Reel Pod(News)Cast, Tue Feb 25th 2025

Includes stories on how a South Jersey homeowner's fight with her homeowner's association over her emotional support chickens...on sheriffs deputies in Louisiana arresting two 18 and 19-year olds for over trying to shoot 100-thousand dollars worth of methamphetamine and tobacco over a federal prison fence with a cannon...and on the politician in Ontario Canada who dropped out of her race before Thursday's election, after an old video popped up of her telling a UN conference that she wants to be a black woman. She's white. Also...parody ads/songs and celebrity birthdays...

Episode Transcript

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This is the real Pod Newscast with Levon Putney.

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With a quick check on what's going on, so here's my man to get into it.
Thanks for listening.
Back from a week off, spent time with my, well, about to be 14-year-old daughter on
her winter break.
We flew to my hometown of Houston to see family.
And man, I have never had so many people tell me they were praying.
We had saved flights.
They asked me to text as soon as I landed all these plane crashes as everyone spooked.

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And there were a couple of crashes on the news while we were in Houston, so relatives were
looking at me for my reaction knowing we had to fly back.
Man, it was crazy.
And I had to try to ignore all that to be cool for my daughter while boarding a plane
for the ride back home.
Yeah, can't grab her arm and start screaming with little turbulence hits.
And it did a couple times, but we were fine.
Honestly, wasn't thinking about all the crashes lately.

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I still add water burger, shipply donuts, and trill burgers on my brain.
I do eat good when back home.
My favorite stories of the day.
Well, first, one of my favorite journalists, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt is stepping
down this summer after a decade in a position.
They say he'll stay on as host of Dateline, no replacement name yet for Nightly News,

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but big shoes to fill.
Okay, four favorite stories this time.
So let's start with the one in South Jersey.
That is where there's a neighborhood called Amherst Farms in Mickelton in East Greenwich
in Gloucester County.
Men who jerseys towns within towns is weird to explain, but in Mickelton's neighborhood
of Amherst Farms, there's a homeowners association in an almost three year legal fight with the

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homeowner over her five emotional support chickens and their backyard coop.
Yeah, the HOA does not want her chickens in their chicken coop outside.
They sent the homeowner a letter basically saying they could attract wild animals that
she did not prove a therapeutic need for emotional support chickens.
And if she needs them, they should be kept inside.

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Also question why she needs so many.
Why not one emotional support chicken?
Now, remember, this is happening in a neighborhood called Amherst Farms and one with think a
homeowners association with the word farms in their name would be cool with emotional
support chickens.
But nope, Fox 29 Philadelphia is reporting the homeowner and her husband hired an attorney

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and they're fighting this until the end, which a judge said is April 4th.
So a little over a month for the homeowner to get rid of the chickens or as the judge
said, someone will come and take her emotional support.
Living young and wild and free.
In Louisiana, Grant Parrish Sheriff's investigators are accusing two 18 and 19 year old Colorado

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men of thinking like 18 and 19 year olds coming up with a plan to take over $85,000 worth
of meth and $112,000 worth of tobacco and shoot them over a federal prison fence to
inmates by using a compressed air cannon.
Since Sheriff's deputies are talking about the plan, the plan apparently did not work

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as planned.
Investigators did not say if the duo actually did shoot the meth and cigarettes onto prison
grounds if they tried and missed, if caught beforehand or to which inmates these two came
all the way from Colorado to cannon blast method.
Cigarettes over the fence.
But cops did say the 18 and 19 year olds are now behind bars themselves facing contraband

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and drug charges and that the 18 year old is here illegally.
So immigration agents have him along with the meth and tobacco and the cannon.
Now to South Florida, where Local 10 TV News is reporting a woman shopping in a Dollar
Tree store in Miami-Dade County's Pinewood area got creeped out back on the Tuesday before

