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Coco Off the Grid
Let's go off the grid and get silly with today's headlines, work dramas and the unexplainable actions of others.
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Coco Off the Grid
Where's The Receipts!
This week we'll discuss the opinion of Don Lemon and his belief that Matt Lauer can come back to T.V. (and whether or not we can take his opinion seriously). We'll also discuss The Morning Show and how it relates to Matt Lauer's #metoo incident from 2017. Let's talk to the human robot (not A.I.), his stomach issues and miserable marriages out loud in the workplace. Always be careful when play-fighting with your children and also be sure to not ignore injuries when out hiking in the woods.
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What's up, homies? We are here for another episode this week. How is everybody doing? Hope everyone's good. I'm currently quote-unquote working, but I have to do this at home because if I don't have time or I don't give myself time in the evening, I've become very lazy to try and get this done. So while I have energy, we're going to do it now. How about that? So I hope everyone's had a good week so far, keeping up with my Duolingo, pretending to learn some Spanish in my off time. If you're any clicking in the background, it's just because I have to pretend I am active. Sorry for anybody who I work with that listens to this, but I will fall asleep if I don't have something to do. Anyway, today's the 30th Okay, cool. This might be a short episode again, only because I didn't have much to report back on this week. Not much happened. Still feeling kind of tired, drinking some orange juice about to drink. That frappe that I have in the fridge that I'm holding down had a McGriddle this morning. It was delicious. That frappe that I have in the fridge that I'm holding down had a McGriddle this morning. It was delicious.
Speaker 1:There's certain things that when you eat them and you haven't eaten them in a long time. They taste way better. I have to say they've improved on the McGriddle. It's made me very happy these past couple of days. The bacon, egg and cheese one I don't really fuck with sausage for breakfast.
Speaker 1:I'm not really a fan of it. Like maybe if like biscuits and gravy and there's little pieces like sausage in it, then sure, but I don't want a whole fucking sausage patty. None of that. No, we'll do. We'll save sausage for Italian meals and whatnot. I'm not doing that for breakfast, personal preference. But you know a lot of people don't like other people's opinions, so this one's getting shoved down your throat anyway. But you can like it, I just don't want to like it.
Speaker 1:So the first thing I saw, first thing I saw last week for headlines that made me crazy or laugh with craziness, is Matt Lauer might be trying to come back to the Today Show, or they said that it's possible that he could. So let's take a look, because I don't think so, because this whole Me Too movement and shit kind of really started with him. Matt Lauer. He was on the Today Show with Katie Couric and it's evolved over the years and I forgot how long it's been since that fucking thing happened. It was 2017 when the incident happened, but let's read this, let's educate ourselves.
Speaker 1:Don Lemon thinks that former Today host Matt Lauer could stage a comeback. Women love him. Which ones? Which ones? In my opinion, because back when this scandal was going down, no woman loved him. So let's see. I think the ratings would be great. Have we forgiven him? Or is it just that he has nothing else going on that they're like, hey, we might have to bring him back because all our fucking Today Show people are leaving, which is true.
Speaker 1:A lot of the Today Show people, like I said, with evolution comes change. A lot of people just want to move on with their life. A lot of these hosts I've seen change hats. They just decided, hey, this desk ain't for me anymore at five in the morning, this desk ain't for me anymore at five in the morning, my desk ain't for me any time of the day.
Speaker 1:Don Lemon is predicting a major comeback for Matt Lauer, eight years after the former news anchors, by the way. This is crazy. The former news anchors colossal. Fall from grace right there. That should tell you everything you need to know and just be like no, it was very public, very in the media's eye about what happened to Matt Lauer, and we'll get to that, don't worry.
Speaker 1:During his Wednesday visit to the Hollywood Raw podcast with Dax Holt and Adam Glynn, lemon proved that he is in Lauer's corner while pondering his friend's future career prospects. Asked if he believes Lauer could successfully return to the industry, lemon replied I think that if he could come back to digital he can set his own course. I mean, start your own podcast then, bruh, you don't need to be on the Today Show anymore. Try to exonerate yourself that way. Don't come back to the news because women are not going to want to work with you. And, like I said, we're going to get to the reason why. In a minute the former CNN anchor went on to share that to this day, lauer is still approached by fans in public. I only got to know Matt after you know the whole situation happened because we live in the same town and we have mutual friends.
Speaker 1:Lemon explained whenever I see Matt out and about or you know, if we go out to dinner, my husband and I go out to dinner with him and his fiance and people love him. First of all, I didn't know Don Lemon was gay, but okay, he added women love him. He added women love them. Love him with an exclamation, a question mark. But for me it's a question mark. I don't believe it. They're like man oh my God, can I get a picture? I love you, I miss you. On television, I think the public loves him, the public misses him, but it's just the. It's the people inside the business who are afraid he is. He was a walking liability at the time and he might still be Again. We're going to get to why. Okay, sorry, I'm speaking out of turn, focusing on the wrong thing at the moment.
