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Speaker 4: minisod finds you all doing great. I'm still hanging in there,
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Speaker 4: a question. Have I told you guys about my neighborhood turkey.
Speaker 4: I've named her Tatiana, and I call her Tati. When
Speaker 4: I first moved here, there were six neighborhood turkeys, Tati, Todd, Trevor, Trent, Tanya,
Speaker 4: and Tina.
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Speaker 4: I gave them all tea names, and I gave him
Speaker 4: the last name of Thompson. Unfortunately, over the years I've
Speaker 4: lived here five years now, in November, all of the
Speaker 4: turkeys went their separate ways, except for Tati. Then two
Speaker 4: years ago Tati showed up with two babies and they
Speaker 4: grew into young male turkeys. The following year, another eleven
Speaker 4: to fifteen turkeys just showed up. Was a mix of
Speaker 4: boys and girls. I had to quit naming them because
Speaker 4: I was getting confused by who was who. Then, as
Speaker 4: quickly as they came, a few months later, they all
Speaker 4: disappeared into a neighbor a few miles away, all of
Speaker 4: them except for Tati. She's been a constant and I
Speaker 4: go outside shake a bottle of unsalted nuts and Tati
Speaker 4: comes run into me. We've actually developed a really close bond.
Speaker 4: I love her so much. Last month, Tati disappeared before
Speaker 4: Mother's Day. I've been worried after weeks of her not
Speaker 4: coming around until I resolved it in my head. She
Speaker 4: might have aged out and passed away somewhere. The second
Speaker 4: week of June, I drove Jack a few miles away
Speaker 4: to take a walk near our airport. It was close
Speaker 4: to where the group of turkeys had relocated. As we
Speaker 4: were walking, I saw the skeletal remains of what appeared
Speaker 4: to be a female turkey with light colored feathers, much
Speaker 4: like Tati has. I was devastated that that was what
Speaker 4: became of Tati. The following week, I put wildflowers that
Speaker 4: I picked on the corpse as Jack and I walked
Speaker 4: by here again. Then last week, as I I walked
Speaker 4: out of the house to go get my mail, there
Speaker 4: she was my Tati. I was so excited to see her.
Speaker 4: I ran back inside the house to grab the jar
Speaker 4: of peanuts and feed her. I have never caught her
Speaker 4: or petted her, but she comes up very close to me.
Speaker 4: I'm scared if I try to catch her that I'll
Speaker 4: lose the trust that she has, so I just sit
Speaker 4: next to her while she eats the nuts and we chat.
Speaker 4: I know I'm a whack job, but I wanted to
Speaker 4: share this story with you all because I'm just so
Speaker 4: happy Tati's not dead. I've already decided when I do
Speaker 4: move from here, I'm getting a house with a little
Speaker 4: land so i can have chickens, and I really want
Speaker 4: a couple of turkeys too. They're such loving animals. I
Speaker 4: used to always hear how dumb they were, Like they
Speaker 4: would look up into the sky during the rain and
Speaker 4: drown themselves. I think that's a wives tell. Tati's super smart.
Speaker 4: She always remembers how to get back into our neighborhood,
Speaker 4: and she knows who I am for sure. I'm the
Speaker 4: nut lady. Okay, without any more of my stories, let's
Speaker 4: get into our Minniesod's case. In January of twenty twenty two,
Speaker 4: Mark Velco and Brent Rayburn met. They started dating in Columbus, Ohio,
Speaker 4: where they both live. Brent knew on their second day
Speaker 4: that Mark was his person, his soulmate, the man he
Speaker 4: wanted to grow old with. In July of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 4: the two men were married at Columbus City Hall. Mark
Speaker 4: was born October twelfth, nineteen sixty seven, in Chicago, making
Speaker 4: him a Libra. In twenty twenty six, The now fifty
Speaker 4: eight year old Mark was a graduate of Ohio State University.
Speaker 4: He later worked in the university's information technology department, where
Speaker 4: he proudly served as alma mater and his fellow Buckeyes.
