Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, March eighteenth, twenty twenty six. Watch to
Speaker 1: get to today from the half Roman court case to
Speaker 1: more spring break takeovers lead to shocking arrests and people
Speaker 1: freak out as a massive meteor crashes down. Plus your calls, dispatches, emails,
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Speaker 1: studio at a real time. How's everybody doing on oh Wednesday?
Speaker 2: Dude?
Speaker 1: Good? Hey you good? Hanging in there?
Speaker 3: Didn't shave before the show today?
Speaker 1: I noticed? Yeah, I was like, wow, this guy.
Speaker 4: Two days in a row.
Speaker 1: We do not change much of Oh my gosh, we're
Speaker 1: doing it again. Yeah, we are supermarkets sweeping it again.
Speaker 1: We all have matching shirts on today accidentally on the show.
Speaker 4: But we do have that concert we're going to be
Speaker 4: stage hands for later on so.
Speaker 1: Yeah why not? Yeah? Yeah, so no, I didn't get
Speaker 1: to shave, been too busy to shave, which is not great.
Speaker 1: But we got a lot to talk about, and I
Speaker 1: got to tell you I can't wait to get into
Speaker 1: I'll do a full rundown on the afro Man case.
Speaker 1: If you haven't been watching this, it's the greatest thing
Speaker 1: since slice bread and everything after it is that this
Speaker 1: is the most fun I've seen in the court case
Speaker 1: in a very very long time. And I know you
Speaker 1: need a distraction, so I'm here to provide that for you. Okay,
Speaker 1: in fact, let's start out there. Let's just start out there.
Speaker 1: I'll give you a little Pika Rooney and then we'll
Speaker 1: go to some other stuff and then we'll give you
Speaker 1: the full Afroman rundown in about an hour here on
Speaker 1: the show. But let's put our ears to the ground,
Speaker 1: our fingers on the pulselice. What's happening in this great, big,
Speaker 1: wide world of ours. Into the courtroom we go, Here
Speaker 1: we go. This is the Afroman case. Now, let me
Speaker 1: give you a very very brief intro to this. Afroman
Speaker 1: is the singer who did the song, because I got
Speaker 1: high heard of it, and everybody knows this song and
Speaker 1: it's controversial figuring character out there, and he also was
Speaker 1: rated by the cops, and he took the security video
Speaker 1: of the cops rating his house, and Afroman made a
Speaker 1: music video of that, and he made.
Speaker 3: Fun of the cops.
Speaker 1: He called one of them like pound cake and a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of other stuff, or he had jokes galore
Speaker 1: for these guys. The cops got butt hurt over Afroman
Speaker 1: making fun of them, so the cops sued afro Man.
Speaker 1: And now Afroman is in the courtroom with an American
Speaker 1: flag suit and an American flag glasses.
Speaker 4: On, and it's impressive.
Speaker 1: It's something. Let's listen, and here's what happened.
Speaker 5: Can you tell me what fact about you that receding
Speaker 5: hairline or the first two?
Speaker 6: Please?
Speaker 1: Okay, this is one of the police officers on the stand,
Speaker 1: and the attorney goes, can you tell me what fact
Speaker 1: about you receding hairline? Or I think the other thing
Speaker 1: that he ends up saying is dip s the S word,
Speaker 1: you know, he said, He goes, what facts about you?
Speaker 1: Does this reveal? Those two were about you?
Speaker 6: That receding hairline or the first two?
Speaker 1: Please?
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, what private fact of yours does that refer to?
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a picture of me and sit here
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 4: Ellen.
Speaker 2: See, I wouldn't trust him with myth amphetamine crack app
Speaker 2: loan in my house.
Speaker 1: So he's gotta go over all of the stuff that
Speaker 1: the song says about him. And so he's like, I
Speaker 1: think it is I think it's offensive that Afroman told
Speaker 1: me he wouldn't trust me with methemphetamine in the song
Speaker 1: that he wrote about me. And uh, you thought all
Speaker 1: of the insults has got to go over one by
Speaker 1: one by one.
Speaker 6: Balloon in my house.
Speaker 2: So up on that pretty insulting.
Speaker 6: So that's the that statement.
Speaker 2: I told you this is one of many.
Speaker 6: Well, and that's why we're talking.
Speaker 2: You keep trying to make it singular. I'm telling you
Speaker 2: it's it's not singular.
Speaker 1: It's work. This is not the act said I thought
Speaker 1: this guy would have this cop Yeah, well, uh do
Speaker 1: you know what the joke from the attorney here, which
Speaker 1: is so brazen, is, Hey, if Afroman said that you
Speaker 1: have a receding hairline, Sir, you're up in front of
Speaker 1: the court right now and you're completely bald.
Speaker 7: What is the private thing that Afroman has revealed about
Speaker 7: you by saying your hairline is receding, Oh, there's please elaborate, sir,
Speaker 7: comfort bald guy.
Speaker 1: There's one where the guy goes, what has Afroman said
Speaker 1: about you that you're that you're gonna sue him for?
Speaker 1: And he goes, he said his wife, He said, my
Speaker 1: wife is cheating on me. And the attorney goes, well,
Speaker 1: is your wife cheating on you? And he goes, I
Speaker 1: don't know, And the guy goes the attorney goes, you
Speaker 1: don't know if your wife is cheating on you, and
Speaker 1: it just brings this whole thing full circle. The cold
Speaker 1: Court case is so fantastic. It's such a side show.
Speaker 1: A little more here one.
Speaker 8: Is receiving hairline yep, and the other is meth heads. Yes,
Speaker 8: is there any more?
Speaker 2: Well, when he's said there making accusations against the organization
Speaker 2: that I at that time was working for destroying community trust,
Speaker 2: all based off of a lie, that's what ultimately stopped, and.
Speaker 6: That's community trust and the Adams kind of Sheriff's department.
Speaker 1: Correct, Yes, all right, this is one of the officers.
Speaker 1: This is just the beginning. I'll get into all of
Speaker 1: the good clips for this a little bit later on
Speaker 1: in the show. Because it is a fun ride to
Speaker 1: go on, and that's not anywhere near the cream of
Speaker 1: the crop of what we're dealing with here. I'll also
Speaker 1: give you more of a rundown on with what exactly
Speaker 1: is happening with.
Speaker 3: The case, so it makes more sense to you moving forward.
Speaker 1: But let's go to the skies, everybody, because there was
Speaker 1: a meteor crashing through the skies and a lot of
Speaker 1: people freaked out in Ohio, in Pittsburgh, in a couple
Speaker 1: other spots. These folks said, WHOA, what's happening right now?
Speaker 1: What is this? A bird of playing all of those
Speaker 1: good things up in the air. And I'll give you
Speaker 1: here's one gentleman's response to this. He's driving along at
Speaker 1: his semi truck in Ohio and he sees the media
Speaker 1: coming bout. He's driving along dash camp foot and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right in the middle of the day.
Speaker 1: But look, it's so obvious when it comes across right
Speaker 1: there media through the sky. The guy said, WHOA, what
Speaker 1: the heff was that? As he's behind the wheel of
Speaker 1: his semi but broad daylight, folks, I mean, I know
Speaker 1: you're you're driving along, you're listening to the show, you're
Speaker 1: working whatever. I'll put this up on see it now,
Speaker 1: so you can look at it when you get a
Speaker 1: chance here. But it is like the day sky still
Speaker 1: lights up with this meteor ripping through and really making
Speaker 1: a show. It was something to see a lot of
Speaker 1: people freaked out. You did indeed, Well, did I get
Speaker 1: that on my heaf and dash cam? Yes, sir, you did,
Speaker 1: You actually did. And I guess there was a couple
Speaker 1: of people who were very upset about this afterwards, like
Speaker 1: here's one of the stories. Why was there no warning
Speaker 1: about that meteor that flew across north northeast Ohio.
Speaker 4: You got to tell people about it?
Speaker 1: Come on, do we get warnings? Do we get meteor warnings?
Speaker 1: I think that we know when media.
Speaker 7: I mean, how often have we had a story on
Speaker 7: this show in how many years we've been on the
Speaker 7: air that they're like, a meteor is coming with very
Speaker 7: close to Earth. It's going to be you know, six
Speaker 7: hundred million miles, very very close to Earth. It's gonna
Speaker 7: be cool that close to it, and you know, so
Speaker 7: there are ways of tracking these things. I think my
Speaker 7: other concern would be not for nothing. There is a
Speaker 7: little bit of a skirmige going on. There's a little
Speaker 7: bit of a tussle in the Middle East. Somebody could
Speaker 7: see this and go they.
Speaker 1: Are, yeah, oh, is it a missile coming in right now?
Speaker 3: What are the folks over?
Speaker 1: On TNJ chat two point zero says it was traveling
Speaker 1: at forty k miles per hour and they said that
Speaker 1: was slow for a media. It's just so crazy. And
Speaker 1: these people look to this guy Sea Lions, right. They
Speaker 1: didn't think it was an Iranian drone attack or anything,
Speaker 1: but they did get mad. And here's one of the
Speaker 1: stories from News five Cleveland. There was sonic booms and everything,
Speaker 1: but people said, we didn't get a warning about this.
Speaker 1: Many News five viewers have been calling the station and
Speaker 1: posting on social media saying why was there no warning
Speaker 1: about the Metior Doctor Ralph Harvey, a professor who was
Speaker 1: specializing in planetary soundians at the planetarium at Case Western
Speaker 1: Reserve University, says this happens a couple of times a
Speaker 1: day on average, but it's rare for what to travel
Speaker 1: over such a populated area. It was at a very
Speaker 1: high altitude when it hit the atmosphere. This is obviously
Speaker 1: an object somewhere between the size of an engine block
Speaker 1: and a car. That's how big this thing was. A
Speaker 1: lot of people had parking lot cameras and doorbell cameras
Speaker 1: to catch this, this particular media that flew through the sky,
Speaker 1: and they said, at this moment in time, the people
Speaker 1: in that area are very lucky people. I hope everybody
Speaker 1: that goes out on a dog walker strolling through the
Speaker 1: fields of the parking lot, I hope they're all keeping
Speaker 1: their eyes open for a rock that looks out of place.
Speaker 1: What am I looking for? How do I know it's
Speaker 1: a media and not a regular rock because meteors are
Speaker 1: worth money.
Speaker 4: Well, it's a rock that looks out of place, yes, so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe hold on it may seem I don't know
Speaker 1: if they found it. I don't think they've found it,
Speaker 1: so I was hoping that the news story would show it,
Speaker 1: just like of course, you just get this guy from
Speaker 1: a Ohio or whatever. It was a big old boom,
Speaker 1: just like that. It was just like a boom like that.
Speaker 1: There you go, big boom. Shook communities. They're getting on
Speaker 1: Facebook as far west of the Anniversity beach Wood and
Speaker 1: send me something from strong as.
Speaker 4: It's all over the place.
Speaker 9: Sparking confusion and questions all across northeast Ohio.
Speaker 1: This is so dramatic, dramatic resolve, and it says, what
Speaker 1: was that? All caps, big question mark on the news graphics.
Speaker 7: Let's get this bystander with a hot dog derby hat.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what the hell it was. Everybody in
Speaker 1: Ohio's panicked. They're on edge. What was that thing in
Speaker 1: the sky? What was happening?
Speaker 6: Cleveland?
Speaker 10: Like, no where tonight we have team coverage of the
Speaker 10: media that's discoveraged across our sky and what they're looking.
Speaker 1: For right now? Can you tell we're at a slow
Speaker 1: part in the news cycle? They like, we have team
Speaker 1: coverage tonight on the meteor that did nothing to Cleveland
Speaker 1: except make people panic and freak out. That's what they're
Speaker 1: doing over there. They had everybody in town, from the
Speaker 1: hot dog hat guy to everybody that could find comment
Speaker 1: on this.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and it was burning up, creating this bright, streaking
Speaker 11: sky we call fireball.
Speaker 1: Just wild, wasn't it? Boy?
Speaker 10: What Saint Patrick's stay to remember here at home? Thanks
Speaker 10: to an out of visit world visitor, it has social
Speaker 10: media buzzing.
Speaker 1: So Mike Sucks gathered all kinds.
Speaker 10: Of video from across northeast Ohio.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to give them credit they've got sports
Speaker 1: say that, fragments on that. They have five different shots
Speaker 1: mapped out showing the media coming in all over their state.
Speaker 1: No man, Yeah, they really put a lot of effort
Speaker 1: into this. But everybody be calm our Ohio listeners. I
Speaker 1: assure you you're not under attack. Ran has not fired
Speaker 1: back as far as we know, and maybe they will
Speaker 1: at some point. I don't know if they can pull
Speaker 1: that out.
Speaker 7: But as far Iran hates the Rock and Roll Hall
Speaker 7: of Fame, they're putting in too many rappers and they
Speaker 7: have bummed it.
Speaker 1: How would Gene Simmons react to that?
Speaker 4: That's the question I have Just weeks He's going to
Speaker 4: bring it up when it's not relevant.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm kind of glad they blew up the Rock
Speaker 1: and Roll Hall of Fame. I mean, how would he
Speaker 1: react if they did that, because it is a legitimate target.
Speaker 1: I think if I'm if all.
Speaker 7: Of the sources say Billy Joel devastated, he'll never get
Speaker 7: back his handwritten lyrics till we didn't start the fire.
Speaker 3: True, can't replace that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So there it is. And well, if anybody has any
Speaker 1: any meteor comments, will of course take those over at
Speaker 1: the news Junkie dot com all day.
Speaker 4: We're going to talk about it all day long.
Speaker 1: As I go high team coverage. I have a bigger
Speaker 1: question for you that may may or may not require
Speaker 1: team coverage because I saw this story this morning and
Speaker 1: I go, man, that's a perfect one. That's the perfect
Speaker 1: one to throw out to the audience. And it's the
Speaker 1: question I have for you today, and dispatchers and emailers,
Speaker 1: if you want to be anonymous on your email, say that,
Speaker 1: we'll keep name out of this because in a minute
Speaker 1: it'll make sense why that would be the case. But
Speaker 1: I want to know if this is you, if this
Speaker 1: is you that this is talking about. They asked more
Speaker 1: than seven thousand US adults. They asked them a very
Speaker 1: particular question, They said, have you seriously thought about shooting someone?
Speaker 1: And nineteen million Americans say yes? They had out of
Speaker 1: how many out of the three hundred and what forty
Speaker 1: million population or so, we got nineteen How many did
Speaker 1: they ask? They asked seven thousand adults, but they you know,
Speaker 1: they extrapolated the numbers from there, nearly three and ten people,
Speaker 1: thirty percent. If you want to run it that way,
Speaker 1: That's what I was looking for. Yeah, nearly three in
Speaker 1: ten people. I guess, well, actually that it's a little
Speaker 1: lesson that, but it says nearly three in ten people
Speaker 1: who reported these thoughts didn't own or have access to
Speaker 1: a gun. Men, younger adults, Black Americans, and urban residents
Speaker 1: were among the groups most likely to report these thought
Speaker 1: odd Well, gun ownership and political affiliation showed no meaningful connection.
Speaker 1: It says about four million people who had thoughts of
Speaker 1: shooting somebody told another person about this, which goes into
Speaker 1: like the red flag laws and stuff. But yeah, they
Speaker 1: said seven point three percent of adults. There's your number.
Speaker 1: Seven point three percent of adults said they have thought
Speaker 1: about shooting somebody at some point in time.
Speaker 3: And now I want some honesty.
Speaker 1: Have you guys, Sabrina ce Lane, Let's start with you.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had a moment where you're like, I
Speaker 1: seriously considered I thought about shooting someone at some point
Speaker 1: in time. Obviously you don't have to give any details
Speaker 1: if you don't want to, but.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know if I can't say that now
Speaker 4: punched them in the face. Absolutely, I'm not talking about Yeah, No,
Speaker 4: I cannot recall the time that I've wanted to shoot.
Speaker 1: See and I don't even mean like you you have
Speaker 1: a gun, so you're gonna go back into your house.
Speaker 1: I mean just thinking like, oh, if I shot this person, boy,
Speaker 1: I things would be a whole hell of a lot
Speaker 1: easier if I just did. Did they factor.
Speaker 7: In if any of these seven thousand people had military service,
Speaker 7: because because then your your answer does differ, like once
Speaker 7: you're at a certain point in the military, especially I
Speaker 7: my friends in the United States Marine Corps where they
Speaker 7: would be you know, deployed out somewhere, and then they
Speaker 7: come back home and they're like, I didn't get to
Speaker 7: shoot anybody, angry.
Speaker 3: That they didn't.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you know some people that go into military service
Speaker 1: and they want to see action. Well, it says owning
Speaker 1: a gun and political affiliation had no link to whether
Speaker 1: people thought about killing somebody or no, got it, So.
Speaker 3: It didn't come back to that.
Speaker 4: Wait.
Speaker 7: Wait, wait, that's another thing that you just kind of unwrapped.
Speaker 7: Another part of this puzzle here is that we said
Speaker 7: shooting somebody. We didn't say killing them, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, this is just about this is about just
Speaker 1: shooting these people. I'm an on this.
Speaker 7: By the way, I have never seriously entertained the idea
Speaker 7: of shooting somebody.
Speaker 1: Also, they they said living in the Midwest was linked
Speaker 1: to higher odds of people saying that they had considered
Speaker 1: shooting somebody at some point in time.
Speaker 3: Perhaps the most surprising was.
Speaker 1: This I'm not going for a birthday. Perhaps the most
Speaker 1: surprising it was not linked to gun ownership. People who
Speaker 1: owned guns were no more likely to think about shooting
Speaker 1: someone than people who did not. Political affiliation also showed
Speaker 1: no link. Republicans, Democrats, and independence reported similar rates when asked, Hey,
Speaker 1: have you thought about actually shooting somebody? They all were
Speaker 1: the same across the board. Among those who reported seriously
Speaker 1: thinking about shooting somebody, the most common target was quote
Speaker 1: an enemy, Well, I mean I would hope so, cited
Speaker 1: by fifty one percent of the group. The second most common,
Speaker 1: about twenty five percent, was a stranger dude. Twenty five
Speaker 1: percent of the people who thought about shooting somebody thought
Speaker 1: about just shooting a random stranger. Red flag there described
Speaker 1: in the survey as somebody involved in a random conflict
Speaker 1: or people in a public space. The category stands out
Speaker 1: because it doesn't because it includes strangers in public encounters,
Speaker 1: though the study doesn't examine how those thoughts relate to
Speaker 1: mass shootings.
Speaker 3: So oh oh, I've got here.
Speaker 1: I've got the actual breakdown of this, and I want
Speaker 1: to know have you ever and again, if you want
Speaker 1: to email tips at the Neewsjuggi dot com, be.
Speaker 3: Honest about this.
Speaker 1: Have you ever thought about shooting somebody else? Have you
Speaker 1: considered this? Now? Here's what they say on the numbers
Speaker 1: shocking thoughts inside the survey on shooting others. Nineteen point
Speaker 1: three million US adults seven point three percent have seriously
Speaker 1: thought about shooting someone.
Speaker 3: Three point three.
Speaker 1: Percent thought about it in the past year. That's eight
Speaker 1: point five million people. It's equivalent of eight point five
Speaker 1: million people in the country who thinks about it. Younger adults,
Speaker 1: Black respondents, urban residents. Urban residence makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: All right, you live in a city. There's more people
Speaker 1: on top of you and around you. You're getting bothered
Speaker 1: by more people. It's a huge issue, and of course
Speaker 1: the city people, which may in some cases make it
Speaker 1: more likely that black respondents to are wrapped up in
Speaker 1: this city. People are like, oh hell yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that definitely has happened to me. Considered actions. Four million
Speaker 1: thought about getting a gun to shoot someone one point
Speaker 1: five million brought a gun to a location. Oh, I
Speaker 1: think they're like, they're really going for it. Targets of thoughts,
Speaker 1: fifty one percent were targeting an enemy, twenty five percent
Speaker 1: a stranger, fourteen percent government officials for their target. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: it said. Fourteen percent said their thought was shooting a
Speaker 1: government official.
