A Crime-Fighting Nun, Cracker Barrel Blow-up, and Catfighting At Walmart

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Everything you're about to hear is true. None of the
names have been changed because no one is innocent from stupidity.
It's a great basic world around.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Stupid.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
I'm insane, Eric Lane, Welcome to my stupid world. It's
the MIDWEK Bonus episode with extra stupidity to get you
through the week. And if it's stupid enough, give it
a five star rating, because you're getting five star stupidity.
So have you ever been in a situation where you
couldn't come up with a word? I Being in you know,

(00:51):
broadcasting for forty four years, that happens, you know, on occasion,
fortunately not as often as it used to, but you know,
you struggling for the right word to use, and you're
kind of in a situation where you're either pressed for
time or you know people are watching. It doesn't really

(01:15):
happen to people who've been in the military. You know.
There's a woman in Atlanta who is a shared a
voicemail she got from her dermatologist because the lady who
left the message cracked up in the middle of it.
She called to tell her that they did a culture
and they found this bacteria which is called pan poa.

(01:38):
Now pan Poa can cause skin infections, usually not a
big deal. Okay. The reason the lady started laughing was
she tried to spell it over the phone, and well,
you know, you've got to come up with different words
to clarify each letter, you know, like in the military,
those words would be like alpha, bravo, Charlie. We've had

(02:00):
to do that because sometimes the phone connections are a
little squelchy, especially in this age of cell phone technology,
and the coverage isn't crystal clear sometimes. So this woman
is trying to spell this on the fly. So the
way she decided to clarify the spelling of the word
went with p as in pork, and then got the giggles.

(02:24):
Well then when she started laughing, well you know the rest,
it just cascaded into gales of hysteric laughter. Here's the
voicemail that was left for Haley.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Hey Haley, this is Kat with Babcock dermatology.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
The culture came back with a bacteria called.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
It Pantoia species, and that is spelled p as in pork.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
Sorry as an apple and as in new.

Speaker 5 (02:58):
I'm so sorry, okay, tea as an and.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Tree as an orange, e as an earth.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
A as an apple, and so Amanda wanted to know
if you had a soulfage.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Didn't help that a coworker was also laughing at her
in the background. By the way, for the work for
the record, in case you ever need to use words
to determine letters, the official word for the letter p papa. Okay,
just in case you need papa alpha Nancy as in pan.

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But I think pork would do pretty well too, frankly,
especially if you're hungry for a pull pork sandwich. Well,
maybe you want a little butter with your pork. You know,
it's you know, I don't know. My wife is a
big candle freak. She loves candles. She loves butter also.

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And if you're big at social media junkie, you might
remember the butter candle. It was a phenomenon that swept
the Internet for I don't know, a couple of hours
a few years ago. Because if you don't remember it,
don't worry, it's coming back around. Yeah, that's right. What
goes around comes around. There's a woman on TikTok reminding

(04:22):
the Internet it's almost fall, so everyone should start planning
their butter candles. Basically, you just you know, freeze butter
in a mold with with a wick, and when you
have a gathering, you can then put out some sour
dough rolls and you know, a little notch cut out
of the middle for the frozen butter candle, and then

(04:45):
you light the butter candle and well you got the
buttered bread coming your way. That was a lot of
shaking people in the comments. So here's a few clarifications here.
For starters. You need to use what they call a
food gray wick. Okay, it's made from like hemp coated
and beeswax, so fairly common. I mean, you can get

(05:07):
them on Amazon. You won't actually be consuming a lot
of it, but it is quote unquote safe to eat. Also,
they don't really show a lot of videos of what
this is actually like like to actually eat. Okay, you
see the pretty the pretty pictures that make you look
like you want to run out and get one, but

(05:28):
they don't really show you the actual pictures. So just
be prepared for this to look and sound awesome and
then be disappointed completely in reality. Okay, not to mention
it's very messy. The best comment is maybe I'll try
this instead of drugs. Somebody else wrote in the comments.

(05:52):
You never know what something's doing in their house. Bruh. Yeah, Well,
there are some butter candles that involve cinnamon, and then
you can do a savory version like garlic and dry herbs.
There's even a recipe for the sour dough loaf you
use for the butter candle. Now, if you still feel

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like that this is just a joke, I dare you
to go ahead and google it. See what you get.
It might be surprised how many people are jumping on
the butter candle bandwagon. I don't think my wife is
going to be one of them. I don't think they
make them in Yankee butter candles either, although you never know.
It could be a new stick. Well, it's really annoying,

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you know, when you look out your window and you
see people that allow their dogs to crap in your yard.
It's even more irritating when they don't clean up after it.
It's probably even it's probably not worth an attempted murder charge. Though.
There's a woman in Nashville, Tennessee named Jennifer Evans. She

(06:57):
was arrested because she pulled a gun on a man
who let his dog take a crap in her yard
and when he didn't clean it up, she pointed it
at him. According to the reports, he was a sixty
year old man with disabilities using a cane. He was
walking his chihuahuah named Missus Flirt. Now, for what it's worth,

(07:20):
the man it may also be homeless. I don't know.
It's unclear if this has been an ongoing issue or
if this was just a one time reaction. Not that
it matters, police say. Jennifer admitted to pointing the gun
at the man. When the officer tried to take her
into custody, she got combative, which is always nice, and
then she assaulted three of the officers as she was

(07:41):
being detained, which I'm sure improved her chances. Right, here's
just some of the neighbors talking about the whole incident.
It was coming down the road and it was all
types for police over here. It ain't never nothing like
that go around here. You can tell that he was
shook up. It's very sure. I mean, I wouldn't been
feared for my When you're home with you're not carrying

(08:01):
around bags. You know, you might be carrying your clothing bag.

Speaker 6 (08:04):
We're not bag to clean up poop, you know, I
don't think it would have hurt this lady's yard a
little bit of poop to be there.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Obviously she's facing several charges like assault of an officer.
Thankfully nobody was shot or even hurt, and from what
I can figure, missus flirt the chihuahua was just fine well.
The UK is undergoing a rather unprecedented attempt. In an

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effort to try to address a growing environmental issue in
the Thames River, authorities have launched this project to mechanically
remove and estimated one hundred tons okay and to consider
a ton is two thousand pounds, so we're talking one
hundred eighty tons okay of compacted wet wipes that have

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formed a sizable island near the Hammersmith Bridge in London.
Now it's by the Port of London Authority. The operation
marks the UK's first large scale removal of this river pollution.
Employed a rake and shake method, workers are separating the
wet wipes from river sediment to ensure only the discarded

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bathroom products are extracted and sent to a landfill. This
cleanup campaign follows years of manual removal efforts by the
local charity Thames twenty one, whose data on the scale
of wet white pollution helped to spur the authorities to intervene.
I mean, how'd you like to have that job? Experts
hope this action will aid the Thames ecological recovery, as

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microplastics from the wet wipes have been found inside the
river's fish populations. The Thames was once declared biologically dead
in nineteen fifty seven, now has about one hundred and
twenty five fish species, even serves as a shark nursery.
But the wet wipes are threatening that rebound breaking down
into microplastics end up inside the fish. Researchers estimated about

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seventy percent of the Thames flounders have plastic fibers in
their stomachs for instance, and who knows what else from
the wet wipes. Well, recently in Cecil, Pennsylvania, there was
a meeting on whether or not the city would be
shutting down a local motorcross track where they raised dirt

(10:25):
bikes all because of noise complaints. Right of course, the
track is called steel Town MX, and well, they shared
a notice about the public hearing on social media that
was scheduled regarding this cease and desist order against the track.
When the time came for all the public comments. Well,
this guy comes up to the podium but didn't really

(10:46):
follow the format of state your name and you know
all that kind of stuff. Now, he just wanted to
say his peace, only a council member kept interrupting him
to state his name and address. So well he just
started making motorcycle noises and rode off the podium and
around the room and back to his seat. And well,

(11:09):
this is what the room full of townspeople were treated to.
I really just came up here to say that you're
either going to hear them where they're allowed to be
or you're going to hear them where they're not allowed
to be.

Speaker 5 (11:19):
You need to thank you for the entertainment, all right?