Speaker 4: Mark also had adopted a son long before his many
Speaker 4: marriage to Brent. The adoption took place as soon as
Speaker 4: the boy was born. Mark was so proud of his son, Adric,
Speaker 4: and he loved him unconditionally. Mark had often said being
Speaker 4: a father to Adric was one of the greatest joys
Speaker 4: in his life. It was a role he took both
Speaker 4: seriously and that he cherished deeply. Adric was about fourteen
Speaker 4: years old when Mark and Brent married. It seemed that
Speaker 4: Brent and Adric didn't really get along very well, but
Speaker 4: Brent did admire Mark for his dedication to his son
Speaker 4: and for the fact that Mark adopted Adric to give
Speaker 4: the boy a kind of life that he couldn't have
Speaker 4: had otherwise, Although I do have to say warriors coming
Speaker 4: into the life of a fourteen year old had to
Speaker 4: be a really tough position for Brent. I remember fourteen
Speaker 4: and fifteen were the roughest years I had with my kid.
Speaker 4: She was so defiant over any girlfriend I brought her
Speaker 4: home when she was that age. So I feel for Brent.
Speaker 4: Mark was considered a lovable geek with many passions and interests.
Speaker 4: He had a great sense of humor, a contagious smile.
Speaker 4: He loved dogs, legos he was actually considered a Lego master.
Speaker 4: He loved Star Wars, comic books, yoga, and Saturday morning
Speaker 4: cartoons like Scooby Doo. He was a gifted mathematician, and
Speaker 4: he was fluent in both English and German. Yes, there
Speaker 4: was an undeniable warmth that drew people to Mark. In
Speaker 4: May of twenty twenty six, Mark's son Adric was no
Speaker 4: longer a bouncing baby boy, but rather a teenager, a
Speaker 4: young man at the age of seventeen. A neighbor had
Speaker 4: described Adrict as being clean, neat in appearance, well mannered,
Speaker 4: and well spoken. The teenager seemed to be very well
Speaker 4: taken care of. However, that neighbor did witness Adric become
Speaker 4: violent with a girl he was with one day. The
Speaker 4: neighbor said Adric struck the girl several times and pushed
Speaker 4: her down. On May twenty fourth, YEP, just about a
Speaker 4: month ago, at six fifty seven a m. Nine one one,
Speaker 4: Dispatch received a call from Mark and Brent's home. The
Speaker 4: caller stated his seventeen year old son had stabbed someone
Speaker 4: in the house and was trying to break into his
Speaker 4: room to attack him. Mark was still on the phone
Speaker 4: with Dispatch when Adric broke into the bedroom and started
Speaker 4: to stab his dad. The line went dead after a
Speaker 4: minute or so. Police's response was within three minutes, which
Speaker 4: is very commendable. Actually, when the police arrived un scene,
Speaker 4: they found two male victims, Mark and Brent, both with
Speaker 4: multiple stab wounds. An ambulance was called and the two
Speaker 4: men were rushed to a local hospital. Sadly, Mark would
Speaker 4: not survive his injuries. He was pronounced dead at seven
Speaker 4: point fifty eight am. Brent was in critical but stable condition.
Speaker 4: He didn't seem to have any life threatening injuries, and
Speaker 4: he was expected to live in the home. The assailant
Speaker 4: Adric had fled. Officers began an extensive search of the Clintonville,
Speaker 4: Columbus area, as well as a ravine in railroad tracks.
Speaker 4: For hours, law enforcement searched for Adric using canine units
Speaker 4: and drones, but they were coming up short. At eight
Speaker 4: ten pm, a witness flag down officers to report seeing
Speaker 4: the suspect running completely naked in the area of Ollen
Speaker 4: Tangy and Kensington and Columbus. At nine point fifty one pm,
Speaker 4: the police located Adric hiding face down near railroad tracks
Speaker 4: about a mile from the hull. After halting a Norfolk
Speaker 4: Southern train, officers took Adric into custody. He was charged
Speaker 4: with murder and felonious assault. There's been no definitive motive
Speaker 4: for why Adric attacked his two dads, at least not
Speaker 4: one that's been released. Since this case is so new,
Speaker 4: there's tons of questions but not a lot of answers.
Speaker 4: It seems prosecutors are seeking to try Adric as an adult.
Speaker 4: As he is currently in a juvenile facility awaiting his trial,
Speaker 4: it is pretty certain the prosecutors will get their way.
