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From Tragic Crimes to Aging Celebrities: This Week's Headlines Unpacked
Headlines can tell us a lot about our society's values, and today's news stories paint a disturbing picture. From a shocking criminal case that challenges our sense of humanity to questions about how we honor military history, this episode explores the stories making waves this week.
Our lead story covers a truly disturbing crime – a Department of Justice employee now facing capital murder charges in Texas after allegedly spiking his pregnant girlfriend's coffee with abortion-inducing medication against her will. The horrifying details reveal how the woman, who had just seen her baby's strong heartbeat on a sonogram earlier that day, lost her pregnancy after meeting the suspect at a coffee shop. This case not only highlights issues of reproductive rights but also raises profound questions about bodily autonomy and the extreme measures some will take to control others.
We also dive into President Trump's decision to restore Confederate-linked names to seven Army installations with a significant twist – while the original base names are returning, they'll now honor different military heroes with similar surnames who served America honorably. For instance, Fort Hood will commemorate a WWI Distinguished Service Cross recipient rather than its Confederate namesake. This nuanced approach attempts to balance military tradition with acknowledgment of our complex national history.
The episode concludes with a candid discussion about aging celebrities and their puzzling choices to post revealing photos well into their sixties. When Elizabeth Hurley celebrates turning 60 with nearly-naked Instagram posts while announcing her relationship with Billy Ray Cyrus, we have to ask: what drives this behavior? Is there a way to age with grace and wisdom rather than desperately clinging to youth culture standards? Share your thoughts and your answer to our question of the day: What's the funniest insult you've ever used or heard?
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Wow, I think this week's gone by pretty fast. It's Wednesday already. I thought it was thinking it was Tuesday, but it's Wednesday. That's good. Um, all right, I really don't have anything too exciting for you today.
Speaker 1:I have three stories here. I'll start with the worst and we'll go then. We'll go to the most lighthearted one. This one is a DOJ Department of Justice employee charged with capital murder after spiking pregnant girlfriend's coffee with abortion pills. Oh, my goodness, okay. So here we go.
Speaker 1:Employee secretly spiked his pregnant girlfriend's drink with an abortion drug to induce a miscarriage without her knowledge. According to cops, justin Anthony Banta is his name. He's 38 years old, who works in the IT department of the Department of Justice, is charged with capital murder in Parker County, texas, for allegedly putting Plan C abortion drugs in his pregnant girlfriend's coffee. The couple found out about the pregnancy in September of 2024, with the unidentified woman refusing I'm sorry, refusing the DOG. She refused the Department of Justice employee's offer to terminate the pregnancy with Plan C pills he would purchase online. Banta's girlfriend was happily six weeks pregnant when she had a sonogram on October 17th that revealed a strong heartbeat and a good vital signs. Later that same day she met with IT specialists at a coffee shop, quickly suspecting that Banta had spiked her drink with the Plan C abortion-inducing pills without her consent. How did she know that and, first of all, why would she? If she has any kind of suspicion about this guy, why would she go meet him for coffee? Why would she suspect he so? Unless it happened, unless you suspect it all afterwards, I don't know. The following day, the woman went to the emergency room with extreme bleeding and lost the pregnancy. Later, reporting the incident to police, banta was interviewed by the PCSO, preventing them from gathering crucial evidence. Well, there you go. I don't know, let's see, let's see. Did it say what kind of punishment he's going to see? It was not clear what sort of punishment banta faces on the capital murder charges. However, capital murder is the only death penalty eligible charge in Texas. Well, they need to find him guilty first before they do anything.
Speaker 1:All right, next up we're going to talk about Trump orders. Return to old Confederate linked names for seven army sites. Good, good, let's change everything back. Can we bring the statues back to, please, for our history preservation. Old Confederate-linked names for seven Army sites Good, good, let's change everything back. Can we bring the statues back too, please, for our history preservation. So this is from MilitaryTimescom, actually not the New York Post.
