December 31, 2024 • 18 mins
2024 has been a defining year for New Jersey, characterized by thrilling goodbyes, tiktok viral videos, and perplexing mysteries that have captivated locals and visitors alike. From the retirement of Kingda Ka to the curious drone sightings in the skies, these stories reflect the diversity of the Garden State.
• Kingda Ka's retirement
• Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska" film in production
• TikTok incident at a Montclair restaurant
• Rare earthquake rattles New Jersey, surprising residents
• Mysterious drone sightings sparking public speculation and concern
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
hey Jeanette, hi Rachel.
So today's episode we are goingto talk about the top stories
that happened in the news in NewJersey in the year 2024
trending hashtag New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Some of them you will remember.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yes, well, no, you all of them.
Remember once you, maybe youmay you may have missed.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Like our, we're going to do top five and we're going
to start with number five.
Yeah, and you may have missednumber five.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
What is the number five top trending story in new
jersey six flags great Six FlagsGreat Adventure Retired Once
the World's Tallest, fastestRoller Coaster, kingda Ka.
So this was kind of a big dealand people all over social media
(00:55):
were very upset about it,because you can get attached to
going on a certain ride.
I once went on a roller coasterat Adventureland in Long Island
.
We went with our friends and wetried to see how many times we
could go on it at once, over andover and over and I think we
did 23 times in a row.
What?
It was not that big of a rollercoaster, okay, it's.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Long.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Island.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Adventureland.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
It wasn't the tallest roller coaster in the world, it
wasn't so it held the title forthe world's tallest and fastest
after it debuted in 2005.
Over 20 years I love thesestats.
Over the past 20 years, it hasbeen ridden more than 12 million
times Wow, that's impressive,yes, times.
Wow, that's impressive.
Yes, it is 456 feet tall and itran 128 miles an hour, god.
(01:56):
So the reason they had toretire it is because it was
taking, because it was built in2005 and technological feat in
that year.
To repair anything took so muchmoney and so much time, so that
is why they're going to theyclosed it down and decide to
retire it in order to come upwith um.
(02:16):
It's supposedly getting abillion dollar investment which
will include the addition of anew one called the flash
vertical velocity, which will beNorth America's first super
boomerang coaster, and it'sbased on the DC comics.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
You have a lot of information about that.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I do.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Not only did I not know about that, I did not even
research it.
I was like a roller coaster,all right.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I think it's kind of a big deal because it's great
adventure, Like we would drivefrom Long Island to great
adventure in New Jersey for likea big day out, because it's.
It's amazing Like Six Flags hadthe top biggest wildest.
I mean we weren't flying aDisney the top biggest wildest.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I mean, we weren't flying a Disney, so so they
better up that part.
That's pretty cool.
I mean I'm looking at it rightnow on Google images.
It was green and it, uh, itit's like a long stretch of a
roller coaster that goes after along you know stretch, it goes
straight up, yeah, and thenyou're like yeah, yeah, and it's
(03:28):
a pretty vertical fall, whichis crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
That's a crazy drop.
But so then I went in.
Of course I went into a deepdive on roller coasters a little
bit.
So I just want to do somementions out there.
Yeah, that I thought wereinteresting.
That's cool.
Like in South Korea there's a TExpress in Everland, which is
the park there.
It's 184 feet tall but it's awooden roller coaster, so it's
(03:56):
among the top wooden ones.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Like Coney Island is a wooden one.
Those are scary.
They are scary, they're sorickety.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
The world's longest steel coaster is the Steel
Dragon and it's in Japan and thelength of it is 8,133 feet.
That's impressive.
That is impressive.
There's this other one I justwanted to mention.
It's in the United Kingdom, atAlton Towers in Staffordshire,
(04:26):
and it's called the Smiler.
It has 14 inversions, oh God,so you go upside down 14 times I
?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
yeah, well, I can't.
I mean I can't.
I mean there was a day I'd beinto that, but now a day is long
gone for me but there's stillpeople out there that want this
information and will love tohave learned where they need to
go.
Well, they probably alreadyknow, because there are lovers
of this crazy stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
All right, now that we have our rollercoaster
education boost anytime, anytime.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Thank you, rachel.
Okay, so you also.
I know you have a lot of statson number four top story for you
.
Okay, so this may not havetrended everywhere, but it
definitely trended in New JerseyBecause of Bruce Springsteen.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, okay, tell us what it is, and we interviewed
the author of the book Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yes, Warren Zanes.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
It was such a great interview.
