November 29, 2024 • 50 mins
What if bridging the gender gap in sports started with one bold move? Discover how Whoopi Goldberg is shattering ceilings with the launch of the first all-women's sports network, an initiative poised to change the face of sports coverage globally. We also explore Compassion Kind's inspired mission to rescue and uplift, coupled with Beverly Hills' unique voting initiative that has the community buzzing about their favorite therapy dog.
Journey with us through the inspiring and heartwarming tale of Asian Nakia, whose efforts with Compassion Kind have earned them a nomination for the CNN Heroes competition. Their dedication to uniting people from all walks of life to tackle pressing issues is a testament to the power of collective action. We urge you to join in supporting this worthy cause and illuminate the path for future community endeavors.
As we navigate the complex terrain of international trade tensions, we also confront the haunting enigma of JonBenét Ramsey's case. Weigh the economic implications of Donald Trump's proposed tariffs against the chilling mystery surrounding JonBenét's tragic death. This episode is a tapestry of poignant stories, engaging games, and insightful discussions that celebrate connection and the relentless pursuit of truth and equity in our communities.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We have to come to terms with the fact that we've
got a lot of sickos in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And I think we know more now than then.
We know more now than then.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I'll give you that.
That's fair.
I would say after the 80s iswhen we started like having our
big serial killer cases and likeunderstanding this stuff.
But there's no part of me thatwould let my little twin sisters
wear makeup and prance around astage half naked in a bikini,
absolutely not today.
Wear makeup and prance around astage half naked in a bikini?
Absolutely not today.
I won't even let them talk Likea man comes up to me at a
(00:27):
grocery store and tries to sayhello to my girls.
I'm already on high defensemode because you cannot.
You can't operate in that safe,unfortunately.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
It's sad, but won't we go slap today?
All right, the world may notneed another podcast, but it can
definitely use a slap.
That's right.
Welcome to Slap to Power, theshow that lifts artists who use
(01:03):
their powers for positiveprogress.
I am Rick Barriodil.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
And I'm Asia Nakia.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
That's right On the show.
Today, Whoopi Goldbergannounces the launch of an
all-women's sports network.
Come on.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yes, and then we will hit our rescue segment, pause
for Progress, where we will talkabout three new rescues that
Compassion Kind took in thisweek.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Three, three, three, sasha, mr Wiggles and Bowie.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Now Sasha, though, is the artist formerly known as
Sasha, right, because it's nowcurrently known as Daisy.
I think we're, yeah, I'm kindof back and forth on it, but
we'll have to see what fits inthe next 24 hours.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
We'll get to that, and then we're going to talk
about Mexico's president'sresponse to Trump's tariffs.
This is a story that I haven'theard about.
I mean, I haven't seen a lot of, and it is awesome, yes.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
And then we will talk about something really cool.
Here locally in Beverly Hills,the police department is asking
for votes for its canine, whowas nominated for a therapy dog
award.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
That's right, and that's just happens to be our
voting district now at SlapStudios, so that means we have
to vote Rick, that's right, andthat just happens to be our
voting district now at SlapStudios.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
So that means we have to vote Rick.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
That's right, we got to vote and a little later we're
going to back by popular demand.
Two scams and a slap where wetake three batshit crazy events,
two of which are fake but oneis real, and one of the two of
us learns in real time with you,the listener, which one is a
true slap in the face of reality.
Today it's going to be mereading with you, beautiful
people, and Asia, uh, is goingto learn in real time with you.
(02:31):
So, uh, the, I can't wait forthat.
And, uh, debuting here.
This is what I love about theshow and our ability to to flex
on a dime.
So, asia, I didn't know aboutJonBenet Ramsey.
I'm one of those.
I missed it.
Wow, yeah, I know, I kind ofslept Like I understand it, but
(02:51):
I don't like know about it.
And there's a new series that'sout and our resident we have
Compassion Kind Corner.
Well, now we have Bree's CrimeCorner.
That's right, we're going todebut it a little bit later.
It's always an adventure hereat the studio.
But first, today, with the AllWomen's Sports Network, having
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launched in the US last week,our friend, friend of the pod,
whoopi Goldberg, has finallyachieved a long-held ambition,
available in 65 countries andrunning 24-7.
It is the first global networkdedicated entirely to women's
sports.
It's going to show live anddelayed broadcasts of action
from the likes of the UEFAWomen's National League, which
(03:33):
is amazing.
I've seen that, the Women'sTennis Association, which is
obviously killer, and the FIBA3x3 Women's Series, so that's
pretty.
I mean props to Whoopi.
I mean hell yeah, getting thatover the finish line and it's
about damn time.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It's amazing and I love that she's really focusing
on it from a global approach.
I love that she's down forshowcasing any sports with women
that are not already televisedand I didn't know.
I mean, I know there'sobviously a huge gender gap in
sports.
We've known this, but I wasunaware that 95% of everything
(04:11):
we're watching on TV is men'ssports.
I mean, 5% is all the ladiesget, so go whoopee.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, there's UFC, right yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And then what Like you know, women's basketball.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Although bringing back a hit, I mean come on the
fight.
Last week, though, the women'sfight was the best of the whole
entire card.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Absolutely, and I'm still really upset about the
Serrano situation and I stillneed someone to explain it to me
.
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Please somebody explain it to us in the comments
.
But I do love, after a hugeyear for the WNBA as well as
women's soccer and women's golf,whoopi had explained that AWSN
was aiming to show as much as itcould from around the world,
and this is also where I feelWhoopi props again, you're just
(05:01):
tapping into the real power thatis there with um, with getting
honest about sports in a waythat is, it's been over
commercialized for so long onthe men's side that it's I.
I do think there's something inthere that's actually really
great in the honesty of thesport kind of coming back and
(05:21):
you know, honesty of honesty ofsport, I should say no, I agree.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
And just the, you know, the collective gathering
of, you know these women fromall over the world, and sports,
because we've got all of these.
You know music, dance, sports.
I mean these things that weconnect on.
And I just love to see anotherplatform coming into play that
is showcasing women from allover the world.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I mean it's amazing.
Yeah, and their talents youknow.
Yeah, so it's great it's notanother cooking show, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Like we're going to show some really cool sports and
athletic women doing reallycrazy stuff all around the globe
.
Hell yeah, I'm here for it.
Hell yeah, love it, love it.
And speaking of killer women,I've got one right across the
table from me and, um, there are, we've.
This is what's so great, is we?
Um have kind of a small rescueoperation going on here in the
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studio.
Most days you never know what'sgoing to come through the door.
There's this guy that all themarine animals come to.
It's on tiktok.
It's like they're just drawn tohim, like he, him, like he gets
in the water and all theseeverything just like flocks to
him.
And I'm talking like schools of, like fish, like I'm talking
(06:34):
all kinds of turtles.
Everything just gets drawn tothis guy.
It's crazy.
It's crazy.
But we have that on land andit's called compassion kind.
We have that on land and it'scalled Compassion Kind, and
that's why we're going to startadding a lot of this to our
studio's socials and includingit in a lot of the show notes
and things.
But the Compassion Kind segmentslash corner brings with it
(07:06):
adventures every day, andbetween Bowie, sasha actually
the artist formerly known asSasha, now Daisy with a Z-Y, I
think.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I wasn't going with the Z.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
That's you guys, bree said that was the stripper's
way to spell it.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
And she is not a stripper, she is a dainty little
lady.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
She is a dainty little lady.
And then we also have MrWiggles too.
So please, please, asia, tellus Compassion, kind.
This is an amazing week forreally feel-good stuff, when we
need feel-good things all over.
So please tell me about allthree of these awesome, awesome
little spirits.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Absolutely my honor.
So what had happened was-.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
What had happened was-.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I was going to pick up one dog by the name of Mr
Wiggles who had come into theshelter with a positive THC test
.
So this poor boy was high oryou know maybe they thought they
were helping him.
We don't really know the fullstory, but he came into the
(08:00):
shelter and unfortunately norescue was pulling and he found
himself on the euthanasia listand what's crazy to me Death row
.
Yeah, I mean, it's nuts to me tosee these tiny little toy
poodle, dachshund, chihuahuasending up on euthanasia lists
here.
I mean I haven't seen that.
(08:21):
I haven't seen that.
I've been working in shelters,you know, since I was 16.
And I haven't seen this levelof euthanasialists with small
dogs on it.
I mean, we expect it withpitties, we expect it with
huskies.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
All equally sad, is that just?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
because of the volume .
The volume and there's just alot of you know, rescues that
cater to one specific breed,rescues that you know
specifically cater to toy breeds.
People find them easier toadopt out.
There's a lot of reasonsinvolved.
But yeah, this week just kindof hit me in the face with these
three little ones because wehad Mr Wiggles who was a
neurological case.
Even after he came off the THChe was still having symptoms of
(09:04):
ataxia and involuntary movementsand he's just kind of like
flopping around like a fish outof water.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Does that wear off, though?
I mean presumably?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
That's what we thought.
But the issue now is you know,we're well over a week and a
half now.
Over a week and a half now andnormally, when animals are, you
know, inflicted with some kindof drug, they come off in like
three, four days, max, you knowmax.
So what we're leaning towardsnow is cerebral hyperplasia,
(09:41):
which is when they have agenetic effect with their
cerebellum and it affects theirmotor skills, and he's, as you
can see, a very, veryhappy-go-lucky guy oh amazing,
yeah, yeah.
And the good news is they canlive a full long life.
You know, it's just he's verywiggly and when he is trying to
drink or he has a task you know,yeah, we're all shaking, we're
all a little wiggly right now weare.
(10:04):
But Mr Wiggles is just a sweetlittle soul.
But anyways, Mr Wiggles was thefirst contender for my freedom
walk from the euthanasia list.
And then, when I went to pickup Mr Wiggles, they said well,
we also had this toy poodle thatmade it on the euthanasia list
for today, and she was hit by acar and has two broken legs.
(10:25):
And then they took it a stepfurther and told me that another
rescue pulled the sister andleft my poor baby on the
euthanasia list.
So not only do I want to findout who that shelter is and do
unspeakable things, but but howdare you, how dare you leave my
(10:45):
little Sasha slash Daisy Becauseshe has broken legs?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
No.
So anyways, we rescued her.
She has a very, very expensivesurgery coming up on Tuesday.
If anyone knows anyone with$6,000 that would like to send
it to her.
