Episode 63: Did You Misplace Your Giraffe?

This week on Current Chatter, Kota and Losa dive into another unpredictable mix of headlines and hot topics. They discuss the sentencing of a controversial false prophet, the growing obsession with Buc-ee's, World Cup fever, and why rugby players might just be the toughest athletes on the planet. They also cover a rescued pony living in a fourth-floor apartment, a missing giraffe in Texas, an outrageous Ferris wheel incident, and take a moment to recognize those affected by devastating heat waves, wildfires, and flooding around the world, it's a conversation full of laughs, opinions, and a little bit of everything.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:01

Hello everyone, and welcome to Current Chatter, Two Generations, One Noisy World, the podcast where we talk about the stories that make you laugh, question reality, and wonder how the world somehow keeps getting weirder by the day. I'm Losa, and if this is your first time here, settle in because every week, me and my son Dakota will dive into the strange, the trending, the unbelievable, and the headlines that leave us all with a collectively asking us why. From bizarre news stories and internet chaos to current events, pop culture madness, and the topics everyone can't stop talking about. Nothing is off limits here. If it's shocking, ridiculous, fascinating, controversial, or just plain confusing, we're probably talking about it. This podcast is part of commentary, part chaos, and part group therapy for people trying to survive modern life one headline at a time. So whether you're driving, cleaning your house, hiding from your responsibility, or just looking for a break from the insanity of the world around you, I'm glad you're here. Get comfortable, grab a drink, and let's get into current chatter.

SPEAKER_01 1:13

What's going on, guys? It's current chatter time with Kota and Melosa. As always, I'm here with Mama. Mama, how are you doing today?

SPEAKER_00 1:19

I'm excellent today, Takoda. How are you? I am over meeting caffeine.

SPEAKER_01 1:25

Yes, we are. This is pretty early for us to record. I have pride today, so we had to record a little bit earlier so I can go do gay stuff with gay people.

SPEAKER_00 1:33

You're looking forward to it, admit it.

SPEAKER_01 1:35

I didn't say I wasn't. I'm definitely looking forward to it. But I've got an Enzo with me. He is being extra needy this morning. He will not leave my side. He is glued in my lap. So if you hear him purring or pawn at me, it's just he wants my attention and doesn't want me to give it to anybody else. So our favorite false prophet got sentenced. He is going to be serving a 50-year federal prison sentence for child sex crimes and has been convicted on the on three child abuse charges in Arizona. Charges stem from an August 2022 traffic stop. If you remember right, that's where they found the three girls uh locked up in the back of a cargo trailer. And you can just kind of see their fingers sticking out of it. But yeah, he got 50 years to life.

SPEAKER_00 2:23

Yeah. Here's the thing that I find ironic, because I read that story, is that he said, I didn't think that they I thought that they had gotten out of the trailer. I didn't realize they were even in there, is was his excuse for why they were there. And the girls had already complained and said that he put him in there. So it's his word against theirs. And of course their word is a little bit more reliable than his because he's such a word in What's an arrogant fuck. Um he just thinks he's God. So anybody with that kind of complex has issues with reality.

SPEAKER_01 2:55

Definitely, definitely. But I saw that pop up yesterday. Actually, Rin sent it to me and I was like, nice. Yeah. Gas sentenced say he's going to jail for a long, long time. I don't think he'll get out of jail. I don't see that guy living another 50 years, do you? Especially not in jail.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

That's a tough one. You know, some people thrive in jail.

SPEAKER_01 3:13

Um, I I think some people do thrive in jail, but I think that it's another thing if you're convicted of sex crimes on children. I don't think that those people last very long in jail. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:24

Yeah, I don't think they do either. I have to agree with you on that. So Dakota, I have a question for you. Oh, okay. There you have a Bucky's in Den in not in Denver, just outside of Denver, correct? So apparently they're trying to build a new one and it's like breaking the internet. Of course, that's what they say it's breaking the internet with. They're saying that it's tearing Colorado apart by building a second Buckeys. So the roads that are traveling to the new Buckeys that they want, they're gonna have to divert traffic. And the diversion of the traffic will make it so people don't see the lakes, and that's what the brings in the income is all the lake activity. So um it was very interesting to read it because I don't know if you've been following like the World Cup for soccer at all. I haven't been following it, but I have seen quite a lot on it. Yeah. So the people from Europe are making stops at Bucky's as a vacation destination. They're like, while we're here, we have to go to a Bucky's and we have to do this and that. And I'm like, that is crazy that people want to go to a gas station. Like, I want to go to a Bucky's really bad. Have you ever been?

