July 9, 2025

The Verified Story of The Gulf Coast Stapletons

The Verified Story of The Gulf Coast Stapletons
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Season 1

In this episode of Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite, Jim Chapman brings you the story of “The Gulf Coast Stapletons”. A Tik-Tok influencer couple who appeared to have the picture perfect life until recently, when husband Josh Stapleton pleaded guilty to 20 counts of sexual exploitation of children. When wife Brittani Stapleton responded in defense of Josh, the internet broke, and I got all the verified details for you!

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Hey, everyone, and welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of

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the Elite. I'm your host, Jim Chapman, and I'm back

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with a kind of breaking news scandal, if you will,

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and it's in relation to a very trending couple of TikTokers.

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I guess you would describe this couple as influencers. I

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kind of hesitate to say. I don't know how much

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influence he and his wife actually have, but they have

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a hell of a following on TikTok. And apparently, and

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I'm not gonna say allegedly, because it's not allegedly anymore,

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but apparently he is pleaded guilty to some pretty horrific shit,

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the male side of this couple, and that's what we're

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going to talk about today. We're also going to talk

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about the backlash of that, and we're going to tell

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you who this guy is and what led to a

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seemingly fall off of a cliff for this guy, and

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really this email that we're going to bring up today

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as well. So the guy's name is Joshua David Stapleton.

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He's thirty nine years old, and he's known as half

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of a couple on TikTok known as the Gulf Coast Stapletons.

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Now a lot of people on TikTok followed this couple

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and their exploits if you will, be a lavish lifestyle

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that they portrayed. Anyway on TikTok. They had amassed nearly

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one hundred thousand followers on the platform and they have

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more than a million likes on their videos and many

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many millions of views. Now, if you were to look

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up great looking couple in the dictionary, maybe even if

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you google it, this would be the couple that will

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pop up. Joshua or josh as he goes by, is

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a good looking guy. His wife Britney great looking as well.

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I mean, these peeps are literally like Ken and Barbie.

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They have a large TikTok as I mentioned, and it's

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typical of what you see with some of these large tiktoks,

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people who show off all that is great in the

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world going on with them right there on TikTok. They

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have a lot of them where they're on a boat,

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they're hanging with friends, living it up, living like rock stars. Right,

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everything as it relates to their TikTok seems perfect. And

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they even had some Tiktoks, where primarily Britney Stapleton is

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talking and offering her thoughts on things, positive affirmations, that

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sort of thing. It's just every side of someone's life

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that you would want people to see. It's not fake,

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you're doing it, You're really living this life, but you

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never see the bad stuff. But as we all know,

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what you see in the public is not always what's

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going on behind the scenes, and who you perceive yourself

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to be in public is not always who you really

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are behind the scenes. And it appears that, at least

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in Joshua's side of things, this will be the case. Now,

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before we get into it, I think it's important that

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I say this. There are tons and tons of people

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on TikTok, not all of them, but some of them

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are very very good. So if you're one of those people,

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you know I'm not talking about you when I say this.

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But the vast majority are want to be newspeople. They

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don't confirm sources, they don't get three sources for sure

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before they go with a story or start throwing accusations

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out there. They rely on other TikTokers in most occasions

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to basically repeat this inaccurate information a lot of the time,

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and in this particular case, because it involved a popular

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TikTok couple, it seemed like just about every TikTok news

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source or newsperson or whatever they call themselves was having

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to recant two or three times different statements that they

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made that were totally inaccurate. Because they're in a race

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to be first, right, they want as many views as possible,

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and the quicker they can get it out there, the

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less competition they have from someone else who might be

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using a hashtag such as the Gulf Coast stapletons. So

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because of that, they put the wrong information out there

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and they have to basically go back and correct that.

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And to me, that's not okay if you throw shade

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on someone and you were wrong, just by going back

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and saying, oh, I was wrong, I screwed up. I

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had it wrong because I didn't confirm my sources, or

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I went off of another person who had it wrong

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and didn't know what they were talking about. But I'm

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recanting it now because it's all good. Well, that kind

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of depends. You may have seriously tarnished someone's reputation by

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putting something out there that was inaccurate. Whether it was

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intentional or not, is open to debate and legal consequences.

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If that person could prove that what you said about

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them cost them their reputation or even worse, cost them money,

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cost them to close their business, whatever, they may have

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some legal recourse. Now, a lot of times they have

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to be able to prove that you knew the information

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you put out was inaccurate. But with reporting on other people,

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it comes with some responsibility. We all make mistakes every

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now and then. But man, I'm telling you this TikTok

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revolution of newspeople, ninety percent of those folks don't confirm anything.

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They go with whatever they saw on TikTok. It's bizarre.

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So one thing I can promise you is everything you're

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gonna hear right now is legit. It's fact checked. I

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have three sources for ninety nine point nine percent of

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that unless it's a legal document I'm referring to, and

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I won't have to recoint a word of it. Gonna

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get the real story. So I'm gonna take you back

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to April twenty third of twenty twenty. Now, let's think

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back at this moment in time, the world was absolutely crazy.

