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Strange and Bizarre News with a Drunk Raccoon · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West
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  Speaker 1: Carrol Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Friday morning, fifth day of December. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: joining me. Twenty Days to Christmas countdown is on. Got
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  Speaker 2: to do some shopping. I know you probably do easy
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  Speaker 2: to think you can shoot from the hip, do it
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  Speaker 2: all online, get it all shipped. Better, get on that.
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  Speaker 2: If you're doing that, I mean, there's nothing wrong with
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  Speaker 2: shopping online. I'm going to talk about that in a second.
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  Speaker 2: But if you actually have to get out into the stores,
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  Speaker 2: we're getting closer and closer to those weekends of absolute
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  Speaker 2: pure hades. When you get out there, you don't want
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  Speaker 2: to get you don't want to get in the mix.
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  Speaker 2: Too late to the season. So a couple of things
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  Speaker 2: I want to mention to you before we get into
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  Speaker 2: our Friday tradition. First of all, Nutcracker. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: Friday morning show for the fifth and tomorrow morning, the sixth,
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  Speaker 2: at the River Center. I think at like nine o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure when it starts. I know there's a
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  Speaker 2: big ceremony that's taking place. I believe Santa is set
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  Speaker 2: to appear and some of the casts of the Nutcracker
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  Speaker 2: will be there, but it's actually about the gingerbread houses
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  Speaker 2: that will be on display at our River Center here
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  Speaker 2: in Columbus. That is one of the great traditions that
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  Speaker 2: happens over the course of the holiday season for us
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  Speaker 2: here in Columbus, Georgia. And they will be debuting I
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  Speaker 2: guess tomorrow morning, and I hear that some of the
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  Speaker 2: Nutcracker casts will be there. My good friend, the Mother
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  Speaker 2: Ginger will be making an appearance along with Sanna, and
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  Speaker 2: I believe Clara. I know people think Clara and the
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  Speaker 2: Nutcracker are the stars of the Nutcracker, and I know
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  Speaker 2: there's this title the Nutcracker, but let's be real for
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  Speaker 2: a minute. The biggest star of the show is definitely
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  Speaker 2: the Mother Ginger, quite literally. So if you'd like to
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  Speaker 2: see her tomorrow, I'll put in a word for you
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  Speaker 2: that you're gonna come by and check out the gingerbread houses.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if the Nutcracker is the star of the Nutcracker,
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  Speaker 2: the Ballet or Clara, I mean, I would think if
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  Speaker 2: you're going by the logic of his name as the Nutcracker,
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  Speaker 2: then I would think that the Mother Ginger might be
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  Speaker 2: the star of the Gingerbread house opening. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: know there's that Santa guy coming, but that's different. Let's
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  Speaker 2: just be real for a minute here, and we are
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  Speaker 2: coming up on a week from the Nutcracker Ballet at
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  Speaker 2: the River Center. If you don't have your tickets yet,
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  Speaker 2: you should, but you can get them now from the
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  Speaker 2: River Center box office. You can get them tomorrow morning
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  Speaker 2: while you're at the river Center. I assume the box
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  Speaker 2: office will be open. You could get your tickets there.
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  Speaker 2: That's word in place to get them. You can get
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  Speaker 2: them through Therivercenter dot org. You can get them through
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  Speaker 2: the Columbus you get them somewhere else. You run the
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  Speaker 2: risk of overpaying, and people are marking up tickets and
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  Speaker 2: you don't want to do that. You just don't want
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  Speaker 2: to do that. And you see the ticket price and
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  Speaker 2: you go, yeah, one hundred dollars and that's not how
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  Speaker 2: much the tickets are. Somebody's trying to rip you off.
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  Speaker 2: Don't fall for it. December thirteenth and fourteenth, we are
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  Speaker 2: I cannot believe we're a week away from shows. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we have a show one week from today, and my
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  Speaker 2: good friend, the mother Ginger will be back on stage
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  Speaker 2: for those shows. So yeah, we have a show a
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  Speaker 2: week from tonight. Yikes about that. I mean tomorrow is
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  Speaker 2: kind of a show for her. She'll be there. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: in rehearsal mode, we're in final full stage rehearsal mode.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe we're this close to the shows, So
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  Speaker 2: it is Friday, and we're going to get into the
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  Speaker 2: good news and we're going to get into the strange
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  Speaker 2: and bizarre news. But before we do that, I just
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  Speaker 2: want to mention this because basically we're still I know,
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  Speaker 2: the price of gas has gone down, which is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully that's gonna help with some of the shipping costs
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  Speaker 2: going down and other things that we're spending money on
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  Speaker 2: will drop. We have a president who's been trying to
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  Speaker 2: fight inflation since he got into office. One of the things,
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  Speaker 2: speaking of inflation, that we just went through four years
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  Speaker 2: of being gouged and that last administration, or at least
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  Speaker 2: most of those four years. But here's something that I
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  Speaker 2: found interesting, and before I get to the other stuff,
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  Speaker 2: is that young kids are struggling to get a raise
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  Speaker 2: in their allowance because whatever they were getting pre inflation
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  Speaker 2: isn't going very far. So basically, you know, you could
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  Speaker 2: give your kids what you could give them a year
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  Speaker 2: ago or two years ago isn't really cutting it anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And it says apparently the average kid is bringing in
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  Speaker 2: fifty two dollars a month in allowance, thirty six dollars
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  Speaker 2: more than their parents did at the same age when
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  Speaker 2: adjusted for inflation. A new poll taken by Talker Research
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  Speaker 2: finds that three out of four parents give their kids
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  Speaker 2: an allowance, usually starting it around the age of ten.
