WEBVTT - The Fix is In: Competition Crimes 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.400 Ridiculous crime is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:04.800 Sarah, Elizabeth. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:06.559 Do you know what's ridiculous? 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:07.120 I do? 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:08.160 Yeah, go for it. 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:10.200 Do you have a second I'd love to share it 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:15.760 with you. Okay, you ever injured yourself taking a selfie? No? 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:16.119 I have not. 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:18.720 Okay, did you know that's very common. 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:20.400 Now, injuring yourself taking a selfie? 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:23.680 Yes, very very common. One in ten people have injured 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:25.520 themselves taking a selfie. 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:29.159 Now is this hurting their arms or their muscles, or 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:30.560 is this falling over. 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:32.879 All of their musculature as well as their bones? 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:33.560 Interesting? 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.400 Anything is at risk with a selfie? In fact, did 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.680 you know it is more dangerous for a human being 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:42.000 to take a selfie than to go swimming with sharks? 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:43.640 Oh? You're kidding me. 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:46.400 More people die each year from taking selfies than from 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:51.599 shark attacks. Selfie sticks. No, people just they trip, they 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:54.960 fall over cliffs. I know I shouldn't be laughing, right, 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:58.000 I'm rooting for the sharks too, because hopefully fewer sharks 0:00:58.000 --> 0:00:59.880 will be killed this way, because people are like, oh, 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:01.800 you don't need to be afraid of sharks. We should 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:05.880 start killing phones. I like that, hunting down and killing phones. 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:08.240 Sarah yes, Elizabeth. 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:09.679 Do you want to know what else is ridiculous? 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:10.280 I'm here for it. 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.360 Putting a fish in a fish to win a boat. 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:41.399 This is ridiculous crime. A podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists, 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:46.400 and cons. It's always ninety nine percent murder free and ridiculous. 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:49.800 You damn right, yes it is. Could you imagine if 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:51.160 we did the whole show. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.800 In NPR voices and NPR voices. I think that would 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:55.240 be very refreshing for some people. 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.480 I think I could do it. I'm not sure about you. 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:58.840 I might go to sleep though talking. 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:02.400 Oh, I definitely would. Are you a competitive persons? 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.880 Yes? Now, I'm very from a competitive family. I'm a 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.600 very competitive person. I don't I like to think that 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.320 I'm not one of those mean competitive people because I'm 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.360 not competing against other people. I'm only ever competing with 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.320 my show. I was taught that at a young age 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.519 and that's stuck with me. But I will get very 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:21.920 mad at myself for losing itself, right, it can be. 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:24.400 It can be unpleasant to watch me lose, But I'm 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.080 not mean about it. I'm just yea upset. 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:29.640 I like to say that I'm not competitive, Yes, but 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:29.960 you are. 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:31.359 Well, it's kind of like how I say, I don't 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.440 watch Yes, but I don't watch TV shows like the 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:35.679 smash Hit nine one one. 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.640 I just moved from Fox to ABC, and if I 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:40.000 watch TV, I'm not sure. 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:41.560 How I feel about Are you happy about that? If 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:42.359 you don't know if. 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:44.240 There's going to be meddling from the mouse house? I mean, 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:44.560 I don't know. 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.799 I don't know anything about it. Anyway, I say I'm 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:50.440 not competitive. It's almost true. 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:51.280 No, it's not. 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:55.040 I'm not competitive with like people in the workplace or 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:59.720 like other writers. Writers are competitive, oh god there and petty, yes, 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:03.359 And I'm not I'm happy for everyone whenever anything good happens. 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:04.919 Like I tend to be an actor, and I thought 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.679 they would be really competitive. Writers are so much more 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.800 competitive and petty and also undermining. They do a lot 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:12.760 of stuff with like campaigns. 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.520 To yes yes, And so that's why I kind of 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.840 like I've narrowed it down right. I don't really interact 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:19.280 with a lot of writers. 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.280 True writer behavior, you realize the lesson. 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:25.919 Not like socially competitive, like about status stuff like I 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:27.960 want everyone to see what kind of carry driver? 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:28.760 Without who cares? 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:30.800 I shouldn't tell people about this for a coat you're wearing. 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:32.680 Shut up? What is that? 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.240 Am though competitive when it comes to things like trivia, 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:37.040 Yeah you are. 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:38.600 I'm a beast. 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:43.040 Trivia like I become a whole another person, or games 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.520 like Rummy Cube or I've seen. 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.440 You play bar trivia where you made a table whole 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:51.680 table cry so and that family looked at me like 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:53.480 are you going to stop her? And I was like, look, 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:54.320 go back to your talk. 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:56.440 Brings out the best and the worst. 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:58.640 Yes, it does, because like I do really. 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.480 Well in various categories, like especially if there's word puzzles. 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:02.720 I used to go to this one where they had 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:03.600 handouts and. 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:05.840 Oh god, I. 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:07.720 Got in the zone. And then that. 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:12.920 I'm viciously competitive. My trivia team is called Steve Harvey Oswald. 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:14.600 You're on my trivia team. 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.240 You know. My brother's on a team now. He is 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.040 not competitive, No, he's not, but fun I make up 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:20.440 for it. 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.000 He gets a little competitive though, once you start winning. 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.880 He doesn't want to lose. You're winning, that is true, Yeah, 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:26.960 and he does. He wants to hang on. 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.360 I want to I become another person. It's totally wild. 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:34.719 I'm a true believer in obeying the rules. To an extent. Yes, yeah, 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.200 So like I won't check my phone for answers. 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:38.200 No, no, no, not like that. 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.600 But I do like to do little tricks that okay. 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:43.680 So like I like to pretend that I'm new to 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:47.719 pub trivia and then I loudly whisper supposed answers to 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:48.480 my teammates. 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:50.640 Oh yeah, and then I get all excited. 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:52.920 They're in on it and so and I'm like, oh, 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:54.320 I know the answer, and they tell me to keep 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.000 it down that the other teams are going to hear 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.240 me saying the right answer, and it's intentionally wrong but 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:00.000 like feasible. 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.200 So this is a pantomime you're pulling where you go. 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:06.680 It's a long time, it's bulcarrier. 