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Strange and Bizarre News with a Deep Sea Wallaby · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the Wes
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  Speaker 1: Carroll Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Friday morning, 30th day of October. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: joining me. All Hallows Eve Eve, I guess. All Saints
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  Speaker 2: Day Eve Eve. One more Eve. Anyway, makes my brain hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Time change weekend. I'm going to give you a tip
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  Speaker 2: that experts say is a way to deal with that
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  Speaker 2: coming up after the break. It's a small little thing
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  Speaker 2: that you can do tomorrow morning if you haven't already
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  Speaker 2: started doing it. And we'll talk about that. And I'll
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  Speaker 2: probably vent again about how much it sucks that we
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  Speaker 2: still have to change the clocks. Although I would like
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  Speaker 2: to change the clocks this time and then just leave it.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the more favorable way to go. Cause
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  Speaker 2: my idea of just moving at 30 minutes, nobody's going
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  Speaker 2: to go for that. So, cause it messes up clocks
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  Speaker 2: around the world, but I told you yesterday, I'm an
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  Speaker 2: advocate for just one time zone all over the world.
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  Speaker 2: If we could get to that point, I think that
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  Speaker 2: would be amazing. Just one time zone doesn't affect what
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  Speaker 2: time the sun rises and sets. Uh, like as far
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  Speaker 2: as when it happens, it's just what the clock will
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  Speaker 2: say when it happens. But anyway, you can go back
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  Speaker 2: and listen to yesterday's show. If you think, uh, you're
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  Speaker 2: interested in my, my philosophy on all that. Uh, and again,
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  Speaker 2: I've only just, you know, it's just an idea. This
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  Speaker 2: isn't something I've really flushed out, but I think it
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  Speaker 2: sounds good. I think it sounds good that if you
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  Speaker 2: call somebody in California and you say, Hey, look, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to have that meeting tomorrow. What time? Everybody says
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  Speaker 2: the same time. It's, we're not saying like, well, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to have it at three o'clock East coast, 12
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  Speaker 2: o'clock West. No, you just, it's just three o'clock. Let's
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  Speaker 2: have the meeting. even if that means it's 3 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. It doesn't matter. That's what time it is
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  Speaker 2: when we have the meeting. But I digress. Friday is
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  Speaker 2: the day we do some positive news. There's a really
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  Speaker 2: cool story. Lyerly, Georgia, I guess is the way you
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  Speaker 2: pronounce this. It's not a town I've ever heard of,
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  Speaker 2: and it's L-Y-E-R-L-Y. Lyerly, or I guess that's it. Lyerly,
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  Speaker 2: it could be, but I would say Lyerly. But I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. There's some Towns in Georgia that don't pronounce
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  Speaker 2: it the way you would think. It's not Cairo, Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: It's Cairo, Georgia. You know, those kind of things. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: home of the syrup makers. So let's jump into this
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  Speaker 2: because Lyerly, Georgia has a really cool... I'm running with that.
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  Speaker 2: Has a really cool story to start our positivity off
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  Speaker 2: on this Friday. A GPS mistake allowed a man to
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  Speaker 2: save the lives of a family of 14... From a
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  Speaker 2: burning home, Casey Sparks and his son were heading home
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  Speaker 2: to Alabama when their GPS failed and sent them on
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  Speaker 2: a detour down an unfamiliar rural highway. While trying to
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  Speaker 2: get back on the right path, they spotted flames pouring
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  Speaker 2: out of a house at the top of a hill.
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  Speaker 2: Casey immediately pulled over, rushed inside the home, waking up
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  Speaker 2: the father, his name James Burke, and helping his wife
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  Speaker 2: and 11 children and a grandchild get out of the house.
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  Speaker 2: to safety just minutes before the fire swept through the
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  Speaker 2: entire structure. Family did lose their house. Everyone made it
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  Speaker 2: out unharmed, though, and neighbors immediately rallied with calls, donations,
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  Speaker 2: and loving support to help them rebuild their lives. Casey
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  Speaker 2: says he was never in fear during the tense moments,
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  Speaker 2: but admits he was working on adrenaline and trying to
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  Speaker 2: stay focused. We're from the South, man, and we help
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  Speaker 2: each other. We help our neighbors, Casey said. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I would hope somebody would do the same for me. Look,
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  Speaker 2: we can say all we want to that the GPS failed.
