WEBVTT - Sorry, Not Sorry: Corey Worthington and his Sunglasses Throw a Party 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:03.680 Ridiculous Crime is a production of I Heart Radio. Hey, 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:07.840 Elizabeth Dutton, Hey's Aaron Burnett. You know what's ridiculous? Yeah? 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:11.160 I do. Okay, what I'm going to tell you exactly 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:14.319 what is ridiculous. You know that guy Alfred, the great 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:18.120 big friend of yours, King Angland, first King of England, 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:21.000 my boy, hearing a lot of good things about him, Yeah, 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:22.720 more and more every day. I love him, and you 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:26.800 want to know why. He's a benighted figure. But also 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:31.920 he established an eight pm curfew, did he really? Everyone 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:34.600 had to cover their fires and go to bed. He 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:36.640 also watered down the beer so that people wouldn't be 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:38.880 too drunk to work the next day. But that's very 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.320 responsible if you're forced to go to bed. And I 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:45.760 say fake that it was a criminal offense to stay 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:47.800 up late. I mean it made sense. They didn't want 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:51.200 raiding parties to see the fires. But also, you know what, 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:56.360 get get at least eight hours. Hello. Now he's very 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.880 much in your camp of like, look, get enough sleep, 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:02.080 don't drink too much the night before you have to 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:05.680 work day hydrated. Let's let's all keep these vikings in mind. 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:11.040 Don't burn candles. We don't need to burn were sun hats. 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.520 So it's it's ridiculous. It's not that the eight p 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.560 m curfew is ridiculous, it's the fact that we do 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.720 not still have an APM curfew. Oh you find that ridiculous. 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:24.240 That's ridiculous. Yes, please, thank you? Okay, both duly noted. 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.600 You blame me. Guess you have something ridiculous, Oh girl, 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.920 do I And it's not about Ivar the Boneless. This 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:37.800 one is about an Australian teenager throws a party that's 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:39.960 so epic that the police they have to call out 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.880 both helicopters and dogs to break up the party. Oh 0:01:42.920 --> 0:02:06.120 I like this. This is Ridiculous Crime a podcast about 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:12.040 absurd and outrageous capers, heists and cons. It's always murder 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:18.880 free and ridiculous. Elizabeth Ar, You didn't do a lot 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:21.799 of partying in high school, correct? I'm playing like hard 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.720 party party like you kind of enjoyed the life of 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.560 a power nerd in my Yeah. Well, I did party, 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:31.320 and by party, I mean I did orchestra before school started, 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:35.079 I did tennis. After school, I did model you in it. 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.120 At noon, I went home, I did my homework. I 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:42.200 played more tennis as my brother and then maybe I Watson, 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.320 what about a Saturday? Did I party on a Saturday? 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.840 Everything you had your weet minus the school Everything is 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:57.560 the same, but minus the school homework, tennis partying, right, yeah, totally. Now, 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.959 where you got to college you changed up this. Yeah. 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.120 Then when I was a freshman, I called my mom 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.320 on a Friday night, like the first semester I was there, 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.240 and I was just, you know, what are you What 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:13.200 are you doing back at the house And she was like, 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:16.440 what is wrong with you? Why are you in your 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.600 dorm room? To get out there, We'll get trashed or something. 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:23.040 And I was like, And then that was all I needed. 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.840 And then they regret it from that point forward, they 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:31.160 being the university everybody, family, friends, strangers. Well, you had 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:32.679 that one house right that you live with a bunch 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:36.400 of BMX guys. Yeah, I imagine you guys party pretty well? Sure, 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.160 yeah we did actually yeah right, yeah, so you did 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:42.400 get into the full partying fervor once you got to college. 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.200 And then I had a lot of wild years after that. 