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Brian Kohberger's sudden guilty plea sent shockwaves through the true crime community this week. The Idaho murder suspect opted for a deal that removes the death penalty from consideration—a move suggesting prosecutors had amassed overwhelming evidence against him. While this brings some closure, many questions remain about what prompted this last-minute decision that abruptly cancels what would have been one of the most closely watched trials in recent memory.

Meanwhile, the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial has reached jury deliberations, though not without immediate drama. Just an hour into deliberations, jurors reported that one member "cannot perform his duties"—raising questions about the integrity of the process. The disturbing evidence presented, including video footage of alleged violence against former girlfriend Cassie, leaves us wondering whether justice will be served in this high-profile case involving allegations of abuse, trafficking, and intimidation.

Beyond these headline-grabbing cases, we're tracking concerning developments in transgender rights legislation, both domestically and internationally. The Supreme Court has rejected several pro-transgender rulings following their decision to uphold Tennessee's ban on certain medical treatments, while courts in other countries take dramatically different approaches. Most heartbreaking is the update from Boulder, where an 82-year-old victim of an anti-Semitic firebomb attack has succumbed to her injuries, reminding us of the deadly consequences of hate that often fade too quickly from public consciousness.

And in what might be the most bizarre crime story of the week: a Massachusetts man's fatal stabbing of his mother's boyfriend over how steaks were being prepared serves as a disturbing reminder of how quickly ordinary disagreements can escalate to deadly violence. The 41-year-old perpetrator, still living with his mother, reportedly "snapped" during the argument—a tragic case that raises questions about dependency, anger management, and the factors that transform domestic tensions into homicide.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, hello, good morning, happy Tuesday,
everybody, everyone.
Okay, what do we got going ontoday?
Brian Kohlberger, oh my gosh,what a shocking turn of events.
Yesterday early evening thenews broke that he decided to

(00:21):
plead guilty.
There will be no trial.
He decided to plead guilty,there will be no trial.
He did a plea deal to save hisass from the death penalty.
Uh, obviously there must havebeen overwhelming evidence and
so he decided to plead guiltyfor a life sentence.

(00:42):
I don't even know what thesentencing is going to be, but
it's not going to be death.
There will be no death penalty,that's for sure.
So I don't know what that means.
Is it going to be life inprison?
We don't know.
We'll find out later this week.
Also, in other news, the Diddytrial is in the hands of the
jury, and already they sent anote out to the judge.

(01:04):
Hands of the jury, and alreadythey sent a note out to the
judge not even an hour ofdeliberation saying that there
is a juror who cannot performhis duties.
What does that even mean?
What does it even mean?
I wish I could go find thestory and read it to you.
It doesn't tell us why, but thename was kind of a foreign name

(01:25):
, so I don't know if it's areligion thing, but if so, then
you should have revealed this inthe beginning when you were
being interviewed to be a juroron this trial.
So don't give me this crap.
Do your job and find him guiltyif they.
If, if sean diddy walks, I willbe so upset because the video

(01:48):
alone shows when he went and gotcassie and dragged her ass back
to the room by her hair, thatthat to me, that constitute as
kidnapping.
Now I you know what do youthink about that?
I've been trying really not tofollow it that hard because it
really sounds disgusting.

(02:09):
It sounds gross and disgusting,and I do blame these women a
little bit, because why?
Why did you keep going back?
You knew this about Sean Diddy.
Why did you keep doing this andgoing back?
Look, I'd rather be broke ass,homeless on the street than do
something like that.
Come on now.
Oh, all right, I'm sorry, Igotta move on.

(02:31):
Um, so you know I've been.
We really not winning this waragainst trans?
You know that right now I'mgoing to read a couple of
stories to you.
Well, not the whole story, justheadlines.
These are not the couple thatI'm going to read right now are
not here in america.

(02:51):
India state court declarestransgender men qualify as women
under the law.
This is from LifeSite News andagain, this is in India, not
here in America, but it doesn'tmean it's not coming here too.
A state high court in India hasruled that transgender

(03:13):
identifying men must berecognized as women under the
law.
This is terrifying.
This is terrifying.
I'm not going to read thatwhole thing to you, except that
it's terrifying.
Also, in Alberta, canada, judgesides with LGBT activists.
Allows gender transitions forkids to continue.

