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September 17, 2025 3:54 pm

A Florida man is arrested for chasing juveniles with a fillet knife, while a Sarasota couple is accused of child neglect and caught drinking beer under a tent. A woman is charged with DUI after driving the wrong way on the interstate, and a Florida man is taken into custody for threatening to shoot his roommate with a crossbow. Meanwhile, a women's sports activist is berated by a man at a USA cycling event, and a mayor in Dearborn, Michigan, tells a Christian resident to leave the city. The podcast also discusses the dangers of identity theft and the importance of protecting personal information.

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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. Yeah. It's time for Florida Man. A Florida man, 68 years old, chased a bunch of juveniles at Walmart with a fillet knife, according to a report. Thomas Edward Oll.

Was charged with two counts of aggravated assault, deadly weapon without intent to kill, and two counts of child abuse without great bodily harm. He said that they bumped into him and made fun of his voice box.

So he thought, I'll show them that it's mean to make fun of people by chasing them with a fillet knife. Mm. Pretty sure that that's Yes, should the kids have been raised better? Yeah, but Cain. A full they were very particular.

They didn't just I was surprised it's not a machete. Right. It's the first time it wasn't a machete. It was a filet knife. Much smaller.

and probably sharper. Yeah. So they were apparently making fun of his voice box, and so he was very upset about that and chased them with a fillet knife, which you never should never obviously do. Let's see. A uh Sarasota couple.

This is awful awful. They were accused of child neglect and they were on dope and caught drinking beer under a tent. That was. Like, were they homeless or just like pretending to be? The word for that is called correct.

Hampene. They said they found crystal cates. That's her I'm sorry. That's her name. That sounds like a stroke club.

It sounds like a review of strippers, like a like literally like the Rockettes, but it's the Crystal Kates and they're all named Kate and they're all in Lucite heels with like goldfish in them. That's what it sounds like. And the fish are just shaking to death as they kick. I don't know where this is going, but. You know what I mean?

Crystal Kates, right? Seriously. Uh Torrance Bowls, 37 and 50. They were sitting under a tent drinking beer. without a kid in sight.

Oh, and then they uh The police, that's where they found them. Their kid was left home and was in danger, apparently. The conditions of the home and child were severe enough to remove the child and place her with a family member in Manatee County. But yeah, they said that they were on drugs, just uh drinking beer under a tent. And when you see pictures of the uh house that they lived in, the tent might actually be better because it was disgusting and full of feces and nastiness and horrible.

The child's hair was matted with debris and food. She was uh wearing a diaper that was so soiled it was about to tear from the weight. and was unable to speak. Uh they said that it was Oh my gosh, a really, really bad place for a kid to be.

So the tent was probably better in that case. That's horrible. That's there's no excuse for it. Let's see, this a wrongway driver sideswipes Tampa police on the I-4, and then she tries to say that her husband did it, except her husband wasn't in the car. Wrongway driver.

It was 2.30 in the morning, heading in the wrong way on the eastbound lanes. Uh they uh she sideswiped someone. Tampa police tried to stop her, Kristen BL, 24. She refused to pull over. And then she tried telling them when they finally got her.

Oh no, it was uh they go, Do you realize you were going the wrong way in the interstate? And she goes, On this interstate? I'm not getting, I'm reading it. This car. Are you serious?

And then they were like, Yeah, we're totally serious. They go, What do you mean? You were literally driving home. And she goes, No, he's driving us home. And they go, Who?

And she's like, My husband. And they're like, where is he? Because he's not here. He wasn't driving the car.

So she was arrested, charged with DUI. Aggravating fleeing to elude and fleeing to elude at high speed, and she was taken to jail, promptly to jail. She didn't get to Pasco. A Florida man and his roommate got into a fight over trash, and then the Florida man said he was going to shoot him with a crossbow over it. Key Largo.

He said he was trying to shoot his roommate in the head with a crossbow. The roommate found a bottle of vodka in the trash, and then the suspect, then after that, thought that, well, the only way to resolve this is with a crossbow. The Monroe County Sheriff's Office were called to the house. It was about six in the morning. They made contact.

They're all like in their 60s. The victim was 69 years old. He was lying in the front yard, bleeding from his face. They found all these arrows laying near him. The victim said the guy lured him to the property and then tried to kill him by getting me with an arrow.