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  Speaker 2: This sounds like a divine intervention thing. Someone from above
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  Speaker 2: tinkering with the GPS, that's what I would argue, put
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  Speaker 2: him exactly where he needed to be at the right
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  Speaker 2: time and able to save the lives of that family.
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  Speaker 2: Well done. Way to react when you see it. Some
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  Speaker 2: people would panic. Some people would just go, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: let me just call the fire department, but Thankfully, he acted.
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  Speaker 2: And as he said, we're from the South, man. We
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  Speaker 2: help each other out. Another story. This is an animal story.
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  Speaker 2: All right. But it's about helping an animal, about helping someone.
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  Speaker 2: Boston Bay in South Australia, a group of fishermen got
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  Speaker 2: the surprise of a lifetime when they spotted a kangaroo swimming,
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  Speaker 2: an exhausted kangaroo swimming nearly two miles out to sea.
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  Speaker 2: and were able to give him a ride back to
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  Speaker 2: dry land. Jake Murray and his fellow fishermen have seen
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  Speaker 2: plenty of unusual things while on the water, but this
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  Speaker 2: was a first. When the captain, Ryan Smith, announced that
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  Speaker 2: he saw a kangaroo, Jake was skeptical. He said, I
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  Speaker 2: reckon there's a roo in the water. That all checks.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you would say. And then he said, we
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  Speaker 2: were all like, yeah, sure. All right, Ryan, sure. Um,
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  Speaker 2: and then, uh, sorry, I was trying to think of like,
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  Speaker 2: that seems a little off. There's nothing, there's nothing off
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  Speaker 2: about that. I mean, it's, it, there's nothing off about
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  Speaker 2: the first one. That one, I'm a little suspect. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a little sus that, you know, there's no right on Ron,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was expecting something like that. Anyway, Ryan
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  Speaker 2: was right though. It was a roo. So the crew
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  Speaker 2: doubled back and rescued the tired, very waterlogged kangaroo. They
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  Speaker 2: lowered the boat's sea door carefully, pulling the roo aboard,
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  Speaker 2: and Jake kept the animal warm on the trip back.
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  Speaker 2: Once safely returned to the beach, the kangaroo rested up
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  Speaker 2: on the sand for a bit before hopping back into
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  Speaker 2: the wild, ending a wild, unexpected adventure for everyone. How
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  Speaker 2: did it get there? That's my question. How did it
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  Speaker 2: get that far? Two miles out to sea? Seems a
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  Speaker 2: little suspect, like maybe someone was trying to take the
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  Speaker 2: roo somewhere that it wasn't supposed to take the roo.
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  Speaker 2: Just seems like there's something off there and that maybe
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  Speaker 2: they should be looking into that, which maybe they are.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's get to some strange and bizarre news
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  Speaker 2: from around the world. We're not going to start in
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  Speaker 2: Florida today. Oh, no, we're going to start in South Carolina,
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  Speaker 2: where a workplace dispute over microwave fish ended with a
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  Speaker 2: plea deal in South Carolina. Michael DiBiase. A detective with
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  Speaker 2: the Myrtle Beach Police Department pleaded guilty to a reduced
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  Speaker 2: misdemeanor charge after allegedly pulling his service weapon on a
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  Speaker 2: fellow officer who had heated up fish in the microwave,
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  Speaker 2: filling the station with a pretty awful smell. Microwave fish
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  Speaker 2: doesn't tend to be a good smell. Under the plea deal,
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  Speaker 2: DiBiase avoided jail time but received 90 days of probation,
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  Speaker 2: a $ 350 fine. and must permanently give up his police certification,
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  Speaker 2: ending any future law enforcement career. He had originally faced
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  Speaker 2: a felony gun charge and was later fired after an
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  Speaker 2: internal investigation found multiple policy violations. I think we covered
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  Speaker 2: this story when it happened a while back. This is,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, an update on it. At least I remember
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  Speaker 2: reading it. Whether we got around to having it on
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  Speaker 2: the show or not, I don't know. But anyway, that's
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  Speaker 2: probably the best case scenario for him. I know he
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  Speaker 2: would like to be able to keep his job, but
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  Speaker 2: If the smell of microwave fish causes him to pull
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  Speaker 2: a gun, probably not. Maybe he should look into another career,
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  Speaker 2: which I guess he's going to have to do. At
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  Speaker 2: least that's what the courts have decided. A Texas car
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  Speaker 2: collector with a taste for the unusual getting attention after
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  Speaker 2: driving a British military armored vehicle through a Burger King drive-thru.