(03:33):
Canada, what the F is wrongwith you?
I just I'm without speech.
Lgbt activists have won aninjunction that prevents the
Alberta government fromrestricting gender transitions
for children.
On June 27th, alberta KingsCourt Justice Allison Koontz

(03:56):
granted a temporary injunctionagainst legislation that
prohibited minors under the ageof 16 from undergoing
irreversible sex changesurgeries or taking puberty
blockers.
So to me that reads that yes,you can take your child under 16
years old and mutilate theirlittle bodies.

(04:18):
Y'all are effed up.
Y'all are just effed up.
I don't even know what to sayto you anymore, really.
Moving on to a different topicNow, do you remember back?
I think it was in Colorado.
This is from the New York Post.
Yes, in Colorado post.
Yes, in colorado.
The victim, 82 year old, diesweeks after anti-semitic

(04:38):
firebomb attack in boulder.
Suspects charged with murderremember this guy shooting off
fire, fire bombs, at the peoplethat were there to peacefully um
protest, not protest, but Idon't know what they were doing.
An 82 year old victim of theboulder, colorado, anti-semitic

(05:00):
firebomb attack has died weeksafter she was badly burned.
You remember?
You remember this, but you knowit's been several news cycles
since this happened, so weprobably, people, have probably
forgotten all about it.
The way move, the way the newsmoves.
These days, karen diamond, whowas among the 29 victims 29
victims who were attacked whilepeacefully marching to support

(05:23):
the israeli hostages still heldcaptive by hamas succumbed to
her severe injuries.
The boulder county districtthis is so sad bless.
The suspect, muhammad solomon,is facing upgraded charges,
including two counts of firstdegree murder.
Good, fry his motherfucking ass.
Sorry, not, sorry, not sorry,all right.

(05:48):
Supreme court throws outappellate rulings in favor of
transgender people in fourstates.
Now this is here in America,abc News.
I'm not going to read the wholething.
The Supreme Court has thrownout appellate rulings in favor

(06:09):
of transgender people in fourstates following the justice's
recent decision upholding aTennessee ban on certain medical
treatment for transgender youth.
That's a mouthful mouthful, Ireally.
That's kind of confusing.
I wish they would just useshort sentences.
The supreme court on mondaythrew out so they're not going
to listen to these cases rightappellate rulings in favor of
transgender people in fourstates following the justice's

(06:31):
recent decision upholding atennessee ban on.
What does that even mean?
They make it so confusing.
Just use short sentences anduse regular words.
Okay, people, but the justicestook no action in cases from
Arizona, idaho, west Virginiainvolving the participation of
transgender students on schoolsports teams.

(06:54):
The court could say as soon asThursday whether it will take up
the issue in the next term.
The high court orderedappellate judges to re-examine
cases from Idaho, north Carolina, oklahoma and West Virginia
involving access to medical careand birth certificates.
The action was unsurprisingbecause the court had set the

(07:15):
cases aside until after itdecided the Tennessee case, as
typically happens when the samelegal issue is being considered.
Okay, so I still don't know whatthat means.
You can go finish reading thatover there.
We have not won the transgenderwar by any stretch of the
imagination.
Make that perfectly clear.
This is still an ongoing issue.

(07:36):
Executive orders be damned.
Executive orders be damned.
Executive orders mean nothing.
Zero, nada, zip, nothing.
Okay, we need to get some lawson the book, which I think is
ridiculous, that we even needlaws on the book instead of
using our fucking common sensethat men are men, women are
women.
They should not be in the samespaces together.

(07:58):
Okay, okay, that's my take.
Not that my little voice herein north alabama is going to
make a damn bit of difference.
It's not.
I think.
Once I get to a thousandepisodes on this podcast, I'm
calling it quits, because really, what good am I doing here?