Speaker 1:Lauer was famously fired from his role as a Today anchor in 2017 when former NBC employee Brooke Nevels alleged that he sexually assaulted her. Lauer denied the allegations, which were detailed in Ronan Farrow's 2019 book about the hashtag MeToo movement, catch and Kill Live Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predator. Afterward, several more women came forward with sexual misconduct claims against Lauer, which he acknowledged in a statement, saying some of what is being said about me is untrue or mischaracterized, but there's enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed Because you did it Like there's enough truth. Shut the fuck up, just be like yes, I did. I'm so sorry. What is wrong with people? What is wrong with that?
Speaker 1:Lemon went on to argue that Lauer might have a better chance of returning to the industry in light of President Trump's reelection. More than a dozen women have accused the sitting president of sexual assault or harassment, and in one 2023 case he was found liable of sexual abuse. Listen, don't compare Matt Lauer to the president. I'm not saying that the one is better than the other or one person is equal to the other. I'm not saying it. Tv anchor falls nowhere near president in general. Maybe in this whole Trump era, when canceled is over, maybe there's a way that he'll come back. Yeah, he'll come back from the grave. I think it's more the people who are inside of the business who are concerned about what happened with Matt. He continued. I'll put it this way I think the general public would accept Matt back and I think people would watch him and I think the ratings would be great.
Speaker 1:As for the allegations against Lauer, lemon said I don't know anything about what happened. I know nothing about that at all. He knows he's too quick. He praised the former TV host as a talented person, adding women can feel the way that they feel and I understand that, but that's their business. I know when I'm out with him, everybody loves Matt and everybody flocks to Matt and everyone wants a picture and everyone says I miss you and we want to see you back on television. I hear it every time. Where, where are you hearing this brah? Where are you hearing this? I have never heard anyone in the media ever mentioned anything about Matt Lauer coming back. Not that I'm part of the media, but you get what I'm saying. There's no headlines of Matt Lauer saying he wants to come back to TV. There's no co-hosts of any show he's ever been on saying, hey, he should be back Nobody. But this guy is saying that. He hears people all the time saying that Record it, please and post it somewhere. I want fucking receipts. That's what I want. I want a receipt that someone is actually out there saying this shit. Okay, last year, lauer made a rare public appearance at the wedding of Lemon and his longtime partner, tim Malone.
Speaker 1:Lemon, a news anchor himself, was abruptly fired from CNN in 2023 following an extensive variety report with allegations of sexist behavior and then I don't like this word denigration of female colleagues dating back to 2008. That's why there it is. We figured it out. We figured it out bitch. He's like oh, a band of brothers, we all got to stick together. Oh shit, nah, I'm not doing no kickoff call at four. Sorry, I can't make that. I leave at 430. So no thanks. Oh, let's see.
Speaker 1:Lemon attempted his own comeback with the Don Lemon show on X, but the show was abruptly canceled by the social media platform's owner, elon Musk. Lemon is now suing Musk alleging fraud, negligent misrepresentation, misappropriation of his name and likeness, unjust enrichment and breach of express contract. This is why this is why he's in support of fucking Matt Lauer. He goes does all of us got to get together? All of us with the bad reputations and shit got to get together? Band of Brothers style. Let's do it like in prison. Let's rush the guards. That's insane. I knew there was a catch as to why he was pushing so hard for this motherfucker.
Speaker 1:Let's see these comments. Bruh. Don is entitled to his opinion, but if a convicted felon can be elected, president, matt can come back to TV. Also, my opinion. Does anyone care what Don Lemon thinks about anything? No, matt Lauer did terrible things to women he worked with. He uses power to get away with it for who knows how long. Just because Trump gets a pass doesn't mean assaulting women is okay.
Speaker 1:Lauer created or contributed to a toxic work environment. He's worth a lot of money and needs to stay quiet. I meant to say, regarding his wealth, that he doesn't need to work. Okay, he added. He replied to himself. I don't know. Maybe Don Lemon isn't the best source of information about how the public feels about Matt Lauer. Yeah, I agree, fucking ass. That's the most stupid ass, fucking ass opinion I've ever heard in my life. So we're going to go to the original issue that happened with Matt Lauer, because I want y'all to understand. When it says colossal, fall from grace is the craziest phrasing you could ever use against somebody who's done something like this.
Speaker 1:And yes, this was in 2017, right before they released the morning show which had the same premise. A male anchor got accused of some shit, which actually did happen. The further you watch into the show and he tries to make a comeback, saying those fucking bitches are against me and that no, bro, that's crazy talk. That's crazy talk. You did some shit and they found out it was true and to save the company's ass, they fucking tossed your ass out. Maybe don't do the things. They even had female characters on that show, apologize or feel guilty for having turned their head at what was happening, even though they knew what was going on. Anyway, I'm not going to spoil the rest of the show, all right.
Speaker 1:Matt Lauer accused of sexual harassment by multiple women. This was from November 29th 2017. A new report from Variety comes just hours after Lauer was fired by NBC. Coming on the heels of Matt Lauer's firing from NBC, a new Variety report details allegations of sexual harassment against the former Today anchor from three former colleagues. That's enough, that's way the fuck. Enough. There we go, clicking everywhere. The alleged victims, who spoke to Variety on the condition of anonymity, but whose accounts were also corroborated by friends and colleagues, detailed the pattern of behavior that was inappropriate and abusive.
