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Speaker 2: Tuesday. How's everybody doing on a Tuesday?
Speaker 1: Pretty good? You know, not bad? You hanging in there,
Speaker 1: hanging in there.
Speaker 2: We got a lot to sort through today here on
Speaker 2: the show. Some you know, different things and surprises along
Speaker 2: the way. We'll see how it all goes. But let's
Speaker 2: start in a predictable way. See Lane, you know, let's
Speaker 2: just put our ears to the ground, our fingers on
Speaker 2: the pulse, and let's see what's happened to this great, big,
Speaker 2: wide world of ours.
Speaker 1: You might recognize this man him.
Speaker 2: Yes, he's gonna get it started because I think we
Speaker 2: can use a little Tuesday Sea. Lane's self described worst
Speaker 2: day of the week. He hates Tuesdays. He's like Garfield
Speaker 2: one day later, He's a delayed Garfield as they say.
Speaker 2: It's one of his nicknames actually, and delayed Garfield does
Speaker 2: not like Tuesdays. So I'm gonna try to warm him
Speaker 2: up with our friend. He's been on the show many times.
Speaker 2: Frankie McDonald just wanted to spread some happiness this morning,
Speaker 2: so we record himself laughing and he really put a
Speaker 2: lot into it.
Speaker 1: Let's listen in Get Out. It feels good. I think
Speaker 1: there's a form of yoga like this. I think there's
Speaker 1: a form of yoga I know. Yeah, there's two types.
Speaker 1: There's one where you go up and scream. There's the
Speaker 1: one that Courtney does where they turn on the heat
Speaker 1: and it's consane and then there's one where you laugh.
Speaker 1: You go up and you laugh as loud and as
Speaker 1: much as you can, and it's like the forced smile.
Speaker 1: You know you're a fake laugh. It makes you feel better.
Speaker 1: This man can open his mouth, he can't very wide.
Speaker 1: There we go. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Frankie McDonald's all right. I want you to all repeat
Speaker 2: that wherever you are.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: I turned my throat a little bit. It's I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna lie. I'm still a little ut of the weather.
Speaker 2: But thank you, Frankie McDonald. Love him the best of
Speaker 2: the best. Follow him online, Frankie mcdee, you know where
Speaker 2: he is. We we have to do a little bit
Speaker 2: of an update on Asaga. We've been following Sea Lane,
Speaker 2: so now's the time to work this in if you
Speaker 2: don't mind. You know, when I saw this story, I said,
Speaker 2: you would have thought at this point in time that
Speaker 2: people might just maybe maybe be learning a lesson on
Speaker 2: these commencement speeches about mentioning.
Speaker 1: Come on again, no one is learning their lesson.
Speaker 2: There's enough art kids out there, there's enough theater kids
Speaker 2: out there, there's enough anti AA kids out there.
Speaker 1: They are booing them all everywhere. Anti AA, Yeah, alcoholics,
Speaker 1: anti AI anti not my people, the anti AI people.
Speaker 1: And in this case you had Scott Borschetta, who I
Speaker 1: guess is the CEO of Big Machine Records, which I
Speaker 1: think used to be Taylor Swift's record label, but I'm
Speaker 1: not positive on that. Scott Porschet, a CEO of Big
Speaker 1: Machine Records. He brought it up at a commencement speech.
Speaker 1: He started getting the booze too, and then he tried
Speaker 1: to fight back.
Speaker 2: This is the first person at the commencement speech is
Speaker 2: to get booed on the AI front. That fought back.
Speaker 2: Let's see how it went for him.
Speaker 3: Then, in the fifty years prior streaming rewrote the economics,
Speaker 3: social media rewrote the discovery model. AI is rewriting production
Speaker 3: as we sit here.
Speaker 1: Oh, I know it. Deal with it, with it. I
Speaker 1: now deal with it. Working in a deal. He sees
Speaker 1: the booze are coming out.
Speaker 2: Perhaps he heard the show, he heard the other people
Speaker 2: getting booed for the AI mentioned the commencement speeches, and
Speaker 2: he said, I'm going to keep this in my speech.
Speaker 1: But what I gotta do is I gotta be ready
Speaker 1: so I don't deal with it. I know it, deal
Speaker 1: with it. Like I said, it's a tool.
Speaker 3: Hey, like I said, you can you can hear me
Speaker 3: now or you can pay me later.
Speaker 1: Huh. I don't know. I don't know if I got that.
Speaker 1: Like I said, you can hear me now or you
Speaker 1: can pay me later. Okay, I mean, is there a
Speaker 1: context of that that we're missing out on? No, you
Speaker 1: can hear me now or you can pay me later.
Speaker 2: I think he's he's getting ahead of himself with the
Speaker 2: slogan earring, but you.
Speaker 1: Can pay me later.
Speaker 3: Hey, then do something about it. Okay, it's a tool.
Speaker 3: Make it work for you, the things you learned.
Speaker 1: He tries to continue. He do something about it. All right, Fine,
Speaker 1: it is a tool, get used to it. But I mean, now,
Speaker 1: pay me later. Did I get that wrong? Hear me
Speaker 1: now or I'm done?
Speaker 2: I don't know why I went that route, but I'm
Speaker 2: I'm basically a prostitute.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 2: But what's not true is that you can get away
Speaker 2: with this at these commencement speeches. Theater kids hate AI,
Speaker 2: all right, Art students hate AI. There's these anti AI
Speaker 2: younger people who are all over these colleges and they
Speaker 2: don't like it, and so you keep bringing it up.
Speaker 2: It's like all you have to do is not mentioned AI.
Speaker 2: Now these people just keep stepping in it, for God's sake.
Speaker 2: There was a college I think I have a clip
Speaker 2: of this. There was a college Sea Lane where you
Speaker 2: know how they do the announcements of every single student somebody.
Speaker 2: It takes forever too and they'll be at like a
Speaker 2: a stadium I think, sometimes like an arena.
Speaker 1: And the high school graduation was held in an arena.
Speaker 2: Right, so they're like, your school is so big that
Speaker 2: everybody gets to bring five guests or six guests, and
Speaker 2: because they're a thousand kids all of a sudden, that
Speaker 2: means you filled an arena.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: It's like it's a whole thing, and they could even
Speaker 2: make money on it and stuff, and they'll go ladies
Speaker 2: and gentlemen. Christopher Dolores Lane with his bachelor's in fine arts,
Speaker 2: and you know, Christopher Delores Lane comes up the air.
Speaker 2: He tried to do something fun for his moment in
Speaker 2: the in the spotlight. But it's a lot of it's
Speaker 2: a lot of names, right, It's a lot of names
Speaker 2: to read out. So one college decided instead of reading
Speaker 2: off all the names, let's have AI read off all
Speaker 2: the names.
Speaker 1: That's ridiculous. There something could go wrong there. Of course
Speaker 1: something could go wrong, and in fact, seven point seven
Speaker 1: million reviews later, you know it did go wrong. Let's
Speaker 1: listen it.
Speaker 4: Here A graduates everyone who is standing this what's here's
Speaker 4: what's happening. We're using a new AI system.
Speaker 1: That's our reader. Oh is this music added afterwards? I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know if everybody just the ai the haye
Speaker 2: ai clip movement, the clipper movement for haye ai is
Speaker 2: ramping it up, or if they had the dramatic music
Speaker 2: with the AI reading each name and it started malfunctioning
Speaker 2: and it wasn't reading people's names, and this lady, a
Speaker 2: human had to go up and go.
Speaker 1: I think we made a mistake.
Speaker 4: So that is that is a lesson learned for us?
Speaker 5: Is it.
Speaker 4: What we were able to do though, as each of
Speaker 4: you were able to walk the stage and get a picture,
Speaker 4: which is what I would hope would be the most
Speaker 4: meaningful meaningful?
Speaker 1: Oh uh, let me tell you something. Normally, I go, hey,
Speaker 1: this whole thing is just a giant waste of time.
Speaker 1: We were reading every student's name one by one, we
Speaker 1: go but also a lot of these kids spent number
Speaker 1: one four years.
Speaker 2: To get to this moment. Okay, Number one, they spent
Speaker 2: four years to get to this moment. Number two, doesn't
Speaker 2: the average college experience cost like fifty sixty eighty thousand
Speaker 2: dollars or more now.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty six. I mean when when you factor
Speaker 1: in housing if you are going to college away from
Speaker 1: your home, a factor in books, which are severely inflated
Speaker 1: price wise. Surech yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: So now you go, well, we're just gonna everybody's gonna
Speaker 2: call up here and get a moment for a photo.
Speaker 2: And is that what Isn't that what really matters here? No? No,
Speaker 2: what I want to do is I want to hear
Speaker 2: my name and I want my family to be able
Speaker 2: to clap and I want to I want that. That's
Speaker 2: That's what I'm paying all of you this, all of
Speaker 2: this money for. That's what the whole college experience comes
Speaker 2: down to. That's just crazy to me, that keep screwing up.
Speaker 2: The kids don't like the AI stuff all right for now,
Speaker 2: at least they don't like it. So just remember that
Speaker 2: because I think there's a couple of these left before
Speaker 2: it's wrapped up for it now year.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they've changed things up or outed
Speaker 1: AI or anything. But like when I graduated, my school
Speaker 1: had this down to a science because there were so
Speaker 1: many people. We had to we had to keep it moving. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was two name readers, right, and they alternated and
Speaker 1: then you know, if you were next up, you went
Speaker 1: to the name reader that that waved you over to
Speaker 1: them because the other person was you whispered your name
Speaker 1: in their ear, your full name. Oh you did, and
Speaker 1: then you kept walking. The guy read your.
Speaker 2: Name like you just do the bit that people do
Speaker 2: on the ET ride at Universal Studios.
Speaker 1: I ask you for your name, and ET says it
Speaker 1: at the end, but you go like Oliver close up.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they did that because I think
Speaker 1: we also had a piece of paper with our name
Speaker 1: on it. I don't remember. You know, they might have
Speaker 1: had some ways of trying to keep people from any
Speaker 1: sort of Thomas foolery, but yeah, no, I mean when
Speaker 1: we played the clip yesterday of Shaquille O'Neal and is
Speaker 1: like Shaquille Charles Barkley sucks O'Neill, I was like, I wonder,
Speaker 1: how did he pulled out all that? That is fantastic?
Speaker 2: All I have a clip and then a question for
Speaker 2: you to start off the show here today. The clip
Speaker 2: is from that guy over on Shark Tank mister wonderful,
Speaker 2: all right, Kevin O'Leary is his name, Kevin O'Leary, originally
Speaker 2: famous for shark tank stuff, now famous for he's trying
Speaker 2: to build like an AI data center, and people are
Speaker 2: against that because those things aren't popular in any neighborhoods, right,
Speaker 2: And so Kevin O'Leary is talking about gen Z finances
Speaker 2: to bring it to the younger generation.
Speaker 1: Here's the clip that started cat standard.
Speaker 6: When I see kids that are making seventy grand a
Speaker 6: year spending twenty eight dollars for lunch, I mean, that's
Speaker 6: just stupid. Just think about that in the context of
Speaker 6: that being put into an index and making eight to
Speaker 6: ten percent a year for the next fifty years.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: So this guy says, there's young people going out the workforce.
Speaker 2: They're making seventy thousand dollars a year and they're spending
Speaker 2: twenty eight dollars on lunch.
Speaker 1: And this is a you know, a.
Speaker 2: Commentary on young people spending so much of their budgets
Speaker 2: on food, delivery, door dash, Uber eats all of those things.
Speaker 2: And one of the top comments six point two million views.
Speaker 2: Is lunch just costs twenty eight dollars?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Are they not supposed to eat? So this guy probably
Speaker 2: hate bait. You know what I mean is you try
Speaker 2: to outrage bait people here. Lunch just cost twenty eight dollars?
Speaker 2: Now are they not supposed to eat? Says this person
Speaker 2: sean scene. Lunch does just cost twenty eight dollars. That's
Speaker 2: what he's that. He's like, Look, lunches cost twenty eight dollars.
Speaker 2: They not eat with they're spending.
Speaker 1: Twenty eight dollars on lunch because lunch costs twenty eight dollars.
Speaker 1: Here's what I want to figure out. What did you
Speaker 1: have for lunch today? Right? And what did it cost?
Speaker 1: That's what we want to know because we want to
Speaker 1: sort this out. Will utilize the audience. I want to
Speaker 1: sort this out. Send us a dispatch. What did you
Speaker 1: have for lunch? What does it cost?
Speaker 2: And it doesn't matter if it was fast food, it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter if you brought something from home.
Speaker 1: Do a little itemization of it.
Speaker 2: Just tell us what you got, what you add for lunch,
Speaker 2: and what it costs, and will see if lunch does
Speaker 2: cost twenty eight dollars a month. Maybe that's a real issue.
Speaker 2: We'll find out together.
Speaker 1: I mean, twenty eight dollars seems high for fast food
Speaker 1: unless you're getting it delivered. That's a lot. I mean
Speaker 1: what it seems low for table service right now? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're going to sit down somewhere. I think they're
Speaker 1: just talking about grabbing a lunch for the day. And
Speaker 1: for me, I mean, look the lunch.
Speaker 2: I have same lunch every day, sticky rice, chicken and
Speaker 2: siracha right every single day. That with a bag of pretzels.
Speaker 2: My lunch costs. I know how much it costs because
Speaker 2: I've looked at it before. I get the sticky rice
Speaker 2: from Costco, I get the chicken from either Costco or Publics,
Speaker 2: and then obviously si racha. It's about like a dollars
Speaker 2: seventy five or two dollars is a day for my lunch,
Speaker 2: and I love it. It's the greatest thing ever. Why
Speaker 2: I work through this show because later on I don't
Speaker 2: need for a long time during the day. Finally, when
Speaker 2: I breakfast, No, it had never never, ever, ever, ever ever,
Speaker 2: unless I'm really hungover. Ardna says, I spent five dollars
Speaker 2: or six dollars six dollars on a biggie bag from Wendy's. Well,
Speaker 2: you're coming in twenty two dollars under budget according to
Speaker 2: these folks. I want to know what did you have
Speaker 2: for lunch today and what did it cost so we
Speaker 2: could see if this sorts out right. Let us know
Speaker 2: what your dispatches. You can be anonymous if you'd like.
Speaker 2: Over at the neewsjunkie dot com quick Break when we
Speaker 2: come back, another fight over e bikes. I got some
Speaker 2: emails coming in hot. We'll see what you have to say.
Speaker 2: It's a share of the show Tuesday, and it's all
Speaker 2: coming up next on the news Junkie.
Speaker 1: Hey, aw, so over these e bikes in different cities continues.
Speaker 1: You've had people killed.
Speaker 2: You had some poor teenager smashed by I think it
Speaker 2: was a truck right a week or so ago, and
Speaker 2: you've had a lot of other instances where people have
Speaker 2: been hurt. We had the instance in the neighborhood where
Speaker 2: the local security guy for the neighborhood HOA tried to
Speaker 2: stop the guy on the kid on the e bike
Speaker 2: and the kid was like, get your hands off of me.
Speaker 2: You don't have any authority, And then they arrested the
Speaker 2: hoa security guard, and he's facing time behind bars.
Speaker 1: He's facing a felony robbery charge because he snatched the
Speaker 1: phone out of the kid's hand. Yeah, like I thought
Speaker 1: that was a little crazy, but like this is, it's
Speaker 1: heating up. And I said, my theory for this not
Speaker 1: taking sides really on this particular issue, because my point is,
Speaker 1: if I was young, I would one thousand percent be
Speaker 1: one of the kids, one of the many kids riding
Speaker 1: these e bikes, riding the scooters, certainly around my neighborhood.
Speaker 1: I'd begging my parents. I even did when I was
Speaker 1: a kid. They were gas powered back when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, the scooters, but now they're all electric, and
Speaker 1: I would be begging for one. So I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: judge the cars. If you had to mix it with oil,
Speaker 1: probably yeah, like a little two is a two stroke
Speaker 1: or whatever like that. Yeah, So I would back then
Speaker 1: be so desperate to try to get anything like that.
Speaker 1: I know without a doubt, and I can't be hypocritical
Speaker 1: about this. I know that if I was a kid
Speaker 1: right now, I'd be dying for one of these e
Speaker 1: bikes or e scooters. And I think it was fun,
Speaker 1: and I think it was a level of like independence
Speaker 1: and freedom to driving around. I'm just being real with you.
Speaker 1: That's what I would I would think, So I try
Speaker 1: to keep that in mind. But I also know I
Speaker 1: see them whizzen through my neighborhood. Everybody rides these things
Speaker 1: on the sidewalks, and it seems like you're not really
Speaker 1: supposed to do that. Sometimes there'll be a whole pack
Speaker 1: of them on the sidewalk and I'm I'm walking on
Speaker 1: the sidewalk, which is literally in the name, I'm walking here. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm walking here, and they're all they'll make me step
Speaker 1: off the sidewalk for them to cruise buy and their
Speaker 1: gang of scooters, And you know, I don't want to
Speaker 1: fight with them and have some kind of problem, but like,
Speaker 1: these are the things that are boiling under the surface,
Speaker 1: and they're the things that cause these issues. The latest
Speaker 1: moment that's going viral is a couple who got into
Speaker 1: it with these young boys riding e bikes, and now
Speaker 1: the mother wants felony charges for these people too. We're
Speaker 1: starting to fill the jails up with people resisting the
Speaker 1: e bike takeover.
Speaker 2: I think I have the video here. Let's see if
Speaker 2: we can watch what happened in this interaction.
Speaker 7: Oh, here we go at you near Jupiter, where a
Speaker 7: mother says an elderly couple stole her twelve year old
Speaker 7: son's e bike and his friends while they stopped to
Speaker 7: go fish. Okay, she's urging the Palm Beach County Sheriff's
Speaker 7: office to pursue tougher charges. Video showing confrontation between a
Speaker 7: pair of teens and this couple near Jupiter.
Speaker 1: Of all right, the kids have fishing poles. The older
Speaker 1: couple has both of their e bikes. They're the kinds
Speaker 1: with the big fat tires on them that kind of
Speaker 1: look like a a motorcycle or something, right, and those
Speaker 1: the more you know, the more it's start look less
Speaker 1: like an e bike and a little more motorcycle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I then you know what the lesson should be here. Hey,
Speaker 1: if you don't like e bikes or e scooters or whatever,
Speaker 1: you can't just take people's stuff. No, Like you get
Speaker 1: calm and dear somebody's e bike because you're mad about them.
Speaker 1: That's what these old people did. They're they're pissed off.
Speaker 1: I get it. You're boiling over.
Speaker 2: Like, like I said, is the only thing I probably won't
Speaker 2: take a firm side on because I can understand what's
Speaker 2: going on here.