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  Speaker 2: The vehicle enthusiast drove a 1950s era Domler Ferret Scout car. D-A-I-M-L-E-R,
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  Speaker 2: Daimler maybe. Looks like a tank. Has a rotating turret.
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  Speaker 2: Rides on wheels instead of tracks. Took it up to
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  Speaker 2: the drive-thru window at Burger King. He says it's street
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  Speaker 2: legal in Texas and still runs on its original military
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  Speaker 2: spec engine. Burger King staff was a little stunned when
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  Speaker 2: he pulled up in the tank and received his Whopper
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  Speaker 2: and fries. In addition to the armored vehicle, the collector's
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  Speaker 2: garage is packed with unusual vehicles, including a replica Batmobile,
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  Speaker 2: a Knight Rider kit replica, and several high-end sports cars.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's a cool novelty vehicle. It makes me think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, James Garner might drive it around and break
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  Speaker 2: his son out of a work camp, try to get
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  Speaker 2: him to the Tennessee state line. Remember that movie? They
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  Speaker 2: filmed it here in Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: Tank.
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  Speaker 2: I guess my question, though, would be what might happen
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  Speaker 2: if you have a tank that you can drive around
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  Speaker 2: and someone microwaves fish? That could be bad. You start
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  Speaker 2: turning that turn around. Who's microwaving the fish? Nobody wants
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  Speaker 2: to smell that.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody. Nobody.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to Minnesota, where authorities believe a large chunk
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  Speaker 2: of metal found in a cornfield earlier this month may
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  Speaker 2: in fact have fallen from space. The metallic object, which
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  Speaker 2: is about 11 feet in diameter, was discovered in rural
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  Speaker 2: Stevens County, Minnesota. Experts now believe the debris from a
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  Speaker 2: rocket launched from China back in September is what they
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  Speaker 2: have found, according to a report by Ars Technica. The
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  Speaker 2: object's size matches the rocket's upper stage, and social media
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  Speaker 2: tracking data suggests debris from the launch was headed towards Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: Federal agencies now examining the object to confirm its origin
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  Speaker 2: while China has not yet commented. China known for launching
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  Speaker 2: things and sometimes some of the debris just kind of
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  Speaker 2: landing wherever. They're not quite as careful about where things go.
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  Speaker 2: They're just trying to catch us in a space race.
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  Speaker 2: That's all they're trying to do, whatever it takes, even
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  Speaker 2: if it means debris landing in random places or in
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  Speaker 2: a village somewhere. in Asia, which that's happened as well.
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: Rental e-bike company Lime is reminding customers that its bikes
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  Speaker 2: are built for transportation and not medieval combat. You heard me.
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  Speaker 2: The company issued the warning after video surfaced showing riders
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  Speaker 2: in a London arc chasing each other with makeshift lances
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  Speaker 2: while riding the company's rental e-bikes. The stunt essentially a
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  Speaker 2: modern version of jousting drew attention online, but Lime says
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  Speaker 2: the bikes are meant for getting from point A to
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  Speaker 2: point B, not for recreating Renaissance Fair finals. No serious
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  Speaker 2: injuries were reported, but the company stressed that the rental bikes,
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  Speaker 2: using them as battle steeds, not exactly covered in the
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  Speaker 2: user agreement. What if one of the two people involved
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  Speaker 2: is microwaved fish? And the other one doesn't like it.
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  Speaker 2: Can they settle it then on the bikes? That seems
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  Speaker 2: to be like a valid, if you like, if you
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  Speaker 2: don't have a, uh, you know, you don't have an
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  Speaker 2: issued weapon and you don't have a tank, how else
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  Speaker 2: are you supposed to settle the microwave fish debacle? Just
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  Speaker 2: in time for Halloween, a real life Pennywise was arrested
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  Speaker 2: in Maryland. I don't know about real life. for reportedly
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  Speaker 2: living in a sewer and harassing children. A woman called
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  Speaker 2: police to report that a man was living inside a
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  Speaker 2: sewer in Baltimore County and repeatedly approached and harassed her children,
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  Speaker 2: even chasing them down the street. She became convinced after
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  Speaker 2: hearing the man singing from inside the sewer herself when
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  Speaker 2: she went to investigate. Police say the man was arrested
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  Speaker 2: on trespassing charges later released. The mother also alleges that
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  Speaker 2: he trespassed on her property and broke into her car.
