteen ninety five, way back when. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of these farms that are now just like buried
Speaker 1: in frozen plants, and like here's some of the images
Speaker 1: of what today damn crops look like.
Speaker 2: I mean, what are you supposed to do?
Speaker 1: It's an entire field of just frozen plants. I don't
Speaker 1: don't even know where to start. It is like it
Speaker 1: is frightening looking.
Speaker 4: Which of the advice the the all of the advice
Speaker 4: that was given out, like Thursday and Friday, Which of
Speaker 4: the things did you guys do?
Speaker 3: We complated completely.
Speaker 2: We covered some plants and that was it.
Speaker 3: You didn't the fast drop.
Speaker 1: No, we we we said, let's risk it. I think
Speaker 1: we'll be finding up pretty new pipes.
Speaker 4: But we didn't do any faucet drops, mostly because I
Speaker 4: forgot them. But the spigots I opened up a little
Speaker 4: bit and disconnected the hoses and one of them had
Speaker 4: like a nice little ice sculpture under it. The next morning.
Speaker 1: I saw it just kind of funny, like how you
Speaker 1: can you can do the harm to yourself and enjoy it.
Speaker 1: I saw a couple of people for their kids went
Speaker 1: out outside and then took their hose and just sprayed
Speaker 1: their trees down, purposely so that the kids would go
Speaker 1: out in the morning and they'd be a frozen tree outside. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're putting it on yourself, but the kids like it.
Speaker 3: I guess. There was one guy in Claremont who made
Speaker 3: snow started at like six o'clock in the morning and
Speaker 3: had looked to be like agriculture sprinklers. But you could
Speaker 3: see on the ground. Next day, full senz cool.
Speaker 4: I thought I was in trouble for a second on
Speaker 4: one thing because I got up and I was like
Speaker 4: doing some dishes and I went to use my like
Speaker 4: glass rinser and it didn't work.
Speaker 2: For a second.
Speaker 4: I was like, please tell me, this is not like
Speaker 4: frozen solid, and it just I held it down for
Speaker 4: a couple of seconds and it worked its way out.
Speaker 2: But I was like, oh no, I messed up.
Speaker 1: Should advice listen to this guy's humble brag? I thought
Speaker 1: my glass rinser was completely You're not the.
Speaker 4: First person to roll your eyes at me for telling
Speaker 4: that story.
Speaker 3: Three ice makers.
Speaker 4: The ice makers are except for the one that's been
Speaker 4: out out of commission.
Speaker 1: My bevy of refrigerators continues to run. But my glass
Speaker 1: washer was almost done for it.
Speaker 3: I thought it was going to be it was. It
Speaker 3: was going to be a heavy loss.
Speaker 2: Damn.
Speaker 1: It's just frozen in these fields. So I hope all
Speaker 1: the farmers out there are somehow throw this off today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know you guys know more about this than I do.
Speaker 2: Out there.
Speaker 1: You're the professional, so I'm sure there's something they can do.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't look great. If I'm honest with you.
Speaker 1: And then you had snow flurries reported in Florida, of course,
Speaker 1: amid the Arctic freeze. Tawahassee, Jacksonville, Williston, Alachua, Citrus and
Speaker 1: Hernando Counties. In Orlando at Central Flota, what looks like
Speaker 1: snow flurries have been reported, but they said it's more
Speaker 1: likely drizzles, sprinkles or ice pellets.
Speaker 2: That look like snow flurries.
Speaker 1: So there's they're batting down the idea that there was
Speaker 1: any actual snow flurries in Orlando, but it was all
Speaker 1: over the place elsewhere, and it was quite a thing
Speaker 1: to behold. And this is the worst I think cold
Speaker 1: snap that we've seen since the time when all the
Speaker 1: orange groves throws. So maybe go out and buy as
Speaker 1: much orange juice as you can if you're a huge fan.
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm not sure how that whole process works.
Speaker 4: I can just go into the kitchen and get some
Speaker 4: because somebody is having mimosas here today, little Monday morning mimosas.
Speaker 1: Really, you can say that, what's this celebration about.
Speaker 4: Somebody got an award something like that, They had a
Speaker 4: big meeting the Grammys.
Speaker 3: It wasn't Grammys. No, it was like some CEO club
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 1: I like the idea that they would celebrate other people
Speaker 1: getting awards with mimosas at a workplace and it's be
Speaker 1: like multiple people were gifted Grammys last night, so we're
Speaker 1: going to celebrate that in the office, and.
Speaker 3: We don't even know what you're celebrating, but we'll drink
Speaker 3: the mimosas real quick.
Speaker 1: A couple of emails here over on tips at the
Speaker 1: news Junki dot com. Tips at the Newsjunkie dot com.
Speaker 1: What's up, news Junkies. I'm not sure if you guys
Speaker 1: ever saw the insane iguana hunting extravaganza. We talked to
Speaker 1: an iguana hunter we did. Yeah, they can go down
Speaker 1: in South Florida. I've seen videos of this years ago
Speaker 1: on YouTube and I was shocked. These guys will take
Speaker 1: you around in the middle of the city with pelicans
Speaker 1: and it looks like full on assault rifles and you
Speaker 1: can just snipe these gin iguanas out of the trees
Speaker 1: and they fall to the ground.
Speaker 2: Some of these guys will.
Speaker 1: Have the whole back of a pickup truck full of
Speaker 1: these giants. Six foot iguana is dead look it up.
Speaker 3: Look it up.
Speaker 1: He says, Yeah, we've talked about that before. It definitely
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. Somebody else Bill emailed about the same thing.
Speaker 2: It looks like uh.
Speaker 1: And then Peter says, you missed the guanda lady discussing
Speaker 1: one of the best parts of the interview.
Speaker 2: At the very end, the anchor.
Speaker 1: Tells the reporter to wash her gloves, and the reporter said,
Speaker 1: she won't be reusing those gloves. Oh, I guess she
Speaker 1: has like winter gloves on or something. You got to
Speaker 1: You got a couple of iguana guts on there. That
Speaker 1: isn't going to be enough to stop you from.
Speaker 2: Doing anything else. You gotta get over yourself. They're not
Speaker 2: that grubs.
Speaker 3: Can you get diseases from them?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Let's see can I get from iguana?
Speaker 3: They have to bite you for the diseasers that I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 2: I think are the wrong animal.
Speaker 1: Like other reptiles, iguanas are not to carry bacterial harmful
Speaker 1: to humans. Their intestines can harbor salmonella out, but that's
Speaker 1: inside right. They're capable of spreading bacteria to every surface
Speaker 1: they touch. Body of water they jump into. Damn and
Speaker 1: curious hand that touches them, So yeah, throw.
Speaker 3: Away the gloves.
Speaker 2: Throw away the gloves. Lady, you were onto something.
Speaker 3: You said, she's gonna make food with it, and she
Speaker 3: has like five hundred m God honesty, it's a lot though.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna a quick break when we come back.
Speaker 1: Here's what's happening our friend Amy Kaufel from Fox thirty five.
Speaker 2: She'll be joining us next on the show.
Speaker 1: We'll go over all the big headlines that she's been
Speaker 1: touching on and see what's happening.
Speaker 3: Also, her power went out in the middle of all
Speaker 3: of this. I think we'll talk about everything happening with
Speaker 3: Amy Kay.
Speaker 1: Then we got to talk about what's going on at
Speaker 1: the box office because there were three amazing stories buried
Speaker 1: into that, including the Milania stuff. We'll discuss the boxing
Speaker 1: match where the guy's hair got knocked off lot.
Speaker 3: We're loaded up on a Monday, and it's coming.
Speaker 2: Up next in the news Junkie.
Speaker 1: It is Monday, and it is time, our favorite time
Speaker 1: of the week. Let's welcome Amy Kawfel from Fox thirty five.
Speaker 11: She is the.
Speaker 2: Lovely Amy Kawfelt.
Speaker 1: Amy Kawfelt, how much were you freaking out when your
Speaker 1: power went out because all the power hogs.
Speaker 12: It's the worst because it was doing like the whole
Speaker 12: flicker thing where it would like flicker yeah, and then
Speaker 12: it would come back on, so it was.
Speaker 7: Like false hope and then it would flicker.
Speaker 12: Again and then false hope and then it was just.
Speaker 3: Gone nightmare block or just a couple.
Speaker 12: It was weird.
Speaker 7: It was like it was kind of hit or missic.
Speaker 12: Some of our neighbors had it, some of them didn't,
Speaker 12: But we got lucky. The P and L truck actually
Speaker 12: pulled right up to the front of the house and
Speaker 12: lifted up the box in the front and was working
Speaker 12: on it. And he was like, should be back at
Speaker 12: about thirty minutes, and I mean it wasn't.
Speaker 7: Thirty minutes is a little longer than that.
Speaker 3: But today it came back.
Speaker 4: They have a flag on your account because you are
Speaker 4: a person of local importance.
Speaker 2: That power turned back on.
Speaker 3: Better.
Speaker 12: That would be a no no because I can tell
Speaker 12: you how many hurricanes we have survived without power, And yeah,
Speaker 12: that would be a big old note.
Speaker 1: Were you getting those text messages from the power companies
Speaker 1: to Amy whereas like, hey you better dial back the
Speaker 1: power used word. Everything's like on max over drive over here.
Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna lose their.
Speaker 3: Power for text and a call slash voicemail really yeah,
Speaker 3: begging us.
Speaker 7: To stop provider Sabrina do you have Oh?
Speaker 4: Yes, they were calling everybody. We We had, you know,
Speaker 4: like friends over at the house yesterday, just kind of
Speaker 4: hanging out, staying inside, and uh like little by little
Speaker 4: everybody that was there got the phone call and the
Speaker 4: recorded message.
Speaker 1: And your actual physical person well, no, I think it's
Speaker 1: this hold on.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 13: Something and reduced power supply over the next two hours.
Speaker 12: Please do electricity use, particularly heating and their energy activity.
Speaker 1: So they just get they sent one of these around
Speaker 1: and then multiple text messages, and they were begging people
Speaker 1: like please stop using your heater, and like somebody that works.
Speaker 4: With us that I was talking to in the hallway
Speaker 4: that we that I lived kind of close to, said
Speaker 4: that they got no phone calls, and I was wondering, like,
Speaker 4: I wonder if they looked through everybody's account who currently
Speaker 4: was pulling a certain amount of power that would kind
Speaker 4: of line up.
Speaker 2: With using your heater and called all those.
Speaker 4: People and said, hey, turn your heaters off for two hours.
Speaker 2: Mind your own business.
Speaker 3: For a while. All right, and I or heat.
Speaker 12: So what temperature has everybody been keeping the house at
Speaker 12: during this?
Speaker 1: So I listened it to the people I have. I
Speaker 1: kept it at sixty eight that's what they told me to.
Speaker 7: Sixty eight for you, Sean, yea seventy.
Speaker 3: Seventy and warming pet pad for Carl uh.
Speaker 2: And what about you, Amy? Would you have it on?
Speaker 7: We kept it at seventy.
Speaker 12: I did actually take it down a notch to sixty
Speaker 12: nine or sixty eight a few times.
Speaker 7: I was like, no, I can't do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So for the time your power was out, did
Speaker 3: your house just get extremely cold or able to it?
Speaker 1: Did?
Speaker 2: I mean?
Speaker 12: And it was only for a couple hours, But it
Speaker 12: is crazy, you guys, how how cold?
Speaker 7: And it's probably too because, like.
Speaker 12: I don't know, the house is probably not as as
Speaker 12: insulated as good. Like when I look at my doors,
Speaker 12: I'm like, okay, I see the line around.
Speaker 7: It, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll take it.
Speaker 7: You'll probably do a better job. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Mine is usually beautifully insulated and always taste the right
Speaker 1: temperature until you have like three days of the weather
Speaker 1: just not giving up on you. And that's kind of
Speaker 1: where we found ourselves and I think it's supposed to
Speaker 1: get a little bit better moving forward here, Amy, But
Speaker 1: they were legitimately people who would be watching you on
Speaker 1: Fox who saw snow like people legitimately saw snow.
Speaker 2: And like lots lots of vice.
Speaker 1: What were some of the crazier things that you saw
Speaker 1: and that had viewers sent in and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 12: Well, you guys also all the video coming in from
Speaker 12: Southern Hills farms. I think that was probably one of
Speaker 12: the most devastating that we've seen. You know, they had
Speaker 12: a situation where they intentionally put irrigation like water on
Speaker 12: the crops, like on the strawberries and the blueberries, and
Speaker 12: the fruit.
Speaker 7: Would encase the fruit.
Speaker 12: Yeah, So the idea is that you encased the fruit
Speaker 12: and it puts a protective layer of ice over it.
Speaker 12: The problem was, and this is the part that I
Speaker 12: think everybody struggled with, especially the farmers, is that we
Speaker 12: had wind gusts in the central Florida area up to
Speaker 12: almost fifty miles an hour. Water was blowing, and so
Speaker 12: what happened is the plants, the water became so entrenched
Speaker 12: over the plants, the plants then fell over fell on.
Speaker 7: The irrigation that broke the irrigation valves. Wow, it was
Speaker 7: a nice Yeah.
Speaker 1: I saw one of the guys who worked at this
Speaker 1: place and he said, we hear the valves snapping in
Speaker 1: the field, and then you have to run over and
Speaker 1: we have to try to find where the snapping sound
Speaker 1: came from. And he had said he had fixed like
Speaker 1: over a dozen of them. And then as he's fixing, well.
Speaker 3: You're just playing with whack a mole and in the
Speaker 3: twenty degree weather.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's out there and he's like, you know, getting soaked,
Speaker 1: he's getting soaking wet, and he's fixes one and he
Speaker 1: goes just as I fix one, are here, boom and
Speaker 1: another one pops across the field and you've got to
Speaker 1: go chase that one down.
Speaker 2: It's such a nightmare.
Speaker 3: Are we going to see the effect of this? Are
Speaker 3: we going to be I think so out of strawberries
Speaker 3: or very expensive strawberries.
Speaker 12: So he did say that he thought the strawberries were
Speaker 12: going to be okay, the blueberries, I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 12: So we'll see what happens. But you know that Southern
Speaker 12: Hills is just one of many farms. I mean, then
Speaker 12: we have a lot of these farms all over our areas.
Speaker 7: So I don't know, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 12: I think it might be too early to tell, or
Speaker 12: maybe they're just not ready to, you know, just maybe
Speaker 12: not ready to completely give up yet and maybe hope
Speaker 12: that they're able to salvage some of it.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you something, Amy, I learned something this weekend.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to come down too hard on
Speaker 1: you for this, but I can't it can't go on
Speaker 1: and said, you have an incredibly privileged dog that is
Speaker 1: just unbelievably stuck up, and you like, I let lady
Speaker 1: outside when it was twenty four degrees and Lady's like, hell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you running around?
Speaker 3: Or would not have it you posted on your social
Speaker 3: media pages.
Speaker 1: I see on Amy's Facebook Mazie, her golden retriever.
Speaker 3: Amy opens the door, Mazie.
Speaker 1: Goes outside and gets just far enough to.
Speaker 2: Feel the air and goes ah.
Speaker 13: So you.