Speaker 1: But like, just because you're an older person does not
Speaker 1: put you in a position of authority. No, you can't
Speaker 1: just take people's property. No, you can't. No, it's stealing.
Speaker 1: And that's what happened to the guy who was the
Speaker 1: HOA security guy. It's stealing it. It could be like
Speaker 1: the guy with the with the HOA, the guy the
Speaker 1: gated community. You could end up being a felony if
Speaker 1: it's you're robbing the person to their face, not just
Speaker 1: stealing it. It was parked somewhere. You know, I'm assuming
Speaker 1: since these kids are in the video probably taking the
Speaker 1: video that this is a lot was very similar to
Speaker 1: the situation in the gated community. So I would want
Speaker 1: one hundred percent if I was the parent, want to
Speaker 1: pursue these elevated charges. Yeah, and I like, I know
Speaker 1: what they're gonna say, Sea Lane. They're gonna go, well,
Speaker 1: they were cursing and they were being rude, and this
Speaker 1: doesn't matter as you Yeah, you still you can't. You
Speaker 1: can't do anything about it because you don't like it.
Speaker 1: Like that, if you want to go after the kids
Speaker 1: for whatever they did. Fine. If if there's a citation
Speaker 1: for riding these bikes on a sidewalk when they're supposed
Speaker 1: to be in the street, hit them with the citation.
Speaker 1: If there's some sort of fine for the bikes being
Speaker 1: too fast and needing a license, maybe pursue that, But
Speaker 1: not without going after these people who take it upon
Speaker 1: themselves to be you know, neighborhood watch or you know,
Speaker 1: acting like they're they have some sort of power over
Speaker 1: you because you don't. They're they're like they're deputizing themselves
Speaker 1: and giving themselves the authority to commandeer stuff.
Speaker 2: I disagree with this descent, though. Florida Scratcher on YouTube says,
Speaker 2: I don't get the problem. They're just a bike. They
Speaker 2: don't go any faster than what you can pedal a bike. Well,
Speaker 2: I would say on average, they're absolutely going faster than
Speaker 2: people pedal bikes can. Some people in the world of
Speaker 2: competitive biking pedal as fast as a lot of these
Speaker 2: e bikes go.
Speaker 1: Sure, but that I mean that what does that mean?
Speaker 1: That means that we would just ignore the fact that
Speaker 1: this is different in some way. Well, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it is different. I think it's different than just pedal
Speaker 1: bikes riding around, and I also think he's wrong. They
Speaker 1: I mean, at least for the ones that I've been on,
Speaker 1: like the ones that you can rent downtown. The line bikes,
Speaker 1: they go one hundred percent, not one hundred percent, like
Speaker 1: I'm not. You know, they go faster absolutely than you
Speaker 1: would if you were just on a regular bike pedaling.
Speaker 2: I could peddle for sure, right right, yeah, like one
Speaker 2: hundred percent on average, these things are going faster, which
Speaker 2: is what I.
Speaker 1: Said, Like, take your line bike and pedal this at
Speaker 1: the same speed you take a regular ass bicycle and
Speaker 1: pedal that, and the line bike is going faster. It's
Speaker 1: power assisted. Let's see what else happens here. My wife
Speaker 1: is not insulting.
Speaker 7: Melissa tells me her son and his friend. We're fishing
Speaker 7: along Crown Quay Lane when Frederick and Deborah Minor came
Speaker 7: out of their home trespass.
Speaker 1: This is prevate property, that's private property.
Speaker 7: According to investigators, the Miners took the bikes to their driveway.
Speaker 2: I gotta tell everybody everybody in a situation like this,
Speaker 2: the warning from me to you is you are not
Speaker 2: the police. Please don't try to act like the police
Speaker 2: when something is bothering, you call the police, call whatever
Speaker 2: line you're supposed to call the complain about this one
Speaker 2: of the greatest tools on planet Earth.
Speaker 1: On planet Earth, we have. We have it in our neighborhood.
Speaker 2: If you have a neighbor who, let's say, like their
Speaker 2: grass is out of control, or they're violating county ordinances
Speaker 2: in some way, or they're being too loud after hours,
Speaker 2: or you know what, riding around too fast on e bikes.
Speaker 1: There's an app where you can report these incidents. When
Speaker 1: they receive the reports of the incidences, they go over
Speaker 1: or they send a letter or whatever to the people.
Speaker 1: Then eventually the situation gets remedied. It's genius, it's great,
Speaker 1: and nobody knows you're reporting it. All right, Do I
Speaker 1: use it?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 1: I don't have this kind of time, but a lot
Speaker 1: of people do. And I think that that's the way
Speaker 1: to keep things copa setic in your neighborhood and handle
Speaker 1: these kind of problems like this. The family here, these
Speaker 1: old people, the olderes just grabbed the bike, says.
Speaker 7: They were moving them to the garage like they previously
Speaker 7: did with another team.
Speaker 9: You can't I couldn't believe that older people in their
Speaker 9: seventies would act that way. All they had to do
Speaker 9: was say, you know you're trespassing. We don't allow fishing here.
Speaker 9: This is a private to way community.
Speaker 7: Could you please leave, Deputy say when one of the teams,
Speaker 7: hold on, I.
Speaker 1: Got the police report here. Mister Abbey has attempted to
Speaker 1: grab the handlebars of his bicycle and take it back
Speaker 1: from mister Minter. That's the mister minor. Excuse me, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be confusing because I think that's the old guy,
Speaker 1: And while doing so, mister minor slapped his hands away.
Speaker 1: All parties remained involved in a verbal dispute regarding the
Speaker 1: return of the bicycles. Both juveniles stated multiple times that
Speaker 1: they would have left the property if asked by mister
Speaker 1: and Missus Minor. Additionally, mister and Missus Minor, again the
Speaker 1: old couple, made multiple statements that the bicycles no longer
Speaker 1: belonged to the juveniles due to their trespassions. Not how
Speaker 1: it works, and it can't do that. You go, you
Speaker 1: know what, these are not yours anymore, like the world
Speaker 1: is not.
Speaker 2: The world's children are not your kids. And sometimes people
Speaker 2: forget this. They say this all that they'll be like,
Speaker 2: it takes a village to raise a child. Kiss my ass.
Speaker 2: The village isn't raising my child. I am okay sometimes
Speaker 2: and I think that so many times the people will
Speaker 2: be like, take the village to raise a child, So
Speaker 2: we're gonna punish him.
Speaker 1: We're taking their e bikes away. No you're not. You
Speaker 1: can't do that.
Speaker 2: They further stated they wanted to place the bicycles in
Speaker 2: their garage, as they had previously done with another juvenile
Speaker 2: was caught fishing lake.
Speaker 1: These people need lawyers. They need somebody to tell them
Speaker 1: to shut up because they are saying, uh, we do
Speaker 1: this all the day, made multiple statements that the bicycles
Speaker 1: no longer belong to the juveniles. Well, that was dumb.
Speaker 1: They further stated they wanted to put the stuff in
Speaker 1: their garage because they've done it before.
Speaker 2: Stupid. Yeah, here's the best part you lent. The two
Speaker 2: juveniles provided me. This is the officer provided me with
Speaker 2: video recordings taken on their cell phones after mister and
Speaker 2: Missus Miner took possession of their e bikes. The videos
Speaker 2: confirmed the statements made by both mister and Missus Miner
Speaker 2: about the juveniles. So it's like, hey, they ratted themselves out,
Speaker 2: and the kids recorded it, and they confirmed that what
Speaker 2: they said about themselves taking.
Speaker 1: The e bikes was true. They're screwed. You can't do this.
Speaker 1: You're not allowed to do this.
Speaker 7: Frederick slapped his hand away, and Frederick refused dispatches several
Speaker 7: requests to return the bikes. Did your son feel thread
Speaker 7: and or scared at any point?
Speaker 9: He did, because he was not able to call me
Speaker 9: until after. You know, nobody has a right to put
Speaker 9: their hand on young children. Nobody has a right to
Speaker 9: see other people's property.
Speaker 1: Melissa is now pushing for harsher charges. It should have
Speaker 1: been a felony okay, So they want a felony charge.
Speaker 1: They want these old people tossed behind bars. There their seventies,
Speaker 1: Mike too, okay, they want these old people in their seventies.
Speaker 1: We we let hobos out alle hundred and fifty times
Speaker 1: when they're slicing the neighborhood apart and cutting people's faces up.
Speaker 2: And showing shoving in front of trains. But we're gonna
Speaker 2: put the seventy year olds for commandeering the e.
Speaker 1: Bikes in jail, all right. That's where our society's at
Speaker 1: but that's a whole other thing. They want felony charges. Now.
Speaker 1: They're not alone in this.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of different things where people are
Speaker 2: starting to go we need new rules. There's commissioners all
Speaker 2: over the place that are now starting with hearings about
Speaker 2: what do we need to do here? We need some
Speaker 2: sort of legislation to stop this from happening over and
Speaker 2: over again. The people, mostly older people, are angry about
Speaker 2: the younger people, mostly younger people, who are driving around
Speaker 2: on these eastcooters in their names. And this is the
Speaker 2: result of all of that. So who's in the wrong.
Speaker 2: Should the old people go to jail? What do you
Speaker 2: think about all of this? I'd love to hear your
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Speaker 1: Speak of it.
Speaker 2: A couple of emails real quick, let's see what we
Speaker 2: got here. This is uh Ben in Daytona, Florida, who says, hey,
Speaker 2: news junkie, excuse me to retouch on the situation with
Speaker 2: the mail carrier yesterday. This was the woman who yelled
Speaker 2: at the mail person, the maleman who walked across her
Speaker 2: grass and she says to me a favorite, get off
Speaker 2: my grass, and the mail carrier goes back on the
Speaker 2: sidewalk and then pulled out her mail and threw it
Speaker 2: on the grass in front of her and this person.
Speaker 2: Ben and Daytona says, hey, news junkie to retouch on
Speaker 2: that situation. You guys didn't take into account that this
Speaker 2: scenario was probably something that bothered this lady before, and
Speaker 2: she took it upon herself to be there at a
Speaker 2: delivery time and ambushed this person with a bad attitude.
Speaker 2: I'm sure if she would have used the same opportunity
Speaker 2: to correct their behavior like a rational adult, it would
Speaker 2: have gone differently on both parts. Longtime listener Ben in Daytona,
Speaker 2: thank you, Ben for the email.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if I would call it
Speaker 1: an ambush. She and her partner husband some other guy
Speaker 1: in the background that we heard but did not see.
Speaker 1: It seemed to be some sort of situation where their
Speaker 1: garage was open and they were doing stuff. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: maybe they planned on doing stuff at that time that
Speaker 1: in the hope to confront the mail guy. Maybe not,
Speaker 1: But like there was like there was like a set
Speaker 1: of weights out in the driveway. There was a bunch
Speaker 1: of crap around that didn't seem like it was a setup.
Speaker 1: To me, it didn't seem like a setup. But I
Speaker 1: did make the point that I was like, it almost
Speaker 1: seems like we're missing something. Like the mail carrier's reaction
Speaker 1: was super agro for just a quick confrontation about him
Speaker 1: walking on the lawn. So I'm like, I wonder if
Speaker 1: this is not their first interaction and they've they've had
Speaker 1: problems before, and this is just the only video we're
Speaker 1: seeing of this, it.
Speaker 2: Could be all right, We're gonna take quick break. We
Speaker 2: got more emails to get to here. Momentarily, we had
Speaker 2: a shooting at San Diego yesterday. I'll explain what happened
Speaker 2: there and go over the craziness that led to it.
Speaker 2: When a mother noticed her son was missing, her car
Speaker 2: was missing, and her guns were stolen. What happened after
Speaker 2: that's coming up next on the news Junkie. A shooting
Speaker 2: in San Diego yesterday has garnered a lot of headlines.
Speaker 1: Let's see what's going on. The craziest thing about this
Speaker 1: I'll work through a couple of things here. The craziest
Speaker 1: thing about the shooting at this mosque in San Diego
Speaker 1: yesterday was this piece of information San Diego police said
Speaker 1: the mother of one of the suspects, because apparently there
Speaker 1: were two teenagers who were working together to shoot up
Speaker 1: this mosque and they ended up taking their own lives.
Speaker 1: And the mother of one of the suspects reported this
Speaker 1: morning that several of her weapons and her vehicle were missing,
Speaker 1: and her son was suicidal, and he was with a
Speaker 1: companion and they were both dressed in camouflage. The mom
Speaker 1: called the cops and was like, Hey, I don't know
Speaker 1: how many problems, yeah, Like, how many red flags do
Speaker 1: you need? The mom's like, hey, my son is missing,
Speaker 1: he's with his teenage friend, and the vehicle that I
Speaker 1: have has been stolen by them. My son is suicidal,
Speaker 1: meaning he like left behind some sort of note or something,
Speaker 1: or they're both dealing with depression. In general.
Speaker 2: Maybe could it could be, but I think there was
Speaker 2: a note in this case. They were both dressed in
Speaker 2: camouflage and the cops go, all right, we're on the move,
Speaker 2: and the cops had out there and they were actively
Speaker 2: looking for the teens when the shooting at this Islamic
Speaker 2: center ended up happening.
Speaker 1: I mean, if she knew the son was suicidal, I
Speaker 1: think maybe the first thing would be getting rid of
Speaker 1: your weapons, yeah, or maybe you know, locking them in
Speaker 1: a safe that there's no way this kid could know
Speaker 1: the combination too. Perhaps, Yeah. I also, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: see late it's a little different now. Like when I
Speaker 1: was young, my father had he had a couple of rifles.
Speaker 1: He had two rifles in the closet at all times,
Speaker 1: and he had some rounds in there and some ammunition
Speaker 1: in there. And I knew that the guns were in there.
Speaker 1: They were zipped up in these gun cases, and I
Speaker 1: knew that they were like these nice rifles. But I
Speaker 1: never once when I was younger, not one time went
Speaker 1: and grabbed the gun or like put bullets in it
Speaker 1: or fired it off in the backyard or I never
Speaker 1: did that. I never touched my dad's gun because I
Speaker 1: was afraid my dad was gonna beat my ass if
Speaker 1: I touched his gun. I was afraid if the cops came,
Speaker 1: they would put me in jail if I touched my
Speaker 1: dad's gun, Like I was afraid. Imagine this. I was
Speaker 1: afraid of a little thing called consequences, and I did
Speaker 1: not touch my parents' weapons. What a concept.
Speaker 2: Of course, I am not what these kids were, which
Speaker 2: is probably mentally a lunatic who was suicidal and hell
Speaker 2: bent on just engaging in violence on the way out.
Speaker 2: But it's kind of crazy that now this happens in
Speaker 2: in a different way. If you're gonna be a parent,
Speaker 2: you're gonna have a gun around kids, especially, And I
Speaker 2: whenever they ask parents where they're like, were you surprised
Speaker 2: that your child shut up the school? I always hear
Speaker 2: the parents like, yes, oh my god, it was shocked.
Speaker 1: I was stunned.
Speaker 2: And then you look at the history in the house,
Speaker 2: You look at the parent interacting with the child, you
Speaker 2: look at who the child was, you look at all
Speaker 2: the signs of red flags, and you go the idea
Speaker 2: that you were surprised this happened. It makes me think
Speaker 2: you're dumb, because it was obvious to everybody else. So
Speaker 2: when you look at your kid, I want you to
Speaker 2: look at your kid. All right, you've got a teenage kid.
Speaker 2: I want you to look at your kid, look them
Speaker 2: in the eyes, and think to yourself, is there a
Speaker 2: chance that my kid is a school shooter?
Speaker 1: I think, whether we want to admit it or not,
Speaker 1: we all have an answer to that where I think
Speaker 1: we know. I think we know more than we were
Speaker 1: willing to give up. Do they have a fascination with
Speaker 1: school shootings? Do they seem to have a lot of aggression?
Speaker 1: Are they bad at communicating? Do they have an obsession
Speaker 1: with weapons? Or they have an obsession with like figures?
Speaker 1: Do they have an obsession with Columbine?
Speaker 2: Like look at your kid? Just just think is my
Speaker 2: kid potentially a school shooter. We've had people email the
Speaker 2: show and they'll be like, hey, I don't want to
Speaker 2: say this on a dispatch, but one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: I think my kid could do this.
Speaker 2: If if the school called and said my kids shout up,
Speaker 2: school wouldn't be surprised. So therefore, I make sure my
Speaker 2: stuff is lockdown, Like they don't know where the keys
Speaker 2: are to my guns. My gun's safe is so secure.
Speaker 1: I feel like we don't necessarily hear that from as
Speaker 1: many parents as like, you know, another step of family
Speaker 1: member away, like y know, I think my nephew, Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe you can't look at it as honestly as it's
Speaker 1: that close to you now if I you know, it's
Speaker 1: a little too early for me to start trying to
Speaker 1: make these determinations. It's Jackson school, especially since if I
Speaker 1: asked Jackson today if he wanted to shoot up a school,
Speaker 1: he would probably say yes. Uh, because says yes to everything.
Speaker 1: And it's a game that I like to play now
Speaker 1: because if I'm trying to like ask him what he
Speaker 1: did this day? Or did you do this? Yes? Did
Speaker 1: you do this? Yeah, I'm like, you're just saying yes
Speaker 1: to everything. Did you and your grandmother do Heroin today? Yeah? Yes? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know it's brutal.
Speaker 2: If he started doing Heroin with his grandma, you never
Speaker 2: know now because he's built into the bit.
Speaker 1: There would be signs. Probably I want to go to
Speaker 1: an eyewitness at this Islamic center that these two teenagers
Speaker 1: unfortunately shot up because the mom sent out the warning,
Speaker 1: but the cops they didn't know where they were going.
Speaker 1: Here's the eyewitness after the shooting happened.
Speaker 10: We were having lunch, and I heard at least a
Speaker 10: dozen shots. They sounded like from a semi automatic weapon.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then there was.
Speaker 10: A pause, and then another dozen shots, and again a
Speaker 10: pause and probably another dozen't so maybe I run thirty shots.
Speaker 1: That's what we heard. That's a lot. Then I call a.
Speaker 10: Nine to one one and.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you heard at least twenty four shots before
Speaker 1: you called nine one one. We don't know what that was.
Speaker 1: It might have been a firework, you know, more and
Speaker 1: more go off. He's like, at this point, I think
Speaker 1: it's a shootout, and a shootout it was because there
Speaker 1: was an armed security guard who was a hero at
Speaker 1: this Islamic center who started firing back.
Speaker 2: This could have been so much worse. It could have
Speaker 2: been so much worse. But the armed security guard at
Speaker 2: the Islamic center started firing back and the kids wholed
Speaker 2: ass and this guy was the one who was close bond.
Speaker 10: They asked me if I saw a car speeding away
Speaker 10: from the mosque, which I didn't because I was inside
Speaker 10: the house.
