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Strange and Bizarre News with a Deer Playing Possum · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the Wes
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  Speaker 1: Carroll Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Friday morning, 11th day of September. My name is Wes.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me. It is the 25th anniversary of
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  Speaker 2: the 9-11 attacks in California. We think of the World
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  Speaker 2: Trade Center and we think of New York, Pennsylvania, the Pentagon,
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  Speaker 2: of course, with the White House being the target and
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  Speaker 2: one of those. Yesterday, I thought about this a lot
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  Speaker 2: and I thought yesterday would be the appropriate day to
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  Speaker 2: do a show about 9-11. Heard from some of you
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  Speaker 2: about yesterday's show. Thanks for reaching out. I just kind
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  Speaker 2: of went into it a little bit unprepared. I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to just talk about a few things from the gut,
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  Speaker 2: from the heart. And I did that. And I thought
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  Speaker 2: maybe yesterday would be a better day to do that.
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  Speaker 2: And then today will be, and maybe you listen first
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  Speaker 2: thing in the morning. It depends on, I've got some
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  Speaker 2: of you who listen over coffee in the morning. I've
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  Speaker 2: got some of you who listen a little later in
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  Speaker 2: the day. Some let multiple shows back up a little
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  Speaker 2: bit and listen. All of that is appreciated. by the way.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter when you're listening. But for the purposes
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  Speaker 2: of a day when you're going to be, especially on
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  Speaker 2: this 25th anniversary, you're going to be bombarded with coverage
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  Speaker 2: of 25 years ago. You're going to get everything back
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  Speaker 2: in real time. Many outlets are still doing that every year.
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  Speaker 2: We'll especially see lots of that today. And For anybody
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  Speaker 2: who was listening before all of that coverage gets in
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  Speaker 2: full swing, yesterday's show would be the show to really
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  Speaker 2: kind of get you set the tone for today. And
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  Speaker 2: then I thought if you're listening beyond all of that,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe today would be a reason that you're not
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  Speaker 2: listening in the normal morning slot. At some point today,
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  Speaker 2: and it's not to say we don't need time to
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  Speaker 2: think about what happened 25 years ago and where we
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  Speaker 2: are now. That's what yesterday's show was for. At this point,
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  Speaker 2: maybe we get into our Friday normal routine and on
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  Speaker 2: the other side of some of that coverage. Because it's heavy,
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  Speaker 2: and it should be heavy. It should be tough for
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  Speaker 2: us to deal with. And if it ever becomes just comfortable,
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  Speaker 2: which sadly, as I talked about a little bit yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: I think for some people it has become comfortable. We've
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  Speaker 2: already forgotten what happened, and we've forgotten the importance of not... letting, uh,
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  Speaker 2: not letting the world slip away from us, not letting
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  Speaker 2: our country slip away from us and address some of
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  Speaker 2: that yesterday. But, uh, anyway, that was my plan for
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  Speaker 2: all of this. And, and that's what today's show, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to do a regular Friday show other than to
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  Speaker 2: acknowledge that. And I was so focused on talking about
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  Speaker 2: 9-11 on the 10th that I didn't really stop and
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  Speaker 2: take time to talk about Charlie Kirk's assassination a year ago. And,
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  Speaker 2: and where we've come since then. I mean, I addressed
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  Speaker 2: it this week, but just the fact that I was
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  Speaker 2: so focused on kind of it being a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a 9-11 thing that I didn't really get into that.
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  Speaker 2: But some of the same things that I said apply
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  Speaker 2: to that as far as how we have allowed a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of information to become conspiracy and let us
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  Speaker 2: just sort of run wild with so much in 25
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  Speaker 2: years or since the Charlie Kirk assassination. It's just, there's
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  Speaker 2: just things that we are allowing to happen. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard because how do you stop people from collectively
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  Speaker 2: doing really bad things and really dumb things? And sadly
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  Speaker 2: that we have this thing called free will. And if
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  Speaker 2: your decision is to do bad and dumb things, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you can't control what everybody does. You just can't do that.