Speaker 7: I sure hope this website did their due diligence on
Speaker 7: anonymizing these people, because oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wait till the White House gets word of this.
Speaker 1: Fourteen percent of people said if they had thoughts about
Speaker 1: shooting somebody. Of those people, fourteen percent of them say
Speaker 1: it was government officials they wanted to shoot, that they
Speaker 1: thought about shooting. Ten percent said a family member or
Speaker 1: partner was.
Speaker 3: The target of their thoughts.
Speaker 1: All right, So of the people who said, yes, I've
Speaker 1: thought about shooting somebody, fifty one percent we're going to
Speaker 1: target an enemy, twenty five percent a stranger, fourteen percent
Speaker 1: government officials, and ten percent family member or a partner.
Speaker 3: A chance for.
Speaker 1: Prevention, it says, twenty percent told somebody about it, or
Speaker 1: six point seven percent have given their gun to somebody
Speaker 1: for safety, so they didn't use it.
Speaker 3: Just crazy, that's wild, that's wild.
Speaker 1: To think about as like, one out of ten people,
Speaker 1: one out of ten people you're walking around have thought
Speaker 1: about shooting somebody? John, you have I want to know
Speaker 1: your story, all right, dispatches emails, let's hear them today, Sean.
Speaker 1: If somebody ever came to you and said, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: I have been entertaining a not so savory idea here,
Speaker 1: and just to you know, just to make sure nothing
Speaker 1: bad happens, I'm going to give you my gun and
Speaker 1: let you hold onto it, just just for safety. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you ever give that person their gun back?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 3: That would be a tough one to handle.
Speaker 1: I mean I think I would take it because I
Speaker 1: would go I got to prevent whatever, take it. But
Speaker 1: then part of me is like, so my gun now,
Speaker 1: like Mike is my gun. Sabrina comes to me and goes,
Speaker 1: she doesn't say who, but she goes, I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: killing this dangers. You're the one she wants to shoot.
Speaker 1: So I really got to take the car.
Speaker 4: I've already done the crime, and I'm like, here, have
Speaker 4: my gun and put your oily fingerprints on it.
Speaker 3: I would take the gun, for sure, I don't know.
Speaker 1: How it would handle it after that because this really
Speaker 1: would be an odd situation.
Speaker 4: So I've been in that situation before.
Speaker 1: What where somebody brought you a gun and said, got
Speaker 1: to take this.
Speaker 4: Where it was yeah, I would say to not give
Speaker 4: too many details, but they were considering maybe harbing.
Speaker 1: Themselves, so okay, all right, yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it was a group of friends effort to
Speaker 4: take the gun, and it was in someone's possession I
Speaker 4: think for a couple months until we all kind of like,
Speaker 4: all right, you're back, head straight on, sound body mind.
Speaker 4: You may have your weapon back.
Speaker 3: It's a weird processor, it's gotta be.
Speaker 1: But I want to know about this because this was
Speaker 1: a story that stood out to me today that I
Speaker 1: want to revisit and weave into the show. So your
Speaker 1: dispatch is, have you thought about shooting somebody else? Tell
Speaker 1: me your story if you want to record that, If
Speaker 1: you're brave enough to do so, record a dispatch at
Speaker 1: the newsjunky dot com. If you want to email, put
Speaker 1: anonymous on top if you want that. Tips at the
Speaker 1: news junky dot com. Tips tips at the newsjunkie dot com.
Speaker 1: Quick Break. We have a lot to get into today.
Speaker 1: I got some starter emails going.
Speaker 3: We've got to talk.
Speaker 1: About more of these spring break takeovers. It's getting crazy,
Speaker 1: and then deep down into the Afroman trial. And trust me,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have fun on this one. That's at the
Speaker 1: top of the hour. It's all coming up next on
Speaker 1: the newsjunkie chaos, spring break chaos, that's what they say
Speaker 1: is happening out there. And they keep using the phrase takeovers,
Speaker 1: the spring break takeovers, which I don't know what that
Speaker 1: actually means, but it doesn't sound good. And now there
Speaker 1: have been over all hundred arrests in the state of
Speaker 1: Florida alone, all right one hundred rest just in Florida
Speaker 1: from spring breakers causing chaos. Thousands and thousands and thousands
Speaker 1: of these people from all over the country are headed
Speaker 1: to somewhere warm. They're trying to get to Florida's beaches
Speaker 1: and police are trying to respond and they keep calling
Speaker 1: them takeover events. I don't know if you want to
Speaker 1: call them takeovers or parties, or you could use whatever
Speaker 1: phrase you want, but it's just it's quite bad at
Speaker 1: the moment right now, according to the sheriff's officers like
Speaker 1: Michael Chitwood.
Speaker 3: Mike Chitwood told reporters.
Speaker 1: That this is really bad and they're going to put
Speaker 1: financial penalties in place for people who are promoting these takeovers.
Speaker 1: He says, these are events can endanger public safety. We
Speaker 1: already talked about the one on the beach in Daytona Beach,
Speaker 1: And what they did was on Daytona Beach, there was
Speaker 1: a big gathering a takeover, and somebody was messing with
Speaker 1: water bottles and making like fake gun noises and popping
Speaker 1: the water bottles and everybody thought a gun went off,
Speaker 1: and everybody panicked on the beach and ran in each direction.
Speaker 1: So now they're talking about coming after these people and
Speaker 1: going after the promoters of these events. I don't know
Speaker 1: how you would actually do that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's what I was wondering, because you can't you
Speaker 7: can't really go after them for a crime before they've
Speaker 7: committed it. So like if the event is unsafe, you know,
Speaker 7: you don't know that until the event's being thrown, or
Speaker 7: until the event goes out of control and a bunch
Speaker 7: of people get hurt. So I don't know how do
Speaker 7: you stop somebody from promoting something that seems like a
Speaker 7: little free speechee.
Speaker 4: Is it an official event even or is it just like, hey, guys,
Speaker 4: this is where we're going to party at Facebook event?
Speaker 4: Or are they selling tickets? Are they providing alcohol for
Speaker 4: people to buy?
Speaker 1: Good questions.
Speaker 4: A lot of people are just hanging out.
Speaker 1: Good questions all the way around. Let's listen to the
Speaker 1: sheriff because he's the one who's very upset about this.
Speaker 1: Mind you, all right, this is Mike Chitwood, and he's
Speaker 1: talking about the spring break invasion? Is the word the
Speaker 1: phrase that he uses, So the sheriff says, in the
Speaker 1: beatles all over again, but it's spring break, right, spring
Speaker 1: break invasion promoters are on notice. Sheriff Chitwood says, We're
Speaker 1: coming after you financially for the costs your chaos brings
Speaker 1: to our community. Also, a special event zone with enhanced
Speaker 1: penalty will be an affected Daytona Beach for your next
Speaker 1: chaotic pop up event.
Speaker 3: Watch this video for more info.
Speaker 11: All right, So here we want to we want to
Speaker 11: follow up on what occurred last weekend and where we're headed.
Speaker 11: And what I want to say is, you know, my
Speaker 11: staff work very closely with Senator right in twenty twenty
Speaker 11: two to pass a special event zone, all right, and
Speaker 11: we have used that probably a half a dozen times,
Speaker 11: mostly for truck events, and we use it all in
Speaker 11: twenty twenty five. And the reason we weren't able to
Speaker 11: use it in twenty twenty five is my staff, the
Speaker 11: folks that work in the Real time Crime Center, both
Speaker 11: Daytona Beach and our folks, they were able to identify promoters,
Speaker 11: send them and desist letters and make contact with them
Speaker 11: telling that is the event are responsible financially for all
Speaker 11: the costs that we occur.
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know, can you do that?
Speaker 1: So he is saying, if you, if you start on Facebook,
Speaker 1: we're going to have the Beach Bash, and the beach
Speaker 1: Bash is to gather people from all over the country.
Speaker 1: Everybody gathered for the Beach Bash. The Beach Bash is
Speaker 1: going to be huge. Be there. It'll be wild. There'll
Speaker 1: be drinks and drugs and all in bikinis.
Speaker 3: And you go to the Beach Bash, and this whole
Speaker 3: thing is promoted on social media.
Speaker 1: If the cops are called, they're saying they're going to
Speaker 1: charge the person financially who was promoting it on social media.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess they have the ability to do that.
Speaker 3: He's the sheriff.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna assume that he knows what is what he's
Speaker 1: talking about now.
Speaker 4: But then you will just promote the event under a
Speaker 4: pseudonym or.
Speaker 1: Are they sending a bill? Are they filing a civil
Speaker 1: lawsuit for this?
Speaker 3: Will you just charge somebody? I will learn more here
Speaker 3: in a second.
Speaker 1: But as far as going under an anonymous name, this
Speaker 1: guy is known, this particular sheriff for getting people from
Speaker 1: four chan. So the anonymous thing may not help you
Speaker 1: as much as you think. If he's willing to go
Speaker 1: the extra mile, he can, he can chase him down.
Speaker 1: Ady on YouTube says he can do it per Florida statutes,
Speaker 1: and he explained it to the presser. That's what I figured, listen,
Speaker 1: and that worked well.
Speaker 11: In January this year, my folks in the Real Time
Speaker 11: Crime Center, my special events coordinator at Daytona Beach one
Speaker 11: hundred arrest of a handful of these promoters and they
Speaker 11: sent them registered letters, including two.
Speaker 1: D It went out last night.
Speaker 11: They were going to talk about that. Basically says what
Speaker 11: the law is, if you promote an unsanctioned event and
Speaker 11: we incur costs and police fire em as a dress cleanup,
Speaker 11: you are responsible for the cost.
Speaker 1: Of that event. Damn they have going unanswered. So now
Speaker 1: what I would like to do.
Speaker 11: What you here is put them on notice to the
Speaker 11: world that you are being noticed that if an event
Speaker 11: pops up here this weekend and we're going to name
Speaker 11: some people here, I'm coming at with Tesla first, and
Speaker 11: then we're going to after the rest of your money
Speaker 11: to pay for this thing.
Speaker 4: I feel like he's coming specific mind, he said, Tesla.
Speaker 1: Right, listen, James, we're coming out. You're read to Tesla.
Speaker 3: We know who you are.
Speaker 1: These focused on somebody who's at the center of this.
Speaker 1: I think Hiker Mom on YouTube, says Sean. The sheriff
Speaker 1: showed a promotional video from one of the beach bashes.
Speaker 1: And it's not a normal gathering. It's a huge party
Speaker 1: with no safety measures. Yeah, hiker Mom. When we were
Speaker 1: talking about this yesterday or the day before, I said,
Speaker 1: the strange thing about this is there's no party going on. Really,
Speaker 1: there's no It's just a bunch of people standing in
Speaker 1: a group. There's no stage, there's no seats, there's no
Speaker 1: towels on the ground on the beach, there's no there's
Speaker 1: no none of that. It's it's just people in a
Speaker 1: huge group, like a mosh pit. And that's a recipe
Speaker 1: for disasters. So I get that, but he sounds like
Speaker 1: he's got somebody specific in mine. You know, I'll say
Speaker 1: this what We'll get into a little more of what
Speaker 1: the sheriff said about the spring break chaos that's led
Speaker 1: to more than one hundred arrests. You better watch what
Speaker 1: you say about this. Everybody better watch what they say,
Speaker 1: or we're gonna come after your black Genesis G eighty.
Speaker 1: Oh hey, it feels personal over here, twenty eighteen, twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: and not starting right now because it hasn't run in
Speaker 1: a long time. Okay, we'll get into more of what
Speaker 1: the sheriff says about the beach bashes. The sheriff's upset
Speaker 1: about it. We'll see what he says. We'll get into
Speaker 1: you your feedback. We got the question that opposed at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the show based on this study that
Speaker 1: says a huge percentage of a percentage of Americans have
Speaker 1: thought about shooting another person, and the Afroman case at
Speaker 1: the top of the hour. We are loaded up on
Speaker 1: a Wednesday, and that's coming up next on the news
Speaker 1: junk Kie. We need to have a war here over
Speaker 1: over definitions. I think I think we need to have
Speaker 1: a little bit of a war over definitions because people
Speaker 1: are going, hey, these people deserve to party, leave them alone.
Speaker 1: The spring Breakers deserve to be able to go out
Speaker 1: there and party on the streets. And I say, is
Speaker 1: this a party? Is this when I look at some
Speaker 1: of the videos that have led to thousands of arrests,
Speaker 1: a bunch of shootings, a bunch of chaos. The sheriff,
Speaker 1: we'll get back to his press conference freaking.
Speaker 3: Out about all of this.
Speaker 1: What I see as not a party When I look
Speaker 1: at visuals like this beach with all of these people
Speaker 1: who thought there was a gunshot ringing out, but it
Speaker 1: was a plastic bottle that made a gunshot like noise.
Speaker 1: And I'm watching these people run right now in every
Speaker 1: single direction possible.
Speaker 3: I don't see a party, all right.
Speaker 1: That is not a party to me, I miss some
Speaker 1: of you think that a party is just like a
Speaker 1: group of people who have gathered. So let's get into
Speaker 1: that really quickly before we get back to the sheriff.
Speaker 1: If you have somebody post a flyer for like, everybody's
Speaker 1: going to gather at six pm on the beach in
Speaker 1: this place, there's no stage, there's no anything, there's no seating,
Speaker 1: there's no porta potties, there's no I mean, there's nothing.
Speaker 1: It's just like a bunch of people are gathering in
Speaker 1: one spot. Does that make a party? Is that? Is
Speaker 1: it a party when just like a bunch of people
Speaker 1: get together and there's nothing going on at the place,
Speaker 1: Because that seems like like I would call it a
Speaker 1: gathering or something, I would not call it a party.
Speaker 1: And I feel like this kind of makes it seem
Speaker 1: like they're just after people having fun out there on
Speaker 1: the beach.
Speaker 4: I just didn't even know how much fun they're having.
Speaker 4: But maybe that's the difference. Back in our day, the
Speaker 4: party would mean music and beer pong and probably some chairs.
Speaker 4: But I've also seen as of late last ten years,
Speaker 4: people just doing the standing around and that's.
Speaker 1: It, just standing around on a beach.
Speaker 4: Call it a party.
Speaker 1: And there's a bunch of people saying it's a generational thing.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't know, you don't know what's going
Speaker 1: on here. I look at this and I just go,
Speaker 1: this is people screwing around on social media trying to
Speaker 1: get a big crowd to gather, and then the crowd
Speaker 1: is inevitably going to cause problems for people, and then
Speaker 1: they're like, well, I'm just posting stuff on social media.
Speaker 1: What's the big deal here? Jay Turn calls it an invasion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to me, it's not a party. A party is the thing.
Speaker 1: And these kids should be able to party for spring break.
Speaker 1: I get it. They should be able to have a
Speaker 1: space to have fun and enjoy themselves. They're saying party
Speaker 1: is a state of mind over on shat. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: get it. I get all that stuff. You should be
Speaker 1: able to have fun spring break, have at it, all that,
Speaker 1: but you shouldn't be able to cause chaos, right Like,
Speaker 1: we shouldn't allow people to post flyers for these pseudo events.
Speaker 1: Everybody gathered. There is no event, there is no security,
Speaker 1: there is no organization, there is no nothing, and it's
Speaker 1: just like they're playing the puppeteer to see how many
Speaker 1: people will show up, and then when all these people
Speaker 1: show up, they go whoa, and then it causes chaos.
Speaker 1: We shouldn't let people do that, I don't think. And
Speaker 1: maybe you're for that, let me know, send a dispatch
Speaker 1: over the news. But Schipwood says is going to go
Speaker 1: after these people, Sheriff Chitwood, and he also seemed to
Speaker 1: have a specific person in mind, so I want to
Speaker 1: hear a little more from his press comments.
Speaker 11: Let's see, I want to say this clearly because I
Speaker 11: know when we get these emails, this.
Speaker 1: Is about race.
Speaker 6: This isn't about race.
Speaker 11: It's about pop up events, truck events, invade events, whatever
Speaker 11: you want to call them. They are illegal. They put
Speaker 11: a drain on the resources of this community. They put
Speaker 11: a black guye in this community, and they endanger public safety.
Speaker 1: So that's what this is about.
Speaker 11: So let's get that outside anyway. But we are declaring
Speaker 11: a special event zone from University Boulevard the Silver Beach,
Speaker 11: from the ocean to the river. What that is all
Speaker 11: traffic fines are double. What that means is I can
Speaker 11: tow and impound your vehicle for the most minor detail.
Speaker 11: Tail lights out, you don't have a driver's license, there's
Speaker 11: no insurance. We're towing it and pounding your car. Damn everyone.
Speaker 11: We arrest will not be giving a ticket. You will
Speaker 11: physically be removed from the venue and processed at another venue.
Speaker 11: Walking down the beach with an open container, you're taking
Speaker 11: a ride, smoking weed on the beach.
Speaker 1: You're taking a ride.
Speaker 11: Foating on the beach. You're taking a ride. So that's
Speaker 11: what's going to take effect. The special event zone goes
Speaker 11: into effect Friday at eleven am, and we'll make the
Speaker 11: determination on Sunday on when we break that down.
Speaker 1: All right, So who do you a side with? The
Speaker 1: sheriff or the partier is here because there's a showdown.
Speaker 1: He's going on, I'll get you for anything. You got
Speaker 1: anything wrong with your registration, your tail lights, I'm towing
Speaker 1: your car. It's going to be paining the ass. You
Speaker 1: got a beer or a join or something on the beach,
Speaker 1: I'm taking you to jail. I'm getting you. You cannot
Speaker 1: do these things. And he's throwing down the gauntlet. Here
Speaker 1: on the other side, they're like, what are we supposed
Speaker 1: to do? We're kids at spring Break, we're partying.
Speaker 11: They'll be posted, there'll be plenty of warnings out there
Speaker 11: so that you can follow suit. So we're gonna show
Speaker 11: you a quick slide one.
Speaker 1: Oh here books. Oh it's all AI Daytona Beach Takeover
Speaker 1: spring Break. Huge AI poster. It says March eleventh to fifteen,
Speaker 1: March eighteen to twenty second. Join the group chat. Oh god.
Speaker 1: So there's like big group chats for these sort of
Speaker 1: events and they post them on Instagram. This says there's
Speaker 1: stuff going on. Yeah, there's a lineup of performances. It's
Speaker 1: because it looks like there's a stage with speakers. There's nothing.
Speaker 1: From what I've seen, there's nothing. When they show up,
Speaker 1: it says, white boy wasted. Is that a Is that
Speaker 1: a performing act? White boy wast? That's kind of hard
Speaker 1: with my goal pool party, pool party in perfect Daytona
Speaker 1: Beach Bash says beach back beach bash brush and it's.
Speaker 3: So small I can't really see it here.
Speaker 11: She got a certified letter send her yesterday by Daytona
Speaker 11: Beach Real and sent to me basically saying, that has
Speaker 11: come to our attention that you're advertising, promoting, or sponsoring,
Speaker 11: or organizing or raging via social media at Daytona Beach
Speaker 11: takeover an unpermitted, unsanctioned event.
Speaker 1: Oh here we go. White boy wasted on the nineteenth,
Speaker 1: Wet and Wild on the twentieth, project Daytona on the twentieth.
Speaker 1: These are so generic Daytona Gone Wild on the twenty first,
Speaker 1: And do you think those are real things? Or it
Speaker 1: says ticket links so like they're selling tickets.
Speaker 11: I guess Marts eighteenth to March twenty third, and it
Speaker 11: goes on to describe what it means what an unsanctioned
Speaker 11: event is, how to get the proper permits, and then
Speaker 11: it goes on today. You're further advised that as a
Speaker 11: sponsor of this event, you will be held legally responsible
Speaker 11: for the cost associated with supplemental police, fire ems and
Speaker 11: sanitation services.
Speaker 14: So eliash is sitting behind a keyboard in Georgia.
Speaker 1: Oh no, he's gone, and I think she fancies herself.
Speaker 2: This is her new career.
Speaker 11: She was arrested in August of last year in Cobb County,
Speaker 11: Georgia for promoting an event involving juveniles which wasn't permitted.