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  Speaker 2: Most give cash, some parents use apps or prepaid debit cards.
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  Speaker 2: Two thirds of parents say they give an allowance to
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  Speaker 2: teach kids about money and financial responsibility. Others say it's
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  Speaker 2: a reward for chores and getting good grades and whatnot. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: just keep that in mind. Your kids may be trying
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  Speaker 2: to figure out how to come in and ask the boss.
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  Speaker 2: That's always the awkward thing when you got to go
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  Speaker 2: in and ask the boss for the raise. And I
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  Speaker 2: guess if I feel like kids will just do it though,
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  Speaker 2: don't you think that would just happen, wouldn't it all right?
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  Speaker 2: A wildlife sanctuary in South Africa has an unlikely pair
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  Speaker 2: of animals that have gotten everyone's attention. There's a zebra
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  Speaker 2: name Naughty and a rhino named Titan, and they've become
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  Speaker 2: apparently best friends. Both animals rescued as babies, brought in
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  Speaker 2: at different times after being found alone and in rough shape.
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  Speaker 2: Caretakers weren't sure how either would adjust until the two
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  Speaker 2: spotted each other. Since then, Naughty and Titan have been
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  Speaker 2: glued at the hip, strolling the grounds together, napping together,
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  Speaker 2: enjoying bottle feeding side by side. Staff members say the
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  Speaker 2: friendship has helped both animals heal faster, grow stronger, and
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  Speaker 2: feel safe again. The goal is eventually to release them
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  Speaker 2: back into the wild, but for now they're enjoying life
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  Speaker 2: as the sanctuary's most adorable couple, proving that sometimes the
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  Speaker 2: best friend you'll ever meet doesn't look anything like you.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good message, that's a life lesson. My concern
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  Speaker 2: is when they put them back in the wild, are
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  Speaker 2: they gonna you know, keep them together, like, send them
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  Speaker 2: off together? What happens then? Are the other we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: get you know, little uh, little just issue when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to their families when they get out there in
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  Speaker 2: the wild, the others that are like them, Montague's and capulettes,
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  Speaker 2: if you will, little west Side story, when you're a shark,
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  Speaker 2: you're a shark for life? Right? That would apply to zebras,
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't it. I don't know. All right, let's do one
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  Speaker 2: more of these before we get onto the strange. In
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  Speaker 2: bizarre News and Ohio, couple made a special commitment to
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  Speaker 2: some special kids, adopting four siblings so they would not
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  Speaker 2: be separated. Joni and Nelson Janny finalized the adoption of
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  Speaker 2: fifteen year old Chevy, twelve year old Caleb, ten year
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  Speaker 2: old twins Vida and Zoe in front of Judge Ralph Winkler.
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  Speaker 2: Judge Winkler noted how special the court appearance was. Out
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  Speaker 2: of twenty five hundred adoptions he's handled in the last decade,
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  Speaker 2: fewer than ten involved a group of siblings who were
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  Speaker 2: able to remain a family. The timing was perfect as well,
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  Speaker 2: the twins Vida and Zoe their birthdays just around the corner,
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  Speaker 2: and the countdown to Christmas coming up. The family plans
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  Speaker 2: to celebrate throughout the season. Joni pointed out, we can
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  Speaker 2: go into the holidays with everybody having the same last name.
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  Speaker 2: What a great story, I mean, keeping those kids together.
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  Speaker 2: God bless those people, for that whole family. Just God
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  Speaker 2: bless them all. Right, it's Friday, It's time for strange
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  Speaker 2: and bizarre news, and we will begin. In Ashland, Virginia,
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  Speaker 2: staff at a liquor store showed up for work and
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  Speaker 2: found the shop had been broken into, not by a burglar,
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  Speaker 2: but by a raccoon, and not any raccoon, A drunk
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  Speaker 2: one the mass Bandit was discovered passed out in the bathroom,
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  Speaker 2: wedged between the toilet and a trash can, after helping
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  Speaker 2: itself to some bottom shelf booze. Animal Control, the officer's
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  Speaker 2: name Samantha Martin, was called in to handle the situation.