Speaker 2: Turn right back inside.
Speaker 3: Your dog is too soft, even with that beautiful but
Speaker 3: you know what full disclosure.
Speaker 7: After that video, I was like, no, you go outside
Speaker 7: and go to the bathroom.
Speaker 12: I made her go back out, and then she did
Speaker 12: actually go to the bathroom on the second one. But
Speaker 12: I feel bad because normally, I, like on a weekend especially,
Speaker 12: I would go out and walk her and I was like,
Speaker 12: I can't.
Speaker 7: I just can't do it. I'm not brave enough.
Speaker 3: I'm like, don't pick up at the poop bag if
Speaker 3: my hands are completely frozen. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: There's something very interesting about this that we all are
Speaker 1: sharing here. And it's like when when there's a hurricane
Speaker 1: that goes through Cat five does chaos damage and it
Speaker 1: causes power outjice for everybody. We all kind of as Floridians,
Speaker 1: we grit our teeth and we get through it.
Speaker 3: But when it's this cold, we're like, yeah, inside, not
Speaker 3: doing it.
Speaker 2: We didn't even lose power.
Speaker 4: And every time the door opened to let a dog out,
Speaker 4: my wife was like, I'll never be warm again.
Speaker 2: It takes two long.
Speaker 3: Oh god, very cold. Everyone wants to turn their nose
Speaker 3: to Florida, but they have not experienced the humid freeze
Speaker 3: that we did.
Speaker 7: All right, look different and you're right, yea.
Speaker 1: Even the New Yorkers were bitching and winding because their
Speaker 1: trash wasn't getting getting picked up.
Speaker 2: They were complaining.
Speaker 1: They're like the streets of Manhattan were full of trash Like, okay.
Speaker 2: You give them the trash color of days.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I said, always like that.
Speaker 7: Every time I go to New York, the trash is
Speaker 7: piled up.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Number one.
Speaker 1: You guys are always like one emergency away from trash
Speaker 1: being forty feet high on the sides of the roads.
Speaker 2: It's like, that's how it works.
Speaker 3: In New York.
Speaker 1: You guys are producing a lot of trash. And then
Speaker 1: if the guys in the garbage trucks get frozen out,
Speaker 1: what the hell are you?
Speaker 3: What do you watch? I mean they had like thirty
Speaker 3: frozen homeless people, yea, and they were more concerned about
Speaker 3: the trash pick up. Huh.
Speaker 2: I think they were concerned with both of them.
Speaker 1: And then blaming like you know this new governor or
Speaker 1: mayor rather.
Speaker 2: Of New York City.
Speaker 1: Uh, not a fan of his myself, but this guy
Speaker 1: gets blamed for everything. And it's like the garbage is
Speaker 1: on the streets, whatever you have done, Madonnie.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if this is you know why?
Speaker 2: You know why?
Speaker 4: It's because he has a three syllable last name, just
Speaker 4: like Obama.
Speaker 2: You know, people just love to like shake their his
Speaker 2: mom Donny.
Speaker 1: They were getting him big time. They were even his supporters.
Speaker 1: People were like, we voted for you, but we are
Speaker 1: pissed off now. And his supporters had gathered outside of
Speaker 1: the the Mayor's mansion and some of them were upset
Speaker 1: that in the latest batch of Epstein files, Mom Donnie's
Speaker 1: mom was in there.
Speaker 2: She was one of the people that was like, yeah, or.
Speaker 12: There's one where he was like a little boy, or
Speaker 12: I think maybe.
Speaker 1: And so, like anything I Seeland had said at at
Speaker 1: one point in time, it's like, I think we've like
Speaker 1: the Epstein files are interesting, and I think everything should
Speaker 1: get released, and if there's anybody who's done anything illegal
Speaker 1: in there at all, ever, all of them round them
Speaker 1: up and and send them off the prison of the
Speaker 1: Gulag or whatever.
Speaker 2: I don't care. But also there there is a thing.
Speaker 1: That happened where it's like, if your name just happens
Speaker 1: to appear in there, yeah, then that looks bad.
Speaker 2: Only the only.
Speaker 1: Person I saw that handled it right was have you
Speaker 1: ever heard of the comedian I think Nick Depoulo.
Speaker 2: Is his name. Yes, I don't know. I what see
Speaker 2: if you can bring this up.
Speaker 1: But Nick DePaulo apparently went and hung out with Epstein
Speaker 1: and then afterwards the email that was from Nick DePaulo.
Speaker 1: Epstein had emailed and was like, Hey, such a great
Speaker 1: time hanging out with you. And Nick DePaulo is like, hey,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, we might not be hanging out with you again.
Speaker 1: You're you're a little controversial and I and uh I
Speaker 1: myself am not going to be you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just feel this out and and keep my
Speaker 1: distance between.
Speaker 3: Myself and which is good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And look, look he's got he's got her on
Speaker 1: the record that he said, I don't want to do
Speaker 1: this anymore, although he did hang out with him, So
Speaker 1: we have it.
Speaker 2: You know, even if.
Speaker 4: There's a picture of mom Donnie's mom holding him as
Speaker 4: a baby in some of these files, there will be
Speaker 4: somebody be.
Speaker 3: Like, are you or are you not in the files?
Speaker 1: We need to know right We have our pitchforks and
Speaker 1: our torches, and we need to know right now. Oh god,
Speaker 1: what else is grabbing your attention out there?
Speaker 12: Amy kauffelts, Well, you guys, one of the big stories
Speaker 12: today is Artemis two. So this is the rocket that's
Speaker 12: going to be flying around the moon potentially on Super
Speaker 12: Bowl Sunday. They NASA did decide to move forward today
Speaker 12: with the wet dress rehearsals. So they do dress rehearsals
Speaker 12: for these rockets, right, so they want to make sure everything.
Speaker 7: I know, it sounds that.
Speaker 3: Seems like such a waste that I got it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: well they got.
Speaker 12: To make sure it works rightly important. So that's what
Speaker 12: they're working on right now. So it's they are working
Speaker 12: on the fueling at this point, and then they made
Speaker 12: that decision a short time ago that they were going
Speaker 12: to move forward with it. That was the kind of
Speaker 12: the big question of the morning because it's so cold,
Speaker 12: what are they going to do?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Challenger like being super cold and you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, the O rings.
Speaker 12: Yeah, you guys remember that was the reason that we
Speaker 12: lost the Challenger is because they got ice inside the
Speaker 12: O rings. Now they have since fixed that so that
Speaker 12: is no longer something that is of concern, but you
Speaker 12: still have to be concerned about you know, you don't
Speaker 12: want ice on the launch pad. You don't want anything
Speaker 12: that could potentially cause any promise for the rocket. So
Speaker 12: between nine tonight and one o'clock in the morning they
Speaker 12: will go through the rest of the process.
Speaker 7: There are four astronauts who will go up on this mission.
Speaker 12: If all goes smoothly, they will launch after the Super
Speaker 12: Bowl on Sunday that night. I think launch window is
Speaker 12: like in the eleven PM hour. Yes, so four astronauts.
Speaker 12: They will not leave the Orion capsule. This this rocket
Speaker 12: is not going to the International Space Station, so they
Speaker 12: will be stuck. Stuck I say stuck because they're going
Speaker 12: to be in tight quarters inside this Orion capsule for
Speaker 12: the whole trip.
Speaker 7: So they'll be gone a little over a week.
Speaker 12: This is a Mischione will go around the dark side
Speaker 12: of the Moon, a side of the Moon that we
Speaker 12: have not seen, which is kind of cool. And then
Speaker 12: Artemis three. When that happens, they will actually go to
Speaker 12: the moon. We'll finally go back to.
Speaker 1: I'm not space expert or space near it at all,
Speaker 1: but isn't this exactly what we did last time we
Speaker 1: went to the moon, like we did all we went
Speaker 1: We went around the moon first, and we did all
Speaker 1: these like teases.
Speaker 7: And so, and now technology is totally different. Seanan, You're right.
Speaker 12: It seems crazy that we, you know, in the sixties
Speaker 12: and seventies accomplished what we are now trying to reaccomplish,
Speaker 12: because it's like We've already done this, right, but but
Speaker 12: the technology has changed so dramatically. One of my favorite movies.
Speaker 12: Have you guys seen the movie Hidden Figures?
Speaker 2: I love that good movies.
Speaker 7: Kevin Costner and.
Speaker 12: And and all the all the amazing actresses who who
Speaker 12: you know, portrayed these women in history who helped get
Speaker 12: the rocket up to the moon and John Glenn anyway,
Speaker 12: it's fascinating.
Speaker 7: But but yeah, so.
Speaker 12: Now we're doing it all over again, different technology, and
Speaker 12: I will see what happens fingers crossed.
Speaker 1: The big question is who's going to win the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl next Sunday.
Speaker 7: We I'm not into this one. I'm not a big
Speaker 7: Patriots or Seahawks.
Speaker 3: Patriots or Seahawks. We need your prediction one, three, two.
Speaker 7: I guess I'll pick the Patriots.
Speaker 3: I reluctant Patriots.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how you know it's going to be, right, folks.
Speaker 7: I think Drake May is cute.
Speaker 1: So all right, okay, all right, the Patriots are going
Speaker 1: to win the Super Bowl, says Amy. I'm not getting
Speaker 1: into that controversial territory.
Speaker 2: You're kidding me.
Speaker 3: I'm going with whatever gets me money from the squares
Speaker 3: that I paid. Yeah, I mean some stranger on the street.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, we have so many things to talk to
Speaker 1: you about. As always, we'll have to wait until next week.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it. I can't believe this is all.
Speaker 12: Well, next week we could be talking about the rocket launch.
Speaker 2: I'm excited Patriots winning the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Huh she called it, folks, All right, old cutie Drake
Speaker 1: may quick quick break when we come back.
Speaker 2: Amy kauf out. She's the best of the best.
Speaker 1: You go follow her all social media platforms so you
Speaker 1: can keep up with everything going on in her world.
Speaker 1: And trust me, it's the best follow out there. Amy Kuffelt.
Speaker 1: Search for Amy Coffail the Facebook, Instagram and all the
Speaker 1: rest and watch her each morning you locally here on
Speaker 1: Fox thirty five. Good Day Orlando, Amy, Kay and the
Speaker 1: crew Joe, Joe, Joe go go go watch them every
Speaker 1: single morning.
Speaker 2: She's the best.
Speaker 3: Amy.
Speaker 2: We'll see you next week.
Speaker 7: Thanks you guys, Lody, see you soy bye.
Speaker 3: No Joe of it right, don't believe there's Ae.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think there's a Joe.
Speaker 3: Actually there is Joe, is there?
Speaker 1: There? We go quick break when we come back. We
Speaker 1: have to get to this boxing story. It's perhaps one
Speaker 1: of the best stories of the day.
Speaker 3: I can't wait.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be wild.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that this boxing match where a guy's
Speaker 1: hair came off.
Speaker 2: His hair came off of his head.
Speaker 1: We also have to get into this exploding story about
Speaker 1: the NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie. Her mother has gone missing
Speaker 1: and now the cops are thinking that this is this
Speaker 1: is like something to fary us, like this woman is missing? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Like so what is going on here? What has happened?
Speaker 1: We're gonna start giving you the early details of that
Speaker 1: story and a whole lot more coming up next on
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Speaker 1: over at the Newsjunkie dot com. All Right, many things
Speaker 1: to get into here, and one of them is probably
Speaker 1: my favorite story of the weekend. There was a lot
Speaker 1: going on, there was, but this boxing match. Durrell Miller
Speaker 1: is the guy's name, and his hair got knocked right
Speaker 1: off his head in the middle of this fight.
Speaker 2: This bus. I have not seen this yet.
Speaker 3: I saw the headline. I did not watch the video
Speaker 3: because I wanted to be, oh surrised.
Speaker 1: It's so great. It's I'll bring this up here it is.
Speaker 1: This is a guy j Miller. Yeah, these are heavyweights.
Speaker 2: I believe. I think they're heavyweight fighters. Let me check.
Speaker 2: He's known as Big Baby.
Speaker 3: The name among his fans.
Speaker 1: He was facing off against fellow heavyweight Kingsley Ibay at
Speaker 1: this event and he started getting popped by this fellow fighter.
Speaker 1: And here's the guy where's talking about over here, obviously
Speaker 1: the dude with the hair.
Speaker 2: For now, Jarrell Miller. You can watch this on YouTube.
Speaker 1: If you want to see this, I'll put it up
Speaker 1: on see it now for everybody else afterwards. So the
Speaker 1: boxer is in there, big boys slugging each other, and
Speaker 1: he gets popped a couple of times. Oh and right
Speaker 1: even right here, you can see something has gone wrong.
Speaker 3: There's a little too much.
Speaker 1: Scalp that is showing on this side of his head.
Speaker 1: And he has a full two pay that is on
Speaker 1: his head, but not for long, all right, a little.
Speaker 3: Firmer he starts getting it.
Speaker 1: It pops off like a like the lid of a can,
Speaker 1: like a can of soup. There's there's this has got
Speaker 1: to be at some point on purpose. Like you're boxing
Speaker 1: some guy and you notice his hair is starting to
Speaker 1: come off. You're throwing some more head punches to get
Speaker 1: that the rest of that hair gone, of.
Speaker 3: Course, but also great strategy on his you know, if
Speaker 3: this hair starts coming, you're distracting the person you're fighting, Yeah,
Speaker 3: ace to get the upper hook.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like in basketball where everybody who sits
Speaker 1: behind the hoop they like do those noise makers and
Speaker 1: shake stuff around.
Speaker 2: This is like that on your head.
Speaker 1: There's just one of them flopping around in the breeze,
Speaker 1: and this dude he got so many times until finally
Speaker 1: it ripped all the way off.
Speaker 2: It just came right off.
Speaker 3: His underneath is so bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just perfectly bald underneath. His entire head got
Speaker 1: ripped off. His hair popped right off of it. It's
Speaker 1: so funny. I'm gonna put this up on see it now,
Speaker 1: and to get a screenshot of.
Speaker 3: This right dresser that put that on fire.
Speaker 1: Come on, that's funny. Also, he won. He still won
Speaker 1: the fight, so bless him for that. He was still
Speaker 1: able to win. I'm so surprised that he was wearing
Speaker 1: like a hair piece like that in the boxing ring.
Speaker 3: Now do you think he is going to now come
Speaker 3: out to the world as a bald man or pretend
Speaker 3: like nothing happened and get some uh extra.
Speaker 7: Hair?
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 1: I've got to bring this up now that you said that, Sabrina,
Speaker 1: because I think he mentioned it in the interview afterwards,
Speaker 1: because they like they obviously asked him, like, you know,
Speaker 1: what happened there in the middle of the boxing fight.
Speaker 1: You had hair and then you didn't have hair very
Speaker 1: shortly after, and Jarrell Miller talked about it. Let me
Speaker 1: see if I can find him talking about Darrell Miller interview,
Speaker 1: Big Baby interview. Okay, is this stay by the dump button?
Speaker 1: Because you know he's a boxer, you might be cursing
Speaker 1: of the interview. It happens from time to time. Here
Speaker 1: he is talking about how his hair got punched off.
Speaker 3: I'll get I think he said the S word.
