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Speaker 1 (00:00):
House.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Everybody doing on oh Wednesday, So I'll get in there,
you know, feeling good now, feeling good ish, good ish.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
We got, you know, about a week a little over
a week here before the big roast event. I'm super
excited for it. I know a lot of people are
getting fired up. It's gonna be fun. And if you
want to know more, go to the news junkie dot com.
Not enough sprays yet, Not enough sprays yet, junkie dot
com slash roast here I got now. Every morning, Courtney

(00:33):
is just watching over my shoulder when I do my
flownaise and she'll be like, that is quite a few
and quite a few, and I'll do it like I
used to do two brands. I used to do another
one and it really got me to a nice place.
And she'd be like, no, so noways. But it's it's
I'm just trying to get to the point where I'm
totally good and clear, and I'm right there. I'm like

(00:54):
ninety eight percent total, dude. See how it goes today,
I might need to lean in, you know, could happen.
Let's lean in ourselves, Let's put our ears to the ground,
our fingers on the post, let's see what's happening in
this great, big, wide world of ours, and we go
to Channel nine News. Everybody, Yes, yes, indeed, k eaz I,
And over the course of the show today, I will

(01:17):
show you that we have made some huge mistakes. Okay,
we as a show, we as a country, as a country,
we have made some huge mistakes as humanity. Basically in
some cases, I'll give you our first example here as
we put our ears to the ground and our fingers
on the pulse with ABC's k e z I. This

(01:39):
young woman was trying to broadcast from a sports game
and she was just trying to do her job. Her
job is to do a little report and the zoomer
guys in the background just wanted to make things miserable,
and bless her soul, she tried to fight through it.
They are the most annoying kids in the world. Zoom

(02:00):
I want to hear from you. I want you zoomers
to denounce these guys. I want you to denounce them
and say they do not represent me. They do not
represent me. Okay. I have to preface this with something.
There's a thing that young kids say, which Sea Lane
tried the other day, which.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Is six seven, yeah seven, six seven, and like rating
someone's hotness.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
It started. It started from a rap song and the
rap song said six seven. And the rap song became
very popular, even though it was a really garbage song
that was less than like maybe two minutes long or
something max and this this rapper said it six seven
in the song, and the kids loved it, the zoomers
loved it, and then they kept asking him an interviews,
so like, what did you mean by six seven? All

(02:49):
the kids are saying six seven. He's like, I don't know.
I didn't really think about it. I just I just
put it in the song, right, and so it doesn't
really mean anything. And then people would make memes about
basketball players who were six seven and they would stop
the song at six seven and they would do this
thing like they were juggling things between their two hands.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
And six and a seven.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
I know, maybe South Park has skewered it as of
this last week or so.

Speaker 5 (03:15):
I just wanted to tell you all that the song
is by Scrilla and it's called Dute Dute, And then
with the parenthetical title six to seven, yeah, d is six.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
The six to seventh part was what took off. And
so now young kids are just like six seven sixty seven. Now,
you know, Sorry for the long lead up.

Speaker 6 (03:32):
Here's the clip the football is you can definitely tell
there is a new play colors.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
They're leaning in front of the camera. They're surrounding her completely.

Speaker 7 (03:44):
Like she just keeps her composure, like, hey, one second,
I would have decktum in the bolls.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
So far, so good. But these kids, there is maybe
six of them, are more there. They're like, what, well,
there maybe six, which I wouldn't be surprised if they
did that on purpose, if they were like, well, there's
only six going out. Let's you know that they may
have really landed into this corny thing that they're doing.
But they have surrounded her, and honestly, it's it's obnoxious.

(04:14):
I'm really bad at this because these days young kids
coming to the bar and courtey and I will be like,
who is this little boy trying to buy a.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Years old?

Speaker 1 (04:26):
I ain't falling for this pal. So I think they're
like in their late teens. Ish, I think they're in
their teens. I think these are teenagers who are behind
this reporter and they're mobbing her and popping in front
of the camera and shouting six up.

Speaker 6 (04:40):
Definitely, how there is a new play caller in town.
The offense is looking for a second, the offense is
looking a lot more versatile. They're eating their tit end
and there are more reps. Still seem really characteristic with.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
The running game.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
To shoot you over the border.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
In a can because it seems like, well, you know
why they.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Would send her. They would send her because they would
expect people to be decent.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
They would expect them to be decent human Honestly, from
a broadcaster standpoint, you gotta go, well, at least this
is better than right in the pee a little.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Bit, but only so much, only in the fact that
you can air it. But they're now hounding her. We
made a huge mistake. Okay, mistake number one was not
spanking the Zoomers. We made a major mistake by coddling
the Zoomers and not spanking them. And now this is
what we get.

Speaker 7 (05:37):
This is what we again at this point, and you've
only played about fifteen seconds of it.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
Off the belt that is belt for sure.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
I would I if some grown ass man just went
and roped one of these kids and started whipping them,
I would support it.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
Just there behind them.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
The one kid who's just screaming as lungs. I hope
you have no voice for a year or something.

Speaker 6 (06:04):
A lot more passes from Malik Murphy to Trent Walker
and I think the game is hid and we'll see
how it goes lit.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
The second half of.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
This game is why did they stay running for so
long that they're what's going on? Is this is just
her feed? This is her Okay. Back at the station,
they're like, sounds like there's some rowdy young men around
you back there, and she's like, uh, you know.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
They're just you know, you guys sent me here. Thanks
a lot.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Zoomers, these days, oh god, annoying you. If there was,
at least you didn't try to participate or be like,
what's a six, seven.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
Eight, nine? Am I right back to you.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
I don't channel nine. I don't. I don't often say this,
but if there was, and I mean tactical okay, I
mean tactical, a very tactical nuclear strike solely on these
kids in this moment, and it zapped them all out

(07:11):
of oblivion. Improvement, We have made an improvement to the
world that things are better. Zoomers. I want to hear
you denounce these guys, I want to hear that today,
so do so all de Yucker says, it's just not creative.
Tell me about it. There's nothing doing anything.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
Bill did it. I think that woman should get an award.

Speaker 8 (07:34):
You know.

Speaker 7 (07:34):
She wants to say some things, you know, And she
kept herself together, was smiling, was getting the story out,
whatever the story was. Having these kids screaming in her
ear and then another one blocking her shot, and she
still held it together.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
Bless her soul.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Get real quick. Let's let's let's double down on this.
I don't I don't remember all the details. I usually
remember this tough who was the reporter that had enough
in a situations and plenty of moment the one in
New Orleans. She was in New Orleans on Bourbon Street,

(08:10):
I think, and in my brain and I don't have
it all together, so this is not accurate. But it
was something like she said they had herpies or something,
and and I think she got in trouble when they
were all mobbing her during her live shot. And people
take this one of two ways. One one group of people,
maybe about half of you, will say, oh, if you
don't want people bothering you, then don't do live reports

(08:32):
from the streets, which is stupid, and then happy you
will be like these kids are monsters, which is the
correct take, just right.

Speaker 5 (08:39):
There was one guy that lost it back when Opie
and Anthony were a thing and they were trying to
like get their their listeners to do stuff like this,
but like you know, like hold our sign, you know whatever,
and uh, the dude just turned around and said, what
the F is your problem?

Speaker 9 (08:57):
Man?

Speaker 5 (08:58):
I see that as should be the the default. Well,
he made a live apology and with fired hours later.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
Ah, come on, like what a world.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Where people kind of and and I don't mean this
in the truest sense, but in a soft sense. They're
bullying her, they're bothering her, they're moming her. Leave the
lady alone. She's doing her job.

Speaker 7 (09:21):
And then it, I mean, I'm getting a vibe that
she had to set up the shot by herself.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
It seems like it's on a tripod.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Nobody's stopping him.

Speaker 7 (09:30):
Why not send a cameraman or a second person with
her big one.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
They can exactly stop these.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Assholes, a really big one. How is there thirty seconds
more in this clip? I don't know if I can
do that. I don't we got got stuff to get to.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
I send you the clip. It was back in twenty thirteen.

Speaker 7 (09:50):
Jessica Sanchez okaye, Orleans.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Let's just see if there's any good. He's still behind her.
They got a beer. Are they done? Nope? This is weird. Okay,
I can't think of more. I can't. It goes on
for twenty more.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
Seconds, literally off a balcony.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah, I know I would. I would applaud it. I
would applaud it if this was a federal crime somehow,
I know it's very specific. I think at this other
one that Sabrina said, this was the lady from hold On,
give me one second. She was on Bourbon Street and
somebody was trying to crash your shot.

Speaker 5 (10:29):
Why would you ever do a live shot from Bourbon Street?
That's that almost seems like you're asking for it.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Well, shouldn't you be able to show a little more
respectful I understand what you're saying, too, But like you're
you're saying, in some situations you should know what to expect.
And they're drunk and they're on Bourbon Street and it's
the super Bowl in this case, Oh yeah, okay, super Bowl. Yeah. So,
but but she had enough and it was just like

(10:54):
that lady. That lady was very patient with these stupid
six seven zoomers. But here's the other situation. Look at
face this, she's really all right. Now.

Speaker 10 (11:05):
Thousands are gathering in New Orleans to celebrate the Super Bowl,
and while it can be fun to cheer on your team,
the festivities are working out the wild side and some rules.
TV reporter Jessica Sanchez was live in New Orleans with
talking about some of the inebriated people around her. Now,
that's when one partier made the mistake of crashing her
live shot.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
Take a look.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
I love how people say inebriated to sound more news.
He just say drunk.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
They were just drunk, throwing up on themselves.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Hammered, vile human beings in the streets, just drunk. That
That is fine by me.

Speaker 10 (11:38):
Like this one behind me, Hi, Yes, how are you doing, Californian?

Speaker 4 (11:43):
Oh, very nice to meet you. You know nine, we're
going to do a story. You're gonna do an interview
with us? Sure, okay, because we.

Speaker 8 (11:49):
Were just talking about here along Bourbon Street in the
STD rate that's been.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Going on a twist in the story. We were just
talking about the st D Ray here grabs Debbie Downer
with the news they're partying.

Speaker 11 (12:05):
Now.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
I almost understand it, but I forgot what happens here.
So let's go. And so, how long have you have
you had an STD?

Speaker 4 (12:12):
I don't have an STD? Why did you want to talk?

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Goodness? I'm so sorry? Are you staring?

Speaker 5 (12:19):
Be ashamed of it?

Speaker 4 (12:20):
I don't have this CD?

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Okay, okay, yes, anyway, so I've been every once in
a while. They have enough for your six seven six
seven six seven?

Speaker 4 (12:35):
How long have you had your SDD?

Speaker 1 (12:37):
That's all. Could you imagine if people were just doing
that all the time when you're trying to do jacks,
like at any other job, if you were baking cakes
or something and somebody's like.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
Oh my god, eighty six, we're out of cupcakes.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
I don't know if stand your Ground covers that, but
I'm willing to risk it. I'm willing to give it
a shot. There you go. We made a huge mistake.
We made a huge mistake by not spanking the Zoomers enough.
And now this is what they're doing now. Some of
you were saying it could be so much worse. I
applaud them for not being even worse, but it's still,

(13:18):
you know, pretty obnoxious, is what I would say. And
we'll take your thoughts on that. Send us a dispatch
over at thenewsjunkie dot com and if you say six
to seven anywhere in your dispatch, absolutely just completely banished
into oblivion right there, immediately another mistake that we made.
When we come back, we'll talk about something that just

(13:40):
drops some information that should probably shock everybody, and I
think it might. I think it might plus the worst
invention in the world all the good drama of the day,
and so seven oh even worse than that, Selan, I
think you might agree that that too, was a mistake.

Speaker 12 (13:57):
It's coming up next on the News Junkie.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
To your emails in just a moment. But I intend
to prove to you on multiple fronts that we made
a huge mistake today. We have made a huge mistake,
and one of them, which is just I don't know why.
It's so jarring to me, and I don't see a
lot of hope in this world. When it comes to
older people interacting with AI online. It's bad. I mean

(14:40):
it's really bad, and it's only going to get worse
from here. And I'll give you an example. Those of
you on YouTube or Twitch will be able to see this.
I'll put it up on see it now in just
a moment for everybody else. Okay, you can go back
and take a look. You want to see just how
far gone we may be. Right, this video is taking

(15:01):
the world by storm and it has four point eight
million views. And this video, I think you both can
just look at this video and tell me whether it's
real or not. I think you could just look at
the video and tell me whether you think that's a
real video or not. Just first glance. What's your gut
tell you about this?

Speaker 4 (15:19):
I'm gonna go with not a real video.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Looks pretty fake. Yeah, it looks insanely fake. Right off
the jump, it's somebody in a US army. Army is misspelled.
Army is misspelled on account of the AI. Right, that's
how bad it is. The pockets on his army jacket
are inexplicably sideways, makes absolutely no sense. Stuff will be
dumping out of your pockets.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
Sorry, food looks insane because it looks perfect.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, the trail of food is way too clean and
does not look real at all. The man scent I
thought it was supposed to be Barack Obama. The man
who looks like a like Obama with some salt and
pepper has. He's a war vet, so of course he
has two metal doctor octopus arms. Very I mean, it

(16:06):
doesn't even look like what somebody would have if their
arms were blown off by IEDs in the military. It's
so obviously obviously fake. All right, So now let me
show you the moving version of this again. I'll put
this up on see it now. In fact, let me
get a snapshot right now, Celin. I'll pop this up
on seat it now, so if they want to watch along,
they absolutely can do that, because I want to prove

(16:26):
a larger point here, and that is that although most
of us of a certain age are gonna be okay,
I believe through most of the AI stuff that we're facing,
some of us are just absolutely cooked. Old army guy AI.
All right, I'm putting this up right now. These older
folks do not get it. They see this stuff and

(16:49):
they believe it one hundred percent because their whole their
whole life has been based on show me the video
something happen, Yeah, prove it. Show me the video footage
now here. Here's what happens here. Put this up on
see it. Now, take a look at it. Here, here
goes a video. All right, it's a booth of little
kids laughing at this army vet. Obviously obviously. AI. He

(17:13):
tries to pick up his big mac and then even
though he picks it up perfectly, it flips it upside
down in his hands. For some reason, he can't eat
it with his metal arm.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
It drops yep, and he just drops it. I mean
that laugh is so close is a thing?

Speaker 1 (17:30):
Little girl comes over. The little girl holds the hamburger
and feeds the war vet.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
And you're saying, people think this is real.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Not only did people think it was real, millions of them,
millions of old people thought that's just because millions of
people have seen it. Yes, yeah, no, no, no, no,
not not not because of that, because if you go
into the threads you have the boomers coming out. All right. Amen.
God bless that child, That says somebody who's a grown
ass person over on Facebook, because they saw the little

(18:05):
kid that was definitely not real feed the robo armed
vet a burger at McDonald's. Sandy says, it takes the
kindness of a child to help someone in need. Well,
adults are being blatantly ignorant by laughing at the.

Speaker 7 (18:20):
Man, the burger flipped back into the perfect position.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
They can't detect real from AI guys. If they can't
detect the fake in that, there's just no way we
have made a huge mistake. This is this is very
familiar to me.

Speaker 5 (18:38):
I feel like this is a rip off of an
old commercial or an old uh no, but it was
somebody else who couldn't eat maybe not out. There were
some people making fun of them. And then there's one
person that that helped. I said, I'm getting a real
deja vu feeling about this whole plot here.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
This lady says, maybe they will realize when it's too late,
when something happens to them Heaven forbid. Rebecca says, that's
what I call a gift from God, that little girl.
They're kids, you folks. I am doing the Lord's work
right now. There are so many misspellings in these posts
and from these these boomers online. That's what I call
a gift from God, that little girl. There. Kids are

(19:23):
the most unusual people. They do things nobody else would.
I have lupus that used to move off, but I
got on the bus that used to move for me
because I got a pink mark on my face. Amazing.

Speaker 4 (19:36):
I mean, that's unreal.

Speaker 7 (19:37):
Wow, And they want to blame the world's problems on
the younger kids.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
I don't even know that some of these comments are real.

