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Strange and Bizarre News with a Roadway Lion · 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 October. I'm Wes. Thanks
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  Speaker 2: Stars Live. And I've had a number of people. Was
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  Speaker 2: talking to doctor Sean Cruise and my partner on Made
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  Speaker 2: of Stars yesterday about this on yesterday's Made of Stars show.
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  Speaker 2: We drop every Thursday or most Thursday. Occasionally we get
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  Speaker 2: in there a little early, and we were discussing the
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  Speaker 2: fact that I have many people over the years regularly
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  Speaker 2: still ask me, Hey, my kids interested in podcasting and
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  Speaker 2: can my kid come and watch you.
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  Speaker 3: Do what you do?
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  Speaker 2: And you know, there's you know a number of re
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  Speaker 2: like in look, there's a few reasons. That gets complicated
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  Speaker 2: and tricky, but I'll just you know, maybe at the
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  Speaker 2: top of the list and no offense, but there's you know,
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  Speaker 2: I do this show out of my home and I
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  Speaker 2: don't really I'm not a big hey, come on in.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have the you know, basement or giant studio
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  Speaker 2: area of a Joe Rogan or one of those shows,
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  Speaker 2: or even Bill Maher with his show. That's not what
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  Speaker 2: I've got, you know, it's not you know, Mark Maron
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  Speaker 2: in his garage kind of thing. You have to physically
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  Speaker 2: be inside my home to sit in with me.
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  Speaker 3: While I do this.
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  Speaker 2: So if you really want to see how a podcast
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  Speaker 2: and you want to see kind of the little bit
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  Speaker 2: of the behind the scenes, it won't exactly be what
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  Speaker 2: we do because Shawn and I typically do this. He's
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  Speaker 2: working at the Space Science Center and we do the
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  Speaker 2: show to you know, help promote events and things going
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  Speaker 2: on there, and then I'm in my studio at home.
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  Speaker 2: But you'll get the idea we'll be there in person.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, it's free. You can come join us for
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  Speaker 2: that and it immediately will be followed by Astronomy Night,
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  Speaker 2: join us for Meta Stars Live followed by Astronomy Night.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to get into the good news and then
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  Speaker 2: the strange and bizarre newsroom around the world. But first
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  Speaker 2: I just want to make an observation.
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  Speaker 3: Who knew that getting.
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  Speaker 2: So who intertwined with gambling as a sponsor for the
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  Speaker 2: world of sports could create complications? There were already complications,
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  Speaker 2: but who knew? Now we've got this NBA story that has,
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  Speaker 2: you know, according to the FBI, some connections to the
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  Speaker 2: mafia and players and coaches and poker games.
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  Speaker 3: Who knew?
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like it wasn't a good idea to I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we already had that, and then now it's like you
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  Speaker 2: can't watch sports without seeing ads for you know, twenty
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  Speaker 2: or thirty different gambling sites. And look, if you are
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  Speaker 2: into that, that's what you want to do. You want
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  Speaker 2: to gamble on sports or whatever within the confines of
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  Speaker 2: the law. I'm all for, Like you be you right,
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  Speaker 2: you be you. I'm not a big fan of it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't do it. It's not anything that interests me.
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  Speaker 2: But when I see it when I'm watching sports, college
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  Speaker 2: or professional sports, it really makes me think that there's
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  Speaker 2: and we have all the accusations of people saying, well,
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  Speaker 2: they're clearly this player is rigging this, or this person's
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  Speaker 2: tanking this or whatever, and now we're getting confirmation that
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  Speaker 2: that's at least happening in some level to some degree.
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  Speaker 2: Going back to the days of the you know, Kobe
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  Speaker 2: Bryant Lakers and the you know, late era Bulls, we
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  Speaker 2: had referees back then that have come out and said, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I had people that were had to take
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  Speaker 2: care of sometimes, and it seemed clear to me that
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  Speaker 2: some of those games the officiating wasn't great. It seemed
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  Speaker 2: we got a story coming up after.
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  Speaker 3: The break about basically AI.
