Speaker 1: You ready, Scottie, Oh crazy, I'm ready to love and
Speaker 1: love and love.
Speaker 2: Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the
Speaker 2: trend for thirty seven years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna do this one too, so I
Speaker 1: have backup once. Of course, we have to do salmon hats. Sam,
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is Yeah, we're probably deep into the holiday season,
Speaker 2: aren't we.
Speaker 1: Scotty right up on it, right up on it. Kwans
Speaker 1: was probably in full swing right now. Maybe we're dabbling
Speaker 1: in hanukkah. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think it's late this year. I think it starts
Speaker 2: the day after Christmas, if I'm not If I'm not incorrect.
Speaker 1: That's that sounds pretty cool to me. Well, so everybody
Speaker 1: out there, just have a safe and happy time. And
Speaker 1: if your family drives you nuts, that's okay. Just put
Speaker 1: bananas in one AirPod in your left ear, face the
Speaker 1: family with your right ear, and when you laugh, they'll
Speaker 1: think it's, you know, the fifteenth time they've told that
Speaker 1: same tired joke. We're happy to join you.
Speaker 2: Tell me about your holiday plans. You're having everybody right
Speaker 2: at the house.
Speaker 1: Parents are coming over, sister, brother in law, I'll just
Speaker 1: call him brother. He married my sister, but he's a
Speaker 1: great dude. Nephews are in town. No big no like epic.
Speaker 1: We're not going to Disneyland or something like that. But
Speaker 1: we're all here. We're all happy. I already got the
Speaker 1: tree up. Looks great. Went to Costco bought a fake tree. Yep,
Speaker 1: do you use a fake tree?
Speaker 2: I do now.
Speaker 1: I gotta say it's fantastic in one love it. Besides,
Speaker 1: besides it not smelling like a pine tree.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that I.
Speaker 1: Do cancels for that.
Speaker 2: But the reason that, honestly, the reason that we got
Speaker 2: the fake Christmas tree was we would get these Christmas
Speaker 2: trees the weekend after Thanksgiving, and by like mid December,
Speaker 2: it would be just dying so much that it was
Speaker 2: a real reminder that I'm like, oh, I'm continually killing
Speaker 2: a tree for this when I could just get this
Speaker 2: other one and have it last me for twenty years,
Speaker 2: save twenty trees.
Speaker 1: I knew this dude in Georgia and he had a
Speaker 1: big hunting farm. He had like it was crazy turkey, deer,
Speaker 1: all that stuff. And I went down there once and
Speaker 1: he had this amazing pond for fishing and it was
Speaker 1: just like it was so good. Every cast she just
Speaker 1: reeled and official was nuts. And I was like, why,
Speaker 1: why are like the bass so vibrant here? Why is
Speaker 1: this so easy to do? And he goes every yearverybody
Speaker 1: gives me their Christmas tree and I put them in
Speaker 1: the bottom of the lake or the pond. It was
Speaker 1: a pond really, and that just creates like a perfect
Speaker 1: environment for minnows and smaller fish and tabpoles and stuff
Speaker 1: to live in, and the bass can just hang out
Speaker 1: by Christmas trees. I was like, that is such a
Speaker 1: cool visual, like an underwater Christmas with pond animals.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's crazy. Was it a real big pond?
Speaker 1: It wasn't that big, Like, I don't know, soon.
Speaker 2: It's just gonna be a pile of pile de trees.
Speaker 1: I know. But maybe they eat them. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But that was his secret is he would throw a
Speaker 1: Christmas tree in the bottom and every year like somebody like,
Speaker 1: here's your tree, and he said it created a perfect
Speaker 1: environment for bass and whatever. It was pretty fun.
Speaker 2: Oh right, is there any fun? Are there any like
Speaker 2: traditions that you have for the for the holidays? Do
Speaker 2: you like any movies or anything?
Speaker 1: No, I'm a everybody. I was texting with a friend
Speaker 1: and they're like, what's your favorite Christmas movie? And my
Speaker 1: sincere answers Home Alone. I love Home Alone. I think
Speaker 1: that movie's incredible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I have a new favorite holiday movie
Speaker 2: for as day kids. Not for the kids, Okay, for
Speaker 2: the kids, we definitely watch We do the classics, We
Speaker 2: watch rudelfh The Red Nose Rein Deer, We watch Charlie
Speaker 2: Brown Christmas and every year my kids, like I don't
Speaker 2: want to watch Charlie Brown, and then I'm just like,
Speaker 2: you're watching it's like a fight, And then I put
Speaker 2: it on. They're like, this is awesome. I love this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is weird because I remember being that way
Speaker 1: with Charlie Brown too. It's something about the animation being
Speaker 1: so bland, even by nineteen eighty five standards.
Speaker 2: And also that the beginning of all of them is like,
Speaker 2: Charlie Brown's suicidal. Yeah, he's so sad. The beginning of
Speaker 2: every specials Charlie Brown is so sad. So I can
Speaker 2: I know that that's They think that's going to be
Speaker 2: the feeling, and then it's like, no, that's not the feeling.
Speaker 2: The feeling is much.
Speaker 1: Snoopy shows up and everybody's happy with Snoopy.
Speaker 2: No my my, My new favorite for the holidays is
Speaker 2: Home for the Holidays Robert Downey Junior, Holly Hunter, nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety five. Home for the Holidays. It is delight. It
Speaker 2: is not for the it's not for kids. A lot
Speaker 2: of smoking, a lot of cursing. But if you're from
Speaker 2: the Northeast and you have a dysfunctional family.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, and who does it in the Northeast it's
Speaker 1: the main thing up there.
Speaker 2: And Holly Hunter is so cool. She's so cool. And
Speaker 2: Robert Downey Jr. This was like when Robert Downey Junior
Speaker 2: was like into drugs.
Speaker 1: Love drugs.
Speaker 2: He looks sweaty and clammy in every shot and he's
Speaker 2: still so good.
Speaker 1: The ultimate blow up. I mean, Robert Downey Junior. Has
Speaker 1: anybody ever recovered more successfully in Hollywood? Had gone from
Speaker 1: a punchline on Letterman and land Know and then now
Speaker 1: he's Iron Man. And like when he died at the
Speaker 1: end of Infinity, which I watched on a plane spoiler yeah,
Speaker 1: spoiler alert came out seven years ago. Spoiler alert. I
Speaker 1: got like misty eyed on the plane. I'm like, oh God,
Speaker 1: what a what a run? And then you look back,
Speaker 1: You're like, this guy famously was just a nightmare drug addict.
Speaker 2: He's like he was Corey Feldman level.
Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, he was wild.
Speaker 2: And like, you don't come back from Corey Feldman level.
Speaker 2: Look at Forrey Feldman. He then never came back from
Speaker 2: Corey Feldman.