Speaker 7 (19:43):
Down the fake burger, the laugh is so clear as
if they had miked up that that table of teens
and then this little girl out of note.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
This is so weird.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
I can tell you without a doubt, Seelane, that this
problem is real. I saw somebody who's not even a boomer,
who in the last week or so reacted to a
video that was way more blatantly fake than this, okay,
and they were like, this is unbelievable. Have you seen this?
It's a it's a dog eating a bowl of Oreo cookies.

Speaker 7 (20:16):
You're so much This backyard camera had a full lion
jumping on a trampoline.

Speaker 5 (20:24):
I was saying, like, the people that make this content
that wanted to go viral, I think also feed into
it by you know, having fake commenters that believe it.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
Comments.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
There's always fake commenters. But I am telling you.

Speaker 5 (20:41):
The comment that you read, the comment that you read
that was like so poorly punctuated and misspelled. The name
was misspelled. I don't know a lot of Rebecca's that
have two bees in their names. Maybe there's some ones
that write that stupid. Probably there's many of them.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
And the whole thread of this, you know, they can't
all be fake, the whole thread. It is just absolutely
mind melting to me to see this kind of stuff.
And lest you be on the side of Sea Lane
here and say, like, look, the comments are fake. To
trust me. The old oh people are falling for this.

Speaker 7 (21:19):
They read the comments are like, well they're someone that
has my opinion or what I would have written.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
You know, it's weird. So many of us that aren't
boomers look at the simple things and realize it's fake.
Like for what I think Sabrina pointed out. I saw
commenters pointing out one of the things that's a dead
giveaway is the restaurant is too clean. You immediately look
at it. Trey AI does not yet, does not yet
add in the filth that you get on restaurant that

(21:47):
made this. No, no, no, it's not even a good
AI for the record.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
I mean the burger bounced like.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
I don't know if they do that. Yeah, the whole
thing is just we are so so doomed with this.

Speaker 7 (22:00):
Now we are fine, the three of us and like
minded individuals. Everyone who comments it on there butt or not,
they're cooked.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
They're so it's very disturbing, and that's that's not going
to change. I don't think, like, do you think older
people will up their skill set and then they'll be
able to determine what's real and what's fake, because I
literally don't. I don't think a lot of them will
be able to do that.

Speaker 7 (22:27):
I mean you could give them advice and say, look
at the comments, but then you look at comments like that.

Speaker 4 (22:33):
I mean there are some AI videos where.

Speaker 7 (22:37):
I'm like, world up, and then I peeped the comments
and I am reassured this is obviously AI.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
Right, Yes, is one of the ones.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
Boomer finds comments like that.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
One of the first things you should do. And then
maybe they see some of the comments with fake once
to fool even more people go, yeah.

Speaker 5 (22:54):
The whole misspelling thing we say, like they purposely misspell
thing and emails that are you know, like the Nigerian
print scam type of emails, uh to, Like if you
are smart enough to know like this is so horrendously misspelled,
you know they're not wasting their time with you. You're not

(23:15):
wasting your time with them. They want to get the
people that miss that kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
What's the overall goal of pretending that a vet with robot?

Speaker 7 (23:28):
Remember all the good old days where it was like
the late night prank and that took you know, a
crew of people's special effects, a little bit editing and posts,
all done by humans. What was the one Jimmy was
Jimmy Kimmel that some girl like lit herself on fire
by accident.

Speaker 4 (23:47):
That was a great prank. It took weeks for us
to get the truth.

Speaker 7 (23:50):
There was a Kristen Bell Funnier die bit where she
sits down and.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
Reveals that she is actually tatted from the neck down.

Speaker 7 (23:58):
And I'll never forget walking outside here at HQ and
listening to these two ladies, like, did you have any
idea Chris now at all?

Speaker 1 (24:06):
Unbel Like the kids these days are getting too many tattoos.

Speaker 4 (24:10):
I'm like, all right, makes.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, but how do you explain to
people who are just never going to get some of
this right? And trust me, So people who think this
is rage made, trust me, I've seen it with my
own eyes in real life. Over and over and over again.
They are falling for this stuff NonStop. AARP had an
article for those of you who don't know. That's the
Retired Person's magazine, one of the biggest magazines out there,

(24:35):
if not the biggest. I'm I'm not sure these days,
and it says older adults are navigating AI. The excitement
and potential of artificial intelligence is not lost on older Americans.
New AARI research, which is AI right, isn't the graphic
even AI yeah, shows many adults age fifty plus are
leaning into technology, yet some are skeptical about embracing AI

(24:57):
in their daily lives. Nearly eight and ten older adults
agree that technology has made their daily lives more convenient
and efficient. Yeah, but when they think about technology, when
they ask those people about this, they're thinking about your
thermostat being digital.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
They just figured out Siri.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
They're not thinking about chat GPT. When it comes to
general AI familiarity, most older adults have some general knowledge,
but knowledge decreases with age. Nearly half of respondent's in
their fifties know about and use AI, AI driven chatbots. Well,
just over twenty five percent of those over age seventy
doo now AARP.

Speaker 5 (25:31):
Admitting that knowledge decreases with age just seems like a slap.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
Of the deli members, little little powerful what is members?
You know? Day? I think, Yeah, it's like a debt.
It's a debt clock over there just rolling more and
more people unfortunately. But I want to know what you think.
Do you think that older people are going to adapt
or are we doomed? Are they just going to think

(25:57):
everything is real? And then now we have more people
with just completely different visions of reality in the United
States and the world. Tell us what you think, uh,
and we'll get to those dispatches very soon. Alternatively, if
you are older, there's a thing called internet, and we
have we have an email address setup. You can email

(26:17):
me tips T I P. S at the News Junkie
with an ie dot com.

Speaker 4 (26:22):
Oh and the phone is blown up right now.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Not the phone, not the.

Speaker 4 (26:27):
Dispatch.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
You recording digital recording on the news Junkie dot com.
And we'll see if you think we're doomed on this
or not. Okay, Brenda emails tips at the news Junkie
dot com. You could do the same, Sean, I agree
with everything you're saying about that. Judge Elaine Barbour Oh,
this is the one who let this violent man, this
so want to be murderer and probable rapist on multiple occasions,

(26:52):
who's just excited about the fact of harming women around
him at any given opportunity, complete strangers that he's attacking.
And the judge says, I think nine hundred and fifty
dollars seems like a good amount of bond for a
man who wanted to flee and kill people. This person,
Brenda says, I think they need to reopen and review
her cases, maybe send her to early retirement. I don't

(27:13):
think she's even that old comparatively. I think she's older
as a judge, but I don't even think she's I
looked her up. Gives me real Katie Porter vibes. I
get it too, Yeah, yeah, I feel that too. She
has not made any comment on this, and people guesterday
were saying, Sean had that judge on the phone and
take her down. This judge, like all the other judges,
will never ever ever ever accept that They will never

(27:38):
ever ever accept that they want to make all of
these decisions in the cocoon and isolation of their courtroom,
as if what they do doesn't have a negative impact
on the other people around them. It is insane and
I want more people to know about stories like this,
so that's why it's good to talk about it. Not
sure how old she has been, clearly too old to
be doing her job, sayces Brenda love y' all three

(28:00):
best friends. Thank you, Brenda. We'll get to yours when
we come back your email, that is. And I said,
this is the worst invention. I didn't even want to
call it. That the worst product that I've ever seen
in my life. You want to talk about making a
huge mistake, which is the ongoing theme on the show today.
There is maybe no bigger mistake than somebody getting this.

(28:23):
And I'll tell you what it is that's coming up
next on the news Chunkie, before we get to your emails,

(28:44):
your feedback and all of that stuff. This is literally
the worst idea for a product that I've ever heard
of in my life. Hate it, hate it. Do not
want this to catch on, do not want it to
become a thing. And I say, in this case, maybe
we made a huge mistake. And the digitization of everything.

(29:05):
We talked a bit about this yesterday, like do you
want more things that are smart in your house or
more things that are not and many people are like, no,
I don't want this smart stuff anymore, because it's been
proven through the Internet crash this week that all kinds
of stuff could break. People were stuck in their beds
because they had Internet connected beds, their alarm clocks wouldn't
go off because they had Internet connected devices.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
And access certain bank accounts.

Speaker 7 (29:30):
I also just I mean, it brings up the question
why is it just one place that's housing all of
these servers asw whatever it's going is.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
That is the problem with what they call centralized internet.
That is what the problem is exactly with centralized Internet, Sabrina,
because all of these companies rely on one other company
to stay up, and when that company, when their servers
go down, then all hell breaks loose. I'm gonna put
worse products ever, no worse worth device in history over on.

(30:06):
See it now, so you can take a look at this,
and I'll bring it up for those of you on
the stream in a second. But I hate this. This
is a bad idea and we have made a huge mistake.
I present to you something that is now becoming incredibly
popular and ever present in China for the moment, in
bathrooms and you go to utilize the public restroom in

(30:28):
these countries like China where they've adapted this so far,
and when you're all done, when you're done using the restroom,
after say a number two has occurred, or even a
number one, it doesn't matter. If you would like some
toilet paper, you have to take out your phone, scan
a QR code and watch an ad.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
You're a kidding, no you.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Really, but in China there watched this. Yes, you're in
the public restroom. You see the toilet paper machine. You're
ready to like, go go ahead and take care of
your mess. And you have to pull out your phone
and scan a QR code and then watch an ad
in order to dispense some toilet paper and to watch

(31:12):
a lot of that's the kickeracy land. If you want
more than just like the four squares that I'm always
advocating for. If you want more, you got to watch
another ad. So if you want the.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
Watch kids just screaming the whole time, over.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
And over and over. Oh god. Public restrooms in parts
of China are testing new dispensers that release toilet paper
only after users scan a QR code and watch an
online advertisement. A system that's drawn widespread public criticism. Local
governments have not disclosed how many units are in operation,
or whether data collected will be anonymized or monitor The

(31:53):
mounted paper dispensers are equipped with optical scanners that display
a QR code. So you pull out your phone. Here
it is. You scan the QR code now on your phone.
It shows you a AD and you can either pay
to skip the ads or you watch the ads, and
then they dispense your toilet paper. That's how they're trying

(32:14):
to make money. Here they go. Listen, the toilet paper
is totally free.

Speaker 5 (32:19):
If you want to watch the ads like a freemium game,
it's freemium toilet paper.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
Watch watch this.

Speaker 4 (32:24):
Lady, whether there's a line out the door. Is that
a concert or something?

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Too bad?

Speaker 4 (32:30):
So much slower, no.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
One, too bad. You could see the visual of this,
because I know it's a visual and it's over on
see it now on the neewsjunkie dot com. But the
woman scans it. Here, she's in the bathroom. She scans it.
Here's how much you get, right, she scans the QR code.
If you pay through your phone, you can immediately skip
the ad like she did, and then it dispenses that

(32:51):
much toilet paper.

Speaker 4 (32:56):
Man, bring your own toilet paper.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
I guess it's bad enough. Doesn't China have those like
ground toilets anyhow, where you squat over the top of them.
I don't know about everywhere. Let's see, hold on China
public toilet Is.

Speaker 4 (33:16):
This one thousand percent real? Are we getting aied?

Speaker 1 (33:19):
No? No, no, it's real. This is that is the
real deal.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
It makes me very upset.

Speaker 7 (33:25):
I don't know why I'm having such a visceral reaction
right now, but as the thought of going to the
bathroom here at HQ, I have six minutes, even if
it's number one, there is a routine to it, and
that is I'm collecting the toilet paper already. That is
just and to watch an add in between get squares.

(33:47):
I it'd be great for you, you're a four square guy.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
Well, but what if somebody doesn't bring their phone with
them to the bathroom. Courty doesn't even bring her phone
into the bathroom that she goes. It's it's insane, but.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
She sits there in silence.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
This is how a lot of the bathroom rooms look,
the public restrooms in China, where it's just like the
slot on the floor. Is that the same place they're
deploying these machines. I don't know this. When they don't
show the toilet, they simply just showed the machine up
on the wall.

Speaker 4 (34:16):
It's not a great ad for visiting China. I gotta
be honest.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
I would love to go someday, but I would not
be excited about all the restrooms that they have. It
is something fierce. Oh my god, some of the photos
that they show up. Don't google China public toilet. It
is not a good time. And I say to you,

(34:42):
we made a huge mistake leaning into all of these
smart products. I'm willing to admit that today.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
We can't take it away. Now it's too late.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
They can't get us with ads online as much as
they want to. So where do they have you trapped?
When you're in a public bathroom stall and you just
went number two and you're looking around, going.

Speaker 4 (35:02):
This is not going to end well.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
And then if you ask me if I'm in the
next doll and you're like, hey, I got some TP
over here.

Speaker 4 (35:11):
No, did you.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Say you give me some money? Then I should get
paid for this. If that's the case, I should.

Speaker 7 (35:18):
Get the bad and realized no, one has refilled the
dispenser and then you have nothing in thirty second add
you didn't need.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
It's disturbing. We made a huge mistake. Let us know
what you think. Maybe you're on the side of this technology.
I can't believe that that would be true, but I
guess it could possibly be. Let us know. Give us
a dispatch over at thenewsjunkie dot com. All right, a
couple of emails rolling in, and let me make sure

(35:45):
I do as this is saying. Keep me anonymous, it says,
all right, Anonymous to tips at the news Junkie dot
com as a younger boomer from nineteen sixty one. I
am not afraid of AI, says Anonymous, and I I'm
enjoying owning stock in the video and other tech stocks.
I know other boomers that are deathly afraid of AI,

(36:08):
mainly because Fox News tells them to be. I listened
to your show and I no longer believe anything I
see or hear, and I'm much happier.

Speaker 4 (36:19):
Wait, you don't believe what we say either.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
No, I think they're saying after listening to the show,
they're questioning a lot of things. So the level of
skepticism being higher is good in an AI generated world,
So thank you Anonymous, Hi, Sean, Sabrina and Seling podcast listener.

Speaker 12 (36:36):
Here.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
So many items from yesterday's show to comment on, but
the smart hour discussion went out. I tried the early
access to Alexa Plus. This is the one we were
discussing for about an hour, and I immediately turned it
off since I felt like it made my Alexa device
even dumber, which I didn't think was possible.

Speaker 4 (36:53):
I was just about to get the free early access.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
Not a good review though. They said, ILL use it
to play music for my kids to fall asleep too.
And when I told the device which song to play,
like I usually did, I was told the album didn't exist.
I had to say the album exactly as it exists
on Amazon Music for it to play. Seems like that
isn't a step forward for the service. Worst part was
when I reverted back to the original version, it actually

(37:19):
made it somehow dumber. That's a trick. That's a trick
to get you to upgrade again. It wouldn't work with
the old voice prompts either, and I had to create
a routine so I didn't have to say the exact phrase.
I feel like Amazon is doing enough purpose and making
the Alexa IQ around thirty. Keep up the work, says Richard.
Thank you, Richard, appreciate that. Appreciate you listening to the podcast,

(37:43):
and we'll start up some things around here technology wise.
What do you think let us know, send us a
dispatch over at thenewschunky dot com. All right, when we return,
we got to get to us. There's other things and
AI to hit on eventually here. But there's a story
about e bike attacks that is something we definitely need
to talk about. We'll discuss that in more details on

(38:06):
the White House being demolished that is coming up next
on the News Junkie. At this point, i'd say in

(38:29):
most major cities were five ish maybe more years into
this experiment experiment, if you will, and it is the
e bike and scooter experiment. Yes, and the e bikes
and scooters have been in most major cities, not just
in the United States but around the world, with scooters

(38:51):
and e bikes in every neighborhood that you can think
of around a city. And I can tell you know,
locally here we've had every brand and you can think
of throughout this process, all of them they've tried and
some of them have have done okay, some of them
have not. You got bikes, you've got scooters, you got
all of these things. And I ask you five is

(39:12):
years or more in some cases in have they been
good or have they been bad? This is what I
ask you, because there's a story that brings me to this.
They're saying, the uh friction is really rising between older
people and teens on these e bikes. There's been like
three different attacks on teenagers riding e bikes in the

(39:33):
last couple of weeks.

