One Direction singer found dead with drugs in his system

One Direction singer found dead with drugs in his system

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Happy Monday.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
How are you good Monday?

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:02):
I want to join this. Let me call that Legacy
hotline right now.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
How how much cash do you have in your wallet
right now? Alex? Do you have cash on you?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hang on, let me pull out my wallet.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
So you do have some cash? Okay? Interesting?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah, only because the other night I needed it for
a thing I was going to but strip club.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
On forty.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
But quite often I have nothing in my wallet.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
So most of the time you do not carry cash? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Typically I do not. It's an all credit card or
you know, let me venmo hear that sort of thing.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Right, and I could see that in California. I don't know.
Are most of most of the places still accept cash
there or not?

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Really? You know, if you go to a stadium or
something like that, there there's no cash. Yeah. Like my barber,
he takes cash and doesn't it. That's probably why. Actually
I have the cash. I forget why I got it out,
but because he's cash only, so that I'm always like,
oh man, I got to go by the bank and
get money out that. But pretty much everything else you

(01:07):
can go cashless.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
All right. How much cash roughly, Josh, do you have
in your walk oh, he's pulling the wallet out. All right,
I'm pulling something out. Oh that's not my wallet. Oh boy,
oh good lord? What you got a roll of quarters?
What is that? Right? Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:24):
I have.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Twenty nine dollars. Twenty nine dollars. Twenty nine dollars. Okay,
so and I have cash too. So we've all determined
that we actually have cash. Nearly a third of Americans
think spending cash doesn't count. Do you understand what that
statement means?

Speaker 2 (01:45):
What will? Yeah? Because when you pay for something, then
you don't have to worry about it on your credit card.
If you pay for cash, I'm like, oh good. Like
we you know, you happen to have enough and you
go out for dinner and it doesn't pay it and
it's like you didn't even pay for it because you
don't have to take it out of your bank account.
It's it's like pre spent.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
I'm so happy that somebody else understands this.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Comic on board with that. It's like when you pay
for a hotel room when you book it, and then
when you take the trip, you're like, this is like
a free hotel room. It may be a thousand dollars
a night, but you paid for it six months earlier,
so it's like a free hotel room.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
And that is hilarious. Man, This is exactly what this
story is talking about. And I can relate to because
we're in a situation where, you know, my wife will
have cash and half the time she's always like, well, you,
you know, do you have any cash? And I I'll
do that and I'm like, yeah, you just had like

(02:36):
one hundred and fifty dollars you know the other week,
did you Well, I was at the store through the
week and you know, I was buying extra whatever and
you know, and I'm like, yeah, but you're still spent. Yeah,
but it's not coming out of the bank account. And
I'm like, so you're saying it doesn't count, and it's
basically that the answer is yes, it doesn't count.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Count then yeah, no, it's it's pre spent money.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
So it's funny that you bring up the hotel thing
because at the end of November, we're going to see
Brett Michaels. He's going to be in Cincinnati at the
hard Rock Casino down there.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Are you cheating on Vegas?

Speaker 1 (03:12):
No? No, No, I'm still I'm giving them love too,
trust me. Yeah, I'm going there. Actually this this Friday night,
I'm flying.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
So point being, I paid ahead of time for that,
and as a matter of fact, the bill came and
I go, wait a minute, what is this bill for.
I didn't spend that. Why does that an American Express
have that on there? And then I had to really research.
I'm like, oh wait, I already paid for that route.
Oh that's the root all. And this was like a
month ago when I did that. You know, but you
get a break when you prepay it.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Like does this feel good?

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (03:43):
It does, like somebody else paid for it, but it
was really you.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Younger Americans also prefer to carry more cash, which is
a shock to me. Gen Z likes to have an
average of eighty two dollars, Millennials like to have seventy
one bucks on them, compared with gen X with fifty
seven dollars. Baby boomers are at forty eight dollars. So
it goes down each category.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Then that's interesting. I would have had it went the
other way because you never see young people using cash.
And in fact, I mean if I go to the
grocery store and the person in front of you is
like counting out cash. It's like, oh my god, just
hurry up. Just swipe your card please, or tap your card.
Let's go now.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Writing a check?

