From TSA Changes to Meth-Fueled Joyrides: Tuesday's Wild News Roundup

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Ever had one of those mornings where the news feels like a rollercoaster of emotions? That's exactly what we're tackling today as we dive into stories that range from eyebrow-raising to heartbreaking.

The TSA might be rolling back one of air travel's most annoying requirements – taking off your shoes at security checkpoints. While many travelers will celebrate this convenience, it raises important questions about whether we're too quick to forget why these security measures were implemented after 9/11. Are we willing to trade potential safety for a few moments of convenience?

Then there's the absolutely wild story of a 57-year-old Florida man who celebrated his birthday by hijacking a Key West sightseeing train while high on methamphetamine. Somehow, he convinced an employee to hand over the keys, left his car running with rock music blasting in the parking lot, and even picked up unsuspecting passengers along the way. The details of this bizarre joyride get more unbelievable with each turn.

On a tragic note, we discuss the heartbreaking deaths of a newly engaged couple who were overcome by carbon dioxide poisoning in their wine cellar when dry ice melted. This preventable accident serves as a sobering reminder about household hazards we might not consider.

We also explore the strange new Gen Z phenomenon called "bathroom camping" – where young people retreat to restrooms not to use the facilities but to escape stress by scrolling on their phones for hours. Rather than finding solace in a tiled echo chamber while doom-scrolling, why not try putting your phone down, stepping outside, and feeling the earth beneath your feet? Sometimes the simplest solutions are the most effective.

What's the first thing you check on your phone each morning? Your answer might reveal more about your priorities than you realize. Share your morning digital routine with us and join the conversation about finding better balance in our technology-saturated world.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, hello, good morning, happy Tuesday.
Let's see what do we have foryou today.
Well, we have some off-the-walltopics, some tragic, some maybe
humorous, and some good news.
All right, the New York Post.
For those of you who do notthink that we were attacked on
9-11 by terrorists, this shouldbe happy news for you at long

(00:23):
last.
Tsa rumored to roll backdreaded security checkpoint rule
as early as today.
So, no more taking off yourshoes at the airport, tsa, check
in as you're going through thesecurity.
That should be happy for mostpeople, right?
I mean, you know, because it'ssuch a hassle to take off your

(00:44):
shoes.
Um, yeah, okay, whatever, Idon't want to hear any bitching
and complaining the next time aplane explodes in the air.
All right, you've been warned.
All right, not that I'm gonnado it, that's not what I meant.
Um, yeah, because you know,let's, let's lax the rules, you

(01:04):
know, because we don't want toinconvenience you at all, my
goodness gracious, all right.
Florida man hijacks Key Westsightseeing train for
meth-fueled joyride on birthdayand picks up passengers.
People don't do drugs.
People don't do drugs.

(01:29):
A man in florida was arrestedon his birthday, friday, after
authorities caught himabsconding with a trackless
sightseeing train and evenpicking up passengers while high
on meth.
Oh, isn't that lovely.
Jonathan patrick winslow wascelebrating his 57th trip around
the sun.
You know, when you get to bethat age, why are you still
doing drugs?

(01:49):
Oh, around the sun on a raucousIndependence Day when he turned
up at the Conch Tour traindepot in Key West and allegedly
weaseled his way into conductingone of their vehicles.
Goodness gracious, he looksgood for 57, though, even though

(02:10):
he's a meth addict.
In his mugshot here, not a lotof wrinkles, so I would not peg
him for 57 years old, maybe40-ish something.
So maybe you know, maybe themeth is good for him when it's
not.
Winslow allegedly bamboozled awell-meaning employee into
forking over the keys.

(02:30):
After what, how do you do that?
How do you bamboozle somebody,an employee, into forking over
the keys after claiming he usedto work at the company years
prior and requesting a tour ofthe train, according to an
arrest report?
What?
How do you?
Okay, first of all, you need tofire this employee who gave the

(02:51):
keys over.
The confused employee was leftin the dust when winslow
allegedly sped away, thinkingthat surely the stranger must
have had permission to take thetrain.
Not, he did not have permissionto take the train.
Police said after officersresponded to the depot when the
stolen train was reported.
It could be tracked via gps butwas apparently already downtown

(03:15):
.
Oh my goodness.
Authorities had a general ideaof who they were looking for
almost immediately, aswinslowlow had left his Kia
still running in the parking lot.
Oh my gosh, so he's doing methand he's driving his vehicle too
.
At least he has a car.
I thought he'd be a homelessman or something.
Oh my gosh.

(03:36):
So he left his Kia stillrunning in the parking lot of
the depot, blasting rock music.
According to an arrest report,police were able to nab Winslow
and the train was intact.
He'd somehow cajoled twooblivious strangers into joining
him for the ride.
What in the world?

(04:02):
Oh my gosh.
Winslow exhibited rapid speechand appeared excited, I'm sure.
Even when police told him aboutthe charges he'd faced, he
claimed he only borrowed thetrain again, insisted he used to
work for the company and notedthat today is my birthday.
Bless, bless his little heart.
Oh my gosh.
Winslow tried to insist it wasa weed pipe, but authority said

(04:26):
it was method meth, amphetaminepipe.
The short-lived conductor facescharges for burglary.
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, okay.
Well, there you go, only in KeyWest, right, all right, this
next story is kind of is notkind of tragic, it is tragic.
Oh my gosh, this is a horrible,horrible story that I'm can do

(04:55):
here Turn.
Uh, sorry, show reader, allright.
A newly engaged couple have beenkilled in their wine cellar
after melting dry ice built up alethal amount of carbon dioxide
carbon dioxide Wine lovers.

