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Strange and Bizarre News and a Grinch Warning · 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, fifteenth day of December. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me.
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Get ready to roll on into the weekend. Not just a weekend,
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it's a big weekend for the Columbus Ballet as we are getting ready for the
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the twenty seventh Nutcracker Ballet. It's my fifth and as the biggest star in
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the show. Quite literally, I you know's that's the ones that if they
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did twenty two before me. That's fine, you know, I'm not discounting
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those shows. I'm just wanting out the fact that me being the biggest star
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in the show, I think I may be of all the mother Gingers for
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the Columbus Ballet, I may be actually the tallest of the mother Gingers who've
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done it, because I don't know that the others used the same stilts and
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so I don't know. I know that the ones before me did not,
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But I think I may be. But you know, that's not you know,
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we're just we're just talking. I'm not bragging or anything. I'm not.
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Just being the biggest star is my point. Literally, the tallest,
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the biggest, that's all I'm trying to say. I learned that little trick
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from a buddy of mine named Lufarigno. Sorry let me drop that name.
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But he always says that he's the biggest star when he goes to a convention,
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and it's like, yeah, he is. He is literally the biggest
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star at the convention. I mean, that's that's just him. Although one
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year the guy that the new guy that plays Chewbacca was there, well,
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the old guy that was Chewbacca was there at the same convention, but I
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think the new guy was even taller than him. But anyway, so it's
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a Nutcracker a weekend, and we actually have a show this morning that is
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not open to the public. It is open just for school age kids.
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So if you have kids that are going to The Nutcracker, they're going to
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see us this morning. That's that's the deal. If they come on from
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school today and they talk about that they went on a field trip and saw
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The Nutcracker, it's the show we're talking about. And then tonight we'll have
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the final dress rehearsals for the show and we'll you know, roll on into
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the two weekend shows which are open to the public, which is you know,
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Saturday evening and then the Sunday matinee, and then tomorrow is the Mother
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Ginger Tea Party event, and that one is a separate special event and it's
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hosted by me. I'll be in character in a way I've never been in
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this character before, speaking and hosting the tea party event, and a bunch
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of kids and parents are scheduled to be there. I hope you can join
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us for that. It'll be a lot of fun. You can find details
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about tickets for both of those events on just follow the links through Vcolumbus Ballet
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dot org. That's what you should do, or Therivercenter dot org for the
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tickets for the ballet specifically, so if you're just doing that, you can
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go through the River Center or the River Center's box office. And again that's
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a Saturday evening show and a Sunday matinee show. So plenty of stuff to
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do this weekend part of the holiday tradition. I've got so many friends that
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have come at some point in the five years that I've been in the role
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of Mother Ginger that have told me, you know, I came because you're
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in it. And now this is something that we do every year, and
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that's flattering, not so much that I'm in it, because I don't think
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they're coming back every year just to see me, but that I was there,
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you know, entry point that it was coming to see me got them
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hooked. And it really is a great show. And the adult performers we
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give it are all to try to keep up with the younger performers, whether
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they're high school age, all the way down to the small kids that are
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in the show. So we have to try to keep up with them because
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they're excellent. I mean, the students there at the Columbus Ballet are excellent,
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and we're just trying to hang with them, and then all the way
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up to the adults that are in the show, and some have done many
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more shows than me. Many of these kids have done more shows than me.
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But we're really looking forward to putting the show on this weekend. It's
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Friday, so let's get into some strange and bizarre news from around the world.
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We'll start in Italy as police busted a drug trafficking operation that was being
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conducted out of a barber shop when they were tipped off by one very telling
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clue. All the customers that were seen going into the shop were bald and
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beardless. Investigators thought something fishy was going on at the barber shop, but
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had no firm leads until they noticed a large number of men seemingly going in
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for haircuts, despite the fact that they had no hair. Upon further investigation,
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law enforcement discovered that many of these customers weren't there for a shave and
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a haircut, but to buy drugs from the shop's owner. A raid turned
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up cocaine scales and other materials for packaging drugs. Fifty five year old owner
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was arrested and awaits sentencing. This was a drug maybe not so much.