Speaker 2: He said.
Speaker 1: He said, I got to my mom's house and there
Speaker 1: was like ammonium bleach and some kind of shampoo. And
Speaker 1: I think he's blaming it on that for like loosen
Speaker 1: and the else.
Speaker 3: A ring of like his natural hair.
Speaker 1: It's so great, the right on the edge there's a
Speaker 1: little ring of hair left. Then it's completely bald on
Speaker 1: top where it peeled off. Like if you watch that
Speaker 1: in a cartoon, you would probably criticize the cartoon for
Speaker 1: not being realistic.
Speaker 3: Say, come on, I mean he looks great bald.
Speaker 1: Come on, yeah, you should just embrace me. He's got
Speaker 1: a good head. His head is perfectly shped.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And if anybody complains about you being bald, sir, just
Speaker 1: punch them. You're a boxer, you got the ability to
Speaker 1: do so. But uh, yeah, I can't play the rest
Speaker 1: of his interview because he curses up a bit there
Speaker 1: while asked about it, but he took it in stride.
Speaker 1: Suffice to say, I guess boxer Jarrell Miller having his
Speaker 1: hair piece punched off and a split decision victory in
Speaker 1: the ring. Go look at the video. See It Now
Speaker 1: is made for stuff like this. I'll send you on
Speaker 1: over to the website the New Junkie. Come hit the
Speaker 1: see it Now section over There so many other things
Speaker 1: to get into, but we're limited right now. We'll tell
Speaker 1: you what's coming up in the next episode.
Speaker 2: In a moment. I wanted to talk about the story.
Speaker 1: Going megaviral from the New York Times this weekend about
Speaker 1: people door dashing, and here it is. I'll give you
Speaker 1: a little bit of this. It says freedom with a
Speaker 1: side of guilt. How food delivery is reshaping meal time.
Speaker 1: And you might say this is frivolous or something. I
Speaker 1: don't think it is. I think this is a phenomenon.
Speaker 1: I think this is a generational phenomenon. I think people
Speaker 1: gen X and beyond age wise do not understand it.
Speaker 1: But this is kind of more common than you would
Speaker 1: think it would be for millennials and Gen Z people.
Speaker 1: Here's what the New York Times article says, there's pasta
Speaker 1: and the pantry and jarred sauce in the refrigerator. So
Speaker 1: what compels Keeley Reedy to keep having spaghetti with marenara
Speaker 1: delivered from the restaurant down the street for several times
Speaker 1: the cost of cooking the dish herself. It's not that
Speaker 1: the restaurant dish is particularly good, she said, quote. It's
Speaker 1: the instant gratification from her roughly fifty thousand dollars annual
Speaker 1: salary as a data processor in San Diego. Miss Reedy,
Speaker 1: thirty four years old, spends at least three hundred dollars
Speaker 1: a week on food delivery, which, by the way, is
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand dollars a year out of her fifty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a year.
Speaker 3: Salary plus benefits.
Speaker 1: Babe, her fifty thousand dollars five zero annual salary is
Speaker 1: withering away because she's spending fifteen grand on door dash right.
Speaker 2: She says.
Speaker 1: It's led her to socialize less, and ordering in has
Speaker 1: eaten away at her savings. She tips generously, but worries
Speaker 1: that the delivery drivers are poorly paid.
Speaker 2: It continues.
Speaker 1: I feel reliant upon it, she said, but guilt for
Speaker 1: using the delivery food delivery service. Food delivery, which skyrocketed
Speaker 1: during the pandemic, is a practical necessity, has become even.
Speaker 2: More entrenched in recent years. Is a convenience.
Speaker 1: Three out of every four restaurant orders are not eating
Speaker 1: in a restaurant, all right, that's what's happening in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four and beyond.
Speaker 4: I ate in a restaurant the other day, and I
Speaker 4: felt weird about it.
Speaker 3: Really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, used to door.
Speaker 3: Dashing as much as these people are.
Speaker 4: Like for breakfast, I'm used to either grabbing, drive through,
Speaker 4: grabbing like uh, grabbing, grabbing and going as opposed to
Speaker 4: just like I had some time, I was like, I
Speaker 4: guess I'm gonna sit down in the Einstein's here and
Speaker 4: just eat at the restaurant.
Speaker 2: I felt odd.
Speaker 1: I got to give you this part of it because
Speaker 1: this was my favorite part of this article about this
Speaker 1: gay couple. It says the message has a special resonance
Speaker 1: for the working parents we heard from at The New
Speaker 1: York Times. Between raising two young boys and putting in
Speaker 1: long hours at a marketing job in Atlanta, Kevin Caldwell
Speaker 1: can almost never find time to make dinner, so he
Speaker 1: and his husband spend about seven hundred dollars a week
Speaker 1: to order in food.
Speaker 2: All right, just for those.
Speaker 3: Of you do in the matt that's three thousand.
Speaker 1: Dollars a month that they're spending to order in food.
Speaker 1: He says, you have a chef. At that point, you're
Speaker 1: getting close to it. You're thirty six thousand dollars a
Speaker 1: year in somebody's salary. He says, I'm so burned out
Speaker 1: and tired. I would rather just throw my credit card
Speaker 1: at the problem and delay that unhappiness until the bill comes.
Speaker 1: Here's the tidbit that I absolutely loved. His four year
Speaker 1: old son doesn't read yet, but he can put together
Speaker 1: an order on the Chick fil A app, said mister Caldwell
Speaker 1: thirty nine. I'm impressed, he said, but also terrified. He
Speaker 1: frets about the waste he's creating with delivery boxes and bags.
Speaker 1: He's frustrated by the rise and cost of ordering in
Speaker 1: even though he'll often pay extra to get faster service,
Speaker 1: and he misses entertaining guests as often as he once did.
Speaker 1: His former dining table is just collecting dust, he said.
Speaker 1: And so this New York Times piece just interviews all
Speaker 1: these zoomers and millennials who are spending significant portions of
Speaker 1: the amount of money that they make of their annual
Speaker 1: salary on all these uber eats or door dash deliveries.
Speaker 1: And it's wild and on some level, like, I'm a
Speaker 1: little I'm a little split on this because on some level,
Speaker 1: if you go out.
Speaker 2: And earn your money, I don't care.
Speaker 1: How you spend your money. I don't I do not
Speaker 1: care how you spend your money. Make yourself happy. This
Speaker 1: is an amazing thing that we all get to experience together.
Speaker 1: We're living life. Our hearts are beating many of us,
Speaker 1: our brains are moving some of us, and we're kicking
Speaker 1: along through this adventure called life. And if you want
Speaker 1: to spend your money on some weird stuff that makes
Speaker 1: you happy, you want to collect weird things, do whatever
Speaker 1: you want to do. On the other hand, I bet
Speaker 1: the Venn diagram of people who spend three thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a month on ordering in all of their food and
Speaker 1: people who complain about how tough the economy is is
Speaker 1: a circle. I bet this is a circle of people
Speaker 1: who are like, oh, it's so expensive out there. Anyways,
Speaker 1: I'm spending about twenty to thirty percent of my salary
Speaker 1: on door dash. That's craze to me. Like the lady
Speaker 1: is ordering spaghetti that she doesn't even like from down
Speaker 1: the street, folks. And somebody said, hang on, I gotta
Speaker 1: put this back on. Somebody said, hey, look I look
Speaker 1: down the road. Here at a grocery store. From this lady,
Speaker 1: you could get a thing of little guini for a
Speaker 1: dollar twenty five, a whole box of laguini. You could
Speaker 1: get a thing of garlic pasta sauce for two forty eight.
Speaker 2: And you can get some grated.
Speaker 1: Parmejan the most expensive thing, for seven dollars and ninety
Speaker 1: four cents. And you can make a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: spaghettis okay, or you know, a fetaccini in this case
Speaker 1: with whatever was. You can make the food at home.
Speaker 1: You can actually do it yourself. And here's the crazy thing.
Speaker 1: The one woman who complained about this talked about or
Speaker 1: was like admitting to this, talked about instant gratification.
Speaker 2: I think it would probably be faster to make it
Speaker 2: on your own at one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Yes, you got to boil some water and put the
Speaker 1: noodles in there for maybe a couple of minutes or
Speaker 1: something while you heat.
Speaker 2: Up the pasta sauce and put a little.
Speaker 3: Bit of grated cheese on top of it.
Speaker 1: You're getting it faster than this without spending fifteen grand
Speaker 1: a year.
Speaker 2: I mean unless the.
Speaker 4: Pasta place that she's getting this food from is like
Speaker 4: next door to house and the restaurant themselves is delivering it.
Speaker 4: But no, she's They're specifically saying door dash, so somebody
Speaker 4: has to accept this fare, show up to the place,
Speaker 4: get the food. I mean, you could definitely make spaghetti
Speaker 4: in that amount of time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got to be thirty minutes, and you could
Speaker 1: easily do that yourself, so it's not any more convenient.
Speaker 1: It's not really what she was suggesting that it's instant
Speaker 1: gratification that's pushing all of this. Let us know what
Speaker 1: you think about this and tell us how bad it.
Speaker 2: Is for you.
Speaker 1: What level of spending are you at with these things?
Speaker 1: Send a dispatch over at thenewsjunkie dot com right now
Speaker 1: when we come back the next episode with Sabrina. What's
Speaker 1: coming up on the next episode?
Speaker 3: What's coming on the epode? Deftone sell their music catalog,
Speaker 3: while Napster becomes the new home of Juicy Sticky AI
Speaker 3: slop Yay, the Epsteine File Fairy drops some more fairy
Speaker 3: ducks and involved some celebrities who lost followers and Elon
Speaker 3: who lost this pacifier, plus the Grammys, Baby a Mess,
Speaker 3: a little political, half naked beber, and a full confused share.
Speaker 3: Need I say no more? Oh, that's so much more
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Speaker 3: It was a mirror sixty two years ago, nineteen that's
Speaker 3: not the right meth at all. It was so many
Speaker 3: years ago, nineteen ninety eight. That's not right. Yeah, it's uh.
Speaker 1: I mean it's twenty twenty six now, so how many
Speaker 1: years ago was nineteen ninety eight?
Speaker 3: I don't like to do math with that. Paper and
Speaker 3: pennata calculating.
Speaker 1: Nineteen ninety eight is two years under two thousand, yes,
Speaker 1: and if it's twenty it's twenty twenty six right now?
Speaker 2: Howenty years eight? There you go, gradually.
Speaker 3: I'm done with my little bit. Wow, it was twenty
Speaker 3: eight years ago, nineteen ninety eight. The company behind the
Speaker 3: Psychic Friends Network.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that was big.
Speaker 3: They filed for bankruptcy protection on this day one and
Speaker 3: for infomercial industry expert. I wonder how he's doing these days, commented,
Speaker 3: all this could have been avoided if they called their
Speaker 3: own phone line.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 3: Was miss Clear part of Psychic Friends Network? Or did
Speaker 3: you ever let me see?
Speaker 2: I'll find out it's okay. You don't have to.
Speaker 3: Let's just hope for the best for everyone out there. Congratulations, Grammys, you.
Speaker 2: Did it kind of she was Psychic Reader's Network. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was like a competitor or something. Competitor.
Speaker 3: We had the Grammys. I watch two seconds of it.
Speaker 3: It got weird.
Speaker 2: I watch a little bit of it.
Speaker 3: I saw some of their outfits. Yeah, it seemed like
Speaker 3: there was a theme going on that everyone knew about
Speaker 3: except for us. A lot of black and white. I
Speaker 3: felt like it was a wedding dress esque and then
Speaker 3: Chapel Roane's nipples held up everything. I mean, it was
Speaker 3: one wrong move. Someone's stepping on that dress and it
Speaker 3: would have been Chapel's pepperonis everywhere.
Speaker 2: Don't people hate her now?
Speaker 1: I feel like the tide is turned on the Chapel
Speaker 1: Roane lady.
Speaker 2: But I'm not telling what.
Speaker 3: They don't hate Pink Pony Club because you hear it everywhere.
Speaker 2: It's a really catchy song. It's a good song actually.
Speaker 3: All the time. So bad Bunny was the big winner
Speaker 3: of the night. He got Album of the Year and
Speaker 3: I did see the clip when he finally the name
Speaker 3: was called. He kind of just sat there.
Speaker 2: Like froze and the longest ten seconds.
Speaker 3: But there was the only person surprised. I think everybody
Speaker 3: else was like but then he was there for a
Speaker 3: long time like can someone go check on him? And
Speaker 3: then he stood up and he accepted his award. He
Speaker 3: also made history for winning Urbana as well, the Urbana
Speaker 3: Award and I'm not it's the point of the night
Speaker 3: where he decided to say his two cents about ice
Speaker 3: or yellow native language. It was very emotional for everybody,
Speaker 3: including a half naked Beaber. I don't know if you
Speaker 3: saw that. He stripped his set down. Literally he was
Speaker 3: just singing in boxers. Do you know what?
Speaker 2: I only saw photos. I didn't even hear him.
Speaker 1: Did he didn't hear him singing or anything, or we
Speaker 1: just know that he was shirtless.
Speaker 3: It was just shirtless and pantiless. Lady Gaga added some
Speaker 3: energy and we'll call it and Ozzy Osbourne was honored
Speaker 3: with another heavy metal tribute, this one with post Malone,
Speaker 3: with the very skinny Sharon and Kelly watching from afar.
Speaker 2: Yeah and super different, Yeah, big time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's when when there's a thing that happens when
Speaker 1: if you're if you're beautiful to begin with, and then
Speaker 1: you get a whole bunch of plastic surgery. Then it's like, wow, okay,
Speaker 1: look at this person there.
Speaker 3: But Kelly's so giant, it's all so skinny. It's not great,
Speaker 3: but they're having a good time. Right then. When I
Speaker 3: tuned in, it was like it seemed like American Idol
Speaker 3: when they have the finale and they just have everyone
Speaker 3: doing their songs. I did not understand what was going on,
Speaker 3: but I guess they have all the new artists do
Speaker 3: their their bits before they give out the New Artist Award. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I who was the guy that got lifted up in
Speaker 3: the air? Poor poor dude. I could tell him immediately
Speaker 3: he was having some in ear issues.
Speaker 2: Was it Alex Warren singing the ordinary?
Speaker 3: Yes, always trying to rip off and it sounded good
Speaker 3: post that, Yeah, that's the one I saw, yea go
Speaker 3: ahead that it was like in that weird double relay and.
Speaker 1: The thing I saw he was posting the audio of
Speaker 1: him missing notes and he's just like, oh God.
Speaker 3: Because it was all double tracked in his head. But
Speaker 3: you know, no one else would have known. So I
Speaker 3: congratulated that song.
Speaker 2: Was that new? I thought?
Speaker 4: I thought the song's been around for a while, so
Speaker 4: maybe it must have been released, like, you know, the
Speaker 4: day after the last Grammys or something like that.
