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Strange and Bizarre News with Hulk Hogan and Paulie Shore · 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, nineteenth day of January. I'm West Thanks for joining me.
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As we knock on the door of a weekend after a short week. We
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had the holiday weekend last weekend. It's a shorter week and we're inching our
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way towards February. Man, it's gonna be all downhill into Christmas soon,
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isn't it. It's gonna be all down, all downhill to Christmas. That's
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what's gonna happen. We're gona hit Groundhog Day and then right on into Christmas.
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That's the way it always tends to work, isn't it. Hey,
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it's Friday morning. Time for some strange and bizarre news stories from all around
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the world. I want to start with I don't usually do sort of entertainment
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strange news, but this is kind of a weird story that has been in
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the works, I think for a while, and it just started with someone
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mentioning the fact that a certain kind of celebrity, I mean, he's a
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celebrity, he's not as famous now as he once was way back in the
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day. I don't know how famous he ever really was It's not like we're
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talking about an A lister. We're talking about I mean, I would say
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an M lister just because of MTV ties. That's probably a cut. He's
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headlined some movies. He's had a movie career, and a couple of them
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are good. I like a few of his movies. But his resemblance to
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another celebrity but famous sort of in a different way. And I'm talking about
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Pauli Shore, who looks a little like Richard Simmons. People have pointed out
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that there's a certain resemblance to the two. Well. Variety says that a
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movie is currently in development at Warner Brothers, the Wolper Organization, which is
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a part of Warner Brothers, and they've got casting underway, and apparently it
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seems that Pauli Shore will be playing the part of Richard Simmons. This counts
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as a weird news story, isn't it. Paully Shore said in a statement,
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I'm really excited about sharing Richard Simmons' life story to the world. We
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all need this biopic or biopic, I guess is what they call it now
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more than ever, Simmons represented mental health, getting people in shape and being
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his authentic, silly self. Whenever he was on TV, you could never
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take your eyes off him. He brought such a joy to his appearances that
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represented nothing but a good time. Richard Simmons, however, who has been
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very reclusive, and a lot of people thought maybe he was dead. They
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hadn't been able to hear anything about him. They were curious. He went
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to social media, he went to Facebook, and he says he has not
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given permission for the movie. He has not authorized it. He does not
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give his permission for it. But it's a strange and weird news story,
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isn't it. I mean, Polly Shore getting this role, getting this opportunity
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to play Richard Simmons, something that people have been trying to make happen for
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a little while now, so interesting that it's actually going to come together.
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All right, One more celebrity related weird news story, and you may have
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heard this one, but a Whole Cogan arguably the I don't even know that
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he's even arguably. I mean, he's the biggest wrestling store of all time,
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right in professional wrestling. I know someoney, Oh there's others, what
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about Rick Flair, But Whole Cogan recently born again Christian, by the way,
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just recently baptized gave his life to God. He apparently was right place
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at the right time. He found an overturned car that happened right after a
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car crash in Tampa, which is where he lives. He and his friend
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ran up to help what ended up being a teen girl who was in the
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overturned vehicle. He said he used a ballplay pen to puncture the car's airbag
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so that he could get the girl out of the car. The Tampa Police
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Department said there were minor injuries only, and the WW Hall of Famer posting
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about the incident x saying thank you God. All is well, crazy,
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isn't it. I mean, imagine you're in the car, you're flipped over,
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and then all of a sudden there's Hull Cogan who's taking you out of
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the car, like pulling you out of the car. Anyway, it's a
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wild story. I got a Hull Cogan story. I brought him to Columbus
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for show. Actually, his daughter a Brooke to Columbus for a concert many
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many years ago, and he was super nice. He was there with her
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of course, interviewed him a couple of times and actually got him on the
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phone with the Iron Chic who's now deceased. But back then they at least
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the Sheik still thought that was a rivalry going on, but got them on
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the phone together and helped patch things up there. So that was a cool
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experience that I was able to be a part of. I feel like I'm
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the Forest Gump of professional wrestling. Sometimes i just stumble into things and I've
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got a lot of those stories like that. But anyway, good for good
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for Hulk Hogan, good for the girl. I'm glad it was a good
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story in the end. All right, Now, non celebrity related stories here,
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let's start. Let's jump into this. One says, you know,
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obviously potholes can be dangerous, but last week we talked about a pothole that
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people had sort of adopted. They were treating it like a community. Remember
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they had couches and ottoman and stuff that were there in this pothole. But
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there's a giant pothole on a road in India that helped bring a man back
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to life. This is this is a nuts story. Eighty year old Darshan
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Singh bra I had fallen ill. His condition worsened over several days, his
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sons took him to the hospital with a severe chest infection, but doctors couldn't
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save him. He was pronounced dead. The family made arrangements to bring him
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back to his home so that they could properly mourn his loss. And then
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something weird happened. He was being transported home. An ambulance carrying his body
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suddenly struck a large pothole and it jolted him back to life. When they
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hit the pothole, his grandson was accompanying him and saw him move his hand.
