Because I'm A Creep

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
How's everybody doing on oh Wednesday?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (00:05):
Good good?

Speaker 4 (00:06):
How were you.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Allergies?

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Good?

Speaker 1 (00:12):
I think, yeah, I think, yeah, this is a normal show.
Yeah I would normally I turned my mic off for that.
But I'm just checking all of the different sounds that
are coming out of my body to make sure we're
all locked in ready to go. And I think we are, everybody,
So here goes nothing. Let's put our ears to the ground,
our fingers on the pulse. Lettie, what's happening in this great, big,
wide world of ours. And we go to Bloomington, where

(00:36):
the police chief a man named Booker Hodges. Which that's
quite a n aim for a police chief.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Mister Booker Hodges a show from the eighties.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
It does it sounds like that.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, And he was throwing this press conference where they
arrested sixteen dudes, including some guy who was like a
member of ICE.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
I think, oh, and this was for like solicitation.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Of a minor. And he announced all this at this
press conference. But you know, the sheriffs do this and
they go, here's what we got. We booked this person,
we got this Disney employee. Well, I think he felt
competition from the world of sheriffs. So he decided to
make it his own. And here he goes announcing Operation Creep.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
I'm calling this Operation Creep. So you know I do
car karaoke and I can't sing. No, no, no, no,
I'm a creep.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
It's not singing.

Speaker 5 (01:31):
I'm a weird all right, Yeah, you kind of are.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Please stop.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
If you're going to do that, you gotta go ton,
you gotta rip the knob off.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
But he's I'm creep.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
This is like being at karaoke night and just barely
putting any effort in.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
He signed up the moment you got there, you know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (01:54):
Or you're doing this shatner like she packed my bags
last night, pre fly, that.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Would makes sense. He seems like he has a gun
to his head.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
See laying on a lazy night doing chocolate salty balls
from South Park, you know, on my chocolate.

Speaker 7 (02:11):
Salty bulls candy. Put them in your mouth and suck them.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
It's like no energy, chief, all right, Hodges, bring it
to us, give us some energy.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Creep.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
So you know, I do car karaoke and I can't sing,
So I'm gonna butcher this. But we'll be all right.
We'll be all right, I'm a creep. Oh my god,
it's so bad. Off the bat, I'm a weirdo.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
This is a song.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
These guys were singing, what the hell am I doing?

Speaker 4 (02:38):
He my god, I was gonna ask when the video
was done, what.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
I say explaining his winning This is about you? This
is about you? Okay?

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Do you understand?

Speaker 4 (02:51):
Because people call creeps those that are predators, And I'm
gonna do the song that's called creep that was very popular.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Because these bad guys who are creeps, we're talking to
what they thought were young girls online.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Do you get it? You guys?

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Guess has he done carpool karaoke?

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Like?

Speaker 2 (03:10):
He opened up with saying, like, you guys know that
I do carpool karaoke? You know what? It feels like?

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Who's that character on the Simpsons where he's like you
might remember me from.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
That was very quick.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
It feels like Troy McClure, where we go. Shouldn't we
know you from being the police chief? You might know
me from doing carpool karaoke? And I want to continue
that today.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
I'm going to butcher it.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
And here I'm going to butcher it and also step
on it and bury it.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Six feet in the ground question.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
You know how every once in a while when politicians
who are out there like campaigning, will use a song
and the bands will be like, please don't use my
music anymore. I don't support you. Oh yeah, Like Radiohead
will pop up and go not for nothing, but this
was bad, so we don't want.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
To be part of this.

Speaker 6 (04:06):
Radiohead famously U was behind or or just supported the
release of the time that Prince covered Creep, even though
Prince notoriously will Like had his cronies go and issue
takedown notices for any videos anything online that was Prince material,
and Radio had said, wait, no, that's our song. We say,

(04:29):
let it fly and the.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
This will be the Prince moment for radio.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
We have to put our first. Sorry we did that. Also,
I don't be long here.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
In your head.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
I'm a creep the show. I would have recorded that
for as. I want to just throw this out to
all of you.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
If you have any friends in your life, when they
make suggestion that are bad, you have to tell them
don't do this. All right, It's like how I tell
you a lot of times. I'll go Courtney, does this
look stupid on me?

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Do I look dumb?

Speaker 8 (05:09):
Do.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
I like, just let me know.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
I need you to let me have it right now
so that I don't embarrass myself for the rest of the.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Day's Courtney honest with you when you ask that.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
She claims she is, okay, you making a statement right now?

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Oh no, I am saying.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
I have said the same thing to Nicole, and I'm like,
do these look weird? And I could see it in
her eyes immediately. That's like, um, and I go stop
doing the m and trying to kid glove it.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
I need you to tell me the actual answer.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
But you know, maybe all you ask is for one
person to give it to you straight.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
I mean all the time, but if you're asking the question.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
I even tell her Sabrina, I'm like, I won't be mad.
I won't there will be no pushback. I will blatantly.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Listen to you.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Just say that shirt looks stupid. Okay, thank you? Have
you saved me for the rest of the day. Nobody
saved this cop though.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Not one person.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
He's like, Oh, we'll call it Operation Creep and I'll
go out there and sing Radiohead and be like, yes, uh, yes,
please do it. That's gonna be great, people, will it?
I don't know if they did, but you might have.
Let us know how you feel about it. Set a
dispatch over to thenewschunky dot com or email to tips
tips at the newsjunkie dot com.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
How many blue bloods are gonna be like? That was great?
I really like it.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
I think some of them might be going out and
taking down their police legs right now the front yard ceremoniously. Yeah,
they're bringing it down it way was there a cop shot?

Speaker 3 (06:38):
It's like no creep video.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Cloud Flair is now responding to what took down a
lot of the Internet yesterday, and the CEO is this
guy named Dane who has posted this information out if
you missed this, we started the show out yesterday with
like a third of the Internet was down. All these
major websites weren't working, Everything was kind of broken.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
X was down. All of these.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Things were just to mess all over the place. And
it was once again because of like some central thing
that all these websites use. And the CEO of cloud
Flare or cloud fare if you work for some local
TV outlet and you don't know what it's called now,
he says, I won't mince words. Earlier today, this from yesterday,
we failed our excuse me, we failed our customers and

(07:25):
the broader Internet when a problem in cloud Flare's network
impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us, the sites,
businesses and organizations that rely on cloud Fair.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
I screwed it up.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Cloud Flare depend on us being available, and I apologize
for the impact we caused. And they said, it's like such,
it's one of these things where you go, how did.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
The Internet crash?

Speaker 9 (07:49):
Man?

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Was it some crazy hacker in Beijing or below Rous
or Moscow? And it's like, apparently it was one file
that they have on a server somewhere.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
The file size got too big.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
You're kidding me.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
The file size of one file got too big and
caused some kind of communication issues in the code of
the file. Some file that they refer to that's supposed
to be megafast had too much in it and the
file size was too big and it cut everything down
right at the knees and caused this issue that took

(08:26):
out a third of the Internet. We're now at that
point in the timeline. One rando person can be like, well,
let's update the code, and then half of the Internet
completely and totally breaks just like that. So that's what
cloud Flair is responding to in terms of the outage
on the internet yesterday. It can and will happen again.
Just get used to it. That's the way she goes, folks.

(08:48):
The other big story that was breaking yesterday during the show,
but worth mentioning because it seems like as fast as
possibly today, the bill could reach President trump desk.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
He'll sign it.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
If he does, that will release all the files of
this Epstein situation.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, quiet Piggy, and.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Then we'll see if that ends up. You know, everybody
will just I'm sure be super happy about this. They'll go, oh, thanks,
now now everything is resolved. Now there's nothing else to
argue about.

Speaker 6 (09:17):
Do we think that these are already all digitized, like
like if they signed the Trump signs the bill, it's
time to release the files and they just like do
a dump digitally.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
I absolutely do not know. I wish anything answer to
that question.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
Well, the emails that were released a couple of weeks ago,
from what I understood, we're very hard to get through.
It was like a mix of Excel sheets and PDFs
and videos of like dogs or something like that. So yes,
are they going to make it confusing.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Again, it's it's just gonna be everything.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
So they dump all this stuff and it's so much
crap to sort through.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
You've got to find the good stuff.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
People put it in databases and make it searchable, which
is awesome. That's a really good resource for stuff like this.
But also what they do, because I pulled up some stuff.
You ever, yes, you both have. What do you think
it's the first word they searched for Trump Clinton, Trump Clinton, Pelosi,
you know whoever? Bannon, Steve Bannon, anyhow, the two of you.

(10:23):
I know this has happened to you. When you get
an email from a whole bunch of people that you're
like czed on and you see the email and then
you see that people start replying all to it, and
then you forget about it for a while, and then
all of a sudden you're like, oh, I forgot that.
And then you go to that email and it's like
this long chain and you have to go to the
bottom to kind of start understanding it.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
And skinning at the motom on your phone and it
becomes just one better at the time.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
That's how a lot of these are.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
It's like, oh man, you're like, it's it's like reading
hieroglyphics at some point. But we'll figure it out. We'll
see what happens. Because the voting went through and pasted
in the House of Representatives, it was there's only one
person who voted against this.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah, one dude.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
As we were watching it live, there was one nay
that the first one that I saw at least was Republican,
and then it went away. Then there's one Democrat in
like the last two minutes, and then in the last
thirty seconds one nay Republican.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, that's all that ended up on One nay Republican
and two Republicans didn't vote, and three Democrats didn't vote.
But everybody else said enough enough, let's just get these
files out there.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Here's the vote on this vote.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
The yeas are four hundred and twenty seven.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
The nays are one two thirds, being more.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Affirmative, the rules are suspended.

Speaker 10 (11:47):
The bill is passed, and without objection, the motion to
reconsider is laid.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
On the table.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
All that means, for those of you who don't follow
this stuff, which is everybody on planet Earth basically, is
now this will go over to the Senate.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
The Senate will likely pass it.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
It will go to Trump's desk as soon as today,
and then there last night they said they but they
hit a pause on it.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
For some reason.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
They could have passed it last night, but they hit
a pause on it to address it today. So I
think that they're going to vote on this today if
they haven't already.

Speaker 6 (12:16):
Did you read Clay Higgins statement on why he voted Nay, No, No,
the one guy? Yeah, I thought it was interesting and
I thought he kind of had a point. But I
also would never want to be the one person that
voted to still keep the Epstein files hidden.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
You kidding me?

Speaker 1 (12:35):
I kind of would want to be just people that
vote yes and they're like, who voted no? And you
just kind of put your hand on your chit like yes,
rumors start. I made a mistake, he said. I've been
a principal knowing this bill from the beginning. What was
wrong with the bill three months ago still wrong today.

(12:56):
It abandons two hundred and fifty years of criminal justice
procedure in America, and as written, the bill, he says,
reveals and injures thousands of innocent people, witnesses, people who
provided alibi as family members, et cetera. He's basically saying
that people are going to get unfairly victimized by the bill.

(13:17):
I get it, but like, who's going to get retribution
from a dead dude?

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Right?

Speaker 1 (13:21):
I mean, who's left Gallage Maxwell's going to go after them? Like,
Who's I mean, I don't know that there's going to
be a retribution in this. I think they should do
whatever they can to censor any kind of victims names
if they want to be censor.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
But am I crazy?

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Didn't we hear the victims go up and say a
lot of the victims were like, we want.

Speaker 4 (13:39):
This released, And a lot of that was attributed to
the girl who had wrote the book and then Fred.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Had killed herself.

Speaker 4 (13:47):
Yeah, So when it comes to any sort of redaction,
are we aware of what may be taken out besides victims' names,
anything else that would be or we'd have some surprises.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
I don't know, we'll see, it'll be interesting. Everybody's been
demanding this, All sides have been demanding this.

Speaker 6 (14:05):
There's supposed to be redacting victim like identification, anything identifiable
or personal information of the victims. And then it says
there's supposed to be like a notation on every redaction
on why Okay, that's good. That's good. Then, yeah, I
think that's good.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
And so if you do see Chris Lane's name in
these documents, I want to tell you, first of all,
pump the brakes, don't jump to conclusions, react with time
and no emotion. Read if his name is in there.
I'm not saying it is, but read. Read that information,

(14:43):
take it in and judge from there. That's what I
plan to do, Sea Land. If I see your name
in these files, it's very fair of you. Yeah, I
will not rush to judgment. I don't want to do
that to you.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
We have a lot to get into today here on
the show, and the big news that's just kind of
rolling in here is coming from this her mystery on
the cruise ship. On the Carnival cruise ship. We finally
have a bombshell in this one. I have the court documents.
I have one of the court documents in front of me.
We're going to read it together. And finally we have

(15:13):
some pretty crazy info about what happened to this eighteen
year old who was on this cruise ship. She died
on this Carnival cruise and now we finally have some
pretty crazy information. It's coming up next on the News Junkie.

(15:43):
Here are the basics of this story. If you're not
keeping up. There was a cruise ship. It was a
carnival cruise and it was going out to Mexico a
couple other places on board. Amongst all the other people
partying on the carnival cruise ship was an eighteen year
old cheer leader from Titusville, Florida. And at first it
was reported that this eighteen year old died on the cruise. Everybody,

(16:06):
myself included, your brain tends to go to, oh, did
they jump or fall off of the cruise? Did they
go overboard? That's usually what happens in a lot of
these cases. But then we figured out that wasn't what happened.
She was on the boat. And then you know, the
FEDS grabbed her body and started investigating. And so if
she was on the boat, well that's not a drowning.

(16:28):
What killed this eighteen year old? She I would assume
would be in very good health at that age, but
maybe not. And then there were rumors all over the
place everywhere, rumors because there were no actual answers, the rumors,
which I tried to carefully go over on the show
were one that there was potentially an overdose in the

(16:50):
state room on the cruise ship, and the other one
was that she was found rolled up in something and
stuffed underneath the bed in her cruise room.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
And those are.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Both pretty crazy, but the second option is what apparently
has turned out to be true, because they started to
confirm that she was wrapped up, this eighteen year old
and found stuffed underneath a bed in the cruise ship
and there in the room, and the father was saying
he doesn't know anything. They're not telling him anything. Other

(17:22):
family members were allegedly posting online. We'll get into some
of that in a moment. But the court documents that
have been released finally shed some light on this, so
let's read them.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Here we go.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
This is in Brevard County, Florida, and it says an
emergency motion for a continuance of a hearing. In this case,
the respondent, Sean Tell Hudson, files a motion for continuance.
It says the Underside Council, as the attorney of record,
has been retained by the responding to this action. It
is an extremely sensitive and severe circumstance that has arisen

(17:55):
where the mother will not be able to testify at
the hearing at this time, So the FBI is kind
of looking into this, this person saying the mother will
not be able to testify. Why Well, Currently there is
an investigation being conducted by the FBI arising out of
this sudden death of eighteen year old Anna Kepner, who
was found deceased on November ninth, twenty twenty five, on

(18:18):
a carnival cruise. Miss Anna Kepner, the deceased, is the
daughter of the respondent's paramore. And the respondent and the
minor children of this instant action, we're all on the
cruise ship together. So just so you know, that means
this is somebody's partner in this relationship, like a step

(18:38):
brother situation, step dad.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
The family with some.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Step siblings were on this cruise ship together and they
were all there when this went down. But now they
get a little deeper into what really happened behind the
scenes here. The respondent has been a advice through discussions
with the FBI and her attorneys that a criminal case
here's the important part, may be initiated against one of

(19:04):
the minor children of this family, all right, against one
of the minor children of this family. So what it
turns out is the underage step brother of this eighteen
year old who died on the carnival cruise is alleged
to have done something that led to her death.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
I'm guess stepbrother Jean Benet Ramsey Vibe the stepbrother.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
I don't know how old this stepbrother is. I don't
have an age on any of this. Maybe we could
figure that out. But the stepbrother is alleged to have
gone back to the room with the eighteen year old
Anna Kepner, and they believe that he is going to
be hit with murder charges in this case. So full picture, now,
here's what we know. We know eighteen year old high

(19:50):
school student Anna Kepner, who appeared by all all folks
who have chimed in on this to have been a
great young woman and a positive outlook for her future.
She goes on this carnival cruise ship they're headed out
and they're they're coming back from Mexico. And when they're
coming back from Mexico, on a day at sea, she

(20:12):
goes to the dining room with her family. She tells
her family, I'm feeling sick. I'm going to go back
to the room to lay down. She goes back to
the room. Then the stepbrother, who's out there at dinner,
still goes I too, am going back to the room.
He goes back to the room, and at that point
she died. Now the murder charges are incoming. The stepbrother

(20:34):
appears to be the target, and this is going to
be like a familial a familial murder mystery case, I
guess moving forward, which is kind of crazy.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
Just sent you and I don't know, forgive me if
this was covered, but the uncle apparently has posted on bout.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
This guy's an interesting dude, very uncle.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
This is everywhere, by the way, this is allegedly the
uncle in this case of this murder mystery on the
cruise ship, and it says Martin Donahue, I need everybody's
help on this. I don't know exactly when this was posted,
but it says November seventeenth.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
November seventeenth, so Monday, a.