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, when the when the woman pulls the check book
out of her person start writing, Oh I just want this.
I let's go Kroger.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
All you have to do is just sign the check
and then they just stick it into the little machine
or it fills it all out for it.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Who fills out a check any longer?

Speaker 1 (04:39):
I do do that? Oh you still write paper checks? Sometimes?
Absolutely we do. My wife and I have lots of checks.
Oh wow wow.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Also when I when I spend cash, I am the
guy that will also pull out a pocket full of
change and like, all right, how much was that eleven
sixty four?

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Going?

Speaker 4 (04:57):
Oh seriously, I will I will count out sixty four cents.
If I got a twenty, I'll go, I'll dig through
my pocket and find sixty four cents.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Oh and I haven't you walk out? It's it's not
an amount of money thing. It's just a pain in
the booty.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Sort of thing. See.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
This is why, like they got your con man, you
don't want to do cash.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
This is so they can track you.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
You're all in?

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Are you are you part of the New World Order conspiracy?

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Probably for the record, I don't make any noises behind
the person saying all right, but in my head that's
what I'm doing. But they, you know, the little old
lady looks at you, and I just smile. Man, Okay,
I keep counting out your your pennies.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
If there's a microphone that would be close to your brain,
it would be going.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
You would hear like, oh my god, lets go all right.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
I've got somewhere to be. Oh forget about at a
fast food place, if you pay with cash and you don't,
they're trying to give you change back, and it's always wrong.
I actually was just talking about we were at dunkin
Donuts yesterday morning and I paid with cash and the
case gave me too much change, and I gave it
back to him, and he had this cool man will

(06:04):
you just look on his face like what, I don't
believe in that crap, Alex, like keep an extra Nah,
I don't believe in that, because that's karma that'll get you.
And then I don't want this kid in trouble. Clearly
as well, we need more people working in the workplace,
not fired, you know, so I get he just it
was it was only a dollar, but still I was like,

(06:25):
you gave me too much change, dude, and he was
just like he had this looked like what. But that's
the other part too. If they don't, if they're not
able to put in what you've given them and say
you give them like you know, it costs four thirty
five and you give them a ten, they look at
you like they don't know how to go sixty five
makes five and five makes ten. They don't know how
to do that, you know what I mean, Like that's

(06:45):
lost on this this generation, maybe the last couple of generations,
even I don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, yeah, I mean similar way when you're talking about
speed and lines like getting Costco gas, that is like
a NASCAR pit stop, and if the person in front
of you does not speed through, oh it is so annoying.
I get you gotta go go, go, go, go go.
You run in, you put in the gas, you tell
you put it back in, You jump in your car
and get out of there. Don't sit back in your

(07:10):
car with your foot on the brake while you're looking
at your phone or you know, going through your center console.
That is about speed at Costco or Sam's Club, wherever
you go, you gotta go go.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
Go right right. Then there are nearly three quarters I
fall into this. Nearly three quarters prefer to tip with
cash then with a card. So if I'm paying with
a card, I will tip with cash. And it's partly
because I just don't want an additional charge after the
fact when I'm gone, because if that's wrong, then I
got to run them down and go, hey, what did

(07:41):
you do here? You've padded this A and B. I
think servers appreciate it more because they can claim it
or not claim it. However, they kind of want to proceed,
you know, do you just tip right on the card
when you're paying with a car?