Speaker 6: It was unsanctioned and it reakcavoc in the community.
Speaker 1: All right, so this does make sense. This does make sense.
Speaker 1: You can't just pretend that there is a festival going
Speaker 1: on somewhere and promote it from the red of Brian McFarlane.
Speaker 1: I would I beg to disagree. Okay, fire fest aside.
Speaker 1: You are not supposed to pretend that there is a
Speaker 1: festival going on like three days and all this stuff
Speaker 1: is happening, but there is no event, There is no permit,
Speaker 1: there is no, like there's nothing you don't have, Like
Speaker 1: you're just making it up.
Speaker 4: So it's a scam. I mean people are buying these tickets.
Speaker 4: But he also in the letter gave information on how
Speaker 4: to get the proper permits so that you're going to
Speaker 4: be responsible financially for and named all the things that
Speaker 4: you still have to get if you were going to
Speaker 4: do like a permanent event.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it costs money.
Speaker 4: It sounds like he's just helping make this thing more official.
Speaker 1: Well that's good. I mean, if they do something legally,
Speaker 1: that's what you're supposed to do. And I think he's
Speaker 1: I think he just knows they're not going to He's like,
Speaker 1: the people who are doing this are not going to you.
Speaker 1: And I and seel I know more than anybody about
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: Throwing a flyer up online.
Speaker 1: And saying we got we're going to do a big
Speaker 1: event here and and show.
Speaker 3: Up and hang out. That's that's one thing.
Speaker 1: Throwing an event where you have a stage, where you
Speaker 1: have higher staff, where you have you have to have
Speaker 1: a required number of porta potties, you have to hire
Speaker 1: off duty police officers to show up to do security,
Speaker 1: you have to have the fire department come out and
Speaker 1: inspect your site.
Speaker 3: You have to have, you know, like.
Speaker 1: The laundry list of things that we have to do,
Speaker 1: and we're throwing an event and a big ass crowd
Speaker 1: comes in. But that's why I'm not doing any of it.
Speaker 7: That's why I wonder if it's actually real, Like are
Speaker 7: these things this Daytona or whatever, the list of acts
Speaker 7: that you said we're going to be there, this white
Speaker 7: boy wasted. They sound just so generic that it's like,
Speaker 7: is this just a money grab? And you know, this
Speaker 7: lady runs away with the tickets and everybody just shows
Speaker 7: up to party and they just kind of standing around
Speaker 7: because nothing actually happens.
Speaker 1: I'm searching for spring Break Invasion tickets. This has Orange
Speaker 1: Crush spring Break Invasion, but that's a different one. I
Speaker 1: think spring Break Invasion tickets on seat geek. So I'm
Speaker 1: trying to find the actual tickets to this to see
Speaker 1: if they're taking money. But that would be another crime,
Speaker 1: I think Sea Lang. Yeah, but you can't just sell
Speaker 1: tickets to an event that nobody's actually going to.
Speaker 3: That would be another issue altogether.
Speaker 1: But I see what the Sheriff's saying, like you just
Speaker 1: you can't just pretend to do this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: If they're selling tickets and there's nothing going on, that's
Speaker 1: one certain crime. Number Two, you have to have an
Speaker 1: organized thing. Even if you're going to do large protests
Speaker 1: and stuff, you have to work with local officials. You
Speaker 1: have to plan these things out so that people aren't
Speaker 1: in danger, and going after the people who are doing
Speaker 1: that is probably saving lives. In some circumstances. You've had
Speaker 1: people die during spring break. We learned at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the show that basically one out of ten people
Speaker 1: have thought about shooting somebody else well as a big
Speaker 1: crowd of a lot of people and they're thinking about
Speaker 1: shooting each other.
Speaker 3: Next thing you know, it's going to happen.
Speaker 1: So I want to know who you side with, the
Speaker 1: partiers or the sheriff in this case. Let us know
Speaker 1: what you think. Send a dispatch over at thenewsjunkie dot com.
Speaker 1: When we come back. I'm going to give you the
Speaker 1: full download on the Afroman case. It's such a fun one.
Speaker 1: I have so many great clips for you. Do not
Speaker 1: miss out on this. If you need a laugh in
Speaker 1: a distraction, let me tell you what's going on and
Speaker 1: I'll play for you. These clips from the Afroman trial
Speaker 1: that's coming up next on the news Junkie. Let's go
Speaker 1: on a journey together, all right, let's go on a
Speaker 1: little bit of a ride.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you a story and I'll.
Speaker 1: Play some amazing clips for you, and I think it'll
Speaker 1: be a great distraction here on your Wednesday. That's all
Speaker 1: I'm promising, and I think i'll deliver on that. This
Speaker 1: is about the case of Afroman, who is a I
Speaker 1: don't know what you call him, like a comedy rapper.
Speaker 1: Is he like just a regular rapper?
Speaker 3: He does funny songs and a lot of.
Speaker 1: Them like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess maybe with some comedy elements, but for
Speaker 4: the most part rapper, but also we plays guitar. There's
Speaker 4: a little bit of alternative R and B to it.
Speaker 1: He's a showman. He's a showman and he is an amazing,
Speaker 1: amazing performer, unless you're the person who is beating up
Speaker 1: during the performance because he's attacked somebody on stage before.
Speaker 1: But he's not on trial for that. Here's the deal
Speaker 1: for the Because I Got High guy afromn. The case
Speaker 1: center's on Afroman real name Joseph Foreman, best known for
Speaker 1: Because I Got high the song and what happened after
Speaker 1: police raided his home. Police raided his house, they didn't
Speaker 1: find anything, and then Afroman turned the security footage of
Speaker 1: the police rating his house into music videos, which is,
Speaker 1: if I may say, pretty genius. Because it's your house,
Speaker 1: you have the right to record people. If the cops
Speaker 1: want to come into your house and ransack everything, and
Speaker 1: then you want to use that footage afterwards and you
Speaker 1: want to make a music videout of it, you can do. It.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean like you don't have to like it, but
Speaker 1: you're allowed to do that. America, home of the free,
Speaker 1: we're allowed to do things like this. So the Afroman
Speaker 1: took the footage from the police raid and turned it
Speaker 1: into music videos the police officers. It turned this whole
Speaker 1: incident into almost a whole album. Yeah, the album Lemon
Speaker 1: pound Cake.
Speaker 4: Like DoD I believe that's what he called one of
Speaker 4: the cops.
Speaker 1: Right. Yeah, we'll get into that too. You hear the
Speaker 1: clip on that. It's fantastic.
Speaker 7: Although the song Lemon pound Cake makes it sound like
Speaker 7: that was all they found there, Like, Uh.
Speaker 1: The funny thing about it is, before we get into
Speaker 1: that clip, they call this one cop Lemon pound cake,
Speaker 1: because in the middle of the raid on Afroman's house
Speaker 1: where they're supposedly looking for all this stuff, the drugs
Speaker 1: and stuff. In the middle of the raid, this fat
Speaker 1: cop stops and he looks at the food. There's food
Speaker 1: on the table at Afroman's house. There's a piece of
Speaker 1: lemon pound cake, and he took a bite of it.
Speaker 1: It says, it doesn't say here that he bit it,
Speaker 1: but it says officer stares at the lemon pound cake
Speaker 1: for a good eleven seconds, which implies he wants to
Speaker 1: eat it. And the pre chorus says, Mama's lemon pound
Speaker 1: cake tastes so nice it made the sheriff want to
Speaker 1: put down his gun and cut him a slice. And
Speaker 1: that's the thing, all right. So he says, police raided
Speaker 1: Afroman's house, they found nothing. Afroman turned the footage into
Speaker 1: music videos. Police sued him, he countersued, and now it's
Speaker 1: a First Amendment versus privacy showdown. The timeline goes like
Speaker 1: this very quickly, before we get into the clips the raid.
Speaker 1: The Adams County Sheriff's Office in August of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two executed a search one on Afroman's home in Ohio.
Speaker 1: They were reportedly looking for drugs, kidnapping evidence. They didn't
Speaker 1: find any of that. They found some cash, there was
Speaker 1: nothing major found, no serious charges filed. Afroman was not
Speaker 1: at home during the raid. Security cameras inside his house
Speaker 1: recorded everything, including officers searching, joking, and counting money at
Speaker 1: his house.
Speaker 3: Late twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: Afroman responds he took the surveillance footage of them going
Speaker 1: into his house and he turned it into music videos
Speaker 1: and contents. He said with one song, will you help
Speaker 1: me repair my door? Because they sitting the door to us.
Speaker 7: That's one of the tracks on Lemon Pound Cake, which
Speaker 7: includes why you disconnecting my video camera? And will you
Speaker 7: help me repair my door? And that has the lines
Speaker 7: I guess there's footage of them looking through his CDs.
Speaker 7: So verse three is all like any kidnapping victims inside
Speaker 7: my CDs?
Speaker 1: Any kid napping victims inside by CDs? How many pounds
Speaker 1: a weed are inside by CDs? Fish Bulb on YouTube says,
Speaker 1: I like, how Sean does not get the facts on this?
Speaker 1: Tell me what I'm gonna ban you if you don't
Speaker 1: have a.
Speaker 3: Response to this. That is satisfying to me.
Speaker 1: Tell me what I'm getting wrong as I'm in the
Speaker 1: middle of telling you the facts of the case. I'm
Speaker 1: belaboring this to tell you some of the facts of
Speaker 1: the case before i get to the fun clips. But
Speaker 1: tell me what I'm not getting or not honest as
Speaker 1: I'm in the middle of explaining it to you. Go
Speaker 1: I'll wait. I'll wait for you. Go ahead, and if
Speaker 1: your answer is bad, your band all right. That's the
Speaker 1: punishment here. The songs he made include will you help
Speaker 1: Me Repair My Door? Or Lemon pound Cake. The videos
Speaker 1: show the deputies faces. They include clips of them searching
Speaker 1: his house, and they parade the lawsuit against Afroman from
Speaker 1: the police officers. The police officers claimed it was an
Speaker 1: invasion of privacy. Now there's one for Moses. Invasion of privacy.
Speaker 1: You have an expectation of privacy in your own place,
Speaker 1: but you don't have an expectation of privacy in Afroman's house.
Speaker 1: When Afroman is the person who's house you're searching, I
Speaker 1: don't think emotional distress. They're also claiming an unauthorized use
Speaker 1: of their likeness. They said that obviously has to be true,
Speaker 1: because do you not have a camera that's in your house?
Speaker 4: Who me?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, if you have a camera in your house,
Speaker 1: which you have every right to do, and it's fine
Speaker 1: if somebody comes in your house, they can't be like, well,
Speaker 1: this is an invasion of my privacy. They don't have
Speaker 1: an expectation of privacy in your house outside of certain spaces.
Speaker 1: I would think, like the bathroom or something. But you
Speaker 1: can't have a camera in your bathroom.
Speaker 4: But I can't get cord, Like can I record a
Speaker 4: conversation in my own house?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: By not telling this party, I thought it was like
Speaker 4: state by state kind of law. I forget what statement.
Speaker 1: I think in your own house you can because you're
Speaker 1: allowed to have security cameras in your house. I might
Speaker 1: be wrong. We can put that on the list for Moses,
Speaker 1: but I think you'd be allowed to do that. And
Speaker 1: in this case, he's in Ohio, so it would have
Speaker 1: matter like the Ohio laws. So the cops are suing him.
Speaker 1: He's suing back. He says it was a wrongful raid,
Speaker 1: it was a violation of his rights, it was emotional
Speaker 1: and financial damages, and he says he has the First
Speaker 1: Amendment right to do all of this. Now it's actually
Speaker 1: in the courtroom, and it could set a precedent of
Speaker 1: using real footage with police. So you take footage that
Speaker 1: you record of police officers, whether it's in your house
Speaker 1: or otherwise, and then you end up utilizing it for
Speaker 1: like a music video. If he wins this, they can
Speaker 1: do this more moving forward. Now played the clip of
Speaker 1: the intro, which is one of the police officers who
Speaker 1: is mad. In one of Afrobann's songs, this cop was
Speaker 1: called bald, that he had a receding hairline, and he
Speaker 1: was called a dips dip ass the s word all right,
Speaker 1: dip ass, And the attorney was asking about this, Can.
Speaker 5: You tell me what fact about you that receding hairline
Speaker 5: or the first to please? I'm sorry, what private fact
Speaker 5: of yours does that refer to?
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a picture of me and sit here
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 1: Meth, some meth comments.
Speaker 2: See, I wouldn't trust him with myth amphetamine crack a
Speaker 2: loan in my house, So I find that pretty insulting.
Speaker 1: This is one of the officers upset at the lyrics.
Speaker 3: Now here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I think that if you make a song and the
Speaker 1: song defame somebody or the song is running a foul
Speaker 1: of laws, you know, besmirching someone's name, Like if you
Speaker 1: create a song about and you call them a pedophile,
Speaker 1: for example, I think you should be able to go
Speaker 1: after that person.
Speaker 3: I think you should soon.
Speaker 1: Drink go after that person unless you're right, right, So
Speaker 1: Le's you're correct about all of this. So if Afroman
Speaker 1: said something about them in the song and it wasn't
Speaker 1: true and.
Speaker 3: It was absolutely a lie and they've.
Speaker 1: Had an impact on their character or life or whatever,
Speaker 1: they could get in trouble.
Speaker 3: Somebody says it's parody.
Speaker 1: Well, there could be loopholes in this, but I'm saying,
Speaker 1: generally speaking, if you were flat out lying about somebody
Speaker 1: that had some sort of recourse against you.
Speaker 3: So Afroman's in the courtroom.
Speaker 1: He's wearing a wet right, we excuse me, red white
Speaker 1: and blue suit. He has his afro going. Of course,
Speaker 1: he has a man. He has given me real Larry
Speaker 1: Flint vibes. Yeah, big time, big time. And I want
Speaker 1: to know if you guys hate him or love him?
Speaker 1: All right, let us know, dispatch his emails all that.
Speaker 1: But here's some more.
Speaker 3: Here's another way.
Speaker 5: The officer's testifying, So your claiming that is the defamation's
Speaker 5: tanis that he said he had sex with your wife.
Speaker 8: Yes, and that's painted you in a false light. It's
Speaker 8: caused tremendous pain in my wife.
Speaker 6: I'll get to that.
Speaker 8: We have to go through false light first. So does
Speaker 8: it paint you in a false light? Yes, that my
Speaker 8: wife is cheating on me with mister Foreman. But we
Speaker 8: all know that's not true, correct, I don't.
Speaker 1: Oh, wait for it.
Speaker 6: You don't know if your wife's cheating on you or not.
Speaker 6: You want to go there question As you said, we
Speaker 6: don't know. I've just been with that woman since middle school.
Speaker 1: Okay, So why would you say, I know my wife
Speaker 1: is not cheating.
Speaker 4: On you, and you've been with her since middle school.
Speaker 4: But this one particular thing has caused so much emotional
Speaker 4: damage that you were pursuing a for a man over.
Speaker 1: The problem that is quite obvious, Sabrina, is that this
Speaker 1: guy can't say, obviously, I know my wife isn't cheating
Speaker 1: on me, because that cuts into his case.
Speaker 4: You want to go there.
Speaker 1: His case is like, hey, I have to pretend that
Speaker 1: I might think maybe my wife is cheating on me.
Speaker 1: So when the lawyer goes, that cut into his case
Speaker 1: because if he has to say that the allegations against him, well,
Speaker 1: hold on, now, I'm thinking about this in a different way.
Speaker 1: He has to say that he believes the allegations are
Speaker 1: harming him. But if he acknowledges that obviously it's like
Speaker 1: a joke, and nobody believes that his wife is really
Speaker 1: cheating on him, including himself, then he can't make an
Speaker 1: argument that it's harmed his reputation. Right.
Speaker 7: I think it could still harm his reputation if other
Speaker 7: people believe it. That's the whole point of slander and libel.
Speaker 1: I would have said something like if they said, if
Speaker 1: Afroman did a song like this and it said Courtney
Speaker 1: was cheating on me, no way would I hang her
Speaker 1: out to dry. Sitting on the stand there, and they go, well,
Speaker 1: do you think Courtney might be cheating on you with
Speaker 1: afro Man, I'd be like, no, Courtney is not.
Speaker 7: Seating thought it would be the plot twist that I
Speaker 7: never saw coming Millionaires.
Speaker 1: It's not happening, all right, I don't believe that that's occurring.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to it.
Speaker 6: You want to go there, No, I just want to
Speaker 6: ask that question. As you said, we don't know.
Speaker 1: I just been with that.
Speaker 6: Woman since middle school.
Speaker 8: I know I would hope she wouldn't, but you know what,
Speaker 8: I would hope once somebody puts it out there for
Speaker 8: their fun and entertainment, it's out there and it's a problem.
Speaker 6: So that's something we cannot verify the truth of.
Speaker 13: This.
Speaker 8: Is it a thing that can be verified true or false?
Speaker 1: Ask your client, Ask your client to Afroman. Afroman is
Speaker 1: eating this up. He's just sitting there in his seat.
Speaker 1: He's got his American flag suit.
Speaker 4: Can he use the footage from this court case to
Speaker 4: make his next album?
Speaker 1: Yeah? He might be too. I think if he wins
Speaker 1: for sure, and then they sue him over that, and
Speaker 1: then he just the rest of his career ends up.
Speaker 1: I mean this, this stuff is kind of funny. I
Speaker 1: can't blame much of it. Is he officer pound Cake?
Speaker 1: I got officer pound Cake.
Speaker 7: I'm looking through the lyrics to why you're disconnecting my
Speaker 7: video camera? And there's h I gotta be careful when
Speaker 7: I read this because there's the at the end of
Speaker 7: verse two it says mad because I'm black, Mad because
Speaker 7: I'm rich, Mad because I blanked your drug addict, bitch.
Speaker 7: I came home, I came from LA and bought the
Speaker 7: whole city. Send your wife home drunk with my name
Speaker 7: on her. I've got I've got pound Cake.
Speaker 1: Here's pound cake, this says Officer. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: And in the video he had ladies with their legs
Speaker 1: up and he was going to them one by one
Speaker 1: and go to the next see of the next one.
Speaker 1: He's coming at him. He's like, the cops busted in
Speaker 1: my door, broke my door down. They didn't find anything,
Speaker 1: they didn't apologize. My revenge is making this going. I
Speaker 1: keep having to remind myself that he punched a woman
Speaker 1: at a concert, and like keep having keep having to
Speaker 1: remind myself because this part of him, this this version
Speaker 1: of him that we're seeing right now, I love it
Speaker 1: so much.
Speaker 3: All right, here's the pound cake thing. Officer pound Cake.
Speaker 1: Cooley took the stand today in the Afroman trial and
Speaker 1: acted like he had no idea why he was being
Speaker 1: called pound cake roll the tape. Afroman's attorney promptly reminded him.
Speaker 1: Sean Cooley said the video and being called a thief
Speaker 1: subjected them to humiliation, emotional distress, and death threats to
Speaker 1: himself and his family. Who's gonna threaten the death of
Speaker 1: a police officer because you saw a video of him
Speaker 1: staring at Afroman's pound cake whether he ate it or not,
Speaker 1: which apparently he didn't need it. But don't to him
Speaker 1: here he.
Speaker 5: Is, you were called officer pound cake by mister Foreman
Speaker 5: multiple times cakes the work?
Speaker 1: Wait wait did he just say he said, I got
Speaker 1: hundreds of poundcake sent to my work?
Speaker 4: He said, come down, he said, you got any of that?
Speaker 1: Hundreds of poundcakes said to his work by mister.
Speaker 8: Foreman multiple times cakes that work different people.
Speaker 5: Okay, and the contactor what got name comes from a
Speaker 5: music video that mister Foreman created.
Speaker 6: Correct, But I don't know where he got it at.
Speaker 1: But here's the music video. So they're playing the music
Speaker 1: video now, the poundcake music video with Afroman, and the
Speaker 1: security footage shows the all right, It shows the cops
Speaker 1: outside of his house and then going inside of his house.
