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Strange and Bizarre News with Deer and Aussies · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Friday morning, tenth day of November. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me.
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We are ten days from Black Friday. I know I made the point
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of letting you know how close we were to Thanksgiving yesterday. We're less than
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two weeks to Thanksgiving. That's all. I'm just keeping you abreast of things,
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right. That's not a turkey joke. It's just me just keeping you
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aware. That's what I'm trying to do. A quick reminder though, as
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we're a couple of weeks from Thanksgiving, that the Nutcracker, presented by the
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Columbus Ballet, is returning to the River Center stage. Don't get your tickets
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anywhere but from the River Center. If you're buying tickets online, don't google
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Nutcracker Columbus Georgia. You'll overpay for the tickets. You don't want to do
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that. You want to get the tickets through the River Center and pay the
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actual ticket price because there's a serious markup that's going on. And this will
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be a public service reminder that will do all the way up until the event.
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Don't overpay for the tickets, get the tickets. You can go to
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the Columbus Ballets a website, or you can go to the River Center's website,
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or actually go to the River Center get your tickets for the Nutcracker.
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I am back in the show as Mother Ginger, something that I've enjoyed doing.
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Now this will be my fifth year. Really excited about. We got
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another rehearsal this weekend. We're gonna be working on some different things. I
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like the fact that it's While it's there's similarities to the role, there's also
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some changes that we work into it. I try to get more turns and
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different types of turns and things in there, because I feel like this can't
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just be me on stilts in this giant dress, spinning around every now and
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then, or walking around everybody else's ballet dancing. So I know, to
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ballet dance, that's the way I look at it, and just to a
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quick rundown. And this is one of those questions I get sometimes. Yes,
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the role is typically played by a man. It's not always played by
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a man, but sort of historically it is a role that's been played by
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a man. Think theater versions of Peter Pan. They often have a woman
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that plays Peter Pan because it's easier to put her on the harnesses and fly
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her around, right, So that's typically been I think he's also supposed to
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be a teenage boy or whatever. I don't know, so all that kind
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of, you know, makes it a little bit easier. In the case
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of Mother Ginger is, I have to be on stilts, I have to
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be in this very large, bulky dress, and then there's children that are
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under the dress that run out and dance. Sorry spoiler alert. And we're
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doing some different stuff this year with all of that, We're working on some
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things. But yes, it's typically a role played by man by a man,
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and that man has been me now for five years, and I've enjoyed
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it. I like the live aspect of being able to perform on stage.
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It's been very fun. I've enjoyed getting to know various groups of dancers,
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these kids that have come through. Typically they do it for one or two
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years and then they move up and then I get a new group. And
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I've got some new kids this year that will be will be playing the role
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of my children. I'm not even sure, like they have different names for
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them with different routines. I'm not even sure what we're calling them at this
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point, but they're my kids. I call them all Tabitha because it's easier
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than learning all of their names. And it's not just me being a jerk.
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It's just when you meet a bunch of new kids at once the first
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year and it was like ten kids, twelve kids or something, and I'm
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trying to learn all their names and I just said, you're all Tabitha.
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That was easier. So I've got a new group of Tabithas this year.
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That's what's important. But again, get your tickets through the River Center box
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office. Don't waste your time going to any of the other sites. They're
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marking up the tickets and trying to resell them. You don't want to get
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involved, and that you don't want to get gouged. The tickets should still
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be available for you to go. Get your tickets now. Last year we
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had some almost sellout moments, possibility of that. Oh and I should mention
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this too. We're doing a special mother ginger Tea party I'll be hosting on
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Saturday. Go to the Columbus Ballet's website and check that out because the Mother
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Ginger Tea Party event is going to be something very special. I mean,
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it is going to be it's just going to be fun. That's all I
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can tell you. All I can tell you is that it's going to be
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me hosting this thing. I'm very excited about it. And we appreciate the
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folks at w C. Bradley for sponsoring the Mother ginger Tea event. So
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again, River Center website is where you want to go to buy your tickets
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for the actual Nutcracker, the Mother ginger Tea event. You can go to
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the Columbus ballot and follow the link there to purchase your tickets for that event.
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And the event is priced for basically a parent and a child, right,
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and then like forty dollars for both, and then like an additional kid
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or an additional parent or whatever, it goes to fifteen dollars. So that's
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the way this all works. But we're very excited about this. I'm really
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looking forward to I've been working a lot. Also, you get tickets for
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this, you get a discount on your tickets for the Nutcracker, so keep
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all that in mind. So that would be your first stop. Go to
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the River Center, I'm sorry, go to the Columbus Ballets page and then
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follow the links on into the River Center after you've taken care of squaring away
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all your tickets. So yes, don't get gouged through from some of these
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ticket brokers. Okay, I want to get into some strange and bizarre news.
