From Terrorism to Misbranded Watches: A Journey Through Today's Headlines

Have you ever witnessed something seemingly ordinary that suddenly strikes you as deeply strange? That's exactly how this episode begins—with a curious observation about a man spraying chemicals on a lawn without proper equipment, sparking questions about environmental safety and everyday awareness.

The conversation quickly shifts to alarming territory as we explore a shocking case from Texas involving a mother who allegedly purchased weapons and military gear for her young son, encouraging his disturbing plan to commit violence at his middle school. With details about impromptu explosives and ammunition found by the grandmother, this story raises profound questions about parental responsibility and the early warning signs of potential violence.

We also dive into the controversial decision by Providence, Rhode Island officials to fly the Palestinian flag at City Hall. This exploration of national symbols and government representation challenges our understanding of appropriate flag displays and what they communicate about our values and priorities as communities. Should government buildings display anything beyond American and state flags? The debate continues to divide opinions across the political spectrum.

On a lighter but equally bizarre note, we share the story of a $640 Trump-themed watch that arrived with a manufacturing defect—missing the critical "T" to spell "RUMP" instead. This consumer complaint highlights the peculiar intersection of political merchandise, quality control, and customer service in our increasingly polarized marketplace.

Throughout these seemingly disconnected stories runs a common thread about American identity, values, and the strange reality we navigate daily. What do these incidents reveal about our society? How should we respond to the bizarre and concerning events happening around us? Share your thoughts and join the conversation—and don't forget to answer our question of the day using only food emojis!

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Chapters

• 0:29 Mystery Man Spraying the Lawn
• 1:47 Texas Mom Aids Son's School Attack Plan
• 4:49 Rhode Island Flying Palestinian Flag Controversy
• 7:04 Trump Watch Missing the "T"
• 9:32 Question of the Day: Emoji Communication

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:15

Hello, good morning y'all. It's Thursday, but listen, I just pulled up to my parking lot work and there's this guy here spraying the lawn and it's a big-ass lawn, alright. So he has a long, gigantic hose and he's got it attached somewhere in the ditch here and he doesn't have any like any other attachments to it. So the water, or whatever he has it attached to, is coming straight out of the hose and he has a truck here. So I guess he's spraying for bugs or fertilizer. I don't know what he's doing, but where is the attachment? I'm going to take a photo of him. No, so he's walking back and forth I don't know, probably 50 yards or so, maybe more, back and forth, back and forth with this long hose. I don't know where he has it attached to. But my question is if he's spraying some kind of chemicals on the lawn and he doesn't have an attachment to the hose, where is he? Where is the chemicals coming from? Surely he's just not watering the lawn? I mean, it's kind of frightening, I don't know what's happening. So do we have a tank of chemicals buried underneath the lawn here that he can just pull up and hook up to and start spraying? What in the world. All right, I'm gonna keep an eye on him here while I'm talking and maybe y'all see if he I don't know, it's so weird. I don't, he's, the hose is not hooked up to his tank. It's coming out of this ditch over here somewhere. The ditch is I can't see what. Okay, I've spent too long on this topic. We're going to move on. We need to move on. I need to talk about some stories that I put out on X here this morning and we are going to talk about, oh so, the road. I'm going to say that one for last, because it's pretty cool.

Speaker 1: 2:13

Texas mom allegedly bought weapons gear for young son to shoot up middle school in exchange for babysitting her siblings. Yeah, this guy, he's real up close to my car now. He does not have any kind of attachment on this hose, so maybe, I don't know, maybe it is attached to his truck. I'm going to find out. Okay, the New York Post, let's see. A Texas mother allegedly bought her young son weapons and military gear in exchange for babysitting his siblings so he could fulfill his dream of becoming famous by committing mass, targeted violence at his middle school. What in the world?

Speaker 1: 2:58

Cops arrested Ashley Pardo, who is 33 years old, who sports purple hair and multiple face tattoos in her mugshot, of course she does Monday and charged her with aiding in commission of terrorism for helping the boy plan to conduct mass targeted violence on the Rhodes Middle School in San Antonio. According to an affidavit obtained by ABC News the same morning, the boy's grandmother, with whom he stayed occasionally, found him hitting a live bullet with a hammer. What, what? When she asked him where he got it, the youngster whose age has not been revealed, goodness replied that his mom gave it to him and that she had guns and ammunition at her house. The grandmother searched the boy's room after he left and found a makeshift IED and mortar-style firework wrapped in duct tape, along with rifle, as well as magazines loaded with live rifle and pistol ammo. The affidavit said oh, my heavens. There was also a handwritten note that mentioned mass shootings, along with their suspects in the number of victims. It added the name of the mass shooter who opened fire. Okay, blah, blah. The boy was detained off campus and is being charged with terrorism. Good, and his mother is arrested, good, oh, my heavens. So Mr Shanz replies to this, because I put it out there. He says sports purple hair and multiple face tattoos. That tells me 90% of the story. Yes, I agree, mr Shanz, it sure does.