SPEAKER_01 4:27

Yeah, I've been to Bucky's quite a few times. It's fantastic. I can see why they would make it a stop, honestly. It's crazy. It's it's ginormous. Really? It's totally worth it. I wouldn't like necessarily make a whole vacation around a Bucky's like these guys are, but I definitely like if there's one in in the area, I definitely am gonna check it out. Like, aren't you guys getting one in American Fork?

SPEAKER_00 4:50

Yeah, but I'm here's the thing is they're building it now and it's supposed to open in like a year and a half or something. It's gonna be packed. Like, when is it not gonna be packed? Like, uh, you know, me and crowds. I don't do well with crowds. Can you imagine how busy it's gonna be?

SPEAKER_01 5:04

Yeah, I I can because I've seen a Bucky super busy. And that just means you gotta come out here to go to a Bucky's. Just come out here, we'll go to the Buckys here. It'll still be crazy. But totally worth it. That is funny.

SPEAKER_00 5:16

Well, this leads on to my next story with the World Cup, the drama around the World Cup. Like, it's just been so fascinating. And uh US is playing again tomorrow to be really, really good. Is that why it's such a big deal this year? It's because we're in the World Cup. No, it's because it's here in the United States. You it's all over the world. This year it's just in the United States. The FIFA World Cup. I thought the World Cup was one game. I apologize to all our fans out there who are listening, don't follow sports very very closely. So I thought the World Cup was just one game that they were gonna have like in LA and not uh a bracket system game of like all the games that they have all over the United States. People are traveling here from um all over the world just to watch a soccer game. It's craziness. It's pretty good though, right? Yeah, so it's interesting to see uh the differences bet around the World Cup. Even though we lost our last game, the next game um the center, so we have to win the next one.

SPEAKER_01 6:13

Have to, have to, have to. I can't imagine the kind of crazy endurance you have to have to play soccer. Like that constant running back and forth, I would die. There's no way. There's no way.

SPEAKER_00 6:22

Just back and forth. It's just back and forth. It's like run to one side, run to the other side. Run to one side, run to the other side. I do not get it. I don't get how people are so in love with um soccer. It doesn't make any sense, and it doesn't make any sense to me. I think I like rugby. Rugby's tough. Like I've watched some female rugby matches. It's brutal.

SPEAKER_01 6:45

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 6:46

And the women are just as bad as the guys.

SPEAKER_01 6:48

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you they're built different. Like those people that do the rugby, they're built different. On my Facebook feed, I've been seeing a lot of them. Like Polynesians, they do like the rugby stop, you know how someone's running and then someone tries to stop, and they're just like it's like two semi-trucks just colliding into each other, watching these big poly men. And they like come to a dead stop, and neither of them fall or anything like that. They just like it's like a dead stop. Like Murphy's Law does not exist when two Polynesians collide together. They just completely stop. Nothing stays in motion.

SPEAKER_00 7:22

Like the world stops for just a quarter of a second to be like, what the hell just happened?

SPEAKER_01 7:28

And they hit each other hard. For women's rugby is just as brutal, if not more brutal.

SPEAKER_00 7:33

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 7:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:34

It's craziness. Yeah. Definitely. Rugby is rugby is a fun sh to watch because it's I think that they should at least wear a helmet, but they don't wear any protective gear, and they are brutal. They will like pick you up and slam you into the ground.

SPEAKER_01 7:50

Or pick you up and run with you on their shoulder. Yeah. Right.

SPEAKER_00 7:53

The one girl she won Dancing with the stars. I can't remember her name right now off the top of my head, but she's a Red B player. You should follow her. She does the craziest stuff. Like she just like barrels through people. Like she'll have she'll have like three or four people hanging off of her and she'll just keep running. Hold on. They are built different. Red B players are way built differently. Red Her name was Ilona Ayer.

SPEAKER_01 8:16

She's the big tall white lady, right?

SPEAKER_00 8:18

She is a big tall. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:20

Big tall lady, yeah. And muscular shit, right? Just ripped. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 8:25

She just did um uh Victoria's Secret walk, where she walked down the aisle in a bathing suit and she was like attacked her for the suit that she was wearing, the bathing suit, that it was so unflattering, and she's like, I'm the one who picked it out, you know, because they were like, whoever picked that outfit out for her needs to be shot, and blah blah blah, and blah blah blah. And Jesus. She's like, I'm the one who picked it out. I thought I looked good in it. Obviously, some things need to be corrected, but I picked this out. So the rest of you can just go ahead and, you know, stuff it where the sun don't shine.