(08:20):
Last one, this is quite thestory y'all.
How do you like your steaks?
How do you like your steaks?
Apparently, some guy here, thisMassachusetts man, feels very
strongly about his steaks,because Massachusetts man
accused of stabbing mom'sboyfriend 17 times and dousing

(08:42):
him with lighter fluid in deadlyfight over steaks.
What in the world are we at?
What in the world is happeningto these people?
I think, when I read storieslike this and you've you've
heard him before, you've heardyou've read stories like this
before where they kind of snap,I think this has a lot to do

(09:03):
with drugs and dosing what whatthey call those mushroom
psychedelic dosing.
I think it has a lot to do withthat.
A Massachusetts man is accusedof stabbing his mother.
I've already read all that.
Andrew Horseman, 41 years old,seemingly snapped during the
fight over steaks with his mom'slongtime partner, 66-year-old

(09:26):
Paul Pomerello, and went into abloody rage at the older man's
home.
Horseman stalked over toPomerello and proceeded to stab
him a staggering 17 times.
Prosecutor, he was pissed off,prosecutor Nicole Lawson said

(09:50):
during the alleged killer'sarraignment hearing on Monday.
After Palmerlo collapsed,horseman poured a gallon of
lighter fluid on his prone body,police said, but he failed to
setmalo on fire as anotherrelative intervened.
Thank god, good heavens thisguy.

(10:12):
You should see him too.
He looks like a real winner.
The accused stabber fled thescene but was arrested soon
after near the residence andcharged with murder.
Wait, how was he charged withmurder?
He didn't murder anybody.
How was he charged with murder?
Wait, the accused stabber fled.

(10:32):
Oh, wait, did he die?
Oh, the guy might.
Oh, I guess the guy died.
Oh, my god, I guess.
So, after 17 times beingstabbed, I didn't think the guy
died, but he did.
Yes, he did.
So.
The next sentence parmalo wasrushed to a nearby hospital but
died within the hour.
Oh my gosh, for some reason Ididn't think this guy died.
Horseman was living at the home.

(10:53):
Of course he was 41 years old,with his mother and parmalo, of
course he was living.
He, of course he was 41 yearsold and living with his mommy.
Of course he was red flag, redfucking flag.
When you cannot supportyourself at 41 years old,

(11:13):
something is gonna happen.
The man had prior beef beforethe dead.
Oh my god, that's, that's ahorrible.
The man had prior beef beforethe deadly stabbing.
Parmalelo was reportedlycritical of his girlfriend's
wait, of his girlfriend's son,of this guy.
Okay, why do they have to?
Why do they have?

(11:34):
Why do these writers have to dothis?
Parmelo was reportedly criticalof his girlfriend's son, the
guy, for being unemployed andstill living with his mother at
his age.
That's what I just said.

(11:56):
Oh, joshua wood, horseman'sattorney, claims his clients
violent response was theculmination of years of
unaddressed domestic violence.
These people knew each other.
There was a long relationshiphere and I think that's
important.
The history wasn't alwayspeaceful.
That doesn't mean he has theright to stab this guy.
I think when the story fullycomes out, it'll be clear that
this wasn't a random act ofviolence.

(12:16):
Yes, it was as the commonwealthsuggested, but get, no, no, no,
no, no, I'm not falling forthis.
I don't give a rat's ass youtake.
Look they're.

(12:37):
Now.
They're trying to play themurderer as the victim of
long-term abuse.
No, exactly what about stakesthe two men were fighting over
hasn't been revealed byinvestigators.
Well, probably the way theywere being grilled.
I mean, men have certain waysthat they master the grill right

(12:59):
and you don't tell another manhow to do it.
It's also unclear how longPomerleau was dating Horseman's
mother.
Pomerleau basically raisedHorseman.
The victim's twin brother,peter, said this gets more and
more interesting.
Neighbors near the grizzlymurder struggled to wrap their
heads around Horseman's being soviolent.
Here we go.

(13:20):
I've known him for 30 years andI'll tell you, excuse me, he
was like a gentle giant.
He was a great guy.
He'd give you the shirt off hisback.
You know he really would.
Neighbor Jeff Burr told WBC TVhorseman pled guilty to murder
during his arraignment.
He is being held without bail.

(13:41):
He is due back in court.
Okay, blah, blah, blah, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
And I have gone way over mytime here.
We need to get to the questionof the day.
All right, question of the dayMen.
This is for the men.
Well, okay, if I have womenlisteners too.
Does food have an expirationdate?

(14:02):
I know most food labels willhave an expiration date adhered
to the label on the food.
But men, do you adhere to thatexpiration date or do you let it
go a couple of days?
So what's the deal?
Do you adhere to the expirationdate on food?

(14:25):
I do, I do my husband.
He seems to think food willlast forever and I have to ask
him please throw that out.
I am not eating that.
All right, I gotta go.
Thanks for listening y'all.
Love you Bye.