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SLAP the Power
SLAP the Power - a dynamic new show from SLAP the Network that aims to weave artistry into advocacy through the raw power of music, comedy, movies, visual arts, and beyond.
Hosted by world touring musicians Rick Barrio Dill (@rickbarriodill @vintagetrouble) and Aja Nikiya (@compassioncurator), join them as team with musicians, comedians, actors and artists of all angles and try to chop up some of todays most troubling topics, but with a fat side of chocolate cake and incredible silliness.
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SLAP the Power
Empowering Women in Sports, Compassionate Heroes, and the JonBenét Ramsey Enigma
What if bridging the gender gap in sports started with one bold move? Discover how Whoopi Goldberg is shattering ceilings with the launch of the first all-women's sports network, an initiative poised to change the face of sports coverage globally. We also explore Compassion Kind's inspired mission to rescue and uplift, coupled with Beverly Hills' unique voting initiative that has the community buzzing about their favorite therapy dog.
Journey with us through the inspiring and heartwarming tale of Asian Nakia, whose efforts with Compassion Kind have earned them a nomination for the CNN Heroes competition. Their dedication to uniting people from all walks of life to tackle pressing issues is a testament to the power of collective action. We urge you to join in supporting this worthy cause and illuminate the path for future community endeavors.
As we navigate the complex terrain of international trade tensions, we also confront the haunting enigma of JonBenét Ramsey's case. Weigh the economic implications of Donald Trump's proposed tariffs against the chilling mystery surrounding JonBenét's tragic death. This episode is a tapestry of poignant stories, engaging games, and insightful discussions that celebrate connection and the relentless pursuit of truth and equity in our communities.
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SLAP the Power is written and produced by Rick Barrio Dill (@rickbarriodill) and Aja Nikiya (@compassioncurator). Associate Producer Bri Coorey (@bri_beats). Audio and Video engineering and studio facilities provided by SLAP Studios LA (@SLAPStudiosLA) with distribution through our collective home for progress in art and media, SLAP the Network (@SLAPtheNetwork).
If you have ideas for a show you want to hear or see, or you would like to be a featured guest artist on our show, please email us at info@slapthepower.com
We have to come to terms with the fact that we've got a lot of sickos in the world.
Speaker 2:And I think we know more now than then. We know more now than then.
Speaker 1:I'll give you that. That's fair. I would say after the 80s is when we started like having our big serial killer cases and like understanding this stuff. But there's no part of me that would let my little twin sisters wear makeup and prance around a stage half naked in a bikini, absolutely not today.
Speaker 1:Wear makeup and prance around a stage half naked in a bikini? Absolutely not today. I won't even let them talk Like a man comes up to me at a grocery store and tries to say hello to my girls. I'm already on high defense mode because you cannot. You can't operate in that safe, unfortunately.
Speaker 4:It's sad, but won't we go slap today? All right, the world may not need another podcast, but it can definitely use a slap. That's right. Welcome to Slap to Power, the show that lifts artists who use their powers for positive progress. I am Rick Barriodil.
Speaker 1:And I'm Asia Nakia.
Speaker 4:That's right On the show. Today, Whoopi Goldberg announces the launch of an all-women's sports network. Come on.
Speaker 1:Yes, and then we will hit our rescue segment, pause for Progress, where we will talk about three new rescues that Compassion Kind took in this week.
Speaker 4:Three, three, three, sasha, mr Wiggles and Bowie.
Speaker 1:Now Sasha, though, is the artist formerly known as Sasha, right, because it's now currently known as Daisy. I think we're, yeah, I'm kind of back and forth on it, but we'll have to see what fits in the next 24 hours.
Speaker 4:We'll get to that, and then we're going to talk about Mexico's president's response to Trump's tariffs. This is a story that I haven't heard about. I mean, I haven't seen a lot of, and it is awesome, yes.
Speaker 1:And then we will talk about something really cool. Here locally in Beverly Hills, the police department is asking for votes for its canine, who was nominated for a therapy dog award.
Speaker 4:That's right, and that's just happens to be our voting district now at Slap Studios, so that means we have to vote Rick, that's right, and that just happens to be our voting district now at Slap Studios.
Speaker 1:So that means we have to vote Rick.
Speaker 4:That's right, we got to vote and a little later we're going to back by popular demand. Two scams and a slap where we take three batshit crazy events, two of which are fake but one is real, and one of the two of us learns in real time with you, the listener, which one is a true slap in the face of reality. Today it's going to be me reading with you, beautiful people, and Asia, uh, is going to learn in real time with you. So, uh, the, I can't wait for that. And, uh, debuting here. This is what I love about the show and our ability to to flex on a dime. So, asia, I didn't know about JonBenet Ramsey. I'm one of those. I missed it. Wow, yeah, I know, I kind of slept Like I understand it, but I don't like know about it.
Speaker 4:And there's a new series that's out and our resident we have Compassion Kind Corner. Well, now we have Bree's Crime Corner. That's right, we're going to debut it a little bit later. It's always an adventure here at the studio. But first, today, with the All Women's Sports Network, having launched in the US last week, our friend, friend of the pod, whoopi Goldberg, has finally achieved a long-held ambition, available in 65 countries and running 24-7. It is the first global network dedicated entirely to women's sports. It's going to show live and delayed broadcasts of action from the likes of the UEFA Women's National League, which is amazing. I've seen that, the Women's Tennis Association, which is obviously killer, and the FIBA 3x3 Women's Series, so that's pretty. I mean props to Whoopi. I mean hell yeah, getting that over the finish line and it's about damn time.
