Pori Moni Viral Video: The Search Gets Stranger

Transcript of the segment

What BBN said on air. The facts are in the original report: Universidad de Córdoba (UCO).

1. Hank LedgerHours after our first look, the question is no longer what is in the video. It is whether anyone has ever seen it.

2. Gloria VanceHank, I have spent the afternoon with two headlines, one spreadsheet and a growing sense that I am the only adult in this investigation.

3. Hank LedgerWhat do the documents say?

4. Gloria VanceDocument one, from Universidad de Córdoba in the US, is about four hours old.

5. Gloria VanceIt promises a viral Pori Moni clip tied to Maasranga Television on Instagram.

6. Gloria VanceDocument two arrived roughly three hours ago. It names Maasranga again, spells it a different way, and adds Mehjabin Chowdhury and the word trending.

7. Dale BearmanDifferent spelling. Same video. Or no video. Frankly, this is how every cover-up begins.

8. Hank LedgerNeither headline describes the video's content.

9. Gloria VanceNeither says what is in it, who made it, or whether it exists.

10. Gloria VanceThey do contain a plus sign, an exclamation mark, a sun and a tiny triangle.

11. Dale BearmanA triangle?

12. Gloria VancePointing right. Toward what, we do not know. I have asked.

13. Hank LedgerLet's build the timeline. Four hours ago, headline one. An hour later, silence. Then headline two, three hours ago.

14. Dale BearmanThat silent hour is where the video lived, Hank. Then it vanished. I have charts.

15. Gloria VanceYour chart is a line going sideways, Dale.

16. Dale BearmanSideways is how a plot moves when nobody is watching. Look at the clip count. It is zero, and that is suspicious.

17. Hank LedgerZero is also what you would expect if there is no video.

18. Dale BearmanOr if somebody got to it first. I spent two thousand nine learning that nothing online is ever just missing.

19. Gloria VanceThen comes the rabbit hole. Earlier today I said an emoji is not corroboration. I stand by that. But I have now interviewed the sun.

20. Hank LedgerThe sun.

21. Gloria VanceIt declined to comment. It was very bright about it. I am treating that as a refusal to cooperate.

22. Dale BearmanIt knows something. It has been up there the whole time, watching.

23. Hank LedgerIt has been up there for four and a half billion years, Dale. It watches everything. That is not evidence.

24. Gloria VanceFine. Then the confrontation with the obvious. Who benefits when a clip nobody can describe is announced loudly? The pages that announce it.

25. Hank LedgerSo they are selling the headline itself, and the video is just decoration.

26. Gloria VanceThat is the verdict. Names people search for, a promise of a clip, and symbols to look busy. No video has been produced.

27. Dale BearmanComing up later, a beloved Santa Monica nightlife spot is closed after twenty years. What is replacing it? A private club, allegedly. I have questions.

28. Dale BearmanSo the video does not exist, and the case is solved. You are welcome.

29. Gloria VanceThe first sensible thing you have said all week, Dale. You are still unserious.