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Valentine's Day because some guy kept following her.
So the County Sheriff's arrest report that Local 10 cited says she whipped out her phone
there to video record as this guy whipped out what creepy dudes would whip out and started
masturbating while maintaining eye contact with her.
The arrest report specifically pointed that out, not adding anything, and he was apparently

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gazing deep into her eyes and not seeing anything else because Sheriff's deputies say the man
tucked himself back in, pulled up his pants and ran off after the woman yelled that she
was recording him.
And there is an arrest report because Miami-Dade County Sheriff say the woman gave them the
video and they tracked down this 42 year old man two days later, arrested him and said

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the woman picked him out of a photo lineup of his face, we'll presume.
Now from Dollar Tree to a Family Dollar store in South Florida's Gulfport, it was there
where police say the store manager saw a guy steal about $50 worth of cleaning supplies
and a package of goldfish crackers, walk out the store and hand the cleaning supplies
to a passenger in a car parked out front, but when the 65 year old Family Dollar store

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manager ran out to stop him, cops say he turned around and smacked her in the face with the
goldfish crackers.
This happened last September when he got away, but cops say they just caught up to the 29
year old, the 30 before last and turns out he was not hard to find.
He was already in jail.
On a robbery charge after being accused of punching, biting and stabbing a man to steal

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his skateboard.
Back after this break, but before we had paused, check out this DJ's podcast.
It's the hip hop and R&B journey with Greg H.
You can download the Jams podcast mix for free, just google search Jams Podcast Mix.
Real hip hop and R&B matters, the hip hop and R&B journey with Greg H.

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It's not often that you'd want to lean in for a close sniff of toilet paper, but the
rose scented paper rolls from Rosie will make you want to press those nostrils up against
a roll.
And there you can inhale the rosy aroma soon to bless your bottom and feel the four plies
of cotton ball softness about to caress your tush.
Rosie bathroom rolls because your butt deserves it.

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Available Nowhere.
And now for the world around us.
Which still involves witchcraft and voodoo in some parts of the world like in southern
Africa, the Caribbean and some pockets of Louisiana here in the US and with folks headed
to New Orleans for Mardi Gras parades going on now through Fat Tuesday next week, March

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4th.
Some will stop in a little shops to buy voodoo dolls and talk with priests and priestesses.
It's still a thing.
And two men are on trial right now.
Just started last week in Zambia in southern Africa because they're accused of practicing
witchcraft to try and put a curse on the country's president.
CBS News is reporting one of the two just testified during trial that they were promised

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to be paid over a million dollars to put a spell on Zambia's president to kill him.
Police say a hotel worker cleaner just happened to hear weird noises coming from a room back
in December and reported it and that led to the men being arrested while cops say the
two had a chameleon in a bottle inside the room along with an animal's tail, some sort
of mysterious white powder and a red cloth for something.

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And investigators suspect the something was the spell the two were supposed to come up
with, but the president is alive and up for re-election next year and get this.
He the president was also accused himself of witchcraft when he was Zambia's political
opposition leader over a decade ago.
And the accuser was the late president who at the time bragged the witchcraft from his

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own state was stronger than the current president's.
In Brazil, well, Candomblé.
That's the name for the voodoo they practice there in Brazil and it sounds like the mayor
of a town right outside of Sao Paulo had some sort of curse put on him because José Aprigo

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de Silva not only just lost his re-election bid, he was also shot in the left shoulder
while campaigning last October and now civil police and the prosecutor there carried out
raids last week because they're accusing the 72-year-old de Silva of staging his shooting
by hiring two men to carry out a fake assassination attempt which Cops say was meant to help de

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Silva write a wave of public sympathy in the re-election.
Investigators are not sure if he was trying to really get shot, but they say his allies
pay the equivalent of $88,000 for his trip to a hospital's intensive care unit.
Also he could still lose.
In Canada, Ontario's general election is this Thursday, but there's one less candidate on

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the ballot for the Elgin Middlesex London legislative seat because new Democratic Party
candidate Amanda Zavitz dropped out last week.
The Western University Sociology Professor announced on Facebook that she was leaving
the race because it has become clear that my past comments are distracting.
That was a quote and these past comments she speaks of?
My secret is that I want to be a black woman.