Speaker 1: He's like firing off all all the security footage, and
Speaker 1: then he shows the cop in his kitchen. I'm muting
Speaker 1: just in case he curses in his song. Afroman here,
Speaker 1: and he shows the cop looking at the pound cake
Speaker 1: and clearly taking an interest in it. It's right here,
Speaker 1: right there, there's the pound cake and I don't know
Speaker 1: what those are called, like a little close or something
Speaker 1: like a glass container for a cake. And he's got
Speaker 1: his gun pulled out, but he's looking at the cake.
Speaker 15: And he's got the munchies because he got high and
Speaker 15: say so that's that's what he.
Speaker 1: Said about pound cake. I don't know if he goes afterwards.
Speaker 1: I guess they just go back to him on the stand.
Speaker 1: But he was denying he knew about all of that.
Speaker 1: Here's I'll play this for you now because this was
Speaker 1: one of my favorite parts. Here's Afro man on the stand,
Speaker 1: all right, glasses with the American flag, shoot with the
Speaker 1: American flag his first Amendment King. Here an Afro like
Speaker 1: you wouldn't believe. I don't know if it's a real
Speaker 1: Afro coolio style.
Speaker 13: And the more lies, outrageous lies, you tell about them,
Speaker 13: the more money you can make.
Speaker 12: Because AFROMM fact, they never should have came to my
Speaker 12: house in the first place. Fact, if they hadn't came
Speaker 12: to my house, they wouldn't have put themselves on the
Speaker 12: video camera.
Speaker 1: And in my music career.
Speaker 12: All of this is their fat All of this is
Speaker 12: their fault, and they have the audacity to sue me
Speaker 12: these people, and you are the predators and the victim.
Speaker 1: At the same time.
Speaker 13: So what they did searching your house gave you the
Speaker 13: right to do everything.
Speaker 12: You under the cercamstance that I got freedom of speech
Speaker 12: after they run around my house with guns and kick
Speaker 12: down my door, I got the right to kick a
Speaker 12: can in my backyard. Use my freedom of speech. Turn
Speaker 12: my bad times into a good time. Yes, I do.
Speaker 12: And I think I'm a sport for dealing. So because
Speaker 12: I don't live in their house, kick down their doors,
Speaker 12: flip them off on their surveillance cameras, then try to
Speaker 12: play the victim and sue them.
Speaker 13: Oo.
Speaker 1: Afroman fires back in the courtroom here full on American
Speaker 1: flag suit, tie, all all the rest. Let's see.
Speaker 7: Uh, I am so glad there are cameras in this courtroom.
Speaker 1: Could have so many more clips. We'll take a quick break.
Speaker 1: I guess we'll take a quick break. I have a
Speaker 1: bunch of really good clips still to get to here
Speaker 1: in the Afroman case, because it is starting to go
Speaker 1: viral and I certainly wanted it to get some attention
Speaker 1: on the show. So we'll put this aside. We'll get
Speaker 1: to the other other clips from Afroman and and Company
Speaker 1: in these Cops. That's coming up next on the News Junkie.
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Speaker 1: the very very quick rundown if you missed what we
Speaker 1: were talking about, because this is a fun ride.
Speaker 3: Afroman the rapper though.
Speaker 1: Because I got high guy, he was raided by the police.
Speaker 1: The police said they were looking for information about somebody
Speaker 1: being kidnapped or drugs, and they tore his house to pieces.
Speaker 1: They broke his door down, they flipped off his camera,
Speaker 1: and he had security footage of the entire rate inside
Speaker 1: his house. So Afroman takes to it and make a
Speaker 1: bunch of songs and music videos out of the cops
Speaker 1: in his house. They start calling one of the officers, uh,
Speaker 1: pound lemon pound Cake because Officer pound Cake was glaring
Speaker 1: at the lemon pound cake on the counter in the
Speaker 1: kitchen at Afroman's house. And he says all sorts of
Speaker 1: stuff about these officers in this courtroom, and then the
Speaker 1: officers get butt hurt about it. They busted in his house,
Speaker 1: they don't find anything incriminating, and they get mad because
Speaker 1: he took the security cam footage. And when he took
Speaker 1: the security cam footage and made a music video out
Speaker 1: of it, it made them look bad, so they didn't
Speaker 1: like it. Emotional distress, Yeah, emotional distress. And then you know,
Speaker 1: like he he slandered them. All of those things are
Speaker 1: are in this actual court case. And I've got more
Speaker 1: of this. Uh. I love this very very short clip
Speaker 1: of just a quick correction Afroman again in all of
Speaker 1: his American flag gear on the stand, American flag glasses,
Speaker 1: all the rest, just a quick correction.
Speaker 6: Hits you had was? But then I got high because
Speaker 6: I got high.
Speaker 13: Because I got high.
Speaker 3: The guy goes, what are your hits?
Speaker 13: Was?
Speaker 1: But then I got high.
Speaker 3: No no, no, no, because it's because.
Speaker 13: You had was But then I got high because I
Speaker 13: got high, because I got high.
Speaker 1: He sounds much more professional sitting on the stand than
Speaker 1: I would have imagined from from Afroman's songs. He's fighting,
Speaker 1: he's fighting for he says the First Amendment, and I've
Speaker 1: got a bunch more e clips here there. Some of
Speaker 1: them were crying, some of the officers. Here's one of
Speaker 1: the officers in question. This is one of the deputies'
Speaker 1: ex wives who was a defense witness for Afroman. Oh no,
Speaker 1: I stand by the dumble Wighton on this one. Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Afroman called one of the officers ex wives for his
Speaker 1: own for his own witnesses.
Speaker 3: He is going full in on this. Here's one of
Speaker 3: the cops. Xys.
Speaker 1: But say about the dump button because they're gonna be
Speaker 1: talking about WAP and I'm worried that they're gonna.
Speaker 5: Say, give you the complete song and then summarize it
Speaker 5: because I don't want to say it once.
Speaker 3: Okay, are you familiar with the song?
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna stop there, all right, Okay, but
Speaker 1: there's there's a there's a song. If he starts to
Speaker 1: say hard there's a song on the album that seems
Speaker 1: to be like the male version of wap.
Speaker 3: Okay, h a d so wet ass p is what she?
Speaker 1: What he just said to this woman, the ex wife
Speaker 1: one of the cops that's on the stand here if
Speaker 1: he says the other one? Oh ring?
Speaker 6: Now? Is that a rap song?
Speaker 1: It is?
Speaker 6: Has your students played it in class?
Speaker 4: Once? Then I asked them to please.
Speaker 6: Turn it all?
Speaker 1: Oh? No?
Speaker 3: Her kids in class?
Speaker 1: Is a teacher?
Speaker 3: Kids in class are playing the Afroman songs?
Speaker 6: Did they think that was fact?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 6: So they didn't think that that was depicting anything in
Speaker 6: real life?
Speaker 1: Now? Oh no, No, they're playing the WAP song in class.
Speaker 1: I guess, right, okay, what kind of like?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: So you didn't have to teach him that wasn't real?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: He did not?
Speaker 4: Okay, well it could be.
Speaker 6: You've heard the song, correct. Do you believe it's a
Speaker 6: literal interpretation?
Speaker 16: No?
Speaker 6: Would you agree it's derogatory towards women?
Speaker 1: No? That woman just processed some things right there. She's like,
Speaker 1: what asked? Is it derongodtory?
Speaker 4: Technically they're getting there?
Speaker 1: Why she's like, women, it's not an insult. I wouldn't say,
Speaker 1: but she she like looked up into the air.
Speaker 6: Like this, would you agree it's derogatory towards women? M no, no,
Speaker 6: it says nasty things about him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I mean it's the artist opinion. I guess
Speaker 4: that's the way I feel.
Speaker 6: Maybe not an opinion you like, But.
Speaker 1: There you go. This is the one of the ex
Speaker 1: wives of the cop and she's again testifying on Afroman's side.
Speaker 1: That's how bad this is all gotten. What else do
Speaker 1: I have here? There's so many different clips.
Speaker 7: I thought she was going to testify that she banged
Speaker 7: afro Man great, which would sort of, you know, kind
Speaker 7: of back up the theory that he banged all these
Speaker 7: cops wives, which.
Speaker 1: Is why the one wife was so very sensitive. The
Speaker 1: one husband was so very sensitive of not saying that
Speaker 1: his wife was indeed cheating on him. When the attorney
Speaker 1: go with middle school, the attorney goes, they said that
Speaker 1: your wife was cheating on you, And he goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: is your wife cheating on you? He goes, I don't know,
Speaker 1: you want to go, I don't know. You don't know
Speaker 1: if your wife's cheating on you. You don't know if afro
Speaker 1: Man just made it up in the song you think.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I've been with her since middle school.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if what's going on
Speaker 1: so well? So they the officers are not doing so
Speaker 1: well so far. Let's go to another clip here. Question right, so.
Speaker 6: Mister sorry Sean, you were called officer pound Cake.
Speaker 1: Oh the pound cake guy.
Speaker 6: Okay, mister foreman, multiple plus.
Speaker 1: All right, So this is when they play the actual
Speaker 1: video of the lemon pound cake thing.
Speaker 4: And that the man wins this uh huh. The album
Speaker 4: is gonna get so many more numbers and listens.
Speaker 1: It's going viral right now, so it must be popped out.
Speaker 1: I don't even think he has to win for that
Speaker 1: to happen.
Speaker 3: Like I think it's happening right now.
Speaker 4: But what they have to is it part of the
Speaker 4: lawsuit against Afroman taking that album down or the music
Speaker 4: videos down.
Speaker 3: It depends on if they win or not.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they win, they could have a claim
Speaker 1: against him and any kind of money that he's made
Speaker 1: and all of that. But if they lose, then he
Speaker 1: just doubles down on all of this and has even more.
Speaker 3: Footage, I guess, and more songs.
Speaker 1: Yellowjack says a slow news day, this is a glorious story.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about, everybody, Bully Yellowjack on YouTube,
Speaker 1: Please just call him dumb real quick. This is a glorious,
Speaker 1: glorious side show story. What an absolute loser comment. I
Speaker 1: got more from this officer. But again, I'm worried that
Speaker 1: they're gonna curse. And one of them cries at one point,
Speaker 1: which we have to work in.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna get your insta.
Speaker 10: He looks like he regrets being part of this now
Speaker 10: that it's public and happening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the officer. This is somebody like doing
Speaker 1: the commentary. Oh, oh my god. No. They showed the
Speaker 1: officer in the courtroom on Afroman's Instagram and it says
Speaker 1: Afroman posted a photograph of the officer and then the
Speaker 1: officer in wrestling tights.
Speaker 4: That's the actual officer or you just plaring to arrest.
Speaker 1: Oh that's fantastic, Okay, it says, good morning ladies. This
Speaker 1: guy was easy introducing Colonel King Kong Bundy.
Speaker 3: Let me know if you have a nickname better than mine.
Speaker 1: That's an old school wrestler name that people were going on.
Speaker 1: And so he was posting all these photos of the
Speaker 1: officers and then just kind of meming them in, making
Speaker 1: fun of them and glorious. I gotta get the crying though,
Speaker 1: afro Man crying.
Speaker 3: It wasn't Afroman, by the way, that was crying.
Speaker 1: I'm just searching for this to see if I can
Speaker 1: find the actual moment somebody understand started crying.
Speaker 3: That's the lemon pound cake one. Is this it here?
Speaker 5: You're claiming that is the defamation statement that he said
Speaker 5: he had sex with your wife.
Speaker 3: This is the original one, right, and that's painted.
Speaker 6: You in a false light. It's closed tremendous pain in
Speaker 6: my life.
Speaker 3: This is where he wouldn't say his wife wasn't cheating.
Speaker 6: You have to go through false light first. So does
Speaker 6: it paint you in a false light?
Speaker 8: Yes, that my wife is cheating on me with mister Foreman.
Speaker 8: But we all know that's not true.
Speaker 1: Correct. I don't know, Bro. I can't believe he didn't
Speaker 1: just say no. There. I can't believe it didn't say no.
Speaker 1: That's not the crying though. I gotta find the clip
Speaker 1: where there's the woman on the trail is absolutely just
Speaker 1: like bawling. I guess is a woman. Yeah, because I
Speaker 1: see the officer crying and the still foot of the
Speaker 1: pictures I'm looking out here at sea line. This lady
Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, but I can't find the actual clip
Speaker 1: of her crying in the in the court and we'll
Speaker 1: find it. We will find it. See if you can
Speaker 1: locate that sea lane and I'll play this at some
Speaker 1: point in time. But it's just been the most unbelievable
Speaker 1: court case to follow, and it's a very very fun
Speaker 1: distraction from all the things going on out there in
Speaker 1: the world. So let us know what you think. Do
Speaker 1: you side with afro man or the police officers? I
Speaker 1: guess I got one word? Is this? Is this a
Speaker 1: different one of the same we saw? Excuse me?
Speaker 12: The lady Sheriff Department just volunteered the information.
Speaker 1: It's a you know, if she had.
Speaker 12: A big one, I might not even know.
Speaker 6: And I got ripped up.
Speaker 12: She admitted it live on Shadow nineteen News that the
Speaker 12: money wasn't right.
Speaker 13: You remember in your deposition when I asked you, why
Speaker 13: did you bring the news when you picked up the money?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I didn't want to get beat up or Epstein
Speaker 12: at the share station that I've seen them running around
Speaker 12: my house, Epstein, they are fifteens, So that's why I
Speaker 12: brought the news and my attorney. So to make sure
Speaker 12: I got out.
Speaker 13: Of that place with my money, you brought the news
Speaker 13: to protect you physically. Yeah, yeah, you didn't bring the
Speaker 13: news because you already knew there was a miscount and
Speaker 13: you were going to.
Speaker 6: Make I didn't.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I figured they stole my money.
Speaker 2: They turned my cameras off.
Speaker 12: Well, so if you turn my cameras off, you must
Speaker 12: got something bad in month.
Speaker 1: So he said the money wasn't counted up right afterwards,
Speaker 1: like they went through Afroman's money and that wasn't all there.
Speaker 1: He said they recorded collecting four three hundred and ninety dollars.
Speaker 1: Body camera footage and subsequent counts suggested they only had
Speaker 1: four thousand dollars from the start, So I don't know
Speaker 1: if some of the money might have gone missing or
Speaker 1: they counted it wrong off the jump. And he said
Speaker 1: in there he wanted the news to be with him
Speaker 1: because he didn't want to get beat up or epsteined,
Speaker 1: was his actual comment in Cores. So we'll keep an
Speaker 1: eye on this. I'll try to find the one with
Speaker 1: the officer crying look for I.
Speaker 7: Haven't seen the video yet. I have the picture again.
Speaker 7: Her name is Lisa Phillips. The Adams County Deputy sheriff
Speaker 7: got emotional, Yes, got emotional while testifying in court.
Speaker 1: All right, okay, weld, I see so many things here.
Speaker 1: All right, what are the officers? Is this Lisa woman?
Speaker 1: And I guess this is her making sure that people
Speaker 1: don't don't think that she has a penis.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I'll play it for you. We'll go over this. Here
Speaker 1: we are she got a deep voice, got quite the voice.
Speaker 4: Objection, Are we sure you don't.
Speaker 17: Mean this will make you The client was singing in
Speaker 17: his driveway and he was saying that I lick and
Speaker 17: then you know, well, yeah.
Speaker 1: He has a song for her call lick him low Lisa.
Speaker 1: I mean, I like it's funny. I'm sorry. I'm sure
Speaker 1: some people will be like, well, this is irresponsibilities going
Speaker 1: against the police officers. The police officers they busted into
Speaker 1: his house, they didn't find anything incriminating, they didn't do
Speaker 1: anything about it, and then he just used his own
Speaker 1: security footage of them doing what they were doing. I've
Speaker 1: got more of this, so we'll work in a little
Speaker 1: bit more later and I'll try to find the actual
Speaker 1: crying video. We'll move on to a couple of different things.
Speaker 1: One of them will be, of course, the next episode.
Speaker 1: What's coming up on the next episode, Well, i'll.
Speaker 4: Tell you, but coming on the next episode, Eode. We
Speaker 4: mentioned him in the beginning of the show and apparently
Speaker 4: that was enough to summon him and Gene Simmons's latest
Speaker 4: weird crap coming out of his mouth. Shilah buff back
Speaker 4: in the news, and this time in Italy and only
Speaker 4: in his underwear. Plus ready to feel old and wonder
Speaker 4: where our youth has gone to. I'll add so much
Speaker 4: more coming up on the next episode.
Speaker 1: And that is coming up next on the News Junkie.
Speaker 1: We'll get into your emails, your reactions, your dispatches. We'll
Speaker 1: get into a boatload more stories that we have to
Speaker 1: focus on here on the show today. Right now, let's
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Speaker 1: with all of it, even though you should, because what
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Speaker 4: Dot com. Twenty nine years ago, nineteen ninety seven, thousands
Speaker 4: of people lined up the streets of Brooklyn for the
Speaker 4: funeral procession of.
Speaker 1: Whom on a.
Speaker 4: Yeah he loves it when he called him Big Kappa
Speaker 4: and it was hard to say that. Fights erupted, police
Speaker 4: busted out the pepper spray, and people were arrested. Rest
Speaker 4: in peace.
Speaker 8: Baby.
Speaker 4: Was it a takeover? I considered a takeover there?
Speaker 1: No, that was more what they had for DMX's funeral
Speaker 1: That was pretty awesome. They had like cars with giant
Speaker 1: wheels spinning through the streets and people partying.
Speaker 4: And here we are speaking of parties. It turns out
Speaker 4: that the drama even after every single joke and camera
Speaker 4: pointed Timothy challow May's way in reference to ballet. They
Speaker 4: still said, we got one more sting for you. And
Speaker 4: this brought to you by the New York Library of
Speaker 4: Performing Arts that posted a clip just yesterday busted. Yah's
Speaker 4: not gonna see li.
Speaker 1: Challo May.
Speaker 4: It's the busted song from a Disney show. Oh but
Speaker 4: I just took out all the other lyrics about who
Speaker 4: it's about and kept the and he got busted dancing ballet.
Speaker 4: I sent you the clip in the group chet John.
Speaker 4: It was a clip of him as a six year
Speaker 4: old on stage in Romeo and Juliet doing the ballet.
Speaker 3: Let me see, I just give more credibility on this topic.
Speaker 1: Here we go. I'm unmuting it. Heard it? Oh God
Speaker 1: is stupid with a little bow? I think, I said, yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it's just a very short clip of him
Speaker 1: on stage interpretation.
Speaker 4: Timothy's mother, grandmother, and older sister all studied at ballet,
Speaker 4: and he's spoken before about growing up backstage at ballet productions,
Speaker 4: which made the shading of said ballet vicious to the
Speaker 4: ballet world.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't he know whether or not it's dying if he
Speaker 1: was growing up backstage at these places, Tone was dying.
Speaker 4: He was just whipping out that arrow to shoot him
Speaker 4: right in the heart.
Speaker 1: Piercing sound was playing Revenge of the Nerds. That's playing
Speaker 1: out with this this weird story.
Speaker 4: Guess who's back. And now he's topless and in Italy
Speaker 4: when in Rome, Am I right? Guys appearing to cause
Speaker 4: some commotion in the hotel lobby and all he needed
Speaker 4: was a damn match.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: That's the second video under the ballet of Challo mat
Speaker 4: all right, and he's wearing just his boxer briefs, a
Speaker 4: loose cigarette hanging from his mouth, begging a woman if
Speaker 4: she has a match so we could light that sucker up.
Speaker 3: Can I play this or is he?
Speaker 4: I believe it is censored, but I'm ready to dump
Speaker 4: if cool?
Speaker 13: Oh give me, Oh give me.
Speaker 4: That's it was much shorter than I had thought.
Speaker 1: He's in his boxers in the hallway. This woman is like,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Shilah Buff. Shilah Buff really wants this
Speaker 1: cigarette right now.
Speaker 4: He travels to Italy to attend his dad's baptism congratulations.