Speaker 6 (21:13):
Little big timeline wise. On Monday, the uncle on this
Twitter account, the alleged uncle, Martin Donahue, responded to a
lot of different news organizations. He tried to reach out
to somebody from WKMG News six in Orlando on the fifteenth,
so over the weekend, he reached out to one of

(21:34):
the reporters and said, please DM me please. But also
he replied to a bunch of different news posts copy
paste of this exact story, the thing we're looking at
right now, to Fox and Friends, to World News, to
Phil Holloway, our New York Post, DMZ.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
He hit up everybody. Oh, Phil Holloway, Is that from
like Natalie Holloway's family? No, I think it was just
another reporter. He was all responding to people who had
tweeted about this situation, who had tweeted about the Anna
Kaepner story, including our friend Ryan Gorman from our affiliate
in Tampa, WFLA, just everybody. And then a couple of

(22:18):
days before that he was tweeting hot Chicks, and a
couple of days after that tweeting at Denise Richards.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
So was the bat.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
I have three different ways that this uncle can go.
It's he wants to get the word out there. It's like,
let me hit up everybody so that becomes a public
thing and it doesn't get ignored or covered up.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Two, he's crazy.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
Well, I don't know anything about this guy now. I mean,
we know, we know that the eighteen year old daughter's dead.
We know that they're now suspecting the underage minor stepbrother
to have been responsible. We know that her body was
wrapped up and stuffed apparently under the bed in the

(23:00):
cruise ship room on the Carnival Cruise Line. This guy
was saying she was naked too. Well, that's what. Let's
get to his post. All right, we're talking about it
a lot. Let's get to what he said. Allegedly this
person has related her, and he says, I need everybody's
help on this. If you haven't heard this story, then
you've been living under a rock. This is my niece,
Anna Kepner. She was eighteen and was on a cruise

(23:21):
with her dad, stepmom and other family members. I cannot
stay silent about this matter any longer. The stepmom's son
killed her, stuffed her naked, beaten body in a sheet,
and stuffed her under a bed and covered her with
life jackets, then slept on that bed like nothing happened.
He told his step mom when no one could find

(23:42):
Anna on the ship about what happened. So yes, they
know who did this, and it sickens me that the father, Chris,
remained silent about it. Please pass this on till maybe
it gets to somebody that could do something about it.
If nothing's done, it will all come out on the
twentieth at least. That's what the stepmother has said after
treating family. If they talk that they will be brand

(24:07):
they will be banned.

Speaker 6 (24:09):
If they talk before the twentieth, if they'll be banned,
he said, banded. But this guy doesn't seem to type
very well. I'm trying to work around. She threatened to
not let family to attend the funeral if they say
anything to the press.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
Okay, so if they break her cone of silence and
say that her son killed this person, this anna, this
eighteen year old in the cruise ship, then they can't
go to her remembrance of life.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Then he finishes up.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
Please pass this on so my family can get closure,
and the people who did this and lied installed to
tell the rest of us what happened when it did.
Now you just look guilty, All of you look guilty
of a cover up, says this person who claims to
be related to the family. A lot of drama dropping

(24:57):
in this world, and this case is going to be
a really interesting one. So now we have allegedly this
step brother killed this eighteen year old. She was possibly naked,
like rolled up in a bunch of like blankets and
stuff and hid under the bed. Still a lot of
question marks on this, but basically what they know.

Speaker 6 (25:19):
One of the biggest question marks for me, alleged uncle,
is that you you posted this to every news site
you could. You replied on Twitter, ex excuse me.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Uh huh.

Speaker 6 (25:31):
The most recent one he did was to Fox eight
in New Orleans, and he posted it at seven twenty
three am on November seventeenth, and then at seven at
eleven twenty seven am. Just a few short hours later,
he posted to Denise Richards, Hey, how you doing.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
He's cud as this whole day doing it. He's like, look,
I do a little save in the family. I try
to get the cruise story out there. Then I do
a little coon and yeah, that's what I do.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
The Daily Mail.

Speaker 6 (26:01):
Daily Mail says the stepbrother is sixteen. They're reporting right
now that the parents admit stepbrother sixteen is suspect in
Anna Kupner's death. Carnival Cruz's boy's father bids for custody
of younger sister.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
Wow, okay, all right.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
So I tried to see that, but apparently that information
is behind a paywall.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Thanks Dally Mail.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
I'm looking at some photos of this girl. She's very young,
she's eighteen years old. She was a cheerleader in high school.
And now they are suggesting that it was a family
member who may have murdered her.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Why, how was she naked?

Speaker 3 (26:38):
Why was she naked?

Speaker 1 (26:40):
A lot of questions out there about Anna Kepner in
this case still, but finally, at least we have some
answers from some of these court documents. We'll keep an
eye on the case. Let us know if you have
any thoughts and those over at thenewsjunkie dot com right now,
all right, Also you can email the show just so
you know, tips at the Neewsjunkie dot com, ts at

(27:00):
the newschunkie dot com.

Speaker 6 (27:02):
There was a lot of like speculation and stuff, and
I was taking a lot of things with a grain
of salt before anything was announced. But you know, a
lot of the stories of the background of this Anna
Kkeepner that they talked about, talked about how she wanted
to join the military after she graduated high school, and

(27:23):
somebody I don't even remember who was saying like, oh,
this is a blended family there tends to be a
lot of bad situations, abuse wise and blended families, and
maybe she was joining the military to like get away
from it.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
This is just every one says the problem is se Lane.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
The information vacuum leads to everybody just throwing out a
million theories. And when one of the theories was, oh,
she was rolled up in blankets and found underneath the bed,
that was a theory right off the jump. That sounds crazy,
but that wasn't crazy. That part was real. That part,
it appears was real. There still lots and lots of

(28:02):
question marks, but we'll figure out everything that's going on here.
Stick with us as we uncover more of what happened
in this particular case. Again, join us with your comments,
what you think happened, or any information that you may
have seen out there. Record your dispatch at thenewschunky dot com.
Right now, All right, quick break. When we come back,
I've got some emails to get into. We've got a

(28:24):
case out of Florida that is one of the craziest
things I've seen in a long time. And this won't
be stealing anything from this week in Florida. It's way
too early for that plus other reasons, you can't have it.
I know, I know, I know, I know, I shall
and I shall take it. But we'll see what's going
on with this and so much more. It's all coming

(28:44):
up next than the news chunk key. The story of
Sonia Exelby is starting to go viral absolutely everywhere you

(29:08):
might imagine, on all of the platforms because it's a
weird one. It's a weird one. It's going to be
a case that people start following. And this is absolutely
a true story. What I'm about to tell you. A
woman by the name of Sonya Exelby, thirty two years old,
was found dead in the woods in Marion County, Florida,

(29:30):
all right, and she was found on October seventeenth, so
about a month or so ago. A man named Dwayne Hall,
fifty three has been arrested for her murder. Now here's
the thing. Dwayne Hall met this Sonya Xelby woman on

(29:50):
a fetish website. They met together on this fetish website online.
She flew from England to the United States of America
in the state of Florida, and she said she wanted somebody,
requested somebody to violently kill her that's what this woman wanted.

(30:12):
She was seeking someone online who would violently kill her.
That's what the woman wanted. And they met on this
fetish website. And this guy, Dawayne Hall, fifty three years old.
He said, the woman met me, I did what she
wanted me to do. Police recovered a deleted video from
his phone which showed her very very upset, and he

(30:36):
was asking. He's on the video, He's like, do I
have your permission to murder you?

Speaker 3 (30:41):
And she goes, did he use the word murder? Yes?

Speaker 6 (30:45):
Yeah, somehow makes his case so much worse. This is
like the actual clinical term.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
Sobrina's right. This is worse than may I meet you.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
Online? And I grew someome style.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
May I murder you is what he asked this woman. Okay,
I'm serious. He asked this to the woman and she says.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yes, she does while crying.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
Yes, and she says.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
He goes why and she says, because I'm an awful person.
So the woman messaged a friend at some point saying,
you know, I don't want to do.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
This and blah blah blah. This is weird.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
Yeah, very very very strange.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
But the guy's been arrested on charges including first degree murder, kidnapping,
a credit card fraud. Evidence includes a shovel that they
purchased the day before he picked her up, which was
found with her DNA on it. Her longtime boyfriend had
reported her missing via Interpol because again she was from England,
and then she made.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
Her way over to the United States.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Some photos of her show she was you know, she's
just a thirty year old woman, thirty two years old.
He is a dude who looks like he might buy
a shovel to bury somebody. I mean, I like he
fits the bill a little bit here of the guy
you might find on the fetish website looking to do this.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
I guess she's not given me the vibe as someone
who wants to as a fetish get murdered. Well, I mean,
we were we to judge, you know, their cover.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
You know what's tough about this is he videotaped. Whether
he deleted it and they recovered it or not was
another thing. But he videotaped himself about to do it,
getting her permission to do it.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
You never are going to know in that moment.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, if she really felt that way, or if she
was saying what he told her to say. I mean,
they'll probably find a longer trail. And I know this
sounds crazy, but there are people like this. There are
people who want to end their life, but they want
somebody else to do it. In the United States of America,
it's much more commonly done via a police officer. That's

(32:56):
what happens in the United States of America much more often.
But these every once in a while will go on
these fetish websites, and you or I normal people can't
understand why they would ever do this. We can't understand it,
but they do. There was a guy in a famous
video and little kids, plug your ears. We can adults
brace ourselves. But there was a man who's fetish was

(33:17):
that he wanted another man to chop off his testicles,
which he did on video, and then serve him up
those on like a pan, cooking him up, you know,
and then afterwards he wanted the person to kill them.
And like this was they were seeking out this now
in a court of law. And I'm no attorney, friend,

(33:41):
I am no attorney.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
I am scared to say put this on the mole list.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
I'm pretty sure you cannot tell somebody to kill you
and give them permission to do that.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
No, notarize documents.

Speaker 6 (33:56):
Yeah, suicide and that's not legal, was it non Portland?

Speaker 1 (34:01):
And even in places where it is, this is not
the way you can do it. You cannot give consent
for some random human being to stab you four or
five times like happened in this case.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
That's exactly what happened here.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
But it's the story of Dwayne Hall from Ocala, who's
been arrested our charges of first degree murder.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
This woman from.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
The UK, Sonya x will Be, who went over here
and I guess wanted somebody to do that, at least
according to him, and the weird ro footage and all
the rest exists. So it's a crazy story making their
rounds out there.

Speaker 6 (34:34):
We've talked a lot of times about how there's been
like studies and reports when they interview somebody who has
attempted suicide, and they almost always say, you know, the
second my foot left the bridge, I instantly regretted it. True, Yeah, right,
you know, I wanted to not die. And so it's

(34:55):
weird because they're trying to almost paint this picture with
this woman. It says, you know, uh, the guy hauled
the guy who killed her badgered exel me to consent
to be harmed. Detectives who viewed the video described her
as being hesitant and visibly upset, even as she nodded
in the affirmative. One day after landing in Florida, she

(35:17):
Measure messaged a friend, why am I, saying that like
Sean Connor, She meassuraged her friend over discord and explained
that she was having doubts as Hall dragged out her
pain and said he made it clear there was no
way out unless I shoot him. I was questioning it
last night. I thought he'd do it quick and not
give my mind time to stew.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Let me ask you the biggest question of all to
both of you.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
See land in Sabrina. Would you watch that video?

Speaker 2 (35:43):
No?

Speaker 1 (35:47):
No, absolutely, I bomb its not It's not a public video.
Just the cops saw it. The cops saw the video.
I but I ask you, folks, would you would you
watch that video?

Speaker 2 (36:01):
I don't know, man, that sounds details.

Speaker 4 (36:04):
I don't think I would, for the sake of it
will be imprinted in my head forever.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
That sounds like a tough one. That sounds like a very,
very tough one.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
What do you think? I mean?

Speaker 1 (36:15):
This woman may be consenting, maybe not consenting. The whole
thing is a crazy story. But give us your thoughts.
Send a dispatch over at thenewschunki dot com right now,
all right, A couple of emails real quick tips at
the Newsjokie dot com and Jason emails the show about
communal dining. We discussed this yesterday because a story came

(36:35):
out that said, like ninety percent of gen Z people
love communal dining. They love to go to a restaurant.
We like share a table with a bunch of other people.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
They don't talk at all, they just look at their phones.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
They love the idea of eating with strangers, which I hate.
I hate this idea, Jason says. I'd have to say
I'm not a big fan of it either. But when
you go to Epcot at the Germany Pavilion, it's all
communal dining. I think that might just be a German
thing too, right, Because when I see this is not
a good example. But when I see Octoberfest, it's a

(37:08):
lot of picnic tables and people like eating together and
hanging out together.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
When we ate there.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
A couple of years ago, Jason says, we sat down
with a head of maintenance for Wrigley Field in Chicago,
and it was very interesting talking with him and his family,
says Jason. So he's saying, I don't even like it
by default, but you can get interesting conversations out of it. Well, yeah,
I mean, of course people are interesting. That's that's one
of the best parts about it. But the problem is

(37:36):
for the five percent of people that are interesting that
would lead to a great conversation, ninety five percent of
these people that you're gonna end up sitting down next
to are going to be goofy, dorky people who have
no interest in conversations that you're never gonna get. The
woman who goes, what are you guys up to, and
you go, well, we're just having some fun. We're here

(37:58):
to see the beach boys and some food in Germany
right now in Epcot. And then the woman goes, I'm
here because I met a man who is going to
kill me on a fetish website.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
My last day on Earth. So figure it out this part.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
Although I'm glad you talk to me today because I
am having some hesitation about this whole thing, you don't
get that you don't usually get that over to this
person who says Hi Seamp to tips at the News Hunky.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
Dot com, not complaining or anything.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
That usually leads to a complain, but I just wanted
to let you know so you don't get in trouble
that when you mute songs for copyright and YouTube, you're
a little behind with it. Many times during commercials you're
a little late muting it. Just try to help you
out and thank you for the email. The thing is,
there's a certain period of time where I.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
Have to mute stuff.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
For those of you who watch on YouTube, it's like
over five seconds any copyrighted content, So sometimes you hear
a little bit before Sonnis here, a little bit after.
We have a whole mute system set up to handle
this for this folks.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
Very expensive, but thank you, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
Very much for being on the lookout for all of this,
very very much appreciated. Hello, and thank you to Kevin
D a new Secret Show subscriber, and also Lisa F
for jumping on board. You can learn more yourself about
Secret Shows over on thenewschunkie dot com. Okay, we have
a lot of stuff to uncover. This is just the
first hour of the show. When we come back a

(39:25):
hot air balloon nightmare. If you've ever had any interest
in riding in a hot air balloon, I think what
you hear next on the show may make you reconsider.
But stick with us because that is coming up next
on the News Junkie. Of all the things on my

(39:58):
list of things that I don't want to do, I
think this might be approaching the top. I don't understand
the draw. I mean, I guess on a simple level,
I do. But when people are like, I'm going to
go hot air ballooning, I always wonder, like, what other
than there might be some beautiful views or something. It
seems like the dumbest way in the world to travel.

(40:20):
It seems like you get into this very very shaky,
sometimes hot air balloon. You go up in the air
and you look at some things, but you you could
be taken out by anything.

Speaker 4 (40:34):
They're slow. It's like you are seeing how you're gonna die.
Oh so many different ways, now, mind you. I could
see myself saying yeah, I'll do it in my early twenties,
just like skydiving, just like bungee jumping. Those are all
on my Now was I get older, I'm like.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
I'm good, No, thank you. Watched the videos on an
oculus or something.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
Yeah, yeah, you guys might be able to find out
some more details about this. But it was in Mexico.
These people went on a tour in a hot air balloon.
They're flying along and it goes too low and they
all ducked down in I don't know why they're laughing
and smiling and stuff, because they all duck down. They

(41:17):
get stuck in the trees.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
Who is in charge of this, some.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Man who has some sort of hot air balloon license.
I hope they get completely covered in branches and stuff
from the.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
Tree, tree on fire now, and.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Then finally the guy hits the hits the little fire thing.
Somebody said, not on my birthday. That ain't happening on
my birthday. What are you guys smiling about? What the
hell are you smiling about? You're in a hot air
balloon and you're getting tea bagged back down to planet Earth.