Speaker 1:As the co-host of NBC's Today, matt Lauer once gave a colleague a sex toy as a present. It included an explicit note about how he wanted to use it on her, which left her mortified. Read the article's lead paragraph. On another day, he summoned a different female employee to his office and then dropped his pants, showing her his penis. After the employee declined to do anything, visibly shaken he reprimanded her for not engaging in a sexual act.
Speaker 1:Lauer was fired from NBC. Per a statement from NBC News chairman Andy Lack, after a woman lodged a complaint of inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace against him on Monday evening. Lauer had worked on the Network's Today show for more than two decades and on Wednesday was replaced in his usual chair by last-minute addition Hoda Kotb, who sat beside Lauer's former co-anchor, savannah Guthrie. So that's how those two bitches got together, and this is kind of again setting the tone for the morning show, which is Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon. I'm heartbroken for Matt Guthrie said in the episode's surreal opening segment. I'm heartbroken for the brave colleague who came forward to tell their story. Lack said in his statement that this was, to his knowledge, the first formal complaint filed against Lauer. Nbc did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment on the allegations reported by Variety and declined to comment for Variety Lauer. Nbc did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment on the allegations reported by Variety and declined to comment for Variety. Lauer could not be reached for comment. Yeah, because he was busy hiding.
Speaker 1:Despite being married, lauer was fixated on women, especially their bodies and looks. According to more than 10 accounts from current and former employees, oops. He was known for making lewd comments verbally or over text messages. He once said he he once said made a suggestive reference to a colleague's performance in bed and compared it to how she was able to complete her job. According to witnesses to the exchange for Lauer, work and sex were intertwined. No bitch, keep that kinky shit to yourself. Keep it to yourself herself. The report also indicates the dramatic steps Lauer allegedly took to protect himself from being reprimanded for his behavior, such as quietly and inappropriately inviting women to his hotel room while traveling and installing a button under his desk that allowed him to lock his door from the inside. That's insane. The latter allowed him to welcome female employees and initiate inappropriate contact while knowing nobody could walk in on him, according to two women who were sexually harassed by Lauer. Variety says Lauer was fired Wednesday.
Speaker 1:Our highest priority is to create a workplace environment where everyone feels safe and protected and to ensure that any actions that run counter to our core values are met with consequences, no matter who the offender Lacks said in his statement. We are deeply saddened by this turn of events, but we will face it together as a news organization and do it in as transparent a manner as we can. Motherfucker, where's the receipts? Produce the receipts, bitch. I want to see this desk with the button. Not that Lauer's innocent, but I want to see everything. That's insane, though. He's like a fucking mad scientist. What did he say to hey? So I need uh, I need something secure for my office. I need to feel protected in my office so when I'm changing I don't want to feel like someone's gonna barge in. Can you install a button under my desk for that? Like that's the most innocent request for a devious act there is.
Speaker 1:Like and if you ever saw a picture of Matt Lauer besides his wife who wants that shit, I would report it to his ugly ass. Not that I would accept it from someone handsome, but, bro, you're supposed to be mentoring people. You're supposed to be a good dude and just stand by your wife and not go into crazy shit. Like what is wrong with men in power who feel the need to dominate every woman's body? You know like, can men and women really not work together? Because it's what it seems like, not that there's women that you should believe, because some of these bitches cry wolf and ruins it for everybody. Like fucking what happened with Jesse Smollett? That shit was crazy. He claimed that two guys, and two black guys in MAGA hats, beat him up, which isn't funny, but it's also a situation that would never happen. And it turns out that he lied about it and, of course, other black artists came out.
Speaker 1:I think it was either Nicki Minaj or Cardi B, one of them saying listen, called them an N-word and everything. I'm like you're making all of us look bad. What's wrong with you? Like why even do that shit? That gets you canceled, and I hope canceling never stops. It's the most entertaining genre of time, I have to say, because it hasn't ended. I don't even know when it started, but cancel culture has been one of the most entertaining parts of my life. Even know when it started, but cancel culture has been one of the most entertaining parts of my life because we cancel shit. We cancel people for like touching their hair wrong or like looking at them weird oh, they're canceled, fuck them. That's like canceling is the equivalent of saying someone is dead to them. But then there's always people who come back like fucking Ellen trying to do this. You know Netflix special about how she doesn't care, how everybody turned their back on her and this and that Bitch. Then why are you talking about it? If you really want to move on with your life. You would just never bring that shit up again and just be funny, be funny bitch.
