Sorry, Not Sorry: Corey Worthington and his Sunglasses Throw a Party

had to cover their fires and go to bed. He also watered down the beer so that people wouldn't be too drunk to work the next day. But that's very responsible if you're forced to go to bed. And I say fake that it was a criminal offense to stay up late. I mean it made sense. They didn't want raiding parties to see the fires. But also, you know what, get get at least eight hours. Hello. Now he's very much in your camp of like, look, get enough sleep, don't drink too much the night before you have to

work day hydrated. Let's let's all keep these vikings in mind. Don't burn candles. We don't need to burn were sun hats. So it's it's ridiculous. It's not that the eight p m curfew is ridiculous, it's the fact that we do not still have an APM curfew. Oh you find that ridiculous. That's ridiculous. Yes, please, thank you? Okay, both duly noted. You blame me. Guess you have something ridiculous, Oh girl,

do I And it's not about Ivar the Boneless. This one is about an Australian teenager throws a party that's so epic that the police they have to call out both helicopters and dogs to break up the party. Oh I like this. This is Ridiculous Crime a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists and cons. It's always murder free and ridiculous. Elizabeth Ar, You didn't do a lot of partying in high school, correct? I'm playing like hard party party like you kind of enjoyed the life of

a power nerd in my Yeah. Well, I did party, and by party, I mean I did orchestra before school started, I did tennis. After school, I did model you in it. At noon, I went home, I did my homework. I played more tennis as my brother and then maybe I Watson, what about a Saturday? Did I party on a Saturday? Everything you had your weet minus the school Everything is the same, but minus the school homework, tennis partying, right, yeah, totally. Now,

where you got to college you changed up this. Yeah. Then when I was a freshman, I called my mom on a Friday night, like the first semester I was there, and I was just, you know, what are you What are you doing back at the house And she was like, what is wrong with you? Why are you in your dorm room? To get out there, We'll get trashed or something. And I was like, And then that was all I needed. And then they regret it from that point forward, they

being the university everybody, family, friends, strangers. Well, you had that one house right that you live with a bunch of BMX guys. Yeah, I imagine you guys party pretty well? Sure, yeah we did actually yeah right, yeah, so you did get into the full partying fervor once you got to college. And then I had a lot of wild years after that. And then yeah, okay, now I have another question for you. Okay, uh, did you ever a party with Australians? Yes? Okay, do

you want to admit anything or confess to anything. I don't know about the statute of limitation at least seven years, but we'll just carry this one forward. I I once party with some Australians. They were rugby players. We're up in Humboldt for a big like rugby tournament, and it was a lot of fun. There was Englishmen there and Danes and like all sorts of people who basically are

into rugby, which meant, of course there were Australians. Right now, the Australians and the Brits they have like a rivalry just pretty much wherever they go. It's kind of like Texas and New York people the Yankee you know, not the baseball team, but what they call Yankee to South right, it's like you always want to beat in New Yorker in Texas. Kind of the same thing with England or

you know, the UK and Australia. Right. So I'm hanging out with these Australians and I knew this, like theoretically, I didn't realize how far this went. So we're late into the party. We're into like a basically frat house, which you're in the froud Houses basement because this is in humbld It, which is a college town in California,

northern California, and we're underneath the basement. We're getting drunk and we run out of beer, right, And the Australians convinced the Brits that the Australians they run out of beer, they drink their own urine. So wait, this was like youth Rugby. Were like what eleven? No, no, we're college. We're like a high school age and actually so we're eighteen. Yeah, I am skipping fast. We're like eighteen, not youth Rugby.

They were drinking illegally in this basement in a frat house in Humble with these Australians, some of whom we are all just up to. But basically it's like a youth Rugby, but not quite. It's it's club rug I'm with you, So we get drunk with them. They convinced the Englishman that Australians drink urine when they run out of beer. So they go one Australian peas and a red solo cup. Dis Englishman is like, I do anything in Australian will do and I was like, no, you couldn't.