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  Speaker 2: So we just have to be active in our conservatism.
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  Speaker 2: We have to be active in it. And I'm not
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  Speaker 2: talking about being in a state of revolution. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: saying we have to do what we can to preserve
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  Speaker 2: what was paid for in blood by our founders and
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  Speaker 2: people who went to war for it and people over
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  Speaker 2: the years that fought to preserve it. This is heavy
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  Speaker 2: for a Friday show. Sorry. I didn't mean to do that,
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  Speaker 2: but it's important to say. And it's why I see,
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  Speaker 2: and I've talked about this before, I see someone wearing
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  Speaker 2: a veteran hat that shows that they had service. And
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  Speaker 2: I think they got up that morning, they put that
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  Speaker 2: hat on with pride, and they deserve some acknowledgement for
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  Speaker 2: having it on. And I try to do that with
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  Speaker 2: every veteran I see. I even probably scared the poor guy.
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  Speaker 2: But I was leaving a store recently and I saw
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  Speaker 2: a man and his wife walking up with a hat on.
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  Speaker 2: And I stopped, rolled my window down, thanked him for
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  Speaker 2: his service, thanked her for her service as his wife. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's an important aspect of all of these things, too. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we have to be, we have to hold on.
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  Speaker 2: As much as we can. That's what it feels like
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  Speaker 2: we're in right now in 2026, is we are a
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  Speaker 2: country of people that are trying to hold on to values,
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  Speaker 2: and then a country of people that are trying to
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  Speaker 2: destroy them, or morph them into some weird, bastardized version
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  Speaker 2: of what they're supposed to be. And that's just what
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  Speaker 2: it feels like. So... 9-11 is a chance to remember
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  Speaker 2: some of those things. Yesterday, Charlie Kirk's anniversary, a chance
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  Speaker 2: to remember those things. Somebody who supported free speech and
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  Speaker 2: was killed for it under the name of, yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: that's bad free speech. So, and, you know, we've got,
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  Speaker 2: you know, November's coming. We'll have a chance to talk
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  Speaker 2: about veterans again and all those things. But it's just
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  Speaker 2: kind of where I was yesterday. And I thought that
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  Speaker 2: that was appropriate. So, Let's move over to some positive
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  Speaker 2: news on this Friday morning. And I got a couple
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  Speaker 2: of animal stories I thought would be good for this morning.
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  Speaker 2: First and foremost, for Labor Day back on Monday, people
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  Speaker 2: gathered at Louisiana Downs, the horse racing track for the
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  Speaker 2: annual Wiener Dog charity races. And they raised money and
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  Speaker 2: helped injured shelter animals across northwest Louisiana. The event featured
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  Speaker 2: Dotson's racing to the finish line in front of cheering crowds,
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  Speaker 2: also offered up donations to local rescues. Organizers say that
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  Speaker 2: the money will pay for vital medical care, including physical
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  Speaker 2: therapy and other treatments for rescued pets in need. And
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  Speaker 2: along the way, families in the community enjoyed plenty of smiles.
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  Speaker 2: If you haven't watched a wiener dog race or a
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  Speaker 2: Jack Russell terrier race, you're missing out. I'm just telling you.
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  Speaker 2: One of the participants, Kyle Duke, who brought his dog
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  Speaker 2: Bean to the races, explained why the event is such
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  Speaker 2: a big hit. He says it's just the atmosphere. All
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  Speaker 2: the people, all the little kids, they like to see
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  Speaker 2: dogs run, and everyone wants to pet them, and you
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  Speaker 2: have a good time. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, wiener dog races,
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  Speaker 2: Jack Russell Terrier races, always a good time. Good for them.
