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Woman Rescued from Kidnapper Thanks to Wordle (ft. Walter Hong)

#letterword#wordle#velma#crawling#naked
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0:00 [Music] anybody been seeing the latest craze with this game called wordle oh yeah world's fun man can you explain the game so the game is you have i believe five chances to guess the word it's a five-letter word on your phone you can do it on your phone you can just go online on your app or that app i'm sorry your uh browser is it like jeopardy not really no so basically you're trying to guess what five letter word is the word of the day the word word of the day other hints no so what you do is on a guess let's so let's say like um you you uh for five letter word what's a good father word let's say juice taste oh taint juice let's say juice let's okay juice for example because it has um all different letters so you'll have j-u-i-c-e oh if if one of

0:50 those letters is in the actual word it'll be yellow it'll be marked yellow that but that means that the that letter's in the word but it's in the wrong place but if it's green so let's say u is green then that means that's where u is in in the actual word second place so that will of fortune then kind of yeah it's more like there's no velma dude there's no velma yeah pointing to the ████ that's fantastic that don't sound right yeah it's elvira i've been calling her ████ velma this whole time velma valderrama with glasses and the [Laughter] um yeah so then like yeah the letter turns green and this you have another guess and this you're trying to basically and people have different strategies but you're trying to narrow down um the the alphabet letters to get like five letters they may not be in

1:41 order but you can you can unscramble them and you want to get it before obviously you have six tries you want to get it before your six tries are up oh what makes it social what makes it social because you they make it very easy for you to share your results there's a share button and then they even have a separate little like icon that comes out when you share it with your website how fast you got it right yeah it shows you on which level like the first doing the same word every day yeah oh okay you don't have a second try like if you miss it you miss if you get it you get it and there's only one word per day and that's that's it and it's international midnight it's released at midnight did you do yours for today i didn't do mine yet today let's do it right now on camera well actually you know what i started it i may have started in the morning we got unlimited time just make sure you know you have 24 hours oh i feel like i started it and i'm not there yet this is

2:32 like the crossfit of word games because crossfit you have a wad right which is workout of the day and technically everyone's supposed to run the same ████ but then gyms they they see that technically there's like a battle royale version of it you get to kill people no it's like a it's like there's a version of it online where like you you're playing it against like 12 other people live and then you have to do a bunch of them in a row and every time you get one right you get more like health and you take damage you damage the other people oh that's cool so you just like tetras yeah yeah yeah remember it yeah it's like that dude do people still play tetra i want to play i haven't heard of that in a while this is tetrance i remember we were talking about tetrameter so i actually i actually did it and i this is the first time i missed so i had a street i had a streak of 17. wow and then i actually missed this one um i thought the word was armor but it was uh oh i don't want to say it oh actually it won't matter i thought the word was

3:23 armor but it was actually amor i think it was something that's a four letter word it was i thought it was armor but the word was actually why aren't they telling me because the day's not over yeah i thought it was armor it was something else i forgot it's always a five letter word it's always a five letter word and then the hard ones are when the letters repeat oh because like you could have exhausted much most of the alphabet enemy it was enemy enemies a six letter word spike i'm kidding oh no but yeah it was uh yeah so you have to um guess at that point wow so let's say you exhausted most of the alphabet but they're repeating a letter then it's like oh is it this and then you know you got to kind of figure like what it could be so this wordle craze is obviously something that a lot of people have been doing on social media stuff like that and it turns out it was very useful in one particular incident

4:14 because a chicago woman was rescued from a naked kidnapper thanks to wordle naked kidnapped how the hell so he was naked kidnapping her a naked man crept into an 80 year old chicago woman's bed and held her hostage for 17 hours what the ████ but she was finally rescued after her daughter called the cost because a woman hadn't texted her the day's wordle yeah answers a movie that's the next minute that's crazy that's the next low budget straight to streaming movies defense though since she's 80 17 hours is fast yeah if they made a wordle movie based on this and you thought it was going to be all light-hearted and you go in there's a rape scene yeah i know what the ████ this is not what you would

5:04 expect yeah that's the word gay video christmas you know it's like you think it's like a ████ family movie because it's about a word true story based on true events i got the word yeah high five can you go through the movie don't spoil it for the next after you ████ naked as ████ he's like wow got a hand switch naked as ████ show us how dangerous you are you know i have a question how old was the kid does this how old the kidnapper was uh the kidnapper let's see oh yes yes 33 so so and it's it's winter right now what is it chicago he must be cold dude on drugs for sure on drugs the lady was 80 years old the intruder identified as 32 year old james h davis iii oh i thought he identifies as a 32 year old

