Episode 57: The Lemon Effect

This week on Current Chatter with Kota & Losa, the struggle bus is fully loaded as Kota and Losa dive into one of the weirdest news weeks yet. They break down the shocking Denver airport runway tragedy involving a Frontier Airlines plane, the eerie reality of “DNA is forever” after another victim was linked to Ted Bundy decades later, and the internet’s latest panic over hantavirus.

Then things get even stranger. From a woman lifting over 166 pounds with her hair, to a man pulling a police car with his manhood while on fire, this episode spirals into the kind of chaotic conversation only Current Chatter can deliver. Kota also introduces a new “Myth vs. Facts” segment, tackling whether a penny dropped from the Empire State Building could actually kill someone.

Plus: lottery wins, bizarre medical stories, a motorcycle stuck on a traffic light, and the Canadian woman who allegedly terrorized her ex by sending him 1,847 lemons through DoorDash.

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

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 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. Hello, hello, hello. It's Friday afternoon. You know what that means. Current chatter with Coda and Losa. We're going without one. We're going without one. How you doing again? How you doing today, Takoda?

SPEAKER_01 0:54

I'm doing okay. You and I are on the struggle bus. I thought I was the captain of the struggle bus, but uh at least I know who my co-captain is today.

SPEAKER_00 1:04

I'm struggling. I don't know what is what I don't know what is wrong with me.

SPEAKER_01 1:08

Something in the air. Yep, yep, yep. So the craziest thing happened on Friday here in Denver. I sent you a little article on it, but I wanted to talk to you about it because I I got more information on it. Oh, really? Yeah. So late Friday afternoon or late Friday night, a Frontier Airlines flight 4345 was taking off from Denver headed to Los Angeles when the crew reported hitting a person on the runway. Authorities say the person was not an airport employee and had apparently breached the airport perimeter fence before getting on.

SPEAKER_00 1:43

Wait, hold on. The way they say that, he breached the like, make it sound like a terrorist, an act of terrorism of some kind. Well, you don't know what he was trying to do. That's true.

SPEAKER_01 1:54

You know?

SPEAKER_00 1:54

All right. Please continue.

SPEAKER_01 1:57

Uh he breached the airport perimeter fence before getting onto the active runway. The aircraft was an Airbus A as an Alpha 321 Nino with 224 passengers and seven crew members aboard. During the takeoff, the person That's a big plane. That is a big plane.

SPEAKER_00 2:15

It's a big plane.

SPEAKER_01 2:16

Yeah. During takeoff role, the person was struck and reportedly pulled into one of the engines. The impact caused a brief engine fire and smoke inside the cabin.

SPEAKER_00 2:28

You would Well, for the love of God, I would hope that it would create some type of hoopla. Not just like got sucked into it. And like there's nothing left. Like, how do you even identify?

SPEAKER_01 2:46

Yeah, I want to read more into it to see if there is anything left.

SPEAKER_00 2:48

But like, how do you even identify that?

SPEAKER_01 2:51

Mom, what's the one thing you say more than anything? DNA is forever.

SPEAKER_00 2:55

DNA is forever.

SPEAKER_01 2:56

Speaking of remind me to come back to that because I've got an instance of where DNA is forever after we talked about this. Okay. Pilots pilots aborted takeoff immediately, and emergency crews responded. Passengers evacuating using inflatable slides onto the runway. Around a dozen passengers suffered minor injuries during the evacuation, and several people were taken to the hospital, mostly for minor injuries. No passenger or crew was seriously hurt. Air traffic control audio and passenger accounts describe a chaotic scene with smoke in the cabin and the visible damage to the engine. Some reports mention controllers discussing limbs on the runway, which is why the story blew up online so fast. Multiple agencies are now investigating.

SPEAKER_00 3:42

This sounds like a really this sounds like the other side of a movie. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:48

Yeah, exactly. Like this is what happens if you don't, you know. Um, I got to hear recording from it, and it's just like the most eerie thing ever, because they're like, we just hit a passenger, and then air traffic control's like, what? And they're like, Yeah, there's a there's a fire, and he got sucked into the engine, but apparently there were limbs on the on the ground.

SPEAKER_00 4:08

And he was was he that calm?