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COVID was a real thing. At that time, nobody knew

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what the hell it was. We all thought, oh shit,

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if we breathe on somebody, we're gonna kill them. Those

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sorts of things. It was just a wild time to

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live on planet Earth in April of twenty twenty. So

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as we go through time, it's one of the things

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I want you to keep in mind because if you're questioning,

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like I did, why it took so long to get

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to there to where we're at now, consider the fact

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that COVID was just starting to rear its ugly head

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during that point in time. But regardless of all that,

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in April of twenty twenty, April twenty third, an officer

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with the Cartersville Police Department, this is in Georgia, he

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gets a tip from what's known as IKA. That's an acronym.

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It stands for Internet Crimes against Children. Now, most departments

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throughout the nation by now this time in history, twenty

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twenty five, they're familiar with IKAC. As a matter of fact,

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where I live in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, our Sheriff's department

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is actually a part of an i CAAC task force.

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Their primary job is to investigate and make arrest on

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people referred from IKAC. It's a very well run organization,

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very important organization, and it keeps our children safe. And

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it's not a single entity. It's actually made up of

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sixty one jurisdictions, if you will, and Livingston Parish is

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one of those jurisdictions. And I think of it as

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an organization that shares information. If someone here downloads on

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the dark web pictures of children that are compromising, and

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let's say those downloads were from a mainframe computer somewhere

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else and another jurisdiction where an i CAAC task Force was,

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they would share that information with us and say, here's

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an IP address and this person downloaded compromising pictures of kids,

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that sort of thing, and we would investigate it, meaning

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the Livingston Parish task Force. Similar to what's happened here.

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So let's get back to it. The officer who has

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the last name Payne, perfect last name for an officer, right,

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he receives an EYECAC tip from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

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That tip said that three hundred and twenty six sexually

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explicit photos of children had been uploaded from a particular

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IP address. And it's important to note these were uploaded,

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not downloaded, according to that report, So this person was

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not going to the Internet at least the way this

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is written in downloading stuff, which is no better. But

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it's important to note because there's a discrepancy there that

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I'm confused about. So the activity actually originally started. They

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found this out later in the investigation on January twenty

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fourth of twenty eighteen. So it doesn't mean that by

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the time IKAC alerted this particular police department that all

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this occurred in one day. These three hundred and twenty

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six images were over that time period, so it could

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have been one image of day for three hundred and

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twenty six days during that length of time January twenty

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fourth of twenty eighteen and April twenty third of twenty twenty.

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It doesn't specify, but I just wanted you to keep

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that in mind. So the officer he gets this information,

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first thing he does he wants to find out who

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is the person that owns this IP so he's subpoenas Comcast.

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He says he needs the information for this IP address

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and the internet provider they send him who is the

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owner of that IP address and it's none other than

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a guy by the name of Joshua Stapleton with an

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address in Cartersville, Georgia. So for this officer, the investigation

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starts right there. He gets a copy of the person's

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driver's license. He contacts the law local assessor's office and

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he confirms the property address and the name matchup, which

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they did. And he then goes to social media Facebook

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and he punches in josh Stapleton, Joshua Stapleton, and he

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gets a hit in Cartersville, Georgia, and he compares the

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picture on the Facebook profile to the picture on the

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driver's license and they match. So he's confident at this

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point he's got this guy. And he also notices that

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this guy is a state farm agent owns a state

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farm agency in Cartersville, Georgia, which that's probably kind of surprising.

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I mean, you wouldn't think your state farm agent would

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do things like this. Of course, now we know that

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these sick individuals they do everything from professional jobs to

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labor jobs, et cetera. But it's just not something that

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would occur to you right off the bat, or maybe

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that's just me. But at some point after that, the

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all officer he heads over to the house. He gets

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prior to going over there, a warrant from a judge

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that says that he can seize and search any electronic

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devices that he comes across. When he gets there, he

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sees Stapleton loading some things into his Z seventy one

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truck and he approaches him and he interviews him. The

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officer conducts that interview the same day, according to the

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report April twenty third of twenty twenty. He reads Josh's

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rights and he says, if you want to talk to

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me and find out what this is all about, we will.

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Josh agrees to speak to the police without counsel present,

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and the first thing the officer asked is how many

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people live in the residence and why did he ask

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him that? Why does that matter? Well, he's trying to

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figure out who uploaded the pictures because they have an

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IP address. But an IP address just says a residence

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that it came from. The officer's probably thinking maybe this

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guy's got teenage kids or a roommate, and may not

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be Joshua Stapleton himself uploading these pictures. So the officer

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explains to Josh why they were there, and at that point,

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shockingly to the officers. I'm sure he just admits to

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viewing child pornography, but he claims that he didn't have

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any sort of sexual interest in these children. However, somewhere

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in that interview he also states that he masturbated to

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these images. So the officer says, well, how did you

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get access to these images? And he said he clicked

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on a series of links on the internet and the

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images came up. Now, during the interview, he did give

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police consent to search his phone that he had left

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in his truck, and the police they searched that phone

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and they stated in the report they didn't find any

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child pornography on that phone at the time. Stapleton then

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claimed all of the viewing was conducted on his laptop

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that was in an office area inside the residence. So

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he had a home office computer basically in a home

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office in addition to his brick and mortar building. Now

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that brings me to another point. A ton of these

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so called TikTok newspeople they he was doing all this

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on a work computer at a state farm office. They

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were putting this out there and it was totally inaccurate.

