Latest / Chuck Douglas / Abundant Life shooting update and scary phone tracking tech
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- 0:06Speaker 1: Greeting salutations. Welcome my friends to another edition of the
- 0:10Speaker 1: Power Out. Do you allegedly know who you are? We
- 0:13Speaker 1: take it from there my number eight two one nine
- 0:16Speaker 1: eight eighty six eight two one WTVN or eight hundred
- 0:20Speaker 1: and sixty ten WTVN. Hang on, I'm trying to sign
- 0:22Speaker 1: into my sign into my all important email here because
- 0:26Speaker 1: you know, you you never know. Occasionally I do get
- 0:29Speaker 1: some emails, not very often anymore. People are all about
- 0:33Speaker 1: Messenger and posting on social media, But occasionally I do
- 0:36Speaker 1: get some emails. Do you ever get emails here except
- 0:38Speaker 1: for me and Mark? No?
- 0:40Speaker 2: But you guys are the only people I email, So.
- 0:44Speaker 1: I'm just it's kind of gone by the wayside.
- 0:47Speaker 2: I get something from my dad here and there for
- 0:51Speaker 2: videos to watch, but really not very much. Yeah, it's
- 0:54Speaker 2: it's instant messenger if somebody wants to get a hold
- 0:57Speaker 2: of me.
- 0:57Speaker 1: It's just kind of funny that the technical evolution that
- 1:00Speaker 1: we had has moved so quickly. It wasn't all that
- 1:04Speaker 1: long ago email was it, And then you know, messengers
- 1:08Speaker 1: took over, and then texting took over from there, and
- 1:10Speaker 1: email is kind of a dinosaur now, like CDs, where
- 1:14Speaker 1: this big advancement and being able to listen to music
- 1:17Speaker 1: and no scratchy sound, and all the NCDs are all
- 1:21Speaker 1: but forgotten. DVDs the same way everything is streaming. We're
- 1:25Speaker 1: moving so blasted fast. Just it's it's weird.
- 1:30Speaker 2: Did you ever have any of those instant messengers like
- 1:32Speaker 2: on your computer?
- 1:33Speaker 1: Yes? I did. I had Yahoo, I had AOL.
- 1:35Speaker 2: Yeah, I had AOL too, and uh.
- 1:38Speaker 1: I don't even remember user names now. Are they still
- 1:42Speaker 1: out there? Can you still use those?
- 1:43Speaker 2: No? Because there I had hot mail one which it
- 1:47Speaker 2: was MSN Messenger, yes, and then there was AOL and
- 1:51Speaker 2: I tried. For some reason, I was thinking about a
- 1:55Speaker 2: wave of nostalgia hit me, so I was like, I'm
- 1:57Speaker 2: going to go look at my old conversations.
- 1:59Speaker 1: Just do it.
- 2:00Speaker 2: Yes, And you couldn't sign back in like they're all deleted,
- 2:03Speaker 2: they're all gone.
- 2:06Speaker 1: I still have a MySpace account. I have no idea
- 2:08Speaker 1: how to get into that either.
- 2:10Speaker 2: I I had a MySpace. I don't know if it's
- 2:13Speaker 2: I think MySpace is all about music now, it's not
- 2:17Speaker 2: like Facebook. It's for bands and stuff.
- 2:19Speaker 1: But again, were those were the hot things. That's what
- 2:21Speaker 1: everybody was. And it just goes so quickly So anyway,
- 2:26Speaker 1: it is Chuck Douglas at iHeartMedia dot com. By the way,
- 2:29Speaker 1: if you want to send an email about anything, I'm
- 2:32Speaker 1: on the Facebook, Chuck Douglas on Twitter X whatever you
- 2:35Speaker 1: want to call that, it's Chuck d Talker. I'm also
- 2:40Speaker 1: on Instagram and Truth. But i have no idea what
- 2:41Speaker 1: the things are. I've got a TikTok and I don't
- 2:43Speaker 1: even know what that is. So everything's on autopilot in
- 2:47Speaker 1: my phone, so it scans my face and says, yeah,
- 2:51Speaker 1: that's you. And I don't have to remember user names
- 2:53Speaker 1: and passwords for anything. And I like it that way
- 2:55Speaker 1: because quite frankly, I don't want to think about stuff
- 3:01Speaker 1: like that. I'm sick of passwords. I'm sick of the
- 3:04Speaker 1: mandatory changes. The passwords that I create for my stuff
- 3:09Speaker 1: are so complicated the KGB could not get into them.
