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Cold Cases, Gender Laws, and the Secret Duties of Husbands
A shocking tragedy unfolds when a long-term murder suspect takes his own life during a virtual interview with investigators. Michael Thomas, connected to a 2010 cold case where a young mother was beaten to death while her baby lay nearby, controlled a 45-minute Zoom conversation before shooting himself on camera. Why did justice take so long, and what happens now for the victim's family and her child, who's grown up without resolution?
The landscape of gender policy continues to evolve rapidly across America. The FBI has issued a call for citizens to report medical facilities performing gender transition procedures on minors, following renewed federal interest in protecting children from potentially harmful interventions. Meanwhile, Nebraska joins 24 other states in enacting legislation that prevents males from competing in girls' sports, with Governor Jim Pillen signing the "Women's Act" into law. These developments highlight the growing tension between state and federal approaches to gender-related issues while Congress remains largely inactive.
Beyond the headlines, we explore a personal question about relationships and expectations. When my husband brings me coffee and kisses me good morning, is it love or duty driving his actions? This sparked a fascinating conversation about the unspoken "duties" men feel obligated to perform in relationships. Men, we want to hear from you – do you have a mental checklist of things you do out of obligation rather than genuine desire? Share your thoughts on the secret duties of husbands and whether these gendered expectations help or hinder authentic connections. What rituals in your relationship began as conscious efforts but evolved into genuine expressions of love?
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Happy Thursday. Welcome one and all. Hello and good morning my little love bunnies. Alright, here we go. We have three interesting subjects stories for you today.
Speaker 1:This first one person of interest in 2010 cold case murder of Oklahoma. Mom shoots himself in the head on a Zoom call with horrified investigators. Shoots himself in the head on a Zoom call with horrified investigators. I think I remember this case. This person Michael Thomas is his name that shot himself, a longtime person of interest in the killing of a 35-year-old, Julie Mitchell, requested that his meeting last week with investigators be virtual rather than in person, before he killed himself on camera. So let me go. So let me go back and find. I'll just have to read the whole thing. Oh gosh, this is horrible. The phone landed right by his head, so we got to hear him die. Hear the death rattle. The attorney said on tuesday. It was a shocking and horrific, as you can imagine.
Speaker 1:Thomas, who took the call from a wooded area that should god wooded area. Um, red flag number one outside a Kansas casino, was being questioned as part of the investigation into the murder of Mitchell, who was beaten to death in the bedroom of her Oklahoma City home in November 2010. Her 13-month-old baby was discovered unharmed, right by her bludgeoned body. I think the body was found in a closet. There were $30,000 in the safe. This guy's checkbook was left behind. That's why he was a person of interest. So police found Mitchell's body in the master closet. Approximately $30,000 was missing from the closet safe, according to Oklahoma. So Thomas, whose company checkbook was found at Mitchell's home after her death, had been a person of interest in the case for years.
Speaker 1:Okay, questions. This was a 2010 murder and this guy has been questioned several times. What's the problem? Why are the police and investigators dropping the ball on this? What? What is the deal? Somebody is not doing their job. Why is it taking it this long? Seems like a pretty open and shut case to me. Why is it taking so long? Or now I guess it's over with, since the guy shot himself, he was the person of interest. Wow.
Speaker 1:When investigators wanted to question him again this week, thomas agreed, but on one condition, the station reported. He insisted that the meeting not be in person. Beggars can't always be choosers, and this is somebody we wanted to talk to. We needed to talk to. There were questions we needed to have answered by him. Well, you've questioned him several times and he's not giving you the answers. What makes you think this one was going to be any different?
Speaker 1:So Thomas and the Oklahoma City detectives arranged for a Zoom call on May 31st that Thomas was going to take out of state. He had agreed to be interviewed by detectives, but only on the stipulation that he wasn't going to be at the same location. He wanted to be in a manner like a Zoom call. Yeah, we got all that. We know this is ridiculous writing. You don't have to go and repeat this a gazillion times. He didn't give me an opportunity to ask him any questions.
