Wild Things & $200k Facelifts
Join host Walter Sterling on The Other Side of Midnight for an unfiltered, late-night blend of bizarre headlines, pop culture snark, and cosmic mysteries. In this episode, James Parker delivers the infamous "Florida Story" segment—featuring runaway kangaroos, gender-reveal fights, and strange Sunshine State crime reports. Walter dives deep into celebrity gossip, revisiting Denise Richards and Neve Campbell in Wild Things, Sydney Sweeney's ad controversy, and Kelly Clarkson rumors. The show also tackles UFO disclosure with DIA insider Jay Stratton and a caller's report of a giant jellyfish UAP, alongside Walter's candid take on how Craigslist destroyed daily newspapers and the hilarious realities of modern parenting.
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Speaker 1: This is The Other Side of Midnight.
Speaker 2: They're running a strange program, y'all.
Speaker 3: With Walter Sterling.
Speaker 2: Hello, Walter.
Speaker 4: We listen to you.
Speaker 5: Every night we listen to you.
Speaker 6: That's what we like to do.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 5: On the other side of midnight.
Speaker 8: Hello, Walter.
Speaker 4: How about those Tartarians?
Speaker 9: Buildings in cork are sounding way back when.
Speaker 4: That's some crazy stuff, all right.
Speaker 5: That's why we listen to you.
Speaker 8: Hello, Walter.
Speaker 9: You're on all night.
Speaker 10: Long as the normies turn out the light.
Speaker 11: But at least the.
Speaker 4: Rest of us have you to tell us all what
to do.
Speaker 10: On the other side of midnight.
Speaker 2: The other side.
Speaker 5: On the other side of midnight.
Speaker 10: On the other side of midnight.
Speaker 8: Walter Sterling.
Speaker 4: Walter Sterling.
Speaker 12: If you want to go to Figgly Wiggly or fight
an alligator in a swamp, then the other side of
Midnight has what you want.
Speaker 2: It's Florida Stories.
Speaker 10: I'm James Parker and this is Florida Stories.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 10: We're going to start by addressing the two most common
questions I get when you contact me. The two questions
I get the most, where do you live in Florida
and why do you hate Florida so much? Number one,
I do not live in Florida. I'm in a secret
facility embedded behind Mount Rushmore, like the movie Team America,
you know, the one with the puppets. And I'm actually
broadcasting live from a studio that's right behind Thomas Jefferson's nose.
And why do you hate Florida so much? I don't
hate Florida. I've been several times. I loved it. I
loved what I seen. But judging by the news, maybe
we should do that Bugs Bunny thing where he saws
off Florida with the giant handsaw and it just floats
out into the Atlantic Ocean.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 13: Ready?
Speaker 10: Hold my beer.
Speaker 3: Hold my beer.
Speaker 10: Hold my beer. For our first Florida story, we go
to St.
Speaker 3: Petersburg.
Speaker 10: We go to a gender reveal party. where the husband's
brother is there with a handful of other people in
a park outdoors, but he lights up a cigarette and
some people complain. So the wife tells him to stop smoking.
The police report says she called him several names. I
think you and I can agree that whatever names she
was throwing out there came with a buffet of cuss words.
So he starts coming at his sister-in-law. The brother gets
between them. separates him, and then he says, okay, okay,
I'm going to stop. And when brother turns his back,
he decks her. Yes, he punched his sister-in-law in the
face at her own gender reveal party right in front
of his brother. And the article never even says whether
it's a girl or a boy. Hold my beer.
Speaker 3: Hold my beer. Hold my beer.
Speaker 10: For our next Flora story, we're going to Fox35Orlando. com where
they have one of these Fox Investigates. And this wily
local reporter goes and gets to the bottom of some
local shenanigans. and uncovering a shocking revelation.
Speaker 6: A man dies in a motorcycle crash, but his death
listed as a coronavirus death.
Speaker 10: Oh, get off your conspiracy theories in your house.
Speaker 6: Stop it.
Speaker 8: Stop.
Speaker 10: It really could have been coronavirus. He could have been
coughing and that caused him to lose control of his
motorcycle and flip over. He could have like sneezed into
his face shield on the motorcycle helmet and that blocked
his vision. I mean, it seems legit.
Speaker 3: Hold my beer.
Speaker 10: Hold my beer. For our next Florida story, we go
to Fort Lauderdale, where I'm just glad they have body
cameras on cops in Florida now, so you get awesome
stuff like this. There was a report to the police
that there's a kangaroo block on the road, and they
go out there, and it's not a very busy road.
It's just like a small little residential area. And sure enough,
there's some body cam footage of these cops having to
corral a kangaroo. And it's kind of cute. And the
kangaroo is huge. Like if it stands all the way up,
it's like six feet tall, but it's sort of hunched
over at about five feet tall.
Speaker 3: We don't know where the owner is. We just have
the kangaroo.
Speaker 10: I'll put him in my car. Oh, and what'd they
do with the kangaroo after they got it in the
squad car? They took it to the horse barn. And
then here's kind of the adorable part. The cops know
that their body cam footage is going to go viral.