Speaker 3: Well, not everyone was caught up. We'll say, and what
Speaker 3: year it is? Or who's alive and who's dead? To
Speaker 3: that I bring you share Cher just got a little
Speaker 3: bit confused if you believe in life after love or
Speaker 3: love after life. They brought her out near the end
Speaker 3: of the show to give her a Lifetime Achievement Grammy,
Speaker 3: and she had to introduce the nominees for Record of
Speaker 3: the Year after giving a heck of a speech about perseverance,
Speaker 3: and she dipped off the stage and someone said, hey, wait,
Speaker 3: share you still gotta present the award.
Speaker 2: It was very awkward.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I knew the clip shown.
Speaker 2: And the Grammy goes to, she's just staring at the screen.
Speaker 3: You got it? Oh, they told me it was going
Speaker 3: to be on the prompter.
Speaker 1: Scandalope, she thought it was on the prompter and instead
Speaker 1: it's on like the it's in the envelope in.
Speaker 2: Front of Oh.
Speaker 3: The Grammy goes to Luther grand.
Speaker 2: And Luther grandose something.
Speaker 3: Like that, Luther Vandros who is he is long gone?
Speaker 3: Who actually won it was Kendrick, Lamar and Sizza.
Speaker 2: For the.
Speaker 1: Okay, I was gonna say, how did you get number one?
Speaker 1: How did you get Luther Vandrow out of that? But
Speaker 1: then number two? Doesn't she like bang rappers?
Speaker 3: Still? I feel like, yeah, I think it's a dancer
Speaker 3: that she's been with for a while.
Speaker 1: Really, some young guy right Like I thought maybe that
Speaker 1: person would keep her a little more hip to what's
Speaker 1: going on, but maybe not.
Speaker 3: Yes for their song Luthor. Kendrick also won five Grammys
Speaker 3: for the Night and has overtaken Jay Z as the
Speaker 3: most decorated rapper.
Speaker 4: Wait wait, the song is not called Luther Vandross called
Speaker 4: oh yep, oh yeah, that is a mess up.
Speaker 3: Yep, Justin Bieber, I told you half naked boxers and socks.
Speaker 1: On a technicality, does Luther Vandross now get an award?
Speaker 3: I mean he's been dead for quite some time. Sabrina
Speaker 3: Carpenter angered whom fill in the blank by using a
Speaker 3: live dove during her performance of Manto. It is correct.
Speaker 3: She also got snubbed pretty bad and they kept just
Speaker 3: pointing the camera at her as she clapped. Everyone else
Speaker 3: who want so happy?
Speaker 2: Yeah she does?
Speaker 3: Yeah, great time. Donald Trump says that he will and
Speaker 3: I quote, have some fun suing the crap adder Trevor Neer.
Speaker 3: We're talking about the Epstein Island Bill Clinton joke and
Speaker 3: something like that. So I guess he did watch.
Speaker 1: I have the joke that he said he's gonna sue
Speaker 1: it for you want to hear it? Yes, yeah, here
Speaker 1: it is. And I was surprised that he took issue
Speaker 1: with this. I was like, Trevor, Noah is at least
Speaker 1: trying to smack both sides a little bit.
Speaker 2: Here is all the year. Congratulations Billy Eilish.
Speaker 11: Wow.
Speaker 1: So Trevor Noah was just like in the audience a lot.
Speaker 1: I think he was like rolling around and doing his thing.
Speaker 16: Me that every artist wants almost as much as Trump
Speaker 16: wants Greenland, Okay, which makes sense. I mean, because Epstein's
Speaker 16: island is gone. He needs a new one to hang
Speaker 16: out with Bill Clinton.
Speaker 1: So he put the Bill Clinton part in there, like alright, fine,
Speaker 1: you know Bill sides. Yeah, they'd go like, okay, at
Speaker 1: least he wasn't just doing what you would expect and
Speaker 1: just shooting out of one barrel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So he truth out tweeted out one of those things,
Speaker 3: and a stark warning to Noah that other TV channels
Speaker 3: and presenters hadn't fared well against his legal might. Ask
Speaker 3: Little George Slopolis or whatever he calls him, uh and
Speaker 3: others how that all worked out? Also, ask CBS get
Speaker 3: ready to I'm going to have some fun with you
Speaker 3: President DJT brutal. It is yet to uh respond to that.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it.
Speaker 1: Might be tougher because it's a joke, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. It's for sure, Okay, he has and he's
Speaker 1: been successful he's been mopping the floor with a lot
Speaker 1: of these media outlets that he sued. But this is
Speaker 1: just blatantly obviously a joke, and I think that that
Speaker 1: would be nearly impossible to win, you'd think.
Speaker 3: But here we are. I'll keep my eye on it, fellas.
Speaker 3: And finally I'll leave you with this. We're done with
Speaker 3: the Grammys, and now we go to Michigan State Police,
Speaker 3: which had quite the weekend when it came to chasing
Speaker 3: down a runaway many donkey named Dolly Parton. Donkey Dolly
Speaker 3: Parton now safe and sound and making its way to
Speaker 3: the next episode. Because I love Dolly Parton and I
Speaker 3: kind of like donkeys too. Congratulations on the book two.
Speaker 3: We have American Idol Auditions on ABC, super Bowl Greatest
Speaker 3: Commercials on CBS, Peacock NBA Monday with the Pacers, the Grizzlies, Rockets,
Speaker 3: Timberwolves have Fun. Yeah, all right, that sounds just like it.
Speaker 3: If you ask me, do you want to go?
Speaker 2: It's not annoying.
Speaker 1: Tell you about Oh my god, that's yeah, that's accurate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, I just talent. Thank you. Also, Don
Speaker 3: Lemon will be on Camill Follow Your Dreams of Me
Speaker 3: on Instagram mats of rain Abro Most importantly it with
Speaker 3: me at Picock Smoke.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Sabrina, I will said, thank you Don Lemon
Speaker 1: for some of this.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: I wanted to bring you here under arrest.
Speaker 1: Because you were talking about the Dolly Parton story. Did
Speaker 1: you did you guys see this one? This was I
Speaker 1: think this was out of Florida. I gotta make sure perfect.
Speaker 1: I talked about this on the Bonus tream that I
Speaker 1: did on Sunday. But in Ruskin, Florida, these this, these
Speaker 1: cops came across this mini horse and yeah, it looks
Speaker 1: just like Sebastian and they and they like went and
Speaker 1: rescued the mini horse, and the cops like, oh man,
Speaker 1: I love my job. And she just ran down. I
Speaker 1: don't know where I'm supposed to go right now. But
Speaker 1: they rescued this one, so I guess there was multiple
Speaker 1: horses rescued during the.
Speaker 2: Weekend like this.
Speaker 3: What a time to be alive.
Speaker 1: All right, quick break, when we come back, I want
Speaker 1: to fall too far behind time wise here. When we
Speaker 1: come back, we'll get to what happened at the movie
Speaker 1: theater this weekend. Also a full rundown on Savannah Guthrie
Speaker 1: from the Today Show, her mother missing the house deemed
Speaker 1: a crime scene.
Speaker 3: What's happening?
Speaker 1: Will dive in that's coming up next in the News Junkie.
Speaker 1: A lot of stuff to get into here is the
Speaker 1: show rolls on in a Monday. It's a really busy,
Speaker 1: busy day out there, and I want to talk about
Speaker 1: what's going on with the lady from the Today Show
Speaker 1: and her mother because it's a really bizarre story. But
Speaker 1: first let's go to the box office because I haven't
Speaker 1: hit on that at all, and I think there are
Speaker 1: some interesting stories from the box office. Looking at the
Speaker 1: box office numbers this weekend. The movie Send Help, which
Speaker 1: I told you about. That was the one with the
Speaker 1: woman and her boss that she hates getting a plane
Speaker 1: crash and then they're on this island and they kind
Speaker 1: of hate each other.
Speaker 3: That's the Evil Dead director.
Speaker 1: Yeah, horror comedy, and you know, I think it's more
Speaker 1: for women than men, but I think it was it
Speaker 1: was fun like it was a fun time. That got
Speaker 1: number one with just under twenty million dollars this weekend,
Speaker 1: which I love. This is like story number one out
Speaker 1: of this box office thing this weekend.
Speaker 2: I love to see this because this is.
Speaker 1: Not some big Hollywood several hundred million dollar production. I
Speaker 1: happen to want to myself support these medium to smaller
Speaker 1: budget movies with somebody who has an artistic vision and
Speaker 1: wants to do something different and not everything is about
Speaker 1: like another comic book movie with a bloated budget or
Speaker 1: a megalopolis or something.
Speaker 2: I reject that.
Speaker 1: I'm not try to spend my money on that personally,
Speaker 1: and so I'm excited to see when these movies like
Speaker 1: this overperform and send help. Definitely did that. Speaking of
Speaker 1: over overperforming, this second movie second place at the box
Speaker 1: office is Weekend is perhaps a bigger story. This is
Speaker 1: from a YouTuber who neither one of you Sabrinas that
Speaker 1: I've probably even heard of before, but he's a big YouTuber.
Speaker 3: His name is Mark a Plier, and Mark Marketplier.
Speaker 1: Is a like a YouTuber who does reactions and plays games,
Speaker 1: and Dylan watched.
Speaker 2: Him a million years ago.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he does anymore, but he's like this.
Speaker 1: This Uh he's from I think it's from England or
Speaker 1: made Ireland is over over the pond and he is
Speaker 1: a major YouTuber and he had this dream to make
Speaker 1: this movie called Iron Lung. And he did this Iron
Speaker 1: Lung movie on his own independent and got it into
Speaker 1: theaters and it nearly got number one at the box. Say,
Speaker 1: he got into three thousand theaters this weekend, and his
Speaker 1: YouTube fans were rallied up by this guy to make
Speaker 1: it the number two movie just by that much at
Speaker 1: the box in the difference in take seventeen mil for
Speaker 1: his movie Iron Lung. This YouTuber's movie Iron Lung got
Speaker 1: seventeen million, and then from seventeen point five to eighteen
Speaker 1: million somewhere in that range is what the first place
Speaker 1: movie got.
Speaker 3: Right now, was this movie any good?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it's like a well, let's see
Speaker 1: if people like that.
Speaker 2: Hang on, let's see if.
Speaker 4: This is a free domestic then because I mean, I'm
Speaker 4: seeing you got twenty one and a half mil.
Speaker 1: Maybe it went up. Maybe because this is probably from
Speaker 1: early Sunday Rotten Tomatoes.
Speaker 2: Iron Lung.
Speaker 1: That's the name of the movie that this YouTuber market
Speaker 1: a Plier made, which is just crazy. The guy came
Speaker 1: up with an idea and made a movie, a horror
Speaker 1: sci fi movie, and got it into theaters. Critics have
Speaker 1: the movie at fifty four percent but who cares about them?
Speaker 2: Literally?
Speaker 1: Literally, who cares about any movie reviewer ever in the
Speaker 1: history of ever. The popcorn meter, which is what you
Speaker 1: should care about. The audience in the verified scores eighty
Speaker 1: nine percent, which is pretty good. That's pretty good. Now
Speaker 1: that's not the end all be all. It's got a
Speaker 1: thousand ratings. I wouldn't put that down as gospel. You
Speaker 1: could have just his mega supporters saying it was the greatest.
Speaker 3: Movie I've ever seen, and I'm getting a vibe.
Speaker 1: I and then then people watch it and they go,
Speaker 1: I actually don't know this guy, so I didn't like
Speaker 1: it as much. It says the stars are gone, the
Speaker 1: planets have disappeared. Only individuals aboard space stations are starships
Speaker 1: were left. To give the end a name, the quiet Rapture.
Speaker 1: This sounds like a bucket of air. That's what it
Speaker 1: sounds like. It sounds like the famous short story a
Speaker 1: bucket of air. But it's just a quiet rapture. I
Speaker 1: thought this, no's it's just it's an old story.
Speaker 4: I thought this was some insult that I had never
Speaker 4: heard of, Like, ah, this, this whole thing sounds like
Speaker 4: a bucket of air.
Speaker 3: I think that's what it's called look up a bucket
Speaker 3: of air.
Speaker 1: See if that's I got that right. After decades of
Speaker 1: decay and coming infrastructure, the consolidation of Iron has made
Speaker 1: a discovery on a barren moon designated at five and
Speaker 1: it's like about a space drama horror. It's called Iron
Speaker 1: lug A pail of air, A pail of air, A
Speaker 1: pail of air.
Speaker 3: It's just this one.
Speaker 1: The story sounds similar to that to me. But this
Speaker 1: guy market pliers YouTuber. It just went fully independent, and
Speaker 1: that's so awesome. We're living at a day and age
Speaker 1: where you can become the best selling musician in the
Speaker 1: United States of America with cheap equipment that anybody even
Speaker 1: on a McDonald's salary, can afford to record in your bedroom.
Speaker 2: You can make it on the charts.
Speaker 1: You can make it on the radio because the charts
Speaker 1: in Spotify will grab the radio station's attention, and you
Speaker 1: can there's nothing holding you back. You don't need a
Speaker 1: record company, you don't need a bunch.
Speaker 2: Of suits to back you up. You can do it.
Speaker 1: And now we're seeing breakthroughs at the box office, which
Speaker 1: is that that's the unheard of thing, like you can't
Speaker 1: fund and do your own movie and and make it
Speaker 1: into the theaters and compete with these Hollywood outlets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can.
Speaker 4: The last time we talked about this, like the possibility
Speaker 4: of this happening, it was really just kind of it
Speaker 4: was kind of a loophole because during COVID there was
Speaker 4: that guy who you know, just created a short film
Speaker 4: and put it in theaters, so would be the number
Speaker 4: one movie because nobody was going to theaters.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's so interesting that these gatekeepers are being
Speaker 1: knocked down, and I am absolutely here for it. I
Speaker 1: love that as much as I could love anything. I
Speaker 1: want creativity to win. I want what wins with audiences
Speaker 1: to win, and I don't want any suit and some
Speaker 1: building somewhere who's head of a record label or a
Speaker 1: movie distribution platform or whatever to hold you back from
Speaker 1: pulling that off. No excuses, baby, no excuses. In twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six, still you got to be a famous YouTuber
Speaker 1: to really break through. But you get what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: The third movie, also an interesting story in and of itself,
Speaker 1: was Melania, the documentary about the first Lady of the
Speaker 1: United States of America, bringing in eight point one million
Speaker 1: dollars in its first weekend in theaters.
Speaker 3: Didn't it lost a lot of money a lot.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: First of all, that is a major over performance documentaries.
Speaker 1: As much as I love them, sometimes I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm the only one. Documentaries do not tend to do
Speaker 1: very well in theaters. People do not go to the
Speaker 1: theater and support documentaries. In fact, if I bring up
Speaker 1: box office Mojo, number one opening weekend at the box
Speaker 1: office for a documentary, which is interesting, what goes in
Speaker 1: this and what doesn't go in this?
Speaker 2: But justin Bieber, never say never.
Speaker 1: Fahrenheit nine to eleven, which I remember when this came out, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was big and people were like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: Michael Moore is taking on George W.
Speaker 3: Bush. And people literally went to the theaters and it
Speaker 3: was either that or you have to order the DVD.
Speaker 1: Right, No, no, not for Far nine nine to eleven.
