Dropped Trop. & Manly Men

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Speaker 1 (02:44):
I had the worst experience at a hotel the other day.
Uh oh, it was just so darn noisy, and the
next day I couldn't find my suitcase or my toothbrush.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
I'm not staying at the Tropicana anymore.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
I would not reckon then.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Well, yeah, yeah, that's our that's our lead story, folks.
Conic casino and hotel that helped define the strip for
most of its existence because it was the first major
hotel you'd come to and in coming in.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
From we could see it from our front yard when
they lived there. Yeah, and so the Tropicana they sent
it off in style though, oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, I will give them credit. They did not skimp
on the celebration. You've got to see some of the
fireworks display if you haven't seen it already.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Whoever did it they were.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Listening and not seeing. I do recommend looking it up
because that was a heck of a display.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
It was.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, there was some fan shot video, but I think
this this one we're showing was professionally shot because it
shows all of the all of the fireworks, including a sign,
you know, a couple of differ logos of the trop
over the years. Balle's, which is the owner of the
the current owner of the of the casino, and they're
going to put a Bally's hotel there. The Oakland A's,

(04:12):
who were the whole reason this thing came down, which
is I'm kind of sad about it, not because they
these kinds of changes are inevitable, and I know it
was upset initially. The thing that bothers me about it
it's not that they imployed the tropic Can it's that
they really need to. There was a perfectly good space
just like what half a mile yeah, down down Tropicana that.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Also wouldn't have completely halted yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Traffic practically those unfamiliar with the Tropicana space. It is
on the strip, it's right on it, and it's at
the corner of Tropicana Boulevard, and it's the first major
intersection when you come in too into Las Vegas, if

(05:03):
you're coming from the air strip, if you're coming from
the airport, major intersection.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
So yeah, it's uh, it's the southernmost part of the
strip across from the another way, stupid outdated casino, the
Excalibur and this.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Hotel surprise, the EXCaliber still stands. But anyway, yeah, because
the EXCaliber is hot, it's a dump.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
But then again, Tropicana hadn't been been improved on in
over ten years. And anybody who has been to the
strip in the last ten years will tell you that
if you don't do any improvements or any remodels at
least every five to eight years, you're going to fall behind.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
And that's ten years in Vegas, isn't it and the.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Last time they did any improvements to this hotel in
two thousand and nine to twenty eleven when they built
a tower. But anyway, this hotel, the Tropicana, it opened
in April of nineteen fifty seven April fourth of nineteen
fifty seven and closed April second, twenty twenty four. On

(06:18):
a side note, we came to Vegas in April with
the intention of visiting the Tropicana one last time. We
missed it by one day.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
One day.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
We arrived on the third.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
They had closed on the second, and they started demolishing
it pretty much immediately.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
But the final the two big.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Towers that they built over the years, those came down last,
and as you can see if you are watching the video,
they spared no expense. Now, the reason they're doing this
is to build a new ballpark for what is was
Well they still are the Oakland A's.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
So is California going to have any sports teams left?
I mean, we've pretty much taken all of them. No,
I keep saying, we like we still live there.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah, well, you know, we kind of. I've lived everywhere.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
You know, honestly, it's and I still consider Las Vegas
to be home in a way. But the they got
they did get the Oakland Raiders and the Oakland A's funny. Yeah,
but they still have the San Francisco Giants and the
San Francisco forty nine ers, so they're still about that
going on for them.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Anyway, Go Mariners.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
Those fireworks that make the logos and stay for a while,
I've never seen those before. Those are insane.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Those were acts of genius.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
But I like to I'd like to know what makes
those work.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Drop logos, the Bally's logo, the A's and of course
the iconic Las Vegas sign all got lit up during
during this event. And it's amazing what contain And like
I said, two days short of sixty eight years.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Oh, they didn't even let it live out at sixty No.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
No, they opened in April fourth and.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Closed on Oh that's so yeah. Give it those two
days and let it had that anniversary.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
I couldn't let it, say for another seventy five and
just left there that So anyway, I think it's when
it first opened, it was the tallest, the tallest hotel
in Vegas, Okay, and it was also one of the
most glamorous.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah, it's not anymore.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
It wasn't anymore.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
It was it was a throwback, just like the Riviera
just before they imploded that one.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
I went in there and it was a graveyard.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
Wait they imploded River. I missed that.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, the Riviera is gone, sad twenty sixteen.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Really, Yeah, And the irony is the irony is they
they they closed that down and imploded it to make
room for convention space, which changed the right changed their
mind about it, and so there's just a little bit
of it left that was you for.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Convention space.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
The rest of it is a big portion of it's
still available to build a hotel if anybody wants to
do that.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah, But the other they're going to take down the
Mirage or are they going to refurnish it?

Speaker 1 (09:14):
No, No, the Mirage, the building, the Mirage is going
to stay.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
But they've changed there.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
They closed it down temporarily for like a year and
a half and then they're going to open it as
the hard Rock and the building a second tower giant
that's shaped like a guitar. And this is not the
same ownership as the older hard Rock casino in Vegas.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
It's a different it's just a franchise.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
It's this is actually ready to take it down.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Tribe. It's the first time a tribe is going to
own stopped.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
I think we're getting ready to take her down.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
All right, Well, let's worrying a hat.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
It would take it off.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
To the truck.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, there was also Clunger like dynam.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Theres the town Goodbye Tropic sixty years to build is
now gone in a few And there was the second one.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
So this place has not only just a history for Vegas,
but personal history for me. It was I think one
of the first hotels we visited when we actually moved
to Las Vegas, the first time we.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Went to the strip.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah, that in the Flamingo, which I'm sure they're gonna
get rid of soon.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
No, I hope not the Flamingos where we celebrated our wedding. Yep,
that one's not as likely because it's central to the strip.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
It's gonna it's kind of outdated.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
It is outdated. They do need to update it a bit,
But changing hotels, changing ownership, or being torn down and rebuilt,
that's such a Las Vegas thing anymore. This one upset
me because I still believe it was needless.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, this one, this one's stung. I remember when I
watched The King Don't be Taken Down that I don't know,
it's stung, just there was something about it.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
I will say that the two stadiums that replaced it
are marvelous.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Where the I don't know what what company owns the
naming rights right now, I think it's Lumen Field for
the Seahawks, and.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yes, they make the taxpayers pay for it, and then
they name.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
It after some called taxpayer stadium.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
Well, I'd rather just speak, you know, Marriners and Seahawks Stadium.
You know what, can't what can call them by the
team who plays preference?

Speaker 2 (11:30):
My preference.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
If a company buys naming right, So let's say, let's
just say Chase Bank. Okay, let's say Chase Bank buys
Seahawks Stadium, I would have no problem with the official
name being Seahawks Stadium sponsored by Chase. Yeah, and then
the radio announcers say that at the beginning and a

(11:54):
couple of times during the broadcast, But the rest of
the time they just say Seahawks Stadium, Right, that would
make sense to me.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
And then you know they'd have ads for the bank
or whatever.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
I'm just using them as a taxpayers still pay more.
And even those of us who voted no repeatedly, I mean,
we voted it down repeatedly, and the state said, ah,
you're getting it anyway.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
That that happened with the Mariners stadium. I don't remember
about the Seahawks stadium. But anyhow, Another personal connection to
Tropicana is that I was actually in a production of
Jesus Christ Superstar at that hotel, and this was played
at the hotel, you know, the main stage where all

(12:37):
these legends had performed before.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
In a second, you should have sent.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Me that picture. I would have loaded it the Marquis.
That was pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, well, we wanted a photo of the I did
send you a photo of the hotel from back in.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
The nineteen that's thumbnail.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, so yeah, I was sad to see it go.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
But on the other hand, and like I said, they
hadn't they did updates.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
They opened it in nineteen fifty seven, nineteen fifty nine,
sixty two, sixty four, seventy nine, eighty six, and then
two thousand and nine to twenty eleven. That's an eternity, okay,
every time they do it. And they switched their emphasis.
They were initially a luxury hotel. But as time were on,
I got a little more outdated. They decided to market
to middle class people, which actually turned out to be

(13:27):
a successful move for a while, but they couldn't keep
up with the changing times. And it really if you
went in there, I could actually hear disco music playing
when it was so outdated.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
People still having fun, people still enjoying themselves.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
I mean, you think of Vegas, you automatically think, oh,
you know the Tropicana. You think that that's like the
kind of go to thing when you think of a big.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Trop or the Flamingo.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
I mean you think about the ones that have been
there a long time, and now very few of them
are Flamingo's about the Flamingo's about the oldest one now
and they they but they they're still owned by Caesars,
which is no longer Bally's. Bally's is a separate company
from Caesars. I didn't know this until a year ago,
but they spun off.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
There's still Do you think the MGM is next. They
just redid the Lion.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
I don't think MGM is going to go anywhere because MGM.
Any of them that are owned by MGM or Caesar's
are likely to stick around. Okay, that includes the Excalibur,
which is a dump.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
I've never They've done nothing because of the MGM. They
redid it like.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Well did the first time I visited MGM. Well no,
let me tell you that first time I visited Vegas,
I was a kid. That was called the Marina Hotel,
and the the large part that that goes north and south,
that was the hotel they added onto it when MGM
bought it. Now, the original MGM Grand was what became

(14:56):
Bally's and is now called Horseshoe.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
They're on course, what horse shoe.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
I was very very careful, very careful about that one.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
So these all, like I said, these hotels all changed names.
I mean, or at least five or six name changes,
and all the the whole major hotels, and we lived there.
The Sahara became the SLS, and then the Sahara again.
The Las Vegas Hilton became the l v H and
then the the Westlake North Lakes.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
I remember hiking. We stayed at Baskatelet's Skate. Yeah, we
stayed at the ex Caliber. That was my very first
impression of Vegas. My mom had just written a series
of medieval novels. So she really wanted to stay at
the ex Caliber, probably because she had no idea what

(15:47):
a dump it was anyway, but there was a big
star trek exhibit at was it the no the Hilton?

Speaker 2 (15:56):
I think it was the Hilton.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah, So, knowing what we know now that we've lived there,
my mom did not realize just how big that strip is.
And and the Hilton is not quite on the strip,
it's on the opposite side and then up a street
or two. And so Mom's looking at the map and

(16:18):
she thinks that city blocks are the same as a
block in Vegas. Now you think about just walking from
one side to the other of the Bellaggio, I mean,
that's what half a mile, and Caesar's is even bigger.
So she's like, oh, yeah, we'll just walk there. You know,

(16:39):
fast forward eight hours later, when we're all dying and
it's you know, a billion degrees and we're all at
each other's throats and we're thirsty and everything. So let's
suffice it to say we got the bus on the
way home. Yeah. We called it the Baton death March
because she was determined and and my mom walks very fast,
so had me and my my baby brother and his

(17:01):
soon to be wife and my sister before she was married,
and yeah, we were all following mom and you know,
my stepdad. And yeah, by the time.

Speaker 5 (17:13):
It doesn't go back, he doesn't want he wouldn't go
to Vegas.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
That's that's why Jim got a trip when when my
mom and she got her well basically, she got her
death benefits early because you know, you get a diagnosis
like she did, they're just like, here have it. And
she wanted to go to Hawaii and Sam didn't want
to spend the money because he wanted to fix up
the house. So she said, well, I want to go
see the Beatles Love and Sam amazing. Yeah, and it

(17:39):
was at the Mirage and Sam didn't want to go.
You know, I get it. He hated Vegas and it's
not for everybody. So she said, well, can I take Melanie.
He's like yeah, and then she goes, can I take Jim?

Speaker 2 (17:54):
If she why?

Speaker 1 (17:56):
We just met Jim and I yeah, we met in
jim Sanuary and we were this was ari.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
It was October.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
When it was in October.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
October was when we went.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
But in order to do that, I mean, yeah, we
only knew each other about six.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Months at the time.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yeah, subject came up. We just I think we had
just gone to see Ringo at.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
The at the Yeah, that's right. We got both our
moms to go see Ringo, and my.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Mom had quite the impression of yeah, well she had
a brain tumor.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
What can I say? Yeah, anyway, Yeah, so that those
were my members of Vegas. But after we went and
we stayed at the Mirage and Jim almost proposed to
me in the pool and I can't hear the music swell,
I'm like, no, don't do it, don't do it. We're

(18:44):
in a swimming pool. Just don't know.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
I just as a PostScript, we went hiking in the
woods in Kent, Washington, and that's when I proposed to
her because I knew that was one of her favorite
places to be, was.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Out in nature.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yes, and it was perfect.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
But yeah, then we came back a couple of years
later and we it's not there, what's not there?

Speaker 3 (19:08):
Not there anymore? Oh?