I am so happy I have this on body cam. Bob,
in your how many years have you ever seen a kangaroo?
I am so happy. What a fun day, right? It's
better than sitting around guarding the Christopher Columbus statue all day.
Hold my beer.
Speaker 3: Hold my beer. Hold my beer.
Speaker 10: For our next Florida story, we go to St. Lucie County,
where a woman is slumped over the wheel of her
car in a parking lot. It's about 3 a.m. Cops
show up, tap on the window. You okay, ma'am? She
seems to be kind of asleep, sort of nodding off,
but her car's in driving. Her foot's on the brake.
Car's not going anywhere, and it's in a parking spot.
So she wakes up, puts it in part, gets out,
fails a field sobriety test when they take her and
they give her an x-ray. And sure enough, there's something
up her backside. She has a crack pipe up there
with some steel wool in there. What's the steel wool for? Well,
that's so if you suck so hard, the crack rocks
don't get in the back of your throat. And I
know all this from Pookie in New Jack City. I
saw that when I was like 12. Hold my beer.
Speaker 3: Hold my beer. Hold my beer.
Speaker 10: For our final Florida story, we're going to West Kendall, Florida,
where we have a crime against God himself. A blessed
and sacred place for parishioners in West Kendall. Hate with
hate and destruction. This Jesus statue found decapitated. You know,
you kind of marvel at the cavalier attitude of the
Florida criminal when we're on about our fourth biblical plague
of the year. And this guy's decapitating a statue of Jesus.
What could possibly go wrong?
Speaker 3: Hold my beer. Hold my beer.
Speaker 10: I'm James Parker. Florida Stories is a Spring Rock production
on the Red Apple Audio Network.
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Speaker 10: Call 800-848-9222 now.
Speaker 2: Did you see the movie Wild Things? Remember the movie
Wild Things where Nev Campbell and Denise Richards made out
in a swimming pool? This was one of the high
points of your life. Well, now there's a news hook.
Now I have an excuse to talk about this. Normally,
I just have to make up something sleazy. But Neve Campbell,
I mean, Denise Richards, where is it here? Denise, Denise,
Denise Richards, who is 55, says she only admitted to $ 200, 000
facelift after her ex brought it up in court. Denise
Richards revealed why she decided to go public with her facelift.
The actress made headlines when she got a $ 200, 000 facelift
last year, around the same time that she split from
her second husband. During an appearance on some obscure podcast,
Richards admitted that she came clean after the procedure failed.
was brought up in court during their contentious divorce proceedings.
I figured, you know what? I just need to be honest. Crazy.
Denise Richard said that she didn't want to give her
ex any power by having him make it public. So
she worked with her publicist to control the narrative herself.
Imagine having a publicist on call at all times so
that anything you say that might be annoying is handled.
My Publicist got me a really nice piece in Allure.
She managed to figure out how to reveal her $ 200, 000
facelift and get a very nice piece in Allure magazine.
Richard said that she didn't want to give her ex
the power by having him make it public, so she
worked with her publicist to control the narrative herself. Wow.
But what I care about is Neve Campbell and Denise
Richards making out in the movie Wild Things. There was
no reason to see Wild Things. It was a lame
detective movie with a bunch of sleet zoids. But there
was this one scene where Nev Campbell from Party of
Jive and Denise Richards, Charlie Sheen's ex, are making out.
They're making out. Nev Campbell has been asked, what was
it like to kiss Denise Richards? And she says, It
was fun, but it was mostly focused on the novelty
and the fun of it and as an acting challenge.
It was a new experience, says Neve Campbell. She viewed
it as a unique life experience she wouldn't normally have.
Writing in her journal, oh, we got into Neve Campbell's diary?
Holy crow. Writing in her journal at the time that
it was an interesting way to learn about herself. Her dark,
deep lesbianism. Now, she intentionally took the role in Wild
Things to break away from a clean-cut girl image, next-door girl,
that one, because of the reputation of Party of Five. Now,
I figured, looking at this scene, that probably lesbianism had
been committed many times by Denise Richards. She seemed to
be more into it. She was more voluptuous, incredibly beautiful.
Neve Campbell was cute. a very beautiful young woman and cute,
whereas Denise Richards was so beautiful she would not talk
to you in high school. She was the girl in
high school who all the quarterback wanted. And one or
two of them got. Nobody in the math club. Nobody
on the AV crew. None of us. But there was
a quarterback who got Denise Richards. Stunning, beautiful, statuesque. Double
D cup. I figured she had certainly committed lesbianism at
some point in her life before making out with Neve Campbell.
But what Denise Richards says was that she had a
hard time with that scene.
Speaker 8: Really?
Speaker 2: You were great in that scene. You were meant to
do that scene every day. Richards has stated in interviews
that she found the scene terrifying. She was extremely nervous
and remembered sitting in the pool at 4 a.m. wondering,
what am I doing here? She didn't like it at all.