- 3:15Speaker 1: I'm telling you that. But you know, federal law requires
- 3:18Speaker 1: workplace emails and so forth. Every ninety days you have
- 3:21Speaker 1: to change your password, and it gets annoying because eventually
- 3:25Speaker 1: you begin forgetting your own stuff.
- 3:27Speaker 2: Yeah mineor simple passwords that I still forget them when
- 3:30Speaker 2: I have to read.
- 3:31Speaker 1: And then and then they suggest, well, put it in
- 3:33Speaker 1: your digital wallet. Well, then whatever company has that database
- 3:37Speaker 1: gets hacked and all your stuff is out there anyway.
- 3:40Speaker 1: And to sign into, you know, sign into your email. Here,
- 3:44Speaker 1: I've got to sign in on the computer. Then the
- 3:47Speaker 1: computer has to send a message to my phone. I
- 3:50Speaker 1: then have to sign into my phone. Then I have
- 3:53Speaker 1: to put the number in my phone that is on
- 3:55Speaker 1: my computer to verify that it's me. Really, it's just
- 4:00Speaker 1: my email. For goodness sake, it's just a little much.
- 4:04Speaker 1: I am going during the course of the show today.
- 4:05Speaker 1: By the way, I'm going to say something positive about
- 4:07Speaker 1: Ohio Governor Mike Dwain. So if you're on blood pressure
- 4:10Speaker 1: meds or anything, you might want to just take those now.
- 4:13Speaker 1: I know it's unusual, but he did something that I
- 4:18Speaker 1: think was a good thing, the right thing, a surprising thing. Nonetheless,
- 4:23Speaker 1: he did it, and I want to bring that to
- 4:25Speaker 1: your attention, as well as the hurdle that I think
- 4:30Speaker 1: it will create in the city of Columbus. And it
- 4:35Speaker 1: might create a very interesting, controversial hurdle, and I'm kind
- 4:39Speaker 1: of looking forward to it. So that is coming up.
- 4:42Speaker 1: As Mark was talking about before we got off the air.
- 4:44Speaker 1: There at six, the alleged manifesto, and that's how you
- 4:49Speaker 1: have to refer to it right now, because they have
- 4:51Speaker 1: yet to confirm that this school shooter from Wisconsin actually
- 4:56Speaker 1: wrote this. It was posted to a social media account
- 4:59Speaker 1: by someone and claiming to be a friend. That friend
- 5:02Speaker 1: claims to have received it from the shooter's boyfriend, and
- 5:06Speaker 1: it shows, frankly that they were not only, you know,
- 5:11Speaker 1: very disturbed, but quite evil. And somebody, I contend, should
- 5:17Speaker 1: have noticed that. A high school counselor mom, dad. I'm
- 5:24Speaker 1: assuming it was a Christian or a Christian school, so
- 5:27Speaker 1: there's some clergy involved, somebody. If this is truly the
- 5:34Speaker 1: work of this girl, somebody should have noticed, Zach. I
- 5:39Speaker 1: mean again, you've got a young When you pay attention
- 5:42Speaker 1: to him, could you see him becoming this twisted? I
- 5:45Speaker 1: hate all humanity. My dad's an idiot. I'm going to
- 5:48Speaker 1: kill everybody and kill myself. Could you see him becoming
- 5:50Speaker 1: this twisted without you noticing? No, something's wrong, No, not
- 5:53Speaker 1: at all.
- 5:54Speaker 2: How would you put up that facade for so long?
- 5:56Speaker 2: Because that is not an easy table corner to turn
- 6:00Speaker 2: when you're a happy, go lucky kid till you're fifteen,
- 6:02Speaker 2: and all of a sudden you hate humanity or nobody
- 6:07Speaker 2: notice your your views have changed that radically.
- 6:10Speaker 1: And I have to wonder was their facade? I mean,
- 6:13Speaker 1: if you if you felt this strongly about you know,
- 6:16Speaker 1: people just should be dead and they're worth nothing and
- 6:19Speaker 1: all this, if you felt that strung, did you hide it?
- 6:23Speaker 1: Did you go out and smile and and you know,
- 6:26Speaker 1: shake hands and kiss babies and act like that's not
- 6:29Speaker 1: the way you felt? I don't think so. Most teenagers
- 6:33Speaker 1: are very black and white. Everything is right or wrong.