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:49.400 And then yeah, okay, now I have another question for you. Okay, uh, 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:53.480 did you ever a party with Australians? Yes? Okay, do 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.760 you want to admit anything or confess to anything. I 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:00.880 don't know about the statute of limitation at least seven years, 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:03.920 but we'll just carry this one forward. I I once 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:07.480 party with some Australians. They were rugby players. We're up 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.480 in Humboldt for a big like rugby tournament, and it 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.560 was a lot of fun. There was Englishmen there and 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.080 Danes and like all sorts of people who basically are 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.440 into rugby, which meant, of course there were Australians. Right now, 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:21.960 the Australians and the Brits they have like a rivalry 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:23.960 just pretty much wherever they go. It's kind of like 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.760 Texas and New York people the Yankee you know, not 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.640 the baseball team, but what they call Yankee to South right, 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:31.599 it's like you always want to beat in New Yorker 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.040 in Texas. Kind of the same thing with England or 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.640 you know, the UK and Australia. Right. So I'm hanging 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.840 out with these Australians and I knew this, like theoretically, 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:43.320 I didn't realize how far this went. So we're late 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.599 into the party. We're into like a basically frat house, 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.240 which you're in the froud Houses basement because this is 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:51.400 in humbld It, which is a college town in California, 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:55.200 northern California, and we're underneath the basement. We're getting drunk 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:58.320 and we run out of beer, right, And the Australians 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.720 convinced the Brits that the Australians they run out of beer, 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.039 they drink their own urine. So wait, this was like 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:06.000 youth Rugby. Were like what eleven? No, no, we're college. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:10.200 We're like a high school age and actually so we're eighteen. Yeah, 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.760 I am skipping fast. We're like eighteen, not youth Rugby. 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.720 They were drinking illegally in this basement in a frat 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.960 house in Humble with these Australians, some of whom we 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.919 are all just up to. But basically it's like a 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:25.200 youth Rugby, but not quite. It's it's club rug I'm 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.280 with you, So we get drunk with them. They convinced 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:31.000 the Englishman that Australians drink urine when they run out 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.200 of beer. So they go one Australian peas and a 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.880 red solo cup. Dis Englishman is like, I do anything 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:37.920 in Australian will do and I was like, no, you couldn't. 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.039 So the Englishman grabs the cups, like, yeah, I can't 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:43.400 watch this mate drinks down some of the urine. Everyone, 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.160 the Australian and the basement loses their minds because they 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.320 tricked this brit into drinking their urine. That's all just 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.080 to be tougher than the Aussies. That's when I was like, WHOA, 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.880 Partying with Aussie's is the next level? And after that 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:56.800 I did it numerous times. Only the people that were 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:59.640 crazier than them that I've come across have been just 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.960 people who are going to get you guaranteed in jail. 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.720 You're like, you may not go to jail tonight. They're 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:08.440 just full throttle. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was really into it. Like, No, 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.400 Kiwi's like the New Zealanders. They're like the chill. They're 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:15.039 like the Northern California version of Aussie's. So they're like 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.760 you would think, like, oh, are all the former British 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:22.080 colonies like this? No, the Aussies are unique, Yes exactly. 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.720 So my point of all that is, imagine if you're 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:26.880 a teenager and you're trying to throw the most epic 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:32.960 party in Australia. Oh, that's at level, right. So this 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:36.719 story comes to us from an Aussie listeners recommendation. I 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.440 had not heard about this, but listener John O'Connor, he 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.400 wrote in and he said to us, quote, what if 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.680 I told you there's a ridiculous Aussie crimester whose infamous 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:50.000 surpasses even the succulent Chinese mealman. Ask any aussee about 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.200 this man and they will know exactly who he is. 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:54.640 If you weren't sure who I'm talking about. This guy's 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.799 story inspired the movie Project X. His name Corey Worthington 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.799 in two thousand eighth, this sixteen year old king of culture. 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.479 Let loose this message on my Space. Parents away, tell 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.320 your mates you don't want to miss it. It's gonna 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:11.200 be huge, And in fact it was huge. Now the 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.520 kid's name is indeed Corey Worthington's and at the time 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:17.640 he was in facts sixteen years old and this is 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:21.320 the story of Corey Worthington's party. Oh my goodness, Why 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:26.680 are the Aussies coming through with such They're a full 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.200 tilt culture. When I think of Corey's I think of, like, 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.920 you know, eighties and nineties teen movie corries. Did you 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:39.200 have a favorite Corey Corey doctor, Corey Booker, Corey Hart 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:45.600 all good COEs, My friend, Corey Hawkins, another solid Corey. 