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- 0:01Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West
- 0:06Speaker 1: Carrol Morning Show.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Friday morning, twelfth day of December. I'm Wes. Thanks for
- 0:14Speaker 2: joining me. We are less than two weeks to Christmas.
- 0:19Speaker 2: I'm not on the other side of it where I'm
- 0:21Speaker 2: doing like, you know, a week and so many days
- 0:24Speaker 2: or whatever. We're not going to do that. We're just
- 0:26Speaker 2: going to tell you it's less than two weeks. We're
- 0:28Speaker 2: two weeks to Boxing Day, right, I know that's not
- 0:33Speaker 2: really so much of a thing here. I mean it is,
- 0:36Speaker 2: but it's not. We don't really get it here in
- 0:39Speaker 2: the States. We don't fully under most places in the States,
- 0:41Speaker 2: some people do not everybody gets it. Not everybody is
- 0:45Speaker 2: down with Boxing Day. I can tell you that in
- 0:49Speaker 2: parts of the world they celebrate by watching cricket. We
- 0:53Speaker 2: watch cricket here just because that's what you do on
- 0:57Speaker 2: Boxing Day. You gotta watch the boxing day cricket. So
- 1:01Speaker 2: we'll we'll be participating in that. I'm excited also that
- 1:04Speaker 2: we will be able to, assuming whether permitting, we can
- 1:07Speaker 2: resume our Boxing Day five k that we participate in. No,
- 1:12Speaker 2: it's not a it's not open to the public. We
- 1:15Speaker 2: just do it as a family, and you know it's good.
- 1:18Speaker 2: It's just a way to work off some of that
- 1:20Speaker 2: extra stuff that you ate over the over the holiday.
- 1:24Speaker 2: And I know there's still leftovers and things on Boxing
- 1:28Speaker 2: Day right the twenty six there's always still some food
- 1:31Speaker 2: to deal with and always plenty of sweet sweet to
- 1:35Speaker 2: There are probably more sweets, I would think at that point,
- 1:41Speaker 2: because you know you end up getting your hands on it.
- 1:44Speaker 2: People gift you sweets, you get cookies, you get all
- 1:46Speaker 2: kinds of stuff. So that's we're two weeks to all
- 1:50Speaker 2: those activities for us from from Cricket, I mean, Luke
- 1:56Speaker 2: and I watched Little Cricket not too long ago, but
- 1:58Speaker 2: it's it's just different when it's when it's Boxing Day.
- 2:02Speaker 2: We had our This would have been six years ago
- 2:06Speaker 2: and I can't believe it. Six years ago we had
- 2:08Speaker 2: a true Australian Christmas as a family. Obviously Jill had
- 2:14Speaker 2: many many Australian Christmases before she came here to the States,
- 2:20Speaker 2: but we got our like the boys and I got
- 2:22Speaker 2: a taste of a real Australian Christmas up in the
- 2:28Speaker 2: northeastern part of the country. And I know we've talked
- 2:31Speaker 2: about this. I don't talk about it often, but Australia
- 2:34Speaker 2: you have to think of it because of its location
- 2:38Speaker 2: in the southern hemisphere. It's the They're the opposite of
- 2:41Speaker 2: the US, so the north is the hot part. Like
- 2:44Speaker 2: where Jill is from, where her family, her her parents live,
- 2:48Speaker 2: not all of her family's there, but where her parents
- 2:50Speaker 2: live home for her is in the tropics. So it's like,
- 2:56Speaker 2: you know, Florida, South Florida is kind of you know,
- 3:00Speaker 2: I mean, it's not crazy different from here. So when
- 3:03Speaker 2: you're going to you know, think of a South Florida
- 3:08Speaker 2: as far as climate goes. You know, it's it's not
- 3:11Speaker 2: Miami in a cultural sense, but think of it as
- 3:14Speaker 2: like spending your Christmas in maybe Puerto Rico or you know,
- 3:21Speaker 2: it's kind of like that as far as the in
- 3:24Speaker 2: the summer though, that's the that's the trick, that's the difference.
- 3:28Speaker 2: So we got that six years ago and then when
- 3:31Speaker 2: you know, we came home Covid, all hell broke loose,
- 3:34Speaker 2: and but we got that trip in perfectly timed. Providence
- 3:38Speaker 2: looked out for us and allowed us to have that
- 3:41Speaker 2: trip and that experience. So there's nothing like swimming and
- 3:44Speaker 2: going to the beach and then watching cricket on Boxing Day.