Speaker 1:It's amazing and I love that she's really focusing on it from a global approach. I love that she's down for showcasing any sports with women that are not already televised and I didn't know. I mean, I know there's obviously a huge gender gap in sports. We've known this, but I was unaware that 95% of everything we're watching on TV is men's sports. I mean, 5% is all the ladies get, so go whoopee.
Speaker 4:Yeah, there's UFC, right yeah.
Speaker 1:And then what Like you know, women's basketball.
Speaker 4:Although bringing back a hit, I mean come on the fight. Last week, though, the women's fight was the best of the whole entire card.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, and I'm still really upset about the Serrano situation and I still need someone to explain it to me. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4:Please somebody explain it to us in the comments. But I do love, after a huge year for the WNBA as well as women's soccer and women's golf, whoopi had explained that AWSN was aiming to show as much as it could from around the world, and this is also where I feel Whoopi props again, you're just tapping into the real power that is there with um, with getting honest about sports in a way that is, it's been over commercialized for so long on the men's side that it's I. I do think there's something in there that's actually really great in the honesty of the sport kind of coming back and you know, honesty of honesty of sport, I should say no, I agree.
Speaker 1:And just the, you know, the collective gathering of, you know these women from all over the world, and sports, because we've got all of these. You know music, dance, sports. I mean these things that we connect on. And I just love to see another platform coming into play that is showcasing women from all over the world.
Speaker 3:Amen.
Speaker 1:I mean it's amazing. Yeah, and their talents you know. Yeah, so it's great it's not another cooking show, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Like we're going to show some really cool sports and athletic women doing really crazy stuff all around the globe. Hell yeah, I'm here for it. Hell yeah, love it, love it. And speaking of killer women, I've got one right across the table from me and, um, there are, we've. This is what's so great, is we?
Speaker 4:Um have kind of a small rescue operation going on here in the studio. Most days you never know what's going to come through the door. There's this guy that all the marine animals come to. It's on tiktok. It's like they're just drawn to him, like he, him, like he gets in the water and all these everything just like flocks to him. And I'm talking like schools of, like fish, like I'm talking all kinds of turtles. Everything just gets drawn to this guy. It's crazy. It's crazy. But we have that on land and it's called compassion kind. We have that on land and it's called Compassion Kind, and that's why we're going to start adding a lot of this to our studio's socials and including it in a lot of the show notes and things. But the Compassion Kind segment slash corner brings with it adventures every day, and between Bowie, sasha actually the artist formerly known as Sasha, now Daisy with a Z-Y, I think.
Speaker 1:I wasn't going with the Z.
Speaker 4:That's you guys, bree said that was the stripper's way to spell it.
Speaker 1:And she is not a stripper, she is a dainty little lady.
Speaker 4:She is a dainty little lady. And then we also have Mr Wiggles too. So please, please, asia, tell us Compassion, kind. This is an amazing week for really feel-good stuff, when we need feel-good things all over. So please tell me about all three of these awesome, awesome little spirits.
Speaker 1:Absolutely my honor. So what had happened was-.
Speaker 4:What had happened was-.
Speaker 1:I was going to pick up one dog by the name of Mr Wiggles who had come into the shelter with a positive THC test. So this poor boy was high or you know maybe they thought they were helping him. We don't really know the full story, but he came into the shelter and unfortunately no rescue was pulling and he found himself on the euthanasia list and what's crazy to me Death row.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, it's nuts to me to see these tiny little toy poodle, dachshund, chihuahuas ending up on euthanasia lists here. I mean I haven't seen that. I haven't seen that. I've been working in shelters, you know, since I was 16. And I haven't seen this level of euthanasialists with small dogs on it. I mean, we expect it with pitties, we expect it with huskies.
Speaker 4:All equally sad, is that just?
Speaker 1:because of the volume. The volume and there's just a lot of you know, rescues that cater to one specific breed, rescues that you know specifically cater to toy breeds. People find them easier to adopt out. There's a lot of reasons involved. But yeah, this week just kind of hit me in the face with these three little ones because we had Mr Wiggles who was a neurological case. Even after he came off the THC he was still having symptoms of ataxia and involuntary movements and he's just kind of like flopping around like a fish out of water.
Speaker 4:Does that wear off, though? I mean presumably?
Speaker 1:That's what we thought. But the issue now is you know, we're well over a week and a half now. Over a week and a half now and normally, when animals are, you know, inflicted with some kind of drug, they come off in like three, four days, max, you know max. So what we're leaning towards now is cerebral hyperplasia, which is when they have a genetic effect with their cerebellum and it affects their motor skills, and he's, as you can see, a very, very happy-go-lucky guy oh amazing, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And the good news is they can live a full long life. You know, it's just he's very wiggly and when he is trying to drink or he has a task you know, yeah, we're all shaking, we're all a little wiggly right now we are.