Speaker 1:I was watching Arrested Development with my sister yesterday and we saw Portia de Rossi, who is married to Ellen DeGeneres, and I had to tell my sister that. And my sister goes what? And I'm like, yeah, she a lesbian. And she goes, no, no, not that she's like, there's so many better looking options out there. And I turned to her. I was like you are absolutely right, you're absolutely right. She looked up them together and she was even like even Portia de Rossi looks bad. Now. I'm like, yeah, bro, that's what happens over time when you hate yourself for marrying someone who was cool in the beginning and then, fucking, oh, loses their celebrity. But yeah, so I thought that was funny. Um, that we had that conversation yesterday, that we had that conversation yesterday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so the morning show is based off this exact thing. So Steve Carell is kind of semi Matt Lauer's character. What they do is which I always think is funny with these shows when a situation like that comes out and a show comes out afterwards that almost exactly mirrors what happened, they're like, oh no, it's not based off of that, it's based off of multiple people who have done that in the past. Yeah, but you know what? You're releasing it at a time where it happened to a specific person, so where's our brain supposed to go? Where are we what? What picture are we supposed to draw from, other than what recently happened with Matt Lauer? Because two years later is when the first season of the morning show came out, and what's funny was that shit painted it in such a different picture and the events that transpired that whole first season.
Speaker 1:It had to have been the craziest show I've ever watched, become an A herself, but still have to fight for it, if you can imagine, which is what I mean when I say like can men and women not work together? Because this whole thing of you know, women having to push towards breaking the glass ceiling in this day and age is really stupid to me. Like she, she was just seen as like the friend, like a sidekick to Steve Carell, instead of them both being each other's sidekicks. Like, of course, when shit went down with Steve Carell, she was like, well, I'm going to, I'm going to run the news and she's. And they're like, well, who's going to do it with you? She's like doesn't matter, like she was so, boss, bitch about it. It was crazy good, and not for nothing, even though she her face kind of looks crazy. Her hair keep doing that. Um, because her hair is her best feature at this point, because I don't know what's going on with her face, but we miss the old jennifer aniston. I don't know who this bitch is, this robot with skin on, but it's cool. Uh, let me see. So, of course, I went to wikipedia to just double check, you know, because wikipedia is so smart. Uh, let's see, I love it.
Speaker 1:The morning show, also known as morning wars in Australian Indonesia, is an American drama television series starting Jennifer Aniston, reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell in lead roles, that premiered on Apple TV Plus on November 1st 2019. The series is inspired by the 2013 book Top of the Morning. The show examines the characters and culture behind a network broadcast morning news program. After allegations of sexual misconduct, the male co-anchor of the program is forced off the show. Aspects of the Me Too movement are examined from multiple perspectives as more information comes out regarding the misconduct. Basically, she finally confronts him because she was one of the people also Jennifer Aniston's character that didn't pay him any mind. So I don't know if anyone had brought this shit to her attention and she just ignored it. But she finally confronted it on him and I think he admitted that he had done those things that he was accused of and she was like so disgusted with herself I think she like went on a hiatus after at the end of season one. I think she kind of like left and of course you know Reese Witherspoon, who's recruited to be the co-anchor again, who's kind of problematic in the beginning but like starts to figure out where she falls into line with it. Um, she kind of has to like go find her in like the woods or whatever kind of has to like go find her in like the woods or whatever. Oh, okay, so I do have some work stuff. So I was laughing.
Speaker 1:The other day Was it Monday? I think it was Monday I was in office. So I was in office Monday, tuesday, wednesday of this week, like I usually am. I actually made it through the week, really wanted to leave early yesterday only because I had a doctor's appointment that I kind of had to. I ran home and then went back out. Should have just went home on lunch, but it's fine.
Speaker 1:So this coworker was discussing his marital problems from over the weekend. So this had to have been Monday. So then of course, um, I don't have any choice but to hear it because it's it's very loud, he's very loud and he's very loud and it's ultimately silent in the office because nobody's in on Mondays. So I was just laughing because he said that him and his wife he was like, oh, she was miserable this entire weekend. So of course, the one loud bitch that's always there, always talking super loud about everyone's life, she starts talking to him, asking him shit, and of course it's always funny she goes. So what happened?
Speaker 1:So he goes, everything was good Friday. He said Saturday was the problem. So of course we're like, please get to it or at least I am, because I would like to start the rest of my morning after this. So he goes, uh, he goes. Everything was good up until saturday. So saturday, apparently they had. He was like uh, they asked. He, I think he asked what the plans were for dinner or whatever. Or they went to like a butcher shop and they bought like seven pounds of lamb. I've never had lamb before, but I think seven pounds of that is excessive.
Speaker 1:Now, moving forward, um, he said they bought seven pounds of lamb and they decided they were going to meal prep it out. So they're like every time we want to, we want some, we're going to fucking just grab a Ziploc bag and whatever and heat it up whatever. So of course he's like he, she, the wife asks hey, so can I, can I use a blacktop, can I cook it? And he goes yeah, that's fine, because if you want to take over the blacktop, that's fine. He said he leaves her to do her thing, like seasoning it, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1:He goes out to the blacktop and he sees that she has all seven pounds of lamb on it, like she's cooking all seven pounds. So he comes out to her and he's like huh, and of course she wants to know what the huh is about, cause that's don't make a noise by us if you don't want us to ask. And he goes I thought we were going to meal prep this. And she goes yeah, I'm cooking it. And he's like yeah, but I thought we were going to like meal prep it like free, like cook some of it, freeze the rest of it and then you know, take the frozen like Ziploc bags and do that. And apparently he said it all blew up, like, like it turned into a whole big argument and I'm like, bro, he goes. If we just communicated that in the beginning, we wouldn't have had this problem. He's like, but of course, if I don't say something specific, it turns into an issue and I'm like, holy fuck, you are the epitome of a pain in the ass. Like maybe just say, hey, why don't you just plan it out properly by saying, hey, are we freezing it or are we cooking all of it? Because us women, we already have it in our head what we plan to do and we kind of don't give a shit what the man wants. If I'm being honest with you, like if that was the scenario and we're going to meal prep it, when I think of meal prep, I don't think of putting meat in a Ziploc bag and then freezing it and then having to redo it. You know what I mean I would be thinking more of.