- 3:48Speaker 2: We won't be doing the non cricket activities in that
- 3:51Speaker 2: but I mean, I don't know if Luke would probably swim,
- 3:57Speaker 2: he would try it at the very least. He's he
- 3:59Speaker 2: has no fear of of the cold at all. So
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- 6:49Speaker 2: It is a big day for me. Last night we
- 6:51Speaker 2: had Columbus State Universities hooding ceremony for graduation and I
- 6:56Speaker 2: was part of that and immediately left there went straight
- 6:59Speaker 2: to the River Center for rehearsals for the Nutcracker. Like
- 7:03Speaker 2: our rehearsal with the orchestra, Paul Hostedter and his orchestra
- 7:10Speaker 2: will just continue to be one of the fantastic aspects
- 7:16Speaker 2: of this show. They're amazing. Even if there wasn't a
- 7:19Speaker 2: ballet going on on stage, but you throw that into
- 7:22Speaker 2: the mix, and most of the ballets performing the Nutcracker
- 7:27Speaker 2: or not doing it with a live orchestra. Columbus has
- 7:30Speaker 2: that blessing that we have a live orchestra and it's
- 7:33Speaker 2: that gathering of musicians and voices of the valley, also
- 7:38Speaker 2: singers and Paul as the maestro, and it will have them.
- 7:45Speaker 2: They were in He was in the house last night.
- 7:49Speaker 2: He was there for notes and things on Wednesday, so
- 7:56Speaker 2: we had him there last night, and then of course
- 7:58Speaker 2: back tonight because tonight we actually have a show. It's
- 8:01Speaker 2: for it's a military appreciation show, not open to the public,
- 8:05Speaker 2: but we will have an audience there in the building.
- 8:09Speaker 2: So last night we had to get there do the
- 8:11Speaker 2: show with the orchestra after graduation. Now today I will,
- 8:16Speaker 2: you know, head out this morning like in the next moments.
- 8:22Speaker 2: I'm already dressed for graduation. I will head straight to
- 8:27Speaker 2: Columbus State where we will do the three graduation ceremonies
- 8:31Speaker 2: that take place today for the three schools, three colleges.
- 8:37Speaker 2: So we'll do that and then I will immediately leave
- 8:39Speaker 2: and go to the River Center for a show tonight.
- 8:42Speaker 2: And I will pull into the River Center my friend Sarah,
- 8:47Speaker 2: who does my mother ginger makeup, is meeting me there.
- 8:51Speaker 2: She will be, you know, painting my face up and
- 8:53Speaker 2: then we'll do the show and then I'll scrape it
- 8:56Speaker 2: off and I can breathe a little bit tomorrow morning.
- 9:01Speaker 2: I mean, I've got a little bit of stuff to
- 9:02Speaker 2: do here. It's not like things just suddenly stop. But
- 9:06Speaker 2: this is a hectic day today with all the things
- 9:10Speaker 2: that I have to do. But you know, I'll burn
- 9:12Speaker 2: all of my energy and I'll need plenty of time
- 9:14Speaker 2: to just recover. That's what I'm gonna need. I'll burn
- 9:17Speaker 2: through my social battery very quickly. It's Friday, and I
- 9:21Speaker 2: know you're probably waiting for some strange and bizarre news
- 9:25Speaker 2: from around the world. I want to get into a
- 9:26Speaker 2: couple of things. First of all, this one is a
- 9:27Speaker 2: story went viral. I saw as far as the positive
- 9:31Speaker 2: news goes, I saw this story recently and I thought, oh,
- 9:34Speaker 2: I've got to talk about this. So there was a
- 9:39Speaker 2: I guess it happened. This happened very quickly. This was
- 9:42Speaker 2: a very quick process. There was a guy that was working,
- 9:47Speaker 2: eighty eight year old army veteran. His name was Ed Bombas,
- 9:50Speaker 2: and he was working five days a week at a
- 9:52Speaker 2: grocery store because he had to go back to work,
- 9:56Speaker 2: and he was discovered by Samuel Weedenhoffer and he just
- 10:02Speaker 2: one of those deals where he walked up to him
- 10:04Speaker 2: and he's like, hey, you're, you know, working here, You're
- 10:06Speaker 2: working hard. You know, you know, what's your story? Tell
- 10:09Speaker 2: me your story? And then Ed explained he was back
- 10:12Speaker 2: to work at eighty eight because basically, like his his
- 10:16Speaker 2: wife had been sick, there were issues with healthcare coverage,
- 10:20Speaker 2: and he was having to work just to survive at
- 10:23Speaker 2: eighty eight. Like he you know, wanted to be retired.