Speaker 1: It opened up in theater. I went to watch it
Speaker 1: in theater because I like documentaries that much. This is
Speaker 1: it is the third biggest opening weekend that Michael Jackson's right, right,
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson, Yeah, one direction This is Us is number
Speaker 1: four for opening weekends. Chimpanzee a Walt Disney documentary is
Speaker 1: number eight, and then right by not number eight, number one, two, three, four, five,
Speaker 1: and number six. All time opening weekends for a documentary
Speaker 1: will be this Millenia movie that just opened this weekend
Speaker 1: at one thy, seven hundred and seventy eight theaters. Amazon
Speaker 1: paid I forgot how much. They said, though forty million.
Speaker 1: You have thirty forty million dollars for it, and then
Speaker 1: they paid another tens of millions to market the movie.
Speaker 1: So it's not in the money right now, but it's
Speaker 1: a documentary and it really did well.
Speaker 3: Consider Amazon's bid of forty million is the highest price
Speaker 3: ever paid for a documentary.
Speaker 1: And then they spent I believe at least twenty million
Speaker 1: plus on marketing the movie. So they have put money
Speaker 1: into this. Will they ever get that out?
Speaker 2: I have no idea.
Speaker 1: But here it is over on Tomatoes, the Millennia documentary,
Speaker 1: which is obviously going to be controversial. Again, you have
Speaker 1: a split. The reviewers put it at ten percent. I
Speaker 1: just looked this up and the tomato meter seems to
Speaker 1: have gone. I have nine percent. Really mind says ninety
Speaker 1: nine the tomato meter on it did it just went?
Speaker 1: The reviewers continue big surprise the movie reviewers don't like
Speaker 1: the Millennia documentary. Okay, big surprise the audience. The audience
Speaker 1: is rating this at ninety nine percent. This quite obviously,
Speaker 1: like so many other documentaries that end up in the theaters,
Speaker 1: is just political. It's like the Fauci documentary. It's like
Speaker 1: anything else, and people will go out much as they
Speaker 1: will for something like a religious movie. But they said, though,
Speaker 1: Brett Ratner, Brett Ratner is actually he's done some good stuff.
Speaker 3: First, since the school Radner was behind the Rush Hour movies.
Speaker 1: That's not what I remember remembering for the Horrible Boss movies.
Speaker 1: He did The Revenant, which I think is Leonardo DiCaprio.
Speaker 6: Or he does not bang a bear war dogs, and
Speaker 6: I thought there was something else did.
Speaker 1: So he's done a bunch of these movies over the years,
Speaker 1: and he was the one who was behind this Milania
Speaker 1: movie for whatever reason. And the audience was seventy two
Speaker 1: percent women over fifty five years old. It was mostly
Speaker 1: older women going to see this movie and supporting the
Speaker 1: Milania docuseries, and that popped up big.
Speaker 2: There was a lot of reaction.
Speaker 1: Then people said, look, I've found here's some other stuff
Speaker 1: in the rundown here on this Millennia documentary, I found
Speaker 1: that there was free tickets plus fifty dollars the Craigslist
Speaker 1: ad offering cash to anybody willing to sit through the
Speaker 1: Millennia documentary. Most of these are fake and people put
Speaker 1: these up on Craigslist just to fool people and then
Speaker 1: have these stories reported. A lot of people just openly
Speaker 1: rooting against it, like two movies that beat Malania at
Speaker 1: the box office revealed over on the Daily Beast, instead
Speaker 1: of just saying what one at the box office? It
Speaker 1: was like two movies that beat Milania at the box
Speaker 1: office revealed, like, hey, you know, there's more to life
Speaker 1: than just the politics of it all. I think the
Speaker 1: second place movie, the YouTuber thing, is a super interesting story,
Speaker 1: and I think that's way more interesting than any Milania documentary.
Speaker 1: On SNL they panned this thing. Big surprise over there,
Speaker 1: they said, this week a documentary about Malania debuted in theaters.
Speaker 1: It's titled titled Wicked for Real. Malania was directed by
Speaker 1: Rush Hour director Steven Brett Ratner. And then they showed
Speaker 1: a scene from Rush Hour saying do you understand the
Speaker 1: words that are coming out of my mouth? And then
Speaker 1: you can't understand what Malania says. Very funny stuff. And
Speaker 1: then they said, in addition to a fancy launch, yet
Speaker 1: now you're spoiling it, and an additional face multiple allegations,
Speaker 1: I don't want to spoil Malania for you, a sexual
Speaker 1: assessive announcement in twenty seventeen. Ratner has also popped up
Speaker 1: in the Epstein Files. That was one of his issues
Speaker 1: because he popped up in some photos in the Epstein
Speaker 1: Files that were released over the past day. And I
Speaker 1: think they said at some point, like the movie didn't
Speaker 1: do well at the box office, which isn't true.
Speaker 3: Did the documentary didn't think it was the pre sale
Speaker 3: is what people were writing about. Yeah, like, yeah, people
Speaker 3: weren't buying tickets to go see it, but obviously some
Speaker 3: do well.
Speaker 1: They said most of it was walk up, so it
Speaker 1: was actual people like walking up to go see the
Speaker 1: movie and buy tickets for it. I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people just didn't want it to do well.
Speaker 3: It's like, okay, why some scenes involved up to eighty
Speaker 3: crew members, which I imagine documentary it's a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and there were twelve crews in DC. During the inauguration,
Speaker 3: Amazon employees were told they cannot opt out of working
Speaker 3: on Malania for political reasons. Two thirty of the New
Speaker 3: York production crew staff asked to be omitted from the credits.
Speaker 3: Oh really, they said.
Speaker 1: We found two theaters was sold out Millennia open day screening.
Speaker 1: So Wired is like Wired magazine is going in to try.
Speaker 2: To figure like, where are all these tickets going? What's
Speaker 2: happening here?
Speaker 3: Brought those up. There were some theaters that were like
Speaker 3: twelve seats.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was.
Speaker 3: There was theaters that people were is a big success.
Speaker 1: We started on some I didn't tell you hello, according
Speaker 1: to the projection, oh my god, screaming. The Twitter video
Speaker 1: just started yelling at me, let me refresh this. There
Speaker 1: were a couple of stories that went viral, and most
Speaker 1: of them were not accurate. One was this doesn't look
Speaker 1: suspicious at all, and it was an entire row of
Speaker 1: seats that was purchased for the Milania documentary in this
Speaker 1: theater and no other seats were sold, which I'll admit,
Speaker 1: that looks suspicious. That looks like you just bought a
Speaker 1: row of seats and nobody's gonna actually go and watch
Speaker 1: the movie. But someone else followed up and said the
Speaker 1: theaters a broken row of seats. There's like all of
Speaker 1: messed up row of seats at that particular theater, which
Speaker 1: is why those were knocked out. And actually there weren't
Speaker 1: any tickets sold in that particular theater, but in markets
Speaker 1: like Boca Ratone and other places.
Speaker 2: I guess it did well.
Speaker 1: Now that guy that just screamed at me Brian Stelter
Speaker 1: over on CNN here, he istory is.
Speaker 3: A big success.
Speaker 8: We're going to get official numbers from Amazon later this morning,
Speaker 8: but already, according to the projections that are circulating in
Speaker 8: the film industry, this is the number one documentary in
Speaker 8: terms of box office ticket sales in about a decade.
Speaker 8: This documentary is another example of the red blue divide.
Speaker 8: We've seen ticket sales be a whole heck of a
Speaker 8: lot stronger in Republican stronghold areas than we have in
Speaker 8: big blue cities, of.
Speaker 3: Course, and that is inevitable with the production like this
Speaker 3: that you're going to see.
Speaker 2: I would be surprised if it wasn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then here's the BBC story to wrap up
Speaker 1: the rundown, says Melania director Brett Ratner was pictured cuddling
Speaker 1: woman in the Epstein Files and this is I guess
Speaker 1: that the director who did all those movies and did
Speaker 1: the Lania documentary, and then he's they've got this woman
Speaker 1: that he's got his arm around with Jeffrey Epstein, and
Speaker 1: her face is blocked out. So I don't know anything
Speaker 1: more about it, just says Ratner, who directed the Rush
Speaker 1: Hour films and X Men and the Last Stand can
Speaker 1: be seen sitting on a sofa beside the late sex
Speaker 1: offender Jeffrey Epstein and two women whose identities have who
Speaker 1: have been obscured. This is in those millions and millions
Speaker 1: of files that have that have been dropped. I'll get
Speaker 1: a little further.
Speaker 3: Into that at some point in time, a little further
Speaker 3: down the road.
Speaker 1: He was also part of the me too thing, like
Speaker 1: his name was coming up in during a lot of
Speaker 1: the lot of the things I mentioned that. I mentioned
Speaker 1: that he had accusations against him in twenty seventeen in
Speaker 1: the in the article that I was reading there, and
Speaker 1: then obviously timing not great with the Epstein stuff coming
Speaker 1: out in his photograph, wrapped up in that I don't
Speaker 1: know much about him, and I would this is not
Speaker 1: something for me, like I'm not going to watch a
Speaker 1: documentary about Milania, just like people were trying to counterprogram
Speaker 1: by spiking Michelle Obama's documentary up on the Charge on Netflix.
Speaker 1: I'm not watching that either. I love documentaries. Those are
Speaker 1: the two least interesting I think I've heard of in
Speaker 1: a very long time. But others disagreed. And it was
Speaker 1: a successful movie at the box office at least so far. Oh,
Speaker 1: somebody sent an email about that and they said, make
Speaker 1: sure you look at this all right. It says just
Speaker 1: some normal, non cult folks going to see the Milania movie.
Speaker 2: And it's a photo says some of our church ladies
Speaker 2: at the new movie Milania.
Speaker 1: Then include, boy, why are they all wearing the same outfit?
Speaker 1: Is that an outfit the Millennia wear or or something?
Speaker 3: Maybe?
Speaker 2: Is it? I don't know. I don't know that much
Speaker 2: about her. They're all dressed up wearing the same outfit
Speaker 2: to go go see the movie. So there you go.
Speaker 2: Thank you for that email.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that the additional context as welcome quick break. When
Speaker 1: we come back, we'll get into this Savannah Guthrie situation.
Speaker 1: This is kind of spiraling right now. If you don't
Speaker 1: know she is the host or what are the hosts
Speaker 1: of the Today Show. Savannah Guthrie been around for a
Speaker 1: while and her mother is missing, And what did they
Speaker 1: say about her mother's house?
Speaker 2: Did they say it was a crime scene? They said
Speaker 2: they're considering it a crime scene.
Speaker 1: Now they're considering the house a crime scene. So does
Speaker 1: that give us an indicator on do they think she's
Speaker 1: dead or do they think she's been kidnapped or do
Speaker 1: they adult nap do they think I don't know what
Speaker 1: they're saying from that, they're saying that they think a
Speaker 1: crime took place, Yes, at this house. We've got a
Speaker 1: whole rundown on what's happening with Savannah Guthrie's mom in
Speaker 1: this mysterious situation with her that is coming up next.
Speaker 2: Something to use, junkie.
Speaker 1: Just make the announcement, all right, the people who are
Speaker 1: programming the anti super Bowl halftime show, I know it's
Speaker 1: Jars of Klass.
Speaker 3: I don't in the announcement as soon as the show starts.
Speaker 1: Did anything happen there with that? Although I'll bring up
Speaker 1: the website. I think it was like turning points.
Speaker 4: Something yeah, tp USA or something AP said at some
Speaker 4: point that they were like, no, we're keeping the lineup
Speaker 4: a secret.
Speaker 2: Until showtime, which is so stick. It sounds like you
Speaker 2: don't have a lineup a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that that makes me think that you don't have
Speaker 1: something that's going to rock anybody's world over there.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 3: Do you think that people have been asked already and
Speaker 3: they said no? And why haven't we heard from them yet?
Speaker 2: I have no idea. I don't know what they're planning
Speaker 2: on what they're doing.
Speaker 1: It says performers and details coming soon, and then I
Speaker 1: don't think anything has been updated.
Speaker 3: I'm just double you remember Ice Panda? Possibly?
Speaker 2: Wait is this it old on? I got to make
Speaker 2: sure this is real.
Speaker 1: This is from today they have announced it. I've got
Speaker 1: the line I got the lineup.
Speaker 3: Wow, I'm sorry, Rock.
Speaker 1: Rock Kid, Rock Brandley, guilt Er Lee, Bryce, and Gabby Barrett.
Speaker 1: Not a jar of clay to be seen. Unbelievable here
Speaker 1: Randy Gilbert, Bryce, I think I think those are country
Speaker 1: people or something. Gabby Barrett. I don't know them, but
Speaker 1: they're going to be performing at their their counter programming
Speaker 1: for the halftime show. And they didn't get it on
Speaker 1: like a network or anything.
Speaker 3: I don't think they're streaming channels. It's gonna be on
Speaker 3: TBN whatever that is, and Daily Wire.
Speaker 4: And like a bunch of Yes, Trendy Broadcasting Network is
Speaker 4: the religious network, okay, and Hurting Point sort of considers themselves.
Speaker 4: I mean, some of these people just call themselves network.
Speaker 4: These days, you just throw network on there, the junkie network, right.
Speaker 4: I hate this, but like, I want real competition for
Speaker 4: the Super super Bowl. I don't think this is going
Speaker 4: to do it.
Speaker 1: I don't think this is If there was something where
Speaker 1: they said, hey, it's on another channel that everybody can
Speaker 1: tune too, and here's what they're offering up and it's
Speaker 1: like some actual, really big performers that would go right away.
Speaker 1: I think that they would pull a giant chunk of
Speaker 1: the audience away. And I think that would not the
Speaker 1: majority or anything, but I think they'd pull away a
Speaker 1: big number of people if they had a good competition
Speaker 1: going on.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of torn because we were talking about this
Speaker 4: last week and there was no lineup and they were
Speaker 4: saying they're not going to say what the lineup is
Speaker 4: until showtime, and you go, that sounds like a disaster.
Speaker 4: I kind of wanted to tune in on a side
Speaker 4: screen just to see this be a disaster. Now that
Speaker 4: we have a lineup, I'm kind of not interested in
Speaker 4: tuning in care Rock.
Speaker 3: After people were like checking up on it. I mean,
Speaker 3: I think that it as the super Bowl weekend came
Speaker 3: to a bit of more of a close range, A
Speaker 3: little part of me thinks that they were hoping everyone
Speaker 3: forgot about it and they were scrambling this weekend and
Speaker 3: they found they found for artists. That's great.
Speaker 1: Kid Rock is not as this has got to be
Speaker 1: a whole thing to put together. I imagine that there's
Speaker 1: what they.
Speaker 3: Should do is get a damn super Bowl commercial. Well,
Speaker 3: is it not in front of a crowd. You gotta
Speaker 3: have a crowd. I don't know where.
Speaker 2: It doesn't say where it's gonna be.
Speaker 1: That's why I thought, like, you would want this to
Speaker 1: be at a crowd, and then that that would be
Speaker 1: a part of the shot as well.
Speaker 2: But I don't think that they're going to be doing that.
Speaker 1: The All American halftime show is the counterprogramming would have
Speaker 1: been the most hilarious thing in the world.
Speaker 2: If they also would have.
Speaker 3: Got Bad Bunny to perform at that, if they would.
Speaker 2: Have liked.
