C-Lane Jumps In

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He is Monday, November seventeenth, twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Lots to get to today, from Trump Trump changing his
tone on the Epstein Files to a politician caught looking
at boobs on a plane and the worst auction idea.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Ever, plus your calls, dispatches, emails, texts and more. Hey
there Sabrina. Hello, what's going on? Josh? Should be? And
hello to you. You can join us on the show today.
All you gotta do is send a dispatch. Head on
over to thenewsjunkie dot com. Hit record on your first
dispatch today. You can also watch the show on YouTube
and twitch dot tv. Slash the news Junkie. Your message

(00:38):
is rolling right into the studio in real time. How's
everybody doing on a Monday?

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Ready to party?

Speaker 1 (00:45):
You had a pretty busy weekend, I think, right?

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Who me?

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (00:49):
You sure did, I would say, mostly surrounding the semifinals
for the NWSL Championship, right Orlando prior up?

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Did you do any warped touring?

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Oh no, I did try very hard on Saturday. But
you know things that now swallow through.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
A lot of people in my social media feed were
very much reliving their high school years.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Eighty thousand people were there and it looked awesome. And
I also have to give a shout out to Wall
Street because they had like a pre warped tour party.
And I saw a man I think, and for the
first time in many years without cops trying to get
them down on.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Top of one of the poles, just.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Then slammed his body on people's faces.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
All right, it was rock and roll, it was. It
was a big festival. I looked at the lineup. I
knew a lot of the bands on there. I did
not know a lot of the bands of how many
did you know? Hot Shot shown and I'll tell you.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
It's a lot that we listened to growing up, And
there were somewhere I said, I feel like.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
My age is showing a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
I did also, speaking of age, I tuned into the
live stream and I was like fully laying down eating
pasta off my chest. There was a bowl and then
one song I knew it was like, Babe, this is
when I was in Sopoboorn in high school. And then
rock down went right back to sleep.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Oh good for you that I didn't even know they
were live streaming it until the last band was playing.
I think, but a lot of people went and checked
that out over the weekend. Let us know, if you
were at Warped Tour you were talking about Wall Street.
They have a whole warped tour bar there. Now, Oh yeah,
the Warped poor poor I have not I have not
been playing. They were. They were interviewing some guy on

(02:33):
the news and it just seemed a little sad because
he was like, Yo, we're trying to tell people to
downtown it is cool again. And so this has just
been a really big weekend for us, and I was.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
Like, I mean downtown it it looked like Wall Street
was banging good for them.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Uh, let's put our ears to the ground, our fingers
on the pulse, let's see what's happening in this great, big,
wide world of ours. And we go to Venezuela, where
there was the be I believe this is the president.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Was to a controversial president, mind you was.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
He was doing a rally and he was trying to
call for peace as the Trump administration bolsters a military
presidence off the coast in an effort to curb drug trafficking,
and he broke into song. Here is President Maduro of Venezuela.

(03:31):
I did it too too late. Second task peace, peace Peace.
You got that point? Yeah, he said that do everything
for peace. John Lennon used to say.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
That sing song.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Of people, he didn't quite get it right, imagining us people.
They had try They had the music ready for him,
so it seemed like it was planned, but he did
not have the lyrics quite ready.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Did he not catch the COVID video in.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Which maybe he thought that he could soar where others failed,
you know, like he could, but now he's he could
raise up where others, you know, just were not doing
very great with the Corvid thing. I have I have
a runner up for the opening clip because I loved
this over the weekend, pulled up Instagram and looked on

(04:31):
barstool Sports, and I said, hey, I know where that is.
There is a young lady who was being challenged by
a man who thought that that she did not know
the name of her team's quarterback. First of all, have
you seen this video? You're a Dolphins fan?

Speaker 3 (04:51):
How?

Speaker 1 (04:52):
How Tao?

Speaker 3 (04:54):
How?

Speaker 1 (04:55):
How? What quarterback? Dow? Quarterback? How that's Josh? Have you
seen this?

Speaker 5 (05:01):
No?

Speaker 1 (05:01):
I haven't. Do you do you know the name of
the Miami Dolphins quarterback to a to a what to
tag lea something? All right, let's it's it's a Polynesian
last name. Listen to this woman quarterback. Did you know.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
I know.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
That was a young woman and you you guys recognize
that area they're at, right, your quarterbacks? Did you know.

Speaker 6 (05:29):
I know.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
That is downtown Orlando outside Casey's on Central where.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
There were three of us.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
The three of us just were there a matter of
weeks ago to uh kind of throw some back after
the big Ross event. That was where that was. I
forgot about that, that about us being.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
There, Yeah, just for a minute.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
And uh, that young lady posted that on Instagram and
it has since been picked up.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
By the direct quote to how about that bitch?

Speaker 1 (06:00):
No, that's his last name, Tago Viola bitch, looa bitch.
Many people were impressed at her her very correct pronunciation
of to his name, and uh that but that was.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
I couldn't even get the first name right.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
I saw that on Barstool Sports, and I went, oh,
I know exactly where that is. And it took me
a second to realize it was Barstool that it even
posted it, because I thought it was just a random
video from downtown Orlando.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
And you gotta love moments like that. I got very excited.
And it was many years ago now where the Easter
a man dressed as the Eastern b the famous Easter
Bunny Brawl, got it in a fight defending I think
a woman who's getting her ass kicked by her boyfriend
or something like that. And I'm like, well, look at
that right in front of set comedy Lab.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
How fun we may And also congratulations to and the
Miami Dolphins for finally winning second in a row. But
the very first NFL game in Madrid, Spain and Hispana.
They played at Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. Why was it?

(07:16):
I don't know. I'm not looking at the word questioning.
Your pronunciation is all babu bay. I'm i'm uh. I'm
giving myself a dang on that one. That one. I
nailed that the game, Miami Dolphins defeating the Washington Commanders
sixteen to thirteen in overtime, led by one mister. First

(07:37):
ever NFL regular season games to be played in Spain.
I have great news for a lot of people, but
mostly me, great news for a lot a lot of
people about you. Yeah, this one's This one's going to
be a little bit for me, because the Federal Aviation
Administration said Sunday it's lifting all restrictions on commercial flights

(08:00):
if you were worried about your traveling, which mostly my
wife was, uh, the ones that were imposed at forty
major airports during the country's longest government shut down. Airlines
were told they could resume their regular schedules beginning this
morning at six am. The announces made in a joyt
statement by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy of real real world fame,

(08:22):
which there every once in a while we bring that
up and there's people that get so pissed off. He's
more than just the real world guy. Oh yeah, guy,
he is. He's he's a Transportation secretary, say with me,
but also real world and also FAA Administrator Brian Bedford.
They said the staffing shortages were a big concern at

(08:42):
ATC facilities during the shutdown, but now everything should be
fine and everybody should be able to do their regular
amount of flying, which is nice because the holidays coming again.
I'm leaving, No, I'm leaving Thursday morning, even Thursday morning.
Leave this guy to the I got to go places too.
You know, I'm gonna go U celebrate our wedding anniversary

(09:06):
in New York City.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
Happy anniversary.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Going to a Broadway show for the first time? Which one?

Speaker 3 (09:12):
You've never been to a Broadway show?

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Not on Broadway?

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Oh hod damn? What are you gonna go see?

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Hadestown? No, Hadestown, which I've never seen before, but apparently
Hades it's uh, it's the story of the old the
devil story, you know, Persephone where they You're not supposed
to look back that one. No, No, that's which in

(09:36):
Greek myth of Orpheus and your you're redese.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Oh wow, good luck, you're gonna I'm gonna have to
look at real und track on the plane on the
way or if.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
That was available or no, it was just one we
hadn't seen before. She actually might have seen before. I
don't know she picked it. I've done very little planning
in this whole thing. But we're going to haities down
and eating at some ridiculous restaurants while we're gonna be there,
some credit cards should be fair. You got it. Let's
take a look at the box office numbers. Big upset

(10:09):
because Glenn Powell's running Man was supposed to be like
the big one over the weekend, and it got slammed
by Now you See Me, Now You Don't, the third
installment and the Now you See Me franchise. What was
there still going?

Speaker 3 (10:25):
It got beat out by a thrice movie.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yes, we just watched the Now you See Me movies
again recently, and I think they're not great, but they're
somehow fun to watch. I don't get it. I don't
get why. Like I sit there, I go, this is
not a great it's a great movie, but it's fun
to watch.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
I remember watching in theaters and it was a long
time ago. And then I started to rewatch, but I
was maybe ten minutes in thinking it was that one
where they count the cards and Kevin Spacey's and one
yeah yeah. So after I realize it's not twenty one,
I shut it down.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
So you're not You're not not and Now you See Me?
And does Nicole like Now you See Me?

Speaker 3 (11:11):
No, she likes to see the stuff all the time,
you know, before after and now am I right?

Speaker 1 (11:18):
She doesn't like the Now you Don't part. The Ruben
Flesher directed Now You See Me three top domestic charts,
with an estimated twenty one point three million dollars, over
running Man's seventeen million dollars. And the reason I asked
if you and Nicole were into it because the reason
it's getting so much play in the box office numbers

(11:40):
lest no females just in general, females are turning up Magic. Yeah,
we do. Females are turning out in droves to see
the third installment and the long dormant franchise about the
group of thieving musicians. Uh, they're responsible for fifty four
of all tickets sold so far. I guess, like Now

(12:00):
You See Me. They like the kid that played Mark Zuckerberg,
Jesse Eisenberg. Jesse Eisenberg is in it. I don't you
don't like him?

Speaker 3 (12:09):
I mean he's fine, just like he played the same
role every time.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
I'm just like a neurotic jew spluttering and uh wow,
that's interesting.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Now I got magic.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
But he's always very super serious in his roles. I
don't know. This is like the only other thing that
I really know him from besides Now You See Me.
In fact, I used to get him confused with Michael Sarah,
like all the time, there are two different Michael Sarah
is actually funny. Yeah, but they both have curly hair,
and I just didn't really pay much attention to their faces.
They all look the same. This was before I watched

(12:40):
Arrest of Development. Like I'm talking like I only knew
Michael Sarah from well, I thought the Social network, But
I was wrong. Juno was one of them too. They
said bad females bought up fifty four percent of all
tickets sold so far in North America. Solid exit scores
among moviegoers are making up for Soso. Reviews he plusing
him a score in eighty percent audience on Rotten Tomatoes.

(13:03):
Running Man, led by Glenn Powell, who I watched on
SNL over the weekend, pretty good, I thought. I thought
him bringing up his ups driver bit was kind of funny.
Not everybody thought that.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Didn't he get some heat for something he did?

Speaker 1 (13:16):
I think it was that. I mean, there might have
been other things. I don't know, but I guess the
whole story was he was supposed to host SNL like
right around like the top gun time, and then COVID
hit and they had to be like, no, we're not
We're not doing this can host And they waited five
years to bring him back, which seemed kind of rude

(13:39):
because he was like super excited about it, and the
ups driver rolled up to deliver packages and they're all
celebrating in the front yard and taking selfies and stuff,
and he's like, what's what's the big deal, And he's like,
I'm hosting SNL And then he never did for five years.
That'll teach you. But they said the Running Man's exits mirror.

(14:01):
Now you see me. One big difference the gender breakdown.
The Running Man is skewing male, but they are also
competing with Predator bad Lands, who is number three in
the box office. So the females did it for now
you see me, Now.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
You don't Mechi Glass Ceiling.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
I thought that they were done with that series meresitor, No, no,
the now you see Me? Oh yeah, me too. I
thought like that was over. In fact, I thought they
should have called the first one now or the second one.
Now you don't because just made sense. Now you see
me too. I believe it was just nice.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
There might have been, now you hear me, Niceth else.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Anyway, we got a lot to get to on the show. Today.
We'll get to your dispatches. You can send dispatches into
the news Junkie Dot com We're gonna figure out what's
going on with Reverend Jesse Jackson. Is he on life support?
Some people are saying yes, he is in the hospital.
There's a vegan restaurant who tried to make a big
change and is very surprised that people are mad at them.
And when we come back, a very very, a terrible, terrible, terrible,

(15:02):
no good, very bad idea for an auction, that auction
has been canceled. We'll find out why. That's all coming
up next, plus your dispatches on the news.

Speaker 7 (15:10):
Junkie supposed to be going to see the Beach Boys.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
I'm sorry what that was the big he decided. He
decided that he hadn't taken a day off in a while,
and he said, I want to go see the Beach
Boys at Epcot, and they played yesterday. So we're kind
of wondering when he.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Was getting slammed at the Beach Boys concert.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Maybe I don't know. I wanted to know because I
think one of the biggest letdowns going to see a
concert is not hearing your favorite song, and I think
the only one he wants to hear is Cocomo, and
I don't I do have a couple set lists from yesterday.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Cocamo in Cocamo, no, Coco no, I want to say cocono,
but Ito, it looks like it looks like how could
they not do it?

Speaker 1 (16:16):
I mean, how could they not play Cocomo?

Speaker 3 (16:18):
That's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
It doesn't look like they did any of the things that. Oh,
this is a this is a list of hits right here.
I mean, these are just banger after banger. So if
you're on your way to to Beach Boys, you know,
just mute for a couple of seconds. California Girls. Wouldn't
it be nice? A surfing USA? Oh yeah, good vibrations.
Don't worry, baby, little deuce Coop. I get around with

(16:42):
my my mother had I get around on forty five
and I played the hell out of that thing. God
only knows. Cocomo and fun, Fun Fun. Those are just
all like hits. Oh no, no, no. I don't know
if you heard Sabrina, But Brian Wilson is dead. I
know this is something we covered ad nauseum. Brian Brian

(17:04):
Wilson of the Beach Boys no longer with us. But
there's like a you know, one or two Beach Boys
still around. And then there's John Stamos. John Stamos will
be on stage with them at EPCOT. At least, at
least according to the social media somebody who was also
still with us but got a little banged up. We
taught Friday about Senator John Fetterman. Uh. He had had

(17:27):
himself a little tumble. He fell near his home in
Braddock because of a probably probably was wearing basketball shorts.
He had ventricular fibrillation, which.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
Is if we have a commercial about that.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Now, that's atrial fibrillation. Atril fibrillation is the one that
your Apple watch checks forbar spaghetti. That's another.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
It's a hard losing breath reading a book.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
That is what a trial fibrillation tends to producing in
some people. At least millions suffer every year, at least
the ones that.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Tried to read a book while eating spaghetti. You're dead.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
No, it's making spaghetti. It was you have to You
have to eating the spaghetti.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
Probably though I almost lost my broath eating agent.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
Oh myn god, that's what I called. You call what?

Speaker 5 (18:25):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Betterman posted on x he posted a picture of his face.
He looked a little banged up. Let's see if FA
or news Ate NBC.

Speaker 5 (18:36):
Has this Western Pennsylvania after a fall that sentence to
the hospital. Earlier this week, the Democratic sender posted body
sharing that he received twenty stitches, but he has recovered
from that fall.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
I think it just cropped it like he just took
the picture really close, because I don't think he was
holding a coffee. I don't think they gave you like
Starby's for your mugshot, and.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
You know you like onepuccino before you're jailed.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
But no, he said he got twenty stitches. He was
at home recovering from the fall. The ventricular fibrillation is
like a different side of the heart than the atrial.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
But I know both of them make you pass.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
I don't think you want any fibrillation is the general rule.
You want no fib Fetterman saying I'm overwhelmed and profoundly
grateful for all the well wishes. That guy can't can't
catch a break, sometimes not at all. Fetterman was famously
let's let's do good, let's do good stuff for America.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
Yes, but right after saying that, or right before was
a stroke or something along those line.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, I know he had that too. Over to Disney Plus,
are you guys both Disney Plus subscribers at all, No,
neither of you. No, I don't want to pay for that.
I have to be because I have a child. Yes
you have, I have a child. I have a child.
Make you love and child.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
As a matter of fact, I know a friend who's
borrowing someone else's log in.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Got it? Okay, As far as.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
That package goes, I am trying to stay away as
much as possible because I got Hulu when it first
came out.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
I was just told that we switched to the bundle.
I was tell you have ads now, no no ads,
but like we bundled it with Hulu because we already
had Hulu. But now they're coming out and this this
sounds really dumb, especially coming from a streaming service that
just doubled in price for some people. There was this

(20:35):
huge outrage on Disney Plus and people were posting their
emails from iTunes or from the Apple Store saying like, hey,
here was the old Disney Plus price and now it's
going to be twice as much money to have Disney Plus.
And for that, I would say, if I'm going to
pay that much for Disney Plus, I would like you
to provide all the content you can pay other studios,

(20:57):
like you know, you can buy up marveled in Star Wars.
I think that's great. I think you can license movies
and that's great. But this thing, this that they've that
they've announced is stupid and not worth the money.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
Whole thing though, where you have to go into like
your YouTube account and claim a twenty dollars credit, but
it takes certain steps. That's that's something to do with Disney.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
That's the ES. That's for YouTube TV. If you're a
YouTube TV subscriber, there are some steps you can take
to get a twenty dollars credit for the time that
there were no ABC, ESPN, anything Disney owned, which included
Disney Channel, Disney Junior or any of the stuff that
a lot of the babies watch. A lot of mad
babies just pissed off. But Disney boss Bob Iiker has

(21:43):
said the company's streaming service will soon allow subscribers to
create and view AI generated content. Why exactly, I mean,
it's can you pay for that you're paying to create
and also watch other people's creations. Speaking during the company's
latest earning call, like i said Disney Plus would change

(22:03):
to also host user generated content for the first time.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
That they own completely if you want to host it.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
There sort of well, I mean sort of making it
into a YouTube, which YouTube has a paid tier, but
I think it's not as much as Disney Plus's paid
tier is, and that's just to remove ads from the
user generated content. This you're already paying for and they're
going to start it looks like flooding you with a

(22:30):
bunch of AI slop that may or may not feature
Disney IP. So it says they'll be able to host
user generated content and a step that looks to set
open the floodgates, fans can make their own creations featuring
the likes of Darth Vader, Ironman, and characters from Frozen Cool.