Speaker 1: Also, Robert Doddy Jr. Is so good. He's so charming,
Speaker 1: He's such a good actor. That guy's crazy charismatic. It's
Speaker 1: wild I guess we love him. You know who directed
Speaker 1: Home for the All Days, Jody Foster.
Speaker 2: Yes, right, isn't it amazing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's the coolest too. She she got so successful.
Speaker 1: She I've read in an interview years ago that she's like,
Speaker 1: I do a movie every two years and they take
Speaker 1: off for two years, and I'm like, damn, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: how you win in Hollyweird. You get so big that
Speaker 1: you can do a movie. You're like, I'm gonna do Contact,
Speaker 1: and then you just straight up disappear for two years
Speaker 1: and you come back and you're another hit movie. Contact two,
Speaker 1: Contact three, But yeah, I like Home Alone. Contact just more,
Speaker 1: Contact three two one, Contact, great TV show one Contacts,
Speaker 1: that's probably real. I I just think Home Alone is
Speaker 1: ultimate child wish fulfilment. Yep. Written so well, yes, over
Speaker 1: like acted. All the actors are going for it, and
Speaker 1: yet like Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern, who are the
Speaker 1: Wet bandits also great, great name. They're cartoonish, right, those
Speaker 1: guys are being cartoonish, but everybody else is kind of
Speaker 1: playing it like really dramatic and really good man. That
Speaker 1: movie is, uh yeah, that's I look forward to every year.
Speaker 1: But we are a Christmas Eve family. We celebrate, we
Speaker 1: give gifts on Christmas Eve, and then we just enjoy Christmas.
Speaker 1: We don't get up early. We just hang out the
Speaker 1: next day. And then the tradition in Maryland, because this
Speaker 1: is the first year I'm ever doing in LA. But
Speaker 1: when i'd fly back to Maryland, my dad and I
Speaker 1: on Christmas Day at like four pm, which it's dark,
Speaker 1: would go find a bar and have a drink or
Speaker 1: two or eat oysters. Oh there's a restaurant called Ocean
Speaker 1: Pride that used to be open, and would be my
Speaker 1: dad and I'm just yucking it up, telling stories, hanging
Speaker 1: out and then just a bunch of men by themselves
Speaker 1: who clearly didn't have the kids after the divorce on
Speaker 1: Christmas Day, just drinking some natty bows and watching Sports
Speaker 1: Center and flirting with the bartender. And it was so
Speaker 1: that was the tradition. But this year I think we'll
Speaker 1: probably just take a little walk. We'll go in Griffith
Speaker 1: Park and take a little observatory walk.
Speaker 2: Oh, it'll be so so delightful. We go to Shanter
Speaker 2: Fun Miss Eve Nice and they have like carrollers, which
Speaker 2: is so delightful. And then and then we come home
Speaker 2: and watch this. It's a wonderful life.
Speaker 1: That's nice. Yeah, I got your kids a gift that
Speaker 1: I'm going to give to you now, and I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what it is, because it's not surprise or anything.
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, I was just taking a
Speaker 1: leisurely long walk, as I do, and I was thinking
Speaker 1: about being a kid around Christmas. I was like, but
Speaker 1: what did I really like when I was a little guy, like,
Speaker 1: you know, besides cookies and all that crap. And I
Speaker 1: found them they still exist, So I'll drop these off.
Speaker 1: I think they arrived today or tomorrow. The make it
Speaker 1: Bake it kits, which are the little metal wire ornament
Speaker 1: framed things that you pour the bead colored beads of
Speaker 1: glass and then you bake it and it turns it
Speaker 1: into stained glass. I found them nice. So I got
Speaker 1: your kids two snowmen and two indy canes and so
Speaker 1: you make it and bake it.
Speaker 2: Oh dude, that's so they're gonna fucking go crazy for that.
Speaker 1: That's I knew they would like. I got a ruby
Speaker 1: of set too, But yeah, I'm gonna drop those off
Speaker 1: because I used to. I was like, man, I look
Speaker 1: forward to those every year, and like, if you were
Speaker 1: a total badass, as obviously I was, you'd put like
Speaker 1: one little grass green bead in where the clear beads
Speaker 1: are supposed to go. See'd get a little green dot.
Speaker 1: You know that stocking doesn't have to be exactly like
Speaker 1: the diagram and the picture looked like so anyways, I'll
Speaker 1: drop those off I think tomorrow the next day. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's fun. They decorate them, you bake them boom staying glasses.
Speaker 2: Oh, they're gonna they are gonna love that, dude, right on.
Speaker 1: Tell you so much. You're welcome, all right, uncle to everybody.
Speaker 2: You are or goes start wearing dead salmon hats again
Speaker 2: after ditching the trend for thirty seven years. Thirty seven years.
Speaker 2: This was sent in by so.
Speaker 1: So many, send it to me.
Speaker 2: I'll do it too randomly. Wiena Lombard is the one
Speaker 2: that I ended up being like, what a name we do?
Speaker 2: Weena Lombard? Yeah, pretty good, Wiena wi Na.
Speaker 1: Wow, great name. Yeah that's cool.
Speaker 2: Who you got for credit?
Speaker 1: There? I got a oh C. C. Petrella. Yeah, another
Speaker 1: great name.
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Speaker 2: This is on Live science dot com. Not to be
Speaker 2: confused with IFL Science, but a very similar type website.
Speaker 2: This was written by Sasha Pear or Sasha Paae not
Speaker 2: sure we we poo pooh orcus, she's the best. Orcs
Speaker 2: start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend
Speaker 2: for thirty seven years, Orcas off the coast of Washington State.
Speaker 2: Here we go, Pacific Northwest Pacific orcas have started wearing
Speaker 2: salmon hats again, bringing back a bizarre trend first described
Speaker 2: in the nineteen eighties. Last month, scientists and whale watchers
Speaker 2: spotted orcas in South Puget Sound and off Point No
Speaker 2: Point Point No Point is a Great name in Washington
Speaker 2: point eight swimming with dead fish on their heads. This
Speaker 2: is the first time they've done the bizarre headgear since
Speaker 2: the summer of nineteen eighty seven, when a trend setting
Speaker 2: female West Coast orca kickstarted the behavior for no apparent reason.
Speaker 2: Within a couple of weeks, the rest of the pod
Speaker 2: had jumped on the bandwagon and turned salmon corpses into
Speaker 2: must have fashion accessories, according to the Marine conservatory charity ORCA,
Speaker 2: but it's unclear whether the same will happen this time around.