Speaker 1: Surprise guests. They're like Bad Bunny is pulling double time.
Speaker 1: He's doing this, uh and uh. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: hubbub ahead of the super Bowl with these performers. There's
Speaker 1: some talk about Green Day and what they're gonna do
Speaker 1: because they're gonna be opening up the super Bowl with
Speaker 1: their performance. Green Day is like, obviously no fan of
Speaker 1: the Trump administration, big surprise, they're no fan of Like
Speaker 1: they have an entire song American Idiot that they've used
Speaker 1: to talk about this stuff forever. Zero percent surprise about
Speaker 1: all this. I heard one rumor. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's true or not, but I heard. I wouldn't put
Speaker 1: any don't put any weight into this, Okay, don't go
Speaker 1: betting on any kind of gambling markets on this. But
Speaker 1: one of the rumors that I heard was that Green
Speaker 1: Day was also planning on performing in Spanish and they
Speaker 1: were going to do one of their songs and singing
Speaker 1: in Spanish to like match up with the bad.
Speaker 2: Bunny performance that was going to be. I think it
Speaker 2: would be funny.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's going to happen, but I
Speaker 1: was one of the rumors that I heard was floating around.
Speaker 4: You would have to, like, I mean, what would be
Speaker 4: the easiest Green Day song to completely learn in Spanish.
Speaker 2: Good riddance might.
Speaker 1: Be maybe when I come around slow. Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: can mix that in a little bit better. You can
Speaker 1: learn it ahead of time, learning it right now. But
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure they'll be up there saying all
Speaker 1: the same things. It's like zero percent surprise with a
Speaker 1: lot of this stuff.
Speaker 2: Why would you be? It's Green Day? For God's sake?
Speaker 3: Singing the national anthem?
Speaker 2: Do you know?
Speaker 1: The national anthem is Charlie Pooth who I know? His name,
Speaker 1: Brandy Carlisle. We'll be doing America the Beautiful should be
Speaker 1: singing that before the performance, before before the game starts.
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Speaker 1: on with that story. Now here, I'll give you some
Speaker 1: basic details before we get the full rundown in the
Speaker 1: mother of one of the hosts of The Today Show.
Speaker 2: Her name is Savannah Guthrie. You may have heard of her.
Speaker 1: I think she rose to prominence with some of her
Speaker 1: nine to eleven reporting. That was a big day in
Speaker 1: her reporting, and she popped up on the radar around then,
Speaker 1: just much like Ashley Banfield did. She was a kind
Speaker 1: of a nobody at that time and made a big
Speaker 1: name out of herself in journalism from that day. Savannahtrie
Speaker 1: was of Savannah Guthrie.
Speaker 3: Yeah was it with my god nown blank on the name.
Speaker 3: But the Fox News guy who got fired sexual harassment
Speaker 3: and assault or was she involved in that marital fair
Speaker 3: and then they.
Speaker 2: Had Savannah Guthrie.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know of her being attached to either one
Speaker 1: of those, but you know, you can look it up
Speaker 1: if you want. I know that right now, what she
Speaker 1: finds herself in the center of is this storm of
Speaker 1: her mother missing and her mom is eighty four years old,
Speaker 1: and her mom lives in the Catalina Foothills I guess
Speaker 1: in Arizona and her mom has gone missing. I've got
Speaker 1: some of the press conference here, but this is an
Speaker 1: older one. They must have had a newer press conference.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: See what we can dig up anything newer that the
Speaker 1: police are saying, because I want to see more about
Speaker 1: them calling her house a crime scene, et cetera, et cetera,
Speaker 1: and figuring out what the hell happened. We'll do that
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Speaker 2: Here is the latest.
Speaker 1: Let me open the rundown here for the mother of
Speaker 1: the Today Show, Savannah. Today's Show host Savannah Guthrie is
Speaker 1: reported missing from her home. Here's one of the early reports.
Speaker 1: I think on this somebody right and us being Channel thirteen.
Speaker 15: The Sheriffs Department is asking the community for help in
Speaker 15: finding a missing vulnerable adult. Pima County deputies are trying
Speaker 15: to find eighty four.
Speaker 2: Year old Oh, she's eighty four. Eighty four years.
Speaker 15: Our home near East Skyline and Campbell Avenue. Now the
Speaker 15: last name may sound familiar. She is the mother of
Speaker 15: Juve alumnus and current Today Show hosts Savannah Guthrie, Crazy
Speaker 15: five feet five inches tall with blue eyes. PCSD says
Speaker 15: that Nancy was last seen at her home around nine
Speaker 15: five this morning before family reported her missing earlier today.
Speaker 1: All right, so she was reported missing by her family.
Speaker 1: Savannah Guthrie of The Today Show was not on the
Speaker 1: Today Show this morning as a result of this, and
Speaker 1: authorities are like swarming her home.
Speaker 2: This eighty four year old woman.
Speaker 1: A family member called nine one one around noon on
Speaker 1: Sunday to report the eighty four year old woman missing.
Speaker 1: The search is underway by ground and by air. There
Speaker 1: are concerning circumstances found at Savannah Guthrie's mother's home, and
Speaker 1: they will not rule out foul play. Homicide detectives are
Speaker 1: investigating the case right now. Savannah Guthrie has hosted The
Speaker 1: Today's Show since twenty twelve and also serves as NBC
Speaker 1: News Chief Legal correspondent. Her family has lived in Tucson
Speaker 1: for most of her life. She recently took a brief
Speaker 1: hiatus from The Today Show to undergo vocal surgery, and
Speaker 1: I guess she's she's not been there as a.
Speaker 2: Result of this as of late.
Speaker 4: That's got to be hard because after vocal surgery, a
Speaker 4: lot of times you're supposed to not speak for like
Speaker 4: six weeks or more.
Speaker 3: Stress helps with it either.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The sheriff, Pema County Sheriff, did you see what do
Speaker 3: he said during the press conference. I have one of him,
Speaker 3: but it's him talking last night.
Speaker 2: Is what you have more recent than that.
Speaker 3: I believe, so it was that Karkoy sent you in
Speaker 3: the chat. We saw some things at the home that
Speaker 3: we're concerning to us. We believe now after we process
Speaker 3: that crime scene, that we do in fact have a
Speaker 3: crime scene, that we do in fact have a crime
Speaker 3: and we're asking the community's help.
Speaker 1: Really really, they said, she's facing some physical challenges, this
Speaker 1: eighty four year old mother of Savannah Guthrie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they said, mentally she's all there, like she doesn't
Speaker 4: have cognitive issues sharp as attack, but she's in need
Speaker 4: of medication that can be fatal if not received within
Speaker 4: twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: She's got pretty physical things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty intensive though. Saying like that, we saw
Speaker 1: some things that were concerning to us. We believe after
Speaker 1: we processed the crime scene that it is indeed a
Speaker 1: crime scene. There's a crime and we're asking for the
Speaker 1: community's help.
Speaker 2: YEP.
Speaker 3: Stressing that her mobility is quite restricted, the sheriff stated,
Speaker 3: we know she didn't just walk out of there.
Speaker 1: What does this mean though, Eery wonder what they've found
Speaker 1: that makes them feel like this is a crime scene.
Speaker 1: Here's the press conference with the sheriff in Pima County, Arizona,
Speaker 1: about Savannah Guthrie from the Today Show her mom Nancy,
Speaker 1: who's missing four years old.
Speaker 2: Try to pump this up.
Speaker 3: It's physical, not of good physical health and actually concerns.
Speaker 11: The scene at the house also has some concerns, insist.
Speaker 11: She said, That's why I'm going to.
Speaker 2: H all we can.
Speaker 1: He's kind of whispering here, but he says a scene
Speaker 1: at the house has some serious concerns for us as well.
Speaker 11: And made her contective and remain in contact. Were both
Speaker 11: by no Claria Hospital medical transport teams. So far defense
Speaker 11: posing to nowhere.
Speaker 1: It's hard to hear what he's saying, but he said
Speaker 1: pretty clearly there at one part there was some concerning things,
Speaker 1: some concerning things that we found at her house. Then
Speaker 1: I saw from us Weekly they said she had skipped
Speaker 1: the show, skipped the show. Today, I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: story here in front of me after her mother was
Speaker 1: reported missing, and they said, uh, excuse me, Uh. Savannah
Speaker 1: Guthrie is fifty four years old. Her mother, as I said,
Speaker 1: is eighty four, and she says on behalf of our family.
Speaker 1: I want to thank everyone for the thoughts, prayers and
Speaker 1: messages of support. Right now, our soul for focus remains
Speaker 1: on the safe return of our dear mom. We thank
Speaker 1: law enforcement for their hard work on this case and
Speaker 1: encourage anybody with information to contact the Pima County Sheriff's
Speaker 1: Department and they get to give the the phone number
Speaker 1: out for that. This is very concerning to us. The
Speaker 1: Pima County Sheriff said she's very alert and sound of mind,
Speaker 1: but she was reported missing from her family. Here's the
Speaker 1: poster I've got like the missing poster. It says female,
Speaker 1: five foot five, one hundred and fifty pounds, hair color brown,
Speaker 1: eye color blue. Last scene evening of January thirty first.
Speaker 1: So how long thirty first was? What was that Saturday? Okay,
Speaker 1: so Saturday? Last scene on Saturday at her residence near
Speaker 1: East Skyline Drive at North Cambell Avenue.
Speaker 3: This is in Arizona, where Nancy Guthrie lives.
Speaker 1: Unknown what clothing she may be wearing, wearing it's as
Speaker 1: vulnerable adult. And now it's been from Saturday at point
Speaker 1: to all day Sunday to now obviously it's Monday and
Speaker 1: they have not found her mother.
Speaker 4: Do you think it's weird how much information they're giving out.
Speaker 4: I mean I know, there's a lot that they're not saying,
Speaker 4: especially this this sheriff Nanos, who has said stuff like,
Speaker 4: you know, he revealed that homicide detectors were assisting in
Speaker 4: the investigation and stuff like that, but he's holding back
Speaker 4: just what inside the house was so concerning to them
Speaker 4: because he said it's not appropriate.
Speaker 2: At this time.
Speaker 4: Now that is I know, that's the really curious part.
Speaker 4: But let's just like, hypothetically, they find Nancy Guthrie, Savannah's mother,
Speaker 4: They find her, she's a little worse for the wear,
Speaker 4: but she's okay, and she goes back home. Well, you
Speaker 4: think we've kind of said a little like a lot
Speaker 4: of information about her that people probably shouldn't know. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean without out, you know, specifically giving how her address,
Speaker 4: even though a lot of the news is there and there,
Speaker 4: or they know where the crime scene is. But now
Speaker 4: we know that she uh can't can't physically go very
Speaker 4: far even though she's mentally with it. Right, it seems
Speaker 4: like it's a little much. Yeah, let's make this a
Speaker 4: little more personal here, if we can.
Speaker 2: For a second.
Speaker 1: Now, this is an entirely different situation because your mother
Speaker 1: is both much younger and incredibly healthy and great shape
Speaker 1: and all of that stuff. But if you saw that
Speaker 1: your mother had been missing since Saturday and it's Monday, that, like,
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 3: Immediately considering those factors.
Speaker 1: Yeah, immediately, I'm going if it's a if it's a
Speaker 1: teenage kid or somebody like like a younger person, I
Speaker 1: might have a million excuses as to why this person disappeared,
Speaker 1: but for some reason, when it's somebody's.
Speaker 3: Mom, yeah, it seems a routine. Yeah, it seems more concerning.
Speaker 3: And she's not physically able to walk herself out of
Speaker 3: the house. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Look, even the photo I'm looking to hear that shows
Speaker 1: her with Savannah Guthrie on the set of the Today Show,
Speaker 1: she has a like a cane in her hand and
Speaker 1: you could see her arms all like sort of bruised up.
Speaker 1: Like she's doing great here either. But that's a very
Speaker 1: strange story. So we're going to keep an eye on that,
Speaker 1: see where everything goes, and see if there's any updates
Speaker 1: throughout the show about that one.
Speaker 3: And file this. U.
Speaker 2: I have to save this.
Speaker 1: I have to save this because I got two for
Speaker 1: you when we come back. One is Cracker Barrel is
Speaker 1: at it again. They have decided to make another movie,
Speaker 1: and I want to see what people think about this
Speaker 1: move that Cracker Barrel has made. And when it's cold, cold,
Speaker 1: cold outside, do you listen to your homeowners' association or
Speaker 1: do you ignore them when they tell you that you
Speaker 1: cannot use a generator to heat your home when the
Speaker 1: power is out?
Speaker 13: What do you do?
Speaker 1: And this story got people fired up this weekend. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what happened that is coming up next in
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Speaker 1: I want to ask you what you would do here,
Speaker 1: and I think I already with you too. The answer
Speaker 1: for all of us is going to be a big, fat,
Speaker 1: like middle finger to the people who tried to do this.
Speaker 1: Remember when we had a big fan of the show
Speaker 1: who lives in Nashville who always sends over dispatches, had
Speaker 1: told us, Hey, just so you know, I've been without
Speaker 1: power for I think where we said Nashville was without
Speaker 1: power for four or five days. And we're like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, there's ice storm going through. People are incredibly
Speaker 1: incredibly cold, and the power has been out for some
Speaker 1: people for days or even weeks. And with that in
Speaker 1: mind as a backdrop, I want you to tell me
Speaker 1: what you would do in this scenario. Because this family
Speaker 1: says that their Hoa came by and the power was out,
Speaker 1: you know, because of all the ice storm stuff.
Speaker 2: The power was not on.
Speaker 1: And the family said, well, we got a generator here,
Speaker 1: and we'll run the generator so that we can keep
Speaker 1: ourselves warm so we don't freeze the death. And the
Speaker 1: ho Way told these people, no, you can't use a
Speaker 1: generator during an ice storm blackout. And I thought to myself,
Speaker 1: that's a big that's a big because some rules are
Speaker 1: made to be broken. Right, Yes, I think we need
Speaker 1: like drugs, I think we need law in order. I
Speaker 1: think we need, you know, people to follow the laws,
Speaker 1: and you should be punished if you don't.
Speaker 2: But some rules are made to be broken.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like survival.
Speaker 2: If you came to me and.
Speaker 1: It's freezing outside and you tell me no, you cannot
Speaker 1: run a generator in this neighborhood even if the power's out.
Speaker 3: Try and stop me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm doing it. I'm doing it no matter, I guess.
Speaker 3: So just light of fire in my living rooms.
Speaker 1: Hs they try to say it was too dangerous, or
Speaker 1: it was too loud, or I have some of the
Speaker 1: report from WSMV here, let's.
Speaker 2: See what they saying.
Speaker 4: Families are doing anything they can to stay warm even
Speaker 4: if they don't have power, but that does include the
Speaker 4: generator home.
Speaker 13: We've had people reaching out to us saying that their
Speaker 13: HOA is not allowing generators even after this historic eyed storm.
Speaker 7: Here's Mark Kearney is pushing for answers tonight.
Speaker 1: Just the idea that you would hear that from your HOA,
Speaker 1: your homeowners association would come by and go, you know,
Speaker 1: I know it's you and your elderly mother and three
Speaker 1: kids inside the house, But we kind.