We are on a struggle bus here,friends.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
It does not have to be one person from 6,000.
No Collective, I'll take onedollar, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Absolutely Any help is help.
We want to get this girlwalking on her own again.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Yeah, and I think she's been motoring around the
studio with two casts.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
We wanted her to have a visit when is?
She Do, we know where thelittle baby girl is.
Oh, she's next to you.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oh, the baby.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Okay, rick is going to get the baby.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Got a highlighter.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Get you in the good light.
Get you in the good light.
Yes.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
So this is our Daisy girl, formerly known as Sasha,
formerly known as Rachel.
As you can see, she's casted upif you're watching, but yeah,
she is just in good spirits sheis so tough, I mean.
I don't know anybody that couldhave two legs broken in half
and be as happy as her.
So yeah, help us out.
(12:06):
We need to get this girl fixedup next week.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
We need to get some legs worked out.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah she needs some legs.
Bye baby.
Oh, and then, last but notleast, I can't forget little
Bowie.
Little Bowie is the littleblack lab puppy that somehow
ended up on my list as well.
He was also up for euthanasia.
But the crazy part about Bowieis that we found out that he
actually had I keep saying athird arm, because I want.
(12:34):
You know, they're just humans,you know.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I just want them to be so, but I'm saying it wrong.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
It's probably like a fifth leg.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
I don't believe third arm means what you think it
means.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
No, I don't.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I would recommend you don't believe.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Third arm means what you think it means no, I don't.
I would recommend you don'tGoogle that.
Okay, all right.
So third arm is not the way tosay it.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I'm going to go with a fifth leg.
Is that appropriate, or doesthat mean?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
something else in show business.
No, no, no, it's show business.
Anyway, show business.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Get out of here anyways little little bowie not
only has a double humerus on hisshoulder, which is insane,
because that means he has twogrowth plates, four I just keep
wanting to say third arm, no, no, no, come on, okay, that's fine
A double arm on one side.
(13:25):
Okay, okay, okay.
I digress, God, what's evengreater Can't take me anywhere.
Sorry, sorry, sorry, can't takeme anywhere, but anyways the
even funner, most cool partabout this.
As somebody that has beenworking in rescue for 20 plus
years, I've seen so many radsand I've seen so many crazy
things.
I have never seen a dog with afifth arm Like it's insane.
(13:47):
Then, after we finished therads, we noticed this little nub
Like he actually has a littlenub of where the other arm was
going to grow.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Arm six or arm five.
Arm five Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Not six arm.
Okay, no, no, no, we'resticking to five, five arms.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Five, okay, not six arms.
Okay, no, no, no, five we'resticking to five.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Five arms no five is fine Five arms Five is
extraordinary.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
So Bowie is just a walking little miracle child.
And yeah, he unfortunately isgoing to need an amputation
because that leg is not usableat all.
So we've got Bowie going fromfive legs to three.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I know.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
And then we've got our beauty over here, Miss Daisy
, who needs double leg surgery,and then we have our Mr Wiggles
shaking it all around town withhis neurological disorder.
But anyways, it's been abeautiful rescue week.
I am exhausted and that's why Iprobably look like this today.
You look beautiful.
For the listeners that are onlylistening in voice, you're
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lucky.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
I disagree.
I do think that that's probablyas good a time as any to bring
up there is something we'regoing to put in our show notes
as well.
But we here have found outabout something that all the
work that you've been doing, allthe work that your team's been
(15:16):
doing, kind of all over theworld, and everything I mean
when we teamed up, it was in aneffort to lift all things like
this up.
It's you know, it's it up.
It's not just that things areattracted to you in that same
way, it's that also that youseek this out and you create
these situations that are justbeautiful and worthy of lifting
(15:39):
up.
And so we found out about theCNN Heroes thing.
So we found out about the CNNHeroes thing, and it's a CNN
Heroes competition where you canraise awareness of real heroes
(16:00):
in the world, especially now atyou gotta, gotta mark it and and
clock it because, um, you know,we, we it's like you take the
W's anywhere we can get them.
And so, uh, for our listeners,we're going to put a link to the
CNN heroes um page with, uh, alot of information about
compassion, kind, and everythingthat it does for, um, just for
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animals and just for humanbeings all over the world, and
so if you have two minutes, makesure to check out our show
notes where the CNN heroes voteis, and you can go right there
and vote for our own Asian Nakiaand compassion kind and get you
some motherfucking props girl.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
That's, that's what we Well, you know I am honored,
and obviously, anything thatwill elevate this work and help
more animals, more humans, I'mup for it, but it's still
humbling.
If we were able to winsomething like that and have a
(17:01):
bigger voice and a biggerplatform to do more good, hey,
sign me up, yeah, and moreresources, more awareness.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
I think we, like everybody, went kind of balls to
the wall, like with this sortof struggle for power that just
happened in our country and now,as a result of it, it's again.
I think there's a lot of what'sso amazing about this and the
work that you do is a lot of.
It is things that arechangeable, that everybody of
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all stripes red, blue, purple gofor so and would be, would be
down with, especially you.
Look at our girl here, daisy.
You can't sort of see issueslike this and be not moved and
want to try and help, and wehave the means to pool together
and fix a lot of these problems.
(17:52):
So, you know, that's like Isaid mad, mad, mad.
Thanks and appreciation to thework that goes on there and
we're just getting to take partin it and be a part of it here
at the studios.
So make sure to check out allthe adventures that we have on a
daily basis around here andlet's raise 6K for our girl and
(18:15):
get her some legs before Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I love it yes.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
All right, when we come back from the break.
Mexico's president suggestsretaliatory tariffs in response
to Trump's threats.
What could go wrong?
Let's talk about it after thebreak.
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Speaker 4 (19:02):
Mexico's president responded Tuesday to
president-elect Donald Trump'sthreat to impose tariffs on
goods produced in her countrythat's right, we said her,
because they can do it south ofthe border apparently with a
warning that his plan wouldcause more inflation and hurt
American automakers like GM andFord.
She suggested that Trump maynot know that over the past year
(19:23):
, her country has taken aholistic approach to blocking
the tens of thousands of peoplewho cross Mexico to reach the US
southern border, and that orthat the US Border Patrol
migrant encounters have droppedmore than 75% in the last year
as a result.
So Mexico is currently theUnited States' largest trading
partner, outpacing China, andtrade between US and Mexico
(19:47):
topped $855 billion.
It's basically almost atrillion dollars annually in
2022.
So ostensibly, it's a trillionfor 23, according to the Office
of US Trade Representatives.
Now, the issue here is what Ifound out is know, I didn't know
this.
I would think that the majorityof our imports were from china,
which he's trying to do, uh, aswell.
(20:08):
But no, mexico is where we get,and this is one of those things
where we're talking about itnow.
There's still eight weeks to gountil you know, um, uh, that
dreaded day what day is that?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Yeah, yeah, january 20th, oh my God, uh.
But but it's the threat of itthat all everybody that you know
again they get all, all allgassed up about.
And uh, I understand when youdeal in bullshit.
How that can you know that canwork, but I I don't know.
(20:45):
I mean, if it gets enacted,this is one of those things
where it feels like you wouldjust be purposefully crashing
the economy in a way that iscompletely unnecessary.
It's an own goal and so that'swhy you know we'll see it's
bluster until it's not.
(21:07):
But he ran on this, so it's not.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
It's not that, it's not a reality that he would
follow through with it I just Ialways find these things
interesting because I think youknow the the pull to the
american people is that you knowwe're going to have more um us
based products coming out.
Right, sure, we're going tohave more US-based products
coming out Right sure.
We're building more factoriesand giving more people jobs.
We always hear that.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
I just it's just bullshit.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Bullshit.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
We can save it for you the next four years.
Just buy stock and put a stoploss on it because it's going to
shit the bed.
It's just a question of when,but I do think you know, with
cronies in charge of destroyingeverything and gassing up the
stock market.
Um, yeah, we actually have.
Um, I think our stock ticker is360 P and you can you can buy
(21:57):
stock in 360 pod and you canjust watch it go up like crypto
over the next that's right Overthe next couple of years, we
should have a crypto.
We should have a 360p crypto.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
That would be really cool.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Wouldn't it be cool we could do amazing.
We could launder all kinds ofmoney with it.
It'd be amazing.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
And you know who we should partner with first.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Who Mexico Ah?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
See, it's only that kind of hard-hitting economic
wisdom that you get right hereon.
Slap the Power and Kent I mean.
And just kudos again to theMexican president.
I mean she's just rocking itLike not only is she a climate
scientist and just a total rockstar.
I just love her boldness andshe's like just putting it out
there, you know, showing thenumbers coming up with the
receipts.
And she's just strong, yeah,and I love it.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
What's cool is it's really easy to get into Mexico.
So if we need to, I havefriends that live.
It was funny.
We had somebody that we didbusiness with a couple weeks ago
who was he had relocated toMexico City and loved it, loved
it.
Now I know there's a waterproblem, there's other things,
but I love what's going on therebecause I think you now have a
(23:11):
sort of you know, a body politicthat realizes that he's a troll
, who's a crew who just got awaywith being a criminal, with
trying to overthrow thegovernment.
Everybody else in the rest ofthe world knows this.
Trying to overthrow thegovernment.
Everybody else in the rest ofthe world knows this.
It's not they're shocked thatyou guys, us, would let somebody
(23:33):
attempt to overthrow thegovernment and then just hand
them the office back without anysort of repercussions.
But nonetheless, I feel like I'mlooking forward to the trolling
that these other countries aregoing to be doing.
I encourage and I always dowish for our country to be the
best, but this is not a manwho's going to govern with the
things that we care about inmind.
(23:54):
He's not governing for all thepeople, so he's governing for
himself and his cronies.
And so, yeah, good props on her.
I hope that shove our economicmistakes in our face, you know,
and we're just going to have to.
This is why California we gottwo of the largest ports on
planet Earth next to each other.
Go ahead, come for us.
Come for us, please do, yeah,come for us.
(24:16):
All.
Right Now, this was a coolstory, naming the support canine
for the Beverly Hills PoliceDepartment as one of the
runner-ups for the FirstResponder Paws Therapy Dog Award
, which recognizes dog therapydogs, dog therapy dogs I just
said that three times whichrecognizes therapy dogs that
serve their communities andprovide support to first
responders.
