We Trace A Fugitive Coach Story, Sound The Alarm On A Communist Comeback, And Ask How Long Guests Should Stay

A quiet Thanksgiving Eve turns into a sharp tour through community trust, political surprise, and holiday boundaries. We open with a stark update on a missing small-town football coach who fled as investigators moved in on alleged child pornography and solicitation charges. The story forces a hard look at how leaders are vetted, what flight might signal, and how a tight-knit town pivots from pride to suspicion when the facts get dark and emotions run high.

Then we widen the lens to an unexpected political twist: the Communist Party USA appears on ballots again after decades and secures small but notable wins. We unpack why local races matter so much, how symbolism shapes voter reactions, and where media narratives feed selective outrage. Along the way we wrestle with praise, sarcasm, and the double standards that dominate public life—who gets grace, and who gets dragged—for the same behavior.

Finally, we bring it home with a candid look at hosting during the holidays. A fresh survey says most people hit their limit at six days for houseguests, with fewer grace days for in-laws and more for kids and parents. We talk hotels versus spare rooms, the dignity of personal space, and how clear boundaries can keep love intact when the guest list grows. It’s a conversation about consent and capacity—from the headlines on your feed to the people on your couch.

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Chapters

• 0:44 Thanksgiving Eve Warm-Up
• 1:17 Missing Coach Allegations Unpack
• 3:47 Fugitive Questions And Community Impact
• 7:00 Communist Party Returns To Ballots