Speaker 2: Researchers think the orcs sporting salmon hats now may be
Speaker 2: very veterans of the trend when it first appeared forty
Speaker 2: years ago. It does seem possible that some individuals that
Speaker 2: experienced the behavior the first time around may have started
Speaker 2: it again. Andrew Foot in Evolutionary Accuse at the University
Speaker 2: of Osloon Norway told new scientists the motivation for the
Speaker 2: salmon hat trend remains a mystery. Honestly, your guess is
Speaker 2: as good as mine. Searcher at the University of Washington,
Speaker 2: who also heads the science and research team at the
Speaker 2: nonprofit Wild Orca, salm and hats are a perfect example
Speaker 2: of what researchers call quote a fad, a behavior initiated
Speaker 2: by one or two individuals and temporarily picked up by
Speaker 2: others before abandoning it. Back in the eighties, the trend
Speaker 2: only lasted a year. By the summer eighty eight, dead
Speaker 2: fish were totally pass a. Salmon hats disappeared from the
Speaker 2: West Coast orc population ORCS. Researchers best guesses that salmon
Speaker 2: hat fads are linked to high food availability. South Puget
Speaker 2: Sound is currently teeming with chum salmon and with too
Speaker 2: much food to eat on the spot, orc is maybe
Speaker 2: saving fish for less it is by balancing them on
Speaker 2: their heads.
Speaker 1: They don't pockets, That's what I think it is. They
Speaker 1: don't have hands, they don't pockets, so they have to
Speaker 1: just you know, they're not gonna just leave leftover, so
Speaker 1: they put it on their head around.
Speaker 2: Orcas have spotted stashing food away in other places too.
Speaker 2: We've seen mammal eating killer whales carry large chunks of
Speaker 2: food under their pectoral fin, kind of tucked in next
Speaker 2: to their body.
Speaker 1: I pit snack. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Sam is probably too small to fit securely under orches
Speaker 2: pectoral fin, so the marine mammals may have opted for
Speaker 2: the top of their heads instead. Cameron Quick drones could
Speaker 2: help researchers monitors salmon hat wearing. Also, I love that
Speaker 2: we immediately go to calling them hats too.
Speaker 1: It's more of a headband if you look at it.
Speaker 1: Or two pey.
Speaker 2: Right, they're more like a wig hear it. But the
Speaker 2: food availability theory could be wrong. If the footage reveals
Speaker 2: it work is a band in the salmon without eating them,
Speaker 2: the researchers will be sent back to the drawing board.
Speaker 2: Whatever the reasons for the behavior, Gyle says, it's been
Speaker 2: fun to watch it come back in style. Hell yeah,
Speaker 2: since I've personally seen it.
Speaker 1: She said, m hm.
Speaker 2: Sasha Pere is a UK based trainee staff writer, UK
Speaker 2: based trainee staff writer. Look at that, Sasha just started.
Speaker 2: That's why she gets keep going the Orca hat stories.
Speaker 1: Good job sas, Sasha. If you were typing this without
Speaker 1: just some smoked salmon on your forehead, then you're not
Speaker 1: committed to being the best in the business. So look
Speaker 1: in the mirror, figure it out. I I mean, remember
Speaker 1: when we talked about Julie the chimpanzees stuck the grass
Speaker 1: in your ear? Yeah, and that was Zambia. God, when
Speaker 1: was that Zambia? Whenever you and I did that pilot
Speaker 1: ten years ago or whatever, there was a chimpanzee named
Speaker 1: Julie and she stuck a long piece of grass out
Speaker 1: of her one day and they don't know why, and
Speaker 1: then by the next day a couple of the other
Speaker 1: female chimpanzees had grass sticking out of their ear, and
Speaker 1: then it was something within like a month, their whole tribe,
Speaker 1: their whole pack of chimpanzees whatever it's called family, and
Speaker 1: then a secondary family who saw it all started doing
Speaker 1: it and they were like, it can only be explained
Speaker 1: as a fashion fat and that was so interesting. So
Speaker 1: maybe these fish hats are just fashion, yeah.
Speaker 2: Or maybe they use that piece of piece of grass
Speaker 2: to like fish some ants out of a hole, you know,
Speaker 2: and they're a store in their tool. It's like a
Speaker 2: pencil behind the ear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe Julie's just a performance artist.
Speaker 2: Let's bring back pencils behind the ear, guys.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's a good look.
Speaker 2: It's a great look. I want a real stylish pencil
Speaker 2: behind the ear look from Paris next year. All right, yeah, look,
Speaker 2: couture designers to listen to bananas. Yes, pencil behind the ear,
Speaker 2: give it to me.
Speaker 1: You talked about how they sometimes hold the salmon under
Speaker 1: their fin Yeah, I was pitching. I was pitching a
Speaker 1: TV show with Memory Heart once and we had gone
Speaker 1: out to lunch in between, and we're gone. The next
Speaker 1: one and we were riding up in the elevator with
Speaker 1: her manager to go this next pitch, and Memory's like, hey,
Speaker 1: do you have any gum? And to her manager and
Speaker 1: he's like yeah, yeah, and he fished out a loose
Speaker 1: piece of gum from his pocket handed to her. She goes,
Speaker 1: did you just give me pocket gum? He goes what
Speaker 1: She goes, was that just bouncing around your pocket? He goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just had a piece of gum. No rapper, I'm
Speaker 1: talking oh, no rapper, Yeah, I'm talking like those how
Speaker 1: gum comes in those weird plastic and foil things. Now
Speaker 1: one of those pushed out already just bouncing around. And
Speaker 1: she was like, I can't believe you just give me
Speaker 1: pocket gum. And he's like, is pocket gum a thing?
Speaker 1: And she's like what it is? Now? And it was
Speaker 1: the funniest thing that her manager would be like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: here you go. Here's this thing that's been jangling around
Speaker 1: with my wallet, my keys. There's a bucket gum.
Speaker 2: I'd eat it.
Speaker 1: She ate it all right, good, she chewed it. She's
Speaker 1: a professional. She wanted fresh breath more than you know.
Speaker 1: And that's and that's where COVID started that exact moment.
Speaker 1: I've never seen orcas in the wild. I would love
Speaker 1: to go see orcas in the wild. I guess the
Speaker 1: best place is there where they're talking about, like, is
Speaker 1: it off in Scandinavia? That seems like. I know, they're
Speaker 1: all different everywhere, and they're all around the world, and
Speaker 1: they have different hunting rituals, and like the ones that
Speaker 1: beach themselves are different than the ones that kick the
Speaker 1: fish or the whatever seals in the air with their fins.
Speaker 1: All of it seems radically intelligent. Yeah, so I think
Speaker 1: they know exactly what they're doing with it. I think
Speaker 1: it might be fashion.
Speaker 2: Oh you do, Okay, I think they might be.
Speaker 1: There's some hierarchy thing where. Don't understan the.
