The New Insult

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

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Litty good? How are you?

Speaker 1 (00:07):
I don't believe either one of you today. Sometimes I I.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Was very good, I am good, but it was pouring
here and I was scared.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Oh yeah, yeah, a little nasty outside today.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
I mean little nasty. It's little blown nasty. You can't
see anything nasty.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah, I mean I'm I'm a little bit worse for
wear because I stayed up a lot later than.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Usual last night eleven thirty pm.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
No, I stay up later, not every night. I said,
about twelve, not twelve thirty. We lay down crazy last night.
What time did you go to bed? Cowboy? All right?
Last night? By the way, both of you sobre went
to bed before everybody.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Cowgirl absolutely went to bed at eight thirty pm.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Right, So it is worth.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Noting if this, you know, adds anything to my holster.
I woke up at eleven pm, two am, four am,
and then finally got out of bed at five am.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Oh that's rough, that's you know, what's weird though? When
you do that? Does this ever happen to you? The
only really great sleep you get is the sleep right
before you have to wake up. Absolutely like that last
little bit but were.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
The sleep that you get on the couch and you
don't want to sleep there the whole night. But I'm
I'm just I've fallen asleep like a sweet little baby.
And then I wake up, I'm like, oh, I do
have to move to the bed to get the proper sleep?

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Did I did I outlast Yu Sea Lane? How they
were you up?

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Probably?

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Was I still like twelve thirty? Whoa said? My voice
sounds my voice sounds just fine. I got I got
to I got to bed at one thirty. Who because
according and I went to the Lil Wayne concert last night?
You didn't? Yeah, yeah we didn't. Yeah for real, we
went to see Lil Wayne last night. When did you
make that decision?

Speaker 3 (01:47):
This is the first I've heard of you wanting to
see Lil Wayne.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Kind of a last minute thing.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
I wanted to see low Wayne so bad. And then
I saw a clip of Low Wayne's tour.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Oh really was it not good? The clip of you
saw he's doing? Because he was so good? He was
really he was he was great? Where was he? No?
I definitely did go. It was that the well used
to be called the Amway. It's a Kia center. Now,
what was their song. Oh, I didn't know half the songs,
as you would imagine, but he played. He played a

(02:18):
lot of stuff. And my my favorite thing is rappers.
When you watch a rap concert live, I've now learned
a lot of times they won't play even half the song. No,
not at all.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
I don't know that I've ever seen a rapper play
like maybe their biggest song, they'll do the whole thing,
but for the most part, it's like versu in a chorus,
go versus.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
The chorus go so low. Wyn would be like, and
then he'd be like, let go their next song, thirty
second song.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
There's thirty four songs on the setlist. Oh yeah, I
mean some of them are like I maybe four half songs,
fast fast, fast. And he goes out there, he was great,
He's like.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
A little rock star. This guy. You know what hurt
my feelings? It hurt my feelings so bad. He goes,
how many of you out there have been with me
since the beginning? How many of you guys have been
Lil Wayne fan since the beginning.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
I would have been screaming.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
The crowd's going wild, right, And then he goes, I
thank you, I thank you so much for that. Mostly
because it's now been thirty years since my first.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
What thirty years?

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Thirty years? What the hell is going on out there?
Rocked my world a little bit. But he plays guitar
and stuff, and he's like the sweetest man, and the
only person he was mean to was there was somebody's
job to keep his blunt the whole time on this
little like drug table he has on the side, and they.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Screwed it with we're more than just weed on this table.
We're calling it a drug table.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
It's a little I'm going to be loose with drug
and air quotes. But it seemed like there were people
doing things on that stage, like there were like you know,
you know, those kind of movements and whatnot. But the
blunt really good seats.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
It sounds like, yeah, yeah, who is it that had
a bag of what was assumed to be blow fall
out of their pocket on TV?

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Is that Chris Brown?

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Oh? I know what you're talking about. It was not
Chris Brown. It was like a celebrity would not think
that happened Google.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah. Well, and just real quick, just for the record,
we have the biggest crossover you could ever imagine with
the Lil Wayne audience. I had no idea that that
would ever be the case. But every five feet there
was somebody shouting out my name or saying hello to me.
At this I've been to I've been to real radio
events where I was recognized less times than I was

(04:43):
at the Lil Wayne Show. So hello to everybody out there.
It was a fun time. It was an enjoyable thing.
I'm hip. You know it. Now, you know it. It's
been verified the streets.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Right before you said I'm hip.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
I'm taking it back. I'm taking the word back. All right,
let's do it. Let's put it, use the ground, our
finger in the postals. See what was happening to this great,
big wide world of ours. And we go to San Francisco, California.
Television host is saying goodbye to the audience, the lovely
Reggie a Key. I'm sure a great guy. I'm sure
he is a great guy. Young money Reggie a Key

(05:18):
was up there and he was doing his goodbye on television.
Reggie here, that's right, that's right. And at the beginning
of everything seemed fine. But let's see what happened, all right.

Speaker 5 (05:27):
Ten years is a long time in dog years. That's
like going from a puppy into a senior. Had it
been good at math and science, I could have been
a doctor in those ten years. If this were a
tenure wedding anniversary, I would have a gift of ten
or aluminum. So put me in Reynolds rap because this
is both my tenure work anniversary and my last day
here at ABC.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Seven years did we do this? If we were dogs,
we would be forty years old. Every comparison you could
possibly do now.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
As a matter of fact, when I came to our
tenuere we won reminded you of what it was, and too,
the entire company did.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Not know nothing nothing.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Usually it's like an email that goes out to everybody,
congratulations to seven years, but.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Us right out to the micr Yeah, because it's almost rude,
it really is. Anyways, he's comparing the time he spent
at this television station. It could have been this could
have been this, What am I proudest of in ten years?

Speaker 5 (06:25):
My Mura award if I had one. So it's not
industry accolades. And I really can't pick a particular story
or on air moment either, because I've been on something
like eighty five hundred hours of news shows in those
ten years. I'm exhausted just thinking about that. I think
my proudest moment and the thing I'm going to take

(06:48):
away from this experience my relationships that we built. Natasha,
Mike alexis all.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Right, everything so far, so good. He's, you know, corny
as hell but professional. But now he's talking about the
people don't know.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
I've never heard a grown man sounds so much like
a teenage girl.

Speaker 5 (07:04):
Well, Jessica, Jobina, Kumasi, Drew, Amanda, and you.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
My colinakers. Oh no, keep together, buddy. I'm including you
because you're always a part of this.

Speaker 5 (07:28):
My untrademark directs Sarah the camera. Nowhere's Nina just said, luck,
that was my way of letting you know that I
see you, And of course I don't know.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
I have no way of saying your name, but that
look will indicate that I'm saying thanks for your hard
work the past decade.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Did he refer to the fact that he might not
know some of their names.

Speaker 6 (07:51):
I think I think he went back to talking about
the people watching, But it does definitely sound like like
like he didn't make that abundantly clear, sounds like he
doesn't know.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
He's like Teresa. You know that Thomas Frank you know,
and he says all these days, and then there's some
of you. I just don't know. I never took the
time to memorize your name or anything.

Speaker 5 (08:13):
But I'll go back. Here we go direct Sarah the camera.
Nowhere is Nina just said. Look, that was my way
of letting you know that I see you. And of
course I don't know all your names. But when I
meet you on the street at the store and you
tell me that we make your day just a little
bit better, and then here is a little easier to swallow.
To quote myself, everything is bad to quote me. I

(08:35):
tried every day to give us all.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Who is this guy quoting himself? Everything is bad? But
it isn't. He's crying. And also, I guess he says
at some point in time, I don't know how far
we want to go into this, but I guess he
says it sometime like I'm leaving the news channel, I'm
out of here, and I don't have an I don't

(08:58):
have a new job to go to. That's what he's doing.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
All Well, you know what, got to give it to
whatever company he works for, because that almost never happens.
They're allowed to say, I don't have a job to
go to. Hint, hint, nudge, nudge.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Reggie Key, let him do his thing, let him say
goodbye to everybody. They'll be fine with it. They'll be okay,
he's crumbling soft, their place to land.

Speaker 5 (09:23):
So I'm going to take those relationships, including my daily
one with you. I'm gonna take that over an emmy
ten years. I'm so happy.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
Oh I am.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Sad that it's over.

Speaker 5 (09:37):
And that's perfect because that's my favorite.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Kind of emotion, happy and sad. Right, And as my
dad would say, oh weoll what.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Oh god, the panel of people is like, okay, one
of them is his jez cry.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
I think it's a mixture of the two, you know,
What's what I'm talking about. Second from the.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, over here, she is very sad. He's leading.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
I'm sure they're all so so upset about this whole thing.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
And the maroon is concerned, probably really good friends with
the guy. Guy to her right, her left rather doesn't care.
Let's go this news.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Well, that's him, that's Reggie. That's Reggie here. Yeah, this
is Reggie right here. He's surrounded by these women. Now
the it's going to be a full takeover. Reggie Key's
job is going to be taken by a woman. It's
going to be a full woman panel.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
There's definitely going to be a white dude.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
It's going to be a full woman panel on this show.
Let's see, do they I don't know if they mentioned this.
We don't have time to play the whole thing. It
goes on for a while. I go to the end.
I'll go to the end to see other clear this
guy a long time and say goodbye. They gave him
four minutes because he kept blubbering and stuff.

Speaker 7 (11:00):
Down.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
You and you made them better, and exactly, you make
all of us better.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Oh wow, that's so nice.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
I just we're so happy for you. I know that
my eyelash.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
There is so much celebration of you today and just
gratitude for all that you've made you.

Speaker 5 (11:20):
Well, I really appreciate all of those kind of words.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
So thank you. I will hold that in my heart.
That is for sure. All right.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
The rest of the program after that, I lost until
Drudge Judy comes on.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
This may have been the very end of it, but
there he goes. Good luck, Reggie, good book.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
He needs a.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
He is on a Bloyd currently. Yeah, he maybe took
a buy out from the company. I'm not sure, but
there he is, parting ways, a couple of tears, a
tearful goodbye, and then they move on. And the people
that you can remember their names, they they also move
on as well. So there he goes. All right, when
we come back, we have so much to get to today,
very very very busy show here, and when we come back,

(12:03):
we'll talk specifically about how the Saudi Arabian Comedy Festival is. Now. Finally,
I was wondering about this. I was like, why is
nothing leaking about what they're saying in their stand ups?
It's going on right now. Why don't we know what
the stand ups are about?

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Have any of the big names done their acte yet,
like the Heavy Hands Chappelle, Chappelle, Hey, he did his
stand up, and nobody has.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Been talking about what are they actually saying in Saudi Arabia.
And for me, this was kind of the biggest bombshell
yet in this whole story about being upset at these
comedians for taking big fat paydays for performing in Saudi Arabia.
Wait till you hear what some of their punchlines were.
We'll get into that. It's coming up next. Something to
use junk Kie. Many things to get into, including your responses,

(13:09):
your dispatches, your emails, all of that good stuff. Excuse
my voice. It was a long night last night, but
we will get through all of this together. Singing along
to all the Lil Wayne I was. I was just
I was doing a little woo here and there. I
didn't sing along too much to Lil Wayne because honestly,
I don't know a lot of the words, but I
did just do like a yeah, that'll do it. See

(13:31):
you sometimes. Anyhow, here we go. Let's talk about this.
There is a comedy festival that's been going on for
the last week or so, and it goes on for
another week, and all these American comics took big fat paydays,
between seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars for some of them,
all the way up to over a million dollars. Some
of the biggest names in comedy went to Riod, which

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is a city in Saudi Arabia. Now, if you're not familiar,
maybe you're a normy, you're not plugged into what's happening
in the world. That much fine, good for you, But
very quickly. Saudi Arabia, an incredibly repressive regime has been
in charge for fifty sixty years. In Saudi Arabia, women
are treated in a substandard fashion, you might say, in

(14:17):
Saudi Arabia, even though they pretend all the time with
news stories that things are changing over there and assure
you that the morality police aren't on the streets yelling
at women, hitting them on the knees and knuckles for
wearing a dress that might show a little bit of
their ankles or something. That stuff still happens there. Women
can't drive, women usually can't be in the presence of

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a man who is not one of their relatives, and
there's a lot of crap like that that goes on.
Plus they're controversially known for killing at least one journalist,
probably some others Kashogi in that case. It's a little
bit of nine to eleven action in there, and many
of the big comedians decided, no, I'm not going to

(15:00):
take that money, I'm not going to do that. What's
his name, Shane gillis from from Tires and that whole
thing Saturday Night Live alone for sixteen minutes and before
he got kicked off of that. But Shane Gillis back
to hosted two or three times. Yeah, right, yeah. I
saw Shane Gillis talking with a bunch of comedians and
he's like, everybody was taking the Saudi Arabian comedy deals

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and he goes, you mean like Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia
And they're like, yeah, yeah, a lot of money, a
lot of money goes you mean like the nine to
eleven guys And they're like, yeah, yeah, a lot of money. Nope,
nobody cared. They don't care. They want a big, fat paycheck.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
It is fat from what I understand, some of them
one point five million for a fifty minute set.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
Crazy.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
Imagine we made one point five million dollars for just
a quarter of our show.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Oh god, could you imagine just watching the little clock
go by with the money or how much money you're making.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
I would have already vibe coded that clock, put it
on screens in all of our rooms.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
Well, here we have The New York Times going behind
the scenes. What are they saying? What are these comedians saying?
And the article says at Saudi Comedy Festival, American free
speech becomes the punchline. So is it true that they're
over there taking million dollar paychecks in a country with
no free speech, and we're a repressive regime regime that
they can't make fun of because they're paying the tab.

(16:24):
They can't make fun of Saudi Arabia, God forbid, they
make fun of Muslims. You don't do that right, you
lose your head. And they're doing all of these things,
but not insulting anybody in Saudi Arabia. They're insulting America. Apparently,
at Saudi Comedy Fest, American free speech becomes a punchline.
American comics use Saudi Arabia's first global comedy festival to

(16:45):
skewer a debate raging at home. Critics said the event
was part of Saudi efforts to draw attention away from
a political crackdown in the country. And they have Dave
Chappelle who performed at this festival, and they're talking about
out his set for the very first time here. But
the article starts out like this for a week's ridicule

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pored in against the American comedians set to perform this
week in Saudi Arabia, a country they say, lightly not
known for its civil liberties. But by the time they
took to the stage. The comedians had turned the joke
on us free speech. Here's Dave Chappelle. He set on
stage in Saudi Arabia. Right now, in America, they say,
if you talk about Charlie Kirk, that'll get you canceled.

(17:29):
The comedian Dave Chappelle equipped on Saturday at the Riod
Comedy Festival, the first event of it's coind in Saudi Arabia.
I don't know if that's true, but I'm gonna find out,
he said, all right, and I don't know what he
ended up saying, what his take was on, you know,
on Charlie Kirk, but they said that he was the
headline act. He was met with whoops, cheers, whoops, cheers,

(17:52):
and applause as he told an audience of six thousand people,
it's easier to talk here than it is in America, right,
which is quite obviously Like Dave Chappelle is funny, he's
a funny guy. He's usually pretty on point with his takes.
But that's quite obviously retarded. Like that is absolutely brain
dead to say that it's easier to talk.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
In that delivery. I don't know that footage is what
we need. To see.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
The New York Times doesn't doesn't have this, and it's
one of the reasons why Sabrina. I think a lot
of the comedians agreed to do it. There is absolutely
no filming allowed at these events, and you don't want
to risk no, no, right, and risk what I mean,
it's easier to talk over there than it is in America, Right,
you don't want to risk.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
I'm sure that they could probably just forcefully grab your
cell phone and hammer it into a million pieces and
mean to be well within Saudi Arabian law. Yeah, here's
here's what I'm they might just yeat you off the
top of a building for filming.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
All right.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
Here's what I'm very curious about, because they're paying some
of these people a lot of money. You said that
was a crowd of six thousand.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
The most expensive ticket available to this is one hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
I mean, that's not bad.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
This is a losing This ticket is twenty six dollars.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Okay. How much was your ticket to Lil Wayne?

