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Reel Pod News Cast™ with Levon Putney

Levon Putney | Former WCBS 880 News Reporter | 25+ Years Journalism Experience

Join veteran journalist Levon Putney, former WCBS 880 reporter with 25+ years experience, for the Reel Pod News Cast™ - your bi-weekly dose of funny news stories that won"t ruin your day. Every Tuesday and Friday, discover bizarre crime stories, weird news from around the world, and hilarious mishaps that will make you smile. Perfect for anyone seeking light entertainment news, comedy podcasts, or a palate cleanser from heavy headlines. Features parody commercials, celebrity birthdays, and music

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15:53

Reel Pod News Cast™, Tue Aug 26th 2025

Reel Pod News Cast™ with Levon Putney ·

2025/08/26

Includes stories on the Nevada man arrested on his way to the Burning Man Festival, because cops say he had a supply of crack, meth, molly, ecstasy, DMT, 2C-B, LSD, Oxycodone, Valium, Vicodin and Xanax all packaged to sell at the festival...also on a Washington state driver accused of speeding to the courthouse to pay a speeding ticket...and on Burbank California's "serial butt sniffer" arrested again. Plus...parody ads/songs and celebrity birthdays.

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17:10

Reel Pod News Cast™, Fri Aug 22nd 2025

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2025/08/22

Includes stories on the 40,000 pounds of ribeye steaks that burned Monday morning in a wonderful, smelling tractor trailer fire in Missouri...a follow up on the Kentucky woman in the now viral, smiling mugshot after being arrested for totalling her ex's car by damaging the engine, windows and filled the a/c vents with glitter... also on the new words added to the Cambridge Dictionary, including 'skibidi' and 'delulu.' Plus...parody ads/songs and celebrity birthdays.

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14:28

Reel Pod News Cast™, Tue Aug 19th 2025

Reel Pod News Cast™ with Levon Putney ·

2025/08/19

Includes stories on a man in a L.A. suburb who was blaring a pair of train horns outside for three months, until cops answered neighbors' prayers and complaints and arrested the guy... and on a 44 year old man who had a knife blade inside his chest for eight years until doctors found it...also on the 23 year old British prison guard who just pleaded guilty last week to being the latest of 29 female correctional officers the past three years in the UK to get caught having sex with inmates.

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16:47

Reel Pod News Cast™, Fri Aug 15th 2025

Reel Pod News Cast™ with Levon Putney ·

2025/08/15

Includes stories on the great white shark spotted off of Maine's coast that led to beach warnings-and a request for Reel Pod listeners to email levon@reelpodnewscast.com to say whether or not he should record a foul-mouthed version of the newscast... also a story on an Austrian man who rode a bullet train outside and between cars for miles, until the conductor stopped to pull him inside...and on a 64-year old man in Italy who survived two days at home, until he was found with a crossbow arrow in his

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15:50

Reel Pod News Cast™, Tue Aug 12th 2025

Reel Pod News Cast™ with Levon Putney ·

2025/08/12

Includes stories on an Oklahoma City man accused of pulling a knife on a mentally disabled janitor inside a strip club, getting beaten up by the janitor and then arrested by cops... also on the Dubai guy who paid $13,705 a pound in a winning auction bid for Panamanian Geisha coffee ...and on the German tourist who admitted to taking a motorcycle for a spin while riding nude around Malta. Plus...parody ads/songs and celebrity birthdays.

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16:04

Reel Pod News Cast™, Fri Aug 8th 2025

Reel Pod News Cast™ with Levon Putney ·

2025/08/08

Including stories on how the US Department of Agriculture has been blasting audio of an Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson movie scene thr ough speakers on drones flying over western farmland- to scare wolves away from eating the cattle- and it's reportedly working... also on the cop in Houston Texas who posted and later deleted a TikTok video of her busy at work-with a caption which basically hinted she would be making a lot of traffic stops because she was upset over not having sex the night

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16:41

Reel Pod News Cast™, Tue Aug 5th 2025

Reel Pod News Cast™ with Levon Putney ·

2025/08/05

Includes stories on a police search for a guy who walked into a Paterson New Jersey bakery last Thursday, and stabbed the two co-owners for putting eggplant in a sandwich he bought four years ago...also on a job search at a top brewery in Australia for a new chief beer taster... and on a family who left behind their ten year old son at the airport in Barcelona while they boarded a vacation flight, because his passport expired. Plus...parody ads/songs and celebrity birthdays.

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15:51

Reel Pod News Cast™, Fri Aug 1st 2025

Reel Pod News Cast™ with Levon Putney ·

2025/08/01

Includes stories on the guy who got a napping NYPD officer suspended by escaping from custody in a Manhattan hospital, after stealing a small row boat to paddle to a big trimaran boat anchored in the Hudson River, where cops say the guy then stripped off all his clothes until cops came and got him...also on a Florida mom arrested and accused of being her son's getaway driver, after he robbed a cashier in a video arcade...and on a toy gun brand being recalled in Japan, since police say testing found

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13:45

Reel Pod News Cast™, Tue July 29th 2025

Reel Pod News Cast™ with Levon Putney ·

2025/07/29

Includes stories on a lucky California mom who just gave birth to her fourth child, all of whom were born on July seventh (7/7) in different years and none induced... and on a Florida guy stopped for driving his big, red lawn mower down a highway while cops suspect he was high or drunk...and on the Toronto Transit Commission's decision to change their fare inspectors' official title to Provincial Offences Officers, or... POO inspectors. Plus...parody ads/songs and celebrity birthdays.

