Rotten Mango

@rottenmango · Podcast

Latest segments

• Caleb Flynn murder trial, 2026-10-29
  Retells how Botner and Flynn met
  Retells how Botner and Flynn met: the 2,000-seat Christian Life Center, her internship under worship leader Zach Nelson at 20, and Flynn at 36 on the volunteer worship team while working for Todd Smith's business. Background already on the record.
• Caleb Flynn murder trial, 2026-10-29
  Walks through the body-camera scene
  Walks through the body-camera scene: Caleb hiding behind a dining chair, wailing, calling his mother in Minnesota and then Jill, while a detective side-eyes the missing-gun account. Retells the scene coverage without adding to it.
• Caleb Flynn murder trial, 2026-10-29
  Adds the casings matched a 9mm
  Walks through the staged break-in: the garage side door broken open, the fridge pushed aside, the open truck console and the missing 9mm. It retells the scene the trial record already holds, adding only the detail that the casings matched a 9mm.
• Caleb Flynn murder trial, 2026-10-29
  Recaps the 911 call and first read
  Walks through the 911 call itself - the garage door, the daughters in their room, the towel over Ashley's head - and the first officer's read that the lack of blood splatter means she was shot while asleep. A retelling of the night, staying inside the record.
• Caleb Flynn murder trial, 2026-10-29
  Adds Botner's reason for the videos
  Opens on the 'clearing the room' trend and lands on the videos Flynn sent Botner: filming the kitchen and the golden doodles, shouting that he loves her, calling out for Ava and Alyssa. Botner's own explanation is that she asked for the proof because she was insecure about him spending time with Ashley.
• Cornell investigation expands, 2026-10-26
  Recaps Yates and reads Kotlikoff's statement
  Recaps the Yates appointment and reads through President Kotlikoff's ten-minute statement, calling it professional nothingness that shifts responsibility. Stays inside the announcement already on the record, adding only campus graffiti and a smashed Day Hall window.
• Special prosecutor in Cornell 7 case, 2026-10-26
  Questions James's posts and the recusal fight
  Takes up the recusal fight: James's pre-appointment Facebook and Twitter posts affirming Jane Doe, the defense motion to remove her, and her refusal to comment on the post. Notes the accused never raised the same objection to Van Houten.
• Cornell 7 leaked texts, 2026-10-26
  Plays Kelly's take and defends the shaming
  Runs through Megyn Kelly's podcast take - Jane Doe possibly victimized before, the defendants morally filthy but not necessarily criminal - and argues the Snapchat messages alone justify social shaming, drawing a line between doxxing and cancellation. Reaction and opinion, no new record.
• Trump backs Cornell defendants, 2026-10-26
  Adds AOC's town hall remarks on rape culture
  Rounds up the political framing of the case: Trump's feud with James, AOC's Ithaca town hall calling elite institutions protectors of rape culture, and netizen arguments over due process. The one on-the-record addition is AOC's town hall remarks.
• Cornell 7 leaked texts, 2026-10-26
  Reads the leaked chat and the crisis template
  Reads a leaked group chat in which Matthew asks whether to call Jane and the fraternity president tells him to wait for the executive board. Also surfaces a downloadable Chi-Fi crisis template advising members under investigation not to wear letters and to talk to the president before authorities.
• Cornell 7 leaked texts, 2026-10-26
  Recaps the King nickname and trauma defense
  Stays inside the leaked-texts story: the 'King' nickname, the crush on Matthew, and the trauma-response defense from Jane Doe's attorney and a victim advocate. Reaction and framing, no new document or development.
• The Cornell 7 lawsuit, 2026-10-26
  Walks through Jane Doe's November texts
  Walks through Jane Doe's texts from the days after the incident to November 8, including a Greek life forum post she says first reframed her as assaulted and a November 3 text to Jonathan calling 90% of the night non-consensual.
• Cornell 7 leaked texts, 2026-10-26
  Reads the friendly texts and the disinvite
  Reads the friendly texts in full - Jane Doe calling Matthew 'King' and promising to beat up anyone who gives him shit - and adds the Halloween party disinvite, framing her warmth as trauma bargaining and social isolation rather than consent.
• The Cornell 7 lawsuit, 2026-10-26
  Adds the Cornell Health visit and Matthew texts
  Reads the October 22 Cornell Health visit and the Matthew texts: Jane Doe mentions a traumatic cause for a UTI and is steered to therapy, while Matthew claims he has no idea how the rumors spread. The hosts note the texts read like PR.
• Cornell 7 leaked texts, 2026-10-26
  Adds Lopes's lawyer denying the apology text
  Reads the full apology text and Jane Doe's reply, then adds the attorney's response: Julio Lopes's lawyer denies Lopes saw drugs used in the room and denies he wrote any apologetic message.
• The Cornell 7 lawsuit, 2026-10-26
  Adds a second witness who gave police screenshots
  Adds a second student witness: she brought the Chi Phi Snapchat screenshots to Crime Alert and sat for a 30-minute Cornell police interview, then felt betrayed when the DA opened nothing. Also reads Jane Doe's 'unfortunately they are true' line to her sorority big and the big's later account to investigators.
• The Cornell 7 lawsuit, 2026-10-26
  Reads roommate statements from the Title IX record
  Reads roommate statements from the Title IX record, pulled from the John Doe v. Cornell filings, on how Jane Doe first described the night as crazy and later came to call it assault. Adds the roommates' account that she asked them to say none of it happened and that a prior assault made talking hard.
• The Cornell 7 lawsuit, 2026-10-26
  Recaps the morning after and the consent fight
  Recaps the morning after and the online fight over consent - the eight-some rumors, the no to a foursome, the enthusiastic-yes argument. It stays inside the account already on the record from the Title IX and DA material.
• The Cornell 7 lawsuit, 2026-10-22
  Walks through Jane Doe's exit account
  Walks through Jane Doe's account of the Fofus: the blocked exit, the repeated requests for sex she says she gave in to, and the extra ketamine she cannot account for. Sets it against Winston Lee's Title IX statement about memory gaps and omissions.
• The Cornell 7 lawsuit, 2026-10-22
  Cross-checks Winston Lee's Title IX statement
  Walks through the Title IX statement the hosts attribute to Winston Lee: he says he asked Jane Doe before snorting ketamine off her stomach, that she tugged at his pants, and that he lay 'unconscious' for 30 minutes before clarifying he meant out of it. The hosts flag that no one else in the room reports an unconscious man.