Speaker 8 (19:24):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (19:25):
God, it was free? Actually yeah, yeah, I did not
did not pay for the ticket to Lil Wayne.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
But to pay for a ticket, how much were those
in the hundreds.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
I imagine, I have no idea. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure,
like like any other costs would not have a face value.
I don't know. I didn't see any They had just
cut sent to a ticket in the app. They didn't
say how much anything costs. Oh rude, and so they
have imagine you don't have that lowest tier. Twenty's treating

(19:58):
me like I've gone Toaudi Arabia or something here. I'm
not treating you like that.

Speaker 7 (20:03):
It is.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
I stayed and watched the great American Lil Wayne do
his thing straight out of New Orleans at a show,
and there was American people around me. It was an
American experience. News junkie fans all over the place. Was great.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
So anyway, if all of the people, all of the
six thousand people in this audience paid top dollar, like
the no twenty six dollars tickets, all of them are
a thousand bucks, that's only six hundred grand, which is
like half of what they're paying some of you. They're
losing money on this comedy festival. Oh of course they are,
but they don't care. They're Saudi Arabia unfettered for you.

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On Discord says, oh my God, Sean, it's a stand up.
The Kimmel thing just passed.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
So when he said it's easier to talk over there,
it's funny, and this is where the US is heading for.
That's just my take. That's a very dumb take. But
thank you for the take regarding.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
I mean, do you Chappelle of all people, though you
don't think he was being sarcastic and delivering a line
like that, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
The quote is it's easier to talk here than it
is in America, and he's talking about specifically the Charlie
Kirk stuff. It sounds like he might have been referencing
the Kimmel stuff. But in the United States of America,
you might have people if you celebrate the death of
a father, if you celebrate the death of a man
who is on a campus trying to debate people, you

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might end up losing your job as a teacher for
elementary school kids. You might have the FCC try to
haunt you and get kicked off your show for less
than a week. None of this is anywhere comparable, obviously,
to anything in Saudi Arabia. This is a repressive regime
where you literally cannot say anything about anything.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
So Also, I don't know a lot of the comedy world,
and they're fellow comedians, and the people who would be
consumers of the comedy world are trying to not cancel
these guys, but they're coming after them for even speaking.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
In Saudi Arabia.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Yeah, he might be being sarcastic, he might be being serious,
but it's not that much easier.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
It can't be. You guys are all.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
Under fire right now for taking this paycheck.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
Jason on YouTube says, FYI, you're proving his point. He
can't speak comedy without being ridiculed. Do you think that
that's what free speech is, to protect you from ridicule?
That's ridiculous. It's obviously not that. What's going on here
is it's ridiculous that people would go take a big,
fat paycheck to sell out to an incredibly repressive country.

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People who would show up at various events promoting all
sorts of social causes in the United States of America
will then turn their back on those causes and go
to a country that would murder the people involved in them. Okay,
all for a million dollar paycheck. This is what's called hypocrisy,
all right, That's what's on stage at this event. Now,

(22:56):
what I take it when other other people take the
big paycheck, Well, that's a big question, different question. I
like to think I'd be more principal than that. I
don't know. I'm not being offered over a million dollars.
But the idea that these folks go over there, they
turn their back on a lot of people doing so,
they take a big, fat paycheck and then they take
shots at America for that paycheck is a little wild.

(23:20):
We got more. Let's see what else it says. Though.
Happening thousands of miles away from the United States in
the conservative Saudi Kingdom, mister Chappelle's act tapped into the
strange currents of American politics that were carousing through the event.
He was performing in Saudi Arabia at the same time
as a divisive free speech debate was rolling roiling in
the United States. It began after Jimmy Kimmel was briefly

(23:43):
pulled from the airwaves. They're talking about the Charlie Kirk stuff.
They talk about what happened in the background. Mister Chappelle
has talked frequently about being canceled after an uproar caused
by his jokes mocking trans people. But in Riod he
also took aim at the ree suspension of Jimmy Kimmel.
Like other kommide at the event who said they felt
muzzled by American political correctness, mister Chappelle reveled a revel

(24:06):
discuse me and making uncouth jokes in Saudi Arabia, Yet
he overlooked an eight year crackdown that has led many
of the countries writers, business people, activists, clerics, and social
media influencers being arrested. So I mean, I think even
being like kind of generous here and all your interpretations,
it does seem a little hypocritical. I don't think the

(24:29):
article for The New York Times is wrong about that.
I want to see what everybody else thinks, though, So
line up, send us your dispatches, record yourself your takes
over at thenewsjunkie dot com. You can also send an email,
by the way, tips Tips of the neewsjunkie dot com.
We'll get into more of this and what was said
on the stage here in just a little bit. I

(24:49):
got some more details on the Little Wayne situation, or
Lil Wayne as he's called. Remember the Disney Springs robbery. Yeah,
oh big update ju Yeah, the scuba robbery at Disney Springs.
We got a nine to one one call coming in
on that story, which apparently details a lot of what

(25:10):
happened on the scene. So we'll figure out that together
as well. Stay with us Busy Show and it's all
coming up next and then to us junk Key by

(25:33):
the way, some of those we'll get some of those
dispatches in just a moment here where we gonna say
see that.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
I meant to correct myself earlier and a handful of
people did it for me. But it was Bobby Brown,
not Chris Brown that dropped his coke on TV. I
knew when I said Chris Brown, and I was like,
I don't have that quite right.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
He's too new. It was an older Clay.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
Right, and that kind of makes sense though.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
He was like he was like dancing. I think the
impressive part was he was like dancing and doing things
and charity drop. I don't know what it was, but
during mid dance move he just bent down, swooped it
up and just kept.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
Going, just kept going. Chris Brown had his own problems,
to be fair, but not from what you want to
saw a couple of days ago here in town. Oh really,
all the fans back, they don't care at all about
that stuff now, stadium show. Yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy,
and it's weird to see how all these performances are

(26:26):
going in their own little worlds and stuff. And that's
why I've been so interested in watching the reaction to
the comedians that went over and took these big fat
paydays from Saudi Arabia. It's not it's not very different
actually from you guys might remember we talked about this
a little bit at least on the show. When the
Saudi Arabian Golf League kicked up or whatever the golf organization.

(26:48):
There was people who were saying that the golfers should
not take the big giant paychecks because working with the
Saudi Arabian government and helping them improve their inage around
the world, you know, they're they're bad.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
And who said no, right?

Speaker 1 (27:06):
I think.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
There's a couple that said no, But I think part
of that well, and this made it harder, I think
on the golfers, because as a comedian you can come
back and you know so many, so many different people
could hire you as a comic. But like the main
source here in the United States as a professional golfer is.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
The PGA, and the PGA was.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
Like floating around threats that were like, hey, if you
go play for this live tour, you know I want
to come.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Back, right yeah. Yeah, So like everything attached to Saudi Arabia,
like this comedy show becomes that kind of thing. But
the bottom line is, and I'll respect any one of
these comedians, any one of them who just says this
and is just honest about it, say I wanted to
pay check, don't care, just said a million dollars feeds
my family. Maybe for a very long time, I wanted

(27:58):
to make sure I had that much money, especially these
people that aren't mega rich already. Like you know, there's
some comedians that aren't exactly of the stature that they
have ten million dollars in their bank account or something.
So those people going if they just said, look, I'm
just taking a paycheck, that's what I'm doing, I'm not
supporting these people.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
One of them, I think it was Christa Stefano, if
I'm saying that, correct had said on a podcast or
something that he was considering turning it down, and his
fiance saw what the number was said, you are going
to Saudi Arabia. You were getting on that plane and

(28:36):
you were going to get that paycheck.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah, you're you're real principled into your significant other figures
is out about how much money you're going to.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Make it come on. I mean there's points in which
what was the guy who has a podcast and he
was in Joker Part d L Yeah, Tim Dillon, and
he was not like a super notable name, but he
has gained some popularity. He's the you know, the hot
new name in this comedy world and he's.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
In the Joe Rogan sphere. He's one of those guys.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Why wouldn't you go? Because I would be the fattest
paycheck he's evergotten.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
I think he was going to get more heat because
he's gay. I honestly think that that leads to more.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
The person to just or you know, say any stuff.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
And I want to say anything that is disparaging to
the Saudi government or the Muslim faith. They like they
signed some agreements.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
On thousand dollars. I'm not gay, no more. How you doing.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
I just want to be clear with all the things
I'm saying. With as much as I'm saying it's totally
hypocritical for many of these comedians, especially considering the content
of their stand ups, to go over and do stand
up in Saudi Arabia for a paycheck. As much as
I'm saying that, and I believe that to be one
hundred percent true, I will understand and I will give
a pass to anybody who just comes out and says that, like,

(29:56):
it's money I need. I need some money here. It's
for my family. This, this is a smart thing for
me to do. I don't support these guys. I don't
know anything about Saudi Arabia. In that case, don't care.
Don't care, but there is something that I don't like
in the New York Times article really goes into this
where the Saudi fans who are at this comedy show,

(30:16):
or sometimes they've mentioned that right here, but the Saudi
Arabians who are in the crowd at this comedy show,
particularly when Dave Chappelle and some of these other stand
ups are making fun of the United States of America,
we're loving it. They're loving that the American comedian has
taken the paycheck from the oil barons in the royal family,

(30:37):
and they're crapping on America. There, it says, the irony
was not lost in the Saudi audience, who marveled at
the idea of watching political satire skewering the United States,
and they're once famously austere Islamic society. I found it
so interesting to hear political jokes targeting Trump and Charlie Kirk, says,
I'll do Raman Mohammad, a twenty three year old dental student.

(30:57):
He said it was surprising to hear him talk about
it in Saudi Arabia, where just recently America canceled Jimmy
Kimmel doing the same thing. So Dave Chappelle's joke the
reason why I mentioned it. I didn't even know what
the context of the joke was. It doesn't quote what
he said, but he said. Dave Chappelle started off with,
you know, I've been told that in the United States,
I can get canceled for making a joke about Charlie

(31:21):
Kirk if you talk about Charlie Kirk. I don't know
if that's true, but I'm gonna find out. And so
they're whipping up on this and the Saudi Arabian goes, WHOA,
this is kind of crazy. They're saying things in Saudi
Arabia that you can't get away with in the United
States of America. Look at the message that's being sent here.
It's like, we're not the repressive people. The Americans are
the repressive people. We don't have freedom of speech problems.

(31:44):
The Americans have freedom of speech problems. That's kind of
like what's getting whipped up here, at least to me.
And they talk more about how this has happened over
the years in Saudi Arabia.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
Wonder I'd be curious to hear from them after the
fact on what were the accommodations in Saudi Arabia. I mean,
you think if they're blowing a lot of money, uh,
just paying them to get there, you know, to perform,
do you think they're putting them up in the nicest
places made.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
They want and want them to go back and be
like it was awesome. There was you know, my own
private jet and someone fed grapes into my mouth.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yeah that's the point. Yeah, I mean, that's really kind
of why they pay the money and do this, they says.
Young Saudi Arabians gathered in gender mixed space spaces beneath
the glare of giant screens, and they said women in
flowing black of baias those are coverings, pair with jeans
and T shirts, mingled with women in conservative face veils,
and with men, many of whom sported a white robe

(32:47):
known as a thwob, along with a baseball cap. Still,
societal transformation has its limits. The political humor was warmly received.
All right, get that for a second. When it crapped
on the United States of America, the Saudis were like, ah, yeah.
When they started doing sex jokes, No, when the comedian,
I do not know who this is, and I hope

(33:08):
I am not saying their name wrong. Cipha sounds, Sipha sounds.
Cipha sounds when you Sipha sounds Cipha sounds. Began a
gag or a joke about men air dropping photos of
their genitalia. Uncomfortable laughter ripped through the arena. Oh, sex
jokes don't land in reod. He conceded, got it, and

(33:31):
continued on with the set. So, yeah, this is like
the whole thing that's been going on with the folks
watching this.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
I mean there's some moments where I think, being in
their shoes, you you got the gig, your noun front
and on the stage, are there moments where you're about
to tell a joke and you don't know once you
get off the stage that you're going to be arrested.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
I mean it could be, but somebody was mentioning that.
Somebody was like, well, aren't they really risking their lives
to there is and they're like a level of bravery
And to me it might look like that. But if
I'm honest with you, I think that if like let's
say Luis c k went up on the stage or
Bill Burr and they made some jokes about Saudi Arabia
or Muslims or something, if something actually physically happened to them,

(34:16):
or they were arrested or they were killed, God forbid,
it would be like a nuclear version of any outrage
over Jimmy Fallon. If another country took one of our
comedians and killed them for a joke. You know, I
think this would be absolutely explosively big. So I think
they're fairly protected in that sense.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
But I'm so curious about like Whitney Cummings sent like
how that went down.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
I don't know. I know this we got Kevin Hart.
Kevin Hart acknowledged the controversy. Here's what he said, But
I love what y'all are doing here. I'll continue being
a positive ambassador of your change to the world. That's
Kevin Hart.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
He got paid real big.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Yeah. I was like, this is not only crabbing on America.
But He's like, you guys are great. I love what
you're doing here. Ahead of the event, Jim Jeffries, an
invited performer, said they had invited some edgy ass comedians.
If you don't agree with how they run their place,
isn't this a step in the right direction? He said not.
Not every comedian took the offer. We talk about Tim Dillon,
who said he was offered three hundred and seventy five dollars.

(35:23):
Others received up to one point six million dollars. Wait,
five thousand dollars. Yeah, I'm sorry, what do I say
million three? You're just said dollars? Oh no, no, that
would be a love off for three hundred and seventy
five thousand dollars for Tim Dillon. Others got up to
one point six million. The Saudi Arabian government organized the
festival Israel Big shocker here and it's conduct of the

(35:44):
war on Gaza factored in for Dave Chappelle's show. He said,
they're going to do something to me so that I
can't say what I want to say. Again, the targets
Israel and the United States of America are the bad
guys here. It's got to be something I would never
say in practice. So if I actually say, you'll never
know to listen to anything else I say after that.
Here's the phrase, I stand with Israel. So he was

(36:05):
making jokes about the situation in the Near East and
Gaza and those kind of things. So I don't know.
I mean, it's actually an interesting discussion that opens up,
But it's a little bit weird to me that the
comedians take a paycheck from the Saudi Arabians, a place
where they have anything but free speech. It's an incredibly

(36:26):
repressive regime, especially for women, especially for gay people, well
especially for basically everybody who's not the royal family. They
literally go into streets and police what people are wearing
and what they're saying, and it's horrific, and it's been
going on for a long time. To go over there
and take one million dollars of their money and then

(36:48):
crap on the United States, I don't know. I find
that to be a bad look. Actually, I think that's
a little lame. I think it's a lame thing to do,
and it's a sellout thing to do. But what do
you think? Let us know? Send us a dispatch over
at thenewsjunkie dot com wondering how I think.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
I'm more curious about how the Edgier comedian's performance will go.
And then I look and it's like, oh, coming up
in a couple of days, Wayne Brady and friends, How
oh controversial could that be?

Speaker 1 (37:20):
Maybe he's the one. Maybe Wayne Brady's like, all right,
here we go. I thought the New York Times article
was interesting because it's the first time I've heard of
anything that people are actually saying, not just anger over
them speaking. They just started to write. Yeah, yeah, But well,
we'll keep an eye on it. We'll tell you more
about that as it goes on here on the show
when we come back. I want to talk about a

(37:40):
new piece of technology that I don't know. I don't
know if you're going to like this, but I want
to tell you what it does, and you tell me
if you'd allow this in your house. That new technology
coming up next in the news Junkie, I don't know

(38:10):
how we're all gonna feel about this. I think we
have different ideas some of us on the show about
like privacy and kids and stuff. I always talked about
things before, like going through your kids, like diaries and
those sorts of things, which I am totally okay with.
Like I think parents should snoop on their kids. I

(38:30):
think you should look at what your kids are doing online.
I think up to a certain age, you should be
pretty involved in almost everything that's happening in your kid's life.
To protect them. As they start to become a young
adult sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years old, you should give them
a little more space to become the person that they are.