SPEAKER_01 4:10

Uh he was actually pretty calm.

SPEAKER_00 4:11

I just don't underst I I how do you know? DNA? How do you know like you'll have his DNA? Well, his DNA is everywhere. Unfortunately.

SPEAKER_01 4:24

Isn't that the wildest thing ever?

SPEAKER_00 4:27

That is wild. I'm just, yeah. It's a bad day right there.

SPEAKER_01 4:32

Like that is a bad day at the office.

SPEAKER_00 4:34

Well, and then what was he thinking going out? Like we'll never know. Because, like, planes, you can't, you know, like I like a big plane like that one with 200 people on it, that's a big plane.

SPEAKER_01 4:49

Uh apparently, apparently there is video circulating online, including surveillance footage and passenger evacuation clips, but a lot of the reports are graphic or mixed with information. The core facts are what I was stating above.

SPEAKER_00 5:02

Oh that's a that's like I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 5:07

It's fucked up.

SPEAKER_00 5:08

I see an arm on the runway and I'm like, I'm being punked. I'm being punked.

SPEAKER_01 5:13

This is Where is Ashton? Bullshit. Where's Mr. Kutcher at right now?

SPEAKER_00 5:18

This is yeah, you're like, even even then, you're like, please let this be a joke.

SPEAKER_01 5:22

Yeah, exactly. So mom always says the DNA is forever. And about it is because about a month ago, they were able to verify with DNA another murder that Ted Bundy had done back in the 80s. Oh, really? Mm-hmm. So the body was discovered in 1974, um, and they weren't able to figure out who it was, but uh after using modern DNA testing, a 17-year-old uh Laura Ann Amy was uh was identified killed by um Ted Bundy. Disappearance in Utah on Halloween night in 1974, after leaving a party, her body was found weeks later at American Fort Canyon. Investigators had long suspected Bundy because he was living in Utah at the time and matched the pattern of his other crimes. So they're able to link it via DNA, physical evidence, but they couldn't fully analyze it.

SPEAKER_00 6:22

And why, Takoda? Why were they able to link it through DNA? Because DNA is forever. Exactly. Forever. Forever like and people don't people think uh that's funny. No, it's not funny. Like, don't be passing that shit around. Don't be like lining up and giving it away, like DNA's forever.

SPEAKER_01 6:44

So this just adds another body to his body count. But yeah. I think it was like under her fingernails or something. And back in the 1970s, DNA wasn't a thing. Oh yeah. No. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:55

Nobody knew what the ogleic, gliic acid or whatever. Yeah, I know the the last word is acid. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 7:04

Oh, you're talking about the definition of DNA, uh.

SPEAKER_00 7:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:07

I'm not I I could look it up, but I'm not gonna be able to to pronounce it, so I'm not even gonna draw.

SPEAKER_00 7:11

Yeah, you're fine.

SPEAKER_01 7:12

It's all good.

SPEAKER_00 7:13

You know who like the DNA? I know that this was so last week and we decided not to talk about it, but the hontivirus stuff, like stuff with that is like people are going crazy over that right now.

SPEAKER_01 7:26

Yeah, because they're getting COVID flashbacks.

SPEAKER_00 7:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:29

You can see it, it's like the noncopters going by.

SPEAKER_00 7:32

We are not gonna be isolated again. We are not gonna be isolated again. You don't know that? No, I highly doubt it.

SPEAKER_01 7:43

I think they should have just kept everybody on that boat until it worked its way out. Well, they were like out there for a couple of months, right?

SPEAKER_00 7:50

I don't know months, I'm not sure how long. Let me see. I have a thing. It doesn't say how long they were qu they quarantined on the boat with it. But it takes that three people died on the boat. But it could take up to like eight weeks for you to start showing symptoms. Yeah, while so they're being quarantined in Nebraska now.

SPEAKER_01 8:10

Nebraska? They were all in Switzerland. Why did they come here?

SPEAKER_00 8:13

Because it's Switzerland didn't want them either. All right. So I have been bald before. In my cancer fight, I lost all my hair. And I would like nothing more than to have beautiful strong hair. But it's all fallen out again because who knows? Who knows why?

SPEAKER_01 8:41

I think your hair falls out semi-glutide again.