Speaker 1:Meal prepping is where you cook everything, you divvy it up and then you reheat, like in any other meal prep video you've ever seen. Like you just basically take those. So you would take the protein, the side and the veggie that you put together. You put it in the little container. Yeah, seven containers full of shit. You put it in the fridge or the freezer and whatever. Then you reheat. I would never freeze, though.
Speaker 1:I think I'm just someone who always just refrigerates everything. Oh, excuse me, how do you want? But yeah, I, I don't know what the argument was about. But then of course you know I'm talking to a co-worker about this and I'm laughing and she's giggling and I'm like, okay, I know why I'm laughing, but why are you laughing? And she goes I'm laughing because such and such is giving advice. And she's giggling and I'm like, okay, I know why I'm laughing, but why are you laughing? And she goes I'm laughing because such and such is giving advice and she's been divorced like three times. I'm like, holy hell, bro, that is the craziest amount of tea you could serve me. I'm like drowning. She's been divorced three times and is giving this miserable married man advice. Insane, bro, it's the craziest work ever. It's the craziest work ever.
Speaker 1:And then I sat down and I enjoyed the rest of my day, up until probably what time was it? Probably a couple hours later, when said coworker well, he's a manager when said manager walked over to one of his people and fucking decides to have a conversation with him and ask him, um, ask him how he's feeling. So I'm at the point where I think this man is a fucking robot, because he talks in such monotone that, you know, a smile only indicates if he's having a good time. So, with the conversation or in life, um, he said that he goes. Oh yeah, I'm feeling a lot better. You know, I think I had food poisoning or something he's like, but I've never had, like, any kind of fever. I haven't had a fever like this since COVID in 2019. But I think I'm okay now. And then I also drove to my girlfriend's school, her campus, which is like four hours away. So, all in all, I think it was good. What are you talking about robots? What are you talking about robot? You have a girlfriend. That's insane. Is she a robot too?
Speaker 1:But he's whispering like he works for NPR and I'm trying to listen to this story and he's going on about this food poisoning and this is exactly how the conversation is going and nobody's answering him and he's just kind of like, you know, I wish I hadn't been this sick as I was last week. He's like, you know, fevers kind of suck Bro. Enough Enough, dude. This is the same guy that talked me out of eating my food on time and it cooled down to what the fuck temperature. Remember how I explained how I was trying to eat something I've warmed on time and it cooled down to what the fuck temperature. Remember how I explained how I was trying to eat something? I've warmed it up and it was like nice and hot, which is how I like to eat my food.
Speaker 1:I think I must be my grandmother like that, because my grandmother always will eat hot food and then complain that she burned herself. So that's me. Not with coffee, though. With coffee I wait, but I like blow on it a lot. I don't think my grandmother believes in that. I think she just likes to burn her mouth.
Speaker 1:But like this guy, just this is how he always talks. And then he like stopped to talk to me again yesterday and he was like hey, corinne, how's everything going? And I'm like it's going good. How are you Like? You hear how I'm playful with my shit? Oh, it's, it's going good. Um, I just wanted to ask how many clients you received since you started with us, how many have you received lately? Or how many projects? And I'm like cool, I have like 23. He goes oh yeah, that's pretty good so far. He's like let me know when you get too backed up. He's like because I'm trying to develop a plan that's going to help me audit and help other reporting representatives work through those roadblocks. And I'm like dude, dude, make this conversation go faster, because I'm trying to leave in about half an hour Because that's when my appointment is.
Speaker 1:So if this conversation is not going to cease in about 10 minutes, we're going to have so many issues and it's not going to be what's wrong with him. It's not going to be the what's up with his voice. Why does he always talk like that? You're not going to make it to the next time you want to go visit your girlfriend on campus. Like, what the fuck? Like, how do you do that with your voice? How do you speak with no inflection? Like was he born and he went wow, like that's it. That's how he cried Wow, wow, that's it, that's all we got. He got spanked on his butt by the doctor and he looked at the doctor and said why would you do that to me, doctor? Like, just like that. Like just already born, grown, whatever. All right, let's see.
Speaker 1:I got one more headline and then I think I might call it. I'm a little tired. This was a this, or I might have two more. Um, this was good. Father who stabbed his 14 year old daughter to death during kitchen play fight convicted of murder. Hang on, you said what about play fighting? You said what about play fighting? You said what about play fighting? You said what about play fighting, because that's that's crazy.