Now this is awesome.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
This is the news that I want to see, yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
This really is what I want.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Because I mean you know first responders.
I mean it's interesting, firstresponder, the word, the term
first responder, just to go intothat for five seconds you know,
we, we always think you knowfirefighter, ambulance, you know
that's what we consider firstresponder.
But we in the disaster world arealso considered first
responders.
You know amongst one anotherbecause we're the first to
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respond to a natural disasterand we're on the, you know, on
the ground doing this work.
It's very stressful on thefront lines.
I mean you are stressed andemotionally pulled in so many
directions.
You know you're exhausted.
Sometimes you're just up forthree, four days in a row.
You know you're dehydrated,you're eating MRE packs.
I mean you don't know?
what you're getting into, so tohave these Just adrenaline.
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Yeah, just adrenaline,surviving on adrenaline.
But you know to have these dogsthat can help with stress and
grief and anxiety in these firstresponder.
You know situations and whatthey deal with each day.
These dogs should be getting ahigh five.
I mean.
Nami is literally trained todetect a person's pheromones and
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blood pressure.
See, that's what's up Like?
We just don't deserve them.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
No, I will always come back to that.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
No, we just don't deserve them and their whimsical
senses that we just don't haveas humans.
And I hope Nami wins we have toremember to vote.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Yeah, we got to do it .
Remember to vote.
Yeah, so we're putting thatlink in the show notes as well.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Everybody vote for our girl here.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
That's right and I also think that, like saving,
like dogs that are likelifesavers, dogs that are
keeping the communities and thenation safe, dogs that help with
mental health that's neededmore than ever now.
So, yeah, give Nami a shout outand, you know, see if we can get
one of the locals here liftedup as well.
All right Now, when we comeback from break, as promised,
(26:31):
we're going to have Bree's crimecorner.
She's going to go into theJonBenet Ramsey gimmick, which I
am stoked about.
And two scams and a slap whereit's my day to read for Asia and
yeah.
So stick around.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Hi, I'm Anjali Bhimani and I'm Julia Bianco and
we are so excited to bebringing you our new creative
baby, the Character Selectpodcast.
I've wanted to save the worldsince I was four.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
There has been no character like him up to that
point, and there really hasn'tbeen a character since.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Every episode of Character Select is going to be
taking fantastic video gameperformances and talking about
what makes them tick, what makesthem exciting as players, as
performers, as sound designers,as casting directors.
That was, I feel like I've beenambushed.
I was even in a podcast to talkabout a video game.
So there's a big old love festhere.
That's how we start this andyou're just going to have to
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deal with it.
Recogn, recognized by the 2013edition of the guinness world
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Speaker 3 (27:33):
Careers are born by being in the right place at the
right time where you can'tcontrol crime corner.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
I didn't know about the john benet thing and you
started laying and you startedtelling me about it and I was.
I lost my mind.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
So please for the, for the people the story is that
they went to a christmas party.
Okay, they come back home, theyput their kids to bed.
They go to bed.
They wake up.
The mom finds a ransom note onthe staircase.
She yells for her husband.
She's confused.
He comes down.
They realize there's thisransom note for their daughter.
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They think she's been kidnapped.
They call the police and thenall their friends to come over
for support.
At this point they think she'sbeen kidnapped.
They call the police and thenall their friends to come over
for support.
At this point they think she'sbeen kidnapped and the police
butcher the crime scene like allthese friends are coming over
there.
They were just saying how therewas like donuts and juice and
stuff.
People were just touchingeverything and come to find out
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a few hours later like they findjohn bonnet in the basement
dead.
So she never left the house.
They were like all right, let'sjust search the house for clues
again one more time.
They've searched everywhere,let's search one more time.
The dad just so happens to walkdown to the basement and open
the door and there's john bonnet.
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Does he leave her there and sayshe's here?
No, he picks her up, comes up,so now he's contaminating her
body.
Here's the question if you werekidnapping the, the girl yeah
and you left this ransom note.
Why did you kill her in thehouse?
Speaker 4 (29:20):
yeah, yeah, what did the ransom?
Something went, the ransom notewas like four pages long.
Oh my.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
God.
Okay who has the time to write.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Nobody, nobody, no, nobody.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
What the kidnapper wrote the ransom note on was
paper and pen from inside theRamsey's home.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Right.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
So the kidnapper, broken, knew that they would
have all this time to sit andwrite this long novel four page
and then and then.
One theory of mine is they wereat this Christmas party.
Maybe the kidnapper did haveenough time to get familiar with
the house if they were in thehouse already in theory, if he
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they saw them.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Let's say it's someone that knows them right
right they've looked around,they've figured out they're
going to just try and get in oneof the windows.
Okay, a lot of people in thosehouses up north, the basement
windows a lot of the times arebroke or stuffy or open or you
know whatever.
So I feel like if it wassomebody from their circle, they
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would have had to have knownthe house, been inside the house
, knew where her bedroom was andthen maybe when they left for
the christmas party they went inand stayed there, you know and
like and waited, waited that isa theory that's a theory.
But going back to the ransomnote, you are going to kidnap a
child because you want ransommoney.
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That is a very differentobjective.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Guess how much money they wanted in this ransom note
Just take a guess.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Oh yeah, for fun.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I know.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Just take a guess I don't want to guess wrong $50
million $118,000.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Specifically $118,000 .
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Why.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
And what does that match with?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Brie why.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
What does that match with Brie?
Why?
What does that correspond?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
with.
That was the exact amount thatJohn the father got as a bonus
that year.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Exact amount it was like $1,807 something which
doesn't help the argument thatit wasn't somebody else it could
have been somebody's dad.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
$118,000 bonus, that's a good bonus.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
They had money, the Ramseys, but this is why it
actually is on their side, thispart of the story.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
For me, this part is on their side, because why?
Speaker 1 (31:34):
would you specifically put that number?
If you wanted to kill yourdaughter Like you, maybe
somebody?
Speaker 4 (31:41):
you worked with.
Yeah, that's what I wasthinking.
That's weird, like somebodyknows what your bonus is and
it's pissed off.
It's pissed off that you got itand says I want your whole
entire bonus.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Nothing more, nothing less yeah, that is a weird
thing right right unexplainablesort of sure even the detectives
are like you don't see ransomsfor 118 you see like yeah, a
quarter a half a mil a mil like.
But why 118?
Speaker 1 (32:07):
and how ironic that it or a coincidence that it's
the same bonus now did the theythink about that and then write
the note so that it looked likethat.
Was it staged?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
it can be staged there's a theory that okay.
So JonBenet had a history ofwetting her pants.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
It was like something that she was working on.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
So one of the theories is that she wet her
pants.
Patsy lost control, may havepushed her into the bathroom or
something to get clean, she hither head and then they had to
stage.
That's one of the theories.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Now the autopsy report.
What did that show as cause ofdeath?
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Strangulation and or a hit to the head Head contusion
but they don't know which onecame first.
They cannot conclude which onehappened first.
However, I don't know if I'msaying this right.
Happened first.
However, I don't know if I'msaying this right.
A garret was a device createdto strangle JonBenet, which.
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This is an intricate.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on, hold on.
A device was created tostrangle specifically JonBenet,
specifically.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah, so this device, the way it was tied, there's a
thing you can pull that wouldstrangle and then if you let it
go, it loosens up and, like noteveryone knows how to tie this,
so that that's a very likeinteresting, like who would?
Speaker 4 (33:40):
know how to tie this.
Yeah, and why?
Speaker 2 (33:42):
but what was used was one of patsy's paintbrushes.
It was broken, I think, intothree pieces maybe, and one of
the pieces the garrett, if I'msaying it right yeah was tied
around but what about where theother paintbrush was found?
oh, and then another piece ofthe paintbrush was used to
sexually assault her come on,yeah, it's it's like so it's
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like if you accidentally, if youwent out of your mind,
accidentally maybe pushed her inthe bathtub and hit her head.
I don't know if I see youtaking all these steps to create
this scene like that.
That's right.
Like if if that's so psychoticthat it's a wild theory, right
and theory.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Right and I think that when you're dealing with
you know just being someone I'mvery like, invested and
completely traumatized by you,know any sort of molestation of
children, but I've come acrossso many cases amongst the years
you learn a lot.
And the fact that her doctorvouched that she had never had
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any sexual abuse and you know,okay, fine, that's, that's great
and he could be a liar.
But you know he could be atotal liar.
Who knows?
Speaker 2 (34:55):
but then it's like hopefully not everyone is in on
this right correct it would bevery strategic that everybody
was in on it.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
For what?
Over 118 000?
Speaker 4 (35:03):
it's not enough money right, and it's his own money.
Already, though that would be,you'd be.
Yeah, it doesn't it doesn't addup but for.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
But on that theory I agree.
For the mother, I don't carehow psychotic you might be
because you think about thejealousy factor, how beautiful
she was, all the attention.
If there was something sexuallygoing on between jean benet and
the father, that could lead themother right to retaliate but
you don't.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
But the doctor did say she she was not correct.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Sexually assaulted but let's just say yeah, doc is
a liar.
Yeah, do you break a paintbrushin three and stab her in the
throat and then shove one up tosexually?
That's not something that.
What would be the purpose forthe mom to do that?
Speaker 2 (35:49):
The dad, there was no signs of her being sexually
assaulted prior to this, per thedoctor.
They also interviewed his otherdaughter, which he had, two
other daughters from a previousmarriage.
One of them died in a caraccident, so the man's lost two
children, but the daughter thatis still living did say, like my
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dad has never done, that he'sbeen nothing but a standup dad.
Who, who knows?
I also like personally, knowsituations where someone is one
way and then to other people adifferent way.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Well, and in one family and to another, there's
fathers that treat one daughterbecause of their animosity
towards the mother.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
Right.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
There's those situations, right.
There's all these situationswith stepchildren.
There's these situationsAdopted kids, I mean, we see it
all the time.
So even if he's a stand-upfather in one scenario, he may
have had so much hatred towardsthe mom at some point that he
took it out on JonBenet or theattention she was getting.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
The parents' story has never changed that.
They went home, they put thekids to bed.
Burke never left his room.
They tried to hide him fromeverything going on.
As soon as they found theransom note, they called a
friend to come get him.
So Burke was away fromeverything.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
How old was Burke at the time?
