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Episode 54: My Flabbers Are Gasted

Losa & Kota Episode 54

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This week’s episode of Current Chatter mixes humor, shock, and a bit of existential reflection as Kota and Losa bounce through a lineup of wild and bizarre stories. They kick things off talking about the podcast’s unexpected growth shoutout to Chile!! And what it really means to “go viral” without becoming a cautionary tale on the internet.

From there, things take a turn into the unsettling, starting with a disturbing case of public indecency that sparks a real conversation about consent and basic human decency. That theme of “what is wrong with people?” continues with a jaw-dropping medical story involving a surgeon removing the wrong organ raising serious questions about accountability in healthcare.

The episode balances that heaviness with some strange-but-fascinating news, including chimpanzees potentially waging what looks like a “civil war,” and a man building a tiny submarine… for his pet parrot. Naturally, this leads to a mix of awe, confusion, and some very real anxiety tied to the Titan sub implosion.

On the lighter side, they share a hilarious story about a 91-year-old woman so locked into her video game that police had to perform a welfare check life goals, or maybe a cautionary tale, depending on who you ask. The episode wraps up with internet absurdities, including a poorly designed “wash your hands” sign you truly can’t unsee, plus some relatable rants about door-to-door visitors and awkward social encounters.

As always stay hydrated, take care of your mental health, and brace yourself for the unexpected.

 

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SPEAKER_00

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.

SPEAKER_01

What's going on, all you fantastic people? It's that time of the week again. It's some current chatter time. As always, I'm here with Mama. Mama, how you doing? I'm doing excellent today, Takoda. How are you today? I'm doing good. I'm still flabbergasted with our rising numbers in Chile, of all places. I know.

SPEAKER_00

Of all the places. I'm happy. It's like if we can be a one-hit wonder there, then I'm all for it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. If that's what you want, I want to continue to be a hit everywhere. Yeah, no, uh What is a one-hit wonder person doing right now? You know what I mean? Like, think about how like shabby life gets after your one hit.

SPEAKER_00

I was talking to dad the other night about um podcasting, and he's like, Do you want to go viral? And I'm like, Yes. But there's a there's an amount of viral that you want to be without having to become a skit on South Park. Do you know what I mean? I don't want to be that. I don't want to be that viral. I want to be the viral underneath that that makes money, but that doesn't cause me to have nightmares about myself on TV.

SPEAKER_01

I think we're okay. We don't here's the thing is we don't record all the stupidness, you know. You and I can put our cell phones down and be like, I'll remember this stupid moment forever. I don't need to record it. Because when you record something, it's forever.

SPEAKER_00

Forever. Forever. Well, you can record it. Just don't put it on the internet because once you do that, then it's forever.

SPEAKER_01

Well, that and like think of the dude who like assaulted the flamingos. He just had recordings on his phone and the police were able to find it. Just stop recording when you're doing dumb stu stuff.

SPEAKER_00

Well, even on the issue with last week, with our podcast last week, it was all like none of that would have happened if that megalomaniac didn't need to be recorded for everything he did.

SPEAKER_01

I'm still reeling about that show.

SPEAKER_00

Aren't you? It's it was it was wild. It was definitely a wild ride. Yeah. Yes, especially coming from Salt Lake City, Utah, it's harder to I've had a lot of people approach approach me in the well, who do you know? How do you know this? How do you know this? So it was an interesting podcast last week. If you missed it, go listen to it.

SPEAKER_01

One thing that I have always taken seriously is consent. Consent of any form, whether it's holding your hand or giving you a hug or being physical with you. I just like consent means a lot to me. I I I value myself on getting consent from people before I do anything. But there was a gentleman who didn't ask for consent, and his Facebook post helps track this man down suspected of masturbating on the road.

SPEAKER_00

And what was he what was he driving? Was he drive well oh I I'm afraid to ask.