SPEAKER_00 8:44

Yes, yes, it could be. But I there was this woman in Mexico who lifted 166.11 pounds with her hair. So she has her hair braided and with the braids tied up on this weight, she lifted 166 pounds and 11 ounces.

SPEAKER_01 9:08

Yeah. Can you imagine the neck muscles?

SPEAKER_00 9:12

I just think it's crazy. I want strong hair. Like, she got strong hair. Why can't I get some strong hair?

SPEAKER_01 9:19

Are you gonna go show off like that?

SPEAKER_00 9:22

If I had if I could do that with my hair, yes. Right now, like you blow past it with a with a strong wind and it and it pulls hair out of my scalp.

SPEAKER_01 9:32

It's like I don't have anything to hang on to. I'm done. This one's gonna throw you for a loop. Um, strong man, John Stefan, pulls car with his penis while body is on fire. Wow.

SPEAKER_00 9:46

Oh, his poor you know who I feel bad for?

SPEAKER_01 9:49

Who?

SPEAKER_00 9:49

His mother. Peace out, mama.

SPEAKER_01 9:56

Peace out. So John Stefeson, 50, hauled a two-ton French police car 40 meters or 131 feet along uh street using his manhood.

SPEAKER_00 10:12

Now, at what point do you think you know what I could do? It just like that's how that conversation started. You know what I think I can do? Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 10:20

Look what I can do.

SPEAKER_00 10:21

Some guy was like No, you can't. Whatever. And he was like, watch me. And you know what else? You can set me on fire.

SPEAKER_01 10:30

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 10:31

Just a weird, odd feats of strength. Now, did he get into like any like book of no notoriety, such as the Guinness Book of World Records, for what he did? He just does he just did it for the thrill of it.

SPEAKER_01 10:46

He did it for the vine.

SPEAKER_00 10:47

That was that was definitely a question mark.

SPEAKER_01 10:50

So he's a martial arts specialist and a former bare knuckle fighter, has previously made headlines for driving a vehicle using his testicles and towing a car while his head was engulfed in flames. Therefore, he chose to merge both stunts to headline men's mental health concerns and believes he is the sole person worldwide to accomplish such a remarkable achievement.

SPEAKER_00 11:11

Well, if it wasn't recorded and it's not on Twitter, then it doesn't exist.

SPEAKER_01 11:16

There's pictures. Oh I just like your testicles have like such thin skin, then why would you want to yank on them like that? Like there's different ways to castrate yourself.

SPEAKER_00 11:29

I just like I said, it just those are conversations that start with ever thought about trying this? Or you know what I thought about trying? It was with another guy, and the other guy was like, No, you can't do that.

SPEAKER_01 11:43

He says, I won't lie, it did hurt quite a bit, but my mind was so focused on being on fire, I just plunged on and pulled it for for the 40 meters.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

How far is 40 meters, really? 131 feet. So like almost two uh one and a half uh football fields. That's a that's some distance. I'm gonna give it to him. I was thinking, uh 40 meters. You know that I couldn't I couldn't pull my big butt 40 meters, much less like setting me on fire.

SPEAKER_01 12:20

Yeah, plus setting you on fire. Uh right. Yeah, I don't know what's worse. The penis, the testicles are being lit on fire, but according to him, being lit on fire was his main concern.

SPEAKER_00 12:31

That is so bizarre.

SPEAKER_01 12:32

And I just Was that on your bingo card?

SPEAKER_00 12:35

That was not on my bingo card of Well, neither was your Denver story, so which I'm just I feel bad for that dude's mama too.

SPEAKER_01 12:46

I want to know what he was doing, the guy in Denver. Like what his thought process was.

SPEAKER_00 12:51

The thing is, is the sad thing is it's gonna have this big blow up because it's this big thing that, oh my gosh, look at this happened, and then it's gonna die, and we'll never know the answer. We'll never get the answers that we we so we rightfully demand as purveyors of the news. The truth.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

So you remember when dad was having those irregular heartbeats? Uh-huh. Well, a doctor accidentally fixed a patient's irregular heartbeat by sticking a finger in an unsuspected place. No, I saw this. So the guy goes in for a rectal exam and he's had these heart conditions, and when the doctor stuck his finger in his butt, it cured his his irregular heartbeat.