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.760 And they're like stop, everyone's going to hear you, and 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:10.640 like but I know it, and then people are like, 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:16.080 oh crap, and like, so Traviy my brother, he's not competitive, 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:17.680 but like you were saying, like when it gets down 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.720 to the wire, he and I had an incident where 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:21.520 we brushed. 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:22.120 Up against cheating. 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.040 We were in a sudden death tiebreaker during a trivia 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:31.080 night on a Mexican riviera cruise. So there we are 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:35.680 off the coast of Portavada, winning our fourth straight trivia 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.080 night on the boat. Everyone hated us, which is we 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.360 come in and just dust them fourth straight, fourth straight. 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.680 I don't remember what the question was. I don't remember 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.240 what the answer was, but like we wrote on the zone. Yeah, 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.440 I was totally in the zone AutoZone. So we wrote 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.159 it down on a piece of paper and like showed 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.599 it to the to the host. He looks, and he 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:55.159 goes over and walks over and looks at the other 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:59.560 team's sheet, and like we may have heard a team 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.440 that had been eliminated mentioned the answer after we wrote 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:06.600 ours down after and then like we may have quickly 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:10.080 changed the answer on our paper, corrected, and then the 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.159 judge may have forgotten our answer and then come back 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.599 over to take a look aheah, and we may have won. 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:15.920 The whole thing. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:17.200 Oh that's cheating. 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.680 Yeah, and it was high stakes, Saren. 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:22.279 You want to get that fifth when? 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:23.800 No, do you know what the grand prize was? 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:25.479 No? What was it? 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:26.880 Luggage tags? 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.120 It wasn't even luggage, it was luggage. 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.839 My aunt was appalled by our lack of integrity. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:33.599 I'm with your aunt. 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:37.760 She she called them the luggage tags of shame. You know, 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.559 because since my behavior, my love language is shame and guilt. 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:42.479 That's how my behaviors are motivated. 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:43.800 I felt terrible. 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:46.800 I wound up like taking the tags and just setting 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:48.840 them on a bar in the leado deck and walking away. 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:50.560 Oh, I thought you're gonna throw them into the sea, 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:51.600 and like never was back. 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:53.160 That's that's pollutions Eric. 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.960 On a boat, like on a cruise ship, you're worried about, 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:00.680 like destroying the oceans. Hello, I couldn't live with my 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:04.360 little scam. Others though, the ones who wind up here 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:06.000 me talking about them. 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.479 They went all in for me. 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:12.080 Yeah, I have for you today some competition scandals. 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:12.640 Nice. 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:17.280 So it's not like cycling, doping or fixing college basketball 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.920 nop Okay, we're not living strong right now. These these 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.440 are as inane as cheating at trivia to win luggage tag. 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:27.720 Yes, that's what I'm talking about. 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.600 I still carry that guilt. I will never do such 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:31.320 a thing ever again. 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:33.320 I'm going to same time I see a luggage tag. 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.600 From now right now, it was not like me. That 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:37.000 wasn't me. 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.120 What are you willing to do to get these luggage tags? 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:41.559 What would you do for a luggage See? 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:45.440 That's what out of control. Competition does do it? I 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:49.040 think humans can't help but make things competitive. Yeah, you know, 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.560 taking pottery. Look, we have all these TV shows trivia. 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.880 You know what I love more than trivia competitions though. 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.000 Baking shows. Bears? 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.080 It was a bee. I love you do you really do? 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:02.000 I want to hug a bear. 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.320 I come into HQ sometimes and you're just sitting there 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.800 watching those videos you watch where they're sitting at the streams. 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:08.240 Cat my bear cam. 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:08.840 There you go. 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:13.800 That's my National Park in southern Alaska. They have they 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:19.080 have this bear camp. There are volcanoes in this park, salmon, 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.160 most importantly tons of brown bears. 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:23.320 So cute. 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:25.800 I want to go there someday and see them in person. 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:27.600 Yeah. 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.640 So, like in the summer, they have these decks that 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.560 look over the river and the bears come out and 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:36.080 they loll around, they gorge on salmon. You can watch 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:37.040 it on the bear cam. 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:37.560 As I do. 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:38.720 I've looked over your shoulder. 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:42.440 Yeah, you see like mamas teaching their cubs to grab 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.760 fish and like big papas just parking their RUMs in 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.280 the river rapids shoving it on there. 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:50.720 Oh yeah, they're so cute. 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.520 So anyway, Cat my They've capitalized on this love of 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.840 bears because I'm not alone, Sarah. 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:57.880 No, I know there are many of you. 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.559 And they hold they hold something called Fat Bear Week. 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:04.280 Wow I heard of this is good October. 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:05.520 Oh my goodness. 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.280 So in the in October, the brown bears that Catmi 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:13.079 they've been like prepping for winter hibernation by just gorging 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:17.240 themselves on sandpors. They increase that's they increase their body 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:18.560 weight by like fifty percent. 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.120 Yeah, they eat ninety pounds of food a day. 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:21.680 It's amazing. 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:22.880 Yeah, it's incredible. 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.720 So the rangers, they have all the bears, you know, 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:29.400 tagged numbered, and like the naturalists and the rangers at 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.600 the park, they take note of the physical state of 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:33.840 the bears, and so they decided, like, let's get everyone 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:34.280 in on this. 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:36.360 So they they teamed up. 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:38.760 With explore dot org that's the organization that does the 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:42.480 bear cam, and they let people cast online votes in 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:46.400 kind of like a March Madness style bracket Oh okay, 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.720 to determine the bear that has like most effectively and 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:51.400 impressively plumped up. 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.319 Oh the real like that that's really. 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:55.199 The big boss. 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.920 In twenty twenty three, AP News called the competition quote 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.560 Alaska's most watch popularity contest. 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.640 So it started. They started this up back. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.320 In twenty is the reality TV I could watch, yes, exactly, 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.920 Bears gaining masks exactly. 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.040 So twenty fourteen. It starts up. 