Speaker 4 (11:30):
Is that it for public comment? Anyone else? If there's
further disruption, we're gonna have to ask Italy.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Of course. Lucky for us, he was also wearing some
meta glasses at the time, so we got to see
what it was like through his eyes. He's a TikTok user,
by the way, that goes by the user name fugly Ago.
He posted this video of this rather bizarre exchange to
his TikTok account with the caption I am really tired
of this trash. Our freedoms are lost and now this

(12:03):
has and this is how it happens. It's people that
can't let other people live free that have ruined this
country for everyone, including themselves. Are we great yet? Well,
the council ultimately decided on closing down Steel Town, MX,
but citizens and motocrossers are going to continue fighting for
the cause. You know, there's you know, can they put

(12:26):
like soundproofing, fencing or something around it. Maybe I don't know.
I used to have a friend in like elementary school.
His name was Paul. Paul and I were really good friends.
And one of the things he did on the playground
he was the mini bike and I was the passenger.

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So he would piggyback me around the neighbor around the
playground and he would pop a wheelie. That was our
that was our entertainment. And now they're bringing it to
you know, public comments and town councils. Be even better
if the guy had somebody riding on writing him piggyback
so he could really illustrate it to go along with

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the sound effects. Well, your takeout order from one of
those Sexpresso coffee stands probably does not include a complimentary
bikini clad barista. Maybe he does, I don't know, but
a nineteen year old Washington statement though, is now facing
kidnapping charges because he tried to pull out a female

(13:32):
employee from the drive through window of the Ladybug Bikini
espresso stand and he tried to pull her into his vehicle.
According to the police report, investigators alleged that Ezekiel Guermo
drove to the twenty four hour coffee shop and placed
a two point fifteen am drink order with a female

(13:53):
on duty who business is actually in Lakewood, which is
a suburb of Tacoma, Washington, and so while preparing Guero's drink,
the victim said she exchanged some small talk with the customer.
He was wearing a blue hat, a Los Angeles Dodgers
jersey and Designer jeans. The woman said she handed Guero

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a clipboard with a receipt that needed his signature, and
when Guerrero subsequently well partially extended the clipboard back to
the barista, she reached out to accept it. That's when
Guerrero allegedly grabbed the victim by the arm and tried
to pull her through the window into his car. The

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woman told the cops she braced her legs against the counter,
which kept her from being pulled out of the drive
through window. She was able to shut the window while
the patron fled the area. Well, here's the former bikini
barista talking about this attempted kidnapping.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
I think it's terrible, especially on that kind of shift,
But it's just really hard to hear things like that
are happening to those type of girls.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Human everybody deserves the grace of like wow, that that
shouldn't have happened to them, But it does make me
worried for other girls. So when police interviewed the barista,
she was obviously frantic and appeared genuinely frightened and had
red marks on her wrist, in her bicep, and shoulder.
The incident was also recorded by, of course, the security camera.
Video footage, according to the cops, showed Guerrero violently seizes

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the barista by the arm, and that the woman eventually
breaks his grasp after tugging back and forth as she
slid the window shut. Guero, who paid for his drink
with a master card in his name, was eventually tracked
down by the police and arrested, he reportedly confessed to
the detective saying that well, he'd been drinking alcohol and

(15:44):
smoking marijuana before the incident and was quote fed up,
like that's going to get him off the hook. He
claimed he didn't intend to harm her. He just been
feeling sad and angry and isolated because of a recent
relationship problem, and you know that involved a former girlfriend,
and he went to the Ladybug stand to see a

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pretty girl, you know, obviously wearing a bikini. Investigators reported
that Guerrero recognized that his behavior was impulsive and denied
having any anger or hatred toward women in general. He
maintained that his conduct did not reflect his character. It's
kind of bizarre because usually your character does reflect your conduct,

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and you know what I'm saying. But nevertheless, he was
charged with attempt at kidnapping in the first degree, which
is a felony. Sure that's going to reflect on his character. Guerrero,
who has no prior criminal record, works as a forklift
driver at a Seattle bakery, was booked in the Pierce
County Jail. He was later released on his own recognizance.
A judge has ordered him now to have no contact

(16:49):
with a victim and any of the Ladybug outlets, so
he's pretty much has sunk his chances for a bikini
clad coffee served to him anymore. The sixty eight year
old Flagler beach Man in Florida stands accused of driving
under the influence, calling the Sheriff's Office to report that
he hit a deer. According to a social media posts

(17:12):
by the agency, officers found him actually lying on the
ground next to the deer carcass he had just struck
with his car along South Old King's Road. The deputies
responded after the man named John Flynn call to report
that crash, so when he got there, they found old
John on the roadside next to the animal, telling them

(17:36):
on body worn camera video, I did that to it.
Flynn's troubles didn't stop with hitting the deer. Deputies noticed
he had slurred speech, watery eyes, trouble standing. Following a
series of sobriety exercises, the Sheriff's Office said Flynn had
failed and out now. He was arrested and booked into

(17:57):
the sheriff Perry Hall Inmate to tenth facility. He since
posted bond. No word yet on whether he went and
had a funeral for the poor bambee. On opening day
of school, you know, everyone's back to school and some
are happy, some are not happy about it. I'm sure

(18:19):
nobody was happy on this opening day of school and
the disturbance of an underground bees nest which caused a
big swarm of agitated insects to attack dozens of students
and staff members happened at the Mindus Elementary School in Ashland, Massachusetts. Definitely,

(18:39):
that would get me out of the notion of going
back to school, that's for sure. As children got out
of their buses that morning, these agitated bees swarmed and
even entered the school building. Some forty students required evaluation
for beastings. No severe reactions were reported, though school administrators
and local emergency responders the health department all collaborated to

(19:03):
address the incident. Superintendent there, Jim Adams, said the school
enacted indoor recess for the day. Exterminators are called to
remove the bee's nest. There's the students and the staff
talking about this swarm of bees attack.

Speaker 7 (19:17):
My ears like swilling, felt like a pendicular zapp. I
think like one of my classmates stepped inside this dirt
hole that had these red yellow jacket views inside it
started like going crazy all of a sudden, and I'm
the beat as setting to attack us.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
We're just glad that there were no bad reactions and
all the kids are good. So in a letter to families,
Superintended Jim Adams acknowledge the difficult start of the year,
but praised the community collaboration and responding to the situation
and ensuring student safety. Of course, they probably had to
bring in school counselors because I would be traumatized in
elementary school if I got swarmed by a bunch of

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bees because I hate flying insects with stingers. Well, there's
a try. I'm fighting Pittsburgh nun making the news. You
might have seen this in the past. This nun has
had a gun pointed at her face after she chased
down a jewelry thief, and she's been face to face
with the man demanding money from her sacred Heart of

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Jesus' religious goods store. Now she's chased down a credit
card thief. When Katie Katv's Barry Pintar called the store
in Bloomfield, a Pittsburgh suburb, asked for Sister Mary Madeleine,
he found out he was already talking to her. She
told him to come on down because she wants everyone
to be zapped by God, fearlessly, praying, fearlessly, unafraid. Sister

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Mary Madeleine Schliffer is a defender of faith. Recently, a
shopper in her store set down her purse and then
noticed somebody stole their credit cards. So Sister Mary Madeleine
went into action, leaped into the chase, pursued the thief
and got those credit cards back. So what makes you

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go after these people that are trying to do these
bad things, Barry Pintar asked her. She says, you don't
think about that. There's no why. It just happens. It
happens so fast. The crimes happen fast, as does her instinct.
She says, these are children of God who can be changed.
I think he was just misled. This is of course,

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directed at the alleged thief. There was also a time
when someone stole an expensive necklace from the door. She said.
He was walking out the door and I just started
following him, and he turned around and said, I don't
want to have to shoot you. And I said, listen,
all I want to tell you is Jesus loves you.
And then he went out and I went out after him.
She says. There were several other times that things like

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this have happened. I mean, here's sister Mary just talking
about her crime fighting calling.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
I just think she was misled as he was walking
out the door, and I started falling, and he turned
around and says, I don't want to have to shoot you,
and I said, listen, all I want tell you, he said,
Jesus loves you, whether we know it or not. Sometimes
there's a lot of crud on us and you have
to get that cleaned off to be able to see.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
So why does she do it, you might ask. She says,
we're all his children, whether we know it or not.
You know, sometimes there's a lot of crud on us
and we have to get that cleaned off to be
able to see. One thing for sure, she's fearless. Not
in her own strength, she says, but in the strength
of the one she represents. Obviously, she says, there are
people in the world going to go through hard times.
You got to come face to face with them. What

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do you want to say to those people, Barry Pintar asks.
She says, Jesus loves you, God loves you. Well, that
plain and simple, I guess, is why she does what
she does in whatever situation. So forget the flying none.
I think we need to develop a brand new TV
show on the Pittsburgh Crime fighting None. That would be fantastic.
You know, have nuns chasing a criminal down the streets

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of Pittsburgh yelling Jesus loves you. Why not? I mean,
it be better than some of the crapp you see
on TV nowadays. Well, chocolate doesn't need to taste better,
in case you didn't know that, but let's just say
the issue that it needs to taste too good. But

(23:15):
don't tell that the science. There's a researcher at the
University of Bristol in the UK named doctor Natali Hyacinth
created a song that supposedly makes chocolate taste even better
while you listen to it and eat your chocolate. Now
it's new, so it's not it's not chocolate by snow Patrol.