SPEAKER_00 13:35

Probably because his heart stopped for half a second.

SPEAKER_01 13:38

Yeah, probably. So next time dad's complaining about his heart, just Uh, no.

SPEAKER_00 13:42

No, no, thank you. I'm sorry, you're gonna die of a heart attack. I'm kidding. If it was life or death, I would stick my finger in his butt. But if it's not life or death, then he's gonna have to, he's gonna have to take care of things on his own. Like, that is not in the job description under sickness and in health. If any of the listeners out there know one thing about Coda is that he loves to get the he loves to play the the ponies. Not the ponies, that's what they call it. You play you play with the ponies because you like to gamble.

SPEAKER_01 14:24

What? I've never heard that saying before.

SPEAKER_00 14:26

You haven't ever heard playing with the ponies? No. Oh, I hope it's not bad. So maybe you shouldn't say it then. Right? It's just one of the sayings that I've heard, I've heard growing up. I don't know if it's bad or not. It's just me you betting with the ponies. You throwing some money down with the ponies. So, like for the ponies, the the rust, the horse, the horses, racers.

SPEAKER_01 14:55

That's what it is. I just pictured Monty Python when they're clacking the coconuts. You're trying to come up with the thing.

SPEAKER_00 15:02

I hate Monty Python. I fight me on this. Because, oh my gosh, I think they are the that the Monty Python movies, just none of them made any sense. You smell of elderberries. So stupid.

SPEAKER_01 15:22

I do love it.

SPEAKER_00 15:23

You have a good lotto ticket.

SPEAKER_01 15:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:25

So a woman in North Carolina bought her very first $5 scratch-off lotto ticket and won $200,000. Bitch.

SPEAKER_01 15:38

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 15:39

She says when she realized it, she wants Peter Pants, but now they're gonna invest it. Her and her husband are gonna invest it in a food truck. So at least they're not like, they're not like throw we're gonna buy a house. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:51

I would just pay off debt.

SPEAKER_00 15:53

Right?

SPEAKER_01 15:54

Pay off debt and taxes, because you're gonna be taxed quite a bit.

SPEAKER_00 15:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:58

Yeah. But still, $200,000, Dakota. That could be yours and your next $5 scratch off.

SPEAKER_01 16:04

I I my big wins have all been on my $10 scratch offs, and I've only won $500, but I've won that twice.

SPEAKER_00 16:11

It's still not bad.

SPEAKER_01 16:12

No.

SPEAKER_00 16:12

Like I would be I would be a scratch lotto fiend if I lived in a state where we were allowed to do that.

SPEAKER_01 16:20

It's it's it's a slippery slope for s for sure. Like totally. It's super easy to to to get caught down there, rabbit. I don't think it would take that much money to start a food truck, do you?

SPEAKER_00 16:32

Well, that's what she said. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 16:34

I bet you she'll keep playing too. Of course. Gotta chase that high, man. So one of the things mom started was she has her own little segment called What Do You Mean? So I wanted to do a little segment called Myth versus Facts. So I was scouring the internet on myths that I've heard before and the facts to them. Here's one that I'd always heard, but I never really looked into. If you drop a penny from an Empire State Building, would it kill someone if it landed on their head? It's a myth. Yeah. But the science behind it is that the penny gets going so fast that it just shoots through someone, you know, kind of like a bullet.

SPEAKER_00 17:12

Right. But you have stu you have to terminal velocity of an item, right?

SPEAKER_01 17:16

Yep. That's exactly what it is. The idea that a penny drop from a tall building can be lethal is a myth. The penny wouldn't reach a lethal speed due to air resistance and the terminal velocity. It wouldn't cause harm to the person below.

SPEAKER_00 17:30

I seem so smart just then. Can you believe that? I'm so glad we were we were recording.

SPEAKER_01 17:37

The idea that a penny drop from the Empire State Building could kill someone is a total myth. While it might sting if it hits you, it physically cannot gather enough speed or force to be lethal. It would probably only reach about 25 to 65 miles per hour. That's faster than I would have thought it would go. Yeah. A penny weighing 2.5 grams, even at 65 miles per hour, simply does not have enough kinetic energy to penetrate the human skull or cause fatal injuries.