(22:50):
They're in the midst of rolling out the biggest and
most significant changes from product perspective, they say.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
I mean, cable was looking a little bit more and more,
and this stuff starts to pile on, they said.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
The exact details still to be announced. Iiger suggested Disney's
Plus subscribers would be able to generate and share content,
including short form videos. Basically, they're going to have shorts now,
and there's going to be an aspect to it and
what you're are what you're paying them for now is
not strictly their content, but they're wanting other people to

(23:24):
fill in some of the blanks.

Speaker 5 (23:25):
There.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
There was an auction, very terrible idea for an auction
in Germany, and uh, well, they've never had bad ideas
in Germany. This is actually funny you bring that up.
Poland's foreign minister said Sunday that an offensive auction there there,
they've canceled it. There were very sorry, there's they said

(23:50):
nine nine not going to happen. An offensive auction of
Holocaust artifacts has been canceled in in Germany following complaints
from Holocaust survivors. They made the comments on the X
platform that Radoslaw Sikorski, which is Poland's foreign minister, said

(24:11):
he and German Foreign Minister Johann Wadfool agreed that such
a scandal must be prevented at pity. Earlier, a Holocaust
survivor's group called in German auction house Spoutsman to cancel
Monday's sale of hundreds of artifacts, including this is like
even reading this, I don't know how this got as

(24:32):
far as it did because it just sounds like very
sad and just got a terrible idea.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
Go ahead, did you just climax.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Hundreds of Holocaust artifacts, including letters written by prisoners and
other documents that identify many people by name. A listing
on the auction house said that all that stuff was
gone by mid afternoon. They didn't immediately respond to calls.
Six over six hundred lots of items.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
And if someone bought it all up.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
No, they canceled it. They were going to sell it.
They were going to see how much they could get
for it. Letters written by prisoners from concentration camps, the
loved ones at home, Gestapo index cards, Yeah, I didn't
even know they had Gestapo index cards, and other perpetrator documents.
The auction was titled the System of Terror. But it
is all right?

Speaker 3 (25:24):
So what are they doing with that stuff?

Speaker 1 (25:26):
I don't know it to a museum. You would think
it should be in a museum. It belongs to get it.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
To the families of the people next of kin.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
That says, the documents of persecution in the Holocaust belonged
to the families of the victims. They should be displayed
in museums or memorial exhibitions that do have to pay
an entry fee for and not degraded to mere commodities.
I think I'd rather pay an entry fee to see
them and contribute to their preservation then buy it up
to what put on display at your house. It just

(25:59):
seems like a really gross thing. And where was that
money going to. I don't know whoever told those things
right now, and so there canceled that. They said, we're sorry,
that was a bad idea. We apologize my bad. Also,
Reverend Jesse Jackson is in the news. There's been a

(26:19):
back and forth on whether or not he's on life support. Oh,
the civil rights leader remains hospitalized. He's receiving care to
manage his blood pressure, sources close to his family told
CNN on Sunday, and the statement released the family said
he is breathing on his own, which was separate than
another report that was released.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
He was not. That's very particular news.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Without there was another report that said he was on
life support and his breath was on the assistance of machines.
The separate source added he had been receiving medication to
raise his blood pressure, which is a form of life support.
In the last twenty four hours, his condition is improved.
He's been able to maintain stable blood pressure without the
assistance of occasion, but further details about his condition have

(27:03):
not been released. Jackson is how old eighty seven, Josh
eighty six. He is eighty four, eighty four years young,
the Reverend Reverend Jesse Jackson. One of my favorite SNL
bits that he was a part of was when they
had him on a weekend update just to read Green

(27:26):
Eggs and Ham. They just had Reverend Jesse Jackson opened
the book. He read the entire book in like sounded
like black preacher sermon form all them in a house
a not eat them with a mouse. It kind of

(27:47):
like that.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
You get the.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
Nothing wrong with that. There's also nothing wrong with this thing.
I think this is a city in Oklahoma is doing
something nice. The holidays are coming up. All of the
stores right now. I don't know how much grocery shopping
you guys do, but I'm seeing that they want you
to be buying your turkeys last week. Oh I'm late,

(28:13):
so I.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Had early Thanksgiving, which I guess okay, I think a.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Lot of people do friends Giving early, so maybe they're
trying to jump on that trend.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
Maybe also, I need a place to go during actual Thanksgiving.
You do there's any friendsgivings we can go to.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
I'll let you know. I think I might be by myself,
well with the baby. Oh good, you got custody for
They might just be you know, no pants giving. Excuse me,
no pants just pants giving. That that didn't come out right.
Shirts off anyway? Shirts, Yeah, guys doing guy things. Me

(28:54):
and the baby just hanging out. Just pants, just pants.
Stop wait to way, stop making it weird. Anyway. A
city in Oklahoma, because the holidays are coming up, they're
letting people do something. I hadn't heard of this before,
but it's a great idea. If you if you're getting
if you're getting a traffic ticket or a library fine,

(29:16):
people still have to pay those ners. People in Chickashaw
or Chickasha, a city in Oklahoma, can bring non perishable
food items to either the municipal court or the public
library to reduce or eliminate their fines. At the municipal
court each food donated. Each donated item knocks ten dollars

(29:36):
off your traffic violation.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
So if you get like a bulk size of Ramen noodles.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
And then just well I think you open it so
that it's one each package That's what I was wondering, Like,
is one item each cam if buy? You know, if
I have a two hundred dollars fine, and I can
just like or.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
Maybe get credits for twenty late book, twenty cans of
green beans or something.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
I don't know if they can give you credits for
speeding tickets, but they said, oh, ten dollars off the
traffic violations up to a maximum of one hundred bucks.
So if you get over one hundred dollars ticket, you
still have to pay some money at the library. Each
food donation reduces overdue book fines by two dollars per
How much is a library fine?

Speaker 3 (30:18):
That's been many years since I've been to the library.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
It depends how long you keep the.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Book kind of book too.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Maybe I don't know. There's a lot of stuff at
the library that's digital, and I don't get how they
still call it a rental, Like they still say, oh,
you're borrowing this from the library, and then.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
Ask its I guess I know exactly.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Twenty five cents to fifteen or fifty cents per day
per item at some library, gosh, not in Orange County.
We're fine free raking in the cash at the library.
We're fine. Free we don't have any fines. You can
keep the book forever. So that's just free books. Yeah,
free books, free books, free books, free books. What do
you want? Free books?

Speaker 3 (30:58):
Why make it look like I read when people visit it.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Oh, that is a nice touch. Having a bookshelf that
has a bunch of books.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
How many books that I have not read? But I've
got a book?

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Do you have like a you have a bookcase?

Speaker 3 (31:10):
Yeah? Oh, I have a bookcase. I have a like
a fun little book stack that has a candle on
top of it. Another bookstack that has a picture of
me and my mom and not one of them have
I read?

Speaker 1 (31:25):
All right, what are you gonna do? Well, you're gonna
we're gonna get to your dispatches in just a little bit.
Plus we're gonna talk about this vegan restaurant that was
trying to switch things up. People are not too happy
with them, and uh you so send your dispatching at
the news Junkie dot com. All that is coming up
next on the News Junkie. At the top of the hour,

(31:58):
we talked to Amy all Fell to Fox thirty five
from Good Day Orlando. See what's been going on with
her world. Uh, she was traveling a bit over the weekend.
I saw that she was up in Tallahassee for a
football game, all kinds of fun stuff. We'll check in
with her and huh uh oh, there you go. That's

(32:24):
cultural appropriation. I think I think the Seminoles are okay
with it. I think they think the tribe came out
and said we're good white men. But you know, well,
we'll check in with her and see how that was.
And then after that we got to talk about some
of this Epstein stuff. Was anybody happen exactly? How did

(32:46):
you not get any of that? If you were able
to manage to avoid any of the Epstein news over
the weekend, well good on you, I guess, because impressed
they were. There were memes galore, and I've seen a
whole bunch of them, and you know, send years if
you got a if you got one we haven't seen before.
Maybe I don't know, I gotta be appropriate though. Over

(33:09):
to Clovis, California, where we have actual good news and
there's a grandmother of the day, like a usual good grandmother,
I don't have the good news alert. So yes, Josh,
if you could recreate good news alert. Good news. Good
for that, you nailed it. Clovis grandmother is recovering Thursday
night after she was hit by a car while picking
up her granddaughter from Reagan Elementary School. How an incident,

(33:32):
police day, could have been far worse if not for
her quick actions. See According to the family members, the
grandmother pushed her young granddaughter out of the car's path
just moments before the car was to hit the young child.
It said something like we go, we're walking. A relative said,

(33:56):
she's just the best grandma that there is. She pushed
me the.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Worst if she didn't, she said, saving myself.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Yeah, she pushed my daughter out of the way. This
is the mother talking. Saved her life. If it wasn't
for her instinct, that grandmother instinct, my daughter wouldn't be
with us today. Which is like, first of all, this
was in the like the school pickup area. The car
was going fast enough to kill the child, but not
the grandmother.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
Oh, bigger's concerning.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
It's concerning that the car was going fast enough to
injure anybody, but the grandmother suffered. It says major injuries.
She was rushed to the hospital.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
Okay, but you get major injuries as a grandma if
you like, bump up against the counter as well.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Well true, not trying to find what the injuries for
the grandmother are just as major injuries Right now, the
young girl broke her clavicle but is now home healing.
The crash has renewed frustrations. Yeah, who say that this
avenue near Reagan Elementary has been unsafe for years? A

(34:59):
long time parent whose daughter attended the school said families
have repeatedly asked for a crosswalk or flashing lights or something.
It does not say what the exact injuries to the
grandmother are, but only that they were major and she
is going to be okay. They expect her to make
a full recovery. Good for you, grandma, And you know, well,
really just kind of sucks for this grandma is they're

(35:22):
saying she's such a hero. They don't say her name
at all. They don't say her name, They don't say
anything about her except that she straight up pushed her
granddaughter out of the way to avoid her getting hit
by this car and is going to make a recovery.
Do you guys do advent calendars some years? If I
find one in time, uh huh, I got one for you.

(35:44):
It's back. Everybody, you've been waiting for it. We've actually
had this at my house before. Somebody got this for us.
Total Wines Wine Adventure Advent Calendar is back this year.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
The festive box comes with twenty four mini bottles from
around the world, with Red's White Rosees and more. The
bottles are easy open twist sauce bottle. No, no, they're
mini bottles. They're they're smaller bottles. They're twenty four mini bottles.
I don't know the exact they're They're not like hotel size.
But because it's wine.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
Can you get drunk? That is the question.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
Yeah, you could get drunk. There's twenty four bottles of
wine in there, Sabrina. Yeah, you only get one a day.
You only get one a day if you follow the.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
Rules a calendar and you just drink it all in
one the simmer first right to Christmas.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
The box runs eighty dollars and usually sells out fast,
so you can maybe pick that up at Total Wine.
There's another one that I've seen going around, and the
Total Wine one, I know because I've had it every day,
is different. You don't know if you're gonna get like
a red or a white or whatever, and but it's
from around the world and there's variety. And then there's

(36:55):
the one I saw online that was the Melort Advent calendar,
and I think, like Mat and Savior, No, no, have
you not had Malart? No? Oh, we gotta we gotta
get you. My loort is a liqueur.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
Oh so it's like that weird, disgusting licoric.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
It's a little it's a little bitter, you know, it's
a little bit on the bitter Side's good.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
That's wrong with both of you know. I think it's
once again like the people who love extremely hot sauce, like, yeah,
I love it. I can't feel anything, and my BH
is gonna hate me, but I love It's so good.
It's the same thing with Furnette and your and whatever
liqueur that is so nasty when you drink it.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
Well for your loved one who may or may not
be a Milart fan, they have an advent calendar, and
I'm pretty sure the variety is completely lacking. It's just
every day you get a small bottle of malort. Congratulations, joy. Hey.
Some people are fans. I know some people that are
fans ofm Alert. They say that I know all one

(38:08):
of them, but you know, I may or may not
have ordered that inferience. Hope is not listening. Over in
New Jersey, the owner of a vegan restaurant has made
a difficult decision that she says she hoped would attract
new customers and instead has created backlash. The owner of
Good Beat, Ashley Coin, a vegan and gluten free eatery
in Haddan Township, began serving veggie bowls, salads, cauliflower wings,

(38:32):
avocado toast, smoothies, and more back in twenty fifteen.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
But on October nineteenth, I guess because they are not
doing great, they need ways to bring in new revenue streams.
They decided they were going to do what serve me
serve meat. They announced they were breaking vegan and they
thought that, you know, this would be a good idea

(38:56):
that brings some people to the restaurant that normally wouldn't
come here.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
Vegans lost their minds.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Yeah, now they tend to do that. They had good
intentions and they even had a restaurant that they were
modeling this after, but it was still a bit of
a stretch. No. Eleven Madison Park in New York City.
The famed Michelin starred restaurant. I think it has like
two or three Michelin stars. It is a very big

(39:23):
deal in New York. They went for four years operating
as fully vegan, and they said, yeah, even that, we're like, nah,
we're good. We're going to start We're going to start
having meet again. They reintroduced meat to its menu in October,
the owner and chef saying they unintentionally kept people out

(39:44):
when they shifted to vegan only offerings and that served
as inspiration for coin in her eatery. People did not like.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
Yeah, the vegans are very particular, not all of them,
I don't want to be very clear, but the intense vegans,
like if they even see you sitting with someone who
eats meat, they will get on the forum and tattle
on you.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
Yeah, from what I understand, Cohen opened a Good Beat
in twenty fifteen, and now she said that they were
going to add the option, just an option. They still
having the entirely the same menu, but they're adding the
option to add local, organic, pasture raised chicken or wild
caught jail Island salmon to any bowl along with a plie.

Speaker 3 (40:25):
Like jail Island can't leave protein in two sides.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
I've never heard of jail Island before. It doesn't sound
like a very fun place because you're on Free Island,
raised off the east coast of Canada. The move was necessary,
she said, to boost flat flagging business. It should be.
I don't think you can say that. I don't think
that's what that was supposed to say. It not because
vegan food has become less popular, but because it's become
so widely available at non vegan restaurants that her eatery

(40:50):
no longer stood out.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
Y'all just get along?

Speaker 8 (40:53):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
No comment said really disappointed in this, especially in the
excitement in which you delivered the news. One comment, absolutely
not won't be dining there anymore. Also, it's quite weird
the way you worded it. So not only are they
mad that she brought the meat to the vegan restaurant,
but that she's happy about it, but she's supposed to
grovel about it. She's like, guys, I'm really struggling. Guys,

(41:17):
I hate that we have to do this. But Eric Nyman,
owner of Wildflower Vegan Cafe in Millville, told NJ Advanced Media,
I would never do that, but it's a free country,
and most restaurants serve animal products, So what are you
going to do? Well, we'll see. Good luck to miss
Coin and her good beat. I think I would probably

(41:40):
not decide to eat there first because it's named named
after beats, which is probably the thing I would not.
The beats are something that I just don't like. I like,
I don't go after beats. I don't like pickled beats.
The most pickled beets are good. I know you like
pickled beets. You left some at my house once I'm down.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
Why that's where I put my pickled beets. You did?

Speaker 1 (42:06):
You brought something? I believe you. I just it's a
weird thing to say. Well, I opened them up wondering
what they were, and I spilled the juice everywhere, and
it's smelled like beats, and I ruined the shirt. Yeah
it does that. That that red beet juice gets everywhere,
stains all your stuff. Not a good time. Send me
the bill. Uh yeah that was like ten twelve years ago. Man, Okay,

(42:29):
interesting just for inflation? Then what do you want me
to say? I'll get the calculator out. Hey. When we
come back. It's that time of the week. It's our
favorite time of the week. It's Monday. It means we
talked to Amy Kaufelt from Fox thirty five. We'll see
what's going on in her world and around the area.
That is coming up next on the News Junkie. We'll

(43:03):
get to your dispatches in just a little bit on
the show. Plus, we have a politician who was caught
on an airplane looking at some stuff he probably should
not have been looking at, especially with his brightness on
full on. A lot of people calling him out for that.
But first, it's Monday, It's our favorite time of the week.
Time to welcome on the line. Amy kaw Felt from
Fox thirty Amy, what's going on. Great to hear, Happy Monday,

(43:29):
same to you. Ran into a couple of your cohorts
over the weekend.

