Reel Pod News Cast™ with Levon Putney

Reel Pod News Cast™ with Levon Putney

A bi-weekly newscast (Tuesdays and Fridays) featuring light, fun stories with music wedged in between, along with parody ads during breaks and celebrity birthdays. About 15mins of palate cleansing for those who want an escape-and smile-before or after getting the day's news. Levon Putney has been a journalist for over 25-years, with the last 18 as a reporter and late-night anchor at the now defunct WCBS News Radio 880 in New York. He spent six years prior as a reporter at WTAM News Radio 1100 in Cleveland.

Episodes

July 18, 2025 15 mins

Includes stories on the three to four foot ball python snake slithering around a neighborhood in Somerville Massachusetts...and on three young ladies in the Cleveland Ohio area who got busted by a police dash camera and facial recognition software climbing on the patrol car's hood and twerking...also on a prisoner in France who escaped inside the laundry bag of an inmate being released...and on a neon green pigeon walking and flyin...

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Including stories on the out-of-area investor posting a billboard in Cleveland reading, "Yes, I buy crack houses"...also on a West Virginia couple accused of stealing an rv, getting high and having sex while driving by a cop...and on police in Australia looking for the guy caught on surveillance stealing 53-right foot shoes from a store's table in a Brisbane shopping center. Plus...parody ads/songs and celebrity birthdays.

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Includes stories on the man in Madison Wisconsin who's accused of trying to run from cops by jumping into a local lake to swim away, but firefighters put a boat in the water and caught him... and on a Florida man who cops say celebrated his 57th birthday in Key West by jumping out of his car that he left running with rock music blaring, stealing a tour company's trolley train, taking it for a joyride, picking up a couple passengers...

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Includes stories on a completely naked guy in North Carolina who had a wooden post in his hands when he ran up to a man and a woman, trying to steal their car...and then got in the woman's car (still butt naked) but couldn't figure out the shift to get the car out of park...he was arrested...also on the Arkansas mom who fessed up to giving marijuana edibles to three of her four kids ages six to 15, let two of them smoke her vaping ...

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Includes stories on a driver in Wisconsin who rammed into the back of a sheriffs' patrol suv on a highway, because cops say she was distracted by the Taco Bell she was eating while driving... also on the 73 empty cans of beer that cops in Northern California's Sonoma County say were in the car with a drunk driver whose license was already suspended for a DUI...and on a lottery error in Norway that led to over 47,000 people there be...

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Includes stories on whoever dressed up in a Scooby Doo onesie, broke into a convenience store in Alabama and stole money but didn't steal...Scooby snacks...also on a man in Minnesota legally named Patches Magicbeans who's accused of being high on magic mushrooms when he crashed his van, critically hurting a construction worker... and on a Texas man who cops say beat up an ice cream truck driver, because he thought the driver was a ...

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Includes a story on the Portland Oregon area fugitive whose legal name is Looney Toon... also one on a Florida man arrested for felony burglary after he was caught staying in a vacant home for four days, because he didn't want to go home to his wife after an argument...and a story on a court fight in British Columbia over an 84-year old's will that left most of her estate to the escort she was hooking up with during the pandemic. ...

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Includes stories on police in Lincoln Nebraska looking for the thief caught on surveillance video lugging about 150-pounds of quarters ($3,000 worth) from a house he broke into... and on a woman in Beverly Hills Texas arrested for stalking, after cops say she got a reverend to sign off on a marriage license to her ex-fiancee, who had no idea... also on the school bus driver in the greater Toronto area who was reassigned, after pull...

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Includes stories on the guy on TikTok called Mr Cash Drop who's been posting video of himself hiding money in public places around New Jersey for people to find... also on the Salt Lake City UT man accused of trying to drive a wooden stake through the heart of a buddy he was having lunch with, because he said his buddy was a werewolf... and on a yellow mongoose that broke loose from a British wildlife park, because workers think it...