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah, I know they were, they were developing it, and
I was actually getting a little bit agitated at that.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
We couldn't find the trail, couldn't find the.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Trail because half of it was missing. Yeah, that's all.
It's all condos now. But yeah, I mean the hotel
I stayed at when I first visited Vegas.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
The Landmarket's gone.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
Oh yeah, not not very well named. It's not well.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
There actually is a sign, a landmark sign lit up
sign right there at the bus station, right in front
of where it used to be, which I think is amusing.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
You know, we never did make it to the sign graveyard.
We're gonna have to do that now.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Because but the Trump is going to the YEA Neon Museum. Yeah,
we're gonna go there. We're going back next year to
celebrate the Marine Corps two hundred and fiftieth birthday in
Melanie's birthday. I'm gonna say which number, but the but

(20:05):
the skyline of the city of Las Vegas has changed constantly.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
So it's it's this one. This one hurt a little
more than most.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Something that, yeah, took down the Riviera, which I you know,
I don't have. That was another one. The Riviera was
a luxury hotel when it first it was. That was
where the rich people went, was the Riviera. My grandparents
used to go there.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
When they wanted to. My my grandpa is a business
owner and fairly well off.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
And he he would go there to Vegas when he
when he went to would go beat to the Riviera.
So and when I went it was I only went
there once before it closed down, like once, probably about
a month before it closed down.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
I thought, you know, it's a nice looking steakhouse. I
think I'll take Melanie there. And we never went and
it closed down.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
So yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yeah, there was a place up the road from where
we of now that we kept saying, no, we need
to go there, And now it's something different. It's changed
so fast.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Yeah, it's not. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
They're trying to be too many things at once.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
I think maybe maybe, you know, you just stick to
what you know, Like the red lotus in Auburn. Yeah,
I think that's still there.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
I don't find out someday we ever to get back
to Washington State.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Best war one time.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah, it's really good I've ever had.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
But that the I love Las Vegas. I always will
love Loss and always have.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
A special place in her hair.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
And it's sad to see this happen. But there's one
part of this I haven't talked about why I'm a
little bit concerned because the Oakland A's have not finalized
a financing deal for all of this. Now, they're going

(21:53):
to be in Sacramento for a few years, and chances
are it's going to go down exactly as planned because
there's a lot of people with a lot of money.
You can they can throw it lawmakers and that kind
of thing. So that's not gonna be a problem. But
what would happen if they decided, heyment our Sacramento audience

(22:14):
is really good, and this is a nice ballpark, why
should we blow all that money and do all that
What if they stay in Sacramento and then we're stuck
with a demolished hotel that didn't need to be demolished,
that was iconic and could have just been remodeled.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
Yeah, they'll build something there anyway.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Their Bally's is building a hotel and they're planning to
call it Bally's.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
I say, you're full of it.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Please just call it the New Tropicana or Tropicana two
thousand or two.

Speaker 6 (22:44):
Tropity Bob Bob Bop, I don't care something with trop So, yeah,
this hotel, Oh, let's see just a few more things
about it.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Then well then we'll move on one of.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
The longest running shows in Vegas's follies were and it
was the classic show Girl show.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Oh yeah, that pretty much.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Disappeared about ten fifteen years ago, but this pull, these
Brigeire ran there for a long time. They had a
comedy club there, laugh Factory. But there's a lot, there's
a lot of things that that happened there. But yeah,
being in a show literally at the Tropicana, you know,

(23:31):
where all these great performers had performed over the decades,
it just meant a lot to me. It was a
one off. It was for charity, but it was it
was so fun, so much fun, and they won't be
able to take that away from me.

Speaker 3 (23:48):
So no, no, you can't take it with me.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
You can't take Let's see who performed there. Let's see
Louis Armstrong, Anny Goodman, Eddie Fisher, Jane Mansfield and Roy
of course there was a at near the end. It
was they had Purple Rain R E.

Speaker 7 (24:16):
I G. N.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
Which the Prince Tribute and Michael Jackson.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Tribute show and Gladys Knight, Sammy Davis, Wayne Newton Raiding
the Rock Vault, which is a great show.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
We got to see. It isn't at the Drop when we.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Saw it though, no, we saw it.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
We saw when it was at the lv H aka
the the Westgate.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
Oh, this is a sad picture with the chair in
the middle.

Speaker 4 (24:45):
Of the Oh.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Wow, a chair without a slot machine in front of it.
And I mean it is in the middle of.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
A cleared out with a milk crate on top. Oh,
that is heartbreaking. That hurts my heart to look at that.
All the tables are stacked up and it's like, this
is it.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Oh, my favorite comic Bobby Slayton played there.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
This is it?

Speaker 8 (25:09):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (25:10):
Why would anybody pay three hundred and seventy five dollars
for that picture? That's not a picture you would hang anywhere.
Some of these other pictures are fantastic.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Yeah, but it was.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
It was a fun place to go, but it was outdated.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
And hopefully a lot of memories.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, a lot of memories for a lot of people,
a lot of people.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
Yeah. Well, let's move on. Yeah, some pets. As we
most the rantal we need to come up with a thing,
you know, the rantable question of the week, And my
rantable question today is are these the men we need?
Are they?

Speaker 2 (25:51):
So let's talk.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
About cackles McNee pads further, woo, I cannot take credit
for that. I cannot dig credit for that, and that
that was a Claven original there, so there are no
reason Claven coo coo. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
By the way, if you ever get a chance to
read any of Andrew Claven's books, books are great, or
listen to his podcast at.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
The very least listened to his intro, because he will
have your.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Comic gold, their comic gold, especially if you lean a
certain way politically.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
But he's just playing funny anything.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
Yeah, yeah, he's well. I mean, he was a comedy
writer for years and years in Hollywood until they found
out he wrote.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Films until he decided to show his colors, and then
they because Hollywood doesn't like conservatives.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
Hollywood doesn't like anybody who differs in an opinion in
any way. Anyway, Uh Kamala dropped a new ad and
they're tried really hard. And this is what I think
is funny. They're actually saying this out loud. They are
trying to woo men. Now, if there's one thing I
know about men is they're not into wo. Men do

(27:02):
the Wu. They don't be the wu. We are the
wu ease men are the wu ers. So if you're
trying to woo men, you're not exactly gonna get what
I would call men.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
You're not gonna get men, You're gonna get man.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
Yeah, and boy, howdy do they so you I can't
even give words to.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
This is a cringe feast.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
You just gotta watch it.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
I'm a man, I'm a man.

Speaker 4 (27:31):
I'm a man man, and I'm man enough.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
I'm man enough to enjoy a barrel proof bourbon meat,
man enough to cook.

Speaker 9 (27:37):
My steak rare, man enough to deadlift five hundred and
then break the out of my daughter's hair.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
Okay, remember that he's mad enough to deadlift that and
braid the out of his daughter's hair. Remember that you think.

Speaker 10 (27:54):
I'm afraid to rebuild a carburetor?

Speaker 4 (27:56):
Eat carburetors for breakfast?

Speaker 3 (27:57):
Oh that's not all you eat for breakfast, honey.

Speaker 11 (28:01):
A lot.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
You've had both of the burritos. I have pancakes to boot.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
I think I think you eat the entire car.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
I'm afraid of bears. That's what beer hugs are. Before
I'll tell you another thing, I sure I'm not afraid
of women.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
I'm not afraid of women.

Speaker 5 (28:15):
I'm not afraid of women.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
He's the one like a woman, the gid, he the
guy from the Walking Dead.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
I have no idea their bodies.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
I say, go for it. And when he use ivy
have to start a family, I'm not afraid of families.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
And that is buying into the lie the Trump is
somehow against and he's not. In fact, he's not totally
pro You can find any speech he's given. He's all
for it. He wants to start families. Hello, they want
to be.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Childish cat ladies have all the cats you want.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
Woman wants to be president.

Speaker 10 (28:50):
Well, I hope she has the guts to look right
in the eye and accept my bull throated endorsement.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Oh that's not the only thing. Full throat baby. Oh
look at him, highbos. There's no way that guy's ever
touched a horse much less well, well, he might have
touched a horse, but not in the way he should.

Speaker 4 (29:11):
Because I'm man enough to support women, man enough to
know what kind of doing.

Speaker 10 (29:15):
That time, like man enough to admit I'm lost even
when I refuse to ask for directions.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
So all these things that they're using to say they're
man enough are all really really feminine things. Have you
noticed that.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
You know I think there's more than a few broke
backs in there.

Speaker 10 (29:34):
Man enough to not ban young women from reading Little
One or one of those pans.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
Nobody's banned young women from reading Little Women, and nobody's
banned any books. They just said, we don't want porn
in the classroom. That's not banning books, that's just not
being a pedophile groomer's books.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
But the sisters like, I'm man enough to raw dog
a flight.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
Oh, I bet you you brought dog a few flights
their baby.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
It sucked.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
Even the horses like, do you know what I mean
to raw dog a flight? I think we talked about
that on the show before. Yeah, okay, so you you
fly somewhere. It takes several hours, and you do bring
no entertainment, you don't use it, you don't bring any snacks,
you don't.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
Anybody who would do that is.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
Yeah, it's just why you're not a monkey. Don't need to. Yeah,
it's ridiculous, it's not worth it.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
I'm man enough to be emotional in front of my wife.

Speaker 4 (30:27):
In front of my cage, in front of my horse.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
That was cute. That was cute.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
Okay, well played.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
I think that sound was added afterwards. I'm pretty sure
the horse didn't do that.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
I'm man enough to.

Speaker 12 (30:40):
Tell you that.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
I cry.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
I love actually good I'm sure you do, Honey Well.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
Hunting, West Side Story and Brett. And I'm sick of
so called men domineering, belittling, and controlling women just so
they can feel more powerful. That's not how my mama
raised me.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
I love women.

Speaker 4 (30:56):
I love women who support their families, women who decide
not to have families, women who take charge.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
And I'm man enough to help them win.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
Did he just call Walls a woman too? I'm not
enough to help them win, just.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
Saying because the new masculinity.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
Could we be more cringy? Seriously? Could we be more cringy?

Speaker 1 (31:22):
Apparently the new masculinity is exemplified by Tim Walls and
dougam Hoff.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
Well, hold on just a minute, folks, because you need
to learn where these men came from. Come with me
to a post by bad ombre on x formerly known
as Twitter. As many of you know, Jimmy Cable's writer
Jacob Reid directed the ad for Kamala Harris. The ad

(31:48):
features what are presented as everyday mail voters explaining why
supporting Kamala Harris is the masculine thing to do. However,
none of the men in the ad are actual regular voters.
They are all paid actors. You think, you think. Moreover,
the real life circumstances differ significantly from the individuals they
portray in the ad. Here are their stories. Waylan McQueen

(32:11):
is a far left pro Antifa comedian and actor who
has until now found limited success. He does improv gigs
at the Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles. In a
Twitter post from twenty twenty two, he explains what white
privilege is and tells you why you need to acknowledge
your white privilege. As of twenty twenty four, he is
single and for the Life Prize surprise. Landrei Itawu is

(32:35):
an immigrant from Nigeria. He is also an actor who
works at the DC based Octet Productions. This is our
weightlifting boy who braids that out of his kid's hair.
He has many intimate pictures with the Obamas and the Bidens. Itawu,
who is by has done gay four pay movies and
nude solo shoots. In the Men for Kamala Ad, he

(32:57):
says he is mad enough to effing braid his daughter's hair,
but The only problem is he doesn't have a daughter.
He isn't braiding anyone's hair. Aw Mike Leffingwell a gay man,
which one is he? Do you think? Also works at
the Upright Citizens Brigade where McQueen works. He is an
acting coach, cartoon writer for Netflix and dream Works, and

(33:18):
an actor in TV commercials. On his public Instagram page,
he showcases his participation in his latest project, The Men
for kamala Ad. Actor Whinston Carter, the heavy set fellow
in the ad who claims to be a mechanic and
Wrencher lives in Los Angeles with Taft Broadcasting Company. Lives

(33:39):
in Los Angeles signed with tastt Yeah. He has found
limited success in the acting world, mainly as an extra
in films and as a character in the low budget
superhero film Spaghetti Mare. Now that does fit him. Tony Ketchum,
the tough, rugged bearded grandpa in his garage and The
Men for kamala Ad, is also an actor. He now
mainly does low budget independent films like Carbox, where we

(34:02):
played the role of Peapop. Tony is unmarried in real life.
In two thousand and one, he played the extra role
of alcoholic consumer in the movie Ghost World. So this
was every bit as fake as Kamala fake ity fake
fake fake, but it gets better better, Oh, it gets

(34:25):
so much better, much better. If there wasn't enough cringe
in that ad, wait until you hear the Tim song.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
The Couch to.

Speaker 4 (34:41):
The Twins Anti.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
It's just you can't make this up. They think this
is gonna get the photos. Honest to good, I thought
this was a like a Babylon Bee spoof and Tim, no,

(35:09):
we done. It's so cringe. I can't believe that anybody
would watch that and think, yep, yep, yes sir, that
is who I want.

Speaker 13 (35:22):
To I didn't think they could get any worse, but
they did, so this is I mean, if there's an
award for the most cringe campaign, that is the one
and only time I think that Kamala would.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
Get any votes, considering she hasn't gotten a single vote
in her entire life so far.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
Well, she's about to get some Tim Walls. There's some
footage of him hunting or trying to load his rifle,
and the man is really dressed like Elmer Fudd and
place he looks like Elmer Fudd. Anyway, with that, before
you put on the outfit if you if you can

(36:10):
bring that up real quick. I wasn't it wasn't planned.
But I mean he's out hunting wabbits.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
Yeah, he is literally out hunting wabbits trying to find well,
here's the outfit and yeah, but I'm not finding I'm
not finding a side by side. So let's see. Okay,
there was one going around on Twitter a bit. Yeah,
that's basically. I mean, what they're doing is they're suping

(36:38):
superimposing his face onto Fudd himself. But you can see
the outfits birching the identical and then watching him struggle
to try to figure out how to load his gun.
Is I mean, look at this, Look at the still shot.
The guy has no idea what he's doing, struggling to

(37:01):
load his gun. Insane. Oh here we go. Here we
got the full on, the full on fud here. It's okay,
first of all, why are you wearing chaps? What? What
is the purpose of that?

Speaker 1 (37:19):
I'm not a hunter. That doesn't Hunting doesn't interest me
all that much.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
I like fishing, Fishing is okay, and I like riding horseback,
but I'm really not into it. And I like shooting.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
But what what shooting?

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Is this him trying to shoot the gun.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
He's gonna remove his will.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
Okay, I don't think you can hear this, but they're
asked he did what kind of gun it is? And
he's giving them this long winded story. It's a bretta,
what is it? Trying to get this but look at
if you can't figure out how to load it? Wed
it eight four hundred. I bought it when I was

(38:07):
shooting a lot of trap. Yeah, he's shooting some crap
right now, he's shooting crap. But yeah, that is a
man who does not know his way around a gun.
And what I love is when Kamala says, uh, you know,
oh yeah, I'm a gun owner, and they're like, oh yeah,
what kind of she says a glock? Nobody who owns

(38:29):
a glock actually says that, hey, giam, what kind of
gun do you have?