So the Englishman grabs the cups, like, yeah, I can't watch this mate drinks down some of the urine. Everyone, the Australian and the basement loses their minds because they tricked this brit into drinking their urine. That's all just to be tougher than the Aussies. That's when I was like, WHOA, Partying with Aussie's is the next level? And after that

I did it numerous times. Only the people that were crazier than them that I've come across have been just people who are going to get you guaranteed in jail. You're like, you may not go to jail tonight. They're just full throttle. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was really into it. Like, No, Kiwi's like the New Zealanders. They're like the chill. They're like the Northern California version of Aussie's. So they're like you would think, like, oh, are all the former British

colonies like this? No, the Aussies are unique, Yes exactly. So my point of all that is, imagine if you're a teenager and you're trying to throw the most epic party in Australia. Oh, that's at level, right. So this story comes to us from an Aussie listeners recommendation. I had not heard about this, but listener John O'Connor, he wrote in and he said to us, quote, what if I told you there's a ridiculous Aussie crimester whose infamous

surpasses even the succulent Chinese mealman. Ask any aussee about this man and they will know exactly who he is. If you weren't sure who I'm talking about. This guy's story inspired the movie Project X. His name Corey Worthington in two thousand eighth, this sixteen year old king of culture. Let loose this message on my Space. Parents away, tell your mates you don't want to miss it. It's gonna

be huge, And in fact it was huge. Now the kid's name is indeed Corey Worthington's and at the time he was in facts sixteen years old and this is the story of Corey Worthington's party. Oh my goodness, Why are the Aussies coming through with such They're a full tilt culture. When I think of Corey's I think of, like, you know, eighties and nineties teen movie corries. Did you have a favorite Corey Corey doctor, Corey Booker, Corey Hart all good COEs, My friend, Corey Hawkins, another solid Corey.

You know all the Corries. Okay, well those are all solid solid Corey. So let's not you know, let's not get tripped up on them. My dude, his name Corey Worthington's right, so Corey. Yeah, as I said two thousand and eight January, this takes place now January, in case you have to keep in mind, this is Australia, so that means it's the summertime in the Southern Hemisphere. Everything's flipped.

Corey Worthington lives in Melbourne in the suburb of nar wearing like a Warren, like the name Warren nor n A R R E n or Warren. He'd been left home alone by his parents and his mother Joanne, his stepfather Stephen Delaney. Now Stephen, this dude's a real peach. He's like he would have been perfectly cast as like the jerk stepfather and just about any eighties teen kind. Yeah, yeah, dude, yeah completely. So this guy's Joe the mom and Stephen

the stepdad. They're on holiday in Queensland, right, and they know there's son for who he is, and so before they leave they tell young Corey promise us no parties, all right, if you have to tell your kid that, just bring the kids. It's not gonna yeah, like, just lesham up and bring him with either board him or bring him with the move to a family friend. I don't know, but don't leave him home alone. Have you ever thrown a house party? Has ever been something you've done,

like rown a house at your house? Theyrown a house party, not like a dinner party, not one of your fancy, nancy nice things. I mean like, h yeah, come over and smash my furniture house party? Are you looking at me like that? What do you think? Right? Well? I mean in college, we had some big party. Imagine we had we had a party once where um the like

rival college. I went to UC Davis and Sacramento State was the rival and it was we didn't pay attention to the football stuff, but apparently it was the big game the next day, and these Sacramento State guys showed up at our house and tried to trash it and when I'm tried to steal the phone the phone, Yeah, and I just followed him out and was like ridiculing him, like I'm really embarrassed for you right now? Why are you trying to steal, like, oh, you're tough, you got

my phone. Okay. So and it wasn't like, I mean, it was a cordless phone in the house. It wasn't high value. Yeah. We've had we've had what the kids call ragers. Yeah, so with the rage, your attendance rate is nothing you can really anticipate, right, you don't know how many you're gonna show up. You're just inviting, and then you know they tend to tell other people, Well, this is kind of how it's set up in Gnar Warren that slow, slow night in January in two thousand

and eight, Corey Washington. I don't know if the dude had it like that and everyone just heard his name, you're like, oh, I gotta go to this party. I don't know. If it's like just a really really slow night that night, whatever happened. It starts out small, just Corey and a couple of friends hanging out his parents place, and by the time the police arrived, they estimated it

was five hundred teenagers. But rather than just tell you about all this in small details, Elizabeth, I'd like you to close your eyes and I'd like you to picture its summertime Australia. It's been brutally hot for the last few days. Uh, there's a well over a hundred degrees fahrenheit on the tenth of January. You can settle down

into the nineties. And the next day and now today on the twelfth, the weather is back down to a respectable eighties something, but still hot enough that everyone's looking to have a good time. You and Corey Worthington and a few of his mates. You're lying around on his parents couches right, just hanging out his parents place. Things are chill. Corey gets the bright idea to invite a few more friends over. You guys are having fun, but what's not going to be a larger, better time just