Anybody who is interested inBruce Springsteen go back and
listen to our Warren Zanesinterview about his book
Nebraska that he wrote about theNebraska album that Bruce
Springsteen put out.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It's an incredibly interesting story about, not
only about Bruce Springsteen andthe, the, the album, but also
the music industry and how youknow.
Except how does one publish analbum that someone just kind of
goes way off like a smash hitalbum?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
then all of a sudden does this really bizarre thing,
you know really different albumand it isn't like a pop factory
where you have to have the samesound for everything you come
out with because that's yourbrand.
He just did his own thing, sothey are turning it into a movie
and they're shooting it rightnow in new jersey, all over new
(06:21):
jersey.
That are all the places thatare special and important in
bruce springsteen's life, andthe actor who is playing bruce
springsteen is jeremy allenwhite, which who you hopefully
know from watching the bearright tv.
Um, I think that's a prettyfantastic choice for, yeah, the
(06:43):
actor to play very recently,like last week in asbury park,
which, of course, is a big dealin bruce springsteen's life for
the times that he's performedthere and the music festival is
there, so people are alwayslooking around to see if they
spot the crew yeah in all thesetowns.
I think it's going to be ablockbuster.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Oh, I do too.
I do too.
Maybe we'll give.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Jersey, some props.
Okay, so Jeanette, take us intonumber three.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
All right, so number three.
I'm not going to give a wholelot of background on this, but
it re, it was trending, it wason the news, it was everywhere.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Press picked it up.
Even newspapers in other statespicked it up.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, and it was a small incident that happened
actually where we're based outof Montclair, new Jersey.
Yeah, and it was the numberthree is the TikTok incident at
the local restaurant.
Now, for privacy reasons, youcan just go on and look if you
want to find out what restaurantit was, but there is a local
restaurant here that is a Greekrestaurant.
(07:48):
They have eight euros, great,great food.
They're a wonderful place andreally big props to the staff on
how they handle the incident.
Yeah, there was a you knowpeople were, you know showing
their you know rage and protestand they mistaken the Israeli
(08:08):
and the Greek flag and theystarted, you know, lashing out
at the establishment and downall the Greek flags that were
hanging around the restaurantRight.
Yeah, and the you know the staffis kind of coming out saying
what is going on here, you know,being very, very professional
(08:28):
and really calm, which I want topoint out that Craig Newmark,
who's one of our guests here,did.
This commercial that ran isrunning some film venues where
it's wait nine seconds beforeyou act and it's about
cybersecurity to make sure youdon't click on things.
But I really feel like theseguys were living proof of wait
(08:53):
nine seconds before you act.
They're watching what she'sdoing and then they're looking,
they're waiting and then they'relike this is the Greek flag and
she's like oh, my bad.
You know, oh, my bad.
That's actually like quote mybad, my bad.
Really, she looked very badonline and you know it was just
what it was.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
She still has to go back to court, I think in a
month.
Take nine seconds.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Take a minute.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Take a step back people yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
And, you know, take a deep breath.
So that was our number threebig trending story of 2025 that
happened in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
All right, we're now to number two.
Number two On April 5th, therewas a 4.8 magnitude earthquake
in New Jersey.
I know, I know, hold on to yourhats, california, but you're
(09:54):
like whatever, you guys, itdidn't destroy anything, but we
all felt it.
And that never happens.
Yeah, and rarely happens.
And I mean to go along with andrarely happens.
And I mean to go along withwe're not competing with you,
California, on earthquakes orbrush fires, but we were getting
those two for a while yeah,that's true.
And I know that they think we'reinsane.
They're like, yeah, suck it up.
(10:14):
We deal with this all the time,but for us Jerseyans it was a
big deal.
Well, it was it was superexciting.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I mean, it was like I was at my desk and I thought
that the washing machine hadgotten off of it.
You know how sometimes it'slike got something heavy in
there and it's like unbalancedand I was like what it was so
loud?
I was like God, I was like what?
The washing machine is messedup.
(10:42):
I was screaming to someone thatit was.
I ran down to look at thewashing machine.
It was just standing there justshaking by itself and I was
like, oh, something else ishappening.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
So crazy.
Yeah, it was really it was, itwas exciting it was.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
It was exciting and then there were a couple of
tremors.
That happened after, but it wasdefinitely a big story in New
Jersey in 2024.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah, All right.
All right, take us home.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I think anybody listening right now knows what
the number one story of 2024 inNew Jersey is is the mysterious
drone sightings.