She was very uncomfortable. Whereas Neve Campbell was like, well,
this is sort of a life experience. I can enjoy this.
Why not? Neve Campbell and Denise Richards kissing scene from
Wild Things. Neve Campbell said in an interview that she
enjoyed kissing Denise Richards. It was fun. Campbell told Rolling
Stone about the film's most famous scene. We just sort
of went in and did it. Actually, we mixed margaritas
and brought a bottle of wine in my trailer and
got drunk first. So they got drunk first. Well, that's
a sensible act. That's a survival mechanism. They got drunk first,
and then they made out. And Neve Campbell didn't take
off her top, but Denise Richards did take off her top.
It was a sort of freeze-frame favorite. It's a sort
of scene that all of us are very happy took place.
and took us to the next level of human biology.
My God, I can't begin to tell you how great
that scene was. It's in Wild Things. Nev Campbell, Denise Richards,
making out. Thank you, Dr.
Speaker 14: Jesus.
Speaker 2: I'm Walter Sterling. This is the other side of midnight.
We are talking about The fact that it's Chuck Berry's
100th birthday. And in moments, we'll talk about the insanity
of Kelly Clarkson. It turns out maybe she isn't so sweet.
Maybe she isn't so kind. Maybe she's the new Ellen.
That's what some people are secretly saying who have worked
with her. Maybe she's the new Ellen. That little curio
shop in Brooklyn, high-end, cute curio shop, where she had
a scene, where she had a tantrum. Well, they're saying
not very nice things, but I believe don't minimize that
they might have been right. They kind of suggested to
her that Kelly Clarkson could not afford one of the toys,
the $ 15, 000 toy. They might not be able to afford that. Now,
why would they hint that at her? Because their visual
impression of her, her clothes, her hair, was that she
wasn't rich. Well, what if they were right? What if
it turns out that Kelly Clarkson could not afford it?
Will they be vindicated? The Other Side of Midnight, Walter Sterling,
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Speaker 15: I lay down and rest and you close your eyes,
you know, and you think about your energy coming back
into you and you just lay there and you think
about all the things you're supposed to do during the
day and you don't do them. You just lay there
like this and inside you're screaming. You're like, but you're
harnessing those screams for vitality.
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Speaker 16: Like we truly had an amazing experience together. I want
to keep that fun alive.
Speaker 4: More than three months after their rendezvous at the Bezos
wedding in Italy, Sidney Sweeney and Scooter Braun are still
seeing each other. They're taking it slow, but they're overwhelmed
by the backlash they've received since news of their unexpected
hookup went public.
Speaker 17: No matter what I do in life, people are always
going to say something.
Speaker 4: That's all according to a source who adds they think
the hate was blown out of proportion. Weeks after they
were first spotted together at the June wedding, we were
told Sydney isn't looking for a major commitment. And that's
probably helpful because this new couple seems to be facing
a uniquely challenging uphill battle thanks to some bad PR
on both sides. You see, the dating news broke right
around the same time Sydney was sparking boycotts with this
American Eagle ad.
Speaker 1: Sidney Sweeney, Hasbro Kings.
Speaker 16: You see what I did there, right?
Speaker 4: And Scooter, who's been blamed for Justin Bieber's struggles.
Speaker 2: I feel a lot of guilt.
Speaker 11: I never understood putting in the time to make sure
mental health is addressed.
Speaker 4: Remains a target for Taylor Swift fans since he acquired
her master's in 2019.
Speaker 9: It was the first time that I had ever had
any negative press. I just wish... that it didn't take
such a toll on my family.
Speaker 18: It was a very tough time for us because there's
a lot of people and they hear this stuff and
they take it to a level that's really not okay.
Speaker 10: And I think that's dangerous.
Speaker 4: Scooter, who has three children, finalized his divorce in 2022
with a $ 20 million payout to ex-Yael Cohen. And Sydney
became single in March when she broke off her engagement
to Jonathan DeVino.
Speaker 10: I always just wanted to be as supportive as I could.
Speaker 16: I think that it's just figuring it out day by day.
Speaker 19: I'm still learning.
Speaker 16: I definitely dealt with worrying that showing off my assets
were going to make people see me a certain way
all the time. But I dealt with that a lot
in school, like in middle school is honestly the worst.
And I think that I went through that process of
always wearing sweatshirts and covering my body up at such
a young age that Once I became more confident with myself,
I became more confident with myself through my characters that
I played.
Speaker 4: I want to show.
Speaker 16: Girls that it's amazing and beautiful and empowering to have the.
Speaker 4: Bodies that we have.
Speaker 2: I feel that way about it.
Speaker 19: Sydney Sweeney is facing major backlash after appearing in a
controversial new sports advert.
Speaker 6: Sydney Sweeney just made history as she is now officially
one of the most blocked celebrities.
Speaker 19: And some top female athletes are calling her out.
Speaker 16: Sydney Sweeney has just set back every single woman who
is fighting for respect in the sports industry.
Speaker 7: The U.S.