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.080 Every year, it just gets more and more popular. Cat 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.079 My park rangers they pick twelve bears out of all 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.520 of them. They post two photos of the animals, one 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.200 taken in mid July and the other one taken in 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:25.000 early September. 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:26.160 There are a baseline photos. 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:27.680 Again, it's like a before and after. 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:28.000 Sure. 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:34.080 In twenty twenty two, Fat Bear Week was rocked by scandal. 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:38.720 How how one of the bears was cheating Organs. 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.000 Bear performance enhancing salmon. 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.959 The ballot had been stuffed, the ballot box. 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.160 Stuffed like the bears wait salmon. 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.360 In favor of a brown bear called Holly. 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.680 Oh the voters, of course, the humans are the cheerers. Ar. 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:57.320 So Holly's government name is Bear four thirty five, and 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:02.160 she was dusting Bear seven forty seven the semi finals seven. 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.960 But the numbers seemed hinky to the park ranger. 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.960 It was homegirls the first numbers seven. 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.880 Yeah, So it turns out Holly four thirty five she 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:16.320 jumped ahead in the in the votes because nine thousand 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.360 votes came in like pretty much all at the same 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:22.360 time for her, Candice Rush of Explorer dot org. She 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.960 told NPR quote, while not unheard of, it is very 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.040 uncommon for a bear to come back late in the 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.000 day like that. We ended up finding just over nine 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:32.360 thousand spam votes. 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:34.559 Wow, so someone just used. 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:38.600 Bots right the park. The National Park tweeted quote, like 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:42.280 bears stuffed their face with fish. Our ballot box too, has. 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.400 Been stuff they practiced that. 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.359 Sort of delighted with it. Oh my gosh. 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:50.920 Quote They're gonna put that on a tote bag. 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.840 It appears someone has decided to spam the Fat Bear 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.640 Week poll. But fortunately it is easy for us to 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.320 tell which votes are fraudulent. We have discard did the 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.960 fake votes, and today's official totals are for seven forty 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.720 seven thirty two thousand, nine hundred and forty votes for 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:11.960 four thirty five thirty thousand, four hundred and thirty votes. Okay, 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.760 so she lost by like, you know, seven thousand. 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:15.880 That was a final vote. 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.400 No, not for the for the semi final, that's for 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.640 the semi finals. So the organizers they have a slack 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.440 channel that they used to discuss the event. This is 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:29.120 like a chat function basically. So the messages were released 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.280 by the National Park Service under a Freedom of Information Act. 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:36.400 Oh my god, we haven't quit on them totally. 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.920 Quote maybe we shouldn't call a vote tonight. I mean, 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.720 we can't really honor the cheating. This is the discussion 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.520 going on on the slack channel. When the numbers showed 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:50.319 that seven forty seven had like whooped hollieh. The organizers 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:54.920 are amazed. Quote damn, that is a wide margin, wider 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:56.640 than seven forty seven's rear. 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.640 This is this is in the slack that they're just. 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:06.800 Completely amber Craft, who is the interpretation and Education program 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:10.120 manager at CATMAI. She wrote, quote if we say that 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.600 it was spammed, will that be what reporters are asking 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:15.200 about instead of staying on the interpretive message. 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:16.840 Oh, She's like, let's stay on message. 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:18.240 People like it's all about the bears. 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:22.160 Guys, come on, let's talk about big bears, the juicy 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:28.160 booties she was afraid of happened CNN, Jezebel, Rolling Stone, 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.080 Bloomberg News, ABC News, NPR. 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:33.240 They all reach out as they want to talk about, 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.920 you know, the chakinery so craft. She wants to keep 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:40.280 things on message, so she released the following statement quote. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.880 The important thing to remember, however, is that despite which 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:47.040 bear wins the most votes in the Fat Bear Week competition, 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.880 they are all winners. Bears get fat to survive, and 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:54.520 the health of Catmai's ecosystem, as demonstrated by the sustained 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.920 run of salmon, clean water, and thriving flora and fauna, 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.440 enables their survival. So everyone's like, this is such a 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:02.800 funny story, and she's. 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.920 Like, let me throw a blanket on all the fun. 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:09.880 So why why would someone do this? 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:11.960 I'd like to talk about a healthy ecology? Can we 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:12.760 talk from all? 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:16.000 I'm glad she kept it up beat too, So why 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:16.920 why would someone do. 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:18.880 This because they love a thick bear? 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:22.200 Well, one of the staffers thought, quote in the slack, 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:24.760 what's this out there? Is it mean of me to 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.040 wish the spammer had a lot of money? Writing on 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:27.960 four thirty five? 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.080 Oh my god, there's bear betting. I don't know, Like 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:32.720 you go into an Irish pub and you can bet 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:34.520 on a like I don't know, I. 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:40.600 Bet you you could see they will be anything up less. Quote. Well, y'all, you've. 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.640 Made it the weird corners of the internet tried to 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:46.240 rig the election. That's another Slack quote, and it was. 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:47.120 It's a big election. 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.280 The entire contest pulls in more than a million votes. 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:52.320 Okay? Is that a million unique votes? 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.760 I don't think so. Okay, but come on, make it 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:55.360 sound impressive. 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:56.200 Okay, I'm just wondering. 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:57.320 Quote. 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:58.920 As long as we find a way to bring it 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:00.840 back to the bears, I'm going to count it as 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:01.160 a win. 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:03.880 You want, Slack user, have you ever voted in this? 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:04.800 Of course I haven't. 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:06.600 Do you vote every day? 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.720 I don't remember you. Would you vote this last time? 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:11.960 Okay? Now, would you want to go and like vote 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:12.760 multiple times? 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.680 You don't vote multiple times, like for each round, I'll 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:17.160 vote one for the semi finals. 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.560 You know, for bracket you're not going through your various 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.000 online personas like I also want to. I'll go this 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.520 way through I use my work account. 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.440 And then just wondering, Well, so they uncover all this 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.400 ballot stuffing, and then the organizers they reviewed the other 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:34.080 matches for possible signs of tampering. Sure, and like a 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:38.440 dominion voting machine audit. It was discovered that the outcomes were. 