Speaker 4: Court docs showed his request to leave New Orleans was
Speaker 4: initially denied in favor of him continuing his substance abuse treatment. Later,
Speaker 4: his lawyer came back with a new request, which the
Speaker 4: court green lit. Unfortunately not lit was that cigarette because
Speaker 4: of the lady who was super embarrassed. Now remember the
Speaker 4: legal mess stemming from the very rough Mardi Gras. That
Speaker 4: was just a mere month ago. And now he's in
Speaker 4: Italy celebrating his dad, finding our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
Speaker 4: and just like Beetlejuice. But we only had to say
Speaker 4: his name once and it was a hypothetical situation, was
Speaker 4: it not?
Speaker 1: Yet?
Speaker 4: Here I have a headline with Jane Simmons and a god.
Speaker 4: Oh this is going to be part of the venue
Speaker 4: Hall of Fame if he has anything to do with it.
Speaker 4: He says, Kiss is going to go or no band
Speaker 4: has gone before, which includes an avatar show that they
Speaker 4: teased at the end of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 7: An avatar show like Avatar show the movie franchise, like
Speaker 7: with the Blue People.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's just maybe cartoons of them, hopefully
Speaker 4: they have legs and like the Facebook avatars. He says
Speaker 4: details will be revealed in and I quote under two years.
Speaker 4: Mind you. The first mention of this was in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty three. It'll also be so mind blowing that it'll
Speaker 4: make the Las Vegas fear and I quote again look
Speaker 4: like a popcorn fart.
Speaker 3: All right, he says.
Speaker 4: The Avatar show will be around Skreisenberg, It'll be around
Speaker 4: the world and not just one location, and will attack
Speaker 4: the senses, not just the eyes, like virtual reality. If
Speaker 4: you see a dragon coming in to scoopy up and
Speaker 4: it breathes fire, there's gonna be fire all around you
Speaker 4: popcorn fart, and you're gonna feel that heat, the fire,
Speaker 4: the brimstone, the coffee. You'll be able to smell it.
Speaker 4: A Gene also has a biopic and cartoon in the
Speaker 4: works and a finish documentary, not to mention a kiss
Speaker 4: cruise landlock in Vegas. So the final tour never ends
Speaker 4: if it's up to Gene Simmons. On the Boop Tube,
Speaker 4: we have NCAA Basketball First four, Go Lee High, Prairie View, SMU, miamioh,
Speaker 4: good Luck, have fun, the masked singer on Fox Dirty
Speaker 4: Rotten Scandals, The price is right on E and you
Speaker 4: can catch Kerry Washington on Fallon. Follow Your Dreams of
Speaker 4: Me on Instagram at Sabrina Ambra but most importantly they
Speaker 4: with me. America smoke weed every day.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Sabrina. We have a lot of stuff to
Speaker 1: get into as we roll on the show, including an
Speaker 1: update in the Nancy Guthrie case. Didn't expect that, And
Speaker 1: I want to talk about a man who was arrested
Speaker 1: and after they arrested him, he got hit with some
Speaker 1: pretty brutal charges, right, and the the thing that really
Speaker 1: stood out to me was there was a feature in
Speaker 1: his house that the cops pointed out, and they said,
Speaker 1: when we knew when we saw that this guy had
Speaker 1: this in his house, we knew something was wrong.
Speaker 3: We knew something bad was wrong.
Speaker 1: You go into somebody's house and they got this going
Speaker 1: on in their house, we know something's going wrong. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what they've found inside this guy's house, and
Speaker 1: we'll go through the story because that is coming up
Speaker 1: next on the News Junkie. This is one of the
Speaker 1: weirdest stories I've seen in a while, and I want
Speaker 1: to get to this before I get to some of
Speaker 1: your heated emails coming in here momentarily. The heated Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's some good, some bad. We'll get into those.
Speaker 1: We'll see what people have on their mind. I'd always
Speaker 1: like to work in the feedback. But first this because
Speaker 1: this is truly a shocking story, and it says house
Speaker 1: of horrors, disturbing discovery at a Sanford home in Sandford, Florida,
Speaker 1: that's where this happened, sparks one hundred charges.
Speaker 3: Now, there was.
Speaker 1: One thing, one thing about this house when the cops
Speaker 1: broke in that stood out to them more than anything.
Speaker 1: And when I read this part of the story, I
Speaker 1: was like, wow, this. I want everybody to have a trial.
Speaker 1: But if this is a guy that ends up under
Speaker 1: the jail, my god, I will not feel bad for him.
Speaker 1: This is a guy named Blake mckinnis. He's thirty seven
Speaker 1: years old. He's facing one hundred charges in a child
Speaker 1: born investigation. But even though that was found at his house,
Speaker 1: that's not the weird thing I'm talking about, all Right.
Speaker 1: A Sanford man now faces one hundred charges in a
Speaker 1: major investigation on child abuse of material according to the
Speaker 1: Florida Attorney General of General James youth Meyer. Yout Meyer,
Speaker 1: I think because I don't know how he says name Florida.
Speaker 1: Florida Attorney General James Utzmeyer held a news conference on
Speaker 1: Tuesday to announce the arrest of thirty seven year old
Speaker 1: Blake mckinnis, whose home was searched last week by state investigators.
Speaker 1: And it's this guy. You know, it kind of looks
Speaker 1: like like you might imagine he would look like after
Speaker 1: hearing some of these details. According to the fdl E,
Speaker 1: that's Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents received over seventy
Speaker 1: cyber tips back in January about somebody uploading child pornography
Speaker 1: online using AI to generate the images. Investigators say they
Speaker 1: traced this back to mckinnis, and it kicked off an investigation.
Speaker 1: So on his computer they found those kind of files.
Speaker 1: But that wasn't it. There was more. Actually, is this
Speaker 1: the press conference here? Let's see, Oh it's so long
Speaker 1: or not? I want to get to the part about
Speaker 1: the bedrooms.
Speaker 9: But this morning joined the day I representative a lot
Speaker 9: of people to incidents where we might have child predators
Speaker 9: on the loose. Why these childlike sex dolls are illegal
Speaker 9: under floor the law.
Speaker 1: All right, So he had child sex dolls apparently in
Speaker 1: his house, this guy. But more than that, the thing
Speaker 1: that horrified a lot of the officers who were going
Speaker 1: to this house was this guy who didn't have any kids.
Speaker 1: All the rooms in his house were done up as
Speaker 1: kids rooms.
Speaker 17: Oo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like what one of the rooms I was looking
Speaker 1: at says girl cave, No boys allowed. Girls just want
Speaker 1: to have fun. And it's got all kinds of kids clothing,
Speaker 1: including like it's like there's like little girls underwear in
Speaker 1: the room. It's now the guy had all of the
Speaker 1: rooms in the house done up like little kids rooms.
Speaker 1: Zero he has no kids.
Speaker 3: No, he has no kids.
Speaker 1: There's nobody living there if he doesn't have any kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: But but was he to kid children or something, or
Speaker 1: was somebody in there at some point in time? And
Speaker 1: so lit'sten here. I want I want to want to
Speaker 1: hear them talk about the actual room, because we have.
Speaker 9: To nip these evil villains in the bud before they
Speaker 9: can lay a finger.
Speaker 3: On ott Is, the Attorney General.
Speaker 9: I want to thank Representative Plakin. I'll let her talk
Speaker 9: a little bit about the bill that she sponsored this
Speaker 9: year that I have no doubt will be signed in
Speaker 9: the law.
Speaker 1: Varias about the kid rooms. We're gonna go.
Speaker 9: Back working around the clock every single day to take
Speaker 9: these cases very seriously.
Speaker 6: This tip led them to.
Speaker 9: Mister mckinness's house, and what law enforcement saw when they
Speaker 9: arrived left them speechless. They entered into a house of
Speaker 9: horrors where this individual had decorated with little girls underwear toys,
Speaker 9: a room dedicated for a little girl sex dolls on
Speaker 9: her floor to law and ultimately they found foul files
Speaker 9: of both actual child pornography as well as AI.
Speaker 1: Jeez, man, this guy again everybody deserves the trial. But
Speaker 1: but this is a bury him under the jail kind
Speaker 1: of individual here.
Speaker 3: That is really shocking.
Speaker 4: Behavior given the AI generated images, which was that not
Speaker 4: part of a recent slew of pass laws in Florida.
Speaker 1: But I know that we we outlawed AI generated porn
Speaker 1: images of identifiable people. I didn't I know there was
Speaker 1: discussion on AI generated child sex abuse material. I know
Speaker 1: that there are for it been running it himself because
Speaker 1: you can't just do this on like the regular ones,
Speaker 1: I would imagine.
Speaker 4: Okay, so, which leads me to I mean there has
Speaker 4: so there's not a website. It's just like your own
Speaker 4: downloaded AI software.
Speaker 1: I would think, because I, like I wouldn't geez if
Speaker 1: any of the major companies had an AI where you
Speaker 1: could put in that kind of stuff about kids and
Speaker 1: produce some sort of material like that. I think there
Speaker 1: would be major outrage.
Speaker 4: I think they should expose whatever that program or the
Speaker 4: website was called.
Speaker 1: Does that risk telling other people who are like this guy, like,
Speaker 1: oh that's the software I need. That's increderful, it says. Additionally,
Speaker 1: investigators found that mckinnis had children's bedrooms decorated despite not
Speaker 1: being a parent. In these bedrooms, LA Enforcement found massive
Speaker 1: amounts of paraphernalia, childlike dolls, as well as children's toys
Speaker 1: and clothing. The dolls were anatomically correct, and children's underwear
Speaker 1: was discovered inside crow so much been doing.
Speaker 4: This for years. That's a pretty built up house.
Speaker 7: So did we determine that none of the stuff he
Speaker 7: possessed actually contributed to any child abuse?
Speaker 1: Some of it was real, Some of it was real
Speaker 1: actual kids, other was AI generated stuff. Both of them
Speaker 1: I guess illegal and depending on what place you're in
Speaker 1: or something, right, Yeah, and so, I mean the whole
Speaker 1: thing is very, very strange. But just the idea that
Speaker 1: somebody who doesn't have any kids has their whole room
Speaker 1: and the rooms in their house decorated like that makes
Speaker 1: me think that they had a plan at some point
Speaker 1: to reel some people in, to reel some young kids in,
Speaker 1: and then put them in those rooms Aeriel Castro style.
Speaker 1: You know who did. There's multiple tips okay, yeah, multiple
Speaker 1: tips he was posting or so. Yeah. Yeah, he was
Speaker 1: posting this stuff online somewhere and people who saw were like, whoa,
Speaker 1: And they started reporting this guy because he just kept
Speaker 1: posting it over and over and over, almost like he
Speaker 1: wanted to get caught. Very weird. Hit us with your
Speaker 1: feedback on this one too. What should happen to this guy?
Speaker 1: What do you think? Ai twists all that tips at
Speaker 1: the news Junki dot com will record your dispatch at
Speaker 1: thenewsjunkie dot com. Jay emails the show. Jay says, Hello
Speaker 1: News Junkie podcast listener here, listening to Tuesday's show. And
Speaker 1: I forgot most of what we talked about on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure it was a thing. Oh yeah, that
Speaker 1: one Guinness really took you out. I'm sure that was
Speaker 1: really happy. You guys were talking about the person with
Speaker 1: the legal strategy the defense attorneys were using for the
Speaker 1: young man who plays the pipe bomb in Washington, d C. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: So to bring it back the guy who was wanted
Speaker 1: for a very long time by the FBI, who put
Speaker 1: pipe bombs outside the Republicans offices and the Democrats offices
Speaker 1: the day before January sixth. His attorneys are saying, hey,
Speaker 1: there was a blanket pardon for anybody involved in the
Speaker 1: January sixth or associated incidents. And we even read the
Speaker 1: letter of the pardon that was issued by the White.
Speaker 7: House, and not even associated incidents. I think when we
Speaker 7: read the text of the pardon, it was convicted for
Speaker 7: an event taking place at or near the Capitol.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which I said to his attorneys, really came up
Speaker 1: with something clever here, as bad as this person was
Speaker 1: if they did this. But Jay continues, while I'm no
Speaker 1: legal legal scholar and have nothing to do with working
Speaker 1: in the law business, when I heard that he was caught,
Speaker 1: that was my first thought. The President pardoned everybody that
Speaker 1: committed these crimes near the Capitol that day. Now you're
Speaker 1: talking about the legal strategy, which actually made me laugh
Speaker 1: out loud. Then I had to explain at the office
Speaker 1: while I was laughing, and we're at about an eighty
Speaker 1: twenty split on the fact that the pardon does cover him.
Speaker 1: Around my office eighty percent being in agreement. So I
Speaker 1: was saying, eighty percent of his office thinks that this
Speaker 1: guy might have a crazy UNO reverse card out for
Speaker 1: the pipe bombing trial. For those who said the pardon
Speaker 1: wouldn't cover him because he placed the bombs before January sixth,
Speaker 1: all the guys that showed up with guns that day
Speaker 1: wouldn't be eligible for pardons either, because they transported the
Speaker 1: guns before that day. It's a very interesting debacle. Love
Speaker 1: the show, Love you guys, Wiggles and pops all the
Speaker 1: way around. Another email coming in, this person says about
Speaker 1: the gas station drugs and age restrictions. Because this this
Speaker 1: came up on the show yesterday, I forgot what that
Speaker 1: drug was called that we were talking about. It was
Speaker 1: seven to seven is the short term for it.
Speaker 4: It was supposed to be like what ex fentanyl.
Speaker 1: It's a very concentrated derivative of the kretom plant. It's
Speaker 1: like a synthetic kind of deal. I think it's from
Speaker 1: various things that I've read. And then we got a
Speaker 1: lot of feedback on the texting service that for a
Speaker 1: lot of those gas station drugs you might actually have
Speaker 1: to be twenty one to buy them. Really Okay, that's
Speaker 1: what well. People were chiming in with. This person says,
Speaker 1: I don't think there's an age restriction on that stuff
Speaker 1: because most of it's not for human consumption. It even
Speaker 1: says right on it, says this person, which would be
Speaker 1: at odds with what some of the Texters say. But
Speaker 1: I would tend to agree with a swarm of Texters
Speaker 1: who will probably look at this.
Speaker 7: So why sell it if it's not for human consumption?
Speaker 7: Like I know that the idea of bath salts was
Speaker 7: that you're supposed to put them in the bath with
Speaker 7: you and not consume them.
Speaker 13: Uh huh.
Speaker 7: What is the point of all of the gas station
Speaker 7: drugs that aren't for human consumption?
Speaker 1: The one that we showed yesterday that's seven oh h
Speaker 1: which makes people look like they're on fentanyl or something,
Speaker 1: And it's just it's a kind of like legal and
Speaker 1: a loophole kind of thing. It didn't look like it
Speaker 1: was for anything else. The packaging looked like it was
Speaker 1: a drug that you were supposed to take, yeah, for sure,
Speaker 1: And it even said like really strong.
Speaker 3: This is like very very strong on the packaging.
Speaker 7: When you buy stuff that you can later choose to
Speaker 7: consume or not, but it's not for human consumption. There
Speaker 7: usually is a point, like when you buy raw milk
Speaker 7: from a farm, it's to feed animals. You know, when
Speaker 7: you buy bath salts, it's to put in a bath
Speaker 7: and make your bath more pleasurable. Fireworks fireworks are to
Speaker 7: scare off the birds that might be on our phone,
Speaker 7: on our farm, or perhaps terrorizing my cul de sac
Speaker 7: on July third.
Speaker 1: For those of you who don't know there at some
Speaker 1: places has been in the past for you have to
Speaker 1: fill out when you buy fireworks in certain places, and
Speaker 1: it assures people that you're not going to really light
Speaker 1: off the fireworks in your neighborhood. You're only purchasing them
Speaker 1: to scare animals. Agricultural use only. Yes, yeah, that's all
Speaker 1: you can do. Kathy emails the show tips at the
Speaker 1: news Junkie dot Commas is not renewing your contract. Hey, Sean,
Speaker 1: I missed the part of your show today, but when
Speaker 1: I tune in a few months ago, you stated that
Speaker 1: June thirtieth was your last day with iHeart. That is true.
Speaker 1: That is when my contract ends. June thirtieth is the
Speaker 1: final day of my contract, which is just over one
Speaker 1: hundred days. She says, if true, I'm sorry to hear this,
Speaker 1: as I'm a relatively new listener. As I stated as
Speaker 1: much last week in Chat where will you be Going?
Speaker 1: I like your format style engaging the chat people and
Speaker 1: posting remarks comments about other shows. Thank you, Kathy, Thank
Speaker 1: you for sending the email Kathy, And yeah, I have
Speaker 1: not heard anything back. I know a lot of the
Speaker 1: suits are on the move at the moment. If I
Speaker 1: hear something, i'll tell you. If I don't, then June
Speaker 1: thirtieth would be my last day working for iHeartRadio. And
Speaker 1: at that point, I would you know. I'm not hanging
Speaker 1: up my headphones. I'm not stopping. I'm not anywhere close
Speaker 1: to being done. I have a million more things that
Speaker 1: I want to accomplish. Are you trying to stop me?
Speaker 1: I'm not stopping. You can't stop me. And I don't
Speaker 1: remember the exact Wolf of Wall Street Club, but I'll
Speaker 1: do the rant with all without any.
Speaker 3: F words if I can remember it at some point
Speaker 3: in time.
Speaker 1: But I as far as now, I don't have anything
Speaker 1: new for you. I only I'm telling you the truth.
Speaker 1: My contract ends in June. I didn't reach out to
Speaker 1: iHeart at all. iHeart then was approaching me. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say like aggressively, but they were very, very insistent that
Speaker 1: we talk. And then when I didn't respond, We're like, okay,
Speaker 1: come come on, call on when need to chat about this.
Speaker 1: I've had several meetings with them. The last meeting was
Speaker 1: me sending an email of here's what I need to
Speaker 1: make this work for X amount of years more and
Speaker 1: I haven't heard anything back. I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that means like they just don't
Speaker 1: want to do it, and if they don't, that's fine.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think we're at a point right now
Speaker 1: where're a huge inflection point in the media landscape.
Speaker 3: You have the ability to do podcastings.
Speaker 1: I have my entire studio where I could do whatever
Speaker 1: I want, whenever I want. I'm not reliant on a
Speaker 1: radio station to provide the equipment for me to be
Speaker 1: able to create this kind of content. I've worked hard
Speaker 1: to establish bases on different social media platforms. On Facebook,
Speaker 1: I'm coming up on one hundred and fifty thousand followers
Speaker 1: or something over there. On YouTube, we're finally getting some
Speaker 1: traction and and building up a big following over there.
Speaker 3: All this stuff is heading in the right direction.
Speaker 1: I don't know if my time to break away and
Speaker 1: just kind of focus on the next level of my
Speaker 1: career is now, or if iHeart wants to make a
Speaker 1: deal and do something bigger with this show before that
Speaker 1: happens way down the road. I literally don't know. And
Speaker 1: that's how this stuff kind of should be. You should
Speaker 1: just go. I believe in myself. I'll always bet on
Speaker 1: myself a million times over. I put every waking moment
Speaker 1: of my day into this kind of stuff. I wake up,
Speaker 1: and I live, and I eat, and I breathe, and
Speaker 1: I ask this stuff and that's what I do. I
Speaker 1: do this all day long. So I am very very
Speaker 1: confident in myself my ability to do this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: By connections within the industry, I'm at a really good place.
Speaker 1: Will it continue with iHeart? Will it continue with this
Speaker 1: show in this format? I have absolutely no clue, And honestly,
Speaker 1: that's kind of exciting to me. For the first time
Speaker 1: in a while, that's kind of an exciting prospect for me.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: This is not me lying to you. This is not
Speaker 1: some sort of weird negotiation tactic. This is simply me
Speaker 1: being honest with you and answering to questions people are
Speaker 1: asking about this topic. So, as of right now, June
Speaker 1: thirtieth would be my last day. It's the last day
Speaker 1: that I'm contractually obligated to crack a microphone and talk
Speaker 1: for four hours on this show. But if anything happens
Speaker 1: between now and then, I'll let you know. Steve emails
Speaker 1: the show tips at the news Junkie dot com. Steve says, Sean, Well,
Speaker 1: I am mildly enjoying that show you talked about DTF
Speaker 1: Saint Louis. I found some of the premise ridiculous, like
Speaker 1: since when is there a live sign language interpreter on
Speaker 1: with a weatherman during a news broadcast? And they would
Speaker 1: never allow a news personality to be arrested during a broadcast.