(23:40):
Thankfully it was. Here's the creator of the song, doctor
Natali Hyacinth.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
Here.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
So I've partnered with Galaxy Chocolate to bring you a
soundtrack that designed to help people enjoy chocolate in a
more heightened sensory experience. We looked at particular son equalities
and they were pitched, pop, and harmony. The more regulated
music is the sweeter it can taste. So the track

(24:07):
is a beautiful piano led melodic track that is in
a high pitch with a bpm of seventy eight, and
the harp is obviously a very beautiful sound in high
pitch and high key.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Doctor Hyacinth has reviewed sixty years of scientific research on
multisensory integration and have composed music around the sonic qualities
proven to affect flavor. We got pitch, we got tempo,
we got harmony. The original composition is called Sweetest Melody,

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and it lasts about the time it takes for a
piece of chocolate to melt in your mouth, about sixty
four seconds. So pop a mouthful of chocolate, let it
savor itself in your mouth, and listen to Sweetest Melody,
the song that is supposed to make chocolate taste better.

(25:06):
It might even be, as you know, and to make
it taste even better, make it Pennsylvania's own Gardener's chocolate.
Pop it in and give it a listen as it
slowly melts away in your mouth. So what do you think? Now?

(26:28):
You might want to try it on milk chocolate, dark chocolate,
white chocolate, peanut butter chocolate and see if it works
better on one or the other. Anyway, you can get
the song on YouTube and Spotify, and to find it
on Spotify you should search for a Swedish melody and
then add Galaxy Chocolate. They commissioned the track. I mean,

(26:51):
I have tried it out and I think it might
require another trial or six. Well, this is a rather
short story, but dog Gonnet it was still pretty funny,
especially the headline. A West Virginia woman arrested after throwing
at chihuahua across a Wendy's. Okay, only in West Virginia,

(27:18):
you know. A thirty one year old woman there was
arrested for throwing the small dog across the restaurant in
Harrison County, Ida. Eckenroad of Clarksburg, West by God, Virginia
is charged with cruelty to animals, according to the Clarksburg
Police Department. Police said Eckenroad got into a little argument
with her grandmother while they were at Wendy's and threw

(27:42):
her chihuahua across the dining room of the Clarksburg Wendy's.
Eckenroad is now currently in the North Central Regional Jail
with no bond set, So I'm sure other inmates are saying,
show what are you in for? Well, I threw at
chihuahua across a Wendy's. I'm sure the chihuahua was just fine. Oh,

(28:09):
if you're a criminal and you're you know, not into
throwing chihuahuas. The only thing worse than being caught and
having your mask ripped off by Scooby Doo in the
gang is well being caught by a grown man and
a batman one'sie. A twenty year old burglar he suspect
in Florida named Justin Schimple was well apprehended by an

(28:33):
adult man named Kyle Mevitt, who was wearing batman jemmies
at the time. You see, Kyle was in bed around
two in the morning when his home security cameras alerted
him that the man was breaking into his truck. So
Kyle calls the cops and then he goes outside and
hears the same suspect ransacking his neighbor's garage. So he's

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sprang into action without any kind of a cape. He
was able to detain the burglar until the officers got there.
Here is Kyle talking about the whole ORDEA.

Speaker 6 (29:10):
She checked it and she woke me up. She said, Hey,
someone's rummaging through your truck. So I called him. I said, hey,
your garage is open and my truck was just broken into.
So I'm going to sit outside until you guys secure
your garage without the person seeing me, and I grabbed
ahold of their shirt and their right wrists. I said, listen,
don't try to get away. I have plenty of experience
with this. I'm really glad I had my Batman page

(29:31):
Amazon because that gave me the extra confidence that I needed.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
By the way, this was not a reference to Batman.
Kyle has worked in corrections so well. The police believe
Justin stole multiple items from both Kyle and his neighbors,
including two pairs of three hundred dollars ray band, sunglasses,
some cash, a woman's wristlet, and more than five hundred
dollars in gift cards. He was charged and arrested with

(29:54):
multiple felonies and misdemeanors. So, but yeah, I think the
picture says a thousand words right there. You know, I'm metmen. Well,
if you got friends over and a buddy asks for
a pint glass for their beer, they might be a
serious beer drinker, right or they just might want to

(30:19):
pour a bunch of ice into it. Okay, I'm relatively
new to the whole beer drinking thing after my son
got me, you know, started or hooked on yingling logger.
But there's this new TikTok trend of people wanting a
beer on the rocks. Now I'm not even I'm not

(30:42):
that adventurous. It's apparently catching on though. Among gen z,
the idea is adding ice is the most refreshing way
to drink a beer. I think we have a large
quantity of experienced beer drinkers that might argue with that
particular piece of advice. This really isn't the first time

(31:02):
people have been passionate about ice cold beer, especially in
the summer. Been adding actual ice is a bit controversial.
Someone in the comments said, literally, any chilling method is fine,
except ice cubes. Some influencers are taking it a step
further by crafting their ice logger, making it a chillada

(31:25):
with lime juice and salted rim maybe with some tagin now.
In a recent pole, nearly one in three young adults
admitted to putting their pints on ice, twenty percent saying
they find the idea of adding ice to beer and
wine refreshing. It seems like most people are doing this
with the light beers, for better or worse. Well, yeah,

(31:47):
I guess if you want to put ice in cores,
that would It's already water down enough as it is.
I don't know, so you don't have to worry about
melted ice making your michelog ultra taste water down. That's
kind of a factory default too. Yeah, not everybody's going
to go to the dark side, though. There's one TikTok
of a woman joking that ice in beer is her

(32:07):
final straw on a date. Yeah, of course, if you
just ran out of cold beer, you could pop in
a few in the freezer for a bit, or maybe
keep a chilled pint glass in there somewhere. I don't know,
but yeah, this definitely has got beer drinkers divided for sure. Well,
there's a twenty two year old woman driver that was
seen cruising through Mississauga, Ontario with a staircase nearly completely

(32:33):
covering her car, and of course the whole instant was
caught on camera. The Peel Regional Police said that they
were notified of the vehicle around three point fifteen in
the afternoon by those who called in and said that
they spotted the vehicle along the Queen's Way. So following
an investigation, officers said the driver had initially backed into

(32:56):
a building near Dixie Road and struck the stairs, which
actually broke off, and then fastened itself to the car.
We're not really sure what the heck was going on,
says Constable Tyler bell Morena, and a video shared to Instagram,
commenting on the driver's motive to keep on driving with

(33:17):
the new addition on their vehicle. Here's an onlooker's reaction. This,
Oh this is not what's a license plate? It is
so bad like a Constable bell Morena says, the woman
from Woodbridge has been charged with careless driving, adding additional
charges may also be following to that. Then the police

(33:38):
is still investigating. Definitely a new one on me on
that one. Well, there was a man that got kicked
out of a corn concert at MetLife Stadium in New
Jersey for well, uh, how should I say this? Buttering
his cob and of course, of course somebody was right

(34:01):
there with a camera to record it and post it
on TikTok. Now, this dude is just sitting in his
seat going at himself in full view of everyone around.
At one point someone jumped down to the row above
him and give him a good punch to the head,
and then security shows up and drug him out. Of course,

(34:23):
by the look on his face, you can tell that
he wasn't quite all there. Whether or not substances were
involved is still an open question at this point. So
my question is, is someone who's never been to a
corn show, what am I missing? I mean, what is
so amazing that you just can't keep your hands off
yourself for crying out loud? I mean, whatever it is,

(34:44):
why aren't they advertising it on the tour posters? I
said O man. Oh well, and speaking of pervy activity,
a twenty three year old Florida man accused of recording
up a woman's skirt at the University of Central Florida's
library reportedly tells the witness that was his job to
do so. According to the University Police, Jon Sue William

(35:09):
Lee is now facing charges of video voyeurism and tampering
with evidence. According to the records now in the arrest affidavit,
he was booked after being caught by a woman who
noticed his cell phone upskirting her as she studied at
a desk on the fifth floor of the UCF library.
The victim demanded to see Lee's phone, leading to Lee

(35:31):
attempting to hide his most recent recording, but to no avail.
According to the affidavid, the witness to the event told
investigators Lee said taking these videos was his job, going
on to say there's entire communities for it, and that
he sells photographs and upskirts of women. According to the affidavit,

(35:52):
the witness says that Lee then deleted the video. A
UCF spokesperson Confirmedly is a student and the uc IF
Police department is investigating. And here's some of the uc
OF students talking about the incident.