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  Speaker 2: The NFL is looking into that, with AI having nothing
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  Speaker 2: to do with this, but something to try to help
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  Speaker 2: with officiating. And we know some of the college games
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  Speaker 2: the officiating has been I mean questionable as being very generous, right,
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  Speaker 2: very generous. We'll talk about that a little bit later,
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  Speaker 2: but anyway, this situation with the NBA Chauncey Billups and others.
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  Speaker 2: It's a mess. NBA has a big mess on their hands.
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  Speaker 2: Four teams involved in this, one of them the Precious Lakers.
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  Speaker 3: So who knew?
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  Speaker 1: Who knew?
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  Speaker 2: This wasn't going to be a good idea? I've only
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  Speaker 2: said it on this show and others about one hundred times. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: let's get into some good news. How about this? Four
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  Speaker 2: years ago, Tim Heatherley visited a doctor because some people
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  Speaker 2: told him he should see a doctor because of the
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  Speaker 2: type of back pain that he was having. So he
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  Speaker 2: found out that he had chronic kidney disease, which was
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  Speaker 2: a life changing diagnosis, especially for someone in his late twenties.
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  Speaker 2: Tim's kidneys were failing, so dialysis became a big part
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  Speaker 2: of his life. Four hours a day, three days a week.
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  Speaker 2: He was can i to a machine that kept him
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  Speaker 2: alive but stole his freedom. Tim needed a transplant, but
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  Speaker 2: when friends stepped up to donate, they were all rejected
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  Speaker 2: by doctors. Tim's mom took the next step and posted
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  Speaker 2: Tim's story on Facebook, and that turned out to be
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  Speaker 2: the right move. A stranger from Tim's hometown in Missouri
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  Speaker 2: found the post and was inspired to try to help
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  Speaker 2: out that special stranger. Joe Turner said he remembered all
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  Speaker 2: of the times he had struggled and been given second chances,
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  Speaker 2: and thought would be a good chance for him to
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  Speaker 2: offer someone else a second chance. Joe had test conducted
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  Speaker 2: by doctors found out he was a perfect match. It
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  Speaker 2: led to successful surgeries, Tim's life turning around within days
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  Speaker 2: of leaving the hospital. Tim grateful for Joe's sacrifice, which
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  Speaker 2: he admits was an unexpected gift. He's doing something huge
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  Speaker 2: for a stranger, Tim explained, which in this day and age,
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  Speaker 2: it's not a lot of people doing that for their friends,
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  Speaker 2: let alone a complete stranger. The two men both still
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  Speaker 2: healing and message each other now every day. The two
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  Speaker 2: strangers have become close friends now since the surgery, So
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  Speaker 2: strangers to friends, to sharing this bond, sharing this kidney experience.
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  Speaker 3: That's excellent stuff. There, great story, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Like many things, Halloween costumes getting more expensive in Austin, Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Chris Wagoner is doing his part to help those in
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  Speaker 2: need by turning thrift store treasures into fun costume donations.
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  Speaker 2: Chris shops thrift stores for shiny, furry or sparkly stuff
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  Speaker 2: and then washes glues and sews them into one of
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  Speaker 2: a kind costumes for kids who might otherwise go without.
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  Speaker 2: He's been doing it for nine years and also hosting
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  Speaker 2: free events each fall where kids can pick out their favorites.
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  Speaker 2: This year's been especially busy. His vision remains the same,
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  Speaker 2: put smiles on the faces of as many kids as possible.
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  Speaker 2: He says, I want every all the kids, their parents, whatever,
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  Speaker 2: to feel like they are getting the same thing that
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  Speaker 2: somebody went out and bought. The goal, he says, is
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  Speaker 2: to make people better than they were before the event.
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  Speaker 2: If there's somebody there to help you, and then you're
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  Speaker 2: more likely to turn around and help somebody else. Great story,
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  Speaker 2: great experience. Nice job there, Chris. All right, that's some
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  Speaker 2: good news. Now strange and bizarre news from around the world.