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:48.440 You know all the Corries. Okay, well those are all 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:50.920 solid solid Corey. So let's not you know, let's not 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.080 get tripped up on them. My dude, his name Corey 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:58.800 Worthington's right, so Corey. Yeah, as I said two thousand 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.840 and eight January, this takes place now January, in case 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:03.440 you have to keep in mind, this is Australia, so 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:06.560 that means it's the summertime in the Southern Hemisphere. Everything's flipped. 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.560 Corey Worthington lives in Melbourne in the suburb of nar 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:14.640 wearing like a Warren, like the name Warren nor n 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.800 A R R E n or Warren. He'd been left 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.080 home alone by his parents and his mother Joanne, his 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:23.280 stepfather Stephen Delaney. Now Stephen, this dude's a real peach. 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.400 He's like he would have been perfectly cast as like 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:29.560 the jerk stepfather and just about any eighties teen kind. Yeah, yeah, dude, 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:33.720 yeah completely. So this guy's Joe the mom and Stephen 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.600 the stepdad. They're on holiday in Queensland, right, and they 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.400 know there's son for who he is, and so before 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.520 they leave they tell young Corey promise us no parties, 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.280 all right, if you have to tell your kid that, 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.440 just bring the kids. It's not gonna yeah, like, just 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:52.480 lesham up and bring him with either board him or 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.599 bring him with the move to a family friend. I 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.240 don't know, but don't leave him home alone. Have you 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.200 ever thrown a house party? Has ever been something you've done, 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:02.360 like rown a house at your house? Theyrown a house party, 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.240 not like a dinner party, not one of your fancy, 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.400 nancy nice things. I mean like, h yeah, come over 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.200 and smash my furniture house party? Are you looking at 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.760 me like that? What do you think? Right? Well? I 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:18.040 mean in college, we had some big party. Imagine we 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.360 had we had a party once where um the like 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:25.199 rival college. I went to UC Davis and Sacramento State 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.520 was the rival and it was we didn't pay attention 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:30.920 to the football stuff, but apparently it was the big 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:34.080 game the next day, and these Sacramento State guys showed 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.520 up at our house and tried to trash it and 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.360 when I'm tried to steal the phone the phone, Yeah, 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.600 and I just followed him out and was like ridiculing him, 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:43.960 like I'm really embarrassed for you right now? Why are 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:48.600 you trying to steal, like, oh, you're tough, you got 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.520 my phone. Okay. So and it wasn't like, I mean, 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:54.320 it was a cordless phone in the house. It wasn't 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.839 high value. Yeah. We've had we've had what the kids 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.240 call ragers. Yeah, so with the rage, your attendance rate 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.840 is nothing you can really anticipate, right, you don't know 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:05.920 how many you're gonna show up. You're just inviting, and 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.160 then you know they tend to tell other people, Well, 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.080 this is kind of how it's set up in Gnar 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.040 Warren that slow, slow night in January in two thousand 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.000 and eight, Corey Washington. I don't know if the dude 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:18.560 had it like that and everyone just heard his name, 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:19.839 you're like, oh, I gotta go to this party. I 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:21.520 don't know. If it's like just a really really slow 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:25.240 night that night, whatever happened. It starts out small, just 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.800 Corey and a couple of friends hanging out his parents place, 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.920 and by the time the police arrived, they estimated it 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:34.600 was five hundred teenagers. But rather than just tell you 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:36.720 about all this in small details, Elizabeth, I'd like you 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.760 to close your eyes and I'd like you to picture 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:47.600 its summertime Australia. It's been brutally hot for the last 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.040 few days. Uh, there's a well over a hundred degrees 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.080 fahrenheit on the tenth of January. You can settle down 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.079 into the nineties. And the next day and now today 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:56.679 on the twelfth, the weather is back down to a 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.720 respectable eighties something, but still hot enough that everyone's looking 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.400 to have a good time. You and Corey Worthington and 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.320 a few of his mates. You're lying around on his 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:06.920 parents couches right, just hanging out his parents place. Things 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:11.680 are chill. Corey gets the bright idea to invite a 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:13.959 few more friends over. You guys are having fun, but 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.760 what's not going to be a larger, better time just 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:20.880 a few more people. Cory logs onto my Space, but 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.960 he puts out the word parents. So I tell you, mate, 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.880 you don't want to miss It's a gun of by age. Now. 