Speaker 6 (43:33):
I'm so jealous.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
See David Martin and Ryan Elijah was out there too.
Ryan and he said he said something that warmed my
heart because David was like introducing me to people, and
he said he's from the News Junkie. And Ryan said, oh,
Amy's other home. Oh right, Amy's other home.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
That's sweet.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
It was fun and I got Sabrina, I got to
meet Paulo the camera man, camera I know I was.
I was most excited to meet Polo. I think I
met your other co workers before from Good Day Orlando,
but it was fun to meet them out there at
the Food and Wine Classic at the Swan and Dolphin,

(44:15):
which great time. The food was delicious. They like have
selections from all of their different restaurants on property, uh
you know, for the three hotels they have there, and
then a whole bunch of wine and stuff too. That
a whole bubbles room that they brought back this year,
which I spent a good deal of time in me

(44:37):
and I do like like champagne bubbles.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
I thought it was a room full of bubbles.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
No, no, but it was fun running into David and
Ryan and Paulo out there. Uh you were you had
a busy weekend? I saw on Instagram you were you
in Tallahassee.

Speaker 6 (44:58):
We went to Tallahasse. Yeah, so you know, we got
up there like early. We left early Saturday morning, went up,
watched the game, had a blast, went up hung out
with our daughter Case. He's junior up there, so I
had lots of fun. It was a great game. They
beat Virginia Tech, and it was super cool because they
brought Ethan Frichard to the game. As you guys know,
he was the young man that was shot in Tallahassee.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
He just got at a hospital, right.

Speaker 6 (45:23):
Yes, he just got out of the rehabilitation facility in Jacksonville.
So he was released from the hospital in Tallahassee and
then they sent him to Jacksonville to do his like
sort of in house rehabilitation and then they had a
big welcome home parade for him yesterday Inford and now
he'll start his rehabilitation here in central Florida. He's from Stanford,

(45:45):
so so he just he has a long road of
recovery ahead of him. Right now, he's working on walking
because you know, he's been you know, he's been bed
ridden for three months and they haven't been able to
you know, get up and walk. So that I know,
there's just so much But thanks they caught the people
that shot into the car. They believe it was a
case of mistaken identity. He was dropping off his aunt

(46:05):
and his little niece at her his ant's apartment up
near Tallahassee. It was the day after Florida State beat Alabama,
so it was like a big celebratory weekend. He was
dropping her off, and these four guys, some of them
shot into the vehicle, sinking that it was someone else.
They think that there was some beef or some connection
that these guys had with somebody who drove a similar

(46:26):
car to what Ethan was driving. It wasn't Ethan, they
didn't know, and a bullet ended up hitting Ethan in
the back of the head.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
Just a who doesn't that sound like inconceivable to somebody
who hasn't been through this amy to think that you
could lay in bed for three months and after that
time not know how to walk.

Speaker 6 (46:46):
Oh yeah, it's crazy. Well, I always think about you
think about the astronauts on board the ISS, right, and
they get back and they won't even let them walk
out of the capsule because they haven't walked in so long.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
It would probably be very embarrassing. I mean, especially the
ones that stay in the ISS for like a year.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
As a matter of fact, the bubble room Seeland forgot
how to walk after he left that one.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
Right, A little bit different scenarios, but uh no, Like
if you got out of the capsule and then they
tried to just like walk you to wherever you were going,
and there's all these cameras on you, it would not
be a very good situation for some of those after.

Speaker 6 (47:23):
Now no, so you know, there might there could be
some nerve damage and some other things going on. He
did take you know, he did get hit in the
back of the head of the bullet. So but but
as far as like listening to him speak, he sounds great,
he looks great.

Speaker 3 (47:34):
He's ready to get back out there.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Body.

Speaker 6 (47:37):
Oh yeah, for sure. And you know you can imagine.
I mean, he loves football, he wants to play again. Yeah,
I just pray that that he's able to do that.
But you know, I mean, Florida State has been so
good to him. The coaches went to see him every day.
At least one of the coaches would go visit him
in the hospital while he was there. So it's really
how was really incredible.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
How was the weather in Tallahassee, because it it got
really cold last week like this time when we talked
to you last week, it was it was about to
be super cold, and then it kind of warmed up.
It was very nice out for some of the outdoor
events that some of the people were enjoying over the weekend.

Speaker 6 (48:10):
How was it in Taly It was so pretty, so
it was not only beautiful, but because you're so far
north from here, it's like a four hour drive from Orlando. Yeah,
it's the leaves are changing. There's like leaves falling off
the trees, like you just you feel it almost. It
doesn't feel like Florida. It's very you know, it's like
it's very hilly, and I don't know, it's just different.

(48:31):
It's just it's a pretty sound. If you've never been, Oh,
its talhappy. It's so pretty up there.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
I've been twice to do some music related stuff up there,
and one of the times it was really really cold,
but you guys drove up there. Is Is it still
the same as it used to be? I remember when
I was like going to Tallahassee for the first time,
everybody said, once you get on it ten, do not
exceed the speed limit like it ten was notorious for

(48:58):
pulling people over or speeding tickets galore was there? Was
there a lot of like police activity. Did it look
like the kind of place you would kind of want
to watch yourself?

Speaker 6 (49:07):
What's funny say that? I mean, yes, always I would say,
like you can never be too careful, and I'm not
saying that.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
Amy Kaufelt is like a speeder demon demon by any
means that the metal you know.

Speaker 6 (49:18):
No, we didn't see a lot of troopers. But I
always keep Ways on in the car one because it
just helps you to sort of gauge, like how much
further you have to go? And then also it tells
you like anytime there's like a road hazard, same way.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
Use I use Ways all the time. And I do
love the heads up and you know, you get points
if you say something still there. What really throws me
it is like object in the road. I'm like, I
don't I am now paying attention to uh see where
said object is and if it's going to be in
my line and if I'm swerving for it?

Speaker 6 (49:48):
But right right, and like what is the object? Is
it a mattress?

Speaker 3 (49:51):
Is it like it's a left boots?

Speaker 9 (49:53):
Most of the time exactly, I used to use ways
a lot, but every once in a while it would
like do something we and we were driving the clear
Water one time and Ways, Like one of the things
I like about Ways is if it if it sees
a change in the traffic, especially if you're on a
longer drive like you're one in Tallahassee.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
You know, there could be some conditions changing while you're
on that four hour drive that it would be like,
all right, we need you to get off this highway
and take a different way. And so I had that
happen with Ways on the way to clear Water. It
wanted me to get off I four, and I thought,
this app is so smart. It must know that there's
a really big backup coming up or something. And it

(50:34):
literally we got off at an exit. It had us
drive around a graveyard and get right back on I
four and go the same way we were going. And
I was like, you know, if this was some secret
like Easter egg, like the like the like the guy
who wrote the code for Ways, his dad's buried there
or something. He just wants everybody to pay their respects

(50:55):
by driving in a circle around. I didn't know what
was going on, but I thought that doesn't make sense.
That wasn't a win for us that time.

Speaker 6 (51:04):
No, that's definitely done that to me before too, where
I'm just like, what in the heck is he doing?
Like there's no.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
Way this technology?

Speaker 1 (51:10):
Am I right?

Speaker 3 (51:10):
Yeah, I'm just guy. We don't have to read maps,
And by you know, we, I mean I can't read
a map you.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Get you get called out if you're the driver, like
people don't if they're not paying attention to where they're going,
they notice when you make four right turns. And I
was like, I don't know, this is what the app
is telling me to do. Maybe I shouldn't be blindly
following the app, but I'm glad it got you to
where you were going and back safely. And sounds like

(51:36):
a good time in Tallahassee. What's on your radar news
wise this week?

Speaker 6 (51:40):
Amy, Well, there's a couple of stories that we're gonna
be following up on today. One is, you guys have
heard about this. There was a shooting that happened in
Orlando on Friday. So Orlando police got called out to
a tattoo parlor, a tattoo store.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
Oh, we do know about this. Josh who's on the
show with us today. Josh lives over there. Yeah, it
was right near my house.

Speaker 6 (51:59):
Okay, okay, so Josh are probably pretty familiar with his story.
So so basically, there's we have the surveillance video and
you can see somebody kind of pushed the back door
open of the tattoo parlor on the backside and it's
in a shopping plaza like a strip mall, and you
can see this guy come out. He appears to be
holding some type of rifle and then as soon as

(52:21):
I think he sees or notices that there's fleece out there,
he turns around and runs back in. So there's a
family that is now saying that their loved one was killed.
Somebody did die inside of the tattoo shop. They're saying
that their loved one was killed and that their loved
one was not the person who came outside with the gun.
So we are waiting on more information from OPD as

(52:45):
far as who this person was who was killed inside
and was that the person they were looking for. So
we're still a lot wait.

Speaker 3 (52:53):
So the family has spoken out about they know that
their loved one died.

Speaker 6 (52:58):
But yes, the family is saying that their loved one
was killed, but that person was not the person who
is seen on the surveillance video coming out the back
door with the gun. So now we're just waiting on
some clarification to see exactly Okay, well, if he wasn't
the person that they were going after, then you know,

(53:22):
was this the case of mistaken identity? Like what happened
so we're still waiting on all of that information. So
it's still working on that story today, but it's obviously
a very sensitive situation. The family is, you can imagine,
is really upset their son didn't do anything wrong.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
With One of one of the craziest things I saw
in some of the pictures from the scene was the
police they brought out a robot dog for some of
the activity that they were doing. Yeah, which I didn't
even know. I knew we had access to certain robots
because I believe, if memory serves me correctly correctly, that

(53:58):
the ending of the pulse situation was aided by some
sort of robot. But I thought that I thought that
was I didn't think it was like one of those
little Boston Dynamics, tiny little dog things.

Speaker 3 (54:11):
Don't law enforcement don't they get that equipment so that
it doesn't have to end in death?

Speaker 6 (54:18):
Correct? Usually right, So they're looking to see, like how
if they can get up close. A lot of times too,
they'll do like either like the robot dog is obviously
much newer one, but like they'll send a drone up
or a drone in, and sometimes these drones can actually
go through the building and see what's going on to
give them a better advantage point of exactly what's happening there.
The family is saying that their son was just working

(54:40):
at the tattoo parlor. The mom said that she had
spoken to her son like around like one fifty in
the afternoon and then she said, twenty minutes later he
was gone. It's all happened right day on Friday. So
we're still waiting on details, not exactly sure you know
what happened. We're just we're waiting for to find out,
and you know, they they're not They're not coming forward

(55:00):
at this point anyway with anything. So if there's a
news conference or something to say, hopefully we'll be able
to get some more information.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
Yeah, that's that's super sad. What else is on your radar?

Speaker 6 (55:09):
So you guys, I know you guys have been talking
about this story a lot. So now that the family
of Anna Kaefner, this is the young lady who died
on board at that Carnival cruise ship, the Carnival Horizon
November seventh.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
Right, we talked about it this time last week and
there were still a bunch of rumors swirling, and I
think that situation has only gotten worse unfortunately for the family.
But I still have not heard a whole lot from
law enforcement on the investigation.

Speaker 6 (55:37):
Nothing, and so the family, as you can imagine, is
frustrated as well. To the family basically saying that it's
been very painful that they still don't know exactly what happened,
to her still waiting to get more information from either
from the cruise line or from the FBI or from investigators. Basically,

(55:59):
they just ever time they would try to get anything
from the FBI, they just say that that they can't comment,
that it would jeopardize the integrity of their investigation. So,
you know, initially a lot of you know, what was
swirling was that perhaps it was suicide and they just
didn't want to talk about it because it was suicide.
But it sure sounds, you know, like if they don't
want to talk about it, that you know, there's definitely
more to the story.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
Right.

Speaker 6 (56:20):
Well, we'll see, we'll see what happens.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
Hopefully this week they'll make some sort of announcement or something,
because I guess it's weird to say that I want
to hear news about it as sort of a bystander,
as just a consumer of his clothes. That's the thing,
I don't need to have closure, But from what we've
heard is that the family knows just as much as
we do, and they're the ones that deserve closure. Frust

(56:45):
just awful.

Speaker 6 (56:48):
Well you can imagine like you have no idea like
how your loved one died. I mean, that's pretty horrific.
I mean, obviously there are people who live with you know,
missing person's cases for decades, Yeah know what happened to
their loved one at all?

Speaker 3 (56:59):
And you know, at that point a lot of people
you see utilize the media, you know, and then you'll
get folks who say, well they just won't come to
like the truth or they won't accept the truth of
what actually happened. But if they're not getting the answers
from the people we're supposed to trust to give Zaid answers,
then you have to get loud and have the public

(57:22):
get involved, because sometimes that means law enforcement will, you know,
put their boots to the ground and get answers faster,
which is I mean all they ask for.

Speaker 6 (57:32):
Really, right, right, just get a little pressure on the situation.
We have another story, this is coming out today from
the Florida Attorney General, JAMESTH. Meyer. Saying that they have
located one hundred and twenty two missing or endangered children,
all part of what they're calling Operation Home for the Holidays.
So they used a lot of different agencies to target

(57:54):
these youth. Sometimes they're runaways, sometimes they are kids who
get caught up in like in these like sex traffic operations.
So they basically targeted four major cities within Florida, Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville,
Fort Myers, and they managed to locate ar rescue fifty
seven kids in Tampa, fourteen in Orlando, twenty two in Jacksonville.

Speaker 3 (58:18):
Why are we doing what's all year round?

Speaker 6 (58:21):
Isn't that crazy? And it's really scary, you guys, the
stuff that we don't know about what's going on, it's frightening.
They say that they also did rescues in other states,
the kids ranging in age from twenty three months to
seventeen years old, and they also made several arrests, six
adults arrested. As they continue to investigate, I'm guessing if

(58:41):
they had arrested adults that there's probably some sex trafficking
operations going on.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
Not awful. So one hundred and twenty two missing children,
but only six or seven adults were arrested. Does that
lead you to believe that there were more on the
runaway side?

Speaker 6 (58:56):
I mean probably, you know, I'm assuming. I mean when
they're saying that they're they're either this is how they're
categorizing them. They're saying missing or endangered. Right, So if
you if you run away and then you end up
in a sex trafficking operation, right, I mean, then then
you would be considered endangered, I would assume, right, this
is not just like now like, yes, you did choose
to leave the house on your own, however, right, So, so,

(59:19):
but they've been working on this for a couple of
weeks now, so we'll hopefully be able to get some
more information on this investigation that's going on today.

Speaker 3 (59:25):
But could image, Yeah.

Speaker 6 (59:27):
Are out of a horrible situation.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
Well, good news for those families who are being reunited with.
One hundred and twenty two missing or endangered kids is
a huge.

Speaker 3 (59:36):
Number if it was, so how long has this been
going on? Like this operation?

Speaker 6 (59:40):
We've been doing this operation for two weeks now.

Speaker 3 (59:43):
And in two weeks they found one hundred and twenty
two kids.

Speaker 6 (59:45):
Isn't that crazy?

Speaker 3 (59:46):
What can we do in four weeks?

Speaker 1 (59:48):
Right?

Speaker 6 (59:49):
Right, exactly right and spending the whole year working on this,
although I'm sure they are. I think they just gave
this one, this operation home for the holidays, just to
kind of renew the effort. So good to see that.

Speaker 1 (59:59):
Ye good news for them. Amy. We love you, We
thank you for joining us. It's always a pleasure to
have you on the favorite part of our week. And uh, well,
we'll see you next week. If you guys are not
starting your day with Good Day Orlando or Fox thirty
five Orlando dot com, you're missing out. What are you
waiting for? They're just the best and Amy is a

(01:00:21):
total pro and just a lovely person. We love having
you on, Amy, and we'll talk to you next week.
You all right there, she goes Amy Kaufelt from Fox
thirty five. Check her out a Good Day Orlando. We're
gonna get to some of your dispatches in the next
episode with Sabrina coming up in just a little bit.
Stay put, we'll be right back with the news junkietches

(01:01:00):
in just a couple of minutes minutes. You can send
those to the news Junkie dot com. Record your first
dispatch today. We'll play those in a little bit. I
have been delinquent on playing those for you, but we'll
get to get to them a second, including the one
from Swilly where who is at dis disc camp over
the weekend? A bunch of the Discord people did their

(01:01:21):
camping annual. They said annual, but also I also heard
bi annual, so they might do too a year.

Speaker 3 (01:01:28):
Or maybe it's just every year. But there's bisexuals involved.

Speaker 1 (01:01:31):
That could be it to us both ways. But we'll
check in with them in a little bit. Uh, there's
a story out and these kinds of things always like
are a little interesting to me. But I also kind
of go, all right, well, I get that you're sad
about this, but I don't care. Oh, okay, but the
former Prime Minister of Iceland, Iceland, Iceland, Iceland, Iceland, ice clown,

(01:01:58):
icetown costs ice clown is ice crown. That's it? Uh,
Katrine Jacob's daughter daughter? It does? It does look like
her last name is Jacob's daughter. That could very simple. Well,
then what's his last name? Greene's father got it? Katrine
has said that the language of Icelandic, which is only

(01:02:21):
spoken by about three hundred and fifty thousand people total,
could be wiped out and as little as a generation
due to the sweeping rise of AI and encroaching English
language dominance. So basically they're saying, there's only a few
people that speak this language. I've heard it's one of
the harder languages to learn. It's supposed to be a
very beautiful language. It's very difficult school. Uh you would

(01:02:45):
think that they do. But like that's one of the
reasons languages die, is that people aren't taught it as much,
and that that they're blaming English dominance, which so easy America.