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:38.960 On the up and up. 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:43.520 Oh wow, So that meant that Otis and Chunk who 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:47.360 were ousted midway through the contest, they lost on their 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.760 own merit or lack their own. And going forward, the 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:55.400 competition now includes a CAPSHA test to prevent bought interference. 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:57.040 So you have to be able to tell the computer 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.800 like where the stop which pictures have a stop light? 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:03.240 Or motorcycle crosswalk as a human, I can tell you 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:04.280 that's not easy. 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.240 Like I can't tell I like that fat bears and 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.520 like shoe beasts have to go through the same thing. 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.080 We need to get rid of the bots because they're 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:12.760 ruining it for everybody exactly. 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:16.440 So, like you know, back to the competition. Voters have 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.720 more than just the before and after pictures to help 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:20.520 in their decisions. 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:27.280 They have centerfolds like bear fans only bears. 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:28.840 No, they give little bios. 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:29.480 Oh okay. 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.720 Holly was first identified by park officials in two thousand 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:36.440 and one, and her coat is described as quote toasted 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:37.800 marshmallow in color. 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:38.440 Oh. 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:42.080 She's raised several loaders of kids. She's a hardworking mom. 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.280 Toasted marshmallow is an interesting choice because there's a broad spector. 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.720 It's a broad spectrum, and to me, toasted marshmallow is 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.080 closer to the black end because I liked it. Things burnt, right, 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:51.840 I do like I imagine to you it's more like 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:53.640 the coffee, and it's like, oh, I put a little 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:55.760 coffee cream in my coffee. So for both of these, 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:57.040 you can't picture. 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:01.240 She's sort of blondeared to her ears. She's uniform color 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:02.600 like her ears are a little bit lighter. 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:05.399 The former house painter in me is getting upset the 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:09.160 non specific use of color. Sorry, I will all back down. 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.560 She's a hard working mom. She is such a hard 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:14.080 working mom. In twenty fourteen, she took on an orphan 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:14.960 cub and raised. 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.120 Oh, single mom with an orphan cast. 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.920 She deserves to win. Oh, she's a champion. She did win. 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:24.000 She'd won a fat bear week twenty nineteen, and that 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:24.760 one she won. 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:25.200 Fair and square. 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.000 She's a thick queen. That year she was. 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.000 Bear seven forty seven. She's a real battye bear of 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:33.040 seven forty seven. He doesn't have a street name, oh, 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:34.840 or a river name. I guess she would say, you 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:36.960 just call him Mike. He's just seven forty seven, like 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:38.000 a Travolta hobby. 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:40.320 Oh, okay, that is his. 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:40.920 Number, forty seven. 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:42.240 They didnt give him a little theydn't get like a 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.640 little holly And okay, what's he like? Well you should 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:47.320 call him Sully because. 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.199 Oh my god, you need to get a job up there. 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:50.919 You'd fit right in. 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:52.760 I want to do that in name paints. These are 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:54.560 the things I want his jobs getting. 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.720 Bears names Sully Sully forty seven. 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:01.199 And he's a quote skilled in a angler who is 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:03.840 found fishing most often in the jacuzzi or near the 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:10.160 far pool of Brooks Falls fishing. He's the most dominant 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.760 bear and he was the twenty twenty Fat Bear Week champion. 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:15.119 Do you know how much he weighs? 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:17.440 I don't know. Eighteen hundred pounds. 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:20.920 Fourteen hundred pounds. He's one of the largest brown bears 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:21.320 on earth. 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:23.879 Yeah, I was ad thrown off because of grizzlies. I 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:25.520 know better. So my numbers are off. 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:29.320 So there's the voting scandal. There was a recount the 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:34.000 eliminated hanging chads when the dust settled seven forty seven. 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:36.640 The name of Bear Gore and another one. Just let 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:38.600 it have fun, let it let it run, Let's do 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.040 a classic come on guys throwbacks. 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:41.480 So seven. 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.280 Yes, he won the semi finals. He still had to 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:47.320 go to the final, of course. Yeah, and it was 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.359 there that he faced bear nine oh one O one 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:54.040 a quote medium small yet quickly growing adult female. 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:56.440 Oh aler, not a shower. 0:18:57.600 --> 0:18:59.800 She's a young gu six and a half years old. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:01.720 They live to be about twenty five years old. 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:05.200 I was wondering, yaw five and so nine oh one 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:09.400 maybe you know young. But she's like down to knock 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:11.680 a few buck if someone comes and tries to get 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:12.720 into her fishing spot. 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:16.239 Okay, she's super defensive. She's like locals only in her 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:19.560 little fishing get out the Way movie. Yeah, so he 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.080 you know, uh, seven forty seven took it. 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:24.760 But like, let's keep our eyes on that upstart nine 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:26.760 oh one oh yeah, over the coming years, and remember 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:27.560 vote early enough. 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:29.399 She's got a lot of competitive years up coming. 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:30.960 Yes, let's take a break. 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:33.119 Okay, when we come back, we're going to dance on 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:34.800 into another competition scandal. 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:59.520 Zarin, Hi, welcome back to the competition. Dojo. 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.000 Oh, I like what you're done with this place. What 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:02.600 color is that? 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:05.640 That orange safety because it's toasted marshmallows. 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:08.200 Okay, it's interesting color for the ceiling. 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:11.600 We heard about Fat Bear Week the most wonderful time 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:12.040 of the year. 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:14.200 I'm going to pay attention next time. 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:17.520 And like bears frolicking at the Tay Bears Picnic, we 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:21.280 now kick and leap into a new scandal landscape. 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:22.720 Irish dancing. 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:25.680 Oh yes, what the Michael Flatley's going on? 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:27.080 It's fantastic. 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:30.040 I like when you see grown women like get tipsy 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:32.200 and break out into Irish dance with their pals in 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:34.600 the middle of the street, like outside of Barn Sanfrances. 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:36.320 Now we've seen it. It's delightful. 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:42.680 Yeah we're talking like top half doesn't move bottom tornado. Okay, 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:44.560 craziest technique. 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:44.680 So good. 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:45.400 I love it. 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:48.600 And like the little girls who do Irish dancing have 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:51.679 major wig action. By the way, have you seen it all? 