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.760 Some friends do show up mediately, and then some more 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.640 show up, and some more, and some more and some 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:36.120 more until it's basic good team moviment just imagined car 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:40.200 loads of SARTs, bum Australian teenagers, jaggy haired, blonde, mop 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:43.800 haired kids. Everyone's in shorts and flip flops, music gets 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.360 a little louder with every car that arrives. The more 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.160 kids show up, everything gets a little louder. Now you're 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.760 seeing all these sun big teams, and these red plastic 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:55.119 solo cups are out there. People have fear bottles, fosters, 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.120 they've got cans of cider. You're sipping on on a 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.400 bottle of red wine you pulled from the family's wine collection. 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.320 Oh yeah, you're just drinking right out of the bottle. 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.920 You spit the cork on the ground, and everyone's having 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:11.160 a good time. Word spreads on my Space. It just 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:14.440 keeps going. Now soon enough, nearly every team in the 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:18.800 Melbourne area is at Gnar Warren for this party. Kids 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:22.439 are getting drunker, music is getting louder. The neighbors are 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.880 starting to get a little bit nervous because they're Australians, 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:28.360 but they're not just insane people. They're like, look, we 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.439 can't have like all these hundreds of kids. And the 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.320 number just keeps growing. And now the kids spilled out 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.120 of the Wordington's home. They're on the lawn, but the 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.800 lawn can't contain them. Now they're on the neighbor's lawns, 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:42.040 they're on the neighbors cars. They're dancing on the cars, 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:46.240 They're throwing rocks at windows, they're kicking over mailboxes, they're 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:50.440 trashing lawn gnomes, whatever there is that just destroying the place. 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:54.000 I would imagine that the street is just choked with cars, right. 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:58.280 Funny you mentioned the traffic is insane. Imagine Kay, you've 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:03.360 got five hundred teenagers. Where are they parking their cars lawns, 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.880 just wherever they can? Pretty much? You know, the word 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.440 viking like, oh, you know, it started out as a verb. 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.160 You know, it's like, oh, let's go viking. It's an activity. 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.200 These kids decided to go viking. They just were just trashing, 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.760 running amo, parking cars from grass, hanging from the trees, 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.800 throwing rocks through windshood. They did not care. Right now, 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.079 as they're doing this, the neighbors at this point are 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.600 and pretty much a full froth. Their panic all right. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.760 So as his chaos and mayhem spreads the neighbors are 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:32.959 carrying in their homes, they go, it looks like we're 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:36.439 gonna have to call the police out. So people they 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.280 call whatever and I one one is in Australia. But 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:43.280 these teens they're super past respecting any law, that's gonna come. 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.360 A couple of responding officers show up in these like 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.760 young teens are like, wait, don't need any racid Johnny law. 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.959 Join our n s. Get out of right. So the 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.360 cops arrived. The teens stopped throwing rocks at each other 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:58.240 and through windshields and start throwing them at the cops, 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.120 throwing bottles at the cops. They start throwing cans in 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.760 the cops. Now you reasonable as you are, You're like, guys, guys, 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:06.440 I don't think this is what we should be doing. 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.080 I mean, these cops are just doing their jobs. Kids, 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:12.160 ignore you. This is too much fun. Come on, am, 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.680 We're gonna throw your flip flops. You keep talking like that. Now, 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.560 what can these kids possibly do? With all these drunk 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.880 hooligan children just running around throwing things and everything flip 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.120 but they're not quite flipping over cars, But that looks 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.080 like that maybe right. The cops are like, well, what 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.520 can we do? So they call in the flying squad, 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.880 a bunch of air wing helicopters. They have cops with 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.440 the chopper like with the spotlight on the kids. Because 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:38.840 this does nothing. Kids are just throwing rocks at the 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.920 at the police chopper. They're like, that's not gonna work. 