Nine, okay.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
However, Burke goes on Dr Phil, as he's older, he's
like a man at this point and hetells Dr Phil his this is what
happened that night and Burke'sversion is that he went
downstairs in the middle of thenight to play with his toys and
we're like wait what?
You were downstairs in themiddle of the night, Like that
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has never been said before.
And he's on television sayinghe did leave his bedroom and he
was downstairs.
John Bonnet, when they lookedat her body, had pineapple in
her stomach and they were askedwas there pineapple at the party
that they attended, thatChristmas party?
No, they asked the parents didyou guys feed her pineapple?
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No, no, no, no pineapple.
However, there was a bowl ofpineapples in the kitchen.
In a bowl, pineapples and milk,Burke and Patsy's fingerprints
on the bowl and the milk.
It's their house.
Of course, the fingerprints areon it, but John Bonet's
(38:22):
fingerprints not on it at all.
But it's just weird thatthere's this bowl of pineapple
there yeah and no one can tellyou how um dominique it got into
her stomach.
Yeah, so the theory is maybeburke was downstairs eating
pineapple.
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She came down, maybe stealinghis pineapple.
He got mad, hit her withsomething, accidentally killed
his sister and then the parentscover it up because they don't
want their son to go down formurder I, I still can't, I can't
go with that one, becauseeverything that was done to her
(39:06):
was super crazy brutal.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
You do not as a parent trying to protect your
son, that's not a if you're nota complete psychopath.
You would do a blunt for forcedtrauma to the head.
Sure you would not have agarrot for a strangulation.
You would not have a piece of apaintbrush up your daughter's
private parts.
You wouldn't have stabbed herin the neck with part of the
paintbrush.
It's too much and a taser it.
(39:31):
So I think we have to scratchhim off, even though I don't
want to his age and thebrutality, to her body and the
capability of a nine-year-old.
And that means that both kidswere up and then both parents
didn't hear, hear that it's alittle bit of a tough one for me
.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
It is tough to the extreme that she was killed, to
think that if you were trying toprotect one kid, that you would
create this scene.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Yeah, you wouldn't do that.
So what is the working theorythen, past that?
Speaker 2 (40:01):
So then there is one, and I forgot about this dude
until I watched the Netflixdocumentary and I think it was
on the third episode.
And I forgot about this dudeuntil I watched the Netflix
documentary and he I think itwas on the third episode and he
pops up and I was like, oh myGod, I remember that guy's face
as a kid.
He's so creepy looking, he's socreepy.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Who is?
Speaker 2 (40:19):
he John Carr.
He's one of the many thatconfess to killing her.
But his story, his story, madelike the way he described what
he did to her and how he did itlike made sense, but they
couldn't find any DNA of his onher.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
But if he confessed and if it matches up, do you
have to have DNA for it to be by?
Speaker 1 (40:46):
court of law.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
Unfortunately, I mean they.
They just don't.
By court of law you have tohave dna for it to be by court
of law, unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
I mean they.
They just don't have to havedna, you do.
Some states do not allowwithout a dna, like there have
been murders that literally theperson, like you know, was in
the car with you know, butthere's no dna and they're like,
oh well, we can't blame them.
It's like what, what?
That's crazy, it's insane.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
I think a kid should be able to do a pageant and not
be sexualized.
I think a kid should be able todress up and have fun and put
makeup on.
If it's for fun, they weresaying, those pageants were like
the only people in the audiencewere like moms and dads of the
other girls.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
It wasn't like in front of a crowd of random
people it was like a communitylike I don't know, but here's my
thing we have to come to termswith the fact that we've got a
lot of sickos in the world and Ithink I know we're not we know,
more now than then I'll giveyou that.
That's fair.
I would say after the 80s iswhen we started like having our
big serial killer cases and likeunderstanding this stuff.
(41:49):
But there's no part of me thatwould let my little twin sisters
, not today.
Wear makeup and prance around astage half naked in a bikini?
Absolutely not today.
I won't even let them talk Likea man comes up to me at a
grocery store and tries to sayhello to my girls.
I'm already on high defensemode because you can't operate
in that space.
(42:09):
Unfortunately it's sad, but wecan't operate in that space
anymore.
And unfortunately, makeup andbikinis is sexualizing a child.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
It's unfortunate that a little girl can't play dress
up and want to put on her mom'sheels and look like her mom and
it be okay for a small littlething.
They do for fun.
Like I used to dress up with mycousins and do movies and stuff
.
Like I was never into pageantsbut like right I, you know I
playing dress up is fun whenyou're a kid it is.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
You put on the beads and the makeup.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Yeah, unfortunately there was like a a slew of
freaking predators that cameforward trying to confess that
they killed John Bonnet and wereall like they could prove that
they didn't.
But these men, just thesepedophiles, just had an
obsession with her.
So yeah, I think.
Speaker 4 (42:59):
Wait a minute.
So you would, because you havean obsession, whether you
confess to a crime that youdidn't commit.
For what?
Speaker 1 (43:07):
This is a thing in the crime world.
This is a.
It's a fetish of the publicdisplay.
Um, it's a.
Um, what's the other case thatwe had?
Speaker 2 (43:16):
zodiac, zodiac, yeah zodiac.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
You know how many people came up and wanted to be
the zodiac.
They want to emulate thisfantasy of being the killer
sometimes we throw weird, weird,it's a mystery.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
No one knows it's been 28 years or something like
that.
Speaker 4 (43:33):
But the car dude?
Is he doing time for it?
Because he admitted to it?
Speaker 2 (43:36):
No, and the worst part is this dude was a
preschool teacher too, Asubstitute preschool teacher at
the time Not anymore, andapparently I think they said he
moved to London or something.
He said he's to London orsomething.
He said he's living quietlysomewhere, but look at his
picture.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
What a creep.
He just looks, he's a totalcreep show.
I don't know if we'll ever findout what happened to that
little girl and that is Bree'sCrime Corner, all right.
Speaker 4 (44:04):
And before we get out of here, as promised, and you
can stick around because I don't, you may know this.
Oh, I created this.
Oh, you created it.
Okay, so Bree knows it.
All right, so for two scams anda slap.
The beautiful thing where we'rebringing back this game and we
take three batshit, crazy events, two of which are fake, one is
real and the two of us one ofthe two of us learns in real
time with you, the listener,which one is a true slap in the
(44:26):
face of reality.
This week, I get to read forAsia Nakia, and so are you ready
?
Speaker 1 (44:31):
I'm ready.
Speaker 4 (44:32):
Asia and Bree created this, so this is great, all
right.
Number one Mysterious cropcircle revealed to be a giant
advertisement for new cereal.
Number two Woman marries atrain station.
I is that's.
I want to know more already.
Pizza.
And number three pizza deliverydrone delivers wrong order to
(44:56):
the White House.
Which one of these is actuallya slap in the face of reality?
Speaker 1 (45:06):
I mean, they're all plausible, uh they are all
plausible, okay, uh, I'm gonnahave to go with the woman that
married the train station youare correct, asia, I think she
might even be three for three.
Speaker 4 (45:23):
That woman marries train station she's loved for 36
years and has sex with it.
Mentally, carol Santa.
Fe says being attracted toinanimate objects is like being
bisexual or lesbian, and insistsshe isn't crazy.
She has married this is inquotes a train station she spent
(45:48):
36 years in love with and saysthey have sex mentally.
She says she has been in lovewith this train station since
she was nine years old.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Can I just say on behalf of the LGBTQIA plus
community this is why we can'thave nice things.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
This is why we can't have nice things.
Because, you've got to go andmarry a train station.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
This is great, this is correct, you've got to go and
marry a train ticket.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
This is great.
Speaker 4 (46:09):
She says she has sex with the building mentally and
identifies herself as anobjectum sexual, a person who is
sexually attracted to inanimateobjects and structures.
Yeah, it's kind of crazy.
She didn't discover this untilshe was 40, after she searched
online.
And I am in love with abuilding.
She says it's a worldwidedebate whether the phenomenon is
a sexuality fetish or mentalcondition.
(46:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Yeah, I struggle a bit with that one, but as long
as she's not harming anybody,I'm just going to let her love
her train station.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
She takes a 45-minute bus ride every night to see the
station.
You would think she would takea train.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
The picture.
But, maybe she can't ride thetrain because she's married to
the train.
She doesn't want to ride herhusband At work.
Speaker 4 (47:01):
At work when husband is working.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
When he's on the rail , she would be jealous of all
the other passengers.
He's on the rail, she would bejealous of all the other
passengers.
I was going to say how does shedeal with jealousy issues?
Speaker 4 (47:15):
with all these bitches coming in and off the
train.
I love this, though.
She says that the trainidentifies I mean the station
identifies as female, so whenI'm touching her I feel as
though it actually holds me andkisses me.
And she says I don't havephysical sex with the station in
public.
I want to be respectful.
I want to be respectful.
I wouldn't do that with a humanin public, so why would I do it
(47:35):
in this case?
I do have sex with Daedra in mymind when I stand there.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
Daedra, daedra.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
Oh, that's what she named her.
Yes, yes, did she really namethe station?
Speaker 1 (47:45):
after a Greek goddess , I'm offended.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
It should be offended for all dieters everywhere.
I especially like when I hearthe trains rev up their engine.
Ooh, it turns me on.
That's what she says.
This keeps getting better.
She claims the train station isthe love of her life, despite
being in a previous relationshipwith a man.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
I mean Ouch to that man, ouch, I mean, I know men
have a hard time when you knowwe leave them for a woman.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
But to be left A woman train station, but to be
left for a female train station.
She's definitely not ashamed,and but at least she has
boundaries.
Speaker 4 (48:24):
Yeah, no, sure, sure no public display of affection
she has boundaries and you knowwhat.
Speaker 1 (48:28):
Again, if you're not harming anyone, you do you boo.
Speaker 4 (48:31):
You do you, you do you, you do you.
That's the theme here on Slapthe Power, you do you.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
I will respect and appreciate anybody that's not
causing harm.
So you know what?
Let her do her thing, that's it.
That's it.
Speaker 4 (48:44):
That's it All right.
Well, before we get out of here, a reminder to check our show
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Vote for our girl, Asian Akia,on CNN Heroes.
We have the links andeverything on there and before
we head out, make sure to like,comment, share, subscribe.
Talk about JonBenet and Bree'snew crime corner, which I'm
looking forward to next week's.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
I'm going diving already.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like this.