Speaker 3: Of have a no generator rule in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2: It even has a no generator rule. I've never heard of.
Speaker 2: My name, would it be would it be a noise issue?
Speaker 4: Like if I were to have would I be violating
Speaker 4: this rule if I had a solar like a battery
Speaker 4: backup with a solar system.
Speaker 1: The HOA tried to claim it was a safety issue
Speaker 1: Sea Lane.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, it's a safety issue for everybody.
Speaker 4: Everybody has the chance of I mean, anybody who owns
Speaker 4: a generator should know. And they they're told every time
Speaker 4: there's a some sort of hurricane or a chance for
Speaker 4: power outage, to make sure, make sure, make sure, make
Speaker 4: sure you do not operate the generator inside inside the house,
Speaker 4: don't do it in the garage, don't do it any
Speaker 4: of that stuff. So I don't see why you, as
Speaker 4: the HOA, get to police this.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's the same at everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's because they have like their little book of
Speaker 1: rules and this goes against something and they well, we
Speaker 1: can't do this. Your rules can kiss my ass when
Speaker 1: it comes to life or death. And you might think
Speaker 1: I'm exaggerating, but I'm not. In Nashville. When it's that
Speaker 1: cold and the ice is frozen out the power lines
Speaker 1: and the power is down and your house dips below
Speaker 1: a certain temperature, there is literally and legitimately a risk.
Speaker 3: Of you dying.
Speaker 1: So when somebody comes to your house and says, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: this is against the rules, that's one that I'm going
Speaker 1: to break every time, every single time.
Speaker 2: And I think, I mean, we'll put this on the
Speaker 2: MO list.
Speaker 4: But I think Moses would argue that, you know, the
Speaker 4: rule or the pact you have with your HOA is
Speaker 4: a contract, and I don't know that a contract can
Speaker 4: protect something that would be this dangerous to you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it absolutely could be a life or death thing.
Speaker 13: Let's see what I'll say that from running the fauce
Speaker 13: hits to pulling out every candle in the house, tell
Speaker 13: you a Caramelo is doing everything she can to get.
Speaker 2: This poor girl.
Speaker 1: She's in her house in a full on winter coat
Speaker 1: and bundled up because they won't let her use.
Speaker 3: The heat and they won't let her run the generator
Speaker 3: through this ice storm. Even sleeping at night, it's still tough,
Speaker 3: no matter the layers.
Speaker 13: So she pushed the blankets aside and drove around until
Speaker 13: they found this generator available in spring Hill, Nice spending
Speaker 13: run fifteen hundred bucks for it, plus extension cords and
Speaker 13: space heaters.
Speaker 3: It was literally right there with the wires going through.
Speaker 13: But Tellia says just hours after they got everything ready
Speaker 13: and signed and fired it up.
Speaker 1: So this girl obviously has enough going for her in
Speaker 1: her life that she had fifteen hundred dollars aside and
Speaker 1: went out and got a generator to help warm her
Speaker 1: and her family up, got extension cords, got space heaters
Speaker 1: that they might have needed to do this, and put
Speaker 1: them all in place in her house, only to have
Speaker 1: the HOA come along ago about that.
Speaker 13: No, we're not going to allow you from their HOA
Speaker 13: management company, Metropolitan Properties, please.
Speaker 3: Remove it immediately.
Speaker 13: Telia couldn't believe they were threatening to find her, saying
Speaker 13: the generator was a fire hazard and doesn't fit their aesthetic.
Speaker 1: It says the rule against maintaining a quality appearance was violated.
Speaker 3: It's her balcony you're talking about.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, am I not maintaining a quality appearance of
Speaker 1: my house in a snowstorm and an ice storm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know real these days, iss and bodies balcony.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm not going to mow my
Speaker 1: lawn during this ice storm either. If that's something else
Speaker 1: you'd like to push, I'd love to see.
Speaker 3: The HOA president whoever's going around sending the emails what
Speaker 3: their house look like during the winter storm.
Speaker 2: Jesus man, that's so dumb. And I'll give you some update.
Speaker 7: Because why is that even right now? Why do they
Speaker 7: care so much when people are just trying to stay warm?
Speaker 13: True, I've been reaching out to the property management company
Speaker 13: all day long, and they finally agreed to give tell
Speaker 13: y'all one time exemption so she can use that generator
Speaker 13: until the power comes back on.
Speaker 1: So they badger them at the television station. He's trying
Speaker 1: to reach out all day long, and then finally the
Speaker 1: HOA goes We will issue you a one time exemption
Speaker 1: and you can do this until the power goes on.
Speaker 1: Like the tiniest bit of power. Dad has corrupted your
Speaker 1: brain dead skulls. I do not understand how stuff like
Speaker 1: this happens. That's one of those ones where I go
Speaker 1: the rules can be damn yeah, I'll pay whatever afterwards.
Speaker 4: I don't care, And I wonder I'll add this to
Speaker 4: the MO question, but like, what your recourse is. You know,
Speaker 4: this woman had to go to the news to get
Speaker 4: the news to badger them for their one time exemption.
Speaker 3: But I saw in the comments for this story when
Speaker 3: I was posted.
Speaker 2: Somewhere that was like, Okay, good luck.
Speaker 4: Hoa, I'll see you in court, you know, like if
Speaker 4: you want to enforce this, I'll be calling a lawyer immediately.
Speaker 1: And what do you think a jury of your peers
Speaker 1: is got to say? Absolutely, like they're absolutely going to
Speaker 1: go what. I'm sorry you were freezing in your house
Speaker 1: and you wanted your family to be nice and warm
Speaker 1: and safe. Yeah, don't care, don't care about the rules
Speaker 1: of this fine overturned and all the rest. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: website at the news Junkie dot com. Meanwhile, Cracker Barrel
Speaker 1: is getting heat once again. They have now instituted a
Speaker 1: new rule and they said, if you are an employee
Speaker 1: who is for Cracker Barrel, so you're going around doing
Speaker 1: work or whatever, you are expected to eat only at
Speaker 1: Cracker Barrel locations while you're on the road. And this
Speaker 1: they said in an internal message obtained by The Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal. Cracker Barrel said that quote, employees are expected
Speaker 1: to excuse me, expected to dine at a Cracker Barrel
Speaker 1: store for all or at least the majority of all
Speaker 1: meals traveling whenever practical based on location and schedule.
Speaker 2: They said.
Speaker 1: The guidance also bars the company from reimbursing any alcohol
Speaker 1: purchases on business trips unless workers pay out of pocket
Speaker 1: or get pre approval for special occasions from senior leadership leadership.
Speaker 1: The travel meal policy comes as Cracker Barrel continues its
Speaker 1: efforts to trim expenses amid sagging traffic.
Speaker 3: After their whole premier employees.
Speaker 1: Their whole logo revamp thing, and people complained about the menu,
Speaker 1: people complained.
Speaker 3: About the logo and the signs.
Speaker 1: Cracker Barrel lost ninety four million dollars in market value
Speaker 1: in a day. They've been sinking since that a bit,
Speaker 1: and now people are taking issue with them, saying they're
Speaker 1: employees who are traveling for work may only eat at
Speaker 1: Cracker Barrel restaurants. All right, Let's see, I never worked
Speaker 1: for a place like that where they could like, I
Speaker 1: haven't worked for a place where it makes sense for
Speaker 1: them to ask me to do that. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: what's the comparison. iHeart would tell us we can only
Speaker 1: listen to iHeart radio stations.
Speaker 4: I think that they're they're just saying like, okay, like
Speaker 4: we have in full garb, we have a bunch of
Speaker 4: stuff that we pay for as a company, right yeah.
Speaker 4: And I think they were saying like, well, you can't
Speaker 4: use competitors' services to pay for like you can go
Speaker 4: on and and and pay for your own burger king
Speaker 4: or whatever you want on the road. But they're saying, like,
Speaker 4: I think if you're expensing it, they only want to
Speaker 4: reimburse you for stuff money that you spent at the company.
Speaker 3: You know as well as I do.
Speaker 1: When when you work for a restaurant after a while,
Speaker 1: it's yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And this is no knock
Speaker 1: on any anybody's food or cracker barrels food or anybody
Speaker 1: just every person I've ever met who works at a restaurant.
Speaker 3: Even if I loved eating at the place, I go,
Speaker 3: oh my god, this.
Speaker 2: Must be nice to work here.
Speaker 1: The food it's so good, and to be like, if
Speaker 1: you work at a place for a couple of years,
Speaker 1: you're gonna hate the food there, or.
Speaker 3: You create some really interesting combinations.
Speaker 1: You create your own hacks and stuff. Because I'm bored
Speaker 1: of all the other stuff.
Speaker 4: I know people who have worked for restaurants that like
Speaker 4: sort of can't eat the food because they just know
Speaker 4: ei they're vegetarian, or they have like different dietary restrictions
Speaker 4: or stuff that's like you can't be forced into, you know,
Speaker 4: eating stuff that you don't eat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a problem for some of their workers. But
Speaker 2: we'll see.
Speaker 1: Maybe you work at Cracker Barrel. Let us know, tips
Speaker 1: a long dude, that's like, hell, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: Give me some catfish quick break. When we come back
Speaker 1: the Epstein files, they released more of them. Anything interesting
Speaker 1: in there, well, we'll see anything going to happen as
Speaker 1: a result of this, we'll see even more with that.
Speaker 1: I got clips galore to play before we wrap everything
Speaker 1: up today. The Power Hour continues next. That is coming
Speaker 1: up next. I'm going to use Junkie. There was a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff in there. We'll talk about that in
Speaker 1: just a bit here on the show.
Speaker 3: I need help.
Speaker 2: What's wrong?
Speaker 1: I'm freaking out over here. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1: But okay, when it got really really cold, not only
Speaker 1: did it wipe out some of the plants.
Speaker 2: This is fine.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a couple of not anything expensive or whatever,
Speaker 1: and I noticed that there were some issues with that.
Speaker 1: But also I noticed as of Saturday that there was
Speaker 1: this huge I believe it's a gigantic murder of crows.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that is taking over the tree in my backyard.
Speaker 1: And awesome when I say murder of crows hanging off,
Speaker 1: I might be able to bring up the video.
Speaker 2: To show you.
Speaker 3: My neighbor are leaving out cat food. No, I don't
Speaker 3: shiny objects.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you this is like, this is problematic territory. Here,
Speaker 1: let me bring this up, right, they'll lift you up. Okay, here,
Speaker 1: here we go. This is what it looks like. This
Speaker 1: is it's it's worse than this suggest I'm going to
Speaker 1: show you for those of you over on YouTube and
Speaker 1: twitch your reward.
Speaker 2: All right, Actually I have to meet.
Speaker 1: Myself because I don't know, first time I've ever done that.
Speaker 1: All right, walking down the side here at the house.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, to see how many there are there? All
Speaker 1: crows or yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Think, yeah, I believe so time to imprint my friend.
Speaker 2: Well that was the picture of my uh my little
Speaker 2: life sculpture.
Speaker 1: There They've taken over an entire tree and if you
Speaker 1: go out there, they all fly up in the air
Speaker 1: and they fly there there's.
Speaker 2: Hundreds of them.
Speaker 3: Oh, this is very exciting.
Speaker 1: It's the crowning. I don't know, it's it's scary. Whatever's
Speaker 1: going on back there. How do I how do I
Speaker 1: without making them mad? I understand before you bird experts
Speaker 1: come at me that crows hold grudges, and I do
Speaker 1: not want bad blood.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I am not trying.
Speaker 2: I don't know about the crow, the crow or the
Speaker 2: crowing air.
Speaker 3: It's called birds. Oh that one, yeah, the Alfred Hitchcock thing.
Speaker 1: I I don't want any trouble with any of these birds,
Speaker 1: but I do want them to kindly f off out
Speaker 1: of the tree in my backyard.
Speaker 3: They were all at the same time.
Speaker 2: They do it.
Speaker 1: They go up in the air if anybody goes out there,
Speaker 1: And then lady goes out, and I'm like, well, one
Speaker 1: crow might not get her, even though these are big
Speaker 1: ass crows.
Speaker 2: But all of these what do I do?
Speaker 3: What the hell? I'm so jealous. I will be at
Speaker 3: your house this afternoon with my bucket of bird seed
Speaker 3: and my duck hall and I'll get them out of
Speaker 3: your hair.
Speaker 2: Yeah you can have them.
Speaker 3: You can have these ones. Then you look in the
Speaker 3: sky and it's me being lifted up by my trench coat,
Speaker 3: flying across our neighborhood.
Speaker 1: It's cool, but I just don't want them in my tree.
Speaker 1: In the freeze, they disappeared. They must have huddled together somewhere.
Speaker 1: Somebody says large numbers of crows, especially between the late
Speaker 1: fall and early spring, are likely migratory birds joining local
Speaker 1: populations for warmth, protection from predators, and abundant food sources.
Speaker 1: These winter roosts can number in the thousands, utilizing urban
Speaker 1: areas for safety and warmth. Interesting, so they're trying to
Speaker 1: heat up around here. It's a lot I Hear's the
Speaker 1: update on the other store we were talking about. I
Speaker 1: told you about the New York Times story about some people,
Speaker 1: mostly millennials, who are spending absurd amounts of their income
Speaker 1: each each year on door dash and Uber eats and
Speaker 1: other delivery services. Here's how this is impacting some of
Speaker 1: the younger communities. And I've heard of this happening.
Speaker 2: From people that I know.
Speaker 1: But this is somebody who said, my younger sister did this.
Speaker 1: We got the younger sister, what think you ordered? She's
Speaker 1: going to get your door dash order. She door dashed popcorn,
Speaker 1: popped popcorn from the movie theater.
Speaker 3: Nice, that's a big ass bag of popcorn, lady.
Speaker 1: You can get a thing of popcorn kernels for like
Speaker 1: a couple of dollars.
Speaker 3: That's not movie theater popcorns.
Speaker 1: You can get a thing on Amazon that you put
Speaker 1: them inside and you'll perfectly pop them up, and this
Speaker 1: little container you can reuse every single time. Or you
Speaker 1: could just get a bag of popcorn for like ninety
Speaker 1: nine cents. But if you are making financial decisions to
Speaker 1: buy a bucket of popcorn to have it delivered to
Speaker 1: your house for like twenty five dollars, I don't know what.
Speaker 2: I don't even know.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know same.
Speaker 2: You know that I it's it's insane. It's what it is.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be the same when you get it
Speaker 1: delivered either, because it's gonna be you know, you want
Speaker 1: that popcorn immediately. You want of popcorn right at the
Speaker 1: movie theater. You're spending money to have door dashed, just
Speaker 1: so some of you young folks know. I hate to
Speaker 1: get a whipper snappery on you here backing Mike, But
Speaker 1: here's how here's how.
Speaker 2: Movie theaters work.
