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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, guys, it's Bethany from the Michael J Morning Show.
You're listening to Michael J and Bethany after Hours.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Void ONEPOC Now, Trudy, we're just kind of going over everything,
looking at what what's poppins quite a bit, a lot
of layoffs in the education department you were talking about.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Department of Education announced fifty percent of its workforce has
been laid off. Now, I'm certain that there are people
listening right now that have been affected by that. So
if you want to chat about it, let us know
what's going on or how you're feeling or whatever.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Folks on the federal level, yeah, the Department of Education. Yeah,
and they're trying to push it back to the States.
But does that does that affect, like, you know, our
school boards.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
I don't know if it does or not.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I'm sure I think that part of the plan is
a lot of funding cuts, and I think that will
trickle down to us for sure.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
All Right, So the Ravens made quite a bit of
news yesterday. Still nothing on Justin Tucker, but big news.
Ravens fan DeAndre Hopkins Boom is a Baltimore Raven. If
you don't know about DeAndre Hopkins. He's an All Pro
wide out. He locked in a one year deal worth
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six million. He comes from the Kansas City Chiefs. Just
played in the Super Bowl, although they lost to the Eagles.
DeAndre caught a touchdown in that game, and they hope
for big things. It's a one year deal. We'll see
what happens. But it gives Lamar another weapon, yeah, somebody
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else to toss it to. And the other big news
from the Ravens Patrick Ricard has been signed for one
year as well. So Patrick's a really big guy and
he blocks for Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
So I'm we're just looking.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I guess they're looking to protect Lamar and give him
someone else to throw the ball to.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
And as far as the Southwest baggage charges, oh yeah,
mentioned that. Yes, so they said they were never gonna
charge for baggage, but they are going to now. But
there are a lot of people who will be exempt
from the baggage charges, so like if you have a
Southwest credit card or if you're a member of their
loyalty program, et cetera, so you can still get out
of it.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
So wait.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
One traveler interviewed on that Southwest story says after being
told she could no longer take her bags for free,
she then said, well, I'm gonna leave my old man
home ninety three point.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
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Uh huh, I see what you did there, all right?
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and eighty three. That's gonna be closed right now, So
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End is slow.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Another nice day in Baltimore, although a little cooler with that.
What do we hit yesterday at like seventy lows? It
was nice, I was loving life. We'll check the entire
forecast in the next couple of days.
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Ninety three point one woc.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Okay, so remember Kujo.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yes, they're remaking it, really, Yes, a horror story about
a mother and a son trapped in a car by
a rabid dog.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
They're making it.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
The original film earned twenty one million dollars worldwide against
a six million dollar budget. I wonder how much it's
gonna cost to making now, It'll be like two hundred million.
Oh can you imagine? All right? Denzel Washington and Jake
Jillen Hall's Othello has set the record for top grossing
play in a Broadway show ever.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Uh it's so you can watch it.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
It's on Broadway right now and they're saying it's really
good and it's making tons of money. So I think
that's interesting. Broadway's having a moment. Disney, this is this
is fascinating. So the new snow White like live action
movie Okay was scheduled to come out, but the stars
are all I don't know how to put this, speaking
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out against different things in their own agendas, okay, and
Disney is like not happy. Do you know how Disney
likes to keep everybody in a real straight line. So
Rachel Ziggler, gal Gado and Peter Peter Dinklish are all
stars of the movie, and they've all kind of gone
out on their own tangents, kind of speaking out, and
Disney has rolled back the press like they're like, you guys.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Don't get to go in front of cameras anymore. And
I think that's really interesting.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Tiger Woods underwent surgery yesterday after rupturing his achilles tendon.
And lastly, if you like Lea Michelle, she's going on tour.
Do you know Liam Michelle.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
She's from Glee, she was in Funny Girl. People absolutely
hate her and some people absolutely love.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
What don't they like about her? I mean, I don't
know much about her.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
She's like one of these like like, she's like a
Broadway kid. Okay, so I got you, but she's like
grown up, she's precocious. Yeah, she still acts like a
Broadway kid.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Oh I got you.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Some people are like I love that energy. And then
some people are like, ohay, all right, well there you.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
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Alrighty did that help put you in a better mood?
You know?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Well, Joe Nichols is always fun. Give me that girl.
Here on ninety three point one WPOC. Good morning, It's
Michael j. And Bethany. Just want to take a second
to thank you for sharing the morning with us. Thank
you for helping ninety three point one WDPOC get nominated
for Academy of Country Music Award for Major Market Radio
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Station of the Year.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Yeah, that's quite an honor. Somebody humbled.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Somebody had textaid, how do you guys manage when there's
only one person in the studio like on weekends?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
They it seems like we're doing a lot in here. Well,
we're not.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Well, no, we're spinning plates. We are, Hey, I have.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Heard some of the mistakes.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Well, we're trying our best. We are, hey, but we're
only human, right, And listen to what happened to a
poor woman in East Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Okay, yeah, I'm interested in this story. Give it to me.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Oh my goodness. She's a homeowner. Her name is Erica.