Speaker 1 (38:32):
I own a glock G nineteen fourth gen nine millimeters pistol.

Speaker 13 (38:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
See that's how an actual gun owner answers, it's a glock.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
What kind of glock is it? There's like g everything.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
Yeah, It's like, oh, Kamala, I hear you got your
driver's licensees. You bought a car. What'd you get a Sudan?
What does that even mean?

Speaker 1 (38:57):
Yeah, so I got the Gen four instead of the
Gen five because I like the grip on it better,
and because the Gen five was the newer one, it
cost about one hundred dollars more into me.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
It wasn't worth the extra money.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Well, I like shooting you're gun more, and I like
shooting my hell cat. I'll be honest. Yeah, I mean
she's she's needy.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
It feels like an extension when you.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
Yeah, and it doesn't have near the kick back.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Yeah, that's that's the drawback with you.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
I got. I got the hell cat because she fit
my hand better because I have teeny tiny hand important
and I didn't you know, but the gluck man, it
shoots nice. We got to get back on the range.
It's been it's been a spell. In fact, we haven't
fired a bullet since we've been here in Texas.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
And we need to get them. I want to get
mine professionally cleaned first.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
I think our friend up the road actually shoots in
his back here. We could probably do that here. Yeah,
we have big enough yard. Have to lock up all
the critters though, because dog is dumb enough, she be like,
what are you doing?

Speaker 2 (39:50):
It was the durp of death, the.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
Drp of day. That's the other thing is I guess
those are technically hunting dogs, but they're all just like
dirpty durr in front of the the people. He's who
was at the shot somebody during the hunting thing was.

Speaker 4 (40:11):
The real change.

Speaker 3 (40:12):
He's gonna chaney somebody. It's it's it's going to happen.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
I just know it, all right, lawyer, which one one
of the few things I like about him.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
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Speaker 1 (42:08):
Counterculture Wise is proud to present News of the Weird
and Wonderful.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
Here are your hosts, Melanie Hope and jim Monis.

Speaker 3 (42:19):
Using the rood and winder fille by us brought to
you by us, me and him. That's us, that's us. Okay,
this first one's a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Okay versus you go first? All right?

Speaker 3 (42:32):
Rock, paper scissors?

Speaker 2 (42:33):
How you win?

Speaker 1 (42:34):
The thirty one year long treasure hunt in France appears
to have come to an end after official social media
accounts announced the token needed to claim the grand prize
has been found. The hunt on the Trail of the
Golden Owl was based on a book of riddles published
in nineteen ninety three. Participants had to solve eleven puzzles

(42:55):
in the book and a twelfth one that was hidden
to find the exact location of the token.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
It would be fun.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
Don't go digging, warned a message on a channel down
the chat app discord with tens of thousands of followers.
We confirmed that the Golden Owl countermark was unearthed last night.
The message read, unleashing a wave of sad, a wave
of sad and crying emojis. It is there useless. It
is therefore thus therefore there plus four therefore useless to

(43:25):
go digging. The solutions provided by those who claimed of
unearth the token of being vetted, the message said. The
book published in nineteen ninety three by author Regis Hauser
and artist Michael Becker built a cult like following of
the community of more than two hundred thousand players known
as owlers, from France and abroad, according to the Hunt's
official website. In a documentary post on YouTube, mister Becker

(43:48):
saw said he oversaw and financed the creation of the prize,
an owl made of three kilograms of gold and seven
kilograms of silver with diamond chips on his face. There's
a photo of it. That's really cool, Okay. Events where
owlers could meet a share tips were organized across France.
Mister Hauser, the intellectual architect of the riddles, had initially

(44:10):
used the pen name Max Valentine to prevent the most
assidious treasure hunters from seeking him out. He died in
two thousand and nine. French newspaper Le Monde reported he
and mister I don't know why I had to pronounce
it that way round.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
I don't know, but well, it's just like when somebody
who even is pretending to be hispanic. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
He and mister Becker decided to bury a replica of
the owl, keeping the pressures original in a safe place.
Its value is estimated one hundred and twenty six thousand pounds.
Fans of the treasure have said online.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
So they found the replica.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
Yeah, they found the replica, but they win the actual just.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
In case somebody bumbled onto it.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
In order to claim the treasure of the winning player
would need to submit the replica along with the answers
to all the books riddles. So yeah, they will get
the prize. On discord, members of the Hunt channel were
quick to react to the news the replica alum may
have been found, with thousands of messages pouring in time
to get the tissues out. One wrote, it is the
end of an era, said another, according to twenty one
to twenty blah blah, a twenty twenty one documentary, because

(45:19):
twenty one twenty hasn't.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Happened yet yet.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
The concept was inspired by The Masquerade, a nineteen seventy
nine book of riddles by Kit Williams. Or Hunters also
had to solve several puzzles to find a golden webbit.

Speaker 3 (45:31):
Okay, killed a webbit, killed belly belly? Quiet? No, great, now,
Walls is going to be looking for it.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
Really quiet from hunting webbits, poor little bunny all right, now,
I was hoping to get the proper pronunciation of this
word for you. Hello, cibon, all right, cool say it Melaniope,
get going.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
Half the letters are silent. Well, apparently there are depressed rats.
I'm not sure how you know a rat is depressed,
but if it's depressed, you can feed it shrooms and
it'll be less depressed. Apparently.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
Well that that goes for people too, wouldn't it.

Speaker 3 (46:13):
Well look at him, Look how fatty is.

Speaker 7 (46:14):
That's a very's a very happy rat.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
This rat may be happy, but mushrooms of a different
sort could be the key to making it really optimistic.
So we're not just talking about less depressed. We're talking optimistic. Okay, man.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
The image covers half the artisan edited by Laura Simmons,
I say, edited badly, yeah, version, and you can.

Speaker 3 (46:43):
Read that the original version. Here we are being so
very professional professional here at counticul Joys. We tend to
archive them just because, all right, philocybin makes rests more optimistic.
Here we go, philocybin woulds make it little bit bigger
so we can see it puts rats in a more
optimistic frame of mind, long after any hallucinogenic effects would

(47:06):
have passed. Okay, perhaps they're more optimistic because they've come
down from the WHOA, what's going on? And once you're
out of that, like, okay, I'm better now. As a result,
the author conclude the rats were more likely to remember
their successes and forget their failures, motivating them to keep
trying for rewards. That's a really esoteric study. I mean,

(47:30):
how do you know.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
They've run out of the big things?

Speaker 3 (47:34):
Well, I mean since Biden cured cancer, I guess we
can focus on optimistic rats, cancer.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
Al Gorban vent of the Internet. Between those two.

Speaker 3 (47:43):
Things, we don't we're done, We're done, we don't need
to do and Obama ended racism. There is considerable evidence
that philocybin can be an effective treatment for some cases
of depression that have failed to respond to standard approaches.
Sometimes the drug may lead to more bade fit for
fewer side effects than first line options. That doesn't mean

(48:04):
it's good for everyone with depression, however, making it important
to identify what makes someone a suitable candidate, well, what
makes us a suitable candidate. Research in the area has
been hampered, normally by laws against the psychedelic drug, but
problems inherent in the treatment. As Banash University PhD student
Beth Fisher told IFL science, you can't do double blind

(48:25):
philocybin trials on humans because they know if they got
the drug or the control. Yeah, when the moon is
in this like the bright colors and talking trees sort
of give it away. Ah, that would scare the crap
out of me. One way of addressing this is to

(48:47):
give people microdoses that don't produce hallucinations, but these may
not be sufficient to make a measurable difference. The alternative
is to use animals, who, even if they experience weird visions,
are unlikely to get placebo effects for anything else.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
It just seems a bit cruel.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
I think so too, and you know.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
I get it, But at the same time, it just
seems like these animals didn't ask for this.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
Well, and our physiology is so different. I can't imagine
that it translates. I mean, all of those guinea pig
studies turned out to be moot. We're just so different.
And then when you do, you know, studies like that
on higher apes, that's that's worse because a lot of
them are sentient, and it's like, you know, what do
you do? Fisher, I just don't believe in animal testing

(49:36):
at all. Fisher is working in a department that is
at the cutting edge of testing philocybin's effects on rats
for mental health conditions, for a PhD on optimism. Hi,
I've got a PhD and optimism. Okay, honey, and.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
I've got a PhD.

Speaker 3 (49:56):
I got a PhD in sarcasm. So let's do this.
A sample of twenty two rats were given either a
single dose of saline solution as a control, or a
Philo saline mix over the next fortnight. After they got
to lift my pinky for this one, after the immediate
influence had passed, the rats were offered the chance to
touch their noses to one of two ports. One port

(50:19):
was rewarded with a sugar treat, the other with nothing.
The correct site swapped in a pattern the rats would
struggle to solve. Fisher's rats were well fed so hunger
would not motivate them, and the experiment was done in
an area accessible from their home cage. The rats had
the choice of whether to play for sugar or to
do the raty equivalent of staying on the couch. The

(50:43):
rats that had been given philocybin played, and one more
than the saline only rats previous how much more. Yeah,
I mean, that's really important to know information. Previous studies
by Fisher's co authors showed rats given philocybon weren't any
more motivated, for example, by value in sugar more if

(51:04):
you're coming down.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
From a mushroom guy, or we started talking about it. Yes,
they should have before talking about it, all right, to
keep going.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
Sorry, it's interesting. It's interesting that rolls out one explanation
for their greater successes, but there could be many others.
The team tested observations of each rat's behavior against an
algorithm that predicted their responses to change in different psychological drivers.
They concluded the behavior matches that would happen if the
dosed up rats remembered their wins. That's the time that

(51:38):
they got the sugar hit more, and we're more likely
to forget their losses. How do you know? How do
you know if a rat is remembering something? I'm so
confused by this. That combination inspires anyone, rather human to
be more adventurous rather than dwelling on all the times
things didn't work. Uh Stelosa would say, not very scientifically accurately.

(52:00):
Be a goldfish murph. The Cracker scientists prefer to call
stronger memories of successes than failure, resilience or optimism bias.
Actually I could use this. I'm going to go drop
me some mushrooms, Fisher said, including her sailing only. Rats
have an optimism bias? What was enhanced in those with philocybin? Okay, optimism? Yeah,

(52:24):
rats have an optimism bias. The rats in the study
were housed in conditions that allowed them to socialize. Solitary
cages haven't shown to induce depression like symptoms. You think
du if covid taught us anything, and Fisher told the
magazine future studies could investigate how effective philocybin is at
counteracting this. I don't think drugging somebody up because the

(52:48):
lonely is a good idea. I think socializing them is
a good idea. Studies of deepress, do you know? I
just want I want to know what a depressed rat
looks like.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
Oh you know, there's smoking a cigarette there, sitting.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
Back, dust on their bellies. All right, So this goes
on a spell, But I still want to know what
a depressed rat looks like. And how you know? That's
just so weird to me.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
The study is open access.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
This web crazy all right?

Speaker 1 (53:27):
Oh, well, this was probably my favorite weird and wonderful
story of the week.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
This almost it.

Speaker 3 (53:32):
Started out weird and ends it I think wonderful. I'm
not one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
Sure we'll see it might even be why we can
have nice things. I don't even know where this falls.
I just love this photo though it's like it's it's hilarious.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
I tried to find video, but I couldn't find video.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
No, we couldn't find.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
A court in southwest China refused a divorce request even
though the husband had been accused of domestic violence and
had carried his wife out of the courtroom during the proceedings.
The wife, surname Chen from six Province, had been married
to her husband Lee for twenty years. According to the
Shanghai Morning Post, the couple have two sons and a daughter. Recently,

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Chen filed for divorce and cided domestic violence as the reason,
claiming their relationship had completely broken down. Chen said that
Lee became violent with her when he was intoxicated. However,
the court did not grant the divorce because they claimed
that the couple still at a deep emotional bond and
suggested that reconciliation was still possible. They were also swayed

(54:29):
by the fact that Lee did not want to get divorced.
Dissatisfied with the ruling, Chen appealed the case. During the
second trial, Lee became emotionally unstable, lifted Chen off the floor,
ran out of the courtroom while carrying her on his back.
Chen began to scream out of fear while she was
being carried away. Courtroom bailiffs quickly intervened and reprimanded Lee.

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On September twelfth, Lee wrote a letter of apology, acknowledging
his excessive actions and promising not to repeat such behavior.
MM In my emotional aged I mistakenly thought I was
about to divorce the appellant, so I carried out of
the court room, ignoring the instructions of the judges and
court officers who tried to stop my extreme actions, he wrote,
I now realized the seriousness of my mistake and its

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negative impact. I guarantee that I will never repeat this
mistake in the future. Ultimately, under court mediation, the couple
did not divorce. Chan agreed to give Lee another chance
to rebuild their marriage. In China, thirty percent of married
women reported to experience thirty percent. I don't know how
much that's different from the US of married women reported

(55:34):
to experience domestic violence. Additionally, sixty percent of the women
who commit suicide each year do so because of domestic violence,
according to the All China Women's Federation.

Speaker 2 (55:43):
That's pretty high.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
The court's decision sparked considerable dissatisfaction online, with many people
expressing their concern about the women's safety. Some question of
the court's understanding of domestic violence, while others criticized the
legal system's handling of such cases. Oh my god, how
could they not grant a divorce in this situation?

Speaker 2 (56:01):
As one person.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
Another comment or added, if he can carry her out
of the courtroom in public, might what might he do
in private?

Speaker 4 (56:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (56:09):
Another person asked, what does it mean that the relationship
is not broken down? Does the only kind of someone
was beaten to death?