- 10:25Speaker 2: He wanted to you know, be able to pay all
- 10:27Speaker 2: his bills, but all of that was not the way
- 10:31Speaker 2: he had planned things to work out. So this Samuel
- 10:35Speaker 2: Wiedenhoffer decided to start a GoFundMe for Ed, and as
- 10:40Speaker 2: of Friday, a week ago, Samuel met with Ed and
- 10:45Speaker 2: presented him with a ceremonial check for one point seven
- 10:50Speaker 2: seven million dollars. Tens of thousands of people donated to
- 10:54Speaker 2: the campaign, believed to be the largest individual crowdfunding effort
- 10:58Speaker 2: ever for a single person. As the dust settles, Ed
- 11:02Speaker 2: says he plans to visit family possibly take up golf again,
- 11:05Speaker 2: enjoy the peace of mind that he has now earned
- 11:08Speaker 2: over a lifetime of service, and by service, by the way,
- 11:11Speaker 2: a veteran. I don't know if I hit that, but yes,
- 11:13Speaker 2: eighty eight year old army veteran and then his hard
- 11:16Speaker 2: work over the years. So that's a great story. Great
- 11:18Speaker 2: ending to that story, and one point seven to seven
- 11:21Speaker 2: million dollars. I think at this point, at eighty eight,
- 11:23Speaker 2: I think he can really retire. I think he's done.
- 11:26Speaker 2: I think the folks are going to miss him, probably
- 11:28Speaker 2: because he seemed to be a hard worker there at
- 11:30Speaker 2: the grocery store. So what a great story there, all right.
- 11:34Speaker 2: Strange and bizarre news from around the world. I usually
- 11:36Speaker 2: do two of those, but I went long talking nutcracker
- 11:39Speaker 2: in graduation. So you've heard of someone wearing their heart
- 11:43Speaker 2: on the sleeve. How about a story about someone wearing
- 11:45Speaker 2: an ear on their foot. A woman working at a
- 11:49Speaker 2: factory in China suffered a devastating accident when her hair
- 11:52Speaker 2: got caught and this is gruesome. Sorry, if you're eating
- 11:54Speaker 2: cheerios in heavy machinery. It tore away part of her
- 11:57Speaker 2: scalp and her left ear. Doctors knew they could reattach
- 12:02Speaker 2: the ear, but it would take some time because its
- 12:05Speaker 2: blood vessels were too damaged to reattach right away, so
- 12:08Speaker 2: they made the decision to transplant the ear onto the
- 12:12Speaker 2: instep of her foot. See this is where it's fat.
- 12:16Speaker 2: I know it's gruesome, but this is where it's fascinating,
- 12:19Speaker 2: and that is where thin skin and matching blood vessels
- 12:22Speaker 2: could help heal it. Surgeons spent ten hours connecting blood vessels,
- 12:26Speaker 2: and after a few days, the ear regained a healthy
- 12:29Speaker 2: looking color. The ear remained on her foot for five
- 12:32Speaker 2: months while she walked very carefully to keep the blood flowing,
- 12:36Speaker 2: and October surgeons performed the procedure to reposition the ear
- 12:40Speaker 2: back on her head. After many months of paying, her
- 12:43Speaker 2: ear is finally back where it belongs. Wasn't that a
- 12:45Speaker 2: wild It's a fascinating story. It's gruesome. I know it's gross,
- 12:50Speaker 2: but it's like a it's weird, but it's positive thing
- 12:54Speaker 2: in there. We always get to Florida. Eventually, a Florida
- 12:58Speaker 2: managed still a BMW convertible while the owner was out
- 13:00Speaker 2: walking his dog, then crashed. It gave cops the excuse
- 13:05Speaker 2: that mister Spock would call highly illogical. Please say, the
- 13:08Speaker 2: thirty six year old Calvin Johnson, not Megatron. I assume,
- 13:14Speaker 2: I assume we're not talking about the Lion's legend. Entered
- 13:20Speaker 2: the unlocked car, found the keys sitting inside the cup holder.
- 13:23Speaker 2: He then took it out for a spin, reached the
- 13:25Speaker 2: speed of one hundred miles per hour before crashing it.
- 13:28Speaker 2: Passing motorists saw it happen and rushed to pull Johnson
- 13:31Speaker 2: out of the wreckage. When officers arrived at the scene,
- 13:34Speaker 2: Johnson told him he didn't steal the car, was actually
- 13:36Speaker 2: teleported into it. He even thanked the officers for saving
- 13:41Speaker 2: me from the aliens. It's a quote. He also made
- 13:45Speaker 2: some reference to x Men. I mean, he didn't specifically
- 13:50Speaker 2: address Star Trek, but you know, he did talk aliens
- 13:55Speaker 2: and being teleported. Johnson was taken to the hospital remained
- 14:00Speaker 2: in police custody. He'll get a chance to, you know,
- 14:04Speaker 2: live long and prosper there. Maybe he'll face grand theft
- 14:08Speaker 2: auto charges and I don't know, maybe teleporting without a license.