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I know you're probably thinking we get into this or not, because this
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is what we do on Fridays. Now, why haven't we gotten to the
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strange and bizarre news. Here's what we've got this time. We have multiple
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stories. It used to be bears, now we're at deer, so some
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a number. We have multiple deer stories and a couple of stories that involved
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my second homeland, Australia, and it's my second by adoption because my wife
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is Australian. Well she's an Australian American. Now, okay, so let's
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jump into this. Salem, Virginia last week, diners that were having a
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meal inside Awful Arthur's Seafood restaurant where they were eating and then suddenly a deer
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crashed through a glass door and ran into the dining room and kitchen before finally
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leaving through the back door. No one was reportedly hurt. Deer's condition unknown
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though, but that had to be a little frightening. You're just sitting there
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and having your meal at Awful Arthur's. Who would have thought you'd have an
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awful experience there. Then over the weekend, a lingerie store in Lansing,
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Michigan, got an unexpected visit from a deer who crashed through the front of
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Curvaceous Lingerie. Trashed the inside of the store, leaving a mess of wrecks
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and mannequins. I'm assuming that means racks of clothing. The animal eventually left
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through and I see that look you're giving me. I do. I get
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it all the time. Believe me. Jill gives me that look all the
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time. The animal eventually left through an open door. No one was hurt.
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The store temporarily closed for repairs. I don't know that may be back
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open again. I hope they can get open again in time for Black Friday,
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which is two weeks away. Also over the weekend, a man in
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New Jersey was selling his truck and was about to complete the purchase when a
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deer came along jumped over to other cars before landing in the truck's bed.
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The scene was caught on video. The deer immediately jumped out of the truck
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and ran off. The deer left a large dent in the truck, and
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the buyer, I guess, ended up purchasing it anyway, Maybe a hunter
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seems to be like if you're a hunt or in your truck might attract deer.
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That would be good. You know, that's what you're going for there,
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all right? China in this is kind of a crazy story out of
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China, and this is Shanghai Mall. Cops in Shanghai were recently doing rounds
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and they discovered that a man was living in a small space tucked underneath the
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staircase living there. He had set up the living space with a small ten
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of desk an office chair, He had access to an electrical outlet, and
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he was able to charge his phone and laptop. He told the stunned security
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guards he'd been living there rent free for six months. The man explained that
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he had initially moved in because he needed a quiet and secluded place to study
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for a college entrance exam, and he was going to move out immediately after
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taking the test, but he got comfortable didn't want to leave. Security turned
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him over to police, who the arrested him. Yeah, I don't know
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the way the laws work in China. But to me, I mean he
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was trespassing. But if they never actually asked him to leave, I don't
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know where the laws go in that anyway. Florida man who apparently is a
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big fan of super Bad because he led cops on a one mile an hour
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motorcycle chase with a bike with a fake Hawaiian license plate that read McLevin Jesse
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Rivera was paying tribute to the movie super Bad, where, of course McLevin
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carries that fake Hawaiian ID with the name McLevin on it. So the thirty
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year old eluded cops and I thought this coast was clear. He stopped,
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only to have a deputy roll up to him. Rivera tried to kick the
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bike's engine into gear and slipped a gear while trying to escape, then taken
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into custody after a struggle in which the motorcycle fell on him and broke his
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foot. So McLevin super bad super bad idea, I guess. Florida Roofing
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Company is currently running a Thanksgiving promotion that they say maybe the most Florida thing
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ever. Roof Easy and Cape Coral introduced its roof and Gobble special for the
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month of November. They say. Customers who hire them and install a new
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roof in the month of November, we'll receive a free turkey for Thanksgiving and
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a free AR fifteen rifle. Jason Polly, the owner of the company,
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explained, I actually saw this idea company actually did it in Alabama. I
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figured, Hey, we're in Florida. This is the most Florida thing you
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can do. Let's do it. Adding the world's a crazy place right now,
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and they can get a roof and an AR fifteen for protection on both
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ends, so why not? All right then, I mean, that's a
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pretty Florida thing to do. I guess. An escape pig named Kevin Bacon
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is finally back home after living footloose and fancy free for more than two weeks.
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Chelsea rumbav Gettysburg says the two hundred pound Juliana pig had gotten out of
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a pin and remained on the loose for seventeen days before finally wandering into a
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new pin, which she and her husband started building after the escape. Before
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that, efforts to find the pig, which included leaving sticky buns laced with
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benadril around the neighborhood, and even a plea for help on social media from
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the real Kevin Bacon were fruitless. So if you're running late to catch a
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plane, you arrive at the gate find the door closed in the plane pulling
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away, you're supposed to realize, oops, I missed my flight. Well,
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a woman in Australia didn't seem to catch that hint. Officials with Quantus
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Airways say the woman was still determined to catch her flight at the Canberra Airport.