Speaker 1: I believe they would have to get past a front desk,
Speaker 1: a station manager in security to do that. Other than that,
Speaker 1: it's okay, says Steve, And he's right. There's there's like
Speaker 1: some news reports where you have Jason Bateman, who's a meteorologist,
Speaker 1: like you're friendly local mediorologist, and then you have I
Speaker 1: keep forgetting his name, the dar from Stranger Things, the
Speaker 1: sheriff Popper David Harper. I went with his Stranger Things name.
Speaker 1: I think Hopper Hopper is a stranger his name right,
Speaker 1: that guy David, what would you say? His name was Harber,
Speaker 1: David Harper. That guy is on with the weatherman doing
Speaker 1: sign language during just regular reports that you might see
Speaker 1: during a hurricane. Yeah, during like an emergency or a
Speaker 1: hurricane exactly, you might see something like that. But generally speaking,
Speaker 1: I don't think you would see that. You're right, And
Speaker 1: there are other kind of far fetched things.
Speaker 3: That are in it.
Speaker 1: I can look past most of that stuff. My problem
Speaker 1: now is I need it to pop off a little bit.
Speaker 1: I need I need some more excitement, and maybe we'll
Speaker 1: get that from the new episode of this. But it's
Speaker 1: got people with varying opinions. As many other shows do
Speaker 1: appreciate yours a couple points in like pop culture and
Speaker 1: uh radio and television or television and movies. Excuse me?
Speaker 7: That does make it think or make it seem like
Speaker 7: it's easier to walk into a running TV station than
Speaker 7: it is. Are there some probably small market TV stations
Speaker 7: that it would be a little bit easier than it,
Speaker 7: Like you can't just walk in here, No, and then
Speaker 7: arrest people.
Speaker 1: You know, the cops wid the cousin of me staring
Speaker 1: at a lobby with nobody in it and everything else
Speaker 1: would be sure and locked down.
Speaker 7: And if they if they don't have the right one,
Speaker 7: like what Sabrina witnessed yesterday, which was some beautiful some
Speaker 7: random person came in and they were trying to check.
Speaker 1: In with the giant giant doesn't display. Is that a
Speaker 1: robot iPad or.
Speaker 3: It just sits there?
Speaker 4: No, the iPad's different. They went up to a digital
Speaker 4: display that kind of just goes through. Hey, this is
Speaker 4: I heeart. We've got an event coming up.
Speaker 1: You've seen it in the lobby. It's like a digital
Speaker 1: signage thing.
Speaker 4: And they went right to touch it and it's.
Speaker 1: Just like a rotating billboard right correct.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And they're like, this must be as the giant
Speaker 4: iPad God, and I pointed them in the right direction
Speaker 4: as a good look.
Speaker 1: They didn't build the lobby for boomers at iHeartRadio, So yeah,
Speaker 1: that is true. Like if a cop showed up to
Speaker 1: a TV station, there would be way too many layers
Speaker 1: before they would be able to say, hey, all right,
Speaker 1: now you're you're on the side of the set and
Speaker 1: you can arrest one of the people as happens in
Speaker 1: that show DTF Saint Louis.
Speaker 4: And say it was based on a true story.
Speaker 1: Did they No, I think this person is just saying
Speaker 1: it's not realistic, which is not. But I mean sometimes
Speaker 1: we let people get away with some stuff like that
Speaker 1: if it moves the plot along. All right, quick break
Speaker 1: and we'll get away from this noise when we come back.
Speaker 1: More updates on stories we've been talking about Injury Duty.
Speaker 1: I got that Guthrie update, the Nancy Guthrie case update,
Speaker 1: more Afroman clips, and a lot more on the way
Speaker 1: that's coming up next in the news Junkie. There are
Speaker 1: many incidents I think when this happens. It happened to
Speaker 1: me the other day on the show, where I see
Speaker 1: people talking about something and I can't predict what the
Speaker 1: overwhelming opinion of most people would be. I like to
Speaker 1: focus very much on what people are into, what audiences
Speaker 1: are into. I focus on the box office. I still
Speaker 1: look every week at what album sales are tops. I
Speaker 1: still look at anything out there where people are voting
Speaker 1: with their dollar and saying I like this versus this,
Speaker 1: and I'm seeing what's going on. I'm even seeing on
Speaker 1: a deeper level, I'm looking at seeing what the demographics are.
Speaker 1: If you're in radio and you don't know how demographics work,
Speaker 1: you are wasting your time. You don't understand how to
Speaker 1: build audiences. You don't understand how this industry works. Is
Speaker 1: a key thing we For instance, on this show, we
Speaker 1: target people well, either men twenty five to fifty four or.
Speaker 3: Person's twenty five to fifty four. So if you're within.
Speaker 1: That age bracket, that's who you're really focusing on when
Speaker 1: it comes to this show, right, We're trying to create
Speaker 1: some content that brings those people in. Hopefully you enjoy
Speaker 1: the show, Hopefully you hang out every day. But sometimes
Speaker 1: my gut is wrong. It's not very often, it's not
Speaker 1: very often. My gut was a little off the other
Speaker 1: day when I told you guys the story about how
Speaker 1: there was a couple at Costco and they split into
Speaker 1: different lines, and the boyfriend had the shopping cart and
Speaker 1: the girlfriend was in a totally separate line, and they
Speaker 1: were trying to see who went fastest in the lines,
Speaker 1: and then they were going to bring the cart to
Speaker 1: that line and then check out and it's like, no,
Speaker 1: you guys are a group. You stay together, you check
Speaker 1: out with your cart, and you wait in the line
Speaker 1: like everybody else. You don't get three, four or five
Speaker 1: positions in every line and try to see what happens.
Speaker 1: This is a social thing. It's not an experiment, you know,
Speaker 1: an experiment. We're all out together on planet Earth and
Speaker 1: we're trying to follow the same rules to social contract. Almost.
Speaker 1: It's a deal we have with each other. We go,
Speaker 1: we wait in the line, we act politely, We nodded
Speaker 1: other people, We let people through and they need to.
Speaker 1: We do these things. But a lot of people were like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that, and I was very surprised. I
Speaker 1: was very surprised. I think I turned the folks around
Speaker 1: after a little chit chat about it, and think most
Speaker 1: people think, hey, you know, there's a certain limit to
Speaker 1: what you should be okay with it, not okay within
Speaker 1: these scenarios. But then Sea Line sends me this story
Speaker 1: after the show the other day, and how did you
Speaker 1: stumble upon this seiling. We'll start there just scrolling through Facebook.
Speaker 1: They're just looking around.
Speaker 7: This is a bar that back in my gig playing days,
Speaker 7: very early in my gig playing days I played at
Speaker 7: years ago, and then so I just I had followed
Speaker 7: them on Facebook. And then there was a condo that
Speaker 7: me and some friends used to go to a lot
Speaker 7: in Cocoa Beach and it was walking distance to this bar,
Speaker 7: and since I already knew the bar was there, it's
Speaker 7: a really cool place. It's a Irish pub. So they
Speaker 7: had a big day.
Speaker 1: Yesterday for Saint Patrick's Day. Yeah, yeah, And and but
Speaker 1: it's it's weird because you wouldn't expect to find a
Speaker 1: bar this like authentic feeling. I mean, it feels like
Speaker 1: a cool Irish pub. It's not like it's not trying
Speaker 1: too hard. It's not fake when I don't know if
Speaker 1: they did that, you know, but.
Speaker 7: People, yeah, people used to little people used to make
Speaker 7: a lot of money doing something like that. But this
Speaker 7: place is in a strip mall, which is so weird
Speaker 7: because usually strip mall bars don't feel like they would.
Speaker 7: You know, there's a certain kind of stigma around a
Speaker 7: strip mall bar that this place definitely does not fall into.
Speaker 3: All right, I I I agree, I agree with all that.
Speaker 1: So to recap, we're talking about an Irish restaurant on
Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Day and they post this on social media
Speaker 1: and it blew up. I would not have expected this
Speaker 1: blow up, and I certainly would have expected some of
Speaker 1: the comments you're about to hear. Here's their post. It
Speaker 1: says Patty Cassidy's Irish pub. Here we are worried about
Speaker 1: the spring breakers. Of course we've talked about that earlier
Speaker 1: on the show today when we should be worried about
Speaker 1: their grandparents.
Speaker 3: This lovely couple.
Speaker 1: And they show this security footage of an older couple
Speaker 1: inside their restaurant and you could see them with a
Speaker 1: little mug that they're handing to each other, and it's.
Speaker 3: A moscow mule mug.
Speaker 1: If you've ever had a moscow mule to drink, you know,
Speaker 1: they're usually served in those yeah, little traditional copper mug
Speaker 1: that you would get just for that. And the couple
Speaker 1: is handing this back and forth to each other. It says,
Speaker 1: this lovely couple decided to steal one of our tulamore
Speaker 1: de mule glasses. The video shows her emptying the darts
Speaker 1: out of her cup that she's holding and then placing
Speaker 1: it in her hand with her bag and then walking
Speaker 1: right out the door. And they said, we use these
Speaker 1: for the house darts we had so that when you
Speaker 1: played darts, they would put the darts in this little
Speaker 1: moscow mule cup. And the couple stole that coup while
Speaker 1: they were there and says, yes, we know it's not expensive,
Speaker 1: but it's the principle you wouldn't go into your friend's
Speaker 1: home and steal their glassware. Yes, Patty's is open to
Speaker 1: the public, but that doesn't mean all the things inside
Speaker 1: of the pub don't belong to someone. Owning a small
Speaker 1: business is hard enough. People like this just make it harder.
Speaker 1: Don't be like these people, right, that's what it said.
Speaker 1: I happen to think that's not They're not really going
Speaker 1: crazy here. I thought that was a fairly reasonable response.
Speaker 4: I mean, to post the video and stuff over a
Speaker 4: promotional item that was given.
Speaker 1: To them, well, they stole it from this place. Whether
Speaker 1: promotional or not, it was something that was theirs. The
Speaker 1: couple stole it.
Speaker 4: Stealing is bad. I'm not saying that they were okay
Speaker 4: to do it, but it just seems like a little extra.
Speaker 1: I think what they posted they could have gone way harder.
Speaker 1: I think they could have gone way harder. But the
Speaker 1: comments were pretty surprising. So here is where this kind
Speaker 1: of got interesting. They had to post a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff themselves, and they said, to those who actually read
Speaker 1: the post and have a moral compass in your comments,
Speaker 1: thank you to those who empathize with theft in your comments,
Speaker 1: thanks for the engagement. I hope no one close to
Speaker 1: you owns a small business because you've probably stolen from them.
Speaker 1: And they said, things get stolen from this place on
Speaker 1: an almost daily basis. The fact that we have to
Speaker 1: actually release clear footage of the theft and we post
Speaker 1: it online is on them. Some of you commentarys have
Speaker 1: the morals of a cup point right. So here here
Speaker 1: are the people thought that was a pretty good insult. Yeah, here,
Speaker 1: here are the people in the comments. There's so many
Speaker 1: people who are supportive of this couple, supportive or.
Speaker 4: Like as far as they are against the pub releasing this.
Speaker 1: I think in a way you have to be one
Speaker 1: or the other. You have to go like there was
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with what they did, or you know, the
Speaker 1: pub is sort of right here. This person said, looks
Speaker 1: like they took a souvenir. Many restaurants have this same
Speaker 1: issue where people will take things like a glass cup
Speaker 1: or something as a souvenir of their visit. It's not right,
Speaker 1: but it happens all the time. Who knows. Maybe your
Speaker 1: mom used to be the kind of villain who always
Speaker 1: took home ashtrays from all the strip clubs she used
Speaker 1: to go to, and now it's gone full circle. Somebody says,
Speaker 1: free memorabilia, so she wanted a souvenir. I'm sure if
Speaker 1: they would ask to buy one, the business be happy
Speaker 1: to sell them one. This person says. A lot of
Speaker 1: these people are like, hey, there's nothing wrong with them
Speaker 1: doing this. If it wasn't for bars, you wouldn't have
Speaker 1: any glasses in your first apartment.
Speaker 3: This person says.
Speaker 1: The couple definitely knew what they were doing. You can
Speaker 1: see that she is trying to hide it away. Be slick.
Speaker 1: Put it, put it like, you know, very carefully out there,
Speaker 1: and it says, come on, now, there's a certain loss level.
Speaker 3: That's just part of the business.
Speaker 1: This is Hey, this is a thing that a lot
Speaker 1: of people think. A lot of people think. There's like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is business. Yeah, this is the cost of doing business.
Speaker 1: There are some people who legitimately think this. They think
Speaker 1: this about when people steal from target. They think of
Speaker 1: this about when people steal from these sort of mom
Speaker 1: and pop style restaurants. They go, oh, it's not that
Speaker 1: big of a deal. This person says, come on, now,
Speaker 1: there's a certain loss level. That's just part of the business.
Speaker 1: If somebody watches this while it's happening, it didn't do
Speaker 1: or say something, they're responsible to recoup the damages. If not,
Speaker 1: why did you go back and look at the footage? Seriously,
Speaker 1: it's either a lazy employee behind the camera or a personal vendetta.
Speaker 1: You make your business less desirable either way.
Speaker 4: If what's strange to me is like we use these
Speaker 4: to put our darts in there, that's the only dark
Speaker 4: cup we have. Secondly, and I just propose this as
Speaker 4: a question because I am not condoning what they did,
Speaker 4: but if this was a part of a box from
Speaker 4: tullmerdo Merch the rep that sells them their stock for
Speaker 4: that day, and they're like, these are yours to give
Speaker 4: away or for the patrons, because it does say tell
Speaker 4: them we're doing it, m hm, is it less of
Speaker 4: a stick in their side because it was free to
Speaker 4: them and maybe technically could have been a giveaway item
Speaker 4: and not.
Speaker 1: Be super darts. To me, personally, none of that matters
Speaker 1: at all. The person is either stealing something or not
Speaker 1: stealing something, And in this case, it's very clear to
Speaker 1: me that they were stealing something. They were like doing
Speaker 1: the home alone, put in your purse, put in your
Speaker 1: purse thing, and.
Speaker 3: She she took it.
Speaker 1: And you can you can argue all day long like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is not a big deal. They were just they
Speaker 1: were putting darts in it. The thing is it was somebody,
Speaker 1: It was the bars, and they took it from the bar.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 7: The argument too, that some of the people are making like,
Speaker 7: you know, you putting this on the internet would make
Speaker 7: people not want to go there, Like, what.
Speaker 1: Do you mean people that steal? Yeah? What is it?
Speaker 1: Sending a message that if you steal stuff you might
Speaker 1: get blasted on the internet. Sure, what a terrible message.
Speaker 7: Michael on Facebook, Oh yeah, I think this is a
Speaker 7: little bit kind of what Sabrina is saying. Oh yes,
Speaker 7: the glassware that the distributor gave you to promote buying
Speaker 7: their product is paying off again getting views for your page.
Speaker 7: Oh and yes, the overserved patrons who should not have
Speaker 7: done it are now never going to return to your bar.
Speaker 7: You got the advertising without gunshots like the other spring
Speaker 7: breakers I saw, and playing the victim, putting your customers
Speaker 7: on blast. Not a good look and definitely not worth
Speaker 7: the dollar sixty seven price of the glass.
Speaker 1: But if not even you're turning away thieves, thieves don't
Speaker 1: want to go back to the place good. If I'm
Speaker 1: a person running a business, I don't want thieves to
Speaker 1: go back to my place. I don't want thieves stealing
Speaker 1: things and thinking they could just get away with it.
Speaker 1: And when a bar gets stuff from a place, no
Speaker 1: matter what place it is, it's their stuff. Like imagine
Speaker 1: going to a bar and taking the Saint Pauly's knon
Speaker 1: sign and being like, well, this is promotion, is this
Speaker 1: is for to the beer. It's mine. I'm gonna take it.
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of Saint Pauli's. It's like, no, those
Speaker 1: are things that are the bars stuff. And if you
Speaker 1: want to ask them, if you want to say, hey,
Speaker 1: would you sell this to it, if you want to
Speaker 1: say a million other things, I get that, But otherwise
Speaker 1: you're just stealing and you shouldn't do somebody, you know,
Speaker 1: somebody Jeremy, stay away from Patty's. They will shame you
Speaker 1: for a glass on social media. They must be desperate
Speaker 1: and probably skimp out on quality.
Speaker 5: Huh.
Speaker 1: That's a weird take, man, It's so dumb. It's a
Speaker 1: fundamental different view of life and business, and usually it
Speaker 1: comes from somebody who has not run a business in
Speaker 1: their life. It's a fundamental different view because you can
Speaker 1: either say, hey, it's okay to take things, not a
Speaker 1: big deal. It's actually worse to shame the people who
Speaker 1: take things, or it's like, hey, taking things is wrong,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't do it. That is a fundamental different view
Speaker 1: on life that people will have, and I think these
Speaker 1: people are stupid for doing it. I think the people
Speaker 1: should come forward and if they come forward, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: take the video down if they come forward and like
Speaker 1: apologize and give it back or whatever. But I have
Speaker 1: stuff like this that I love. Things like this.
Speaker 3: I've done something. In this studio across from me.
Speaker 1: I have a beautiful classic radio cabinet. It used to
Speaker 1: exist in a radio shack years and years and years
Speaker 1: and years and years and years and years years ago,
Speaker 1: where in the sixties and seventies they would sell portable
Speaker 1: radios on it.
Speaker 3: It's got these glass shelves in it.
Speaker 1: I love it. I had it redone and it's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite possessions in the studio. It's a big
Speaker 1: light up RCA Victor Radio cabinet. Right those of you
Speaker 1: over on YouTube can see it's ceilings bringing it up
Speaker 1: on the PTZ camera. That's the cabinet that I have,
Speaker 1: and I have that installed on the wall in the studio.
Speaker 3: One of my prize possessions. I would never sell it.
Speaker 1: So I have this and I stuff it with all
Speaker 1: sorts of great things that I like and that I've
Speaker 1: collected over the years. One thing I have in there
Speaker 1: is a book that is a tulomore Do book, and
Speaker 1: if you open it, the pages are hollowed out and
Speaker 1: there's a tulomore Do flask in the book. It was
Speaker 1: given to me by Caitlin, who owns a bunch of
Speaker 1: the top bars in Orlando, Florida, and she got these
Speaker 1: promotional items from TELEMORDEU very same company that we're talking
Speaker 1: about here, Whiskey Company, and she was gracious enough to
Speaker 1: give it to me. She's like, Oh, I wanted to
Speaker 1: give this to you because people really want these. It's
Speaker 1: super cool. She's like, I've kept a bunch of them
Speaker 1: and I put this over to the side here. I
Speaker 1: love it. It's one of my favorite things that I
Speaker 1: have collected. I've never seen anybody else with one of them.
Speaker 1: But if they yeah, you guys have them because you
Speaker 1: got one from this person. But if they just had
Speaker 1: it up inside their bar and now whatever promotion is over,
Speaker 1: they have it sitting up in the bar somewhere. If
Speaker 1: you take that you were stealing something, you don't go, well, no,
Speaker 1: And this originated as this. To me, it's like it's
Speaker 1: pretty clear cut. But the people there was many people
Speaker 1: in the comments that felt worse or at least wanted
Speaker 1: to stand up for the couple that was stealing the
Speaker 1: glassware from this particular place or the mug from this
Speaker 1: Patty Cassidy's Irish pub, so much so that they had
Speaker 1: to respond many times in the comments. Let us know
Speaker 1: what you think. I'll put the video of this over
Speaker 1: on see it now over on the website at the
Speaker 1: Newsyunki dot com. You'll see what's going on, so you
Speaker 1: can make up your own mind. Go check that out
Speaker 1: at the Newsjunkie dot com when you get a chance.