a few more people. Cory logs onto my Space, but he puts out the word parents. So I tell you, mate, you don't want to miss It's a gun of by age. Now. Some friends do show up mediately, and then some more show up, and some more, and some more and some more until it's basic good team moviment just imagined car loads of SARTs, bum Australian teenagers, jaggy haired, blonde, mop haired kids. Everyone's in shorts and flip flops, music gets a little louder with every car that arrives. The more

kids show up, everything gets a little louder. Now you're seeing all these sun big teams, and these red plastic solo cups are out there. People have fear bottles, fosters, they've got cans of cider. You're sipping on on a bottle of red wine you pulled from the family's wine collection. Oh yeah, you're just drinking right out of the bottle. You spit the cork on the ground, and everyone's having a good time. Word spreads on my Space. It just keeps going. Now soon enough, nearly every team in the

Melbourne area is at Gnar Warren for this party. Kids are getting drunker, music is getting louder. The neighbors are starting to get a little bit nervous because they're Australians, but they're not just insane people. They're like, look, we can't have like all these hundreds of kids. And the number just keeps growing. And now the kids spilled out of the Wordington's home. They're on the lawn, but the lawn can't contain them. Now they're on the neighbor's lawns,

they're on the neighbors cars. They're dancing on the cars, They're throwing rocks at windows, they're kicking over mailboxes, they're trashing lawn gnomes, whatever there is that just destroying the place. I would imagine that the street is just choked with cars, right. Funny you mentioned the traffic is insane. Imagine Kay, you've got five hundred teenagers. Where are they parking their cars lawns,

just wherever they can? Pretty much? You know, the word viking like, oh, you know, it started out as a verb. You know, it's like, oh, let's go viking. It's an activity. These kids decided to go viking. They just were just trashing, running amo, parking cars from grass, hanging from the trees, throwing rocks through windshood. They did not care. Right now, as they're doing this, the neighbors at this point are and pretty much a full froth. Their panic all right.

So as his chaos and mayhem spreads the neighbors are carrying in their homes, they go, it looks like we're gonna have to call the police out. So people they call whatever and I one one is in Australia. But these teens they're super past respecting any law, that's gonna come. A couple of responding officers show up in these like young teens are like, wait, don't need any racid Johnny law. Join our n s. Get out of right. So the

cops arrived. The teens stopped throwing rocks at each other and through windshields and start throwing them at the cops, throwing bottles at the cops. They start throwing cans in the cops. Now you reasonable as you are, You're like, guys, guys, I don't think this is what we should be doing. I mean, these cops are just doing their jobs. Kids, ignore you. This is too much fun. Come on, am, We're gonna throw your flip flops. You keep talking like that. Now,

what can these kids possibly do? With all these drunk hooligan children just running around throwing things and everything flip but they're not quite flipping over cars, But that looks like that maybe right. The cops are like, well, what can we do? So they call in the flying squad, a bunch of air wing helicopters. They have cops with the chopper like with the spotlight on the kids. Because this does nothing. Kids are just throwing rocks at the

at the police chopper. They're like, that's not gonna work. We're gonna have to come up with something else. What do you think we should do? They have Gary and saying it's like, whoa, we could call in the dogs, and so then they bring out the canine unit. They set the dogs loosen. No, So this is after hours of basically a stalemate. The neighbor's cow a ring on their homes. They're just thousands of dollars or damage are

being done in this quiet little neighborhood. And finally it all comes to not when the dogs do what nature does best and scares human beings. So the children, the teens, they all run off and the party is over and now it's just cops, dogs and Corey Worthington and his nights. So what do they do? And Corey's like, oh, hey, there they go. You need to go inside before your neighbors gonna be a piece of you. So it goes inside, and now what do we do with all of this?

Bed Lemons, His parents are out of town, his neighbors are pissed. Thousands of dollars of damage have been done, The police have been called out. Not just the police, but their dogs have been turned on his friends. There's helicopters have been called out. Who's going to pay for all this? After this short break, I'll be back to tell you what happens when Corey's parents get home. Okay, Elizabeth, So we're in our war in Australia. We've just witnessed

an epic rager take place. You've tried to reason with the kids. They listen to you. You You won't listen to my rum soaked bones, but you tried, and I appreciate the effort. Well, after all the damage gets tallied up and all the mailboxes get set a right, the teens have done and estimated twenty grand worth of damage, and the police have a bill that they would like someone to pay. So they're like, Corey, whereas mom and dad?

