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October 29, 2025 • 13 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There's already monkeys in the news and bad Chinese accents
all the way.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
I have a theory about what. Boy, I have a
lot to say about both of the things you just said.
Let's start with.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Oh God, there's so much to do.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
I don't know. I'm so excited to just jump in.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Okay, So yeah, we're gonna be doing a lot of
coverage today of Tulane universities loss of st I infected monkey.
In fact, what what? Oh god, it's been happening for decades.
Two Lane University is kind of famous for this.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Yeah, and they've they've lost some more monkeys. What's an STI?

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Sexually transmitted infection?

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Not a disease anymore? Huh? I grew up. It was
std Actually it was just the clap.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
I would have gone da as well.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
But good to know.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
But in the thank you, but in the uh, in
the news coverage that he keeps saying st I, and
it's like, all right, whatever.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
It Maybe it's because their research monkeys instead of free
reign monkeys. If a free range monkey goes out and
catches the clap, then it's a disease. Otherwise in the
lab it's an infection. Sure, Okay, yeah, I guess that's
how they do it.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
So does that mean we should use a different term
when a white or a black person gets it?

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Or I don't think that's what it means.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
I was just wondering, though, why you even suggested something
like that.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
I'm just curious.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
A big hurricane in a point Jamaica is is it
still there? It looks rough, it looks pretty bad. Now
we'll check it out on Jamaica at some point.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
This is a visiting Cuba now, so you know they
don't have that much to tear up, though, do they?

Speaker 2 (01:35):
And Israel strikes in Gaza killed one hundred and four
There goes the piece. The headline's really funny too. I
mean it's not funny. It's not funny. Ha ha, it's
like funny. Huh yeah, Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at
least one hundred and four.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
As ceasefire increasingly fragile.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Now you would think, well, I guess Israel decided to
break the piece. Huh. That's the way the headlines all look.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Okay, but whatever happened if one hundred and four people
just died because of uh, you know, rockets being launched
I think the ceasefire has been it's not happening, right.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
The story starts with Israel attacking. No, no again, counter
attacking if you will, Yeah, Hamas. Trump says the piece
is still on because Hamas is just a very small
part of the entire Middle East peace plan that he's
placed in effect. But Hamas seems to be the ones

(02:30):
who keep doing this kind of stuff. They started attacking
a group of Israeli soldiers that were in an area
where they were supposed to be and Amas is supposed
to be okay with that, but they weren't. Yeah, And
so after they did that, then Israel strikes back. But
for some reason in the news, it just started with Israel.

(02:51):
That's how they'll do it.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
And we've been following Donald Trump's trip through Asia and
some of the cities he's visiting, like.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Kulolo par and don't Kyo and guil Joon.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
I like that. What about the Yoka Matta Homo or
muddle someplace he went to the naval base.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
I didn't see that on the list here, but you're
probably right he probably did go there. And I just
want to say, we really practiced hard this morning to
make sure we pronounce the names of those cities correctly, because,
according to the Newsmax coverage of the New York City
mayoral debate, that is really important. Here's a sound bite on.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
Another note tonight, the New York City mayoral debate last night.
But I'm less interested in what the candidates actually said,
and I'm more interested in why we keep doing this.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Governor Affairs Portamliss Russo, Senior politics editor at Politico, Sally Goldenberg,
and Telemundo forty seven ancre Roseareaton.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
This is a two hour.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Debate, all right.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
So we have talked about this, and I don't just
I just don't get why we do this, Who started it,
when this started? But whenever it is a Spanish name,
we are all suddenly required and expected to shape shift
into the perfect Spanish accent. Normal everyday news people do
it all the time. They forget years of training, they
forget their non regional addiction that Telemundo anchors, By the way,

(04:06):
Rose Arena Breenton, just say Rose Arena Breton. But for
whatever reason, we all feel the need to pronounce it
like we're living in Mexico, like we're living in a
country where Spanish is the native tongue. That's not the
case here in the US or also not. But I
taught me up he said it. I couldn't understand what
he was saying. As I've said.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Before, I am Irish.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
And if I was moderating that debate, would the host
introduce me as Robert James Finnerty?

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Don't you know that it's a lad? There is Robert
James Finnerty. If the host was Chinese, would.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
They then induce that person with a Chinese accent?

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Do it? I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Uh oh, so how come he did the Irish but
not the Chinese.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
He doesn't have the Chinese accent in his tackle box?

Speaker 2 (04:49):
But you do think he's a coward? Mine was a
non regional Asian accent. Oh okay, Well, we've been doing
this three years. We've always felt it's very important when
discussing the camp all of North Korea to explain that
Kem jong un lives in.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
And I think maybe we should stick with the North
Korean accent because I doubt they're gonna hear about it. Sure, yeah,
they won't be a fan, and they don't have electricity
or radio or television than what the government allows them
to have.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
So I think we're good. It's like making fun of
the Amish. What are they gonna do?

Speaker 1 (05:39):
What day is it? What am I gonna do? Make
a big announcement. It's Wednesday, Walton and Johnson Radio Network.
Does sing in the blues makes the blues go away?
Or the blues better after you've sung the blues for
a while, or does it make you sadder?

Speaker 2 (05:53):
I think interesting question. So the academic research we have
on this topic seems to indicate that listen litening to
sad music when you're sad tends to make you happier.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Okay, all right, I'm feeling that. I'm feeling your dog.
But you know, I say that's what blues singers say
a lot, you know.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
But we're all different. What if you hear sad music
when you're in a good mood? Will will that make
you sad?