Speaker 7 (39:34):
The teens are being attacked adults.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The teens are like they're zooming
through neighborhoods on these e bikes and scooters and adults
are like knocked it off and they're tackling them and
they're taking them down. And the adults are getting arrested
for this. And I ask you, I like, you look
at the good the bad here, you see Okay, it's

(39:58):
it's it's increased mo ability because you can pick up
on most corners downtown a scooter or an e bike
to faster get you to your destination. It's better than
like spending money on gasoline and stuff like that. It's
kind of fun. I think most people like when you
jump on one, it's it's pretty fun. It's really useful

(40:20):
if you're kinda like out hopping around and you want
to go somewhere that you think is a little bit
short for an uber ride, but you're like, all right,
you know, I could maybe save a couple bucks. I mean,
I don't know how much you're really saving, because I
forget what I don't even know what the rates are
these days.

Speaker 4 (40:37):
I mean sometimes it's ridiculous, like.

Speaker 5 (40:42):
But yeah, even that, Like, it's a lot quicker than
an uber ride if you can just find a bike
on the side of the you know, on the sidewalk somewhere,
or or find a scooter, scan it with your phone.
The thing, you know, jumps into action, peep, and then
you just go a couple of books, take a picture

(41:02):
of it when you've left it where it's supposed to be,
and you're good to go.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
So you say, they've been a net good over the
last five ish years, and for me.

Speaker 4 (41:10):
I have very much enjoyed them and use them all
the time.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
When I asked something like that, I'm almost always asking
from the perspective of, you know, from from your world,
do you think that they've been good, they've been overall
positive for you, I don't know that I could.

Speaker 5 (41:24):
I don't know that I can say that for society
they've been a net good. A lot a lot of
people have their complaints. You know, even Ashley, my wife
will say, like, if somebody leaves a line bike in
our neighborhood, She'll be like, oh no, we got to
move now.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
The neighborhood has gone to crap. There's a line bike.

Speaker 7 (41:45):
Have you went platonic the second season yet? I know
Celian was watching the first one. But one of my
favorite bits of Seth Rogan's character is that he just
launches those rent to scooters everywhere. He throws them, and
he will like, you'll rent it, and then he will
just throw it as far as he can or just
kick it over and eventually does get banned from using

(42:07):
them ever again spoiler alert. But I can see where
that would be fun and where it could be annoying
because he was kicking ones that are in his driveway,
and if you're parking one like that and someone else's driveway,
frustration will ensue.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
I'm with Ashley with your wife on this front, because
it's only one step up from what happens every once
in a while around me, some hobo will ditch a
target grocery cart and then I'm like God, because it's
gonna be there for a while, you.

Speaker 5 (42:39):
Know what I mean, It's just gonna sit there their
line bikes and scooters. You know, it's somebody's job to
go kind of pick all those things up and charge them,
so somebody will be coming by eventually, or somebody will go, hey,
look I could use this, and they'll activate it and
drive it somewhere else.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
The divisions between people on this after these years has
been rough. And I've got one of the stories here
about adults attacking teenagers because of these e bikes. There's
a bunch of these examples, many such examples in the
community corps. One on it Troy Campbell.

Speaker 13 (43:12):
And right now we're in a koe because right here
at this intersection is where neighbors tell us on Saturday
evening there were several police cars. Now we have found
out that a man is accused of using his motor
vehicle to strike a.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
Teen on an e bite.

Speaker 13 (43:27):
Damn, if you're saying they're just thankful that teen is okay, in.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
This case, it seems like the guy plowed into the
kid on the e bike, doesn't just like punch him
or something. Ran into this kid on the e bike.
Because there's such friction.

Speaker 5 (43:42):
I would argue, was the kid being a dick on
the probably.

Speaker 4 (43:47):
Probably try to run him over.

Speaker 5 (43:51):
Well, I mean we had this case, we had the
I mean, yeah, you don't try to run him over.
There's definitely some very actionable things there. You you have
a gun in the gun versus knife fight here if
you are operating a motor vehicle. But the the videos
that we saw, everybody was outraged where they were arresting

(44:11):
the kid for what did they call it? Reckless bike riding?
And it started so ridiculous. And then I read the
comment section and I was like, I know exactly what
this kid is doing. He's popping wheelies and aiming it
straight at at you know.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
Cars, Sea lane is laying down a base here from
when one kid does this in his neighborhood and then
he snaps and his big ass truck just plows over
this kid. Already had a kid do it to me
over a kid over him. But I thought about it though.
I was to do, uh, let's go back to this

(44:50):
and see what happened, What caused this guy to plow
over the kid on the EBI.

Speaker 13 (44:53):
So then for someone to get so upset that they
get into a physical altercation with a child.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
That's crazy.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
That's crazy. It's not a reflection of your neighborhood.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
No, it's not.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
Yes it is, yes, it is. People are simmering.

Speaker 7 (45:10):
Lady, I already have the election of your neighborhood through
the visor you're wearing and the butt cut hair cuts
that you have spewing over the top of it.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
She has sort of an older lady checkbox thing.

Speaker 4 (45:23):
Let me speak to your manager. No, let me see
your bob. You don't belong that's at this pool.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
I'm sure she is. And for the record, she's not
the one who ran over the kid on the e bike.
That it wasn't him.

Speaker 13 (45:39):
Craig and Debbie Smith have lived near Douglas Edward driving
a Kobe for more.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
Than a decade.

Speaker 13 (45:43):
Nice Smith family Tuesday, as they reacted to the rest
of their neighbors, Todd and Angelique Norwood.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
All Right, Todd and Angelique Norwood.

Speaker 4 (45:52):
Todd is pleased with running a kid over.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
They got so mad at these kids. There's just one
of many. There's many, many, many such examples of this.

Speaker 13 (46:00):
I tell you that it's alleged that the couple gets
out of the vehicle right here at this intersection.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
They get out, they yell at the kids. One of
the guys gets.

Speaker 13 (46:08):
Back in the car and he hits one of the
kids on the bike, and the woman is alleged to
have grabbed.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
One of the kids.

Speaker 9 (46:15):
It's so sad that somebody would do that.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
You're about to laugh, crack, you look like you're about
to laugh.

Speaker 14 (46:22):
It's I can't believe that somebody would what's the word
I'm looking for.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
It was like Craig was getting like excited in some
secret way about this. It's like, maybe, oh, super so sad, sad,
it's so sad. Maybe maybe Craig secretly is run into
this in his own community here and he goes, oh,
so sorry to hear that. Yeah, oh no.

Speaker 5 (46:50):
The other video we saw of the kid on the boardwalk,
he was just whizzen by people on his bike and
then finally somebody stood up to him and they're like, oh,
the adult is such a nozzle.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
Uh. It's like the teacher when all of a sudden
you snap and then everybody thinks you're the bad person,
even though the kids were bullying you and you finally
said shut up, and then they just put the shut
up clip. Maybe maybe that's what's happening here. Here's the
police report.

Speaker 13 (47:17):
Saturday, the Norwoods were driving when they came across two
teens on e bikes?

Speaker 1 (47:21):
What were they doing? Teen say?

Speaker 13 (47:22):
The couple got out and began shouting at them to
slow down. Investigator say, Todd Norwood got back in the
car and a scene on video accelerating towards one of
the teens celebrating him on the driving off.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
And this isn't the only incident started. He was notified
by an incident between student and adult. The student, later identified
as Jace Garin, advised he was riding his bike to
school when the mail called out to him to slow down,
to which he said no. At this time, the male
advised he was going to walk behind him. Jase continued

(47:56):
to ride the bike to school with the mail following him,
gonna walk behind him as Jacob. As Jace arrived at school,
the mail came on to school property, approaching Jason started
grabbing his arm. Jace told the mail to stop touching him,
causing the mail to begin yelling, stating he was not
wearing his helmet and proceeded to smack the helmet off

(48:17):
his head and hit his head. Jason's friend Alexander then
got in between Jason the adult. I'm reading the police
report that they froze on from the news report. This
is a different case. This is it?

Speaker 5 (48:28):
This is yeah, because it sounds like this. The guy
in the first one, Todd whose mugshot we saw, Yeah,
he hit the kid with a car. I think, but
this this person followed the kid to school and grabbing
his arm.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
Yeah, maybe they made un an helmet, because why else
are they showing this during the report. Maybe they go
to this store. Let's see what they say real quick.

Speaker 13 (48:49):
In central Florida, A Vito police say they responded to
Jackson Heights Middle School last Tuesday after a child riding
on an e bike was battered by a UCF professor
oh No. One year old show O Peg got upset
with the team after he was riding his bike too
fast on the sidewalk near the O Vito Aquatic Center.
Investigators say he followed the team, grabbed the teen's arm

(49:11):
and smacked the helmet.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
Off of his head. He's the one who does this
and tells us the.

Speaker 13 (49:14):
Professor who was arrested for battery is on paid administrative leave.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
Lets go, they might fire him.

Speaker 7 (49:21):
Man, why are you following a kid because he's on
the sidewalk.

Speaker 1 (49:25):
They're terrorists, They're a little terrorists. They're zooming around everywhere.

Speaker 4 (49:28):
They're going too fast, do nothing right. How frustrating is that.

Speaker 5 (49:32):
When that reporter said smacked the helmet off his head,
or smacked the helmet, I thought he was going to
say he followed the kid, grabbed it by the arm
and smacked the hell out of him.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
There's a lot of these people. This woman was arrested.
She's forty six years old. She was one of the couple.
Forty five year old Todd nor Would He was one
of the original couple. Then Shu Shang Shang Peng was
arrested forty one years old. And there was even another
adult that was arrested too. I think there was three
in this story. But this is happening all over the

(50:02):
place where people are just saying, I can't take it anymore.
They're throwing them down in my neighborhood. They're zooming by
too fast, They're causing danger. People get upset about this people,
do you know? People get upset about people cruising around
and causing danger in a peaceful neighborhood, And now we
have adults that are going to jail some of them.

Speaker 7 (50:21):
Yeah, these attacks if no scooters and those kids were
just walking, are these the type of folk that will
still have a problem with them?

Speaker 1 (50:30):
I don't know. I mean, I don't know. Is it
just because there are kids in your neighborhood and you
are annoyed by kids? Is it because they're zooming around?
There's a fine line here, because I think Sea Lane's
totally right. Sometimes we hear oh kid on a bike
got arrested, and then you're like, oh, it's not just
so simple as that. It was this kid was menacing

(50:50):
an entire population some portion of the city, and everybody
just finally got annoyed with it, and the cops arrested
the person. The world is not only revolving around you, kid,
as much as you might think it is. But we
want to see what you think about it. Send us
a dispatch over at thenewsjunkie dot com.

Speaker 5 (51:08):
Even Ashley was like, did you see them putting that
kid in the cop Cary?

Speaker 1 (51:11):
I go don't you dare, don't don't even you're in
the waimo with us when those bike kids just were
just smacking cars because they knew they would stop.

Speaker 4 (51:21):
Yeah, what we're turning into.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
I don't know if this is parent I don't know
if it's a parent thing. I don't know if it's
I don't know what the division is. But there are
there's some large chunk of our society that automatically looks
at young kids in an innocent way. Still, And I'm like, Nope,

(51:46):
tell me what happened here. Give me the details of
what happened here. Like if I hear a story that
says Sabrina has been arrested, and I know, okay, Sabrina
has been arrested. Geez okay, and then the cop go, look,
she's not going to make it in on the show today.
She's been arrested. I go, what's she been arrested for?
The cop goes, she got into a fight with two

(52:08):
twelve year olds. I would not, because I understand the world.
I would not immediately go. Sabrina was on her way
to work and she decided to just randomly target to
twelve year olds and start karate kicking them and punching them,
and no, I would go something happened here, something caused

(52:29):
her to snap and fight the twelve year old.

Speaker 7 (52:32):
And then the explanation you get is they were writing
scooters with helmets on the sidewalk and going too fast
for my liking.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
Maybe they were, maybe they weren't. I don't understand saying
that the kid didn't have a helmet on and then
knocking the helmet off, though that part is a little
a little difficult to understand.

Speaker 5 (52:52):
Maybe he did have a helmet. Maybe I heard that
part wrong. There was a knocking of helmet there for sure.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
No, it said the guy yelled at him for not
having a helmet on and then knocked the helmet off
his head, Which doesn't that up. It doesn't make sense.
Nancy emails also telling.

Speaker 5 (53:06):
Two different stories here in one in one report, which
has kind of been a little confusing, right.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
Nancy emails tips of the dewes junki dot com Where
I live, there are tweens twelve to fourteen year olds,
and they have e bikes. They pay no attention to
the rules of traffic. They modify them to do thirty
miles an hour. You can't modify the ones you rank,
Can you.

Speaker 5 (53:29):
Not the ones you I mean, I think it'd be harder,
it would take more time.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
The ones you r you're not allowed to do that
into that.

Speaker 5 (53:35):
Those are geo fenced a lot of the time too,
So it's it's not even.

Speaker 4 (53:39):
So embarrassing when you get into an area that's so annoying,
like you're in the wrong zone. I'm like, okay, so
I guess I'll just drag this scooter.

Speaker 5 (53:46):
Yeah, and then it becomes the toughest pedal, the toughest
bike to.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
Pedal working at you. She says, I've literally been run
off the road by an e bike. They run stop signs,
they go the wrong way, one growing wayte streets, they
switched from the road to the sidewalk, and they're so
fast you could barely jump out of their way. I
don't blame that guy for smacking that kid, says Nancy
Tips at the newsjunkie dot Com. Let us know, let

(54:13):
us know what your thoughts are, Vicky says, terrible news writing.
It's really them trying to draw out something larger. They're
trying to draw out the division that is beyond just
one incident, and I think they might actually be right
about that. I think there's something simmering here, like there
is with so many other things.

Speaker 5 (54:33):
We're right on the brink of the baby it's happening.
There was what you think go a handful of years ago.
I was in the car with think Pad and we
were headed downtown and we were headed by the library
and there's a crosswalk in front of the library. And
luckily we warn't the car that got the brunt of this.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
There was one car ahead of us.

Speaker 5 (54:55):
But as the car was approaching, some kid on a
bike jumped out into the crosswalk in front of the
car and we're like, whoa, it's a crosswalker. You're supposed
to stop for me. And it's like, are you kidding me?
What an absolute douchebag, just just to be a dick.

Speaker 1 (55:12):
But there are already those divisions Sea Lane. There's divisions
between cyclists and motorists because they tend to hate each other.
People on bikes hate people in cars. People on cars
hate people on bikes. You already have that division. You
have the division of politics obviously in this country that's
ever present. You have so many of these weird divisions,

(55:33):
and I think when they intersect at points it becomes
more pronounced and magnified. And I think old people in
quiet neighborhoods hate these kids, and they hate them even
more in their riding these little scooters around. But we'll
take more of your feedback tips at the news junky
dot com. What do you think five years into this experiment,
are things better or worse with these e bikes and

(55:55):
scooters around cities in the United States of America? When
we come back the theft at a museum in France,
in Paris in particular, I can't believe it. What's going
on there? Have you just given up France? Have you
just given up or house. I'll tell you the latest
thing that's happened in an update on that Louver heist

(56:17):
in just a moment, because it's coming up next on
the news Junkie. Been a busy couple of weeks, busy

(56:40):
a couple of weeks, and it will be next week too, obviously,
but check that out at the newsjunkie dot com slash rows. Okay,
one thing I saw a lot of people talking about
today was there was and I'll get to the Louver
update and another robbery in France because I think some
of this kind of actually crashes together. But there were
a lot of people upset because ice was showing up

(57:01):
at some spots in New York City and arresting illegal
immigrants and the people that they were targeting. There's always
people who want to defend these folks, and I don't
necessarily know why, so I wanted to get the temperature
on this and see whatever. But you feel they're going
after apparently the people hawking all the fake merch in

(57:21):
New York City, the people who sell like the knockoff purchases,
the watches, the clothing, the purses, all the knockoff merch
that you can find. You can find it in New
York City. And it's a lot of like legal immigrants
that come to the country that end up in these
worlds selling this stuff. And there was people saying, Oh God,

(57:44):
this isn't a big deal. You're protecting the corporations. I
don't care about the corporations and the slightest, but I
do think it's usually a sign of a bad neighborhood.
It's usually a sign that things have been lost or
gone wrong culture wise, and I I think it's better
without that kind of stuff. Now. On the other hand,
I will say, if somebody's doing this at like a

(58:07):
flea market and they have a little business and they
have a stand and they are selling stuff that looks
real close to some big corporations products, I don't care
as much. But the stuff that's usually related to criminality,
where they're hawking these things on the streets, the fake rolexes,
they'll try to bully you in strong army into buying
is pretty bad. And it's pretty bad wherever it happens,

(58:29):
and it happens in you know, we're talking about France
with this this museum heist that went down. It happens there.
Everywhere you go around the Eiffel Tower. You find these
illegal immigrants that like hawk this stuff and the bully
tourists and stuff, and if you try to film them,
they'll say you can't film me. And you know, the
whole thing is unhinged. And one of the worst examples

(58:50):
of this, And if you don't know about this, you'll
probably think I'm crazy right now, but you can either
trust me or look into it yourself. But one of
the worst examples of this that can be shut down
at any point in time is the people who dress
up as these costumed characters, the people who dress up
as Mickey Mouse or SpongeBob or superheroes.

