WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:07.719 This is the other side of midnight. They're running a 2 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:09.240 strange program, y'all. 3 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:10.439 With Valter Sterling. 4 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:31.960 The collectivist warm of New York City has replaced Frigid 5 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:38.000 Ruggedy in dvisualism has great sinnat for a sag. 6 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:43.000 Anyone can make it in New York and they can 7 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:45.560 also make it anywhere. 8 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:47.240 It doesn't matter. 9 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:53.560 And the government's grocery store. 10 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:09.400 You voted for this, and now you're gonna get it good. 11 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:32.599 Have you seen the Grand Canyon? Have you seen it 12 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:35.439 up close? Have you gone there? We were just listening 13 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:39.079 to some information about the great mysteries, the great mysteries 14 00:01:39.079 --> 00:01:42.840 of the Grand Canyon. How there are sealed iron doors 15 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:48.239 to caves, to passageways that are in the Grand Canyon 16 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:50.719 that we're not allowed to go to and haven't been 17 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:52.799 allowed to go to over one hundred years. And the 18 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:57.000 hoppy Indians who used to occupy the Grand Canyon would 19 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:01.480 not tell us what was in those caves. They would 20 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:05.680 not reveal to us for decades what they saw down there, 21 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:10.199 and then it got sealed up. But I urge you 22 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:13.439 take a look at that river. Look at the river 23 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:16.240 that goes through the Grand Canyon. And when the tour 24 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:21.159 guys say that river cut these rocks and made the 25 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:24.599 Grand Canyon. Does that make any sense to you? It 26 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:27.759 looks like a stream. It looks that you can walk 27 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:32.639 across it. A river that you can walk across. Did 28 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:36.240 not cut the Grand Canyon. Something else cut it. Do 29 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:39.240 you know what it really looks like. It looks like 30 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:44.360 it was mined. The Grand Canyon looks like it was mind. Now, 31 00:02:45.159 --> 00:02:50.919 who would have mined it? The Samarians, the Sumerians minded? 32 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:57.039 What for gold? It used to be a gold mine. 33 00:02:57.319 --> 00:03:00.879 That river didn't do that? A little stream, a silly 34 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:03.000 little stream. This is one of the great mysteries of 35 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:07.560 our time. Exactly what formed the Grand Canyon? And what 36 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:12.879 is hidden behind the iron doors, the iron gates to 37 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:18.159 the passageways under the Grand Canyon? And why are these 38 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:20.840 huge sections of the Grand Canyon, like about a third 39 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:23.919 of it? You and I can't visit. We're not allowed 40 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:29.199 to visit. One of the mysteries on the other side 41 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:31.680 of midnight. Walter Sterling, let's you and I talk at 42 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:35.199 any time? Eight hundred eight four eight nine two two two. 43 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:40.800 Eight hundred eight four eight nine two two two. Now listen, 44 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:44.240 I got to tell you about the Worldwide News Network. 45 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:48.000 It's a new, best in class, global top of the 46 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:53.960 hour news service built by Lee Harris, also our musical director. 47 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:57.800 One of the few these days, this Worldwise News Network, 48 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:01.120 so one of the few these days twenty four to seven. 49 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:03.000 This is live twenty four to seven by a full 50 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:08.479 staff of producers, anchors, correspondents joining us tonight with some 51 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:13.879 news gathering insight is the Worldwide News Networks overnight anchor 52 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:15.240 Brandon Aisen. 