Speaker 1:Carter said he controlled the conversation from start to finish. Oh, that's weird. That's weird. I wonder what he said. If they they there's here the guy was. They were on a zoom call for 45 minutes before he took out the gun and shot himself. And they're now saying that he, that the suspect, controlled the the conversation for 45 minutes. So he said here it is, about 45 minutes into the call, in the middle of the questioning, thomas took out a gun and shot himself in the head. Wow, wow. That's a shame. Now they're never going to have any justice for her, probably. So that means the 13 month old is now 10, no 2020, probably 15, right, because this is my math. I do keith math. Keith Math is probably better than my math. If she died in 2010 and the baby was 13 months old and now we're 2025, that's 15 years later, right, okay, all right.
Speaker 1:So moving on to the next story, fbi asks Americans to report medical facilities that transition gender confused kids. Here's your chance to do something. Here's your chance to take action. We always say, well, there's nothing we can do. Well, here you go. So I know you don't. No one wants to be a tattletale, but this is important. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, fbi, is asking Americans to report anything they know about medical professionals who continue to perform life-altering gender transition procedures on confused children.
Speaker 1:Within days of returning to office, president Donald Trump signed an executive order. Yeah, we know all that. So help the FBI protect children. The Bureau appealed on its official X account on June 2nd. I'll have to go back and find that and retweet it. As the Attorney General has made clear, we will protect our children and hold accountable those who mutilate them under the guise of gender-affirming care. It asks citizens to report tips of any hospitals, clinics or practitioners performing these surgical procedures on children and they give a phone number. So there you go.
Speaker 1:25 states currently have laws against subjecting minors Only 25. Only 25 states. But there is currently no federal ban in place that the federal government could enforce, because Congress and Senate are sitting on their ass doing nothing. They're not codifying these executive orders. So what do you do? I guess you can call the FBI tip. So there you go. There's that story All right, moving on. Here we go Speaking of this trans ideology stuff.
Speaker 1:Nebraska governor signs law banning males from competing in girls sports. I guess, since the federal, senate, government, congress, whatever like to sit on their hands and do nothing except drink cocktails, maybe at parties and schmooze and who knows what else going up there, at least the governors are doing something. Nebraska Republican Governor Jim Pillen signed a new law on Wednesday morning protecting female students from having to compete against males in sex-specific athletic programs with women act states that a team or sport designated for females, women or girls should not be open to male student. This is a shame. We have to have something like this. We actually already have something like this. It's called title nine, but biden and his administration changed the language for it. Who knows what else they did um. So an interscholastic athletic program sponsored by or competing with public schools, while a team or sport designated for males, men or boys, should not be open to female student unless there is no female team offered or available for such a sport. So there you go. He signed it, there you go. He signed it, there you go. I don't know what else to say.
Speaker 1:All right, I had a good question of the day and for some reason it is escaping me. Oh, yes, uh, here is the question of the day, but I feel like I have to tee it up for you a little bit. So this morning, every morning, every morning, my husband, the gent, brings me coffee in bed because he gets it. I just he likes it to do that. You know we get up at three o'clock in the morning, right, so he gets up first, he goes out and gets, pours the coffee and he brings it to me and we know. And then he kisses me. You know, good morning and all that stuff.
Speaker 1:And this morning he asked me, he said you like it when I do that? Right, when I kiss you in the morning, I'm like, of course I do, and so. But then I said something like uh, oh, I asked him. I said well, do you enjoy it or do you just do it as a sense of duty? Because you're the man, you're the husband? You just do it as a sense of duty. And he cracked up laughing because of my stupid question and so he made funny comment about yes, we men have a secret dutiful list that we have to do. And so my question I said that's my question of the day you men out there, do you have a secret list of dutiful things you have to do for to be a man and the husband in the, in the family, what is your? What is on your dutiful list? I think I'm saying that right, all right, that's it. I got to go. Thanks for listening. I hope you found that fun and entertaining the question. Anyway, all right, I got to go Love y'all. Thanks for listening, bye.