Speaker 1:But Mr Wiggles is just a sweet little soul. But anyways, Mr Wiggles was the first contender for my freedom walk from the euthanasia list. And then, when I went to pick up Mr Wiggles, they said well, we also had this toy poodle that made it on the euthanasia list for today, and she was hit by a car and has two broken legs. And then they took it a step further and told me that another rescue pulled the sister and left my poor baby on the euthanasia list. So not only do I want to find out who that shelter is and do unspeakable things, but but how dare you, how dare you leave my little Sasha slash Daisy Because she has broken legs?
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:No. So anyways, we rescued her. She has a very, very expensive surgery coming up on Tuesday. If anyone knows anyone with $6,000 that would like to send it to her. We are on a struggle bus here, friends.
Speaker 4:It does not have to be one person from 6,000. No Collective, I'll take one dollar, absolutely.
Speaker 1:Absolutely Any help is help. We want to get this girl walking on her own again.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and I think she's been motoring around the studio with two casts.
Speaker 1:We wanted her to have a visit when is? She Do, we know where the little baby girl is. Oh, she's next to you.
Speaker 4:Oh.
Speaker 1:Oh, the baby.
Speaker 4:Okay, rick is going to get the baby.
Speaker 1:Got a highlighter.
Speaker 4:Get you in the good light. Get you in the good light. Yes.
Speaker 1:So this is our Daisy girl, formerly known as Sasha, formerly known as Rachel. As you can see, she's casted up if you're watching, but yeah, she is just in good spirits she is so tough, I mean. I don't know anybody that could have two legs broken in half and be as happy as her. So yeah, help us out. We need to get this girl fixed up next week.
Speaker 4:We need to get some legs worked out.
Speaker 1:Yeah she needs some legs. Bye baby. Oh, and then, last but not least, I can't forget little Bowie. Little Bowie is the little black lab puppy that somehow ended up on my list as well. He was also up for euthanasia. But the crazy part about Bowie is that we found out that he actually had I keep saying a third arm, because I want. You know, they're just humans, you know.
Speaker 4:I just want them to be so, but I'm saying it wrong.
Speaker 1:It's probably like a fifth leg.
Speaker 4:I don't believe third arm means what you think it means.
Speaker 1:No, I don't.
Speaker 4:I would recommend you don't believe.
Speaker 1:Third arm means what you think it means no, I don't. I would recommend you don't Google that. Okay, all right. So third arm is not the way to say it.
Speaker 3:I'm going to go with a fifth leg. Is that appropriate, or does that mean?
Speaker 4:something else in show business. No, no, no, it's show business. Anyway, show business.
Speaker 1:Get out of here anyways little little bowie not only has a double humerus on his shoulder, which is insane, because that means he has two growth plates, four I just keep wanting to say third arm, no, no, no, come on, okay, that's fine A double arm on one side. Okay, okay, okay. I digress, God, what's even greater Can't take me anywhere.
Speaker 1:Sorry, sorry, sorry, can't take me anywhere, but anyways the even funner, most cool part about this. As somebody that has been working in rescue for 20 plus years, I've seen so many rads and I've seen so many crazy things. I have never seen a dog with a fifth arm Like it's insane. Then, after we finished the rads, we noticed this little nub Like he actually has a little nub of where the other arm was going to grow.
Speaker 4:Arm six or arm five. Arm five Okay.
Speaker 1:Not six arm. Okay, no, no, no, we're sticking to five, five arms.
Speaker 3:Five, okay, not six arms. Okay, no, no, no, five we're sticking to five.
Speaker 4:Five arms no five is fine Five arms Five is extraordinary.
Speaker 1:So Bowie is just a walking little miracle child. And yeah, he unfortunately is going to need an amputation because that leg is not usable at all. So we've got Bowie going from five legs to three.
Speaker 4:I know.
Speaker 1:And then we've got our beauty over here, Miss Daisy, who needs double leg surgery, and then we have our Mr Wiggles shaking it all around town with his neurological disorder. But anyways, it's been a beautiful rescue week. I am exhausted and that's why I probably look like this today. You look beautiful. For the listeners that are only listening in voice, you're lucky.
Speaker 4:I disagree. I do think that that's probably as good a time as any to bring up there is something we're going to put in our show notes as well. But we here have found out about something that all the work that you've been doing, all the work that your team's been doing, kind of all over the world, and everything I mean when we teamed up, it was in an effort to lift all things like this up. It's you know, it's it up. It's not just that things are attracted to you in that same way, it's that also that you seek this out and you create these situations that are just beautiful and worthy of lifting up.
Speaker 4:And so we found out about the CNN Heroes thing. So we found out about the CNN Heroes thing, and it's a CNN Heroes competition where you can raise awareness of real heroes in the world, especially now at you gotta, gotta mark it and and clock it because, um, you know, we, we it's like you take the W's anywhere we can get them. And so, uh, for our listeners, we're going to put a link to the CNN heroes um page with, uh, a lot of information about compassion, kind, and everything that it does for, um, just for animals and just for human beings all over the world, and so if you have two minutes, make sure to check out our show notes where the CNN heroes vote is, and you can go right there and vote for our own Asian Nakia and compassion kind and get you some motherfucking props girl.