SPEAKER_00 18:06

Huh. That's a good one. That's what I thought. So a motorcycle, a motorcyclist is struck on the street, and the might the motorcycle flips into the air and gets caught on the stop sign. Like upside down. It's the wildest thing in the world.

SPEAKER_01 18:24

It's probably like it's the stop light. So it's like what, what would you say? More than 20 feet up in the air. Oh yeah. So the way it's it's caught, it's the front handlebars have just flipped over the bar holding the um traffic.

SPEAKER_00 18:36

The video I sent you on TikTok, it's an actual video of it happening.

SPEAKER_01 18:40

Oh shit. Is it wild? It's wild. Okay. Uh okay, I'm gonna go look at it real quick. Yeah, all you said is holy crap. Maybe I'll post the video too. Oh.

SPEAKER_00 18:55

And then you blink a couple times to try to register where everything is, and you're like, what the heck? How'd they get it down? It's a good question. Still, items.

SPEAKER_01 19:04

That dude went flying.

SPEAKER_00 19:05

Yes. Items that well, it's a motorcycle against a car. Like, where is he supposed to go? Up. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:15

Holy shit.

SPEAKER_00 19:16

Happened in British Columbia.

SPEAKER_01 19:17

If anybody's interested. Canada's on a roll, because this one's in Canada also.

SPEAKER_00 19:22

Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 19:23

A 32-year-old woman pleads guilty in Canada's first ever DoorDash psychological warfare case. Okay. Where she sent her ex 1,847 orders of exactly one lemon.

SPEAKER_00 19:40

How many lemons? How many?

SPEAKER_01 19:42

1,847.

SPEAKER_00 19:45

Is that like how long they were had been together?

SPEAKER_01 19:48

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 19:49

That's a random number.

SPEAKER_01 19:50

Maybe she ran out of cash.

SPEAKER_00 19:52

Can you imagine? Like the a lawyer asks, What what did you do with your life savings? I bought lemons and sent them to my bo my ex.

SPEAKER_01 20:00

So she did this in a total of uh 241 days.

SPEAKER_00 20:08

Still more than one lemon a day.

SPEAKER_01 20:10

Yeah. Lemons were sourced from 247 different restaurants and grocery stores. Lemon types included 1,400 standard yellow lemons, 41 Meyer lemons for warmth, 15 limes to keep him guessing, one single baguette described in court as elegant. Delivery instructions were hand it to him directly. He will know. Tell him she remembers.

SPEAKER_00 20:40

Can you imagine?

SPEAKER_01 20:42

Fourteen of them arrived exactly at 11 47 p.m. One arrived during his job interview. One arrived at a hospital while he was visiting his father.

SPEAKER_00 20:52

Good night.

SPEAKER_01 20:54

The defense argued the deliveries were fruit and therefore non-threatening. The judge did not agree.

SPEAKER_00 21:01

Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 21:04

She used 11 burner DoorDash accounts to continue. One driver said only the lemon guy before walking away. The judge muttered, the baguette though, during evidence. Cole's new partner has reportedly developed a fear of yellow. Asked for when asked for a comment, um, the defendant said, He said I made everything sour. I let him decide for himself. She did not appear to fully understand it was a problem. Cole reached for a comment and said only, I have a job, I have a girlfriend, I didn't ask for this.

SPEAKER_00 21:44

Poor guy. He had to have done something. Sorry, but I can't I can't believe the new partners developed a fear of yellow.

SPEAKER_01 21:55

She liked twitching. Like, what's gonna happen when fall comes and all the leaves turn yellow?

SPEAKER_00 22:03

Oh. She's gonna walk around twitching all the wild. Oh my gosh. All right, you got anything more for me today, Coda?

SPEAKER_01 22:16

I don't. This is a short, quick one. Thank goodness everything kept together. Hopefully the audio sounds good with our struggles in the beginning with craziness. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Alright, guys. As always, please remember to like, share, subscribe, comment, and tell all your friends about current chatter. Remember to drink your water and talk to your therapist, and we will see you next time. Bye. Bye bye.

SPEAKER_00 22:40

I bet he owns a kangaroo. In Texas.