(38:51):
But in all those years before that, you should be
a hawk. You should watch out for your kids. You
should look what they're searching online. You should monitor what
they're asking chat GPT, or what they're doodling in their
in their notebooks or their diaries. I'm okay with that stuff,
and I think it's part of good parenting. But now, man,

(39:13):
the game has changed. The game has changed since we
were kids. And they announced this week that Google has
a new update to their Google Home, which is essentially
a smart speaker in your house right right, like your
Alexa's or series stuff like that. Yeah, and it like
does all sorts of stuff. You can ask questions and

(39:33):
all that. It also connects with all the other Google
products and Nest cameras and all of those things. And
the new one has Home AI, which I know Sea
Lanes used a Gemini the Google AI quite.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
A bit oh Google stuff. It pops up.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. It automatically happens in the search
results now and it's like, you know, it's Google's version
of chat GPT if you're not familiar with this. But
now the new Google Home AI they announced this week
will rat on the whole family. It will rat It
will dime out everybody to the parents or whoever is

(40:12):
controlling the device. So let's say, like let's say the
kids stay up past bedtime, Well, the Home AI is
going to know about this. It'll pick up sounds see
see on the cameras that you're moving around after the
time that you're not supposed to, and the Google Home
device will rat out the kids to the parents, tattling

(40:33):
on them. It'll do all sorts of things to tell
on you and inform your parents of the things that
they wouldn't otherwise see. And I want to know, would
you put this in your house? Would you be okay
with like an AI as somebody compared it to like
a intro, you know, a brand new for young kids

(40:56):
big brother right right? Digital home monitor own? Yeah? Yeah,
like it's it's watching you. And you could go, Hey,
the kid's bedtime is at nine o'clock, so if there's
any noise after that time, please alert me and tell
me that they're up after that and they're gonna get
in trouble for it.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
Yeah, but they're also going to see stuff that they
don't want to see. And I think that's there are
some moments and all of us grew up in a
different time that you don't want to get a notification.
And then you see that your kid is exploring you.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
Know what I'm saying, like, hey, that's going to be
part of it.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
Well, no, thank you. I mean there's some stuff in
which you should probably.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
Draw the line that's gonna be part of the parent
And it's Google, so it's hooked up to the search
stuff telling that.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
To third parties. Is that what you want them to have? Parents?

Speaker 1 (41:48):
Well, here here's what I'm saying, this is the big question.
Is all of this okay as a parenting tactic? So
in this case, you would say, if you wake up
every morning with a little digest from your Google Home
AI device and it says last night, the kids stayed
up past bedtime. Also, judging by little Jimmy's search history,

(42:10):
he was definitely abusing himself after dark, and you should
probably have the Birds and the Bees conversation with him
at some point soon. Oh and by the way, you know,
you told your daughter not to talk to this boy anymore,
but he called her right after midnight and they were
speaking for about fifteen minutes. Is that good parenting or

(42:32):
is that the parents becoming evil big brother overlords. That's
the real question. Because we didn't have to deal with
this when we were a kid. No, we did.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
But when you think about, like, I don't want to
go super dark on this, but when you do about
a lot of the problem children, not necessarily all of
them are school shooters, but some of them. But when
you think of like the problem children, a lot of
those backstories have like a lapse in parenting. It seems

(43:08):
like it seems like some of these kids were allowed
to freewheel it a little too much. Yeah, I think
there is probably there's a there's a section in there,
there's a space where that's good. Is there a space
where it's too much? Maybe? But but you know, I
don't know that I would want to know exactly everything

(43:30):
that was going on once Jackson gets to a certain age.
But I would be confident that I would probably have
like certain restrictions just built into our home network.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
But isn't the massive question, And you're right about that,
Like you, I'll make.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
It so hard for him to get porn that if
he does, if he does circumvent my efforts, then deserve
That's that's his reward. It's it's just so very different.
And if mom's just going to block all the straight stuff.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
It's so very different from when we were young, where
kids and your parents would say go to bed and
you'd stay up later. Like I used to. I broke
up pair of headphones in half and I put the
earpiece in my pillows so I could listen to the
radio well after I was supposed to go to bed.
And you get in trouble for those things. But I
never had to worry about an AI overlord reporting all

(44:25):
of this stuff back to my parents, and that is
just a very very different upbringing. However, I think it's
kind of just the default, like growing up as a
kid is just very different nowadays. Like Sabrina mentioned, oh look,
they're taking all of this data and selling it to
advertisers or something. Just this week, on this very same topic,

(44:48):
I saw Instagram come out once again. Okay, and Instagram said, hey,
to all of you billions with a b of users,
I promise you Instagram is not using your microphone to
listen into everything that you have to say. Right. They
assured us that Instagram is not using your microphone to

(45:08):
serve up targeted ads to you. But you know what
they are doing. They're using all of the information from
your AI chats that you have on any meta platform
if you engage with their artificial intelligence and you're like, hey, meta,
I just wanted to know what are these red sores
all over my genitals right now? And then you start

(45:30):
scrolling through your social media feed and you see, oh, okay,
now I'm getting advertisements. I'm like, her pie advertisements are
pop herb These advertisements are popping up here. They're telling you, oh,
don't worry we're not using your microphone.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
And so is TikTok. When I went to go visit
my family this past weekend, there's a section of my
family I loves Big Brother. I've not seen it in
many years, and there the final episode, this one.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
The TV show.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
I thought, because of the topic at hand, that there
is a section of your family that loves everything to
be surveilled.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
My dad, Yeah, dad likes technology. But I have not
seen one episode of Big Brother up until that weekend
and in many years. And sure enough, as soon as
I opened my TikTok account, there's that final three Lady
on Live.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
I never search for a Big Brother, Yet something is listening,
that's feeding the algorithm that's now showing me all Big
Brother stuff.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
Well, I don't know if you well, I'm sure you're
aware of this on some level. But if you're in
a household with somebody, right, and let's say, let's say
your whole family Sabrina is under one roof, and you
guys are spending Thanksgiving with each other or something, right,
and you guys are all connected to the Wi Fi.
It utilizes the search data and information from the entirety

(46:54):
of the Wi Fi. So Sometimes you might be looking
at something that you're getting wrecked mended on Amazon or
Instagram or whatever, and you go, why am I getting
this all of a sudden? Guess what?

Speaker 2 (47:06):
Because they're looking at it.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
If you didn't search for cheese five hundred times when
you're getting cheese advertisements on Stop, it could be that
somebody on your Internet is searching for cheese.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
Could you do another example? Because I search for cheese
every single.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
Okay, if you all of a sudden are getting ski
masks suggested to you all of all of the different
ads out there, and you're like, I don't know why
they would think I would want a sche mask.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
I didn't even think about that.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
Sometimes it's another person on the same network with you
that is searching for.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
Those very for a weird confrontation.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
Huh, they're watching us everywhere out there. Yeah, it's really
a strange time to be alive. But what do you think? Parents?
Do you think that this is good? Bad? Are you
indifferent to it? Let us know your thoughts over at
thotnewschunkie dot com. All right, we're going to get to
some of your dispatches and your hang on one secon

(48:03):
I gotta shut this down and some of your emails
as well on the show. In fact, let's work in
maybe one or two of these real quick, because you're
an important part of the show. As always. Here's seek
talking about Saudi Arabia and the comedians.

Speaker 9 (48:16):
If one of these comedians haid something against Saudi Arabia
and their government threw them in jail, tortured them, killed them, whatever,
I don't think it'd be as much outrage as you
think there would be. A listener forget what they did
Jamal Koshogi and the current administration didn't do anything about that.
He was a dual American Saudi citizen. And also Auto
Warmbeer took a poster from North Korea, broke some of

(48:39):
their laws and came back bring dead. So I mean,
the outrage just wouldn't be there.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Disagree, I disagree, And you know what the difference is,
fame Jamal Koushogi may have been, or Kasogi may have
been a journalist. Nobody knew who the guy was, no,
but not the regular person doesn't know who the hell
that person is. And Auto Warmbeer was just a person
who was a a tourist in North Korea. They're like
a comedy tourist trying to see what it's like in

(49:05):
the Hermit Kingdom. But if somebody famous was held over there,
why do you think Dennis Rodman was able to move
back and forth so easily. Not only is he slam
Duncan with the leadership in North Korea, but he's also
a big celebrity, is a big name. They don't they
don't usually do that kind of stuff. You say, well,
they didn't do anything about it. Well, what happened with
Britney Griner? Yeah, all right. Britney Griner was to most

(49:28):
people not really a household name. She's a WNBA player.
Most people had no idea who she was. We traded
like the butcher of whatever for her. We traded like
all of these really high profile prisoners that we had
to get her back because they arrested her in Russia
for having a weed veig. So when you're a celebrity,
it becomes a bigger incident. If they arrested Luis c.

(49:50):
K or beat and tortured Bill Burr, it would be
a massive international incident. It would be a bipartisan outrage moment.
And the States of America, which in case you haven't noticed,
is the only time that oceans move in this country.
If you managed to piss off both sides of the

(50:10):
political spectrum in the United States of America and everybody
is outraged, things will change very quickly, okay, because it
just rolls that way.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
Now, Let's say it's a comedian or a popular influencer
that is just always speaking poorly about the current administration
and something happens to them. Do you think that both
sides would be outrage enough that they would do something
about it.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
I think, generally speaking, yes, I think that let's say,
like Dave Chappelle. I don't know how much like anti
Trump stuff Dave Chappelle has done, but I don't think
he's like a Trump supporter. And if you use Dave
Schappelle as an example, could you imagine Dave Chappelle doesn't
stand up and then they arrest and imprison Dave Chappelle
and they've got him like bagged up, like he's at
Gitmo or something on some video, and he's shackled and

(51:00):
down on the ground and the Saudi Arabian people are
whipping him. I mean, come on, I feel like oceans
and mountains would move as a result of what was
happening there, and I think that gives you a level
of protection when you're in these countries and you're mega
famous at the same time.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
But maybe you just if they did that to Sifa,
sound I don't know. Yeah, I mean that the name
that we just heard for the first time today that
I thought was a woman when you first.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
Said it, if I was Ciphysid, I might try to
make it happen, because you could. Really that's the fastest
way to become a household name. Real dangerous strategy though,
one more real quick on this. Here's Sethrow saying I've
actually turned down Saudi Arabian money.

Speaker 10 (51:48):
All right, So as somebody that was actually propositioned by
Saudi Arabia, I think I can speak on this. I'm
an entrepreneur and a veteran, and I had the Ministry
of Sport from Saudi Arabia reach out a couple of
years ago, wanted me to come over there and set
up some training for their sport teams. But it just
felt dirty. Everything about it felt dirty. They did offer
a lot of money, I thought about it, for sure,

(52:10):
but the more I chattered with them, the more, you know, uncomfortable.
The whole situation felt, so I turned it down. And
so anyway, also as a guy that loves stand up comedy,
I think what these comedians are doing is kind of
selling out, honestly, especially if they're making fun of America
while over there just for money. So anyway, that's my
thoughts on it. I think they're sellouts. They shouldn't get

(52:31):
any attention. And let's focus on the comedians that turned
that stuff down, and.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
There were a bunch of them. And to be clear,
I don't have a problem with comedians saying virtually anything.
I don't have a problem with comedians trashing Americans. I
don't have a problem with comedians trashing the United States
or President Trump. I have a problem with them taking
a paid check from in a regime in Saudi Arabia

(52:58):
that anybody with a brain would says so many more
times more oppressive in every measurable way than the United
States of America taking that paycheck from them, going over
to their territory and then crapping on the United States.
That's where the problem is. And the problem isn't the
jokes necessarily, it's just the hypocrisy of the whole thing

(53:19):
for me. But we'll see what you think. We'll get
to that in just a moment. We still got to
get to this nine to one one called new info
released on that Disney Spring scuba robbery thing that we
talked about. We'll work in that probably right after the
next episode, and we got a whole bunch more to
get to, including a woman who's very upset about her wedding.
I'll tell you why, because that's coming up next. Some

(53:40):
of the news junkie what's his name? Oh, she did

(54:00):
went away over on Gibson. Yeah, the Tyrese Gibson's is
the dogs just attacked and killed. If that's true, I'm
never watching another movie from him again.

Speaker 3 (54:09):
That's why I brought it up yesterday because you would
tease a different animal story and I was like, oh,
I didn't know if you were going to do this one,
because it's been on im kind of on the docket
for a.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
Couple of days and we didn't get to it.

Speaker 3 (54:21):
I was like, yeah, well, maybe he doesn't want to
do a story about a cavalier King Charles being brutally
attacked and murdered by other dogs.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
Yeah, four giant dogs.

Speaker 1 (54:32):
Yeah, And he was I thought you were talking about
his dogs which were a very specific type cane Corso
that's it, Sabrina. He had these in a cartoon movie.
They look like the villain in a dog cartoon. Dogs,
not these ones. Apparently, I guess they shredded side. I

(54:52):
didn't know that it was a cavalier. King Charles Spaniel.
My god, I'll never watch another movie from him again.
Was he responsible that he was?

Speaker 2 (54:58):
He like le turn himself in and he did not.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
There's a warrant out for his arrest. Yeah, no way.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
They received multiple warnings before the warrant was issued. Police
had attempted to cite him before the attack. The actor
wasn't at his Atlanta home.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
Then he he's out of the country.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
Oh, I don't know. It just wasn't there. According to
this article that I.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
Was going to read, did they say like if he
was neglectful and handling the dogs and that's why they
were involved in this?

Speaker 2 (55:25):
Attorney wrote that he was cooperating fully with authorities to
address and resolve the matter responsibly. And then the neighbor
whose house was half a mile away, mind you, Oh
my god, let their dog a small spainle. I guess
it was the King Charles. One of their yard returned
five minutes later to find the dog being attacked. It

(55:49):
was rushed to a vet hospital. Did not survive. Oh god,
so yeah, they had to search warrant first property on
September twenty second, and the actor and the dogs were
not at the residence at the time.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
Get him, get him, put them behind bars or into
the woodship or those are the only two options right there.
And it's not just because it's a cavalier that is
the victim here. It's because once again, this is this
dastardly bad pet owning where people own these big ass dogs.
I don't care if you have four thousand pit bulls
at your house, as long as all of them are

(56:23):
secured on your property, have your lovely little pit bull
cane corso life, whatever it is, whatever kind of dog
you want, Chihuahuas everywhere. A field of a thousand chihuahuas
sounds kind of funny to me.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Honestly, I don't know one person having four thousand dogs
seems a little much.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
I don't care if they have a property away from
everybody that have all of these dogs, as long as
the dogs are saved from each other and safe from
other people. But the moment. People just go, They get
a little crazy, They wander the neighborhood, sometimes kiss my ass.
Jail says.

Speaker 3 (56:54):
It was not immediately clear how many dogs Tyrese Gibson has,
but he had also received notice before the incident of
a special permit he needed for having more than ten.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
He's got an army of these things. I mean, maybe
he says he's using them for like security or something.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
But get a good gait, my friend.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
Yeah, you have to secure your animals. You have to
secure your animals in public. Make sure they're on a leash,
make sure they're well fenced in, make sure that like
that's it. That's it. There's no two ways around this thing.
We've just let this kind of proliferate in the United States,
and we've pretended the problems are different things like the
problems are the pit bull breeds are more aggressive and

(57:34):
also combine that with the power of a pit bull.
It can be bad, sure, right, but who cares if
each person responsibly takes care of it. This is the
personal responsibility that's drained out of this country. Apparently the
same thing has happened with guns. It's like if everybody
in the United States of America had a gun and
everybody was perfectly responsible with it and kept it perfectly safe,

(57:55):
we wouldn't have a gun problem. But the problem is
we have people just leaving guns out, getting guns stolen
from them, and then they end up in the hands
of bad people. Like I'm simplifying obviously, but I think
that that is an issue, and it makes my blood boil.
Didn't Tyre used to follow you on Twitter?

Speaker 2 (58:14):
I don't know that was Oh no, it wasn't.

Speaker 1 (58:18):
Was another fast and furious guy TV guy.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
He is funny, good looking, great smile Sean.

Speaker 1 (58:26):
It was Sean. It was.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
It's something with a tea right, oh, fully blinking, but
it was not Tyrese.

Speaker 1 (58:36):
Okay, we'll report back. It'll come to you at some point. Diggs,
they look alike to what they in a lineup. I'd
confused the two of them. Actually they're both bold black guys,
are they not? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (58:48):
Different faces, Well, everybody has a different face, save for
like I thought there was another person, But on, all.

Speaker 1 (58:59):
Right, Diggs is one. Who's the other guy? All right?
Tyresee Gibson. Okay, now come on, are you gonna tell
me this guy right here right doesn't look like this
guy right here. They look almost exactly like each other.
They're black, bald guys with facial hair. They look they're
about great teeth, about that, perfect teeth, a perfect smile.