Speaker 1:Simon Vickers, 50, was convicted of murdering his teenage daughter, scarlett, at a UK court on Monday, january 27th. What the fuck? A British father who claimed he accidentally stabbed his teenage daughter to death while they were play fighting has been found guilty of murder. Okay, I clicked on another link. We're going to go back to the original article, though, fucking shit, hold on. It says on Monday, january 27th, simon Vickers, actually, let's do the original article now. Let's do the. Let's do the. Let's do the. What the fuck? First, father accused of stabbing daughter 14 to death during kitchen play fight reports. Simon vickers, 50, claimed he was just messing around with his daughter, scarlet. A court reportedly heard on tuesday, january 14th bitch, what a father accused of stabbing his teenage daughter to death has reportedly insisted they were just play fighting in the kitchen. Listen, I'm gonna'm going to read this first and then I'm going to give my opinion.
Speaker 1:On Tuesday, january 14th, teesside I don't know Crown Court in Middlesbrough, england, heard that Simon Vickers, 50, denied causing the tragic death of his daughter, scarlett Vickers, 14, who was stabbed in the heart on July 5th 2024,. According to Sky News, scarlett was pronounced dead by paramedic Andrew Crowe at around 11.50 local time that evening. The Guardian reported Vickers has denied both the murder and manslaughter of Scarlett. Defense attorney Nicholas Lumley told the court that the father and daughter had been messing around together in the kitchen in a normal playful way at the time of her death. According to Sky News, her body must have come into contact with a sharp knife and she quickly died as a result of a single knife wound. Lumley told the court oh my god, this is making me so mad. He, simon Vickers, will bear moral responsibility for his daughter's death for the rest of his life. However, he denies completely that he did anything unlawful or deliberate to cause that tragic death.
Speaker 1:Did anything unlawful or deliberate to cause that tragic death? According to the BBC, the court heard that Scarlett suffered a four-inch wound to her chest and bled to death after she lunged towards Vickers and the blade just went in. Okay, no, nope, but I'm gonna keep reading. I'm gonna keep reading. I'm gonna keep reading because, for the grace of God, you're crazy. Her parents, vickers and Sarah Hall, also told police the family had been throwing food and utensils at one another and mucking about while making dinner at the time of the incident. They added that hall said the tragedy happened after she got out a kitchen knife to cut up some garlic bread and vickers accidentally grabbed it instead of a spatula. Okay, you, um, stop, stop, we're gonna wait. The outlet added that the parents said they didn't realize Scarlett was hurt until she yelled Okay.
Speaker 1:Vickers reportedly told police that on the night of Scarlett's death the family had had a nice day watching soccer and that they'd been drinking wine. Per the BBC, as he was booked into Darlington Police Station, he told officers we were just playing in the kitchen. One minute I was cooking. Next there's blood gushing out of her chest. The court heard that Vickers responded I must be in his police interview. When asked if he was responsible for causing Scarlett's death, the BBC added he also claimed Scarlett had started the alleged play fighting that night by throwing grapes at him. Yeah, so let's throw a knife.
Speaker 1:Prosecutor Mark McCone said Scarlett's wound was too deep to have been caused accidentally. Yeah, no shit. The court heard per the Guardian and alleged that it wasn't caused by a thrown weapon. Lumley meanwhile insisted that Vickers had no wish or desire to harm his daughter. Lumley McCone and Teesside Crown Court didn't immediately respond when contacted by people for information.
Speaker 1:Let's go with these comments. Playing around in the kitchen she threw grapes. He stabbed her with a sharp knife. Really you ever try to stab chicken breast through the bone? It's very difficult. You can't just push it in, you have to hack.
Speaker 1:Play fighting. Throwing grapes is one thing, but this went way off base. I never let kids or spouse play fight while I was cooking. Hot stove, hot pans, boiling water and knives were right there, I will say. Maybe the daughter stumbled when she saw the knife in his hand. He should still be charged with manslaughter.
Speaker 1:While play fighting. She suddenly lunged forward and the knife, just by coincidence, happened to go four inches deep. Yeah sure, I wonder if Vickers has any more bedtime stories. What parents play with their? What parents play with their kid with a knife? I don't buy it. It was an accident. Her body must have come into contact with a sharp object. Seriously, wow, yeah, you know there's so many things like when I play fight. I've never thought to do it in a kitchen.
Speaker 1:That's the first thing. The second thing is is that you shouldn't know the difference between a knife, what a knife weighs and what a spatula weighs or just look at what you're picking up. It's really some common sense shit. That really makes no sense to me. He thought it was a spatula. He can't tell the difference between a knife and a spatula and there's no way. I believe it wasn't intentional. Do you know how hard a knife has to be plunged into the chest to penetrate the sternum that protects the heart? Exactly that, bruh. You don't have to be a scientist to know that he did not accidentally do that shit. Four inches An accident is like. Oh my God, it's an inch, or like a half an inch. Anyway, let's go back.
Speaker 1:On Monday, january 27th, simon Vickers was convicted of murdering his 14-year-old daughter, scarlett Vickers, at Teesside Crown Court in North England. According to a release by the Crown Prosecution Service, which handles all public prosecutions in England and Wales, the news comes after a court heard earlier this month that Vickers had denied causing the death of his daughter, who was fatally stabbed in the chest on July 5th, by the way. That's like six months now that they're talking about this. At the time he insisted they were just messing around together in the kitchen in a normal playful way. Vickers had claimed that the pair had been play fighting and jokingly throwing items at each other while cooking, before he mistakenly swiped a kitchen knife, which then hit Scarlett. What is he? An assassin, by the way? You know how hard you'd have to throw a knife to puncture a heart like that.
