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Strange an Bizarre News Featuring Spiders and a Toilet Iguana! · 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, third day of November. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me.
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We are now less than three weeks until Thanksgiving. We're three weeks to
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Black Friday. How about that for perspective, Let's keep that in check.
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I don't know what the stores are they're going to be closing this year for
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Thanksgiving, but hopefully it will be most of them. Remember that was a
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thing, and I think that some people kind of put that in check real
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fast. I worked a job when I was in high school at a grocery
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store, the Family Mart, and one year they said, we're going to
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open on Thanksgiving Day. If you'd like to work, we'll pay you a
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time and a half or double pay, whatever it was. And a few
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of us were like, well, i'll do that. Sure, don't want
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to work Christmas, but I'll do that if it's double pay or whatever it
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was. I don't remember if it was time and a half or double but
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and it was. It was awful. It was so slow, dead,
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like every now and then a guy would come in and buy like a can
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of yams, and that was it. And every person who came in to
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buy like one thing would just say it's too bad, you guys have to
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work today, and then we would say, well, you're you're the reason
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that we're here, and then there was oh, I didn't think of that,
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and then they would leave. So I'm a strong advocate for don't shop
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on the actual holidays if you can help it. I mean, I know,
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sometimes it's a crisis and you can't help yourself. Sometimes it's a medical
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emergency. Sometimes it's a yam emergency. If that guy had said, hey,
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I'm having a yam emergency, I would have cut him some slack.
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But he wasn't having a yam emergency. I mean, he could have lived
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without the yams. He could have made it work, you know, he
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could have made it work. Maybe call up a friend, Hey, could
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I get a couple of spoonfuls of yams. We're a little short, and
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maybe that would have worked, and then I'll pay you back. On a
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Black Friday, I'll go in the store and I'll get you some extra yams.
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And we were open on Black Friday, you know, we were also
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open. That was the only time we did the Thanksgiving thing. I don't
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know, I'm thinking back on it. It must have been a time and
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a half and I probably objected because I'm pretty sure I was not the happiest
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employee, smart and off, just giving them lip. Why are you here,
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sport? You know that kind of stuff, not quite that aggressive.
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That was a good employee. Hey, it's Friday. Let's do some strange
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and bizarre news from around the world. We got a couple of spider stories.
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Should I start with the spider stories or should I work my way to
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the spot. I think I'll start with them because we got a couple of
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spider stories that are really interesting. All right, First up, gross maybe
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the right word about interesting. One of them is gross. The other one
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is just very unfortunate. Let's start with a gross one, shall we.
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All Right, So you know, sometimes you'll hear like a noise kind of
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in deep in your ear, and you can kind of hear something in there.
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Try not to think about this one when you have already given away it's
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a spider. But try not to think about this story next time you hear
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that little cracking or rustling sound in your ear. There was a woman in
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Taiwan who kept hearing a clicking and rustling sound in her ear for several days
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so annoying it kept her up at night. Oh, there's nothing worse than
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when you can't get a good night's sleep because you got a spider in your
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ear. She thought it would go away, but it didn't. And then
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finally she said, I'm going to the doctor and I got to get this
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checked out. The doctor took a close look inside her ear canal and found
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a spider that apparently crawled inside, and decided it was going to live there
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for a few days. The spider, the doctor noticed, had discarded its
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exoskeleton and was crawling around in the ear canal. The doctor used a suction
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tube to pull out the spider and its exoskeleton in The woman's discomfort immediately went
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a way. And I guess you probably went right to sleep, I would
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think so. I mean, if you haven't slept in days from the spider
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crawling around in your ear, that would probably be first thing you'd want to
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do is just go have a nap. All right, here's the other spider
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story. I'll see if I can come up with another one. I think
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we just have two, though. A large spider blamed for a scary road
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accident that happened in Death Valley National Park. A couple of tourists from Switzerland
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were driving through the park in a rented RV when they spotted a tarantula crossing
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the road. Now, this is a weird I know tarantulas are big.
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Are they big enough to spot it while you're driving? I don't know.
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I guess you would probably see it crossing the road. Well, these tourists
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from Switzerland, that's where they're from. I didn't want to run it over,
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so they slammed on the brake to avoid it and not kill the spider.