Speaker 1:President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced plans to revert the designations of seven Army installations previously named for Confederate fighters, nations of seven army installations previously named for Confederate fighters, but service officials emphasize the namesakes will now honor different military individuals. Okay, well, let's go through them, shall we Real quick? Fort Pickett in Virginia, briefly renamed Fort Barefoot, oh lord will now honor Distinguished Service Cross Recipients, first Lieutenant Vernon W Pickett, who served during World War II. So now, okay, fort Pickett, there you go. Fort Hood in Texas, briefly renamed Fort Cavazos, will now honor Distinguished Service Cross Recipient, colonel Robert B Hood, who served during World War I. Fort Gordon in Georgia, briefly renamed Fort Eisenhower, will now commemorate Medal of Honor recipient Master Sergeant Gary I Gordon, recognized for valor during the Battle of Mogadishu. Fort Lee in Virginia, briefly renamed greg adams, will now commemorate medal of honor recipient private fitz lee, who served during the spanish-american war. We have three more to go through fort port. Fort polk in louisiana, previously renamed fort johnson, will now honor silver star recipient general james h Polk, who served in World War II. Fort Rucker in Alabama, briefly renamed Fort Novosel, and I promise you, nobody called it. That will now honor Distinguished Service Cross recipient Captain Edward W Rucker, who served during World War I. Who served during World War I, and Fort Anderson, Penn Hill in Virginia, formerly known as Fort AP Hill and Fort Walker, will now commemorate Medal of Honor recipients Lieutenant Colonel Edward Hill, first Sergeant Robert A Penn and Private Bruce Anderson, all of whom served in the Civil War. Okay, we have to have three names for one army installation. Okay, trump resisted calls to change the base names away from Confederate fighters during his first term in office, arguing that the emotional and community links to the names made them sacred in the eyes of service members. Well, all right. There's that, all right.
Speaker 1:My last thing is what is the deal with women in their sixties trying to strip naked and be sexy? Megan Kelly had a good spot on her show yesterday about this. She was talking about JLo, who who is? It was somewhere showing off her vag, her side pubes or whatever. Sorry fellas, I know I'm getting a little graphic. I don't know what picture she was talking about. I don't know what event she was talking about, but I believe it was probably something else. That's for sure, because she also talked about another star. I forget who it was Me, I don't know if it was Rhiannon, no, some other person I don't know Was at the Met Gala thing and she was also showing off her vag in these skimpy outfits.
Speaker 1:And Megan kind of related it to Sensory from Kanye West's wife, sensory, who walks around practically naked all the time and she's claiming now that all these women in their 60s have decided to. Heidi Klum is doing it. All these women who are 50, 60 or you know, are deciding. You know, look, I still need to be looked at upon like a sex pot. So here's, look at me. I'm half, I'm half naked. What is nobody wants to see that, nobody. Well, maybe some do, but not really. All right, so here we go with this story elizabeth hurley, who I don't know if you've known or not who's decided to hook up with Billy Ray Cyrus such a weird combo. Elizabeth Hurley strips down for 60th birthday, celebrates being in love with Billy Ray Cyrus. What has happened to Elizabeth Hurley?
Speaker 1:The Austin Power star shared a photo in her birthday suit on Instagram Tuesday while reflecting on her career. I need to send this to Megyn Kelly. What? I'm sorry, but these women okay, these women who strip like this who they get with the most nastiest, most filthiest looking scoundrels out there. Billy Ray Cyrus looks gross and disgusting, so does Sean Diddy, so does Kanye West. They all look icky, if you know what I'm saying. They look nasty like they're dirty all the time. Gross, gross, that is. No, they are not attractive at all, not even a little bit. So what is the deal with these women doing this? Are they falling under some kind of spell? I don't know. It's disgusting.
Speaker 1:So there's that story out there, all these women in their 60s are deciding that you know, I'm going to wear skimpy outfits, practically just stripped naked for the camera. And look at me, look at me. I hope that I am able to age gracefully. In fact, I think I'm going to make it a goal, a purpose. And what is the word I'm looking for? Purposeful? I'm not sure what the word I'm looking for is An on-purpose effort to age gracefully, meaning I'm going to conscious effort. Maybe is what I'm thinking. I don't know. You know what I'm trying to say, um, about aging gracefully and maybe hopefully passing on some wisdom to the youth coming up, I don't know, as gracefully as a hillbilly can. Grace, can, can, can do.
Speaker 1:Anyway, all right, we need to move on to the question of the day. This is going to be hilarious, I think I hope, because by the time you guys listen to the podcast and you retweet it with your quotes and your, your out of context quotes and and you, when you answer the question of the day, I usually forget what, what um question I put out there. So this is going to be hilarious. What is the funniest insult you can come up with or that you've used before in the past? So when I see these retweets out there, you have these funny insults I'm going to be like what the hell did I do? It's going to be hilarious because I'm going to forget, probably about the question of the day. All right, I've got to go. Thanks for listening. I hope you have a great day. Love y'all. Bye.