- 6:36Speaker 1: They that's how they see it. And even if they're
- 6:39Speaker 1: completely incorrect, You're you're idealistic at that age, and you
- 6:45Speaker 1: have no problem telling people exactly what you think of
- 6:49Speaker 1: them or things or whatever. So I just I'm not
- 6:53Speaker 1: even sure that I'm buying that it's that it's her work.
- 7:00Speaker 1: I'm going to have to confirm that. I've got to
- 7:01Speaker 1: see that verified absolutely, because I'm it just doesn't make sense. This,
- 7:05Speaker 1: this whole picture is just not making sense.
- 7:07Speaker 2: No, you would, I will say, preliminarily say is that
- 7:13Speaker 2: a word? Preliminarily that her boyfriend might have been an
- 7:17Speaker 2: online boyfriend who didn't live like in her town, so
- 7:22Speaker 2: you could put up a facade, you know, online, but
- 7:26Speaker 2: I don't know if he like lived on the same
- 7:29Speaker 2: street and they he didn't say anything and knew she
- 7:33Speaker 2: was disturbed, et cetera, et cetera.
- 7:34Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a sad, sad story. I mean, no other
- 7:38Speaker 1: way to say it. It's a very sad story. I'm
- 7:40Speaker 1: sorry that it happened. I am. I'm sorry for us
- 7:46Speaker 1: just as human beings that things like this occur. But
- 7:54Speaker 1: as crazy as it sounds, for that fifteen year old,
- 7:57Speaker 1: oh yes, they did something heinous, they did something that
- 8:00Speaker 1: that is absolutely terrible. But there's something about me, the
- 8:06Speaker 1: daddy grandpa in me that actually kind of feels sorry
- 8:10Speaker 1: for her too, because if she was showing all of
- 8:15Speaker 1: these all of these signs, inclinations, beliefs that they're claiming
- 8:21Speaker 1: are exhibited in this manifesto, and nobody stepped up and
- 8:27Speaker 1: did something that's that's a sad thing. That's a sad thing,
- 8:34Speaker 1: and who knows what to think about it. We've got
- 8:40Speaker 1: some stuff and some things happening here in central Ohio,
- 8:45Speaker 1: including there was an amber alert. I don't know if
- 8:47Speaker 1: you heard about this, and I always have questions. I
- 8:49Speaker 1: have yet to get a good answer about the amber
- 8:53Speaker 1: alert system. But they had one earlier. The girl has
- 8:57Speaker 1: been reunited with her, but the story happened overnight to
- 9:02Speaker 1: toddler from WKRC was reporting it was a toddler child.
- 9:08Speaker 1: Big police presence, of course, showed up when the child
- 9:11Speaker 1: was found missing. Twenty eight year old Jeremy Judkins is
- 9:14Speaker 1: now in police custody in connection to the Amber alert.
- 9:19Speaker 1: Nora Judkins was last seen on Monday night around eight pm.
- 9:23Speaker 1: Alerts extended into Butler, Claremont, Clinton, Hamilton, Highland, and Warren
- 9:26Speaker 1: counties in southwest Ohio. That's my first question, why if
- 9:33Speaker 1: it's if it's going to be an amber alert, shouldn't
- 9:35Speaker 1: I just go everywhere because we've got these things called
- 9:40Speaker 1: cars and highways and it's not difficult to get from
- 9:46Speaker 1: one part of this country to another. I'm surprised that
- 9:50Speaker 1: that was the only area. A child is described as
- 9:54Speaker 1: a Hispanic female two feet ten inches tall, thirty pounds,
- 9:57Speaker 1: and the suspect was Jeremy Hutkins or Judkins, I'm sorry,
- 10:02Speaker 1: twenty eight years old blackmaile five eleven, who cares about
- 10:05Speaker 1: all that? He's a fat boy, by the way, five
- 10:08Speaker 1: eleven and two hundred and sixteen pounds. Their little Billy
- 10:11Speaker 1: he on him. He was last seen wearing sweatpants with bbe
- 10:16Speaker 1: on the leg, big cut on his forehead apparently, so
- 10:20Speaker 1: he wasn't difficult to recognize for those who did see
- 10:23Speaker 1: the Amber alert. So they got the young girl back
- 10:25Speaker 1: and again she is with her mom. There's no more
- 10:28Speaker 1: to the story at this point. But why this amber
- 10:31Speaker 1: alert in particular was limited to just those counties, and
- 10:36Speaker 1: how the amber alerts are done decided who may because
- 10:43Speaker 1: how many times have you seen, you know, a child's
- 10:45Speaker 1: abducted or missing or whatever. I didn't get anything, but
- 10:50Speaker 1: then at three o'clock in the morning, you'll get one
- 10:52Speaker 1: for you know, a child abducted in Cleveland and they
- 10:56Speaker 1: believe the father may have the child and on the
- 10:58Speaker 1: way to New York, and you get that. But then
- 11:02Speaker 1: a kid, you know, down this road from you goes
- 11:05Speaker 1: missing or is spirit abducted, and you don't get anything.