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  Speaker 2: Authorities issued peace orders but have struggled to serve them
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  Speaker 2: because the man's address is listed as unknown. He lives
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  Speaker 2: in a sewer. You're going to have to paint a
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  Speaker 2: number next to the sewer, I guess. The woman says
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  Speaker 2: she doesn't feel her family is adequately protected and wants
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  Speaker 2: county officials to secure the sewer access points. Police say
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  Speaker 2: they offer the man services that could help with housing
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  Speaker 2: and other resources, but he reportedly declined. You know what
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  Speaker 2: you can do in the sewer anytime you want? Microwave fish.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to have a microwave and you've got to
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  Speaker 2: have fish. If he's got those things, he could do
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  Speaker 2: that down there. Nobody's going to really say, hey, it's
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  Speaker 2: a sewer. It stinks already. Finally, we're going to get
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  Speaker 2: to Florida, right? We hear... Not all heroes wear capes.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes they wear a banana costume. That part's not really
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  Speaker 2: part of the expression, but fits in this. Florida woman
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  Speaker 2: being hailed as the banana hero after helping report a
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  Speaker 2: bizarre crash outside an Orlando bar. Stephanie Oropesa dressed in
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  Speaker 2: a banana costume after attending a Halloween party called 911
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  Speaker 2: and witnessed a car plow through the outdoor dining area
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  Speaker 2: of the modern bar. Modern with an E on the end,
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  Speaker 2: like ye olde bar. At around four in the morning
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday, no injuries were reported, but the crash caused
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  Speaker 2: major damage, destroying tables, chairs, custom fence, and the restaurant
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  Speaker 2: posted a video of the costumed hero online, saying she
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  Speaker 2: quickly went viral as the banana hero. Oropesa later connected
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  Speaker 2: with the restaurant, which thanked her with a free meal.
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  Speaker 2: says that she hopes that the attention encourages others to
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  Speaker 2: step up and help when they see someone in need.
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  Speaker 2: Police investigating the crash still. Once we went for a
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  Speaker 2: hike before, I guess it was Thanksgiving Day. Like in
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  Speaker 2: the morning, we went for a hike as a family.
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  Speaker 2: And while we were there, and just to be silly,
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  Speaker 2: we had a turkey costume that my dad had bought
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  Speaker 2: years ago, and I was wearing the head part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Just the head, that's all. just covers my head and
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  Speaker 2: has a turkey on top. And I was, uh, very
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  Speaker 2: disappointed when we came upon a family who they were
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  Speaker 2: carrying a baby. Uh, I think the dad had fallen
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  Speaker 2: into a little body of water, just kind of slipped,
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  Speaker 2: but he kept the baby and himself, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: where they were both out of the water and managed
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  Speaker 2: to get himself out of the water. And I just
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  Speaker 2: thought how selfish of this guy is. didn't let me
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  Speaker 2: help him out while I was dressed as a turkey superhero.
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  Speaker 2: The gobbler. That's what I would have gone by. If
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  Speaker 2: this had turned into a news story, a banana hero,
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  Speaker 2: that's fine. But let's be honest, the gobbler sounds better.
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  Speaker 2: If gobbler saves man and child from rushing waters on
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  Speaker 2: a hike on Thanksgiving Day, tell me that's not a
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  Speaker 2: good headline grabber. Some people are just so selfish. Today's
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  Speaker 2: More West Carroll Morning Show right after the break. So
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  Speaker 2: if you're looking for a last-minute trip idea for this weekend,
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  Speaker 2: for Halloween, experts say, and a new study, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: says avoid Salem or New Orleans. And I suppose this
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  Speaker 2: also counts Savannah for us here. But apparently, according to
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  Speaker 2: a new study, the spookiest city in America is Virginia City, Nevada.
