It Was All A Hoax!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
How's everybody doing on a Thursday?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Ready to how are you? My allergies are murdering me today?
The same see okay, good for bena drills and clitons.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
No, the benadrills just kind of make my brain mush.
I did too many of the nose sprays yesterday, and
I've been getting yelled at more and more for it,
so I try to I try to do less of
the flownaise and then I get in here.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'm like.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
That, you're hiding under the desk, Corney can't see you
doing it?

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Like the bigger shame level is. I go, are you
going to the grocery store? And Courtney goes yeah, And
I go, can you give me some more flown azs?
She's like, I just got you flownas and I'm like,
oh my good animal.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I know.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
So I'm working through it.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
I'm working through it one thing at a time, just
like we will today, one one segment at a time,
will work through this show. Now, let's start out, let's
put our ears to the ground, our fingers in the pulse,
let's see what's happening in this great, big wide world
of ours. And we go to well, a brand new
commercial everybody, And just before you ask, this is real.

(01:12):
This is a real commercial, and this commercial was created
by the US.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Government, all right, and I want to know.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
I want to know if you if you like the
commercial or if you hate the commercial.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
That's all I want to know. I'm gonna let it
roll here.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
This is a brand new commercial that just dropped from
the United States Government on the topic of flying commercial
flights and our very own sea land taking one today.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
So maybe this will impact him more. But here, here we.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Go, here we go, let's fly, let's fly.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
We got a plane ticking off.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
Royal travel is a miracle of American ingenuity. We build
airports to launch a golden age of travel across the sky.

Speaker 6 (01:56):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
What we're seeing so far is old throwbacks, stuff from
the days of yesteryear when you used to fly on planes.
And he's having like old commercials and stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Narration as well, seems very old. It does.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
It's classic. But it's going. It's going in a direction here,
So let's see.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
We respected the dignity of air travel and the men
and women who made the dream possible.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Flying was a bastion of civility. All right. Today, Oh my.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
God, it cuts from like flying in the olden days
and the golden days to everybody start their feet on
top of the chairs. Everybody's fighting each other for.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
You a government. When did that change when he took
smoking in planes out of the picture. It correlation does
not equal causation.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
But probably around that time things did start to fall apart,
I believe it on the discount airlines. The discount airlines
came into play, and then everybody said what we can
fly to And then people went up and started just
starting fights in mid air and rubbing their feet on
the back of your head. And that's what they're highlighting here.
This is from the US government.

Speaker 7 (03:16):
Fighting, kicking, punching, smacking.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Well, we just had this lady on the show the
other day.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
This is our airport.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Other markets will give you a shout out if you
too are featured in here. But this is a MCO airport.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
But don't stop at the gate.

Speaker 8 (03:50):
That's right, manners, don't stop at the gate.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Things aren't what they used to be Sean Duffy.

Speaker 8 (03:54):
Some would call it the golden age of travel. Let's
bring civility in manner's back, all right. Ask yourself, are
you helping a pregnant woman put her bag in the
overhead bin. So are you dressing with respect? Are you
keeping control of your children? Are you saying thank you
to your flight attendants and your polts?

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Are you saying please and thank you? In general?

Speaker 8 (04:15):
The Golden Age of travel begins with.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
The golden age of travel.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Baby, Now, I didn't hear any concrete ideas of how we're.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Supposed to do this much my tax sellers went to
this a problem.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
US Department of Transportation. How dare you call it a
piece of crap? Putting together this cinema, cinema at ninety
seconds long. It's time to bring back civility and manners?
Is it a good ad or a bad ad?

Speaker 3 (04:40):
All right?

Speaker 1 (04:41):
That's what I want to know from you right now,
chat folks, let us know what you think the Golden
age of travel starts with all this. I don't know
what my walk away is. What's my takeaway from this?

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Normally are a changed man and or a woman.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
But like I want the Golden Age of travel to
come back. I want it to be more civil. I
want people to resc spect their flight attendants and the
pilots and the whole process and their fellow travelers. I
want everybody to do better. Well, what am I supposed
to do? What am I getting from this ad that
I'm supposed to take away?

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Here? You gotta fly in a suit, he said it, ladies, thank.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
You to the the you know stewards.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
I'll do the please and thank you one. And I
think everybody on this show is fairly polite in that way.
So we're good at that ceiling. No, no, he's he's
on a flight right now, yelling at a flight attendant currently.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
In this very mind.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
The thing he's got going on right now is I
don't know if.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's on the way there are back. He told me.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
He's like, Oh, our close friend is going to be
the flight attendant on this flight, so they're going to
be like hooking us up?

Speaker 4 (05:55):
Are you kidding me? Oh yeah, this plane is.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Gonna be full bridesmaid's mode, colonial man on the on
the wing. Sea LED's going to be absolutely hammered. It's
a disaster. This ain't going to be the golden age
of travel, but.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
I want it.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
But what do we think this ad? Good or bad?
Let us know what your thoughts today. Sabrina doesn't like it.
She's not a fan.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
I just you know, I think it was a little
cheap and you're using other people's footage and then you
plup yourself in a green screen.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Let me give you the facts. The facts. This is
what they say along with the ad. So I'm just
going with what they're calling these the facts. A four
hundred percent increase in outbursts on planes since twenty nineteen.
One in five flight attendants report experiencing physical incidents. Unruly
passenger events have doubled since twenty nineteen. But it doesn't

(06:46):
have to be this way. The golden age of travel
starts with all of us. It's time to bring back
civility and manners when we travel. Okay, you got me,
all right, I'm interested.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
I want to fix traveling.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
You should have followed it up with everybody who gets
in a fight while in the in the middle of
their journey, goes straight to jail and goes on the
no file list. You got to give me something like,
what are we going to do? What's the punishment, what's
the stick, what's the carrot?

Speaker 2 (07:14):
What's the most thing? Many a time's asshole airlines.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
That could be a starter movement, and then after you
get booted off that when, of course you're gone forever,
right like you're just not flying. You're relegated to buses.
You are relegated to buses for the rest of your life.
I just need more teeth here. I need an idea
of what we're supposed to do to make it the
golden age of travel once more.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
Let us know what you think.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Send us a dispatch over at thenewsjunkie dot com. Well,
they were wondering whether it was going to happen or not,
but it did happen.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Last night.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Trump signed the bill that is supposed to release the
Epstein files. Now what happens is the question. But here's
how it came across.

Speaker 9 (07:53):
Breaking news from Washington. President Donald Trump has signed the
bill to release the files on Jeffrey Epstein. The bill
was passed by both houses of Congress and sent to
the President's desk this evening. The President had been against
releasing the files for some time and then decided just
in the last couple of days that he was for
it and wanted to make sure that the both houses

(08:13):
of Congress knew that he would sign that bill if
it got to his desk.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
It did, and he has now signed it.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
All right, So the bill is signed.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Now did he just say this same right three times?

Speaker 1 (08:24):
It was like he read his script and her script.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
And I like to know that the bill has been
signed by the president. The president did sign that bill.
And the bill has been signed by the president.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
New guy on the teleprompter tonight, I think is.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Zero Commas or space?

Speaker 1 (08:42):
I think we need more details? Can we get more details?
Right at the beginning of this whole thing. That's that's
what this sounded like. But the crux of the matter
is that President Trump signed this bill, and now the
Epstein files are to be released. The deal says they
have to be released within thirty days. All right, thirty days,
that's the deal. So you can start putting your money

(09:05):
on whether or not we're going to see some bombshells
or if anything interesting is going.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
To happen as a result of this. Oh, is that what?

Speaker 3 (09:11):
It will be?

Speaker 6 (09:12):
Technically close ish, you know, the week before Christmas, and
the closer you get to Christmas the more that's like
a dead zone in the news cycle.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
But I just don't think we're gonna have anything crazy
come out of this.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
It will be interesting to watch.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
I'll see whatever comes out and spread the word to
you and all that good stuff. But that's that's that's
it's been signed. It's supposed to be released in the
next thirty days, and we shall see what happens when
that does indeed come out.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
All right, it was all a hoax.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
I've got a story for you today about this amazing tale.
And everybody was shocked by what happened in this case
until it came out.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
The whole thing was a hoax.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Jesse Smolette level hoax, all right, I mean big, big hoax.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
What was happening here? Wait till you hear this.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
It's coming up next in the news, junkie. Crazy to
think that we're almost done with twenty twenty five on

(10:26):
to twenty twenty six. Each of these years that we
go by makes me feel like I'm in future times
as it you know, as it goes. It's so weird.
It's very very strange. But we're almost done with twenty
twenty five. We can't be done with twenty twenty five
until we get to the bottom of all of the
viral news though. It's kind of what happens around here,
And I want to tell you a story now about

(10:48):
a hoax. And this wasn't just like a little hoax,
like this was a let's go all the way big hoax. Josh,
all right, yes, this was a full size hoax. And
it's all about this woman. Hang on, I'll bring her
up for those of you on the stream side of
things in just a moment here. Okay, it's all about

(11:09):
this woman right here. And her name is Natalie Green,
and she said she had been attacked, right, So she goes, look,
I was this happened back in July. She said, I
was attacked by three men. One of them had a
gun and he was threatening to shoot me while mentioning

(11:31):
my boss's name. All right, so she said, like over
and over and over, they were mentioning her boss's name.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
This woman was.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
The staffer for a Republican congressman. Okay, that's what her
her job was. And she dialed nine one one. She's
freaking out. She's saying, you know, I've been attacked and
this is just absolutely insane. Here the cops show up.
She's zip tied right, yeah, yeah, she's zip tied up,

(11:59):
and she's like, you know, on the ground in this
foresty area.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
And they said, Jesus.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
All right, let's start investigating somebody attacked her because of
her political leanings. They shouted out about all of this stuff,
et cetera, et cetera. They also they also wrote some
things or Jesus who scroll something It says Trump whore

(12:25):
on one side of her body and then another set
of her body had some other like pretty aggressive things.
There's other messages carved into her allegedly or like on
her body. She said, these two men grabbed her, pulled
up her shirt and restrained her before tying her up
and cutting into her and scraping her all over the place.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
And all of this comes out.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
The cops are looking into it, and they found out
entire thing as a hoax, totally fake, totally Jesse smoletted
their way through this story absolutely fit.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Like was she still at the hospital or even those
pictures are fake?

Speaker 1 (13:04):
No, so the photos of like the scene and the
cops and the nine one one, all of that is real.
All of that is absolutely real. But beyond that, the
story was not real. She made all of this up
and it became very quickly when it happened, a viral story,
but there was no truth behind this. Now let me

(13:26):
bring up here is a Channel ten NBC with some
details it says a former staffer for US Representative Jeff
Van Drew. I don't know him, but Jeff Van Drew
is from New Jersey. A Republican is accused of faking
a political attack against herself, going so far as to
have an artist scar her body and write the words

(13:47):
Trump whore on her stomach. Natalie Green, twenty six, of
Ocean Citney, New Jersey, was charged with conspiracies, didn't convey
false statements and hoaxes, and making false statements to federal
law enforcement. So like you know, she called nine one on.
She told the cops she'd been attacked all fake on
July twenty thirty. On July twenty third, she called on

(14:09):
one one. She said she had been attacked by three
men while walking on a trail at a nature preserve.
The woman claimed the men called her out by name
and referenced to her employment with a federal official, later
identified as Congressman Jeff ban Drew from Jersey. When police
arrived at the scene, they found her on the ground
in a wooded area near the trail with her hands
and feet bound together with black zip ties. Her shirt

(14:32):
was pulled over her head and was also tied with
a zip tie. She had several lacerations on her face, neck,
upper chest, and shoulder. And for those of you who
saw it, like she was. She was cut up really bad,
like it's bad. And it also said Trump whore on
one side of her and then Van Drew is racist
on like on her body and that's the congressman that

(14:55):
she worked for. Green told police that at least one of
the men who attacked her said he had a gun
and threatened to shoot her, and they held her down,
restrained her, cutting.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Her and writing on her body.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
She went to the hospital and described the attack to
an FBI agent a few days later. During the investigation,
here's the big smolette twist the turn here. During the investigation, however,
officials determine Green had lied about the attack. Instead, Green
paid a body modification scarification artist to cut the lacerations

(15:29):
on her face, neck and chest.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Wah, crazy down to have those scars forever. Yeah. Can
you believe though, that you could go into some.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
Sort of like body modification place and they would do this.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
Kind I'll put this up on see it now.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
But like pretty crazy.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
It's crazy that they would do this to you. Just
basically just cut all over you.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
I mean, you could pay anyone to do anything. I
feel like at this point, was it is it someone
that they will attach an LLC to this is what
they do all the time, or is that going to
lighten it up? And that's her attempt? And whoever put
this all together to say, well, is that professional took

(16:11):
the ticket?

Speaker 3 (16:12):
No?

Speaker 1 (16:12):
I don't think the person really knew what was going on,
because that what happened was se Brady. They traced her
steps via her phone and they're like, when she was
out in this wooded area, she came directly from the
tattoo store. So they started looking into the tattoo place
and they said, hey, do you guys know who this
person is? And they said, yeah, I did body modifications
on her and that was the lacerations all over her body.

(16:36):
And then they also found out that she had black
zip ties in her car which were similar to the
ones that were used to bind her arms and feet.
Investigator said, two days before they attacked, the cell phone
of her co conspirator had been used to search for
zip ties near me. So somebody was working with her
on this zipize home depot?

Speaker 3 (16:56):
Is it.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Where can I find them? Green appeared at federal court yesterday.
She was in federal court yesterday released on a two
hundred thousand dollars unsecured bond, and it was there that
they announced that this entire attack on her was completely
a hoax. I mean, there's gotta be like this brings
me back to the story I've talked about a couple
of times where that young girl said she was attacked

(17:22):
by Obama supporters the one time and then she said
they carved a bee into her cheek, but the bee
was backwards because she carved it while looking in the.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Mirror of herself.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
And they quickly exposed that she had made this whole
thing up. And it goes into like even the Jesse
Smollette stuff, Like Jesse Smillette's the whole thing was done
because he wanted attention. He wanted to victimize himself to
jumpstart his career and take off, and it didn't work.

Speaker 4 (17:48):
It backfired miserably. Some of these things.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
I'm like, what would possess a person to physically harm themselves.

Speaker 4 (17:57):
That bad and like make up this.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
Whole elaborate, insane story that is almost you know, destined
to become a hoax.

Speaker 4 (18:06):
When when they find out what you're lying about.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Let me see that second part you just said, Sean
is what they do not consider is the you're gonna
get caught immediately. You're not considering how stupid this all
looks and how easily everyone is going to see right
through it.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
Well in your scar forever you got the story about
you lying and you're going to jail.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
It's just a different mindset. It's the same people to
do you know, the Munchausen Munchausen by proxy faking you're pregnant.
I mean, it's we I think I could speak for
the three of us, would not ever know what that
is in that place. It's a chemical imbalance.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
I guess I would say, what happened here maybe similar
to what happened with the woman who disappeared on or
came back on Thanksgiving?

Speaker 2 (19:00):
The runner I can't remember her name, right, Yeah, the
same kind of thing. No, what was it?

Speaker 3 (19:07):
Was it? Peppini?

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Peppini, Sherry Peppini?

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Similar to me to the Sherry Peppini story where you
make up this grandiose, elaborate, insane lie and then everybody
feels for you until we start to pick apart the
story and we're like, wait, hold on, this.

Speaker 4 (19:22):
Doesn't add up.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
This doesn't add up, this doesn't add up, and this
person was absolutely lying about the whole thing. I'll put
the photos of this up on See It Now because
it is pretty crazy to see what this woman had
done to herself or was willing to do to try
to get attention in this case. But as I told you,
the whole thing was one big hoax and just completely

(19:46):
made up by her. All right, let's see, I'm putting
it up on See It Now. Hoax attack.

Speaker 10 (19:55):
Even weirder if she had a whole other person willing
to go along with all that.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah, it doesn't say anything in this about who the
person was, so I don't know like who her co
conspirator was, but we could try to find out more
about that during the show today. I put it up
on See It Now so you could see what was
actually done to her body. It's over there on thenewsjunkie
dot com right now. All a big giant hoax, though, friends,
will take a look at what you have on your

(20:21):
mind sending in dispatches. A lot of you already are
jumping on board responding to that airline civility ad that
kicked us off today from the government from the federal
government and Sean Duffy from the Trump administration. It says
we need to go back to the golden age of flying.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
We need to go back to.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
The days when it was upscale and fancy and respectful
and it was a better experience.