Speaker 4 (49:06):
I like this a lot and , uh, you know, pause for
progress.
Um, this week's definitely gotits hands full, so make sure to
uh if you can help out there inany way uh, it is always
appreciated at compassion kind.
And we also started a new uhpatreon for the show for slap
the power, which is actuallygreat.
We're gonna be uh dropping thatlink really, really soon, which
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It helps us kind of.
We want to keep building outthe show and building out the
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So make sure to check that outif you get a chance.
And, yeah, we will see you nextweek.
Sonics, love, action, progress.
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See you guys next week.
Bye, slap the Power is a SlapNetwork production.
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We have to come to terms with the fact that we've
got a lot of sickos in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And I think we know more now than then.
We know more now than then.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I'll give you that.
That's fair.
I would say after the 80s iswhen we started like having our
big serial killer cases and likeunderstanding this stuff.
But there's no part of me thatwould let my little twin sisters
wear makeup and prance around astage half naked in a bikini,
absolutely not today.
Wear makeup and prance around astage half naked in a bikini?
Absolutely not today.
I won't even let them talk Likea man comes up to me at a
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grocery store and tries to sayhello to my girls.
I'm already on high defensemode because you cannot.
You can't operate in that safe,unfortunately.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
It's sad, but won't we go slap today?
All right, the world may notneed another podcast, but it can
definitely use a slap.
That's right.
Welcome to Slap to Power, theshow that lifts artists who use
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their powers for positiveprogress.
I am Rick Barriodil.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
And I'm Asia Nakia.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
That's right On the show.
Today, Whoopi Goldbergannounces the launch of an
all-women's sports network.
Come on.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yes, and then we will hit our rescue segment, pause
for Progress, where we will talkabout three new rescues that
Compassion Kind took in thisweek.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Three, three, three, sasha, mr Wiggles and Bowie.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Now Sasha, though, is the artist formerly known as
Sasha, right, because it's nowcurrently known as Daisy.
I think we're, yeah, I'm kindof back and forth on it, but
we'll have to see what fits inthe next 24 hours.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
We'll get to that, and then we're going to talk
about Mexico's president'sresponse to Trump's tariffs.
This is a story that I haven'theard about.
I mean, I haven't seen a lot of, and it is awesome, yes.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
And then we will talk about something really cool.
Here locally in Beverly Hills,the police department is asking
for votes for its canine, whowas nominated for a therapy dog
award.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
That's right, and that's just happens to be our
voting district now at SlapStudios, so that means we have
to vote Rick, that's right, andthat just happens to be our
voting district now at SlapStudios.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
So that means we have to vote Rick.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
That's right, we got to vote and a little later we're
going to back by popular demand.
Two scams and a slap where wetake three batshit crazy events,
two of which are fake but oneis real, and one of the two of
us learns in real time with you,the listener, which one is a
true slap in the face of reality.
Today it's going to be mereading with you, beautiful
people, and Asia, uh, is goingto learn in real time with you.
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So, uh, the, I can't wait forthat.
And, uh, debuting here.
This is what I love about theshow and our ability to to flex
on a dime.
So, asia, I didn't know aboutJonBenet Ramsey.
I'm one of those.
I missed it.
Wow, yeah, I know, I kind ofslept Like I understand it, but
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I don't like know about it.
And there's a new series that'sout and our resident we have
Compassion Kind Corner.
Well, now we have Bree's CrimeCorner.
That's right, we're going todebut it a little bit later.
It's always an adventure hereat the studio.
But first, today, with the AllWomen's Sports Network, having
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launched in the US last week,our friend, friend of the pod,
whoopi Goldberg, has finallyachieved a long-held ambition,
available in 65 countries andrunning 24-7.
It is the first global networkdedicated entirely to women's
sports.
It's going to show live anddelayed broadcasts of action
from the likes of the UEFAWomen's National League, which
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is amazing.
I've seen that, the Women'sTennis Association, which is
obviously killer, and the FIBA3x3 Women's Series, so that's
pretty.
I mean props to Whoopi.
I mean hell yeah, getting thatover the finish line and it's
about damn time.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It's amazing and I love that she's really focusing
on it from a global approach.
I love that she's down forshowcasing any sports with women
that are not already televisedand I didn't know.
I mean, I know there'sobviously a huge gender gap in
sports.
We've known this, but I wasunaware that 95% of everything
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we're watching on TV is men'ssports.
I mean, 5% is all the ladiesget, so go whoopee.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, there's UFC, right yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And then what Like you know, women's basketball.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Although bringing back a hit, I mean come on the
fight.
Last week, though, the women'sfight was the best of the whole
entire card.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Absolutely, and I'm still really upset about the
Serrano situation and I stillneed someone to explain it to me
.
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Please somebody explain it to us in the comments
.
But I do love, after a hugeyear for the WNBA as well as
women's soccer and women's golf,whoopi had explained that AWSN
was aiming to show as much as itcould from around the world,
and this is also where I feelWhoopi props again, you're just
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tapping into the real power thatis there with um, with getting
honest about sports in a waythat is, it's been over
commercialized for so long onthe men's side that it's I.
I do think there's something inthere that's actually really
great in the honesty of thesport kind of coming back and
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you know, honesty of honesty ofsport, I should say no, I agree.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
And just the, you know, the collective gathering
of, you know these women fromall over the world, and sports,
because we've got all of these.
You know music, dance, sports.
I mean these things that weconnect on.
And I just love to see anotherplatform coming into play that
is showcasing women from allover the world.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I mean it's amazing.
Yeah, and their talents youknow.
Yeah, so it's great it's notanother cooking show, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Like we're going to show some really cool sports and
athletic women doing reallycrazy stuff all around the globe
.
Hell yeah, I'm here for it.
Hell yeah, love it, love it.
And speaking of killer women,I've got one right across the
table from me and, um, there are, we've.
This is what's so great, is we?
Um have kind of a small rescueoperation going on here in the
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studio.
Most days you never know what'sgoing to come through the door.
There's this guy that all themarine animals come to.
It's on tiktok.
It's like they're just drawn tohim, like he, him, like he gets
in the water and all theseeverything just like flocks to
him.
And I'm talking like schools of, like fish, like I'm talking
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all kinds of turtles.
Everything just gets drawn tothis guy.
It's crazy.
It's crazy.
But we have that on land andit's called compassion kind.
We have that on land and it'scalled Compassion Kind, and
that's why we're going to startadding a lot of this to our
studio's socials and includingit in a lot of the show notes
and things.
But the Compassion Kind segmentslash corner brings with it
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adventures every day, andbetween Bowie, sasha actually
the artist formerly known asSasha, now Daisy with a Z-Y, I
think.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I wasn't going with the Z.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
That's you guys, bree said that was the stripper's
way to spell it.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
And she is not a stripper, she is a dainty little
lady.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
She is a dainty little lady.
And then we also have MrWiggles too.
So please, please, asia, tellus Compassion, kind.
This is an amazing week forreally feel-good stuff, when we
need feel-good things all over.
So please tell me about allthree of these awesome, awesome
little spirits.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Absolutely my honor.
So what had happened was-.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
What had happened was-.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I was going to pick up one dog by the name of Mr
Wiggles who had come into theshelter with a positive THC test
.
So this poor boy was high oryou know maybe they thought they
were helping him.
We don't really know the fullstory, but he came into the
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shelter and unfortunately norescue was pulling and he found
himself on the euthanasia listand what's crazy to me Death row
.
Yeah, I mean, it's nuts to me tosee these tiny little toy
poodle, dachshund, chihuahuasending up on euthanasia lists
here.
I mean I haven't seen that.
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I haven't seen that.
I've been working in shelters,you know, since I was 16.
And I haven't seen this levelof euthanasialists with small
dogs on it.
I mean, we expect it withpitties, we expect it with
huskies.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
All equally sad, is that just?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
because of the volume .
The volume and there's just alot of you know, rescues that
cater to one specific breed,rescues that you know
specifically cater to toy breeds.
People find them easier toadopt out.
There's a lot of reasonsinvolved.
But yeah, this week just kindof hit me in the face with these
three little ones because wehad Mr Wiggles who was a
neurological case.
Even after he came off the THChe was still having symptoms of
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ataxia and involuntary movementsand he's just kind of like
flopping around like a fish outof water.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Does that wear off, though?
I mean presumably?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
That's what we thought.
But the issue now is you know,we're well over a week and a
half now.
Over a week and a half now andnormally, when animals are, you
know, inflicted with some kindof drug, they come off in like
three, four days, max, you knowmax.
So what we're leaning towardsnow is cerebral hyperplasia,
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which is when they have agenetic effect with their
cerebellum and it affects theirmotor skills, and he's, as you
can see, a very, veryhappy-go-lucky guy oh amazing,
yeah, yeah.
And the good news is they canlive a full long life.
You know, it's just he's verywiggly and when he is trying to
drink or he has a task you know,yeah, we're all shaking, we're
all a little wiggly right now weare.
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But Mr Wiggles is just a sweetlittle soul.
But anyways, Mr Wiggles was thefirst contender for my freedom
walk from the euthanasia list.
And then, when I went to pickup Mr Wiggles, they said well,
we also had this toy poodle thatmade it on the euthanasia list
for today, and she was hit by acar and has two broken legs.
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And then they took it a stepfurther and told me that another
rescue pulled the sister andleft my poor baby on the
euthanasia list.
So not only do I want to findout who that shelter is and do
unspeakable things, but but howdare you, how dare you leave my
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little Sasha slash Daisy Becauseshe has broken legs?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
No.
So anyways, we rescued her.
She has a very, very expensivesurgery coming up on Tuesday.
If anyone knows anyone with$6,000 that would like to send
it to her.
We are on a struggle bus here,friends.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
It does not have to be one person from 6,000.
No Collective, I'll take onedollar, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Absolutely Any help is help.
We want to get this girlwalking on her own again.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Yeah, and I think she's been motoring around the
studio with two casts.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
We wanted her to have a visit when is?
She Do, we know where thelittle baby girl is.
Oh, she's next to you.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oh, the baby.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Okay, rick is going to get the baby.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Got a highlighter.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Get you in the good light.
Get you in the good light.
Yes.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
So this is our Daisy girl, formerly known as Sasha,
formerly known as Rachel.