Speaker 3 (01:02:59):
Yeah, now right on me this though, because we thought
cursive was dying, and I saw reports earlier this year
that cursive was going back into the schools.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
There's been a couple of reports that cursive is going.

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
Back in school that with the Slandic language.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
I mean, if you want to do that in Iceland,
sure you have at it. But the former Prime Minister,
who stood down last year to run for president after
seven years in office, said Iceland was going undergoing radical
change when it came to language use. Most people are
reading and speaking English, fewer are reading in Icelandic, a trend,

(01:03:36):
she says is being exacerbated by the way language models
are trained. So a lot of the Ais don't speak Icelandic.
Come on, I think it would only take, like, you know,
two seconds read the Iceland dictionary and you're supposed to
be able to speak it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:50):
I think Greenland was what Trump was claiming, that we
were going to try to get take over Greenland.

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
Yeah, which they speak.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
English or a little bit of Frenchlandish.

Speaker 1 (01:04:04):
She made the comments before her You know the Canadians,
they they're half friendship there anyway. I just I think
of the cold tundra at places as either English or French. Ye.
I'm super right about that, Josh, So back off you. No,
I'm sorry, I questioned you. She made the comments before
her appearance at the Iceland Noir Crime Fiction Festival after

(01:04:24):
the surprise release of her second novel of the genre. Oh,
she wants people to still be able to read Icelandic
because she just released her second novel. A lot of
languages disappear and with them dies a lot of value
and a lot of human thoughts. She said. Icelandic has
only about three hundred and fifty thousand speakers and is
among the world's least altered languages. Altered like people just

(01:04:47):
changing up the way they speak like they don't have
slang in iceland no iceling.

Speaker 3 (01:04:53):
What is I mean? I imagine I'm gonna have to
google this, as I asked, but what is Icelandic like?
What are the roots of it?

Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
I think I think they're I've been told that it's
one of the hardest languages to learn, which I think
would lead to the idea that there's not a lot
of roots of it, like it's its own things, old
Viking stuff. Yeah, and that's why, yeah, you said nor
A lot of people are just not speaking it anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:05:19):
And it lacks significant outside influence.

Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
Right. They say that over two thousand languages have gone
extinct in the last century. Five hundred and seventy three
are currently known to be extinct, and it's just because
a new dominant language replaces them, which in this case
sounds like it's going to be English due to globalization, colonization,
force assimilation, and a whole lot more ass just a

(01:05:43):
whole It's also.

Speaker 3 (01:05:44):
The teenager's fault, you know, if it's not coming off
as cool, why would they make an effort to learn it?

Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
Well, it's not cool to speak to Icelandic.

Speaker 3 (01:05:52):
No, apparently not. It's always something I've Well, something I
found very curious when I was going through Ireland and
driving is that a lot of their their road signs
were still in Gaelic.

Speaker 1 (01:06:05):
Okay, but it's I mean they did the.

Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
Small amount of people that actually still speak that, right.

Speaker 1 (01:06:11):
It's a hard language too. They did that road sign
thing thing on purpose to prevent their language from dying out.
Oh well, there was a political push. That's something Iceland
could learn from. Yeah, But the only thing I know
about that language is that, besides the fact that it's dying,
is that it was super hard to learn. And they
had some special some news package that was talking about

(01:06:34):
this autistic kid like a Asperger's syndrome that learned to
speak Icelandic in like seven days, and they were all
super impressed by that because they said it was one
of the hard And now he only has three hundred
and fifty thousand people he could talk to, and he's
really awkward about it because of the spectrum thing. So
sorry for that kid, but it seems like he's good

(01:06:56):
at learning other languages if he needs to. Let's go
to your dispatch as you've sent them in. I've been
bad at playing them. You can record yours at thenewsjunkie
dot com. Let's check in with Swilly real quick. He
was at disc Camp over the weekend. Hey, everybody happy today?

Speaker 8 (01:07:11):
So we got another disc Camp on the books. This
one was a sixth annual and what a killer time
it was.

Speaker 1 (01:07:16):
The weather was gorgeous.

Speaker 8 (01:07:18):
We got to see two rocket launches in one night,
which was amazing because they were both night launches.

Speaker 1 (01:07:23):
We had a humongous.

Speaker 8 (01:07:25):
Crowd of friends to show up on Saturday, even if
they weren't camping.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
They just showed up to chill out.

Speaker 8 (01:07:30):
And then of course, ye gosh, world class meal that
everybody came together to cook. And this year I actually
got to make a fire and a fire I'm excited
for next time.

Speaker 1 (01:07:42):
Okay, I love you, goodbye. This was Swelly's campsite. Oh trailer.
It definitely looks like it came from some sort of
homeless encampment. I like it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:55):
You bring any of your animal interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
There's a beware of Alligators sign around here. I don't
know if that means he had an actual alligator, but
good vie is the alligator? Cool about the night launches thing?
They actually I don't know if this was government shutdown
related or what the deal was, but they had they
made some rule that I think till the end of
the year and perhaps beyond, all of the commercial launches,

(01:08:19):
like the non NASA ones, any of your SpaceX or
your Blue Ivy, your Blue Origin or whatever the Amazon
one is. Yeah, all those have to be night launches,
which I think is.

Speaker 3 (01:08:30):
I think we're having one tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:08:32):
I think it's very cool because night launches, I think
look cooler than day launches.

Speaker 3 (01:08:35):
Yeah, but I it depends because if there's just a
little bit of cloud that you can't see, but all
of a sudden, you're looking like ye on your street
trying to see the rocket launch, whereas.

Speaker 1 (01:08:46):
Really hypothetical situation.

Speaker 3 (01:08:48):
Or it's me. It's absolutely me, And then I have
to go to my neighbor's yard. I'm like just watching
the rocket launch and this great look at us Florida folk.

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
All right, bye, all right, real quick, before we see
what's coming up in the next episode, let's hear sorry,
I was a good story. I had to move on.
Let's go to insecure. Walrus chiming in on the Icelandic
thing Insecure, he Lou's failing to this is the most
insecure he's ever been secured up. Let's see do a

(01:09:16):
little refresh.

Speaker 10 (01:09:18):
And here I have a friend and former co worker
who was from Iceland and his name is Geese g
I s I believe it's short for Gheesely.

Speaker 1 (01:09:29):
Anyways, we all called him Geese.

Speaker 10 (01:09:31):
Every once in a while while he was checking a microphone,
he might just switch into Icelandic. And it is a
very foreign sounding language. It is not one of your
romance language, as they say, it's very very different. He
was Iceland must.

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
Be very small.

Speaker 10 (01:09:46):
He literally got a letter one time from somebody in
Iceland and they had his first name and his last
name in the town he lived in Tennessee, and somehow
it still got to his house. But we had an
Asian client and she, for some reason, the way that
she pronounced his name was she would say, mister chees,
you know, gi s mister Gee's and it was great

(01:10:07):
and wonderful, and we could do nothing about it, and
it was wonderful.

Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
I would never call him Geese ever again, ever, ever
again from that day for his name until we figured
out exactly his name would be mister Jeeves. When we
come back the next episode with Sabrina, what's coming up
on the next episode, Thank.

Speaker 3 (01:10:24):
You so much for asking, and a little something like this,
what's new the next episode. It's just one of them
days where everybody sucks and limb Biscuit's Astoria show is
freaking canceled La Boom Boo skips La boob Tube and
is allegedly headed to the big screen. Plus, who is

(01:10:44):
the hottest male celebrity according to straight Dudes on Reddit?
All that no Homo coming up on the next episode.

Speaker 1 (01:10:50):
And that's all coming up next on the news Junkie,
I had no idea that Tom Cruise has never won

(01:11:12):
an oscar? Doesn't that seem weird? Not one?

Speaker 3 (01:11:18):
You know? You can't handle the truth that movie I
was even nominated for that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:22):
He wasn't the one that even delivered that line. He
was the one asking for truth. But no, he was
in the movie it says after four and a half
decades in front of the camera Sunday night at the
sixteenth Governor's Awards, so not the Academy Awards. It was
finally time for According to Deadline, arguably the world's biggest

(01:11:43):
movie started to get his long deserved Academy Award. All
He's been nominated three times for his acting and now
receiving an honorary Oscar for his unwavering commitment. Here's him
getting the award right here, he's holding his honorary Oscar
along with Allen and Wynn Thomas. He said, they said
it's for unwavering commitment to our filmmaking community, is vital

(01:12:07):
support theatrical experiences, unmatched body of work. I think this
sounds like it doesn't count.

Speaker 3 (01:12:12):
I agree if he's still gonna take.

Speaker 1 (01:12:14):
It, if you know it, if you got a Tony
and a Grammy and an Emmy. Are we calling him
an egot guy?

Speaker 3 (01:12:22):
Yeah, but I'm getting the vibe of like that honorary
doctorate you get from somewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:12:27):
Right the school. But that's the only one that I
would lean into. If you gave me an honorary doctorate,
I would be calling myself doctor all the time, just
probably to annoy people, my wife mostly. So. It says
Tom Cruise.

Speaker 3 (01:12:41):
Acception, doctor stuffy.

Speaker 1 (01:12:43):
What the presenter, Alejandro Gonzalez in a ritu would he said,
would not be his last Oscar. I know this won't
be your last Oscar, but it is your first after
four and a half decades of an acting career and
only and being nominated three times for acting. He may
know something because he's the guy who said that is

(01:13:03):
editing Cruise's most recent film still untitled. That's not that's
not well, no, it's just that does not have a
title yet.

Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
I mean, can we get a title.

Speaker 1 (01:13:14):
During the conversation a few days ago for an upcoming
episode of this Deadline video series, the author asked Jesse Plemmons,
a co star in the film, about the experience working
with him. He said, he still got it. I still
got it. But whatever he has, that didn't get him
an oscar for the first four and a half decades,
and he's got I didn't even know they that they

(01:13:35):
had honor that they gave out honorary like participation trophies
for the Academy Awards.

Speaker 3 (01:13:41):
Maybe. I mean, they certainly don't cover that during the
actual awards.

Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
It doesn't seem well, no, no, they do it at
the Governor's Awards. I don't even think we're even close
to an OSCARS, like an actual Academy Awards ceremony. It's
that's that's months away, I believe. But you know I
should know that. But I went, congratulations for your participation
trophy mister Tom and like, like the guy said, maybe

(01:14:06):
it won't be your last. Well, we don't know, but
that you like to get the fish? Is that the
fish thing?

Speaker 3 (01:14:15):
Remember the rumor, remember the alledge not confirmed at all?

Speaker 1 (01:14:20):
Yeah, I thought the fish dead fish.

Speaker 3 (01:14:24):
Okay, there's a lot of threads on it. And I
did the deep diving so that you didn't have to.
But I guess you weren't pain to the.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
Fish thing was Kanye West, but probably just getting it
confused with the South Park of it all. But all
that said, are you ready, Sabrina? Yes, all right, let's
do it. Let's do the next episode because there's a
lot on TV.

Speaker 11 (01:14:51):
You can't possibly keep up with all of it, even
though you should, because what else are you going to
talk about? There's time for the next episode with Sabrina.

Speaker 3 (01:15:02):
I put that clip somewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
Else during the commercial bread at.

Speaker 3 (01:15:09):
Some point because it is a full mystery. Now. Yeah,
and it's you doing something weird.

Speaker 1 (01:15:18):
I'll tell you that much should Jesse Jackson's That's not
how that was supposed to come out. That's why he's
in the hospital. Very sweet of you to say that
I could affect him in such a way. You're welcome.

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Speaker 1 (01:16:06):
Come, where is this clip? Did it already play?

Speaker 3 (01:16:10):
I don't know. Twenty two years ago, two thousand and three,
This guy.

Speaker 1 (01:16:15):
Right here, Britney spears.

Speaker 3 (01:16:18):
Yeah, And it was on this day that she became
the youngest singer to ever get a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was twenty one years old.
On the same day, twenty two years ago. This guy right.

Speaker 1 (01:16:32):
Here, Arnold Schwartzenegger.

Speaker 3 (01:16:36):
That is right, and he was inaugurated. I's got the
new of California for.

Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
The first time. Was this the debut of the governator?

Speaker 11 (01:16:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:16:48):
I bet your butt it was. And it took Californians
seven years to terminate him. It's that tuma and by
that I mean re election and now let's get.

Speaker 1 (01:17:02):
You got to take care of that voice. It's just
had to do the old time. It sounds like it hurts.
It's pretty good though, you know you can.

Speaker 3 (01:17:13):
You can say the same sex is good looking and
still be super straight.

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
I say it all the time, Am I right?

Speaker 3 (01:17:21):
I feel like both of you are really confident with
your sexualities enough to say if a guy's good looking
or not.

Speaker 1 (01:17:28):
And now you join the army.

Speaker 3 (01:17:30):
That is a subreddit where dudes who are naming men
they find attractive and they're straight a up.

Speaker 1 (01:17:39):
This has its subreddit of just dudes talking about hot dudes,
Dudes on dudes.

Speaker 3 (01:17:43):
That's it, just dudes they find attractive and in some
cases might make an exception for.

Speaker 1 (01:17:48):
What dudes are they talking about. Josh, we're gonna find
out Jules start at.

Speaker 3 (01:17:53):
Number twenty and if you guys wouldn't mind, because you're
both married to women and uh, allies. I'd like to
imagine I've seen at least one of you. I'm pretty
sure two of you. His dudes in the mouth no home,
remember twenty David Beckham.

Speaker 1 (01:18:17):
He's Okay, I don't really know what David beck like.
If David beck walked in, I know who he is,
but I'm saying like, if he walked in the door
a last shaggy, I don't know that I would immediately
just be like, it's David Beckham.

Speaker 3 (01:18:29):
David Beckham has a very particular face that has been
filmed a little bit. Number twenty uh Keanu Reeves nineteen,
Idris Elba, Sam Elliott. I'm gonna have to disagree with
that just because he al must lashed.

Speaker 1 (01:18:43):
But Idris Elba, I think, yeah, O day Sam Elliott.
When you when you read that Sam Elliott, sam Elliott
is on this hot guy list, and then you google
his name, the picture that comes up.

Speaker 3 (01:18:58):
Is above Idris Elbow.

Speaker 1 (01:19:00):
No, thank you. That's the most flattering Sam Elliott picture
you got. There.

Speaker 3 (01:19:05):
We have Michael Fastbender, how fast can you bend?

Speaker 1 (01:19:08):
Though?

Speaker 3 (01:19:09):
Am I? Right? Street? Dudes? Handsome guy Oscar Isaac who
is that again?

Speaker 1 (01:19:14):
Handsome? He's in the new Frankenstein movie, Oscar.

Speaker 3 (01:19:17):
That is Frankenstein.

Speaker 1 (01:19:18):
No, he's well, he's in the Doctor is Doctor Frankenstein.

Speaker 3 (01:19:22):
Gotcha?

Speaker 1 (01:19:23):
He's a good looking guy at fourteen. I don't know
that good looking.

Speaker 3 (01:19:31):
Jason Momoa. Obviously he would be up there on my list,
but for straight dudes at number fourteen, Robert Redford thirteen,
Matthew McConaughey is all right in twelfth place.

Speaker 1 (01:19:43):
Vigo Morgan for you, Josh, No, not my type.

Speaker 3 (01:19:47):
It depends on what movie, like The Gold One where
he's looking.

Speaker 1 (01:19:51):
For gold fools, gold fools gold.

Speaker 3 (01:19:54):
I think it looks great in that movie.

Speaker 1 (01:19:57):
I would say no, no, look at him in Lord
of the Rings as Ara Gorn Okay, hot guy le
Bone or Gorn and Lord of the Rings.

Speaker 3 (01:20:10):
Pedro Pascal number ten, Brad Pitt number nine, good for you,
This one's thrown me. Paul Newman at number eight.

Speaker 1 (01:20:17):
Yeah, it's a nice looking dressing label. Paul Newman, Am
I I think you're thinking of Paul Rubens. You're thinking
of Pee Wee Herman, aren't you sure? I am?

Speaker 3 (01:20:28):
Now that makes sense. He is not on the line.

Speaker 1 (01:20:30):
That would really blow, It would really blow all our
minds if they're like, hey, a bunch of trade dudes,
A bunch of trade dudes got around and talked about
who what guys they think are the hottest, and Pee
Wee Herman made the list.

Speaker 3 (01:20:42):
This is I don't know, a punch of the gut
because we talked about what's his face with the mustache?
Sam Elliott number seventeen, but at number seven eighties Harrison Ford,
So not twenty five Harris.

Speaker 1 (01:20:57):
So they specify the age for him, But the other
old guys.

Speaker 3 (01:21:01):
I guess not, Yeah, you and McGregor, Ryan Gosling at
number five, Timothy Olifont, yes on four and number three Henry.

Speaker 1 (01:21:10):
So does that mean that they think that Harrison Ford
has aged poorly? Because I think Harrison Ford looks.