Speaker 6 (20:48):
Now.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
My problem with the AD was they didn't tell us
like new punishments for people who don't do this. They
didn't tell us like, you know what ways we could
actually help out and turn people in who are behaving
badly on the plane. I need more info, Like I
legitimately think they should weaponize the no fly list for
these anti social lunatics on plane.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Yeah, but the bus industries are going to be so mad,
but too bad.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
It's already screwed. I'm never taking a bus. It ain't
in affecting me. The buzz industry sucks already, Let them
suck more. The airplane industry affects all of us. And
we're trying to fly around, go somewhere and just chill out,
and we got problems. I think they should say, look,
one strike and you're out. You're in a fight on
an airplane. You're on the no fly list. You cannot

(21:33):
fly for a decade worse than a dui. You know,
come up with something new here an fui flying under
the influence, You get charged with flying under the influence.

Speaker 4 (21:43):
You got to take courses, you got to.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
Pay a bunch of fines, and you can't fly in
a commercial flight for a decade.

Speaker 4 (21:48):
Just we need some teeth.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
I hear what you're saying, but it's going to create
such chaos. Some people have these mental breakdowns. When we
just heard about that pilot who tried to shut off
all the engines and he got away with it scott free?
Did he not? So me, do you have those? If
I'm going with at least what the court said he
had a mental breakdown that was a one off issue

(22:10):
or event. So time out room. You have a soundproof chair,
maybe two at this point, given all the consistency of
crazy people on planes, and you shut the door until
and no one else is disturbed.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
That's too much buying.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
The airlines aren't going to make a like a little
prison cell in the back of the plane. They already
have some stuff to deal with this, I think for
realsas to deal with this, all you have to do
is say, well, we're going to separate incidents into mental
health issues and anti social behavior. And if you're just

(22:48):
a loser, if you're just somebody who ruins everything off
the flight onto the no fly list, I think that
would change things. Anyhow, back to the email this, this
person says the airline industry was initially controlled by the government.
After nineteen seventy eight, the only regulation was for safety
by the FAA. At this point, I don't think you

(23:10):
could completely blame people for being stressed out or just
saying there's more bad people. The airlines have made flying
such a miserable, uncomfortable experience. No matter what, people will
snap more often, long wait times, complicated flight changes, and
tiny seats will not exactly improve anybody's mood. That's true.
It's like if you put animals in the zoo. If

(23:32):
you do it right, they can live a decent life
and it could be a great educational experience. If you
make their enclosures smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller
and smaller and smaller and smaller, all of a sudden,
you're going to notice they're all fighting each other and
there's chaos everywhere. So yeah, I agree with that level
of this for sure. Anonymous emails about this and says,
I like how they highlighted that these stats have increased

(23:54):
so much since twenty nineteen. A lot of these disrespectful
and violent outbreaks were probably during the year of COVID
when people were not at ease because of the mask mandates. Also,
if our president doesn't have respect and manners, how can
the government try to tell civilians to do so?

Speaker 2 (24:09):
Oh, come on, come on.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
So people at Washington don't have any manners, so we're
all forced to not have any manners.

Speaker 4 (24:16):
We can do better than that. We could do better
than that.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
I think, yes, we do see a lot more of
these outbreaks, but that's because of the fact that everybody
has a recording device.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
In their hands at all times these days.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
While Anonymous, while I agree that we see more because
everybody's filming everything, I do agree with that, and I
think that's something to think about in these circumstances. I
still think it's happening more. I still think there's a
social thing going on. These kids that grew up in
parentless house where they were just doing whatever they wanted
to became adults. They're flying on planes, They're obsessed with

(24:49):
getting respect from everybody and giving none back. They have
no shame at all, and they fly on the same
planes as you and I.

Speaker 4 (24:56):
That is what I think is the problem. Let us
know what you think.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
Send it a dispatch at thenewsjunkie dot com. Over on twitch,
Lejeva Rasta says, I agree that airlines are partly to blame.
They've made flying not as enjoyable an experience by adding
fee after fee after.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
Fee and making the seats smaller. Very true.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
Robert on YouTube says, bring back smoking on planes.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Thank you enough. I don't know if that's gonna fix it.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
If everybody gets a little THC drink before you take off,
that might start to freak out.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
I mean, if someone does the study, like someone who
has an airplane freak out has to be taken off
the plane. Ask them if they smoke or not. Ask
them if they vape, and what would be the difference.
If the flight attendant was like, if you calm down
and just sit in your seat, do not disturb anyone else,
We'll give you two puffs of the vape. H would

(25:51):
that change anything?

Speaker 1 (25:53):
Depends on how drunk they were. Sometimes it might work.
Sometimes somebody might go okay, but then hold on, are
there people who start purposely getting in trouble because they
want a couple of puffs?

Speaker 2 (26:06):
I'm sure mother on the fly.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Just to get some attention. There's got to be that
problem too, all right, we'll hear from all of you.
All your feedback is important, so send that over to us.
What's an ozembic Thanksgiving? We'll talk about that. That's a
huge story making the rounds as we get closer to
Turkey Day. We've also got another person dead at Disney
and more shocking details on this cruise murder mystery of

(26:32):
the eighteen year old that we've been following. Some new
details coming in. We'll get to that very soon on
the show. It's all coming up next on the News
junk Kie.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Thanks for being with us.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
Join the show today and Deddie by sending a dispatch
over at the newsjunkie dot com. On the hoax story
we talked about, I just got my hands on the
court case against her. I got like the documents about
their investigation. So we'll go a little deeper into that
in a bit. We'll talk about what's going on with
that for sure. Right now, I also want to get

(27:19):
into a couple more of your comments. We'll get to
that in a moment, actually, because a lot of people
wanted to talk about.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
That airline ad.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
But there is something that they're calling the ozempic Thanksgiving.
Oh and you can probably take this with a grain
of salt.

Speaker 4 (27:34):
It's probably not a real thing.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
All they're eating it's giving.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
That's That's basically what it boils down to, Sabrid It's
like everything is now smaller because everybody at your Thanksgiving
table is going to be on GLP ones. They're all
going to be ozempic to kilimanjarrod out, and they are
all going to be with a lesser appetite than they
generally are at the Thanksgiving table. And this says, say

(28:00):
goodbye to gravy, welcome to the ozempic era of Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Now.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
I still question a lot of stuff like this, like
what percentage of Americans? Josh, maybe this is a search
we can lock in on the data with at least
twelve what percentage of the of Americans are on GLP ones?
I would say five?

Speaker 2 (28:25):
Maybe I think that I don't know, is that high?

Speaker 4 (28:28):
Like we're talking.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
About all Americans, I mean adults, so oh my god,
ten I say ten percent?

Speaker 3 (28:35):
You're not gonna believe this.

Speaker 10 (28:37):
Approximately twelve percent of Americans currently.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
Is golp one drugs.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
You run it right off of the job.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
That's a lot, man, twelve percent, twelve percent of the
country uses these drugs like we go via ozempic, these
glp ones. So one out of every ten people at
your Thanksgiving table will probably be eating a little bit
less this year.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
I mean, where are we at as far as how
many adult Americans are overweight or morbidly obese?

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Oh god, it way more than twelve percent? What fifty
sixty percent? Maybe six?

Speaker 3 (29:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (29:15):
Percentage of Americans are over sixty You think only twenty
seven percent of Americans are seventy percent?

Speaker 2 (29:22):
I'll go thirty seven?

Speaker 10 (29:23):
Oh man, I mean granted, this figures from about twenty
seventeen twenty eighteen, but it says approximately forty two point
four percent of US adults had obesity and thirty point
seven percent were overweight as of twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen,
according to the CDC.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
Yeah, so many points.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Yeah, I mean that's a tough one too, because like
I would be considered obese on the obesity scale.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
You'd be overweight.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
Well, and I know that's not going to shock either
one of you on the show.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
Dame, I don't think you're obede. I mean like BMIs is
also very outdated. I don't think they've updated be in
my target many many years.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
But I think they tell me to be like one
sixty five or one seventy five, and I would be.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
That's I am mormobies.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
I would be like vacuum packed. If if that was you,
I would I'd just be like a frame with long
nails the new Wicked movie. That's what your table is
going to look like for Thanksgiving. All of these little,
tiny people showing up from the ozempic minds all ready
to hang out with you. And this says we are

(30:32):
reducing the portion sizes in all of our prepared meals.
Some of the stores are saying other people are saying,
we're making less because people are eating less in the
United States of America. There's a consumption reduction, consumption reduction.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
Something like that.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
There's a consumption reduction going on in the United States
of America where people are all on the ozempics, they're
losing weight, where people are all going to the THC
drinks and drinking less alcohol there's a seed change of
foot here, and it doesn'tbode that well, at least on
the golp side for Thanksgiving. But if you're in that position,

(31:12):
if you're on Ozepich and headed to a Thanksgiving, tell
us if it's going to impact things for you or
what you plan to do. Send a dispatch over at
thenewsjunkie dot com. Uh here is pilot Mike with a dispatch.
Let's see what pilot Mike has to say.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Hey junkies.

Speaker 11 (31:27):
Hey, first off, disclaimer, I am a private pilot, not
a commercial pilot.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
That matters.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
Gone reference to the air travel thing.

Speaker 11 (31:36):
The answer to unruly passengers has been hidden in planing
sight from the beginning. I'm listening again, close the airport
bars and remove alcohol from the equation.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
I hate to say it.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
He's probably right, but it's too big of a punishment
for everybody else.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Exactly, you don't want to see me not on alcohol,
freaking out.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
And then all I'm going to do is drink before
I get to the airport, because the drinking is going
to happen, all right, at some point in time.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
He's not wrong, though.

Speaker 11 (32:06):
The way, but I'm not naive enough to think that's
really going to happen. Second, one of the parts of
the campaign I heard from earlier in another news program
is that airline employees are relying on passengers to help
them and assist them with unruly passengers. If the airline's

(32:28):
coumping my ticket, sure I'll in a hand. Otherwise, Hell no,
he's not going to get elbowed, spit and potentially sued
to help a flight attendant with an unrually passenger.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Wow, he doesn't want to help, even though they're asking
for help.

Speaker 4 (32:42):
He's saying, that's not my business.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
I don't want to get sued me And I could
see where he's coming from. Though a lot of people
turn this around. I found myself this year in a
situation where I was trying to help somebody just passed
that out of the wheel in the middle of a
parking lot. Try to get me up, induble, No, look.

Speaker 4 (33:03):
There are you now know I'm sure you knew this
before this.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
There are some crazy ass people out there, all right, crazy,
there are some crazy ass people out there, right. But
I draw one line here and we'll see if you
cowards are with me or not. If somebody is getting
into a little skirmish with the person next to him.

(33:29):
I'm with pilot Mic I'm not getting involved. I don't
know what's happening. I don't know what's what. I'm not
judge Joe Brown, not even clothes, and I can't figure
that out. So that's on the airline staff to figure
that out. But if somebody jumps up with a box
cutter or something and they're like, Buddha, Buddha, I'm gonna
take the flight down, Everybody get in your seat. I am,

(33:53):
let's roll in, and I'm going to try. In that case,
I'm jumping up and I'm doing something. In the case
of a little skirmish between two people, I just don't know,
Like I don't know if the guy was right or
the woman was right, or the other woman was right
or that. How do I know who's right in these circumstances.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Do we not have air marshals anymore?

Speaker 12 (34:11):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (34:11):
Was that always a rumor?

Speaker 1 (34:13):
No, We've always had air marshals, but like not a
not a josh?

Speaker 3 (34:17):
Back to it?

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Back to it?

Speaker 6 (34:19):
Right?

Speaker 1 (34:20):
What percentage of flights have air marshals on them? I
say ten to fifteen. Again, I swear to God, just
retire you're done.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
With for the day.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
If it's a twelve, okay, I would say what ten
to fifteen?

Speaker 4 (34:35):
Less than five percent less? Okay?

Speaker 5 (34:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (34:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
The whole thing with air marshals has always been there's
very very very very few of them, but there's the
threat that you don't want to do something on an
airplane because maybe yours is one with an air.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
Marshal on it.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
That threat is in one ear and out the other
of all those crazy people.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
For a lot of these people, it seems to be Yeah,
by the way, that's somebody I'd love to hear from.

Speaker 4 (34:57):
If you're an air marshal.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
Oh no, no, If you're an air marshal and you're
willing to talk, we could keep you anonymous, but I
have some questions. If you're an air marshal and you're
willing to talk, please reach out tips tips at the
Newsjunkie dot com with your contact info. Would love to
hear from your tips at the Newsjunkie dot com. Another
one here, it's a lot of people talking about planes.

(35:19):
Here's got crypto. Hey, Sean, that video is absolutely right.
You know, people fly with less ability.

Speaker 14 (35:24):
Same could be said about the roads, you know, lines,
public everything, but the airlines themselves have treated.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Passengers with less ability.

Speaker 14 (35:31):
For a while, taking away more features, cramming in there,
get rid of reclining seats, sacks, talk, the ability to
choose your own seat in a lot of cases. I
think that has gone a long way to foster that
sense to people of this isn't such a special thing.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
This is just like taking an air bus, you know,
for example, Right, it's all I got, man.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah, everybody's hitting on the same point. But it's a
really good one. Honestly, it's a powerful one in terms
of arguments. If you want me to treat the commercial
flying experience as something more upscale, well you're gonna have
to give me a more upscale product.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
Because back in the day, they had.

Speaker 4 (36:13):
All of the room in the world.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
They were paying a pretty penny, and they were served
full meals on a lot of these flights. It was
very high end, so they dressed nice, they were more respectful.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
The riff raft was priced.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
Out, always price out, the riff raft, please, always please.
And when they did all of these things and it
seemed upscale, people behaved in a more professional, upscale way.
When people get on the flight, just like these dispatchers
are saying, and there's no seat room, and everybody's pushed
in there like a bunch of animals. They're going to

(36:51):
behave like animals, their little demons in a metal tube together,
and it's going to go that way. I just there's
no way around it. Another person has died at Disney World.
This is the fifth person in less than a month.
I still say that these stories are kind of really
they're outsider stories that don't take into account how many

(37:12):
damn people are at Disney World at any given moment.
Disney World encompasses just so folks know, you've got the
Magic Kingdom, You've got Animal Kingdom, You've got Hollywood Studios,
you've got what am I missing? I missing when you
were just atco Epcot. You've got Epcot. You've got all

(37:34):
like the water parks, all of these areas all together,
along with many many, many, many, many many many many hotels.
There's a big population in what they call Disney World,
the most magical place on Earth.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
This is the fifth person confirmed they have died in
the last month or so.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
The unidentified guest was reportedly pronounced dead at Disney Sarah
Totoga Springs resort and SPA and to headline the uh, yeah,
you have the Medical Examiner's office. Although there was a
death at Disney Saratoga Springs Resort, we declined jurisdiction. They said, oh,
they pointed this account and I followed this immediately. By

(38:13):
the way, there's an account Walt Disney World active police
calls that tells you only the drama and the arrests
and the cop situations and everything else only going on
in the Walt Disney World area, with like little maps
and everything.

Speaker 15 (38:31):
I'm in.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Yeah, I followed that one pretty quickly after. So, yeah,
there's more and more of these stories. When you see them,
it just happens.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
People die.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
Unfortunately, when there's that many people in one place, it
becomes a little more obvious and it's.

Speaker 4 (38:44):
Just a chain of stories.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
Let us know what you think that will send us
a dispatch at the.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
News Junkie dot com right now quick break.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
When we come back, We've got a bunch of things
to get to, including an update on this murder mystery
on a cruise ship. The eighteen year old who it
looks like was killed her stepbrother maybe charge.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
We did learn some new.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
Information today and so I've got that info for you,
which I think some of it is a game changer
that is coming up next on the News Junkie. I

(39:32):
went out during the break and I said, why didn't
you tell me that our mouths weren't matched up with
the audio from the show.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
That the delay was off?

Speaker 1 (39:39):
And she goes, she knew this dream camera was on
skull Mike, and so she goes because I'm scared of you,
and I'm like, what are you doing and that you
didn't know what to go where to go from there.
So she's like, it's Josh's fault, so hopefully it's fixed. Ever,
I hope it's fixed now. If it's fixed, now, let
me know on the chat side.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
If it's fixed now, I fixed it and you're welcome.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
Yeah, congratulations, excellent work all the way around. We got
that the hoax story. I have the police report on that.
We're going to get into that in a bit, but
I want to give you some updates on what is
the big enrolling story out there that a lot of
people have focused on, and that is the death of
this young girl, Anna Kepner, eighteen years old. She was

(40:24):
eighteen from Titusville, Florida, and she died on a Carnival
cruise ship. She was on a cruise to Mexico, and
she ended up dying in the journey back to Tampa, Florida.
And at first, I mean, you guys have been on
this whole journey, there was like no information. It was
just that this person had died and we didn't know anything,

(40:47):
and so speculation was rampant out there. Oh, was she murdered,
The FBI is involved, you know what's going on? Was
it a drug overdose? Then yesterday the inform came in
in some of the court documents we got that suggested
the stepbrother could possibly be charged with her murder.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
And he's a minor. We don't have name. I think
it was just a rumor that he was sixteen.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
Yeah, they're saying he was sixteen.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
Some of the updated info I have.