Speaker 6 (36:04):
I think that's insanely gross. I'm glad he was arrested.

Speaker 8 (36:06):
At least, just especially like in a public space like
where we're supposed to be learning, Like, I just think
that's really messed up in just a violation of your privacy.

Speaker 9 (36:15):
Yeah, you should definitely be expelled from this university if
you're doing stuff like that that's really messed up.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Lee was arrested and taken to the Orange County Jail.
At his first appearance in court, the judge granted him
a sixty five hundred dollars bond. A Mountain ordered he
cannot have contact with a victim or have access to
the library that's going to affect his research. You're able
to see just about anything at a Walmart, and of

(36:42):
course you did in fact at one particular Walmart checkout
line where a Walmart employee was beaten by a group
of women and the footage of the brawl was shown
all over online. Horrifying clip was actually captured in a
store in Indianapolis by a local man going by kind

(37:04):
Butler couldn't believe his eyes. The clip starts off with
a woman dressed in black holding back a young man
as the other two women beat an employee in the
checkout aisle. One of the women, who's dressed in a
pink shirt, could be seen then repeatedly hitting the employee
while the other women appears to stomp on the victim

(37:25):
behind her where he at biauch. Someone could be heard
yelling repeatedly in the background as the two people try
to lift the woman in the pink shirt off the employee,
but as they are trying to separate the women, the
young man could be seen coming closer and kicking the
employee as she lay on the ground, while another woman
in a blue and white shirt continues to punch her,

(37:48):
while another Walmart employee was able to ultimately get the
victim off the ground, at which point one of the
women then threw something at the employee. Well, then the
employee then appears to go after the woman in pink
her her self, prompting the woman in pink to grab
her and drag her by her hair as she continues
throwing punches. Quite a sight. Well, it appears that brawls

(38:10):
started over a rape allegation, police declining to arrest anyone
in the connection to the now viral Walmart brawl. The
young man also tried to get involved again, but was
thwarted by Walmart staffers, who ultimately separated the employees from
the angry mob as they continued to hurl insults at
the employees, but were kept back by two Good Samaritans

(38:31):
at the store. Now, Butler explained to Fox fifty nine
how he heard the family of the alleged victim trying
to find someone at the store who may have been
involved in the assault. In the moments leading up to
the attack, there wasn't any questioning, no anything, he recounted.
Just as soon as they saw the girl, the whole

(38:51):
family came over and started beating her up to Kara
Hicks is named in the police report as the victim,
and she tells Fox fifty nine she'd been getting calls
about how her friend allegedly raped another friend before the
attack occurred. Now excited that she had just come back
from the bathroom when she said that she was ambushed,

(39:11):
she says, I just hear there you go, and then
boom on the side of my head. I feel somebody
hit me.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Well.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
The victim also said she has known the person accusing
her friend of rape for years, but is unsure why
she was the target of the family's hire. Now this
alleged rape has nothing to do with me, she says,
I wasn't there even if it did happen to protect him.
I wasn't there to defend him. Itita. She was named
as the other person in a Beech Grove, Indiana police

(39:38):
report documenting the rape investigation, but she insists that she
was not involved. She says, I haven't talked to any
officers besides after the fight. She still has been suspended
from her job over this whole incident, and in a
statement to The Daily Mail, a spokesperson from Walmart said,
the violence that occurred at our store was unacceptable. We

(40:00):
appreciate police for acting quickly. So I don't know whatever
it was. She don't have a job, and they still
don't have any resolve on who that person was. It
got into that rape allegation, but it was quite entertaining
at the Walmart checkout asle there for a while.

Speaker 10 (40:19):
Well.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
A man was killed another was charged with murder. It
happened after the Texas pair took turns wearing a kevlar
helmet and shooting at each other with a rifle. Apparently
nothing to do in Texas that day. According to the

(40:40):
press release from the Harris County Sheriffs Ed Gonzalez, the
deputies were dispatched to a residence regarding her report of
shots fired. First responders discovered thirty four year old Aaron
Prout suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. He
would eventually succumb to his injuries after being taken to
the hospital. Although the department initially believed the incident could

(41:00):
be a suicide, with a thorough follow up investigation, the
truth was ultimately revealed. According to Gonzalez, he says hard
to believe two so called friends would take turns shooting
at each other wearing a kevlar helmet inside a house
in a residential neighborhood while using a rifle. The homeowner,

(41:24):
thirty seven year old Sean O'Donnell, was charged with murder
and connection to Proud's death. Apparently the kevlar helmets didn't
work well. If you flew over a recent holiday, you
can probably relate to this guy's frustration, especially if you've

(41:45):
had issues with your baggage. Trust me, been there, done that,
got my T shirt. A man in La flew home
recently and couldn't find his baggage at the baggage claim. Now,
he has an air tag inside, so he just checked
to see where it was lo and behold, he saw

(42:06):
that it was moving away from the airport toward the
rideshare area. Well that's when he realized it had been taken.
So he started pursuing it and eventually saw that it
had had a stop at a boarded up, abandoned building
about a half mile away, so his partner called the

(42:26):
cops and they responded to The officers got there and
shined flashlights inside the building and saw a little movement,
so they went inside. They found some people inside and
lined them up, and there was one of them actually
wearing the guy's clothes. Well, that makes it easy. The
guy was allowed to collect his things, which were strown

(42:48):
all throughout the building. He says he was able to
get about ninety percent of his stuff back. But it
sounds like the police are still investigating because there's no
word in any charges. Probably want to find out if
there were any other people involved and figure out if
this was a one time thing or an ongoing scheme.
Maybe it's a good thing to get yourself some air
tags when you're flying and put them in your luggage,

(43:08):
you know. Well, there's a researcher at the University of
Cambridge and predicting that by the year twenty thirty, so
at the time of this recording, that would be five years.
They say, we will have dead loved ones in our
pockets and we'll be able to talk with them. Almost

(43:29):
twenty four to seven thanks to artificial intelligence. It's a
Polish researcher who specializes in researching what death and morning
would be like in a digital world and how AI
is affecting our relationship with death. One such consequences will
stop visiting cemeteries because when our loved ones are accessible

(43:51):
through these platforms, it will seem old fashioned to visit
the graves instead of using interactive AI generated technology. Now,
the researcher adds, it won't be like having your loved
one on a video call or in an app with
whom you can talk whenever you want. Actually, the research
of forecast these technologies allow us to talk with AI

(44:12):
generated versions of the deceased loved ones. It'll be quite popular,
although she also warns that we don't know yet what
the consequences of these developments might be now. The researcher
further notes that the first instances of the so called
digital afterlife industry have already started. For instance, in the
US and China, companies have actually launched products that comb

(44:36):
the digital footprints of the dead. They then use that
data to create digital avatars modeled after your dead loved
ones to simulate their speech patterns and personalities. This is
really happening. These yerie advances have already seen mainstream applications,
like Drake controversially using AI generated vocals from Tupac Shakur

(45:00):
one of his songs. We recently had Rod Stewart in
a concert and generated a video of the recently deceased
Ozzy Osbourne in Heaven at a concert. The researcher expects
these immortal AI agents to soon be a commercially viable technology,
openly and easily accessible on consumer markets and running on

(45:21):
a subscription basis. Examples like Replica, which is in an
American chatbot that mimics the texting styles of the dead.
Then there's story File, a Los Angeles company that uses
AI to allow people to talk at their own funerals. Oh,
that would be fun, the researcher says. When I started
this in this field in twenty fifteen or twenty sixteen,