53 00:04:16.519 --> 00:04:18.920 It's so good to be on tonight, Walter, Thanks so 54 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:21.399 much for having me. This is really a good chance 55 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:23.920 to showcase some of the hard work our Worldwide News 56 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:26.480 Network anchors and producers are putting in to both news 57 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:28.439 gathering and presentation. We can start with a few of 58 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:31.480 the heavies that have been on people's minds. Iran and Oman, 59 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:33.839 of course, still in the final stages of a major 60 00:04:33.879 --> 00:04:37.160 bilateral maritime agreement. Here's one of our correspondents from News Nation, 61 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:37.759 Cory Smith. 62 00:04:37.839 --> 00:04:41.240 Iran would control the northern portion of the straight closest 63 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:45.879 to its coastline and oversea inbound traffic. Oman would control 64 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:49.120 the southern side and oversee outbound traffic. Now that southern 65 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:51.639 side is the portion of the Strait, the US military 66 00:04:51.639 --> 00:04:54.480 has said is open to commercial vessels. 67 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:56.519 Now on that route. Experts are saying that President Trump 68 00:04:56.519 --> 00:04:58.519 will likely you need to make some compromises now, and 69 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:00.360 that's something he's been unwilling to do in the past. 70 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:02.839 Iran has said that the Strait will not be a 71 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:05.759 free international waterway as it had been before the war. 72 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:09.199 During a heated exchange at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, 73 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:11.839 Chairman Rand Paul clashed with his fellow senators over his 74 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:15.279 decision to hold doctor Anthony Fauci in contempt over his 75 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:18.920 refusal to answer questions during testimony last week. Anthony Faucher 76 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:22.319 refused a voluntary private deposition, and that's why he was 77 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:24.439 brought in under subpoena. 78 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:26.439 Which was going to be one down, interrupt the chairs down, 79 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:27.319 interrupt the chair. 80 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:30.120 The senator is also now sending the referral directly to 81 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:33.079 the Justice Department, whereas typically the next step would be 82 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:35.680 to put the committee decision to a full Senate vote. 83 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:36.399 So we're watching that. 84 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:39.399 Republican Senator Mitch McConnell has released another statement saying that 85 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:41.600 he's now been released from a rehab center after a 86 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:44.040 fall and a bout of pneumonia. He said that on 87 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:47.240 advice of to doctors, he'll be doing some physical therapy 88 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:48.639 and be working from home. 89 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:48.800 Now. 90 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:51.680 President Trump has signed two new executive orders to narrow 91 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:54.879 birthright citizenship and crack down on what he calls commercial 92 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:55.879 birth tourism. 93 00:05:56.120 --> 00:06:00.360 Hundreds of thousands, okay, hundreds of thousands. 94 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:01.079 Yes, you have. 95 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:04.560 One man came in with a family had said citty 96 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:06.360 had fifty six children. 97 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:09.160 Another one came in. They said they had ninety eight children. 98 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:12.240 However, the Supreme Court struck down a similar executive order 99 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:15.439 in April, calling it unconstitutional. Now, something we picked up 100 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:21.759 on concerning the immigration beat, a Zambia national and asylum 101 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:24.079 seeker legally working as a nurse at a hospital in 102 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:26.800 Maine has now been released from ice custody and returned 103 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:28.759 to her life in Maine after being detained in late 104 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:33.240 July at Boston's Logan International Airport. Debora Capecia's release came 105 00:06:33.560 --> 00:06:35.959 one day after a union rally in Portland and followed 106 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:39.600 swift advocacy by the Maine and National Nurses Associations. 107 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:42.839 We have learned that Nabora will not be transferred to 108 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:49.720 Louisiana today is the direct result of the action that 109 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:52.000 we have dine in the past twenty four hours. It's 110 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:55.839 every nurse chewing up, speaking out, and ceaning. 