He's like, oh about that mate. So as he's sobering up the next day, the cops come back around, they're like, look, Corey, how did this all get going? What happened? And Corey's you know, there's news cameras here. We could say taken into custody. They're just briefly taken into custody, but it sounds like he's only in police custody on the scene from what all the reports, he doesn't he's not like taking into the station and it's more like he's taken

into police custody. But first they told him just to go inside, and then later on he's like, so that's what I did. Right now. When the next day, when the news cameras are there and the police are there and everyone's trying to sort out what happened, his parents are still not home, Corey gets on the news and somebody's asking they're like, so how did this all start? And he's like, I can't remember. I was just off my head. So he's like trying to plead ignorance. No,

that's not gonna work, Cory. So this news of this epic party spreads across Australia because everyone's like seeing, like, you know, all the reports on my Space. The news cameras shown up and they're telling all that the damage has been done. The neighbors are giving like aggrieved interviews to the camera, being like I can't believe what they did to me. Long new right, So the television news

they want to hear the story. So there's you know, there's a competition who can get Corey for an interview right. The person who wins this competition is Layla McKinnon. Now Layla McKinnon. She works for a show called A Current Affair. Now, we had that show here, but it's their version in Australia. Elizabeth, I don't think I can accurately convey to you what this interview was like. So I'm just gonna play it for you. But but first I need to set up just a couple of the visuals. Okay, I want you

to imagine Corey Worthington's this kid. He looks like a surf rat teenage boy, you know, just like total uh ocean side Huntington's beach kind of surf rat, like a little surf ground kid. Right now, his blonde hair shoots out from underneath his little flat brim ball cap he's got on. Like his hair looks like like angry, hurtless straw. Right, Okay, so you got that. Now he's wearing bright yellow Karen

Walker style sunglasses. Okay, they're huge, but not comically big, like you're just really yeah over thinking, that's the charm oversize. Now he's shirtless on screen. He's wearing a hoodie that's open because one of your zip up style hoodies. He's got it's faux fur on the lining, which we can see on the hoodie, and he's got a big nipple ring that looks kind of fresh, and he keeps trying to make sure that's it's in camera prominently hime. Now, meanwhile,

there's Layla and she's a bright eyed blonde. Now she's a broadcaster news broadcaster journalist, and she's also somewhat perky and sunny in her disposition, but at the same time, she's somewhat conservative underneath. So it's clearly an act as perkiness because, as you'll see, he gets her to reveal her true self to dis imagine Fox News but Assie style. Right, So these are our combatants and surf rat, ass teen

versus pert and conservative news host. Got it, I'm ready choice of arena the live TV interview, you know, and the teenager already has the advantage, but the adult doesn't recognize that because they think, Oh, I'm the professional and I know what I'm doing exactly. Okay, So our opening salvo seems friendly enough. This is Layla Corey, thanks for joining us. The only question that I can think to ask is what were you thinking? Um? I wasn't really

did your parents say you could have a party? Um? No, So now we have our battle line to draw, right, let's see where journalists Layla McKinnon takes this line of questioning, why did you? Um, I know, I was just to get together with a couple of mates at first, and then we thought we might as well just have a bit of a party, and then it sort of just

got out of hand and yeah, yeah, yeah. At this point, Layla is still friendly in her demeanor, and then she's really after the facts of this story, right, but she also wants to get to the real drama. His parents, Well, five hundred people turned up, the air wing of the police force, the dog squad. Your neighbor's cars were being destroyed. What have your parents had to say? Corey? Now, Corey is like kind of cool about this. I haven't really talked to him with kids. Every time they call, I

don't answer because, yeah, the protect kill me. So that's a short term strategy being an adult. She attempts to warn Curry Corey Worthington that there will be consequences for his He cannot wait till this blow is over. But Corey is what you call an optimist or a teenager, and he's unwilling to hear this reality that she's presenting him. Now, Layla takes back over her line of questioning and she basically tries to focus on the parents he wants to get.

Nowt to the full drama, right, You're gonna have to talk to them eventually. What are you gonna say? Um? Sorry? Are you sorry? Now this becomes a new theme for her questioning. She just drills down on the question is he really sorry or not? Why this matters to her? I don't know, but Layla will not let it go until she gets her apologies, and in this case, she kind of becomes like a surrogate mother, which is real fun.