I mean so much to say about itbut what can say?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
can you explain it first?
If there's people listening whomay not have looked at or not,
they have are like tuned out alittle.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yeah, well, let's see .
Beginning in mid-november,numerous reports emerged of
unidentified drones over variousparts of new jersey, including
military installations andsuburban neighborhoods, despite
investigations by federal andstate authorities.
Asterisk, I have on that.
The origins and purposes ofthese drones remains unknown.
(11:57):
Asterisk for us, okay,prompting public concern and
calls for enhanced airspacemonitoring Okay, that is the
official like readout of whatthis is it's.
But for us living here, who areseeing them and and hearing
hearing them, you know,something is weird, something is
(12:20):
very off.
This wasn't happening.
This isn't.
They haven't just been there.
Some people were like they'vealways been there.
You're just now looking.
No, like this.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
No, yeah, and you posted an article about it,
right?
Will you tell us a little bitabout that?
So the article?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
that I posted about it was that you know there's
theories, right, I mean likethere's.
It feels like there's twodifferent types of drones out
there, but there may be threedifferent one of them, seriously
, there's an orb out there thatpeople yeah, there's an orb out
there that looks like it's notforeign country, foreign from
(12:57):
the our earth.
You know, something is verystrange, or it could be some
sort of experimental thing.
There's an orb.
We don't know what that is and,strangely, it is the least
concerning of all of ourproblems.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Strangely, strangely, you're correct and I think an
alien visiting us is like wecould use some of that.
Yeah, that's like not scary.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
We're like thank god, we're not here alone doing all
this.
Please help us out.
You have some help.
One is also not as alarming asa theory is that these are cargo
drones that are practicing, youknow, going to the, you know
cargo areas near the shore andpicking up stuff, which kind of
(13:38):
makes sense, knowing all the,you know the advancement and you
know Amazon and delivery andshipping and all this stuff.
I'm sure that's possibly it.
Or, like transportation,there's many of these new
hovering taxis that are takingoff around the world.
But the third most disturbingtheory is that these are
(14:00):
government.
Our government have drones outthere that are gamma ray seeking
drones.
They're looking for dirty bombsor any kind of like signal of
something that is running aroundin new jersey that might be a
danger to us and they're nottelling us that is.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
That is really brutal to think about.
Yeah, yeah and okay, you're notgoing to say anything.
Government Like we see them.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It is infuriated.
Every New Jersey, except forthose off.
People are like oh, you guysare just like overreacting.
Or people are like that'sJupiter, you know?
Like you're like that wasamazing, it is.
How many Jupiters are there?
Like I didn't like.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I may see all their moons fly over at the same time.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And they're noisy, yeah, and they flashlights.
All New Jerseyans of alldifferent political spectrums
are pretty consistent, prettyunited, pretty united.
This is maybe that's why, Maybe, that's after the election.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
They're like how do we unite New Jersey?
Maybe that's after the election.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
They're like how do we unite New Jersey?
Also?
I saw some people yesterday atMarcel's that we were talking
about this and we were sayingone person, they are a
journalist and they're reportingon it.
We were talking about how in aweird way, it's really
unsettling we really are beingreminded how we really have no
(15:34):
recourse as individuals.
We think we have power, but atsome point we can't do anything
about this.
We can just keep yelling tosomebody.
Tell us Well, governor.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Murphy did write a letter.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
You saw that right to the president with like 22
mayors were attached to it.
Yeah, yeah like.
Can you uh, please help us outhere and what I can say is I
don't know whether they'rehandling it well or badly,
depending on what it really isyou know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I guess we won't know until we have hindsight, and
it's not.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Like maybe this is the best possible scenario is
for us to just be bickeringamongst ourselves.
If we knew the truth, it wouldjust be chaos, hysteria, because
I mean it is a little bit chaos, but it could be worse.
I mean it could be or it couldjust be nothing, and we, they're
(16:29):
handling it so poorly.
Don't know, I don't know,you're, you're right, yeah, I
mean, I think they're reallybanking on the truth of us being
like okay, on to the next thing.
And there are days like we'renot paying attention.
Again we're like okay, what amI?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
I can't do anything about the drones you know, I
just got a tick tock before itgoes away yeah, yeah, I mean,
like you, you do.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
We are already cause.
You realize you can't doanything about it and knowing
might be more dangerous for usif we knew.
But that is currently thebiggest story.
So those are our top five newsstories.
If you have some that we missed, I don't think that we did.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I mean I do think these were the top five, but
please let us know if you haveother ones that you're like.