Speaker 4 (41:18):
We had a discussion yesterday.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
We said, hey, if there is a step brother who's
sixteen and a step sister who's eighteen, and they're pretty
new stepbrother and step sister status, would you have them
in a room on a cruise ship by themselves. And
most people seem to think that was a little weird
and you probably wouldn't do that the new info is

(41:41):
that Anna Kepner was in this room on the Carnival
cruise ship with both her biological brother and her stepbrother.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
She was in the room apparently with both of them contective.
And when she was in the room with both of them,
it was her.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
Biological brother who's not accused of having anything to do
with her murder or death. Her biological brother is the
one who was like, where is She didn't know where
she was and crawled up on bed on the bed
and went to sleep, not knowing that his sister was
dead underneath him. God, he was the one who ended
up being in that situation. And one of the other

(42:21):
crazy pieces of info that I stumbled upon looking through it,
you know, every source I could this morning, was that
the birth mother of Anna Kepner, this eighteen year old
who died on the cruise ship. The birth mother said
she found out through Google. She googled her daughter's name
and the only information she had at the time was

(42:42):
that her daughter was on a cruise and that's how
she found out that her daughter was dead. Oh my god, God,
googling her name and looking it up and seeing, oh
that's mister read And I was like, damn. That is
there's a lot of things that have gone wrong in
this story. There should be absolutely communicating with the birth mother,
and the birth mother should be aware if there's a

(43:03):
problem with their child that is inexcusable. Well, you think
this person had to learn online.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
Emergency contacts if that is something that you fill out.
I mean, it's been a minute, sin's been on a cruise.
It was probably the adults that they were with, right.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it had to be Where
was this info coming from. I don't know, but I
mean had to be somebody who had at least some knowledge.
And then that creeps out and then mom goes, I'm
not hearing anything, and next thing, you know, she learns
the birth mom of Anna Keepner, her actual birth mother,
learned online, she said. And now they have posted because

(43:44):
I guess her memorial is happening, and they posted on
her page for the funeral home that's hosting all of this,
which is it's a lot. It's a lot. Her obituary
is a lot. I'll give you an example of the obituary.
This family is seeming a bit strange to me. I'm

(44:04):
just gonna be honest with you. The family is seeming odd.
The obituary says, how can we possibly capture every bit
of beauty that was Anna Marie Kepner, Our Anna Banana,
our sunshine, our baby girl at just eighteen years old.

Speaker 4 (44:18):
Hang on, I'm trying to zoom in on this a
little bit.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
At just eighteen years old, she filled the world with laughter,
love and light that reached everyone around her. Anna was
pure energy, bubbly, funny, outgoing, and completely herself. She never
had a filter, and that was part of her charm,
whether she was practicing new makeup looks, even if she
had nowhere to go, making tiktoks in front of the mirror,
or blasting a perfectly curated playlist of the boat.

Speaker 4 (44:42):
Anna lived every day with her whole heart.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
She loved the sun, the water, boat days, island days,
beach days, anything like that.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
And then it goes on and on and on.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
It says, this kind of detail is what goes in
is Anna loved all kinds of music.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Except heavy metal. Why did we I need to put
that in there?

Speaker 9 (45:02):
Metal?

Speaker 2 (45:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (45:04):
Anna loved all kinds of music except heavy metal. She
had a soft spot for sewn mendes. She was also
incredibly determined and hard working, reliable, responsible and always willing
to help. She planned to join the US Navy after
graduation and later become a Canine Police officer. So they're
going over like her whole life and everything about her.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
This memorial though, it's I imagine not with casket right like?
Or have they already determined what the cause of death was?

Speaker 3 (45:31):
Boy?

Speaker 1 (45:31):
I think the medical examiner hasn't released the cause of
death as far as I know.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
I don't know this like a celebration or gathering.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
Yeah, yeah, there's too much of an ad this is
what you're saying. I think there's too much of an
investigation going on to put her in the ground. There's
no way they're going to do that right now. They've
said they wrapped this up with. She leaves behind a
family who adored her endlessly. Her father and stepmother Christopher
and Shawn hell Kepner. Her mother Heather right, that's the

(46:02):
one that found out about her death online. Her me
Ma and Peepaw, Barbara and Jeff Kepner. Her siblings Andrew, Tim, Alex, Connor, Cody, Kyle,
and Brooke.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
Whoa is one of those the stepbrother?

Speaker 1 (46:17):
Are you putting that person's name in there, the one
that's probably going to be charged with her murder.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
Her siblings Andrew.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
Tim, Alex Connor, Cody, Kyle and Brooke, her uncle Drew
and family, and then on and on they go. So
today is like this celebration of life for her and
this poor girl who died somehow on this cruise ship.
We really don't know much more about the cause of
death other than that she died and that her stepbrother

(46:45):
is the target.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
Here.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
I saw it posted on only in day the account
that we follow on Instagram, and I'm so idiot, was
like so crazy to walk through these halls and it's
him on the cruise ship. No, I'm a gir old dad.
Two days later, I think that's where and someone's something
in that room. The next day, I'm like, so the
the show that is the Carnival cruise went on. Yeah,

(47:09):
he'll be sorry. Is that well?

Speaker 1 (47:11):
I mean, it's not bizarre that the cruise would keep
cruising after somebody died.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
But there's don't die. What about a murder?

Speaker 1 (47:17):
Yes, this is what I'm saying, Like, there's no way
they had somebody in that room, right, There's like, there's
no way a murder occurs. And then the next day
or next opportunity, there's somebody in that same room.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
I mean, what if the whole thing was sold out,
where did the brothers go.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
You're gonna have to reschedule somebody or something. Some of
the other stuff going around online and grain assault this, please,
grain assault this. There's an information vacuum. Somebody says the
situation worsens. Anna Kepner's father, Christopher, had an affair once
with their fifteen year old babysitter. This occurred before Sean
Tell in two thousand and eight. Notably, he was charged

(47:55):
with sexual violence. It's no surprise that he's not effectively
advocating for his deceased daughter.

Speaker 4 (48:00):
Somebody added to that, though, instead.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
A two thousand and eight Brevard County case shows Christina
Donahue sought a sexual violence injunction against the father, Christopher Kepner,
after a full hearing, though the judge dismissed it the
same day with no charges filed. Christopher Kepner is the
father of Anna Kepner. Online discussions have alleged he had
an appropriate relationship with a fifteen year old babysitter, though

(48:23):
no criminal charges were filed in the case, so all
this proves is that there was more family drama going on.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
At that time.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
And we have way more questions at this point than
we have answers in this cruise murder mystery.

Speaker 4 (48:39):
But let us know what you're seeing.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
Give us your thoughts, tips, tips at thenewsjunkie dot.

Speaker 4 (48:45):
Com, more of your dispatches.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
I'll work those in in just a moment here, and
a whole lot more to get to on a very
busy Thursday show.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
Also showdown going on.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
I love the back and forth on this one because
I guest President Trump has said that he's going to
meet with the Mayor to be Zorron Mam Donnie in
the Oval Office at the White House tomorrow. Now, this
is gonna be awkward, okay, And it's going to be
awkward for a couple of reasons.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
One is, here's how they both announced the meeting.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
Trump says, Communist mayor of New York City's Zorn Kwame,
Mamdan're kidding me has asked.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
For a meeting. We have agreed that this meeting will.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
Take place at the Oval Office on Friday, November twenty
first details to follow. So Trump's like, all right, I'm
gonna call him a kami and some.

Speaker 4 (49:38):
Of this stuff then mom Donnie says.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
Spokesperson for Mayor elect Zoora Mamdani issued the following statement,
as is customary for an incoming mayoral administration, the mayor
elect plans to meet with the President in Washington to
discuss public safety, economic security of the affordability agenda that
over one million New Yorkers voted for just two weeks ago.
So basically, he's pounding his chest a little bit, like
I got the vokes votes. People want my agenda to

(50:04):
be put into plays. No, those two, Well, he didn't
fire like fascist back over the comedy things.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
But I don't know.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
I don't also know if he sent this out first.
I don't know who sent what first. Trump sent it
at eight twenty nine last night.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
I can't wait to watch this live.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
It's gonna be interesting because these two couldn't be more
diametrically opposed, right, well, and.

Speaker 10 (50:26):
He gets along with the Syrian president and Saudi Crown Prince,
so who knows, true true.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
Anything could happen.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
Maybe they meet and they're like, we like each other,
we're going to work together. Maybe they start calling each
other's names the whole time. I have no idea, but
they're going to be meeting in the Oval Office tomorrow.
Should be an interesting back and forth with New York
City's too soon to be Mayor Zoram Mamdani and President Trump.

(50:54):
I'm sure some sparks will fly there. We'll keep an
eye on that as well. All right, we'll get to
more of your feedback. I even have more details in
the cruise murder mystery that we'll get to a little
bit further on in the show More Miss Universe Drama,
because that is spiraling out, sparks flying on CNN, baby,
I'll share that with you. I'll play the clips of

(51:15):
some pretty dramatic moments that just happen on CNN, just
so you know what's going down there that is coming
up next in the news junkie. All this story is

(51:43):
going on right now. Are like, they're not as explosive.
The big story for me in the moment is this
cruise murder mystery thing. It's got a lot of legs.
It's very interesting. I feel terrible for this eighteen year
old girl. The family is seeming very very interesting, and
there's some strange stuff.

Speaker 4 (51:59):
Going on here.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
That story absolutely has legs.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
The other story is just a continuation of forever and
ever and ever on the Epstein File stuff, which I'm
excited for that just to be released so everybody can
move on to the next thing. And we're kind of
floating around in a more drama free territory, but there's
still people yelling at each other. There's still some stuff
going on out there. And I guess things went south

(52:24):
on CNN with a politician by the name of Jasmine
Crockett from Texas, and she was trying to call out
some of her opponents in Washington, and she said that
one of them got a donation from Jeffrey Epstein. She's like, yeah,
you know, this person right here got a political donation
to his campaign from Jeffrey Epstein. And the guy fired

(52:47):
back and he's like, yes, I did. I got a
donation from a Jeffrey Epstein who is not the same
person as the Jeffrey Epstein from the Epstein.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
List at all of the those things.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
So you got this wrong.

Speaker 1 (53:01):
And I guess they grilled her about that to their
credit over on CNN.

Speaker 4 (53:04):
So let's see, I went to.

Speaker 16 (53:05):
Talk about Republicans taking money from a Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaker 3 (53:08):
Here's what you said, make her.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
Watch it live.

Speaker 17 (53:12):
Oh, who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein.
As I had my team digg in very quickly, Mitt Romney,
the NRCC, Lee Zelden, George bush Win, Ray McCain, Palin,
Rick Lazio.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
All right, So she just said, like, all these people
took donations from Jeffrey Epstein. But it's not the same
Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaker 16 (53:40):
You mentioned to Leezelden there he's now a cabinet secretary.
He responded and said it was actually doctor Jeffrey Epstein,
who's a doctor that doesn't have any relation to the
convicted sex trucker. I'm fortunate for that doctor, but that
is who you do.

Speaker 3 (53:51):
It is true.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Do you want to correct her?

Speaker 1 (53:55):
If I go to the doctor's off is and I'm like, hey, doc,
my neck is killing me. What's your name? By the way, uh,
doctor Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein in your practice?

Speaker 3 (54:06):
Yeah, I mean I changed my name. If my name
is jeff Epstein, I got to.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
Tell you, like, I wouldn't put it past myself to
change my name if somebody out there really ruined it,
like like if.

Speaker 10 (54:18):
You're the other Adolf Hitler in Germany, and you're like,
oh my god, this asshole, he's ruining everything for me.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
I would change it up. I would be Scooter Washson
so fast, you have no idea. I would turn the
tables on everything.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
All the people didn't.

Speaker 17 (54:35):
I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein, just
so that people understand, when you make it.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Domination, your picture is not there. And because they decided to.

Speaker 17 (54:42):
Spring this on us in real time, I wanted the
Republicans to think about what could potentially happen because I
knew that they didn't even try to go through the FEC.
So my team what they did is they googled, and
that is specifically why a Jeffrey Epstein. Unlike Republicans, I
at least don't go out and just tell lies because
it was not the same one.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
That's fine. But when Lee Zelden had something it's.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
True, I said, look, when I searched for donors, there
wasn't any photos, so it just said Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaker 4 (55:09):
So like, how is my staff supposed to know?

Speaker 2 (55:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (55:12):
I have a wild idea, though, maybe don't say anything
until you're sure. Maybe just like hold it back. And
this is something that goes for all of Washington. By
the way, maybe don't say anything until you're sure, right,
Like je the photo wasn't there, so I didn't know
if it was the same one.

Speaker 17 (55:31):
All he had to say was it was a different
jefferent Jeffrey Epstein. He admitted that he did did say
the donations from a Jeffrey Epstein. So at least I
wasn't trying to mislead people. Now, have I dug in
to find out who this doctor is. I have not,
so I will trust and take what he says is
that it wasn't that Jeffrey Epstein. But I was not
attempting to mislead anybody. I literally had maybe twenty minutes

(55:55):
before I had to.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
Do that debate.

Speaker 16 (55:57):
Ye don't say, well, you're trying to make it tell
him like took money from I did not know registered
tex offender.

Speaker 17 (56:03):
No, but I literally did not know when you search
FEC files, and that's what I had my team to do.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
I text them and I say, listen, we're going up.
They are saying that she.

Speaker 16 (56:11):
Took donating, right, But someone might say, well, your team
should have done the homework to make sure it wasn't
not Within.

Speaker 17 (56:16):
Twenty minutes you could not find that out, not from
just doing a quick search on FEC.

Speaker 4 (56:21):
This is how Congress actually operates.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
It's like we googled, We googled stuff, and we didn't
have enough time to confirm it, so.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
We just ran with it.

Speaker 1 (56:29):
It's not far twenty minutes like the idea disappears that
you could just go maybe don't say anything until we confirm. Now,
if you confirm that stuff, well that's that's bombshell material.
If Jeffrey Epstein was donating to these people people's campaigns,
but don't do it, get it wrong, and then blame
everybody that you were taking shots at. That's ridiculous. That

(56:53):
doesn't make any sense at least not to me. Let me,
do you think send a dispatch over at thenewsjunkie dot com.
All right, let's see what we got here, and uh
tips at the news junky dot com with your feedback
and also dispatches coming.

Speaker 4 (57:06):
Through, so let's work in one of those.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
Chris is talking about the obituary for this cruise murder
mystery girl. There's a lot of a lot of details
in the obituary. Obituaries tend to be mostly fairly simple, basic,
bare bones outlines of a person's life and what happened
to them. This was much more than that.

Speaker 4 (57:31):
So Chris was.

Speaker 3 (57:32):
Explaining this afternoon news junkies.

Speaker 18 (57:34):
Hey, Sean, this whole this whole story about the the
cruise and the and the daughter getting getting murdered. It's
it's a it's a bad story and it comes to
the you know, the obituary that's that's written by the family.

Speaker 3 (57:46):
It's it's got to be just difficult. And I don't
you know, I don't.

Speaker 19 (57:51):
Begrudge or criticize or critique any kind of any parent
that has to do that to their kid. There's there's
probably so much emotion that's still that they're going through. Yeah,
it's unusual detail about not liking heavy metal, but there's
probably there's probably a link to that where she said
before that she really doesn't like it, but little well.
But yeah, it just overall though, it's just yeah, terrible,

(58:12):
terrible for the for the family.

Speaker 4 (58:14):
Yeah, I agree that it's terrible for the family.

Speaker 1 (58:16):
I don't want to judge them too fast, but I
am seeing weird things like if the mother really was
like the step mom, if the stepmother really was telling
family members not to say anything about this case. Otherwise,
anybody who mentions that the stepbrother might have murdered this
eighteen year old Anna Keepner, if you mention anything about that,

(58:38):
you're not going to her memorial. Some of those things
are a little weird to me, Like protecting the person
that may have murdered this eighteen year old that I'm
absolutely obviously against. But okay, Uh, somebody where a chat
says I love seeing stuff like this. Jeffrey says, Jeffrey
Epstein donated one hundred and fifty million dollars to Trump. Okay,

(59:01):
let's see if there's any truth to that. Did Jeffrey
Epstein donate one hundred and fifty million to Trump? Make
sure it's not the doctor, Yeah, not the doctor, you know,
the actual Jeffrey Epstein, who, by the way, most of
Jeffrey Epstein's donations are going to one thousand percent pre

(59:24):
date anything to do with Trump or his campaign. And also,
Jeffrey Epstein was aligned with mostly powerful Democrats in control
of Congress back in the day. But just for the record,
very quickly, there's no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein donated one
hundred and fifty million dollars to Trump. The claim doesn't
match any records at all Epstein's political donations, which are

(59:47):
in the tens of thousands of dollars, not hundreds of millions.
His contributions went largely to Democratic candidates and committees in
the early nineties and the two thousands. They went to
the DNC, Chuck Schumer and other Democrats. This from chat
gpt just fast. I couldn't find any credible campaign, finance
or charitable records showing Epstein donating to Trump Trump, Trump's

(01:00:07):
campaigns or the packs. The only nine figure Epstein money
trail that's been documented publicly is between Epstein and billionaire
Leon Black roughly one hundred and seventy million dollars over
several years, according to a Senate investigation. So that appears
to be absolutely fundamentally false.

Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
But there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
It was a good time. It was a good time
when you believe that in your head and you just
tossed it out in chat. It was a good time. Unfortunately,
it's not true. Tips at the news Junkie dot com.
Tips at thenewsjunkie dot com must suck to be named
Jeffrey Epstein and not be Jeffrey Epstein, though, man.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
I'd say that is that is Hugh right there to
be What do you go by at that point? Jeff Epstein?

Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
Really yeah, I mean the last name is what really
murders you there. It's not easy to get away from.
You'd really have to kind of things. Yes, yeah, you
might have to. Just if you fundamentally rearrange just a
couple of them, you'll be clear.

Speaker 4 (01:01:09):
But right now it doesn't look that way.

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
Go by Jeff.

Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
Drop your name just Jeff, Jeff, like single name Madonna style.

Speaker 4 (01:01:18):
There go, my name is Jeff. Love that one.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
All right, we got a lot more for you today.
Let's work in one more dispatch. Perhaps here's Flip talking
about the airlines these days.

Speaker 12 (01:01:28):
So I agree with the anonymous emailer when it comes
down to the audacity of asking the public to be
more civil from the current Republican party. It's you know,
I'm a Republican and I agree with the message. Yes,
we need to be more civil in public and be

(01:01:50):
kinder to one another, true, and have manners. And I
agree with all of that. Quit wearing pajama pants on
an airplane. I totally agree that too. But when it's
when that message is given by Sean f and Duffy.
You know reality star sick a fan.

Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
You know, you go on the real world one time,
it just follows you around for the rest of your
day when you add it to all of your resumes,
until you're part of the government and it's going to
follow you.

Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
I feel like he's not putting that on resumes. I
feel like he hates that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
What was he doing before all of this, Before this,
he was atician, no meetups. When it came to a
real worlder, I don't think so, But I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:02:38):
Maybe, yeah, I see what he's been up to there, Josh.

Speaker 12 (01:02:42):
Trump, and Trump can't get past himself to be civil
to others and forces his nonsense on everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
It's like, I just can't get past that.

Speaker 12 (01:02:54):
You know, if that same commercial was made by almost
anyone else that hasn't been involved in politics over the
last twelve years, I would be fulehearted behind it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
I mean, I separate the issues myself because I go
One is civility in politics, which is catastrophically bad right now.

Speaker 4 (01:03:17):
Just like record levels of bad.

Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
Civility in politics, the.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
Civility in politics has not been at a more of
a crisis situation. I don't think since maybe the Civil
War or something, but that is a big, big problem.
But civility in modern life and interactions with people away
from politics is the crux of the issue here. I
don't think many people are fighting about politics on these planes.

(01:03:44):
I think they're drunk. I think they're seeing people with
lizard eyes on the plane. I think they're bumping into
their chairs and fighting about window shades, and it's a
bunch of antisocial goons who think that they can do
no wrong with each other.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
I think that is like civility in general.

Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
Life is different than civility and politics, and they're both
majorly broken right now.

Speaker 4 (01:04:08):
Unfortunately, when we come.

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
Back the next episode with Sabrina, What's coming up on
the next episode, What's coming new the.

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
Next episode, William Shatner is revealed out of nowhere that
Life Art and Shart are having an imitation party at
the Williams House. I've got a weird update on Kevin
space and according to Kevin Spacey, he's currently rebooting the top,
but turns out she's more of a bottom, a record
breaking bottom. I've done so much more coming up on.

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
The next episode, and that is coming up next on
the news, Chunkie, we got the next episode in a

(01:05:00):
moment here. But I've never wanted to punch a listener
in the face more. I hate to say that because
I love you and we couldn't do this show without you.
But somebody sent me this video and we'll talk about
it after the next episode. I refuse to play it.
I can't do this to Sabrina and Josh. I can't

(01:05:21):
bring them into this world. I'm curious.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
Oh god, yeah, let's look, we're at the gates of
said world. I want to bring in on this, but
I can't do it to you. Really, I'll just tell
you what this was that somebody sent over in a
bit here on the show.

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
Right now, let's get into it. Let's do the next episode, because.

Speaker 20 (01:05:40):
There's a lot on TV and you can't possibly keep
up with all of it, even though you should, because
what else are you gonna talk about?

Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
I was like, I'm probably gonna get eaten by bear.

Speaker 20 (01:05:49):
It's time for the next episode with Sabrinay, hold up
the next episode about to you by that mortgage guy Don.

Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
And that bear that Sean was going to eat or
be eaten by.

Speaker 4 (01:06:11):
I'm not sure it was a you know, some young
boy with real problems in his life.

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
Truly, young boy, you won't have any problems when working
with that mortgage guy. Don If you're looking to refinance
by your first dream home maybe your business owner. Are
you ready to start a business? Expand your business? Just
work with someone who knows the business of mortgages and
lifting the curtain on said mortgage business, explaining the process

(01:06:36):
to you because he wants you to know what it works.

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
By the way, what kind of loser doesn't want to
expand their business? If you're not, If you're like I
actually want to drink my business.

Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
I want to make it tiny, just one person.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
Then in that case, if you are a loser and
you don't want your business to do better, you don't
need that mortgage guy down. But if you are like say,
great American business owners who want to go upward and onward.

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
Right sbas all days, that mortgage guy down. Dot com
is where you start the process of all those thanks.
Don't miss the book.

Speaker 3 (01:07:13):
Dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
Thank you Wow thirty four years ago, nineteen ninety one.
Damn it, I knew I forgot to send you something.
So as I speak this thing and we I guess
I missed the anniversary, so I will say thirty four
years ago in one day, on this day there was
an anniversary. Orlando was making national news. Oh yeah, oh yeah,

(01:07:39):
because uh banned by the name of Murder Junkies and
a man that led that band, g Allen. They had
a concert here. They had a concert and and we
made the news. In November it was club Space Fish Cafe.
M hmm. Not googling this.

Speaker 4 (01:08:01):
I don't want to see what happened here.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
I send you the news report that shows a very
young Shepherd what's his name?

Speaker 1 (01:08:09):
Get off that dude, Oh show Shepherd Smith?

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
All right, the former Fox guy. Yeah, used to be
here in town and it was also known as the
Merle Club.

Speaker 21 (01:08:19):
Looks pretty tame tonight, but I'm sorry, it's okay.

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
It was going to be like hit it, Jean.

Speaker 4 (01:08:25):
What wasn't trying to cut you off? At Hello?

Speaker 21 (01:08:29):
Everyone, thanks for joining Newsnight six. The club owner says,
it happens in big cities everywhere. Last night it happened
in Orlando, something you would never expect to see in public,
and in the end, two men arrested on charges almost
beyond belief. Newsnight six reporter Shepherd smith Fish on Shirt
Street with this exclusive report.

Speaker 12 (01:08:50):
Michelle, we must warn what you were about to see
and hear is quite graphic, but it's true happened.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
It's child's play in twenty twenty five. Yeah, absolutely that
It's not that kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (01:09:03):
I think g Allen's performances would still shock people in
twenty five.

Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
I think that's like, that's how out there he was.

Speaker 1 (01:09:11):
G Allen put on performances that stood the test of
shock time, I think.

Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
I would say, And for the sake of time, I
will just spoil it for you.

Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
He defecated on stage through set, deffecation onto the crowd.
Some say he also consumed it a little bit. Okay,
all right, what I'm just saying. It caused a lot
of controversy and bummies and I went a little something
like this. Now, I will say many years ago, but

(01:09:44):
within the last ten years, Murder Junkies was on tour
and they came back to Orlando Sands GG because he
had died and uh, no, poop poop. I got to
interview them and they're very nice, sweetheart. Now, the drummer
did play naked and at one point grab a nice
lady out of the crowd and put the drumsticks for

(01:10:07):
the what do we call it? Snare don't shine?

Speaker 3 (01:10:09):
There you go cat.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
So they're still living up to the murder junkie name
out there somewhere, and there you have it. Speaking of doodoos,
we have this guy. William is correct three points for
Sean and they don't call him the chat for nothing.
William is now for some reason sharing with the world

(01:10:33):
that during his one man show, Shatner's World, we just
live in it. Back in twenty twelve, he was having
some stomach issues when all of a sudden, I have
to go. In fact, I'm going to use the past tense.
I had gone on Broadway. I had and this is
William Shatner's quote from the book if you'd like to

(01:10:56):
buy it, I had crapped my pants. So I said,
all right, there's it's been a technical difficulty and I'll
be right back. The show must go on. So Shatner
left the stage, clean himself up, and got on with it.
He says the show was quote very successful, I hope
so yeah. And that's it for the the Doo Doo

(01:11:19):
or is it? Because Sydney Sweeney's movie continues to take
a crap.

Speaker 9 (01:11:24):
Day.

Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
The Christy boxing biopic is suffering from a bottom ten
opening weekend, and that opening weekend said here have my beer,
and the second weekend held it because it is now
doing so poorly. It is the worst drop of all time, damn,

(01:11:47):
in cinematic history. It's because you didn't go watch it.
You didn't go watch it. We'll wait till it's on demand.

Speaker 4 (01:11:54):
You're never going to watch it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
I might Christy had the war second weekend drop for
a while, I'd release in box office history, earning only
one hundred eight thousand dollars in the past weekend, a
ninety two percent decline, So I'm sure that that's rough.
What is next for the star?

Speaker 9 (01:12:13):
I do not know.

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
She's got a movie coming on in December Christy two. No,
she's got a Paul fig movie coming on in December.

Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
Veg is funny.

Speaker 1 (01:12:24):
That will be like the Big Test. People think that
this was some vote against her. I just think the
movie looked boring.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
I think nobody now Sydney. I hope it goes well
or does it go the way of Kevin Spacey, who,
according to him, has done nothing wrong. He was not
found guilty in the court of law both across the Pond,
and I believe not even charged here in the US.

(01:12:52):
But after seven years with the sexual assault scandal, Kevin
Spacey has revealed he's homeless. I don't believe that I'm
living in hotels. I'm living in airbnbes. I'm going where
the work is, he told Telegraph in an interview. I
literally have no home. That's what I'm attempting to explain, Hannah.

Speaker 4 (01:13:16):
How much money do you have in your.

Speaker 2 (01:13:19):
Go for it? That's what I do think he actually has.

Speaker 1 (01:13:28):
I think he's got a lot, like I think he's saying, technically,
I don't have a home right now. I'm only in
these glorious, very expensive airbnbs that I'm staying in for
months at a time. But I think he probably has
enough money that he could get a house.

Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
Like you know, he has been some sort of royalty check.

Speaker 1 (01:13:45):
He's been in so much stuff Like I don't I
don't know that Kevin Spacey could be broke.

Speaker 2 (01:13:51):
I tried baby about it right now.

Speaker 1 (01:13:55):
I think he's trying to victimize himself without in this
whole world of like all you know, everybody's trying to
victimize themselves in my world, and make me look bad. Well,
here's a Woe is.

Speaker 4 (01:14:08):
Me from me Kevin Space.

Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
So let's see we'll do Let's see it in weird ways,
spacy network.

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
As you look it up, he says, in weird ways,
I'm back to where I first started, which is just
where two million, two million.

Speaker 1 (01:14:24):
Dollars, down from fifty to one hundred million, down from
fifty to one hundred million before twenty seventy A gets zero.

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
Royalties from House of Cards that is the only afflex
and available to watch, and any of the other movies.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
That he's been those are not the same thing. You're
talking about income versus his net worth. He's got more
money coming in. I don't know if he spent it
on court cases or what. But they said he had
fifty to one hundred mil. And they said as of
late twenty twenty five, he's down to two million dollars.
But guess what most most people are going to think
about when you say I only have two million dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
A learn how to manager money better. Okay, you still
have two million dollars, man, maybe invest in this upcoming movie,
because we're getting what everyone didn't ask for. Ladies and gentlemen,
gendered not conforming. I present to you La Boo Boo the.

Speaker 3 (01:15:19):
Movie Wow Lamoom Boo. I didn't know there was a
song for those it's not.

Speaker 2 (01:15:26):
I was very hard to find. Sony picked up the
film's rights. Not clear if it'll be live action or animation,
or a little bit of both, or a little boo boo.
It's surely in development. No director, no producer, no date
of when it's going to come out.

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
Does anybody care about the boo boos anymore? I thought
they were totally toast.

Speaker 3 (01:15:47):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
I see them all the time. I see them everywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
This feels like the Emoji movie all over again.

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
Well, in that case, they should sign up TJ. Miller
to be one of the voices that happens all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:15:58):
Now, these companies explode and everybody wants the thing, but
then the thing burns out in like six months, and
then now I don't I don't hear continued desire for
the boo boos right now.

Speaker 2 (01:16:12):
Maybe I'll get one when it's at Goodwill and not
five hundred dollars on eBay, But neither here nor there.
We'll see if the La Booboo comes to the fruition
on the La Boob Doo. We have football baby, we
got the Texans and the Bills. Second season premiere of
A Man on the Inside on Netflix. See a streaming

(01:16:35):
premiere of The Roses on Hulu, streaming premiere of After
the Hunt on Amazon. Premiere of the limited series High Horse,
The Black Cowboy, and Peacock. And you could catch Kerry
Washington and Lord Huran on kim follow dreams of me
on Instagram at Sabrina and but most importantly say it
with me, La Marcos smoke weed every day. Thank you, Sabrina.

Speaker 1 (01:17:00):
The video that somebody sent over, we'll get into that
when we come back.

Speaker 3 (01:17:04):
We'll talk about.

Speaker 4 (01:17:06):
That a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:17:08):
I feel offended that it was sent to me, and
I want to spread this a little bit, but not
too much. It'll all make sense when I talk about
what was in this video that somebody sent me. That's
coming up in a bit. We have updates on the
Miss Universe event, more details on the cruise murder mystery story. Yes,
there's even more rolling in today on that particular topic,

(01:17:29):
and a whole lot more headed for you.

Speaker 4 (01:17:31):
It's coming up next. On the news.

Speaker 1 (01:17:32):
Chunk Kie, I asked a poll to the YouTube and

(01:17:53):
Twitch people. I said, you guys want to see this,
and they said yes, and they asked a couple of questions,
but they said, yes, we do want to see it.
So I'll tell you the story in just a moment here,
but I want to explore something else before we get
to this very, very vile, vile video that somebody sent
me that I think I'm a block forever.

Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
Oh boy.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
There is a woman who's running for Congresge Congress in Nashville.

Speaker 4 (01:18:19):
I don't know much about her.

Speaker 1 (01:18:20):
I've only seen her as of today, and she's running
to replace Republican Congressman Mark Green, who stepped down from
his seat in the House of Representatives to take a
job in the private sector back in July. The election
is scheduled for December. Second is between Matt Van Epps,

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a veteran and member of the Tennessee National Guard, and
this woman often Ben.

Speaker 4 (01:18:49):
I never heard that name before.

Speaker 1 (01:18:51):
Democrat aft Yn often Aten Ben is her name, And
because they're running against each other, it's like kind of
sling mud at each other. And they have video of
her saying that she hates Nashville and she hates everything
about it and.

Speaker 3 (01:19:07):
I'm like, oh, that's not a good look.

Speaker 2 (01:19:09):
Oh I want to run to.

Speaker 1 (01:19:10):
Be in charge of Nashville, but I hate Nashville. Well,
let's hear her out here.

Speaker 13 (01:19:15):
She is.

Speaker 4 (01:19:15):
Let's listen in to this woman and see what she said.

Speaker 2 (01:19:17):
It's I've been heavily involved with the Nashville mayoral race
because I hate the city.

Speaker 22 (01:19:24):
I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I
hate country music, I hate all of the things that
make Nashville apparely it mate city to the rest of
the country, but I hate it.

Speaker 16 (01:19:33):
Yeah, I'm that girl at the airport that all these
bachelorettes are giddy walking out there.

Speaker 3 (01:19:37):
And they're two toned colored pant tone pink.

Speaker 2 (01:19:40):
Shirts and they walk out and I'm like, oh, we
got Nashville so loud.

Speaker 4 (01:19:45):
All right, I only know what half of that meant,
but I'm gonna try to go back.

Speaker 10 (01:19:49):
She starts saying, I'm that girl, and then it does
not explain what girl she's talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:19:54):
Well, I hates those things. I don't know what the
two tone thing was.

Speaker 1 (01:19:58):
It's like some sort of fashion trend or something that's
going on.