And you know you've had sewer work going on in
front of your place, you know, like a half years. Yeah,
they're putting new sewers in. Well, listen to what's going
on in East Baltimore. Her home has been flooded in
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the basement six times. She says she's called at least
twenty three times during those six events to complain about sewage.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Now here's what she describes.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Imagine having a basement bathroom.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Okay, so the toilet's in the basement, which many you
know Baltimore homes.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Do sure and put your real estate hat on for
a second, give me some advice, all right. So this
woman says she would hear her toilet kind of gurgling,
and then it would sound like it flushes. But she
knows no one's in the bathroom, you know, she can
hear it in the base down there, right. So and
then the next thing that happens, the toilet explodes, no,
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and sewage, as you can imagine what that is, comes
up from the toilet and goes all over her basement,
and a lot of it, like it was a huge
backup each time. Erica, the homeowner, says, I had to
throw all my items away because the smell was so
disgusting it made us all sick. If I couldn't wash
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it down, wipe it down, bleach it, it had to go.
It was so bad the home became inhabitable. Baltimore City
Solicitor Ebanie Thompson said, with sewer backups like this, I
can't defend the city knowing that no.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
One should have to go through this.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
So now this this has happened to her six, six
different times.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
That's terrible.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
As a result, the city has decided to give her
two hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
That's it, because.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Well that's what they're at. They say, uh, And they
asked what is she going to do with the money.
She said, I can finally fix and repair my home properly.
And I assume that they've been working outside the house
as well. Obviously it's some sort of a well that's.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
The thing, like, don't put the money into the house
if you know it's going to keep happening right.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Now, I what's that?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
It sounds like it's been repaired on the outside, all right,
And so now they're given to the money as well,
so she can go in and you know, you know,
get clean things off.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
She probably needs new flooring.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
She they aren't even replaced the bathroom with She said
it was twenty five thousand dollars just in plumbing and
work they've already put into the house that she was
spending and she's like, man, I'm out all this money,
you know. Plus we've been breathing and that's not healthy.
And then they had She's like, we got to leave.
We can't even live here. So and she said she
was gone so long. When she came back, she was like,
forget about it. Uh, you know, it was just it
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was horrible. Has to be redone and just it permeated
the whole house. So that's terrible. I wonder what the
if the neighbors are also. I don't know, but the
story is just about Erica getting this two hundred grand and.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Oh, I'm glad she got some money from the city.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Isn't that That's incredible? Has anybody ever heard of time? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Man, anybody top that? WO seven seven nine six two
is the text. Numbers start with hey or call eight
hundred and three two one thirty six ninety three.
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Be in that contest to win. So okay, good now listen.
True crime is very popular, right. People love to solve cases.
People love like just finding out, like what's sure. So
then yesterday Howard County closed their second oldest cold case.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Oh wow, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
It was a murder of a young lady in nineteen
seventy five. Roseanne starts in seventy five. They didn't know
who killed her for fifty years.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Dang, her family's been wondering for fifty years what happened
to her?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah, and there's a guy who they say did it.
Now they closed the case. He's already been in jail
because he killed other people. They found a tape where
he admitted to killing this young lady too, and so
so anyway, they were able to close that case. I
think that's really fascinating. Well, good job Howard County Police
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Department of Cold Cases. I love that they never stop
looking for their man or woman. Now I was thinking too,
and I was like, how do you I have questions
about this, like how do you know which case to
open back up?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Like sounds like they just don't close them. I mean
they're cold cases, but OK, they still does somebody like
you know, like the turnover in the department. It can't
even be any of the same people that were there
fifty years ago.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I watched Chicago pe d religiously, so I know they
never give up, so they.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Solve it in one hour flat.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Speaking of these cases of mysteries around murder for women,
this case has been captivating me four days after she
disappeared last Thursday morning on that Dominican Republic beach. You've
been following this woman. This story is sad and wild.
A twenty year old student who attends University of Pittsburgh
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and her family from Chantilly in northern Virginia has disappeared.
Everybody's been looking for. As of yesterday, the FBI joined
the search. Dominican police are reinterviewing people involved with miss
Kanank's disappearance last Thursday, but a lot more details have
come out in the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Yeah, they got camera footage and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Here's what we know.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Kananke's clothes were discovered on a portable beach bed close
to the beach where she went missing. The police have
found no evidence though, of any violence. Nothing looked.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
You know, she was with a young man that she
had met there.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Right, five women that went to the Dominican Republican factory
spring break, they're all friends, are all from college. And
then there were these two boys that were seeing with
them late after they went to the bar Wednesday night.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
So they get to the beach.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Run four am. You know, college kids out all night.
Five point fifty five in the morning. Kananke went back
to the hotel.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
The other women went back to the hotel, but Kanankee
stayed at the beach and at that point they went swimming. Apparently,
rumors started circulating yesterday that maybe she drowned, but then
police from Northern Virginia said, no, we're not convinced of
that yet. That's you know, that's possible, but that's not
what we know for sure. So anyway, they finally reinterviewed
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the man who was with her that has been released.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
However, his name is not being released all right.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
He told police though, that Kanank and him, two of them,
went for a swim and got caught by a big wave.
The man, according to sources, told police that when he
got back to the beach, he threw up and went
to sleep on a beach bed.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
So obviously they'd been drinking heavily, right.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
So they tossed around, they went out in the water,
he claims, there was a wave. He says when he
woke up, Kanaki was nowhere to be seen. Security video
showed the man coming back to his hotel room at
eight fifty five am alone, So.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
It seems like there it could be totally like innocent, accidental,
but it also the feels inconclusive.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
It feels like it's it's not going to be a
good ending though. That's just sad part about it. It's
just where is this young woman?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
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All right, we're closed right now due to an accident
Pulaski Highway.
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That's