Speaker 4: Adrix's defense has asked for a competency mental evaluation of Adric,
Speaker 4: and they've been granted it. The court decided to assign
Speaker 4: Ari a guardian ad litum since both his dad and
Speaker 4: stepfather were victims. A guardian ad litum is a court
Speaker 4: appointed individual who is high to investigate and advocate for
Speaker 4: the child's best interest. I have seen on social media
Speaker 4: how sum are upset, how mainstream media is making this
Speaker 4: murder about the child being adopted and not Mark's birth son.
Speaker 4: I can see how they might be angry about this.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you look at it, many children have
Speaker 4: been adopted, but they don't murder anyone, let alone the
Speaker 4: person who raised them. I don't believe the adoption in
Speaker 4: this case has anything to do with the murder and attack.
Speaker 4: Mark raised Adric from infancy. Mark and then Brett were
Speaker 4: really all Adric knew. Plus how many kids have murdered
Speaker 4: at least one of their parents who were actually their
Speaker 4: birth parents. There's a lot of cases out there. Nah.
Speaker 4: I felt there was something else there that made Adric snap,
Speaker 4: something that might have been building up inside of maybe
Speaker 4: an accumulation of hostile feelings. First, he was bitter about
Speaker 4: having Brandt come into his in Mark's life. Perhaps on
Speaker 4: top of that, he was being bullied at school for
Speaker 4: being adopted or for having two gay dads. To me,
Speaker 4: it sounds as if he had some kind of psychotic break,
Speaker 4: especially if he's trying to break down his dad's bedroom
Speaker 4: door and attack them, and then once he's done the deed,
Speaker 4: he runs from the home. At some point he loses
Speaker 4: his clothing and he's running around naked. He was out
Speaker 4: of that house for at least twelve hours, running and hiding.
Speaker 4: And remember that neighbor did report Adric's violent behavior upon
Speaker 4: a girl prior to the incident that involved his dad's
Speaker 4: In my opinion, someone whose mental balance is intact just
Speaker 4: wouldn't do that. It appears to me the boy's mental
Speaker 4: instability was escalating. So guys, I'll keep watching for updates
Speaker 4: on this case and maybe sometime soon we'll be able
Speaker 4: to find out what was going on. In Adric said,
Speaker 4: I do know that as of now, it's not being
Speaker 4: looked at as a hate crime. Rest in Power, Mark
Speaker 4: Thrive in Power, Brint, I was a pretty heavy case,
Speaker 4: you guys, and an extremely sad one. I wouldn't feel
Speaker 4: riot leaving without a little bit of sunshine. So my
Speaker 4: friend in Rainbow Warrior SUSI sent me this. The Netherlands
Speaker 4: just voted to make gay conversion therapy a crime nationwide.
Speaker 4: Anyone who tries to change a person's sexual identity or
Speaker 4: gender identity will be sentenced to two years in prison
Speaker 4: with a hefty monetary fine. Now, if we can just
Speaker 4: get the US to do something like that, maybe someday
Speaker 4: after we crawl our way out of the dark ages
Speaker 4: that we've been placed into again. A trans costume designer
Speaker 4: who calls herself Queen Jean is the first openly trans
Speaker 4: person to win a Tony award. That's kind of big.
Speaker 4: And in Budapest, tens of thousands of people showed up
Speaker 4: for a Pride march celebrating the ousting of their authoritarian
Speaker 4: prime minister, Victor Orbon. They are now experiencing newfound freedom
Speaker 4: and a much more supportive political climate. I'm so jealous,
Speaker 4: but that's great for Hungary. And lastly, I leave you
Speaker 4: with a couple of jokes. What do you call a
Speaker 4: gay man that gardens h ho mo sexual? A man
Speaker 4: walks into an LGBTQ center. He makes his way up
Speaker 4: to the reception desk and he tells the attendant he
Speaker 4: identifies as a chocolate bar. Can he join? The attendant
Speaker 4: tells him he is being very disrespectful of the community
Speaker 4: and that he needs to leave. The man says, why
Speaker 4: my pronouns are hershey, hershey, chocolate bar. He must have
Speaker 4: been a dad with that joke. I love you guys.
Speaker 4: You matter so much. Remember it's not a crime to
Speaker 4: be gay or to live your truth, unless you're a murderer.