As you can see, she's casted upif you're watching, but yeah,
she is just in good spirits sheis so tough, I mean.
I don't know anybody that couldhave two legs broken in half
and be as happy as her.
So yeah, help us out.
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We need to get this girl fixedup next week.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
We need to get some legs worked out.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah she needs some legs.
Bye baby.
Oh, and then, last but notleast, I can't forget little
Bowie.
Little Bowie is the littleblack lab puppy that somehow
ended up on my list as well.
He was also up for euthanasia.
But the crazy part about Bowieis that we found out that he
actually had I keep saying athird arm, because I want.
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You know, they're just humans,you know.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I just want them to be so, but I'm saying it wrong.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
It's probably like a fifth leg.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
I don't believe third arm means what you think it
means.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
No, I don't.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I would recommend you don't believe.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Third arm means what you think it means no, I don't.
I would recommend you don'tGoogle that.
Okay, all right.
So third arm is not the way tosay it.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I'm going to go with a fifth leg.
Is that appropriate, or doesthat mean?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
something else in show business.
No, no, no, it's show business.
Anyway, show business.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Get out of here anyways little little bowie not
only has a double humerus on hisshoulder, which is insane,
because that means he has twogrowth plates, four I just keep
wanting to say third arm, no, no, no, come on, okay, that's fine
A double arm on one side.
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Okay, okay, okay.
I digress, God, what's evengreater Can't take me anywhere.
Sorry, sorry, sorry, can't takeme anywhere, but anyways the
even funner, most cool partabout this.
As somebody that has beenworking in rescue for 20 plus
years, I've seen so many radsand I've seen so many crazy
things.
I have never seen a dog with afifth arm Like it's insane.
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Then, after we finished therads, we noticed this little nub
Like he actually has a littlenub of where the other arm was
going to grow.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Arm six or arm five.
Arm five Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Not six arm.
Okay, no, no, no, we'resticking to five, five arms.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Five, okay, not six arms.
Okay, no, no, no, five we'resticking to five.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Five arms no five is fine Five arms Five is
extraordinary.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
So Bowie is just a walking little miracle child.
And yeah, he unfortunately isgoing to need an amputation
because that leg is not usableat all.
So we've got Bowie going fromfive legs to three.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I know.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
And then we've got our beauty over here, Miss Daisy
, who needs double leg surgery,and then we have our Mr Wiggles
shaking it all around town withhis neurological disorder.
But anyways, it's been abeautiful rescue week.
I am exhausted and that's why Iprobably look like this today.
You look beautiful.
For the listeners that are onlylistening in voice, you're
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lucky.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
I disagree.
I do think that that's probablyas good a time as any to bring
up there is something we'regoing to put in our show notes
as well.
But we here have found outabout something that all the
work that you've been doing, allthe work that your team's been
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doing, kind of all over theworld, and everything I mean
when we teamed up, it was in aneffort to lift all things like
this up.
It's you know, it's it up.
It's not just that things areattracted to you in that same
way, it's that also that youseek this out and you create
these situations that are justbeautiful and worthy of lifting
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up.
And so we found out about theCNN Heroes thing.
So we found out about the CNNHeroes thing, and it's a CNN
Heroes competition where you canraise awareness of real heroes
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in the world, especially now atyou gotta, gotta mark it and and
clock it because, um, you know,we, we it's like you take the
W's anywhere we can get them.
And so, uh, for our listeners,we're going to put a link to the
CNN heroes um page with, uh, alot of information about
compassion, kind, and everythingthat it does for, um, just for
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animals and just for humanbeings all over the world, and
so if you have two minutes, makesure to check out our show
notes where the CNN heroes voteis, and you can go right there
and vote for our own Asian Nakiaand compassion kind and get you
some motherfucking props girl.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
That's, that's what we Well, you know I am honored,
and obviously, anything thatwill elevate this work and help
more animals, more humans, I'mup for it, but it's still
humbling.
If we were able to winsomething like that and have a
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bigger voice and a biggerplatform to do more good, hey,
sign me up, yeah, and moreresources, more awareness.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
I think we, like everybody, went kind of balls to
the wall, like with this sortof struggle for power that just
happened in our country and now,as a result of it, it's again.
I think there's a lot of what'sso amazing about this and the
work that you do is a lot of.
It is things that arechangeable, that everybody of
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all stripes red, blue, purple gofor so and would be, would be
down with, especially you.
Look at our girl here, daisy.
You can't sort of see issueslike this and be not moved and
want to try and help, and wehave the means to pool together
and fix a lot of these problems.
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So, you know, that's like Isaid mad, mad, mad.
Thanks and appreciation to thework that goes on there and
we're just getting to take partin it and be a part of it here
at the studios.
So make sure to check out allthe adventures that we have on a
daily basis around here andlet's raise 6K for our girl and
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get her some legs before Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I love it yes.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
All right, when we come back from the break.
Mexico's president suggestsretaliatory tariffs in response
to Trump's threats.
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Speaker 4 (19:02):
Mexico's president responded Tuesday to
president-elect Donald Trump'sthreat to impose tariffs on
goods produced in her countrythat's right, we said her,
because they can do it south ofthe border apparently with a
warning that his plan wouldcause more inflation and hurt
American automakers like GM andFord.
She suggested that Trump maynot know that over the past year
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, her country has taken aholistic approach to blocking
the tens of thousands of peoplewho cross Mexico to reach the US
southern border, and that orthat the US Border Patrol
migrant encounters have droppedmore than 75% in the last year
as a result.
So Mexico is currently theUnited States' largest trading
partner, outpacing China, andtrade between US and Mexico
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topped $855 billion.
It's basically almost atrillion dollars annually in
2022.
So ostensibly, it's a trillionfor 23, according to the Office
of US Trade Representatives.
Now, the issue here is what Ifound out is know, I didn't know
this.
I would think that the majorityof our imports were from china,
which he's trying to do, uh, aswell.
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But no, mexico is where we get,and this is one of those things
where we're talking about itnow.
There's still eight weeks to gountil you know, um, uh, that
dreaded day what day is that?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Yeah, yeah, january 20th, oh my God, uh.
But but it's the threat of itthat all everybody that you know
again they get all, all allgassed up about.
And uh, I understand when youdeal in bullshit.
How that can you know that canwork, but I I don't know.
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I mean, if it gets enacted,this is one of those things
where it feels like you wouldjust be purposefully crashing
the economy in a way that iscompletely unnecessary.
It's an own goal and so that'swhy you know we'll see it's
bluster until it's not.
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But he ran on this, so it's not.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
It's not that, it's not a reality that he would
follow through with it I just Ialways find these things
interesting because I think youknow the the pull to the
american people is that you knowwe're going to have more um us
based products coming out.
Right, sure, we're going tohave more US-based products
coming out Right sure.
We're building more factoriesand giving more people jobs.
We always hear that.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
I just it's just bullshit.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Bullshit.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
We can save it for you the next four years.
Just buy stock and put a stoploss on it because it's going to
shit the bed.
It's just a question of when,but I do think you know, with
cronies in charge of destroyingeverything and gassing up the
stock market.
Um, yeah, we actually have.
Um, I think our stock ticker is360 P and you can you can buy
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stock in 360 pod and you canjust watch it go up like crypto
over the next that's right Overthe next couple of years, we
should have a crypto.
We should have a 360p crypto.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
That would be really cool.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Wouldn't it be cool we could do amazing.
We could launder all kinds ofmoney with it.
It'd be amazing.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
And you know who we should partner with first.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Who Mexico Ah?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
See, it's only that kind of hard-hitting economic
wisdom that you get right hereon.
Slap the Power and Kent I mean.
And just kudos again to theMexican president.
I mean she's just rocking itLike not only is she a climate
scientist and just a total rockstar.
I just love her boldness andshe's like just putting it out
there, you know, showing thenumbers coming up with the
receipts.
And she's just strong, yeah,and I love it.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
What's cool is it's really easy to get into Mexico.
So if we need to, I havefriends that live.
It was funny.
We had somebody that we didbusiness with a couple weeks ago
who was he had relocated toMexico City and loved it, loved
it.
Now I know there's a waterproblem, there's other things,
but I love what's going on therebecause I think you now have a
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sort of you know, a body politicthat realizes that he's a troll
, who's a crew who just got awaywith being a criminal, with
trying to overthrow thegovernment.
Everybody else in the rest ofthe world knows this.
Trying to overthrow thegovernment.
Everybody else in the rest ofthe world knows this.
It's not they're shocked thatyou guys, us, would let somebody
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attempt to overthrow thegovernment and then just hand
them the office back without anysort of repercussions.
But nonetheless, I feel like I'mlooking forward to the trolling
that these other countries aregoing to be doing.
I encourage and I always dowish for our country to be the
best, but this is not a manwho's going to govern with the
things that we care about inmind.
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He's not governing for all thepeople, so he's governing for
himself and his cronies.
And so, yeah, good props on her.
I hope that shove our economicmistakes in our face, you know,
and we're just going to have to.
This is why California we gottwo of the largest ports on
planet Earth next to each other.
Go ahead, come for us.
Come for us, please do, yeah,come for us.
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All.
Right Now, this was a coolstory, naming the support canine
for the Beverly Hills PoliceDepartment as one of the
runner-ups for the FirstResponder Paws Therapy Dog Award
, which recognizes dog therapydogs, dog therapy dogs I just
said that three times whichrecognizes therapy dogs that
serve their communities andprovide support to first
responders.
Now this is awesome.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
This is the news that I want to see, yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
This really is what I want.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Because I mean you know first responders.
I mean it's interesting, firstresponder, the word, the term
first responder, just to go intothat for five seconds you know,
we, we always think you knowfirefighter, ambulance, you know
that's what we consider firstresponder.
But we in the disaster world arealso considered first
responders.
You know amongst one anotherbecause we're the first to
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respond to a natural disasterand we're on the, you know, on
the ground doing this work.
It's very stressful on thefront lines.
I mean you are stressed andemotionally pulled in so many
directions.
You know you're exhausted.
Sometimes you're just up forthree, four days in a row.
You know you're dehydrated,you're eating MRE packs.
I mean you don't know?
what you're getting into, so tohave these Just adrenaline.
(25:26):
Yeah, just adrenaline,surviving on adrenaline.
But you know to have these dogsthat can help with stress and
grief and anxiety in these firstresponder.