Speaker 4 (01:20:01):
I guess sure.

Speaker 2 (01:20:02):
She said, I hate the city of Nashville.

Speaker 1 (01:20:06):
This is tough to say when you're going into a
running for office here, but I hate the city. I
hate the bachelorettes. I hate the pedal taverns now. I
think that that's those moving bars, the bars where everybody's
on like a bike thing together.

Speaker 3 (01:20:24):
Yea, sit there in pedal and drink.

Speaker 1 (01:20:26):
I hate country music, which is sort of at the
core of Nashville music.

Speaker 4 (01:20:32):
Scene at least.

Speaker 1 (01:20:33):
I hate all of the things that make Nashville Nashville.

Speaker 2 (01:20:37):
I hate it.

Speaker 4 (01:20:38):
She says.

Speaker 1 (01:20:40):
These are the quotes from this clip. Now, this is
a short clip. It's only twenty eight seconds. Maybe there's
some context around this or something, but it doesn't look
fantastic now.

Speaker 2 (01:20:51):
But is she speaking to some voters who do not
like what Nashville has become because it is all bachelorettes
at one time? And my first time going to Nashville
ever was this year, and that was unplanned because Bonneru
got canceled and it's an hour away from where BONU is. Yeah,
I will never forgets. Nicole had been there and Radio

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Michael seven, they're like, you have to come. We have
to go to Broadway, And we turned the street and
we saw Broadway. I'm like, this looks awesome. Can we
get out of your place? Because it was so much.

Speaker 3 (01:21:24):
It's a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:21:25):
Yeah, I believe in secure Walris lives around there.

Speaker 4 (01:21:29):
He says, She's not.

Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
Wrong, it's just a lot. Man hold on to unpack.

Speaker 1 (01:21:34):
I think saying I hate the Bachelorettes and I hate
the pedal bars, those are the least controversial.

Speaker 4 (01:21:43):
Those are the least controversial things.

Speaker 3 (01:21:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:21:44):
Oh, a lot of people who are from Nashville, Nashvillians,
if you will, I'm sure that they dislike those things.
But saying I hate Nashville, I hate country music is
pretty brave in the city of Nashville. Probably not gonna
win you a lot of voters, but maybe maybe it wins.
Maybe it's a winning, winning strategy. I don't think it

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will be.

Speaker 2 (01:22:06):
I appreciate the honesty, I'll say that.

Speaker 13 (01:22:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:22:08):
I mean, she it's clear she was on a microphone, right,
she knew it was being sounds like she was on podcasts. Yeah,
there was it, no hot mic moment or you know,
secret recordings. She stands by it because if there's going
to be a moment where reporters ask her about I'm
curious what her response will be.

Speaker 1 (01:22:27):
This is her quiet piggy moment where she has to
go yep, I said it, and I meant it, and
I hate.

Speaker 2 (01:22:35):
The city and I hate country music.

Speaker 1 (01:22:38):
This is the woman who's running for office though in
Nashville and Nashvillians, I'd love to hear from you. Would
you vote for this person or do you think that's
disqualifying to hate to say that you hate the city
that you're running for office in. Let us know what
your thoughts are. Send a dispatch over at thenewsjunkie dot com.
And now don't say you weren't warned, but I wasn't warned.

Speaker 23 (01:22:59):
You were?

Speaker 1 (01:23:00):
You absitively worry whatever, Josh, I need to know more
about this before I hit play oh Boy and ruin
everything in the world. I need to know about that.
This is a challenge that's making the rounds that somebody
sent me. Okay, it's called sir stroming, So look up

(01:23:22):
what that is.

Speaker 2 (01:23:23):
S U R S T R O M M I
N G.

Speaker 1 (01:23:26):
Yes, And they said you got to see this. It's
these guys stromming in his car together.

Speaker 10 (01:23:32):
It's it's lightly salted fermented Baltic sea herring, traditional to
Swedish cuisine.

Speaker 3 (01:23:41):
Myself is delicious.

Speaker 2 (01:23:42):
So it's canned fish, right, Yeah, basically it's disgusting looking.
Canned fish is.

Speaker 1 (01:23:49):
Canned fish is having a moment, and especially women seem
to be into the canfish movement.

Speaker 12 (01:23:55):
I am not.

Speaker 1 (01:23:57):
It's a trend on social media. It's a big thing
out there in some quarters, I think. But this I
can't get behind. But I warned everybody over. I warned
everybody about the video on chat. So I want to
tell you right now you have been warned. Okay, don't
act like this came out of nowhere. You got to
vote for this. I will not be putting this up

(01:24:17):
on See It now. Wow, I will not put this
up on See It Now, because it's that bad. It's
these guys who are are dart stars, they're Premier League
dart stars.

Speaker 4 (01:24:30):
They're all in a car together.

Speaker 1 (01:24:32):
And I'm gonna mute it because I imagine they probably curse.
But they're trying this trend where you open this tinned
fish inside the car, fermented fish inside inside the car.

Speaker 2 (01:24:44):
That's the challenge.

Speaker 4 (01:24:46):
Are you guys ready?

Speaker 3 (01:24:47):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (01:24:47):
No, if you are, or if you ever will be,
But here you go, Josh, let's take a look at this.
Here we go, all right, these guys go, they get
the tin out and they say, we're going to open
this up together here in the car, and he grabs
the all right, he's got to oh, oh, all right,
starts a bit of a chain reaction, just for the records. God,

(01:25:09):
this is like the Family Guys. Okay, all right, are
we sure that's real?

Speaker 9 (01:25:14):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:25:14):
Sorry, okay, I'm all done.

Speaker 3 (01:25:16):
I'm all done.

Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
Whatever this challenge is. I'm not trying it. Okay, I
have a feeling you're gonna try it. Hell no, I'm
trying this.

Speaker 1 (01:25:25):
It's like the scene in the Family Guy where one
person starts evacuating their stomach and that triggers everybody else.
And all of these people are in a car with
a can of fish and I can't support it. And
whoever said that to me, I'm gonna track you down.
I'm gonna find you, and i'm gonna cut you like a.

Speaker 3 (01:25:48):
Fish, sir.

Speaker 10 (01:25:50):
Strowming is banned on commercial airlines because the fermentation process
makes the can so pressurized they pose an explosion risk.

Speaker 1 (01:25:59):
Oh really, Jesus Christ, it was actually dangerous. Then somebody
sent this over Austin. He says, You're lucky, He says.

Speaker 4 (01:26:08):
You're lucky.

Speaker 1 (01:26:09):
It's too expensive for a prank. A can of this
stuff is forty five dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:26:14):
Lord, you get past the dry heaving and smell.

Speaker 4 (01:26:19):
I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (01:26:21):
What are the Oh God, look inside the cana concrete For.

Speaker 2 (01:26:28):
One star.

Speaker 1 (01:26:31):
I bought two cans before, and they were stuffed with fish.
I was happy with the purchase, delicious. This time the
can arrived. When I opened it, there was no fish
at all, not even bones. Some thick substance was at
the bottom. I am disappointing. One star review, they say
of the sirs drum.

Speaker 10 (01:26:49):
What I'm reading says the smell is a combination of
several strong scents, including ammonia, rotten eggs, and something like
pungent steaky cheese.

Speaker 2 (01:26:58):
Oh Jesus, what is wrong with people that they want
to do this to themselves? Ask Sweden.

Speaker 1 (01:27:06):
Customers find surstrommings taste mixed, with some describing it as tasty,
while theys say it's too salty and it's known for
its smell, liquid content, the fact that it causes you
to bloat and smells like spoiled rotten fish.

Speaker 4 (01:27:23):
Geez us, that's that is something else.

Speaker 3 (01:27:26):
But there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:27:27):
If you're interested, you can try this challenge out. I'm
going to suggest no on the surstromming, but to each
their own.

Speaker 4 (01:27:35):
Let's go over to you. Let's see what's happening.

Speaker 3 (01:27:37):
In your world.

Speaker 4 (01:27:38):
And you got comments, so we'll hear from you.

Speaker 1 (01:27:42):
Let's see here, here's somebody talking about swimming lessons. Doxy
Mama emails the show tips at the newsjunkie dot com. Hi, guys,
my kids did infant swimming lessons after a neighbor boy
died when he jumped into his grandparents swimming pool when
nobody was home. I was outside with my when she
was three, and she fell into our pool when we

(01:28:03):
were coming inside. Neither of us panicked, though she flipped
over and swam to the edge of the pool. My
hand was full of roofing nails and I didn't drop
a single.

Speaker 2 (01:28:12):
One of them.

Speaker 1 (01:28:12):
Well worth all the money and her crying on the
way to swim lessons every single day.

Speaker 2 (01:28:17):
It also made pool time more enjoyable.

Speaker 1 (01:28:19):
Another note, my friend worked at a popular family style
of dining restaurant in the eighties. He told me they
dumped the uneaten sides back into pans and serve them
to other guests. I will never eat in a family
style dining restaurant. Love your show, Doxy Mama, thank you
for the email. And yeah, I mean this was about
the story with so many young kids not knowing how

(01:28:40):
to swim as of late, and on the interstates they
have these signs up that tell you it's like a
running counter of how many children I have drowned, and
it's obviously of concern. You know, this is particularly bad
in certain communities and poor communities and black communities.

Speaker 2 (01:28:58):
There are levels of of these.

Speaker 1 (01:29:00):
Kids that don't know how to swim that are absolutely unacceptable.
And that's why I said this should be something that's
roped into school. We should make sure everybody who lives
in a state or really just anybody I was gonna
say a state where you're gonna be near the water
for some point in your adolescence, but just really everybody.

Speaker 4 (01:29:17):
Should know how to swim.

Speaker 1 (01:29:18):
They really should, and we should help people, especially those
who don't have the money to have a pool or
like go visit a pool. Those are the ones that
we need to help the most here. I think, all right,
let us know what you think that's more important. Meanwhile,
I said, we had an update on this Miss Universe thing.
It's been a disaster. It's been a disaster from the jump.
Yesterday we had the story saying they rigged the whole

(01:29:41):
thing and Miss Universe was rigged before it happened.

Speaker 2 (01:29:45):
Everything is rigged, Yeah, the last quarter of the.

Speaker 1 (01:29:48):
Year, baseball, you know, uh box every day and in
this case, they were saying Miss Universe is also rigged.
Then you had the guy who was yelling at one
of the Missed Universe contestants, Miss Mexico, and then all
the other women got mad at that and went after
this guy. And now you have Miss Jamaica. She's on stage.

(01:30:12):
It's the evening gown moment, and let's watch what happened.
Feel for her, man, This is tough. She's walking along,
she's doing her beautiful evening gown thing, and then she
goes to make a move on the stage and all
is well until right off she just full walked right

(01:30:34):
off the side of the stage.

Speaker 3 (01:30:37):
That is that.

Speaker 4 (01:30:38):
And it's got to hurt when you.

Speaker 1 (01:30:39):
Don't know, Oh Jesus, when you think everything is gonna
be firm ground underneath you, and then.

Speaker 4 (01:30:45):
The next step is what.

Speaker 2 (01:30:49):
That'll do?

Speaker 1 (01:30:50):
It whoa, she's I'll put this one up on See
it Now because it's less disgusted.

Speaker 10 (01:30:56):
You're going back and forth like you're hosting America's Funny
at some ideos here.

Speaker 1 (01:31:01):
I want people Josh to know that this was the
moment right here, oh wow, when it all went.

Speaker 2 (01:31:07):
South, and for everybody else. Check this out over on
See it Now on the news Junkie dot Com.

Speaker 1 (01:31:13):
Should be easy enough for you to find. Go to
the news Junkie dot com. That's the website See it Now.
That's where you see stuff that we're talking about visuals
and this is miss Jamaica. I believe you have missed
Jamaica falls off stage. Maybe you should get some points
for it, though maybe they'll be like.

Speaker 4 (01:31:32):
Oh god, we feel bad for her.

Speaker 3 (01:31:33):
Oh no, me fell off the stage.

Speaker 4 (01:31:36):
It's up for you to check.

Speaker 2 (01:31:37):
Out over on See it Now at the news Junkie
dot Com quick Break.

Speaker 1 (01:31:40):
When we come back, we'll see what you have on
your mind, So get those emails in tips at the
news junki dot com. I got more details as promised
on Anna Keepner the cruise murder mystery. New details coming
in and we'll serve those up to you. That's coming
up next on the News Junkie. When you listen to

(01:32:13):
this show, you get to hang out with us every
single day. We talk about all the crazy things happening
in the world, all things viral, everything popping off out there,
all the.

Speaker 4 (01:32:25):
Stuff in between all of it. Baby, and I have
an update for you.

Speaker 1 (01:32:29):
We talked earlier about the latest information in this teenager
who was killed on a carnival cruise ship. Anna Kepner
is her name. We learned earlier that she was not
just staying in a room on the cruise ship with
her stepbrother, who could soon be charged with her murder,

(01:32:50):
but she was also staying with her biological brother. So
it was the eighteen year old Anna Keepner, her biological brother,
and her sixteen year old stepbrother that were all staying
in the same room.

Speaker 2 (01:33:02):
The family was out to dinner the night before.

Speaker 1 (01:33:05):
They were coming back from Mexico in this carnival cruise
line and they were headed back toward Tampa. Now, when
she went out to dinner, she said, I don't feel well.
I don't feel well. I'm going to go back to
the room. And she peels off and goes back to
the room. You would think by herself yeah, you could do.

Speaker 2 (01:33:25):
Whatever you want.

Speaker 1 (01:33:26):
You know, You're like, you have the freedom to say
I'll just eat later or something. And she says, I'm
going to peel off. I'm not feeling well. I'm going
to go back to my stateroom. So she goes back
to her stateroom and then next thing you know, her
biological brother arrives back at the State Room after dinner
a little bit later on that night, and he doesn't

(01:33:47):
see her. He figures sayings, she must have gone somewhere.
I don't know what's happening, but she's not around here.
Little did her biological brother know, but her body had
been stuffed underneath the bed he was going to sleep
on that night, and she was wrapped, they said, in
a blanket. There was a talk of there being like
life preservers around her. But he didn't know that he

(01:34:11):
was sleeping in very very very close proximity to the
body of his dead sister, Anna Kepner. They were all
in that room together. But there were other little tidbits
that were coming out here. One thing, there's an interesting story.
Y't me bring this one up actually from CNN because
their update on Anna Keepner today I thought.

Speaker 4 (01:34:31):
Was pretty good, they said.

Speaker 1 (01:34:33):
Speculation intensifies in the death of a Florida high schooler
on a cruise. It's been really captivating the cruise community.
On any kind of platforms like forums and stuff where
they talk about cruising, they have been glued into this.
The Associated Press says the mysterious death of a high

(01:34:55):
school cheerleader on a carnival cruise ship earlier this month
is drawing international attention and sparking intense speculation. As of Wednesday,
there haven't been any criminal charges announced in the case
of this eighteen year old Danna Kepner. A final autopsy
report detailing the cause.

Speaker 4 (01:35:13):
And manner of death is still pending.

Speaker 1 (01:35:14):
According to the Miami Dade County Medical Examiner's office, that
usually doesn't take a really long time.

Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
Is it the whole international waters thing though, doesn't that
come into play? That's well, yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 (01:35:28):
And they've had the body, but they've had the body
now for a couple of weeks, and it's in Miami
Dade where they're doing the medical examiner investigation.

Speaker 2 (01:35:38):
So they have the body, they have everything. I know
that there was the medical examiner.

Speaker 1 (01:35:42):
I had taken a day off originally, and so they
weren't able to get this done, but now I feel
like we should know. Interest in Kepner's death on the
Carnival Horizon intensified after a court filing this week in
a separate case said the FBI is investigating her death
and that a minor child of the family i e.
The stepbrother may be implicated. The documents were filed in

(01:36:05):
a dissolution of marriage case between Thomas Hudson and shan
Tell Hudson, who described Kepner's father as her quote paramore.
Kepner was traveling aboard the ship with schaan Tell Hudson
and her minor children. A spokesperson for the FBI declined
to comment, saying they do not provide operational updates about
ongoing investigations. They're saying that there was a motion emergency

(01:36:29):
motion to delay a scheduled hearing because of the death
of this daughter. Hudson's attorney argued or client cannot be
compelled to testify as any testimony Hudson may give could
be prejudicial to her or her child in this pending
criminal investigation.

Speaker 4 (01:36:45):
So this is a whole mess in the court here.

Speaker 1 (01:36:47):
Her obituary described as somebody who loves spending time on
the water. Said she was planning to graduate high school
next year from Temple Christian School in Titusville, Florida. And
there are about four thos people on the ship. The
FBI is investigating right now. Still many many, many, many questions,
but we'll get those as the day goes on, and

(01:37:09):
we'll share those with you, as you might imagine moving
forward in jury duty before too long. I've got the
court documents on this hoax case. This was the woman
that said they put like Trump horror on her body
and then somebody is a racist like this congressman she
was working for, and she was sliced up.