SPEAKER_01

Is he a truck driver? I don't know yet. We'll see. A man was arrested for indecent exposure after admitting he drove around masturbating because he got horny sometimes. Sometimes. Well if only if it happens sometime. Driving past uh the welcome sign, a woman was on her way to Mount Dora when a gold dodge minivan pulled up next to her in the left lane on Tuesday. According to an arrest report from the police department, she then noticed the driver, 63-year-old Joseph Raf Raphael Martinez, kept speeding up and slowing down to keep up pace with her. Oh, so he's just being gross. He's being creepy. Yeah. Creepy, creepy, creepy. She looked over to see Martinez actively masturbating with his penis in plain sight. She grabbed her phone and was able to get a brief recording of him before he made a U-turn to head back westbound on U.S. Highway 411. She also got a picture of the license plate number, uh later posting about this incident in the Mount Mountain Dora word of mouth on Facebook, the reporter said. Another female user complimented or commented on this post and stated she had a similar incident with the same vehicle in February. She was met with law enforcement the next day and confirmed what the report had said. So he's just driving around like jerking it. Playing it all out. He's putting it all out there, man. Yeah, that's just like leaves me with the heebie teebies. It does. It leaves me really grossed out. And it's because uh these women didn't have the consent, you know, and that just like it makes me really upset. Like, can't you for them. Yeah, yeah, and and you just can't do that. Like and this man's 63, he's gonna be a big thing. Well, apparently you can.

SPEAKER_00

We don't recommend it. It's just gross. You're 63, you know better. He's 63. He's 63. 63, 6'3. He knows better. He knows he knows better than better. He's 63 years old.

SPEAKER_01

I'm honestly surprised he can still get it up and going at 63.

SPEAKER_00

Maybe that's the problem. Maybe he should not be able to get it up and running.

SPEAKER_01

I saw that one and went, man, that's gross. We gotta talk about it.

SPEAKER_00

Yep. All right. So have you heard have you ever heard of chimpanzees fighting?

SPEAKER_01

Well, I would assume that they fight. I don't know if I've like watched well, I've probably seen some videos of them fighting.

SPEAKER_00

Why? So it says here, wild chimpanzees have been recorded waging what can only be Civil War actions with coordinating attacks between two fraction groups. So two different chimpanzees. I don't know what they're called. Like when you get I know like a slew of those bubble bubble-budded ones is called the Congress, but I don't know what a school of chimpanzees is. Anyway, they fight to try to gain dominance for their feeding areas and their reproduction areas. I don't know why though. In a new study published this week in the Journal of Science, Dell and his colleagues document what may be the first observed civil war war in wild chimpanzees. While chimpanzees have long been known to wage campaigns of lethal aggression on outsiders, witnessing a once unified group turn on itself is something new and very human. Cases where neighbors are killing neighbors is more troubling, and in a way it gets closer to the human condition. How do we have this seemingly contradiction with within us where we are able to cooperate, but then also very turned on what and then quickly turn on one another. That's interesting. That's very interesting. It's interesting in a way that makes you go, you ne I never would have thought. Are they evolving faster than we are?

SPEAKER_01

I could definitely say so. I I think it's it's affirming for people that believe in evolution like that for these animals to be waging a civil war uh in such a manner. You know what I mean? But what's troubling is that they're turning against each other and it it's just a stark resemblance to how humanity is also turning on itself when we should be picking each other up.

SPEAKER_00

It's very, it's very uh apropos for what is going on in the world.

SPEAKER_01

Yes. Yeah. We have become so crazy that our most linked DNA creature is also like, okay, let's get on this crazy train.

unknown

You think?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Let's jump on the crazy train. So I saw the cutest picture on Reddit, and I didn't think it was true. This man ended up building a little submarine for his pet parrot. And when I saw this, and I was like, oh, that has to be AI made. That there's no way that's real. It it's real.

SPEAKER_00

The bird was able to do 18 minutes at the bottom of the ocean. Yeah. Um, I just don't like I was complaining to your dad today that people just don't, I don't understand the thought process. Like, who looked at a cocaine flower and was like, you know what I could do with this? Or people who go out into the middle of the desert and be like, you know what would look great out here? A casino. It's things like that where I just don't have that mindset, you know? Where people come up with these great ideas or great information, and it's like, you have a different brain than I do. Because my brain doesn't act that way, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And I I my first thing too was like, didn't we learn anything from the Titan? Should man should not be just out here making submarines. That should be a like a a whole institution of of people doing it with like You know what I'm saying? Like after after the implode of the Titan, why are we still making submarines? But when I saw that parrot in there, I was like, his world is totally blown up. Like he like you've never seen anything like that as a bird, and now you're down there.

SPEAKER_00

Like that's and it was a beautiful water, too.

unknown

Yes.

SPEAKER_00

Beautiful water with fish in it. It's like we have a fish tank, now we have a bird tank. It doesn't make any sense to me.

SPEAKER_01

I thought it was the coolest thing ever. That bird looked happier, happier than a pig and shit.

