Tom LoBianco joins to discuss the Micah Beckwith investigation and the Jonathan Peternel trial
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
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🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:34.5 | Indiana's lieutenant governor. Let's kind of reset everything, figure out where we're at, and maybe where we're going to go. It's Kennell a Casey show. I'm Rob Casey's out today. Ethan Hatcher in for Casey. And with us in the studio, the guy who kind of broke the story as it relates to those AI porn allegations of being shared in the lieutenant governor's office. And everything kind of went well downhill from there. |
| 0:55.0 | It's Tom Lobionco, freelance journalist. Nobody kind of knows this story maybe as well as you do. |
| 1:01.0 | Let's just reset this real quick. You covered Indiana politics and government for a long time. |
| 1:06.7 | You worked for the Indianapolis Star over the Associated Press. |
| 1:10.4 | You ever remember a story this bizarre in all your time covering Indiana politics and government? |
| 1:16.2 | No, man. No, nothing even close. |
| 1:19.0 | When you were approached with this story, because obviously I think we could say this now. |
| 1:23.6 | Aaron Sheridan brought this information to you. |
| 1:27.1 | She's obviously come on this program. She's, you know, publicly said, you know, brought this information to you. She's obviously come on this program. |
| 1:28.5 | She's, you know, publicly said, you know, I'm the person who made the complaint. |
| 1:32.7 | What was kind of your initial reaction because she comes to you at the story about AI porn being shared in lieutenant governor's office? |
| 1:40.4 | You know, so when I, if I'd come into this cold not knowing anything about that office, |
| 1:49.4 | I might have been like, well, that's weird. Um, I don't know why that's happening. Let me think |
| 1:55.8 | about looking into it. Um, having some familiarity with the office, uh, it sounded par for the course. Now, it was astounding |
| 2:06.1 | even by, you know, the Beckwith office's standards of operation. So, you know, quite astounding. |
| 2:13.2 | But yeah, you know, I, it to me, me it was really like why is why are people in state government |
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