SPEAKER_01 8:59

That's classic. Exactly. Mm-hmm. Good for her for sticking up for herself. And honestly, like, I wouldn't want to get on that lady's bad side. I'm pretty sure she could turn me into a pretzel.

SPEAKER_00 9:08

Like, without even trying very hard.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

Exactly. So everybody's had bad neighbors, right? We've all had an experience with a bad neighbor.

SPEAKER_00 9:16

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

Some are are worse than others. Well, how would you feel about a pony living in your apartment complex on the fourth floor?

SPEAKER_00 9:24

Things that make you go, hmm. Like, why? Why are people so weird? You know what? The thing that I've really learned doing this podcast is people are really weird. You know?

SPEAKER_01 9:37

And I thought I had a good grip on how weird people are, but surprise us every week.

SPEAKER_00 9:43

All right, read the story. Let's hear about this pony on the fourth floor.

SPEAKER_01 9:46

Okay. A month-old pony moves to a fourth floor apartment in Coterita. Neighbors don't mind. The neighbors don't mind. Oh, okay. Uh month-old pony named Mealy is the newest resident of an apartment building in northern Crochon, coastal town. Uh, Mealy has moved in temporarily to his owner's fourth floor flat because his mother rejected him at birth. He also needs round-the-clock care after undergoing an operation for a life-threatening infection in the neighboring city where people donated to cover the cost for his treatment. So it sounds like this pony's gone through some shit and the town knows about it, and they're like, of course he can come live in the apartment.

SPEAKER_00 10:29

That makes that makes sense. It's it's different when you first said the story, it sounded like, you know, some cracked out person is keeping a pony for some reason, but no, this makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 10:42

It's yeah. It goes on to say, every two hours we won't warm up his milk and feed him. The owner says, uh, if we forget to feed him, he wakes up, comes to us, and rouses us up. The owner lives in a one-bedroom flat with her partner and her two sons and a dog and now Mealy. That's that's a full house. That is a full house. Where is this at? It's a town in Rove Rovinge. I don't know what continent that is on. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 11:11

Yeah, because in different in different countries they have like par they have where families live together all the time, forever.

SPEAKER_01 11:19

So it may just be a cultural thing. The unusual newcomer has drawn attention to the neighborhood, but no one has complained yet. The owner is hopeful Millie will recover fully as he now eats well and has gained approximately 2.2 pounds. He seems cheerful with a strong desire to suckle, eat, and fight. What?

SPEAKER_00 11:39

He is a fighting pony?

SPEAKER_01 11:40

I guess so. The first night the vet thought there was no hope and wanted to put him down, she said. I said, let's try until the morning. The family runs a small ranch and playroom for children with llamas, pigs, horses, and sheep. So it sounds like they're just trying to give this pony a fighting chance. But yeah, when you read that, when you read the the article name, you're like, what the fuck is going on here? Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 12:01

Well, talking about animals, did you hear about Gracie the giraffe finally being located in Texas? She was missing for several days.

SPEAKER_01 12:09

I was gonna say I heard that she was missing. I didn't know they found her. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 12:12

Authorities described her as a safe as safe and in good shape. I just don't know how, you know, the only place in the United States where you could lose a giraffe would be Texas because it's such a wide open space. But there wouldn't like, how do you how do you misplace a giraffe? Like, I'm pretty like I'm I wouldn't, I would saw a giraffe just wounding. She's just a baby, but she's gonna be a little bit more than a big kangaroo.

SPEAKER_01 12:38

Yeah, kangaroos. I basically they have kangaroos where the giraffes are. Probably. So how long she was you said she was missing for several days. She just like was off on her own doing her own thing.

SPEAKER_00 12:47

A young giraffe named Gracie was found safe after being missing for days in the Texas Hill Country. She had escaped from Cedar Hollow Ranch and was eventually located on a neighboring property several miles away. Authorities described her as safe and in good shape. And only in Texas can you lose a giraffe and then explain that to the sheriff. Yeah, I would I would love to hear that that 911 call.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

Yeah, I would love to hear that. Like right?

SPEAKER_00 13:14

It's like, um, but how about not that as much as I would love to hear somebody calling and be like, you're not gonna believe this, but I just drove by a giraffe walking down the street all alone by itself.

