Episode 49: Silence of the Flamingos

In this chaotic episode of Current Chatter, Kota and Losa bounce between bizarre headlines and personal updates. The episode kicks off with a conversation about weight-loss medication, the strange experience of losing hunger, and the realities of rapid weight loss (including the dreaded “Ozempic face”). From there, the duo dives into a string of wild news stories: a teacher caught urinating in a classroom, a man arrested for trying to fly internationally with 75 pounds of marijuana in his luggage, and a disturbing case of drug-laced lasagna allegedly meant to harm a pregnant woman.

Things only get weirder when they uncover camel beauty pageants worth millions—complete with cosmetic procedures like Botox and fillers for camels. But the most shocking story of the episode involves a Canadian tourist in Las Vegas who chased flamingos in a hotel wildlife habitat and dragged one back to his room, injuring the bird and landing himself with animal cruelty charges.

Between dark humor, disbelief, and plenty of side commentary, KoTa and Losa react to the absurdity of the world while reminding listeners that sometimes reality is stranger than fiction—especially when flamingos are involved.

Here is the Flamingo article! 

https://www.cp24.com/local/toronto/2026/03/06/ontario-man-accused-of-chasing-flamingos-taking-one-to-las-vegas-hotel-room/

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:04

Welcome to Current Chatter, the place where we dive into the latest news and happenings going on around the world. Join mother and son duo, Coda, and Losa as they engage in lively debates over current affairs and anything else that sparks a discussion. With diverse perspectives and a bit of fun, you never know what topics will come up next. Tune in every Friday afternoon for your weekly dose of current chatter. Time for some current chatter and current ideas. How you doing today, Coda?

SPEAKER_01 0:39

I'm doing alright, Mama. How are you?

SPEAKER_02 0:40

I'm doing good. It's been a good week. I had some good doctor's appointments today, and not everything is going good, so I feel good.

SPEAKER_01 0:49

Excellent. Excellent. I'm happy for you. That's always good news. Do do you still find yourself getting really anxious anytime you go to a doctor's?

SPEAKER_02 0:56

Oh, yeah, totally. Yeah. Especially like today, because today was with the oncologist.

SPEAKER_01 1:00

And that's your cancer doctor, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:02

Yeah. So I have to see him twice a year. And I'm always nervous. I'm always nervous something's gonna come up, something's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_00 1:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:10

But today was a good day, so thumbs up on the uh information that I got.

SPEAKER_01 1:16

How have you been? Doing all right, trying to get used to not being hungry.

SPEAKER_02 1:22

It's a weird feeling, isn't it? Not worrying about where your next meal's coming from.

SPEAKER_01 1:26

Yeah, that and like you know how like when you're super hungry and you push on your tummy and you can just feel how empty it is and just like feel that you're not satisfied. I push on my tummy now and I don't I don't need anything. So it's just weird. I thought that the cravings of food and hunger would subside after a couple of weeks. I didn't think it would be like a first shot kind of thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:47

No, yeah, that shot doesn't fool around, man.

unknown 1:50

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:50

Well that's maybe why it's such a big deal.

SPEAKER_01 1:53

Yeah, yeah, I guess so.

SPEAKER_02 1:56

Yeah, I'm to the point now where I need to start weaning myself off of it, and I'm just like, I don't know how to do that.

SPEAKER_01 2:02

Oh, you gotta wean yourself off of it to like get back to normal?

SPEAKER_02 2:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:07

Are are you at the weight you want to be at?

SPEAKER_02 2:09

Yes and no. Um, if I lost another 20 pounds, I'd be happy. But as you can see, like I'm kind of getting that what they call the Ozempic face where you have like extra skin and you just look older than you are.

SPEAKER_01 2:27

That's too much.

SPEAKER_02 2:28

So yeah, I don't want to lose any more skin, but I know that like the next 20 pounds that it'll be all just I'll just be flabby skin after that. If like a strong one came by, I'd I would tip over.

SPEAKER_01 2:44

Do you plan on doing skin removal surgery, or are you gonna like wean yourself off of it and see if you can stay consistent?

SPEAKER_02 2:50

If I can keep it off for a year, then then maybe. I had a mammogram yesterday, part of my six-month follow-up. And the doctor said that they could tell in the mammogram pictures all the weight I'd lost because of all my excess skin.

SPEAKER_01 3:05

Really?