Speaker 11 (41:54):
This is not good news. This is not fun times.
What do you call it a method of travel? Do
people use hot air balloons to get from point A
to point B? Isn't been really more of just to
go up in the air and look at stuff?

Speaker 3 (42:08):
Kind of ordeal?

Speaker 2 (42:09):
Do you have any control of direction besides up and down.

Speaker 6 (42:12):
Yeah, I mean there's a there's a you have to
have a there's a pilot license.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
Is there for hot air balloon?

Speaker 4 (42:18):
I don't remember seeing wings on it, you know, or
do you just go with the wind.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
It's funny because it seems so eccentric, Like could you
imagine if Sea Lane if you did it for a week,
if you flew a hot air balloon to work for
a week, it would be the.

Speaker 3 (42:32):
Talk of the town.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
Everybody would be like that Sealan guy's quite weird. He
takes a hot air balloon to work.

Speaker 4 (42:38):
He's been late two hours.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
So it's not exactly rapid, right.

Speaker 6 (42:43):
I think there is some amount of control sabrina. I
think it has to do with like you're catching wind
in different directions at different altitudes, right, So it's yeah,
it's really oh god, it's not very accurate, I think.
And there was recently just a picture of some hot
air balloon trip that had gone a little awride, not

(43:06):
as bad as like, you know, ending up in trees
like this group did, but they just ended up on
like a like a road. Yeah, Like these people were
driving around and they're like, oh, I guess this hot
air balloon is landing here where we're trying to drive
because it doesn't have a choice.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
I know planes can crash and cars can crash and
just wrists and all of these things that we do.
But the hot air balloon thing, it's just what are
we even doing here? And they're all like they're a
fact that they're all filming.

Speaker 6 (43:39):
Yeah, this is this to me, like it doesn't look
very comfortable.

Speaker 3 (43:43):
No, they're ducking.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
Down in the little basket below this as they get
dragged through the trees in this hot balloon its nest.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
Worse. I would dive out of that thing.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
The lady at the end is like, not on my birthday,
Not on.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
My birthday, Yeah, not on my birthday. Tell on your birthday.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
My god, man, don't do this stuff to yourself.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
What are you doing.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
If you've been on one of these adventures and it's
gone wrong, let us know, send us a dispatch at
thenewsjunkie dot com.

Speaker 6 (44:22):
Maybe the chick that said not on my birthday, it
really wasn't her birthday. It was the other girl's birthday,
and she was just gloating that no, no, it wouldn't
happen on my birthday. But your birthday sucks.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
I gotta tell you.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
For me, I look at this and go if this
was fifty years ago, no social media. Is anybody on
the hot air balloon laughing? Or are they all like
instead of like being in the moment filming their viral
video or being out of the moment.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
I guess you could say.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
I wonder if if this was fifty years ago, people a'll.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
Be like, oh my god, we're dying.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
I bring it back to this instance I had when
we went on as a family Lookout Mountain. My father
was like, we're going to Lookout Mountain. If you remember
the story about when I left the crans on the
dashboard of my father's vehicle, Yeah, and he yelled at me.
This was that same day and there was a failure
of the Lookout Mountain tram that goes up the side

(45:20):
of the mountain. We're like three quarters up the mountain
way way way off the ground. We would have died
instantly if anything happened. And a cable from one of
the cars started smashing against the side of our car,
and it smashed out a couple of the windows, and
everybody on the cable car Lookout mountain was crying.

Speaker 3 (45:40):
I was too young.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
I didn't know what was going on, so I wasn't
scared at all. I had no idea what was going on.
I was not scared at all. But my sister and
my mom were crying, and everybody on the thing were
crying and praying, and I'm just sitting there going I'm
looking around.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
I'm like, what's happening right now?

Speaker 1 (45:54):
And I'll never forget like everybody around me crying and
praying and stuff. And now I feel like if I
was in that same exact incident, it would be more
like it was on this hot air balloon and people
would just be pulling out their phones a bit.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
Whoa, this is crazy, man. If I look at it
through my phone, it won't be as real.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
Yes, yeah, I mean that's it. That's what people are
actually doing. It's like, this is like me watching the
world on a little screen as opposed to being the
real human in this moment. That's really a lot of
what's going on in the United States of America at least.
It's like everything is a story playing out on our
phones and not like, oh, hey, this is bad right now.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
I could bad idea, I could die.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
If this is if this ends up going even worse,
let us know what you think.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
Send us a dispatch over.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
At thenewsjunkie dot com. We'll get into some of those
interest a moment here. There's a lot of other stuff
on the Epstein front. I guess people are talking about
the Epstein files floating out there.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
We'll get to those at.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
Some point, including what are the people who has been
wrapped up in this? Larry Summers said in a classroom,
I might as well work this in here because this
is related this week in things falling out of the sky.
This happened this week in Cozy Coli is a co
eazy congo. There was a flight that was attempting to

(47:22):
land and things didn't exactly go well. I'll put this
up on see it now so you can see the visual.
But this plane is doing its best to make its
way toward the ground, as one might imagine, and I
don't know how, but somehow this thing landed safely. It
really actually landed safely. Here is when it's coming down.

(47:45):
The footage is crazy again. I'll put this up on
see it now. It overshoots the runway first, it seems like,
oh okay, that's not good.

Speaker 12 (47:57):
Oh real rough, I would be screaming, all right, still
filming this crash landing, dirt flying up all around the plane.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
They're not slowing down at all. Oh my wow.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
That was an abrupt stop and it finally skids to
a halt on this commercial flight that ended up crashing
at the Congo, and the person just filmed it the
whole time. They just they filmed it. This is what
happens now. It is wild, but people are like, well,
about to die, might as well get a viral video

(48:43):
and they record whatever the moment is. I'm taking this
and putting it up on See it Now so I
could share the visual with you and let's see here. Yeah,
I mean that would have freaked me out. I don't
know that I would have had my phone up and recording.
But plane crash recording is what it says. As you
could go take a peek yourself at what happened here

(49:04):
in the Congo over on see it Now to See
it Now section of the website, which is thenewschunkie dot com.
All right, let's see here. Let's work in a dispatcher.
So here is Popcorn talking about the hot air balloon rides.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
Hello hot air balloon topic.

Speaker 13 (49:25):
Ceiling brings up that there is some type of licensing
that you have to get, and I've heard that that
is accurate. I have no idea what kind of testing
they go through. I honestly don't know how they control
them aside from up and down either other than maybe
knowing the winds or.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
Guessing which way the wind's gonna blow.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
I'm not real sure.

Speaker 13 (49:44):
I guess I'm pretty lucky in that we've tried to
go on one of these things like three or four
times since I moved up here to Nashville. Why, and
apparently it's super super fickle. Every time we've gone. We
have to get up at like four AM or three
I am, so we could be somewhere before sunrise to
go take off. And it's supposedly is beautiful. I'm sure

(50:06):
that it is, But every time we've tried to go,
it's been either the winds were too high, it was
too overcast and foggy, the sightlines weren't good. It's always
been like a weather or wind issue every single time,
and being afraid of heights.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
I am.

Speaker 13 (50:20):
I guess that's, like I said, lucky that that has
fallen through every time. But however, I do want to
check this off my list a little less now after
this Chinaman story. Tip your hot air balloon navigators.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
Yeats, just thinking about how dangerous it is, Like you
don't even if you say that you have like a
pilot's license, you don't have any kind of exact control
over a hot air balloon.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
Never because it's based.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
On the uplift right and then a little bit of
like four trajectory you're able to control, but they never
come down perfectly. It's always like a you know, that's
why you're in that big ass ringed basket that's on
the thing. No, thank you, friend, That's a big fat
no from me. But maybe you disagree.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Let us know.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
Send your email over at tips, tips at the newsjunkie
dot com, Tips at the newsjunky dot com. If you
want to be anonymous, put that right up on top.
If you want to send in an audio or video dispatch,
you can do that too. How go to thenewschunk heat
dot com right now, quick break.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
We're gonna geared up before too long. We'll do the
next episode.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
We also have a bunch of stuff and a piece
of television news that will make history. I think more
details on what's happening with the Epstein stuff is that
going to be released today.

Speaker 3 (51:39):
We'll let you know if there's anything interesting going on.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
But next, an eleven year old an eleven year old,
he is being chased by a black bear. What led
to this and what happened to him? That is coming
up next. Send the news, Chunky. We'll also get to

(52:14):
your feedback here before too long.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
Don't worry.

Speaker 6 (52:17):
At eleven, I could probably run faster than, not than
a black bear. Shot I said, I could run faster
than I can now. I mean I would have a
better shot at surviving at eleven than right now. This
should be easy to find out. Black bear full speed.
It's got to be faster than humans, right.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
Black bears are a big old animal that even with
all the weight, I feel like they're around thirty miles
an hour. Damn, I can't go that fast. Yeah, I
can't get up to that speed.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
I don't think.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
Hey, Michael Scott got there.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
Yeah, or so he thought based on the information that
he was provided. But in this case, this is real
eleven year old, this little kid. He was in Pennsylvania
and a black bear starts chasing him, and so he
looks around.

Speaker 3 (53:07):
He doesn't know what to do, and he goes.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
Screaming into a dollar store and the bear follows him
into the dollar store.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
This bear makes his way to the dollar store.

Speaker 6 (53:17):
Oh my gosh, the bear must have done tens of
dollars worth of damage.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
Probably did. Yeah, bear jumps in. Let's see what happened.
Here's Kadika with the story. Let's listened.

Speaker 14 (53:26):
County, Now take a look at this. And eleven year
old boy runs into the family dollar store in Markleysburg
with that black bear right behind him.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
Huge. The bear charged to the front.

Speaker 14 (53:36):
Door, sending the boy and the cashier scrambling for cover.
That boy is now telling Shelley Boards he knows he's
lucky to be alive.

Speaker 15 (53:43):
Of course, I'm probably gonna get you by bear.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
Oh god, this kid, I was like, I'm probably gonna
get eaten by bear. He's doing his interview at his
Cabella's camouflage hoodie. Here this kid and he's chased by
the bear.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
Now getting the interview.

Speaker 16 (54:00):
Well, the cole Frazy describes the moment. He says he'll
never forget. He and his dad stop to grab a
few things at this family Dollar in Markley's Burg. Cole
went outside to see what was taking his dad so long,
and that's when he saw it, a black bear looking
right at him. At first, Cole thought it was going
to turn around. Instead, it started chasing him.

Speaker 15 (54:24):
And when it runs after me, I turn around, I
run in the store. I'm like screaming and stuff. Yeah,
this thing was like a foot and a half away
from me. I took a left and the bear went straight.

Speaker 16 (54:36):
Cole says his heart was pounding as he raced up
and down the aisles trying to escape the bear.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
You know, it's funny.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
In the history of this show, I've done so many
stories about people encountering bears, and I always forget if
you're supposed to get real big or get real small.
I forget every single time. So I would just run.
That would be my reaction. And it seems like he
was jiving and stuff back and forth, and he tricked
the bear.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
The bear went into the dollar store.

Speaker 16 (55:05):
Is the only other person inside the store was the cashier.
He ran to her for help. She grabbed Cole and
they both jumped on top of the counter to get
a better view. The moment the bear turned and walked
toward the back of the store. They saw their only chance.

Speaker 15 (55:21):
He grabbed your coat, the keys, and the fan, and
we ran out of there.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
And let we ran out of the Uh huh as
you grabbing coat, the keys, and the fowl. He got
a little access to this guy, this young dude in
Pennsylvania here and I have a question.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
They said.

Speaker 1 (55:38):
The only person inside the dollar store was the cashier.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
Where did Dad go for Dad? He's like, I got
three more kids?

Speaker 1 (55:48):
Was this dad's moment where he went out to get
the smokes and never came back because he's waiting for dad.
He's like Dad has been in the dollar store forever.
When he goes in there, it's only the cashier and
he brings the bear in the.

Speaker 16 (56:00):
Seconds later, the bear returns to the front of the store,
and that's when the video captures it leaping over the
counter where Cole had just bench.

Speaker 5 (56:07):
Jeez.

Speaker 16 (56:08):
The bear stayed inside the store for about ten minutes,
wandering around before finally finding its way out. Meantime, outside,
sitting in a locked car, Cole says he finally felt safe.

Speaker 15 (56:21):
Nice as kind of relieved. It was definitely crazy experience, an.

Speaker 4 (56:25):
Experience, crazy experience. My dad said, he's going to teach
me the whole word, but they and.

Speaker 2 (56:32):
They didn't come back and finish the lesson.

Speaker 3 (56:35):
He said.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
It's a crazy experim It just completely it just died
out on that word.

Speaker 6 (56:41):
There I did to clarify what you were confused with earlier.
Ask Google what to do when you encounter a black bear?
Says When encountering a black bear, the first thing it
says is stay calm.

Speaker 3 (56:54):
Screw you, No, I'm a freaking out.

Speaker 6 (56:56):
No matter what, stay calm, make noise, And here's what
this kid had wrong. Avoid running, Oh no, slowly back away.
But if the bear approaches, stand your ground, make yourself
look as large as possible, and be prepared to fight
back if it attacks.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
How does the may I meet you strategy work in
the case of the black bear.

Speaker 6 (57:21):
I think that creeping the bear out is not something
that has been tried yet, so there's not.

Speaker 3 (57:27):
A lot of data.

Speaker 2 (57:28):
Listen to the kid give up on that.

Speaker 16 (57:29):
Wordside Sitting in a locked car, Cole says he finally
felt safe.

Speaker 15 (57:35):
As kind of relieved. It was definitely crazy experience experience.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
Oh god, he's alive. He's alive. He did it.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
The bear didn't get him this round. The bear does
not win. I'll put this up on see it now
because the footage is pretty incredible and I want you
to see it when you get an opportunity over on
the website. So you go to the news yunky dot com.
You'll see the menu there. Inside the menu, you'll see it. Now,
what does that mean? Well, that's how if I'm talking
about something and it's visual, I can show it to you.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
I can put it up there and break down the barrier.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
Bear in dollar store is what I'm titling it, and
you can go see for yourself over on thenewsjunkie dot
com right now.

Speaker 6 (58:20):
It's wild humant experience, but it came out as experient,
which is what his dad would have been if that
bear had gotten any closer.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
No, I see, I see somebody emailing about hot air
balloons tips at the Newsjunkie dot com. Sean in my
youth that worked for a hot air balloon company in Pennsylvania.
They would change the takeoff location so that the balloon
would land near a specific spot.

Speaker 3 (58:46):
Wind is a major factor. Yeah, I know it is.

Speaker 1 (58:49):
I know it is, sir, because one time we tried
to launch a bong into space and Seiland's wind calculations
were garbage.

Speaker 3 (58:59):
No calculations were right.

Speaker 2 (59:02):
The ceiling going to space at all.

Speaker 3 (59:04):
The ceiling of.

Speaker 6 (59:05):
The balloon was garbage and also didn't get high enough.

Speaker 4 (59:11):
We had calculations for one particular thing as far as weight,
and we had to take the bong out.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
I'd leave the last ten minutes before we launched. There
was a meeting.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
Yes, there was a meeting with the suits the morning
of or the day before, and pretty dumb meeting. It
was a morning and then we ended up doing Yeah,
we changed something, but it didn't matter because the bong
we sent the space and our balloon barely went over
the road nearby and then crashed into an apartment.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
Building we didn't have access to. I believe it's still there.

Speaker 3 (59:48):
Yeah, it was not a success. It just wasn't a success.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
Just in case you're ordered, he says, this company would
try to land near a specific restaurant for the passengers
to have breakfast.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
Oh that's cool.

Speaker 1 (59:58):
So the morning of the flight, I would get a
call to a location to help set up the bloom.
It was a five to ten mile radius starting point.
The passengers would be driven to the location of the
takeoff and go for a two hour sunrise flight. After takeoff,
we would then follow the balloon to its eventual landing location.
Occasionally they would completely miss the intended location. Yes, there
are lots of weather restrictions. I believe there were more

(01:00:20):
cancelations due to weather than successful flights. And thank you
for the email, Andrew. Appreciate that. We'll get to more
of your responses on everything today, and those are.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Coming up in just a bit.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
Everything that you've missed here visually is over on see
it now, So take a peek at that. I want
to get to couple reactions on the Epstein front. Do
we need to go to break sea line?