You know situations and whatthey deal with each day.
These dogs should be getting ahigh five.
I mean.
Nami is literally trained todetect a person's pheromones and
(25:47):
blood pressure.
See, that's what's up Like?
We just don't deserve them.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
No, I will always come back to that.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
No, we just don't deserve them and their whimsical
senses that we just don't haveas humans.
And I hope Nami wins we have toremember to vote.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Yeah, we got to do it .
Remember to vote.
Yeah, so we're putting thatlink in the show notes as well.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Everybody vote for our girl here.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
That's right and I also think that, like saving,
like dogs that are likelifesavers, dogs that are
keeping the communities and thenation safe, dogs that help with
mental health that's neededmore than ever now.
So, yeah, give Nami a shout outand, you know, see if we can get
one of the locals here liftedup as well.
All right Now, when we comeback from break, as promised,
(26:31):
we're going to have Bree's crimecorner.
She's going to go into theJonBenet Ramsey gimmick, which I
am stoked about.
And two scams and a slap whereit's my day to read for Asia and
yeah.
So stick around.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Hi, I'm Anjali Bhimani and I'm Julia Bianco and
we are so excited to bebringing you our new creative
baby, the Character Selectpodcast.
I've wanted to save the worldsince I was four.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
There has been no character like him up to that
point, and there really hasn'tbeen a character since.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Every episode of Character Select is going to be
taking fantastic video gameperformances and talking about
what makes them tick, what makesthem exciting as players, as
performers, as sound designers,as casting directors.
That was, I feel like I've beenambushed.
I was even in a podcast to talkabout a video game.
So there's a big old love festhere.
That's how we start this andyou're just going to have to
(27:21):
deal with it.
Recogn, recognized by the 2013edition of the guinness world
book of records gamers editionas the most prolific female
video game voice actor in theworld you know it's a special
project when you hold on to thepeople you created.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Careers are born by being in the right place at the
right time where you can'tcontrol crime corner.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
I didn't know about the john benet thing and you
started laying and you startedtelling me about it and I was.
I lost my mind.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
So please for the, for the people the story is that
they went to a christmas party.
Okay, they come back home, theyput their kids to bed.
They go to bed.
They wake up.
The mom finds a ransom note onthe staircase.
She yells for her husband.
She's confused.
He comes down.
They realize there's thisransom note for their daughter.
(28:21):
They think she's been kidnapped.
They call the police and thenall their friends to come over
for support.
At this point they think she'sbeen kidnapped.
They call the police and thenall their friends to come over
for support.
At this point they think she'sbeen kidnapped and the police
butcher the crime scene like allthese friends are coming over
there.
They were just saying how therewas like donuts and juice and
stuff.
People were just touchingeverything and come to find out
(28:44):
a few hours later like they findjohn bonnet in the basement
dead.
So she never left the house.
They were like all right, let'sjust search the house for clues
again one more time.
They've searched everywhere,let's search one more time.
The dad just so happens to walkdown to the basement and open
the door and there's john bonnet.
(29:05):
Does he leave her there and sayshe's here?
No, he picks her up, comes up,so now he's contaminating her
body.
Here's the question if you werekidnapping the, the girl yeah
and you left this ransom note.
Why did you kill her in thehouse?
Speaker 4 (29:20):
yeah, yeah, what did the ransom?
Something went, the ransom notewas like four pages long.
Oh my.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
God.
Okay who has the time to write.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Nobody, nobody, no, nobody.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
What the kidnapper wrote the ransom note on was
paper and pen from inside theRamsey's home.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Right.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
So the kidnapper, broken, knew that they would
have all this time to sit andwrite this long novel four page
and then and then.
One theory of mine is they wereat this Christmas party.
Maybe the kidnapper did haveenough time to get familiar with
the house if they were in thehouse already in theory, if he
(30:00):
they saw them.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Let's say it's someone that knows them right
right they've looked around,they've figured out they're
going to just try and get in oneof the windows.
Okay, a lot of people in thosehouses up north, the basement
windows a lot of the times arebroke or stuffy or open or you
know whatever.
So I feel like if it wassomebody from their circle, they
(30:23):
would have had to have knownthe house, been inside the house
, knew where her bedroom was andthen maybe when they left for
the christmas party they went inand stayed there, you know and
like and waited, waited that isa theory that's a theory.
But going back to the ransomnote, you are going to kidnap a
child because you want ransommoney.
(30:45):
That is a very differentobjective.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Guess how much money they wanted in this ransom note
Just take a guess.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Oh yeah, for fun.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I know.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Just take a guess I don't want to guess wrong $50
million $118,000.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Specifically $118,000 .
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Why.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
And what does that match with?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Brie why.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
What does that match with Brie?
Why?
What does that correspond?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
with.
That was the exact amount thatJohn the father got as a bonus
that year.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Exact amount it was like $1,807 something which
doesn't help the argument thatit wasn't somebody else it could
have been somebody's dad.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
$118,000 bonus, that's a good bonus.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
They had money, the Ramseys, but this is why it
actually is on their side, thispart of the story.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
For me, this part is on their side, because why?
Speaker 1 (31:34):
would you specifically put that number?
If you wanted to kill yourdaughter Like you, maybe
somebody?
Speaker 4 (31:41):
you worked with.
Yeah, that's what I wasthinking.
That's weird, like somebodyknows what your bonus is and
it's pissed off.
It's pissed off that you got itand says I want your whole
entire bonus.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Nothing more, nothing less yeah, that is a weird
thing right right unexplainablesort of sure even the detectives
are like you don't see ransomsfor 118 you see like yeah, a
quarter a half a mil a mil like.
But why 118?
Speaker 1 (32:07):
and how ironic that it or a coincidence that it's
the same bonus now did the theythink about that and then write
the note so that it looked likethat.
Was it staged?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
it can be staged there's a theory that okay.
So JonBenet had a history ofwetting her pants.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
It was like something that she was working on.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
So one of the theories is that she wet her
pants.
Patsy lost control, may havepushed her into the bathroom or
something to get clean, she hither head and then they had to
stage.
That's one of the theories.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Now the autopsy report.
What did that show as cause ofdeath?
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Strangulation and or a hit to the head Head contusion
but they don't know which onecame first.
They cannot conclude which onehappened first.
However, I don't know if I'msaying this right.
Happened first.
However, I don't know if I'msaying this right.
A garret was a device createdto strangle JonBenet, which.
(33:13):
This is an intricate.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on, hold on.
A device was created tostrangle specifically JonBenet,
specifically.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah, so this device, the way it was tied, there's a
thing you can pull that wouldstrangle and then if you let it
go, it loosens up and, like noteveryone knows how to tie this,
so that that's a very likeinteresting, like who would?
Speaker 4 (33:40):
know how to tie this.
Yeah, and why?
Speaker 2 (33:42):
but what was used was one of patsy's paintbrushes.
It was broken, I think, intothree pieces maybe, and one of
the pieces the garrett, if I'msaying it right yeah was tied
around but what about where theother paintbrush was found?
oh, and then another piece ofthe paintbrush was used to
sexually assault her come on,yeah, it's it's like so it's
(34:05):
like if you accidentally, if youwent out of your mind,
accidentally maybe pushed her inthe bathtub and hit her head.
I don't know if I see youtaking all these steps to create
this scene like that.
That's right.
Like if if that's so psychoticthat it's a wild theory, right
and theory.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Right and I think that when you're dealing with
you know just being someone I'mvery like, invested and
completely traumatized by you,know any sort of molestation of
children, but I've come acrossso many cases amongst the years
you learn a lot.
And the fact that her doctorvouched that she had never had
(34:47):
any sexual abuse and you know,okay, fine, that's, that's great
and he could be a liar.
But you know he could be atotal liar.
Who knows?
Speaker 2 (34:55):
but then it's like hopefully not everyone is in on
this right correct it would bevery strategic that everybody
was in on it.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
For what?
Over 118 000?
Speaker 4 (35:03):
it's not enough money right, and it's his own money.
Already, though that would be,you'd be.
Yeah, it doesn't it doesn't addup but for.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
But on that theory I agree.
For the mother, I don't carehow psychotic you might be
because you think about thejealousy factor, how beautiful
she was, all the attention.
If there was something sexuallygoing on between jean benet and
the father, that could lead themother right to retaliate but
you don't.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
But the doctor did say she she was not correct.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Sexually assaulted but let's just say yeah, doc is
a liar.
Yeah, do you break a paintbrushin three and stab her in the
throat and then shove one up tosexually?
That's not something that.
What would be the purpose forthe mom to do that?
Speaker 2 (35:49):
The dad, there was no signs of her being sexually
assaulted prior to this, per thedoctor.
They also interviewed his otherdaughter, which he had, two
other daughters from a previousmarriage.
One of them died in a caraccident, so the man's lost two
children, but the daughter thatis still living did say, like my
(36:13):
dad has never done, that he'sbeen nothing but a standup dad.
Who, who knows?
I also like personally, knowsituations where someone is one
way and then to other people adifferent way.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Well, and in one family and to another, there's
fathers that treat one daughterbecause of their animosity
towards the mother.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
Right.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
There's those situations, right.
There's all these situationswith stepchildren.
There's these situationsAdopted kids, I mean, we see it
all the time.
So even if he's a stand-upfather in one scenario, he may
have had so much hatred towardsthe mom at some point that he
took it out on JonBenet or theattention she was getting.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
The parents' story has never changed that.
They went home, they put thekids to bed.
Burke never left his room.
They tried to hide him fromeverything going on.
As soon as they found theransom note, they called a
friend to come get him.
So Burke was away fromeverything.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
How old was Burke at the time?
Nine, okay.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
However, Burke goes on Dr Phil, as he's older, he's
like a man at this point and hetells Dr Phil his this is what
happened that night and Burke'sversion is that he went
downstairs in the middle of thenight to play with his toys and
we're like wait what?
You were downstairs in themiddle of the night, Like that
(37:37):
has never been said before.
And he's on television sayinghe did leave his bedroom and he
was downstairs.
John Bonnet, when they lookedat her body, had pineapple in
her stomach and they were askedwas there pineapple at the party
that they attended, thatChristmas party?
No, they asked the parents didyou guys feed her pineapple?
(37:59):
No, no, no, no pineapple.
However, there was a bowl ofpineapples in the kitchen.