Speaker 1: Understandably, you didn't want to come outside. At that point,
Speaker 1: you could tell these were not firecrackers. This was not
Speaker 1: some college joke. This was a serious situation.
Speaker 10: Yes, definitely sounded like gunshots and we were concerned and
Speaker 10: putting our heads down inside of course.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So this is one of the witnesses as this
Speaker 1: happened in San Diego.
Speaker 2: Again, two teenagers. You'll learn all the things over the
Speaker 2: next couple of days. You'll probably learn they were.
Speaker 1: Obsessed with school shootings.
Speaker 2: You'll probably learn, you know, a million different things about them.
Speaker 2: There's rumors galore right now, grain assault, all this stuff.
Speaker 2: I already see this stuff. It's like one of them
Speaker 2: was trans or whatever. I don't know, nobody knows. They
Speaker 2: have only released information about one of these kids who
Speaker 2: is on the wrestling team. And it does look like
Speaker 2: they had a gas can with them. They found them
Speaker 2: and they took their own lives, and there was like
Speaker 2: a gas can that was photographed by them. It looked
Speaker 2: like I had two SS bolts, you know, like the
Speaker 2: like the Naziss bolts on a gas can that was
Speaker 2: nearby them. So that's one thing that we've seen here
Speaker 2: is the police afterwards, Let's see what they had to say.
Speaker 1: Because of the Islamic centered complication, we are considering this
Speaker 1: a hate crime until it's not. And at this point,
Speaker 1: we're gonna work closely with the FBI to make sure
Speaker 1: that we are matching all the resources that we need
Speaker 1: this investigation.
Speaker 2: So is it because of the place that they targeted.
Speaker 2: We're gonna look at this like it's some sort of
Speaker 2: hate crime because of their targeting of this particular facility
Speaker 2: until it's not.
Speaker 1: Until it's not.
Speaker 2: There's another thing I can't even play for you. The
Speaker 2: mayor of San Diego. I guess somebody hates the Mayor
Speaker 2: of San Diego. I don't know this guy. And the
Speaker 2: mayor of San Diego is giving a speech about this.
Speaker 2: Remember this is a mass shooting at like some Islamic center,
Speaker 2: And as the mayor is giving his speech, he's being
Speaker 2: heckled by somebody who's saying fu over and over to
Speaker 2: him in the background.
Speaker 1: And I'm going body time in place, like, if you
Speaker 1: hate the mayor and you want to heckle the mayor,
Speaker 1: by all means heckle the mayor. Part of the job
Speaker 1: is getting heckled by some people when you're there.
Speaker 2: You're somebody in charge like that. But if it's after
Speaker 2: a shooting, I can't play it because I think it's
Speaker 2: just gonna. I think we'll just hear the person cursing,
Speaker 2: so I'll skip that for now. Here's the Islamic Center director.
Speaker 2: This is the person in charge of this particular facility.
Speaker 2: Let's see what they had to say about this afternoon.
Speaker 8: My name is Staj Hassan. I'm the Emmam and director
Speaker 8: of the Islamic Center of San Diego. I know it's
Speaker 8: time of sorrow, time of sadness. We have never experienced
Speaker 8: a tragedy like this before, and at this moment, all
Speaker 8: what I can say is sending our prayers and standing
Speaker 8: in solidarity with all the families in our community here
Speaker 8: and also the other mosques and all the places of
Speaker 8: worship in our beautiful city should always be protected. It
Speaker 8: is true, oh, extremely outrageous to target a place of worship.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, I mean, and I think anybody with
Speaker 1: the brain agrees. Everybody, every saying individual is saying this
Speaker 1: is nut. So everybody with a brain knows what's going
Speaker 1: on here. These kids, to a point, doesn't matter who
Speaker 1: they are, doesn't matter what's going on. They're almost always
Speaker 1: radicalized online. They're radicalized on the internet. They find stuff online,
Speaker 1: they get obsessed over it. That's why as a parent,
Speaker 1: the best thing you can do, one hundred percent, the
Speaker 1: best thing you can do is spend time with your kid.
Speaker 1: Know what they're doing with their time, Know what they're
Speaker 1: interested in, what are they obsessing over. Don't be like, oh,
Speaker 1: today was nice. He just stayed in his room all day,
Speaker 1: didn't bother me at all. Meanwhile, he's reading every manifesto
Speaker 1: he can get his hands on. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like this, This is what happens.
Speaker 2: They go online, they get radicalized every time. That is
Speaker 2: one of the biggest difference differences between the nineteen eighties
Speaker 2: when I was a very, very very young kid, and
Speaker 2: they were almost no school shootings, all right, almost no
Speaker 2: school shootings in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1: It was a very rare occurrence. And then now school
Speaker 1: shootings and mass shootings and these kind of things have
Speaker 1: become much more commonplace. Why because people get radicalized online
Speaker 1: on the internet.
Speaker 2: Young kids get radicalized online on the internet. We probably
Speaker 2: have the same amount of guns we had then. Most
Speaker 2: stuff in.
Speaker 1: Culture is almost exactly the same. It was harder back
Speaker 1: in the eighties. You had to radicalize people in person.
Speaker 1: You did, yes, face to face radicalization legitimately you did.
Speaker 2: You didn't have some place to go to where people
Speaker 2: could go. Hey, we all agree, we're in this tiny
Speaker 2: little silo, and we radicalize people more and more and more.
Speaker 2: You got to know what your kid is doing, especially one.
Speaker 2: I was a father of eight. Are you serious?
Speaker 1: Jeez? That's insane.
Speaker 2: And if that guy wouldn't have stepped up, he lost
Speaker 2: his life, I believe right, and this he was one
Speaker 2: of the people people who died.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think that. I think that what.
Speaker 2: Happens here is these kids just end up falling down
Speaker 2: the rabbit holes one after another, and from there they
Speaker 2: end up getting radicalized. They end up in these silos,
Speaker 2: they end up with weirdos and antisocial kids online everywhere else,
Speaker 2: and it just pumps out people, pumps out people like this.
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. Okay, Back in Sean's they had to read
Speaker 2: to be radicalized.
Speaker 1: That's true. Yeah, I mean the only thing you had
Speaker 1: back then.
Speaker 2: Was anarchist cookbook or something. You can read something like
Speaker 2: that to to sort of get your riled up. But
Speaker 2: it just didn't happen. Now, I feel like, wasn't that
Speaker 2: just a bunch of different like recipes to make devices
Speaker 2: for free phone calls and bombs. Yeah one hundred now
Speaker 2: like but now, boy, can you find it all? And
Speaker 2: you can get radicalized by fast?
Speaker 1: Let us know what you think.
Speaker 2: Send us a dispatch over at the news Junkie dot
Speaker 2: com Thetnewsjunkie dot Com. Somebody had a crazy freak death
Speaker 2: the other day and Courtney always tells me this is
Speaker 2: gonna happen to me.
Speaker 1: She says, this is gonna happen to you. This is
Speaker 1: how you're gonna die.
Speaker 2: And like, I disagree with her, obviously, but I want
Speaker 2: to I want to throw.
Speaker 1: We'll find out. I want to throw this story at you,
Speaker 1: and you tell me if you do this and if
Speaker 1: it could be the way that you die too. As
Speaker 1: we read this story, it's an interesting one. It's coming
Speaker 1: up next in the News Junkie. See, Like, if you're
Speaker 1: walking around I either say, you're walking around town and
Speaker 1: you're spending some time with your lovely wife, you got
Speaker 1: jackson in tow and all of that stuff. And as
Speaker 1: you're walking down a street, you see like a man hole,
Speaker 1: all right, or a sewer grade, either one of those things.
Speaker 1: Wearing pants, Oh, you see a man hole on the ground,
Speaker 1: you know, like the kind of New York City ninja
Speaker 1: turtles live under. If you see one of those, if
Speaker 1: you see a sewer grade or a manhole and it's
Speaker 1: right directly in your line of walking, do you go
Speaker 1: around it, jump over it, or simply walk right over
Speaker 1: the top of it. Probably walk over the top of it. Okay, Same,
Speaker 1: that's what I do.
Speaker 2: Cortney thinks I am a legitimate lunatic for doing this.
Speaker 2: I do it almost every day and it freaks her
Speaker 2: out every single time.
Speaker 1: Do you jump on it just to mess with her?
Speaker 2: I did it in the last week, okay, where She'll go,
Speaker 2: don't do it this time.
Speaker 1: You gotta be careful.
Speaker 2: You're gonna fall through and you're gonna get really hurt Sean,
Speaker 2: And I'll go, oh, okay, I'm sorry, I don't I
Speaker 2: don't want to upset you like that. And then I'll
Speaker 2: run full speed and jump on it like you know,
Speaker 2: like a two year old or something, and she'd be like,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be the death of you.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be a problem. You're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: And I'll walk over the man holes at all all
Speaker 1: of these things, just just like it's no thread at all,
Speaker 1: because I don't think there's much of a thread from this,
Speaker 1: but then a story like this pop. So let me
Speaker 1: see if I can bring this up in front of
Speaker 1: me here. I knew kid growing up that was like
Speaker 1: afraid of those you're afraid of a like the manholes
Speaker 1: and the greats, and more so the sewer great than
Speaker 1: the man hole. I think that the the the fear
Speaker 1: of the sewer great is a lot more rational than
Speaker 1: the fear of a manhole. Wow, because you can see
Speaker 1: underneath it. Okay, for example, would you be somebody who
Speaker 1: uh would go to one of those high rises where
Speaker 1: they let you out on the ledge and kind of
Speaker 1: look over like the box in the Seer's tower, willis toweringly? No,
Speaker 1: not not willingly, I don't think so, right, because you
Speaker 1: can see down to the ground and it gives you
Speaker 1: that kind of you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, So I
Speaker 1: think it's a little more rational to be weary of
Speaker 1: the sewer great. Plus, and you know, I think that
Speaker 1: this is kind of a kind of a one in
Speaker 1: one in a thousand, not one of the a million
Speaker 1: things this happens, But I think it's kind of rare.
Speaker 1: There is a risk of dropping something in there, and
Speaker 1: you could, and usually it's something small but important, like
Speaker 1: your car keys and then ring sure, and then how
Speaker 1: are you gonna get that out? You can't just pull
Speaker 1: that thing off the ground. No, they're pretty heavy, I think.
Speaker 1: But Courtney always freaks out when I walk over the
Speaker 1: top of these things. I think most people do. I
Speaker 1: think I'm in the norm here. Maybe I'm not. Let
Speaker 1: me know, but the story from the Daily News says
Speaker 1: woman steps into open manhole in Midtown, Manhattan and falls
Speaker 1: to her death, Which is not going to be good
Speaker 1: for me, because she's gonna read this, She's gonna hear
Speaker 1: it on the show and go what the hell? A
Speaker 1: fifty six year old woman died after she fell into
Speaker 1: an open manhole in New York City. Con Edison said
Speaker 1: it wasn't clear why the utilities manhole wasn't covered during
Speaker 1: this eleven twenty pm incident.
Speaker 2: Maybe somebody was living down there. Remember there's people who
Speaker 2: live under the streets, lost.
Speaker 1: Into a gang of you know, karate crime fighting turtles.
Speaker 1: It could be right.
Speaker 2: The woman stepped out of her parked Mercedes Benz before
Speaker 2: stepping into the manhole. Only a moment later. Oh god,
Speaker 2: hang on, is there a report on this. Yeah, there
Speaker 2: is this woman stepped right out of her car to
Speaker 2: take on the day in the world of the night.
Speaker 2: In this case, here you go and let's see what
Speaker 2: they say happened here to this lady.
Speaker 1: Let's go back here here it is tragic.
Speaker 11: In Manhattan a woman died when she got out of
Speaker 11: her car and fell into an open manhole.
Speaker 1: You heard it right in Midtown? Why was it all?
Speaker 2: Oh God, look look her car Mercedes parked the road.
Speaker 2: She literally parked right by the manhole and stepped direct
Speaker 2: She was like getting out of her car right right
Speaker 2: in like in Mario when you go into the green tubes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: she stepped. It was literally she open her door and
Speaker 2: the manhole is immediately outside of her door. So this,
Speaker 2: like this would be the thing where Cordy goes, what
Speaker 2: are you doing, Sean? Why do you walk on these things?
Speaker 2: It's dangerous at least say.
Speaker 1: The fifty six year old victim is for Briarcliffe, Manor
Speaker 1: in Westchester County. She fell about ten feet after stepping
Speaker 1: out of her car near East fifty second Street and
Speaker 1: Fifth Avenue last night. I we stop right here for
Speaker 1: just a second. Do you think this is a common
Speaker 1: experience that if you fall in a manhole, it's like
Speaker 1: you fell in that it would go ten feet down.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it really would depend on I
Speaker 1: think it would differ based on what sized pipes are
Speaker 1: underneath you. But this seems to be a main thoroughfare
Speaker 1: in Manhattan. What did it say, Midtown? Yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: like I was, like in our neighborhood, I wouldn't expect
Speaker 1: a manhole to go down ten feet. But maybe I
Speaker 1: wouldn't expect it in New York City either. I don't
Speaker 1: know here, listener, how.
Speaker 12: Connor Edison is investigating it all?
Speaker 1: Eyewitness news reporter Lindsay tch ma, she just stepped right
Speaker 1: into it.
Speaker 13: Family members of the victim were here earlier this morning,
Speaker 13: sharing hugs and tears and really telling us that they
Speaker 13: want answers after this nightmare of a situation. And now
Speaker 13: conn Edison is investigating how a woman fell into an
Speaker 13: open manhole plunging to her death.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, we know how she did it. She
Speaker 1: just opened the door and it was right there, and
Speaker 1: she just fell straight down ten feet. What we want
Speaker 1: to know is why there wasn't a manhole?
Speaker 13: Is the manhole behind me here? It has since been
Speaker 13: covered since the accident occurred, but you could still see
Speaker 13: steam rising from several manholes on East fifty second Street
Speaker 13: here near Fifth Avenue, as well as emergency items left
Speaker 13: behind from the accident. According to police, it all happened
Speaker 13: just before eleven twenty pm last night. There was a
Speaker 13: very large emergency presence. Official say, a fifty six year
Speaker 13: old woman who was from Briarcliff, Manor driving from Mercedes
Speaker 13: Benz suv in the area and had just finished parking
Speaker 13: on fifty second Street. She fell an astonishing ten feet
Speaker 13: and she was rushed to the hospital after emergency crews
Speaker 13: were able to extricate her, but she was pronounced dead
Speaker 13: when she arrived.
Speaker 1: Jesus Man, Like, these are those things you just don't
Speaker 1: think about unless your courtiney. Apparently I just would. I
Speaker 1: would think this is never gonna happen, Like this is
Speaker 1: this is not a significant and serious risk. I literally
Speaker 1: jump on these things all the time safe when they're covered. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope, So, I hope. So it makes me question
Speaker 1: it right now. I wonder if for family has a case,
Speaker 1: it would seem like there's a case then Yeah, it
Speaker 1: seems like there would be because there's probably some criminal
Speaker 1: negligence there that has now led to a fatality. I
Speaker 1: think also, like I wonder how anybody knew she got
Speaker 1: down there, Like if nobody saw this, Like there's so
Speaker 1: much happening in New York City that you could have
Speaker 1: somebody fall down a manhole and not realize that that's true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you might just be like, oh, okay, well she's screaming
Speaker 1: down there. Oh God, like you know, I'm down here,
Speaker 1: like still barely with it.
Speaker 2: Ten feet is crazy. And they said there was steam
Speaker 2: coming out, So is it pretty.
Speaker 1: Hot down there? I would imagine yeah, there's always steam
Speaker 1: coming from the grates and stuff down there, so it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like a kind of stinky and musty.
Speaker 2: That's weird. I let us know what you think. Send
Speaker 2: us a dispatch over at the news junkie dot com.
Speaker 2: We'll get into those in a moment now. Tips of
Speaker 2: the news Junkie dot com. Somebody emails sub junkies on
Speaker 2: the e bike topic. For the past month or so,
Speaker 2: there's been a couple of reviews and new e bikes
Speaker 2: that are coming in. They have pedals on them and
Speaker 2: they're governed to only do twenty or something miles an hour,
Speaker 2: whatever the law is on most states or in most states.
Speaker 2: But it's also able to be unlocked, so you can
Speaker 2: unlock these e bikes, and that's what a lot of
Speaker 2: these kids are doing, this person says. And when you
Speaker 2: unlock them, they can go this is true. When you
Speaker 2: unlock them, they could go seventy miles an hour. I
Speaker 2: don't know about that. That seventy is is kind of crazy.
Speaker 2: These Chinese manufacturers have caught on to what's going on
Speaker 2: in basically made a sleeper e bike that kids can unlock.
Speaker 1: He said, what were we gonna say? Sin Oh, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about the band whole thing. We came upon an
Speaker 1: open hole downtown one time, remember after Secret shows. Yes
Speaker 1: we did, Yeah, but literally a hole end of the ground.
Speaker 1: We could look at it. It wasn't like sewer size
Speaker 1: it was. I mean, it was definitely you could have
Speaker 1: fallen into it. It was big enough to fall into. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was ten feet because ten
Speaker 1: feet seems like a lot, especially where we live. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it definitely looked like if we hadn't seen it,
Speaker 1: I don't remember there being any sort of like cone
Speaker 1: or warning next to it, but it looked like if
Speaker 1: we hadn't seen it, it could have messed you up
Speaker 1: really bad that fall, just hitting the sides or hitting
Speaker 1: something on the way down. I mean, it would have
Speaker 1: been not good for whoever could have fallen in there.
Speaker 1: And people were drunk walking around at that time. I
Speaker 1: remember it was right outside the pizza place that people
Speaker 1: go to at the end of the night when they're wasted.
Speaker 2: Exactly all right, a couple of dispatches real quick, let's
Speaker 2: work those in. Here's Chris talking about man holes.
Speaker 6: Hey junkies, Hey bloomber man, local lawyer and Bavard County.
Speaker 1: There's manholes over here. They're over twenty foot deep. Who really, shaw?
Speaker 1: I jump them down them all day long. But you know,
Speaker 1: one guy, just don't put it in quite right, and
Speaker 1: watch out crash and burn at the bottom of the
Speaker 1: poop hole. What great day. He says, twenty feet down.
Speaker 1: For some of those that soundsing a lot, but more
Speaker 1: people are saying that, here's blonde.
Speaker 11: So man holes can go anywhere from ten to even
Speaker 11: twenty feet. It just depends on the neck of the
Speaker 11: of the manhole and how deep the actual man hole is.
Speaker 11: And hopefully there was some water and then the break
Speaker 11: or fall. But if not that, that's gotta hurt.