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  Speaker 2: She says the raccoon had apparently fallen through the ceiling
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  Speaker 2: tile and went on what was described as a full
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  Speaker 2: blown rampage drinking everything. Bottles were smashed, liquor pulled across
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  Speaker 2: the floor, and the critters drink of choice seemed to
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  Speaker 2: be scotch. Interestingly, I wouldn't have bet on scotch. That
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't have been my pick. I would maybe rum, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. After a few hours of sleep and probably
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  Speaker 2: a fierce hangover, the raccoon showed no signs of injury
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  Speaker 2: and was safely released back into the wild, probably looking
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  Speaker 2: for some more booze. I would think, perhaps, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: A school in England is on a mission to find
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  Speaker 2: a lost astronaut and bring him home. Seventh and eighth
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  Speaker 2: graders at a school in Hampshire recently launched a teddy
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  Speaker 2: bear named Bradford into the stratosphere on board a weather balloon.
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  Speaker 2: It's part of a science project. Bradford made it as
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  Speaker 2: high as sixteen point seven miles above earth before running
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  Speaker 2: into some turbulence. As Bradford was beginning his descent, he
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  Speaker 2: broke loose from the balloon plummeted back to Earth. Students
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  Speaker 2: believe Bradford may have landed about eighty miles away from
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  Speaker 2: the original launch site in the Henley on Thames, and
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  Speaker 2: they are aking for help with finding him. Their teacher
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  Speaker 2: has urged him to remain calm and not worry about
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  Speaker 2: Bradford because he is very brave and very resourceful. Now
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  Speaker 2: see this is you know, this is more of a
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  Speaker 2: more of a real sort of lost stuck kind of
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  Speaker 2: astronaut than what we really had on the space station.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they had a ride home, so this is
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  Speaker 2: really more accurate to describe that Santa was briefly shorter
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  Speaker 2: reindeer over the weekend, prompting a full scale search and
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  Speaker 2: rescue operation. The animal made a daring escape while making
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  Speaker 2: an appearance at a Christmas event in England. Once the
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  Speaker 2: disappearance was realized, a massive search crew was assembled, which
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  Speaker 2: included police, Coast Guard and even the Royal Marines. Finally,
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  Speaker 2: teams using thermal binocular spotted the runaway reindeer on a
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  Speaker 2: beach and gave chase was he hanging out with that raccoon. Eventually,
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  Speaker 2: the animal ran into the sand dunes and was watched
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  Speaker 2: by police until the vet was brought into safely capture it.
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  Speaker 2: Fortunately no one was hurt in the reindeer should be
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  Speaker 2: good to go. I guess for Christmas Eve. I would
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  Speaker 2: hope so hopefully just ready to get to get to work.
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  Speaker 2: I mean enjoyed a little time off, just a little
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  Speaker 2: R and R before getting to work. California homeowner recently
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  Speaker 2: discovered an uninvited tenant living in his house. Ken Johnson
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  Speaker 2: of Altando was shocked when he found a five hundred
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  Speaker 2: pound bear living underneath his home in a narrow cross space.
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  Speaker 2: Home surveillance cameras captured the animal crawling in and out
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  Speaker 2: of the tight space located right under his kitchen. Johnson
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  Speaker 2: said he can hear it moving around beneath the floorboards
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  Speaker 2: and occasionally growling. Neighbors believe the bear's natural habitat may
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  Speaker 2: have been destroyed by a wildfire and is searching for
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  Speaker 2: a cold, dark place to live. California Department of Fishing
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  Speaker 2: Wildlife is aware of the situation. Officials say that they
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  Speaker 2: may capture the bear and relocate it back to the mountains.
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  Speaker 2: In the meantime, Johnson is trying to use sandbags to
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  Speaker 2: block the bear's entrance into the crawl space, But for now,
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  Speaker 2: he's being very careful not to make the unwanted house
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  Speaker 2: guest angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry. You
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  Speaker 2: don't want to see him angry, and I think you
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  Speaker 2: don't really want to do anything to upset him. That's
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  Speaker 2: just a safe call there, Just you know, leave the
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  Speaker 2: guy be thin. I think that's the safe play on
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  Speaker 2: after the break. So you're doing real tree or an
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  Speaker 2: artificial tree or aka the fake tree. I don't mind
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  Speaker 2: that we use artificial trees in our house. I mentioned
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  Speaker 2: that the other day. I think once in my life,
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  Speaker 2: when I was really small, we had a real tree
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  Speaker 2: in the house. But I barely even remember it. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm not even sure that's not one of those like
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  Speaker 2: created memories. Maybe I dreamed it. I don't know. But
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  Speaker 2: we're an artificial tree family here and we have one
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  Speaker 2: that we really really like, and I just I want
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  Speaker 2: to recommend this by the way, and we have a
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  Speaker 2: couple of reasons that we do it. But if you're
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  Speaker 2: able to put your artificial tree, I don't know that
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  Speaker 2: it works with a real tree. If you're able to
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  Speaker 2: put it on something that has wheels, it's amazing because
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  Speaker 2: if you need to move the tree for some reason,
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  Speaker 2: you just roll it and it's easy, simple, simple. I
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  Speaker 2: know that doesn't work for everybody with certain circumstances, but
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  Speaker 2: for us it's a necessity and we just that's how
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  Speaker 2: we make it work for years. If we had to
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  Speaker 2: move it yet to slide it, you have to try
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  Speaker 2: to get something under it. It's complicated. Unplug it. Then
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  Speaker 2: you just move it if you or maybe not even
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  Speaker 2: unplug it, depending on up where you gott to move it.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, apparently people really like real trees. Big shocker, right.