111 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:58.720 Out for Tabora, the hospital confirming ongoing contact with her 112 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:02.759 attorneys and the congressional delegation while urging sponsorship for her 113 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:06.240 green card. Ice agents are making up to forty arrests 114 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:08.639 a day at US airports, but they are also now 115 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:11.399 facing pushback from the airlines. Here's News Nation's Brooks Schaefer. 116 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:15.000 The plans already facing backlash. Newark's mayor said there's no 117 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:18.519 correlation between the right of peaceful assembly and the orderly 118 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:22.399 operation of an international airport. A group which represents many 119 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:25.839 of our major airlines, Airlines for America said the plans 120 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:30.439 would have a devastating effect on the airline and tourism industries. 121 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:33.360 With the country facing more than twenty thousand cases of 122 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:38.480 cyclosporiasis linked to lettuce. Our Afternoon anchor Bill Raykoff reports 123 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:40.480 that authorities in Michigan say that it's now safe to 124 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:41.480 eat salads again. 125 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:44.560 State health officials are advising residents to resume eating the 126 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:48.959 lettuce in salad greens, citing a slowdown in new cyclosporiasis infections. 127 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:51.519 The worst of the outbreak had occurred in Michigan, which 128 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:54.639 reported the first two deaths associated with the outbreak. Both 129 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:59.319 individuals had significant underlying health conditions, and FDA investigation linked 130 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:02.120 the multi state outbreak, which has spread to fifteen states. 131 00:08:02.279 --> 00:08:05.399 The Iceberg letters served at Taco Bell restaurants and sourced 132 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:09.879 from privately held Taylor Farms operations in central Mexico. Bill 133 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:12.319 Rakoff Worldwide News Network. 134 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:14.000 And if we've been keeping our eye on the western 135 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:15.959 portion of the country, we do have an update on 136 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:18.920 fires in eastern Washington, where now more than nine hundred 137 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:21.839 structures have been destroyed since Saturday, including this woman's home. 138 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:26.839 This was my childhood home. Yeah, we lost literally everything, 139 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:29.240 all the family heirlooms. 140 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:33.120 You can see how close and how fragile life can 141 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:35.840 be you when you look across the street and your 142 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:36.919 that house is gone. 143 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:39.799 The update here in court facing arson charges related to 144 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:42.679 the Spokane County fires that have still have tens of 145 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:46.159 thousands of people evacuated from their homes. Aaron Farnacci has 146 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:48.879 been served, who has already served time in Arizona for 147 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:52.000 killing his father, confessed to igniting the Old Trails fire 148 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:55.720 with along with twenty five additional fires across the Spokane 149 00:08:55.720 --> 00:08:57.679 area since July of twenty twenty five. He said that 150 00:08:57.720 --> 00:09:00.000 he planned the August first place two weeks in advance 151 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:03.320 chants by monitoring weather conditions and deploying a time delay 152 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:06.960 device modeled after a serial arsonist. Prosecutors have filed four 153 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:10.240 new first degree arson charges against Farnaci. The Old Trails 154 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:13.279 fire alone destroyed more than four hundred homes and scorched 155 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:15.720 thousands of acres. Residents in the area still recovering in 156 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:16.519 the fires aftermath. 157 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:19.440 We sat in our car for three hours in the 158 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:22.720 Safeway parking lot, you know, waiting it out, with our 159 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:24.960 ten year old in the backseat, asking, you know, are 160 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:27.879 we going to be okay? What's going on? So something 161 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:29.559 that she's going to remember for the rest of her life. 162 00:09:29.559 --> 00:09:31.799 And you know, somebody calls that as horrible. 