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He then put his finger on his wrist and fell to polse. He
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shouted out to the driver and they rushed him to the nearest hospital and he
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is now alive, in critical condition, but breathing on his own. And
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that nuts just from the bump in the road. We've all had those bumps
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in the road, you hit a pothole or a speed bump going a little
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bit too fast. And this certainly doesn't feel like something that's going to be
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a positive outcome, bring you back to life. But anyway, an ad
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agency in China accused of pulling an underhanded trick to get their employees to quit.
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Workers were given a notice that the company would be moving to a location
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and remote area in the mountains about two hours away, without many transportation options.
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The new office also lacked some basic amenities like toilets. Most of the
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employees resigned and immediately accused the company of moving the office for the sole purpose
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of forcing them to quit so they wouldn't have to continue paying their salaries.
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The company denied the allegations, and then only four days after moving into the
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mountains, the company returned to its original location hired a whole new staff of
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workers at a lower wage. The company is also threatening to sue their former
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employees for slander because they went public with their allegations. That seems a little
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sneaky, doesn't It just seems it says likely lower salaries. It doesn't say
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definitely lower salaries. A mother found something in her young son's underwear drawer that
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she didn't expect to find. And this was in Melbourne, Australia. A
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woman was going through her three year old's underwear drawer when she was greeted by
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a five foot eastern brown snake. And I'm gonna tell you right now this
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is probably not common knowledge to everyone. If you know snakes, you know
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what I'm about to say. This is one of the world's deadliest snakes.
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She called in a snake wrangler who's known as the snake Hunter, no relation
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to crocodile hunter. I don't think who admitted. That's not something you see
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every day. Fortunately, he was able to capture the underwear snake and safely
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remove it from the home. Think about how bad that could have gone.
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I mean, the potential there for a really bad ending there with a small
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kid. I guess at that age are probably not getting their own underwear out,
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but he could be. Thankfully he did not do that. An Air
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Canada flight scheduled to take off from Toronto for Dubai was delayed six hours after
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a passenger boarded the plane and inexplicably opened the cabin door and then fell out
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it. Airline officials say the passenger boarded the aircraft normally and boarding and cabin
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operating procedures were followed, but instead of taking his seat, he proceeded to
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open a cabin door and just fell out of the plane, landed twenty feet
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below on the tarmac. He suffered unspecified injuries which required emergency medical services.
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The plane took off for Dubai six hours later. What a jerk. I
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don't know what the deal was, but that's it's just delaying. It's not
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like as a short flight anyway. It's a long flight and it's delayed by
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six hours. A semi truck hauling frozen pizzas overturned on I ninety outside of
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Spokane, Washington, on Tuesday, and it dumped piles of pizza all over
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the road and tied up traffic. The driver of the truck reportedly suffered minor
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injuries. The cause of the crash under investigation, but it's been suggested that
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icy road conditions could have been the cause. That seems likely, doesn't it.
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Crews were called then to remove the truck and clean up the mess.
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Some motorists at the scene use the opportunity to grab themselves some free pizzas,
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with some saying they would donate them to local food banks. Yeah. I
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mean, it's not like they're gonna sell the pizzas. They're just gonna be
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wasted. So I guess that's very noble if you're donating them to the food
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banks. But at the very least, if you're taking them home and cooking
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them, I mean, they're not gonna come out and scoop them all up
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and then sell them anyway. A Florida woman is in the clear Water Police
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Department doghouse after trying to pass a drug test with urine she collected from her
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dog. That's not normal, police say. Forty two year old Jessica Beattie
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was subject to random court ordered drug testing following her December twenty eighth, the
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rest for drug possession. The random date selected was last Thursday. Beaty was
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not very confident that she'd pass, so, in a desperate attempt to stay
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out of jail, she collected a urine sample from her aunt's dog and brought
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it with her to the count He's misdemeanor probation office. Unfortunately for Baty,
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the probation officer caught her with the fake sample and she was arrested and again
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and charged with urine testing fraud. I didn't know that had a specific name,
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but that sounds like the right name for urine testing fraud, so there
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you go. It seems weird, though, dog urine. I wonder would
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that have pained anything differently if she had used that, would they have been
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able to look at it and say this is a Rottweiler, yeah a Texas
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man who claims that Walmart somehow violated his civil rights a seeking an astronomical one
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hundred million dollars in damages from the retail giant for the unspecified way in which
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his rights were violated. Roderick Jackson of Wascombe, Texas filed a handwritten lawsuit
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in Arkansas, where the Walmart headquarters are located. Jackson claims that he was
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involved in an incident in the store in Omaha, Nebraska in twenty two,
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twenty one that involved false pretense of shoplifting, but didn't specify exactly what happened.