Speaker 3 (56:16):
Well, I'd have to know. I'd have to know what
the because it doesn't say what kind, because.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
A lot of domestic violence isn't physical, it's mental and emotional.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
Yeah, I think it's a stretch for violence, but I
think the culture in China is not to protect women. No, no,
so yeah, so that was weird, funny, and yet I'm
not sure how to feel. Well, we'll check back on them,
see if maybe he got help, maybe he stopped drinking.

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Maybe that was a wake up call for him. And
that's that's what I want to believe. That's that's that's
what I want to believe. So all right, let's head
on over to have you ever lost your pet and
you posted signs everywhere hoping to find it?

Speaker 2 (57:07):
It happened.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
It happened to us once and with.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
Max, he was missing for a week and he finally
came home.

Speaker 3 (57:13):
Nobody found him. But remember when that little foster dog
we had took a trip to the airport and somebody
found her within hours. Unfortunately, Fortunately, I don't know how
she made it to the airport's I figured the tunnel.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
There was a tunnel that she made through. There isn't
a lot of traffic. She did not walk across six
lanes of traffic.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
Very likely. No, that would be a much less direct
way to the airport that.

Speaker 3 (57:39):
We have gotten lost pets back because of the microchips.

Speaker 2 (57:42):
Always microchip your pets.

Speaker 3 (57:44):
However, was not microchipped, so he was lost for quite
a bit. Yeah, so is fantas as we're saying. When
I don't know why they say fur baby because he
was not a fur baby. Okay, let's get to the
actual story, because all this is fluff, all right. It
may seem impossible for any animal to live so long

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under these conditions, Okay, blah blah blah blah blah. Occasionally, however,
one beloved animal has all of these other reunions beat.
That pet was found alive a wopping thirty years after
it went missing. As if that weren't crazy enough, it
turns out that during those three decades, the animal was
in the same house as its family, living right above
their heads in the attic. It may seem impossible for

(58:28):
any animal to live so long under these conditions, but
it is something the family's pet could do, since it
was a tortoise named Manuela. When she first disappeared, her
family just figured Manuela got out while they were having
an electrical work done in their house in Rio de Janeiro.
The family searched for her, but after time except that
she was gone and moved on with their lives. I
can't imagine she would flee very fast. She's Aside from

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occasionally remembering her fondly, they didn't think much about Manuela
until thirty years later when the family Patriot sadly passed away.
Around that time, relatives went into the attict to clean
out some of his belongings, and that's when they discovered
Manuela in an old wooden speaker box, alive and well,
I don't know why all the pictures aren't coming up?

(59:15):
Figure out why what's up with the pictures? Why why
no pictures? Where pictures go? I don't like that no pictures.
I want to see Manuela. They probably posted just random pictures. Well,
actually there was a video. Here we go, there's Manuela.
And this price didn't end after finding Manuela either. Following

(59:36):
her discovery, the family took her in for a checkup
and learn that she's actually male. Manuel as he is
now known, is still healthy, though he gets to eat
and drink more often these days than he did over
the last thirty years. No word on his exact age,
but tortoises can live to be two hundred and fifty
five years old.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
They can go between six months and three years. About food.

Speaker 3 (59:59):
Yeah, they think that he was eating termites. Okay, so
I guess there's there he is. And yeah, so I
guess they think he was up there eating termites, but
now he has These are random shots of tortoises, little

(01:00:19):
bitty tortoise, So I mean, yeah, I guess he could
hide in a dirty attic. And so they have reserved
fat pads that they use in case of scarcity of food.
They're able to lower their body temperature and other physiological
processes and enter into a temporary state of suspended adborimation
from which they can recover later. And whatever the reason,

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MANUELA or Manuel's return, Shirley, he healed some wounds and
that is where they found him, little box heat turtle.
So yay, welcome home Manuel. All right, I read that one,
so you could read this one, all right? Oh yours Jimmy.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
So an iconic guitar that was used by George Harrison
in during his.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
Early years with the Beatles.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
We're talking really early, like pre love. Medo played on
a couple of early recordings and played the clubs in Hamburg.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
Went up for auction.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
The odd Ball Electric, which originally went up for auction
back in twenty nineteen, was also using the Fab Four's
first official Polydor recordings, having featured heavily during their early
Cavern Club gigs. Now the Polydor recordings were ones they
did with a singer named Tony Sheridan. A lot of
you have heard My Bonnie or Cry for a Shadow
that they played guitar on those with this guitar George

(01:01:47):
Harrison's Historic Futurama, which he played extensively across more than
three hundred and twenty four Beatles performances.

Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
So make it three hundred and twenty five.

Speaker 1 (01:01:57):
Why did they write it more than? He's going up
for auction a second time. Julian's Auctions announced the sale
during the unofficial unveiling event today, which was third of
October and Liverpool, during which called the Oddball Electric guitar
one of the holy grails of historic Beatles guitar.

Speaker 3 (01:02:14):
Why is it Oddball?

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
Just its shape, its design. I mean, it looks kind
of like a Fender, but there's some quirks to it.
It just looks different, looks.

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
Like it has a bottle opener on the side. Oh,
why those older guitars are.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
Heavy, Yeah, they're no joke.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
Basses are even worse. Basses are so stupidly heavy, beat
up too.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
Indeed, the resident Futuramas peddigreens significance in the annals the
Beatles history is well known. Harrison first bought the Sunburst
six string from Hesse's Music Center in Liverpool, the same
retailer where John lenn bought his first voxamp in the
late nineteen fifties. Joe Let's see It quickly became one
of Harrison's main guitars before the arrival of his Gretz
Duo Jet, which is his most legendary guitar, in nineteen

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sixty two, who eventually relegated the Futurama from his starting lineup.
After that, it was passed on to a new Custodium,
but by the time the Futurama changed hands, it had
already been used over three hundred shows, including some of
the Beatles' legendary early Cavern Club gigs. Not only that,
it had also been used by Harrison alongside McCartney and
company for the fab Foorce Hamburg.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
Tour at the start of sixties.

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
During that first visit to Hamburg, the band played at
one one hundred and six nights, and Harrison used the
Futurama for all of them.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
So it was well used and well loved.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
The Futurema would also return to Hamburg for the band's
final visit to the city in nineteen sixty two and
featured across the number of high profile homecoming shows in
Liverpool during the start of the decade.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
As well as a prolific live.

Speaker 1 (01:03:50):
Instrument, it was also a key studio tool was used
to help track the Beatles' first official recordings for Polydora
between nineteen fifty nine and nineteen sixty one.

Speaker 3 (01:03:58):
There's all kinds of things on this guitar that I
I have no idea what they are.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
Yeah, I mean neither.

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
I mean thatsh buttons on the side. That's wee weird
chush buttons. There's extra dials and whoop's to be a
whammy bar, but it doesn't look like it whammy. So
what does it do?

Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
Namely, it can be heard on Anchi Sweet and Cry
for Shadow. As I said before, I'm trying to find
out what it does. I'm skipping ahead, okay. As mentioned,
the guitar itself is a quasi stratocaster or replica with
a quirky double cut design in the sunburst colorway that
is paired with the maple neck and fretboard. If if

(01:04:34):
I had a way, the strat would have been my
FoST guitar. Harrison and himself once said to the Futurama,
I'd seen Buddy Holly Stratt on the Chirping Crickets cover
and tried to find them in Liverpool. In those days,
the only thing I could find resembling a strat was
a futurama. It was very difficult to play an action
about half an inch off the fingerboard ouch, but nevertheless
it did look kind of futuristic.

Speaker 2 (01:04:57):
It doesn't say what those buttons are for me.

Speaker 1 (01:04:58):
Yes, I really want to know, but stistic. Now Julians
is expecting good fortune, having said an estimated sale window
of six hundred thousand to eight hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:05:12):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
It's the second high profile Beatles auction that Julians has
overseen this year. Back in April, it announced the discovery
of John Lennon's help Framous twelve string, which ended up
becoming one of the most expensive guitars to ever sell.

Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
It at off really yeah, clicking on that just to
see what it says.

Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
Yeah, I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
One of the most important Beatles guitars to ever come
on the auction blog.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
It fetched.

Speaker 1 (01:05:41):
Oh wow, Uh it's sold for two point eight million dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
Wow, that's a beautiful guitar.

Speaker 3 (01:05:53):
Is too nice anyhow, And he fancied himself a socialist.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
Imagine no possessions. Gets rounds off me guitaro.

Speaker 3 (01:06:05):
Yeah, out of my white piano. All right, we've got
a little entrepreneur on our hands. And I think this
kid is going to go places.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
Places.

Speaker 3 (01:06:19):
Yes, what a cutey patuity and well heavy on the patuity.
This is Luca Arpin, better known to his neighbors as
Poopa Scoopa Luca. He has a great future. His moniker
is well earned, as the six year old styled himself

(01:06:41):
the neighborhood's number one number one number to call for
cleaning up after dogs again, number one number okay, number.

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
One, number two, number one.

Speaker 3 (01:06:52):
Number two. People hate picking up dog poop, said the
first grader from Warwick speaking with the jar, Arpin said
he has a appreciation for all things tidy and prefers
cleaning up after activities. Oh you go, little guy. You
can be at a kamala ad. His rate is fifteen dollars
for one dog or twenty dollars for multiple dogs. We

(01:07:13):
would gladly pay that. He even has his own business card.
Look at that card. It's a cartoon of a balloon
dog with a balloon as the Pooh. Whoever helped him
with that is genius perfect. His mother says that volunteering

(01:07:34):
is one of their family's core values. She and Luca
have have an enduring love for animals, and together have
fostered ninety eight four legged friends ninety eight through her
work at a local animal shelter. We suck it, foster
help Yeah, ten nights, first to fold laundry or mapa floor.

(01:07:55):
Luca's mother said that his tendencies to offer his help
pro bono at the shelter slowly lended him in a
predicament where he wanted to afford to permanently adopt a cat,
but couldn't afford to do so.

Speaker 14 (01:08:09):
Oh little guys aren't any money, So we could get
himself a giddy. That's so cute, Asking mom how he
could earn money, the two settled on that Pooh patrol,
which he says his work.

Speaker 3 (01:08:20):
He doesn't mind at all. I have the coolest kid
in the entire world, said is whether broadly I agree.
It didn't take long for Luca to save enough money
to bring Pebble, a little female kitten. He decided he
couldn't live without into the busy embrace of their home.
Luca continues to work, raising money which he hopes can
go to help other animals. What a sweetheart. Love him,

(01:08:42):
that beautiful love him. We need more kids like that,
you know. That's something that I noticed today at the
service is all the kids were happy. Yeah, they're just
joyful and you know, busy and just kids, which I
feel like kids don't get to do so much anymore,

(01:09:05):
so that was nice to see. But if you can't
be a kid be a goat, well I guess technically,
if you are a kid, you are a goat if
you think about it. I tried not to, he tried
not to, But now you can't not think about it?
All right? Well, why am I talking about goats?

Speaker 4 (01:09:22):
Jim?

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
As marathon runners made their way through winding forest pathways
and residential roads on Newfoundland's East coast last week, they
were joined by a four legged competitor who has since
become a sation, says one mayor. The town of Conception,
based South hosted its first t Roll Oil Trek half
marathon on Sunday, when It's two hundred and fifty runners

(01:09:45):
pasted a local business called Taylor's Pumpkin Patch. Mayor Darren
Bent said a new contestant spontaneously joined the race. They
have a resident goat, mister Joshua, and when the runners
went past the pumpkin Patch, the goat decaid, well, I'm
not staying here, I'm joining them, Bent on CBC News.
Joshua ran alongside the runners for approximately four kilometers before

(01:10:05):
his owners caught up with him, and said pent His
owners walked the last half kilometer with him to get
him over the finish line. We very quickly put a
medal around his neck, and he became quite the star.
Most people who actually ran the half marathon one of
their pictures with Joshua at the finish line, said Ben.
He recalled he was waiting at the finish line at
Top Sail Beach when news spread that the ghost was
a goat, not a ghost. A goat was running alongside participants.

(01:10:29):
We didn't know what quite to make of it. We
had just heard a goat was running along the trail,
he said. Josh Was owner Jeremy Taylor, told CBC he
learned of his goat's aspiration for long distance running through
social media. He decided to break his collar which he
had on for years, and joined the runners. He was
after going about two kilometers and he was stopped around
the water station.

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
Taylor said, he's.

Speaker 1 (01:10:51):
Used to large groups of people and he really gets
involved in When he's seen the crowd running, he decided
to join in, not knowing he's one of the longest runs.

Speaker 2 (01:10:58):
He's ever had.

Speaker 1 (01:10:59):
Joshua quickly became a highlight of the race well. His
photo is being shared hundreds.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
Of times on social media.

Speaker 1 (01:11:05):
Taylor said, you heard from runners who decided to keep
pace with Joshua, speeding up and slowing down as the
goat tired and found another gear. Everybody's talking about it.
It's putting a smile on a lot of face. As
he said, yeah, that's great. Oh, plus he's going to
be dropping the puck at a CBS Renegades hockey game
next week, so now.

Speaker 3 (01:11:25):
He's training the goat. So the goat really was the goat?
Too cute? Too cute? Okay, Now we're saving birdies, and
we like saving birdies.

Speaker 2 (01:11:39):
We do.

Speaker 4 (01:11:40):
We like that.

