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Jon Pounders opens this edition of Weird News with a small-town ballot that somehow got weirder than the crime attached to it. In Elizabeth, Louisiana—a village of about 400—Chris Paul, 46, was already running for police chief when he was arrested and charged with second-degree forced physical intimacy involving two 13-year-old girls. His only opponent then dropped out. Qualifying is closed, so the name stays on the ballot, and under Louisiana rules only a felony conviction, not pending charges, bars someone from office. The accused man is therefore unopposed for the village’s top law-enforcement job.
From there the hour moves to a former senior CIA executive who treated classified fiction as a business plan. David J. Rush, 49, of Ashburn, Virginia, pleaded guilty to wire fraud after inventing programs that pulled $194 million from the government. The money, routed through a holding company, bought four luxury homes in South Florida, vehicles, and roughly $46 million in gold bars, among other assets seized in a May raid. He also admitted passing a U.S. spy’s details to a foreign official in late 2025 and faces up to 20 years at a January 28 sentencing.
The show then looks at a research thread on “immigrant inclusion in rural America” that explicitly examines cooperatives, the solidarity economy, and property redistribution. One cited model is St. Louis, where refugee buyers have been matched two dollars for every dollar they put down on a house.
Next is campaign footage of Amy Klobuchar running for Minnesota governor: she speaks Somali on camera, accepts an upside-down American flag, and highlights how much easier she has made it for Somalis in the U.S. to send money home.
The broadcast closes on the Blue Ridge Mountains, where Chris Bledsoe has just launched the Bledsoe Institute, a nonprofit set up to study orb phenomena, consciousness, and possible communications. It is soliciting tax-deductible gifts from “founding angels” for a permanent site, timed to his long-running claim that the star Regulus would appear red near Egypt’s Great Sphinx on October 7, 2026—an effect astronomers say ordinary atmospheric conditions can produce. The segment weighs the data pitch against the prophecy-and-fundraising mix.
Join Jon as he connects the dots on this week’s weirdest news.
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