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.080 We're gonna have to come up with something else. What 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.520 do you think we should do? They have Gary and 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.600 saying it's like, whoa, we could call in the dogs, 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.720 and so then they bring out the canine unit. They 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:57.800 set the dogs loosen. No, So this is after hours 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.360 of basically a stalemate. The neighbor's cow a ring on 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.600 their homes. They're just thousands of dollars or damage are 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:07.760 being done in this quiet little neighborhood. And finally it 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:11.240 all comes to not when the dogs do what nature 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:14.320 does best and scares human beings. So the children, the teens, 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:16.920 they all run off and the party is over and 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.360 now it's just cops, dogs and Corey Worthington and his nights. 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.960 So what do they do? And Corey's like, oh, hey, 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.160 there they go. You need to go inside before your 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.560 neighbors gonna be a piece of you. So it goes inside, 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:32.120 and now what do we do with all of this? 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.000 Bed Lemons, His parents are out of town, his neighbors 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.440 are pissed. Thousands of dollars of damage have been done, 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.160 The police have been called out. Not just the police, 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.160 but their dogs have been turned on his friends. There's 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.560 helicopters have been called out. Who's going to pay for 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.800 all this? After this short break, I'll be back to 0:15:47.840 --> 0:16:11.680 tell you what happens when Corey's parents get home. Okay, Elizabeth, 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.720 So we're in our war in Australia. We've just witnessed 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.400 an epic rager take place. You've tried to reason with 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:19.520 the kids. They listen to you. You You won't listen to 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:23.520 my rum soaked bones, but you tried, and I appreciate 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:27.320 the effort. Well, after all the damage gets tallied up 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:30.520 and all the mailboxes get set a right, the teens 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:34.240 have done and estimated twenty grand worth of damage, and 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.360 the police have a bill that they would like someone 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.680 to pay. So they're like, Corey, whereas mom and dad? 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:44.000 He's like, oh about that mate. So as he's sobering 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.520 up the next day, the cops come back around, they're like, look, Corey, 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:49.920 how did this all get going? What happened? And Corey's 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.960 you know, there's news cameras here. We could say taken 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:56.880 into custody. They're just briefly taken into custody, but it 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.400 sounds like he's only in police custody on the scene 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.400 from what all the reports, he doesn't he's not like 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:03.880 taking into the station and it's more like he's taken 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:05.560 into police custody. But first they told him just to 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:07.880 go inside, and then later on he's like, so that's 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:11.040 what I did. Right now. When the next day, when 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:12.880 the news cameras are there and the police are there 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:15.200 and everyone's trying to sort out what happened, his parents 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.119 are still not home, Corey gets on the news and 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:21.000 somebody's asking they're like, so how did this all start? 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.000 And he's like, I can't remember. I was just off 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:26.040 my head. So he's like trying to plead ignorance. No, 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.119 that's not gonna work, Cory. So this news of this 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.880 epic party spreads across Australia because everyone's like seeing, like, 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:34.840 you know, all the reports on my Space. The news 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.399 cameras shown up and they're telling all that the damage 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.560 has been done. The neighbors are giving like aggrieved interviews 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:42.640 to the camera, being like I can't believe what they 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:46.040 did to me. Long new right, So the television news 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:48.399 they want to hear the story. So there's you know, 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.479 there's a competition who can get Corey for an interview right. 