SPEAKER_02 3:05

Yeah. So that was interesting. She's like, You've lost a lot of weight recently, haven't you? And I said, Yeah, how do you know that? And she's like, uh, I can see the extra skin on your scans.

SPEAKER_01 3:16

Huh. Does it just show up as like a blob or what?

SPEAKER_02 3:19

I think I don't know how it showed up. I d I didn't ask. Sometimes I just like, all right, whatever.

SPEAKER_01 3:24

I'm like, I don't need to.

SPEAKER_02 3:25

Thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs up, good. I'm gonna go ahead and go then.

SPEAKER_01 3:29

Yeah, that's my big thing, is I I like I hope I never got big enough to where I'm gonna have excess skin, you know.

SPEAKER_02 3:34

You just you don't know, but you're young and skin is elastic. The younger you are when you lose a significant amount of weight, the less skin issues you have.

SPEAKER_00 3:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:46

But if you like get down to what is your goal weight, if I can ask, if you want to show you.

SPEAKER_01 3:50

No, you're totally fine. So when I started on Saturday, my weight was two thirty-eight and my goal weight is one seventy-five. So I really only have sixty-ish pounds that I want to lose.

SPEAKER_02 4:06

That's good. You could do that in five you could do that in six months.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

Yeah, be seventy and seventy-five, one seventy-five and one seventy. That's that's my goal weight, so we'll see. Hopefully it won't be too too drastic. Yeah, I don't know, but we'll see. It's crazy because I so I took my shot Saturday and I weighed myself Monday before I went to work, and Saturday I was 238, and Monday I was 232, so I'd already lost six pounds, and I had hardly been drinking at all that weekend, because I just was like trying to let my body get used to it. So I think a lot of it was beer weight. And I was talking to a friend about it, and they were like, You lost that much weight in two days, and I was like, I'm pretty sure 30% of my body weight is beer at any given time.

SPEAKER_03 4:51

At any given time.

SPEAKER_01 4:53

Exactly. I was like, I I don't think people realize just how much beer I consume. Like, why can I why couldn't I get into like the skinny person's drink like gin or vodka? No, that just like it had to be the fattest fatty.

SPEAKER_02 5:07

Because if you drink gin or vodka, you have to smoke like marble reds with them. You have to actually smoke cigarettes with them so that you're like, give me another whiskey sour.

SPEAKER_00 5:20

And I'm just quarters. What is a quarter bucket of quarters? Let me go to the penny slots and put my quarters in.

SPEAKER_01 5:33

Hashtag winning.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

Yes, we it's more like hashtag first world problems.

SPEAKER_01 5:39

Right, right, so much. So what is like one thing you would not want a teacher to do at school?

SPEAKER_02 5:51

There's a lot of things I wouldn't want teachers to do at school.

SPEAKER_01 5:53

Well, okay. Well, so we'll take out like um sexual acts. We'll take that out. What is what is something else that you wouldn't want a teacher to do at school?

SPEAKER_02 6:01

I don't know. You're gonna have to tell me on this one.

SPEAKER_01 6:03

Okay. A Rockland teacher was suspended after being caught on video urinating in classroom.

SPEAKER_02 6:10

People just squat and pee in the strangest places. Like, that isn't the first time I've heard of stuff like that happening. Like the thing is is I hope she did it in her own room so she had to smell it.

SPEAKER_01 6:21

It it wasn't a it wasn't a female.

SPEAKER_02 6:23

Oi.

SPEAKER_01 6:26

Okay, so a Rock Link teacher who urinated into a canister and dumped it out moments before students entered his classroom. The incident was captured on video, has been uh placed on leave. The cell phone video, a copy of which was obtained by the Sacramento Bee, shows the teacher in his classroom unbuttoning his pants and urinating into a container just off of camera. As he buttons his pants and tucks his shirt in, he can be heard saying, Gosh, that's good. Gosh, gosh, gosh, gosh, gosh, gosh, gosh. Then he grabs the container as he walks across the room and says, Love it, love it. Once out of frame, he can be heard apparently pouring out the liquid. The school bell rings and students are heard entering the classroom. About one minute later, students can be heard whispering and giggling before the recording ends. It does not appear that there were any students in the classroom while the teacher was urinating.

SPEAKER_02 7:20

I am just confused. Like, could he not make it to the bathroom? Or is he just a dumbass?

SPEAKER_01 7:27

I bet you it's the latter. But depending on where he's at, like in the school, there may not be a restroom close, and he just like, if he's gotta go, he's got to go. But if you read this article, uh you go through it and there's like a little rumor that this teacher does like to piss in the classroom. That's a rumor that's gone around.