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Okay, pay to carry that kind of cash.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
I just see that, like like bartenders, this is what
I do. Bartender, I'll pay with my card, but I
tip in cash.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
They love it when you tip cash. That's what I do.
That's what I do too. Most of the time I
have cash with me. Yeah, and I just I'll just
do it that way. But yeah, I think they appreciate
that they don't have to wait for a paycheck. By
the way, either, because I think most of the time
those are added up and then put on a paycheck.
Tax is taken out all that stuff, right, I.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Think, yeah, that's why Trump's big play for Nevada and
other places.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
It's no tax on tips.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
I'm trying to get the service industry workers.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
That's big if he can pull it off, for sure.
So yeah, my eighteen year old daughter, who was right
in the wheelhouse for one direction, alex was I sent
her this story when it first broke and she had
not heard yet. She was like, Dad, this is a
this is a joke, right. I'm like no. She was
so distraught over this whole thing. And then we were

(08:50):
talking about it, interestingly enough two days ago, and she's like,
he he had so many demons. I'm like, honey, it
was really bad for him. And I guess he had
ripped up that room he was in, the one that
he jumped out of, right, I mean, what is the
latest done?

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Well? I mean, think of how many musicians have had
these demons, and you know that they're kind of in
their own world, Michael Jackson, you know, I mean even
down to like Matthew Perry, just thinking entertainers in general,
where they kind of that they get away in that
way but this has been a really big deal for
fans of one direction. Now there's this huge pile of
flowers and candles outside of the hotel where Liam Payne

(09:27):
fell to his death. But there is an autopsy that
has been partially completed. Now we know there were twenty
five injuries on his body, all from the fall off
the third story balcony. But it was the call that
came from the hotel manager that kind of started the
storytelling on this reporting that he had been acting aggressively,
that it appeared he was high, that he was drunk,

(09:49):
he was a danger to himself. This was that call
Buenos Are. So the manager is saying that they needed
police because he was in a room with a balcony
and that he was just ripping up the room and
that they thought he was going to threaten his own life.
And seven minutes later after this call, police arrived and
they found the body in the hotel courtyard that he
had jumped off the balcony. And we've got sources telling

(10:12):
us now that the toxicology has come back showing that
he had multiple drugs in his body in Buenos Aires,
including pink cocaine, which is a recreational drug that's typically
a mix of methamphetamine ketamine MDMA, along with cocaine and
crack cocaine all mixed together.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
What.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah, Yeah, I've heard of this. I've heard of that.
My buddy Andrew went down to Jamaica. I guess that's
prevalent in the resort towns in Jamaica, that pink cocaine concoction.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Yeah, I've heard of that.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Well, yet I imagine it's I mean, you put all
those things together. Any one of those is bad for
your body, but you put them all together and then
you never know. In fentanyl gets in there as well,
and so he had that in his body. But to
your point, Mark, he had talked about his struggles in
the past getting carried away in hotel rooms. That one
direction had gotten so big that they got essentially locked

(11:06):
in their hotel rooms when they were a big deal
because it wasn't safe for them to go out. So
when they would go to a city on a tour,
they would just spend the time in the hotel room.
And he put it this way on a podcast.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Of course, was in the room, Minibah.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
So at a certain point, I thought, well, I'm going
to have a party for one and that.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Just seemed to carry on throughout many years in my life.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
So it's something that you deal with. Our sources say
there is an aluminum pipe that was found in the
hotel room as well to ingeest drugs. So his body's
going to stay in Argentina until the autopsy is completely
signed off on. But they found he died of multiple trauma,
internal external bleeding. They found broken objects in the hotel room,
and police have interviewed a hotel employee they that allegedly

(11:45):
sold him the drugs, but nobody's been arrested at this point,
so they've got a pretty good lead on this investigation.
But to but yeah, you apparently had this pink cocaine
in his body.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
How much though, will they really And I don't know
what Buenos Aire's I don't know what kind of you know,
what they do to people that could be you know,
selling or I don't know their laws or any of
that there, So I.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Know, I think it would be some time in prison.
But you know, there have been stories like this in
the past where hotel workers can be the hookup for
a celebrity who comes into town that they know where
to get whatever that celebrity is looking for and seems
like in this case, that's kind of what went on.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Man. That is so sad that he ended this way
and clearly didn't. It was out of his mind most
likely as he was jumping, you know, he didn't even
realize what was going on. So sad. Alex Stone ABC
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