Speaker 3 (01:11:40):
And I think the reason I like this story so
much is that this business didn't have to do this right,
and it seems crazy expensive. I'm not sure why it
cost so much, But a year after nearly one thousand
migrating birds were killed from striking ext glass at Lakeside

(01:12:02):
Center and Exhibition Space in McCormick Place in Chicago, a
one point two million dollar project to install a bird
friendly pattern on windows, curtain wall and other exterior glass
coverings the size of two football fields has been completed.
Look at that they actually lined them all up. They
look like sparrows. The film was manufactured by Toronto based

(01:12:26):
Featherly feather Friendly Technologies. The installation, which took three months
to complete, was done by NGS Films and Lots and
Lots of Stuff Fly of a durability longevity of the
product which will last for fifteen plus years. The Metropolitan
Pier and Exposition Authority commonly known as MCPIER, which operates
the center, pursued the window film solution to minimalize collisions

(01:12:50):
on recommendation from local, national, and international bird and animal
advocacy groups, including of course, US Fish and Walleye. So
this is what it's going to look like. They'll be
able to see the film applied on the windows, but
you're still going to be able to see out it
has a pattern that is not visible at a distance
to human eye, is visible to birds and helps them
distinguish between open air and glass. For new construction, many

(01:13:14):
architects specify a friot pattern that's manufactured with the glass itself. Okay,
so they could have gotten it, I mean now they know,
but open to suggestions, and they were transparent with us
as they implemented swift and significant changes to their lighting

(01:13:35):
and existing windows to reduce risk two birds in future
migratory seasons. In addition to the window film, the pier
also reaffirmed its commitment to Lights Out Chicago program, which
requires buildings to turn off their lights when they are unoccupied.
It also begins, well, why wouldn't they Is that a

(01:13:55):
thing where they just leave their lights on when they're
not occupied? That's they must be why. It also began
shutting off unecessary external lights that may attract wildlife, and
enacted a policy requiring drapes to be closed overnight to
prevent light from escaping. Okay. Doctor Julian Singers, president and

(01:14:16):
CEO of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, which has
been documenting bird collisions at Lakeside Center for more than
four decades. Expects the film to reduce the number of
bird collisions. Well, I certainly hope so, because that's literally
the only point. Why don't I put stupid things in
there like that. I hate it when they put superfluous
It's like they're trying. It's like they're a high school

(01:14:36):
or trying to meet their word count.

Speaker 2 (01:14:38):
And Epstein didn't kill himself.

Speaker 3 (01:14:40):
Yeah, Orange and Orange Man bad Field Museum researches of
documented bird collisions at Lakeside Center for more than four decades,
and we would expect to see a measurable reduction in
those numbers this fall migration season as a result of
the new window treatments in Okay, we're just lather prints repeat.

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
Yeah, they made the point. Yeah, you even blurbed your
way through and blah blah.

Speaker 3 (01:15:00):
And I went down there and it still beat it
to dang death mean dang, Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:15:11):
This is a fascinating story.

Speaker 1 (01:15:15):
A four year old boy who was expected to die
shortly after his life support was removed has confounded medical expectations,
The UK judges said in a ruling months before the
High Court ruled the life sustaining ventilation was not in
the child's best interest. After hearing the evidence from doctors
treating him. The boy, referred to as n R in
court records, is born with severe brain abnormalities and his

(01:15:37):
health was deteriorating. The judge said the remarkable young boy
had not only survived, but has made progress and now
lives at home with his parents.

Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:15:47):
The judge, mister Justice Poole, that is such a freaking great.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
Name for don't I have a judge? Be a judge?

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
Yeah, be your name be Justice Poole.

Speaker 1 (01:15:56):
That's got to be a novel or a comic book.
Has now to declarations which would have allowed doctors to
withhold CPR and not provides certain treatments and are still
has significant medical challenges. Mister Justice Poole said, I do
not wish to minimize the emotional turmoil suffered by mister
and missus R, and the continuing burdens that no one
our suffers because of his conditions. But it seems to

(01:16:17):
me to be a wonderful surprise that NR has confounded
expectations that he no longer is required, no longer no
longer requires continuing invasive interventions, and in particular, that he
has been able to return home to the loving care
of his devoted parents.

Speaker 3 (01:16:32):
That really needed to be said in a blustery British Yeah,
but that's what I'm hearing.

Speaker 1 (01:16:42):
Sorry, I should have done that, that judge at the
end of Pink Floyd's the wall.

Speaker 15 (01:16:48):
The court.

Speaker 3 (01:16:53):
But keep in mind, folks, this is the government deciding
what medical treatment your child is allowed.

Speaker 1 (01:17:01):
This is Angland anyway, the clash anyway. He said that
when some orders about treatment were made in January twenty
twenty four and r was suffering many more burdens, it
was their little to no evidence that he could derive
pleasure from life other than the consoling touch of his parents. However,
the situation has changed. Now he can be taken outside,

(01:17:23):
for example.

Speaker 4 (01:17:24):
To the park.

Speaker 1 (01:17:24):
He can enjoy the sun on his face and fill
the wind in his hair. He's living in a home,
in a loving home environment. Mister Justice Poole said it
was delight to see pictures of the boy at home
with his devoted parents months after being taken off life
support and ours breathing fro himself and no longer used
as a urinary catheter.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
That's pretty substantial.

Speaker 1 (01:17:43):
And our mother told the court in the statement that
her son had earned a new start and he deserves it.
A decision to withdraw life sustaining treatment is not a
decision to bring about the death of a patient, but
a decision that the continuation of the treatment is not
in their best interests. Mister Justice Pool said in our's
case is the latest hope high profile end of life
hearing to reach the Royal Courts of Justice following similarly disagree. Okay,

(01:18:09):
we're right now, following similar disagreements between doctors and parents
over the treatment of children. Yeah, wrong word, Yeah, The
judge said in ours case was highly unusual rags challenging
questions for the court, he out of the council wh
cannot find a similar case which child survived for months
after a life sustaining treatment had been withdrawn. Following the
court decision last year, the parents of a critically ill

(01:18:30):
baby called Indy Gregory launched a number of legal challenges
in a bid to prolong their daughter's life. The family
tried to convince the High Court Court of Appeal in
the European Court of Human Rights judges that she should
continue to receive care. They should have like kidnapped her,
thrown around a plane and take There actually was.

Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
A movement of people that wanted to do that, right, Yeah,
I think people got arrested in anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
The girl died in twenty twenty three after her life
support was turned because I.

Speaker 3 (01:18:57):
Think there was like a procedure that they had heard
about it in Germany or somewhere, and the government wouldn't
let them take their own child. It's it's ridiculous, and
then that's what they want here, folks. So just keep
that in mind when you're voting for whoever you're voting for,
voting for social All right, let's talk about random acts

(01:19:20):
of kindness. Okay, before we head into news of the wicked,
A rather unique story is sweeping American social media mom's
leaving presents for other moms inside baby products. The story
began when Nashville mom Danisha Gonzalez she does not look

(01:19:43):
like a Danisia Gonzalez, I think, mom, Wow, Okay, went
to Target and saw a strange yet translatable site a
silver clutch purse placed on the shelf with the baby supplies. Now,
I think she read way more into this than it
probably was, because I've been known to pick up something
and drop it off elsewhere on my way somewhere. But

(01:20:06):
this is what she got out of it. A mother,
Gonzales reasoned, had picked out the clutch, which retailed for
twenty dollars, but gave up her own desires in order
to provide for her baby.

Speaker 2 (01:20:17):
Let me overthink this, go ahead?

Speaker 3 (01:20:20):
Okay, have you ever thought it enough? No?

Speaker 2 (01:20:22):
I'm playing her?

Speaker 3 (01:20:24):
Oh he. Gonzales posted a video of it on her
TikTok account, which later went viral. Of course, in it,
a long inhale at exhale as followed with the caption,
she deserved the purse to the mother who chose themselves last.
You deserve the world tonight and always. The video went megaviral,

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being viewed by tens of millions of people, and it
launched a spontaneous nationwide campaign to hide gift cards or
cash inside boxes of diapers and other projects that was
propelled all the further after Gonzalez has been was seen
by Cecily Bachman, a mom influencer, So what do you
bet They're going to start stealing diapers now and see

(01:21:06):
if there's anything in them. She went into a target
and recorded a video of herself buying a one hundred
dollars gift card, writing a note, and walking through the store.
To stash it for a lucky, hardworking mom to find. Hey,
you deserve that special you thing. You are amazing The note,
which she put between a bag of Huggies.

Speaker 2 (01:21:24):
I think as well, it's tweet.

Speaker 3 (01:21:26):
It's a well intended, a sweet idea. I think it
would be better though, if it just like went directly
to the mom instead of any RANDO that would happen
to find it. Bachman called it the hashtags she deserved
the purse challenge, and The Washington Post reports that there
are now over one hundred and fifty videos on TikTok
under this hashtag, all featuring either women leaving gifts for

(01:21:48):
their postpartum peers or finding the gifts and usually recording
a tear soaked thank you video about it. Katie Beach,
just home mother of a two year old boy and
a two month old girl, told the Post that the
videos affected her deeply. She replicated bachmann stunt, doubled, then

(01:22:09):
quartered the cash, and left the presence all over the
baby aisle. Social media was always an aspirational place where
people weren't really showing the truth, Beach said. I think recently,
as we all start to show more of the truth,
it makes motherhood feel so much less alone. See, and
that's true. The more free you are, the actual better

(01:22:30):
You'll see. It'll get ugly for a while because people
feel that freedom and think they can do. But what's
gonna happen is people are going to just come back
to being human again, which means they're going to be
kinder again, which means we're going to get back to
being better, back to better, make America great again. Free spiritch. Okay,

(01:22:57):
those are some fun stories they are head on into.
I now see that's why we can't have nice things.
What do you do with the wayward water buffalo?

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
What do you do with the wave word buffalo? What
do you do? I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:23:17):
The owner of a water buffalo that ran loos in
Des Moines, Iowa suburb for days pleaded guilty for having an.

Speaker 2 (01:23:23):
Animal at large.

Speaker 1 (01:23:24):
The owner was fined one hundred and five dollars in
court costs. Yesterday, the Des Moines Register reported the owner
was taking the animal to slaughter when he escaped in August.
Go Buffalo, Go, go buffalo, coming next week to ABC.
Police spent days searching forwards at room.

Speaker 3 (01:23:45):
Do you miss a water buffalo?

Speaker 2 (01:23:47):
I don't know?

Speaker 1 (01:23:49):
Police spent days searching forward as at room pleasant Hill,
a town eleven thousand residents. Fans named the animal Phil
p Hill get it pleasant Hill after the city police
at one point shot Phil. Wat's going to capture the animal,
but it escape and continue to roam for several days
before being tranquilized with help from zoo and animal rescue workers.

(01:24:10):
The former owner gave custody of Phil and two other
water buffaloes, now named Sal and Jane, to an animal shelter.
The water buffalo has treated a large animal hospital for
an infected gunshot wound.

Speaker 3 (01:24:21):
Hey stupid cop.

Speaker 1 (01:24:23):
Water buffaloes can wig up to two thousand, six hundred
and fifty pounds or twelve hundred kilograms, according to the
website for nat Geo, although the Iowa animal appears smaller
and photos often domesticated, water buffalo is the largest member
of the Boovini tribe, which includes yak Bison America, i'm
African buffalo, very species of wild cattle, and others. The

(01:24:45):
National Geographic website Done went and.

Speaker 3 (01:24:47):
Said, well it had a happy ending. Yeah, at least
now the buffalo isn't going to become buffalo burgers.

Speaker 2 (01:24:57):
Next story.

Speaker 3 (01:25:00):
Just burns my busincuits toast my corn.

Speaker 2 (01:25:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:25:09):
Yeah, all I have to do is find it. Now
here we go.

Speaker 1 (01:25:16):
Okay, Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:25:19):
So this guy is paraplegic and with the magic of
this machine, he's actually able to stand and walk. So
it's like an exoskeleton. I saw an I think we
both did at Norwest Coom. There was a guy that
was showing. This was years and years and years ago,

(01:25:40):
so it's nice to see that they actually went into
production and actually are helping people because it was just
a prototype at the time. WTF having some gadget crap
out after the warranty expires, like my car is just
an annoyance for most of us. By the way, to
donate to this Save the ki of fund. But in
the case of Dug Straight, who was paralyzed from the

(01:26:01):
waist down after a horse racing accident, the device in
question was essential to his quality of life. After the
former jockeys one hundred thousand Rewalk exoskeleton stopped working due
to a tiny.

Speaker 1 (01:26:13):
Dollar what did I say, he's just hundred thousand rewalk
Just you skipped the dollar altogether?

Speaker 3 (01:26:20):
Okay dollar? Due to a tiny component failure, he could
no longer walk because the company refused repairs. Well, somebody
else would. The high tech suit made by the company
called life Word allowed Straight to walk again with physical therapy.

(01:26:40):
It even helped increase his bone density and treat some
other symptoms caused by the injury. Unfortunately, after racking up
over three one hundred and seventy one thousand steps, it
wracked steps the suit suddenly quit on him. Thinks to
a loose wire connection on the watch that acted as
the control inner. So just solder the dang wire. The

(01:27:03):
malfunction could have been fixed for basically pocket change. All
Lifeboard had to do was resolder that little wire back
onto the watch's batteries. Shockingly, the company flat out refused,
telling Straight that his ten year old exoskeleton was too
ancient for them to service anymore, despite its six figure
cost when new. This is what it looks like. I

(01:27:24):
think Musk is going to make something way better than this.
The reason why it has stopped is a pathetic excuse
for a bad company to try to make more money.
Straight posted on Facebook on September sixteenth. The reason it
stopped is because of a battery in the watch I
wear to operate the machine I called thinking it was
no big deal. Yet I was told they stopped working

(01:27:46):
on any machine that was five years or older. Five
years doesn't I mean in today's technology, I guess five
years is a long time. Unfortunately, straight struggles represent a
bigger issue playing the metatech industry and consume electronics in general.
For instance, back in twenty twenty two, hundreds of people
lost vision when a startup second site stops supporting its

(01:28:08):
Argust two bionic I implants to focus on braining plants instead.
So you're just gotta let these people be blind? Is
this for real?

Speaker 2 (01:28:18):
Welcome to twenty twenty four. It's just nineteen eighty four, only.

Speaker 3 (01:28:22):
Like somebody somewhere has got to take up the slack
for this. This is insane. Manufacturers also go out of
their way to make it difficult or impossible for anyone
but their own overpriced technicians to make repairs. That sounds
exactly like what we're going through. As four A four
media notes, they even lobby against right to repair laws
and lean on people who share DIY fixes. This is true.