Speaker 19: Actress stars in a viral commercial for sports prediction company Novig,
which reportedly gained more than 22 million views in its
first two days. But it's not the numbers causing controversy.
It's how the advert portrays women in sport. In the commercial,
Sweeney appears nude with footballs, basketballs, and other sporting equipment
covering her body while repeatedly telling viewers they can bet
on just sports. Later, she appears topless on a pool
table and jokes, you can't trade this, I just look
good here. The campaign quickly exploded online, but female athletes
have criticized it for unnecessarily sexualizing women in sport.
Speaker 9: Why can we not stop using women's bodies as a
prop to sell sports gear and start talking about what
those bodies can actually achieve?
Speaker 19: British sprinter Amy Hunt was among those who hit back.
After finishing fourth in the 200 meters, Hunt pointed towards
what she believes women's sport should actually celebrate. Elite performance, muscles,
hard work, blood, sweat, and tears. She also highlighted Melissa
Jefferson Wooden's incredible winning time of 21.47 seconds, saying that
life as a female athlete isn't always glamorous or sexy.
Now the controversy has divided people online. Some say Sweeney
is simply an actress and a provocative advert designed to
get people talking. Others believe sports advertising should celebrate female
athleticism instead of focusing on women's bodies.
Speaker 2: Walter Sterling and you. Tonight we've spent a lot of
time talking about UFOs, UAPs, extraterrestrials. Jay Trotter's book, very
powerful new book, with a lot of revelations. And we've
gone over every single revelation that was in that book. Yes,
we did. And we had support from Dave Scott, our
expert on metaphysics, UFOs, UAPs, Canadian. And we had a
lot of support from Ross Coulthard from News Nation, who's
really good about conspiracies, theories, and how our government continues
to hide the truth from you and me. Jim, welcome
to The Other Side of Midnight at 800-848-9222. Good show, Walter.
Thank you.
Speaker 13: Jim.
Speaker 8: That's what I'm calling about. Earlier this week, anybody reported
to us, but there was an object spotted in the sky,
a large object down in Florida. Over 100 people in
Orlando saw it, and whatever this was went from Florida,
all the way up the East Coast. They recorded it
as far as New York. They said it was an
exhaust fume or whatever being reflected off a light. Everybody
that saw this thing said it looked like a giant jellyfish.
And I heard about the story once, like I say,
earlier in the week. I haven't heard anything more about it.
Speaker 2: That's because there's nothing to report. I saw the video
of it. I saw the pictures of it. You're right.
It does look like a giant jellyfish. It looks like
it's very much alive. It does not look like a
reflection of light or smoke. It doesn't look that... It's
too big for that. It's just way too big. It's
a stunning and amazing video. I urge my Midnight Misfits
to look for this. It's a remarkable event in the sky.
If If that isn't a UFO, I don't know what is.
It's spooky. It's bizarre. And I'm grateful that you called in.
Thank you very much for calling. 800-848-9222. 800-848-9222. Donna, Staten Island,
welcome to the other side of midnight.
Speaker 15: Hi, Walter.
Speaker 7: How are you doing?
Speaker 2: Donna, exciting.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to hear about Sidney Sweeney, Lesbians in Space,
the Tartarians. Please, could you talk about something else?
Speaker 2: Yes, tell me exactly what you want me to talk about.
Speaker 7: Well, that's a good question. You got me stumped at
that part. I do happen to like to listen to you.
I'm doing my job.
Speaker 2: Yes, what's your job? Wait, wait, wait. What's your job?
Speaker 7: I deliver newspapers.
Speaker 2: That is amazing, and congratulations. You provide a service we need.
I am grateful. To me, one of the greatest luxuries
of my life is to have a newspaper delivered to
my door. I love that.
Speaker 7: Could I have my claim to fame?
Speaker 15: Please.
Speaker 7: I'm Frank Morana's newspaper carrier.
Speaker 2: And how does that feel? How does Frank tip?
Speaker 3: Very well.
Speaker 13: Very well.
Speaker 7: I enjoyed doing it. I wish more people... Can I
make a little public service announcement? I wish more people
would buy newspapers to keep me in business. It's a
dying art. Nobody likes to read newspapers. It's unfortunate, but
I do have people, older customers, who don't like the Internet.
And now the customers are online and everything, but there's
people that want physical copies of papers. And I wish
people would keep me in business or the newspapers in business.
Speaker 2: Donna, I hope people keep you in business. I'm grateful
for you to listen to this show. One of the
challenges with newspapers is it is progressively difficult to find
a place to buy them. 20 newsstands that you used
to be able to see, now maybe it's down to one.
And then when you get there, if you get there
at 10.30 in the morning, oh, gee, we're sold out.
Speaker 8: Correct. Right?
Speaker 7: I agree with you 100%.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'll be here.
Speaker 7: Same thing. Few and far between. But I do do,
you know, people do enjoy reading the physical copy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. And the other reason, the reason why
I enjoy the physical copy of the New York Post especially,
is it is very different... It is very different than
the online version. The online version has the big stories,
and that's it. The really interesting stuff in the New
York Post is only in the physical paper. Donna, I
salute you. I congratulate you. And they had better tip
you well at Christmas.