Speaker 1:That's, that's what we Well, you know I am honored, and obviously, anything that will elevate this work and help more animals, more humans, I'm up for it, but it's still humbling. If we were able to win something like that and have a bigger voice and a bigger platform to do more good, hey, sign me up, yeah, and more resources, more awareness.
Speaker 4:I think we, like everybody, went kind of balls to the wall, like with this sort of struggle for power that just happened in our country and now, as a result of it, it's again. I think there's a lot of what's so amazing about this and the work that you do is a lot of. It is things that are changeable, that everybody of all stripes red, blue, purple go for so and would be, would be down with, especially you. Look at our girl here, daisy. You can't sort of see issues like this and be not moved and want to try and help, and we have the means to pool together and fix a lot of these problems. So, you know, that's like I said mad, mad, mad. Thanks and appreciation to the work that goes on there and we're just getting to take part in it and be a part of it here at the studios. So make sure to check out all the adventures that we have on a daily basis around here and let's raise 6K for our girl and get her some legs before Tuesday.
Speaker 1:I love it yes.
Speaker 4:All right, when we come back from the break. Mexico's president suggests retaliatory tariffs in response to Trump's threats. What could go wrong? Let's talk about it after the break.
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Speaker 4:Mexico's president responded Tuesday to president-elect Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on goods produced in her country that's right, we said her, because they can do it south of the border apparently with a warning that his plan would cause more inflation and hurt American automakers like GM and Ford. She suggested that Trump may not know that over the past year, her country has taken a holistic approach to blocking the tens of thousands of people who cross Mexico to reach the US southern border, and that or that the US Border Patrol migrant encounters have dropped more than 75% in the last year as a result. So Mexico is currently the United States' largest trading partner, outpacing China, and trade between US and Mexico topped $855 billion. It's basically almost a trillion dollars annually in 2022. So ostensibly, it's a trillion for 23, according to the Office of US Trade Representatives.
Speaker 4:Now, the issue here is what I found out is know, I didn't know this. I would think that the majority of our imports were from china, which he's trying to do, uh, as well. But no, mexico is where we get, and this is one of those things where we're talking about it now. There's still eight weeks to go until you know, um, uh, that dreaded day what day is that?
Speaker 1:yeah?
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, january 20th, oh my God, uh. But but it's the threat of it that all everybody that you know again they get all, all all gassed up about. And uh, I understand when you deal in bullshit. How that can you know that can work, but I I don't know. I mean, if it gets enacted, this is one of those things where it feels like you would just be purposefully crashing the economy in a way that is completely unnecessary. It's an own goal and so that's why you know we'll see it's bluster until it's not. But he ran on this, so it's not.
Speaker 1:It's not that, it's not a reality that he would follow through with it I just I always find these things interesting because I think you know the the pull to the american people is that you know we're going to have more um us based products coming out. Right, sure, we're going to have more US-based products coming out Right sure. We're building more factories and giving more people jobs. We always hear that.
Speaker 4:I just it's just bullshit.
Speaker 1:Bullshit.
Speaker 4:We can save it for you the next four years. Just buy stock and put a stop loss on it because it's going to shit the bed. It's just a question of when, but I do think you know, with cronies in charge of destroying everything and gassing up the stock market. Um, yeah, we actually have. Um, I think our stock ticker is 360 P and you can you can buy stock in 360 pod and you can just watch it go up like crypto over the next that's right Over the next couple of years, we should have a crypto.
Speaker 4:We should have a 360p crypto.
Speaker 1:That would be really cool.
Speaker 4:Wouldn't it be cool we could do amazing. We could launder all kinds of money with it. It'd be amazing.
Speaker 1:And you know who we should partner with first.
Speaker 4:Who Mexico Ah?
Speaker 1:See, it's only that kind of hard-hitting economic wisdom that you get right here on. Slap the Power and Kent I mean. And just kudos again to the Mexican president. I mean she's just rocking it Like not only is she a climate scientist and just a total rock star. I just love her boldness and she's like just putting it out there, you know, showing the numbers coming up with the receipts. And she's just strong, yeah, and I love it.
Speaker 4:What's cool is it's really easy to get into Mexico. So if we need to, I have friends that live. It was funny. We had somebody that we did business with a couple weeks ago who was he had relocated to Mexico City and loved it, loved it.
Speaker 4:Now I know there's a water problem, there's other things, but I love what's going on there because I think you now have a sort of you know, a body politic that realizes that he's a troll, who's a crew who just got away with being a criminal, with trying to overthrow the government. Everybody else in the rest of the world knows this. Trying to overthrow the government. Everybody else in the rest of the world knows this. It's not they're shocked that you guys, us, would let somebody attempt to overthrow the government and then just hand them the office back without any sort of repercussions.
Speaker 4:But nonetheless, I feel like I'm looking forward to the trolling that these other countries are going to be doing. I encourage and I always do wish for our country to be the best, but this is not a man who's going to govern with the things that we care about in mind. He's not governing for all the people, so he's governing for himself and his cronies. And so, yeah, good props on her. I hope that shove our economic mistakes in our face, you know, and we're just going to have to. This is why California we got two of the largest ports on planet Earth next to each other. Go ahead, come for us. Come for us, please do, yeah, come for us. All. Right Now, this was a cool story, naming the support canine for the Beverly Hills Police Department as one of the runner-ups for the First Responder Paws Therapy Dog Award, which recognizes dog therapy dogs, dog therapy dogs I just said that three times which recognizes therapy dogs that serve their communities and provide support to first responders. Now this is awesome.