Speaker 1: All right, quick break, when we come back jury duty,
Speaker 1: I've got some big updates, including on the Nancy Guthrie case.
Speaker 1: We'll see what's going on there because that is coming
Speaker 1: up next on the News Junkie. Very very easy for
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Speaker 1: trying to get your attention. Oh now I know what
Speaker 1: it is. It's Facebook. In the background. It was Facebook,
Speaker 1: the people's feelings this looping and looping and loop, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was somebody says Tip Top show, Sean, it's not
Speaker 1: my fault, well, it kind is. It was the security
Speaker 1: footage of the couple taking that Moscow mule mug playing
Speaker 1: in the background over and over and over. I was like,
Speaker 1: what is happening right now?
Speaker 4: I was grabbing itubs like we just got one thousand
Speaker 4: more views in a row.
Speaker 1: It happened here. I just had it rolling, all right.
Speaker 7: I was grabbing a soda and a kitchen, and a
Speaker 7: coworker who will go unnamed, said, dude, my parents have
Speaker 7: plenty of just perfectly good flatwear, but they go to
Speaker 7: a restaurant that Ramikin is.
Speaker 1: There's Yeah. I was talking about this a little bit
Speaker 1: during the break and I said, in some cases, it's
Speaker 1: a little more loose, like I'm not going to lie
Speaker 1: to you. When I was growing up, my parents had
Speaker 1: a lot of our towels, said Howard Johnson's on them
Speaker 1: holiday in. My parents would take the towels. Even Courtney
Speaker 1: and I would kind of be at odds on some
Speaker 1: of these things where Courtney goes, and She's got solid
Speaker 1: logic on this, This makes absolute total sense. She goes.
Speaker 3: If I go to a hotel.
Speaker 1: Room and check in, and then I'm done with my
Speaker 1: stay there, and let's say I didn't take a shower
Speaker 1: or anything. She says, when she's checking out, she can
Speaker 1: grab all of the stuff out of the bathroom, the soap,
Speaker 1: the little shampoo bottles and a conditioner, and all of
Speaker 1: those accouterments in the bathroom. She says, you can just
Speaker 1: grab those and put them in your stuff because they
Speaker 1: were for you and your visit, even if you didn't
Speaker 1: use them.
Speaker 4: Now, you can't take the giant pump of shampoo that's
Speaker 4: been screwed into the wall. That would be stealing. But
Speaker 4: if you are, you got yourself aloof of shower cap.
Speaker 4: Never use the shower cap in my damn life. But
Speaker 4: I have fifteen of them in the travel bag because that's.
Speaker 1: Why I think. It's all one of those you know
Speaker 1: it when you see it kind of things. And that
Speaker 1: makes sense. It's like those items were for you, even
Speaker 1: if you didn't use them, you should still be able
Speaker 1: to get them and take them with you.
Speaker 3: That makes sense. Everybody agrees on that.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense that you just go, hey, I
Speaker 1: like this thing from this place. What you start doing
Speaker 1: from there is called mental gymnastics, all right, that's what
Speaker 1: you're doing. You're doing mental gymnastics to justify the thing
Speaker 1: you already want to do. So it's just like when
Speaker 1: your friend goes, hey, should I date this girl? And
Speaker 1: he's kind of made up his mind, and you're going,
Speaker 1: I don't know, should you? And you start listing some
Speaker 1: things and go what about this and this and this?
Speaker 1: Your friend has already decided he's going to date this
Speaker 1: girl no matter what red flags there are out there,
Speaker 1: and he's just going to use whatever he can to
Speaker 1: justify doing it. So it probably already banger. Probably these
Speaker 1: people wanted to steal something, We wanted to take something
Speaker 1: with them, and when they decided that, they'll do all
Speaker 1: the mental gymnastics afterwards, Like here's why it's fine, here's
Speaker 1: why it's okay. It's a big corporation, they have insurance,
Speaker 1: it's a promotional item. That why are they putting these
Speaker 1: people on blast?
Speaker 3: They're actually the bad guy.
Speaker 4: Here's the crazy thing. That couple could have just reached out,
Speaker 4: even if it's like via customer service email to Tully
Speaker 4: and said, we loved those mugs that we saw at
Speaker 4: this pub. Any chance you've got a couple you could
Speaker 4: send our way so we can blah blah blah, and
Speaker 4: I'm sure Tully would have absolutely no problem.
Speaker 1: Probably not. I mean, if they a couple companies do
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff all the time, it's taking it
Speaker 1: into your own hands, which becomes a problem real quick.
Speaker 1: Injury duty. The era is his own as sheriff who
Speaker 1: is supposedly leading the hunt for Nancy Guthrie.
Speaker 3: We haven't heard much from that story in a while.
Speaker 1: The Arizona sheriff leading the hunt for Nancy Guthrie has
Speaker 1: responded to efforts to recall him for quote being an
Speaker 1: embarrassment for his handling of the high profile kidnapping case
Speaker 1: p M ACCOUNTA sheriff share Chris Nanos addressed the effort
Speaker 1: to oust him from his job soon after it was revealed.
Speaker 1: He says, we are aware of the recall and it
Speaker 1: is the right of the people. We will always honor
Speaker 1: the will of the people and that's what makes the democracy.
Speaker 1: Which is the right response, actually, but there has been
Speaker 1: a campaign to recall this guy because people are so
Speaker 1: unhappy with his efforts. I think one of the things
Speaker 1: he could do is just start a line of communication
Speaker 1: with people in the media to go, hey, you might
Speaker 1: not think we're making any progress, but we are. We
Speaker 1: can't tell you all the details, but here are the
Speaker 1: things that we're doing. And here's why this case is
Speaker 1: not dead or cold or whatever whatever. Otherwise, people me
Speaker 1: included are going to think the case his cold and
Speaker 1: you probably aren't going to get any big updates out
Speaker 1: of this. Is it possible, Yeah, but I mean barring
Speaker 1: some big secrets on their side, I don't know that
Speaker 1: there's anything going down here, and some people are reacting
Speaker 1: to that by trying to recall the sheriff. Also, a
Speaker 1: Florida bill has failed to pass. This was HB seven
Speaker 1: thirty three, and this failed to pass in the Florida Senate.
Speaker 1: The bill stated that a man may not marry any
Speaker 1: woman to whom he is related by by a cousin,
Speaker 1: a sister, aunt, or niece, so incestuous marriage. It was
Speaker 1: banning marriage with your with your cousin, freedom, summer baby.
Speaker 4: With your does all out all the other cousin and
Speaker 4: sister marriages we may have.
Speaker 1: And no, no, they're not banning it. They tried to
Speaker 1: ban it and it failed to pass. The ban failed
Speaker 1: to pass. Yeah, they were trying to ban cousin and brother,
Speaker 1: sister and you know, nephew, aunt weddings, anything with your cousin,
Speaker 1: your sister or brother, your aunt or uncle, or your
Speaker 1: niece or nephew, you cannot marry them. The bill to
Speaker 1: block that failed in the Santa Florida so you can
Speaker 1: still go.
Speaker 4: Does that mean we can find out who voted?
Speaker 1: I mean, I have questions for the people who vote
Speaker 1: against this. I certainly go hey about the thing saying
Speaker 1: you can't marry your sister? Why? Why? Why did you
Speaker 1: vote that down? And I'm willing to hear anybody who
Speaker 1: voted against this email tips at the news Junkie dot com.
Speaker 1: I'll take your email to heart. All right. We got
Speaker 1: more stories when we come back. One of them happens
Speaker 1: to be happens to be on an airplane. Just a
Speaker 1: happenstance kind of thing. It's a happenstance kind of thing.
Speaker 1: I got, all right.
Speaker 4: I scared me.
Speaker 1: I got more more eclips from the afromantrial and a
Speaker 1: whole buch more in the final hour, the power hour.
Speaker 16: Of the show, and that's coming up next on the
Speaker 16: new use Chunky.
Speaker 1: Sir, we've already done all of these things. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: been a while on the show. When you send in
Speaker 1: a chat message that says would you like to smoke
Speaker 1: a blunt on the show or do smelling salts on
Speaker 1: the show so you guys could try something new, you're
Speaker 1: clearly outing yourself as being new around here. That's what
Speaker 1: it seems like to me. Or you haven't been paying
Speaker 1: attention for too long. There's been so many weird things
Speaker 1: that have happened on this show. We've checked off all
Speaker 1: of the boxes over many, many, many years.
Speaker 3: It's just do I want to do that again.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, there's things that you don't want, right,
Speaker 1: there's lots of things that you don't want.
Speaker 3: You probably don't want me to smoke.
Speaker 1: Before doing this show. Oh no, it's not going to
Speaker 1: be good. Everybody knows it's not going to be good.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to get stuck in my head and
Speaker 1: start freaking out. This is the kind of thing I
Speaker 1: have nightmares about. I can't do it. That's not going
Speaker 1: to make the show better. The smelling thing We've done
Speaker 1: that before. We've done like the smelling salts thing on
Speaker 1: the show before. We tried all of these things that
Speaker 1: ain't going to do anything new around here. But when
Speaker 1: we stumbled on another new thing to do. Certainly we'll
Speaker 1: give that a shot, I guess. So, thank you for
Speaker 1: your chat message.
Speaker 4: I at least read that Sean budget with Jack to
Speaker 4: go get those weird gas station drugs.
Speaker 1: Possibly. Yeah, we will put us real out. Kevin says,
Speaker 1: Sean sipped the low alcohol beer yesterday. Anyway, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: living on the edge over here. All right, let's see,
Speaker 1: I want to get a couple more emails in. Here's
Speaker 1: Mike talking about the shooting story at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the show. I said, this huge study said that seven
Speaker 1: point three percent of Americans have seriously thought about shooting somebody.
Speaker 1: That's nineteen million people in America if you pull those
Speaker 1: data points out from there. They said seven point three
Speaker 1: percent of Americans have seriously thought about shooting somebody. And
Speaker 1: then they go on to say that mostly people from cities,
Speaker 1: younger adults, so out of the black respondents were more
Speaker 1: likely to say this. They said, four million people thought
Speaker 1: about getting a gun to shoot somebody. One point five
Speaker 1: million brought a gun to a location. It's kind of
Speaker 1: crazy to think about the targets of these thoughts. This
Speaker 1: was kind of a big mind blowing moment for me
Speaker 1: and I know where this is going. When they asked people,
Speaker 1: have you ever thought about shooting somebody, fifty one percent
Speaker 1: of the people who said yes said they would shoot
Speaker 1: an enemy, twenty five percent would shoot a stranger, fourteen
Speaker 1: percent would shoot government officials. There are your political people.
Speaker 1: You can spot them in all of the polls. You've
Speaker 1: spotted them here, the people who want to they've thought
Speaker 1: about killing these government officials.
Speaker 3: Those are the people who are very, very very political.
Speaker 4: But fully trusted this survey would keep that Anonymous.
Speaker 3: I guess so.
Speaker 1: And ten percent of people said their family or partner,
Speaker 1: family member or partner would be something that they considered killing.
Speaker 1: And this particular emailer says, have I thought about shooting them?
Speaker 15: No?
Speaker 1: But savagely beating yes? Is that part of this? Is
Speaker 1: that involved in this? No, you're just volunteering now, Bud
Speaker 1: Anonymous emails tips of the News junky dot com.
Speaker 3: Please keep you anonymous.
Speaker 1: I have the means, but not the mind to shoot someone,
Speaker 1: but I will admit that, says Anonymous. There are two
Speaker 1: people in my life that I wish did not exist,
Speaker 1: and I would be willing to actually shoot them. These
Speaker 1: people are terrible people who have manipulated people beyond me,
Speaker 1: and I've witnessed this and have taken advantage of the
Speaker 1: world around them. And I believe and think most people
Speaker 1: would believe or agree, are just beyond degenerate. So he's
Speaker 1: saying these people are just beyond degenerate that he's talking about,
Speaker 1: so he would consider doing this. A lot of other
Speaker 1: emails coming out on that topic. I'll try to work
Speaker 1: in more this person. Deanna says, Hey, junkie, I'm a
Speaker 1: podcast listener soon behind the Dead. When I was a kid,
Speaker 1: if I wanted to leave, I would call my mom
Speaker 1: before cell phones, and I would tell her I forgot
Speaker 1: my toothbrush. She was supposed to come to the house
Speaker 1: and throw a fit when she went to get my toothbrush.
Speaker 1: I didn't clean my room or whatever, and I was
Speaker 1: grounded and I had to come home right then and there.
Speaker 1: That way, I would have an excuse to leave the
Speaker 1: event or party I was at and I could leave
Speaker 1: immediately and never had to use it that I remember, But.
Speaker 3: We had that in place.
Speaker 1: Also, if kids wanted to go somewhere that I didn't
Speaker 1: want to go, I could call and ask if I
Speaker 1: could go, and I knew my mom would always say
Speaker 1: no because she knew I didn't want to go. She
Speaker 1: didn't care if we went places, and so I didn't
Speaker 1: have to call. My son is too young, but I
Speaker 1: do plan on having the same kind of codes in
Speaker 1: place when he's at that age.
Speaker 3: Keep up the good work, says Deanna.
Speaker 4: My code sounds cool. I don't know if I would
Speaker 4: go to the extent of my mom going to the
Speaker 4: party and screaming that I have to go home now
Speaker 4: because I didn't clean my room in order to get
Speaker 4: me out of that situation. Yeah, but good on them
Speaker 4: for establishing that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think I think this all is
Speaker 1: coming from the story we talked about yesterday which was
Speaker 1: going very viral, which was about the mom who said
Speaker 1: her daughter texted her and said, is there any ice
Speaker 1: cream at home?
Speaker 3: And ice cream at home was the keyword.
Speaker 1: That she was involved at a party and she wanted
Speaker 1: her to pick her up, and there was no questions asked.
Speaker 3: She picked her up, her daughter.
Speaker 1: Said, Hey, I'm going to tell you there was stuff
Speaker 1: happening there that I didn't want to be around.
Speaker 3: Thank you for coming to.
Speaker 1: Pick me up, And the mom said, I didn't ask
Speaker 1: any more questions after that, so it brought us into
Speaker 1: like do you use these sort of cowords code words
Speaker 1: with your kids? And also if you do, why not,
Speaker 1: Like some people were saying this person was lying, which
Speaker 1: may well have been the case. Why not just text
Speaker 1: your mom hey, come get me. Why are you worried
Speaker 1: about what the actual messages and that you're sending them
Speaker 1: the content of that. Okay, a lot of other emails,
Speaker 1: but I'm bout some of these to the side for
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 7: I mean, does the text message exchange look like, hey, mom,
Speaker 7: is there any ice cream left at home?
Speaker 1: Here's the address I'm at. Yeah, she really wanted ice cream.
Speaker 1: That's what the friends are going to think if they
Speaker 1: look at this. A lot of stuff online shocker, shocker,
Speaker 1: shocker is absolutely meant to generate outrage in you. And
Speaker 1: many of the people's stories are fake. There's a whole
Speaker 1: meme about this, like yeah, you know, yeah, that definitely happened.
Speaker 1: There's a whole meme about this where.
Speaker 7: People are the things that didn't happen, that didn't happen
Speaker 7: the most bingo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people will go I went home yesterday and my
Speaker 1: four year old daughter said, I can't believe President Trump
Speaker 1: is bombing Iran. These poor Iranian people deserve better. And
Speaker 1: then when she said it, I had four friends with
Speaker 1: me and they all stood up and started clapping and
Speaker 1: was a standing ovation for my daughter's comments.
Speaker 4: And don even spell around.
Speaker 1: You look at these stories and you go, Okay, I
Speaker 1: think some of these are probably not real, but they're
Speaker 1: meant to get a reaction out of people online. This
Speaker 1: could have been the case, but I fundamentally believe, and
Speaker 1: I'm seeing this from some of you parents who have
Speaker 1: reached out. I fundamentally believe a lot of parents have
Speaker 1: these kind of co words with code words with their kids.
Speaker 1: Here is Eric with a dispatch for us. You can
Speaker 1: record your messages talk to the show by recording a
Speaker 1: dispatch over at thenews chunky dot com.
Speaker 18: Here he goes, Hello, Hey news yunkies, Happy Wednesday, great show,
Speaker 18: Hey Eric, he listen. I grew up in a little
Speaker 18: podunk town in Pennsylvania, and I believe up until the
Speaker 18: late nineties they required a blood test prior to marriage.
Speaker 18: But I also remember when I was growing up that
Speaker 18: it was said that the blood test was for syphilis.
Speaker 18: Oh yeah, definitely tell you that they should have checked
Speaker 18: for some sort of DNA to see if people were related,
Speaker 18: because I witnessed a lot of that as well.
Speaker 1: Really, there are a lot.
Speaker 18: Of children that look like other people's children that are
Speaker 18: related to children and so on and so forth. So yeah,
Speaker 18: I kind of kind of got to see it firsthand.
Speaker 18: So it was interesting to hear that story again. But again,
Speaker 18: great show today, Have a good day.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Eric, appreciate your dispatch record yours on the
Speaker 1: news Junkie dot com. I have not witnessed that in
Speaker 1: my life. I know that all these people have kind
Speaker 1: of conceptual ideas of what certain cities look like like.
Speaker 1: If I say Mississippi or Alabama, small town Georgia, making
Speaker 1: Georgia now dueling Banjos kicks up in your head and
Speaker 1: you start to think there's a whole bunch of people
Speaker 1: who are having sex with their cousins and marrying in
Speaker 1: and that I have never wandered upon a place like that,
Speaker 1: certainly not in my time in Pennsylvania, save a little
Speaker 1: bit for some some areas of Okachobee in Florida. There's
Speaker 1: some some little enclaves within Okachobee. And then there's a
Speaker 1: famous viral video god Cee like maybe you could find
Speaker 1: this family. There's like this family where they're all inbred
Speaker 1: and YouTubers often go to their house and interview them.
Speaker 4: The West Virginia Well, no, no, that's that's very close
Speaker 4: to the fantastic documentary by the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I found the family. The Wild and Wonderful Whites
Speaker 1: of West Virginia is what Sabrina is talking about, which
Speaker 1: is a good documentary, but that this one's.
Speaker 3: About like straight up in breads this one here.
Speaker 4: Do you remember that HBO Max?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 4: Hold on, I I do remember, because it's not even
Speaker 4: the wild, crazy Whites of West Virginia. There weren't as
Speaker 4: many family mens that it looked like the Hills of Eyes.
Speaker 4: And I believe the Florida family you're talking about was
Speaker 4: like one uncle is just like, wow, you're.
Speaker 1: Talking about I'll talk about the Wittakers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he just like they just kind of scream.
Speaker 1: Right, they're from Appalachia. I guess here's here's the people
Speaker 1: of question soft White Underbelly on YouTube. Oh god, So,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I could play this or not.
Speaker 1: They go to their house and a lot of them
Speaker 1: are blind. They can't see. Their eyes are going in
Speaker 1: different directions and they could barely speak. And they're all
Speaker 1: like inbred in this house and Appalachia generations. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And they just keep it in the family and you
Speaker 1: can see what can happen. They all do, they do.
Speaker 1: They all have one eye pointing in this direction, another
Speaker 1: eye going in another direction. That's so they can see
Speaker 1: more cousins. Look up inbred family, the Whittakers. There's a
Speaker 1: risky search for you. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 7: One of the titles of the videos Thicker than Water,
Speaker 7: Oh God, what a name.
Speaker 1: Soft White Underbelly is the YouTube account that posted this
Speaker 1: when I first saw forty six million views, and many
Speaker 1: YouTubers afterwards have gone to get updates from this family.
Speaker 1: And it is of the very bizarre rabbit hole to
Speaker 1: go down. Maybe in Florida before the vote went through,
Speaker 1: they should have watched this video and then they probably
Speaker 1: would have voted against this, because Kyle on TJ jat
Speaker 1: says that will be Florida soon. It might be Kyle,
Speaker 1: it might be We can't even vote against that. I
Speaker 1: don't know what to make of it.
Speaker 4: But there's enough of them to have stopped the vote.