Speaker 3 (01:21:16):
Good, So you would say Harrison for I would say
both of them, like the whole breadth of his uh uh,
you know.

Speaker 1 (01:21:25):
His acting career. It's been a pretty decent looking guy.

Speaker 3 (01:21:27):
We're talking about like what he looks.

Speaker 1 (01:21:30):
Like though, Yeah, Indiana Jones not a great otter than
him now.

Speaker 3 (01:21:34):
Uh Number three, Henry Caville, that's Superman, right you Jackman?
At number two, and at number one hottest guy according
to straight Dudes on Reddit is Chris Evan.

Speaker 1 (01:21:46):
Okay, yeah, I can see it.

Speaker 3 (01:21:49):
So there you have at my friend's congratulations and you
Chris Evans. Back to checking out wreck.

Speaker 1 (01:21:56):
Poor John Mayer missed the list. It's kind of a
goofy look guy, yeah yeah, but the I think that
it makes you.

Speaker 3 (01:22:03):
Hotter all day, all day. Well, look at that amount
of time. So it's time for the boob tube. What
do we get football? Baby? Speaking of sir, great dudes
doing things. It's watching Raiders and the Cowboys just have
fun with each other as long as everyone's having a
good time to talk about them at Fox the Voice,

(01:22:28):
part four of the Knockout Rounds, and you can catch
Julia Roberts on Colbert follow dreams of me on Instagram,
mat Sabrina and Brock can't follow me on TikTok because
they got hated whoa and they with me America.

Speaker 1 (01:22:41):
Smoke, Thank you, Sabri. What happened to your TikTok?

Speaker 3 (01:22:45):
More on that later, It's been a thing.

Speaker 1 (01:22:48):
Did uh? Was anything posted on your behalf.

Speaker 10 (01:22:52):
The car is?

Speaker 1 (01:22:53):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:22:53):
You know? This morning?

Speaker 10 (01:22:54):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:22:55):
But I did get a notification that they locked me
out of my device since I I've had the app
because someone in Virginia logged in on a Robin Turbo four.

Speaker 1 (01:23:09):
Ah, Robin Turbo four. That's that's a really good.

Speaker 3 (01:23:12):
Not to be confused with the Batman Turbo advice. So yeah,
I mean we can expand on it later, but I
think I will be losing my TikTok.

Speaker 1 (01:23:22):
How long does it take to Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:23:24):
Here's the thing. They said, we sent you the code
to your authenticator.

Speaker 1 (01:23:30):
They send it to the Robin Turbo four.

Speaker 3 (01:23:32):
Yeah, and I said, I never had one of those,
So you're sending it to the guy in Virginia was
taken over my account who made it private as.

Speaker 1 (01:23:40):
Well a Jersey.

Speaker 3 (01:23:42):
Any hackers that listen or could help me out with this,
Sabrina Amber on Instagram, don't message me on TikTok, don't
have access to it.

Speaker 1 (01:23:48):
Not sure what the endgame is, but.

Speaker 3 (01:23:51):
The end game is get my TikTok.

Speaker 1 (01:23:53):
I meant for the person with a Robin Turbo four
who's making your TikTok private. Now you would think if
you hack somebody's TikTok, you want to be able to
post things that other people see. But I don't know
what the does that mean? They have all your drafts?

Speaker 3 (01:24:08):
Yep, I just started going through all.

Speaker 1 (01:24:12):
The works in progress that.

Speaker 3 (01:24:13):
A lot of people are not to say on the drafts.

Speaker 1 (01:24:18):
Well, good luck to you, and I hope you can
get that recovery code. That's Uh, it's the worst. I
don't know that I've had that happen. Somebody told me
I got hacked, but I think it was an attempt
to hack me. I just don't believe any of the stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:24:37):
I believe you.

Speaker 1 (01:24:38):
I'm not. I'm not calling you a liar. I hope
you TikTok gets better, you know, like like you get.

Speaker 3 (01:24:44):
It back, me too, me too.

Speaker 1 (01:24:47):
Hit a source spot here. When we come back, We're
gonna get to your dispatches and we'll figure out we
will dive into sabrinas stolen tiktac TikTok.

Speaker 3 (01:24:58):
My god, how old are you?

Speaker 1 (01:25:01):
And who is Bubba that everybody's been talking about over
the weekend. We'll talk about that, uh and more. That's
all coming up next on the News Junkie. It is

(01:25:27):
nowhere near February second, but they have found themselves in
the headlines because authorities in Jefferson County say a punk
Satawani man is behind bars after he allegedly threatened to
shoot multiple people during domestic domestic disturbance last week.

Speaker 3 (01:25:41):
Okay, he did not see his shadow.

Speaker 1 (01:25:43):
Imagine, no, no, no, no, you can I mean if
they let light in the jail cell. He'll be in
sixty four weeks of jail, police say sixty eight year
old Jeffrey Allen Smith is accused of pointing a shotgun
in two people when they reportedly came to his home
to pick up a relative. According to the affidavit, they
said theive was reportedly helping him with some household work
when the altercation occurred. When officers arrived on seen, Smith

(01:26:05):
appeared to be under the influence of drugs. Surprise, his
bail was set at twenty thousand dollars. But good for you,
Punk Satani. We usually only hear from you when a
dumb little rat gets to predict the weather, or.

Speaker 3 (01:26:17):
When that dumb little rat is murdered by a politician.

Speaker 1 (01:26:20):
But that was that wasn't even Punk Satania. That was
New York. That was a mayor in New York.

Speaker 3 (01:26:25):
I think, yeah, but that was the Punk Satani Phil
that was dropped and then they just replaced it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:31):
Right, No, what's that New York? Look up the New
York equivalent to Punk Satani Phil because I think I
don't even know if it's a groundhog, but I think
it has a different name. Brook Lynn, Bob, is it
are you Marie about okay, I was like, I say,
I wouldn't be surprised if it were something similar to that.

Speaker 3 (01:26:49):
Oh oh, Charles G. Hogg, which is the Saten Island Chuck.

Speaker 1 (01:26:55):
Staten Island Chuck. That's I didn't know he had a
full name.

Speaker 3 (01:26:58):
It's the official weather predicting groundhog for New York City
and was.

Speaker 4 (01:27:03):
Murdered by what's yeah, the guy that was mayor No Bloomberg,
Bloomberg Bloomberg.

Speaker 1 (01:27:10):
I think it was one of those, one of those two.

Speaker 3 (01:27:13):
Another also just fun fact. As a little early today,
I learned there's another New York based weather predictor called
al Roker Klucks Kluck Satani Henrietta, a chicken from Mascute
Farm in Katona who laying status is used to predict
the end of the winter.

Speaker 1 (01:27:33):
Farm just wanted their their name in life somewhere. But
speaking of names that have been talked about a lot
over the weekend, it was hard to avoid any reference
to this this bubba email. But Jeffrey Epstein's brother Mark
has addressed a now viral email that he sent his
brother Jeff about Donald Trump. Newly released emails showed Mark

(01:27:55):
telling Epstein in twenty eighteen to ask former White House
Chief strategist Steve Bannon if Russian President Vladimir Putin has
quote the photos of Trump, you know what in bubba?

Speaker 3 (01:28:07):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:28:09):
Internet users quickly speculated that that Bubba would be the
nickname that Bill Clinton has gone by referring to the
former president, but Mark told The Daily Beast Sunday he
had not been referring to Clinton. In his email to Epstein,
the convicted child sex offender who died while awaiting trial
in twenty nineteen.

Speaker 3 (01:28:27):
There's a lot of Bubba's in the concrete.

Speaker 1 (01:28:29):
Mark said they were simply part of a humorous private
exchange between two brothers and were never meant for public
release or to be interpreted interpreted excuse as serious remarks.
He wrote in the statement to The Daily Beast for
the avoidance of doubt, he said, the reference to Bubba
in this correspondence is not in any way a reference
to former President Bill Clinton.

Speaker 3 (01:28:50):
Thank you what?

Speaker 1 (01:28:51):
Commentaris were quick to note he did not say it
wasn't There wasn't a person named Bubba. There was no
mention that Bubba was not a person at all. However,
the other alt have you guys heard the other alternative
for what who Bubba might be more, they had to
reach out to Mark Epstein again and.

Speaker 3 (01:29:11):
Asked, hey, Mark us again.

Speaker 1 (01:29:13):
They said, hey, so you said it's not Bill Clinton.
But there was a claim appearing on several platforms. In
an ex post that was published November fifteenth, the caption read,
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but
Bill Clinton was not the only one called Bubba. Julane
Maxwell's horse was also called Bubba. Okay, So now a

(01:29:37):
spokesperson for Mark Epstein had to also say, no, this
is I can assure you it's not the case. I
have not even heard the horse rumor, but no, that
is not the case.

Speaker 3 (01:29:46):
Now I just see like a giant board that you
would find and I don't know, some sort of just
like detective conference.

Speaker 1 (01:29:53):
Room where the potential Bubba's like horse.

Speaker 3 (01:29:56):
It's not Bill boys.

Speaker 1 (01:29:58):
Whole list of Bubba's social media claims that Bubba reference
about Bill Clinton began spreading after the twenty eighteen email
thread between the Epstein brothers was discovered among the twenty
three thousand emails released by the House GOP Oversight Committee
in November. It referenced Donnie t your boy Donnie as
well as Trump. Mark Epstein spokesperson sent a statement from

(01:30:20):
Epstein to Lead Stories on November fifteenth, saying it was
a humorous private exchange. We read that part already the
Bubba reference was not so funny. Well, Bill Clinton got
it making.

Speaker 3 (01:30:31):
Jokes nothing about like it's not Bill. But we definitely
talking about just.

Speaker 1 (01:30:37):
Not saying it didn't happen. You could have said it's
not a person at all, or just it was about
a thing that but no, they're saying it's not Bill Clinton,
and it's not as some people have tried to point
the finger at Gallaine Maxwell's horse, which is this was
a first learning that she had a horse also named Bubba.
The spokesperson from Mark Epstein is with Sidereal Solutions, a

(01:31:00):
communication strategy company. She asked that they only use her
first name for security reasons.

Speaker 3 (01:31:06):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:31:06):
You can't even be Epstein's brothers spokesperson and uh and
escape the hate. I guess.

Speaker 6 (01:31:12):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:31:13):
They asked her in a phone call if she should
if she could clarify if the Bubber reference was to
Maxwell's horse, and she said no, I can assure you
that is not the case. So they're saying it's not
Bill and it's not the horse. And meanwhile, President Trump
has sort of switched positions on this whole thing now
saying he is so now saying encouraging Republican voters to

(01:31:35):
vote to release the files, which I think kind of
leads us to believe that he knows they were probably
going to do that anyway. And the way he said it,
I'd have to bring up the quote, but it was like.

Speaker 3 (01:31:46):
Calling it the hoax the whole time.

Speaker 1 (01:31:47):
He still did though, he said, all right, release the
Democrat radical left hoax.

Speaker 3 (01:31:55):
I opened the government.

Speaker 1 (01:31:56):
But oh, I think I think he referenced the shutdown
in it too. I'll get the exact quote for it.
In a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:32:04):
We can read you like a damn book.

Speaker 1 (01:32:06):
This this I thought was kind of weird because you
don't really see this name in the news anymore on
account of dead But O. J. Simpson is in the
headlines today because his estate has okay to a fifty
eight million dollar payment for Fred Goldman decades after his

(01:32:27):
son Ron's killing. What yeah, do you interesting?

Speaker 5 (01:32:31):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:32:31):
You know that the estates that were awarded money in
that civil case have largely not seen a.

Speaker 3 (01:32:36):
Dime, and now they're getting fifty eight million.

Speaker 1 (01:32:39):
So Fred Goldman, it says, maybe closer to finally receiving
payment from OJ Simpson's estate nearly three decades after winning
a wrongful death judgment against the former football great who
was acquitted of killing his son, and the executor of
the Simpson estate, whose name is Malcolm Laverne, who we've
definitely talked about before, and I'll remind you why in
a second, he has accepted Goldman creditor claim for a

(01:33:02):
very very specific number fifty seven million, nine hundred ninety
seven tho eight hundred and fifty eight dollars and twelve
cents plus ongoing judgment interest, as reported on by TMZ
over the weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:33:15):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (01:33:15):
The new site reports that the figure was agreed to
following negotiations between the estate and Goldman, whose son was
killed alongside Nicole Brown Simpson in June of ninety four.
He initially submitted to claim exceeding one hundred and seventeen million,
which was supposed to represent the original thirty three million
dollar judgment from the civil lawsuit, plus interest that has
accumulated over the course of the past three decades.

Speaker 3 (01:33:37):
I feel like there'd be a lot more interest than again,
we're talking about the millions of dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:33:42):
So yeah, it makes sense. Will they have that much?
It seems like they do. Laverne disputed the calculations and
offered a number that was half of what the bereaved
father was seeking, and Goldman accepted. It marks a reversal
from LaVerne's initial stance following Simpson's death last year, which
he said he would never pay the Goldman family. Hi, which,

(01:34:03):
how do you what kind of balls does it take
to get up there after the O. J. Simpson dies
and say I'm representing his family. I know that he
hasn't paid Ron Goldman or one red cent and he
won't get one damn gold I.

Speaker 3 (01:34:19):
Mean the balls of someone who, if he murdered, wrote
a book about it and felt very confident in the
non murdering murder part.

Speaker 1 (01:34:31):
Yeah, it says he subsequently changed course and committed to
accepting their claims. The combined thirty three and a half
million dollar judgment against Simpson in the civil trial says
went largely unpaid during his lifetime. Families had received only
a small fraction of the awarded damages. So in all
this time, and I know like he was in jail
for some of that. He had some money issues. What

(01:34:54):
was he a grandfather before he as far as Goldman,
I mean, who is still alive is receiving that money?
His dad Fred Fred.

Speaker 3 (01:35:05):
But he must be very old, so that's going to.

Speaker 1 (01:35:07):
I mean, he was already he's eighty four, he was
already eighty four. My gosh, I'd be so pissed off
fifty eight million dollars when I'm eighty four. It's like
in that song which it's Morris set, yeah million. Yeah,
it was a settlement, and the next it's like Fred Goldman.

(01:35:30):
I don't know if you guys remember watching those trials
or some of the interviews afterwards. Fred Goldman was on
TV a lot, and uh, you know, it was just
a rough, rough time for him as one could imagine.
But yeah, you said, now he's you said, he's probably
super old. I mean, imagine how much that situation aged him.

(01:35:53):
And then it's now, yeah, you know, thirty years later,
at least that was a magic classic surgery.

Speaker 3 (01:36:00):
Fifty eight million dollars can get you.

Speaker 1 (01:36:02):
Possibly, we'll see. There is an alleged porch pirate that
has been busted after the surveillance video has gone viral.
Look up this guy Todd Anthony Bond. They said he
has a particular look to him. He was taken into
Cussy on Friday after the Mobile County Sheriff's Office. Okay,

(01:36:25):
you see this guy.

Speaker 3 (01:36:27):
I'm getting it puts the loser on its.

Speaker 1 (01:36:29):
Skin very much. Show the cross dressing porch pirate and
uh oh, I have no, I don't want the search
here he is. So this is mister Todd Anthony Bond,
forty six years old. A couple of things that stuck
out to us that helped solve this crime was the vehicle.
This is Sergeant Lonnie Parsons of the Mobile County. Mobile

(01:36:49):
County Sheriff's Office. Home security video shows Tod Bond allegedly
stealing packages from the front porch of this house. Obviously,
the more important thing was the person's particular look. With Halloween,
you know, being recent, we were trying to understand whether
the person was dressed for Halloween or if this is
just the way they normally dress. Very it puts the
lotion on the skin, and that person has been arrested

(01:37:11):
for a bit of porch pirate activity. When we come back,
there was a woman that we talked about a while ago.
She has come forward about an incident with her wife
and the International Space Station. Dorito's and Cheetos have an
offering that we didn't ask for and we probably don't need.
And is that a parrot in your pocket? No, what

(01:37:33):
could it be? We're going to find out next, friends,
and we're going to play your dispatches as well. Those
are all coming up next on the news Junkie, and

(01:37:56):
then just they end up finding themselves back in jail
for any number of things. You would think like that's
the ultimate. You get the ultimate due over when you
receive a presidential pardon or.

Speaker 3 (01:38:10):
Do it again. It was so much fun the first time, I.

Speaker 1 (01:38:12):
Think so, but really quick, Sabrina, you had mentioned this
and it's in the news today. It just came on
my feed. Sticky Florida bill would require cursive instruction in
elementary schools. It's going to be required again, Sabrina.

Speaker 3 (01:38:27):
Called, because that was one of the I don't know
less than a handful of classes that I excelled in.

Speaker 1 (01:38:35):
It's cursive, Like you think that did you have to have?

Speaker 3 (01:38:38):
It wasn't a whole class, but when we were tested
upon it, they're like God, you're going to make it
as a calligrapher.