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
Or is that okay? A spot there, Okay, that's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:00:50):
I just want to make sure that wasn't me now,
because I never know and then I'm rambling and then
we go too far. Marjorie Taylor Green talked about the
Epstein release stuff, but she's kind of been at odds
with the Trump administration a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
She's kind of changed her tune on a lot of things.
Let's see what she says.

Speaker 17 (01:01:08):
I was called a trader by a man that I
fought for five no actually six years for and I
gave him my loyalty for free. I won my first
selection without his endorsement, beating eight men in a primary.
Oh and I've never owed him anything, but I fought

(01:01:28):
for him, for the policies and for America first. And
he called me a trader for standing with these women
and refusing to take my name.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
Oh, these the Epstein victims.

Speaker 17 (01:01:40):
Let me tell you what a trader is. A trader
is a is an American that serves foreign countries and themselves.
A patriot is an American that serves the United States
of America and Americans like the women standing behind me.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
All Right, so she's saying, I guess she wants the
files to be released. Well, that seems like everybody's on
the same page. Then if that's the case, I think
there was only one guy, right, There's there's only one
dude who was like, no, I must vote against this.
I don't want their information to be released. He was
the only person who was like the outsider.

Speaker 3 (01:02:16):
On that and that sweet that he posted on hands.

Speaker 6 (01:02:21):
There's a bunch of people that like, did the community
notes thing on it, saying like, oh, well the bill
actually says this, And you know, there's a whole like
back and forth about it. Apparently he's he did want
claims he wanted the files released, like he wasn't trying
to hide them. He just didn't like the method. He
didn't even he didn't like the process.

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
So then even he was supportive of the files being released,
just he was worried about.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
Like some of the stuff to do with the release itself.

Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
According to what he said, all right, real.

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
Quick, before we figure out what's coming up on the
next episode, put this on the mo list, please, I
want to know. Is this illegal? It probably should be,
all right, I think you guys may agree, but I'm
not sure. A video that's going megaviral today, hang on,
it's going as viral as one could possibly imagine on

(01:03:12):
all of the platforms. It features a guy walking around
and the video says, keeping the homeless in the streets
safe one hundred prayer emoji, Keeping the homeless in the
streets safe.

Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
The guy, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
There, you go, need some protection out here, you know
what I'm saying. The guy is handing out machetes to
all of.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
The hobos, okay, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:03:40):
In the town that he's out.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
He's going up to all of these homeless people on
the streets and he has machetes and brand new packaging.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
That seems like a bad idea, and he's.

Speaker 1 (01:03:50):
Just handing out machetes to all these people. Can you
can you do that? I think you can really. I
don't know what law you'd be breaking.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
Well, you can't walk around in public with a weapon
like that, well like a certain you know, length of
knife you could have in your pocket without getting in trouble.

Speaker 1 (01:04:10):
If I have a machete and I'm carrying an unsheathed
machete around in public, am I breaking a law right there?
Like if I guess I would say, if I'm open.

Speaker 4 (01:04:20):
Carrying a machete unless you're buy a bushel who you're
trying to chop down.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
This guy is handing them out, brand new in the
packaging to all of these hobos on the street, and
they're like, oh, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
It's like, what happens next? What goes on?

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
Hy Tf would anybody do that? Says Dwayne, I don't know.
Clout clicks on. Technically these are sheathed, Yeah, they're in the.

Speaker 4 (01:04:48):
Packaging, And I'm getting a vibe that that packaging is
the like really tough to get plastic.

Speaker 2 (01:04:53):
Yeah, where it's like.

Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
Yeah, they I like the first guy that he throws
it to, he's got his like his area out here
on the street side. He takes the machete from the
dude and he just throws it into the pile on
his couch and put it over here.

Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
All right with the other stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:05:11):
And some of them were like so thankful. They're like,
oh man, thank you, oh God, bless you, thank you
so much.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
One of these needed.

Speaker 1 (01:05:18):
A machete out on the streets. The machete fairy says,
no one.

Speaker 3 (01:05:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
The machete ferry, though, seems like a bad idea. It
seems like the outcomes that arise from this are not
going to be great for the city involved. But I
want to I want that on the list for our attorney.
Motive it to see if this is something that would
be illegal today.

Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
And this social media user has so much money.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
So much more for hold on. Hold on the person
is okay. I don't want to give him a promo
for this, because that's bad.

Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
I will hang on.

Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
Let's just see if they're doing some level of success
or not. Oh god, it's giving me like it's trying
to correct it because it's a very weird thing. Okay,
I'll get it here. In the meantime, we'll take a
quick break. We'll come back and tell you what's going
on in the next episode. In fact, what is coming
up on the next episode.

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
Coming on the next episode, eode.

Speaker 4 (01:06:20):
Either something is wrong or we miss the twenty twenty
five update on What's Metal af List? But slip Knot
has tied the knot on a big fat catalog deal.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
Good news for demons in the UK.

Speaker 4 (01:06:32):
School is banning any and all K pop hunters from campus.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
Plus we bid a final karamba.

Speaker 4 (01:06:38):
Do you get another fallen classic Simpson's character, All that
and so much more coming up on the next episode.

Speaker 1 (01:06:44):
Five point seven million views, so you probably barely made
back the money for the machetes. And I guess it's
not the only time he's done. I've got more. Oh
my god, oh god, I got more from this guy.
We'll get to that too. It's all coming up next.
Done the news, Chunky, see Lan, Why did you say

(01:07:16):
somebody were they texting earlier about mailbox money?

Speaker 2 (01:07:19):
Well, yeah, Matt and.

Speaker 6 (01:07:21):
Port Saint Lucy said he got his mailbox money is
from Ticketmaster and it was like sixty three bucks.

Speaker 1 (01:07:27):
Nice you see this way you go fishing, you listen
to the show, we tell you about mailbox money, you
fill out stuff for these class action things, and then
before you know it, free money had to do your way.

Speaker 3 (01:07:37):
So congrats to him. This is why.

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
One of the reasons why, one of the extra little
reasons why you listened to the show, I hope because
you got a chance to get a little mailbox money
thanks to our info. All right, let's get into it.
Let's do the next step episode.

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
Because there's a lot on TV.

Speaker 7 (01:07:53):
You can't possibly keep up with all of it, even
though you should, because what else are you going to
talk about? Chocolate salty candy can put him in your mouth,
and weather's nice.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
It's time for the next episode with Sabrina. Hey, hold up.

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Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
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to succeeding generations. Occasionally, certain conditions produce a structural change
in the gene we'll bring about the process of evolution.

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
This may occur in one or more of the following ways.

Speaker 18 (01:09:29):
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and transmitting its genes to future generations. Secondly by gene drift,
in which certain genes may.

Speaker 2 (01:09:44):
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Speaker 18 (01:09:48):
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better equipped than others to endure in the environment.

Speaker 2 (01:09:54):
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Speaker 18 (01:09:57):
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Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
Fittest Calvin Klein Jeans, Calvin Clim Jeans.

Speaker 4 (01:10:07):
Calvin klemb and The problem was CBSV banned this commercial
with brook Shields because she was fifteen asking the camera
do you know what comes between me and my Calvins?

Speaker 2 (01:10:18):
Nothing? M that's a little weird and here we are.

Speaker 9 (01:10:22):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
No? It was American apparel or it was American Eagle.

Speaker 3 (01:10:26):
Eagle American Eagle.

Speaker 4 (01:10:27):
Yeah wow, So I guess uh it was Calvin Klein
and brook Shields that walked so.

Speaker 3 (01:10:33):
So they could run.

Speaker 6 (01:10:34):
They banned the commercial because she implied she wasn't wearing underwear.

Speaker 2 (01:10:38):
I guess so, and was fifteen. I mean then they
made that lengthy one.

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
They should have banned the commercial because it was too long.

Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:10:45):
Yeah, And now we've got some more trouble. In twenty
twenty five, a school in the UK across the Pond
has banned pupils from singing songs from K pop demon Hunter.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
Oh that makes sense, that's big.

Speaker 4 (01:11:02):
It's against Christianity and it's ethos. According to BBC News,
teachers at the get Ready for It thought my high
school was weirdly named lily Put Church of England Infant
School in Pool.

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
Dorset Infant School for Babies.

Speaker 1 (01:11:20):
All right, literal babies are singing K Pop Demon Hunters songs.

Speaker 4 (01:11:24):
Yeah, and they can't pass the class until they can
hold a number two pencil. They sent a message to
parents to say that some people were deeply uncomfortable with
references to demons. It is reported that this was because
they associate them with spiritual force as opposed to God
and goodness.

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
Simple as that.

Speaker 4 (01:11:42):
Later on, head teacher Lloyd Allington shared an update on
the feedback he had received from parents. Some highlighted the
positive messages in the tracks from Netflix hit Animated Fantasy,
and then some of the challenging themes like the demons
and the hunting of said demons. It's also worth learning
K Pop Demon Hunters is still the most watched film

(01:12:06):
in Netflix's history.

Speaker 2 (01:12:08):
Damn, just not at the old Don Lily put Church
of England Infants School in Pool, Dowrseet my.

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
God, just just embrace it. The kids are going to
watch it regardless.

Speaker 4 (01:12:19):
Okay, they're not going to watch the Simpsons, especially if
they're fans of.

Speaker 2 (01:12:28):
And wait for it.

Speaker 4 (01:12:30):
Alice Glick, I hate this story.

Speaker 3 (01:12:34):
Why I hate this story because.

Speaker 1 (01:12:38):
No, I always do this. They always do this stupid
little trick. And I don't know if I'm supposed to
blame the media probably or the Simpsons, probably one outlet.

Speaker 6 (01:12:47):
That seems to thrive on this, because every time this
comes up, it's a big, fat, double nothing burger.

Speaker 2 (01:12:54):
Yes, they'll know.

Speaker 1 (01:12:57):
They'll say the Simpsons killed off a k character after
thirty five seasons, and you go, oh, no, and so like,
the Simpsons just killed off a character introduced in nineteen
ninety one, Simpsons primarently kills off longtime character. Simpsons confirmed
characters dead as a doornail after thirty five seasons, on
and on and on.

Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
It was during a sermon.

Speaker 1 (01:13:16):
You always go like, oh, who is the character from
the Simpsons that they killed off? And it's always somebody
you never really knew.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
It, so we should not believe it. No, I beg
I believe it. Of salt.

Speaker 1 (01:13:29):
I believe it, but I think like the media hypes
it and the Simpsons kind of play into it and
they go, we will kill off a character forever.

Speaker 6 (01:13:37):
You want to know, you want to know what's even
stupider about this story?

Speaker 3 (01:13:41):
I read it.

Speaker 6 (01:13:42):
I read it and it looked like this is not
even the first time this character's died.

Speaker 3 (01:13:46):
Yeah, that's true. Yeah, they've killed her two times.

Speaker 4 (01:13:49):
I think they had or have another organist named Gerty,
and she was the one behind the keys during the
Simpson's moment in history. It was the seven teen minute
him that Bart changed the music to remember.

Speaker 3 (01:14:04):
That guys, Oh my god, who doesn't remember?

Speaker 4 (01:14:08):
So apparently the organists in Springfield's church.

Speaker 2 (01:14:13):
I've just have to sleep with one. I open, I
don't remember.

Speaker 3 (01:14:16):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:17):
It works because everybody shares it. They go, oh my god,
a major character from Simpsons died, But like, just kill
off Bart or something. Bart go on a fetish website
to find somebody to kill him.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
Yeah, and then responds no. Lisa responds.

Speaker 1 (01:14:36):
Lisa responds, and she's like, I've hated you the whole time.
Consent to be killing you, all right, give me the
killing consent now.

Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
Please at super back.

Speaker 4 (01:14:45):
Man, Uh, this is what we really have to do.
Don't kill or murder, just sell off your music. Catalog
for millions.

Speaker 2 (01:14:54):
And millions had this one in the one of dollars.

Speaker 4 (01:14:57):
This one's strange because I don't know if fans would
call it metal or have Is this the new you're
going mainstream, but Slipknot has now sold a majority steak
in their music.

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
Catalog really for a lot of money.

Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
Harbor commercials and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:15:18):
And no, it's not just way up or new iPod.
That doesn't make any sense. The exact terms were not.

Speaker 4 (01:15:25):
Disclosed, but bill Board previously reported that it's worth rough that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:31):
A guy named bill Board or super Board William f Board.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
How much do you think it went for?

Speaker 11 (01:15:39):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
This is also you know rumors.

Speaker 1 (01:15:42):
But let's in the world of metal music like that.
Is there anybody really bigger than slip Not? They're pretty
big years.

Speaker 2 (01:15:50):
Yeah, they it's one of their songs.

Speaker 3 (01:15:56):
You would know this if you knew what Billboard was.

Speaker 1 (01:16:00):
Billy, I'm going to say, and I think you're bored
because as usual, I'm going to completely screw this up.

Speaker 3 (01:16:08):
I think.

Speaker 1 (01:16:10):
Twenty million dollars, go ahead, twenty one million dollars.

Speaker 4 (01:16:16):
It's one hundred and twenty million dollars.

Speaker 7 (01:16:20):
Yeah, man, too low again soon off?

Speaker 3 (01:16:27):
So okay, what were you what were you saying?

Speaker 1 (01:16:30):
Do you think it's like, well, people get mad at
bands and say it's a sellout, just like selling to
a record.

Speaker 4 (01:16:36):
Label or something, selling out going corporate? What is this about.
I mean, they do have no tour dates as of late.
The last thing was them they got Rockville perhaps, but
now they're going to go on vacation for the rest
of their lives and so they're great great grandchildren.

Speaker 2 (01:16:54):
I imagine on the boob tube that I just lost.
We have the fifty ninth Annual CMA Awards. Yeah, don't
want to win.

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Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
Most importantly, stay with me who.

Speaker 3 (01:17:25):
Smoke every day?

Speaker 2 (01:17:27):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:17:28):
Sabrina keV on YouTube says, lol, I love when Sean
tries to commemut on metal.

Speaker 3 (01:17:33):
He has no idea what he's talking about.

Speaker 1 (01:17:35):
Listen, bitch, let me bring your comment front and center
real quick. Tell me tell me what is wrong with
this statement. My statement was, is there anybody in the
metal world that rivals right now currently the successive slipknot.
I mean, I think they've got to be in the
top five metal bands. If you're using that term loosely

(01:17:57):
enough to encompass slip Knots musical what about that is wrong?

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
Tell me when I.

Speaker 1 (01:18:03):
Talk about heavy metal, I don't know what I'm talking about.
Tell me what about my statement is wrong. I'll sit
here and wait for you to have no response to that,
because it's obvious that Slipknot is one of the biggest,
most influential metal bands of the moment.

Speaker 4 (01:18:19):
I'm an arithon heavy metal bands in the last how
many years?

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
Forty years, ten, ten, fifteen years? It's forty years is
too much.

Speaker 1 (01:18:30):
I want to see like, you know, recent more more
recently twenty years tops.

Speaker 4 (01:18:34):
All right, so Mega Death is up there, Metallica, System
of a Down, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Avenge, Sevenfold,
Lamb of God.

Speaker 1 (01:18:47):
I mean, is there any way on earth that Slayer
has actually sold more albums than Slipknot, Because I mean,
everybody knows Slayer and you know the shirts and stuff.
But it feels like one of those things where the
action records sold like I would almost I would think
I wouldn't guarantee it, but I would.

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
Think it's save over twenty million albums.

Speaker 3 (01:19:09):
Okay, how about slipknot All.

Speaker 4 (01:19:10):
Right, I'm slipno, and that would be thirty million.

Speaker 1 (01:19:17):
Okay, So to edge them out at least thirty million
records is a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
This is a big band, That's what I'm saying here.
What did I get wrong? Pal?

Speaker 3 (01:19:26):
What you got? The money figure? Shut up the money figure?

Speaker 1 (01:19:31):
You didn't know what it was. You wouldn't have known
what it was. Otherwise get out of here. All right, Okay,
we're gonna take a quick break. We will when we
come back, talk about a huge change coming to your
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(01:19:55):
And we got a whole lot more to get into
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all the talk, and I'll get through this fast. If
you're the people who are against the political stuff, it's
just that the Epstein Files final release thing is kind
of pending out there. Of all the talk of people
who are excited about this, I see folks There's even
one that's a pretty respected veteran tech journalist, Kara Swisher, and.

Speaker 3 (01:20:40):
She's like, this is going to be it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:41):
This is going to be the scandal that takes President
Trump down. And I think to myself, I'm like, do
people actually believe this? Do you believe that if there
was something so crazy and shocking like that that it
wouldn't have leaked out yet?

Speaker 3 (01:20:59):
I mean, and obviously it would have.