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Well, there just happened to be a Canadian tourist riding behind them on
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a motorcycle who didn't see the spider. Apparently didn't know the stop was about
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to happen because he was unable to stop his motorcycle and slammed into the back
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of the RV. The ambulance was called and the biker was taken to the
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hospital. The Swiss couple unharmed, the tarantula apparently unscathed. No word yet
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on the condition of the motorcycle driver. But that's not good. Can't always
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just slam on the brakes for a A rachnid you know, sometimes you just
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got to just plow right through it. Man, You just got to keep
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going. You can't stop for every animal. I understand we got animal lovers,
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but that's one you could probably stand and just keep going. What are
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the odds that you're gonna actually hit the thing anyway? You know? All
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right, here's another fun animal story. A Florida man says there's nothing like
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getting up in the morning to find an iguana your toilet. It's not a
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metaphor, it's an actual iguana. So Gary Greenspan is the guy's name.
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The Hollywood, Florida homeowner says he doesn't usually take videos of what's in his
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toilet, but he couldn't resist this time. When he went to the bathroom,
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he lifted the seat and found a huge iguana just chilling in the toilet.
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Greenspan added, I don't know if it was just looking for a spa
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day or what, but it's huge. He called animal control to come and
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remove it. Before officers could get there, the iguana slithered back down into
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the toilet and out of sight. He assumes it returned to the sewer pipes
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and it won't be coming back, or will it? I mean, maybe,
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just maybe this sucker is gonna come. I don't know, an iguana
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in the toilet. That would be a first. And I can tell you
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this. In the Carol Household, if I said there's an iguana in the
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toilet, everybody come look. No one would come look. They would say,
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we're not falling for that one dad. An english woman who was banned
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from touching parking meters for three years says she just couldn't stay away and is
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now going to spend nine months in jail. Twenty five year old Jade Joinson,
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that's a weird spell, okay, j O? Why innocent? I
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was arrested back in June and convicted of attempting to steal money from a parking
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meter. She was ordered to stay away from the machines and not touch them
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for three years, but it didn't quite take for her. She was recently
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caught engaging with a parking meter. She was arrested and has been ordered to
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spend thirty eight weeks in jail. I would think that while she's in jail
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she might not have any access to parking meters. She could probably keep her
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hands to herself when it comes to parking meters. While she's in jail.
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A man in Washington State was arrested for animal cruelty and propositioning a lady of
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the night. You know, you know what I'm saying there after, police
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say that he tried to hire a woman to have relations with him and his
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miniature horse. Forty eight year old Jad Shipman made the unusual requests that's what
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I worked for it on an online bulletin board used for hiring sex workers.
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He offered to pay a woman four hundred and forty dollars for the encounter,
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but instead of obliging, the woman called police and reported him. Shipman told
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the woman he had been trying for a while to find someone willing to participate
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in the act, but said the last two gals I asked that it was
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noticeably outside their comfort zone. Yeah, yeah, that's a little bit.
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When confronted our police, Shipman admitted to making the online request and added that
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he has had relations with other animals in the past. Shipman was arrested.
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All to stay away from animals. You stay away. Maybe they could get
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him to hang out with the parking meters and then that lady could hang out
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with the miniature horse. I don't know, it's probably not good for anybody.
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An Italian mother, she said she had a parasite problem when a big
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victory in court when a judge ordered her two adult sons to get out of
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her house. I mean, there's a point where I think when the kids
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have been in your home and not contributing very much, and I think once
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they hit their forties, I think it's pretty understandable. But you know,
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this is in Italy. I don't really know what the culture is there.
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So this mother says she wanted the court to get her forty and forty two
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year old sons to move out of her place and get their own place.
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The seventy five year old retiree referred to her sons as parasites, argued to
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the judge, they've been living in her apartment without contributing financially or even helping
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around the house. Well that's the trick man. You gotta at least pick
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up a dish or something every now and then maybe run the vacuum anything,
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man fold your own clothes. The sons hired lawyers who argued that Italian mothers
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have a legal obligation to care for their children for as long as necessary.