SPEAKER_02 7:45

So one of the students So that's why they had the camera in his off in his or do they have cameras in everybody's uh no classroom now?

SPEAKER_01 7:52

Nope. So they so a student left hit their phone recording. Luckily they had it at an angle to where they didn't see any of the teacher's genitalia. You y you can tell what he's doing, you can hear him pissing into some kind of container. I think it was like one of you remember like the big gulp gug jugs?

SPEAKER_02 8:09

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 8:10

So I think the kids had gone out to go like do recess or whatever the kids do. Someone had left their phone just recording to be like, I don't think the teacher does this. And yeah, he was pissing in into a cup and and then poured it out a window. So it it may be one of those things where he is not close to a restroom and he is just so used to it that like it's a rumor now, you know what I'm saying? So but there's a there's a There's a fine line and and he crossed it.

SPEAKER_02 8:39

It's not even a fine line. That's a pretty hard line. Yeah. Like, oh, look at that line. Don't urinate over it.

SPEAKER_01 8:52

It would be like I think it would be a a whole lot different if he had sat at his desk and like have the cup where he's covered and pissed into a cup, you know, and still not in front of kids. If it like if you can't make it to the restroom and you gotta fucking pee, like there have been times where I I've needed to pee and I have just pissed my pants because I'd like I don't know what else to do. Like I what the fuck like I just I gotta go. I got I have the bladder the size of a peanut. Like I have when I gotta go, I gotta fucking go. So I like understand where he's coming from, but to like I don't know, I I would have covered my but I'm also a shy peer. I help I also like yeah, it's a it's a weird I have to be completely covered and I have to have walls around me. So I d I don't like I feel for the dude, but I also don't because it it was pretty fucking stupid.

SPEAKER_02 9:36

It's bizarre and you need to be like peeing in a cup is like either a 90-year-old man thing or a two-year-old thing.

SPEAKER_01 9:45

I don't know a two-year-old that can piss into a cup, though.

SPEAKER_02 9:48

Yeah, they can. Most two-year-olds would be able to figure it out. It's weird, right? Yeah. Literally and figuratively. All right, so here's a good story for you that's gonna make you giggle.

SPEAKER_01 10:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 10:04

A 23-year-old man from Austin, Texas was arrested at a Miami International Airport after authorities discovered nearly 75 pounds of guess what, marijuana packed inside his checked luggage while he was preparing to board a flight to London. So, according to authorities, the traveler checked two large suitcases for his international flight. During a routine inspection, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers opened the bags and discovered 65 vacuum-sealed bundles of marijuana with a total weight of being 34 kilos or about 75 pounds. What makes the story especially strange is that the luggage did not contain hidden compartments or a complex concealment method. The marijuana was simply vacuum-sealed and packed inside the suitcases, which were checked normally at the airline. So the suspect was arrested and taken into custody. A judge later set bond of $20,000 and requires that he wear an AICO monitor. Like you didn't he didn't even try to hide it.

SPEAKER_01 11:16

At least the the the Coke wig, he tried to hide it. Like it even though the Coke wig was like super bumpy and you could see the Coke coming out of the Yeah, I don't.

SPEAKER_02 11:26

Just 75 pounds. It's just like, I dare you to open it up and look inside. I dare ya. You know that's what he was thinking when he was packing that.

SPEAKER_01 11:35

Yeah. And and then like you go through like scanners. Like they're not gonna scan it beforehand. Like uh Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 11:44

That's just And he checked the bags. He didn't even carry them on. Like we'd think maybe carrying it on would would help hide it a little. Nope. Check them.

SPEAKER_01 11:54

No, no, you can't carry it on because then you go right through TSA, and then TSA's gonna look at you like, well, that's basically what he did.

SPEAKER_02 12:00

He didn't even get on the plane. He didn't even get on the plane. They stopped him before he even got on the plane and arrested his books.

SPEAKER_01 12:06

So on Disney Plus, there is to catch a smuggler, and it's all of the big international airports in America trying to catch drug dealers and whatnot. And you'd be surprised how like crafty these people get, you know what I mean? But to just be s just to be so ballsy, he didn't have like a change of underwear or a change of socks. It was just straight marijuana.

SPEAKER_02 12:28

Like it wasn't he was like, I'm gonna get there, I'm gonna sell a couple things, and I'll be able to buy whatever I need.