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Wasn't this an Andy Griffith episode? You know, the guys came in,
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they were running. They were actually gambling, I think, And you know,
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Floyd had no idea and same guy was coming in every day for a
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haircut. And I mean, they weren't bald, but the bald thing is
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a big deal. A Florida man who had a Christmas parade marching through his
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neighborhood, so he decided to join in spread holiday cheer. No, actually,
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he got drunk, grabbed a gun and fired several shots in the air.
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Forty three year old Douglas Moore of Middleburg, Florida, was arrested in
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charge with six counts of aggravated assault with a firearm, reckless discharge of a
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firearm, and using a firearm while under the influence of alcohol. Cops say
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he was drunk became agitated by the activities generated by parade attendees. Police noted
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that at no time did anyone enter Moore's property, and fortunately no one was
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hurt by the gun shots. We checked with all the birds or all the
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birds accounted for in the area, because when they say no one was hurt,
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they need to check with the birds. We'll stay in Florida for this
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one. A Florida man under arrest after he got drunk and molested a statue
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of a manatee outside of a restaurant. Police say twenty three year old Anthony
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Michael Lessa approached a seafood restaurant Saint Petersburg started throwing gator nuggets it's you know,
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like chicken nuggets, but it's cater into the restaurant, which drew a
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lot of attention from stunt patrons. He then proceeded to molest the large manatee
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statue outside the restaurant as people looked on and shop. When he was done
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with that, he ran away to a nearby hotel, yelled and cursed at
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workers from the parking lot. When police arrived at the scene, Lessa kept
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demanding to know why he was being arrested, charged with disorderly intoxicated disturbance.
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It's a fancy way of saying he was riding a manateee. You know you
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know what I mean by riding all right, many of us have trouble using
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chopsticks, but it's hard to mess it up worse than this. Vietnamese man
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went to the hospital complaining of severe headaches, and doctors diagnosed his headache saying
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that he had chopsticks stuck in his skull. The bizarre discovery followed five months
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of persistent headaches, along with a running nose and blurred vision. Finally noticed
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some kind of object in his nose, and that's when he finally decided to
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go to the doctor. Yeah, you know, something weird in your nose.
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Lots of headaches. He had a scan of his head. Doctors were
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shocked to see a pair of wooden chopsticks pressing against his brain. At first,
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the man had no idea how the chopsticks could have ended up in his
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skull, and then he recalled a rowdy night out several months back when he
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was stabbed in the face with something sharp. Somehow, it never occurred to
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him that that could be the reason for his headaches. Doctors performed surgery to
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remove the chopsticks and repair a small hole in his brain. I don't know
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where the specific part of the brain is that causes you to forget that,
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and maybe not rationally, but I'm just guessing maybe it's in the area that
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if you had rammed something straight up your nose, that may be the reason
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he did not ever consider. You know, I'm not a brainologist, but
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I'm telling you that could have something to do with it. A Wisconsin woman
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is lucky to be alive after she ignored the most basic role of an MRI
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and brought a gun into the screening room. Yeah, that's not They didn't
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even tell you that. I mean, if you, I mean they tell
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you not to have any metal on you, but you know, a gun.
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Fifty seven year old woman was specifically warned about bringing any type of metal
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in the screening room. There you go, because of the magnetic field of
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the scanner and it could pose dangerous risks. But despite the warning, she
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tried to sneak in a handgun. As soon as she walked into the room,
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the magnetic field caused the gun to go off. It fired a single
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shot right into her buttocks. Her wound was described as superficial and she was
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treated for her injury. It's not the first time someone's been shot in an
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MRI. Earlier this year, a man snuck a gun and the MRI caused
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it to fire a shot into his stomach, and that killed him. So
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maybe one, she should check out other news stories every now and then.
