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Aidan Kearney

Aidan Kearney

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Oct 30, 2026

Lynette CarollaHOST
44:36
And the Massachusetts Police Department.
Lynette CarollaHOST
44:37
And it's all goes all the way up to Morrissey, the D.A. Like it's all dirty all the way down like they and Turtle Boy covered Sandra Birchmore's murder like a year before Sandra before Karen Reed.
Lynette CarollaHOST
44:49
And then but he didn't have a lot of.
Lynette CarollaHOST
44:51
you know, he didn't have a lot of followers, but then he starts the Karen Reid movement and, and these cops.
Lynette CarollaHOST
44:56
Now Karen Reid comes along a year later, John O'Keefe's dead.
Lynette CarollaHOST
45:00
And now there's more coverup and Turtle Boy's like, walk, walk, walk, like, ba-beep, ba-beep on the air three nights a week, like hammering at home that these are fucking dirty cops.
Lynette CarollaHOST
45:10
And they arrest him and put him in jail.
Lynette CarollaHOST
45:11
I mean, it's all just so obvious, you know, it's just, crazy the corruption and it's ironic like i follow melanie little if you guys want to watch the case i highly recommend her she's an attorney she's great she reads the transcripts and she i like her opinion she's like she's like this guy's fucking going down he's fucking horrible and um she said the other day little sandra birchmar felt so unloved that she just like had affairs with anybody that would listen to her, you know, and really wanted Matthew to be, you know, just felt so in love and then died feeling alone.
Rob SchulteHOST
51:11
I mean, I can tell that all of these photos have like the hipstamatic, uh, filter on them so he did go way back to get this stuff
Molly McAleerHOST
51:23
totally and then also like you know i mean sorry like your average non-famous county person who posted opinion on facebook very well could have these things, but that doesn't mean that the person that's going to email this to Turtle Boy because they think that they should have the racist mascot is any better than her.
Rob SchulteHOST
51:54
Yeah, absolutely.
Molly McAleerHOST
51:56
So the article says, despite moving far away and living the glamorous life, she's still actually involved in townie politics from back home and has been one of the people leading the charge to force Braintree High School to change its mascot from the Womps because it's racist against Native Americans.
Molly McAleerHOST
52:12
It was never an issue before a couple months ago, but apparently a black guy being killed in a non-racially motivated incident by a cop means that high schools can't have Indian mascots anymore.
Molly McAleerHOST
52:22
So I want to apologize to everyone, but this is exactly what I have been trying to tell you about Turtle Boy emphatically for three years.
Molly McAleerHOST
52:32
Insane.
Molly McAleerHOST
52:33
I know.
Mel BarrettHOST
5:08
To understand the sheer scale of the Commonwealth's overreach in this case, you must first accurately define the defendant.
Mel BarrettHOST
5:14
Aidan Kearney is not a conventional figure, and he does not fit neatly into a single box.
Mel BarrettHOST
5:19
He operates simultaneously as an independent journalist, a grassroots activist, and a relentless satirist.
Mel BarrettHOST
5:25
Outside of his coverage of the Karen Reed case, Carney's investigative track record is substantial.

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Mel BarrettHOST
12:54
Yet, in its presentation to the grand jury, the Commonwealth stripped Carney's voicemail of all context, scrubbed the element of parody, and presented the recording as a literal, terrifying threat of physical violence.
Mel BarrettHOST
13:05
Now, let's be clear.
Mel BarrettHOST
13:07
Aidan Kearney is unapologetically brash.
Mel BarrettHOST
13:10
He is frequently offensive, and he operates comfortably on the absolute fringes of polite society.
Grant Smith EllisGUEST
13:27
Same one that framed, allegedly, Karen Reed.
Grant Smith EllisGUEST
13:31
Same one that charged up Turtle Boy for looking into John O'Keefe's death.
Grant Smith EllisGUEST
13:34
Same one that charged Rob Thompson.
Grant Smith EllisGUEST
13:36
Same DA's office.