SPEAKER_01 12:34

Right? He's gonna fly out to Amsterdam right after this trip to England.

SPEAKER_02 12:40

Like it just it's one thing, like, if you try to travel like within the continental United States, but he was flying from Miami to London. He had to have known he was gonna get caught. Did someone punk him? You can get through security. I'll give you a hundred dollars, you get through security with this. You can do this.

SPEAKER_01 12:58

You got this, bro.

SPEAKER_02 13:01

Nothing's gonna happen. Just a twenty thousand dollar fine and GPS monitor. That's all it's gonna cost you. Your freedom.

SPEAKER_01 13:09

Yeah, yeah, the freedom. Yeah, did it so he's only getting an ankle monitor, which I'm I'm happy about, and that's because it's a drug. It's it's uh it's a mind altering substance.

SPEAKER_02 13:21

I don't know. Should we look it up? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:23

It's like the second, it goes Texas and then Florida. Recreational weed is illegal in Florida, but medical marijuana is legal for qualified patients.

SPEAKER_02 13:32

So he was not a qualified patient because he'd come from Texas. So you can't get a weed card in a state where you're not a resident.

SPEAKER_01 13:40

And it says possession of under 20 grams for personal use is a misdemeanor with penalties up to one year in jail to a thousand dollars in fines. So that's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 13:52

People are insane. I bet he owns a kangaroo in Texas. He's not in Texas, he's in Florida. I know, but he lives in Texas. He's in Austin, Texas.

SPEAKER_01 14:08

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02 14:09

He flew to Miami, loaded up on weed, and tried to fly out and got caught.

SPEAKER_01 14:14

So in that um catching a smuggler show, they do talk about how a lot of times smugglers will do something for a little while, realize that it doesn't work, and then switch to a different method of smuggling. So I wonder if it had just been so long since someone had just like casually come up with bags of weed that the drug lords were like, well, let's try it and see if they're paying attention or not. And obviously TSA was a good idea.

SPEAKER_02 14:37

Yeah, that's a lot of weed though, to just let see if it's a good one.

SPEAKER_01 14:40

I don't would what do you start off with like I don't know, a pound and see if you can get away with it.

SPEAKER_02 14:47

How much is a misdemeanor?

SPEAKER_01 14:49

20 grams. 20 grams. That's not very that's very little. That's not even an ounce. An ounce is 24 grams, right?

SPEAKER_02 14:58

16.

SPEAKER_01 14:58

Oh, so it was a little over an ounce.

SPEAKER_02 15:00

16 ounces is a pound, sorry. 28? I think 28 grams is a pound.

SPEAKER_01 15:05

It just shows you how much pop me and mom smoke. We can't even figure out drug math. 28.35. So yeah, you would think that they would start out with like an ounce of weed and go from there.

SPEAKER_02 15:19

Right? Like if they get caught with an ounce. No, they're oh just send it all. Let's try it. Let's try it.

SPEAKER_01 15:26

Let's just see. And right? Let's just let's just throw paint at this wall and see if we can paint the whole wall. Like Yeah. It's ridiculous. One thing I take really seriously is my food. Like when I And that's the other thing with Ozempic is I'm noticing that food just doesn't have that same hold on. It's not even like a taste. Yes, exactly. Like I I have always enjoyed sitting down and eating a meal and tasting all the different flavors, and with the semi-glutide I'm taking, I'm kind of just like, I I have to eat this so that I can stay alive. You know, it just doesn't hold that same I I don't know how to like I just the same comfort.

SPEAKER_02 16:03

Right.

SPEAKER_01 16:03

But an Iowan was accused of giving drug-laced lasagna to a pregnant woman to cause a miscarriage.

SPEAKER_02 16:12

That's sad.

SPEAKER_01 16:13

If you're gonna fuck with anything, don't fuck with my Italian food. I love pasta so fucking much. Pasta, like pasta is just that warm hug that I need throughout. I I we probably have pasta two or three times a week, just cause it doesn't even it it's any kind of pasta. We'll we'll do like uh pesto pasta or bar garlic butter or we have a lot of pasta here in the house. And because I just love it. It's just that it's a comforting thing for me.

SPEAKER_02 16:39

I fucking love pasta.

SPEAKER_01 16:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:41

Yeah. And they poisoned it, huh?