Speaker 16: 800-848-9222.
Speaker 2: 800-848-9222 with Walter Sterling. I have three daughters.
Speaker 7: And....
Speaker 2: My 14-year-old had a very big event yesterday. And if
you have a 14-year-old, if you know any 14-year-olds, you're
going to know I'm right. This was like the big event.
I didn't know this because I didn't have braces when
I was a kid. She had an expander in her
mouth for six months. Upper part of her mouth, upper palate,
to stretch it slowly, slowly, slowly to the point where
the teeth start to get the space they need to
be corrected. She had some nasty teeth combined with her apraxia,
and her apraxia is severe speech delay. Well, you combine
crooked teeth with severe speech delay, and it really is
a miracle she can say anything at all. But she's
a very happy kid. She speaks very well now. We're
very happy. Now they're going to do Invisalign to take
care of her lower teeth and straighten those out. And
then she'll have the mouth and the facility to speak
that she deserves. But this was more than Christmas because,
you see, when you have an expander in the upper
part of your mouth, the list of things that you
can eat is pretty short. You can't eat a lot
of things. You cannot eat bacon, ribs. oranges, or most
of the things you really want to eat. What was
she down to? Scrambled eggs, pasta. She could eat pasta.
Really couldn't eat any meats. It was a very short list.
So yesterday she got the expander out. This was a
big celebration for my kid. I'm very proud of her
because she did it. The first night, I thought we
were going to have to rush to an ER to
have it removed. She was so miserable. But then after
the first night, she was good about it. And then
my 21-year-old who lives in Queens, in Flushing, Queens, she
made yet another interesting academic decision. And her interesting academic
decision was that she was going to take a medical
leave of absence, a mental health leave of absence. And
I said, well, okay. She has to register with the college,
tell them that she's on a medical leave of absence,
so that she can re-enter if she wants to. There's
no way she's going to re-enter. This is the second
time she's done it. And she gets very anxious about
school assignments. She's always had a problem with something that
I didn't even know existed until I had kids, a
challenge known as executive functioning. She has an executive functioning challenge.
She cannot organize things in her head in terms of priority.
She doesn't know what goes first, what is the most
important thing to go first. She doesn't know how to
do that. Part of the reason she doesn't know how
to do that, as I've pointed out, gleefully to the
schools is they didn't teach her when to turn in assignments.
Probably when you and I were in school, if an
assignment was due Thursday at three, it was due Thursday
at three. And you figured out how to get that
done on time because that was your job. There was
no negotiating. Okay, forget that. What I'm about to tell
you may shock you. I don't even know if you
can handle it. I don't know if you can handle UFOs,
but let's see if you can handle this. You have
an assignment due at 3.30 on Thursday afternoon, and it's Tuesday.
You go to the teacher and you say, that assignment
that's due at 3.30 on Thursday, I'd like to move
that to the following week. I'd like to hand that
in next Wednesday at noon. And you know, the teacher says, okay.
Speaker 10: Okay.
Speaker 2: To me, part of the process of learning a school
assignment is to learn how to time its arrival on time. Well,
that was taken away. Every school that my kids went to,
they could negotiate homework, projects, tests. They could negotiate the
timing of everything. What does that do? It might be
very nice, but it takes away time. the need to
learn how to organize what's important and how to get
things done on time. And then, son of a gun,
she can't do executive functioning. Everything makes her nervous. Everything
makes her nervous relative to getting it in on time.
Doesn't know how to do that. Doesn't know how to
figure out what's more important, what's less important. It's an
amazing thing that has happened. And those schools, when I've
said you didn't teach her how to get things in
on time, they didn't see the cause and effect between
executive functioning problems And not knowing how to get things
in on time.
Speaker 3: 800-848-9222, 800-848-9222.
Speaker 2: The other side of midnight, I'm Walter Sterling. This is
Sal in New Jersey.
Speaker 6: Hello.
Speaker 2: Hello, Walter.
Speaker 14: How are you?
Speaker 2: Sal, I'm excited to talk to you.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I'm excited to talk to you. I would like
to tell you, Walter, that I think the disappearance of
the news industry in this country is somewhat of a
tragedy because when it disappears, the fake news filled the void,
and that's where all of this misinformation that the American
people fell for.
Speaker 2: Do you want to know why it disappeared? Do you
want to know why the newspapers disappeared?
Speaker 13: Because of the TV news, right?
Speaker 2: No, it's more interesting than that because TV was robust
for 50 years before the newspapers didn't start to decline
until 2005. In 2005, it's as though all of them
started to disappear at once. It was not a gradual decline.
It was boom all at once. You want to know
what it was?
Speaker 13: No, what was it?