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This is from a speech she gave before a UN conference a decade ago.
It was posted to YouTube and dug up by a conservative opponent.
For the record, Zavitz has blonde hair and blue eyes, but says she's not lying.
I want to be an expert in inequality with lived experiences of poverty and living in
addiction and alcoholism.
Black women are known to have other lived experiences too, but Zavitz went on saying

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she wants to lead a fifth wave of feminism.
That's my dream, but it's difficult when you're called a Karen.
And proved too hard to run for office while being called a Karen after progressive conservatives
put out this old video so Zavitz again apologized while her party leader told reporters what
she said was deeply concerning.
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What's up with what's going down though?
And police in Munich, Germany are trying to find who thought it would be a good idea to
put over a thousand stickers on gravestones and wooden crosses.

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Would nothing but a QR code on the stickers for people to scan if they would want to scan
some QR code on their loved ones gravestone?
These stickers popped up out of nowhere over the last week at three cemeteries in Munich.
But the thing is, police say a scan of the QR code actually pulls up the name of the
person buried along with its location there in the cemetery.
So whoever did it may have been trying to be helpful or came up with this idea and decided

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to do it without permission and apologize later.
But without permission, Munich police also considered his property damage from when the
stickers were peeled off, so trying to track down this person or crew who apparently figured
a digital way to locate a buried loved one is convenient.
But when that convenience is a sticker on somebody's headstone, people may not see the
convenience because their eyes are filled with red from anger at that sticker on their

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loved ones headstone.
Celebrity birthdays next.
Of the time when you're tuning in here, this is Mike Mann, keeping the party going with
a classic from the Bishop Supreme, Slammy Sammy.
Mumbo Fuck.
Tear the roof off, the mother sucker, tear the roof off, the sucker, baby.

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We want the fuck, give us the fuck, gotta have that people.
I'm talking flashlight, I'm talking with light and neon light.

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Time for birthdays.
Celebrity birthdays starting with Tuesday the 25th.
Quincy's daughter actor Rashida Jones is 49 and comedian and show host Chelsea Handler
hitting the big 5-0.
Actor Daniel Powder, 54, Mikey and the Goonies, actor Sean Aston, 54, actor Tia Leone, 59,

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model and actor Veronica Webb, 60 and so is comedian Carat Topp, 60 and talk show host
Sally Jessie Raphael is 83.
Then on Wednesdays.
Fun, singer Nate Russ will be 43.
Singer Corinne Bailey-Rae is turning 46.

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Singer Erica Badu will be 54.
Singer and actor Michael Bolden and Nora from Queens, lately he'll be 72.
I want to ask you some real simple questions and I want some real simple answers.
An actor, director and producer Bill Duke and minister society among his over 160 credits,

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Duke will be 82 and then on Thursday the 27th Jersey Shore reality show actor Ginny Farley
or J-Wile, J-Wile will be 39.
Actor Kate Marrow will be 42.
Singer Josh Groban will be 44.
TLC singer Chilly, 54.

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Winner Skidgard and Van Zandt, singer Johnny Van Zandt, 65.
And a quick shout out to singer Roberta Flack who died Monday at the age of 88.
I know killing me softly was her biggest hit but this remake she did of set the night
to music with Maxie Priest.
One of my favorites takes me back to the early 90s, first year in college and when dad lived

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in LA.
And that Roberta Flack remake with Maxie Priest brings back those feelings so she'll
live on forever in my life soundtrack.
That's the magic of music and hey we're magically done with another real pod newscast.
As always thanks so much for listening and please hit follow on the podcast page if haven't
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mini newscast out there in the pod first.
So have a great rest of the week, back on Friday.
This has been the real pod newscast with Levon Putney from Shown Off Productions and for
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