Speaker 1:After his partner called for an ambulance, paramedics attended the address and found Scarlett on the floor of the kitchen with a severe stab wound to the chest. Despite their efforts, scarlett tragically died from her injuries a short time later. Yeah, it hit her in the heart, bruh. According to the BBC, a pathologist told the court that it was practically impossible for the four-inch deep stab wound that Scarlett suffered to have been caused by a knife in a play fighting situation. Forensic pathologist Jennifer Bolton concluded that Scarlett's fatal injury must have been inflicted by a blade being firmly held and the kitchen knife would have had to strike scarlet at a 90 degree angle to pass through her pajama top in the way it did.
Speaker 1:Durham constable, constabulary, I don't know, constantly, I don't care sent in a news release. The exact circumstances surrounding what happened next may never be known, but at about 10 45 pm, vicar stabbed scarlet with a kitchen knife, adding that he had been drinking alcohol and smoking cannabis throughout the evening. Scarlett's mother, sarah Hall, was arrested at the time of the incident, later charged with murder. However, the charges later dropped and she has faced no further action. Anna Barker, senior Crown prosecutor with CPS Northeast, added. Per the CPS release, the account provided by Simon Vickers about how his daughter, scarlett, sustained a fatal injury is wholly inconsistent with the forensic evidence in this case. As part of our case against him, the Crown Prosecution Service instructed a medical expert whose analysis made it clear the nature of the wounds sustained by Scarlett could only have been caused if the knife used had been firmly gripped as she was injured. Yeah, bitch. Yeah, absolutely accurate. We've worked closely with Durham police to meticulously piece together the tragic events which led to yeah, absolutely accurate. Durham Constabulary whatever.
Speaker 1:Detective Superintendent Craig Rudd, why are there so many titles for these fuckers in England? Bruh, no-transcript. Stabbing is so personal in your face. How utterly disgusting. May scarlet rest in Jesus' arms. Fucking. Nevermind that last sentence. Mind your business, you don't know, they believe in Jesus. There's one kind of person that would bring a knife to a play fight. That's a person with a plan to kill their kid. This is just sad. She was so young and there are too many kids dying at the hands of their parents or a family member. This is fucking so true, dude, so fucking true, that Gabriel Fernandez shit broke my heart. I could not watch that shit without fucking wanting to wanting. Oh my God, dude, I can't even get the words out.
Speaker 1:If the parents had not been sentenced to death row or died in jail, I feel like I would have been if I'd been in that locality. It would have been my personal vendetta to fucking make some cyanide gum and be like, hi, chew this real quick. Like, just slip it to him real quick. Hey, I brought them gum, is that okay? And just give it to him. Be like, chew this shit, bitch, chew this bitch. And like, fucking go to sleep forever. Because what they did to that poor kid, after all the reports and after all the family, like the rest of the family, was trying to get him out of that fucking house Like just just fucking terrible. Just please don't watch it. This is not even a cry for you to watch that shit. Please do not watch it. That shit is so heartbreaking I can't even imagine doing that to a child or letting that happen anywhere near me. You know what I mean. Like that's how angry I'm getting Very, very angry about that that the fucking system failed this child so bad that he fucking died.
Speaker 1:Do you know how many people from the fucking office like the what was it? Department of child services like? Do you know how fucking many of them were also held responsible for that legally, like in a trial proceeding, for ignoring all of the shit that they fucking went to school to protect and be certified for and licensed in that state to do? Like if you hear reports that a kid's getting beat up or some shit, and you check in and you can see visible proof and you can tell that the mother's high or some shit, and you let that kid be there, you go to jail too or you should be killed in the street. There's no other response for shit like that. That's terrible people. Sorry, I'm getting all kinds of angry. Oh, one last story and then I'm going to go for sure. This was good too, because I didn't know that this could fucking happen that fast. And this is like a good little rule of thumb don't burn yourself in the wild type of thing.
Speaker 1:Hiker's little burn from camping skillet leads to double amputation, but he vows to get back on the trail. Hey, how about you sit still for a little bit? How about you sit still? Good little story. My stepfather plays hockey in his spare time. He's the one who is the leukemia survivor. Knock on wood. There you go. Knock on wood, it stays that way. He went to fucking hockey and a puck went right to his left left hand, I think, or his right hand. Either way hit him in the hand, split his finger open and fractured his pinky. Like the pinky got split open and fractured in that one instance, which I was like holy shit, what else do you want to do with this sport? Because I think that's enough. In any case, I was like why don't you just sit still, which is the moral of this story too. Just sit still, bruh.