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Two she should be thankful that it got her in the old butt cheek,
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right, because that's a lot better than the stomach and the fatality that would
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be way worse. Right, This is a whole different story when it's in
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the stomach and it kills you. So an overdue book was returned to a
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Pennsylvania library. Finally, the copy of The Cruise of Esmeralda by Harry Collingwood
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was taken out from the Carbondale Public Library in nineteen oh four by someone named
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Horace Short. The book was never returned, but it suddenly appeared at a
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book sale that another library having It's unknown where the book had been for one
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hundred and twenty years, but it was a pretty good condition book and still
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had a pocket inside with the cover hiding a card with Horace Short's name on
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it. Luckily for mister Short, overdue fines are capped at ten dollars.
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Otherwise the fine at two cents a day back in nineteen oh four would have
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added up to eight hundred and seventy two dollars. Now, when it says
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luckily for mister Short, I assume he's deceased, So I don't know how
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lucky he is. Or maybe he's just lucky that he's deceased and he doesn't
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have to pay for it. But either way, I don't think he's got
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to pay the eight hundred and seventy two dollars. I don't know if that
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gets handed down in this economy. Maybe gets handed down. You know,
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there's grandkids or great grandkids. I mean, eventually all this stuff gets handed
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down to him, right, all the money overseas. For twenty years,
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the only goat in Boston was Tom Brady. But there's a new goat in
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Boston, or so it appears. Over the past few weeks, someone's been
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trolling the city of Boston by reporting loose goats roaming the streets. The prankster
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has been using Boston's three to one one service, which is typically used to
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report things like damage road signs, traffic lights, or overflowing trash, to
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alert public officials to the appearance of stray goats around town. He even uploaded
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photos to the service's rodent Activity section, but as city officials quickly realized the
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photos are fake, the goats in the pictures were very clearly photoshop, and
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city officials and residents don't know of any goats roaming the city. So just
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a guy goofing around. It's a board guy. He's got nothing better to
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do, not a single thing in his life better to do than goof around
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with photoshop and goats in the pictures. I don't hate it. I don't
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hate it. It's a waste of time, but you know, I don't
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hate it. It's not the most creative idea, but I don't hate it.
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I just don't. And finally, a giant inflatable Santa Claus is drawing
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a lot of visitors to a neighborhood in Texas, but nobody knows where it
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came from. The job well, I guess somebody has to know where it
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came from. The jolly mystery has left people completely stumped. In the Holly
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Tree neighborhood of Tyler, Texas, the large blow up Saint Nick suddenly appeared
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in a vacant lot about a week ago. No one has claimed responsibility for
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it, which is added to the intrigue. Locals have been flocking to see
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it and take photos with it. I think somebody has to know where it
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Carol Morning Show right after the break So how much does the Twelve Days of
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Christmas gifts run you if you were to buy someone all of those gifts this
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year? It's an annual thing. They update it based on the PNC Christmas
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Price Index. And you know, we got inflation and going into running wild,
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just running wild. Way to go, Brandon. The costs of the
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gifts have reached an all time high, of course, forty six thousand,
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seven hundred and twenty nine dollars and eighty six cents. Here's the breakdown.
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And you know I always question when we get into the people you know when
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it's birds, I got it. When it's gold yeah, I get it.
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When there's people involved, I'm just assuming you're just paying for their services.
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I mean, that's that's the way to do it. So I here
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forty six seven twenty dollars and eighty six cents, and just some of the
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highlights in this The five Golden Rings twelve hundred and forty five dollars. Okay,
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the highest thing on the list, at least from well, I guess
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it's the highest thing, period. No, if lord's a leaping, ten
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lords a leaping, I guess is the most expensive at fourteen thou five hundred
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and thirty nine dollars. Seven Swans of swimming tops the bird list thirteen one
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hundred twenty five dollars. I guess you're paying the eight maids of milking by
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the hour, it's fifty eight dollars. I don't know how many. I
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guess that's an hour, half an hour, or just the length of time
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it takes to I don't know milk one cow, eight cows. I don't
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know. The drummers drumming, the twelve of them, by the way,
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just because it's the largest number on there, three four hundred and sixty eight
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dollars and two cents at the top of the list. Of course, everybody
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wants to know, well, what's the cost of a partridge and a pear
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tree. That's three hundred nineteen dollars and eighteen cents. So there you go.
