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Strange and Bizarre News with Lots of Animals · 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, ninth day of February. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me.
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Rolling into Super Bowl weekend. Try not to eat too much. That's
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one of the things people day do the parties. They just eat too much.
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Pace yourself. This is what I try to say. If you're gonna
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do the grazing thing, just accept the fact that you're probably not gonna have
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some big meal at the end of all of it. Right, If you're
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just like at a party and you're just gonna be grazing, then grayze,
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but don't graze and then eat like a you know, six slices of pizza
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and say, oh, it's dinners. That's my suggestion. Pace yourself.
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Remember every chip probably has about ten calories. Keep that in mind too.
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news unless you're eating some kind of
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you know, there's some of those ones that are made like out of peas
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or whatever. You get some of those exotic kind of chips. But even
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the healthier chips, it's not like they're all low calorie. That's all I'm
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telling you. If you're eating something like a dorito. You know, there's
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just like ten calories a chip. Just keep that in mind, like fourteen
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doritos as a serving. Okay, that's all I'm trying to warn you about.
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Don't go nuts, or if you do, don't beat yourself up.
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Get back on the track. And I know we're into February, a lot
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of people have already given up there trying to be healthier. Thing. They're
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already starting to disappear from the gym, now, aren't they. That's what
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happens. Last chance to just reference if Taylor Swift flies from Japan, I'm
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just telling you right now, if she flies from Japan to watch the Super
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Bowl on a private jet and waste all that fuel, I don't want to
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hear anything else from her ever. Again concerning the environment, I don't want
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to hear it. Don't do this to me. I don't want to hear
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it. And I'll talk a lot about it on Monday if that's the case.
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If not, I'll just I'll try to leave it alone. But I'm
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just telling you she shows up at the game and flies halfway around the world
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just to watch a game she could watch on TV somewhere. They're in Japan,
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I don't want to hear about love. I don't want to hear about
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being there with him. I don't want to hear about any of that.
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I don't want to hear any of those excuses. Don't tell me what car
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I can drive by nineteen ninety six Ford truck, don't. I don't give
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me any great I understand it. It's not great on gas. I know.
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I don't drive it every day for that very reason. But I don't
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want to hear anything about my truck from any person who supports a celebrity getting
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on an airplane, a private jet, flying all the way back just to
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watch a football game because they're famous. I don't want to hear it.
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You you don't tell me about my gas stove. I don't want to hear
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anything about it. That's all I'm saying. Hey, it's Friday. We
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don't usually get too heavy into things, so we try to talk a little
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bit about strange and bizarre news from around the world, and we got some
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that involve animals this week. There's a couple stories that don't, but many
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of the stories this week involve animals. Those are the best kind as long
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as it's not about an animal. Getting injured or people getting injured by an
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animal, for example. And we'll start with this story Westchester County, New
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York. Sounds like it could be a bad story when it begins, because
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firefighters had to race over to a farm because an alarm went off telling them
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that there was a barn fire. The alarm originated inside the horse stable.
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When firefighters arrived, they found no smoke, no fire. Instead, a
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horse named Jack's. Investigators found out that Jacks had stretched its head out enough
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from the stable to basically just reach its neck around and start chewing on the
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fire alarm, which actually ended up pulling the fire alarm. No one was
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hurt, firefighters got a good laugh. No word on whether or not it
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was done to interrupt anything in Congress. If so, Jack's I think should
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be appropriately punished. Otherwise you just kind of let it go right. A
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trio of bats was removed from Touchstar Cinemas in force Fort Pierce, Florida after
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several days and multiple reports of bats flying around inside the theater. The general
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manager of the theater says they called in an exterminator to take a look,
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and they were told that they weren't bats at all. This is why they
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were still flying around, that they were birds. This is from the expert.
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Those aren't bats, they're birds. Rather than close down the theater to
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have the birds removed, the theater remained open for a few more days until
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more visitors reported seeing bats and another expert was called in who confirmed no,
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no, they're bats, not birds. Staff turned on the lights and used
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brooms to guide the bats out through the emergency exit door. The Florida Department
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of Health is investigating the situation. Although there's no knowledge of any of the
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bats carrying rabies, officials did warn anyone who may have visited the theater to
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seek medical attention if they believe they may have come in contact with the bats.