Speaker 2 (01:37:30):
Yeah, like they didn't put on her body like college
permanent marker prank. It was carved into.

Speaker 1 (01:37:36):
There was cuts all over her body, and she said
she had been attacked by three men.

Speaker 2 (01:37:41):
The whole thing was a hoax.

Speaker 1 (01:37:43):
The court case against her is starting to blow up,
and I've got the court docs on that, so we'll
get into that in a moment too. But right now,
I wanted to talk about this story, which is kind
of interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:37:56):
Ladies.

Speaker 1 (01:37:57):
I'd love to hear from you and get your thoughts
on this, because this is from a respected polling organization
out there, and as of this week, Pew Research. They've
been doing polling data analysis for absolutely forever as long
as I've been in the industry, and they released this

(01:38:17):
thing today saying US high schoolers are less likely now
than ever in the past to say they want to
get married someday, and a smaller share say they're likely
to have children if they do get married. Let me
look at the comparison here, because this says in nineteen
ninety three, when you asked twelve graders if they wanted

(01:38:41):
to get married or not, eighty percent said yes.

Speaker 4 (01:38:46):
They wanted to get married in nineteen ninety three.

Speaker 1 (01:38:48):
Now, in twenty twenty three, thirty years later, sixty seven
percent say that they want to get married.

Speaker 4 (01:38:58):
Now this is even further interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:39:01):
What's more interesting when you look at the breakdown of
who wants to do this because now, for the first
time ever since they've been doing this, girls are less
likely than boys to say they want to get married someday.
In fact, in nineteen ninety three, when you asked young boys,
do you want to get married, seventy six percent of
them said yes. Now seventy four percent say yes. So

(01:39:23):
that's pretty much the same. How many boys I want
to get married some day?

Speaker 2 (01:39:27):
I'm curious, but maybe the survey answers, like how many
of them are children of divorce? It doesn't have any
influence on them.

Speaker 1 (01:39:35):
I mean, it would just probably be you could pull
that from the general population.

Speaker 2 (01:39:39):
In ninety three, I think divorce was still kind of
didn't happen that much. But if it did, we didn't
talk about it. It's sturdy laundry that you keep it home.
Now everything's kind of out there and a lot of
experience has been had.

Speaker 1 (01:39:52):
Divorce rate by year in the nine in the eighties,
the divorce rate peaked, and in the eighties divorce was
at its highest rate.

Speaker 4 (01:40:02):
Women's divorce rate.

Speaker 1 (01:40:03):
Was twenty two percent, and the nineties it was fairly
steady from that, and recently the divorce rate has gone
down quite a bit, so it's like fourteen percent. It's
about the same as it was in the nineteen seventies
the divorce rate, So the divorce rate has actually gone down.
But young boys say they want to get married about

(01:40:23):
seventy four percent of them still Young girls when asked
do you want to get married someday? It's gone from
eighty three percent to only sixty one percent of these
girls have any interest in getting married someday. So let
us know your thoughts on that. Why you think that is,
et cetera, et cetera. But that one is spinning out
out there today and I'd love to hear from you.

(01:40:45):
Send your dispatches over at thenewsjunkie dot com.

Speaker 4 (01:40:49):
In fact, let's get to one now.

Speaker 1 (01:40:51):
Dustin is talking about the stinky fish in the can,
the challenge that I will never take part in.

Speaker 23 (01:40:57):
Happy Thursday Thursday Junkies, Yeah you too. The Sostramian is
traditionally eating on like a flatbread with like a butter
or you put like a cheese down and onions and
you kind of dress it up extra good lucky. But
you're supposed to open it up underneath a like washcloth
or underwater. I've even seen the pressure and it doesn't
squirt everywhere and smell so bad, but supposedly it's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (01:41:20):
I don't know, man, just regular fish with all the
other stuff you just named to make it better. Yeah true.

Speaker 1 (01:41:29):
I personally I want to try everything food wise I
can because I want it all to be great. Why
not enjoy eating It's one of the joys of life.
Enjoy eating and try things because maybe you'll find something
out there and you go, oh my god, I didn't
know Cottage cheese is so.

Speaker 4 (01:41:48):
Much better than I anticipate. This is so amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:41:49):
I want to have this every day now. It'll make
your life better. But I think I can go without
trying it. I don't think I need to try this ever.
I'm going to pass on it, honestly. Over to here is.

Speaker 4 (01:42:04):
Teddy Beast talking about a politician.

Speaker 24 (01:42:07):
We discussed Hello, what's up news junkies? Hey Sean listening
to what this politician said. If I'm hearing it correctly,
she didn't actually say it was the Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaker 2 (01:42:20):
Now, was it implied?

Speaker 24 (01:42:21):
Yeah, I guess you can say it was implied, of course,
But technically she didn't say it was the Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaker 2 (01:42:28):
She said a person named Jeffrey Epstein, right, But why
is she saying that?

Speaker 4 (01:42:34):
To begin with?

Speaker 2 (01:42:35):
She's why is she choosing that name? She's choosing that.

Speaker 4 (01:42:38):
Name because of the implication.

Speaker 1 (01:42:40):
And she mentioned this and had no idea who the
person was what was going on, but was willing to
say that about her colleagues. And put that out there,
because that's how people view politics now. It's like a
zero sum game where it's constant warfare, and we got
we're attracting all the wrong people to these positions in

(01:43:03):
my opinion, But we shall see what you think about it,
and you can join into the conversation. Tips at the
news junkie dot com. Tips at the newsjunkie dot com.
All Right, to Jury Duty when we return, including the
hoax story, the updates on this, the court docs right
in front of me here.

Speaker 2 (01:43:21):
Natalie Green is the woman.

Speaker 1 (01:43:23):
Who pretended she faked Jesse Smolette style like there was
an attack on her, and I've got the actual details
that show that this whole thing was a hoax. We'll
go over that in Jury Duty. Plus a woman kills
three people and says, why should I apologize?

Speaker 2 (01:43:42):
We'll hear from her.

Speaker 1 (01:43:43):
That's coming up next on the News Junkie. All Right,
tons of stuff to dig into, so it's.

Speaker 2 (01:44:05):
Time to just jump right in. Let's do it together.
Let's do jury duty. Court is now in session, and
so put your phone down and pay attention.

Speaker 3 (01:44:12):
Before we call the bailiff over to whip your ass.

Speaker 1 (01:44:14):
You're knowing Jury duty with the news junkie Jerry Duty
brought to you by the one the only moo It
of the DeWit Law firm.

Speaker 4 (01:44:22):
Injured on the go, just call MO. It's as simple
as that.

Speaker 1 (01:44:25):
What this means is if you're out there on the
streets and you or somebody that you care about is
in an accident and the insurance company is trying to
give you.

Speaker 4 (01:44:33):
The run around, enough is enough.

Speaker 1 (01:44:35):
These billion dollar, greedy insurance companies will drag you around,
low ball you, and take advantage of you unless you
have some help.

Speaker 4 (01:44:43):
So get some help.

Speaker 2 (01:44:44):
Eight hundred CALLMO eight hundred Calmo, or just CALLMO dot com.
Mo was here, he would reiterate. A friend of mine
just got into a car accident. They're like, the person
who crashed into me total to her car. Mind you,
it was so nice, you know, he was admitted to everything.
He was so nice. I feel very bad. He was
an uber driver, lyft driver, and I'm like, you're not

(01:45:05):
going against him. That's what he has insurance for. That's
what you have insurance for. And I promise you it's
going to be more of a headache when you get
screwed over versus working with an attorney they could trust
like mo and getting it out done and over with.

Speaker 4 (01:45:19):
That's like a generational thing.

Speaker 1 (01:45:21):
We always talk about how everybody went against that poor
lady who burned herself on the McDonald's coffee And they're.

Speaker 2 (01:45:27):
Like, oh, I'm sorry, was your coffee hot?

Speaker 1 (01:45:29):
And you're like, yes, she burned her vagina, All right, Okay,
the lady was, she was giving molten hot coffee.

Speaker 2 (01:45:39):
McDonald's did something wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:45:41):
Okay, So you shouldn't always feel bad.

Speaker 3 (01:45:44):
You shouldn't.

Speaker 4 (01:45:44):
You should do the right thing for you and your family.
This is not doing the right thing though.

Speaker 2 (01:45:51):
Go ahead, But I just can't say it on the radio.

Speaker 4 (01:45:53):
Oh, because we got so many rules around here.

Speaker 3 (01:45:56):
You used to be able to say that.

Speaker 1 (01:45:58):
Yeah, they could say all kinds of stuff over on
the cable news networks. They're saying curse words for fun
over there.

Speaker 2 (01:46:04):
That's just nice.

Speaker 1 (01:46:06):
It's because it's a random day that ends with a
why they're saying curse words. The next story that has
gotten a lot of people's attention is about a woman
named Miriam Yurimi and she was in a twenty five
mile per hour zone. She had a suspended license and
she was going sixty eight miles per hour in that
twenty five mile per hour zone. She plowed into a

(01:46:27):
vehicle and caused some deaths. And she is an influencer
in Brooklyn. Not very likable, not very likable, this lady.
But I'll give you some of the details from Fox
five here, including her and her outbursts in the courtroom.

Speaker 25 (01:46:42):
Here an ocean parkway that killed a mother and her
two young children.

Speaker 21 (01:46:45):
Earlier, Yurimi broke down in tears after the judge handed
down her fate. Today, Fox says Arthur, she is live
outside the courthouse in downtown Brooklyn with more.

Speaker 4 (01:46:55):
Just so you know, she killed three people.

Speaker 1 (01:46:57):
She killed a mother and her two kids this car
going sixty eight in the twenty five with the suspended license.

Speaker 2 (01:47:04):
She got three to nine years.

Speaker 3 (01:47:07):
What the hell?

Speaker 13 (01:47:07):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:47:08):
Which is insane? All right?

Speaker 1 (01:47:12):
Three to nine years for all three of them. And
she still was crying in the courtroom and upset about
all of this. She got three to nine years for
causing a fatal crash going sixty eight and a twenty
five with a suspended license and killing a whole damn family.

Speaker 26 (01:47:27):
When Natasha Steve, this driver killed not just the mother
but her two young daughters, who are just eight and
three years old. She herself will serve as little as
three years in prison for killing them.

Speaker 2 (01:47:37):
The judge's decision here today.

Speaker 26 (01:47:38):
Has someone why unless as her court are sending regardless
regarding reckless drivers who kill people on our streets. Nonetheless,
the driver miam Urimi, watched her sentence today made a
brief statement, let's listen.

Speaker 2 (01:47:50):
Here's she's well, sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:47:54):
Secret hi.

Speaker 1 (01:48:01):
She said, there's a lot of sorrow and hurt and
regret in my heart. And I don't think she apologizes
though she's crying here for causing such a something tragedy.

Speaker 2 (01:48:18):
I don't know what the verdict the sentencing, I think,
I don't know. She's handcuffed, so yeah, she.

Speaker 4 (01:48:25):
Has her cuffs, your hands cuffed behind her.

Speaker 2 (01:48:26):
Here, maybe for the sentencing, but I imagine her attorney said,
you can't admit guilt in your statement.

Speaker 1 (01:48:36):
Maybe her attorney's holding out a piece of paper.

Speaker 2 (01:48:38):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:48:39):
Maybe they'll talk about when this one I accept full responsibility.

Speaker 3 (01:48:45):
Okay.

Speaker 26 (01:48:47):
Rymi was sentenced to three to nine years, but she
had faced up to fifteen years in prison if convicted
on the litany of charges for killing thirty four year
old Brooklyn mom Natasha Sada and her daughter's Diana, and
also mean her four year old son. Now, the crash
on Ocean Parkway and Marchiston shock waves across the city
as it was revealed that Uremia was driving with a

(01:49:07):
suspended license and that her vehicle had wracked up more
than ninety tickets in just a year leading up to that.

Speaker 2 (01:49:15):
Okay, context, this is wild suspended license for what and
then her car wrecked up tickets many tickets parking and
they're trying to use a juicy headline.

Speaker 4 (01:49:28):
It says ninety tickets.

Speaker 1 (01:49:30):
So she was with a suspended license, She was going
sixty eight into twenty five. She got three to nine years,
and then it says prosecutor said she showed no sign
of breaking at all. She was seen using her cell
phone shortly before the crash, which left her this one's
four year old son hospitalized in his brain bleeding. The
case sparked outrage about these super speeders. She had more

(01:49:52):
than twenty speeding tickets at the time of the crash.
Six red light camera violation.

Speaker 2 (01:49:57):
She sat back and.

Speaker 1 (01:50:00):
The red light she sped through before hitting the family
had been at least the second red light she blew
right through on this drive.

Speaker 4 (01:50:07):
What the hell that's what this woman was doing.

Speaker 1 (01:50:10):
Her sentence was handed down by the judge in Brooklyn
Supreme Court, who offered her a lighter sentence in exchange
for her guilty please. Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez had
recommended five to fifteen years, saying she cared about only
herself when she wiped away nearly an entire family. Direct
His office had highlighted a jail phone call in which
she said, per W N y W, why should I apologize?

Speaker 2 (01:50:34):
I'm as much a victim as they. Oh my god,
she got three years, got.

Speaker 4 (01:50:39):
Three years for doing this.

Speaker 1 (01:50:42):
I don't know who would look at that and say
that that's sufficient But hit us up tips of the
news junkie dot com or record a dispatch over Etica
Newsjunkie dot com.

Speaker 13 (01:50:51):
That's messed up, though, Really what? Yeah, it's some justice, huh?
Like three people died and you might get three years.
Is that just what you're gonna do moving forward? In
New York City?

Speaker 1 (01:51:04):
Everybody is this victim and you shouldn't give them that
much jail time. I don't know, man, I look at
that and go, this woman was just blazing through red lights.

Speaker 2 (01:51:13):
It does not care, and none of that is being
brought up during the trial. Or she took a plea
deal obviously.

Speaker 1 (01:51:20):
Yeah, they wanted her to mid kill loney man. That
doesn't seem very fair. Over to the hoax situation. Now,
I talked about this earlier, but just in case you
missed it, a good time to go over to the
stream over on YouTube. But this woman was caught in
this massive hoax. Her name is Natalie Green. She's twenty

(01:51:44):
six years old. The photo of her is here for
those of you watching on YouTube dot com, Slash the news, junkie,
everybody else.

Speaker 4 (01:51:51):
She's just a twenty eight year.

Speaker 1 (01:51:52):
Old woman and she was found with somebody, some politician
is racist on her and then another part where it
says Trump whore. She says she was attacked by these people.
They found her zip tid and all this stuff. But
the cops when they started investigating, they realized, oh, this
entire thing is made up, like she this is a hoax.

(01:52:14):
This is a Jesse Smilette style hoax, and the whole
thing is faked. Now, the crazy thing is that she
actually did have insane wounds on her body, and they
traced it back to some body modification studio.

Speaker 2 (01:52:29):
Okay, so the trump poors and permanent markers also etched
in her body.

Speaker 1 (01:52:33):
I think that's with just the marker, but I cannot
be sure what you'll find out. It's very bad, very
very bad for those of you watching it. Says in
the court docs. Natalie Green that's her name, did knowingly
and intentionally conspire with and agree with co conspirator one
anothers to commit certain offenses, including the conveying a false

(01:52:53):
and misleading information, namely the lie that three men threatened
Green with a gun while binding her with zip ties
under circumstances where such information may reasonably have been believed.
So basically, she was lying about this attack and furtherance
of this conspiracy and to affect its to affect its objects.

(01:53:14):
The following overt acts were committed. There was a search
on co conspirator's cell phone saying zip tize near me, Honor.
About July twenty third, defendant Natalie Green drove from one
location to another in Pennsylvania where she paid individual one
to cut various portions of her body. So that's a

(01:53:35):
co conspirator, including her face, her neck, her back, and
shoulder with a scalpel. That's what they did this with.
So this other person who was like working with her
did this with a scalpel. Apparently she called nine one one, Josh,
see you could find this Natalie Green. Nine one one
call because I haven't even heard that number three, says
defendant Natalie Green drove from Pennsylvania to New Jersey to

(01:53:57):
pick up co conspirator one and drove to this nature
reserve where she was found. Co Conspirator one called nine
to one one and reported that both she and defendant
Natalie Green had been attacked by three minute gunpoint after
the men called Natalie Green by name and referenced her
employment with the political dude that she worked with this
Republican guy, Honor. About July twenty third, Defendant Natalie Green

(01:54:20):
told police officers one or more of the men who
attacked her said he had a gun and threatened to
shoot her, and that one or more of the attackers
held her down and restrain her movement, cutting her body
and writing on her body.

Speaker 4 (01:54:31):
So yes, that was written in mark or some of
that part is the motive man.

