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Strange and Bizarre News with a Real Alligator and a Fake Bear · 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, twenty fourth day of April. I'm Wes, thanks
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  Speaker 2: for joining me. Less than a week left in the
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  Speaker 2: month of April, and we'll just surge on into May,
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  Speaker 2: less than a month left in school for most schools,
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  Speaker 2: at least in our area. I know some will get
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  Speaker 2: closer deeper into May, maybe into a Memorial Day weekend
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  Speaker 2: and all that. But we're just zipping right along here.
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  Speaker 2: But we're here on a Friday morning together, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: we like to start before we get into strange and
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  Speaker 2: bizarre news from around the world. We like to jump
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  Speaker 2: first into some positive news. And I have for you
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  Speaker 2: this morning. We give Florida such a hard time, and
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  Speaker 2: there's such a reservoir, of a deep reservoir full of
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  Speaker 2: stories from strange and bizarre news. But I feel like,
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  Speaker 2: because when we get a chance to talk about something
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  Speaker 2: cool that's been done on the positive news side, we
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  Speaker 2: should jump on it, just to be fair. So there's
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  Speaker 2: a charity in Florida called one hundred Men in Palm
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  Speaker 2: Beach County and they got together recently and spent a
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  Speaker 2: weekend basically showing small donations lead to massive community impact.
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  Speaker 2: They pulled individual contributions in the group award over ninety
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars in grants to three charities dedicated to helping
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  Speaker 2: underprivileged children. A top prize of forty thousand dollars went
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  Speaker 2: to Roots and Wings, an organization that we use the
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  Speaker 2: funds for an after school program called Project Uplift, which
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  Speaker 2: provides active coaching for students struggling with reading. The remaining
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  Speaker 2: funds were split between two other groups in Jacob Shoes
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  Speaker 2: is One about two hundred and eighty five thousand pairs
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  Speaker 2: of footwear to children in need, and the Delray Beach
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  Speaker 2: Public Library. I guess they provide books. Since starting in
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  Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, Impact one hundred men has donated over half
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  Speaker 2: a million dollars and is giving a boost in the community,
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  Speaker 2: demonstrating the founder's motto, we can give more together than
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  Speaker 2: we can individually. You know that's not a I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's a cool story. It's not uncommon when you get
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  Speaker 2: people that get together and they're able to help out.
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  Speaker 2: But I've been so you know, given Florida a hard time,
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  Speaker 2: I just figured I needed to give him at least
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  Speaker 2: one win. You know, it's just fair that we do that.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Let's go across the pond for this one,
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  Speaker 2: because it's a cool story and it involves someone who
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  Speaker 2: had to make a sacrifice for his wedding, that's the
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  Speaker 2: best way to put it. This was in England. Thirty
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  Speaker 2: seven year old teaching assistant named Andrew Brond was clearing
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  Speaker 2: out his parents' attic and found his old childhood Pokemon
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  Speaker 2: car collection. Most of the cards were dog eared and loved,
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  Speaker 2: but tucked away in a ten were three pristine cards
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  Speaker 2: that he bought near the end of his collecting days.
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  Speaker 2: He remembered these cards didn't mean much to him when
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  Speaker 2: he was a kid, which is why they were in
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  Speaker 2: such good condition. Just for kicks. He checked to see
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  Speaker 2: if the cards were worth anything, and they were. The cards,
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  Speaker 2: three of them sold an auction for over forty four
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars, one card, a mint condition Skyridge Charizard Holo,
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  Speaker 2: selling for twenty three thousand dollars. Thanks to his Pokemon windfall,
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  Speaker 2: Andrew and his fiance Rachel are all schedule for an
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  Speaker 2: August wedding that'll be fully funded, with enough leftover for
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  Speaker 2: a fun honeymoon and a quiet coastal community of Devon.
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  Speaker 2: So that's good. I mean he's making that. I guess
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  Speaker 2: it's not much of a sacrifice if he just kind
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  Speaker 2: of found him and was like, we're clearing out the attic.
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  Speaker 2: But still that's part of his childhood. If he's selling
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  Speaker 2: off his Pokemon cards, that's pretty good though. That's what
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  Speaker 2: you got to check. You better check what you got.
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  Speaker 2: I've I've got a garbage pail kid here on my desk.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I should look this one up. Maybe it's
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  Speaker 2: worth something. It's Moto Coral. I don't know if Moto
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  Speaker 2: Coral is worth anything, but on the back it appears
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  Speaker 2: to be some reference to Kobe Bryant for the puzzle
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  Speaker 2: piece on the back. Anyway, if you know anybody that
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  Speaker 2: wants to purchase a Moto Coral, please let me know.
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  Speaker 2: While supplies last, wee can maybe negotiate. I will definitely
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  Speaker 2: sell it to you for you know, twenty three thousand
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  Speaker 2: dollars or whatever the current rate is for Moto Coral.