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How'd you like to be the exterminator? The expert who said those are
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bats, they're just birds. I was like, somebody just wanted to go
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home. They're standing there going, oh, it's probably birds. It's probably
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just birds. Oh. Speaking of birds, a pigeon that had been detained
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in India on suspicion of espionage was found not guilty and has been set free.
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Police and Mumbai found the pigeon back in May and noticed it had two
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rings on its legs. With Chinese writing on them. One of the rings
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contained a microchip, and the bird was suspected of being a Chinese spy.
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Authorities ordered the bird to remain in custody pending further investigation, and somehow it
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took eight months to determine it was actually not a Chinese spy, but an
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open water racing bird that had flown off course. The pigeon was set free.
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I assume with an apology, maybe uh, you know, some bird
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seed, I don't know, whatever they give of the bird to say we're
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sorry, and then set the bird free and just let the bird get on
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with life. You know, that's all you really want the bird to be
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able to just get on with life. Cops in New York became shepherds over
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the weekend when a sheep got loose in the streets of Brooklyn. Officers were
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called to a parking lot Saturday afternoon to corral the white sheep that seemingly appeared
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out of nowhere. No one has claimed ownership of the animals, unknown where
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it came from, officers loaded the sheep into a trailer and delivered it to
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the ASPCA, which then sent it to an animal sanctuary in New Jersey NYPD
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congratulated its offers on officers on X riding. This is the way they wrote
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it. Not bad for a group of cops with no experience sheep herding a
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sheep. Nicely done by the NYPD. I like it, all right.
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This is now we're kind of veering off from the animals. But this is
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animal related. All right. It's animal related, and then the rest of
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our stories won't necessarily be they'll be kind of wild human animals. I think,
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all right. So, Lynchburg, Virginia, some concern residents called nine
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to one one completely dumbfounded because a creek flowing through their town had turned almost
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completely white. The fire department dispatched a team to check out the creek and
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make sure there were no hazardous materials in It. Turns out the creek was
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turning into milk. They figured out that a clog drained at a nearby dairy
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plant had caused wast milk to overflow into the creek. The clock has since
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been fixed, the creek is now back to Normal's officials say that there was
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no public health risk. I could imagine it could start stink. I mean
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it's milk. Sometimes milk stinks. Especially when it's been out for a while.
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A Tesla driver accidentally drove off the road and plunged into a frigid waterway
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in Norway. The driver and passenger were rescued though by a floating sauna.
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Yeah, a sauna. The bizarre accident happened in Norway's capital, Oslo,
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and was captured on video. It shows two people climbing onto the roof of
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the car to stay out of the icy water. As they stood there freezing,
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the operator of one of the cities floating saunas steered over to them,
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and guests wrapped in towels pulled them in, providing them safety and warmth.
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Neither one of them was injured. The driver says he mistakenly pressed his foot
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on the gas when he thought the car was in park. Do you still
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call it stepping on the gas if it's a Tesla and it's electric, I
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mean, you still call it stepping on the gas? I assume it's still
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called the gas pedal. Sorry, I veered away from the real story here,
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and that's that they were rescued by a floating sauna. Why don't we
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have floating saunas? Shouldn't that happen? We should have those in America.
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We should have them everywhere. I like the idea of a floating sauna.
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A drunk woman who pulled down her underwear and threatened to pee in the isle
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of a Frontier airline's plane was charged with a salt interference with a flight crew,
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and indecent exposure that should have been the obvious one. The plane was
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flying from Orlando to Philadelphia when sixty year old Dulce Huertas stood up from her
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seat as the plane was about to land and declared, I have to pee.
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She then yelled and cursed at a flight attendant, who ordered her to
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sit down. The woman took her seat, but continued to curse at flight
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attendants and passengers as the plane taxied to the gate. Once the seat belt
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sign was turned off, she jumped out of her seat and ran to the
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front of the cabin to get off the plane, which prompted the crew to
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call security because he had not yet opened the cabin door. Wuertas was again
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ordered to take a seat, but instead she turned to her fellow passengers and
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said sorry everybody, before pulling down her underwear and squatting as if to urinate
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in the aisle. She didn't actually go and pulled her underwear back up,
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but she continued to yell at passengers, threatening to kill some. If she's
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found guilty of the charges, she could face a maximum sentence of twenty one
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years in prison. All because she had to pee. Well that's not all,
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because I mean she had to pee and that led to her actions.
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But anyway, A man from England was arrested at Manchester Airport after he was
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caught with kinder egg Surprise chocolate eggs stuffed with drugs inside them inside his backside.