In a bowl, pineapples and milk,Burke and Patsy's fingerprints
on the bowl and the milk.
It's their house.
Of course, the fingerprints areon it, but John Bonet's
(38:22):
fingerprints not on it at all.
But it's just weird thatthere's this bowl of pineapple
there yeah and no one can tellyou how um dominique it got into
her stomach.
Yeah, so the theory is maybeburke was downstairs eating
pineapple.
(38:42):
She came down, maybe stealinghis pineapple.
He got mad, hit her withsomething, accidentally killed
his sister and then the parentscover it up because they don't
want their son to go down formurder I, I still can't, I can't
go with that one, becauseeverything that was done to her
(39:06):
was super crazy brutal.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
You do not as a parent trying to protect your
son, that's not a if you're nota complete psychopath.
You would do a blunt for forcedtrauma to the head.
Sure you would not have agarrot for a strangulation.
You would not have a piece of apaintbrush up your daughter's
private parts.
You wouldn't have stabbed herin the neck with part of the
paintbrush.
It's too much and a taser it.
(39:31):
So I think we have to scratchhim off, even though I don't
want to his age and thebrutality, to her body and the
capability of a nine-year-old.
And that means that both kidswere up and then both parents
didn't hear, hear that it's alittle bit of a tough one for me
.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
It is tough to the extreme that she was killed, to
think that if you were trying toprotect one kid, that you would
create this scene.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Yeah, you wouldn't do that.
So what is the working theorythen, past that?
Speaker 2 (40:01):
So then there is one, and I forgot about this dude
until I watched the Netflixdocumentary and I think it was
on the third episode.
And I forgot about this dudeuntil I watched the Netflix
documentary and he I think itwas on the third episode and he
pops up and I was like, oh myGod, I remember that guy's face
as a kid.
He's so creepy looking, he's socreepy.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Who is?
Speaker 2 (40:19):
he John Carr.
He's one of the many thatconfess to killing her.
But his story, his story, madelike the way he described what
he did to her and how he did itlike made sense, but they
couldn't find any DNA of his onher.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
But if he confessed and if it matches up, do you
have to have DNA for it to be by?
Speaker 1 (40:46):
court of law.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
Unfortunately, I mean they.
They just don't.
By court of law you have tohave dna for it to be by court
of law, unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
I mean they.
They just don't have to havedna, you do.
Some states do not allowwithout a dna, like there have
been murders that literally theperson, like you know, was in
the car with you know, butthere's no dna and they're like,
oh well, we can't blame them.
It's like what, what?
That's crazy, it's insane.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
I think a kid should be able to do a pageant and not
be sexualized.
I think a kid should be able todress up and have fun and put
makeup on.
If it's for fun, they weresaying, those pageants were like
the only people in the audiencewere like moms and dads of the
other girls.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
It wasn't like in front of a crowd of random
people it was like a communitylike I don't know, but here's my
thing we have to come to termswith the fact that we've got a
lot of sickos in the world and Ithink I know we're not we know,
more now than then I'll giveyou that.
That's fair.
I would say after the 80s iswhen we started like having our
big serial killer cases and likeunderstanding this stuff.
(41:49):
But there's no part of me thatwould let my little twin sisters
, not today.
Wear makeup and prance around astage half naked in a bikini?
Absolutely not today.
I won't even let them talk Likea man comes up to me at a
grocery store and tries to sayhello to my girls.
I'm already on high defensemode because you can't operate
in that space.
(42:09):
Unfortunately it's sad, but wecan't operate in that space
anymore.
And unfortunately, makeup andbikinis is sexualizing a child.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
It's unfortunate that a little girl can't play dress
up and want to put on her mom'sheels and look like her mom and
it be okay for a small littlething.
They do for fun.
Like I used to dress up with mycousins and do movies and stuff
.
Like I was never into pageantsbut like right I, you know I
playing dress up is fun whenyou're a kid it is.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
You put on the beads and the makeup.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Yeah, unfortunately there was like a a slew of
freaking predators that cameforward trying to confess that
they killed John Bonnet and wereall like they could prove that
they didn't.
But these men, just thesepedophiles, just had an
obsession with her.
So yeah, I think.
Speaker 4 (42:59):
Wait a minute.
So you would, because you havean obsession, whether you
confess to a crime that youdidn't commit.
For what?
Speaker 1 (43:07):
This is a thing in the crime world.
This is a.
It's a fetish of the publicdisplay.
Um, it's a.
Um, what's the other case thatwe had?
Speaker 2 (43:16):
zodiac, zodiac, yeah zodiac.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
You know how many people came up and wanted to be
the zodiac.
They want to emulate thisfantasy of being the killer
sometimes we throw weird, weird,it's a mystery.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
No one knows it's been 28 years or something like
that.
Speaker 4 (43:33):
But the car dude?
Is he doing time for it?
Because he admitted to it?
Speaker 2 (43:36):
No, and the worst part is this dude was a
preschool teacher too, Asubstitute preschool teacher at
the time Not anymore, andapparently I think they said he
moved to London or something.
He said he's to London orsomething.
He said he's living quietlysomewhere, but look at his
picture.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
What a creep.
He just looks, he's a totalcreep show.
I don't know if we'll ever findout what happened to that
little girl and that is Bree'sCrime Corner, all right.
Speaker 4 (44:04):
And before we get out of here, as promised, and you
can stick around because I don't, you may know this.
Oh, I created this.
Oh, you created it.
Okay, so Bree knows it.
All right, so for two scams anda slap.
The beautiful thing where we'rebringing back this game and we
take three batshit, crazy events, two of which are fake, one is
real and the two of us one ofthe two of us learns in real
time with you, the listener,which one is a true slap in the
(44:26):
face of reality.
This week, I get to read forAsia Nakia, and so are you ready
?
Speaker 1 (44:31):
I'm ready.
Speaker 4 (44:32):
Asia and Bree created this, so this is great, all
right.
Number one Mysterious cropcircle revealed to be a giant
advertisement for new cereal.
Number two Woman marries atrain station.
I is that's.
I want to know more already.
Pizza.
And number three pizza deliverydrone delivers wrong order to
(44:56):
the White House.
Which one of these is actuallya slap in the face of reality?
Speaker 1 (45:06):
I mean, they're all plausible, uh they are all
plausible, okay, uh, I'm gonnahave to go with the woman that
married the train station youare correct, asia, I think she
might even be three for three.
Speaker 4 (45:23):
That woman marries train station she's loved for 36
years and has sex with it.
Mentally, carol Santa.
Fe says being attracted toinanimate objects is like being
bisexual or lesbian, and insistsshe isn't crazy.
She has married this is inquotes a train station she spent
(45:48):
36 years in love with and saysthey have sex mentally.
She says she has been in lovewith this train station since
she was nine years old.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Can I just say on behalf of the LGBTQIA plus
community this is why we can'thave nice things.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
This is why we can't have nice things.
Because, you've got to go andmarry a train station.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
This is great, this is correct, you've got to go and
marry a train ticket.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
This is great.
Speaker 4 (46:09):
She says she has sex with the building mentally and
identifies herself as anobjectum sexual, a person who is
sexually attracted to inanimateobjects and structures.
Yeah, it's kind of crazy.
She didn't discover this untilshe was 40, after she searched
online.
And I am in love with abuilding.
She says it's a worldwidedebate whether the phenomenon is
a sexuality fetish or mentalcondition.
(46:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Yeah, I struggle a bit with that one, but as long
as she's not harming anybody,I'm just going to let her love
her train station.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
She takes a 45-minute bus ride every night to see the
station.
You would think she would takea train.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
The picture.
But, maybe she can't ride thetrain because she's married to
the train.
She doesn't want to ride herhusband At work.
Speaker 4 (47:01):
At work when husband is working.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
When he's on the rail , she would be jealous of all
the other passengers.
He's on the rail, she would bejealous of all the other
passengers.
I was going to say how does shedeal with jealousy issues?
Speaker 4 (47:15):
with all these bitches coming in and off the
train.
I love this, though.
She says that the trainidentifies I mean the station
identifies as female, so whenI'm touching her I feel as
though it actually holds me andkisses me.
And she says I don't havephysical sex with the station in
public.
I want to be respectful.
I want to be respectful.
I wouldn't do that with a humanin public, so why would I do it
(47:35):
in this case?
I do have sex with Daedra in mymind when I stand there.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
Daedra, daedra.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
Oh, that's what she named her.
Yes, yes, did she really namethe station?
Speaker 1 (47:45):
after a Greek goddess , I'm offended.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
It should be offended for all dieters everywhere.
I especially like when I hearthe trains rev up their engine.
Ooh, it turns me on.
That's what she says.
This keeps getting better.
She claims the train station isthe love of her life, despite
being in a previous relationshipwith a man.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
I mean Ouch to that man, ouch, I mean, I know men
have a hard time when you knowwe leave them for a woman.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
But to be left A woman train station, but to be
left for a female train station.
She's definitely not ashamed,and but at least she has
boundaries.
Speaker 4 (48:24):
Yeah, no, sure, sure no public display of affection
she has boundaries and you knowwhat.
Speaker 1 (48:28):
Again, if you're not harming anyone, you do you boo.
Speaker 4 (48:31):
You do you, you do you, you do you.
That's the theme here on Slapthe Power, you do you.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
I will respect and appreciate anybody that's not
causing harm.
So you know what?
Let her do her thing, that's it.
That's it.
Speaker 4 (48:44):
That's it All right.
Well, before we get out of here, a reminder to check our show
notes and everything for CNNHeroes.
Vote for our girl, Asian Akia,on CNN Heroes.
We have the links andeverything on there and before
we head out, make sure to like,comment, share, subscribe.
Talk about JonBenet and Bree'snew crime corner, which I'm
looking forward to next week's.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
I'm going diving already.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like this.
Speaker 4 (49:06):
I like this a lot and , uh, you know, pause for
progress.
Um, this week's definitely gotits hands full, so make sure to
uh if you can help out there inany way uh, it is always
appreciated at compassion kind.
And we also started a new uhpatreon for the show for slap
the power, which is actuallygreat.
We're gonna be uh dropping thatlink really, really soon, which
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It helps us kind of.
We want to keep building outthe show and building out the
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So make sure to check that outif you get a chance.
And, yeah, we will see you nextweek.
Sonics, love, action, progress.
(49:48):
See you guys next week.
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