Speaker 1 (01:38:44):
We had we had it in I was told you're
not a doctor yet. That was That was my teacher's
like fun way of telling me my handwriting is absolutely terrible.
But because I guess doctors are notorious for you know,
how do they read the prescription pads? Stuff like that?
But no, it says Senator Aaron gral of Vero. Beach

(01:39:07):
filed this proposal SB four four four. The House Student
Academic Success Subcommittee is set to review the measure, which
is also House Bill one two seven on November eighteenth,
sponsored by Tony Overdarf named Tony Toby. His name is

(01:39:27):
Toby Overdorf. That's even worse. The bill would require cursive
instruction in second through fifth grades. I think we did
it in third third grade was when they made us
learn cursive. I remember they remember. The part of it
was and tell me if you guys had this, you
had to hold the pencil in such a specific way

(01:39:49):
that they had this little rubber thing you put on
it that oh yeah, the gripper. You had the gripper too.
That wasn't just me, I felt that was it and
rip it one of those things they give you because
you're not doing well.

Speaker 3 (01:40:01):
Well that to avoid causes.

Speaker 1 (01:40:02):
But uh. The proposal, filed for consideration for the legislative
session that begins January thirteenth, would also require students to
demonstrate proficiency and cursive by the end of fifth grade
good luck. The House unanimously back to similar proposal also
sponsored by Oberdorf during the twenty twenty five session, but
the Senate did not vote on the issue. Critics maintain

(01:40:25):
cursive writing has already taught at public schools, and the
proposal would add to overtesting of students. I didn't think
they were teaching cursive that much in public schools, Like,
why would they need the bill if they were already
teaching it?

Speaker 3 (01:40:36):
I mean, a great question, But there's a lot of
stuff that they teach in public schools where you ask,
why are you teaching that when they'll never use it.

Speaker 1 (01:40:47):
I think I would do fine until I got to
like do well Jesus Christ, until I got to a Z.

Speaker 3 (01:40:56):
These are weird.

Speaker 1 (01:40:57):
Do you remember how to make a cursive Z?

Speaker 3 (01:40:59):
I do, but it doesn't make sense to me.

Speaker 1 (01:41:02):
What does it look like? Show me?

Speaker 3 (01:41:04):
I mean, you're doing like a like it looks like
a dolphin.

Speaker 1 (01:41:08):
It looks like a dolphin.

Speaker 3 (01:41:09):
That's kind of like the heads out of water, but
the tails on the ground.

Speaker 4 (01:41:12):
Ze in cursive, it's like, uh, it's a loop.

Speaker 1 (01:41:17):
Wait, no, I don't remember down. Okay, look at it,
all the cursive letters.

Speaker 3 (01:41:24):
Doing a lowercase.

Speaker 1 (01:41:26):
Okay, you're right.

Speaker 3 (01:41:28):
I don't know I else to describe it. I wish
that we had the Disney Channel technology. So I was
watching the stream. You can see me doing it.

Speaker 1 (01:41:34):
But all right, it's right there, right down in the Yeah,
you you had the I don't know about dolphin.

Speaker 3 (01:41:40):
A dolphin like dolphin breaching water, saying the tails at
the under underneath the water.

Speaker 1 (01:41:47):
I see it, all right, yeah, thank you. All right.
There are a bunch of these numbers. If I kind
of remember G, I could do the ones that are Q.
I probably know the special this this upper case regular cue. Look,
it does look just like a two. I think I
would have done well with most of these.

Speaker 7 (01:42:10):
But.

Speaker 1 (01:42:12):
That I had the I mean, I'm not going to
have a cursive writing contest here.

Speaker 3 (01:42:15):
How's your actual writing?

Speaker 1 (01:42:18):
Like just print?

Speaker 3 (01:42:19):
Obviously, Bet.

Speaker 1 (01:42:24):
A lot of notes I wrote down on the page
for the beginning of the show, today. Let's see if
I could find it for you. I wrote down just
the things that I was going to say, and I
could read those just why I was all garbledygook. I
did kind of have to look across out some stuff.
Let's put our ears to the ground and our finger

(01:42:46):
on the pulse. No, I okay, but no the rest
of it, I typed out, because yeah, we have technology,
but yeah, you're gonna have to learn cursive again, and
you're gonna have to buy those stupid grip things that
I had to get that made me feel like a special.

Speaker 3 (01:43:00):
Kid, or a fountain pen like they did to write
the Constitution.

Speaker 1 (01:43:05):
I would not do well in a fountain pen. But
I get those videos in my feed all the time
of people that have this really great calligraphy, and I'm
like a little jealous for the length of the video,
and then I forget about it because I don't care anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:43:20):
But I mean, think about it. They don't spend time
with other humans. They just go live.

Speaker 1 (01:43:25):
Right on TikTok. They just go there's a weird it's
up again. Well any updates on that? Oh? Sorry, God
bless you.

Speaker 3 (01:43:37):
No doing a little crying and no updates yet.

Speaker 1 (01:43:40):
Well update out of England, overseas, across the pond. They've
had enough of it, they said, no more, we have.
We've been hearing, we've been hearing too much of this.
And thank god, my young son is not a K
pop demon, a Hunters fan, no more pulpy he has.

(01:44:01):
He has a neighbor friend that is and I've seen it.

Speaker 3 (01:44:06):
And he's allowed to hang out with them anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:44:08):
No, he's allowed, but he's got his own obsessions that
he uh at some point. Birthday get is great. No,
I did not put it away. It's it's on the
floor of his playroom. I got it. It turns it
on all the time a Mickey Mouse and then he
loads it and fires.

Speaker 3 (01:44:25):
It giant bazooka, a giant keyboard Mickey Mouse theme. And
one of my favorite videos that I've received from zee
Lane is sweet Jack opening it up and Sea Lane
within fifteen seconds going god damn it Sabrina and it's like,
oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, that's why, oh boy,

(01:44:46):
oh boy boy.

Speaker 1 (01:44:47):
You need to like turn it on in such a
way that it does all of the things it's supposed
to do. But if you haven't flipped that switch, it
just says the same thing every time you hit the button,
and I was.

Speaker 3 (01:44:58):
Like, yes, you bitch, Yeah, you guys love it.

Speaker 1 (01:45:03):
And I opened that present after the roast and I
was like, I would loaded up, loaded up more stuff.
But no. A school has banned the singing of songs
from hit Netflix film K Pop Demon Hunters over concerns
they are not keeping with its Christian ethos.

Speaker 3 (01:45:20):
Ethos but what what on Christian of the pops?

Speaker 1 (01:45:26):
You would think that's hunting demons.

Speaker 3 (01:45:29):
Is good demons?

Speaker 1 (01:45:32):
It would be anti demon in a Christian school, but
not in lily Put Church of England Infant School in Pool, Dorset.
They sent a message to parents on Friday saying some
members of the community are deeply uncomfortable with references to demons.

Speaker 3 (01:45:48):
It was because it can't even reference them at all.

Speaker 1 (01:45:51):
Yeah, they associate them with spiritual forces opposed to God
and goodness. I can't even know.

Speaker 3 (01:45:57):
There's a demon behind you. Watch out. You can't even
say that.

Speaker 1 (01:46:00):
I can't lollie wagon around here. It seems irresponsible to
only teach about the good side and not, you know,
tell why the bad side is bad.

Speaker 3 (01:46:10):
Adrian, you got a demon right on you.

Speaker 1 (01:46:13):
In an update on Monday. That's what I thought the
impression you were doing, Josh, I was doing an English
guy because they're in England.

Speaker 7 (01:46:20):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:46:21):
In an update, head acting head teacher Lloyd Allingtonio said
he had sense received feedback from parents highlighting positive positive
messages from the songs, but the school was seeking to
support those who found the themes challenging a boring school Yeah,
K pop. Demon Hunter is still Netflix's most viewed film
ever in August, and follows the adventures of the fictional

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girl band Hunter X with a slash in There Somewhere
and No E as it's three members use their music
and fighting skills to protect humans from the demons. It
also features a rival group made up of five demons
called the Saga Boys Saha Boys. OUs lyrics cover themes
including temptation and seduction. So, uh, that's that's not allowed

(01:47:08):
in the schools anymore. In pool, did you guys have
something that was like taking over school when you were
in grade school that they said, ah, we're getting rid
of this, we're banning it.

Speaker 3 (01:47:19):
Not that I recall. The only one that comes to
mind was when I was a counselor at Good Counsel Camp.

Speaker 5 (01:47:25):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (01:47:26):
There's one child like it was storming very badly, so
we couldn't do the outdoor activities. So everyone was going
to come to watch in the mess hall a movie.
The movie picked was Harry Potter, and one one person,
one child was like, my church says, I can't watch.

Speaker 1 (01:47:43):
That, so ils ruined. We're watching Harry Potter for the
whole camp.

Speaker 3 (01:47:48):
I guess what we watched for the fifteenth time, which
I wasn't upset about the Labyrinth?

Speaker 1 (01:47:52):
Baby, Oh, your church isn't fine with the Labyrinth, but
not Harry Potter.

Speaker 3 (01:47:56):
I didn't know what the labyrinth was, big bulge lyabynth
was fine.

Speaker 1 (01:48:00):
Think about reading or something. That's what I always thought,
Like the kid got sucked into a book. That's what
I don't read. I was afraid. I know you got
sucked into the book, and like, that's why I was
afraid of reading an addicts. Isn't that Wait? No, I'm
thinking page Master, forget it. I was thinking never ending story.
So I was I did have the wrong the Wishbone,

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but good show.

Speaker 3 (01:48:24):
What's the story?

Speaker 1 (01:48:25):
I never watched Wishbone?

Speaker 3 (01:48:27):
Shall we digress?

Speaker 1 (01:48:28):
I don't know anything about it? But no, let's get
to some dispatches here. We have some of yours coming in.
Let's go to Guitar Slinger with a dispatch.

Speaker 3 (01:48:37):
I think the most famous Icelandic phrase is at the
beginning of that def Leopard song.

Speaker 6 (01:48:43):
You know we're.

Speaker 1 (01:48:44):
Leebing globing rock and rolling. That's right. Let me know, guy,
I believe that is. It's also came from the Deaf
Leopard song and they sampled it and pretty fly for
a white guy, that is. I looked it up. It's
some sort of fake German like they just it's a

(01:49:04):
fake German. It's supposed to just replace one, two, three, four,
like at the beginning of a song when you count
off a song.

Speaker 4 (01:49:10):
Rock and roll, baby, not an Icelandic thing.

Speaker 1 (01:49:13):
How about insecure wall risks?

Speaker 10 (01:49:15):
So everyone, great job Sea Lane, so far hosting today
so far.

Speaker 1 (01:49:20):
Good to hear y'all on the air.

Speaker 12 (01:49:22):
Caveat when I used to go to Bonnaroo quite a bit.
My wife has worked at every single Bonnaroo except for
one over the years, and when I used to go
pretty regularly for five or six years. A few years ago,
there was a place that's set up just outside of
center rou right by the big tower with the light
on top of it or the disco ball or whatever
it was that year called the beat Box, and that

(01:49:44):
I think they were out of Philadelphia or New Jersey
somewhere up that way.

Speaker 1 (01:49:49):
He's talking about the vegan restaurant in Gluten Free Food.
They had like a hamburger that was made out of beats.
It was on a regular like gross beats. I try it,
you would try it, I'd try it. Why not? Does it?
Does it have to be the pickled beats or do
you think it's like one of those little roasted beats.

(01:50:11):
My wife went through a phase where she said, like
she tries to pick something new to try every year,
and she's like, this year is beat year, and I'm like, gross,
I'm not I'm not taking part of it. I don't
like it. When we come back, we're gonna get into
jury duty. And then we got a whole bunch of
stuff in the last hour of the show. We got
to get to including this politician that I keep teasing

(01:50:33):
that has been caught looking at boobs on an airplane.
Nice and uh, this guy that has powered his home
in a very hippie way that's interesting but also sounds
super dangerous. We'll talk about him and more, plus your dispatches.
You can send them in to the news junkie dot com.
Just hit it up on your phone or your laptop whatever.
Go to the news junkie dot com and record your

(01:50:55):
first dispatch. That and more coming up next on the
News Junkie. What happened? What? What do you say?

Speaker 3 (01:51:20):
My rolls?

Speaker 1 (01:51:20):
Back your rolls?

Speaker 3 (01:51:23):
Jesus, how old are you?

Speaker 1 (01:51:25):
I'm too old for for for dubstep? Have to know, bitter.
I think I have been to one or two dubstep performances.

Speaker 3 (01:51:33):
Now I have one of those on video.

Speaker 1 (01:51:35):
I'd like to not see. That'd be it'd be fine
with me. What anyway, We'll get to your dispatches in
just a little bit. You can send those in at
the news chunky dot com. But let's get into it.
Let's do jury duty.

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or just call MO dot com. A Ponzi schemer named
Eli Weinstein fifty years old. No, it doesn't say that
there's any relationship, although this person has been called a predator,
so he does at least have things in common with
the Winstein you're thinking of. But this person was sentenced
Friday for defrauding investors who believe their money was buying

(01:53:01):
COVID nineteen masks, baby formula, and first aid kits bound
for Ukraine. Instead, he and his conspirators used the money
to repay early investors and for personal expenses like gambling
and the casinos and buying real estate. What a scumbag yep,
they said this that's a future investment, is it not.
In federal court in Trenton, New Jersey, mister Weinstein received

(01:53:21):
a gift that few have received in the United States,
According to US District Judge Michael Ship, he then squandered
that gift after getting out of prison by starting again
to steal from investors and loaned their money. You see,
mister Weinstein was pardoned by President Trump. He got clemency
or his previous wrongdoing.

Speaker 3 (01:53:40):
That means you don't do any more. Thanks. Is that
not the over you know?

Speaker 1 (01:53:45):
I mean it would help not to, but you start
with a clean slate, at least for the thing that
you got. The clemency for The case is one example
of what can go wrong when the president grants clemency
to convict the defendants who commit new crimes. Earlier this week, alone,
and convicted drug trafficker freed from prison by Trump in
twenty twenty one was sentenced to twenty seven months in

(01:54:08):
prison for violating the terms was his federal release. Prosecutors
sought a sentence of a half century in prison, an
unusually harsh term in a white collar case. Weinstein's lawyer
asked for fifteen. He wore a dark green jail jumpsuit
supported a black beard in court. A man accused of
vandalizing a Veteran's Day display would have gotten away with

(01:54:30):
it had it not been for his stupid punk driver's license.
Punks may have played a role in a two but
a Veterans Day flag display at a church in Texas
and a church in Texas were vandalized, leading to this
man's arrest. Forty eight year old Timothy meers Pool of
Tyler tore flags down at the display near the W T.

(01:54:50):
Brookshire Conference Center. He also vandalized Lakewood Church in Flint,
who he shattered the glass on the front door of
the church by throwing a piece of concrete like similar
to a septic tank lid at the church. This is
a strong guy. Yeah, that's a huge piece of concrete.
And then it says when he was tearing down all
the flags, he dropped his driver's license, which you don't.

(01:55:14):
Why do you even have your driver's license out while
committing a crime? Just case if I'm criming, you know
I don't I'm not pulling out my ID to show
anybody anything. I might not even have my wallet on
me unless the crime is like taking some money.

Speaker 3 (01:55:29):
I need somebody to drop your license of all the things.

Speaker 1 (01:55:33):
Yeah, the whole wallet, I it may it may have
been because I don't even really take my license out
if you wanted to get caught. At around nine thirty help,
a deputy conducting and unrelated traffic stop was approached by pool.
This is the guy that got arrested, who exited vehicle
after pulling up and was acting aggressively. Gave him orders

(01:55:54):
to leave or back away, but he refused. He was
arrested for interfering the public duties and booked into the
Smith County Jail. Criminal mischiff count was added to his charges.
He was the man who's caught on camera tearing down
American flags and bending poles. This guy is strong. He's
thrown big old concrete septic lids and bending poles. Cartoon

(01:56:14):
strongman at the Rotary Club of Tyler's Field of Valor
display at the Rose Garden Complex.

Speaker 3 (01:56:21):
And so chance like two blocks away was a CrossFit.

Speaker 1 (01:56:24):
Competition there is or maybe he lost it and he
was just like proven that he has what it tells
I'll show you. The Tyler Police Department spokesperson said he
actually left his just says driver's license. It doesn't say
a wallet at the scene of the crime. Rotory Club
says it'll cost over two thousand dollars to replace the

(01:56:45):
broken plaque of Poles. And then this former Air Force
intelligence officer. I think we talked about this when it happened.
It was about five years ago. She has pleaded guilty
to lying to a federal agent by falsely claiming that
her estranged astronaut wife Oh yeah, illegally accessed her bank

(01:57:06):
account while aboard the International Space Station for six months.

Speaker 3 (01:57:13):
Yes, so the astronaut did not do any of the things.

Speaker 1 (01:57:18):
Either either she didn't do it or she was allowed.

Speaker 3 (01:57:22):
It was like access does the first space crime.

Speaker 1 (01:57:25):
Yes, it was like the first online computer crime that
was in space. It might be the first first crime
ever in space that we know of. The guilty plea
by Summer Warden, fifty years old, comes more than five
years after she was indicted in the space case for
lying about actions by her wife, Anne McLean, who is
a US Army Colonel West Point graduate in Iraq War

(01:57:46):
combat veteran while they were in the midst of the divorce.
The claim came at a time when Warden said the
couple was a stranger engaged in a custody battle excuse
me over their six year old son, who they had
conceived through IVF, and it was carried by a surrogate.
Warton's trial in the case was scheduled to begin next
Monday in Houston Federal Court. But she like guilty and

(01:58:06):
everything's okay.