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Cooking is a love language. According to a new survey, Seventy percent
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of those surveys said they considered cooking and eating as the sixth love language.
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Eighty percent said they use food as a way to comfort themselves after a stressful
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day, and sixty five percent say they use food as a way to comfort
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others. Seventy eight percent said cooking was calming for them. In fact,
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it was ranked as the top activity people do when they need to relieve stress.
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Sixty five percent said they cooked to relieve tension more than twice that of
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a second distressing task, which is cleaning. Is this a non stressful thing
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when you're cooking and cleaning, that seems like it would be more stress,
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right, I mean, I get it. Sometimes maybe it's you know,
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destressing, but it also seems to me that you know, there could be
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some stress if it's a task that you're having to do and all those sorts
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of things. Anyway, if you've ever been to a disney World and you
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know finding bargains can be tough, you might be lucky to find one on
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a property, but it's not going to be the California Grill. Inside Disney's
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Contemporary Resort, the Upscale restaurant has a signature cocktail on the menu that runs
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you one hundred and thirty eight dollars. The menu reads this Ultra Premium cocktail
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pairing partners of traditional champagne cocktail. And you excuse me because I don't know
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beverages. So if I get this wrong, Remy Martin lewis the thirteenth which
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takes four generations of seller masters to career. We eate the cocktails served on
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a silver platter, so you know that just only adds to the expense.
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What that cost if you put a partridge on it in a pear tree.
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Well, there's something wrong in the world when you can't trust the authenticity of
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a Wonka chocolate bar. The UK's Food Standards Agencies the FSA, has issued
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a warning to those in Britain about counterfeit Wonka candy bars showing up on store
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shelves. The agency says consumers need to stay away from chocolate bars that are
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labeled Wonka bars because they're not the real deal and could be unsafe to eat.
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And if you find a golden ticket inside one, sorry, that also
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is fake. So there you go. All right, finally, and this
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is a heads up. I've seen this here locally. I've seen people trying
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to dodge it. I've seen people trying to I mean, they're still breaking
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the law, they're trying to be creative with it. I'm just giving you
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this warning, this heads up, especially if maybe you you are a photographer
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who is doing this and you're a small business owner and you're trying to get
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away with it. You cannot use the Grinch character without express written permission from
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Major League Baseball now, without permission from the folks that actually own the Grinch.
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See, it's a copywritten character. So if you're having a public appearance
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somewhere and you're getting paid to show up and you're dressed as the Grinch,
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I'm sorry, you owe them a cut. That's just the reality of it.
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Your breaking the law. I don't make the rules. I'm just telling
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you right now. So as folks, maybe you know they've done the Santa
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pictures and they want to maybe do the Grinch pictures. Well, folks that
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are using the Grinch publicly as it's like, think about it like March Madness.
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Okay, I know it's just ruining fun, ruining everybody's fun. But
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Doctor Sue's Enterprise is very protective of that intellectual property and they consider it copyright
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infringement. And there are many photographers who've had problems with that. I understand
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they're probably in larger markets depending on where you are, So just be aware
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if you're doing a photo session or public appearance in promoting the Grinch being there,
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or if you're even saying the Green Man, the Angry green Man,
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you're still you've got the Grinch there. I think people can see. I
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think they know. It's like referring to your March Madness event at a bar
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as the pre April Insanity event. You're still having college basketball there. Sorry,
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it's just the
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reality that'll do it. For this Friday edition of the show, I hope
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to see you this weekend at the Nutcracker. If you're there after the show,
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please come by and say hello. I'd love to talk to you in
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person, that'd be great. I'll probably still a lot of makeup on,
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and I'll probably still have stilts on. I probably will not be in the
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dress after the show, but i'll probably definitely i'll have makeup on, and
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I'll probably still have the stilts on. So there you go. Thanks to
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