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  Speaker 2: According to a new survey by Real Christmas Tree Board,
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  Speaker 2: eighty five percent of Americans say that a real tree
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  Speaker 2: makes the home feel more like the holiday. Certainly makes
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  Speaker 2: the smell there, eighty nine percent saying that that that
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  Speaker 2: smell is what makes it feel festive. Eighty five percent
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  Speaker 2: said it enhances their holiday experience. Eighty four percent find
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  Speaker 2: it relaxing, and it seems that once you go real,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to go back. Ninety percent of those who
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  Speaker 2: switch say a real tree wish that they'd done it
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  Speaker 2: sooner and hope that their kids continue with a real
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  Speaker 2: tree tradition. As far as what's motivating first time buyers
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  Speaker 2: this year, the top reasons are wanting to try something different,
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  Speaker 2: the desire to create a more authentic holiday experience in
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  Speaker 2: real trees, providing a unique scent that they enjoy. Again,
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  Speaker 2: this is done by the Real Christmas Tree Board, so
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  Speaker 2: keep in mind there may be a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a bias when it comes to the research. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know they did a survey. Did they walk up and say, Hi,
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  Speaker 2: we're with the Real Christmas Tree Board and we'd love
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  Speaker 2: to get your thoughts on real Christmas trees. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, just keep that in mind, that tiny
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  Speaker 2: grain of salt, that tiny pine needle of salt or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about wham. It's inevitable. You're probably
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  Speaker 2: going to hear wham last Christmas at some point over
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  Speaker 2: the course of the Christmas season. So there is apparently
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  Speaker 2: a Christmas survival game called Wamageddon, and the challenge is
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  Speaker 2: to make it until Christmas Eve without hearing Wham's Last Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: It can't be easy because if you spend any time
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  Speaker 2: in stores, shopping, listening to the radio, listening to anything
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  Speaker 2: that plays Christmas music, dentist office, it's got to be tough. Well, basically,
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  Speaker 2: if you hear the original h and eighty four version
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  Speaker 2: of the song and you're out, you have to post
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  Speaker 2: your fail hashtag Whamageddon. Covers and remixes are safe. The
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  Speaker 2: original is hard enough to escape, So just be careful
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  Speaker 2: out there, and if you want to be part of Wamageddon,
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  Speaker 2: I can happily report I have not heard the song
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  Speaker 2: yet this year, and now it's stuck in my head anyway,
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  Speaker 2: just because I'm talking about it, and when I was
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  Speaker 2: doing my research and I looked this up last night.
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  Speaker 2: It's been stuck in my head since last night. But
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  Speaker 2: I haven't officially heard it yet, So we'll see whenever
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  Speaker 2: I fall on that thing. Most people eventually do. And
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  Speaker 2: I have been listening to some Christmas music, I just
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  Speaker 2: haven't been listening a lot, and I'm usually aware whenever
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  Speaker 2: I do, in fact, hear that one. All right, cats
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  Speaker 2: apparently know that it is hard to get men to
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  Speaker 2: pay attention to them. A new study found that cats
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  Speaker 2: mew more to men than to women. The reason guys
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: just aren't great listeners. According to the study, men require
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  Speaker 2: more explicit vocalizations to notice and respond to the needs
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: of their cats. For the experiment, researchers documented cat owners'
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  Speaker 2: interactions with their cats when they got home. They found
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: that cats greeted male owners with an average of four
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  Speaker 2: point three meals in the first one hundred seconds, compared
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: to just one point eight meals for women. Meals a
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: fun word to say. The study concluded that the women
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  Speaker 2: talk to their cats more, mimicked their meals, and appeared
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: to be more skilled at interpreting feline vocalizations. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they meow more at men. If you feel like that's
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  Speaker 2: been the case, then this is now confirmed according to
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  Speaker 2: this particular study. At the very least. All right, that'll
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