163 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:32.360 Yeah. 164 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:34.559 So we do cover a lot of the disasters across 165 00:09:34.600 --> 00:09:36.720 the country and then continuing on with the crime beat, 166 00:09:36.759 --> 00:09:39.720 we follow all cities, all states, all countries, even with 167 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:42.679 this one fifteen year old boycott on camera going from 168 00:09:42.679 --> 00:09:45.240 home to home in East Saint Louis, dressed as a 169 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:48.679 clown and now facing murder charges. News Nations Max to 170 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:50.120 Night has more chilling. 171 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:53.480 Video shows the moment a teen wearing a clown costume 172 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:57.440 rang Laura Palmer's ring doorbill camera. It happened just after 173 00:09:57.600 --> 00:10:00.679 nine pm Monday, as she was laying in inside of 174 00:10:00.679 --> 00:10:03.159 her East Saint Louis home. An hour later down the 175 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:05.919 Streety Saint Louis Police say they responded to this bus 176 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:08.879 stop to the intersection of seventy six and State Streets 177 00:10:08.879 --> 00:10:11.120 to a report of a body in the road. The 178 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:13.559 Saint Clair County corn Is off sycentify that man as 179 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:16.279 seventy eight year old John Allen of Saint Louis. 180 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:18.360 All right, and then Walter, of course, there's always the 181 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:21.559 lighter side of midnight. We truly do take considerable efforts 182 00:10:21.559 --> 00:10:23.279 to show the world as it is today, even all 183 00:10:23.320 --> 00:10:26.159 the good things and all the amazing people. Worldwide News 184 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:29.440 Network Nighttime anchor Cooper Lawrence churning out this story for 185 00:10:29.519 --> 00:10:31.320 us that is just utterly fascinating. 186 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:33.799 Parents usually tell their kids not to play with their food, 187 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:36.480 but butter sculptor Sarah Pratt never got that message. 188 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:38.320 I grew up going to the Iowa State Fair from 189 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:39.879 the time I was just very young. 190 00:10:40.120 --> 00:10:43.279 Iowa's longtime butter sculptor was commissioned to create an eight 191 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:46.759 hundred pound butter cow for the Smithsonian American Art Museum 192 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:49.519 State Fairs exhibition. She says, the beauty really is in 193 00:10:49.559 --> 00:10:50.799 the details. 194 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:52.039 Details on the eyes and the face. 195 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:53.600 That's really where the magic happens. 196 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:57.360 The life size buttercow, called Curious Regard, is currently on 197 00:10:57.440 --> 00:11:00.360 view at the Smithsonian, Washington, d C. Through some Kember 198 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:01.039 seven and. 199 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:03.799 Again, Walter, the news can't just always be that optimistic. 200 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:05.440 We've got to get back to work over here with 201 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:08.120 the Worldwide News Network. We've got disruption to the avocado 202 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:11.519 supply and prices due to possible violent cartel activity in 203 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:14.320 micho Con, Mexico. A full Senate vote it scheduled for 204 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:16.960 today on whether Acting AG Todd Blanche will move on 205 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:19.080 to take a permanent position in the role of US 206 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:21.960 Attorney General. There's also been a school shooting in Thailand. 207 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:23.960 A student there killed at least six More than a 208 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:26.159 dozen others have been wounded at a high school, both 209 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:28.759 students and teachers among the dead seven deaths total at 210 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:30.440 the school. At the student who turned the gun on 211 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:33.639 himself as included, but now in another update, we find 212 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:36.519 that he also shot and killed his grandparents before going 213 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:38.919 on the school rampage. So that's two more dead we're 214 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:40.120 just hearing about right now. 215 00:11:40.279 --> 00:11:40.559 Walter. 216 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:43.279 Thanks and maybe, as you might say, see you on 217 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:44.639 the other side of midnight. 218 00:11:44.799 --> 00:11:48.399 Did you mention there might be a threat to our 219 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:51.879 food supply line of avocado toast? Is that what you 220 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:52.320 just said? 221 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:54.240 I was going to ask you. I thought you might 222 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:55.960 take it a little bit personally, so I thought i'd 223 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:56.519 include that. 224 00:11:56.679 --> 00:11:59.159 No, I'm really happy to report that I eat no 225 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:04.600 cafe food avocado toast. It is a way too recent 226 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:12.200 an event for me. I caused scandal by ordering sausage pizza. 