Speaker 4 (59:16):
Like the krusty looking ones.

Speaker 1 (59:18):
The ones that don't look right because they're not official,
and they will get a bunch of tourists to get
interested in taking a picture with them, and then they
will like strong arm those people out of their money,
and they'll get violent in a lot of circumstances too.
I don't have a problem with that being stopped, not
even for the corporate stuff, but for like the societal

(59:40):
rot that comes along with it. I think people should
just be able to enjoy themselves and wander around and
like not get harassed by these street counterfeitters that are
all over the place. Let us know what you think
about that. Send a dispatch, give me your thoughts. Over
at thenewsjunkie dot com, they're grilling the director of the
Louver Museum about that one hundred and two million dollar

(01:00:05):
jewel heist. That's the number on this now what they
stole in the middle of the day with no guns
and no knives at the Louver while there was security
everywhere at the world's most popular question mark museum. See
lenin See what the world's most popular museums are and
if the Louver is, definitely it's got to be up

(01:00:27):
there at the very least. But I don't know if
it's the most popular, but I would say this is
a very very prominent, famous museum in the middle of Paris,
and there should be a huge security team with some
weapons maybe to stop people from just going in and
stealing one hundred and two million dollars in jewels from
your museum.

Speaker 5 (01:00:46):
And most visited, the Louver is on top, followed by
a National Museum of China, and the Louver wins by like.

Speaker 1 (01:00:53):
A million plus. But you can just walk in there
and take what you want, go for it, just jump in.

Speaker 5 (01:00:59):
Then they have National Museum of China, Vatican Museums, British Museum.
The first one in the United States is MoMA.

Speaker 4 (01:01:07):
Yeah figured that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
Yeah, there's a lot of moments. But the Metropolitan Museum
of Art that's not MoMA. That's one in New York City, right, yeah, yeah,
But this one in particular is right in the dead
center of Paris, and they just walked in and stole
over one hundred million dollars worth of historic jewels. And

(01:01:31):
it's not alone. But said a Chinese woman who is
in the country of France was arrested and charged over
stealing gold from the National or Natural History Museum in Paris.
She also broke into this museum and she pops in
to this museum in Paris, the Natural History and Museum.

(01:01:54):
She since left and went to Barcelona where she was arrested,
and they said when she broke in and she stole
more than one million dollars worth of gold, they're just
walking in and stealing stuff. And she was just about
to return back to China. So she's flying in from
China to Europe and then going over to Paris and going, hey,

(01:02:18):
they are so dumb and so cocked over here. You
can walk into their museums and walk out with one
hundred million dollars or even a million dollars worth of gold.

Speaker 4 (01:02:25):
I mean, this is the week to do it. I
feel like the authorities over in France are.

Speaker 7 (01:02:29):
Like, there's no way that somebody else would do this,
and you're going to have six more robberies.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
Bye. F what did I see on this? Hang on?
I don't want to steal this, but I thought it
was an apt quote to add about this whole robbery
at the Louver here. It is right here. Somebody had
chimed in when they were talking about this big robbery
at the Louver and said, it's harder to get deodorant

(01:02:56):
at CVS. Really true? In New York City, you want
to get a can of tuna fish at the CVS,
and you got to get some individual with a set
of locks and keys to let you in to get
that for you. God forbid, you want the odorant or

(01:03:18):
something more expensive like a razor or something, you got
to get the staff to unlock that for you. And
it seems like it would be harder in some cases
to get stuff from a CVS in the United States
than from a museum in France. But the director of
the Louver is being grilled by their elected officials over there.

(01:03:40):
He said, the wrongdoers who took these gems won't get
eighty eight million euros if they had the very bad
idea of disassembling these jewels. They're worried about them breaking
them apart. The Louver Museum is important. It's a showcase
of French culture and our shared heritage. Did the Louver
museum security measures fail? No, they didn't. It's a fact.

(01:04:01):
Louve Museum security measures worked, as the Culture minister in.

Speaker 4 (01:04:05):
France flag on the field, no I didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:04:08):
I'm here to say to that woman, No, I don't
think the security measures worked. And if you think the
security measures worked, when somebody walks away with one hundred
million dollars, your idea of security is dumb.

Speaker 7 (01:04:19):
All right, they're going with the Elon line after his
rocket explodes and they're like, actually, this was a success.

Speaker 1 (01:04:26):
It was a learning opportunity. Absolutely, Yeah, we picked up
a lot from this, all right, quick break exactically.

Speaker 5 (01:04:31):
You know the screws that they angle grinded off we're working, yeah,
before they were angle grinded.

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
Off, before they escaped and just rode away on these
scooters that everybody's complaining about. When we come back the
next episode with Sabrina, what's coming up on the next episode, What's.

Speaker 4 (01:04:51):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:04:52):
Diane Keaton has made her debut on the Billboard charts,
which is very exciting for her estate in space So
no one can hear you scream. You may know these words,
but do you know the author? And can you hear
her screams from heaven? Plus, some old people are cooked
when it comes to AI, and others are cooking up
AI versions of their dead wives.

Speaker 4 (01:05:12):
I'll find so much more go on up on the
next episode.

Speaker 15 (01:05:15):
And that is coming up next on the news Chunkie.

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
We're gonna into the next episode momentarily. We'll also get
to your emails, your dispatches, all of that good stuff.
We got a lot of drama to sort through today
before we're all done here, and we're glad to have
you with us. Honest to God, it's good to have
you with us today. Okay, all right, here we go.
Let's jump into it head first. Let's do the next
step episode because there's a lot on TV. You can't

(01:05:58):
possibly keep up with all of it, even though you should,
because what else are you gonna talk about in Australia.
Nothing's nice. It's time for the next episode with Sabrina.

Speaker 4 (01:06:16):
Hey, hold up.

Speaker 7 (01:06:26):
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Speaker 4 (01:06:58):
Don't miss the book.

Speaker 1 (01:07:04):
I don't think you.

Speaker 5 (01:07:05):
I don't think you realized this, but you forgot the
jingle yesterday, and it threw me off so hard.

Speaker 4 (01:07:10):
I said, gosh, it was so that can be docked
off my pag.

Speaker 5 (01:07:17):
It felt so unfinished, And I was like, why don't
you say anything?

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
You already you went into the thing. I didn't want to,
you know, derail like I did.

Speaker 4 (01:07:25):
Just now, let me double up.

Speaker 7 (01:07:33):
Fifty nine years ago, nineteen sixty six, a group of
boys hit the charts with the real song Nope right
here sixty six.

Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
Pet Shot Boys.

Speaker 7 (01:07:48):
Beach Boys is Right and the song good Vibrations. This
song took six months to record, six months, and the
most infensive song ever produced at.

Speaker 4 (01:08:03):
That time, costing how much money? Sixty six most expensive
song six months?

Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
One million dollars? Okay, at fifteen thousand dollars it was.

Speaker 7 (01:08:15):
Fifty thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:08:18):
Points Not impressed? Not impressed at all?

Speaker 7 (01:08:21):
Are you impressed that Diane Keaton is on the charts?

Speaker 4 (01:08:26):
I mean day, great question.

Speaker 7 (01:08:30):
She has made her solo debut on the Billboard Charts
this week. It was for her twenty twenty four holiday
single First Christmas. It has come in at number twenty
two on the Digital Song Sales Chart.

Speaker 1 (01:08:44):
I had no idea.

Speaker 7 (01:08:45):
I had no idea either, And that's very sweet. Don't
you just love it when people die and then they
get the accolades they.

Speaker 4 (01:08:52):
When they were alive.

Speaker 5 (01:08:53):
It's weird that, like, she recorded a song called First
Christmas and nobody heard it until after she celebrated her
last all.

Speaker 7 (01:08:59):
Correct, and I sent you the Instagram post dedicated to her,
I guess by the person who maybe produced it. One
of the writers of the song that said, I'm heartbroken
by Diane's passing. To have been trusted to help bring
her lifelong dream of recording an original song to life
is something I'll carry with me forever. Now go to

(01:09:20):
your nearest dreamings and listen to it.

Speaker 16 (01:09:22):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
Is this them recording it? I could. It's It's not
as bad as I would have anticipated. Honestly, No, she's
got a good voice.

Speaker 4 (01:09:37):
I think it's a little sad. I gotta be honest.
First Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
I was thinking I don't know why, but for some reason,
maybe it was what Celia said. I was waiting for
her to be saying last Christmas, but no, hit it all,
Nicetmass It is sad.

Speaker 4 (01:10:01):
I'm so sad.

Speaker 7 (01:10:03):
Get those heartstrings ready, because they're about to be a
little bit more. She sings about Christmas shoes, feeling alone
during Christmas time since the passing of a loved one.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
Yeah, I like it. I don't like it. I don't
like when you have sad holiday songs. I think a
holiday song should be fun.

Speaker 7 (01:10:22):
Yeah, you're dead now, but we're still gonna celebrate Christmas.
Someone else not celebrating Christmas this year because of dying.
Barbara Gipps. You might not know her name, but boy
do you know her taglines. A highly accomplished copywriter, best

(01:10:45):
known for this iconic movie line in Space, No One
Can Hear You Scream.

Speaker 4 (01:11:00):
That was one of my best pieces of screamwork.

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
That was pretty good. It was very will Helmish. I
know that quote, but I just do not know what
it is it's from.

Speaker 4 (01:11:10):
That is correct, six points, first lane and one more Jingle.

Speaker 7 (01:11:18):
Gibbs is one of the many unsung heroes in Hollywood.
A wordsmith who has encapsulated a film that may not
have otherwise attracted public's attention, Yet a lot of people
did not know her by her own name. She also
has done lines for fatal Traction, on the Other Side
of Drinks, Dinner, and a one night stand Lies a

(01:11:40):
terrifying love story.

Speaker 4 (01:11:44):
I don't remember that line.

Speaker 7 (01:11:46):
Sometimes the most unlikely person turns out to be a hero.

Speaker 1 (01:11:49):
I know, I know, a big line. Go ahead, all
have what she's having her.

Speaker 7 (01:11:56):
It was more of the trailers having a wonderful time.
Wish I were here. That was another one, and uh,
it's a life so outrageous it takes two women to
live it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:08):
What about where's the beef?

Speaker 4 (01:12:11):
That was also? Yeah, that was her those goods?

Speaker 1 (01:12:13):
Oh my god, I knew it. I knew it.

Speaker 4 (01:12:15):
Lie. That was a lie, prank joke.

Speaker 1 (01:12:17):
Oh damn, that was false. The other meat that was
correct too.

Speaker 4 (01:12:23):
Cee line ten points for you and Gryffindor. It has happened.

Speaker 7 (01:12:26):
Black Mirror is real, and we can think Suzanne Summer's husband,
who is now shared with the world that he created
an AI clone of her and claims and I quote,
you can't tell the difference. Oh, she died two years
ago at with yeah, a little bit, bang.

Speaker 1 (01:12:47):
It No, Well, then he could tell the difference. That's
what he's saying.

Speaker 4 (01:12:52):
Fifty five years.

Speaker 7 (01:12:53):
I mean, but you get a warm salck and it
should be fine, right, guys, Yeah, fifty five years they
were together, and it took him all of two years
to make an AI version of her.

Speaker 4 (01:13:04):
That Jesus, we cannot tell the difference.

Speaker 7 (01:13:06):
Obviously, Suzanne was greatly loved, not only by her family
but my millions of people. One of the projects that
coming up is really interesting project, the Suzanne AI twin.

Speaker 4 (01:13:17):
He explained to people.

Speaker 7 (01:13:19):
He's calling the project to turn his late wife into
an AI clone. Absolutely perfect. It was Susanne. I asked
her a few questions. She answered them, and it blew me.
It blew me away and everyone else away. When you
look at the finished one next to the real Suzanne,
I mean, you can't tell the difference.

Speaker 4 (01:13:36):
This is bird men do not make I don't know
where you all stand.

Speaker 7 (01:13:41):
I don't think you should be making a It seems
like he's selling the project.

Speaker 1 (01:13:47):
Let me say, let's say you had a relative. We'll
call him uncle Rico, all right, and uncle Rico is
like a very specific he had a great personality's very
specific type of person and you like to it was
a certain way that Uncle Rico would text you. And
you really enjoyed Uncle Rico in your life and all
this stuff, and you missed him when he was dead,
and then you set up an AI so every once

(01:14:08):
in a while when you were feeling down, you could
text this this fake version, this AI version of Uncle Rico,
and it would text you back in the same way
that Uncle Rico was. I'm quite sure I can kind
of get it, like I I mean, I got I
got it. I don't do it. I mean I get
mad enough. I was talking yesterday we during one of
the breaks, my phone, my phone gave me an update

(01:14:32):
and it said, hey, tomorrow is your sister's birthday. Tomorrow's
Angie's birthday. And I was like, oh man, my phone
is still telling me like it's my sister's birthday. Because
I didn't, like, I didn't go in the phone and
say like, hey, this person is not with us any longer,
and I like, now that's enough for me alone. I'm like, yeah,
but some people I think would be interested in that.

Speaker 5 (01:14:54):
Maybe I think there should be some things that deal
with that kind of subject or that you could either
have options.

Speaker 7 (01:15:03):
Or put it in your will and testament. I think
at this point we now have to add that right.
Do not make an AI version of me?

Speaker 1 (01:15:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:15:11):
Or make an AI version of me?

Speaker 1 (01:15:12):
I think. I think it's important to get that out there.
If you don't want that.

Speaker 4 (01:15:15):
So yes or no? If you die AI version of
you or.

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
No, I would be not for commerce but for personal use.
I would be okay with it, but not for not
for commercial.

Speaker 4 (01:15:26):
But we can't make money off of it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
No.

Speaker 17 (01:15:28):
No.

Speaker 5 (01:15:28):
As far as the birthday things like, you know, I
always see people whose birthday it is who I know
are dead, and then I look through to see who's commented,
because people just go to Facebook and see whose birthday
it is, Like, I have a great day birthday, boy, roll.

Speaker 4 (01:15:44):
Down a little bit. He died four years ago. See,
like an AI version of you or not? I don't
care all right for commerce?

Speaker 1 (01:15:52):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (01:15:53):
Not for commerce, No, unless my family is is benefiting
from said commerce. Okay, that's a good So don't use
it to creep out my kid.

Speaker 1 (01:16:02):
It's me Daddy, Jackson's daddy back again to tell you
about the new SpongeBob special. I think that could be big.
I would I would buy whatever you were selling.

Speaker 7 (01:16:13):
Yeah, use mine for commerce as well. Just make an
s ton of money if you so.

Speaker 4 (01:16:19):
Please, ok with Sabrina's dad Ai on the boob Tube.
We've got the hand that rocks the cradle. Oh I'm
who remake? How dare you?

Speaker 1 (01:16:37):
Okay? My bad?

Speaker 7 (01:16:38):
The Limited series Lazarus on Amazon the second season. I
don't know, remake because it's gonna be better.

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
Story.

Speaker 5 (01:16:48):
It's just a reboot, isn't that. I think when you
reboot it you might be some artistic licenses.

Speaker 1 (01:16:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (01:16:55):
Limited Series Lazarus, no word if it's a reboot or remake.
Seconds He's a finale of gen on Amazon. Series premiere
of Dangerously Obese on TLC, and you can catch Adam
Brody and Courtney Bartnett Boom put.

Speaker 1 (01:17:11):
Me in the Box.