(05:21):
Deborah Putska-Tucci, 67, andKevin Willis, 68, were found
dead after neighbors called 911to their home in the Ritzy River
Oaks area of Houston.
This is horrible.
Firefighters noticed the fumessoon after they arrived about 7
pm on Friday and neededrespirators to enter the cellar
where the bodies were discovered.
Tetchy and Willis wereselecting wines from one of
their frequent parties, thistime for Independence Day.

(05:50):
Oh man, when they were overcomeby the deadly gas oh, this is
horrible.
Oh such, I mean senseless.
There was dry ice being storedin the wine cellar.
Houston Police Lieutenant Larrysaid when dry ice melts, it
turns into carbon dioxide.
Unfortunately, it appears thetwo people who went into the
wine cellar were overcome.
Willis and Tushy got engagedearlier this year and threw an

(06:12):
engagement party oh this ishorrible, how awful.
And through an engagement partyoh this is horrible.
How awful Uh touchy was.
A lawyer and an accountantposted dozens of photos of her
wine collection to social media.
Oh, this is horrible.
It's from the UK, it's dailymail.
If you want to go read it, Ihave it out there.
So my last story here is fromthe New York post.

(06:35):
This is kind of weird.
What is bathroom camping?
Why viral trend is the new rawdogging therapy at work a safe
place.
So the gen zers are going tothe bathroom to escape their
stress at work.
At least they had, at leastthey have a job.
If they have a job, but they'regoing and spending hours in the

(06:56):
bathroom, how come their bossesare not saying anything?
All right, this puts the restin restroom.
Thank you, new york post.
You're so clever.
Taking bathroom breaks withoutactually using the toilet might
seem strange.
However, beleaguered generalgen z-ers, I Zers are
increasingly sequesteringthemselves inside the lavatory

(07:19):
to scroll social media, listento music and otherwise shut out
the pressures of the outsideworld.
What pressures do you have fromthe outside world?
As detailed in viral TikTokvideos, I mean, I can see maybe
some pressures of the youngpeople.
Oh boy, I don't know, though.
I had a lot of pressures as ayoung person, but I managed to

(07:42):
survive.
Dubbed bathroom camping thisbizarre form of toilet therapy
can be performed in both publicand private restrooms and can
last hours on end.
Okay, now there's a problem.
Restroom camping gotta be oneof the top five investments I

(08:07):
made when I was nine.
Admitted TikToker Calm minute.
I can't even pronounce hisstupid handle.
I'm a restroom camper, declaredTikTok user.
Hendo in another viral clipwith over 135,000 views.
Every time something getsoverstimulating in my life.
Where I'm at a party orsomething, or even when I'm at

(08:28):
home, I feel overstimulated.
Let me go to the bathroom andlet me refresh a little.
What do you mean overstimulated?
What does that even mean if,even if you're at home and you
have to run to the bathroombecause you're overstimulated,
what does that mean exactly?
The chicago I don't know if Iwant to know the chicago tick

(08:50):
tocker, who claimed he's beenrestroom camping for 20 years,
admitted that sometimes he'll bein the bathroom for a couple of
hours, literally just thinkingabout life.
Oh hon, oh, you need to go talkto somebody.
There's nothing going on in thebathroom, he said.
There's no windows to look at,it's just straight me and me in
that bathroom.

(09:10):
Okay, y'all this is sad.
He even urged people to startinvesting in bathroom time, as
not only it is an effective formof mental detox, but, as he
points out, no one's going tobother you while you're in the
bathroom.
Well, that is true, you'reright about that.
Unless you have kids, you know,then your kids don't care if

(09:33):
you're in the bathroom or not.
This prompted TikTok commentersto cop to their lavatory
lounging ways.
I'm on the toilet just watchingTikTok.
Rn, said one, while anotherwrote go to the bathroom and
either jam music or doom scroll,so you're making.
So why, why?
So this is why you're over.

(09:54):
This is why you're stressed out, because you're doom scrolling,
but yet you need to go to thebathroom to do it.
Okay, no, no, I'm not evengoing to finish this.
This is ridiculous.
I mean, what do y'all think?
I don't even know what to say.
These poor kids, I don't evenknow.
Do I feel sorry for them or doI admonish them for it?

(10:15):
Y'all need to learn how to dealwith stuff.
Take your, put your phones downand go outside.
How about that?
Just put your phones.
But here, here's a, here's agood idea.
Put your phone down, take yourearphones off your head, take
your shoes off and go outsideand stand in your yard, put your

(10:35):
feet on the earth and juststand there and feel the
sunshine on you and the earthbeneath your feet.
There's how you can de-stress.
How about doing that?
Go for a walk, leave your phone, go.
Put your phone in your pocket.
Don't look at your phone.
Put your phone down.
That's the way to do it, allright.
Or perhaps you could pray andmeditate to do it All right.

(11:01):
Or perhaps you could pray andmeditate, read a book.
There are lots of other waysthat you can de-stress, instead
of going to the bathroom toscroll on your phone.
This is pitiful and sad.
All right, question of the day.
Well, speaking of phones, whatis the first thing you do in the
morning when you finallyeventually grab your phone?
What's the first thing you lookat in the morning on your phone

(11:22):
?
Mine is probably twitter.
Then I'll check my mail andthen I'll go to facebook, and
then, of course, I go to the newyork.
Then I go to my news apps tofind stories to talk about on
the podcast.
All right, gotta go.
Thanks for listening.
Love y'all, bye.