227 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:14.440 They don't want you to, you know. They used to 228 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:17.000 have that you could walk into a pizza and get 229 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:21.720 a slice of sausage pizza, mushroom pizza, maybe peppers and 230 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:25.080 onion pizza, and plain pizza. Now you're gonna have to 231 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:28.320 order special the sausage pizza. This has changed my lifestyle. 232 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:34.279 Well, we'll find out when this disruption can be ended 233 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:36.600 for you so you can get back to your regularly 234 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:38.279 scheduled lifetime activities. 235 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:41.399 Thank you very much, terrific report. Look forward to you 236 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:43.639 being here every night keeping us up to date. On 237 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:47.840 the other side of midnight, Walter Stirling, do you realize 238 00:12:47.879 --> 00:12:52.480 now there's been a major shift in a major significant 239 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:56.360 summer snack food. This is a scandal, This is a mystery. 240 00:12:56.720 --> 00:12:59.559 You go when you get one of those drumstick ice 241 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:04.000 cream it's called a drumstick, and that was one of 242 00:13:04.039 --> 00:13:07.200 those ice creams, those novelty creams, which is what they 243 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:09.879 call it in the industry. It's one of those novelty 244 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:12.600 ice creams that your mother didn't want you to get. 245 00:13:12.840 --> 00:13:15.679 You wanted to get the drumstick ice cream cone. She 246 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:18.120 didn't want you to get it. And the answer was 247 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:20.799 always vague about why she didn't want you to get it. 248 00:13:21.159 --> 00:13:23.399 She thought it was fine for you to get a popsicle, 249 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:28.000 a creamsicle, but not the drumstick. Well, it turns out 250 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:33.279 your mother was probably right. Science shows and remember we 251 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:37.159 always go with science. We don't go with rumor or 252 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:45.600 wet markets. Who knew what that was? The drumstick novelty 253 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:52.559 ice cream has zero milk in it has zero cream 254 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:57.799 in it. It is a pure corn syrupy chemical confection, 255 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:02.679 absolutely nothing. And the reason for that besides it's cheaper 256 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:06.320 than actually using cream and actually needing to refrigerate in 257 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:09.399 a certain way. The reason for that is it won't melt. 258 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:13.000 Now it gets even more exciting. Unlike other products that 259 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:17.200 are designed in the ice cream cabinet to not melt well, 260 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:22.399 this one doesn't even melt under light and heat. So 261 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:27.480 the drumstick ice cream cone doesn't melt under any conditions 262 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:32.360 and therefore probably not ideal. Probably not an ideal food. 263 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:36.159 It's disappointing because it always looked good. But when each 264 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:39.480 layer of something tastes the same, the chocolate, the nuts, 265 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:42.919 the cream, the cone, When all of that tastes the same, 266 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:47.320 probably a good clue that you don't need to eat it. 267 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:50.679 Walter Sterling The Other side of Midnight on the Red 268 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:51.960 Apple Audio Networks. 269 00:14:53.320 --> 00:15:08.840 The Other side of Midnight with Milter Sterling. It's the 270 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:12.080 other side of midnight with Walter Sterling. 271 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:21.480 If you want to go to Wiggly or fight an alligator. 272 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:24.759 In a swamp, then the other side of midnights. 273 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:29.279 What do you want? It's Florida Story. 274 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:33.559 I'm James Parker and this is Florida Story. 275 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:37.480 Oh thank you, thank you so much. You are so 276 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:39.039 kind for our first Florida story. 