Speaker 3 (01:58:07):
But classic lesbians, they said.

Speaker 1 (01:58:11):
The investigation revealed Warden had granted her spouse access to
the bank records from at least twenty fifteen, including her
logging credentials. And the thing that got me was, like,
I did not realize how easy it was to just
surf the Internet while you're on the space station, like
they have Wi Fi up there. I would have thought
the space station was a pretty boring.

Speaker 3 (01:58:32):
Was access to all the world's Internet?

Speaker 1 (01:58:35):
You do they have like they have like a system Facebook,
like the original plans they had were or the original
system that was in place. Because think of this. We
just talked about the space station in China who got
their very first air fryer, and you're like, okay, it
must be. They must be very behind in some of

(01:58:58):
the technology that some of the astronauts have, says too.
And so Wi Fi was just a thing that I
didn't think.

Speaker 3 (01:59:04):
They had, but it was actually an airflyer.

Speaker 1 (01:59:06):
I guess. Oh, yeah, they said it wrong, got it.
But they had like Wi Fi for these astronauts, and
you could just yeah, log into your bank account, like
do whatever. You can't have your cell phone up there
because you can't get any cell service, but they have
like tablets or laptops that are just like I.

Speaker 3 (01:59:30):
Mean, they do, yeah, but if you're in space, if
those are real.

Speaker 1 (01:59:35):
It used to be they had like the little camera
that they would like throw around to do the live
TV shot. But no, they definitely have like FaceTime and
space Now now space time would be the obvious name
for something like that, FaceTime Continuum. I think it runs
on like NASA's private service. But you can definitely like
just log into your bank account or commit crimes, it seems,

(01:59:58):
but it looks like that's not what this person did.
And Summer Warden, fifty years old, was just lying about it,
and so she faces a maximum possible sentence of up
to five years in prison. She remains free on bond,
is scheduled to be sentenced in February. At last, but
not least in jury duty, a man was charged with
smuggling after cross Customs and Border Protection officers at the

(02:00:19):
US Mexico border noticed a suspicious bulge in his pants.
Jesse Agus Martinez, a thirty five year old US citizen
who lives in Tijuana, Mexico, was indicted Friday after authority
set each smuggled two heavily sedated orange fronted parakeets, which
is a protected species, into the United States late last month.

(02:00:41):
The birds, which are endangered and native to Mexico, were
found apparently unconscious but breathing and heavily sedated. Martinez testicles
uh no. Martinez claimed several times to the officers that
the bulge in his pants was his penis, or he
used the Spanish word for penis, Get your hands off

(02:01:02):
my penis. When questioned by customs officers, he claimed several
times the bullet was his penis. When authorities took a
closer look, they discovered the two parakeets hidden inside his underwear.
Fish and Wildlife Service agents two pets?

Speaker 3 (02:01:15):
How much money are you getting for that? If he
had made it.

Speaker 1 (02:01:19):
Yeah, that's the thing. It doesn't say how much money
he would have gotten, but it's either a whole lot
of money or just that's the thing that he's good at,
because why would you smuggle just two parakeets and hide
them that close to They're very beautiful.

Speaker 3 (02:01:33):
And I'm also very sure that they fly around Miami.
I was just in Miami and they have like a
whole cluster of these parakeets. Or maybe it's the green
parrots that someone had brought over and they made it
and boom.

Speaker 1 (02:01:47):
It says the Ormus front In. Parakeets are listed as
vulnerable on the Red List of threatened.

Speaker 3 (02:01:52):
Species, especially if they're in a man's pants.

Speaker 1 (02:01:55):
Yes. The group notes that the pet trade poses the
biggest threat to the critically and danger birds as their
population continues to decrease due to trapping. So I guess
it's just they they're not making babies because people are
too busy stealing them and selling them. Between nineteen ninety
eight and two thousand and eight, more than eight thousand
of the green and orange parakeets were legally captured. They

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were the most sought after parro species in Mexico. And
this guy could get a fine of up to a
quarter million dollars and twenty years in prison for the
two parakeets that he promised, he swore up and down
was just his penis so sorry about that. Good luck
to you in prison, hopefully a little less than twenty years.

(02:02:38):
But that was a thretey five year old jesse Agus Martinez.

Speaker 3 (02:02:41):
All the parakeets seeking stuff in prison.

Speaker 1 (02:02:45):
They'll find a different work on that one. They'll find
they'll find an alternative method to do that if he
wanted some in prison. When we come back, we got
to get to this politician on the plane. Dorito's and
Cheetos are offering something up that we never didn't really need.
But maybe we'll get a chance to try that in
the near future. That is coming up next on the
news Junkie. A congressman was caught on an airplane checking

(02:03:24):
out pictures of scantily clad women, and he has an
excuse that I want to know if you guys agree
with Do you agree with his right to use it?
Do you think it's for real? We'll find out in
just a second here. But this picture right here is
of California Representative Brad Sherman. He is seventy one years old.

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And if you kind of this thing, won't get it
to make it bigger. There we go. See his mouth
is kind of a gape at what he sees, of course,
and his full brightness. iPad. You see a scared, antony
clad woman right there. A website in the middle. It's
not a website, he says. It's not a website.

Speaker 3 (02:04:08):
It says vibe. But I cannot see it all that.

Speaker 1 (02:04:11):
Well, well he's going to try to explain it. Oh yes,
and we'll find out if we believe him or not.
But photos of California Representative Brad Sherman were shared on
x over the weekend when an actual person from the
White House, the White House Communications director wrote on X Brah,
what a total gooner that was from Stephen Chung, what

(02:04:34):
It's time to be alive. The California politician denied having
a pornography problem, adding if I see a picture of
a woman, might I look at it longer than a sunset? Yeah?
Sherman defended himself. Yeah, I know, he said, I mean,
you can't look at a sunset for that long, but
a woman. Yes, He defended himself, saying the photos appeared

(02:04:56):
on his I didn't know X had this. I thought
this was only a TikTok thing, and I hesitant to
bring up TikTok for him around Sabrina, he said it
was just for you page of his ex feed. In
an interview with punch Bowl News, hitting punch Bowl News
really getting the exclusive, he says, if you fly across

(02:05:17):
the country, you look at a lot of stuff on
your tablet. An ex user who first shared the photos
of Sherman on the aircraft rode in a post scene
by millions, why did California Congressman Brad Sherman feel it
was appropriate to look at porn on his iPad during
a flight? Today many have been poking fun at the
lawmaker who has seen mouth agape at what appears to
be women wearing underwear and bikinis. One X commented that

(02:05:42):
the screen brightness was all the way up. Not an
ounce of shame, but he blames the algorithm for his
mile high activities. But I mean, I know it that
at least here.

Speaker 3 (02:05:53):
We go, Selan's going to excuse this this perv.

Speaker 1 (02:05:56):
I mean, did he do anything wrong?

Speaker 3 (02:05:58):
Full brightness is very wrong.

Speaker 1 (02:06:00):
Full brightness is very stupid. I think he did something stupid.
I don't think he did anything wrong. I mean, unless
there was nudity. But in this, in this shot, I
don't see anything that would be something we couldn't show
on the streaming. Oh yeah, he's a very old guy.
Thing that's longer than a sunset. He probably probably has
very big font on the iPad. He's seventy one years old.

(02:06:24):
He's look, he's got to have the full brightness so
he can see ladies. But if I go on Instagram
and hit like the search tab or whatever, what comes
up for a while?

Speaker 3 (02:06:38):
Women?

Speaker 1 (02:06:38):
Yeah, sometimes I mean right now, right now, it's a
such of food stuff, foods, ten dollars, cups of pasta. Oh,
it's always red hot balls go on. Yeah, oh the
metal balls, the metal ball that they like put in
a furnace for a while and then they're like, we're
going to drop this ball on a bunch of eminem

(02:07:00):
and watch it melt them.

Speaker 3 (02:07:01):
I don't know what's up with me?

Speaker 1 (02:07:03):
Why? I mean I don't either, But why.

Speaker 3 (02:07:05):
Because I have Yorky Yorky.

Speaker 1 (02:07:09):
Which I mean that's makes sense.

Speaker 3 (02:07:12):
And then I have two of that JD. Van's meme
of him, like you know the one the fat guy.

Speaker 1 (02:07:18):
Yeah, and then the kids.

Speaker 3 (02:07:21):
From Love on the Spectrum and uh, and then Frankenstein
Horror makeup.

Speaker 1 (02:07:28):
All right, I think maybe mine has changed a bit
since a lot of the AI stuff blew up. But
there was a while where there would be like, is
this me implied nudity in the mirror? I don't think. So.

Speaker 3 (02:07:42):
There's a lot of dogs with fun haircuts, but then
a lot of stuff wheich. I'm like, I don't. I
don't watch Love on the Spectrum this much, do I maybe?

Speaker 1 (02:07:53):
I I mean, I can only watch that once. I mean,
I think it's great, it's a great showing time. But no,
I guess no no boobs in my feed today, really
proving my my point wrong. But I used to see
that all the time, so the point where I sometimes
wouldn't use Instagram in public taking a little selfie there,

(02:08:13):
that's a funny video.

Speaker 3 (02:08:19):
And this is why the way it is, You're welcome.

Speaker 1 (02:08:23):
Giant thing my you know for a while, why what
did it sound like? I said, just a giant Oh no,
faced by a giant ball. But yeah, this congressman, he
says he wasn't looking at porn. I mean, if he
was looking at porn on an airplane, he's pretty stupid,
but he wouldn't be the only one, didn't. We have
the who is the guy from Florida? Matt gatesing his

(02:08:47):
mother and everybody could read what he what he was saying, Mummy,
I'm going to be intelligent one day.

Speaker 3 (02:08:52):
That's right, mummy.

Speaker 1 (02:08:53):
But good luck to Brad Sherman and maybe maybe just
check what's on your iPad and check who's around. The
crazy part for me, I think is being on a plane.
I would not recognize unless it was Rick Scott. Like
there are not a lot of senators I would recognize
that were flying on a plane, So I wouldn't even

(02:09:13):
know to take pictures of whatever they're they're looking at
on there.

Speaker 3 (02:09:19):
I I've missed so many people except for when I
was coming back from Ireland. It was the dance King of.

Speaker 1 (02:09:27):
I have not been to Ireland.

Speaker 3 (02:09:28):
No, no, no, the guy who does the King of dance?
What is it not? It was his what is the opposite? Predecessor?
Michael Flatley is the predecessor of the guy I was
sitting next to on the plane.

Speaker 1 (02:09:42):
He is the Prince of dance, Steve Flatley.

Speaker 3 (02:09:45):
Something flatly, But I was right next to him, like
I know you're famous, so I'm going to sneak a
pick and do a Google reverse.

Speaker 1 (02:09:51):
Some of those people just tell you they're famous too.
They just definitely was famous.

Speaker 3 (02:09:55):
His calves were also, I mean absolutely perfect.

Speaker 1 (02:09:58):
I don't know. Now people are still saying Michael Flatley
in the chat, so we'll have to wait a second
to see if we get a correction on that. Over
to Miami Beach, where police arrested YouTuber Jack Doherty. Does
that name a ring a bell for anybody? YEA saw
the story, so okay. He was arrested early Saturday morning.
According to official records, The twenty two year old was

(02:10:21):
taken into custody shortly after three ten am. They reported
that Doherty was standing in the middle of the street
using his phone and ignored officers commands to use, responding,
once I'm done with this bet. Like he was just
standing in the middle of the road and the officers
told him to get out of there, and he's like, no,
I got to finish this bet I'm working on first.

(02:10:41):
During a search, officer said they discovered half of an
orange oval shaped pill marked three, believed to have been
a scheduled two amphetamine, along with a black plastic container
holding three hand rolled suspected marijuana cigarettes. My goad he was,
he was hooked into excuse. He booked it to the
Turner Guilford Night Correctional Center and faces felony charge of

(02:11:05):
possession of a controlled substance. You may week.

Speaker 3 (02:11:08):
Half him and goes to jail on three joints.

Speaker 1 (02:11:12):
He posted a thirty five thousand dollars bond. But you
may remember his name because in October of last year,
I thought it was much longer ago than this. But
October of last year, Doherty hydroplaned on Florida Turnpike, crashing
his McLaren five to seventy s while reading his chat
while driving. He was live on Kick like he was

(02:11:35):
live streaming while driving. The car was totaled. He was
banned from Kick. His cameraman was injured and bleeding from
the head due to the accident. He received stitches at
the hospital. Doherty was cited by FHP for years. This
was last year. This was like a year and a
couple of months ago, October of twenty four and time

(02:11:59):
that doesn't.

Speaker 3 (02:11:59):
Say two A am I the dude?

Speaker 1 (02:12:01):
What were the circumstances?

Speaker 5 (02:12:03):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (02:12:03):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (02:12:04):
Because he hadn't been sober since. Yeah, probably around that
time as well.

Speaker 1 (02:12:08):
What do you mean are you asking if he was drunk?

Speaker 3 (02:12:13):
I'm just double checking.

Speaker 1 (02:12:14):
Oh no, he I mean he was just live streaming.
I think it was. It doesn't say what time of
the day it was, but it doesn't mention any sort
of impairment. They really just cited him for using a
wireless communication device while driving. He was unbanned from Kick
in January and then rebanned nine days later because he
got in a fight with somebody with a security and
a heckler and that was also live stream on the platform.

Speaker 3 (02:12:36):
These days, this like does not learn any lessons whatsoever.

Speaker 1 (02:12:40):
No, no, does not care. He's twenty two years old.
He easily posted a thirty five thousand dollars bond, and
he was driving around McLaren five seventy s, which is
not a cheap car to just that just from YouTube. Richly,
both it could be a little of both must be
nice because I mean, he's only twenty two and he's

(02:13:02):
it was like, he's known for just YouTube and being
a kickstreamer, which I didn't even know people still stream
on Kick? Are people still using Kick?

Speaker 3 (02:13:10):
I you're asking the wrong person, because I didn't know
that was still around.

Speaker 1 (02:13:15):
I think I K right, well it's it's spelled k
I c K on Wikipedia.

Speaker 3 (02:13:20):
That's old.

Speaker 1 (02:13:21):
We have the messaging platform, right, But I think he uh,
there was another incident that I think he was arrested
for or he got into some trouble with law enforcement
and it was a party for some other YouTuber. And
I think those guys go back to like the that
app that you used to use, that had the short

(02:13:42):
videos vine Vine made like a handful handful of people
famous that like ended up on TikTok. Right, Oh, so Jake,
Paul and Logan those are Vine guys.

Speaker 3 (02:13:53):
Yeah. Yeah, the twenty two year old would have been
what he's too young for that eight when Vine came.

Speaker 1 (02:13:59):
Out, Yeah, probably seven or eight.

Speaker 3 (02:14:03):
We're getting sold, guys.

Speaker 1 (02:14:05):
You just asked me how old I was, and now you're.

Speaker 3 (02:14:07):
Feeling it, yeah, big time.

Speaker 1 (02:14:08):
All right. When we come back, there is a guy
who is powering his house like a hippie.

Speaker 7 (02:14:14):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:14:14):
This way sounds particularly dangerous, and I want to know
if his insurance would cover something that goes wrong. Maybe
somebody could chime in. We'll take your dispatches too. We
can listen to some of those. You go to the
Newsjunkie dot com and send in your first dispatch right now.
Just record it there and send it along. We'll play
it next on the show that's all coming up on
the News Junkie. Did you wow? Wow, that's the nerve

(02:14:55):
that's kind of his sore spot. You know, he's went
out of my man, he's working on it. He's the
guy's been uh and iron.

Speaker 3 (02:15:03):
Yeah, he's your elbows. Yeah, actually looks great.

Speaker 1 (02:15:08):
Got this right here, got Jack Johnson and Tom O'Leary
right here. But no to a tag of aloa bitch?
Did you get it right? It's you're supposed to say tongue,
not tag tongue. Yea tongue loas uh No, Sabrina, did

(02:15:28):
you watch the latest episode of Pluribus? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:15:31):
I was just talking to Josh about this during.

Speaker 1 (02:15:34):
The break started watching it, Josh.

Speaker 3 (02:15:37):
No, no yet the moment that it was because I
remember seeing the trailer during their like coming up soon
at this year playlist. I was already in.

Speaker 1 (02:15:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:15:46):
After the watching that first episode, was like totally sold.

Speaker 1 (02:15:49):
One of one of Sean's uh kind of like drawbacks
about it, or he kind of thought like I don't
know if I'm gonna like this was it didn't describe
itself very well, like the show in general, pluribus, Like
the write up they had for it was very vague.

Speaker 3 (02:16:05):
Yeah, it's like, how does a woman deal with.

Speaker 1 (02:16:08):
Like the most miserable person in the world is Yeah,
is now needs to save it?

Speaker 3 (02:16:12):
Or something like the mystery of it all? And I
will say this last episode I think was doing a
lot more setup than entertain.