Speaker 2: The financial backbone of every newspaper in the world is
the classified section. The classified section was the reason they
could exist. It provided all the money that they needed
because it cost them next to nothing and they grossly
overcharged for it. And I'll put that in perspective. The
classified section of the Los Angeles Times grossed more than
all the radio stations in Los Angeles combined. And it's
a good radio market, but just the classified section of
the Los Angeles Times grossed more than all of the
radio stations combined. Now, what was that about?
Speaker 3: Craigslist.
Speaker 15: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Craigslist. Craigslist, yeah. Craigslist destroyed the newspapers. It destroyed the
economy of the newspaper. Suddenly, you could put as many
words as you wanted in an ad. You could put
in photos, pictures. You could track it. You could do
everything you had prayed you could do with the classified
ad in the newspaper. But the classified ads in the
newspaper were a pain in the neck to create and
to post. You were charged $ 20 a word. You couldn't
put in pictures unless you had $ 1, 000. It was crazy
how much they charged for that. But that was the
financial backbone of their publication. That's why they could exist.
When Craigslist came along and offered a better listing service
for people a very reasonable price, that was the end
of the newspapers. Well, it had to be more complicated
than that, Walt. No, it wasn't more complicated than that.
That was it. Their readership fell by 50%. Their revenue
fell by 50% in the course of two years. Throughout America,
paper after paper vanished, disappeared, cut their circulation. In Cleveland, Ohio,
the The Cleveland Plain Dealer was the hallmark of great journalism,
had a giant, magnificent new building on, what is it,
Route 680, something like that, in Independence, Ohio. Beautiful building,
an incredible web press facility. And then a year or
two later, that was abandoned. Their editorial team was put
in a crappy office in downtown Cleveland. I don't know
who printed the paper, but it was down to three editors.
issues a week. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, three issues a week.
That was it. And they were lucky because in much
of America, the newspaper just went out of business or
went online. In Syracuse, New York, it went online. There's
no physical daily newspaper in Syracuse, New York. And this
is true throughout the country. New York, one of the
few cities that has Three newspapers, three daily newspapers. The
Los Angeles paper, I think they have two. Chicago has two.
The Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, that's it. The rest of them,
tiny little sad papers.
Speaker 16: 800-848-9222.
Speaker 13: 800-848-9222.
Speaker 2: With Walter Sterling. J. Transom put out this important new book.
called Out of the Shadows. What did I just say?
Where's my glasses? You know me.
Speaker 8: Sorry.
Speaker 2: Jay Stratton served the U.S. on the battlefield and as
a senior member of the National Intelligence Community. He specialized
in emerging and disruptive aerospace technologies, including the most classified U.S.
capabilities and making him uniquely qualified to identify anything in
the air or space. This guy knew everything. And he's
come out with a book where he goes over aliens
he has seen, aliens he's known, spacecraft that he has seen,
all the proof that he has, that he knows of,
that indicates... that we are being visited.
Speaker 20: This book is very important to me. I wanted to
get the word out to the people. I've been working
behind the scenes for the last 20 years to get
us where we're at today in this disclosure movement. So
it's very important that people understand that the main point
is that the world deserves to know the truth. Humanity
is not the only intelligent life in the universe, nor
do we know the intent of the non-human intelligent life
that's here. It's very concerning. Let me take you back
to where it started. I was at the Defense Intelligence
Agency as the Chief of Air and Space Warfare. In
that role, I was responsible for emerging and disruptive threats.
And also, I had access to our most classified programs.
I understood where our technology is and where our technology
is going. And I also understood the technology levels of
the adversaries. And it was during that period that a
colleague brought to me a video of a triangular UAP
flying over nuclear missile silos in our most secure airspace.
and it was flying in ways that I could not
comprehend at the time. It was flying in ways that
demonstrated capabilities that exceeded ours. Well, it was very telling,
because in that position with the Defense Intelligence Agency, I
was uniquely qualified to identify anything flying in the air
or space. So when I'm watching something, As an aerospace
engineer that's demonstrating capabilities that I don't understand and can't comprehend,
that was eye-opening and moving for me. I needed to
understand this technology, and I needed to understand who had it.
This is a threat because it exceeds our capabilities. We
don't understand it, we don't know the intent, and we
don't know where it's from. I have seen non-human beings
and non-human craft with my own eyes.
Speaker 2: Jay Stratton, the author of Out of the Shadows, he
said a very key thing in that phrase. He said,
This is dangerous because they out-capability us. They can do
things we can't do, and that, by default, makes them dangerous.
His book is Out of the Shadows. Jay Stratton, Will Bayridge,
welcome to the other side of midnight.
Speaker 14: Hey, thanks for taking my call. Great speaking to you.
Speaker 2: Great speaking to you, sir.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I just heard you say all the papers died
because of the classified ads. I live in New York,
in Brooklyn. I was wondering, why is the New York
Post thriving the way it is, and how long do
you think it'll last?
Speaker 2: I believe the New York Post is thriving because of
the Red Apple Audio Network, D'Agostino's, Gristiti's, and the ads
put in there by John Katsimatidis. John Katsimatidis knows that
the New York Post is the way to sell things
to real New Yorkers like you and me. You read
the Post every day, don't you?