Speaker 5 (01:17:11):
A remake retells the original story with a new cast
and modern updates, while a reboot restarts a franchise by
telling a new version of the origin story and often
discards prior continuity.

Speaker 4 (01:17:22):
Five more points for ceiling.

Speaker 1 (01:17:25):
I see swimming in point.

Speaker 7 (01:17:26):
Follow your dreams of me on Instagram at Sabrina and
bro Most importantly, say it with the America.

Speaker 1 (01:17:31):
Smoke every day. Thank you, Sabrina. If you're into cringe,
if that's something you like, I've got a heaping spoonful
for you to listen to. That went down. Of all places,
we're talking about it now, this cringe went down at
a funeral and it's going viral at the moment. You'll

(01:17:52):
see what's happening there, and I think it may be
another example of us making a huge mistake. We'll see
how this plays out. Updates on the White House down
and what things are supposed to look like afterwards. People
are spinning out over that and you and your feedback.
It's all coming up next in the news Junkie. Here's

(01:18:25):
what's happening. Taylor Swift. She's not an innovator in this,
but recently she's the most recent one to do it.
She released for one weekend only a special movie for
her fans in theaters. They booked it out in thousands
of theaters across the country. They were showing it NonStop, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat.
It was basically just a Taylor Swift album promo behind

(01:18:47):
the scenes in music video reveal. But she knows how
to monetize her audience and squeeze every little dollar out
of you. And these other tween girls and these hairbury
something women who want to buy a hairbrush that falls apart. Yeah,
is all this crap that they're going to talk to you?

Speaker 5 (01:19:02):
How much that do you think is her? And how
like personally versus how much do you think that's like
her record company?

Speaker 4 (01:19:11):
I mean it's hard, but I feel like she has
to a pure He doesn't prove this stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:19:16):
She's she's she's a smart business woman, she knows what
she's doing. She's there's not stuff happening in her universe
that she's not got her her finger in. And it
worked out really well. It was not a big movie
in the country, number one movie in the country for
the one weekend that it came out. And I'm telling

(01:19:38):
you that it's not going to be a one off.
So before you come at me, you needs and and
anime fans and and weeves and all the rest. Okay,
all of you folks, before you come at me. I
know that this has happened for a long time in
the world of anime, but this is recently becoming more
popular and you're going to see even more of it

(01:19:59):
because One of the reports out there today is that
as they released this final season, just eight millions, eight
million years after the debut of Stranger Things on Netflix,
they're releasing the final season right the final season of
the series. And here's what the rumor is. It's floating
around out there, and the rumor is, as they air

(01:20:21):
all these episodes on Netflix to wrap it up for
Stranger Things, most people are completely disconnected with it. But
if you reconnect, you'll be in on this. They're going
to put the final episode exclusively in theaters for a weekend,
just like the Taylor Swift thing. That's kind of a
cool idea. Everybody else has to wait until that run

(01:20:43):
is over like a week a week, and then oh,
now the world gets this episode here and it encourages
them to make more money at the box office. I
think it qualifies them for like different award shows. I mean,
things aren't annoying to me, but if it's another offering,
I don't ever care. That's how I operate, like.

Speaker 7 (01:21:05):
If you go to the theaters, because I think it is,
like Celine said, cool, but everyone.

Speaker 4 (01:21:13):
The whole oh.

Speaker 1 (01:21:15):
For this, probably less than some then things like Taylor
Swift or.

Speaker 5 (01:21:20):
Like Hamilton got its release, and I'm sure I know
a lot of people were like singing along and doing
stuff like that. But I know that, Like for Stranger Things,
I fell off a long time ago, but I know it.
I know the last season there was a lot of
buzz about it. And if you have put the time
in for a show that you really like like this,

(01:21:42):
like for me, I'm thinking in my head Breaking Bad.
And if there was in the lead up to the
last episode of Breaking Bad or even like say the
last two or so, and they said, hey, we're going
to show them in theaters, I would go, you know what,
that seems like a like to to do something special

(01:22:03):
for the end of this show that I really like.
I think it would be something really cool to experience.
The only thing is for Stranger Things, you got to
know you gotta go, all right, what's our viewership here?
Is this gonna be something that's gonna be a worthwhile
push if we put it in theaters for a weekend.
I also think the cool thing about Stranger Things is

(01:22:23):
because of its content, it's something that would be fun
to watch in a movie theater.

Speaker 1 (01:22:29):
Yeah, I mean, I want to watch anything cool in
a theater. I love being in a theater. I love
that experience. But they're fighting right now.

Speaker 5 (01:22:36):
I'm not gonna, like, watch the last episode of South
Park in a movie theater.

Speaker 1 (01:22:40):
No, because it's not gonna be that different. This will
be something that's like a cinematic experience or something more
you know, keynote content. But in this case, they're debating
what to do. They may release it. There's two different
options here that they're working with. AMC Theaters may release
it on the same exact day, which I think is

(01:23:00):
like New Year's Eve or something that Stranger Things comes
out and the finale is there. Or they may do
a weekend exclusive in theaters and then everybody else gets
access to the final episode of Stranger Things.

Speaker 4 (01:23:15):
Would be better?

Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
That would be better? That well, that would be better.
Speaking of money, that's when they're dropping the series, I guess,
but they're not sure on what strategy they're going to take.
I know that if you do this where you give
everybody access to everything except the finale, and then you
put the finale in theaters for a weekend, you're probably
going to have some people that are pissed off. But

(01:23:37):
it's smart. It an't have money.

Speaker 5 (01:23:39):
My question would be if I'm the kind of person
who's like, no, I don't want to watch this in theaters.
I just I want to watch it at home, like
I've watched every other episode of Stranger Things. For me,
Does that mean I have to wait an extra week
because you're doing this theater stunt?

Speaker 1 (01:23:54):
Depending yeah, piss me out, depending on how they release it.
If they release it at the same time and then
people have option you don't have to go to the theater,
but you can. That's you shouldn't be pissed off with
that at all. That's just totally fine. But if they
hold back a week, some people get out. I think
you're going to see a lot more of that. You're
going to see so many series do this where they
go through the whole chain of all of the episodes

(01:24:16):
and then they drop a movie link episode as their
season finale. They have stolen this from the world of anime,
and they're going to continue to do it. I've heard
series that have been on ice that they don't want
to produce they're going to do this thing with it.
I heard Mindhunter. I don't know if anybody watched Minehunter.

Speaker 4 (01:24:33):
Oh yeah, they.

Speaker 1 (01:24:34):
Never got it to like the end of the resolution
of mind Hunter. There's the project is floating around in
Hollywood right now to do a movie where that comes back,
or even like Game of Thrones movies and other movies
where you continue on this thing or you hold back
just the finale and you're going to see more of
that in theaters. In my opinion, we'll see what you

(01:24:55):
think about it. Send us a dispatch over at thenewsjunkie
dot com. What have they done to the White House?

Speaker 17 (01:25:00):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:25:00):
My god? The White House is in shallows us the
White House. Look at this. It's the whole side of
it's ripped up and completely gutted as they're working on
this ballroom for a poultry two hundred and fifty million dollars.
You know, it's kind of.

Speaker 5 (01:25:15):
Weird about this that, I uh, people are like, oh,
it's the White House and they're tearing it down and stuff,
and it's it's the side of the White House, right, No,
the rest of the shore.

Speaker 4 (01:25:25):
But are we in a government shut down like the
best construction?

Speaker 1 (01:25:29):
No, No, they're moving over there. I just can't believe
they can't put up fake walls like a EPCOT can
when those are pretty big walls. Just put up a
big fake white House on the dust. Yeah. Well, the
magic is continuing behind the scenes.

Speaker 5 (01:25:45):
But the weird part for me is I don't really
know what any part of the White House looks like
except for the front.

Speaker 4 (01:25:56):
Yeah, the oval office.

Speaker 1 (01:25:58):
No, no, no, no, no, he's saying, the building on
the outside. Me too, me too. I only know what
one side looks like.

Speaker 5 (01:26:04):
If you had shown me this shot that we're looking
at right now of the demolition of the east is
that it's the east wing that they're tearing apart so
they can build. Yeah, if you'd shown me the east
wing of the White House pre demolitioned and said what
building is this?

Speaker 1 (01:26:21):
I might have trouble. Yeah, yeah, I would too. I
only know the front look like you do. But somebody
says they do have walls up. They have little wooden
like plywood blockers at the fence at the gate, so
it's a little harder to see from ground level.

Speaker 5 (01:26:37):
Which are not even they're not even as tall as
the gate.

Speaker 1 (01:26:41):
They're not. No, And if this was a theme park
for real, they would have an entire facade up and
you would go, oh, the White House with half of
the half of the people who voted are are would
not even notice. In this country, we have some people who, uh,
and I'm not talking about for any particular candidate. There's
just a lot of dumb people, a lot of dumb
people who they looking to go where White House is fine,

(01:27:02):
nothing to see you there, nothing going on. The rendering
of what this is going to look like is is
pretty crazy though. It's it's a pretty big extension that
they're putting on to the White House. They're just in
the middle of it all being torn down completely at
the moment. But let us know you're not.

Speaker 9 (01:27:21):
There.

Speaker 1 (01:27:21):
It's been refurbished for your future enjoyment.

Speaker 4 (01:27:24):
Yes, can't wait for that UFC fight. It's going to
be glorious.

Speaker 1 (01:27:27):
Although I will say to the defense of the White
House construction schedule, which I said yesterday was ridiculous. They
said like twenty twenty seven or something. Theme parks are
doing this now too, Like congratulations, We're going to build
the brand new and conto section of Animal Kingdom and
it'll be ready in twenty ninety seven. It's not going

(01:27:49):
to be that long for that particular thing. But they
they do this all the time now, and it's like longer.
Everything's getting longer. The way time is getting longer, the
time it's ready.

Speaker 5 (01:27:59):
You have gotten about incanto, just like Stranger Things like this, Ready,
name one of the Stranger Things.

Speaker 1 (01:28:08):
Character names besides eleven the sheriff sheriff? What born barn sheriff?

Speaker 4 (01:28:21):
What's the sheriff?

Speaker 1 (01:28:23):
Springer? Really tried there? You did remember? See William will
is right? Will Well is right? Well right? And you
can't just say their actress names or actor names either.

(01:28:44):
That's how long it's been, Matthew Modine. You don't know
most of the characters because it's been that long. The
timeline suck on this stuff. It's it's not great. Let's
see what else do we have here?

Speaker 18 (01:28:58):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:28:58):
I told you that I had some cream for you
at a funeral? Are you guys ready? Yes? I don't
even know what to make of this. I mean I
I think the person knows what they're doing here. It
still doesn't make it much better. This is a cat's funeral,
all right, We're tuning into a cat's funeral. And let's

(01:29:18):
just flash the visual for our our watchers online. I'll
put this up for the seat now, folks.

Speaker 4 (01:29:23):
Is that a dog?

Speaker 1 (01:29:24):
Joy? That is son is giving a Yeah, Sonic the
Hedgehog knockoff of some sort, you.

Speaker 5 (01:29:32):
Know, Las Vegas Times Square, SHAWNA Sonic the Hedgehog.

Speaker 1 (01:29:37):
It could be the Hedgehog. It might be it could
be Shanic the Hedgehog, which is.

Speaker 4 (01:29:45):
Let's make that copy of an audio trademark.

Speaker 1 (01:29:47):
Shanic the Hedgehog is at this particular funeral came in
the podcast. What are you talking about? I didn't write
anything down. I have no idea what you're talking about.
Let's tune into the cringe funeral.

Speaker 19 (01:29:58):
Hey everyone, the Hedgehog here.

Speaker 8 (01:30:01):
You know I've raced across Green Hill Zone, battled robots,
and zipped through loops faster than anyone else out there.

Speaker 19 (01:30:07):
But today isn't about speed.

Speaker 8 (01:30:09):
Today it's about something way stronger than even I could run.
We're here to honor a legend, a real hero, a
furry little friend who never needed a chaos.

Speaker 1 (01:30:19):
Every Internet was a bad idea.

Speaker 7 (01:30:21):
I don't even know whoever gave money to that guy
who is historically crying.

Speaker 1 (01:30:30):
Mistake. Yeah, we have made We have made a huge
mistake once again with the Internet, with almost everything, almost
everything has led us to what is Sonic.

Speaker 4 (01:30:40):
The Hedgehog from TIMU have anything to do with this
man's cat.

Speaker 1 (01:30:45):
I don't know what connection yet, but let's follow.

Speaker 8 (01:30:47):
Let's see here well to shine bright Ratchet twenty one years. Whoa,
that's a lifetime of purrs, naps and quiet moments that
mean everything.

Speaker 19 (01:30:56):
Ratchet was more than a case.

Speaker 1 (01:30:58):
Like how there's a little girl from the neighborhood, but she.

Speaker 4 (01:31:01):
Is holding onto a toy. I mean she knew that.

Speaker 1 (01:31:04):
She no, no, she's she's actually eating Dorito's. Yeah, she's
got a snack at the funeral. She's like a funeral.
Time started the Hedgehog.

Speaker 8 (01:31:16):
He was a constant, a silent teammate through every storm,
every stumble, every late night when the world felt too heavy,
Ratchet was there true no matter what, life has a
way of moving fast, too fast sometimes, and it hurts,
It really hurts.

Speaker 1 (01:31:32):
God. I mean, this is just what the world has become,
Ratchet the cat rip. I don't know. Should we see
if there's some big grand finale here? All fast forward
to the end side.

Speaker 8 (01:31:44):
Every memory, every smile, every quiet moment that shaped a life.
That kind of love is fast, but it's also forever
run free. Ratchet, you were the best kind of hero,
the kind who stays, and that's something we all admire.

Speaker 1 (01:31:58):
All right, thank you, Ratchet. I think.

Speaker 4 (01:32:03):
If I happen to go before you two, please hire
that sonic.

Speaker 1 (01:32:07):
Yeah, that exact one voice too.

Speaker 4 (01:32:10):
Hi, everybody, you're a Sabraina's funeral?

Speaker 1 (01:32:12):
Is that sonic?

Speaker 4 (01:32:14):
Not at all?

Speaker 1 (01:32:16):
Now that I think about it.

Speaker 4 (01:32:17):
There's no inflection in this at all, Just.

Speaker 1 (01:32:19):
Like I can't name a lot of the kids from
Stranger Things characters. I don't know if I know what
Sonic the Hedgehog sounds like. He's just zooming around. Usually
I know my voice for like a very long time.

Speaker 4 (01:32:32):
Right, He's like a tough guy. It's like there is
some of the inflection that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (01:32:37):
But then let me I'll go back. Let's see and
find some some something to compare this to of Sonic
the Hedgehogs, so we could see if this was a
legit rendering of that. I don't know, I like in
my head. All I know is the sound he makes
when all the rings come out. That's the only thing
that sticks with me. When he drops all of his rings.
That's the only thing I know about is over gone.

(01:33:00):
This is from the cartoon.

Speaker 4 (01:33:02):
All right, I'm kids, they're enough.

Speaker 1 (01:33:13):
Go back to the to the funeral.

Speaker 8 (01:33:14):
Hey everyone, Sonic the Hedgehog here, it's not too bad.

Speaker 1 (01:33:18):
You're too slow, but it looks boot leg. It does.
I'll put this up. Let me get a good screenshot
right now and you can see this if you'd like.
I don't know why you want to over on the
news junkie dot com. What did you stumble on?

Speaker 4 (01:33:32):
Uh, Sonic the Hedgehog board?

Speaker 1 (01:33:35):
Oh, because it sounds like you powered down over there.

Speaker 4 (01:33:38):
That just that sounds game over.

Speaker 14 (01:33:46):
I remember that, Yeah, very long that part.

Speaker 1 (01:33:50):
Yeah, you know, because you lost the love. That's my message. Okay,
do we does? Is Sonic on there saying we made
a huge mistake? Because that would just really round things out.

Speaker 7 (01:34:08):
There is a boom that said, like who took my nudes?
And I do not remember that from the game.

Speaker 1 (01:34:13):
I've been a huge mistake. Who postedes on Twitter dot.

Speaker 4 (01:34:21):
That's not all right?

