Health Scare, Culture Clashes, And A Baggage Claim Twist

A routine surgery that spiraled into emergency reentry. A viral exchange where a doctor stumbled over a basic question. An ICE arrest that exposes years of enforcement gaps. A Disney stunt gone sideways and a veteran cast member who shielded a crowd from a 400‑pound runaway prop. Then, to end on a laugh, a baggage carousel spitting out socks and underwear before the suitcase finally limps into view.

We pull the thread through all of it: when institutions wobble, people look for clear language, steady systems, and ordinary courage. The health update reminds us how non-linear recovery can be—ICU complications, AFib, and the long road back from anemia demand patience and honest timelines. The Capitol Hill clip sparks a frank talk about medical clarity: compassion and precision are not enemies, and patients deserve words they can trust. The immigration case highlights the difference between lawful entry and later violent convictions, and why transparency in removal timelines is key for public safety and confidence.

On the ground, a 30‑year Disney cast member models duty in real time, stepping between danger and families. We unpack how safety culture, redundancy, and on‑stage authority prevent small failures from becoming tragedies. We also wrestle with parental risk at public events—when does protection turn into exposure—and give credit to early advocates who helped shape the debate over women’s sports. Finally, that luggage fiasco is ridiculous and revealing: small process failures become viral when reliability slips, so we offer practical travel safeguards to keep your gear off the “carousel of shame.”

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Chapters

• 0:29 Surgery Update On Victor Davis Hanson
• 2:05 Viral Hearing And Gender Debate
• 3:34 Afghan Convict Arrest And Immigration Gaps
• 6:19 Disney Stunt Mishap And Everyday Heroism
• 9:19 Riley Gaines, Safety Fears, And Credit
• 12:39 The Baggage Claim Debacle
• 15:33 Listener Travel Stories And Sign‑Off