277 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:43.080 We're going to Miami and in this one is a 278 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:46.399 story of a guy who, like many people, lost his 279 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:48.720 job when the pandemic hit and so now he's an 280 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:51.679 unemployed mechanic in his mid thirties and he applies for 281 00:15:51.799 --> 00:15:54.480 some assistance from one of the stimulus programs, gets a 282 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:59.080 seven eight hundred dollars check. Once he gets through the pandemic, 283 00:15:59.320 --> 00:16:01.799 he applies for the forgiveness paperwork. He actually gets a 284 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:03.639 letter back saying that Hey, don't worry about it. That 285 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:06.559 money he's been forgiven. Go on about your business. Fast 286 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:10.639 forward to the current day. Florida man wins the lottery, 287 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:14.000 not the big lottery, but this ticket is a scratch 288 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:16.879 off worth ten thousand dollars, so he stands it with 289 00:16:16.919 --> 00:16:19.440 his phone confirms Hey, I really did win. He goes 290 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:21.840 to pick up his check at the nearest lottery office 291 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:25.039 and they say, oh, I'm sorry, sir, that check is being. 292 00:16:24.840 --> 00:16:28.159 Withheld because you owe the government money. 293 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:30.519 That's what's happened to several Floridians. 294 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:31.559 Chung is not alone. 295 00:16:31.559 --> 00:16:34.039 TV stations all over the state of highlighted the same 296 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:37.919 story with the same scenario. Lotto winners are flagged at 297 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:40.440 the lotto office and then cannot get a hold of 298 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:43.039 the Department of Economic Opportunities. 299 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:46.559 Something that was so exciting became an absolute nightmare. 300 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:49.480 According to the Florida Lottery, from January twenty twenty two 301 00:16:49.639 --> 00:16:52.919 to January twenty twenty three, close to ten thousand lot 302 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:56.279 of winners statewide received a letter like this claiming they 303 00:16:56.440 --> 00:16:59.679 owe a majority of them owing to the Department of 304 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:01.559 Economic Opportunity. 305 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:03.919 Oh man, what a bummer it has to be for 306 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:04.480 that guy. 307 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:06.519 I mean, it's hard enough that he was unemployed, he 308 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:08.680 went through the pandemic, and then he got help and 309 00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:10.440 he finds out he owes some money, and then he 310 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:12.599 finally wins gets a break. He wins some money on 311 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:14.519 a lottery ticket, and he doesn't even get all of 312 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:16.720 that money, and then he's going to be delayed finally 313 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:19.839 getting the air corrected. That dude's just flat out of luck. 314 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:22.319 I mean, he did win ten grand from the lottery, 315 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:24.960 but other than that, he's, uh, he's got a pretty 316 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:30.759 unlucky go of it. For our next Florida story, we're 317 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:34.200 going to Vero Beach, and in Vero Beach, we have 318 00:17:34.279 --> 00:17:36.920 a guy who, uh, he has a little bit of 319 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:39.000 a checkered pass. Then that will come into play in 320 00:17:39.039 --> 00:17:41.240 just a second. Uh, but he's not doing a good 321 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:42.839 job keeping up his house. He's not in like a 322 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:46.000 super nice neighborhood. In fact, he's in a pretty crummy neighborhood. 323 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:51.279 And even in the crummy surroundings of this economically depressed neighborhood, 324 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:54.599 his house is just got trash everywhere. It sort of 325 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:58.279 looks like Sandford Sons almost. And some of the neighbors 326 00:17:58.359 --> 00:18:01.440 have called Code of Horsemen on him, and he actually 327 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:03.599 got a citation saying, listen, if you don't get this 328 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:05.759 all picked up, you're gonna get fined. 329 00:18:05.880 --> 00:18:08.200 And you know you're gonna pay hundreds of dollars for this. 330 00:18:08.839 --> 00:18:14.240 And so, in his attempt to be less of a 331 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:16.720 mess of a human being, he piles a bunch of 332 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:20.319 the trash in his backyard and starts a little fire. 333 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:23.440 And the fact that he's making it on floors stories 334 00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:25.920 kind of let you know, it's not going to remain 335 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:27.799 a little fire, is it. 336 00:18:28.440 --> 00:18:33.319 Wpbs And the stuff then bounced from the fire pit 337 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:35.880 to a boat that has a boat, then the boat 338 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:37.720 transferred to the house, and then the house just got 339 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:38.400 fully engulfed. 