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Horrific crimes against children are happening right under our noses, yet mainstream media platforms remain suspiciously silent. We open with the disturbing case of seven individuals in Alabama arrested for operating a child sex trafficking ring involving victims as young as two years old. While they face potential life sentences if convicted, this story deserves national attention to ensure justice is served and similar operations are exposed.

Beyond this primary story, we examine several unusual incidents making headlines. A California surf instructor's claim that an Amtrak train severed her arm "without warning" raises questions about situational awareness and personal responsibility near railroad tracks. Meanwhile, the peculiar theft of dozens of peacocks worth $2,000 each from a historic California hotel demonstrates how even the most unusual crimes can occur in broad daylight with witnesses present.

The strange saga continues with yet another bizarre Planet Fitness incident – this time involving a naked man who refused to leave at closing time, subsequently tearing down ceiling panels, starting a fire, and ultimately being discovered hiding in a tanning bed. These stories collectively reveal something about our society's blind spots and the unexpected dangers lurking in seemingly ordinary places.

What truly matters in news coverage? Which disturbing realities do we face head-on, and which do we collectively ignore? Join the conversation by answering our question of the day: Who is the best movie villain? Your perspective matters as we navigate these challenging and sometimes bizarre current events together.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, hello, good morning, happy Thursday.
We have a lot to go over, solet's get right to it, shall we?
Alright, I don't even know if Iwant to bring up this one story
.
I do and I don't.
I feel mixed things.
I'm going to go ahead and bringit up first thing, and then
we'll hopefully end on lighternotes.
But this first story, I needy'all's help.

(00:22):
I need you to help me to blowit up all over social media,
because the mainstream media isnot covering this, and they need
to.
The mainstream media needs totalk about this story in Alabama
.
It's horrible.
Maybe that's why they don'twant to talk about it, but it
needs to be talked about.
This is from the New York Postto be talked about.

(00:43):
This is from the New York Post.
Warm Gator from I think that'shis name his handle on X brought
this to my attention yesterdayand, oh my gosh, I actually saw
the story before that, but Ijust skimmed over it because it
was too horrifying.
So if you have childrenhopefully you don't have
children listening to my podcastanyway you guys know it's not

(01:04):
kid friendly.
So here we go.
I'm not going to read all of it.
I'll read the headline and thenI'm going to read the names of
the people.
All right, at least 10 kids,some as young as two, sexually
tortured with shock collarswhile held captive as part of

(01:27):
Alabama sex trafficking ring,according to cops.
I'm not going to read the story, because you can go read it.
It's horrible, it's awful, andI think they're facing life in
prison and I want I want them tohave the death penalty.
And I've tagged Steve, ourAttorney General, steve Marshall

(01:47):
, in all of this.
Not that he's probably evergoing to see it, but I think
this needs national news.
As horrifying as it is, thisneeds to be exposed to the gen
pop, as Fury Energy would callthem gen pop.
So these are the names of thepeople allegedly doing this and
I say allegedly because that'show I guess illegally.

(02:09):
We have to say that and I knowpeople probably don't want to
name the names of theperpetrators, the suspects, the
awful people who do these crimes.
I think we should.
We need to drag their names outinto the light because they

(02:31):
need to be exposed.
So here we go.
Rebecca Brewer 29.
Sarah Louise Terrell 41.
Ricky Terrell 44.
Dalton Terrell 21.
William chase, mcelroy, also 21.
Andre velasquez trejo, 29 andtimothy st john 23 all face

(02:54):
laundry list of charges, rangingfrom sodomy and rape to sexual
torture and human trafficking.
Each player arrested thus farplayed a specific role in the
ring.
Trafficking each playerarrested thus far playing a
specific role in the ring.
So the last this VelasquezTrejo, would allegedly drug the
young victims, all between theages of 2 and 15 years old, by

(03:15):
putting white powder in theirdrinks, before bringing in
clients who would pay up to$1,000 to have sex with the
children.
We also need to track downthese clients too.
They're all demons in my eyes.
These people need to be broughtto justice.
Luckily they have.
They did have arrested, theyhave arrested them.
They are going to hopefullyface uh, hopefully, hopefully

(03:38):
face justice.
But I think the article I readthe other day said the charges
that they've been put upon, orwhatever you call it, they face
life in prison if convicted.
I believe and it needs to bemore than life in prison, in my
opinion they need to be straightto the death penalty and as

(04:03):
torturous as it can be.
I know in here in Alabama weput them to sleep with a shot.
I would rather see them hangedor in the firing squad.
I know it's a horrible or Iknow it's horrible story for
this early in the morning, but Iwant this story to reach the
mainstream media because peopleneed to know this is happening.

(04:26):
I think people go along withtheir lives and think, oh, la,
la, la la, they might hear astory about this and they think
it's so one-off type thing.
It's not that you know.
It's probably happening morethan you know, more than you
think.
All right, we need to move on.
Surf instructor, 24 years old,has arm ripped completely off
when clipped by an Amtrak trainwith no warning.

(04:46):
You know, when I first read theheadline I thought, oh gosh, a
shark bit her arm off.
Nope, arm ripped completely offwhen clipped by an Amtrak train
with no warning.
You know, when I first read theheadline I thought, oh gosh, a
shark bit her arm off.
Nope, has nothing to do withsurfing, but she's a surf
instructor.
First of all, let me tell yousome of the comments I've gotten
already.
Freedom Entrepreneur sayssimple solution ban Amtrak.
You can't ban Amtrak.