Speaker 1: The movie theater makes a tiny slice of money off
Speaker 1: of the ticket that you purchase to go to see
Speaker 1: the movies. A small slice of that, a sliver goes
Speaker 1: to the movie theater that is showing those movies. The
Speaker 1: lion's share of the money that movie theaters make and
Speaker 1: thrive off of is purchased with small snacks and things
Speaker 1: like popcorn at the little commissary area. You know, go
Speaker 1: out to the lobby and get yourselves a treat or
Speaker 1: snack or whatever it is. That those snacks that they
Speaker 1: sell out there at the movie theater are marked up
Speaker 1: to insane multiples and they make a lot of money
Speaker 1: off each one of them, and that's how they fund
Speaker 1: the entirety of the movie theater.
Speaker 2: They don't make much off of the tickets, so everything
Speaker 2: you're looking.
Speaker 1: At that's on sale has a bigger markup than it
Speaker 1: would like an alta or a makeup store, which has
Speaker 1: massive markups. It's crazy already to spend that money on
Speaker 1: something in a movie theater, but if you're doing it
Speaker 1: to support the movie theater, that's one thing.
Speaker 2: If you're getting it afterwards, wow.
Speaker 3: Financially, because they don't have a deal with door Dasher
Speaker 3: uber eats where it's like we'll send me the popcorn
Speaker 3: and this digital download.
Speaker 1: They I don't know if they had that, but they
Speaker 1: literally are on most door dashes. So if you look
Speaker 1: at your door, actually usually get a movie theater hot dog.
Speaker 3: I mean, I did something ridiculous like that, but it
Speaker 3: was a Halloween emergency and my fog machine was not
Speaker 3: working and the treaders were already there. Wait, you can
Speaker 3: sog machines. So I thowt uber eats a fog machine
Speaker 3: from Party City, RG machine, whole fog machine, gallon of
Speaker 3: fog juice, and Halloween to save it.
Speaker 1: That's different because but fog machine, fog machine at least
Speaker 1: has some inherent value.
Speaker 3: This children well, and then give me just the fog machine.
Speaker 3: As I dressed as beetlejuice.
Speaker 4: I just searched for popcorn on uber eats, and yeah
Speaker 4: I have amc Altamont Mall Regal Cinemas. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 4: extra large bag of popcorn twenty three dollars.
Speaker 3: How much is it at the theater?
Speaker 4: Though not that much less The railar size is twelve dollars,
Speaker 4: which is still kind of.
Speaker 3: A look at I look up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of mark the popcorn for less than
Speaker 1: a dollar it's just it's absolutely it's like financial seppuku
Speaker 1: that you're doing. You're you're trying to and afterwards gonna
Speaker 1: be like, God, everything's so expensive in twenty twenty six. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you order a limo for your movie theater popcorn,
Speaker 1: you have enough problems. Stuff is legit expensive. You use
Speaker 1: zumers are gonna have to save up forever to try
Speaker 1: to buy a house.
Speaker 16: Oh you're not.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna like this at all.
Speaker 4: The twenty three dollars bag of popcorn, there's an option
Speaker 4: to add butter for one dollar, So if you want
Speaker 4: a butter popcorn that four dollars, I.
Speaker 1: Really allowed on YouTube says I listen to you each day,
Speaker 1: and while I delivered door dash for the things that
Speaker 1: people order are totally ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Earlier today I delivered.
Speaker 1: One big lighter, one b one big lighter, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: one big lighter. Many days I deliver one miniature liquor bottle.
Speaker 4: To be okay, not to be fair, I haven't ordered
Speaker 4: a lot of liquor on on Uber eats because I would,
Speaker 4: you know, I would just use like the direct liquor store,
Speaker 4: like the ABC website. But there are times where if
Speaker 4: you're trying to, you know, pick out what liquor you want,
Speaker 4: and you're not really paying attention to the price, or
Speaker 4: maybe like the information on the on the page they
Speaker 4: have the mini bottles available and you don't always know
Speaker 4: that you're picking them.
Speaker 3: Okay, mega bag of popcorn, yeah at the AMC is
Speaker 3: twenty two ninety nine. Uh huh, so you're paying two
Speaker 3: dollars more sea line. Uh that's not bad, Samrita. Have
Speaker 3: you missed the entirety of the point.
Speaker 1: The problem is not that it's a big markup from
Speaker 1: the movie theater to door dash to your door, which
Speaker 1: it is because you're gonna get a lot of fees
Speaker 1: and stuff in there. So the problem is there's nothing
Speaker 1: with a bigger markup in the world than movie theater popcorn.
Speaker 2: You could buy a thing of actual You could you could.
Speaker 1: Buy an entire pop secret thing with like ten bags
Speaker 1: in it for what six bucks or something. It's not
Speaker 1: very expensive, and you could have delicious popcorn in your
Speaker 1: house right in the microwave. Getting the stuff from the
Speaker 1: movie theater is catastrotrophically bad.
Speaker 4: The megabag twenty three dollars from AMC at least comes
Speaker 4: with an eight ounce bottle of butter topping because the
Speaker 4: other the other place.
Speaker 3: Was charging an extra dollar for butter.
Speaker 2: Now you're out twenty four dollars.
Speaker 3: My god, popcorn.
Speaker 2: I'm good.
Speaker 1: I don't really like popcorn that much. They released more
Speaker 1: of the Epstein files. I'll do a rundown on this
Speaker 1: tomorrow because there's some juicy bits in here that most
Speaker 1: people are missing.
Speaker 3: The video came out this time around.
Speaker 2: There is some core videos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll do a full run down on this tomorrow
Speaker 1: because that way people discover some more stuff because they
Speaker 1: just dumping on everybody. Don't forget, though, I want, I
Speaker 1: want everybody to know this.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: By the way, I searched for real radio and that
Speaker 1: wasn't mentioned in the in the Epstein files.
Speaker 2: But don't forget.
Speaker 1: If you go to jmail, were you worried, you never know?
Speaker 1: You go to if you go to jmail, j A
Speaker 1: I L dot world. That is my favorite version of this.
Speaker 1: They are dumping all of the files as they as
Speaker 1: they're released, and they're they're currently indexing and uploading all
Speaker 1: the latest ones too, and it's just like you're looking
Speaker 1: at your Gmail, but it's j m AI L dot
Speaker 1: world and not only can you search through all of
Speaker 1: them marked by year, just like you're in a Gmail correspondence,
Speaker 1: which is super interesting.
Speaker 3: But I love that they have the people on the sideline.
Speaker 1: Here, like you get like like if you're on Gmail
Speaker 1: and you have people you're chatting with, Yeah, in your content,
Speaker 1: you can click Elon Musk, Michael Wolf, Ehud Barack, Larry Summers,
Speaker 1: Steve Bannon, Noam choms Key, Alan Dershowitz, Ghlaine Maxwell. You
Speaker 1: could click all these different names that appear so many
Speaker 1: different times in the files, and then it's just very
Speaker 1: very easy to open this up and utilize it.
Speaker 2: It's just like you're using Gmail.
Speaker 4: I think they're still adding a bunch because I'm not
Speaker 4: seeing One of my favorite emails that I read over
Speaker 4: the weekend from this Epstein dump, and that was these
Speaker 4: correspondences he had with uh with Elon Musk where Elon
Speaker 4: was trying to hang out and come party, and he
Speaker 4: like forwarded it to Glane and was like, could you
Speaker 4: please deal with this?
Speaker 1: Well, one of them I saw, he was like, Elon,
Speaker 1: do you want to come by the island and hang
Speaker 1: out or you want to come by my place and
Speaker 1: hang out?
Speaker 2: Maybe in New York or something.
Speaker 1: He said, we're gonna have a lot of people who
Speaker 1: are in town for this United Nations event. And Elon's like,
Speaker 1: why would I want to go hang out with a
Speaker 1: bunch of losers from this United Nations thing?
Speaker 2: And Epstein says, what do you think I am retarded?
Speaker 1: I'm talking about a bunch of hotties and not one
Speaker 1: of them looks like they're over twenty five.
Speaker 2: It's like what.
Speaker 1: Like he was speaking in code, like pedo code, and
Speaker 1: Elon didn't get his pedo code, and so he's like, Hey,
Speaker 1: here's what we're really doing. So there's a lot in there.
Speaker 1: There's a lot. If you've found anything, stack them up.
Speaker 1: We'll go through and do a rundown on all the
Speaker 1: latest discoveries in there tomorrow, so everybody's caught up on that.
Speaker 1: When we come back, though, here's what we're gonna do,
Speaker 1: final dispatches, stories that didn't make the cut. And today
Speaker 1: I learned to wrap everything up for a Monday that
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Speaker 1: blank on the way out. Let me see I'm getting
Speaker 1: all these I'm getting as many as I can. Load
Speaker 1: it up so we can quick fire through a ton
Speaker 1: of these submissions, and the goal today was rate my doodle,
Speaker 1: and I wanted you to redo the news junkie logo.
Speaker 2: I said, the best one.
Speaker 1: We'll take it and turn it into a sticker and
Speaker 1: then we'll give it out to people who are listening
Speaker 1: to the show. We had some good submissions, some bad submissions,
Speaker 1: some definitely AI submissions, some submissions that are definitely AI,
Speaker 1: but still so good that maybe we'll still use them.
Speaker 3: Any of them I am or. There's a couple of
Speaker 3: marker type things drawn in here.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't look like it was drawn on the side
Speaker 1: of like a package. All right, I almost have. I
Speaker 1: got a bunch of them up. I don't have all
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 2: We are going to rapid fire go through these for
Speaker 2: everybody over on on the stream.
Speaker 1: Here we got ready, Yes, this is Cranks from Colorado
Speaker 1: and he has is drawn and the logo with some
Speaker 1: stick figures of us in there.
Speaker 3: All right, let's keep moving.
Speaker 8: This is.
Speaker 3: That's AI.
Speaker 1: It's it's a needle by somebody's arm injecting the headlines
Speaker 1: into them. Oh wow, this is just just the top version,
Speaker 1: it says junkie there. Yeah, yeah, this is just the
Speaker 1: top version of the logo because it's on the website.
Speaker 2: It is a little rough looking.
Speaker 1: Well, this one's great. That's really good. This is a
Speaker 1: real drawing too. Yeah, this was like with a frozen
Speaker 1: iguana on it. That's really impressive. Uh, hang on, this
Speaker 1: is uh that's that's just a sticker. That's just we
Speaker 1: already did that one. So here's the News Junkie with
Speaker 1: a penis over the eye and it says Sean killed
Speaker 1: the dog ones. That's it's rude. We already did that one.
Speaker 1: Here is it says the News Junkie. Nice and simple,
Speaker 1: but still well done and definitely hand drawn. Here's junk Yeah,
Speaker 1: this one's definitely done an MS paint. It's got our
Speaker 1: names written to the logo. You can see all these
Speaker 1: on the News Junkie dot com in the submitted dispatches section.
Speaker 1: This says the next episode smoke weed every Day.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: I think, uh, this is very very well done with
Speaker 1: some highlighter action on a napkin that somebody did.
Speaker 3: Oh that's a napkin.
Speaker 2: I thought it was. Here's a this is ai but
Speaker 2: it's so good. It's like a winter in Florida one.
Speaker 2: I love.
Speaker 1: This is that's the ramp right there from from the
Speaker 1: one event we did. Here's somebody scrolled out the logo
Speaker 1: We'll run out of time so I'm trying to go fast.
Speaker 1: That's definitely AI right. I think that it's like really
Speaker 1: smooth lines. This is like a Valentine's Day one that
Speaker 1: they use day.
Speaker 2: I oh, this is cool.
Speaker 1: The News theme Park, Hot Take Mountain. The next episode
Speaker 1: was Mike, this is pretty fun for hand drawn one.
Speaker 1: I think you did a great job. And a few more.
Speaker 1: Here's another hand drawn one. This is definitely AI.
Speaker 3: But this week in cats featured on it is that
Speaker 3: what are we wearing?
Speaker 1: Kentucky Derby edition? We're all dressed up for the Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well you're about to award it to somebody, like
Speaker 4: will you take this final rose?
Speaker 1: This one has Lady Lady inside of the drawing that
Speaker 1: they did. That's very good.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 1: Here's another one and the final one I have for now,
Speaker 1: the News Junkie. This is this is breaking stuff. This
Speaker 1: is a I right, so I think it's otherwise it'd
Speaker 1: be too good of a sketch.
Speaker 3: What do we think is one of the first three
Speaker 3: that I really enjoyed. But the hand drawn one.
Speaker 2: Park the hand. It is good too. I wanna yeah,
Speaker 2: that's right here. This is literally a squirrel, literally a squirrel.
Speaker 3: Email me tips at the news Junkie dot com so many.
Speaker 1: You did a great job though, and I encourage people
Speaker 1: to go over there and check them out because there's
Speaker 1: more coming in as of right now. Click the dispatches
Speaker 1: section of the website and show people some love, you know,
Speaker 1: hit like on their on their submissions, et cetera, et cetera. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're going to get any dispatches in.
Speaker 1: I think we really just kind of got to get
Speaker 1: the hell out of here.
Speaker 2: So let's do that.
Speaker 1: There's a lot more to discuss this week on the show,
Speaker 1: so don't miss out as we roll around with a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
Speaker 2: But right now, let's do today.
Speaker 14: I learned the following information may make you feel smarter,
Speaker 14: but will not actually increase your IQ.
Speaker 2: So don't get cocky.
Speaker 8: Now it's done.
Speaker 2: What we call today.
Speaker 1: It is set I learned for a Monday, February second,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: The creator of this since The Simpsons is correct.
Speaker 1: Matt graining. I never know it's graining or growing Graining.
Speaker 1: I think it's graining. I believe it's graning. Matt Graining,
Speaker 1: creator of The Simpsons, has not one, not two, not three,
Speaker 1: but eleven children, that kind of collection of them going on.
Speaker 3: He's been making the show since nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 2: He was born in.
Speaker 1: Fifty four, so he was just thirty four years old,
Speaker 1: thirty five years old when he first started to make
Speaker 1: The Simpsons.
Speaker 2: He's still making it now in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Today the movie Castaway, None of the sound on the
Speaker 1: island scenes is real.
Speaker 2: What they had to fake all of it.
Speaker 1: The loudness of the ocean waves on the actual uninhabited
Speaker 1: island they were filming on was so overwhelming that every
Speaker 1: single sound on the island and ocean scene, including Tom
Speaker 1: Hanks monologues, were carefully recorded in a studio.
Speaker 2: I thought that when they recorded or shot that on
Speaker 2: was did have inhabitants. You can throw a flag on
Speaker 2: the field all you want, but is what it says
Speaker 2: in front of me here? I don't know.
Speaker 1: And finally today I learned this band right here sum
Speaker 1: up the rhythmics.
Speaker 2: That's right, the arrhythmics is correct.
Speaker 4: In the name of this song, sweet Dreams, are made
Speaker 4: of this, that's right.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Dave Stewart of the Rhythmics when he was meeting Annie Lennox,
Speaker 1: his future bandmate, while she was waitressing at a vegetarian
Speaker 1: cafe in nineteen seventy six, His first words ever to
Speaker 1: her were, will you marry me? She said no, and
Speaker 1: he said, well can we be in a band then?
Speaker 1: And he chose that as a backup. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for hanging out with us. We do appreciate it.
Speaker 1: We're back tomorrow, same time, same place. Missed any of
Speaker 1: the show, get the podcast over at the newsjunkie dot com.
Speaker 2: We'll see it tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Everybody