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Now does it matter in the grand scheme of what

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he was doing. No, but facts matter. It makes the

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story inaccurate. Get it right, beeps. The officer then asked

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him what the youngest age of the children he looked

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at was, and Josh responded, and I'm paraphrasing here, but

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he basically said, I don't have kids, so I don't

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have anything to go by as far as judging ages.

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The officer then asked, Josh, did viewing these images bother

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you in any way? And this statement right here, this

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written right here in the report, sums up how much

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of a piece of shit, disgusting human being this guy is.

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He responds, quote, people are people, and bodies or bodies,

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we are all the same. Unquote. That's a sick fuck

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in my opinion. Now, as the officer closes out the interview,

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you're not gonna believe what this jackass said, meaning Stapleton.

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His statement concluded with that he did not think it

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was against the law to you child born. I mean,

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if you buy that shit, I don't know what to

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tell you. Now. At this point, he gets arrested, and

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the officer notes in the report that he double handcuffed Stapleton,

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which I think is awesome because probably the main reason

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he did that is just because this guy's a sick individual,

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and why not. I love it and his charges as

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of this time April of twenty twenty, arding to Fox

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five Atlanta, wore fifteen counts of possession of child pornography. Now,

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I had some confusion initially when I researched this case,

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and the confusion was what Joshua Stapleton just said, which

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was I went on the internet, clicked on a bunch

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of links, found these images. However, in the report, the

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officer wrote initially he said that Ikak told him josh

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Stapleton uploaded these images to the internet. It didn't say

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anything about him clicking on images and downloading them or

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finding them, and you know, maybe he didn't download them

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but just viewed them. It just said he uploaded them

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on the report. So I don't have any clarification there.

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I really can't tell you why there's a conflict there. Now,

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it's also important to note that these images were described

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as many depicting prepubescent children in abusive circumstances. Now, pre

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pubescent that means they were twelve years old or younger.

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A lot of these images and the abusive circumstances part.

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I've heard some chatter as to what that entails, but

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I'm not going to repeat it. I'll leave it up

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to you to imagine what that is, because I was

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unable to confirm exactly what the images that he had depicted,

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and I don't want to give you inaccurate information, so

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I'm going to just go with these were images of kids,

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literal kids being abused in some way, shape or form.

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It's disgusting, right, And of course, just because he's in jail,

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the investigation it continues, and it's not just the Cartersville

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Police Department, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is involved as

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well as Homeland Security. Now, in twenty twenty one, due

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to what they are learning throughout this investigation, an expanded

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indictment is brought out as it relates to Josh Stapleton,

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and he is charged with now forty counts of sexual

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exploitation of children. And then there's a big gap of information.

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Several years passes from twenty twenty one when they raised

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those charges to June of twenty twenty five when Stapleton

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pleads guilty in the case. Now he pleaded guilty to

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twenty counts, not forty in what was known as a

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non negotiated plea agreement. You may wonder what a non

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negotiated plea deal is. Well, essentially, that's when someone wants

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to admit guilt but they can't come to an agreement

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with the prosecutor insofar as the punishment that goes along

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with it, so they enter into what's known as a

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non negotiated plea deal, where a judge is the deciding

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factor on the punishment. So think of it like this.

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The prosecutor offers you a plea deal. Well, you refuse

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that plea deal, but you basically tell the judge, look,

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I'm going to put up some sort of defense for you,

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and then I'm going to allow you to pass your

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own sentence. You're basically rolling the dice because the judge

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could give you more time than the prosecutors would have recommended,

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which the judge would have went with. Apparently they weren't

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making much of a deal, and so he went to

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the judge and said, you decide what I should get,

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So hopefully that makes sense to you. So in July

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of twenty twenty five, Josh gets sentenced and that's when

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all of this shit hit the fan online and TikTok

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went Crazy, as well as some other sites. But it's

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July of twenty twenty five. He gets sentenced, and shockingly,

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or maybe not so shockingly to me because I cover

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so many of these cases and it never surprises me anymore,

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the like sentences and the slaps on the rest that

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people get. But he only gets five years and in

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fifteen years probation. Now he gets five years, but he's

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not gonna serve five years in prison. If he keeps

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his nose clean, he might serve half that, maybe even

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less than half of that. But I skipped over some

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things intentionally. Then I'm gonna tell you about now, because

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the story I've just told you, sadly wouldn't be as

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big of a deal to so many millions of people

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that it is right now, were not for what occurred

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between the time he was originally charged in twenty twenty

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with all his shit, and twenty twenty five, which made

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this such a big story. So many people who don't

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report on hundreds of thousands of times that this happens

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every day, they're invested in this well during that time frame.

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In fact, in twenty twenty three, he gets married to

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his wife Brittany, and together they create what I'm gonna

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call all a TikTok persona channel known as the Gulf

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Coast Stapletons, which I told you about in depth at

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the beginning of this episode. And from all appearances, life

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couldn't be better outside of this situation for this guy

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and his wife, Brittany. So let me tell you a

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little bit about Brittany. She's thirty one years old, and

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as I told you at the beginning, she's a gorgeous lady.

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Seems to be a smart lady. As a matter of fact,

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according to my research, she is also a state farm agent.

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I don't know if maybe when they got married they

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just formed one agency or if they still had separate agencies.