(59:23):
They look almost exactly like one another. All right, Oh god,
one's forty six ones. Damn Tay Diggs is fifty four.
Good for him, Jesus Christ, buddy, Damn you did it.

Speaker 3 (59:34):
Oh and you see who he's linked to romantically. No,
he's not the wickedly talented.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
De disease man. Uh well, he's in some trouble. Keep
those dogs locked up. That goes for everybody. Nobody should
be immune to this. You gotta make sure things are
safe out there. Okay, you know.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
That the tyresis Forever on Courtley's Courtney is a s list.
Now that's not goody. Anybody who hurts King Charles Cavaliers.

Speaker 1 (01:00:04):
Yeah, I mean, like, if that was my dog, I
would probably toss a grenade at his house. I could
morally justify that response, I think, given some time. But
we'll see what you think about that and all the
other things we've been discussing on the show today. As
per usual, and you can go over to the website
Thenewsjunkie dot com. We'll get to some of your feedback,
but I wanted to ask you, what would you do.

(01:00:25):
There's a woman who realized she made a mistake. All right,
was there someone crying no, no, no, but mega catchy song,
mega catchy in this case this woman the last song
we heard the show today, Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
Oh, you know you don't know what I'm gonna say
in the next episode.

Speaker 1 (01:00:49):
He's hungry. Okay. Anyhow, this woman had a wedding coming
up at the beginning of next year. She was excited.
She's getting all the planning done. She got the when
you locked in. She had everything exactly where she wanted
it to be, or so she thought. Then she started
paying attention to the news. This week, Oh my god,
Bad Bunny is going to be performing at the super Bowl,

(01:01:11):
and you know, outrage, excitement, you know, whatever, pick your
poison as to what you want the response to be.
This woman goes, oh, everybody's talking about Bad Bunny performing
at the super Bowl, and there's some people who don't
like it because he doesn't even speak English and his
songs and she goes, wait, when is this again? And
she realized her wedding was scheduled for the super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
That's something you could have looked up ahead of time.

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
I guess she's not a big fan. She wasn't paying attention.
She found a Sunday that was open. She booked the
place and started booking all this stuff and the entertainment
and whatnot. And then she found out.

Speaker 3 (01:01:44):
She didn't question why the place had such a low
fee booking fee for that particular Sunday.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
This is really surprising. You sure you guys aren't booked
up for that day? And like, nope, nope, nope, wide open.
She signs the paperwork and then she goes, oh, son
of a bitch, I I locked in my wedding on
Super Bowl Sunday. I would say cancel legitimately, even a.

Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
Non sports super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
Yeah, definitely, definitely, because everybody's going to be distracted if
they do go.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
To your wedding having it before the super Bowl starts
during the day.

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
I mean you would have to have like and for
a cheaper prime early morning wedding or something, you might
get a deal or two along the way, But for me,
why would you want to even compete with that. That's
why nobody.

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
Probably does streaming it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
Like look you have either either the event at your
that that's going on that you're attending has your attention,
or the super Bowl has your attention that the two
cannot mix. You know, I I would reschedule it. I
would think I would reschedule that. A bad bunny aside,
but just because people will be very, very distracted, let
us know what you pissed at.

Speaker 3 (01:02:57):
You like the people that are invited to your even
people who show up because they know they have to
be there for you are like.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
Son of a bitch, why did you pick super bowls? Right? Yeah, yeah, exactly.
I think that's just a bad idea. All right, We
want to see what you have on your mind, So
keep those emails and dispatches coming in when we come
back the next episode with Sabrina. What's coming up on
the next episode?

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
So glood, you asked what's coming on the next episode.
According to rumor reports, a legendary boy band is going
on an anniversary tour and it's gonna gonna gonna may
not be including JT. Finally, and once again, we can
go twice as high when we take a look that's

(01:03:43):
in a book. Plus, we've got the first surprise guests
at next year's Super Bowl, and hint, VIP is not
the only one kicking it. Hold on so much more
coming up on the next episode.

Speaker 1 (01:03:54):
And that is coming up next in the news, The
Roast of Me. That's Sean Wasson. The Roast of Sean

(01:04:16):
Wasson coming up on October thirtieth at Judson's Live at
the Doctor Phillips Center. It's gonna be a beautiful event.
Dress to impress. We are so excited to see you
out there. It's gonna be brutal, it's gonna be funny.
You're gonna laugh so much your face will hurt, You'll
get stuck like that. Your face will get stuck like that,
and then will roast to you and then you're on trial. Right, Yeah,

(01:04:37):
you're the next one after that. But it's coming up
on October thirtieth at Judson's Live. All right, here we go,
it's time friends, let's get into it. Let's do the
next episode. Because there's a lot on TV.

Speaker 11 (01:04:50):
You can't possibly keep up with all of it, even
though you should, because what else are you gonna talk about?

Speaker 1 (01:04:55):
I just wanted to know, what are these red sores
all over my jetitals? Right now? Nice?

Speaker 12 (01:05:00):
It's time for the next episode with Sabrina Hey, smoke Weed.

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Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
It was seventy five years ago, nineteen fifty sean, of
course you remember this.

Speaker 1 (01:05:59):
I was not alive.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
Are you a thousand percent sure you were not allowed?

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
I am moderately sure that I was not allowed.

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
In that year, it was on this day that the
Peanuts cartoon strip by whom for two.

Speaker 1 (01:06:11):
Points Charles Schulte, Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:06:14):
That is the Seelane It debuted. The strip ran until
two more points.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
What year two thousand and one?

Speaker 10 (01:06:22):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
So close?

Speaker 1 (01:06:23):
No, I remember it was like during the show, wasn't
it twenty foor Old twenty twelve, No damn.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
It February of two thousand. Sea Lane in the lead
right now, but has continued and rerun form his final
comic though, a three panel offering which included the following
very depressing, weird note. Dear friends, I have been fortunate
to draw Charlie Brown and his Friends for almost fifty years.

(01:06:51):
Has been the fulfillment of my childhood ambition. Unfortunately, I'm
no longer able to maintain the schedule demanded by a
daily comic strip. My family does not wish Peanuts to
be continued by anyone else. Therefore, I'm announcing my retirement.
I have been grateful over the years for the loyalty
of our editors and the wonderful support and love express
to me by fans of the comic strip, Charlie brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy.

(01:07:15):
How can I ever forget them? Charles m And they
did it anyway, Yeah, they just kept continuing it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
Peanuts sucks. Everybody knows it what Peanuts sucks. All of
those specials are like It's.

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
Like a miserable lot of money man.

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
Foray into stuff. There was like no competition back in
the day, so I don't think anybody really, you know,
thought of other things to watch. They'd watched Charlie Brown
when it came home with.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
A special read the comics.

Speaker 1 (01:07:44):
Yeah, I used to look at my all the time
when I was a kid, and I I always thought
Charlie Brown sucked. I like Calvin and Hobbes.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
Calvin and Hobbs and what was the miserable work Lady Diane.

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
Were about the crazy hair.

Speaker 3 (01:08:02):
I didn't really have a connection to a lot of
those comics, but.

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
I gotta paper do your house.

Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
Yeah, I never read it was my dad.

Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
My dad read the paper, but it shows about Calvin
and Hobbes. Read like the Calvin was the one that
peas on stuff, right, Yes, yeah, yeah remember how big
that was as a as a bumper sticker vard Yeah, everything.

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
Gotta love it. I have been fooled, but well done.
I had searched. I was on TikTok and I see
people like doing the lip sync thing where I'm like, oh,
this must be audio from an absolutely real press conference,
because I'll play it for you. It would not be

(01:08:51):
crazy surprising Trump saying something along these lines, right.

Speaker 13 (01:08:56):
So it was just spread to my attention and an
urgent briefing that the super Bowl, which is of course
a very sacred tradition in our country, probably the most
watched thing on TV except for when I speak, of course.
But I was just informed that in one of the

(01:09:16):
most offensive and radical left and anti Christian ulsa don't
forget that moments in our country, the halftime show, yes,
of our next super Bowl will be done by wait
for I can't believe.

Speaker 14 (01:09:31):
I'm saying this, bad bunny. Okay, now what I've been told,
we have intel briefings. This is a person from the
Mexican city of Puerto Rico.

Speaker 1 (01:09:43):
And already I have a problem with that.

Speaker 13 (01:09:46):
Okay, it's the American super Bowl where we crown a
world champion.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
You better believe it. My friends, do you think this
was That was not Trump, That was J. L. Calvin.

Speaker 3 (01:09:58):
So it was a person doing impression as opposed to
an aid.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
Fake and he did a good job because I did
not see the original video, but I did find him
and print out his picture. Thank you, I heart and
your beautiful laser printer. That is not real news. It's
not a real press conference. However, this is real news.
According to reports, Ice will be at the super Bowl.

(01:10:22):
Baby oh, yeah, where Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny is
at to perform the halftime show, which also will be
entirely in Spanish, making it historically the first Super Bowl
halftime show entirely in Spanish.

Speaker 1 (01:10:41):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
Could you believe it? Or if you can't, That's why
I said, belie.

Speaker 3 (01:10:46):
You know, if there were like a Calshie or a
polymarket on, is there going to be any English words
or how many?

Speaker 1 (01:10:54):
I might bet on.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
That that might be a fun little time, do we know?

Speaker 1 (01:10:57):
I'm sure like Bad Bunny knows how to speak English.

Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
Bunny speaks English, so he.

Speaker 1 (01:11:03):
Could do his songs Espanola and Haspanola and Haspano America
and Espanol.

Speaker 2 (01:11:10):
Super happy to be here in Giant Bowl. It is
super Last month, Bad Bunny told ID magazine that he
is not performing in the US during his forthcoming world
tour Doudo in part concerns over ice raids.

Speaker 3 (01:11:23):
However, he's not even playing in the United States, and
we gave him the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (01:11:29):
I'm excited though. He is a cutie pu tuty and
I imagine the shirt will be off just like what's
his face from a Roun five?

Speaker 1 (01:11:36):
And I know Adam Zero bad Bunny songs. I just
know that's a thing. I don't know any of them.

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
You know, these are the most famous song.

Speaker 1 (01:11:46):
I don't really listen to Spanish music.

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
Is in top forty. This is obviously the remix of it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
Wasn't obvious to me.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
You are familiar with a show called and let me
just read this, reading Rainbow.

Speaker 1 (01:12:03):
Yea butterfly in the sky, I can fly twice as high.

Speaker 2 (01:12:08):
You take a look. It's in a book book, it's
reading Rainbow and it's back. Baby, They're back, yo, sadly
No LeVar Burton. Okay, now I'm getting a little flashback.

Speaker 1 (01:12:25):
Wasn't there controversy with LeVar, like a go fundme type
thing to bring it back? Right? Yeah? And then he
also cried when they was supposed to be coming back.

Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
Well, he might be crying a little bit more because
they are bringing it back for without. I'm a new
younger host by the name of Michael with a y threats.
All right, he's going by his TikTok handles.

Speaker 1 (01:12:47):
We spell it number three T S. No, it's m
y c h.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
E L and then t h r e E t S.

Speaker 1 (01:12:55):
All right. Your parents thinking they're like you know, Michael
but with a y. I've I got no idea who
that guy is. But I saw that there was people,
and these seemed to be to me childless people. It
just seems to be a childless kind of comment where
people were like, oh my god, they're bringing it back,
but it's not going to be on TV. It's only
going to be on YouTube. Like what do you think
babies are watching? Dude, little kids in tube like they're

(01:13:18):
all wise. It's way smarter for this to be on YouTube,
for Reading Rainbow to be on YouTube. It's a way
better idea.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
It is also going to air on PBS though, Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:13:26):
Then even better than what the hell are they complaining about?
You get best of both worlds there, Thank you, like
Miley Cyrus.

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
Also celebrity guests including Gabrielle Union, Adam Devine, Christy Tigan,
and John Legend. No word on air date. Original Reading
Rainbow for five points aired from what year to what year?

Speaker 1 (01:13:45):
It was home when I was little? I loved it.
It was nineteen.

Speaker 15 (01:13:48):
Eighty five to ninety five, go ahead, ceiling nineteen eighty six,
two thousand, oh right, nineteen eighty three to two thousand
and six.

Speaker 1 (01:14:02):
My damn wow, all way longer.

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
And if you have been waiting for a lot longer
than the run of reading Rainbow for the lead singer
of this group.

Speaker 1 (01:14:17):
Aerosnat oh, I just heard one second of guitar. I
didn't know.

Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
I'm sorry, Axel Rose. If you've been waiting for him
to be half human half robot, then wait no more, okay,
because that's what's happening. He has been transformed into a
half human half robot in a new cyberpunk graphic novel
series called Axel Rose Appetite for Destruction. Yeah, okay, here's

(01:14:45):
the plot, setting a neon drenched paradise city where humans
and robots are meant to coexist. Appetite for Destruction follows
axul Rose. You guessed, half human, half robot who lives
on the fringes and finds solace in the music of
a back alley lounge.

Speaker 1 (01:15:00):
Is the human half fat?

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
Also? Is that music located between her lady party when
she vanishes under mysterious circumstances.

Speaker 1 (01:15:10):
Like a shell, like a vagina. No, but like you
put your ear to the.

Speaker 2 (01:15:16):
Search for answers, drag them to a deadly conspiracy, one
that could decide the Fate of Humidity at sol You're
all Gonna Die. It's available for pre order for forty
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I'm going to choose the forty nine ers. I think
I want Rams.

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
All right, ram it up. Law and Order, Law and
Order SVU. Also on NBC watch What Happens Live thirty
third season premiere of The Graham Norton Show, Tony and
Ziva on Paramount Plus, Peacemaker on HBO Max, and the
premiere of Ebe White's Charlotte's Web on HBO Max as well.
Mark Ruffalo will be on Fallon. You follow your dreams
of Me on Instagram att Sabrina Ambro. Most importantly they

(01:16:12):
with me America.

Speaker 1 (01:16:14):
House Smoke Weed every day. Thank you, Sabrina. You know
I have not heard any buzz on this at all,
no buzz on this at all, which is a shame.
But I wanted to say shouts out if you're out
there in the sea somewhere to Rain Wilson, because I
feel like Rain Wilson was just just so fantastic on

(01:16:34):
the office as Dwight, Like unbelievable. That character was so great,
and he was so funny, and he seems like a
really nice, level headed guy, and so I've always liked him.
But I feel like a lot of stuff that rain
Wilson was in he kind of got clowned on, and
he didn't really have a lot of success in the
acting roles that he had After the office, it's obviously difficult.

(01:16:56):
Courtney picked out this new movie that we watched over
the last couple of days. Rain Wilson is in this
movie with you. Guys probably don't know Lil rel Howery
by the name, but you've seen his face everywhere. This
guy's in so many movies. He's funny.

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
Hey, he's a part of Friends on Vacation Friends.

Speaker 1 (01:17:15):
Yes, yes, yeah, he is in that movie many other things.
Rain Wilson is in this new movie called Code three,
where he plays a struggling ambulance driver. And while it's
not perfect by any means, it's not like, you know,
a runaway great movie. Like he really steps up and
plays a pretty great role in this and it's funny

(01:17:39):
and poignant and you kind of think of all you
get to learn about all the crap that paramedics have
to go through and paramedics shouts out to you. I
didn't even think about some of this stuff, But good
for him. I love to see that kind of stuff.
He flexed his acting chops a little bit, and I
thought he was pretty good in this Code three movie.
If you haven't seen it, Friends was hilarious. That was good.

(01:18:02):
Vacation Friends too, was one of those movies where it's like, oh,
I see what you did here the first Yeah, you
just let let's take that thing and let's just do
it again all over. Uh okay, quick break when we
come back. We got the update on that Disney Springs
weird mystery scuba robbery ass new fresh details coming in

(01:18:24):
a nine to one one call. Let's listen to it.
We'll do that. It's coming up next in the news junkie.

(01:18:46):
I remember at the time of the Disney Springs robbery
saying like, how could you steal all this money from
a restaurant? You don't even not have a gun or
a knife. You don't even threaten that you have a weapon.
You just shut up and asked for the money. You
could probably said this wasn't even a crime. I showed up,
like is it illegal for me to show up to
the bank and say, I would like all of your

(01:19:07):
money please say sir, well, why would we do that?
And I don't know. I'm just I'm here to ask.
I would like all of your money in one big bag. Please.
That's not illegal. Why I'm not saying give me all
your money. I didn't say I'm going to rob you.
This is a robbery.