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  Speaker 2: activities like this are good. They do. They make you
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  Speaker 2: feel good at a time when things feel bleak, and
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  Speaker 2: especially helping out a good cause. All right, here's a
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  Speaker 2: story about a cat. Neil Augenstein and his family had
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  Speaker 2: a scare when their family cat, Mike, didn't come home
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  Speaker 2: for dinner. By the way, normally when you've got these
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  Speaker 2: just regular old, what sounds like a common name for
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  Speaker 2: your pet, I normally am kind of like, eh, it's
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  Speaker 2: a little common. I like Mike for a cat name.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to know a cat named Mike, to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: Almost makes me want to get a cat, just so
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  Speaker 2: I can name it Mike. But Mike didn't come home
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  Speaker 2: for dinner. For two days, Neil searched the neighborhood, looked
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  Speaker 2: around with a bag of treats, calling Mike's name. Probably
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  Speaker 2: didn't get any humans with the name Mike going, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Not at all. I even checked near the sewers. No
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  Speaker 2: sign of Mike. Then Neil remembered something that made his
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  Speaker 2: stomach sink. His family had recently gotten rid of three couches,
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  Speaker 2: and Neil had this sinking feeling that maybe Mike was
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  Speaker 2: in one of the couches when it got taken to
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  Speaker 2: the landfill. Unfortunately, that's exactly what happened, which put everyone
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  Speaker 2: involved on high alert. Neil feared for the worst, imagining
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  Speaker 2: Mike was somewhere inside a dangerous waste facility surrounded by
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  Speaker 2: machinery and Luckily, heavy equipment operator Mercurio Martinez spotted Mike
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  Speaker 2: trapped on a 15-foot ledge inside a trash pit. Landfill
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  Speaker 2: workers positioned a loader bucket under the ledge to scoop
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  Speaker 2: him up, and after a brief escape in a storage room,
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  Speaker 2: Animal Control safely rescued Mike and brought him safely home
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  Speaker 2: to his family. Neil saying, there were so many hands
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  Speaker 2: that touched Mike, and there were so many places where
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  Speaker 2: things could have gone very badly, but things turned out perfectly.
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  Speaker 2: I'm delighted to have him home. Just an amazingly happy ending.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so thankful to everyone who played a part in it.
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  Speaker 2: And a reminder here from this story that if you're
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  Speaker 2: getting a of furniture, look for Mike. Dig around in
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  Speaker 2: the cushions, get out all the coins, and then look
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  Speaker 2: for the pets before you get rid of it. That's just,
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  Speaker 2: lay eyes on Mike before they haul away the couches.
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  Speaker 2: All right, strange and bizarre news from around the world.
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  Speaker 2: We start In Florida, as is the case many times,
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  Speaker 2: a 24-year-old woman faces multiple charges after police say she
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  Speaker 2: drunkenly crashed her Ford Bronco into a parked car in
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  Speaker 2: Daytona Beach and then felt betrayed because the cops arrested her.
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  Speaker 2: Police say Elizabeth Boucher was intoxicated, refused field sobriety exercises,
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  Speaker 2: and later refused a DUI test. After the collision, Boucher
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  Speaker 2: reportedly got into an altercation with the owner of the
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  Speaker 2: damaged car, leading to an additional battery charge. Body camera
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  Speaker 2: and surveillance video released by the police show Boucher pleading
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  Speaker 2: with officers not to take her to jail, saying, I
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  Speaker 2: thought we were all friends. Boucher was arrested and booked
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  Speaker 2: into the Volusia County Jail. I don't know that county.
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  Speaker 2: Volusia County Jail. I guess it's near Daytona or that area.