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I'm not one hundred percent positive, to be honest. I

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know she has a website that I was able to

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get to and she's listed as a state farm agent

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in Alabaster, Alabama. And incidentally, while we're playing Get to

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Know the Stapletons, when I looked up Josh Stapleton's LinkedIn profile,

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just a little more information on him. He graduated from

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Auburn Universe, according to his LinkedIn and he's a member

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of the baseball alumni from two thousand and five to

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two thousand and eight. So I'm not going to say

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this as an absolute fact, but it appears, at least

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looking on his LinkedIn that he played baseball for Auburn.

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And it also appears he's a licensed real estate agent

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or was at one point, and also a very active

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member of the community. This guy was president of what

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was known as the Bartlow Young Professionals, which was a

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Chamber of Commerce program. Just some extra information there for you.

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But back to Brittany because she's getting a lot of

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flack on this, and it's important to note in a

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lot of cases, not saying this case, but in a

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lot of cases, spouses, they're victims like everybody else. Most

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times they have no idea what is going on or

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what was going on, and a lot of times they

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were as shocked as everybody else. And honestly, I thought

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this was the case here because I can't imagine and

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someone would know this guy was doing all these things

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or accused of doing all these things, even maybe before

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they really knew him or got married to him. It's

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just hard to imagine that they would marry someone that

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they knew had these kind of charges and that they

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would overlook it if you will. So I was giving

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Brittany the benefit of the doubt. However, she did something

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that personally I would think was a mistake, was not

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a good idea for her to do, and that's basically

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that she came out publicly with her thoughts on this.

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And I want you to listen to Brittany as she

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discusses and addresses some inaccurate information that was being put

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out there. Maybe gives her side of the story. But

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listen to this clip from TikTok, which last time I

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looked at over two million views. It was just a

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day before this recording, and here's what she has to say.

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I want to start off by saying that you were

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absolutely allowed to post anything that is public records such

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as mugshots, indictments, court documents, anything like that.

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And give your opinion.

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What you're not allowed to do is post anything that

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is a false statement that is damaging to someone's reputation.

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And I've seen a lot of it, so I'm going

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to set the record straight. But if I continue to

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see it naturally, I'm going to have to take legal

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action because it's absolutely illegal.

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Now this brings me to the first question.

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I continuously keep seeing maybe she didn't know, or did

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she know?

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Do we think she knew? How did she not know? Absolutely?

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I knew Josh and I were friends way before we

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ever started dating. So when the charges occurred, we were friends.

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You better believe I hit him up because as soon

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as I saw it, I have a really good judge

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of character, and I knew something was up.

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I knew that was not Josh.

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We had already been on several trips together beforehand. I'd

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spent pretty close time with this guy, and I was like,

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m something's wrong here. Josh was absolutely upfront with me

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about everything in the charges. There were no secrets. So

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that leads me to the next point. I continuously see

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things that say he lied to her and told her

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that his ex wife set him up. Let's cover a

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couple of things. One, I'm Josh's first wife. He has

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never been married before. Two, Josh has never blamed any

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ex relationship for these charges. He has never spoken badly

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about an ex. Next thing is that people are saying

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that he lied to me and he told me that

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he purchased a laptop or a computer off a Facebook marketplace,

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and the images were already on there. Josh has never

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told me that, nor have I ever been around him

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telling anyone that. The next question I continuously see is

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do people with children or friends with children know about

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the charges? Absolutely? Ay, it's been all over the internet.

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If you didn't know, you just didn't know. But b

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we have never in our lives been at someone's house

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around someone's children not let them know ahead of time,

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because we don't want anything to ever look sketchy. So

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we've always been absolutely upfront with everyone. And guess what,

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a lot of these people have our backs because they

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have personally witnessed Josh around their children and know that

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there's no issue. Next one, how was Josh allowed to

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leave the state of Georgia if he were out on bond?

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Okay, he was out on bond for five years.

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He followed all of his guidelines, He was not a

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flight risk, he did not lose his passport, he has

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not been in previous trouble to stop him from going anywhere.

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So yeah, he was allowed to live wherever he wanted

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as long as he reported it to the Bell bondsman,

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and he did.

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He followed up every.

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Single time he was supposed to, so there was nothing

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illegal going on there about where we live, in our

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living situations. Next thing, I keep getting screenshots where people

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are saying Josh had child images on his work laptop.

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False.

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Josh could not possibly we have that on his work laptop,

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because if you have ever worked for a corporation or

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any big company or anything along those lines, you know

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how secure those computers are.

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So that is a false statement. This one.

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It's up for grabs. You're welcome to talk about it

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all day. People keep saying we were living fake lives.

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There was nothing fake about it.

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It was our life.

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I mean, we're just living like we always do. Anyone

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who is around us or has been around us on

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a normal day knows that was just us. We are

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still happy. He and I have no issues. He has

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been fully transparent and honest with me. Therefore, I know everything.

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I have been to court, I know everything. I can

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assure you that nothing about us was fake. People continuously

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say their livish lifestyle was over. They thought they were

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such a power couple all these things. Josh and I

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would never consider our lives lavish by any stretch of

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the means.

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If you know us, you know most of the time

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when we travel, we stay.

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At a holiday in our boat that everyone calls a

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yacht two thousand and five model. We are not living

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some crazy lavish lifestyle that we are funding from child images.

