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Brooke and Jeffrey

Laser Stories (9/12/25)

Brooke and Jeffrey

iHeartPodcasts

Relationships, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Weird news stories from around the world… with a healthy dose of lasers added in. Does it make sense? No not really, but it doesn’t HAVE TO… it’s Laser Stories!

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0:00.0

It's the radio segment that's making fitness fun again with a new invention, the Netflix

0:10.6

treadmill.

0:12.3

It only plays your show if you keep running.

0:17.1

Oh, that's actually really smart.

0:18.7

Oh, man.

0:19.6

Who wins RuPaul's drag race? Better start sprinting. I get like five minutes into every show. Yeah, it's laser stories. The segment where we read weird news stories around the globe just like everyone else does, except we've got a laser. Yeah. Those are the binge baddies just don't. Hey. This first laser story is out of Puerto Rico. Fun. When you're on open water outside the continental U.S., there are certain cruise lines that provide casinos to let their guests gamble and have a little fun. Yeah, Carnival does it. I think that they even do that on the rivers in the U.S. One of the ones that does it out on the ocean is Royal Caribbean, and a man named Jorge Alta was on one of their ships last weekend, living it up. Okay. Maybe a little too much, because at one point he found himself in debt, almost 17 grand. Oh, no, she didn't. Whoa. Dude, that's when you cut your losses, man. That's a problem, my friend. Unless you're like a millionaire. Yeah, well, he either didn't have the money to pay him back or didn't want to. Dude, it would feel like, I mean, I'm sorry, if you're on a cruise ship, it wouldn't feel like real money. No. You know, they gave me chips. This is like chips That's how they get you

1:28.4

So he did the next best thing

1:30.0

And he jumped overboard

1:31.4

Oh, that's not a good escape boy

1:34.1

He was caught on surveillance camera

1:36.7

Going into the water

1:37.7

Near the shore where he was picked up

1:39.7

By a couple of people on jet skis

1:41.5

Oh, so they were that close

1:43.0

It seemed like he arranged it.

1:44.6

Oh.

1:45.8

Made a couple calls.

1:47.0

You could break some bones jumping off a cruise ship.

1:49.6

They're like, buddy, again?

1:51.0

You got to stop jumping off these boats.

1:53.3

In the end, the authorities didn't have any trouble tracking him down.

1:56.2

He was arrested and is now facing $250,000 in fines and up to five years in prison.

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