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:56.480 Like little ringlets? I am loving that for them? 0:20:56.760 --> 0:20:57.159 About it? 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.160 So Irish dancing. 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:02.440 It started out in parish halls and the Scottish equivalent 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:05.160 is the kaylee and that's super fun. 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:06.639 Let's say drums and jump in. 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:09.400 This starts like the daughter of drunks would get changed 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:10.639 thrown at their feet kind of dancing. 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:15.680 Probably children of drunk dancing around like you know, love 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:19.040 folk music and like any activity, though, people want to 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:21.520 turn it into a competition of course, so you're not 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:23.120 just all getting out there and having a good time 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:28.280 dancing a better dancer. It's especially popular with what I 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:32.840 will kindly refer to as the Irish diaspora, like Americans 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:36.359 who claim Irish ancestry in an aggressive way. The Massachusetts 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:40.080 what I like to unkind they like to unkindly refer 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:44.960 to as leprechaun Irish. You know, it's like houses full 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:49.360 of shamrocks and stuff like that, not tattoo. 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:51.760 You're talking about your own people. I get it listening. 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:54.560 Your grandpa's are a great grandposer from Ireland this now, 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:56.160 but we get to this generation. 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:57.960 A lot of nice cozy sweaters and. 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:00.639 So you know, yeah, there's like Irish this is huge 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:03.080 in that community, but also there are folks with like 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:07.560 no Irish ancestry who get into it. It's a global phenomenon. 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:08.440 It's what I'm trying to tell. 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:09.920 Okay, Yeah, So. 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:14.280 Anyway, there's a governing body for Irish dance called a commission, 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:19.240 the Rinki Gualaca. I'm saying that completely wrong. It's the 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:21.640 CLRG or the Irish Dancing Commission. 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:22.720 You sound like CLARG. 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:26.800 So it was established in nineteen thirty and it has 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:29.880 members on five continents and I don't know what two 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:32.359 are left out, but I'm guessing it's Antarctica or. 0:22:32.600 --> 0:22:36.880 Africa probably those are the candidates. Who knows, could be Australia. 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:38.160 Maybe they're just like we don't deal with. 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:39.240 They could be Europe. 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:44.280 Oh, could be Europe. That would be wild. It's like. 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:47.800 So CLRG. 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:53.439 They oversee international dance tournaments called Seshiona and they hold 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:57.800 these qualifying competitions in the US, UK, Australia, so I 0:22:57.800 --> 0:23:02.360 guess we have our cons there. They organized Ireland's regional 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:07.240 and national championships as well as the World Irish Dancing Championships. 0:23:07.359 --> 0:23:09.640 I was a two time champion. I know in April of. 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:12.840 Twenty twenty two they had that in Belfast. Thirty five 0:23:13.040 --> 0:23:16.320 hundred dancers showed up for this, so that's April. 0:23:16.040 --> 0:23:16.680 Of twenty twenty. 0:23:16.760 --> 0:23:18.240 We were so nervous, I know you were. 0:23:18.680 --> 0:23:21.520 In October of twenty twenty two all hell broke loose. 0:23:21.640 --> 0:23:23.840 Yes, I wasn't there that year. I quit did an ankle. 0:23:23.640 --> 0:23:25.959 Because like okay, as you well know, because you're a 0:23:26.000 --> 0:23:31.520 famous Irish treat the dance competitions are judged by dance teachers, 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:35.720 which makes sense, but apparently those dance teachers are easily 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:41.359 influenced and easily bought. They're thirsty, they're dark, and totally 0:23:41.359 --> 0:23:45.640 they'd been like whispers of bribes, favors that they would 0:23:45.640 --> 0:23:47.080 do and then grants. 0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:48.399 Someone stepped up. 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:52.320 An anonymous whistleblower steps up, hands off to the CLRG 0:23:52.600 --> 0:23:55.760 Proof of cheating during the summer of twenty twenty two. 0:23:55.920 --> 0:23:56.480 Hard proof. 0:23:56.720 --> 0:23:59.760 Yeah, it's pretty much all text messages like stream shots. 0:24:00.200 --> 0:24:05.399 So the dossier provided to c LRG contained text messages 0:24:05.480 --> 0:24:08.880 that talked about like how the dance instructors are trying 0:24:08.880 --> 0:24:11.080 to like lock in high scores for the students from 0:24:11.160 --> 0:24:15.080 these other teachers. There were even offers of sexual favors 0:24:15.080 --> 0:24:16.800 between a judge and a teacher. 0:24:16.520 --> 0:24:19.280 In exchange for a high score. Wow, I want to 0:24:19.280 --> 0:24:19.600 hear it. 0:24:20.000 --> 0:24:22.880 Yes, of course, I do you know who I am? 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:27.600 A judge wrote to a teacher, quote I didn't wax 0:24:27.680 --> 0:24:32.639 for no reason, followed by laughing emojis, and then quote 0:24:33.080 --> 0:24:34.120 half an hour's up. 0:24:35.160 --> 0:24:36.919 Wait what, I don't know what's happened? 0:24:36.920 --> 0:24:40.080 I don't know, So then the teacher answers shave now. 0:24:40.960 --> 0:24:43.000 And is that is that like a clock thing that 0:24:43.240 --> 0:24:44.680 kept pointing down half an hour? 0:24:45.119 --> 0:24:49.040 The judge replies, quote, that was all done before I 0:24:49.119 --> 0:24:53.119 got here, duh, And then he adds, quote no visit No. 0:24:53.280 --> 0:24:56.200 One hundreds and two winking laughing emojis. 0:24:57.320 --> 0:25:00.520 I love that. Now our evidence has emojic w emojis 0:25:00.920 --> 0:25:05.120 is part of and then winking emoji winking emoji. 0:25:05.440 --> 0:25:07.280 Teacher replies to no visit No. 0:25:07.320 --> 0:25:11.280 One hundreds quote, oh God, babe, put the a's in 0:25:11.320 --> 0:25:13.640 the air. I promise I will be there. 0:25:14.880 --> 0:25:15.480 Wow. 0:25:15.840 --> 0:25:18.280 And all this with an Irish accent, which you got 0:25:18.320 --> 0:25:20.200 to imagine that as well. 0:25:20.400 --> 0:25:23.920 In a less raunchy text exchange, a teacher sends all 0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:27.480 his students competitor numbers to a judge and then tells 0:25:27.480 --> 0:25:29.560 the judge where he hopes each dancer is going to 0:25:29.640 --> 0:25:32.640 land in the results. Oh, and the teacher says, thanks 0:25:32.680 --> 0:25:34.960 a million for anything you can do to help. So 0:25:35.000 --> 0:25:38.840 he's like, here all my students go, and how does 0:25:38.880 --> 0:25:44.040 the judge reply? Smiley face emoji is a reply. 0:25:44.200 --> 0:25:44.480 Sure. 0:25:44.920 --> 0:25:47.280 Later the teacher asks who's going to be judging one 0:25:47.320 --> 0:25:50.520 of his competitors in an upcoming competition, and he gets 0:25:50.560 --> 0:25:57.119 the list and he replies, holy duck, that's haunted by spelcheck. 0:25:58.119 --> 0:26:01.639 That is the panel from hell. So I guess he's 0:26:01.640 --> 0:26:04.399 spilled it right that time. And then he added quote, 0:26:04.440 --> 0:26:05.480 I actually want to puke. 0:26:06.000 --> 0:26:09.400 I do too, me three I thought I wanted to hear. 0:26:11.320 --> 0:26:12.240 You get what you asked for. 0:26:13.840 --> 0:26:17.000 Then the teacher writes later to the judge, quote begging 0:26:17.040 --> 0:26:19.480 if you were on and with a competitor's name, to 0:26:19.560 --> 0:26:22.320 do what you can xx, so. 0:26:22.320 --> 0:26:23.840 Like fix it, please make it happen. 0:26:23.880 --> 0:26:27.679 The judge replies, not a problem, they're just outright. A 0:26:27.720 --> 0:26:30.800 teacher on another one says she would quote really appreciate 0:26:30.840 --> 0:26:33.680 a hand with my good you eighteen, which is under eighteen, 0:26:34.400 --> 0:26:36.760 and the judge goes, absolutely, not a problem. 0:26:36.880 --> 0:26:38.800 I'd like a hand with my under eighteen. 0:26:40.440 --> 0:26:45.440 Then the teacher thanks him, oh xxx, thank you. Another one, 0:26:45.600 --> 0:26:48.200 like the teacher, says she has a dancer competing soon. 0:26:48.320 --> 0:26:51.439 Appreciate anything you can do, she says. Judge gives a 0:26:51.480 --> 0:26:55.760 thumbs up emoji, and then the teacher responds with like 0:26:55.800 --> 0:26:58.320 a kiss in a wink, it's just emoji's all over 0:26:58.720 --> 0:27:03.280 a cupcake. Uh there's A teacher writes to a judge 0:27:03.359 --> 0:27:05.919 saying she doesn't have her student's competitor numbers, but she 0:27:06.040 --> 0:27:08.800 does have their names and like pictures of them in 0:27:08.840 --> 0:27:09.720 their full costumes. 0:27:09.760 --> 0:27:11.600 These are kids, by the way, is that for the 0:27:11.880 --> 0:27:12.960 judge be able to recognize you. 0:27:13.000 --> 0:27:15.760 Yea, because they like, don't. 0:27:15.200 --> 0:27:17.600 Hit man, but you just don't do a judge exactly 0:27:17.640 --> 0:27:18.320 how this is. 0:27:18.720 --> 0:27:20.159 So she's like, here are all the pictures of the 0:27:20.240 --> 0:27:22.439 kids that I want to win all the competitions. The 0:27:22.520 --> 0:27:25.520 judge replies with a smiley winking emoji. 0:27:26.520 --> 0:27:28.800 So yeah, and maybe they feel like if they don't 0:27:28.840 --> 0:27:29.600 say it out. 0:27:29.440 --> 0:27:33.040 Right, that's what is legally binding because it was an 0:27:33.040 --> 0:27:34.200 emoji exactly. 0:27:34.880 --> 0:27:36.760 There's no court definition of this emoji. 0:27:37.760 --> 0:27:40.680 So a bunch of the parents and the dance instructors 0:27:41.000 --> 0:27:45.760 they told the Irish Independent newspaper that the competitive Irish dance. 0:27:45.520 --> 0:27:48.520 Community is like the mafia. 0:27:48.920 --> 0:27:51.280 Resident There was an American teacher who said that she 0:27:51.440 --> 0:27:53.720 was afraid to ask one of the crooked judges for 0:27:53.840 --> 0:27:56.320 just like the slightest thing quote because once you do, 0:27:56.440 --> 0:27:57.879 you're indebted to them for life. 0:27:57.920 --> 0:28:00.560 It's like the Godfather, I think the human beings. At 0:28:00.600 --> 0:28:03.640 this point, we have three analogies. Either something is like Hitler, 0:28:03.800 --> 0:28:07.439 slavery or the mafia or Harry Potter, like this is 0:28:07.480 --> 0:28:08.040 the worst thing. 