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  Speaker 2: But happy to make that deal right now with you.
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  Speaker 2: How about this story? This is happened in Charlotte Convention
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  Speaker 2: Center in North Carolina as a group of volunteers. Sixty
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  Speaker 2: five hundred volunteer spend a weekend building beds for children
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  Speaker 2: in need, and they did it is twenty four hours
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  Speaker 2: to be specific, I said it was over a weekend,
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  Speaker 2: but it was twenty four hours. Ten thousand and twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven beds. They made. Employees from companies in Low's Bank
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  Speaker 2: of America partnered with the charity Sleep and Heavenly Peace
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  Speaker 2: to create finished beds. My church I know is involved
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  Speaker 2: in this. We have not put together a group of
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  Speaker 2: people to build ten thousand beds. They used two but
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  Speaker 2: still doing the same sort of work. In this case,
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  Speaker 2: two hundred miles of raw lumber, two thousand gallons of
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  Speaker 2: stay over, seven hundred and thirty thousand woodscrews, nearly eighteen
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  Speaker 2: thousand sanding discs to get the job done, and the
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  Speaker 2: beds being shipped to families across thirty six states, impacting
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  Speaker 2: the lives of thousands of kids by giving them a safe,
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  Speaker 2: comfortable place to sleep. You'd be surprised if you knew
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  Speaker 2: the stats on how many kids don't have a place
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  Speaker 2: to lie down to go to sleep. It is just
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  Speaker 2: sad and some great work there by these Sleep and
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  Speaker 2: Heavenly Piece people. All right, let's get into some strange
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  Speaker 2: and bizarre news from around the world. We get started
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  Speaker 2: in Italy, right, Well, it's actually Singapore, but the person
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  Speaker 2: I guess was originally from Italy. So an Italian man
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  Speaker 2: who thought he was selling a fake Rolex was jailed
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  Speaker 2: in Singapore, only for authorities to discover that it was
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  Speaker 2: actually a real Rolex. Strange story with a weird twist.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty four year old Deepak Singh from Italy, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: believed he had been cheated after buying an extremely rare
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  Speaker 2: Rolex from an acquaintance in Europe. Convinced it was fake,
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  Speaker 2: he flew to Singapore sold it as a real Rolex
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  Speaker 2: to a watch dealer for nearly ninety five thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: Singapore dollars whatever they're called. Instead of cash. He chose
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  Speaker 2: three other Rolex watches after the deal. Singh tried to
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  Speaker 2: leave Singapore on a late night flight before the watch
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  Speaker 2: dealer could realize that it was fake, but he was
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  Speaker 2: sty at the airport. So here's the thing. Rolex experts
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  Speaker 2: were able to confirm the watch was in fact genuine,
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  Speaker 2: and that made the case for what lawyers call an
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  Speaker 2: impossible attempt where someone intends to commit a crime and
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  Speaker 2: takes real steps to do so, but the crime can't
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  Speaker 2: actually succeed. So Seeing admitted that he believed he was
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  Speaker 2: cheating the buyer, even though no loss occurred. He also
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  Speaker 2: used an edited passport during the sale. The Singapore court
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  Speaker 2: sentenced into seven months in jail, saying he had fully
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  Speaker 2: carried out his plan and only failed because the watch
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  Speaker 2: turned out to be authentic. Man, that's just the way,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it. You think, Man, I'm gonna unload this fake
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  Speaker 2: watch and get something for it and get out of here,
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  Speaker 2: and then they catch you and then they find out, no,
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  Speaker 2: you actually ripped yourself off, and you're going to jail
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  Speaker 2: for seven months. Let's go to a German man who
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  Speaker 2: who got in some trouble after police said he physically
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  Speaker 2: and verbally attacked his neighbor because he was pounding his
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  Speaker 2: schnitzel too loudly. This is not a euphemism. We're not
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  Speaker 2: being dirty. It was, uh, he was preparing schnitzel and
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  Speaker 2: he was, you know, pounding that thin slice of meat
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  Speaker 2: it's you know, breaded. And then fried Man was apparently
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  Speaker 2: doing so much pounding and angered his sixty one year
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  Speaker 2: old neighbor who co infronted him and slapped him in
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  Speaker 2: the face. The victim wasn't seriously injured. Police did not
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  Speaker 2: mention whether he was able to continue and finish cooking
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  Speaker 2: his schnitzel. But he was pounding that schnitzel. Oh man,
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  Speaker 2: oh man. Once you start pounding that schnitzel, you could
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  Speaker 2: just lose track of you know, the volume. All you're
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  Speaker 2: thinking about is getting that thing in the fryer and
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  Speaker 2: enjoying that delicious schnitzel. You know, that's all you want.