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Bring you down? It's like seeing those sad puppy faces
on those those public service announcements on TV, right, and
those sad little starven dogs behind the cage, and that
woman starts singing that song and everybody just gets sal
teary eyed.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Last night, I kim, yeah, I'm with you on that one.
There's something about sad music that seems to cheer us
up when we're sad.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
But it's cathartic, they claim. Okay, still, the state of
music is very bizarre right now.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
I can't help but notice I attended a concert last night,
and I think I witnessed something demonic on stage. I
want to show you something on the screen here that
really alarmed me. I went to go see the Mars
Volta last night. It's a rock band, and they were
pretty entertaining. And when I say entertaining, I mean I
walked out after the second song. Okay, couldn't handle how

(07:04):
bad it was. But it was the opening act that
really alarmed me. Look what's on stage?

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Right?

Speaker 2 (07:10):
I came out, I walked into the room and there
were these three people dressed like satanic aliens. And I'm
not even sure they were doing anything. I mean it,
it was like it's three people wearing shrouds. This is
on the Kenny Webster Instagram account. If you're curious what

(07:31):
we're looking at here, Steve, can you describe what these
people look like? They look demonic?

Speaker 1 (07:35):
Right? Yeah? I really can't. I don't mean, that's just
very bizarre.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
I think people are worshiping Satan again.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
What do they have on their heads?

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Masks? I think there there's a little spout at the top. Yeah,
they're trying to look they're trying to look evil, yea.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
And they got that. Yeah, they did a pretty good job.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
And after witnessing this, I was there to see a
different band and three people on stage almost dressed like Halloween,
like they're the extras in a horror film, or maybe
dressed like the band. And what's that, you know, Jaba's
Palace or something like that. Yeah, and I don't know.
And then the band finally came out and played three
songs I never heard before, and I just left. I

(08:17):
was like, man, I came out on a Tuesday night
for this.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Say you're out a school night, Kenny, what were you thinking?

Speaker 2 (08:23):
And then I went home and I looked at my
phone and I realized there were venereal disease infected monkeys.
I'm the loose and I think we're living in the
age of the Apocalypse. I didn't play the intro to
the segment we've done so many times on the show.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Before, but Bill's apucalyptic though, Yeah, I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
And it's not the first time, twu Lane Universities National
Primate Research Center has lost monkeys primarily involving macaws. Is
that how you say it, or macaqus that's a recess
macaque or pigtel maccacs used in biomedical research. It been
doing this for years. Happened back in the nineties. It

(09:00):
happened in two thousand and three, it happened in two
thousand and five. From twenty fourteen to twenty fifteen, a
lab accident exposed at least eight maccaqus to a deadly
bio terror Bacterium, a mysterious breach in the BSL three facility.
It used to the facility used to be the Tulane
Primate Center in Covington, Louisiana. But it looks like they're

(09:22):
moving them in and out because this time they lost
them in Mississippi.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
They were on the way to someplace from Tulane on
I fifty nine when an accident of some kind occurred
and the truck with all the monkey cages spilled them
out all over the side of the highway in Jasper County, Mississippi.
The officials said they've rounded up, well, not all of
those escaped. They were like twenty plus monkeys and separate cages.

(09:48):
Only six of them, they say escaped. They got three
out of the six, kind of like that New Orleans
ten when we started counting down how many of them
they got. Huh, But you know, obviously different because these
are just monkeys. Sure, six escaped, three still on the run.
And they said you should avoid contact with these monkeys

(10:10):
if you happen to see them. Partly because I guess
they got the transsexual transmitted the TSI right, but also
because they they have been in a cage most of
their life and stabbed with needles and just picked on
and messed with, and to the point where they're probably
just pissed at any human that comes near them.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Sure it is possible that they want revenge on human beings. Now,
this is where this gets a little tricky. Generally, I
think we should stop testing chemicals and diseases and things
on animals that are smarter than toddlers that can transmit
diseases to humans.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
But also that's what Peta thinks.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Oh then yeah, it's hard to side with them.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
I don't want to be on the same side as Peta.
Need a lover.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
If you shut up to a party, and the building
was on fire, and there were four Nazis out front
demanding the fire be extinguished. You'd start to wonder if
maybe we should let the building burn, letter burn, right,
I know that's a tough call.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
There.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Official says the animals weigh about forty pounds each are
aggressive towards humans.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
You know why, I mean we and we have not
treated them well.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
And require personal protective equipment to handle due to the
monkeys possessing opposing potential health threats. And I just feel
like this two lame. You've been doing this for decades
now and they've done it again. They should come up
with some kind of a measuring system to let us
know how strong a forty pound monkey is, because they're

(11:39):
stronger than humans. So is a forty pound monkey equivalent
to one hundred and twenty pound human? Is it three
times the strength?

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Is it five? I don't know. But if forty pound
monkey is a formidal opponent.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Oh wow, Steve, it's just amazing what we can figure out.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
A forty pound monkey, roughly the size of it, A
delt spider monkey or a small macaque or macaqua is
surprisingly strong, far stronger than a human of similar weight
and capable of feats that would require a fit adult
man weighing one hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Okay, so we're talking four to five times the strength
per per pounds.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Well, you're close.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
It says here monkeys have five to seven times the
muscle density and power to weight ratio of humans in
their upper body. And a forty pound spider monkey can
hang one handed from a branch and swing its full
body weight effortlessly. They could pull it three to five
times their body weight. And this is interesting, And lab
tests similar sized primates have exerted peak grip forces of

(12:41):
eighty to one hundred and twenty pounds per hand. And
what and we gave them herpes and accidentally released them
on the general public.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
What's to fear? Yeah? What could possibly go wrong?

Speaker 3 (12:54):
Should I not have done that?

Speaker 1 (12:56):
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