I can't believe you didn'tremember this one.
Yeah, but we are giving you alittle capsule of 2024.
Before we have all new thingsto learn in 2025.
That's right.
Happy New Year everyone.
(17:32):
Happy New Year.
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forget to get lost.
hey Jeanette, hi Rachel.
So today's episode we are goingto talk about the top stories
that happened in the news in NewJersey in the year 2024
trending hashtag New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Some of them you will remember.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yes, well, no, you all of them.
Remember once you, maybe youmay you may have missed.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Like our, we're going to do top five and we're going
to start with number five.
Yeah, and you may have missednumber five.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
What is the number five top trending story in new
jersey six flags great Six FlagsGreat Adventure Retired Once
the World's Tallest, fastestRoller Coaster, kingda Ka.
So this was kind of a big dealand people all over social media
(00:55):
were very upset about it,because you can get attached to
going on a certain ride.
I once went on a roller coasterat Adventureland in Long Island
.
We went with our friends and wetried to see how many times we
could go on it at once, over andover and over and I think we
did 23 times in a row.
What?
It was not that big of a rollercoaster, okay, it's.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Long.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Island.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Adventureland.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
It wasn't the tallest roller coaster in the world, it
wasn't so it held the title forthe world's tallest and fastest
after it debuted in 2005.
Over 20 years I love thesestats.
Over the past 20 years, it hasbeen ridden more than 12 million
times Wow, that's impressive,yes, times.
Wow, that's impressive.
Yes, it is 456 feet tall and itran 128 miles an hour, god.
(01:56):
So the reason they had toretire it is because it was
taking, because it was built in2005 and technological feat in
that year.
To repair anything took so muchmoney and so much time, so that
is why they're going to theyclosed it down and decide to
retire it in order to come upwith um.
(02:16):
It's supposedly getting abillion dollar investment which
will include the addition of anew one called the flash
vertical velocity, which will beNorth America's first super
boomerang coaster, and it'sbased on the DC comics.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
You have a lot of information about that.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I do.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Not only did I not know about that, I did not even
research it.
I was like a roller coaster,all right.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I think it's kind of a big deal because it's great
adventure, Like we would drivefrom Long Island to great
adventure in New Jersey for likea big day out, because it's.
It's amazing Like Six Flags hadthe top biggest wildest.
I mean we weren't flying aDisney the top biggest wildest.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I mean, we weren't flying a Disney, so so they
better up that part.
That's pretty cool.
I mean I'm looking at it rightnow on Google images.
It was green and it, uh, itit's like a long stretch of a
roller coaster that goes after along you know stretch, it goes
straight up, yeah, and thenyou're like yeah, yeah, and it's
(03:28):
a pretty vertical fall, whichis crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
That's a crazy drop.
But so then I went in.
Of course I went into a deepdive on roller coasters a little
bit.
So I just want to do somementions out there.
Yeah, that I thought wereinteresting.
That's cool.
Like in South Korea there's a TExpress in Everland, which is
the park there.
It's 184 feet tall but it's awooden roller coaster, so it's
(03:56):
among the top wooden ones.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Like Coney Island is a wooden one.
Those are scary.
They are scary, they're sorickety.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
The world's longest steel coaster is the Steel
Dragon and it's in Japan and thelength of it is 8,133 feet.
That's impressive.
That is impressive.
There's this other one I justwanted to mention.
It's in the United Kingdom, atAlton Towers in Staffordshire,
(04:26):
and it's called the Smiler.
It has 14 inversions, oh God,so you go upside down 14 times I
?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
yeah, well, I can't.
I mean I can't.
I mean there was a day I'd beinto that, but now a day is long
gone for me but there's stillpeople out there that want this
information and will love tohave learned where they need to
go.
Well, they probably alreadyknow, because there are lovers
of this crazy stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
All right, now that we have our rollercoaster
education boost anytime, anytime.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Thank you, rachel.
Okay, so you also.
I know you have a lot of statson number four top story for you
.
Okay, so this may not havetrended everywhere, but it
definitely trended in New JerseyBecause of Bruce Springsteen.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, okay, tell us what it is, and we interviewed
the author of the book Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yes, Warren Zanes.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
It was such a great interview.
Anybody who is interested inBruce Springsteen go back and
listen to our Warren Zanesinterview about his book
Nebraska that he wrote about theNebraska album that Bruce
Springsteen put out.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It's an incredibly interesting story about, not
only about Bruce Springsteen andthe, the, the album, but also
the music industry and how youknow.