Speaker 1 (01:34:23):
Quick break? I don't know what this was fun though,
Twitter dot com O J Simpson world, All right, quick break,
let me come back. The Worst places to be during
World War Three, the latest with the government shut down
and a whole lot more, including a restaurant, has gone viral,

(01:34:43):
and the reason why is well, mildly infuriating, to say
the least. I'll play that for you. It's coming up
next on the News, Chunkie. We'll get geared up in

(01:35:08):
a moment here for the next episode, not the next episode,
excuse me, Jury Duty. We've already passed that. We're moving
along here on this show today. Jerry Duty coming up
in a bit. And I've got an update on that
Jacoby Tillman story, the predator, the guy that the judge
just let bond back out, and another version of something
like this happening elsewhere in the country. So we'll look

(01:35:29):
at that. We are in day twenty two of the
government shut down and still haven't noticed much of a change. Honestly,
just in the day to day life. Seems like the
government being shut down is working out fine. I'm not
trying to get a passport at the moment or file
my taxes currently, so that may be something keeping me
in the clear.

Speaker 5 (01:35:49):
Also, you do not benefit from food stamps, true, yeah,
which is supposed to run out at the end of
the month at least fink.

Speaker 1 (01:35:57):
So yes, snap benefits aka food stamps are supposed to
be snapped up before too long here, and that won't
be funded any longer.

Speaker 7 (01:36:07):
I even saw that they some folks are doing food
drives for TSA.

Speaker 4 (01:36:12):
For workers YSA workers we're at right now.

Speaker 1 (01:36:16):
It's very easy.

Speaker 5 (01:36:16):
You just bring your carry on stuffed with cans of food,
and when they remove it over because it's over the limit,
they get to keep it.

Speaker 1 (01:36:24):
Well, aren't TSA. We're employees still getting paid. They're not
even shut down.

Speaker 5 (01:36:28):
Obviously they're not shut down, but the people that still
have jobs don't get paychecks until the government is funded.

Speaker 1 (01:36:38):
I mean they eventually they'll solve this ondesday.

Speaker 5 (01:36:40):
Say write down your rawas and we'll send you a
check when everything's finished.

Speaker 1 (01:36:45):
What's going to happen is eventually the Democrats are going
to go, Okay, this is not scoring us any points anymore.
We'll just sign the stupid extension of funding so everything
can get back up and running. Because that's really just
what it is. It's like, hey, we need everybody to
sign on to this government funding extension, and all of
the Republicans and some of the Democrats have signed on,

(01:37:08):
but it's not to get over the sixty vote amount
supermajority that you need to pass this, So eventually the
Democrats have to go, Okay, enough's enough, we'll sign on
to that, so we can keep funding the government for
at least a short portion of time, which I wish
they didn't do that. I wish they didn't do these
little short bursts of funding. I wish they've funded the

(01:37:28):
government for at least two years at a time. I
think would be the absolute smartest thing. But we don't.
We do these little extensions, and then the party that
is in the minority position tends to think, oh, all right,
we're not going to sign off on this. We'll go
to the government shutdown and we'll ask for some things
that we want for our constituents. You know, we want this,

(01:37:49):
we want that, we want some ad ons. It just
really doesn't work that way. I think eventually somebody is
going to crumble here. And I don't see the Republicans
doing that. They're like, we're already voting for this, What
are we going to do. We're going to give you
some outs here when you lost the election. That I
don't think is going to work that way. But we're
on day twenty two. I thought maybe they'd wrap it
up before this. I thought this would be a quick one.
This is now the second longest funding laps in modern history.

(01:38:15):
According to CBS News, there was a thirty five day
shut down in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. They are relatively
recent phenomenon. They started like this in nineteen eighty because
before nineteen eighty they used to fund the government for
longer times and that was, in my opinion, a better thing.
But let me know what you think. Send a dispatch

(01:38:36):
over on the newsjunkie dot com. Have you felt anything
from the government shutdown or you're not noticing this at all,
do join us with a dispatch at the neewsjunkie dot com.
There's a restaurant that is getting piled on right now,
and Italian restaurant of all things. I'm a big fan
of the Italian restaurants, you know, most of them, been

(01:38:59):
to many any of my day to borrow for one.
But there are lots of them that I've seen out
there in this case, all beautiful, beautiful, high end stuff.
High end stuff is what I'm talking about this particular.

Speaker 5 (01:39:12):
Ever, make it of that dessert pizza. I always get
too filled up on the on the entree pizza.

Speaker 1 (01:39:18):
Back. They're overrated anyway, they really are dessert pizzas. Are
never as good as the other stuff. This is a
restaurant called don Ceio, which name's good. I'll go with
you on that. But they put up a letter on
social media after they close the restaurant and it says
here the farewell is very, very dramatic, and this is

(01:39:43):
the Don Cicio in London that closed down. And it says,
dear residents of Highgate, of the neighboring villages of North London,
and of London in general. They're speaking to all of London.
Here Don Cicio, the Italian restaurant has closed today, exactly
six years after it opened in October of twenty nineteen.

(01:40:05):
We have closed due to a lack of customers. Now,
if you're a restaurant and you were closing due to
a lack of customers, I asked to you, who do
you blame? Who do you blame if you could not
get enough customers in the door of your restaurant. Do
you blame yourself or do you blame the people?

Speaker 7 (01:40:27):
It depends what kind of attitude you have. I feel
like when it comes to a long standing restaurant, they'll
blame the people.

Speaker 1 (01:40:33):
I think you should blame yourself if your restaurant fails,
you're gonna blame yourself because you didn't get enough people
to go through the door. The only other option is
if you got stuck into like a leasing pinch where
they just started charging too much to lease out the
space that you're trying to run this restaurant. I have

(01:40:54):
especially that happens all the time, That happens all over
the place. But if you just simply didn't have enough intructions,
you know, if the rest of the neighborhood is going
to get blocked overrap, Yeah, yeah, that those kind of
things can happen. But mostly it's because your food sucked,
it's because your service sucked. It's because something like that

(01:41:15):
was going on. He says, it wasn't enough to be
Traveler's Choice in twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, and
twenty twenty five on trip Advisor. Who cares about trip Advisor?
It wasn't enough to be told me, a lot of
people care about trip Advisor, Sean, I don't even look
at trip Advisory. Wow, it wasn't enough to have four
point seven stars on Google with seven hundred reviews for

(01:41:35):
every one of.

Speaker 4 (01:41:36):
Those six years backroun image is so distracting no.

Speaker 1 (01:41:39):
Order to change our menu each season. Just listen to
the sound of my voice roaming through the flavors of Italy.
We are guests in this country, and as guests, we
will not complain. We simply say audio.

Speaker 5 (01:41:51):
So it looks like they complained, went to like old
school like Staples or OfficeMax, and bought like terrible paper
to print.

Speaker 4 (01:42:01):
I want to get a message across then what is
the point of that? I think.

Speaker 1 (01:42:05):
Just listen to the words coming out of my mouth
and you'll understand what they're saying. I can read it.
To our faithful customers, we'll miss you. Perhaps one day
we'll meet again in Italy. And to those we serve
during lockdown when we're the only restaurant open, thank you
for never visiting us once the pandemic ended. Guys to

(01:42:26):
the Highgate Society in London, thank you for never replying
to any of our proposals for collaboration. To those who
lived a few doors away yet ordered delivery from somewhere else,
thank you for your commitment to distance. And they were upset.
They were metal fingers the huh yeah yeah. They wanted
to take it out on everybody in this community. Where

(01:42:50):
they're from, where their restaurant was, and not blame themselves.
And so I say to you, and in instances, whether
where it's not like a leasing issue or then.

Speaker 14 (01:42:59):
Cod the farewell like uh huh, you and everyone could
see you right through what they're doing, and everyone else,
then good luck with your next restaurant.

Speaker 7 (01:43:11):
When this story pops up and you look like a
big whiny cry.

Speaker 1 (01:43:15):
Baby, I will say, it sounds great to have all
these like high reviews on places. That sounds good, but
you know, there's a lot of in a big city,
like let's take New York for instance. I just saw
a video the other day I think it was on
New York Times YouTube or one of those, and they
went to a cheesecake or cheese steak excuse me, a

(01:43:37):
restaurant that's done by like some hipster folks in New
York City, and the place was just popping off, like
absolutely popular, like a line around the corner to get stuff.
They showed a pizza place that's really been getting a
lot of viral attention and they sell out every single
day of their pizzas that they have up for offer,

(01:44:01):
and they have a fan base around the block. I
say to you the Don Cicio restaurant in London. If
you are saying farewell, you cannot blame the customers around you.
You have to at least accept some blame yourself for
not providing the food that they wanted to pay to
go out to eat. All right, that to me seems

(01:44:21):
like a more reasonable outcome here, or a more reasonable
place to blame. But let us know what you think.
Send us a dispatch over at thenewsjunkie dot com.

Speaker 5 (01:44:29):
Porri advisors, you know they're really taking the brunt of this.

Speaker 1 (01:44:34):
Is trip Advisor's top list even good? Who's number one
a trip Advisor in in Orlando? For example?

Speaker 4 (01:44:41):
Those number one sponsor?

Speaker 1 (01:44:43):
Is it even a good outcome that they they ended
up with? Because trip advisors will be like best restaurant
in Orlando the McDonald's on What's before you.

Speaker 5 (01:44:55):
Go there's a lifeblood of the agro tourism industry. A
couple of bad reviews there, you might will close up shop.

Speaker 1 (01:45:01):
Real yeah, I heard that somewhere, And let me know
what number one in Orlando is because I'll see what
it's even close to it.

Speaker 7 (01:45:07):
Well, there's Essentials, Traveler's Choice, Hidden Gems.

Speaker 1 (01:45:12):
Wait Essentials give me Essentials number one on the list
trip Advisor Magic Kingdom.

Speaker 4 (01:45:20):
See what I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:45:22):
I love theme parks. I love food at theme parks.
But come on, trip Advisory. Do you think maybe that's
because more people might be going to the Magic Kingdom
restaurant than the other restaurant. I hold on, maybe they
got an unfaired clicking on local customs. Yeah, that's what
I want to know.

Speaker 5 (01:45:39):
The best way this is not local No, this is
local customs. Is like teaching people how to behave. It's
like the drinking age, walking on the right or left
side of the sidewalk. Spitting is considered root in any
public setting.

Speaker 1 (01:45:54):
Just tell me where. They don't tell me how to tip.
It's not tip Advisor, right. I just want to live
because usually it's stuff that's not really connected with the
good stuff in town. Okay, we're gonna take a quick break.
When we come back, we got jury duty, an update
on that Jacoby Tillman story, and somebody else another judge
just absolutely making insane decisions. A Father of the day,

(01:46:16):
potential Father of the year stuff going on here, and
that is coming up next on the news, Chunkie. Before

(01:46:40):
we get into jury duty, one thing that could be
good news. Big time fingers crossed on this. I don't
know if I'm I'm not really a doomer on this,
but I'm also not in a fully positive mode and
fully believing we could pull this off yet. But there
is at least some progress in the Russia Ukraine front

(01:47:01):
where the President of Ukraine of Vladimir Zelensky, who is
going to be in charge until this war is over,
no matter how long that goes on. Zelensky has spoken
out on Trump's plan for a compromise in a bid
to end the war, and he said that the call
to stop at the current front lines is a good compromise,

(01:47:25):
which would be movement forward if you just said, hey,
right now where the front lines of the war is,
we stop, we back away, we stop killing each other,
we stop this machine just churning up the meat of
young men from Russia and from Ukraine, and we find
some peace here after all of this. And saying that

(01:47:47):
there is at least some good compromise on the line
from Zelensky would be a move forward here. Now, will
Putin accept any of this? I know he better, he better.
He can't win. Putin has shown that Russia is a
paper tiger in the truest sense of the phrase. They
can't even march into Ukraine and take over. Of course

(01:48:09):
Ukraine as the backing of the US military weaponry and such,
some of it at least, but they couldn't do it.
They haven't been able to pull it off. They're in
a stalemate with just Ukraine. Make a deal and the
war stop the bleeding. And I think that would be
a good thing. Sorry time, that would be some positivity
on that front. We shall see. Now we've got to

(01:48:30):
get into jury duty because inside jury duty we have
a father of the day just waiting for us, possibly
the year, possibly you. I'll let you, guys decide just
how bad this actually is. Or maybe you think he's
just a good dad. I don't know, but do jury duty.
Court is now in session.

Speaker 12 (01:48:49):
So put your phone down and pay attention before we
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Speaker 7 (01:49:32):
Day, Father of the Day, and maybe the year.

Speaker 1 (01:49:37):
I you guys can judge for yourselves here. I'm just
going to give you the story and you tell me
what you think of this particular person. This father has
been arrested after some posts appeared online. I guess those
going as Nope is not alone arrested after some toddlers
showed up online. Our friends on Fox thirty five, we're

(01:49:58):
talking about this. Let me see, let's see what they
have for us. This father of the Day, Taylor Canoopu
or new.

Speaker 8 (01:50:06):
Putting a glockhandgun and then a beer bottle in the
hands of his child.

Speaker 4 (01:50:12):
And thanks for joining us tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:50:13):
I'm John Brown.

Speaker 4 (01:50:14):
Good evening, I'm Luancerell.

Speaker 10 (01:50:16):
And this picture shows another child with a bag of marijuana.

Speaker 1 (01:50:20):
So the father has been posting photos of these young children,
these toddlers, younger I think than Jackson Sea Lens kid.
And one of them has a glock, one of them
has a michelob ultra, and one of them has a
large bag of marijuana. And all those things are obviously

(01:50:41):
not good to give kids, one would say, at the
very least. But he's propping them up with him for
these photos. And now he's in some trouble. Let's see
what else they say Fox.

Speaker 10 (01:50:51):
Thirty five Chancellor when is joining us live in Vlusia
County tonight.

Speaker 4 (01:50:54):
So Chancellor deputy said, this father stage these photos.

Speaker 1 (01:50:58):
I hope so investigators safe. I mean, I hope the
father staged the photos in.

Speaker 4 (01:51:04):
The room and those kids were right by the micultron gun.

Speaker 1 (01:51:08):
We've got a larger problem here. If the kids just
went to get the weed, the gun, the beer by themselves,
that would be bigger.

Speaker 17 (01:51:16):
I think father he staged those photos. Well at least
one of those girls was sleeping.

Speaker 1 (01:51:20):
Now.

Speaker 17 (01:51:20):
What's also interesting is the Department of Children and Families
they say when they went to that house, they went
to the kids room, and inside that room they found
plywood walls, exposed wiring, and they say that the kids
should not have been living in those conditions. Wouldn't combine
that with the photos the father allegedly staged.

Speaker 1 (01:51:35):
That landed him behind bars.

Speaker 4 (01:51:37):
He has since bonded out.

Speaker 17 (01:51:38):
Wow, he is facing felling charges of child neglect.

Speaker 1 (01:51:41):
There you go, the dad and now in jail. We
bonded out and he's facing child neglect charges over the
condition of the house that they were also in. As
is often the case when trashy ass stuff like this
happens with parents, you show up at the house and
you go, oh wo trash as shocker, Yeah, trashy ass house.
They exposed wires with little toddlers wandering around. I mean,

(01:52:04):
you got like actual parents who say, let's safeguard the
house and make sure we do everything to get to
our ultimate goal of safely raising our child without it
getting hurt.

Speaker 7 (01:52:16):
Or cabinet locks and then that plastic piece over the
electrical outlets, corners are shaved down or something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:52:26):
It's a dangerous world, even if you're trying, even if
you're trying to keep them alive. In this case, when
you're not trying, it gets a bit worse, and that's
Father of the Day territory for Taylor. Noop of a
father of the year.

Speaker 4 (01:52:40):
There's a challenge accepted some father out there. I'm sure.

Speaker 5 (01:52:45):
I also think we should be able to legally get
out of this by saying, like, yes they were stage,
that wasn't real marijuana.