Like, I can't. I have no. Clearly, the guy was taken into custody. This is crazy. This was supposed to be the bright spot in the day.

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Switching this to this USA cycling event. A women's sports activist was berated by a man at the cycling event. because she was r asking questions about Abdude being on the women's team. And this was a California woman named Beth Bourne. And she was born.

Perated by organizers at this USA cycling event. She had asked whether or not the competitors had actually been tested. uh to make sure that you know for their their sex at birth. Listen to this. Hi.

You guys, will there be any testing to see if they're all? women in this race. Oh, you saw it! You can fat film me. Jodie!

Judy! Judy! You do not touch me! Do not touch me. Why is she doing the Hitler so late?

Yeah, why is she doing the Nazi salute, that lady? She just started Nazi saluting. She can't help it. She's, you know, it's trans Tifa. They can't help it.

They're just like, Nazi salute.

So This uh she Simply ask the question, and she had every right to ask it because, if you remember, the USA cycling team has a man on the team, on the women's team, and a man on the women's team who was celebrating the execution of Kirk, right? There was another video out there, I think I put in Slack like yesterday or the day before, that it was very similar. There was a woman who was simply holding a sign talking about women and men's or women and men and women's sports, and she had her sign taken and was berated by this man who decided to get in her face. And of course, he was a trans activist. And I'm like, that's just that just so perfectly encapsulates everything with the progressive patriarchy.

It's just a reason for dudes to go out and abuse women, and then they fall back on, but I'm dressing like a woman, so I get female protections, right? I mean, think about it. That's a pretty neat trick. Oh, wait a minute. How can we beat women and get away with it?

We'll pretend we're women. Neat trick, huh?

So, you can go ahead and cut that one. That one can go up too. Because it's true. Think about it. You're gonna go beat up a woman.

And you wouldn't get away with it.

Well, I'll just prete I'll just identify as a woman then. Oh, but now I'm a special protected class. I am more specialer than you, woman. I am a man who wants to be a woman. Ho ho.

I'm a specialer.

Now move over, I got a peek. Yeah. Now call me ma'am. That's. Yero reminds me of Katie Tur's dad.

when he had that Dusted up with Ben Shapiro on stage, or no, they weren't on stage, they were on somebody's show. I can't remember. And Katie Tur's dad, I think his name is Zoe. He's a piece of work too. Yeah.

He Ben didn't call him ma'am and he was like he literally leaned over and was like you're gonna go home in an ambulance and Ben being you know the lovable dork that he is was like well That's not where an ambulance takes you an ambulance takes you to the hospital It doesn't take you home Yeah. He just sat there staring at him. He wasn't processing that he was about, that this large man was trying to kick his ass for not calling him ma'am and affirming his fantasy. He was just trying to figure out the illogical thing that he said. Like, wait a minute, that doesn't compute.

Yeah. The ambulance is supposed to take you to the hospital, not home. But that's, they've always been, they're always violent. I've I've only met one. Maybe two trans people that weren't nuts, no pun intended.

I mean they had them, but they weren't that, you know. Tina, you're so mean. You had the moderate one. Yep. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Now, with that. I wanted to play this for you. Audio sound by 21. An immigrant in the UK, I don't know if he's illegal or not, but a Muslim immigrant in the UK is very angry. because he thought that he could just park his car on the sidewalk.

I don't know if he's from Pakistan or wherever he's from, but that's you can just park your car wherever the hell you feel like getting out. Like, I'm done driving now, I'm just gonna stop and park. Get out of leave my car here.

Well, he got in trouble. And because he was expected to follow the law like everyone else in the UK was. That was racism. Audio sound by 21. I can't.

Um uh MSL, Wolverhampton. MSL. Wolverhampton 315.

Okay.

So they told you to come here during the prayer times, right? Oh, by yourself. Oh, so is it you who are hating Muslims uh prayers time, right? Do you have some problem with my religion? Do you have a problem with like parking on the sidewalks?

What are you doing here just at this time? You can't park like that. Yellow lines, yellow lines. Yeah, I understand it, but why are you not here every day? Why didn't you love your God enough to show people how to park properly?

I love you. Am I abusing him? Hello, brothers. Am I abusing him? I just would not even be dealing with this.