30 MINS LATER

Grant Smith EllisGUEST
43:49
That's all they look at.
Grant Smith EllisGUEST
43:50
And while the murder of Sandra Birchmore is very, very central to this investigation, Sandra's revenge is bringing down the machine that enabled the cover up to begin with.
Grant Smith EllisGUEST
44:01
And hopefully out of it, Karen Reed, Turtle Boy and others will get justice as well.
Grant Smith EllisGUEST
44:06
Well,
Lynette CarollaHOST
29:39
While they have all...
Lynette CarollaHOST
29:40
So Turtleboy's covering it.
Stefanie Wilder-TaylorHOST
29:41
[laughs]
Lynette CarollaHOST
29:42
So they got all these, and Turtle-
Stefanie Wilder-TaylorHOST
29:44
Enter Turtleboy.
Lynette CarollaHOST
29:44
Enter Turtleboy.
Lynette CarollaHOST
29:45
So they have, um, Turtleboy had on his show last week the, there's a reporter guy that was, has been in the courtroom, uh, because it's not televised, and he has been watching everything, and he knows the, the case inside and out.
Lynette CarollaHOST
30:01
And it was the same cops, including Kevin Albert, who's the owner of 34 Fairview, where Karen Read's boyfriend died on the lawn.
Mel BarrettHOST
29:22
I agree with you, and I just want to also say people do this to us all the time.
Mel BarrettHOST
29:26
They expect us to answer for Turtle Boy.
Mel BarrettHOST
29:28
I am not Turtle Boy's keeper.
Mel BarrettHOST
29:30
You guys know this.
Mel BarrettHOST
29:31
Can you imagine being his mother or his keeper? No, I would not sleep.
Bobby CapucciHOST
14:37
Her lawyers and the Free Karen Read adherents say that O'Keefe was instead beaten inside the home and that his attackers put him on the lawn.
Bobby CapucciHOST
14:46
Largely as a result of the investigations by independent journalist Aidan Kearney, the case has gained national prominence.
Bobby CapucciHOST
14:53
He writes under the name Turtleboy.
Bobby CapucciHOST
14:55
Turtleboy, huh? Okay, I guess.

29 MINS LATER

Bobby CapucciHOST
43:44
Read's defense team and thousands of local supporters, both in person, near the courthouse, and on social media, argue that authorities framed Read.
Bobby CapucciHOST
43:53
Her lawyers and the Free Karen Read adherents say that O'Keefe was instead beaten inside the home and that his attackers put him on the lawn.
Bobby CapucciHOST
44:02
Largely as a result of the investigations by independent journalist Aidan Kearney, the case has gained national prominence.
Bobby CapucciHOST
44:09
He writes under the name Turtleboy.
Sammy PetersenHOST
53:52
People debate Chloe the dog.
Sammy PetersenHOST
53:55
And then there is another blogger, Aidan Kearney, known online as Turtle Boy.
Sammy PetersenHOST
54:01
Hey, Turtle Boy, great to have you enter the chat is what I'd say to Turtle Boy if he was here.
Sammy PetersenHOST
54:06
Kearney becomes one of the most prominent public supporters of Karen Read.
Howie CarrHOST
4:32
I call him Double Dip, uh, Triple Dip Cosgrove, uh, for, uh...
Howie CarrHOST
4:36
He's trying to pr- prosecute or persecute Turtle Boy and, uh, uh, and Karen Read.
Howie CarrHOST
4:42
And, uh, you know, it's, it's just, it's just a scam.
Howie CarrHOST
4:45
I mean, uh, and these, these, uh, these, these, uh, assistant, uh, attorneys general, I mean, they're not doing very much in terms of crime.
Dana BowlingHOST
19:03
You have so many more cooks in the kitchen, so many more eyes on every case that partially that's good 'cause you're gonna figure stuff out that maybe you wouldn't have seen before, but also...
Dana BowlingHOST
19:13
And then you'll get, like, a Turtle Boy who brings Karen Read's case to light, which I think was a huge, huge, um, you know, uh, I should say, privilege for Karen, like, that she had someone like a Turtle Boy.
Dana BowlingHOST
19:29
B- because if not for that Turtle Boy push, not for, like, a layman like us, just a random journ- citizen journalist that went out there and decided to take that case on and make it their mission, Karen Read most likely would've just been thrown in the slammer, and it was do- it would've been done.
Dana BowlingHOST
19:44
And we all know that she ended up being acquitted.
Dana BowlingHOST
19:47
The point is, is that this is a really, really interesting, um, conversation to have just as we're kind of waiting for another trial to cover.

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