SPEAKER_01 13:32

And I promise I have not had any substances.

SPEAKER_00 13:35

Right. And so thought I would report it. I thought somebody should know about it.

unknown 13:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:42

Somebody, I you know, or how, or if like you're like cracked out or something, or smoking or something, and you see that, you're like, for the love of the Lord, please tell me there's a real giraffe there and it's not just my imagination. Right? Right. That would be terrifying. No, but she's safe and sound now. I like I said, the only place you could lose a giraffe would be in Texas because it's such wide open space.

SPEAKER_01 14:08

Like I just I think Florida, you could lose a giraffe in Florida. You could lose almost with the swamps and whatnot.

SPEAKER_00 14:15

I just wonder if like I just picture in my head, and this might be just so inappropriate, but I just picture it wearing like a like a hat and a mustache, you know, like um a good a disguise, a giraffe disguise. I just picture that in my head and it trotting down the street in its little disguise and being like, nobody knows me. Like a tweet suit or something. Exactly. Like the tweet wearing frogs, frogs. It's a tweet wearing giraffe. Yeah, yeah. Oh white, yeah, white. But all right, what else you got for us today, Dakota?

SPEAKER_01 14:55

So there's there's like some norms to like writing a Ferris wheel. Like you don't toss things off the top, you don't spit off the top, right? There are just like rules that you don't do when you're on a Ferris wheel, right? Just like common knowledge. It's like you don't take your shoes off when you're in the in an airplane. You just don't do that. Or you or you don't like have hard-boiled eggs on an airplane or tuna a tuna fish sandwich. You know, they're just like right some social things you don't do.

SPEAKER_00 15:23

Just some un unwritten laws of the world. Yes, right?

SPEAKER_01 15:27

Yes. Yeah, they're the like, yeah, just like the social norm. Just like be courteous. Well, a British couple is being investigated for having sex on a Ferris wheel.

SPEAKER_00 15:35

Ugh. People are so just people are nasty. That's nasty. Do you know like how many people are in and out of a Ferris wheel container? Ugh. DNA is forever.

SPEAKER_01 15:53

The not yet identified couple was caught with their pants down in the festival over the past weekend. They say Britain is a free country, but some new evidence begs the contrary. A couple is currently being investigated by British police after allegedly having sex in a Ferris wheel at Download Festival. An open air, rock, and metal event held each June on the night of June 13th. Fans gathered to wait for an enormous three-hour set by headliners Guns N' Roses with nothing else to do. A daring couple took matters into their own hands and decided to get freaky in one of the Ferris Wheel's vacant pods. All I can think is they thought the glass was tinted, but it wasn't at all. It actually is very spotless. Uh, you can see everything. I just hope they clean the cabin after they got out of it. So they finished. That's nasty.

SPEAKER_00 16:49

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 16:50

Nasty. What the fuck? Okay, public sex is not illegal in England. So long as it does not take place in public restrooms, indecent exposure is a crime, and multiple witnesses reported seeing the couple's intimate part.

SPEAKER_00 17:03

That's so funny. It's like it's not against the law to have sex in public, it's against the law to be naked in public.

SPEAKER_01 17:08

The first rotation of the wheel, people thought he was standing behind her with his arms wrapped around her. A witness told the star. But as it got lower, somebody shouted, I see her pants pulled aside. The witness did credit the duo for bringing the crowd together, creating a jovial atmosphere and chaotic waiting for the for the band to come on stage. The police, however, weren't taking any part of the fun. Officers are aware of the video on social media. What? Of the two people committed. So they filmed it. I can't believe that. So my goodness.

SPEAKER_00 17:46

People just are people are insane. My last bit of information that I want to go over today is I just want to send out a heartfelt condolence. I'm gonna get upset. Sorry, I don't know why. Um Europe is currently going through a heat wave, and over a thousand deaths have been associated with it because of the excess of heat in Europe.

SPEAKER_01 18:06

Holy crap.

SPEAKER_00 18:07

The wild thought the wild yeah, the wild thought fires here in Utah have claimed several lives of firefighters who are running into the fire, not running away from it. And it's just and then there were four people killed in the Kentucky floodings. So all over the United States, all over the world currently, there's unfortunate situations that are weather, they're all weather related, unfortunately, that are taking people's lives. And I just want from a current chatter just to send out a heartfelt condolence to the family and friends that are affected by these harsh weather conditions that are happening.