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Twenty five year old Michael Whitty was trying to catch a flight to Dubai
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when drug sniffing dogs caught a whiff of something nudged their noses into his backside.
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Border agents were immediately suspicious and detained him. The dogs continued sniffing away
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at his backside. Officers transported to him to a hospital so they could perform
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a body scan. When Witty refused the scan, he was arrested thrown in
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jail. Later, while he was in a cell, Witty had to use
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the toilet. An unlucky guard had to be the one that inspected the toilet
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and when he found the two Kinder Surprise eggs that were wrapped in plastic cling
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wrap, stuffed with cocaine, ecstasy, and ketamine. He told Ala the
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drugs were for personal use, but investigators didn't buy it and believe that he
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had intended to sell them. By the way, if you're not familiar with
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the Kinder Surprise eggs, I know we have Kinder eggs here, but apparently
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the ones we have here don't have toys in them, like some of it's
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just candy. But you can get them in the UK in countries where I
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guess they assume that kids aren't going to eat the toy and swallow it whole.
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So he had and I'm just trying to understand the physics here behind.
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I mean, his body cavity would melt the chocolate. I know that it's
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inside plastic, but it's not it's going to even resemble a Kinder egg anymore.
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At that point, I'm just just I don't know. I guess I'm
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overthinking that part of it. I guess I should just move on completely.
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Move on. Police in Ashland, Wisconsin, are investigating how a World War
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Two era Japanese grew ended up in the donation bin at a goodwill store.
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The manager saw the device and suspected it may be a hand grenade, even
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though he doesn't really look anything like the grenades that most Americans recognized. He
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called the police. They checked it out and confirmed it was indeed an old
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Japanese grenade. However, they did not know whether it was live, so
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they evacuated the building and moved the device to a safe location, where a
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bomb squad detonated it. Based on how it exploded, experts believe it was
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a live grenade. Where the grenade was found and who dropped it off at
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the store is still unknown, but it's under investigation. Police believe somebody probably
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cleaned out a relative's attic and donated it along with other items. All right,
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finally I got one more animal story. The one I was going to
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close with I forgot. I still had another animal story. Here we go.
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Spoiler alert. Animals are the culprits. Ah. All right, So
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in Tampa Bay, over the past few years, residents have been stumped by
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a mysterious low thumping sound heard on quiet nights, usually in winter months.
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They say it's annoying enough to prevent some people from being able to get a
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good Night's Sleep. It started in twenty twenty one, and no one has
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been able to pinpoint where the noise was coming from. People had theories like
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it was maybe coming from nearby McDill Air Force Base, or maybe even a
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party boat on the water playing some bass heavy music. Nothing had been confirmed
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until a GoFundMe was set up to raise enough money to hire doctor James Locasio
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of the Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium so that he could look into it and
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determine that the sound was actually coming from mating fish, the mating call of
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a species of fish called black drum, known to mate at night during winter
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months. He rge locals to be understanding and that it is simply nature and
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there's nothing that can be done to stop it. Mating fish are gonna be
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mating fish. They're going to do what they do, and you're just gonna
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have to figure out how to sleep through it, you know, like you
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know college dorm, you know, you can hear things through the walls and
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Morning Show right after the break all right. I always like when I get
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a story that involves someone who is setting a fun or interesting new record with
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Guinness World Records, and I'll just a little backstory, and I've talked about
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it before. Back in two thousand and three, I set a record and
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held the Guinness World Record for a very brief period of time, by the
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way, but I was the first person to ever hold the record in my
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category, and it was a category that I thought would be a fun category
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to have the record. I was kind of surprised there wasn't already a record
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holder in this particular category, but it definitely fit me. It definitely fits
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something that I would want to do, I would want to try to do,
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and I set the record. We applied through Guinness, let them know
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that we were going to be setting the record. We got all their guidelines,
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all their rules, and we executed my world record attempt and set a
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brand new Guinness World Record. The story was picked up by the Associated Press,
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a number of media outlets, local and national, I guess even some
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international. The story got around. I had friends in New York that reached
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out and said, I just saw the AP story about you. I was
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in some radio trade magazines, including Billboard magazine, that wrote an article about
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me, did an interview and wrote an article about me. So and then
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from that point on, I would go to events and you know, there
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would be different people that I would meet backstage, musicians and singers, and
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I just became known as the hug guy over the years. And I was
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the first person to hold the record for most hugs in a twenty four hour
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period from different people. Now, I set the record, and then someone
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saw the media coverage of it and said, I can do that too,
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And you beat the record before I got into the actual book, which is
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the one bit of disappointment. And if I timed it out a little bit
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better, I could have been in the actual book, because that's what people
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want, right, they want to be able to see it in the book.