Speaker 8: Absolutely.
Speaker 14: I don't even have a computer.
Speaker 2: No, you don't need a computer.
Speaker 14: So I wouldn't be able to see it online anyway.
Speaker 2: No. If it went online. And you don't want it online.
I believe that Red Apple is the biggest advertiser. But
the other reason is very important. And it's sadly... Not
enough of this in America. It is because of the
great entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch. Rupert Murdoch loves tabloid newspapers. He
owns the New York Post. He owns Fox Television. He
loves newspapers, and he subsidizes it. He makes sure it
comes out every day. He is the reason I suspect
there's more than one month where he is personally subsidizing
that newspaper because that is his passion. Does that make sense, Will?
Speaker 14: Yeah, it certainly does. How long do you think the
post can last?
Speaker 2: As long as him and his children are alive. I
am sure that he said to his kids, listen, I'm
going to die, and when I die, you keep that
paper going until you die or you don't get anything else.
I'll bet you that's what he said.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 13: Right?
Speaker 14: Well, he's a great guy, and God bless him.
Speaker 2: He's a great guy.
Speaker 14: And thanks for you. You've got a great show. Good
talking to you.
Speaker 2: Well, you're a good man for saying that. Thank you, Will. 800-848-9222, 800-848-9222.
Third kid, I was sharing with you about my kids,
and I always like to hear about yours. No matter
what I'm talking about, you want to call and talk
about your kids, no problem. My third kid is 24,
and she had something done that you don't want done.
She had Planter's fasciitis, which if you ever had Planter's fasciitis,
it is insanely painful. painful foot pain that's not cured
with orthotics. Physical therapy really doesn't do much. It's just
terrible the way the tendons in your foot rub against
each other, make you suffer like you wouldn't believe. She
had surgery for this four or five days ago. And
I hate the medical industry. I hate them. Because what
she needed was Percocet. And what she needed was to
be half put out. Well, they don't like to put
you out for an outpatient procedure. They do not like
to give you general anesthesia. Why is that? They don't
like to give us general anesthesia, not because of the
risk of us not waking up. They got it down.
They kind of figured out how to do this. They're anesthesiologists,
the highest insurance people, medical insurance. You and I can't
believe how expensive it is to be an anesthesiologist. They
know how to put us out. They know how to
wake us up. They got that down. So why don't
they give it to us? Listen to Walter Sterling very carefully.
The reason they don't like to give us general anesthesia
is It takes longer. It takes longer to put us
out and longer to wake us up than with a local. Well,
that cuts down on their revenue. Instead of being able
to do 12 patients a day in that OR, they
can do maybe six.
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: Oh, no, we're not doing that.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: And then because they're all spooked and terrified about opioids, opioids,
and for some reason no doctor understands addiction. If you
don't have an addictive trait, if you don't have an
addictive circuit in your body when you were born, you
could have Percocet every day and never be addicted to it.
No medicine, no alcohol makes a person addicted. They have
to be addicts practically at birth. And then you could
put cake in them and they're going to be addicted
to that. So my poor baby... was screaming bloody murder,
crying like crazy during the procedure. It hurt like hell.
They go into your foot. They move things around. They
fix the plantar fasciitis. And as it heals, now she's
at work at a TV station. She's working on a cane.
She's doing a little better today. Now she's going to
get her nails done. And for some reason, that makes
everything better. I said, oh, and we work exactly the
same time. She has to be at work at 1 o'clock.
I have to be at work 1 o'clock. And you
have to be here to listen to me. Now, tomorrow night,
we're going to have many of our questions answered. You ready?
We're going to find out the dumbest thing you can
do on a first date. You go on a first date,
biggest mistake people make on first dates. We're going to
find out what women do to screw up a marriage.
Speaker 7: You ready?
Speaker 16: Ready?
Speaker 2: The Other Side of Midnight with Walter Sterling from the
Red Apple Audio Networks.
Speaker 1: The Other Side of Midnight with Walter Sterling. The Other
Side of Midnight with Walter Sterling.
Speaker 5: Baby, if you've ever wondered, wondered whatever became of me.
I'm living on the other side of midnight.
Speaker 10: Cause baby, that's where I was born to be.
Speaker 5: Got tired of being a super and telling people what
to do. They never freaking listen anyway. So I figured
I would just do it all myself. At least that
way it gets done right. Walter Sterling on the other
side of midnight.
Speaker 3: I'm Charlie, your grandmother's old school radio production man. Let
me share with you fourth hour network time filler clips
that I've selected for you tonight. Concern in Israel when
a possible UFO is spotted. Christina Gomez has the story.
Speaker 9: The sirens went off at 7.57 p.m. on Saturday in
Arab al-Aramshi, a small village right on the border fence
with Lebanon. According to Israeli outlet Wallah, a military source
described the first concern as a drone. The Army waited
around four hours before releasing an official statement, and then
when it came, it confirmed only three things. Lookouts had
spotted an unknown object near the border, searches were continuing,
and nothing unusual has been found.