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That is very far fetched. Think before you speak.

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Family money got Josh out of this and that's why

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he's not having.

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To serve much time.

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Look up the charges, look up the amount of time

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that a person serves. That's false. What you're saying is

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a false statement. There is no family money getting us

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through anything. Another one, Brittany doesn't want children because she

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knows that Josh is a child predator. If you know me,

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or if you've ever known me at any period of

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my life, you will know that since age twelve, I

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have never wanted children, not interested in having children, never

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have been. She's deleting comments, She's deleting and blocking anyone

464
00:27:56.839 --> 00:27:59.200
who says things that aren't nice.

465
00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:00.799
Duh, wouldn't you?

466
00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:04.559
Why would I sit there on my page and allow

467
00:28:04.680 --> 00:28:06.960
people to try to tear me apart?

468
00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:10.480
Think about that. No, I'm not going to do that.

469
00:28:10.519 --> 00:28:12.839
So yeah, if you're hateful to me on my page,

470
00:28:13.200 --> 00:28:16.799
absolutely you're blocked. If I see you commenting on someone

471
00:28:16.799 --> 00:28:20.720
else's page and you know me personally blocked, simple as that,

472
00:28:20.920 --> 00:28:24.759
my page, my rules, and last thing before I end

473
00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:27.200
on a positive note because that's just who I am.

474
00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:31.559
Let's talk about mental health. It is so so fun

475
00:28:32.039 --> 00:28:35.480
to get views off these videos. I've seen all the

476
00:28:35.640 --> 00:28:39.720
True crime girls their videos of seen it all. I've

477
00:28:39.720 --> 00:28:42.799
seen people posting multiple videos because they got excited because

478
00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:43.440
they got.

479
00:28:43.799 --> 00:28:45.400
Most views they've ever had. Whatever.

480
00:28:46.240 --> 00:28:50.359
It is not the best thing in the world to

481
00:28:50.480 --> 00:28:54.039
profit off someone else's worst moment. I am one of

482
00:28:54.079 --> 00:28:58.000
the most mentally tough people you'll ever meet, been through hell,

483
00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:00.680
been through a lot in my life. I'm pretty mentally tough.

484
00:29:01.559 --> 00:29:04.440
Not everyone is. So I'm glad you guys chose me

485
00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:07.799
for this and to give me hell. Like I didn't

486
00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:09.599
just go through the worst week of my life, Like

487
00:29:09.640 --> 00:29:16.160
I did not just lose my best friend. But I

488
00:29:16.160 --> 00:29:20.759
would say think about that, think really hard, because it

489
00:29:20.759 --> 00:29:23.400
would be really difficult to sleep at night if you

490
00:29:23.480 --> 00:29:26.799
were the cause for someone not to be on this earth.

491
00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:28.759
So say what you want to.

492
00:29:28.759 --> 00:29:31.599
Say, send me my death threats, and send me all

493
00:29:31.640 --> 00:29:35.839
these messages. You can't hurt my feelings, you can't cancel me,

494
00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:38.519
because this was never a job. It was only for

495
00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:42.119
fun for us. We just enjoyed posting our memories and travels.

496
00:29:43.119 --> 00:29:46.759
But think really, really deeply before you post the things

497
00:29:46.759 --> 00:29:50.720
you do and you profit off someone else's life just

498
00:29:50.759 --> 00:29:54.559
to get your ten thousand extra followers and hundreds of

499
00:29:54.599 --> 00:29:57.920
thousands of yews. Think about it, and most of all,

500
00:29:58.200 --> 00:30:01.079
maybe think about reaching out to that person to see

501
00:30:01.079 --> 00:30:04.359
if they are even legally allowed to speak on the

502
00:30:04.440 --> 00:30:10.519
case before you do so, because otherwise you're just allowed

503
00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:13.799
to say whatever you want and they may not necessarily.

504
00:30:13.559 --> 00:30:16.079
Be able to respond. Just something to think about.

505
00:30:16.279 --> 00:30:20.039
And because our account has never been negative and we

506
00:30:20.079 --> 00:30:24.759
have always been a strictly positive account, I'm gonna bring you, guys,

507
00:30:24.839 --> 00:30:27.599
your favorite part of us, and it's our boy, Carlos,

508
00:30:28.680 --> 00:30:33.680
the one getting me through all this. And if anything

509
00:30:34.200 --> 00:30:36.480
has given me a good laugh, I would say it

510
00:30:36.519 --> 00:30:40.480
would be the people like, if you do anything with Carlos,

511
00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:44.079
I'll take him. Carlos ain't going nowhere. This is my child,

512
00:30:44.279 --> 00:30:47.599
this is my baby. Nothing is happening to Carlos. He's

513
00:30:47.599 --> 00:30:50.599
gonna be with me forever. So thank y'all for loving

514
00:30:50.680 --> 00:30:54.440
him even when you hate us. I appreciate it. And

515
00:30:56.039 --> 00:30:56.960
we might be back soon.

516
00:30:57.319 --> 00:30:57.599
Might not.

517
00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:04.960
Jim, did you see what happened in Texas today?

518
00:31:05.160 --> 00:31:07.680
Wait before you tell me that, let me tell you

519
00:31:07.720 --> 00:31:08.880
what happened in New York.