Speaker 2: Fact that we don't understand all of these animals on
Speaker 2: our planet really truly, especially whales. Like the fact that
Speaker 2: we don't that whales are constantly talking and communicating with
Speaker 2: each other in very complicated ways and we have zero,
Speaker 2: zero idea of what they're saying to each other is
Speaker 2: pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: Do you think AI can figure that out? I bet
Speaker 1: it can, right, Isn't that what it's good for? It'll
Speaker 1: be able to figure out what whales are saying, dude,
Speaker 1: what if it's just so funny? What if whales are
Speaker 1: the Rodney Danger Fields of the ocean. They just are all.
Speaker 2: Are just are just Hey, I don't like cocaine. I
Speaker 2: just like the way it smells.
Speaker 1: Just blowholes. I think now that is ai that I like.
Speaker 1: My god, that's so good. Yeah. I want to see
Speaker 1: one though, because like I went to I went whale
Speaker 1: watching in well one. Now they're around here. You can
Speaker 1: go out of Newport Beach and they have like a
Speaker 1: boat that goes towards Catalina and apparently they see orcas
Speaker 1: out there quite a bit. Now seems awesome. Then you
Speaker 1: can do it. And I went off of Vancouver and
Speaker 1: but the Canadians are so respectful at least the whaling tourism,
Speaker 1: that you have to stay like god, it was so
Speaker 1: far I think it was like a thousand meters away,
Speaker 1: so a kilometer away. You have to stay so far
Speaker 1: away that we didn't see any orcas. But we did
Speaker 1: see a bunch of whales, but you know they do
Speaker 1: like the three breaths and then the dive. We were
Speaker 1: so far away. Honestly, a YouTube video would have been
Speaker 1: the same experience. And I want to go somewhere where
Speaker 1: you can get close enough where you don't mess with them,
Speaker 1: but that you see those things. So maybe I just
Speaker 1: need to dedicate my life to orcus.
Speaker 2: I saw a video recently where it's like a bunch
Speaker 2: of people jumping in the water and then underneath them
Speaker 2: was I don't know, thirty humpback whales all traveling together.
Speaker 1: This was co.
Speaker 2: Razy and just see how big they are. It was
Speaker 2: like truly overwhelming and just like, there's a thing we
Speaker 2: have no idea, no idea.
Speaker 1: About it, And what do they think of us?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Right? Or do they do they not care? Do they
Speaker 1: think boats are awesome? What if Wales think speedboats are awesome?
Speaker 2: Speedboats are awesome and they hate submarines.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't stand the submarine. That's like step in
Speaker 1: on their territory. But they love the way a speedboat
Speaker 1: goes boo. They think that's so cool. My god.
Speaker 2: Oh Brooks Wheelan had a joke at Hot Tub the
Speaker 2: last time he was on, which was do you think
Speaker 2: do you think whales? Do you think whales get as
Speaker 2: excited jumping out of the air as we get jumping
Speaker 2: into the water.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great question. I think they do, maam.
Speaker 1: That being said, if I saw one and I was
Speaker 1: in that boat would have to be pretty big. Killer
Speaker 1: whales are so smart. They love ripping apart yachts. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it would uh, I would want to be in a
Speaker 1: very large vest.
Speaker 2: But also that was a trend too, which also has
Speaker 2: just since disappeared.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they just they're just funny. I'm telling you, they're
Speaker 1: just funny.
Speaker 2: They're goofs. I think they're goofs.
Speaker 1: I have a I think I have a story about
Speaker 1: let me see, I think I had a story about
Speaker 1: a submarine somewhere on this list of stories. Oh, I do.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's about about here we go. Kristen Marie sent
Speaker 1: this bad boy in. Thank you, Kristin Marie, you rock.
Speaker 1: Happy Holidays. A Navy officer is demoted after sneaking a
Speaker 1: satellite dish onto a warship to get the Internet. Wait
Speaker 1: what dude? A Navy officer is demoted after sneak making
Speaker 1: a satellite dish onto a warship to get the Internet.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: This was in the Associated Press, written by that swing
Speaker 1: in Associated Press staff San Diego. A US Navy chief
Speaker 1: who wanted the Internet, so she and the other enlisted
Speaker 1: officers could scroll on social media blah Czech sports scores
Speaker 1: and watch movies while deployed. Had an unauthorized STARLINGK satellite
Speaker 1: dish installed on a warship and lied to her commanding
Speaker 1: officer to keep its secret.
Speaker 2: That's crazy. It has to have access to the sky.
Speaker 2: Where are you installing it that no one's going to notice?
Speaker 2: I guess a warship is very big.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably got all kinds of satellite dish things
Speaker 1: on there.
Speaker 2: That's so crazy, dude.
Speaker 1: It's so bad. Like at Internet, access is restricted while
Speaker 1: a ship is underway to maintain bandwidth from military operations
Speaker 1: and to protect against cybersecurity threats. The Navy quietly relieved
Speaker 1: grizz Well Morrero, a command senior chief of the Littoral
Speaker 1: Combat Ship Sorry if I'm saying that wrong Litteral or
Speaker 1: Littoral Combat Ship USS Manchester, and released information on parts
Speaker 1: of the investigation this week. The Navy Times was first
Speaker 1: to report the details. Man, how did they get that
Speaker 1: inside scoop? God? Morrero, a former information systems tech and
Speaker 1: senior leader, paid twenty eight hundred dollars for a Starlink
Speaker 1: high performance kit and had it installed April twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: prior to deployment of the San Diego based USS Manchester.
Speaker 1: According to an investigation, she and more than a dozen
Speaker 1: oh guys other chief petty officers used it to send
Speaker 1: messages home and keep up with the news. They bought
Speaker 1: signal amplifiers during a stop in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, after
Speaker 1: they realized the wireless signal did not cover all areas
Speaker 1: of this ship.
Speaker 2: Also, no one noticed that there was just this other
Speaker 2: Wi Fi signal out there, Like anytime you pull up
Speaker 2: you see the available Wi Fi networks and you just
Speaker 2: see like starlink, Yeah, and there's also you're at sea,
Speaker 2: there's just one the one that you're using, and then
Speaker 2: there's another one.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, and then that not only that. Then they
Speaker 1: were like, we need to boost this signal. We're not
Speaker 1: getting it everywhere. We are also addicted to social media.
Speaker 1: It's nuts to make a risky it's a career, like
Speaker 1: it's such a bad move. And then it's like, but
Speaker 1: I gotta see if people like the way I.
Speaker 2: Ate that food.
Speaker 1: Everybody needs to see this delicious meal. Didn't you have
Speaker 1: a joke about the sunsetting? Like checked Instagram sunset today
Speaker 1: or something got.
Speaker 2: That used to open with it.
Speaker 1: And how long ago was that?