(45:43):
private companies and CEOs were talking about this technology is
something that would revolutionize the whole ecosystem, but at the
time it was more like selling a promise. Because of
the development of technology and the development of language models,
especially chat GPT, these promises are now real. The researcher
goes on to say, they are real products on the

(46:05):
market that offers this type of technology. It's no longer
a promise, but a real growing market. The result, she says,
it's a form of digital immortality whose potential applications include
cautious which include letting kids who've lost their parents continue
a relationship with their dead parents. Now, she remains cautious

(46:29):
about the consequences of this quantum technological leap, especially in
relation to human experiences like grieving and mourning. A consultant
with the Anna Freud National Center for Children and Families
have said that the biggest concern I have as a
clinician is that mourning is actually very important. It's an
important part of development that we are able to acknowledge

(46:49):
the missing of another person. Now, others have flag privacy
concerns and ask what would happen if we let private
companies collect and harvest and profit off of dead people's data. Frankly,
I think what I'm going to do whenever I die.
Just put me in from aldehyde and preserve my body,
and put a chip in my head and turn me

(47:11):
into an AI robot, and I can sit in the
corner and visit with all of my relatives in the future.
Creepy or not, I don't know. I'm not really going
to be there, So do what you want, have fun,
talk to Grandpa, great great grandpa whatever. Well, by now

(47:35):
the whole planet is aware of Uncle Herschel. Who's Uncle Herschel,
you might add if you're the only person who's coming
out of the cave and not realize what we have
gone through over the last several weeks. We're talking about
Cracker Barrel, the company who turns mama's home cooking into

(47:55):
mediocre restaurant food. Well, okay, they decided, let me get
you caught up. In case you didn't know, they decided
we're going to modernize, change the indoor decorum, changed the logo. Well,
that didn't sit well. So Cracker Barrell responded to the
consumer backlash over the big redesign, removing the iconic image

(48:20):
of Uncle Herschel leaning against a beryl, And of course
the reactions to the rebranding had flooded social media. That's
all you saw in days and weeks ago. There's a
statement entitled our Promise to You, where the company had
acknowledged the criticism and then initially pledged to retain Uncle
Herschel's image and its branding on their menus and road

(48:43):
signs and instore displays, but not on the new logo.
The chain emphasized that the brand's core values of hard work,
family and scratch cook food, which still remains a bit debatable,
still remained unchanged. They said. The company reassured custom beloved
items like Uncle Herschel's favorite breakfast platter weren't going away,

(49:05):
and they concluded their initial message with Uncle Herschel wouldn't
have wanted it any other way. At this point, Uncle
Herschel is probably trying to dig his way out of
the grave and choke the CEO of the company. We'll
just think again, because two weeks after all of that happened,
Cracker Barrell announced that they were cracking, I mean caving

(49:27):
that they would scrap their plans to replace the classic
logo with the less dated, refreshed They said, we thank
our guests for sharing your voices and love for Cracker Barrel.
We said we would listen, and we have. Our new
logo is going away and our old timer will remain.
At Cracker Barrel. It's always been and always will be,
about serving up delicious food, warm welcomes, and the kind

(49:49):
of country hospitality that deals like family. We look forward
to welcoming you to our table soon. Okay, that last
part's a nudge, like, hey, it's great to see so
much love for our tradition online. Now come in and
give us your money. Well, let's just say business has
been struggling, you know, especially when this pandemic hit. The

(50:12):
stock for Cracker Barrow was down over sixty five percent
since twenty nineteen. Here's one Cracker Barrel employee who said
that the business was way down because of their image change.

Speaker 8 (50:23):
Hey, y'all, So as y'all can see, I worked at
Crackerborrough as a waitress, and we're struggling. You see all
these people, we all got here at two o'clock, four o'clock.
I got here at four, and I've only had three
tables tonight. Everybody has had like two or three tables mags.
I say, at least like nine tables their whole shift.
Like tonight, I've only had three tables and I've made

(50:45):
thirteen dollars total settle.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
Yeah, Crooker Brough, what are we doing?

Speaker 8 (50:50):
What's got to give?

Speaker 2 (50:52):
Y'all?

Speaker 1 (50:52):
People got families a feed well. Cracker Barrel didn't exactly
say this explicitly, but it sounded like the attempted logo refreshed.
Definitely was an effort to try to modernize the brand,
appealing to a broader, younger group of customers. But of
course you know that new rollout was not handled very

(51:13):
well and Cracker Barrel enthusiasts flipped a wig. Clearly, nostalgia
is important. Cracker Barrel originally opened back in nineteen sixty
nine and most of their clientele was still in high school.
The old timer Uncle Herschel logo has been around since
nineteen seventy seven. Now here's Uncle Herschel talking about Cracker

(51:35):
Barrel's values in a promotional video that's been put out
over ten years ago.

Speaker 4 (51:40):
Treat everyone you would like to be treated yourself down
to earth, Timbold Seft spoken, where smile.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
Obviously, President Trump had to weigh in celebrating the reversal,
and he wrote, congratulations Cracker Barrel and changing your logo
back to the way it was. All of your fans
very much appreciated. Good luck in the future, make lots
of money, and most importantly, make your customers happy again. Well,
Cracker Barrel didn't really apologize for the hurt feelings, but

(52:11):
they did promise that they'd never changed their values, which
are hard work, family and scratch cooked food made with care.
And you're going to find out even that might be debatable. Now.
There was a Facebook user named Chris Daniel who got
in the middle of this by posting a twelve step
plan which he thinks will restore the former glory to

(52:32):
the embattled chain. Frankly, I couldn't agree more. So let's
look at it. The first thing is to ditch the booze.
Family restaurants, once packed with church folks on Sundays and
Wednesday nights, don't need it, so let's be real. It's
been a major buzzkill. Number two, give the staff a
crash course. It's not too much to ask for pepper
sauce with greens or ketchup with meat loaf, is it?

(52:54):
And for goodness sake, keep the coffee cups and tea
glasses full. Number three, don't even think about changing the decors.
We normal folks love gaulking at the old pictures, the guns,
the radios, the barbed wire, collections, churns and signage. It's
like a hokey museum in here. Number four, leave the
sign alone. What's next replacing the statue of Liberty with

(53:16):
a giant inflatable cowboy. Number five. Fire those Madison Avenue
marketing geniuses. They're all about as country as a Manhattan
street performer. Number six, as a gesture of goodwill, offer
the CEO Julie Fellis or Fells Messino a job at
any cracker barrel so she can learn the ropes from

(53:38):
the ground up. After all, Sam Walton didn't start his
illustrious career in the boardroom. Number seven. For the love
of all things good, learn how to use bacon drippings.
This is restaurant one oh one. Number eight. While you're
at it, learn how to season. It's not rocket science, folks.

(54:00):
Number nine, ditch those fake fireplace logs and bring back
the real wood. It's like the difference between a warm
hug and a cold handshake. Number ten. All chicken must
that you sell must come from Arkansas. We're talking the
chicken capital of the world. People think about Tyson. Number eleven.

(54:21):
The man you needs a serious reboot. Kish and Vagan
options have no business being a cracker barrel. It's like
putting kale on pizza and finally number twelve. Dust off
those old TV commercials with Chad Atkins promoting Cracker Bell
and get some new radio ads, maybe with Vince Gill
and Mo Pitney. It's time to let people know the
real Cracker Barrel is back in business. Maybe the new

(54:42):
logo would have landed better if it wasn't so freaking bland.
It's possible. Maybe the new logo felt less dusty to
younger people, but it was also pretty pointless. They just
removed the character from it, literally, and if Cracker Bell
stands for anything, for better or for worse, it's character
and now nostalgia. Oh and you know the knickknacks too.

(55:05):
And then to add insult to injury, Cracker Barrel's co
founder Tommy Lowe had to sit down with news Channel
five's Carry Sharp with some rather harsh words for the
woke CEO trying to destroy the business that he helped.
The found logo rolled out the other day.

Speaker 10 (55:21):
Oh that's crazy, that's nothing. That's to bland, nothing, It
is pitiful.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
Do you think she knows the story of Cracker Barrel.