Speaker 1 (02:16:20):
Right, it's a little it was a little slower, but
it's it's Vince Gilligan. There were a lot of That
was the fly episode of the season. I see a
lot of people that got into Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad
had this weird life on on TV where it was
like all right, people got into it when it first

(02:16:41):
started airing, and then it got on Netflix and people
binge the hell out of it on Netflix and they
got to just one after another after another. I did
it until I probably season four was the first one
that I watched on television each week as it came out.

Speaker 3 (02:16:56):
We'll see that and raise you. I watched all of
it until the season. For now I was like, what's
this Breaking Bad? You guys are talking about? Oh, it's
ending soon. Please, well, I'm gone for the next seven days.

Speaker 1 (02:17:07):
I mean, I think I think even Breaking Bad I
might have started watching before this show started, like before
we started doing the show every day, so like I
had the free time. Once some people were like non
stop talking about Breaking Bad that I was like, Okay,
let's do this. When you go back and watch some
of those episodes, there were some slow ones, like there

(02:17:28):
were some ones where you feel like you not a
lot got done and not nearly as bad as the
Fly episode. But the episode Grenade, which the Grenade part
was great, pretty hilarious. Huh no Turtle, no, no, no no.
The episode of Pluribus that.

Speaker 3 (02:17:45):
We just watched, Yeah, Grenade was great. Yeah, that one
particular part at least. I'm very interested on how this
is all going to unfold because it's particular.

Speaker 1 (02:17:57):
Judging by the description of the fourth episode, it seems
like she is going to explore a little more and
we're going to to get more interaction with other people
and stuff, which I think will be fun. It was
good episodes. I keep looking for Breaking Bad Easter exit
it and so far, yes, so far. The glaring one

(02:18:18):
is the airline that she rides on is Wayfarer Airlines,
which in Breaking Bad Universe was the ones that the
one that exploded mid air because of the air traffic controller.
So that was but pluribus I love my wife's been
into it.

Speaker 3 (02:18:36):
Welcome to Darry.

Speaker 1 (02:18:37):
No, not at all. No, Jimmy, Jimmy was that's what. Yeah,
Jimmy was raving about it that first week, that Love Jimmy.

Speaker 3 (02:18:47):
We watched the same shows and sometimes, like Task, it
took you a minute to jump on board. You're still
buying we you know, so one person I can talk
to in this building about it, So.

Speaker 1 (02:19:02):
I will catch up on Task.

Speaker 3 (02:19:04):
What about all her faults?

Speaker 1 (02:19:06):
I haven't seen what all her fault I'm going to
be first. I'm hearing of that. I'm going to be
really behind on stuff, guys, because you know what time
of year it is.

Speaker 3 (02:19:15):
It's your hibernation.

Speaker 1 (02:19:16):
No, it's it could be a really pack in a
lot of eating in the next week or so. Yeah, No,
it's it's Christmas movie times. So we just watched Hard.
It was Melissa Joan Hard. I know it's the new one,
the Christmas Bitch. Yeah, they dropped it. She wasn't even

(02:19:39):
like a main character. Alicia Silverstone was the main like
actress my ex like a Merry X mess or my
Mary something Merry X mess, like the ex boyfriend there was.
It was a cringe ass movie. I just I can
imagine all the time.

Speaker 3 (02:19:57):
The poster is like back to back and they're like, oh,
what are we gonna do? We don't obviously want to
be in this picture together. You know it's going to
be cringe.

Speaker 1 (02:20:05):
I was only like half watching because I was pulling
stories for today and I was like, oh, this guy
works hard. I was just told Ashley, just pick something
that that you're gonna like because I'm only half gonna
watch it, And even half watching it, I went, this
is a cringe ass movie. Alicia Silverstone who you know.

(02:20:25):
When she started narrating it, I'm like, well, she sounds
exactly like she did from Clueless. But I kind of
wondered if she had some sort of stipulation or if
they did this to sort of attract her to the movie.
But her character does Alicia Silverstone things like is vegan right?
And like does you know hippie stuff like solar panels?

(02:20:48):
You know, like she she has like her own kind
of setup that she built, and like.

Speaker 3 (02:20:53):
They're like basically, it's you. Will you please narrate?

Speaker 1 (02:20:56):
Yeah, it's you, but now you have this strange husband.
You're gonna go through this whole journey with so One.

Speaker 3 (02:21:03):
Of my favorite things of twenty twenty five and real
life was when she went live I think on Instagram
She's like, I'm over in the UK and I just
found this awesome berry and put in her mouth and
immediately they were like, you need to go to the hospital.
That is extremely poisonous. And you know, lesson was learned,

(02:21:23):
but still, you know, she walked so we could run
and not eat berries from trees. We're not familiar.

Speaker 1 (02:21:30):
With Bootsy Moonshine says, Sea Land is selling this movie.
I don't really need this. I mean, I'm not trying something.
I wasn't really trying to. You can try that. That
would be a thing.

Speaker 3 (02:21:40):
I think it would be funny or like.

Speaker 1 (02:21:41):
There were some funny moments, but overall there were some
very I mean, if you like cringe stuff, like I
like The Office. There's a lot of cringe stuff in
the Office. I like that if you enjoy stuff like that,
and then you like, if you're like my wife, just
like Christmas movies in general, it's worth the way watch,
but there were some moments where I was just like, anyway,

(02:22:04):
we'll get to your dispatches in a second. Ray J
is in the news. Have you guys seen with Kardashian
now that you've seen the tape Sabrina, the Kim Kardashian
ray J sex.

Speaker 3 (02:22:14):
Tape, No, no, no, oh, I've just seen ray J
as of late, and he is gross.

Speaker 1 (02:22:21):
I think that, like I just missed out on a
lot of celebrity sex tapes. Like I've seen some of
the watch I know, but and I just haven't. I've
seen some of the stuff that was in the fappening.
I saw the Paris Hilton, multiple Paris Hilton ones one
night in Paris.

Speaker 3 (02:22:34):
I did not see that one. I did see Hope Solos.

Speaker 1 (02:22:37):
Yeah, that was that. It was an after picture. It
was not a before picture. And yeah, but but like
I haven't seen the Pam and Tommy one. Haven't seen
uh this ray J Kim Kardashian one, even though I
do remember when Kanye West was doing a performance at

(02:22:59):
one of the big music festivals overseas, somebody printed out
a still of the tape and like large and put
it as their totem at the show just to troll Kanye,
which I think is enjoy that top notch hilarious. But
ray J is now suing over this sex tape.

Speaker 3 (02:23:20):
He's been doing this, by the way, like every couple
of years. Every seven years, he will bring this up
and try to either get royalties or sue, and he's
counter showing mind.

Speaker 1 (02:23:33):
You, well, apparently they had this agreement about the sex
tape that he says Kim Kardashian and Chris Jenner keep breaking.
He's filed a cross complaint accusing Kim and Chris of
violating a six million dollar settlement agreement related to their
long running sex tape dispute. He denies their recent defamation claims,

(02:23:53):
calling the lawsuit of public relationshcharade driven by publicity power
and punishment. Alleges they used him to generate publicity for
projects like the Kardashians, which I think is stupid because
they have their own publicity. They don't need ray J
to generate publicity for their show. I know what kicked
him off, though he's kicked Kim off.

Speaker 3 (02:24:14):
I guess yeah, And honestly, I want to sue ray
J if that claim is true because the drama that
is produced by Kim Kardashian and starring Kim Kardashian even
which she's not doing lines is horrible.

Speaker 1 (02:24:32):
I mean, if you could correlation that ray J is
responsible for that, you might have a case. We can
ask Moses. But maybe his filing claims the infants type
was consensual. We've heard that before. The Kardashian and gener
coordinated its release, and they later manufactured controversies, including false
claims of assaulting extortion, to boost their show. Kardashian begged

(02:24:55):
him in twenty twenty two, according to ray J, to
play along with another fabricated storyline, and he refused. He's
seeking dismissal their suit one million dollars in damages. But
like if if you have an agreement over this tape
and you break it like that, he could have a
little bit of a case. But they this sounds like
something agreement, sounds like something they don't shows. Probably a

(02:25:18):
secret agreement, not a secret any Huey Lewis and the News, No,
just Lewis. It was Huey Lewis in the News and
the News, but it was mostly Hueye and it was
that whole Ghostbusters thing where he sued Ray Parker Jr.
Because he stole the song. Ray Parker Junior got to

(02:25:39):
sue him back like years later because he talked about
the lawsuit on behind the Music or something like it was.
It was this whole thing like he that Ray Parker
Junior got his ass sued. And I don't think made
a whole lot of money off of the Ghostbuster song
because he basically like just robbed Huey Lewis in the
news of the theme song, but was able to sue

(02:26:02):
him back. And just because he started mentioning it and stuff,
and he broke the agreement. You break the agreement, you
gotta pay You got to pay up. I think that's
the only way you ever made any money off the
Ghostbuster themes saw him because they got him pretty dead
to rights on that. Uh we talked about I've been
teasing this guy. Hello, I'll stop teasing him and I'll

(02:26:25):
get right to him. There's a guy who claims he
has reportedly powered his home for eight years with a
system of more than a thousand recycled laptop batteries.

Speaker 3 (02:26:37):
Yeah, that's gonna farewell when they all explode at the
same time.

Speaker 1 (02:26:40):
Very that's kind of like my thing, like I wish
I could. I wish I had the confidence to pull
off some of these like little experiments and projects like this.
I see him on YouTube all the time. This is
one hundred percent of my algorithm because I like watching
like nerdy stuff like this. But I go, if this
guy is powering his house for eight years, he claims
he's never had to replaced one of the laptop batteries,

(02:27:02):
which I think is absolute bs. But if he started
a fire with all this just because he's like daisy
chaining together batteries, does insurance commer that.

Speaker 3 (02:27:12):
I don't think so, because that place is going to
burn unless he has a stockpile of the specific fire
extinguisher I have.

Speaker 1 (02:27:21):
I have also seen other guys on YouTube that are like,
I took five hundred discarded vapes and took the batteries out,
and now I have my own power bank that's like,
you know, powering my bitcoin mining rig or some something
stupid like that. I go, yeah, I get it.

Speaker 4 (02:27:40):
They have those like disposable vapes, oh yeah, with LED
screens on.

Speaker 1 (02:27:44):
Them, the ones with the screens.

Speaker 3 (02:27:47):
By the way, when you throw those out, you are
risking waste management. Also having explosions in their face.

Speaker 1 (02:27:52):
WHOA so dispose it properly? They have ones with LED
screens on them and they're still disposable. Yep, that is wild.
That is why. So these guys they gather up all
these batteries and they wire them together in parallel or whatever.
The electrical engineers would know better than me, and they say,
all right, I could power like a whole bunch of
stuff with this. And I think it's a great thing.

(02:28:14):
Like I think it's good for the environment. I think
it's good for what Sabrina said, like not having people
that work for waste management be in danger because everybody's
thrown away there. And yeah, absolutely we love that our
show all the time, so they are our best friends.
But I just think that, like, the reason I'm not

(02:28:37):
doing it is because who am I going to sue
when it goes up in flames. There's nobody to blame
but myself. I can't sue that guy. This guy says
that he's too busy. He's suing plenty of Kardashians left
and right. But this guy says, for eight years he

(02:28:58):
has not had to replace a single of the one
thousand recycled laptop batteries that he's been using to power
his house along with a solar system. It's just story.
I mean, good for you for being able to recycle.

Speaker 3 (02:29:10):
Go, but one of those things explode and that's the
rest of your house.

Speaker 1 (02:29:14):
Yeah, I think it'll follow. You got to have the
amount of land to have a mother in law suite
that all that stuff stays in, like if your mother
and if some people would like to put their mother
in law in that suite. If you're in the battery,
if the danger is there, you're staying in the battery room.
But anyway, we're gonna get to your final dispatches when

(02:29:35):
we come back, Final dispatches stories that didn't make the cut,
and today, learn to wrap everything up for a Monday. Hey,
thanks you guys for being here. Thank you, Josh, thank you, Hey,
thank you. We're gonna wrap this thing up in just
a little bit. That all is coming up next on
the news junkie. I tease this a few times and

(02:30:07):
never got to it, so let me pay this off.
Pepsi Co announced Pepsi Co. Famously the company behind Pepsi yes,
but also the oft forgotten clear cola crystal Pepsi, the
one that had the awesome Van Halen song as the
earworm of a of an advertisement for He's right Now

(02:30:29):
by Van Helen Come tomorrow, like right now you should
be drinking clear cola crystal PEPSI. I bring up the
clear one because they're doing this with snacks now. They
announced Thursday that it's Cheetos and Dorito's brands will be
offering colorless alternatives. No, I've read before that the color

(02:30:50):
of Cheetos and Dorito's is has nothing to do with
the flavor, and I think that's what they're trying to
convey here, that the powder that's added to make Cheetos
orange and Dorito's you know, red number seven or something
whatever it is, depending on what Doritos you're having, they're
different colors.

Speaker 3 (02:31:08):
But if you get the Doritos, like the baked Doritos
are the ones they're supposed to be healthy and organic,
there's almost no color to them at all.

Speaker 1 (02:31:15):
Right, So that makes sense. The company says in a
press release, the new snack products we've made without artificial
flavors or dyes, which is so hot, so hot right now,
they say it tastes the same. They're calling them simply
NKD or naked. I'm guessing, oh, no, no color, no
artificial flavor, same intensity, that's simply naked. Doritos and Cheetos

(02:31:38):
are pioneering as snacking revolution or renaissance if you will,
reinventing the iconic and most famous brands to deliver options
with the bold flavors fans know and love now without
any colors or artificial flavor. And I think if you've like,
bring up the picture of them, we'll see. If I
get Dorita's, we're going from frosted flakes to flakes flakes. Yeah,

(02:32:00):
and uh the moneyway. They say it's going to taste
the same. I don't know. I don't I don't have
my screen shared anymore. So we are going to have
to take their word for it. But the product comes
amid pressure by federal regulators, including US Health Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Junior, who says who says the government will phase

(02:32:20):
out petroleum based synthetic dies dust actually they'll eat healthier
and wait called Tucker Carlson will be on board. It's
also comes amid broader concerns from parents and some sidentists,
saying food dies are harmful to the children. So they're
they're doing the same thing they did with pepsi, but
this time it'll be with the Doritos and the Cheetos.

(02:32:43):
I think though I can't do it.

Speaker 4 (02:32:46):
I don't try. It hurts too much. I don't even
want to try to do it. Yeah, you don't want
to try to get a by level puck.

Speaker 1 (02:32:52):
I'm sure that's exactly the old man what I was thinking.
That's right, let's do push ups. But no, they're doing
the same thing they did with the clear pepsi. However,
I do wonder if they taste the same. Isn't that
a cleaner eat?

Speaker 3 (02:33:07):
Then you're a cleaner eat. What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (02:33:10):
It's cleaner, like you're not getting the coloring stuff all
over your your hands. The powder, No, that's the powder
is what makes it, like the Cheetos orange. They're supposed
to taste the same without having the orange, and so it.

Speaker 3 (02:33:25):
Would be less colorless powder.

Speaker 1 (02:33:28):
Maybe I just I just know that, Like my wife
does that that thing where people eat the Cheetos with chopsticks.
It's cleaner. Oh yeah, I keep the dust's finger something.
It's something she learned on and I don't hate to
bring this up. She learned it on TikTok. I think
very Oh my god, let's do the final dispatches. I
don't have the song, but it's about Sean. I'm gonna

(02:33:51):
play probably just going to play one because we're running
out of time. Here is Floridian Kelly with a dispatch.

Speaker 3 (02:34:00):
News junkies se Lane.

Speaker 1 (02:34:03):
They are a lot closer to the satellites and starlink,
especially on the space station, so I would think their
Internet is fantastic. You would think you will go pop.
You would think that's the case too, But the satellites
typically point straight down at the Earth, and so it's
not as simple.

Speaker 3 (02:34:21):
Don't actually the British lady.

Speaker 1 (02:34:23):
Not actually the British lady. I don't have time to
actually the British lady.

Speaker 11 (02:34:26):
Let's do today learn The following information may make you
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Speaker 1 (02:34:35):
Today Learn Learn four Monday, November seventeenth to twenty twenty five.
Today learned this show Right Writer? Today Learning Night Writer
two thousand, which was the sequel movie to the TV
series in that future, guns are banned and criminals are

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frozen for the duration of their sentences. A recent spate
of killing briends Michael Knight back to the Fight for Justice.
The team up once again with kit or Kiitt, but
he was dismantled. Today I learned the word divorce doesn't exist.
Didn't exist in Chinese until the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Prior to that, the word most used often was dissolved.

(02:35:18):
Men could dissolve a marriage under seven specific conditions, while
women had almost none. Sorry women, And last but not least,
today I learned this band right here, thank you, that
is correct. Brian Wilson, the late Brian Wilson of the
Beach Boys. He is dead. Sorry to tell you. He
wrote his first single, Surfing, for a high school music

(02:35:40):
class and received an F for it. In twenty eighteen,
the high school retroactively changed his grade to an A,
because why not. He's Brian Wilson and he's dead and
now he's dead. But he got that A when he
was very much alive. Thank you so much for hanging
out with us. We do appreciate it. We'll be back tomorrow,
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