Speaker 2: How much water yeah, I mean yeah, how much could
Speaker 2: have possibly been in there wouldn't have been enough, and
Speaker 2: clearly it wasn't.
Speaker 1: She died. I mean, the lady did not survive any
Speaker 1: of this. Uh here is let's go over to doctor Rob,
Speaker 1: who says you're not special.
Speaker 14: Good morning, junkies. It seems like the world is getting
Speaker 14: crazier and crazier. Kids don't think there are any consequences.
Speaker 14: Now we have old codgers thinking that they don't have consequences.
Speaker 14: Everybody thinks they're a little more important than what they are.
Speaker 1: We just all need to chill and do.
Speaker 14: A little bit of that sweet sweet cocaine.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's going to fix it, sir,
Speaker 1: Thank you. I know that you're a doctor. Doesn't seem
Speaker 1: to make people that chill.
Speaker 2: No, that has the opposite effect sometimes, and if you
Speaker 2: do enough of it, you might be searching for manholes
Speaker 2: to go down or people to shoot for that matter.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if this is going to fix anything
Speaker 2: for us, but we appreciate the dispatch none the lesson.
Speaker 2: We await yours friend over at the Newsjunkie dot com
Speaker 2: Thenewschunkie dot com. Chris emails tips at the news Junki
Speaker 2: dot com and says, when I first met my wife,
Speaker 2: she used to go out of her way to not
Speaker 2: walk on a manhole cover or on grats. When I
Speaker 2: finally asked her about it, she told me when she
Speaker 2: was younger, her dad fell into one just walking over it.
Speaker 2: Luckily he wasn't hurt too bad, but it scarred her
Speaker 2: for life, and she won't walk over one even to
Speaker 2: this day. That didn't even happen to Courtney. She's got
Speaker 2: no reason. She's like, you are risking life and limb.
Speaker 2: It's my only way to seem like I'm an outlaw
Speaker 2: around Courtney, or like to seem like I'm a wild daredevil.
Speaker 1: So I'll go look at this manhole. I'm standing on
Speaker 1: it like I don't even care about my life right now.
Speaker 2: So I think that's kind of what keeps her excited
Speaker 2: around here. If you were wonder, she thinks.
Speaker 1: Her last words gould be like, look everything is, oh,
Speaker 1: come twenty feet down. If I do that, everybody should
Speaker 1: just leave me down there. That's where I deserve to
Speaker 1: be in the sewers. Anyways, that's where I deserve to
Speaker 1: lay rest for the rest of days. Oh, I don't
Speaker 1: even bring you up your dead body to bury it somewhere,
Speaker 1: and just no, just leave me down there. Just leave
Speaker 1: me down there a cat butthole. Ask Tnjai or internal
Speaker 1: ai how many people are killed annually by falling through manholes?
Speaker 1: Specific global statistics on desks from falling into manholes are scarce,
Speaker 1: Tnjai says. In the US, data from nineteen ninety two
Speaker 1: to nineteen ninety eight indicates an average of sixty one
Speaker 1: worker fatalities annually due to falls through roof and floor openings,
Speaker 1: which would include man holes. Yeah, I would think it's
Speaker 1: pretty rare. I would, But I want to know, do
Speaker 1: you walk around those? Do you do? You go right
Speaker 1: over them like I do. This is a freak accident,
Speaker 1: But does it change anything about the way you think
Speaker 1: about this? Let us know.
Speaker 2: Sent us a dispatch at the Newsjunkie dot com. When
Speaker 2: we come back, I'm just gonna say it. We're going
Speaker 2: back on a plane, all right, I'm just gonna say it.
Speaker 2: I'll get ahead of it. We're doing that when we
Speaker 2: come back, and that is coming up next on the
Speaker 2: News Junkie.
Speaker 1: Let's see what we can get going today, But a
Speaker 1: big week of secret shows on the way. By the way,
Speaker 1: for Thursday's Secret Show, I will be strapping a heart
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Speaker 2: You'll be able to see it on demand afterwards. And
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Speaker 2: that if diicon to spread the word. I'm taking it
Speaker 2: away from you. Not secret shows. I'm taking away from
Speaker 2: you the airplane story. And somebody says it's not fun
Speaker 2: when you pointed out beforehand, Sean, Well, for once I
Speaker 2: realized what I was doing, and I didn't let Sea
Speaker 2: Land play the back on a Plane song for once.
Speaker 1: I mean you didn't let me play it. I took
Speaker 1: control of my own destiny.
Speaker 2: As they say, and I said, I'll get out in
Speaker 2: front of him, I'll cut him off.
Speaker 1: And are future proofing. Yeah, yeah, I'll say, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: future proofing.
Speaker 4: This stories long as a blame lighter.
Speaker 1: And as you met a guess we're back on a plane.
Speaker 2: We are on a plane. Yeah, we are on a
Speaker 2: plane again. Unfortunately, maybe fortunately Sea Land censored this audio
Speaker 2: of a guy. This guy reminded me of the.
Speaker 1: Manifest destiny or uh, now that you've said it wrong,
Speaker 1: it's messing me up. Democracy Manifest, a democracy manifest and
Speaker 1: a succulent Chinese meal. This guy reminded me of that dude.
Speaker 1: Where does he sound like he's from with his accent?
Speaker 1: See this guy on the plane who's having a freak
Speaker 1: out of and to play in a moment here they
Speaker 1: all sound Australian. Yeah, they might be. They might be.
Speaker 2: This guy starts freaking out and the flight attendant goes,
Speaker 2: you have to go back to your seat. He goes,
Speaker 2: you have to be common orderly while we're in the air,
Speaker 2: and the guy goes, where are the air He's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: we're in the air, and he goes, you have marijuana,
Speaker 2: you have pot? And the guy goes, no, what not.
Speaker 2: He's just having a total meltdown.
Speaker 1: He's at the front of the aisle, right by the
Speaker 1: bathrooms on the plane and Smiths's plane talk with Sean Watson.
Speaker 2: Indeed, plane talk is on and we go to this flight.
Speaker 2: Let's see what happens with this guy's meltdown.
Speaker 1: All right, they're trying to get a hold of him
Speaker 1: in the bathrooms. He's bouncing around, he's so drunk. He said,
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna have to put you down. I
Speaker 1: don't know if to put you down because that sounds different,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna have to set you down.
Speaker 2: If you don't start relaxing, you're better. Yeah, behave yourself
Speaker 2: and you're gonna hear it better in a second.
Speaker 1: Language behavior, so he said.
Speaker 2: He said, I was about to just walk out for
Speaker 2: a cigarette.
Speaker 1: Walk out where homeboy? I mean, how drunk are you?
Speaker 1: What do you think you're gonna take a little squad
Speaker 1: on the wing had had five hundred miles an hour
Speaker 1: just puffing on a dart on the on the edge
Speaker 1: of the plane, having more times in Dave Chappelle, I
Speaker 1: don't know why this thing won't stay lit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you you're on the Pump's gonna step outside and
Speaker 2: smoke a cigarette. Okay, you know what, Go right ahead, sir,
Speaker 2: go right on ahead.
Speaker 14: You're gonna you're gonna You're gonna put you in the back.
Speaker 11: Okay.
Speaker 1: You always get rid of them. Well, they can't really
Speaker 1: get rid of them here we go to start aspiralble.
Speaker 1: He just he's threatening, the guy. Yeah. He said something like,
Speaker 1: if you do this again, we have problems. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have problems. Yeah, you you do have a problem,
Speaker 1: like right now, like there's a problem right and I
Speaker 1: don't know if you're understanding this. We're in the middle
Speaker 1: of a problem. I didn't really understand this. This phrase
Speaker 1: the guy used. He said, you're behaving like a too
Speaker 1: Bob watch. And it's a classic British or Australian slang
Speaker 1: slang term to describe something that is cheap, common, or
Speaker 1: of such poor quality that it is virtually worthless. Like
Speaker 1: a too too bob would mean like two shilling's okay,
Speaker 1: and since I was, he's a junk, very small and
Speaker 1: trivial amount of money. A to Bob watch would be
Speaker 1: a cheap, mass produced time piece. I don't know how
Speaker 1: behaving like a tou bob watch. Okay behavior, but sure
Speaker 1: he's drunk. He's behaving like a tubob watch. There he
Speaker 1: goes the plant. The planeted up landing in Tahiti. That's
Speaker 1: where they were going.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, yeah, they're going into I guess they
Speaker 2: shoveled the guy right out of there at the end
Speaker 2: of this. You can't do this, Oh god, I do
Speaker 2: love that you're so drunk that you go, I just
Speaker 2: going out for a cigarette. That would be the best
Speaker 2: thing ever if they actually added a little.
Speaker 1: Escape patch on these planes. So then when people are
Speaker 1: that drunk, they get that drunk on these flights and
Speaker 1: they go, I just get to go out and have
Speaker 1: a cigarette. You go, okay, fine, go ahead, go out
Speaker 1: and have a cigarette out the side of the plane.
Speaker 2: Ain't gonna happen again. Two or three people get zoomed
Speaker 2: out and zooted out of the plane. It'll stop happening
Speaker 2: real quick.
Speaker 1: People drinking too much on these flights because they'll go,
Speaker 1: I don't want to get drunk on this flight. I
Speaker 1: don't say drunk on the flight. I'll end up falling
Speaker 1: out at five miles an hour dropping down to Earth.
Speaker 1: Do you think he intended on lighting the cigarette in
Speaker 1: the plane bathroom or was that just something he said
Speaker 1: And because he was just hammered and talking nonsensically, I literally.
Speaker 2: Don't think he knew he was on a plane because
Speaker 2: the guy said earlier, you have to behave when we're
Speaker 2: up in the air like this, and he goes, we're
Speaker 2: up in the air, He's like, wait, how do you But.
Speaker 1: Dude, if he was that drunk and he had a
Speaker 1: pack of cigarettes in his pocket, sometimes drunk people just
Speaker 1: like whip one out and forget that they're not supposed
Speaker 1: to do it. Yeah. There. The one that stands out
Speaker 1: in my head the most was I was in high
Speaker 1: school were we were I was in marching band in
Speaker 1: high school, obviously, and we were at one of the
Speaker 1: football games and we were kind of lining everything up,
Speaker 1: getting ready to do the halftime show at the football game.
Speaker 1: And one of the guys that was in the drum
Speaker 1: section with me, his dad was there and his dad
Speaker 1: was hammered. Oh god, yeah, his dad. His dad liked
Speaker 1: to tip him back, right, And so we're sitting there
Speaker 1: and so the you know, like a lot of these
Speaker 1: stadiums at high schools, the football field is surrounded by
Speaker 1: the track where you would run track like track and
Speaker 1: field track. And so we're getting everything ready on the
Speaker 1: track and homeboy's dad just lights up a cigarette and
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, buddy, you smoking And his reaction
Speaker 1: was to offer me one. Yeah, buddy, you sorry. You
Speaker 1: won't want to go? No, I don't want one, man,
Speaker 1: And I don't think you're supposed to smoke here either.
Speaker 1: This is a high school. What are you doing?
Speaker 2: They let me do stuff like that around here. They
Speaker 2: let me get away with it.
Speaker 1: He says. So I will see what you think about this.
Speaker 1: Let us know.
Speaker 2: Send us a dispatch over at the news Junkie dot com.
Speaker 2: We must talk about something really quickly. I hope this
Speaker 2: isn't in the hot shooting and I'm stealing it. But
Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of discussion. Okay, good, You're gonna
Speaker 2: need it because if you had this, I've seen a
Speaker 2: lot of discussion around.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had a friend who just completely changed
Speaker 1: their look up in and didn't say anything about it?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Like, like all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they always dress one way, they always have one sort
Speaker 1: of style, and then they totally change their look up
Speaker 1: and they pop around and like, what huh huh, oh no,
Speaker 1: b No, I've always I always do this.
Speaker 2: I always said, this is what's happening to all of
Speaker 2: us collectively with John Travolta right now. Because John Travolta
Speaker 2: keeps popping up in these stories. I don't know if
Speaker 2: he addresses it here or not.
Speaker 1: And here he is, he keeps popping up in stories,
Speaker 1: and now he looks like a French artist or something.
Speaker 1: He's wearing a beret. A beret. Is that a beret? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got a beret on, you know, because he's bald
Speaker 1: and he doesn't want to just be bald headed for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, because you know, the movie Grease made him
Speaker 1: feel like he always needs to look like that or something.
Speaker 1: But John Travolta now is like this little artiste looking
Speaker 1: man with a beret, and we have to address this.
Speaker 1: You can't just switch up your look. I know you've
Speaker 1: had friends who have done this. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they're coming in. You're like, your whole style has changed.
Speaker 1: What's going on here? I mean, there's been a couple
Speaker 1: of hats that I've had that have been outside the norm,
Speaker 1: and I would continue to wear them if I could
Speaker 1: just find ones that could fit my gigantic head. Well.
Speaker 1: But I don't think it was like a complete change.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of any friends would have done this.
Speaker 2: If you wore this and you wantered into the show,
Speaker 2: everybody'd be like, see, you ain't wearing a beret right now,
Speaker 2: what the hell is happening.
Speaker 15: The old school directors wore berets, and I said, and
Speaker 15: the glasses, and I thought, that's what I'm doing. I've
Speaker 15: been around for over fifty years doing movies.
Speaker 1: But on the difference between the events, Yeah, he's wearing
Speaker 1: it the con, the movie festival, so he's dressing a
Speaker 1: little more French to fit in with the other. I
Speaker 1: think he's leaning into it. I think he's doing it
Speaker 1: after Con too. I think that now this is his look.
Speaker 1: John Travolta is rocking the lisson.
Speaker 15: I'm a direct a time, you're an actor, play the
Speaker 15: part of a director, look like an old schooler. So
Speaker 15: I looked at pictures twenties, thirties, forties, fifty sixties.
Speaker 1: And the old school directors wore berets, and that's funny,
Speaker 1: what a weird thing like I'm a director now, So
Speaker 1: I googled what directors are supposed to look like. And
Speaker 1: I modeled myself after what I found. But imagine if
Speaker 1: I looked up everyone, I'm like radio host outfit, and
Speaker 1: then I wore that every day, and I'm like, what
Speaker 1: the reason I wore this today, everybody is because I
Speaker 1: googled a radio host outfit and that's why I have
Speaker 1: my berea in the glasses.
Speaker 15: And I thought, that's what I'm doing. I'm going to
Speaker 15: do an homage to being a director. So I'm going
Speaker 15: to play the part of being a director. And then
Speaker 15: when I look back, I'll know, Oh, that was Propeller
Speaker 15: one way night coach, that was can That's when I
Speaker 15: won the Palm d'Or.
Speaker 1: And I'll have vividness of it, Yeah, vividness. Who doesn't
Speaker 1: talk this way? When I look back on it, I'll
Speaker 1: have a vividness. Vividness. You sure will, Buddy. Just rock
Speaker 1: your dome. You're a good looking guy. Still, you're frigging
Speaker 1: John Travolta. Just rock it out. You got your whole
Speaker 1: head shade, you got a beard rocking in. You're cool.
Speaker 1: I dig it, go for it. Maybe the beret. Maybe
Speaker 1: the moral of the story is John Travolta could do
Speaker 1: whatever he wants to wear. The berets. John Travolta ain't
Speaker 1: no Sean Travolta. That's sure.
Speaker 2: No, I come in here with a beret. The audience
Speaker 2: numbers drop like a rock.
Speaker 1: People go. I used to listen to him until the
Speaker 1: beret thing, and that was just a bridge too far.
Speaker 1: Couldn't do it. Trying to think if I have a
Speaker 1: friend that's done anything like this, I'm sure people have
Speaker 1: had that.
Speaker 2: Like let us know on a dispatcher an email, if
Speaker 2: you've ever had a friend who all of a sudden
Speaker 2: did a style change and they just show up and
Speaker 2: they're like, what.
Speaker 1: It's making me nervous because you know when they say, like,
Speaker 1: if you think you don't have an annoying friend, you're
Speaker 1: the annoying friend. Like I would tell you doesn't have
Speaker 1: a Travis, You're the Travis. You know you're not the
Speaker 1: Travis I would tell you. And I feel like this
Speaker 1: is the same thing, Like I can't think of a
Speaker 1: friend who's adopted a goofy look, so I probably it's
Speaker 1: probably been me when I went through my Fedora phase
Speaker 1: or that train hat. I used to like, your oh yeah,
Speaker 1: conductor hats are big risk too. I love. If I
Speaker 1: could find them that fit me more off, I would
Speaker 1: wear much more off. And I have one in my
Speaker 1: closet right now, and every once in a while, I'll goo,
Speaker 1: is today the day?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what your Your wife is going
Speaker 1: to say no to that every time she goes. If
Speaker 1: you're like I want to put on a train I
Speaker 1: don't do it while she's home. This is your this
Speaker 1: is your rebellion when your wife lee putting on the
Speaker 1: train conductor hat. No, it's just like, uh, it would
Speaker 1: be a day where she's already gone to work and
Speaker 1: I'm getting dressed. I'm like, all right, what'd you do?
Speaker 1: What did you do this? We took the whole day
Speaker 1: off where a train conductor hat the whole time. Ain't
Speaker 1: nobody gonna tell me what to do. I'm Sele and
Speaker 1: that's the way I operate. If this has ever happened
Speaker 1: to you, let's know, send it his batch. Now you
Speaker 1: got to wear the next bet we do on the show.
Speaker 1: It's the bet is if Selan loses, he has to
Speaker 1: wear the train conductor hat for the whole show. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, all right, what a loss. Okay, Seilan loses
Speaker 1: this bet. He has to have a juicy steak and
Speaker 1: buttery lobster.
Speaker 2: You know, in fact, if you wear the train conductor
Speaker 2: hat on the show on Friday, all wear your hat
Speaker 2: of choice to even it out on my end train
Speaker 2: conductor hat from you?
Speaker 1: How fast can I get a beret shun with beret?
Speaker 1: I can't shun Travolta with a bret. If you do
Speaker 1: the train hat on Friday, I'll do the beret on frow. Wait,
Speaker 1: we gotta put Josh in something Josh has to do.
Speaker 2: That's for the audience to decide, because train hat and
Speaker 2: beret Friday is gonna be huge numbers for us.
Speaker 1: Okay, quick break back in a moment. The hot sheet, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we can can do that forever, future proofing that it's fine. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: the hot sheet coming up next to the news junkie.
Speaker 1: This is real. This is actually a real update to
Speaker 1: a story we've been following, thanks to M D Dixon
Speaker 1: on Twitter who says, hey, Sean, I know you're keeping
Speaker 1: up with this story, and he sends over a link
Speaker 1: and I said, no, I don't know if that's true
Speaker 1: or not, but it is. Remember the guy who was
Speaker 1: hitting on the young girl at that Board of education
Speaker 1: meeting and he's like, oh, you're hot. Yeah, and where
Speaker 1: do you go to school? He goes, you're hot, where
Speaker 1: do you go to school? And then she confronted him afterwards.