Speaker 1:This is the news that I want to see, yeah.
Speaker 4:This really is what I want.
Speaker 1:Because I mean you know first responders. I mean it's interesting, first responder, the word, the term first responder, just to go into that for five seconds you know, we, we always think you know firefighter, ambulance, you know that's what we consider first responder.
Speaker 1:But we in the disaster world are also considered first responders. You know amongst one another because we're the first to respond to a natural disaster and we're on the, you know, on the ground doing this work. It's very stressful on the front lines. I mean you are stressed and emotionally pulled in so many directions. You know you're exhausted. Sometimes you're just up for three, four days in a row. You know you're dehydrated, you're eating MRE packs. I mean you don't know?
Speaker 1:what you're getting into, so to have these Just adrenaline. Yeah, just adrenaline, surviving on adrenaline. But you know to have these dogs that can help with stress and grief and anxiety in these first responder. You know situations and what they deal with each day. These dogs should be getting a high five. I mean. Nami is literally trained to detect a person's pheromones and blood pressure. See, that's what's up Like? We just don't deserve them.
Speaker 3:No, I will always come back to that.
Speaker 1:No, we just don't deserve them and their whimsical senses that we just don't have as humans. And I hope Nami wins we have to remember to vote.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we got to do it. Remember to vote. Yeah, so we're putting that link in the show notes as well.
Speaker 1:Everybody vote for our girl here.
Speaker 4:That's right and I also think that, like saving, like dogs that are like lifesavers, dogs that are keeping the communities and the nation safe, dogs that help with mental health that's needed more than ever now.
Speaker 4:So, yeah, give Nami a shout out and, you know, see if we can get one of the locals here lifted up as well. All right Now, when we come back from break, as promised, we're going to have Bree's crime corner. She's going to go into the JonBenet Ramsey gimmick, which I am stoked about. And two scams and a slap where it's my day to read for Asia and yeah. So stick around.
Speaker 5:Hi, I'm Anjali Bhimani and I'm Julia Bianco and we are so excited to be bringing you our new creative baby, the Character Select podcast. I've wanted to save the world since I was four.
Speaker 3:There has been no character like him up to that point, and there really hasn't been a character since.
Speaker 5:Every episode of Character Select is going to be taking fantastic video game performances and talking about what makes them tick, what makes them exciting as players, as performers, as sound designers, as casting directors. That was, I feel like I've been ambushed.
Speaker 5:I was even in a podcast to talk about a video game. So there's a big old love fest here. That's how we start this and you're just going to have to deal with it. Recogn, recognized by the 2013 edition of the guinness world book of records gamers edition as the most prolific female video game voice actor in the world you know it's a special project when you hold on to the people you created.
Speaker 3:Careers are born by being in the right place at the right time where you can't control crime corner.
Speaker 4:I didn't know about the john benet thing and you started laying and you started telling me about it and I was. I lost my mind.
Speaker 2:So please for the, for the people the story is that they went to a christmas party. Okay, they come back home, they put their kids to bed. They go to bed. They wake up. The mom finds a ransom note on the staircase. She yells for her husband. She's confused. He comes down. They realize there's this ransom note for their daughter. They think she's been kidnapped. They call the police and then all their friends to come over for support. At this point they think she's been kidnapped. They call the police and then all their friends to come over for support. At this point they think she's been kidnapped and the police butcher the crime scene like all these friends are coming over there.
Speaker 2:They were just saying how there was like donuts and juice and stuff. People were just touching everything and come to find out a few hours later like they find john bonnet in the basement dead. So she never left the house. They were like all right, let's just search the house for clues again one more time. They've searched everywhere, let's search one more time. The dad just so happens to walk down to the basement and open the door and there's john bonnet. Does he leave her there and say she's here? No, he picks her up, comes up, so now he's contaminating her body. Here's the question if you were kidnapping the, the girl yeah and you left this ransom note.
Speaker 2:Why did you kill her in the house?
Speaker 4:yeah, yeah, what did the ransom? Something went, the ransom note was like four pages long. Oh my.
Speaker 2:God. Okay who has the time to write.
Speaker 4:Nobody, nobody, no, nobody.
Speaker 2:What the kidnapper wrote the ransom note on was paper and pen from inside the Ramsey's home.
Speaker 5:Right.
Speaker 2:So the kidnapper, broken, knew that they would have all this time to sit and write this long novel four page and then and then. One theory of mine is they were at this Christmas party. Maybe the kidnapper did have enough time to get familiar with the house if they were in the house already in theory, if he they saw them.
Speaker 1:Let's say it's someone that knows them right right they've looked around, they've figured out they're going to just try and get in one of the windows. Okay, a lot of people in those houses up north, the basement windows a lot of the times are broke or stuffy or open or you know whatever. So I feel like if it was somebody from their circle, they would have had to have known the house, been inside the house, knew where her bedroom was and then maybe when they left for the christmas party they went in and stayed there, you know and like and waited, waited that is a theory that's a theory.
