Nov 6, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min · 16 segments
A man sends naked pictures of Shrek--yes, you read that right--to a politician's personal phone. Is he exercising his right to Free Speech? Or breaking the law? Check out more about the cases we…
So tonight, we're going to tell you about what may be the weirdest prosecution of all time.
And we talked about like the Streisand effect and how sometimes you just need to let something go.
Because when you don't let it go, that's when it becomes a national story.
That's when it ends up on Saturday Night Live, for instance, which happened with this case.
where there's a blogger named DJ Burns, and he publishes a newsletter called The Rooster, which is known for its biting political commentary.
By the way, Alice, The Rooster, he has 15,000 subscribers who pay him $12.99 a month.
So we are in the wrong business.
We are in the wrong
business indeed.
I mean, and this is a guy who just like reports on local politics.
He's like a successful turtle boy, basically.
And he's very fiery and he's got this biting political commentary.
He's done several sort of stunts that have gotten him in hot water with various people.
But basically, he's one of those guys who like gets under the skin of politicians and That's what he does.
He's a troller.
He is.
But I don't want to just present him as a troll because I think you could say he's doing some public service sort of like exposing what he views to be political malfeasance and bad politics and everything else.
Right.
I mean, that's what he presents himself as.
But he does it a lot through trolling.
And one of the people he likes to troll is a guy named Jerry Serrano, who is an Ohio State senator, a pretty high-ranking one.
Now, Burns, no fan of Serrano.
So tonight, we're going to tell you about what may be the weirdest prosecution of all time.
And we talked about like the Streisand effect and how sometimes you just need to let something go.
Because when you don't let it go, that's when it becomes a national story.
That's when it ends up on Saturday Night Live, for instance, which happened with this case.
where there's a blogger named DJ Burns, and he publishes a newsletter called The Rooster, which is known for its biting political commentary.
By the way, Alice, The Rooster, he has 15,000 subscribers who pay him $12.99 a month.
So we are in the wrong business.
We are in the wrong
business indeed.
I mean, and this is a guy who just like reports on local politics.
He's like a successful turtle boy, basically.
And he's very fiery and he's got this biting political commentary.
He's done several sort of stunts that have gotten him in hot water with various people.
But basically, he's one of those guys who like gets under the skin of politicians and That's what he does.
He's a troller.
He is.
But I don't want to just present him as a troll because I think you could say he's doing some public service sort of like exposing what he views to be political malfeasance and bad politics and everything else.
Right.
I mean, that's what he presents himself as.
But he does it a lot through trolling.
And one of the people he likes to troll is a guy named Jerry Serrano, who is an Ohio State senator, a pretty high-ranking one.
Now, Burns, no fan of Serrano.
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