Speaker 1 (01:21:01):
Obviously this like there's been court cases and like politicians
are involved in investigations here, everything leaks out. If there
was like some crazy bombshell, it would have leaked out.
I don't agree. She's like, we got Trump this time,
we're finally closing in. You're going to have a president
jd Vance soon. I think it's game over. There's something

(01:21:23):
that's going to come out in this and it's going
to be the end of things.

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
I just think it's crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:21:27):
I just don't.

Speaker 1 (01:21:28):
I don't think that's in touch with reality. Now put
money on it.

Speaker 4 (01:21:31):
Honestly, Does that mean that anyone on the over the
board that was behind this, that included Democrats everybody, so
they already saw said files.

Speaker 2 (01:21:44):
Is that the best of them? Something?

Speaker 1 (01:21:47):
You know?

Speaker 4 (01:21:47):
To your point, that would have been leaked through somebody
talking with them, or are they sworn to secrecy until
it's all voted for and then release of the public.

Speaker 1 (01:21:56):
All of the files that exist have been seen by someone,
whether it be attorneys, judges, victims, journalists.

Speaker 3 (01:22:06):
They're going to be redacted. They have to have been
seen by somebody. Yes, somebody saw this stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:22:11):
So if there was something just mind blowing and you
really believe this was going to be the end, like
Trump is going to resign, it, one thousand percent would
have leaked out. In fact, the only thing that I've
seen so far is people on the other side who
have taken shots on this. Because there was a guy
named Larry Summers who worked for the Obama administration in

(01:22:31):
the Klan administration.

Speaker 3 (01:22:33):
President of Harvard, right am, I gonna be wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:22:35):
He's a He works at Harvard for sure, because I
have him opening his class addressing this with the students.
I don't know if you can hear this or not,
but here's Larry Summers talking about this.

Speaker 2 (01:22:45):
You will my statement regret.

Speaker 9 (01:22:49):
I'll turn up my shame with respect to what I
did in communication with mister Revstein, and I've said I'm
part time, but I think it is very important.

Speaker 1 (01:23:06):
He says, I think it's very important to fulfill my
teaching obligations.

Speaker 3 (01:23:10):
He's talking to his class. We're going to hope forward
talk about the material, all.

Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
Right, So he said, we're gonna, with your permission, we're
to go forward to talk about the material. This is
the biggest head and I think only had to really roll.
It's Larry Summers. This is not some guy who's aligned
with Trump. He's a guy was part of Obama's administration
and also, as I said, big time Clinton dude.

Speaker 6 (01:23:34):
He was head twenty seven, the president of Harvard from
two thousand and one to two thousand and six.

Speaker 1 (01:23:38):
Was he now he remains a professor there At the moment,
he lost a bunch of other gigs. He was on
the board at Think It Chat GPT, I believe, and
he's lost that gig at Chat GPT because of this.
So that that's one head that's rolled. And why did
that head roll? Because in the emails that were released

(01:23:58):
in the last week or so, he was emailing Jeffrey
Epstein back and forth a lot and asking for advice,
and he was like courting some woman and he was like,
how do I approach this woman? So, even after Jeffrey
Epstein has been convicted of things and all this stuff
is out there, he was messaging him this Larry Ellison, guy,

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Larry Summers, excuse me, and he ended up getting caught
in that flurry emails. He's one of the only heads
that have rolled so far. The other one is there
was a politician. There is a politician named Stacy Plaskett
who was texting with Jeffrey Epstein and taking calls with
Jeffrey Epstein while she was in office and using him

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to try to get information when she was working on
in the capitol. And that has been bad. And that
is a Stacey Plaskett, I believe. Look her up real quick,
Stacey sta c E Y plasket p L p l
A s k E t T.

Speaker 3 (01:24:57):
I think she's a Democrat. Yeah, see here, And she.

Speaker 1 (01:25:02):
Hasn't been fired he or she hasn't quit or resigned
her in this she's a Democrat. But she was communicating
with Epstein in these files, and now people are defending
her communicating with Epstein, like here's the democrat from Maryland,
Jamie Raskin talking about.

Speaker 10 (01:25:17):
No they want to take a former United States prosecutor,
the representative of the people of the Virgin Islands, and
without even going to the Ethics Committee, much less a court,
they want to arrain her on some charges based on
a newspaper article that she did something lawful, however ill advised.

Speaker 3 (01:25:35):
It may have been.

Speaker 10 (01:25:36):
She took a phone call from one of her constituents.

Speaker 3 (01:25:39):
One of her constituents.

Speaker 2 (01:25:40):
Now, I don't think Jeffrey Epstein, the.

Speaker 10 (01:25:42):
Very distinguished gentleman, that if we find Jeffrey Epstein on
the phone with Donald Trump, he should be impeached for it,
or is that his position is his position that anytime
Jeffrey Epstein got somebody on the phone, and you got
a lot of people on the phone, that person is
suddenly guilty.

Speaker 3 (01:26:00):
I think the problem is here.

Speaker 1 (01:26:02):
I think what this guy is missing, probably for political reasons,
is that this wasn't even that long ago. This wasn't
like some old thing before all the information about Epstein
came out.

Speaker 2 (01:26:12):
This was not even that long ago.

Speaker 1 (01:26:14):
That this woman, Delegate Stacy Plasket from the Virgin Islands,
was talking back and forth in the middle of congressional
testimony with Jeffrey Epstein, and I guess they talked to
her about this on CNN.

Speaker 3 (01:26:26):
Here she is believe.

Speaker 5 (01:26:27):
That Jeffrey Epstein had information and I was going to
get information to get it the truth. Having a regard
friendship with him is not something that I would deem
to have, and.

Speaker 2 (01:26:41):
So I'm just looking forward.

Speaker 5 (01:26:42):
I'm moving forward, and I think that that's what we
as American people should.

Speaker 2 (01:26:47):
Do, is move forward.

Speaker 19 (01:26:48):
If individuals are not involved in illegal activity, extending his
criminal enterprise or his financial enterprise or all of those things,
I think that you need to look what people are
doing moving forward.

Speaker 2 (01:27:03):
I just got to understand that what is that today.

Speaker 16 (01:27:05):
At the time he was a sex offender and it
had been detailed all the sexual There are.

Speaker 5 (01:27:09):
A lot of people who have done a lot of crimes.

Speaker 1 (01:27:12):
What a defense, what a dance? At the time he
was a known sex offender. It's like, there are.

Speaker 2 (01:27:18):
A lot of people who've done a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:27:19):
Of crimes exactly, and you know whether or not that
is friendship. I think a lot of people could just
focus on moving forward. All of it is generic like
chat GBT, give me the sweetest little dance that I
can do around it without saying the actual thing where
I think if she did that she would not be

(01:27:40):
getting so much cheat right now, Like, yeah, we did text,
we did talk.

Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
It's particular when it comes to her, it's particularly bad
because she was talking with him to try to get
inside info during congressional testimony, and this was not that
crazy long ago. But generally speaking, this always goes back
to what Celine said at one point in time, where
it's like, here's here's the Epstein files in a nutshell.
If you are a political person, you will use this

(01:28:06):
and you'll be like, hey, everybody whose name is mentioned here,
everybody whose emails mentioned here, everybody who's anywhere in here,
everybody who was on the plane, everybody went to the
island immediately they should all go to jail, because that's
how we all view it until your name is mentioned,
and then you're like, well, whoa hold on.

Speaker 2 (01:28:22):
You know, everyone's a lot of crimes.

Speaker 1 (01:28:25):
Okay, You're like, I just happen to be mentioned in this,
And so like we view these things as if you're
attached to it in some way, it's automatically the worst
thing in the world until somebody's mentioned and.

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
They're like, oh, it's not actually that big of a deal.

Speaker 1 (01:28:40):
So I think that that's kind of like what we
end up with here, and I think that that's how
it's going to go out. When somebody says this is
going to be the end of the Trump administration, I
think that's crazy. I think people should be held accountable
for their takes and how wrong they are when it's
something that you can prove is wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:28:54):
Like we'll know, Trump.

Speaker 1 (01:28:56):
Has three more years in office unless she's right about this,
well know, and if she's not right, then all the
future takes this person puts out there should be laughed at.
It's like I still laugh at the dude from the
New York Times, Paul Krugman, the economist, because he had
a story that he said, this internet thing is going
to be a fad. It's really not going to work out.

(01:29:19):
I don't think the internet's going to catch on. Like
that's such an apocalyptically bad take. And I think that
this is a bad take too. I think nothing shocking
is going to happen as a result of this.

Speaker 3 (01:29:31):
But maybe I eat my words.

Speaker 2 (01:29:32):
We'll see.

Speaker 6 (01:29:33):
I mean, there's a lot of talk about Epstein's brother,
because Epstein's brother was the that was involved in the
interaction with the email that said the Trump and Bubba thing.
And I think Epstein's brother also at some point said
that Jeffrey Epstein told him that if he knew, if

(01:29:55):
the people knew what he knew about the candidates and
this election, that they would have to cancel the election.
So it's like, if that's true, if he wasn't just
like talking himself up, then there could be things that
the American public wouldn't want to hear or would decide
that this would be the end of Trump. However, I
don't know that they're gonna be in these files.

Speaker 1 (01:30:15):
I don't think it will be I really, I think
it'll everybody at the end of this will either complain
that there's not more released or like, literally no one
will be happy.

Speaker 3 (01:30:24):
But maybe you disagree. Let us know.

Speaker 1 (01:30:25):
Send a dispatch over at the Newsjunkie dot Com. Back
to that guy given the hoboes machetes, all right, oh
yeah on his TikTok I think you saw this too,
Sea Lane, Oh yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:30:37):
On his tip spends his time with homeless people. They're
happy to see this guy coming.

Speaker 2 (01:30:40):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (01:30:41):
The one I shared from his TikTok account was keeping
the homeless in the streets safe. One hundred prayer emoji
and he's giving machetes to all the hobos, is handing
out machetes on the streets. Then there was another one
where he said, let's feed the homeless, and he made
a fireball, liquor and cigarettes, goodie bags and went out

(01:31:02):
and gave that to all the homeless people in his
area and went and acted like some sort of you know,
Halloween person, giving out all of the alcohol and cigarettes
as you could. Then there's another one where he went
around just gave out bottles of vodka and.

Speaker 2 (01:31:20):
Up. Yeah, this is what it comes down to.

Speaker 1 (01:31:22):
It's like, okay, this will work so and and for me,
I go, you know why you sucked, dude, You sucked
because everybody else in this community has to deal with
what follows. Now. These people have machetes, now, they have
more bottles of alcohol now, and then if that night
one of them goes crazy and attack somebody. Cool, dude,
you totally got like a mill on your TikTok video

(01:31:44):
and made eighteen dollars that what the hell? Man, I
guess there's nothing. Well, I will find out because we're
we're gonna we're gonna ask MO if there's anything illegal
about this, but.

Speaker 3 (01:31:58):
There might not be.

Speaker 1 (01:31:58):
It's just terrible behavior at the hest of the algorithm,
and I.

Speaker 2 (01:32:04):
Hate he's not going to stop, probably not.

Speaker 3 (01:32:09):
Goes to jail.

Speaker 4 (01:32:10):
Ariana grande dude that like had you know, not attacked her,
but obviously so basically he was arrested. He has done
this to multiple celebrities and then he got another multi
million views on the video of him getting out of jail,
and he got.

Speaker 2 (01:32:27):
Nine days in jail. Nine days in jail.

Speaker 1 (01:32:31):
Stop repeatedly violating security measures, for putting his hands on
people who don't want to be touched, and doing it
over and over and over again.

Speaker 3 (01:32:41):
We have a problem.

Speaker 1 (01:32:43):
It's globally an issue, but I think it's a big
issue in the United States of America, where we no
longer think punishing people is the right thing. We literally
have a tiny fraction of people who are like talking
about the abolition of prisons, letting all the prisoners out,
because they're so dumb. They's such a utopian vision of
the world that they think that won't cause chaos, or
they don't care that it'll cause chaos for you and

(01:33:05):
your family. We have too many people with too many
dumb ideas and they all need to shut up. What
needs to happen is when people commit crimes, they should
go to jail.

Speaker 3 (01:33:15):
They should go to jail for them. And if we
see things that.

Speaker 1 (01:33:18):
Have bad outcomes on a lot of people and it's
not yet a crime, well I'm not for one, not
one for making the government bigger. But in this case,
let's create a new law. Let's create a new law
that makes it so you can't hand out machetes to
hobos and give them alcohol, because we don't need somebody
to die before we learn that person is wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:33:35):
At least that's what I think. Let me know what
you think.

Speaker 1 (01:33:37):
Tips of the Neews Junkie dot com More info on
Anna Keepner, the sixteen year old or the eighteen year
old who was on this carnival cruise ship. She ended
up dying. At first, there was lots of mystery around
her cause of death, what happened. Then yesterday we learned
she was wrapped in a blanket stuffed under a bed.
I believe they said that she was also there was

(01:33:59):
a life preservers on her or something like that. When
they found her in this carnival cruise ship. The father
was saying he had no idea what was going on.
We had the court documents I read at the beginning
of the show, which said that the family is in
a strange position. They want basically to plead the fifth
because the step brother is the one who's going to

(01:34:22):
be getting hit with murder charges in the death of
Anna Kepner and the step brother we're now learning is
sixteen years old. All right, the step brother is sixteen
years old. This reiterates a couple of details we already
knew on whoever sixth Kepner complained on the cruise that
she didn't feel well. Went to her cabin after dinner.
The following day, when her dad and stepmother gathered the

(01:34:43):
family for breakfast, they noticed she was missing. Kepner was
found around eleven am by a maid, stuffed under a
bed and a blanket covered with life jackets. According to
new court filings, her sixteen year old stepbrother is facing
possible criminal charges. The quote it is it is true
that there's an open an investigation regarding the death of
the biological daughter of the stepfather and the boy. The

(01:35:05):
sixteen year old is a suspect regarding this death, which
occurred recently on a cruise ship so now we know
that he is sixteen years old and he is the
one that is believed to be responsible for the death
potentially of Anna Kepner.

Speaker 3 (01:35:21):
That story continues to unfold all in real time.

Speaker 6 (01:35:24):
It seems like there's just one detail that from the
rumor mill that I heard that they have not said
anything about yet that I feel like we will come
out eventually.

Speaker 3 (01:35:36):
Great grain assault.

Speaker 1 (01:35:37):
This allegedly, allegedly allegedly, But what what is this?

Speaker 2 (01:35:40):
Is the world?

Speaker 6 (01:35:41):
What are you saying the same place that I heard
from that she was wrapped up in a sheet and
stuffed under a bed. Potentially she was right, said she
was stabbed. They said you was stabbed?

Speaker 2 (01:35:53):
Yeah? Interesting?

Speaker 1 (01:35:54):
Okay, So again grain assault, we don't know reporting this speculation.

Speaker 4 (01:36:00):
I'm a shaker at this point. Didn't he sleep on
the bed too?

Speaker 2 (01:36:03):
I think so.

Speaker 1 (01:36:04):
I think that's what the uncle said, slept on the
bed like nothing happened.

Speaker 2 (01:36:08):
So now there's lots of big questions here, like what.

Speaker 1 (01:36:11):
Led to this, what was the run up to what
was happening?

Speaker 2 (01:36:16):
Here must be footage from the cruise.

Speaker 1 (01:36:19):
Line, I hope. So were they drinking? They were both
under age? She's eighteen, Yeah, but if.

Speaker 2 (01:36:24):
They were international waters.

Speaker 6 (01:36:26):
Depending on where they had just stopped, they might have
been able to drink on the.

Speaker 2 (01:36:30):
At a cruise port.

Speaker 1 (01:36:32):
You might be able to if you're in a place
where you can drink at eighteen, but if you're on
board the ship.

Speaker 3 (01:36:38):
You cannot know. You cannot at eighteen or sixteen.

Speaker 6 (01:36:43):
Things you're not supposed to do on a ship that
you could do on a ship.

Speaker 8 (01:36:46):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:36:46):
There was also a story not that long ago of
a teenager whose parents were feeding him alcohol and a
cruise He wasn't supposed to be getting it, but they
were giving him alcohol and he ended up getting drunk
and jumping off the ship.

Speaker 2 (01:36:58):
So it's not on heard of. But our question marks in.

Speaker 1 (01:37:02):
The Anna Keepner murder mystery on the cruise ship are
really what her brother went back to the cruise ship
after she did. She said she was feeling sick. What
happened in that room, what led up to this? Why
was she naked? Was what else was going on here?
These are really big questions, And now the family's sort
of circling the wagons because they've lost the daughter, but

(01:37:24):
the step son may also be getting hit with her
murder charge. It's a very interesting back and forth that
we see going on. All right, email the show tips
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Speaker 2 (01:37:40):
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Speaker 3 (01:38:07):
One of the things that's been very clear to.