I'd be like, looks, like, you should have loved your God enough to get here early enough so that you had time to park your stupid car. It's not my fault if you didn't love your God enough to do that. And you're just pretending right now for the cameras, you absolute P.O.S. It's not my problem. And then just ended it.

Not even. He got mad because he had to hurry up and park his car on the sidewalk.

Okay.

Which you can't do, a shocker, you can't do that in the UK either, right? Imagine you're going to church. Let's put this in a different perspective. Imagine you're going to church, right? You're, I don't even know if this guy was late for church or not.

I'm just assuming. But you're like, I'm just done driving. I'm just going to park right here on the sidewalk by the church. Just going to park on the sidewalk and get off right here.

Well, you can't do that, obviously. Uh so if you were to get ticketed What would your response be? Would you say, Oh, I came from a backhole, hellhole country that just parks their cars if they have them wherever? You know, I didn't know I couldn't park here. I'm like barely civilized.

Would that be your response? Would it be, oh, I'm so sorry. I'm just an I'm I just, you know. I just park my car here because I'm a jerk. Or would it be, why are you?

I'm not sure if I can do it. Why did you choose to come here during religious times? It's our time for worship. Why did you come here?

Well, because the car was there on the road at that time. That's why. It just because it Coincided with the time that you worship is completely irrelevant. Do you see the manner in which I just I can't even.

Now, Dearborn. The mayor of Dearborn, Abdullah Hammond, he said. He told a Christian resident, you do not belong in the city. Get out, and you're not welcome here. This is audio sound by 22.

This is a mayor, an elected official. Watch. I mean, Hezbollah You know, bombed the embassy in Beirut, including many Americans.

So I just feel it's quite inappropriate. You are an Islamophobe. And although you live here, I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here. And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of the city because you are not so clear.

Well, at least he's not chopping his head off or anything, you know.

So that's some evolution, I guess. You could tell he wanted to, though. He's in his, his, his voice. was saying one thing, but the tenor of his voice was saying something different. He was about to Allah Huakbar on him.

He was. He was. That's just an ignorant thing to say. Like, well, even though you live here, you know, I'm going to have a parade when you leave. Are you?

Like, what is your damage? Like what is your damage? Can you this guy's mayor? This is, again, this is in Dearborn, Abdullah Haman. And the guy what did the guy say that was so offensive?

Truth? He didn't say anything that was wrong. Hezbollah did. Carry out bombing raids. They absolutely did.

Yes, they did. Absolutely kill Americans. Yes, they absolutely are backed by Iran. Yes, they are absolutely balls to the wall nuts. Yes.

They're evil terrorists. There is literally no, there's no debate here. It's like saying, well, is Satan bad?

So offensive. I'm gonna throw a parade when you leave. What in the world? world. What is happening here?

This is the United States of America.

Now, where can you imagine if a Baptist preacher? If a priest had said this to someone. Imagine like your priest getting up there and going, Yeah, well, you know, even though you live here, I'm gonna celebrate when you leave. I mean, can you imagine? What if it's like an evangelical pastor?

who would say something like that. The left would be like, oh, separation of church and state. That's all you would hear. Separation of church and state because they love saying that, except when it involves someone that they're afraid will cut their heads off. And then they're like, Posh We can't talk about that hole.

Yeah. That's that's how they always act. No, they would. They didn't say anything. They haven't said anything.

You have a sitting mayor who's threatening a citizen. For speaking truth. That's ins that's that's absolutely insane. I can't And that's happening in Dearborn, Michigan. Of course.

Of course. I'm just saying. It's colonialism. That's colonization. What you saw in the UK?

That idea that, well, we're going to falsely accuse you of bigotry when we have to follow the law like everybody else. That's colonization. And they are weaponizing this whole thing. This is why CRT is so dangerous. They're weaponizing all of that Marxist claptrap.

As a way to as a tactic of doing it. It's colonization. It's an invasion without firing a shot. It's brilliant, actually. But.

I mean It's only brilliant in the fact that Wow, I can't believe how brilliantly weak and cowardly so many Western leaders are that they don't stand up to this type of stuff. I'm so tired. You know what? The colonization of parts of Africa and parts of Europe. I don't want to hear about European colonization anymore.

Shut up. I don't want to hear anything about it. Why don't you talk about the Islamism? colonization. and radical colonization.

Why not talk about some of that? Oh, because they'll chop our heads off.

