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Yes, we'll hold it up to camera.

Fuck.

Man, these were fucking picked with such evil tendencies.

Entreprenuer.

A blue chip recruit that routinely came to the school will no longer matriculate.

Arachnophobia. Arachnophobia. Arach. Arachnophobia.

Arachnophobia. Arachnophobia. Arachnophobia. Can I call Tommy?

I mean O. Yeah.

I've been pulling jobs at this broad for 48 years.

Tumultuous.

Poor little guy.

It was my first year on, like, the big kids team. Okay. And I think everybody had to play. And these guys were kicking the shit out of us.

who were two years older than me, were all on the team. And they were like the fucking stars of the team. And these guys came back from like 9-0. And it got down to fucking, it was like 8-9.

He literally goes, Henry.

Went down looking. Henry.

Paparazzi makes me think of Monica Bocelli. You know her?

Buzzkill.

All right. You're like the fucking teacher's assistant. Fucking prick.

No.

Okay.

Consequently, C-O-N-C-O-Q-U-E-N-T-L-Y.

Well, I had T-R-Y.

Go, birds. Fuck you, too. Love you guys. See you next weekend. Peace! Yeah, see you next weekend. Peace.

I've been screaming at you. Okay.

Well, I mean, that's... I mean, but you keep pushing this. What kind of spot are you putting me in? You know why you can't be in this.

You told me you didn't want to see me until the wedding. You said I'm doing my own thing.

You can learn to keep your hormones under control. Maybe it would be up there.

I spell that.

Goddamn D1 athlete we talking about.

What are you talking about?

She doesn't want that. She barely wants me there.

I was thinking of breaking ceremony and doing, well, we're going to do like a, you know, we're going to thank everybody.

Live from the honeymoon suite.

Oh, well, thank you for having me.

Well, currently I'm in Florida, but I live in Columbus, Ohio.

I prefer Ohio in the summertime because it's not as hot, and definitely Florida in the winter.

Well, my pitch for you is hot air balloon competitions. And I know from listening to your Goodyear Blimp podcast that you're not really a fan of hot air balloons.

Well, you don't need to be. It really is a very zen-like experience. But hot air balloon competitions are a little bit more frightening just because pilots are competing. And so they're doing things that normally they would not do and they won't do with a passenger.

No, I'm very much involved. I started in 1981 just as a spectator and a pilot was having some trouble with a launch and said, can you help me? And I jumped in and helped inflate the balloon. And as my husband used to say, lightning bolts went through the balloon into my hands and I got hooked. So went from there to just volunteering and then became involved as an event official.

So I never got my pilot's license. I did take ground school and my husband flew. We had two balloons and he flew up until probably seven, eight years ago. But then I went on to the official side and that side actually is really interesting. I help do all the scoring, do measuring. I mean, it's not like anything you've probably ever seen or really imagined.

It has nothing to do with speed. It's not a typical kind of a racing event. It has to do with accuracy. So they take off and they use the various directions of the winds at different levels and different speeds to steer to targets that are placed on the ground.

Those targets will be miles away, and there could be a series of them, four or five, so they may be flying quite a distance to navigate to those. Now with the new electronics that are available, some of the targets are actually flying.

There's definitely new players in the game. Fortunately, more young people are coming into it. It was starting to become an aging sport, partly because it's expensive. It's not, you know, balloons are not cheap. Traveling around the country to compete is not inexpensive. If you are lucky enough to qualify to be on a world team, then you've got expenses to

For that, typically, you know, those are going to run into $15,000, $20,000 for a pilot to be able to take their crew and do that kind of competition. I did send some videos. I don't know if you got them or not, but it sort of shows one in particular that you can watch. It'll show you actually what it's like flying out there in a congested area in a world competition.

Yeah, there's over 100 there.

Well, that video is sped up slightly just to kind of condense it. But they're actually not always flying very slowly. There's times when they'll be particularly at altitude. They may be going 20, 30 miles an hour. Holy crap. They want slow winds when you come down to the ground to make it a good landing. And I did send a high wind landing just so you kind of have an idea of what that's like.

That was also taken at the World Championship in Hungary this past last year.

