The Craziest Talk Radio Scandal You’ve NEVER Heard About

Somewhere in the Tampa Bay area is a man named Brent H. I’d like to use his last name because he’s been a (quasi) public figure for a long time, and frankly, he deserves the recognition. But I probably shouldn’t: I think he left radio to pursue other interests, and I want to respect his decision.

But Brent H. has some jaw-dropping tales to tell, because he was a producer and on-air talent for two of the craziest, lewdest, most controversial shows in the history of talk-radio, “The Howard Stern Show” and “Bubba the Love Sponge.”

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Charges dropped against woman filmed pulling Pro-Palestinian protester’s hijab as the Hamas supporter’s chant a call to genocide

Crown prosecutors have dropped assault and harassment charges against a woman who pulled the hijab of a protester at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Ottawa in May, saying it needed to balance the public interest in prosecution and the reasonable prospect of conviction.

As part of the reasoning given for withdrawing charges on Thursday, assistant Crown attorney Moiz Karimjee said the Crown considered a number of factors, including that the victim was chanting “From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free,” which he said could be reasonably inferred to be “a call for genocide of the Jewish people.”

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Zelensky Criticizes Western Allies for ‘Zero’ Response to North Korean Troops

So ronery!

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday lashed out against the “zero” response of his Western allies to reports that thousands of North Korean mercenaries are preparing to fight on Russia’s behalf.

“Putin is checking the reaction of the West … And I believe that after all these reactions, Putin will decide and increase the contingent … The reaction that is there today is nothing, it is zero,” Zelensky complained to South Korean broadcaster KBS in a televised interview.

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Ontario police getting new powers to deal with car rallies in mall parking lots

The Ford government is extending the legal definition of a highway to include parking lots in response to a request from provincial police forces that say they’re struggling to tackle increasingly complicated cases of careless driving and noisy late-night car rallies.

The changes come through new transport and safety legislation the provincial government plans to pass with a focus on enhancing police powers over auto theft and driving offences.

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Hooters Sued By Guy They Wouldn’t Hire

An upstate New York transgender woman is suing Hooters for repeatedly refusing to hire her — while the restaurant claims she was booted for inappropriate behavior starting before she transitioned.

Unconvincing woman calls himself Brandy

Brandy Livingston told NEWS 10 that she applied three times to work as a tight-topped staffer at the chain’s diner in Colonie — despite alleging that she was harassed by staff there as a regular customer.

“They would use male pronouns — they would refer to me as ‘he,’” alleged Livingston, who only recently transitioned to female.

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Trudeau hopes a ‘silent majority’ is still willing to listen

He surely would reject any such comparison but, in a recent interview, Justin Trudeau briefly sounded just a little bit like Richard Nixon.

Taking part in an conversation with Village Media, the prime minister fielded questions about the dissent within his caucus and his party’s descent in the polls. He was also asked about the “F–k Trudeau” flags that have — as much as any policy or political gesture — come to define this Liberal government’s third term.

One of the interviewers remarked that he couldn’t remember similar flags being flown for Stephen Harper or Jean Chretien. The unhappiness, he said, seemed “personal.”

Trudeau doesn’t understand that he stoked the ire of people who just wanted to be left alone.

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‘Crocodile tears and genocide’: How the Gaza war is threatening Kamala Harris’ White House chances

As Kamala Harris was walking on stage to rapturous applause at the Democratic National Convention in August, outside, protesters in keffiyehs chanted “free Palestine!”

They held up placards which called on her to “end genocide” and “free Palestine”. Some simply read: “Abandon Harris ‘24.”

The war in Gaza has enraged swathes of progressive voters who could normally be relied upon to support a Democratic candidate.

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Peanut the Squirrel, beloved pet and internet sensation, euthanized after being seized by NY state

Peanut the Squirrel, of internet fame, has been euthanized after the pet was seized by New York state earlier this week, according to the Department of Environmental Conservation.

The seven-year-old gray rescue squirrel, commonly referred to as “P’Nut” on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok, was put to death, along with Fred the raccoon, so that the animals could be tested for the presence of rabies, according to a statement from the agency obtained by WETM.

h/t Mauser

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Carson Jerema: Trudeau Liberals settle on campaign tactics — lies

Liberal backbenchers who tried to stage a coup against Justin Trudeau’s leadership have been demanding a clear plan on how to stop the party’s collapse in the polls and prevent Pierre Poilievre’s ascension to government. It is something they’ve been clamouring for since the Liberals lost two byelections and the NDP tore up the confidence agreement it had with the party. And now we know what that plan looks like: lies. Lies of omission, distortion and complete fabrication about the Conservative leader.

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Universe would die before a monkey finished typing Shakespeare

Scientists set out to test the famous ‘infinite monkey theorem’ to estimate how long it would really take a simian to write the Bard’s full collection

It would take longer than the entire expected lifespan of the universe for a monkey to type the works of William Shakespeare by bashing randomly at a typewriter, scientists have calculated.

The researchers, who presumably also had a lot of time on their hands, set out to test the famous “infinite monkey theorem” to estimate how long it would take one immortal and incredibly patient simian to type everything from Hamlet to Macbeth through random keystrokes.

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