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His lawsuit is asking Walmart to pay him one hundred million dollars, and
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if that's too much for them, he says he will accept unlimited, free
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lifetime shopping at any Walmart location. The company has responded saying mister Jackson's allegations
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are almost identical to a lawsuit he filed against our company in twenty twenty one
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that was dismissed. We intend to defend the company against these allegations. Once
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we have been properly served, we will quickly ask the court to dismiss any
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claims that are without merit one hundred million dollars or unlimited free lifetime shopping at
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any Walmart location. That sounds pretty good. I mean I'd rather have the
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one hundred million dollars honestly, but unlimited lifetime free. I mean you could,
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you know, live out of a camper then and just park in Walmart
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parking lots. I saw someone in a really nice like a van camper just
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the other day at a Walmart parking lot and it looked pretty notice. I
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couldn't I didn't ask to go inside. I saw him going in the door.
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I thought, wow, he's got a nice little setup in there.
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And of course I think he was trying not to be too obvious that I
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didn't want to draw any attention to him. But because he was just in
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a regular parking space, it was like a regular van, like a work
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van that had been converted into a camper, it was pretty nice. So
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there you go. That's our weird, strange and bizarre news stories for this
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DC Columbus More West, Carol Morning Show. Right after the break. Did
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you know that spices in your spice rack can go out of date? They
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do actually go out of date, and if you're not paying attention, you
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may have some old spices that you need to deal with before you do any
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sort of cooking. And this came up on social media. A woman posted
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that she was eating apple pie that her mother had made, apparently not for
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quite some time, because she ate it, and she said, this doesn't
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taste right at all. Something's off, something doesn't taste good, and her
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mother insisted, this is the same recipe that I've been using for years.
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They check the ingredients and then they noticed that the nutmeg had expired twenty four
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years ago. So they checked the rest of the spices and only six of
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the thirty spices had not expired. So I've mentioned that we're in the process
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of a kitchen renovation that is going on, and part of getting ready for
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the renovation is we had to get everything, and I mean everything out of
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our kitchen. So we did have a bit of a purge from some spices
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and things that well intentioned, you know, twenty years ago, we're going
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to use these specific spices we want to make these certain recipes. There were
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some Indian spices that we had that we thought, oh, we're going to
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do. We're going to make Indian food from scratch at home. That's what
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we're going to do, and that didn't always pan out necessarily. It's too
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easy to buy like a jar of the sauce or a jar of like the
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paste right and get curry paste. It's easy. You can make it work.
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So we had some of those that we had to ditch. So I'm
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not finding this overly surprising, although you know, I don't know that we
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had anything that was quite twenty four years old, probably maybe in the twenty
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range. But we go the spices that we use regularly, we go through
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them pretty quickly. So there's a lot of controversy surrounding the Guinness World Record
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accomplishments from time to time. Specifically, there's one going on for the world's
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Oldest Dog. A year ago, adjudicators with Guinness confirmed that Bobo, a
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Portuguese mastiff, was the oldest dog to ever live, at the supposed age
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of thirty one. Bobo died in October. Now Guinness has suspended his title
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to allow for further investigation into his actual age. Guinness has been hounded by
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hounded by veterinarians from all over the world, expressing serious doubt that Bobo was
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actually thirty one, insisting it was impossible to know his exact age without proof
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of his birth date. Dogs don't tend to have birth certificates. Genetic testing
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has been conducted on in which showed that he was very old, but could
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not confirm a precise age. So I guess the Bobo controversy will have to
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just continue on. Right. There's no way they can't specifically confirm it just
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yet. But it was pretty a pretty significant accomplishment. Now, Natalia Grace,
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you know the story of the girl, the orphan girl that it was
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adopted by the family here in the States, and they said that it turned
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out she was a lot older than she said she was. And they've gone
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through all these They had the Curious Case of Natalia Grace, and then they
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had now the sequel, Natalia Speaks Colon, you know, the Curious Case
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of Natalia whatever it is for the title, And you know, I've watched
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both of those, and they did do some DNA like testing on her to
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confirm how old she is the fact that she was really younger. Then they've
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they've basically said that the family said, so they can do this on dogs.
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Why didn't they do this sooner on this kid? Why didn't they do
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that? I guess is the question. I don't know. I don't really
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know how all this works. If you're a fan of Jimmy John's and you
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like they're Kicking Ranch sauce, and apparently there are some diehards. Occasionally some
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of these restaurants will have one specific sauce that people just think, Oh my
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gosh, this is the best. This is exactly my jam at this particular
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restaurant, not literal jam, but you know what I mean. And there
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were fans of it. They were upset that the sandwich chain dropped the sauce
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from its menu to add a jalapeno ranch, but apparently there's still a chance
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to get it, and you can get a lot of it. Kicking Ranch
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will remain on the menu for just a few more days January twenty second,
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and then Jimmy John's will offer a unique commemorative bottle of the sauce for a
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limited number of fans. Only. Only one hundred of the thirty two ounce
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bottles will be sold online for the ridiculously low price of just one cent.
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The bottles will be sold to the first one hundred people who want one.
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You should go to their website and see if there's any still available because that's
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where you would get them, or take advantage of getting them until the twenty
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second because in the stores, because that's your last chance to get it on
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a sandwich. Apparently that'll do it for this Friday edition of the show.
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