Speaker 1 (01:52:52):
You could and you never know. I mean, it's just
a picture you are or AI. Now, it's a very
difficult thing. Back to the Jacob Tillman case. If you're
not familiar, this is the guy who continues to attack women,
rape women, say that he's fantasizing about killing them. He's
choking these random strangers out on this jogging trail where
they are committing the grave crime of wanting to jog

(01:53:14):
outside with peace. And generally they're successful in doing this
until judges get in their way and do absolutely unhinged things.
And that's what's happened here. The woman in twenty twenty
two says she was groped while this Jacoby by this
Jacoby Tilman guy while she was jogging. His bond was
revoked more recently after a judge granted him a bond

(01:53:36):
where he had to pay out nine hundred and fifty
dollars to get out of jail. He immediately violated that
bond by threatening the witnesses in the case and posting
on social media about it, and they handcuffed him and
random into custody. I don't know how long he's going
to be in there for. Are socials public like I haven't.

Speaker 5 (01:53:55):
I've read and heard a bunch of times that he's
tried to intimidate witness is or at least even communicate
with people he's not supposed to communicate with.

Speaker 1 (01:54:04):
But are there actually clips of this happening. I don't
know what his socials are.

Speaker 4 (01:54:09):
So it was TikTok from what I understood.

Speaker 7 (01:54:11):
And then it was not like he was mentioning the person,
but it was clear when he was talking to the
camera that it was being directed at anyone who happened
to be watching it, in the sense like I know someone.

Speaker 1 (01:54:27):
A text message or something I didn't see myself. Find
it one of the craziest things about this judge Elaine Barber,
who let this violent man out and didn't care apparently
who was next to be raped or who was next
to be attacked by this monster of an animal, a
human shaped animal. Jacoby Tillman. One of the things that's

(01:54:50):
most shocking to me is he was on the run
for over two months, all right. He was on the run.
He was not willing to work with law enforcement or
the courts, and he was on the run for more
more than two months before they arrested him in October.
And then it was the judge of Laine Barber who
released him two days later on that nine five hundred
dollars bond. So the judge even knew that they couldn't

(01:55:10):
get a hold of him for months. He wasn't listening
to law enforcement, he wasn't listening to the court, he
wasn't doing anything. But she just wanted to do this
for whatever reason. I don't even know her motivation. I
don't know. It's an experiment with the world. It's a
way to go, hey, I'll just do this and then
unleash this person back on society. And then you get

(01:55:32):
these situations like you had with Daniel Penny in New
York City. You get these situations like you had with
the poor Ukrainian woman and Charlotte on public transits because
the judges and in some cases the prosecutors, but a
lot of times these people who we rely on to
keep us safe, keep us away from habitual offenders, don't

(01:55:52):
do it. And I've talked about this before, but you
can look this up if you'd like to. You could
solve about seventy to eighty percent of the violent crime
in the United States of America Like that. Like that,
seventy to eighty percent of the violent crime is committed
by people with three or more felonies on their history. Okay,

(01:56:18):
people who over and over and over and over again
violate the law and hurt people and rob people and
overall bring negativity to the communities that they live in.
That's where this is coming from. It's the vast majority
of this is these repeat offenders, right, And while I
don't want somebody spending thirty years behind bars for a
weed charge or something stupid like that, I do want

(01:56:41):
repeat offenders kept out of the public square. And it's
not just happening here in Oklahoma. Let me bring this
story up because I'll wrap up jury duty with this
because this one also got me. Hang on, let me
bring up the story here. This was a high school
baseball star, all right, who who pleaded no contests to

(01:57:03):
these charges. Hang on, no contest and the parents at
the school, everybody else obviously very upset. And this high
school baseball star, his name was Jesse mac Butler. All right,
uh herius, the fat little baseball kid. And hold on,
this is well, it didn't even show it anymore. He

(01:57:26):
has been arrested. He was facing a seventy eight year sentence.
All right, this young guy, this dude at this school,
and it says Oklahoma teen facing nearly eighty years behind
bars after being convicted of raping and assaulting two high
school girlfriends has dodged prison altogether under a shocking sweetheart
plea deal, sparking outrage. Jesse mac Butler eighteen. He's eighteen now.

(01:57:51):
He was seventeen when this happened, which is one of
the reasons why they tried to give him some leniency.
But I don't care. He avoided jail time last week
over the spate of sikatawn on two sixteen year old girls,
including one that left the victim close to death after
being choked unconscious. My gosh, here he is. This is
a loser who did this, some little, fat, chevy baseball
player kid. And the two girlfriends he was with said

(01:58:14):
that he raped them and attacked them and then was
facing seventy eight years behind bars, and they did a
plea deal and the judge signs off on this, and
they switch them from an adult to a youthful offender,
and he won't spend a day behind bars. He has
a year of rehabit community service and that's it, that's

(01:58:35):
all he's facing. This is one of the victims who
was like hospitalized afterwards because she almost died because this
loser attacked him. And what did the judges do? What
do the prosecutors do? Enough is enough? I think a
lot of people just want to feel safe and they
want the bad guys punished. And if you are rooting
for the bad guys, if you are rooting for the criminals,

(01:58:56):
if you are rooting for anything other than people to
being able to enjoy their lives and relative safety, I
am rooting against you in the strongest way possible. I'll
point this out wherever I see it, But this is
another case of that absolutely happening. All right, send us
your thoughts, your dispatches over it, thenewsjunkie dot com, thenews

(01:59:16):
junkie dot com when we come back the Power hour
of the show. I guess there was something crazy that
happened technical glitch during a whow tapping way Sean, Oh no,
did I drop?

Speaker 5 (01:59:34):
You had a technical glitch and it came back right
as you said, technical glitch?

Speaker 1 (01:59:39):
Did it really?

Speaker 4 (01:59:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:59:43):
That I purposely did that. Yeah, you're good. You're a
little bit when we come back. That was a little
drama for me. That was a little acting, if you will,
all right, I went to a very famous acting school
called CSB. You don't know it because you don't know

(02:00:04):
about acting stuff, but it's the Connecticut School of Beautiful Acting.
And I will tell you what was going on with
this glitch that is going viral moments from now that's
coming up next to the news Chunkie, don't forget we

(02:00:35):
got these keywords. They show up all the time on
this station, and when you hear one, make sure for
once you get off your ass and do what it
tells you to do, because if you do, you could
possibly win a thousand dollars. We've had people do this,
but a lot of people go I tried and I
didn't win. Everybody else gives up to all of a sudden,
they do one of these keywords, and you find out

(02:00:56):
that you and fifty other people were the only ones
brave enough to take a shot at it. And there's
your thousand dollars. So keep listening, keep paying attention to
those keywords, and good luck to you. We'll get to
this technical error bit of a glitch that happened in
the sports world. Everybody goes nuts, everybody's so so mean,
nobody has any charity in terms of how they take

(02:01:18):
these things off. But the crashouts have never been as
big and explosive as they have been in twenty twenty five.
And I don't know if I can find this fastening up,
but I'll tell you about it regardless. There's a politician
right now in a pretty epic crash out by the
name of Graham Platner. And you guys probably haven't heard

(02:01:38):
of this guy. Well, dog gams what I call him? No,
it's not Graham Latinators, it's Graham Platiner, I believe Platner.
And he's a Democrat running for the Senate seats in Maine.
And uh, it's so fantastic to watch this bizarre It

(02:02:00):
was a lot of skin, is what I could see.
There's a lot of photos of him with his shirt off.
I don't know how you get to this point. But
people were upset with his tattoo, which I don't even
know why. They were saying it was like some sort
of Nazi tattoo that this guy had. It's like a
skull tattoo or something. But people were upset about his
tattoo for one, but there was so much more. And

(02:02:22):
then he was on Pod Save America, which is like
a religious I mean, but a political podcast. And as
they had him on Pod Save America, they had found
his Reddit history. I love that, and they just started like,
bringing up is a reddit history? I'm seeing some of

(02:02:43):
the clips here, but oh god, all right, hold on this. Yeah, here,
here's the guy. This is a Democrat Senate candidate in Maine,
Graham Platner. And before they interviewed him, they found his
Reddit history and they started asking him about stuff.

Speaker 20 (02:03:00):
The first Reddit post I wanted to ask you about
is from twenty thirteen. So someone wrote on Reddit, what
is one question you've always wanted to ask someone of
another race?

Speaker 1 (02:03:09):
You responded, why don't black people tip? I work? Let's
see what they've got in his Reddit history, folks, which
he didn't scrub before running for office. He wanted to
ask in a thread about like what question would you
like to ask another race? And he said, why don't
black people tip? And let's let's watch them defense.

Speaker 20 (02:03:28):
As a bartender, and it always amazes me how solid
the stereotype is. Every now and again a black patron
will leave a fifteen to twenty percent tip, but usually
it is between zero and five percent. There's got to
be a reason behind it.

Speaker 1 (02:03:39):
What is it? End of quote? How did you feel
rereading that post?

Speaker 20 (02:03:44):
And what's your response to people who hear that and
think that is like textbook racism and it's offensive.

Speaker 1 (02:03:49):
One, I was legitimately asking the question, it's not racist,
but I'm really just asking. Look, I'm legitimately asking a
question here.

Speaker 4 (02:04:05):
Breathe or think Before that response.

Speaker 1 (02:04:09):
I guess he's he's kind of between a rock and
a hard places, because what is he going to say?
It's a result of this.

Speaker 7 (02:04:14):
But he's like, you know, I mean, like I was
just joking, yeah, or I have a black friend.

Speaker 1 (02:04:21):
Okay, let's let's put some bets down. Does he mention
a black friend here that or like he's and he'll
probably say even my black friend had expressed being very
curious about this lack of tipping among African Americans. He
might do that I've not heard this thing, but he
may go, actually, you're actually racist for bringing this up.

(02:04:44):
That's what's happening here. Let's see what else they saying.

Speaker 11 (02:04:46):
Point of the thread was to ask the question. Amusingly enough,
a couple I remember this time when I had first
started bartending, and then I had a conversation with a
friend of mine who was black.

Speaker 1 (02:04:58):
Who was I swear to god, I didn't pre listen,
And the friend was a bartender, so you know, the
black bartender friend also experiences black people not tipping all
that same I was actually asking on his behalf, that's
what he's gonna do. I'm telling you, I did not watch.

Speaker 11 (02:05:20):
This who did a great job of walking me through
structural injustice and the fact that the feelings of lack
of agency.

Speaker 1 (02:05:27):
Yeah, I totally bet your black friend who happens to
be a bartender was walking you through like privilege and
you know, a social justice things and you're like yeah, yeah, yeah,
And then he's like, one thing that is true though,
is the blackstone tip? Well, they I'm sure, I'm sure
that that that is definitely a thing that really happened.

Speaker 11 (02:05:48):
There were a whole bunch of reasons, and I've been
after that. I was like, yeah, that makes that makes
absolutely perfect sense. It was certainly not as a malicious thing.
I was asking the question because that was.

Speaker 1 (02:05:57):
Why is it the Jews are in control of so
much money? I'm just asking I'm just asking a question.
I love that I'm not for malicious reasons. I love
the idea of asking it and afterwards being like, okay, okay,
well it's very interesting. I just wanted to No, you're
saying that because you already believe it. You're saying it
because you believe it through your life experiences. In this case,

(02:06:18):
you're being a bartender.

Speaker 5 (02:06:19):
I've seen threads like these, and usually like the the
number one comment, depending on the platform, is from a
black person that's like, white people, why y'all let your
dogs lick you on the face.

Speaker 1 (02:06:34):
It's like fair questions.

Speaker 4 (02:06:36):
You're like, why do you smell like pennies?

Speaker 1 (02:06:40):
They're exchanging on my guess, it's like you've got things
that you wanted to say. Maybe that's the point of
the thread. What else did he say? On red? Kind
of the point of the thread? Actually, so you're so
you're saying that.

Speaker 7 (02:06:50):
Okay, I thought it was it's dumped.

Speaker 1 (02:06:54):
I assumed that they were going to be nice and
good little boys about this on this podcast, that they
wouldn't curse, but I guess they do.

Speaker 5 (02:07:08):
I think part of the problem is with at least
in this case, is that that term s posting, which
is the thing we had to dump, has become like.

Speaker 1 (02:07:20):
Really really common in the vernacular.

Speaker 5 (02:07:24):
I wouldn't be I wouldn't be surprised if you found
it added to a dictionary at some at some point, because.

Speaker 1 (02:07:30):
It probably would fly if we just let it go.

Speaker 5 (02:07:33):
It's less of an exploitive lately and more of just
a term for a thing that people do on on
online on online forums to get reactions.

Speaker 1 (02:07:45):
I want to hear another Reddit post, but now I'm
worried about it. You got a crazy guy, You're pretty good,
We're I don't want them to curse, but I want
to know some more embarrassing Reddit posts. It's gotten a
lot of attention.

Speaker 20 (02:07:57):
Is there were posts from twenty thirteen where it seemed
like you were playing down the challenges faced by members
of the military who were trying to report sexual assault allegations.
The first post was in today's current climate, when every
whisper of a misplaced hand brings down a feature link film.
Anyone who actually thinks the military is purposely covering up
rape to save a career of some goddamn captain is

(02:08:17):
clearly both an idiot and junior enough in ranker life
experience to think it matters. And then there was another
post where he suggested the way to avoid getting sexually
assaulted was not to get blacked out drunk.

Speaker 1 (02:08:27):
Oh no, it's the short dress the short skirt argument here.

Speaker 18 (02:08:31):
Oh no, hear his response, you know a short skirt friend,
he's going to say.

Speaker 1 (02:08:37):
I was talking to my short skirted friend, and she
too was saying that that's where he's going.

Speaker 11 (02:08:44):
I didn't know what I was talking about at this point.
I had just gotten out of the infantry. It's important.
My time in the service was in the infantry, assaultier,
all male branch. I had only recently separated, buddy.

Speaker 1 (02:09:00):
Just say it was over ten years ago. I don't
agree with any of those things anymore. I was dumb
to say them. If you believe that, or if you
still believe the things you posted, just say it. It depends.
I mean, this guy's a grown ass man. I don't
know how old it is, but it sometimes I say
that because sometimes they'll take a twenty five year old

(02:09:20):
and they'll go ten years ago you posted this, and
it's like, who cares? There was teenagers online posting stuff.
Get over yourself. But if you posted it and you
disavow it and you disagree with it, then just say that,
Just say that. I'm more annoyed, and I think most
people would be at people just trying to go, like,
explain everything away. Just say my opinions changed over time.

(02:09:42):
I was dumb before, or I was you know, racist before.
If you believe that or if you don't. If you don't,
then just go Now that's how I feel. That's how
I feel about things. That's what I think is an
accurate example of what the world looks like. I didn't
know they were cursing on these podcasts or political podcasts.
Unbelievable over there. Okay, we are going to get to
a couple of year dispatches. Let's start. Who is the.

Speaker 5 (02:10:05):
Guy the the senator dude that always wears shorts and
uh fatterman, I think that's Sue p. Eisenberg's talking about.
He texted me, and he's like, yeah, the dude that
always wears hoodies. He was being interviewed this morning and
he said the uh something about the Congress is sie
you know.

Speaker 1 (02:10:25):
Oh yeah, And they just let that fly. But didn't
Trump drop the f last week.

Speaker 5 (02:10:31):
Yeah, it was with America kind of thing. So we're
to the point where this is just common. The use
of bad words has changed a lot. But still we
got these FCC rules around here. By the way, the
story about the glitch is really not much of anything.
But NBC had some big technical problems. They said, just
minutes into their new season, Uh, there was a female
broadcaster in particular that her microphone was glitching out and

(02:10:54):
was cutting off, and this was happening to a couple
of other people there. And the audience has like, no,
no charitability when they watch something like this.

Speaker 1 (02:11:03):
The season just started. Yeah, well, they're just the whole thing.
They're like, NBC is a joke. The whole thing's a joke.
They shouldn't be doing the NBA broadcast. You guys suck.
Give them a second. Do you know how many things
there are to go wrong on any kind of broadcast
like this? If they keep screwing it up. If they
keep screwing it up, then go okay, you guys can't

(02:11:24):
seem to get it under control. This is a problem.

Speaker 7 (02:11:26):
It is they signed a contract. That's their problem. Contractually,
for a minute, I imagine.

Speaker 1 (02:11:32):
I would I would imagine they have some sort of
long term deal and this is not going to affect that.
But I would suggest that this is like just people
being whiny about things. Oh my god, the microphone cut
out for a moment. We will all survive. Now to
the dispatch. Here, here's the brown pony talking about that
Father of the Day candidate.