Now back to Layla, you don't sound very sorry, but I can't be exactly what happened because it wasn't in the house, was out in the street, and I didn't do it like the police said, you stay inside so you don't get in trouble. So I did what he said. So okay, Well, look that's all well and good. At the end of the party, Corey, that's you're you're good there. But Layla, she's laser focused on getting this a pology

and she wants it to happen live on air. She's got to store everybody, so she's got to get this to him, to him apologize. I'll give you a little hint. I didn't happen, I would guess. Yeah, Why don't you take this opportunity now to apologize to your parents and sher neighbors who have said today that they were frittened. Well, I've already I've already offered to say sorry to them and stuff when I see them, So I will say

sorry now or everything that happened. Why don't you take your glasses off so we can see you and then apologize to your neighbors for frightening them. Nah, hollis on, I like them now. At this point, the sunglasses have become mad your go ahead, which he's wearing sunglasses through the whole whole interview, and it refuses to take him off. He's just sitting there with this like poop eating grin on his face, and the sunglasses has become this major

sticking point. It's like the adult wanting to smack the off his face, but you can't because it's a live interview and he's on. You know, he's not in the he's on location basic and there's just a camera and he's just talking to the camera, and she's sitting there on set behind the desk looking print. Okay, so Layla tries to get back to the issue of Corey's parents. Right, they might be fined twenty dollars. Are you going to try and pay that for them? Yeah, but I don't

think it's fair. They'll be finding because what happened. It was my party, but it could have just been any random person walking in the street doing it. What it happens all the time, he's basically trying to hack like all this damage at the damage to neighbors houses could have happened if some you know, street walking stranger just happened to pass many times? How many times we talked about all the time. Have I been sitting at home and Randa shows up and throws person party on my

front porch? Yeah, and I'm having a great time there. But you know, come on, not really like I didn't ask who this to happen. Now, this was chance, serendipity, one might say. So. At this point, both Layla and Corey are around the bend like this aren't. Review has pretty much gone off the rails. Layla refuses to admit it to herself, and she's like, I'm gonna get this apology right. So the battle is not yet over and it's all still playing out live on air, which, as

I said earlier, gives the teenager the advantage. Your parents were out of town, you put out the invitation, you started it. Why don't you make a grown up decision now and accept responsibility. Take off those glasses and apologize to everybody that you frightened, to the police who were forced to retreat and whose cars have been damaged, and to the community who have had to pay for this. Take your take a few glasses and apologize to us. I'll say sorry, but I'm not taking all my glasses.

Why not because the famous? Because your glasses are famous. Now, at this point, he's playing completely into his game, but she still doesn't see it yet. She's still trying to drag him into her adult world, but she doesn't understand that she's just the foil to his world. She's going to become a star on the internet as soon as his interviews right, because he understands TV better than she does. Why your glass is famous? I know everyone wats him. Sorry,

I know I'm not taking off. You're pretty happy with the way you look and the attitude you've got, are you? Yeah? My parents aren't, but I am. At this point, she knows that she's lost. Right, she has to be seeing the YouTube clip school before her eyes, and as she's just trying to salvage what little dignity she can for her professional life. Right, Okay, Cary, we've got to wrap this up. But what would you say to other kids who were thinking of partying when their parents are out

of town? Get me to do it for you. Get you should do it for you, not don't do it na, get made to do it for you. Best party ever so far, That's what everyone's been saying. So and if that's not enough, right, if he's hasn't just cemented like his legacy, he's the perfect kicker for their interview, and he's pretty make sure that the whole world talks about his party, because the video from this interview becomes the most watch video in January two eight around the world. Right,

no way, here's the last bit. Well, we've got to go, but I suggest you go away and take a good, long, hard look at yourself. I have everyone has I love it, legend done, and just like that he became world famous. You know that in Layla's mind, she thought she was going to get the interview and chastise him and he'd feel so bad and she gets to be the voice of reason. And because I've seen that before when people are sort of in emergency situations and they think they

can stop it and it's like they can't. Yeah, you have to let nature play, not the bus. So now I promised you that I tell you about when Corey's parents got back. Yes, so they're still away at this point. This is like we're sixty two hours before any real contact between Corey and the parents. They get home, and they get home in time for an interview. So within

forty eight hours he's been on the news. He's done the live on air interview with Layla MacKinnon, which cements his fame as the coolest teenager in Australia, if not the world. And this means that his parents are watching this from afar, watching their son become famous for trashing their home and pissing off all their neighbors. Sixty two hours later after the party, the parents finally make their way onto the local news they've come home, Corey is gone,

and the news cameras are still at their house. So they're like, hey, you guys got a moment, right, So the parents decided to do an interview because they're trying to speak to their child. So they wanted to talk to me through the TV interview. Right. So remember how I said that stepdad Stephen Delaney was kind of a