Transcript

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Hello and good morning. We have a lot of things to go over. Just a couple of updates first. A Victor Davis Hansen Health Update from Lin Chu. I reposted it and here is an update. It has been two weeks since they removed a large non-smokers genetically caused cancerous mucinous adenoma carcinoma of seven centimeters along with the entire lower right lobe. Who knows how big seven centimeters is? The four-hour operation went fine, but in the ICU, an artery and two veins ruptured, or something leading to a massive bleed. No one knows what happened during the first operation. So they had to go back in the OR, reopen the lung, find the bleeding, and had five transfusions. That was in another four hours under anesthesia. So I was in eight days hot in hospital rather than four and developed from the trauma and transfusion, a bad anemia, and AFib never had that before. So at home now, sort of wiped out and wasted given the heavy meds to stop the AFib and really low blood counts, red blood counts, and the long time under. I say that only because it will likely take months rather than weeks, as anticipated, before the end before the aneurysms. So there you go. There's your update on Victor Davis Hansen. Wow. And did you see this doctor being interviewed by Josh Hawley? She does the doctor doesn't know if men can get pregnant. That's where we're at. What? They need to revoke her doctor's license right now. Immediately. Before she even left the the building, they should have revoked and suspended. No, not just suspended, but revoked it. Take her doctor license away. Her medical license. Good heavens. I just where why I don't I don't I don't understand this. It's gotta be a mind virus that these people have. What is happening to people that think if you change sex like like if a girl wants to become a guy but still has all of her parts, she can still get pregnant. But since she's identified as a man, they're saying men can get pregnant. That's what they're trying to say. We are they are living in a fantasy world and this woman practices medicine. Nope. Somebody gave a good uh advice. Whenever you go find a new doctor, that's the first question you ask. Can men become pregnant if they have an answer for you one way or the other, then you decide where if you want to stay or not. All right, we need to move on to my stories here that I have provided for you. I have a lot of them. I'm gonna save this hilarious baggage claim debacle for the end, because we always want to end on a high note or a funny note or something. Here we go. Afghan illegal immigrant who stabbed sister for being bad Muslim girl arrested by ICE agents in New York. Huh. But you know what? The liberal white women would probably want him to stay in America. An illegal immigrant from Afghanistan, previously convicted of trying to kill his teenage sister for being a bad Muslim girl, was arrested. Wahid Allah Muhammad, 39, was taken into custody on January 1st in Rochester, New York, uh by ICE. Muhammad was convicted of first-degree attempted murder and first degree assault. Here's the thing, though, at the very end of the article, it said back in 2009. No, no. Uh okay. No, where'd it where'd it go? Where'd it go? Where did it go? Here we go. He lawfully entered the United States on May 24th, 2004. He lawfully entered the U.S. However, his attempted murder conviction violated the terms of his legal status. Well, how about that? You don't think you think he was convicted in 2009? In April 2009, ICE entered Mohammed into removal proceedings in 2012. An immigration judge ordered that he be deported. He will remain in federal. So where has he been? How he's been on the lamb? Has he been on the run? He's been living in New York is where he's been, apparently. In 2008, Mohammed stabbed his sister several times during an argument where he called for a bad music where he called her a bad Muslim girl. So he was sentenced to 10 years in prison and five years supervision. When we say ICE is arresting the worst of the worst, that is exactly what we mean. Uh but so where has he been this whole time? It doesn't tell us where he has been. Well, if he was convicted in 2009 and only served 10 years, he would have been released in 2019. So where has he been? Probably just hanging out in New York, robbing people, probably, raping people. Who knows? All right, we need to move on to the next article. And it goes something like this. Oh, I lost my place. Oh, let's see. All right, hero Disney worker worker reveals split second decision to stop runaway boulder that protected audience and left him in the hospital. You know, you go to these shows and you think you're perfectly safe, and then this happens. What? Oh, I swear, you can't go anywhere and do anything. Can't have anything nice and do anything fun. But this guy was a hero. So here we go. This guy's braver than Indiana Jones, a Disney World worker who heroically threw himself in front of a run runaway four hound 400-pound bouncing boulder. It was like a tongue-tied twister there, revealed the split-second decision he made to protect the audience. During the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular show at Disney Hollywood Studio in Orlando, Florida, on December 30th, the giant rock flew off its track and began bouncing toward the audience. Oh my! The stunt is meant to recreate the iconic scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, where Jones runs away from a boulder. Robert Herrick, a Disney cast member for 30 years, y'all. 30 years he's worked there, instead stepped in front of it. And it does have a video attached to the New York Post app if you want to go watch it. Robert Herri, uh let's see, viral footage captured him hurling himself in front of the projectile and getting walloped. Herrick refused to take credit for his heroics in an interview with WFTV Channel 9. My only thought was that this thing could reach the audience, he said. I was probably out of my seat before the boulder went over the thing without any thought of what was going to happen. Video showed him standing up with blood dripping from his head. After the chaos, he returned to the stage to reassure the crowd with a wave. The accident left Herrick with two fractured vertebrae and wearing a neck brace for the next eight weeks. Still, the hero expressed his love for the show and his castmates, saying he's excited to get back to work. The infamous Boulder, however, will not be making an appearance anytime soon, Disney said. Of course they're gonna have to take it away now. So GoFundMe page was set up for him. Although I think Disney's gonna take pretty good care of him. I'm sure they have workmen's comp. Uh let's see. Um That's it. That's all it says. Thirty years he worked for them, so you know he's not gonna sue them, of course. I mean, I don't think I would either, especially he sounds like he loves his job, he wants to get back to work. It