Speaker 10 (55:32):
I don't think so. I've heard she was a taco bell,
But whats Taco Bell know about Cracker Barrel and Country food,
and the food is something that did need to work
on her spending seven hundred million dollars to do that
is all I've been doing. I just throwing money out

(55:52):
the street.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
And Messino claimed the public just loved the new Cracker
Barrel logo and redesign of the restaurant. Yeah, right, what plan?
And it was she from the new interior of Cracker
Barrel looks rather cold and sterile, not the original comfy,
cozy vibe. So when the heat started getting hot in
the Cracker Barrel kitchen, Steak and Shake then issues a
statement calling out the restaurant chain and their CEO, Mesino

(56:16):
for the changes. Now after the crap hit the fans,
Steak and Shake now it's calling for the firing of Messino.
So what's the deal with Steak and Shake throwing shade
on Cracker Barrel. Well, it turns out the Steak and
Shake CEO, Sedar Big Glori, owns nearly ten percent of
Cracker Barrel's outstanding shares and sits on the board of

(56:37):
directors and is a big supporter of Donald Trump. Well
he's now mocking Cracker Barrel by posting images of red
Maga style hats on x it says fire Cracker Barrel CEO.
There was another hap that said Big Luri was right
about everything. So what's going on? We'll see. Big Laurie

(56:58):
has been publicly hammering Cracker Barrel for months, slamming their
seven hundred million dollars store remodel as bland, soulless, and
an unnecessary waste of money. In a twenty twenty four
letter to shareholders, he warned that swapping Americana knickknacks for
sleek booths and bag of banquettes would do nothing to

(57:20):
solve declining traffic. He should know a little bit about
turning a declining business around, because in August to twenty
oh eight, Big Glory took overtake in Shake, which had
been losing more than one hundred thousand dollars a day
in twenty oh nine. Until now they're making more than
one hundred thousand dollars a day in twenty ten. That's
according to Big Glory's twenty ten letter to shareholders. By

(57:41):
twenty fifteen, the company had attained twenty four consecutive quarters
of same store sales increases under Big Glory he'd been
in the middle of a heated debate within the Cracker
Barrel board of directors when the discussion began with Messino's
idea of rebranding, and was eventually labeled an activist board member.
He said that the logo rever Ursa was a symptom
of a bigger problem. Well, now the uproar has left

(58:03):
investors rattled and Big Glory more emboldened than ever. If
Cracker Barrel boards decide to maybe out their woke CEO,
which they've yet to do, they might have a willing
candidate to fill her shoes. Country singer John Rich of
the duo Big and Rich says he's ready to step
in is Cracker Barrel's new CEO. He's outlined his plans

(58:26):
for major changes, saying I will save the brand. He said,
if they make me CEO, I'll get them back in
the doors. Fire everyone that bastardized that brand. Start doing
the pledge of allegiance at breakfast, in the national anthem
at lunch, it'll turn around rapidly. All you can eat
for seventeen dollars and seventy six cents. Well, after all

(58:48):
that's blown over, we are now finding that early reports
are coming out indicating Cracker Barrel scrapped a secret cost
cutting plan that in included reheating their biscuits and microwaving
their meat loaf. After widespread public backlash over the other
brand changes following the new logo and modernizing controversy, sources

(59:13):
confirmed to The New York Post the company reversed their
food preparation changes to avoid further backlash. The short lived
plan involved instructing cooks to prebake their biscuits and reheat
them as needed, rather than making them fresh. According to
the employees, the quality of the reheated biscuits was noticeably poor,

(59:33):
some of them calling them like a rock. Trust me,
I have had day old biscuits. I know what they
taste like. The directive also reported mandating the meat loaf
be cooked a day in advance, then reheated in a
microwave for serving. This replaced the traditional method of cooking

(59:54):
it fresh in an oven. The decision to scrap the
food preparation changes came after the company experience and intense
public outrage and significant drop in stock value. And at
this point, folks are still a little shy coming back,
you know, folks, I just say bring back the bacon grease,

(01:00:16):
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from this or not. Frankly, I'll still stick to my
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Sting is facing a lawsuit from his former police bates,
who claim that they're still owed money from the nineteen
eighty three hit Every Breath You Take. I never imagine
Sting would want to defund the police, but here we are.

(01:02:13):
Modern research shows that cigarette filters do nothing for a
person's health, with experts saying that they should be banned entirely.
When are they going to come out with a filter
for vapes? You know, kids today think a cigarette filter
is something on Snapchat that makes it look like you're smoking.
A Spanish man is being investigated by Kenyan authorities after

(01:02:36):
he posted a video of himself pouring a beer down
an elephant's trunk. Sounds like a real party antal, what's
an elephant's trunk if not a built in beer bong.
A TikTok influencer was trapped for weeks in the Amazon
rainforest after traveling there illegally during the wet season. TikTokers

(01:02:59):
have the attention span of a goldfish, so a few
weeks probably felt like fifty years. First question, he asked
the locals, what's the Wi Fi password? K Pop megastar
Si of Gingham Style fame has been busted by South
Korean police for using illegal pill prescriptions. In this case,

(01:03:22):
the K and K pop stands for ketamine. Of course,
we've all seen that Ganingham style video, right, This guy
has to be on something. Director Ridley Scott revealed he
turned down a twenty million dollars to direct Terminator three,
Rise of the Machines. I don't think there's any other

(01:03:43):
director out there who could look at that much money
and go Asta la vista baby. The man just can't
be bought unless he's making a commercial for Apple. In
nineteen eighty four, Ariana Grinde has announced her first tour
in seven years. Wicked. I wonder if should be doing

(01:04:03):
a show in Oz. I mean, here's the potential tour names.
Let's see they go big or go Grande tour, ain't
life grande tour? Or maybe the who cares about Taylor
Swift's wedding tour. The New England Patriots have claimed Tommy
DeVito off waivers after being released by the New York Giants.

(01:04:24):
Don't worry, Tommy, they have chicken cutlets. In New England,
World Series champ and former Yankee Mark Texira is running
for Congress in Texas. From pizza to pinstripes to cowboys
in Congress, sounds like he's rounding the bases. A lost
boy wondering a monorail track high above a crowd at

(01:04:45):
Hershey Park in Pennsylvania was rescued when a man scaled
a building and jumped onto the rails. The kid was
reported as safe, despite fudging his pants. Our recent study
suggests that taking vitamin D sub that's could up slow
the aging process. People are always trying to slow or
reverse the aging process. I mean, call me crazy, but

(01:05:06):
I don't want to be sixty years old and looking
like young Sheldon. Of course, I don't even know any
bow ties either. Just don't get all your vitamin D
from the sun, or you'll look like shoe leather by
the time you're forty. The driver who plowed into the
back of Rudy Giuliani's car and seriously injured him has
been revealed as a teenager from Massachusetts. The girl has

(01:05:30):
confirmed that she is a wicked Sorrey and she owes
him a Duncan. She's from Red Sox territory, and the
mainstream media is going to tell you that this wasn't
a targeted attack. Incredible. A city in San Francisco Bay
Area has brought in a four hundred thousand dollars drone

(01:05:50):
army to get rid of hundreds of Canadian geese. Well
they shouldn't just get rid of the geese. There's a
lot of homeless people there who would love a goose
down jacket with winter coming up there. I mean, have
they tried calling ice maybe? And there's no way that
these geese came down here legally. A former US postal

(01:06:12):
fraud investigator has been accused of stealing hundreds of thousands
of dollars from scam victims he was meant to be
protecting overnight. This guy to prison, please. It turns out
the scam call was coming from inside the post office.
Being a fraud investigator and getting busted for fraud is embarrassing.
Now you're a thief and you're bad at your job.

(01:06:35):
An eighty five year old man was killed during a
hike in the Australian Alps after he and his wife
were charged by a herd of cows. Now, I know
in America were always a jump, We always jumped to race.
So let me just say this. These cows were both
black and white, right, So put out the pasture by cows,
go with the irony. Ron Howard said in a recent

(01:06:58):
interview that what's swallow on the family vacation, he forgot
his young son reed at a Krispy Kreme. Not exactly
happy days for the Howard kid. Of course, the crazy
part is he never went back to get him. Charlie Woods,
that's Tiger's son, nailed a hole in one at the
Junior Players Championship Tournament and ace for the Woods there.
I bet Chucky was cheesing after that one. I wonder

(01:07:21):
how his pops took it. You know, you know parents
can be you know, well, how'd you do on the
other seventeen holes. President Trump says he's awarding former New
York Mayor Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Middle of Freedom. I
think it's kind of overkilled. I mean, heck, I mean,
I think I give card d Appleby's would be too much.
But it would be the first presidential Medal of Freedom

(01:07:42):
to have good boy engraved on the back. Research shows
that today's young people report the highest level of despair,
which has not been the case for decades. Look, I'm
in my sixties, but I feel pretty hopeless too. Maybe
I'm just young at heart. I mean, by the time
these kids year up, their knees are going to be shot.