Speaker 1 (01:38:10):
Me since the jump is that AI is going to
have a huge and profound impact on society. And the
first level of this is just people who don't understand
what's real and what's fake. And I've seen that in
people in my real life. I've seen that in a
lot of people online. My inbox every day tips at

(01:38:30):
the news Junkie dot com. People send over stuff and
then when I watch it, I'm like, this is so
obviously fake. Did this person not know this was fake?

Speaker 4 (01:38:38):
So many people and then those moments where you know,
I'll speak for myself, but if you guys have also
experienced this, there's somewhere I would have been vooled had
I not.

Speaker 2 (01:38:51):
Check the comments. I'll look at the comments. AI.

Speaker 1 (01:38:55):
Yeah, if it's close, I'll look at the comments. But
I think the three of us we look at this
with a bit of a better filter. In most cases,
we're doing this show, somebody goes, Hey, Sean, Hey, Sabrina
Hayes Lane, here's the link I found. You're gonna If
you don't, you should have at least some level of
skepticism about stuff.

Speaker 6 (01:39:14):
I was a little skeptical when I saw that cat
playing the bagpipes, but.

Speaker 3 (01:39:18):
I wanted to believe it.

Speaker 1 (01:39:21):
What was the what I saw the other day Before
I get into what this big change is to your
social media feed, it was it was like cats hosting
a podcast where they watch videos of other cats doing
dumb stuff?

Speaker 2 (01:39:35):
Was real?

Speaker 1 (01:39:37):
Somebody out there like scrolling ridiculousness, yeah, cat ridiculousness.

Speaker 2 (01:39:41):
Yeah, somebody out there is scrolling and believing this.

Speaker 3 (01:39:43):
I like, So, you know, it's a good thing.

Speaker 6 (01:39:47):
Overall in general, that some of the social media platforms
are warning you about, Hey, this is and this has
been altered with AI. What you're seeing here, you know,
is less than real, but it's so funny when you
see it on something that's really obvious, and like I
saw one the other day that was like, this is
an AI video. Some of the things you see might
not be accurate. And it was a person needing a

(01:40:10):
ball of dough, but the ball of dough.

Speaker 3 (01:40:12):
Was a cat.

Speaker 1 (01:40:14):
Just it's it's like this one. They said, reel or
A or AI. It's a cat hosting the podcast cat
lifting weights.

Speaker 2 (01:40:30):
This is AI, right, but the determination looks real as hell.

Speaker 1 (01:40:33):
I could even smell the sweat from that cat. The
cats are hosting the Whisker Something podcast, and you know
they're talking about whether on the Whisker podcast whether these
other videos of cats are real or not.

Speaker 2 (01:40:49):
And it's this is sort of a symptom.

Speaker 1 (01:40:52):
Of a larger problem that's happening on the Internet, and
it's just whether you're tuned into it or not, it's happening.

Speaker 3 (01:40:58):
Now. Here's the thing. TikTok is at the center.

Speaker 2 (01:41:01):
Of a lot of this.

Speaker 3 (01:41:02):
We all produce TikTok from time to time.

Speaker 2 (01:41:05):
By the way, did you congratulations? Thank you? Wait what happened?
You lost your TikTok? Oh? Someone hacked into it?

Speaker 3 (01:41:12):
Oh really?

Speaker 2 (01:41:13):
Oh yeah? And Virginia but they didn't do anything.

Speaker 6 (01:41:16):
They just privated all their videos and like, yeah, they
didn't post anything.

Speaker 3 (01:41:19):
Oh, that's annoying.

Speaker 4 (01:41:21):
You know, maybe they were up to no good they're
creating the AI videos, but I got it back, sucker.

Speaker 1 (01:41:26):
Well, now we have with all these problems beyond just
losing control of your account, we have many people, family members,
people who I know, people just who I'm close with,
who I have seen fallen for what I think is
very obvious AI.

Speaker 3 (01:41:41):
Is this going to fix anything?

Speaker 1 (01:41:43):
TikTok is going to be adding a new AI button
that will make a major change to your feed and
will put an invisible mark on fake clips. They will
let people identify much as you go to the comments.
Now there'll be an AI button AI AI AI and
when people when enough people hit the AI button, it

(01:42:05):
will label the video both when you watch it and
afterwards if somebody like downloads it and tries.

Speaker 3 (01:42:12):
To use it time see how this could be abused.

Speaker 1 (01:42:15):
Right, Yeah, people will be like this person disagrees with
me politically AI AI.

Speaker 3 (01:42:19):
You know they like reporting the hell out of them.

Speaker 4 (01:42:22):
Also, if you're using cap cut brought to you by
TikTok and Bite Dance, are they going to label their
AI stuff is AI?

Speaker 1 (01:42:31):
I don't know if they're just going to leave it
all up to the audience or not let me see
let me bring up the actual story itself, because this
is what they said they're going to start doing now,
adding a new AI button that will put a mark
on videos, trying to tackle the issue of all these
fake videos going viral and it just is happening. Like
there was a story this week taking this all the

(01:42:52):
way further where a judge complained and said he's now
seen multiple instances of people bringing AI video as evidence
in a case and like entering this into the record
as evidence. The social media giant revealed it will begin
adding an invisible red flag for AI content that regular
users can't see, allowing TikTok to track dodgy fake clips

(01:43:14):
even if they've been edited or re edited elsewhere. Also,
they've added the ability to manage topics, which will allow
you to see more or less of things like AI
generated content, so you can say, I want to bring
that all the way down. I don't want to see
any AI generated content current affairs. They're already like not
shadow banding, but like blocking the hell out of a

(01:43:36):
lot of current news content on not just TikTok, but
most of these short video platforms.

Speaker 2 (01:43:42):
Which makes sense.

Speaker 1 (01:43:43):
I think that's probably a good idea for them, even
though you know I'm in the business that I'm in,
but they have a slider for that, creative arts and
all these things. But AI generated content, you could say,
I don't want to see this at all. Will it
be perfect? No, it won't, but it'll be one way
to identify it. And it's just kind of crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:44:02):
Not away now, like back end kind of stuff when
you write click and you see the coding of it,
is there not that information?

Speaker 11 (01:44:10):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:44:11):
With AI videos?

Speaker 4 (01:44:12):
Like if you were to see a photo on the internet,
or at least you know back in the day before
technology is where it's at now, you could tell where
it was, timestamp, the zeros and ones, they give you
a lot more information that you would need the skills
to find.

Speaker 2 (01:44:29):
Is that not the case with AI?

Speaker 1 (01:44:31):
Well, I mean probably internally, but not for you just
on these platforms just yet. Like I have up in
front of me the most viewed in the last week
YouTube shorts, which is it's crazy numbers they put up,
like number one is in the last five days, this
video has gotten one hundred and forty three million views.
Had the number one clip on YouTube shorts and.

Speaker 2 (01:44:55):
Let me see.

Speaker 1 (01:44:55):
I'll try to bring up this actual video to see
if this one is fake or not. Here's the video
on the platform.

Speaker 3 (01:45:05):
It is, it is AI. Some of it was at
the beginning. It might all be AI.

Speaker 1 (01:45:19):
It's a little girl trying to warn a woman that
there was an attacker behind him. And this whole thing is,
you know, filmed as if it's some sort of action movie.
Number one, one hundred and forty plus million views. I
think there's a portion of that that was a I
don't know about the whole thing, just for the record,
so you know, when when you see these videos going

(01:45:40):
viral and think about profit motives. One hundred and forty
three million dollars, the number one video on all of
YouTube shorts this week. It has netted that person three thousand,
six hundred dollars one hundred and forty three million views,
only three thousand, six hundred dollars. So they churned these
videos out. They get insane amounts of views across continents.

Speaker 4 (01:46:03):
They also have warehouses that have a million iPhones on
the wall. Just looking in loop at those things, do
they not.

Speaker 2 (01:46:09):
I mean, I can't.

Speaker 1 (01:46:11):
Well, yes, that's a tiny portion of these views when
you look at this many, but I can't tell you
how many of them are real and how many of
them are faked.

Speaker 3 (01:46:21):
But I'll give you an example here.

Speaker 1 (01:46:23):
Here's one that is the second most or third most
viewed video on all of YouTube shorts. It was updated
or posted rather a couple of days ago, five days
ago total, and it's got one hundred and three point
nine million views. That's about if it was just in
the United States. It's about one out of every three

(01:46:43):
humans in the United States that have seen this video.
It's made two six hundred dollars for the creator. And
this one is definitely AI. It's people putting their head
in a machine. It's GONE that pretends to give them

(01:47:03):
a haircut. You put your head in this machine and
the machine gives you a haircut.

Speaker 4 (01:47:08):
Obviously AI the voice immediately you can hear it.

Speaker 1 (01:47:12):
Yeah, that's how prominent this is. That's how prominent this
stuff is. Millions and hundreds and hundreds of millions of
people have seen this stuff. So AI labels on everything
on every platform should be an absolute necessity. I think
there are too many people, too dumb who fall for
these things. And while a fake haircut machine video is
not really dangerous for society.

Speaker 3 (01:47:33):
It is when it gets all these other things.

Speaker 1 (01:47:35):
I stand by what I've said a bunch of times
on this show that there are so many people that
are angry about things that are fake. They are angry
about things that are not real. They are seeing videos
of people bragging about snap payments that are fake. They
have seen videos of people fighting that are not real.

(01:47:57):
They have seen war videos that are fake. They have
seen videos out of Gaza that are not real. They
have seen videos out of Ukraine that are fake. They
are mad, sometimes so mad that they're willing to do
something about it. And there's so many fake things that
lead to this. It's just a big ass problem. But
will this fix it in anyway? Let us know what

(01:48:18):
you think. Send a dispatch over at thenewschunky dot com
right now when we come back.

Speaker 3 (01:48:24):
A couple of things.

Speaker 1 (01:48:25):
One I want to talk about for the murder mystery
on the Carnival cruise ship, it's now looking like potentially
because let me go over this with both you.

Speaker 2 (01:48:35):
Ceilin and Sabrina real quick.

Speaker 1 (01:48:37):
We did hear I don't know if this one hundred
percent confirmed that the sixteen year old the stepbrother slept
in the same room where her dead body was correct.

Speaker 2 (01:48:48):
This according to the uncle crazy Yes, right.

Speaker 3 (01:48:51):
So he slept in.

Speaker 1 (01:48:52):
So people were asking, are they sharing a room together?
And if that's the case, is it weird to have
an eighteen year year old sharing a room with her
sixteen year old stepbrother.

Speaker 3 (01:49:03):
A little bit.

Speaker 6 (01:49:05):
It's a little it's a little annoying, but you would
think that maybe in this case it's something that doesn't
always happen. But for a cruise, they're trying to save
some money. Does it matter how long they've been step siblings?

Speaker 1 (01:49:18):
If you were a baby and you're a step sibling
with somebody else for your whole lives, you've been brother
and sister, that seems a little more normal to share
a Cruz cabin with him. If you've been the stepbrother
stepsister to this person for three years and you're sixteen
and they're eighteen, that seems a little so.

Speaker 4 (01:49:39):
I don't have that experience, unfortunately, but I am curious.
There has to be someone that listens that later on
in your life and your teenage years gained a step
sibling of the opposite sex.

Speaker 2 (01:49:52):
Were the rules when it came to family vacation, would
this be weird.

Speaker 1 (01:49:56):
If you have a similar circumstance, tips of the news
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news Junkie dot com. Right now, let me return. We
will have the jury duty that is chock full of
updates on some big stories we've been talking about. I
also have to get through something for homeowners in the

(01:50:19):
state of Florida here. There's a lot to touch on
before we wrap anything up today. And news about the
Louver Museum. This one is a head scratcher and it's
coming up next in the news Chunky. When I see

(01:50:49):
stories about these stupid pageant things, and now they're saying
Miss Universe has got a whole bunch of drama around it,
and this scandal hit Pageant and they said, somebody claims
that Miss Universe is rigged, and they are now trying
to shut the whole thing down.

Speaker 2 (01:51:08):
And I look at that and I go, yeah, I
believe it.

Speaker 1 (01:51:11):
Yeah, I've always thought these things are rigged. I've like
from the jump, Miss America, Miss Universe, Miss World.

Speaker 6 (01:51:19):
Like next, you're gonna tell me the Bachelorette has influenced
from the producers.

Speaker 9 (01:51:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:51:25):
Wow, there's like zero chance that these events over the
last fifty years or so weren't predetermined. In a lot
of cases, Miss Universe is predetermined. Not shocked, not surprised
by that at all. This story from the BBC says
two Miss Universe judges have resigned days before the annual

(01:51:47):
beauty pageant, with one of them accusing organizers of rigging
the selection process. Man, everything leaks out now, like all
this use used to be like internal drama and now
forget it.

Speaker 3 (01:51:58):
It's all out there. The bb HE says that this
whole thing is tanked now.

Speaker 1 (01:52:03):
Lebanese French musician Omar Harfuk, who announced his resignation from
the eight member jury on Instagram, alleged that an impromptu
jury had been pre selecting finalists ahead of the competition
to be held on Friday in Thailand. Hours later, French
football manager Claude Macalele also announced he'd pulled out for

(01:52:24):
unforeseen personal reasons.

Speaker 3 (01:52:26):
This comes two weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:52:28):
After several Misuniverse contestants walked out on another event, but
an official called him like a loser or something.

Speaker 2 (01:52:34):
I'm telling to shut up. I remember seeing that video.

Speaker 3 (01:52:38):
Did he say loser, stupid or idiot or.

Speaker 4 (01:52:41):
I forget it was some one of them was talking
and he's like, I'm talking now, I'm talking now, and
then whatever it was said after that, I cannot quote
it at this point, but I do remember a good
number of the ladies that were going to participate walking out.

Speaker 1 (01:52:56):
Well, he was talking to one person, and then all
the other of the women banded together and then he
like apologized and started crying. And this whole thing is fake.
From the jump man. Miss Universe is always like this.
That's just how this goes behind the scene. I guarantee it, okay.
The Beauty Pageant drew backlash earlier this month after its
Thailand based director, nawat Inde Garizzil or Something publicly berated

(01:53:21):
Miss Mexico at a pre pageant event for not posting
promotional content or to social media platforms.

Speaker 3 (01:53:27):
That's what this is.

Speaker 2 (01:53:28):
Behind the scenes.

Speaker 1 (01:53:29):
It's like, make sure you're posting to your profiles so
that more people go to the event, And that's what
they're doing. In these They started a whole fight and
videos that have gone viral. Miss Bosch and several other
contestants could be seen walking out of the event and
shouting at mister narowat the.

Speaker 2 (01:53:44):
Whole thing is is rotten, rotten to the core.

Speaker 1 (01:53:49):
But this is the latest on this that they're saying
the scandal hit pageant may be maybe even like abandoned
before they do this this year, who knows, we'll see
right now, I know this without a shadow of it
out it's time to do jury duty.

Speaker 9 (01:54:04):
Court is now in session, So put your phone now
and pay attention before we call the bailiff over to
w with your ass.

Speaker 3 (01:54:09):
You're no in jury duty with the news Junkie.

Speaker 1 (01:54:12):
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story that is. I don't know why this should be
surprising to anybody, but I thought this would have happened beforehand.

(01:54:34):
ABC News is now confirming that the singer David D
four VD is now a suspect in the teenager's dead
that has been.

Speaker 2 (01:54:47):
Going around one more time.

Speaker 1 (01:54:49):
I know this is shocking, seeing as she was found
dead in the back of his tesla in the front
of his tesla. Their body was in there and rodding
away at an impound yard. But he, crazy, I know,
is now officially considered a suspect in this. Well, sure,

(01:55:11):
she was indeed found dead in his car at an
impound lot.

Speaker 2 (01:55:16):
Yes, that doesn't mean guilt. Well were they dating?

Speaker 1 (01:55:20):
Well, yeah, probably, they were probably dating when he was
of age and she was just a teenager, maybe even
down to the age of thirteen or so, or even
younger twelve years old.

Speaker 4 (01:55:30):
And I can see where people get that idea from
all of the live streams that he featured her in.

Speaker 1 (01:55:37):
Well, technically it's true that he did do live streams
where he publicly featured an underage girl whom he was
dating with, who even called him a pedo at one
point in time, But does that really mean he should
be a suspect here?

Speaker 4 (01:55:49):
And when the family had said that she was missing
and went to authorities despite knowing where she was, they
just couldn't do anything about it until they fell her
missing team.