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  Speaker 2: I just never knew the county name. On charges that
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  Speaker 2: include DUI, DUI-related property damage and refusal to submit to
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  Speaker 2: DUI testing, resisting an officer, battery, and possession of a
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  Speaker 2: controlled substance. So I think alcohol sometimes can make you
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  Speaker 2: think someone's your friend when they're not. So I think
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  Speaker 2: that's probably at least to some degree... to blame in
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  Speaker 2: this particular circumstance. So it's not a shock that she
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  Speaker 2: thought they were all friends. A 58-year-old Florida man faces
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  Speaker 2: charges in Alabama after police say he stole $ 7, 100 of
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  Speaker 2: a funeral stretcher from an Ozark funeral home. Investigators say
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  Speaker 2: that Christopher Michael Johnson is linked to a series of
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  Speaker 2: similar thefts across Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida. The
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  Speaker 2: investigation began in July when an Ozark funeral home reported
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  Speaker 2: a stolen mortuary stretcher and cot. Authorities soon discovered a
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  Speaker 2: second local theft and similar cases in other states. Police
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  Speaker 2: say surveillance technology and assistance from victims also assisted helped
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  Speaker 2: to identify Johnson and track him and his travel route.
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  Speaker 2: When I see And the slip up there is when
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  Speaker 2: I see that police call it surveillance technology. Sounds like
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  Speaker 2: flock cameras. I don't know if that's what they're talking about,
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  Speaker 2: but that's what it seems like it could be. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: they helped identify Johnson and his specific travel route. Officials
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  Speaker 2: also noted that Johnson was arrested in Georgia two years
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  Speaker 2: ago in connection with similar allegations. They did that without
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  Speaker 2: the involving stolen funeral stretchers and were reportedly resold to
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  Speaker 2: funeral homes. Johnson now faces two counts of breaking and entering,
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  Speaker 2: two counts of first-degree theft in Alabama. He was arrested
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  Speaker 2: in Florida and remains in custody awaiting extradition to multiple
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  Speaker 2: states as the investigation continues. What are we doing with
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  Speaker 2: these things? What is the collection? It's a strange collection.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it doesn't say that he owns a funeral
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  Speaker 2: home and that he needs these or is he reselling them?
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  Speaker 2: A very specific item to go out and steal in
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  Speaker 2: multiple states. An East Texas Sheriff's deputy got a surprise
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  Speaker 2: during a roadside check dash cam video showing the deputy
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  Speaker 2: approaching what appeared to be a dead deer lying on
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  Speaker 2: the side of the road, but as he got closer,
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  Speaker 2: the deer suddenly jumped to its feet, startling the deputy
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  Speaker 2: and sending him scrambling and screaming back towards his patrol vehicle.
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  Speaker 2: The deputy quickly laughed off the encounter, saying, OK, we're good.
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  Speaker 2: Trinity County Sheriff Woody Wallace shared the video online where
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  Speaker 2: it's racked up more than 10 million views. The sheriff
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  Speaker 2: says the deer made a full recovery and later disappeared
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  Speaker 2: into the East Texas woods. A little Tommy Boy-esque, you know,
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  Speaker 2: feels a little bit like that, but not the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: Just has that little bit of a feel to it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing worse than when you get scared and it's recorded.
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  Speaker 2: launched an investigation and officers eventually tracked down the creature
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  Speaker 2: and discovered it was actually a man wearing what police
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  Speaker 2: described as a very convincing costume.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Despite the disappointing end to the mystery, the department praised
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  Speaker 2: residents for looking out for one another, saying that the
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  Speaker 2: episode showed just how willing the community is to come
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  Speaker 2: More West Carol Morning Show right after the break. One
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  Speaker 2: of the strangest Halloween costumes set to be a big
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  Speaker 2: deal this year for some reason. You know, sometimes these
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  Speaker 2: costumes you go, Yeah, that makes sense. Or it's random,
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  Speaker 2: but I get it. This one, I'll be honest, I
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  Speaker 2: don't get it. And I won't get one unless they
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  Speaker 2: decide to send me one with compliments. But you know what?
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  Speaker 2: If this is your thing, go for it. I suppose
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  Speaker 2: some of us as kids maybe were fascinated with this
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  Speaker 2: particular thing and then have grown up into adults that
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  Speaker 2: you know, can afford to buy this and be this
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  Speaker 2: particular object. So Spirit Halloween is selling a Goodyear blimp costume.