Speaker 2: That was like two thousand and ten probably yeah, ten
Speaker 2: or eleven. Yeah, Hey, guys, just want to let you know.
Speaker 2: I just checked Instagram and the sunset did set today.
Speaker 1: And I always got a big laugh because it was
Speaker 1: everybody was just sunset.
Speaker 2: Everybody was just posting sunsets back then.
Speaker 1: Now it's just butt, you know how it's just started
Speaker 1: butt golf, butt fishing. Hey, you got a big butt,
Speaker 1: do something?
Speaker 2: There's I I recently got served up rocks falling from
Speaker 2: Great Heights.
Speaker 1: Wow, sign me and.
Speaker 2: They and they put on every video across the thing.
Speaker 2: We only post rocks falling from Great Heights. It's just
Speaker 2: big rocks falling down mountains, the whole thing. Every video,
Speaker 2: there's thousands of videos. It's just giant rocks falling down mountains.
Speaker 1: That's like early Letterman. He would just throw stuff off
Speaker 1: the top of his building and just let it hit
Speaker 1: in the alley below, watermelons. TVs didn't matter what it was,
Speaker 1: and it was like, yeah it was. They did one Letterman.
Speaker 1: I can't remember the number, but it was a hammock
Speaker 1: full of eggs. They put chicken eggs on it, and
Speaker 1: then they had a large person just jump into the
Speaker 1: hammock and all the eggs broke and yoke like a
Speaker 1: just an absolute tsunami fell out the bottom. And that
Speaker 1: was it. That was the whole thing. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm glad I saw it. Yeah, it seems like a
Speaker 1: waste of food, but I am glad I saw that.
Speaker 2: I was just served up an old Conan sketch of
Speaker 2: a guy in a protective gear and Ian Roberts is
Speaker 2: in the sketch. And Ian Roberts is a dog trainer,
Speaker 2: and he's like, so we're gonna have Sally's gonna jump
Speaker 2: in that suit can withstand ten pounds of pressure, so
Speaker 2: he's gonna be fine. He's been watching just to go
Speaker 2: for the arm. And then and then they go and
Speaker 2: Conan goes, all right, let's do it, and then you
Speaker 2: just see a close up on the dog and the
Speaker 2: dog's paw comes up with a gut and just shoots
Speaker 2: the guy.
Speaker 1: I watched it live. I was with my friends in college.
Speaker 1: I cried laughing, Oh god, it was so good.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it Roberts says, husky, No, oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a more innocent time, more innocent time.
Speaker 1: Those involved also used the Chief Petty Officer Association's debit
Speaker 1: card to pay off the one thousand dollars monthly starlink bill.
Speaker 1: Oh god, the network was not shared with rank and
Speaker 1: file sailors. Morrero tried to hide the network, which she
Speaker 1: called stinky. The name of the networkert was stinky. What
Speaker 1: that's crazy by renaming it as a printer, denying its existence,
Speaker 1: and even intercepting a comment about the network left in
Speaker 1: the commanding officer's suggestion box. According to the investigation.
Speaker 2: Wait, she renamed it as a printer, as a.
Speaker 1: Stinky the printer. Yeah, you know, Stinky the printer. You know,
Speaker 1: Stinky the printer, and then you denied existence, and then
Speaker 1: you intercept a comment about the network left in the
Speaker 1: commanding officer's suggestion box.
Speaker 2: So she went into the suggestion box and picked it out.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's crazy. Also, what the commanding officer
Speaker 2: just has like a comment box like it's.
Speaker 1: A yeah, like it's a health teachers class on Friday afternoons. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Marrero did not respond to the ap email
Speaker 1: seeking comment. That's shocking because you know she's got the
Speaker 1: internet in March, she was convicted at a court martial
Speaker 1: where she pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty and providing
Speaker 1: false official statements to commanders. I mean, this seems so bad, dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The Navy Times reported that, and then she was demoted
Speaker 1: to a chief petty officer after the trial, which must suck.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about the hierarchy of the military.
Speaker 1: A very good reason. I'd be first loser, if that's
Speaker 1: a thing. They'd be like, first loser. Get over here, yes, sir, yes, sir,
Speaker 1: right away, sir. I'm a woman. I'm sorry, man, right away, sir.
Speaker 1: And they're like, get out of here, loser. I just
Speaker 1: do my penguin walk away, and they're like, he's all right.
Speaker 1: Marrera was relieved due to a loss of confidence in
Speaker 1: her leadership. Yeah, she was due to a loss of
Speaker 1: confidence in her leadership abilities. Yeah, I could see that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's such a funny way to say it. Not that
Speaker 1: she's a bonehead. Navy senior enlisted leaders are expected to
Speaker 1: uphold the highest standards of responsibility, reliability, and leadership, and
Speaker 1: the Navy holds them accountable when they fall short of
Speaker 1: those standards. Commander Cindy Field said. Last week, a commander
Speaker 1: of the destroyer USS, John McCain, was relieved of duty
Speaker 1: after he was seen in a photo firing a rifle
Speaker 1: with a scope mounted backward, so the scope was on
Speaker 1: the gun backward. He was shooting it and the image
Speaker 1: brought the Navy considerable ridicule on social media, so he
Speaker 1: was relieved of duty. That's that's me. That's first loser, man,
Speaker 1: first loser. Fire that discharge that weapon? Ay aye man,
Speaker 1: Sir captain.
Speaker 2: That is that? That seems less malicious and more like, Oh,
Speaker 2: that's a bummer for this guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Maybe he's so good he wants it to be
Speaker 1: really far away. He he doesn't need any help.
Speaker 2: I like to make it harder on myself. I make
Speaker 2: it a hundred times farther away.
Speaker 1: It's like shooting through a keyhole. The best damn shot
Speaker 1: on this US S John McCain, destroyer man. Well, there's
Speaker 1: something you know. She flew too close to the sun,
Speaker 1: which is a reoccurring theme of banana stories. People get
Speaker 1: away with it, but as soon as that come in
Speaker 1: the she had to intercept that message. That is, when
Speaker 1: your goose is officially cooked, bail out, yea toss that
Speaker 1: starlink you know where the biggest goddamn otion in the world,
Speaker 1: the Pacific Ocean, and played dumb.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, shit man, you were you could have gotten
Speaker 2: away with it. I'll tease this into a thumbs up. Scottie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here it is.
Speaker 2: Swedish man survives in Snowden, car for two months.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, that's a long time. And how many snacks
Speaker 1: does he have in the glove box? Okay? Thumbs ups, Ruby,
Speaker 1: My buddy Ruby is thumbing her mom, Laurie up. Laurie
Speaker 1: came to our North Carolina show, our Raleigh show. Laurie
Speaker 1: broke her foot while building a sweat lodge in her backyard.