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See he's trying to make this case cultural. I don't know. The judge
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disagreed. She referred to them as BEMBACONI I'm not sure. Bambuccini, bambuccini.
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I think it's how you say. Big babies. Is what he called
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them, bambuccini. I think that's right. I gave him till December eighteenth
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to move out. So they are clocks ticking, man, they gotta get
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out. They gotta get out. They're just big babies, right, just
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big babies. It's time to go. Hey. Police in Key West are
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used to dealing with drunks, but this one got a little on the banana
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side. Officers flagged down and told there was a man in a banana costume
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urinating on the side of a building. There was a real porta potties right
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across the street. He couldn't be bothered. Officers located the guy in the
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banana suit. It says peeper trader, but that's a bit much, and
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as they approached him, he tried to make a run for it. They
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chased him through crowds of partiers until one officer was able to grab him and
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take him down right in front of the smoking Tuna Saloon. Twenty year old
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Kyle Mortimer, a college student at the University of Miami. That's all we
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need to know was arrest in charge with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, and
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no word if he's going to appeal, get it appeal. Police in Washington
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State were treated to a pre Halloween trick last week when they received a report
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of a human skeleton found in the river. Law enforcement from multiple agencies responded
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to the pinned Or River near the Canadian border to find a couple of paddle
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borders that reported seeing human remains floating in a cave on the river. Officers
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entered the cave on jet skis and dove into the water to investigate. They
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surfaced soon after with the human remains, which ended up being a plastic skull
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beer bong. A prankster had stuffed rocks into the long rubber tube to make
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it look more like a human spine, and the police department wrote on Facebook
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a little did they know the trick worked? Maybe too well? That's got
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to be a giant pain, right They go digging in there and it looks
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like something from Predator, Like you know, like the predator ripped it out
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of their head. I don't know anyway, but that's what they found and
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it was you know, I guess it's good that it wasn't real, but
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it seems like a waste of their time. Ay Florida man was getting a
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second chance at life after he was mistakenly reported de ceased in a twenty nineteen
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car accident. Fifty one year old Moises Ramos of Miami was involved in a
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minor fender bender with another driver in twenty nineteen. No one was hurt in
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the accident, and the police took a report. It wasn't until last year,
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though, that Ramos applied to be an Uber driver and found out that,
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according to the state of Florida, he was killed in that minor car
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accident, and as a result, his application to drive for Uber was denied.
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Well that's good. I mean, it's not good that he couldn't get
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the job, but it's nice to know that they won't hire dead people to
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drive the car. So that's good. Feeling pretty certain that he was not
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in fact dead, Ramos went to the police department to figure out what happened
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and learned that the officer who took the report accidentally listed it as a fatality.
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Getting it corrected was not easy and took a year before it was finally
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fixed. He's now alive and will resubmit officially alive, resubmit his uber application.
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Well, good luck, I hope good luck. Moistest Ramos, I
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hope that works out for you. All Right, one last one. This
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one's gross. Sorry, it's gross. Good news. Is gonna sound like
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we're going after Chick fil A, but I promise we're not. A Utah
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man is going after his grub hub driver after a Chick fil A milkshake that
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was delivered to his house. I ended up being a cup of warm urine.
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That's the opposite of a milkshake, by the way. Caleb Wood says
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he ordered fries in a milkshake from Chick fil A off of grub hubs app
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and was disgusted when he took a sip of his milkshake and realized it was
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urine. First of all, I don't want to be too graphic here,
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but milkshakes have a certain consistency when you're holding the cup right. I don't
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have a lot of experience with cups of urine, but I know that a
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cup of urine would would feel more like a soft drink without ice, right,
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you know, it's gonna have a different slash factor. That's getting gross,
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I know, but still I think when you pick it up you should
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probably know, especially if it's warm and not cold. But they do have
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the Starfoam cup. So anyway, so he was disgusted when he found out
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he was taking a sip of urine. He says that he immediately called the
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driver back to his house and laid into him when he arrived, accusing him
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of poisoning him. The driver explained to him, I wonder if he would
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have rather been poison than urine. I don't know. I don't know how
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you feel. On that, the driver explained to him that he had two
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Starfoam cups in his car and mistakenly delivered the wrong one to him. He
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further explained that he works long hours and relieves himself inside the car because he
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doesn't have time to take bathroom breaks. This is not a good commercial for
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grub Hub. I mean right there, if I was going to order grub
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hub and I found out that my rubhub potential Grubhub driver was urinating in the
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car while he was making deliveries, I'd be done, like, that's not
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I don't I don't want to delivery from someone that's been urinating in their car
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with the food in the car. Woods says that he demanded a refund from
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grubhub and was angry when he only was reimbursed for the cost of the food
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and not the delivery fee or the tip that he paid. See that's where
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the tips get complicated, isn't it. I mean you tip them up front
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and then they give you a cup of urine. That's not good. Grubhub
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has sense issued a statement saying we took immediate action with the driver and ended
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his contract with us. Oh well, then there's no chance of having urine
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the car with your food. We're following up with the customer to apologize,
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and we were coaching the representative who was previously in touch with the customer.