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  Speaker 2: A truck driver in California got called up by hogway
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  Speaker 2: patrol after he was called driving his massive rig while
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  Speaker 2: watching an episode of Star Trek Deep Space nine on
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  Speaker 2: his cell phone. It's not funny. I don't know why
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  Speaker 2: I'm laughing. It's terrifying. Actually. Officers at the this is
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  Speaker 2: the Chips right the Chips California Highway Patrol Cordelia Inspection
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  Speaker 2: station in Fairfield say they spotted the show playing on
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  Speaker 2: a phone mounted right in the driver's line of sight.
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  Speaker 2: They posted about it on Facebook afterwards, saying the driver
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  Speaker 2: was boldly going where no driver should go and use
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  Speaker 2: the moment to remind everyone that Distracted driving is dangerous,
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  Speaker 2: especially in a huge truck. Message pretty simple driving demands
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  Speaker 2: full attention. Screens can wait. Safety is not science fiction.
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  Speaker 2: I guess there's no charges for this guy, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's definitely has some explaining to do. Maybe, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe to his employer who's paying him to drive the truck.
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  Speaker 2: You know, somebody's got his wife. My wife would be upset.
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  Speaker 2: I would have some explaining to do there. Certainly, we're
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  Speaker 2: back in North Carolina, where authorities were called out to
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  Speaker 2: a truest bank branch to remove a truly cold blooded
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  Speaker 2: customer who was not actually a customer and didn't have
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  Speaker 2: an account there. It was an alligator. Southport police and
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  Speaker 2: animal protection officers were called to the bank when a
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  Speaker 2: large reptile crawled up to the drive through. When crews arrived,
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  Speaker 2: they found the alligator hiding beneath the parked vehicle. The
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  Speaker 2: animal had apparently been hit by a car, but officials
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  Speaker 2: say it suffered only minor injuries. I mean, it's a
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  Speaker 2: tank walking around, right. Wildlife officers took custody of the
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  Speaker 2: gators that would be relocated to a safer, more suitable
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  Speaker 2: habitat far away from you. Know, banks and traffic and
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  Speaker 2: uh yeah, I guess he'll get back to living a
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  Speaker 2: living the good life. They told him, see you later.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Uh. When I was in uh years ago,
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  Speaker 2: uh my, uh, my good friend Sean Cruise and I
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  Speaker 2: we do the Meta Stars podcast. We were in Florida
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  Speaker 2: at the Kennedy Space Center. And this wasn't the recent
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  Speaker 2: trip where we went, uh you know, a couple of
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  Speaker 2: years ago. Uh was it two years ago? When was
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  Speaker 2: it that trip? This was several years ago. We were
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  Speaker 2: there and one of the buildings that we went to
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  Speaker 2: to uh where we were on our tour.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And there were four of us there that were getting
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  Speaker 2: this tour escorted around and we stopped at this one
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  Speaker 2: particular building and there was a pond out in front,
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  Speaker 2: and they said, uh, just careful when you walk out.
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  Speaker 2: There are alligators in that pond, and you know, they
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  Speaker 2: do kind of wander their way up sometimes come into
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  Speaker 2: the building. And we're like, no, they don't, and they said, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: they do. We've got the you know, the automated door,
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  Speaker 2: so they just kind of come inside sometime and we
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  Speaker 2: have to deal with them. So, yeah, that's not a
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  Speaker 2: building I would want to work in the fact that
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  Speaker 2: they were just used to it is what was crazy
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  Speaker 2: to me. But anyway, I managed to make it about Florida,
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  Speaker 2: didn't I. I managed to make it about Florida even
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  Speaker 2: though it was a North Carolina story, but I still
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  Speaker 2: turned it into Florida. Southern California couple got an unexpected
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  Speaker 2: visitor when a hot air balloon made an emergency landing
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  Speaker 2: in their backyard. This was on which show was that?
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  Speaker 2: Was it Family Matters or maybe the show Step by
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  Speaker 2: Step one of those ABC shows. I remember Erkele was
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  Speaker 2: in a balloon and he came down in someone's backyard.
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  Speaker 2: That's all I remember. But this wasn't the Erkle story.
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  Speaker 2: A Hunter and Jenna Perrin. They say that the balloon
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  Speaker 2: was carrying about a dozen people, none of them arcle,
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  Speaker 2: none of them Senator Warnock either. I came down after
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  Speaker 2: the winds died and it began running low on fuel.
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  Speaker 2: No one was hurt, nothing was damaged, but it took
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  Speaker 2: about two hours and extra fuel tanks before the balloon
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  Speaker 2: could lift off again, to the amazement of neighbors who
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  Speaker 2: gathered to watch them take off. The couple says it
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  Speaker 2: was startling surreal and something that they're happy to laugh about. Now,
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  Speaker 2: well that's good, that's all's well, you know, and maybe
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  Speaker 2: they're you know, headed away from oz or whatever. Three
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  Speaker 2: people were sentenced in a bizarre insurance fraud case that
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  Speaker 2: happened in California and involved a bear costume and some
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  Speaker 2: expensive cars. Prosecutors say the suspects faked bear attacks on
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  Speaker 2: luxury vehicles, including a Rolls Royce and two Mercedes models.