He's coming into land and he's coming in pretty quickly.

Absolutely. Most of the ones you're seeing in those videos are like a football shape, and we call those racers, and they're designed that way specifically so that they will go up and down very fast.

They can go about 1,500 feet a minute, make a change in altitude, and it's pretty amazing if you're standing at a target and you're watching somebody drop 1,500 feet a minute, and they come down to the ground and slow down and Just plunk out the marker. The third video that I sent is a pilot that's coming in, but it's a pretty quick one. But you can see him actually throw the marker on a target.

That's one where there's a target on the ground, and he has a beanbag with a streamer, and they just kind of plop that down, and we measure those by hand as a measuring team.

At the majority of the events, the prize money is very small. It's not anything like what you would expect. I mean, it's not like race cars or golfers or any of that kind of stuff. Most of them are doing it more for the glory.

At our national championship the last two years and this year as well, which is what I'd like to invite you to come to, the national championship in Longview, Texas, the past couple of years, Longview, Texas prides themselves on having, because it's Texas, the biggest prize purse.

So their prize money is sufficient so that the winner who would qualify then for the Worlds is going to be able to get his equipment over there and take care of the expenses.

And I can get you access to, you can go along and help crew. I can get you to a target. I can get you into the planning meeting with the event director. I can get you into the scoring room where we score everything electronically. This is amazing. Actually, it's a scoring program out of Australia that we're using currently. I can get you access to about anything you want.

If you are available this year for the nationals, that's going to be in Longview in June, there'll be five programs. Former world champions competing, possibly a sixth, which is the current world champion. He's from France and he's been invited to come whether or not he's going to attend. I'm not sure. He obviously won't be able to compete. The U.S.

national championship, but I could get you access to a lot of people that you could talk to.

You probably can still buy a used balloon.

Balloon in a basket, yeah.

And to be honest with you, I haven't priced them recently, but my guess is around the $20,000 mark for something that would be decent. If you're going to be buying a new balloon, now you're talking $50,000, $60,000. Wow, yeah, right. I can also introduce you to a couple of balloon manufacturers that are in the States. And there is also a group of pilots that do home builds. Oh, I don't like that.

You don't want to go on a ride for that, huh?

Um, I, and I had a blimp ride as well. And I have to tell you, the blimp ride was a little, I don't know if you're right, but when we landed, we came in like straight aim towards the ground. You could see the ground and you could see the football player size guys that were going to catch the ropes. And, um, that was a little nerve wracking that.

But I will tell you there is no bathroom in a balloon. So you don't have to worry about that. Though I will not say that people have not used the bathroom in a balloon. Of course, over the side.

Or a Mountain Dew bottle.

It will truly, truly blow your mind. Actually, I thought of it before you even started talking about the blimp. And then when you brought up how scared you were of balloons, I thought, oh, I definitely am.

Okay. You too. Thank you very much.

Bye.

She lives in Texas. It's really close to Mexico. So you're like, oh, maybe the cartel took misery.

If it's the cartel, if she's with a big organization, maybe they will come for us, too.

Maybe that video is from months ago. Maybe she's not alive anymore.

We received a text from Kat.

If you don't stop, maybe she's going to kill her.

They would text me and they would be like, oh, I'm sorry, but I have to stop. I'm too scared. And I don't want to be in danger.

Everybody started being scared, so no one wanted to be the face of the search and be the person talking to other people.

I also share my life on social media, right? So I was like, oh, it's so easy for someone to find me where I am with my kids and everything.

I decided to be the face.

I got in the hotel. I opened my phone. I had this crazy amount of people texting me. People tried to call me or people sent me a screenshot.

My address in Vancouver. My phone number, my name, my kids' names, my kids' pictures.

And she was saying that I forced my kids to have sex with men for money.

Just crazy things that became something really challenging because I had to deal with my own feelings as a mom because she was sharing my kids' pictures. So it was really like hell because I didn't know how to deal with that. It was hell.

Why is she doing that? Why did she let Kat send me this text?

Maybe she don't even deserve what I'm doing for her.

Someone found this page.

Like, oh my god.