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:55.400 The person who wins this competition is Layla McKinnon. Now 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:59.400 Layla McKinnon. She works for a show called A Current Affair. Now, 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:03.720 we had that show here, but it's their version in Australia. Elizabeth, 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:05.720 I don't think I can accurately convey to you what 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:07.879 this interview was like. So I'm just gonna play it 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:11.119 for you. But but first I need to set up 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:13.399 just a couple of the visuals. Okay, I want you 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.879 to imagine Corey Worthington's this kid. He looks like a 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.639 surf rat teenage boy, you know, just like total uh 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:22.359 ocean side Huntington's beach kind of surf rat, like a 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:25.520 little surf ground kid. Right now, his blonde hair shoots 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:28.360 out from underneath his little flat brim ball cap he's 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:32.359 got on. Like his hair looks like like angry, hurtless straw. Right, Okay, 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:35.399 so you got that. Now he's wearing bright yellow Karen 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:39.800 Walker style sunglasses. Okay, they're huge, but not comically big, 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:43.920 like you're just really yeah over thinking, that's the charm oversize. 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:47.440 Now he's shirtless on screen. He's wearing a hoodie that's 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:50.080 open because one of your zip up style hoodies. He's 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:52.400 got it's faux fur on the lining, which we can 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.639 see on the hoodie, and he's got a big nipple 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:56.400 ring that looks kind of fresh, and he keeps trying 0:18:56.440 --> 0:19:01.480 to make sure that's it's in camera prominently hime. Now, meanwhile, 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.359 there's Layla and she's a bright eyed blonde. Now she's 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:08.280 a broadcaster news broadcaster journalist, and she's also somewhat perky 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:10.720 and sunny in her disposition, but at the same time, 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.600 she's somewhat conservative underneath. So it's clearly an act as 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:16.960 perkiness because, as you'll see, he gets her to reveal 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:21.119 her true self to dis imagine Fox News but Assie style. Right, 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.080 So these are our combatants and surf rat, ass teen 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.920 versus pert and conservative news host. Got it, I'm ready 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:34.280 choice of arena the live TV interview, you know, and 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:37.240 the teenager already has the advantage, but the adult doesn't 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:39.720 recognize that because they think, Oh, I'm the professional and 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:42.439 I know what I'm doing exactly. Okay, So our opening 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:46.520 salvo seems friendly enough. This is Layla Corey, thanks for 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:48.520 joining us. The only question that I can think to 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:54.680 ask is what were you thinking? Um? I wasn't really 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:58.840 did your parents say you could have a party? Um? No, 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:02.119 So now we have our battle line to draw, right, 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:06.360 let's see where journalists Layla McKinnon takes this line of questioning, 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:11.000 why did you? Um, I know, I was just to 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:12.760 get together with a couple of mates at first, and 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:14.280 then we thought we might as well just have a 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:16.119 bit of a party, and then it sort of just 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:21.000 got out of hand and yeah, yeah, yeah. At this point, 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:23.240 Layla is still friendly in her demeanor, and then she's 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:25.199 really after the facts of this story, right, but she 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:29.520 also wants to get to the real drama. His parents, Well, 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.720 five hundred people turned up, the air wing of the 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:37.840 police force, the dog squad. Your neighbor's cars were being destroyed. 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:41.000 What have your parents had to say? Corey? Now, Corey 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:43.560 is like kind of cool about this. I haven't really 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:45.119 talked to him with kids. Every time they call, I 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:50.160 don't answer because, yeah, the protect kill me. So that's 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:53.600 a short term strategy being an adult. She attempts to 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:56.840 warn Curry Corey Worthington that there will be consequences for 0:20:56.920 --> 0:21:00.480 his He cannot wait till this blow is over. But 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:03.560 Corey is what you call an optimist or a teenager, 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:07.000 and he's unwilling to hear this reality that she's presenting him. Now, 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:09.840 Layla takes back over her line of questioning and she 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:12.280 basically tries to focus on the parents he wants to get. 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:14.879 Nowt to the full drama, right, You're gonna have to 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:20.480 talk to them eventually. What are you gonna say? Um? Sorry? 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:24.840 Are you sorry? Now this becomes a new theme for 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:27.639 her questioning. She just drills down on the question is 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:30.640 he really sorry or not? Why this matters to her? 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:32.879 I don't know, but Layla will not let it go 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:35.280 until she gets her apologies, and in this case, she 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:38.000 kind of becomes like a surrogate mother, which is real fun. 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:42.840 Now back to Layla, you don't sound very sorry, but 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:45.280 I can't be exactly what happened because it wasn't in 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:47.200 the house, was out in the street, and I didn't 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:50.159