0:28:08.080 --> 0:28:11.680 This isn't It's exactly we need, We need to read more. 0:28:12.880 --> 0:28:17.639 So the CLRG said in a statement in July the 0:28:17.720 --> 0:28:20.800 next year that had received the dossier and that they'd 0:28:20.800 --> 0:28:24.720 appointed a former appeals court judge to investigate, and the 0:28:24.800 --> 0:28:26.840 judge was given full access. 0:28:26.480 --> 0:28:28.240 To all of their records and all the emojis. 0:28:28.359 --> 0:28:31.480 Yeah, they made a statement quote, the process will no 0:28:31.520 --> 0:28:35.720 doubt be difficult and arduous, but this grossly unethical behavior 0:28:35.880 --> 0:28:40.920 must be eliminated from our competitions, dance schools, and governing organizations. 0:28:41.280 --> 0:28:44.080 We got Irish Dance to say. 0:28:43.240 --> 0:28:48.200 Now this is unethical. The Irish dancing message boards were 0:28:48.200 --> 0:28:53.120 on fire, y'all. People were calling for protests and events. 0:28:53.720 --> 0:28:57.280 They wanted CLRG to to like, yank the teachers and 0:28:57.400 --> 0:28:59.920 judges that were named in the text. 0:29:00.000 --> 0:29:00.920 So yeah, you need a whole new crew. 0:29:01.080 --> 0:29:01.240 Yeah. 0:29:01.240 --> 0:29:02.959 They wanted them absolutely, like you're out of here. 0:29:03.160 --> 0:29:05.400 You can't ban from the sport or whatever. 0:29:05.560 --> 0:29:09.640 Sondra Konnik, who's chairwoman of the CLRG. 0:29:09.280 --> 0:29:11.240 Oh, Sandy Conic, Yeah, yeah, she didn't know. 0:29:11.360 --> 0:29:13.520 She said she didn't know about all the fixing. Quote. 0:29:13.640 --> 0:29:15.200 I can honestly say. 0:29:15.000 --> 0:29:18.440 I wasn't aware, but it is very disappointing when you 0:29:18.520 --> 0:29:20.560 have something like that happen. You have to stamp it 0:29:20.600 --> 0:29:24.080 out immediately. It's not just acceptable, it won't be tolerated. 0:29:24.240 --> 0:29:26.400 As a former two time champion of Irish dance, I 0:29:26.440 --> 0:29:29.200 completely agree, you know, respect what we did. 0:29:29.280 --> 0:29:31.280 I know she was a dance teacher herself. 0:29:31.400 --> 0:29:34.520 Also, you don't have to stamp it out. Otherwise people go, oh, 0:29:34.560 --> 0:29:35.520 it's okay, this is your. 0:29:35.400 --> 0:29:38.360 Stamp it hey, hey, just like the dancing She was 0:29:38.400 --> 0:29:39.920 originally from Cork by the way. 0:29:40.160 --> 0:29:41.080 She moved Great County. 0:29:41.160 --> 0:29:42.440 She moved to the United. 0:29:42.160 --> 0:29:45.280 States thirty years ago and then set up the dance school. 0:29:45.800 --> 0:29:49.880 So anyway, there were disciplinary hearings within the organization. Forty 0:29:49.920 --> 0:29:53.000 four people were up against it. Quote this is what 0:29:53.320 --> 0:29:56.360 Saunders said. All forty four will have their day in court. 0:29:56.640 --> 0:29:58.920 The Commission is adamant that we're going to hear each 0:29:59.040 --> 0:30:01.800 and every one of these and the respondents. 0:30:01.240 --> 0:30:02.240 Have the right to be heard. 0:30:03.840 --> 0:30:06.440 She's trying to be fair for the dance fanatics that 0:30:06.480 --> 0:30:09.080 were found guilty, she said, quote, we're looking to punish 0:30:09.120 --> 0:30:12.160 them if punishment is due, or if there's no punishment. 0:30:12.200 --> 0:30:14.240 They're found not guilty, then just move on in the 0:30:14.240 --> 0:30:14.920 normal manner. 0:30:15.320 --> 0:30:18.000 Now, this is not a criminal proceeding. This is just 0:30:18.080 --> 0:30:20.920 like a cord of dance is doing this. 0:30:22.320 --> 0:30:23.040 Taking it to court. 0:30:23.080 --> 0:30:23.480 So hold on. 0:30:23.600 --> 0:30:26.680 So punishments, yes, right, I have to tell you. The 0:30:26.680 --> 0:30:29.080 punishments are kind of light, like they're not going to 0:30:29.120 --> 0:30:31.560 get whipped with the laces of the dancing shoes, not 0:30:31.600 --> 0:30:36.240 going to get If it's really bad, the purp has 0:30:36.280 --> 0:30:38.200 to step down from their position. 0:30:37.920 --> 0:30:41.840 Immediately on one, two, five, six seven. 0:30:42.840 --> 0:30:44.800 They wouldn't be able to run for office with the 0:30:44.880 --> 0:30:47.480 c LRG. Oh no, And they might get a fine. 0:30:47.760 --> 0:30:49.160 No, one's getting like knuckles broken. 0:30:49.440 --> 0:30:50.160 No. 0:30:49.440 --> 0:30:53.160 No, for smaller offenses, they might get written up and 0:30:53.200 --> 0:30:54.520 it would go in their permanent record. 0:30:54.600 --> 0:30:57.960 If this was ballet, there'd be corporal punishment. People would 0:30:57.960 --> 0:30:58.760 be getting hit with s. 0:30:59.040 --> 0:31:00.720 No, they're just going to get a and then they 0:31:00.800 --> 0:31:03.880 go ooh but teachers, Oh my god. 0:31:03.880 --> 0:31:05.960 They're rough nuns. 0:31:06.400 --> 0:31:09.680 So this thing, this didn't just taint the organization's reputation. No, 0:31:09.800 --> 0:31:11.560 I bet not hit them in the pocketbook, is what it. 0:31:11.720 --> 0:31:13.720 Oh, of course, so they were like all these crazy 0:31:13.800 --> 0:31:17.800 legal costs. People were dropping out of event event canceling. 0:31:19.160 --> 0:31:21.680 It added up to a million euro loss for them, 0:31:22.160 --> 0:31:26.360 is like, don't call us a million. They lost a million. 0:31:26.400 --> 0:31:29.360 That's like half of their membership funds. In comparison, the 0:31:29.400 --> 0:31:31.680 year before twenty twenty one they had a forty one 0:31:31.800 --> 0:31:35.520 euro surplus, which you know, it's not a whole lot, 0:31:35.560 --> 0:31:38.200 but they were they're, you know, doing really well before. 0:31:39.400 --> 0:31:41.680 One of the cases actually made it out of their 0:31:41.760 --> 0:31:46.360 internal investigations and was adjudicated in the High Court. Amanda Henigan. 0:31:46.840 --> 0:31:49.080 She was a judge who also runs an Irish dancing 0:31:49.160 --> 0:31:51.560 school in the UK. She took a case after she 0:31:51.680 --> 0:31:56.160 was suspended while the disciplinary hearings proceeded, and then the 0:31:56.200 --> 0:31:59.800 court lifted her suspension, but it ruled that CLRG could 0:32:00.360 --> 0:32:03.520 with their hearings and she denied that she had anything 0:32:03.560 --> 0:32:06.080 to do with it. She said quote no favoritism was 0:32:06.120 --> 0:32:09.200 sought or provided. When she was talking about all her 0:32:09.240 --> 0:32:12.840 text messages. She was a judge at the twenty nineteen 0:32:12.920 --> 0:32:15.160 All Ireland Championships. 0:32:14.480 --> 0:32:17.640 And they equally went after teachers and judge. 0:32:17.640 --> 0:32:18.440 Both sides of it. 0:32:18.720 --> 0:32:21.400 And she had texted appreciate anything you can do, and 0:32:21.440 --> 0:32:23.880 she was like, that's not I'm not trying to get 0:32:23.920 --> 0:32:25.600 it fixed. I'm just appreciative. 0:32:26.520 --> 0:32:27.120 Yeah, I know. 0:32:27.920 --> 0:32:32.040 CLRG lifted everyone's suspension and said continuing to fight the 0:32:32.120 --> 0:32:35.280 legal challenges would put them in a severe financial difficulty. 0:32:35.760 --> 0:32:37.560 So it was just was costing them too much money, 0:32:37.560 --> 0:32:38.240 so they gave up. 0:32:38.280 --> 0:32:42.040 We'd rather have the rumors of improprieting corruption because at 0:32:42.080 --> 0:32:43.640 least those were still a going back, And. 0:32:43.560 --> 0:32:46.160 They did make some changes to try and eliminate funny 0:32:46.200 --> 0:32:50.120 business in the future. Just like pub trivia, judges can't 0:32:50.200 --> 0:32:53.880 use their phones or other electronics throughout the day of judging, okay, 0:32:53.960 --> 0:32:56.960 And they don't have access to competitor phone numbers until 0:32:57.080 --> 0:33:00.240 right before the competition, okay. And they also. 0:33:00.160 --> 0:33:01.560 Change the way that the judging works. 0:33:01.640 --> 0:33:02.080 Quote. 0:33:02.560 --> 0:33:06.080 Typically at large competitions, you'll have three judges. We've put 0:33:06.120 --> 0:33:08.560 in five judges. Now we drop the highest score in 0:33:08.560 --> 0:33:11.160 case someone gets a really off the cuff mark. We 0:33:11.280 --> 0:33:13.480 dropped the lowest score in case somebody felt they were 0:33:13.480 --> 0:33:16.080 being penalized severely. We take the three in the middle, 0:33:16.120 --> 0:33:17.520 which gives a fairer playing field. 0:33:17.720 --> 0:33:18.200 Quote. 0:33:18.480 --> 0:33:20.720 I recognize the hurt that was caused to every teacher 0:33:20.760 --> 0:33:23.280 out there, including myself. When you send your children. They 0:33:23.280 --> 0:33:25.800 have invested so much of their time in their parents' time. 0:33:26.000 --> 0:33:28.760 For them to find out this was going on, that's devastating. 0:33:28.800 --> 0:33:30.000 That's the head of the place. 0:33:30.600 --> 0:33:32.479 What blows me away is that this is pretty much 0:33:32.520 --> 0:33:36.080 adults using kids to fulfill their desire for competitions. 0:33:36.160 --> 0:33:38.040 Sounds like everything I know about adults. 0:33:38.120 --> 0:33:41.040 Well, you know, it's like pageants, soccer. 0:33:40.760 --> 0:33:42.840 Leads, soccer, youth football, youth baseball. 0:33:42.920 --> 0:33:43.640 Everyone takes a two. 0:33:44.280 --> 0:33:44.960 I can keep going. 0:33:45.920 --> 0:33:47.000 Let's take a break. 0:33:47.640 --> 0:33:50.080 I need to listen to some ads, and you need 0:33:50.120 --> 0:33:52.520 to answer all those texts you got from your Irish student. 0:33:53.400 --> 0:33:56.160 Me and Joe Biden are not looking good. They're telling us, hey, 0:33:56.160 --> 0:33:57.280 don't call us, We'll. 0:33:57.080 --> 0:34:14.840 Be back in a flash. 0:34:17.719 --> 0:34:19.759 Hello, Hi, how you doing good? 0:34:19.840 --> 0:34:22.839 Good good. I'm getting ready to fight the real enemy 0:34:22.840 --> 0:34:23.239 over here. 0:34:23.640 --> 0:34:25.399 Look at you. Bring it back. 0:34:27.239 --> 0:34:30.400 We've had cheating in competitions, you know, like stuff in 0:34:30.440 --> 0:34:33.480 a fat bear ballot box, bribing a judge with you know, 0:34:33.640 --> 0:34:37.560 saucy offers. I cheated in act too, Yeah, exactly, But 0:34:37.640 --> 0:34:40.480 either way, people had their hand on the scale. The 0:34:40.520 --> 0:34:42.960 next group of no good nicks I want to tell 0:34:43.000 --> 0:34:45.799 you about did it kind of literally their hand on 0:34:45.800 --> 0:34:48.200 the scale. I'm talking about fishing competition. 0:34:48.239 --> 0:34:50.000 Oh yes, yeah. 0:34:50.600 --> 0:34:52.319 I have a good friend who's pretty much like my 0:34:52.400 --> 0:34:56.680 brother Pappy. He's honestly the best. I love him to death. 0:34:56.760 --> 0:34:59.240 Great nickname pay Yeah, and he's my brother. 0:34:59.280 --> 0:34:59.680 Anyway. 0:35:00.560 --> 0:35:02.480 He used to do those fishing tournament things where he 0:35:02.520 --> 0:35:04.200 had to like catch one of each of these fish 0:35:04.239 --> 0:35:06.759 on a long list, and he'd be like down in 0:35:06.800 --> 0:35:10.120 the Gulf of California, like off the Mendocino Coast, cruising 0:35:10.160 --> 0:35:12.000 around like a boat or a kayak, I don't know, 0:35:12.120 --> 0:35:14.680 checking off his catches. I loved hearing about it. It was 0:35:14.680 --> 0:35:16.760 super cool and it was like this huge broad range. 0:35:17.040 --> 0:35:18.840 You have a friend who's really into fishing, right. 0:35:18.760 --> 0:35:23.160 Yeah, My buddy Chris, he is an excellent fisherman, and 0:35:23.200 --> 0:35:24.960 we used to every morning we were house spanners together. 