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  Speaker 2: Insert your own joke. It's really taking off or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Taking things to new heights, whatever you want to say.
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  Speaker 2: It's limited edition, sells for about $ 80, stays inflated with
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  Speaker 2: a battery-powered fan. Now, that's an aspect of it that
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  Speaker 2: did appeal to me when I first saw this, and
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  Speaker 2: I thought, well, if it's got a built-in fan, still, though,
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  Speaker 2: it looks bulky and awkward. Uh, the, uh, launch comes
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  Speaker 2: after a real good year. Blimp appeared at a spirit
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  Speaker 2: Halloween's flagship store opening in New Jersey, helping kick off
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  Speaker 2: the 2026 Halloween season costume available online and in stores
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  Speaker 2: while supplies last. Um, and I mean, basically, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's your head sticking out of a blimp and you're
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  Speaker 2: sure to not, if you go to a Halloween party,
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  Speaker 2: you're sure to knock stuff off of a table or,
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  Speaker 2: awkwardly try to fit through doors and you're, you're, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to be, uh, obnoxious. That's all I'm saying. If
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  Speaker 2: it's an outdoor party, you're probably fine. If it's an
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  Speaker 2: indoor party, you're going to get on people's nerves. That's all,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's, that's, that's what I'm saying, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: knock yourself out or things off the table if you
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  Speaker 2: so desire. Right.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: The peanut butter and jelly sandwich celebrating a milestone, 125
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  Speaker 2: years of lunchbox fame. The first known peanut butter and
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  Speaker 2: jelly recipe appeared in 1901 as a fancy tea sandwich
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  Speaker 2: for wealthy Americans, but the combo took off once commercial
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  Speaker 2: peanut butter and sliced bread became widely available. Today, Still
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  Speaker 2: a school lunch favorite, although it's evolved far beyond the
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  Speaker 2: classic white bread, peanut butter, and grape jelly version. What's
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  Speaker 2: wrong with that? I'm old enough to know I need
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  Speaker 2: to eat wheat bread, though. Some people add other items
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  Speaker 2: to it. Potato chips is one of the few things
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  Speaker 2: I think that should be allowed to go with it.
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  Speaker 2: But pickles apparently is a thing. Bacon, you can't go
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  Speaker 2: wrong with adding bacon to anything. Jalapeno jam, marshmallow fluff,
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  Speaker 2: probably all right. I don't know about the jalapeno jam.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm kind of an apple jelly guy myself, but
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong with the classic grape. Many restaurants getting
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  Speaker 2: in on the action with gourmet versions of PB &
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  Speaker 2: J creations. Sourdough bread and croissants. Although all of these
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  Speaker 2: different versions, the old school PB & J remaining one
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  Speaker 2: of America's most nostalgic comfort foods and happy birthday to
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  Speaker 2: PB & J sandwiches everywhere. 125 years of peanut butter
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  Speaker 2: and jelly sandwiches. That's all right. Hey, a new study
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  Speaker 2: suggests that knowing your way around a wine list may
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  Speaker 2: have more to do with brain power than your drinking
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  Speaker 2: habits as researchers tested more than 500 adults and on
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  Speaker 2: both IQ and wine knowledge, covering everything from grape varieties
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  Speaker 2: to winemaking techniques. The interesting part is that people with
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  Speaker 2: higher IQ scores generally knew more about wine, even if
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  Speaker 2: they didn't work in the wine industry, and simply drinking
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  Speaker 2: a lot of wine didn't make people more knowledgeable, experience,
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  Speaker 2: and learning mattered far more than consumption. Researchers say it's
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  Speaker 2: another example of how people with stronger cognitive skills tend
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  Speaker 2: to pick up on specialized knowledge and subjects that interest them,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's wine, cars, sports, trains, dinosaurs, or some other hobby.
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  Speaker 2: Baseball stats. That'll do it for this Friday edition of
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