- 14:11Speaker 2: I don't know what all the charges are that you
- 14:15Speaker 2: could get from that, but it doesn't really doesn't seem
- 14:19Speaker 2: like it's going to end well for the guy. A
- 14:22Speaker 2: stick up man in Japan was taken into custody after
- 14:25Speaker 2: he called police to inform them that he was planning
- 14:27Speaker 2: to rob a convenience store. However, when he entered the
- 14:32Speaker 2: convenience store about two am and allegedly threatened a female cashier,
- 14:36Speaker 2: he told her not to call one ten, which is
- 14:39Speaker 2: the Japanese version of nine to one one. He ordered
- 14:42Speaker 2: to give him cash instead, he pushed a silent alarm
- 14:45Speaker 2: and ran to the back room. Prior to entering the store,
- 14:47Speaker 2: ta Kano, Hiroki, ta Kano. This is not a good
- 14:53Speaker 2: store for me with names. Considering I'm about to be
- 14:56Speaker 2: reading a lot, called the emergency number to warn cops
- 14:58Speaker 2: of an impending robbery. So by the time he walked
- 15:02Speaker 2: out of the store and held a cab, they were
- 15:03Speaker 2: waiting with handcuffs, so it's polite. He skipped a lot
- 15:07Speaker 2: of the drama and the process of this and just
- 15:10Speaker 2: got straight to it. Let's do one more things. Thinks
- 15:15Speaker 2: this is the way and this is back to Florida,
- 15:18Speaker 2: as a woman was arrested after she hit a friend
- 15:22Speaker 2: in the face with a plate of chicken. It's anytime
- 15:25Speaker 2: there's a food fight like this of this caliber, they're
- 15:29Speaker 2: fun It's just not fun for the person who gets
- 15:31Speaker 2: hit in the face with a burrito or a plate
- 15:33Speaker 2: of chicken, or a meatball or spaghetti. We've had all
- 15:35Speaker 2: those things, Jamishia to Shay Wallace was the victim and
- 15:41Speaker 2: the victim got into a loud verbal dispute and the
- 15:45Speaker 2: argument turned physical. The assailant broke broke out the bird
- 15:50Speaker 2: and let it fly the chicken. After the chicken was
- 15:53Speaker 2: thrown and the situation escalated, Deputy to Say Wallace went
- 15:56Speaker 2: upstairs to her apartment and returned holding a kitchen knife
- 15:59Speaker 2: she had let. Pointed the knife towards the victim and
- 16:02Speaker 2: moved it toward her hand, making contact. The victim said
- 16:06Speaker 2: she did not want to press charges, but cops still
- 16:08Speaker 2: fall charges of aggravated battery and you know, assault with
- 16:13Speaker 2: a chicken. You don't want to do that to it.
- 16:17Speaker 2: That poor bird. That bird lived its life and you know,
- 16:22Speaker 2: was killed to be food and then it was used
- 16:25Speaker 2: in an assault. But I guess it's you know, at
- 16:28Speaker 2: least it's a different life. It's a different life than
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- 19:58Speaker 2: Right after the break, well, how are you doing today?
- 20:11Speaker 2: Did someone break up with you yesterday? Or did you
- 20:14Speaker 2: break up with someone yesterday. Yesterday, the eleventh of December,
- 20:18Speaker 2: because it was two weeks to Christmas, known unofficially as
- 20:22Speaker 2: breakup day, number one day of the year for breakups.
- 20:25Speaker 2: You may know someone who had a breakup yesterday. Back
- 20:28Speaker 2: in two thousand and eight, researchers you stats from Facebook
- 20:31Speaker 2: to study when people were most likely to change their
- 20:33Speaker 2: status from inner relationship to single, and it turns out
- 20:36Speaker 2: December eleventh is the most common day. Even though Facebook
- 20:40Speaker 2: relationship statuses are a thing of the past, people have
- 20:43Speaker 2: held on to the belief that the eleventh is doom
- 20:46Speaker 2: day for relationships. Holidays are tough on relationships and you
- 20:50Speaker 2: got two weeks to you know, maybe recouple or you
- 20:55Speaker 2: know whatever, whatever they call it. This is like the
- 20:59Speaker 2: decoupling before the holidays. So some people get in relationships
- 21:03Speaker 2: for the holidays, some people get out. And then we
- 21:05Speaker 2: told you also this week about the people who are
- 21:08Speaker 2: getting into relationships with intentions of breaking up after the holidays.