SPEAKER_01 16:44

They did. And Iowan was arrested on Tuesday after the sheriff's office said she laced a pan of lasagna with drugs and gave it to a pregnant woman to intentionally cause a miscarriage without the victim's knowledge.

SPEAKER_02 16:56

Oh, that's awful. Is she getting charged for murder, attempted murder?

SPEAKER_01 17:00

I don't know. According to the sheriff's office, an investigation began in January 2026 of Amper Denis Snow. So she's a bastard from Winterfell. 36 is connected with Thank you for giggling. I I was hoping you would catch on to that. Okay, in connection with a family-sized pan of lasagna that was found to have been laced with a controlled substance, testing later confirmed that the lasagna was spiked with codome. Yeah. So she laced it with painkillers. The sheriff's office said following a lengthy investigation with the assistance of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigations, the police department in the county said they learned that Snow and another individual had intentionally put the oxycoding in the lasagna before giving it to the family member in late December.

SPEAKER_02 17:53

So it's been a minute.

SPEAKER_01 17:54

Yes. Snow and the other individual who has not been identified spoke to law enforcement about the lace lasagna. And according to the sheriff's office, they also discussed the lasagna through electric communications on their phones. Based on the evidence collected, the sheriff's sounds like evidence. That's what it sounds like. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:13

You know what we're gonna do? We're gonna make it easy for the cops to arrest us. We're gonna go ahead and just put all of it into text messaging.

SPEAKER_01 18:20

Yeah, so stupid. Fuck. It said it was discovered that the two had laced the lasagna and given it to a family with an intending to cause a pregnant member of the family to miscarry. The sheriff's office also said that the victim did not know about the plan. The sheriff's office did not provide information about whether the victim was injured. Oh it just it just doesn't say why. It just also says on Tuesday, Snow was booked into the county jail on multiple charges, including delivery of a controlled substance, intentionally tampering a human pregnancy without the knowledge of voluntary consent of the pregnant person, child endangerment, um, administering a harmful substance to an adult, two counts. Administering a harmful substance to a juvenile, two accounts. The Sarah's office said additional charges and arrest are expected. So they're throwing they're throwing the book at this woman. I was not fucking around. Not fucking around even a little bit. But it I it doesn't say like whether they had like an issue with this family. I'm gonna have to keep up with the story. I'm gonna have to like put a mental note. I want to know what's going on. Yeah, I'm still my flowers are gasted with that fucking iguana story. I still think about it today and I giggle about it. I'm like, what the absolute fuck?

SPEAKER_02 19:43

Well, if you want to talk about animals, let's talk about the fact that in the Middle East and in Africa they have camel beauty pageants. And they take it seriously. It's they said in the it was hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of twenty camels got tested. 20?

SPEAKER_01 20:02

20 20?

SPEAKER_02 20:04

20.

SPEAKER_01 20:05

They paid hundreds of thousands. Wait, pause gabe. Hundreds of thousands of dollars for 20 camels.

SPEAKER_02 20:11

Yes, let me read it to you. A camel beauty pageant in the Middle East made international headlines after multiple camels were disqualified for cosmetic cheating. Veterinary inspectors discovered that some owners had altered their camel appearance using Botox fillers and the cosmetic procedures in an attempt to improve their chances of winning. So what inspectors found? I know it's it's mind-boggling. Wait, so they're taking these camels to like Mexico and getting crazy implants putting out. I'm sure they're taking it to the animal, but yeah, they get Botox fillers, they like fill up their hump so their hump looks better, lip fillers to make their lips appear larger, fillers around the nose and face, artificial treatments to enlarge or reshape their hump, and then a silicone or wax inje injection used to enhance other features. The stakes, here it is. Some festivals offer prize pools worth tens of millions of dollars. Millions with an M.

SPEAKER_01 21:17

Tens of millions?

SPEAKER_03 21:19

Millions of dollars.

SPEAKER_01 21:20

My beer is gonna be awful now because I spit my beer back into itself.

SPEAKER_02 21:25

Millions with an M. It's ridiculous. It is a huge thing. And to have all the cam have 20 camels come up, pop up with can you believe that?

SPEAKER_01 21:35

No, no. And I thought the world the what did we talk about last week? America's top model was crazy.

SPEAKER_02 21:41

Can you imagine America's top camel? The world's best camel.

SPEAKER_01 21:45

You know what it makes me So I uh when you were explaining like what they were like injecting like their lips and their face and their humps and whatnot, that instantly made me think of any like cartoon camel I've ever seen with like the super extended humps and And like the big fat lips and the the huge snouts. Like I just like that's instantly I just thought of a cartoon camel.