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:30

Hello everyone. Good morning. Happy Thanksgiving Day. Eve. It is the Wednesday before Thursday. Hey. Before it's the day before Thanksgiving. And I'm sitting here at work getting ready to go in. Uh, what are y'all doing this weekend? Do you have the weekend? Do you have the week off? What are you doing? Do you have family visiting? We have an article later that I'm gonna go over that we will end with about how long we get tired of family staying. We will discuss it here in a minute. But first, let's go to my other stories that I have. We have an update on that missing football coach. Of course, wouldn't you know it? There is some nefarious things going on with him. Apparently, allegedly, how Travis Turner, coach at Center of Child Porn Probe, went from all American football scion zion scion? S-C-I-O-N? Yeah. Sky. Wait, I don't know. To fugitive from justice. So apparently he's been wanted on child porn and solicitation of a minor. I knew there was an investigative journalist out there that was going to dig deeper into this. Come on. I guess they just needed all of their verification and facts first before they wrote the article. He has a revered, he was a revered small town football coach, twice-named coach of the year, and expected to shepherd his undefeated varsity squad through a crucial playoff game Saturday. Now he's a fugitive. The stunning case has upended the quintessentially all American life of Travis Turner after he bolted from his home in rural Appalachia, Virginia, last week as cops closed in to discuss the disturbing allegations against him. So he knew this was coming and he took off. So he must be guilty. I don't know. The 46-year-old dad of three has spent more than a decade co okay, we know all that. Turner okay, they're giving his background and all this, blah blah blah. Uh let's see, the coach also spent his life at the center of the community's rich football scene. Turner even state, we mean let's move on to the actual thing. But it all came crashing down Thursday night when cops arrived at Turner's home near the end of the cul de sac in a tiny town of about twelve hundred to discuss serious criminal allegations against him. They insisted they were not there to arrest him. Turner, they were told, in ro was en route, was nowhere to be found. So I guess his wife tipped him off. Hey, the police are here wanting to talk to you. That's my assumption. Uh let's see, he was he has not been heard from since, prompting investigators to launch a multi-agency manhut involving drones, state police, aviation, canines, and bloodhounds. What do you think? What do you think happened to him? He's still missing. Like a week later, where do you think he went off to? I mean, if he's used credit cards, they could they'll be able to track that. Or does that take a long time to get permission to do? I mean, surely people have seen him around town, if that's such a small community. Or what do you think happened to him? Uh on Tuesday, Virginia State Police revealed they issued they issued a warrant for the married dad's arrest on five on five counts of possession of child pornography and five counts of using a computer to solicit a minor. How do they know all of this? I mean, how do they I guess maybe they've oh on the after he left, did they have a warrant to go in and grab all of his stuff or did the wife just hand it over? Cobb said additional charges are pending and that Turner is now considered a fugitive. Well, there you go. That's the update. We need to move on. Oh, this is uh an interesting. I'm not gonna read the whole thing, but I think you should. And this is the headline. After a 40-year hiatus, the Communist Party USA is back on the ballot and already has three people in office. Hello. We're just gonna sit quietly and just allow this to happen, especially with Trump welcome welcoming one of them into the Oval Office. Hello. And then I hear commentators, these political opponents on TV, Scott Bessett being one of them, praising how well uh Mam Donnie in the meeting went and how he's a great guy. Oh, Marjorie Taylor Green is not allowed to praise Pelosi being our sarcastic. To me, when Marjorie Taylor Green praised Nancy Pelosi, it was our it was a sarcastic hit toward our own people who can't get anything done. But Nancy did. But you know, that can't happen. But Scott Bissent and all everybody else can praise Ma'am Donnie. Oh, I see how it works. And after four decades, after a four-decade-long break, the Communist Party USA has picked up the hammer and sickle to resume the glorious struggle of elect of electoral politics, and they're already seeing success. Three candidates. The CPUSA ran in November 4th. Excuse me, I'm sorry. I thought I cleared my throat before I started. November 4th election this year in Maine, Massachusetts, and upstate New York. Of course, these are the states that doubles the number of open communist party members uh ever elected to U.S. public office in the party's 106-year history. And yes, these are your grandfather's commies. Whoo, Lord. According to one former CPUSA candidate who spoke to the post, the party, founded in 1919 after the Russian Revolution, which brought the first command. Okay, we don't I want to know who the candidates are. Who are they? I don't know. You can go read that if you'd like and find that out. But it's a warning sign. Hello. They are here and they are making it happen, and we are in big doo-doo trouble. Okay. All right, last story, and then uh we'll move on to the question. Maybe this will be the question of the day. It might be. Most Americans tire of house guests before the week ends. A new survey reveals. Is this really new? I've been around for a while, and every year there's a story like this that comes out. A new study. Give me a break. Overstaying your welcome as a guest begins after less than a week, according to new research. A survey of 2,000 general population Americans looked at how long they're happy to have a guest stay with them and pinpointed this to be just six days. Uh that's six days too long for me. I mean, I love my family, and if they wanted to come down and stay with me, that would be fine. They wouldn't want to stay with us though. I'm I've I'll give you, I can't give you reasons why, but we're waiting to refurbish our house, if you know what I mean. All right. Any longer than that, the average respondent feels the guest is overstaying with who stays for six days with somebody anyway? Does that really happen? I don't think this happens anymore. And let me tell you something, I'm gonna tell you a little secret too. If I go up north to visit my family, I'm staying at a hotel. Only because there's not enough room. That's the only reason. I'm staying at a hotel because I do like my own space. I have a lot of crap I take with me that I need to spread out in the bathroom. Okay. Um, I'm sorry, I'm trying to put my hat back on. I put I took my hat off because I was cold. I mean, it's hot now, I'm cold again. All right. Moving on. A let's see. Any longer than that, and the average respondent feels that the guest is overstaying. A fifth will also not be so subtle, with 22% admitting they'll outright tell a guest they've overstayed and need to leave. I like that person. But this does not, but this does vary by who the guest is. Respondents' children are able to stay for 10 days, and parents have an eight-day grace period before it becomes an imposition. But in-laws and other family members are only encouraged to stay for five. That is still five days too long. Commissioned by Avocado Green Mattress and conducted by Talker Research, the survey found despite this, many respondents do love hosting, but space may be a key reason they're only okay with guesting indefinitely. Uh yeah, spaces, yeah. For those celebrating the holidays, almost half, 46%, want to be the house that everyone comes to for festivities. So what do you think? Well, that might be the question of the day. What is uh the stay limit for you, for your relatives? Or do you have them, or do you, or do they stay at a hotel? What it what what and then when you go visit somebody? I mean, I don't want to stay in somebody else's house for six days. I don't want to be in somebody else's house. I would much rather stay in a hotel room. I'd just I would, okay? That's just me. Call me a snob. I don't know. All right, that's it for now, and happy Thanksgiving. The gent and I will probably not be on tomorrow. There will probably not be a podcast tomorrow, but there will be one on Friday because I'm coming to work on Friday. All right, have a good one. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.