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I don't know. I guess they know they still make the book because
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they still have those book fairs at elementary schools, and that's always a hot
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item, always a hot item anyway, and then some people it's been broken
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since there's been several others have beaten it. I actually saw a video recently
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of someone who was setting the record for most hugs like in a minute or
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whatever it was, and they weren't even hugging. They weren't even fitting the
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guidelines that I was given for what constituted a hug from the people at Guinness.
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I don't even know how that turned out. I say all that to
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set this up because there's a guy, Richard Plowed from France, who had
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intentions of breaking a Guinness World record. He spent eight years working on his
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project. He was trying to build a replica of the Eiffel Tower out of
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wooden matchsticks, seven hundred six nine hundred match sticks to be exact, and
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his plan was the largest model of the famous landmark. That's what he was
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going for. He finished the project, it measured twenty three point six feet
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that's two feet taller than the current record, which was set in two thousand
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and nine. Seemed like he had it all in the bag, and then
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he got notified by Guinness officially that not so fast. They informed him that
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his enormous Eiffel Tower not eligible for the record because he used the wrong type
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of matches. He used matches that had specifically been designed by a company for
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the purpose of building his model, instead of matches that are commercially available,
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which is what the rules state. So he's submitted an appeal for it,
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and we'll see if maybe he'll get a chance to get it reevaluated or whatever.
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I don't know. We'll see how this goes for this guy. I
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don't know the exact basis of his appeal, but we'll see. I wish
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him well. I hate to think that he spent that much time working on
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this particular project just to be disappointed. What would you give up for your
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bathroom to be clean all the time? A new pole says that twenty percent
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of Americans said they would cut their salary in half if it meant always having
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a clean and sanitized bathroom at home. I ain't buying that. I don't
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know how much they spend or how much time they spend cleaning their bathroom.
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I'm just not buying that. That seems like a really high number, twenty
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five, like if they really got pushed to it, you know. I
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mean there's one thing we say, Hey, would you give up half your
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salary for a clean bathroom? And people go yeah. I don't think they
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really thought this through. I mean, I don't know how this poll worked.
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They don't seem to have thought it through. Twenty five percent said they
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would give up dining out or getting takeout for a clean bathroom. Twenty three
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percent said they would give up their favorite show. Twenty two percent said they
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would give up one year's worth of internet access. Now, some of those
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things I might buy, I'm just not buying giving up half your salary.
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That just seems like a bit much, just a bit much, all Right.
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So Peta has notoriously, you know, infamously, tried to get rid
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of a number of fun things that we all love. Right, I'm not
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gonna say that Pete has never done good things. That's not what I'm saying.
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I'm just pointing out the fact that when they tell you they don't want
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a live animal sideline at a sporting event, they want Ugga to go away.
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Tell Uga what to do. That dog lives a really good, spoiled
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life. You know, can you imagine your Uga, you're taking around to
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these events. You're you're a rock star, right, I mean, you're
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Uga. And then Pete comes along and says, I need to get a
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robot dog. You need to get something else you can't have, that you
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shouldn't have. That that's your you're you're that's just mean to that dog.
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And then sometimes it's even more absurd, might not even be A might not
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even be a real animal. I mean, they're telling Georgia to get rid
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of Uga for the purposes of replacing Uga with a robot dog. It's not
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a real dog. And then there's this as PETE is targeting carousels, and
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they say that their type of merry go round that they envision and they sent
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this letter to who is saying this is what they wanted to see happen to
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Chance Rides, the country's largest manufacture of amusement rides, and the animal rights
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activists say that they want the company to stop using animal designs for the carousels
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because it normalizes the use of animals as conveyances and amusements, so they say,
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use things like vehicles, spaceships, rainbows, shooting stars. Chase Rides
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has yet to respond to PETA's request, so they're not even letting you use
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the image of the animal. So I wonder how they would feel about their
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own idea of getting a robot dog to replace Uga. Just makes you wonder,
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doesn't it. That'll do it for this Friday edition of the show.
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