Speaker 1: She was getting a little crazy with santgri in a
Speaker 1: sledgehammer and one thing led to another in caple broken foot.
Speaker 1: Sweat yourself into health soon, Laurie. Thumbs up. Are gonna
Speaker 1: be okay, feel better soon. Sherry again, my friend who
Speaker 1: came to our Baltimore Autobar show. Cherry owns Birdie's Cafe
Speaker 1: and West, which is a great coffee shop. It's got
Speaker 1: great food, It's got a bookstore in there. It's so charming.
Speaker 1: If you live in Carroll County, Maryland, go to Birdie's.
Speaker 1: She's thumbing up her son, Xavier, who left college in
Speaker 1: Montana to become Sherry's caretaker. Cherry was diagnosed with a
Speaker 1: rare genetic disorder that required a liver transplant. She got
Speaker 1: that transplant in August. She's doing better. She's doing well,
Speaker 1: feeling better every day. But she wants a thumb Xavier
Speaker 1: up for just being giving twenty four hour care to
Speaker 1: your mom. What a great guy. And she also wants
Speaker 1: to thumbs up the organ donor who saved her life
Speaker 1: and by donating that liver. Absolutely Sherry, Happy Holidays. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to be in Maryland this year, but last
Speaker 1: time was Eric Kurt grabbed a coffee, grab lunch, chatted
Speaker 1: with Shery the whole time. It was fantastic. So glad
Speaker 1: you're feeling better. Thumbs up, thumbs up. Okay, this one
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to get through without tearing up, but
Speaker 1: we'll see. Heidi phrazy. I believe it's frazy. My apologies
Speaker 1: if it's Frazzy got married in October to her now
Speaker 1: husband Chris and wants to thumb him up. But she
Speaker 1: also wants to thumb her dad up. Heidi's dad has
Speaker 1: had many health issues throughout his life and recently had
Speaker 1: to have a leg amputated. His other leg is paralyzed,
Speaker 1: so he is in a wheelchair full time. Heidi still
Speaker 1: wanted to do you know, something special at the wedding
Speaker 1: with her dad, and since they couldn't do a father
Speaker 1: daughter dance. Growing up, Heidi's dad always took her fishing,
Speaker 1: so at the reception, while music was playing, they went
Speaker 1: to the pond at the venue and they went fishing
Speaker 1: together instead, and they caught a fish, and she says
Speaker 1: it was incredible, It was such everybody cheered. It was
Speaker 1: a very special moment and it was so much fun
Speaker 1: to do. So thumbs up Heidi, and thumbs up to
Speaker 1: your dad, and thumbs up Chris, your husband too.
Speaker 2: But that's so nice.
Speaker 1: They caught a fish out of the pond at the venue. Amazing,
Speaker 1: Oh so cool.
Speaker 2: Thumbs up.
Speaker 1: And last one, or at least this is a great one.
Speaker 1: I think you'll really like to swim Kurt. Victoria Grass
Speaker 1: is thumbing her three year old son Oliver up. They
Speaker 1: were in a car accident. They got rear ended and
Speaker 1: the car flipped over and it landed on Oliver's side
Speaker 1: and he was quiet the entire time. He was so
Speaker 1: brave and he never cried. And he was the only
Speaker 1: one in the car who got a bump. He's okay,
Speaker 1: it was only a bump. I guess that means on
Speaker 1: the head. And after a couple hours, Oliver began to
Speaker 1: process what happened to him, and it was recreating the
Speaker 1: crash with toy cars and told his older brother he
Speaker 1: was scared. He wasn't scared, but he didn't like it.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, what a great attitude. Yeah, thumbs up, Oliver.
Speaker 2: Thumbs up, Oliver. Oh my god, is that great? Yeah,
Speaker 2: it wasn't scared, but I did. But also I wouldn't
Speaker 2: recommend it.
Speaker 1: So thanks everybody. Thumbs up to everybody. Happy holidays, everybody
Speaker 1: would hope everybody's recovering from broken feet and liver transplants
Speaker 1: and got everything getting a little bump on the head.
Speaker 1: Glad everybody's doing okay?
Speaker 2: All right? Are you ready for this one? Scottie?
Speaker 1: I love having fun. Let's do it?
Speaker 2: Do you like having fun?
Speaker 1: Scotty? It's my number one thing to do when I'm
Speaker 1: having a good time.
Speaker 2: This one is in the Guardian.
Speaker 1: That's real.
Speaker 2: That's how we know it's real. It was sent in
Speaker 2: by the delightful and wonderful.
Speaker 1: Just Me.
Speaker 2: I found about It's an old one. I found it actually,
Speaker 2: here's where I found it, guys. I found it on
Speaker 2: survival expert on Instagram. What's an account for about survival stuff?
Speaker 2: This is from Sweden, written by Lizzie Davies. Lizzie Davies,
Speaker 2: Swedish Man survived and snowed best in two months. A
Speaker 2: Swedish Man who spent two months snowed inside his car
Speaker 2: as temperatures outside dropped to negative thirty degrees celsius.
Speaker 1: Yikes.
Speaker 2: All I know is that at negative forty degrees celsius
Speaker 2: it meets back up with fahrenheit, So negative forty fahrenheit
Speaker 2: and negative forty celsius of this.
Speaker 1: Time, I'm running the numbers over here.
Speaker 2: Okay, what's negative.
Speaker 1: Thirty SELFI celsius in fahrenheit is? Uh wow? That did
Speaker 1: Google's like, we're not going to finish that sentence for you.
Speaker 1: Minus twenty two.
Speaker 2: Minus twenty two very cold. Minus twenty two is the
Speaker 2: coldest I've ever been in Montreal, Canada. And I will
Speaker 2: tell you what negative twenty two feels like. You can
Speaker 2: have a full winter coat on a very warm winter coat, gloves, hat, scarf,
Speaker 2: and then if you don't have snow pants on, if
Speaker 2: you just have like jeens on, it is exactly one block,
Speaker 2: one city block before your legs start to go numb.
Speaker 2: What it is so cold as you're walking, it hurts,
Speaker 2: the wind hurts on your legs. And then after one
Speaker 2: block your legs start to like like they're you know,
Speaker 2: they're not like going into hypothermia or anything, but you know,
Speaker 2: it gets to the point where when they're warming up again,
Speaker 2: they get that tingle in that yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh. Shout out to our Antarctic. We have Antarctica been animals.
Speaker 1: I know a Leah Green. We send you a sweatshirt
Speaker 1: at some point, but she was at Palmer Station. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it's summer there now, I guess. But the videos
Speaker 1: out of Antarctica are wild. So shout out to everybody
Speaker 1: down there who's a ban animal? How you doing? Maybell
Speaker 1: come visit one day, I don't know.