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  Speaker 2: We start in South Africa. Truck spills happen all the
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  Speaker 2: time on highways, not all the time. They happen often,
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  Speaker 2: but they can be a little different. In South Africa,
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  Speaker 2: drivers on a rural highway got quite the surprise when
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  Speaker 2: a lion escaped from the roof of a moving transport
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  Speaker 2: truck and stood there for a moment before taking a
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  Speaker 2: flying leap to the ground. The big cat then casually
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  Speaker 2: took a stroll on the road before finally coming to
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  Speaker 2: a rest under a tree. The shocking moment was captured
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  Speaker 2: on a driver's dash cam and then shared on social media.
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  Speaker 2: Workers transporting the lion shot it with a tranquilizer dart
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  Speaker 2: and reloaded it back into the truck to finish its
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  Speaker 2: trip to a game farm. They say the animal had
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  Speaker 2: a few scrapes and a damaged nail. I hate that,
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  Speaker 2: but otherwise was fine.
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  Speaker 3: That's a crazy story.
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  Speaker 2: The global Amazon Web Services outage earlier this week affected
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  Speaker 2: numerous websites, apps, and businesses, but it also affected sleep
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  Speaker 2: for some people. Users of eight Sleep smartbeds say the
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  Speaker 2: AWS outage caused the heat settings on their mattresses to
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  Speaker 2: stop responding, resulting in numerous complaints of beds overheating with
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  Speaker 2: no way to cool them down.
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  Speaker 3: That's not good.
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  Speaker 2: Some said it caused their mattress to become stuck in
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  Speaker 2: an incline position. The CEO of eighth Sleep, which makes
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  Speaker 2: the high end smart beds that sell for about five grand,
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  Speaker 2: acknowledged the issues and said the company is taking steps
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  Speaker 2: to fix them. The beds were said to be fully
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  Speaker 2: functional by late Monday night. That's a that's an ugly mess.
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  Speaker 2: I mean basically the bed is trying to cook you right, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: no word if they were listening to Midnight Oil maybe
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  Speaker 2: while they were trying to sleep.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Possibly. A Washington, DC woman was sick and tired of
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  Speaker 2: smelling marijuana smoke wafting from her downstairs neighbor, so she
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  Speaker 2: took him to court to get him to stop, and
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  Speaker 2: she won. Seventy six year old josepha if Alito Shepherd said,
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  Speaker 2: It's like the Liito Shuffle, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Said.
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  Speaker 2: The smell, which she compared to feces and skunk, coming
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  Speaker 2: from the Thomas Cackett ground floor apartment down stairs, made
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  Speaker 2: her sick, and it made it very hard for her
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  Speaker 2: to be in her home. So she sued, and she
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  Speaker 2: won a court ruling that Kakett could no longer smoke
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  Speaker 2: weed in his own apartment. The judge said that his
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  Speaker 2: use in enjoyment of marijuana is not as important as
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  Speaker 2: Shepherd's use and enjoyment of her own property. Kakittt argued
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  Speaker 2: to the court that he only smoked once a day
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  Speaker 2: and never for longer than five minutes, insisting I am
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  Speaker 2: not snoop Dogg. He appealed the court's ruling, but an
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  Speaker 2: appeals court upheld the lower court's decision. Kakett is not
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  Speaker 2: allowed to smoke within twenty five feet of Shepherd's home,
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  Speaker 2: including on his own property. The I'm not snoop Dogg defense.
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  Speaker 2: She would think maybe could hold up, but apparently not.
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  Speaker 2: A bizarre international smuggling ring was broken up at the
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  Speaker 2: airport in Tokyo when authorities intercepted three women wearing underwear
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  Speaker 2: loaded with six hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of
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  Speaker 2: gold powder, not gold bond powder, gold powder. Authorities say
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  Speaker 2: the operation was led by a thirty four year old
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  Speaker 2: man who is accused of recruiting three women in their
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  Speaker 2: twenties and thirties to carry the gold on a flight
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  Speaker 2: from Hong Kong to Tokyo. Investigators say the women, who
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  Speaker 2: all knew each other, were promised cash and travel expenses
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  Speaker 2: in exchange for their role.