Speaker 2 (01:56:00):
Yeah, and maybe or maybe not.

Speaker 1 (01:56:02):
He had a whole bunch of songs that had lyrics
about how he was going to kill this girl and
songs that mentioned her in particular and all of these things,
and that he was dreaming and getting excited about the
act of.

Speaker 3 (01:56:14):
Killing somebody that he was in love with.

Speaker 1 (01:56:16):
Sure, but now he's an official suspect in the death
of this young girl.

Speaker 2 (01:56:21):
Long enough.

Speaker 1 (01:56:22):
Yeah, I don't know. I think maybe they just wanted
to get more info. The guy was on the cruise ship.

Speaker 3 (01:56:27):
Was quicker than this.

Speaker 4 (01:56:28):
How much more info do you need? The man had
a world tour featuring caskets.

Speaker 1 (01:56:36):
Yeah, yeah, And still if you don't know about this guy,
he's a singer.

Speaker 3 (01:56:40):
He's very popular with younger people. His name is David.

Speaker 1 (01:56:43):
But it's a D four VD is the way you
write this, and it looks quite clear that he had
something to do with this young girl's death.

Speaker 3 (01:56:52):
Crazy story though.

Speaker 1 (01:56:54):
Meanwhile, over at the Louver, that's where they stole a
whole bunch of money worth of rules from these people
who went in. It wasn't really an Ocean's eleven style
thing because it didn't seem to take the most insanely
talented skill set, which I rubbed the puddles two.

Speaker 3 (01:57:15):
It could have been another one.

Speaker 1 (01:57:16):
I mean, there's only two people involved in the main
part of this.

Speaker 4 (01:57:20):
It was very easy. They just needed some construction vests.

Speaker 1 (01:57:24):
Yeah, they put on construction vests. They had like clipboards.
They used a scissor lift to get up to the
second or third floor. They busted a window and then
they got inside. And now the Loove is responding to
this whole thing, and they are saying enough is enough.
They have installed new surveillance cameras. That's right, surveillance cameras.

Speaker 2 (01:57:45):
Watch out, rubbers.

Speaker 1 (01:57:47):
They're not actually up yet, but by the end of
next year they'll be up. By the end of next year,
the new surveillance cameras will be up at the Louver.
Because everybody who's anybody knows it takes at least thirty
teen months.

Speaker 3 (01:58:00):
To install a security system.

Speaker 2 (01:58:02):
It does.

Speaker 1 (01:58:03):
It's very very hard to put in these cameras. It's
not like you could do this in a weekend or anything.
What are you crazy. By the end of next year,
they'll have some cameras up that'll stop the next robbery
over at the Louver. I guess we shall see. And finally,
oh no, we got to take a break. I'll get
to this one. That is a wild card in jury
duty for sure, because this is crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:58:24):
We'll do that next.

Speaker 1 (01:58:25):
We also have to talk about something insane that is happening.

Speaker 3 (01:58:28):
At home, depot.

Speaker 1 (01:58:29):
This deserves our time for sure, And well you you're
going to be featured in the final hour, the power hour.

Speaker 2 (01:58:36):
Of the show as we continue. That's coming up next.
In the News Junkie.

Speaker 3 (01:58:56):
During the break, I saw a story.

Speaker 1 (01:58:58):
I was like, oh man, damn, that's that's bad news.

Speaker 2 (01:59:02):
That's sad news.

Speaker 1 (01:59:03):
And the story said Jane Fonda dead at eighty eight
and I go, oh man, Jane Fonda.

Speaker 19 (01:59:10):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:59:12):
And then I looked again after I told the people
in the stream that Jane Fonda had died, and it
just said Jane Fonda at eighty eight, and I was like,
who writes it that way? I just killed Jane Fonda
for everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:59:25):
Yet black pill goggles, huh.

Speaker 1 (01:59:28):
And by the way, everybody's saying rare, it is very rare,
very rare. I didn't even say it on the air,
so I didn't have to do this. I almost never
get stuff like this wrong, especially the idea that somebody's dying.
I'll get it first before everybody else. I saw somebody
post and it was a legit account that I one.

Speaker 3 (01:59:46):
Trust me.

Speaker 6 (01:59:47):
It's not even the only thing you got wrong. Well
what rage seven? No, no, this story the story said,
or the eighty eight on December twenty first rungo, Okay,
she's she's almost eighty eight.

Speaker 1 (02:00:04):
The story said, Jane Fonda at eighty eight, and it
had her like working out and doing a bunch of
stuff on some video. That's this is getting some attention today.
I think it's her hanging out with her little kids.
Re Create that James commercial from brook Shields. It's not
as hot at almost eighty eight years old. But just
to reiterate, Jane Fonda is fifty.

Speaker 2 (02:00:26):
She's she's still alive.

Speaker 1 (02:00:28):
And well at the moment right now. So there you go, Sean,
you should go to work for CNN fake news clickbaited.

Speaker 2 (02:00:36):
Okay, all right, there you go, thank you. I'm not
blaming Ai I am.

Speaker 1 (02:00:40):
And don't jump off with Sea Lane and say too
wrong here. Now that that is such a minor detail, Well,
technically she turns eighty eight. Jane Fonda at basically eighty
eight was the story. But who puts Jane Fonda at
eighty eight? They put Jane Fonda dead at eighty eight,
that's what the story is. Usually it's like, whoever insert

(02:01:03):
person's name. You're dead at insert age here tail as
old as time. But apologies to Jane Fonder and her family.
She's still alive. She's still good. I am. Now I'm
gonna update the meter ninety nine point accurate. But it
just it went down just a little tick there, unfortunately, Jess.

Speaker 4 (02:01:23):
To make you feel better, if we killed off Brian
Wilson two additional times when you were out on Monday.

Speaker 1 (02:01:29):
That's that's helpful, I guess. I mean, it's not gonna
hurt things here. It's helpful for sure. I did see this.
This distracted me during the break, which is excellent memory.
People are now taking to posting stuff like this where
it says me making the first payment of my forty
year or fifty year mortgage, and it shows like a construction.

(02:01:53):
It shows a construction side with what looks like a
hole to hell, like the biggest you've ever seen in
your entire life, and a dump truck comes up to
try to put some.

Speaker 2 (02:02:04):
Fill in it, like once a time.

Speaker 1 (02:02:06):
Yeah, me putting my first payment into my fifty year mortgage.
That's about what it would look like, whether real or fake.
That's that's a good comparison. I think it's a.

Speaker 6 (02:02:16):
Dark comparison that just makes me feel like nobody they're
not wrong.

Speaker 3 (02:02:20):
We talked about though, if you got a fifty.

Speaker 1 (02:02:22):
Year mortgage, which they've been floating around, what it would
be like to see your payment book and they go, well,
here you go, first payment today, last payment in twenty
seventy five, so you'll be completely paid off in twenty
seventy five.

Speaker 2 (02:02:35):
Try to down in the house if you can.

Speaker 1 (02:02:38):
It's crazy, man, but that that still has been going
on out there. I saw some people backing that up.
I think that is not a good idea. By the way,
I think taking a loan that is forty or fifty
years is stupid financially for.

Speaker 2 (02:02:52):
You to do.

Speaker 1 (02:02:53):
I know, we got all of you to be homeowners,
but get a thirty year loan and get a good
one waiting to you get the perfect one for your play.

Speaker 3 (02:03:00):
Don't get a fifty year loan. It's crazy.

Speaker 6 (02:03:02):
Don't you pay more of the interest upfront when you're
paying off a mortgage big time? So that just means
that they're locking you into this fifty year mortgage because
you're gonna get a better payment, and then really, because
you're not gonna stick with this thing.

Speaker 3 (02:03:19):
For fifty years.

Speaker 6 (02:03:20):
You're just doing this because you want the better payment
and you want to not rent, so instead, when you
finally do find something that you can get a thirty
year or less mortgage for, you don't have much. You
haven't really gained much because all you've paid is interest. Yeah,
I mean, what's gonna happen is you're gonna see the
amount owed on your loan for your house, and you'll
probably pay for like ten years before it really goes

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down any significant amount.

Speaker 3 (02:03:43):
You're just chipping away. Like let's let's see.

Speaker 1 (02:03:46):
Tji could probably handle this on a basic level, I think,
or maybe even on a complex level.

Speaker 3 (02:03:51):
If you were going to buy a house for one.

Speaker 1 (02:03:55):
And the loan was at let's say eight percent APR,
how much more are you paying over a fifty year
loan versus over a thirty year loan?

Speaker 2 (02:04:06):
Right, it'll three.

Speaker 20 (02:04:07):
With an eight percent APR, a fifty year loan will
have significantly higher interest costs compared to a thirty year loan.
Over thirty years, you'd pay roughly one point six four
million dollars in total, including about six hundred forty thousand
dollars in interest. Over fifty years. Your total would be
about two point four to two million dollars with approximately

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one point four to two.

Speaker 2 (02:04:31):
Million in interest.

Speaker 20 (02:04:32):
Jesus, that's a difference of about seven hundred eighty thousand
dollars more paid an interest on the fifty year loan.

Speaker 1 (02:04:39):
All right, So it would be seven hundred and eighty
thousand dollars more expensive to do that over fifty years mortgage.
That that's a lot. That's a lot.

Speaker 2 (02:04:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:04:50):
I mean, look, get somebody to guide you through this,
because I wonder what he would say about the fifty
year mortgage. I wonder what that mortgage got. Don would
say tip to the news junkie dot com. Let's see,
let's get to a couple. U. I asked the question
about the cruise murder mystery story.

Speaker 3 (02:05:05):
I said, if it turns out this.

Speaker 1 (02:05:08):
Eighteen year old who was potentially murdered on this carnival
cruise ship, Anna Kepner, if she was murdered by her
sixteen year old step brother, if they were sharing a
room on a cruise ship. Would a sixteen year old
stepbrother and stepsister, or a sixteen year old step brother
and an eighteen year old stepsister sharing a room? Would

(02:05:29):
that be weird? Would that be a strange thing. So
some people chiming in on that. Let's see what we have.
This person says there's a policy on room sharing on
cruise ships related to this. It says it would generally
be considered unusual and potentially problematic for an eighteen year
old female and a sixteen year old male, even if

(02:05:50):
they're step siblings, to share the same cabin or boardroom
if one is a legal adult sharing room across genders,
that these ages can raise serious concerns about personal boundaries,
you gotta, you gotta perception, and social ORMs. I don't
know if it's officially against the rules of the crude lines,
but it looks like it could be an issue. Anonymous says,

(02:06:11):
I've seen so many short form documentaries regarding the stepbrother
stepsisters sharing a room deal. Now, granted they weren't that young,
they were more college age.

Speaker 2 (02:06:21):
I think I know where you're going.

Speaker 1 (02:06:24):
I can't remember how any of them end, or if
I've ever seen the ending of any of them, but
they're interested, says Anonymous.

Speaker 2 (02:06:30):
Or interesting.

Speaker 1 (02:06:32):
This is a different step brother stepsister thing. This is
not on your adult video websites. This is real life. Unfortunately,
we're all involved, but eighteen year old stepbrother and stepsister
rooming staying in the same room on a cruise ship.
More people who have been in this position. Let me
know what you think, all right, give your feedback please

(02:06:52):
over on thenewsjunkie dot com. Let's see here, we got
a couple of more people who are going to join us.
This person is you're furthest fan in Austin, not gonna lie.

Speaker 21 (02:07:05):
When I was fourteen, my dad got remarried and two
of my stepsisters were sixteen and seventeen, and they were
like the hottest girls I've ever seen another. I tried,
I tried to flirt and moved my way into position
my age fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, but unfortunately they were not

(02:07:27):
having it. So yeah, but it's all good, right, that's
what they say.

Speaker 3 (02:07:33):
Keep it in the family.

Speaker 2 (02:07:35):
No one to say that with sex, that's weird. I
still go back.

Speaker 6 (02:07:39):
To plenty of people have said it. Don't think they
meant it like. I still go back to.

Speaker 1 (02:07:44):
If if I was somebody who had a stepsister and
my stepsister was three years older than me when I
was born, she was three years old, let's say, and
we grew up together, our entire lives from babies all
the way up, and then I'm sixteen and she's eighteen

(02:08:07):
or nineteen, and we're sharing a room on a cruise ship.
That seems way less weird, way less porny.

Speaker 2 (02:08:15):
If you will.

Speaker 1 (02:08:17):
Then your parents get divorced when you're fifteen, and then
when you're sixteen, your parent remarries and you gain a stepsister.

Speaker 2 (02:08:27):
That's eighteen.

Speaker 1 (02:08:29):
Those two people sharing a room very different to me.
But maybe I'm missing something here. Let us know what
your thoughts are. Go over to thenewschunkie dot com. Meanwhile,
problems at home Depot. People have taken two showing photographs
of home depot parking lots. I'm looking at one now
and they're saying, I've never seen it like this. The

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home depot around us is just dead. Things aren't going well,
things aren't hot over at home depot.

Speaker 3 (02:08:57):
What's the point.

Speaker 1 (02:08:59):
The point is this Two reasons why home Depot is
currently struggling. One is people will say, oh, because of
a lot of the ice roundups, people are scared to
go to home depot if they're illegal.

Speaker 3 (02:09:13):
And two, maybe a lot.

Speaker 1 (02:09:14):
Of the people who are doing this work going to
home people have been deported from the country.

Speaker 3 (02:09:18):
Those are the first two things.

Speaker 1 (02:09:20):
That's not really one of the things that's hitting Home
Depot the hardest this year. The one thing is that
we've had a shield protecting us from any hurricanes making landfall,
and Home Depot usually gets a huge rush before, during,
and after these hurricanes. True, and so they've struggled with
their sales for twenty twenty five as a result of that.

(02:09:43):
That maybe is even a bigger issue, but they say
it's been pretty slow over in the world of Home Depot.

Speaker 4 (02:09:50):
Black Friday, I guarantee you, with especially news like this,
they're going to do some insane deals and it will
be flooded.

Speaker 3 (02:09:58):
At Home Depot for a Black Friday.

Speaker 2 (02:10:00):
Oh why not?

Speaker 1 (02:10:01):
I mean they could do like tourills and stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:10:05):
Yard furniture operations.

Speaker 1 (02:10:08):
The weird thing is they kind of diversified with the
Halloween and Christmas decorations.

Speaker 2 (02:10:13):
I would I hoped that would bring.

Speaker 1 (02:10:14):
It more, but I stopped those down six percent yesterday.

Speaker 6 (02:10:16):
I saw more people are getting into like at Low's
this year. When I was kind of looking around, I
had to get some paint, so you have to wait
a while when they mix it. I was looking at
some of the Christmas light displays, and it was like
they have now consumer level products that like link everything together,
so you could like have your Christmas light display synk

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to music and stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:10:40):
Ooh that those things are smart. People like those things.
Maybe that'll bring up the bottom line. But right now
it says the roof is leaking, the walls are starting
to smell like mold. For the Disney World for dads,
that's what they call home Depot. In this story from
Morning Brew, the Home Depot company released quarter three earnings
yesterday that showed sales were down. They attributed this to

(02:11:04):
high interest rates currently, shaky consumer confidence.

Speaker 3 (02:11:08):
And fewer than usual fall storms.

Speaker 1 (02:11:12):
So those storms not hitting are probably one of the
bigger issues that they're facing.

Speaker 2 (02:11:17):
So let us know.

Speaker 1 (02:11:18):
If you're a home Depot fan, if you haven't been
going there, why is your reason for not go What
is your reason for not visiting and spending money there?

Speaker 2 (02:11:25):
Let us know.

Speaker 1 (02:11:26):
Send an email over at thenewsjunkie dot com. Our last
thing for now this was a holdover from jury duty.
But I want to work this in because a man
is claiming that this was all a big accident. I
want to figure out what's real and what's not in here?

Speaker 3 (02:11:42):
This guy is facing a murder charge.

Speaker 1 (02:11:45):
His name is Joseph Halpin and Joseph Halpin is believed
to have killed his wife. He's forty two years old,
she is thirty nine years old. And he said that
he did not do this on purpose. He said this
was all a big accident. Let me get to Channel
nineteen with their report on this.

Speaker 8 (02:12:07):
It is details and a man accused of shooting and
killing his wife. Their eight year old son heard it all.
The news reporter Catherine Huntley is live. You want to
warn you this story is very graphic. Catherine. What can
you tell us.

Speaker 3 (02:12:23):
Nice solution?

Speaker 22 (02:12:24):
Well, it just cannot be overstated how tragic and terrible
the situation was that occurred here at this home in
Northolm said on Friday at Friday night. Now an eight
year old boy is without a mother and a father
facing murder charges after an argument got out of hand.