Speaker 1: First she does this rant against the local government and
Speaker 1: they weren't doing things right and they weren't being they
Speaker 1: weren't serving the public good like they should. And then
Speaker 1: after she finishes her rant, he says to her this
Speaker 1: old guy on the board, Keith Irvin. Keith goes, oh, man,
Speaker 1: you are hot. Where do you go to school? And
Speaker 1: then she confronts him afterwards. Is later on, like a
Speaker 1: week or so had passed and the story had gone viral.
Speaker 1: She goes back to the school board, this is the
Speaker 1: last we visited them, and she just lit them up.
Speaker 1: She lit them up. You know, they had people, I guess,
Speaker 1: all meeting along that were saying this is disgusting, this
Speaker 1: is creepy, why are you doing this? Etcetera, etcetera. Right,
Speaker 1: so she goes, what you did is disgusting.
Speaker 2: The idea that you're not losing your position is even
Speaker 2: more disgusting. All these people are standing around doing nothing
Speaker 2: about it. He's been charged with assault for it.
Speaker 1: He's now been charged with a salt This young girl,
Speaker 1: he called her hot. She's a teenage girl. Young teenage girl.
Speaker 2: She was at this meeting, it says Keith Irvin, the
Speaker 2: Washington County Board of Education member who referred to a
Speaker 2: student is hot during a meeting at April, has been
Speaker 2: charged with assault.
Speaker 1: Because he put his hand on her right on her shoulder. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I guess so, just like unwanted putting the hand on
Speaker 2: the shoulder. That seems like it's gonna be a tough
Speaker 2: one to stick. Let's see what the story says. Hang
Speaker 2: on real quick, before the hot sheet. Let's see what
Speaker 2: they say about this.
Speaker 16: Board member, Keith Irvan is facing a charge of a
Speaker 16: salt physical contact. That's according to online records. It's breaking
Speaker 16: news this afternoon. Thank you for joining us on.
Speaker 1: Brody Wilson, you're welcome. Brady, Hey, you got yourright.
Speaker 16: That charge is allegedly in reference to that video from
Speaker 16: an April second school board meeting gain Traction online, but
Speaker 16: Irvin says it lacks context. On May eleventh, the presentment
Speaker 16: stating that a grand jury has found enough cause to
Speaker 16: charge herven with a salt physical contact.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 16: Wow, we've reached out to him, but have not yet
Speaker 16: heard back. In a statement today, Washington County School Superintendent
Speaker 16: Jerry Boyd said, quote, the board reiterates that mister Irvin's
Speaker 16: actions do not reflect the standards, policies, or values of
Speaker 16: the school district. Under Tennessee law, school board members are
Speaker 16: independently elected officials, so the board lacks the statutory authority
Speaker 16: to remove a sitting member from office.
Speaker 1: So they would remove them. It sounds like they would
Speaker 1: remove them from the board too, but they can't. They're
Speaker 1: not actually able to do it.
Speaker 2: But he has been naged by a grand jury with
Speaker 2: assault and now he's facing the assault for the incident. The
Speaker 2: father of the student shared the family's thoughts public on
Speaker 2: social media, saying Irvin should not be anywhere near students
Speaker 2: and calling the lack of action by other board members
Speaker 2: equally disturbing. She addressed them on May seventh. We talked
Speaker 2: about that like a week or so ago.
Speaker 1: She said it was not only unwelcome, but sexist in derogatory,
Speaker 1: and he was previously centered in two thousand and nine,
Speaker 1: after reportedly making a lewde gesture of a sexual nature
Speaker 1: in front of a class at a high school. What
Speaker 1: what did he do with that. I didn't I don't
Speaker 1: remember hearing that part of it. He made a lude gesture,
Speaker 1: loud juvenile gesture. A student made a comment about this,
Speaker 1: or a student made a comment about the student's current job,
Speaker 1: saying he was earning eight dollars an hour. Mister Irvin
Speaker 1: then made a lude juvenile gesture of a sexual nature. Uh, well,
Speaker 1: what did he do well with gestures? The gestures that
Speaker 1: you know. I'll look into this right now. We got
Speaker 1: to get to it. Let's let's do the hot sheet.
Speaker 1: It's in new news, but not like real important news.
Speaker 1: That's again, every parting on the planet book. Top stories
Speaker 1: from the people on your screens and speakers are on
Speaker 1: the hot sheet with Sea Lane. That's right. Let's take
Speaker 1: a look at the top five stories of the nonsense
Speaker 1: news and some of them are kind of out there today.
Speaker 1: Some of them are a little out there. But this
Speaker 1: first one is kind of sad for fans of the
Speaker 1: Powerpuff Girls and some of the Star Wars fans will
Speaker 1: know the name Tom Kine who has died Its sixty four.
Speaker 1: Tom Kane was the voice actor best known for his
Speaker 1: work on Star Wars. He did some of the animated
Speaker 1: series where he voiced yoga, and I think some of
Speaker 1: the later movies did I say yoga, Yoda, Yoda. That
Speaker 1: sounds like a mistake. I would make it the Star
Speaker 1: Wars Now, I can't believe you got yoga and you
Speaker 1: got this C two pp po guy hanging out. He
Speaker 1: did Yoda in Star Wars, the Clone Wars feature film
Speaker 1: and TV series. Lent his voice to Professor Utonium in
Speaker 1: The Powerpuff Girls. If you were a fan, you knew him.
Speaker 1: He was a devoted husband and father who, alongside with
Speaker 1: his wife, built a loving family of nine children. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, one more than three biological and six welcomed
Speaker 1: through adoption and fostering. He's dead at the age of
Speaker 1: sixty four. Carson Daly has spelled out some things that
Speaker 1: he would prefer not happen for his kids in their
Speaker 1: dating universe. Nothing too crazy. He would just rather there
Speaker 1: not be any vegans. Oh really, okay, all right. I
Speaker 1: never heard a parent say that I don't want my
Speaker 1: child to date a vegan, but I'm all years. During
Speaker 1: a chat with co host Jenna Bush Hagar or Hagar,
Speaker 1: he said he has one request for his children when
Speaker 1: they start dating. The only reservation I would have for
Speaker 1: my kids would be like a vegan or something like that,
Speaker 1: to which he got a lot of laughter. He said,
Speaker 1: food is a really important part of like the fabric
Speaker 1: of our family. If we didn't have food, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: talk to my wife about anything. It holds us together.
Speaker 1: So if one of them brought home a date who
Speaker 1: was super picky, like I don't eat anything, fish from
Speaker 1: the sea, cowsdkomu like I've got a tragger bro referring
Speaker 1: to his smoker.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I mean I guess that's impressive in
Speaker 2: some circles.
Speaker 1: I said, enough about it. I'm just saying it would suck.
Speaker 1: If they came to the house on a Sunday, we
Speaker 1: were doing like a big you know, daily feast and
Speaker 1: the daily family they make pizzas, and they had some
Speaker 1: girlfriend or boyfriend that says I can't eat anything. I
Speaker 1: would be like, he's a loser. Dump him.
Speaker 2: Although I have heard you will brag about your big
Speaker 2: black rock thing or whatever it is, blackstone, the blackstone.
Speaker 2: Your blackstone is something that people be like, I got
Speaker 2: a blackstone.
Speaker 1: I'm so bought you last night. It was a good time.
Speaker 1: Good glad I didn't stumble over my delivery of that.
Speaker 1: By the way, why Big Blackrock troublesome spot worse so
Speaker 1: than Yogi. For sure, this story was funny to me
Speaker 1: just because the person that is in it is known
Speaker 1: for playing a character that is so vanilla, I would say.
Speaker 1: But three years after Bonnie Bartlett said she once had
Speaker 1: an open marriage with husband, William Daniels, the actress is
Speaker 1: clarifying what really happened during that lifetime. Now William Daniels,
Speaker 1: who is ninety nine years old, Oh my god, that
Speaker 1: name might not sound familiar to you, but you would
Speaker 1: want one hundred percent know his character, mister feene the
Speaker 1: principal or teacher from Boy Meets World. Yeah, definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And back in January twenty twenty three, mister Feenie's wife
Speaker 1: said that she and him had a bit of an
Speaker 1: open marriage after they tied the not in nineteen fifty one.
Speaker 1: Uh didn't work well, but hey, that was what people
Speaker 1: were doing at the time. She had an affair that
Speaker 1: lasted a few months with an actor who she called
Speaker 1: slightly boring, and Daniels had an affair with a producer
Speaker 1: in New York. They both eventually grew up and they
Speaker 1: are coming up on their seventy fifth wedding anniversary. In
Speaker 1: the month of June, the Smashing Pumpkins have announced a
Speaker 1: new tour and they had a funeral. I always find
Speaker 1: it weird when they do funerals for things that aren't living,
Speaker 1: like when they had that funeral for the N Word
Speaker 1: the end of LACP had a casket and everything. I
Speaker 1: don't know it was inside it but not opening it.
Speaker 1: But Sunday evening and all in Hollywood, the Smashing Pumpkins
Speaker 1: hosted a funeral ceremony for Zero, bidding a dude to
Speaker 1: the alter ego of frontman Billy Corgan. Now I did
Speaker 1: not know Zero was an alter ego of his. I
Speaker 1: thought it was just a song me too, But anyway,
Speaker 1: they had a casket, they had a eulogy, they had
Speaker 1: pall bearers and mourners, and then the band came out
Speaker 1: and played a bunch of their hits, including Zero.
Speaker 2: Well that seems I mean, I don't want them to
Speaker 2: put that song to bed. Zero's cool.
Speaker 1: Yes, Zero, the single that was released in between nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy nine and Tonight. Tonight was part of this show
Speaker 1: that they did to kick off their Rats in a
Speaker 1: Cage tour. Presale started today and they've got stops in Brooklyn, Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: and Tampa in October. The tour kicks off September thirtieth
Speaker 1: in Columbus, Ohio. Just thought it was funny that they
Speaker 1: would do a funeral for the song and then or
Speaker 1: the funeral for Zero and then still play Zero. Oh
Speaker 1: is Rat in a Cage. The Zero song No Rat
Speaker 1: in a Cage is Bullet with butterfly wings. Oh, I
Speaker 1: think it's the same album. This tour there going on
Speaker 1: is like to commemorate an anniversary of I'm Calling in
Speaker 1: the Infinite Sadness. They're doing two sets in the first
Speaker 1: set will be all melancholy songs and then the number
Speaker 1: one story in the Hot sheet today, Kim Kardashian scores
Speaker 1: a sort of a win. I guess you could say
Speaker 1: her Skim's clothing line helped convict a cocaine smuggler in England,
Speaker 1: Jacob jan Conkole will spend the next thirteen and a
Speaker 1: half years in the Big House. After his sentencing Monday
Speaker 1: in Chelmsford, Crown Colt in the County of Essex, border
Speaker 1: patrol officers x ray his trailer truck that he had
Speaker 1: on a ferry. It had twenty eight pallets of Skim's clothing,
Speaker 1: the clothing line from Kim Kardashian. There was nothing to
Speaker 1: farius about the clothing, but inside the rear trailer doors,
Speaker 1: officers found ninety packages, each containing two point two pounds
Speaker 1: of cocaine she valued at nine point four million dollars,
Speaker 1: which he later confessed to agreeing to smuggle in exchange
Speaker 1: for only fifty three hundred bucks nine point four million
Speaker 1: dollars worth of coke and he was only getting a
Speaker 1: measly fifty three hundred dollars. Chalk it up, they say,
Speaker 1: chalk it up, a legal victory for Kim, one of
Speaker 1: her only ones that seems like. And on a personal note,
Speaker 1: I have to end with sort of a sad story
Speaker 1: because there's a band that's calling it quits, and you know,
Speaker 1: I just think I've missed an opportunity to never see
Speaker 1: Hya Babi oh No. Aqua is calling it done, It's over.
Speaker 1: After almost thirty years in music, Aqua have announced they
Speaker 1: will not be performing again. The Danis eurodance group, famous
Speaker 1: for the nineteen ninety seven hit Barbie Girl, shared that
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Speaker 1: Barbie's parent company, Mattel sued their label, MCA Records, claiming
Speaker 1: the song violated Barbie's trademark and sexualized the doll with
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Speaker 1: I was trying to see what that what that that?
Speaker 2: That thing was that the guy who just got a
Speaker 2: charged with assault for calling the young girl hot at
Speaker 2: the city council board meeting, Well, let's see what the
Speaker 2: the thing was he did in the classroom. He got
Speaker 2: charged with assault for touching her, not for calling her hot.
Speaker 1: That's true, he is the guy who called her hot,
Speaker 1: but he put his hands on her too, and she said,
Speaker 1: you don't want him. You could be in charge with
Speaker 1: assault for calling somebody hot. No, but Moses, our attorney,
Speaker 1: Moses Dwait, told us that if you just walk by
Speaker 1: somebody and put your hand on their shoulder, you're probably
Speaker 1: not going to get a charge.
Speaker 2: You're probably not gonna camp a charge over that. But
Speaker 2: if you do it again after they tell you not to,
Speaker 2: you could. But I think they were just looking for
Speaker 2: something they could do about this guy. And then with
Speaker 2: the news that the guy who did that had been
Speaker 2: with an assault charged by a grand jury. Was that
Speaker 2: he had a previous incident in two thousand and nine
Speaker 2: where he did an inappropriate symbol or gesture, some sexually
Speaker 2: inappropriate gesture, elude, juvenile gesture of a sexual nature in
Speaker 2: the classroom.
Speaker 1: I can only think of like this or I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you know? Yeah, the student that
Speaker 1: was this one?
Speaker 10: Right?
Speaker 1: No, I did this one too, Oh well it was.
Speaker 1: I was in response to the fact that.
Speaker 2: The fact that a student had just said he was
Speaker 2: working his butt off on some job where he was
Speaker 2: only getting eight bucks an hour, and then that led
Speaker 2: to this juvenile gesture.
Speaker 1: Do you think they'll say it in the report here?
Speaker 1: Before I get onto the next thing.
Speaker 12: Washington County Board been accused of election appropriate conduct back
Speaker 12: in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 5: It is our top story. I'm Kelly Getz.
Speaker 12: Received this information through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Speaker 12: Documents from the Washington County Board of Education suggest urban
Speaker 12: entered a classroom at David Crockett High School and was
Speaker 12: observing a discussion between the teacher and about fifteen students.
Speaker 12: During this a student commented about the student's current job,
Speaker 12: sharing their hourly wage. According to the documents, Irvin allegedly
Speaker 12: made a lewd gesture in front of the class and
Speaker 12: two teachers. After this, the student became upset and was
Speaker 12: later privately counseled by the teacher. The documents also say
Speaker 12: Irvan apologized for his actions and did not think he
Speaker 12: would have upset the students. We will have more from these.
Speaker 2: This guy's just constantly being crude, and then when people
Speaker 2: get upset, he's like, what what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: He said what he called the young girl hot that
Speaker 1: he meant she was on the roll or she's on fire. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're on fire, It said Tennessee School board member Keith
Speaker 1: Irvin made a leude juvenile gesture of a sexual nature
Speaker 1: in front of students. I think that's as much as
Speaker 1: we're getting out of this, it said. Documents available at
Speaker 1: I would like to see the document side and I'm
Speaker 1: on the website. I was he no documents. They're quoting
Speaker 1: the documents, it says record state. During classroom discussion, a
Speaker 1: student made a comment and Irvin quote then made a
Speaker 1: lewd juvenile gesture of a sexual nature unquote. This happened
Speaker 1: in playing view of the entire class and two teachers,
Speaker 1: the principal stated. Another teacher claimed Irvin had used profanity
Speaker 1: in front of students. Well, I mean, this guy is
Speaker 1: just kind of a loose cannon. I think that's what
Speaker 1: I'm getting from him. But I'll take your your dispatches on.
Speaker 1: That is an assault charge right in this situation? Or
Speaker 1: is that too far? Let us know what you think.
Speaker 1: Go over to the newsjunkie dot com right now. Okay,
Speaker 1: one story I wanted to address real quick that I
Speaker 1: saw making the rounds today. Let me bring this up.
Speaker 1: This was done in such a weird way. All right.
Speaker 1: Media outlets are so weird, the like these journalists are
Speaker 1: so weird, some of them. And here's the headline of
Speaker 1: the BBC, Like, this is legitimate. This is an actual
Speaker 1: article that's it's going viral today and it.
Speaker 2: Says selling children to survive Afghan fathers are forced to
Speaker 2: make impossible choices. I want you to remember this. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna I got some commentary momentarily here. But it says
Speaker 2: selling children to survive Afghan fathers fathers in Afghanistan forced
Speaker 2: to make impossible choices, it says, and it shows some
Speaker 2: guy in Afghanistan.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, still getting over a bit of a cold here,
Speaker 1: It says as dawn breaks, hundreds of men gather at
Speaker 1: a dusty square in Sha Karan, the capital of Gore
Speaker 1: Province in Afghanistan. They lined the roadside with weary faces,
Speaker 1: hoping somebody will come along offering any work. It will
Speaker 1: determine whether their families eat that day. The likelihood of success, however,
Speaker 1: is low. Like the whole thing is about how the
Speaker 1: economy in Afghanistan is cratering. Who would have thunk it?
Speaker 2: Who would have thunk that the Taliban two point zero
Speaker 2: and people that live in the Stone Age, that those
Speaker 2: people would have an economy that wasn't rock and en
Speaker 2: rolling right now, I'm sure it's heavily affected by the
Speaker 2: strait of horror moves shutting down right like there's a
Speaker 2: ridiculous Of course, of course that's the case. Juma Khan,
Speaker 2: forty five has found just three days of work in
Speaker 2: the past six weeks that paid them between two dollars
Speaker 2: and three dollars and thirteen cents per day. My children
Speaker 2: went to bed hungry three nights in a row. My
Speaker 2: wife was crying, so were my children. I begged a
Speaker 2: neighbor for some money to buy flour. He said, I
Speaker 2: live in fear that my children will die of hunger. Well, okay,
Speaker 2: that's terrible, but they continue on the BBC. History is
Speaker 2: in no way unique. In Afghanistan today is staggering. Three
Speaker 2: and four people cannot meet their basic needs. According to
Speaker 2: the United Nations, unemployment is rife, healthcare struggling, and the
Speaker 2: aid that once provided the basics for millions is dwindled
Speaker 2: to a fraction of what it once was. The country
Speaker 2: is now facing record levels of hunger. Four point seven
Speaker 2: million people, more than a tenth of Afghanistan's population, are.
Speaker 1: One step away from famine. What does that even mean?