Speaker 1: 4:35

Moving on to Rhode Island, the capital, to hoist Palestinian flag as city hall, citing diversity, this is such nonsense. Okay, all right. Update the guy did not take the hose out of the ditch, it is attached to his truck, so he was. It's not that the chemicals is not coming from the underground. Okay, got that straight. All right, here we go.

Speaker 1: 4:57

Providence, rhode Island officials have accepted a request to fly the Palestinian flag Friday at City Hall in the state's capital. Shame, shame, shame. I hope everybody on Twitter starts calling this particular Providence, rhode Island out on all over social media. This has to stop. They are supporting terrorism period. Go shut them down. Government officials, please, city officials, emphasize that no American flags are being displaced by the display. Well, that's nice Adding. There have been several other flags raised over the government office in the past. Well, that's nice Adding. There have been several other flags raised over the government office in the past. Well, stop freaking doing that. You only need one flag, two flags. One flag, the American flag. The other flag should be your state flag period.

Speaker 1: 5:47

Providence City Hall displays many different flags throughout the year to mark different occasions and honor the many ethnic and cultural backgrounds and traditions that make our city strong. That would be the american flag, sir or ma'am, you don't need any other flags, we have the american flag. Oh glory, that represents us all. Have people forgotten their history? Apparently, because since we don't teach history anymore, the spokesperson added, the city has also flown the dominican flag, irish flag, american armenian flag and the israeli flag in recent months. Well, that's all fine and good. No, it's not. You shouldn't be flying any other flags except for the american flag and your state flag. What can't? What? What? Why are their heads so thick that they cannot understand this? You can go finish reading that story, mr Sean's replied. So, since Palestine isn't a country, they're basically flying the flag of a terrorist organization. Nice, very American. I agree, mr Sean. Goodness, all right.

Speaker 1: 6:48

This last story, I think, is fantastic. I'm sure you've heard all of the radio spots with President Trump. Hey, this is your favorite President Trump, and he's hawking his watches. So a Rhode Island man was left crestfallen when a pricey pink President Trump themed watch he purchased for his wife arrived with a conspicuous letter missing, according to a report. With a conspicuous letter missing, according to a report, tim pettit bought his wife, melaine melanie, a limited edition timepiece from the website get trump watches costing about 640 dollars. But when it arrived, the trump logo was missing the vital t, leaving a prominent rump on the watch's face. I think this is freaking brilliant. I'm very disappointed. He says I wanted to do a special thing for her and we expected that it would have the integrity of the president of the united states and good follow-through.

Speaker 1: 7:43

Pennant told the local station he could they, how could they process this and go through something without checking their work? Melanie, who cried as a result of the mistake, said well, well, all you have to do is probably return it and they'll give you another one. The rump watch was pink inauguration first lady model. I almost you know I wanted to buy myself one too, but I don't have $640 laying around either. So which is billed as attracting prosperity and love while enhancing intuitive intuition and creativity? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. After the couple's complaints to the company fell on deaf ears, oh my, they went to wjar with their story. Only after the local station reached out to the trump watches for comment, the company offered the pettits a an 800 coupon and apology.

Speaker 1: 8:32

The trump watches are not designed, manufactured, distributed or sold by president trump, the trump organization or any affiliates, then why is he out there hawking them? The llc uses the name, image and likeness of trump under a paid license agreement, according to the company. Trump watches did not respond to the post, so I guess this is. Is this something separate? I don't know. I don't know. Maybe they didn't get it from the original. That's what you get for trying to go around the go. Try to cut corners. Mr Sean's replies. He said see, I'd be thrilled One day that thing will be worth a fortune. I agree, and I think I would wear it. Rump, get your rump watches. All right, we need to move on to the question of the day. Question of the day If you had to communicate via using only emojis for a whole week, what would your first message be? Comment with your emojis. What would your first message be? And you have to only use food emojis. All right, that's it. I got to go. Thanks for listening. Love y'all Bye.