Speaker 2 (02:12:41):
If you put the gun.

Speaker 22 (02:12:47):
Up intense moments after police surprise at this North Olm
Staid home Friday night at six pm, police say this man,
forty two year old Joseph Healthon, was having a heated
argument with his wife and he shot her in a
nine to one one call too graphic to play for
you help and desperately call him saying he cocked a
gun and it went off.

Speaker 1 (02:13:09):
That's what I wanted to hear. The nine one one
call is not even in this story. Yeah, he called
nine one one. He said she's on the ground, she's scared.
He said, I cocked the gun back. I didn't mean
to shoot her. I didn't mean to The gun just
went off, and you could hear the nine one one
operator in the background responding to what was going on
here and saying like this is bad, this is terribly bad.

(02:13:31):
Here she was pronounced dead afterwards. This guy's obviously toast,
as should be the case. Das Joseph Haupin is his name.

Speaker 14 (02:13:40):
Man.

Speaker 2 (02:13:41):
They would't even play the nine one one call. I
don't know if I should bring it up. I mean,
it's curse words. From what I understand, is it hold on?

Speaker 1 (02:13:52):
Yeah, they only played just the very beginning of it
because he called nine one one after he had shot her,
and he said he had cocked the gun in some
thing went wrong. I'm bringing up another story on this, huh.
All right, I'll see if I can find this portion
of it. If it's worth playing. Maybe it's not. Maybe
it's just like terrible, but I'll take a look at

(02:14:13):
that as we roll on. We want to hear from
you during the show today. It's easy for you to
get your thoughts on the program. All you have to
do is record a video or audio dispatch at thenewsjunkie
dot com or fire off an email tips at thenewsjunkie
dot com. When we come back, we'll talk about something
that's going to make its way onto the ballot in
twenty twenty six. We'll get into your feedback on all

(02:14:37):
things that we've discussed on the show today. We'll get
into Pharrell showing up with the comment that I absolutely
fundamentally support something that happened to us school. We'll do
a grab bag segment to work all of this in,
and that is coming up next in the News junk ye.

Speaker 3 (02:15:08):
One thing I.

Speaker 1 (02:15:08):
See a lot of people talking about these days is
how many movies have flopped this year. And I didn't
realize it was quite as bad as I guess it is.
But the amount of movies with huge celebrities that have
failed at the box office this year has been bigger
than almost any other year before, and you can blame

(02:15:29):
a million things. Are your shake up in the box
office there, You can blame a million things for this,
But I think mostly people miss the boat when they
do this.

Speaker 3 (02:15:39):
I'm trying to bring up this exact article here.

Speaker 6 (02:15:43):
Be just like less people going to the movies, Like
when you're saying flop, Like, are we talking the budget
versus the box office take?

Speaker 2 (02:15:54):
Or how many people are showing up versus other years?

Speaker 1 (02:15:57):
No, it's everything on the front of the box. There
are so many issues. Here's the story. It says, twenty
five movies, many stars, zero hits, Hollywood falls to new
Low's and I'll just get.

Speaker 3 (02:16:14):
To do a little bit of this sea.

Speaker 2 (02:16:14):
Get an idea what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 (02:16:16):
It says some were heavily marketed, many of them were
championed by critics, most had star power, But not one
of the twenty five dramas and comedies that movie companies
released in North American theaters over the last three months
have become a hit, certainly not in the way that
Hollywood is historically kept score. Some have played to near
empty auditoriums, including After the Hunt starring Julia Roberts Christy

(02:16:39):
with Swidney Seny Sweeney, Sidney Sweeney, Excuse Me and Die
My Love featuring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. To succeed
in theaters today, dramas and comedies must have event status,
something truly elevated and special.

Speaker 6 (02:16:53):
You know, so you can have Christy. I tend to
think that the Rocks version of that he did a
movie movie that was a boxing movie that I haven't
heard a whole lot about that one. The Smashing Machine.
Oh no, that was a failure. Yeah that was And
for me, they try to figure out what's going on here.
For me, it's all about the story. Who cares about

(02:17:13):
this person that the Rock was.

Speaker 2 (02:17:14):
Playing in the Smashing Machine?

Speaker 1 (02:17:16):
Who cares about Sidney Sweeney and this person who I'm
sure had a great story, but that she was portraying
on the big screen. There's not enough interest in the plot.
You put a Predator movie out there. The Predator movie
is doing great. People want to see the Predator movie.
You have a movie this year that I don't even
I don't even think had a major star in it.

Speaker 3 (02:17:38):
No, it did.

Speaker 1 (02:17:38):
It did have a couple of decent names in it,
but not a huge, huge, huge, huge Hollywood name. Not
an A lister. The movie Weapons has been one of
the most successful movies.

Speaker 2 (02:17:49):
Of the year. But it's a good story.

Speaker 4 (02:17:51):
It is a great story, not a lot of information
when it came to the trailer.

Speaker 1 (02:17:56):
It's not political, it's not there's nothing about it that
is the divisive in any way. It was a movie
that came out people said that looks interesting, I want
to go see that. And the movie Weapons has made
a ton of money over the course of the year,
but a lot of these other ones usually they say, well,
why didn't work. Why didn't work is because they didn't

(02:18:17):
properly target an audience, they said. Julia Roberts movie After
the Hunt, it cost seventy million to make and made
three point three million dollars after playing for a month
at the box office at about that's about a college
professor combating cancel culture, and it was a catastrophe. It's
like a college professor in the middle of the me

(02:18:39):
too movement with Julia Roberts trying to like walk a
fine line.

Speaker 2 (02:18:44):
No one cares.

Speaker 1 (02:18:46):
Nobody cares about that Kiss of the Spider Woman, which
was like this j Lo movie about gay people who
fall in love behind bars after one of them was
convicted of being with an underage person or something. It's
a famous based on a famous story in Latin America,
but nobody knows what that is. At the United States

(02:19:07):
box office, nobody wanted to go see j Low's movie.
It cost thirty million dollars. It made one point six
million in ticket sales. But the other movies that are
not like that, Predator bad Lands, for example, huge money
coming in for that weapons is I said, huge money
coming in.

Speaker 2 (02:19:24):
For that movie.

Speaker 1 (02:19:25):
It's not even about just the celebrities being attached to it.
People are tired of the same crap over and over.
People are tired of the heavy handed messaging in the movies.
People want to buy a ticket and go on a
fun ride. That is it. That is what folks want
to do. They want to buy a ticket, They want
to go on a fun ride.

Speaker 3 (02:19:46):
Oh damn. Twenty five movies, zero hits.

Speaker 6 (02:19:50):
Another thing on another movie on this list that I
kind of thought it was last year, but maybe it
was just so early this year that it seems too
long ago.

Speaker 3 (02:19:58):
Snow White right a.

Speaker 1 (02:20:00):
Time, miserably the reboot of Snow White, because Rachel Zegler
went out there and became the center of a firestorm
with some of her comments about how she thought the
whole thing was creepy and it needed to be reworked,
and then it just ended up being a bomb, a
bomb for them. And there's just a never ending train

(02:20:20):
of not even just sequels now.

Speaker 3 (02:20:23):
But for instance, I don't know if you guys saw
this The Rock.

Speaker 1 (02:20:25):
In twenty twenty six, they've already released the trailers for
the live action Mohanna.

Speaker 3 (02:20:33):
The first Mohanna came No. Number one.

Speaker 1 (02:20:36):
The first Mohana came out I think less than ten
years ago or so. The second Mohana came out a
couple of years back and was successful, even though it
was not nearly as good as the first one. And
now they're doing a live action version with the rock
of the first one, and they're releasing that next year.
It's like, not only can we not come up with
new ideas, but Disney, even Disney is just taking established

(02:21:00):
animated things and putting some human beings in them.

Speaker 2 (02:21:02):
But what just did really well Leelo and Stitch.

Speaker 1 (02:21:06):
Stitch did do very well, and the Moana live action
will still do well, It will still perform really well.
But I think overall there's a desire for something new.
I think people want like new stuff, fun stuff. They
want something great and they're not getting enough uniqueness at
the box office. Moana will always do well, at least

(02:21:30):
until they bomb a bunch in a row, because families
are going to.

Speaker 2 (02:21:33):
Go see the movie.

Speaker 1 (02:21:35):
Little girls want to go see the movie, little kids
want to go see the movie, and that will still work.
But some of these other ones have just failed miserably.
And let us know if you have any thoughts on
why this may have went down, we want to hear
from you. Send us a dispatch over at thenewsjunkie dot
com dotnewsjunkie dot com anonymous emails about the Carnival Cruise

(02:21:55):
line situation. Hey Sean, in regards to the sad situation
and mysteries or the death of Anna Kepner, My guess
is that she and her stepbrother had a connecting state
room so the parents could have their own accommodations. Carnival
Cruzes has birthing policies for miners sailing on their ships
even when parents and guardians are on board, and they

(02:22:18):
said guests of fourteen years of age or younger must
be booked with a relative or guardian. Guests of fifteen
to seventeen years of age can be separated by up
to three staterooms with a relative or guardian, and they must.

Speaker 3 (02:22:29):
Be linked to travel with.

Speaker 1 (02:22:30):
Guests of eighteen to twenty years don't have any restrictions,
So if you're over eighteen, you're fine, but if you're
a teenager, there's a lot of restrictions on where you
could stay. This person says, I'm interested in hearing more
about this story.

Speaker 3 (02:22:43):
Me too.

Speaker 1 (02:22:43):
It's been a really interesting one to watch. Let us
know what you think. Send your dispatch over at thenewschunkie
dot com right now. And finally, before we take a break,
we talked about this on the show a long time ago.
We talked about this on the show a while and
now there's been an update. Remember the astronaut hacking story

(02:23:06):
from space. I believe it was like this lesbian astronaut
and she was the first person convicted of hacking from space. Yeah,
because they said she was in a fight with her
wife down on planet Earth and she accessed her bank
account from space.

Speaker 2 (02:23:26):
They were like in the midst of a divorce, were
they not? Yes?

Speaker 1 (02:23:29):
Remember that whole drama from that story was a big thing.
The woman who claimed her astronaut wife was hacking her
bank account from space has just finally pleaded guilty to
lying about the whole thing. She was lying about this.

Speaker 2 (02:23:44):
Where did she get charged?

Speaker 1 (02:23:47):
She says summer Heather Warden approached the FTC Federal Trade
Commission and said her wife, an astronaut, guess her password
to her bank account and hacked into her account. Was
engaging in a custody dispute over their son, who was
six years old at the time.

Speaker 6 (02:24:03):
I think they she said that it wasn't a guest,
like she was given the password or something, and we
talked a little bit about this on Monday, but like
the allegation was that it was a hack, but she
was supposed to just have access the whole time.

Speaker 1 (02:24:18):
So so what they're saying is they both had like
a password that they were aware of, and accessing that
account wouldn't be considered a hack.

Speaker 2 (02:24:25):
See.

Speaker 6 (02:24:25):
I always think that's such a weird gray area because
it's like, say, I were to we were good to
get done with the show today, and then they walked
me into the office and like, all right, you're done,
Like we're doing some cutbacks see later, Sea Lane. You know,
we'll send out an email with nice, nice things to
say about you. And then I accessed my email and

(02:24:48):
turns out they haven't turned it off yet. I think
that's still unauthorized access, even though I didn't hack anything.

Speaker 2 (02:24:56):
I didn't joint bank account, right, and.

Speaker 1 (02:25:01):
Then you both should have access to it, right.

Speaker 2 (02:25:03):
Yeah, as a married couple, you.

Speaker 1 (02:25:08):
Know what put her on the MO list. That's a
good question for him to see what happens. Like if
you're a husband or a wife and you know your
significant other's password, but you guys are going through divorce
or something, can you still access those accounts?

Speaker 3 (02:25:22):
What?

Speaker 1 (02:25:23):
What are the rules on that? But we'll have to
ask Moses about that. We'll put that on the list.

Speaker 2 (02:25:28):
She lied, though, it is worth mentioning that she made
the whole thing up.

Speaker 3 (02:25:31):
Yeah, she is claiming.

Speaker 1 (02:25:32):
She has pled guilty to to lying about that to
the Federal Trade Commission.

Speaker 2 (02:25:37):
All right, when we come back, we're going to.

Speaker 1 (02:25:38):
Do the final dispatch of stories that didn't make the cut.
And today I learned to wrap everything up for a
Wednesday that is coming up next in the news. Chunky,

(02:26:03):
so good to be with you today. Hope everything is
well in your world. If it's not.

Speaker 3 (02:26:06):
Don't worry.

Speaker 1 (02:26:07):
Good news is as always right around the corner. Stick
with us to talk about everything happening viral on planet Earth,
all the weird, the good, the bad, the ugly before
you hear it anywhere else, right here on the show.
And if you missed anything from today, you can always
go back and subscribe to the podcast to that over
at thenewsjunkie dot com.

Speaker 2 (02:26:27):
Final Dispatch Dom.

Speaker 1 (02:26:28):
He's on the final Dispatches, But Sean will probably only.

Speaker 3 (02:26:33):
To probably, let's see what we have. Do we have
enough time for more than one?

Speaker 2 (02:26:40):
Not really, let's do to.

Speaker 1 (02:26:42):
Studio who's talking about the singing sheriff at the beginning
of the show.

Speaker 3 (02:26:46):
Hey, everyone, how's it going?

Speaker 2 (02:26:47):
Hey? Good here?

Speaker 23 (02:26:49):
Hey, back in the day, I don't know if you
guys remember a little show called Alimedade. Well, we used
to watch it on the ring and get our daily
cringe if we can use those words anymore barely. I
remember it was the first time that I felt genuinely
embarrassed for what was happening to the people on the screen,
and watching the sheriff sing creep, I got the chills,
and all those.

Speaker 3 (02:27:09):
Memories just rush back in.

Speaker 23 (02:27:11):
That was totally bogus.

Speaker 1 (02:27:13):
That was a bad decision on that sheriff's part. I
don't know if I still have that around, but if
you got at the beginning of the show, you can
you can hear it.

Speaker 6 (02:27:23):
It would have been so much worse for that sheriff.
It was like operation that's the end of the world
as we know it. And I feel fun.

Speaker 4 (02:27:32):
Too.

Speaker 1 (02:27:33):
I can't there's a lot of stuff I can't get.
And there was an interesting farrel comment that I can't
work in. Today they had a school day at this
one school. I don't know why they would even do this,
where you can use anything but a backpack, and kids
brought like the front bumper of a car, giant nets, buckets, shopping.

Speaker 3 (02:27:51):
Cards, coulers.

Speaker 1 (02:27:54):
Somebody's got a refrigerator it's ansaved. Somebody brought a bo
as their backpack. Somebody brought a little kid's play kitchen.

Speaker 3 (02:28:05):
Oh, hold on, Jackson has a right horse? Is stupid horse?

Speaker 2 (02:28:10):
I'm in anything but a backpack.

Speaker 1 (02:28:12):
Day of fun times, but probably gonna get canceled eventually.

Speaker 2 (02:28:16):
Here.

Speaker 1 (02:28:17):
All right, let's get the hell out of here. Let's
wrap it up today, let's do today.

Speaker 23 (02:28:21):
I learned the following information may make you feel smarter,
but will not actually increase.

Speaker 2 (02:28:25):
Your IQ, so don't get cocky.

Speaker 3 (02:28:28):
It's done what we call today.

Speaker 1 (02:28:32):
It is today I learned for a Wednesday, November nineteenth,
twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (02:28:37):
Today learned the show Jackass. Jackass is right.

Speaker 1 (02:28:41):
The original cast of Jackass included a female cast member. However,
she was brutally injured during a stunt and left the
group right off the jump. It did not work out well,
which is unfortunate because the other guys who did some
damage to themselves made a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (02:28:58):
Tonner in this band right here, the other one, Chris knows.
We talked about this metal band today. Slip Slip is correct.

Speaker 1 (02:29:09):
Yes, it's Slipknot X Justin Bieber. Slipknot's third album has
no profanity because they said. Critics said vocalist Corey Taylor
over relied on swearing in his lyrics, and he said,
I won't take that. He did another album with no cursing,
still successful. I guess, thank you so much for hanging
out with us.

Speaker 3 (02:29:28):
We do. We do appreciate him.

Speaker 2 (02:29:30):
We'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place.

Speaker 3 (02:29:32):
Missed Eddy of the show.

Speaker 1 (02:29:33):
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Speaker 3 (02:29:35):
We'll see you next time. Everybody, I'm