520
00:31:09.039 --> 00:31:10.880
It cannot be as crazy as the case I told

521
00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:12.440
you about yesterday in Louisiana.

522
00:31:12.599 --> 00:31:15.960
You know what, we should do a podcast about it, and.

523
00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:17.000
With that we did.

524
00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:19.839
Crime War Weekly covers the crime news headlines that have

525
00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:20.839
dominated the week.

526
00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:24.519
We cover trending crimes from all over the country and

527
00:31:24.680 --> 00:31:27.079
even sprinkle in a few globally.

528
00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:29.920
Crime War Weekly is available now wherever you listen to

529
00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:31.480
your podcasts.

530
00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:34.640
Simply by searching Crime War Weekly or clicking the link

531
00:31:34.839 --> 00:31:45.119
in the description of this podcast. So first things first,

532
00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:50.400
my opinion, Brittany needs to brush up on libel law,

533
00:31:51.240 --> 00:31:54.880
and she's right. Everybody has a right to an opinion

534
00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:59.000
and the words allegedly and in my opinion, I use

535
00:31:59.079 --> 00:32:03.440
those statements a lot and there's reason why. And it's

536
00:32:03.480 --> 00:32:07.160
in my opinion that Brittany fucked up here in a

537
00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:10.519
ton of ways. I mean, let's talk about some of

538
00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:14.359
the things she said. She said she is a good

539
00:32:14.680 --> 00:32:19.039
judge of character. That just made me say, what the fuck?

540
00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:23.680
I mean, she does realize that this guy's pleaded guilties

541
00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:27.640
of this, made statements to the police, admitted he jacked

542
00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:31.519
off to this shit. Yet she's painting this like it's

543
00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:35.359
some sort of setup. She comes off kind of narcissistic

544
00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:40.480
to me, and definitely in denial of her husband's circumstances

545
00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:45.680
and her just share involvement with him. That of course,

546
00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:48.480
that doesn't mean she had anything to do with anything,

547
00:32:49.079 --> 00:32:53.079
but your share involvement with him creates a judgment issue

548
00:32:53.119 --> 00:32:55.599
on your part in other people's eyes. She may not

549
00:32:55.599 --> 00:32:58.559
give a shit about that, but it does. But what

550
00:32:58.799 --> 00:33:02.920
blew my mind more than anything else about the statements

551
00:33:03.119 --> 00:33:06.359
that she made in this video was the fact that

552
00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:11.960
she said anybody they were around that had kids were

553
00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:19.559
told about Josh having charges for child porn. Maybe she's

554
00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:24.200
being honest, maybe she's telling the truth about that. But

555
00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:27.680
if that's true, and she's being honest and they did

556
00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:30.920
tell people that and they allowed their kids around that

557
00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:36.599
motherfucker after getting that knowledge, all I can say is,

558
00:33:36.640 --> 00:33:41.160
what the fuck is wrong with those people? Imagine that, y'all.

559
00:33:41.759 --> 00:33:45.519
Imagine for a second, you meet someone, maybe you're going

560
00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:49.200
out to a bar, you click with them, whatever, Hey,

561
00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:51.720
let's go hang out more often? We all get along,

562
00:33:51.799 --> 00:33:54.680
let's go hang out on the boat. Well, before we do,

563
00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:57.759
I need to tell you, because you have kids, that

564
00:33:57.839 --> 00:34:03.119
my husband has charges against him fortune, child pornography. Yep,

565
00:34:03.480 --> 00:34:07.000
I'm out, peace out, playa. I ain't hanging out with

566
00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:12.599
you again. Ever, that's the most bizarre comment I think

567
00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:16.119
I've ever heard. Maybe she's being honest. Maybe they did

568
00:34:16.159 --> 00:34:18.880
tell people that, but I mean, what kind of people

569
00:34:18.920 --> 00:34:23.719
are you hanging out with? Holy smokes, these people still

570
00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:27.079
support you. It's also important that Brittany keeps in mind

571
00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:30.159
she's a public figure, and when you're a public figure,

572
00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:35.880
you open yourself up to criticism, justified or not. In

573
00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:39.679
this case, it just happens to be justified. Look, Brittany

574
00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:42.880
said it out of her own mouth. She knew about

575
00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:47.239
all of this ahead of time, So she went into

576
00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:51.559
this relationship knowing this guy. Matter of fact, she didn't

577
00:34:51.639 --> 00:34:55.239
only go into the relationship, she married the guy knowing

578
00:34:55.320 --> 00:34:59.039
he had these charges. According to her, So when you

579
00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:03.199
do that, you take the risk of what's going down

580
00:35:03.360 --> 00:35:07.480
right now. In twenty twenty five, a wise person told

581
00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:11.639
me once, don't lay in the bed with dogs, because

582
00:35:11.639 --> 00:35:15.039
you're liable to come out with fleas and right now,

583
00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:18.679
Britney got fleas all over her, and you had to

584
00:35:18.719 --> 00:35:23.079
know that was coming at some point, especially when you

585
00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:27.639
become a public persona. So don't bitch about it now.

586
00:35:27.880 --> 00:35:30.119
You got to take the bad with the good. Brittany,

587
00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:35.320
you asked for scrutiny when you got into the relationship

588
00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:37.599
because you knew that scrutiney was coming at some point.