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That's the Australian capital, by the way, so she ran past security
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and entered the tarmac. Onlookers watched in disbelief as the woman ran up to
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the taxing taxiing and tried to get the pilot's attention to stop and let her
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on. The pilot stopped, but didn't let her get on the plane.
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He was waiting for airport security to come and take her into custody. All
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right. Finally, one more story out of Australia, and this involves the
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Wiggles the US. If you don't know the Wiggles, they're kids music group.
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You know, my kids grew up on the Wiggles. A lot of
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kids their age grew up on the Wiggles. Some a little older group on
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the Wiggles. I mean it's kids music performed by you know, four Wiggles.
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At one time it was four men and then there's like a woman in
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there. I don't even know what the group looks like now. I know
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what they looked like then, and it was four guys. But they've had
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new members come and go, and I like the Wiggles. I'm pro Wiggles
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well. The Australian group that's been entertaining and educating children all around the world
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for more than thirty years, is upset with the city of Bunbury, Australia,
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for its use of one of their songs. The city's been blasting the
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song hot Potato, remember that one Hot Potato, Hot Potato on a loop
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that it says at the Graham Bricknell Memorial Music Show in an effort to drive
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away homeless people have been sleeping and living there. The Wiggles say they're deeply
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saddened that the city is using their music this way. A spokesperson for the
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group said the Wiggles music is created to bring joy and happiness to children and
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families around the world. We are deeply saddened to hear that this is being
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used this way, and now the group has asked that the city stopped playing
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their music in this capacity. They say, don't do that, Just don't
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Carrol Morning Show right after the break. All right, so this almost qualifies
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as one of our strange news stories. But uh, you know, if
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you've got a gamer in your home, someone who likes to play games and
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wear a headset and I don't know, they run around shooting other people or
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whatever they do, Red Dead or red yeah, Red Dead, Redemption.
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You can tell I don't play a lot. If it's not Donkey Kong or
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on the old Nintendo Original OG Nintendo system, I probably am not playing it.
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It's not true. It's not but I would rather play Donkey Kong or
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Miss pac Man than anything else. But if you've got a gamer in your
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life, chances are, if they have the headset on, they're probably snacking
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while they're playing, in many cases, eating something like Dorito's yeah they like
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and chips. Well, it's gonna be a problem when you got a headset
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on and you're crunching. You know, you're trying to play games with people
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and talk to each other, and there's all that crunching well, Dorrito's says
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they're trying to solve that problem by introducing new technology that it calls Dorrito's Silent.
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It's the world's first noise canceling technology compatible with all PCs to support co
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op gaming situations. Dorrito's worked with Smooth Technology for six months analyzing five thousand
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different crunch sounds to create the one of a kind crunch canceling software, and
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you can download it. It's you have to look it up Dorritos dot co
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dot uk slash silent. All right, you don't have to look it up,
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but it's a lot to get to, right anyway. So's that's the
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option for you there if the crunching, if you just can't make it through
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a game without eating Dorito's. I like that people get upset that we're sending
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people into space, millionaires into space, and they say, oh my gosh,
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what a waste of money. But nobody's calling this out. I mean,
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I appreciate it, and I'm a free market guy, go for it.
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I'm not saying it is a waste of money. I just think it's
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a little bit hypocritical. If you're upset someone's paying for a ticket to go
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to space. But you're not protesting this, that's all. I don't think
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either should be protested, is my point. Archaeologists in freezing? Is it
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freezing frizing? Freezing Germany? I don't know. I've never been to Germany.
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Unearthed a medieval skeleton equipped with an iron prosthetic hand. The hand left
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one is hollow and features immovable curved index, middle ring, and pinky fingers,
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all individually formed from sheet metal. The discovery shows evidence of early prosthetic
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technology and medical knowhow dating back to the fifteenth century. How about that,
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that's really pretty cool. I like this. I like this story a lot.
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That's pretty neat. I mean it sounds like Game of Thrones, right,
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you know, the guy had the metal hand and anyway. Uh,
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Finally, New York City is trying to get rid of rats. In the
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meantime, the transit app is helping residents to count the rats. The New
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New York City Subway Rat Detector lets people find out where their subway station ranks
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in terms of rodent infestation and allows them to report their own sidings. It's
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like a self checkout at the grocery store. The most up to date infos
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shows roughly forty percent of riders have spotted one of the creepy critters on a
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recent trip. For those planning a visit, the app warns, much like
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Pete Davidson, rats prefer Manhattan to Staten Island, but the outer boroughs remain
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home to many of the most rat prone stations. That's a weird that's a
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weird dig itt Manhattan, but you know anyway, that'll do it. For
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