Speaker 1: So there is a quite a bit of people.
Speaker 7: There's a weird There's an article on unilad about this family,
Speaker 7: and it says the man who discovered America's most inbred
Speaker 7: family says, they've been lying to me the whole time.
Speaker 7: A YouTuber documenting the life of America's most inbred family
Speaker 7: claims he has done with him after discovering they were lying.
Speaker 1: They lying about there, they are lying about having some difficulties.
Speaker 1: I will tell you that it is just abundantly clear
Speaker 1: that these people are strange America's most inbred family. All right,
Speaker 1: I'll put a question mark after that, just so I
Speaker 1: don't get sued. I'm putting this up on see it now,
Speaker 1: so those of you who want to go down the
Speaker 1: rabbit hole content, I mean.
Speaker 7: Guinness didn't do their due diligence to find out if
Speaker 7: they were actually the most inbred family.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. But I will also tell you
Speaker 1: that this is a very short video. It's like ten
Speaker 1: or twelve minutes song. So it's interesting if you want
Speaker 1: to check that out, we'll see if it changes your
Speaker 1: mind on anything.
Speaker 7: It looks like they may not have been lying about
Speaker 7: being inbred. They were lying about a death in the family. Okay,
Speaker 7: it says Lata Lata and the Whittakers have been at
Speaker 7: loggerheads recently due to the alleged fake death of sixty
Speaker 7: seven year old patriarch Larry Whittaker. Oh, it was understood.
Speaker 7: It's understood. The content creator was informed that his video
Speaker 7: subject had suffered a suspected heart attack. In honor of
Speaker 7: Larry's life, this person donated one thousand dollars towards the
Speaker 7: funeral cost, only later to learn that the dead man
Speaker 7: was alive and well, oh fans found out Larry's death
Speaker 7: was just a hoax, and an aptly titled YouTube video
Speaker 7: called the Death of Larry Whittaker.
Speaker 1: All right, I got another dispatch on this, a video dispatch,
Speaker 1: this time saying the headline on first cousins marrying each
Speaker 1: other and that bill is deceiving. Here we go.
Speaker 14: That's it on the topic of the cousins bill, first
Speaker 14: cousins thing. The reason it didn't pass is because there's
Speaker 14: a bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 1: In that bill that nobody wanted to vote for. Of course,
Speaker 1: so of course you know.
Speaker 14: We as our politicians, love to put out these bills
Speaker 14: with this headline, the shocking headline.
Speaker 6: But they don't tell you is that there's.
Speaker 14: A whole bunch of other stuff in that bill that
Speaker 14: nobody is in favor of. So in the end, it
Speaker 14: looks like that no one voted for that bill because
Speaker 14: they want to marry their cousin. But the truth is
Speaker 14: there's a whole bunch of other stuff in this bill
Speaker 14: no one wants, and that's why it.
Speaker 1: Gets voted down. What else?
Speaker 14: And I think it's just done along party lines to
Speaker 14: make somebody look bad. Also, I should be able to
Speaker 14: outback knives from the old days.
Speaker 1: This person texted in he inherited them from his stepmom
Speaker 1: when she died. Oh really, yeah, so your stepmom dies
Speaker 1: and you're going through this stuff and you see outback
Speaker 1: steakhouse so much. I have a whole set at home.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 1: I didn't steal them, but I inherited them. So anyway,
Speaker 1: see all, thank you appreciate that interesting additional information at
Speaker 1: that build.
Speaker 7: So eight House Bills seven thirty three Department of Health
Speaker 7: Revising Definitions, Revising eligibility requirements. So this is the one
Speaker 7: that had the cousin marrying thing in. It also had
Speaker 7: revising eligibility requirements for dentist and dental hyghgienis participating in
Speaker 7: the dental student loan repayment program saying that the revising
Speaker 7: requirements for department approval of qualified physicians and medical directs.
Speaker 7: There's a medical marijuana treatment centers, creating the neurofibromatosis disease
Speaker 7: grant program.
Speaker 1: There's a whole.
Speaker 7: Bunch of stuff within the Department of Health, and then
Speaker 7: prohibiting marriage between certain related individuals. Revising requirements for the
Speaker 7: micro credential component of specialized training provided by the University.
Speaker 1: Of Florida Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment. Wow, show me
Speaker 1: the political party that is finally willing to stand up
Speaker 1: and say, in an effort to work a lot of
Speaker 1: this crap out that people universally hate, both on the
Speaker 1: left and the right in the United States of America,
Speaker 1: we are going to bring it up for a vote
Speaker 1: that every single bill on a federal level, and I'd
Speaker 1: love to see this on a state level as well,
Speaker 1: has to deal with one related issue and one related
Speaker 1: issue only, and they can work that in there. They've
Speaker 1: written bills like this over the years. They know how
Speaker 1: to do this. They could do it if they wanted
Speaker 1: to one particular area of focus, one topic, nothing else
Speaker 1: unrelated should be in any of these bills. It's that's
Speaker 1: so that's so dumb. But I guess just kind of
Speaker 1: how we do it. I guess, all right, we'll get
Speaker 1: to more of your feedback. We'll get to this story that,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, happened the way up in the air,
Speaker 1: way up in the air. We'll talk about that, and
Speaker 1: I will on the back of a seagull.
Speaker 4: Dragon.
Speaker 1: We'll we'll see, we'll find out together that's coming up
Speaker 1: next on the news junk Kie. Whenever I see a
Speaker 1: messages asking me questions like this, Whenever I see a
Speaker 1: message in Chad asking me if I've seen a commercials
Speaker 1: like I don't hear most of the commercials on the station.
Speaker 3: I don't see commercials on television, really, I don't.
Speaker 1: I watch a lot of YouTube, and I don't really
Speaker 1: get commercials over there because I'm a subscriber, so I
Speaker 1: miss a lot of it unless it's when I'm at
Speaker 1: the bar and I watched the broadcast networks and stuff.
Speaker 1: That's why he thinks Burger King doesn't advertise. I think
Speaker 1: Burger King doesn't hasn't historically advertised anywhere near as much
Speaker 1: as McDonald's. That's what I think the.
Speaker 4: Only thing I could say in the mornings is the
Speaker 4: local news commercials.
Speaker 1: And it's a lot of lawyers, lawyers.
Speaker 16: And.
Speaker 4: My favorite the last two years has been the progressive
Speaker 4: don't turn into your parents' commercials. I can that by heart.
Speaker 1: But drugs, insurance attorneys, and Burger King versus McDonald's has
Speaker 1: some good mulch.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wanted to bring something else up real quickly, because
Speaker 1: there are some things that I really think are important
Speaker 1: qualities of just being a decent human being in a
Speaker 1: shared society. So often we have anti social losers who
Speaker 1: don't want to take part in any of this, who
Speaker 1: try to mess it up for everybody else.
Speaker 3: But remember these are fringe people. They're just like the
Speaker 3: political people.
Speaker 1: They're very very fringe people that are very very last
Speaker 1: and try to make things worse for so many normal
Speaker 1: people out there. But in this case, I think one
Speaker 1: fundamental thing we should all agree on is that it
Speaker 1: is a good thing to take care of our planet.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean like climate alarmism weirdo stuff. I
Speaker 1: don't mean these people who think like you shouldn't have
Speaker 1: kids because the world is on fire, and these people
Speaker 1: who are like gluing themselves to news desks or asphalt
Speaker 1: or I don't mean any of that nonsense.
Speaker 3: I think that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But I think on a very simplistic level, like trying
Speaker 1: to take care, especially of your neighborhood, don't don't litter,
Speaker 1: don't throw stuff out the window of your car when
Speaker 1: you're driving down the street. I've been guilty of doing
Speaker 1: all of these things one hundred percent. I've been guilty
Speaker 1: of doing these things in my life. I do not
Speaker 1: do them anymore. And even if I see something and
Speaker 1: it's easy for me to clean up, I'll even help
Speaker 1: out wherever I can to try to clean up things.
Speaker 1: So I happen to think that's just like a fundamental
Speaker 1: thing we should agree on, like let's not pollute the
Speaker 1: oceans as much as possible, let's not pollute waterways, let's
Speaker 1: not throw trash out everywhere, let's not do all of
Speaker 1: those things. However, there are so often all these things
Speaker 1: that pop up that make my head explode, like I
Speaker 1: will never ever forget, ever, ever forget so many moments
Speaker 1: during the pandemic where I thought I was going to
Speaker 1: explode because if I stupid, everybody was. I will never
Speaker 1: forget these moments They changed me fundamentally because I realized
Speaker 1: how dumb so many people were. One of them was
Speaker 1: after we were being hit over the head with how
Speaker 1: straws were the worst thing for planet Earth and we
Speaker 1: couldn't do it. You couldn't support companies that had plastic straws,
Speaker 1: single use straws. If the bar had that, you better
Speaker 1: walk out and go the other direction. What are you
Speaker 1: trying to kill turtles? What do you not care about
Speaker 1: the environment?
Speaker 13: Bar?
Speaker 1: What are you even doing over here? Right? These kind
Speaker 1: of things they pop up and up, And then we
Speaker 1: proceeded to follow that with, Okay, let's let's run some
Speaker 1: numbers on this celan. I've never done this before. How
Speaker 1: many disposable masks were produced globally in twenty twenty because
Speaker 1: we went from like these straws are going to kill
Speaker 1: the world to making trillions?
Speaker 3: I think ors so close?
Speaker 1: Is not close? Five hundred billion?
Speaker 7: Approximately nine hundred billion disposable masks were produced globally between
Speaker 7: twenty twenty and twenty twenty two, with a massive surge
Speaker 7: in twenty twenty following the pandemic outbreak. This represents a
Speaker 7: dramatic increase from the roughly twelve billion masks produced in
Speaker 7: twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: Crazy, so you had shortage, remember, yeah.
Speaker 1: At the beginning, Yeah, there was like a PPE what
Speaker 1: was it, a com personal protective at PPE. Yeah, short
Speaker 1: b And then shortly after that, every company on planet
Speaker 1: Earth who could fire up a factory and make these
Speaker 1: masks was doing it. And now trillions of these things
Speaker 1: are in circulation, and people started, as one would expect,
Speaker 1: with disposable masks, throwing them away everywhere. And it was
Speaker 1: so much worse than any problem we've ever had with
Speaker 1: straws on planet Earth. It was so bad. It was
Speaker 1: in the oceans, it was in the lakes, it was
Speaker 1: in the rivers, it was in parking lots. You saw
Speaker 1: them absolutely everywhere. And this is just an undeniable, obvious
Speaker 1: truth for all of us normal people.
Speaker 12: We know that.
Speaker 1: It was like, hey, you guys are really hard and
Speaker 1: intense on this thing. But now there's a trillion of
Speaker 1: these friggin things that are useless after you use them,
Speaker 1: once balled up and thrown somewhere on the ground, making
Speaker 1: our world a moment more disgusting.
Speaker 7: Plays, it says on Visual Capitalist, which I wonder if
Speaker 7: the visual part is just because they do a lot
Speaker 7: of infographics, because this has a pretty big infographic on it.
Speaker 7: One point six billion disposable masks entered our oceans in
Speaker 7: twenty twenty. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's such like that's a a really major thing.
Speaker 1: And nobody complained about that. Really, nobody was like, well,
Speaker 1: should we really be using these masks? We're gonna throw
Speaker 1: them away. But people went nuts for the straws thing,
Speaker 1: and then it was like, no, everything changes now because
Speaker 1: you know, we can just throw stuff on the ground
Speaker 1: and not have to worry about this because of et cetera,
Speaker 1: et cetera.
Speaker 7: I've seen this as a meme with the paper straws thing,
Speaker 7: but I don't know if there's an actually I've never
Speaker 7: heard sighted an actual place that does this, but there's
Speaker 7: a meme that's like the sushi.
Speaker 1: Restaurant having paper straws. Yeah, you know, to protect the
Speaker 1: seed life. Yeah, what have you? Yeah, yeah, I've seen
Speaker 1: we saw. We all saw these movements, so right, we
Speaker 1: all saw these together, we end up seeing these. Somebody says,
Speaker 1: have you seen the video? Dan says, have you seen
Speaker 1: the video of people trying to pull a straw out
Speaker 1: of the nose of a sea turtle? Go watch those
Speaker 1: videos and then talk. I've seen all these videos. I've
Speaker 1: already seen this as far as I recall, I don't
Speaker 1: even know if a single freakin turtle.
Speaker 4: Died there was that. No, it was the one turtle
Speaker 4: in that one eight year old that started the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't even like, I don't even know if
Speaker 1: there was one ripped turtle from the straw thing. But everybody,
Speaker 1: in like five seconds it was like, don't worry. We
Speaker 1: don't have plastic straws, but here they're made out of
Speaker 1: guava or ours are made out of sugarcane.
Speaker 4: You get one solid sip and then it's going to
Speaker 4: disintegrate into your drink.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was a whole thing. Now we
Speaker 1: had another problem. So this is why I'm bringing this up.
Speaker 1: I'm not just yapping out of nowhere. I'm generally getting
Speaker 1: getting into something, okay, And I am getting to something.
Speaker 1: In this case.
Speaker 4: We have TJ straws and mass available.
Speaker 1: For no, no, not that, not that. But there is
Speaker 1: another problem that's happening like this, and nobody's really talking
Speaker 1: about this just yet. Sea Land run the numbers on this.
Speaker 1: How many nicotine patches work pouches pouches. How many nicotine
Speaker 1: pouches like the zins and stuff? How many nicotine pouches
Speaker 1: were produced in twenty twenty five? Like, are we getting
Speaker 1: up on those levels? Because nobody's talking about this other
Speaker 1: than I saw one story on NBC News today about this,
Speaker 1: and it says nicotine pouches are everywhere except in the trash.
Speaker 1: They talk about how all the nicotine pouches from these zinners.
Speaker 1: People are just flinging them and winging them everywhere you
Speaker 1: could think of, to the point where.
Speaker 7: There's signs at the bars that are like, hey, please
Speaker 7: don't throw your zins in the urinal.
Speaker 1: We have to pick them out. Oh that's disgusting.
Speaker 3: What material, right, No, that's a good question.
Speaker 1: I've never done that off. It's like the zins, for
Speaker 1: those who don't know, these little things that are like
Speaker 1: the size of a tobacco tin, and they have these
Speaker 1: little nicotine things that you put in your lip and
Speaker 1: then I guess afterwards you just spin them out or something.
Speaker 3: But they're I don't think they don't just go away.
Speaker 1: It's literal trash that you're supposed to put in the
Speaker 1: trash can at the very least. But people are putting
Speaker 1: them absolutely everywhere. And let me let me bring up
Speaker 1: this story here real quick. I know we're running a
Speaker 1: bit behind, but that's fine.
Speaker 7: In twenty twenty five, Zen the major brand, and this
Speaker 7: is just Zin, I think, just just one company. Okay,
Speaker 7: shipped seven hundred and ninety four million cans in the US,
Speaker 7: with total quarterly shipments reaching two hundred and two million
Speaker 7: in quarter one twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Total Nickelteene Nickeltein should call it a round team.
Speaker 7: Total nicotine pouch sales increased by two hundred and fifty
Speaker 7: point eight percent between January twenty twenty three and August
Speaker 7: twenty twenty five. US market size for all nicotine pouches
Speaker 7: and twenty twenty five was estimated at five point four
Speaker 7: billion dollars.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. So you're just talking about an insane number
Speaker 1: of these. Now we've moved on from the mask to
Speaker 1: the nicotine pouch. So how many how many zins is
Speaker 1: in a candy?
Speaker 13: You know?
Speaker 3: I don't know, I'll look it up though. Let's yeah,
Speaker 3: twenty many zins in one can?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 3: This says fifteen fifteen in each can. So many dry pouches.
Speaker 7: Seven ninety four million, seven ninety four two times fifteen. Ooh, man,
Speaker 7: I need some commas here.
Speaker 3: I'm going to do that work.
Speaker 7: Eleven point nine billion nicotine pouches. Those are just the zens,
Speaker 7: just the zence for for a year.
Speaker 3: That's for one year.
Speaker 4: Way more butts, though, right, or I would know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. You think cigarette butts are probably crazy
Speaker 1: numbers too, if you think about it. But these are
Speaker 1: the things, like somebody said, it's a disposable society. Absolutely true,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent true. And there are things we could
Speaker 1: do about this to make things better. We can drink
Speaker 1: less out of the plastic water bottles, we can use
Speaker 1: you know, refillable things. We can do all of these things.
Speaker 1: And I think those things are good to do, But
Speaker 1: we sometimes look the other way when it's like, holy cow,
Speaker 1: this is a wild, wild waste of place, and so
Speaker 1: many of them, like the zin pouches of the masks,
Speaker 1: it's not something that people are for whatever reason, putting
Speaker 1: in the trash can. They're just spitting it out like
Speaker 1: it's actual chewing tobacco, which I don't think. I might
Speaker 1: be wrong on this. I don't think it would be
Speaker 1: that big of a deal if you were spitting out
Speaker 1: chewing tobacco on the ground. Because the pouches are.
Speaker 4: Different, maybe we can make a biode does make sense.
Speaker 4: Halfway through it, I'm like, it'll biodegrate into your mouth
Speaker 4: if you keep it in there too long.
Speaker 1: It says they're food grade fillers, stabilizers, pH adjusters, and flavoring.
Speaker 1: The pouch material itself is made out of specialized plant
Speaker 1: fibers designed to release nicotine when moistened. That's what they
Speaker 1: make them things out of.
Speaker 4: But there's fibers and.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, look, a lot of that stuff sounds good.
Speaker 1: But you know, you can say plastic in different ways too.
Speaker 1: There's different different ways to say some like plastic and
Speaker 1: you like, oh okay, uh an oil, poly bicarbonate, you know,
Speaker 1: you like reformulate these things. I mean, yeah, is it.
Speaker 7: I don't know if it's biodegradable. But even if it was,
Speaker 7: like you say, okay, this thing is biodegradable because it's
Speaker 7: made of plant material. Well, if you dump one hundred
Speaker 7: pounds of they're not biodegradable stuff on the side of
Speaker 7: the road. It's not just gonna go away, Yeah a
Speaker 7: few short weeks.
Speaker 1: They're not. They're never flushed as Sea Lane said, and
Speaker 1: they're not biodegradable, and people are just throwing these zin
Speaker 1: pouches or other like nicotine pouches all over. I have
Speaker 1: seen them in the urinal here at this building. Damn,
Speaker 1: it's just right there, and it's only getting more and
Speaker 1: more popular. Okay, we're gonna take quick break when we
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Speaker 4: I disagree with him.
Speaker 7: I thought you were gonna wait till like, uh, you know,
Speaker 7: we have a minute and a half left in the show.
Speaker 1: And here's what, zerlsher Taylor, I'm not gonna I have
Speaker 1: a plane story. Okay, why to check your surprise. It's
Speaker 1: a t story as long as it insane and as
Speaker 1: you might a guess, we're back on then, and we
Speaker 1: are actually there was a back and forth. A Frontier
Speaker 1: Airlines passenger said that she was discriminated against and kicked
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Speaker 1: was kicked off this flight. Ashley Gray is her name.
Speaker 1: She says she was kicked off a flight simply because
Speaker 1: she couldn't hear instructions from a flight attendant. She said,
Speaker 1: this is because I'm deaf. Her TikTok has been viewed
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Speaker 1: not kicked off because of this. She got in trouble
Speaker 1: because she admitted to bringing a bottle of alcohol on
Speaker 1: the flight with her and said, nothing to do with
Speaker 1: this woman being deaf or otherwise. Wait, wait, but you
Speaker 1: can do that. You just can't drink it. Drink open
Speaker 1: container of alcohol with her on the flights.
Speaker 3: And that's going to have to do it for today, folks.
Speaker 3: Let's get out of here.
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Speaker 1: a survivor of the nineteen fifty eight Our Lady of
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Speaker 3: I think it was actually rangely enough today, learn.
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Speaker 1: the first time he's even done this here. What's called
Speaker 1: Harry Carey, you know, or something like that. This guy
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