villain from an eighties team movie Wait Till You Hear Him? Okay, So when he's asked about his stepson Corey, staying away from the family home, Stephen Delaney has a message for his stepson, one that he shares with a local confused newscaster. Have enough guts, just enough guts? Do you better show up? Been plenty long enough. That's like his answer to a question about what he wants. He just talked talking right up. Y'all stayed way away during this, Like why didn't they

immediately come home when this happened. They were on a holiday, they were at Sandals get their hair. This is the teen comedy movie of it all. It's like the parents should stay away. They're like, well, we did pay for this vacation, so we're going to enjoy it. Honey, let's

go play shuffle board or whatever the hell they do. Now, Corey's mother Joy, and she was far kinder in a more motherly way, right, So she says, now, keep in mind the stepfather trying to talk through the cameras at Corey, like, look, you need to come home, like he would talk to a like a kidnapper. Yes, exactly. The mother she's like, more reasonable. So she's talking to the newscaster and she's saying, I don't know where he is. Obviously we're keen to

get him back home. We need to work through this with him and the police. We need to, you know, sort everything out. Now. At this point, Corey has has been refusing to answer any of their calls. They have not spoken with him, and this is absolutely infuriating the stepfather. So on the interviews, his his anger is just blindling out.

So when he gets asked about Corey, he's like his arrogance that he's demonstrated and his blase has obviously been happed up because all these mates on the side egging him on. So now he's like, it's not just Corey's fault, but all his friends he's got, these never do well made Corey's stepdad, living trope that he is. He's also focused on property over everything else. Right, he said, we've got a home back to some semblance of order. We've

been very lucky hadn't been physically trashed. But it's been I supposed to put the best word forward is it's been violated. You know. Look, the condition of the house was disgusting. Just no respect, no regard, no his mom. However, he's like Australian Irish right now, he's he's moving around a little bit, all right, so we will be free to say his name is Delaney. What can I say, Steve Delaney? How am I going to contain that kind

of understand? I understand. That's why I don't do these, because I can't do if I can remember to speak out of the side of my mouth and then the accent will stay. But it's like get heated. It moved to the center, and I'm like, oh, like a normal human being good. It's good anyway, So Joeanne, she says, a mother. He has to realize the damage he's created and he has to take responsibility. Now, the local news they give the stepfather the last word in this interview.

Right now, what do we think Stephen Delane, He's going to say in his last oh my gosh, something like a catch phrase from a John Hughes eighties movies. Johnes Right. Yeah, so Stephen Delane, he says, he obviously plut himself on public display, and he's gonna make himself a bit of a sitting duck. He just has to stop what he's doing. Just stop it, Just stop it, stop it. He doesn't he wants to. I'm like, I reading a lot of

insight about his parenting style. Yeah. So, anyway, after staying away for as long as he physically can, Corey if actually has to return home, I guess his parents or his friend's parents are like, look, Cary, you need to go sat this at night. So he starts it out with his mother and his stepfather, and then he gets immediately to working on capitalizing his newfound fame. Of course, he said, look, I gotta raise his twenty grand I

hope these people. So after this little short break, I will tell you about how Corey capitalizes on his fame and does everything WO would expect of a reality star. Perfect. So, Elizabeth, you are a teenager and you throw the most epic party ever, you become famous on the news, your parents eventually allow you back in the home. What do you do next? Throw another party? That'd be a good one.

And that's pretty much exactly what happened. But first you have to wait for all the people who are hangers on in Charlottean's who surround the famous and go, hey, we can leverage enter Max Markson, agent for celebrities, and I guess stars will say, oh wait, wait, oh wow, yeah hustler, Mark Hustler. He shows up and uh, I quote, he did a great party in the wrong place. We're gonna put on a great party in the right place.

And he has and get paid for it to So Max Markson takes upon himself to do what teach Corey to become the center of every party that we know and love. A DJ. Oh god, it gets wor this is what the world needs. Another area going to be a brand ambassador like so yeah, instead of taking responsibility, he becomes party expert and local DJ. So now the adult world they take a different response to Corey's fame,

and someone creates a website. It's like a flash animation website for people who are irritated by this arrogant teenager, right, And there is a digital version of Corey and it's called slap Corey dot com equally gross. And the idea was that if you quote want to slap some scents into Cory, you had this enormous hand and you could hit Corey, this flash animation Corey with his huge hand and then be satisfied by that violence. I guess one point one million plays after a few years of this

website being active. No longer is active. But there are three kinds of people playing that. Okay, The first kind opens the website season and it's like, ha ha ha, good one and closes it. The second kind they say, oh ha ha ha, they like one, two or three slaps, never opens it again. And then there are the people who need to be on a watch list because they're sitting there and they're spending like eight twelve hours just repeatedly in a flashing Corey filming themselves lapping Corey, uploading