Speaker 3: Did the government deliberately spread UFO disinformation? We had the
tales from Joel Schechtman.
Speaker 18: It turns out that the Pentagon itself helped fuel a
lot of the UFO stories and myths that have taken
hold over the American imagination. Have you ever heard the
one about the Pentagon having secret caches of alien spaceships? Well,
it turns out that the Pentagon itself helped spread that story.
For this project, I spent seven months interviewing dozens of
current and former U.S.
Speaker 21: Government officials. I reviewed thousands of pages of declassified government texts.
I reviewed emails, text messages, and even recordings that I obtained.
What I found was that over the decades, U.S. military
personnel often spread intentional misinformation about UFOs and aliens in
order to hide highly classified programs.
Speaker 3: Prison drama for Sean Diddy Combs. A new report says
the music mogul was in a fight with another inmate
and suffered a head injury. Turns out the other guy
was a famous Jamaican drug lord.
Speaker 17: We're told that Diddy and Christopher Coke, Dudus, got into a,
started as an argument about all this heat that Diddy
has brought on all the other inmates. And that turned
into the fight, and that's when Diddy injured his head.
And late Friday night, prison officials decided he needed to
get some sort of treatment that they could not provide
at the medical unit there on the prison. And that's
why he was rushed out by ambulance, was brought back
a few hours later after he got whatever treatment he got.
Speaker 3: Kelly Clarkson and a $ 15, 000 singing bird. New security video
has surfaced in the star's bizarre feud with a Brooklyn
curiosity shop.
Speaker 2: What really happened?
Speaker 22: Art of Play said on Instagram, quote, Molly is permanently
attached to the wall and isn't for sale. Except Clarkson
had a photo. She posted a picture showing what appears
to be a $ 15, 000 price tag next to Molly writing, quote.
Speaker 3: OK, cool.
Speaker 22: So you're not only rude, you're also a liar. Now,
the store wasn't done either. It doubled down that Molly
is permanently attached to the wall and that they offered
to sell Clarkson Molly's twin directly from the artist for $ 15, 000.
They said they also offered to show her a different
singing bird available for sale that day for about $ 2, 000.
Speaker 3: Full House Nostalgia. John Stamos reunites with Candace Cameron-Buehr, Lori Loughlin,
and Jodi Sweetin for a special Hollywood occasion. The TV
family back together.
Speaker 23: The cast of Full House was doing a fan convention, NostalgiaCon,
in Orlando. So it was myself, John, Dave Coulier, Lori Loughlin,
and Andrea Barber.
Speaker 10: So there were five of us.
Speaker 23: John is a huge Disney nerd, as the world knows.
He called me before we were going to the convention
and I jokingly said, I was like, the only reason
you're doing this is because it's in Orlando and you
can go to Disney World, right?
Speaker 3: And he was like, well, yeah.
Speaker 23: So then he goes, well, wait, I'm doing some social
media stuff and I'm like speaking at a Disney college
thing with our students. Why don't you come do that
with me and then we can go in the park
a couple days. And I was like, Yeah.
Speaker 3: How long should your sex last?
Speaker 15: Dr.
Speaker 3: Ann Frong says there was a survey.
Speaker 4: The range is broad.
Speaker 24: Some sessions lasting as little as 33 seconds to others
lasting 44 minutes, but on average remains about 5 to
7 minutes.
Speaker 3: I'm Charlie, your grandma's production director with your Red Apple
Audio Network Time Filler News.
Speaker 2: Or you can play that jingle.
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
Speaker 2: Remember, you can never have too many jingles, just like
you cannot ever have too much pie. Did I say that?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Pecan pie. What are the pies that I want most?
Pecan pie, key lime pie. Those are my favorite pies.
Mary Romeo is a Midnight Misfit. Felix Spitzer. Nina Kay.
Bill White. Fabulous. Keith Abrams, Jonathan Quick, Rick Joyce, Tim Crow,
Jay Fortunato, Linda Salvin, Robert Gaw. Oh, Robert Gaw. Hey,
and Keith Mortensen. These are a few of our Midnight Misfits.
If you want to be an official Midnight Misfit, it's
terrific because you get to finally be the member of something.
You finally get membership in something. I know that you've
craved all your life to be a member. I also
know that all your life you were denied. You were
not allowed into that club. You were never allowed into
that bar.
Speaker 7: It's all right.
Speaker 2: You're allowed in here. We don't fit in. We're misfits.
We are not team players. We don't believe in group think.
We don't know how to brainstorm. We don't understand the
finer points of football scoring. We can make noise with
the crowd, but we really don't know why they're screaming.
When those flags go down on the NFL, we have
no idea what those flags are. We don't understand it.
And yet, like so many things in our lives, we're
afraid to admit it. We're afraid to say, I don't
know what those flags are. I don't know what a
down is. and I don't and I don't you have
no idea how many times people have explained to me
what a down is and I will never understand but
I do understand that the greatest gift you and I
can receive is a request for.
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Speaker 10: What the heck is going on here?