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Arizona, a woman was accused of hitting her boyfriend in the head with a hatchet while he was sleeping, and she. Smiled in her mug shot. Very big.

Sorry, it was a uh Arizona Press that was in North Dakota. She attempted to murder her boyfriend. She hit him in the head with a hatchet while he slept. Uh she was arrested. Lena Doliviera.

When police arrived on the scene, the victim told officers he was alone. He had been attacked without warning. He was taken to the emergency room for treatment. And he said he was attacked by his girlfriend. She they suspected that she was out of it.

Uh and then uh anyway they They arrested her and she's charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault. Her court date is in October. Oh my gosh. Like, why are. Why are people insane?

A small plane crash landed near a high school in Toronto. Oh, let me actually do this one. This is a USA Today. A man got attacked on his lawnmower by a bear. 72 year old man in Arkansas.

He was mowing his lawn. Vernon Patton, he was in hospice after he was attacked. And he was critically injured. He was on his tractor lawnmower in rural Franklin County. It is the first known bear attack in Arkansas in a quarter century.

He was riding his tractor. And his son found him being attacked by a yearling bear. He's about 75, 70-pound black bear. A witness said the bear was in the process of attacking him when his son showed up, began throwing rocks at the animal. Game wardens responded to the scene.

They had to fatally shoot the animal. And then they said he was moved to surgery for the day of the attack, but his injuries were so extensive, they said it was not survivable. And his son witnessed the whole thing.

So they were ta the bear tested shockingly negative for rabies and distemper.

So they tested after they put down the bear. Uh but that's k that is horrifying. Just horrifying. Horrifying. Golly, that is a determined animal if you're on a tractor because he was actively mowing grass.

So I don't know. Uh let's see. This uh incredible Queens, is there a cat that's running for office? Apparently. New York.

Huh. Uh well, it's a Cain, it's a giant So Makes sense. Better known as Leo the Cat. It's going to replace term-limited moderate Democrat Robert Holden. on a city council in Western Queens.

Yeah. Th these people can't they're not serious. Yeah. It's a Mr. Mingus I don't know what its name is.

This cat, I don't know how this has gotten this far. It only has 139 followers on Instagram. And they made these little posters where they have it all over Leo Namouche. They have it all over. That's his name.

All over the Western Queens.

Okay, God help us all. I don't know. They think it's a joke, but it's actually like people will vote for it. Being underweight might be deadlier than being overweight. I actually do think this.

Because if you're underweight and like if you're, you know, as you get older, I just know a lot of like thin old people. That you know, they fall, they don't have anything to cushion that fall, they break bones, they get sick, they get flu, they don't have a lot that can sustain them. Um Yeah, I think as I get older, I would rather, my grandma was always like, you got to pick your face or your body. And I'm like, I totally, I'd pick face because I'm just going to get, everyone's always like, what do you have done? I don't have anything done.

I just don't wear hardly any makeup anymore except for my eyes. And everyone's like, what did you do? or I'll cut my hair and they'll say, I got my extensions out. But my anti-aging plan is literally to get like Yeah. Not kidding.

About it, it's natural filler, it like smooths everything out because I pick, I'm not going to stop eating snacks, so I will pick face over body when I get like 80 years old.

So, I'm going to have a cushion, right?

So, that solves that dilemma right there. We have seen an alleged murder. With such specific text messages about the alleged murder weapon, where it was hidden, how it was placed, what was on it, but also it was very touching in a way that I think many of us didn't expect. A very intimate portrait into this relationship between the suspect's roommate and the suspect himself, with him repeatedly calling his roommate who was transitioning. Calling him, my love, and I want to protect you, my love.

So it was this duality of someone who, the attorney said, not only jeopardized the life of Charlie Kirk and the crowd, but was doing it in front of children, which is one of the aggravating circumstances of this case. And on the other hand, He was speaking so lovingly about his partner.

So a very interesting and, as Pierre said, riveting press conference, David. It was tough. It was riveting. It's the new Hallmark story of Romeo and Julius. It's what the It's just it was just absolutely, it was the duality.

Because he tripled this reporter he tripled Quadrupled. uh down on all of this And Oh man, it's bad. It's just bad. I saw this yesterday. When did this air?

This aired uh wasn't like their their news, it was like yesterday. It was yesterday, late afternoon. It was like right at Matt Gutman on ABC.