Speaker 3 (01:19:27):
I have a you're saying that the difference between the
robbery and not the robbery is asking yes versus.

Speaker 1 (01:19:35):
I think that's true. I think that's true. I think
if if I call See Lane and I say, look,
I want everything in your bank account right now, please,
if you don't mind, I think what I want is
a little much. But if I said, See Lane, can
I please have everything in your bank account right now?

(01:19:56):
Be ready to laugh. That's so different. Then if I said,
see like, give me all your money right now, and
I had a gun or something.

Speaker 2 (01:20:05):
Okay, now going right in the middle though you have
nothing as far as weapon, but you're not using manners
where you're like, give me all your money right now.
Which robbery, according to this was the case.

Speaker 1 (01:20:18):
No, what I mean, I didn't hear exactly what the
guy said, but if he says, give me all your money, robbery.
But if you if you want to give me all
my money, that's at money. If you said, can I
please have all the money at the restaurant right now?
I don't think that's a crime. I think that you
can argue your way out of that. You could say, look, folks,

(01:20:39):
it's just like asking every woman you see if she'll
sleep with you, and you hope eventually the numbers will
work in your favor and one woman somewhere on Earth
will be willing to have sex with you. It's similar
to that, but you go into every restaurant or every
bank on planet Earth and you go, I was just wondering,
can I have all the money in the bank today?

Speaker 3 (01:20:57):
And I'm like that a loophole. It does usually work.
Feel free to say no, love. Yeah, you might, you.

Speaker 1 (01:21:04):
Might get in trouble, but we'll put that on the
mo list and ask him. Now here's our friend Amy
Kaffel from Fox thirty five. She says there's an update
on the bizarre story from Disney Springs. Newly released nine
to one one Call captures the moments after a robbery
at Paddlefish. A masked suspect wearing swim goggles in black clothes,
forced employees to the ground and stole up the twenty

(01:21:26):
thousand dollars. The suspect has not been caught, and they
have a story on this over on Fox. I want
to see because I really want to hear the nine
to one one call. I want to see what was
said in this nine to one one call, because that's
the only information we have. Celan got us the police
report on this robbery, and if you recall, there was

(01:21:46):
quite a bit censored out and the police are heavily redacted.
There was a lot of stuff that was redacted in this.
So let's see what they say and let's hear some
of the nine one one call.

Speaker 16 (01:21:56):
One call that was made after a suspect in swim goggles.
You see right there rob the Paddlefish restaurant in Disney Springs.

Speaker 1 (01:22:02):
Take a listen to this item. We have no idea
he was fully naked.

Speaker 17 (01:22:10):
Hey, did you have a weapon with him?

Speaker 2 (01:22:14):
Some sort of pray and he put pressure over us
before the route.

Speaker 1 (01:22:19):
All right, they said some sort of spray. He had
some sort of spray with him, which is what he's
going into the camera. Yeah, you like he used it
to spray paint the cameras, so I think that's what
she's talking about, which I don't know if anybody would
confuse that with a well, she kind of confused it
with the weapon. I guess she didn't know what it was.
I now, to be absolutely clear, if you're just tuning in,

(01:22:41):
I'm not blaming these people for giving up the money.
That's what the business is going to tell you to do.
And uh, your job is way less important than your life.
Staying alive and just giving the person whatever they ask,
even if they don't present a weapon, is the smart move.
But it's just kind of crazy that you can walk
into a place, no weapon, no nice, no gun, and
walk out with twenty thousand dollars. They haven't found this

(01:23:02):
guy yet, but maybe they play more of this.

Speaker 16 (01:23:04):
Let's see that Paddlefish employee says the mask man put
the trash bags over their heads and then rob the
restaurant a few weeks ago to suspect for his sport.
A reportedly stole up to twenty thousand dollars in cash
in that nine to one one call. One worker claims
the suspect wasn't speaking English. The employee also said that
the robber carried a dumb bag and brought spray paint

(01:23:25):
to cover the security cameras. Paddlefish employees say the suspect
was fully masked in what appeared to be swimming gear.

Speaker 1 (01:23:32):
All right, by the way, A couple of things, A
couple of things we did see in the police report.
It wasn't redacted that they were looking for, like a
Hispanic mail of a certain height and weight. That's probably
because they said he wasn't speaking English. But guess what,
if you're gonna rob a place like this, you might
make that point to be at. Oh yeah, I'll just

(01:23:52):
speak in Spanish the whole time. Because they don't know
what color my skin is. They don't know what color
my eyes are. They don't know anything about me, so
they don't know if I'm Spanish or if I speak English.
Mostly they don't know any of that.

Speaker 2 (01:24:05):
I mean, they don't even know what my mouth looks
like because of how no great swimmer. That's the only
thing we know for sure. Secondly, I have to be
completely honest. I lost my train of topics and I'm
thinking of a fully Hispanic person in scuba gear. But
there is I'm a bunch of people that speak Spanish
that work there.

Speaker 1 (01:24:24):
I'm just saying it looks to me like it's a
possibility at least that maybe they did that to throw
the tray.

Speaker 2 (01:24:31):
Sauce Spanish or someone who. I mean, if you were
to speak Spanish with a mascot sean, I would know
that it's you trying to speak Spanish.

Speaker 1 (01:24:39):
Not necessarily, not necessarily.

Speaker 2 (01:24:41):
Pretend go you have a mask on trying to rob me.

Speaker 1 (01:24:43):
Speak of all, First of all, hang on, let me,
let me, let me set this up for you, and
you tell me if you think I could pull this off.
If I was going to do it, I would learn
very limited words and phrases that I was going to use,
and I would stick to those very limited words and phrases,
and I would learn how to properly pronounce them as
best as I possibly could, and then I would just
stay to that structure. So if you only heard that,

(01:25:07):
do you think you would still determine that this person
isn't a Spanish speaking person? Yes, yeah you could.

Speaker 2 (01:25:14):
Okay, but I'm I'm gonna tell you honestly, and any
Hispanic listeners that we have would say the same, you know,
immediately when it is someone who is not a Spanish speaking.

Speaker 3 (01:25:26):
Yeah, but you're saying the Hispanic people know if this
office full of bean counters is all white, all the
Hispanic people were upstairs cleaning, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:25:39):
There was zero Hispanic people.

Speaker 1 (01:25:41):
There might have been, but hold on, let's let's flip
this round. Somebody comes in and says the words in English,
and you think we could determine immediately if that person
speaks English.

Speaker 2 (01:25:52):
Maybe I can tell you from Hispanic viewpoint that you
can tell when it is and they could be perfect,
like they speak it fluently, but you know immediately if
it's someone who is that doesn't have any Hispanic heritage
versus someone who has, you know something inside.

Speaker 1 (01:26:13):
I'm not saying people, I'm not saying people can't pick
up on that. But what I'm saying is like, if
somebody learned in English, this is a robbery, get me
the money now, and they only repeated those phrases, I
think that they could probably convince people that this is
all they said, But we don't know. You don't learn
too much about the person from the limited dialogue, and

(01:26:35):
it could be a distraction to trace that down and
be like, well, you know that it's a Spanish. I
just think it'd be.

Speaker 3 (01:26:42):
Hilarious to fumble something like this, Like you show up
in your swimming gear, tech guy and you have only
learned to give me the money in Spanish and they're like,
we don't speak Spanish, and they're like.

Speaker 1 (01:26:56):
No, i'd love the money, rock, please put it in
the bag for me. This garbage can on your head
switching up accents would be that that's another dangerous move.
I mean, I would let me see if I could
find more of that nine to one one call, or
maybe you could find that ceiling, because they didn't give

(01:27:17):
us too much of it, but that's what I really
wanted to actually hear. It just gave us the very beginning.
This is all going to be from Fox, so it's
probably to be cut up exactly the same way. But
maybe I can find, uh, the actual raw audio of
the nine to one one call itself. I'll try to
see if we can locate that at some point. If
they send it to Fox, they might send it to me.

(01:27:38):
Yeah that's true, that's true, Or it's out there somewhere
already posted on some news website. Uh, here is a
guy getting pulled over just for the record for being
a superspeeder. You know how that they're after the super
speeders in the state of Florida. They're after the super speeders.
They want to get them, and this guy was one
of them. I'm judging by this Flagler County, Florida Sheriff's

(01:28:00):
office video. I think it's a Corvette that the guy
is driving, but I'm not one hundred percent sure. It
looks like he's driving a Corvette down the street and
they pull him over for going one hundred and seven
miles per hour, all right, one hundred and seven miles
per hour, And they showed his reasoning, his explanation for

(01:28:22):
why he was a super speaker. Here's the initial traffic stop.
I don't know, maybe that's not a Corvette. It looks
a little bit like a Corvette. They're pulling him over
on the side of the road to a fast car. Right.

(01:28:45):
The cops said, I'm just detaining you right now. To
this guy that he's arrested, who has his excuse for
driving one hundred and seven miles an hour for.

Speaker 10 (01:28:51):
The seven.

Speaker 1 (01:28:58):
Weave it in and out of traffic.

Speaker 8 (01:28:59):
Why going so fast?

Speaker 1 (01:29:03):
I have a appointment, he said, I have an appointment
with my barber.

Speaker 2 (01:29:09):
Also, did he take a time machine there? Sounded like
all right, a Whooper snapper.

Speaker 1 (01:29:15):
The guy said, I have an appointment with my barber.
That is what I'm getting to. I have appointment with
my barber. In New Samyrna, fifty seven year old Michael
Stayinek was racing down the highway and was arrested. And
the crazy thing is he was released when he got
to uh the jail, and he was released on a
one hundred and fifty dollars bond.

Speaker 2 (01:29:37):
So did he get to his barber appointment at the time.

Speaker 1 (01:29:41):
He was late for that. Unfortunately for him, he was
late for that. Didn't really look like he needed much
of a haircut, if I'm honest with you, it was
looking like it was already pretty trimmed up. But you're
not allowed to do that. Just for the record, you
know how to go that fast. And Jen's hold on
you brought up a good point. Do you think he
was telling the truth? That guy?

Speaker 3 (01:30:00):
It looks fine, doesn't fine? Fine, It needs a little retooling.

Speaker 1 (01:30:04):
But yeah, he looks like he had a haircut recently
at least. But I will never know. We'll never get
out of the bottom of this one. I don't think
we'll find the scuba guy. Eventually we will, but let's
see what we have. We want to get to a
couple of emails Blake. Maybe he's still he's just waiting
the best place to hide. Let's see what you got

(01:30:27):
to a lot of people emailing the show tips at
the news junkie dot com. Somebody says a Dwight trut sighting.
This is on a building in Germany that they saw. Okay,
thank you for that. Appreciate that it does look a
bit like Dwight Shrut. This this character over here, so
thank you for sending that over. Let's see what else
you got for us. Jonathan says, according to Moe this morning,

(01:30:48):
when animal patrol comes to your house and says they
want to take your dog for whatever reason, you are
legally allowed to say no. They can't take them without
a warrant. Most people just give them up. They said
he was supposed to turn his dogs in, and he
told them that he already gave them away, so he
doesn't know where any of them are anymore, which sounds
a little fishy if I'm honest with you. Uh, this
is how did TJ crew? This is Clay who says,

(01:31:12):
when I heard your reporting on Dave Chappelle saying Saudi
Arabia has more free speech than America, I was assuming
they were referring to the following joke. Ronald Reagan said
during a speech. An American is talking to a Soviet
citizen about the differences between their countries. The American says,
in my country, I can stand in front of the
White House, pound my fist on the President's desk and say,
mister President, I don't like the way you're running this country.

(01:31:34):
The Soviet citizen replies, so what I can do that too.
The American is surprised and asks, really, yes, says the
Soviet I can go into the Kremlin, find the General Secretary,
pound my fist on his desk, and say I don't
like the way President Reagan is running his country. I
get it. It also didn't surprise me that some of
these comedians took the money, because many of them are
struggling financially for various reasons. He suggests, all right, thank

(01:31:57):
you for that. Lots more email it's coming in, especially
about the comedy situation, but many more things we've been
discussing along the way, So we'll work those in. We
got to get down to jury duty before too long.
Big updates in jury duty. What's going on with the
government shutdown? Is everything about to open back up? They
fix it? What's happening? We'll dig in. I got the

(01:32:18):
best clips on that all set up for us, and
that's coming up next on the news, Chunkie. The country

(01:32:39):
is divided in many ways. I mean, still in your neighborhood,
probably most people are varied together normal. I mean I
have some some neighbors who I think are a little unhinged.
I have a lot of neighborhoods that are a lot
of areas of my neighborhood where people get real political,
which I just I find to be odd. There's one
neighbor that has like all these messages up along the

(01:33:01):
side of their house in my neighborhood, and it's like
each window has like a sheet of paper with this
like big political message and all of it. I'm like, god, man,
that's so bizarre to kind of live life that way.
But there are people who are divided right in this country.

(01:33:22):
And in fact, the story came out this weekend from
the New York Times and they said that Americans divisions
cannot be overcome, says the majority in this new poll.
They think that these people are just they believe in
different realities. They have different ways that they view America
moving forward, and you can't really console those things that

(01:33:43):
you cannot make it work with these people. With that said,
I want to tell you that actually I think this
idea might work that's being floated around out there. There's
an idea and it's on the conservative Well I shouldn't
even say that anymore, but I'll say it right of
set side of things politically, to counter program, as we

(01:34:04):
once suggested, may happen the super Bowl. Bad Bunny will
be playing at the super Bowl in California, and the
big move is by some of these commentators who are
right leaning commentators, to start a competing thing when the
super Bowl starts. But I think they've floated having Creed,

(01:34:27):
I believe, perform for their event and do like a
their version of the super Bowl halftime show. Interesting. I
honestly think like if they had Creed, I don't care
what their political stuff is, but if there was a
counter program to the super Bowl halftime show and it
was Creed over Bad Bunny, I would watch that. I
would rather watch Creed perform personally myself than Bad Bunny,

(01:34:51):
which I don't even understand anything that Bad Bunny's saying.
He's not speaking English. I don't care to watch him
perform at the super Bowl. I'd rather watch a band
that I like.

Speaker 2 (01:35:01):
You understand what Creed is saying to.

Speaker 1 (01:35:03):
I understand with arms wide open, and I don't understand
exactly what he's saying being six feet from the ledge.

Speaker 2 (01:35:12):
Yeah, I don't know, and the math makes zero sense.

Speaker 1 (01:35:16):
But it's in English, and it's a rock song, and
I dig it. I'm all about it. But I think
I would tune in. Yeah, I think if there was
something else going on that had a better performer like that,
it would draw my eyeballs in and I have to
assume it would draw a lot of other eyeballs in two,
which is maybe the only thing that would make the

(01:35:36):
super Bowl rethink how they've been programming the halftime show.

Speaker 2 (01:35:39):
I mean, they get great numbers though because of the
Super Bowl exactly, but they have given the numbers when
it comes to the halftime show, and those seem to
be doing very well. Yeah, Spanish people in America.

Speaker 1 (01:35:53):
There are more people who don't speak Spanish than speak
Spanish in most of America. Still, those people are not
who this programming is. Four Seemingly, it seems like the
programming is for probably Hispanic viewers and probably female and
younger viewers that they're attempting to get with a booking

(01:36:13):
like bad Bunny, that's what they're going for. But there's
a lot of people, trust me, there's a lot of
people who are like, I don't know who this is,
and that isn't a Super Bowl halftime show I really
care to watch. And so those people, I think would go,
what else? Is there something going on? And if it
got enough attention, I literally think you could get probably
millions of people to tune into the alternative. I think

(01:36:34):
you absolutely could.

Speaker 3 (01:36:36):
I want how much what else has attempted to counterprogram
the halftime show?

Speaker 1 (01:36:40):
Kid stuff, Puppy Bowl, family stuff?

Speaker 3 (01:36:44):
But does the puppy I thought the Puppy Bowl happens
during the day before the game.

Speaker 1 (01:36:49):
It might.