(01:08:03):
Starbucks is rolling out protein infused drinks in the fall,
and so don't be surprised if your barista starts looking
kind of jacked. If you see a meathead losing out
of Starbucks, then you'll have to wonder, hmm, roid rage
or caffeine crash out. A man in you Tak who
spent decades on death row would now be spared execution

(01:08:25):
after lawyers argued his dementia prevents him from understanding the
punishment must be contagious because now everyone else on death
row is coming down with dementia too. Nesley has removed
their CEO after discovering he had a romantic relationship with
an employee. At least it didn't happen on a jumbo tron.

(01:08:46):
You think maybe a chocolate company would be all about Bob.
I guess that's why it's a Hershey's Kiss and not
a Nesli I Call of Duty movie is coming to
theaters as Activision and Paramounts strike a major film deal.
Unless there's little kids in the theater calling me horrible names,
it won't be true to experience this. One's sure to

(01:09:08):
pull a lot of people out of the game lobby
and into the movie lobby. The Canadian animation studio behind
the Magic School Bus is closing its doors after fifty
four years. Too bad. We never got Missus Frizzle's retirement
episode where she leaves the kids to run a cat sanctuary,
and Charlie she turned sixty and recently thought that he'd

(01:09:30):
been sober for eight years and still struggles though with
forgiving himself. Of course, I'm still struggling to forgive him
for that last season of Two and a half Men.
But hey, it's a lot better than struggling to light
a crack pipe. Give yourself a break, Charlie and celebrities
and alumni a light flock to Chapel Hill to see
Bill Belichick debut as the North Carolina Tar Hills new
head coach. I mean, there hasn't been this much excitement

(01:09:52):
for a coach since what Ted Lasso moved to England.
Belichick's girlfriend better be on her toes with all those
freshman cheerleaders out and about. You know. North Korean leader
Kim Jong un traveled to Beijing with a personal toilet
and ordered the staff to erase any trace of his DNA,
fearing it could fall into enemy hands. Of course, I

(01:10:13):
kind of wonder if they just follow him around with
a plastic bag waiting him for him to go and
like you know, you walk your dog. Nothing that they
could do about the smell, though, I mean which apparently
they lingers for hours and Chinese leader Zijeneping was caught
in a hot Mike moment discussing the possibility of living
to one hundred and fifty years with Putin and Kim

(01:10:33):
Jong Un. I hope not. I don't want to be
reading about the three stooges for the rest of my days.
I mean, stop me if you've heard this one. You know,
three dictators walk into a nursing home. He Shane, the
online clothing retailer, is being investigated after a picture on
its website featured Luigi Mangioni modeling a short sleeve button down.

(01:10:55):
This has to be worse than the Sydney Sweeney thing, right, Yeah,
viral marketing. These guys are going to make a killing.
Leave it to a CEO to see the murder of
a ceo and go, ah, we can use this. A
recent survey shows the average American second guest is nearly
half of their daily decisions. But the same time, everyone
also is one hundred percent sure who should be president. Right,

(01:11:18):
So when you asked me how I want my eggs,
just give me a minute to think about it, okay,
President Trump said the video circulating of a garbage bag
being thrown out of an upstairs White House window is fake.
I thought it might have been Rifk Junior cleaning out
some junk food while the President was away. The bag
probably had the Epstein files in it. The radio had

(01:11:39):
announcing a European tour, their first show in seven years.
Of course, between this and Oasis, it's a great time
to be a sad old man. The NFL commissioner tease
the possibility of Taylor Swift super Bowl halftime performance. Good.
I mean, it's about time they give a new up
and coming musician a shot. I mean, at this point,
I wouldn't be surprised if they let her a quarterback

(01:12:01):
for a team. I mean the Jets can't get any worse, right,
Houston Astro's pitcher Framber Valdez is being accused of purposefully
hitting the catcher with the pitch. Yeah, Houston, we have
a problem now. It was the first time ever the
catcher got walked. First, a US Open fan was caught
on camera trying to steal from Italian tennis star Johnny

(01:12:23):
Center's bag. In case you forgot, the tournament is held
in Queen's Now. This is a reminder. According to the research,
using a smartphone on the toilet is linked to a
much higher risk of hemorrhoids. Of course, I actually found
this out while while scrolling on the throne. The bathroom
was the one place you could scroll guilt free. And
now that's gone. What a pain in the butt. So

(01:12:46):
don't be surprised if your collegist asks you how much
time are you spending on TikTok? And finally, a lawyer
from Indiana named Mark Zuckerberg is suing Meta. He's claiming
Facebook repeatedly disabling his account for impersonating a celebrity even
though that's his real name. No way can you keep
a who's your lawyer? In Facebook? Jail? I had a

(01:13:07):
friend with a similar problem. His parents named him Matchoe
Man Randy Savage. He was a CPA. You know, I'm
open to talking about anything but love talking about surviving

(01:13:30):
in the stupidity that's always around us. And if you're
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and I would love to hear from you. You can
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Lane under this genius I'm simply a human.

Speaker 8 (01:14:43):
It's like a caveman thing you said.

Speaker 1 (01:14:45):
No, this week's a genius word and in this week's
Genius Awards. A twenty two year old Florida man was
arrested after being accused of stealing thirty two thousand dollars
worth of jewelry from a car and a racetrack gas station.
According to the Cape Coral Police Department, officers responded to
the reports of a vehicle burglary at a Cape Coral

(01:15:06):
Racetrack gas station sometime around noon. The victim told the
responding officers while he was inside the gas station he
had left his black Mercedes Benz unlocked with a coach
jewelry box in plane view in the passenger seat. The
CCPD said that while the victim was inside the gas
station and estimated thirty two thousand dollars worth of jewelry

(01:15:28):
and watches were taken from the car, along with the
victim's iPhone fifteen Pro Max, which is valued at twelve
hundred dollars. Officers proceeded to review security footage provided by
the racetrack store manager. Video showed around eleven oh six
in the morning, a Hispanic mail driving a dark grace
at hand pulled into the accessible spot next to the
victim's car. The man proceeded to look directly into the

(01:15:50):
victim's car, Officers said. The video then showed the suspect
commit the burglary and drive off in his car within
thirty seconds. Officers collected photos and fingerprints from the scene
as evidence. Officers then identified the registered owner of the
suspect's vehicle as Carlos Delgado of Cape Coral. Del Gotto's
driver's license photo matched closely with the suspect in the video,

(01:16:12):
according to the CCPD. Detectives went to Delgado's home and
found the suspected vehicle in the driveway. Detectives questioned Delgado,
who initially denied the burgulary, but then admitted to stealing
the jewelry and the phone from the victim's car. Del
Gatto reported to the officer's d you got caught doing
everything around here. Officer searched Delgado's home and found several

(01:16:35):
pieces of jewelry that were reported stolen, as well as
over seven thousand dollars in cash. Del Gatto was placed
under arrest and faces charges of burglary of an unoccupied
conveyance and grand theft and booked into the Leak County Jail,
where he is in custody. So is the Mercedes guy
a one man's sting operation who leaves the designer jewelry
box in plane view in their car. If Delgado didn't confess,

(01:16:59):
I'd say insurance scam. And then there's this. A forty
five year old Florida woman was arrested after being accused
of illegally harvesting palmetto berries in Golden Gata, States. According
to the Colder County Sheriff's Office, about one fifteen in
the afternoon, a deputy was patrolling in the area between
the south end of Dove Tree Street and Ivy Way.