- 21:13Speaker 2: So a survey found seventy five percent of daters have
- 21:17Speaker 2: had breakups sometime during the holiday season, and the pressure
- 21:21Speaker 2: to invite people they're dating the holiday gatherings is part
- 21:24Speaker 2: of the reason. See that may have had something to
- 21:25Speaker 2: do with yesterday, The feeling of being rushed to commit,
- 21:29Speaker 2: anxiety about gift giving, and the or among the top
- 21:32Speaker 2: relationship stressors over the Christmas season. Christmas Day has the
- 21:37Speaker 2: lowest number of relationship breakups. So if your significant other
- 21:42Speaker 2: and you make it to Christmas Day tomorrow, we take
- 21:45Speaker 2: a breath. If you were worried yesterday, if you were
- 21:48Speaker 2: aware of this breakup day thing, you can sweat it
- 21:52Speaker 2: out until Christmas Day. You get through Christmas Eve, you're
- 21:55Speaker 2: probably safe. I mean, it's not guaranteed, but you're statistically speaking,
- 22:01Speaker 2: you're probably safe. All right. How about this for a
- 22:07Speaker 2: Christmas or holiday thing that's happening that has gone viral
- 22:10Speaker 2: on social media and most people probably weren't necessarily ready
- 22:15Speaker 2: for it. Wine floats you've heard of, you know, root
- 22:18Speaker 2: beer floats, or a coke or doctor pepper float, luke gloves,
- 22:22Speaker 2: a doctor pepper float. Well, how about wine floats? Vanilla
- 22:26Speaker 2: ice cream and red wine mixed together. Yes, it's a thing.
- 22:31Speaker 2: Scoop of plain vanilla ice cream and yeah, pour some
- 22:34Speaker 2: wine over it and there you go, a creamy, boozy
- 22:38Speaker 2: dessert drink. Social media buzzing with videos praising how cold
- 22:43Speaker 2: meets rich and somehow it works. Not everybody, though, is
- 22:48Speaker 2: for this. There's some wine makers say it's disgusting, and
- 22:52Speaker 2: you know, some of the fruitier wines apparently work, and
- 22:59Speaker 2: you don't necessarily want to go with kind of the dry,
- 23:02Speaker 2: oaky stuff. So just keep that in mind if you're
- 23:05Speaker 2: going to give it a shot. If someone breaks out
- 23:08Speaker 2: ice cream and a bottle of wine at your holiday gathering,
- 23:11Speaker 2: just know that's what's about to go down, probably unless
- 23:16Speaker 2: they're getting ice cream, you know, for the kids and
- 23:18Speaker 2: the wine for the adults. That could be the case
- 23:20Speaker 2: as well. Ever, wish you could hibernate like a bear
- 23:24Speaker 2: through the winter, You're not alone if you if you've
- 23:27Speaker 2: wished that. A new survey found sixty six percent of
- 23:30Speaker 2: people said they wish they could curl up and snooze
- 23:33Speaker 2: through the winter months. Seems that winter brings out that
- 23:37Speaker 2: coziness in all of us, eighty six percent of those
- 23:39Speaker 2: surveys saying they love the idea of getting as cozy
- 23:42Speaker 2: as possible during the winter months. Respondents saying that they'll
- 23:45Speaker 2: spend more than half of the winter season dedicated to
- 23:48Speaker 2: getting cozy fifty six out of the ninety days, according
- 23:52Speaker 2: to the survey. So what does it mean to get cozy?
- 23:56Speaker 2: Many said curling up on the couch. Many said getting
- 23:59Speaker 2: under layers of blankets. Some said it was just about
- 24:03Speaker 2: enjoying quiet, some said sleeping in, some said warm beverages
- 24:08Speaker 2: like coffee and tea and hot chocolate. And many just
- 24:12Speaker 2: felt like it's not leaving home, not getting out into
- 24:15Speaker 2: the cold, just lighting some candles, enjoying music and spending
- 24:19Speaker 2: time with family and catching up on TV shows. I
- 24:22Speaker 2: would say some of those things to me feel like
- 24:26Speaker 2: cozy time. Some of those just feel like you're just,
- 24:29Speaker 2: you know, relaxing. I don't know that that's cozy, just
- 24:31Speaker 2: to relax in general. But all right, that'll do it
- 24:34Speaker 2: for this Friday edition of the show. Thanks to our
- 24:37Speaker 2: sponsors and patrons. Thank you for listening. Hope to see
- 24:41Speaker 2: you this weekend at the Nutcracker. I'll catch you back
- 24:44Speaker 2: here Monday morning.
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