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  Speaker 2: They then filed insurance claims for the damage. They each
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  Speaker 2: made a plea of no contest to fell in the
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  Speaker 2: insurance fraud and were sentenced to one hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 2: days in jail. A fourth person expected to face a
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  Speaker 2: preliminary hearing in September. The scheme unraveled after investigators watched
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  Speaker 2: videos submitted with one of the claims. According to the officials,
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  Speaker 2: the so called bear didn't move like a bear. It
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  Speaker 2: moved like a person in a costume. A biologist with
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  Speaker 2: California Fish and Wildlife confirmed it was clearly a human
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  Speaker 2: in a bear suit. That raised even more eyebrows. Because
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  Speaker 2: brown bears haven't been seen in California in more than
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  Speaker 2: a century, state investigators launched what they dubbed Operation bear Claw,
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  Speaker 2: and soon connected. Two more claims involving similar videos filed
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  Speaker 2: on the same day at the same location. Search of
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  Speaker 2: the suspect's home later turned up the bear costume, complete
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  Speaker 2: with fake clause. Investigators say it's one of the strangest
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  Speaker 2: cases they've ever seen. Sounds like it, sounds like it.
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  Speaker 2: But if you don't send in the video, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: Buzz and Stewie, which are programmed to perform viral TikTok
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  Speaker 2: dances and interact with guests at weddings and corporate events.
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  Speaker 2: Rentals start at one thousand dollars for a two hour appearance,
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  Speaker 2: giving people a chance to interact with high tech machines
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  Speaker 2: that usually cost up to fifty grand to own. While
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  Speaker 2: the robots aren't fully autonomous just yet, they provide a
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  Speaker 2: futuristic wow factor by shaking hands, answering questions, and keeping
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  Speaker 2: the energy up on the dance floor, another job taken
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  Speaker 2: away by the robots by the machines. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: is that a job? It should be to just show
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  Speaker 2: up at a wedding? And you know that should be
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  Speaker 2: a job, shouldn't it. Do you think this should be
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  Speaker 2: a job just show up at a wedding and dance?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. According to a new study, the six
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  Speaker 2: degrees of separation isn't just a catchy phrase, it's a
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  Speaker 2: mathematical certainty. Researchers from six different countries crunch the numbers
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  Speaker 2: and it took a look at how humans deal with
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  Speaker 2: their relationships. The scientists concluded that humans balance the effort
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  Speaker 2: of maintaining friendships against the desire for social influence and
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  Speaker 2: the decisions that they make in relationships. The networks naturally
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  Speaker 2: landed around a path of about six steps. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: six people to anyone else in the world. That's the
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  Speaker 2: theory behind it. That's kind of the thinking, right, I
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  Speaker 2: would have thought it would be smaller now that we
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  Speaker 2: have social media and the internet and all those things.
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  Speaker 2: So I can get to get to I can get
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  Speaker 2: to most people in about four I've learned. So there's
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  Speaker 2: that whatever that's worth, whatever that's worth, I could get
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  Speaker 2: a note to just about anybody in about four four steps,
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  Speaker 2: maybe five, But four, I think we were hitting most
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  Speaker 2: people with the last time we were doing this a
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  Speaker 2: growing By the way, the six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
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  Speaker 2: game was something that I was playing on on TV
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  Speaker 2: years ago, years ago, like ninety four, we were playing
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  Speaker 2: that game on TV. So you know, it's it's the
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  Speaker 2: fact that it's still a thing, But I would just
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  Speaker 2: think technology would have made this easier. A growing number
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  Speaker 2: of young American men officially giving up on the US
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  Speaker 2: dating scene and traveling overseas to find love. These passport
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  Speaker 2: bros say that dating at home has become too complicated
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  Speaker 2: and expensive, so they're heading to countries like Thailand, Brazil, Columbia,
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  Speaker 2: the Philippines, and Vietnam. They claim these spots have a
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  Speaker 2: more traditional lifestyle where the money goes further, and finding
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  Speaker 2: a partner as much simpler. I saw this story and
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  Speaker 2: I was reading it for the first time, and I
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  Speaker 2: remember thinking, it's it's too expensive to stay local, and
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  Speaker 2: I think, okay, I didn't stay local, and it was
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  Speaker 2: definitely really really expensive. It paid off. I won, I
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  Speaker 2: won the lottery, is what I did in my case.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, it's definitely, definitely wasn't a cheap experience.
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