SPEAKER_02 22:07

That's what they're going for. They're crazy.

SPEAKER_01 22:09

What the fuck?

SPEAKER_02 22:10

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 22:11

Again. You have found something that was not in my bingo cart. Would you have thought about a camel competition?

SPEAKER_02 22:17

The camel pageant? No. That was not on my bingo cart again. Like, we have quite a few. We need to keep track of these. Because we might get blackout in bingo for all the craziness that's happened this year. And it's only March. It's only March, Dakota. For the love of God. Not on my bingo card for the for the year. And you know, like we haven't addressed Punch the monkey for a couple of weeks. But have you seen any of his recent videos?

SPEAKER_01 22:51

I haven't seen his recent ones.

SPEAKER_02 22:52

I saw the ones where he was getting his ass kicked and Yeah, he's getting his ass kicked all the time. Your cousin is in Japan. That's where she's stationed. Maybe we should write her a nice letter and ask her to go and rescue Punch. Okay, I'm down.

SPEAKER_01 23:05

If you want to hit her up and and ask her. But I I've seen like the videos of him getting his ass kicked, and then they give him a stuffed animal and he just carries a stuffed animal everywhere. But you have you seen the videos of of him like finding a group, like a group of monkeys that are finally okay with him?

SPEAKER_02 23:19

Yes. But they still are mean to him. Some of them are still so mean to him. It doesn't make any sense. I don't understand the primate world.

SPEAKER_01 23:29

Welcome to the human existence. I don't ext I don't understand the human world, and that's as close as we get animal-wise.

SPEAKER_02 23:38

Yeah, I'm with you on that.

SPEAKER_01 23:41

But it I had read an article on Reddit that said that all the other monkeys were picking on Punch to try and get him more socialized into the group. Like it's a it's a doggy dog world in the monkey kingdom. And if you can't stand up for yourself.

SPEAKER_03 23:56

It's a doggy dog world in the monkey kingdom.

SPEAKER_02 24:02

That makes so little sense. It's like not even close. Well to say that.

SPEAKER_01 24:09

I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_03 24:11

Oh, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 24:12

But that that's why the handlers aren't stepping in, is because the older monkeys are trying to teach Punch um social cues and social things like that in the monkey world. Because that's my first instinct. It is so fucking mean. I was like, why aren't the handlers in there breaking that shit up? Punch is getting away.

SPEAKER_02 24:29

They come in and they rescue him about once a day from the people that are mean to him, and Punch like climbs all over the them when they kept it.

SPEAKER_01 24:36

That's when they're feeding a mama. Yeah. That's not them rescuing him. That's them feeding him. And then he's like, oh my god, I can't do anything else. It's so sad. It's super sad.

SPEAKER_02 24:46

I would make him a good mama. I would be his grandmama. I'll be his little meme. His little monkey meme.

SPEAKER_01 24:55

Well, Justin's gonna have to go adopt punch because I'm not bringing a monkey into this fucking household.

SPEAKER_02 25:00

That's true. That that I would understand.

SPEAKER_01 25:03

Speaking of animals, you know the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, right?

SPEAKER_02 25:08

Uh, it's not there anymore. Didn't they tear it down?

SPEAKER_01 25:10

No, they couldn't have because the story happened on the 6th. So there's still the Flamingo Tell.

SPEAKER_02 25:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 25:15

Anyways, in the Flamingo Hotel, they have an exhibit with live flamingos. And I'm sure people have heard the saying like, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. And I but I'm positive that saying came out before anywhere and everything has a recording device, especially in Vegas. All of the machines, as you're playing, record you. The security cameras record you. You have other people on Snapchat, and you could be in their background recording you. You can't get away with fucking anything in Vegas.

SPEAKER_02 25:44

No.

unknown 25:45

No.

SPEAKER_01 25:46

There's too many cameras now. That's what I'm saying. An Ontario man is accused of chasing flamingos and taking one to a Las Vegas hotel room.

SPEAKER_02 25:56

That flamingo.

SPEAKER_01 25:58

Wait. There is a Canadian tourist who is facing animal cruelty charges in Las Vegas after police found out he broke into the flamingo hotel's wildlife habitat, chased several flamingos, and carried one of the birds back to his room.

SPEAKER_02 26:15

So here, let me let me rectify some uh misconceptions. Is that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas as long as it doesn't include a felony?