- 11:07Speaker 1: I don't know who makes the decision about how those
- 11:10Speaker 1: Amber alerts are issued, but I think there needs some
- 11:12Speaker 1: need to be some kind of you know, coming to
- 11:17Speaker 1: an agreement about how we're going to use that system,
- 11:20Speaker 1: because it is a valuable system. But it just it
- 11:24Speaker 1: seems very erratic in its nature and how it's utilized.
- 11:28Speaker 1: Do you get them on your phone? And are they
- 11:30Speaker 1: usually in the middle of the night.
- 11:31Speaker 2: Yeah, I get them at the most inopportunity. Yeah, Like
- 11:34Speaker 2: I've got them here when I'm working. I'm like, I
- 11:36Speaker 2: can't look at it.
- 11:37Speaker 1: And you can't turn them off. I mean, it's not
- 11:39Speaker 1: like you can mute your phone. If they go off
- 11:40Speaker 1: while you're in the studio, so be it. And that's
- 11:45Speaker 1: just I don't know. I think it's odd. I love
- 11:47Speaker 1: the system. I love that it exists. I just don't
- 11:49Speaker 1: get how it's how it's selectively utilized. And I don't
- 11:55Speaker 1: know if you remember Zact During the COVID years, back
- 11:58Speaker 1: in the olden days, Columbus had an alert thing set
- 12:03Speaker 1: up on your cell phone so that as you entered
- 12:07Speaker 1: Columbus cross that two seventy boundary, you got a text
- 12:12Speaker 1: message from the City of Columbus regarding COVID and masking
- 12:15Speaker 1: and all of that. Did you ever get those.
- 12:17Speaker 2: I remember getting a I forget what they called it,
- 12:20Speaker 2: but it was a spread awareness updates where they would
- 12:24Speaker 2: show if you turned it on, you would get an
- 12:27Speaker 2: update on your phone about where the spread was in
- 12:30Speaker 2: the city and in the state.
- 12:32Speaker 1: Every time I would leave and go up to Delaware,
- 12:34Speaker 1: down to Chillicothee or something, and come back in. As
- 12:36Speaker 1: soon as I crossed two seventy, my phone will go
- 12:38Speaker 1: off and you could not mute it. You couldn't you know,
- 12:41Speaker 1: opt out or anything like that, because you crossed that boundary.
- 12:45Speaker 1: And I thought, Wow, they have that kind of technology.
- 12:49Speaker 1: Imagine what they can do in our you know, tracking
- 12:53Speaker 1: and tracing and all that kind of stuff that we
- 12:54Speaker 1: don't know about. They know you're back, there goes your
- 12:58Speaker 1: phone's and I don't know how many other ways could
- 13:04Speaker 1: that be utilized actually to our benefit instead of over
- 13:08Speaker 1: you know, something that many of us were debating how
- 13:10Speaker 1: much of a benefit it was.
- 13:12Speaker 2: I know, as soon as a lot of people got
- 13:13Speaker 2: cell phones that they could trace the last tower that
- 13:17Speaker 2: your phone pinged off of. But now it's a lot
- 13:19Speaker 2: different because phones have better technology and they're easier to trade.
- 13:23Speaker 1: Friend of mine sent me a link a couple of
- 13:24Speaker 1: years ago said here, click this, you'll be frightened. And
- 13:28Speaker 1: it was a Google map showing everywhere that I had
- 13:31Speaker 1: been for the last thirty days. That was worrisome every place,
- 13:38Speaker 1: And it's not like I was going to any place I
- 13:40Speaker 1: shouldn't be or whatever, but just to think, wow, I
- 13:44Speaker 1: am nobody, and I'm on somebody's radar to this extent
- 13:49Speaker 1: where they knew every place I had been and when
- 13:52Speaker 1: I had been there for the previous thirty days. And
- 13:54Speaker 1: that's one of the things about having a smartphone. They enable,
- 13:58Speaker 1: they enable tracking anywhere, anytime. As long as they are
- 14:02Speaker 1: on they they're tracking you. That's a little spooky.