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15:55

Reel Pod News Cast™, Fri July 25th 2025

Reel Pod News Cast™ with Levon Putney ·

2025/07/25

Includes stories on at least one fox that has stolen about 32-shoes from campers over the past month or so in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming...and a British Columbia woman who's been flooded with phone calls about a missing cat, after her phone number was on a tshirt's print of a missing cat poster... also on a dog that was adopted from a Seoul animal shelter and returned seven hours later with no fur from the head down, after the seven hour owners shaved the dog before returning it.

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15:51

Reel Pod News Cast™, Tue July 22nd 2025

Reel Pod News Cast™ with Levon Putney ·

2025/07/22

Includes stories on a woman in Key West Florida who's accused of stopping traffic to let a chicken cross the road, only to fly into road rage and bear spray a woman who honked behind her, then went around and ran over the chicken, killing it... also on the annual swingers festival in a village north of London that drew noise complaints for all the moaning...and on a guy and a DNA lab worker in England who were both sentenced to prison time for mixing up paternity test specimens, so the guy could

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15:03

Reel Pod News Cast™, Fri July 18th 2025

Reel Pod News Cast™ with Levon Putney ·

2025/07/18

Includes stories on the three to four foot ball python snake slithering around a neighborhood in Somerville Massachusetts...and on three young ladies in the Cleveland Ohio area who got busted by a police dash camera and facial recognition software climbing on the patrol car's hood and twerking...also on a prisoner in France who escaped inside the laundry bag of an inmate being released...and on a neon green pigeon walking and flying around a town in England. Plus...parody ads/songs and celebrity

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15:46

Reel Pod News Cast™, Tue July 15th 2025

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2025/07/15

Including stories on the out-of-area investor posting a billboard in Cleveland reading, "Yes, I buy crack houses"...also on a West Virginia couple accused of stealing an rv, getting high and having sex while driving by a cop...and on police in Australia looking for the guy caught on surveillance stealing 53-right foot shoes from a store's table in a Brisbane shopping center. Plus...parody ads/songs and celebrity birthdays.

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16:52

Reel Pod News Cast™, Fri July 11th 2025

Reel Pod News Cast™ with Levon Putney ·

2025/07/11

Includes stories on the man in Madison Wisconsin who's accused of trying to run from cops by jumping into a local lake to swim away, but firefighters put a boat in the water and caught him... and on a Florida man who cops say celebrated his 57th birthday in Key West by jumping out of his car that he left running with rock music blaring, stealing a tour company's trolley train, taking it for a joyride, picking up a couple passengers, and cops say he had a meth pipe in his pocket when they arrested

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15:46

Reel Pod News Cast™, Tue July 8th 2025

Reel Pod News Cast™ with Levon Putney ·

2025/07/08

Includes stories on a completely naked guy in North Carolina who had a wooden post in his hands when he ran up to a man and a woman, trying to steal their car...and then got in the woman's car (still butt naked) but couldn't figure out the shift to get the car out of park...he was arrested...also on the Arkansas mom who fessed up to giving marijuana edibles to three of her four kids ages six to 15, let two of them smoke her vaping pen, and smoked weed while breastfeeding her one year old...the kids

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16:11

Reel Pod News Cast™, Fri July 4th 2025

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2025/07/04

Includes stories on a driver in Wisconsin who rammed into the back of a sheriffs' patrol suv on a highway, because cops say she was distracted by the Taco Bell she was eating while driving... also on the 73 empty cans of beer that cops in Northern California's Sonoma County say were in the car with a drunk driver whose license was already suspended for a DUI...and on a lottery error in Norway that led to over 47,000 people there being told they won WAY more money than they actually did.

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14:55

Reel Pod News Cast™, Tue July 1st 2025

Reel Pod News Cast™ with Levon Putney ·

2025/07/01

Includes stories on whoever dressed up in a Scooby Doo onesie, broke into a convenience store in Alabama and stole money but didn't steal...Scooby snacks...also on a man in Minnesota legally named Patches Magicbeans who's accused of being high on magic mushrooms when he crashed his van, critically hurting a construction worker... and on a Texas man who cops say beat up an ice cream truck driver, because he thought the driver was a pervert targeting kids, but didn't know the driver was only taking

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16:20

Reel Pod News Cast, Fri June 27th 2025

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2025/06/27

Includes a story on the Portland Oregon area fugitive whose legal name is Looney Toon... also one on a Florida man arrested for felony burglary after he was caught staying in a vacant home for four days, because he didn't want to go home to his wife after an argument...and a story on a court fight in British Columbia over an 84-year old's will that left most of her estate to the escort she was hooking up with during the pandemic. Plus...parody ads/songs and celebrity birthdays.

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16:06

Reel Pod News Cast, Tue June 24th 2025

Reel Pod News Cast™ with Levon Putney ·

2025/06/24

Includes stories on police in Lincoln Nebraska looking for the thief caught on surveillance video lugging about 150-pounds of quarters ($3,000 worth) from a house he broke into... and on a woman in Beverly Hills Texas arrested for stalking, after cops say she got a reverend to sign off on a marriage license to her ex-fiancee, who had no idea... also on the school bus driver in the greater Toronto area who was reassigned, after pulling up in the bus wearing a pink and white schoolgirl outfit, and

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14:11

Reel Pod News Cast, Fri June 20th 2025

Reel Pod News Cast™ with Levon Putney ·

2025/06/20

Includes stories on the guy on TikTok called Mr Cash Drop who's been posting video of himself hiding money in public places around New Jersey for people to find... also on the Salt Lake City UT man accused of trying to drive a wooden stake through the heart of a buddy he was having lunch with, because he said his buddy was a werewolf... and on a yellow mongoose that broke loose from a British wildlife park, because workers think it was out looking to mate, and it was found outside a pub.

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