SPEAKER_00

It's just like she's probably terrified. She was terrified, like she was hearing those ping ping-pings, and I'm like, outta here. She was hearing the boom, ping, ping. That's what it is, man. The Titan and the ping ding-ding.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I would have like, if I had been in there and I would have started hearing that, I would have been like, open the door, I'll take it, I'll risk it.

SPEAKER_01

Boom. Toast. Yeah, no. Did you see the the um the uh replicated um what it was like inside when it imploded? Did you see that that short video? I'll have to find it and send it to you, but it's it's wild. Like it one second they're there, and then the next it's just gone. Like toast. Just nothing, but evaporated.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Like there wasn't even nothing to bury, no, like, no what ends, not a t-shirt, nothing.

SPEAKER_01

Nothing survives. It just like made it into a black hole or something. I don't know what happened to it. It just was like poof, like just gone.

SPEAKER_00

There was a there was they called it the debris field that they got within within a hundred feet of the debris field. But still, even the debris filled, there was not there was like two pieces of of the thing down there. That's it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

But as far as I I was really sick at the time of this, and um I didn't follow it because I was so sick with cancer at the time. But it was after I got all better that we watched that documentary on Netflix and was like, no. Yeah. Like I I have nightmares about that pinging noise.

SPEAKER_01

It's eerie. It's an eerie sound for sure. But that uh parrot's name is Molly. Uh it said that he's a very sweet bird. He gets along with his mom and his brothers. Um, in fact, uh Molly literally can't do anything without being nosy, but in parentcy, it says beaky because she gets her beak into everything. She gets her beak into everything. Yeah. Um now after the first ride, she's always pecking at her submarine wanting to go back down. So she enjoyed it. Really? Do you really think that's true? Do you really think that's true? That's what it says. I don't know this bird's life. I don't know this bird's life.

SPEAKER_00

I don't know this bird doing.

SPEAKER_01

I know you like that.

SPEAKER_00

So um I have to have surgery again on May the first. I'm getting my carpal tunnel surgery on my left hand because my left hand just is numb all the time. Okay. And so they're gonna release um what they it's called a release of the carpal tunnel tendon. Couldn't think of that word. So what they're gonna do is they're gonna cut me open from my palm down to my wrist, open it up, release the tendons by cutting them in half, and then sewing me back up. Now, I only I'm not saying this because I want anything, but what I am saying is that it's a fairly simple surgery. But there was a Florida doctor is now facing manslaughter charges for allegedly removing the wrong organ during surgery. What wait, what how how, right? How? How is that possible?

SPEAKER_01

Don't don't all the organs kind of look a little different? Like you can tell what's what?

SPEAKER_00

You would I don't know. I'm not an organ surgeon, but I would think so.

SPEAKER_01

I can I can imagine uh mixing up the left and right kidney. You know, if you were supposed to take the left one, but you took the right one, I can understand that only because I'm dyslexic, but like if you're supposed to remove part of the large intestine and you m remove the liver, like right.

SPEAKER_00

So he was supposed to remove a patient's liver instead of the spleen. Now, I've seen pictures of the human body, and I've, you know, I wanted to go into the medical field for a really long time. And even as a layman in all of that, I still know the difference between what a liver looks like and what a spleen looks like. How can you make that that so incorrectly?

SPEAKER_01

Okay, so I just for shitchin giggles looked it up, and the liver is significantly bigger than the spleen. Their colors are are similar, but the spleen has a more reddish red or yeah, reddish purple to it, and the liver is a darker red, but still like how well he's being sued because everybody else in the lot is saying, wow.

SPEAKER_00

How? Everybody is saying it.

SPEAKER_01

Was he like is it like a malpractice thing? Was he under the influence? Was he just not paying attention to it?

SPEAKER_00

Prosecutors said that during August the 21st surgery, which was uh laparoscop laparoscopic spleenctomy, the gentleman in question removed the victim's liver instead of his spleen, which resulted in catastrophic blood loss and the patient's death on the operating table. I didn't read the whole thing, it killed him. Fuck the patient was 70 years old. I'm I'm I have the wind taken out of my cells that he died.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

That's horrible.

SPEAKER_01

What about like if he's not the only one in the room? Why didn't someone else be like, Doc? I don't think that's his spleen when he plopped a whole liver on the table. Like, what? I just what? No.

SPEAKER_00

What? I don't understand. Yeah. How? Oh my gosh. That is I my gob is smacked. Totally smacked right now.

SPEAKER_01

My flabbers are gasted. How did no one else in that room say I don't think that's the right organ? Because they don't I think that this is wrong.