340 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:41.319 Deputies tried to get guy away from his home when 341 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:44.559 they said he did the complete opposite. He locked himself 342 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:48.680 inside for about ten minutes. Investigators soon realized who this 343 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:52.599 man was. Guy was wanted for violating his probations on 344 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:54.920 felony charges, including burglary. 345 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:57.599 I'd recognize him from previous encounters, so I knew he 346 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:00.000 had warrants, and I knew we had a other depth 347 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:00.720 he's looking out for. 348 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:03.160 Him, Deputies tell us. Guy then tried to run out 349 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:06.359 of his home and away from deputies before he was caught. 350 00:19:06.519 --> 00:19:08.599 He was on cooperative, He was making excuses. He gave 351 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:10.920 the other deputy a different name when they responded there. 352 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:12.799 I think he said his name was Dylan, which is 353 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:15.240 not his name, and then he said he just couldn't breathe. 354 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:16.720 That's why he tried to run away from the. 355 00:19:16.680 --> 00:19:18.039 Home, which was not the case. 356 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:18.720 All right. 357 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:21.640 One thing I really love about that story is you 358 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:25.480 gotta imagine being him in that ten minute span from 359 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:28.440 when his life's already been a wreck, that he's scared. 360 00:19:28.119 --> 00:19:29.000 To see cops. 361 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:31.160 But his house is such a mess that he has to, 362 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:34.079 you know, burn piles of crap. And he even screws 363 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:35.920 that up if he burns his boat. I don't even 364 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:38.079 have a boat. And this idiot burns his burns his 365 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:40.559 house down. But you know things are so bad, he's 366 00:19:40.599 --> 00:19:42.759 running away and the cops are showing up. And that 367 00:19:42.839 --> 00:19:44.799 ten minutes where he has to go back into the 368 00:19:44.839 --> 00:19:47.400 house and lock himself inside. 369 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:48.519 What goes through your head? 370 00:19:48.559 --> 00:19:48.640 Like? 371 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:50.440 What are my options? How long can I stay in 372 00:19:50.440 --> 00:19:52.480 a burning house? Well? Ten minute seems to be about 373 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:54.799 the max. How am I going to get out of this? 374 00:19:55.799 --> 00:19:57.960 You can't? So what does he do for ten minutes? 375 00:19:58.039 --> 00:19:59.799 Just enjoy his last ten minutes? 376 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:06.640 Smokey freedom, I guess, hold my beer far Next Florida story, 377 00:20:06.680 --> 00:20:10.319 we are going to Daytona where you have a guy 378 00:20:10.599 --> 00:20:13.839 who you know you would think by listening to Flora stories, 379 00:20:13.880 --> 00:20:15.680 this happens every single day in Florida. 380 00:20:16.119 --> 00:20:18.599 And I promise it's rare. I know. 381 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:21.319 I said that about thirty episodes ago, and there's been 382 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:25.079 just a huge rash of alligator attacks. But as much 383 00:20:25.079 --> 00:20:27.279 as we like to make jokes about, you know, Florida gators, 384 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:30.519 it's still, mathematically speaking. 385 00:20:30.119 --> 00:20:30.920 Fairly rare. 386 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:34.000 However, it's getting harder and harder to say that there's 387 00:20:34.039 --> 00:20:37.039 a man over here in the Daytona area who here's 388 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:39.200 a noise on his porch. He thinks it's the neighborhood 389 00:20:39.240 --> 00:20:41.279 kids knocking on the door of Fast and that you can, 390 00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:43.880 you know, Johnny, come out and play. So he thinks 391 00:20:43.880 --> 00:20:46.359 of some neighborhood kids. It turns out it's a gator. 392 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:47.440 And I don't mean like. 393 00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:49.359 One of these cute little baby gators. It's like three 394 00:20:49.400 --> 00:20:53.440 feet long. This thing is seven and a half feet long. 395 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:58.039 So just imagine Lebron James laying down plus another six 396 00:20:58.160 --> 00:21:02.839 or so inches right and and it jumps up grabs 397 00:21:02.920 --> 00:21:05.640 him by the thigh. Okay, so now we have a 398 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:08.880 situation where I don't know what your porch is like, 399 00:21:08.920 --> 00:21:11.279 but there is there a man eating dinosaur on it 400 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:13.400 that immediately latches onto your thigh. 401 00:21:13.720 --> 00:21:14.720