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Well that's good. I mean, that's good that they've got plans to get
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But I'm just my thought some of this. It would have never crossed my
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mind that if you ordered food from a grub hub or any of those uber
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eats or any of that, there'd be a chance they'd be urinating in the
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car next to your food. So no, no. You know, people
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say when they think of a pot luck, they just imagine all the cat
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hair and cats sleeping in the food. Now, if whenever someone says that
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they ordered from grub Hub, I'm going to imagine the driver urinating with your
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food three inches away, sitting in the console while they dry. Maybe more
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than three inches away, maybe a foot away. But does it matter if
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the food's in the back seat and they're urinating in the car. Is that
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any better? That's just my question. Today's show brought to you by Columbus
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So people on Earth know a lot about Earth, but they don't know
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a whole lot about things not on Earth. Most don't know the difference between
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venus and uranus. You can call it uranus if you want, but it's
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still silly or most basic facts about the Moon. According to a new survey,
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sixty six percent of people say that they are fascinated by space science.
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Most don't even know some of the most basic facts about it. For example,
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sixty two percent didn't know that there were eight planets in our solar system.
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Eighty four percent mistakenly believe that the Moon is round when it's actually egg
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shaped. Thirty one percent I think the Earth orbits the Sun. Three hundred
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and sixty five times a year, when it's actually once per year. Fifty
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percent didn't know that the Moon orbits the Earth. The survey was conducted not
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by scientists, but by a British snack company that makes Jaffa cakes. They
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launched an ad campaign in nineteen ninety nine where they used little round cakes to
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teach people about lunar eclipses. Twenty four year later, years later, they're
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doing it again with Bonnie Tyler, who sang Total Clips of the Heart,
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we don't have Bonnie Tyler, but doctor Sean Cruzen from Columbus State University's Coca
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Stars. Wherever you're listening to this podcast, you can listen to that podcast
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and learn about all these things and then some There's a high end resale website
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red carpet fashion history. So that's kind of neat, right if you're into
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that sort of thing. Can they maybe find the I don't know, maybe
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in that, don't you think. All right, let's talk about Urban Outfitters.
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So iPods, of course were once the coolest thing in the world,
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but now they're inconsidered antiques, and Urban Outfitters is selling vintage iPods at a
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year, and if you go to their store hoping to find a bargain,
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I guess the only way that you can get your hands on the the iPods.
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So there you go, all right. Buying a loaf of bread at
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the grocery store and not knowing exactly how fresh it is can be a challenge.
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I like to give it the gentle squeeze on top, you know,
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just a little gentle then you know. But they say that it's easier than
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you think. The plastic clips or the ties twist ties are used. They
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keep it closed or used to tell you the freshness of the bread. Many
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stores use a color code a system. Most follow this schedule Monday blue,
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Tuesday, green, Thursday, red, Friday, white, Saturday yellow.
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Wednesday is the bye week. They don't have a game that day. You
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know, Once upon a time I tried this and it didn't quite match up
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because I was there, like on a day when green should have been fresh
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and it wasn't especially fresh. The squeeze tests that gives you the gives you
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a good idea. Is it fresh or is it soft? Yes, you're
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good. That's the way I do it. All right. That'll do it
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