Speaker 1: What is whoa one more step? And I'm right now
Speaker 1: you are not?
Speaker 15: Really?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean, I look, you're You're in Afghanistan in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Gore is one of the worst effective provinces.
Speaker 1: The men are desperate. I got a call saying my
Speaker 1: children hadn't eaten for two days, said Rob Beanie, one
Speaker 1: of the men, his voice choking up. I feel like
Speaker 1: I should kill myself. Then I thought, how will that
Speaker 1: help my family? So I'm here looking for work instead.
Speaker 1: Cum Jawah Maud.
Speaker 2: Barely gets out a few words before he starts crying, crying,
Speaker 2: we're starving. My older children died, so I need to
Speaker 2: work to feed my family. But I'm old, so nobody
Speaker 2: wants to give me work. And they go on about
Speaker 2: them struggling to get work. Then they talk about this guy.
Speaker 1: Abdul Rashid a Zimi takes us into his home and
Speaker 1: brings out one of his children, seven year old twins,
Speaker 1: or brings out two of his children, seven year old twins,
Speaker 1: Rokia and Rohila. He holds them close, eager to explain
Speaker 1: why he's making unbearable choices. He says, with his daughters
Speaker 1: out now, as the BBC reporter stands nearby, I'm willing
Speaker 1: to sell my daughters. He weeps. I'm poor, I'm in
Speaker 1: debt and I'm helpless.
Speaker 2: I come home from work with parched lips, hungry, thirsty,
Speaker 2: distressed and confused. My children come to be saying, Bob,
Speaker 2: I'll give us some bread, but what can I give?
Speaker 1: Where is the work?
Speaker 2: Abu tells us he's willing to sell his girls for
Speaker 2: marriage or for domestic work. If I sell one daughter,
Speaker 2: I could feed the rest of my children for at
Speaker 2: least four years, he says. He hugs his daughter, kissing
Speaker 2: her as he cries. It breaks my heart, but it's
Speaker 2: the only way. Let me tell you something, you weird
Speaker 2: Afghan son of a bitch, That is not the only
Speaker 2: way you could take everything from me.
Speaker 1: It could be the end of the world. Okay, I
Speaker 1: could be all the steps into famine. And you are
Speaker 1: incredibly heartless and a terrible, terrible human being to even
Speaker 1: suggest that, because of financial reason, you're going to sell
Speaker 1: your daughter are And they just like kind of pitch
Speaker 1: this in the BBC story like it's a total normal,
Speaker 1: that completely normal response to the financial difficulties that are
Speaker 1: faced by these people in Afghanistan. Nah, dude, this is
Speaker 1: a culture difference.
Speaker 2: People in the United States of America, as far as
Speaker 2: I know, don't find it to be a normal thing
Speaker 2: to go, Hey, my.
Speaker 1: Economic situation sucks. So what I'm gonna have to do
Speaker 1: here is I'm gonna have to sell one of my
Speaker 1: twin daughters. As she is right, she's next to me,
Speaker 1: I'm coddling her, I'm bringing her over, and I'm saying, well,
Speaker 1: probably have to sell one of my daughters for marriage.
Speaker 1: How old they say? She was little kids. The twins
Speaker 1: were seven. I s seven, seven years old, seven years old, barbaric.
Speaker 1: Somebody says, yes, that's right, which that's right. I believe
Speaker 1: it is old enough to you know, realize what he's saying, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: seven year old kid. And this is not normal.
Speaker 2: This is not because, well, man, the horrors of the
Speaker 2: economic problems of Afghanistan are quite on display.
Speaker 1: Nah dog. This is like the horrors of people living
Speaker 1: in stone age times where they don't care about their kids,
Speaker 1: where they want to sell away their daughters, sell them
Speaker 1: into child marriage. You imagine the disconnect you have from
Speaker 1: humanity to be looking down at your twin seven year
Speaker 1: old daughters and say, I'm gonna split them up and
Speaker 1: sell one of them so I can have some bread
Speaker 1: or something. Buddy, I would be lining up behind Osama
Speaker 1: bin Laden to make a couple extra bucks before I
Speaker 1: sold off a child to God knows who, for God
Speaker 1: knows what in Afghanistan that is diluted, demented. And the
Speaker 1: idea that they write stories like this almost normalizing this
Speaker 1: kind of stuff and going, well, you know that's how
Speaker 1: tough it is, all right, I'm tough to get bread
Speaker 1: out there. He says that this is gonna sound like
Speaker 1: a weird question, but okay, I don't know how else
Speaker 1: to broach this topic. He says, it's so bad, I'm
Speaker 1: willing to sell. You know, I've considered selling one of
Speaker 1: my children and two of my children. Yeah. Are there buyers, Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan probably yeah. I think they're like, legitimately, it's
Speaker 1: a thing. It's like it's a monetary value. Your child is.
Speaker 2: Any real parent, any legitimate parent, would never even consider this.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter, It doesn't matter what the circumstances. There
Speaker 2: are no circumstances that you would face where you would go, Okay, fine,
Speaker 2: you know, the worst comes to worse.
Speaker 1: Now, I mean the kid. I could see you saying, like,
Speaker 1: you know, let's say you have you encountering this problem
Speaker 1: in America. I could see you saying, listen, it's I'm
Speaker 1: at such dire straits that I can't provide for my
Speaker 1: family that I think I need to give my children
Speaker 1: up for adoption. Sure. Yeah, but you're not getting any
Speaker 1: money for that.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, you're not trying to find the market value
Speaker 2: of your seven year old daughter to sell her into
Speaker 2: a marriage with an old man in Afghanistan, Who's going
Speaker 2: to do perverse things with her for all of her
Speaker 2: childhood stolen away from her?
Speaker 1: Just unbelievable. MPWs is probably American buyers. No, exclusively done
Speaker 1: by people in the Afghanistan culture that embraces child brides
Speaker 1: and allows the selling of human beings, even kids, to
Speaker 1: other people. Sorry, but in this one, you're absolutely positively wrong.
Speaker 2: This is a culture problem. You have an economic problem
Speaker 2: on top of it. But so weird, Like the story
Speaker 2: from the BBC's as selling children to survive afghan father
Speaker 2: is forced to make impossible choices.
Speaker 1: That's not an impossible choice. It's not a choice. That's
Speaker 1: not something you should ever think of it. There's nothing
Speaker 1: Rock Wilder says, teenage Sean sells Dylan no doubt, you
Speaker 1: know what, would never have done it, never ever, ever
Speaker 1: for a moment, not even for a split second. Everything
Speaker 1: in you as a human being tells you that that
Speaker 1: is wrong if you're a decent human being, right' Like
Speaker 1: that's it? Crazy drunk Calities says, what do they do?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't agree at all, but what else they can do?
Speaker 1: There is no situation, crazy drunk cat lady, none, not
Speaker 1: one on planet Earth. Where that's your only option and
Speaker 1: choice's not. It's not.
Speaker 2: There's no situation ever in the history of humanity where
Speaker 2: it is sell one of your twin seven year old
Speaker 2: daughters into a forced marriage, a child marriage, or or eat.
Speaker 1: It's not a choice.
Speaker 2: You're making that choice up because there's a marketplace in
Speaker 2: your country for kids, and that's warped to me, at least,
Speaker 2: let me know what you thinks. Senday dispatch over at
Speaker 2: the news junkie dot com. Quick update the Florida Keys
Speaker 2: responding to the threat yesterday, I told Cuba this would
Speaker 2: be a bad idea.
Speaker 1: It's right. I don't think it's going to happen.
Speaker 2: But the Florida Keys sheriff released a statement about the
Speaker 2: potential for Cuba to drone attack the Keys, and they
Speaker 2: said no changes in light of Cuba related news reports.
Speaker 2: Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsey has not been contacted by
Speaker 2: any federal or state authorities regarding news reports Sunday possible
Speaker 2: military action taken by Cuba against US military bases like
Speaker 2: Guantanamo Bay using drones. The Sheriff's office cannot confirm any
Speaker 2: news reporting regarding the aforemationed activities and cannot substantiate it
Speaker 2: where it originated or substantiate where it originated. The sheriff says,
Speaker 2: I'm monitoring the situation, but I've not been contacted by
Speaker 2: any government agency, and I don't believe there's any reason
Speaker 2: to be concerned.
Speaker 1: He's chill so far in the Keys. Doesn't think that
Speaker 1: the Cubans are going to be the Keys. Yeah, they're cool,
Speaker 1: they are. They're cool there. Like I said, that would
Speaker 1: be a real dumb move on Cuba's part.
Speaker 2: But we'll see what happens quick break. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we'll get geared up for jury duty. Some big updates there,
Speaker 2: man versus Robot. When we come back. You got Ebola
Speaker 2: pop in its name up into the news. That's happening.
Speaker 2: We got in the power hour of the show an
Speaker 2: amazing array of clips for a grab bag segment that
Speaker 2: will work in all of that coming up next on
Speaker 2: the news junk Key.
Speaker 1: I want to share this show Tuesday.
Speaker 2: It is your job and your mission to just tell somebody,
Speaker 2: anybody about the show.
Speaker 1: I saw somebody the other day. I was like, damn,
Speaker 1: this is brave.
Speaker 2: Actually we pulled into the grocery store and Courty goes well,
Speaker 2: look at that. I look over and the person had
Speaker 2: an old school News Junkie magnet, like low early numbers
Speaker 2: just sitting there on the back of their car, and
Speaker 2: I go, wow, that is a brave one to put out.
Speaker 1: There for Game of Magnets. And I got to get
Speaker 1: some of the old fashion ones. Maybe we'll do another
Speaker 1: round of the original logo on the magnets. It hasn't
Speaker 1: been out there in a real long time. I mean
Speaker 1: the oldest ones. You can see them all over at
Speaker 1: the News Junkie dot com in the in the Game
Speaker 1: of Magnet section. I saw a pretty old one in
Speaker 1: the public's parking lot the other day. Did you like
Speaker 1: numbered one? I don't know if there was a number
Speaker 1: or not, but it was original logo for sure. I
Speaker 1: mean like that.
Speaker 2: We haven't done one of the original logo like we
Speaker 2: did the tied I one. I'm looking right now in
Speaker 2: the Game of Magnet section, we did the tied Die
Speaker 2: one golden.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's pages and pages of these goes way back. Okay,
Speaker 1: now that's even eight bit.
Speaker 2: We haven't done one with the regular logo melted version
Speaker 2: of the regular logo.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was a favorite of a lot of
Speaker 1: people green stripe of the regular logo. It goes all
Speaker 1: the way back some of the steeally ones. It hasn't
Speaker 1: been since like right here, like the three thousand range
Speaker 1: of magnets because they're all numbered. It hasn't been since
Speaker 1: the three thousands that there's been an original logo. So
Speaker 1: this thing must have been old as hell. Did this
Speaker 1: person out of the back of their car. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: one that I saw, somebody that I see at the
Speaker 1: grocery store a lot. And I was like, you're pretty
Speaker 1: brave putting it on there. And I think she said
Speaker 1: somebody gifted it to them, but also not the only
Speaker 1: one they have, like and wouldn't be putting my only
Speaker 1: one on the car like that less it gets stolen.
Speaker 1: All right, They got a little collection going suns State
Speaker 1: John says, I need more magnet Sean on the way, pal,
Speaker 1: thanks for the twelve gifted subs Sunstage. John. Yeah, my god,
Speaker 1: did you turn off me right there? I was, yeah,
Speaker 1: I hit the rock, but we dropped again. I thought
Speaker 1: we dropped again. I was like, here we go, round
Speaker 1: and round we go. Everything's working. Don't do that, man,
Speaker 1: that really makes me panic.
Speaker 2: The the uh somebody and chat assassu Have you sent
Speaker 2: out some of the magnets for gifted subs? Because if
Speaker 2: you subscribe to secret shows on the website, it's only
Speaker 2: this is cheapest two nine twenty nine ninety nine for
Speaker 2: the whole year.
Speaker 1: Just pay it. You get unlimited access to all these
Speaker 1: uncensored shows and full access to the website and stuff.
Speaker 1: Great way to support us, honestly. But if you subscribe,
Speaker 1: you get to claim a gift on on your way out.
Speaker 1: There's lots of different options there. And if you gift
Speaker 1: subs by hitting the gift icon on the neewsjunkie dot
Speaker 1: com and spreading the word to other users, you get
Speaker 1: updates when they claim them, you get emails and stuff,
Speaker 1: which is kind of fun. But also if you gift
Speaker 1: five subs, you get to claim five things. It could
Speaker 1: be five random magnets. There's all sorts of stuff. So
Speaker 1: go check that out over on the website. And somebody said,
Speaker 1: have you sent those out recently? I haven't. I will.
Speaker 1: I promise you. I have a stack on my desk
Speaker 1: in my office to do, and I have a ton
Speaker 1: of them I'm sure in the order section of the
Speaker 1: website to fulfill. I'll do all that fulfillment this weekend.
Speaker 1: So if anybody's a new sub who claimed a gift,
Speaker 1: or somebody who gifted subs and claimed a bunch of stuff,
Speaker 1: I will send that all out this weekend. Mama Greaser says,
Speaker 1: I have an unnumbered one yet, that those are rare.
Speaker 1: I've got one here in the studio behind me. I've
Speaker 1: got one on display. What are the unnumbered ones? But
Speaker 1: I think there was only a couple hundred of them
Speaker 1: to begin with. Let me go to the very first magnet. Well,
Speaker 1: there was a thousand, I guess a thousand of the
Speaker 1: first round of unnumbered and then there was numbered ones
Speaker 1: all the way to three thousand, still of the same
Speaker 1: original design. So it was the unnumbered ones was where
Speaker 1: Courtney accidentally came up with a game of magnets where
Speaker 1: she didn't want to put it on a car because
Speaker 1: she was afraid somebody would steal it. Yeah, she said,
Speaker 1: if I put this in the back of my car,
Speaker 1: somebody gonna steal it, kind of tape it in the
Speaker 1: back window. And I go, that's trashy, and I go, wait,
Speaker 1: hold on, we got something going on here. Game of
Speaker 1: Magnets is a thing now. People see a news junkie
Speaker 1: magnet out in the wild and to share the show
Speaker 1: Tuesday or any other day like that. You go, holy
Speaker 1: cal let's do this thing. And you you grab it
Speaker 1: in public. I mean, that's the risk of putting them
Speaker 1: on your car. That's why most people don't do it.
Speaker 1: They keep them inside the house. I don't blame you
Speaker 1: for that. Now, here's the thing I said, I wish
Speaker 1: you for it. You know when you have a free refrigerator,
Speaker 1: doors just full of magnets. Well, I mean, but I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't say much now because there's a fridge in
Speaker 2: the Secret Show studio, Well it has magnets all over.
Speaker 1: Well, you seem to have calmed down on the shaming
Speaker 1: for that, and I think at some point you can
Speaker 1: only have so many magnets on your car. I mean
Speaker 1: I would. It would just be ridiculous if if all
Speaker 1: the magnets you came across went to your car. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I agree, I agree, But just know this,
Speaker 1: if you see a news junkie magnet, it's out there
Speaker 1: and play and it's fair game. But here's what I said.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is a big risk or not.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I should be worried about this.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had a tick on you at any
Speaker 1: point in your life? See, not that I know of. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think I have all right.
Speaker 2: I don't believe and I think I would know, right,
Speaker 2: I don't believe I've ever had a tick on me
Speaker 2: in my life.
Speaker 1: Like and when you say on you that has bitten
Speaker 1: you or just land on you, like even on me,
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm trying to remember I've never had
Speaker 1: one bite me because I've never had to. You know,
Speaker 1: they have those like weird ways of removing it where
Speaker 1: you use like a match stick that was lit and
Speaker 1: then you blow it how you're supposed to do so.
Speaker 1: So hold on, you take a lit match, you blow
Speaker 1: the match out, and then you put the toasty thing
Speaker 1: the match on your skin and that makes the tick
Speaker 1: come out. I mean, I'm sure that's not the I
Speaker 1: think that was like an old wives tale. Is what
Speaker 1: you're supposed to do. This says to safely remove an
Speaker 1: attached tick, use clean, fine tipped tweezers to grasp it
Speaker 1: as close to the skin surface as possible, pull upward
Speaker 1: a steady, even pressure without twisting or jerking. Clean the
Speaker 1: bite area and your hands with rubbing alcohol or soap
Speaker 1: and water. All right, somebody, Hippi wol VICKI says, yes,
Speaker 1: Selene is right about this, and not on your skin,
Speaker 1: but on the tick. You put it right in there, Sean.
Speaker 1: You have to get into nature to get a tick. Why,
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: But you know, I go out and I'm outdoors walking.
Speaker 2: I get ten thousand plus steps every single day. I'm
Speaker 2: an active guy. Get I get out and about you
Speaker 2: guys are still trying to do this this thing like
Speaker 2: I'm a rec loose and his shut in.
Speaker 1: I don't do that, all right, don't. That's not real.
Speaker 2: It's a meme that still out there, but it doesn't
Speaker 2: add up. But the ticks seem to be an issue.
Speaker 2: I'm looking here at the USA Today article that has
Speaker 2: me talking about this. It looks like it's real bad
Speaker 2: sea land up here in the northeastern United States, Like
Speaker 2: that's where a lot of the.
Speaker 1: Ticks seem to be sinking in. And then into the
Speaker 1: Midwest there's a lot of ticks. But it's down into
Speaker 1: the southeast too. I mean that there's spread across the
Speaker 1: United States. Then they've said that there's a huge issue
Speaker 1: or tick bites are surging, sending people to the emergency
Speaker 1: room like never before, and you've got to be careful
Speaker 1: about this. Emergency Room visits for tick bites have reached
Speaker 1: their highest levels for this time of the year since
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. Several regions of the United States are now
Speaker 1: seeing increased tick activity due to warmer temperatures, especially in
Speaker 1: the Northeast and the Midwest, and estimated four hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy six thousand people receive treatment for lime disease every year,
Speaker 1: making it the most prevalent tick born illness in the
Speaker 1: United States States. Are there other tick born illnesses disease, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's the one that the weirdos want everybody to get.
Speaker 1: Lemon disease. No, no, no, no, no, chicken pox celan
Speaker 1: look this up, because I'm gonna I'm not gonna get
Speaker 1: there's a there's a tick born disease that extremists want
Speaker 1: everybody to get because it makes you allergic to meat.
Speaker 1: Oh and and the idea is that they want everybody
Speaker 1: to get infected by this tick because then people will
Speaker 1: stop eating meat. Red meat out in the mouth syndrome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it. That's that's a real thing, right, It's A
Speaker 1: tick induced meat disease, often called the red meat allergy,
Speaker 1: is a serious allergic condition triggered by the bite of
Speaker 1: a certain tick, most notably the lone Star tick. Okay,
Speaker 1: is that in Texas As, I would imagine maybe I
Speaker 1: don't know, I've heard of I've heard of stories of
Speaker 1: this ceiling with the alpha gay alpha you said of
Speaker 1: the I've heard of the alpha gu tic in particular.