Speaker 1:But going back to the ransom note, you are going to kidnap a child because you want ransom money. That is a very different objective.
Speaker 2:Guess how much money they wanted in this ransom note Just take a guess.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, for fun.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 4:Just take a guess I don't want to guess wrong $50 million $118,000.
Speaker 1:Specifically $118,000.
Speaker 2:Why.
Speaker 1:And what does that match with?
Speaker 2:Brie why.
Speaker 1:What does that match with Brie? Why? What does that correspond?
Speaker 2:with. That was the exact amount that John the father got as a bonus that year.
Speaker 1:Exact amount it was like $1,807 something which doesn't help the argument that it wasn't somebody else it could have been somebody's dad.
Speaker 4:$118,000 bonus, that's a good bonus.
Speaker 1:They had money, the Ramseys, but this is why it actually is on their side, this part of the story.
Speaker 2:For me, this part is on their side, because why?
Speaker 1:would you specifically put that number? If you wanted to kill your daughter Like you, maybe somebody?
Speaker 4:you worked with. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. That's weird, like somebody knows what your bonus is and it's pissed off. It's pissed off that you got it and says I want your whole entire bonus.
Speaker 2:Nothing more, nothing less yeah, that is a weird thing right right unexplainable sort of sure even the detectives are like you don't see ransoms for 118 you see like yeah, a quarter a half a mil a mil like. But why 118?
Speaker 1:and how ironic that it or a coincidence that it's the same bonus now did the they think about that and then write the note so that it looked like that. Was it staged?
Speaker 2:it can be staged there's a theory that okay. So JonBenet had a history of wetting her pants.
Speaker 3:It was like something that she was working on.
Speaker 2:So one of the theories is that she wet her pants. Patsy lost control, may have pushed her into the bathroom or something to get clean, she hit her head and then they had to stage. That's one of the theories.
Speaker 4:Now the autopsy report. What did that show as cause of death?
Speaker 2:Strangulation and or a hit to the head Head contusion but they don't know which one came first. They cannot conclude which one happened first. However, I don't know if I'm saying this right. Happened first. However, I don't know if I'm saying this right. A garret was a device created to strangle JonBenet, which. This is an intricate.
Speaker 4:Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on, hold on. A device was created to strangle specifically JonBenet, specifically.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so this device, the way it was tied, there's a thing you can pull that would strangle and then if you let it go, it loosens up and, like not everyone knows how to tie this, so that that's a very like interesting, like who would?
Speaker 4:know how to tie this. Yeah, and why?
Speaker 2:but what was used was one of patsy's paintbrushes. It was broken, I think, into three pieces maybe, and one of the pieces the garrett, if I'm saying it right yeah was tied around but what about where the other paintbrush was found?
Speaker 2:oh, and then another piece of the paintbrush was used to sexually assault her come on, yeah, it's it's like so it's like if you accidentally, if you went out of your mind, accidentally maybe pushed her in the bathtub and hit her head. I don't know if I see you taking all these steps to create this scene like that. That's right. Like if if that's so psychotic that it's a wild theory, right and theory.
Speaker 1:Right and I think that when you're dealing with you know just being someone I'm very like, invested and completely traumatized by you, know any sort of molestation of children, but I've come across so many cases amongst the years you learn a lot. And the fact that her doctor vouched that she had never had any sexual abuse and you know, okay, fine, that's, that's great and he could be a liar. But you know he could be a total liar. Who knows?
Speaker 2:but then it's like hopefully not everyone is in on this right correct it would be very strategic that everybody was in on it.
Speaker 1:For what? Over 118 000?
Speaker 4:it's not enough money right, and it's his own money. Already, though that would be, you'd be. Yeah, it doesn't it doesn't add up but for.
Speaker 1:But on that theory I agree. For the mother, I don't care how psychotic you might be because you think about the jealousy factor, how beautiful she was, all the attention. If there was something sexually going on between jean benet and the father, that could lead the mother right to retaliate but you don't.
Speaker 2:But the doctor did say she she was not correct.
Speaker 1:Sexually assaulted but let's just say yeah, doc is a liar. Yeah, do you break a paintbrush in three and stab her in the throat and then shove one up to sexually? That's not something that. What would be the purpose for the mom to do that?
Speaker 2:The dad, there was no signs of her being sexually assaulted prior to this, per the doctor. They also interviewed his other daughter, which he had, two other daughters from a previous marriage. One of them died in a car accident, so the man's lost two children, but the daughter that is still living did say, like my dad has never done, that he's been nothing but a standup dad. Who, who knows? I also like personally, know situations where someone is one way and then to other people a different way.
Speaker 1:Well, and in one family and to another, there's fathers that treat one daughter because of their animosity towards the mother.
Speaker 5:Right.
Speaker 1:There's those situations, right. There's all these situations with stepchildren. There's these situations Adopted kids, I mean, we see it all the time. So even if he's a stand-up father in one scenario, he may have had so much hatred towards the mom at some point that he took it out on JonBenet or the attention she was getting.