Except how does one publish analbum that someone just kind of
goes way off like a smash hitalbum?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
then all of a sudden does this really bizarre thing,
you know really different albumand it isn't like a pop factory
where you have to have the samesound for everything you come
out with because that's yourbrand.
He just did his own thing, sothey are turning it into a movie
and they're shooting it rightnow in new jersey, all over new
(06:21):
jersey.
That are all the places thatare special and important in
bruce springsteen's life, andthe actor who is playing bruce
springsteen is jeremy allenwhite, which who you hopefully
know from watching the bearright tv.
Um, I think that's a prettyfantastic choice for, yeah, the
(06:43):
actor to play very recently,like last week in asbury park,
which, of course, is a big dealin bruce springsteen's life for
the times that he's performedthere and the music festival is
there, so people are alwayslooking around to see if they
spot the crew yeah in all thesetowns.
I think it's going to be ablockbuster.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Oh, I do too.
I do too.
Maybe we'll give.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Jersey, some props.
Okay, so Jeanette, take us intonumber three.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
All right, so number three.
I'm not going to give a wholelot of background on this, but
it re, it was trending, it wason the news, it was everywhere.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Press picked it up.
Even newspapers in other statespicked it up.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, and it was a small incident that happened
actually where we're based outof Montclair, new Jersey.
Yeah, and it was the numberthree is the TikTok incident at
the local restaurant.
Now, for privacy reasons, youcan just go on and look if you
want to find out what restaurantit was, but there is a local
restaurant here that is a Greekrestaurant.
(07:48):
They have eight euros, great,great food.
They're a wonderful place andreally big props to the staff on
how they handle the incident.
Yeah, there was a you knowpeople were, you know showing
their you know rage and protestand they mistaken the Israeli
(08:08):
and the Greek flag and theystarted, you know, lashing out
at the establishment and downall the Greek flags that were
hanging around the restaurantRight.
Yeah, and the you know the staffis kind of coming out saying
what is going on here, you know,being very, very professional
(08:28):
and really calm, which I want topoint out that Craig Newmark,
who's one of our guests here,did.
This commercial that ran isrunning some film venues where
it's wait nine seconds beforeyou act and it's about
cybersecurity to make sure youdon't click on things.
But I really feel like theseguys were living proof of wait
(08:53):
nine seconds before you act.
They're watching what she'sdoing and then they're looking,
they're waiting and then they'relike this is the Greek flag and
she's like oh, my bad.
You know, oh, my bad.
That's actually like quote mybad, my bad.
Really, she looked very badonline and you know it was just
what it was.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
She still has to go back to court, I think in a
month.
Take nine seconds.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Take a minute.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Take a step back people yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
And, you know, take a deep breath.
So that was our number threebig trending story of 2025 that
happened in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
All right, we're now to number two.
Number two On April 5th, therewas a 4.8 magnitude earthquake
in New Jersey.
I know, I know, hold on to yourhats, california, but you're
(09:54):
like whatever, you guys, itdidn't destroy anything, but we
all felt it.
And that never happens.
Yeah, and rarely happens.
And I mean to go along with andrarely happens.
And I mean to go along withwe're not competing with you,
California, on earthquakes orbrush fires, but we were getting
those two for a while yeah,that's true.
And I know that they think we'reinsane.
They're like, yeah, suck it up.
(10:14):
We deal with this all the time,but for us Jerseyans it was a
big deal.
Well, it was it was superexciting.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I mean, it was like I was at my desk and I thought
that the washing machine hadgotten off of it.
You know how sometimes it'slike got something heavy in
there and it's like unbalancedand I was like what it was so
loud?
I was like God, I was like what?
The washing machine is messedup.
(10:42):
I was screaming to someone thatit was.
I ran down to look at thewashing machine.
It was just standing there justshaking by itself and I was
like, oh, something else ishappening.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
So crazy.
Yeah, it was really it was, itwas exciting it was.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
It was exciting and then there were a couple of
tremors.
That happened after, but it wasdefinitely a big story in New
Jersey in 2024.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah, All right.
All right, take us home.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I think anybody listening right now knows what
the number one story of 2024 inNew Jersey is is the mysterious
drone sightings.
I mean so much to say about itbut what can say?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
can you explain it first?
If there's people listening whomay not have looked at or not,
they have are like tuned out alittle.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yeah, well, let's see .
Beginning in mid-november,numerous reports emerged of
unidentified drones over variousparts of new jersey, including
military installations andsuburban neighborhoods, despite
investigations by federal andstate authorities.