Speaker 2 (01:36:49):
I don't know if playing the Super Bowl? Was it
last year or the year before h Nick and right
nickelodeon streaming service where they were showing like SpongeBob right
in it, And I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:37:02):
But nobody, nobody's really counter programmed the entertainment portion of
the Super Bowl as far as I've seen it, Like,
nobody said, Hey, you're going to have Bad Bunny singing
in Spanish to this this crowd. That's not for me.
I'm going to go elsewhere Where can I go? And
there's not really anything necessarily that they could. They can
move their eyes to flip it to another thing, and

(01:37:23):
then it's the same exact link as the super Bowl performance,
and then right after you to switch it back to
the super Bowl. I think that would actually draw a
significant amount of viewers. Would it draw more than the
Super Bowl? No shot nowhere close nowhere clothes, But the
average person watching the Super Bowl is probably not super

(01:37:46):
aware of Bad Bunny. Will be my guest.

Speaker 2 (01:37:50):
Necessarily understanding them. But Bad Bunny is one of the
top artists in the United States, and that does account
for people who don't speak fluent Spanish.

Speaker 1 (01:38:00):
I'm talking about music, and this is tough. This isn't
like everybody's going to pick up on this and be like, Uh,
you don't want to listen because he's Spanish. I don't
want to listen because I don't know who he is
really and I don't understand what he's saying.

Speaker 2 (01:38:13):
But a lot of people do though. I mean, I
understand that you wrote the people don't though, so them
for him to be the super Bowl halftime show.

Speaker 1 (01:38:20):
He's the super Bowl Halftime Show because Jay Z and
Rock Nation have chosen him to be the super Bowl
halftime show.

Speaker 2 (01:38:26):
He was also in Happy Gilmore too, because a lot
of people know who he is. Yeah, because he's a star,
of course, right, that's why he's in the halftime show
as well, is it not? I mean, I don't want
I feel like there is something to be said about
his notoriety.

Speaker 1 (01:38:46):
I'm not suggesting that Bad Bunny isn't famous. I'm suggesting
Bad Bunny is in the United States of America, where
the vast majority of people, including football fans, speak the
English language, and he is going to be performing at
the biggest stage possible during the Super Bowl in Spanish. Right,
So that obviously is not going to be the cup

(01:39:07):
of tea for a lot of people who don't know
what the hell is going on. They don't know what
this person is saying. So therefore counterprogramming that would probably work,
is my point. I think it would probably work. I
think people would dig that and I think I would
do it live. They would have to. Yeah, Oh, they
wouldn't have to, but they just have to air it

(01:39:27):
at the same time.

Speaker 3 (01:39:28):
It would Yeah, I think I remember this, and I'm
reading up just to make sure, but I'm pretty sure
one of the early episodes of Celebrity Deathmatch was an
MTV super Bowl halftime special but counter program that year's
Super Bowl. Oh really Yeah, it was nineteen ninety eight,

(01:39:50):
so whoever was playing the halftime show would have been Oh,
a tribute to Motown's fortieth anniversary featuring Boys to Men,
Smoky Robinson, Queen Latifa, Martha Reeves and the Temptations.

Speaker 1 (01:40:02):
Okay, and they counter programmed it. Yeah, it would have
to be live for me, like I would want it
to be live to have the same vibes. But I
honestly think it would draw a decent amount of numbers
and probably make some money, especially with a counter program
move like this.

Speaker 3 (01:40:17):
Everybody at your super Bowl party has to vote on,
you know, bad Bunny or Creed.

Speaker 1 (01:40:24):
I'm going Creed, all right. I'm just that's the direction
I'm going in on account of that's what I like better.
But we'll see what you think. Would you tune into that.
Let us know, send us a dispatch over at thenewsjunkie
dot com. Chaos on Twitch says, the people that don't
like Bad Bunny are the same people that said they
couldn't understand Kendrick. Let's be real, middle aged white dudes

(01:40:46):
that hate that the country is changing from I f
my cousin and my sister. Wow, it's one way to
put it. No, The fact is, when you look at demographics,
as much as you know some people might want this
to be different, you know, Seel, I looked this up
for me. I don't want to just make up numbers.
What percentage of the American public is fluent in Spanish?

(01:41:08):
What percentage of the American public is fluent in Spanish?
It's a question I have spaned because I mean, my
guess is that's it's a pretty low number, which is
why it seems strange to program the biggest halftime show
or the biggest performance that you could think of, the
largest stage to those people.

Speaker 3 (01:41:27):
Approximately fourteen percent of Americans speak Spanish at home, making
it the second most spoken language in the US after English.
Broader estimates of total Spanish speakers included native and second
language speakers reach about fifty nine million, roughly eighteen percent
of the population.

Speaker 1 (01:41:42):
So what was it twelve fourteen percent? Fourteen percent? Fourteen
percent of the United States public speaks the language.

Speaker 2 (01:41:50):
And how many people were watching the Super Bowl?

Speaker 1 (01:41:52):
Oh wow, eighty million or maybe more than that. A
lot of people. But what I'm saying is this is
a small minority of people that will understand what's going
on with this performer, which is they don't care. They're
counter programming, They're doing this on purpose. They're just like
when they brought in Kendrick Lamar, They're like, this isn't
for the traditional football fan. Maybe it's for a younger

(01:42:15):
portion of our fan base, and we want to bring
those people in. The point is it just leaves a gap.
It leaves a gap where somebody else could come in
and say, let's put something more traditional in this spot,
and a lot of people would like that.

Speaker 3 (01:42:29):
I think this year is their biggest chance in a while,
I think so.

Speaker 1 (01:42:35):
I think they probably could have done it a little
more last year, just because of Kendrick Lamar maybe being
somebody that a large portion of the audience wasn't really
in tune with. But this year is just it seems
like it's going to be more obvious unless they do
something special, unless he like says, oh, I'm going to
perform these songs in English for the first time. Maybe

(01:42:55):
they make a squerve audit or something, but it'll be
It'll be interesting to see that play out. And I
would love to see if they actually do this counter programming,
what kind of numbers that ends up stealing away. Let
us know what you think. Send a dispatch over at
thenewsjunkie dot com.

Speaker 3 (01:43:12):
I think, personally would definitely just watch the regular old
Super Bowl halftime show and then go watch the cree
thing later like in Porkanello's does Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:43:21):
Probably, yeah. I mean, it just would be something that
I think would would offer up for the first time,
something that would draw away more viewers than it usually does.
Usually it's everybody's just locked in on the super Bowl.
We'll get to that feedback. We'll get to jury duty
as well. That's coming up. We got to get into
what's happening with the government shutdown because there's been some

(01:43:42):
fireworks I hear on that front. All of that and
more coming up next and the news junk Ye tips

(01:44:04):
at the Neewsjunkie dot com and Christine emails. The show says,
just some thoughts on a story you were talking about recently.
I grew up in Idaho in the eighties. Just to
date this comment and data, my hometown had a huge
population of Mormons. This is in reference to the Mormon
church attack story. So many in fact, that my high

(01:44:25):
school had a release hour every student got, but it
really was so the Mormon students could cross the street
and take Bible study during school hours. That's how much
influence they had in my small town. Personally, I would
say what they do set they had a like an
early release hour, but everybody got it, but it was
basically just because the Mormon kids needed to get out

(01:44:47):
anyways for their Bible study. Personally, I would say the
Mormons I knew were some of the best people in town. However,
I also knew at least one Christian church in town
that viewed the Mormons as a cult at the time.
I don't know if that viewing exists anymore, or does
for some people a widely held view outside of my
local area. But when I was young, there was a
faction of people where I lived that hated Mormons just

(01:45:09):
because of their view of the religion. I know the
story sounds like the attack was just one crazy guy,
but when I first heard the story, I had a
little flashback to things I would hear as a child
from people in town, anti Mormon things. I think she said, yeah,
love this show. I hope you have a great week, Christine.
Thank you. Funny that she.

Speaker 3 (01:45:25):
Mentions that because there was somebody when we talked about
yesterday the Mormon religion not seeming super hateable. They seem
like very nice people, right, And there was somebody who
texted in there was like, yes, they are very nice people.

Speaker 1 (01:45:39):
All of them are going to hell. They're a cult.
And I was like, oh my god, there's a in
the middle of a text message.

Speaker 2 (01:45:46):
There are certain sex of it that you hear the
inside stories once you have become part of the religion
or you were born into it, where it's like, yeah, yai,
they were not very nice to those child wives of theirs.

Speaker 1 (01:46:01):
I'm looking at this, And when we were talking about this,
I was looking at this from the perspective of like,
if you look at different religions and then the religions
that attract hate, you could see things that they would
have to bring on that hate, Like, for instance, when
I talked about the Muslim faith, the Islamic faith, you
could say that somebody might be upset by Islamo terrorism,

(01:46:23):
as Lamo fascist terrorism, and then they would go like, oh,
because of that, I don't like Muslims, or like how
after nine to eleven there was a backlash against people
that you know, they just assumed we're all some of
them going to be a Muslim on a plane in
two thousand and two, right, yeah, right, you know, God forbid,
so there that kind of stuff exists. But I said,
for Mormons, the only thing I think of like that

(01:46:45):
personally is just the door knocking, the solicitation of the religion.
Mostly it seems like I don't know, I just don't
have a bad version of them in my heads. But
clearly this guy who attacked the church and had all
these bombs in his truck and stuff was definitely of

(01:47:07):
a different mind different mindset altogether. Thank you for the email.
By the way, here we go, let's do jury duty
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(01:48:04):
questions and we'll get to all your feedback about the
bad bunny stuff and all this other reaction that's coming
in for the show. But right now, in Iowa, there's
a story that I am questioning and let me see
if I can bring this up so we can get
all of the details. But this was about an Iowa
team that died and the teenager was shot and killed.

(01:48:28):
He's seventeen years old and his name was Carson Ryan.
All right, and it says a teenager died Saturday in
rural Iowa after he was shot by a fellow hunter
who apparently mistook him for a squirrel.

Speaker 2 (01:48:44):
All right, all right, one first question.

Speaker 1 (01:48:47):
Wow, this is what I thought last time I.

Speaker 2 (01:48:50):
Checked squirrels and humans very inside.

Speaker 1 (01:48:53):
I have never been squirrel hunting. I have been hunting
multiple times. I've been hog hunting, been rabbit hunting. I've
been deer hunting. I have never been squirrel hunting. But
I'm just going by the size of animals. Like you
could see mistaking. Maybe a person really quick for a

(01:49:14):
deer's crazy been a bore. But a squirrel is the
biggest squirrel in the world is not as big as
the smallest human in the world. Like these things not
a squirrel. Something has gone wrong here.

Speaker 2 (01:49:30):
I mean, even when you're in the the hunting garb
none of them have fluffy tails like a squirrel dos.

Speaker 1 (01:49:38):
Not that I know of, unless I'm out of the
loop here. Carson Ryan, seventeen, was hunting squirrels outside Iowa
City when gunfire from somebody in his group struck him
in the back of the head. According to the Iowa
Department of Natural Resources in a news release, they said
he was quote mistaken for a squirrel by a member
of his hunting party. Now, lest you think, oh, Sean,

(01:50:00):
maybe it was like the middle of the night and
they heard like a rustling and then bam. You know,
it was three pm. This was in the middle of
the day.

Speaker 2 (01:50:10):
At this point. Because then again, you could use hunting
as an excuse for any murder.

Speaker 1 (01:50:16):
This seems a little bit like Cheney when Cheney went
hunting with a guy and he was like, oh, whoops,
just an accident, didn't mean to do that. He died
from his injuries at this hospital nearby. Now there's an investigation.

Speaker 2 (01:50:34):
Are you hunting squirrels with then?

Speaker 1 (01:50:36):
I don't know. Here's the guy. Does he look like
a squirrel to you?

Speaker 7 (01:50:40):
Squirrel?

Speaker 1 (01:50:42):
He looks a little squirrely.

Speaker 2 (01:50:43):
Has a squirrel hunting? If you're using a nine millimeter
that's going to blow the squirrel up. Therefore, I think
getting rid of the whole point of hunting for squirrels
for something other than blowing up squirrels.

Speaker 1 (01:50:53):
I'm going to take a guess you're not hunting with
a nine millimeter for anything. But I would say it's
probably like a rifle two. And you're probably out there
with your friends, and I would imagine in the middle
of the day, you should be able to see each
other good enough that you're not shooting somebody in the
back of their head. Squirrel with you.

Speaker 2 (01:51:16):
Now, let's say you've mistaken your human friend that is
much bigger than a squirrel. Foresaid squirrel, what kind of
shot is killing them?

Speaker 1 (01:51:26):
Say that again?

Speaker 2 (01:51:27):
What kind of shot is going to kill them? What
are you hunting squirrels with?

Speaker 3 (01:51:31):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:51:32):
Where are you shooting this person?

Speaker 1 (01:51:34):
This person got shot in the back of the head.
When it comes to the story that.

Speaker 2 (01:51:37):
We're talking about, very fishy.

Speaker 1 (01:51:39):
It's not even like sorry, So if you just see
somebody randomly out of the corner of your eye and
you thought that movement was a squirrel, isn't isn't like
hunting etiquette that you shouldn't just fire immediately? I would imagine,
I would imagine.

Speaker 2 (01:51:54):
You get it in the scope.

Speaker 1 (01:51:56):
Ye, then yeah, like, okay, here there's the deer. Let
me take a second. All right, Okay, Now I can
fire at the deer or the bird or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:52:06):
I don't know addiction like that, but you know, squirrels
are faster than deer.

Speaker 1 (01:52:11):
I guess maybe if you've been squirrel hunting, tell me
make this make sense to me. If you've been squirrel hunting,
make this make some sort of sense, because it doesn't
make a whole lot of sense to me right now.

Speaker 3 (01:52:23):
If you would have told me last week this story,
I would have said this is crazy. But after the weekend,
I don't know, because at some point Ashley and I
were in the kitchen and I was saying something and
she like cut me off mid sentence and was staring
out the kitchen window, and she used some curse words,
like what the f or something?

Speaker 1 (01:52:44):
And I was like, what, what's wrong? She goes, I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:52:47):
Maybe it was just a really big squirrel, but I
thought I saw a friggin monkey outside.

Speaker 1 (01:52:52):
Like a monkey.

Speaker 2 (01:52:53):
How many weed seltzers?

Speaker 1 (01:52:56):
She has never even tried the weed selcers. Get out
there immediately if you think there's a monkey in the backyard.
A somebody says a twenty two, nobody's squirrel hunting With
a twenty two squirrel hunting a four to ten. A
four ten is just a shotgun, as far as I know,
versus a rifle. And I don't even know if that
person's accurate in that. Somebody says were they wearing high

(01:53:18):
visibility clothing as they should have? It does not mention that,
It doesn't say anything about like what they were wearing
for safety. Just seems a little weird, a little fishy. Yeah,
I'll see if I can find any more stories about that.
Speaking of Lil Wayne, I said, I went to Lil
Wayne concert last night. Good times, good times. But in
this case, somebody didn't go to the Lil Wayne concert

(01:53:38):
and an Alabama woman landed herself behind bars. Why she's
accused of setting her ex boyfriend's house on fire because
he would not go to the Lil Wayne concert with her.
Is that why you took corny? I immediately said yes, yes,
I said, I'm not going to risk this. Please don't
burn the house down. I Beth Taylor did it, and

(01:54:01):
she's out of her mind. She burned out her boyfriend
or former boyfriend's home in Alabama. She had showed up
and said, let's go, We're gonna go to the concert.
I want to see Lil Wayne, and he said no,
not doing it, and she came back and burned the
guy's house to the ground, which is something that will
get you in some trouble, as you might imagine, But

(01:54:22):
there you go. Make sure you say yes next time,
and in the long run, that's probably gonna be better
for you and your house. All Right, We're gonna get
to some of your dispatches when we return. We'll see
what's going on with you. We also have to get on.
I talked about the government shutdown thing. I don't think
too many people are mega tuned into that, but I
want to at least give you a little updates as
time goes by, right, just what's happening out there with

(01:54:44):
the government shutdown. So I got some clips of people
talking about that in the media, very briefly. So we'll
see what you think about that and everything else, because
it's coming up next some of the news junk kie.