that on the discord. If I think that they should have done some sort of regulation that if you were logged into that page for more than thirty five seconds, you're out of here. That I can see that playing at mandatory curfew. And it's not like the curfews we have today. I'm talking about an Alfred curfew. Am okay, Like, okay, I just want someone to support my early bedtime. I'm seeing that someone with power early bedtime too. I like that. I don't know. I don't let myself indulge like that

very often. I'm sitting here waiting for the purple hour when the light changes, when it's dawn, I'm like, time to go to bed. I can see the light coming back. You're like, I can see the light going away. Time they got to bed. It's APM. That's why this summer is so hard for me. I imagine. Okay, Well, back to our man, Corey Worthington. He's become a DJ and uh, as everyone knows, that is pretty much the sign of

the times we live in. And uh there's also something he learns early, which is no such thing as bad fame in this world. Yeah, so it pays to me an arrogant and he becomes, uh, you know, pretty much the owner of a small fortune very quickly. Within a few months, he's got about two dollars. Then comes the reality TV show Big Brothers, Like, Hey, you want to be a contestant. So Corey gets to parlay his fame into a spot in the Big Brother House and that he's By the way, can you guess how much you're

getting paid per episode? To bears? Thousand dollars per episode. Ye, people will sell their souls for ten grand an episode. But unfortunately the his time didn't last long because he was one of the first people voting out. Surprised, after nineteen days in the house, he got booted. Apparently everyone else in the show thought he was an arrogant out So around the same time, we're now up to about two eight, he gets famous. In January, we're in eight so Corey is back to work on his DJ lessons

and he's getting ready he debuts. By the way, when he started Big Brother, he debuted his first track. He had an electro dance song ready for listeners that he had as his intro music when he walked onto the Big Brothers set. That was the first taste of what he was gonna do. Can you guess what he did for his elector I'll give you a hint. It's a it's a cover song. Help, oh, it's a cover What did he cover? The band? You like the Beastie boys, right to party? How fast? Come on? Man? He's going

to a mediocre DJ school. Oh very much so, and also partnering with very questionable business partners. So the song quote was released exclusively on you Me now dot com and three Mobile. That's where we all get all of our best music. According to the promo materials that I found for this songs release quote, there have been extreme responses. Is seven Senior all Corey Worthington mainly long a generational lines. Corey Worthington embodies traditional teenage rebellion, but played out in

a new arena. Web two point oh my space was used to publicize the party. YouTube spread the video worldwide, and now you Me Now users are expanding and merchandizing the Cory story. Merchandising the Corey story. Corey spent the last few months completing local and international filming commitments and also watching doing a Corey enter the lexicon as teenagers host out out of control parties throughout the world. Hey guys,

what are you doing over there? I'm just doing a Corey dropping a Cory here in the bathroom, setting the Corey loose in the pool. So after that cover song in his short time a big brother Corey Worthington. He's got to keep this fame snowball rolling. So what's he gonna do next? Release an energy drink? He doesn't add for Australian insurance companies the Hottest Tea. They're all doing insurance exactly. It's real like an Airbnb style rental company.

So one of the executives, chief marketing officer, Brent smart Brand from I A G. He says, which is the parent company that owns this insurance company. He defended the casting of Corey and some media and so I saw him. He had this choice quote and I quote Corey has first hand experience when it comes to throwing an epic house party, and in the ad for it, Corey tells the potential customers quote, guests can get out of control. And now I should know if that's not corn if

that's not cheesy and corny enough for you. Corey later on says, and I quote, you nevern now what your guests are gonna get up to, what shenanigans are going to go down? And you spa, the last thing you want is to play your guest holiday to become your headache. He's now a responsible party thrower. Five months. Here's the thing, Like I can see like, on one hand, this ad campaign worked because check it out, we're talking about it, but really is anyone watching it? And me like I

was kind of on the fence. And then old Corey because if they can handle Corey's mayhem, they can handle my sun Barry. He's hot property. If they got Corey for an ad, they must be cool. Exactly on in case you were wondering, he was still wearing the same yellow sunglasses because of course that's what he how he could be famous. Otherwise he looked like just about didn't need the Australian teenage boy. Yeah, blonde hair, Yeah, glasses are famous. That he knew it, He knew why he

