Tragedy At A Wisconsin Christmas Parade
What A Day
What A Day
4.8 • 166 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Attorneys presented closing arguments in the trial of the three Georgia men charged with murdering Ahmaud Arbery, yesterday. Now, we wait for the jury to decide whether they’ll be convicted.
On Sunday night, a man plowed his vehicle into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin. At least five people died and several others were injured in the incident. Police are charging the suspect with five counts of intentional homicide.
And in headlines: A Florida judge dismissed all charges against The Groveland Four, President Biden renominated Jerome Powell to lead the Federal Reserve for a second term, and the U.S. was deemed a “backsliding democracy” for the first time ever.
Show Notes:
City of Waukesha: https://twitter.com/CityofWaukesha
For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, November 23rd. I'm getting rezzed. |
| 0:08.7 | And I'm Josie Duffy-Race. And this is What A Day. |
| 0:11.6 | Where we live in a constant state of fear that Emma Thompson will surprise us with one of our teachers. |
| 0:17.5 | Yeah, maybe you saw her do it to Adele. It is only a matter of time until she comes after us. |
| 0:22.9 | You know, Dame Emma, she will stop it. Nothing to do something just really nice for us. |
| 0:31.0 | On today's show, updates on the tragedy at a holiday parade in Wisconsin where a car hit and killed at least five people. |
| 0:37.7 | Plus NASA launches a spacecraft tomorrow to quote unquote nudge an asteroid. |
| 0:41.9 | But first, yesterday, after 10 days of testimony, attorneys presented closing arguments |
| 0:46.4 | in the trial of the three Georgia men charged with murdering Ahmad Arbery in February of 2020. |
| 0:52.0 | Today, the prosecution will present their final statement, a rebuttal to the defences closing argument |
| 0:56.9 | before the jury heads in to decide whether or not father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael |
| 1:02.0 | and their neighbor, William Bryan, will be convicted of murder, aggravated assault, |
| 1:05.9 | and false imprisonment among other charges. |
| 1:08.7 | Yeah, and just to refresh everyone's memory, Arbery was on a run in February of 2020 in Brunswick, |
| 1:13.8 | Georgia when these three men saw him jogging in their subdivision. They grabbed their rifles and |
| 1:18.5 | began chasing him in their pickup truck. For about five minutes, they pursued him, |
| 1:23.0 | cutting him off and running him off the road to make it nearly impossible for him to escape. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah, so footage taped by William Bryan showed Travis McMichael shoot Arbery once when Arbery |
| 1:33.9 | panicked and grabbed for McMichael's gun. McMichael shot him two more times. Arbery tried to run away, |
| 1:40.9 | but instead collapsed face down in the street directly after the shooting. Greg McMichael told |
| 1:45.6 | police that Arbery had been, quote, trapped like a rat. And as Arbery laid dead in the road, |
| 1:51.3 | Travis McMichael reportedly called him a fucking inward. God, I can't even listen to that. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from What A Day, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of What A Day and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.