Speaker 2: A Swedish man has spent two months known inside his
Speaker 2: cars temperatures dropped to negative thirty, is awake and able
Speaker 2: to communicate, according to the hospital treating him, while stun
Speaker 2: doctors believe he was kept live by the igloo effect
Speaker 2: of his vehicle. The man, believed to be Peter Skielberg,
Speaker 2: forty four, who was found near the northeastern town of
Speaker 2: Umeh In Friday on Friday by passers by, told police
Speaker 2: he'd been in the car since December nineteenth without food,
Speaker 2: surviving only by eating snow and staying inside his warm
Speaker 2: clothes and sleeping bag. Doctor Ulf Segerberg, the chief medical
Speaker 2: officer at New Orleans University Hospital, said he never seen
Speaker 2: a case like it. The man had probably been kept alive,
Speaker 2: he said, by the natural warming properties of his snowed
Speaker 2: in car, which would have acted as the equivalent of
Speaker 2: an igloo. This man obviously had good clothes, he had
Speaker 2: a sleeping bag, and he's been in a car that's
Speaker 2: been snowed over. Igloos usually have a temperature of a
Speaker 2: couple of degrees below zero centimeter centigrade, meaning like thirty
Speaker 2: degrees or something, and if you have good clothes, you
Speaker 2: would survive in those temperatures and be able to preserve
Speaker 2: your body temperature. Obviously has managed to preserve his body temperatary.
Speaker 2: He wouldn't have made it because us humans can't really
Speaker 2: stand being down like reptile, for instance. I don't know
Speaker 2: why he says the shrep dolls.
Speaker 1: Well, that's how we stay in charge.
Speaker 2: Two months. Two months was at the upper limit of
Speaker 2: what a person would be able to survive without food,
Speaker 2: added Segerberg. Skielberg was found amazated, very weak by a
Speaker 2: pair of snowmobilers who thought they'd found a crashed car.
Speaker 2: They dug down through about a meter of snow to
Speaker 2: seats driver lying on the back seat in a sleeping bag.
Speaker 2: They're amazed at what they found. A man in his
Speaker 2: mid forties huddled inside his sleeping bag, stary, starving, barely
Speaker 2: able to move or speak. A rescular told the local newspaper,
Speaker 2: Vaster Bolton's curin, it's just incredible that he's alive, considering
Speaker 2: he has no food, but also since it has been
Speaker 2: really cold for some time after Christ, how did he
Speaker 2: get here? Why isn't this earlier in the fucking article?
Speaker 1: How did he end.
Speaker 2: Up in his car? They just keep talking about, like
Speaker 2: the igloo effect works. We don't need there's a whole
Speaker 2: other paragraph on the goddamn igloo effect, but skeptical with it. Still,
Speaker 2: this is crazy.
Speaker 1: Buried in snow, there's nowhere.
Speaker 2: It doesn't. It just ends. The whole article just ends.
Speaker 2: It doesn't. My god, that was so that's so insane.
Speaker 2: That is crazy, just talking about how cold he must
Speaker 2: have been. And also why.
Speaker 1: Do people get so up in arms snowmobiles. They are like,
Speaker 1: it's snow machines. Have you ever heard of people that
Speaker 1: correct you? And they're like, it's a snow machine, But
Speaker 1: why isn't it called a snowter cycle? Better name. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna hop on the snowt cycle, take it out for
Speaker 1: a ride, take a cruise. And there is a bar
Speaker 1: up in Carroll County, in Westminster and it had snowmobile parking.
Speaker 1: It has snowbill, it's had snowmobile parking. This was in Maryland.
Speaker 1: It was up root there and oh got it. It
Speaker 1: was so damn I'm forgetting the name. But in the
Speaker 1: winter you would see snowmobile tracks cutting through cornfields and
Speaker 1: parked there. People would rather motorcycle or snowtorcycle and drink
Speaker 1: and then go away. And that I never got to
Speaker 1: do it, but boy, that sounds fun.
Speaker 2: It really does. Have you ever seen the people who
Speaker 2: do the snow machines snowmobiles on water?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very fun. Yeah, they seem like no problem.
Speaker 1: It seems like no problem.
Speaker 2: Seems so crazily like problem doing in the ocean. But
Speaker 2: then it's like it is a Yeah, it's like a
Speaker 2: thousand pound machines. Yeah, the instant it slows down, it
Speaker 2: just sinks directly to the bottom.
Speaker 1: No you better, Yeah, you got to open that thrott
Speaker 1: away up and lean back and go go, go, go go.
Speaker 1: I love snow machines. They are so fun. I've only
Speaker 1: ridden them two times, and man, they're fun.
Speaker 2: My dad was really into snowmobiles. He lived in Michigan,
Speaker 2: and I was just never it was always a child.
Speaker 2: I was always a child when I would have do
Speaker 2: these things. It was I never had the equipment that
Speaker 2: would make it pleasant for me, exactly everyone else did.
Speaker 2: And I'm from New Jersey and so I had like
Speaker 2: flimsy gloves, and so it would just be like there
Speaker 2: was one time we went across Lake Michigan to Mackinaw Island,
Speaker 2: so like it is, it's many many miles and it's
Speaker 2: a frozen lake at that.
Speaker 1: Point windy, and it's.
Speaker 2: Super windy, and where I'm driving my own snowmobile, I'm
Speaker 2: like eleven or something. Yeah, and it and my thumbs
Speaker 2: were like as if someone had cut them both off.
Speaker 2: It hurt that much from the wind and there was
Speaker 2: never any and I was just like, I'm cold and
Speaker 2: my dad was like that's fine. Yes, never any consideration
Speaker 2: of like is the child does the child have enough
Speaker 2: warm clothes on? It was fucking crazy. And then I
Speaker 2: remember going we went through snowmobile through like Yellowstone. At one point,
Speaker 2: my dad had money, my mom did not, so when
Speaker 2: I would visit my dad, we would do these crazy things.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so it was crazy, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. I did the same thing I was
Speaker 1: a kid. I was riding one in Maryland and we
Speaker 1: were on a big farm that went to the woods
Speaker 1: and it was all these older guys and it was
Speaker 1: a couple young because I was in middle school and
Speaker 1: same thing. My thumbs got so cold. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: we were like The fun thing was we were crossing
Speaker 1: streams like we were. You know, the trail would go
Speaker 1: through the woods and you come down, you go literally
Speaker 1: across the stream, and since we were the kids, me
Speaker 1: in the back, the older guys would rev them and
Speaker 1: throw as much mud on us as we could. And
Speaker 1: my hands the gloves covered in mud got frozen to
Speaker 1: the throttle, so that when we got back to the farm,
Speaker 1: I just had to pull my hands out of the
Speaker 1: gloves and then we had to like work the frozen
Speaker 1: mud gloves off the machine later. But like my thumbs
Speaker 1: were so called because they were covered in wet mud
Speaker 1: that froze them.