So it was like their. I want to say like their four o'clock, five o'clock news. And um When I saw this in full honesty on social media. I didn't, um I didn't believe that it was true because it was so bad 'cause I saw The caption? The quote of what he said?

And then I Saw the screenshot or the video, and I and I went because you know how sometimes you see things and you're like, oh my gosh, satire is so, I can't even tell the difference. Oh my gosh, it was bad. Do we have the audio where he doubled down on?

Okay, go ahead and play this because if you thought that was bad, well. There's more. It is. It's heartbreaking on so many levels, Kira. Obviously, Charlie Kirk was murdered brutally in front of a crowd.

Thousands of people who watched him being shot through the neck and then essentially bleed out in front of him. And I think one of the things that the attorney here made a very fine point about is that a lot of these charges, seven charges, were aggravated because children were present. Children witnessed this. Children were put in harm's way. And that was something that obviously is aggravating here.

And that's one of the reasons that the suspect, in addition to the alleged murder being political in nature, is facing the death penalty. They're going for the death penalty. And then, on the other hand, there is this duality of a very portrait of a very human person, a very human experience from this entire family. As you mentioned, it the mother who essentially discovered that it was her son who had done this, the kid who had got a 34 out of 36 on the ACTs, who had a 4.0, who got a full ride to college here, that that kid was the one who allegedly perpetrated. She saw those pictures and said, identified him essentially.

Good God. Came. I don't I don't even I don't even Trying really hard here. Trying very, very hard. He issued this groveling.

I can't tell you what I have it down on the rundown as. Really can't, can I can't? You sure? He issued this groveling Repo uh apology. And I'm still trying to figure out how in the world, I mean, it's just so.

In that moment, that's what you think of. He said that he deeply regrets describing text messages. Between Charlie Kirk's murderer and his twink transgender partner is very touching. This is just what he said. He said, quote, Uh it's from his official account.

Yesterday, I tried to underscore the jarring contrast between this cold-blooded assassination of Charlie Kirk, a man who dedicated his life to public dialogue, and the personal, disturbing texts read aloud by the Utah County Attorney at the press conference. He adds, I deeply regret that my words did not make that clear, but let there be zero doubt here: I unequivocally condemn this horrific crime and the pain it caused Charlie Kirk's family, those who were forced to witness it at UVU, and the millions of people he inspired. I deeply regret that you didn't understand me. I deeply regret. It's my fault.

I mean, there's no. There there is no I don't even know. I um I uh It's like they were trying it's like they were describing the new Christmas. Movie on Hallmark, you know, because it's gonna, at the moment it turns September, it's like Hallmark brings out their Christmas, like, it's time for Hallmark Christmas. And it's almost like that's what they were doing.

Like, it's a killer and his twinky tr it's a killer and his tweaky trans boyfriend and the duality of their love. and of Romeo and Julius. The next Hallmark Christmas movie. Yeah, I just don't. Romeo and Julius go to a snow glib factory.

It's like the, you know, I don't know. That's it's like how they tri that's like what it felt like, how they were trying to describe it. And there is no humanizing a monster. Just stop. There's no humanizing any of this.

Not a single bit. If you are a subscriber over at Substack, I had a piece that that came out earlier well, yesterday. for you subscribers. Because I I was kind of writing about This Idea of, you know, because I got a ton of headlines here, like the more on this killer. You know, apparently he was telling, I mean, he was telling his Twink boyfriend too.

Uh delete all of their messages, et cetera. Uh I mean the it goes on and on and on. But it know I was thinking about this and I wrote this piece because I thought You know, really when you think about the Story of Harrison Bergeron. I don't know how many people read it in school. It's a short story by Kurt Vonnegut.

It Is Exactly right now because it's a short story that gets into how everybody has to handicap themselves so that everyone can be equal. Right, they said that, I mean, it starts out the year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal. And they weren't only equal before God and the law, but they were equal in every which way. And nobody was smarter than anybody else, and nobody was better-looking than anybody else, and nobody was stronger or quicker than anyone else. And that was all due to the equality brought about by the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments, and the United States Handicapper General.

And it gets into the characters. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn't think about anything except short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. And it had to be tuned to a government transmitter.

And every 20 seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains. Except it happened a hell of a lot sooner. I mean, it happened sooner than 2081. It's 2025 and we're in it. But if I'm being honest, it predates 2008.

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