Speaker 1: You get this alpha gu syndrome or whatever from it.
Speaker 1: And there has been entire communities mostly of like, uh,
Speaker 1: migrant workers, And I think this happens a lot in God,
Speaker 1: what's the place where rich people are up in the northeast,
Speaker 1: mar Martha's Vineyard Skills, Martha's Vineyards one of them.
Speaker 2: I think it might have been Martha's Martha's Vineyard. The
Speaker 2: story that I saw, and it said so many people
Speaker 2: had gotten these tick bites and alpha gu in the
Speaker 2: in Martha's Vineyard, that they were.
Speaker 1: Changing menus damn at these restaurants because that's furious, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like that they couldn't. They weren't eating meat in that area.
Speaker 1: When an infected tick bites, it transfers a sugar molecule
Speaker 1: called alpha gal into the bloodstream. This triggers the immune
Speaker 1: system to treat the molecule as a threat, resulting in
Speaker 1: an allergy to mammalian meat and products derived from mammals.
Speaker 1: People with AGS the alpha gal syndrome can have allergic
Speaker 1: reactions when they eat or are exposed to beef, pork, lamb, venison, rabbit, milk, cheese,
Speaker 1: and butter, and even buy products that use animal Uh
Speaker 1: you know, animal proteins like gelatin, green and medications. Because
Speaker 1: do you get sick or do you just not you
Speaker 1: just don't want to eat red meat anymore?
Speaker 17: Uh?
Speaker 1: I think you get sick. Unlike typical food allergies that
Speaker 1: occur immediately, alpha gl reactions usually begin two to six
Speaker 1: hours after eating or exposure. You get hives, itching, swelling
Speaker 1: on the face and throw it, wheezing, stomach pain or diarrhea.
Speaker 1: Here's the story, This is what I was talking about
Speaker 1: from the Vineyard Gazette. In Martha's Vineyard Sea Lian chefs
Speaker 1: consider ways to make menus alpha gal friendly. This is
Speaker 1: the tick born illness that, like some extremists say they
Speaker 1: want everybody to get it, so all stop eating red meat.
Speaker 1: Alpha gau syndrome, the tickboard allergy to mam million food
Speaker 1: products can turn a night out to dinner into night
Speaker 1: at the hospital. With rates of condition soaring on Martha's Vineyard,
Speaker 1: both food service workers and customers are figuring out how
Speaker 1: to keep restaurant dining safe. On Monday Island, tick and
Speaker 1: health experts met with chefs and restaurant tours at a
Speaker 1: town hall to discuss best practices for protecting a community
Speaker 1: susceptible to alpha gal while preserving an enjoyable restaurant experience.
Speaker 1: And they said, there's some of these communities that so
Speaker 1: many people have this tickborn alpha gal syndrome that they're
Speaker 1: removing meat from the from the items that they have
Speaker 1: on the menu. There. Unbelievable. That's so miserable because I
Speaker 1: mean all the stuff that I listed is so good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm staying away from this, but yeah,
Speaker 2: let us know if you've experienced this, or if you
Speaker 2: know anybody that has. Hit us up with a dispatcher
Speaker 2: and email the tips at the news junkie dot com
Speaker 2: quick Break. We're back with Jury Duty that's coming up
Speaker 2: next on the News Junkie. Vicki on YouTube says that
Speaker 2: sounded made up well before I get into Jerry Duty.
Speaker 1: Let me wrap up. We were talking about there on
Speaker 1: the alpha gal thing, where I said there was some
Speaker 1: people who are like activist extremist types who seem to
Speaker 1: want to get everybody in the US infected with this
Speaker 1: tickborn alpha gal disease so that nobody would eat meat anymore,
Speaker 1: and then we would like the animals would all be
Speaker 1: saved or something. Here's the post in question, and it's
Speaker 1: got four point six million views. A peer reviewed paper
Speaker 1: published last year in the journal Bioethics by two professors
Speaker 1: at Western Michigan University School of Medicine argues that it
Speaker 1: is morally obligatory to genetically engineered tics to spread Alpha
Speaker 1: goal syndrome, a permanent condition that makes you violently allergic
Speaker 1: to red meat. The paper is called Beneficial blood Sucking.
Speaker 1: Their argument, if eating meat is morally wrong, that preventing
Speaker 1: the spread of disease that forces people to stop eating
Speaker 1: meat is also morally wrong. Scientists should gene edit lone
Speaker 1: star tics to enhance their ability to carry this alpha
Speaker 1: gu syndrome and expand their range into urban environments to
Speaker 1: infect more people. So they're literally saying, and this was
Speaker 1: in the journal Bioethics, They were literally saying in this
Speaker 1: that it's morally the right thing to do for scientists
Speaker 1: to get more people infected by this, like it's a
Speaker 1: real thing. Alpha gau syndrome is not mild.
Speaker 2: The CDC estimates four hundred fifty thousand Americans are already affected.
Speaker 1: That's more than I thought.
Speaker 2: Actually, four hundred and fifty thousand people already have this,
Speaker 2: and it says two academics out of medical school published
Speaker 2: a paper arguing this is a good thing and that
Speaker 2: it should be accelerating. The tick range is moving the
Speaker 2: alpha gau range map. Before nineteen sixty six, it was
Speaker 2: mostly just in the south, and then it.
Speaker 1: Moved throughout the east.
Speaker 2: Like if you put a line down the middle of
Speaker 2: the country, including Texas, it would be all of the
Speaker 2: eastern side of the United States of America.
Speaker 1: They just don't have tics on the other side.
Speaker 2: I guess they don't have as many of the tics,
Speaker 2: the lone star ticks that give people this alpha gal thing.
Speaker 2: But promoting tickborn ags is morally obligatory in beneficial blood
Speaker 2: sucking in bioethics.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can actually find the beneficial
Speaker 1: blood sucking just so, I don't even really want this
Speaker 1: in my Google history, but here it is. Hang on
Speaker 1: the actual report itself benefit beneficial blood sucking, so you
Speaker 1: don't think I'm crazy?
Speaker 2: Is the actual paper? A bite of the lone star
Speaker 2: tics spreads alpha gal syndrome or AGS, the condition who's
Speaker 2: only affected the creation of a severe but non fatal
Speaker 2: red meat allergy. Public health Department's warn't against lone star tics,
Speaker 2: and scientists are working to develop an inoculation. We argue
Speaker 2: that if eating meat is more impermissible, then efforts to
Speaker 2: prevent the spread of AGS are also morally impermissible. After
Speaker 2: explaining the symptoms and how this is transmitted, we argue
Speaker 2: that it is a bio enhancer if it motivates people
Speaker 2: to stop eating meat. We then defend what we call
Speaker 2: the convergence argument. If doing this prevents the world from
Speaker 2: becoming a significantly worst place, it doesn't violate anybody's rights
Speaker 2: and promotes virtuous action or character.
Speaker 1: It doesn't violate anybody's rights. What about their right to
Speaker 1: enjoy meat or to not be infected by ticks? I'd like,
Speaker 1: let's just I get it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I get the argument is like a logical
Speaker 2: intellectual argument.
Speaker 1: I get it. But that's crazy, man. It's a little
Speaker 1: insane to think that, Like, no, let's infect everybody with this,
Speaker 1: because surely there's got to be other side effects or
Speaker 1: other conditions symptoms of this alpha cale syndrome aside from
Speaker 1: just you know, having an allergic reaction to eating certain foods, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: shouldn't there There should be other stuff as part of it, right,
Speaker 1: or we don't even know. Maybe we don't know enough
Speaker 1: about what what this does to you. It can't be
Speaker 1: just as simple as it just makes it so you're
Speaker 1: violently ill when you have meat from animals anyhow.
Speaker 2: There, it is not crazy, that's true. That's an actual thing,
Speaker 2: and it's it's one hundred percent. And this is this
Speaker 2: is according to the people that publish this study or
Speaker 2: this whatever that they're saying that it's morally impermissible to
Speaker 2: eat meat. There's plenty of people who think it's morally permissible. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's their argument, right.
Speaker 1: And if he says, Vicky follows up, she said, I
Speaker 1: just found the exact quote what he's reading and it
Speaker 1: makes zero sense or they never learned basic grammar. I
Speaker 1: don't know what you're talking about. I can't tell you
Speaker 1: anything more. Than I already did.
Speaker 2: I gave you the actual abstract of the report itself
Speaker 2: from the authors, and I showed you the story.
Speaker 1: If you still don't believe that there's anything to it,
Speaker 1: then you know that's you. But I mean, I've presented
Speaker 1: a pretty good case here. I think, all right, here
Speaker 1: we go, let's get into it. Let's do jury duty.
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Speaker 2: There is a piece of news from Southwest Airlines for
Speaker 2: for some of you, not many of you, but for
Speaker 2: some of you. And Southwest Airlines is saying they are
Speaker 2: officially banning robots from their flights.
Speaker 1: You cannot bring a robot with you. I saw our
Speaker 1: friend Amy Kaufelt tweeting this out. It's a real story.
Speaker 1: What kind of robots have people been bringing on flights?
Speaker 2: It says robot passenger at love Field prompts Southwest Airlines
Speaker 2: to ban bots. All right, and then they show somebody
Speaker 2: who brought a robot here. It is because this video
Speaker 2: they got their robot dancing at airport security. The lady's
Speaker 2: trying to get a fist pump and the robots saying, no,
Speaker 2: it does it, It doesn't.
Speaker 1: This guy, yeah, look there he goes. Now the robot's
Speaker 1: gonna board flying. How weird. Where did you get on?
Speaker 10: Well?
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do with that? The robots
Speaker 1: walking on. He's trying to get it down the aisle.
Speaker 1: Now he's trying to look at this woman up front
Speaker 1: looking at the robot like what in God's name? She
Speaker 1: looks almost I can't tell if she's disgusted or fearful.
Speaker 1: She say, what's going on here? All right? They put
Speaker 1: he buys a seat for it so to see for
Speaker 1: his robot. All right, buddy, all right, there he goes.
Speaker 1: So this guy brought his robot on the plane. Now
Speaker 1: Southwest has followed up by saying you cannot bring any
Speaker 1: human like or animal like robots, regardless of size or purpose.
Speaker 1: The robot is from the Robot studio in Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 1: I don't see what the big deal is here. No,
Speaker 1: he bought a ticket for it. Yeah, I mean that,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put this on see it now so you
Speaker 1: could see it. It's so crazy. And the lady was
Speaker 1: so put off by that. She was really offended by
Speaker 1: this guy's robot coming on the Southwest flight. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be offended by the robot being on the flight. I
Speaker 1: would be annoyed if the robot is taking forever to
Speaker 1: walk down the aisle, Like, all right, dude, just pick
Speaker 1: up your robot, put it in its chair. I don't
Speaker 1: want the robot making my experience drag one. I don't
Speaker 1: mind having the robot there. Yeah, I don't mind animals
Speaker 1: on flights like that, you know, as long as they're cool. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, if a person's buying a seat, how
Speaker 1: is it inconveniencing you? Yeah, it's not. It's not inconveniencing me.
Speaker 1: Although I think if I were flying standby and I
Speaker 1: didn't get on the plane, and uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm trying to get home. I'm on the
Speaker 1: standby list and a robot got on the plane. I
Speaker 1: would be a little annoyed that the robot got a
Speaker 1: seat and I didn't, especially when that robot could probably
Speaker 1: go in the overhead compartment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Cja Ford says robots. I prefer them over children
Speaker 2: on flights like this. Let us know what you think. Said,
Speaker 2: it's a dispatch. We'll get to that.
Speaker 1: I put it up on see it, take a look.
Speaker 1: Go take a look at that. Go check it out
Speaker 1: on the news junkie dot com and to see it
Speaker 1: now action I quick break back with a pop that's
Speaker 1: coming up next on the News Junkie. Man.
Speaker 17: I know about this hat idea we talked about. I
Speaker 17: went on Amazon and I was looking and I go,
Speaker 17: I know, you know how you can try things on
Speaker 17: on Amazon Sometimes.
Speaker 1: I was looking at that and I go, I don't know,
Speaker 1: try it on, Like you give him your picture and
Speaker 1: it shows you a picture of you and the hat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we were talking earlier about a potential
Speaker 2: dumbest bit idea in the world.
Speaker 1: It's so stupid. But just for the live stream, we
Speaker 1: were talking about how what's his name from Greece. Uh,
Speaker 1: John Travolta. John Travolta rocked a new look when he
Speaker 1: went to the Con Film Festival, and your friends have
Speaker 1: done this at some point. What directors look like? He said,
Speaker 1: He googled what directors look like. So he was wearing
Speaker 1: this beret off the side of his head and these
Speaker 1: little like spectacle glasses. And everybody goes, what's going on
Speaker 1: with John Travolta, And he's like, I googled what a
Speaker 1: director should look like, and I dressed like a director.
Speaker 1: Now I'm at Con and I said, uh, just embrace baby.
Speaker 1: What are you doing man?
Speaker 2: And we talked about on on Friday on the stream
Speaker 2: dumbest idea ever, I said, if Ceilane, because Ceilian says
Speaker 2: he wishes he could pull off a conductor hat, I.
Speaker 1: Think he has to pull it off. I just the
Speaker 1: the it's not about pulling it off, it's about having
Speaker 1: one that fits me. Well, yeah it's you, but you
Speaker 1: said you have at least one, if not my And
Speaker 1: when his wife is not home said, he sometimes puts
Speaker 1: the conductor hats on. And I mean, you make this
Speaker 1: sound like it's some weird kink. I'm not saying it's sexual.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, this is a strange thing, and so
Speaker 2: Ceilane wants to pull it off. And I said, if
Speaker 2: you wear a train conductor hat on Friday for the
Speaker 2: live stream, I will one order a beret and I'll
Speaker 2: rock a beret.
Speaker 1: And then I looked at what I look and I go, oh, no,
Speaker 1: I don't know about this. Do you have the picture?
Speaker 1: I want to see it. I'm not showing you. No, Yeah,
Speaker 1: come on, no, I just did. It was like augmentedary.
Speaker 1: Do you want the Power Hour to suck or do
Speaker 1: you want it to be like a good Power Hour?
Speaker 1: I would if you want to see it, you maybe
Speaker 1: see it on Friday if we actually locked this in.
Speaker 1: But we do have to drag Josh with us. If
Speaker 1: he's gonna be joining us on Friday, I think he yeah,
Speaker 1: he has to be in on this too. He's definitely
Speaker 1: gonna be. You have to have to be in on this.
Speaker 1: So that's that's floating around out there right now. Let's
Speaker 1: do the Power Hour. They said it couldn't be done.
Speaker 1: Then they said, now let me tell you about peepe
Speaker 1: poopo man, peepee poo poo man, peepe poop Boom Man,
Speaker 1: Peepee poop poo Man, notorious vagrant known as peepee poopoo Man,
Speaker 1: the peepe poop poo Man, the poop poop peepee Man,
Speaker 1: or the peepee poop poo Man, the peepee poopoo Man.
Speaker 1: He's the peepee poopoo Man, the peepee poo Man. It's
Speaker 1: time for the Power Hour on the News junky. I
Speaker 1: think that covers every time you said it.
Speaker 2: Let the record reflect when they ask when that, when
Speaker 2: the experts ask what was the decline in of Sean
Speaker 2: Watson's career, just say that.
Speaker 1: It was a peep boopo man. Because I walked out
Speaker 1: of the studio yesterday after that on the show, and
Speaker 1: when I walked into the kitchen court and he goes,
Speaker 1: peepee poopoo Man, Huh, all right, what's what's going on
Speaker 1: from there? And I said, you know, I don't have
Speaker 1: an answer for that. Necessarily, I don't. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I have an answer for that.
Speaker 2: A couple of emails coming in Jeremy emails tips at
Speaker 2: the Newsjunkie dot com. He's talking about that clip of
Speaker 2: the woman yelling at the mailman who walked across her lawn.
Speaker 2: She said, get off my grass, and he said what
Speaker 2: And they got into it a little bit and he
Speaker 2: threw her mail on the lawn. He was angry at
Speaker 2: her and they got into a fight. Jeremy said, I
Speaker 2: just had this happen to me on my Amazon wrap.
Speaker 2: A guy came out yelling about his grass and I
Speaker 2: laughed at him and he lost his mind.
Speaker 1: I just told him to have a nice day. He replied,
Speaker 1: go f yourself. And Jeremy says, that guy can't get
Speaker 1: Amazon packages anymore. Oh, do you have that kind of
Speaker 1: power over somebody who's a jerk when you're delivering stuff?
Speaker 1: Like you can't get Amazon anymore? Bud? All right?
Speaker 2: You know, well, welcome back to nineteen ninety eight. Have fun, friend,
Speaker 2: you can't order anything on Amazon.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think, first of all, it would
Speaker 1: have to be a confrontation with an actual Amazon employee,
Speaker 1: which is not hard because most of the Amazon packages
Speaker 1: are delivered by Amazon employees, some of them outsourced to
Speaker 1: the Postal Service or FedEx ups. Maybe, but I think
Speaker 1: right now you at least have one backup that is
Speaker 1: similar enough, that is trying to come after a chunk
Speaker 1: of Amazon's customer base, as that is crazy. That is Walmart.
Speaker 1: The Walmart Walmart Plus is kind of making some strides
Speaker 1: in taking some of that Amazon money. But I mean,
Speaker 1: if I were to get into it with an Amazon
Speaker 1: worker in such a way that my house was banned
Speaker 1: from receiving Amazon packages, I don't know what my wife
Speaker 1: would do. She would, yeah, she would be severely pissed
Speaker 1: at me. And I wonder if she wouldn't try to
Speaker 1: send all her packages to one of our neighbors houses
Speaker 1: and just get them get them from from them. Abe says,
Speaker 1: you got you could get forced to pick it up
Speaker 1: from a locker, so you just have to go to
Speaker 1: like the Oh so you still can. You still can
Speaker 1: order Amazon packages, but they always have to put it
Speaker 1: in the Amazon locker. That's actually kind of smarter on
Speaker 1: the point of Amazon, like the locker of shame. Like you,
Speaker 1: we won't deliver it to your house anymore because you're
Speaker 1: such a jerk. So you have to go to the
Speaker 1: locker and put it. People put in the little code
Speaker 1: and there you go. That's a big punishment. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, I I happened to look at my bank
Speaker 2: account yesterday or the day before, and when I looked
Speaker 2: at it. I said, well, what's this and I wrose, Oh,
Speaker 2: my Amazon Prime went through. And I didn't realize that
Speaker 2: Amazon Prime was.