0:35:25.040 --> 0:35:27.880 We would go and fishing creeks and everything, and we 0:35:28.000 --> 0:35:31.120 take this john boat everywhere and he is an absolute 0:35:31.440 --> 0:35:35.320 menace on fish. Sometimes we would go and catch thirty fish. 0:35:35.360 --> 0:35:37.200 We go it to a hole and I don't know 0:35:37.239 --> 0:35:39.560 why I don't fish so well with other people, but 0:35:39.680 --> 0:35:42.839 he is a beast. He's Serbian. They're really good fishermen, right, 0:35:42.920 --> 0:35:45.080 So traditionally go a lot of culture, a lot of rivers, 0:35:45.080 --> 0:35:47.520 a lot of Yeah. So he taught me a ton 0:35:47.560 --> 0:35:49.399 about how to fish out here. Because I know deep 0:35:49.440 --> 0:35:52.160 sea fishing and East coast fishing, I didn't know the 0:35:52.680 --> 0:35:53.880 lakes and rivers you're used to. 0:35:54.880 --> 0:35:57.560 That's the thing is that, Like, that's what I'm gonna 0:35:57.560 --> 0:35:59.120 be talking about, is like when you're pulling it, just 0:35:59.160 --> 0:36:01.560 a ton of fish out of a lake or a river. 0:36:03.160 --> 0:36:08.440 These fishing tournaments, right, yeah, you're like glistening rods, night reels, 0:36:10.280 --> 0:36:11.200 fancy boats. 0:36:11.680 --> 0:36:12.640 YETI coolers. 0:36:12.719 --> 0:36:14.960 Yes, everywhere he goes us up on an Eagle lake. 0:36:15.719 --> 0:36:17.680 People go out there and like they're waiting at whatever, 0:36:17.719 --> 0:36:20.239 like four thirty in the morning, they sound an announcement. 0:36:20.320 --> 0:36:22.359 Everyone goes tearing off to get to their hole. 0:36:22.520 --> 0:36:24.800 Well, they want to do it because they're like high 0:36:24.880 --> 0:36:25.680 dollar payouts. 0:36:25.680 --> 0:36:26.080 Totally. 0:36:26.080 --> 0:36:27.000 They can make a lot of money. 0:36:27.040 --> 0:36:29.520 It's like golf, you can make cass anywhere you have 0:36:30.000 --> 0:36:30.680 fancy boats. 0:36:30.760 --> 0:36:32.520 YETI coolers and high dollar payouts. 0:36:33.040 --> 0:36:36.720 You can have criminals and you and me and Chris 0:36:36.840 --> 0:36:41.160 and so flim flammers at fishing tournaments. 0:36:40.760 --> 0:36:41.840 Have been a problem for a while. 0:36:42.000 --> 0:36:46.000 I bet yeah, tournament cheating was rampant in local tournaments 0:36:46.280 --> 0:36:49.000 for just years in the sixties. There was a guy 0:36:49.040 --> 0:36:52.320 named Ray Scott and he came up with the bass 0:36:52.400 --> 0:36:56.000 tournament circuit and he figured that like all the trickery 0:36:56.000 --> 0:36:59.520 would be discouraged if they charged huge entry fees that 0:36:59.640 --> 0:37:01.560 only serious professionals could afford. 0:37:01.640 --> 0:37:03.960 Oh, interesting, it didn't help. That's not going to work. 0:37:04.000 --> 0:37:06.000 No, cheaters find a way they could. 0:37:06.000 --> 0:37:07.920 They could cooborate their money and go, we'll get one 0:37:08.000 --> 0:37:08.560 cheater in there. 0:37:08.600 --> 0:37:10.880 Well and if if it's worth it, the stakes anyway. 0:37:10.920 --> 0:37:14.319 So there was l Row McNeil in nineteen eighty three. 0:37:14.400 --> 0:37:17.040 He tried to rig a fishing tournament in Texas and 0:37:17.080 --> 0:37:19.680 he had a pretty good con He went to Florida 0:37:20.040 --> 0:37:25.080 and he bought an enormous black bass, just massive, and 0:37:25.120 --> 0:37:28.040 he had this errated water tank fitted into his truck 0:37:28.640 --> 0:37:31.480 and then he drove the fish to his house in Louisiana. 0:37:31.520 --> 0:37:32.959 I think where you're going with this? Yeah. 0:37:33.080 --> 0:37:35.920 He picks up his co conspirator, his buddy, this angler 0:37:36.000 --> 0:37:37.760 named Terry Isam. 0:37:38.160 --> 0:37:38.920 Terry gets in the. 0:37:38.880 --> 0:37:41.480 Truck like Terry is like it's a religion, Like, oh, 0:37:41.560 --> 0:37:41.840 I'm a. 0:37:41.840 --> 0:37:47.399 Practitioner, I s a m Terry is is is We'll 0:37:47.400 --> 0:37:51.480 call it so Terry Terry. He had signed up to 0:37:51.560 --> 0:37:55.000 be in the road Runner Bass Tournament in Tyler, Texas. 0:37:55.000 --> 0:37:56.000 Oh, Tyler, Texas. 0:37:56.040 --> 0:37:59.600 Yes, so he and l Row, They Terry and l Row. 0:37:59.600 --> 0:38:01.560 They're in the truck with the tank in the back 0:38:01.920 --> 0:38:04.400 with a fish bobbing around in it. They get to 0:38:04.480 --> 0:38:09.200 the tournament. He you know, Terry's out there, you know he, oh, 0:38:09.239 --> 0:38:10.799 look at this thing, and he like, I guess I 0:38:10.800 --> 0:38:13.600 don't know that. He like stuck a hook into it 0:38:13.640 --> 0:38:14.359 and then. 0:38:14.719 --> 0:38:18.120 Oh, my gosh, you guys, and you. 0:38:18.000 --> 0:38:20.360 Know they it's just they made a ton of money. 0:38:20.560 --> 0:38:23.680 So l Row and all his buddies they're honing this con. 0:38:23.800 --> 0:38:26.160 They do it over and over and kidding, they did 0:38:26.200 --> 0:38:27.879 it way more than once, and they make a ton 0:38:27.920 --> 0:38:30.960 of money. He was able to scam three hundred and 0:38:31.040 --> 0:38:34.720 fifty thousand dollars from the Texas Bass Tournament circuit. 0:38:34.960 --> 0:38:37.719 Damn right. The judges got wise to. 0:38:37.760 --> 0:38:41.000 Him, though, and they eventually they called someone in to 0:38:41.120 --> 0:38:43.600 analyze the fish and they're like, this is not local. 0:38:43.719 --> 0:38:45.520 This is a local species. 0:38:46.360 --> 0:38:48.200 This is like, Nemo, get this out of here. 0:38:48.400 --> 0:38:50.280 This is a European fish totally. 0:38:51.160 --> 0:38:54.160 So in eighty five, nineteen eighty five, he and three 0:38:54.200 --> 0:38:58.600 anglers they got fines and five year prison sentences because 0:38:58.800 --> 0:39:00.360 and they pled guilty. 0:39:00.000 --> 0:39:01.319 Of course three fifty thousand fraud. 0:39:01.400 --> 0:39:05.359 Yeah, Im Terry, he's the government's star witness, which got 0:39:05.440 --> 0:39:07.160 him a lighter sentence in the lesser. 0:39:07.000 --> 0:39:08.719 Okay, he went snitched, Yeah. 0:39:08.520 --> 0:39:11.880 He snitched. But this isn't just an American problem, No, 0:39:11.960 --> 0:39:12.440 I bet not. 0:39:12.680 --> 0:39:17.080 Romania's national carp fishing team they were as crooked as 0:39:17.120 --> 0:39:27.360 they come, you star. They cheated their way to a 0:39:27.400 --> 0:39:32.800 win at the fourteenth World carp Angling Championships in twenty twelve. 0:39:32.920 --> 0:39:35.920 That was on their home waters. No really, it was 0:39:35.960 --> 0:39:41.200 held in Romania. The England national team thought something was fishy, 0:39:42.000 --> 0:39:45.920 so they lodged a formal complaint against the host Romanians 0:39:46.360 --> 0:39:49.839 because it turns out that like for months, the Romanians 0:39:49.840 --> 0:39:51.960 had been going down to like where they were going 0:39:52.040 --> 0:39:55.600 to go fishing and feeding the carp like a special 0:39:55.800 --> 0:39:58.680 local bait that would give them an advantage during the 0:39:58.719 --> 0:40:01.080 turn brilliant. And so they're just get this is the 0:40:01.080 --> 0:40:04.520 bait They're going to brilliant, fattening them up, and they're 0:40:04.560 --> 0:40:07.840 like creating a preference in the fish for their special baits. 0:40:07.719 --> 0:40:11.520 A little freaky fish treats and the Brits. 0:40:11.600 --> 0:40:14.799 The Brits use like a slurry of flour egg. 0:40:15.040 --> 0:40:18.279 And dog beans. No, it's like, you know, this is 0:40:18.600 --> 0:40:22.080 the English carp respond to flower egg and dog food kibble. 0:40:22.120 --> 0:40:26.400 It's you know, insert English cuisine joke. So the Romanian 0:40:26.480 --> 0:40:28.640 carp they're like, not about this, Like we have been 0:40:28.760 --> 0:40:31.320 eating delicacies and you want to give us this garbage 0:40:31.360 --> 0:40:32.920 where it's like a year ago they would have been like, 0:40:32.960 --> 0:40:35.480 sounds good to me, you know, keep spoon and pops. 0:40:35.880 --> 0:40:41.080 So that kind of baiting. It's not illegal, but it's unsportsmanlike. 0:40:42.320 --> 0:40:45.000 The fish apparently not okay, I guess the judge didn't 0:40:45.000 --> 0:40:45.440 think of it. 0:40:45.480 --> 0:40:50.120 Ian Huntington, team manager of the England carp team. He 0:40:50.200 --> 0:40:55.120 said their defeat was tough bait to swallow, so quote 0:40:55.600 --> 0:40:58.680 hard lessons have been learned and it has been a 0:40:58.800 --> 0:41:02.120 very difficult experience to pick the team and ourselves up 0:41:02.280 --> 0:41:06.840 after this event. It is obvious that any team fishing 0:41:06.880 --> 0:41:09.680 with the particular type of bait would do well and 0:41:09.719 --> 0:41:12.200 the rest would really struggle to get a bite. Within 0:41:12.280 --> 0:41:14.840 two hours of the match starting, we were asking ourselves 0:41:14.960 --> 0:41:15.919 questions about the bait. 0:41:16.239 --> 0:41:18.200 I understand that his team flounder. Is he going to 0:41:18.280 --> 0:41:19.239 keep carping about this? 0:41:20.000 --> 0:41:20.400 Yes? 0:41:21.120 --> 0:41:23.880 Yes, that was for you was so good. I felt 0:41:23.880 --> 0:41:26.279 that through my whole body. This is so good. 0:41:26.760 --> 0:41:29.480 So Romania they take first place in both team and 0:41:29.640 --> 0:41:35.680 individual categories. The Bulgarian, Siberian and Portuguese teams they were 0:41:35.719 --> 0:41:38.120 practicing at the same lake as the Romanians and they 0:41:38.239 --> 0:41:40.480 saw them in the lead up to it. They're like, 0:41:40.480 --> 0:41:43.319 what's you fishing with? And they're like, maybe a little 0:41:43.320 --> 0:41:46.520 bit of this, So they started using that same bait 0:41:46.560 --> 0:41:49.600 and that's why they came in second thirty four, right 0:41:49.640 --> 0:41:56.440 behind Romania. England came in eighteen. Well it wasn't just England, 0:41:56.520 --> 0:41:59.759 but South Africa and France came up empty two. 0:42:00.840 --> 0:42:04.000 How much fish did the Romanian team yank from the 0:42:04.040 --> 0:42:05.600 water in order to win the gold? 0:42:05.760 --> 0:42:07.960 How much? Elizabeth One report. 0:42:07.719 --> 0:42:13.840 Said one point seven tons of fish. That's just laying wasteed. 0:42:14.000 --> 0:42:14.480 I don't know. 0:42:15.360 --> 0:42:18.759 Speaking of England, they had a bass switcheroo, kind of 0:42:18.800 --> 0:42:23.720 like the one in Texas. Matthew Clark won Guernsey's twenty 0:42:23.760 --> 0:42:28.440 twelve Balwick Basque Club tournament. He pulled in a thirteen pound, 0:42:28.640 --> 0:42:29.640 thirteen ounce bass. 0:42:29.840 --> 0:42:31.319 Yea fish. 0:42:31.440 --> 0:42:34.600 Yeah, it was three pounds bigger than the second place fish. 0:42:34.760 --> 0:42:36.080 Okay, and you know it's. 0:42:35.960 --> 0:42:40.040 Usually like a game of ounces pounds ridiculous. So the 0:42:40.080 --> 0:42:43.680 winner was announced, and then Clark and the second place fisherman, 0:42:43.800 --> 0:42:46.560 Shane Bentley, they posed for photos with their fish, you know, 0:42:46.600 --> 0:42:48.440 like when they're holding up the line or like you 0:42:48.440 --> 0:42:50.200 know how someone they cradle it in front of them 0:42:50.239 --> 0:42:53.040 like they just caught a newly birthed baby. 0:42:53.080 --> 0:42:54.000 Congratulations. 0:42:54.080 --> 0:42:56.840 Okay, So my friend Chris posted those pictures on Instagram 0:42:58.200 --> 0:43:01.760 cradling baby fish, right, so babyish. 0:43:01.880 --> 0:43:04.960 Bentley the second place He looks over at clark'sfish and 0:43:05.000 --> 0:43:06.359 he realizes. 0:43:06.360 --> 0:43:10.200 I've seen that before, but where I can't fish? Yeah, 0:43:10.239 --> 0:43:11.880 I've seen I know that fish. 0:43:12.239 --> 0:43:13.640 I know that you know him. 0:43:14.000 --> 0:43:16.400 Where do I know him from? 0:43:15.560 --> 0:43:15.600 What? 0:43:17.360 --> 0:43:21.120 He recognized him from? The local Saint peter Port aquarium. 0:43:21.360 --> 0:43:25.640 Oh my god, he recognized aquarium. 0:43:24.640 --> 0:43:27.960 He said, he said, he tells the Express newspaper quote. 