589
00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:41.760
You're not dumb if what you're saying is true. You

590
00:35:41.880 --> 00:35:45.880
knew all of these allegations which he pleaded guilty to

591
00:35:46.320 --> 00:35:49.360
in the story that she just told you. He was

592
00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:54.440
up front, they had no secrets. I'm sure he gave

593
00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:58.239
her an excuse for this, and I only say that

594
00:35:58.280 --> 00:36:00.559
I have no evidence of it, no direct college. But

595
00:36:01.360 --> 00:36:06.079
I just can't imagine Brittany, this attractive chick who could

596
00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:10.079
probably pull just about any guy that she wanted based

597
00:36:10.119 --> 00:36:14.599
off of looks. I just can't imagine her going into

598
00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:19.280
this knowing the truth of what he pleaded guilty to.

599
00:36:19.719 --> 00:36:24.599
Regardless of that, maybe she would, but if that's the case,

600
00:36:24.719 --> 00:36:30.000
don't criticize people for questioning it. Fucking with kids is

601
00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:36.599
not cool, it's disgusting, it's sickening, and defending someone that

602
00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:40.400
does those sort of things that brings you into the

603
00:36:40.440 --> 00:36:45.199
situation that you're at right now. You know, most people

604
00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:50.519
would be mortified, mortified, and the last thing that they

605
00:36:50.599 --> 00:36:54.079
would do is get on any social media to respond.

606
00:36:54.639 --> 00:36:58.400
They would, I imagine, delete every single piece of social

607
00:36:58.440 --> 00:37:03.000
media they had because they were so mortified and embarrassed

608
00:37:03.559 --> 00:37:09.880
about the husband pleading guilty to this sick, disgusting shit

609
00:37:10.639 --> 00:37:15.480
that he did. But not Brittany, because in my opinion,

610
00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:19.559
she needs the attention. Apparently, you need to look in

611
00:37:19.599 --> 00:37:24.000
the mirror at yourself before you preach to other people

612
00:37:25.159 --> 00:37:28.440
on an open letter, if you will on TikTok and

613
00:37:28.519 --> 00:37:31.639
try to gaslight them into feeling sorry for you, who

614
00:37:31.719 --> 00:37:34.840
knew exactly what you were going into according to your

615
00:37:34.840 --> 00:37:37.800
own words, I don't feel sorry for you if you

616
00:37:38.039 --> 00:37:42.800
knew this going in which you said you did. That's

617
00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:45.880
my opinion. So I want to address something else as well,

618
00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:49.079
and this one just aggravates me. I've seen a lot

619
00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:53.880
of these creators, and they, like me, are disgusted at

620
00:37:53.920 --> 00:37:56.719
the sentence that he got. And I can agree with

621
00:37:56.800 --> 00:38:00.360
Brittany on this. I'm sure money helps a lot little bit,

622
00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:03.039
but I don't know that it made a big difference

623
00:38:03.400 --> 00:38:07.480
in this case because y'all, I cover specifically teacher student

624
00:38:07.559 --> 00:38:11.239
relationships on here at least once a week, all these

625
00:38:11.280 --> 00:38:16.719
inappropriate relationships, this pandemic where these teachers are just praying

626
00:38:16.760 --> 00:38:20.400
on these students, and in almost all of these cases

627
00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:24.840
it's a ridiculous, stupid ass slap on the rest that

628
00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:28.960
they get. This is no different, no different than I've

629
00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:31.519
seen a million times. So I'm not going to say

630
00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:33.559
it's because of who they were, but a lot of

631
00:38:33.599 --> 00:38:36.800
people in this case, they brought up the judge and

632
00:38:36.840 --> 00:38:40.119
it's a lady named Rosemary Green. And first of all,

633
00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:44.360
content creators got it wrong, of course, and we're telling

634
00:38:44.440 --> 00:38:47.400
people that the judge was married to a guy by

635
00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:51.159
the name of Mark Matheson, and that Mark Matheson got

636
00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:55.079
in the trouble with multiple sex crimes. He was having

637
00:38:55.159 --> 00:38:58.920
inappropriate relationships with a student apparently, and they divorced over this.

638
00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:01.960
And guess what, they were all wrong, every one of them.

639
00:39:02.039 --> 00:39:04.480
She was not married to this guy. This guy was

640
00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:07.119
her boyfriend. I'm not really sure how long they were

641
00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:09.039
in a relationship, but I don't think it was a

642
00:39:09.079 --> 00:39:14.280
super long time. He gets charged with this stuff and

643
00:39:14.800 --> 00:39:18.039
she does what anybody would do in that situation that

644
00:39:18.119 --> 00:39:20.559
has a right mind, and she kicked his ass to

645
00:39:20.679 --> 00:39:23.559
the curb. That's the real facts. But you know there's

646
00:39:23.599 --> 00:39:27.400
still videos up on people's pages that say they were married.

647
00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:30.920
I delete that if I were you. This lady's a judge,

648
00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:35.360
she knows the law pretty well, and that is misinformation.

649
00:39:35.480 --> 00:39:39.079
And you can't just put that video up, say something

650
00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:41.840
like that and then offer a recant to that and

651
00:39:41.880 --> 00:39:44.239
not delete the original video. But guess what, a lot

652
00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:47.400
of these creators aren't doing it because the original video

653
00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:49.000
got a ton of views and they don't want to

654
00:39:49.079 --> 00:39:51.960
lease the money. But if I were you, I delete it.