Speaker 1 (01:54:36):
The lie of all this stuff was that there was
a big attack going on. Then they're going over I'm
looking at the actual court documents. I have the text
of the nine to one one call, but Josh, let
me know if you can actually find that.

Speaker 3 (01:54:48):
Yeah, I'm not finding the audio anywhere.

Speaker 1 (01:54:50):
All right, because co conspirator one says, I'm here at
the nature Preserve. I came here with my friend and
three guys just attacked us. When you said they attacked you,
what do you mean they were attacking her. They were
like talking about politics and stuff and calling her names.
Did they physically touch her? They said they had a
gun and they had a gun with them. Okay, did
you see the gun? No, I didn't see it. It's
pitch blackout here. They were focused on her, she goes on.

(01:55:11):
They were talking about politics. She works for this politician.
They were calling her a racist and a whore. What's
her name? What's her name?

Speaker 2 (01:55:18):
Natalie Green?

Speaker 1 (01:55:19):
And so they then get into the investigation. They show
her all zip tied up. Of course, you know this
is a hoax. Before you start feeling bad for her,
they show you know, her shirt was zip tied over
her head. They show the photos of her body where
it says Trump hohrror. And then somebody is a racist
on there and they're talking now about Yeah, it's brutal,

(01:55:41):
so intense. They searched the maserati they were in and
found two black zip ties that were similar to the
black zip ties that were used to tie her up.
They also found a roll of duct tape. They went
to gather information about the assault and found nobody. There
were lots of statements to the police. When they searched
the location data, they found out that she had gone

(01:56:05):
to this place where her co conspirator was and then
that's where she was. I don't know, maybe maybe they
were like working with them and.

Speaker 2 (01:56:17):
Gone away with it.

Speaker 15 (01:56:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:56:20):
I don't know if that's true or not, but it
could have been that that was the case, and law
enforcement talking to her search of green cell phone. On
her cell phone, they found her searching for body mods
and scarification. A review of her map history showed that
she got directions to a tattoo parlor body modification artist

(01:56:40):
in Pennsylvania. Any that could be the co conspirator, they
might not have released it. And then somebody went to
the studio. Individual one provided the investigators with copies of
his Instagram messages to Green. In those messages, the woman
inquired about available types of scarification. Individual one with the
investigators with photos of her that he took after this

(01:57:03):
had been completed. Oh my god, it is Why would
anybody ever it's so bad? All right, I put this
up on sea it now earlier, but it is really
really bad what this woman paid somebody to do to them.
But they determined that the entire thing was an elaborate oaks.
They said, what do you think let us know, send
a dispatch over to thenewsjunkie dot com. All right, quick

(01:57:26):
break and back with the power. I can't imagine letting
a human being do that to me, just like cut
you and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:57:33):
Oh and the one on our arm is so deep. Yeah,
that is not You're not gonna put moistureizes on it.
It's gonna go way forever.

Speaker 1 (01:57:40):
It looks like you would risk just getting infections everywhere.
But it's up on see it now for those of
you do want to take a look. When we come back,
A very famous musician is in big trouble, big big trouble.
What is this person alleged to have done. We're gonna
go over that. That's coming up next on the news
junk Ye grab Bag time. I got a bunch of

(01:58:18):
ground to cover here, and we only have so much
time to do it in the power hour of the show.
So welcome to the final hour of the program. And
we start off with somebody from a show that I've
never watched before. Maybe one of you has seen this show.
Anybody on the show hands up seeing Real Housewives of Atlanta.

Speaker 4 (01:58:42):
Have zero experience.

Speaker 2 (01:58:43):
It's played often in my household as far as housewives
are more of a potomac goalright, I know Atlanta, and
I am familiar with the story. I believe you're about
to bring up. Do you know Portia Williams.

Speaker 1 (01:58:58):
Yes, Okay, I don't know that is, but she's on
this Real Housewives of Atlanta, and I guess she got
into some sort of altercation on a plane and they've
now released the bodycam footage from the airport and I
could see her and she's like holding her luggage here
in the airport. Josh, stay by the dump button because
I don't know if she's gonna curse.

Speaker 3 (01:59:18):
I would, but I don't have the dump button.

Speaker 2 (01:59:20):
Okay, good, all right, there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:59:21):
So we're gonna stay by the dump button then, because
I don't know if this Porschia. Lady's gonna curse or not,
but they had an interaction on a plane. Bootsie says,
Portia is great. Well, we'll see, we'll see is she
gonna be great?

Speaker 27 (01:59:33):
In this clip, the lady who's sitting next to me,
I was on my phone and the volume was un
belong and she turned to me out of nowhere and
just what, So you're gonna make me listen to that
the whole play?

Speaker 2 (01:59:46):
And I said, well, do you want to? She didn't know,
actually listen to what? Am I gonna make her listen
to my phone?

Speaker 3 (01:59:53):
Boy?

Speaker 26 (01:59:53):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:59:53):
So she was on her Instagram scrolling her social feed
at full volume, and the lady next to her did
not like that, which I don't blame her for, and said,
are you gonna make me listen to that the whole flight?

Speaker 2 (02:00:08):
And she said do you want to?

Speaker 1 (02:00:11):
Which I don't know if these ladies are really trying
to be nice to each other here. This sounds a
little sarcastic, but let's see what else.

Speaker 2 (02:00:19):
She says, Yes, I said this he.

Speaker 3 (02:00:25):
Happened.

Speaker 2 (02:00:25):
Yes, yeah, was on the ball.

Speaker 14 (02:00:27):
Yes, the.

Speaker 2 (02:00:30):
People were still boring, people.

Speaker 28 (02:00:31):
Were okay, I couldn't tell okay, So She was like,
you know, are you gonna make listen to I said, well,
do you want to?

Speaker 2 (02:00:42):
And she said now. I said, well, it was a
nicer way to say that. She said, bitch, you don't
tell you bitch, and I'm now somebody's thrown out the
word and was just pulling up to get the tea.

Speaker 4 (02:00:56):
Oh yeah, there's somebody with a ponytail.

Speaker 2 (02:00:58):
Is this her? Is this the one? I'm okay, okay, yes, yes.

Speaker 3 (02:01:09):
She asked me, Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (02:01:13):
Yeah, I think that's what's happened to me. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:01:15):
I think some of these ladies like, are you okay?
You are totally in the right of what happened.

Speaker 2 (02:01:20):
By the way, I love I Love you last season
was my favorite.

Speaker 1 (02:01:27):
Uh these I have no idea who this person is,
but there there are people coming up who are like, hey,
I know.

Speaker 9 (02:01:32):
You, I know you.

Speaker 2 (02:01:33):
She's an og and of Atlanta. He's certainly a staple
from what I understand of the Housewives.

Speaker 1 (02:01:41):
I am going to say, I don't know if this
is going to be unpopular with the real Housewives people,
but it is an obnoxious thing to scroll your social
feed with the volume totally up. I've run into it before.
I didn't say anything in the moment that I had
this happen to me. I told the story originally, but
for those of you who didn't hear, I went to

(02:02:04):
the tattoo removal appointment a year or so ago and
there was a dude in the waiting room.

Speaker 4 (02:02:10):
It was just me and him.

Speaker 1 (02:02:12):
The first annoying thing he did was there were I
counted the seats afterward. There were fourteen seats in this
tattoo removal place where everybody was sitting there waiting, and
I was on a love seat and he sat down
right next to me.

Speaker 2 (02:02:27):
There was nobody else in there. All of the places
that urinal rule where you have six men on the wall,
but he he's being next to you.

Speaker 1 (02:02:37):
Little little buffer room would have been nice in this case.
And this guy sits right down next to me. There
was fourteen seats. He sat down to the seat right
next to me on the love seat, and he proceeds
to take out his phone much like Porsha Williams of
Real Housewives here, and he goes to his TikTok. And
I have never been happier that I got called in
for my appointment about forty five seconds later because his entire.

Speaker 2 (02:03:00):
Algorithm was wolves howling. That was it all.

Speaker 1 (02:03:05):
He fired up his tiktoks like oh oh, and he's like,
oh yeah, and then he goes to the next one.

Speaker 2 (02:03:13):
Oh oh, just all everything.

Speaker 1 (02:03:16):
It was nothing in his feed except for all videos
of wolves howling full volume.

Speaker 4 (02:03:23):
Next to me.

Speaker 2 (02:03:25):
Getting a full back wolf tattoo removed. It might be
for some reason. Yeah, and he feels bad, like he's
leaving some part of his identity behind him. He would
have howled with him, then he would have left. At
some point.

Speaker 1 (02:03:39):
I'm like, I like looked looked over and him like
serious right now?

Speaker 9 (02:03:43):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:03:43):
It was twice already the bright line. And they make
it a point that they have a section of the
train in which you go take your calls. And a
woman behind me had a conference call full volume. What
I can't hear you, oh because I'm on the train
right now. Okay, you're cooking what? And finally the attendant

(02:04:04):
was like, please use the room with the giant letters.
That says.

Speaker 3 (02:04:10):
Good.

Speaker 2 (02:04:10):
I love that.

Speaker 4 (02:04:12):
I love that they enforce if too many people want
to do that.

Speaker 1 (02:04:14):
They want to blast their Bluetooth audio at you on
a speaker, they want to play their videos full volume.

Speaker 2 (02:04:21):
It makes me want to buy, like you know, iPhone
and or Android headphones in bulk, so I could just
hand it to them like it's yours. I don't like.

Speaker 4 (02:04:32):
No, I don't like headphones.

Speaker 6 (02:04:33):
I just.

Speaker 2 (02:04:36):
I'm gonna break it in half, and I don't.

Speaker 1 (02:04:38):
I have a like a phobia of putting small things
in my ears. I think they're gonna get stuck, so
I only listen at full volume all I can do.
I'm so so sorry, but that's just the way it is.
Anybody a fan of the famed singer man is he talented?
Any fans of Smoky Robinson? Yeah, I forgot about that story.

Speaker 2 (02:05:01):
I have Smoking Robinson who doesn't say he was. It
was a cameo. But anyway, they wanted me to wish
you happy Chinooka.

Speaker 26 (02:05:14):
New idea what Chinooka is, but happy Chahooka because they
said so.

Speaker 3 (02:05:21):
He's never seen or written down before.

Speaker 2 (02:05:23):
No, He's like, I don't know what we do.

Speaker 1 (02:05:26):
By the way, If I'm wishing my friend a happy
Hanukah through Smoking Robinson and he sends me that back,
I couldn't be more thrilled. Oh, the Chinooka makes it
so much better.

Speaker 2 (02:05:36):
I mean, he did this maybe five years ago, and
every time around this time of the year, I just
say he's got problems. However he does.

Speaker 4 (02:05:46):
He has some problems on his hands at the moment.

Speaker 1 (02:05:49):
He's got some former employees, both male and female, Smoky
that are accusing him of sexual assault. He's denying the claims.
But there's from four other employees. There was already charges
and that was two more. So this is six total
accusers against Smokey Robinson.

Speaker 2 (02:06:11):
Candle it is.

Speaker 4 (02:06:13):
It's both men and women. And a man who worked
as a car.

Speaker 1 (02:06:17):
Valet for Smokey Robinson alleges that Robinson fondled himself in
front of him and tried to place the man's hand
on his genitals. Like the four initial accusers, the woman
worked as a housekeeper. The woman involved and alleges that
Robinson tried to make her touch in while he was
showering on numerous occasions. Smokey, what are you doing man?

(02:06:39):
This is not Chanuoka type behavior. This is really bad stuff,
and he denies it. He denies all of these claims.

Speaker 2 (02:06:45):
So you want me to wish you happy chanooka.

Speaker 4 (02:06:48):
Happy Chanuoka everybody. It's a good clip, all right? What else?

Speaker 2 (02:06:53):
Do we have.

Speaker 1 (02:06:54):
Oh I wanted to mention raining on parades here, just
Raining on Parades are now coming out and saying that
the new Wicked movie sucks. There it is no good.
And when I look this up, I was like, oh,
this is kind of crazy. Critics are crapping on Wicked
for Good. I guess a lot of the critics didn't

(02:07:16):
necessarily like.

Speaker 2 (02:07:16):
The first one. Oh okay, well then.

Speaker 1 (02:07:21):
Wicked for Good. Well, I mean, this is just their
opinion on this, this is what they think. But overall,
the movie is.

Speaker 4 (02:07:29):
Gonna it's gonna make a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (02:07:32):
I'm going to need this necessarily.

Speaker 1 (02:07:33):
This is the Hollywood reporter saying it Wicked for Good
simply doesn't have enough narrative oxygen. It's just disappointing, says
somebody else another critic. There's a crucial ingredient missing humor.
Without it, the spark is extinguished. The astringency humor that
cut through the sentimentality of the first picture is gone.

(02:07:54):
So they're saying this one doesn't have the humor that
the first one had. Despite two brilliant lead performances from
Cynthia Revo an Ariana Grande, Wicked for Good cannot transcend
Universal's original sin of prioritizing profit over storytelling.

Speaker 2 (02:08:06):
Then some good reviews.

Speaker 1 (02:08:08):
Of course, the whole plot circles around itself, and more pointedly,
the plot tells an entirely different story. The first half
of Wicked on screen was mediocre. The second is equally bad,
just in different ways.

Speaker 2 (02:08:19):
Sound like scooges.

Speaker 4 (02:08:22):
They didn't like it. They're not fans of Wicked for good.

Speaker 1 (02:08:25):
Let's see, though, what's the total I want to know
how they're doing overall, because it doesn't matter if a
couple of people thought it sucked. What matters is oh
total review score seventy one for the reviewer the actual
critic people losers, and ninety seven from the popcorn meter,
which is crazy considering it's not even out yet. So
but there's the twenty five hundred plus people who have

(02:08:46):
seen the previous and verified put their scores on this
movie at ninety seven percent. So if you like the
first one, you're probably gonna like this one. But there
are some people who are just crapping all over the
new Wicked movie that comes out tomorrow. Tell us what
you think, maybe you already saw it. Let us know
what you think. Send that over to your thoughts over

(02:09:07):
at thenewsjunkie dot com. All right, when we come back,
we'll get into those some feedback on your part, a
comment from Elon Musk that's getting some attention, and a
whole bunch more as we roll on on a Thursday
that is coming up next in the News Junkie. Things

(02:09:41):
have been crazy in Mexico City. Just in case you
haven't been following this, there are big protests and I
was talking a little bit with skull mic folks who
are watching the stream on YouTube and Twitch during the
break about this earlier. But in case you're not tuned in,
you'll probably go, like, who's protesting in Mexico City? Right?

Speaker 4 (02:09:59):
What's going on on? Who's protesting?

Speaker 1 (02:10:01):
And then you're gonna ask the really, really simplistic question,
is it left wing people or right wing people?

Speaker 6 (02:10:09):
Right?

Speaker 9 (02:10:09):
With?

Speaker 1 (02:10:09):
Like who's responsible? And the answer in this case is
it's just gen Z. It's not even like left wing
or right wing. It's not even partisan at all. It's
not a political thing like that. It's just gen Z
people in Michigan, Michigan, Mexico City.

Speaker 2 (02:10:27):
Excuse me, go ahead, it's Mexico, United States. Wasn't that
just happening in a Latin American country that they had
to like helicopter the politicians out.

Speaker 3 (02:10:39):
But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:10:42):
Yeah, I remember Nepal.

Speaker 4 (02:10:45):
This was Nepal, I believe they were talking about.

Speaker 1 (02:10:47):
I'm sorry, yeah, but it was the same thing where
people said, well, what kind of protests is it? Is
like they want to compare it to our country. So
is it Republicans or Democrats? Who's responsible? Left wing people
or right wing people? It's just younger people now. Strangely enough,
the protest that I'm looking at is not young people.
It's an old lady who is very upset right now

(02:11:07):
and a part of these protests. And uh, Mexico's president,
the woman who's in charge of Mexico right now, maintains
a level of popularity still, she's still fairly popular.

Speaker 3 (02:11:22):
Shinebaum.

Speaker 1 (02:11:23):
That's right, That is correct, Yeah, Claudia Shinbaum. And she's
the one who got touched by some rando in the
streets the other day. And she is a left leaning politician.
But these people are not right leaning people against her.
They're just young protesters and they're upset about the state

(02:11:45):
of the economy. They're very, very upset. One key thing
is corruption, and once people think that the government is
irreparably corrupt, you're kind of in big trouble. And that's
what young people feel is going on in Mexico City
right now. I'm trying to see some other streams here
this say is Mexico's gen z hits the streets again.

(02:12:06):
They've got nothing on this feed, though I know I
can't accept this kind of nonsense. I hear some more
people out in the streets. They had surrounded the parliament
at one point in time. So many of them have
these one piece flags, which, if you don't know what
that is, one Piece is probably the most popular anime
and the most popular manga, you might argue, in the world.