SPEAKER_00

They like everybody, everybody in the operating room should be charged with some form of manslaughter, you would think.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

They were all there. Because they don't they don't do operations by themselves, right? It's not like a one doctor deal. I've never, I've never had a surgery, so I don't know what the protocol is is for a surgery. But I'm assuming there's multiple doctors, right?

SPEAKER_00

Right. They have the doctor that's performing the surgery, then they have an anesthesiologist who monitors the patient's vitals, then they'll sometimes have a second and a third doctor depending on how intense the surgery is gonna be. Like for mine, there's two doctors. One of them is always a student doctor, and the other one is the surgeon performing the surgery for my carpal tunnel. And then there'll be somebody there to monitor my vitals for being um knocked out. So there'll be three doctors for a simple carpal tunnel surgery that takes 60 minutes, you know, from beginning to end and you're up and out again.

SPEAKER_01

Will you do me a favor? Will you like just like get a sticky note or something and put it on the hand that you're getting surgery on? Don't let the doctor see it, hide it somehow, but like on the sticky note, just have it say, I've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty or something like that. No way, Jose.

SPEAKER_00

This doctor, the doctor who's doing it, she's so serious. Oh, is she serious?

SPEAKER_01

That would make it even better. Oh you could just write like a uh you could do like the dot lines and say cut here.

SPEAKER_00

Yep. Can you believe it though? Like, I don't under I don't even understand how like you go in for a spleenectomy and it kills you. Oh, that just is heartbreaking.

SPEAKER_01

Heart goes out to the families. Mm-hmm. That is that is too much. So I am an avid video game player. I have been known to waste, I don't know, 16 hours on a video game, play it all day, and then not even think uh that I wasted my day, that kind of thing. Um I've I've done that since I was a kid living in in the house, you know. I've if I've got a good game and I'm into it, I'm I'm set on it. Focused. Focused it's called focus. Well, in Idaho Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. It's focus. It's focus. Alrighty then. You're a goober. Okay, so a Idaho woman had a welfare check um called in on her and she was found safe and sound playing video games. She was 91. Why did she 91 years old and playing video games? Just wait. On April 16th, uh Westlake, Idaho police were relieved when a recent welfare check on an elderly woman found her safe and playing video games. Officers said um concerns were raised on the 9th after the 91-year-old residents enrolled in the city's voluntary confirm okay program, but did not answer her check-in phone call according to Cleveland.com.

SPEAKER_00

So she belonged to a group that was like, check on me every day at two o'clock to make sure my cat's not eating me.

SPEAKER_01

Police were then dispatched for a wellness check after speaking to the woman's daughter, who was also unable to reach her. Uh, they became more alarmed when there was no answer at the door, despite the woman's car being in the garage. Once inside the home, police found the woman safe and playing video games in her bedroom. She explained she missed the calls because she was so focused on beating her top score in bubble pop the game. Turned out to be all okay. Everyone got a good laugh out of it, said uh the police captain Jerry um to the five o'clock Cleveland News. Bubble pop. Isn't that an ad like a an app on your cell phone? Yeah. So uh if you're actually if you're actively playing your cell phone and you get a phone call, how do you not remember you got a phone call? Oh, you're looking right at your phone. Just because you're focused. You are focused. That's that is too funny. But I I just want to say I aspire to be that old lady. I I hope one day I have a welfare check and someone comes in and I've been just sitting at the TV playing 15 hours of video games, and I'm like no, it's not healthy.

SPEAKER_00

I don't think that's healthy. I'm not a big video game player, so I I'm not the person to ask for that information. I've never been a video game player. I've always tried to dissuade you and Justin from playing video games because I didn't like them. Uh that didn't go well. That just turned both of you on to them more. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

It was a way you could leave us alone. And I could look at at uh video game boobies. Because you never wanted to watch me play, which was fine with me.

SPEAKER_00

Oh right. So uh please wash your hands sign went viral. Um we'll put the we'll post the picture. Here it is.

SPEAKER_01

This is the one I sent you. I can't see it because of the glare, but I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah. Mom, can you describe to us in great detail what that picture looks like?

SPEAKER_00

Nope.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, come on.

SPEAKER_00

You can't you can't bring it up and not describe it for the people. It looks like two hands holding butt cheeks apart. And that's it? No. That's all I see. That's all I see.

SPEAKER_01

Well, they have the faucet, they have the faucet in that picture, but the faucet is uh looks like a a phallic object.

SPEAKER_00

A very phallic object.

SPEAKER_01

And it says a very hard phallic object.