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  Speaker 3: The gold filled underwear.
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  Speaker 2: Was allegedly handed to them in Hong Kong. All three
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  Speaker 2: women and the mastermind of the operation were arrested and
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  Speaker 2: charged gold powder in your underwear gold powder. A shocking
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  Speaker 2: case is I don't know how that works. It's gold powder.
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  Speaker 3: What do you like anyway?
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  Speaker 2: A shocking case is drawing attention to Italy's disability benefits
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  Speaker 2: system after man in his seventies allegedly collected benefits for
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  Speaker 2: fifty years because he's totally blind.
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  Speaker 3: Problem is not blind.
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  Speaker 2: The unidentified man was declared blind after a workplace accident
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  Speaker 2: decades ago and has been receiving state support ever since.
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  Speaker 2: But suspicions arose when Italy's finance police noticed inconsistencies during
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  Speaker 2: routine checks, so they launched an undercover investigation. In what
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  Speaker 2: they found little shocking. Officers followed and filmed the man
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  Speaker 2: as he navigated the city with ease. He was seen
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  Speaker 2: gardening with sharp tools, inspecting fruits and vegetables at the market,
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  Speaker 2: paying for items, all without any assistance. The evidence was
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  Speaker 2: enough to charge him with fraud against the state. Authorities
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  Speaker 2: have now suspended all his benefits and launched a tax audit.
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  Speaker 2: That kind of thing happened here. There'd be people saying,
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  Speaker 2: you know, defending it, that didn't really happen. There's no
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  Speaker 2: way that really happened. That's not even real. Was a
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  Speaker 2: fake story. There's no way there's people collecting benefits at
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty something years old or one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Doge was shutting down.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, the next time you consider whether or not to
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  Speaker 2: attend someone's funeral and think they won't know if I'm
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  Speaker 2: there or not, you need to think about Mohan Lal,
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  Speaker 2: a seventy four year old man in India who recently
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  Speaker 2: faked his death staged a mock funeral just to see
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  Speaker 2: who would attend. People were stunned to learn that the
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  Speaker 2: man had died. Little did they know he staged the
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  Speaker 2: entire thing, complete with a fake death certificate, funeral announcement.
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  Speaker 2: Friends and family joined a funeral procession to say their
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  Speaker 2: respects and were even more shocked when he suddenly sat
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  Speaker 2: up in his coffin. Those who thought they were mourning
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  Speaker 2: his death were outraged once they realized it was all fake.
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  Speaker 2: Mohan said he wanted to see how much respect and
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  Speaker 2: affection people would give me. To make it up to everybody,
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  Speaker 2: he hosted a big feast and invited everyone to attend
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  Speaker 2: to the funeral. While authorities are looking into whether or not.
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  Speaker 3: Any laws were broken.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, did he have gold powder in his underwear
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  Speaker 2: while he was lying there in the coffin I think
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  Speaker 2: that's something they should look into. Today's show brought to
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  Speaker 2: right after the break Well, it seems more adults are
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  Speaker 2: ordering off of kids menus at McDonald's. I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 2: honest with you, I'm a big fan of doing it anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: That'll let me.
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  Speaker 2: Some places really look at you and give you a
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  Speaker 2: dirty look. But if you're getting it to go, or
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  Speaker 2: you're getting it carry out or whatever, they don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, my kids both still order off the Kid's menu.
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  Speaker 2: They're both teenagers and they do it, so why not
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  Speaker 2: push my luck?
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  Speaker 3: Can we do it as well? And it's usually plenty
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  Speaker 3: of food.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I'm not saying I do it every time, but
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  Speaker 2: this story is about people doing it specifically at McDonald's.