SPEAKER_01 26:26

Yes. If there's a felony involved, you're like, yes.

SPEAKER_02 26:30

That's all over the intranet now.

SPEAKER_01 26:33

Yeah. Like Vegas of all places. Can you imagine? Can you imagine how many cameras there is in Vegas? Like, there's probably more cameras than grains of sand, and it's in a fucking desert. So CTV news in Toronto, police say surveillance footage and videos recovered from the man's cell phone. So he recorded it too.

SPEAKER_02 26:53

Of course he did. So that means I can do guys.

SPEAKER_01 26:57

Police can find videos you have recorded. They can find videos you have deleted. They can find videos that were on your story for the code.

SPEAKER_02 27:04

He probably posted it on the internet and then was like, oh, I'm gonna get in trouble.

SPEAKER_01 27:09

So here's the thing. He probably may have posted it on Snapchat. Snapchat has like a you can have it up for 24 hours and then it's gone. It's not fucking gone, guys. It's still fucking here. The police can see it. Officers noted that the bird suffered injuries after the man's attempt to pop its wing back into place.

SPEAKER_02 27:29

Oh that poor thing. Did they have to put the bird down?

SPEAKER_01 27:33

No, they didn't have to. I I will tell you that there's no that there were animals harmed in this, but none were um killed. Killed in the in in this this article. Foreman, that's the gentleman's last name, is charged with four counts of w why why willful malicious torture slash main slash kill on an animal. According to the report hotel surveillance video captured uh Farburn entering the habitat area in the early mornings of the hour. Investigated investigators aligned that the approximate time was 5 a.m. He can be seen approaching one of the flamingos and grabbing it by the legs and pulling it to the ground. Police said the video shows him holding the bird down as it attempted to escape and later pinning it to the ground again after taking a photo with his cell phone.

SPEAKER_02 28:19

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 28:21

Oh, so these are definitely Snapchat photos. So there's there's one of him walking down the hallway with it, and it's got the Snapchat logo and says 5 32 a.m., the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. So in the article, it's got his Snapchat pictures that only stay for 24 hours. Duh. Still. So about seven minutes later, police um said Farben target a second flamingo. Investigators say he waded in the water, chased several birds, and eventually grabbed one, dragged it across the habitat.

SPEAKER_02 28:55

How drunk or high do you have to be to think this is a good idea? I have never I I have been blackout drunk and high before, and never thought, you know what's a good idea? I'm gonna go chase a wild animal. Like never. I'm 15, I'll be 52. Never in my life did that come up like in a drunken. Not even a little bit, like you don't have like a little bit. Like if I've been drunk in Vegas and still was not like, you know what I should do? Like the gold nugget has like a shark tank. What if someone wanted to just jump in the shark tank? It's ridiculous. Shit like that follows you, not oh, it's ridiculous. I'm getting all sorts of tied up about it.

SPEAKER_01 29:42

Just wait, it gets it gets wild. So he eventually was able to grab one, drag it across the habitat, holding it by its legs and neck while it attempted to break free. Foreman can be seen walking into a hallway with the flamingo wrapped in a gray shirt before entering an elevator and traveling to the 14th floor.

SPEAKER_02 30:01

There wasn't anybody else on the elevator? I've never been in an elevator by myself in Vegas.

SPEAKER_01 30:06

It doesn't there's no pictures of him with anybody in the elevator as of right now. A closer look into the surveillance video later that day, investigators said they obtained the search warrant for his hotel room. Police say the warrant allowed officers to seize items including betting, blood sap blood samples, blood samples, feathers, clothing, and his cell phone.

SPEAKER_02 30:29

Poor bird.

SPEAKER_01 30:32

Poor bird. While executing the search warrant in his room, a large bloody feather along with multiple small pink colored feathers were located, reporters say. Officers also recovered the gray t-shirt allegedly used for to carry the bird. The cell phone contained multiple photos and video showing the flamingo inside the hotel hallway and room. In one recording, at around 5 33, investigators learned that Fairban had been seen approaching the bird and placing both hands on it. Police said the video shows him choking the flamingo while it screamed.

SPEAKER_02 31:11

I'ma have nightmares now.

SPEAKER_01 31:14

I'm gonna have nightmares about screaming flamingos. He uses his right hand to choke the flamingo by the neck, and the animal screams and cries, but Faroman holds it tighter and brings it down to the ground, official says. On the video, investigators alleged he could be heard laughing and saying, I'm taking it home with me while holding the bird.