It was kind of sad to see my friend and those pictures on their fake names. And the question was, did someone force her or she's doing that, right? But why would she do that?

I felt a connection with them, this love for a friend, that everybody was trying to do something. People were talking about good times they had with Desiree. We could see that we were looking for someone that deserved everything the friends were doing for her. She deserved that.

Why would she let her life in Germany to do something illegal? What's the goal? So, yeah, someone is forcing her.

Okay, so something is wrong, really wrong.

Everybody was so involved. No one was sleeping. We were talking 24 hours a day.

You had that one where she's doing this kind of a bath. Yeah.

So I was not sleeping because I was like searching for her and then I had to work.

It's for the energy or beauty, but she's just throwing in the bath, like, things in plastic or glitter.

People was there, oh my gosh, I want to do that. And you had the people that believed that was a real thing.

We would see Kat in a restaurant. We would look where that restaurant, where exactly it is.

Every night, I would wake up with her voice in my mind and it was like she was telling me something.

Maybe because I was asking so much to the universe to help me to find her, just to find if she was okay.

The people around me, they were a little bit like, maybe she just don't want to talk to you.

Maybe you should live your life and not spend too much time searching for someone that doesn't want to talk to you.

You could just imagine how she was, right? And the way that she was living this whole thing with her daughter.

She was so skinny, talking to the camera like she was reading something that's so aggressive, like, stop looking for me. You are all demons. I don't want to talk to you anymore.

There was a lot of people in the group and they are trying to find her, to help her.

She was alive. That was a big win for us.

The look on her eyes was really a look of someone lost. Someone is not there anymore.

That's the moment that I think people really got scared.

I was sad and scared for her, for the way that she would deal with everything. She's maybe not in the place that she wants to, but she's alive.

I also became a victim when she started saying this fake stuff about me and my kids and the internet. I had a hard time to understand that. So sometimes I would be a little bit angry. I just wanted to help. And now I had this big problem.

So I was doing my hair or something and then I saw she text me first and she was like, oh, can you talk?

I had so many questions, but just wanted to listen to her. I was a little bit scared about her, too, because at this point I didn't know if she was being transparent and if she really wanted something or she just wanted to have information to help Kat to get out of the jail, too. Should I be really open to her?

I had to trust her again.

She said how much she was sorry and she explained a little bit what happened to her. And then I just felt love for her and sorry for everything that happened.

We never really talked to what happened and never got to ask her why she gave my kids pictures and everything. Because I wanted to give her space first and time to heal before ask any question that could bring more pain to her.

to show her that she was not alone, that people there are looking for her, they love her, that her family love her. Maybe if I tried to say that to her, she would see love on us.

When I talk to her, I see that she wants so bad to move on. It's a sad episode in her life, but it's not her life story. And she can help so many people talking about what happened to her and help other girls to... Because the internet is dangerous. I would call her sometimes just to know if she's okay. Now she just needs space and time to heal and maybe to find herself again.

I hope that the next time I'm going to Brazil, I can see her. I think she knows that I love her. And I feel really grateful that the end of that story, it's maybe not the best happy ending, but it's still a happy ending because both girls, they are alive. They are so young. If they want, they can turn this bad thing into so much positive stuff.

I still want to talk to her about this. I have a few questions. So maybe it's going to be in five years and ten years. Maybe it never will happen. We'll see.

Exactly. Tell the truth. Tell how violent it really is. This is about protecting our children. It's more than just... politics or votes or just anything. It's about national security, protecting Americans, protecting our children. Thank you. Thank you for listening.

Hey, Charlie.

Good. So my question to you is about the proposal for the $150,000 tax break. Is it going to be a credit? Is it going to be... Everybody under 150. How do you think that's going to impact our revenue as far as income tax? So, I mean, personally, I think everybody needs to contribute at least a little.

Thank you. Appreciate all you do.

No, actually, I'm very angry. I'm actually outraged, but I'm too sad at the moment to show anger at the same time. He he did not call our family. He did not give condolences. There was no action on the Democrat Democratic Party in any way from Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Mayorkas. Anyone here in Maryland, none of the senators, did anything to help search for the murderer of my daughter.

Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.