Hello and welcome back to True Crime Guys podcast. I'm your host Michael and you know Andy's here.

Michael, I'm not, I'm not allowed not to be here. It's headlines and shenanigans week. It's

headlines week. And it's our first week back of the new year, baby. It is. We were off last

weekend so we're like, hey, it's headlines.

Right. It's headlines. I mean, it's the new year. Everybody's got, everybody's got to see

what's been going on in the world first, where we just jump into carnage and stuff.

Listen, we're not here to bring you all the headlines. Not all the headlines. I think some

of them you got enough of. Yeah. Your regular newsfeed has solidified that for you.

Yeah. Well, bring you some good ones, though. I think so. I'm excited to hear. But before we do,

I got to remind you guys, you can catch these episodes early ad-free with bonus content on

Patreon. Patreon.com slash true crime guys. There's a link right below the description of this episode. You can also hear the 60 vaulted episodes that are not available on the free platform as well. But to Andy, I'll pass it to you, bud. Michael, what do you got? If you're going to pass it to me, Michael, I'm going to tell you something that was pretty hard for people to pass this new year.

Uh-oh.

Because Michael, we're going to start off our headlines with the headline that nobody really asked for.

But guess what?

We get it anyways.

Okay.

We're going to talk about it.

The 25 worst items pulled from people's butts in 2025, according to the U.S. government.

Well, Michael, they got to keep track of this stuff.

I was, I had some questions.

Here's the thing that nobody asked for, but a shocking number of us apparently contribute to.

The U.S. government keeps a running tally of emergency

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