(02:12:28):
And it has a pirate kid with some superpowers and
he has a flag, and the one piece flag is
what they're waving at this protest.

Speaker 4 (02:12:40):
So there's something kind of nice.

Speaker 1 (02:12:43):
About it not being like political as much as it
is like a generational thing.

Speaker 4 (02:12:49):
I do kind of appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (02:12:52):
But that is what's happening, and they're all over in
the streets of Mexico City right now. Let's see what
else we can find out about this real quick Mexico
protests is I want to see if they have any demands.
I know, corruption is a big, big thing, crime and corruption.
Here's the BBC talking about this. Actually, let me see
this here.

Speaker 4 (02:13:11):
This might help.

Speaker 1 (02:13:12):
In November twenty twenty five, a series of anti government
demonstrators and demonstrations were held across Mexico following the assassination
of a mayor by the name of Carlos Manzo. The
protest expressed dissatisfaction with the administration of President Claudia Shinbaum,
particularly over the federal response to drug related violence and

(02:13:35):
alleged official negligence. Now they think that all of these leaders,
and let me just be the first person to tell
you they're right about this. These young folks are right.
The leaders in Mexico, the leaders in Central America, and
the leaders in South America are mostly corrupt cartel friends.
They are very very very very much in the park

(02:13:57):
pockets of the cartels, including invents, including at least to
some certain extent in Mexico. And they feel like there
was a person publicly assassinated Carlos Manzo and European I'm
probably saying that totally wrong. The protests expressed dissatisfaction with
the administration, and it took place in major cities. It's

(02:14:19):
about cartel violence because of course they're tired of this
and stuff. Of course they're tired of the cartel violence
in Mexico. And like imagine in our country, in the
United States of America, the greatest country in the world.
Imagine in the United States of America, there was an
entire city that was controlled by gangsters. There was an

(02:14:41):
entire city that wasn't under the power in control of
the federal government or the state government. That's unthinkable, but
that's the reality all across in different areas of Mexico
where the cartels are actually in trouble.

Speaker 3 (02:14:57):
They tried that with Vegas and it got shut i
own pretty quickly.

Speaker 1 (02:15:02):
They got nowhere near where the cartels are power wise,
I mean really truly, there's areas of Mexico where they
are in full control of the security there and people
are done with it. They don't want it anymore. But
it's super interesting to me. That is not right wing,
not left ring, none of that stuff. It's gen z.

Speaker 2 (02:15:19):
They want a recall and electoral reform. That's what they're
looking for.

Speaker 1 (02:15:25):
Transparency and auditing, in voting, representation and security and citizen
inclusion is what they're asking for here, huge crowds.

Speaker 2 (02:15:36):
Of people in Mexico City, huge asks.

Speaker 1 (02:15:39):
Doesn't seem crazy to me. It seems like a pretty
basic thing. Maybe that's why it's bipartisan. They're like, hey,
I agree with that too. Hang on, hang on just
a moment. Let us know, any of you listening in
Mexico City, give us some more insight. We are always
interested in getting your perspective. Elon Musk making a comment
about AI in our future. Let's see what he said here.

Speaker 29 (02:16:02):
AI and humanoid robots will actually eliminate puppty. It doesn't
be the only one.

Speaker 4 (02:16:07):
Let me turn this up, he says.

Speaker 1 (02:16:09):
He's now saying AI and humanoid robots, which he's a
little vested because they're selling the robots over there.

Speaker 29 (02:16:15):
And I'm sorry, but AI and humanoid robots will actually
eliminate puppty.

Speaker 3 (02:16:22):
And doesn't what to be the only one that makes them.

Speaker 29 (02:16:24):
He tells them, will pioneer this, but there will be
many other companies that make humanoid robots. But there is
only basically one way to make everyone wealthy, and that
is AI and robotics.

Speaker 1 (02:16:35):
And we can't talk about robotics without so he's saying
the robots and AI will make everybody wealthy and it
will eliminate poverty, which I'm not as confident in as
he is. I am confident that will eliminate jobs. AI
and robots will eliminate all of the jobs.

Speaker 2 (02:16:53):
It's going to be over well wealthy if you've got
the money to invest in it. But all the way,
I don't know where it comes into play.

Speaker 1 (02:17:00):
The only way it could really really work, and I
hope it does. I hope that as all these jobs
are annihilated by AI and by robots and stuff, that
we say, let's put the robots to work. Let's use
all the funds that the robots generate and have some
basic income for people who are put out of work

(02:17:23):
because of AI and robots, because that is going to
be the story of the next two decades for sure.
But will it eliminate poverty? Will everybody be wealthy because
we got the robots in the AI?

Speaker 4 (02:17:35):
Let us know what you think.

Speaker 1 (02:17:36):
Send a dispatch over at thenewsjunkie dot com. Last thing
for now, this is just the latest frustrating story like this.
You may have heard that there was a poor woman
who was attacked on the train in Chicago recently. She
did nothing. There was no reason for this attack at all.
This woman was attacked out of the blue by a

(02:17:59):
random due on the train who said I'm going to
set your bitch ass on fire and lit the woman
on fire on the train. And this CBS News Chicago
report started talking about this guy, and I'm like, how
many times you need to see this until you're on
the same side of it as I am, because.

Speaker 2 (02:18:18):
I store this is aside from the woman that was
set on byre just a couple months ago. Yeah, this
happened just recently in Chicago. And this guy now listen
to him.

Speaker 15 (02:18:30):
This is Lawrence Read's most recent booking photo. The latest
and a long string of lockups. We found forty nine arrests,
including ten felony cases and an active aggravated battery case
from August in which Reid was accused of hitting a
social worker at mc neil Psychiatric Hospital, causing loss of consciousness,
two er visits, and lasting memory issues, headaches, and daily nausea.

(02:18:53):
The Cook County States Attorney asked a judge to keep
Read in custody until his trial for the August battery,
but judge put him on electronic monitoring.

Speaker 1 (02:19:02):
Awesome, Awesome, These judges are fantastic.

Speaker 2 (02:19:05):
They are really doing a bang up job. The guy
who violently.

Speaker 4 (02:19:09):
Attacked somebody, what did they say?

Speaker 2 (02:19:10):
Forty times? He'd been arrested for nine and I'll have
to verify by looking on my TikTok but they some
TikTok er just kicked that guy's ass. This guy here
because and said how many times are they gonna let
you out? If they're not going to do anything better,
I'm going to find you. And he kicked his ass.
And if it's the same dude, he's out and let

(02:19:32):
a woman on fire.

Speaker 1 (02:19:33):
Yeah, they judge had an opportunity here to keep him
behind bars. The prosecutor, in a rare case of prosecutors
doing this, was saying, please keep this dangerous man behind bars.
The judge said no, and the judge released the guy again.
And now he lit a woman on fire, burning her
all over her body. And this guy has a long
history of arrests, forty nine prior arrests, ten felonies. I

(02:19:55):
don't know how many times we need to hear about
these stories. The vast majority of crime is done by
these pete offenders. They're doing it over and over and
over again. In some cases, we're let down by the
das and the prosecutors who don't want to go after
people because they want to make it look like their
crime stats are getting better under their authority, or people
who are into social justice stuff trying to like lower

(02:20:17):
the prison population or whatever. And or in cases when
the when the DA and when the prosecutors actually do
say please keep this person behind bars they're dangerous, then
the judge goes, nah, Nah, don't worry about it. It's
I don't have to deal with this stuff. It's not
in my real world. Forty nine prior arrest, ten felonies,

(02:20:37):
including knocking somebody unconscious in this August all the reality
of all this is that this guy is a person
who I think is probably very very very mentally ill,
and I want him to get help. Probably, yes, I
want this guy to get help because he's a mentally
ill person. But this is why we need a dramatic change.

(02:20:59):
We need people to stop viewing our homeless population as
a bunch of people who just missed the last payment
on their mortgage and start understanding that there is a
big chunk of the homeless population that is mentally ill
and addicted, and the mental illness part turns into these
people who are arrested over and over and over and

(02:21:20):
over again and commit these violent acts. We have to
rethink everything. And it is not I'll say it for
the million times.

Speaker 2 (02:21:29):
It is not some emotionally decent thing to do.

Speaker 1 (02:21:34):
It is not some empathetic move to keep people like
this on the streets. That's not actually getting them help.
Maybe you disagree, let us know, send a dispatch over
at thenewsjunkie dot com. All right, here is EB in
WPB in West Palm Beach. First of all, thank you

(02:21:55):
for listening to the show. Thank you for being out
there in West Palm Beachland. I'm looking for the West
Palm clip this entire time, just in case you were wondering.

Speaker 2 (02:22:03):
Did I lose it? I always lose this one and that.

Speaker 1 (02:22:06):
Yeah, yeah, all right, forget it. Forget it, folks, I'll
never find it again. Oh no, it's it's here, isn't it.
Hold on, it's right here. Yeah, thank god.

Speaker 16 (02:22:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:22:17):
I didn't pull any of the theme out of it
at all.

Speaker 1 (02:22:20):
EB says, I have a theory on why the podcast
is now a terrible listening experience for us. Well, I
hope it's not terrible. When you guys go to break
out a podcast, there's no commercials. It's a little rejoiner.
It comes back to the show. So my theory, as
I heard, is not making enough money, so they decide
to interject their commercials during your segment. Just my theory
is a listening experience is getting worse and worse because
the stories are getting better, and once you get into

(02:22:41):
a story, it cuts into a five minute commercial about
a sofa or an insurance company. I know it's nothing
you guys are up to because I've been listening for
years and always it's been a great experience. Just my
theory says eb. I don't know why that keeps happening.
It's just they're injecting commercials. It's usually at the begin
of the show of the podcast. Look, the podcast is

(02:23:04):
a popular I told them, can we manually put the
commercials in here? They told me no, because it would
change the way all the other shows on the station
have to do it. So they didn't want to do
that because I would have just said, look, I'll push
the things in manually and that's what they're playing the podcast.
I've tried everything I can. I'll continue trying everything I
can to try to make the podcast a great experience.

(02:23:26):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I apologize profusely if you're stuck
in that situation. Thank you podcasters for sticking with us
when we come back final dispatches, stories that didn't make
the cut, and today I learned to wrap everything up
for a Thursday that is coming up next on the
News Junkie. I've left us this much time at the

(02:24:01):
end of the show in like four weeks. I don't
think we've had It's usually like two minutes in the
final segment of the show. So thank you, thank me,
and thank everybody for hanging out with us today on
a lovely Thursday.

Speaker 4 (02:24:13):
You could still join us.

Speaker 2 (02:24:14):
You have a little bit of time as we do
the final dispatch, final dispatches, but Sean will probably.

Speaker 1 (02:24:22):
Only play you don't know Me, You don't know Me,
AI song, guy, mind your own business. Over to the
final dispatches. Here's Shelby talking about this cruise murder mystery.

Speaker 16 (02:24:35):
Hey Junkies podcast listener, y'all were talking about the eighteen
year old who died on the cruise ship, and y'all
were struggling.

Speaker 2 (02:24:43):
To be called a girl, to be color a woman,
to be color a teenager? What do we color? Y'all
just take the easier route and just call her an
eighteen year old female. Eighteen year old female.

Speaker 1 (02:24:54):
Yeah, it sounds a little like strangely descriptive for some reason. Yeah,
I just said I said kid a lot. I said
kid because she's a student. And then I felt weird
about saying kid because if I was eighteen, I probably
don't want somebody to call me a kid.

Speaker 4 (02:25:08):
If I'm eighteen, I'll be like, I'm an adult.

Speaker 1 (02:25:10):
Don't refer to me as a kid, even if I'm
in high school right now.

Speaker 4 (02:25:13):
But regardless, thank you, Shelby.

Speaker 1 (02:25:16):
Appreciate that I'm still a teenager though, right, yeah I
did teen obviously, Yeah you're still teenager.

Speaker 2 (02:25:20):
But if you're eighteen, are you a kid?

Speaker 26 (02:25:23):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:25:24):
Wait wait wait wait wait, let's see.

Speaker 1 (02:25:26):
I mean, what is the definition of kid, because a
child or young person that's a little bit too. That's
too general. Really, it's not helping us out that much. Anyhow.
Let's go back over to the dispatches. We got time
for one more. Here's optimist.

Speaker 22 (02:25:43):
Hey news yunkie, I have a story, and forgive me
if you've already heard about it and know about it.
But there's this young couple and the boyfriend is proposing
to his girlfriend in a basilica in a church. Yeah,
and in the middle of a proposal, so they have
like a photographer and the video set up. In the
middle of this murder, random guy walks into the camera
shot and just starts like confessing that he's a murderer.

(02:26:05):
He's murdered many people, but he's asking for forgiveness and
he doesn't want to hurt any more humans. Just totally
bizarre now there, And I don't know any more than that,
but maybe you guys can look into it.

Speaker 3 (02:26:17):
That's weird.

Speaker 2 (02:26:18):
Yeah, I know, guys mentally ill, I'll need a little
bit of digging. Maybe we can cover it tomorrow. But yeah,
just in the middle of the guy paid on this
old Uh no, no, it just happened. But it was
I saw the story time of the couple and that's
the most exciting thing that's ever happened in their lives.
But they were the guy paid a lot of money
to you know, have the videographer and set it up

(02:26:39):
to do after mass in this particular spot, and all
of a sudden you just see the guys like from
chest down. Then he gets into the frame and he goes,
I'm a murderer. I've called a lot of people. I
don't want to do it anymore. And then some lady's like,
Bradley stop, Bradley stop. He's like, I just don't want
to kill anybody. I murdered people, and uh the rest
is a mystery that they're waiting to. Uh hear back
from the Bradley and Bradley and see who he actually murdered.

Speaker 4 (02:27:04):
That's a little that's a little concerning.

Speaker 1 (02:27:06):
I saw a YouTube video recently with somebody like interrupting
a wedding like that, and it was a whole wedding
procession in this public space walking by, and some old
guy just happened to be there with his wife and
he thought it was funny to do the old guy's thing.

Speaker 2 (02:27:21):
He's like, don't do it, it's not too late. Away,
run as fast as you can, don't get married. And
I'm like, what are you doing here?

Speaker 1 (02:27:33):
Like, I know you think you're being the wacky, fun
old man, but these people are literally in the.

Speaker 2 (02:27:39):
Middle of their wedding. It's not about you. This moment
is probably not about you.

Speaker 4 (02:27:44):
Last one. Here we go, here's two tickets to pound.

Speaker 2 (02:27:50):
What is up? News junkie?

Speaker 25 (02:27:52):
Hey, hey, on that fish thing in a can which
is disgusting. Thanks for the warning, Sean. Roughly listen, I
think we all know that Arthur Curry Aquaman is King
of Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (02:28:06):
It's true.

Speaker 25 (02:28:07):
What some people may not know is in later comics,
Arthur had a son and they named him Albert, and
unfortunately that kid was, you know, unfortunately caught some mets
and became became that thing that y'all were talking about.

Speaker 2 (02:28:25):
You know, it's a bad joke, but I'm sticking with
it to the end.

Speaker 21 (02:28:29):
That's all I got.

Speaker 24 (02:28:30):
I like.

Speaker 1 (02:28:31):
And he knew his joke was catastrophically bad, and he still.

Speaker 4 (02:28:35):
Hit send on it.

Speaker 1 (02:28:37):
Brave sir. We're out of here. Let's suit Today learned
The following information may make you feel smarter, but will
not actually increase your IQ, So don't get cocky.

Speaker 20 (02:28:46):
Now it's done.

Speaker 5 (02:28:46):
What we call today.

Speaker 1 (02:28:50):
It is Taylor for eight Thursday, November twentieth, twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (02:28:54):
Today learned this movie right here?

Speaker 2 (02:28:58):
Services that's right, Josh yes.

Speaker 1 (02:29:01):
Indeed, a background actor in the Exorcist was later convicted
of murder and has further beated as this serial killer.
What would have been crazy is if he was just
shouting it out during the filming, interrupting what they were
I a murder.

Speaker 4 (02:29:19):
I just want you to know, okay. And finally today
learned this song.

Speaker 2 (02:29:24):
Right here out of the boardwalk. That's right, it is.

Speaker 1 (02:29:32):
Indeed, it's near the sea, sometimes sometimes not. The Drifters
song Under the Boardwalk was recorded the day after the
band's lead singer, Rudy Lewis died. They said, look, there's
no shot you guys are ever going to be big
since this guy's dead. And they said, let's just try
to record this song we've been working on. It's called

(02:29:53):
under the Boardwalk. I think it's going to be a hit.
Thank you so much for hanging out with us.

Speaker 4 (02:29:57):
We'll be back tomorrow, same time, same place.

Speaker 2 (02:30:00):
They sending the show. Get the podcast at the news
jokie dot com. We'll see you tomorrow. Everybody, all the fun.
We'll be having some fun. People walking about, we'll be
making