(01:17:22):
They noticed a Hispanic female actively harvesting palmetal berries. The woman,
who was identified as the Anzualda of Immochally, was sitting
down next to three rice bags full of palmetal berries.
According to the CCSO, when the deputy approached Azulda, she
immediately began walking in the other direction, so the deputy

(01:17:46):
stopped or asked her if she had permission to be
on the property and if she had required permit to
harvest palmetal berries. Asulda told the deputy that someone else
who was with her had the permit. The deputy asked
Aswelda where the vehicle was. She walked the deputy to
a truck that was parked in the woodline off the
trail as well to told the deputy that there were

(01:18:07):
two other people with her harvesting the berries. The deputy
had a zueld to call the person with whom she
had the permit, but after multiple attempts, no one answered.
So the deputy then had a zuel to call the
owner of the truck, who answered and said that the
owner of the truck was out of town and that
the truck had been left at a pack packing house
in Imochally according to the CCSO, the deputy asked who

(01:18:30):
had permissioned to drive the truck, to which the person
on the phone said that there was one person with permission,
but that they did not know their name. After several
phone calls that yielded no results, an extended period of
time waiting for the other people with an Zwelda to
return back to the truck. Then Aswelda was then placed
under arrest for not being able to provide the proper permit.

(01:18:50):
A Zwelda was transported to the Imochally Jail Center and
faces charges of harvesting palmetal berries without permission and the
truck was left at the scene. Can I a woman
not pick berries? Is there no legal room for whimsy
in the current climate. You know, I'm not familiar with
palmetal berries, but apparently they're good for prostate health. Is

(01:19:11):
that a crime? Or how about this? A twenty nine
year old Polish businessman who went viral for stealing a
hat from a child at the twenty twenty five US
Opens now apologized for his actions. Peter Scarzik, who was
caught on camera snatching a hat given to a young
fan by a Polish tennis player Camille Majarak, is calling

(01:19:34):
his behavior a great mistake and a statement posted to
his company's Instagram account, Zurich said that he assumed the
hat was being given to his sons, who had previously
asked Mazarzac for autographs. Today, I know that I did
something that looked like I deliberately took a souvenir from
a child. He writes, it wasn't my intention, but that
doesn't change the fact that I hurt the boy and

(01:19:56):
disappointed the fans. By the way, Cizarek is the Sea
You drug book specializes in paving and landscaping solutions in Poland.
The cap was given to the boy and an apology
is due to the family, Sarzac continues, and I hope
that I have at least partially repaired the harm. A
fake apology from Sarzac was circulated, where Sarzuk insisted it

(01:20:17):
was not from him. I also want to make it clear,
he says, neither I, nor my wife nor my son's
commented on the situation on social media or on any website.
We do not use the services of any law firm
in this regard. All of these statements appearing online are
not ours. He said that he and his wife have
been involved in helping children and young athletes for years,

(01:20:38):
but acknowledged the hat snatching incident had eroded all of
that good will. He said, the situation has shown me
that one moment of inattention can under years of work
and support. This is a painful but necessary lesson in
humility for me. Therefore, I will be even more actively
involved in initiative supporting children and young people and in
actions against violence and hate. I believe that only through

(01:21:00):
actions can I rebuild lost trust. By the way, Zak
disabled all the comments on his Instagram post out a
concern for his family after the clip of Sarzak stealing
the hat when viral. The tennis player at the center
of the incident managed to get in touch with the boy,
whose name is Brock today after warm up. I had
a nice meeting, Mazarzac posted on his Instagram story showing

(01:21:22):
off he and the boy meeting and exchanging a new
hat on the US Open grounds. Majaak wrote in another
Instagram story, hello world together with Brock, we wish you
a great day. Yeah, just another billionaire who thinks everything's
for him. One word Brock, Sue. Wonder if Zak knows

(01:21:42):
Philly's Karen ll That. More on that later. What about this?
A forty five year old Florida man is facing federal
charges for using drones to smuggle fentanyl and contraband cell
phones into prisons across multiple states. Prosecutors Aleege James Keith
the Third conspired to distribute fentanyl targeting facilities in California, Florida,

(01:22:04):
and South Carolina. He worked with inmates to coordinate drone deliveries,
camouflaging funeral, leased paper and cell phones to bypass security.
Authorities say the combination of daily drugs and illicit communications
enabled further criminal activity behind bars. Key Face is up
to twenty years in prison and a million dollar fine
if he's convicted. That drones earlier everywhere, you know, doing

(01:22:28):
so many more crimes than we ever have dreamed. Now,
what happened to using your drone to sneak candy and
love letters into prisons? Huh? You gotta check this one out. Please,
are searching for a wedding crasher that's told about sixty
thousand dollars in cash and checks gifted to the bride
and groom at a California wedding. At that wedding, the
suspect entered the wedding hall shortly after midnight, grabbed the

(01:22:49):
gift box, and fled through an exit, witnesses tell Glendell Police.
Surveillance footage on video shows the suspect fleeing the venue
in a Mercedes SUV that appears to have been waiting
for it. The suspect had described by police as a
mail about forty years old who was of whit er
Middle Eastern descent. It's bald and had a medium build.
The victim who reported the theft estimated the box contained

(01:23:11):
about sixty thousand dollars in cash and checks that had
been gifted by wedding guests. As soon as we found
out what happened, you know, the music shut down and
everything immediately stopped, says the bride, Nadine Faharat, talking to
KABC TV, She said, I ended up sitting on the
dance floor sobbing with my friends and cousins around me.
The couple tells KBC the suspect was there for about

(01:23:33):
ninety minutes. He was watching the dance floor, he was
watching our family. It's so scary to look back and
see that there was a stranger at such a private
event and such an intimate event. It's such a violation.
Farretz said. The Renaissance Banquethole did not immediately respond to
ABC News requests or comment. The investigation into the theft
remains ongoing, and police say the suspect has not been identified.

(01:23:54):
Anybody with information is urged to contact the Glendale Police Department.
So they left the box with sixty grand inside unattended,
and that's not a crime. I mean, the couple is trusting.
I mean, and they're bound to have nothing but happiness
for a long, long marriage, right huh okay, And you'll

(01:24:15):
never believe this. A seventy year old Florida woman who
believes she was helping a retired army general and a
wounded military dog ended up the victim of a scheme
that cost her sixty thousand bucks, the Lusia County Sheriff's
office has said. The deputy said fifty six year old
Corey wood Ald of Oxford, North Carolina, convinced the seventy

(01:24:38):
year old woman that she was helping her retired Army
general get back to the US after she responded to
an email about a wounded military dog. Investigator said the
woman sent what All the money, including thirty thousand dollars
in cash. They said that would all use the money
to buy a car, a mower, and a trailer. What
All was extradited to Belusia County and was charged cards

(01:25:00):
with organized scheme to defraud and grand theft. Belusia County
Sheriff Mike Chitwood confronted with all when he arrived and
told what all he would be held on no bond.
You have no bond, so you ain't getting out anytime soon.
When you defraud my residence here, we take that really,
really seriously, and so does the judge. Chitwood says, this
isn't right. This woman has spent her entire life working

(01:25:23):
and caring for people. Would all then told the victim
and Chitwood he would be have to pay the woman
bath back. I wish that were true, says Chitwood. Now
today's Genius Award is an exercise in the many ways
to thee all sixty thousand dollars. Yeah, if seventy is
the new fifty, the ability to be scammed doesn't show it, okay.

(01:25:44):
One more, An Arkansas woman pleaded guilty to public intoxication
using her friend's name. According to an incident report from
the Van Buren Police Department. In twenty twenty four, an
officer arrested Crystal Osborne. She gave the officer her friend's name.
She was booked into jail and released a few days

(01:26:05):
later on a two hundred and twenty dollars signature bond.
She signed the paperwork using her friend's name, according to
the incident report. Later, Osborne agreed to plead guilty and
was fined two hundred and forty dollars, put on thirty
days of probation in order to work twenty four hours
of community service, all while she continued to use her
friend's name. Well, Osborne only worked twelve hours, failed a

(01:26:28):
drug test and did not pay the intake fee on time,
according to the records, and a warrant was issued for
the arrest of her friend. Osbourne's friend found out what
had happened, she was able to get to a judge
to recall the warrant for her arrest. She then went
to the Van Buren Police department to tell them what happened.
An officer reviewed the bodycam footage of the arrest and

(01:26:50):
compared the driver's license photos. He saw that it really
was Osborne who had been arrested and booked into jail.
So Osborne was then arrested on charges of forgery and
one charge of non financial identity fraud, all taking place
at the police department. Her bond was then set at
thirty five thousand dollars. So far, online court records still
list the initial arrest, plea and charge under the friends

(01:27:14):
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I mean, that's not what friends are for, Jim and
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