Speaker 1:At first, max Armstrong paid no attention to the little burn he got on a camping trip. The 40-year-old from San Diego, who now lives in Castle Rock, colorado, had previously sustained plenty of minor injuries in the wilderness. In 2016, he spent 151 days walking from Mexico to Canada. I got a lot of cuts and scrapes and abrasions and little burns and all kinds of things during that trip. Armstrong tells people. But while camping with friends on December 2nd 2024, he suffered an injury that would be like no other. I was just transferring the skillet from the campfire to the table and burnt a portion of my thumb in the process. He said it was a little burn. I didn't think anything of it at the time. Two days later, armstrong says his left ankle started to swell, something he attributed to getting out of the camper wrong. I just thought I twisted it At the same time.
Speaker 1:The burn wasn't healing, armstrong tells people, even though he'd been putting antibiotic cream on it and keeping it bandaged. When he started quote-unquote talking crazy in his sleep and his toenails turned purple, I knew I had to get to the emergency room. On the way to the hospital, armstrong checked his symptoms online. He realized he could have sepsis, a life-threatening condition where the body responds improperly to an infection. He later learned from doctors they believe strep A bacteria had gotten into the burn before he could clean and bandage it a small amount of time. He recalls Once he got to the emergency room, his eyes started rolling back in his head, he says. Doctors confirmed that it was indeed sepsis.
Speaker 1:By the end of the night I was in a medically induced coma. Armstrong's mother, as well as his wife, megan, stayed by his side for six days. As he remained in the coma he progressed to toxic shock syndrome and the body really quickly started to eat away itself. Doctors told them to be prepared for the possibility that I wasn't going to make it. When he woke up from his coma on December 13th, he said my feet were black and felt like they were being crushed.
Speaker 1:Doctors started floating the idea of amputation, armstrong says, but they would bring it up in passing, casually. Still, I knew it was a thing and at first I was like no, there's no way they're taking my feet, he shares. But when he tried to walk in physical therapy it was so painful that I started to come around to recognize that the feet weren't going to be an option to keep. His mom tried to show him the bottom of his feet to help him decide. My mom was taking photos and they looked so black and the veins were cooked. They just looked like they'd never be able to be used again. He said it was a tough choice and that's crazy, but it's like below the knee. It's like below the knee, mid shin. Armstrong says the necrosis was growing. If he acted soon, doctors would still be able to amputate below the knee, which makes prosthetics easier to use. You can still control whether it bends or not and you just need the straight prosthetic rather than something that's a little more involved and a little more expensive and a little more robotic, he explains. On December 2030, he had surgery to remove both legs below the knees.
Speaker 1:Armstrong, who's a therapeutic coach for men who've been released from prison through his business Raise Up Recovery, tells people he came to terms with it as being a medically necessary part of my journey. I've seen the entirety of this process as a spiritual journey. He says this was just the next step in that process. It was not something that I wanted to do, but I knew that it had to be done. As he looks ahead toward recovery, armstrong hopes to hit the trails again with a 14,000-foot elevation in mind. A GoFundMe has been established to help him with the cost of advanced prosthetics and to make accommodations for accessibility in daily life, including building a lift in his home and modifying his vehicle. His attitude remains positive. There's no question in my mind that I'll be hiking in the mountains by this time next year, armstrong tells people. I really do feel like this journey was an opportunity for me to prove to others that things can be overcome. Until then, he says, I dream most about just hiking around my house with my dogs, just going on a long walk.
Speaker 1:I mean, sepsis, I hear, is fucking crazy. I had a friend who actually thought that he was going through sepsis, so he made it, obviously, but it was like he had it in his throat. So I don't I don't actually know all the specifics of what came of it, but that was crazy. And don't burn yourself out in the woods because you can apparently die from that, which that's kind of why I shared it, cause I was like, wow, something so simple as that and not being a contained environment where you know bacteria does anything. That's like that stupid show, naked and afraid, with these people who like lose like a hundred pounds because they're not eating what they usually eat, which is garbage. They're suffering from whatever these bugs are carrying, like some of that shit is so crazy. Like the fact that it's called Naked and Afraid makes people watch it. I used to watch it a couple times because I was bored, but quickly changed my mind when fucking it started to get really stupid and repetitive.
Speaker 1:But, in any case, I wanted to thank you all for listening today. Sorry, it was a short one, didn't make it to an hour. I do have a meeting in about seven minutes that I have to attend and actually speak on, so I wanted to make sure I at least put something out for you guys. That was interesting. A lot of interesting stuff happened this week. I'll probably talk about the airplane crash next week if I could find more information on it. But yeah, so I love you guys so much. Thank you again for letting me entertain you for another week and I'll catch you next week.
Speaker 1:Oh, also, we finally hit 250 downloads on the podcast. So, like I said, share it with your friends, share it with your family and, just overall, enjoy it. I hope you enjoy listening to these stories. I'm trying to trying to include more personal shit rather than do news all the time, but sometimes there's just some stuff that catches my eye that I think sometimes people want to listen to. Like I'm trying to get away from the political shit, but, um, I think a lot of what I read this week was pretty interesting, like the play fighting thing. The most interesting part of it was the double leg amputation amputation that I read at the end. Um, sorry that I can't speak, my words are failing me this week and I'm still not feeling good, so but thank you so much for listening. Really appreciate your time. Love you guys and thank you for 250 downloads. Bye, thank you.