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Includes stories on two engaged, Family Dollar store workers in Indianapolis who police say chased down a guy who robbed the store and shot him in the butt...and on the two dozen water buffalo that broke loose from a British Columbia farm and ran through a couple of neighborhoods...also on how police in England's Leicestershire county warned people headed to last weekend's Download rock festival to take off smart watches and bracel...

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Includes stories on a Kentucky man accused of releasing a wild raccoon into a local bar that banned him seven months ago, when he rode a mule to the bar and started snapping his bullwhip at bar customers...and on a man in Florida who called 911, because cops say he was upset the strip club he was in would not allow sex in the champagne room...also on a Byzantine era complex of tombs discovered at a redevelopment project in Syria. ...

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Including a story on a man arrested for DUI in Kentucky, posted bond and later called the sheriff's office for help getting some personal items from his impounded car, only for deputies to say they then found a bag of cocaine in the man's ride, so he was arrested again....and one on an Australian guy dancing in front of surveillance video cameras before breaking into a school to steal laptops... also on how a grown, male elephant d...

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Including stories on a deputy sheriff in Florida who resigned, after being chased down and arrested by a co-worker for riding a motorcycle with a fake license plate reading, 'CHASEM3'... also on the 20-year old personal trainer in England just sentenced to prison time for taking his date on a 120-mile per hour police chase, after they tried to stop him for speeding... and on a video recorded brawl that broke out over line-skipping ...

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Includes stories on two pigeons that hopped on a Delta airlines flight on Saturday, and flew around the cabin until baggage handlers caught the stowaways... also on the woman in DC who cops say stripped butt naked in a hotel lobby, then went outside to lay on a towel before going into the hotel bar, where cops say she threw liquor bottles at people, and blamed it all on her lord and saviour Michael Jackson, who she said told her to...

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Includes stories on the Washington State man who cops say climbed 80-feet up a cedar tree to try and get away from chasing officers- didn't work... also on the annual cheese rolling contest in Gloucestershire, England...and on the two ton, elephant seal that waddled into a seaside neighborhood in South Africa. Plus...parody ads/songs and celebrity birthdays.

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Including the story of-and kudos to lol-the pregnant tv news anchor in Albany NY who finished the two-hour morning show, after her water broke about 90-minutes before the show started... and on the Louisiana school teacher accused of dropping a baggie of cocaine in the hallway... also on the container ship that ran aground in Norway-right into the shoreline yard of the home of a man who slept through it... also on a cow that washed...

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Includes stories on three Montana Army National Guardsmen accused of using a black hawk helicopter to steal elk antlers from a ranch... also on the ten inmates who 'Shawshanked' their way out of a New Orleans jail... and on Costa Rican officials looking for whoever used a cat as a mule to break into a prison to carry in drugs--video showed it had several ounces of marijuana and heroin strapped to its body. Plus...parody ads/songs ...

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Includes stories on the kindergartener in a Pennsylvania school who gave jello shots to three classmates... on how singer Chris Brown is in a London jail after being arrested this past Friday over accusations he beat up a music producer two years ago inside a nightclub... and on a Sunday gathering of over 3,000 people in a French town- all dressed and painted up as Smurfs to break a Guinness World Record. Plus...parody ads/songs a...

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Includes stories on the mysterious case of exploding birds in a Richmond California neighborhood... and on three guys busted in Japan for trying to sneak hundreds of pounds of hermit crabs onto a plane in suitcases... also on how cops in Melbourne Australia say a man broke INTO a police station early this past Monday morning...and he stayed for the handcuffs. Also...parody ads/songs and a lotta good weekend celebrity birthdays.

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Includes stories on the Connecticut man and woman accused of having sex inside a Porsche that was blocking the parking lot entrance to a state police barrack...and on the hunt for an ocelot in Jamaica, after the wildcat escaped from a smuggling boat the coast guard raided... and on how a court in Sweden just found a mother guilty of harrassment for posting a video of her using the five year old daughter's forehead to crack an egg f...

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