On this episode of The Jubal Show, the team unpacks a wild true story about one man’s casual TikTok scrolling session that spiraled into a $60,000 disaster and a temporary federal lockdown. What started with a viral goose video ended with police, hot sauce, and a very confused burrito. Plus, we reveal which U.S. states scroll the most on their phones—measured in actual miles. From bizarre headlines to hilarious confessions about screen time, this segment will have you laughing and maybe rethinking your own scrolling habits.
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Episode Transcript
Be careful scrolling today. It could cost you thousands of
dollars and potential federal prison time.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's a jewel show.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
There's a story today making national headlines about a casual
afternoon of one man scrolling on his phone turning into
a sixty thousand dollars disaster and a temporary federal lockdown.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Also, there's a new study on which states scroll the
most and how that scrolling converts to miles. Oh, what
are the top cities who waste the most time on
their phone? And how did one guy almost end up
in prison and sixty thousand dollars in debt because of
scrolling on his phone.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
We'll tell you all that right after this. It's a
jebile show.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
How does scrolling on your phone turn into a sixty
thousand dollars fine and a federal lockdown? I'm about to
tell you because one man is making international headlines today
because of a crazy situation that happened when he was
innocently scrolling on his phone. It's out of cedar rapids, Iowa.
Here's the story. What started as a casual afternoon of
scrolling through TikTok turned into a sixty thousand dollars disaster
(01:03):
and a temporary federal lockdown for one unlucky man.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Thirty four year old Tyler.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Benchley was reportedly seated in his car on his lunch
break outside of a federal courthouse when he became engrossed
in a TikTok rabbit hole, allegedly unaware that his phone's
front facing camera was reflecting light directly into the window
of a nearby judge's office.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Oh oh, okay, Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
A federal employee noticed that the glint of light looked
to be like a long Oh. Sorry they A federal
employee noticed the glint of light coming through the window
and claimed to see what looked like a long cylindrical
object in Tyler's hand. Within minutes, a code gray was called,
evacuating the entire building.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Wait what did they think it was a gun? Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
No, like a long cylindrical object in his hand shining
through to a judge's office.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Oh, because that's what he saw on his phone.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
No, there was light reflecting off of his phone into
the judge's window.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
And then somebody saw him in the car and thought
he was holding a weapon. Oh, Tyler said, I was
literally just watching a guy of teaching a goose how
to skateboard. Police arrived to find him fully reclined in
his driver's seat watching a twelve minute conspiracy theory video
about how government secretly control the weather. What made the
(02:29):
situation worse was he also had an unopened package and
his passenger seat labeled Doomsday Spice Sampler, a novelty hot
sauce kit from Etsy that you could buy.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
This guy is not helping himself when it has to
exit the vehicle.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Tyler emerged holding a half eaten burrito and very confused.
He was detained for seven hours and the federal building
was locked down. No charge were filed, but now he's
banned from parking within five hundred feet of any government
building while using TikTok on supervised.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Okay, should be their fault because they thought it was
something that it wasn't. I'm really so embarrassed. Now they're like, well,
we'll ban him anyway. It's just because inconvenienceduffs.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I think you had TikTok on supervised, so you can
park within five hundred feet if you as somebody's supervise him.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
We'll use this TikTok if someone's watching it. It's so wild.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Also, they released a new survey, a new study on
the states that scroll the most on their phones, measured
in miles.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Oh, y, so how much you scroll?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
But then they converted it to the distance that you
would move through while you're scrolling.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Okay, I think Victoria would go the farthest. What is
that number?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
One place will tell you in just a second. But
Washington was second with one hundred and eight point two miles.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Scrolled on their phone.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Whyly followed by Kentucky, which scrolls about one hundred and
five miles.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Can that kind of make sense?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
But Washington, you'd think people are out being like Granola,
like hiking and doing all this stuff, like it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Don't you want to look at the mountain on your phone?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
You do?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Missouri one hundred and two miles per day. New Mexico
puts about ninety six miles on their phone per day.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Oh, it's insane. Are aliens in New Mexico?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Well? Also all the red rocks and like, I mean,
all these places have beautiful things to look at if
you just opened your eyes, Well not all of them.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Overall, the average Americans spend six hours and thirty five
minutes per.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Day on their phone.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Holy cout, which adds up to two thousand and four
and three hours annually.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I know when I've been scrolling too long, when I
start to feel nauseous. I don't know if this ever
happens to you, but yeah, if I'm looking at my
screen for too long, I start to get really nauseous.
And that happens, and I'm like, oh, I better put
my phone down. My finger's hurt and I'm gonna throw up.
I think I went too hard socrolling where you're feeling nauseous.
I think not that long. My body just has a
(04:47):
like whatever you call it, doesn't like it.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
It says the average person checks their device fifty eight
times per day.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I believe that.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah, I would too, because you checking, Like, if you
get any kind of ping with notifications on, you're gonna
check your phone.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
But does that count? What's scrolling like that? It's just
all yeah, that's part of checking your phone. Yeah, which
I'll okay, So that's okay.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
According to their data, the state that scrolls the farthest
is Arizona. People on Arizona scroll one hundred and fifteen
point four miles.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Wow, what are they looking at this is gonna sound
really messed up. But I found this new hole that
I like to go on, So I wonder if they
look at it too. But it's like it's like rush
talk or something like that where all the sororities, like
do these really advanced like almost.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Like cheers, like dances and stud Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Like when I was in college we did door chance,
we didn't have TikTok, So now watching this on TikTok,
I'll watch it all day long.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And a lot of the colleges.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Are in Arizona, really, so I'm wondering if they're all
watching the them do flips and like woo.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I don't scroll very often on my phone. I actually
rarely scroll. I never scroll, actually, But I did find
one video the other day that got me for a
little bill. It was it was this one dude doing
voiceovers of a monkey, and it was hilarious. I couldn't
stop watching it. It was so funny. They get them, like,
all right, I get I get how people get locked
into this
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