was a freak accident. I mean, they're gonna help him with he's gonna be fine. Alright, so let's see. Is there anything else that I Oh, I wanted to talk about this real quick. Controversial take here. Riley maybe Riley Gaines reveals she wraps her three-month-old daughter in a bulletproof blanket due to threats. She was on the fire or the outnumbered yesterday, and she talked about how she went to this rally the other day in front of the Supreme Court to talk, you know, to give a speech and everything because of what the Supreme Court is getting ready to decide. I did a video about it, I blogged about it, and she revealed that she takes her daughter everywhere with her. She's like three months old, I guess. And so she took her to this rally. Why? I don't know. Use your brain cells, Riley. You don't need to take your daughter everywhere. I understand wanting to do that, but don't. She says so she wraps her daughter, her baby in a bulletproof blanket. Number one, I didn't know there was such a thing. Uh number two, maybe use some different options and keep your baby at home and safe. Maybe I'm being a curmudgeon, I don't know. Am I being wrong in that? I don't think I would take I the the rally seemed peaceful because, you know, it was just a bunch of conservatives out there. Uh, but still, I don't think I would take my baby to something like that, especially being so cold up there as well. Now, what happens when the daughter gets older? What is she gonna wrap her in then? Like when she's walking around seven or eight years old. What are you gonna wrap her in then, Riley? Here's another thing I keep wanting to point out, and I did put it on X. I appreciate Riley Gaines and everything she's doing. She's speaking out, she has a podcast, she's become a voice for women in sports. I I love it. I do, thankful. But let's not forget who started, who maybe catapulted her, who opened the door for her. It was Kelly J. Keene, who was also at the same swimming event where Riley Gaines stood poolside watching Will Thomas win the first prize, first whatever you call it, w against all these women. Riley Gaines was there at the swim meet. She swam against him. She stood poolside while Will Smith Will Thomas got up there and took all the prizes. But it was Kelly J. Keane who was in the audience that same event, the same day, who called out Will Thomas from the stands and yelled, That's a man. That was Kelly J. Keane. She's also the one that said, I'm not a vet, but I know what a dog is. Same day, same event, within minutes from each other. So and she is the British uh women's campaigner that has a fantastic YouTube video channel. She created Let Women Speak over there. She's been to America, she's toured America a couple of times. But uh yeah, let's not forget who really opened the door. Anyway, I didn't mean to get off on a rant there. I just like to see, you know, give credit where credit is due. Kelly J. Keene has been on the ground doing this for a very, very long time. All right, I wanted to end with this hilarious baggage claim debacle caught on video as mortified passenger awaits luggage in disbelief. When I first saw this video, I thought, this is a hoax. They're doing this on purpose because there was not a lot of crowd around. It was just him and his girlfriend, whoever, was filming it. And what happened was apparently his luggage did not come out. He was the last one there, and finally his stuff started coming out, but it started coming out piece by piece. First a sock, then a pair of underwear, and then whatever else. But his luggage did not come out. It was the things that were inside of it that were coming out. And like I said, at first when I started watching it, I thought this is a hoax. Because there's nobody else around it. They just threw stuff on there and made it look like it was, but then they pan out, and you could actually see the stuff coming out of the conveyor belt from below. So unless they had an inside person doing it, doing this with them, it looked pretty real. As if the bag check system wasn't already going to hell, a traveler found himself in a ridiculous situation at the airport after his items arrived one by one on the luggage conveyor, as documented in a TikTok post with five million views. That one time we were waiting for my brother's bag, okay, is his brother, and instead his underwear and socks came out one at a time. The flyer sister, who goes by Lay Superstar, captioned the clip. And like I said in the beginning, I thought this is a hoax. But then they show show the conveyor belt where the stuff is actually coming up from beneath the from beneath the ground there. Um she called the ridiculous scenario the best 30 minutes of my life. Hmm. In the wild footage, which to be reportedly transpired in Pittsburgh, the brother can be seen grabbing a pair of socks and underwear from the conveyor. Several moments later, a lone sock and another pair of underwear arrive, like some automated dry cleaning service as the siblings look on in disbelief. The clip concludes with the traveler's bag finally arriving, which he noted was missing all socks and underwear. What in the world? Okay. Flabbergasted over the belongings, piecemeal delivery, the pair headed to customer service, but they were confused as well. TikTok commenters were in hysterics over the baggage claim debacle, with one exclaiming, I'm in tears, what is happening here? Holy mm, I'm losing it. How on earth does this even happen? A third quipped the baggage handlers are all like, watch this. Imagine having the worst day of your life, and this happens, said one flamuxed viewer, while one called the belt the carousel of shame. Alright, I'm gonna leave it there. Uh question of the day. Um let me let me think. Okay, have you had any travel debacles? Has anybody lost your bag? Have you had anything like that happen to you? Or uh or in the flight, has any passenger been unruly or anything like that? What kind of tell me about your travel debacles if you've had any? I think they went I think one time we went on vacation, we went to Maine, I think it was, and they lost my baggage. But it wasn't it was a few hours, it was only a few hours, and finally it was delivered to our hotel. We didn't have to go pick it up or anything. They they brought it to us, which was nice. And it was only it was just a couple of hours, you know, I think. Alright, I think that's what I think it was in Maine that that happened. I can't remember. You don't have to ask the gent. He's he's he remembers stuff like that than I do. Okay, I gotta go. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Oh, I will not be here tomorrow with a podcast. I'll probably be back on Tuesday with a podcast. So enjoy your long weekend. I'll be on Twitter though. You know I'm gonna be on X all over the place. I'll still be blogging. I'm still gonna be on X, so you know if you need to reach me, that's where you can reach me. Alright, gotta go. Thanks for listening. Bye.