was famous. Right. So time passes on, as it does for all people and all things. Eventually, his fame his sunglasses. It loses some of his luster and uh, he basically becomes an inspiration for art at this point, so his fame gets milked one more time. He becomes the inspiration for the aforementioned to film project X. Not the Matthew Broderick Let's Free Them, not the really good project X. No,

it was a party movie. Now and true Deformed. That film became most illegally down loaded film on BitTorrent, so keeping you know, revolutionary radical. There was one more epic free for all in Corey's Future by Corey Worthington once again emerges from the ether of his former fame or whatever it is, and he becomes the pitch promo man for Clean Slate, so for for Father's Day holiday that

year in Australia. This company discovers that Australians, about sevent of them, believe that they have something that they would like to admit to their father. They'd like to clean the slate so to speak, right, something bad that they've done and that they would like to you know, like dad. No and Father's Day. Apparently the data is ruined with the confession. So the now heavily tattooed former team party boy has a hand tattoo that says not sorry this man.

He takes his stepdad on a private plane and then they're on the end. He apologizes for all the stuff he'd put him through. A long last Yes, his step dad, Stephen Delaney, his days like all right. So apparently they they can't get past. Clean Slate is a clean slate. Yeah, so at this point he's still a party planner. No word on his DJ career. I haven't seen any new releases lately, but he's so. He was working on an app for party planning last we heard from him, but

his promised app he's yet to come to be. Well, that's better than what I was kind of anticipating you were going to tell me. I thought it was going to be like in that Penguin movie, every time Morgan Freeman would start a seeing sadly, I just I didn't want to hear anything beyond that. I only saw like little bits to that sadly. Oh, I'm noping out of that. So I thought you were going now sadly and I'd

have to be like gritting through it. Well, sadly. We come to the end of this tale, But I have one last brush with Fameen Corey showed up as a competitor on Australia's Ninjia. Well, yeah, yes, and that was the last time he stood in the spotlight. He did well, competed well, but he ended up falling in the water,

got disqualified. But man, what a hell of a run for just for epic teenage party that's incredible, pretty good, right, I figured that's ridiculous, really, definitely ridiculous from one kid to get that much of a run off of throwing a hell of a party. Well, Elisabeth, what's a ridiculous takeaway? I think a couple of things. One, everyone has to have a good pair of sunglasses to be your famous sunglasses if everything falls apart. Two, let's all be DJ's

because apparently it's not that hard. And uh three, if you're a parent and you've got a little wild boy in the house, don't leave my home. Okay, I think I think those are all fair. The last one I take issue with As a former wild boy, I think you have to disco. Look, anything you do is going to be on you make I'm responsible or on. That's what my family did, so I knew that I had to be able to get away with it. It wasn't just that I had to do it. I'd be able

to get away with it. So that's what Corey thought. He didn't really cover they when we talked about this. Often with our criminals, it's not just the crime, but you gotta have a plan for how you're going to get away with it. But I think he also kind of encapsulates the whole. What I think must be terrifying to parents, especially of teens, is when the kid says, well,

what are you going to do about it? And then the parent has to reckon with the fact that well what am I Yeah that was so in this case it had to escalate to I'm gonna we're gonna turn dogs line, We're going to go to go to violence, which cool nature violence, But I think there's that moment. I think that when kids find out what are you gonna do about it, and the parents are like yeah, yeah. That's my takeaways basically what Lela McKinnon learned on Live

on TV. Don't go after a teenager unless you have a plan. Kids, I've got this, I'm older, I'm wiser thing you never thought about. They live in a world you don't know exists exactly exactly got to be wiser than that. Well, the other question for you is would you qualify Corey Worthington in as official ridiculous crime approved rude dude? Oh totally now, he I think in the rude dude battalions, he's kind of over off to the side because rude did in general like in the billy

idol wing. Yeah, he's definitely. He's in the billy idol wing of the Rude Dude most of the Rude Dude Nation, the Ridiculous Crime fans, solid folk. Yeah, just cool Ridiculous Crime family, solid folks. But you know, we all have in our family some like fringe elements who get act out. We love them. They're a little bit wild, but they're unctables that are the fringe. They're unpredictable. So yeah, that's that fringe. He's their fringe element. Rude dude dude. I

like that reading. Well, thank you for joining us. I'm Zarin Burnett. Over there is Zaren Burnett. Zarin Burnett. So you can find us online a Ridiculous Crime on both Twitter and Instagram. If you got a tip for us, hit us up. You got a crime you'd like to share with us. Confess, we're not gonna judge you. We're just gonna tell everyone about it. If you want to send us a link to your DJ work, email us

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