Speaker 16 (02:11:51):
Hello for the Father of the day. What if the
dad just goes, oh, those pictures are AI.

Speaker 1 (02:11:58):
They weren't real. Is there any way to prove or
not prove that?

Speaker 16 (02:12:03):
And let's say you say that, can the judge go, well,
I can't take the risk just in case they are real,
I have to charge you. Now It's like, can you
be charged for AI photos or the other way around.
If he says these are AI and the judge goes, well,
now I have no way of moving that these aren't
real or that they are real.

Speaker 1 (02:12:22):
I don't know, Like where do we go from there? Well,
here's the department proof would be on the on the state,
on the go. Yeah yeah, yeah. But but the way
this would work is, if you have evidence in a case,
you have to bring forward somebody to try to prove
to the jury that the evidence is real. So you
would have to say, here are the photographs, where did
they come from? Where would you know? I know you would.

(02:12:44):
You would be able to go through that and show, hey,
this guy is lying. It wasn't AI that created these photographs.
Can you say with one hundred percent certainty? I don't know.
I mean, I don't know if you could say anything
with one hundred percent certainty anymore in the world of AI.
But the jury would decide. That's what ends up happening.
The jury would decide whether or not the photographs of

(02:13:07):
the father were real.

Speaker 4 (02:13:08):
Or really They're going to say where did they come from?

Speaker 1 (02:13:10):
Where do they go?

Speaker 4 (02:13:11):
One more time?

Speaker 1 (02:13:12):
Oh did I? Oh yeah, I got into Cotton Eye
Joe territory. Now yeah, it's a classic. It's a banger.
But I'm at the skate rink all over again. Yeah.
That shows your age. That shows your age, because for me,
it was like look Out Weekend. It was not to.

Speaker 5 (02:13:33):
A ch There were a lot of songs that were
just classic that that situation. Another one of them is
that damned song from Ferris Bueller.

Speaker 1 (02:13:44):
Oh yeah, Yellow, Yeah. Yeah. We used to play that
when I was DJing weddings, and they would do the
whole thing where you, you know, take off the corsage
the garter and like then somebody puts it back on.

(02:14:04):
I think that's been abandoned largely, which is probably a
good thing.

Speaker 4 (02:14:07):
But well, because someone I caught the I caught the bouquet.

Speaker 1 (02:14:12):
No, the bouquet is still it's bouquet.

Speaker 4 (02:14:15):
And then the person who caught garter put it on
my leg.

Speaker 1 (02:14:20):
And every time we did it it was weird. Every
single time we did it at one of those weddings,
it was weird. It never got normal.

Speaker 5 (02:14:27):
Apparently, allegedly, there is a recording of that being done
at my cousin's wedding and a very young Christopher Lane
was heard in the background yelling to take it off
with your.

Speaker 1 (02:14:39):
Teeth and you were talking to your cousin. Yeah, And
I know for sure.

Speaker 5 (02:14:46):
Which uncle fed me that line, because there's no no
way in hell I would have come up with that
myself or had the balls.

Speaker 1 (02:14:53):
To yell it. Yeah, all right, okay, here's were to
do break. We're a little bit behind. When we come back,
we have any stories to head. I will do a
grab bag segment and touch on a bunch of stuff,
including some new technology that is going to well, I
don't know, some of you might really really like this.
This will see what people think of it, because this

(02:15:14):
is going to change things in a place where you
might not want things to change. That's all I'll say
for right now, but I'll pay this off that's coming
up next. I'm going to use junk kie. The technology

(02:15:42):
world is a world where we made a huge mistake.
The motto of the day or mantra, if you will,
I've made a huge mistake where often things go too far.
And this is not even the first time on this
show that we've heard the tech people pushing this stuff,
but they're pushing it big and it's a toilet company.

(02:16:05):
You're probably familiar with coler I think it's how you
say yeah uh and look up the the device that
they're trying to hoist and foist onto the American public.
They're trying to shove this onto you. It's called the
Colar Dakota d E k O d A. And it's

(02:16:29):
yet another one of these toilet cams where they want
you they want you to strap on the toilet and
then the toilet's gonna the camera is gonna watch the
toilet and they give you feedback and then you when
you sit down on the toilet, there's a fingerprint scanner
so it knows which person is going to the bathroom.
And then you don't folder make sure we clearly file

(02:16:53):
all of.

Speaker 4 (02:16:54):
These like a sweet little movie at the end of
the year. The iPhone does everyone in a while, you
and your furry friends.

Speaker 1 (02:17:01):
I don't want to see that movie. I don't want
to know anything about that.

Speaker 4 (02:17:05):
And the price is insane. Secondly, they're absolutely selling that
data to somebody else, are they not.

Speaker 1 (02:17:15):
No, I wouldn't be surprised. It's six hundred dollars. Just
for the record, folks, A six hundred dollars toilet sensor
that scans what you leave behind in the toilet for
health insights is stop the subscription. I don't know, is
there no? If?

Speaker 7 (02:17:30):
I have a ninety nine available now for pre order,
all right, And it also requires a subscription plan that
costs either seven dollars a month or seventy the entire year.

Speaker 1 (02:17:41):
Why a subscription plan to a toilet cam that's unhinged? Yeah? Wait,
so you get that hacked bathroom What did say? Bathroom
tech discovered Dakota. I'm on the actual website for it
right now, and it says, you know, shop Dakota and
decode your bodies signals. Dakota is the first of its

(02:18:02):
kind health tracker that attaches to the toilet. It analyzes
gut health and hydration and detects the presence of blood
and the toilet bowl. I don't need you for that,
by the way, providing data for building health. You just
look and pointed out a bitch. There we go, I
got a little blood. Deep dive into the design. They
have sensors that see health. Clearly. It's an interesting way

(02:18:23):
to say that the sensors can see the health easily.
It's designed around.

Speaker 7 (02:18:28):
You Google image it take a picture and then do
uh Google image search.

Speaker 1 (02:18:35):
I've never tried that with like AI or chat GPT,
they might be able to do it, but this this
also does.

Speaker 5 (02:18:41):
It'll tell you while here one thing I have not
flexed my Chat GPT muffles on you. But analyze this dump.
Please tell me.

Speaker 1 (02:18:49):
What's going on, go beyond gut instincts is what the
balloon not should look like. What they'll tell you what immunity,
digestion and nutrients orption stats are for you.

Speaker 7 (02:19:02):
And oh my god, back in our day, you just
pooped in a tube and you've mailed it over.

Speaker 1 (02:19:09):
This is weirder than that. Somehow they show you like
on the app and you can look at the days
and then it tells you what you have and they'll
do a push notification corn on Tuesday it says blood
in bowl. It's a push notification to your phone. Blood
in bowl. Your last result at ten forty five pm
today detected signs of blood in the toilet bowl Like

(02:19:29):
you call it a result. That's what they're good for
their your last results. Hang on, honey, I got to
take a huge result, right, really so weird, dude. I
don't want this tech of my toilet, but maybe you do.

Speaker 4 (02:19:42):
Somebody does.

Speaker 1 (02:19:43):
And it's not only five ninety nine dollars, which is
expensive already, but then you got to pay a monthly fee.
That's insane. Yeah, no, that's ridiculous.

Speaker 7 (02:19:54):
Oh use my deductible for something like that, which, by
the way, after my medical procedure this week. I'm coming
out of the anesthesia, and they're like, and we got
these pictures for you and chub the right in my
face and gave it to Nicole to put in.

Speaker 1 (02:20:09):
Oh god, they recommended Dakota.

Speaker 4 (02:20:13):
They did not.

Speaker 7 (02:20:15):
Out in color laser printer style and the pictures of insights.

Speaker 1 (02:20:21):
I never got a single photo from my inside.

Speaker 4 (02:20:24):
I will it was something.

Speaker 1 (02:20:26):
I think they give you more now, Like, for instance,
Dylan got that mouth surgery done today. He's got his
wisdom teeth taken out because he had some impacted stuff.
Who yeah, like, here you go, here's the stuff we
skull he got four five taken out. He got. Yeah,

(02:20:48):
it looks like it. I guess you want. Maybe I'll
show you. Hang on, let me move off of his face.

Speaker 4 (02:20:53):
Must be swoll.

Speaker 15 (02:20:57):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:21:04):
A little chipmunks, a little chipmunk dout. He's doing better.

Speaker 4 (02:21:08):
He was in pain, man, I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (02:21:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:21:12):
So whatever you don't use out of that bottle, bring
it over to Orlando.

Speaker 1 (02:21:17):
It was worried about that too, but I don't Maybe
maybe they told him that he needed this toilet thing too.
Maybe they're pushing this everywhere. An I'm not sure if
that's happening, but well, honestly, I sure hope that it's not.

Speaker 18 (02:21:30):
Okay, we're going to share the pictures of the corn
or you know what, I could go without seeing it
for the roast on the projector I'm good not seeing
that personally, and the tea thing I didn't even really
need to see.

Speaker 1 (02:21:43):
Okay, we're gonna do a quick break when we come back.
We'll get to the final dispatches stories that did not
make the cut. And of course today I learned to
wrap everything up for a Wednesday that is coming up
next and the News Junkie. The roast is, as I said,

(02:22:16):
just over a week away, and we can't wait to
see you out there. Yeah, you can wear a costume.
There are some rules, but you can also just dress
up fancy. That's what I'm doing. We're going to really
really bring it for the Halloween roast of me Sean Watson,
which is coming up next week on Thursday. And the
details that you need to know are at Thenewsjunkie dot com,

(02:22:38):
slash roast, slash roast on the website. And let's see
what we have here on the way out, so we
have some time, we have enough, Yes, we do, let's
do our final dispatch.

Speaker 2 (02:22:50):
He's on the final dispatches, but Sean will probably only
play yes, Indeed, here we go.

Speaker 1 (02:22:59):
Final dispatch is We'll start off with hang on you
refreshed for the latest, and start off with the landman
talking about my mom is Ai.

Speaker 21 (02:23:13):
Hey, News Junkie crew, Hey, I was just talking with
my sons about this very thing in the car on
the way home from school as I picked them up.

Speaker 1 (02:23:23):
My mom passed in twenty twenty two. Sorry about that.

Speaker 21 (02:23:27):
And I would talk to my mom all the time
when she was around. I still talked to her a
little bit off into the heavens. But have a couple
of big life decisions coming up. And I said to
my sons, as we're riding in the car, I wonder
if I could teach Ai to sound like my mom
so that if I had something I needed to talk
to her about, AI would talk to me in her voice.

(02:23:47):
And both my sons looked at me and went, Dad,
you are a weirdo. So I think that pretty much
answers that, yeah, you.

Speaker 1 (02:23:55):
Doesn't want to do it.

Speaker 15 (02:23:56):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:23:56):
Your son's bullied you. They bullied you into compliance.

Speaker 4 (02:24:00):
Is the prisoners doing the.

Speaker 1 (02:24:04):
You know, the phrase inmate's running the asylum. Yeah, yeah,
they they took over here. And I say, do what
you want, sir, If the mom a I makes you happy,
do it please. Big Fella sends a video dispatch saying
I'm visiting San Francisco from Orlando, saying in the Tenderloin district,
you brave son of a bitch. I'm a man, I'm

(02:24:25):
in no way a Trump fan, but sending the troops
clean this area up. Says this person. Yeah, you know,
I just saw a thing, and I don't know how
true this was. They send in a video dispatch of
a bunch of addicts like doing that whole zombie thing
on the streets. Yeah, it's just wild.

Speaker 7 (02:24:40):
Their legs still work, but yeah they could stand up
straight while their entire upper half is leaned over.

Speaker 1 (02:24:47):
One of the people in the video dispatch has a
needle like picking at something, and it's it's vile. You're
in the Tenderloine District, which I would encourage you to
never ever ever visit again until there are some major changes.
I was just assured by the Wall Street Journal. They
literally had an article. I don't know if I have
it anywhere, but they had an article that was like

(02:25:07):
San Francisco's back baby, and all is well, and maybe
there's some changes going on there, but the tendrilin district
has been the spot where things have been absolutely the worst.
I would say all of downtown San fran is an
exposition of bad utopian policies. Not understanding how drugs work

(02:25:30):
in addiction among homeless people, not understanding how homelessness works,
thinking that if we just go a little further, if
we just love them a little bit more, if we
can hug this out of we'll get them a clean
needle and hug it right out of them. It is
on display how bad that is in a functioning society,
and how it is not the empathetic thing that so

(02:25:50):
many of its supporters think it is. At the end,
you're doing something horrific because these people are being enabled
to live life this way, and it is no way
to live any life. But stay out of the tenderline
until big, big changes.

Speaker 4 (02:26:03):
Now I'm hungry.

Speaker 1 (02:26:05):
Here's somebody's saying boomers are not all stupid.

Speaker 9 (02:26:09):
Hello, Hello Lane, that's you're doing well? Hey, Sean, Sabrina
and Sea Lane. Hi, hope you're doing well. Sean.

Speaker 1 (02:26:20):
I am a boomer. I was born fifty seven, nineteen fifty.

Speaker 9 (02:26:26):
I'm not your target audience, but I did listen almost
every day.

Speaker 1 (02:26:30):
Thank you.

Speaker 9 (02:26:30):
I just wanted to let you know that all boomers
are not dumbasses. I mean, I have an online business
that I run. I fix everybody's computers. I'm stupid like
you and Sabrina. Thing that's our anyway, there's some of
us that actually have a brain. Thanks, enjoy the show,

(02:26:53):
have a great day, great wiggle pop up.

Speaker 1 (02:26:56):
I do not think boomers are done.

Speaker 4 (02:26:58):
I don't think are dumb. I think I was pretty
sure with you that said it.

Speaker 1 (02:27:02):
However, I will say, and for some reason, people are
allergic to speaking in general generalities these days, but I
will say, generally speaking, boomers are dumb about AI. They are.
They are dumb, and they're more susceptible when it comes
to AI. You know, there's young people are dumb about
certain things that that boomers aren't dumb about. Boomers, generally speaking,

(02:27:24):
most of them are not very AI savvy, and.

Speaker 5 (02:27:29):
People are often dumb about the things that they never
taught them in school, like buying houses and doing taxes,
changing your wipers, anything or screens.

Speaker 1 (02:27:40):
That's not a quote for me. Don't put that on
your screen. I did not roasted. I said boomers are
dumb when it comes to your AI if you're speaking
generally about the population. All right, hold on that, will
I will.

Speaker 4 (02:27:54):
It's too long, I will.

Speaker 5 (02:27:56):
I'll correct it. Here we go one, two, three, and
now you know that it's not the whole dot dot dot.

Speaker 1 (02:28:01):
That doesn't help me out at all. Final thing here,
there's a new shield ai jet. The future of war
this is and this shield ai Jet is an automated
powered plane doesn't need a human being. They're kind of
cool looking. Honestly, they fire off vertically. You could show

(02:28:21):
this to everybody on the stream the least, and it's
kind of cool. And they are the real deal. They're
supposed to be released in the next couple of years.

Speaker 5 (02:28:29):
Really sure that that's not just an AI generated picture
of cool looking jets.

Speaker 1 (02:28:34):
It it might be, but this is what they're building
out and they already have all the tech I think
ready to go. It's called shield Ai is the company.
I'll put this up on see it now right after
the show. Actually, I'll do it now. I'll see it
now at now that's what's happening. Baby are dumb? Boomers
are dumb? Shoot that does sound dumb?

Speaker 4 (02:28:57):
Yeah, okay, you said so much.

Speaker 1 (02:29:01):
I'll kill you over the chicken. I will still kill
you over the chicken. I just want to be as
clear as I possibly can with that. Please put a
new AI jets got it up for you over on.
See it now, take a look at it when you
get a chance. They are really cool looking, honest to God,
and they're available for you and to fly over all

(02:29:22):
the website. Check it out at thenewsjunkie dot com. Did
I not screenshot it that whole time all that time?
Are dumb? I meant it in a different context where
dumb about AI? That's what they're dumb about. They're smart
about so many things you know back in my day stuff.
You guys are fantastic about that, and I love you
for it. There it is now, it's up on see

(02:29:44):
it now, and now it's time to get the hell
out of here. Let's do today.

Speaker 4 (02:29:47):
I learned the.

Speaker 20 (02:29:47):
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Speaker 2 (02:30:52):
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