SPEAKER_00

Please wash your hands. The design, like you'll never understand why people like nobody looked at that and thought, this is a this is a bad thing.

SPEAKER_01

Everyone looked at it and thought and thought that. My question is, is how did they get past like the printing stage before someone was like, what?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. I don't know. And it looks like a professionally made sign. So they have that. They Uh you know, contracted that out and that was not a good idea.

SPEAKER_01

Does it say where the sign is? Because uh if it's like in a bar or something, that's just comedy gold. No?

SPEAKER_00

A please wash your hands sign went viral because of the unmistakable looking like something else just says once you see it, you can't unsee it.

SPEAKER_01

No, no, you can't. So someone's knocking on my door, and Enzo's looking at me, and I'm looking at him, and his face is saying, Don't you get that? I don't know that person.

SPEAKER_00

Um I'm gonna get a sign made for my front door that says I work from home, and unless my house is on fire, you have no right to knock on my door. I have a crazy dog who will bark for a half an hour after you leave, and all you want is to see if I want to make jelly or jam or something stupid. I don't want new windows, I don't need God. I already have God in my life. I don't need windows, I don't need a roof, I don't need dog care. I just need to be left alone.

SPEAKER_01

Left the fuck alone. So did I tell you that the Jehovah's Witness came for me the other month?

SPEAKER_00

Oh no, they're the worst. So I tried to get away from them. That's nearly impossible.

SPEAKER_01

So I opened the door and they're like, is Takoda home? And I was like, no, he's out of the country for work. And they were like, oh, do you know when he's gonna be back? And I was like, no, I have no idea. I'm just watching all of his cats. And they went, okay, and what was your name? We want to talk to someone about Jehovah's Witness. And I'm like, my name's Kyle. Kyle? Kyle? Where did that come from? I have no idea. But we have a really good friend named Kyle. And I said, Kyle, I need you to stay at stay at my house until the Jehovah's Witness come back and you can pretend to be Takoda.

SPEAKER_00

Now you got it.

SPEAKER_01

But no, that instantly was like, No, I'm Kyle. I'm watching cats.

SPEAKER_00

Like, leave me alone. I made the mistake of asking of them when they asked at the end, Well, can we pray for you? Saying yes. And then they were like, they meant like right then.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_00

I thought they meant like later on, they'll get all the names that they collected and um, but yeah, they don't go and they don't go away and they bring more people. Like one person will show up at your door and then you'll be like, try to come back later, and then they'll show up with three more people, and then they'll show up with six people, and then you have six people telling you why you need the why you need God in your life, which is like, um, I already have God in my life. I don't know what you are talking about. And you confuse me, and that makes me sad. See, or I'll just just stop because of the neighborhood I live in.

SPEAKER_01

Sometimes I'll do no habla inglés, but because of the neighborhood I live in, people will then start talking to me in Spanish and I'll be like no hablo span espanol either.

SPEAKER_00

We get Spanish speakers calling in all the time at work, and they're like inglés or español, and I'm all no espanol. They're like, Espanyol, please. Let me transfer you, hold on.

SPEAKER_01

I get made fun of at work by the Spanish Americans that work there or the Latinos, because I I'm like, I can I can use the bathroom and get myself a beer. Where's the bano and cerveza por favor? That's all I can say.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, I know bano, I know uh tequila, tequila, yeah. Um I know uno momento por favor.

SPEAKER_01

Means wait a second, right?

SPEAKER_00

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

But I can I So I can do I can do when somebody calls in and they're like they ask for Spanish, I can say uno momento por favor. And then they're gone. Yeah. And then I hang up on them. Just kidding, I don't do that.

SPEAKER_01

I send them to somebody who can You have to make that clear because I I think we have a lot of your your uh coworkers listen to us too.

SPEAKER_00

Uh yeah, I don't hang up on people in trouble. That was just an outburst of who knows where.

SPEAKER_01

Well, that's all I had. Mama, you got anything else for us?

SPEAKER_00

I know. It was a short and sweet, and here they are, and you know, kind of day. So make sure, make sure, make sure, ladies and gentlemen, that you like, subscribe, and click on our all our links and check everything out. And then of course, of course, drink your water. And what do we do, Coda?

SPEAKER_01

Talk to your therapist and wash your hands.

SPEAKER_00

Yes. Regardless of the picture.

SPEAKER_01

All right, guys, we'll talk to you later. Bye. Bye bye.

SPEAKER_00

Wait, wait, how much are they getting for it? I just have to shit my pants.

SPEAKER_01

Oh shit my pants.

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