(01:55:09):
Couple of things. One people saying, Sean, why what does
any of this super Bowl stuff matter to you? You
don't even like football. Two things, One, the super Bowl
stuff doesn't matter to me at all. I was simply saying,
it's interesting to counter program something like that. And if
that ever caught traction and pulled away a big portion

(01:55:33):
of viewers. I think they would start rethinking how they
have been programming for the last like twenty years or so.
The super Bowl halftime show, I think they would start
thinking about it in a different way because they would say, oh, shoot,
this is actually hurting us a little bit, and the
advertisers aren't going to like that one bit. I think
that's an interesting thing. Number two. I don't care about

(01:55:56):
football at all, but I do like the super Bowl.
I think it's like such a fun social thing when
there's you know, it's sort of one of those days
where everybody is on the same page talking about the
same stuff. Like you get into an elevator with a
random person. You're like super Bowl tonight, you know, like
when a hurricane's coming up, hurricanes on the way. I

(01:56:16):
like the social aspects of the Super Bowl, and I
enjoy watching it like that. So I enjoyed at least
on that front. More of your comments coming momentarily. But
right now, our friend law heybody, look at him. He
looks fantastic. He's the best of the best.

Speaker 8 (01:56:32):
MO.

Speaker 1 (01:56:33):
We have some legal questions for you. But before that, again,
your your son is still quite young, so he's probably
not brilliant. He is six. I believe you nailed it.
Look at you, six six years old and a great kid,
great kid, very adorable kid. He will go he will

(01:56:55):
go to beautiful places in the world, though, and just
look at his tablet instead of staring at the unbelievable scenery.
But he hasn't brought back, like I'm sure insults from
the kids world as of late, has he. He picks
up stuff every now and then. It's mostly from.

Speaker 17 (01:57:14):
For a while he was saying, repeating some things that
his grandmother would say, like I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:57:22):
Not sure I stayed on the radio. Now is this
your mother or the maternal grandmother? And you get some
of these things imported into the house from school when
kids go out and they do this stuff. Se Lene,
you're gonna see this too eventually with Jackson one. Trust me,

(01:57:43):
I am worried about jack picking up things that my
mom says. Do you know what the new one is
that I've heard in school. There's a new insult that
the kids are using against each other. What is it?
And I don't even know if there was a comparable
thing when we were in school, like something tied into
activities in the news that became an insult that all
the kids were calling each other at school, but they're

(01:58:05):
they would insult each other by calling them Thailand all
babies because of the the it's a workaround to calling
you something. But with all of the recent news about

(01:58:27):
Thailand all and all the basically fake news about Thailand
all being incredibly dangerous for pregnant women, and you know,
it's like, oh, it's going to make your kid autistic.
Other til all babies.

Speaker 3 (01:58:38):
Now, I can't think of anything in the news that
we use as an insult against people. But as far
as like a news story, a very popular news story
working its way into like the children's kind of like
jokes and games that we play their mom took it

(01:59:01):
was the reworking of In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle,
that was all about John Bobbitt.

Speaker 1 (01:59:07):
Oh yes, yeah, yeah, yeeah yeah. Do you know what?
It seemed like that would be the thing. It would
be our children's nursery rhymes getting updated for some like
terrible thing that was happening out there in the news.
But Tilan all babies is what they're calling each other now.
Just so you know, if Carter comes home with that,
you tell me Hey, who who whoa whoa whoa.

Speaker 2 (01:59:28):
I mean, I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving when all the
siblings are together and I will be confronting my mother
about how much talent aw she took me.

Speaker 1 (01:59:36):
Yeah, we want answers. Please answer us now, Okay, but
we have a lot of weird questions for you. I'm
just going to jump into this. Do you mind. That's
all right?

Speaker 7 (01:59:44):
Here we go.

Speaker 1 (01:59:44):
One of the things that was said today on the show.
And I don't know if this has ever been tested
in court, but it's just a pet theory of mine.
Today we talked about the Disney Springs robbery, which of
course you've heard about. Yes, and this person did not
present necessarily with a knife for a gun, or make
any sort of threat of harming anybody with a weapon.

(02:00:05):
They simply insisted that they wanted the money. And so
I said, you know, if you dive down that thought
lane or rabbit hole, if you will if I go
into a bank, and I asked them, very nicely, for
all the money in the bank. Am I still going
to get charged with robbing the bank? Yes?

Speaker 2 (02:00:25):
If I I have your money?

Speaker 1 (02:00:27):
Yeah, like if I if I go can it please?

Speaker 10 (02:00:30):
Like?

Speaker 1 (02:00:30):
Pretty please?

Speaker 3 (02:00:30):
Can I have all of your money in a bag.
Please polite request, feel free to say no.

Speaker 17 (02:00:34):
So there is a fine line between you could argue
that you're just panhandling at that point versus demanding. So,
I mean the demanding is where you're robbing the bank.
If if it's polite enough, maybe you're just kind of panhandling.
So it's pretty illegal.

Speaker 2 (02:00:49):
So you have to like essentially record yourself in the
act and use that in court.

Speaker 1 (02:00:54):
Record yourself committing the crime as you're own.

Speaker 2 (02:00:56):
I just went up and ask them for all their money.

Speaker 1 (02:00:59):
Well, if Brina does this, she shouldn't. But if she
had a little like mug with a coin in it,
and she fully looked like a beggar on the street
and she was I'm just asking, can I is it possible?
I feel like you might find a loophole there. But
risky is what Moe is saying, at least at this
point in time. No, okay, uh Selane, Let's go to
the list. What do we have from Moses to Witt

(02:01:20):
to the de Witt law firm?

Speaker 3 (02:01:22):
All right, something uh like a maybe this was last
week's question, but in the Luigi Mangione case, they dropped
the terrorism charges, and now it's only second degree murder,
which seems ridiculous because he definitely followed and planned to
kill this guy. I don't know why they would have
dropped down a second degree Does this help his case

(02:01:45):
at all? Like, if you're charged with second degree murder,
but you committed first degree murder, let's first.

Speaker 2 (02:01:54):
Needs a lot of evidence to back it up, right,
because they would have done the same for or That's
what they did with Casey Anthony, and that's why essentially
they couldn't prove her guilty.

Speaker 1 (02:02:04):
See like, correct me if I'm wrong. I think what
you're saying is like, why wouldn't it be first agree
murder in terms of the premeditation of it? But hey,
if you want to get rid of the terrorism charges,
which to Sabrina's point, if you want to talk about
things being harder to prove, if you charge them with terrorism,
that I would assume th is harder to prove. And
that's why maybe you would back down and go, all right,

(02:02:25):
we're just going to charge him with murder. But why
second degree murder and something that seems planned and premeditated?
Is this a benefit for him?

Speaker 17 (02:02:34):
Well, of course it's a benefit because it's a lower charge,
but I think the issue this is a federal court
I believe, because there was two cases going on. There
was a state court case and a federal court case,
if I remember correctly. And it's been a little while
since I've looked at this, but or or the New
York charges.

Speaker 1 (02:02:51):
Do you know, hang on, I'll look at this up.
Believe you charge real quick charges. Hang on, yeah, I
know that they backed off of the rorism charges. This
says from the BBC that a judge in New York
State so State Charges, has dismissed two terrorism charges against
Luigi Mangioni. However, Judge Gregory Carrow, during a hearing on

(02:03:13):
Tuesday morning, ruled a charge of second degree murder against
Mangioni could stand. He said prosecutors had failed to establish
there was enough evidence to justify the terrorism related murder
charges they sought against mangione So they said there's no
evidence that the defendant made any demands of the government

(02:03:33):
or sought any particular government policy change, let alone that
he did so by intimidation and coercion.

Speaker 17 (02:03:39):
So New York I just had to look it up
because I'm not a New York attorney. But it is
the New York state charges and New York just their
laws are just a little bit different. So in New York,
first degree murder is only for very specific situations, which
is where the victim was a police officer, fighter, firefighter,
peace officer, judge, or corrections employee, what the killing was
commited during certain felonies like kidnapping, a robbery, the murder

(02:04:03):
involved torture or as part of a contract killing.

Speaker 1 (02:04:06):
Maybe you can possibly allege that. So just in New York,
premeditation is not enough for that first degree.

Speaker 17 (02:04:12):
Correct the second degree murder, there is an intentional killing
which would you know, could possibly have some premeditation aspects
to it, But first degree is just these very specific circumstances.

Speaker 1 (02:04:22):
Wow, should we take away from that any implication that
there's less of a punishment for those compared to each other, Like, Okay,
we've made it harder to have a first degree murder charge,
but can second degree murders still be like a life sentence?

Speaker 17 (02:04:37):
You get the death penalty for a second degree, so
secondary murders twenty five years to life and can be
up to life without parole. Now I don't think New
York has the death death penalty in New York. As
it came out of my mouth, I was like, yeah,
of New York. Yeah, but on the federal side, I
think they were seeking the death penalty on the federal side.
And so that's why the last element on first three

(02:04:57):
murder in New York is the killing was committed as
an active terrorism So that's how they were trying to
charge him with first three murder. Since the judge a
term there's not enough evidence to prove terrorism, it got
dropped down to the SA.

Speaker 1 (02:05:08):
So basically, this is just a weird quirk about law
in New York. Yah, that's just the way their statutes
are written. Essentially, who's breaking stuff over there? Kicking cans
down there?

Speaker 8 (02:05:23):
You know?

Speaker 3 (02:05:24):
Injustice we've talked a lot about it's a local story,
but it's been all over the news about this death
at the Universal Park at Epic Universe. There's a lot
of people trying to cash in or maybe cash out
on this this situation. They're suing Universal saying I too

(02:05:46):
rode the Stardust Racers coaster, and there's been some settlements
and I don't know if we would actually ever be
able to get a definitive answer on this But in
your experience or legal opinion, if you settle a lawsuit
with Universal, do they include in there somewhere they're like,
all right, here's your money. Now, you never get to

(02:06:08):
come back to our parks again. Typically they don't. I
haven't seen that with Universal. We've settled cases against Universal before.
But I'm guessing what they're definitely eno.

Speaker 17 (02:06:18):
Were they injury cases? Yeah, yeah, injury cases. So I've
never seen them say you can't come back to the park.
But what I would imagine they're definitely having in these
settlements is confidentiality clauses that are pretty buttoned up.

Speaker 2 (02:06:30):
Now, do you think that there have been some way,
somehow confidentiality clauses with the folks that were on that ride,
because I have yet to hear We've only heard from
that guy who was in line for the next round. Yeah,
no one on the ride itself. To the person that passed,
I have not heard anything.

Speaker 10 (02:06:48):
No.

Speaker 17 (02:06:48):
I mean it's certainly possible. It's possible those people reached
out and reached settlements to not speak and said they
were traumatized. Now, I did hear one report, and this
was just from TikTok, So I don't know how reliable
it is, but are you reliable when this happened? You know,
all your stuf's in a locker. That one person report
that Universal took all their stuff out of their lockers
and brought it to Lost and Founds. They couldn't grab

(02:07:09):
their phones and try to record anything.

Speaker 1 (02:07:11):
We heard that, yeah, I heard that from ye a
couple of people.

Speaker 17 (02:07:14):
But yeah, you know, yeah, Universe wants us to go away,
and I think they're willing to pay some money to
get it, get it out of the press as fast
as possible.

Speaker 1 (02:07:21):
So I think that's.

Speaker 17 (02:07:22):
Also want to be able to open the roller coaster.
Well that's going to take a long time. So until
they well, at this point, we still don't know really
what caused this. I mean, at least I haven't heard
any definitive answer of even really how the guy died frankly.

Speaker 1 (02:07:35):
Other than he had like some pre existing spinal condition
or something.

Speaker 17 (02:07:38):
It's they said multiple blunt force trauma, but we don't
know what that was from or how it was caused.
So until there's like a further investigation, they can deem
this riode safe. I don't see it reopening.

Speaker 3 (02:07:50):
How does how does this person's this family attorney, get on, uh,
you know, get on the press conference, get on the area,
and say that there were no pre existing conditions, the
person was in a wheelchair.

Speaker 2 (02:08:02):
It's Crump. Well, I mean it wasn't. This is Benjamin Crump.
I'm saying that right, So we I mean, I feel
like he has made his defense attorney style very clear,
especially when it comes to know he's but in.

Speaker 3 (02:08:21):
The realm of like insurance claims and all kinds of
stuff like that that you deal with with.

Speaker 1 (02:08:28):
Injuries. Would would the wheelchair not be a pre existing condition?

Speaker 17 (02:08:33):
Well, it's certainly a factor that a jury would see
and possibly consider. But the reality here is, you know,
he was deemed safe by Universal employees to ride this ride.
They said that he met all the conditions. He wasn't
hiding anything, as far as we know, he wasn't breaking
any rules. There wasn't anything listed on the signs. Again,
as far as we know, that said he couldn't ride

(02:08:53):
this ride because of his condition, and his family reports
that he rode roller coasters like this all the time.
So as far as we know, there was no pre
existing condition that impacted his ability to ride on this ride.
I think that's the distinction. You know, people have all
sorts of pre existing conditions. The question is does that

(02:09:14):
deem them ineligible to ride, you know, this roller coaster?
And so far from what we heard, there hasn't been
any of those two things.

Speaker 1 (02:09:21):
Really quick. One Cosidius on Twitch says, do you think
they will dismantle the ride and replace it with something else?
That would be very shocking to me if they did that.
Now there is the seats. There's some reason to think
about that because we obviously all know this horrific drop
ride accident that happened in town in Orlando, and they

(02:09:43):
did dismantle this entire drop ride and they did get
rid of it, absolutely, so there is some president for that.
But I don't think they would do that. But mo
I asked this question. I think on Monday or so,
you had the first guy in the wheelchair who went
on the Epic Universe roller coast. Here he gets killed.
Unfortunately he dies. I think it was just an accident,

(02:10:04):
but whatever. Then this woman comes up and she goes
I also have some attorneys, and I went on the
ride and I've been injured as a result. And so quickly,
like within a matter of a day or two, Universals
settled with that woman. Now I know that that probably
is not something that is public in any way, shape
or form. But does that rapid settlement tell you anything,

(02:10:27):
like do you think that was a big payout? Do
you think that was like, hey, you don't really have
a case here, we'll give you something small to go away.

Speaker 17 (02:10:33):
I mean, it's hard to know because we really don't
know the details of her injuries. But I think what's
very clear is Universal does not want this in the
news for any longer than it has to be, and
they want to get that. You know, they just opened
a huge you know, I don't know if it's billion dollar,
but it's very expensive, billion dollar theme park, and this
is probably about the worst publicity we have, I would say,

(02:10:55):
And so they're willing to pay to make these people
go away. Now, it would be interesting to know what
her injuries actually were, how they were sustained, if it's
similar to this other individual who has killed on this
roller coaster or not. And I think we'd all kind
of like to know is this ride really dangerous? Was
this some freak accident some did somebody sneak something on

(02:11:16):
the roller coaster that then.

Speaker 2 (02:11:18):
And then where do those like warning signs that you
see everywhere when it comes to roller coasters coming to.

Speaker 1 (02:11:22):
Play, Yeah, because that's all you always see that yeahs,
they like you. You would be hard pressed to miss
those In some of these lines, I think, Okay, we're
gonna take quick break. We'll get to some other issues
that we've been talking about. We got a whole bunch
of clips I got to play before we get out
of here. We got a lot to talk about on
a Thursday, and we'll work in a bunch more in
a short period of time here and the rest of
the show. It's coming up next in the news, Junkie.

(02:12:01):
Your dispatches and emails are coming up in just a moment.
Somebody asked. They said, I've got something important to say,
or I've got something of note to say about Bad
Bunny playing during the super Bowl. How do I text
the show? I mean, you could text the show, but
I don't. Sea Lione sees the texting service stuff, and
sometimes I think that's it. Yeah, like I'll log in.

Speaker 2 (02:12:23):
I forget.

Speaker 1 (02:12:23):
Sometimes it's not that it's like you can't do it
or you shouldn't do it.

Speaker 3 (02:12:28):
Go for it.

Speaker 1 (02:12:28):
Text all you want, but if you've got some sort
of good feedback, just email tips of the news Junker
dot com. Now, I don't know what you're gonna say
about the bad Bunny thing. It's a note like there's
a weird idea that it's like, just watch the super
Bowl halftime show, bigot. It's like, hey, maybe it's not
for everybody. Different people like different things.

Speaker 2 (02:12:46):
I'm looking at the texting service now, this is the
first one that comes up, and I'm going to read
it exactly how it's written. If Maw called Clinett a
drunk on monding show, do I have a case? And
can I hire him to sue himself?

Speaker 1 (02:13:03):
I actually agree with that. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna
second that mao. They called Mo mao. It's offensives. That's
just called mao China a little more. Yeah, good expanding.