Speaker 1: Up to the level that it is.
Speaker 2: I think it was well over one hundred dollars Amazon
Speaker 2: Prime yearly costs. I'll figure it out, one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty nine. I think the charge that I was hit
Speaker 2: with that I looked at was one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: six dollars, and I thought, boy, that's you know, that's
Speaker 2: not an insignificant amount of money for your year Prime subscription.
Speaker 2: I barely even use all the extra stuff they give me.
Speaker 2: You know, they give you, like music, you listen to
Speaker 2: Amazon Music as a result of your Prime stuff they
Speaker 2: give you Amazon Prime, like all the on demand videos
Speaker 2: that you can watch.
Speaker 1: I barely ever use any of that. I don't really
Speaker 1: use those services, even though I'm paying for them.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: I pay for the fast shipping and I use a
Speaker 2: lot of it, and I'm I save a lot of
Speaker 2: money on Amazon. But one hundred and fifty six dollars
Speaker 2: per year is no small amount of money.
Speaker 1: I use the I use the music a little bit
Speaker 1: when it like defaults to Amazon Music when I when
Speaker 1: I put on my shower, jams when I'm getting ready.
Speaker 1: But no, Like as far as Amazon Video, It's like
Speaker 1: I was talking with Jimmy about this last week when
Speaker 1: I sat on his show, and we're like, listen to
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime thing. The Prime video comes with Prime. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna you know, if we're trying to like axe
Speaker 1: streaming services to save money, well, I can't ask that
Speaker 1: one because that would be getting rid of Amazon Prime delivery.
Speaker 1: And that's what we need. That's the that's the service there.
Speaker 1: The video streaming is just kind of a an ad on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like an extra and and more more so than not.
Speaker 1: My wife and I look at what's offered on Amazon
Speaker 1: Prime because they have some of the newer movies out
Speaker 1: that still cause like twenty bucks to rent, and we go, oh,
Speaker 1: that will be a good thing to download. Yeah. Every
Speaker 1: once in a while we'll do that and we'll go,
Speaker 1: oh we could get this movie for free. Here we go. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Rachel on YouTube says, gosh, I'm so glad our household
Speaker 2: does not rely on Amazon so much waste.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, a lot of people's a lot of money.
Speaker 2: That's why Bezos got the big ass boat. That's why
Speaker 2: I turned from a website selling books to Amazon A
Speaker 2: to Z you know, selling everything under the sun. That's
Speaker 2: why it's turned into this bohemoth because the truth of
Speaker 2: the matter is people are inherently lazy. The best, smartest
Speaker 2: businesses are not built because people have the biggest brains
Speaker 2: in the world.
Speaker 1: You just have to realize simple human motivations, all right.
Speaker 1: The simple human motivation is that people are lazy. So
Speaker 1: the business idea is deliver everything right to their door
Speaker 1: so they don't have to go shopping and make a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of money off of it. The basic human
Speaker 1: knowledge that you pull from this is humans are lazy.
Speaker 1: So the business idea is their food. Okay, somebody else
Speaker 1: is selling them books and stuff their food. Let's bring
Speaker 1: their food directly to them. Billion dollar business humans are lazy.
Speaker 1: They don't even want to drive themselves. Uber. You know,
Speaker 1: all of these are billion dollar business ideas that are
Speaker 1: based on the idea, in the most simplest of ways,
Speaker 1: that humans are intrinsically lazy individuals. We are, and we
Speaker 1: spend a bunch of money on all this stuff, most
Speaker 1: of it we don't need, so you're not wrong about that.
Speaker 1: But if you are spending it, you might as well
Speaker 1: get the most out of it. I certainly don't. This
Speaker 1: is an email coming in from PU, who says to
Speaker 1: Tips at the news Junkie dot com, Hey, Sean, I
Speaker 1: wanted to give my two cents on what I see.
Speaker 1: What I want to see make a comeback. You were
Speaker 1: talking about Pizza Hut and their buffets making a comeback,
Speaker 1: and then somebody wanted Blockbuster video to come back, which
Speaker 1: you said didn't make any sense. Arcades, real arcades, not
Speaker 1: these Dave and Busters type arcades. Are the arcades we
Speaker 1: have now, but the ones that have actual arcade games
Speaker 1: to play, and not games that are RNNG or giving
Speaker 1: tickets to redeem it counters for rewards RNG. I don't
Speaker 1: know what that means RNG, it says r N letters RG.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss arcades and just enjoying an hour or
Speaker 1: so of playing fighting games Time Crisis and the like,
Speaker 1: says P. I don't know that game. But randomly number
Speaker 1: generator arcade games represent a unique hybrid of luck grinding
Speaker 1: and idle gaming. Instead of relying on player skills or reflexes,
Speaker 1: you simply push a button to pull a lever to
Speaker 1: trigger a randomized role that awards rare items, effects or
Speaker 1: character cards. I think maybe they say there's like different
Speaker 1: roadblocks things that are RNG. There are places that still
Speaker 1: have the video games in arcade games, though right don't.
Speaker 1: Some bars have them now some there are some bars
Speaker 1: that like specialize in arcade games. There was one downtown
Speaker 1: that I don't think is open anymore. There's one out
Speaker 1: by the Disney area, the Player one or something like that.
Speaker 1: There's there's a couple of them, but I think by
Speaker 1: and large, like I don't know, I think they all
Speaker 1: have that model where it's kind of like well, instead
Speaker 1: of instead of like pumping in quarters to it, it's
Speaker 1: either free or you have like your little card like
Speaker 1: Dave and Busters and you unlock certain things. I don't
Speaker 1: I've never heard of something being called RNG like a
Speaker 1: luck or skill game, but it's not. It's more luck
Speaker 1: than skill. But I know that like they always say
Speaker 1: the claw games where it's like, oh, you know, this
Speaker 1: guy's really good at the claw, well, like no that
Speaker 1: the Claw game only awards, you know, it only grabs
Speaker 1: hard enough every like so many plays, and that's configurable
Speaker 1: by either the arcade game vendor or the owner of
Speaker 1: the game or the owner of the venue, and like,
Speaker 1: if you really want to get the best bang for
Speaker 1: your buck out of those, you got to watch for
Speaker 1: a while and see how often it rewards, and then
Speaker 1: just figure out when to get in there and and
Speaker 1: nap the reward. It's not a skill game, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people think it is. It's it's it's hybrid,
Speaker 1: but it's it's more luck than skill. A lot of
Speaker 1: people know that Time Crisis game. He just randomly mentioned.
Speaker 1: I had never heard of that. What was it. Do
Speaker 1: you have a favorite arcade game? Did you ever play me? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I liked some of the driving ones. For whatever reason,
Speaker 1: I really liked Crazy Taxi back in the day.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 1: There was two things about Crazy Taxi that made the
Speaker 1: game super fun. Like it was a little, uh, it
Speaker 1: was a little like, oh, it's a cool guy Taxi
Speaker 1: and we're gonna speed everywhere and run over stuff. But
Speaker 1: the two things that really got me was the sound
Speaker 1: The soundtrack of Crazy Taxi was all the offspring, and
Speaker 1: it was like it would randomly like start playing out
Speaker 1: loud to attract people to the game, like you would
Speaker 1: be in an arcade or in a bar that had
Speaker 1: this game, and you'd randomly hear like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know the offspring's really And then when you play
Speaker 1: Crazy Taxi, it was like it was taking you to
Speaker 1: real places. So it was like, all right, this person
Speaker 1: is going to pay you seven dollars and she needs
Speaker 1: to go to pizza hut right now, and then you
Speaker 1: pull up to a pizza hut like it used banking
Speaker 1: off of that stuff, used real places and real logos,
Speaker 1: and for me, that made the game a little more
Speaker 1: real and a little more fun. Damn that was that
Speaker 1: was way ahead of its time, like a band putting
Speaker 1: an album soundtrack on it before Tony Hawk and all that,
Speaker 1: and then using product integration with actual companies. That was
Speaker 1: way ahead of its time.
Speaker 8: Huh.
Speaker 1: And it's like, I think a lot of people have
Speaker 1: forgotten Crazy Taxi. I don't think I ever played that one.
Speaker 1: Mine was.
Speaker 2: And before all you come in with why this is
Speaker 2: a bad choice, I understand. But my favorite arcade game
Speaker 2: of all time. I'll still play it to this day
Speaker 2: if I see it anywhere, And I'll tell you the
Speaker 2: the absolute top character in any video game, because it's
Speaker 2: in this one, the Simpsons arcade game. Okay, the Simpsons
Speaker 2: arcade game where you could be Marge Simpson and her
Speaker 2: weapon was the vacuum and she swing the vacuum around
Speaker 2: and hit the batties on the street and stuff.
Speaker 1: I kind of remember that that was the best man,
Speaker 1: and then I know that I would think that some
Speaker 1: people wouldn't consider this an arcade game. But the thing
Speaker 1: that I spent the most of my dad's money on
Speaker 1: was Megatuch. I played the hell out of Mega Touch.
Speaker 1: Mega Touch was my jam, and it was perfect for
Speaker 1: my dad. He could sit there at the bar and
Speaker 1: drink beers. I could pump all of his quarters into
Speaker 1: Mega Touch and play trivia, Twister or photo Hunt or
Speaker 1: any of the number of those games. And then maybe
Speaker 1: if I if I knew he wasn't paying attention, I
Speaker 1: would like, Oh, I accidentally slipped and hit the adult trivia. Oh.
Speaker 1: I don't think people realize there's still such a market
Speaker 1: for this kind of stuff. For instance, I looked up
Speaker 1: the other day, and maybe I can ask Tnjai about
Speaker 1: this real quick. I looked up because touch tunes is
Speaker 1: they basically have a monopoly, don't they. I'm like bar
Speaker 1: juke boxes, It's like touch tunes, and that's it. There
Speaker 1: are other similar bar jew boxes, but I think they
Speaker 1: pale in comparison to Touch Tunes because it's the known name
Speaker 1: brand and it's super easy when there's an app for
Speaker 1: it that uh, the same app works out every Touch Tunes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just about every bar. Here's what I did. Hold on,
Speaker 1: let me ask Tnjai here, how much money does Touch Tunes,
Speaker 1: the jukebox company in bars and stuff? How much money
Speaker 1: does Touch Tunes make a year? Right? Oh, hold on,
Speaker 1: I can't hear it.
Speaker 5: It's like a public we traded firm wood. But industry
Speaker 5: estimates suggest they pull in a couple hundred million a
Speaker 5: year revenue sharing with bars and restaurants. It's substantial, but
Speaker 5: not on the billion dollar scale. If you need exact numbers,
Speaker 5: we'd have to rely on insider reports or an IPO filing. Sometimes.
Speaker 2: I think the story I saw said that they made
Speaker 2: four hundred and sixty or four hundred million dollars a year.
Speaker 1: I would be curious, though, are we talking profit like
Speaker 1: net profit? Because they bring in a bunch of money.
Speaker 1: But like like tj A I said, there's sharing with
Speaker 1: the bar yep, and then there's also the uh, the
Speaker 1: licensing for the music that they have to pay. Yep, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: and that's that's a decent sized chunk, I think.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's another reason I think why it is very
Speaker 1: attractive for a bar to have a system like touch
Speaker 1: Tunes rather than your traditional jukebox. Because I had a
Speaker 1: friend that was going through like music school sounds a
Speaker 1: little primitive of a term, but he was going going
Speaker 1: through school for music production, and he was in a
Speaker 1: class where they were teaching about all the licensing things,
Speaker 1: and he was telling me that, like, when you pay
Speaker 1: for a BMI or ASKCAP license for performance at a bar,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to report every song that gets played. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, no one does that, right, I'm next to
Speaker 1: nobody does that unless you have a touch Tunes that
Speaker 1: just so happens to keep a record of every song
Speaker 1: that gets played and then you could easily upload that
Speaker 1: to your licenser and the right people get the right
Speaker 1: money for what got played in your bar. But like
Speaker 1: they the person who was like at the time, this
Speaker 1: person was chatting with me, they were going through the
Speaker 1: schooling and learning about all the licensing stuff, and I
Speaker 1: was literally playing guitar at bars and they were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: for you to play at a bar. The bar is
Speaker 1: supposed to pay BMI or ask cap fees, and somebody
Speaker 1: technically never happens to write down everything you play that
Speaker 1: list something like that list here it is. And I've
Speaker 1: told you before that I've seen like bars that would
Speaker 1: have local bands in like there would be more of
Speaker 1: kind of like a like a diveer live music bar,
Speaker 1: but it was like they hired local original bands and
Speaker 1: they would have little signs taped up on the stage.
Speaker 1: It's like, you cannot play commercial music here. We don't
Speaker 1: have the license for it. You can only play your
Speaker 1: own music. Well, thank you Pe for the email. Appreciate
Speaker 1: dad taking us back through history with some of these
Speaker 1: other games. The reason I asked that question was because
Speaker 1: we were at a bar the other night and Courtney
Speaker 1: wanted to skip the line of people on a touch
Speaker 1: tunes and it was three dollars and fifty cents for
Speaker 1: one song to see. Yeah, well all right, quick break
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Speaker 2: couple other things here, some emails coming in that I
Speaker 2: want to read. Please keep me anonymous and I shall anonymous.
Speaker 2: Says good afternoon. Yesterday I was texting with a friend
Speaker 2: in New Hampshire, and my friend updated me. That updated
Speaker 2: me that she was bit in the neck by a
Speaker 2: tick and is being treated for her tick bite with doxycycling.
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Speaker 1: So if you have this weird alpha gu syndrome that
Speaker 1: comes on from these ticks, you could still eat genetically
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Speaker 1: It is all very strange but interesting, So thank you
Speaker 1: for that. A couple of people with dispatches. Let's see
Speaker 1: what we got here. Here is Swilly talking about Game
Speaker 1: of Magnets. All right, hey, everybody happy today.
Speaker 18: So the way I play Game of Magnets is every
Speaker 18: magnet that I've ever gotten gets at least twenty four
Speaker 18: hours on the back of my truck. That means events,
Speaker 18: exclusive magnets, that means secret shows magnets, that means first
Speaker 18: on the street magnets. They have all seen at least
Speaker 18: twenty four hours of play.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 18: If it's a harder to find design, normally i'll switch
Speaker 18: it out with something that I might have duplicates of.
Speaker 18: But unless I have been freshly burgled, there will always
Speaker 18: be a magnet of some caliber on the back of
Speaker 18: my truck, sometimes multiples.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you for that.
Speaker 2: Here's Paperman with a dispatch about about pepe poople Man.
Speaker 1: Just for the record, Pepee pooper Man is not funny.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, somebody, you are in the minority
Speaker 1: on that. All right. That was that was a real story,
Speaker 1: first of all. Second of all, the song and clip
Speaker 1: did well, all right, people, people seem to enjoy it. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's not. He's not. There goes the He's going as
Speaker 1: fast as he can. He gets a bucket in his hand.
Speaker 1: He's a peep you know, Paperman, I'm with you, all right,
Speaker 1: it's fildish. It's amateur. What are we doing? When I
Speaker 1: cut that together the thing from earlier, yeah, I hated it.
Speaker 1: I was like, this, what am I doing? What is
Speaker 1: going on? This is what? This is so so stupid?
Speaker 1: It's funny because it's embarrassing as broadcasters. Yeah, then when
Speaker 1: we played it, I was like, yeah, the thing all right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a quick break. That's what we're gonna
Speaker 1: do right now. All right, I'm sorry, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: do it. We're gonna take a quick break. When we
Speaker 1: come back, we're going to do the final dispatches these
Speaker 1: stories that didn't make the cut. And today I learned
Speaker 1: to wrap everything up for a share the show Tuesday
Speaker 1: that is coming up next on the News Junkie.
Speaker 2: Don't forget secret shows coming up on Thursday. And we've
Speaker 2: got the Heart Monitor episode which should be weird and
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Speaker 2: bless you for doing it. Some emails real quick on
Speaker 2: the way out. We have just a little bit of time.
Speaker 2: John says, if people with that tick disease can only
Speaker 2: eat genetically modified pigs meant for human organs, would it
Speaker 2: not follow that people with that tick disease could always
Speaker 2: also eat humans.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if the logic follows there, sir,
Speaker 1: but thank you for the thought anyhow, and text that
Speaker 1: or if it's somebody else.
Speaker 2: At least one hundred and thirty one dead in that
Speaker 2: ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We're keeping
Speaker 2: an eye on the ebola stuff.
Speaker 1: It looks like ebola has replaced the hantavirus a haunt
Speaker 1: of virus in headline. That one's kind of fading away already,
Speaker 1: as expected.
Speaker 2: American doctor test positive for ebola in the Democratic Republic
Speaker 2: of Congo.
Speaker 1: So there you are. That's about where things are. Trump
Speaker 1: says he's concerned about. It is death rise. They call
Speaker 1: it the bleeding eye disease. Is that Ebola? Oh, it's
Speaker 1: got a great song, doesn't it. Let's get the hell
Speaker 1: out of here. Let's do today. I learned the following
Speaker 1: information may make you feel smarter, but will not actually
Speaker 1: increase your IQ. So don't get cocky. How it's done.
Speaker 1: What we call today Today learned Fred Tuesday, May nineteenth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Today learned this show right here. Price.
Speaker 1: You gotta move your nose, You gotta twinkle your nose
Speaker 1: a little bit. I dream of Genie bewitche Witch is correct,
Speaker 1: that's the other one. I mixed those two up all
Speaker 1: the time. I dream of Genie and Bewitch. But actor
Speaker 1: David White, who played Darren's boss Larry Tait on Bewitched,
Speaker 1: raised his son Jonathan after his wife died in childbirth.
Speaker 1: Jonathan later died in the bombing of Panan flight one
Speaker 1: oh three over Lockerbie, Scotland. Guy had a pretty tragic
Speaker 1: wife man. His wife died during childbirth and then his
Speaker 1: sun died in a terror attack. What a terrible way
Speaker 1: to start and end things. But hey, you were part
Speaker 1: of a pretty funny show back in the day. That
Speaker 1: was a hugely influential program. You got that going for you,
Speaker 1: which is nice. Yeah, you do have that. And finally
Speaker 1: today learn this band right here, the world is a
Speaker 1: vand Smashing Pumpkins. That's right, they're back. Zero's dead. The
Speaker 1: zero song stays sure, but this song is still around two.
Speaker 1: I well today learn. During the record of the nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety three album Siamese Dream, the Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy
Speaker 1: Chamberlain would go on extended Heroin benders. Sometimes they would
Speaker 1: lose them for two to three days and just put
Speaker 1: somebody else in there to play the drums and not
Speaker 1: even mention what was happening. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: hanging out as we do appreciate it. We're back tomorrow,
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