(01:28:45):
This is a big thing that I forget the guy's name,
but he's out there fighting for Why shouldn't I be
allowed to fix my own dag toaster, like I don't
even have the right to fix like any of Apple
products or whatnot. They just be door stops because you're
not allowed to fix it. If you own it, who

(01:29:06):
can tell you that you can't fix it. The lobbying
works because they can make a stronger case for themselves
by claiming independent repairs could create safety risk. It's my
fuzzy white behind. That may be true, but by forcing
price just for the record, it's it's not fuzzy, just sora.

Speaker 2 (01:29:23):
Clear, it's nice and smooth.

Speaker 3 (01:29:28):
Let's just not talk about might be honest. That may
be true, but by forcing pricing replacements over affordable fixes
such as companies are also able to increase profits, but
you're not. You're not increasing your chances of having a
place at the right hand of God. This is the

(01:29:48):
dystopian nightmare that we've kind of entered in where the
manufacturer perspective on products is that the responsibility completely ends
when it hands it over to a customer. Well, if
that is true, that you should be allowed to make
your own repairs. You can't have it both ways, right,
Nathan Proctor, that's the guy head of a Citizen's Right

(01:30:09):
group us perg's Right to Repair project. So, yeah, we've
talked about Nathan before. Straight did ultimately get his robotic
legs repair, but only after raising a ruckus on social
media and getting local TV to cover his struggle. Of course,
not every person with disabilities can pull this off, So
hopefully this fight helps shine the light on the need
for right to repair reform. Yeah, because what a bunch

(01:30:32):
of garbage that was. Give me a break.

Speaker 1 (01:30:38):
Well, I could certainly understand an impulse a teacher might
have to do this.

Speaker 3 (01:30:45):
Nold On, We've got a stinger. We got a stinger.
You got it. You gotta wait for the stingerer hair
it comes. Is not Bubba Waters, It is no longer
twenty twenty. But this is your new abnormal. If you

(01:31:18):
can't raise corporate taxes, or if GOP takes control of
the Senate, where do you get the money to do that?
Do you still go forward those plans and borrow?

Speaker 8 (01:31:27):
Well, but we're gonna have to raise corporate taxes, and
we're gonna have to raise We're gonna have to make
sure that the biggest corporations and billionaires pay their fair share.

Speaker 3 (01:31:42):
That's just it. It's about paying their fair share.

Speaker 8 (01:31:45):
I am not mad at anyone for achieving success, but
everyone should pay their fair share. And it is not
right that the teachers and the firefighters that I meet
every day across our country are paying a higher tax
than the rich people in our country.

Speaker 9 (01:32:02):
President doing a single thing that I did that she
couldn't do, so I was able to delegate her responsibility
on everything from foreign policy and messal policy.

Speaker 3 (01:32:13):
She simply has said, it doesn't have to be this way.

Speaker 2 (01:32:16):
It doesn't have to be this way. We can't afford.

Speaker 3 (01:32:21):
We can't afford four more years of this.

Speaker 2 (01:32:24):
And I've been saying it, Jay, She's into each hall.

Speaker 16 (01:32:34):
Do you think you just fell out of a coconut tree?

Speaker 3 (01:32:42):
I'm sorry. That freeze frame still cracks me up. When
Walls said that they should have literally just taken that
segment and said, I'm Donald Trump and I approve of
this message.

Speaker 1 (01:32:54):
I mean, he did that several campaign did that recently
with several several All.

Speaker 3 (01:32:59):
They have to do was take what these morons are
saying and be like, there you go, that's what they want. Yeah. Crazy. Okay, So,
as you were alluding to earlier, I'm gonna play this
video for you because this let me just say they
wouldn't find the body. I am blown away at this school.

Speaker 2 (01:33:26):
What happened with the sticker?

Speaker 17 (01:33:29):
Sak me fallow sleep This is four year old Lane
movi Onum. She's the one that broke this case open
in September when she snuck one of her sleepy stickers
out of the class room.

Speaker 3 (01:33:40):
She sweepy stickers. Okay, so and this is here in Texas?
Is this here in Texas? It gets better though, Okay,
So this poor little girl, she actually sneaks one out,
so I I would assume that the teachers have to
go around to pull them off, and threatened the kids

(01:34:02):
not to tell their parents otherwise. How you know she
snuck it out? They said, birds and said, mom, look
this is my sleeping sticker.

Speaker 17 (01:34:10):
I was like the wo When Lane's mom, Lisa saw
the sticker, she thought it was strange and asked her
daughter about it. And the teacher gives it to you.

Speaker 4 (01:34:17):
Where she put it.

Speaker 1 (01:34:19):
On your arm?

Speaker 4 (01:34:20):
Which part point to the right up there?

Speaker 2 (01:34:23):
What'd say it look like sleepy?

Speaker 15 (01:34:26):
What a moon on?

Speaker 17 (01:34:27):
Lane's dad says he's known something was wrong since school
first started.

Speaker 4 (01:34:31):
Two o'clock in the morning. I'm hearing her the something
noise in the room and I'm going over there.

Speaker 17 (01:34:36):
She's still love and so she gives you the sticker.

Speaker 2 (01:34:38):
You put the sticker on.

Speaker 3 (01:34:39):
The kid sleeps all day.

Speaker 10 (01:34:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:34:42):
Wow, And all the kids get them.

Speaker 3 (01:34:44):
Yeah. They never notified the parents.

Speaker 17 (01:34:46):
So Lisa took matters into her own hands. She reached
out to the other parents in Lane's class, sent them
pictures of the patch to see if their kids were
getting the stickers too.

Speaker 18 (01:34:54):
I showed it to my four year old and she said, yes,
that's that's the sleepy sticker.

Speaker 17 (01:35:00):
US at Gilford immediately went online to research the.

Speaker 3 (01:35:02):
Sticker sleep Ze patch.

Speaker 9 (01:35:04):
Ugh.

Speaker 8 (01:35:05):
So and if you read the ingredients on them, and
it has a lot of I mean, it's just things
I've never even heard of.

Speaker 3 (01:35:11):
And they're given them drugs that make them sleep to
keep them quiet.

Speaker 17 (01:35:14):
Najalla Abdullah tells US she'd noticed changes in her son,
who told her he'd been getting the stickers too. She
says he'd been crying, stopped eating, and was bringing home
lunches that he hadn't touched. The parents that shared with
us an email they received from Northgate Crossing Elementaries Principle Today.
The email states, too of the school's staff members were
put on leave after they allegedly.

Speaker 1 (01:35:35):
Put on leave leave canned like set tomatoes children, I'm
fired like from a rifle. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:35:43):
Not only should they have been fired, they should be
prosecuted for child and.

Speaker 2 (01:35:48):
Dangers the most extent of the law.

Speaker 3 (01:35:50):
Absolutely, they should have the book thrown out of administered.

Speaker 17 (01:35:53):
Sleeping supplements to students on September twenty fourth. The email
also states this Spring ISDPIC apartment is investigating.

Speaker 3 (01:36:03):
Okay, so I ended the video there because I didn't
want to get in too much trouble. But she wants to.
Gomez says she wants more information and that the school district,
teachers and age be held accountable. Other parents want criminal charges,
and I support that one thousand percent.

Speaker 2 (01:36:21):
Plus one percent me one thousand.

Speaker 3 (01:36:24):
And one sure too. Yeah. I was really mad because
with everything going on, you're just hoping and praying nothing
happens to your kid. I mean, in this day and age,
putting kids to sleep because you're too damn lazy to
do your job. I hope these people never see another
child the rest of their lives. That I may they
never work in any school system anywhere on the planet.

Speaker 1 (01:36:49):
They spring idea as a policy against giving kids and
medications of any sort, including herbal substances, steroids, or supplements.
The statement notes distribution of the sleep just by teachers
could violate that policy, could w w W dot com.

Speaker 19 (01:37:10):
The safety of our students is the highest prior. Well,
it sounds to me like you weren't paying attention. And
how do you not notice the entire classroom of kids
sweeping the entire day day?

Speaker 4 (01:37:30):
What are they?

Speaker 3 (01:37:30):
What were these teachers doing their nails? I mean, seriously,
what were they doing? I just close my mind. I
just I can't even figure. I just what were they doing?
I just, oh, geez, Louise, you know, I think it's

(01:37:51):
time that we check in our crazy neighbors to the south.
They just went through it, and perhaps it's time for
little bit of Florida man. Let's try that again, shall we? Head?

Speaker 2 (01:38:15):
So stupid?

Speaker 11 (01:38:16):
W Well, he is a guy.

Speaker 1 (01:38:22):
Who makes like genius and baby even all the world
loves to laugh, but losers as awful as they can.

Speaker 2 (01:38:38):
He comes another chance to juggle becomes.

Speaker 3 (01:38:48):
These are so fun, so much fun. The first one
technically isn't a Florida Man, but it really really should be.

Speaker 2 (01:39:01):
And this is my favorite story.

Speaker 3 (01:39:03):
All right, it's all yours outstanding.

Speaker 1 (01:39:06):
Two men were arrested in Arkansas this week after allegedly
taking turns shooting.

Speaker 2 (01:39:12):
Let me try it again.

Speaker 1 (01:39:14):
Two men were arrested in Arkansas this week after allegedly
taking turns shooting each other while wearing a bulletproof vest
a police reporters said Charles Eugene Ferris, age fifty, I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:39:29):
Understand why they were arrested if they were only shooting
at each other.

Speaker 2 (01:39:32):
I know it's d Darwin.

Speaker 1 (01:39:34):
Yeah, sometimes you got us. Sometimes the authorities have to
step in and save people from their own stupidity.

Speaker 2 (01:39:43):
They just do.

Speaker 1 (01:39:43):
I know you don't like the idea, but it's true
they do.

Speaker 3 (01:39:46):
Is it not hurting anybody else? I don't care.

Speaker 1 (01:39:50):
But they have family members and friends, I'm sure, But anyway.
Charles Eugene Ferris, age fifty, and Christopher Hicks, age thirty six,
were detained on Monday after the incident, which took place
on last Sunday. And left one last last Sunday, I think, and.

Speaker 3 (01:40:06):
Left one actually an older article. It was just too
good to.

Speaker 1 (01:40:09):
Oh, okay, too to pass it?

Speaker 2 (01:40:12):
Okay, Yeah, I was.

Speaker 3 (01:40:14):
Report on it when it happened, so we had to
bring it.

Speaker 1 (01:40:16):
Back okay, which took place a while back and left
one neighbor alarmed. Details of the case were inside an
arrest affidavit obtained by the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

Speaker 2 (01:40:27):
That's a name.

Speaker 1 (01:40:29):
According to the affidavit, a deputy with the Benton County
Sheriff's Office first interviewed Ferris after he was admitted to
the hospital late Sunday night. The man reportedly had a
red spot on his upper chest, but tried to concoct
an elaborate cover story for the injury, Fulllice said. As
reported by KFSMTV, Ferris claimed an asset had paid him

(01:40:50):
two hundred dollars for protection.

Speaker 3 (01:40:52):
An asset.

Speaker 2 (01:40:53):
Yeah, it's a it's a word he learned on a
TV show.

Speaker 1 (01:40:56):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (01:40:58):
He said.

Speaker 1 (01:40:58):
The para met another man at a round two ten
pm and ended up in a gunfight. The fifty year
old told the deputy was hit multiple times by returned
shots and fled in the car. He said he was
taken to the hospital by a so called asset. Later,
he admitted to making up the tale and an attempt
to protect his friend. The na d z D whatever

(01:41:20):
the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette report had.

Speaker 3 (01:41:23):
That's a heck of a name.

Speaker 1 (01:41:24):
Nas Leslie Ferris, the man's wife, had a different recollection
of events. She told police that he had been drinking
outside their home. Wife wife did not have this man's back.
He had been drinking outside their home with his neighbor Hicks,
and gunfire erupted. The couple's residents is located in Rogers,
a city in Benton County. When confronted by investimigators, the

(01:41:47):
husband changed his story. According to the affidavit, he confirmed
they were drinking and playing with a bullet resistant vest
after asking.

Speaker 3 (01:41:53):
Hicks resistant, that's not bulletproof.

Speaker 1 (01:41:58):
After asking Hicks to shoot him, he was hitting the
chest with twenty two caliber semi automatic rifle, leaving the
marketing twenty two caliber isn't likely to kill, but.

Speaker 2 (01:42:09):
That's still really stupid.

Speaker 1 (01:42:12):
Local media outlet CARK TV that's right, KRK for Arkansas
Carktava reported Ferris asserted that he had been left pissed
quote about the injury, and then unloaded the clip into Hicks,
who by this stage was wearing the vest. The friend
was struck five times in the back. Luckily, none of
the bullets pierced the material well luckily.

Speaker 3 (01:42:34):
For who wheez.

Speaker 1 (01:42:36):
One local neighbor told five News that he was concerned
about his children.

Speaker 2 (01:42:40):
Who lived nearby.

Speaker 1 (01:42:41):
I have three kids, two of them still live at
home here right next to them. They shoot as many
as fifty to one hundred rounds at a time. I
just want to make sure it's not just left hanging,
no charges. There has to be something done about it.
Nothing is done, it could escalate into someone again seriously injured,
maybe someday that that is not on.

Speaker 2 (01:42:58):
Their property, he added.

Speaker 1 (01:43:00):
Both Ferris and Hicks were arrested on suspicion of ag
aggravated assault, the class D felony, which carries a potential
penalty of six years in prison a fine up to
ten thousand dollars a slap upside the dumb heads five
News relicious mischief, no malicious mischief. No formal charges have
been filed, and the pair were released yesterday and five
thousand dollars bond. The two men are currently scheduled to

(01:43:23):
appear in the Benton County Court for hearing back in
May of twenty nineteen, when this was done.