Speaker 3 (02:13:21):
Reading between the lines. If Mo called a client a
drunk on a morning show, are you the client? Because
the way you're typing doesn't.

Speaker 17 (02:13:29):
Sound like an It doesn't sound like said that was
a client. I said it was a person who called
me myself.

Speaker 1 (02:13:37):
This is the truth of the matter, folks. When this
show is attached to anything and then you get the
feedback funnel from this show. There's at least a handful
of you who are definitely identifiable as drunks. It's just
the truth of the matter. That's our core audience. If
you want to get drunk and have some laughs tonight,
you could go to the Mo Comedy Jam, which, as

(02:13:58):
far as I can tell, I think there's only like
ten tickets or something left for this. It fluctuates between
being sold out and.

Speaker 17 (02:14:08):
Being like a few tickets availab because people put them
in their carts and don't finish buying them, so, oh okay,
there's a handsfule left.

Speaker 1 (02:14:13):
Basically, there's only a handful of tickets left right now
for the Mo Comedy Jam. That is the comedy event
coming up tonight. Great venue, funny bone, cool, little place
to go see stuff. They got food, they got drinks,
and the money goes to a great cause. We talked
about this a little bit yesterday. Yellow Brick Road is like,
there's if somebody comes up and tells me, look, I
hate the Yellow Brick Road charity. That is the biggest

(02:14:34):
self report I've ever heard of my entire life. They're
like this, if you dislike this group, there's something wrong
with you. It's a great great cause, a great great charity,
and the money from this event goes to the Yellow
Brick Road correct mode, every single dollar, every single dollar.

Speaker 2 (02:14:49):
So that's right.

Speaker 1 (02:14:50):
How tell people where they can get tickets? The last
couple that we have here available for tonight's event.

Speaker 17 (02:14:56):
Assuming they're still some there, you can go to Mocomedyjam
dot com. You can get your tickets there twenty bucks. Again,
every dollar is going to Yellow Brick Road Foundation. Doors
open at seven, show starts at eight and should be
a great time.

Speaker 1 (02:15:08):
Yeah, most said Sean. I'm looking to have you come
out there. I wish I could. I just can't run
that hard. I can't burn the midnight oil and two
nights out of the house in a row. Way too
much for you, so much for you, that's a lot here.

Speaker 13 (02:15:23):
I was.

Speaker 1 (02:15:24):
I was, as the kids say, getting jiggy with it,
all right, and I thought, you can get so jiggy
with it before you gotta Yeah, you gotta relax.

Speaker 7 (02:15:36):
I did.

Speaker 1 (02:15:37):
Yeah, go get the tickets right now, go to just
Calmo dot com, or you can just go to Mocomedyjam
dot com. I mean, did you enjoy yourself last night?
We didn't talk about this, Mike, are you kidding me?
I had a blast good and I was trying to
get this out. I did not know that Lil Wayne was.
It's such a crossover between the rock and rap worlds. Yeah.

(02:16:00):
Like he had a woman who had joined him on stage.
I can't remember what he said her name was because
he brought out lots of people, Lolane did. And he
brought out this woman and she was like a metal singer.
Talk about lucif Yes, yeah, yeah, that's who was. Yeah,
he brought out Lucifen. He's like, I call her and
I'm like, what's that all about? And she grabs the
mic and she's like it turned into a metal concert

(02:16:22):
in the stadium for a little bit.

Speaker 2 (02:16:24):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:16:24):
That was cool. And the other thing that I like
is in a rap concert, they'll just start playing songs
that aren't even theirs and everybody will go nuts. I
think it was it was Tiga, the guy who was like,
open it up and he's like, I just want to
party with you all tonight, how about this? And he
starts playing from the window to the wall and the

(02:16:44):
whole place every freaking person was singing every word to
the song.

Speaker 3 (02:16:51):
When I saw scrill X. He played all the scrill
X hits, even the one he was thinking of one.
But then at some point he busted out Soldier Boy and.

Speaker 1 (02:17:06):
I I did it? You did it? Did you got jaime?

Speaker 4 (02:17:09):
We did?

Speaker 2 (02:17:10):
That was music Fest Round one.

Speaker 1 (02:17:12):
That's what That's exactly what I was talking about. He
was doing the Soldier Boy, but you did it.

Speaker 2 (02:17:17):
When he played it again, I'm gonna play it right now.
See if you can do it for a third time.

Speaker 1 (02:17:25):
He's weak in his old age. You'll break something on
this guy. So anyways, get those ways, can't no comedy
gym dot com. It's a great time. You're gonna have fun.
I assure you. What else do we have on the
mo list? Anything else that we touch it?

Speaker 7 (02:17:35):
Now?

Speaker 1 (02:17:36):
We we cleared it out. Okay, good? I mean not
good as in like I'm happy that we don't have
to deal with that anymore. But Jesus off the show.
Just no, no, not at all, no, no, not not
in the not in the slightest boy, this guy did
he ever have a second hit? Or is that was
that hit for him?

Speaker 2 (02:17:55):
He has a lot of cult classics. You know what
he did kissed me through the phone and you'd recognize it.

Speaker 3 (02:18:03):
I do know.

Speaker 2 (02:18:05):
My favorite is you stank, I don't know, take a
back or you stink take a bath And it was
one of those old hits before. Oh it's fantastic.

Speaker 1 (02:18:16):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know that one offhand,
but it's Scotchiforma. What was the what was the rock
group you had at just Oka a few years ago,
Ice Panda, Ice Panda? Yeah? Or were you talking about
Sabrini's band and I'm talking about ice Pan? Yes. Rob
emails the show and Rob says the tips of the
news junkie dot com about counterprogramming the super Bowl. The

(02:18:38):
show and Living Color did that several years ago. Oh
they did. Yeah. Uh, they had a live episode during
the halftime show and a large majority of viewers switched over.
I flag on the field. I don't think a majority
of super Bowl viewers switched over to see that show.
I think you can pull people over because, like I said,

(02:19:02):
you target viewers with demographics, and this is not targeting
the halftime show. In this case, a big portion of
the people who will be watching the Super Bowl, so
therefore they could maybe look to go elsewhere. And there's
like a weird idea where it's like, listen to the music, bigot,
watch the performance, You're like, hey, just not really drawing

(02:19:22):
me in that much. But there's no way that the
majority in any way of the viewers went over there
is that true? Sea Len?

Speaker 3 (02:19:30):
You know, I searching, I don't think majority. I haven't
looked at numbers. But the weird part is there is
actually actually an article about this on NFL dot com.
It says, prior to nineteen ninety three super Bowl halftime shows,
we're not the pop culture spectacles they are today. Oh
they're saying that in nineteen ninety two, the super Bowl
halftime show was probably not that big of a deal.

Speaker 1 (02:19:53):
Oh wow, because I, as far as I can remember back,
they were a big deal even when I was a kid.
I remember super Bowl halftime show is huge. Maybe I said,
that's no, it's that's that's where the real viewers should be.
The super Bowl used to be high school marching bands
and stuff. They said, the NFL got the message because
the next year was when Michael Jackson did the halftime

(02:20:14):
show nineteen ninety three. Is that true? I believe before
that it was like marching bands. You might be right
about that, then, rob some good, some bad. Gotta be honest,
I don't really care about Bad Bunny, because I don't
think the audience. I'm the audience that they're going for,
says Rob Okay to other emails on this too.

Speaker 3 (02:20:30):
But we'll have to get the nineteen ninety two halftime show,
the one that they're talking about, where they did the
in living color thing.

Speaker 1 (02:20:36):
Uh huh.

Speaker 3 (02:20:37):
It was titled Winter Magic and featured a celebration to
the winter season and the Winter Olympics. Nearly two thousand
performers were involved in the show, with Drill Team, professional dancers,
the sixty piece Minnesota Youth Symphony, color guards, and drills.
It was basically marching bands and rollerbladers and really, yeah, oh.

Speaker 1 (02:20:56):
God, I'm glad that they I'm glad that they forced
them on that.

Speaker 3 (02:20:59):
Former Olympic champions Brian Boitano and Dorothy hamil skated and
Gloria Estefan performed during the show's finale.

Speaker 2 (02:21:07):
Wait, Dorothy hammil skated or Dorothy hammil skated skated?

Speaker 1 (02:21:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't know that. That's crazy, So
I mean that that was a big change. At that
point in time, they started getting the big names and
then you know, eventually you get to the point where're
at now. But thank you for the email. Rob, appreciate
that makes you think. When we come back, we'll do
the final dispatches stories that didn't make the cut. And
today I learned to wrap everything up for a Thursday

(02:21:35):
that is coming up next in the news junkie. All right,
we're back to wrap it up. Mo, thanks for being

(02:21:56):
with us. We appreciate having me. Guy's incredible. He's the
only thing he's better at than this is just doing
the lawyer and stuff.

Speaker 7 (02:22:03):
I thought you were gonna say, rapping making love. He's
a decent rapper. He's a pretty good rapper, terrible. He
knows a lot of rap songs. Like if I were to, like,
if I was on Who.

Speaker 1 (02:22:17):
Wants to Be a Millionaire and there was a rap category,
I would phone a friend MO. I'd be like, this
is my best chance at getting this question right. I
would feel the most confident with that particular topic. Are
they see what we got here on the way? How
many minutes we got we got time for ones? Look
at that? All right? An email coming in? Uh, I'm

(02:22:38):
gonna skip that one. Let's go over to Thomas, who
says tips at the news junkie dot com. Is somebody's
looking for a reason to dislike the Mormons. The Netflix
show American Prime Evil, which is historically fictionalized, could sure
do that. The LDS Church says that it's not true,
but chat GPT says there may be some truth to it,

(02:22:59):
at least in some the events involved. Either way, the
show really paints the early Mormons in a bad way. Oof.
All right, now, I don't know about that. On Netflix.
I know there's one.

Speaker 2 (02:23:08):
Documentary where it was the head of one of the
sects of Mormonism, the Founders. I think it's called where
they had like multiple wives starting at like twelve years old.

Speaker 1 (02:23:20):
This show they're talking about, or a different one.

Speaker 2 (02:23:23):
No, it was called The Founders or All Lines of Founders,
and that one was rough to watch.

Speaker 1 (02:23:29):
Yeah, I mean you there's probably lots of stuff out there,
But I don't know if that was at all involved
in like radicalizing this guy, or if it was more
just his ex girlfriend, which is what a lot of
the stories had mentioned. Unfortunately, Sure that's in the mix too.
Speaking of Netflix, though, there was a push or is
a push? I mean, I hate my ex girlfriend's religion.

(02:23:51):
You haven't done anything about it, and I'm not.

Speaker 3 (02:23:52):
You know, there's not a building of lying whores that
meet weekly to shoot up.

Speaker 1 (02:23:56):
But this story, says, Netflix is facing a wave of
high profile people, including Elon Musk, publicly canceling their Netflix
subscriptions in a protest of an animated show. This is
on the heels of like the Kimmel Hulu stuff and
Disney Plus stuff. This is about an animated show with

(02:24:17):
a transgender protagonist. They said they do the thing they
always do in these stories. Netflix stock fell almost two
percent on October first award No, No, this is something
else says this was an animated feature on the platform
that people have been talking about in the last couple

(02:24:38):
of weeks. I don't know what the wayward thing is.
This is dead End Paranormal Park, based on a graphic
novel that has a transgender character. I guess it's for
kids or something, and people didn't like that.

Speaker 3 (02:24:51):
But I search for Netflix animated feature and I see nothing.
I mean, like a click news and I there's a
bunch of stuff that's not anything about that.

Speaker 1 (02:25:02):
No, this story in this show, whatever it is, is
tiny compared to that K Pop demon Hunter sting that
is massive. Still, oh one more ish, Let's see who
gets in there. Let's give it to some of these
quite dumbs, so this one will be good. Ohmit, says
hey junkies, while the god some of you guys miss

(02:25:25):
like full words in these sometimes while the bad Bunny
situation has got me down, I think is what they're saying.
He's one of the biggest Hispanic artists in the world
right now, big enough to get attention to do the
halftime show, do TV shows and more, and he's American
Puerto Rican. But because he sings in Spanish, it's weird
to hear the anger coming at him. I'm from San Juan,

(02:25:47):
and it's getting to a point where it seems like
Americans just don't like Spanish people. Now, I don't think
that's true. Either wear illegal, need to wear sombreros, or
just keep quiet in a corner and not be in
anything that Americans watch, because as soon as we show,
people are calling for counterculture to strike against us. I
heard somebody kind of reference this in chat before. I
think you're getting it entirely backwards, like it's okay for

(02:26:08):
people to say like this isn't for me, Okay, this
isn't for me, and I'll maybe try to check out
something else. For everybody else that it is for enjoy
it and have fun. The weird thing is being like, no,
you got to watch it. You must watch it, otherwise
you're doing something wrong. No, some people just aren't going
to like it. Some people just don't want that, And
there's nothing wrong with that at all. It's not like

(02:26:28):
a weird thing or a bigoted thing. It's just like, hey,
it's not for you. That's fine. It's kind of weird
to push back on it, honestly, but regardless. Thank you
for the email. Let's work in a final dispatch before
we wrap everything up today. Oh we don't even know. Yeah,
we have time for one. We have time for one dispatch.

Speaker 6 (02:26:45):
We on the final dispatches, but Sean will probably only
play just.

Speaker 1 (02:26:51):
For the record. It wasn't really anything of interest. But
the government shutdown is still going on. But we're just
in the second day, not really anything crazy happening. Let's
see who gets on. If the first a shut down,
you go, you gotta while out a little bit, right,
Not in the second vacation day, nothing really changes. The
landman wants to talk about the squirrel hunting that we discussed, right.

Speaker 8 (02:27:15):
Hey, news junkies, just about that kid getting shot in
the back of the head.

Speaker 1 (02:27:21):
So I those you're just tuning in some some kid
got shot and killed and they said, always friend or
fellow hunter mistook him for a squirrel, which seemed a
little bit strange, and shot and killed him. Been quail hunting.

Speaker 8 (02:27:35):
And when your dog flushes those birds, they are flying everywhere.
They're very fast. You literally do have to pick up
a bird if you can and take a shot very quickly.
The thing that's weird about him getting shot in the
back of the head is ideally you have some orange on,
and if you have orange on, you're gonna have either
a jacket or a hat or something like that to

(02:27:57):
show that because that color is one of those universal
hunting colors. To make sure that people understand that you
are a hunter, not the hunted.

Speaker 1 (02:28:06):
That's important. It's just really.

Speaker 8 (02:28:10):
Smacks of either major inexperience and carelessness or motive. I
don't know which, but anyway, yeah, schorely nonetheless, so thank
you appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (02:28:25):
Real quick. Coastal Kelly on YouTube says, my bff got
mad at me because I didn't like that, Kendrick Lamarshall, Well,
tell them to get over it because there are more
important things in life, certainly like this.

Speaker 3 (02:28:36):
No reach out to the BFF, see what they think
about this one's got to get Let's do today.

Speaker 2 (02:28:42):
I learned.

Speaker 11 (02:28:42):
The following information may make you feel smarter, but will
not actually increase your IQ.

Speaker 1 (02:28:47):
So don't get cocky. Now it's done. What we call today.
It is today I learned for eight Thursday, October second,
twenty twenty five. I don't know if there's any tickets left,
probably not too many. But if you want to take
your last opportunity to go to mocomedyjam dot com, have
a great time and a great show tonight. I know

(02:29:09):
you'll be there in spirit. I will, I will. I
know very funny people. We move on to the final
of these today learns right here Today learn this band
big surprise right here Ollo City Hi City Hi is correct.
The group City High recorded a second album after this
song took off in popularity. They hated their second album

(02:29:31):
so bad the band broke up forever and shelved the record,
never releasing It couldn't have been that bad. I mean,
this one was so catchy. Thank you so much for
hanging out with us. We do appreciate it. We're back tomorrow,
same time, same place. Miss end of the show. Get
the podcast over in the neewschunkie dot com. We'll see
you tomorrow. Everybody paples up with the teenager. I'd have

(02:29:55):
been doo voice.

Speaker 2 (02:29:56):
You can't even the nat to.

Speaker 8 (02:30:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:30:03):
Me, he doesn't sing.

Speaker 1 (02:30:06):
A man's smoking.

Speaker 2 (02:30:10):
Come down in and out of the mock out like
I got a job.

Speaker 1 (02:30:13):
Out to you Jo, believe all. I'm not get

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