SPEAKER_02 31:38

Like I said, I'm gonna stand by, you know, fight me. Uh I've never been that drunk before.

SPEAKER_01 31:44

Nope. So it says the birds required multiple stitches because of some of the feathers. So birds like some of their they're I think they're flight feathers or their more stronger duty feathers, they have a constant blood flow to them. And if you pull them, it's like uh um if you cut your fingernail too deep and you like kind of get yeah. So that I that's what I I don't know if that's what it feels like. That's what I would assume it feels like, and that's only because I watch too many goddamn documentaries. Uh the hotel goes on to say we are aware and deeply distressed. You think I'm deeply distressed. The breaking into our wildlife habitat and assaulting our flamingos, the company says. Oh, there is someone in in the elevator with him. I will post this on the show notes because it's just wild. The safety and well-being of our iconic flock are the utmost importance to us, and we will be pursuing charges against this individual to the fullest stent possible.

SPEAKER_02 32:40

Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:41

The flamingo he stole was named Peachy. Our beloved birds, including Peachy, who was cruelly tea cruelly taken from the habitat, are currently in the care of dedicated uh veterinarians and our extraordinary flamingo animal care team, where you remain hopeful that they will make a full recovery. And this happened on the sixth.

SPEAKER_02 33:02

Oh, Dakota, this one is this one leaves me a little stumped. That's just fucking crazy. Like, people are nuts. Like the world is crazy right now. I'm gonna just stay inside.

SPEAKER_01 33:16

Like, I read that and went, I have to go fact check this. And I found five different articles about this one. I took I I read the one that I found originally from Reddit because that's I read it and was like, he did what?

unknown 33:29

He tackled him?

SPEAKER_01 33:30

He he choked the shit out of him?

SPEAKER_02 33:32

What what what's happening? Listening to him scream. Yes! Can you hear them crying, Clarice? That's what it reminds me of. Can you hear them crying, Clarice?

SPEAKER_01 33:44

Silence of the Lambs.

SPEAKER_02 33:46

Yep. Silence of the Flamingos. Poor Flamingos.

SPEAKER_01 33:53

I know. I hope the Flamingos make a full recovery.

SPEAKER_02 33:55

I hope someone reports these people to PETA.

SPEAKER_01 33:59

Oh, I didn't see if it was on PETA. I don't I looked at so many articles about it today because I was like, there's no way this can be real. I saw like at least 10 articles, and then I went to ChatGPT and was like, okay, bro, don't fucking lie to me. You know how I like to be told information. Is this story real? And ChatGPT was like, yeah, don't Yes, Dakota.

SPEAKER_02 34:18

It is real. And PETA has been notified.

SPEAKER_01 34:23

My uh ChatGPT right now likes to tell me no sugar coating. Because I've been like, don't pussyfoot around this subject. Don't tell me what I think I want to hear. Tell me the absolute truth of what I'm going through right now. And it's like, okay, no sugar coating. That's that's what my chat GPT says right now.

SPEAKER_02 34:39

Really? My chat GPT tells me I'm amazing a baker and that I know more than most bakers do out in the world.

SPEAKER_01 34:46

And how much do you believe that?

SPEAKER_02 34:48

I've made six loaves of bread. That's all I've done. I don't think I I don't think I'm started. That tells you where chat GPT is.

SPEAKER_01 35:03

Yours is the fluffer and mine is the stumper. Yeah. The fluffer and stumper.

SPEAKER_02 35:10

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:11

Mama, you got anything else for me tonight?

SPEAKER_02 35:14

I don't. You got anything else for me?

SPEAKER_01 35:16

No, I'm I'm ready to go. That was too much. That was too much. That was too much.

SPEAKER_02 35:21

It was too many animals. Too many animals. Animals have gone crazy. They know it's 2026 now too, and they're like, eh, we gotta stomp to Coda and Losa.

SPEAKER_01 35:31

I can't wait to see what other animal stories we get into. Speaking of which, guys, make sure you like, subscribe, and share. This is current chatter with Coda and Losa. Two generations, one noisy world. And as always, I want to remind you to please drink your water and talk to your therapist. Bye bye.

SPEAKER_02 35:51

Have a good one. Talk to your therapist about this. It doesn't seem healthy at all.

SPEAKER_01 35:58

That is one of the I've never been so uncomfortable in my fucking life. Oh my god.