Speaker 2 (01:43:28):
According to local media, I'll let's I'm sure that.

Speaker 3 (01:43:31):
I'm sure the court case went like this, what are
you doing, you idiot clock wooing.

Speaker 2 (01:43:37):
Numb skull point anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:43:40):
Yeah, yeah, I'd like to say what were these guys thinking?
But yeah, honorary Florida man from Arkansas. All right, well,
I don't know if you know this, but a little
thing happened in the Florida area recently.

Speaker 2 (01:43:58):
Seven or fifty bucks a person too.

Speaker 3 (01:44:00):
Yeah, I don't. Actually, she hasn't declared that for Florida. Yeah,
that's that's for the Carolina is in another place. But anyways,
let's check in on our Florida residence. The first one
is actually a follow up on a story that we
reported last week with those FUFU homes that were built
to withstand hurricanes and.

Speaker 2 (01:44:21):
Apparently put to the test.

Speaker 3 (01:44:23):
They were put to the test, and apparently one guy
not only wanted it put to the test, but he
weren't going nowhere.

Speaker 2 (01:44:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:44:30):
About people like that. I just don't know. But if
I paid that much for a for a home, it's time.

Speaker 2 (01:44:36):
To test this.

Speaker 3 (01:44:36):
So well, yeah, I mean, seriously, if I'm going to
pay that much for a house, I'm gonna want to
put it to the test. So yeah, he wrote it out,
one point two five million dollar hurricane proof home, and
he said it's basically unarmed. I hear people practically swimming
in their own streets. Let's get down to the actual article.

(01:44:59):
Everything turned out fine. The storm came through.

Speaker 2 (01:45:02):
And it's a first person.

Speaker 3 (01:45:04):
We were about fifteen miles from the eye of it.
You think it actually came in a different direction this
time for us, as opposed to Helene. It came across
the back of the house instead of the front. It
was a lot of rain, a lot of gut, hard guts.
I think we hit one hundred miles per hour a
few times, but absolutely no problems an tull. The solar

(01:45:24):
power kicked in when the city's grid went out, and
we're still running on solar right now. It charges up
during the day and then powers us through the night.
During the day, officials want you to turn off anything
that's not necessary, the water, heater, microwaves, keeping the lights
to minimum. You don't want to drain the battery too fast,
So no AC for those guys. We still have everything
we stored on the second floor, but I'll wait to

(01:45:46):
take it back down when the power is back on
and we could use the elevator. They have an elevator. Well,
each of these houses have a pool too.

Speaker 2 (01:45:54):
They're nice looking fans.

Speaker 3 (01:45:57):
It'll be a while before the power is back. They're
working on it. It's miserable with no air conditioning where
but at least the weather hasn't been too bad in
the seventies and eighties with a slate abrez. So yeah,
they weren't a good job, so it's nice to report
on something that actually worked. All right. This next guy,

(01:46:17):
h well, he didn't have the same kind of dough
as the first guy, so he kind of improvised.

Speaker 2 (01:46:24):
This is.

Speaker 1 (01:46:27):
This is American ingenuity. I won't say it's finest, but
certainly at its most creative. Yes, the efforts in one
Florida man what else went to order went to in
order to batten down the hatches and prevent his home
from being damaged by Hurricane Milton as it roared across
the state earlier this week appears to have paid off.

(01:46:48):
In a photo that went viral, homeowner Pedro Casarres of
Orlando had the wild idea of strapping down his family
home in an attempt to prevent major damage as the
category three storm pummeled the area.

Speaker 3 (01:47:01):
See the end of those straps. He actually installed cements there,
Yeah to so heap.

Speaker 1 (01:47:11):
He actually thought this out.

Speaker 2 (01:47:12):
This is actually pretty.

Speaker 3 (01:47:13):
He's spent about twenty grand all told.

Speaker 2 (01:47:16):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (01:47:18):
Despite skepticism from those who saw the picture ahead of
the storm, Cisar as Cassarus forward planning looks to have
saved the home from any significant damage. Originally from Puerto Rico,
Casaris planted metal hooks into the ground, embedded within eight
feet of cement. Like my fine bride said, huge plastic
straps the kind normally used to keep cargo containers in
position on ships, or then connected to the hooks on

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the ground in order to keep the roof from lifting
off as the storm battered the area. Casar has spent
twenty two thousand dollars for the cement anchors. Turns out
as a decent investment, specifically made to order straps that
line the rooftop of the family home, which are said
to be able to withstand five four hundred pounds of
weight theng His precautions came after the family indor to

(01:48:02):
a hurricane while living in Rainabo on the Caribbean island,
which saw the aluminum roof of their home almost lift off.
TikTok users simply unique smiles. Ninety three, Cassarus's daughter gave
viewers a much anticipated walk around the home to allow
followers to see how the home had fared.

Speaker 3 (01:48:19):
The house building did okay too, Yeah, Max, this is
not your article.

Speaker 1 (01:48:24):
I must spring with some of my people. Mac amou
the house thankfully, We're good. There's just a lot of
leaves everywhere, but everything is still intact. There's a lot
of affected areas near our home, she explained during the walk.

Speaker 3 (01:48:37):
The other houses did okay too, So yeah, okay, he
took precautions, but yeah, he didn't strap down his truck,
which is weird.

Speaker 1 (01:48:46):
The home is intact. Not a single not a single
shingle nortile is lifted from the roof.

Speaker 2 (01:48:50):
Everything is good.

Speaker 1 (01:48:51):
We're not taking the straps off until the hurricane is over,
she added.

Speaker 2 (01:48:54):
Before the storm hit.

Speaker 1 (01:48:56):
Social media users were captivated by Cassarus's idea. Most they
were impressed with his efforts, branding him as a legend
and praising him for thinking outside the box. This is
the most Florida thing I've ever seen on Everyone is
laughing now, but this may be a legend when all
the other houses are floating down the road and he's
sitting in his new living room swimming pool, watching TV

(01:49:16):
powered by a starlink terminal. Someone else, I actually respect
the effort. I hope it's effective. At another user, he's
thinking outside the box. Need more folks like him reat
A fourth tweet. A fifth said bro secured his house
like a piano when moving absolute legend.

Speaker 3 (01:49:32):
Absolute windows. He said, there wasn't.

Speaker 1 (01:49:36):
Any damage outstanding Floridas and slogs through flooded streets, gathered
up scattered debris, and assessed damage to homes. After Hurricane
Milton smashed through coastal communities and spawned a barrage of
deadly tornadoes. At least ten people were dead and rescuers
still were saving people from swollen rivers, but many expressed
relief that Milton wasn't worse. The hurricane spared densely populated

(01:49:59):
Tampa direct hit and the lethal storm surge as scientists
fear it never materialized. Florida's vital tourism industry is starting
to return to normal as Walt Disney World and other
theme parties.

Speaker 3 (01:50:10):
Of course, Walt Disney World opened again.

Speaker 2 (01:50:14):
Of course, like a major source of revenue.

Speaker 3 (01:50:19):
A true Florida man goes by the name Lieutenant Dan.
You may recognize that name from Forrest Gump. And the
gentleman is indeed an amputee. And he decided that he
was going to whether the storm on his teeny tiny sailboat.
This isn't the first time he's done that, Whether Helene

(01:50:43):
and did, okay, but now he's holding out for what's
this one's name? Milton more Hilton, Milton the Monster. It's
just like the most unscary name you could possibly conceive
of for his storm.

Speaker 1 (01:50:55):
Well, they ran, they weren't going to call it Hurricane
monas they haven't gone that far yet.

Speaker 3 (01:51:00):
Hurricane Kamala, maybe Hurricane all right, I could use it, Yeah,
I could use a hurricane. Well, they're starting to name
them after dudes, which is like why, But anyway, I
think they could have. How come there's never a Hurricane Shaniqua.

Speaker 2 (01:51:18):
They don't always.

Speaker 1 (01:51:19):
Get that far down because they do them in alphabetical order,
right right, They don't always get.

Speaker 3 (01:51:24):
Down to san resets every year.

Speaker 2 (01:51:27):
Yeah, resets every year.

Speaker 3 (01:51:28):
Oh, so they should just name them the same ones,
Abe Barney, Charlie, Doris.

Speaker 1 (01:51:35):
When you are elected to the legislature, you can you
can read it kinds of decisions.

Speaker 3 (01:51:41):
Imagine being naked out by hurting Hurricane Gertrude.

Speaker 2 (01:51:45):
I'd be like adding insult to injury.

Speaker 3 (01:51:48):
It's almost as bad as Milton. Anyways, this fine gentleman,
I want to play this video for you, and hopefully
we don't get in trouble for it.

Speaker 10 (01:52:00):
Tracking Milton tonight, A live look right there over Tampa Floyd.
A lot of flooding already rushing Bay Shore Boulevard right
there next to Tampa Bay and nearby. Refusing to evacuate
ahead of that dangerous storm. Joseph Malinowski, known as to
locals as Lieutenant Dan, He's generated a lot of heat
so far tonight.

Speaker 4 (01:52:18):
Earlier you see it here.

Speaker 10 (01:52:19):
Police tried to force him to leave his sailboat in
Tampa Bay, but.

Speaker 4 (01:52:24):
He refused to get in.

Speaker 3 (01:52:26):
It's not hurting anybody.

Speaker 10 (01:52:27):
Struggling to prevail that sailboat for the conditions to come.
He survived Hurricane Helene, he says, even facing arrest, even
risking his own life, he is riding.

Speaker 1 (01:52:39):
Out that storm tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:52:40):
Yeah, he's going to risk his.

Speaker 5 (01:52:41):
God sent me here, He sent me here. He told
me to come here.

Speaker 2 (01:52:46):
My life.

Speaker 5 (01:52:46):
This is nothing compared to what I've been through, So
this doesn't scare me. It's not even a minor inconvenient.

Speaker 10 (01:52:53):
It's not inconvenience to arrest him for his own protection
and force him into a shelter. And at this hour
it's unclear if that has happened yet.

Speaker 3 (01:53:04):
So we have a update on Lieutenant Dan and first
of all, arrest him for his own protection. I don't know,
I just.

Speaker 2 (01:53:16):
I know you have a It just depends on the situation.

Speaker 3 (01:53:20):
Yeah, I mean, it's not like he's out there with
a gun firing it at people. You know, it's not
like he's harming anybody. So I say, let him do
what he needs to do if that's what he feels.
I also didn't feel I mean, I didn't feel like
he was insane. A lot of people are trying to
see he's craziness that I did not get. Sometimes it does,

(01:53:41):
and you know that's a little sus but when you
look at not to get political, but you look at
liberals in their crazy eyes, huh, you're like, WHOA, Okay,
that person is way off the rock. Or he didn't
have that he was really matter of fact about it.
So you know, God speed, but we do have an
up on Lieutenant Dan. He did indeed survive, so here

(01:54:05):
he is.

Speaker 2 (01:54:06):
Maybe they just should leave him alone from now on
a letter maybe.

Speaker 3 (01:54:09):
Yeah. So a Tampa man named nickname Lieutenant Dan is
safe after writing out Hurricane Milton in his sailboat in
videos shared by journalist on x and of course I've
made all of this. He was seen in his twenty
foot boat after the hurricane. Men laud fall is a
category three, so they were telling his category five, Category twelve,

(01:54:30):
category nine thousand, and it turned out to be a
category three, which is still pretty bad. Yeah, but it
wasn't as bad as they said it was gonna. I mean,
the way they were freaking out, he posted. One of
the anchors posted a clip with the caption Lieutenant Dan
Update he survived to talk about his wild night writing
out Hurricane Milton in his twenty foot sailboat. He actually

(01:54:53):
has his own hashtag Lieutenant Dan. In the video, O'donald
zooms in on the boat as the man whose real
name is Joseph Melanowski. He asked, Hey, how you doing.
It's Lieutenant Dan, are you okay? How's the ride. See
he doesn't have crazy eyes.

Speaker 2 (01:55:11):
No, he looks pretty.

Speaker 3 (01:55:12):
He's crazy, don't get me wrong, but he doesn't have
those of those eyes. Yea, the water's gone, mister em
I'm not gonna try that name again. Yeah, it's going out.
It's being pulled out. O'donald ads, before asking him how
he is doing. I'm doing fine, mister m responds. Was
it as bad as you thought? O'donnald asked to what
she replied, No, is the water coming back or is
it still going out? It's going out. You hang in

(01:55:33):
there all right. I appreciate that. I'll see you tomorrow.
Another video shared by News Nation correspondent Brian eaton Entin
shows him approaching the sailboat and asking Lieutena Dan you okay,
I'm fine, and response as he appears from a hatch,
I think you made it through the worst of it,
eating ads. I'm doing fine. I'm stuck here, he replies.

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Lieutenant Dan went via little earlier this year, after he
said in a TikTok video that he wouldn't evacuate ahead
the hurricane, would instead just ride out this torm in
his boat, which he did, explaining why he wanted to
stay put. In the video, Mallinowski said, my faith in God.
God told me to come out here and get a boat.
I came out here and got a boat. He's been
telling me in the last two days. I'm doing the

(01:56:14):
right thing. He's got my back. I'm in good shape.
We're going to ride this out. The interviewer then asked
Maliniski if he would be wearing a life jacket to
brace from Milton, to which he responded hell no, later
adding the safest place in the world is to be
in my boat. Thirty said they had offered evacuation help,
but he declined. Amid the attention, his past legal troubles

(01:56:35):
also came to light. So I don't know if he's
repenting or what's going on here, but apparently the guy
has had a rather torrid a past. His criminal history
includes a one year prison sentence for punching a police officer.
So I'm sorry I should not be laughing at that,
but he looks like a guy would punch a police officer,

(01:56:57):
and a separate case last year which he was accused
of setting a park bench on fire and then splashing
gasoline on a woman nearby who feared for her life.
Records reviewed verify that Melanowski, whose name is also sometimes
spelled differently m A. L n y Ski as opposed
to m ali n Owski, was released from prison in

(01:57:21):
Florida in twenty twenty two after serving a year for
battery of a law enforcement or another official. Right in
the kisser, Actually, I guess you don't if you're an Eskimo.
That would have been writing the kisser since he punched
him in the nose in February twenty twenty three. He
was separately accused. He was separately accused it you know,

(01:57:45):
were live right. He was separately accused of aggravated battery
with a deadly weapon after a woman claimed he put
gasoline on her while she was smoking a Siga red
oh Dear. A probable cause Affidavid states Melanowski told police
at the time that he had thrown the gasoline straight
up into the air because that's something you do, according

(01:58:06):
to the affidavit. The court record show the case was
subsequently dropped, though it's not clear why dropped. Just like
that gasoline that he threw up in the air for
no particular reason. There and of course they tried to
reach out for him for comment. Which means they sent
an email to some random email and the guy probably
doesn't even have email. Whenever they say they tried to
reach for commet and didn't get it, they didn't try.