Asterisk, I have on that.
The origins and purposes ofthese drones remains unknown.
(11:57):
Asterisk for us, okay,prompting public concern and
calls for enhanced airspacemonitoring Okay, that is the
official like readout of whatthis is it's.
But for us living here, who areseeing them and and hearing
hearing them, you know,something is weird, something is
(12:20):
very off.
This wasn't happening.
This isn't.
They haven't just been there.
Some people were like they'vealways been there.
You're just now looking.
No, like this.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
No, yeah, and you posted an article about it,
right?
Will you tell us a little bitabout that?
So the article?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
that I posted about it was that you know there's
theories, right, I mean likethere's.
It feels like there's twodifferent types of drones out
there, but there may be threedifferent one of them, seriously
, there's an orb out there thatpeople yeah, there's an orb out
there that looks like it's notforeign country, foreign from
(12:57):
the our earth.
You know, something is verystrange, or it could be some
sort of experimental thing.
There's an orb.
We don't know what that is and,strangely, it is the least
concerning of all of ourproblems.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Strangely, strangely, you're correct and I think an
alien visiting us is like wecould use some of that.
Yeah, that's like not scary.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
We're like thank god, we're not here alone doing all
this.
Please help us out.
You have some help.
One is also not as alarming asa theory is that these are cargo
drones that are practicing, youknow, going to the, you know
cargo areas near the shore andpicking up stuff, which kind of
(13:38):
makes sense, knowing all the,you know the advancement and you
know Amazon and delivery andshipping and all this stuff.
I'm sure that's possibly it.
Or, like transportation,there's many of these new
hovering taxis that are takingoff around the world.
But the third most disturbingtheory is that these are
(14:00):
government.
Our government have drones outthere that are gamma ray seeking
drones.
They're looking for dirty bombsor any kind of like signal of
something that is running aroundin new jersey that might be a
danger to us and they're nottelling us that is.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
That is really brutal to think about.
Yeah, yeah and okay, you're notgoing to say anything.
Government Like we see them.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It is infuriated.
Every New Jersey, except forthose off.
People are like oh, you guysare just like overreacting.
Or people are like that'sJupiter, you know?
Like you're like that wasamazing, it is.
How many Jupiters are there?
Like I didn't like.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I may see all their moons fly over at the same time.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And they're noisy, yeah, and they flashlights.
All New Jerseyans of alldifferent political spectrums
are pretty consistent, prettyunited, pretty united.
This is maybe that's why, Maybe, that's after the election.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
They're like how do we unite New Jersey?
Maybe that's after the election.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
They're like how do we unite New Jersey?
Also?
I saw some people yesterday atMarcel's that we were talking
about this and we were sayingone person, they are a
journalist and they're reportingon it.
We were talking about how in aweird way, it's really
unsettling we really are beingreminded how we really have no
(15:34):
recourse as individuals.
We think we have power, but atsome point we can't do anything
about this.
We can just keep yelling tosomebody.
Tell us Well, governor.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Murphy did write a letter.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
You saw that right to the president with like 22
mayors were attached to it.
Yeah, yeah like.
Can you uh, please help us outhere and what I can say is I
don't know whether they'rehandling it well or badly,
depending on what it really isyou know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I guess we won't know until we have hindsight, and
it's not.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Like maybe this is the best possible scenario is
for us to just be bickeringamongst ourselves.
If we knew the truth, it wouldjust be chaos, hysteria, because
I mean it is a little bit chaos, but it could be worse.
I mean it could be or it couldjust be nothing, and we, they're
(16:29):
handling it so poorly.
Don't know, I don't know,you're, you're right, yeah, I
mean, I think they're reallybanking on the truth of us being
like okay, on to the next thing.
And there are days like we'renot paying attention.
Again we're like okay, what amI?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
I can't do anything about the drones you know, I
just got a tick tock before itgoes away yeah, yeah, I mean,
like you, you do.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
We are already cause.
You realize you can't doanything about it and knowing
might be more dangerous for usif we knew.
But that is currently thebiggest story.
So those are our top five newsstories.
If you have some that we missed, I don't think that we did.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I mean I do think these were the top five, but
please let us know if you haveother ones that you're like.
I can't believe you didn'tremember this one.
Yeah, but we are giving you alittle capsule of 2024.
Before we have all new thingsto learn in 2025.
That's right.
Happy New Year everyone.
(17:32):
Happy New Year.
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