(05:08):
I think obviously this personis joking.
So MB writes no warning.
How about looking before youcross the train tracks?
And Nancy Vodka, soak Dentures,is commenting no warning, those
sneaky Amtrak trains.
All right, here we go to thestory.
So this chick California surfinstructor had her arm ripped

(05:29):
off.
Her name is Eliah Boyd, she's24.
Says she was in completedisbelief to look down and see
she was missing her arm, whichwas found several feet away,
allowing it to be reattached.
Oh my gosh, they reattached herarm.
This is crazy.
All right, there are no train.
There was no train horn.

(05:49):
It was like three seconds fromwhen I saw the train to when it
happened.
I call BS on this.
Come on.
First of all, she probably hadearbuds in Most people these
days, most people, young peoplethese days, have earbuds on and
they can't hear a damn fuckingthing, although you would think
you could hear a train horn,come on.
Or how about the vibration onthe ground?

(06:09):
You could hear a train horn,come on.
Or how about the vibration onthe ground?
How about that?
Can you not feel that?
She said I just happened tohave my hand still on the bike
as the train goes by.
The train barely clipped thebike just enough to take my arm
completely off.
Why were you so close to thetrain tracks?
The sickening injury took place.
Okay, we're not going to talkabout all that.
You can go finish reading thatstory over there if you'd like,

(06:31):
but she's going to be all right.
So they have pictures over inthe hospital with you know,
she's all right, she's going tobe, she's smiling, she's okay.
Wow, that's awful.
But moving on to the nextcouple of stories here, these
are more light.
Dozens of peacocks, worth about$2,000 a piece, mysteriously

(06:51):
vanished from historicCalifornia hotel.
All right, this headline ismisleading because down in the
story it tells you more.
They mysteriously vanished.
But then in the story it saysthat a witness saw a man with
cages pick up these birds andput them in the cages in the
pickup truck and drive off.
So that's not really mysterious, is it a tale of intrigue?

(07:12):
Dozens of peacocks, each wortharound two thousand dollars,
mysteriously vanished from thelush grounds of historic
california hotel, leaving thestunned staff suspecting a thief
snatched their beloved birds.
Just four of the 40 exoticbirds which freely roamed the
Golden State property anddelighted guests at weddings and
other events remained at theHyde Hotel in Walnut Grove after

(07:35):
the purported heist.
We're not sure why anyone woulddo anything like this.
Well, I have a few ideas, butthe staff is absolutely
heartbroken.
General Manager David Nielsensaid of the 36 missing peacocks
they really meant a lot to us.
Nielsen explained that hotelstaff became aware of the

(07:56):
potential theft on Sunday aftera guest spotted two men grabbing
the pricey peafowls and placingthem in a cage on the bed of a
pickup truck.
So there's no mystery there, isit no mystery there?
He said the friendly fowls werecomfortable with human

(08:16):
interaction, which likely madeit easier for the alleged
thieves to capture them.
The shocking incident is nowbeing investigated as a property
crime.
Okay, blah, blah, blah.
So how about you?
Probably have you heard thisstory.
I think it was in Ohio, wherepeople grabbing up geese and
taking them home to cook theseillegals out on the streets,

(08:38):
homeless people, I don't know.
Maybe, of course, if he has thecages in a pickup truck, he's
not homeless.
Well, he could be homeless, butmaybe it was a meal, I don't
know.
Can you eat peacocks?
I don't know.
I don't know.
What do you think is happening?
Why do you think this personstole these peacocks?
I don't know.

(09:00):
The story goes on.
I'm not going to continue.
You can go finish reading it,all right?
Last story here Naked Floridaman found hiding in Planet
Fitness.
What is going on with PlanetFitness?
Still with these crazy peopleat Planet Fitness.
I will not ever go inside ofPlanet Fitness.
I think is it Planet Fitness oris it Anytime Fitness.

(09:20):
I can't remember the difference.
Remember a couple years agothey allowed men to go in
women's locker room.
I don't know what is wrong withthis guy either.
He's got to be on drugs.
Naked Florida man found hidingin Planet Fitness tanning bed
after starting fire and tearingdown ceiling.

(09:41):
A little sun kissed.
So no tan, no gain.
So no tan, no gain.
Henry was spelled with two R's,by the way, unless that was a

(10:06):
typo Henry and Tunez.
Avrod's alleged nude rampage wasuncovered by Lee County
Sheriff's deputy inside VeniceFlorida gym just before midnight
.
Nothing ever good happens aftermidnight, although this says
just before midnight.
The 25-year-old all-natural gymgoer allegedly became erratic
and exposed himself after he wasasked to leave the facility at

(10:29):
closing time.
Saturday night, deputiesresponded to the planet fitness
on south to miami trail afterreports of a naked man running
through the gym, crawling intothe ceiling and attempting to
start a fire in the bathroom.
Good, you think he was on drugs?
Probably yeah, but let's makeall drugs legal, right?
Let's make it all.

(10:50):
Let's make legal.
Let's make drugs legal.
Deputies arrived at the gymfinding smoke lingering in the
men's locker room bathroom andstealing.
Okay, blah, blah, blah.
They get him, they arrest him,they take him into custody.
So there you go them.
They take them into custody.
So there you go Crazy peopleout on the loose.
All right, we need to move on.
I have over my 10 minutes Dangit.
All right, that's okay.

(11:11):
We need a question of the day.
Okay, completely off topic here, with the question of the day
who is the best movie villain?
I don't know that.
I have an answer to that justyet.
I don't know.
I'm gonna have to think aboutthat one that just popped in my
head.
Who is the best movie villain?
That is the question of the day.

(11:31):
I look forward to seeing youranswers.
All right, gotta go.
Thanks for listening.
Bye.