(01:58:28):
And usually when they do, it's like five minutes before
the article is published. They don't. Yeah, okay, Anyways, Folks
have started to go fund me for him, which is
so far raised thirty nine thousand dollars, so hopefully if
there's any damage to his boat, he gets it fixed.
God Speak, congratulations for making it through. And we have
one more Florida man.

Speaker 2 (01:58:50):
Oh Jay has nothing on this.

Speaker 1 (01:58:52):
It's and what might be the slowest high speed chase
in history. A man turned a routine traffic stop into
a low speed chase. The left deputies scratching their heads
and reaching for the stop sticks. The Flagler County Sheriff's
Office or.

Speaker 3 (01:59:13):
Now for the record, those who are watching in the background,
this is actually sped up. If you look at how
fast the windshield wipers are going for this dash cam,
this is actually one and a half speed. That's how
slow this guy was going.

Speaker 1 (01:59:29):
The Flagler County Sheriff's Office. It all started on September
twenty fifth, when Kyle McNairy allegedly kicked his passenger out
of a black Kia Sorrento at the East Woodland Street
and State Road one hundred and Buell. All right, this
is another sheriff posting snarky stuff. This dirt bag has

(01:59:50):
history of threatening and attacking deputy sheriffs, and during his
recent criminal act, he seriously injured a person in the
crash and wish them a speedy recovery, said Sheriff Rick Staley.

Speaker 2 (02:00:00):
But for McNary, it.

Speaker 1 (02:00:01):
Looks like he needs an extended to stay at the
green roof in so he doesn't injure anyone.

Speaker 2 (02:00:06):
Else or kills someone with his actions.

Speaker 1 (02:00:07):
Yea investigators said that mcnaree stopped to switch places with
his passenger. He ran into the street, waving at passing cars.
As the passenger attempted to take the driver's seat, McNary
kicked him out and sped off, leaving.

Speaker 2 (02:00:20):
The passenger on the road side.

Speaker 1 (02:00:22):
McNary was then involved in a hit and run about
four miles away at the intersection of US Route one
and Otis Stone who Cares Road. Victim of the crash,
report of the mcnary's suv stopped abruptly, causing collision that
seriously injured someone. The Sheriff's office said. Mcnaree was soon
spotted driving slowly on US One by FCSO deputies and

(02:00:43):
Bonnell Police officers despite attempts to stop, and McNary continued
driving at a snail's pace even after deputies used stopsticks
to deflate one of his tires. Eventually, his SUV got
stuck in a ditch because he tried to come into
our house fashion body cam footage. Long story shows the
entire because.

Speaker 3 (02:01:03):
Last week we ended up having to break up our
our broadcast because EMTs just randomly show up at our
house knocking on the door and saying, no you called
nine to one one and we did it. And then
just was it yesterday two nights ago. We're just minding
our own business and a couple of cop car sheriffs
pull up and then turn around and leave. Nobody got out,

(02:01:27):
and one.

Speaker 1 (02:01:27):
Of them, because we live out in the out in
the country, it's it's pitch black at night, so this
one car was equipped with enough lights to light up
a Hollywood stage. Yeah, it was.

Speaker 3 (02:01:39):
It was crazy and we're like, uh, we didn't do nothing,
but yeah, they didn't even get out. They didn't say anything,
they did nothing. They just turned around and left. It
was like, okay, so if it's the same neighbor that
they're coming after, I hope they're okay. But they also
knocked over my flag that was marking where the ditch was.
Because everybody keep steering to the ditch. It's like, don't

(02:02:01):
go towards the ditch. I know there's forest on the
other side, but there's plenty of room for you over there.
Stop driving into the ditch.

Speaker 2 (02:02:07):
Dashing body caver footage.

Speaker 3 (02:02:10):
We live an interesting life here, it's.

Speaker 1 (02:02:13):
Not uninteresting and the pouring rain. Deputies gave mcnaughy loud
verbal commands. What f CEO said he ignored. Of course
they did. After some time, deputies used a shatterball. What
is a shatter a shatter ball to break a rear
window to gain visibility into the suv and mn I.

Speaker 3 (02:02:31):
Think that's just a fancy name for a rock.

Speaker 2 (02:02:34):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:02:34):
McNary began to comply, exiting the vehicle with his hands
up before being handcuffed. And they're showing is underwear wearing
white T shirted redneck but they're in the picture. Mcnarry
was originally.

Speaker 3 (02:02:47):
They're watching video, you're looking at the picture.

Speaker 2 (02:02:49):
Simple battery, okay.

Speaker 3 (02:02:51):
A police shatterball, also known as shatterball is one word,
is a tempered auto glass breech device designed for law
enforcement and first sponders. It's a one inch spiked, non
sharp metal ball that can be deployed by hand at
it from a safe distance to easily breached tempered autoglass. So, yes,
it is just a fancy rock. They're tiny though, they're

(02:03:15):
like pepples. Yeah. So used to shatterball to break to
the back wind of a carter rescue one year old
girl locked inside the ex balls. Similar product has been
used by law enforce. Okay, yeah, so it looks like
what would be at the end of a mace. Okay,
kind of only little, but yeah, basically fancy word for rock. So.

Speaker 1 (02:03:36):
He was originally arrested for simple battery, failure to stop
or remained a crash involving serious bodily injury, fleeing and
eluding law enforcement, and obstruction without violence. After arrest, he
was transported to the hospital following a medical complaint. While
at the hospital, they said he threatened and resisted deputies,
going so far as to try to bite.

Speaker 2 (02:03:54):
One of them.

Speaker 3 (02:03:55):
Of course he did.

Speaker 2 (02:03:56):
One of his name, his name must have been Frankie name.

Speaker 3 (02:04:00):
He's he likes to.

Speaker 2 (02:04:02):
Do love nibbles into hate chomps.

Speaker 3 (02:04:05):
But oh there's no hate in his little fuzzy heart.

Speaker 2 (02:04:09):
So they they threw another couple of books at him.
Battery on a.

Speaker 1 (02:04:13):
Law enforcement officer, resisting a law enforcement officer with violence,
aggravated assault, assault on a law enforcement officer, andreat with
death or serious bodily And he wouldn't have been James Bond.

Speaker 3 (02:04:24):
And that's he wouldn't have been in as much trouble.
He hadn't done all that.

Speaker 2 (02:04:32):
He already had a history. He didn't need to add.

Speaker 3 (02:04:34):
To it, right, he didn't need to add to it.

Speaker 1 (02:04:37):
Found like that doing behind the wheel of a car anyway, Well,
apparently getting blast bald blasterbald.

Speaker 3 (02:04:47):
Folks, it's time to head into my favorite part here
on counterculture. Wise, we may rant, we may rave, but
most of all, we go against the current culture because
we believe, to the core of our beings that humans

(02:05:11):
are good and the world is an amazing and beautiful place.
At the beginning of.

Speaker 7 (02:05:16):
Our show, we give you news of the weird and wonderful.
But that is just the tip of the magnificent iceberg
that is our world. We now present news of the wonderfuller.

Speaker 4 (02:05:39):
Ah.

Speaker 3 (02:05:40):
I love that doggie at the end of that, And
this one is about a doggie too, and.

Speaker 18 (02:05:49):
Have always been inseparable.

Speaker 3 (02:05:51):
And I need to transfer the right video because I
miss that all kinds of up. This is not easy, folks,
do not attempt to do this at home. Okay, let's
try this again. Here we go.

Speaker 16 (02:06:04):
Jamie and Tucker have always been inseparable.

Speaker 3 (02:06:06):
His dog's name is Tucker.

Speaker 15 (02:06:07):
Probably would have died if it wasn't for Tucker.

Speaker 16 (02:06:10):
When Hurricane Helen barreled through last week. That bond was everything.

Speaker 15 (02:06:14):
It was terrifying.

Speaker 16 (02:06:16):
The two were at home with Jamie's grandparents and sister Gemma,
not far from Ashville, when a mud slide slammed into
their house.

Speaker 3 (02:06:22):
All of a sudden, I felt that completely destroyed like this,
and then I saw walls coming at me.

Speaker 15 (02:06:29):
I was on the couch with Gemma. Then the house
mud slided and I face planted into a wall like
full body went flying.

Speaker 16 (02:06:39):
Grandma ended up on the roof, but Jamie was thrown
under the stairs and a pile of rubble about twelve
feet deep.

Speaker 15 (02:06:45):
It was scary. I thought I was all alone no
one else. I thought they died.

Speaker 3 (02:06:52):
I had yelled for Jamie and Jimma and Michael nobody.
Oh my gosh, did you hear that little boy's voice?
I thought they died. I mean, can you imagine being
trapped under rubble. And this is before the hurricane even hit.
This was the rains ahead of time that nobody was expecting. Right,
That's why people are like, Okay, why did it rain
for so hard for so long before the hurricane? And

(02:07:16):
people are you know, it's kind of suspect given some
technologies that exist. I'm not going to go down that
rabbit hole bit. It does just kind of make you
things to make you go hmm yeah. But oh the
sound of that little boy's voice, I thought they were dead,
answered me.

Speaker 15 (02:07:33):
I didn't know whatever it was dead, and I was
screaming my head off. It felt like forever down there,
if I couldn't see sunlight and anything. I just felt
water dripping on me. I thought he did to get
a drown or run out of the air.

Speaker 12 (02:07:48):
It was raining really hard, and just fledden And I
remember seeing the little girl but I couldn't find the boy.

Speaker 2 (02:07:56):
I couldn't fine.

Speaker 15 (02:07:57):
Now, I didn't know where it was because I was
screaming on the top of my lunch to my grandma
and she couldn't even hear me.

Speaker 20 (02:08:03):
His best hope, his best friend.

Speaker 15 (02:08:06):
Tucker say, he was above me, on top of it, doggy.
I heard him whining and barking.

Speaker 12 (02:08:14):
Yeah, he stayed on top of the pile and was
just barking away, and I just thought the dog was
going crazy. I didn't realize he had located the boy.

Speaker 18 (02:08:21):
Tucker stayed put until firefighters arrived and used chainsaws to
dig Jamie out.

Speaker 15 (02:08:27):
He has a really big nose and really big earth.
He could hear me and smell me. I thought he
was trying to tell them where I was.

Speaker 20 (02:08:35):
Jamie was calling to Adriam Health caveras, where one nurse
is fostering Tucker and the rest of the team has
spent their own money buying the basics for the family
who lost everything, including their home.

Speaker 4 (02:08:46):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (02:08:46):
I've been paying for it forever, twenty five years, four
thousand dollars short of paying it all. My dear was
that it wouldn't be you know, paid.

Speaker 15 (02:08:56):
Offen However long or short my life is that we
wouldn't have any mortgage payment.

Speaker 9 (02:09:05):
No, it's all gone.

Speaker 18 (02:09:06):
But they're so grateful they have each other and of
course Tucker, the siblings. They've used their allowance money to
pay for Tucker three years ago, saving the dog days
before he was to be put down at a shelter.

Speaker 15 (02:09:19):
And he was the last dog there and when he
saw her, she just went right up to her.

Speaker 16 (02:09:24):
So you rescue Tucker.

Speaker 15 (02:09:26):
Yeah, he rescued me.

Speaker 6 (02:09:29):
Right now.

Speaker 16 (02:09:29):
The family really doesn't know where to go. So even
though Jamie is healthy, he's medically cleared to go home,
the family is actually staying here, the whole family in
this hospital room at Atriam Health Cabarras. Everything you see here,
the entire nursing team chipped in to get them because
the family lost everything reporting in Concord. Michelle Buten W
C and C.

Speaker 3 (02:09:48):
Charlotte. So the nurse, the nurses of that hospital adopted
this family basically, and that I rescued him and then
he rescued me. Oh the fields, the fields, Oh my goodness.
So there is a Habitat for humanity fundraiser for this

(02:10:14):
little guy and we will have the it's called the
let me go ahead and flash this song over here.
It is called the John's Family Recovery Fund, and we
will have the link on our website or you can
find it via that. There's their house, what's left of it.

(02:10:36):
I feel so sorry for this woman who's been paying
on this house her whole life. I mean, I'm still
upset about my key oh one payment away from Owen
and nichos Kerploup. Imagine having your entire house just obliterated
when you're that close to not having mortgage payments anymore.
Now she's back to square one, So I hope Habitat

(02:10:58):
is able to help them that now. Just so people understand,
they don't give houses away, right, You do still have
a loan, you do still have to pay it back.
So what I'm hoping is that folks will start GoFundMe
on top of it. That will help her actually buy
the dang thing, so she's not just starting over from scratch,
because obviously she's got a huge hearts taking care of

(02:11:20):
her grandkids. And thank God for Tucker, Thank God for
good doggie. Folks. It's been a lot of fun. We've
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Speaker 11 (02:12:06):
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