SPEAKER_01 18:46

Nicely spoken, Mala.

SPEAKER_00 18:47

You're welcome. Yeah, it's just so it's so awful. Just the record heat wave. Yeah, they don't have did you know they don't use air conditioning in Europe? I don't know how you live without air conditioning, especially in the summer. It's ridiculous. It's craziness.

SPEAKER_01 19:00

It's like No. Our power yesterday shut off at like four o'clock because I they just don't care about our power grid where I'm at. Like our our power goes off a lot where we're at. And they were like, it's gonna, so it went off at at four, and they're like, we may have it up at like 7.15. And it's like a hundred, it was 101 yesterday. So in the middle of the heat, our power shut off. So we have no AC coming through the house. And within 15 minutes, our house was 81 degrees, and I was like, we gotta get the fuck out of here. And the cats, well, Enzo was super happy with it. He's like, Oh, this is a perfect temperature for the house, and I'm like sweating and dying. I'm using I'm using like a we have like one of those big pizza round discs or uh discs, uh oven things so we can cook pizza. And I I was grabbing that and fanning rent off because I knew if I was hot they were boiling and yeah, it was it was rough. So we ended up just going over to a friend's house and stealing their AC.

SPEAKER_00 19:55

Yeah, you can't live in a house that with no AC 101 degrees outside. That's ridiculous. That's why people are dying because they don't have it, they they're not able to cool off. I have suffered from heat stroke about three times in my life, and one of those times I seriously thought I was gonna die. It's like the worst sensation ever. This is how I die. Like my head was pounding, I was vomiting, like projectile vomiting. I was I like got in a cold shower. I could not cool off. Your core temperature gets so hot, you cannot cool yourself off.

SPEAKER_01 20:27

It is awful. That heat sickness, yeah. It's there blew it's the worst.

SPEAKER_00 20:32

You think like with heat, like cold, you like you're cold and then you fall asleep and you die. But with heat, you can't sleep. You're just so uncomfortable. And no heat stroke, like I said, I've had it like three times. One time I remember that I really thought I thought this is the end. This is I'm this is what this is what does me in heat stroke.

SPEAKER_01 20:53

And this is why I stay inside with AC. Luxumer. I hate it. I could stay inside. Total outside. Yeah, I hate it. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. I hate the heat. I hate it so fucking mud. I don't have anything else. A nice, sweet, short episode. I do want to apologize for missing out last week. We had some scheduling hiccups, and the new episode of House of the Dragons came out last weekend, and I wasn't missing the water. Oh, and how is that? Oh, so good. Oh my god, it was so good. I'm missing today's, so I may not be socially active on social media uh because I have to stay away because I do not want any spoilers or I will Yeah, you don't want to be spoiled for that.

SPEAKER_00 21:40

So when are you gonna be able to watch it?

SPEAKER_01 21:41

We decide to watch it Tuesday with some friends, so I've got to stay off of social media all day Monday and all day Tuesday, and then I can because like with like the House of Dragons and the Knight of the Seven Kingdom Lord or Game of Thrones, stuff like that. I also listen to like the podcasts after the episodes come out, and they go over that where they talk with like the director and some of the actors and and then I'll like deep dive on uh different theories that are happening. Yeah, I get it. Yeah, it's the uh the official Game of Thrones podcast. It's one that's HBO puts together. Yeah, it's just it's just called I think it's yeah, Game of Thrones podcast.

SPEAKER_00 22:19

That's cool.

SPEAKER_01 22:19

Yeah, cool. All right.

SPEAKER_00 22:20

Well, don't forget everyone to like, share, subscribe, and definitely, definitely, definitely interact with us. We love that. Do we have any questions from fans today, Dakota? We do not. Yeah, nope, none today. No questions this week. Make sure that if you have questions, that you post them in the comment section and we will get back to you. Another an interesting thing that we need to um publicly acknowledge is that you'll be in town, Utah, in November. And so maybe we should do a pot a live podcast, plan for a live podcast the day before Thanksgiving, since you'll be Utah.

unknown 22:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:58

So let's try that.

SPEAKER_01 22:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:59

Okay. So cool. Sounds like aone. Don't forget to uh drink your water and talk to your therapist and make sure that uh, like you said, you like, share, and subscribe. And have a great day. Bye. Bye-bye. What's it look like when she's given head? Like just like the eye just the eye spinning in her head. That's a little odd to go.