Speaker 2:The parents' story has never changed that. They went home, they put the kids to bed. Burke never left his room. They tried to hide him from everything going on. As soon as they found the ransom note, they called a friend to come get him. So Burke was away from everything.
Speaker 4:How old was Burke at the time? Nine, okay.
Speaker 2:However, Burke goes on Dr Phil, as he's older, he's like a man at this point and he tells Dr Phil his this is what happened that night and Burke's version is that he went downstairs in the middle of the night to play with his toys and we're like wait what? You were downstairs in the middle of the night, Like that has never been said before. And he's on television saying he did leave his bedroom and he was downstairs. John Bonnet, when they looked at her body, had pineapple in her stomach and they were asked was there pineapple at the party that they attended, that Christmas party? No, they asked the parents did you guys feed her pineapple? No, no, no, no pineapple. However, there was a bowl of pineapples in the kitchen. In a bowl, pineapples and milk, Burke and Patsy's fingerprints on the bowl and the milk.
Speaker 2:It's their house. Of course, the fingerprints are on it, but John Bonet's fingerprints not on it at all. But it's just weird that there's this bowl of pineapple there yeah and no one can tell you how um dominique it got into her stomach.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so the theory is maybe burke was downstairs eating pineapple. She came down, maybe stealing his pineapple. He got mad, hit her with something, accidentally killed his sister and then the parents cover it up because they don't want their son to go down for murder I, I still can't, I can't go with that one, because everything that was done to her was super crazy brutal.
Speaker 1:You do not as a parent trying to protect your son, that's not a if you're not a complete psychopath. You would do a blunt for forced trauma to the head. Sure you would not have a garrot for a strangulation. You would not have a piece of a paintbrush up your daughter's private parts. You wouldn't have stabbed her in the neck with part of the paintbrush. It's too much and a taser it. So I think we have to scratch him off, even though I don't want to his age and the brutality, to her body and the capability of a nine-year-old. And that means that both kids were up and then both parents didn't hear, hear that it's a little bit of a tough one for me.
Speaker 2:It is tough to the extreme that she was killed, to think that if you were trying to protect one kid, that you would create this scene.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you wouldn't do that. So what is the working theory then, past that?
Speaker 2:So then there is one, and I forgot about this dude until I watched the Netflix documentary and I think it was on the third episode. And I forgot about this dude until I watched the Netflix documentary and he I think it was on the third episode and he pops up and I was like, oh my God, I remember that guy's face as a kid. He's so creepy looking, he's so creepy.
Speaker 4:Who is?
Speaker 2:he John Carr. He's one of the many that confess to killing her. But his story, his story, made like the way he described what he did to her and how he did it like made sense, but they couldn't find any DNA of his on her.
Speaker 4:But if he confessed and if it matches up, do you have to have DNA for it to be by?
Speaker 1:court of law.
Speaker 4:Unfortunately, I mean they. They just don't. By court of law you have to have dna for it to be by court of law, unfortunately.
Speaker 1:I mean they. They just don't have to have dna, you do. Some states do not allow without a dna, like there have been murders that literally the person, like you know, was in the car with you know, but there's no dna and they're like, oh well, we can't blame them. It's like what, what? That's crazy, it's insane.
Speaker 2:I think a kid should be able to do a pageant and not be sexualized. I think a kid should be able to dress up and have fun and put makeup on. If it's for fun, they were saying, those pageants were like the only people in the audience were like moms and dads of the other girls.
Speaker 1:It wasn't like in front of a crowd of random people it was like a community like I don't know, but here's my thing we have to come to terms with the fact that we've got a lot of sickos in the world and I think I know we're not we know, more now than then I'll give you that. That's fair. I would say after the 80s is when we started like having our big serial killer cases and like understanding this stuff. But there's no part of me that would let my little twin sisters, not today.
Speaker 1:Wear makeup and prance around a stage half naked in a bikini? Absolutely not today. I won't even let them talk Like a man comes up to me at a grocery store and tries to say hello to my girls. I'm already on high defense mode because you can't operate in that space. Unfortunately it's sad, but we can't operate in that space anymore. And unfortunately, makeup and bikinis is sexualizing a child.
Speaker 2:It's unfortunate that a little girl can't play dress up and want to put on her mom's heels and look like her mom and it be okay for a small little thing. They do for fun. Like I used to dress up with my cousins and do movies and stuff. Like I was never into pageants but like right I, you know I playing dress up is fun when you're a kid it is.
Speaker 1:You put on the beads and the makeup.
Speaker 2:Yeah, unfortunately there was like a a slew of freaking predators that came forward trying to confess that they killed John Bonnet and were all like they could prove that they didn't. But these men, just these pedophiles, just had an obsession with her. So yeah, I think.
Speaker 4:Wait a minute. So you would, because you have an obsession, whether you confess to a crime that you didn't commit. For what?
Speaker 1:This is a thing in the crime world. This is a. It's a fetish of the public display. Um, it's a. Um, what's the other case that we had?
Speaker 2:zodiac, zodiac, yeah zodiac.
Speaker 1:You know how many people came up and wanted to be the zodiac. They want to emulate this fantasy of being the killer sometimes we throw weird, weird, it's a mystery.
Speaker 2:No one knows it's been 28 years or something like that.