5:56 his name is her husband god damn it yes i i asked his age i asked his age because i wonder if like other women like in their 70s and 80s are seeing this story and being like i've got a shot with a 32. yeah like i wish a 32 year old man would crawl into my wedding like like it's like you know hey playa you don't need to kidnap me like just ask i'm here for you what's the ████ point what was he i just picture a dude naked as ████ uh like crawling like a ████ gecko across the wall his fingers are all wet and then the ladies in the bed like what the ████ he's all just like ████ naked and just crawling around the room so she was actually her name is denise denise holt she was asleep on saturday when the

6:47 mentally ill man broke into her home uh and that's scary that's super scary bloodied from the broken window as well as he slipped into hulk's bed while clutching a pair of scissors wow so that fool jumped he just dove in butt ass naked into the window covered in his own blood yeah so the lady says uh in a report she says i was in shock who tried to remain calm during the ordeal i was trying to survive that's all and he said i won't harm you or molest you he ordered her to take a shower with him what that's molesting in her nightgown what the ████ in her nightmare i won't molest you give me a hand job in her nightgown so he hasn't so he's respectable he has a wet t-shirt fantasy going maybe i'm not gonna molest ya but you need a shower with me right now this guy has a coat i guess like what why he said no

7:38 i'm not warm enough we have to take a bath so they had to take it back after the bath she said he dragged her around her house oh ████ disconnected the phones and took a couple of knives from the kitchen before taking her to a bathroom in the basement which he locked which he blocked with a chair holy ████ and to pass the time she did exercises in total darkness oh wow he locked her in the basement cool i didn't think i was going to live i was doing marching and stretching as much as i could oh that's so sad doing marching and stretching damn it's probably good for her at her age though i know eventually it keeps the daughter caldwell who lives in seattle noticed that her mother had not texted her about the word logic puzzle as she usually does whoa i didn't send my older daughter a wordle in the morning and that's what was disconcerting to her the family then called police who reported who responded to holt's home at about 9 40 p.m sunday and a swat team used a

8:29 stun gun to overpower the man after an hours-long standoff wow that's ████ i wonder what drugs he was on like it's i've i've done dudes i've done a lot of drugs bro like i've done a lot of drugs right and you've only been like naked crawling away but i haven't done heroin right and i haven't done ayahuasca because those are new ████ right yeah so i've never once did anything like where i felt like i needed to break into people's homes and like you know keep them hostage or like i never saw the devil you know i never wanted to bite somebody because you know ████ john lennon told me to do it like there's all these crazy ass things maybe he's just looney tunes like the guy that was crawling in the warehouse yesterday there was a guy crawling in the water so like jayla's mom lives like next to this

9:19 like this whole commercial row of ████ and one of them set on fire and uh this is a couple days ago just yesterday because i dropped because i dropped off uh bart joe dropped me off and then joe's like oh that place is on fire no we hear someone yell at us and like what was that and then we look up and there's this crazy dude like crawling in the warehouse that fool looks like jesus yeah like i'm like i'm talking about the when you go to uh uh church and then there's a jesus like in those paintings like he looks like a white dude with long hair like a hipster right yeah like jenkins that will have like a stick like this and he was upstairs like 20 feet in the air uh because there's a burnt down a whale there's a burnt down warehouse we showed the frames of the warehouse so he's somehow upstairs and he's ████ waving around like he's ████ moses himself trying to like split the red sea and ████ right and he's like

10:09 saying hi and then bart's like he's saying hi i can't say hi to him because i said hi to him last time yeah because he's uh he hangs out there so i used to see him all the time like he would set up kitchen cabinets on the sidewalk like he would set up a house or whatever right and uh there's there's like a problem in that neighborhood obviously is when i come out he would always try to say hi to me and i don't want to encourage like the behavior the behavior but he's like hi neighbor and have more ████ homies pop out yeah but since i go to jio's mom regularly like i just start to get more desensitized to it so now when i see him i'm like like that and i'm like oh ████ am i doing i'm i'm establishing a connection now he's a member of the community because now he's gonna ████ come and talk to me and ████ and i'm like oh god drinking coffee hey neighbor good morning how are you doing jk news again huh

10:59 yeah mom's house and he's like what's my friend he's a guest here next time we're like how the ████ did you end up here we should interview that guy jill's mom was like um she was like he thinks he's porky pig you

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