655
00:39:52.039 --> 00:39:54.039
So a ton of these creators, they were trying to

656
00:39:54.079 --> 00:39:56.599
tie in the fact of what that judge went through

657
00:39:56.639 --> 00:39:58.639
where she kicked this guy to the curb and the

658
00:39:58.760 --> 00:40:03.679
light sentence that Josh God, and I'm gonna call bullshit

659
00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:06.679
on that number one. As I told you, she was

660
00:40:06.719 --> 00:40:09.840
in a relationship with this guy. She was not married

661
00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:12.039
to him. She kicked this guy out of the curb,

662
00:40:12.119 --> 00:40:15.840
as she should have when she found out about these

663
00:40:15.960 --> 00:40:19.320
charges that her boyfriend had. But the creators are like,

664
00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:22.360
why didn't she recuse herself? She should have recused herself.

665
00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:25.719
First of all, you need to understand the process of recusal.

666
00:40:26.119 --> 00:40:29.840
A judge does not have to recuse themselves even when

667
00:40:29.880 --> 00:40:32.480
there is a conflict of interest, which in this case

668
00:40:32.519 --> 00:40:34.960
there is not. But even when there is, all a

669
00:40:35.039 --> 00:40:38.679
judge has to do is honestly ask themselves, look themselves

670
00:40:38.679 --> 00:40:40.840
in the mirror, and say, can I judge this case

671
00:40:40.960 --> 00:40:45.280
regardless of whatever conflict of interest I may have. If

672
00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:48.119
the answer to that is yes, then they proceed with

673
00:40:48.239 --> 00:40:51.199
the case. She had no idea what was going on

674
00:40:51.239 --> 00:40:54.199
with this guy was nor was it ever accused that

675
00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:58.159
she did. Newsflash to those of you that don't do

676
00:40:58.239 --> 00:41:01.280
this all day, every day like I do, these sentences

677
00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:08.440
are normal. Yes they suck. Yes it's a major problem,

678
00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:12.000
but yes this is typical. No matter who the fuck

679
00:41:12.039 --> 00:41:15.719
you are, most people don't even do jail time. Would

680
00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:18.840
that surprise you. The problem is not the judge in

681
00:41:18.880 --> 00:41:21.920
this case. The problem is a system in this case. Now,

682
00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:24.840
I'm not picking on all TikTok people or whatever you

683
00:41:24.880 --> 00:41:26.840
want to call them. Some of them are really good

684
00:41:26.920 --> 00:41:29.800
and do the right thing. They actually confirm the information.

685
00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:33.480
Some of them are really good. Now, lastly, I want

686
00:41:33.480 --> 00:41:37.039
to read you some comments, if you'll remember the TikTok

687
00:41:37.400 --> 00:41:40.840
that I played you. In regards to Britney Stapleton, she

688
00:41:41.039 --> 00:41:44.519
mentioned that she deletes comments that are hateful. But I'm

689
00:41:44.519 --> 00:41:48.239
going to read you some comments that I screenshotted from

690
00:41:48.719 --> 00:41:52.960
her video, and you can see how twisted some people's

691
00:41:53.519 --> 00:41:57.599
thought process is on this. How it's just not a deal, right,

692
00:41:58.119 --> 00:42:00.519
I'm going to read you some love you the most.

693
00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:05.199
You and Josh deserve nothing but the best. Now, this

694
00:42:05.280 --> 00:42:10.480
person likely has no idea who they are. They live

695
00:42:10.599 --> 00:42:13.920
vicariously through them on TikTok, but they love them the most.

696
00:42:14.360 --> 00:42:18.880
And they and Josh, who is a sick, pedophile motherfucker,

697
00:42:19.599 --> 00:42:23.079
he deserves nothing but the best. Another one says, girls,

698
00:42:23.079 --> 00:42:25.440
stay strong. We all have mess in our lives. No,

699
00:42:25.599 --> 00:42:27.599
not all of us have that kind of mess in

700
00:42:27.639 --> 00:42:29.840
our lives. She goes on to say, if those people

701
00:42:29.880 --> 00:42:33.480
throwing stones that y'all have no right, lots more of

702
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us are for y'all. I mean, really moving on. Another

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comment and I'm not gonna call these people's name, but

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another comment prayers for both of y'all. That's okay, I'm

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praying for it too. Another one says, y'all didn't have

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time to explain, and you don't know anything to anyone,

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but you've done so with class and grace. Stay positive,

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and you're gonna get through this. How can you explain away?

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I'm masturbated looking at of twelve year old girls. Another one.

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No matter what the situation is, you don't deserve anyone

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being ugly to you. Jesus Christ, I hope everything gets better.

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I mean, you can't make this shit up, y'all. So

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that's just some of those comments that turn my stomach.

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People need to wake up. If you want this to

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quit being such an issue, and I mean sexual assault

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of children, then we need to quit justifying it or

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acting like it's no big deal. I mean, you take

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what you can from those comments. But there you have it.

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The story of the Gulf Coast Stapletons, at least to

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this point. I'll keep you updated if anything major comes

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