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  Speaker 2: Or recent survey found forty four percent of American adults
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  Speaker 2: have bought kids meals for themselves, And it makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: A happy meal typically half the price of a full
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  Speaker 2: sized meal, and it's not just about money. Some adults
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  Speaker 2: choosing to order off the Kid's menu because they'd rather
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: have these smaller portion sizes, especially those that are taking
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: weight loss drugs like ozembic. Others are drawn to the
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: nostalgian comfort. In fact, McDonald's has leaned into the trend
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  Speaker 2: by launching an adult version of kids meals like the
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  Speaker 2: mcdonald'lnd meal, which taps into that retro vibe. So for me,
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  Speaker 2: it's typically just like I don't really need like a
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  Speaker 2: giant meal. I mean, we started doing it at Disney
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  Speaker 2: because often you know you're about to get on another
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  Speaker 2: ride and you want to eat something quickly and you
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  Speaker 2: don't want to be overly full and just dragging. So
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  Speaker 2: that was the first place we really started doing it.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we do it another We do it
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  Speaker 2: in restaurants. Sometimes they kind of go, this isn't really
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  Speaker 2: for adults, and then you just say, well, this is
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: what I ordered. Speaking of meals, there's a show called
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Nobody Wants This and it's on Netflix and I guess
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: the new season of it premiered yesterday, And as it premiered,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Panera Bread has gotten into the hype of the return
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: of the show with a special limited time meal they
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: say is inspired by the show. The bake chain is
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  Speaker 2: calling it the Everybody Wants This Meal and it includes
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  Speaker 2: broccoli cheddar soup, a Kitchen Sink cookie, and passion papaya
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: iced green tea. Panera says the meal is somehow particular
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  Speaker 2: to season two of the show. The show stars Kristen
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  Speaker 2: Bell and Adam Brody. So if you're into the show
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: and you're into Panera bread, there you go. A sneaker
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: store owner in Placienta, California, known on TikTok as I'm
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: not going to say that hd nr LM dot Coeo
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: posted a viral video asking why sneaker sales are literally
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: dying despite slashing prices well below retail. His store, Hidden Realm,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: is struggling. He's not just seeing fewer buyers. People aren't
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: even coming in.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: To sell their shoes.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: The eclipse sparked broader conversation about the collapse of the
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: sneaker resale market. It was once a booming thing, it's
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: now stagnant. Industry data show owing than only forty seven
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: percent of sneaker releases are reselling above retail, down from
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: fifty eight percent in twenty twenty. Inflation has been blamed
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: the economic uncertainty, oversupply from brands like Nike, they say,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: have all contributed to the downturn. Many people also pointing
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: out you can't eat sneakers, groceries are more important. These
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: kinds of things have followed up the post on social media.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: So kind of interesting. Wouldn't have thought that that would
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: ever be something that would suffer. I mean, typically, what
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: do they call them, sneaker files or sneaker heads or whatever.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: You just kind of assume they're always going to be
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: out there. But we did go through a rough four
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: years in the law and still it's not perfect yet.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: We're still trying to get there, aren't we. It's a
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: cuffing season and if you're single and looking for love,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: you may want to spend some time in one of
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: the following cities. Rental site Zumper ranked one.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: The Zumper ranked one hundred major cities to find the
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: best places for singles based on a number of factors
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: including affordability, social life, job opportunities, how many people are
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: actually single. The number one city for singles in twenty
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: twenty five, according to their research, is Saint Louis, Knoxville,
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  Speaker 2: out of nowhere at number two, Salt Lake City Atlanta
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: at number four on the list, Pittsburgh, Tallahassee, Minneapolis, Ashville, Richmond,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: and Austin, Texas rounding out the top ten list. There
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: kind of interesting and nice to see Atlanta doing well
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: there for those singles. NFL owners got together recently and
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: it sounds like they're starting to talk about how AI
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: could assist with officiating as technology improves. With all the
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: camera angles available, we could see more computer involvement and
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: less reliance on the human referees who have had an
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: almost impossible job of watching twenty two people on the
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: field all at the same time. And I would think
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: based on the fact that we just had this suspension
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: right which basically they're calling it like a suspension, but
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: it's basically the referees from the Georgia Auburn game are
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: basically not allowed to do any more conference games for
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: the SEC, So that's the suspension. And I think that
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: folks that watch those games would probably think some AI
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: could have helped out a little bit with the way
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: that game went. Just saying that'll do it for this
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