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  Speaker 2: The former Wild West mining town topped the list thanks
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  Speaker 2: to a huge number of haunted attractions, ghostly legends, spiritual shops,
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  Speaker 2: paranormal search activities. Coming in right behind it, Tombstone, Arizona,
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  Speaker 2: famous for its Old West history in Eureka Springs. Arkansas
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  Speaker 2: on the list as well, another hotspot for ghost tours.
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  Speaker 2: and haunted locations. Meanwhile, the traditional favorites, Salem, Massachusetts, New Orleans, Savannah,
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  Speaker 2: didn't crack the top three. The study also found that
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: interest in paranormal travel is booming with searches for haunted
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: hotels skyrocketing in recent years. I guess my question for this,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: and just being someone who is not a believer in ghosts,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I think that a lot of times you have theaters
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: where creative people gather together and they tell, you know,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: ghost stories and kind of, Oh, somebody slammed a door upstairs.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: It must be a ghost. And I'm not belittling anybody
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: who believes that you believe whatever you want to believe
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: when it comes to all that. Uh, and I'm certainly
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: not an expert. I'm not a ghostologist. I know some ghostologists,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: but I'm not a ghostologist. But anyway, uh, I just
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: think that if people are itching to go to a
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: haunted place, uh, and like a hotel to spend the night,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking that they either really are curious to see
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: if they can experience something or they don't believe that
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: it's anything there. They're a skeptic. So I think the
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: spike in interest is probably maybe a pairing of those
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: two things. I don't know. We have the daylight saving
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: time change happening Sunday morning. We're on the eve of
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: the eve, right? And basically, it sounds great when you
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: get that extra hour of sleep. I used to be
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: a strong advocate for it, and then I got a
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: little older and had kids and then realized it's actually
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: easier to lose the hour of sleep and just be
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: tired than trying to adjust your whole schedule around gaining
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: an hour of sleep. I don't know. For me, that
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: was the case, especially when the kids were younger. So
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: you're still going to get tired with either change. And
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: experts say that the trick to all of it is
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: to get a little bit of a head start. Now, this,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: of course, would have been great to start a couple
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: days ago. But now you're down to the wire. So
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: tomorrow morning, they say, go ahead and make a little
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: bit of a shift tomorrow so that you're ready to
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: go for Sunday and then you're ready to go for
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Monday when you have to go to work. It's a
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: dangerous day. Anytime there's a shift in the clock, It's
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: a day where people aren't at their best. They're sharpest
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: when they're driving. There's a work productivity loss that goes
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: with all of it. Why we're still doing it, I
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: don't know. But again, I don't get to make that decision.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: I covered that yesterday. College students, put down the phone
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: and hang out with your friends. Huge new study of
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: nearly 80,000 students found that the biggest predictor of whether
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: college students truly flourish isn't sleep, exercise, or avoiding alcohol.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: It's good old-fashioned face-to-face time with actual, real-life human beings.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Students who spent more time socializing, joining clubs, and attending
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: events reported higher levels of overall well-being and a stronger
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: sense of purpose. Researchers say that's especially important because young
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: people are spending less time together in person than they
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: did a decade ago. while mental health struggles continue to rise.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: So basically, texts and DMs are fine. Nothing beats real-life
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: connections when it comes to happiness, mental health, as well
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: as thriving at that next level in college. Probably not
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: a bad idea to get started with that in high school.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: If you're already having kids with problems with it in
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: middle school, yeah, any head start run up on that,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: much like the time change, is probably a good idea.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Next time you have a surgery, it's possible it will
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: be performed by a doctor who doesn't need to wear
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: a mask or gloves because they may not even be
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: in the same city. In a medical first, a surgeon
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: in Florida has successfully performed a robotic operation on a
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: patient 35 miles away, marking a major step forward for
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: remote medicine. Using advanced robotic technology and a high-speed network connection,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: the doctor controlled surgical instruments from a different hospital. while
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: the patient underwent a minimally invasive procedure. So a human
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: doctor in the operating room keeping an eye on things,
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: though health experts say the breakthrough could eventually help bring
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: specialized surgical care to patients in rural and underserved areas,
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: reducing the need for long-distance travel. Researchers are continuing to
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: study the technology, but doctors say the demonstration shows how
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: remote robotic surgery could expand to expert care in the future.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: and how when people say doctors are on the protected
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: list when it comes to AI and robotics, this tells
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: us that is maybe not necessarily the case.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Ouch.
• 25:06
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