Speaker 4:But the car dude? Is he doing time for it? Because he admitted to it?
Speaker 2:No, and the worst part is this dude was a preschool teacher too, A substitute preschool teacher at the time Not anymore, and apparently I think they said he moved to London or something. He said he's to London or something. He said he's living quietly somewhere, but look at his picture.
Speaker 1:What a creep. He just looks, he's a total creep show. I don't know if we'll ever find out what happened to that little girl and that is Bree's Crime Corner, all right.
Speaker 4:And before we get out of here, as promised, and you can stick around because I don't, you may know this. Oh, I created this. Oh, you created it. Okay, so Bree knows it. All right, so for two scams and a slap. The beautiful thing where we're bringing back this game and we take three batshit, crazy events, two of which are fake, one is real and the two of us one of the two of us learns in real time with you, the listener, which one is a true slap in the face of reality. This week, I get to read for Asia Nakia, and so are you ready?
Speaker 1:I'm ready.
Speaker 4:Asia and Bree created this, so this is great, all right. Number one Mysterious crop circle revealed to be a giant advertisement for new cereal. Number two Woman marries a train station. I is that's. I want to know more already. Pizza. And number three pizza delivery drone delivers wrong order to the White House. Which one of these is actually a slap in the face of reality?
Speaker 1:I mean, they're all plausible, uh they are all plausible, okay, uh, I'm gonna have to go with the woman that married the train station you are correct, asia, I think she might even be three for three.
Speaker 4:That woman marries train station she's loved for 36 years and has sex with it. Mentally, carol Santa. Fe says being attracted to inanimate objects is like being bisexual or lesbian, and insists she isn't crazy. She has married this is in quotes a train station she spent 36 years in love with and says they have sex mentally. She says she has been in love with this train station since she was nine years old.
Speaker 2:Can I just say on behalf of the LGBTQIA plus community this is why we can't have nice things.
Speaker 1:This is why we can't have nice things. Because, you've got to go and marry a train station.
Speaker 2:This is great, this is correct, you've got to go and marry a train ticket.
Speaker 1:This is great.
Speaker 4:She says she has sex with the building mentally and identifies herself as an objectum sexual, a person who is sexually attracted to inanimate objects and structures. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. She didn't discover this until she was 40, after she searched online. And I am in love with a building. She says it's a worldwide debate whether the phenomenon is a sexuality fetish or mental condition. I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I struggle a bit with that one, but as long as she's not harming anybody, I'm just going to let her love her train station.
Speaker 4:She takes a 45-minute bus ride every night to see the station. You would think she would take a train.
Speaker 1:The picture. But, maybe she can't ride the train because she's married to the train. She doesn't want to ride her husband At work.
Speaker 4:At work when husband is working.
Speaker 1:When he's on the rail, she would be jealous of all the other passengers. He's on the rail, she would be jealous of all the other passengers. I was going to say how does she deal with jealousy issues?
Speaker 4:with all these bitches coming in and off the train. I love this, though. She says that the train identifies I mean the station identifies as female, so when I'm touching her I feel as though it actually holds me and kisses me. And she says I don't have physical sex with the station in public. I want to be respectful. I want to be respectful. I wouldn't do that with a human in public, so why would I do it in this case? I do have sex with Daedra in my mind when I stand there.
Speaker 1:Daedra, daedra.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's what she named her. Yes, yes, did she really name the station?
Speaker 1:after a Greek goddess, I'm offended.
Speaker 4:It should be offended for all dieters everywhere. I especially like when I hear the trains rev up their engine. Ooh, it turns me on. That's what she says. This keeps getting better. She claims the train station is the love of her life, despite being in a previous relationship with a man.
Speaker 1:I mean Ouch to that man, ouch, I mean, I know men have a hard time when you know we leave them for a woman.
Speaker 2:But to be left A woman train station, but to be left for a female train station. She's definitely not ashamed, and but at least she has boundaries.
Speaker 4:Yeah, no, sure, sure no public display of affection she has boundaries and you know what.
Speaker 1:Again, if you're not harming anyone, you do you boo.
Speaker 4:You do you, you do you, you do you. That's the theme here on Slap the Power, you do you.
Speaker 1:I will respect and appreciate anybody that's not causing harm. So you know what? Let her do her thing, that's it. That's it.
Speaker 4:That's it All right. Well, before we get out of here, a reminder to check our show notes and everything for CNN Heroes. Vote for our girl, Asian Akia, on CNN Heroes. We have the links and everything on there and before we head out, make sure to like, comment, share, subscribe. Talk about JonBenet and Bree's new crime corner, which I'm looking forward to next week's.
Speaker 2:I'm going diving already. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like this.
Speaker 4:I like this a lot and, uh, you know, pause for progress. Um, this week's definitely got its hands full, so make sure to uh if you can help out there in any way uh, it is always appreciated at compassion kind. And we also started a new uh patreon for the show for slap the power, which is actually great. We're gonna be uh dropping that link really, really soon, which helps us keep the studio running. It helps us kind of. We want to keep building out the show and building out the facilities and trying to make a better show for you every week. So make sure to check that out if you get a chance. And, yeah, we will see you next week. Sonics, love, action, progress. See you guys next week.
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