Speaker 2: And you had to use your thumb to hold the
Speaker 2: throttle the throttle down, yeah, which I never understood why
Speaker 2: it wasn't just like a regular motorcycle where you.
Speaker 1: Just turned to twisted.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these are things. Shout out to Jesse's the moora
Speaker 1: or a bananimal who keeps winning those ice fishing tournaments
Speaker 1: that he called the Bananas Funnels, Like go do it?
Speaker 1: Then he won like three in a row. He came
Speaker 1: to Banana's fest and got our signature's tattooed on his leg. Oh, Jesse,
Speaker 1: win it again this year. But also I want to
Speaker 1: go ice fishing with that dude. He was a super
Speaker 1: nice guy.
Speaker 2: All right, dude, send us home.
Speaker 1: Ooh god, they're flying by. Okay, this one's fun.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Deanna Knutsen sent this in Thank you. Deanna, you send
Speaker 1: a lot of good stories. We respect you, we honor you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for being a great pen animal. Uh. This
Speaker 1: was in news eighteen, written by that Swing and Buzz
Speaker 1: news staff. H. So you know it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: dumb story. US pastor uses his MMA skills to save
Speaker 1: a church from an axe wielding burglar. Now that is
Speaker 1: a headline. Also, this is a real story. It was
Speaker 1: in a bunch of news. I was like, is this onion? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: this is real. An axe wielding burglar was trying to
Speaker 1: break into the First Family Church in Antioch got caught
Speaker 1: by the pastor, Nick Nevies. The incident began shortly after midnight,
Speaker 1: when an alarm alerted Nevies about the break in. Upon arriving,
Speaker 1: Nevies found a shattered window and the intruder attempting to
Speaker 1: flee with stolen goods. The burglar attempted to run away,
Speaker 1: which led to a physical struggle in the church's parking lot.
Speaker 1: All Right, as I went to walk into the building,
Speaker 1: the suspect was coming out with a handful of our stuff,
Speaker 1: Nevi's told Fox News Digital. I told him to stop,
Speaker 1: basically putting him under a citizen's arrest. He added, nevis
Speaker 1: at s a wasted little time jumping into action. He
Speaker 1: is trained in mixed martial arts, including jiu jitsu and kickboxing. Quote.
Speaker 1: I practiced jiu jitsu and I did a little bit
Speaker 1: of kickboxing training also in the past, so I know
Speaker 1: how to defend myself, the pastor explained.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, cool.
Speaker 1: The pastor was able to grab a hold of the suspect.
Speaker 1: A struggle ensued for about twelve to fifteen minutes. Wow, okay,
Speaker 1: that is a long time to wrestle.
Speaker 2: It's a long time. Think about it. I don't even
Speaker 2: want to roll matches.
Speaker 1: Imagine just rolling back and forth on the ground by
Speaker 1: yourself for fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2: I'm tired, so crazy, it's so crazy.
Speaker 1: Actually, that's what it's not going to do. I'm going
Speaker 1: to kil my gym membership and just roll on the
Speaker 1: floor back and forth for fifteen minutes. Maybe I had
Speaker 1: some screaming U. He was very aggressive, but I did
Speaker 1: my best to subdue him without doing any true harm.
Speaker 1: Heavy's added Throughout the struggle, Nevy's relied on his prior
Speaker 1: experience to keep the situation as contained as possible using positioning.
Speaker 1: He said, I tried to maintain back control and that
Speaker 1: he wasn't able to strike me. Effectively, he stated, despite
Speaker 1: being in the middle of an intense altercation, Nevis did
Speaker 1: call nine to one one. During the physical altercation with
Speaker 1: the intruder. We were on the ground, and then I
Speaker 1: see this is also like you and I don't go
Speaker 1: to church. We're not religious guys. Yeah no, mo, but
Speaker 1: you could convince me to go listen to one sermon
Speaker 1: from this guy. I mean, hell yeah, he protects his flock.
Speaker 1: This is a shepherd that's protecting his flock today.
Speaker 2: The homily is about how to use the phone while
Speaker 2: wrestling folks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes you're wrestling with the devil and you got
Speaker 1: to reach out to someone. The original nine to one
Speaker 1: one jod herself is.
Speaker 2: A letter from Paul to the Pithians about rolling around.
Speaker 1: The Jiu Jitsuians. We were on the ground. I dragged
Speaker 1: him to where my phone was located and called the
Speaker 1: Antioch Police Department, who arrived and took the suspect into custody.
Speaker 1: Tharties later reported that he had an axe on him,
Speaker 1: which they said he used to break into the church,
Speaker 1: and they recovered it as evidence. I thirties referred to
Speaker 1: the incident as a battle of good and evil. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll let it happen this time. Yeah, because it's in
Speaker 1: a church parking lot and it is the actual pastor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll let him have this one. They also commended Nevies
Speaker 1: for having the bravery to go against the intruder. Okay,
Speaker 1: he had God on his side. If you have Jod
Speaker 1: on your side, go for it. Go and you can.
Speaker 1: If you have jiu Jitsu and John, you're almost there.
Speaker 1: In a sermon following the incident, Nevi's reflected on the encounter,
Speaker 1: thanking Jod for his safety while reiterating his commitment to
Speaker 1: helping others. God was very gracious and protected me from
Speaker 1: much harm there and quote he told the news outlet.
Speaker 1: And he also hoped that the burglar would think twice
Speaker 1: about the direction of his life. See that's I think
Speaker 1: he needed to do more. Think they need to get
Speaker 1: that burglar in that church and have them repent in
Speaker 1: front of everybody. I think this is a moment that
Speaker 1: they can really reel some people in. Oh yeah, give outside,
Speaker 1: put it on the thing outside, Yeah, put it on,
Speaker 1: Come on, put the thing out there. Well, you also hoped.
Speaker 1: The amount of the total damage from the break in
Speaker 1: was estimated to be about two thousand dollars, but mostly
Speaker 1: just due to the broken windows. That isn't deterring Nevis
Speaker 1: from continuing his church's mission to serve their community. First
Speaker 1: Family Church operates a food pantry which serves approximately one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty families from the local areas each week.
Speaker 1: That's awes sums up to First Family Church for.
Speaker 2: You guys for listening to this episode.
Speaker 1: Combs up to you, Curdie b. Congrats on all your
Speaker 1: recent TV success. You've been on TV a lot this week.
Speaker 1: That's very exciting.
Speaker 2: Yep, gotta go do it right now, baby, Go.
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Speaker 1: not meaner as you go. Be nice to each other. Everybody.
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Speaker 2: Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.
Speaker 1: The catchy Bananas theme song was composed and performed by Kahan.
Speaker 2: Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.
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