0:43:28.160 --> 0:43:31.040 It stood out because it had very distinct markings on 0:43:31.120 --> 0:43:33.320 its head. When the bass was lifted out of the 0:43:33.360 --> 0:43:35.960 tank for the photo, I thought, that's the fish from 0:43:35.960 --> 0:43:39.080 the aquarium. The next morning, I went to the aquarium. 0:43:39.320 --> 0:43:41.760 I looked in the tank, but I couldn't see the fish. 0:43:41.920 --> 0:43:45.680 Then the woman looked and she couldn't find the fish. 0:43:46.120 --> 0:43:50.080 So Clark scale the cliff. The winner, Scale the cliff, 0:43:50.360 --> 0:43:54.200 climbed a rope ladder and broke into the aquarium, and 0:43:54.239 --> 0:43:55.880 he told police that he was going to return the 0:43:55.880 --> 0:43:58.480 fish after the contest, but he dropped and injured it 0:43:58.520 --> 0:44:02.920 as he made his getaway. Quote he took it to 0:44:02.960 --> 0:44:05.560 a fish seller who didn't realize it was stolen and 0:44:05.640 --> 0:44:09.399 chopped it up. An aquarium spokesperson told The Express. All 0:44:09.400 --> 0:44:13.440 we got back was the head and tail. You know, 0:44:13.520 --> 0:44:15.719 I love animals more than anything, but for some reason, 0:44:15.760 --> 0:44:20.000 this is absolutely hysterical. So he got sentenced to one 0:44:20.040 --> 0:44:23.120 hundred hours of community service for that. Oh yeah, and 0:44:23.160 --> 0:44:27.560 then that brings us to the most infamous of fishing scandals. Okay, 0:44:28.160 --> 0:44:31.399 you know, like the Irish dancing Hullabluo. This one went 0:44:31.400 --> 0:44:34.799 down in twenty twenty two. Scan It's sort of what 0:44:34.920 --> 0:44:38.040 kicked off this whole episode idea, because we got a 0:44:38.080 --> 0:44:40.319 lot of recommendations for it, and I remember when I 0:44:40.360 --> 0:44:42.399 first saw the clip, I was like, oh, I gotta 0:44:42.440 --> 0:44:46.359 just show them this, So Jacob Runyon, age forty three, 0:44:46.760 --> 0:44:50.879 and Chase Kaminski, aged thirty six, two grown men who 0:44:50.920 --> 0:44:51.719 should know better. 0:44:51.880 --> 0:44:53.760 Oh no, yeah, I recognize this tone. 0:44:53.840 --> 0:44:59.080 So the Lake Erie Walleye Trail Tournament in Cleveland is 0:44:59.160 --> 0:45:02.600 high stakes. Oh yeah, big, thirty thousand dollars on the lines. 0:45:02.680 --> 0:45:06.160 Er Oh yeah, it draws dozens of teams, big sponsors, 0:45:06.200 --> 0:45:08.320 and you can win not just cash, but like super 0:45:08.320 --> 0:45:09.919 snazzy fishing boats. 0:45:09.800 --> 0:45:11.400 You know, kind of like the glitter paint. 0:45:13.400 --> 0:45:16.840 So since this is fishing and there's a lot of 0:45:16.880 --> 0:45:22.239 money on the line, the organizers routinely subject winners to 0:45:22.320 --> 0:45:26.759 polygraph tests. Do you remember remember Erlo McNeil, right, the 0:45:26.800 --> 0:45:30.040 Texas guy. Uh he and his crew used to get 0:45:30.040 --> 0:45:32.520 around those polygraph tests by taking kludes. 0:45:33.080 --> 0:45:34.880 What yeah, where are they finding kluds? 0:45:34.920 --> 0:45:37.680 Well back in the day, oh of course, eighties, Yeah 0:45:37.800 --> 0:45:40.919 they still so run In and Kaminsky, you know, they 0:45:41.000 --> 0:45:43.839 had a bang up twenty twenty one season. 0:45:43.520 --> 0:45:45.120 And they're used like GHB to beat the test. 0:45:45.200 --> 0:45:47.520 Well, there's no kaludes anymore, so I know. But the 0:45:47.800 --> 0:45:51.280 twenty twenty one they won more than three hundred thousand dollars. 0:45:51.040 --> 0:45:53.120 That came in in prizes. 0:45:53.280 --> 0:45:53.960 Impressive. 0:45:54.120 --> 0:45:56.839 Yeah, and they also lost some of that money when 0:45:56.920 --> 0:46:00.360 one of them failed a tournament's polygraph test of like 0:46:00.480 --> 0:46:02.080 you know, stockpiled luthes. 0:46:02.400 --> 0:46:05.399 So beta blockers. Oh god, I love. 0:46:06.800 --> 0:46:09.919 So they signed up for the tournament and they went 0:46:09.960 --> 0:46:12.920 out to catch the heaviest walleye and Lake Erie okay, 0:46:13.040 --> 0:46:16.080 and it seemed like they did. They pulled out four 0:46:16.200 --> 0:46:19.680 whoppers and they took the day. There is a viral 0:46:19.800 --> 0:46:23.759 video of the event, and it is amazing, of course. 0:46:23.920 --> 0:46:26.680 And since I can't show it, here's Sarin. I invite 0:46:26.719 --> 0:46:28.120 you to close you eyes. 0:46:28.400 --> 0:46:31.440 Oh yeah, I want you to picture. 0:46:31.719 --> 0:46:36.520 It's September thirtieth, twenty twenty two. The Ridiculous Crime Antarctica 0:46:36.560 --> 0:46:39.759 episode dropped yesterday and let me tell you you loved it. 0:46:40.440 --> 0:46:41.720 Who were you? 0:46:41.719 --> 0:46:44.640 Your name is Braden Lee Ryder. That's all one word, 0:46:45.000 --> 0:46:48.920 spider Man. You're a fictional attendee of the Lake Erie 0:46:48.920 --> 0:46:52.480 Walleye Trail Tournament. You aren't a fisherman. You just like 0:46:52.520 --> 0:46:55.799 their fashion and the smell of fish. So there you 0:46:55.840 --> 0:46:57.560 are on the shore of the lake with scores of 0:46:57.600 --> 0:46:59.880 other fish beans, all eager to take a look a 0:47:00.080 --> 0:47:02.200 winning catches. You heard their enormous. 0:47:02.280 --> 0:47:03.720 God, what a time to be alive. 0:47:04.560 --> 0:47:07.360 As men murmur and mumble around you, you watch Jacob 0:47:07.440 --> 0:47:11.200 Runyan and Chase Kamiski strut to the stage and accept 0:47:11.239 --> 0:47:14.320 their places first top Dogs, big Fish. 0:47:15.040 --> 0:47:16.520 Everyone hates them. 0:47:17.160 --> 0:47:20.080 They hoist two heavy walleye into the air, their oakley 0:47:20.120 --> 0:47:24.280 blade sunglasses reflecting the cloudy sky. They're under armour hoodies 0:47:24.320 --> 0:47:26.719 and blazoned with a mishmash of sponsor logos and the 0:47:26.760 --> 0:47:29.920 word Runyon Ranger on the back. This is their moment. 0:47:30.480 --> 0:47:33.600 And then the tournament director, Jason Fisher, I mean, can 0:47:33.680 --> 0:47:34.719 you are you kidding me? 0:47:35.120 --> 0:47:38.240 That is his real last name, Jason the Argonaut. 0:47:38.880 --> 0:47:42.719 Jason Fisher makes his move. Runyan and Kamisky. They put 0:47:42.760 --> 0:47:46.360 their catch into a milk crate. Fisher walks over, takes 0:47:46.400 --> 0:47:48.719 the crate away. He walks to the side of the 0:47:48.719 --> 0:47:49.799 stage and sets. 0:47:49.520 --> 0:47:50.440 The crate on the ground. 0:47:51.239 --> 0:47:53.840 After conferring with an associate, he lifts one of the 0:47:53.880 --> 0:47:56.080 fish from the crate and sets it on the asphalt. 0:47:56.600 --> 0:47:59.800 Runyon stands by, stone faced as Fisher takes a knife. 0:47:59.560 --> 0:48:01.600 From his potu. The crowd grows silent. 0:48:02.280 --> 0:48:04.479 Fisher stabs his blade into the side of the fish 0:48:04.520 --> 0:48:06.760 and draws it upward from the tail to the glassy 0:48:06.800 --> 0:48:09.560 dead eyes. He reaches into the guts of the walleye 0:48:09.600 --> 0:48:12.720 and pulls something out. It's a lead weight the size 0:48:12.760 --> 0:48:24.200 of a ping pong ball. The crowd irrupts. There is 0:48:24.280 --> 0:48:28.560 shouting for a freshwater sport. They share our using salting language. 0:48:28.600 --> 0:48:33.080 Saren Runyon stands there, silent, staring as fisher continues to 0:48:33.160 --> 0:48:36.560 slice open the winning catches, pulling out more weights and 0:48:36.600 --> 0:48:38.480 even fish filets. 0:48:38.840 --> 0:48:41.040 A filet of fish somebody else. 0:48:41.680 --> 0:48:44.560 Yeah, he's likes just each fish, tons of weights coming 0:48:44.560 --> 0:48:48.720 out of it and fish filets. They shoved extra fish 0:48:48.800 --> 0:48:50.520 into the fish to win a boat. 0:48:51.280 --> 0:48:52.240 Call the cops. 0:48:52.280 --> 0:48:55.239 One guy yells he needs to go to jail. The 0:48:55.280 --> 0:48:57.680 man standing next to you, holding his phone and recording 0:48:57.680 --> 0:49:00.000 the whole thing, ask the question on everyone's mind. 0:49:00.760 --> 0:49:03.920 You got anything to say? Runyan does not. 0:49:05.040 --> 0:49:09.680 So the five weighted fish were confiscated. Runyan and his 0:49:09.800 --> 0:49:12.720 pal get kicked out, and he's just he's just standing 0:49:12.719 --> 0:49:13.520 there the whole time. 0:49:13.840 --> 0:49:15.160 I'm just taking it as. 0:49:15.000 --> 0:49:17.560 Everyone's yelling at him and swearing, and it's just like. 0:49:17.560 --> 0:49:19.720 Going there on a dock, right, or I could. 0:49:20.960 --> 0:49:23.839 Right exactly and So, by the way, if you want 0:49:23.880 --> 0:49:27.120 to watch the video, search Walleye Tournament Cheaters on YouTube 0:49:27.160 --> 0:49:30.239 and there's one posted by any oh Outdoors that's it's 0:49:30.360 --> 0:49:33.640 like uncut, it's it's raw tape. They don't even bleep 0:49:33.680 --> 0:49:36.080 out all the bad words. It's it's it's heavy. 0:49:36.160 --> 0:49:39.480 So a grand jury indicted the two on charges of cheating, 0:49:39.560 --> 0:49:43.480 attempted grand theft, and possessing criminal tools, and the charges 0:49:43.480 --> 0:49:44.759 are fifth degree felonies. 0:49:44.960 --> 0:49:45.360 Damn. 0:49:45.560 --> 0:49:45.920 Quote. 0:49:46.320 --> 0:49:48.880 I take all crime very seriously, and I believe what 0:49:48.960 --> 0:49:51.960 these two individuals attempted to do was not only dishonorable 0:49:52.000 --> 0:49:56.560 but also criminal. Prosecutor Michael C. O'Malley chimed in. The 0:49:56.640 --> 0:49:59.520 dudes also faced a misdemeanor count of unlawful ownership of 0:49:59.560 --> 0:50:02.319 wild an animals, and that's related to the raw fish 0:50:02.320 --> 0:50:04.680 filets that they allegedly have on their boat to shove 0:50:04.719 --> 0:50:08.680 into the fish they caught. They pleaded guilty to cheating 0:50:08.840 --> 0:50:12.279 and unlawful ownership of wild animals. They were sentenced to 0:50:12.320 --> 0:50:14.560 ten days in jail and a year and a half probation, 0:50:15.120 --> 0:50:17.120 and they each also had to pay twenty five hundred 0:50:17.120 --> 0:50:17.600 dollars fine. 0:50:18.000 --> 0:50:18.400 Damn. 0:50:18.680 --> 0:50:22.000 Both men had their fishing licenses suspended. 0:50:21.880 --> 0:50:23.240 For three years. 0:50:23.520 --> 0:50:28.160 Yeah, maximum penalty allowed by law. Kaminski was also required 0:50:28.200 --> 0:50:30.960 to forfeit his boat worth one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. 0:50:31.239 --> 0:50:32.080 Oh. 0:50:32.160 --> 0:50:36.640 Michael O'Malley, the prosecutor, said that the duo quote deserve 0:50:36.719 --> 0:50:39.799 to have their fishing license suspended for life. These two 0:50:39.880 --> 0:50:42.680 should be banned from every fishing tournament for life. They 0:50:42.680 --> 0:50:47.320 are thieves and now they are convicted felons. 0:50:47.480 --> 0:50:48.960 What is your ridiculous takeaway? 0:50:49.320 --> 0:50:51.400 Oh Man, I would have tried, and I have to 0:50:51.440 --> 0:50:53.879 admit this to pull off the answer of I don't 0:50:53.880 --> 0:50:57.919 know what these fish have been eating, and I would 0:50:57.960 --> 0:51:00.640 have tried for a long time to save and they 0:51:00.680 --> 0:51:03.960 would have been filming that. I would have regretted it 0:51:04.560 --> 0:51:06.239 later on, but I would have tried it. 0:51:06.400 --> 0:51:08.440 I think that's amazing and I think they should have done. 0:51:08.480 --> 0:51:10.000 What's your ridiculous takeaway, Elizabeth? 0:51:10.719 --> 0:51:11.719 That was really good. 0:51:11.840 --> 0:51:14.680 My ridiculous takeaway is everyone should try their hardest to 0:51:14.719 --> 0:51:15.600 not be competitive. 0:51:18.640 --> 0:51:19.719 Not be competitive. 0:51:19.760 --> 0:51:20.480 Don't be competitive. 0:51:20.480 --> 0:51:22.239 I'm going to be less competitive than you are. 0:51:22.320 --> 0:51:23.279 I'm more talking to myself. 0:51:23.280 --> 0:51:25.239 I bet I could be less competitive. 0:51:24.760 --> 0:51:27.320 Than it could be way more or less producer Dave. 0:51:27.120 --> 0:51:28.880 Take note of this. 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